Re: the popular questions

its time to take the turkey out of the oven. its done now.

et voila

Chef i think something terrible has happened

Yes I see the problem here is you cooked the wrong turkey because instead of a regular turkey you cooked the turkey of darkness and you are fired

The mac and cheese haver

I'm gonna regret this

So, this... dish? Food item? Thing to eat?:

Seems to have a lot of names. And now I'm going to make a poll with a bunch of the names I've heard this dish called.

I am already 100% certain that this will be one of those "OP is about to find out their experience isn't universal" polls.

In fact, what I call this *isn't even listed in the Wikipedia article about this dish*.

I'm starting to believe that it what I call it is a regionalism so narrow in both place and time that the only other people who call it what I call it went to sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in the early 1980s.

P.S. WHY THE HELL ARE REPLIES RESTRICTED?? I DID NOT SET ANY RESTRICTIONS!

You will patch up all the holes in 2025.

(this isn’t a post about knitting)

OK stealing my own tags for a second here:

Conversation with my spouse when I reported on this poll:

@vox-off (the writer of the screenshotted tags), you make a good point, but we also see the contempt Scotty has for the Excelsior in Search for Spock and his disappointment upon seeing it at the end of The Voyage Home. He doesn't want to be Captain of Engineering of the best ship in the fleet. He wants to be there for the Enterprise.

Now, maybe some of it is that Scotty has professional skepticism of the Excelsior's experimental transwarp drive, but it always read to me that Scotty cares about the Enterprise over and above anything else (and to cite "Relics" from TNG, it's the 1701, "No bloody A, B, C, or D").

I've been trying not to comment too much myself, as the creator of the poll, but I do think that Scotty's love for the Enterprise is fundamentally deeper than the starship equivalent of "big engine go vroom."

Scotty would fuck the goddamn warp drive, make love to the nacelles and fondel the dilithium crystals if he could. C'mon now Scotty literally desires the Enterprise carnally.

obsessed with this

treckett

i know. I knowwwwww he was

travie unprompted in where are your boys tonight

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"

I really LOVE Boromir’s costume design in the PJ films, we’re gonna talk about so strap in.

The point of PJ Boromir’s design is that he dresses more like a king than Aragorn does….. (in the same way that  PJ Boromir initially also *acts* more like the  king of Gondor than Aragorn does, staying in Minas Tirith to lead/defend his people while Aragorn is afraid to accept the responsibility of doing that.)

Boromir dresses in vibrant royal red and blue, Aragorn dresses in muddy brown. Boromir’s clothing is Regal and has all the royal symbols of Gondor intricately woven into the fabric, but Aragorn’s Ranger clothing looks like muddy garbage he dug out of the dumpster behind the Prancing Pony.

(”all that is gold does not glitter” indeed)

Like, THE LEVEL OF DETAIL in PJ Boromir’s outfit is so great. There’s subtle White tree/flower/leaf imagery everywhere…..

I love the white tree symbols on his bracers …the golden falling leaf/floral patterns on his sleeves…the intricate leaf-inspired clasps on the tunic…there are even subtle floral patterns on the belt!  Like?? Boromir’s got style!!!!!

After Boromir’s death, Aragorn takes up Boromir’s White Tree bracers.

And when he becomes King, he dresses in the same royal red and blue that Boromir used to wear, and has the symbols of Gondor (the White tree, leaves, stars, wings, etc) integrated into his clothing the way Boromir did.

Idk I just really love how, as Aragorn becomes more Kingly, he starts to dress more like a man of Gondor…….more like the way Boromir used to dress. 

Boromir’s fashion sense was so good that the King of Gondor stole his look

As heir to the Steward of Gondor, Boromir was a prince in everything but name. His identity and role from birth was to one day stand in the place of a Lost King.

Aragorn, a.k.a. that Lost King, was raised an orphan in secret by people who knew his mere existence meant he had powerful enemies. They called him Estel, literally hope, but didn’t tell him who he was until he was something like 20 years old (when his future father-in-law handed him a broken sword, a ridiculously long and dubious family tree, and his daughter’s hand in marriage but only if you get a real job, good luck). A Lost King to a Lost People, he spent most of his life prior to the events of The Lord of the Rings maintaining the secret of his identity and wandering, learning, listening for the time when The Return of the King was called for. It’s no coincidence this comes about as he helps someone as unlikely and seemingly insignificant as Frodo do something as important and staggering as save the world, because that’s what a good and humble king would do. In fact I think it is Frodo (in the book) who first catches a glimmer of something beyond Aragorn’s grim outward appearance, while everyone else is still hung up on his general unseemliness. (You can bet I want to whip out Isaiah 53 for the parallels right about now.)

But even Boromir, though understandably skeptical at first, recognizes Aragorn for what he truly is before the end—someone who can succeed where Boromir has failed. (“I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail.”) That’s right: Boromir, who carried the burden of “it is long since we had any hope” on his shoulders his entire, haunted life, died knowing his king was coming home.

tl:dr The bracers were a nice touch.

*bursts into tears*

it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.

on a scale of trent reznor to billy corgan how well did your meeting with robert smith go

bonus category: whatever the fuck happened with morrissey

Fruit bat noises, apparently. If you care

Gardening Tip: Olla

If you are looking for a way to both conserve water and have a healthy garden, an Olla might help.

Olla are made from porous clay (terracotta), buried into the garden ,and filled with water. That water then slowly seeps into the soil while being protected from surface evaporation.

DIY: Glue two terracotta pots together, and fill the hole on the side that will be buried.

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completely enamoured with this beast