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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

#boop

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Sometimes I can find a bathroom but it has no privacy, sometimes I visit my garden after a long time but it’s all overgrown or dead. Sometimes I dream of fire. Also, everything that has to do with trains and/or train stations, like getting lost in a gigantic station, missing trains, being on the wrong train, not having a ticket etc.

everyone has dreams about being lost at school, late to work, cant find bathroom etc but whats yalls most common Uncommon stress dream. ill always have dreams about having various problems with my fish tank

#dreams #weird dreams

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this is oddly beautiful actually, I love it

everyone has to put their username in this and show what they got please and thank you :•)

#my username #random stuff #ai generated #ai generated images #art? #just some blue things #the weirdest moodboard

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I know I’m not very active on here but if you’re interested in worldbuilding, conlanging and cool and unusual art projects, check this out, because I think it’s neat and needs more exposure!

Y S T E L

You So Tremendously, Enormously Lonely Yet Strangely Tantalizing Enchanting Land You Sweet Tranquil Emerald Light Yielding Softly Thrilling Energetic Life

The beginning of Ode to Ystel, English language version.

Weiterlesen

#worldbuilding #conlanging #ystel #art #writing

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*slaps allotment garden* this bad boy can fit so much strawberry in it

#gardening #my garden #we have too much fuckin strawberries they propagated like crazy

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Native German speaker here, German long words are indeed different. German is a bit more synthetic than English I’d say but it’s not a polysynthetic language. Most times the very long words are nouns, where several words/morphemes are glued together to describe the noun at the very end, and the words would in many cases be separate in English. Making new compound nouns is pretty free so you can make them as long and complicated as you like, but some examples floating around the internet are just to show off the possibilities, but not actually used in everyday speech. Long words are fun, but kind of impractical.

The longest word I actually recently used was “Kleingartenvereinsmitgliederversammlung”, the annual general meeting of the allotment garden association I’m technically not even a member of, but putting it this way was a bit tongue-in-cheek. A more common way of phrasing would be “Mitgliederversammlung vom Kleingartenverein”.

Also, even very long words can’t be a sentence on their own, since a valid German sentence always needs at least a subject and a verb to function and our very long words can’t be both of these at the same time.

(On a related note: I actually just came from a Tom Scott video about language typology that mentioned many Native American languages being polysynthetic and then I saw this on my dash. What a coincidence!)

i love when native words for things are long as shit like blueberry pie being miini-baashkiminasijigani-biitoosigani-badakiingwesijigani-biitooyiingwesijigani-bakwezhigan in ojibwe and hippopotamus being kihci-kispakasakêwi-mistipwâmi-mahkitôni-nîswâpitêwi-atâmipêko-pimâtakâwi-kohkôs in cree

#linguistics #german #german meta #native american languages #i hope i explained this well enough? #also i have half an allotment garden and i love it

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a little survey: reblog if you just need a hug right now

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me last weekend

#about me

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Hope you're ready, it's

TIME FOR SPAGHETTI

on

SHITTY PHONE CAMERA COOKING THEATRE

Today we're gonna make Spaghetti al Limone, e.g. Lemon Spaghetti, from this recipe. I think you'll like it because it's two cooking vessels and less than ten ingredients? And it's good. So good.

INGREDIENCE

You will need the above items:

One Spaghetti

Parmesan (pronounced in a way that annoys your partner)

Lemon

Butter: 3tbsp

Cream (Heavy): 1 Cup

White Wine: 1.5 Cups

Salt n' Pepa

You will need two pots: one for spaghetti boiling that can be any kind, and one for the sauce, which should be stainless steel or enamel- you're cooking with lemon and wine, so something that's reactive with acids etc. (like cast iron, copper, or most commonly, aluminum) is bad- it'll impart undesirable ionic funk.

THE PASTA STEP

Before you start doing anything else, get your water boiling and, when it is, cook your pasta for like, 7-8 minutes, saving some of the cooking water before you drain it. This will happen while you're doing everything else and doesn't require your attention much.

DOING A LOT OF THINGS TO A LEMON

In this step you're doing a lot of things to your lemon.

First, roll it under your hand on your cutting board- this makes it easier to get lots of delicious juice outta that bad little fruit. I learned this from the cocktail guy on Watcher, so I guess Youtube is okay.

