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MELT CHEESE ON YOUR TTEOKBOKKI
I have some instant tteokboki and was wondering if there was anything I could do with the rice cakes themselves other than putting them in the sauce? The sauce that came with the package is really bitter without much flavor if that makes sense. (My fault for not spending $2 more for the premium brand)
Make your own sauce!! It doesn't have to be standard tteokbokki sauce either, you can make anything you think is tasty (you could have soy sauce based tteokbokki or spaghetti sauce tteokbokki or whatever), and there's lots of recipes online... you can also add the tteok to soups!! They're good in ramen (I really like them in instant jjajangmyeon)... or you could look at recipes for rice cake soup or add them to other broth type soups- just boil them 5 or more minutes til they're tender.
Also: an assortment of treats I'm being showered with, pt 1
homemade 1. kimchi mandu, 2. meatball jeon made from leftover mandu filling
3. mini kimbap 4. seafood paella
From the store 5. injeolmi (tteok/rice cake covered in roasted soybean powder, one of my favs!!) 6. roasted garaetteok (ricecake again) 7. mochi donuts!!!!
my mom keeps looking at me and saying, without any meanness or unhappiness, "where did this beautiful boy come from?? When did I get such a pretty son????"
my soft butch little heart is SO flattered 🌈🌈🌈
(Enormous disclaimer this is about how I handle a specific flavor of brain problems, this is NOT about passively dealing with current external events)
I grew up in and around water to the extent that as a child I was deeply confused by the concept of people needing swimming lessons (...I was a child!!). I learned all about water safety, what to do when caught in rip tides, how to dive through big waves, etc.
It wasn't much help the one time I was bowled over by a fuck off big wave. The waves behind it were perfectly spaced such that every time I managed to reach the surface, another wave would crash down over me again. This was before my chronic illness became severe- I was 19-20 or so, living in Hawai'i and swimming and hiking regularly, so I was a strong swimmer, but since I never surfed, I didn't have any experience with wipeouts. I couldn't do anything.
If you've never been hit by a big wave, it's not just like being knocked over. It isn't just the force and weight of the wave hitting you. The water above doesn't stop moving when it meets the water below- it spins you rapidly around and around underwater, and there's not much you can do but wait it out and hope you don't get knocked about into anything hard. It's disorienting, it hurts, and you're powerless.
Getting my head slammed into rocks or coral was my main fear at the time. I can hold my breath. I can go limp to conserve my energy until the right time. Other injuries could be survived... but if I got knocked out, that would be it. I had no control over that, though, so all I could do was hold my breath and go limp and hope that I'd get an opportunity to break out of the cycle of waves. It felt like it would never end.
Obviously it did, and eventually I made it back to shore uninjured, crawled over to my stuff, and went immediately to sleep on the sand.
The thing about this incident is, rather than being a traumatic memory, I find it deeply comforting and soothing to think about when I'm having a bad time. It's not a technique I can really suggest to others, but it's so helpful for me. Sometimes I get stressed about things that can be changed, externally or internally- then it's important to work towards change. Sometimes, when it’s internal brain problems stuff, I need to actively manage things.
But sometimes my brain is a dumpster fire that is frankly above my paygrade to handle, and it's overwhelming and I can't talk myself through it and it feels like it will never end, and then I think about those waves, and how painful and scary it was, and how sometimes the correct action is to go limp and wait until the waves pass. It won't be pleasant and I will hurt and I will be afraid of drowning the entire time, but eventually the worst of it will subside and I'll be able to resurface and take a breath again. And then I'll take a huge nap.
(also the ocean is beautiful and nice to picture, even in a scary context!!!!)
Helen of Troy (the cat) and mink (the self conscious socially awkward alien entity in a cats body) have always had a relationship akin to awkward coworkers who have nothing in common to talk about
but lately Helen has been REALLY TRYING to be friends... she keeps mirroring minks positions and getting up in her business until mink has no choice but to confusedly groom her. She's tried to cuddle a few times, but this is altogether too much for mink, who leaves right away every time
So instead Helen has started just doing stuff like this
tuch...
listen. I just think. if there's gonna be a setting dealing with ppl turning into monsters or being afraid of turning into monsters bc of repressed frustrated desires boiling up, combined with themes of isolation and social othering/rejection
there should be queer ppl present. it should be written by queer ppl and there should be queer youth and queer older folk. obviously this could go super bad in the hands of the wrong writers but like.. it should be a queer story. also ripped firefighter lady is dreamy. thx for attending my talk.
when korean horror/thriller/generally stressful movies n shows take a significant break from the action to depict a quiet mundane communal meal
👌👌👌
@ ppl who brought up sweet home, im watching it now and... you were right lmao
THATS THE STUFF
oh! are you watching the sweet home netflix series or reading the webcomic? i preferred the webcomic but thats probably cause i read it first and dont like when adaptions take away my Adored Characters lmao
Watching! I haven't been reading many books or comics lately bc I am VERY bad at task-switching and not just like. marathoning stuff until the end, even when I'm not enjoying myself (thanks adhd hyperfocus!!) But I can watch shows endlessly while I paint!
That said I got five minutes in and had to pause bc I'm still too distracted thinking about narrative construction in general and timing beats for deadpan morbid humor so tonight's just that kind of oh hey a squirrel
it'll be interesting to see how the already well established trope of, you know,
social shut in/hikikomori afraid of the outside world is thrust out of their room by Plot and must contend with the now Very Real Actual Physical Threats of the world beyond and in the process ends up developing meaningful social ties with other people... especially as combined with the often accompanying theme of social isolation in apartment/urban living
will surely PROLIFERATE as a genre after these quarantine times. haha. haa.
I wasn't talking about the host specifically but NOW I AM
the scene where the family sits together in the aftermath of the monster rampage and wordlessly they each, in turn, imagine feeding/offering a different tidbit of food to the little daughter who was abducted and not actually there with them
is like one of the top movie scenes that haunts me forever, that scene is always in my brain
THIS ONE
the amount of feeling expressed!!! the complete lack of words or any acknowledgement that this isnt real! and then the abrupt cut to where she actually is
I wasn't talking about the host specifically but NOW I AM
the scene where the family sits together in the aftermath of the monster rampage and wordlessly they each, in turn, imagine feeding/offering a different tidbit of food to the little daughter who was abducted and not actually there with them
is like one of the top movie scenes that haunts me forever, that scene is always in my brain
when korean horror/thriller/generally stressful movies n shows take a significant break from the action to depict a quiet mundane communal meal
👌👌👌
Can I ask what sort of pans you’re using to mix colors in that watercolor video? They look like just square maybe ceramic trays? Where do you get them? (Your artwork is Stunning I loved getting to see the progress video)
Thank you! They're flat bottomed, shallow ceramic soap dishes... and I LOVE THEM. They are my favorite mixing surface I have used so far!!! They're not ideal if you want a portable setup, but they're easy to rearrange and clean, and the flat surface means I can premix gradients that don't just blend together into one homogenous mix (which is why ceramic flower palettes or curved dishes don't work well for me)
I got four from the muji store during a big sale, and later I got four more off amazon... they seem to be identical. You might shop around home supply stores to see if they have anything similar too. Really, four is plenty for normal use, but having eight is helpful for me since I'm often working on 3-4 different paintings at a time. If I wasn't, I'd stick with four.
(to clarify, my impostor syndrome is the result of my own stupid anxiety disorders, not snobby bad teachers. Needlessly mean and gatekeepy people give me SO MUCH SPITE FUELED POWER I LEVEL UP JUST FROM SHEER CONTRARINESS)
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