#denverites

[wtf-tfw]

heartbreaking: watch this alpha female turn into john denver

#denverites #john denver #alpha female #alphas and betas #gift ideas #heartbreaking 💔 #this is heartbreaking #i have no words #fucking hell #this is horrible #unbelievable #dystopian society #daily post

[hotmess-exe]

aight enough bragging about how my first stand up set was about breast cancer, time to write new stuff and get back on stage

#venues are... interesting here #i def want to perform in different environments #after scoping them out first lol #i think i know how to tweak myself for a vibe so hopefully i can do the same for my writing and delivery #hotmess #subjects on my mind currently are global politics #familial and generational trauma #pedestrian life #transitioning #and being poor and sick all the time #really wanna get some new material out of my system thank god i took notes in 101 #oh and being from the east coast in the rockies #y'all want me to fight here i swear to god #how am i tested THIS much more in a place where everyone puts on friendly fronts?? #jk i know why its the fakeness lol #how do i call a whole crowd of denverites fakes and terrible drivers while still winning them over... #that is the question but im kinda good at exactly that kind of thing lol

[shrimp-apocalypse-now]

scream this isnt even the worst example of this on i-25 in downtown denver

look at this. are you seeing this onramp my liege

#reading the denverite article you would NOT expect which one is named heidi and which one is named burdock

[naturalrights-retard]

Cities across America are watching their budgets implode due to the migrant crisis. Instead of deporting the people who entered illegally, cities are beginning to cut their budgets to reallocate funds. So the taxpaying public are having their contributions unfairly stolen by their politicians to pay for illegal activities.

Denver is one of many sanctuary cities that is now slashing their budgets to make room for the migrants. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced public services will be cut by $5 million, and predicts the surge of unknown residents will cost taxpayers $180 million in 2024. The news comes one month after the city redirected $25 million away from legal residents. These politicians have absolutely no scope of the true cost of paying for unemployed migrants who do not contribute to society. They refuse to address the core problem, because that would unmask the true motive behind the deliberate and calculated invasion.

Johnston and other leaders of sanctuary cities continue to blame the Republicans and Trump. Johnston cited the GOP blocking the most recent spending package as the reason for the recent budget cuts. “I want it to be clear to Denverites. Who is not responsible for this crisis that we’re in [is] folks who have walked 3,000 miles to get to this city,” the mayor said. Well, you presented your city as a safe haven for asylum seekers. The truth of the matter is that you did not expect Abbott and others to ship migrants to your door.

“Despite broad bipartisan support, I think [former President] Trump and Republican leaders saw this as a chance that if this bill actually passed, it would have successfully solved the problem facing cities and the border, and they would have rather seen it fail, so they could exacerbate these problems, extend the suffering of American people and of newcomers for their own electoral changes this November,” Johnston continued.

This is actually how these people operate as they believe spending more money, on foreign wars at that, could act as a viable solution. A child with a piggy bank has a better grip on finances. These cities refuse to admit that perhaps building a wall or simply securing the border, GOP-led initiatives, would curb the crisis. Is all of this chaos worth turning your cities blue? Biden has the authority to stop this madness at any time.

We will see more cities slash their budgets as they realize they simply cannot afford to bankroll tens of thousands of people. This will lead to increased civil unrest as Americans watch their quality of life drop as their taxes are misused for political ploys. The asinine amount of money American citizens pay in taxes should not be spent on people from foreign nations, be it on wars or migrants.

[rohirric-hunter]

Sometimes being a little bit of a bitch is very fun and rewarding.

Some of my coworkers have been opening their mouths and putting their foots in lately with regards to the small town I used to live in before I moved to the city I currently live in and pleas for them to mind their manners and stop being so unkind have fallen on deaf ears. After several weeks of this I have finally gotten fed up and found just cause to summon................ the Denverite that still lives within me.

It's been a long time since I've seen anything as amusing as the faces on these people when I told them it was really cute that they thought this place qualified as a city. One of them started talking about how really, truly, the nearby military base was very important, and he wasn't at all prepared for me to crease my brow a little bit, cock my head to the side, and say, "Oh, so it's a military town? Well, that does make sense I suppose." Funniest thing I've seen all year. Yes, yes, the performing arts district everyone is so proud of is very nice. Quaint, really. It's just that it's a bit... small... don't you think? Oh, yes, the new modern art installation on market street is very nice, I suppose. It's just a bit... traditional, you know? Nothing wrong with following in other people's footsteps, of course, and it's very nice for what it is and where it is. Oh, you have an art museum here? No, I haven't been. Do you know, I've been down that street many times and I've just never noticed it.

