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Our celestial lovers are reunited today! It warms my heart to see people reblogging this art again, almost 7 years later 🧡

PEAK PEAK PEAK

its gonna be so nuts when our generation of old people is shuffling around with big stupid meme tattoos imagine being a personal support specialist in 2080 and peepaw has a bee movie script sleeve and youre twenty years old and delivering pills like dude what is that and he goes Its from a movie about a jerry seinfeld bug lusting after a human woman who looks like flo from progressive who is still a prominent american cultural figure and you say OK and then you help him plug into his VR headset to play for2nite the sequel to fortnite and he mains former president hunter biden and then you go on lunch break and pay $75 for a ham and cheese sandwich

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

to say that men are harmed as much as women by the patriarchy and citing men of color and gay men is outright erasure of women of color and lesbians. this is the quality of argument that critics of transmisogyny are bringing to the table. to believe that trans women are not uniquely targeted, you must implicitly deny the intersectional frameworks that help us describe misogynoir and lesbophobia.

Every "accidental ally" post is a stray bullet intended for trans women.

i know you may feel it's a compliment, but i don't wanna be anyone's "transition goals". for one, there is no end point to a transition, it's a forward journey. my girlfriend will be on estrogen for the rest of her life, and that's awesome. for two, my body is mine and your body is yours. putting my cis body on a pedestal to compare negatively to yourself isn't healthy. your goal should be to find yourself in your transition, don't look for others. i do encourage you to look at my belly and see yours and smile, to look at my boobs and eat that extra pastry. but i'm not to be put on a Goal Pedestal. i'm just a happy fat woman hoping to encourage more happy fat women.