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[akathecupcakes]

peasantwitch answered your question “ugh”

Has anyone suggested silicone oven mitts and boiling water? If not, may I? I'm amazed how many things this cleans/fixes.

...I need further explanation on how this is supposed to work, please :D

[akathecupcakes]

By Popular Demand, My Smokey Maple Chili Recipe!

I got a lot of people saying they wanted my recipe, seen in this post, so I typed it up! Please be aware, I made this up as I went along this morning and I just typed it up a few minutes ago. There are few exact measurments and your results may vary.

S'alright?

Okay! Without further adeu...

Paxie’s Smokey Maple Chili

Notes:

This recipe just barely fit into my tiny 2 qt crock pot, so if you need more, you might need to scale it up.

I don’t like beans in my chili, so this recipe doesn’t include any. If you like beans in your chili, then you go right ahead and add them to this recipe.  Also, while I don’t mind a good spicy chili, I don’t make my chili spicy. If you want more spice, you add more spice.

Lastly, this is not in any way a ‘healthy’ chili. Get any ideas to the contrary out of your head now.

Ingredients:

McCormick’s “Smokehouse Maple” Grill Mates seasoning

1 pouch chili seasoning of your choice (I used a cheap “original” blend from my local grocery store)

Salt

Pepper

Butter (I told you this wasn’t a healthy chili)

2 lbs ground meat (I used 1lb each of ground turkey and ground pork sausage)

1 small sweet onion, finely chopped

1 green onion, finely chopped

1 clove of garlic, finely chopped

1 15oz jar of tomato sauce.

Some sort of cheese (optional)

In a frying pan, sauté the onions and garlic in the butter. While that’s happening, put your meats into a mixing bowl and add some of the Grill Mates seasoning and mix it up with your hands (you washed your hands first, right?). I can’t tell you how much to add, because I didn’t measure. It was very much a “*shakeshake* That looks good…” kind of thing. I did stop mixing to add more once or twice, and I added some more during cooking. Use your own discretion.

Once you have the meat seasoned, add it to the frying pan. Add salt, pepper, and more of the Grill Mates if desired, and cook it down to a crumble. Drain off some of the fat, but not all of it! Add in the packet of chili seasoning, with a little water if needed, and stir to coat. Once the meat is all coated, add a little to the crockpot, followed by some of the tomato sauce, and beans if you want them. Keep layering like this until it’s all added, then stir it all together. If you think you need to, add more Grill Mates. This would also be a good point to add more spice.

Cook the chili in the crockpot for 2 hours on high, then another 2 hours on low, stirring occasionally. To serve, put some cheese on top and let it melt. Or don’t, if you don’t like that sort of thing. Regardless, enjoy your chili!

[sarriane]

peasantwitch said: The only one, huh? and possibly its future director if things continue...

[copperbadge]

peasantwitch replied to your photoset “CLARK!" "Robert, what — " "YOU SON OF A BITCH, IT’S BEEN TWENTY...”

"No, I had them lengthened, they won't fit you anymore."

HAHAHAHAHA OH SNAP. 

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nothorse replied to your post: So I am finally caught up on Agents o...

I think it’s more of a case of waiting for a convenient Terrigen Mist. The whole things smells Inhuman. Especially as they are easily placed in the mutant role that is not available in the MCU. (And I for one am rather glad of that limitation.)

Yeah -- I don't think she can be Husk mutantwise, but having that kind of power makes sense, the skin-shedding. 

Ew. :D

peasantwitch replied to your post: So I am finally caught up on Agents o...

"…repeatedly gets blocked from power in the comics and who is disproportionately punished when she does hold it, who has had to kick and claw her way back into it." I think you answered your own objection. Canonically, she never gets that break

Well, the point I was (possibly unclearly) making was that this was an opportunity to do better than comics, and instead they did worse. In comics, it's VISIBLE how often she gets fucked over, it's part of her arc.In the show, it's not even acknowledged (though it may be at some later date) that Hill got screwed out of a job she deserved. 

I think -- and I'm sorry, I'm not trying to pick on you, this has been fomenting for a while -- we need to do away with the idea of "in canon" when it comes to TV/film adaptations of comic books, because it's used very inconsistently. It tends to be the case that "It happened in canon" (meaning it happened in 616 or Ultimates) is used to justify the death of a woman, while "We don't adhere strictly to canon" is used to justify the replacement of a woman with a white male, or the saving of a white male from death.

Case in point: in "canon", Maria Hill is the director of SHIELD. In "canon", Victoria Hand is still alive. In "canon", Kitty Pryde is the protagonist of Days Of Future Past, because she is a Jewish woman trying to prevent a genocide, but in the film she has been replaced with Wolverine, a male gentile. In "canon", up until the MCU introduced him, the role of Phil Coulson, Nick Fury's Good Eye, was played by an eighteen year old woman named Daisy Johnson (who Hill was competing with for the job of Director). 

Ultimates is where many elements of MCU/AoS are drawn from: an African-American Nick Fury, the Chitauri, the Tony-Steve-Thor fight in Avengers, and the Triskelion all come from Ultimates. In Ultimates, a female character who dies in Spider-man 2 is still alive. In Ultimates, Steve Rogers flew a jet into Galcatus's face and died. 

So, yeah, MCU and AoS are canon. The use of comics canon as justification for film/television canon has stopped carrying much weight for me; it's context, certainly, but not cause. 

