#ark's tea posts

[starpros-sunshine]

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#todays mood thinking about things and feeling emotions #I'm seeing all these leo posts on my dash and. it's so nice when characters get to heal #which has made me think about #surprise surprise #fine #whi would've fucking guessef #so now I'm just rotating all of them around in my mind i really need to read some more stories with yuzu I miss reading his lines #I wanna reread the class trip story that one was so nice #yuzuara friendship is underrated #I think they should drink tea #with Mika and Mayoi #Yuzu deserves to be in that friendgroup once in a while #also Eichi learning that maybe he *does* deserve to be loved my favourite character ark they are all so dear to me all four of them #I'm starting to get incoherent at this point but #I lomve them a lot #do I put this in the main tags? mayhaps later #if I feel like being annoying #in the not annoying ways #actually fuck it yes I will #enstars #eichi tenshouin #yuzuru fushimi #not taggung Wataru and Tori though because they're not even mentioned #they're mentioned in my heart <3

[penna-nomen]

getting to know you meme

tagged by @aragarna -- thanks!

Tag someone you want to know better!

Favorite color: I'm in a purple and green phase now -- inspired by lavender fields. I even painted my walls a soft lilac. Next will probably be ocean blues and greens

Last song: Can't Stop the Feeling -- I have an idea for a Murderbot story and for inspiration I went searching for "stormtroopers dancing" videos and that's where I landed

Last movie: Red, White & Royal Blue as the most recent, and Barbie as the most recent in a movie theater. I'd recommend both of them. Barbie kind of blew my mind -- I want to write fic for it, and I also feel like I need to watch it at least once more to even begin to do it justice. And just for fun, I'll add in Sherwood, as the last live play I saw -- lots of swashbuckling that's waiting to find its way into a fic

Currently watching: Very little, at the moment. I cut back recently on streaming to make more time for writing & reading. @edupunkn00b introduced me to the Sanders Sides videos, and I'm about half-way through those

Other stuff I watched this year: Good Omens S2, Syfy's The Ark, Quantum Leap reboot, The Winchesters, The Traitors, and a cooking show called Fast Foodies.

Shows I dropped this year/didn’t finish: The Company You Keep. It wasn't horrible, it just wasn't what I was in the mood to watch

Currently reading: The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton and the Tinkered Stars series by Gail Carriger

Currently listening to: See currently reading. I'm really into audiobooks these days. Also the sleep stories on the Calm app have become part of my nightly routine to unwind.

Currently working on: So many things! Short fics across many fandoms for Flufftober, a longer fic for the White Collar fandom inspired by Oceans 8, and then it's back to a reworking of a novel I wrote -- I intend to split it into a series of short stories

Current obsession: White Collar has been going strong as an obsession for exactly ten years as of this month -- that's when I posted my first fanfic. Murderbot is creeping back in, with my excitement over the next book being available soon. And after reading one of the Toshikazu Kawaguchi's time travel stories, I've placed several more on hold -- this could certainly become an obsession for a while. Forecasting obsessions -- who knew?

Okay, who else wants to play? Consider yourself tagged. Especially if you're @edupunkn00b or @silbrith or @cultofsappho -- no pressure, but I'd love to hear your answers if you have the time

#ask game #fanfic #book recommendations

[canyouhearthelight]

The Miys, Ch. 223

This chapter is dedicated to the concept of “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit”.

Them being the Eko-mari. Not the readers.

Also, if the reference to ‘pitch’ and Trinity College isn’t ringing any bells, I strongly encourage you to do a web search of ‘pitch drop experiment’. There are several, they are fascinating.  And I swear, I wrote this before the chapter @baelpenrose (my intrepid writing partner) posted recently for AI was written.

I swear. By a whole fifteen minutes.

“All Councilors, report to Corridor Three Four junction. Repeat, all Councilors, report to Corridor Three Four Junction.”

Grinding my teeth, I forced down the groan that was trying to erupt from my soul. Not even from my body - I was current in the Archives, somewhere between Corridor Forty-Seven and Forty-Nine, so it was roughly five miles to my destination. No, I was groaning from the part of my soul that longed for the smell of ancient fibers and glue, the part that could only be settled by the kind of stillness received from a labyrinth of three foot thick sections of pressed wood pulp, acid free ink, and strict climate control.

From the part of my soul that longed for a library.

Whispering a quick apology to the long-lost author of Keeper of the Isis Light, and waving a similar sentiment to everyone I bolted past, I took off to my destination.

“Councilor!” The current Archivist hissed urgently as I passed her. “Do I need to save your book?”

Tears filled my eyes, but I shook my head. “As much as I wish you could, I never know how long stuff like this takes. Shelve it, and let someone else read it.”

She nodded sincerely before gesturing for me to continue quickly.

Angrily, I ran for five levels, then tempered myself for the rest. Either way, I was going to be last to arrive, and nothing I could do would change that. But exercising my anger at a calm moment disrupted at least put me in a position to consider whatever I was being called for. That’s what I thought, at least.

Until I arrived to see my fellow Councilors, accompanied by five oil-black creatures whistling and hissing at another being, who angrily squealed back.

The five, I vaguely recognized: Eko-mari in bivouac suits. They were so up in arms that I could not tell them apart, since their forms were so similar.  The one they all squalled at, however - that one I don’t think I could ever forget.

Fuzzy. It was… fuzzy. Brown, black, and lime green, patterned in whorls. Six limbs, all equally distant from a small, lumpish head that was equipped with a fan of short, scooped structures that looked to be ears.  The fanned-out satellite of limbs forced all the noise they emitted forward, and - I imagined - funneled it directly into that wreath of ears.

As much as I wanted to reach out and pet it, I was stopped in my tracks by one singular feature - or possibly three: their noses. The being I was looking at had several orifices that looked like smaller, deeper ears, arranged on the front of their skull like petals on a Terran dahlia.

Gods above, below, and fictitious, I thought. No wonder they think we smell horrible.

“We are here,” it whistled familiarly, “because we suspect you have been working with terrorists.”

Tea-Kettle. This was… This was Tea-Kettle.

Pranav recovered the fastest. “We have, admittedly, worked with such in the past, but it was without the knowledge of anyone on this ship.”

They batted their limbs forward, slow gusts that seemed too deliberate to be meaningless. “You are telling the truth.”

“Baconists,” I sputtered. “We - I - we… there were sixteen terrorists who managed to get on the Ark, because they believed they were right, and that they were doing the best for us.” Grey reached for my arm and I shook them away. “No. This is the truth. We can’t stand on falsehoods here.”

“Your heartbeat is accelerated,” Tea-Kettle squalled at me.

