#clarifyer

[ketchuplaser]

16 - Angel

Myrna wasn't like the other Clarifyers. She had no affinity for water and couldn't muscle a shovel.

What she could do was spin yarn out of fluffback wool, and knit that into clothes for the children.

The hours spent carding the fibers may hurt her arthritis, but it was worth it knowing the younguns would make it well through the winter.

[ketchuplaser]

@drawing-prompt-s

Nathaniel wiped the sweat back from his eyes, grateful for the headband his wife had sent him with.

This project had taken the better part of a week, but it was done now. This rainwater collector and filtering system was working great.

He'd confirm the schematics in his journal were accurate and buildable before heading back to the church. The clergy had a meeting with the local Whiteshirts and they'd be able to spread the knowledge for safe water to the larger area.

Draw someone gathering water

[hauntswitch]

these latest tumblr bots are getting completely out of hand wtf is jerma

[gem-de-lune]

Daily Vibe Check 11/07

Seunghan

Hanged Man + 10 of Swords + Ace of Swords (Strongest Emotion)

Again, he is facing similar energy these days. A waiting for the signal. There is some fear bubbling up though, some anxiety around the situation. But that fear is kind of extinguished with a certain excitement for the whole ordeal tdealtover and dealt with very soon. With his strongest emotion here being thebAce of Swords, he is experiencing something like an emotional breakthrough. Internally he is developing himself and rebuilding a lot of lost confidence. His mind his clear and he knows what he must do.

What is he expecting to happen within the next few days?

King of Pentacles + Chariot + 9 of Pentacles (his reaction)

He is anticipating a deal of sorts, perhaps a contract for investment of his time and future. This, along with the Chariot does indicate some positive omens in regards to his potentially rejoining the group. (Again, the 7 card Chariot pops out) and with the 9 of Pentacles being his reaction to this ordeal, it does indicate he is satisfied with the outcome and the work it took to get there both internal within himself and externally as a lot of people supported him.

What is SMs current stance on the Seunghan issue?

3 of Chalices + Queen of Swords

They are meticulously planning, still. There are indicators that it is a small team that is managing whatever plans are being made, and they all have a very collaborative energy, and there is a positive and celebratory vibe around what they are planning.

When will SM reveal their intentions regarding Seunghan?

The Moon + 8 of Wands + Queen of Wands (Clarification)

These were very contradictory and I was very very confused at first. The Moon would indicate "IDK would they even ever though?" and the 8 of Wands would indicate "very soon" LMAO. So then I was like hollon....what if they do not announce it? We have already spoken about this theory, but I have never necessarily pulled that theory so explicitly before. So I used a clarifyer (Queen of Wands) to ask if Seunghan would come back suddenly and unannounced. This would indicate that yes, and that SM is likely being very careful about what they are doing and trying to protect Seunghan from the situation that happened last time. So they will probably not give any heads up or if they do, it will simply not be far ahead of D-Day.

However I also want to acknowledge that I said something like 2 last time, and i also said i did not feel like it would be 2 weeks. But i change my mind. I think it could be two weeks before we SEE something in the flesh. But i think we may still HEAR whispers starting tmw into the weekend and next week.

Final Notes:

I want to remind you all that again- these need to be taken with a grain of salt and that the future is STILL up for grabs. I hope no one becomes complacent and overly reliant on Tarot. While we can see a path here, we cannot guarantee* it and that is important. I am here to show you the path so we do NOT lose hope, not to play God. Please remember that and still do everything you can for Seunghan until he comes back. Again- he isn't back until we see him on that stage. It isn't over until we see him on that mf stage. Okay?!

[buwheal]

just a rule clarifyer, but -- does spamton think we can see him? for example, could we ask him to show us something, like his art?

He assumes so, yeah. It must be going somewhere if youre sending him things. He cant really see what he's doing though. Its a lot of guessing. To clarify, this is what he sees from his perspective.

... Which is why they are printed out.

[spotforme]

it's dangerous for me trying to get into star trek 'cos i make a post about mccoy saying he does the same cocky little heel staightening thing the captain does but just to clarity i mean The Captain, no but to clarify i mean Captain James, to clarify i mean the one with a crush on his lieutenant? oh fuck i don't think that clarifyes it all. let me start again: The Captain-

[gravelgirty]

Offering Rides

In the hospital, some of us fell into conversation (as you do) and talked about the price of rides like Lyft and Uber and taxis...which still amazes me to survive. What can I say, we can be frank when there's a lot of painkillers in our bloodstreams. Plus, there's a freedom to talking to strangers about a common fear.

Is it ok to offer a friend a ride to and fro medical care?

Absolutely.

