Anxious Mess

Clay | 24 | Trans | Scorpio | He/Him | INFP | Asexual Demi-Panromantic | I just post random interests to this blog. I have no theme, and will go through random spurts of specific interests. I don't generally tag my posts unless I feel it necessary, please let me know if you want me to tag anything specifically (A link to the post you want me to tag would also be appreciated)

[arishatistic]

To the boy who sought freedom….Goodbye. 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[actualmythicalcreature]

I taught my kid that swear words (important note: this does not include derogatory names for groups of people) are just words that can carry a social consequence. When you are a child, this consequence isn’t on you, as much as it is on your parents, who are responsible for you. As such, parents usually just ask their kids not to swear. Instead of that, I told him to ask me before he swore so I could explain the potential social consequences and we could make the decision together. So far, he’s asked a handful of times if he could swear at Trump while we watched the news. I found this perfectly acceptable, so he got to say “Ｆｕｃｋ trump”. Once when he dislocated his knee, he asked to swear - I said yea, he yelled “HOLY SHIT OUCH” and I asked if it made him feel better, he said it did. Once in traffic someone almost hit us and he asked to swear, I said yes - he said “That guy is an ASSHOLE” and I was like, yeah. 100% he was. He’s never asked to swear at a time that I felt was inappropriate. I have 0 regrets about this parenting decision.

[peachdoxie]

@fuckyeahfuck

[insomniac-arrest]

People assume that being a magical girl is all about sparkles and moon beams and romance, but the thing that the masses miss about the power fantasy behind magical girls is that almost every single protagonist is a HUGE jock

“All magical girls are clumsy and personality-less”

Actually, all magical girls are RIPPED, little girls dream of physically dunking on you while looking cute doing it, and we SUPPORT

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[skunkeyemcghee]

Read this again.

Read this to others.

Force the idiots, read it to them

[nemirutami]

“I’ll become a shooting star.“ 

Commission for @eigaon ! Based around the sentence above. You might say the shuake jumped out with this one.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Stand by your partner as an equal!

[donnamissal]

[parasect]

Thanks, tumblr mobile, for unintentionally making this even funnier

[po-acus]

Just as I said, “is this ever going to load?” One gif loaded and honestly it answered my question perfectly.

[sternenhimmel-mond]

Together they create the full set.

[bartziefluff]

saw this again on my dash after reblog and…

[tuntematonkorppi]

tumblr black out poetry

[tiktoksinspo]

[justlookatthosesausages]

I refuse to believe this did not happen in canon

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[kestrel-tree]

Well someone displeased the sky gods didn’t they

[augustdementhe]

My first thought was someone pleased the sky gods, because this is a SHOW. 

[madmaudlingoes]

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

[talesfromgringolandia]

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

why is this fire quote from a tumblr post

[mythopoeticlicense]

Because tumblr is the real world equivalent of infinite monkeys using typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare.

[mlekonya]

oblivious

[nube-1-deactivated20210117]

[northofcorpis]

That fuckin smile at the end

[bettsplendens]

To the worried person in the comments: 

No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink, which is a Pokemon that supposedly powers its heart by bouncing, and as such can’t stop moving. Hummingbirds don’t sit often because they’re busy looking for food, but they can and do sit. The females sit on eggs in nests, after all, and they do have to sleep. 

[sindri42]

Fun fact: the leg muscles of a hummingbird are so stripped down to save on weight that they cannot walk. They can step sideways along a branch or other perch, but they cannot go forward without taking flight.

However they absolutely do stop moving. In fact, hummingbirds hibernate! Overnight. Instead of sleeping. Because if they tried to sleep like a normal animal their hyperactive metabolism would mean that they starve to death before breakfast.

Unrelated fun fact: the primary Aztec god of war would take on the form of a hummingbird, and the souls of the bravest warriors were said to turn into hummingbirds in order to join him after death, presumably because every hummingbird is approximately four grams of pure concentrated asskicking which fears no man nor beast and will gladly throw down with somebody seventeen thousand times their size if offended.

[ubercharge]

this is a really cool post and i love seeing such a small bird but reading “No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink” killed me 

[battlevilla]

I just got RICKROLLED by The Pokémon Company IN 2021

[satansappendix]

Ah no wonder Horse was animated so smoothly

[spiftynifty]

Just want to add to this because I’ve seen almost NO ONE talking about the animation in this show and who’s behind it:

Animation for show was done almost entirely at a studio in Canada called MERCURY FILMWORKS. They did ALL of the centaurworld stuff, with a Korean studio (Red Dog Culture) doing the Rider/Horse world. If you’re going to talk about the animation in this show, PLEASE PUT CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. The show was animated by, again, MERCURY FILMWORKS, and it was animated in Harmony. As far as I know James Baxter didn’t animate anything on the show itself, but he probably served as a consultant occasionally, and it’s important to read that in this quote itself: He did a Masterclass on drawing horses, which may have helped the designers in LA and maybe some of the animators at Mercury (though they already had a sizeable amount of experience with 4-legged creatures and horses thanks to Tangled and Lionguard). Animated shows produced by Netflix are not actually animated AT Netflix.  Why does the animation on Centaurworld look so beautiful? BECAUSE THE ANIMATORS AT MERCURY ARE EFFING TALENTED and have EFFING TALENTED ANIMATION DIRECTORS THERE. At MERCURY. You’ve seen their Mercury’s stuff before, they’ve been around for like 20+ years, but here’s some other shows Mercury’s done (animation, BGs, FX).

