“[Lady Whistledown being unmasked] would certainly spell ruin for her family, and for any prospects of marriage.” There’s an AU in here somewhere. Eloise hearing this and seeing the realization bloom on Cressida’s face. Bringing Penelope and Cressida together to concoct a scheme. Honestly if Penelope had told Colin her identity at this point they could have roped him in and it would have been perfect. The greatest con that London has ever seen.
If Cressida had been one inch less of a bitch to Penelope this would have worked. I believe it in my heart.
remember when i made that post abt how the only ethical advice i can give re affording groceries in this economy is learning to dumpster dive. well i wasn’t joking
join me in eating nice food for free lol
yes!!!!!!
ok first of all SAFETY:
• do not enter a dumpster ever.
• if the store uses compactors instead of normal bins cross that store off your list of potential spots forever
second of all Finding a spot:
• take note of where stores keep their bins and whether it’s accessible to the public. some have their loading dock just right at the back of the store where anyone can just walk up there and some have them locked inside or behind a fence. try to avoid anything that’s obviously blocked off from the public, it makes it harder to get in and out
• once you find a place that has accessible bins you’re going to want to figure out what time is the best to go. sometimes it’s right after closing, sometimes it’s about half hour before closing, sometimes it’s in the middle of the night. your goal is to minimize the possibilities of store employees running into you (unpleasant for everyone) and maximize the chance of there actually being anything edible in the bins. the sweet spot at mine is 10pm on the dot because that’s when the sales floor & delivery employees leave and the overnight warehouse employees no longer enter the loading dock until early morning
• you’re also going to want to try hitting the same spot several nights in a row because not every day will have them throw away ANYTHING. several times i’ve showed up and there’s been exclusively trash in the bins LOL. sometimes all you get is like. a loaf of bread and a head of lettuce. and then other times you get three shopping bags worth of fresh veg + fruit + bread and live like a king for a week.
• most places the #1 thing that gets thrown out every single night in large quantities is bakery items. they throw an entire separate trash bag of loose bread and pastry here every night. it’s great but also at least at mine the bakery stuff isn’t individually packaged so you need to bring your own bags to get them home. unless you want to carry a huge trash bag home i guess.
• some stores don’t throw much of anything away. for me sainsburys, asda, m&s, and tesco are always bad spots because they have their own ways of getting rid of stuff. in the us where zero waste programs are less common you’re probably going to be in luck no matter where you go. i’ve heard aldi and walmart are especially bad/good.
• unless you have several reliable spots you can hit every time it’s unlikely it’s going to be the main source of anything, just supplemental stuff, which can still be great bc fruit & veg is expensive
FOOD SAFETY !!
• if there is a LOT of the same item in there before you go crazy check recalls. my spot throws away cans if they get dented or dirty, flour/sugar if the bag is dirty, entire pallets of egg cartons if an egg breaks in a different carton and entire boxes of surplus stock but sometimes this will be because they’re all contaminated with ecoli. google!!!
• please don’t take unsealed items the bins are highly disgusting and you don’t know what’s gone inside the packaging. i do take stuff like citrus fruit etc if it’s not dirty and is sort of on the top of the pile bc you don’t eat the peel anyway but exercise caution
• wash everything well. you should probably move stuff from og packaging to clean bags or containers depending on what it is. give it a good wipe w like hand sanitizer wipes otherwise before you put it in the fridge/freezer.
• when there has been a fridge/freezer malfunction and the bin is full of like, drinks or sandwiches or whatever please internalize the fact that you don’t know how long the cold chain has been broken and act accordingly. dairy and meat are the biggest risks after seafood. i don’t touch seafood at all. nothing you get out of the bin is “safe” espec if it’s already out of date (you don’t know if it’s been refrigerated or if it’s been sitting in a cart somewhere waiting to be thrown out since yesterday) but using common sense & your senses like smell/sight can def cut down on risks.
general TIPS:
• always leave the area the same or better than you found it - pick up anything you dropped on the ground and close the bin lids. the employees might know that ppl dumpster dive and don’t care unless you’re causing problems with raccoons or rats.
• if an employee catches you and asks you to leave be polite and just leave. come back another time. dumpster diving itself is legal in the US and the UK but if you’re on private property like the store loading dock they’re well within their rights to ask you to bounce. it isn’t worth it to have them call the cops even if it’s a public bin on city property and you’re technically in the right. be quiet, organized, and fast to avoid getting caught lol.
• wear gloves and get a headlamp i guess - i just use my phone flashlight but it would be beneficial to have two free hands. the bin sides are nasty. don’t touch them lol
if the muppet show was still airing chappell roan would guest star and thered be a running bit of miss piggy thinking shes trying to steal kermit but shes actually trying to flirt with miss piggy the whole time
they lock eyes while shes performing good luck babe and miss piggy is visibly considering it
I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We’re in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY (2001 - 2003) dir. Peter Jackson
yall realize you can criticize religion without like. making fun of people for having things that are sacred and holy to them right.
not to be that guy but theres a huge difference between “this religion and it’s practitioners has aspects that warrant criticism” and “lmao look at them believing in things” . its one thing to call out the toxicity and spread of dangerous information in, as an example, pagan communities. it is an entirely separate thing to make fun of pagans for what they find sacred and important to their lives, even if it doesnt make sense to you.
It’s been over a decade since I started writing David. When I started writing about this grim, angry kid from Ottawa, a city I’d only been once in my life (I’ve now lived in Ottawa for almost nine years), I expected to embark on a fairly typical rivals-to-lovers story. Instead stumbled into writing a massive bildungsroman about a character on the spectrum trying to navigate a world he feels deeply uncomfortable in.
David’s coming of age story, directly and indirectly, lead to me being diagnosed myself, which has completely changed my life and lead to my own sort of coming of age (or at least, coming of coping mechanisms!).
I think to say that David and I have been on a journey together would be an understatement: it’s been a whole ass odyssey. I cannot begin to say how much this character means to me; the fact that he means so much to so many of you as well has been one of the biggest triumphs of my writing career.
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