#it’s this nice leaf green

[social-mockingbird]

Bought a new green sundress yesterday and dressed it up to wear to work today which means I keep periodically looking down at myself and seeing the color and going “hehe frog” every few minutes

[onenicebugperday]

Indian green tortoise beetle, Chiridopsis bipunctata, Chrysomelidae

Found in India and Sri Lanka

Photo 1 by nil_kumar_verma, 2 by shashidharswamyhiremath, 3 by ashokmashru, 4 by ajamalabad, 5-6 by drpadhiyar, and 7 for scale by shagufi

[kashmimo]

Misc. pokedoodles

[libraryspectre]

At the end of every year I am newly astonished no one markets planners for men. If you don't want solid colors you are out of luck. Men don't plan things I guess.

Like it's just marketing, the men can get whatever they want, but most cis men aren't gonna get a floral planner and it's weird that's 90% of them

[icewindandboringhorror]

I can't do much productively during the heat wave/health issue flare up/etc. like work on my games or anything where I have to sit at the computer/type for long periods of time, BUT.. I did passively sculpt a few tiny foods lol. I wanted to do one of my bigger usual sculptures, but those take so much more time and concentration, I thought something small just to keep my hands busy would be better.. close up photos look kind of weird and blurry from my camera settings or something, but overall they came out okay, especially in person.. Nearly the only reason I ever wanted to buy dolls as a kid was to get my hands on the miniature foods and plates and stuff that came with them, I've always just been obsessed with small versions of things like that, so.. why not make some! lol

[luckyluukkonen]

you know i lowkey fuck with Minnesota’s subway jersey

[sexysilverstrider]

seeing this 12 year old video makes me so nostalgic. i just miss silly lil amvs. this type of video was during its bw era and kotone was THE johto mc with the most love interests that spawn ships on pixiv but most of all. this video makes me miss pixiv red.

[hawkeyefierce]

WERK GREG

[silver-la-pixels]

you can tell when a city slicker posts abt wanting to lay down in a field of wild prarie or in a meadow or something cause they use a pretty scenic picture of the stickiest, spikiest, most bug-infested wildflowers known to man

[kashmimo]

daisy oak doodles plus headcanons

[rosymiel]

i got a fern baby yesterday, i’ve never (successfully) had a plant before so i have some pots and hangers coming in tomorrow. i also made some temporary crochet curtain tie backs, there’s so much sunlight coming into my room now

[icewindandboringhorror]

random life photos from the past few months

[fishsticksart]

Clarence Heyward, Everything is Everything, 2022, acrylic and variegation leaf on canvas

[sunshineram]

succulents :)

(echeveria pulvinata, sedum adolphi, and cotyledon tomentosa)

[nexus-nebulae]

Oh it is so nice having both a guy and a girl in front who both have the exact same taste in clothing so we're getting both masculine and feminine gender euphoria

[nil-the-glitch]

actually yknow what, no. this is not being limited to discord, yall get it too.

some general cooking tips (in which there is a brief senshi posession):

moisture is the enemy of crispy skin. pat dry with paper towel, and if you have the time and spoons, give a thorough but even coat of baking powder and let sit uncovered in your fridge overnight. this will dry out the skin nicely. for pork belly, create a tight foil boat so that only the skin is showing, and cover in salt to draw out moisture, repeating a couple times if necessary.

furikake seasoning, for the fellow rice lovers, is just nori (seaweed), sesame seeds, sugar, and msg/salt. you might have most if not all of these things already in your kitchen.

chai spice mix is just cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, & allspice.

pumpkin spice is just cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger.

to cure your own bacon, you only need water, white and brown sugar, and a non-iodized salt - himalayan pink salt is not iodized, if you cannot find butchers curing pink salt. from there, you can add any seasoning/flavoring you want.

the truly adventurous may cook their rice in green tea for a fresh clean taste.

you can tell if a fish is truly fresh by their eyes - clear and bright is fresh, while cloudy is older or potentially has been frozen.

it's cheaper to buy a large block pack of ramen from your local asian market and repackage the bricks into sandwich bags, than to buy a box of individually packaged ones such as maruchan or top ramen.

when buying meat, look at it's fat content - more fat marbling usually means more tender + flavorful.

you can save onion skins and other vegetable scraps to make your own broth with. you can also save bones for this. mix and match ratios to create your ideal flavor.

bay leaf will always make a soup or broth taste better, but Watch Out (they are not fun to bite into on accident).

msg is, in fact, not The Devil, that was just a racist hate campaign against the chinese and other oriental races. it's literally just a type of salt. it is no more dangerous to eat than any other type of salt.

washing your rice is important because it not only improves flavor and texture by removing excess starch, but it also helps reduce any residual pesticides or dirt, or even insect fragments (please remember that rice paddies are essentially giant ponds that all kind of things live in and swim around. you should also be washing all your produce in general.)

please salt your cooking water for pastas, it just tastes better and you will be happier for it.

boiled potatoes are also improved by salt water.

if you hate vegetables, please consider trying them fried in butter or perhaps bacon grease. it is healthier to eat them fatty than not at all.

healthy food does not in fact have to taste miserable. thats a lie. they are lying to you. free yourself from your blandness shackles. enter a world of flavor.