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peasantwitch replied to your post “really though, who at HYDRA said “hey, we should send an amnesiac…”

I bet a double (triple?) agent suggested it. Most villains aren’t clever enough to understand sarcasm they didn’t initiate. They heard “What could possibly go wrong?” and nodded agreement.

in all seriousness, when i was watching the movie last night, rumlow is the one to call it in. after zola fails to blow up steve and nat, the strike commandos search the rubble and rumlow says “call in the asset.” cut to pierce giving the winter soldier his assignment.

but the winter soldier can’t be their only asset, can he? would they develop all that technology (how many hundreds of thousands of dollars did that cost) for just one guy? there have got to be others. an organization like HYDRA, with SHIELD’s funding and their “cut off one head, and two more will take its place” maxim, would have other assets. 

(scientist #2 sighed when he heard he had to help prep the winter soldier again and deadpanned, “what could possibly go wrong?”

but one day, it would be his time to shine. he would be responsible for captain america’s death. one day.)

[sarriane]

peasantwitch replied to your post: fic prompts?

Do you watch MAoS? If so, then I would love to see Bucky meet Tripp, even if by accident. Because, Howling Commandos!

Yes, I do! I was actually thinking about this after we found out Trip’s grandpa was a Howling Commando (I think it’s safe to assume it's Gabe Jones?) :) Thanks for the prompt!

(And hey, fyi everyone, I'm still taking prompts!)

This is set in the middle of this week’s episode of MAoS, but only has some light spoilers. (It’s also set post-Cap 2 and probably won't make sense unless you've seen that.)

***

Trip sits at a table outside the meeting place May had chosen – a Starbucks in the middle of the city, far enough away from the hotel that they couldn’t be tracked back there so easily. He glances around the street and the tables outside the coffee shop while feigning taking a sip from his over-expensive coffee. The contact is nowhere in sight, but he’s five minutes early.

There’s nobody suspicious, but he cases the place again, just to be sure. Tripp eyes up the guy sitting at the adjacent table. He’s holding onto his coffee with both hands like he’s cupping it for warmth, even though it’s gotta be at least eighty degrees outside. The man is bent over the table, wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie, his long dark hair hiding half of his face from –

“Bucky Barnes?” Trip says aloud before he realizes what he’s saying. Barnes was a Howling Commando – he’s heard a million stories, seen the newsreels more than most, looked at pictures while his grandfather talked his ear off about the guy. He'd know that face anywhere.

The man startles like a stray cat. He jumps to his feet and glares up at Trip like he’s about to dive at him and pull a knife from his belt. Trip reaches for his gun, but something stops him. Maybe it’s the wild look in the man’s eyes.

“Hey,” Trip says, raising his hands slowly and setting them on the table where the guy can see them. “I’m just here to see a guy about a plane. No worries, man.”

The Bucky lookalike doesn’t move an inch, but he blinks, staring at Trip like he knows him.

“You…” he starts, tilting his head at Trip. “You look familiar.”

“So do you,” Trip says lightly. “Name’s Antoine Triplett,” he smiles. “But, if you are who I think you are, you would’ve known my grandpa. Gabe Jones. He was a Howling Commando.”

“He knew Captain America,” the man says slowly.

“Never shut up about him,” Trip laughs. “Always telling stories about his glory days with Cap and the Commandos.”

Trip has a lot of questions about this guy; who he is, why he looks like Bucky Barnes, why he looks like he’s on the run. But, hey, maybe he is Bucky Barnes. Hell, Captain America came back from the dead – so did Coulson. It isn’t the weirdest thing Trip has heard about since he joined SHIELD.

“Could you…” Barnes trails off, eyes darting across the busy tables outside the Starbucks. He turns back to Trip and looks him in the eye. “You called me Barnes,” he says roughly. “Could you tell me about him? And Captain America?”

“Yeah,” Trip says, purposely not looking away, down at his watch, or reaching for his cell phone to call Coulson, even though he wanted to. “Sure, I have more stories than you’d want to hear,” he smiles as Barnes sits across from him at the table. “Barnes was Cap’s right hand man. Grandpa used to say, the way Barnes looked after Rogers, if the Axis had personally declared war on Captain America, the war would’ve been over a lot sooner.”

Trip tells the Barnes-lookalike everything he can remember about Bucky and Cap, stories he could probably find on the Internet or in biographies, and a few more. The man drinks it all in like the coffee he’s ignoring, listening with the same impassive look on his face. Trip knows it’s gotta be Barnes, now, but he doesn’t ask.

The guy looks like he needs something – to hear this, maybe. Trip figures his grandpa would want him to tell these stories, even if the guy isn’t really Bucky Barnes. He wouldn’t be the first to find solace in old stories about the Howling Commandos and Captain America.

“Agent Triplett?” he hears after twenty minutes, and looks up at the blonde woman. He hadn’t even noticed her, lost in his story.

“Colonel Danvers?” Trip asks. She nods with a smile.

Trip glances back over at Barnes, but the man is gone. He’s vanished without a trace, leaving nothing behind, not even the flash of a dark hoodie on the street.

“Who were you talking to?” Danvers says, taking the seat on the other side of the table. “Did I interrupt something?”

“Nah,” Trip says, looking back at her. “I just think he needed the company.”

Danvers nods. “So,” she says, lowering her voice, “I hear May’s calling in a favor?”

“Yeah,” Trip chuckles, wondering how big of a favor she owes May. “We need a plane.”

Fin.

[sarriane]

peasantwitch said: GDI! Your plot bunny is evil. (I will concede to you the right of first refusal but if you don’t want to write this one I want to take a shot.) oooh, please feel free! i have way too many WIPs. i'd love to see what you come up with.