#also the first two seasons aren't entirely a wash they have some of the best fights i've ever seen in 3d animation

[yelloskello]

Minimal Spoons Meatloaf

This is a mix of two recipes I found online combined into one, with a lil bit of tweaking to make it tastier. It requires no chopping of anything, minimal mixing, like 3-4 cooking tools, and when you want to re-make it there's only like 2-3 ingredients you might have to repurchase. It's simple that even with my turnip memory I can for the most part remake this without consulting the recipes it was forged from. It takes 20 minutes-ish to prep and can keep you fed for 1-2 days, or more, depending on how quickly you might inhale an entire meated loaf. It also reheats really well.

I'm writing this right now because i'm eating my delicious leftovers. This recipe will look longer than it is but that's because i'm verbose as hell and want to be thorough in describing my process. It's actually really simple. Promise.

Cooking tools needed

A loaf pan. I've used glass, aluminum, and copper, they all work fine.

A 1 cup measuring cup.

An assortment of measuring spoons (specifically 1 tbsp, 1 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1/4 tsp. I'm pretty sure most measuring spoons come in a set so whatever's in there.)

Two things to serve as mixing bowls. I have used tupperware before, it really doesn't matter.

Oh and something to grease a pan with. I use pam spray.

Oh and. An oven. Important thing, that

Ingredients for loaf:

1 pound ground beef. I use 80% lean because i like it being pretty fatty, makes it tenderer and tastier, but, up to you dawg

A roll of ritz crackers

Two eggs

Lawry's seasoned salt (to taste)

1 packet lipton onion soup mix

MSG (I use ~Accent Flavor Enhancer~) (to taste)

A lil bit of the sauce we'll get to that don't worry

Ingredients for sauce (this is genuinely the most complicated it gets)

1 cup ketchup

3 tbsp brown sugar (light or dark, doesn't matter. I think I use light.)

2 tsps white vinegar

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp MSG

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

Meat Loaf Strats

Preheat oven to 350.

Grease your loaf pan first because if you're like me and you don't you will end up putting the loaf in the pan and then making a frustrated sound when you realize you forgot to grease it and then you have to take it out again and... Yeah

Hot tip when prepping the pan: A tiiiny bit of water in the bottom makes the loaf even tenderer. Highly recommend.

Make sauce. Dump all that shid in a mixing bowl together and mix with a fork til it's smooth.

Pour a lil bit of that sauce into the mixing bowl for the loaf. I just eyeball this, but for a rough estimate, you wanna use like 1/4th of a cup.

Crush up the ritz crackers. I am blessed with a mallet and I just gently beat up the roll of crackers while they're still in the plastic. Sometimes the plastic breaks, if that's a concern, can just dump 'em in a ziploc and crush 'em up there. Ideally you wanna crush 'em up pretty fine, but if there's some big flakes, it's fine, trust me.

Put all the rest of loaf ingredients in the Loaf Mixing Bowl. Seasoned salt and MSG is ~to taste~, which is such an annoyingly vague direction, but the truth is I eyeball that shit too. If you feel like you added maybe just a little too much seasoned salt, you probably got the right amount.

Mix all that shit up. You... Can do it with a fork, but honestly it's easier to just do it with your (washed!!) hands. Mix it til you're relatively certain it's all pretty equally distributed throughout.

Dump that shid in your pan that you remembered to grease. Form it into a loaf.

Pour remaining sauce on top. You want just enough sauce that it pretty equally covers the whole top of the thing. (If you think you want more sauce than that because the sauce is the best part: it is, but trust me. You don't want more. Trust me.)

Put in oven for 45 minutes.

Ur done!

When i'm done eating I just put tinfoil over the top of the pan and store it in the fridge. When I want to reheat it I put the oven to 350, put a liiittle bit of water in the pan on the side where the leftovers, uh, aren't, recover it with foil, and cook it for 20-30 minutes. TBH comes out even better than when it's fresh.

For the sake of credit where it's due: here's where I got the original sauce recipe, and here's where I found the unbelievably short meat loaf recipe. Credit to these people for being geniuses.

[hellomelancholic]

You're making me want to watch RWBY, good idea or bad idea? I think it would be neat to see the swordfighting lesbians attack the markipliersona guy.

"is it a good idea to watch RWBY" is one of the most complicated questions possible you could ask me but I will try to keep it short. It is absolutely a good idea to watch IF you can suffer through two (short) seasons worth of stilted animation and writing ranging from shoddy to abysmal while it builds up to the good parts. Knowing what I know about your tastes in media I think you'd enjoy it and when rwby gets good it gets good and it gets REALLY REALLY GOOD at points but oh boy does it make you work for it.

