A Polite Melody

Item: bayonet violin with scope for precision ranged spells

you don’t have to write something good. you just have to write something unhinged enough to edit later

lmfao

READER BEWEADER YOU’RE IN FOR A SCEADER

wild how many posts are just "trans men do this transmisogynistic thing all the time without even thinking! I'm going to purposefully, with foreknowledge, be transphobic towards trans men as a form of reparations"

(This ABSOLUTELY applies to heifers too)

Recently saw a video of a guy letting his teenage Brown Swiss bull use him as a scratching post and it caused much internal screaming

And the writer of which has even reiterated several times that it shouldn't be THE definitive text on transfeminism and transness but we conveniently leave that part out because that'd be inconvenient.

Reading Stone Butch Blues and then Whipping Girl gave me whiplash. SBB is like "yeah masculinity in perceived women gets you raped and tortured and abused" and then Serano said "Yeah I love SBB but actually all masculinity is accepted and praised for everyone." I don't think she read that book lol

people need to understand more that some disabled people will never be “carbon neutral” or plastic free. A lot of people need plastic or other manufactured goods to STAY ALIVE. “oh we can bare to lose a few more humans on the earth” okay how about the leaders of countries who are responsible for killing millions and damaging the ecosystem beyond repair. How about you think about why you are targeting a minority already so very targeted for something they have very little effect on.

Plastic is actually essential for a shit ton of medical technology/equipment. it's a magical material

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.

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

at some point in your life you will be bringing sugar and butter to boil for toffee and you will think “it hasn’t thickened enough.” that is the devil talking. the toffee needs to cool before it can set. this is how you end up with toffee that will annihilate your mouth. learn from this folly.

apparently the devil spends a lot of time in kitchens

#feminist things that bothered me as a child but i didn't quite have the language to articulate my problems: descriptions of foreign cultures where the author describes what The People are like, and then in another few sentences describes "their women". like women are not actually an innate part of said culture and people but some sort of special case hanger-on.

Especially with summers getting hotter and dryer in a lot of places, solar panels in agricultural fields is a really good idea. Sheltering vegetables from the hottest, driest time of the day will help them grow better. Cows and sheep and such seek out shelter from the sun. I think I recall reading that they found higher biodiversity in pastures that had solar panels because of the shelter they provide.

someone has to fetishize canadians