anon, have you tried not being a fucking asshole? Ruin, you are neither insufferable nor hard to love. <3

thank you so much love 😭 but i think anon was just paraphrasing me from this post, so they weren't necessarily attacking me just trying to see what my view was on the situation. i am Going Thru It right now with losing friends or feeling like i'm losing them, and was trying to understand why

I found a recipe online for Burt's Bees clove (my favorite, as well) and will happily send you some, if you'd like.

Thank you! That’s not necessary though -- I tried a few from various people/products after Burts Bees pulled theirs, and never found one that worked as well. 

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Oh, YOU'RE eating garbage pizza, I thought Frank Oz was and was like "power move."

I’m pretty sure that in every Klaine fic where Kurt sings, people praise his angelic voice. Here are some fics that feature singer!Kurt.

Fanfare by Phantom of a Rose 

Kurt Hummel is everything Blaine wants to be: out and proud, talented, and courageous. Blaine would love to tell him how he feels, but then, Kurt Hummel is a famous singer and actor and he will never know that Blaine even exists. Right?

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Carry That Weight by hedgerose, penguinutopia 

When Blaine's friend Susan drags him to an American Idol audition, he's not even trying to get past the first round-- much less into the top ten. And after getting through Disco Week, avoiding the media, and dealing with his very absent parents, Blaine's not sure he even wants to win-- although falling in love might make up for a lot of that. And maybe, just maybe, he can win this thing.

Note: This is the first part of a series.

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Don’t You Want Me by orphan_account

Kurt is the flagship of Blaine and Cooper's label. When Kurt auditions for a role on Broadway, Cooper is so scared to lose him that he asks Blaine to seduce their star to make him stay.

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High Holidays by Twitchy Squirrel

In this AU Kurt is a thirty-something struggling opera singer. Blaine is an international pop superstar. They meet on a flight to Italy, and the rest is amore.

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The Bodyguard by VisionImpossible

AU. As a world-famous singer, Kurt Hummel becomes the target of a mysterious stalker. But on the other hand, he somehow just can't get his new bodyguard off his mind..

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Happy Reading!

But as much as I like things (I often REALLY LIKE things) nothing has really... enflamed me, reached out and yanked my heart out of it’s chest and demanded that I interact with it the way Glee did. I got into Glee fandom when I was traveling for a year with my family, half a world and many hours away from anyone else I knew in real life. As is the by now old story, I didn’t have friends in the physical world, so I developed friendships in the online world. This kept going even after I came back from traveling, when I went to college. But after Glee, I drifted away from directly interacting with fandom. I still do sometimes, such as when I leaped into @wellntruly DS9′s fandom. But it’s no where to the level I was before, and I don’t often do things like that anymore. Similarly to how after college, I drifted away from people there. I still talk to some, I still sometimes do alumni things, but it’s not my life anymore. It’s not that it wasn’t important, and that I didn’t love so many parts and people from it. But it was a part of my life that is over now, even as I still keep an eye on them sometimes.

I haven’t even really watched Glee since it stopped. It was a special, perfect thing for me at that time. There’s a part of me that’s afraid that it won’t hold up if I watch it again, that I won’t like it anymore. That I won’t watch it and have it grab my whole heart in it’s perfectly imperfect hands.

I’m not sure what this is. I just, for some weird reason, decided to go back through my rainbowrites tag to see old conversations and remembered all over again how much Glee fandom meant to me. How those friendships buoyed me when I was down, intrigued and inspired me, and over all developed me as a person. I learned so much. About how to analyze shows and also how to just lean back and let the story enchant you motherfucker. About lives and situations and perspectives other than my own. About history and feminism and queerness and disability. About writing and editing and characters and stories. About how to think. About me. I

I guess this is a bit of a wistful love letter to the person I was then, and the show and fandom that meant so much to me. I’m not that person anymore, but I wouldn’t be the person I am NOW without them. I sometimes wish I was still that person, still had that drive and connection to fandom. But overall I like being a bit more of a lurker now, content to just enjoy things without saying too much about them. Maybe that will change. Maybe it won’t. But for now, I like who I am, both in the internet and physical world. And part of who I am now is all the people who helped make me along the way. So....

thanks guys <3 you’re amazing

Right after the film ended all you could hear was one woman crying in the theater. It was definitely whiplash. Excellent film, though.

Yeah, there was a heavy silence between the last clip of the film and the opening of “Mary Don’t You Weep.”  Sniffling, and that was about all.  No one moved for a good while, either; it seemed like we all kind of needed to gather ourselves before we could face the world.

niennanir replied to your photoset “Surprised yell #4: when I went to change out the leaky showerhead the...”

You need to make sure the pipe is stable and not moving and NOT LEAKING into the wall. (omg, 0/10 would not do again) You'll want to ninja up to eye level and shimmy the flange out of the way, turn on the water, which will now be spraying directly on you, and make sure none of the water is running from the pipe joint into the wall. You'll also want to go around to the opposite wall, remove the service panel and check that everything is spiffy on that end. p1

p2: the pipe should be anchored to the nearest stud with a little half circle clamp for stability, otherwise it runs the risk of bending and ultimately failing. You can actually reclaim it yourself with a screw driver if everything is okay in the leaks department. I picked one at random off amazon but you'll need the right size for your plumbing pipe. http://a.co/bkBO03E

Oh man what I wouldn’t give for a service panel :D That’s not a thing in Chicago gut-rehabs like this one, unfortunately. 

The pipe itself seems ok -- it’s definitely not leaking now, and while it might take a while, the downstairs neighbors would probably notice relatively quickly if there was a significant leak. But there’s no way to get at the rest of the plumbing without knocking a hole in the wall. Which, at the point I retile might be an option because I’d prefer to install entirely new hardware, I don’t care much for what’s there now, but again -- expensive, so will have to wait. In the meantime, I’m brainstorming ways to secure the pipe so it’s not constantly knocking back and forth which, as you say, could eventually cause it to bend/break. @scifigrl47‘s dad, who Knows The Ways Of Plumbing, says I need a special kind of escutcheon, which is fancy and exciting. 

The previous shower head leaked so badly I’m actually judging the tenants a little for not at least trying to tighten the screw holding the head to the pipe. Though it did make it easier to remove. 

regonym replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

I re-did my (ROSE-PINK) laminate counters with a Giani faux-granite paint kit, and omg SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT <3

hedgerose replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

You can also use feather finish cement on top of existing countertops, if you're willing to spend literal hours sanding it down. I did it last year to my counters and I love them a LOT.

niennanir replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

Rustoleum countertop transformations is an epoxy that comes with a plastic flake you add to the surface to make it look like faux stone. It totally looks faux. It is also totally better than most laminate from the 80's and earlier. It is not heat resistant.