The woods are lovely, dark and deep

We’re brothers, you and I.

(via older-and-far-away)

terranell:

sadirapookie:

A few followers were surprised when I said I cosplayed. I’ve been in the hobby for 10 years now. WOW. So here’s a sampling of my “cosplay portfolio” lol. this by all means does not include my entire cosplay history, just some of the highlights. 

<3

older-and-far-away:

carnivaldog:

thatpointlessidiot:

mysteryegg:

veggiecoldcuts:

the-more-u-know:

The milkshake:  This is not limited to fast food nor to milkshakes.  That ‘concoction’ is the industry standard artificial strawberry flavoring found in everything strawberry flavored that isn’t naturally flavored.

Chicken nuggets: Total lies.  My sister works at the Tyson plant that provides KFC and McDonalds their nuggets.  There’s no ‘pink paste’ stage.  ’Reflavoring’ is an injection of mostly salt into the meat in order to give it some taste because modern day chicken is nearly flavorless.  If you want to disgust people, show them the conditions of the processing plants that dismantle the chickens.

The pubic hair one: You eat more of your family’s pubic hairs cooking in your own home.  You think you don’t shed once you walk in your own door?

Peanut butter: This is a cold hard truth of food mass production.  There will be insects.  You can never get rid of them or take them out of the process.  The FDA places limits on how much can be allowed into specific foods so that food manufactories don’t get lazy and just say ‘Well we can’t keep it out.’  The FDA limit helps immensely because it makes these places try to keep the insect population down through keeping things clean.

Shellac: Oh my god this is so stupid.  ’Shellac’ is an INGREDIENT.  It’s a NATURAL PRODUCT produced by INSECTS.  It is then PROCESSED into food-grade glaze or colorants, OR into wood and furniture polish.  They don’t just take wood polish and dump it on your jawbreakers.  Grow up.

Bacteriophages: The ‘phages of which you speak are used to kill the listeria virus.  Listeria is a bacteria that attacks the immune system and has a one in five mortality rate.  Bacteriophages?  They’ve been used as an alternative to antibiotic medications in Russia and France for 90 years.  That’s really disgusting and dangerous!

Coke: This is total and complete bunk.  It would have been far more effective to point out that colas and carbonated drinks have been linked to weakened bones in those who overconsume them, but this is complete lies here.  Again.

Salads: I think you mean propylene glycol.  And again, this is bullshit.  PG only causes reactions in those allergic to it.  It has a very low toxicity and can only negatively affect human health if very large amounts are ingested very quickly and over a very short period of time.  By which I mean ‘Find a vat of it and start drinking it and nothing else.’  Again you go for the lie instead of pointing out that fast food salads are processed and contain as much fat and cholesterol as most of the other foods offered by a fast food place.

Beef additives: This has nothing to do with fast food.  This is common in MOST meats in the US.  This is because the US has become so obsessed with the fat content of meat and making it ‘healthy’ that we have literally bred almost all the flavor out of every food animal breed we currently use.  Flavorants are almost ALWAYS injected during processing or most of our meat would be bland and tasteless.   ‘Flavorants’ typically being concentrated broth and/or salt and seasoning.

Cheese: Lies again.  Only those cheeses labelled as ‘Pasteurized process cheese food’ and ‘Pasteurized process cheese spread’ match these stats.  Pasteurized process cheese is simply a blended cheese made to have a sharp taste and be easily melted.  Your lie here is that the 47% is referring to the cheese’s fat content, not cheese content.

This image is full of lies and misrepresented half-truths and anyone spreading this as truthful should rethink their approach.

THE COMMENT. EVERYONE READ THIS COMMENT. ^^^^

I don’t know what people think they are going to accomplish when they make stuff like this up, and why they bother when there is actual information that will support their point. In giving easily disproven, false and misleading information, they undermine their message — as soon as their supposed facts are refuted or clarified, they lose all validity and make anything they have to say suspect. 

The thing is, yeah, there are plenty of aspects of processed foods and fast foods that AREN’T great and could have been sited here to make some really good arguments for choosing healthier options. Instead, this almost makes me want to go get fast food out of spite for this person attempting to mislead me. 

Oh thank goodness. I thought this was popping up on my dash because someone was eating up all this omgscariness. Not a big McD’s fan because their stuff tastes like crap but c’mon….

The peanut butter one I hear over and over because I loooove me some PB. They make it out like the PB industry is actively putting stuff in their food to meet a quota. lol “They say we can have this many rodent hairs. Go shave some rats guys! We better get away with as much as we can!”

Phosphoric acid in cola is there because citric acid is expensive and it’s a cheaper alternative. It’s as old as soda shoppes. It gives pop a tangy flavor. It’s not to “cut the levels of sugar” if anything the sugar helps hide the acidity. 

troy-artlog:

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Contrast by Trotroy

I suddenly had an urge to make a tutorial. Here’s the one I did for my dA. NOW FORMATTED FOR TUMBLR.

HUE

(via art-tutorials)