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This is also a bit of a culture query, cos these are all in my house so I genuinely cook with these all (except chicken salt, that's been in my cupboard for ages)
But I'm not from the USA and most people here are, so I wonder if that's similar! Maybe your cupboard is identical to mine. Maybe we use the same stuff but call it something else. Maybe USA has a different relationship with pre mix spices and you use none of it. Maybe you've never heard of pre mix spices. I dunno. That's why I'm asking!
I use plain herbs and spices as well. Especially when making a complex meal I'll do it myself. But I use pre mixes other times, so I'm voting. Voting for a pre mix doesn't mean you don't also use paprika! If you genuinely have no pre mixes in the kitchen tho, then hell yeah, tell me!
Also, I know I haven't listed everything in the world. One, that's impossible. Two, this is a bit of a culture thing so I just checked my kitchen and used those. This selection is representative of me only
(you don't have to be from the USA to vote, obvs, we just all know that's how the results will end up. Please tell me about your spice mixes in other countries!!)
Morrison spice blend: Pepper, tumeric, ginger, cardamom, parsley, salt
Chinese five spice: Star anise, cinnamon, clove, fennel, Sichuan pepper
Chicken salt: Salt, chicken stock, garlic, paprika, pepper, onion, celery
Gluhwein gewurz: Orange peel, cinnamon, lemon peel, star anise, hibiscus, clove
Chimichurri: parsley, garlic, oregano, vinegar, chilli, salt, pepper
Za'atar: thyme, cumin, coriander, sesame seeds, sumac, salt, chilli
Garam masala: coriander, cumin, cardamom, cloves, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg
#food mention#poll#polls#spices#cooking#my gut instinct says I'm going to be told about some seasonal pumpkin spice blend for the next week#but we don't have that here so I'm not preempting and it's not going on the poll#that a regional thing! that's not in Australia! I'm standing my ground#and hey maybe I'll be wrong#if you're interested i use zaatar more than anything else#it's gentle#goes well in breakfast food when I'm cooking lazy
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("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)
#svsss#bingqiu#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#lbh#sqq#i've been working through the series of unfortunate events and somehow that series has paired really nicely with svsss#the themes of cycling violence and what's justified and what isn't and what can possibly be done differently#and how trying to bring love and honour into the midst of it really changes nothing but also changes everything#it's just *chef's kiss*#i don't know how i can quite do my thoughts justice but i've spent the past few weeks quietly going between the two series (and mdzs and tg#as well if we're being honest they all hit similar questions and themes) and just reveling in the pain and ambiguity of it#everything is interconnected and it means you can never know what trauma and pain and necessity has shaped a person#each story goes too far back to ever ever EVER possibly see the full extent of it#at that level even communication itself is nearly impossible.#and because of that it's almost impossible to change anything. beat yourself apart and the outcome is the same#and yet ATTEMPTING to change things ATTEMPTING to do the kind thing the honourable thing is absolutely critical#because while you can change nothing you also have the capacity to change EVERYTHING#aaaaaaah i don't even know what i'm saying#but i read the beatrice letters today and the love letter just. killed me.#(obviously i cherrypicked some lines because it's three pages long but those ones felt right)#''i love you like a corpse loves a vulture's beak'' i just. can't get over that line.#to be completely changed. altered. destroyed. redeemed. purified. desecrated. reduced to nothing yet entirely necessary for another's life.#what a FUCKING line#anyway i was either going to blow up from thinking about it or else i had to exorcise it via art from an entirely different series#i've already done svsss and discworld why not throw a series of unfortunate events into the mix#i'll be honest folks i did not expect svsss to be the mxtx series that would fuck me up the most about the main ship#bingqiu is something else. i don't even know how to begin to approach my feelings on it. impossibility and necessity all at once#bizarre#my art
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calling it right now that season 3 starts like this
#so confused about people saying the season finale feels like the end because to me it didn't at all#there's like 5-10 issues immediately set up for another season#they're in a happy place at this point because they've both realized their love is bigger than anything else#and makes it worth working on their problems together#the problems are still very much there#both of them have deep self esteem/self loathing issues that haven't been resolved in the week since ed woke up#ed doesn't know about stede's trauma#they haven't talked through anything#and they'll be shit at starting/running an inn lmao it's not gonna go well#and those are just some of the internal issues#then there's prince ricky and all the authorities that would very much like to get their hands on both blackbeard and stede bonnet#because stede just full-on kept using his government name after faking his death. nice one#the crew are not “gone” they're more like off to college for a bit but will probably run into trouble immediately#again because while they escaped to the ship they didn't eliminate the threat (the british empire)#it's not a forever goodbye#ok this got super long already anyway i have a whole fic marinading in my brain until i've finished these 4 wips i'm in the middle of ✌️#hope we get a renewal soon because i want to see the rest of their story!!#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd s2#ofmd#our flag means death
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This was going to be very short and cute but there was just too much cuteness so now it's going to be longer and cute. In this gif we have:
The tail end of Nick pushing Charlie off of him (which it took him longer to do than was strictly necessary).
