[food, licorice] I have tasted a bunch of different brands of super-salty licorice and tbh, Djungelvrål is still the GOAT. It is the one piece of salty licorice ive tasted that don't make both the coating and the licorice super-salty, having the licorice be sweet but the coating salty is really […]

I like the search engine too, but "just use Marginalia" is becoming the 'just switch to Linux' of search engine woes.

My favorite part of cover songs is the way an artist can bring out something different in a cover simply because you're listening to it in the context of that artists stylistic quirks. I was listening to The Mountain Goats covering Boxcar as part of a series where artists cover a song from a […]

It's been fascinating watching the slow evolution of video essays from people who clearly just wanted to write analytical essays about media but felt compelled to shoehorn in jokes to fit the "snarky recap/review" format that was popular at the time to people who clearly just want to write a […]

The cruel irony of kink-adjacent identities based around vulnerable emotional simplicity (puppies, littles, also to some extent robots, maids and bimbos too) is that you invariably have to become an unlicensed therapist just to be able to explain yourself to other people and guide them through […]

Making techno in this day and age is a fascinating exercise cus fundamentally it's about trying to sound like a computer when we know by now what a computer making music sounds like, and it's less bleeps and bloops and more plausibly deniable theft, hollow echoes of human creativity with no real […]

[food] My recent attempt at making tunnbröd was actually a sucess... once I resigned myself to the fact that they wheren't working out as a soft tunnbröd and I put them back into the oven to dry. As a crispbread, they are really good.

[food] I have never successfully made any kind of flatbread, be it tortilla or tunnbröd, its either not thin enough or it becomes too stiff.

[drug use mention] The ravers are gonna outlive us all, they already had facemasks and so many drugs buzzing through their system that any virus who dared to enter their system is gonna come face-to-face with god.

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/rave_flyers.html The fascinating thing about these rave flyers is how few of them look like rave flyers. Like, very few of them uses an overtly psychedelic artstyle or even have a particularly y2k aesthetic (tho some of them definitely do). The most common […]

Cooking with vinegar is like 90% "this tastes like ass, I fucked up, we're gonna have to order pizza" and then once you achieve the perfect balance of flavour it tastes amazing.

How to write an european character, USA style: 1. Make them kind of an asshole 2. Make them resent America for largely petty reasons

An underrated genre of YTP/plunderphonics is the Break-in record. That is basically the OG style, predating modern YTP with almost half a century. Basically, it was a type of novelty record with an audio skit on it that used samples of popular music and other audio for comedic effect. "The […]

How to get a gamer girlfriend: 1. Acquire a taste for RPGs 2. Understand that if you want a gamer girlfriend, not all of them are gonna be cis 3. Understand that if you want a gamer girlfriend into soulsborne games in particular, they are definitely not all gonna be cis

[alcohol] The fact that apple cider is a nonalcoholic drink in america but refers to an alcoholic drink elsewhere leads to one of my favorite moments of probably not entirely unintentional adult subtext in MLP:FiM, where Applejack and her family is making cider and the ponies are Very Excited […]

I should probably be using EQ when I'm mixing audio, huh?

The funny thing about punk subcultures is that the more you get into them, the more you start to sound like a mom, because it becomes increasingly clear that someone needs to be cooking the meals, mending the clothes, tending the garden, handing out tampons, comfort people who are freaking out […]

https://dsdistro.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/21/how-to-make-dystopia-suck-less/ This zine definitely makes me want to start a rave, and I very much do not have the skillset necessary to host a rave (host a board game night, maybe). Something the zine touches on that stuck with me is how much […]

https://youtu.be/cF6PaxzmaRg?si=PTWoAJe6cFcYie_y Finally I found this song again, it's been in my head for ages but I just completely blanked on the name.

The relationship between opera and musical theatre is like there are people from both camps who will absolutely tear you apart if you dare to suggest they might be the same thing, but no one can really articulate any reason why they wouldn't simply be different traditions and genres within the […]

The nice thing about being into both classical vocal music and The Mountain Goats is that John Darnielle is exactly the sort of dweeb who's also into classical vocal music and he's performed alongside Anonymous 4, playing versions of his songs with chamber choir arrangements that sounds […]

I have no idea what to feel about french "mon petit chou" as a term of endearment, to what extent is that an actual thing and to what extent is it that anglos latched onto it cus calling someone 'my little cabbage' sounds a bit surreal and funny by english standards? I do think it's kind of […]

Ranking terms of endearments from different languages, irish "rún" has got to be near the top, it just has a really nice sound to it, and it means "secret" or "mystery" and there's something about expressing your affection for someone in terms of something mysterious that feels very romantic to […]

[zines discussing drug use] https://dsdistro.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/26/radical-guide-to-safe-drug-use-pocket-zines/ I'm really fascinated by the illustrations in this series of zines.

