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Obligatory Intro Post!!!
Howdy!! I'm Bee
They/them bisexual, bilingual, and biracial! Also jewish (kinda)
I like Mcyt, and I like to write and read Fanfic on Ao3 (same username as here), I also really like Madilyn/Elio Mei, Crane wives, Sparkbird, Amelie Farren, and most musical theatre.
I've been on Tumblr for a hot minute, but I'm planning on posting a bit more about my WIPS so I thought I'd make myself known!
Fanfic writers, reblog if youāre okay with people sharing the links to your fics to their friends and/or for fic rec posts without having to ask for your permission first
(I saw a debate about whether or not it was okay for people to share fic links around without asking the authors first, since some authors may not be comfortable with the links to their fics being shared around on twitter or tumblr. so I thought this post could be a blanket permission for authors who were okay with the links to their fics being shared around!)
Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.
I'm trying to prove something.
Reblog if your blog is a safe place for asexuals.
i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies itāās sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and iām not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home iām talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because itās literally not even that difficult and it matters so much
i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people canāt even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you donāt need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taughtā¦ but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i donāt know. please learn how to cook for yourself if youāre able. iām not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuberās ābestā recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get
Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook
not comprehensive but heres some:
internet shaquilleās basics but especially:
making rice
making scrambled eggs
making oatmeal
levels of cooking meat
using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)
food safety + a recipe to demonstrate
how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)
cooking techniques playlist
how to cut x
basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:
freezer meals,
weeknight meals,
kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &
kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)
basic knife skills
picking the right pan for each recipe
j. kenji lopez-altās tips and tricks playlist
egg recipes
a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles
and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:
j. kenji lopez-alt (various)
marionās kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)
maangchi (korean)
future neighbor (mostly korean)
the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have āspecialtyā ingredients)
family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)
not another cooking show (various)
cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)
you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)
how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)
internet shaquille (various)
babish culinary universe (various)
i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part
again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics
I honestly recommend cookbooks for beginner cooks (they cost more than internet recipes, but you can get them used without too much agony.
Internet recipes are great, but they vary widely in explanation quality, which is fine if you know most of the techniques, but less so if youāre still learning. Thereās an extra level of overall organization in edited cookbooks that I take for granted but that can be a lot of help if youāre starting out.
Thereās a whole genre of cookbooks that are āfor teensā or āfor college studentsā which are specifically focused on new cooks without too many tools. Donāt be embarrassed to get one even if you are no longer a teen or a student. Theyāre just really useful.
My favourite is āClueless in the Kitchenā by Evelyn Raab. It leads with a whole section on cooking and kitchen maintenence and it gives the recipes with minimal spices but with instructions about how to add or alter spices in a recipe, so you donāt get pummelled with huge numbers of herbs and spices to buy all at once. This copy is $4.
I once won a giveaway for a digital copy of Cooking Is Terrible by Mischa Fletcher, so I feel kind of obliged to try and convince people to buy a copy, but honestly itās fun to read even if youāre not using it for its intended purpose: learning how to make a decently nutritious meal for not a lot of time, energy, or money.
This.
Chinese cooking demystified for all y'all diasporic folks whose parents didnāt teach you to cook the food they grew up with out of [their reasons] or transracially-adopted-Chinese kids or anyone who likes Chinese food as it is cooked in China . American expat Chris does most of the talking in the early videos while native Chinese Steph has been doing way more talking in recent episodes as she got more comfortable with it. Also their schnauzer is adorable. Plus interviews with Stephās parents and in the kitchen videos of their favorite local restaurants. IIRC Theyāre located in Hubei but they cook across the vastness of the Chinese culinary landscape.
@nanaarchy this post was huge for me learning to cook, might be fun for u too :D
and also!!! i know @all-hail-blood-sheep may enjoy this?
Hey. Why isnāt the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isnāt that fucked up? Does anyone else think thatās absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! Thatās a big deal! Iāve never thought about it before but now that I have, itās ridiculous to me that thatās not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why donāt we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
Itās July 20th. Thatās the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. Iām ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and Iām going to have a goddamn potluck. Youāre all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
probably a controversial opinion but I think screenshotting someone elseās fic and posting it elsewhere because itās āobviously aiā is also harmful to the writing community youāre trying to protect. because
every single time I see these posts, there are always writers who say āthis looks like how I writeā and āwhat if my works sound like aiā. itās discouraging to genuine writers to see a screenshot of a fic that is āobviously aiā and then wonder if their own human-made works ālook like aiā too. itās discouraging to genuine writers to have to live in constant fear and worry if someone will screenshot their human-made fics and put them on blast for being āobviously aiā too.
