🌻 Alicia 🌻

she/her/they/them | 28 | no minors | ENG | pfp/banner: mootecky

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[Dea @missingeidos]

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[🌙 corvusplagues @corvusplagues]

not my usual kind of post but i felt an urge to document a most interesting conundrum

[NYAHALLO 🐈‍⬛ @NyahalloShop]

Moon Moth cropped jacket 🦋
Would you wear this? I’m obsessed with this one! It’s so cute, and I love the shapes and all the fluffy details. I love a great cropped jacket 🥰

Also, today (April 20th) is my birthday! It’s a big one for me, so I’m taking it fully off to spend time with my loved ones and treat myself 🥳 Feeling really grateful this year to have finally moved, having an office I LOVE, and building a lifestyle I genuinely enjoy. I became an expat, found the love of my life, and get to spend my birthday with him and my family, all while growing a flourishing business. I’m out of town right now, so everything this week is pre-scheduled, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the support. It genuinely means everything to me 🤍

If you’d like to support the shop, the best birthday gift I could ask for is your patience, kindness, and maybe even placing an order haha 😗

[Scooter | 🪐💫🚀 PHM MAXING @Gh0stlyScooter]

Y’all I don’t think he’s making it to the league

#ProjectHailMary

[Kinoiy @kinoiyy]

another Pokémon and Trainer commissions finished. This time with Shiny Dragapult🔥! Thank you @yukimiimimi for commissioning me! #Pokemon #commission

[SoraPlay @NotasYPixeles]

Por si no sabéis cuál elegir, ahí os va una ayudita

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

"Who eats those nasty cookies?"

Me eating those nasty cookies

[yulia 💋 in recovery @lipglossluvrr]

friendly reminder

[Duke @furrydepressivo]

Muita gente críticando a Riot nessa série de vídeos como se fossem "erros".

Existem sim erros,como no caso da Splash da Cait, mas no geral é só escolha de composição mesmo.
As vezes pra fazer uma pose legal, você precisa quebrar uns ossos.

Realismo que vá pro krl

[Ant-Bugs Jackass Rabbit @AntBugs48]

Me trying to get myself to draw something

[𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐃𝐀 @Auntyadaa]

Me sending encouraging messages to my friends and loved ones, telling them that things will work out, while I’m on the 4th mental breakdown of the week.

[mary oliver’s evil twin @mitenkabutgirl]

this is making me cry. he could cure cancer, he could cure fucking cancer and spare millions the agony of the disease and he has to beg on TV for funds instead of gold falling right into his lap.

[lums🩸 @lum1natrix]

his hands are SHAKING. he's so shocked. oh mark they will never underestimate you again

[🪐 annabelle 🍉 @aerobelle_39]

Maybe it is the damn phones ruining attention spans…

THE PACE (with a few flaws I will admit) HELPS IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE WORLD WHICH MAKES THE ENDING SO COOL!

Or maybe its so different than what Hollywood makes people are just dismissing it immediately… WHO SAID THAT

[Sam @SamHC9710]

If I see any of you retwitting this dog shit of a person, you're getting blocked as fast as you can say seig heil

[Kyla 🗡️.✦ ݁˖ @Valkyla_]

Mitsuri’s entire story is rooted in challenging the unfair beauty standards that women face and the belief that women have to look/behave a certain way to be loved. She would ADORE Maki and be absolutely disgusted by you.