#addie talks

[adaginy]

While I was looking at hopepunk/solarpunk stuff I found https://fallingfruit.org/ and I am SO excited because last year I found a "hey what's this and is it edible" and it turned out to be wild american plum and it TURNS OUT there are several on a university campus near me. I've lost the post I found it in or I'd just reblog that, but, here's this post at least. A lot of markings for things like "this tree is on private property but hangs onto public land" or "tree is on public property" or "this location uploaded by property owner," when things are ripe, notes about the fruit being really up high or whatever. (obviously ymmv, maybe your local fruit-sharers are not as helpful.) There are no markings in my immediate town, but I'll change that. "My" plum tree, black raspberries, mulberries... I know some goodies.

[munsonmuses]

Ehehehehehe I don’t CARE that the trailer just came out. I’m writing an Emperor Geta piece-

[addiesworld18]

I'm heading out to a cute little yoga class !

[shallankholins]

thinking abt how crazy jamesoliver is again. those guys are crazy like legitimately make me insane make my brain go WHOOOOHHOH. every time i think of them i’m miserable

[adaginy]

A hole-in-the-wall ethnic grocery i went to in college had "live" crabs. Turned out to be accurate! They were alive on Tuesday when they were delivered. The following Monday, at the end of a week of being picked over by customers pawing through the ice bin... less so much.

unnecessary quotation mark appreciation board

[adaginy]

Gävlebocken idea: The city of Gävle should have a raffle. The winning raffle ticket is a get-out-of-jail-free card for a goat arsonist. It's not a promise that the winner will get to burn it. The city is still gonna try to prevent the goat from fulfilling its sacred duty protect the goat, but now there's an arsonist who won't face consequences if they pull it off. The city doesn't know who it is; they can't pass out flyers to be on the look out for this person in particular. But SOMEONE has the ticket with the winning number.

[munsonmuses]

Good evening my lovelies!,

I have 3 big projects in the works

- How I’ve Reveled In Your Glory (pt.2 to Geta x Reader)

- Don’t Fear The Reaper (Gareth Emerson x Reader)

- Pour Some Sugar On Me (Rockstar! Eddie x Longterm! Gf Reader)

If you’d like to be on any of these tag lists for these fics and such let me know please!

[addiesworld18]

Bath after getting back from NYC!! Hope you enjoy, because I know I am 🩷

Also if you want to know more about my trip， just leave a note, and I'll be sure to share some more!

[adaginy]

I always, always pay the $3 or $5 or whatever to do the animal feeding at the zoo. I have been disappointed exactly once. (That was feeding parakeets, they weren't really interested in it, I get better parrot interaction at the pet store.)

I have ALSO seen this -- do the things you wanted to do as a kid -- recommended to people in rehab. It was a tumblr post, I believe, possibly a twitter thread. That the people were discussing how they didn't even know what to do with themselves when they DEFINITELY couldn't go hang out with their druggie friends. And the OP said hey, I know what you should do, what's that thing you wanted to do when you were younger but your parents said there was no money for it? "Huh?" You know, you wanted to take ballet or something and your mom said no? " :O I always wanted an easy bake oven!!" "I wanted to go to horse camp!" And when OP left they were excitedly looking at ebay and continuing education courses.

So take care of your inner child, take care of yourself. :)

If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.

Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.

I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.

I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”

I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.

[adaginy]

I'm doing Dracula Daily for the first time this year after watching excitedly in previous years and I would like to share my recipe for chicken hendl/paprikash, somewhat based on my (slovak) grandmother-in-law's recipe. And for a slow cooker and a big batch.

The best part of this recipe, for me, is the memory of my mom copying it down for another family member and stopping to say "Excuse me does this say a quarter CUP of paprika??"

