#Shelf-stable

[bunnymothmartyr]

"dont put shit on the floor" does the rent we pay every month not include the floor too, mother? When god sings with his creations, will the floor not be a part of the choir?

[bubblegum-magnesium]

[dawnstar137]

Even kelmp cannonically loves mustard and I love that for him he would

[woman-respecter]

i am GOING to make air fryer chicken katsu with japanese curry and cabbage salad tonight. everyone yell at me if i don’t.

[hedgiwithapen]

the thing they don't tell you about having lots of Books and Trinkets is that eventually you do run out of shelf space. and you think Oh. I can put trinkets on the stacks of books next to the shelf I'm sure this is fine. and then you have to MOVE all the trinkets to get at the books.

[ellisnyeland]

writeblr intro

I need to make a new pinned post anyway, so it seems like a good time to introduce myself!

I'm Ellis Nye, and I'm a sci-fi and fantasy writer, with occasional elements of historical fiction, horror, and romance. Right now, I'm focusing on short stories.

Two of my short stories have been published:

Shelf-stable: "In a transitional post-post-apocalypse, Ada dreads the arrival of the witch who regularly visits her town." You can buy the issue of Solarpunk Magazine (@solarpunkmagazine on here) that it appears in here. You can see my posts about this short story here.

The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest: "A story about love and community in the midst of an apocalypse of planned obsolescence, framed as an obituary." You can go to this page to buy the entire issue, read the story for free here, or listen to it for free here. You can see my posts about this short story here. There's also a brief review at Reactor (WHAT!?) here, and one from Tar Vol here.

(For whatever reason, my published short stories lean more towards the lighthearted/uplifting end of what I write. This is going to make the eventual publication of some of my other stuff really funny.)

I write:

Retellings--mythology, fairy tales, folklore, ballads, classic lit, and more

Small, quiet stories happening in the middle of the action

Dialogue-heavy stories

"Found fiction" (Archive of the Odd introduced me to this term and I love it!)

Disabled characters

Queer characters

Stuff that I hope makes you go "wait that was kind of fucked up" half an hour after reading it

Stuff that makes me cry

Stories that did, actually, come to me in a dream

Gross stuff

I'm very into worldbuilding, but my current focus on short stories tends to limit me there somewhat. I do plan to go back to writing novels, with an eventual focus on getting published, but that's not in the cards right now.

I have a tag for each story I post about, so for example "story: deadname" for posts about my WIP "Deadname" or "story: in perfect light" for a finished-ish story I've started submitting places.

I also have a Twitter account with this same username, but I don't use it as much as I use this account. I just made a Bluesky account with the same username but don't know how much I'll use it yet.

[carfuckerlynch]

im.soooo hungy but food means getting up. which is not happening right now

[waxworkdaughter]

I'm just doing bad about David Lynch dying, it's like. I don't think we should be without him, he's like one of the structural pieces of the cultural-creative firmament. His memory is a blessing, and his work, but it would have been good to keep having his presence and thoughts be a blessing too.

We have to try harder to keep that weirdness and that freedom alive for him now.

[supercantaloupe]

masaman curry

[thanatologie]

since it seems to be the topic du jour this morning, the only worldstate for veilguard i have a strong opinion / have a default for - at least for this blog's canon i have very strong opinions about everything otherwise and no i will not apologize - is going to be the mortal vs lich decision.

mostly because it, as a whole, is the only thing that really effects emmrich's overall path. like...if minrathous is blighted he still reaches out to and makes friends with neve anyway. if treviso is blighted, the only thing that changes is that even with lucanis lashing out he tells him he's going to look out for him and spite, anyway. no matter who dies in the battle with ghilan'nain he's still going to grieve because they were a friend. he has his own opinions on things, sure, but overall he's there to act as support, as opposed to as a major piece on the board in a lot of it.

(there's nothing wrong with playing the support role, either. his generally being otherwise of the not having a personal horse in this race for a lot of things means he acts a pinion character, his role to support and bolster those who do doesn't change, it just has a different focus depending on those outcomes.)

but for him, personally (and for the purposes of this blog's worldstate), mortal vs lich is going to matter. on the one hand we still have a man who is still very, very mortal and squishable pushing on against his fear of death anyway to the very end. on the other, a veritable undead magical juggernaut who takes immortality as meaning invulnerabllity and charges recklessly ahead because it's like he thinks he's suddenly got superpowers or something instead of being held together with spit and magic and a little chewed gum.

