#but i don't know of many foods that are pink. green. yellow. and white.

[gamebunny-advance]

Thinking Outloud

I dunno why I suddenly got reinvested in Kun3h0 again. It just comes and goes I guess~

But anyway, if I'm changing her colors this much, I guess I've kinda lost that subtle "raspberry" themeing I had with her.

It wasn't intentional, but I started associating Kun3h0 with raspberries because her hair puffs kinda look like them and I associated her colors with raspberry candies.

Now that her hair is green/teal (I'm still working out the exact colors), I kinda don't have that anymore~

[luveline]

jadey would you please mind giving us more of kbd!steve this season? xxxx

kbd dad!steve and mom!reader fight over christmas pyjamas, 1.4k

“I don't know what you want me to say.” 

Steve frowns deeply at you. Another haircut, another day more handsome than before, he pulls off everything, but not… 

“Say you like them,” he demands, hooking his thumbs in his pyjama top and pulling it outwards to properly show you the front. 

Steve is wearing Christmas pyjamas. The Grinch from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas in all his scrooge glory grins at you evilly against a red background. The pants are white, patterned by red and green drawings of the Grinch holding a Christmas present. He looks much happier from your husband's thighs than the long sleeved shirt. 

“Babe, they have cuffs. We're gonna be warm all day,” he says. 

“They don't match,” you say, pointing to the Grinch on his leg, who holds a pink gift wrapped in yellow ribbon. “Maybe it's the pink and red throwing me off.” 

His frown turns to a pout, the almond shape of his warm brown eyes at a downturn as he says, “You really don't like them.” 

You crack like a weak walled chestnut over a flame. “I'm kidding! I'm just messing with you, baby, I love them. They're so Christmas-sy. Did you get some for me?” 

His relief is palpable. “I got some for everyone.” 

Steve got matching pyjamas for himself, you, the kids, and Robin. He shows you them from a bag on the kitchen table, where you ooh and aah reluctantly. You love him, love everything he does, but you're finally on your holidays vacation and you'd wanted to spend as much of it sitting down as possible. Not that sitting down is possible at home, but you digress. 

Steve senses your reluctance with a grumble pressed into the back of your neck, his arms grabbing you from behind. “Alright, I get it! You hate me and your kids and you hate Christmas most of all, whatever. I should've married Tammy Thompson.” 

You laugh and lean forward over his arms. “Tammy Thompson wouldn't have wanted a thing to do with you, H, on account of you being a cruel, know-it-all narcissist who forces his exhausted wife off of the couch at every opportunity he–” 

“Alright, that's enough.” 

Steve squeezes you until you're pleading with him to let you go, a riot of giggles forced from your lungs as he digs his hands into your sides, his fingers practically drilled into your ribs. You call for mercy and he ignores it, muttering about narcissism in your ear. He laughs as you laugh, can't keep up the act. 

“Beg for me to stop,” he says. 

“Stop!” you say, trying to pull his arms off of your stomach. “Steve, stop it!” 

“Say you'll wear the pyjamas.” 

“Steve! I'll wear them! Would you–” 

“Get off of her!” Bethie shouts, barrelling into the room to push at her dad's legs. 

It's so unlike Beth to shout that you both immediately stop fighting. For a split second, you think she's worried that Steve was actually hurting you, but then she laughs as she punches him in the thigh and sticks herself between your breathless bodies, two small arms extended to keep you apart. 

When she's sure Steve is done, she wraps her arms around you, looking up into your face with a big smile. “Saved you, mom.” 

“You saved me,” you agree, bending down to hug her, “thank you, sweetheart, thank you.” You drop tens of kisses into her hair and face, so many that Steve makes a show of huffing.

“Beth, she deserved it,” he says. “She doesn't wanna wear our matching jammies. Don't you wanna do that?” 

She looks at him with those big sorry eyes only young children can master. “Yeah, dad, but…” 

“But what?” 

“But she's my mom.” 

You pull one of the kitchen chairs out and sit down, patting your lap for her to climb up and sit with you. “But I'm her mom,” you sing-song, ever so slightly smug. 

“And I'm, what? Cat food?” 

“Don't listen to him, baby, he's just jealous.” 

Steve turns away from you both, showfully miffed. Bethie giggles and turns into your chest. “He's mad,” she laughs. 

“So mad.” You drop your nose into the side of her cheek. 

“Are we still having a treat tonight?” she asks. 

“Of course we are. It's Christmas! Mom's home, daddy's catching up on his sleep, we're all having cake and ice cream and chocolates until we can't eat anymore,” you promise. 

“Wish you were home all the time.” 

“Me too, baby,” you say, rubbing her cheek with the tip of your nose slowly. “I wish you could come to work with me. That would be so fun. But we have to make the most of our time away, yeah? Let's have lots and lots of fun.” 

“I saved you,” she says, “so maybe I can have extra cake.” 

“Beth. You can have as much as you want tonight, I promise.” 

“I love Christmas,” she decides. 

Steve rushes back into the kitchen with a child under each arm. Dove laughs, her eyes practically sparkling, not a care in the world though she's upside down, and Avery clings to Steve's waist, shouting, “Dad, put me down!” through nervous giggles. 

“Tell mom what I told you,” he says. 

“Dad, I'm slipping!” 

“Avery, you're not slipping. I'm frankly insulted that you think I would drop you. Now tell your mother what we said.” 

“Daddy's not a nar-pasit!” Dove says joyfully. “He's a sweetheart.” 

“He's a huge narcissist,” you correct in a similar tone. 

“He's dropping me!” Avery cries. 

Steve shakes her until she screams. “I am not! For Christ's sake, I can curl you like two pound weight, you delinquent! Now.” He takes a deep, fake breath, pulling the two girls higher into his armpits. “Like we rehearsed.” 

“I did my turn,” Dove says, reaching out for you, her smile hard to miss even if she is upside down..

“Dad didn't even want to marry that lady,” Avery says, her eyes squeezed closed. Steve chuckles and kisses her head, amused by her silly worry. “He's only ever wanted to be in love with you. And to drop me.” 

Steve chokes he laughs so hard, leaning forward and depositing the eldest girl onto two steady feet. “Perfect as always, Ave. And you!” He twists into a shape, Dove's head getting closer and closer to the floor. She couldn't be happier, giggling like she's been tickled the whole while. “You did perfect too, honey.” 

“I didn't even bring up that lady,” you say. 

Steve and Dove return back to the right way round after some careful manoeuvring. “My bad. Babe. Y/N. I'm sorry, okay? I'm a loser and–” He nudges Dove aside gently to take your hands, your knees, ignoring Beth where she's in the way to kneel in front of you. “I just need you to want to wear these pyjamas as bad as I want you to. So pull it together.” 

You put your lips to the shell of Beth's ear. “Should we forgive him?” 

“Mmm…” Beth points at Avery. “He has to say sorry for almost dropping Avey.” 

“Right.” You nod sagely. 

Steve turns to Avery with wide eyes, “You're not actually upset, are you?” he asks, putting out his hand to her. 

“My brains are like cranberry sauce,” she says. 

He raises his eyebrows, delighted. “Yeah? The thick one from the can?” 

Dove climbs under his arm. He pulls her in for a cuddle unthinkingly, but just as quickly she's ducking away from him to walk up to Avery, reaching for her face. Avery leans down obligingly. 

Dove pokes her forehead. 

“I'm not really jelly!” Avery says, giggling. 

“Well, I'm sorry if I scared you almost dropping you,” Steve says, holding his hands together, brown eyes like melting sugar in his pleading. “Can you please forgive me, so mommy will forgive me, and we can put on our new jammies?” 

Avery isn't stubborn. “Yeh, okay. I'll forgive you.” 

He smiles, turning to you now for the final verdict. 

“I already said I'd wear them, Steve,” you say with a grin. 

