"Glory be to God, I'm tired."

Chuck. Christian. Luckiest unlucky person on Earth. One-star energy rating. Involuntary NEET. Send asks and also pictures of cute animals. Strangers in my inbox asking for money will be assumed bots/scammers and reported as such (and I'm broke anyway).

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[sandmandaddy69]

Kevin Chapman

[a-really-big-cat]

@edgar-allan-possum

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I recognize that it's almost certainly not what it's about, as-written, but The Emptiness Machine goes incredibly hard as a song about the anger of falling to temptation and struggling to break free of old bad habits.

[70sscifiart]

my favorite Frank Frazetta piece, “Mothman”

[femmefaramir]

older lotr illustrations sometimes depict éowyn wearing ridiculously small armour. apart from the problem general sexualisation of the only female character (who really does anything), there’s another hilarious thought:

éowyn pretended to be dernhelm, a man. to fit in, she must have worn men’s armor. so the armor in the illustrations is normal for rohirrim.

therefore, all the rohirrim rode to war just like that:

[hobbit-hole]

there’s a thundering sound in the distance as the rohirrim ride into war but rather than hoofbeats it’s the collective sound of all their cheeks clapping

[delicatelytoobear]

the artist for this particular piece is Frank Frazetta and to be fair to him this is how he drew the orcs armor 

so the rohirrim comment is probably not that far off

[adhd-trash-mammal]

That’s a man who just straight up had a problem with the concept of wearing pants into battle, and I respect that

[cumaeansibyl]

male or female

hero or villain

sea or land

even in the snow

I guarantee you Frazetta’s Rohirrim were 100% pants-free

[missmollyetc]

Good Old Frank. That man loved bodies and hated clothes so much

[thebyrchentwigges]

[trist-pkmngal]

Frank Frazetta was the reason He-Man was designed like that; the producers conduct a study to see what art appeal the most to children, and Frank’s work came out on top in popularity. So everyone in He-Man is dressed the way they are directly because of Frazetta.

[baddingtonbitch]

that's what fanta bottles look like now? they look like they need to pee

[cultivatedwhimsy]

[gothhabiba]

I love not playing along

[gothhabiba]

"she's gained a lot of weight lately" "oh, good for her"

"on the wrong side of 40" "huh, which side is that?"

❗️I am not playing along with you❗️

[augustfairie]

“ how do you expect to catch a man at your age?” “Rope”

[blessthosewhocurseyou]

Hole in the ground camouflaged with leaves

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[watasnak]

what the fuck are my mutuals doing

[aflo]

Settlers of catan

[memeuplift]

[teaboot]

Nah man that's a northern bobwhite

[robinparravel]

I love Bruce

[molabuddy]

[phoenixystix]

In recent memory and because the show sanitized his upbringing, Percy gets treated like he had an idyllic childhood. And it drives me crazy. Yes, his mom is actually the only good parent in the entire series and everyone else has incredibly messed up origins. But he, too, had an extremely traumatic childhood and you can see such clear evidence of how it shaped him.

I think of that part from TTC when he meets Annabeth’s stepmom and expects her to like turn into a raving lunatic at the mention of her name and is surprised when she doesn’t. And it’s easy, I feel, to read this in retrospect as Percy just not understanding the nuances of bad parental relationships. But I think this is what it actually is: Percy’s experience with a bad stepparent is Gabe. And that’s how Gabe always reacted at the mention of Percy’s name. And Gabe would have left him to rot without any question or remorse. So of course that’s what he expects from the stepparent Annabeth has been complaining about as long as he’s known her, and she deemed bad enough to run away from.

And yes, compared to Luke and Thalia and Annabeth, Percy is somewhat better off solely because of Sally. Except he, too, was deadly serious when he said he’d rather live on the streets than live with Gabe, and if not for camp that would have been his only option at this point in his life—the same as it was for them. Percy truly CAN relate to the feeling of camp being his only safe haven because this is also true for him. Percy probing Thalia about her history with her mom is not a kid who comes from a stable home trying to relate to her and failing: it’s a kid who grew up sharing living space with an alcoholic, and is able to tell at the age of 12 years old “when an adult has been hitting the happy juice.” And this is of course not even to talk about his constant awareness of money and his mother working odd jobs just to put food on the table—experiences that Thalia, Luke, and Annabeth don’t have. So I think it is just so unfair to view him in retrospect as the kid who is so privileged that he can’t understand trauma rather than what he actually is: a kid who was only ever one bad day away from being in just as bad of circumstances as any one of the other demigods, and who at points in his life, actually was in their circumstances. When Percy meets May Castellan he is not just reflecting on how bad Luke’s life sucked, he has experience and trauma of his own, and he feels a heavy sense of “how easily this could have been me.”

