Start dropping weight and can't stay out of the bathroom by age seven, get told to avoid dairy so mom buys Lactaid milk for a year. Whole family despises it and Mac and cheese in particular is now terrible and avoided. I'm still very sick anyway
Be diagnosed with Crohn's at age nine. Resume consuming regular dairy
Twelve-ish: begin to feel a little distress at eating ice cream. Does not stop me from accepting a Dairy Queen cheesequake blizzard reward for single handedly winning a science class quiz game that was supposed to be played in teams but no one wanted me. By sheer force of will and remarkable sphincter control for an IBD patient, mange to wait it out get home that day before having a violent reaction.
Thirteen: throw up violently at school after having cheese sticks for my free lunch. Convince myself it was just the greasiness of the meal that set me off
Fourteen: go into high school conceding the point that I'm lactose intolerant. Unsuccessful at lobbying the head principal to provide lactose free strawberry milk. Start paying more money than a lunch would have even cost if I didn't qualify for free lunch at the snack bar for juice or V8 in order to not go thirsty at lunch. Repeatedly throw up when the only option for lunch other than the very popular spicy chicken every Wednesday that I couldn't tolerate mouth-wise or gut-wise was the same cheesesticks that I had in middle school
Sometime later in high school: discover the Meijer's house brand of lactose free milk actually tastes decent.
Seventeen-ish. Find a hair in the carton of Meijer's lactose free milk and swear off it forever. Try rice milk
(Also an aside at seventeen: develop celiac disease and I thanked my lucky stars that it was polite enough to have waited until I was done with wildly ableist school and too old to trick or treat)
I forget which age but I was a fresh and new adult: discover rice milk ice cream. Desperately pretend it tastes and feels like real ice cream.
Shortly after: try coconut milk. It's tasty, but hardly a neutral milk-like taste and doesn't go well when mixed with other ingredients. Coconut milk ice cream is likewise lackluster
Nineteen? Discover the boxed and shelf stable almond milk. Begin to have hope.
Twenty: find out they started making a cartoned and refrigerated almond milk that tastes brilliant
Twenty three? Realize I have forgotten the taste of dairy milk. Almond milk reigns Supreme
Twenty-six: find out what an environmental menace the non-native aimond trees used in American almond milk is to drought-stricken California. Feel guilty but also feel like there's no real way to avoid drinking almond milk
Twenty-eight: Oat milk explodes in the plant milk scene. I ignore this because there's a high likelihood of cross contamination with wheat in both the field crop and in the processing of oats in the same facilities of wheat. No major and common oat milk brands have any gluten free signage
Twenty nine: Oatly converts its American version to gluten free oats brown in dedicated fields and processing facilities. Try it and it's decent. (CAUTION: some celiacs have a reaction to oats themselves regardless of any cross-contamination. I, however, am not one of them.) Become mostly fully converted to oat milk but still keep ordering almond milk when I get an iced coffee because Dunkin and the anarchist coffee shop/bookstore never label which brand of oat milk they use and you're a millennial and despise phone calls
Thirty: Planet Oats is a bit cheaper so I try it on a lark and like it better. Be bummed that it comes in a smaller carton that Oatly and thus is more expensive in the long run. Start putting oat milk in my oatmeal and have a religious crisis because it seems like a decadent and cardinal sin. Remember I'm an atheist and it's okay to be a lil hedonistic and perverse esp where food is concerned
Nearly thirty-one: realize halfway in making this post that it's entirely boring and pointless and is too long for such an uninteresting subject but goddammit I've sunk the cost and will finish this stupid post.
A long time ago @justneilio created an LGBT+ mod but they never updated it since they abandoned mods. Some time later, a user who still had it found one of the traits of the mod on a cat.
This made us laugh so much because at that time there was also the meme of the cat with heterochromatic eyes with the person saying "he has homophobia in his eyes ♥️" that we decided to create "Homophobic Cat", a beast of Satan who sets fire to everything and to everyone. For some reason Neil wanted to try the cat with Loki Beaker's family and it's funny to think how Homophobic Cat haunts him throughout the universes.
When I noticed that in my uberhood, my Erin has a black cat, it added a piece of lore that Homophobic Cat was Erin's cat.
Thinking about how people in Spain nickname celebrities?
If there are two celebrities with the same name, one will eventually become "the good" - due to their personality or skills - and the other will be "the bad". Ex: Jordi Cruz or Tamara, back a few years. And this will stay forever, given "the good" does nothing to lose the title.
The most-loved female celebrities, however, will bear the surname "de España". Ex: Carmen Sevilla, Lola Flores, Rosa López, Amaia Romero.
You know it’s a bit hard to think for Imre and Nia and very easy for Lorcan 😭
Imre:
He can’t stand bad calligraphy. Once when they were doing an in-class essay for an exam he looked over and saw this atrocious chicken scratch and took the thing out of the student’s hands and rewrote it in its entirety and thus couldn’t finish his own exam. Yes he got in trouble but his father got him out of it.
Nia:
She’s all about experiences so she wanted to experience what it was like to get arrested. And so she went streaking through the streets, and further she didn’t express any remorse at her hearing. She was sentenced to community service instead of juvie thanks to her father. She felt a sense of great of accomplishment.
Lorcan:
He finds the taste of onions disgusting but he wanted to show off at the annual fair’s eating contest. So hoovered those onions and when the had to stop he vomited all over himself, the contest next to him and the table. No, he didn’t win.
I just dreamed that Jaskier forgot the word 'cat' and he wanted to listen to Geralt purring so he asked "can you make the sound of the silly little dancing men?"
• "You said 'fuck'. Now pray to the Lord for forgiveness!"
• "But I thought Achilles was straight."
• "Your hair looks like happiness."
• "There are a lot of things that happen in those bathrooms. Like smoking, or trying reproduction without wanting to reproduce, or both at the same time."
• "They were only friends... and roomates. There was only one bed, only one blanket and also only one pillow. What did you expect? Being cold and not using a pillow sucks."
• "Look at those two under the tree. Yesterday there was another couple there. I think they have a making out program."
• "That's gay."
• "You're gay!"
"Ok...? That's supposed to be an insult?"
• "I've asked little kids 'Have you thought of being trans... and then becoming a femboy?'"
• "I could eat alphabet soup and shit something smarter than what you've said."
• "That's stupid. All we say is stupid. I love stupid things."
• "I DID NOT GIVE HIM THE PLEASURE!"
• "I could be a boy for all you know."
• "When I'll die I'll be in a pub. I'll write my will with red wine."
• "But I thought their first kiss was an accident."
I might come up with a part two, but this is it for now. :)