3k Followers Giveaway

OH MY ACTUAL GOODNESS YOU GUYS. 

There are THREE THOUSAND OF YOU!  WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?

I said I was gonna do something special and I wasn’t kidding.  You guys are awesome and you deserve the entire world.  Unfortunately, I can’t give that to you.  So I hope this giveaway will suffice.  

Rules:  

Prizes: 

SOOOOO, get reblogging!  Let’s celebrate this amazing milestone the right way!  :D   Will Not Write List

Signal boosting!   Giving away Fics and Tea!  

Lmao this American girl walked up to a Hungry Jacks (Burger King) register with her drink and really, really loudly (I was at the other side of the place) proclaimed: “I asked for Lemonade, you gave me Sprite” in a really bitchy, entitled voice.

The cashier (and everyone within earshot) just looked at her like “the fuck is wrong with you”

In Australia, Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned.

Enjoy your 90c refund you cheap ass ho.

“Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned”

@fleamont can you verify?

Yeah this is correct. Lemonade is sprite. Clear fizzy liquid type thing. Solo is closer to what American lemonade is but we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade anyway so she was never going to get what she wanted lmao.

Y'ALL AIN’T GOT LEMONADE?!?!??

madness…

“we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade“

That entire continent exists on a different realm of existence

What the… Lmao

Why is it called lemonade then? 🤔

@casualswfan What is wrong with you guys?

IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same :P

LEMONADE AND SPRITE ARE NOTHING ALIKE

Things heating up in the drink fandom

I’m pretty sure the same is true in the UK at least was in 2010 except Sprite didn’t seem to be a common brand so I’d ask for Sprite get blank looks eventually figured out to ask for lemonade 

Sprite is a recognised brand here, but it’s not omnipresent, it is also considered a brand of lemonade.

This is fucked up.

Sprite: lemon-lime soda (pop/carbonated beverage). Lemonade: lemons, water, and sugar. Still.

LEMONADE IS NOT CARBONATED WHATT HEFUCC CK ARE YOU ALL DOIGN

Living? Sensibly?

Also on what planet does Sprite have lime in it.

Sprite, the lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage, is made on Earth.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor Sprite.

The people of Earth are known as “Earthlings” or “Spriteloids” interchangeably (although not to each other).

At least in the UK, if you order lemonade you’ll sometimes get Sprite, but if it’s proper it’s a lemon soda akin to the Italian gassosa - less sweet than Sprite.

Oh shit, I’ve had gassosa, it’s AMAZING.

I just want to say that the whole ‘lemonade and Sprite are interchangeable’ is pretty common throughout Asia as well, in my experience

@bre-e-e-e what madness is this?!?!?!?!

@kingkilling-and-stormlight so… what you are all saying is. Lemonade is … not fizzy… in America?

You guys have orange juice at least, right? Grapefruit juice? In the US, Lemonade is a juice, like orange juice, but made with lemons instead of oranges. You can buy “fresh squeezed lemonade” at many restaurants and fast food venues. Typically it’s diluted a bit with sugar water, so the sour flavor of the raw lemon juice isn’t so overpowering. 

In the south, it’s very common for people buy whole lemons and make their own lemonade at home using a citrus juicer.

In Germany, you’d ask for “Limonade” and yeah, you may get a Sprite or a Fanta; it’ll always be a fizzy nonalcoholic drink and usually come in lemon, lime, orange flavor. Only in healthfood or hipster establishments would it ever be an actual juice drink.

As a fan of homemade rosewater lemonade, I am twitching at the thought of sickly sweet carbonated beverages that taste like they were invented by someone who may have been in the same room as a citrus fruit once but can’t remember what it actually tastes like being called lemonade.

Wtf did y'all think beyonce was talking about????

oh wow I hadn’t even considered that. Like millions of people worldwide hearing the album title but not understanding what lemonade means even on the most superficial level.

This is so epically disturbing. Lemonade is such an integral part of spring and summertime. I just … this breaks my brain and my heart. The cultural references too. Just, all the American shows that reference lemonade and people in other countries are thinking Sprite? There’s a reason kids do freshly squeezed lemonade stands. You can’t buy it like that from a store. And there’s nothing quite like screwing it up and getting the sugar ratio wrong. And parents grinning through the too sour or too sweet mess and praising your efforts. Lemonade Is a Thing.

