#sweetener is not better

[freaky-flawless]

Reblog and put in the tags how many dolls you've added to your collection in 2023, and what your favorite one is!

#monster high #rainbow high #barbie #lol omg #dollblr #for me I counted 16 i think #which is...nutty #stitched in style frankie has my heart #she's still in box on top of my shelf #im also obsessed with all of my new lol omgs they're all so GOOD #sways is such a slay and the detail on wildflower is incredible #they were all also on amazing sales which sweetened the deal #least fave is definitely fernessa from cave club #she's still really cute and im glad i have her #oceana from mermaid high is low on the list too but i think mine is a bit defective #i wanna give her a new face #god there are so many exciting doll releases next year #next year being tomorrow mga is releasing reproductions of the bratz babies and im HYPED #not to mention more mh creeproductions...hopefully that release will go better #happy new year everyone!!!!!

[ianthe-is-a-bitch-and-i-love-her]

Kill Six Billion Demons, or as I like to call it, The Dykeification of Allison Ruth

#kill six billion demons #ksbd #it's back from hiatus so there's really no better time to get obsessed with it #this series has my absolute favorite canonically trans characters of all time btw #just in case that sweetens the pot for anyone

[kinitoadventure]

The best source of caffeine (in our opinion): tea!

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#kinito #kinito my beloved #kinitopet #Tastes better than coffee #even with stuff like sweetener in it #kinito adventure pictures #🌎computer friend (kinito)💾

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the gorgeous and fabulous @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for february's roundup:

tagging the usual music favs: @jiminsproof @thvinyl @jimin-gaon @visionsofgideontheninth @spicyclematis @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi plus @kimtaegis for the amy macdonald of it all 💜 and also you, dear reader. MWAH

#heads up! here comes the director's commentary: #16 Carriages - now listen. i love texas hold 'em as much as the next daddy lessons supremacist #but holy shit. it doesn't hold so much as a candle to this track. #just unbelievably stunning. i'm begging you to give it another chance if you skipped over it the first time #Don't Forget Me - me and kayla and apryl all having ms rogers in this month's list... i think we might be better than everyone else actuall #End Of Beginning - good GOD we couldn't gatekeep djo any longer but it's worth it if only for all the bear tiktok edits. #and thus i have fallen for this track all over again. yes CHEF #Showtime - now if you've known me long enough you'll know i'm an absolute sucker for british indie rock bands #especially if their frontman looks like they might not make it through another winter #so you can imagine catfish has had an inexplicable hold on me. anyway their comeback single is actually pretty good #This Is The Life - fantastic tune. 2007 if you can believe it? #what a time to be alive and at the school disco and you're singing the songs and thinking this is the life and so on and so forth #Loving You Will Be The Death Of Me - tom odell can do no wrong in my eyes (ears?) anyway. lovely lovely new album #Never Need Me - been loving rachel for a while now and this single is brilliant. highly recommended. #plus the video features florence pugh and if that doesn't sweeten the deal then christ i don't know what will #Baby Now That I've Found You - i didn't even realise this was a cover of the foundations until hearing it again recently #because alison krauss just has an incredible way of making them her own and thus it's been on repeat. #Deeper Well - okay so now i'm seeing the country thread through this month's picks. #this is another lovely new one. hearing it on the radio and the fact that they have to censor “i used to wake and bake” is hilarious to me #shoutout kayla again because great minds.. #Stay For Something - CMAT is phenomenal and if you haven't listened to her yet i can't recommend her entire discography enough. #she had her arsecrack out at the brits last night and well. i would die for her #(speaking of the brits. raye... i literally cried for her. go find the recording of her live at the royal albert hall. #-watch it twice and then come back and thank me) #artists-wise - most of these guys are consistently up there. #katie melua is a new feature this time because all my amy macdonald-ing put me back onto nine million bicycles. #used to get that one mixed up with 99 luftballoons but they're really very different. i'm a fool #so tl;dr: fantastic tunes. do listen #tag #receiptify

[xxlovelynovaxx]

Ah. "Animals rights" bullshit okay. Being animals that are not obligate herbivores and eating the flesh of other animals because of it is "oppressing" non-human animals. And they called out my comparing it to anti-choicers because "murder is different than death" okay well anti-choicers think abortion is murder. I don't happen to consider a human killing an animal for food murder any more than I consider an animal killing another animal for food murder, especially when as you pointed out yourself some people can't survive without meat.

