#night of the radishes

[murderousink23]

12/23/2024 is St. Thorlak's Day 🇮🇸, National Farmer's Day 🇮🇳, Night of the Radishes 🇲🇽, Festivus 🇺🇸, National Pfeffernusse Day 🇺🇸, National Roots Day 🇺🇸

[twistedappletree]

what they doin

[bonyfish]

me, barely conscious on th couch in my hoodie:

my beau: you know who you look like? Eddie Brock. In his lobster tank era.

me: :)

[mariocki]

Final Exam (1981)

"Why are you so apprehensive? When are you going to realise that the whole world isn't made of psychopaths skulking about?"

"But they are out there. They do exist. People are killed every day for no reason at all. Perfect strangers wake up in the morning and decide, 'Hmm, I think it's a good day to snuff somebody". And these are people who eat at our restaurants with us, use our highways and vote for the President, which probably explains something about him, too. I'm not paranoid. I'm just facing unhappy facts."

[indiiglow]

Without fail, every time I work on a bigger piece the process goes like this

Hyped about the concept -> the sketch is really cool and gets me even more excited !! -> flat colors??? -> start rendering -> Unknown Amount of Time Has Passed and I Am Running On Pure Anger and Spite To Finish This

[61below]

Imagine, if you will, that Ouyang Zizhen grew up on a steady diet of ‘the YLLZ is the scariest boogie man to ever exist’ (without the fraught rage and sorrow that subject is steeped in for Jin Ling, and I think the Lans would go full bore We Do Not Speak of That Evil) but also imagine that Ouyang Zizhen just gobbles it up for the drama: plays? He’s seen them. Horrific poems? He’s read them. Tea house storytellers who claim to have fought in the Sunshot Campaign and seen the YLLZ’s rein of terror first-hand? He gobbles it up. When he’s scared and overwhelmed on night hunts, he tells himself ‘Would the dread YLLZ be afraid of this yao? NO!’ and it’s enough to pull himself together. The YLLZ is the meanest, the scariest, the most dangerous monster around.

And then.

And then.

And then Zizhen actually meets him. Oh, not the version trying to pretend to be crazy Mo Xuanyu, but the post-Temple debacle, post-Sizhui’s dad being sad year when Senior Wei was riding the countryside offering basic night hunting to peasants. No, when Zizhen sees him again after he moved into Gusu. It’s… it’s a complete shock to realize just how much the stories about him were lies.

Sizhui, Jingyi, and Jin Ling find him crumpled in a flower bed, clutching his face and wailing.

The chorus of “Zizhen what’s wrong??” doesn’t register as words til Sizhui physically picks him up by the shoulders so they can look him in the face.

Zizhen gathers himself together enough to wail, “THEY DE-BABYGIRL’D THE YLLZ! HE’S ACTUALLY BEEN LIKE THIS THE WHOLE TIME!”

[radishearts]

POV the prince and heir to the throne gets murdered (15) so you, (16) betrothed to the now deceased prince ascend to the throne but your not happy about it so you task an old chambermaid (24) and a faceless wizard (????) to investigate the death of the prince and find out what’s going on and oh. Oh no. It’s ground hog day and now we have to relive that fateful evening till the mystery is solved.

+ some extras :D

[theshenanijiang]

This translation:

Made me laugh so hard. I think it is supposed to be coats. Take off coats. Imagine being part of the Lan sect and hearing the leader of your night hunt telling you to take your clothes off. This is my favorite scene in the entirety of this show:

The decisiveness of the sheathing swords and the delicate toss of the coats and the elegant spin. Like this was my first real introduction to the Lan, and looking at it now, I don't think it steers one wrong. I do love that in the novel WWX kicks Jingyi so that the possessed arm touches the coat and saves Sizhui that way and spawns the idea to use the coats. But this is good too. I like that it gives Sizhui some ideas of his own here. Like he is a cultivator leading a night hunt, he should be able to think of things like that.

[thirddeadlysin]

i've got some bad news for 35+

25-35 is such a weird fucking age because you’re 100% a bread-and-butter Standard Edition Millennial but the cool teens are like “ok boomer” because you have a Real Job but the actual Boomers at your job are like “I’m not going to listen to a literal fucking child” as they download 16 self-replicating viruses and meanwhile the Gen Xers are telling you to refinance a mortgage for a house you don’t have and you’re sitting there at the Adults Table with the pretty tasty casserole you cooked because you’ve finally figured out how to do that now but everyone is eating the Boomer’s store-bought macaroni instead and admittedly they do sort of taste similar so it probably wasn’t worth all the trouble of cooking from scratch and you’re trying to comfort the freshly-graduated sobbing 22-year-old next to you because she just woke up here and doesn’t know where she is but you have like maybe 5k dollars in a savings account labelled RETIREMENT that grows approx. twelve cents a year and you keep eating dry macaroni while smiling incomprehensibly and periodically blacking out like ??????????

[murderousink23]

12/23/2023 is St. Thorlak's Day 🇮🇸, National Farmer's Day 🇮🇳, Night of the Radishes 🇲🇽, Festivus 🇺🇸, National Pfeffernusse Day 🇺🇸, National Roots Day 🇺🇸

[semi-sketchy]

no one understands how much I truly hate raccoons

[radishleaf]

kinda wanna throw myself down a well rn.

[elaichichais-blog]

I imagine Lan Sizhui appears very poised, like the perfect Lan disciple but only Jingyi knows how fucking weird he really is, like their conversation sometimes go like this-

Lan Sizhui during a night hunt: Wow, do you smell that? Reminds me of home for some reason.

Lan Jingyi: There’s a fucking corpse behind the tree.

Lan Sizhui: this is the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Truly delicious.

