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Just had the most overpriced, overspiced Indian food
#I mean spice level#we got medium which was the second level out of five#and it seemed like 4 or even 5 out of 5#and I can generally do spice#the flavor was good#but it was also extremely overpriced#at least now we know we like the other Indian place in town better
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Do you have a family tree for DOTC and the ancient tribes around the lake with Hollyleaf/Fallenleaf?
I don't yet. When I finish up my re-read, I'm going to gather ALL of the DOTC cats and start dividing them up into the three cultural groups. After getting them all in bundles, I'm going to whip them up into proper family trees.
If you're asking about canon's family tree... I can make it if you'd like, but I'd just be showing you the ticking timebomb of genetic diversity they set up for themselves. It's all Quiet Rainkin and random forest cats, most introduced after book 3. None of the other settlers had grandchildren and the living children have no mates.
Sun Shadow died.
Lightning Tail died and Acorn Fur was forced into a vow of chastity
None of Turtle Tail's kits have kits; one is in a vow of chastity
There's nothing to "preserve" about the canon tree, unfortunately. It's not really a "tree," it's more like a couple of bubbles with a ton of dead women floating around outside.
For funsies, let me try and remember all the "bubbles" off the top of my head, plus when the characters were introduced
Ravenstar x Juniper Branch (Book 6)
Milkweed x Leaf (Book 5, Book 2, plus existing kits with an unknown mate)
Misty (Book 2; kits have no kits.)
Shadowkin: Tall, Moon, Sun (1, 1, 5, extinct)
Jackdaw's Cry x Hawk Swoop (extinct)
Turtle Tail x Tom the Wifebeater (endangered)
Riverstar x Finch Song (Book 1, super edition)
Wind Runner x Gorse Fur (Moth Flight and Dust Muzzle are born in book 3)
Willow Tail (introduced with a sibling in book 4; extinct)
Shaded Moss was the father of Rainswept Flower (extinct)
Fox and Petal were siblings (Petal raised Misty's children)
I forgot the name of Drizzle's mom and sibling (book 6)
I think there's also a cat called Apple Bottom Jeans or something in Thunderstar's Echo who has a litter, but I can't remember her mate without google. There were also some litters born in Riverstar's Home I can't remember. I barely remember the side books, were there any others born in Shadowstar's Life...?
Here's all the pairings in the Quiet Rainkin family, as contrast;
Quiet Rain x Unknown (4 kits)
Clear Sky x Bright Stream (Died pregnant; gave birth to 2 dead angel fetus children in heaven)
Clear Sky x Storm (Thunder was the only survivor of 3)
Clear Sky x Star Flower (two litters; the first was 3 iirc, the second unknown)
Jagged Peak x Holly (3 kits)
Gray Wing x Slate (3 kits iirc)
Thunder x Violet Dawn (4 kits)
So... bottom line is, something like 50% of births were coming out of the Quiet Rainkin family, and they account for something like 30% of cats with existing family at all.
Personally, I think that's awful in a prequel arc that's supposed to be about ancestors. So I'm going to be making whole families for BB.
#bone babble#Re: this is all from memory#Did I miss any?#Also this is a large reason i think theyre just bad at handling family trees.#It was a completely clean slate and they are still barelling towards a pretzel in a couple generations#Unless they continue to summon fresh bodies from the bushes#MY excuse is that I don't work with OCs and have to handle the small population sizes.#I work with limits theyve set and even I can still think more carefully about family trees#They do not care at all about them or consider them outside of superficial references#And I dislike that. The whole draw of the series imo is following them through their lives and subsequent generations#But hey. My kitchen my spices.#If BB ever had its serial numbers sanded off I'd keep the BB!DOTC families into the modern era too lmaoo#But that's neither here nor there
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From a previous poll it has been decided that Lan Wangji can cook, but the real question is....Can He Grill?