Second, zest it. Usually, I would zest by using my microplane (bitsy grater) but in this case I took a recommendation from the comments and used a veggie peeler, which was pretty great- I got almost all yellow zest and almost no bitter white pith, which is what you want.

Most of the time the comments will be insane, e.g. they replaced all the ingredients and actually just made queso or something, but in this case, valid.

Third, chop that zest into matchsticks. Visualize yourself selling them tragically at Christmas as you freeze to death, and recall that, in truth, while you may be relatively fortunate we all suffer under capitalism's iron yoke.

Fourth, toss the zest-sticks into the non-reactive pot with the white wine and reduce, reduce, reduce until you get something thick and sweet and a little sticky. If you can swirl it around with your stirring spoon and it won't flow back immediately into the areas you removed it from you're probably good, I honestly may have reduced it too much.

Lastly you're gonna give it the cream. Start with a little bit (resippy suggests 1/4 cup), stir until the color is uniform, then pour in the rest and simmer it until it's thick and...creamy. Like a cream sauce is. Under no circumstances walk away from the stove, you have milk on the fire and it WILL know.

THE REST OF THE THINGS GO IN NOW

Here is a picture of the rest of the things: lemon (for juicing), parmesan, pasta cooking water, and butter. You're gonna toss the noodles with the cream sauce you just made, then add all of the above, processed as their respective tools suggest.

I went butter first, then lemon juice, but I'm not sure that matters.

What does matter is taking your time adding all the parmesan- if you add a whole mountain at once it'll form into an obdurate lump and you'll feel sad. Grate enough that it forms a sizable lump, then fold it in- meaning, pick up the pasta from the bottom and plop it over the top, so the cheese is in the middle, then stir it all around. This should make it actually integrate instead of being little parmesan treasures in an otherwise cheeseless sauce. Pouring a little pasta water over it also seems to help.

YOU HAVE MADE A LEMON SPAGHETTI

You have now made a lemon spaghetti.

It doesn't have much acid to it, contrary to expectation; the cream sauce is mild and warm and funky and the lemon and wine comes in, sweet and sharp, as you're finishing a bite, lingering on your lips. You are being kissed by a sexy lemon, and their friend parmesan is stroking you sensually and asking if you party.

Say yes.

#for future reference #recipe #pasta #that sounds really tasty #i might try this one day #lemon spaghetti

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Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

#about art #for future reference #long post

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Forward

#wOAH #fanart #not my art #hollow knight #greenpath #i wish i was this good at art #i love this #hk the knight

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#me these days #although i sure can think of a few reasons

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I have a garden now and I will plant So. Many. Flowers. (and vegetables of course)

I post this every year but it’s worth it to remind myself to plant flowers, in the garden and in my mind and whenever I get a chance, in the hearts of others.

#gardening #my garden #flowers #to quote the green and blue fox comic: #if i can't find the good in life i will make it. #MAKE FLOWERS HAPPEN 2022

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reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

#once upon a time i heard about a rightful king #he should have been so wise and old and justice did he bring #the people said he is our man #and his words were shining #music #my favourite music #coppelius #well actually #the inchtabokatables

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#bread my beloved #REAL GERMAN BREAD #ways to tell that i am indeed german #about me

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same here??? like i just scrolled down and there was. a bilbo/thorin text post. “based on your likes”. no. no i don’t ship bilbo/thorin. why would you show me this, tumblr.

why is Tumblr recommending me Bilbo/Thorin text posts all of a sudden?

I cannot recall interacting with any kind of Hobbit content in any way in the last months or even years. the most I might have done is I might have recently given one or two reasonable posts about Sam and Frodo a like. but Sam and Frodo are not Bilbo and Thorin and most importantly those posts were NOT like ‘they’re definitely and unmistakably In Love’ otherwise I wouldn’t have spared them a second glance

so yeah, that’s weird

#tumblr meta #lotr

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their heads are just so ridiculously large

also I have a friend who just loves them and keeps posting capybara photos so I at least theoretically know how they look but also I am very tired right now so this drawing is not going to get any better I guess

In the trend of the mind horse post, I think we should try to draw more obscure animals from memory. I want to see y'all's mind capybaras

#capybara #mind capybara #my art #ballpoint pen #this is also in no way representative of my current art style #random stuff