hey babe. Could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
you’re flirting now. i feel flirted with.
i see your lip-biting ellen, and I raise you abs sara lance flirting with felicity
I can’t deny it. I typed ‘seduced’ into the gif finder to get that. Now I need to pick Legends of Tomorrow back up!
I was looking for something good with Krysta Rodriguez but the gif selection was lacking. I found this:
but it was the opposite of what I was after. she’s still perfect though.
I don’t know her or what she’s from but she’s hella cute!!
Wednesday Addams on Broadway. also Ilse from Deaf West Spring Awakening, Ana from Smash, and currently Summer Henderson on the NBC parks and rec/office-style show Trial and Error.
I’m not familiar with any of those! I’m clearly out of the loop! I feel like I at least should know about that last one but I don’t! I’ll have to look it up.
Trial and Error is dorky and fun. Basically John Lithgow’s wife is murdered and everyone thinks he did it, and the town is pretty corrupt but in a goofy way, so this new york lawyer is hired to take his case.
Both Krysta and her dad John Lithgow are bisexual, although I don’t LOVE the way the show talks about it. There’s a woman who can’t recognize faces, passes out when she sees something beautiful, and laughs uncontrollably when tragedy happens. the main lawyer dude is a new yorker trying to manage a case in a south carolina town where people are weirdly fixated on his “northeasterner” status–but, like, it’s never implied that it’s okay for them to act that way.
oh, and the defense’s headquarters/office is in a taxidermy shop.
(Smash was a short-lived show about Broadway musicals. Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Debra Messing, and Christian Borle starred. It had its ups and downs.)
Oooh! I’ve seen ads for this like, twice. The premise seemed perhaps a bit too out there for me but I hadn’t heard anything else about it! Could still be a tad tough for me but that sounds so down the Bae’s alley we’ll probably give it a try! We’re kinda looking for a show like that anyway as we just finished rewatching Brooklyn 99 (for like the third time haha.) obviously we need fresh comedy material and damn if I don’t like watching shows with openly queer characters.
I’ve kind of reached that point where I’m just done with media that isn’t doing anything new. And I don’t mean like GofT ‘new’ ugh. Haha
I don’t want to get your hopes too high about the bi rep–so far it’s sort of awkwardly handled. Larry (John L) was having an affair with his personal trainer when his wife died, although she was fine with it. They never say the B-word and his boyfriend never shows up again, which is weird. Summer (Krysta) rejects a woman’s advances by saying she was flattered, but she’s not into–well, there was that one fling in the youth hostel, but–never mind! So it’s not great. But there they are. it could get better. I don’t know.
I kind of figured something along the lines of Krystas by what you’re saying tho I had hoped not that specifically, but that guy just disappearing sounds weird af. I hope they explain it but then again I realize the explanation could be that the guy doesn’t want to be out and that would be sad too. I want to support shows that at least make an effort to a certain extent but I also don’t want scraps. I’m sure you know exactly what I mean.
At least I have Cpt Raymond Holt in B99! I’m not a gay man so I can’t say with authority but I feel like they do such a good job with him!!
I also am just a tiny bit holding out hope for Rosa being bi since the actress digs the idea but it’s pretty unlikely. *sigh*
it’s more like, everyone thinks Larry’s a murderer, so his boyfriend probably just skipped town to avoid the drama after pictures of them together were on the news…not pretty 😦 i still like the show. it’s funny for what it is.
Yeah. At least we exist at all 🤷🏼♀️I’ll still probably give it a shot if it’s on Hulu, which I imagine it is. We can always use good comedies. We always like to have something as background shows and we’ve run through the ones we have so many times now. Haha
@staff this is what my inbox looks like right now!!! Do something about these damn porn bots. It is obnoxious!!!
(I would delete the post in question, but seriously if I can find someone @staff who would actually investigate where this is coming from and put a stop to it, I’d like to have evidence for them about what is happening.)