“Oh. Good. Alright.” He climbs to his feet, split from cheek to cheek. “I'm gonna go get the baby. Aw, shit, and the camera. Practise your poses until I come back, angels!”

[toastingpencils37]

Just a collection of various Ninjargon translations from DR S1E1 so I can keep them all in one place.

Also, just a warning, some of the shots on this post have pretty bad quality so that you can't see what's on the signs, but I'm using a different screen for the actual translations that I can't really just screenshot.

The wall painting right below the garage thing:

Fresh Fo-

I'm assuming the "Fo-" part is supposed to have a "od" after it, spelling out Food, given the Fresh.

And then the banner thing to the right of Sora:

J4- PK-

Less likely real words, given the letter placement and the numbers. So probably either some sort of store advertisement/sign or just some random tag sign of some graffiti artist.

(Had to get two shots of these signs in order to be able to translate everything in the second shot)

The Green sign with the Dragon on the building:

Dragon House

The orange sign with the bowl right next to it:

Fresh

Again, likely food. Especially since right below it there's a menu

The menu below the orange sign:

Specials Fish.......Fcs Soup.........vfd Chicken........Yjr Noodles........Fcs

There may be some mistranslations with some of the red letters on the menu, as they were hard to figure out.

The string banner below the Specials menu:

68392047

Yeah I have no idea what that means. Because I don't think it's a set number of sorts because a) too long for a regular set and b) i don't think there was a polybag thing for this either, even like a LEGO City one.

Also, this menu and string banner appear at least four more times in the episode, with the string banner sometimes being blue rather than red.

For this shot I'm actually just going to translate the neon pink sign, because I can't get enough focus on the smaller things such as the papers taped up to tell what I'm looking at.

Also the cut off large blue "S" in the planter is part of a much larger sign that appears earlier, spelling "Crossroads"

Neon pink sign:

Forward

Only translating the white paper in this shot, which have some pretty bad handwriting (and i'm pretty sure a couple of the letters might be actual English or just nonexistent Ninjargon letters as well)

White paper:

**a*** am*fg mf** a*** fhl 5****

I was going to translate the blue paper as well, but one close look at it, I decided it's not worth it and that I don't have enough brain power for this shit.

The Specials chalkboard and the blue string banner right next to the green fish sign says exactly the same thing as the previous Specials sign and string banner, so I'm not translating that.

Purple vertical lamppost sign with an arrow pointed to the right:

Somewhere

Thank you street sign that really cleared things up /s

The blue sign:

2828

Probably supposed to be an address sign, but like many of the signs around the Crossroads, it pops up multiple times on different buildings. So who truly knows.

The box shown between Arin and Sora:

It appears to be flipped upside down, so if flipped the right way, it should spell:

Kgbdy

Also translating the poster because it surprisingly has some interesting stuff:

Mechmaster Mechma Reward Track Pie

The second line is cut off on the poster design itself, so that "Mechma" is the whole thing it says. Also not sure if the pie is something actually involved as a reward for winning the race, or if the people on the actual Ninjago team making the poster just decided to put it on for another reason, possibly even foreshadowing of what'll happen in the next scene.

Sign of cat:

Deals

This sign also pops up quite a bit in this episode.

The orange sign right behind Sora:

Sale

I noticed it appear once more towards the end of the race as well.

Sora's Mech:

SA-Mark

Orange sign above Frohicky:

Mec- Mast-

Obviously it's supposed to spell out "Mech Master" but it's cut off

Yellow letters below the black screen above Frohicky:

Register

The front of the mech:

Fast

The arm:

So

There's also a brown mech shown earlier that appears to have this also written on it, but another mech in front of it cuts it off so you can only see the "Fa" and the dash part of the "S"

Kreel's Mech:

Speed

The blue, black, and yellow graffiti:

Htja

The orange/brown shop sign to the left of Riyu:

It's the same as the one behind Sora, but now we can see that below the "Sale", there is also some Ninjargon.

So the full translation is:

Sale 98

Then the yellow sign with the red dragon to the right of Riyu:

Great deals

The graffiti with the fish:

Pux4

Of the graffiti, this tag makes the most sense word wise.

This same graffiti also popped up earlier on the race track, but I couldn't make out some of the letters there, so I put this one with the more clear letters instead.

Also, I think the "x" is an "x". Only letter that really seems to fit that shape.

Graffiti with shuriken star:

Dfg

Graffiti with hamburger:

Tddhfj

However it appears to be mirrored so it should actually spell:

Jfhddt

And then the little piece of graffiti in the bottom left corner:

....cy

Which is all we see of the graffiti there.

So, that's it for translating stuff from episode 1. And yeah, for quite a bit of the stuff, it's just gibberish.

[tazahan]

Hi! my accumulated questions :What does the place where the fighters live and train look like? Is Aila the only girl warrior in the Lin Kuei or is there more? If so, do they live in the same building with other waves or separately? I wonder what the chambers of the great Lin Kuei master look like? Is there a schedule in Lin Kuei (when do they eat, train, when do they have free time, etc.) What is Bi Han's taste in girls? Does he prefer Asian or European girls? Does Aila have a mother? If so, what does she look like? Will she approve of her daughter's (Bi Han) choice? Why did Liu Kan give Aila to the Lin Kuei? Maybe he knew that Bi Khan would fall in love with her and change at least a little? What is Bi Han's favorite food? What does he think of Harumi and how is their relationship?

Oh wow, that is a lot of questions here...but let me reply as I could - In my headcanon, she trained in two places. First when she was still trained in Wu-Shi Academy under Liu Kang's guidance and now she trained in Lin Kuei under Bi-Han's supervision. Wu-Shi as we all know is a warm and beautiful place with amazing ancient architecture and cherry blossoms everywhere. And in my head, the monks are kind and welcoming. Since Lin Kuei is in Arctika the place is mainly frozen, gloomy, and harsh, with less saturated temples and dojos. The warriors were slightly individualistic and had no time for camaraderie (Except maybe not for Tomas or Kuai Liang). - No, Aila is not the only girl in Lin Kuei because, bc in my head Lin Kuei still has Frost and probably other fellow women Lin Kuei. But I think the Lin Kuei still also were dominated by male warriors. Female warriors are not rare but not as many as male warriors. For Aila, Aila was the most inexperienced woman apprentice in the Lin Kuei so that's why many people looked down on her. I think the LK does have separate dormitories for both genders. And public bathhouses for men and women. - Oh man, in my head, the Lin Kuei Grandmaster's chamber was of course vast and opulent. Full of ancient ornaments with high-quality materials. I think his bed would look like a canopy emperor-style bed with blue-dominated colors. For Kuai or Tomas, their bed would probably be as vast as his but looked simpler and homey. - Yeah, I believe they also have a specific schedule for training, mission, study, resting, and free time. - Oh man, I don't know about that. I guess Bi-Han loves every woman in every race. I mean every race, he would gladly sleep with the demons and Vaeternians. No matter if you're white, black, brown, yellow, blue, pink, green, purple, magenta, human, elf, demon, vampire, fairy, Dragonborn, or centaur, if he sees you hot, you're hot. He didn't discriminate. But I guess he loves himself more lol. - Aila does have a mother and her red hair was actually inherited by her mother! She's mainly supportive and she wasn't so overprotective, unlike her father. But it couldn't be denied that she worried when she found out that Aila would be training in Lin Kuei. (Continue at the comment ====>)

[erinelliotc]

About me

Welcome to my safe space! (mostly an Ed, Edd n Eddy blog)

I'm Érin Elliot Eddward Marion Mason (I'd appreciate being called Double D, Edd or Dudu (Edd's nickname in Brazil) too ^^). My pronouns are they/them and he/him. I'm nonbinary trans (pomogender, quoigender, agender, genderqueer, libramasc and boyflux).

I'm Brazilian, 24 years old (born in June 15th, 2000), autistic, Double D kinnie (most of my Double D's analyses are me projecting myself onto him) and EddEddy shipper. Ed, Edd n Eddy is my biggest special interest! I'm both an Eddy apologist and an Edd apologist, I'll defend these bitches with all my heart and soul.

