Paprika Hendl Recipe
Joining in the Dracula Daily mania, I tried out a chicken paprikash recipe (modified to fit my preference for whole chicken and minimal prep). It turned out super delicious so I figured I'd share!
INGREDIENTS
2 onions, coarsely chopped
1 bulb of garlic (10-20 cloves, peeled but left whole)
1 whole chicken (4-5 lbs - don't forget to defrost if frozen and remove the neck & giblets from inside if present)
1/4 cup butter
2 tbs paprika
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
pinch of red pepper flakes
1.5 cups water
1/4 cup flour
1 cup sour cream
ROAST
Preheat oven to 350F
Put onions in a pile at the bottom of a roasting pan
Put some of the garlic in the pile and some inside the chicken
Put the chicken on the pile
Melt butter then mix in the spices
Brush butter-spice mix all over the chicken
Pour water into bottom of pan
Cover pan and put in the oven
Roast until done (thigh temp above 175F, juices run clear, and/or meat is falling off the bone - in my oven this takes 80 minutes)
Remove chicken onto serving platter
SAUCE
Scoop first two cups of pan drippings into a measuring cup and let settle
Skim fat (nominally 1/4 cup) and put the fat in a saucepan
Add 1/4 cup flour (or adjust to match volume of fat) and mix over heat until smooth
Turn up the heat and add the reserved liquid drippings
Cook until bubbly and starting to thicken
Add the rest of the drippings and onions and garlic
Remove from heat and stir in sour cream
SERVE
Carve chicken and serve pieces with sauce
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One of the biggest things that makes me see Leo as trans is absolutely the size of his carapace in comparison to his brothers’.
And I’m not talking about height! I’m specifically looking at his shell here, because when you compare him to the others, particularly Donnie who is nearly the same height as Leo, it’s very clear that Leo’s carapace is much longer in proportion to the rest of his body.
Like - standing side by side, even though Donnie is shorter his carapace ends noticeably higher up than Leo’s does. And I like this not only because it really helps push the idea that Leo could very likely be trans (or intersex!), but it’s also just a fun design difference between them.
(It also lends way to future scenarios of Donnie eventually getting taller than Leo, but sitting down still has Leo being the taller one haha.)
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Alenoah, where Noah cares about Alejandro, more than Alejandro's family did:
Noah: I will now torture you.
Alejandro: Kinky!~
Noah: I think you are brilliant and beautiful.
Alejandro: Wait!
Noah: You deserve to be cared for and loved, despite your mistakes.
Alejandro: No!
Noah: Your feelings and needs are valid, and deserve to be heard.
Alejandro: I need a safeword! 😳
Real.
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Had a really good conversation with my therapist yesterday that has left me feeling better about life & the future than I have in... months, honestly (which also has me feeling really good about her ability to help me continue sorting through things).
I was talking about my distress about the future and in particular what I'm going to do when I graduate, since grad school isn't the most stable option, and she pointed out that since I was spiraling over hypotheticals, maybe it made sense to simply make up my mind about the first step, since applying to grad school is hardly the same as committing to grad school. And she was so right. I am so good at feeling like I need to make the right, perfect decision -- especially after making mistakes with school in the past -- that I have been worrying myself into depressive spirals over what the "right" decision is here. But making up my mind to at least apply and find out what my options are is a decision, that will give me a lot more information in the long run than paralysis over if it's "okay" to apply at all.
It'll still take a lot of work, obviously, and l don't know if I'll even get in anywhere, much less actually commit to doing a PhD if I do. But it has taken such an incredible weight off my shoulders just to say "Okay, I am going to apply, what next?" Because it means I can put all that nervous energy to actual use! Instead of spiraling the next time I start thinking about my options in the future, I can go do research on different PhD programs (without feeling guilty the whole time, like I have been until now)! I can ask my favorite professors for advice! I can reach out to current grad students to ask what they think of their advisors! All of which is actually productive and will help me make the most informed choice I can if and when the time comes, instead of ruminating endlessly on what the "best" one is!
TL;DR -- my therapist is very smart and understands me and the things my brain gets stuck on in a big way, and her advice has dislodged literal months of extremely disordered thinking just like that. Because now I feel like I've made a choice and have something to work towards. And also like I can breathe.
