Hello To Myself

AO3 is down. Before (the modern concept of easily shareable) fan fiction was invented, do you think people had to recount their sexual fantasies about fictional characters and mythological and historical figures directly to their buddies? Do you think, once upon a time, there was a group of girls making bobbin lace in a dim room in 17th century Brittany with one of them spending hours recounting an elaborate fantasy she had about Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and all of her friends listened enraptured and enthralled? I think so.

fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

you bring oil for the gate and food for the dog and clean out the oven and bake bread in it and the oven will hide you and the dog will not betray you and the gate will stay open for you and close on your pursuers, to be clever is just to know that if you are good in a world made of rules, goodness will be returned to you.

scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

u gotta be hedonistic about vegetables. they're not good boy food that u eat to prove you're mature, they're the food that you can shovel into your mouth at 5 am without getting nauseous

#they also taste DECADENT baked with butter and honey#or olive oil and herbs#or fried with sausage#or made into salad with cheese and nuts and dressing#or simmered in beef broth with baby potatoes#INDULGE in your veggies#this is a manifesto

*whispers* and gaaarrrrlllliiiicc

[ID: a gifset of judges on the set of Gastronauts that is largely orange and vintage scifi themed. Brennan Lee Mulligan says, "I have a question. Why does cooking well make people so hot?" Izzy Roland replies, "I think doing anything well can make someone quite attractive." Brennan points and asks, "What could someone do incredibly that would not make them hot?" Jordan Myrick answers, "Murder," and Izzy answers, "Be racist." Brennan points at them and then the two shake hands. Oscar Montoya salutes. / end ID.]