superchlorine

i dropped by my favourite secondhand bookstore and found what is possibly the most incredible knitting book iver ever seen. that teaches you how to knit little gardens and sew them into a massive quilt 3d. the photos i took are atrocious and do NOT do this book justice

thats a PRIORY GARDEN WITH MONKS

IT EVEN TEACHES YOU HOW TO MAKE ALL THE TOOLS ABD BASKETS AND POTS AND PLANTS

LOOK AT THE SOME OF THE FOLIAGE

i have never been more upset to not have $30 ready to buy this. its incredible. i have to find it online somewhere. i knew the moment i saw this i had to share it with EVERYONE

i saw a rainbow from the airplane :3

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

i need to draw images

drawing images do you guys want anything

bug

bugs :)

“How much longer do you want?”
“As much as you love me.”
The Judge from Hell (2024), dir. Park Jin Pyo

living in a village of farmers is the fucking best i just left a party and the butcher was like hey i got some bones for your dog. your dog specifically because i like the cut of his jib. hell yeah

do you know how fucking great it is to get home tipsy as hell wake up your dog he is already exited to see you and you are like here you go a big bone for your majesty...my man thought he was damn heaven!! so good

his majesty himself

[ID: tags by @m-e-w-666 that read: #this blue dog is just like that green cat ///end ID]

now you know damn well my dog is not blue.

your dog is tumblr colored

"I don't have to go. For now."
THE JUDGE FROM HELL 1x14

DUA LIPA performing at the Radical Optimism Tour in Manila (November 13, 2024)

If you k|ll him, I will give everything as a demon to protect you in Hell. But if you let him live, I will give everything as a judge to make sure he's punished. Legally. Whatever you choose, I trust you. So you should trust me, too, and do what you want.
I trust you.

(in tears) next year i will have so much fun!

The Substance (2024) // Shrek (2001) & Shrek 2 (2004)

donday67 | do not edit

Our cats both sit on top of the recliner near the table when we’re eating dinner. They don’t try to get at the food or anything. They just chill. They’re like oh it’s time for everyone to sit around the table again we will too

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

Miaomiao living everyone's dream — to see your CP get together and being sweet up close

often i am scared for no reason or several reasons

this is a pro broccoli blog

(241102) choichoichoi and the confetti shenanigans | transl.

What's all this about?
Haven't you caught on, Writer-nim? Episode seven of Spice Up Our Love. The scene where Seo Yeon Seo finds out that Kang Ha Jun is the CEO.
Ah, right!

NO GAIN NO LOVE - EPISODE 10

i still can’t believe it’s already fucking november like october literally felt like it lasted 4 minutes where has this year gone why is the progression of time so mind boggling to me what the fuck

There are so many different shades of white light bulbs, I am so overwhelmed walking down the light bulb aisle, and then I'm never happy with the one I choose, no matter which one I choose, I get it home and I put it in and I'm like, ugh, I don't like THAT white

Color temperature range charts may be useful when going to try the next option (i kept a list of "nopes" in my wallet until i discovered I want shaded reading lamps, bathroom and kitchen lights all between 3800-4200 and everywhere else not above 3200 nor below 2800. YMMV, I enjoy warmer tone colors but not too warm or I'll get sleepy/depressed).

Different temp-colors for different areas/tasks.

Omg but this is so helpful, I am so glad I am not the only person just completely bewildered by how many different tones are being labeled with a single word! This will help me so much!!!! Thank you!!!!

is anyone else constantly afraid they’ll be “caught” doing stuff they’re obviously allowed or even supposed to do

uh oh 😖 I’m playing video games 😰 on my computer 🫢 that I own 😨 if anyone sees this I’m going to have to fake my own death

🌻

wonpil @ kakaotalk fan meeting

rpg player behaviour

[Image description: a twitter conversation between jayden (@/modernpingas), cake (@/NintendoGCN) and Mystik (@/mystikkflare).

jayden: Went through my bag trying to figure out why it's been so heavy all year and you're telling me I had chains in there???????

Attached is a photo of heavy, slightly rusty metal chains.

cake: how the hell do you even have this problem bruh

jayden: Some guy during lunch handed me chains and I just put them in my bag and forgot they existed

Mystik: average daily conundrum

End ID]

This is a water-seal stoneware crock. The design is ancient.

It is, essentially, a large ceramic vessel that you put vegetables and sometimes brine into. To prevent spoilage, you place those ceramic weights on top of whatever food is in the crock, and that keeps them weighted down, below the level of the water. Because fermentation creates gases, most crocks have a "water groove" in them. The lid sits in the groove, which allows air to escape but not come in. Because fermentation creates gas, the interior of the crock is positive-pressure, and because the gas created is almost entirely carbon dioxide, it's a low-oxygen environment that additionally helps prevent spoilage.