“I am afraid,” I confessed, putting every thought of killing the Eko-mari, of Arantxa, of the End, all into it. “We have done so many things wrong, failed even ourselves so many times. And even with living truthsayers, we deceived ourselves so well that sixteen ended up on the Ark.” I could hear Xiomara, Grey, even Huynh, hissing at me quietly.

Good. I needed their emotions to muddle this. Without that, it might pay off…. With help, it only made it more likely.

“Deceived yourselves, you say?”

“May I send you a file?” I asked, using my work-tone, the one cultivated from years of reporting to people with delusions of grandeur.

“You may.”

Ka-Ching! Still got it.

I flicked over a recording of myself, Tyche, and Arantxa, from our first Winter Holiday on the Ark. The conversation was intimate, my sister and I encouraging our friend on how to court a love interest - granted, one that was now my partner, but I was hoping and praying that the fact would show how much I trusted Arantxa at the time.

Sure enough. “This… human…” they spat. “They are now your partner?”

“Yes.” I tilted my chin as high as I could without seeming haughty. “Because they are a good partner. A worthy one.”

“You did not take him out of pity?”

“I would do no such thing.” I resisted the urge to spit, but the emotion seemed to carry through, as Tea-Kettle drifted back a couple feet.

“Sophia…” Xiomara started, gesturing to me rather than stepping forward. “She argued against execution. She tried to defend mercy. We have the files.

Xio, I thought, Shut the FUCK up.

The fuzzy satellite fluttered for a moment. “There is no need. We find her integrity… sufficient, for a mammal.”

Fuck you, too, I thought briefly before fighting it back. Part of me was reasonably certain that the flush of anger was something they were familiar with, if not expecting.

Sure enough. “We will question this one,” Tea-Kettle continued. “As to the nature of the recent development.”

“What development?” I asked, stupidly.

“The sap!” they hissed shrilly. “The iron sap! We have detected usage of it on this vessel, despite humans having no samples. There are clearly pirates providing them!”

“No?” I disputed dubiously. “We haven’t had any foreign samples brought onto this ship, at least at Terran request, since the sensors needed repairs…”

“You want us to believe that humans recreated this substance from nothing!?”

I shook my head. “No, we can’t even do that… if we could, we would have healed our planet.” I paused, putting all my mind into the skepticism I felt in that moment. I hated to realize that it wasn’t even difficult to do. “But the Galactic Database mentioned a substance, so we looked at all the examples of sap from our world - there’s a ton, mostly flammable, but still a lot - and tried to see what would make any of those behave like that.” I focused my brain on pitch and just tried to remember the last time the sample dripped at Trinity College, at least as far as I had heard. Pitch was from sap… sap is crazy. Amber, pitch… Petrified wood…

“Your trees convert into stone on your world!?” Tea-Kettle screeched, leaping away.

I backed away, as well, hands held in clear view and splayed to show them empty. “Yes? They… we had an entire forest that had been petrified? It was at least common enough that my sister inherited a door stop from - “

“ENOUGH!” It took everything in me to resist the urge to cover my ears when they shrieked. “These… Hell-world things… they cannot conspire with higher beings. They create things that should not exist, because they come from a planet that should not exist…”

Huynh, apparently, was sick and tired of the perpetually rude… things. “Don’t forget! We strapped rockets to our asses to go into space, and didn’t even worry about if we could survive!”

A low pitch hit my ear, too low for the translator but in the range that used to annoy the crap out of me on Earth. “Leave these stupid beings,” it buzzed. “They will kill themselves without our help.”

“They are violent,” another argued, one that I thought of as Foghorn. “They should not be allowed sanctuary.”

“They are being quarantined,” Tea-kettle corrected, making a harsh gesture with the top half of its limbs. “We have greater concerns.”

Foghorn tried again. “Should they be allowed - “

“SILENCE!” Tea-kettle shrieked, forcing me to cover my ears as my head spun. “Such matters are not to be discussed here. You open us up to discipline.”

There was no reply to that, and without any further explanation, they turned as a group and vanished, leaving behind the overwhelming scent of jasmine.

Slowly, I lowered myself to the floor to avoid falling from the remaining vertigo. When I looked at my hands, there were traces of blood from the un-filtered noise that we’d been exposed to, light smears on the deck where I had braced my palms. “Lovely,” I muttered. My voice sounded like was coming from under water.

“We all need a trip to a medbay.” Pranav’s voice sounded so far away, even though I could see him moving his lips. “Once we’ve recovered enough to at least walk.”

Grey was already tapping on their datapad. “The nearest one is only thirty meters away.” The message was sent to each of us in a sort of closed captioning, which I was grateful for.

Groaning, I tried to stand up and almost immediately tipped over onto my face. I flopped over onto my butt and waved them off. “I’ll just sit here for a bit longer.”

Rolling his eyes, Huynh carefully made his way over and grabbed my hand. “We’re about the same height,” he barked. “We can lean on each other. Better than you bleeding in the middle of the floor.”

“I’ll just die, but thank you.”

“Stop being a wimp.” He pulled me to my feet and steadied me when I fell against him. “And don’t puke on me.”

“Noted.” I tried to nod, but my stomach and eyes quickly told me to knock that shit off. “And don’t nod, apparently.”

“Dumbass.”

“Sometimes,” I admitted. “But it tends to work out.”

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#the miys #found family #humans are weird #humans are space orcs #apocalypse #post apocalypse #post post apocalypse #aliens #humans are space fae #hfy #haw #earth is space australia #original science fiction #original fiction #original sci fi #my writing

[babyblueetbaemonster]

Skyrim Asks

Tagged by @purrpletartan and @friend-of-giants thank you both for tagging me :D

Tagging @the-sunlit-earth, @katastronoot, @ace-of-creation, @thescrolls-haveforetold, @ark-sided, @themonsterundermystairs, @apollinariafh, @hannahcbrown if you want to :3

(and no you don't have to draw anything i just have problems haha)

And anyone wanna play this of course :)

(Long post under the cut)

1.Favorite Tavern:

You know, the Winking Skeever's not just the best inn in Solitude. It's the also the only inn in Solitude. hahaha. I like the family who runs this place. It's always lively. Sometimes the Bards College gang would come here playing music.

2.Favorite Drink:

I'm a simple Nord loving simple Nord Mead. I found a lot of mead lying around the bandit cave I cleared out haha. It's probably moonshine but tastes quite good :D

3.Travel Companion:

The most reliable mercenary I've met is Teldryn Sero! He's a strong swordsman. He can do magic. He got a flame atronach! His voice is so nice and he's secretly very handsome under that crab mask haha

4.Wealthy or not?

Hahaha I'm stupidly rich. Don't tell Brynjolf ;)

5.Worships the Aedra or the Daedra?

6.Biggest Fear:

The magic immortal snail.

7.Pet Peeves:

The epic kill cam when I shot an arrow and it didn't even kill anyone (?)

8.Do they like being dragonborn?