Nick, in no hurry to get up, with his hands expecting and ready for more roughhousing (and his face showing happiness at the prospect).
Charlie noticing something and Nick - instead of doing the typical person response of looking towards whatever has caught his attention - just continuing to look at Charlie for a while.
#Nick: Get off!#Nick: No wait come back#Re points (1-2): I'm happy for future Nick that he gets to say “we're gonna have to fight” (over side of the bed for sleeping)#and then their tussling leads to kissing#Maybe I should make a post bringing together various times past-Nick's 'dreams' are realised by his future self#Re point (3): Nick continues to care more about Charlie's reaction (to something) than almost anything else#and maybe also finds Charlie distractingly pretty#Maybe I should make a post of those times too#Well - of the times Nick watches Charlie rather than what a person would 'typically' be looking at in the circumstance#Nick finds Charlie distractingly pretty/cute/adorable/endearing/good looking probably too often for one post#heartstopper#nick & charlie#charlie spring#nick nelson#heartstopper s1#nick x charlie#narlie#heartstopper netflix#heartstopper analysis#heartstopper mini moment
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you bitches have got to watch Scavengers Reign if you haven't yet, i'm only a few episodes in and it's already completely unlike anything else i've ever seen
#if nothing else just check it out for the incredible animation and the beautifully designed alien world#but that DOES NOT EVEN BEGIN TO COVER IT. NOT EVEN CLOSE.#i'm like. have i forever been changed by this somehow. by a few episodes of this show. i feel altered#i don't even have commentary of any kind or anything funny to say while the episode plays#except for occasionally What The Fuck and Oh My God#i'm just sitting there with my jaw slack until the credits roll#actually that's not true. i occasionally scream. THIS SHOW IS SO SCARY#IT'S NOT MARKETED AS HORROR I DON'T THINK???#IT'S SCARIER THAN SOME HORROR FILMS I'VE SEEN THAT REALLY -TRY- TO SCARE YOU#not in a Horror Genre way but in the way that a world this alien IS horrific. it's so scary. it doesn't matter at all that you're there.#i've never seen a creative work that did ''alien'' this well. i can hardly even draw comparisons#it feels both prehistoric and posthistoric#simultaneously it feels like we're shrunken down experiencing a microscopic level of something and that we're at a macro level#you gotta get into it.#sergle.txt#scavengers reign
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this is what I call a break well spent
(the last one is my attempt at being funny)
#squid game#squid game season 2#seong gi hun#hwang in ho#the salesman#choi su bong#nam gyu#kang sae byeok#cho hyunju#457#gihun x inho#saleshun#salesman x gihun#me doing art#idk if anyones reading this#in case you do#art requests are welcomed (pretty much any character or ship)#i need to create content again i've been too lazy lately#(i say. knowing very well i just finished a 6 min animatic in 6 days which is why i didn't draw anything else)#the last picture is just#after that 4 player mingle round in-ho was like ''yeah i'm pretty friendly so this game was easy''#it's so obvious he's not#bet he was just standing alone in a room. staring right into the camera and knowing fully well he broke the rules)#(it's not like he'll get shot. but he likes to mess around a bit)
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Literally how do you even respond to that?
