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Bsky post by libro.fm: Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Fuck Amazon. Go to bookshop.org or better yet, take a little time on Saturday to visit your local indie bookstore.

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Just because people are autistic doesn't mean they can't be bullies and form cliques and engage in social freezing and ostracism 👍 if anything it can make them MORE prone to doing it if they've been bullied and ostracized in their youth and when they form their own social circles later in life they have the ability to determine the power dynamics.

an interaction im very tired of in online autism spaces. aka when you don’t have a special interest / when your special interest isn’t [character] or [fandom]

EDIT: if you’re confused on this post look at this version: https://www.tumblr.com/dinklebat/767829405172219904/some-of-you-did-not-understand-this-post-hope?source=share

also if you want to see column posts just check #column posting on my blog

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Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Tamora Pierce, and Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark

If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

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Pan-Seared Gyoza

Kiera Wright-Ruiz

Ingredients

For the dipping sauce:

½ cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons rice vinegar

1 to 2 teaspoons Japanese chile oil (rayu) or Chinese chile oil (optional), or to taste

For the gyoza:

1 pound green cabbage (about 1/2 medium head)

4 teaspoons kosher salt

¾ pound ground pork

1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon minced ginger

1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 cup chopped garlic chives (nira) or regular chives

1 tablespoon soy sauce

1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil

Cornstarch or potato starch, for sprinkling

60 gyoza wrappers (about 12 ounces)

Neutral oil (such as vegetable or canola oil), for frying

Preparation

Step 1 Prepare the gyoza dipping sauce: In a small bowl, whisk together the soy sauce and rice vinegar, plus chile oil, if using. Set aside (makes a generous 1/2 cup).

Step 2 Finely chop the cabbage or process it in a food processor into confetti-size bits, then transfer it to a sieve set over a large bowl. Toss with 2 teaspoons of the salt and let sit for 20 minutes in the sink. Gently press the cabbage to squeeze out as much water as you can.

Step 3 Combine the drained cabbage, pork, ginger, garlic, chives, soy sauce, sesame oil and the remaining 2 teaspoons salt in a large bowl and mix thoroughly just until everything is evenly distributed. (Don’t overdo it: Too much handling and the fat in the pork will begin to melt.)

Step 4 Here’s where you want to employ some extra hands to help you: Fill a small bowl with water. Sprinkle a rimmed sheet pan or two with cornstarch or potato starch to prevent the finished gyoza from sticking. For each gyoza, place a wrapper in the palm of your hand and spoon about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the filling into the center. Use the back of the spoon to smoosh it lightly (it should fill about half the wrapper). You don’t want the filling to run to the edges, but you also don’t want it sitting in a fat clump in the middle. Dip your finger into the water and run it along the perimeter of one half of the wrapper. Now fold the wet edge of the wrapper over to meet the dry edge. Crimp the edges together at one corner, then proceed around the dumpling, using your finger to push the dough into little pleats on one side and pressing them against the other side to seal it. (If you need more guidance, there are hundreds of gyoza-folding videos online.) Place the gyoza on the sheet pan as you finish them. If your gyoza seem to be sticking to one another, sprinkle each layer of gyozas with potato or cornstarch.

Step 5 To pan-fry the gyoza, you will need a lidded 10-inch nonstick pan or a well-seasoned carbon steel pan. (You could also use whatever skillet you have, but increase the oil and keep a close eye on the gyoza.) Heat 1 tablespoon neutral oil in the pan over medium heat. When hot, add 10 to 15 gyoza, flat-side down, and cook until browned on the bottoms, 2 to 3 minutes. Add enough water to come just under a quarter of the way up the gyoza (about 1/2 cup, depending on how many gyoza you have in the pan), cover, and let the water cook away until the pan is dry and the gyoza wrappers have softened completely, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the lid, increase the heat to medium-high, and let the gyoza crisp up on the bottoms for another minute or two, depending on how crisp you like them. Serve immediately with the dipping sauce and additional chile oil. Wipe the pan clean and cook the remaining gyoza. (Alternately, uncooked gyoza can be frozen on a baking sheet in a single layer until firm and then stored in resealable plastic bags for a couple months. To cook frozen gyoza, add a second batch of water in step 4 after the first batch evaporates.)