Yeah! It's really fun! I like to randomly yell at people haha

9.Favorite faction:

College of Winterhold!!! I love it because the quest line is so broken and all my friends are there haha

10.An object of sentimental value:

I still got the fine iron dagger from Alvor. He taught me how to use a forge and gave me the dagger for free when I got nothing in return. I keep the dagger to remember his generosity, and to remind me to be kind to others.

11.Hobbies:

Cooking and baking :D

12.Favorite city:

Solitude. It's a fun big city. They have clothing store, Bards College, my favorite inn, a lot of flowers and a dock. I got invited to a tea party with uncle Sheo once and it's lovely <3

#tag games #tes #skyrim #ldb #tes oc #oc: jokir #miraak #or maybe is baker miraak #daedric artifacts

[lorbanery]

I've been tweeting a bit through mine and @ark-shifter's first play-through of Gotham Knights on Twitter (you can see my ongoing list of the explicitly queer parts of the game (including Tim's canon bisexuality, The Squad making plans to go to Pride, and multiple pride flags as far as the eye can see) here). But I wanted to talk a bit more extensively about Dick Grayson in the game and how the writers and devs so carefully made him Schroedinger's Queer.

And just to be clear about this from the start: This is not a callout post or an accusation of queerbaiting. I'll explain more why later, but my stance is that they did an excellent job and I love the way they handled it.

Needless to say, but saying nonetheless: Spoilers under the cut.

First let me explain what I mean by Schroedinger's Queer.

Basically, every bit of queerness that comes up around Dick is circumstantial evidence. It might be confirmation that Dick is queer, but there might be some other reason for it.

I realize that's not very clear, so here's the examples I can remember off the top of my head:

During one of Dick's cut scenes, Alfred makes him some tea and serves it to him in a souvenir bi pride Bludhaven mug. You could interpret this as that mug being his mug, that he bought it because he identifies as bi and wanted the mug because of that. But he might have bought it because Tim is bi and it meant something to him because of that. He might have bought it for Tim. Or maybe he didn't buy it at all, maybe it's Tim's mug that he bought for himself when he was visiting Bludhaven. Babs emails Dick about an interview that he did, specifically mentioning the number he did on the interviewer. The email includes a snippet of the interview where the male interviewer talks about Dick being extremely flirtatious with him, and quotes him answering a question about his type with, to paraphrase, "I don't have a type, all people are beautiful." You can interpret this as an at least semi-authentic interview where Dick's answering genuinely, even if he is playing up a flirty public persona. Or, given the number of discussions of Bruce's flirty playboy persona (there's video of a half-naked table dance with an ice sculpture) in the game in general, you can just interpret this as Dick picking up where Bruce left off and taking on his own flirty playboy persona where he says things he doesn't really mean to throw the public off the scent. There's an email exchange between Babs and Jason where they make plans to attend Pride in costume because Babs overheard Dick and Tim talking about going together. You could interpret this as Tim and Dick talking about going without including Babs and Jason because Dick and Tim are the queer ones and it's a queer event and so they want to go. But they don't say why Tim and Dick talked about going without including Babs and Jason. Maybe Tim just brought up wanting to go but not wanting to go alone and Dick was like "Yeah totally, I'll come with you" and they were going to ask Babs and Jay to come with but they beat them to it. Tim tells Babs about this boy who flirts with him and just asked him out and he said yes. Babs is super encouraging and tells him that if he ever needs any advice, she's dated a lot of guys and she learned nothing, so he should just ask Dick. This could be Babs telling Tim that Dick has better experiences dating men than she does so he'll have better advice than her! But it could also just be about Dick being Tim's oldest brother and the one he asks for advice first anyway for things interpersonal stuff. Maybe she genuinely thinks that he's learned more from all the dating he's done. Or maybe it's just because he's a guy who's dated before and will know better what a guy wants out of a relationship.

Now I, as a queer and a firm supporter of Queer Dick Grayson, am certainly inclined to read these things in the gayest possible framing. But someone who is straight and/or inclined to see Dick as straight can easily just see someone who's supportive of his bi brother and uses hypersexuality as a means of distracting people from thinking he's roaming the streets at night fighting badguys (which, I'll be honest, is less effective for Nightwing than it was for Batman, but that's besides the point).

Like, say, the people who own the character and have a financial interest in discouraging any evolution of the character that could be controversial and/or they see as fundamentally changing him.

There have been efforts to introduce queerness into established superheroes (in both Marvel and DC) for DECADES. A lot of times when you see something in a comic that seems really gay and you're like, "How did the artists/writers NOT REALIZE" they absolutely did realize and are doing everything short of explicitly confirming it in-panel because the higher ups won't let them.

Tim Drake was originally introduced in 1989, basically as a way to reintroduce Robin with a more personable character than Jason had. He was not allowed to be explicitly queer until 2022.

33 YEARS.

For a character who basically existed as a second attempt to give Batman a Robin again because they were invested in Dick being Nightwing so they didn't want to revert him back, and they let Jason be killed, but Batman had only been without a Robin for his very first year of publication. So they needed someone in the position and they needed someone who was least likely to cause a visceral reaction in their readers like Jason did. (Which, to be clear, isn't to say that Tim hasn't evolved into a really interesting, nuanced, and generally wonderful character in his own right; or that the folks who actually created him didn't create him also conceive him as a fleshed out character.)

But we're talking about Dick Grayson. Who, at this point, has existed for 83 years. Less than twenty years shy of a century. He's existed almost as long as Superman and Batman — Superman was introduced in 1938, Batman in 1939, and Dick in 1940. He may not hold exactly the same place in popular culture that Superman and Batman do, Robin is still a legacy character, "Batman & Robin" is a phrase that basically everyone knows, and when you ask the average person who Robin is, they'll answer or describe Dick Grayson.

And Dick Grayson is not allowed to be queer.

He's too well-known. He's too popular. He has too much publication history where he's written, ostensibly, as straight. It doesn't matter that a large swath of his fans are, themselves, some flavor of queer. It doesn't matter that citing his publication history is patently ridiculous given the nature of the superhero comic industry. It doesn't matter that real life people have revelations about their sexuality at all points in life and "some point in their twenties" is literally one of the most common and far from the latest. It doesn't matter that bisexuality exists and would allow Dick to be queer without invalidating all of the (extremely popular) canon relationships he's been in over the years .

And this is when we swing back around to the question of how is this not queerbaiting.

First let's define queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a term for media where the narrative hints at characters being queer — or that queerness plays a large role in the romantic plot(s) — but in actuality it's either a very small part or never actually exists at all.

A really blatant example of this was the marketing campaign for the first season of Riverdale. A clip of Betty and Veronica kissing was used in the ads and commercials. By featuring it in an ad for a show that hadn't premiered yet, they implied that some level of queerness between Betty and Veronica would be a regular, if not prominent, feature of the first season at least.

