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Photos that make me wonder what the photographer/stylist was going for.

Plus a photo of Liu Haikuan looking confused at a ginger (?) root:

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my guy

my pal

1. “i have one (1) thing i have to do this afternoon, so i absolutely cannot do anything else today” (except you absolutely can)

AND

Madeline L’Engle wrote the novel A Wrinkle In Time after another one of her manuscripts had been rejected on her 40th birthday.

Ok so you can have your Mac as bougie or proletariat as you want but using a really old cheese will fuck up the texture of your sauce and make it bitter lumpy and oily because in general, an aged cheese doesn’t melt well. You have to pair like, a tiny amount of it with another, generally younger and more commercially available cheese that melts better. For all it’s faults as a food product, kraft american singles are fucking ideal for mac n cheese texture. If you can’t stand that and must be fancy-pants, get some brie

The powder cheese in the box is like that because it needs to be shelf-stable, but also it’s a combination of very aged cheese (see the “made with real cheese” on the box) that’s been pulverized to dust, whey solids, and cheese “salt” which is crystalized calcium lactate. All of which, make up the flavor profile of an aged cheese like the snobs want, then combine with the water/gluten/fats of the milk and noodles to form the ideal cheese sauce texture.

with spoilers obviously

when Edward first smells Bella it takes him two pages of inner monologue before he thinks of holding his breath

apparently vampires can run so fast they don’t leave footprints in snow just like LotR elves and this is physics nonsense

Edward listening to a CD of “violent music”

“a word I’d never said before in the presence of a lady” ajlskdflj

Alice to Jasper: “I know you love me. Thanks.”

“And then my conscience smote me.”

“She was offended by my teasing. I must have done it wrong again.”

the “dazzling” moments from the original book are Edward fruitlessly trying to frighten people by baring his teeth I can’t deal

when Bella points this out he thinks “I’m losing my edge”

Edward worries about whether Bella thinks he’s pretty

Bella wears a shirt “cut low enough to reveal her collarbones” 

Edward literally thinks the sparkling will horrify and disgust her

“I avoided the word ‘sex’ because she did” OH GROW UP

“It was enlightening and alluring to watch her in her element” IS THE INTRODUCTION TO A PARAGRAPH OF HER MAKING CHEERIOS

the book. includes. a car chase.

On August 28, 2008, Meyer halted the writing of Midnight Sun in response to the leak of twelve chapters of the unfinished manuscript on the Internet. She stated, “If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn’t dovetail too well with the original story. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.”[2] She made the twelve-chaptered draft available on her website in fairness to her readers, now that the novel has been compromised before its intended publication date.[9]

“Oh,” I say. “Of what?”

She looks a bit awkward. “Um. Have you ever heard of this thing called Superwholock?”

Let me tell you I aged about twenty years in the span of the next ten seconds where she started to explain Superwholock to me like it’s some new thing that’s just spawned into existence and I know, instinctively, that I will not survive this conversation, I am not strong enough, so I cut her off. “Uh, yeah. I know of Superwholock. I’ve been on Tumblr for a while.”

“What’s Tumblr?” she asks.