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[sunflowerbutch]

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crack egg directly into hot pan, scramble while cooking

crack egg directly into cold pan, stir/scramble, then cook

crack egg into bowl, whisk or stir, THEN pour into pan and cook

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Voting ended onMar 31, 2024

[coughloop]

[leopardmask-ao3]

Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans

[great-and-small]

Now that’s what I call

[great-and-small]

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

[son-of-drogo]

I hate this site so much.

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[i-restuff]

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

[mxtxfanatic]

I think it's actually a very important distinction that Mianmian isn’t called a "servant’s (家仆) daughter" by Jiang Cheng but a domestic slave’s (家奴) daughter, actually. I think words mean things, actually, and that Chinese isn't just a bunch of made-up ink splotches and sounds that we can "Interpret" any way we want to.

[mxtxfanatic]

1) Yes Mianmian truly is a slave's daughter, Jiang Cheng isn't just insulting her.

2) There are actually other characters described as "domestic slaves" or the daughters of one in the story, too: Mo Xuanyu's mother (daughter) and Wang Lingjiao. Wang Lingjiao also calls Madam Yu's two servants "slaves" when admonishing them, to which Madam Yu corrects that they are servants and Wei Wuxian muses snarkily that a domestic slave is using the term to insult others like she isn't one, herself.

3) There seems to be a mistranslation from both exr and 7seas about how Wang Lingjiao became Wen Chao's mistress. Exr says that Wen Chao's wife sanctioned Wang Lingjiao becoming a mistress after seeing how beautiful she was, while 7seas corrects this to Wang Lingjiao exchanging (flirtatious) glances with Wen Chao before falling into bed with him, but then 7seas decides to add this line of "with the inadvertent aid from her mistress," which exists nowhere in the raws. I also can't find where the sentence, "Hardly a noteworthy name, and yet, thanks to its masters, one that could not be ignored" appears in any of version of my raws.

[mxtxfanatic]

For another Chinese fan has started combing through the 7seas translation on weibo and cross-posted to twitter for English-speaking fans to see:

But for those with neither weibo nor twitter, here are the screenshots:

[mxtxfanatic]

[mxtxfanatic]

(34-39 are all related to drunken shenanigans #3, which we’ve already established 7seas tool from the unedited version of mdzs.)

[chai-chahiye-yr]

34-39 made my blood boil. It was multiple paragraphs of Wangxian being sweet and showing the steps of WWX’s thought process and being so fond of LWJ. And Suika just slaps all the actions together into 2 paragraphs, deletes entire lines and moves on.

The way she translated all the scenes of drunken 3 has me convinced that she actually doesn’t like Wangxian. And using ‘sinister’ and ‘evil’ to falsely describe some of WWX’s actions and smiles, constantly having characters call him annoying and making LWJ ‘chide’ WWX as if he doesn’t like him being playful, or making LWJ seem overly strict and even hypocritical in his words and actions makes me feel like she doesn’t like WWX or LWJ either.

Like this is so blatant

And frankly there should be a tally for how many times JC was described as ‘upset’, a mild word to invoke pity and sympathy then the actual negative word to describe him 🙄

[inzaltsiknyam]

reproductive rights is not a euphemism for abortion rights or the right of people to become pregnant, it also includes the rights of trans women to not be forcibly sterilized to get gender marker changes or the ability to freeze sperm. but those two things rarely make it on the radar even when trans women's reproductive rights are under attack.

[browniefox]

We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

[streamofsalmon]

say more pls

[browniefox]

Yeah sure why not.

So most stories take place when Events are Happening, and this means that no matter what kind of job the characters have, they’re probably not too focused on them. Fanfics, on the other hand, often show the down time. Which means that the writer has to figure out what the hell these characters do in their jobs. Unless the characters have a job the author understands or knows well, the author is often at a loss for what to have the character doing.

So they sit them at a desk and give them paperwork. What is the paperwork for? Rarely specified. It is Paper Work for the characters Important Adult Job they have and they need to read or sign it or something. And there’s always a line about how Character Hates Paperwork. Doesn’t matter if Character is a Mafia Boss or a General or a Diplomat, here they are in an office trying to get out of Doing Paperwork.

There’s also a sense of, like, humor and mundanity that comes with it. Like the examples above, it always particularly stands out to me when a dangerous individual is griping about some paper they need to sign or something. The less you can picture Character doing paperwork, all the better to force it upon them. If Character is saddled with Paperwork, they’re usually now concerned about the physical damages their motley crew causes, because damage = More Paperwork.

