the wild and the lost

lex | 27 | xe/xem

[thunderon]

kinda in love with the author of this chicken recipe and her love of garlic. karina if you’re single call me

[thunderon]

like this is exactly how i need to be given cooking instructions. softly reassure me that im not going to burn my house down because im cooking with garlic cloves. thank you karina i believe it’s going to be okay

[thunderon]

there is. so much. caramelization. the amount of caramelization in this pan is just unprecedented

[thunderon]

here is the garlic chicken recipe btw. i put it in the replies but im linking it here too cuz ive gotten some asks about it. i can’t cook for shit so trust me when i say this recipe is easy! takes 30 min and uses relatively few ingredients. join me and karina in our garlic-fueled bliss <3

[corviiids]

i have a croissant related grievance

[corviiids]

the entire appeal of the croissant is that it is a layered pastry item. it has a light flaky texture. the layers are in there specifically to create a fluffy, airy eating experience. that's the intention of the lamination process. having so many layers of butter and thin pastry dough make the croissant puff up when it's baked so that when you bite into it the pastry has a texture similar to puff pastry. the entire point is to fill the pastry with air. therefore any trendy hybrid variant of the croissant such the "cruffin" or the "cronut" or the worst offender of all the "croffle" which involve jamming the unbaked croissant or compressing it into a flat shape completely betray croissant as it was originally intended. they defeat the nature of the croissant by forcing it into something it was never meant to be, removing the unique core of its identity, killing its appeal and thus its entire reason for being. now am i saying you can't enjoy a cronut or croffle? of course i would not say this. you can enjoy any pastry you want to enjoy because it's your time on earth. i want you to enjoy your croffle. you should enjoy your croffle. also, you can commit any sin you like and i can't stop you nor do i want to. i won't hear your arguments because you don't need to convince me. but you must understand, as you eat it, that the croffle should not exist. it is a mistake. it is an insult not only to the croissant but to me as an individual. i am not french

[badboneszone]

This reads as someone with a strong moral code (people should be free to experience joy without arbitrary regulation, you don’t have to like what other people like but your discomfort is your own problem) trying to maintain their faith in a time of hardship (they keep doing weird shit to croissants)

[corviiids]

ill be so honest this read of my character in such a fraught croissanted context has me tearing up with the raw joy of being seen

[melbush]

i love finding out what degrees my mutuals have. like what the fuck do you mean you do law? you’re a doctor who blog

[secretlykogane]

“i asked chatgpt” well i asked the voidfish and they said ^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́ #̸̠͠^̴̲͂%̵̬̀+̵̨̈#̴̗̔*̶̟͐#̷̤̀^̷̙̈́#̵̮̇€̵̖͐#̸̖́+̵̻̅#̵̮͝*̵͇͛#̸̫́

[defectivegembrain]

Oh so when Clifford the Big Red Dog grows to enormous size you love and accept him, but when I, Fenrir

[singingtoemptycaves]

so fun fact it turns out showing iron lung to a fully red-green colorblind person who perceives dark or pure reds as basically black is the number 1 way to confuse them. on a related note, this is my public apology to my husband, the love of my life, who sat in a theater watching Nothing for two hours to make me happy. and then in the car hesitantly asked "so... could you explain everything that just happened?"

[sydrichie]

i think we should add media literacy to the water supply

[scorpionlafemme]

[venndaai]

people are so weird about cnc and I always just want to look them in the eyes and say “you are getting mad at people for playing pretend. you are getting mad at people for saying ‘raaar! I’m gonna getcha!’ you are not a serious person.”

[venndaai]

so much ink and tears have been spilled theorizing that rape kink is about trauma and social anxieties and power fantasies and sure maybe. but I think we’re just mammals who like pretend danger in our play just like every other mammal ever. because we have evolved to find that fun. and the only difference between play-wrestling in bed and pulling out the fuzzy handcuffs is commitment to the bit

[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[marisatomay]

To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: “you miss a lot of a movie when you don’t watch it”

[depsidase]

[lokisflame]

Hot take? Maybe? But I think people in pagan circles should be able to communicate with their gods however they please without having other pagans mock them, call them crazy, resort to using ableist slurs to insult them.

Everyone’s practice of their gods are equally valid, regardless of how they follow them, communicate with them and see them and if you disagree with the way they do it or don’t see it as real shut the fuck up!

That is not your choice and that does not give you the right to call them anything or scorn them or imply they’re mentally ill because of how they practice paganism??

Like, a lot of pagans including myself come from Christianity originally, hoping Paganism would be a religion where they could actually be free to express themselves and practice their faith without being ridiculed.

So why are so many pagans wasting time calling other pagans crazy?! Just chill.

My relationship with my deity is NOT your problem.

[creekfiend]

lots of good very helpful posts about staying warm from people on here but I would like to add that a lot of places are going to get ice this weekend that don't usually get ice, and: ice is so dangerous. (I am here talking about regular ice as in frozen water and not the secret police,who are probably more dangerous but this post is not about them)

slipping on ice is SO DANGEROUS and even people who are used to it are often way too cavalier about it. even if you're being careful it's so easy to slip, and you can get super fucked up from falling on ice. I have a friend who slipped on ice once like five years ago, got a bad concussion, and is still dealing with the fallout from post-concussion syndrome. it's bonkers. be so careful. and wear footwear with as much tread/grip as you can. the best advice I have for walking on ice is actually to get a pair of yaktrax or similar; these are AMAZING but it might be harder to get a pair on short notice right now. worth looking at your local REI or similar, though, if you are able. these slip on over any pair of shoes and give you Ice Cleat Traction. they look something like this:

and watch out for black ice (ice you cannot see) and ice that's UNDER a layer of snow... those are tricky bastards. if you get snow or slush and it melts and re-freezes, you can get very slippery ice. very yucky very bad to try to navigate.

godspeed to everyone who is getting this winter storm!!!!

[spadesconfession]

WALK LIKE A PENGUIN

for real that is what you need to do shuffle no picking your feet up

[creekfiend]

absolutely. and don't be afraid to scoot on your butt (as long as you have something waterproof between your butt and the ground, ideally) looking silly is much preferable to getting hurt

a trekking pole with a spiked end can also be your friend here!

[yourdadsghoulfriend]

[threedollarsdotcom]

starts pushing you on the swings until its obvious im just trying to shove you off the seat

[tragicburnout]

the best apology is changed behavior

[wrigglewormz]

I love having mutuals and going yeah you WOULD reblog that one wouldnt you .