Odds and Ends of my fancy
Wolfie the Werecat and his wonderful Enchanted Forest Kitty Sanctuary.
Photos by Wolfie
Cat Tree made by Hollywood Kitty Company
“I don’t want to be with a [person] whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody’s first choice.”
— Jenny Han
yall im losing it, TIL the “WAKE ME UP” in bring me to life was added on bc the record company thought the song should be more masculine LMAO??
this is wild
omfg
holy shit
Please listen to this and if you can’t listen on Spotify here’s a Youtube link SERIOUSLY THIS VERSION IS SO MUCH BETTER.
It sounds so ethereal without the beat of the rafio version.
If I ask if a food is spicy at all, and you reply “No, not at all! You can barely feel it!” then that is a contradiction. It is spicy. It may not be very spicy, or even moderately spicy, but it’s still spicy. Please just tell me that straight-out.
I know there’s a good chance you’re mocking me in your head when I say that I cannot handle spices at all, and that even the mildest of sauces, that you insist are barely there, are going to hurt, because I’m mocking me too. I know I’ve got a child’s palate when it comes to spicy food. I know it’s almost laughable, how badly I react to even table pepper in more than the most minuscule of doses.
But if I ask “is this spicy,” and you answer “not at all,” and then proceed to tell me that it’s mild, then I will still consider it too spicy.
If I ask “is this spicy at all” and you say “no” while knowing that it is, just a tiny bit, because you can’t imagine anyone reacting, then please don’t be offended when I take one bite and then throw it out, because I asked for a reason.
It’s a dumb thing to talk about, but… yeah. Just do your cannot-handle-spices friends a favor and be honest when they ask. Mild is still a level of spice.
(This goes doubly for strangers, because if they have a digestive problem like, IDK, ulcers or something, then spicy food can irritate the stomach lining further and cause extreme pain. Some people claim that capsaicin can be used to treat ulcers, but you know… just play it safe, yeah?)
Let people be babies about spices! It doesn’t hurt you any.
This is important.
Food doesn’t taste the same to everyone. There are scientific reasons that some people might be able to tolerate ‘mild’ spice and others might not. If someone tells you they are sensitive to spice, that doesn’t mean they’re experiencing what you experience when you eat those foods. It means that for them, it feels far different. It hurts.
My partner is super sensitive to spice. She calls herself a ‘spice wimp,’ which I hate, because there’s nothing wimpy about not wanting to suffer through horrible burning sensations in your mouth. Which is what she has to suffer, when someone tells her something “isn’t that spicy” when in fact it is.
This isn’t about flexing.This isn’t about being tough. This is about acknowledging that the chemical and anatomical composition of someone else’s taste receptors is different than yours, and you need to be sensitive to that.
I’ve learned to detect even the smallest amount of spice, so I can tell her if something is probably safe for her to eat or not. I’ve learned that the tiniest burning sensation to me means something is going to cause her physical pain. I’ve gotten better at identifying which foods will be okay and which will not. And you know what? I’m able to do it without being a dick about it. It has nothing to do with who’s’ tough and who’s a wimp and everything to do with the fact that her nerves process spice differently than mine do.
She’s not a wimp, and she’s not a baby. She’s just someone whose DNA doesn’t let her eat spicy foods the way someone with my DNA can. That’s all.
yes!! I feel really shitty about being unable to handle food spicier than kfc strips so I’d be grateful if people were mindful of that💞
Also someone might have sensory issues, and liking or disliking spice has nothing whatsoever to do with race 👍
to add onto this
I do actually really like spicy food! it tastes great and I’m much more willing to experiment around with spicy foods than I’ve been as a picky kid.
but the issue here is:
my body doesn’t like it.
my digestive system is pretty bad at the best of times, and it gets even worse when I eat spicy food.
just cause someone can EAT spicy food doesn’t mean that their stomach and intestines are gonna thank them later.
so if someone says “Yeah, I don’t do well with spicy food”, take them serious, no matter if it’s them being unable to stand the taste of it, because it causes them actual physical pain, ruins their digestive system, or gives them heartburn so bad they constantly feel like they’re gonna puke
I am all about the spicy foods but it costs me zero dollars to not be a rancid cheesedick about it.
Here’s my deal: I have no idea what counts as “not spicy.” I’m sorry. I just don’t know. I get a creamy basil pasta sauce and it’s too spicy for my sister. If I switch from a shake of black pepper to a shake of white pepper on eggs it’s too spicy for my cousin.
Neither of these things register as spicy *AT ALL* to me. In fact I consider the creamy basil sauce to be kind of a cool-down food after eating spicy sausages.
So I promise I 100% do not want to fuck with you, I just don’t know what you mean by spicy. If I don’t have a floor for comparison there’s no way I can honestly answer that question so if I ask “what counts as spicy to you” please tell me. I’m not gonna be mean if ketchup is too spicy for you (I know someone who can’t handle ketchup! It’s okay! NBD!), I’ll just have a better handle on whether or not you can have this food.
it’s time to abandon the responsibilities of school and jobs and move into a Scottish castle to live as hermit witches.
Stained glass windows by nisudapi
Via Flickr:
Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland. Looking out over the harbour.
“So we’ve just started this adventure and one of you have half health, one of you have a quarter health and one of you is poor.”
— Don’t anger the mad god DM
an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks
some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15
add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”
wHat did I just put my eyes on
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned
and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper.
I cried so much.
Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.
An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)
Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger
The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.
Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.
In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.
Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt
whoever posted “The Laughing Man” and “A Good Day For Bananafish” is Correct
All of Flannery O'Connor’s shorts.
I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.
The Picture in the House by Lovecraft
Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
“All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury
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