Anyway I just think it’s fun or funny, Sephiroth doing paper work and Sawada Tsunayoshi doing paper work and this just in, Tony Stark is doing paperwork. Sorry, Phoenix Wright can’t play right now. Yeah, it’s paperwork.

[elumish]

A very non-exhaustive list of actual paperwork they could be completing/reviewing/approving, in no particular order:

Timesheets

Expense reports

Requisition requests

Budget justifications

Payroll

Performance evaluations

Incident reports

After action reviews / post-mortem analyses

Incident Action Plans

Contracts

Contract proposals / grant applications

Reports / briefings

[redwingedwhump]

Your Royalty or Nobles in your feudal society should be doing this constantly unless you want to show how they're losing the kingdom and about to be usurped or overthrown.

petitions, speech-writing, complaints, requests, assignations, disputes, judiciary forms, declarations that need signing off on, matters requiring the Royal seal, matters requiring a royal endorsement, pardons, judgments, invitations, rebuttals, census data, crop yields projected or actual, livestock records, water rights, Sumptuary laws, taxes taxes taxes...

[val-ritz]

solid point there!

even when the royalty look like they're just fucking off to have fun, they're doing Socially Mandated Fuck-Off and Have Fun Time

Tournaments? Gotta show you're manly and virile through sport, or the nobles will supplant you. Feasts? Gotta show you're wealthy through conspicuous consumption, or the nobles will supplant you. Patronizing the arts? Gotta show you're cultured and erudite, or the nobles will laugh at you behind your back and probably supplant you.

[delicatefury]

Lawyer here. Here’s some more mundane/modern ones for you:

Invoices.

Intake sheets (information about new clients. The one for my firm is 13 pages and requires an hour long meeting. Then you have to do something with the info gathered)

Data entry for invoices and intake sheets.

Billing. (More involved than timesheets because you’re justifying to clients why you’re getting paid so much).

Form letters.

Taxes. Including 1099s for any contracted work.

Bank statements/accounting spreadsheets. Gotta track how expenses are trending.

Insurance documents.

General messages. Lots of office still use a paper system for missed calls and “important” stuff because it just works better than emails and chats for some people.

Memos. Big enough office to have at least one attorney on payroll? You’re getting memos about every legal question and concern and contract. It’s how we’re trained to communicate in formal settings.

[letslipthehounds]

And if you want to get into modern military, the forms are numbered, and people will refer to them by either their actual name, or the number. (Have you filled out the 4187 for this? Yes, I filled out the personnel action form.)

The military has so many forms.

[leebrontide]

If you want to add a rage level, there’s the Regular Paperwork and then the special hell of Fuckup Paperwork.

Cause there’s the invoice, and the follow up invoice and the we are about to have a problem follow-up invoice.

There’s the incident report and then the I swear I yelled at that worker about this don’t be mad at me if they do it again second warning documentation

The requisition form and the it has been six months now get me the fucking thing or you’re gonna hear from Cindy escalations form.

Paperwork has layers and protocols and backups.

[dancing-thru-clouds]

For law firms, there's also the 'I am asking nicely for you to send me this legally mandated document' and then the follow-up 'My please was a social nicety, I am no longer asking, I am telling you to send me this document or explain to a court why you refuse to do so' which, depending on the type of law, can fill a significant amount of the day

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#'Dni if you've read to kill a mockingbird' what's is this the Florida banned books list #Who r u Ron DeSantis

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#can somwone pleasw provide context to whatever the fuck op is referring to

[s-a-blotsky]

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird

[turing-tested]

IVE BEEN HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIEND FOR LIKE A YEAR NOW AND IT TURNS OUT WE KNEW EACH OTHER AND WERE FRIENDS WITH EACH OTHER PRETRANSITION

[turing-tested]

we we’re talking about how we had a mutual friend and how that was so wild and then they mentioned another friend i knew and i was like “yeah i played soccer with them both in the park” and my friend was like “wait does your deadname start with a C” and it turns out she was also there and we just had no idea who each other was this entire time till now

[asymbina]

This is fucking wild

[lesbianredpanda]

[professorsparklepants]

This is half a plot for a modern Shakespearean comedy of errors.

[mananabuffins]

Romcom where two people meet cute and bond over how awful their exes were and plan elaborate revenge schemes but it turns out they both transitioned and are helping to plan revenge plots against themselves

[rubyleaf]

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

[potnialabyrinthoio95]

One of the reasons why the characters of Anthy Himemiya from “Revolutionary girl Utena” by Be-Papas, Kujaku from “RG Veda” and Fai D. Flourite from “Tsubasa reservoir chronicle” by CLAMP, Fatima/Sitara from “Tenmaku no Jadougal” by Tomato Soup and Wei Wuxian from "Mo dao zu shi" are interesting and compelling is the fact they’re based on this real life phenomenon.

