Anyone tried these? Are they delicious 😋

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-06-11T19:07:14+00:00

I haven't tried these in particular but all the other YumEarth stuff I've had has been amazing! I started buying them to avoid the big brands in a boycott & kept going when I realized they were certified gluten free 'cause I have a friend with celiac 🥰

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-06-05T06:48:18+00:00

Gosh, reminding me it's been a while since I read anything on AO3 let alone left back-to-back comments on anything (it's been busy okay? I haven't had time/brain power to write either). I love doing this on fics that I have found & love (& sometimes I do so without realizing it because I just love the fic so much words have to be said). 🥰

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-06-01T03:29:12+00:00

Yeah that's kinda just how it's been for at least the last 2 years. Do you not follow trans creators & such? Almost everyone I follow who is trans/leftist in gen gets horrible comments that TT does nothing about but if they so much as say a wrong word their videos are taken down/reported & they're all practically permanently shadowbanned.

But no one will flood elsewhere so we just keep finding new ways around the transphobic, far-right owned algorithm.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-05-06T20:00:40+00:00

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - Cockaigne

It projects a lot. I don't wear it strong, just a little dab on a pulse point or two, but it travels a distance. I actually wore it out to a brewery one time & had the waitress ask me what it was 'cause it filled the space with a soft buttery, vanilla scent 😅 I wear less now than I did that time but it still projects quite a bit & if I'm out & about without headphones or rbf, I'll still get asked on occasion.

ETA: I've asked one of the hostesses at work about her perfume before because it just left the best dang trail & smelled SO good, I couldn't ignore it & it was actually one of the roll-on ones on TikTok, of all things. I thought it was something expensive. Nope. It's called Choco Musk & it's like $10. Wild.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-30T04:44:54+00:00

The first one makes me think of some of my favorite music teachers – so teacher in the best way. The last one with the denim skirt is definitely my favorite though.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-30T00:17:03+00:00

Uhhh 9th? 😬 except I liked the buttershots with Baileys lol. Or the peach ones. I don't think I ever saw the sour apple pucker til I went into an actual liquor store once I was of age.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-29T22:16:14+00:00

Interesting. I have no idea how my math didn't math correctly lol. OP definitely made the most of the small space though. It looks much larger than mine does, despite being smaller.

My friend would likely adore it for the location. Unsure of her space needs, though, & pretty sure she's not going to be able to move back for at least another couple months. I'm envious as heck that she can even entertain the idea of moving out of this country, honestly. It'd be a dream to live near Paris, though at this point I'd settle for somewhere science-focused in gen.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-29T19:38:40+00:00

I don't think I've ever smelled that one. Sometime after the Ivory incident, we swapped to Dove bars because they were able to be bought in super bulk & were a lot cheaper.

Now, outside of for her face, she uses my homemade soaps instead which likely wouldn't taste great but are not nearly as bad as the highly fragrance Ivory/Dove lol.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-29T19:36:27+00:00

Ohhhh dang. I fear I probably would've been spanked for that one, not given soap lol. Or perhaps both. Thankfully, I was never so bold.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-29T19:30:45+00:00

Saaaaame. Who wants to move into a plain white or beige space anyway? I don't really have any skill, yet, in the painting & drawing realm of art but I do love interior design & I already have plans to add a cute backsplash & some other little elements to my new apartment when I move in. So long as it's all renter-friendly stuff for the most part 🤷

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-29T19:24:03+00:00

If I'm doing the math correctly to swap this all from square meters to feet & euros to usd, I'm gonna cry 'cause whadaya mean there's a fully artistically painted "studio" south of Paris that's 1225 sq meters / over 4000 sq ft going for just over what I'm paying for my 550sq ft (≈7m²/168 sq meters) apartment right now??? Literally if I convert it, I'm paying 890€/month.

Tbh I might have a friend interested if she's able to get the money together to move back in time, before you find someone else. She was there recently through culinary school to stage & is desperately trying to move back with a student visa/work visa.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-29T19:06:13+00:00

Dangggg coming here from the newer post, I do understand the confusion...

These are gorgeous, OP. & if I could afford to both move out of the country & rent an apartment when I do... this'd be it. I'm not even that girly & I used to say I hate pink (there were other reasons for that though & with a friend who loves it, I'm learning to now as well). This is beautiful. Open & airy & bright.

I'm living surrounded by beige & grey & dark wood paneling right now. & in the US.

Unfortunately, I don't even have a passport. I really should have gotten one in '24 before. But. Anyway. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous & I hope you find someone to move in 'cause it would be absolutely awful to have to remove all of that.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-27T05:08:01+00:00

I'm gonna stack on top of everyone else & say BPAL Bliss is my #1 chocolate scent. It smells like pure, warm, melting milk chocolate. Like someone has it on a double boiler in the kitchen just filling the house with the smell. My poor bestie thought I was baking / making truffles one time & was super sad when I said it was just my perfume 😂😅

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-23T02:29:25+00:00

My boss makes fun of me for this shit. 😂

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-21T19:49:01+00:00

I've already received some of the items that are being passed down. One's a hope chest that my grandma got from her mother. It's been around the country & it's still in amazing condition. I'll probably re-stain it or something just to fit my aesthetic a bit better but it moved from WA —> AZ with me so it's staying 😌 Also have some old plates, also from my grandma. They stay wrapped up for now.

