#loinca

[copperbadge]

arsenicjade reblogged your photo and added:

Get yer meat pies, savory and sweet pies.

DID YOU COME HERE FOR A PIE, SIR? 

(We used to yell this at each other in grad school. I’m not sure why. Someone walks into the room unexpectedly and boom, Mrs. Lovett.) 

blackhaireddemon replied to your photo “drgaellon: nookienostradamus: alixsinclair-emt: It is Whole Foods...”

Ha, did you live in JP?

I did! I was in one of those jillions of three-flats, right at the top of Center Street near the roundabout. 

Oh shit, the Hi Lo is a Whole Foods now. Wow. 

HAHAAHAH BUT THE FOOD WALL IS STILL THERE

kayquimi replied to your photo “I BEEN DONE MAKING SOME COOKING.  Pork broth from pork shoulder...”

this all looks amazing but i've been meaning to ask, wth is pork floss???

Pork floss! It’s dried, seasoned pork shredded super fine. 

loinca replied to your post “How heavy is a pressure cooker with food in it? I'm thinking of...”

Re: the underutilized kitchen floor - I worked on Top Chef for several years and they were CONSTANTLY cooking things down there. Always seemed mildly unsanitary but it does make sense from a stability perspective!

I mean, it does feel unsanitary but it’s not like any actual food prep is happening on the floor itself. I just don’t like bending over, which is why I don’t keep more stuff on the floor, but especially with restaurant-standard floor cleanliness it’s not really a huge deal. 

petronellarose replied to your photo “I BEEN DONE MAKING SOME COOKING.  Pork broth from pork shoulder...”

Your cooking posts always make me delightfully hungry (and not just because of the picture at the top). Beef Bourguignon going on here this afternoon.

Oooh, I hope it came out well! 

geekgirl76 replied to your photo “I BEEN DONE MAKING SOME COOKING.  Pork broth from pork shoulder...”

Oooh, that much fat in scalded milk would make nice soft buns (And now I'm craving pulled pork and baps)

Yeah, it did come out really nicely! I actually drained most of the fat off of it, but some definitely did get in there. 

ravenreyamidala replied to your photo “I BEEN DONE MAKING SOME COOKING.  Pork broth from pork shoulder...”

Sam you might like aloo parantha, which involves potatoes steam cooked in a pressure cooker, mashed, and put into a flatbread and cooked

I like the sound of this! I’m a big fan of flatbreads in general and it feels like putting potatoes in them would just make them super soft and amazing. I’ll have to see about getting my hands on some and/or making some. 

[mostfacinorous]

loinca

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Wait…Countdown is actually a thing? The IT crowd didn’t make it up?????

Oh my gosh, no, but I wish that Street Countdown was a real thing. 

But no, please, do treat yourself-- or just do a youtube search. But remember, it’s funnier if it’s cats does countdown. it’s Jeopardy if it’s not.

[mostfacinorous]

loinca

  man, the “you secretly want to keep one of the...

Are you in the LA Underground Cat Network on Facebook? They have great adoption hookups (& cat pics) I’m in Burbank & know people who foster too if you need any more help!

I’m actually trying to avoid those kind of groups right now--

Long story short, early on I went looking for people to foster these guys, and I found a “rescue” in that area, but when I got there to drop them off, it was this horrible, scary, heart wrenching cat and kitten hoarding situation. (think, fifty or so cats in a single room, cages with multiple cats in each one, stacked as high as I am tall, feces on the curtains, dog tied to the doorknob, FIV positive cat casually walking over cages of kittens too small to have had any shots yet...) So I ended up taking these ones back to my home with me and calling the SPCA. 

Which ultimately did very little, but the people at the “rescue” know it was me, are well connected in the animal rescue circles, and are telling a version of the story that’s pretty far removed from reality, so there’s been some weird stuff happening with animal lovers/ animal help people in the area since, and tbh, I don’t need the drama. I just want to get these kittens safely homed without having to watch my back and/or feel like shit.

So I’m keeping them until they’re old enough to be safely broken up, and making sure they have all their shots, are dewormed/ deflead etc. After that, I’ll just find families for them and call it good. 

I’m not an animal person, but I do firmly believe that they don’t deserve to suffer. 