In actuality, the kiss was a single, one-off moment that, in the narrative of the scene, was just meant to surprise the girls running cheerleading tryouts and it never came up again.

With that in mind, I can see how reading all of these hints at Dick being queer with nary a peep of actual explicit confirmation might make people cry queerbaiting. But I don't think it is. For a few reasons.

One of them, I admit, is pure vibes. This all feels, to me, like a genuine expression of queerness. I don't know how many, if any, of the writers or devs of Gotham Knights are queer. But as a queer person — particularly one who's read queerness in Dick Grayson for a long time — this felt not only true to Dick's character, but true to a queer reading of his character.

Particularly in conjunction with word from on high that Dick isn't allowed to explicitly be queer. It's as queer as they could safely make him without getting in trouble or having DC scrap the whole project or give it to someone else.

And then ... there's everything else. All those bits and pieces and details that I mentioned in that Twitter thread. The rainbow flags, the gay neighborhood, the pride flag colorways for the bike, the number of explicitly queer NPC's just roaming around their version of Gotham. It would be one thing if it was just a one-off bit of idle dialogue about Tim's boyfriend and the interview snippet and maybe a rainbow flag above the arcade, maybe even the Pride mural in the gayborhood. That's what I would expect from a kind of well-meaning but kind of clueless dev team who doesn't really understand queer culture.

But you don't populate your game with gay NPC's and let players ride around on a nonbinary pride colored bike if you're not genuine in your desire to give some real, genuine, thoughtful queer rep.

#gotham knights #nightwing #dick grayson #dc comics #gotham knights game

[jetcat-14]

'Hero's Are Fast'

(Atless My OC is in this which is the The 7th Heaven she meets Johanna and Hilda before this in a long Ark based in their world it would need a whole post of its own)

Johanna: HILDA.

*Hilda gripped on the Edge below*

Hilda: Mum I can't Hold on .........AAAAAAA.

*Hilda fell as the world become slow too her*

Johanna: HILDA.

*a flash of green appears below the falling Hilda and she feels two arms wrap around her as her now falling body come to a stop*

Atless: Got you Kid.

*Atless flies Hilda back up to the top of the cliff where Johanna is still on her hands and knees and in disbelief of how fast Atless could just appear*

*Atless let down Hilda who ran to her mom and Hugged her*

Johanna: Atless.......Thank you.

Atless: No problem for family.......plus I could sense you where in danger form abroad my ship in another universe so......... Hilda..

Hilda: Be more Careful.

Atless: Yes and.......it keeps you mom from worrying about you .

*Atless messed with her Helmet trying to remove it *

Atleaa: Plus I would like to just come here to have some Cucumber Sandwiches and some Tea and not to always be The 7th Heaven

*Atless tired to lighten the mood which it got a chuckle out of both Johanna and Hilda*

Atless: I got to get going got a mission starting soon.

Johanna: You can't stay for one Cucumber Sandwich?

*Atless who was making her way back to the cliff side where her time portal was looked back*

Atless: Maybe one Joey.

#hilda series #hilda (netflix) #hilda (hilda) #johanna hilda #hilda #hilda netflix #netflix hilda #hilda the series #Atleas Alan #The 7th Heaven #Jetcata OC

[therogerclarkfanclub]

PSA (Sort of)

I'm aware that not everyone enjoys my thirsty Roger content which is fine, really, it is. No one is obligated to like or enjoy anything, and not everyone sees Roger (or any other celebrity) in the same light I do. For a lot of people (myself included) Roger is this very wholesome individual who must be protected at all costs and yes, I wholeheartedly agree, but I also happen to think he's very sexy and I cannot always help what I feel. So I understand if some of my posts can be a little off-putting. Or maybe a lot.

So to that end I just wanted to let y'all know that if my thirsty Roger posts are not your cup of tea, I use the following tags to categorize all the posts I consider to be thirst-worthy.

. 👇👇.

#::daddy::roger #Thirst post #::shirt|ess men:: #::shirt|ess::roger::c|ark #::đađđie::roger:: #::shirtless men::

. 👆👆.

Feel free to add those to your list of filtered tags so you don't have to see any of my thirsty posts, or alternatively, you can just block my account completely.

I do have to say that I'm lucky enough to not have received any hate mail (so far anyway) in regards to my thirst posts, not that it would matter much really since I would just ignore it and move on because, as a very wise woman once said: "Ain't nobody got time for that"

But believe it or not y'all, I try to keep the thirsty content to a minimum, lest I come to be known as that 'thirsty Roger thot', but something tells me it's a little too late for that 😂

I do try to focus mostly on Roger and all his work (previous and upcoming) but I will fire off every now and then because Roger is one very fine specimen. Plus, this is Tumblr y'all, if I can't thirst here then where can I go? 😂

Thank you very much to those who have been putting up with my thirsty tantrums 😁

Happy Filtering and/or Blocking! 👋👋

#roger clark #::daddy::roger #Thirst post #::shirt|ess men:: #::shirt|ess::roger::c|ark #::đađđie::roger:: #::shirtless men::

[dapurinthos]

still obsessed with those trillionaires leaving the planet and now entertaining the idea that they didn’t actually survive that long post-planet fleeing because of thee way numbers and society works.

“The economy tanked. It hadn’t been in great shape to begin with.”

“[O]ur kill-fee money was suddenly worth nothing and what if the banks crashed and that nothing went too?”

“John, there is no second wave. There is no third. They’re escaping. The trillionaires have converted everything to material resources. Half these passenger manifests are made up, these aren’t real people. They’ve fucked everyone, even the governments. There’ll be one single ship of internationals who think they’re on Wave One to Tau Ceti, and everyone else will be corporate, or have bought a ticket, or be useful. They’re leaving us to die.”

scenario one, pre-launch: you bought a ticket. it cost you everything, but you bought a ticket. you’re out of here but now you’ve got nothing but the clothes on your back. what are your skills? what is your contribution for the future?

scenario two, in-flight: you’re leaving earth, you’re leaving your life where you’ve had everything provided for you, your money just keeps making money keeps making money and now that the earth is finally give up its last gasp, you’re leaving after finally being able to spend all that money—you’re on an ark, a space ark. it’s c. 2060*. meat can be cloned, robots once built can do a lot of things, people will do things for you if you pay them and the money can be used for goods and services. if you pay them. but you’ve spent all your money on getting off this dying planet, converting everything to the material resources you need to get to tau ceti (where, by then, we’re assuming they’ve discovered one of the planets to not be 68°C or -50°C like e or f). you are part of why this is all happening. you have financed saving your species. how much gratitude does this buy you? on this new world that you have paid for, this new world that you own because you have made it possible for people to make it here, who believes that they owe you anything?