#poll#I was going to do my thing and make a funny comic on the poll results but....#people got a little heated at that one. Not a unbearable amount of spice but I do not want to kick up any dust more than I have#Anyways now that THAT poll is over I just wanna add my two cents and say that I think both *can* cook. It's a matter of poor generalization#WWX knows the core principals but doesn't see much point in the process of cooking especially if it's just for him. Faster meals are better#Eat the raw ingredients and go back to work kind of guy#LWJ can follow a recipe and has the patience to cook a nice meal but doesn't have that innate chef sense. Useless without recipe type cook#They simultaneously can and cannot cook. It's situation specific#That *just* my own thoughts though! There is evidence to suggest both can cook if they must and there's the funny avenue of saying#that the are Banned From All Kitchens Everywhere#Cooking is different from grilling though. This I must know#guaranteed comic at the end of this one. For real this time. Even if people get very salty
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...how many masters has the Scoundrel actually like, talked to, like a full conversation
counting RP adventures, a good handful. honestly they've probably realistically talked to all of them (sans the obvious exceptions of mirrors and The Other One™) because they're mr cards and lord knows they make a habit of involving themself in masterly business (especially if the other bats don't actually want anything to do with them)
#i think they have actually talked with pretty much all of them in-game too? counts on fingers.#pages is The heart's desire bat. veils had paisley (+ additional rp adventures where it bullied the scoundrel for sport)#happles has the heart's game basement#spices fires and wines can all be called to st8tion (and spices has the watchful gains arc. and also wines is... Wines. iykyk.)#stones just had the trading post thing#and while they havent interacted with cups properly in-game it did make an rp cameo in the cufflink incident#which im counting as having talked to it bc it's canon to the scoundrel's continuity if nothing else#so. ironically. pretty much the only master they're actually lacking in having talked to is iron.#which. i mean.#it doesnt talk in the first place lmao#ask#fallen london#they do live in the bazaar as a (wannabe) space bat! they have actually talked with their coworkers!!!!#they're just. y'know. also stupid. and think said coworkers know exactly what they're all doing at all times.#a trait all of the masters definitely totally are known for exhibiting 24/7 /s#the scoundrel fixates on wines the most but they definitely look up to just like. all of the masters in general.#they're a stupid fledgeling bat that wants to be Just Like The Other Bats#and they think (they hope) someday they'll get properly taken into the bat fold#they just. need to try harder! and wait a little bit longer!#surely once they're just a little bit more curatorial the other masters will respect and welcome them. surely.#..surely.#(nevermind the fact that these fuckers dont even respect and welcome each other)#scoundrelventures#the scoundrel is horrendously horribly unbelievably delusional and we love that for it. i hope it gets hit by a car
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rough germaphobic dust sketch inspired by this post. idk if i cooked here but i did have fun. concept art/ideas under the cut
#skeledoodles#dust sans#utmv#i kinda liked plague doctor dust....#but i think its just cause i like plague doctors in general#plague doctors believed in that smells caused disease#and called it 'miasma'#and in order to counteract it theyd have their own miasma which usually smelled floral#i do NOT think dust would subscribe to miasma theory#because sans is a man of science#but i DO think that#in a world where he did#his miasma would be like. peppery and spicy. idk how to explain it#spicy as in a lot of spices. not like its hot#anyway what im trying to say is that it wouldnt be floral#i kinda liked the full hazmat design ngl#but it felt too on the nose#then again the chosen design is also very on the nose#ignore the other drawing. the third one#that was my initial sketch lmao#i kinda had a rough idea of the design already in my head but#wanted to explore other concepts#and im glad i did because#the final drawing looks way better#OH ALSO#the reason the miasma smoke is blue#is because if mafiatale can have its magical blue cigar smoke#i can have my magical miasma smoke#i think magic can take any form given training and focus. including gas#what effect would the miasma actually have?........ idk lmao its 3am ill think on it tomorrow
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My problem with star trek species redesigns is people always redesign the wrong ones. Ferengi? Cardassians? Vorta? Some of the most interesting aliens in the show and for some reason I keep seeing redesigns of them. You know who really needs a redesign? Betazoids and El-Aurians. Truly the most boring alien designs in all of Trek. Trill and Bajorans too, but I have seen a few redesigns of them, though I always wanna see more. Give me more redesigned Betazoids and El-Aurians!
