[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

[macleod]

I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

calculusmadeeasy.org

[foodffs]

Kit Kat Cookies

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Is this how you roll?

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

cranberry white chocolate mini cheesecakes

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[sometiktoksarevalid]

[foodffs]

Butter Pecan Ice Cream The best low carb butter pecan ice cream recipe ever! It’s smooth and creamy and scoops well after frozen. You’d never know it’s sugar free!

Recipe => https://lowcarbyum.com/butter-pecan-ice-cream-recipe-no-sugar-added/

[ispyspookymansion]

thats not a “zine” that is an “art book” and you are scaring the hoes (discouraging people from zinemaking by associating it with hefty sleek professionalism instead of extremely diy no resources low cost artistic communication) by mixing up these words

[boyslit-moving]

let's get back to making this shit by hand, I've been meaning to do some of these for my comics characters but my brain was always like 'but you haven't actually made the comic no one's gonna know these fuckers' u know what too bad I'm gonna make em anyway

-> here's how to fold an 8 page zine from 1 paper with instructions that didn't make me feel like I was back in a trigonometry lecture [LINK]

-> here's a neat accordion type 16 pager [LINK]

go nuts. and let's all collectively stop calling those fucking art books zines please it sucks

[daily-prompts]

I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.

[foresttheblep]

Know what they want, What they're scared of What/who they love What/who they're willing to sacrifice

Also their breaking point, what shit do they have to be dragged through before they give up everything just for it to stop. And if they regret it or not,

[everybodysangel]

Start with something you do understand about them and branch off from there. Personally, I find it easier to write for characters that have some aspect of my personality, amplified and then manipulated into something new or different. Or maybe we share some aspect of childhood. We don't have to be the same people, but my experiences are something I can understand and use to shape new people.

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

Knowing your characters’ limits and how to exploit them is essential for creating tension, and for writing excellent fight scenes/final battles.

Under what odds is your character able to win? What is their greatest strength?

Now take that strength away.

How do they account for that? Is it possible to still win, or is that strength all they have?

An acrobatic fighter who is shot through the leg. A knight whose trusty sword shatters. A sorceror who runs out of spells and elixers. A dragonrider whose steed is felled.

Find the limit and push past it! That’s how to raise the stakes!

[great-and-small]

I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.

[fishgummy]

recommendations from the notes :)

studio 252MYA (paleontology)

ray troll's webstore (surrealist fish designs)

liberty graphics t-shirts (biology/dinosaurs)

present indicative (science-themed clothing + home items)

donbea tees - something fishy collection (silly fish puns about substance use)

camp mustelid (nature themes)

crime pays but botany doesn't (botany/biology)

umvvelt (marine biology patterns)

morningwitch (nature patterns)

svaha USA (science patterns)

cognitive surplus (some clothing, but mostly home items)

[todaysbat]

Bat specific stuff

Bat goods (all sorts of items, from clothes to kitchenware to collectibles and more)

Bat Conservation International Merch Shop (clothes, stickers, etc.)

Bat World Sanctuary Store (adopt a bat, clothes, etc.)

[justthatspiffy]

I'M ONLY GOING TO SAY THIS ONCE

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, you can combine one 8oz can of pumpkin puree with one box cake mix (any kind but spice cake is best) and about 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, drop by tablespoon-ish onto a greased/parchment/silpat cookie sheet, and bake at 350F for 13-16 minutes

if there are no spices in either your cake mix or pumpkin puree i suggest adding warm spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves

THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT THIS INFORMATION GETTING AROUND

[amethystsoda]

Spy x Family season 2 is here, so I’m gonna make Dylan’s magic peanut butter cookies (1984) to celebrate (since peanuts are Anya’s favorite food after all 🥜)

[ruched]

Qian Kun - Fang Yi: Heaven Gaia Spring/Summer 2022

[foodffs]

Homemade blueberry pie bars made with fresh blueberries & buttery pie crust! Simple take on blueberry pie that serves a crowd!

https://butterwithasideofbread.com/blueberry-pie-bars/

[tombofnull]

A little [free!] brush pack I made, made up of four brushes currently. Think of v.0 as a rough draft of sorts for these brushes. :]

Download here: www.tombofnull.art/gallery/archive/2023/stipple-beast.html

[tombofnull]

Also on my itch.io! https://tombofnull.itch.io/stipple-beast-brush-pack

[tombofnull]

So! Thanks to the folks who've been kind enough to tip, I was able to afford some time to refine this pack some more.

STIPPLE BEAST V.1's got some additional brushes for you to have fun with. Get them at the links above!

[soy-sauce-and-mothra-deactivate]

Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

[foodffs]

Oreo Fudge made with just 5 ingredients with delightful cookies & cream flavor! White chocolate Oreo fudge is made with cream cheese, white chocolate, & Oreos in every bite!

https://butterwithasideofbread.com/oreo-fudge/

[unregisteredcat]

Did a small #tutorial for class on “How to Improve Storytelling in Panel Layouts”! Thought it might help some peepz around here!

[valtsv]

this may sound stupid but how does one make coconut rice?

my tried and tested recipe is as simple as soaking 1 and a half cups/roughly 500g of thai jasmine rice in (cold) water for half and hour to an hour (to remove the excess starch and make it softer and more absorbent), draining it, then putting it in a pan over a medium heat and adding a tin (400ml) of coconut milk and about a tablespoon of water, a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of soft brown sugar, and bringing that all to a boil (stirring regularly to prevent sticking) and then lowering the heat and letting it simmer (still stirring regularly) until most of the liquid is absorbed by the rice and the rice is soft and sticky but not soggy or chewy. that makes enough rice for 3 or 4 meals/people.