#live app

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

woke up and someone spilled vanilla extract all over my dash, so as punishment you strange little beasties are getting all the VANILLA FACTS i know:

vanilla is the 2nd most expensive spice in the world (2nd to saffron)

which is why more than 99% of what we call "vanilla extract" is actually vanillin (vanilla's dominant flavor compound) and is not extracted from real vanilla.

luckily, even professionals struggle to tell the difference when it comes to things like baked goods. but there is a distinct difference in non-heat treated products like vanilla ice cream. real vanilla has a more complex, individualized flavor profile.

why is vanilla so expensive? because it is a ridiculously delicate & demanding crop. complete primadonna.

vanilla beans come from vanilla orchids. these crazy flowers bloom for A SINGLE DAY and have to be HAND-POLLINATED in a process that is exhausting, delicate, and requires specialist knowledge passed down over generations.

then, if you're lucky, you get vanilla beans.

which then require months of further specialized treatment.

the entire process takes about a year and can go wrong at any stage

vanilla has been cultivated for over 800 years (possibly much longer). the first known cultivators are the Totonac, an indigenous people of Mexico.

the Aztecs used it as a sweetener to balance out the bitter taste of cocoa. it was popular in a drink called xocolatl--the precursor to modern hot chocolate!

it is only pollinated by a very specific orchid bee!!!

which is why no fruit could be grown outside of Mexico until the 1800s

Edmond Albius, born into slavery, invented the pollination method we still use today--launching a global industry when he was just 12 years old.

today, the majority of the world's vanilla is grown in Madagascar

if you want real vanilla, read the labels carefully--it's harder to find than you think!

in conclusion, those tiny black specks you see in fancy vanilla ice cream? those are vanilla bean seeds! itty bitty orchid seeds!!! they are delicious and also a PRISSY BITCH!

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#Vanilla Extract #i open the tumblr app and immediately my nostrils are invaded by the overwhelming stench of vanilla #also if you want real vanilla extract at a discount: check out stores like HomeGoods TJMaxx Marshalls etc #the foodstuffs section tends to have fancy nonperishables for much cheaper than upscale grocery stores #you can get things like saffron truffles fancy oils at surprising prices #still expensive but like. 50% cheaper #or just shoplift if that's your thing i won't tell you how to live your life #did i just spend an hour writing this? yes. why did i do that? i don't KNOW

[2manypdfs]

opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

#shirley jackson #we have always lived in the castle #the haunting of hill house #novel #fiction #excuse the quality i use a shitty scanning app on my phone

[grapefruit185]

he loves those dumb twins sm, the found family aspect of this show makes me go crazy!!!!!!!

(1st pic is referencing this post lol)

#venture bros #brock samson #hank venture #dean venture #doc venture #bloodtw #so........... i just watched this show for the first time! caught it on yt when it was airing live and. the rest is herstory #it's the camp. its the humor. it's the animation. its the passion the creators have for their own project. its the CHARACTERS!! #sad about them getting cancelled but they stuck around for a LONG time for adult swim and the movie was fun! #UGH THE ANIMATION. this show has my heart for so many reasons idk how ive never watched it before #*edited the swears out cause tumblr is a good Christian app that likes to hide my stuff from the tags

[gummybearstastelikesadness]

Through the shenanigans of GZ/IR portals Danny ends up in a completely different dimension (DC’s my preference) that has heroes. There’s no ghosts to fight and he doesn’t want to step on any toes with this dimensions hero population, meaning Danny Phantom gets a vacation.

( I like to think Danny fought the ghosts in Amity because he opened the portal and felt responsible for it and originally there wasn’t anyone else that really could fight them. If he still has to satisfy an obsession while there he now has time and an entire new star system to learn about. )

Danny somehow ends up at a job interview as a food delivery boy accidentally, it’s definitely not 100% above the table because he doesn’t legally exist there but still gets the job.

Things are going well, he’s doing a good job and making his delivery’s on time via the use of ghost powers on occasion. Eventually he gets a delivery for a completely different city, over two hours away, they’re willing to pay a ton to get it delivered to them. Danny decides to see if he can finish the delivery while the foods still hot.

He gets there in under 10 minutes.

The person that made the order is definitely a hero, and when they got their food two hours early freak out. Asking Danny how he did it. Danny looks them dead in the eyes and says “We have a delivered hot guaranty.” They try to question Danny, but Danny already got paid, he gave them their food, he can leave, so he just walks away and tells them to enjoy their meal.