scenario three, arrival: you’re a boss-ass cloning scientist. you’re a team of construction workers who can build robots who can build so many things. you’re the people who have figured out the best way to create new habitats for humanity. you’re good. you’re great. you can do things. you are here because you are useful. but. who are you useful to? why are you being useful to them? there is no money now. there is the old, earth order, but how long does that last when you’re not on earth? what is your use for, now?

scenario four, the foundation: what is capitalism? what is your old life worth? there is no redundancy in this system. this is the same as families moving to upper canada in the victorian era and doing things they never thought they would to survive—there are no tea parties here, you are out there chopping wood, you are weaving your own fabric, you are doing what you have to to survive. why are you doing this?

scenario final, look upon my works, ye mighty: who is the burden, now? who has nothing to contribute, now? who can no longer buy their way our of anything, now? congratulations, you are in ur now, and not just as the name you’ve re-christened your system with, where you have a standard unit that everything must be pinned to to have any sort of transactional system in order to survive. why should those who had power in the old world, the worse world, have that same power, now? who owes who? who owns who?

* stand back i’m trying math: john’s mother was playing with hollywood hair barbie in 1992. i was playing with hollywood hair barbie in 1992, being seven years old. let’s have john’s mother born in 1985, seven years old in 1992, twenty-five in 2010, and we’ll say john was born in that decade, sometime between 2010 - 2020. hell, make him a covid baby. undergrad at otago? medical school at auckland? or the single year health sciences 1st year programme and medical school at otago but final clinical year in auckland? so, graduation range of 2045 (b. 2020)  - 2048. off to corpus—corpus christi in cambridge—for something, one year or more. + another year abroad. so we could be anywhere between 2047/8 (one year for corpus, and nothing getting between anything) or 2050-something by the time john begins working on the cryo project. adding some wiggle room so it’s not the tightest timeline ever, let’s go with c. 2055 - 2065.

#nona the ninth spoilers #blood of eden #the locked tomb #also: those internationals who thought they were on wave one. what do they do when they arrive and find out no one else is coming? #i just have a lot of blood of eden Thoughts

[keyleth-clay]

Just for funsies, and because literally nobody asked me to, I present

KC’s Top 5 CR One-Shot Wishlist

(starting with my most wanted)

Number 1. A game using an older edition of DnD – especially if it’s, like, ADnD or 2nd edition. I was honestly hoping we’d get this with Calamity, especially considering that Matt had Halas (an archmage from the Calamity) know spells from 3rd edition that don’t exist in 5th edition. Brennan stating that Vespin was a Malconvoker just added fuel to this particular fire. I’ve never actually played DnD in my life, and everything I know about it comes from watching actual play series & reading up on info in between episodes, but even I know that there’s some crazy stuff in older editions, and since most of the cast have only played 5e, I think it would be super fun to see them see where this game came from. And, because the vast majority of actual play use 5e – which makes sense, as it’s the most recent edition of the game, and the edition that actively has new books coming out for it – it would be cool to see that just because these are older editions doesn’t mean that they can’t still be played and enjoyed.

That being said, this one would probably need to be a miniseries (Exandria Unlimited or otherwise), just to give them enough time and space to be able to experience the ins and outs of said older edition(s).

Number 2. Critical Role: The Next Generation. Okay listen.

Listen.

This is actually my absolute-number-1-most-wanted one-shot, but I knocked it down a spot because I know that it’s super unlikely to ever happen. I want a one-shot of Liam’s and Sam’s kids playing DnD – and I want Liam to DM it. He’s already DM’d for his kids, and I absolutely love his DMing style and I miss seeing him running a game. And between the handful of snippets that he’s given us of his daughter’s game with her friends, and the fact that Sam’s daughter came up with Nomen L. Frenno in The Nautilus Ark, we all know they’d come up with some incredible characters. AND if it’s set in Exandria? The cherry on top.

Also, DnD actual play series tend to be… not family-friendly, what with the swearing, alcohol, sexual references, blood & guts – none of which I have a problem with, btw, but I know that there are people who do, and I know that there are people who would love to introduce Critical Role or DnD to friends or family members, but can't because of said friends/family members' opinions of such things. I think it would be a great way to combat some of the stereotypes that certain folks have about DnD and TTRPGs in general, and also show that anybody can enjoy this game.

But, as I said, I know this is super unlikely. Sam and Liam have made it a point to not post photos or videos of their kids online (Sam has only recently started doing so) – which I completely understand and fully agree with – and they don’t even refer to them by their real names in videos – which, again, is the right decision. THAT BEING SAID, if this one-shot ever happened, I would ascend to a higher plane of existence from sheer joy.

Number 3. Adventures of the Darrington Brigade 2: Electric Boogaloo. Matt ended the one-shot with the blatant implication that these dumbasses would return at some point, and I love them so goddamn much. Where’s the AotDB sequel, Mercer?

Number 4. Literally any horror one-shot run by Taliesin. The Thursday By Night two-shot wasn’t exactly my cup of tea (I’m just not a big fan of VtM), but Shadow of the Crystal Palace was SO FUCKING GOOD. I’d love another CoC one-shot, especially because the cast has previously and would continue to go ham with the cosplay and the set design and the props, but any spooky/creepy/horrifying story with Taliesin in the GM’s seat would be amazing. Bonus point for being around Halloween.

Number 5. Obligatory M9 post-campaign epilogue one-shot. I mean, VM got their 3 epilogue one-shots (Search for Grog, Search for Bob, Dalen’s Closet) to tie up the remaining couple of loose ends from the campaign – we need The Mighty Nein, one year after C2 ended, all level 20, taking to the seas once more and taking down Uk’otoa (Uk’otoa) once and for all.

Honourable mentions go to an Exandria Unlimited series set in either Blightshore or the Shattered Teeth, but since we don’t know yet where Bell’s Hells journeys will take them (bc while M9 didn’t travel far from Wildemount, VM were quite the globe- and planetrotters), I decided to leave those off the wishlist.

#kc speaks #Critical Role #CR Cast #literally how the hell do i tag this #kc's top five

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, September 6

MALE VOICE: Where are you from, Harris? XANDER: Well, the basement, mostly. MALE VOICE: Were you born there? XANDER: Possibly. VOICE: I walked by your guidance counselor's office one time. (The person sits up partway and we see it's Principal Snyder, with a towel around his neck.) SNYDER: A bunch of you were sitting there ... waiting to be shepherded. I remember it smelled like dead flowers. Like decay. Then it hit me. The hope of our nation's future is a bunch of mulch. XANDER: You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake.

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[urlocalterrorist]

Henlo, Henlo Tumblr!!!

I am new to Tumblr, and i just wanna make a few things clear before i officially open requests.

*khm khm*

Character i write for:

Every demon slayer character! You can also request me some oc x character if you want to ofc!