I also love:

Will Wood

Deltarune/Undertale

Arcane

Death Note

Gravity Falls

Infinity Train

The Owl House

Over The Garden Wall

The Office

Sally Face

Five Nights at Freddy's

Demon Slayer

Little Witch Academia

Amphibia

Things I like: pink, yellow (golden and mustard), blue-green/green-blue colors, cuteness, weirdness! weird stuff! weird people!, organization, archiving data, ducks, cats, roly polies/pill bugs, caterpillars, snails, moths, bees, mushrooms, dandelions, sunflowers, rainbows, soap bubbles, autumn/spring, the fire element, nature/living beings in general, fairies, plushies, taking pics, editing videos, writing, music, cartoons, bubble wrap, LGBTQ+ content (especially lesbian/sapphic/wlw), hot chocolate, chocolate milk, fries, neugebauer chocolate (milk), coca-cola, brownie, savory food, likes mealy apples more than crunchy apples, puns, spending time alone, working on my personal projects, dedicating myself to my hyperfixations, wearing comfy clothes (usually pajamas), brain-training games, learning, stimming, singing

Things I dislike: changes, lack of order, jumpscare/scares, interruptions, too many people, leaving my house, cold/winter, sun, beach, traveling, public speaking/presentation, passion fruit, tomato, guava paste, white chocolate, cold savory food, get dirty eating, sticky and creamy substances on my skin, physical activity, bugs climbing/walking on me without my consent and prior preparation, people yelling at me and/or being harsh/agressive with me, not being understood

Some of my areas of interest are:

Information Science (Archivology and Library Science)

Psychology (and health area in general)

Biology

Journalism

Design

You can find my edits here! (they're mostly EEnE edits)

You can get to know about my history with Ed, Edd n Eddy here!

My fanarts

My EEnE content (my own posts and my comments on reblogs)

And ALL my EEnE content here (includes reblogs)!

Soon I'll start posting my EEnE stories/fanfics too :)

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Linktree (all my links): https://linktr.ee/ErinElliotC

Carrd:

Português: https://erinmini.carrd.co/

English: https://erinmini.carrd.co/#carrdeng

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@erinelliotc

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Esquikoko

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pato__magico

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ErinElliotC

Twitter (main account): https://twitter.com/AutisticQueer

Twitter (art account): https://twitter.com/DoubleDrawings

This was my main blog (Esquikoko) but I don't use it anymore

I have an abandoned blog to post pictures of roly polies

Read this in case I die disappear from social media

Some other stuff about me:

I'm a Visual Communication (Graphic Design) Technician (I don't really work with that though)

I'm a crocheter (still learning)

Undergraduate program: currently studying Library Science (4/8 semesters); I also studied Psychology for 5/10 semesters and Journalism for 1/8 semester

Height: 5'1 (1,55 m)

MBTI: ISFJ

Enneagram: 9w1

Instinctual Variant: sp/so

Moral alignment: Neutral good

Orientation: Asexual, aromantic and lesbian

Astrological sign: Gemini (sun), Cancer (rising), Sagittarius (moon)

Favorite musical artists/bands:

Will Wood (and the Tapeworms)

Cavetown

Grouplove

Miracle Musical

Lemon Demon

Melanie Martinez

Aurora

Baby Fuzz

Hungry Hearts

The Living Tombstone

Mitski

MARINA

Toby Fox

Oingo Boingo

P!nk

Pitty

Green Day

Lily Allen

Lady Gaga

Tally Hall

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff. Ravenclaw would be my second house

Spirituality: Witch and agnostic

Get to know a little about my musical taste here!

Special interests/current, recurrent and/or fixed hyperfixations: Ed Edd n Eddy, Will Wood, autism, mental disorders, genetic mutations, organization, Deltarune, Arcane, Death note, Gravity Falls, Cellbit, The Owl House, Over The Garden Wall, The Office, Sally Face, intersexuality, lesbianity, transgenerity, asexuality, cats, barism (specialty in making coffee), Brazil Avenue (Avenida Brasil)

[i-eat-worlds]

Hey! So. I don't actually know your OCs, as I'm new here. So tell me about them? And what whump they'll fit in particular, pls?

this is the ask of all time, thank you!

I have a vast, vast collection of many OCs, but we’ll do the Alex & Friends crew cause they’re my mains! I’ve a new series starting soon, so you might seen them floating around here soon.

For context, A&F is set in a modern superhero universe. Rest of ramble under cut! Because I am a little verbose lol

We’ll start with Alex, since she’s like. In the title.

Image ID: A traditional pencil sketch bust of a white woman. Her hair is in a ponytail, and her bangs are long and cover her eyes. Her expression is neutral. Written beside her his “Alex” and below that is “@fishbaitinc. /End ID]

I tend to describe her as a “wet cat with sharp claws.” She suffers from a case of the world’s worst boss (he got her tortured for a few years, among other things). She’s a sleep deprived mess who spends the entire series bleeding, sopping wet, or often both. She’ll bite your arm if you startle her. I love her and she needs so much therapy. People love and care about you sweetheart I promise they aren’t all awful. Whump wise, she’s good for self sacrifice, hidden injury, and defiant whumpee, and recovery whump. Also crying.

This is my man, Joseph:

[Image ID: A traditional pencil sketch bust of a white man. He has hair with a long top and short sides. His eyes are wider, but his expression is still pretty neutral. Written beside her his “Joseph” and below that is “@fishbaitinc.” /End ID]

This is Joseph he’s a paramedic* (it’s complicated). I love him. I also should probably be nicer to him but eh. He is, in fact, just as screwed up as Alex, but he’s got some distance between a good portion of his Big Traumas, and a good support network. He’s also in a 10 year long mutual pinning situation with his old roommate and sometimes coworker Aaron. It’s not pertinent to the plot really, but it’s important that he’s trans. To me. Personally. He’s also a vehicle for my passion for medical hyper accuracy, and he’s grand fun to play with.

He’s good for all sorts of whump: forced to watch, medical whump, overworking, and stern but gentle caretaking

Next, a personal fave, Avia

[Image ID: A picrew by @/cherrycarat that shows a person with tan skin, dark eyes, and short black hair. They’re wearing a pink shirt and a blue jacket, and have a gold earring in their right ear. /End ID] This is Avia. I love her. I should do more with her. She kicks more ass than most of her teammates, and she’ll probably beat you at Mario kart too. Blood isn’t really her thing. She’s a responsible third who might just win the Turquoise Team mental health award.

Whump: Self surgery, good patient, anything severe that gets her bloody and miserable. I need to hurt her more.

Now for our tragic baby, Pat

[Image ID: A picrew by @/maetheellen the shows a white person with green eyes and red hair in two high buns. She has a scar over her left eye. She is wearing two unmatched earrings, and has a nose piercing. /End ID]

Oh Pat. My sweet child. She deserved so much better than what she got (and it’s my own damn fault). I love her to death. She’s survived so much, and she was able to recover and grow and find joy and people who cared about her. And it wasn’t enough.

She hurts me deeply. If you want to share this agony with me look here

One more, and then I’ll shut up lol. Teri!

[Image ID: A picrew by cherrycarat that shows a person with dark skin, long brown hair, and dark eyes. She’s wearing a purple scarf, headphones, and a geometrically pattered yellow button up. /End ID]

This is Teri. She got a doctorate, and she can magically throw objects at you with her mind. She’s the only person on this team whose food I would eat. She’s the team’s resident tech person, and she knows secrets that INSUPA would rather her not. One day she’s gonna cause a lot of trouble and I love her.

[your-local-scene-emo]

Hiii!!! Its me again.

Can you do hcs for scene kid! Alex kralie making a bunch of bracelets (I belive yall call it candy?) For his punk! S/o (they them) and fussing over how he cant choose a design to stick with,so he just does as Many as he can and gives them to his s/o, telling them that they can just use one of the Many bracelets.

