Breezy

Charm is deceitful

[holmeslikesherlock]

My hands are in pieces. Countless cuts cover them. My once maintained nails are now jagged and coated in dirt. What am I becoming?

[tiotitulo-deactivated20260111]

I AM AND FOREVER WILL BE HORNY FOR HOLLIS ON MAIN 

Side note I’ve been going through the reblogs of my last drawings (as you do) and many of you liked my version of Hollis so,, thank u so much and god bless my dudes

[arkheia]

[Image description: fanart of Hollis from TAZ: Amnesty, standing and looking forward with a serious expression. Hollis is a slender person with tan skin, grey eyes, and wavy black hair in an undercut with sideburns. They have a scar over their left eye, are wearing black pants, a black undershirt that becomes fingerless gloves, and a fur-lined black and yellow leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders. They are carrying a baseball bat with a black and yellow striped handle, and have a black and yellow striped motorcycle helmet tucker under their other arm. End ID]

[sutexii]

i’ve been re-watching x files again and im……back on my bullshit

[best-of-memes]

Rich people showers

[officialkeikoandgilly]

[labyrinth-runner]

reblogging for that gif

[immenseheadaches]

i’m sorry i couldn’t help myself 

[laterovaries-deactivated2017022]

Not gonna not reblog this….

[atomskdluffy]

The drawings are a necessary addition. (Gargle shower and fireplace showers still best)

[mr-prism]

*muffled screams*

[that-guy-who-loves-cats-deactiv]

Finally this post showed up on my dash

[blackqueerblog]

being aware of the impact of things we can often not think about (like straws) is important if we’re to make strides on environmental preservation 

that does not eclipse the importance of being aware of how it impacts disabled people. they’re both conversations we need to have

[tasselfairy]

Have a beary nice day

[hellolovelyscientist]

@tasselfairy you are a joy to my heart

[vulpetrope]

finished an older drawing of miles for a print! I love one sunny boy ;v;

[typhonserpent]

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[you2018]

[ID: op is four tweets from Justin Mcelroy (@/justinmcelroy) reading, “I absolutely love Broadway, but I feel like in 2019 it could be so much more accessible to the public at large. I get so sad thinking about how many of these shows will slip out of public consciousness without ever reaching everyone they could have. At the same time, I realize that inaccessibility is part of live theater’s charm, that idea that you CANT just stream it at home. I don’t have a solution!

I looked forward to seeing the Groundhog Day musical for years. Literally. It closed after five months and there will be no tour. I can hope a community theater will do it, but zero chance of that, because no one has seen the show. for me it’s geographical, for others it’s financial, for others it’s disabilities that make theaters literally inaccessible. Great art should be universally accessible. That’s all I’m saying.”

reply is a a conversation between Justin and James Marion:

James: Missed the mark here juice Justin: nope James: Theater is live, it’s the whole point. It’s okay to miss art. Art is happening everywhere all the time and not everybody needs to be able to experience all of it

Justin: I grew up Baptist in West Virginia and (I know this is hokey) but Rent literally changed my life ,and only because I was extremely fortunate to go see it on a school trip once. The idea that some kids just don’t get theater in their lives because “theater is ephemeral” or whatever is just morally unacceptable to me /end ID]

[dilfbrucewayne]

Concept: Wooloo but make it cosmog

[liquid-easy]

@silentstar

[andasideofpanache]

I think my favorite part in any video game I’ve ever played is that bit in Portal 2 that essentially goes:

GLaDOS: “Great, this is the part where he kills you.” Wheatley: “Hello! This is the part where I kill you!”

Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You

*Achievement Unlocked: The Part Where He Kills You”

[jacobtheloofah]

#song playing: the part where he kills you

[crazygingerlady]

[igmakeup]

[art--woonz]

Sea Glass By IG: @seaglass_takechan

takipçi hilesi Pinterest: @artwoonz

[goblinblogging]

Eat?

[honeybearbutch-deactivated20200]

Forbidden gummies

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[cobaltbeam]

Snakes - acrylic and gold leaf on wood Available on my redbubble!

[docholligay]

Coming from a state champion baker:

If y’all use a decent box mix and use melted butter instead of vegetable oil, an extra egg, and milk instead of water, no one can tell the difference. I sure as hell can’t. 

Also, if you add a little almond extract to vanilla cake, or a little coffee to chocolate cake, it sends it through the roof. 

This concludes me attempting to be helpful. 

[meowjorie]

yo I can vouch for this I’ve done this for the last few cakes I’ve made and holy crap it makes suuuuch a difference the cake is still fluffy, but it also seems more dense, and it doesn’t dry out like at all you can leave it uncovered on the counter all day after being cut into, and it won’t get all crusty and dry this is an amazing way to take your cakes to the next level

[leaper182]

Does this count as cake hacks?