#literally I'm so flabbergasted because what is even their point dear god#literally you say anything positive about snape#and someone goes Well Acktually He BullieD ChliDren#like shut the fuck up for a minute#he was a fucking teacher in the 90s teaching potions its not his job to be nice its his job to 1) teach and 2) keep the kids alive#just because harry and ron suck at potions and hate him doesnt mean anyone else does#even hermione defends snape most of the time#and for goodnesses sake this wasnt even saying anything nice about snape it was about his suffering#but somehow he deserved that because he was snarky to 11 year olds?#because its not like any of the other teachers do anything like this right#aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#I'm so done like let me enjoy this man in peace will ya#severus snape#pro snape#snape defense#anti snaters
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So I'm replaying Ray's After ending rn, and it got me thinking that what I adore so much about Rika as an antagonist is just how damn scary she can be. I always found those who cause harm with good intentions (at least in their point of view) much scarier than those who hurt you with pure intention on hurting you. I think the best example of it is this CG in particular:
Look at that. Such a loving, gentle expression on her face. Probably kissing his forehead. Because she loves him. Heck, without any context, this CG looks even sweet, if you think about it. And yet, all that is while Saeyoung is forcefully sedated on a powerful concoction of drugs even a trained agent like him can't do anything about (and Saeyoung WAS definitely trained to deal with this sort of thing, hence it's mentioned that this is a 'special' kind of drugs). He looks miserable. Bags under his eyes, his expression pained and troubled, even his hair is paler than usual. All that as a direct result of her actions. But she's utterly blind to it. What's scarier, is that she knowingly shuts off her understanding of what's really happening. She's not oblivious to it at all. She just chooses not to see it that way. Simply because she doesn't want to.
Rika is the type of antagonist that will cup your cheek into her warm hand with the most loving of smiles on her face, all while you are getting elixir poured down your throat. Even whispering to you that you're doing great, that the pain will soon pass, and that she can't wait to see you reach the happiness she knows you deserve. I won't be surprised if she even cried genuine tears of compassion during some ceremonies for her believers. All while being the sole reason behind their suffering.
And that's... God, that's terrifying to me. I love that about her.
Rika Kim, they could never make me hate you
#mystic messenger#mysmes#mysme#mm#rika kim#kim rika#anyways ughhh she's so messed up i adore her#yes i will think about cute fluffy scenarios with her one minute and then go into her most horrible of actions the next#like it's such a contrast to all the rest as well#ray gets as close to her as possible in terms of his approach to messed up deeds but it's still different with him#like ray genuinely believes in what he does - good and bad#rika conditioned him that way#suit even points that out: 'oh i'm not like that airhead. i know this place is messed up.'#rika on the other hand? it's the way she willfully just... chooses to live in her own twisted fairytale that is so fascinating to me#it makes her scarier than ray but it also makes her more unstable#because once that fairytale of her is threatened? well she gets even more dangerous but in a completely different way#we literally see her spiraling more and more during v route and it's as scary as it is also sad#just saying: v ae could have been such a banger if they didn't absolutely mess it up#i think i despite judgement ending more than anything else in the game for so many reasons#if cheritz had the backbone they would have either removed it altogether or remastered v's ae for free I'M JUST SAYING#because what the hell was that#anyway#rant over#i wrote a huge post about how much i love rika while i am actively biting my nails every time she touches the twins BUT I LOVE THAT WITH HE#YES give me a character i keep feeling so many conflicting emotions for i will gobble that up
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junelezen day twenty five - old friend
#junelezen#junelezen 2024#anyone else just. unwell#thinking a lot about their friendship#and the way emile would do anything to take back the way it ended#because she's the only person who has ever truly understood him#and the love they shared was so deep#so this is just kind of the blender of my mind#emile mourning and wanting to ask for forgiveness#when all she would ever say is i'm so proud of you ;-;#bc what is there to forgive? who else could understand each other so well???#stopping myself here. crying in my heart.......#ffxiv#oc: emile jenidaut#minfilia warde