Perfect Dumpling Sauce

by: Sarah @ The Woks of Life

Ingredients

1 teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon hot water

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon rice vinegar

1 teaspoon chili oil

1 teaspoon garlic (minced)

1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds

½ teaspoon sesame oil

Instructions

Dissolve 1 teaspoon sugar in 1 tablespoon hot water. Then add soy sauce, rice vinegar, chili oil, minced garlic, sesame seeds, and sesame oil. Stir to combine.

Serve with freshly cooked dumplings and enjoy!

Gochujang Buttered Noodles

By Eric Kim

Ingredients

Yield: 4 servings

1pound spaghetti or other long pasta

6tablespoons unsalted butter

12garlic cloves, finely chopped (about ⅓ cup)

Kosher salt and black pepper

¼cup gochujang paste (not sauce; see Tip)

¼cup honey

¼cup sherry vinegar or rice vinegar

Finely chopped cilantro or thinly sliced scallions (optional)

Step 1 Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the spaghetti and cook according to package instructions. Reserve 1 cup of the cooking water. Drain the spaghetti and return to its pot.

Step 2 While the pasta cooks, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter in a skillet over medium-low. Add the garlic and season generously with salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the garlic starts to soften but not brown, 1 to 3 minutes.

Step 3 Stir in the gochujang, honey and vinegar, and bring to a simmer over medium-high. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture reduces significantly, 3 to 4 minutes; when you drag a spatula across the bottom of the pan, it should leave behind a trail that stays put for about 3 seconds. Remove from the heat.

Step 4 Transfer the sauce to the pot with the spaghetti and add the remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Vigorously stir until the butter melts. Add splashes of the pasta cooking water, as needed, to thin out the sauce. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Top with the cilantro or scallions (if using) and serve immediately.

im telling you all... its so worth it to spend a whole evening make 100 million homemade gyoza (even though it takes so long) and freezing them all to have perfect delicious gyoza just the way you like them anytime you want at a moments notice. they seriously take like 10 minutes to prepare from frozen and they are so good. i just had a dumplings and noodles feast you wish you were me

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Harry Potter is fucking unsalvageable at this point and it doesn't matter how much you seperate yourself from the artist/author when the author's bigotry and transmisogyny heavily overshadows anything in that mediocre book.

at this point it signifies that you are complicit in the genocide of trans people, especially trans women and that you don't care that Rowling is profiting off of HP while pushing for the removal of our existence.

love our trans sisters, especially trans sisters of color, more than this fuck ass book.

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not donald trump singlehandley uniting the world against america and encouraging mass boycotting

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I have a reading journal! In it I log every book I read, when I read it, the author, the blurb, and any thoughts I might have. I even leave it a rating.

And, I argue with shitty Goodreads opinions in it. If someone has the most atrociously stupid, vapid, mindnumbling dipshit opinion about a book?

I block their account so I never have to see their stupidity again, and then I destroy them in my journal.

And:

Source

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This is so utterly hairraisingly ridiculous that you wish she made that story up, but it is unfortunately true.

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Clean it up hiro….

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You should rate all Saberfaces if you have the time :3

>:D I have time now, anon! For my own sanity we're assuming "Saberfaces = derived from Saber specifically", because a) I'm an old fuddy-duddy who feels that diminishes the characters lumped into that umbrella, such as Nero or Mordred and b) it's just easier. Because even with that restriction, there's tons of Saberfaces!

Also we're assuming Saber herself is 10/10 wifesband by default. XD I'll be rating the others based on how much they feel like Saber to me, in all her gap moe, complexity, and kingliness. (Because I feel Saber being King of Knights is just as important as her humanity.)

Here we go, The Most Biased Of Ratings, in alphabetical order! Under the cut because I know this will be long~

Arthur Pendragon:

Another friend's husband, so you could call him an in-law. :D Lots of potential here, maybe one day we'll get the Fate/Prototype manga and light novels translated so I can find out more about him. He makes gratin! 9/10.

Saber Alter:

An exquisite corpse made of dying ideals, reanimated to perpetuate falsehoods (that Saber likes burgers) and cursed to be "the sexy Saber" in FGO when Saber herself is right there. You can buy a placemat of her heartbreaking expression in the last Heaven's Feel movie! 6/10, mostly thanks to the HF trilogy taking her as seriously as she deserves.

