zoinomiko:

bea2me:

actuallyclintbarton:

vintar:

i was thinking about the ghosts of fandoms past and i realised that my first proper fandom experience is by now completely wiped from the net thanks to age. i feel i have some responsibility here to document an extremely belated fandom wank so buckle up and let me sing you the song of south park fandom circa 1998-2001 

Keep reading

#click the readmore #you think you don’t care but YOU DO

Fandom level “plagiarised albino wank“  

OH MY GOD YES <3

just-shower-thoughts:

I’ve gone decades in my life without considering that Scooby is probably named after the snack, and not the other way around

voynichs:

british romanticism: i went into the woods and i found a beautiful woman, but she wasn’t really a woman, she was my Muse and the woods is my mind

american romanticism: i went into the woods and found the devil and he gave me a clock, but the clock was actually the industrial revolution and it fucking killed me

it-aint-rocket-science:

shorthalt:

rich people: damned
gender: schrodingered
vase: broken

i am forcefully made a member of the host club

just-shower-thoughts:

I’m Stuck in the Turn-of-the-Century Mindset; When someone says “30 years ago” I immediately think “1970’s”

mylittleredgirl:

mycaptainsharon:

mylittleredgirl:

I keep trying to like red wine like a grown-up but like … it’s rotten grapes, guys. You can drink things that don’t taste like rotten grapes. Why

Okay I don’t know when this post is from (I came across it stalking multiple blogs). But in case this might help, here is a brief science/wine lesson.

To start off, some facts:

-White wine is made from sweet pulp inside of the grape (minus the seeds).

-Red wine is made from both the skin and the grape (and the seeds and stems…sometimes? Can’t remember).

-Tannin is the substance found in red wines, coffee, dark chocolate. Tannins are responsible for the bitter taste in those foods.

-Tannins are found in the skin of the grape, as well as the seeds and the stems. Therefore, most red wines will have tannins, versus most whites will not have tannins.

-Red wines vary in level of tannins, depending on variety of grape, climate, and fermentation process. Pinot noir tends to be very low tannin. Shiraz/Syrah, choice of poison for our beloved brunette surgeon, is very heavy on the tannins.

-Some white wines (most commonly Chardonnay) are aged in oak barrels instead of metal containers. Oak barrels have tannins, which seeps into the wine during the fermentation process. That’s why Chardonnays tend to be “drier” aka it has tannins.

-White wines like Sauvingnon Blancs are usually fermented in steel barrels (aka no tannins. Aka usually very fruity and light and sweet).

Your ability to taste tannins is genetic.

There is a genetic marker determining whether your taste cells are sensitive to tannins.

Basically two people can drink the exact same wine and have wildly different reactions because:
1. Person A can’t taste tannins, so they taste the actual wine flavor.
2. Person B can taste tannins, and that tends to overpower ALL the other flavors in the wine. Basically all they taste is tannins and none of the wine.

I am super tannin sensitive, so if I drink a wine like Cabernet Sauvignon (very tannin heavy, aka “very dry”, it tastes like bitter ethanol alcohol to me, whereas my best friend can’t taste tannins so the same wine is maybe a little bitter but they can actually taste the grape and different flavors. To her, a wine like Sauv Blanc is too sweet, tastes like sugar water. But to me it tastes good.

So unless it’s the taste of the alcohol or all wines you hate, chances are you might hate the taste of red wine, especially the heavier red wines, because taste the tannin overpowers everything else. And all you taste is bitter bitter ethanol bitter more ethanol. 

More tannin info:
-Tannins bind to fat.

-This is why tannin heavy wines are recommended with fatty foods (Shiraz and steak). Whenever you eat food with high fat content, the fat builds up on your tongue. A sip of red wine will bind with the fat on your tongue and clear it away. That’s why the sip of wine between bites of fat heavy foods is considered a palate cleanser.

-By that logic, this is why white wines are recommended with low fat foods, like fish. Salmon is fattier than most fish, which is why Chardonnay (tannin heavy white wine) or Pinot Noir (low tannin red wine) is recommended with salmon.