Will they refuse?

They might. and...possibly not for the reasons that you think.

During recovery or in a course of treatment, people feel exceedingly vulnerable and it is common to be hypervigilant about your capacity to deal with, bluntly, a bad deck. If you are a long-term masker, this is even harder. We've all been that friend who suddenly found themselves witnessing an emotional collapse and wondered what to do. We've also hoped that moment would never happen to us (because let's face it, we're still more worried about upsetting other people than how we just can't take it any more).

I'm not speaking for everyone, but for my own experience, it took me a long time to accept offers of rides from friends and family. Part of it is my prosopagnosia; if you move your hair part to one side I won't recognize you and I lie about pretending to know people who suddenly walk up and talk to me. But that's my own issues. There are thousands of issues out there. The elderly and infirm can be TERRIFIED of needing help because those little innocent comments of, "Mom, maybe you need more help," can mushroom into Stage 4 level of terrifying comments like, "Grandpa, have you thought of assisted living?"

What if you live with someone in a less than an ideal situation, and there's the risk your ride-friend will offer to walk you to the house? How do you deal with that? That can be anything from a pet out of compliance with the landlord, or an issue with the law, or you could just be embarrassed that your floor isn't clean enough to eat off. No matter what, there's a scary, delicate juggling act between what you need and what scares you.

Asking for help is hard enough; that's why people ASK if friends need a ride. That can be a little easier, and some sub-cultures of Americana can get really, really involved in indirectly asking in ways that save face. They'll phrase things like, "Hey, I'm already in the neighborhood when you're ready to check out. Want to hopalong for the ride?" The really assertive ones will finish with a clarifyer, like, "I know it's rough coming out of the hospital, I've been where you are." (This gently installs a feeling of guilt on the receiver for refusing, and yes it is cheerfully done deliberately. We can only be grateful there are so many taboo topics among Appalachiana because what we do talk about is quite enough burden for all). My personal favorite tactic is, "We'll get you past the gauntlet of Bible-thumpers in the main lobby."

Anyway, it's easy to feel hurt and insulted that your offer to help is rejected because even though it is easier to offer help than to give it, both require some effort. Don't be hurt. Remember people are vulnerable. They are not sure of themselves when they are in recovery and the default is to dial down and stick to familiar patterns. If they aren't ok with asking for help in the past, they may have to fight themselves harder to accept.

How you talk with your loved ones is your business. Find out how to talk to them about these things BEFORE a hospital visit happens and don't make them feel guilty about possibly inconveniencing you. Make it clear that you don't believe in fair-weather friendships, and you value them enough to help if it is appropriate. They'll hear you. They'll appreciate you and treasure the warmth of your concern even if they cannot or will not take you up on that offer.

This has been a very long TED talk, and thank you for listening.

[sassafrassrex]

"Voltron spoilers" for ppl who care

[lil-gae-disaster]

being an adult means maturity.

Means they know their worth above the need another may need for them.

It is clarifyable in so many other ways than shipping them.

"But not shipping this character is infantilizing!" Skill issue if you can't think of any way to make it clear that a character is an autonomous adult besides putting them in a romantic/sexual relationship.

[emptiiless]

When you say that male characters can't ship with your muse unless Prompto has come out to them, would you mind clarifying exactly what you're counting as "shipping" in that case? Could a male muse theoretically show his own attraction toward Prompto even if he doesn't know that Prompto is into dudes as well? Or could a mun mention interest? Or is there anywhere else where you'd draw this line somewhere between "not necessarily reciprocated attraction" and "official dating status"? Just want to

HELLO, NONNY! Thank you so much for this message because, looking back at the post, it was poorly worded and I can understand the miscommunication that stands there -- so thank you for giving me the chance to elaborate because you probably aren’t the only one confused. XD So, thank you!

Anyways, I will explain!

I say shipping, but I think that was way the wrong word to use. I did mean ���official dating status”, for the term you use was probably best, as well as a more... complicated thing. The reason why this... bullet note (not rule, I’m going to explain why later) was put in place is because I’m struggling to respond to some fluffier, shipping memes because Prompto just isn’t comfortable with displaying same-sex forms of affection with male muses because he isn’t really comfortable with it himself. 

Hence why I’m asking to let Prompto come out to your muse first before we continue. Because, if he doesn’t, a lot of these interactions will turn awkward or even angsty when that wasn’t the intention of these memes in the first place.

Mind you, this was more an error on my part. I didn’t expected there to be such a reluctance when I was just “naturally” writing for Prompto, which is why I had been open for shipping in the first place but now that I’ve started to understand what happens with Prom when he doesn’t come out but starts doing the “showing interesting/being shown interest” thing, it can start to affect the thread (and potentially the relationship) negatively.