[veliseraptor]

loinca replied to your photoset “was tagged by @mostfacinorous for selfies in 2016 - tried to pick some...”

You are STUNNING in the black wigs, lady :-)

thank you!! there was a time in my life when I desperately wanted long black hair and sometimes I feel like my cosplay is me channeling that urge

like...I cosplay one character who doesn’t have black hair. the characters I’m looking at cosplaying in the near future have black hair. this is a thing I guess

[veliseraptor]

loinca replied to your post “turn the wheel and look to windward, 2.1k, remember this cold, clint...”

"Loki was changing. What Clint didn’t like was the idea that he might be the one who was stuck, trapped where Loki had put him, the wreckage of what Loki had made him." GUH this got me good, lady

:D :D I have so many feelings about Clint in this verse (and all the time) and how he struggles trying to figure out how to balance his own (fucking complicated) feelings with a fear of being abandoned and a feeling that - like he says here - he’s somehow stuck and that’s Loki’s fault too.

I honestly don’t think Loki really understands what Clint’s relationship to him is - he assumes there’s a lot more pure hatred than is actually the truth (which is, admittedly, what Clint wants him to think). But it’s a lot more twisty than that. 

Thinking about this makes me want to go back and poke at “we’re not friends” but the chapter I’m working on is fighting me so hard.

[veliseraptor]

loinca replied to your link: Shrapnel

Adore adore adore!!!! I looooooove the friendship between Bucky and Loki SO MUCH - it adds this amazing dynamic where he can say all sorts of things to Loki that Steve can’t. My favorite scene was the conversation between the three of them at the end - Steve and Loki were so guilt and grief-stricken and Bucky was this AMAZINGLY straightforward voice of snap-out-of-it I-got-you-boo badassery. I’d love to read any more thoughts you had putting this one together!

I am so delightfully pleased by all these people coming out of the woodwork to tell me how much they like my Bucky voice! Because sometimes I worry about how I write him (or many of my secondary characters) (or let’s be real what don’t I worry about when I’m writing) so it’s really good to hear that it’s working. 

And yeah, he and Steve can kind of do a bad cop/good cop thing when it comes to Loki, and sometimes one of Steve’s blind spots when it comes to Loki is that he wants to be gentle and that can end up making Loki feel worse? Because Steve’s worry and distress stacks on top of Loki’s and can make him feel like he’s upset Steve which is bad. The problems with Steve’s protective instinct when it comes to Loki (for both Loki and himself) are something I’m going to explore in a fic I’ll...probably end up posting this weekend because I have no self control and require constant validation. 

And okay, since you asked - thoughts I had while writing this one, other than “oh my god, am I dealing with this all right, am I doing everything wrong, have I dealt with the ramifications enough, does everything make sense” (actual internal monologue, by Lise):

Why didn’t Thanos do this before? Simple answer: he couldn’t. Now that the Infinity Stones are out (we have...four out of five? Mind, Space, Power, and...what is the Aether again?), and Thanos has taken off the gloves and started to get involved himself (and pulling out the Infinity Gauntlet), he’s stronger. Also, Loki’s renewed contact with the scepter in “Collapse” probably helped, since his link with the Chitauri/Thanos seemed to work through the Mind Gem somehow.

I’m so glad I got to finally drop in a bit more directly about the friction that exists between Tony and Bucky, because it’s there and I’ve alluded to it but now it’s actually been stated, which is important, a little.

I was hovering on the edge of creating a lot more shit by having Loki actually do what Steve was afraid of and attack somewhere visible. But I decided not to do that. This time.

I really love the first scene, where Loki attacks Steve and Steve is thinking about how he’s kind of screwed without the shield or any kind of protection. There’s just something about...idk, his being reminded about how dangerous Loki is, in a very visceral way, that I like? I mean, Steve knows, rationally, but most of the time it’s not at the forefront of his brain.

Thinking about how panicked Bucky’s got to be when he gets Steve’s phone call, though: Steve sounding like he can’t breathe, saying something’s wrong with Loki, and then just kind of hanging up. Like, if you’re a paranoid, traumatized guy who has maybe three friends, what would your reaction be? Also, Bucky knows Loki has a massive self-destructive streak (HE’S THE ONLY ONE, OBVIOUSLY), so, like...

