#120 eggs?

[life-of-kalos]

All eggs are finally sent out! If you reblogged it before this post and never got anything, feel free to message me and I'll send you one! Thank you to all who joined in on this little game, hope you like your new eggs!

[davidaltrath]

Egg Ring Photo: David Altrath

[red-dyed-sarumane]

i need people to start paying me for every time they tell me "oh but ur arts so good ur wasting ur talent u need to do it professionally" wrong i need to do art to draw beautiful characters that not a single other person cares about while feeding every ounce of love i have into my work or to convey thoughts & feelings beyond words and to even think of doing otherwise is to deny my own nature "oh but u can do what u want and then sell it" why is everything about money to you why cant u just enjoy things at what point in ur life did u forget how to have fun

[afkintheark]

I started raising the basilisks again but then realized we were at 90% night so they got put away in favor of a surface run. And had a quick photoshoot with Midas in the process. XD

Didn't get anything good, only had one single drop spawn before I gave up. Also didn't see any fasos at all, which was frustrating. I went back home and finished raising my snake (the others can wait for our next breeding event >.<) and it was still 90% so I tried going to red ob instead of green, and it went much better.

No good weapons or rock drake saddles like I'd hoped but we have a saddle for Kel's bary and an ascendant hatchet, plus a few other goodies. I did have to dodge the reapers this time but it wasn't too hard. \o/

And I got a Dino Depot terminal up finally, plus I had the megalosaurs breeding again and we have our final perfect pair plus a few more for the army. I think we'll want another 3-4, then we just need to fetch our blueprint and get them all saddled. \o/

[primordialwhale]

so when i got the call abt my ekg band tests being normal they told me i had no hr spikes over 100bpm so im being petty and i have hr alerts on for if my hr goes over 100bpm right now and like..... ok sure

most of these are from just standing up or doing the strenuous activity of walking the 20 feet to my kitchen to grab something. Some i was even just changing position in bed or ALSEEP FOR. i wasnt like... exercising.

and a lot of these alerts are just from when my hr got to/above 100 for the first time not the peak of whatever it ended up being so there are times it got (much) higher than these alert numbers too.

im still so fucking baffled as to how these ekg band results came back normal???

[lesbiangiratina]

Excited to miss making the top 20% of big run participants by like 2 eggs again

[squid-bean]

Defeated three king salmonids in eggsecutive but only got bronze scales each times... Pain......

[miscellaneous-folder]

@nonanikanokiathethird

productive conversations

[adhdvane]

i hit ‘a’ when the “oh?” came up and then picked my phone up to respond to a text and when I turned back asdlkfjsdgs, Shiny and a Girl?! (and in the foreign dad’s moon ball instead of mom’s healball, was excited to see which ball the shiny i’d get end up in.) she was egg 203 so i still have 37 in the boxes i need to hatch...

[thinkingnot]

I wish for you to know that shinsou is bullying me to tell you that I’m a system. He thought I had told you and tried to interact lmao

:o! <new fact learnt about friend achievement!>

yooo *interaction to shinsou* 🕺🕺🕺 wassup bruev :D

now that i have been informed! I need to ask you both if y’all like eggs cuz I just had some hella awesome tamarind sauce fried soft boiled eggs and I must share (they were sweet & a lil sour and eggs)

if you dont like eggs then look at my awesome photography skills i should be hired by the restaurant for menu illustrations 🙉🙉🙉 (even my phone was surprised at how good this pic looks)

[gentlefxlk]

Olympic Chocolate Muffins! (since the recipe is paywalled on WaPo)

Cool the muffins and ganache completely before assembly, about 30-40 minutes

Makes 12 muffins

Muffin Ingredients:

¾ cup (180 ml) whole or reduced fat milk

¼ cup (60 ml) water

2 teaspoons instant coffee powder

½ cup (50 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder

4 tablespoons (56 grams) unsalted butter, cut into pieces

½ cup + 1/3 cup (145 total grams) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chunks

2 cups (250 grams) AP flour

1 tablespoon baking powser

¼ teaspoon fine salt

½ cup (110 grams) packed dark brown sugar

½ cup (100 grams) granulated sugar

¼ cup (60 ml) neutral oil

2 large eggs, room temp

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup (60 grams) chopped milk chocolate, plus more for topping

Ganache Ingredients:

2/3 cup (115 grams) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chunks

½ cup (120 ml) heavy cream

1/8 teaspoon fine salt

Directions

Position rack in the middle of the oven, preheat 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a regular sized muffin pan with liners.

In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine milk, water, and instant coffee. Bring to a simmer, whisking occasionally.

Add cocoa powder and whisk.

Decrease heat to low, add ½ cup (85 grams) of the chocolate chunks and butter, whisk until melted and smooth.

