Cyberpunk Hope n' Dreams

Putting the hope in hopepunk. 27, she/her, Mandalorian food historian

[cyberpunkhopendreams]

Clan Kelmar'e Cookbook and Mandalorian Food History: A Directory

This post will serve as a running catalogue of existing work towards my clan's cookbook as well as relevant canon, legends, and fan-theorized elements of Mandalorian food and food culture.

RECIPES:

Spice Blend and Spice Paste

Maru Cakes

Ground-Nut Stew

Survival hard candy (Kendal mint cake adaptation)

Shaped Dumplings

Flatbread

Breakfast mealgrain two ways

Flat Beans, Crispy Lentils

Winter Custard

Aromatic Lamb Stew

Crispy Greens

Clan Kelmar'e Tiingilar

Gi Dumplings

Fruit Leather

Orange Pot (Mandalorian Chili)

Cheese Plate-Cakes

Green Plate-Cakes

Mass-Produced Emergency Rations

FOOD INFORMATION:

Mandalorian Spicy Food Explanation

Mandalorian Kitchen Theory

Mandalorian Ingredients and Substitutions

Mandalorian Food History: Finding the Inspirations

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

[blorbospinninhouseplant]

Ok but How Do I Do That

[kuttithevangu]

Self-regulation for adults: Strategies for getting a handle on emotions and behavior - Harvard Health

Learn strategies for enhancing self-regulation skills, and discover the benefits of mastering this essential life skill to help emotional dy

There are many techniques (also, there are drugs)

[kuttithevangu]

Emotional Regulation: 5 Evidence-Based Regulation Techniques

Emotional regulation is about managing emotions to maintain balance.

A little meatier than the Harvard page but covering the same ground. These pages will give you additional phrases to google for advice

[thelawfulchaotic]

This sounds wild/stupid/possibly a little insane, but I find that actually addressing the emotions and speaking to them like people is my most useful way of regulating. Emotions are expressing a Deep Concern and Want To Be Heard. Once they are Heard, they are often willing to be soothed or willing to work themselves out with a cry/a walk/a snack/a nap (all things that allow for physical emotion processing and signalling to your body that you are safe).

Often, when they're incredibly intense, they're reflecting those concerns that we have ignored or exiled about ourselves, or tried to bury or suppress. It's not your enemy. It's coming from your deepest self and it's an expression of your truest ideals. Even "destructive" emotions like anger become your allies and friends when you understand why they're there.

And sometimes the message is received but you still need to, like, do the dishes. In that case, respectfully approaching your emotions almost like a compassionate parent will literally get you everywhere. Again, I know this sounds wild. But if your anger won't leave you alone and you need it to, tell it why you need it to and try asking. The fact that this works is so dumb and weird but it fucking works, I'm not kidding around.

This does require being able to communicate with your emotions, though. After certain kinds of traumatic stress, your body might distance itself from your emotions and you might not be able to reach that, in which case you probably need more intensive intervention and maybe better advice.

[samirasystole]

random but here is a recipe for cold peanut noodles that you can make during hot weather because i just ate this and had a fantastic time

2tbsp of peanut butter. a splash of rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, maple syrup. some chili flakes, some sesame seeds. a splash of water to thin it out. now you put in your noodles (cooled!!!! boiled and rinsed so they’re cold!!) and then some chopped up cucumber or carrot or avocado or cabbage or any crunchy vegetable. i just used cucumber

you can also put in lime juice or herbs or sriracha or grated garlic/ginger or anything like that; tofu/tempe/meat for more protein etc. noodle wise this can be ramen soba udon whatever, i used soba. enjoy homies

[arliganzey]

Tag your favorite Repcomm war criminal

[arliganzey]

Everyone in the tags saying Niner: name one war crime my perfect son who has never done anything wrong in his life has committed

[arliganzey]

@cyberpunkhopendreams

I stand corrected

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[mbta-unofficial]

Leave it to a guy being a grump about the ren faire to almost make me log in to my defunct reddit account.

For someone concerned about "historical accuracy" you would think they would know that rennaisance faires were started by the Rennaisance Pleasure Faire of Southern California in 1962 by blacklisted Hollywood fags and commies. If you didn't want to dance around with fairies in the woods you should have joined your local civil war reenactors

[mbta-unofficial]

Realizing that I am still mad about this.

I’m writing a book of history. When I did all that research on brutalism, I realized not for the first time but more fully and completely than ever before the extent to which historical fact is often really disruptive to the stories we tell about it. Most “history” doesn’t even survive the barest investigation of the facts because most “history” is political storytelling.