#Star trek#I might do my own. My other thing about redesigns I kind of want to see them redesigned in ways that would still be TECHNICALLY#Be possible with prosthetics#Like ferengi cardassians and vorta stand out to me because they made them look like that with practical fx only#So for me it's interesting to see how alien you can make something look while fitting all the features onto the proportions of a basic#Human body. This also technically fits the lore of Trek better as well because of those progenitors or whatever they're called#Orions could also use a rework. They're literally just geen#I'm sure there's more I can't think of right now but trek is not short of basically human alien designs to work with#While i genuinely think ferengi vorta klingons and cardassians are fine as they are#Maybe klingons could use a little more spice and I like when people give vorta tails but. Otherwise they're interesting while still fitting#Into the general plausibility of trek
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autistic aromantic culture is food
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#aro culture is#aro#aromantic#actually aro#actually aromantic#ask#mod axel#autistic aro culture#me - who has such a low appetite in general that it is sincerely a medical problem: hm.#like my stomach hurt the other day and i was thinking about 'oh what did i do?' and realized. oh i ate three meals today.#i typically have to really push my calories and nibble throughout the day#otherwise i accidentally Do Not Eat and don't notice because hunger machine is like. 85% broken#and appetite machine is like 'best i can give you is sugar. sometimes spice. small quantities. otherwise the idea of eating is like...#about equivalent to the sensation of particularly bad executive dysfunction
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oh don't mind me just watching a less hot version of rgb get popular and posted everywhere
#YES I'M JUDGING#actually i'm aroallo and have to face amatonormativity so therefore i can do literally anything i want forever#anyway i saw him in an animation meme audio compilation thingie#anyway go read TPOH trust me there's lesbians and shit#there's a genderfluid character ok ?#btw my aromanticism isn't actually related to anything here at all i'm just using my general suffering as#an excuse to whine about something unrelated LOL#and whyyy do i keep getting suggested to look under the tumblr sexyman tag#AND WHY DO I CONTINUE TO CHECK THERE#ugh. i am so basic#pumpkin spice latte and leggings and an “i can fix him” character and MY ATTRACTION TO SEXYMEN. basic fucking tumblr white girl#whatever it's ok#tumblr sexyman#tv head
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I really love your style! I'm trans and can't transition yet because living situation but I hope that when I do my fashion sense is even half as good as yours! Seeing all your different outfits and the way you make them all look so good makes me really excited to experiment with clothes once I can! (Anon cuz I'm shy)
omg im honored to be an inspiration!!! <3333 i hope u get to transition and have fun w fashion really soon!!
#ask#also i obv dont know ur exact situation or what style ur goin for but#remember theres always little things u can do even while closeted#those striped gloves. belt chains.lil accessories like rings bracelets necklaces#having a nice pair of ears u can wear when out w ur trusted friends also feels great#oh! i started w bandanas around the neck bc i couldnt stand wearin necklaces. it was like My Thing#the occasional pair of novelty glasses...#in general if u get a pair of sunglasses thats perfectly round instead of aviators they just look more fashion#and theyre rly good to wear on ur head as accessory too#i also Started my novelty glasses collection because i couldnt do makeup and needed face-level color to spice up my fits#and colorful lenses filled that role
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what is your favorite recipe to cook? Mine is vodka sauce and pasta or chickpea coconut curry !
omg those both sound SO good….honestly idk my diet changed a lot when i moved 2 a different country + now i’ve moved back 2 the u.s. so i’m figuring out what 2 cook again!! for the past 2 years kimchi&tuna fried rice has def been a go-to i made it allllll the time but now i no longer have access 2 my fave tuna brand so i haven’t made it yet since moving back…another recent fave has been breakfast potatoes chop up a yummy golden potato & fry it in a pan w some onions + whatever other veggies i have + add salt + pepper + paprika + red pepper & then crack some eggs & scramble them in…SAUR good