Okay, I wanted to reblog this post with a screenshot of blogs I have blocked. I know when I first started using the block function on Tumblr that I could see who I had blocked. I Googled how to ‘unblock’ people, and all the top links indicate you should be able to go to your settings > account > ignored users. But the ‘ignored users’ is no longer there on both my computer and mobile. I know there could be any assortment of reasons that they removed this function—all of which I can’t help but think are shitty—but it certainly feels like they just don’t want people to be able to see just how massive this problem is. Because I block one to three of these fucking blogs a week… on both my blogs. Ughgh
Thanks for the suggestions, but I literally would have to block a flood of over 50 accounts in about a 4-6 hour time frame. That’s a huge pain in the ass, and also not something I can do while my child is awake because most of the accounts load explicit photographic content in their headers.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply you should block them all. >.< I just wanted to add my block list as a demonstration of how big of a problem this is as I’m sure my activity feed would look the same if I wasn’t blocking sooo manny porn blogs. Alas I cannot though because Tumblr won’t let me see my block list -_-
PC gameplay looks awesome. I love the availability of a chat instead of only ever being able to use the mic to communicate with your team (Xbox here)
chat has its pros and cons like its hard for me to talk to strangers on the mic because of good ol social anxiety so typing what i want to say makes it a lot easier BUT its hard to communicate really fast with your team in the middle of a game like if someone’s flanking or whatever
i originally wanted to get it on my xbox because my brothers on there but my friends were on pc
I like it well enough on Xbox but the dudebros are annoying. This is my first multiplayer online game and I’ve def ran into people on the Mics dropping words and phrases that make me be like ‘glad they don’t know I’m a girl’ >.< But sometimes I just wish I could be like, ‘can someone please hackle that Widowmaker? I’m a squishy support and the only healer. Please don’t make me switch to D.Va just to deal with the sniper keeping us away from the payload!’ Haha
BRUH I FEEL THAT SO HARD
my friend and i are getting into the act of just leaving any time we see/hear toxic behavior like its a game stop being racist/ableist/misogynistic/so damn salty go outside drink some water
and im not a support main but ill play one when i need to, usually lucio, and the reason im NOT is because i believe i am too full of hate to ever main a healer
like there are times when i do not WANT to heal my team they dont deserve it i want to watch them DIE because JESUS JUST GET ON THE POINT ITS RIGHT THERE or JUST STAY TOGETHER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
being a support is hard
omg, the amount of times that I’m just like, ‘fine, I won’t even heal you!’ but then get so caught up in the game I forget who I had that thought about in the moment. I’m a little too ‘win win!’ to not heal jerk faces, so it works out. I wouldn’t say I ‘main’ support; I just have the most issues when I play them. I also will try to even out my team as I am comfortable with characters from each grouping, and so often people just don’t pick support. (Though I cherish every opportunity I get to play Symmetra. I just have soo much fun putting those turrets down and then that satisfaction when a Genji or Tracer tries to jump in and all of a sudden THREE TURRETS AND MY BEAM SLOWING THEM DOWN AND THEN DEATH!! People are just jerks to supports. Noticeably worse toward Mercy and Symmetra from my experience. Fancy that… (Ana sometimes too. I’m actually a little surprised that’s not a little more prevalent but also thank god.)
Unfortunately, the Bae has me a little afraid to leave games. Not like, intentionally scared me, but apparently there is some function in the game that keeps track of people who leave after the character selection screen and will at some point punish you? Though I forget how it does outside of Competitive Play. But I’ve been kicked from quite a few games due to server issues or my cats deciding it’s time to throw up and haven’t noticed anything, sooo… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Also, the mute button is amaaazing!
Aw man guys.
My mom and step-dad have been planning to sell the house we lived in since I was about 8 for some time. I managed a quick, hurried weekend there several months back to collect some childhood things I don’t want them to get rid of, but neither of them were there while I was.
They’re mostly moved into a house in the town I’m now living in with my sister that has a distinct separate part to the house, kind of like a small apartment off the main section of the house. It’s pretty cool and a great setup, but they’re mostly moved in and hardcore trying to sell my childhood home.
I’ve known this was coming for some time, and I was generally ambivalent about it. In fact, I am generally ambivalent about it. Like, I know I’ll miss it, but I have all the memories, and I so rarely visited in the past 5 to 10 years, so no big right? Except I keep dreaming about a childhood home my dad used to live at where I have a bizarre amount of memories (it really wasn’t a long period of time he lived there with my aunt and uncle and cousin. Maybe two years? And I only saw him on some weekends…), and I’m fairly consciously aware that it has more to do with my Mom’s home selling than that old house from my younger years.