Or is it a contract killing/hit on every animal You've ever eaten to survive? Are you just not a murderer because you paid not to get your hands dirty?

Like yeah it's fucking NATURAL. Humans aren't some wondrous ascended beings that don't crawl through the dirt. We fuck and fight and survive and yes, part of that survival for many is KILLING.

And it's good that you don't think people should be forced onto veganism because that would be as bad as the people who want to force all animals to eat synthetic meat and hunt via robots or whatever but my gods can you imagine telling someone who has been a vegetarian by choice for years for animal WELFARE purposes (not rights) who is vegan for disability reasons that they are "justifying the oppression of animals" and "killing animals for food is murder" when you literally can't go vegan for health reasons yourself? Okay murderer. Guess your life matters more than those oppressed animals.

Like sorry I'm going full "you're an asshole and I despise you and I'm genuinely sorry for myself that I thought we could be friends".

Like yeah the anti-choicer metaphor wasn't perfect. But it also got you to cut right to the heart of the matter. You are so divorced from humans as part of the ecosystem and food chain you genuinely believe we have some moral duty to not kill animals (but only animals, not plants or fungi, which are also living and have some measure of sentience) and to hold ourselves separate from the biosphere to the greatest extent possible.

That's just ecofascism 101. Are we gonna do the "any form of hunting or land management, even responsibly by indigenous stewards using traditional practices is bad" next? Or are we gonna avoid that one because you hopefully know better than THAT and simply think that removing humans from ONLY one part of the consumptive chain is ✨different✨?

For reference:

Also where does "choosing to die" come in to this? I wasn't talking about euthanasia, I was talking about withdrawing the life support provided by a human body if the owner of that body stops consenting to providing it, therefore depriving a fetus dependent on that life support for survival of said survival. I'm pretty sure the fetus doesn't have a choice in the matter. (Whether or not it's "alive" doesn't have much to do with anything since it's been made pretty clear that medical autonomy in terms of mandated use of your body's parts or resources is unethical at ANY point. Even if you ARE killing it, we've determined that's the most ethical option.)

Also if we're going to make bullshit oppression claims why don't we talk about transspecies people who are obligate carnivores?

#literally I'm not a fucking legalist but no I don't believe murder in the sense of nonconsensual killing is always wrong #like self defense. hello. #like maybe my moral system is just built different but to call it oppression and make me out to be some kind of bigot? #come on. that's bullshit and you know it. #we're literally not talking about rights being taken away. also this is why animal welfare is such a better concept than animal rights #stop anthropomorphizing animals!! stop treating them like furry humans that can't speak!! #literally somehow both a veganism centrist and an 'animal rights' person at once #go yell at people for literally having a moral-spiritual belief system that encompasses eating animals as neutral somewhere else #oh and btw don't EVER fucking moralize any kind of food related consumption around me again that goes for everyone #meat is neutral. sugar is neutral. artificial sweeteners are neutral. preservatives are neutral. plants are neutral. fish are neutral. etc #some of these may be unhealthy for a given individual and their production under capitalism may be fucking harmful #but conceptually they are neutral and there are ways of making them physically so by changing the harmful systems #you can keep feeling bad about your oppression of poor animals or w/e. or maybe you don't feel bad idk #I happen to find that far more harmful than humans who want or need to eat meat - doing so - will ever be #thanks for the mask off moment where you decided it was actually okay to moralize food and survival #I'm so happy to say goodbye forever #(note: if you know who this is don't fucking harass them. I have them blocked and am being a bit nasty *bc* they can't see it) #(I don't want them to suffer. I just think they're a monumental asshole. gods know I'm one too.) #(let people be assholes 2k23 lol)