“brutalism is communist” is one of the biggest stories about Brutalism, and it’s why people both love and hate it, but it’s really not true. Communists invented the word Brutalism to mock American tenement housing which by the mid 50s was collapsing and lacked anything resembling modern amenities. They contrasted it to “the new humanism,” the soviet school of architecture’s high ceilinged, centrally heated, public transit accessible public urban housing. Those apartments built under Stalin are still in high demand in Moscow and st. Petersburg because the architects and the builders did a good job. They’re old, but still decent places to live. Brutalism was a slur for designs that centered cost-cutting over safety or liveability. Meanwhile, architects like Miese or Le Corbusier were designing buildings that centered neither the occupant nor the financier, and were pushing this radical view that material science could make architecture the new great center of artistic expression. “Béton Brut” or raw concrete became the medium of the post war reconstruction because it was cheap but you could mold it into anything. architecture could experiment structurally with techniques that had previously been limited to sculpture and you could get buildings that truly seemed to defy gravity.

The Brut of art brut and Béton Brut was confused with the Brutal conditions of cheap american tenements and then reclaimed homophonically by a bunch of edgy British architects to make a style that is permanently misunderstood even by the people who like it because it was born from this condensation of two separate meanings of the word “Brut(e).” Brutalism only gets its socialist associations in the 70s and 80s when tory politicians started mongering conspiracies about the inherent socialism of public housing (cheap, made of concrete) because poor people lived there. the “commie block” of eastern europe was far more common in yugoslavia than russia until the late 60s and 70s when brezhnev built more of them for, again, cost reasons.

All art is political. All of it. And politics has been moving at the speed of sound even since the first proto-human said “you can’t sit with us” at the lunch table. Renaissance faires are a kind of public art that exists because of a political movement that killed or destroyed the careers of thousands of queer people and communists. Those people, working in hollywood, were trying to live lives, be free, and change minds about what society could accept and when they were blacklisted by HUAC and Joe Mccarthy and Ronald Reagan, they went out into the woods and made their own party so they could stay working and living and making art.

“Historical accuracy” was not the goal. Surviving a political purge was the goal. Now, not everyone who studies history cares about the same things. My roommate in grad school was working on lightbulbs. Just lightbulbs. nothing else. It would have killed me, to be honest. He loved it. But if you are going to complain about historical inaccuracies in the folk tradition that was created to survive a political purge you better damn well be right about what you’re fucking talking about.

Historical reenactment is always about the present. This is true of cotillion and morris and HEMA. This is true of SCA. It’s true of those horrifying plantation weddings and Colonial Williamsburg and the lexington and concord people. But what these things say about the present is very different. And choosing to criticize the ren fair because it has people dressed as “guy fairy” instead of the monty python syndicalist dirt peasants like you expected isn’t standing up for historical accuracy. it’s wishing you were at a plantation wedding where all the things you don’t like can be scrubbed from “the aesthetic”

[mbta-unofficial]

guy fairy by the way

[weepingpussywillowtree-deactiva]

sometimes I think about how far we still have to go with consent

my worst relatives try to sneak meat or meat products into my food despite the fact that I'm a vegetarian

my ex's brother gave his mother an edible without her knowledge and when she got freaked out and paranoid they laughed, and people I've told that go "yeah that's shitty but it's just weed"

when I go to the doctor and ask them to describe what they are going to do before touching me they get frustrated

when I ask a friends of a friend who is a small influencer to keep me out of frame in videos they film for social media in public they look at me like I've pissed in their cereal

idk man, we've got a long way to go.

[mff-doom]

[jenlog]

this is from the 2000’s btw

[anarchopuppy]

Looks like @staff mistakenly censored this comic, which is an ironic and very funny thing to happen

Here it is again. You might want to save it just in case an accident like that happens again

EDIT: HMM. LOOKS LIKE OP WAS BANNED TOO. WHAT A FUNNY. IRONIC. ACCIDENT

[bardan-jusik]

mandos + beskar’gam + specialized support systems

injury rate in mandos is extremely high (naturally) and their understanding of injury, recovery, and trauma is excellent. so naturally, they’d adapt their armor to help them with lasting medical problems…..

mandalorians who have lost an eye having an hud setup that gives them video feed from their blind side in a small popup. its not as good as having two eyes, but no one can sneak up on you from that side. adapted hud control commands, since traditional setups rely on blinking. additional reliance on voice recognition and spoken commands. overlay grids and interactive ai to help with depth perception

mandos with tinnitus from ear damage having constant background noise filters to help distract from the ringing

vitals monitors such as constant heart activity monitoring, blood glucose levels, etc. if you go critical, the system will alert the closest select number of people from a list that you give the program to come help you.

specially designed combat-level prosthetics built into armor. you have your casual every-day wear leg, and your Armor Leg. it’s got a rocket launcher.

support ai and hud grids/horizon lines etc for vertigo, balance problems, etc

sure, you can build a hearing aid into your audio system, but why not also have live subtitles?

i fully believe sign language is a common skill for mandos (and not just for combat) but you could also have a text-to-voice feature that lets you write out what you want to say and have a computer say it for you

hell what do i have to do to get a fic about a mandalorian who practically has a support droid living in their armor. they got sick of having 18 different single-function ais and just got one entire robotic personality programmed in. (what if darth vader’s support suit is actually a droid that he wears. imagine the possibilities.)