Saber Alter (Lancer):

Now we're talking. The King of Storms and the Wild Hunt, and not that far from her usual self despite her cold exterior! 9/10, was my only Saber besides Lily in FGO for a very long time. My one "complaint" is that the made her into a boob joke instead of just having her be sexy as she is. Anyway, pointiest Saberface!

Arturia Caster:

Setting aside Nasu's admitted difficulty with making Saber complicated in FGO for some reason, Arturia Caster is exquisite. Suffering yet persevering, a very different woman from Saber who actually has some counterarguments to Saber's life choices and philosophy. 9/10 only because I think Nasu was selling himself short in that one interview.

Arturia Pendragon (Lancer):

She's cool and nice, which is a pleasant surprise considering she's inches away from becoming one of the Fae. Unfortunately Rhongomyniad looks more like a toy, which really messes with her "guardian at the end of the world" feeling for me. 7/10.

Arturia Pendragon (Lily):

A girl who loves festivals and horse riding. A dream long awoken from. A memory that never happened. (Was also awesome when she was a pleasant villainess!Saber who teamed up with Medea in Urobuchi and Nasu's headcanon.) 10/10.

Galactica Saber:

Gilgamesh can finally have a Saber, as a treat! :D Tiny, powerful, a self-described "Saber of Sabers/ultimate Saber" who lived on an alien planet covered with oceans...or so goes the lore in the little gacha capsule she came in. Probably pampered by Gil all day every day, as all Sabers should be. Ultra-Rare/10.

Goddess Rhongomyniad:

Never has "I love you" sounded so terrifying. Forever torn between "I'm your treasure, your majesty" and "RUN AWAY!!!!". My ideal "bad end" Saber: the woman with a dragon's heart, who hoards humanity at the end of the world. God she scares me so much. 10/10.

Master Arturia:

Forever assuming that the outfit is just cosplay in an attempt to blend in with Fuyuki's citizens (since she's still from Britain) XD. I love her Command Seal! Actual Story When/10

And now, the honorable mentions, aka the Servantverse Saberface section! They're separate because they have very, very small traces of my wifesband between their otherwise not-remotely-similar characters.

Mysterious Heroine XX (?):

Who is this mysterious, funny woman?! Consistently made me laugh throughout Servant Summer Fest. Why do I want to indulge her terrible eating habits? Has a lot of potential as Office Lady Saber (who pilots a mech). 9/10

Mysterious Heroine X Alter:

My other favorite of what I can only call the "Servantverse" line of Saberfaces. I love kuuderes and vampires, so combine that with a Saber both serious and silly and I'm good to go. :D 9/10 only because her 3rd form's eyes scare me. I know they're a reference but pUT THOSE PEEPERS AWAY

Mysterious Heroine XX Alter:

I have just met her, and I love her. :D Chunky Mech/10.

Thanks for reading this far!

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You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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I take immense schadenfreude in Elon Musk spending $25 million to try to influence an election in Wisconsin only for the candidate he was backing to lose by a larger margin than was predicted before Musk got into the race. Like how tf do you dump that much money into a state supreme court election and get not only nothing out of it but LESS than nothing. That's a truly impressive level of failure. I'm watching Elon become the most hated man in America like the Sickos yes hahaha yes comic

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This is so utterly hairraisingly ridiculous that you wish she made that story up, but it is unfortunately true.

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♡♡♡ Send this to ten other bloggers that you think are wonderful. Keep the game going, make someone smile!!! xoxox ♡♡♡

I want to keep this in my askbox foreverrrrr 😭❤️

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The Wend*go is Not Your Cryptid

I'm Algonquin/Ojibwe and this is a spirit that comes from our teachings.

As a young child, the elders taught me to never even SPEAK its name, to not even sing its songs. When we sang a song about it during drumming group one year, we all got in trouble.

You do not spell the word or speak the word.

It's NOT a "cryptid" or a "spooky story" for white people to appropriate.

Its bearly spoken about in our own communities, and even then, only very carefully.

Again, not because its "creepy" but because its respected and something in our traditions that is not played around with; so its certainly not for non-ojibwe/algonquin people to speak about whatsoever. Period.