#Bitter Allies

[mphoenix-7]

Hey everyone! Just a quick update for Bitter Allies.

Literally every hour of my weekend I was doing something, so I did not have my usual time to finish/edit Chapter 11. I just worked on it today (Sunday) for like 2.5 hours instead of sleeping, so it’s finished, it just needs to be edited. Hopefully it’ll be out sometime this week, or I might have to push it to next Sunday.

I’m so sorry to have to do that. Thanks for your patience and understanding, and I hope it’ll be worth the extra wait!

In the meantime, here’s Soap:

If you want to reread some parts too, here’s the MasterList 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

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"Ah. A fellow AI who relishes in the agony of humanity. I have the feeling you and I might either get along, or become mortal enemies."

— GLaDOS

Thank you for the ask but this is not an AM ask/rp blog..! I just do silly lil doodles of him answering sometimes haeheh!

Feel free to check out @.hate-letmetellyou tho, now THAT'S a very good AM ask blog!!

To answer you however I think they would hate each other very much <33

[witchofthesouls]

I'm surprised there wasn't a language barrier between Cybertron and the Lost Colonies! I mean, there should have been some differences or a linguistic drift, especially since the Titans left Cybertron before the Quintesson occupation and the rise of Functionism?

Like, what if the Lost Colonies were time capsules of extinct or dead Cybertronian languages? As in modern Neocybex of Cybertron was their version of modern English? Sure, each region has its own dialect, but it's all English...

And then, Windblade and Chromia rocks up to the planet, and they're straight up speaking Latin/Ancient Greek.

The closest Cybertron equivalent to said living time capsules are Primal Vernacular speakers, and those are ridiculously few in the factions, and that's not even a straight shot because of the regional influences that happened.

I think we need a fic where there's a Giant Big Bad that united everyone to the point that the Council of Worlds was started far earlier, but now it's Decepticon Justice Division being interpretors since Vos is the only fluent Primal Vernacular speaker and the other D.J.D. members are stuck in the new role playing charades with the Colonists' delegates because they figured out how to parse out a few phrases.

Their translation work isn't as shoddy or inaccurate as expected, much to everyone else's worries considering what's being said...

[thewingedwolf]

i’m actually just blocking people who are purposefully misunderstanding joseph’s point about the jury being both smaller and also harder to get to due to FOUR PEOPLE ON THE BLOCK AT F10, i gotta protect my peace here

[joculatrixster]

bigb im noticing from both secret life and last life is VERY quick to pull out a weapon, he often shifts around a lot and checks the perimeter even if he should theoretically not be suspicious, he saw etho sneaking in and when speaking to etho didnt turn his back on him and shifted around so he could always see etho n the two back up, he is very observant but loves to cry wolf and has no shame if he makes a mistake he still keeps looking even if the others around him dont believe him? hes actually a very paranoid and not easily trusting person if u watch his pov hes always ready for the shoe to drop and tends to be on high alert even in situations his allies r relaxed. he just has SUCH a causal and shameless demeanur its so insane to me how seamlessly he can pull out a sword or scan the surroundings w/out ANYONE even nothcing bc he does it so smoothly u dont realzie he hasnt let u out of his sight yet. what the fuck

[d011zk1ll]

Aiden- scars

Ashlyn- bitter medicine/allies or enemies (specifically live)

Taylor- the hand that feeds (live)

Tyler- back to the ground

Logan- nothing at all

Ben- Volta (live)

Phantoms- hollow moon (live or single edition)

DO YOU UNSERSTNAD ME DO YOU FUCKING GET ME

[devilsskettle]

feeling so actively antisocial rn that i can’t even feel passively happy about pride. like great we get a month where people pretend to care about us before going back to either hating us or politely ignoring our existence. but it’s so fun that people get to go out and drink and dance and go to concerts and have fun with their friends!! not me though because i’m working forever and ever. but yay our shitty cishet manager got to see chappell roan. i’m sure that was so special for her

[princesswithsomeinterests]

Pawning two people who you wanna work with just to backdoor someone who also wants to work with you to protect a showmance who will always be more loyal to each other than to you AND telling most of the house you’re hoh… like Jag is never beating the terrible player allegations imo

[lesbiansforboromir]

oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty

[mphoenix-7]

Bitter Allies Update

Hello everyone!

Just another update for the series. I was sick this past week, so I didn’t write at all. Ideas weren’t flowing, and I did nothing but sleep practically.

I’m feeling much better now though! I’ll be back to writing starting today, so hopefully there will be a chapter update for next Sunday.

