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mine has been a life of much shame.

[decarabla]

it was some good cake

[maureen2musings]

Solar halos are optical phenomena that occur when light from the sun interacts with ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, typically within cirrostratus clouds

visit_earth_photography

[scumbigula]

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[molabuddy]

something i drew a little while ago and never posted...

[gauntletqueen]

fasjhghajf got a new firefox addon that lets you set themes to automatically switch to between specific times, set it to switch to Scary Red at 1am to scare me into going to bed and it works I got startled so bad when it suddenly changed to thsi fajgghasfj

[littleguysdaily]

This was a Patreon Request!

[apricops]

I’m gonna pitch a show as “like Game of Thrones but even more gritty and realistic” and then it’s nothing but a baron handling land estimates and organizing road repairs and stuff. There’ll be an entire episode about how a peasant gets brought to court for letting milk cattle graze on communal pastureland even though it’s supposed to be reserved for draft animals.

[cannibal-sarracenian]

This show literally does exist, its called Ming Dynasty in 1566, the first episode of which is literally just the Emperor’s inner court having a debate over budget deficiencies and land policy.

✂️ Ming Dynasty 1566 budget talk

60 seconds · Clipped by Seigiman · Original video "1/46 - Ming Dynasty 1566 大明王朝1566 - Eng Subs 英文字幕 - Super HD 超高清" by ChineseShowsTranslat

(This show is considered one of the top greatest Chinese historical dramas of all time btw

There are also a good number of chinese period dramas that are basically like this)

[theprofessional-amateur]

Hey, if you never hear from me again it is because I got lost getting to/from my hotel room and am now trapped

I’m honestly not sure I captured all the twists and turns

[cardigarden]

That's not a hotel that's a Scooby-Doo house

[teathattast]

via gracespelman

[randomslasher]

#gender exists purely as an affectionate diminutive

Why is this hiding in the tags

[captainlordauditor]

boy (affectionate)

[twofingerswhiskey]

sir (customer service voice for when my cat, tux, is trying to eat plastic)

[memecucker]

what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

[ace-and-ranty]

That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?

[memecucker]

Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food

[voxiferous-deactivated20171119]

I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.

(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)

[emphasisonthehomo]

Stuff you Missed in History Class has a really good podcast overview of “Foreign Food” in the US.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I LOVE learning about stuff like this :D

[oo0owo0oo]

that corned beef and cabbage thing you hear abou irish americans is actually from a similar situation but because they weren’t allowed to eat that stuff due to that artificial famine

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 FOOD HISTORY <3

[capriceandwhimsy]

Everyone knows Korean barbecue, right? It looks like this, right?

Well, this is called a “flanken cut” and was actually unheard of in traditional Korean cooking. In traditional galbi, the bone is cut about two inches long, separated into individual bones, and the meat is butterflied into a long, thin ribbon, like this:

In fact, the style of galbi with the bones cut short across the length is called “LA Galbi,” as in “Los Angeles-style.” So the “traditional Korean barbecue” is actually a Korean-American dish.

Now, here’s where things get interesting. You see, flanken-cut ribs aren’t actually all that popular in American cooking either. Where they are often used however, is in Mexican cooking, for tablitas.

So you have to imagine these Korean-American immigrants in 1970s Los Angeles getting a hankering for their traditional barbecue. Perhaps they end up going to a corner butcher shop to buy short ribs. Perhaps that butcher shop is owned by a Mexican family. Perhaps they end up buying flanken-cut short ribs for tablitas because that’s what’s available. Perhaps they get slightly weirded out by the way the bones are cut so short, but give it a chance anyway. “Holy crap this is delicious, and you can use the bones as a little handle too, so now galbi is finger food!” Soon, they actually come to prefer the flanken cut over the traditional cut: it’s easier to cook, easier to serve, and delicious, to boot! 

Time goes on, Asian fusion becomes popular, and suddenly the flanken cut short rib becomes better known as “Korean BBQ,” when it actually originated as a Korean-Mexican fusion dish!

I don’t know that it actually happened this way, but I like to think it did.