[taurzza]

and a little borzoi design

[ravioliet]

hello allo tumblr user, just out of curiosity why are you always saying "aroace people can still choose to date and have sex!" and never "allo people can still choose not to date or have sex!" just out of curiosity of course! come closer! i just wanna talk! come closer!

[ravioliet]

hello allo tumblr user why is it that whenever discussing aspec people you always feel the need to bring up that asexuals can be perverts and make the best smut fics or nsfw art? or that aromantics can participate in fandom shipping and write really good romance? why is that? can we reflect on the implications that aspec people have to prove their worth to you by conforming in a way that entertains you? can we talk about this? come closer! come closer!

[ravioliet]

hi not to put you on blast or anything but this is also something i've thought about before because it's really not fair to you and other people with similar experiences either! it really sucks for both ends of the spectrum because in the end they really don't care about any of us no matter if we're favorable or repulsed and it's so exhausting like we can really never win unfortunately

[todaysbird]

it irritates me to no end when people say north american birds are dull in comparison to other countries’ birds

blue jay

american kestrel

painted bunting

yellow-throated vireo

cerulean warbler

baltimore oriole

american goldfinch

northern cardinal

x

[mind-if-i-scream]

You’re forgetting the red wing black bird and the great and snowy egret. Best birds of the marsh!

I love how they’re all looking into the camera like they’re modeling.

[brunhiddensmusings]

other beautiful featherbeasts include orb bird

stylish accessory bird

loud and delicious bird

bird that will kung fu your face while you are grilling in your backyard

overly dramatic fishwizard bird

demonic creepy noise duck

assorted sky-cats

screaming inflatable doofus bird

stump

not technically native but it poops on my lawn

toasted marshmallow friend

[imyrdungeonmaster]

How.. could you forget… MEEP… MEEP

[rannulfr]

One of my favorite North American birds is the Californian Mountain Chickadee.

This pudgy little bastard has a call that sounds like “Cheeseburger”.

[Listen]

[elodieunderglass]

some nice kids, thanks @fozmeadows

[kinfriday]

Surprised no one has yet included nature’s goth blue jay, the Stellar Jay.

Adding some pacific northwest birds since I see them regularly and I love them to death:

Western tanager

Violet-green swallow

Anna’s hummingbird

Varied thrush (aka twin peaks intro bird)

[a-swoop-of-swallows]

what about the swooper

And the musical little fellow that you hear all the time and don’t even realize

[pocket-deer-belly]

you're telling me an egg fried this rice?

"boy" who fried the rice: hey why is boy in quotes like that

[good-advice-ganondorf]

On the topic of Ganondorf designs I think whoever made this concept art should be executed

[good-advice-ganondorf]

I'm starting a collection I call it "concept art that sucks a lot and is pretty bad but it's somehow worse that they thought it would be okay to share it"

[scopophobia-polaris]

Ya know what, I don't think I've really seen anyone bring this one up, but when the art book first got leaked before TotK me and some guys were going though it and when we got to this page

@nxntendo my friend was shocked that they (Nintendo) released the book while saying they used a ゴリラGORILLA for jaw reference, and it's like, did no one in that office think of what that sounds like or do they not give a fuck

(actually wait, someone smarter than me because I know my @ ain't online much, does it say jaw reference or head reference because I can't tell)

[c0nji]

[kave-elott-ne-szolj-hozzam]

love it when peoole draw someone instead of photographing random strangers.

art: 10/10

respect: 10/10

[cinnamonspiderrrrrrrr]

in order to truly get rid of misogyny in fandoms we need to treat girl characters the same way we treat guy characters. Say you’d hit her with your car. Say you want to see her crying and trying and failing to keep her emotions hidden. Say you want her to get worse. Say you want to chew on her like a squeaky toy. For feminism

[thesituation]

shaving isn’t even like remotely close to the biggest issue feminism needs to tackle but it’s just astonishing to me how the most lukewarm bare minimum of normalizing natural body hair on women is met with such pushback from “progressives” on here. like that’s why i keep bringing it up. like if you fucks can’t get behind “women shouldn’t feel like they have to shave and shouldn’t be groomed into shaving” then what the hell can you be counted on for? nothing, clearly

[future-crab]

So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:

Absolutely iconic.

[fearoftheminotaur]

I want to throw in that part of the context behind this meme was N.D. talking about how he sometimes gets hatemail for marrying a man as a former lesbian, and how many people seem to think he divorced his wife.

I have not managed to find anyone who thinks that in the wild, but it is so damn funny.