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20s | I have never had a thought in my life ever | crying about mdzs, xiao zhan and wang yibo

[locusimperium]

[swan-archive]

locusimperium:

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

[brawltogethernow]

So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

[davetheshady]

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

[mxxnlit-witch]

I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!

[dduane]

Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).

[amyamychan]

The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Haven’t tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.

[verteorchidee-deactivated202505]

[sarawatsaraleo]

[benelockee]

A collection of recent work

[bamsara]

you ever see an art style for a completely different media but you Recognize It Immediatly as that one artist from that One Fandom many years and you double check and you’re right so you’re just I Fucking KNEW IT.  I FUCKING KNEW IT WAS YOU. YOU ARE EXISTING

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

i loooove toxic and codependent relationships in fiction. they are so narratively juicy. if they don’t even warp and mangle each other to the point they create a single, fucked up entity then what’s the point.

[n-haught]

not to be a downer but your twenties are super hard and super lonely and tv lied and it’s not glamorous at all and if you are having a hard time it’s ok and it’s normal and you’ll be ok

[everythingstarstuff]

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[shadow-manor]

[ladiablesse]

self proclaimed leftists with entire graduate degrees on twitter not understanding that tourism in places like latin america and the caribbean is a form of neocolonialism even in places where the national economy is dependent on it. just because the government is making money off of ur lil excursions and hotel stays doesn’t mean regular citizens are, especially in your fave ‘tropical getaway spots’. the fact that sandals wanted to build an entire resort in tobago where my family lives might sound great for the economy or whatever until you realize that they would’ve closed off several acres of land and made it inaccessible to non-tourists which is fucking insane thing to even propose on such a small island. like i’m sorry but do you really think my family is grateful when you crackers come to visit during the winter?? do you really think your presence adds value to their lives?? when the govt invests money in ports but not paving the fucking roads anywhere that’s not downtown/vacation home territory?? you white losers need to put down ur marx for like half a sec and pick up a small place by jamaica kincaid. ​like lol if you wanna be a tourist be a tourist but don’t fucking act like anyone who refers to it as a contemporary form of colonialism is doing too much. ESPECIALLY when this sentiment is legit coming directly from the people living in the getaways you love to visit. i genuinely don’t understand how y’all can grasp the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” shit but can’t understand this.

[ladiablesse]

tourists visit a place where the livelihoods of the 5% of the population they actually interact with are dependent on how well they’re able to kiss their asses and make them feel like they’re the most important people in the world and somehow they genuinely believe that this translates to all of the locals actually liking, respecting, and needing them.

[hawberries]

some MDZS valentines cards from me to you :)

[images are 6 drawings formatted to look like simple greeting cards with pink backgrounds. they depict the following: 1. wei wuxian leaning against a cheerful donkey with a grin, captioned “you’re the apple of my eye!” / 2. lan xichen solemnly playing his xiao, captioned “*flute solo*” / 3. jiang cheng looking a flustered and a little shy, captioned “what i’m looking for…” and then several of his canonical requirements for a wife listed and hastily scribbled out in red, with only the word “you” left at the bottom, circled several times. / 4. a comically brutal drawing of a teary meng yao collapsed at the bottom of some stairs, captioned “i’m falling for you.” / 5. a-yuan planted up to his armpits in the soil and looking pleased about it, captioned “my love for you is growing strong!” / 6. wei wuxian perched on a windowsill, brandishing his flute and leaning over to nuzzle lan wangji, who is seated before his zither. they both look overwhelmingly happy and content. the caption reads, “we’re my favourite song.”]

[fthgurdy]

Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.  

The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.

Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791

[zvaigzdelasas]

God Bless Our Troops

[looksmokin]

They hot glued a spring to a clam and gave it full control over the water supply

[sindri42]

No of course not, that would be ridiculous.

They hot glued springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[strangetikigod]

No of course not, hot glue would kill the clams.

The used silicone adhesive to attach springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[emily84]

[velociraptrix]

[louvelylouis]

[louvelylouis]

[yunwooz]

wooyoung: pleading for mercy san: laughing in his face

[razberryyum]

Favorite moments in MDZS manhua chap 221:

(covers novel chap 87; Lan Zhan catches Wei Ying in the audio drama S3Ep10 only, not adapted in donghua or The Untamed)

If he catches me, I'll....

As expected, Lan Zhan pays for their Yunmeng date 😂

THEY ARE SO CUUUUTE!! 😭😭😭💗💗💗

Ok, get ready for the sweetest and most romantic flying glomp in the known universe:

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😭😭😭!!!

Ancestral Hall next week!

~

Official raws of the manhua (behind paywall): Kuaikanmanhua

Order the English release of the og MDZS novels (mother of all adaptations) at Sevenseasdanmei

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Thank you to Exiled Rebels for first translating the novel so that sad, mostly Chinese illiterate fans like me were able to read it early on. They continue to do great work so please support their translations!

[stuckinapril]

i am a private person who doesn’t like talking about their life but who also compulsively overshares at any given opportunity. hope that helps

[wordshoarding]

Your Love Finds Its Way Back, Sierra DeMulder

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ image id: black text against white background. the text reads "i've hoarded your name in my mouth for months. my throat is a beehive pitched in the river. look! look how long this love can hold its breath." / end id ]

[capriking]

not to be horny on main but I really want to travel with the love of my life

[perplexistan]

#gonna go off on a limb here and say the huge attraction of romantic travel#(or travel in general) #is privacy from familiar eyes #to be complete strangers together is a form of intimacy and reprieve #like that kafka quote i can’t stop thinking about #‘I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me and nobody would ever see us any more.’ #the relief of encompassing privacy - even in public #to be left alone with someone you love #without intrusion of people or responsibility (via @iconicscullyoutfits)