Yesterday I dreamt my mom called me to tell me the house had sold. When I woke up, I had to check my phone to see if that had been a dream or if I had just fallen back to sleep. I then was driving through town yesterday and saw an old, unique building my dad used to work at and my sister and I used to run around when we were little being demolished. So I dreamt tonight about going out there in the middle of the night and taking these fantastical pics of what was left, and it turned almost into this sci fi thing with roads running up along it and amazing space shit in the sky. But then, as I was trying to get a very specific pic, a police officer showed up to tell me I was trespassing and nearly gave me an $800 ticket for it.
I don’t even know how to cope with something like this? Like, I’m fine awake, but my dreams are getting increasingly unpleasant and sometimes difficult to distinguish from reality? I usually have fun, exciting dreams. *sigh* wth.
I’ve considered making the not quite 2 hour drive back to the old house, but it’s practically empty at this point, and I just don’t think it would help me for that to be the last way I see it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@thoughtfulproxy and I talked about food, and easy and healthy recipes. So now I wanna share some of my thoughts on fast and tasty cooking. Also I wanna add, even though I am a high-carb, fruit and veggie lover, I am writing this while a pound of french fries are in the oven- so whether or not you deem my recipes below as ~healthy~ is up to you! 😀
First off: Eating a salad with meals makes SUCH a big difference in my experience! It doesn’t have to be a big bowl, it can also be a carrot or a few cucumber sticks with hummus if you are into that. My pro tip: wash the whole salad at once and keep it in a tightly wrapped plastic bag in your fridge. This way you will only have to grab it everytime you have a full meal or want a fresh snack. Have tomatoes in stock, especially the small tasty ones, they will make u wanna eat those greens with more delight. Also, a tasty vinegar. But then again: If you can’t have salads for whatever reason (yes, tiredness/laziness is a reason!), just roll with it, be gentle to yourself.
An awesome salad sauce that itself is already a salad, and can be a dip too: blend half an avocado, a tomato, a thick slice of cucumber, vinegar, salt, pepper. If it’s too thick, instead of adding water or oil, add more cucumber and/or tomato, it increases the water content AND adds more of the ‘healthy stuff’! I love this sauce, it’s so delicious!
Make your cooked veggies delicious too with the right seasoning. Steamed or stir-fried veggies can be yum, or very boring. Here’s an easy and tasty sauce: soysauce, sugar/stevia, chili. Add a little water if you use sugar since it won’t dissolve in the salty soysauce. You want it creamy? Add tahini. You want to give it a stronger taste? Add onions and garlic, deglaze with a vinegar/sour component of your choice.
If you are cooking something and it just won’t taste that good no matter how much seasoning you throw at it, keep in mind the secret of tasty cooking: Add something sweet and/or something sour. You can deglaze stir-fried onions with lemon juice and have both tastes at the same time. I typically use rice vinegar + stevia, because it’s easy to keep in stock. The sweet component can be just anything, go wild! Try a few drops of maple syrup along with chili, salt and pepper. Or try a small blended date with soysauce and chili. Or add a piece of chocolate to your hot chili. Experiment with grated ginger, it’s fruity and hot at the same time.
Seriously, I’ve been cooking every day for over ten years, but understanding the sweet/sour components made my cooking improve so much. I cook low fat and low salt, since those things don’t feel good for me (unless I eat french fries like today :D). Sweet components: lemon and grapefruit have sour components too, their juice is perfect to deglaze. Mango is yum in currys, a small date can add a neutral tasting sweetness since it’s not so fruity. Tomatos are fruits too! A thick tomato paste also brings a lot of umami taste. Very ripe bananas in pancake dough are a delicious ingredient if you don’t wanna use eggs. Jam or dried berries can be used in gravy. Sour components: There are so many different vinegars to try! Balsamic vinegar can be very sweet at times, rice vinegar adds a very ‘round’ and mild taste. My new favorite is bread drink that is also incredibly fruity. Besides that, lemons etc have already been mentioned. Worcester sauce has a lot of vinegar too, just like ketchup. You wonder why ketchup tastes so good? The sweet and sour components plus umami!
@thoughtfulproxy, you said you like asparagus. Here’s a japanese recipe that is far less fatty than the (german) traditional way of eating asparagus (which would be lots of melted butter/white sauce, smoked ham, omelette and potatos). Here’s the recipe: stir-fry asparagus, grated garlic and ginger. Add vegetable stock, sugar/stevia, sake(just any vinegar will do), salt, pepper, a little bit of starch (stir it up in a cup with cold water. warm water makes the sauce not smooth). Eat short grain rice with it, if you wanna stick to the japanese style, but I think any rice would do, or even pasta.
