charcoal (bone char) filters used to extract molasses, leaving pure white sugar. It's why, when I do use sugar, I opt for turbinado or Demerara ("raw") sugars.

I watched Patrick meltdown through parted fingers. So painful! Much frendschamen. They really did seem to peel him back into his worst. I don't understand why Richie was even still at the party after that? I guess the rest of this season is Patrick in emotional rehab...

My favorite thing about Neil Gaiman is his deft touch with magic and deities, they just feel so real, while he also seems to remain very aware of them as literary constructs, and then he plays with the idea of whether they exist because we believe, or do we believe because they exist? The trippy multiversal adventures…

That sounds awesome! I'm only on vol. 3 of Absolute Sandman, but I love it to death, I wish it had been on my radar when first published. I'll definitely keep an eye out for the story you mention!

Oh, I agree. I actually made another post specifically calling out "this isn't just 'something a bro said,' but actual religious dogma," but I am grey and thus no one will ever read it. God as male was another one of my early schisms and (inspired by the cheesetastic Tom Cruise movie Legend, so not exactly the most of…

Yeah, says the patriarchy. 😜

Absolutely! I was very into apocrypha and gnostic theology during my desperate, mystical, looking-for-God phase. If I were to make a re-cut of The Bible, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Gospel of Thomas would absolutely be in there.

I was just mentioning this article to a friend, and we have a contention with this reporting. This *not* what "some bros believe," this is something we were actively told by priests as children. Queue THIS IS WHAT CHRISTIANS* ACTUALLY BELIEVE meme.

I always liked the apocryphal genesis ("liked" in this instance means "a fitting encapsulation of the what-the-fuck patriarchal bullshit of early/fundamentalist Christianity): God creates Lilith just like Adam, as Adam's equal. She refuses to be subservient to him (woot, you go, Lilith! Hence Lilith Fair) and he…

I absolutely love it. Compared to QAF it's "boring:" no one's parents are throwing them out of the house, no one's getting laid every single night... It's very much a "slice of life." Others interpret this as nothing happening, but there are definitive arcs. It is *barely* more diverse than QAF (very slightly less…

it's kind of the physical embodiment of the privilege that spawns the "what's yours is mine, what's mine is also mine" mentality, right?

Talked about this with my best friend, she summed it up, perfectly: "I hope they get their dicks caught in a hooker's braces."

Maybe it's January talking, but an outfit that's also a snuggie sounds amazeballs.

who put the sticks up their butts? That is cruel.

It's from Spartacus, War of the Damned. The characters are two MWHSWM and are competing over the affections of a third. I believe the one getting punched just questioned the other's manhood.

I don't think he'd be comfortable if his female boss welcomed him and asked him to go grab some boxes from the Castration Chamber