But jokes on him,cuz his s/o shows up the next day using them ALL and it covers all of their forearms.

Thanks!!

SORRY THIS TOOK SO DAMN LOOOONG and yes it's called kandy :) also it's they/them pronouns if thats ok, i can change it if you'd like please don't be afraid to reach message me. alex was annoyed and frustrated, he was making kandy bracelets for his S/O, but he didn't know what color they wanted, or what design they would enjoy. alex groaned in frustration, dropping the pink and black bracelet on the carpeted floor. he lays down on the ground, his hands over his eyes as he tries to think about what his S/O would love. sure they would love whatever he made for them, but he needed them to be special. maybe he would just make a bunch of different colors and let them choose? alex smiled, sitting back up and finding the confidence to make more. he made a neon green and black one, pink and black, rainbow, S/O's pride flag colors (idk if you want that i just thought it was cute), black and white, pink purple and black, and neon yellow and black. after all of them were made, alex scheduled a date to meet up with his S/O to give them the kandi.

((time skip to date)) alex drove to ((place of choice)), meeting his S/O there. he wore his favorite outfit, and so did they.

"hey Y/N, how are you?" Y/N smiles, sitting down next to him. "great alex, how about you?" Alex's cheeks got a little red, nodding. they were so kind to him. (not trying to make ur personality inaccurate AAA-)

you smile, taking his hand, your spikes brushing up against his skin. you didn't notice, but he sure as hell did. maybe it wasn't the best time to mention bracelets. you two talked for a while. you guys talked about how you were, what you were doing, whatever couples do. but finally it was time to end the date, but alex had one thing he needed to give to Y/N.

"hey Y/N, before you leave i need to give you something, i-i didn't know what you wanted so i kinda did a lot of them, you can chose but uh." alex stalled for a little while, before you finally got it out of him and he pulled out a little plastic baggy of kandy bracelets of all colors. you thanked him, being sweet to him and expressing your gratitude towards the gift.

tomorrow you two would go to the mall, but alex was not ready for what would happen.

(time skip, yall going places)

alex met you at where you two would meet up, at the food court. he smiled once he saw your face, but when he saw your arms he could feel his face begin to burn up. your arms where covered in the kandy bracelets he made for you yesterday. you smile sweetly at him, ruffling his hair. his reaction was cute, spending the whole day with his hand wrapped around your wrist because he just loved the fact it was on there. he fidgeted with your kandi if he got anxious around people as well.

[legolasghosty]

I want to hear all of your headcanons. 💜

Just so you know, I am laying down next to you on our fluffy rug and opening the skylight and looking up at the starry sky with you while Nixie purrs in between us.

Oh gosh, all of them? There's a lot! Here, let me grab the snacks and warm drinks real quick... Yes, Nixie, I have some treats for you too, don't worry!

Okay, here goes nothing!

Ray loves to barbeque. But he hasn't made ribs in a very long time. Reggie asks him about his ribs recipe at some point and Ray is just like, ".... I don't remember the last time I made those." And so, of course, in true Reggie Molina Found Family fashion, they get to work and whip up some great ribs together!

Alex loves stickers but is afraid of how permanent they are, so he has them stuck places with tape instead of using the sticky side. Willie, on the other hand, does not think barely at all before sticking things places, namely his water bottle and skateboard.

Everyone has emotional support water bottles except Luke (because he always loses everything and also likes squashing the disposable plastic ones). Julie's is a dark green translucent one with the signatures of her mom and all the Petal Pushers on it from their first concert that she got to go to. Reggie's is a bright yellow fake hydro flask covered in cowboy stickers. Carrie has an actual hyrdro flask, it's light pink and bedazzled. Hey, a bit of glitter never hurt anyone. Alex has one of those big ones that just barely doesn't fit into any cupholder. It's light blue and Willie keeps doodling on it. Willie's looks like a penguin(yes it's a thing) and has stickers all over its white tummy. Flynn has a pretty small one cause she always has it clipped onto her backpack(she forgets it everywhere otherwise). It's transparent and bright orange.

Tia Victoria is actually a terrible cook. No two ways around it, she just always manages to combine the wrong seasonings and not combine things fully and stuff gets burned a lot. But she loves giving people food and no one ever had the heart to tell her it was nasty. So.... she has no idea. Somehow.

Once it's established that borrowing clothing is okay, Alex and Julie totally swap sweaters. Alex likes her big smiley face one and she steals his pink hoodie.

Everyone messes with Luke's hair. It's just too easy.

Alex and Willie adopt a ghost kitten. I don't know how, but they do. They're cat parents forever.

By sheer force of will, Julie figures out how to touch the kitten cause she wants cuddles too.

The kitten is literally the only other being that is allowed to mess with Alex's drumsticks.

Darn I'm having too many thoughts about this kitten now.

Awwww, Nixie's asleep. Awww, so are you! *grabs some blankets to cover you up* Goodnight, sweet dreams!

[blue-sterling0357]

Hi! Can I get Baldroy spending Christmas with a Hispanic fem s/o? Maybe there’s a nice dinner with tamales and/or bacalao. If you want, maybe they can go to her family’s posada.

(I'm so sorry I'm late, I've been busy as shit!)

Bardroy X Hispanic! S/O spend the holidays

✠ First thing upon the arrival of Christmas was that he was waiting for the huge meeting of family, where he feels like he fits in perfectly and a huge feast filled with amazing foods. He was desperately waiting to again meet your family.

✠ You bring him to your families posadas, everybody is also looking forward to meet him, because he can eat a lot of food, quite respectful and loves to look after your younger cousins, siblings, nieces or nephews and spends time with the ladies in the houses!!!

✠ He prepared tiny gifts for everyone in the family, from all your grandparents, all your uncles and aunts, all your cousins, all your siblings and all the extra relatives who you don't know how they are related to you...

✠ He would buy you so many pretty sweaters to bring out your skin tone, they look so pretty, in deep shades of red, orange, green, gold, yellow, blues, whites, purples, pinks and all the other beautiful colours.

✠ Learning how to make traditional Hispanic Christmas food, like rojos, pork, tamales, chiken pozole verde, bacalao navideño and Rosca de Reyes which is mostly meant for Día de los Reyes, but he'll probably learn how to make them with the strict help from Sebastian!

✠ He loves to decorate Christmas trees with you and your family and since a huge family needs a huge tree, everybody is there having fun with Bard, also he picks you up and puts you on his shoulder so you could put ornaments higher up on the tree!

✠ He would help the ladies in the family along with you to make the shit ton of food, because 'huge family' duh! And also, because he wants to learn how to make them, so he could make for you, when you want to eat it, or he'll try to ask Sebastian....

✠ He spend a lot of time, making Christmas sweaters for your little nieces, nephews, and your little siblings and cousins, they all are very happy with the gifts they receive and he also makes for the other people in his family, most likely for everyone and he gives the prettiest ones to your parents to maybe win them over.....

✠ Your grandmother, maybe if she can could most possibly make a sweater for you and him and they're matching and very pretty! She's happy you have someone who loves you for yourself and is willing to do things from their culture to make you happy as during those times, people of color weren't exactly welcomed or treated nicely.....

✠ Oh! One more thing, since Christmas lights were invented during those times, he will probably wrap you in the lights and turn them on just to see you glow in the bright lights and see how they make you giggle!!!

[funnitrianglethingy]

#DANDELIONS ARE EDIBLE?! #Since when? I love dandelions so much.

They're a little harder to grow in pots than I'd have expected, though. There are pink dandelions--allegedly--but the seeds I've planted didn't quite take and the ones that did didn't bloom. ...but I have grown dandelions off of seeds I got from the yard. (too many generations of pesticides and weedkillers have been used on yards (and too much pollution off the side of the road) for me to actually eat any plant foraged there.)