Now, I want to clarify; I don’t mind this. Actually, I love this, but I know that some people might take this personally or some people just don’t want to write it or whatever, and so hence I’m placing the point that Prompto will have to come out to your muse first before we can start writing shippy things without it become awkward, angsty, or otherwise not fluffy. (Hence how it was worded that “we cannot ship unless he comes out first”, meaning we can’t write shippy stuff without it becoming awkward or angsty.)

And trying to summerise all this up in a bulleted sentence was a little hard, I was a little half-asleep, and rushing the post because I wanted to get back into writing Prompto because I finally found a degree of muse again -- and, lol, I guess somethings kinda fell apart in translation.

However.

If you did want to try to RP Prompto’s super awkward, pushing your muse away, and having a lot of miscommunication and probably a lot of unintentional heartbreak, that would be awesome, too. But trying to RP this with little to no communication between me and you, the miscommunication, awkwardness, and mixed signals could fall to us -- the muns.

I guess my bullet point was just a shortcut way of saying that if you want to do cute, shippy things with Prompto, he will have to come out to you first. (There are some exceptions to the rule and I have done ships where Prompto hasn’t needed to come out for them to be shippy, but those are rarer than the ones who do need it, just because of the natural chemistry between the two characters, the sudden onset of moderate shippyness, or otherwise just required because Prom has different reactions to different situations, especially with muses he hasn’t interacted with before -- including duplicates of the same muse (ie; Noctis).)

Otherwise, things will continue to stay awkward and distant and does have a potential to damage the relationship if it isn’t handle carefully. (Not to say that it isn’t wanted, it’s is just a type of thread I feel deserves to be communicated between muns and understood in both parties before explored, mainly because I’ve had instances in the past where struggling with interest in a muse made the mun offended. Whoops.)

Of course, having your muse show interest in Prompto is absolutely fine. You can have them flirt, joke, kiss, whatever with Prompto as long as you understand that he may not react the way you expect him to. And you are MORE than welcome as a mun to hope into my ask box and tell me if you want to ship our muses! I’m totally down for it! You can ask for a coming out thread, or we can just cut to it, but I really would prefer to thread Prom coming out with at least one person before I start jump cutting to shipping because I just... need that? I guess? XD

I hope that this answer made sense, because I jumped around a lot, talked myself in circles, and repeated myself a ton. Now, I do want to say again, there have been exceptions to this, but they have been all AUs, excluding one canon verse plot and it just... worked out but they’re probably gonna have the talk afterwards anyway, so, ha ha, take that.

Thank you again for the chance to elaborate, Nonny, and I really hope this answered your question. If not, to hesitate to shoot me and another one and I’d be happy to go further into it. :)

[catt-nuevenor]

Strictly speaking, sugar isn't required to make something taste sweet. I don't know how many ancient cook books you've had the pleasure of peeking through, but there are dozens of ways to sweeten things that don't involve sugar. Fruit cakes like the *cough* "spotted dick" have very old-timey origins, though maybe not on the scale of ancient you've got in mind. Fruits, nuts, certain veggies and even honey-if available-would have done the job of sugar.

True, you can sweeten foods with a lot of other ingredients, honey being an obvious one, but there are a lot of old local recipes involving baked apples as well.

Unfortunately, spotted dick is actually quite a recent dish, and was first mentioned in 1849 by A. Soyer in The modern Housewife or ménagère, as a recipe under the name Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick, and then in 1855 under the name spotted dog in C.M. Smith's book "Working-men's Way in the World". Looking at the context of the book, it seems likely that it grew up around the culture of the itinerant railway workers, otherwise known as the Navvies (who are a fascinating group to have a read about if you get a chance). Another name for the dish is also Railway Cake.

More below the cut:

An old recipe that does include sweet flavours from the medieval period is Tourteletes in Frytour or Fried Fig Pastries:

Take figus & grynde hem smal; do therin saffron & powdur fort. Close hem in foyles of dowe, & frye hem in oyle. Clarifye hony & flamme hem therwyt; ete hem hote or colde.

Which loosely means:

Take figs and grind them into small pieces, add saffron and powder fort*. Fold them into parcels of dough, and fry them in oil. Clarify honey and flambéed them with it. Eat them hot or cold.

*Powder Fort is made of �� teaspoon of ground ginger, ⅛ teaspoon of ground cloves, and a pinch of black pepper.

This is from the book Curye on Inglysch, IV, 157, which is a collection of 14th and 15th century recipes.