[naamahdarling]

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#i have to keep moving between the studio and the bedroom so they can air out but now i have to go to sleep #this is unprecedented #my bedroom window does not open #im going to gas myself into seeing the hat man #likw with carbon monoxide #at least i figured out what it was #an artificial sweetener I'm sensitive to #normally not a problem but i had too much last night apparently and now im paying the price #i have exiled my boyfriend #dried pickle man has forsaken me #im alone and gaseous stewing in my own fetid emanations #this had better clear up before d&d tomorrow or it'll be a tpk

[spiritcc]

COMPARISON YEAR

Soviet Movie Club(tm) and Series(tm) were struggling for months about how to make this work in any given timeframes, and came to the conclusion that the best way to compare films is to give it all the entire year to waste. It sure took us until April but here we are.

In this fiscal year of 2023, we will occasionally compare adaptations: films, series, Soviet on Soviet violence Soviet vs foreign adaptations. We’ve got all the time to spare so as we go along, let me compile the comparison history in this one post.

The first and very sudden comparison is LA REINE MARGOT: the 1994 French movie vs the Russian 1996 series. It is sudden and all over the place because the circumstances of discovering that the series has subs at all was a hook to the temple, in the sense that sure they are subs.... to the abridged 10 episode version. The series is 18 episodes. We’ve already watched Monsoreau, its immediate season 2. The 1994 movie will suck no doubt and that is why it has the dishonor of opening up the comparison year: let’s watch how worse it could get in order not to lament too much about half of the series being cut for subs. 

Running on April Fools no less, so today, 10pm Moscow time. 

#Soviet Movie Club™ #listen dont @ me with the series yes i know it's like an explosion in the right community #that the subs have been found so it now enters the ring #but these circumstances just make it a mess and my chosen way of showing them isnt any better #1994 margot is just to sweeten the pill by forcing us to swallow an actual shit pill #the french cannot adapt their own classic literature for SHIT

[monsterhugger]

(Source: UW Medicine Newsroom)

”actually artificial sweeteners aren’t even better for you than regular sugar so maybe we should be avoiding sweet foods entirely” maybe we should all kill ourselves

#I should not have to read this shit in a publication by an accredited university #dietary science is so fucking broken man #idk maybe we should have better healthcare? #maybe we should be researching healthier artificial sweeteners or better treatments for things like diabetes and heart disease? #no we should stop eating food that makes us happy. that’ll fix it #istg I always come back to this when it comes to diet/weight loss culture #but like. when you’re living to 150 but you’re constantly exhausted from hours of exercise and you deny yourself good food constantly #are you happy? are you living a more fulfilling life #than someone who spends their free time doing things that make them happy and eats food that tastes good and drops dead at 70? #does feeling superior really mean that much more to you? #suicide cw

[kitzenvoncatzen]

just took a sip of a drink that looks like it should be in a fake ad and it tasted exactly like i expected it to. dont know why its such a predictable flavor

#kinda like fanta but less sweet and with a hint of jello flavor #the aftertaste is just like a hint of bitter for a fraction of a second then nothing #except if you focus you can taste the fake sweetener or something #overall 6.5/10 better than water i guess

[idletransgenderfication]

it's not even that i don't think milk toast could be good. i haven't personally tried it, but after looking it up i've seen plenty of preparations that sound like they'd be decent, if not pretty good. the one that calls for you to submerge a single slice of lightly buttered & salted toast in a bowl of hot milk with no other seasonings is by far the saddest & soggiest version i have encountered, however

