[gendercents]

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[chaoticconstellation]

Here lies tips, tricks, approximations and actual recipes. As well as insight into why I am so spiteful <3 Base Recipes: Chocolate Chip Cook

Master post: will update as i respond to things

If you don’t know me, Hi, I’m Chaos. I am no longer bound by my Crumbl NDA and I have shared their recipes (I left in November 2021 so I don’t know new recipes but I can try to help anyway.)

I am fueled by my desire to do better and be better than I was yesterday.

I share these recipes so that your cravings for cookies don’t lead you to paying their high prices and allowing them to treat workers poorly by supporting their business.

I only post recipes I have personally made at home to ensure they work.

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Elena Ferrante, from “The Story of a New Name.”

[gendercents]

[Text: Did I keep my feelings muted because I was frightened by the violence with which, in fact, my innermost self, I wanted things, people, praise, triumphs? Was I afraid that that violence, if I did not get what I wanted, would explode in my chest, taking the path of the worst feelings." end ID.]

[poreyneel]

She tried

[curiouslavellan]

[ID: a 3 panel comic of Dragon Age 2 characters taking place in the Fade, where the environment is shadowed and green.

Panel 1: A desire demon smiles seductively, saying "If you want, I can make the Chantry disappear."

Panel 2: Anders smiles confidently, pushing his hair back behind his ear and saying "I'll handle it myself."

Panel 3: Merrill, Isabela, the Desire demon, and male Hawke all stare at Anders. Merrill looks surprised and concerned. The Desire demon looks disappointed, and Isabela has a hand on their shoulder as if to console them. Hawke is grimacing, visibly disturbed. End ID.]

[diomemedes]

my brain would not let me rest until i made this

[curiouslavellan]

[ID: fanart of Anders wearing his black remegade's coat. He has a grim expression and is holding an orange cat like it's a rifle. Overlaid text reads "peace was never an option". End ID.]

[rumpledcrow]

Some froggy affirmations for you🐸💚

(All available as stickers and such in my Redbubble shop✨)

[idescribefrogsnthings]

[ID: 4 pieces of digital art of frogs with positive affirmations around them. From top left to bottom right they are: a green frog wearing a blue blanket that says, "I deserve to be happy," a yellow frog that says, "it's okay to make mistakes," a very round brown frog that says, "I deserve to live," and a blue and green frog that says, "despite everything I'm still me." /End ID]

[ms-demeanor]

The Very Basics of Not Killing Your Computer

AVOID HEAT STRESS

If you have a laptop DO NOT use it on a soft surface like a pillow or on a blanket, it’ll block the vents on your computer and make it get really fucking hot inside.

If you have a desktop you gotta open it up and blow out the dust sometimes.

If you are moving your laptop in a bag turn the laptop off. Don’t put it to sleep, don’t just shut the screen, turn it off, because otherwise it’s in the bag generating heat and there’s nowhere for the heat to go in the bag. OFF. Not sleep. OFF.

DO NOT DROP

Okay I know that should be obvious but drop damage to your hard drive is bad bad news. Be as careful as you can to set your computer gently on flat surfaces; don’t leave it hanging out on a bed where it can get knocked off, don’t set it on the roof of your car. And yes, just dropping it a couple inches can kill your hard drive or totally shatter your screen.

DON’T PUT SHIT ON YOUR KEYBOARD

Look I’ve seen four people ruin their laptops because they had a pen on the keyboard and closed the laptop and it fucked up the screen and the keyboard and it sucks so much and you feel awful after it happens because it’s so avoidable just don’t put things on your keyboard and always check that your laptop is clear before you close it.

PROTECT YOUR PORTS ON YOUR LAPTOP

You’ve only got one power jack and a limited number of other inputs on your computer and if they detach from the motherboard you’re fucked. USB ports get damaged because people use them a lot and eventually it weakens the connection and then they just stop working and it sucks. You can get around this with USB ports by using a USB hub to connect things like your keyboard and mouse.

For your power plug you just gotta be careful. Avoid tripping over the cord at all costs, don’t yank the plug out of the computer. It will SUCK VERY MUCH A LOT if you have to buy a new computer because the power port lost contact with the motherboard.

Don’t move your computer with things plugged into it. Take the power cord off before you put your laptop in the bag, take out the USB mouse dongle, do not travel with little nubby bits sticking out of your computer that can easily get caught or get tweaked or snap off inside of the thing.

(I really can’t emphasize enough that most of the “it will cost more than it’s worth to fix this” laptops I see are because of USB ports and power jacks. People don’t seem to know that this isn’t something that can be fixed easily; a broken power jack is a “remove the motherboard and resoldier components” job, not a “plug a new one in in fifteen minutes” job and most computer repair shops aren’t going to solder things for you and if they DO it’s going to be very expensive)

RESTART YOUR SHIT AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AND JUST LET THE FUCKING UPDATES RUN

You should probably restart more than once a month but whatever. This is actually something that I consider part of reducing heat stress because when your processor is straining to keep up with all the background bullshit that’s running from a program you opened three weeks ago it’s going to use up resources and get hot and look just restart it once in a while.

Also the updates are almost always okay and safe and generally running updates is a good and secure thing to do (though maybe follow a blog dedicated to the OS you run because if there IS a problem with the updates that blog will probably talk about it before the update gets forced on your computer)

ANTIVIRUS BULLSHIT

Yes you should probably be running an antivirus.

Sophos is free and it’s fine. But don’t pay for it - if you’re using Sophos use the free version.

If you’re looking for something paid and a little more comprehensive I recommend ESET - get the cheap version, renewals cost less than the initial purchase, and feel free to get a multi-year version, the credentials follow your email not the computer so if your computer dies before your license expires you can install the license on a new computer.

DO NOT INSTALL NORTON OR MCAFEE THEY ARE EXPENSIVE BULLSHIT. Kaspersky is whatever. It’s less bullshit than Norton or McAfee but not as good as ESET for about the same cost.

If you think you’ve got a virus run the free version of Malwarebytes and get your shit cleaned.

KEEP LIQUIDS THE FUCK AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER

Again this should be obvious and yet. But seriously, just make a rule for yourself that drinks aren’t allowed on the same table as your computer and you’ll save yourself a lot of headaches.

PLUG YOUR COMPUTER INTO A UPS

Okay I fucking hate amazon but here’s a thing you should be using, just search the rest of the internet for “surge protector/UPS” and you’ll find something that isn’t from amazon - APC is a solid brand for this.

Basically you want a fat surge protector that has a little bit of a battery backup and you want to plug your computer (desktop OR laptop) into that instead of into the wall. The benefit of this is twofold:

1) if there’s a power surge the UPS will prevent your computer’s power supply from getting fried and possibly frying parts of your motherboard

2) if there’s a power outage and you’re *at* your computer you’ll have enough time to save what you’re working on before your computer loses power (like, you’ll maybe only have a minute or two on a small UPS but that’s still time to hit CTRL+S and keep from losing work)

At a bare, bare minimum your computer should be plugged into a surge protector but NOT directly into the wall.

BACK YOUR SHIT UP

[we interrupt this yelling for me to tell you that Western Digital has apparently released their new My Passport line and I’m obligated to inform you that you can get a 2.5″ USB 3.0 backup drive with FIVE FUCKING TERABYTES OF STORAGE for $130. Or you can get 4TB for $93. Or you can get 1TB for $53. basically what I’m saying is that it is not only cheap computer season it is also cheap hard drive season.]

[also if you’re getting a backup drive get western digital not seagate seagate fucking sucks and has a much higher failure rate]

Uh, okay, anyway - Do an image backup of your computer every once in a while so that if you get infected or your hard drive dies or whatever you can just restore from backup and move on like nothing happened.

HERE’S HOW TO DO AN IMAGE BACKUP.

SAVE YOURSELF THE WEAR AND TEAR

You know what is cheap? USB Keyboards and USB mice. You know what is not cheap? Fixing the touchpad on a laptop or replacing a laptop keyboard.

Get yourself a USB hub, a USB Keyboard and a USB Mouse (wired or wireless, doesn’t matter) and if you’re using your laptop at home plug *that* into your computer.

Also if your keyboard on your laptop breaks it’s fine just to use a USB keyboard instead I promise; if the screen breaks it’s also usually cheaper and easier to get a used or inexpensive monitor than it is to replace the screen. Your laptop is basically just a very small version of whatever bullshit is going on inside a desktop, if the peripherals break but the core components are fine you can just use it like a desktop.

Unless it’s a piece of shit that doesn’t have any USB ports or video out in which case you got ripped off, friend, demand functionality in your devices I’m sorry.

