shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.
moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over.Ā
put on clean, comfortable clothes.Ā
put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.
drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.
clean something. doesnāt have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink.Ā
blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something thatās got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
make food. donāt just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if itās ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and youāll feel like you accomplished something.Ā
make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you donāt think youāre good at it.
go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someoneās voice. if you canāt, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you donāt say much, listen to them.
cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.
hey jsyk while hellofresh is dummy expensive and i wouldnāt reccomend it if you already know how to cook (if youāre a beginner like i was when i had it for 3 months, then itās worth it), you should know that ALL OF THEIR RECIPES are free on their website and they all fuck hard
i will say that all the cooking instructions for veggies are pretty much the same (season with salt + pepper and roast on the top oven rack at 425F), but if it aināt broke donāt fix it.
that being said, it also introduced me to methods i wasnāt at all expecting. i would have never thought to use cream cheese in my meat sauce, and now all my friends are constantly asking me to make my special rigatoni.
I am a person who uses Hello Fresh for realsies because it is a bit cheaper than groceries here and definitely cheaper than takeout, but we also remake the recipes when we want a specific one and don't want to wait for it to come around in the rotation again, and therefore I know The Secret Translations of Proprietary Ingredients:
"Cream sauce base" = make a roux, add milk according to how much cream sauce base you're supposed to have (ex: 4 oz cream sauce base = 4 oz milk)
"1 packet stock concentrate" = either one tablespoon Better than Bullion or, if you want to be really accurate, Savory Choice Broth Concentrate packets are available on Amazon and allegedly that's what they use
"Italian Heat Spice"/"Blackening Spice"/"Fry Seasoning"/etc.: I promise you someone on Reddit has figured out what spices they use and in what proportions for each mix, if it's not just a straight up branded mix (like McCormick Grill Mates Brown Sugar Bourbon spice mix)
"Roasted Garlic Herb Butter" (and other compound butters, like truffle butter) = they're literally Epicurean branded butters, they do not hide this, you can buy them online
"Sweet Soy Glaze"/"Ponzu sauce"/"Hoisin sauce" = literally Kikkoman brand condiments: they don't hide that, either
"Sweet Thai chili sauce" = any sweet Thai chili sauce from the grocery store will do. We use Blue Dragon or Taste of Thai because that's what we can get in our grocery store.
Heres your semiregular reminder that opal is one of the worst possible gemstones for engagement rings and tumblr posts about how pretty opals are and how diamonds are bullshit and we should all wear opal rings are not actually well informed or your friends
I will at no point deny that, theyre stunning and look different from every angle and in every lighting, the plays of color are insane, and they can be used to make beautiful jewelry, including, unfortunately, engagement rings. Which then have the tedency to do what opals do best, which is break and chip
The problem with opals is their position on the mohs hardness scale: they are a 5.5 to a 6.5. This in on par with glass. You can break one of these with glass or a knife or any piece of metal. The woman on the left broke hers by accidentally knocking it against her desk. Engagement rings are meant to be worn every day, and they are worn on your hands, which are high contact body parts. Opals cannot properly hold up to everyday use, and will become damaged unless you are lucky. It is, in my opinion, best not to risk it- this is a special ring, your forever ring, an object that meant to be worn daily and symbolizes your love and is, if worst comes to worst, something to hawk if you are desperate for cash to continue to live. You do not want it to break. Moonstone- which is another one i see recommended a lot- is the same way. Engagement rings are special. I would not ever in good conscience be able to recommend something that fragile to be someones forever ring.
Diamonds are not recommended just because of the diamond industry (which is bad, i agree! Please make sure your diamond is ethical if you chose to get one, and my personal opinion is that lab made is better) but because they are the most durable stone out there. You cant break your diamond.
Theres nothing wrong with wanting a colorful, flashy engagement ring, but an opal is not the stone for you. You want a gemstone that is an 8+ on the hardness scale- so stones like emeralds (if youre careful with it!), rubies, sapphires (which come in all sorts of colors), moissanite (typically white, but with twice the fire and brilliance of a diamond), morganite, colored diamonds, and alexandrite are all good choices. Alexandrite even changes colors depending on lighting!
