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i used to have a whole bio here but i had a paranoia moment and deleted it so for now all you get is late 20s + white + tme oh also if you have a needle or blood phobia blacklist #hospital tag

art/writing blog is @jjriots

etchif

I don't like it when people say "if you say you can't cook what you really can't do is read instructions" because that really does not apply to something like cooking where most recipes are filled with instructions like "add a pinch" "boil until done" "cook at medium heat", which are things that require experience to understand correctly

etchif

There have been multiple people crying Learned Helplessness on this post and really sick of it, I'd be glad if you people could maybe think for a second about how perhaps things that are obvious to you (because you've done them a million times) might not be obvious to someone else (who might have never done them before)

Obviously you can fucking look up what "boil/cook/fry until done" means. You can look up what the texture is supposed to feel like, what it's supposed to look like when it's done. But no matter how much you research it that innate sense you have for if something is done or not just by looking at it/checking the texture is something you only develop through experience. Somebody might check for everything the instructions tell them to check for but miss some other indicator that their food isn't done, something a more experienced cook wouldn't miss. You're telling me you genuinely believe this can't happen. That reading instructions no matter how complex really counts for absolutely everything in cooking. And experience and skill has nothing to do with it. Okay

"You can look up what medium heat is" 1. I've had people on this post tell me medium heat should be marked on your stove (it's not on mine so that's not it) 2. I've had people on this post and elsewhere tell me medium heat is obviously 6-7, others have told me it's obviously 5-6, others said it's 5-4, idk man there does not seem to be a consensus on what "medium heat" really is? Not to mention, all stoves are different, some are stronger some are weaker. How could you know what the author of whatever recipe you are using meant? Besides, what I actually meant when I mentioned the medium heat thing is the ability to know what heat settings are the right ones to use for whatever you are making, maybe even despite what the recipe says. That's something you need experience to get right. Especially if you're cooking without a recipe. I guess I made a mistake by putting the focus so much on recipes in my original post, I had assumed people would still get my point regardless

I suppose the pinch thing is the easiest to not get wrong, I still mentioned it because how much of something you add in a pinch can vary. It's not a very exact form of measurement.

I didn't mention this one in the post, but I did in the tags. Say you're following a recipe to fry meat, and it tells you to "put butter in the pan, wait until the pan is hot enough, then add meat and fry until done". This is obvious if you know what you're doing but say you've never fried meat before. Again, there's the issue with the "frying until done" thing. But also? How much butter do you add? Just a spoonful? Or half a stick? Seems obvious if you know what you're doing but if you don't? How'd you know? I've never seen a recipe describe how much butter to add to a pan. And what if you don't have any butter? Most people know you can substitute it with oil but what if you didn't know that? Then, checking the heat of the pan. How do you do that? Do you just touch the pan? No because then you'd burn yourself. What do you do? You might look it up and it might tell you to hold your hand above the pan to check the heat (what I always do) but then what? What are you looking for? What are you supposed to feel? How hot should the air feel? Should it just be warm? Or should it sting? Even if you're told "it should sting from the heat" you only get that sense of if the heat is right or not if you're experienced. You know?

Also I'd like to personally call out everyone who said you should just "get someone to help you". First of all. Not everyone lives with someone else, and not everyone lives with someone who can cook. Second of all. In telling someone who doesn't know what to do to just get the help from someone who does are you not just kind of admitting that cooking is a skill? If it wasn't how could someone else help? If it really was just following instructions? They'd be reading the same instructions, wouldn't they? Or are you recognising that they might have additional experience to better understand the instructions/insight into what to do maybe even despite the recipe? But also, I don't even get what the point of mentioning that is. "You can get someone to help you" is never in no way an argument against something being a skill. It is true for anything. Would you also say that, for example, woodworking isn't a skill? Because if you're struggling you can just get someone else to help? Like, how can you think this is in any way an argument against cooking being skill-based. It has nothing to do with that at all. What point are you trying to make by mentioning that. Tell me please

A lot of people have also mentioned that chronic pain, illesses, disablilities or issues with fine-motor control can lead to some not being able to do things like stir something for a prolonged period of time, handling knives or standing long enough to work on something at a stove among other things, and that this can really affect your ability to cook. I didn't even think about that myself but it's all true. These are all things tons of people struggle with and they have nothing to do with not being able to read instructions

funstyle

teenage girls in fiction: hes so cute i wanna slow dance with him at prom :3 hehe

real teenage girls: imagine if he got injured and i had to tend to his wounds and i could watch him seize up a bit as i disinfect them and in the haze of fever he sees me as an angel

funstyle

shoutout to the person who tagged this "#geronimo stilton" for living their truth in a way most of us could never find the courage to

#this is one more reason we all have to respect matou sakura btw

vonlipvig

i'm actually curious, what trinkets do you guys have on your keychains? 🗝️

#i have a kecleon that was a wendys toy in the aughts it was at a thrift shop and i liked it

elierlick

Remember when a UK bookstore offered visitors the opportunity to vandalize Harry Potter pages for 25 pence? They raised over £4,000 for transgender healthcare! And now they need your support. Emily, co-owner of The Bookish Type, is fundraising for her own gender-affirming surgery that's covered in every Western European country aside from the UK and Ireland. Let's help her like she helped dozens of other trans people access care in an increasingly hostile nation. Support her on GoFundMe here.

kallistoi

[image description: two photos side by side. one is of a harry potter book with a sign underneath it that reads, "deface a page of harry potter [with the vowels censored] for 25p! as many pages as you want! all the money goes to trans people's healthcare." the other is of emily standing in front of the bookish type with a smile. end description.]

couchnapping

I'd like reading plays more if they didn't keep trying to get me to age regress

couchnapping

"Act 2" I couldn't read back then idiot!

peachybruiseslego

decide to draw this new art trend as franzy and edgeworth... i think it fits them well

the original (tumblr link) the original (twitter link)

#ace attorney

weepyemperor

doc, my advice fetish is taking over my life, i just dont know what to do.......... (lecherous look appears in my eye)

#me lately spamming the nsfw channel with excerpts from sex advice columns

lichposting

I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary

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nonbinary-wrath-month

I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not ever, ever, ever let someone guilt you into not transitioning. "But you're so pretty! You'll ruin your lovely body!" "But you're my [son/daughter/boyfriend/girlfriend/mom/dad/etc.]; I can't see you any other way!" "But we need more [badass butch lesbians/women in STEM/etc.] to show women that they can do anything!" "But we need good men like you to promote healthy masculinity!" <- None of these are reasons not to transition. Transition is for you, not for others. Other peoples' indignation or sadness over your transition is not your burden to bear, and other peoples' expectations for you are not moral obligations you must fulfill. Do not live to fit inside a prescribed role in somebody else's life. You must live for yourself. Please transition.

nonbinary-wrath-month

I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not ever, ever, ever let someone guilt you into not transitioning. "But you're so pretty! You'll ruin your lovely body!" "But you're my [son/daughter/boyfriend/girlfriend/mom/dad/etc.]; I can't see you any other way!" "But we need more [badass butch lesbians/women in STEM/etc.] to show women that they can do anything!" "But we need good men like you to promote healthy masculinity!" <- None of these are reasons not to transition. Transition is for you, not for others. Other peoples' indignation or sadness over your transition is not your burden to bear, and other peoples' expectations for you are not moral obligations you must fulfill. Do not live to fit inside a prescribed role in somebody else's life. You must live for yourself. Please transition.