[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[cheeesypuffart]

moond goddess hwz x pirate captain jccng

[transfemininomenon]

it's a moral failing to still be a harry potter fan

[transfemininomenon]

if you ever worry to yourself that still liking harry potter makes you a bad person it's because it does

[ooklet]

fyi, i will be reblogging a couple versions of this post just cuz ppl have made so many great additions.

there is quite literally no excuse for still giving even a fraction of a shit abt this franchise. i've talked in the past abt how i was a medium-name-fan in the harry potter fandom during the height of its popularity on livejournal, at a time in my life when i was home schooled, isolated, disabled, depressed, unmedicated, and basically had no other friend groups outside of my fellow harry potter fans.

i, and everyone else that i still keep in contact with from those days, have left that shit in the dust. deleted all fanfics, tossed our merch, and moved the fuck on. it is not hard. you cannot use nostalgia or "it was important to my childhood!" as an excuse because i promise you it was not more important to you than it was to me. if i can do it, you absolutely can. no excuses.

the lives of trans people are more important than your nostalgia, and if you're trans and a harry potter fan you're the biggest loser imaginable and you need to cultivate some self-respect.

yes, this includes "marauders" fandom.

[voidspacecowboy]

Not only should it be law that anything AI generated on the internet should be labelled as such but every website, app, and digital service should have a button I can click that removes any AI from my interactions with that site/service. I don't want your AI assistant I don't want your AI-generated ad copy I don't want this insidious little thing that has crept into so much of the internet that I can be using it without even realising or knowing. If you couldn't be bothered to have a human make it I can't be bothered to look at it sorry bye

[smolfairy-deactivated20150914]

dere you go

[oursidae]

ey

ey you lil shits

lets just talk about this here cookie recipe

this shit

is 

the

BOMB

HOLY SHIT

I JUST FINISHED THIS AND WOW IT TASTES AMAZING

YES

WONDERFUL

1000000/10 WOULD ATE AGAIN

[smolfairy-deactivated20150914]

yAy

[post-and-out]

For magic improvements on thing that is already perfect:

Use one spoon white sugar, and one spoon brown if you have it.

After microwave, before noms, add vanilla ice cream.

\o/

[fan-troll]

salt is a flavour enhancer, add just a tiny dash, not enough to make it salty.

[goldpilot22]

Because I love you all.

[purple---skye]

reblogging cause i need to save this

[5bi5]

A note for those who have trouble measuring butter with a spoon as I do: one cup I am sixteen tablespoons. Butter/margarine bricks are usually a half a cup, so just cut one eighth of that amount 

[ironwoman359]

These are really good! And yes, for the love of god, if you have it use white sugar and brown sugar, add just a pinch of salt, and as many chocolate chips as you darn well please. Great with icecream, whipped cream on top, or a tall glass of milk (keep in mind you gotta eat it with a spoon, you can’t dip it in milk) 

Super college friendly (trust me)

[lee-not-garrison]

I made this and it’s super awesome! Bonus things you could add: butterscotch flavoring, cut up KitKats, torn apart Milkyways, and stolen ice cream!

[dying-by-fangirling-deactivated]

Ohhhh boy kiddos have at it!

[whump-mybeloved]

Reblogging so I remember to do this

[esoteric-stars]

Just made this but am out of chocolate chips so used hot chocolate powder a splash of milk and marshmallows. HEAVANLY

[thatonelonelydwaggy]

Reblog to save a life

[starkid256]

i will pray to you

[starkid256]

i burnt it

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay, ill reblog that!

[lemonsharks]

@taraljc i found it I found the sacred mug cookie recipe

[taraljc]

[mudwerks]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

[flippyspoon]

like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[teazart]

The day I share a lab space with someone who got in there purly on AI rather than suffering and learning like the rest of us is the day I throw methylene blue on them so the sins of their academic career are stained upon their skin

[selenekallanwriter]

John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

[guzhufuren]

Some happy things from the first day of marriage equality in Thailand 💗❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

First three couples who registered their marriage in different districts:

some openly queer actresses and a director celebrating this historical day:

[bisexualgambit]

I have ADHD so I’m immune to podcast

[the-pink-bunny]

stealing this from @chefpyro 's tags cause same

[tricktster]

always thought that it was crazy other folks with adhd couldn't focus on podcasts when i was totally immune from that issue then quarantine happened, i stopped driving long distances every day, and you will never fucking believe what I learned I can't do

[freshcuntgrass]

Wait. Do people just sit down and have a podcast without any other sides, like it's a full meal? Podcast is something you ADD to other activity. That's like eating a bowl of cilantro and going "mmm yummy salad"

[peapodsinspace]

[Image ID: tags that read: “#I can only be podcasted when I’m being debuffed by a hand activity. /End ID.]

[catchymemes]

[infinitydivine]

I am not taking a risk

[darlingsstern]

Not risking it pals

[doralimasstuff]

U know what I want potato of luck

[shrewreadings]

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

[filialdisciple]

i have this moshang au where sqq and sqh talk about their old fictional crushes and sqh reveals that his type has always been powerful, cold, and brooding blue-coded characters with a dash of familial angst and trauma thrown into the mix.

shen qingqiu: ohhhh so like sasuke uchiha

shang qinghua: he might've been my first crush actually

cue mobei-jun hunting down any and all information he can find on this sasuke bastard who somehow managed to sneak right under mobei-jun's nose and dared seduce his qinghua.

mbj: give me all information you have on the uchiha clan

sqh: bwaugh??? huh?????

[just-a-fangirlmore]

If suddenly Sarah decides to backtrack from ness*an and make neris (or even nezriel) canon I wouldn't oppose I'm just saying

[soggy-fishsticks]

[anonpolls]

What is “nice weather” to you?

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Voting ended onJul 14, 2024

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[compiler-specific]

[doggendoodle]

everybody say thank you lain

[sunderwight]

I love it in moshang fics when Mobei Jun is smugly self-satisfied about 'winning' Shang Qinghua, while everyone is just kind of ??? about it.

MBJ: I have at last seduced Qinghua with my fat tits and skillful murdering of things.

LBH: oh you were... you were doing that on purpose? you, uh, wanted his... attention?

MBJ: who wouldn't?

Simultaneously glance over to Shang Qinghua, who is literally skulking around the nearest throne, wringing his hands (he's nervous) but it looks like a stereotypical cartoon villain's gestures. It's been four days since he remembered to wash his hair. He has dark circles under his eyes. He smells of stale fear sweat and has ink splotches on his hands and the edges of his sleeves. After darting a quick look around, he reaches into his sleeve and produces some kind of food item, which is barely visible before he starts stuffing it -- rodent-like -- into his cheeks.

MBJ: *sighs wistfully*

LBH: