florafernalia

Collection of things I like, things I find amusing, and other miscellany.

[bravenurse]

🥪

[florafernalia]

Ffff I love Rookie! Cute illos

[florafernalia]

Hey kids!

Long time no see. I've sort of been busy with work and life in general. While I do draw I seldom post what I make, but you can find me at

http://instagram.com/starinthegutter

http://www.twitter.com/starinthegutter

If you're leaving here that is. I'll still be around, my work is pretty pg so I don't think my stuff will be flagged, hopefully. I hope you're all well!

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[rae-napier-deactivated20180822]

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

Also, here’s the thing about bread that I learnt from baking it from scratch.

yes, it tastes different and has a different texture than what you’re used to. 

[lucifer]

My cousin was murdered yesterday and he’s leaving behind 3 children and a grieving family with no money for funeral expenses so if you could donate or even just reblog this for me it would mean a lot. Like a lot. He was a great person and yeah. Please reblog. Any little bit will help.

[lucifer]

this is him and two of his children. 

[florafernalia]

Reblog for later when I have my credit card in front of me.

[tastefullyoffensive]

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Panda, panda, panda…

[rogueone]

Disobedient. Disrespectful. Traitor!

[ta-dala]

#why would they cut this (via @jadelotusflower)

We know why they cut it.

[wackd-archive]

because the movie was pushing three hours and at a certain point you gotta make tough decisions

[leg-grestrade]

No dipshit. Because Rian Johnson is a racist. Get your head out of your ass. He made time for a shirtless scene from one of the ugliest men in Hollywood but somehow found time to cut a moment of bravery and heroism from the black man who is supposed to be the male lead of this trilogy. Stop pretending you don’t know what the hell people are talking about.

[wackd-archive]

oh right i forgot finn has no other moments of bravery and heroism in this movie

not like he liberated those space horses and gave those kids hope, or he tried to fly himself into a giant death laser to save his friends, or he kicked phasma’s ass in the very scene this brief exchange was cut from 

right, sorry 

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Um…. didn’t Rian Johnson write and direct this whole movie??? He created, worte and directed that scene and I’m pretty sure he didn’t do it just for the sole reason of having it deleted in post????

[itswalky]

edit out your own SJW content to OWN THE LIBS

[fishbug]

It was cut because “whoop hog” is too ridiculous a name for something even for Star Wars.

[itswalky]

“You squealed SPECIFICALLY like a whoop-style hog!  Not any other kind of hog!  It’s very important that I add an adjective to this kind of hog so you know we’re in space, even though in space we’d probably just call it a hog ‘cuz that’s one more syllable than any real life person ever needs SO IT WAS A WHOOP HOG DAMMIT”

[thefunnykafka]

Stephen Hawking, January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018

Born 300 years to the day after Galileo died 

Died on Albert Einstein’s birthday 

March 14: Annual Pi day (π)  

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny” - S.H.

[florafernalia]

Rest among the stars, dude.

[parakeet]

this is rlly interesting and u guys shuld give it a watch

[creatoremagico]

My friend wrote an essay on this in collage around ten years ago. It’s hard to believe Disney still haven’t aknowlaged it even now.

[follow-delshark-instead]

Mmmmmyup.

[florafernalia]

I’m all for giving credit where credit is due. I just wish Disney would do the same.

[gobblechopstv]

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[karlhadrika]

RIP #toysrus

[florafernalia]

:(

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[florafernalia]

I wonder if David ever made is ultimate-mega-super business corporation dream come true?

[ermytarya-deactivated20201202]

focus reading interrupted by stop breathing secret technique

[mintffxiv]

[magatsumagic]

my children

[florafernalia]

Wow, an update.

Hi everyone, it's been a while. I've been living. Finished animation a couple years ago now but it feels like longer. I have a job working for a pretty cool company doing design work, which is awesome- it's what I was made to do, and I'm happy I'm out of customer service. It's funny, I had a short stint working at a grocery store by me, and they can't comprehend that I have a career now. I get asked how my job is going, if I'm looking for work, etc., and it's just like- if I was looking for work? A grocery store is the last place I'd go to find it. Anyway, I'm happy with my job. I'm happy with life, for the most part. Though recently things took an unexpected turn. Well, recently as in the last 4 years. First, in 2015 October, our cat Artemis passed of heart failure... he was 15. Then, my bunny Chino, passed in 2017 from old age (not so unexpected I guess) then Jones... just last month. He was 8. I think of all the deaths I've had to endure in my life. Jones' passing was probably the hardest thing I've ever had to go through. I want to type about it... but maybe some other time. Even now, it's hard to talk about. I get all the details out and I freeze when I have to relive what happened. It's still too fresh in my mind and it literally pains me to talk about it, I loved him so much. Yoda is doing well and to be honest? I think he's happy being an only cat again. I think he of course misses Jones' presence, but he keeps Aaron and I company and gives us love and kisses when we need it. I was home sick the other day and in bed most of the time, and Yoda was up there with me for a good majority of the day, purring and snuggling. He's such a good cat, and of course we're doing our best to give him the love and attention he deserves. I'm just trying to stay positive. The weather is beautiful lately, I have a great job, with supportive co-workers, a loving husband, ginger cat, an amazing family, and good friends. I have a roof over my head, clothes on my back, and I'll get by. Every once in a while though... and, granted... it's only been a few weeks... I get the need to cry. I walk up to Jones' and Artemis' urns and I just stand there, holding one of Jones' toys, and I let it out. They were both amazing in their own ways. It's just so hard to believe they're gone now. I hope I'll see them again... but for now I'll remember them, and try to stay positive, and think about the good times I had. I hope everyone is doing well. Keep your family members and pets close... you never know when they'll be gone.

[cheese24k]

News Anchor in my area loses it over a Fat Cat that likes to swim.

[missjonesie99]

I don’t know what’s funnier, how she said physical activities or the snort.

[auncyen]

I love how she gradually loses it. She gives it her best try and then you can just hear where her composure starts breaking down.

[tamhonksss]

i always lose it when her voice trips into the fifth dimension as she says physical activities