Animation, particularly 2D animation, is rarely done in the States. Most of your faves were animated in Canada or overseas and the studios responsible for the animation rarely get named which is frustrating, especially since not all shows or studios will fully credit the hundreds of people who work on the production side of things (Centaurworld did though, which is really cool!!).  Anyway, yeah, just wanted to clear that up. James Baxter is an incredible animator and I’ve seen a couple masterclasses myself and they’re just amazing. But credit where credit’s due, animators don’t need to be Baxter to be incredible, and the many animators who worked on Centaurworld are the ones responsible for how beautiful it is.

By the way, you can see some of the work of Mercury’s talented people on their Instagram where they feature their artists and a sample of their work. 

[ibakesouffles]

stop everything, this is bitty doing research for his thesis

there’s more lmao, unhinged bitty energy

[kirain]

I showed this tiktok to my grandma to make her laugh, but now she’s all excited and actually wants to make a chocolate potato cake. We’re gonna do it.

I’ll keep everyone posted.

[kirain]

It’s happening, folks!

[kirain]

Looks good, but we’re not done yet!

Our sweet, sweet child needs to cool before we add the finishing touches!

[kirain]

My creation is complete!

After dinner, we’ll give it a taste test!

I wonder how it’ll taste.

[kirain]

Oh…

My…

God.

It’s incredible!

This stupid cake, made with potatoes … is delicious! It’s so sweet, moist, and decadent, just like a brownie! And I don’t even like chocolate or potatoes!

The recipe from the tiktok was pretty much impossible to find. I looked high and low, but everyone posted recipes that I KNOW he didn’t use because the ingredients and methods were different. After some searching, my grandma and I came up with our own recipe.

For the Cake:

1 cup mashed potato

2 cups sour cream

1 ¾ cup flour

1 ¾ cup sugar

¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

½ cup softened butter

2 eggs

1 ½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Pinch of salt

For the Drizzle:

4 oz semi-sweet chocolate

½ cup sugar

3 tbsp corn syrup

2 tbsp water

A lot of recipes called for a mixer or a processor, but my grandma and I wanted to make an every-man kind of recipe, since we know not everyone has those things. Plus they’re heavy and a pain to clean anyway, so bowls it is!

Instructions:

1. Peel and boil the potato, then mash it. Set aside to cool. Go to the bathroom, do your homework, then come back. That should be enough time.

2. Set oven to 350°F.

3. Cream butter. This means putting the sugar and butter into a bowl and mashing it together with a fork until it’s thoroughly mixed.

3. Put everything else in the same bowl, including the mashed potato. Mix and stir well. Work those muscles!

4. Grease a pan (doesn’t matter what kind you use) and spatula batter into pan. Even out if necessary.

5. Bake in oven for 40 minutes.

6. Test cake with pick. If nothing sticks, it’s finished. If batter does stick to pick, let it bake a bit longer but make sure it doesn’t burn. Remove and set aside to cool.

For the Drizzle:

1. Cut chocolate into tiny squares.

2. In a small pot, mix sugar, corn syrup, and water.

3. On medium heat, wait for mixture to sizzle and stir it. Do NOT let it boil.

4. Remove from element and add chocolate.

5. Wait for squares to melt, then mix.

6. Drizzle or pour over cake.

Enjoy!

[ironwoman359]

I’m so glad there’s a recipe now, I really want to try this!

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Hey here is a thing that happened. We went for a simple ganache for the glaze. Heated 1 cup of cream till hot then poured over 1 cup of semisweet and 1 cup of milk chocolate chips. Whisk untill melted and pour over your chocolate mash potato cake

[thefringeperson]

Found the original recipe!  (Apparently it was listed as a caramel potato cake in the original recipe book???  Anyway, now there’s two CPC recipes!)

Chocolate Potato Cake

½ cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs ½ cup milk ½ cup hot riced potatoes [just pure potato, mashed, no milk or butter or pepper or salt or whatever, just pure mashed potato] 1 cup flour 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp clove ½ tsp nutmeg ½ cup grated chocolate ½ cup chopped nut meats [optional, never ever feel pressured to add nuts to your chocolate cake, our guy here didn’t!]

Just… put everything into the mixing bowl in that order, with lots of mixing in between each addition.

Into a greased and/or lined tin, and then into a moderate oven for 55 minutes (or until cooked).

Frosting

2 Tbs butter 1 cup sugar ¼ cup milk 1 square unsweetened chocolate ½ tsp vanilla [also optional, since again, not mentioned by our maker here!]

Boil, but be careful it doesn’t burn. …Basically?  Stir constantly!  (also, apparently the vanilla only gets added after the mix is taken off the heat…)

[thefringeperson]

He did a long-form!  He explained the steps!

[kouha]

my very small yet ongoing collection of anime guys eating things they arent supposed to eat in total silence

[thatfriendyoualreadyhave]

i hope this video is 5 minutes long someday

[rustandruin]

I have never wanted something more.

[teamponytail]

[christopher-bryant]

[floopthecooper]

this is worth it for the last reblog alone

[ruinedchildhood]

So this happend.

[attabeen-blog]

why do height differences in shipping always have to be about one being really tiny and the other being really tall. what about one being exactly a single inch taller than the other and the second being consistently angry about this.

[so-cold-in-alaska]

@incorrectnerov-quotes