ok so

everyone knows about this meme, right?

but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!

This is “Mother Mary”, the owner of Blackberry’s mother.

She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:

He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Look how happy she was to hear that!!!

anyways, I hope she has been able to continue her love for baking since the restaurant closed down.

For these who don’t know: The restaurant she worked at closed down but she left before that and opened her own bakery, that’s apparently very successful!

She has a youtube channel where she shares recipes and cooking advice!

About 80% of men claim "touch" is their "love language". And less than 20% of women say touch is their love language.

Men claim they need physical affection to feel appreciated. But they don't hug each other. They don't hold their children, or baby wear. They don't hold their friends hands or rub their backs after a breakup. They don't lean on each other on the train after a long night out.

Women do. Women reach out with their hands and their hearts daily both to friends and family but also to complete strangers. Men do not.

"Touch is my love language" is just shorthand therapy-speak for men to be able to say that they feel entitled to sex. Men complain that women want "acts of service" and men just want "affection" - yet a cuddle isn't what they're after, and providing sex that you do not want no matter how your day has been, no matter how tired or stressed you are, that IS an act of service. It's more than that, it's a chore. It's sexual coercion.

(They also don't GIVE that (sexual) touch to others (in terms of bringing their partner to orgasm, etc.) they just want to RECEIVE it and get off themselves)

this is everyone’s permanennt reminder that the whole concept of ‘love languages’ was invented by an evangelical pastor to coerce women into doing exactly this, to guilt trip then into giving men sex, as a divorce ‘prevention’ tool. the whole theory is misogynistic bollocks, much like stockholm syndrome

secret organizations for studying paranormal phenomena are always calling the creatures they find like "specimen 58008" or some fake latin taxonomy or something vague and ominous like "the red angel" or whatever and thats all well and good but i want a story about a bunch of cryptozoologists going around naming things the way people name like actual birds and lizards and shit.

i want to get lost in the woods and meet the ring-tailed tree creeper and roger's false elk. i want a character who is desperate to prove this monster is actually a distinct species from that very similar looking monster so they can name it after themself. i want two field researchers narrowly escaping an encounter with some ten foot tall thing made of carnivorous vines and one of them is like wow wait til the guys back at the lab hear we got that close to a lesser thorn-backed bone eater 🙂 and the other scientist is like.,...... 😰lesser?

thank you for appreciating my boobs calculator joke but the real overlooked gem of this post is rogers false elk. basically this entire post was just an excuse to come up with a hypothetical monster called rogers false elk. its just so pleasing to me. does nobody care him? does nobody but me care for rogers false elk?

I started out reading this smugly saying to myself yeah, right.

But by the end I'm sold. Let's ban advertising.

We can start small, maybe with city ordinances. Then roll it out county wide, then at the state level. Once other states see how quiet and sane things can be, they'll adopt the ban too. The ones that don't will remain snarling islands of rage & delusion until the people move away.

Let's ban advertising.

the entire state of vermont already banned roadside billboards years and years ago. change is possible!!

I finally got the Crested Caracara’s call on video!

a photographer captured a wild black vulture preening a northern caracara. while this interaction may seem strange, considering the birds are not in the same family, they are both scavengers and regularly interact over meals of carrion.

source: (x)

The spell master: God damn it, where on earth is my magic crystal ball????

The suspiciously hungry and round bug:

What is this thing

shoutout to my fellow Ornate Amphipod enjoyers

salmon blast. best Raiders character, big guys, random color experiments, cranky middle aged loner, etc. also chucked in a goldie hc i cobbled up in 2024 and forgot to post you can even see a prototype of Sun's Blood in there

many things in the spirhalite islands are in "i dont know.. thats scary..." land for me but like especially that thing what the fuck is that

they named him the smoker im crine

this is all i can contribute. im so excited for whatever the fuck this thing is

Day 28

i cannot hold back my love for this glorious beast any longer