[straydawg-writing]

𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦.

- 𝓚. 𝙯𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙮𝙘𝙠

• hunter x hunter series

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Chapter 2–

You knew that if anyone outside of this car saw you right now, you might just pass away. To put it simply: You were sitting on Killua's lap.

All because Kite's truck only fit seven people.

The way this predicament came about would have been comical if it weren't for your burning embarrassment. Unfortunately, you could remember very clearly how it all unfolded:

"Hmm, it seems that there aren't enough seats for all eight of us, so one person will have to squish in," Kite said, opening the car door to check the seats.

"Who's the smallest one here?" Gon asked. All seven pairs of eyes turned to look at you.

Great. The benefits of never having had your growth spurt.

Killua was the one to open his mouth, snickering, "Obviously it's Y/N. She's like a midget!"

"Killua, you are literally an entire 2 ½ feet shorter than Kite over there," you defended yourself.

From a distance, you had guessed Kite was around 6'3. Once you got a closer look at him, you discovered that he towered over you like a skyscraper. Your curiosity got the best of you and naturally, you had asked him what his height was. The man was a whopping 7 foot 10.

"It's okay Y/N, you can squish with me," Gon offered.

Killua shook his head. "No way. Squishing will just make everyone uncomfortable. It's better if only one person suffers. Y/N, you can sit on my lap."

He had left no room for argument. Sighing, you knew that even if you tried, you had no say in this anymore. You would just have to suck it up for the next 4 hours.

Now you were here, sitting on him, worrying about whether you were cutting the circulation off to his legs or not. Or perhaps you were too bony and it was hurting him.

You could feel his warm breath on your neck, and it sent goosebumps across your entire body. This was beyond awkward.

"Stop it," Killua muttered, right in your ear.

Oh, you'd done it now, hadn't you? Killua was gonna push you off onto Gon instead.

"Stop what?"

"You're so stiff, just...relax," he paused, "I don't mind sitting this way."

Hearing his voice so close to you sent butterflies fluttering in your stomach.

Maybe this was okay.

You untensed, trying to adjust yourself to a more comfortable position, but the bumpy car ride wasn't making it very easy. Kite ran over a rock, and without a seatbelt it sent you jerking upwards. Thanks to his fast reflexes, Killua gripped your waist, holding you tightly to his body.

"The seatbelt won't reach over the both of us, but this'll keep you from flying."

"Heh, thanks Killua. I think we should reach the beach in a bit..." you said, hoping that the thought of it being over soon might offer him some relief.

It doesn't matter who it is, being this close to someone could send anyone into a frenzy. You were hyper-aware of every one of his fingers grasping onto your waist. He wasn't lying. He was keeping you right there.

You'd just have to stop thinking about it, you told yourself. Or else you'd go crazy.

Trying to relax back into Killua like he had asked, you let your mind wander to the reason you were driving in the first place. The day before, the three of you had decided to stick with Kite and help him investigate the Chimera ants. The beach you were headed to now is supposed to have a clue about where the ant queen is located, so you could bring an end to the destruction before it starts. During the car ride, you had learned they were a truly deadly species. One bite of an innocent passerby, and they had the means to bring the entire human race to extinction.

You felt like something was starting. And your intuition was rarely wrong.

Gazing at Gon who had been talking with Kite for a while now, you noticed how his eyes crinkle into little smiles whenever he talks. You knew that having Kite around, his father's best friend, surely excited him to the bone. Gon was just oozing with optimism, without even trying. You could tell that just by being himself, he was keeping the spirits up of all eight in the group, not allowing any room for doubt or fear to creep into anyone's minds.

At that moment, you swore that whatever happened, you would be there to protect Gon and Killua. Even if it costs you everything.

Hopefully, this wasn't one of your friends' last few moments of tranquility. But if it was, you were determined to spend it well.

Resting your head against Killua, you hoped that he wouldn't mind if you indulged in this for just a moment. You were tired, having not gotten much rest since completing Greed Island and meeting Kite.

It didn't take much time for you to fall asleep to the rise and fall of Killua's steady breathing and his sweet vanilla scent. If you'd been awake, you might have even heard his heartbeat racing beneath you.

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You had finally reached the beach.

Killua had nudged you awake once you'd gotten there. You remembered how his blue eyes stared back at you as he poked your face, calling you an idiot for falling asleep, and you chuckled.

There was one thing you were clueless about; Killua had made sure not to move even once the whole rest of the car ride. He was nervous that he might disturb your peacefully sleeping form.

You were still pretty groggy as you looked out at the sea, the bright sun reflecting on the ocean's surface. You wanted to wiggle your toes in the sand, but you were there for a reason. To find anything that might lead to the Queen.