Thing that you can request from me:

Everything that is sfw!

Platonic relationships! (for example: child, teen, adopted, adopted sibling!reader x character. just. platonic.)

Do you like any Au? Me to! And i will write sum. As long as nothing goes... Khm that way. It's all fine!! ^^

You like Monster!Reader x Monster character? I like them to! Still theres one rule. No smut.

A TINY BIT of dark themes and against (just a little bit bc i have a sensitive soul and i don't think i'll be able to handle to much)

Any reader pronounce, or ✨💅homosexual💅✨relationships are welcome here :)

Yandere are also can be requested if the characters death are mentioned.

Thing that you CAN'T request from me:

Nsfw= NO

SA, Ed or any other mental health thing. No just. No. I don't wanna be mean, it's only bc i also suffer with a few mental health issues and i do NOT want to write about it. Exept if it's a comfort.

Charters death can only be MENTIONED.

Sibling x sibling. Are you guys out of your mind?

Steb sibling x Steb parent, steb sibling x steb sibling= no. I am not willing to write the steb bro meme. Or the steb parent. Exept if it's platonic.

Animal abuse. No. Just. No.

Toxic relationships, and all the things that is count as abuse.

Pedophilia is also a big no

If you still try to request anything from above in my blogs, then the T-Cat Police Officers will found you and:

Current anons:

Nothing yet :c

Things about me!! ^^

I am a 13 years old minor, who loves to draw, write or just simply read! (if i won't forget to read the book i started)

I have some issues with my memory so if i forget about my blogs on tumbler, pls remind me!!

I love Mythical creatures, especially phoneixes, dragons, and half human half monster! (i also write for them *wink*)

I have a good imagination, and fantasy! You could request me any thing that is legal on my blog! I love the color red and i read the manga till Muzan's death.

I love animals, and i also love nature! I love cats, and tea. Jet i don't have a pet but i will try to convents my parents buy me a pet! Hopefully they will believe me that i can take care of a cat while i am going to school everyday!

I live in Eastern Europe so that means i am not english if i write something wrong feel free to correct me but pls don't judge me pls. I am studying in a Christian Gymnasium, i just started 7th grade with my new class and i am happy to be there!

I love video games, especially survival, story games (where you can have your own ending) and adventure games! My favorite game so far is ARK survival evolved, and The long dark.

I also like anime! Or just simply watching series!

Requests time, how much i (would like to) post a day/week?

Around 1.30 pm i finish school and then i can take requests, or maybe in between classes, i can answer a few questions ar write head canons!

How much time will it take for me to write a bolg? - i have no idea.

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This blog always ganna chance so make sure you always check this blog. That's all i think have a nice day/night/evening! ♡

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[themaresnest-dumblr]

Farewell Bernard Cribbins

One of the last links - indeed, the last link - to the very earliest days of British television.

Jackanory (especially ‘The Hobbit’ and the many tales of Mortimer The Raven ... K-ark! Nevermore!), Doctor Who, The Wombles, The Railway Children, Shillingbury Tales (and the brilliant parable of Cuffy), Old Jack’s Boat, ‘The Plank’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’,  the ‘Carry On’ series of movies (and a billion other movies on top). Coronation Street, Fawlty Towers, Space 1999 ...

... the voice of the Tufty Club and Hornby Model Railways ...

... and two Top Ten hits: the most famous, ‘Right Said Fred’ at the bottom of this post, complete with the original promotional film, one of the best loved parodies of the atypical British worker wrestling with an immovable object the way we know best - over endless cups of tea.

You name it, he bloody well did it over 93 years.

The consummate jack of all trades and a surprising (to himself, at any rate ...) master of many.

Gawd, it may be a cliche but to hell with it - British entertainment really isn’t going to be the same without him, the man synonymous with a million happy childhoods over seven decades.

Thank you, and farewell - after, we, have a cup of tea ...

#bernard cribbins #bernard cribbins RIP #the hobbit #mortimer the raven #the railway children #shillingbury tales #and so we had a cup of tea ...

[arcc-i]

Feminism and Fire Emblem

In honour of Fire Emblem Three Hopes to release at the end of the month, this post will briefly discuss references to outdated opinions on women throughout the series. This is not meant to offend anyone but to show how with the right focus, the series can grow into something more. Please feel free to share your own thoughts!!! 

Fire Emblem is a tactical RPG (role play game) that initially came out in 1990 by Nintendo with its latest release being Fire Emblem Three Houses in 2019 (Hilliard, 2019). The series was aimed toward a male demographic with chess-like gameplay and male protagonists. However, the series continued along with this style becoming repetitive, paling against the development of other series such as Bayonetta, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy. Due to the declining sales. Nintendo gave the developers, Intelligent Systems a chance to sell over 250,000 copies of a new Fire Emblem game else they would shut it down (Makedonski, 2015). Resulting in the creation of one of the most beloved games in the series, Fire Emblem Awakening. Releasing in 2012, the developers having no hope of saving the franchise decided to throw in many different mechanics they wished to explore which turned out to be extremely popular and became staples to the franchise as well as other games, creating new genres of video games. The game continues to be popular, selling over 1.9 million copies worldwide (Mcpherson, 2020). Their tactic, aiming toward a female audience. 

Fire Emblem was appealing for its breakthrough in gender inequality with female leaders and avatars. It still falls into misogynistic roles with added features feeding into domestic activities such as cooking, tea parties and dressing, pushing aside the military based style to become more handholding. This follows Zoonenn's (1994) theory of structuralists tending to apply significance to activities based on culture like cooking toys being advertised to girls, drawing them towards more domestic interests to fulfil the continued view of women being “simpering housewives whose dream was to impress their authoritative, working husbands” (Gauntlett, 2002). This shows how Fire Emblem’s “progressive” ideas were still based on stereotypes especially towards women, playing into the idea of keeping women associated with domestic hobbies to keep them in domestic roles. 

This can also be seen with the increased focus on romance in Fire Emblem with more detail in character interactions such as in Fire Emblem Fates adding an interactive option allowing players to poke characters and the Japanese release including an option to blow on them, to increase relationships. And Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates add the ability of characters to have playable children. The focus on romance and building families falls into the stereotype of women being more interested in romance and stories than men. Janice Radway’s 1984 (Zoonenn, 1994) study “Reading the Romance,” explains how women looked forward to stories that focused on the romance between the hero and heroine. Fitting into the stereotype of women being love crazed and unable to focus on more series topics to use as proof of how unfit women would be in political roles and claiming that giving women opportunities such as the right to vote, would just be a waste and ruin the results. 

