#i made a salad

[finally-got-a-diagnosis]

MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR YOURSELF

JUST COOK IT BADLY AND COOK IT AT YOUR OWN PACE

TAKE BREAKS

BRING A CHAIR INTO THE KITCHEN

BUY TOOLS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER

Are all my cut vegetables the same thickness???? IT DOESN'T MATTER IT JUST NEEDS TO BE CUT AND COOKED

"The recipe called for (insert food that you don't like) so I have to add it." YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOREVER FRIEND DITCH THE INGREDIENTS

THERE'S NO POINT IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU WON'T EAT WHY TORTURE YOURSELF

SMACK THE GORDAN RAMSEY IN YOUR HEAD MAKE WHAT YOU WANT YOU ARE THE HEAD CHEF HERE

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I made a salad

I did a lot of work on it so tell me if i should tell you guys how to make it

[arcanespood]

"Marshal of the Pact Trahearne"

[gentlenotes-moved]

"why do i constantly feel so empty and why does life feel like a foggy haze and why does every emotion come with a heavy undertone of guilt"

babe you're self isolating again and you haven't talked to a single friend in 3+ months. you've been emotionally and mentally burnt out for several months (or years) and it's made even talking to the people you love feel like a burden, and your anxiety and depression ain't helping. and you're just so so scared your friends hate you for all of it. they don't, i promise.

[samijey]

Royal Rumble 2025

[sofiaruelle]

Yuri please 🥺

Here you go. I unearthed this from the depths of my wips & cleaned it up for you.

[omg-snakes]

I was so, so lucky to meet a very special trio of snakes for a class I'm taking on methods in field ecology. One of my two professors is a specialist in garter snakes and was kind enough to bring three different species in for us to compare in person and observe up close. The first was the gorgeous common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, pictures above. She was so calm and well-mannered!

Next was this tiny (by comparison) T. elegans dude, a western garter snake, who was wary of the camera but very patient about being passed around by a group of excited college students. He matched my classmate's sweater perfectly!

Finally, an endangered and incredibly precious T. gigas, the giant garter snake. She's about half of her maximum adult size, so a giant indeed! She musked and peed a bit but for the most part this gojira-faced beauty was pretty chill. We got to observe a full work-up for her including documenting records and microchipping.

She's one of the last of her species. Despite Herculean efforts by her protectors and conservation experts (mostly just one man and his dedicated team), this is a very difficult species to observe in the wild and their habitats are disappearing faster than their need for prioritization of protection in a given area can be assessed. These snakes rely on riparian habitat near rivers, which is also unfortunately a favorite for human development. At this time we don't know how exactly many giant garter snakes are left or whether their current populations are stable.

Today we got to visit their marshland habitat and watch these three go back to the place where they were caught. It was a huge honor and something I'll carry with me forever.

[beresaad]

DENRID | PERSICA | MARREC | CAHIR | TIERNAN | EMRYS

↳ Do not fear difficulty. Hard ground makes stronger roots.

[mazojo]

Oh my god the himbo and the dumb one were dating?

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys... i like tim drake so much 🥰

[lesbiancolumbo]

and before anyone comes to me asking for cooking tips and tricks, my blanket recommendation is always to check out salt fat acid heat by samin nosrat and to learn the science of cooking. when you understand the cause and effect of techniques, the why versus the how-to, you instinctively become better at cooking. i will also say that start here by sohla el-waylly is a great cookbook as well, very beginner's basic technique driven and conveniently the introduction was written by samin :)

[anthropwashere]

I tried making cabbage soup for the first time yesterday and I finally understand why this bitch was in a million books I read as a kid

Like I only had a mug of it fresh because that's what was left after storing it in no fewer than 3 containers (2 in the freezer because I'm attempting to adult in that Food Prep Life kinda way for once) and I still needed to finish off the last of the Delicious Hungarian Mushroom Soup (finish off as in eat the largest bowl of soup in my life so I could wash the container) AND I also made bean and potato soup in the slow cooker because the chicken had gone bad and the potatoes were on the cusp and I had an extra can of white beans laying around so I had a bowl of THAT yesterday for lunch and only snacked for dinner SO THIS is my first real bowl of the cabbage soup

and I get it I get it I get it, I used SO many veggies that otherwise would've been wasted AND so many spices AND there's that Good Cronch, how did I once scoff at the concept of cabbage soup this bitch is so GOOD

(I used no fewer than 3 bell peppers, one of each color, and a cucumber, and lazily threw in a cup of baby carrots, and committed to a WHOLE ASS onion in one dish instead of roughly half like I normally do, this bitch is good this bitch is good hell YEAH this bitch is good!!!)

[samijey]

really??? right in front of roman's salad???

[typinggently]

“We never see Sam eating a quinoa salad!” is imo one of the funniest complaints about spn. Obviously not. We also never see him actually do yoga, it’s always just a vague threat. That whole aspect of his character was written to be viewed by masculine men (and those who admire them) as a vague joke on what a healthy guy would do. In the same vein, Dean and his weird bacon burger bit is the fantasy of those guys. It’s Eros and Anteros of health and diet for the intended masculine manly USAmerican viewer.

On that note, I think we could go even deeper and speculate whether that’s why Sam doesn’t get to show his body off. The whole point is that Sam is the health nut, but not to a degree where 1) healthy living looks appetising 2) we see what healthy living does to his body. He’s not meant to be inspirational. Instead, we get Dean, who eats like a pig and is framed as the funny but reasonable one (and who gets girls). If Sam were meant to genuinely embody and showcase a healthy lifestyle, we would get to see workout montages, appetising healthy food and, most importantly, Jared Padalecki’s impressive physique. Sam should be able to run faster and for longer than Dean, he should be able to fight harder. He should be able to overpower Dean in their physical fights. But none of that is ever the main focus. Because, again, Sam isn’t meant to be a healthy inspiration. He’s meant to be the antidote to Dean. The message isn’t “eat a quinoa salad!”, it’s “salad is self loathing on a platter. you can eat bacon and burgers and binge drink and still get girls and the guy who’s annoying about how healthy is his isn’t even stronger than you.” Sam hasn’t been the main character in a long time, and this aspect of his personality is just a way of contrasting him to Dean.

To make it short: Sam wasn’t written to be relatable or aspirational for the girls who crave Lululemon. He’s written for the men who want to feel good about drinking and eating bacon and who, at most, want to hear him brag about fucking those girls. He’s part of the Dean fantasy.

It’s not exactly a problem to make up our fantasy versions of the characters for the most part, but I feel like we shouldn’t forget what the source material is actually like and who it’s aimed at. Just like “Dean is a woke bisexual icon” doesn’t exactly hurt anybody in itself, it still glosses over the misogyny (and homophobia) that makes up what spn is and who dean as a character is.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

idk much abt thanksgiving but ik charles was very stoked abt being stuffed!

ANON.

[sunny1927]

Had a bit of free time of, instead of rotting in my room (and well, being silly-)

I made a bowl of fruit salad :D

Got myself a bowl to eat too :))