TL;DR: opals are too soft and fragile for an engagement ring. Get opal necklace instead, and pick a tougher stone for your engagement ring.
tactics ogre villain writing: every named boss you encounter is as much a person as yourself, no matter how despicable. they will be mourned when they die; perhaps more than you. never forget that you pave the road to your dream with the bones and broken hopes of others.
final fantasy tactics villain writing: you stand before the monstrous, twisted ruin of a good man who dreamed of a better world, who longed only for the strength to bring it about. also, argath is back again. he hates poor people even more now.
fire emblem: awakening villain writing: this is Villageburner the Bandit and in exactly three turns frederick will insert his entire foot into his ass
Wiiiiild. He did commit murder (in self defense - no judging) and Americaās Best Housewife was sent to jail because of insider trading, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. This is wiiiiiild ššš
also he has every right to make fun of kanye west considering snoop has had a successful career for about two decades including his own cookbook and appearing in movies whereas kanye is a flat earther who had to crowdfund another album because he ran out of money despite kim kardashian being with him, not having the money to produce another album should be the metric when you know you can tell a musician has failed somewhere in either money management or actually being a musician rather then a famous trainwreck
Whenever I think about snoop I remember that episode of cribs where he lived in an unusually modest house compared to everyone else on that show, spent the entire time with his young daughter hugging onto his leg and dragging her around as he walked. He even talked about how he didnāt want his kids to be musicians and that he just wants them to have a chance at a normal life / he doesnāt wish music career drama on anyone
The dude is mega down to earth for having a networth of 135 million dollars and staying relevant for longer than some of the top charting musicians have been alive
he says he keeps a supply of poptarts in the house for his nieces/nephews and grandkids but admits theyre really for him and then goes on to discuss what selection of condiments your fridge should have to jazz up leftover takeout
hes one of the most thoroughly human humans ive ever known of
all these people going on about how Hozier is the peak representation of musical soft masculinity when Snoop has been out here rocking the smoothest braids and most hype manicures for decades
He also did an episode of Storybots and my kids adore the computer man. Which is wild to me. Cuz I remember gangster rap Snoop. And we love and support Snoop in this house.
Hozier is the peak of good white masculinity. Snoop is the peak of good Black masculinity, and on top of what Hozier does, Snoop adds something a lot of Black children never get to seeāyou can be a man, you can have ācred,ā you can be cool, and also know how to make cookies. (Hozier is great, but heās never been cool a day in his life and he freely admits this. The two of them have very different kinds of good masculinity both culturally and personally.)
Thereās this ideaāand the tweet opening this thread exemplifies itāthat being āgangstaā means being self-absorbed, materialistic, and violent. Snoop is just like ānah, I have bling and street talk and Iām higher than a kite and also I love my kids and cooking and FUCK your toxic masculinity,ā and thatās an important message. You can have the look, if you like the look, but you donāt have to be a stereotype to have the look.
Thinking about my latest AU [Itās a Good Day to Die (But Not as Good as Other Days)], in which Nolofinweās oath to follow Feanor becomes just as binding as Feanorās Oath to retrieve the Silmarils, and it has occurred to me, more slowly than it probably should have, that this would have interestingĀ effects on everyoneās prioritization of retrieving the Silmarils.
Because suddenly it isnāt just the Feanorians going,Ā āMust retrieve precious or weāre all going to suffer for eternity,ā itās also the Nolofinweans going,Ā āMust get them back the precious, or Dadās going to suffer for all eternity.ā
But suddenly this is a lot closer to home. This isnāt just the Feanoriansā risk to weigh anymore.
Iām not exactly sure how this would go - enough has changed in that AU that you could plausibly spin any number of scenarios - but I just. Hm. Kind of want a scene where Feanor and Fingolfin are once again dead, and Thingol once again has a Silmaril, except this time, Nolofinweās kids are alsoĀ involved in the debate over whether or not weāre going to kinslay over this, and at least some of them are arguing in favor of the kinslaying.
Because I think it would drive home the idea that the Feanorians were never ā¦ inherently worse than their cousins. They definitely made choices.Ā Frequently bad choices! But they also made them in a world where their equivalent to the sun had gone out, and their world upended. In a world where they were fighting a war they eventually had to concede they wereĀ losing - a world where they realized they almost certainly were going to die, and so was everyone they knew, and the only question was how they were going to go, and what was going to happen after.
And they were wrong! And thatās part of the tragedy, that they were wrong, that there was still hope, and they should have just held on. And it doesnāt make it rightĀ that this is what they decided, no matter what the circumstances.Ā
But it does occasionally make me want to shove the problem into other charactersā laps and go,Ā āOkay. You try it.ā Just to see what happens.
here's ur reminder that axolotl is NOT pronounced like "ak-suh-laa-tl" (or lot-ul), it is in fact a nahuatl word (that most commonly translates to "water dog" actually, very cute!) and is pronounced "ah-SHOW-lowtch" !!!!
i think abt this every time i see a post abt axolotls coz i just know there r so many ppl mispronouncing it and the thought bothers me. if ppl, esp white ppl, reblogged this to spread the word to those who may not be aware, i'd be very grateful. thank u!!
