#egg timers

[shiftythrifting]

[the-clintster]

I was reminded today that not everyone knows about one of my favorite ADHD/time blindness helpers.

behold! the magic of the egg timer:

pros:

quick and easy to set (no long setup, no typing, just a twist)

mechanical (no batteries required)

remaining time visible

comes in fun shapes and sizes (add your favorite to this post!!)

cons:

can be loud

can't be attached to your wrist

can only be set to up to 59 minutes

[ainawgsd]

Damnit Amalthea, I know chickens can't understand daylight savings but it is not even daybreak and I can hear you from the far side of the living room in a closed house!

Criminally loud

[theboxfort]

Some OC refs :]

More info and a few alt designs below!

Kite, Ouija Board, and Chisel are middle schoolers

Egg Timer and Joe are in their 30s

Sword, Coco, and Spruce are in their 40s

Chicken Basket is like 60

The rest are in their 20s

Sword and Spruce divorced each other, Chisel is their daughter

Blendy and SL are childhood friends/current roommates

Blendy and Barbie are dating

Also yes, Chicken Basket is the only cishet here

[tillman]

roleplaying having a working scanner by taking pictures w my phone and editing them on my computer. anyways needed these for assorted reasons but u may see.

[object-vault-9]

What are the vault parents like?

Here's some blurbs! They're long so they're under the split

Rake:

Spade and Shovel's father and the primary family they had throughout their life (besides each other). Before election, he was a farmer, but he was very charismatic. He knew what the people of the vault wanted, and he represented that over the competition at the time. He was basically "the man of the people" after a long time of corruption.

The vault terms are until retirement/end of life. As the overseer, he had a generally successful term, though he started to lose touch with the part of himself that made him so relatable, especially with the loss of his spouse. He changed , and became more protective, sometimes sheltering his twin children too much and keeping them involved with his leadership closer than he should have.

His decisions around how to handle the famine caused a split amongst the vault, first his leadership was challenged and then 'war' broke out. By the time the vault regained the control he had almost wasted away, and he left the leadership to his twins. No one was left in the position to challenge the young overseers.

Trowel:

Spade and Shovel's mother. Manager of the farm system. The whole system. Incredibly intelligent, but often more quiet and reserved than their spouse. She preferred to let other people handle the social situations. Fell in love with Rake when he was a farmer and supported him throughout his campaign, though she would often express how she missed when life was simpler.

She passed away from a terminal illness, and around her death came the first domino in the failure of the farm. The person taking over her position struggled, but the agricultural system the vault used was on the verge of collapse even if she was still alive.

They would often joke how it wasn't fair their whole family was so tall.

Shovel takes after her personality a lot.

Egg Timer:

It is really wound up and high strung, and it works itself up a lot. It is very righteous, like Timer, and tends to tick like she does.

It tends to be pretty serious all the time, and it can take a second to get a joke. Prone to yelling at other kitchen staff, but it works as hard as the rest of them and yells at people who mess with the staff even more. It's a feisty little timer.

It's very intense, and is quick to start fights and pick sides.

Light Bulb: 

They aren't very verbose, like Timer, nor are they very physically expressive. They tend to be passive, even to the point they get walked over. Despite how intense Egg Timer is though, she always gives them the space to talk.

They like joking around, especially if they're able to catch Egg Timer off guard. Prone to pranks. Their bulb lights up when they have an idea and Egg Timer knows to look out for that. They're a terrible liar, even with a good poker face.

Their face is basically always :) and :| and they're really mellow

They would spend more time with their daughter Timer with their lower paced job. Timer was bored at the time but she really misses doing the rounds with them.

Corkboard:

This guy has a major RBF, and it's not because of all the pins in his face. He and his wife handle the education in the vault, with Cork being the one to handle the more 'serious' topics like math and history. He has a low tolerance for shenanigans and a very strict, often cold personality.

He loves his son, but Push Pin is such a goofball that he was often getting in trouble with his dad, and used to think he'd just never be able to make him proud. 

Despite being a strait laced, stern faced guy, he did have a secret soft spot for the silly things from time to time. He'd surprise his spouse and son with little silly gestures from time to time, like small pranks or dressing up for a history lesson.

Paint Bucket:

Very artsy, very silly, people don't look at Paint Bucket and it getting along with someone like Corkboard, but it did more than make it work, it was the one that courted him.

Paint Bucket did art, english and music. And for science, she and Corkboard would work together to make hands on small science projects.

The vault was very low on supplies and its library was small so she'd have to be creative to make it work. 

Push Pin takes a lot after them, and it was sometimes a bad influence. When Push Pin would get in trouble for pulling a prank, Paint Bucket might secretly unground him. 

Vault life was very dull, often by design with the walls all looking the same and the life centered around keeping the farm alive, and Paint Bucket thought this was vital to keeping up morale.

[rockstar-pinkbug]

Anyway, I saw this on xX_Twitter_Xx,

"Seven players, seven eggs missing:

This is definitely a long shot, BUT-

MAYBE???

(I don't know what to believe! I'll take anything that isn't them dying!!)

[acrushonesmeralda]

I am become DEATH, of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

[urayuli]

you all are allowed 1 (one) ollie. share

[pinolitas]

my eggs at 6 min always turn out like 8min but anyways that's exactly how I like them perfect for an avocado toast

[smile-files]

!!!!!!!

[ickypuppi3]

sometimes i look at my other ships and i’m like yeah actually i want that for harringrove like maybe they should be two fucked up guys covered in blood maybe they should be grossly codependent maybe they should experience the worst day of their lives and commit some crimes about it why not

[breathinginsulfur]

they’re putting these eggs in a freezer aren’t they

[swag-system]

PETER MOMENT?!?!!?!?!? -meow

That's me!

[theboxfort]

A bunch of OSC doodles I made today <-- possessed (received my Yinyang plush)

Full version of the monologue:

Silver Spoon’s and Candle’s betrayal has been foreshadowed since episode 4, where they voted OJ off. Silver is the type of character who tosses others away the moment he deems them useless, while Candle tosses others away the moment she deems that the others sees her as useless. They are essentially the same in a sense that they both need to feel needed. Silver wants to be the leader, someone at the top, while Candle needs to have an active supporting role. Since Cabby took both of their roles, both of them flipped to the other side as they believed that they were no longer needed. However, Balloon

^^ I ran out of space

[angryisokay]

I got curious about whether or not you could cook an egg by just pouring boiling water over it and letting it sit in the hot water a while.

You can. I used an insulated stainless coffee mug which helped keep the water hot. I also forgot about it for an hour so idk about how long it actually takes to cook, but it was a perfect hard boiled egg when I remembered to check on it.