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brithistorianYou can see them here. They look really great, and you can pre-order them by 9AM PST on 12 November 2025, for delivery in October 2026. Unfortunately, you can only order them as a set of three for $150, which seems a bit excessive to me. I'm sure they'll set a bunch of them, but not to me.
I even double-checked to be sure this wasn't just another example of "prices going up while I wasn't looking," and it wasn't — $50 per doll is 4-5 times the price of a regular Barbie doll, which just strikes me as excessive. I could see twice the price of a regular Barbie, and at that price I'd think about it. But that at this price. At this price I look at the page and immediately nope right out.
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Gollaon and Voddick sat and sipped the tea. “Lovely, as always, Madame Sugarfoot,” said Voddick
“You are kind,” smiled Madame Sugarfoot. “More cake?”
“Please,” said Gollaon. “Your honey cakes are beyond compare.”
She waved Gollaon off. “Oh, you.”
“My friend is right.”
Inexhaustible Honeycomb
Each of these honeycombs is kept in a jar that can be sealed in some way. The honeycomb is perfect and if broken will restore itself as long as it remains covered in honey. When the honey is used down to just covering the comb, the sprinkling of a pinch of flower petals will cause the container to refill, slowly if dried flower petals are used, more quickly if they are fresh. The honey is, naturally. of the same sort as the flower petals used.
The container cannot be larger that a liter (just over a quart) and with dried flower petals it will refill in twenty-four hours but it takes only twelve hours with fresh petals.
The honey is of exceptional quality and used in:
Cooking, provides a +5 competence bonus to craft (baker or cook) or profession (chef).
Entertaining, mixed with tea, wine, or similar drink, and served to guests, it eases friendship, providing a +5 competence bonus to Diplomacy checks.
Medicine, provides a +5 bonus to heal checks.
It can be used for up to two bonuses before the honey is nearly used up and more must be made
Aura faint transmutation; CL 5th
Slot None; Price 1,500; Weight 3 lb
Construction Requirements
Craft Wondrous Items, create food and drink; Cost 750
For D&D 5E:
Wondrous item (honeycomb in a jar), uncommon
First two and last paragraphs as above.
The honey is of exceptional quality and used in:
Cooking, provides advantage on cooking-related checks.
Entertaining, mixed with tea, wine, or similar drink, and served to guests, it eases friendship, providing advantage on Persuasion checks
Medicine, provides advantage on Medicine checks.
Notes: Wanted to do a Halfling, Hobbit, or Visse type item.
Image from Pixino and is used under a CCO Public Domain Liscense.
notalwaysworking_feedRead Why Is Pen?!
Me: *Pen in hand.* "Cool, where do I sign?"
Cashier: "Oh, you don't need to sign."
Me: "...Then, where'd I get this pen?"
Cashier: "Oh... did I hand it to you?"
Read Why Is Pen?!
notalwaysworking_feedRead Not What I Mean By Liquid Assets
Me: "Whoa, hold up. That case of juice boxes isn’t $330."
Cashier: "Yep, it is. I just scanned it."
Me: "But… $330 is too much for orange juice."
Cashier: *Pauses, frowning thoughtfully.* "Hmmm. Yeah, I guess. I dunno." *Shrugs and tries to move on.*
ndrosenlaurelnotalwaysworking_feedRead Monkey See, Butt What Did Monkey Do?
I work for a major pharmacy chain. We sometimes get calls from manufacturers and distributors to add products to our system. Caller: “So, the item code is [code].” This is strange, normally they just tell me the name. Me: “Okay, but it’s easier if I just start with the name of the product.” Caller: “Do […]
jsburbidgebrithistorianI've been intrigued by the idea of Cincinnati chili since I first learned about it, but I never wanted to go through the trouble of cooking it from scratch so that I could experience it. The other night, when it made a repeat appearance in one of my fics, it occurred to me that they probably make canned Cincinnati chili. A quick web search revealed that not only do they, but that Skyline Chili, which is the particular Cincinnati chili restaurant that I've heard the most about, makes canned Cincinnati chili. I was prepared to order a can, only to discover that I could only order it in multipacks (4, 6, 8, or 12), which was not something I was willing to commit to with a food that I didn't know if I liked it.
Which is where you come in: If any of you live near enough to Cincinnati that you can buy canned Skyline chili at your local grocery store and you would be willing to buy a can and mail it to me, please send me a private message so I can send you my address and also arrange some way for me to pay you back, either by sending you money or by me sending you something they have in Minnesota that isn't available where you live or by some other option that would be acceptable to both of us.
*fingers crossed*
brithistorianLast night I dreamed that I was hanging out with Blackpink Jennie — I'm not sure if we were dating or just friends, but we knew each other very well and either option could have been a possibility. Anyway, we were at a convention that was like a combination craft fair/science fair for geology and/or conspiracy theories.[^1] While we were there, we ran into our dentist[^2] and our dentist's new business partner. Jennie and I both agreed that the new business partner was kind of strange — he was obsessed with the idea of some sort of link between diagonally opposing teeth[^4] — but we couldn't say anything about it because we didn't want to offend our dentist. Jennie and I were still trying to come up with a socially acceptable way to ditch our dentist and his partner when I woke up.
[^1] To give a better idea of what it was like, it was kind of like a dealers' room at a con: A huge room filled with tables, each table with a person behind it. Some of the people wanted to sell you something, some just wanted to tell you about their findings/theories. Some seemed to be related to geology, some to conspiracy theories, and some to both.
[^2] Not my IRL dentist, and probably not Jennie's IRL dentist either.[^3]
[^3] I don't know who Jennie's dentist is, but I'd be very, very surprised if her dentist isn't Korean, and this dentist was an elderly white man.
[^4] For example, that a problem with the left upper first molar would also cause problems in the right lower first molar.
notalwaysworking_feedRead Manager Override Override
I got super fed up with this and kept track of EVERYTHING a manager let happen. If a manager one time let a customer buy this for this amount of money. Every single time a customer asked about it, I would call the manager over and get him to override it.
lsandersonnotalwaysworking_feedRead Pop Culture Shock
Cousin: "Hello, may I have a medium popcorn and a cola, please?"
Concessions Worker: "Medium popcorn, and... a what?"
Cousin: "A cola to drink, please."
Concessions Worker: "A what?"
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