And all this would be pointless without lactobacillus, the bacteria that chomp down on the vegetables you put into the crock. They're anaerobic, which means totally fine without oxygen, and they produce an environment that's inhospitable to most other organisms. The main things they produce are CO2, which means no oxygen for other bacteria, and lactic acid, which makes the fermented thing sour and also decreases the pH low enough that many other bacteria cannot survive. They tolerate high levels of salt, which kill yet more competitor bacteria. It ends up being a really really good way to keep food from going off.

Our ancestors figured this out thousands of years ago without knowing what bacteria were. This general ceramic design has been in use around the world in virtually every place that had ceramics, salt, and too much cabbage or cucumbers that was going to rot if they didn't do something about it. It's thousands of years old, so old that it gets hard to interpret the evidence of the ceramics.

And I have crocks like this in my kitchen, where I make my own ferments, and I always think about how beautiful and elegant it all is, and how this was probably invented hundreds of times as people converged on something that Just Works.

(I do have pH testing strips though.)

Halloween version of my original boop gif!!!

Park Shin Hye as Kang Bitna in The Judge from Hell (2024)

Anyone who ever said the key to life is always having something to look forward to is so right . The days are so much brighter when there’s always something to look forward to

pikachu.com, 2001

please read this story of a man accidentally discovering his wife is the world's best Tetris player

[image description: an excerpt of text that says:

“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

“Oh, my!”

/end id]

TL;DR on the article

The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.

The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.

They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.

She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.

I respect this woman

the first rule of being on the internet is you should have other stuff going on, besides being on the internet

Someday I will have my own place. My world won’t be confined to my room. I will stumble sleepily through the house in the morning, opening the blinds. I will sit out in the backyard and look at the stars. I will go out whenever I want to. I will survive long enough to have that.

For anyone yearning for this, i just want you to know it’s so lovely when it happens. You will come home and feel relief because it is a safe place. You will actually feel at home. You will decorate it with things that make you happy and cook meals for people who love you and play your favorite music whenever you choose. You will have a life there but you will also have a life beyond it. It will be yours. You will make it yourself. 

This morning i went up to my rooftop and watched the sun rise over the city. i ate breakfast at my little table. The window is open and i need to do the dishes today but nobody is yelling at me about it. i am happy here. It’s so beautiful. It will be so beautiful.

Kneesvember Day 2

I will, you demon.

THE JUDGE FROM HELL (2024)

EUNHA / ‘Shhh!’ 241109

Reddit sucks bc on there you make a comment like this and people downvote it but on here it would have 10 thousand notes

[Image ID: Reddit comment from redditor_number_2156 with -1 downvotes reading: I thougj it was wisocnins or East Caroline

Reply from MiaDolorosa with 2 upvotes reading: East Caroline

Reply from redditor_number_2156 with 0 upvotes reading: West? /End ID]

This is so good.

really appreciate this part

tl;dr: it's a software bug in the Amazon Prime player, yet unresolved.

Basically, CC can be turned on remotely by a show, even if you have Captions explicitly turned off. Some shows (the example cited here is The Boys) do that whenever a character uses ASL to sign important dialogue. The TV kicks into CC mode during the exchange.

But then seems to get stuck on the last line of dialogue, which (for The Boys) is often "I hate you". The remote signal to turn CC back off again then gets lost or ignored or.. something. Resulting in the I Hate You ghost text staying on your screen forever.

Anyway, that's the current theory. It does not, however, address other shows that are not The Boys, wherein there is no sign language subtitles, that have also triggered I Hate You ghost text.

Amazon says they're working on a fix.

With my phone repaired, we make a triumphant return to Tuck Him in Tuesday

The Tale of Nokdu 조선로코-녹두전
South Korea, 2019, dir. Kim Dong-hwi.

I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

Allright if 20,000 people are going to post a story about a painting I did of my wife, then I am going to post the painting itself.

For those calling for justice, the same painting won a contest at my college (my university professor had met my model), and the university bought it from me and hung it up there for over a decade, square little feet and all. Then, the library underwent renovations and a librarian I am thankful for forever went through heroic measures to track me down again even though I'd gotten married and changed my name, and offered it back to me. And now it hangs in our house even though my wife doesn't ordinarily want to look at paintings of herself and I don't normally want to look at paintings I made. We both have a soft spot for this one.