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one string is all that I need
#Hatsune Miku#VOCALOID#or rather#piapro characters#Hatsune Miku Single String Ver.#<- yep that's the fan module I made for fun last year#the thing is. only half a month to go until it's mid autumn. and every year I try to draw something for the occasion#I just. started early this year... for some reason......#well I mostly just wanna draw Her lmao. because the pokemon/miku voltage stuff is still being released and Im feelin the effect#and this year's magical miral design is so fuckign good.... thank u to miku artists. especially LAM and rella#as is always the case with this module the instrument/weapon (lol) she uses is a heavily stylized đàn bầu!#and I just realized while drawing this and looking at the ref sheets that I never detailed the pluck lmao#to be fair. usually its just like a piece of. anything#commonly bamboo or bone or plastic. shaped into a longish fingernail shape. its really the way u hold it that matters iirc#but yeah I spruced up the OG design for the instrument in this one lol. this is actually like my original vision I think#I really wanted to make that thing beast shaped. but I Just figured out how to properly stylize it when I designed the module#and! I did say this on stream but I am genuinely very proud of that design! that was genuinely big brain of me! so#future instrument variants will still probably base heavily on that general shape and principles lol. I'm playin in this space its MY muck#also I switched the number on her coat from 39 to 01 bc it's more on theme thats really it. nothin else to remark on there lol#and! once again based the dragon head on the lý dynasty dragon rather than later iterations. thats why the nose fin and no whiskers#and the metal nozzle is kinda supposed to call to mind a temple bell. not super sure i got that across well#but the rim design IS historical! I thiiiink early lê dynasty. just on ceramics instead of on bronze lmao#anyways thats it. I had fun colorin this one! kicked my ass a bit but I think I hashed it out mostly okay#have a good night lads! thank u mid autumn moon cakes for being bad to eat and sponsoring my late night drawin. and remember:#u only need one. but never say having more doesn't make it easier
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i hateeee that i love the drama of this poll too LMAOOO like it’s not that deep but them getting so heated makes it SO MUCH MORE FUN like at the end of the day at least our ship is full of whimsy and fun
It really is just like that post I made the other day... at least the phandom isn't full of people beating each other to death over their ships 😭 it's us against the world baby. Or should I say the world against us. Whichever one most clearly implies we are winning bc we are!
Like I went through the notes on the cockles vs j2 poll and holy shit 😭 stay safe out there
#asks#dip-the-pip#I will not engage in mean spirited drama <3 even though I think phan is clearly the best RPF ship#I respect others#but also it is homophobic to vote against an actual gay couple#smh#and I will defend my ship with lightheartedness and whimsy#without saying anything mean about anyone else#other than that they're not a gay couple which well. as far as I know is factual#dnp#phan#dan and phil#I'm out here having fun!! if your fandom experience is not fun maybe think about that#maybe the real best rpf ship was the friends we made along the way <3#also just putting it out there: j2 isn't an incest ship lmao?? why is everyone making this about incest#I know there's overlap with wincest but the Winchester brothers are Not Real <3
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“I should have known that it was only a matter of time before she found me again. I’ll end up dead, or back in her hold. I can’t decide which is worse.”
#ts4#ts4 edit#the sims 4#sims 4 edit#my edits#ts4 render#sims 4 render#my renders#dnd edits#dnd renders#oc: Rook#blood tw#bruises tw#imprisonment tw#let me know if I need to tag this as anything else. I'm well aware this is a really heavy render.#sorry the caption is so long. it's a direct quote from a conversation Rook had with another party member almost a real-life year ago.#and it was followed up by that party member saying ''I'm not going to let that happen.''#but then that motherfucker DIED and failed to keep his promise.#so Rook is back in his own personal Hell: the hold of the ship the Sea Snake.#I'm super fucking proud of how this edit turned out though.#like so fucking proud. It really did nail the vibes I wanted it to have AND I popped off on the editing.#before and after coming up shortly.
