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Natalie Novak

I keep having this incredibly stupid recurring nightmare and I’m not sure how to even start describing it.

So in this dream, every person has an internal source of power and creativity and inspiration. A condensed core of their own personality, like an archetypal self. It’s called an “Icon”. More successful people tend to be more in touch with this iconic core, but accessing it is not without danger. If relied on too much or too often, or if you never do the hard work of personal growth, one risks awakening the core and triggering a chain reaction that causes it to basically grow out of control and possess you.

Kind of a cool, creepy premise, right? YOU’D THINK SO. What makes it unbearably stupid is that people who have been “Iconified” are immediately recognizable because the Icon expresses itself as a little cartoon emoji of your own face which flies out of your soul and superimposes itself over your real face and can’t be hidden or gotten rid of. It has a will of its own and is just permanently overlaid on top of your head for everyone to see. It looks basically exactly like this:

Becoming Iconified is deeply cringe and shameful and annoying and regarded as a sad fate that people bring upon themselves. It happens mostly to celebrities and artists but can happen to anyone.

The main thread of the dream that just woke me up in a cold sweat and on the verge of tears?

Luigi was having a rough year and relying more and more on his internal icon and like, autocannibalizing his own personality for clout. The viewer knew (me) knew that he was well on his way to activating and releasing his icon if he didn’t change course, and soon. A sub-plot revealed it happening to Catwoman… she was trying desperately to escape from some kind of futuristic time prison and relied on the cheap source of energy and power of Being Catwoman that, just as she gained her freedom, a little Catwoman emoji came flying out of her mouth and pasted itself on her face and began laughing hysterically while she sobbed and screamed and tried to rub it off. But she couldn’t. It existed on another layer of reality and she could not reach it from her dimension. She would be Catwoman with a little cartoon Catwoman obscuring her face and identity forever.

I woke up right after I ordered pizza or something and the delivery guy had a cartoon 2D Roger Rabbit mustache superimposed over his real mustache and I was like oh fuck oh no oh no. Too scary. Too sad.

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."

here's the link to the source

she does lots of videos like this on her insta

Too many flowers to pollinate

appreciate the crispy fluffiness of my handmade gluten free rough puff pastry 😤

OP, this looks both beautiful and delicious, and may I especially compliment you on your decorative chickens 🐓! An excellent choice!

Thank you so much! I was INSUFFERABLY smug about it all

You know when you scroll past a photograph and you register that it's actually a painting or tapestry or something and you have to scroll back up again to appreciate it properly?

That's me except

GLUTEN FREE???

Thank you so much! Perceive the lamination!

I can’t take too much credit really, it’s from Katarina Cermelj’s gluten free cookbook and she’s very clever. She has a different variation of the recipe for free on her blog but I haven’t tried it: https://theloopywhisk.com/2022/10/22/gluten-free-puff-pastry/

Pictured here are two things I’ve made from her blog - the cheese stuffed GF garlic rolls and the GF cinnamon rolls. They all came out exceedingly well, and made me seem like an extremely accomplished baker

appreciate the crispy fluffiness of my handmade gluten free rough puff pastry 😤

pls

pls may i have some

You’re going to have to, this was a massive amount of food

elodiiieeeeee you can't post that gloriousness without a recipeeeee *sob* :D my tries at GF puff pastry have all resulted in disasterrrr we thank you for your GF support!

Of course, I got this from Katarina Cermelj’s gluten free cookbook “baked to perfection.” It is the one that uses frozen grated butter. She has a slightly different one on her blog that does NOT use frozen grated butter, but is free - but I have not tried that one: https://theloopywhisk.com/2022/10/22/gluten-free-puff-pastry/

If you do GF baking a lot, I do recommend the book; she’s a research chemist, so there are a lot of process explanations in the book.

appreciate the crispy fluffiness of my handmade gluten free rough puff pastry 😤

pls

pls may i have some

You’re going to have to, this was a massive amount of food

YIPPEEEEEE

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Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!

May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.

Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024

appreciate the crispy fluffiness of my handmade gluten free rough puff pastry 😤

pls

pls may i have some

Recipe pls OP? I need to make some for my aunt one of these days

It’s from katarina cermelj! https://theloopywhisk.com

appreciate the crispy fluffiness of my handmade gluten free rough puff pastry 😤

pls

pls may i have some

You’re going to have to, this was a massive amount of food

appreciate the crispy fluffiness of my handmade gluten free rough puff pastry 😤

OP, this looks both beautiful and delicious, and may I especially compliment you on your decorative chickens 🐓! An excellent choice!

Thank you so much! I was INSUFFERABLY smug about it all

a simple purple wormdog

i see typo in the group chat is a time honoured tradition