"when you are being hypocritical you are in essence acknowledging that a virtue is worthy of emulating."
silly non-canon thing i couldnt get out of my head 😂
Violet here is from my fic
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end of ice cream commercial
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So when I was a child, I got Ranger Rick every month. It's a magazine for children designed to teach them about animals and nature. I was a tiny little nerd living in a heavily wooded area back then, so I loved it!
I had this exact issue lmao.
The mascot of this magazine was the eponymous Ranger Rick, a cute raccoon forest ranger who taught kids about nature.
This is what he looked like when I was a kid getting the magazine in the mid-90s.
Look how friendly and soft and dashing he looked!!! Ultimate nature educator for kids!
He got a redesign when I was around ten, which was a little odd, but I was getting a little too old for RR at that point, so I guess I didn't mind that much. That was about when we left Ohio, so I wasn't getting as much time in nature anyway.
Sorry that he's grainy, there are not that many images of early 2000s Rick on the internet. I think they were trying to make him feel more relatable, like he was a child instead of a ranger teaching them. Or at least a more casual teacher...? Not sure how well that worked.
I remember thinking the redesign was kind of pointless as a child, but this was around when my mom lost her job and we didn't have the money for things like magazine subscriptions anymore. I stopped getting the magazine and the design became kind of a moot point, but I still had beloved memories of Ranger Rick.
So imagine my surprise when I see a recent image of Rick and... oh.
Oh no... Look how they've massacred my boy... Look at those soulless eyes... That skinny little body that does not look huggable at all... Like I guess I'm glad that he's gone back to being more obviously a ranger, but like... the Flash of it all...
But. But I guess I should be grateful for what we have. He might be kind of soulless now, but look what they tried to launch a few years ago:
Jesus fucking christ.
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I hail from ao3, and I wanted to say that I meant to watch the bedard/wembanyama video after reading your fic, but I forgot until you reminded me in your reply to a comment I left on your fic.
And boy howdy is their height difference way bigger than I thought. Like I looks up their heights when reading the fic but seeing the video of them next to each other… Wow. Connor looks like a small child in his chair next to Wemby with his legs hanging above the ground.
Second, I love Wemby even though I know nothing about the nba, and I’m going to need to check out his tag later for fics. He is so nice and charismatic.
Oh I am so glad you watched the interview, it truly is a delight. I admit this was not my most well-researched fic, I think I watched that interview + all the H-E-B commercials with the Spurs (ty kitnita for telling us all about these) + read like one article on ESPN about how Wemby is their (ESPN's) beautiful son who has never done anything wrong...was not batting .1000 on a fic with a 2k limit while quitting my job and depressed lol. (And to be clear this is more research than I did for Connor Bedard 🫡). But he does seem like a sweet sweet boy. Basketball RPF writers are fighting a war I can't even begin to imagine but there are a handful of Wemby fics, none of which I have read but they might be good!
Basketball players always blow me away in terms of charisma and personality but I think that's bc I've been in the hrpf trenches for so long where every day I'm like clawing for a sign of life on my teams lmfao. I love it.
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half the kitchen at work going on an impromptu strike on a fri night omfg. wish us luck lool the boss is gonna be ballistic we have a booking of 80 ppl.
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I was one of the majority of ‘90s kids who didn’t eat Viennetta (fortunately had some when I was on vacation in the UK, in LONDON, in 2017).
If denied the chance to have a Viennetta as a kid like I had because your parents would say that it was expensive, and are crestfallen that it’s next to impossible to purchase now as an adult, here’s a copycat recipe:
Brace yourselves, as some links are Amazon ones. I may earn those commissions through purchases as an affiliate.
Ingredient list:
Softened ice cream (store-bought or homemade, with me HIGHLY SUGGESTING those no-churn recipes regarding the latter).
Chocolate or chocolate coating (can use colored white coating if you desire to complement a flavor of the copycat Viennetta, such as pink with by a hint of red for a strawberry flavored one) melted with coconut oil. Alternatively, you can use Magic Shell.
There you have it! A Viennetta YOU CAN FINALLY AFFORD!!! (And you made one yourself for a fraction of the OG one!)
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Nutsy Banana endorsed by Borden’s Cow
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Possibly the most self-indulgently Midwestern set of ice cream I’ve ever bought. 😂😂😂
Where my fellow Midwesterners at? @sunfl0werswitch, @christiandomme - y’all know those flavors? 😁
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