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being annoyed and feeling evil and having to talk yourself down like easy there girl you’re alright

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looking thru my old art and found a gif i made back in 2020 but apparently never posted anywhere??

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naruto on main for a moment bc i miss my beautiful orange son (and the others are there. i guess)

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waoh, a meet the artist

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a bunch of hooligans and homosexuals

team 9 and 10 (to go with team 8)

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the princess and her two bffs with fleas🌸

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Nona the Ninth is one of my favorite books of all time. Not just because it's Locked Tomb, but it is the purest form of one of the big messages the series is trying to divulge.

The price of love is grief. We will never be free of it as long as we love anything at all. Our family, friends, our pets, even beloved media. Anything that connects that deeply to us that we love it will leave a gaping hole when it's gone.

But no one rejects loving to avoid grief. Every one of the characters holds on desperately to something they love, to levels that seem unhealthy to us. They want the perks without the cost.

John is holding on to a world and people that died 10k years ago.

The lyctors cling desperately to their cavaliers memories, to the point of being willing to end the 9 houses to honor them.

Cam held on to Pal, Pal held on to Dulcie. Harrow held on to Gideon so hard she disappeared her from her memory to avoid the grief she would pay for the privelege of caring for her.

But Nona loves indiscriminately. She loves the polluted sky, she loves the sad people, she loves the stray dogs and her friends and her teachers and Varun. She loves Pyrrhas lying ass, she loves Camilla and Palemedes, she loves crown and even cares about Judith. Nona isn't afraid of grief, because to her all that love balances it out. Nona is the only one in the end willing to pay the price for that 6 months of unconditional love. She knows from the beginning of the book that her own days are numbered, but she doesn't shy from it and avoid loving.

She loves all that much harder.

"If you could see your whole life, start to finish, would you change anything?" The movie Arrival (2016) approaches this same theme. If you knew what you'd lose, would you go back to avoid it? Would you keep away from the people and things you knew you'd lose? Would you shy away from experiencing love just because it hurts?

"Love and Freedom don't coexist, warden."

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each house gets one rendering style the economy is dire

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Korean Fried Chicken

Ingredients

1 lb Chicken breast (Cut into small cubes)

4 Cloves of garlic (minced)

1 tbsp vinegar

3/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp crushed red chilies

1/4 tsp red chili powder

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp garlic powder

1/4 cup plain flour

1/2 cup & 1 tbsp cornstarch

3 tbsp water

Sauce

1 1/2 tbsps oil

4 cloves garlic (minced)

1/3 cup hot ketchup (or ketchup + extra chili powder)

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp gochujang

1/4 tsp red chili powder

1/4 tsp crushed red chilis

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 tbsp honey

3-4 tbsp water

Steps:

Cut chicken breast into small cubes. Add minced garlic, vinegar, salt, crushed red chliies, chilli powder, black pepper, cumin seeds, & garlic powder. Mix this all together.

Add flour and cornstarch then mix. Then add water and mix again.

Deep fry in hot oil for 1 minute then turn the heat down to medium high for 8-9 min. Stir frequently.

Set the chicken to the side once fried.

Add oil to a medium pan, then add minced garlic. Fry for 1 min on medium heat.

Add ketchup, soy sauce, gochujung, red chili powder, crushed red chilies, garlic powder, & black pepper. Mix together. Add honey and then water. Mix all of that together then cook for 1 min on medium heat until it starts bubbling.

Add chiclken to sauce and stir until chicken is coated.

Done! Add sesames if you want.

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Instant Hotteok

Ingredients

Pillsbury biscuit can

Brown sugar

Steps

Melt Brown sugar, then move to the freezer until stick constitency.

Open biscuits. Take bisuit dough and flatten out the edges, but leave the center thick enough.

Add 2 tsps of brown sugar paste to dough. Bring in the thin outer parts to the middle and then crimp into a circle.

Gently flatten it out.

Heat up a medium pan with oil. Add biscuits to pan on medium/low heat, seam side down until its golden brown on both sides.

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Creamy Tomato Pasta

Ingredients

Sausage

Spaghetii pasta

Little tomatoes (many as you want)

1 Cup water (or more)

Lemon zest

Lemon juice

Parmesan

Black pepper

Steps:

Cook pasta in a medium pan with the small tomatoes and 1 cup of water. Boil until it's al dente.

Add cooked sausage, lemon zest, lemon juice parm, and black pepper.

Bam creamy pasta.

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Banana Bread

Ingredients

3 ripe bananas

2 eggs

1/2 cup melted butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla exract

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/2 cups flour

Steps:

Peel and place bananas into a bowl. Mash them together well. Stir in 2 eggs.

Pour in butter and add sugar, brown sugar, milk vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, and floud.

Pour mixture into a greased pan. Then bake at 355 for 40-50 minutes.

Enjoy!

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Chicken Tenders

Ingredients

Chicken Tender pieces

1 Cup flour

1 tbsp garlic powder

1 tbsp paprika

1 tbsp onion powder

1 tbsp salt

tsp ground black pepper

2 tbsp cornstarch

1 cup milk

1 egg

Steps:

You know the steps already. It's in your mind.

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Beef Chow Fun

Ingredients:

-Shaoxing wine

-sesame oil

-dark soy sauce

-chicken broth

-corn starch

-soy sauce

-steak

-rice noodles

-brown sugar

-onion

-green onion

-ginger

-garlic

Steps:

Meat

Add 2 tbsps cornstarch & 1 tbsp of shaoxing wine, oil, & soy sauce to your sliced steak and mix it up.

Sauce 1

Mix 1 tbsps chicken broth, 1 tsp brown sugar, & 1 tbsp soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and shaoxing wine.

Cooking

Sear your steak. Set aside.

2. Cook your onions, garlic, & ginger in a pan with oil.

3. Add in your rice noodles, meat, and sauce. Mix it up!

4. Enjoy!