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Podcasts, audiobooks, and just… educational rants are the best thing to happen to my productivity, EVER. 

That said, I keep forgetting which ones I like to listen to, so here’s a list! I’ll update it as I remember or discover new things!

FILM CRITIQUES:

  • Lindsey Ellis: 20-40 minutes/video, lots of musicals and Disney 
  • Every Frame a Painting: ~10 minutes/video, very visually engaging!
  • Pop Culture Detective: ~20 minutes/video, critiques from sociological perspectives
  • kaptainkristain: 5-10 minutes/video, engaging and awe-inspiring
  • Big Joel: ~30 minutes/video, nothing groundbreaking but good brain food!
  • Nerdwriter1: ~8 mins/video, covers lots of social issues as well as film
  • Nerd City: 10-40 mins/video, primarily covering youtube trends in a chaotic, colorful way. Touchy subject matter. 

HISTORY:

  • The British Museum: <10 mins/video, but the titles are incredible and the people are passionate and fun!
  • Internet Historian: Does this count as history…? Either way it’s entertaining as hell! Somewhat offensive subject matter, you’ve been forewarned.
  • Sam O’Nella Academy: 5-10 mins/video, covers mostly fun/weird stuff from history! Like popcorn for your brain!
  • Overly Sarcastic Productions: 3-30 mins/video, a dynamic duo who cover history and historically important novels! VERY fun, probably one of my favorites on this list!! GO WATCH THEIR STUFF

GAME DESIGN:

  • Scruffy: <5 mins/video, behind the scenes info about game models, as well as some cute musical compositions!
  • Ahoy: 10-110 mins/video, incredibly in-depth and covers the history of different genres/elements of gaming!
  • Extra Credits: ~10 mins/video, an actual developers’ insight into game design, with some unrelated history thrown in for good measure. Insightful to say in the least!
  • Zero Punctuation: ~5 mins/video, fast paced and INCREDIBLY cynical, lots of foul language, BE WARNED

GAMERS:

  • Agentjr: total sweetheart who plays through horror games with a soft spoken, well reasoned attitude. Highly recommend his Silent HIll playthroughs!!!!!
  • Cryaotic: plays lots of indie horror/cute games and tries to be as morally right as possible, refreshing if you don’t like the chaotic/screaming playstyle of Markiplier.

MISC. SUBJECTS:

  • Ask a Mortician: 5-10 mins/video, covering the morbid subject matter of death in a way that’s respectful and uplifting in a fun way!
  • PBS Idea Channel: ~15 mins/video, no longer uploads but worthwhile if you want to look back on social issues in a discussion-heavy format.
  • How to Adult: 5-10 mins/video, MY SAVING GRACE, covers everything from doing taxes to making coffee.
  • ReignBot: 5-20 mins/video, horror, urban legends, and creepypasta commentary. Cheesy, but not as horribly abrasive as similar channels.
  • Sorrow TV: ~10 mins/video, reads the top posts from various subreddits in an entertaining way. Junkfood for your brain!
  • Matt Baume: varied video lengths, talks about LGBT history, current events, and culture!

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Okay, so here’s the story about the pumpkins:

My friend got married yesterday and we missed the wedding because of work but we made it to the reception. Because its mid-September and the reception was in a nature center (awesome!) there was a little bit of a fall theme. Not overbearingly, but the tables all had these tiny pumpkins. 

So they’re cleaning up at the end of it and we’re still hanging out because we haven’t seen these people in forever and we can talk until three in the morning when we get together. All of a sudden, the Maid of Honor hands us a tiny pumpkin. 

“Take one.”

“Um… okay?”

“Take another.”

“….?”

“It is my duty as Maid of Honor to make sure that the guests leave with an uncomfortable number of tiny pumpkins.”

So it turns out that she’d gotten a bunch of them for a Halloween party last year and after the party was over her mom threw them into the compost heap thinking that would be the end of it. But what she didn’t seem to realize was that if you put pumpkins in a compost heap- it grows more pumpkins. It grows pumpkins exponentially. Serious mathematical anomaly pumpkins. 

So this year she has even more tiny pumpkins and she figured it would be a good idea to have them as decor for the reception. BUT- she would still have to throw them out at the end of the day and no matter where you throw them you are doomed to have a ridiculous amount of tiny pumpkins growing SOMEWHERE at your fault. 

So everyone left with at least two tiny pumpkins and that’s how we made friends with the Maid of Honor. 

So I forgot about it and then the next morning I woke up and found these two tiny pumpkins in my purse and had a puzzling moment of ‘what?’

We were invited to the Maid of Honor’s house the other day so we could:

  • take some of the flowers off her hands
  • help with some post-wedding stuff
  • watch the presidential debate
  • play Clue for like three hours
  • drink a lot of booze. 

And there are just… tiny pumpkins EVERYWHERE.

They were in the bathroom.

At the end of the night, I counted 26 tiny pumpkins, and that was just what I could see. 

It happened again.

Three pumpkins ended up in my purse this time. 

One of them has a face. 

I need to stop drinking with this woman. 

this is getting out of hand.

Okay so I finally had a day off and decided that the best way to handle the pumpkin situation was to eat them and muffins sounded fucking fantastic. But I found out really fast that most recipes call for a ‘can’ of pureed pumpkin and I don’t have a scale to go by. So I figured that I had six pumpkins, it would probably amount to something like one can, right?

Well… no. 

It ended up being something like two and a half cans-ish. And that’s a really rough estimate. Turns out there’s a lot more meat on those things than you think there’d be. So I figured I could do something like double it and then make a half batch. 

But then I ran out of sugar. I mis-measured the baking soda. I only had whole cloves, so I had to grind them down and had to estimate how much I needed. I couldn’t find the liquid measure.

I’m mixing up this giant bowl of pumpkin batter goo thinking shit shit shit this is going to be a mess. There’s no way anyone is going to be able to eat these things. And there’s no muffin cups. But I already made it this far and I’m stubborn as hell so in the oven they go. 

I… kind of… forgot about them? Woops!

Place starts smelling like Yankee Candle and I’m like SHIT. Get over to the oven and… 

they’re… 

….somehow perfect?

Maybe a little dry, but they’re fucking delicious. Fucking magic pumpkins. Truly I am a witch. 

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So the moral of the story is that if life gives you tiny pumpkins, make them into muffins and give them right back. 

Also roast the seeds because hell yeah. 

Happy Halloween, everyone!

We’ve found her in real life guys

An actul fictional character in real life

she even baked with them

This is not the only evidence posed to me that I might, in fact, be a fictional character.