#consult with us

[rolameny]

the crockpot is a piece of american jewish innovation?????

My grandmother Tamara Kaslovski Nachumsohn, grew up in a small “shtetl” in Lithuania. She told my dad, when he was a young child, that when she was growing up back in the old country, each Friday afternoon her mother would send her to the local bakery with their pot of prepared but yet uncooked “cholent.” There it would be put into the oven for a full day, while the family observed the Sabbath and the hot oven cooled to warm while not in use for that same period. At sundown she would go to the bakery and bring the family their delicious pot of steamy stew. Dad remembered the story and was inspired to find a way to create a heating element that surrounded the pot in the same way that an oven would have.

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hello???????

[who-always-pays-their-taxes]

And I think it’s so funny how it’s a known fact that the Robin costume is inspired by Dick’s past as a trapeze artist but every modern iteration will show the Flying Graysons outfit and it won’t resemble the Robin outfit at all (more often than not, giving Dick much more coverage than the original Robin outfit) and while yes it’s obviously DC changing things up and being silly,,, it does prompt the idea that when Bruce was like “uh no u can’t wear underwear to fight crime” Dick immediately said “:( but im an orphan” and lied because he liked the fit

[felice-girlboss]

Here your local native Spanish speaker more than willing to lend a hand to any fic writer who wants to include Spanish speaking scenes. Just DM me 🩷

As a Spanish speaker, it stresses me out when I'm reading a yr fic and there are scenes of Simón speaking bad Spanish or speaking the language but with slang from other countries that are not Venezuela.

Please, if you don't speak Spanish but you want to add scenes in your fic of him speaking the language, ask a Spanish speaker to read them and correct them if necessary.

[wardensantoineandevka]

it's always darkly funny to me when people go on at length about how C3 is the most complex and nuanced campaign that the rest of us are simply Not Getting because it hurts our feelings or sensibilities or whatever and one of the bullet points is that it is "challenging the history and tradition of imperialism in D&D and fantasy" and I'm like in a campaign that does not engage with its Asian-inspired continent as a place instead of merely as set dressing after the prior campaign very much engaged with ITS largely European-inspired continental setting as a place?

[cecoeur]

Daniel with Lando and Martin Garrix in Perth January 2024

[justacynicalromantic]

Elon Musk was forced to reveal who financed his purchase of Twitter. Amongst owners are two Russian oligarchs close to Putin and sanctioned over the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich.

Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

Vadim Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[vigilskeep]

read my powerpoint boy

[cathalbravecog]

more gifs to show im not exclusively oc posting now but also to complete the whole gif collection i made ( ft @15laff as the wonderful actor ily)

[ewwww-what]

Okay, pack it up nerd squad.

[ilikedetectives]

Awwww of course Neve approves petting the cat at Dock Town's cat cafe

[qrowscant]

in hindsight, waiting until two days before 2024 to come out is pretty funny

[mollysunder]

Before the first season of Arcane premiered Riot released this interactive visual novel for the Riot x Arcane event. The setting was a hybrid of LoL and Arcane's universe, Piltover literally on top of Zaun, Cait is the Sheriff, but characters like Silco exist. The whole premise for the story is that Jinx stole some hextech and tapped into the Arcane oand opened a rift between worlds.

That's a lot. Personally I enjoyed this more to just see some characters out in the wild. Silco gets to be his charming self to you, the self-insert reader that's trying to find the culprit of the heist, which he knows was his kid.

Here's Jayce hating on Silco for something Jinx did.

This came out before the show did, so it's interesting to see how the game wants us perceive the characters' dynamics before we get further depth from the show. Most of it's related to Jinx because she makes herself the center of controversy.

For characters like Vi, who's already an enforcer that works directly under Sheriff Caitlyn in this world, she's clearly over Jinx's actions and wants to squash any further escalations.

Sevika is just as harsh and plainly sick of Jinx. I do find it interesting that the novel makes it clear tha Sevika believes that Jinx deserves some kind of punishment, though Jinx did endanger them all by ripping realities into eachother.

The only sympathetic voice outside of Silco in this story comes from Viktor, who after finding out Jinx was responsible for the Rift between realities asks you to remember that she's a real person that lived a life just like him. He goes so far as to contemplate another way to solve the situation and avoid a confrontation that may end with terrible consequences. (It's wild because the show then dedicates a whole scene to him defusing one of her bombs).

My favorite part is near the end where Silco tries to stop Jinx from harnessing anymore Arcane energy because it threatens to upend their reality.

I WISH they got to talk like this to eachother in the show, but so much was happening already. Even better Jinx gets the last words in and it justlays out what's ALWAYS been there.

This scene helped me understand that Jinx was always going to fire her rocket at the council, because she and Silco have both always been motivated to by power. They both know what it's like to be perceived as "weak" and they way it destroyed their lives respectively. It's kind of the reverse of what Mel and Ambessa have going on, you've got the diplomatic intrigue parent and the militarily minded daughter who wants to go further and absolutely will when you're not looking. And that's always been the thing with Jinx, if you give her any form of power, either a gun, a grenade, a rocket, or even magic she will take it and she will use it.

Right after this confrontation you have to defeat Jinx with the Power of Friednship or something (it's been a while). But even as put an end to the near calamity Jinx created there's at least one voice before it ends affirming Jinx's personhood.

It's weird honestly, Jinx didn't turn into vapor or anything, the story's pretty vague about what happens as you try to defeat her.

Well the novel's good when it's good anyway.

[majimawife]

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP BUCK!!

Aaand.. Smiling Cogs!

I love Toontown dude.

[ricky-mortis]

Howdy hello- guess who made a wings au :)

More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.

For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.

[harrietvane]

Doorway onto the Renaissance spiral staircase in the Château Royale, Blois

[uesp]

Did You Know: The Elder Scrolls named the disaster known as the "Soulburst"? The Scrolls referred to this massive arcane explosion that tore the barrier between Nirn and Oblivion as the "Soulburst" when they were consulted, which is how it was known thereafter.