Also who do you think is reliving his trauma in this fic (I mean, other than Loki.). One guess. :D 

Another little moment I love: Vision asking if something’s wrong with Loki and Bucky saying “no” (and Steve saying “yes” at the same time, ha). Because partly Bucky just doesn’t much like Vision for his own reasons, but also because Loki doesn’t (more on the Loki and Vision relationship here). 

And yeah, basically from the moment Vision started making himself a beacon of Infinity Stone noise, he was planning on doing what he ultimately does, and honestly is just mildly irritated that Steve and Bucky get in the way and get themselves hurt, because augh. (I think Vision sometimes gets frustrated with the utter inefficiency of his human teammates.)

And then there’s Loki. Which - this has been one of his nightmares for a long time. Being used to hurt the people he cares about, Thanos being in his head (again!), the fact that Thanos can do that and now he knows that it’s possible for him to be turned against Steve, the fact that it was that easy, like Thanos just crooked a finger and he came running back...yeah. He lets himself be soothed, here, but that particular fear isn’t going away. And isn’t going to help with Loki’s low key state of Thanos-related panic. 

In short: I have a feeling (and I know for a fact in some ways) that there are a bunch of things in this fic that will be important later. 

Whoops, I wrote another essay. Look, I possibly think too much about my fanfiction, and I might as well share that with you, right?

[veliseraptor]

loinca replied to your post “ask me for headcanons, I’m feeling like rambling about characters (I...”

Ooooh I would love to hear more of your Loki and Nebula or Loki and Wanda headcannons!

Ohhh man. I’m going to go with Loki & Wanda because I have a lot of feelings about them lately. Specifically Remember This Cold Loki & Wanda. Some of this is hopefully going to make its way into a fic but since LORD KNOWS when that’ll happen I’ll just go with writing about it here for now in headcanon because hopefully you guys will still read the fic version anyway. 

THAT BEING SAID okay so, Wanda is kind of thrilled, secretly, at the prospect of someone else who actually knows something about magic, because it’s something that Pietro doesn’t really get and also Wanda’s just curious about such things, and always interested in learning new stuff. So she approaches Loki, kind of interested in finding out if he’d be willing to help her learn new ways to use her magic, and Loki is like “well I don’t know very much about hex magic I was never very interested in that sort of thing but okay I suppose”

(Wanda continues to make Loki very nervous, both because she knows too much about him and because she’s been able to beat him on what he considers his own ground, which is to say, magic, but at the same time he is very curious about her, and definitely likes her more than Pietro but that is a low bar. Loki and Pietro kind of hate each other.)

so anyway, Loki watches Wanda at work, maybe spars with her some, and then rips into her about her “sloppy technique” and “inefficient use of energy” and whatever the fuck else, generally just being kind of a bastard, and at first Wanda is listening but gradually she gets angrier and angrier and eventually explodes basically like 

where do you get off, this is something you’ve had all your life and I’ve had maybe three years, and most of that time I spent in a cage being experimented on, and how about you, how many tutors did you have, huh, not all of us grew up royalty with the chance to get a fancy magical education asshole 

and Loki is like “...whoa” and Steve (who has probably been observing) is like “whoa” and Pietro’s like “OOOH BURN” and Wanda is staring Loki down despite being more than half a foot shorter than him, and also slowly turning a little pink because uhhhh she didn’t really mean to say all that

but she’s not sorry either.

and Loki basically gets this kind of pinched face and is like “well then, I suppose you’ll do fine on your own” and takes off. and Wanda is like “oh, wonderful, now he’s going to hate me even more” (mostly just kind of exasperated, still not sorry) and Steve is like [headdesk]

but then a couple days later Loki approaches Wanda on his own and actually...verbally apologizes, which is something Loki almost never does (he tends to prefer apologizing with actions or just hovering around until he’s forgiven) and is like “you made. a good point. and you are very good, obviously, since you managed to defeat me (once) and I’m obviously the best, and if you were still interested I suppose it would behoove me to learn more about chaos magic anyway so maybe we can learn from each other, possibly”

and Wanda kind of eyebrows at him but after a second is like  “sure, but you should know if you yell at me I’m going to yell back” and Loki is like “...fair”

and that is how they end up having magic fights at least once a week in which they regularly end up yelling at each other. but it seems to be kind of fun? maybe.