To conclude, as popular as Fire Emblem has become especially with a female audience, it still has a long way to go to break societal gender norms based on deeply rooted negative perspectives towards women. It holds great immersive content that could help increase its popularity and change the way women are portrayed in video games with some fine-tuning. A redemption ark, from over sexualising female characters and forgoing character depth, to topping the RPG genre with impeccable soundtracks, stories and characteristics that people constantly crave for. Allowing the core of Fire Emblem to shine through while supporting its female audience. 

References:

Hilliard, Kyle. 2019. A Brief History Of The Fire Emblem Series. GameinFormer.https://www.gameinformer.com/classic/2019/07/25/a-brief-history-of-the-fire-emblem-series

Makedonski, Brett. 2015. Awakening saved the Fire Emblem series from cancellation. Destructoid. https://www.destructoid.com/awakening-saved-the-fire-emblem-series-from-cancellation/

Mcpherson, Rebekah. 2020. Fire Emblem: The 5 Best Selling Games In The Series (& 5 That Didn't Sell). The Gamer. https://www.thegamer.com/fire-emblem-best-worst-selling-games/

Liesbet Van Zoonen. 1994. Feminists Media Studies. Ch5

David Gauntlett. 2002. Media, Gender and Identity. Ch3, ch4

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[aaaaiuio]

Story: Apocalypse

I can't escape this forever I need to post this

So this is a story that I have written based on a school exersise (please don't ask how it happened I'm confused myself)

I have versions in Russian and Ukrainian I can post them if you want (although they differ from one another because I changed the parts that I didn't like in initial version when translating)

TWs: brief mentions of smoking and alcohol, themes of loneliness and grief (please tell me if I missed anything)

My name is Anton. I live in Russia.

I returned to my city once again to get the books. Because I needed to fix a few things in my house.

I stepped in once beautiful city ark. I love my city and all these years I missed it! This city had absolutely everything.

I slowly walked across streets every place here is filled with memories:

Expensive shops where I bought new video games and cheap markets where I often helped my parents with buying groceries. The huge hospital where I was always afraid to go and the tiny pharmacy where my mom used to buy cough syrup. And bank where my older brother Misha worked.

My brother Misha…

I miss him so much.

Also there were office buildings where people in the suits worked. Cozy coffee shops where I often stopped to drink raspberry tea on cold fall evenings. Expensive restaurants where I hated going because everyone was so snobby. I used to think that they were robots when I was young.

Of course it’s not like any of this matters now…

I was tired after long way so I sat down on a cold, cracked asphalt. I pulled out water and took a few sips.

With all this I forgot to write today’s date in my notebook: November 3. Today is my birthday. I’m 23 now. I’m legally considered an adult.

I picked up a glass shard from the ground. I looked like an adult would too. My hair gathered in a short ponytail, a beard and a bruise from an unsuccessful shaving attempt.

But I’ve never felt like an adult. I’m not mature and I’ve never filed my taxes, never had a job, never smoked a cigarette, never drank alcohol, never got a driver’s license and I’ve never went to college.

Heck I’ve never even got past the 7th grade.

I closed my notebook and took a deep breath. I’ve still got a mission to complete.

I slowly stood up. After all these years I still remember the way to the library.

I was quite happy when I saw the building relatively untouched apart from a few broken windows. Inside the books were still on their shelves.

I started searching the shelves.

No not that and not that, not that, no, no, no… oh here it is.

Suddenly I heard a lot thud I threw my book in my backpack and ran towards the noise. I was ready to attack (or defend myself)

But I wasn’t really ready for this confrontation.

I saw a person, a living person for the first time in 9 years.

In the meantime the stranger noticed me and turned towards me putting his hands in defensive position.

He was wearing a sweater, black pants and boots. He had long hair and beard.

Suddenly I started to notice that he looked a lot like my brother. He had the same black, curly hair and green eyes. His bracelet was similar to the one I gave my brother back in the day. I wasn’t sure that it was him but still asked:

“Misha?” - was my question to him

“Anton!” - happily exclaimed my brother

He ran towards me and pulled me into the hug.

This was the happiest moment of my life.

I’m not alone in this world.

#writing #oc #this is cringy #i'm sorry #the new ones will be better i promise

[agapi-kalyptei]

pancake recipe, 2018 version

this is (intentionally, autistically) way too long, but here's a verbatim copy of my facebook post where I detail my pancake recipe. I'll probably make amends later, since I made a few hundred more pancakes since then after all.

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Several of my friends have now said that my pancakes are "the best they've ever had" and I refuse to take that as a hyperbole, so here goes: Milan's ultimate pancake guide.

(Content warning: Marie-Isabel said "your pancakes are pretty crêppy" - so I'm not going to talk about those other 398 variants of pancakes - you figure those out later. We're talking crêpes and vegan crêpes. Half-assed vegan recipe at the bottom.)

First of all - this is dumb. Just add flour, eggs and milk together and that's it. Boom. Done.

But just in case you like an uncomfortable level of detail:

Flour: Regular fine ("half-coarse") wheat flour works the best (marked in Estonia as 405 - for the love of God, please do NOT use 550; these are known in central Europe as 'ultra fine' or '00'). The results will be *radically* different for every flour you try. Buckwheat flour will make the pancakes break the moment you look at them. Ultra fine will make them taste undercooked and chewy. Other, esp. gluten-free flours will just mean you'll need to improvise - please do experiment and let me know your experiences, mostly it just means you'll need to make them a bit thicker.

Milk: Please do me a favor and use farm milk, organic milk, or at least unpasteurized, whole-fat milk (in Estonia they're marked as 3.8~4.2%). It doesn't matter that much, but it terrifies me when people go "OH NO FULL FAT MILK! WE"RE GONNA DIE!" like... you know, you'd have to drink a whole freaking liter of it, and the fat would literally do a hundred time less damage to your body than eating a row of milk chocolate. (I'm gonna skip whether milk is good for you or not, you already know your opinion.)

Eggs: Obviously, I'm going to say "get those expensive organic eggs". Please do, really. Hens are treated abysmally in most places. As a rule of thumb, you can tell how stressed a hen was by how thin the eggshell is. In Europe, eggs are marked with a number, a country code, and a serial number. For the first number, "0" means organic, "1" means free range, "3" means devil's torture chambers. So for example "3EE123456" on an egg means you've just supported evil capitalist overlords and comrade worms in Marx's grave are wiggling in discomfort.

Oil: Obviously use oil with a high enough smoking point. Don't use virgin olive oil, that's just terrifying, and carcinogenic. And honestly, try to get one of those small (supposedly non-refillable, ha ha) oil spray bottles. They are *extremely* useful, esp. if you're clumsy like me and pouring from a normal oil bottle results in anything between 2 drops, and a testing ground for Noah's ark.

Obviously the other 2 basic ingredients that you should be taking for granted is salt and sugar. If you want to pick only one, pick salt. A pinch of it, obviously. Sugar with fat and without enough fiber is poison and you'd be wise to avoid it, but I usually cave in to popular demand and add a few spoons of brown sugar more for the color than taste. In all, practice moderation.

