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Okay. I feel so seen with the fruit question. Carson Shaw, indeed.
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Kombucha brewing on the counter. Hmm. Going to have to retake this. I’m much more of a boots or sweater queer.
I am also convinced I am not kombucha 😂
Kombucha surprise club thread
I don’t *like* kombucha, but I’m a little funky, a little bubbly, very slightly intoxicating, and definitely an acquired taste, so okay, yeah, I may *be* kombucha.
Ooooh, that’s really good point. I too am a little funky and an acquired taste, so yeah, maybe I should just embrace my inner kombucha.
I’m actually suprised/offended that I’m not kombucha.
Queer art is accurate too though.
I am emphatically NOT kombucha but I am glad I got it so I could find out what the heck the picture was.
Same. I’m trying to figure out where I went so wrong with this quiz.
Checking in for kombucha club. For the record, I have never made kombucha, though I did go through a beer brewing phase during lockdown.
another surprise kombucha club member reporting for duty here
Listen: I carefully thought about how the answers to each question would equate to the result so you all must be some of the same things!
You’re right, I AM a dying houseplant.
Kombucha brewing.
I have only once had kombucha and it was in a restaurant/bar
guhf4k
Kombucha? I’ve never had it in my life, maybe this is a sign from the universe
Apparently I am someone’s ex’s sweater 😂
Oh so im not the only one here who got that (▪︎○▪︎)
Well this is just a complete non sequitur.
I got A Dying Houseplant which is fascinating because I was recently looking into getting a houseplant and was strongly inclined to get a Cast Iron Plant because they are allegedly unkillable.
Is this an omen? Am I the harbinger of (plant) death?
Multiple pairs of doc martens is spot on
I have also considered the cast iron plant
Kombucha, but in my case it’s a scoby that has been in my fridge for too many months to count.
Oops, also got kombucha and also see you with our fridge scoby that moved from our last house… two years ago 🫥
Boooch!!
I’m obsessed with this lololol
Kombucha? Definitely not! I’ve tried it, and I fail to see how anyone can drink it.
Did everyone get kombucha? In my case it fits! I’m always stewing about something, I’m “healthy,” and sometimes I smell like a hippie.
I am Doc Martens. Which is accurate.
Ooh, now I’m liking my kombucha result more. I too am ALWAYS stewing about something, lots of things bubble up unexpectedly from my depths.
the queer couple stock photos killed me!!!! the milk!!!!
i got kombucha, tyvm, will drink a Revive rootbeer kombucha (the only tolerable kombucha, absolutely delicious, highly recommend if you were a rootbeer kid) to celebrate!
Photos- so bad they’re good! Although, truth, there was a time when if you searched “lesbian” online you got horrifically awful photos of what straight cis dudes thought “lesbian” looked like. So, yay for progress, I guess?
it’s true that these photos are like, so much better than even two years ago
Wow I wish every quiz had a “pick a halloween dog” section
So cute, so perfect
I think that was, in some ways, just for me, but is also for you.
ABANDONED HOBBY SUPPLIES NICO GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
Oh shit! This feels painfully more me than Kombucha. I must’ve been lying to myself when I took the quiz, and now I know why.
AHAHAHAHAHA
as a gay with ADHD, I feel very represented by my result (supplies for at least three hobbies that you started and then forgot about). *stares guiltily into their box full of knitting yarn from two years ago*
also, I accidentally left my stove on for the entire week-end until a friend pointed it out and maybe saved my life yesterday (yay responsible lesbian friends!) so my worst fear has already come true (on the upside, it kept my kitchen nice and warm, which looking at the crisis we’re going to face, maybe my subconscious was trying to help)
OH NO! I am so glad you’re okay!!
Ah! Yes. I AM multiple pairs of Doc Martens. I don’t know how you deduced this so quickly. XD
What does an Art Piece mean? Lol. I wish that there were sections of what each piece means. I have no idea how to interpret this…
40 comments in and no other water bottles so far???
I am curious what makes me specifically an emotional support water bottle…
And here I come, joining the kombucha team…
I expected sweater, but completely understand being in the surprise kombucha club. Sometimes I make very Extra artisanal fermented foods in my fridge on purpose, sometimes I make very fermented food in the back of my fridge by accident.
Dying houseplant is accurate for me both because I do not trust my ability to keep a houseplant alive and because
Misclicked and submitted my comment before I was done.
Continuation: I feel like I personally am wasting away on the regular.
i got someones exes sweater
i got a bottle of water lmfao
I got Kombucha brewing, which some day in the future I hope I can brew homemade kombucha with my friends or girlfriend…it would be so nice…just kinda gives me good vibes thinking about it… seem’s like home…