new genre concept: soft apocalypse

the world as we know it has ended and mother nature starts taking back what’s hers. there are no zombies or cannibals or murderous bandits. the most valued members of the community are those who know how to garden and farm, sew and weave, treat wounds, work wood or build with bricks, cook from scratch. 

people bond together to begin rebuilding instead of killing each other. everyone teaches each other whatever they do know and works together to figure out the stuff none of them know. books become incredibly valued resources because they’re often the only way to learn critical information. if someone is elderly, disabled, or otherwise unable to work at the same level as most of the community, they’re taken care of by the others, not told any sort of “survival of the fittest” bs.

as the generations ware on, communities begin expanding into small cities. some of the settlements even find ways to repurpose solar or wind power on a small scale and have electricity in some of their buildings. storytellers wander the countryside telling tales of the old world in return for some hot stew or a place to rest for the night, and the mythos of the new world start to incorporate elements of the past. the only thing that remains constant is that humans survive, and they do it by working together.

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU

A CHILL AF MANGA ABOUT A ROBOT LADY RUNNING A COFFEE SHOP DURING THE DECLINE OF HUMANITY WHERE EVERYONE IS SUPER NICE AND HAPPY AND IT’S JUST REALLY LOVELY

IT IS LEGIT ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCI-FI WORKS AND A HUGE INSPIRATION FOR MY WRITING

IF YOU LIKE A QUIET END OF THE WORLD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT BLESS

white gays pipe the fuck down challenge! 

the lack of qpoc movies is astounding. this is a small list but i have searched for these movies from everywhere i could possibly, and watching them is a bigger dilemma. please add onto this list, especially the mlm section. 

[ note that i only exclusively watch wlw movies being a brown nb lesbian so im a bit lacking in the mlm movie recs ]

wlw movies

honorary mentions cause white women :shruggos: : 

thelma [ brown wlw is the love interest ]-itty bitty titty committee [ brown wlw ] - mystère à la tour eiffel [ black wlw ] - a perfect ending [ brown wlw ]

mlm movies

[ note that i haven't seen half of these movies ]

here are a few more movies!

Nutella Donuts (Ponchiks)

— Té V. Smith, Releasing & Recieving (via wnq-anonymous)

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

Elon musk calling himself a socialist is a poorly masked attempt to gain sympathy from liberals and the left and to gloss over his workers rights and human rights violations.

With all these celebrity billionaires now trying to run for president, I would not be surprised if this was a very early stage in presidential campaigning for him.

By calling himself a socialist he could gain blind support from Bernie bro types and rich liberals, but also maintain his exploitative capitalist practices that would satisfy “fiscally conservative” democrats and centrists

Call him out now before people believe him

his tweet about “more and less productive” people is pure bullshit objectivism. elon musk sleeps with atlas shrugged tucked under his pillow and asks grimes to tell him hes a socialist when he gets sad. just kidding when he’s sad he tweets about it and random poor people send him money that does literally nothing for him. 

“one time i heard that a union had some corruption” he whispers into the night. “that’s more or less the same as multbillion dollar corporations as a class of capital exploiting a class of laborers.” grimes nods, visions of mars colonies in her eyes. they toast with champagne gifted to them by a fired employee.

this bastard really thinks he’s a special fucking snowflake who’s intellectually and morally superior to everyone else. he’s done nothing new or innovative in his life but he somehow thinks he invented -electric cars -space flight -money -ideas -philosophy -economics -human consciousness -being right -cats and dogs -the name tesla. he has the resources to solve actual problems but he’d rather make money off leaving the poor and hurting of the world on earth while he flies a gold spacecraft straight into the fucking sun. i hope he dies

ok but like he can't be president

he's foreign born to not American parents

Ann Peebles performing “I Can’t Stand The Rain” live in 1974

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so cute 😍

when you lived a life devoid of childhood abuse and addiction and some asshole drives you across the county to re-traumatise you in the name of their hubris and hero complex [screaming laura palmer.gif] 

if you think brutalist architecture is ugly we have NOTHING to talk about

Visit Boston Where everything is concrete!

how do white people steal Black vocabulary from “yo” to “bruh” to “shook” and beyond but you say some shit like “they was talking shit” and they’re like “UHHHHHH HOW DO YOU READ THIS YOUR GRAMMAR IS AWFUL” like if you don’t shut yo bum bitch anchovy and mayo on wonder bread ass the fuck UP….