Texture! This part is often overlooked by home cooks (like myself). The texture of our food is important for how it tastes. You can steam a sweetpotato, and it will become mush. You can also stir-fry a sweetpotato and it has a little of this crispy crunch to it. Which way you like it, is your thing, but before you decide you don’t like a vegetable, try to prepare it with a different texture! Many people tend to overcook vegetables, so experiment with the cooking time as well!
You can eat the same thing for days. Honestly, you are not gonna die. If you find a seasoning/sauce that you like, prepare all sorts of vegetables with it. Or, the other way round, prepare the same veggies with different sauces as much as you like. In the beginning I felt compelled to eat different stuff every day and it was exhausting. That is not necessary, you won’t die of malnutrition just because you eat veggies and potatoes every day.
Eat with joy. Can’t enjoy your meal? Then it’s not good for you. Forcing yourself is not healthy, no matter how healthy the food is for your body, it is unhealthy for your mind. Prepare and eat your food with joy, your feelings about your food are part of your nutrition too! And if you don’t have the energy to feel positive, allow yourself that. Not everyday can be full of joy, especially if you cook everyday or have to learn the skills in the first place.
Thanks Kimbureh!!!!! I’mma tag this so I can find it in the future!!
Ugh, this is terrible. Tmi warning. Tryying to eat marginally better. Adding in less greasy proteins and more veggies. Apparently my body is unsure about this and I’ve now spent over an hour in the bathroom (not all at once). I mean, it could be the ice cream I indulged in, but ice cream hasn’t done this to me before. Maybe the mix. But I feel miserable and gross and I just want to go to bed
Veggies are gross and they make me feel gross 😛
kimbureh said: if you change your diet, your body might need some time to adjust (enzymes/digestive bacteria etc). also, if eating veggies makes u feel gross, that’s connecting negative feeling to eating them, which will lead to more negative expierences while eating them… what i am saying, is, dont force urself, it’s not healthy either if u have to beat up urself over it (and i say that as a fruits and veggie lover with a weakness for french fries) Part 2: in case u didnt need advice, but a few compassionate words: changing diets is a hard thing. it happens gradually and omg i know the feeling of wanting to do better but not having the energy to do so. the truth is, changing routines is not easy and takes effort.
Ugh. I know this, I really do. I don’t know why I just dove in. Actually, I do. (But for the record, both advice and reassurance was welcome. 🙂 Thank you for your comments.)
Story Time! (Kimbureh, I won’t hold it against you if you don’t read this. I’m getting it off my chest)
So, I’m at my top weight, which isn’t that heavy honestly. 150lbs seems to be my average at the moment when 130lbs used to be my norm. I’ve never eaten really well, and since leaving college, I really don’t get much exercise.
My sister is a health nut. Sometime last summer, she started getting extra worried about my health and eating and pushed me to incorporate Shakeology into my diet. I hate veggies, and this was supposed to give me veggie servings. Over time, I worked it into my routine, and also over time, I’ve gained this way. Now, my sister insists that without changing anything about your diet, Shakeologoy is supposed to make you lose weight, and it has for others in my family. I can’t help but think that for me, it was added calories, so I gained.
But like, so what right? I’m getting more healthy by adding in all these nutrients and vitamins and shit, so if my goal is health and not thin, then all should be good.
I finally told her what I suspect about Shakeology, and she started talking about finding other things for me (after extensively scrutinizing my habits and what might have changed etc). And like, I’m really kind of annoyed, because she’s so insistent that her pushing people to be healthy is her #1 goal — that it’s not about losing weight. She’s got some stuff to work through.
But in talking about my current diet, everyone’s been like ‘Yeah… you eat pretty bad.’ I don’t even understand what ‘healthy’ eating completely consists of at least within what I like since I’m so damn picky and I’m sure af not doing ‘all non processed’ like my sister tries to.
