I don’t know what fucks me up more – the fact that it’s a 100% real, lavish 5 star resort, or that there’s exactly nothing to indicate that it isn’t literally referring to the Daedric Prince Azura
IIRC there’s even more TES references inside the hotel itself which only raises more questions
If you hold a plate against the hotel’s front entrance you’ll clip through into the Byzantine Empire, fully textured but devoid of NPCs
Pro tip for adulting: being late isn’t a death sentence for 95% of things. All you gotta do is call the moment you realize you’re gonna be late, apologize, and then give another small apology when you get there. The thing people really don’t like about lateness is that it seems like the other person doesn’t value their time, and since calling shows that you value their time, that leaves only the mild inconvenience of waiting a bit for them to deal with
this is 100% true. Calling ahead to let them know you’ll be late is 100000x better than just showing up late without any notice. Everyone has been late before so most of the time they’ll understand being late. Just don’t make a habit of it
….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
Every Canadian who grew up in the late 80s and early 90s, let’s all sing together:
“If you don’t know just what it is/Don’t put it in your mouth!”
….I would like to point out that there are recipes that call for cracked apricot kernels or cherry pits, though. James Beard talks about including cracked apricot kernels in apricot preserves while he was growing up, and apparently there’s an ongoing authenticity debate in the clafouti community about whether it’s a ‘real’ cherry clafouti if it doesn’t contain some cracked cherry pits.
I mean, yeah they’re toxic in large enough numbers, but there is historical precedent for consuming them in small amounts or using them for flavor.
(I would like to point out there’s also historical precedent for consuming them in vast amounts. that historical precedent is also known as dying of cyanide poisoning.)
so when people are all “hmph. have you ever tried sitting down in a hoop skirt?” she replies “yep” and sweeps that fucker forward with the grace of a pro
some smarmy maid who knows she’s Not A Local Girl: “well unless you know how to lace yourself into a corset-”
heroine: “let me stop you right there.”
and she does it. inside 5 minutes, which is how long it takes to lace one’s corset if one has practice.
long skirts and stairs hold no horrors for her. she wears a bonnet with no fuss. she doesn’t refuse to put her hair up and look weirdly childish the whole time (her only issue is not having modern bobby pins)
sometimes she can be heard whispering, with intense relief, “no stretch velvet. no stretch velvet anywhere.”
swan lake starts out with the prince seigfried with his hilariously stupid name.
his mother is the queen of some unnamed kingdom, and on his birthday she not only gives him a crossbow, which is apparently common in quasi victorian times, but she also reminds him that since he is 21 and like an adult now that he needs to have some responsibilities. these include governing the kingdom and taking a wife, because you know, WHO RUN THE WORLD? GIRLS.
so he’s all like “gosh mom okay whatever i get it” and goes out with some of his broskies to go hunting with his new crossbow. he goes running after some swan and gets separated from his buds. the swan actually morphs into a woman and she’s all like “damn son please don’t shoot me”
he’s all like “man girlfriend you so fine but you’re like half swan and that’s kind of weird what’s your story?”
she tells him that her name is odette and shes a princess turned into a swan by a vengeful sorcerer rothbart who apparently has nothing better to do than torture young ladies, and trapped her and her swan maidens on a lake made out of her mother’s tears and they’re all pretty upset about it
at this point there is a lot of dancing of the swans which is probably the most memorable and gorgeous part of the ballet, but has absolutely nothing to do with the story other than being like “damn these girls are swans”
she’s all like “hey the only way i can get to be a real human again and save all my swan lady sisters is for a man to fall in love with me and swear it to the world”
and despite having known her and danced with her for only like 20 minutes by now he’s all like “oh course ill do that for you bae, in fact my mom is having a ball tonight you should come we’ll do it then”
von rothbart, who is listening in, is all like “hell no am i letting my swan bbs go” and he starts to concoct a plan to fuck up their love swearing shindig
act three flashes forward to the next night, with the ball. seigfried’s queen mom has brought all these eligible princesses from neighboring kingdoms to try to egg him on like “please get married already.” all the princesses are of course into it because hey, cute prince, and they all try to do their best dancing for him to remind him that they are the most marry-able
they dance with their entourages in a lot of traditional dances, like the hungarian czardas, until BOOM INTERRUPTION
in busts odette, or who we think is odette, and some dude. turns out rothbart has used his magic to tranform his daughter odile to look like odette, but she is a black swan, instead of a white swan.
this sassy bitch dances with seigfried and he’s completely enraptured- he totally thinks this is the same swan lady from the other night. she’s such a boss ass bitch with her rad thirty two fouettes and her like mad gorgeousness that he is completely convinced that she is odette, and of course he goes in front of everyone to swear his motherfucking love TO THE WRONG GIRL
this is the terrible moment where we see odette frantically flying at the window, and he realizes THAT HE HAS MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE
odile and rothbart laugh it up and leave in a flash of smoke because they think that odette is now going to be a swan forever with her swan girlfriends and seigfried busts out to there to go look for her
he gets to the lake and odette is in tears, surrounded and protected by her flock, who don’t want to let this dude in. she listens to his plea and forgives him
then she decides that the only way to free her flock of swans is to kill herself, and she leaps off the cliff into the lake, drowning herself, despite the fact that SHE IS A BIRD AND SWAN CAN SWIM, and seigfried, unable to live without her and wracked with guilt, follows her and jumps to his death.
with the two’s selfless death and eternal love, the swans are freed from their bondage and rothbart dies, as we see their eternal souls floating over in the horizon.
(in some versions, the two promise o jump off the cliff and the romise in and off itself frees the swans so nobody has to die, and in some versions, they fight rothbart and kill him, and in other versions, only odette dies, so i can see how this might get confusing)
*shuts story book* and that’s the ballet of swan lake
You can call me obnoxious. But making sure I keep yelling until I’m no longer ignored was literally my only choice.
So are Youtube trying to claim they don’t know how their own website is run…
Because years of allowing awful people to false flag and attack LGBT channels have trained their bots to regard LGBT content as inherently controversial.
Hey, I figured it out. Google should hire me to fix the absurd disaster that is youtube’s automated systems.
I have a 2016 Honda Fit and I love it. It fits a lot and because the sears go up or fold all the way flat. And going up the grapevine I was getting 41mpg and that was with the car fully loaded with 2 people in it.
The salesman did recommend the Honda Fit to me today, so I was going to take a look at it on my next day off, thanks! 😀 Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot of Honda Fit options in my area that fit my ideal budget u.u Does it seem cramped at all in the driver’s seat or is it still pretty roomy even with all that storage space in such a small car?
Uuuuuugh car shopping is the worst
I like the Chevy Sonic, but it’s American made so that means it’s shitty and won’t be reliable later on
But I don’t like the Toyota version, the Honda Civic was ok but both it and Accord felt too big, I really don’t want an Elantra and I wasn’t impressed with the design of the Kia versions either
I’m gonna try out the Honda Fit but my next day off is Saturday and I was gonna go to the Air Show that day….
*whines* all I want is a nice small car with good MPG that’s inexpensive and won’t crap out or cost me a fortune in less than a year
Is that so hard to find, CarMax???
(*mumbles* also if it came in a nice blue or green with a streamlined aesthetically pleasing central screen/console that’d be nice too but it’s not toootally a dealbreaker)
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