The hero tells other ones and they decided to order from there as well and get told that when ever Danny’s on shift the delivery range doesn’t have a limit. Obviously they test it. He delivers to a random rooftop in Bloodhaven at 2am. The top of the Dailyplanet. Hong Kong, via a Blackbat/Orphan order. The Titan’s Tower some how.

Eventually someone orderers to one of the places that’s almost impossible to get to, but he does it, he delivers to the watchtower, in space. Just shows up in the middle of the room in front of the person that ordered, and goes “I don’t miss deliveries.” And walks away into space.

#danny phantom #dp #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny fenton #this is completely inspired by me discovering that a food delivery app where I live has a range of 200 kilometers/120 miles #that’s what happens when you and over half the surrounding population live in the middle of nowhere

[theriverbeyond]

“I killed wizard’s filth like you all my life, I killed them with guns, and bombs, and knives, and gas, and when I didn’t have any of those I just got in real close and put my thumbs through their fucking eyes. You can flick that little skewer around all you like, boy. I’ll choke you with it.”

#in other news wake is DONE see yall in 2 weeks #commander wake #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #wake cosplay progress tag #gideon nav talking time #<- cosplay tag #fun fact taking pictures of yourself wearing a full face mask AND gloves is not easy. the downsides of living alone #sorry for the phone app editing but my house is absolutely terrible for pics. eggshell ass apartment #also for htnheads. you will notice that i am holding the specific kind of telescoping baton wake uses in the book :3

[kitti-lee]

THE EVIL IS DEFEATED

#tumblr live #tumblr news #tumblr app #live #meme #destiel #supernatural #news #tumblr update #destiel confession

[fungi-maestro]

#seal.txt #tumblr live #im hoping they fix the mobile image and video viewers next. especially the video viewer it is like. borderline unusable #obviously i have other suggestions unrelated to design or features but that is the one related to this news. #good riddance! how long has it been part of the app now? it feels like an eternity

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

#writeblr #warm up #i can't write rn but i have SO much words in here bc im reading the chorus of dragons books #(just started book 4) #and this woman's writing is just LIVING in my brain. let me out!!! #(i read roughly like 2-4 books a week usually bc i go on long walks with my dog but when a book is REALLY good like. it eats my life. ) #anyway ...... so like here's a story that idk i've tried to explain to other people as being wild #but maybe im the only one who thinks it is wild??? #so i play pokemon go (i just started in jan) bc i love pokemon and as i have mentioned i walk goblin for like an hour in the morning #and i don't like a lot of fitness trackers due to the fact it makes me .sad. but i also wanted the little digital rewards. enter pokemon go #anyway so they make you make friends to complete quests. so i used a reddit thread. i do not usually use reddit. i don't have an acct #i lurked. i just googled like ''pokemon go reddit '' and randomly added a bunch of numbers #i was on that page for all of 15 minutes. there are THOUSANDS of responses on that page. #here's what's wild: in that group of people. even though i am not on reddit and it was one random event once #it turns out one of those people lives in the town i live in. or at least very close. i only know this because #when we send each other gifts. it's from the same freaking area. #i can't ask them to meet up bc pokemon go doesn't have a messaging app lol but like . what are the fucking chances that #a random person posts in a random reddit thread and HAPPENS to get added by someone ELSE from their SAME TOWN #who by pure fucking CHANCE is ALSO playing pokemon go and looking for friends #i googled it there's only 42000 people in my broad region. the .......... smallness ! of the world!!!

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Amazing Apps & A.I. Tools for ADHD

Future ADHD

#adhd #adhd post #helpful apps for ADHD #adhd help #adhd struggles #adhd problems #living with adhd #feel free to reblog/share #Future ADHD (Facebook) #neurodivergent #neurodiversity

[plesiosaurys]

IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

COELACANTHS CAN OWO!!!

#photos from nat geo article 'coelacanths can live to 100' tunglr mobile app wont let me add link #except bottom left which i literally cant find source for. its from a reddit post but they dont say where they got the footage #and the watermark is too crunchy to read #theyre gods most beautiful creature #also img desc is in alt text #coelacanth #Latimeria chalumnae #fish #animals #andy original

[arinmoss]

♡ H A T S U N E M I K U ♡ prints here~!

#hehe ty to my 2 viewers during my stream <3 lmao #i checked on the app while i was live and it showed that there were other viewers but then twtich showed the number 2 for how many viewers #there were so idk whats that about maybe those were ppl who like. watched for 1 sec then jumped ship idk #idk a damn thing about twitch lmao #anywa miku! #hatsune miku #miku #vocaloid hatsune #vocaloid fanart #vocaloid art #vocaloid miku #fanart #art #digital art #ill post a speedpaint of this later #i think she still needs seomthing but alas........... #vocaloid #inprnt #prints #print #art print #pastel pink #pink #pink aesthetic #lovecore #hearts #pastel #artists on tumblr

[rose-of-the-valley]

Screencapped the HoL 1st floor map from my PC so it's actually readable!

