#Neeps

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Neil is there any reason why the turnip in episode 4 is a swede?

The swedish turnip (or rutabaga, as the Americans often call it) is one of the four vegetables that the word turnip can refer to.

And this was shot in Scotland, remember...

[johnthestitcher]

Robert Burns’ Night Supper!

In honor of Robert Burns' birthday, Scots and non-Scots alike are celebrating his birth with a special supper. We started with Haggis puffs and a Kilted Cocktail (Irish whiskey, scotch, lemon juice, simple syrup). The main course was a haggis-stuffed pork roast wrapped in bacon (Strictly Kosher!), served with a cold leek salad and tatties (mashed potatoes), served with whiskey gravy (turkey gravy with thyme, bay leaf, and scotch mixed it). Stop turning up your noses - the tastes are FABULOUS! We saved half the pork to celebrate with a friend on Friday night, where we will also have my rendition of Cock-a-Leekie soup - another Scot specialty!

Stop complaining about haggis - your mouths are watering!

"Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot ..."

 (hey- I married a Scot!)

[makothedorito]

neeps

[homeintennessee]

Potato - Neeps and Tatties Haggis or a beef roast go well with neeps and tatties, a traditional Scottish side dish made of mashed potatoes and swede rutabaga.

[jellosaurusrex]

Recipe for Neeps and Tatties Haggis or a beef roast go well with neeps and tatties, a traditional Scottish side dish made of mashed potatoes and swede rutabaga. 2 pounds russet potatoes peeled and cubed, 1 bunch scallions finely chopped, 1 teaspoon mustard powder, 2 pounds swede peeled and cubed, 1/4 cup butter softened, salt and ground black pepper to taste

[bloodxbat]

Happy Rabbie Burns Night everyone!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

[robynwarnedesigns]

Finding something cute that rhymes with turnips is hard! Serpents and turnips was the best I could come up with. And it doesn't work with only 1 of each! Oh, well. Ink and color pencil. #serpents #turnips #sketchbook #drawingpractice #silly #penandinkdrawing #colorpencil #neeps #roughsketch #snake https://www.instagram.com/p/ClC6xGnMUyz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[plumbewb]

wasn’t gonna post but i had to share her (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)

[kulaykonfetti]

the world where i can only see me for me

[m0ose-idiot]

Ever want to know who gets their top off the most in Horrible Histories? Wonder no more, the Data Scientists are back with a VERY IMPORTANT SCIENCE to satisfy your curiosity

[cuprohastes]

The Devil went down to Georgia.

And I interviewed him about it.

The Devil takes a long drag on his cigarette. When he exhales, a long sigh, there’s no smoke. he looks at it thoughtfully and puts it out.

"The thing about the fiddle…” he says “The thing that people don’t get, is that I was never going to win.”

He looks at the stump of his ciggy and grinds it out.

“That wasn’t the plan. The plan was to lose. I mean… a golden fiddle? I wish you could have heard it, it sounded like…” he waves a hand. He’s oddly reticent to swear.

“It was awful. Flat, screechy. And I mean, I made it sound good as it could get, y’know? But it was never going to be as good as a real fiddle.”

He laughs. It’s a warm, indulgent laugh, plummy and full of amusement. “No the plan was to lose it. You know how much a golden fiddle you won from the devil is worth? It’s worth… well more than gold.”

He pauses. “The smart thing would have been to take a hammer to it and melt it down, but who’s going to do that? That’s uh… just under 17 kilograms of gold. More than half a million these days.”

He takes another cigarette out and taps it, put it between his lips, takes a long suck that reduces a third of it to ash. I almost don’t notice that he never lit it, because I’m making a note that the prince of lies apparently favours Metric. Or thinks I do.

“It’s worth more with provenance, though. It’s rarer than a Strad - if you could get people to believe it was my actual fiddle, you could sell it for around twenty… thirty million, easily. But that’s the thing.”

And this is where the ol’ devil grins. It’s a brilliant happy smile, the smile of someone who pulled a caper off.

“… Some dumb farmboy goes out, comes back with a solid gold fiddle and a crazy story? Everyone wants the damn thing, for the gold, even if they don’t believe anything else. Family, friends, then the landlord and the Mayor, pretty soon everyone from the governor down was trying to levy taxes on this thing, or confiscate it - That kid killed two guys who broke in before one of them got him. The family started a vendetta against the people they thought they’d taken it. Both of them got beggared by taxes for something they never had…” he chuckles.

“The girl who stole it tried to pawn it, and the guy running the place took her in the back and garotted her with a handful of bootlaces. Bootlaces!” he stops to chuckle. “And then - He got robbed and there’s been at least four heists and ten lawsuits over it. Even I’m not sure where it is.”

He pauses again and stares into the distance, eyes unfocussed.