[darkersolstice]

Corned beef and cabbage as we know it today? That came to the Irish immigrants via their Jewish neighbors at kosher delis.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/

The Irish immigrants almost solely bought their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef thrown into a pot with cabbage and potatoes. The Jewish population in New York City at the time were relatively new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe. The corned beef they made was from brisket, a kosher cut of meat from the front of the cow. Since brisket is a tougher cut, the salting and cooking processes transformed the meat into the extremely tender, flavorful corned beef we know of today.

The Irish may have been drawn to settling near Jewish neighborhoods and shopping at Jewish butchers because their cultures had many parallels. Both groups were scattered across the globe to escape oppression, had a sacred lost homeland, discriminated against in the US, and had a love for the arts. There was an understanding between the two groups, which was a comfort to the newly arriving immigrants. This relationship can be seen in Irish, Irish-American and Jewish-American folklore. It is not a coincidence that James Joyce made the main character of his masterpiece Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, a man born to Jewish and Irish parents. 

[espanolbot2]

Ahh, similar origin to fish and chips in the UK then.

That meal came about either in London or the North of England where Jewish immigrant fried fish venders decided to team up with the Irish cooked potato sellers to produce the meal everyone associates with the UK.

Because while a bunch of stuff from the UK was lifted and adapted from folks we colonised (Mulligatawny soup for example, was an adaptation of a soup recipe found in India and which British chefs tried to approximate back home), some of it was made by folks who actively moved here (like tikka masala, that originated in a restaurant up in Scotland).

[littlenerdspace]

Super interesting.

[ekjohnston]

And that’s BEFORE we get into replacing a staple crop! So in the Southern US, you have two groups of people, one who used oats and one who used plantains, and they BOTH replace their staples with corn. And then you get Southern food.

[iheartallthethings]

For those interested in a really deep dive on Chinese food in the United States, I cannot over-recommend Jennifer 8 Lee’s Fortune Cookie Chronicles.

[decarabla]

dont really post about contrib stuff outside of discord but woah my icons seem to be really well received yaayy

obviously lots of stuff simply doesnt make it due to the resolution im working at but i did have some references and notes going in

and for the wraithenjoyers: there's like a crumb of lore in the direction i got from puri

[downton-not-downtown-smh]

what about blorbhov from my complicated russian novel though

[judasconcrete-deactivated202306]

blorbeaux from my nilihist french plays

[sprachgefuehle]

blorbón from my weird latin american magical realist novels

[hearteyedraccoon]

blorbug from my kafkaesque short stories

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

von blorbow from my german sturm und drang novel

[dichterfuerstin]

Don Blorbo from my opera

[toomanystoryideas]

błórbżo from my polish poetry

[velociraptrix]

blorbocles from my ancient greek epics

[amarguerite]

Mr. Blorby from my Jane Austen novels

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Blorbio from my early modern plays

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Assembling some more from the notes:

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

And the kicker:

[lastvalyrian]

useless rosetta stone

[astronomifier]

hatsune miku isnt even like a vocaloid to me at this point. shes just like... a minor diety. like yno how catholics will pick their favorite saint guy and draw him in situations bunch? hatsune miku is that but for terminally online gay people.

[fruitsoftheweb]

Damage prediction on pears during transportation.

[hollowtones]

bad and naughty children get put in The Pear Wiggler to atone for their crimes

[crocodi1e]

did you know only 1 in 10,000 gar are golden colored? and that i love them sosososososo much? and its my dream pet?

[a-book-of-creatures]

A gar of gold… 42 garats…

[cameoappearance]

That looks like 1 carrot to me

[steamandcream]

thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

[paper-mario-wiki]

read animal farm last night

it seemed like communism was exceedingly good in all regards until one dickhead raised a litter of dogs to kill everyone who disagreed with him and became a dictator. in fact, the book goes to great lengths to luxuriate in how much more efficient and bountiful work under the collective was in comparison to the farmer.

i find it interesting that this book has long been held as the thing weiners tell you to read when you say anything about socialism or communism. like it's supposed to change your mind. there wasn't a subtle or gradual shift into the failure of the system caused by its own faulty construction. everything was just ruined by one cunt who had the power to instantly kill anyone, which seems like something that would cause any system to fail.

[paper-mario-wiki]

if i was on animal farm i would have killed that dickhead Napoleon in front of everyone with my teeth and it wouldnt even be hard.