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@kkelenca / kkelenca.tumblr.com

Elenca. She/they. Self-taught.
"God damn it, you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut

I would like to urge you all to visit https://www.standwithminnesota.com/. I've been seeing so many horrific videos and reading heartbreaking accounts coming out of the city that I called home for over a decade, and I'm frightened for my friends and loved ones and neighbors there because of ICE's current presence and violent terror. If you are able to donate, please match my donations (any amount) to these Venmo accounts helping the Minneapolis community: centralcaresteam, supporteastside, canmn, colectivabilingue. Also, please consider reading this article about ICE affecting my hometown and the people in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as well. Let's all do our best to support our communities this year and forever.

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characters whose eyes change color due to some event in the course of their story. magical trauma? deal with the devil? moral corruption? fucked up a spell that one time and now their left eye is permanently baby blue? just... let their eyes change color!

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Fun fact battery acid burning your cornea sucks ass and hurts 0/10 would not recommend, friends

Thank fuck for steroids and antibiotics

Epithelial layer looks pretty much completely healed, just have to taper down my drops now

Hooray for the world’s best case scenario battery acid chemical burns in the eye

But still seriously 0/10 that shit fucking buuuurned

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It burns my biscuits whenever I hear someone say that a person or group "doesn't contribute to society." Society is comprised of people. Those people are society. Society exists for and because of the people in it. It's like when I'm bicycling in the city and some schmuck leans out the window of his lifted pickup and yells at me for "blocking traffic." Bitch, I am traffic.

caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.

You know I hadn’t made this exact connection at first but something in my gut told me that people comparing ice to the gestapo didn’t quite feel right. This comparison does fit a lot better.

Historically, slave catchers would tear up freedom papers held by freedmen in order to destroy the facade of legal protection they had. Similarly, ICE have been repeatedly documented confiscating people’s birth certificates, passports, visas, etc, and throwing them away. This white supremacist state will always eschew the fictive legal protections it claims to have once it gets the chance, and it always has

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The tragedy of rice is that there genuinely is no substitute for the "let soak overnight" step if you want it to not suck, and on a good day I'm lucky if I'm planning my meals ten minutes in advance, let alone twelve hours.

i'm baffled, i have never eaten or cooked rice that was soaked overnight. i was p sure you're just supposed to rinse it until the water is clear?

Evidently you've spent your life eating mediocre rice.

I dunno, tossing cleaned jasmine in our zojirushi tends to fuck hard. I feel like most modern high-end cookers especially have the system down.

That said, I do think I recall reading years ago that soaking and then cleaning can help reduce dangers from arsenic levels if it’s heavy in the soil? Is that ringing bells for anyone or did I dream that one up? Culinary science and I are acquaintances at best.

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