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“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

Aurora is my new favorite webcomic bc it introduces a Cool Dude™ and you’re like “woagh that sure is a Cool Dude™. I hope he has everything he loves stripped away from him and becomes a pathetic loser.” And then! He does! Like two pages later! Amazing! Revolutionary! I hope he gets worse!

@comicaurora

compelling protagonists go in the centrifuge

Preserving these hashtags for posterity

i find the whole "i had unpleasant experiences with leftists before so now im a raging fascist" narrative incredibly funny because we have all had unpleasant experiences with leftists before. it comes free with being a leftist

the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultural workers but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor. which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water. so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to engage in a trade war with iran over fucking. pistachios.

anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.

anyway one of the vegan recipe accounts i follow just posted like five pistachio-based recipes in a row and it makes me feel some kind of fucking way

it is extremely relevant that pistachios are so easy to acquire here, but acorns, which are an indigenous California food staple crop, are impossible to find even in the best stocked grocery stores, and knowing how to prepare them for consumption is a rarer skill than sourdough starter

Text: "I remember the moment my thinking flipped "a lion pride is a harem of females controlled by and serving a king male" to "it's a family of female friends who keep and feed one lazy arsed sleeps-all-day sperm donor around for babytimes".

"It's oversimplified, but it's no less accurate and very funny."

we have the technology

Interesting etymological surprise of the day: miniature and minimum are unrelated. Minimum is from Latin for "smallest". Miniature, through a series of etymological twists, comes from Latin minium meaning "red lead". This was the basis of the verb miniō "to color red", from the use of red lead as a pigment. From this verb came the Italian miniatura "manuscript illustration", borrowed into English as "miniature", from the frequent use of red ink. Since those illustrations were often quite small, the word came to mean "small", probably influenced by the unrelated minimum

No, I am not 'hoarding craft supplies.' I am sourcing materials for a very big project that will be revealed to me at a later date- perhaps in a dream.

as a person whose art style one thousand percent has this problem, nothing is funnier to me than a supposedly old and crusty character drawn by someone whose art style is entirely calibrated around beautiful porcelain young people

of my multitudinous problems with The Dragon Prince season 7 my favorite is that this is what the main villain's unassuming old bog witch disguise looked like

as a person whose art style one thousand percent has this problem, nothing is funnier to me than a supposedly old and crusty character drawn by someone whose art style is entirely calibrated around beautiful porcelain young people

i would like to propose a new accessibility feature for movies where every time a brown-haired white man comes on screen they tell me which one he is