Wait does that mean Aussies make Shandies with sprite?????

Does this mean a significant portion of the global population don’t know what to do when life hands you lemons?

Yes, Australians make Shandies with our carbonated soft drink lemonade, though if you’re using it as a mixer, you’re less likely to be using Sprite and more likely to be using Schweppes, which looks like this:

Like. We absolutely have a concept of flat, juice-based lemonade, but as an earlier commenter said, it’s a niche hipster speciality rather than the default, and even then, it’s still going to be premade rather than fresh. 

OH GOD THAT’S WHY AMERICAN CHILDREN CAN MAKE IT AND SELL IT SO EASILY. I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW KIDS COULD MAKE A CARBONATED DRINK AT HOME.

Reblogging for Beyonce. This thread is gold.

@cresselian

I’m surprised that no one has started calling Americans “ niche hipsters” at this point.

I love this post. It actually makes me happy that something so simple is only a thing here when so many things have become homogenized.  Also amuses me that anybody outside America (I guess?) hearing “When life gives you lemons make lemonade” is thinking it means “When life gives you lemons make fucking Sprite” lmao.

I wonder what happens if you attempt to order a pink lemonade lmao.

@flippyspoon well I’m in south America (Brazil) and lemonade is juice and sprite is soda. We also use the “when life gives you lemons” saying. Now, a question I have is; pink lemonade? Does that mean the U.S has pink lemons?

Lolz you would think so but usually pink lemonade is just lemonade with food dye in it because it’s pretty but sometimes it’s sold as “strawberry lemonade” when it’s not but actual strawberry lemonade is gooood. But as a kid I could swear that pink lemonade tasted better than regular (BECAUSE IT’S PRETTY).

When you ask for pink lemonade, it’s almost always raspberry-flavored lemonade, not strawberry. (Though it was easier to find strawberry-flavored lemonade in like, the 90s.) I’m only pedantic because I was a strawberry FIEND as a kid.  While we’re talking about lemonade, no one has mentioned Country Time, the powdered drink mix you use to make “lemonade” when you’re a kid and your mom doesn’t want to buy you the lemons to show you how to make your own lemonade. I may, uh, speak from experience on that.  Also, I know the UK and Ireland has American lemonade, but they refer to it as “cloudy lemonade,” I guess because the sugar doesn’t mix up terribly well?

as someone who works in a food industry adjacent job and is going to school for it: in Germany at least, the qualification “lemonade” ( limonade) is used instead of soda. meaning under like food laws ( not the technical term, I’m tired excuse me) in Germany sprite is lemonade. coke is lemonade. dr. pepper is lemonade. that doesn’t mean I would use the word lemonade to ask for, for example coke, in a restaurant, as it’s far too vague. if I did, I’d either get sprite, fanta or if it was a fancy place, orangina maybe. probably though they’d be asking me to specify.

the only place I know for sure I’d actually get lemonade is mc donald’s! they have this lemon kiss thing right now that’s flat, has lots of crushed ice and tastes like it’s met a lemon somewhere in the production process.

if you ask for Zitronenlimonade you’ll almost certainly get sprite, that’s the name that sprite and off-brand sprite get sold under.

I wanna go back to the person who expressed disbelief about Sprite having lime in it - the logo for Sprite is literally half a lemon and half a lime.

So does this mean people outside North America don’t get to drink Arnold Palmers? Summer isn’t summer for me without one.

Did you guys know you can buy reflective glitter wallpaper?

And here was me thinking I’d need to throw it at the wall out of a shaker jar like some kind of pleb. 

What a time to be alive.

I see your glitter wallpaper and raise you…

dinosaur mural wallpaper.

and also

dragon mural wallpaper.

…3 glitter walls and a dragon accent wall.

Scenes I need...

It had been a joke, a flippant line, but somehow, Loki found himself taking the youth up on it.

It was hard living around these heroic Avengers, hard trying to stay close to Thor. And when he felt his need for mischief rise too high, when he felt exasperation with these Midgardians turn too close to spite, he would casually say “Six.” to the young man, or sometimes “Seven.”

And Peter would spend the rest of his day with Loki. He would badger him with questions about magic, or drag him across his beloved city to see its entertainments, or take him along stopping petty crimes. He grounded Loki to the here and now, and distracted him from the churning, jagged shards of ice in his mind.

