Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy

Tracey Emin, My Dead Body - A Trace Of Life, 2024, London

Saw something beautiful just now (nobody letting a Cybertruck merge)

do you think prev is older or younger than you?

Expression is sacred, and imagination is not illegal, but when your imagination is not from the soul, and expressed with stolen talents, then you don't deserve protection, but only punishment.

guy who stole the Mona Lisa to hang it in his living room: DID YOU KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE HOME DECOR ILLEGAL???

i love you beginner artists i love you new writers i love you amateur hobbyists i love you just starting off creatives i love you artistic improvement i love you creative passion

before you stab someone: THINK!

how can you make it Tender?

how can you make it Homoerotic?

how can you make it Implicitly intimate?

how can you make it Noticeably a metaphor for sex?

how can you make it Kind of gay?

My roommate thought she hated cooking and then she moved in with me and started using knives that were actually sharp and realized cooking is fun. Sometimes I wonder how many other situations are like this. It's not you, or your skills. It's just the lack of correct tools. Everyone knows you need a knife in the kitchen but no one mentions a sharpening stone.

Also you should probably sharpen your knife.

Speaking less metaphorically I literally do wonder how many people would realize Cooking Doesn't Suck if only they had sharper knives. Cutting vegetables is not supposed to be a workout. You're not supposed to apply force when you press down. If you have to force the knife down then the knife is dull! This is a fixable problem!

I hated cooking with my mother because it was always a hectic struggle of finding each ingredient as and when it was needed and I am not good at finding things becase it hits the blind spot in my poor sensory filtering and litteralness. it turns out when I have the space and warning to get all my ingredients together ahead of time and line them up in order in easy reach? Not only do I enjoy even quite fiddly backing but I am actually damg good at it.

The following info is for Ordinary kitchen knives, from inexpensive supermarket brands to Wüsthof, Zwilling, Sabatier, Global etc.

Knives that aren't Ordinary - ceramic, Damascus, single-bevel Japanese etc. - need more specialised care.

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Get a steel OR a pull-through sharpener and, if your knives aren't as sharp as they can be, steel or pull-through all of them about 20 times, then use a carrot and a ripe tomato to test how the knife cuts through something resistant and something squashy.

What's wanted is an edge which cuts - push forward, pull back, cut complete - because it's sharp rather than because it's pressing down hard or sawing to and fro.

Finish by rinsing each knife with very hot water, then dry them and put them in their block / drawer / whatever.

NB, if knives have been transformed from dull to sharp, expect to pay "Steel Fee" at least once and know where the Elastoplast / Band-Aid is kept.

Once accustomed to these sharp knives, using them becomes much easier. After use, wash off any ingredient gunk, rinse under very hot water, steel or pull through the sharpener a couple of times, rinse again, dry and put away.

Knives prepped and maintained like this will have safe * and reliable working edges for a long, long time.

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* I've heard / read comments about "sharp isn't safe".

Yes, it is.

Sharp blades cut with far less effort than blunt ones, and it's the need for unnecessary effort that sends a knife skittering off in an unexpected, dangerous direction that usually ends where it's least wanted.

Sharp is better.

I'm clumsy as fuck and I've cut myself on a lot more dull blades than sharp ones because that amount of force is difficult to control and can cause the food to slip while you're cutting it

I'm glad that people are still having fun on tumblr even after we found out about the frightening ghoul that reblogs posts but doesn't say anything

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wow that fucker just keeps going huh

"Fealty," a follow-up to this illustration: 👀

My dermal filler facial feminisation consultation is on Wednesday and there’s a possibility I can get the treatment straight after. Excited! This wouldn’t have been possible so soon without your help everyone. Lots of love <3

Ahhhh today’s the day! Thank you for the love everyone.

Please do consider donating, buying a commission or sharing my Kofi to help me sustain my treatment more easily. But please look after yourself first. Love you all x

>listening to nin

>hear a new layer to song ive relistened to over and over

>"wow i cant believe i never noticed this before! i wonder what kind of synth he used. its very forboding in a specific way only nin can achieve"

>pause song to write post praising nin

>the synth specifically keeps playing despite the rest of the song being paused

>look outside window

>garbage truck

same energy

la classique

Bamboozled again by the beauty that exists everywhere in the world if you listen!!!

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

Mental illness is all in your head in the same way that prostate cancer is all in your ass.

this person wins everybody else go home

i don’t give a fuck if i “sound like chatgpt,” you will pry—my em dash—from my cold—dead—hands—fuck you fuck you fuck you

in all seriousness, i find it concerning how we’ve begun to denigrate rigid/formal english in favor of what feels “real” (i.e. informal, social). harrowing implications for neurodivergent and ESL communities. i was a child who “sounded like a computer”—i can’t imagine what my education would have felt like under AI-driven scrutiny. as an adult, i’m far more equipped to construct my thoughts using informal language, but i consider that skill a privilege

many people experience this in reverse, learning english as a native language through peer-driven social experiences. in that world, “formal” english signifies privilege and education rather than neurodivergence and/or multilingualism, so i understand the impulse to attack it, but there’s nothing wrong with relying on structure to be understood, and—for the record—you cannot always identify generative AI with a cursory glance. it is an exercise in hubris to believe otherwise

"im tired of living through major historical events" is now "dear lord please let me witness a high profile political assassination in the next 1-2 years. amen"

wait, i just realised that aragorn was in minas tirith during ecthelion’s last ruling years (and was kind of vip, tbh). and you know who was there too, during that time?

baby boromir.

frickin’ baby boromir.

so it seems obvious to me, that aragorn held little boromir in his arms at least once (and probably saw it when nannies changed his diapers).

Aragorn: *sees Boromir arrive in Rivendell* wait is that

Aragorn: it can’t be him. he is a baby

Aragorn: *mental arithmetic* ….oh fuck it is him isn’t it

It’s quite possible that Aragorn held Boromir at both his infancy and his death. 

This is fine!

It was all fun and games until that comment

We are all fine

@i-am-the-broken-bride

Guys. Guys. Aragorn probably also met Theoden as a child, too. So… just fucking imagine that shit. Eowyn even says Aragorn went off to war with her grandfather… Aragorn: Gondor calls for aid! Theoden, remembering this dude used to babysit him on occasion and does not want to deal with his disappointed face rn: … and Rohan will answer.

using your unmatched dad energy to guilt the entire world into saving itself

The once and future Dad