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Fanfic writers are like crows. If you give them treats (comments) they will bring you shiny things (fanfic)

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The shadow, 2023 - oil on linen — Daniela Astone (Italian, b.1980)

https://www.daniela-astone.com/

#daniela astone #art #darkness #painting

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By clayshaper.

#dark academia #art #gothic #painting

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The morning after the festival by Ludwig Knaus

#dark academia #art #painting #dark romanticism

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The Mausoleum by the Phantom Painter

#painting #dark art #gothic #dark academia

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It turns out the cookies are real — sort of.

They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.

The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.

The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.

Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.

Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.

Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”

MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”

Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet's delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.

“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!' ” MacLean said.

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Knowledge is empowering

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ain't no psalm where he need to be doing all that

#every. single. time. #*GROWLS* #midnight mass #father paul hill #hamish linklater

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Dune Part 2 + Letterboxd Reviews

#paul atreides #feyd rautha harkonnen #timothée chalamet #austin butler #florence pugh #léa seydoux #letterboxd #dune part 2

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Artwork by Maéna Paillet.

#art #painting

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sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs

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horror sub-genres: lovecraftian/cosmic

#am i adding some of those to my watchlist? yeah #horror #cosmic horror

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The Terror, Punished as a Boy.

Salvador Dalí, Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz (detail)

#painting #the terror

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i told my friend’s dad that he was hot (it was in context with the conversation, he was complaining that he was feeling old, etc), and he said a very genuine thank you and the conversation moved on to other topic, my friend was now talking about something else entirely when his dad goes

“i think if i were born in your generation i might have been bisexual”

and friend got kinda mad at me lmao

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