WE NEED LOKI AND PETER FICS

Yeah, the people who write the comics agree with you

imagine if someone really pissed Loki off and he turns to Peter and just “IT’s A TEN, CHILD”

#i’ve been aching for more peter and loki content#because peter is just sO GODDAMN CASUAL#he’s literally friends with everyone#villains heroes and inbetween bc he’s the least judgemental guy ever#and loki kinda needs that#and they would just be such a fucking interesting team together#and go d loki’s mischief with peter’s silliness #and peter grounding him#and maybe even loki playing around with peter when things get too hard for him sometimes#man i just want to see more of these characters interact bc they’re two of my faves#and they have the potential for SUCH GOOD CHEMISTRY#i’ve been aching for this since 2013

those are some great tags @saisai-chan

It is our duty as feminists to protect and respect women in Hijabs

Now. More. Than. Ever.

Question: if I see someone pull off a Hijab, what should I do? I know there are reasons they are worn so I want to if i should stand in between them and who did this, should i protect them from view somehow, or something else? This has been happening a lot so I feel it’s something everyone needs to know.

Good question! I cannot correctly and effectively answer, as I am a white, non-Muslim person; however, I will reblog in case any of my followers can answer. 

I asked my Hijabi friend, so here’s one Hijabi’s answer: 

“my opinion is, definitely try cover them or give them something to cover themselves with. And perhaps shoo off the person, without putting oneself in danger! God forbid, if that happened to me, I would like someone to come and comfort me and give me something to cover my hair with and then help me report it to the cops “

(Followers, if any of you are hijabi and would like to expand on this answer or offer alternatives, please do.)

If u see it happen to 1 of us, pls cover our head + hair with a coat or shawl or any piece of cloth, while hugging us in comfort. Please don’t get hurt by lashing out @ the perpetrators in any way, coz if they dare to do that, they’re probably too far gone in their own hatred to listen to any reason. Much love + Thank You to anyone who supports us.

yes !! everything said here is important af. if you see someone pull off a girl’s hijab immediately cover her hair and provide comfort. don’t talk to the perpetrator but try to get the woman out of there if you can. maybe if you have a scarf on you at the time give it to her so she can wear it until she’s alone and can replace her hijab. please please protect muslim girls because we already had it hard before donald trump became president and now its gonna be worse with people going around thinking their violence and cruelty is justified 

for my other white ppl who might have a hard time, it’s my understanding that a hijab is like a major item of clothing, not an accessory like a hat or a scarf. so think abt it more like if someone just ripped someone’s shirt or skirt off. u don’t want to be left there exposed or have to walk home without it.

everyone, even outside America needs to protect our Muslim sisters in these times.

as a man, what would be the best thing to do? should i turn my head and avoid looking at their hair? can i still offer a jacket or something similar?

^I’m hoping someone has an answer islamaphpbia is on the rise in my town and I want to be a good male non Muslim ally

For men, yes please, we would prefer it if you avoided looking at our hair, and if we don’t have something to substitute as a hijab at that moment, anything you could lend us, a jacket, etc, would be very appreciated.

Also, since most girls avoid physical contact with men they’re not related to, please do not hug them, but rather shoo the offender away if you can, or at least escort the girl to a safe place. You can still offer words of encouragement and support. Furthermore, understand that the victim may not be very welcoming towards you because she’ll obviously be shaken, and won’t know where you are coming from. If that’s the case, please still give her something to cover herself (hijab is very important, think of it as someone ripping your shirt off) and stand some distance away until you are sure she’s in safe hands.

Thank you so much for your support, we really appreciate it, god bless all of you.

In the horrible climate we’re currently in, please take note of this.

Reblogging this again for the guy-instructions

Same

As a Muslim without a hijab, I support this.