Dandelions are ironically a bit hard to grow on purpose sometimes, but only a bit. I find it's easier to plant them in pots with other plants and if they don't take, that's fine. If they do? Yay!

Anyway

Here's what you can do once you have dandelions that are pesticide/pollution free: You can pop the yellow flower off (check to make sure no bugs are in it of course) and it's a lovely little one-bite salad with a hint of bitterness. Or, people bread and fry them into little croquettes. Seems like a waste, but it's good for you. The stem and leaves are--when washed--a good bitter bit for salad. I throw away the stems, myself.

It's the root and the blossoms that I love the best.

The root? The root can be washed and eaten like a carrot or sliced up thin and added to a salad. Also, you can take those thin slices and make a tea with it. OR? You roast the root whole (put it in the oven for a half hour or so at 200f) and it'll roast/dry, then grind it up (I used a coffeegrinder) and make "dandelion coffee", which actually tastes almost identical to chicory root (which Louisiana-area coffee drinkers and lots of overseas asians know as the yellow can from "Cafe Du Monde" because people used to mix lots of roast ground chicory with the coffee to "stretch" it.) Dandelions are folk medicine, and are said to be a diuretic. I haven't noticed myself peeing more, but...that's not the sort of thing I'd notice.

Don't try to eat the fluffy white tops though. It won't hurt you but it's silly and not food.

Dandelions were imported to the Americas on purpose because they're wonderful in all these ways.

I love dandelions so much.

This sort of knowledge makes me think that the definition of an "edible plant" is far broader than any city rat like me might assume

I'm not a fan of bitter greens in my salads of course, but being able to eat roots and flowers of dandelions does sound intriguing

[beamer7thepoko]

I've finally drawn something in a while!

1st meet the the Furrfwei's

Yep meet one of my morden creatures! Which is a little expansion from wacked verse but it's from my original world's.

I also didn't expect to write this much about them but here you all go.

Also here's the fur affinity link of this creature as well.

Species: Furrfwei (crawnswaluna-crasvians)

Species type:

-space doggo

-mammal

-marsupial

Size:

about the size of an hamster.

Type:

onimivore, scavenger, predator, pack creature's, prey, friendly, and loud

Habitat type:

Tundra forest that has alot of limestone and quartz along with lots of long bladed foliage that grows all over the forest floor.

Ways of communication:

Various barks, wines, growls, squeaks, raising of the stripe, body language, bounces, scratching at things

Notable features:

-They have an additional claw, that's similar to that of a raptor.

The additional claws are for defense, climbing, and to cut food into smaller pieces.

-They also have a bright colorful stripe to help then blend in with their local habitat.

This stripe can vary to different range of jungle green colors as well as some muddy browns as well one being terracotta.

!!!Warning: these stripes also contain tiny metallic quills which are also poisoness but they also match the color of the creature's fur stripe!!! So be weary when handling a distressed one otherwise they love people for some reason! Which is another reason why they basically like space pups. Only God knows what else exists beyond earth.

-The pink spots which can vary from red, blue, dark purple, brighter white, black, Grey, yellow, bubblegum pink, and they can be bald spots as well. Can be used to help them blend in better with their environment since it has alot of tiny colorful inscets, shrooms, and berries.

-They raise their young in their pouches and in mini dens as well. Their young can also hide in their parents fur as well.

-They are basically like mini pupies in alien bodies.

They have a keen sense of smell where they can tell alot about something through sniffing at it.

They burry and dig little things up.

They love playing fetch.

They have a good sense of hearing.

-They actually see in four different colors which are, Grey, yellow, purple, green and they also have uv vision as well!

Like the rest of the mini space doggos that all the small white fluffy and also kinda roundy ones like this one all sound very cute with their little barks.

But there is more than meets the eye with these lil creature pup things since they can stand the fur on their stripe to communicate with their own kinda or other similar creatures and along with their barks and body language they are very social and can communicate alot in so little time in their own cute and sophisticated language. They even bounce around alot to help convey whatever they are trying to say.

They are also very lively, active, and hyper too!

They'd probably make like a perfect pet as long as you don't have to many because that'll be chaos ensured otherwise because they will run rampt everywhere and they love ruff housing with each other and they can get loud too. This ruff housing behavior also causes their predators to become very confused and move on or it can scare them off as well. Also they rarely want to use their quills on humans unless humans pick up a distressed one from the wilderness.

(Oh yeah did I mention their poison can effect most intelligent species too?)

Artist notes:

I may had added a Lil too much compared to what I've seen in the past from my dreams but I think I like it better this way.

There are also way more of these doggos out there in wackedverse!

[thevexmortuarycrash]

Dear Diary: Dead Gods

The goddesses body is polluted, trashed and disrespect. violated. Gods once praised fo thei permanence, they now rot.

Esther sits at the mountains front, bag on their back. Many have climbed her -the mountain, not Esther- they scramblie up her to show they are more than it. Esther climbed to her summit numerous times despite their young age. Locals didn't care for customes outside their tribe. not like the otsders would find outher mountains unlike ours.

       The job is simple, clean the mountain, entertain old men, those filthy tourists showed the goddess no respect, they touched her, polluted her, even now, we've noticed that our waters that have been pure are now becoming noxious, babies dying when mothers try to ween them off milk to water... tourists will whine and whine that the goddess is cold, and cry over a frozen hand after touching her body.

 Disrepectful, thats really all i can say about it, its not like we go to their mountains and temples poking and littering around!

The sunsets and the godesses torn body exhales a cool mist of subzero frost, despite the cold, she lets thrive with the fruit and vegetables thats available only thanks to our mistress, beloved, goddess. She towers over us, protects us from the worst of storms.

Esther picks up the gear beside them and a large black trashbag, and begin to climb.

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First steps few step and the snow under my feet give away please let this trip go well, please.. I climb higher and higher, and i make it to the solid-ish ground. I walk to the path, fresh white snow on the mountain glitters blindingly.

My dad knitted me gloves last Mockingsday, they were wool dyed green and yellow (like those pretty tropical frogs I want to see when im older) These gloves help me keep my grip, and remind me of him when I go climbling. He's never approved of it -climbing, I mean-, he wanted priests and priesstes to climb like the good old days then they got lazy. Only a few of us pray to our godess. Sometimes her dead face feels almost.. judgemental... when the priests try to preach for money.

My hand slips for a second, quickley grabbing the icy rocks, I regain my bearings and clear my mind...

Left hand, Right hand.

Right foot, left foot.

Left hand, Right hand.

In all my years, Marisol never told me if I should use my dominant hand to hold my gear or... not to... Marisol was very religious, when I was younger, but now I'm older and still very religious, Marisol has lost faith... Sometimes I wonder if me praying every day would even lead me anywhere, Elders say Marisol will get scolded by the goddess when she dies; But tourists tell me our goddess is dead already as they try to make me come with them to their cities, where the scaffolding is so high falling is immediate death. 

The air gets thinner and i quickly latch a rope to sturdy rock, I let go and let myself hang as I put on an oxygen mask (I probably shouldn't trust a rope with my life, but I have faith the goddess wouldn't me fall)

I attach the oxygen tank to my belt, and continue to the summit, and thats where I see it: Trash... tons of it. I pick up as much as i can as I work my way up.

I make it to the summit and see a wasteland of trash... I feel sick as I clean the summit. I read some of the labels on food stuff, I can barely pronounce half the ingredients on it (I don't believe thats good..) I doubt that these ingredients are from the earth or animals. I mean i don't know much about other foods outside my diet.

I at one point I find a can labeled "Caviar"... I sigh and toss it. Its not even finished.

-----<>-----

I finish the job and send the trash down the trash chute, and I sit down at the summit, the sunset turning the sky into oranges and pinks.

Tommorow my dad is sending to my aunts (because my aunt said i'd get higher education) in the city... I don't want to go. Tonight will be the last day I'll see snow, Marisol immediately came back after she went the city, she was so scared that night she came back... I think that was the night she lost faith...

