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Hi guys! I like apples and fanart/ 23 year old she/ I take requests :)

[cracked-teapot]

Fanart

0- Harry Potter

       -Dramione

0- Avatar

0- Anne with an e

0- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

0- Merlin

0- Good Omens

0- Les Miserables

0- Miraculous Ladybug

0- Gravity Falls

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

gen z Telemachus

[cracked-teapot]

Crooked swords and period clothing, precisely what wizards need

[locusimperium]

[swan-archive]

locusimperium:

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

[brawltogethernow]

So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

[davetheshady]

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

[mxxnlit-witch]

I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!

[dduane]

Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).

[amyamychan]

The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Haven’t tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.

[verteorchidee-deactivated202505]

[cracked-teapot]

How funny is it to read this as a Dutch person. This is quite literally the recipe of boterkoek (cookie made of butter, but I suppose you could've guessed that). Although, traditionally, most Dutch people used to make it in a round, cake like form. My mom used to make it for me growing up and I loved them. We usually only got a small piece, but damn it was delicious!

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Visual development for Raya and the Last Dragon by Mingjue Helen Chen

[maddiesharafian]

Sword Mother 

[omegaverse]

reading a poem a recipe author wrote about her mother who passed and tearing up………. thank you bread recipe for the small dose of heart and tenderness 🥺💖

[omegaverse]

@illness​

[notquiteaghost]

[image text: poem, “Cold Solace” by Anna Belle Kaufman.

When my mother died, / one of her honey cakes remained in the freezer. / I couldn’t bear to see it vanish, / so it waited, pardoned, / in its ice cave behind the metal trays / for two more years. / On my forty-first birthday / I chipped it out, / a rectangular resurrection, / hefted the dead weight in my palm. / Before it thawed, / I sawed, with serrated knife, / the thinnest of slices — / Jewish Eucharist. / The amber squares / with their translucent panes of walnuts / tasted — even toasted — of freezer, / of frost, / a raisined delicacy delivered up / from a deli in the underworld. / I yearned to recall life, not death, / the still body in her pink nightgown on the bed, / how I lay in the shallow cradle of the scattered sheets / after they took it away, / inhaling her scent one last time. / I close my eyes, savor a wafer of / sacred cake on my tongue and / try to taste my mother, to discern / the message she baked in these loaves / when she was too ill to eat them: / I love you. / It will end. / Leave something of sweetness / and substance / in the mouth of the world. /end ID]

[cracked-teapot]

hey, your blog and art is really cool !!! Have a good day !!!

uwu thank youuu, you made my day! Hope you have a good day!

[cracked-teapot]

Redrawing some old ideas

[cracked-teapot]

Een uitdaging als het ware, dat was zijn lach, wild als een natuurgeest.

A challenge it might be, so seemed his laugh, wild as a nature spirit.

I like Dutch

[cracked-teapot]

Dtiys of @nrysae on insta

[cracked-teapot]

I felt stressed and my drawingblock didn't help. But anyways, I decide to draw and post more frequently!

(Let's see how far I will come.)

[cracked-teapot]

I felt stressed and my drawingblock didn't help. But anyways, I decide to draw and post more frequently!

(Let's see how far I will come.)

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

Growing up with your starters

Artist:  esasi8794 / Twitter

[chabbit]

The captions are also really cute, although they mostly describe what’s in each photo:

Bulbasaur: Somehow, nomming on my clothes… has become a weird habit of theirs.

Venusaur: That hasn’t changed now that they’ve grown, but they’re very gentle.

Charmander: It’s my first attempt, but I made a plushie so that he wouldn’t get lonely.

Charizard: That plushie seems to be his favorite even now.

Squirtle: Squirtle’s a bit timid and hides behind me at the smallest things.

Blastoise: Looks like they’re scared of the first Pichu they’ve seen. You’re not really hiding!

[notsomerryerry]

@noelle217

[gale-gentlepenguin]

This is adorable

[arrghigiveup]

They just posted some more!

[source]

[kradeiz]

And some more!

[eeveelution-appreciation]

You forgot these!!!

[cubonepropoganda]

I’m disappointed that these were left out

[lighthouse-on-the-sea]

As promised, Chapter 2 of Past present, future: “Lower all walls” is out, complete with the incredible fan art by @cracked-teapot Check it out here 👇🏻

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[cracked-teapot]

Yesh:)

I'm excited to finally post the artwork! Amazing story! Go and check it out if you haven't already!

[lighthouse-on-the-sea]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I had already published this story a while ago, but rereading it I realized that it could be improved. I could never have imagined (and hoped) that someone incredibly talented as @cracked-teapot would have responded to my request to do some fan art for the story (they will be in chapter 2 and on my Tumblr when the chapter comes out), so thanks again.

The story consists of 4 chapters that will be released on Sunday and Wednesday!

I’ll stop talking now, enjoy the reading

[cracked-teapot]

Oh my, thank you!! Your words are too kind!

To everyone: please read this wonderful story of this talented writer!

[superarthurl]

[krisiverse]

[video description: a man playing saxophone in front of a large pipe. everything he plays echoes back through the pipe, resulting in a call-and-response type song. the person behind the camera claps along to the beat. end description.]

[akumeoy]

a reasonable society would base their entire economy around this