If you want to have a look for yourselves through a whole bunch of household history, there's a wonderful book from 1615 on the Internet Archive called Countrey contentments. It's split into two books really, the first concerning mainly horse riding, but the second is The English House-Wife:

There's a whole host of recipes in there, including but not limited to:

To pull an example from that list, the best pancake:

Not very much like our sweet pancakes today, the sugar only strowed or sprinkled on top of them at the end and with no sugar added to the mix itself.

I would advise some caution before leaping wholesale into trying these recipes for yourselves, there's limited to no guidance on cooking times, quantities, or temperatures. Perhaps use a similar modern recipe alongside to avoid as much food wastage and burnt creations as possible.

[suburbanchildhood]

hey!! i’m a queer mentally ill witch who’s moving and whose job just cut their hours super badly!! i’m doing tarot and oracle readings to bolster some income:

pull one card- $2

(simple thematic response to a question)

pull 3 cards- $3

(past/present/future, you/situation/outcome, or even you/lover/relationship)

up to 5 cards- $5

(i have other quick spreads on just about any topic!)

celtic cross spread- $7

add an oracle card clarifyer- $1

or message me for zelle/paypal!

[ohmyangelofthursdays]

Just wanted to add a clarifyer: DO NOT put water on/in your overheated pan if you have also put any oil or fat in it. Never EVER put water on a grease fire. It's so incredibly dangerous.

Instead turn off the heat (don't move the pan if there's a fire, that adds risk) and smother it with a metal pan lid. (Really I advise you do your own quick bit of research on how to put out a grease fire it'll put it was more clearly and precisely than I can)

ALSO, trans rights are human rights

[theflowersoflondon]

23 with either 17 or 16

YES!!!!!!!!!! I actually . Realeley love how this flella turned out so I — *Takes him and makes him an oc*

... may bee ;3

(alsou 2 clarifye 23 was wallus and I chouse randy who was 17)

[hellenicowlette]

I cannot comprehend the amount of love and support that deities can give to a mere human like me. These past weeks is a hell ride. I have not gotten a time to upload stuff on here, I am at the point of giving up on breathing because nothing has been working out for me and everything is in shambles, I even stopped God phoning because I feel like I just don't deserve them anymore. I was just filled with the mentality of "Dieties don't like weak worshippers" thing. But something caught my attention, in those days, I get various of signs that resembles them and events that made me feel like I am ok. At first I was hesitant because I have this thought that maybe I am just lonely and I am making things up. BOY, I WAS WRONG.

Because after a few days of rest my mind cleared up a bit, I have this sudden urge to just stop whining and pick myself up, it was not the usual "oh I will just stop crying and just suck it up", no, this was " I am ready to take on the world, square up Bi-!". The first thing I did is to grab my tarot card and do a little reading for myself, I alwas not so sure why at the time but I just rolled with it. I then remembered these past events and I asked if my dieties are still there (yes I have the guilt and expected that I will get bad cards, I was also told that my energy can intervine with the outcome). The first card that jumped out was the ace of swords, and immediately thought it was Hermes, but I pulled out a clarifyer because of my skepticism taking over, this freaking clarifier flew out my hand when a wind gushed in my room. The thing faced upright when it landed on the floor, I got the Magician and I got the strong hunch that he is telling me that the signs and out of the blue events that I have seen and experienced during my worst weeks is them rooting for me. I asked who are the dieties with him at the time and I got the Emperor, I dead ass thought it was Zeus until I pulled out a clarifier, the tower card (Papa Ares ain't subtle when he is proud hehe~) and the Lovers which tells me that Lady Aphrodite is with him too (ah yes the love of "parental" dieties qwq). Then the last one was the Heirophant and three of cups, which I believed to be Dionysus. I was too surprised because when I do card readings I barely pull out major arcanas, they are just not subtle making themselves known XD. I was able to connect everything and next thing I know I was so overwhelmed by the comfort and warmth.

And to this I say "Hail the Theoi!" I am still learning to deepen my worship to them but my Gods, this is like a huge jump and I love them for it.

[flintstill]

I just had the CRAZIEST mothafuckin day from hell

SPIRALING with stress and anxiety

Bench boy texts to ask how I’m doing re something I told him earlier this week

And his doing so makes me feel safe to just vent some stuff out before stopping to reflect and chose my words more carefully Which makes me feel self conscious after some time passes, so I send a short clarifyer and ask him to keep it on the DL since our school is a cesspool of gossip and i may have said a bit more than I should have after he made me feel safe

And an hour later he goes “woah hey just saw this gimme a sec” And then sends me three of the sweetest messages like I’m fucking cry

I didn’t know how to respond in the way that it deserved--looking back it seems not enough to me but I hope it conveys enough when he reads it