Himbo Mermaid

rips open ribcage to reveal a shirt that says "IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS I SHOULD PROBABLY GO TO THE HOSPITAL"

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

if you are on mobile good news! you can just move your phone around and it is like you are driving maisy car around the real world!

i have #sickfreaks i feed my birds kellogg's

"dog residue" post means so much to my ocd

On the one hand I kind of want 9pm pancakes but on the other hand the kitchen is so cold...

Nothing will warm the kitchen up quite like running the stove to make 9pm pancakes

Yeah but then I'll eat too many (it's hard to proportion one person's worth of snack pancakes) and feel all dense and weird inside for the rest of the night.

Pancake refrigerate surprisingly well. You can cook too many and eat only enough.

I'm just air frying some sausages instead. This means I can leave the kitchen while they cook and I don't have to go for a walk in the dark and wet to pick a lemon from the orchard.

Why would you need a lemon to make pancakes?

Gotta put something on the pancakes. I'm not gonna eat a plain dry pancake.

...but lemon?

Yeah lemon juice and sugar

i see you are experiencing the incomprehensible bluescreen some people have when informed of the Literal Best Pancake Topping Ever (my latvian friend had literally never heard of this before coming to ireland and for like 2 days around pancake tuesday was like "y'all are so fucking weird what even is this combo" about it being the default and beloved configuration here)

It's such a good combo that Americans make a whole drink out of it and people don't understand it on pancakes? It's like, THE classic pancake topping second only to maple syrup (which is way too sweet for me).

I’ve never heard of this, but it sounds incredible. Do you mix the sugar in with the lemon juice before pouring it on? Is it a lemon juice and powdered sugar on top situation? If you’re mixing the sugar and lemon juice before pouring on, is it enough sugar to make it thick like syrup, or is the texture closer to lemonade (American style like you referenced rather than the soda)?

I squeeze a wedge of lemon over the pancake like you do with chips and then sprinkle on a bit of sugar to take the edge off the sourness of the lemon. You can butter them first or not depending on moisture preference and how much you want the lemon to soak in.

Is this the time to share that I grate cheddar cheese into my pancake mix?

It is never the time to share such horrifying truths

Wait. Back up. What do you mean, "like you do with chips"?!

also the sugar is commonly icing sugar so it sprinkles properly but I suspect Derin’s using table sugar.

Do I seem like the sort of person whose life is together enough to own more than one type of sugar

YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR. that seems like the kinda person to own more than one type of sugar????????

why is the coffee grinder involved here. do you grind molasses to make brown sugar. is that how? inch er esting.

Molasses is a liquid. You grind plain sugar to make caster sugar.

Are we just not gonna talk abt the cheddar cheese pancakes?

Correct, we're gonna gloss right on past.

I love how you call high-income writers Spiders Georg instead of. you know. an outlier.

As a writer, I know my audience.

watching a pot means itll never boil but leaving it unwatched makes it always boil over so basically cooking pasta is kinda like quantum superposition