I don't want to go, I'll have to get needles in my skin, I wont be able to pray infront the godess, I'll have to have a child, I wont see dad...

I open my bag and pull out the book my dad got for me on his trip to meet some leader for something.

Beautiful pictures of green frogs lazily sitting on leaves, Other with their frog friends, some with turtles trying to eat foods much bigger than themselves.

I can almost feel the warmth from the pages....

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The poor girl, Esther deserved much better.. hm. I wonder how she could've died, she was wearing everything she shouldve... right?

[pastelbatfandoms]

System Ask (part 1)

❓- How many alters are in your system? That we know of 8.

🥸 - Who is currently fronting? The host, with a bit of Levathia.

👻 - Most frequent fronters? Levathia (former persecutor turned protector.) Mina (Sexual and social alter) Mitch (Emotional trauma holder) & Michelle (Host, main)

🤖 - Any non-human alters? Levathia is a vampire, Mitchell is half cat, Alistair & Newt are demons.

🏳️‍🌈 - How many alters are queer? All of them lol

😶‍🌫️ - Do you experience amnesia? Emotional yes and mental amnesia from when I was 5-13

👾 - Are you an introject heavy system? used to be. Majority have integrated. Besides some irl one's unfortunately.

🧠 - What’s the headspace like? Dark lol alot of shallow water and bedroom doors lined up. Newt and Alistair both guard a door with a glowing light behind it which is the front.

🎵 - Favorite song? As in our favorite song as a whole? I don't think we have one.

🎨 - Favorite colors? Michelle's- Pastels,Mint, teal and black. Rini's- Pink, yellow and pale blue. Mitch's- Blue, Red, black and green. Mina's- Pink and red. Elizabeth's- Blue and white. Levathia's- Black, emerald, red, purple. Liryia's- Purple, Lavender, blue. Alistair- Black. Newt- Black, Grey and chocolate brown.

❤️ - Any romantic relationships within the system? Not that I know of. Though Levathia's soulmate is one of my ex's and I do wonder if he is an introject or fragment inside.

💖 - Any platonic relationships within the system? All lol

🌸 - Does anyone have a particular aesthetic? Um wow yes. Mine changes all the time currently it would be Cottage Core, Boho/witchy, Pastel, Art hoe & Chaotic Academia.

Mitch's- Grunge, Emo, Egirl/Boy, Visual kei, Fairy Kei, Decora.

Minara- Y2k, Preppy (Gossip Girl), Gyaru (likes it but has never tried it), Scene. Nymphette.

Levathia- Goth (Romantic, Victorian, Nu) Edgy, Sexy.

Rini- Girly, Lolita (but she doesn't dress up in it anymore because it's too expensive) 80's/90's, Lots of kid like clothes and cartoon shirts.

Elizabeth- Conservative, Angel Core.

Liryia- Space core, galaxy, pastel goth.

Alistair- Goth, Metal, fancy.

Newt doesn't have one as the majority of the time she's wearing a velvet robe.

🍔 - Any favorite foods? Not sure about most of them. But Mitch really likes junk food lol he eats alot tbh.

Rini likes Chicken nuggets, fries and sweets.

⚽️ - What are your hobbies? Michelle- Reading, Collecting Anime and Dolls, Writing, Witchy stuff, Tarot readings, watching YouTube, Shopping (especially thrifting and yard sales), Dancing, Decorating, going to the movies.

Elizabeth- Cleaning, Baking, decorating, singing.

Rini- Playing, coloring, collecting stickers, reading, watching cartoons and magical girl anime.

Mitch- Roller blading, reading comics and manga, playing video games, watching tv, going to concerts.

Minara- Fashion, shopping, makeup, dancing, watching Drama and reality shows, going out, date nights, singing, sex lol

Alistair- listening to metal or industrial music, concerts.

Levathia- Reading, writing poetry, watching vampire films, dancing, daydreaming, concerts.

Liryia- Tarot readings, Divination, collecting crystals and decks, drawing and art in general.

🌻 - Any special interests?

Michelle- Taking care of the animals, True Crime, making gifs.

Mitch- Pro Wrestling & taking care of the pets.

Rini- Building the inner world.

Levathia- does BDSM count?

Elizabeth- Watching over the children.

Liryia- Spiritual work. "conspiracy theories" and communing with other Starseeds.

Mina- Celebs and Hollyweird. Acting.

💫 - Most chaotic Alter? Levathia and Minara in their own ways.

[orieriee]

Going on a date with one piece men + their wardrobe!

Author's note: it has been a long time since I posted but I have these random date hcs I like to imagine from time to time for a thousand notes/reblogs special! Thank you liking and supporting my work! Also sorry for the cringey outfit edits, it's for visual purposes only.

Pairings! Ace, Zoro, Sabo, Law x GN! Reader. Fluff.

Portgas D. Ace:

Probably wears an old white T-shirt, an outer (specifically yellow for this one) so that when you're cold he could give that to you, and jeans with a pair of old sneakers.

He doesn't own that many sets of outfit but he's giving me very chill but extroverted, casual skater boy vibes. (And yes, I headcanon he does actually skate)

Spring is the season of love so it is spring every day with Ace. Man is a clingy golden retriever boyfriend

It's a good day today so he's taking you to the nearby park to feed the swans and the geese! His favorite part of the date is getting to hold your hand ofc!

Don't forget the picnic basket, he has been planning on going picnic with you in his favorite park for WEEKS

He didn't cook the meals because of how clumsy he was in the kitchen but still wanted to help so behold his messy strawberry jam sandwiches

Wipes the corner of your mouth because there's some strawberry jam and then eats it

Or better, you're wiping the corner of his mouth but instead of wiping it with a hand/handkerchief, you kissed the corner of his mouth, tasting the strawberry jam

Ace would be so flustered and turns as red as the fresh strawberry jam

Tries to kiss you back on the cheek but missed because you move to lay on your back

Still flustered but joins you anyway, spending quality time staring at the pink and orange-yellowy sky

Oh look! The swans!

Roronoa Zoro:

Tbh, his closet's color palette is a mess but there's definitely green. He usually wears sport jackets with nothing underneath but sometimes he does wear sweater underneath when it's cold

Loves to collect sport shoes so you know how he is, sport is his passion on this one. Or should I say fashion? Get it? Passion and fashion? Nevermind.

Let's you wear whatever you want, feel free to borrow his clothes

The chill but protective boyfriend

You wanted to go to the skating rink but since he's terribly bad at it and doesn't want you to see him make a mess out of himself, he's taking you to the bowling alley instead!

He's not bad in bowling but he's also not that good either. It all depends on his throwing skills... But mostly luck he says

Wear your sportwears, something a bit tight. That'll get him distracted for sure. Although he tries to be respectful.

But when someone decided to do the same (aka, staring), he'll make sure the other person does not anymore by shooting death glares and sending them threat*ning aura

"What's up, babe?" you took the bowling ball from his hands while he's looking to the other person

"Nothing. Just some creeps." he said as he's tying his jacket around your waist, covering your bottom

He says that he's sorry for bringing you to the bowling alley, saying that he should've bring you to another place for the date so that you can be more comfortable

Honestly a gentleman behavior

Sabo & Law under the cut!

Sabo:

Definitely academia aesthetic. He likes shirts, with the collar and all. Also coats. The colors may vary but an outfit put together has to be from the same palette so it looks more neat and, well, put together🤷‍♀️

Actually collects hats but only wear them on special occasions

He may seem like a funny and chill going guy but behind your back, he's kinda possessive

Like, if you're talking to another person (where the other person shows interest in you but you're just trying to be friendly), he'll appear behind your back quietly and shoot threatening glare + smile to the person in front of you

Speaking of him appearing, he promised you to go on a full planned out date so the first thing he did was taking you for lunch at a cozy cafe that belongs to one of his friends!