[haberdashing]

cake: hacked

[nentuaby]

OK but if you’re adding all that to the mix why not just scratch bake? There are literally only four ingredients you’re NOT adding yourself at this point.

It’s always so baffling when mix hackers give you a whole ass cake recipe. Like there’s some kind of magic to mixes that needs to form the core of the thing instead of just, a couple dry ingredients and powdered milk.

[zerofarad]

presumably as a step of intermediate complexity between mix baking and scratch baking, when neither of those fits your complexity needs exactly?

[condensed-theorem-shop]

In particular, this is a useful technique for people living in dorms, or traveling, or similar situations!

Baking from scratch means you’ve got to buy a whole tin of baking powder and only use a spoonful, and a whole thing of flour, and maybe multiple kinds of sugar, and maybe cocoa powder, maybe spices, and there’s no way you’re going to use up any of those, you’ll just have to pitch them when you move out.

Not to mention that you’ve got maybe one measuring cup, and there’s no way you’ve got a sifter, and you probably don’t have measuring spoons and how sure are you that your eating spoon is actually the right size…

Scratch baking is great if you’re going to do it regularly! But for situations where it doesn’t make sense to invest in all the tools and ingredients, cake mixes are very practical.

[bigscaryd]

Scratch means you have to worry about ratios. Scratch means you have to keep cake flour on hand. Scratch means you don’t get the benefit of some of the CHEMICALS in the mix that are 100% beneficial to excellent cake.

I bake some things from scratch. Anything requiring creaming a mix is basically a sad joke because all the work is the creaming. Standard cake is not one of them.

Of course, me being me, a standard cake is usually just a component - I don’t actually like “just cake” that much and canned frosting is terrible. So while I don’t scratch bake cake, that cake is getting saturated with tres leches, or put in a trifle, or getting add-ins before baking anyway.

But in a larger sense, who cares? Baking is hard and for fun anyway. Why bake-shame someone?

[audreynical2]

Just FYI… A LOT of professional bakers (probably more than half) in the US at least use doctored mixes rather than scratch ingredients even for their more expensive cakes like wedding cakes. There are whole forums where they talk about this amongst themselves.

In taste tests they’ve found that while customers may ask for a cake from scratch they often end up preferring the taste and texture of the doctored mixes when all is said and done.

Unless you have some particular allergies or some other reason to avoid box mixes they are often the better way to go.

I’ve been looking into opening up a home bakery and part of the task of producing food for the public is making sure your items are standardized so that every person who gets a cupcake (for instance) is getting the same quality, size, etc., etc.

Doctored mixes really help with that since big companies like Duncan Hines buys in larger quantities, can afford to test/discard bad batches and will rarely have a one-off batch of flour or flavoring that are bad or go bad like you can at home.

[condensed-theorem-shop]

Nice seeing this going around again!

My standard cake is box mix + milk for water + melted butter for oil + dash vanilla extract + frosting from scratch. This really seems to hit the right spot for people of “mmm, homemade” but also “exactly like Mom used to make.” (Do that for a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, add candles, and serve to a college student, for the maximum “this is exactly what I didn’t want to admit I wanted” potential.)

Seconding the addition of coffee to chocolate cake; a tablespoon of instant coffee powder in a dark chocolate cake makes it taste chocolatey-er without actually adding a perceptible coffee flavor (I don’t like coffee flavor, personally, and I still do this).

Another good option is a box lemon cake mix plus maybe 3 lemons. Zest the lemons, set the zest aside, then juice them and use that in place of the water; then use the zest to flavor the frosting. Adds a nice fresh kick.

Chocolate chips can be dumped straight into chocolate cake mix without fussing with anything to compensate. Sprinkles can go into white cake mix to make your own “confetti cake” with any specific color combo you like. Any kind of dried fruit can be chopped to raisin-size, soaked in hot water (or, better yet, hot juice with a couple of citrus peels added) for an hour, drained, and then added to batter.

Replacing part (up to maybe 1/3) of the water with yogurt (and then the rest with milk as usual) will give you a denser cake; make sure to check if it’s cooked through, and bake a little longer if necessary.

Swirling things through batter for that fancy marbled look is easy. Consider melting chocolate chips with butter, or mixing brown sugar with cinnamon and a little melted butter, or making up two different cake mixes and swirling those together.

I swear by the Cake Mix Doctor’s two cookbooks (one’s general, one’s specifically for chocolate cakes). I think every birthday cake I had as a child was out of those.

[jessestarkfanworks]

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