no matter how āobviously aiā a fic looks, unless the author says they use ai, you can never know for absolute certainty that itās ai. you assume. based on vibes. and thereās always a chance of you wrongly accusing a genuine, innocent writer and encouraging people to harass them. āreal humans donāt write like thisā do you know literally every single human being to say for absolute certainty that none of them write like the machine that was trained on millions of human-made works to look and sound like humans? āmost people can tellā no, no one can tell unless authors disclose their use of ai. most people guess. based on vibes. every ai telltale is something humans actually write, otherwise ai would never have been able to mimic it in the first place. short sentence stacking? some people prefer it as a stylistic choice. ānot x, not y, but zā type of sentence? people have been using this for ages, way before gen ai became a thing. Iāve been using it in my writing for almost a decade, way before gen ai became a thing. em dash? you mean proper grammar? not to mention how often people who are autistic and people whose native language isnāt english are wrongly accused of using ai in their fics because āreal humans donāt like write thatā ā itās super offensive and harmful.
even if someone says they use ai, the right thing to do is to not read their fics and leave them alone if it bothers you. I donāt like ai fics. I donāt agree with people who let ai write for them. but I will always condemn harassment. no matter what. also not to mention, if you harass someone for being honest about using ai and tagging their fics as such, chances are that they will stop tagging their future ai-generated fics as ai, meaning no one can know for sure if the fics are ai, meaning itās impossible for anyone to filter them out. if you want to be able to effectively avoid ai fics by filtering them out, youāll have to make sure people who use ai are comfortable enough to be honest about it.
I also want to say that no one āwrites like aiā. itās the other way around. ai writes like human, because thatās what it was trained to do. saying a human-made fic āreads like aiā is saying a work looks like its copycat.
last but not least, harassment, accusations, speculations and witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does. if not more.
*me, on the moon, drawing increasingly intricate patters in the dust around my windowless van with āFree Candyā painted on the sides *: āWhoās abducting who now, assholes?ā
*me, not even ten minutes later, somehow tied up in the back of my own van as aliens drive me to their secondary location, knowing full well my likelihood of survival will go down by 90%*: āFuck.ā
*me, on the moon, drawing increasingly intricate patters in the dust around my windowless van with āFree Candyā painted on the sides *: āWhoās abducting who now, assholes?ā
bitches be like "i love writing fanfiction" and then constantly second guess themselves because what if they're not good enough what if it's cringe what if no one likes it what if people laugh when they see it what if i mischaracterized someone what if i didn't tag it properly what if what if what if
You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad š
Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:
1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!
2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.
3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)
hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spellā¦ be free ye reader
(loosely based on the tags dremenec left on one of my posts three days ago i don't know if this is what they meant, but when i read the tags A Lingering Imageā¢ entered my head and i have not been able to get it out)
you see it. you see my vision
Going back to how every Huntrix has a different traversal mechanic........
Rumi's is she can go into dark rooms
Zoey can climb through vents
Mira can scale knee-high walls
But the kicker is that you only get a limited time to do your tasks/puzzles
Because there's a "separation anxiety" bar that depletes while you leave the other two standing around
If you let the bar drop completely, they all burst into tears and the game bricks itself entirely
it's for your own safety, mira. you Need to wear the hats (+the shorter the wall the funnier it is that they can't cross it. i love videogame logic where the cool action hero inexplicably Cannot Jump)
Rumi is in the wrong genre entirely but she's living her best life
Owing to the tight development timeline, the infinite backpack glitch was never discovered or patched
i see your 'Rumi has no idea what genre they're actually in' and i raise you 'Zoey ALSO has no idea what genre they're actually in' (on account of the hayfever)
(+spinning around these tags from frog4278 in my mind. i am not immune to fashionista mira propaganda. by which i mean the s-aint-elmo fashionista mira posts were so powerful that they instantly made fashionista mira canon in my heart forever)
See you think the survival horror element of the game is the zombies and traps and haunted duck rides BUT it is also the puzzles and challenges, which are crafted specifically to psychologically traumatize each player character (especially fashion suffering s-aint-elmo mira)
(They also tried chucking Zoey over the ankle-high walls but she splattered against the invisible barrier
(However this did lead them to unlock a secret move called fastball special where Rumi can launch Zoey directly into enemies for an instakill.
(It only works if she manages to hit them.
(Which has yet to happen, but they try))))
the existence of non-zoerumi contacts that mira can send embarrassing outfit pictures to implies that the other kpdh characters are also somewhere out there (i choose to believe everyone else is just chilling on a beach while they wander the haunted amusement park of ambiguous size)
+ bonus tags from frog4278
Look at my party dawg we're gonna die!!!!!