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clawed my way through (some of) the epilogues and hs^2 again for dirkjake crumbs and i think there is a Genuine place for ultimate jake to fit into canon (or at the very least, lord jake english) since meat timeline jake never actually shows up visually in hs^2 and his final appearance in that timeline (minus a phone call or something w/ roxy? or was it kanaya fuck) is giving ult. dirk his spaceship and then proclaiming his undying love while desperately trying to get dirk to let him join him, to which dirk responds that he’ll “never let [jake] break [his] heart again” (ch39). agony.
two interesting things about the end of his arc in meat actually: for one thing, it’s kinda implied that along with giving dirk a spaceship, he also gave dave/karkat/roxy/kanaya/etc a spaceship to chase after him, so he’s at least taken some action to try to stop him. again though, we never see him after that point so like. the idea that he could just hope himself into becoming an ultimate self in the background is actually kind of a possibility?? like while the others try to chase dirk down, jake is figuring out how to brute force himself into ascension as a backup plan. second thing, dirk is very snarky in the narration about the fact that this dramatic goodbye he’s giving jake is the last time he’ll ever get to see him (jake see dirk, i mean) but ult. dirk also seems to lack power against alt. calliope when they fight over the narrative so jake ascending would actually pose a serious threat and might be able to override that, assuming dirk’s power over the narrative extends that far in the first place (thinking about that post talking about how narration is also a reflection of characters’ thoughts…)
candy timeline jake is also pretty interesting since he very notably starts being advised by BGD to be a kind of spy on the inside against jane’s. whole thing in that timeline. i actually completely cannot remember what jane does in the meat timeline, i think also some presidency bullshit, right?? that’s what the davekat thing was about??? but anyway BGD sounds pretty normal in all his dialogue, or normal for BGD at least, and is aware of both the game over timeline and ult. dirk’s bullshit enough to make fun of it so. idk maybe i’m just misunderstanding how ultimate selves work, but the fact that BGD wasn’t really “integrated” into ult. dirk feels significant to me, especially considering the fact that we can see caliborn/LE’s influence on ult. dirk so much (his narration in ch39 gives AR too, frankly, like the epilogues are obvs way more openly horny than hs proper but AR was always kinda like that too, especially about jake). hs^2 also ends super abruptly with some lore shit i skimmed half heartedly between calliope, roxy, and john again talking about his initial decision between candy and meat. that whole conversation pretty deliberately frames the decision between meat and candy as being parallel to terezi’s coin flip about whether or not to kill vriska, and roxycallie even tell john straight up that he needs to get vriska again to fix the story, perhaps assuming that’ll work again since it did when he was retconning the timeline? but imo, though maybe i’m biased cause i didn’t really review what vriska does post-canon again, it seems more fitting to me that jake would be the one to fix the bullshit timelines, considering 1. dirk is the one going bananas out of his fucking mind w/ control of the narrative, 2. thematically, pumpkins are the most logical, healthy alternative to meat and candy, fitting since caliborn explicitly aligns dirk and jake’s color scheme with them in the smut-drawing conversation and since (in the same breath) he establishes that he hates them and prefers meat/candy. but that’s getting into sherlock secret final episode levels of conspiracy, and i’m not sure i’m ready for that one
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Heyyyyyyyyyy shoud I watch the scu? idk man idk i want to I just never do it lol
WE GOT ANOTHER ONE
SHORT ANSWER YES LONG ANSWER ALSO YES BUT THE WAY OF VIEWING IT IS COMPLICATED‼️‼️
^ This is what I would recommend watching through if you just want the main story that everyone loses their mind over. starts and ends with [God reverb mic] APPLE and has all the key videos that are story based!! watch through this one if you want a shorter but authentic scu experience
^ and this one is charlie's official playlist for the SCU‼️ everything in here is technically considered canon and i strongly recommend watching the videos in here one way or another purely because they're so funny LMAO not even from a story point of view they're just good videos
fair warning!! the official playlist has Carson in its videos, and the other playlist doesn't if that affects your viewing experience at all :D (the Roll. video also has DM Jared so if you'd like to skip that one aswell it's luckily not that lore centric just a cool video 👍 again no stress or worry just a warning)
anyway in all honesty the scu is one of my favorite things ever and it will make you brainrot one way or another :] i hope you enjoy watching if you'd like!!!!
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