(my guy, you are a literal skeleton, you are definitely not invulnerable or indestructible.)

(also yes i recognize it does make him scarily...like that, but c'mon, i'm right, i know i'm right, at some point he's going to bite off more than he can chew without any sense of self preservation because he's built this up in his head to such a large degree. hubris is gonna be his downfall, i said what i said.)

anyway, i don't think it comes as a huge surprise when i say i can roll with either one (since it's a thing that generally only matters to, like, me and/or a rook that's romanced him), but the default state in this house is mortal at the end.

[br0adsw0rd]

What's on the menu, Mr. Ranking officer?

Canned carrots simmered with clarified butter, honey, and brown sugar along with one of those big canned hams (I know. Gross. Hear me out.) baked with a brown sugar and mustard glaze topped with pineapple slices.

[canichangemyblogname]

Look, if someone *actually* has an MSG intolerance (often as part of a larger salt intolerance), they’re not going to be out here reading the label of every Teriyaki sauce and Hoisin sauce on the shelf; they’re reading the back of every potato chip bag, every pre-mixed buffalo garlic cheese seasoning, Lean Cuisine, and canned soup (all things with *very* high salt content, btw).

MSG is in Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, not the family-owned restaurant’s moo shu pork. They can’t eat a portillos hot dog or McDonald’s chicken nuggets, but they can absolutely eat basil chicken and spicy edamame. If they’re out here claiming fucking MSG prevents them from eating a fresh meal (and never all those “shelf stable” items at their most frequented grocery store) at a local Asian-owned restaurant, they *are* racist. The MSG is just an excuse. If they’re out here eating salami with ease, no complaints, they’re a fucking liar.

Shit that will trigger a migraine in large(r) quantities if someone *actually* has an MSG intolerance:

tomatoes mushrooms grapes cheese (esp. parmesan and cheddar) any cured meat shellfish brined or cured fish onions potatoes corn walnuts

So if they can eat pepperoni pizza no issue…? 🤥

[thewirewitch]

Praying to all the gods and forces of the universe that my sweets from Japan will show up tomorrow.

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

What the food pantry on campus does:

- gives me snacks and drinks to supplement my regular groceries, breakfast stuff, maybe ingredients for 1-2 actual meals

What the food pantry is really bad at doing:

- giving me food I can make into proper meals for the week

Oh you want juice? Here’s 2 little juice boxes. Nothing else; they’re limited. You want pasta sauce? 1 can; limited. You want produce? 2 produce item limit, except for the apples which are starting to spoil. You can have all of those. You want frozen chicken? One container only. Oh, they’re all stuck together and frozen? Sorry, you can’t have two; no chicken, I guess. Pasta? One box only. Rice? Two small bags, max. Breakfast bars? Yeahhhh, those are a snack, and you can only have five snacks, total. But if you put those pop tarts back, you could have some! Oh, you want donuts instead? Sure! But that’s a bakery item, and you can only have one baked good, so you’re gonna need to put that bread back. You want ziploc bags? Here, have two. Not two boxes, two bags. Item limits. Sorry. You can come back next week!

How the fuck are people supposed to actually *use* these things for weekly meal planning if there’s not enough to last a week???

I swear I am grateful for these resources I’m sure they’re doing the best they can with what they have I’m just *frustrated*. I’m trying to spend less on groceries bc I can’t really afford them. It’s nice that the food pantry gives me these small portions to last me a couple days. But that still leaves several days with not enough food unless I’m really creative or go grocery shopping, and I simply do not have the energy or time to be really creative.

[thegeminisage]

this morning's no cold groceries breakfast: instant potatoes and microwave bacon. and more sweet tea

[whoslaurapalmer]

went back to using milk in eggs -- deep respect for the water method but i didn't feel like it made a big noticeable taste or texture difference?? also by god putting in frozen spinach and onions was the REAL game changer here holy fuckkkk