Blade will turn up to a party but point blank refuse to have fun.
I can respect that.
forget cannibalism it bums me out that i will probably never be able to ethically eat like, a flamingo
Penguin flippers, Kiwi breast, elephant trunk steak, that kind of stuff?
you jest but now I'm genuinely curious what penguin meat would taste like under all that blubber. would it retain any "bird" flavor or would it be more similar to marine mammals??? i don't actually want to eat a penguin to be clear, you've simply sparked my curiosity
My grandfather reported that they taste like fishy rubber boiled in motor oil. So bad that he only tried it once despite being on a ship in the Antarctic ocean for months on end. 1940s dry rations were preferable to fresh penguin.
Ok so I tried something similar today during work.
Pretty much most marine birds who mainly have fish in their diet taste pretty similar.
I tried a number of auk species (those include things like puffins, little auks, guillemots, razorbills ect.) And when boiled they both smell and taste kind of like wet Catfood and have dark meat.
Pretty gross and not reccomedable.
I could imagine its fair to assume penguin meat will not taste much different, though I can't give first hand accounts.
BUT i live in a place where people used to hunt and eat young gulls and they supposedly tasted good ( biggest lie ive ever heard).
I think with most of these marine bird species you really only eat them when you NEED to or go through a longer process of trying to get rid of the fishy taste by keeping them in milk baths or vinegar.
The joy of cooking has a similar suggestion for eating varmints who tend to eat garbage, such as opossums: Keep them alive for a week or so, feeding them oats, cereals, and honey.
Can confirm, makes for tastier varmint
when i worked at cracker barrel (vision darkens for a moment) we all got custom aprons with our names embroidered on them but not for 90 days bc the barrel isn't gonna invest in custom embroidery if you can't hack it. so until you get your own aprons you wear an apron that says 'rising star' on it. the issue being every single other person who works there is wearing aprons with their real names. so every single day for 3 months customers would be like 'can we get a table for 4? thank you, Rising Star. and what an interesting name!'
Rising Star would genuinely be a very lovely name but it wasn't mine and I did just think it was funny that the power of the Apron Name had such command.
My students this year have moved up so many times with me that I have ceased to be their favorite or least favorite or most aggravating teacher and just become their Teacher. This has led to such hilarious moments as:
"Ms. T, I can't stand Ms. H, she's so aggravating!"
"Why is she aggravating?"
"She never stops talking!"
"I never stop talking either and you put up with me."
"Ugh, that's different, Ms. T, you're just ... here." (Softly, to himself. "You're always here. Why are you never on vacation?")
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A student asks me to write cards while I'm trying to finish breakfast. Being a disaster with ADD, I try to do that and drink my smoothie and wind up with smoothie everywhere.
One of my other students, shouting at the first one: "Why did you do that? You know she can't do more than one thing at a time!" (They're not wrong.)
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On the way back from lunch, a young man informs me that he can do a cartwheel. Sure, I say, because I have very little forethought. He does not crack his head on the sidewalk, thankfully, but it's definitely not a cartwheel.
"That's not a cartwheel," I inform him. "This is a cartwheel." I do a cartwheel.
The dozen or so other students in my class, sounding more horrified than impressed: "Ms. T! You can't do that!"
Another young man informs us that he can do a front flip. One of the girls in his class looks at me with grave concern, then snaps, "Well, don't," at him, apparently trying to prevent me from also attempting a front flip and cracking my head on the sidewalk. At least someone in the class has some forethought, even if it isn't me.
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And for a bonus, we had "dress like your favorite teacher" day.
One boy, shaking his head. "Ms. T, I can't dress like you. You don't got that drip."
I clear my throat. "Was that the only thing stopping you?"
Another girl frowns at my outfit, then contemplatively says aloud, "Where does Ms. T even get her clothes? Like, who sells that?"
"Thanks sweetie," I say, and a third student reminds all of us that none of this is on topic for our class.
"What will you do without us, Ms. T?" she adds, but five other children immediately inform the class that I will be following them to their next educational foray and then raising their children, so I guess we'll never know.
youre the only one making a scene
my beautiful vision vvv
Something great about Worm is its deconstruction of the superhero genre has nothing to do with the idea that superheroes would be bad or even worse people then they're portrayed as. It's based around the much more nuanced and truer take that being a good person, even with superpowers, doesn't free you from the larger systemic issues of the society that you're in. The capes are Earth Bet don't stand above their societies as neutral judges, they can't, every team is either deeply ingrained in their society or actively going against it.
Legend is a far better deconstruction of superman then Omniman or Homerlander, because Legend is as morally upstanding a person as Superman as a vacuum. He probably would be a good person if his universe was as simple as Superman's. What makes Legend a complex character, and someone whose definitely far from pure good, is that he still lives in a society, and chooses to be part of some of the morally worst institutions in that society. Choosing to be the nicest cop imaginable doesn't change the fact that he's a cop. The fact that he's legitimately a kind person who wants what's best for people in a vacuum doesn't change the fact that being part of the institutions he's part of causes harm and limits his ability to do good. You can be someone who genuinely wants to do good and who still does harm because of the system you're trying to do good in.
Superman isn't impossible because nobody so powerful could be so good. He's impossible because nobody can be so powerful, even with those physical powers, they cannot stand apart from society.