Y'all know that I hate Denver and also this attitude but it is just so hilarious to see it turned on the people who live in this city, especially since in Denver it is actually kind of justified, if still unbearable. Like, with regards to the performing arts district specifically, you can go to the theatre in Denver and see, like, Wicked or Hamilton or comedians that aren't local. The only thing that plays in this city that isn't royalty-free was written by someone who's lived here their entire lives. And obviously it's awesome that they're fostering a space where locals can flex their creative muscles but the thing is that is not at all what the space is supposed to be, and that's not what the locals think it is. And that wouldn't even be a problem if it wasn't for the local attitude of making fun every city that's smaller than them. This is not a big city. To some degree I unironically do not like calling it a city even though it technically is because it is just so much smaller than Denver.

Anyhow, one of them seems to have taken the hint and shut his mouth. Several others are still working on it.

[euniexenoblade]

wait hold on are you a denverite. what are the chances ive seen you in person and not known

Very likely. I do a lot of shit all over the metro area. I was the fat bitch who's too loud.

#asks

[hjtart]

denverites

#my art

[clwhowrites]

The Mysterious Goose

This guy or gal is a mysterious goose loving at City Park. It stands out when surrounded by all the Canadian Geese. According to Denverite is likely a greylag goose, greater white-fronted goose, or greylag-swan goose hybrid. It makes me a little sad, it is the only one like it at the park, that must feel lonely. Plus the only geese it has to hang out with are Canadians. Imagine hearing "Honk eh. Honk honk eh." all day long.

Posted using PostyBirb

#bird #goose #bird photography #animal photography #nature photography #wildlife photography #animal #nature #denver #colorado #city park #photo #photography

[cookinguptales]

Denverite here! Don't forget to get on the Casa Bonita wait-list (currently 600,000+) now to be able to buy tickets for fall

ooh, thank you! Dad's handling that part (he said something about that back in February, idk) because that's the part he's interested in, but I'll double-check that he knows!

#replies #he went there once ages ago #and he wants to go back #we love tacky shit and he says that's the tackiest haha #we are planning several stops at tourist traps and we'll love them #the travel bug

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

If we treat the name Andalite as a demonym (e.g. it means "Person from Andal", along the lines of Denverite, Muscovite,) then one could reasonably also call them Andaliens (along the lines of Nigeriens, people from Niger; not to be confused with Nigerians, people from Nigeria).

[nateslehky]

so instead of actually working on my restaurant au fic, i decided to write a review for the made-up restaurant in the fic, mostly as a writing exercise, but also to help me understand what a mackinnon-led kitchen would be like.

in all likelihood, this won't make it into the final product, so below the cut you'll find a review of a denver restaurant with a kitchen operated by a fictionalized version of nathan mackinnon <3

Restaurant Review: Twenty Nine on 29th 

A restaurant opening in a refurbished brick warehouse is nothing new for River North. Twenty Nine on 29th looks to be another standard, run-of-the-mill joint hoping to find its footing in the up and coming arts district, but what it lacks in curb appeal it more than makes up for with what matters the most for restaurants in the end: the food. 

In a kitchen led by head chef Nathan MacKinnon, you’d expect nothing less. Food and Wine lists him among the best up and coming chefs in the nation–and for good reason. 

Mackinnon’s cuisine, previously described as “like an uncut gem, yet still a rarity”, seems to have finally begun to polish. Everything I ate felt refined; MacKinnon’s mind and hands crafting some of the best food I’ve ever had the pleasure of tasting.

Not just in River North. Not just in Denver. But in all my life.

The appetizers and entrées rotate seasonally, so what I describe may no longer be available if you’re lucky enough to snag a reservation, but I’d be shocked if anything leaving the kitchen wasn’t carefully cultivated by MacKinnon and executed to perfection.

To begin, I started with something that came highly recommended by a friend and colleague: the summer soup. Other appetizers called my name, most notably the squash blossoms, but I promised I’d try what she described as “summer in a bowl” and I’m not one to break my promises. 

So shout out to Amy; the soup was an excellent call.

It perfectly encapsulates what it’s like to dine at Twenty Nine. Similar to the restaurant itself, the dish is unassuming both in its description (a medley of fresh vegetables) and its look (a smooth green blend swirled with cream, topped with charred sweet corn and cherry tomatoes, a whipped ricotta crostini on the side), but still managed to blow me away. It felt like velvet on the tongue and the flavors were simultaneously familiar and unexpected. It transported back to the late-Julys of my youth, sun shining high in the sky with my father at the grill.

Summer in a bowl, indeed.

I had not made any promises for what to order for my entrée, so I teetered between the home-made tomato pasta or the scallop skewers, but in the end I ordered neither. A plate sizzled by my ear as I deliberated my choice, and I was met with the spectacle of an entire spatch-cocked chicken on a plate, the smell of its herb-crust too tantalizing to pass up despite the menu indicating it was meant for two or more patrons. 

Boy, am I glad I went with my gut (or my stomach, I suppose). It had a simple yet striking flavor, the accompanying butter sauce coating my tongue with such luxury that I felt as though I was dining at a five star restaurant beneath La Tour Eiffel, rather than among my fellow Denverites between artsy brick walls. 

