#BUT WASH YOUR RICE

[anonimusunnoan]

PLEASE WASH YOUR RICE. ITS NOT BEING FANCY. IT'S TO RID IT OF DIRT. ALSO WHAT ABOVE PERSON SAID. IF ANYONE FIGHTS ME ON THIS I WILL SEND YOU PICTURES OF DIRTY RICE WATER.

Dear people living on your own for the first time:

Here’s some advice I wasn’t told from the myriad of posts before that I wish I’d been given before

Wash the OUTSIDE of your pots and pans as well as the cooking surface. I’ve had a few roommates now who have only cleaned the inside and I’ve had to replace a $150 set of cookware twice.

“its only one time, how bad could using metal on nonstick cookware really be?” very bad. don’t do this.

Buy a rice cooker. Buy the middle tier rice cooker. Cheap ones will burn your rice, high tier ones are too expensive. Rice is good and cheap and, really, you don’t actually have to wash it if you don’t care about making gourmet food.

Buy band-aids. You don’t think you need band-ads until you need a band-aid, and by then it’s too late. (if you don’t follow this advice, a paper towel and some tape is an acceptable solution while you go get real bandages and neosporin)

You are on tumblr, which means you probably spend most of your time in one spot on a computer or phone. if this spot doesn’t have a trash can in arm’s reach, put one there.

 I spent 4 years piling trash on my desk in increasingly precarious ways until I had a designated area to put it. Trash cans can and should go anywhere there is a frequent generation of trash, typical locations be damned.

If you live with one or two roommates, discuss placing empty boxes in the back of your fridge and freezer. You probably don’t need all the space that the standard 5-person-family fridge provides, and tupperware will be shoved back there and left to stink up the entire appliance.

Get a wall calendar, put it somewhere communal, and have everyone put their household-relevant schedules on it. Communication is by far the weakest link with roommates (even good ones!) and having something to reference for appointments is always good

[moghedien]

ok but as a white person who grew up in a rice eating culture (Cajun), hearing other white people who didn’t grow up eating rice often talk about rice is sometimes the most maddening/insane experience

[goyurim]

what's your favourite seok-ryu and seung-hyo moment so far??

omg my favourite??? my favourite ONE???? gosh there are so many good moments between these two, what's yours???

it's so difficult to pick just one but if i absolutely have to have to then it'll probably be this one:

it's just!!!! such a beautiful moment for so many reasons bc seok ryu is having an epiphany about what she loves and it's intoxicating and she can't help but smile about it and seung hyo is simultaneously having an epiphany about who he loves and it's also intoxicating and he too can't help but smile! and it's such a cute lil spin on the *person a*: "it's beautiful", *person b, while looking at person a*: "yes, it is" (one of my favourite tropes mayhaps it gets me every! time!!) and also how seok ryu says she's been there for all of his "firsts" but here we get to experience first-hand seung hyo being there when she discovers her her very first dream!! and the fact that she gets to be so unabashedly happy about it bc seung hyo is her safe haven; one of the only people in her life who will not only unconditionally support whatever she decides to do, but also genuinely be just as happy for her alongside her. she doesn't need to hide, she doesn't need to pretend. it's such an emotionally raw and vulnerable moment for the both of them, and it's so pure and joyful it makes my heart melt

[fancychaostraveller]

ReviveCherik2024 - Cooking

For the #ReviveCherik2024 Day11 : AU - Day26 : Cooking, based on @clockwork-stars's astonishing culinary talents !

The AU is set on a modern!Uni -verse where Erik and Charles met on a protest thanks to Raven, Charles' sister, that is in Erik's brotherhood.

Erik is fighting for mutants' rights by organising protests across the city and sometimes escalating (obviously because of the policemen, he says), and also leading riots when "It is necessary". He is not against breaking government stuff if those can be used against mutants, and have quite a group of followers (and his most trusted form the Brotherhood, which is more of the 'Hardcore rioting club' than anything hazardous) (Ps : Edie Lenhsherr is still alive!!! She also supports his son and taught him how to sew so he could make himself his Magneto suit)

Charles on the other hand can be found at peaceful protest, but he mainly persuades his scientific degree to prove to the world they are not so different and educate people. He also doubles as "TA" for younger mutant students to help them control their powers if needs arise. Charles knows about Erik's "Club" and is unconvinced by it.

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Magneto was looking over his Brotherhood, quite bored if he had to say so himself. Their 'meeting' -if you could even name it that- had started what feels like hours ago -a good 15min- and they were getting nowhere.

He looked across the room and threw an exasperate glance at Mystique, who was clearly laughing at him mentally. He admittedly had been the one to insist for a weekly reunion, but he hadn't thought it would end up being so mundane and repetitive. Was it his fault if he had expected grand bravado operations, explosions, spying and all those great things we see in movies nowaday?