He kept asking whether you find the food delicious or not and making sure to take notes on what you like and don't like so that when you two decide to come back here again, he'll order it for you

After the delicious lunch, he's taking you to the cinema to watch his/your favorite movie! He likes documentary types of movie and a bit of sci-fi and historical. You'll see him geek out about it after the movie. It is even better if he gets to geek out with you

But if you don't like these types of movie, he'll pick your favorite to watch and eventually learn to like it and geek about it with you

Exiting the cinema while holding hands, both of you walk down a few blocks to the amusement park

The highlight part of the date was enjoying the sunset from the top of the ferris wheel

Usually you two have deep talks, sharing about each other's day or confessing love to one another while the sky's the color of cotton candy

Who knows, maybe you two might share a kiss or two in the ferris wheel ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Trafalgar Law:

Mostly black aesthetic with a touch of silver or gold. He likes turtlenecks, coats, and long sleeves. Sometimes he wears glasses to read but not usually. Also belt is a must.

Sometimes wear something grey or navy. Own some colors but never too bright

This man might appear cold on the outside, but the type to immediately melts the moment he's with his spouse--No, not the mushy type but you can definitely feel the temperature difference ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (get it?)

Law is actually very protective if he really finds the right person, so if you are one for him, you'll soon find him and yourself having a heart-warming conversation about your future house and how many cats/dogs you would want to have

So he's taking you for a ride to see the beautiful estate with gorgeous mountain/sea views

But before that, he's stopping by at a bookstore to pick up some new books to read, his house has a corner dedicated to his medical books as well as some sora;warrior of the sea comics hidden in the shelf

The bookstore has a cafe nearby so both of you warm up with some coffee before heading to the estate

The estate is a little far from here since it's a countryside estate, but the views are amazing so both of you figured that buying a house there would be nice

And Law's driving skills, oh gosh, imagine his one of his tattoed arms on the steering wheel while the other grabbing the persneling-- sorry I have a thing for Law's smexy arms ✋😔

Arriving there, you two talked with the estate agent before they're taking you to one of the houses to see the interior

The house itself is pretty big, with the backyard immediately faces the sea views with mountains surrounding the area. Law's already thinking about living the rest of his life here with you if you don't mind, he's quietly having butterflies in his stomach

Man who plans ahead with you in their future >>> 😩

[madgastronomer]

Hey, I know this is kind of out the blue but I like your blog a lot (especially when you talk about food), and I was wondering if you knew any good recipes for making things like pot pies from scratch or knew where to find any. Wanted to try something new this year for my family, can you help?

Long post ahead! Because I'm not going to give you a recipe, I'm going to tell you how to build your own recipe.

I am a big proponent of the methodological approach to cooking. That is, I believe in teaching people methods of cooking, and how flavors go together, and then once you have those two things, you can invent recipes easily.

So I'm assuming you want a chicken pot pie, or maybe turkey to use up leftovers. Awesome! The basic parts of a bird pot pie are: bird meat, cooked; vegetables; white gravy; seasonings; crust. That's a nice short list.

So how much you're going to make depends on how many you're trying to feed. Rule for this is, .25lbs of meat per person per meal. I'm going to write this up as 4 people for 1 meal (no leftovers).

Make your crust before you start any of this, but I'm discussing crust options at the end.

Preheat your oven to 400F.

You will want, for 4 people, 1lb of bird meat. Use leftover turkey, or one of those rotisserie chickens from the market and shred that, or cube some chicken breasts and then salt and sautee them until they're not pink, or take some loose ground chicken or turkey sausage and brown it.

Next, veg. You want some combination of:

1 large yellow onion, chopped

2 large carrots, chopped

2 stalks of celery, chopped

8oz crimini mushrooms, quartered

2 cups shelled green peas (I use frozen, but thaw ahead)

1 cup chopped spinach (unusual, but nice)

Pick 4-5, but unless there's an allergy, use the onion.

Gravy time! You want chicken stock or broth and whole milk in a 3:1 ratio, for 4 servings call it 1.5c broth and .5c milk. Put that in a small saucepan with 1t kosher salt and start it warming over medium heat. Do NOT let it boil.

Then you want equal parts by volume butter and flour. For 4 servings, 3T of each. This is to make a roux. If you've never made roux, DON'T PANIC, this is not hard, it's just French.

First, take 1 tablespoon of butter and melt it over medium heat in a large frying pan. When it's melted, add the onion, and, if you're using it, the celery. Do not turn up the heat. Sweat the onion until it's translucent. Throw in the rest of the veg and cook through. Add the rest of the butter and melt it completely. Then add the flour and whisk to combine. You want the flour and butter to make a paste, which will coat the veg. Cook for another five or seven minutes, until the roux starts to turn a little golden.

Take hot milk-and-broth stuff and pour it in slooooowly, whisking the whole time, getting out all the lumps if you can. Pour with your writing hand, it's stronger to hold the heavy pot, and gives you better control over the pour. Whisk with your off hand. Trust me.

Simmer the whole thing until the gravy gets thick. Dump everyting into a 9x13" baking dish OR a 10-12" cast iron skillet OR several individual ramekins, and mix 'em up real good. Taste it, see if it needs salt.

Wait, seasonings? What seasonings? What do you mean we haven't covered that yet? Blast.

OK, fine.

Some options for bird-seasoning include:

thyme, tarragon (.5t each, dried), and 2 cloves garlic, minced

sage (dried, .75t)

lemon zest (zest of 1 lemon) and tarragon (.5t)

garlic and rosemary (3 cloves, .5t)

curry powder (should be mixed with the flour for the roux), (at least 1t)

If sausage, more of whatever's in the sausage

Anything else you like in your chicken

Black pepper works with any of the above, except the curry powder.

If you want to give it a little kick and a little sweetness, add like .5t of Sri Racha hot sauce. Goes with any of the above.

Totally go crazy with lots more garlic, too, these are minimums not absolutes.

Right. Now we talk about crust.

There are basically three routes you can go: classic pie crust, for which there is a recipe below; homemade or frozen puff pastry, and I say go for frozen; and biscuit dough, about which I am super lazy, but I'll include an actual recipe for that, too. Not providing a puff pastry recipe, though.

What I *actually* do for biscuit dough is either buy pre-made biscuit dough and use that, or take Bisquick, mix in some of the same seasonings that're in the pie, some shredded cheese, add just enough milk to make it stick, roll it out and cut it in squares, or else just do drop biscuits. Fuck it. But you want to have squares or rounds of dough and put them on top of the filling, not touching. If you're doing ramekins, just cut it large enough to cover the top.

Alton Brown's Grandmother's biscuits

2 cups all-purpose flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon kosher salt

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled

2 tablespoons unflavored shortening, chilled

1 cup buttermilk, chilled

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don't want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that's life.)

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The following is a double-crust recipe, but you're using a big baking dish, so do the whole thing and trim it. Or use ramekins and you'll probably have more left over. Cover the whole dish(es), drape it over just a little. and trim. Ignore all the stuff about blind baking, it's irrelevant. Cut slits, possibly in a pretty pattern, into the crust, to make steam vents.

Karen Barker's Basic Pie Crust

Basic Pie Crust

Makes enough pastry for 2 single-crusted pies or 1 double-crusted pie.

I like to use a combination of butter and vegetable shortening in my crust. The butter contributes wonderful flavor, and the vegetable shortening gives the crust just the right amount of flakiness. I also thoroughly endorse the substitution of lard for the vegetable shortening. This recipe gives you a generous amount of pastry to allow for easy rolling.

About This Recipe

Yield: Makes enough pastry for 2 single-crusted pies or 1 double-crusted pie.

Ingredients

2 2/3 cups flour

3/4 teaspoon kosher salt

3/4 tablespoon sugar

4 ounces (8 tablespoons) chilled butter, cut into pieces

4 ounces (1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons) chilled vegetable shortening, cut into pieces

Approximately 1/3 to 1/2 cup water, as needed

Procedures

1. Place the flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor with a steel blade. Pulse to combine.

2. Add the chilled butter and shortening; pulse until the fat is evenly cut in and the mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Remove to a mixing bowl.

