at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

the fact that guy is a real name you can have

disappointingly underutilized by trans men

you could walk in like "Hey I'm guy" and they'd be like is that an introduction or coming out and you could be like yes

ok but an uncle is basically the most classic thing for a guy to be

My boyfriend, again blending together fanfiction tropes: So what if when you finally find your soulmate, that’s when you discover if you’re alpha or omega, right?

Me, hands shaking as I frantically search for pen & paper: KEEP TALKING

Me: Seems hellish

Boyfriend: So does being an ant person

Me: Again, baby, they’re not ants

Boyfriend: YES THEY ARE. They communicate via pheromones— LIKE ANTS.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing….

Boyfriend: You could trick them into following orders and thinking they’re dead by spraying them with a spritz bottle. I think they need a queen.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing…. Seems hellish!

Boyfriend: Not really. If being around the other person is what triggers the changes, if you want to go back to normal… all you need to do is leave.

Me, writing: (You found your soulmate. It’s changing you in scary ways. All you need to do is leave… how difficult would it be to leave? What pressures exist to stay?)

Boyfriend: So these ant-people—

Me: OMEGAVERSE IS NOT ANTS!!!!!!

Project Coyote: instagram / website

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

Mighty Mouse

Don Yeomans

This article from Trans News Network covers a lot of the situation with Meagan Morris and Autumn Hill, as well as the context surrounding their legal case and the Prairieland detention center that they were protesting.

Oh what's that? You only read books with lots of "spice" in them? Well then I've got a great one for you, practically the whole plot revolves around "spice". Ahem. In the week before the departure to Arrakis,

i saw this sign in a bookstore and it made me laugh so hard :’)

wheeeeee wahooooo lalalala

This is your reminder that if you are feeling helpless and cannot be on the front lines, there are other ways to help.

People need to be fed. Check to see what your local food pantry situation is. Make hot meals for people you know have been out in the cold for hours on end. Emergency kits for field medics need to be supplied. People need help getting to the pharmacy, the grocery store. Help shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk if you’re able. Find a way to do something.

Build connections. Build community. They want us frightened and isolated. Refuse.

Boar at a Wellspring

Maya Moore recreated Michael Jordan’s iconic ring photo with her TWELVE championship rings 💍💍💍💍💍💍💍💍💍💍💍💍

Listen, there is often good reason to be unidentifiable during a protest or political action, such as the BLM, pro Palestine, and anti ice protests where police respond with violence, but I fear “never give any information to anyone or be connected to anything” has become the suburbia paranoia of leftists online. Everyone wants a movement, everyone wants to organize, but no one wants to be a part of anything. You people don’t even want to sign up for a newsletter for crying out loud. The movement is not going to find you and scoop you up. Movements are happening, but you have to stop sticking your head in the sand, and stop maligning every opportunity that comes across you because they asked you for an email address for their newsletter.

here are some US based organizations to check out:

the peoples forum

50/50/1

party for socialism and liberation

democratic socialists of america

answer coalition