#4/22/23 update: love how this is still getting notes even now that the game is out lol #pls spread this if no one else has shared a readable version yet lol #ik a lotta ppl have been trying to figure out the layout of the house #(this is from the nightbringer app store listing if anyone's wondering!) #kinda hate that the staircase/entrance hall only opens to one hallway though it looks like? #i do not wanna walk around the house to get to the living room #if anyone figures out if there's a 1st floor bathroom lmk bc i dont wanna walk upstairs to pee in the middle of the night #om #obey me #om!swd #rose speaks

[finchfaes]

silly nobamai rivals to lovers college au idea that got out of hand while rambling to my friends about it one night at 2am

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #nobamai #jjk fanart #satosugu #cause theyre married of course #megumi tsumiki and the twins are their kids #tsumiki is studying abroad in europe cause i didnt feel like drawing her #the villains are around and i had silly thoughts about them but i didnt want to draw any of them so they will live on only in the notes app #fanart

[gruesome-beauty]

motion sickness - julien baker’s version @ the hollywood bowl (full video here)

#boygenius #julien baker #phoebe bridgers #embedding youtube won’t let me post it in hq for some reason so here’s a clip with the link to the full #whY IS EVERY PLATFORM MAKING IT HARD TO SHARE THIS #I DON’T WANT IT JUST LIVING IN MY CAMERA ROLL LOOK AT HER EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE IT #if you open it up in the youtube app btw you can change quality to 2160p and that’s what this video deserves #bg 23

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Like all of tumblr, aparently: we 💜 love ✡️jews✡️ and we would 👊 punch nazis and we reblog five 5️⃣ different haukkah 🕎 posts a year we are like so progresive 💁✨️

Also all of tumblr, aparently: death to all jews 🚫✡️ if you're a jewish person who lives in IsNotRaEl then you're an evil 👺 bad jew and you deserve to be raped and murdered ☠️☠️ what? You fled to israel because we were murdering you by the millions??? Well you should have all died lol ☠️☠️ happy hanukkah btw 🕎

#jewblr #op is pissed off #ישראבלר #jewish #antisemitism #i/p #i/p conflict #antisemitism is so real both on this app and in general leftist communities #and I used to side with these people #if there was an attack on people based on their sexuality; gender; race; religion ect I like to believe I would have cared #that I would have shows campation to your loss and understand your pain #instead of actively be part of the bigotry againsts you #i don't trust so many of my mutuals right now because I now know that if there was a nazi uprising they wouldn't hide me #they would cheer at my death #THIS is why jewish people can't trust you guys #YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT JEWISH LIVES #there was a really good article that explained this really well and how so many people have and will lose jewish friends #because we now know that you aren't there for use. and that you were never there for us #'punch a nazi' and 'never forget' are just cute little slogens to you but they actually mean something to us #it used to mean safety; used to mean that we could trust you; now it's empty wprds ringing with betrayel #never forget #jewish lives matter #hamas #palestine #israel #bring on your hate I don't care y'all are a bunch of privliged fucks anyways who would have rallied behind hitler like a bunch of pigs #noa's jewish talk

[shummthechumm]

OPALINE IS FLURRY HEART TRUTHERS!!!! THIS IS HOW WE CAN STILL WIN!!!! (<--in denial)

#mlp #mlp fim #shumm's art #mlp g5 #mlp a new generation #mlp make your mark #mlp tell your tale #flurry heart #opaline arcana #she may have awakened something there... #based flurry's design off of the one from the app cause its cute!!! #been meaning to create an adult design too #sorry i kind of hate the canon opaline backstory we got. i mean i can live with it but. meh #FLURRY HEART IS RIGHT THERE!!! SHE DIDNT SHOW UP IN THE FINALE!!! #OPALINE FEELS ENTITLED TO RESPECT AND POWER BECAUSE SHE IS AN ALICORN!!! FLURRY 'EARNED' HER WINGS BY BEING BORN!!! #THE PARALLELS BETWEEN CELESTIA AND TWILIGHT!!! #PLS MYM WRITERS JUST SAY OPALINE WAS LYING ABT HER BACKSTORY PLEASE.!!. #my little pony #fanart #medibang paint pro #digital art #art #my little pony fanart #mlp au