Ok So Chili Peppers. Im On Board With The Idea That People Overboard Capsaicin For The Endorphin Rush

Ok so chili peppers. Im on board with the idea that people overboard capsaicin for the endorphin rush caused by non-injurious acute pain. Got it. But that doesn't explain why a lot more people prefer a low to moderate level of spice exposure in their food. There's an argument to be made for variety in food being attractive, regardless of what that taste/sensation is, and I LOVE bitter chocolate so I get that from multiple flavor perspectives. But I've also heard that capsaicin causes mild irritation of the tastebuds, making them more sensitive to the already extant flavors in the food. Anyone know of data that proves/disproves this?

THE VERY FIRST STAR TREK SLASH FIC PUBLISHED

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

I had to share it with you because I can’t stop laughing, and every time I reread it it just gets funnier and fUNNIER

HC on how Bruce handles it, when his first kid (your choice on who) tells him or shows him that there's a grandkid on the way?

Crisis on the evaluation of "God I am getting old.." or "call me Peepaw Broose"?

I want him to lean into the Jewish mother he is deep down and when they announce they’re having a kid, he just turns around in his chair, raises one eyebrow, and says “on purpose?” quietly enough it shouldn’t echo through the Cave, but my God it does.

Bruce coming home one day to find Robin Jason clinging onto a chandelier with Dick below him cheering him on.

Bruce: Jason what are you doing?

Jason: Dick said that you missed his antics after he moved out and so he’s teaching me how to be a better son

Dick: After this we’re going to drive the Batmobile into the bay :D

Jason: We’re going to what? I mean yeah! Right into the water.

Jason trying to whisper to Dick: Dick I can’t swim though

This just further fuels the chaotic dynamic of Dick and Jason during a time where Dick was still going through his teenage angst and was absolutely not a benevolent role model LMAO

I mentioned it in this post, but it's just so funny to me to imagine a Jason who grew up with an absolutely WILD Dick Grayson as an older brother, while the younger batkids grew up with a more mellowed out and mature (arguable but when measured against the other kids, he wins by a landslide) Dick Grayson.

Robin!Jason era:

Dick: You wanna go out and get high?

Jason: I can't, I have homework.

Dick, sputtering: HOMEWORK?

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Dick, about to do an elaborate (and totally not dangerous) acrobatic move in the manor: Watch this, littlewing

Jason: You shouldn't do that, it'll make Bruce upset.

Dick, on the brink of angry tears: Why are you like this.

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Jason, dejected: Listen, I know you don't approve of me because you think I'm not good enough as Robin, but-

Dick: Not good enough as Robin? I don't care about that, I just think you're a little bitch

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Dick taking Jason out on a hangout for the first time: OK, looks like I got my work cut out for me. Take out a notepad and write everything down. I will NOT have my successor embarrass me like this. So what you wanna do to piss of Bruce-

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[Years later, Jason returning to Gotham with the fury of a thousand suns and the chaos to match it]: I'm gonna make your life a living HELL, Bruce

Dick, older and relatively more chilled out: Okayyyyy, maybe let's just– calm down a lil, haha, no need for the theatrics

Jason, betrayed, observing a Dick Grayson who is teaching his new younger siblings to behave and be mature: Dick, what the FUCK

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Present!Dick, mentoring Tim: Make sure not to be too impulsive, don't wanna raise Bruce's blood pressure

Red Hood!Jason spying on them from afar: Who even ARE you??

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Jason: So you teach me ALL of that, only to turn into the ONE thing you despised so greatly all those years ago

Dick, sweating: Well-

Jason: I'm ASHAMED. How can you be worthy of being called my PREDECESSOR?

Today we took the most precious photo of our pigeons. Look at Aziraphale:

Such a precious angel, so fluffy, so pure 🕊️🕊️

And then Crowley in the background is like

ABSOLUTE MENACE -NGK