You searched in bushes, behind rocks, under seashells, and even used your nen to sift through as much sand as you could. So far, the group had ruled out the forest and deemed it difficult to know if the ant even ended up on the same island. That's when they decided to release the hellhound. Well- it wasn't a hellhound. It was the little dog you played with yesterday. Along with Gon.

Gon was following behind the dog on all floors, sniffing the ground as he went.

"He can do that?" You asked no one in particular.

"His nose is as sharp as a dog's," Killua responded, watching Gon with an amused look in his eye.

A couple minutes went by with no luck. The only thing the dog had found was a tree to pee on. It looked like the ant wasn't going to be on this island, though Kite had an idea.

"It may have washed ashore somewhere else. Which direction do the currents flow here?" Kite asked the two that had brought us down to the beach. One was short with brown skin and grey hair that sprouted up like hay, while the other had large glasses and two front teeth poking out from his mouth.

"The direction is reversed between day and night. And it also changes with the seasons. I've even heard it's different on certain days. So it'll be tough to pinpoint a location..." said Chipmunk Teeth. That's what you'd call him, since you hadn't gotten his name.

So basically, no one had any idea on how to find the Chimera Ant Queen.

"Continuing to search blindly is pointless. We should return to YorkNew and see if we can find any new leads there."

You heard the group around you agreeing with Kite. He and his friends began walking back to the truck already, but you stayed put. You would catch up to them later.

The ocean reminded you of your home. You thought you should say goodbye to it first.

Ripples of water lapped gently at your feet. You always had a connection with nature. Having lived in a small village located in the middle of a jungle most of your life, the earth had become your dearest friend. One of your earliest memories was from exploring the coves back at home. You stretched out your arm across the water, and watched the liquid softly rise to your hand as you called it.

That's why you chose this nen ability. It tied you to the elements. When you fought with it, together you were one body.

"Y/N, come on! Kite's threatening to leave without you," Gon waved you over. Taking one last look at the sea, you turned away.

The sun was already setting by the time you left for the city.

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Going back to YorkNew was the right decision. Now you all knew where to look.

Kite had discovered that the possibilities of the Chimera Ant landing in NGL were the highest. Apparently, NGL was a country populated with people who wanted to get away from machine civilization and live in nature.

You loved nature too, but you thought that was a little extreme. There was a reason you had to leave your beloved jungle behind.

"There may very well be a giant swarm of Chimera Ants already hunting humans down. If that's the case, my top priority will be saving them. You must be able to protect yourselves," Kite warned us.

"And if I am the one in trouble, you should escape without me."

At that, Gon and Killua looked unsettled. But backing down now was not an option.

"Got it," you said, breaking the silence and offering a kind nod to Kite, "and until the very last moment, the three of us will have your back."

"Yeah!" The other two boys concurred.

Now, you sat with Gon and Killua on an airship to NGL. The three of you were sitting on a bench, looking out of a window that framed velvet-peach clouds displaying brilliant silver linings.

Gon was reflecting on their last conversation with Kite.

"You said that Ging had a reason for bringing me and Kite together," he rested his arms and head on the window-frame.

Killua broke his sight from the clouds and looked at Gon.

"Yeah, I did."

"You're probably right. I don't know the reason, but I can't give up halfway, no matter what's going on. Otherwise, I'll disappoint Ging... And I'd never be able to forgive myself either. So I won't run away," Gon continued, resolved with his decision.

There was a moment of silence as the three of you let his words sink in.

You admired Gon's determination, but you hated that Ging had a son risking his life just to avoid disappointing a dad he's never met.

"Man, you had this totally serious expression, so I was expecting something big. But it's just business as usual," Killua smiled.

"Huh?" Gon's mouth hung open. "I thought about this a lot, I even ran a bunch of mental simulations! And I liked what Y/N said earlier, about having Kite's back until the very end."

"Think all you want, but you'll still be Gon. If someone said to abandon them, you'd never do it," You lightly punched his shoulder.

He pouted, cradling where you hit him, and you rolled your eyes.

"Drama queen."

Gon chose to ignore that and turned back to Killua. "Then what would you do?'"

"I'm a spontaneous guy, so I'd think about it once the time comes."

"So, you'd run away?" Gon questioned.

"Depends. I can't say until it actually happens."

"Say for instance..."

Killua threw his hands up, beat, "I can't tell you what I'd do in a hypothetical situation!"

"Then, what about you Y/N?"

"Gon!" You whined.

Truth be told, you hadn't thought about what you would do. It depended like Killua said. But you did know one thing...

"I would never leave you two behind. Even if that meant I'd have to die."

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