[errantindy]

YES. I will steal this.

It’ll still be a while until I get to my Mandos, but seeing as they’re like a Mand’alor’s medical corps in waiting, I’ve always seen them as having a lot of medical adaptations to armor, primarily for themselves, that they then roll out to other Mandalorians who seek their medical services.

Had an idea for a cybernetic eye with connections for additional processing power so the HUD is right in the optical nerve with connection for Brain Machine Interface. The character using it has an astromech who’s much closer companion then usually portrayed, with the cybereye and BMI, the R2 unit can communicate directly with their organic companion without most anyone being the wiser.

[postcards-from-mandalore]

I long for an era where i could feasibly upgrade a prosthetic to something Mando made! Also, configuring my HUD so I didn’t need glasses, oya! That’s the dream.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[zigdirty]

We're not leaving this gem to languish in the comments:

[haunteddollsgeorg]

As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

[enki2]

[hylianengineer]

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

[copperbadge]

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

[charaznablespeteevee]

[gildhartt]

Guys from the previous post about "the correct way" of drawing astartes are officially OCs now, thanks to @soosmain for suggesting the idea in the comments. xd Blood Angel's name is Olivier, Luna Wolf is Igor, names suggested by my subscribers.

[earhartsease]

[tolbiny]

the biggest crime of the mandalorian franchise is that it inexplicably made bo-katan good with kids like she didn't spend most of her childhood being groomed in the woods by a terrorist. she's the most poorly adjusted least maternal motherfucker you ever did see. the bo-katan i know would offer a kid a cigarette and start beef with a seven year old no question about it

[cyberpunkhopendreams]

To be fair, having to lead a planet through a rebellion twice, fail several times, and do a big depression nap for three years really does make you reevaluate yourself and how you treat people. The part of Bo-Katan that ended up besties with Ahsoka is still alive in there somewhere.

Maternal? Nah. Mature? Now, yes.

[thebraveandthebroiled]

Heyo it’s back to school time and here’s a research tip from your friendly neighborhood academic librarian.When searching for any topic on the internet just type in the word ‘libguide’ after your topic and tada like magic there will be several  beautifully curated lists of books, journals, articles, or other resources dealing with your subject. Librarians create these guides to help with folks’ informational needs, so please go find one and make a librarian happy today!!

[okayto]

this is the BEST advice, and there are so many options, both if you’re doing academic research, or just curious and looking for information!

It’s so interesting what you can find!

Dime novels, mystery & detective fiction, adulting (not academic, but still), D&D guide, citation libguides, comics, graphic novels, and manga, German language & literature, differentiating fake news, firefighting, body autonomy for kids and young adults, interfaith women advocates for social justice, cooking (nonacademic)/food culture and cuisine/food & cooking.

[thebraveandthebroiled]

Thank you for excellent additions and very much agre ewith you that cooking libguides are the best!! Have you seen all the ones from the Culinary Institute of America??

Oh! Building on your notes I figured I should mention to everyone that most academic institutions with a library are going to have a page with the research guides the librarians have made for their patrons. This will include basic topic guides on things like how to use the library or how to create citations. There will also be subject guides for areas of study like philosophy or biology. As well as specific course guides to assist classes that are being taught like FM 114: Introduction to the Fashion Industry or BME6938: Nanoparticle Nanomedicines.

If any of y’all have started university totally check out the ones your librarians have put up! There’s a ton up to help you along your research journey. And if you aren’t at university check them out too!! Some of the resources won’t be accessible but there’s loads of information you’ll still be able to use and get to.

[theblairwitchismymom]

Hello, fellow academic librarian specializing in instruction! Many libraries also include guides orientations on how to properly utilize non-subject specific databases. Watch those before diving into your first research project so you understand the tools and features available to you to make your life easier. Many universities subscribe to ProQuest or EBSCO and there are MANY tutorials that will teach you how to use them in less than 5 mins.

Believe me, you will save yourself A LOT of headache with both LibGuides and orientations. Good luck and happy hunting!

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.