Transfer to a large bowl and cool slightly

In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt.

To chocolate mixture, whisk in brown sugar, granulated sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla.

Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture, whisk until incorporated

Add remaining flour, folding with a spatula until no streaks remain.

Fold in remaining 1/3 cup (60 grams) chocolate chunks and chopped milk chocolate, until just combined. Do not overmix.

Using a ¼ cup scoop or measuring cup, divide batter among 12 muffin cups, filling to the top of the pan.

Sprinkle additional chocolate chunks on top.

Transfer pan to oven, and immediately reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bake for 22-24 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Start on ganache now

Let muffins cool in pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife or piping tip to cut an approximately ¾ inch wide hole in the center of each muffin. (use the centers as ice cream topping or eat now!)

Let muffins cool completely.

GANACHE: in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, combine chocolate chunks, heavy cream, and salt. Cook, stirring frequently, until melted and smooth. Remove from heat and let cool completely.

Once muffins and ganache are completely cool, spoon or pipe ganache into the center of the muffin, until slightly overflowed. Serve immediately.

[stingrayloveblog]

Megalodontia is really big and pretty easy to beat, reefslider helps a LOT with it, too. When it comes up and its weak ppint is facing the other way, you can reefslider straight through it abd explode on its weak point and it does a good amount of damage.

Barbacle & dime is not a bad stage for big run, its pretty easy not to get too overwhelmed. Mothership is pretty easy especially on high tide but the mothership is very close to the basket and reaches the basket in just a couple of seconds.

[afkintheark]

We had a very good day today. \o/

We had our first surface trip! Had to be careful because it was a 50/50 night but nothing bad happened at all (except maybe the loot from the drops >.<) and we got home safe.

And on the way home we found a 125 yi ling! I sat and watched him while Kel ran home for supplies, taming process was eventful but not that bad, and we got him! Kel was the bait and she says I can handle the next one. XD

He is gorgeous. Haven't played with him much because we want him to level first but it'll be fun to try him out. And I love that purple, I hope any babies we get from him get it too.

We got 3 usable eggs from the rock drakes, so we hatched them after that and got them imprinted, then while waiting for them to finish growing we went down to the blue. We nabbed two more beetles for oil production, found a 150 shinehorn, and got our male megalosaur plus a bonus 145 female and her baby. The new girl has almost all our high stats, she is amazing and I absolutely LOVE how she looks. Holy cow.

And Kel found a white ravager puppy she couldn't leave behind, plus we got a pair of baryonix to make trilobite farming easier. They're both girls but we don't really want to breed them anyway so it's fine. I've claimed the dark one. XD

[gothamcityneedsme]

loaded up arkham knight so i could see the 'man-bat escapes on halloween' easter egg. unlike the arkham city date-based easter eggs, this one still works and man-bat escaped (and jumpscared me)

[lokis-wager]

I am going to get a gold horrorboros statue even if I have to stay awake all 72 hours for it

[fishenjoyer1]

Fish of the Day

Today's fish of the day is the Alabama Cavefish!

The Alabama Cavefish, scientific name Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni, is known for being one of the rarest troglobitic fish species in North America. Discovered in 1967, by the time the alabama cavefish was scientifically described in 1974, there were only about 100 fish left. On any visit to the cave, only about 10 fish have ever been seen, but they are consistently different fish, so the estimated number is a little under 100, making them critically endangered. This also makes them a possibility for the rarest cavefish in North America!

Despite the large waterways connecting caves in Key Cave National park to several other cave systems, the Alabama cavefish has restricted itself to only one cave for reasons we don't understand. A search of over 120 caves in the surrounding area revealed no populations or signs of populations. With a range consisting only of Key cave in Lauderdale county, Alabama; these fish are constantly faced by the threat of extinction, and most of their worries are based on the limited home range, and waters entering the cave. Any water with chemicals, especially fertilizers and other agricultural runoff are a large concern. That along with competition from more aggressive cavefish, and predation from nearby crawfish. Due to their living situation and delicate population, much is unknown about these fish. But, let us go over what we do know!

The diet of the Alabama cavefish consists mostly of invertebrates found in the caves: copepods, isopods, smaller cavefish, spiders, beetles, and anything else it can find that will fit in its mouth. They grow up to a size of 2-3 inches in length. They have no eyes or pigment, and hunt solely based off of sensory protrusions that dot the head and sides, a trait evolved to handle the almost complete darkness. These fish have no breeding season, and instead breed based off of the environmental signal: when the caves flood in the winter and spring. Insufficient flooding can lead to years where no breeding or spawning occurs, and when it does females carry few eggs, and even fewer eggs hatch. Their lifespans, based off of the lifespan of Northern cavefish, are an estimated 5-10 years.