/rant

[ladyirisse]

one part of da:o that angers me is when you decide to help wynne save the mages and morrigan disagrees saying that the circle mages are weak and allow themselves to be caged, therefore the templars have the right to kill them. i don’t blame morrigan for this philosophy because she’s naive and it’s how she was raised but the issue i do have is the lack of the ability to debate her properly. we should be able to debate the fact that the lives of the circle mages are just as valuable as hers and that we shouldn’t let children be slaughtered because they were forced into that situation. along with that allowing the right of annulment to actually take place reinforces the power the templars and the chantry have over the mages, and that happening at the most liberal tower in thedas sets a precedent to how mages should be restricted all over? all you can really say to her is “well, if you were a circle mage you wouldn’t want to die” to which she responds “actually, i’d kill myself.” so there’s no way for her to actually hear an argument that might actually develop her world view out of her mother’s grasp

[el-im]

[gendercents]

[Text: "When the Europeans came, they introduced the trout," said DJ. "Then what happened is, the trout ate all the small native fish, the kokopu and the bullies. They thought to themselves: 'Right, we own it now, we're kings of the pool.' And then, from out of the depths, from the darkness, came the cultural factor, the old tuna--the giant eel. He's an old fish, and he's absolutely relentless, and he relentlessly stalks the trout." DJ paused. "The eel is morehu, the survivor. I think they'll be there till dot. Till the end of the world as we know it." End text.]

[fadedapparition]

he’s obviously poorly-written but it does bother me how most people talk about oghren because this fanbase is singularly terrible about addicts, and this is a “bad” one. he isn’t a funny cute one like dorian or a fuckable one like cullen or one where his addiction is only implied, taking place mostly in the background where it can be ignored. his problem is obvious, the game is obnoxious about it, and because of that, all the terrible things people believe about rl addicts jump out at once the second it comes time to critique his legitimately bad writing.

this post brought to you by a comment i saw where, in response to this misogynistic video game man, someone said addicts can't love and should leave their families

[deeplord]

Oghren would have been so much better if he was written with dignity rather than just as comic relief, he is a disgraced dwarven warrior that actively CHOSE to go to the surface, which is seen as like. really bad. and really rare. and they could have given us this great arc of alcoholic waste determined to have no purpose or responsibility > a true “cloud-gazing” dwarf that found meaning and love on the surface (BY CHOICE ie not exiled like brosca/aeducan) despite what dwarven society told him his entire life. but becuz fart jokes & sexual harassment we just got the moral of “toxic dwarven caste society is RIGHT and caste dwarves dont get anything but waste and disfavor on the surface”. they even gave themselves a 2nd chance to give him this arc by putting him as a companion in awakening and they abandoned it TWICE!! 

[rat-spit-village]

i get that everyone hates oghren and i get why, however i ask you to consider: that stupid dumb little wave he gives the warden at the beginning of awakening mid-darkspawn fight

[biancadavri]

“Is Oghren A Dilf” - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[grendel-menz]

burning food is an inherited trait

[pathos-logical]

[ID: A comic done in black ink on lined paper. First is the text “Your ancestors probably like the way you cook, even if you’re not too good at it.” Below is a panel of someone with chin-length hair looking upset as smoke rises from a pan on the stove. “2,000 years ago, your (great)+grandmother probably burned eggs too.” Then we see the person in profile. “They like your crooked nose, though they’re biased because you’re the family baby.” The person winces as a ball bounces off their head. “They laugh a little at your bad coordination, but your uncle from 637 was just like that too.”

“There is nothing that could be done to you to make you unrecognizable to them. You could be born as a bluebird, and they would see their favorite colors in your feathers.” A panel of a bluebird. “(Their issues with you are that you’ve grown up too fast, and that you don’t take care of yourself as much as you could.)” The last panel is of two animals with long snouts pressing kisses to a baby’s face with “mwah!” sounds. End ID]

[stonesense]

generally i make fun of the orlesian version of an organisation more than any other but i’ve got to admit there’s no bitch as useless as a kinloch hold templar

[stonesense]

lying awake at night thinking abt how jowan escaped. jowan. one singular blood mage apprentice. who was jowan. he was in the middle of the tower. the whole thing was planned by the templars. they knew he was coming. they caught him. in the middle of the circle. and then he. and then he just. how can i even say this without laughing. how did he get across the fucking lake

[eye-of-yelough]

I finally found the words to describe why I feel like the Inquisitor has no personality (besides the obvious) it’s the humorous options.

In the other games the humorous options were good because they were So Out Of Pocket and inappropriate. You cant consistently use funny options without being. a bit of an asshole at times.

The inquisitor’s funny options are dinner party funny. You cant be a scoundrel or a lovable asshole or an annoying little shit. Even at your funniest you’ve just got the personality of. A guy trying to charm his girlfriends family. Or his boss, which I guess is the point. But still.

[teamlynda-deactivated20240930]

‘Goncharov’ and When Communities Write Our Myths

Studios and publishers control humanity's most powerful tool, but that might be changing.

Very nice shoutout to the tumblrinas here.