#teapotdragon

[thebibliosphere]

teapotdragon replied to your post “So some folks in the chat are aware, that I am attempting to mod my...”

I've been feeling bad about not going to the chat more, since it's just a lovely place to enjoy good content and lovely people, and I could use that. Is it bad that I doubly regret not going and missing this?

bb, listen to me, listen, we’re doing Singing in the Rain soon, you have to come in for it. I will nudge you, I will. All the happy feels are going to be going on.

[copperbadge]

theactualcluegirl replied to your post “coffeebuddha replied to your post “honoriaw replied to your post...”

My mum-in-law bought me a fun little pot with a face on the side, the mouth carved open, as if it's laughing, is wide enough to let the white slip through, and keep the yolk back without breaking it. The bonus is that when used for its designed intent, it looks like the wee pot-man is barfing eggtoplasm.

DON’T THINK I DIDN’T SEE THAT EGGTOPLASM PUN LADY. 

Yeah those things are great! Mum has one that looks like a frog. :D 

teapotdragon replied to your post “honoriaw replied to your post “re: blue apron and foodieverse, are...”

what kind of life have you lead that you got tips from a chef from a french pastry school? more evidence you're probably one of the coolest people around.

It’s less wild than it sounds tbh. :D Last time Mum was in Chicago, I took her to a baking demonstration at the pastry school -- it costs $50 and they demonstrate several different desserts and then you get to sample them. (Totally worth it btw, lots of fun and delicious food, plus you get a tour ahead of time.) At one point while he was making meringues I piped up with a question about egg whites and he got onto the topic of “aged” egg whites, where you leave the whites out for several weeks to allow some of the water to evaporate. He told me that he knew a guy whose gingerbread recipe started with “leave six egg whites out on the counter for six weeks”. 

I was FASCINATED so I went home and tried it with meringues. On the one hand I definitely did not get food poisoning, but on the other, there wasn’t enough of a change in the meringues that I felt it would be regularly worth it. I think perhaps because I was having a slight bug issue at the time, so I kept the egg whites mostly covered and not much water evaporated. 

[brynprocrastinates]

@teapotdragon replied to your post “I have a ridiculous idea for a story about a morally grey loner who...”

sounds both potentially heartbreaking and cute

That’s exactly what I’d be aiming for =D

@ramblingrubyred replied: 

I would read it and probably have so many feelings and I want you to pretty please write it when you can. Please with rainbow sprinkles on top.

The rainbow sprinkles have done me in! (It probably won’t be for months and months though. I have to get through the first and second draft of Pearl and the fourth draft of TWLC before I can start anything new.)

[seren-pen]

Least favorite character ask: Discworld?

Ahhh!  Once again, how can you dislike anyone in these novels.  We’ll go with Reacher Gilt in Going Postal.  He was an incredibly bad dude, but deliciously so.

[byjillianmaria]

Character ask: 11 and 18?

Already did 11 :) SO!!!

18:What shows/music/books/movies do they like?

Songbird

Elizabeth is a fan of YA series, like the Hunger Games trilogy and The Raven Cycle. And she’s also a fan of cartoons like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, plus some anime like Madoka???

The Mistress likes a lot of classical music and fiction. Fond of Poe and such.

Bridget doesn’t read, I see her liking stuff like Metallica though. And horror movies. All of the horror movies.

Mark is a fan of poets like e.e. cummings and Emily Dickenson. He says Evil Dead is his favorite movie but actually it’s Violet’s, but he likes watching it with her because it makes her laugh. And it isn’t like he dislikes it, it just probably wouldn’t be his favorite without her.

The Fair Folk

Katrina likes shows like Catfish and stuff like that. Her favorite movie is Mean Girls. And she likes top 40s type stuff.

Meri reads just ... so much nonfiction. So much. And she’s a ho for nature documentaries. Shark week is an event.

Renee likes indie and acoustic music. She binges Catfish with Katrina but then won’t watch tv for a month. Her favorite movie is probably some artsy French one honestly.

Oren secretly really loves COPS. He pretends to be above pop culture stuff but he’s really not.

Reversed Star

Icaruss loves trashy romance novels. Anything with Fabio on the cover. Ancient treasures from a time gone by.

Evangeline loves trashy reality series. She wanted to have one of her own, but her dad said no.

Thara will listen to electropunk-type music while she’s working on stuff.

Greta and Lexia will absolutely spend their nights in watching the weirdest television and movies that they can find.

[fargreencountryswiftsunrise]

teapotdragon replied to your post “*punches through a wall* Finally finished a chapter on An Unexpected...”

I know the feeling. *empathy fist bump*

*empathy fist bump back*

[scriptmedic]

Hi, Aunt Scripty. First off, thanks for being awesome and offering your consulting services. You may see my icon a lot, sorry about that. So, I'm recreating a little vampire mythos by having the vampire "parasite" appear in the victim's brain as a tumor-like mass (very dense, almost impossible to cut through with a scalpel). What is the standard procedure for brain autopsy involving a tumor? Would the pathologist(?) be interested in removing the mass from the brain entirely? Thank you, again.

Hey there! Thanks for writing in! I’m happy to see your iconas often as you have questions, though the current wait time is…. Rather ridiculous.As in more than 2 months. Eeeeeeep!!

I’ll be honest, I don’t really know the autopsy procedurefor individual tumors, but I can give an educated guess. I would imagine thattypical, well-identified tumors would get measured and described, then a small biopsywould be taken for analysis, but the tumor itself would probably not getexcised (cut out).

But a novel type of tumor? That gets people interested. Hard, almost rocklike, butnot a calcification? This is where the scientists who work hard in our morguesand medical examiner’s offices would be excited.And if they’re excited, they’re going to dissect until they understand. That’swhat they do, these people we employto speak for the dead: they learn and learn until they know everything theycan. They’re a scientist making a discovery. Above all, remember that forensicpathologists are curious.

So a typical tumormight not get completely excised from the brain, but a special, cool, swanky kind of tumor probably would be.

As to terminology, the forensic medicine field is a littlebit fragmented. Some areas of the country have coroners, who determine cause of death, but coroner is actuallyoften an elected official, not a doctor.(Crazy, right?!) A medical examineris, by definition, a doctor. (Both an ME and a coroner will have doctorsworking for them; that title is typically a forensicpathologist). So the term for the person doing the dissection is indeed thepathologist, though they may work for an ME (another doctor) or a coroner(maybe a doctor, maybe a furniture maker, because why not?).

Good luck with your story!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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[scriptlawyer-blog]

I'm writing an urban fantasy set in Idaho in 2013, and I want to touch on water and land rights (my emphasis will be on water rights). I understand that the basis for water rights during the early pioneer settlements was essentially "You keep what you can hold." Can you give me an idea of how things have changed or what main things I should make sure to understand in terms of modern water rights? Thank so much.

Hi, I’m not really sure what you’re looking for. In modern times, all of the land in the United States has already been settled. You can’t just march in somewhere and claim land, because it already belongs to someone - either a land owner or the government.

This brochure might help answer some of your questions. Once you’ve read up a little if you need me to translate some passages into lay terms I’m happy to do that.