A Top Notch

28 | Good girl, horrendous thoughts. | Ask at your own risk.

[laxave]

[belmasworld]

healed enough to close the door, but human enough to still look at it sometimes

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[surroundedbyspoons]

At some point in your life you will want to add garlic to a dish, and all you will have in the house is garlic salt. You will want to add as much as possible, because you should always add as much garlic as possible. This is the devil tricking you. Garlic salt is more salt than garlic, and you will turn your dish into the Dead Sea. What you want is garlic powder. You can add as much of that as you want.

[somenerdthing]

[srdcovka]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i was tired

[scorpionlafemme]

[wordfather]

im sooooo good at being all snug and cozy in my bed they should pay me for this. i should get paid for being here. i shouldn't have to have a job.

[pennyisadime]

I’ve successfully deactivated/abandoned most, if not all, of my social media... except tumblr 😭

[bloombound]

[midnightportals]

Do I show up in your dreams too?

[mynorthernattitude]

rage bait idea: like your own texts during an argument

[pennyisadime]

I do this in normal conversation because I’m my biggest advocate

[nneeemmmzzzzzzzzzz]

Everything you struggle with is a path to God

[midnightportals]

I already can’t wait to take a nap tomorrow.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

no one is coming to save yo- wrong!! everyone who has ever shown you love and/or care is saving you a little bit.

[midnightportals]

It’s so peaceful being awake when the rest of the world is not.

[aidashakur]

Heartbreak will have you not wanting to love in that capacity ever again.

[pennyisadime]

I hate subscribing to things to help do my job better because I feel like that’s the company’s job. But also, this gives me a leg up on my team. All this to say, I think ima reinstate my white pages subscription 🤣 these fraudsters gon stop fkin playin wit me