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My gas-station impulse purchase because I saw it and immediately was seized by a baffled confusion as to what kettle-corn mints would taste like.

I am actually assuming it will probably simply be a slightly salty-buttery candy pastille… but there is still the chance it is some unholy blend of mint-corn-butter-salt and I have no idea what that flavour profile would be and I am actually low key hoping that is the case.

@copperbadge, tagging you for your enjoyment of odd flavour profiles.

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copperbadge

True facts "buttered popcorn" and "kettle corn" are not flavors you see often outside of actual popcorn but when you do I am THERE. DYING to know what these taste like as someone who loves popcorn flavored taffy and made his own buttered popcorn cashews.

[ID: a tin of mints much like an Altoids tin, but branded "Big Sky sugar-free mints, Kettle Corn" in front of a striped background with popcorn kernels. It looks as deranged as the essential idea of kettle corn mints suggests.]

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snigepippi

Then I guess you would be interested in this German liquor.

(American popcorn means buttered popcorn.)

I AM VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR POPCORN LIQUOR.

It is so extremely German that even Binny's, the most comprehensive alcohol supplier in the entire Midwest, hasn't heard of it, but I will acquire some, somehow.

[ID: A screengrab of a sales page for "Kleiner Feigling American Popcorn Liqueur", featuring a red box with cartoon eyes; the cartoon eyes are also on the bottle pictured. It looks sinister but also adorable.]

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faggy--butch
Anonymous asked:

is it just me or is the "trans guys are just some boring guys and they make lame music and trans women are cool and interesting and make loud music" jokes almost like. an excuse for why theres not that many trans guys who are popular content creators or musicians or actors or authors or what have you. like blaming the invisibility of trans men on being "boring" and therefore not doing anything rather than oppression.

not to mention the example of music being that people have heard of one singular trans guy who works in a genre they dont like [people really love to act like cavetown is like specifically bad or cringe but thats just what most indie pop/rock/folk sounds like] and theyve heard of a handful of trans women who make hyperpop that they already like [and laura jane grace of course] and its really telling on themselves. theres trans guys making hyperpop and trans women making ""lame ukulele music"" and both of them and nonbinary people making music of tons of other genres. like. cmon. it reminds me of xkcd 385.

also i dont think these jokes are intentionally malicious or anything [most of the time] but it also feels sort of weird to be joking about how boring a group of marginalized people are. im not going to act like its the biggest deal in the world but its sort of low level bullying, innit? and i imagine having this weird expectation to be "cool and interesting" isnt fun for trans women either. its nice to get to be lame sometimes.

Yeah it's super weird, especially because it's repeated over and over, that part is the suspicious part. I even saw it on reddit a few days ago in one of the ftm subs. I do think it's like blaming the lack of trans men artists on trans men being "boring" instead of, you know the bigotry, the erasure, the inequality I think it's also a weird expectation that we all HAVE to live up to what other people think of as "cool" like if we're all not making hardcore metal and being as "SICK" as humanly possible, we are failing at transgender music and therefore are the reason trans men aren't represented as artists enough, which is ummm. okay.

why can't we make soft love songs about being bugs, or whatever. What happens to trans women who don't live up to the metal hardcore aesthetic? Look at Dylan Mulvaney. She made a dumb cutsie girlypop song and everyone acted like she is the founder of misogyny herself. So not only are we ridiculed for the music we make, we're trapped in transphobic expectations of what music we can or should make.

If you expect all trans women to make metal, you'll only see trans women who make metal, if you expect all trans men to make soft music, that's all you'll find! because that's all you looked for! Another thing is like, Oh all trans women music is cool and hardcore rock and roll, but trans men music is dumb and cutsie ukulele music? I wonder what gender those genres are normally associate with? Uhoh we're doing a sexism maybe the person making the joke doesn't have malicious intent, but the joke itself sure does.

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i need to make a shoutout post for the ioway tribe's bee farm products right now

esp this:

why do i love it so much? bc it repels mosquitos WAY BETTER THAN BUG SPRAY. Not only does it make ur skin smell like honey, it forms a waxy seal that buggy chompers cant bite through.

it also soothes bug bites, rashes, and itchy skin.

my partner has the Yummy Blood that mosquitos find irresistable. we tried so many repellents, the wristbands, the candles... nothing seemed to keep them away. out of curiosity and desperation, we tried this lotion bar and the results have been life-changing for us. it is EXCEPTIONAL.

if u or someone u know is bug bait, i cannot recommend this tribe's beeswax bar enough. please support native businesses, ditch the bug spray. this stuff works, and smells, way way way better than anything else.

Not to mention they have REALLY GOOD HONEY.

its summer again my dudes, self rb bc this shit still slappin and im gettin more🐝

yo i just got eaten alive by mozzies and this wax rly helped me feel better. never go thru summer without a tin🐝✨

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mumblesplash

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

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As an autistic person I do not identify with the “autism creature” meme. I am an autism monstrosity, I am an autism beast, I am even an autism horror.

These are not mutually exclusive

I know

I’ve decided it’s name is GTFO to represent how I feel when I have a sensory overload, this is serious and canon

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tbh-posts

THIS is the best addition to the tbh canon.

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since moving here ive noticed europeans have no concept of how few americans ever leave USA. every american tourist youve met is of an economic crust that is vastly unobtainable to the other like. 85% generously. no matter what you have believed i can guarantee this. even getting to canada isnt really a possibility and the mexico-US border is highly controlled and militarized.

to put it into perspective. a ~2 hour flight from london to warsaw is like. 30 to 45 USD?

and a 2 hour flight from one US city to another would be about 130 USD

it was very cheap to fly here. i make over 100k USD now and i dont know if ill ever be able to afford leaving. if that gives you an idea of how prohibitive travel is here. i havent even touched on how the US has Zero guaranteed holidays by the govt. many people here go years without ever having an entire week off of work

this has had a like. massive impact on American Brain and they dont even know it because travel isnt even a consideration economically. they dont even know how much more vacation time european countries have guaranteed

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during the peak of among us' popularity during the 2020 lockdowns i would name myself dad and go into lobbies with strangers and tell them i loved them and was proud of them and i ended up making a few people cry i think

i was running around like this (but in blue) and telling my many kids they did good on their tasks or their murders and i would mourn my kids when they died and when i died my son on the floor would plonk himself down and sit there waiting for me to get back and people got really sad over the little guy

a bunch of kids came out to me because they couldn't come out to their actual parents i think i speedran being a good father

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