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dungeon meshi textposts pt20, episode 17 edition!! and here were the manga spoiler ones from the earlier textposts :)

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If you didnt believe Laios was autistic before todays episode i hope it clears that up for you

we were first shown his special interest, a very autistic trait to have. We get to see him indulge in his interest, we get to see him happy.

but this episode contains the scene that makes it clear Laios cannot understand social cues, tone of voice, sarcasm, or subtlety. He actively suffers socially with other humans.

Shuro is pissed Laios didnt pick up on the fact that he hated Laios, because he was being passive aggressive (at best, Shuro bottled up a lot of feelings), and said verbally he was Laios' friend. Laios takes things at face value, if someone says "im your friend" that's what he believes is true.

He hates that Laios "gets to be genuine". I hate the way he says that "gets" as if its a privilege for Laios. It's a privilege for Shuro who is nobility and has his behavior and emotions stifled. Laios doesnt understand that others are NOT genuine. he's not from that world.

that's why Laios asks "why didnt you TELL me?" and Shuro says it should have been obvious.

it was NOT obvious to Laios, not at all.

And also, that was who Laios thought was his FIRST friend on the island. he thought he made a friend, something actively difficult for him to do.

it devastated him to learn that he was wrong the entire time.

#dungeon meshi

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Expertise can't help you here.

#dungeon meshi

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every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

#dungeon meshi #oh yeah 100% #gpoy

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- found wanting

#dungeon meshi #blood #gore #IIRC

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she holds him up to her brood patch btw. if you care

#dungeon meshi

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That feeling when your body is requesting something but you're not sure what so you just start eating and drinking random stuff to try and figure it out

#gpoy

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4-Step Shabbat Trifle

2 boxes of chocolate pudding

6 cups milk

1 quart heavy cream

1/2 cup confectioner's sugar

1 quart strawberries

3 bananas

2 boxes vanilla wafers

Step One:

Slice the fruit. Make coins out of the bananas, place in a shallow bowl. Cut the top flat on one strawberry and set aside. Slice the strawberries lengthwise (so they look like little tongues). Put in a separate shallow bowl.

Cover bowls. Set aside in refrigerator.

Step Two:

Make the whipped cream*. With a hand mixer or stand mixer, slowly stir the confectionery sugar into the heavy cream. Then slowly turn the mixer up to its highest speed, and whip until a soft peak forms when you take the beater out. DO NOT whip too long. You'll get sweet butter.

Cover bowl. Set aside in fridge.

Step Three:

Make the chocolate pudding. Whisk the milk into the pudding mix in a large bowl.

Cover bowl, set aside in fridge to soft-set pudding, at least 5 minutes. Take those 5 minutes to clean up to this stage; clean your cutting board and get stuff washed up or in the dishwasher. You'll be glad you did that later on.

Step Four:

Assemble trifle. You can use any bowl with relatively straight sides, but a trifle bowl works best. I got mine for $15 at Fred Meyer and it's one of the best little indulgences I've gotten for myself. Trifles are easy to make and easy to change up, so if you have a little extra, spoil yourself by getting the right dish for the job.

Tools you will need:

A small bowl of clean water

hand towel

2 large spoons or silicone spatulas. Yes, you really need 2. I find the ones shaped like this work best

Arrange your bowls of fruit on the left side on your work area (if you are right-handed) so they are easy to reach. Put the boxes of vanilla wafers in a large bowl so you're not trying to dig down in a box for the next cookie and then knocking the box over or whatever. Put that next to the fruit. Put your wet ingredients (whipped cream and pudding) on the opposite side of the empty trifle dish from the fruit. Set the bowl of water and hand towel where you can easily reach it.

These instructions are specific for a reason! You are less likely to drop a spatulaful of pudding on the table if you are dishing from your dominant hand side. It's less of a big deal if you drop a banana coin.

Create a layer of vanilla wafers, curved side facing down, on the bottom of the dish. Spoon a big spatulaful into the center of the dish and use the spatula to spread the pudding outward from the center to make a layer of chocolate pudding. Go all the way to the glass!