#in general my recipes follow the pattern of: veggies + protein fried 2gether in pan#add spices etc then add a carb#in the u.s. my go-to protein was canned black beans or chickpeas#but those were not available 2 me 4 the past 2 years so i converted 2 canned meats instead#tuna chicken etc…#main 2 recipes i used 2 make in the us were some variation of curry chickpeas + black bean burritos :•)#nice 2 be able 2 make them again but i do miss my beloved favorite tuna brand…#ask
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when i was a kid i was really REALLY into fantasy books and comics but interestingly ive noticed as an adult im like. too picky about it? i still read and love a lot of fantasy fiction but while when i was a kid i loved it because of the fantasy worldbuilding but as an adult, 99% i like it Despite it all LOL like ive noticed i prefer most fantasy stories to not dwell too much on magic systems or whatever because i just dont care EXCEPT
except. recently i have discovered that actually i do really like fantasy, low or high, soft or hard, but you need one thing. you need your main character to really REALLY care about some hyperspecific aspect of your fantasy worldbuilding and make it the foundation of the story's scenarios:
either make them autistic and really into monsters or magic or whatever (a certain tasty dungeoning manga that i have been reading recently has taught me this) OR
make them a fucking business major and do real life financial stock market bullshit but like. in fantasy medieval times with wolf goddesses (spice and wolf <3)
#i read the first spice and wolf novel early this year it was so good. so so good. they tried to do a currency shorting scheme#the wolf woman was helping. she was helping our main character play the markets. she was in on it#actually in general i need more fantasy fiction to do dubious things with money and politics. i love white collar crime in my fantasy#and of course i like the dungeony manga because that blonde bitch wants to eat everything so bad. and hes a dog. in his heart#now THATS a fantasy protagonist i can get behind. either be a dog or be a business major. im being mean to lawrence sorry#but he is a business major. this is true. he stares at notebooks that say 'supply = demand' all day#i am so picky tho with fantasy worldbuilding is the thing. sometimes i like 99% of a world but then they throw in something i think is dumb#and im like. come on man. but its not their fault. because what i think is cool is not always cool. i want fantasy to either be about eatin#or unethical financial practices. so. um. OH and i would love to see some legal dramas in fantasy#im sure theyre out there. i should look for em. i wanna see fantasy copyright law so bad#none of my pickiness applies to games tho im a lot more forgiving. theres still a bunch of stuff i dont care about in a lot of games#worldbuilding. but because im playing it i can ignore it easier i guess LOL i dont know why im like this!!!#i swear i genuinely used to eat up any and all fantasy!!! i dont know why im so picky now!!!!!!!!!!!!
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if anyone needs me i will be rewatching trigun 98 and tristamp over and over until my brain explodes
#had a bad time in therapy today sigh#first time i cried in front of the new therapist wooooooooo#and we havent even started talking about the painful stuff yet. how tf am i gonna handle that#(spoiler: im not <3 we dont have to talk abt it if i never bring it up)#also being. slammed with nostalgia (/neg) and i cannot get rid of it and it fucking sucks#got a. bad taste in my mouth. from like. everything rn#anyway. if anyone needs me i will be bolting myself into a shitty tin can and sending myself to the bottom of the sea.#not to see the titanic bc im not dumb and full of hubris. but just like. in general#im down there now. i want to fucking explode#sorry bad joke <3 i wanna kms so bad. i wanna wake up tomorrow and be in a universe that is Not This One#aaughrggghrghr. im angry and j dont know what im angry at . i wanna. fling myself into space#so instead i will watch trigun and if i start posting about max in the next day or so well can you blame me.#i hope someone draws him for artfight. specifically. hes rlly cool#i have his page uploaded already but im sooooo bad at making descriptions#oh fuck i also learned how to fucking tag things on artfight now omg. i didnt know that was a thing.#how did i do three years of this shit and not TAG anything. what the fuck#anyway. wish i was a guy covered in blood rn. maybe i should watch hannibal instead#is it time to bring out ol reliable and watch the stab scene from mizumono on a loop again#and perhaps i will listen to sodikken misery meat and people eater. idk. spice it up a little#girls when they say they want to be held: screenshot of the way hannibal holds wills face before gutting him like a fish#im feeling rlly normal rn if you cant tell
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@skullndaisy
The other day I asked one of the staff at school if his cultural food was good and he said it was pretty mid. That got me curious.
