[ i make art, designs, crafts, read, write, and do that really fun thing called thinking | she/her | minor | aroace | using this opportunity to talk about oc lore extensively]
keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it
when people think about their love interest in front of me it genuinely feels like they're simultaneously here and astral projecting into a lovely romantic earth far in outer space while im still stuck on loveless bitchless earth
send my regards from loveless bitchless earth though i prefer it here
i am of the sincere belief that if ur on ur computer a lot you should visually customize it to high hell and back not just for funsies but also because it has literally made me less depressed before. its kind of like how rearranging your bedroom is good for your brain, yknow. i do stuff like this every few months
LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho
CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)
CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start
DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background
EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):
tabliss for the new tab theme
stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout
enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors
the browser theme is just one i found on the firefox theme 'store'
Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.
The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.
The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.
I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.
I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.
- Crush ca 120g Oreos (separated from the white filling first)
- melt 50g Butter and mix with the Oreos
- press the mixture into a Ø18cm springform (use a drinking glass or similar flat object) and then put it in the fridge
- whip 400g cream until it's not completely liquid anymore
- add cream stiffener (modified starch) and some vanilla (you can also use something else to stabilize the whipped cream if you want. For example replace a part with cream cheese/ philadelphia etc.)
- microwave the oreo filling for a few seconds (just to soften it a little) and add that too
- finish whipping the cream
- separate the cream into 3 bowls
- crush 4 oreos and add them to one bowl, leave one white, and add purple food coloring to the last (I used it because I had some leftover anyway. But it's also possible to use some of the blueberry juice)
- pour the layers into your cake form (put the cake back in the fridge between layers)
- cook ca 250g blueberries in a pot with a little bit of orange juice or water (ca 5 minutes or until the berries are soft and you can crush them)
- strain the blueberries through a sieve
- pour the blueberry juice back into the pot
- optional: add sugar. I didn't because I used double cream oreos so I thought the cream was more than sweet enough, and my blueberries weren't super sour either.
- mix 3 teaspoons vanilla pudding powder (=corn starch) with a couple spoonfuls orange juice
- let the blueberries come to a simmer and pour in the starch while whisking. Keep boiling for another minute then take it off the heat. (it's probably better to use agar agar instead of pudding powder but I didn't have any)
- The next part is a little tricky because you need to let the pot cool down, but not so much that you couldn't pour the mass anymore. Keep whisking every now and then until it's not super hot to touch anymore.
- carefully pour it onto your cake with a spoon
- decorate with more blueberries
- leave the cake in the fridge for at least a few hours
