#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?

[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.

[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

[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

[ovaruling]

once again i’m here to report that it’s sooo ridiculously easy to veganize popular recipes esp in baking

i made a chocolate birthday cake today from a sallysbakingaddiction recipe and veganized it

which feels like too much credit already bc literally all i had to swap was—i used an egg replacer (i had aquafaba/white bean liquid ready to use but i ended up having a powdered egg replacer and even if i hadn’t had those i’d have used a flax egg or any other of 10 kinds of alternatives for binders) and then in place of buttermilk i just put 1 tsp lemon juice in 1 cup of soy milk and it was flawless

that’s IT. i had to substitute 2 things. that is fucking it

the cake is insanely beautiful and i haven’t even frosted it yet. it baked up gorgeously (it’s a super thin batter and a delicate cake even prior to substitutions). i even plucked a small bite off the top of one layer and i almost DIED it was so delicious and i can’t wait to eat it tomorrow (i will report back afterward)

but my point is it’s so stupidly easy to make things like this vegan without sacrificing a single taste or texture difference. at most it takes 3 seconds of googling how to replace a whopping 2 ingredience smh

[onbearfeet]

Okay. Is there any fandom consensus on what, if anything, Ted eats/drinks? I'm gonna have my foursome in a strategy session, and with the metabolisms and injuries involved here, they should all be in need of calories, so everyone's going to have something. I'm happy to go semi-canonical (Ted drinks tea; no one knows how) or even full silly (Ted, why do you have an entire box of fresh macarons in the middle of the fucking forest?), but if there's some popular fanon about Ted loving hamburgers or pineapple or something, I'd like to know.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

what kind of things should i mix with a baseline of just (lots of) peanuts, for a nutritionally balanced breakfast? i have a feeling "chocolate chips" is the wrong answer lol

[beaniegender]

Forget about everything else, your 20s are actually all about getting really good at making fridge dump pasta

[jones-friend]

Shelf Stable Board Games

What makes a board game shelf stable?

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I’ve found after collecting board games for about ten years now some are “shelf stable” and some don’t last as long and are donated or given away. This isn’t a bad thing. Some shine bright but last for less where others maintain a consistent enjoyment every time it hits the table.

For example: Wild Space and Emerge are fine games. They are doing game things. But after a few months they lost their luster and I donated them.

Then some games like Its a Wonderful World and Terraforming Mars are shelf staples I love bringing out to the table who offer me great new puzzles and interaction with every play.

The first factor is replay value. Games who are exciting to return to again and again. But I don’t believe that’s the only factor. Emerge had good replay value but its mechanics weren’t enough for my brain to gnaw on each game.

The game needs to be substantial enough mechanics that it can present a meaty enough puzzle to interact with.

Its a Wonderful World is a recent drafting game that I feel has incredible shelf stability. The distribution of cards is different nearly every game and you have to respond to how your opponents are drafting by changing your strat or hate drafting. The color combos or going for financiers or generals really makes for a dynamic draft game that I deeply enjoy.

What are games that have remained on your shelves? What are games that stuck with you and why?

[grymmdark]

my mom got this elderflower concentrate stuff from Ikea a while ago and we recently found it when cleaning the kitchen cabinets and i decided to try some bc why not and it just tastes like lemonade.

im not complaining btw it tastes like good lemonade, like the kind you get at a fair from a food truck that sells weird deep-fried shit.

[the-alternate-realities]