Oh thank god, I’ll know what to do if anything like this ever happens around me. A lot of Hijabis actually come through my work place so I’d like to be able to help if needed!!

when i was 12 i got banned from yahoo answers and when i emailed support to be like “what did i do??” i got a really vague answer that just said “you know what you did” and it still haunts me to this day

When I was 10 I was in a AOL chatroom for kids and we were all making this Homer Simpson face (8^(|) but this one girl Crystal forgot to put the nose in the face so I said “You forgot the nose crystal” and I immediately got booted offline and no one in my family could log on. My Mom talked to someone from AOL and they said I was trying to sell drugs to minors because I said “nose crystal”

When I was like 10 I roleplayed with people on Neopets, completely innocent stuff like ‘high school AU’ or ‘wolf AU’ and the like. I made a thread called ‘See the Sea Hotel’ and it went on for a few replies until I randomly got my account frozen and after explaining to my mom for a good 30 minutes that ‘frozen’ didn’t mean the computer wouldn’t respond, she got on to try and send an email to Neopets’ staff and they said that ‘hotel’ was a restricted word because it included ‘ho’ in it

I had a similar experience around that age with an online music game called Audition.

I said something like “Can I get the speed to 2x speed?” and it automatically changed my message to “Can I get the **** to **** ****?”, and a moderator saw that modified message and suspended my account for offensive language.

It turned out that I couldn’t say ‘speed’ because it had ‘pee’ in it, and I when I contacted support to say it was a mistake on their part and asked if I could be unsuspended, they said that I was also writing numbers, and writing numbers was strictly forbidden just in case they were a phone number.

I remember playing Phantasy Star Online back in like 2001 - it was one of the first console MMOs, if I remember correctly - and you didn’t get banned for saying “bad words”, but they did get censored. their list of inappropriate words was….extensive, and one in particular created a real problem for people trying to make plans to play together. because of course the most common day of the week to do that would be Saturday, right? but. that has the word “turd” in it. so. every time. you tried to say “do you want to play Saturday”. it would say. “do you want to play $%&@%#+%”. and the other person is just. sitting there. wondering. what the fuck did you just ask them to play

This is called the Scunthorpe Problem and it always cracks me up.

dark souls censors the word “knight” because it has “nig” in it, it’s a game largely about knights

you used to not be able to trade Cofagrigus in Pokemon because its name has “fag” in it

I was on a forum that automatically did creative word replacements to avoid offense (like ‘ass’ -> ‘butt’).

One of the game items was a “pocketwatch”, otherwise known as the “pockefemale genitaliach”.

The most feared way to die was buttbuttination. The secret order of buttbuttins lurked everywhere.

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this is the sword of good fortune, may it aid you in your travels. 

at some point you’ve got to STOP reading the entrails and go out and LIVE that which was portented by them, because you WILL run out of doves

@spiritspodcast

i mean, they’re not wrong.

Art by IG: @owlturd Instagram: @artwoonz

“Why does Tumblr romanticize Hades so much?”

Idk Clarice, maybe we’re just tired, and life is uncertain, and we like the idea of a stable husband with a steady job and a big dog and his own place away from all the loud, shapeshifting-kink party gods.

Lunch ideas

These are actually amazing??? This can really help me eat more??? And are legit good and creative lunches??? THANK YOU IM AAAAAAAAA-

Awesome :)

Consent Education.

Artwork by marcel_van_luit. More interesting posts here: @sixpenceee

this gives me anxiety

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..

every time i watch this when the reveal hits and he starts dancing i’m like “oh ok that ain’t a big deal he’s just another celeb doing a gimmick” but somehow by the end of this video without fail i am filled with respect for him and zendaya for being like…a powerful gen z couple who both give off chaotic bisexual vibes 

i think it’s the irreverence with which he splashes the water 

that was a classic that was a classic

It’s a good time to remember that Tom Holland is a trained dancer and that initself is a gift

He’s trained in ballet, too, which is what makes this even funnier. I saw a video (also with Zendaya in it) of him doing like, fifteen fouettes in someone’s basement. GET A MAN WHO CAN DO BOTH.

I FOUND IT!!

Soulmates and Doom

A Simple Device

Soulmates and Doom

Darcy/Sam, Rated T

All Darcy wanted to do was grab a latte, maybe a biscotti, and take Jane a coffee made from a coffee machine that didn’t sassily make comments about her fashion sense (or, as it put it, her “lack thereof”).

Keep reading

they thought.

you know what’s even better than a guilty pleasure?

a smug indulgence. tell yourself, “i’m gonna do this thing because i like it, and there’s nothing you can do to make me feel bad about it!” eat that cake! read that romance novel! be free!!!