(don’t get me wrong, I love my sister and we are so close and we get along super well, this is just our current head butting/my annoyance)
So like, fine. I’m going to try to eat better. A part of me hopes I don’t even lose weight, because I think it’s bullshit. I’m getting older. My metabolism is slowing. When you add extra calories without exercise, you’re likely going to gain right? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Looks like I might have hit it too hard though. Weird thing is, both of these days I didn’t even do the Shakeo because I only do those on work days and I’m almost out, so it shouldn’t be a veggie overdose. I don’t even know. ヘ（´ｏ｀）ヘ
kimbureh said: ugh food shaming is not cool, i wish u strength to deal with that. on another note, I once have been in the situation of your sister when i was learning about nutrition and was worried about my family’s health. my bet is, she isn’t on board the health ship longer than maybe two years? most people calm down after that super enthusiastic phase, i surely did. the paradox is, more people got interested in my expertise when my aggressively advertising phase was over haha
Eh, she’s been into it for a little bit, but it got fanatical when she got into Beach Body (early/mid 2015). I mean, I’m not sure I like the word fanatical here, because I think it’s great that she’s healthy and enthusiastic about it, but I seem to hate healthy food, and it’s kind of reached a point that between her young son (children) and the health stuff, we don’t have much to relate with each other. Part of all this is her trying to get me into her hobby to connect, but it’s just so not my hobby.
And I kind of feel like I puked and I need to eat, but I don’t even know what my stomach can handle right now that’s on hand. :S I’m a mess. Haha =P
I’d take advice on easy healthy meals that aren’t bland if you happen to think of any. I seem to be okay with raw carrots, cooked asparagus, and I was mostly okay with a green bean casserole. Chicken breasts are good but seem to be some work. I literally don’t know what else is good though as far as like a good sized portion food is though. Like, veggies and fruit are good for you. Yay. But I don’t really snack much. I need healthy meal sized things. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
>.< I’m sorry. I’m super bad at tagging on this blog as I often don’t have the energy to maintain it meticulously like I do my other blog. I will make extra efforts to with things with obvious trigger warnings like the one I’m assuming you’re referring to, but I can’t 100% promise I’ll get great at tagging very quickly on this blog. I will work harder though! (and this one should have been obvious for me to do so as I obviously took the effort to add thoughts, so my bad!!) And I am super sorry if this caused anyone any triggers.
This all being said, I never, ever blame anyone for unfollowing me. I’m terrible at even keeping track of Who follows me as well, so seriously, never any harm or foul. But I will try harder now that I know someone out there is listening. For the most part, I figured this blog was pretty unnoticed and was kind of where I kept stuff for myself. Doesn’t make up for any issues this has caused. Again, my bad. >.<
Tumblr Savior searches the text of the post as well as the tags! Try that 🙂
I like Tumblr Savior; it’s so useful!! But it’s really kind of sad Tumblr doesn’t have a better system. I don’t know how to block things on my Mobile At All. I’m assuming there’s away, but the only thing even remotely like a trigger (but isn’t even a trigger, more like a really intense squick) is not really something people tag except for in a super general sense that doesn’t really help me.
But yeah, I’m betting quite a few people are on the mobile version a lot. Unless Savior can work on that too?
I don’t know how to block anything on mobile unless you use a browser with extensions instead of the app. In which case I think Tumblr Savior would still be the best option?
I have a bunch of squicks and unusual triggers in Savior, so yeah I know what you mean…
Yeah, and that’s kind of a huge problem. I feel like a lot of people use the mobile a lot. I find it a HUGE problem with Tumblr.
Anything I can tag on either of my blogs? I’m bad with this one, but I can try! I suppose I’m honestly partially curious about your squicks though I guess, but those can be personal
Mine can actually be a problem given how obsessed I am with Mad Max. Mine’s specifically eye gore, and that scene with the Bullet Farmer was one of the most violent reactions I’ve had to gore like ever. It’s not even that bad, it’s just like, exactly my squick, and I was so unprepared for it. At least now I know when to look away! Haha
Nah you’re fine as far as I’m concerned, my squicks are all things that are ordinary daily life stuff so I have practice dodging them. Thanks for asking though 🙂 Likewise if you need me to tag smth of course. I try to tag the obvious stuff but forget sometimes.
Well, if you remember and you reblog something with that scene, I certainly wouldn’t mind an eye gore tag. It can be tricky sometimes navigating my dash when one of those gifsets come around with that. There was a confession that used a shot from that scene the other day I had to skim past real fast. Haha. Really not a huge deal, but ick. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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