Wet your fingertips in the bowl, shake off any excess so you don't drip water on the pudding. Put strawberries around the glass to create the decorative strawberries around the outside of the trifle. Damp fingertips will help you separate fruit when it sticks to itself.

Make a layer of banana coins on top of the pudding.

Dry your fingers off so the cookie crumbs don't stick to your hands.

Make a layer of cookies on top of the bananas and then a layer of whipped cream on top of the cookies.

Spread the whipped cream using the same technique: put a big spoon in the center and spread outward.

If you get pudding or whipped cream on the glass at the wrong spot, use the straight edge on your spatula or a paper towel to wipe it off, if you are trying to be fancy. If you don't care as much about appearance, fuck it!

Make a layer of strawberries on top of the whipped cream. Set a ring of banana coins against the glass for this layer.

Make a layer of pudding on top of the strawberries, then a layer of bananas on top of the pudding. Set a ring of cookies around the glass: face the top of the cookies towards the bowl, as they are curved and will fit the curved bowl better. Plus it looks prettier. Add a thin whipped cream layer, about halfway up the cookies, and then put strawberries on top. Another pudding layer, then bananas.

On top of the bananas, a layer of whipped cream. You'll end up with a little extra pudding and whipped cream, so put those away in the fridge for later snacks. Or just eat it now. I won't tell anyone.

Anyway, put a ring of cookies around the outside of the top, then strawberries, and in the middle, put the one strawberry you didn't slice, top side down.

Stand back and admire your work. Good job! Wow, you are a fancy adult making a fancy dessert! I'm very proud of you. Everybody is going to be very impressed. Seriously.

Put the trifle in the fridge for at least an hour so the pudding fully sets.

Notes:

You can use Cool-Whip or canned whipped cream if you want to or have dietary restrictions. If you can make the whipped cream yourself, though, it's incredibly easy and it tastes so much better in this than the spray can stuff. Plus, it is always so impressive when you tell people, "oh, the whipped cream is homemade."

You can make a fancy from-scratch pudding if you want to. I just don't always want to do that, and the Jello boxed puddings are fine. :) The fresh whipped cream makes the big difference.

Once you figure out the trifle "formula," you can modify it however you like! What you need for a good trifle, IMO, is:

a creamy element that isn't whipped cream and carries one of the main flavors of the dish. This is usually a pudding or a custard.

whipped cream. This can be plain or can carry a flavor, like adding cocoa powder or a flavor extract. If the whipped cream is flavored, it should complement the creamy element, not be the same as it (so you don't overdo one flavor).

a contrast element. Usually this is fruit-flavored, but you do you. The flavor of this element should complement or contrast with but not be the same as the creamy element. This can be fresh fruit, but it could also be cubed fruit-flavored jello, compote, curd, whatever. You can have 2 of these if they work together well (like strawberry-banana) but this is where it can get too complex of a taste or have too many flavors fighting each other.

a baked element. Usually this is a softer cookie, like vanilla wafers, but you could also make a cake in a square pan, trim off the edges, slice the cake in 1/2" to 1" strips, and then cut the slices to make squares. You can also use shortbread fingers or coins. You can make the flavor of this match any of the other flavors, if you want. I always view this as my "base" flavor, though, the one I build the dish on.

Once you understand the formula, you start with your baked layer, then add others on. Some ideas:

Marble cake, cheesecake pudding, blackberries, chocolate whipped cream.

Devil's food cake, raspberry custard, vanilla whipped cream, fresh raspberries.

Shortbread, dark chocolate pudding, fresh mango, whipped cream

Crushed chocolate Graham crackers (leave plenty of bite-sized pieces, don't grind it to dust), peanut butter pudding, whipped cream, fresh bananas

Spice cake, vanilla cheesecake custard, diced Fiji apples and walnuts, whipped cream. Maybe add a little caramel if you're feeling extra fancy

Depending on the fragility of your baked element, and whether your fruit will get all manky or not, you can assemble a trifle up to a day ahead. Sturdy options like vanilla wafers or cake, and berries or mango, you can assemble a day ahead. Bananas or graham crackers? Nah, do those day-of.

