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URL change: tapioooca --> hullygeee
Not my preferred spelling, but fitting that it still has three of a vowel, I guess? Wasn't worth the hassle to change the password on the hullygee blog I used, like, once, just to get my actual handle back.
Never getting rid of the Moral Orel pfp, so if you identify me that way you're safe
here's a funny conversation topic i had a with a friend: if you're over the age of 25, when's the last time you really *ran* in a panic (like you were late, chasing after something, etc. things like a marathon don't count!) and what was it for?
diced onion and olive oil belong in the saucepan together. lezzing out.
Pokemon Heritage Post
will you love him?? 🥺 will you buy. hats.
Fun Fact about yourself? Hwaet! I took Old English as an elective in college, and I still have the first twenty or so lines of Beowulf memorized in Old English. I'm a nerd.
How long have you been writing fanfiction? My fanfiction journey began in high school, so I’ve been writing on and off for almost twenty years. A friend and I used to write Fall Out Boy RPF in the back of class in a 5-subject notebook. Ah, the good ol’ days. I took a decade-long break, but I got the itch again in 2022, and that’s when I started my long fic, which is the first thing I ever posted on AO3.
Favourite SDV character to write? My favorite character to write by far is Shane because he’s so relatable to me. Shocking, I know. However, Harvey is a close second, which I did not expect when I first started writing him.
Favourite tropes/genre to write? Romance. All day. I enjoy writing breakups, first kisses, love triangles, friends to lovers, she fell first/he fell harder, grumpy/sunshine, slice of life, and second chances.
Your most popular SDV fanfic? Affliction, Bliss, and A Second First Kiss is my most popular by a mile, and I’m eternally grateful for that. There is blood, sweat, and a whole sea full of tears in that fic.
Your SDV underdog fic you wish more people would give a chance? Supernatural Delight. It’s a silly crack fic in which Shane gets eaten by vampire!Abby, and not in the fun way. It’s horror meets comedy, and the ending makes me laugh every time I think about it.
Hear me out: Shane/Emily. It’s grumpy/sunshine when it boils down to it, and I think they are so cute together. The quirky, weird girl melts the town grump’s heart? UGH!
Lastly, any other fandoms you write for? I wrote a smutty little one shot for ACOTAR, and I have a few more in the works. Will I ever post them? Maybe.
We are very lucky to have someone as talented as Ursula as one of our number. If you check out her fics, please be sure to kudos and comment to show your support for small artists and writers.
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The Hague, Netherlands: Spanish street musician Borja Catanesi and the 68 year old dancer from The Hague mr Roland Parijs
imagine just playing your guitar and you come across the FUNKIEST grandpa
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it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.
I'm sorry, I know you weren't actually looking for an explanation but I always have a rant about this locked and loaded.
As far as I can tell the reasons that this happens are:
Anyway, in conclusion: it sucks, I'm sorry.
The fun flipside of this is that I've seen people who are more right wing become aggressively pro regulation and pro accommodation when they or their family members have to suddenly take on the individual burden of making up for a society that doesn't include them by default.
US specific:
Is your ham made with vinegar? Does your ham have the generic word "spices" on the ingredient list? Does your ham include "smoke flavoring"? Does your ham include caramel coloring?
Because malt vinegar has gluten in it. "Spices" may include wheat products in a mix. Smoke flavoring may be made with barley flour. Caramel coloring may be made with wheat or barley syrup.
If the label says "gluten free" that means that the "spices," caramel coloring, vinegar, and smoke flavor are certified to contain 20ppm or less of gluten.
If the ham is cured in any way, it may include gluten. If the ham was marinated, it probably includes gluten. If the ham was prepared in a facility that processes wheat in any way, it might be cross contaminated with gluten.
There's a company out there called "Gluten Free Water" that makes water in plastic bottles, poking fun at the idea that too many things have a gluten free label. I fucking hate that company. Because that company is functionally saying "lol, people are so sensitive and over the top about this, let's be a little silly and laugh about how crazy people can be with their 'gluten free' nonsense."
Did you know that there are sustainable food containers and straws that contain wheat? And that you don't have to label them? There are definitely people with celiac who have been sickened by biodegradable plastic straws in their "obviously water is gluten free there's no risk here" water.
"It's over-labeled so it looks trendy" just means you don't know how foods are made or what foods contain gluten. Gluten is ridiculously common in foods in general, and also in packaged meats.
Your ham has to say gluten free because it distinguishes it from the hams that do contain gluten, which is a fucking lot of them. And you're annoyed that your ham has to say gluten free and I'm annoyed that I'm standing in the grocery store calling a ham company to figure out where they source their caramel coloring so I can figure out if the damned ham is safe to eat.
"lol, oats don't have wheat in them, are people so stupid that they have to be told what is and isn't wheat? why does this oatmeal have a gluten free label?" Cross contamination; gluten free oats are not grown near wheat and are not processed in facilities that process wheat.
"lol, rice doesn't have wheat in it, why is this rice labeled gluten free, all rice is gluten free" Cross contamination; the rice isn't processed on equipment that processes wheat.
"lol why does this turkey breast say gluten free, it's just fucking turkey" read the ingredients on your "just" turkey, lots of packaged meat is packed in broth, some of which contains modified food starch, which may contain wheat.
"lol why are these strawberries labeled gluten free? they're fucking strawberries" WAX, BUDDY. SOME FRUITS ARE COATED IN PRESERVATIVE WAX FILMS BY THE MANUFACTURER AND SOME OF THOSE FUCKING FILMS CONTAIN GLUTEN.
I think that part of the reason that people are so irritated by g-free labels is because it exposes them to just how vast and alienating their food systems are.
"Ham should just be meat from a pig, maybe with sugar and salt; what on earth is happening that there might be wheat in that process? Nothing in that process should involve wheat." And then you might have to think about it for a second, might have to wonder what "sugar" and "salt" mean when someone is producing a million hams to be delivered thousands of miles away. It's not just sugar and salt; it's preservatives and nitrates and batch cooking and getting corn syrup instead of sugar and getting smoke flavoring instead of smoking the ham and turning your "whole food" into all the ingredients that make up the ingredients that make up the ingredients.
A "gluten free" label says "you can eat this" to somebody with celiac disease, who has already pounded their skull against the shittiness of the medical system and the food system.
But to someone who doesn't have to worry that their food is going to disable them, a "gluten free" sticker on ham takes a known quantity and turns their sandwich into a hyperobject that contains animal agriculture and industrial additive production and shipping pollution and the ongoing assault on regulation.
If it doesn't have the label, you can just eat your lunch. If it does have the label, you are haunted by the specter of RFK junior imploding the FDA.
Turns out that everyone in the US with celiac is already constantly haunted by the possible implosion of the FDA because food regulation is an up-close and personal part of our daily lives that most people would rather not think about.
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