Percy being not outside of the problem, but inside it, is fundamental to the series. He’s not just championing Luke’s cause: it’s also his own! Because who is more exploited by the Olympians than Percy Jackson? This is a kid who has almost been put down like a dog by them ! They took a vote on it in front of him!

Leo and Frank and Hazel’s moms are actually dead and they stayed dead. But Percy watched the Minotaur squeeze his mom to death right in front of his eyes and had to process her death and blamed himself for his failure! Of course he is going to relate to them on a fundamental level, and again, he was so very close from having been in exactly Leo’s situation.

I hate the Percy and Annabeth dynamic the show is setting up and more recent works have established, with Annabeth being integrated into Percy’s happy and stable home life. That’s not where Percy came from. They are both kids who come from messy, painful experiences and and they see likeness in each other. He’s actually needier than she is when they first meet!

[phoenixystix]

oh also how people interpret Percy befriending Tyson as him being like a liberal and wanting “good person points.” And not considering that Percy has 1. Always been keenly aware of his lack of financial stability 2. Gotten used to being overlooked by his peers because he wasn’t rich 3. Considered being homeless for awhile when Sally died 4. Is neurodivergent and felt stupid for that his entire life 5. Was almost certainly physically abused

like gosh why might a kid like this befriend a homeless kid who is bullied for having special needs that has huge scars on his back indicating he’s been abused. Percy sees himself in Tyson! And yes this WILL become uncomfortable for him when he realizes Tyson is his brother because it puts pressure on old wounds!

[europe-abolitionist]

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are so mad because they get no women. if you are a Good Person a woman will appear and suck your dick.

[lilkakow]

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are all sooo poorrrr and stupid. They are stupid because they are poorrrr, racism would never exist in my suburban area

[zitongzi]

Popular leftist voice: these right wingers must have brain damage. They must be bigots because they are literally reta suffering from blsck mold, or brain damage.

[prettyflyforajedi]

Popular leftist voice: Every single right-wing person is literally so ugly and chopped, let me point out their exact features and how they're ugly. Having bad thoughts literally ages you. Good People are always hot and sexy and have kind countenances.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

It's apple sale season so you know what that means

[beardedmrbean]

[mookybear12404]

I made bone broth from scratch but what they don't tell you about bone broth is that you end up with like ten quarts of broth in a million mason jars for less than ten bucks and now you live like a monkey with a bone broth shaped hammer thinking "this dish could really benefit from bone broth" for the fifth time in a week

[mookybear12404]

@dandelion-de-deus okay so here’s how I did it!

You need:

7quart crockpot (if using a smaller crockpot then also reduce amount of bones)

2lbs Bones (I used two large beef soup bones and threw in a couple oxtail bones for beef bone broth but you can use literally any animal bone. Bonus points for using leftover bones from a meal like rotisserie chicken or Thanksgiving Turkey)

3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (this is KEY as it’s what extracts the marrow from inside the bone and makes the broth rich and nutrient dense)

Salt

Enough water to cover the bones.

Literally thats all you technically need but I highly recommend also adding additional flavor in the form of:

Aromatic: scraps of onion, onion peels, crushed garlic, shallot scraps

Veggies: celery scraps, carrot scraps

Spices: black pepper, thyme, rosemary, oregano, etc

For Pho specific broth I used: Lemon grass, stick of cinnamon, star anise, ginger and onion scraps

Pretty much the sky’s the limit with extra flavoring but you can also make it very plain to keep it versatile. For me my plain bone broth I season with only salt, pepper, onion and garlic

All you need to do is throw everything into a crock pot and cook on low for 12-24 hours. When it’s done, use a fine mesh strainer to strain the broth into jars and store in the fridge.

All the fat from the broth will rise to the top and harden into solid Lard. You can pull it out once it’s hardened for fat free bone broth and save the lard for cooking, or optionally you can leave it for full fat bone broth (useful for soups like Pho)

Congratulations you now have liquid gold bone broth, one of the most nutrient dense, rich broths you could make!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Two days in a row and still nothing! And a couple weeks ago, AND again a few days before that. give me my thunderstorm!!!

[lokh1]

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this