“Oh the Mar-a-Lago” he states. “Huh. Actually, I think I need to make a call about a certain hidden vault…”

[barnabyboppins]

Hopefully lukewarm take (i haven’t checked)

I recently finished reading the Heroes Of Olympus series (having read pjo immediately prior) and I think it’s pretty shitty that the worth of all of our good guy characters are, to a notable degree, measured by their ability to find and engage in romantic relationships and are then greatly defined by those relationships. (Disclaimer; I don’t think I’m in a justified position to discuss lots of the racial criticisms for HoO but I do agree with a lot of em and that aspect does factor into this topic)

7+ important recurring characters is quite a lot of people to balance, even in a five book series and all of the non-pjo characters suffered immensely for it. But one character arc I anticipated over and over again that never ended up happening was any one character finding fulfillment from the non-romantic relationships around them by de-prioritizing the idea of a perfect someone in favour of accepting the support of their friends/comrades/campers/family/etc. (Second disclaimer: I don’t expect a novel saga from 2010 to have characters declaring their orientations (or lack thereof) aloud but the idea of a character learning to define themself by or through something outside of romance isn’t a new one)

I think Percy and Annabeth are very cute and work well as a couple (are they the only white couple?) and I don’t really see any chemistry between Piper and Jason (I feel like they’re on very different paths from each other and Piper stagnates greatly in favour of supporting jasons development) but I think literally every other Good Guy character had the potential to not need romance in their arcs. Frank could have been raised to praetor by consensus and recognized by his peers and grandma, actively validating his growth rather than him achieving great feats and no one noticing or really caring except for Hazel. Hazel could’ve been shown learning about the modern day with Frank and Nico during downtime and reconciling her identity and trauma with the diversity of today while discovering a new freedom in acceptance (from the Seven) of who she is from back then and who she may yet want to be (and also not dated a 16 y/o at 13).

Leo, Reyna and Nico were the main ones I was thinking would forgo the need for a partner at least as a necessity for their growth/healing as all three have severe familial trauma, are distanced from other demigods socially somehow, and all were explicitly ousted from conventional romance in-writing.

Initially with Leo I had hoped he would confront his struggle being the “seventh wheel” by expressing how he was feeling overlooked as a friend (and as the ONLY shipwright) in favour of everyone’s romantic interests, which would lead into further emotional vulnerability in the party but, that never happened save for a few stoically non-communicative gestures of support to Frank and otherwise weird hang-ups on Hazel before he fucked off to Calypso, letting his friends think him dead for weeks. Leo lacked connection and felt inferior and less important than the rest of the Seven and the narrative validated that by only fulfilling him through an a Rapunzel-like hot babe trapped on an island who is physically dependent on his emotional dependence on her. That’s not a recipe for healthy relationship! I related to Leo initially as an aromantic person with 9 siblings, half of whom are already coupled so it was very disappointing when I realized by the third book that RR just didn’t take what was to me the most obvious arc for a character who is vitally important to a team but least noticed. Also the Hazel-Frank-Leo pseudo-love shape didn’t need to happen, at least in the way it did, and I think the Leo-Hazel-Sammy weird love thing was stupid.

I think Nico and Will are a very cute couple and I’m looking forward to reading their book when I come around to it but I felt unsatisfied that the thing that got Nico to stay at camp after 5 books was a guy who had little significant presence until the last book and not like, any of the other deeply important connections he made during his journeys? Nico’s been talking about never returning to either camp for a while and none of the Seven or Reyna (I think) thought to check in with him? I get that Will is supposed to be like the first person to insistently want Nico around but if Will really is the first then that’s kinda fucked up given the whole like, eight books worth of people he’s met. It’s a bit fucked up that after years of Nico’s presence, seemingly the first connection to anchor him down is an unspoken suggestion of a romance

Reyna’s character journey confuses me because I don’t if I missed or forgot it but I don’t remember her having a conclusion to her internal struggles. Aphrodite telling her she’s doomed to singledom gets brought up again and again and it’s mostly just to make you feel bad for her. She doesn’t tell anyone else. She doesn’t seek fulfillment in the platonic or familial connections she has. They visit her house, trauma dump about her abuse AND fakeout her sisters + the hunters + the amazons deaths just to have Reyna be even more hurt. Reyna and Nico come to understand each other while they’re travelling but by the conclusion of the series she’s just gone back to her isolating and stressful role as the praetor, but now with more work to do! Aphrodite’s words are never explained and their veracity is never tested and all it serves is to give Reyna more misery porn.

I guess what I’m saying is I think the story would have been better if The Seven & Co had a little more connection with each other and not just with their respective partners and if we could have seen some internal growth come from that.

[mandibles0322]

Enver Glorbtash

[sedgewick-gayble]

Not enough people interpret vikdecai as a queerplatonic relationship!!! Or a relationship that's not strictly romantic not strictly platonic not sexual not professional but some secret third thing

I think the unspokeness of my interpretation of their relationship is crucial to how I view their relationship, and with that comes a lack of a label or category that they fit into

[scotianostra]

I know it's not great, the whisky sauce was in dollops! But it's got to be haggis on January 25th.

They never had any Jura or Talisker, so I settled for a Balvenie and raised my glass to the woman I owe my love of Scottish history, and Rabbie Burns to, My late mother, Slàinte Mhath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🥃

Have a great Burns Day/Night wherever you are.

[geraskierfanficprompts]

Prompt 6

After the mountain, Geralt finds his bard and apologizes, but saying "I'm sorry" just isn't enough. His bard deserves better! He needs to to do more to prove how much his bard means to him! So he'll take him to the coast, just like he asked. But it'll be a surprise :)

Jaskier is just sure Geralt still hates him.

I mean, he won't even tell him where they're going! Why else would he be so quiet all of a sudden?