Secret ingredients: This is the fun part.

- Obviously, I use blueberry flour. Like, 2-3 spoons of it are enough for a batch.

- Add cinnamon freely.

- Add a vanilla extract if you're rich.

- Add sesame seeds to make it crunchier. (They float, so stir more than usual if you add them.)

The real fun is adding things no one expects, in tiny amount:

- Spanish Inquisition

- black pepper (ha ha, "I would never!!!", you say? Well, you probably ate my pancakes with black pepper, so dill with it)

- a hint of chili powder

- mint tea

- guarana powder

- maca powder

- honestly the trick here is to get people to drink and see how far can you push your luck, drunk people love any and all food

Now, the boring part! Preparation.

Put flour, eggs, a tiny bit of milk, some oil, salt, sugar, cinnamon &c together. Two eggs per half a liter of milk, approximately. If you bang two eggs against each other, only one will break [hi, Triin]. Careful about eggshells. Start stirring, and when it's obvious it's gonna be super thick, and a bit more milk, again and again. Not more than maybe 1/3 of the target volume of milk in total. Now stir it properly and completely - it should be thick, but not solid. This way you'll get rid of those annoying flour chunks. Don't forget the corners of the bowl. Once it's smooth, add a 1/3 more milk, stir, and when confident add the rest of it. Unless you know the ratios, add it slowly - you're aiming for liquid batter, but not too watery, not too thick. You'll get a hang of it, trust me. Obv it's easier to start thicker and then dilute.

Now, you need to know your stove, generally I aim for 6/10 or 2/3 heat, but obviously gas range stove = 💙. Preheat the pan, but don't ruin it. Be especially careful with ceramic pans - if it's darkened, it's ruined. You're a pan ruiner. You ruin puns. Spray it 6-12 times with oil, making diagonal lines - when the oil drops perk up and join, it's probably hot enough - if in doubt, put a drop of batter on oil - it should sizzle, but not scream.

When you're pouring batter, always fill up only about 1/2 of diameter and then immediately tilt the pan in a circle until it forms a pancake shape. Size matters - I find a 20cm pan to work best. You'll see, depends on your batter, pan, heat.

When you see the edges of the pancake get golden or brown, it's time to flip the f--- uh-- flip the pancake. If the middle of the pancake is still raw and almost liquid, you might have made it too thick. (It might work just fine.)

Don't believe the rumors that the first pancake is always weird. Lies and slander! Accidents happen, but the first pancake can be a valid member of the breakfast family. Circle the pan edges with a bent or curved spatula, get under the pancake, and... yep, it broke. Oh well. Now you have two, I guess. Flip them nevertheless, wait about 1/2 of the time it took to fry the first side, and then flip it again to make the first side crunchier if needed.

Flipping pancakes is lots of fun! It's not hard, I recommend everyone to try it. Describing it here is like telling you how to ride a bike - awkward - but I'll try: quickly wiggle the pan left and right to make sure it's done enough (the edges will lift off the pan), then keep the pan horizontal and push it back and forth, or in circles, without pushing the pancake over the edges, to see if it slides easily. If not, don't risk it - either give it more time, more oil, or just flip manually. If it slides effortlessly, push the pan away from you, and tilt the further end up 20-30 degrees. The rest.............................. is up to you. Good luck. (Hint: you can practice with a finished pancake with a cold pan if you're afraid of injuries.)

Adding jam: Obviously, there's only one good and holy way to spread jam on pancakes. Put it on the lower 40%, then fold from bottom to about a 1/3, then roll about 2cm from the bottom at a time. Also, the best ingredients together are vanilla sauce, dark chocolate cream, and a pistachio cream.

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Vegan pancakes! They're a whole other can of... peas. And I honestly don't have a lot of experience. One thing I could never get done properly are banana-based pancakes. They're sticky and burn easily and... yeah. I'm sure some of you can make amazing banana pancakes, but not me. The best vegan pancakes I ever had were prepared by Annija - mineral water, wheat flour, flax seed flour, left in the fridge overnight, I think.

This is where I love to experiment though - last time I mixed wheat, hemp, chickpea, pea, potato+rice+corn starch/flour, salt, sugar, cinnamon, blueberry flour, water... and it kinda worked. If you like to play games on hard difficulty, then try to make gluten-free pancakes. Again, crushed flax seeds help a lot.

A lot of what I said about preparation of eggy pancakes still applies, but you're probably better off forgetting about flipping the pancakes unless you're really good at this.

Almond flour seems to add to the taste, but doesn't bind especially well. Coconut milk could help, but I don't have enough experience with it (I tried it in the last batch, but it had bananas and so was ruined - sorry everyone for that.)

You can safely ignore all plant-based milk - it adds nothing to the taste, and it will make pancakes burn easily.

So... any tips are welcome.

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tl;dr - just invite yourself over for pancakes, it's easier.

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been thinking a lot about suicide and I have two very conflicting beliefs and I have no idea how to resolve them .. Belief 1. if I end my own life it means a. My soul will burn in hell (see last post) OR WORSE STILL b. Life is a test and I will have to go back to the beginning, be reborn and live through all of life’s tests again (conclusion here is see it through to the end no matter what happens) and there’s something about going through life to ascend to the next level in the game .. it’s very immersive and it’s almost like I am a real human drinking a cup of tea .. nice one God you old cunt .. can I get the clairvoyance upgrade, the healing hands and the cancer cure .. mate the University is going to love this game it’s so realistic etc VS Belief 2. my daughter ended her own life so she must be in a better place OR some version of this is really hell and bad people have to come here to Earth and pay for their sins in heaven .. I mean tell me honestly do you know anyone good? (again see previous post) it seems like the planet is in moral decay .. yet across the board isn’t nature just in balance and surely everything humans do is balanced by another force of nature .. why are humans so arrogant they think they are destroying the planet .. I mean unless you are a cunt in a Range Rover or you’ve parked on a zebra and eaten the last lion for breakfast (trust me karma will get you) then you are probably an okay bloke unless you are wearing women’s knickers then you may or may not have a different pronoun .. imagine if objects could choose what they were .. tables .. I could put a badge on my coffee table that says chaise longue and maybe one on the door handle that says lifeboat .. in case some cunt called God makes it flood .. to test us .. quick get that giraffe on the ark .. but it’s not a giraffe it’s a curtain pole .. it says giraffe .. oh yeah so it does .. phew that’s alright then .. fuck we’re sinking .. so .. should I lull myself? no .. why? .. because you’re an immortal soul on a journey in a human body it says so on your pronoun badge .. then I can’t die .. don’t be stupid there is only you .. then who the fuck am I talking to? (at Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg9Bw6gstx_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=