Mira's outfit reminded me of Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug for some reason so that's why she's there. We can just say she's an NPC party member
Playing as Mira is basically hard mode because you have two needy characters showing you stuff and accidentally inflicting fatal status effects (they're arguably more dangerous than the actual enemies)
(desc in alt if you can't read my handwriting)
And a sneak peak at the loading screen (featuring return of tricycle Zoey (I only have one joke (and the joke is "Zoey is short")))
fishing minigame brainrot activate. the fishing minigame requires players to wear the ugly fishing outfit
+spinning around the vague idea of divorce mechanics in my head
Obsessed obsessed with both of your art styles especially you assortedbowloffruit your art is so simple yet clean and detailed mwah mwah
and @dremenec I saw your post after I got off of work yesterday and it literally made my entire night I want you to know that. AND THE ANIMATION IS ADORABLE!!!!!!
Big fan of the implication that Marinette is some sort of curse that only YOU can see after recovering from Divorce and the others can't see her unless they also go through Divorce. Like the Social Bunny from Sims 2 where you just look insane
Mira out here with the Fear and Hunger level of status effects if she doesn't find a stash of Monster soon she's COOKED
They're way too overencumbered to carry her, but there are ways and means, ways and means indeed...
Talk about a FLASH light ha ha ha ha
(this game is not beating the E for Everyone allegations
(but you know it's a good immersive sim when the answer to a puzzle is "induce gay thirst"
(if rumi and mira are divorced at this point the game flips a coin to decide if you are permanently softlocked or whether an unskippable reunion cutscene plays
(the cutscene has been banned in several countries for reports of inducing seizures
(and spontaneous homosexuality)))))
i am not immune to honglock propaganda. by which i mean i saw the honglock posts and folded immediately. netflix, please give zoey a honglock in kpop demon hunters 2 (context for this iteration of the honglock)
+the honglock posts in question [1] [2]
K-Pop Demon Hunters Heritage Post
since the old version of this post was flagged for 'adult content'...
reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!
along with that, reblog if your account is a trans non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the trans enby spectrum!
Did you know? It's make a terrible comic day. Go make your terrible comic today!!!!
REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.
REBLOG IF YOU ARE A WRITER ON TUMBLR
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT KIND OF WRITER YOU ARE YOU CAN BE WRITING: POEMS, FANFICS, IDK NORMAL FICS, NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, IDK ANYTHING!! JUST REBLOG!!!
Accidentally thought too hard about the Sirens in my fanfic before realizing i wouldnāt be able to use most of this as in depth as Iāve thought of it
If you donāt know what fanfic Iām talking about, itās The Unfortunate Effects of the Curing of Scott Goldsmith on Ao3
Sirens are a race of humanoid pack animals who range from semi-aquatic to fully aquatic. Sirens are older than humans, with much longer lifespans, and have evolved much better to their surroundings, causing different regional variants of sirens to be quite distinct from eachother, with different behaviors, diets, and biology.Ā
Coral Sirens live in shallows, often in coral reefs near beaches, they are bipedal with long tails and webbed claws, made for sudden turns, nimble navigation, and with bright colors as to easily spot eachother in the mess of coral. They build rudimentary nests, taking most of their homes and shelter from the already existing coral, and often spend segments of their lives on land, where they take on a largely human appearance, which has led to cases such as Lizzie Goldsmith and Martyn Littlewood, who are born by land-nesting coral sirens, and abandoned on land, before being found and raised as humans, only returning to the sea in adulthood. They were almost all killed off by human intervention, overfishing their shallows and shrinking their habitats.
Open Ocean sirens are the most well-recognized variant, single-tailed but otherwise humanoid, often described as āMermaidsā by human folklore, made for long distances over short times, as well as high endurance. They live in large aggregations and nests that, from above, can be confused for regular rocks sticking out of the sea along common seafaring routes and keep a diet of small, schooling fish, human seamen, and the occasional waterfowl. They were almost all killed off by a mass-genocide campaign by humans who saw them a threat, and a fight against an unknown parasite.
River and stream sirens are few and hard to find, humanoid yet amphibian in nature, smaller than most other sirens with webbed claws like coral sirens, but no tails, seeing as they donāt swim nearly as much. While most sirens diets consist mostly of fish and marine mammals, river and stream sirens hunt land mammals such as bears, dear, and anything else that comes by the river for a drink, with only the occasional salmon or frog. If they build homes or nests, then they havenāt been discovered by anyone willing to tell, but there are theories that they hibernate when the rivers dry up or freeze over, but they arent tracked enough to know for sure.
If there are any other types of marine biomes you want me to try and think about, feel free to let me know lol