3+ lbs boneless chicken (we usually use thighs, obviously if you want to use something with bones just account for the weight. Recipe also works with rabbit.) 1.5 cup chicken broth black pepper 1 Tbsp butter 1/4 cup paprika (we use spanish because we can get that in bulk, please report back on results of what you use. Caution against using smoked because it gets to be Too Much very quickly.) 1 tsp marjoram, or thyme if you don't have marjoram on hand because who does 1 red bell pepper, in strips 1 shallot, in thin slices, or an onion, we just use shallot because I hate the texture and this way there's less of it 3 Tbsp tomato paste (~50g) . 1/2 cup sour cream, light is fine 1 Tbsp flour 3/4 tsp salt . carb to serve over (noodles/dumplings are probably most traditional, we like mashed potatoes)

Everything in the first section, into the slow cooker, about 3-4 hours on low or until stuff falls apart. (chicken breast doesn't always fall apart as well until you start stirring and poking at it.)

Mix the last 3 ingredients together and add to the pot, let heat through with the lid off while you prepare your carbs.

Grab yourself a plate/bowl of carbs and pour your delicious chicken sludge on top. Enjoy!

[munsonmuses]

Hi friends, it’s Addie! This is gonna be, an open call!!!

I haven’t been doing well, I’ve been struggling to find explicit motivation if that makes any sense? I wanted to ask you all to submit posts, fics, series that you’ve written or enjoy, as a little motivator? Reading makes me feel better.

I also want to ask for your input on what fics of mine you think I should continue? I’m having a hard time deciding altogether and it’s getting hard?

Thank you all, very much.

[addiesworld18]

Oops :) I kinda forgot I existed! Anyways finals week kicked my ass, so here's a pic I took after a presentation 😘🩷

[adaginy]

My brother asked me a few days ago what I thought would happen if the 100 richest people in the US were murdered overnight, tonight.

My thoughts, in order of occurence:

It is is too late to get in the newspapers (I was working when he asked)

Dancing crabs

NSA gonna NSA to find the group responsible

terrible new government powers like the patriot act

and/or conspiracies about organized crime

Lawyering about company control, lawyering to sue "top richest people" lists

And then he asks what I thought the effect would be on the economy.

Me: "I mean, bad things would happen to the stock market, because the stock market is a graph of rich people's feelings."

Him: "That is a strangely hilarious way of describing what the stock market is, but I wouldn't exactly call it wrong."

Me: "I do not think the 100 richest people dying would have the effect of covid, or the boat getting stuck in the canal, for everyday people. It would maybe, maybe have the kind of economic effect a gulf hurricane does when it putters out before landfall, like suddenly seafood and gas get more expensive for a few weeks and then it's fine, a blip barely above the statistical noise."

Him: "Cut a head off the hydra and two more will grow in its place. Still a hydra. Life goes on."

But he was intrigued at my suggestion that having those 100 people just drop dead apparently by the hand of god, or have 10 drop every day at X oclock, would give that hydra some Concerns.

[munsonmuses]

Sooo I was rewatching Too Many Cooks because I adore niche media and horror, and the earworm of a theme song. I saw a character who looked super familiar?

And I was like, I know that name. So a bit of googling led too

It’s only like six seconds of filming but I found it interesting!!! It was in 2014 so Gwydion would’ve been like 19-20, due to filming.

[addiesworld18]

Guys I'm just a girl :(( just a stupid girl :(( it's so hard to take these pics sometimes cuz I'm trying to do what you want but it's sooooo hard :((

[adaginy]

I used to help moderate a website and we were dealing with a presumably young-teen user who was, among other things, making impassioned pleas that they should be able to do violent Warrior Cats roleplay on our pg-13-at-worst website aimed at people with executive dysfunction, crying about censorship/free expression/oppression, speaking poor japanese and claiming it happened when she was upset, etc.

And in the moderator forum where we were thisclose to banning her if she didn't stfu (and we eventually had to because she escalated sharply) , I commented, "She reminds me of me when I was 14, and I absolutely do not mean that as a compliment."

Almost exactly that stupid! Would have gone to other forums instead of insisting I needed dispensation to break the rules, and would have felt very sneaky about it, but otherwise the same!

Be annoyed but remember you, too, were annoying!

watched some video about a shitty kid yesterday and caught myself thinking "my god the kids these days are out of control" and praise the Lord I immediately reflexively scolded myself like "you were exactly this stupid when you were 13, stupider probably, here's a memory of you doing and saying something so completely terrible because you were a kid and kids don't know better" you cannot let up your vigilance even for a moment, you must constantly fight against age related conservatism and never stop internally interrogating your reactions