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While Garum can be made with ketchup and Worcestershire sauce, Worcestershire sauce contains fish, so it is not vegetarian, and would not solve the problem!

But the spreadsheets, Sam! That's why I assumed you knew

THAT’S JUST BEING ORGANIZED! :D 

nonsenseandstuff replied to your post “Not to say Mum has abandoned her true love, the Hallmark Channel...”

2007? We must have had a different version, as I grew up on a colourised VHS of It’s a Wonderful Life. For me, Jimmy Stewart running down the street in his red jumper always stuck in my head. When I first saw the black and white version at about nine or ten, I was completely baffled!

Yeah, there was a 1986 version (that was remastered for 1989) and a 2007 version. 

wandererriha replied to your post “cosmonauthill replied to your post: Not to say Mum...”

I think that's actually the 80s one you're watching.

It’s possible, we couldn’t figure out but I assumed the 2007 version because the color work seemed better done than other colorization I’ve seen from the 80s. How would one know the difference? 

wandererriha replied to your post “Not to say Mum has abandoned her true love, the Hallmark Channel...”

Sounds more like a 1940s twist on "A Christmas Carol". I legit doubt three ghosts and a Clarence could get him to un-grump.

There are oil based food colourings that you use to dye hot sugar for lollies and boiled sweets etc. That might work too? (I have made literally two candles in my life, so I have no idea if it will actually work, but it does work for other hot melty things, so…)

It actually could! You see, I am dumb as heck and completely ignored the fact that food dye is mostly water based, and water doesn’t mix with wax. 

The ideal colouring to be used here is oil-based etc. I’m just worried about the level of toxicity of these things. Crayons are usually the safer go-to because anything tailored to the thought that kids will stick anything in their mouths is safe. But I wanted some thick colours that wouldn’t exactly dissolve but create a colouring effect (like kinda how you get with nail polish on water) so I could make RAINBOWS and stuff!!

Also, yeah, whoever sold it to you as a new revolutionary original book did you a disservice. It borrows heavily from both old school fantasy and old school sci fi (particularly elements from Eddings and Heinlein (particularly Tie Enough for Love), who seem to be the go to's at the moment, Jim Butcher also borrowed heavily from both in Dresden and Codex Alera and I'm pretty sure Eragon's magic system was borrowed from Eddings too).

I'm sorry you're having a shit time. Remember that it's not one person's responsibility to maintain a relationship. Emotional labour is hard work, and if you're doing all of it and getting no support, of course you're going to be emotionally drained and sensitive. Everybody deserves friends who put them first. Remember you have people who care about you. I know we don't know each other well, but I enjoy your tumblr and I would be sad if you stopped posting.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate all of this. <3 It’s just really hard for me to feel secure in my own worth because this isn’t the first time I’ve noticed this happening and I’m scared that it really is something about me and so I’ll never be able to find or deserve better. Guess I won’t get very far if I keep telling myself that, but I just feel like I’m lying to myself when I try to convince myself otherwise. 

Yoo. Get fucking ready for episode 69!!

nonsenseandstuff replied to your post “I’m not generally a crier by nature, but I listened to Episode 48 of...”

Not to mock your pain, but I am laughing so hard right now. Because I made an almost identical post a few months ago. When you start Here There Be Gerblins you don't expect to end up so deep in over these dorks! (Enjoy the pain my friend, it keeps coming...)

Sunshine is literally my favourite book. You're right, it is so comforting and warm. I think it's something about Charlie's Coffeehouse and Sunshine's baking. Also, it's a masterclass in worldbuilding. (My favourite line is 'it is only a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself, because it is so useful to explain feelings of anxiety, being an introvert, times when you are pushing yourself beyond your limits, running out of spoons, etc)

THIS BOOK HAS SO MANY GOOD LINES, and I love the way it approaches vampires and magic as just...part of the deal?  It’s such a nice refreshing change from most supernatural media where the masquerade is a big part of the narrative conflict, because Sunshine isn’t about the vampires or the magic in anything but the most cursory sense.  Sunshine is fundamentally an introspective coming-of-age origin story of a character.  And...listen, I hate coming-of-age narratives on principle.  Once you’ve been dragged kicking and screaming through all 750 plotless pages of You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe during AP Lit, you’re gonna be pretty much burned out on coming-of-age narratives.

But Sunshine’s coming of age is so...self-contained, almost gentle.  Which I realize sounds really ridiculous given the fact that, again, this book contains a lot of murder.  But Sunshine’s origin story isn’t about finding her place in the world or learning about how ultimately everything is terrible, it’s about coming to terms with what she has inside herself--the dark self, she calls it, the part of her that drives her to fight for her life even against impossible odds, even when she’s terrified of the things she’s capable of.  And that’s...so much more engaging than 750 pages of self-righteous masturbatory prose about realizing that everyone around you is ultimately a shell and you are Very Special And Unique because you have emotions or a conscience or whatever (I...really dislike coming-of-age narratives).

Instead, Sunshine presents a world full of magic and shadows and darkness, and a main character who gets her power from sunlight, and places her in a family coffee shop and somehow the primary statement that comes out of this situation is hey, the world is a scary place and sometimes being alive is really hard, but you’re doing the best you can and so are a lot of other people and maybe all of us doing really hard things together can make the world a little less scary.

I think the main warning for chapter two would be for the suicide.