Smorgasborg

The Owners, Managers, and Honorable Employees of Bleak Hill Grocery would like to wish you and your family a Happy 4th of July!

July 4th, 1776 was the day we declared our intention to be free, whatever the cost.

This day is not about the freedom we possess, it’s about our resolution to obtain and defend our freedom even against insurmountable odds.

That’s the spirit of America: the little guy who won’t back down.

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

Mine

....I don't mind

At last my hyperfixations pay off! We shall be very happy in the enchanted forest— she can do the magic while I make the soup 🍲❄️✨

Let’s see who I got this time… 🥁

This image was created by and is the property of @chroncruik.

Eda Clawthorne (aka the Owl Lady, aka the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles)!

I guess that’s one way to join the Bad Girl Coven, though I still feel like I’m more of an honorary owlet than a possible partner, but I suppose the age gap will get smaller with time…

(Then again, there are flashbacks of her when she was younger!)

Who’s Getting Tagged This Time?

Somebody else's OCs! Lol, these are from @spookberry

Tagging:

Welp💀

Well.....this could get awkward 😅

The cool centaur drawing someone made

The cool Nightwing cosplay

The fanart au an artist I like made

Or the only photo that is actual official art of a character from their actual franchise

Instructions unclear: too broad a definition of fictional character.

Well, I don’t want to marry any of these guys as I am straight, but each of them just got $875,000 worth of gold in 1944 money, so I guess I’m gonna have to do it.

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

07/03/26

Another EGGS-ellent joke!

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.

Rocky chose a hand to match Grace's scar!

Coleslaw is from the Dutch kool sla (cabbage salad)

So it meets one half (cabbage) but is it a salad?

The root of salad is salata, meaning salted vegetables, so it's almost got it there- but Sauerkraut is *fermented* and salads are not.