Mega Man fans are fascinating cus like, it's definitely not the biggest video game fandom in existence, but I have a hard time thinking of any fandom that's more dedicated.

[Incorrect Sonic quotes] Knuckles: I shall don my warriors kilt and this sailors uniform and prove my worth on the battlefield! Tails: Is anyone gonna tell him that hes wearing a schoolgirl uniform? Sonic (filming): Hush Tails, let him have this Knuckles: Ah yes, the schoolgirls, I have […]

[lewd] I havent actually played any modern AAA video game so I'm wondering, when a video game advertises junk customization options in the character creator, do you actually get to, like, use your junk in the game?

USAmericans get so offended whenever they see someone making fun of their country in ways that are similar to how they joke about the rest of the world, it's really kind of funny. They can dish it out but they can't take it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Zbw74usbU I admit I started listening to this tape specifically because it was labelled as "weird music".

Between the fact that the lolita archetype is named after a western story and associated with a fanciful reinterpretation of western fashion, I wonder if japanese culture largely see the lolita complex as a western thing imported to japan, which would be kind of funny cus in the west the […]

The thing about fake phone numbers in movies is that a) it's probably less to prevent people from calling fictional characters expecting them to pick up the phone and more to prevent people from prank-calling the number or calling it out of idle curiosity and b) two decades of ARG marketing […]

One thing I think we're missing out on are some of the ridiculous stipulations companies must have about how their products are portrayed on screen during product placement deals. We know they must be there because of the completely unnatural way products show up in movies and the stilted ways […]

In all honesty, I found Journey to the West hard to get through, but it is worth it for all the moments of "oh, so THAT'S where anime got it from"

I do think that definitionally, a show that isn't an adaption can't have filler. Allowing for budget-conscious episodes or simply disappointing, kind of useless installments turns something that'd otherwise have a pretty clear, unambigious definition (episodes that aren't adapting any specific […]

Objectheads are fascinating to me, I feel like they constantly hover just below the threshold of fully catching on and becoming a furry-style fandom in and of themselves, but never quite seem to manage it.

The Propety of Hate (https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/The_Hook/1) is fun, I just know that the artist who made this comic probably has a pretty significant tumblr presence. (It is a comic where a morally ambigious asshole with a TV for a head wearing tailored suits is having a very bad time and […]

I don't think Bob's actually my uncle.

The aspect of fandom that makes it worthwhile is the unspoken pact we make that we will check out each others creative projects, even if we are a nobody simply because it's understood that it was made for us, rather than to make a profit. I can't say that implied agreement is always and […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCqprvekJDY A really good example of what filk music sounds like performed live.

our spark #art #furry

still very admirative that we managed to translate FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) in French while keeping the acronym (Foire Aux Questions = "Question Fair", as in a fair for questions)

The funniest thing about Californian culture is how consistently people talk about "the valley" as if there's only one notable valley when they got so many valleys, including at least two that are equally notorious, yet it's always just "the valley".

You might think that historical accuracy in movies mostly consist of telling directors to tone it down but in a lot of cases it's the opposite, history was a lot more colorful, silly and tacky than historical dramas dare to imagine.

[politics] No politician is your dad, no matter how much you want them to fulfill that emotional role for you. Also, in my experience at least, treating politicians as a daddy substitute is not something that's restricted to any particular side. There's daddy Trump, but also daddy Lenin. You […]

Honestly, I think the world would be a lot more autism-friendly if "sure, I'll do it, but I'm gonna hate every moment of it" was an option. What really gets me a lot of the times isn't that I have to do stuff I'd rather not want to do, it's that I have to want to do it which just isn't true a […]

[I review a deck of cards I guess] Ninja Prints 'Tiny Deck' of playing cards was kind of a disappointing experience, a clear case of S-tier package design, C-tier product. The deck box itself is great, inspired by vintage swedish matchboxes, but at least the cards I got where clearly misprinted […]

If we hit $100/ month on Patreon before March, I will livestream my reaction to "The most boring video ever made," a 100 minute long 1989 Microsoft Word tutorial. Full details: https://www.patreon.com/posts/148649488/ You are supporting a good cause (me), and if you do not like me, you are […]

Its not like im an expert on every genre either, I've definitely had story ideas ive had to shelve cus I had to ask myself if the world really need another "dark magical girl" madoka magica rehash by someone who's never finished Sailor Moon and who could maybe name five magical girl shows on a […]

List of genres susceptible to "I've heard of this genre and have seen maybe one or two straight examples but I'm pretty confident I could do a hard-hitting deconstruction"-syndrome: Magical girls Mecha Westerns Hardboiled detectives

I got myself a facismile Kille deck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kille_(card_game)) cus I'm fond of weird historical card games and that's one of the few historical decks you can pretty easily find a modern printing of, at least if you live in Sweden. I have no idea when I'll be able to use […]