#i guess it's supposed to be for little kids & sick people or something but c'mon man #i'm sure they could be eating better than this. there are far better ways to consume dairies & grains than this soggy bland concoction #honestly i think the recipe could be saved with just a few tweaks. add some cream & sweetener to the milk #throw in your favorite extracts and spices (vanilla or almond extract with cinnamon and/or nutmeg would be my go-to here) #and THEN instead of pouring the hot milk over the entire slice & completely submerging it in a bowl to get all soggy #just dip the toast in!! you can let each bite get as saturated with milk as you like. total texture control 👍👍 #idk about you but that sounds a lot better than the cookbook version to me #animal.txt

[nomaishuttle]

in hs wed get our thanksgiving lunch every year and i would, through my huge brain and natural talent for the art of bartering, end up with 9 slices of pimpkin pie by the end of it

#it was a fucking trade economy fr. i would literally be like ok. so i noticed you ate your roll first... would i be correct in assuming... #This? might sweeten the deal for you... (slowly sliding over a roll that i got by trading my green beans) #it was fun #and then id only be able to eat like 3 soices max and judt have to carry 6 with me the rest of the school day #ONE TIME. jaren who at one point after this was dating sam idk if theyre still together they better be bc i bought plan b for her. but he #literally traded me my green beans for his pumpkin pie. like yas brother i will take that deal. youre an idiot (joking)

[kayzig]

I don't drink it as much, and when I do, I still take my coffee with milk and sugar but that I at all have moments where I go "this is TOO MUCH milk and sugar, why the cereal milk flavors, ugh too much chocolate in this one, it isn't even COFFEE anymore" is probably all the fault of one (fictional) man

#godot #ace attorney #coffee #I want to get better at sweetening tea less too but the problem there is I switched to using honey #and honey is fcuking amazing

[andro-dino]

based on a real interaction I had

#mfb #metal fight beyblade #mfb oc #chao xin #I will only take my coffee with ungodly amounts of sweetener and I will die on that hill #also Essi definitely has an actual book of Axyl rules she made to try and understand them better

[yamikawaii]

im just really tired honestly

#like i dont get it.THREE whole s/elfship mutuals even ones who have talked to me abt yoomtah and told me she loves me before. #and then they somehow turn out to like the ''''''canon'''''' ship more than mine #i guess its my fault for not putting myself out there more but i dont get how im supposed to in this state #its just funny how when im at my best posting daily and drawing occasionally and im so happy and fun everyone loves me and thinks im so cool #but when im at my worst and need that support more than ever seems im just thrown away like a cheap toy that the dog chewed the head off of #and i dont know if it makes it better or worse to say i get it. id forget about me too #i just wish i had the energy to make myself ''worth it'' again but thats kinda hard when i literally feel how i did at 14 again but worse #i just want to be that sweet charming person who people love seeing happy because im just so enthusiastic and passionate again #i dont know what im doing anymore honestly #its just hard when all that excitement and joy that people like me for is most of the time artificially sweetened

[todayisafridaynight]

I dreamt about a kiwami version of yakuza 3 being released, I played it hoping to see how mine looked with better graphics, got to a loading screen when a disinbodied voice said; "the voice acting was better three years ago" and "they could do better"

Then I woke up in pain because I've been sick for like two weeks

you didnt even get to see HD mine you just got visited by YKZ reddit 😭

#snap chats #hope you feel better tho :( my default answer to every ache is Drink Some Tea #that do be the asian in me... but real hope you feel better take medicine if your pain calls for it #cause yk. you could be stuffy or you could have a sore throat or you could just have general pain- gotta take the right med for it :) #but yk what helps a lot for sore throats..... honey tea... #honey tea is also just nice to have :) not that artificla sugary shit like lipton like if yore having sweetened tea #at least make it hot and put honey in it like cmon #ignore me im a sweet tea hater but dont ignore me actually because im right

[nocylipcowa]

made some rlly good fried tofu with a sauce.....

#shouldve put more sweetener to the sauce and it wouldve been even better #josspeaking