a rose is a rose

Water is way more hydrating than soda, but soda is more hydrating than nothing. A balanced meal is way more nutritious than ice cream, but ice cream is more nutritious than nothing.

Something is better than nothing. Some hydration is better than no hydration. Some nutrients are better than no nutrients. Some produce is better than no produce.

The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

Made a bunch of Pride Flag icons for Pride Month

These are all 96x96 sprites, perfect size to use for your tumblr avatar image! Can either be used as is, or as a background to add your avatar to

These are the ones for the asexual & aromantic spectrums in particular. Other flags will be broken down into other posts, since there’s too many to put into one post

AroAce Spectrum Flags

From left to right:

The Asexual Pride Flag, representing the entire asexuality spectrum. The current Aromantic Pride Flag, representing the entire aromantic spectrum. The Aroace Pride Flag, representing people who are both aromantic & asexual, as opposed to just being one without the other

The Demi Flags

From left to right:

The Demisexual Pride Flag, representing people who do not feel sexual attraction to others until they have formed a close emotional bond with them, (although not necessarily a romantic one). The Demiromantic Pride Flag, representing people who do not feel romantic attraction to others until they have formed a close emotional bond with them

The Gray Flags

From left to right:

The Grayasexual Pride Flag, representing people who don't usually feel sexually attracted to other people except for under very specific circumstances. The Grayaromantic Pride Flag, representing people who don't usually feel romantically attracted to other people except for under very specific circumstances

Previous Aromantic Flags

From left to right:

The original Aromantic Pride Flag, made sometime before February 2014. The first revision of the Aromantic Pride Flag, which was used from February 2014 until November 2014, before being replaced with the current one

Hope everyone enjoys!

Umbrella-Term Pride Flags are here: [Link]

Gay & Lesbian Pride Flags are here: [Link]

Bi, Pan, & Poly Specific Pride Flags are here: [Link]

I'm struggling with my morning routine so... I thought: what would their morning be like?

This is also very much an excuse to draw sleep deprived Clive, poor boy with insomnia. 🥺

I wanna make one of these that is like a literal curtain of worms

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Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

THIS IS WORSE. It’s so much worse.

When you hear “there’s no AC” you probably are thinking like…oh that’s rough, but still I’ve dealt with those temps. My old place didn’t have AC. It can’t be that bad.

NO. The lack of AC trickles down into every facet of dealing with the heat in a way that slowly and quite literally boils you alive. It’s not just “oh my apartment is hot this sucks”, it’s “there is nowhere you can go to cool down and if you overheat there is no help available”

For most there’s no AC anywhere. Anywhere. The coolest place available is maybe your local church, or a shopping center. Both will kick you out around 8pm, the hottest part of the day. In France and Spain in particular, the time zone is wrong (Hitler’s fault—we’re still aligned with Germany instead of the UK) and the sun doesn’t set until 10-11pm. Heat is still being actively pumped into your living spaces at 10pm.

And the temps do not meaningfully drop overnight. (Which you might expect if you’re from the American west. Southerners do understand this.) Many people live in stone walled buildings that just keep heating up. This is very literally the experience of being in a stone oven. And there’s no way to drop the temperature. You can’t escape it.

If your body temp climbs to unmanageable levels and you start experiencing heat exhaustion, you can call the hospital…most of which also do not have AC. I’m not sure how they’re treating people, I guess with ice packs? There’s already been a handful of deaths in my city, and that’s before any kind of post-wave reporting. These are real time reported deaths.

Anyway I want you to really, really internalize the sense of panic that starts to set in when you’re in these circumstances. The animal brain really starts to go wild when there’s no options and no escape. That’s why Europeans are posting about suffering.

How to be an archery MENACE (without a bow)

A lot of us did stuff like this as kids, and to be fair, kids know what they’re about when it comes to having fun.