He could nearly hear Charles nagging about it in his mind -Probably because he had been nagged telepathically a bit too often.- "Eril we're not in a movie and I will certainly not call you 'Magneto' when you're wearing that dreadful helmet and cape. Where did you even find those??? You should focus on peaceful protest, or else humans will truly fear us!" He repressed a sigh, annoyed but quite fond of the man that had managed to somehow -and it's a miracle when we take account of all the tweed the other was wearing- steal his heart.

He was snapped out of his thought by the sudden buzzing coming out of his pocket.

Bzzzz bzzzz bzzzz bzzzz

He frowned. "Who in Hell..." All of his Brotherhood were present in the room. So, no one could be calling his burner phone. And no one else had this number, except his mom, just in case of emergency (and anyway, she was more likely to call his regular phone) or....

A sense of dreed washed over him. The only other person who had this number was Charles!

As soon as the realisation was made, his phone quite literally flew out of his pocket thanks to his power and he was taking the call, speaking sharply : '- What's wrong?'

A silence answered him for a few seconds -too many already- and then he heard Charles (His Charles, thank G-d) clearig his throat :

"...Erm.... Erik? I..... I swear to God it's not my fault"

Embarassment and... Guilt(?) were laced in Charles' tone, and Eri- Magneto's face suddently morphed into a deadpanned expression, feeling all his previous worries evaporate. Because there was only one situation where Charles would speak like that. Oh L-rd.

'- What have you done?' he asked.

"I was cocking rice right? And before you ask, no I didn't add too much wa- Oh bOllOCkS"

More chatter could be heard throught the phone, and a quick glace toward his Brotherhood showed him that Mystique had too understood what her brother was up too. Unfortunately. He vagelly heard her muttered a "Is he burning the house down AGAIN???" before registering what else Charles had to say :

"WHY does it smell like burned food??? All I did was boiling water!!"

'- I told you not to cook by yourself...' was his only answer, voice as blank and emotionless as his face.

"It's literally just rice!" Charles answered cheeckily as if he wasn't burning down the house at this exact moment.

Erik had a sudden thought, imagining Charles sitting outside their shared flat burning down, with a stubborn expression that could read "I don't get it, my cooking skill are not that bad" even if the fireworkers were called on site. And then he sighed, and called off the meeting.

And yes, @clockwork-stars is this bad at cooking rice. We told them everything to know to cook better rice after that and they still can't do it- But they manage pasta so I mean they won't die of hunger any time soon don't worry

[brazilspill]

Friendly reminder to white people that you need to wash your rice before you cook it.

For the love of sanity, please rinse it several times in cold water before cooking it, I'm begging.

[floralcrematorium]

i hate washing rice. don’t get me wrong, i’m still gonna wash my rice, but that doesn’t mean i’m going to be happy about it

[nerdyfangirlingbooks]

Every now and then I remember the times I would mention to my flatmate that I was thinking of buying myself something reasonably expensive (that I had been eyeing up for months and had budgeted for) and she'd tell me that I shouldn't spend that much money on something I didn't need and it would be stupid etc etc while she regularly impulse bought things that cost at least as much and she would use once (while complaining that she was under a lot of financial stress and couldn't afford <$3/week for 2 months for a rental washing machine when ours broke). She is... perhaps not my first call for financial advice

[misshowdoyoudo]

I hope Wash Your Rice Guy is proud of me.

I just washed rice for an hour, maybe a lil more. Had to take a small break in the middle cuz my blood sugar dropped. It was a well fought battle.

[littleblondesoprano]

From jar_oh_me on on tiktok.

I don't have tiktok, but I saw this one on yt and just about spit my drink all over my laptop

[sneakypunmaster]

@pillowspace turns away for ONE second

[todayisafridaynight]

i nearly burnt my kitchen down this morning but its ok i got to see arasawa on my tl today

[tantamounttoflirtation]

Hannibal being super excited that Will offered to help him cook dinner and then becoming absolutely horrified when he realizes that Will doesn't rinse his rice before he cooks it

[lastoneout]

we’ll be right back! (x)

[not-so-rosyyy]

westerners cooking rice and never getting it right is hilarious to me because that’s literally the first (side) dish any average asian learns how to cook. like me for instance, i learned how to perfectly do it at age 9.

also, here in my country, because the cost of electricity is quite high especially relative to wage, most people still use pots and gas stoves instead of an electric rice cooker that does everything for you in one push of a button…which means most people here cook our rice over fire that we need to oversee and manually control with perfect timing lest we want the dish to burn. so, it makes it all the funnier to watch westerners use the cooker and still fail lmao.