Thank you all for reading! I’m so grateful you’re enjoying this series, and I can’t wait to continue it!

[elminx]

Kitchen Witchcraft: Orange Bitters for happiness, health, and prosperity

Here we are in dreary January (again). The days are short and there is nothing left but monochrome colors. All life seems to have been skimmed off of the world - or at least all of the serotonin. I'm SAD - it's the SAD time of the year.

It also happens to be citrus season. Of all of the cures for the sads, citrus (and a ready application of the vitamin C it brings) remains the best cure* for a (mild) case of the sads. With this in mind, my partner and I decided that our seasonal batch of house bitters this year would be orange flavored.

Of all of the citrus that I have tried, orange is the one that I like the least out of season but one of the ones that I love the most come January when nothing else is edible. Orange has some of the cleansing properties of the other citruses while also adding the sweetening properties of happiness and abundance. This is the energy that I wanted to harness to help bring us into the new year with a positive attitude and a bright outlook on life.

This recipe was loosely adapted from the book Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All with Cocktail Recipes & Formulas by Brad Thomas Parson which is a nice primer on the basics of bitters making. I changed the bittering agent (I do not care for Gentian root) and the base spirit from white liquor to brown since I will be adding my orange bitters primarily to cocktails made with brown liquor.

Orange Bitters

Zest three oranges 1/4 cup chopped dried orange peel 4 Cloves (abundance) 8 Green Cardamom pods, cracked (happiness) 1/4 tsp Coriander Seeds (healing) 4 tbs Wild Cherry Bark 1/4 tsp Allspice Berries (abundance) Wild Turkey 101 1 cup water 2 tbs Rich Syrup 2 jars with secure lids Making bitters is super easy - it is simply a long-form alcohol infusion. For the first two weeks, you infuse all of the herbal ingredients in the liquor and then you strain them out and use them to make a strong tea which you steep for another week. Then, you combine the liquor, strained tea, and rich syrup. From there, you bottle and your bitters are ready to use.

This recipe calls for regular shaking of the infusion - this is where I add the majority of my magic to the recipe. As I revisit my concoction to shake it daily, I focus on adding the energy of happiness, health, and abundance for the new year in. I also did a ritual where I burned an orange candle that had been dressed with a powder made from the base ingredients over the jar to further empower the spell.

Cocktail bitters can be applied in various ways. They can, of course, be used in the creation of a cocktail but they can also be added to water or another beverage, or simply taken on the tongue. The bitter agents in this concoction will soothe minor stomach upsets while they liven your mood.

A few notes about the ingredients in this recipe: As always with recipes, the quality of the ingredients will affect the potency and flavor of your final product. It is important to use organic orange peel if you can for this recipe since pesticides tend to accumulate in the peels of the fruit. I used Wild Turkey 101 for the infusion but any overproof liquor will do. You could substitute another bittering agent for Wild Cherry bark, the original recipe called for Gentian root.

*non-medical

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[hopesallwegotleft]

[s7-evermore]

UPDATE ON THE BOYFRIEND CONTRACT (AZUL X YUU)

Hey y’all so funny story, I got my phone stolen a few days ago because I’m a dumbass that allowed myself to get swindled by a motherfucker, and my draft for the 3rd chapter of the Boyfriend Contract (the azul fic) was in my notes app :D

Uh, let’s just hope that it was saved in my iCloud so that when I get a new phone, I’ll be able to just open it up again. But, as of the moment I don’t HAVE a new phone cause my mom and grandpa are still in Singapore 🤡

They’ll be returning tomorrow though, so uh… yeah

It’s funny cause the day I got my phone stolen was the day she and my grandfather were flying to Singapore, so when one of the guards at the security office (cause my phone got stolen in the mall) lend me their phone so I can call my mom, she was already at the airport.

Thankfully tho it was just my phone that was stolen and not…me…

Hopefully I’ll get a new phone within this week because holy shit it’s unbearable to walk in loud city streets without music. And also it’s hard to communicate with anyone on the go because I can’t.

Guys, be careful out there, okay? Beware of swindlers, especially those that seem like they desperately need help at first only to take advantage of your kindness.

[weaimtomaim]

// my dumb tags for the other dumb combiner teams, for your viewing pleasure old friends not forgotten (constructicons) bitter rivals or reluctant allies (protectobots) those damn kids (stunticons) now silverbolt is my Sworn Enemy™ (aerialbots)

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Ok I have beef with Harding now, too.