#cocktail?

[hiptoff]

Happy Birthday to you!!

So today is the birthday of a person who changed my world for the good. She's always been there from the moment we met. I've been super busy and absent during the last year and I think it will be just the same during the next one, but she's still there, patiently waiting for me, caring for me, and sending me her support and love. You are an awesome person and an even better friend, Simone, and I wish you the best of the days. My gift to you, couldn't be otherwise, is just a silly thing. I wanted to cover both of your active fandoms, but I haven't read almost anything of yours lately (shame on me), so I thought it would be nice to take advantage of the similarities between the characters' personalities and make a little change. Hope you like it. The style's a little strange because I wanted to explore different techniques, but I don't really know if it fits… Anyway, @annaofthenorthernlights, I wish you a super mega happy birthday and a life full of love, health, and good stories! Love you!

[o-avosetta]

Dunno what to call this, but:

Empty 1 bottle of Yakult into your chosen receptacle. Best if cartoon character mug because you are not grown up enough to have proper glasses.

Refill Yakult bottle with soju, then toss into mug.

Add a teaspoon or two of calamansi concentrate.

Mix.

Dance to Anderson .Paak then go dungeon raiding w/ the guys, idk.

[cookingincollege]

NYT Cooking: Café Brûlot

Ingredients

⅓ cup Cognac or brandy

1 tablespoon Grand Mariner or Cointreau

Zest of ½ orange, removed with a vegetable peeler

Zest of ½ lemon, removed with a vegetable peeler

2 tablespoons light or dark brown sugar, plus more to taste

4 whole cloves

1 (2-inch long) cinnamon stick

1 cup strongly brewed coffee

Ground cinnamon and whipped cream, for serving

Preparation

In a small saucepan, combine the Cognac, Grand Mariner, orange and lemon zest, sugar cloves and cinnamon stick. Heat over low, stirring, until the sugar dissolves, about 1 minute.

Turn off the heat. Using a stick lighter or long match and standing back a bit, carefully set the Cognac on fire. Let it burn for 30 seconds to 1 minute to singe the citrus peels and cinnamon, then pour the coffee into the pan to douse the flames. Stir well, then taste and add more sugar, if you like.

Strain the coffee into mugs and serve topped with whipped cream and ground cinnamon.

[fruitblr]

— Midnight Margaritas!

Practical Magic (1998) dir. Griffin Dunne

[callmedaisy]

Vintage cocktail napkins 🍸

[majunju]

tangled au

[flannyjanny]

[squeakowl]

Art by Enikő Katalin Eged (source)

[scyllas-revenge]

I made a magnolia tea latte so good I'm having a religious experience at my desk

this is a PSA to go steal some magnolia flowers from your neighbor's yard TODAY

[laesposarica]

[emkini]

Currently thinking about 18/19 year old Toph getting thrown in some random podunk fire nation town’s one-cell jail and being like “hey I’m broke as hell but I’ve got a friend who can bail me out can I make a call” and then 2 hours later Fire Lord Zuko himself slams open the door yelling “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THIS TIME YOU SHIT” 

[butteryplanet]

kitchen ghosts

[lesamis]

If you're up for it could you explain what is making the Germany government stuff so funny? I can find news articles about it (a coalition is dissolving? There's been tension for a while?) but they're all fairly serious. Thx!

ohhh, sure thing! i'll do my best!

i'll say upfront: this is a pretty serious thing to happen. our chancellor fired our minister of finance, Lindner, which definitively breaks up the governing coalition. germany will likely have snap elections at a moment in which far-right parties are polling extremely well. if news coverage about it seems like people are Worried, that's because, well, they are.

however. the reason it's funny is because our minister of finance was fired. ministers aren't really... ever fired. like, it's not a done thing. i'll fully admit i didn't even know it was an option until yesterday. and our minister of finance wasn't just anyone, he was one of the most mocked and hated figures in politics to germans who vote anywhere left of center.

the coalition that governed until yesterday was made up of the green party, the social democrats, and the neoliberal party (FDP). the FDP is infamous (and i mean, my parents already raised me to hate them for that) for playing kingmaker in coalition governments: they never get all that many votes, but they get just enough that whoever they agree to form a government with will probably succeed. they then tend to force extreme concessions from their coalition partners, because hey, if we walk off, you can't govern at all! so you better play along!

for the past three years, this behaviour has been extremely frustrating for germans who voted for greens or social democrats, because policy from their faction was constantly being blocked by the FDP and often by Lindner personally. the FDP received 11,5% of votes in 2021, but to many of us, it felt as if they were the only party who really had any say in the governing coalition. it made the green and social democratic coalition partners look spineless and passive.

and now, i invite you to imagine how on the day of the US election results, the day the whole world rolled their eyes at the sheer fucking stupidity and pointlessness of it all, at NINE IN THE EVENING, just as germans are getting ready to settle in to bed to dream of nightmare global politics -

the news suddenly breaks that our notoriously invisible chancellor just decided to fire Lindner for that exact behaviour. this chancellor comes out and says, on camera, to the entire sleepy nation, that acting the way Lindner did - blocking necessary policies, refusing to approve budgets unless his party's interests were met - was childish, selfish, irresponsible, and unfit for government, so, whoops, he had to go. shame. coalition over, i guess.

so, politically, that was a long-needed but never-expected moment of triumph for those of us who think the FDP is a clown show made up of human TESLA shares, and it came at a hysterically funny moment.

on a personal level, i can barely explain how uniquely hateable Lindner has always been. he's what would happen if a stock index graph came to life. he hates poor people with a relish; he mocks welfare recipients and would ax minimum wages in a second. he's everyone's business major roommate who shows up in boat shoes fresh off a yacht to discuss NFTs with you. throughout the entire time that he's used his rich boy policy blackmail strategy, he's been smug about it, and he was never taken to task for it, and millions of germans have been longing to throw rotten fruit in his face since 2017. and now we finally get to do it. via memes. on the day of trump's election win.

so that's why it's funny.

[etherealarte]

[rennebright]

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