3. Working quickly, add enough cold water, while tossing and stirring with a fork, until the dough just begins to come together. Divide the dough into 2 equal portions, flatten into rounds, wrap in plastic, and chill for several hours or overnight.

4. Baker's Note: I always use regular Crisco shortening and Land O Lakes unsalted butter for my pie crusts. You can also substitute chilled lard for the vegetable shortening--this produces a distinctive, flavorful, and ultra flaky crust.

5. A Note on Blind Baking: When making single-crusted pies and tarts, I always partially bake my crusts prior to filling them. This process promotes a crispier bottom crust and is commonly known as "baking blind." It is an extra step that many recipes may not stipulate, but I find that it is worth the effort.

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Roll out the crust and fit it into the pan. Chill, or preferably freeze, the dough until it is firm. Place a generous sheet of parchment paper or aluminum foil over the crust (there should be overhang on all sides to facilitate easy removal), fit it into the shell, and fill it with rice, beans, or reusable pie weights. Place the weighted crust into a 375 degree oven and bake it for approximately 20 minutes, until the edges just start to pick up some color and the bottom no longer looks raw.

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Carefully remove the liner and weights, and return the shell for an additional 8 minutes or so. The pastry may puff up once the weights are removed. If this occurs, gently prick any air bubbles with a fork. Check the shell several times, re-pricking it as needed.

8

Remove the partially baked shell from the oven when the bottom is set and dry to the touch. Do not over bake or cracks may develop.

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I seal my pastry shells as soon as they come out of the oven by brushing them with a bit of egg white. This helps keep the bottom crisp and usually fills in any small holes that might have been made when you pricked the pastry. Any large cracks can be repaired with reserved dough scraps; this is particularly important when using a very liquid filling. If you've forgotten to save your scraps, an emergency patching kit can be made by mixing a bit of flour with some water to form a paste that can be lightly spread on the shell as needed. It is best to try and time the blind baking process so that the partially baked shell is filled immediately upon being removed from the oven and placed back in the oven to complete the baking process.

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However you have topped your pot pie, put it in the oven. Bake until the filling is bubbling and the top is a pretty color, hopefully around 20 minutes, possibly as little as 15, possibly as much as 30.

Now, go forth, and make excellent pot pie.

[youngcollectedtired]

Class 1-a x New Student Reader

I wrote this to go along with a quirk I made for myself. I'd already made a quirk for a character who's gonna be paired with Kirishima so this is basically just if I was in MHA. It's still an x reader so enjoy. This story is mainly for fun and practice so I can get to know the class 1-a characters for my newest book. It may or may not turn into an actual book.

I just wanna say if I could draw this would probably be in a comic book. But I cannot draw so here we are. Also I haven't read the manga

Warnings? Mineta being a perv

Pairings? Possibly Sero or Todoroki or Shinso... or literally any of the guys I'm in love and i have a problem

Part 1/?

Quirk? It's complicated but based on the chronic illness called Lupus

You'd heard rumors about how easily Class 1-a attracted trouble. This made you feel better about yourself, but it also made you feel bad. You too had your fair share of trouble run ins. Being sister to the leader of the league villains left you with many watchful eyes in the underground world.

Few heroes knew of your relation and even fewer knew of your quirk. Your mentor, Hawks thought the safest place for you to be was UA. Yes, they'd had a run-in or two with villains, but because of it, they were the most capable to defend and fight with you. And Eraserhead it seemed was a great teacher, maybe he could help you learn to control it.

It was false hope, you knew that. Still, you were excited to meet your new classmates.

"Alright, class we've got a new student. Today's morning lesson will be replaced with you helping her settle in and getting to know her," you could hear Mr. Aizawa's voice from the hallway. He sounded bored and tired almost, but you assumed that was just his nature.

You heard excited chatter and that caused the nerves to worsen.

The principal Mr. Nezu smiled, "Don't worry they’ll like you."

You nodded your head, your fingers pulling at and adjusting your tie. You liked the school uniform, the skirt was shorter than you thought it would be that was an easy fix. Knee-waisted white socks with two red stripes on the top made you feel better.

The door opened and you entered. Aizawa barely glanced at you before nodding to Principle Nezu, "I'm leaving her in your trusted hands." You could hear the door attempting to close behind you which forced you forward. You felt every eye on you.

"This is Y/N L/N," he gestured to you. You'd forgotten your last name was changed, the Tomura sure to drag attention.

You bowed deeply.

"Hello, sorry to barge in your class. Nice to meet you."

You could hear whispers and you unconsciously touched your white horn, one on another side of your head. They were filed down to about two inches, still noticeable in your curly hair. You knew the grey streaks in your hair and in your eyes would cause many questions.

A boy with green hair raised his hand quickly, "What's your quirk?" He asked his eyes sparkling it seemed like.

You bit your lip but before you could answer Mr. Aizawa cleared his throat, "You're all dismissed. I expect her moved in by lunch, you have combat training this afternoon."

A girl with pink hair and yellow horns shook her fist excitedly, "YES! Feels like forever since we've had a lesson like that." Everyone stood up, while Mr. Aizawa slumped into his seat his eyes closing as he rested his head on his desk. You furrowed your eyebrows in confusion.

"Don't worry, he does that a lot. I'm Uraraka," one of the girls said and you immediately put her name to her face.

"Nice to meet you," you beamed.

"She's so cute! I'm Mina," the girl with pink skin and yellow horns yelled excitedly.

"Hi! Thank you," you bowed slightly, causing her to shake her head wildly, "Don't bother we're all the same here! I'll introduce you to everyone."

On the way to the dorms, you found easy ways to remember everyone. Somehow each name fit a person. Plus you'd recognized a few people from the sports festival. You were thankful none of them asked personal questions, instead they choose to get to know you on the surface.

"Is your hair naturally that color?" "Yes, it changed its color when I was 6." "Do you play any instruments?" "Kind of, but I can paint better!" "Are you a good fighter?" "I'd like to think so but I guess we'll see this afternoon."

You also began to piece together the groups of close friends, the rivals, and even those who shared certain hobbies or hardships.

"You look nice in a skirt," Mineta complimented a smirk on his face, his mouth-watering. You knew his intentions, still glaring at him seemed to do nothing until Bakugo stepped in front of him his hand filling with small puffs of smoke.

"Thanks," you mumbled as you adjusted your skirt attempting to pull it down.

Bakugo let out a gruff, "Whatever," and joined his group of friends' hands tucked in his pocket.

"Sorry about him," Tsu stepped up next to you, "Mineta is our resident pervert. Be careful around him."

You nodded in thanks.

Your room had most of your bigger things moved in, you figured that was Hawks doing. On your bed were a few pictures clipped together with some picture frames, and journals.

The only thing you had to do was hang your clothes up, fix your desk and put your pictures up. The girls all volunteered, the boys cleaning around the dorm to make you feel more at home.

You hid the pictures figuring you'd go through them later tonight. Besides, being pictured next to a number 2 hero would definitely turn some heads.

"Your Japanese is good but it doesn't sound like your first language," Momo began as the girls made their way down to the common room, "What is your first language?"

You chuckled, "You're very observant, my first language was English, then Japanese, and then Russian," you explained.

Cue excited boys and curious girls.

Denki grinned, "Wow how did you learn?!"

Before you could answer, the bell rang the dorm common room almost seemed to shake. You decided it was only because it was your first time hearing it.

"Come on Dunce face, you'll get your answer at lunch," Bakugo grunted the first to make his way towards the doors leading out of the dorms.

No one argued with him food also on their minds and stomachs.

I hope I can fit in well, you thought to yourself grateful for Mina and Uraraka both of them explaining different things to you. Whether or not you knew what they were you were happy all the same.