Independent Mender

(( 28 | multi-fandom | OCs + ...everything else ))

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[eorzean-cabbage]

Nothing funnier to me than when people just name their pets people names. That's a Guy. He's on 4 legs.

[eorzean-cabbage]

She Has Been Mashed (potatoes).

In a few hours I'll make the main character I think (the pork chops). I can't imagine how my mom and grandma cooked all day when I was young, and I'm not doing this again for even my soulmate. We gotta stay near takeout places if I ever find anyone.

[eorzean-cabbage]

OK fine the potato men win. We need some milk in this.

[eorzean-cabbage]

About to make some substitutes to butter and milk in the mashed potatoes I'm gonna make for a side and thinking about how you gotta know some things about what makes a dish comes out the way you want it to -- you're adding fat, and oil can replace butter if that's what you want -- in order to be successful.

Women who were largely delegated to uncompensated housework for the men in their lives are, in the end, no less brilliant chemists and scientists and artisans than those who wrote themselves down in history books, at the exclusion of those who actually feed them at home, I do think.

[eorzean-cabbage]

Teach your kids and younger relatives how to cook please. I'm 29 years old and having to Google how to make mashed potatoes.

[eorzean-cabbage]

OH FUUUUUCK RASPBERRY SHRUB IS SO GOOD WITH SPARKLING WATER.

The tangy sourness of the white wine vinegar + acidity from the raspberries, and it's all tempered by the sugar you cooked in. Mixed with sparkling water. It's like a fruit soda with none of the mildly alchemical taste the cheap brands could have.

Max Miller has this for free on his website - it only needs raspberries, white wine vinegar (canNOT be distilled vinegar, it will ruin the taste, but if you don't mind the color looking uninviting you can use apple cider too, red wine vinegar would have the same effect but a different taste I imagine), and sugar.

Link to the recipe.

Link to his YouTube video on this, also free.

Support Max on Patreon though, if you feel generous! He makes these historical recipes all the time and has his own cookbook, though I'm not really a chef and don't have it. I can't pull Patreon link right now because I'm on mobile, but.

#MyPotion

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[canonkiller]

guys the point is "reflect on how you have learned bigotry through exposure and you parrot it in your own works and in the fandoms you engage with without self awareness" not "tell me, specifically, what random motifs you think are evil"

[canonkiller]

on the flipside, to everyone adding notes about hooked noses, turbans + headscarves, nonwhite features and cultural clothing in general, mental and physical disorders, and surely others I've missed in recollection: you are entirely right and should say it.

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[swordmaid]

back to the shadows 🌑

inspired by the storm by pierre auguste cot, shri’iia and astarion running away from the sun bc he’s a vampire and she has sunlight sensitivity.

please zoom in to see the details! 🥹🫶

[eorzean-cabbage]

Are u telling me there isn't a SINGLE lidded glass jar in this whole house big enough to store some syrups--

Opened seasonings cabinets and all the recycled chili crisps jars are containing other seasonings.

Ah. Yes. Asian Household.

[eorzean-cabbage]

60% of having a pet is the wonder of being close enough to another animal that, while it doesn't understand you like a human does, love and trust you enough to not only allow you near it, it lets you touch it and mess with it and cuddle it.

40% of having a pet is cleaning vomit, shit, and piss for this animal.

100% of this entire experience is love. Which, I think, wouldn't have been possible if human beings aren't so dedicated to the caring of others. Even the things that don't understand us.*

*an exaggeration; my cats do understand English, Vietnamese, and any other languages necessary to be weaponized at mealtime

[hibi-flower]

sources: unknown // unknown // maplepecanpastry on tumblr // ashmanathletics on tiktok // i saw the tv glow (2024) // pray for me by kendrick lamar // unknown // what are you waiting for? by derald cannon jr. // unknown // unknown // drunk drivers/killer whales by car seat headrest // polekingrasputin on instagram

on waiting / on saving yourself

[discordantcongregate]

'Oooh if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life' false. I'm a glassblower. I love glass more than (almost) anything else. And I have worked. Every day. For the past four weeks. And I am just as burnt out and depressed and miserable as when I was killing myself working at the Home Depot. All of that labor is tainted with the knowledge that if I hadn't done it I wouldn't have been able to eat. Or live indoors. Or support my partner. Capitalism is hell, dont let anyone fucking lie to you and imply that if youre fucked up about it you're just doing it wrong.

[eorzean-cabbage]

Oh the Starbucks recipe didn't use heavy cream in their mocha either. It's in the whip cream only. 🤔 So I've been making it pretty close to the real thing.

I make it hot, though, and adding ice dilutes the taste, without the whipping cream to balance. I might still add some half n half in there to keep the uh. Potency. I like my mocha not too watery.

[eorzean-cabbage]

Oops I fucked up the raspberry shrub. 💀 Sugar AFTER infusion, not before.

Well, still gonna boil it and find out what happens.

[eorzean-cabbage]

ITS DELICIOUS.

And nowhere near done. Simmer for 20m and then it needs to chill completely. But wow just the syrup is already very refreshing.

My mom was like 👀 when she saw me around the kitchen this morning so I seasoned the pork chops but I'm probably making that around dinner time.

Which leaves me no plans for lunch... let's see which of the deli shops around here are having a sale.

[eorzean-cabbage]

yOu ArEN't reAdY fOR mY POTiOn yOUnG MaN