Wake Up Kids, New Extreme Paint Dropped

I grew up in northern California and I say crayfish

why are there so many terms for crawdads

tsatsiki is the best I make a big batch of it like every other week

i am high on tzatziki

reblogging to keep this for reference because I’ve been getting into embroidery lately

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Took these at the university’s garden the other day. Spring is coming - if very slowly.

Omg I recognized this right away and then sat here thinking, but no, it can’t be, how likely is it that I would encounter a random picture from this particular museum? But it IS.

I used to work there! There’s an upper floor to the right of the whale skeleton and I would walk by it on my way to one of the labs in the morning!

The setting is: Below the Whale Skeleton

The Most Iconic™ Moments In Leverage

-sophie showing up at her own funeral. Twice. -nate running up 15 flights of stairs and stopping on every floor to press the elevator button just to piss off Sterling -“he must’ve had some good qualities” “none. Not even in bed” -sophie throwing off her trench coat to reveal a rapelling harness, and Parker running to her while Sterling’s shouting for the agents to catch them -eliot knocking out 4 guys before Hardison’s bag hits the floor -“if you eat a snakes heart, you consume its soul”

ecosystems → the open ocean

Many open ocean organisms live out their existence without ever coming into contact with the shore, the seafloor, or the water’s surface. They spend their entire lives surrounded by water on all sides and do not know that anything else even exists. 

I was surprised to not see Dutch breakfast anywhere on here, given that one of the most common Dutch breakfast foods is literally sprinkles on buttered toast.

(It’s called hagelslag. I usually have the chocolate kind.)

seriously. chocolate sprinkles.

Breakfast Across the Globe

I just saw a post where someone replied “that’s rough buddy” in reference to a character’s love problems and I think it’s hilarious that we all know exactly what’s being referenced here

That third option is how I interpret it, particularly given the line ‘It had taken all her strength, to bind his spirit to his body until the healers could do their work.’

The word ‘bind’ certainly has that implication. 

Besides, she wasn’t actually healing him, just holding on to him, so it doesn’t contradict previous world building. The books also assert that magic is life and vice versa, and Sandry has the ability to see and weave pure magic. 

There’s also this bit: 

‘Instead, she sorted through her magic until she found a particular cord. Shaped from her own power, it connected her to Duke Vedris. “Uncle,” she said clearly, feeling her voice roll down that magical tie, “I want to be let in, please.” [.......]  Overhead, on the next story of the building, glass windows swung outward on hinges. The duke [...] leaned out. “My dear, this is not the kind of think a young girl should see,” called Vedris. He could hear Sandry when she used the power she had bound to him, but without magic of his own, he could not reply the same way.’

So we know that Sandry already has bound some of her magic to her uncle, presumably making it easier to attempt such an undertaking as binding his spirit to his body.

Question to other Circle fans:

Something that always puzzled me in Magic Steps was how Sandry kept her uncle alive despite having no healing magic. We know that ambient magic can’t be used like academic healing magic on humans. Is this a “Sandry is just special” thing or a “Toss lots of magic at the problem” thing or could Sandry have used her powers to “tether” Duke Vedris to real life?

Re-reading Briar’s book, I think I like the latter option as it fits more with the world-building.

Thoughts?