Jay.
LightNews LightNews
banner
meangrape.com
Jay.
@meangrape.com
1.4K followers 3.9K following 11K posts
I stopped studying the cello. I started studying Arabic. I grew up on the other side of the middle of nowhere and am an inveterate urban dweller now. I like mathematics, fountain pens, and TTRPGs. https://sidewalks.meangrape.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
meangrape.com
Duck tsukemen
Two bowls, the larger on the left is white ceramic with a logo and name on the inside—Tsurumen. It has a large and neatly folded pile of ramen noodles in it. To the right the white ceramic bowl is full of a brown broth. Many sliced scallions are visible; a hint of duck peeks out of the top; other, less obvious things lurk below the surface.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
meangrape.com
beef congee and steamed veg
White ceramic dinner bowl. On the right side is a small pile of vegetables: mostly broccoli and snow peas. The rest is full of milky white congee topped with a rough line of shoyu. Hints of chuck roast float beneath the surface.
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
meangrape.com
I think I’m going to make some red kuri chutney to eat with this and rice. Or maybe idli.
A small glass ramekin with a pile of thinly sliced pickled shallots, a garlic clove, and some bits of bird chili
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
meangrape.com
My wool slippers
Photo of my crossed legs clad in blue jeans and one ankle high orange wool slipper.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
meangrape.com
I did not have fennel, but I had shallots
Red cutting board. On the left about a dozen cloves of peeled garlic. In the middle about 8 thinly sliced shallots. On the right two dozen thinly sliced sliced thai bird chilis (mostly yellowish). I’m holding a pint mason jar. You can mostly see chilis and garlic cloves.
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
meangrape.com
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Album cover. Sign o’ the Times by Prince. Guitar on the ground. Drum kit on a car hood. Half of Prince’s face.
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
meangrape.com
Moxie on her birthday!
A medium sized stocky tan dog with a white chest blaze, white paws, and a graying muzzle is sitting on a carpeted floor smiling. She is wearing a light blue conical birthday hat.
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
meangrape.com
My daughter knows me
Two cute line figure people facing each other. The one on the left is holding a fountain pen and labeled “Fountain pen people”. The one on the right is sitting down labeled “Non-fountain pen people”. They have a question mark on their head. Between them is a stack of 8 ink bottles. The bottom three are labeled “standard blacks”; the next two are”water-resistant blacks”; the top three, “dark blacks”.
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
meangrape.com
Enjoy your flight!
I’m sitting in a chair. The pic is from mid-chest down. I’m wearing a flannel shirt; it’s orange, yellow, and dark blue. I have on jeans and bright orange wool slippers. My right arm is resting across my abdomen with my hand resting on my hip. There is a dark plain bronze bracelet on my wrist. My forearm has a tattoo. The centerpiece is a red and blue agami heron with a black feathered chest. It’s standing in a pool of water with rushes and water lilies.
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
meangrape.com
11 year old Izzie whipping egg whites for a chocolate soufflé with green chartreuse
A copper bowl full of stiffly whipped egg whites with a whisk resting in it. A thin young girl wearing leggings and a long white tshirt. She’s turned away from the camera and one hand is cradling a copper bowl full of egg whites. All you can see of her other arm—the whipping arm—is her elbow. She is intently focused. She has brown hair in a pony tail and glasses.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
meangrape.com
Basque
A small wedge of cheesecake with a dark brown top and no crust sitting on a black ceramic plate.
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
meangrape.com
Miss Gen Z knows her technology
A meme of a coiled VGA cable with blue ends. The text reads: “HERE, TAKE THIS VGA CABLE SINCE YOU WANNA PROJECT SO FUCKING HARD”.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
meangrape.com
Inside an elevator seems an odd place for this sign. Wouldn’t you want to know before you got in? And from when is it locked?
NOTICE This elevator is locked until 5:45 am Press <> to exit the elevator
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
meangrape.com
congee and broccoli
On the left a red bowl full of rice porridge with a circle of dark soy sauce in the middle. On the right a pile of broccoli in a white ceramic dish.
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
meangrape.com
Korean pomelo
A very large teardrop shaped pomelo held against a light gray wall. The pomelo is cut in half. It has a large white pith.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
meangrape.com
Here’s as much as I can get without taking my shirt off
Picture of me from mid-torso down. I’m wearing a vertically striped button down with thick dark blue stripes and borrow white ones, jeans, and blue wool slippers. My shirt sleeve is rolled up to my elbow, and you can see my forearm. There’s a red and blue heron standing in a pool of water with reeds and water lilies around its feet.
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
meangrape.com
Someone is playing a different 5e than the one I’ve played #ttrpg
First two of three skeets; user info blacked out. Text follows. Because while [thing] is great, I don't want it exclusively. I want to run a jewel heist this week, a jungle hexcrawl next week, a tense political banquet the week after. And then maybe go after a dragon in a gods-honest dungeon. I want a system that can go into any tone, any setting, any situation. I don't just want combat/exploration/roleplay. I want to be able to blend these things seamlessly. And I want it all to work with a single group of characters in an unbroken narrative that potentially spans years.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
meangrape.com
The @cityofsomerville.bsky.social has sad voting stickers
A small boring “I voted” sticker in the palm of my hand.
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
meangrape.com
Good night!
Top down view of an empty coffee cup. Brown ceramic with a blue rim.
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
meangrape.com
A cup of coffee and then bedtime
A two-tone ceramic coffee mug. A medium khaki with a blue rim. You can see the neck of head of a brontosaurus on the side. It’s full of black coffee.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
meangrape.com
Egg, cheese, and boquerone sandwich
Black ceramic plate. Two opened toasted english muffins with the tops to the rear. Each has a round fried egg topped with four small light colored fish butterflies open.
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
meangrape.com
Hard kitty cat licorice
Four small pieces of black licorice. Roughly sculpted cats sitting erect with their tails curled around their feet.
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
meangrape.com
Everything bagel with avocado, olive oil, salt, black pepper, and Aleppo pepper
White ceramic plate. Everything bagel cut in half. The bottom is covered with mashed avocado and red pepper flakes. The top half is just everything seasoning.
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
meangrape.com
Eggs!
Two eggs over easy on a black ceramic plate.
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
meangrape.com
I mean, obviously, it’s on my top 10 list, but I bring stitching skills into a relationship, too. (No photos of my saddle-stitching available)
A partially assembled cowboy boot is placed upside down on a stand. I am stitching a thin strip of leather into the bottom of the hopper through the inner sole. My right forearm is visible; I’m gripping an awl point down and pulling a brown thread to the right. My left hand is in a fingerless light brown glove, and I’m pulling the other side of the thread left and back.
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM