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The Cecil Whig, Elkton, Maryland, August 20, 1870

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

He wants to play UNO

They're like handbags your honor

seething about the fact that i will never experience photosynthesis in my own useless cells. i bet it feels so good when the light of the sun both warms you and fuels you at the same time. a bone-deep satisfaction mixed with a heated sugar-rush and endless brightness. not that i would fucking know

Round 2: The Quarterquarterquarterfinals

(Poll 9 of 64)

@pointless-achievements

“i find pointless achievements funny and cool”

@creatures-in-posts

“Finds creatures in posts, makes things in posts into creatures, or adds their own drawings of creatures, based on tbh and btw (aka the autism creature and the adhd creature).”

Not just for a rhyme...it's historical context time!

So it's obvious that with the phrase "here's the sugar on the cream" alastor means to say that "here's the best bit" but why use that phrase exactly?

Well fun fact about desserts of the past: they were far less sweet. Now that may seem obvious everything is really sugared up now, but sometimes there would not be sugar cooked or baked into the dish but added afterwards as a topping, particularly with puddings.

A lot of puddings at the time were much more savory and very starchy. Before the invention of gelatin you needed all that starchiness to create that firm pudding texture, especially if you didn't have eggs (if you did it would be a custard, not a pudding), so sugar was added later as a topping, usually with pure cream to make sure you could distribute the sugar evenly. Even though jello was a thing in the 1920s, this was still a very common practice for making puddings, so much so that the tapioca pudding on Ellis island given to immigrants if they stayed overnight was served this way through the mid twenties. So sugar on the cream is literally a historical example talking about the part of something that makes it "the best" even if its not a common turn of phrase. Its not just a substitute to "here's the icing on the cake" or "here's the cherry on top" to make it rhyme with team. Its an actual old fashioned idea relevant to alastor's childhood. Dude probably ate a lot of puddings served this way growing up until gelatin became popular for puddings.

Today's Seal Is: Baikal Bubbles

Do you love the colour of the sturgeon?

Which one?

Some witches skating