The Law is the height of Godās accommodation of broken humanity.Ā
It is true that Grace does not destroy nature but rather perfects it; however if the nature is gravely fallen and confused about whatĀ āitā is.Ā
Then perfection and destruction will not be easily ascertained.Ā
You know this, if you have ever had to relinquish an illusion about yourself.Ā
There is freedom in truth, yet there is a deep truth hidden in the etymological accident that revelation, understanding, the unveiling of the self, can also be referred to as an Apocalypse.
Indeed, perfection renders one unable to truly survive in a fallen world except by miracles; the one truly human person was constantly threatened by murder (and indeed, the second he stopped calling for protection, we crucified him).Ā
This is also the story of the Saints, the closer they draw to God the more invariably the powers of this world murder them.Ā
(How much should I fear that nothing seeks my death except my own soul?)Ā
So to give full perfection before the end of all things-is to condemn someone to death.Ā
But the end of all things is just that: an end of the present world. This present world that God loved so much that he broke himself upon the Cross.Ā
The Law is a middle road, an accommodation, a grace.
God wished to dwell among us before his death, so we could understand his death when it came.Ā
(and indeed, insofar as we have not fully embraced his death and resurrection in us, God stays with us in this manner, tabernacling in us until the fullness of death and resurrection permeates our bodies).
But, for Godās presence to be accommodated and truly understood, some kinds of human evil need to be exiled; otherwise Godās presence will be a curse for us
(If God does not judge us, we will think he approves of our evil and fall into ever deeper confusion and corruption. If God does judge us, then we are undone).
The law serves to mediate this dilemma; that until we are truly unfallen (as Lewis says, until we have faces, or as Revelation might put it, until we truly have names), we cannot totally internalize Godās grace. Yet, the giving of that Grace is experienced as judgment to the extent that we are wicked, and to the extent that we are truly transformed, makes us even more enemies of the entire present Order of Things.Ā
The Law is the middle road, what can be walked without the indwelling Spirit. It is prudence, the true wisdom of one who must love God but still live within the present order of the age.Ā
Of course, the offer of Christ is more than this; we are called to not just be faithful servants in the present order but transformed anticipations of the new.Ā
And to an extent, all who are called do this; but in this middle state we are a mixture of both.Ā Ā
So was anybody going to tell me that the Phantom Thieves went into Saeās Palace on 11/20 and beat up her cognitive version of Akechi to make sure the real Akechi didnāt bump into him and realise heād been tricked or was I just supposed to find that out by talking to Futaba like five times on 11/21??
Oh, sorry, small correction: the Phantom Thieves went into Saeās Palace on 11/20 and Makoto beat the shit out of Cognitive!Akechi, who was just an ordinary schoolboy with no powers.
YOU CANNOT TELL ME SHE DID NOT ENJOY EVERY FUCKING SECOND OF IT EITHER.
God I want fanart of cognitive!Akechi tied up and wiggling furiously in a closet somewhere.
Oh my god I am so slow on the uptake apparently but I just realised that the anime version of the engine room scene means that Akechi was carrying that damn chess piece around with him everywhere he went after the interrogation room.
Context, if you havenāt watched the anime: it was released several years pre-Royal but the writers clearly had the same realisation that they could have done more with the relationship between Akechi and Joker. Their chosen way of addressing this, rather than billiards and naked bathing, was to have Akechi and Ren play a lot of chess, with Akechi always playing white and Ren always playing black.
After their last game before stealing Saeās heart (i.e. the last one before the betrayal and interrogation room), Akechi wins, and as heās leaving Leblanc, Ren throws him the black king and tells him to hang onto it as a promise of a rematch.
ā¦ and then, weeks later, in the engine room, Akechi shoots the bulkhead switch and at the last second throws the black king back to Ren before making him promise to change Shidoās heart.
Ren then clearly carries it with him everywhere he goes, because in the final battle against Yaldabaoth, after a similar sequence to the game with all Renās confidants cheering him on, the last voice he hears is Akechiās and we see what heās holding in his handā¦
āWhatās wrong? Get up! Itās far too early for checkmate.ā
(Side note: didā¦ did it get bigger? WHAT IS DRAWING ON-MODEL ANYWAY)
So yeah, itās the equivalent of The Glove, but up until now I had somehow not properly thought through the implications of Akechi having the king with him in the engine room.
Itās the equivalent of The Glove but they both took turns carrying it around sadly after the other one died oh my god can we please have a canon version of this storyline that ends with them both definitively alive already
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