I’m thinking of vegan bullion, but I’m not sure where to find that. I like doing things the lazy way.

Oh I thought umami was literally english. Yeah, I mean savory.

Zionists, many of who are white with no Jewish faith. I feel uncomfortable not knowing what to say to them and I’d like to stand up for Palestenians.

What do you guys like watching on bilibili?

What’s good to watch on bilibili? (My impression is that it’s basically China’s Youtube.)

Just opened the app for the first time. Why so many mukbang videos before I’ve ever click on anything? They don’t have any algorithm data from me yet.

Ambroxan cysrtyals are cheaper than I imagined they would be. You can buy them pre-diluted and ready-to-wear for around $10.

Ooh tell me how that goes!

If it comforts you at all, companies that produce dupes of popular luxury perfumes are increasingly becoming to be seen as respectable.

Video by the same YT creator: Perfume’s Biggest Secret: Same Nose Makes the $30 Dupe & the $400 Bottle | Dior, Creed, Amouage, MFK

Speaking of comfort, she’s so pleasant in her videos that I took a bath listening to her talk about dupes. So I wasn’t concentrating all that hard on listening to everything.

Israelis are settling in the Philippines, calling resteraunt workers “slaves” and not paying bills, and assaulted business owners while vandalizing their place of business for displaying the flag of Palestine.

They also may be settling in Thailand and India.

I’m Asian and there was this guy who was obsessed with the videogame Resident Evil. He frequently quoted the character Leon, and would ocassionally call me Ada when I wore the color red. (Ada is a character in a traditional floor-length red dress, with a leg slit all the way up to her hip, catering to people with an Asian fetish.) I was passive to it because I thought he was just pretending to be action figure and trying to involve me in that. “W/e,” I thought, even if it made me unconformable in a way I couldn’t place.

One day I identify that I feel uncomfortable because Ada is an Chinese fetish character in a basterdized version of a traditional dress. All for people in the West to drool over. So I tell my bf that that guy made me uncomfortable because of this racist aspect of that Asian fetish character. My bf said this weirdo might of been of been flirting. The weirdo had ask me out me years before that so this makes sense.

*Nearly everytime. Not everytime.

There have been kind people who demonstrate kind and appropriate ways to approach and try to ask me out.

I frequently don’t catch flirting due to obliviousness around social norms. I have an especially huge blindspot to flirting. I’m multiple decades old amd I’ve rarely flirted my entire life. I’m not asexual, but other than with my current boyfriend, I’ve barely experienced flirting at possibly nearly asexual levels. There’s a lot of dynamics and vibes I don’t pick up on.

In case you’re wondering, I’m not autistic. I’m just a very quiet, neurospicy person who needs to understand styles of conversation more. As you can imagine, having to codeswitch on top of that throws a wrench in the very little conversational knowledge I have.

My theory is it has to do with boys and men being starved of emotional intimacy and left ravenous for validation as a result. All while they are overly praised for shows of power and told that’s just naturally how men are “supposed” to act. And that they then are raised wanting any sign that they are powerful in ways that dominate those around them. And this fucked up system gets passed from older generation to younger generation.

That’s all I have so far.

Yeah it’s pretty fucked up just how greedy

Oh damn As You Wake, Break the Shell is a good ass title and with impactful cover art. I’m exciteddd

I hope i make it to reading Heavenly Tyrant.

Btw, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers is very warm, sweet, short, and majorly changed my view on life. Idk if she’s communist, but money doesn’t exist in the world of that book. You also don’t have to work if you can’t/don’t want to in this society, and people will still take care of you. Reading it has been described as the feeling of someone handing you a warm cup of tea.

I finally made the move and bought Iron Widow. Idk when I’ll read it but I will give it a try eventually.

I looked up how the scent is harvested. Why are they still taking dead beaver parts and when so many things smell like vanilla already? Like there’s abundant fake vanilla that most people enjoy.

Since making part of my diet vegan/vegetarian I’ve been noticing how weird uneccessary use of animal parts are. Especially when there’s abundant cheaper alternatives.

I’ll just change it back to the Original YT link.

The not-perfume is called M02.

Molecule 02 consists of Ambroxan, pure and singular. Ambroxan is a crystal-chemical structure identical to the ambrox derived from ambergris.

This sample set has M02 included in it. It is cheaper than the full bottle of M02, and includes other fun molecules idk anything about. I want this set I want it I want it! But I have scarcity mindset with money so I’m probably not getting it. :/

That’s totally fair. She’s just mentioning how old perfumes smelled more like lifeforms and now we’re going back to that via this molecule.

She talks about how many perfumes now smell mehhh because living things that went in old perfume were part of what made them smell gorgeous. And they were made illegal ingredients because they were parts of animals that are now protected, like ambergris(whale vomit seasoned by sunshine and sea salt, strangely enough), and other natural things like lichen that gave a miniscule part of the population rashes. I think I may one day try the molecule to smell more like life itself.