Shout Out To The Best Joke I’ve Ever Told, WWDITS Style.

You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

req'd by @thedragonemperess

oh just the usual

text: What the fuck is wrong with you other than the obvious

“To think of the Midwest as a whole as anything other than beautiful is to ignore the extraordinary power of the land. The lushness of the grass and trees in August, the roll of the hills (far less of the Midwest is flat than outsiders seem to imagine), the rich smell of soil, the evening sunlight over a field of wheat, or the crickets chirping at dusk on a residential street: All of it, it has always made me feel at peace. There is room to breathe, there is a realness of place. The seasons are extreme, but they pass and return, pass and return, and the world seems far steadier than it does from the vantage point of a coastal city. Certainly picturesque towns can be found in New England or California or the Pacific Northwest, but I can't shake the sense that they're too picturesque. On the East Coast, especially, these places seem to me aggressively quaint, unbecomingly smug, and even xenophobic, downright paranoid in their wariness of those who might somehow infringe upon the local charm. I suspect this wariness is tied to the high cost of real estate, the fear that there might not be enough space or money and what there is of both must be clung to and defended. The West Coast, I think, has a similar self-regard...and a beauty that I can't help seeing as show-offy. But the Midwest: It is quietly lovely, not preening with the need to have its attributes remarked on. It is the place I am calmest and most myself.”

Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

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Finally, someone gets it.

"The problem with trying to be historically accurate, is that history doesn't care"

So much of the time we think of historical cultures as being very uniform, but people have always been weird, and our expectations of past behaviour don't always match the reality!

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

I stumbled across a photo (by Lindy Pollard) that fantastically mirrors a little dragon I drew a few years ago.... I can't get over this...

I kill you

Polar bear (🐻‍❄️) inspired* foods/snacks

All kids of fish (🐟) especially saltwater species

Berries especially blueberries (🫐), blackberries, and cranberries

Wild and brown rice

Venison

Seaweed (seaweed chips are a thing, so a seaweed sheets)

Sushi/Sashimi (🍣)

Slushies/Icees (I don't know what y'all call them)

Ice cream

Poultry - duck, turkey, and chicken

Eggs (🥚) in general

Dried meats/jerky

Tea (especially chamomile and dandelion)

Ice water/cold water

Carrots (🥕)

Soup with any of the aforementioned ingredients - (wild rice soup is delicious btw)

*Please note that while this is inspired by a polar bear's diet it is just that. It is not 100% accurate nor was it intended to be