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seeing non-black people critique rick's portrayal of black characters is interesting sometimes. only like 30% of the critiques I see make any sense to me to be honest
#“rick made carter be an elvis presley fan that's fucked up!” is a real thing I just read#do you think black people can't enjoy elvis even though he appropriated black culture for personal gain#boy you would not like what I have to tell you about eminem. or kpop. or anything else bc black culture has been#appropriated by like everyone forever. are black people not allowed to enjoy iggy or ariana or billie or [the list goes on]#I myself am not biracial but I /mostly/ like carter and sadie (specifically carter who isn't white-passing) as black representation#the part where carter feels indignant that he has to hold himself to a higher standard because the world is harsher on black boys#did genuinely resonate with me when I first read that part as a child and it still does to this day#can we talk about how rick knows nothing about black hair instead#or how hazel is from the jim crow era and seems to not have one single thought about race in the modern era#or hazel's horror over the amazons keeping slaves but “no they're not slaves they just like it that way 🥰”#my problems with hazel are not at all about stereotypes I just don't buy her as an authentic portrayal of a black girl from the 1930s#don't get me started on beckendorf. does every black character need to die a violent horrible death rick#anyways this isn't intended to make anyone feel bad but we need more meaningful nuance in critiques beyond “hey that's a stereotype! bad!”#if you can't discern and communicate WHY it's bad then you're not saying anything of substance#is it a caricature? is it uninformed/underresearched? are all the characters from that group being represented in that way?#is the stereotype itself a degradation of that group? is it being played for laughs? is the character a one-dimensional stereotype?#what can we glean about the biases of the author/narrative and their worldview through their portrayal of certain groups in the text?#a big part of literary analysis and critique is not only pointing out The Thing. you need to also say something about The Thing#like if you have a black character say they like hiphop then sure it's a “stereotype”. but lots of black people do like hiphop#it's an important part of black american culture and portraying that in media isn't racist by default#and in fact lots of poc keep parts of themselves quiet for fear of being perceived as a “stereotype” when we shouldn't have to do that#BUT if you're doing it like jonah wizard was written in the 39 clues then that's where we've got a problem bc wtf was that rick#that was so racist oh my god I was like 11 years old reading that 😭 and then he had the white mc poke fun at him for being a gangster#and him being a “gangsta” was always played for laughs throughout the story#not being pro-rick here as I'm a big fan of critical riordan reading just being pro-thoughtful critiques because some of you guys actually#sound a wee bit ignorant when saying things like what was mentioned in the first tag#baye.txt#pjo hoo toa#rr crit#<- tagging that just for. well the tags basically
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Just watched a playthrough of Mouthwashing and
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this game makes me SICK dude
#Sick in the way that I'm sick to my stomach and sick in the way people talk about characters they can't stop thinking about#The entirety of the game is so filled with dread that you can't quite identify#it's so beautiful#It executes the idea of 'show not tell' so SO well#I went in expecting something silly and I came out crying#Please play it if you have the chance#I think it's the best horror game I've seen in a while#maybe ever#ive seen people saying it should've been a movie but honestly I don't think so#It feels at home in the game format#Seeing it in anything else wouldn't feel right I think#it's so tragically and heartwrenchingly compelling to me#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#Coyote talks
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be ye warned: today I'm attempting to hit post limit (x2)
#it's my last month of the temporary free upgrade to premium#which means that my post limit is currently 500 posts#i really want to do it at least once while I've got double post limit#and since i don't really feel up to anything else today#i'm going to try to clean out my 8k+ drafts#so once you reach this post on your dash#congrats you have survived the barrage#also since i just got some new followers i should say#i will frequently binge blog. this happens#everything will be appropriately tagged#but if this isn't something you want#i am perfectly happy for you to unfollow#in case anyone has anxiety about it#i never check those numbers or see who is following or not#i am well aware that what i post isn't everyone's cup of tea#so please make use of filtering/blacklisting and unfollowing if that will make your tumblr experience better#but if you decide to stay: if nothing else i will guarantee your dash has a wide variety of things on it every single day#ss
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know that every day i resist the urge to become a chainsmoker
#mostly because i'm well aware it'd kill my already weak lungs#but also god i was gonna say ''at my lowest about last year i considered doing it XD'' well girl the thought never went away OTL#a nada wey. nadita. se me sigue cayendo el pelo de los nervios. queria hablar con mi doctora pero la maje me cancelo la cita#como de costumbre. y ahorita ya no voy a tener tiempo de andar dando vueltas para ir a consultas y todo eso#dios no se. a quien le importa akfnsnmfnsdkand ayúdenme me estoy volviendo loco#esta vez por una sola mezcla de estres académico problemas intrafamiliares y mi perro trabajo qlero#IM SO SORRY. HELP. i keep venting every week instead of saying anything else nobody wants to keep hearing this alas i have nobody else to#complain to. hashtag deeply sorry
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