After the chicken I was nearly too full to try a dessert, but went with a classic: the tarte tatin. Like everything at Twenty Nine, it was executed well, the pastry flaky, the apples crisp, the caramel sweet. An excellent end to an excellent meal.

A soup. A roast chicken. An apple pie.

Three things I like to think I could make in my sleep, and yet, it’s one of my favorite meals I’ve had in a long, long time.

That is how MacKinnon thrives: executing simplicity with striking efficiency, delivering mouthwatering menus that appear on paper like something you’d find buried in the back of your mom’s recipe book, but on the plate come to life so vividly and with such bold flavors that they feel like something you won’t find or replicate anywhere else.

Reservations at Twenty Nine are becoming harder and harder to come by, the cozy booths and tables full nearly every hour from lunch through dinner. The bar is full service and first-come, first-serve, but good luck trying to find an open seat. Like the rest of the restaurant, it is busy at seemingly all hours of the day. 

Plus, you’ll have to work your way around me. I plan to plant myself there until I’ve tried everything on the menu myself.

#my writing #restaurant au #this is kinda silly but i had fun writing it!! #maybe i'll figure out a way to work it into the fic idk #for those following along at home this review would have been left before pastry-chef cale joins the fold lol

[endreal]

I don't believe in fate or whatever*, but I do believe in coincidences and it's a fuckin weird one that I met someone who lives in Denver, and later the same night my mom texts to say my great aunt (a multiple-decade Denverite) passed away

#*this may or may not be true. I'll figure it out later #Endreal in real life

[shrugalug]

Me, a Lesbian, watching the halftime locker room scene: That Ted really knows how to give a heartfelt and loving speech 💞💞🥰

Me, a Denverite, watching that same scene: That little Kansan motherfucker can fuck right back off to his flat boring state 💙🧡 Go Broncos!! 🧡💙

#ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers #i dont even watch football but I will never let a Kansas man deride any Denver team

[nikethestatue]

Just came to say that I am sort of heartbroken that 'The Princes Tea Party' is over and there won't be additional chapters. That fic gave me such good vibes inside I can't explain it. I am so sad that we'll never read about that Azriel and that Elain, and Darius!!! OMG, I love Darius. Normally I hate reading about children and I don't like children in books or fics because they are annoying. Darius was not a prop, he was an integral part of the story and he was perfectly written as a character. I am rambling but I don't know what to do with myself, because I miss them all already.

Soooorrryyy.

The story was done. But I am so happy you liked my Denverites -- Az and Darius and Elain and Isa. I really truly enjoyed writing them and I am glad that they spoke to so many people. I've had some similar reactions to the story, where readers really liked them, liked the interactions, liked Darius. Somehow, they left an impression.

Spoiler alert: Darius might return in future works.

But thank you. This comment made my day! :)

[thatndginger]

Happy wbw! What's the main difference between your main city and any secondary cities that exist within your world? What would change if the story was set in one of those instead?

-n

Heya Nova! Thanks for the ask and fueling my current city-based worldbuilding obsession ^.^

The main difference between Shapeshifter's city (god, it really needs a name, doesn't it?) and the other cities in the world is that 'the city' is 100% mine. Like, yeah there's San Francisco and Albuquerque and New Orleans and Paris and Guangzhou in the world as well. I could have just adopted one of those as Shapeshifter's setting. But it never felt right.

In 'the city' it's much easier to make magic and supernatural creatures and the unknown an accepted, maybe even embraced, part of the world. I'm more hesitant to do that in the actual, real-world equivalent cities because tbh I'm a wimp and I'm scared of people yelling at me for changing their hometowns lol. I don't want a Bostonian or Denverite knocking down my door because I changed something about 'their' city. I've been witness to enough passionate friends and family getting upset because something was changed or done wrong in a setting they're very familiar with. It's not something I want to be the brunt of, y'know?

So I made my own setting and without that (admittedly a bit irrational) anxiety I've been a lot more open to trying out ideas and aspects of worldbuilding that I'm not sure I'd be comfortable doing if I set Shapeshifter in Virginia Beach or something. Everything in Shapeshifter was a lot more tame before I threw it into a city tailor-made to let it grow.

With that said, if I were comparing 'the city' to say San Diego or Chicago or somewhere - the city has one of the highest supernatural populations in the States, so any other city won't have as much magic by sheer volume alone. Even New York - which has the highest population by volume - but a smaller percentage of supernaturals vs mundane citizens - isn't as 'magical' if we're going by population statistics alone. Shapeshifter's story set anywhere else would probably have the characters struggling a lot more with existing in a world made for mundanes, and all the negative perceptions that supernaturals tend to garner. They still deal with a bit of that in 'the city', but less so.

#worldbuilding wednesday #this was actually really hard to answer #thank you though! #it was good brain fuel ^.^

[beesbutreal]

denverites hate homeless people so much it's insane