#ilacatz

but is it gay?

Six Harvests? Not especially -- the protagonist and his wife are both straight, and it’s set in a small town in Texas in the 1930s with all that entails. There is a secondary character, the protagonist’s sister, who is a lesbian, but that really only comes into play in the last third or so of the book, and isn’t a major plot thread (she’s not living in the town for most of her story). 

Nameless is significantly more gay; it’s not especially overt, like there’s no sex scenes or anything, but it’s very clearly a love story between two men who are both excruciatingly bad at being in love. 

archwrites replied to this post

Is it Bunburying if you didn’t invent the dying relative 🤔

BUNBURY BY PROXY. Even funnier! 

col1999 replied to this post

I just switched to A&H litter because the store was out of my regular one, and my cats L O V E it. Like 'enthusiastically tossing it everywhere' love it. Which is not awesome, but what IS awesome is that the litter clumps like a motherfucker, so. Pros and cons.

It might just be a function of A&H litter, too -- mine also like to kick it everywhere, especially when I’ve just refilled the box. Polk will get in and kick litter out of the box until the level is precisely to her liking, and then Deebs will go garden in it for half an hour, the little filth monsters. 

ilacatz replied to this post

The annoying thing is that each time I see that ask I get tempted to find out if the fic mentioned actually exists because bile fascination

So the good news is 

[Description: A screengrab of AO3 search results; the search was for tags Mpreg, Jesus Christ, and Seahorses, and there are no results found.]

Not to be judgey, but the unsettling news is that if you remove “Seahorses” you get seven hits. Now, only two of those are Pregnant Jesus, but both are Pregnant Jesus in an A/B/O AU, and I read them both with my own two eyeballs, and I blame you. 

annechen-melo replied to this post

I know it would be treif as all get out to use the onion jam I have in the fridge (which has bacon in it) but what about a savory version with caramelized onions?

question of the day: is Tenzing Tharkay’s legal...

Tenzing is his Nepalese name, his english name is George, after his father according to a drabble on Novik’s personal livejournal

apparently Peter Jackson bought the rights years ago (like before he was working on the Hobbit trilogy)

I have this theory that after Tempests Darcy believes both Elizabeths are his soulmates, because without the Hunsford fight he would never have considered a natural-born woman

When you said that there was going to be a reenactment in the near future I was expecting you to be acting out the Crowley part. I am both relieved and slightly disappointed this was not the case.

Yeah, I’m much too camera-shy for that :D And while I do currently have the hair for Aziraphale, I don’t have the rest of the outfit or a good place to set up the background dressing....

we-are-but-dust-and-shadows replied to your photoset “copperbadge: copperbadge: arualclosean: cliopadra: Cursed...”

What is the metal thing on top of the egg cup and what does it do?

The doinger! @ferrific asked about it too. It’s a metal lid with a long bar on top that has a spring inside of it. You pull up the top of the bar and it slams down the doinger on top of the egg, neatly breaking the shell on a soft-boiled egg so that you can pull it off and scoop out the delicious jammy insides. We call it a doinger because it makes a soft “doing!” noise when used. There’s a good video demo here (albeit without the noise): 

It doesn’t actually work on chocolate. Through the magic of photography I removed the egg after pretending to doinger it and sliced the top off with a knife. 

ilacatz replied to your photoset “copperbadge: copperbadge: arualclosean: cliopadra: Cursed...”

clearly this would have worked way better with one of Bon Appetit's Gourmet Cadbury eggs

I mean, is there anything that wouldn’t be improved by the proxy presence of Claire Saffitz? 

writingcaterpillar replied to your post “All right, I have tidied the kitchen, set some bread dough to rise,...”

99% certain Polk wants everyone to know how much she loves Deebs

Has there been anything more about the construction in your buiding's parking area and the bikes?

Not yet -- I haven’t been back down to look, I really should see if they’ve finished whatever the hell they were doing down there. 

ameliahcrowley replied to your photo “armthearmour: The infamous Horned Helmet, belonging to an armor...”

I'm so glad you found him!

Yes! In fact I thought “I have to tell @ameliahcrowley“ because you sent me the magnet and little LED, and then I 100% forgot to tag you. 

ilacatz replied to your post “fruitgoat replied to your post “In looking for an old post this...”

"thin oiliness" I have never had proper mayo that can be described as thin

Sam, Michael Sheen is going to find this. And read it. It's going to get real inceptiony real quickly.

I love that everyone in Good Omens fandom who wants to threaten me knows that the biggest threat is just to be like “WE WILL TELL MICHAEL SHEEN WHERE U LIVE.” 

swords-n-spindles replied to your post “Crowley is pretty and all, but have you ever heard of...”

Never thought I'd get misty eyes over the mention of banana daiquiris

I won’t lie, I did a little bit myself. I’m old enough to remember making a mental note, If I ever run into Terry Pratchett, buy him a banana daiquiri.

mangy-mongrel mentioned you on a post “Crowley is pretty and all, but have you ever heard of...”

@copperbadge As always I'm torn between "Sam no!" and "Sam yes!"

WELCOME TO MY LIFE. 

rsfcommonplace replied to your post “Crowley is pretty and all, but have you ever heard of...”

I laughed so loud at argyle socks I think I actually woke up my upstairs neighbor.

You laugh but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna have to buy like 12 pairs of argyle socks to get in the good graces of my new employer. 

ilacatz replied to your post “Crowley is pretty and all, but have you ever heard of...”

Why must you be such a consistent exception to my personal rule that no good comes from reading rpf?

I hate it when the cards are insistent about things. The last few readings I've done were all like "YOU NEED A MENTOR." And I'm perpetually like, "Cool. But . . . How?"

LOL! I usually have an inkling of how, but I just Don’t Wanna. You might try asking the cards how! Ask them to tell you that journey or something. 

ilacatz replied to your photo “Dearborn likes hockey referees and cheap pizza. [Description: two...”

I don't think she can properly see what's on that tv, cats are farsighted.

Oh she definitely can’t see it properly, but I think that’s why she likes referees -- they’re moving around like everyone else, but their uniforms pop more. Both she and Polk can definitely follow movement and see shapes, like when I show them the “birds for cats” videos on YouTube and she’s afraid of the squirrel, but I don’t think she can like, identify what’s actually happening. 

drgaellon replied to your post “tienriu replied to your photo “Dearborn likes hockey referees and...”

Adam was created on day six. Day one (the first day of Rosh Hashana) is the day G-d created the heavens and the earth. (Nothing I can find says exactly WHEN G-d created Eve, but it had to be some time after the first Shabbat, since G-d created her when He realized Adam was lonely.)