You can use wine glasses to make parfait-style trifles. This is a Smooth Move if you're having a date over and making them dinner. Dang, look how fancy you are. Such an adult who definitely has all their shit together.

This is one of those things which, if you learn how to do, really makes you look like you are super fancy. It takes maybe half an hour, 45m to do if you're using pre-made cookies, between chopping the fruit, making the pudding and whipped cream, and putting it all together, but it looks really fancy and it tastes good and you can so easily modify the flavors to make ✨️someone's favorite thing✨️ for a birthday or anniversary. You can put birthday candles in a trifle, just saying.

Anyway I've been writing about trifle for literally over an hour now. I turned off the show I was watching bc it was distracting me from writing about trifle.

I guess I should stop. Make trifle!

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#food

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#science

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guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

#bug content #yeah okay I'll reblog that

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

#fandom #*salutes*

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^ Pictures taken at the city library showing dozens of usborne books. Definitely still a thing!

Honestly thought I'd never hear the word "usborne" again. My mom used to live and breathe that company, and while I certainly don't regret a fair chunk, I do find it amusing as I look back now. I legitimately thought it had fallen off faster than Juice+.

In reference to a post where i mention my kid has the usborne “see inside germs” book.

So if people don’t know, usborne is a weird publishing company that has done indispensable books for British children for generations; they’re in every library, school and nursery, and have shelves devoted to them in every bookstore. They are how many people learned to read, and are the originators of many hyper focuses. They’re famed for doing educational lift the flap books for all ages, like “see inside your body”, as well as as the ubiquitous touch-and-feel series, “that’s not my….” In which a mouse comments improbably on various creatures not being their creature. “That’s not my dragon,” the mouse says, inviting you to stroke a dragon with a patch of fur on it, “its tummy is too soft. That’s not my dragon,” on the next page, where the dragon’s ears are lined with textured paper, “its ears are too bumpy.” This seems like such an inefficient way to find one’s missing dragon, a fact that simmers underneath you through endless repetition. Why does the mouse own so many things (pirates, ducks, polar bears) and why is it interrogating other people’s pirates etc by feeling their legs.

At any rate, turn a parents’ house upside down and these books fall out.

Which is why it’s completely hilarious that they are also an MLM.

Well. Kind of. In the old school sense. It’s less about signing up a pyramid scheme and more about getting a random citizen to buy a crate of perfectly popular books and try to sell them on from their home. It’s very traditional for Mums On Maternity Leave to do this. Pre-social media and online ordering, they’d hook up other mums at toddler group. Today, they post awkwardly on social media. The idea is that buying from another parent is cheaper than the bookstore, and they get to keep the markup. They get intense about things, and I believe they attend conferences. Nobody makes a huge amount of money and it’s unclear how undercutting local bookstores is helpful; it’s also basically the same RRP as Amazon I think.

And the books are perfectly respectable and sell perfectly well in bookstores.

So. Like. This marketing scheme is completely weird. Why?? Why does it still exist? People buy the books normally! You don’t need to promote them aggressively! You don’t need elaborate independent local middlemen schemes! You can just buy them! I have never understood this. I just file it under one of those weird mat leave hustles.

But don’t worry OP. They’re still going. They’ll never stop. The thing is that your mom got bored and online sales probably ate whatever residual profit margins were left and it’s probably very liberating for everyone to grow out of the “that’s not my cow” stage, but Usborne books are going strong.

#oh yeah we get read a usbourne book EVERY week at the local community centre storytime #usbourne ... phonics explorers? #something like that #hang on I'm typing this at the library let me just go sample #edit: yeah they have them here #edit number 2: clearly I need some more usborne books given I've added an extra u in there

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"tumblr thinks this" "tumblr users act like that" the only thing all tumblr users do is look at posts.

#tumblr

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you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,

#writing

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which is definitely not an omen

#current events #somehow

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My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

#I lol'd #crickets like crickets is sending me

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we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

#reblogged for truth