#Im very biased but Viet food is just amazing#You can do no wrong with lemongrass or fresh veggies in EVERY dish#The meat is succulent and fatty and yummy and well spiced which pairs well with the veggies#And everything is rice based (no gluten) and dairy is rare#I'm not allergic to the stuff but a lot of my friends have food allergies and when we go out to eat Viet everyone has something they can ea#I love Asian food in general but Viet is my number one#Bun Bo hue is my fav dish of all time I'd eat it every day if I could#reblog#poll#mun rambles
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i see the sleep doctor today!! hopefully he's as respectful as my pcp and actually takes me seriously. especially because i filled out the new patient forms based on how i feel now that i'm sleeping in a way that feels normal, and because some doctors get really pissy when you have your own theories on what's going on with you i worry that he'll disregard it completely and make me start from square one. I don't mind documenting the way i sleep currently to back up the N24 theory but if he tries to make me go back on a 24 hour sleep cycle and wait to see how much i feel like shit when doing that before medicating me, seeing that i feel even worse actually, and THEN considering other theories..... honestly i'd rather just see someone else. if there's really no way around it i suppose i could do it just to get it done and over with but he could literally just talk to my pcp and hear from her just how much my sleep has been a problem for the past year or two alone rather than making me suffer. i'm not gonna play games like that as if i'm an idiot just because i don't have a medical license
#spiced#i get so heated about medical things it's why i refuse to consider diagnosis for autism or schizophrenia#i'd rather be self diagnosed and do what i can to help myself than have someone say i can't make choices or don't know what i'm talking abo#just because of something like that. especially when i'm fully aware of the effects those can have on my thoughts#and between that awareness and my general intelligence i don't just leap headfirst into things like this without a care
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I think, and kind of want to do a poll about it, that some of us mean something a bit broader when we say “spicy.” Like I absolutely have White People Palate im not denying that, but either there are some compounds that just hit some of our tongues differently like the cilantro soap gene, and/or a lot of people specifically identify “feeling of capsaicin” as spice and not other spicy compounds. I feel like I could go down a very deep rabbit hole here but im restraining myself bc i should go to bed
#thinking specifically about arugula (flowers)#and apparently the compounds responsible are related to the bitterness of that and other brassicas#so now I’m curious if capsaicin has some connection to ‘bitter’ compounds#especially since afaik ‘bitter’ is generally ‘fuck off don’t eat me’ which capsaicin definitely is#I’ve seen people say pepper isn’t spicy???#like black pepper#maybe part of it’s that they’ve only ever had pre-ground#which IS mostly just bitter#and again it’s not like. vastly spicy#I repeat: I got White Baby palate but I will blacken the surface of my food with pepper#but like. it IS a spice#but it doesn’t necessarily feel/taste the same as capsaicin#also pershi told me about some cool indigenous Chinese pepper that makes you feel like your mouth’s vibrating and I have been Entranced#taste is very interesting as a sense bc like. we can talk about ‘is the blue IM seeing the same one YOU see’#but ultimately light wavelengths are pretty. straightforward and the eye for all its complexity like. basically all works the same.#but taste? huge mess.#so many genes control our ability to taste certain compounds or change them radically#and then there’s like. what you’re familiar with.#and you can’t be allergic to chartreuse.#and then whatever jumble of neurodevelopment creates person taste bc I do not like all the same things my parents nor my sister like!#idk it’s just all so cool
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Marcille: "Uhhh . . . I'm so hungry . . ."
Laios: "We should have waited until we were at the end of this maze to kill and eat the minotaur. Senshi, what do we have left?"
Senshi: "We're good on water due to that aquifer leaking into the maze, but otherwise all we have left is my spices and this unopened bottle of benadryl."
Laios: "Hmm . . ."
Marcille: "Laois, look at me. Benadryl isn't food."
Laios: "I know that, but what if we were to kill and eat the Hat Man?"
Chilchuck: "WHAT?"
Senshi: "What's the Hat Man?"
Marcille: *sighs* "It's a shared hallucination, generally induced by certain kinds of drug intake. Some mages have tried to study if it's real but were unable to prove that it stayed tangible or present after they sobered up."
Senshi: "So that benadryl would lure the Hat Man to us, and give us a chance to fight it? That will be tough. Sounds like we will have to kill, cook and eat it all before the medicine wears off if it will lose tangibility otherwise."
Laois: "That's it! If we need only one or two of us to kill the Hat Man, then the rest can be dosed up only right before the meal is done cooking."
Senshi: "There's one problem with that. Dwarves are basically immune to any tallmen drug that isn't prescription strength. I'll need half the bottle just to have enough time to eat the meal. Chilchuck, you'll be able to use it the most efficiently because of how little you weigh. I can make sure that the fire is ready, but you'll have to fight the Hat Man alone and dose Marcille afterwards to help you with the cooking prep. Laios and I shouldn't risk taking more than needed just to eat."
Chilchuck: "ARE YOU CRAZY?! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THE HAT MAN IS REAL! And I don't do the fighting in this group! There's NO WAY that-"
Narrator: And so with their plan formulated, Chilchuck took a heavy dose of benadryl and prepared to fight the Hat Man in single combat.
Part 2
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