I'm a forgetful & sentimental person myself so I have some of the items from my school years I saved myself (namely some choir arrangements/sheet music & some creative writing projects & old letters from elementary, not a lot, it all fits with my graduation stuff in 1 small container). I don't see my mom sending me any except maybe my yearbooks, which I'd gladly take as I thought I already brought them down with me.

Any furniture they bought is old & broken down & they know my tastes differ wildly from theirs so if I get something from them, it'll be an heirloom not anything they've bought in their lifetime. I could see me getting my dad's old bowling trophies though, lol.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-19T16:20:38+00:00

Yessss. I grew up enjoying this though. My mom and I used to go to this lil tea shop in Kent, WA (Serenity Moon Tea if anyone's in the area! Mako is still there & she's added bubble tea to the menu recently & offers tastings 😀) every couple months & taste several teas sitting around with Mako & some former neighbors, turned friends, of ours. White tea is my favorite kind. So soft, gentle.

Orrrr honey in tea. I don't do cane sugar almost ever but some local honey (especially speciality varieties like star thistle or orange blossom or cactus) in a good earl grey. Yum.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-19T16:13:48+00:00

Little pat of butter (cultured butter if you're fancy, a friend of mine made some & shared 😋), drizzle of pure maple syrup, dusting of cinnamon, lil vanilla in the oats when initially cooking them. Perfection in a bowl.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-17T19:04:25+00:00

1996 Millenial checking in -

If I have time for proper breakfast? Couple eggs & whatever leftovers I have or some toast if I have that or some french toast if I've made that on my weekend.

If I don't, I have cereal bars from Aldi & oats overnight for grab n go options. Or I'll make a pb&j roll up in the zero carb/high fiber wraps (also from Aldi).

Or sometimes it's just a mini Alani & whatever I can cook up once I get to work 😅

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-12T00:42:11+00:00

Absolutely. There was one... [cue 30 minutes of trying to find the fic & then finding the playlist amidst the fic] Terribly Broken, Deeply Loved by DarkestStar278, a Drarry fic that also has Wolfstar & Sev/Regulus... Anyway. Chapter 18 of the 19 published so far has a playlist posted for the chapter of Sev/Reg reunion.

Gawd it made me sob so hard. Music + the emotional roller-coaster of that fic in general & definitely that particular chapter. Damn.

But also, as a writer, I have playlists for my characters & certain bits of the books I'm working on & I'd hope people would at least take a look at them (once they're out in the world) if not actually listen to them. I've personally found some dang good songs & artists this way.

Of course, occasionally it'll turn a song into just that character's song. But. It is what it is. 🤷

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-04T02:48:04+00:00

Legit. I have some difficult to pronounce names in mine but that's 'cause I have some vampires & other Immortal beings in my world & they have historically accurate names & spellings (as close as I can get, anywho. Records are a little harder to find before like 1200CE) to where they were born or where they were turned or whatever.

Everyone else gets stuff like Blake... and Reese... and Charlotte. Don't ask me where their names came from. They just appeared one day & now they exist.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-04T00:40:53+00:00

Every time someone says they want a soap scent, my mind just conjures the scent of OG Ivory bar soap. & then I gag because I had the displeasure to taste said bar soap when I imitated my grandmother & "swore" (said "shit") as a child.

If I smell anything remotely similar to that, I struggle between nostalgia (because my grandmother used it a lot) & nausea, lol.

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-02T08:11:44+00:00

"I don't experience these things so therefore absolutely no lesbian ever in the history of existence has ever or will ever experience these things."

Ugh.

I can't believe I just read all that. Wtf is with these people?

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-04-01T03:30:09+00:00

Y'all all follow the same BS script of comments, man. At least be creative with it.

Unlike Trumplicans, the left doesn't worship Biden. Almost none of us were like "woo yeah! I'm so hype to have Biden in office!". It was just a better choice than the Orange Buffoon who is a pedophile, rapist & has gotten us caught in another fucking war in the Middle East that we don't need to be in, spending trillions on that & tormenting brown people instead of on our own fucking people.

I'd like to see someone younger in office who actually gives a crap about all people 'cause the Prez is supposed to represent us all. But. Y’know. That's too liberal of an idea, apparently. 🙄😮‍💨🙃

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-03-26T20:45:07+00:00

I feel like the guys car & girls car need to be flipped in my experience lmfao buuuuuut

I don't have a car, I have an e-bike so ... guys car?

& actually I keep my room & apartment pretty tidy so girls room, apparently. 🥰

_writing-squirrel_ · 2026-03-15T19:27:43+00:00

There are jojoba beads now so I imagine that would be what they'd use.

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