#tea ess

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Sun teas! You put the tea leaves and water in a lidded glass container (like a quart jar) and leave it in the sun for a few hours. Strain and pop it in the fridge, and you have iced tea without having to heat up water.

Cute!!

Does it make a pretty strong tea?

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tea-ess replied to your post “The right thing to do would be to stop wallowing.  Though that is...”

That's so disappointing! I'm so sorry the game didn't happen. Maybe some hot chocolate to help salvage the evening?

thank you <3  It doesn’t seem unreasonable to be able to trust schedules, does it?

Hot chocolate happened this morning; it’s much more of a morning thing, everything quite and calm.  Definitely feeling better though.

veraverorum replied to your post “The right thing to do would be to stop wallowing.  Though that is...”

I'm sorry for the game not happening, but I'm very proud of you for doing stuff and taking time off for yourself! That's very important and undervalued when stressful things happen.

thank you <3  I’m proud of me too.  It’s slow and it’s little but it is progress.

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judayre replied to your post : ((someone should ask about this character I’m...

Tell us about this character you’re making!

tea-ess replied to your post “((someone should ask about this character I’m making))”

*slides over with a couple mugs of hot chocolate to share* do tell!

Thank you friends!!

I just remembered I need to go looking for names... oops.  Should be easy though and I already know what sort of thing I’m looking for.

So.  It’s a ballerina from Brazil.  Her family runs a capoeira school so she did a lot of that when she was little.  After seeing a ballet, she was enamoured and started working towards that.

A nice place to start, right?  Good strength, basic fighting, kind of wish it didn’t need to be Brazil but that’s only because I have zero knowledge about Portuguese

Anyway.  She also has some shrapnel in her head.  That shrapnel might be in the shape of a cowboy.

This cowboy was kind of blown up in some magic-y time-y sort of explosion.  Hence why I’m calling him shrapnel; shrapnel doesn’t discriminate where it lands and I feel this is perfectly plausible with comic book logic.  Whatever else, he was a rather talented/renowned/notorious fellow.

I figure the shrapnel will be rather new.  The cowboy makes for a great skill tree.  And is a good way to shake up her status quo.  I need some details about the campaign to sort out some things but I figure she’ll be somewhat early career or end of school.  Might have a knee that’s on the brink of a serious injury.

Also going to make her aro/ace and rather physical with friends.  As the two of them start blending, they’ll back off a bit with friends and shift towards romantic attraction.  Cowboy was a romantic.  They’re flexible with pronouns but prefer they/them/their.  And she’s definitely not pasty; dark beige skin, dark hair, brown eyes.

If the GM wants more in terms of powers, I’ll probably make her a mutant.  It would feel a bit busy to me but this is for a game.  She likely get powers to blow things up.

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tea-ess replied to your post: *whines* I just want bubble tea! At least I can...

I’m so sorry you’re having so much trouble with this! I seem to recall having similar issues when I tried to make bubble tea, years ago. I think I ended up pre-soaking the pearls in the fridge overnight before boiling them? I can’t remember exactly what worked. They didn’t keep well, I remember.

I’d be worried about disintegrating them again if I soaked them..  This difficulty must be a conspiracy by bubble tea shops to keep people coming in!!  But yeah, I think I’m going to try some less exotic pearls in an attempt to figure out some basics about tapioca.  

The idea of bubble tea is just so nice though.  Gets me to have liquids and more points earlier in the day.  Super great for hot summer days.  And it’s FUN.  Fun is super important to me for preventing boredom. 

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tea-ess replied to your post: Sun teas! You put the tea leaves and water in a...

About the same as regular brewing. it depends on time and the amount of leaves you include.

That makes sense.

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hydrophobicnbmerperson replied to your post: That’s so exciting! I’m getting an interview for...

Congrats!!! You’ll do amazing!!!

tea-ess replied to your post: That’s so exciting! I’m getting an interview for...

fingers crossed!

Thank you!! <3  

Now I just need to get a pile of references in order...

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tea-ess replied to your post: tea-ess replied to your post: ...

haha, I think yours are worse! I just made a different thing in the end, I think.

I don’t really need to make these things but I want to try!  They look good.

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tea-ess replied to your post: I hate when you find cool recipes but they’re...

I once found a recipe for a really cool torte I wanted to try. The instructions told you explicitly what to do with the eggs. The ingredients list did not contain eggs. I was left going ‘but how MANY eggs!?’

Sounds devastating.  Were you able to guess how many?

I’m here thinking that an once of water will have a mighty hard time cooking barley and there might be some difficulty making a couscous and chickpea soup without either couscous or chickpeas.