#food from the road

[mapsoffun]

I was super-stoked to be part of a big group dinner at Old Ebbitt Grill, the oldest still-functioning restaurant in DC, and once we made our way through the chaos of the lobby to check into our reservation and get our table, the experience was quite lovely. They take a lot of pride in their raw bar, and we split this enormous platter among the group and I enjoyed trying a little bit of everything. For me, the mark of a quality raw bar is being able to enjoy the oysters without any accouterments--yeah, I like some mignonette on oysters, or a squeeze of lemon from time to time, but sometimes I just love that simple, briny goodness.

[susansontag]

I’m sorry but this ridiculous idea that because humans are biologically omnivorous that means there’s anything particularly ‘natural’ or sustainable about our contemporary meat industry is staggering levels of stupidity. you may as well say you want us all to shrivel up and burn but you’re out here pretending you’re protecting the rights of subsistence hunters/fishers? do you know who actually is threatening the existence of these people? the fishing and meat industries

[lloydfrontera]

lloyd 'survived on one meal per day for years' frontera would absolutely see sharing food as a love language and javier 'lived in the streets for months as a child' asrahan would be fluent in it

i do believe there is a point in their lives where they both heal from the trauma of going through severe food insecurity but neither of them ever quite really forget just how important food can be. and when the other shares their food with them, they appreciate it as the show of affection it was meant to be

[sea-jello]

hong kong miku,,,

[itspkuwu]

It’s been long enough someone has to say it.

[musubiki]

another day of running into the villain under strange and unlikely circumstances

[lesmisscraper]

Valjean trying to give more soft bread for Cosette. Vol. 4, Book 3, Chapter 4.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[cadrenebula]

Would anyone mind sharing cute things with me tonight? It's been a rough evening. Doesn't matter if it's cute screenshots or pets or plushies. Just something cute.

[girlthativealwaysbeen]

it's not sinking in that today might be the last day in my house and town for many months to come

[mapsoffun]

Following our stop at FedEx, we went into downtown Kona for lunch.  Our first stop was Broke Da  Mouth Grindz, a local fried chicken spot, and it was AMAZING. It’s takeout only there, so I needed to figure out where we were going to eat our lunches. Fortunately, luck smiled on us because Ola, the other Kona-based brewery, was open but their kitchen was temporarily closed for renovations. We were able to sit at the bar, eat our fried chicken and sides, and while there was a lot of food, that food was fantastic. The beers are wonderful too--I was bummed that we didn’t really have time to try more, but we had a drive back to the resort and dinner plans that night, plus we had one more stop to make on our way back.

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

"It's just you now. Take care of mother."

i have the normal amount of emotions about them (lying) <3

[ikishima]

My #1 advice for people moving out is to NOT buy nonstick cookware... not only is the lifespan of nonstick a MAXIMUM of 7 years (usually more like 2-5 years) but teflon, aka Polytetrafluoroethylene-- the plastic coating that makes the cookware nonstick, infuses microplastics into your food.

New cookware sets can cost hundreds of dollars so my advice is to look for 100% stainless steel cookware in thrift stores. Safer, cheaper, & instead of needing to replace every 2-7 years they can potentially last you the entire rest of your life AND they won't start shedding plastic into your food

[ohitslen]

Ah wait, reincarnation VW thoughts wait

Very far into the future, where things have settled down and the tales of a time where plants were stolen and the horrible uncontrolled violence that was present as humans were settling into the planet, are just now part of history.

A past no one remembers from experience. Except for Wolfwood, who remembers more than he wish he did. To not say that he remembers everything of a life that wasn’t his, yet apparently was.

One day he gets a very weird encounter with a stranger at the rooftop of the apartment complex he lived in. The guy was smoking the same brand of cigarettes he did and was complaining about the smell and taste the whole time, muttering to himself how awful they were. The man wore an awfully familiar red jacket, appearing tall and imposing, the vivid image of someone he once knew. Except for the striking difference that the man before him had a deep, raven-black hair instead of a shiny and warm blonde.

The man presented himself as Vash. However, this man who was the carbon copy of the blonde of his memories didn’t seem to bear any glint of recognition in his eyes, not knowing who Nicholas was.

Not like the solid black sunglasses would let him see his eyes in the first place. His smiles had not changed in the slightest, though.

Edit (addition):

Wait let’s make this worse (funnier). Make them be soooo in love with each other, like astronomically down bad for the guy next door, but they NEVER make a move on the other because it’s so “Noooo,, it’s wrong to project the dead person I loved with all my being into the guy who conveniently looks like him next door :(“

Can you imagine? Isn’t that, hilarious.

[bonetrousledbones]

lil update post thats mostly rambling tbh

i'm feeling a bit better after a few days of not letting myself ruminate on everything so much. still don't have electricity tho </3 but things are getting better slowlyy. i even managed to draw a lil too

i've adjusted a good bit more to the routine at this point. a lot of people are still struggling out there and once i get my electricity back i'm gonna spread some more resources since wayyy more are available & up-to-date now than what's in my initial post about all this, but for now i'm just lettin y'all know i'm still truckin along 👍

also i wanna give another thanks to yall for spreading that post around so much, even if it's slowed down a lil by now. for those first few days it really felt like we were completely isolated from the world and nobody knew or cared, but i've seen a huge increase in people talking about our situation here since then and it's been surprisingly uplifting. one of the reasons appalachians are such hardheaded motherfuckers is because we're used to having to help each other rather than rely on folks outside the mountains, but seeing y'all expressing sympathies and wanting to help however you can, even if you don't live nearby, has made me feel so much better about our ability to come back from this.

[yudrein]

AKDFGKDFGK

[bonestrouslingbones]

i now understand the anger people describe when they see other folks just going about their lives entirely unaffected by disasters