-People who are sensitive to tannins can drink tannin heavy red wines with fatty food and generally the wine won’t taste gross. The fat on your tongue (from that steak) will bind with the tannin and neutralize the tannin taste. Aka the only time I ever drink Cabernet Sauvignon or Shiraz is with a steak or heavy, creamy pasta. Aka never bc I don’t often eat either.

-The reason dairy helps coffee taste better is because the fat in milk/creams binds with the tannins in coffee and neutralizes the bitter taste. This is why people who can’t taste tannins can generally drink coffee black without milk (sugar is a different story). It’s also why almond milk in coffee is the worst idea (almond milk is already bitter and has no fat).

More wine facts:
-90% of the “aromas” of wine are marketing BS

-You know the labels that say like “cherry with a hint of blackberry?” There’s no real way to infuse cherry or blackberry into grape wine without screwing with the fermentation process. It’s all created by the wine marketing industry to sell you win. Sometimes if you smell cherry before you drink the wine, you might taste it in the wine (because majority of flavor comes from smell). Or if you think there is cherry flavor in the wine, your brain can trick your taste buds into tasting it.

-The only true flavors found in real grape wine are grapes (obviously), oak/earthy flavor (the barrels), vanilla (barrels, oak sticks), tannins. (There are a few others but can’t remember. I think maybe cinnamon?).

-People’s perception of wine often affect how good it tastes to them. Social psychology studies show that people will rate the exact same wine differently if they’re told the wines are different in price. (They rated the more expensive wine as tastier).

tl;dr
Whether you can taste tannins is genetic. Exact same wines taste different for different people depending on your genetic makeup. If you’re sensitive to tannins, red wines won’t taste like anything other than bitter alcohol. Genetics/tannins are why people generally have preferences for red or whites.

this is extremely informative and i have learned a thing about myself, which is that i CLEARLY inherited the tannin-tasting genes from my teatotaling mother and not from my dad who subsists entirely on espresso and cabernet sauvignon.

lollipopdust:

How some people party:

How I party:

blackseasiren:

wizardshark:

transgenderdirk:

• the onceler fandom
  
• people shipping a notepad with a clock
  
• discourse of said notepad and clock about how it was too hetero
  
• dashcon
  
• the guy who pissed in the ballpit at dashcon
  
• the homestuck cosplayer who almost killed themsellf by trying to dye their skin gray
• WHAT NOW????
• homestuck fandom in general
• “peasent”
  
• 2014 4chumblr raids
• “superwholocks fans grab your tardis. 1D fans, grab harry. attack on titan fans, gra-”
  
• january 2015 where the entire website broke
• sonic for real justice
• “always reblog the creator”
  
• people calling danny divito “daddy”
• people calling david karp daddy unironically
• people changing john greens posts with the “cock is one of my favrouite tastes” copypasta
• do you love the colour of the sky
• mishapocolypse
• doge
• the time they changed the colour by like 2 shades
• moreos guy
• tumblr user pizza discourse
• mario kart meme
• flappy bird
• i give you a hamburgur

thats it im in hell remembering all of theese fucking goodnight

you reveal how little time youve spent on tumblr by calling the january 2015 incident the time where the entire website broke. That happened WEEKLY in 2013.

IM IN PAIN BECAUSE I REMEMBER ALL OF THIS

klubbhead:

sylveon-against-sjws:

your-uncle-dave:

sarcasmsuitsme:

cisnowflake:

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

egaylitarian:

Ironically enough, because of the tumblr generation, I’m incredibly more inclined to dismiss accusations of racism now than when I was younger.

Same

Yeah. Calling someone a racist used to be a serious accusation. Now it could mean that you don’t believe in open borders or that you think the best person could get the job.

Or that the person hearing it was just born white.

Usually it means “I can’t rationally argue against what you say, so I’ll just try to shame you into silence”.

It’s a huge setback for people actually fighting racism. Pretty sad

gr33kg0ds:

me, a senior tumblr blogger, realizing i’m going to have to put up with the sherlock fandom again