My Liege We Your Council Would Not Advise This Course Of Action But We All Agree It Would Be Pretty Funny

now more than ever, it is imperative that you spend time with people you love and doing things that you love. be prepared but please please please don't dwell on things that have yet to happen. you have to have hope for a better future in order to build one. it's gonna be okay. we're gonna make it. i love you.

sorry I say weird shit sometimes I’m just so excited to be alive

Cypher: hi my name is Cypher and I will be kidnapping you today Shelby: DIE YOU MOTHERFUCKER Cypher: oh my god. Love the energy. Do you want a job? You're hired

I meant Silver! Silver or Razor, sorry

Also, because I love all my Glasshouse kids, Silver:

(He's pretty much any IAMX song, but this one's both unnerving and kind of painful-sounding. Seems like it'd hurt your throat to sing, which is very Silvercore.)

someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

This screenshot from a gardening Facebook group has been on my phone for several years and I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to delete it. Apparently it comes from a British gardening book from the 80s. I know we all joke that the English are afraid of flavor, but I assure you, you are not prepared for this.

GARLIC

Until quite recently, scientists smiled at all the wonderful medicinal powers claimed for garlic, but recent research has shown that there is some truth in a few of the old wives' tales. Garlic, of course, has an important role in Continental but not in British cookery — it really isn't worth growing unless you are a fan.

Any well-drained spot will do. Buy a head of garlic from the greengrocer or supermarket and split it up into individual cloves. Plant them 2 in. deep and 6 in. apart in March. Apart from watering in dry weather there is nothing else to do until the foliage turns yellow in July or August. Lift the bulbs and allow to dry under cover, then store in a cool, frost-free place.

If you are a beginner with garlic, you must use it very sparingly or you will be put off for ever. Rub a wooden salad bowl with a clove before adding the ingredients. Rub the skin of poultry before roasting and then you can try dropping a whole unskinned clove into a casserole or stew, removing it before serving. If by then you have lost a little of your garlic fear, you can try using crushed (not chopped) garlic in meat etc. as the Continentals do.

H.I.V.E.mber Prompt 9: Ruby

In my head NumberOne-Verlord's mindscape form is various kinds of terrifying; he's the agonized amalgamation of Otto's father and the digital parasite that destroyed him from the inside out. That should be all kinds of messed up.

Having Zero thoughts tonight.

It’s one thing to grow up semi-normally, unaware that you were physically modified (Otto), it’s another thing to grow up in a very condensed amount of time, receiving behavioral modifications you did not agree to but are aware of, and knowing about a multitude of experiences that you have both been denied since your birth and know that no one intends to share with you.

He’s very much Overlord 2.0 in that regard, but also… HIVEmind parallels.

Ship bingo: marilliam, Lucy/nigel?

I already answered for Marilliam in a previous ask, but in summary: Scary Woman both loves and hates her Scruffy Chaos Man (he's annoying) (she loves him anyways)

Lucy/Nigel:

I'll confess I've never thought a lot about them before, but I think there's actually a lot of potential there! Lots in common to discuss with the weight of family reputations to maintain. And to me they seem to be on similar energy levels- I can see them spending most of their time quietly doing their own thing in the same room together.