Lan Jingyi: it’s a fucking boiled

radish.

Lan Sizhui: Sometimes I wonder if the moon feels lonely, surrounded by so many distant stars yet always shining alone.

Lan Jingyi: Dude, go to fucking sleep.

[nikrei]

Yyyyyy we feel great about that indeed

What do we think of meloni forgetting she’s wearing lipstick and going to pepper kisses all over baby Bart and accidentally giving him 15 lip shaped kiss marks.

[fuckingrecipes]

Do you have any healthy snack suggestions for someone who isn't a huge fan of nuts and dried fruit?

FIRST: A 'Snack' is just a small portion of food. It is a signifier of quantity. 'Snack' does not exclude any type or form of food - it just means a lil' bit of food.

SECOND: "Healthy" is entirely relative to every individual.

'Healthy' is just 'Supportive of a complete nutritional profile, taking into account a person's existing diet, dietary needs, and habits of energy expenditure'

For example:

A small, greasy hamburger is an EXCELLENT snack for a highschool athlete who needs to consume an large amount of calories every day to maintain their body. It has lots of fat and protein for muscle recovery and long-term energy, carbs for immediate energy, and some lettuce/tomato/onion for some extra fiber/vitamins/minerals.

On the flip side, if someone already eats a fair amount of of meat and carbs already but has a lower-energy lifestyle, a healthy snack for them might entail leafy greens, beans/legumes and vegetables, because they need more fiber and nutrients in their diet that plants have in abundance.

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If you are allergic to or hate eating something, then it's not healthy to force yourself to eat it anyway. Find a different food, or a different way to prepare it that doesn't cause physical or psychological distress!

Don't like peanuts, but peanut butter is good? Eat peanut butter instead! Hate the texture of whole tomatoes, but tomato sauce is good? Eat tomato sauce instead!

Don't be afraid to finely mince or blend your ingredients into a sauce or smoothie if you feel you need or want to eat something for the nutrients but hate chewing it.

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I'm a big fan of probiotic stuff in general, like fermented foods (kimchi, pickles, sauerkraut, miso, mustard and yogurts), since a strong bacterial colony in the gut has a positive impact on wellbeing for most folks. More importantly, I love the taste.

Buuuuuuuut~ some people are extra sensitive to compounds that are concentrated in fermented foods. Those people should not eat a lot of fermented foods. It's not healthy for them.

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If you're munching snacks out of boredom when you're not actually hungry, something low-fat but satisfyingly crunchy usually does the trick for me. Something I can keep devouring for the sensory delight, gives some good nutrients, and won't make me feel overly full afterward.

Carrots, bell peppers, mung bean sprouts, apples, pears, jicama, radish, pretzels, sweet onions, green papaya, broccoli, popcorn, cucumber, water chestnut, seaweed crisps, coconut chips, any of those fermented foods I mentioned... hell, coleslaw is mostly cabbage with oil and vinegar - plow through that and have a great time!

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If you want a snack because you're hungry, but you just want to tide yourself over until the next meal, eat something that is high in fat and fiber. Fat & Fiber makes you feel full.

Cheese, Yogurt, Butter. Olive oil. Guacamole. Tinned fish. Cream. Fry up an egg. Olives, Hard-boiled eggs - These are all relatively high in fat.

Beans, Legumes, Oats, Leafy Greens, and most Berries are pretty high in fiber, and can pair up with any of the fatty things.

Hell, a slice of cheese pizza is also fine! Buttered toast is fine! A small portion of roast beef from last night's dinner!

Eat a little bit, wait 20 minutes, and see if you're still hungry after that. A normal stomach takes 20-30 minutes to register feeling satiated. (Some people's stomachs don't really feel the difference of hunger vs satiation. Those people need to be more mindful of the quantities of food they eat - both eating too much, AND eating too little!)

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If you want a snack because salty snacks in particular sound fucking amazing, but other fatty and high-protein foods sound kinda gross, Try chugging a glass of water.

If water doesn't resolve the feeling after giving it a few minutes, try something with salt.

Dehydration and not having enough salt in your body both cause salt cravings. Acute thirst is often mistaken as hunger.

Honestly, you can have a handful of chips. Eating a whole family-sized bag of potato chips in one sitting is probably too much salt & fat for most people, but eating a handful here and there is fine. It's just as morally neutral as eating a carrot.

Eat some rice with soy sauce. Eat some pickled okra, or pickled onions. Eat some miso soup. Drink some soup broth. Have some salt-cured meats.

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So: A Healthy Snack!

Ask yourself: Am I hungry, bored, or thirsty?

Ask yourself: What have I been eating lately, and what has my diet lacked, or had in excess? (Fats, Protein, Carbohydrates, Vitamins/Minerals, Water, Salt)

Ask yourself: Am I trying to provide my body with a complete nutritional profile, including fats and carbs - or am I focusing on an imagined 'purity' of food and assigning moral value to eating what diet culture calls healthy so I can be 'good.' (Aka: Do you think instances of eating candy or fatty food is 'being bad'? Stop that.)

Ask yourself: Am I able to rely on my body's signals for hunger and thirst, or do I need to manually track this?

Sometimes a snack is a small portion of leftovers from yesterday.

Sometimes a snack is carefully sliced, cooked, and arranged on a cute plate.

Sometimes a snack is gnawing through half a head of cabbage doused in vinegar.

Sometimes a snack is a handful of shredded cheese eaten from your own palm so you become both the gentle horse and the stablehand feeding it, and that's all okay

[neverdoingmuch]

every day i have feelings about the fact that wwx loves kids. like this is the guy who was universally loved by all the jiang disciples. at any given moment he is being followed around by at least three small jiang disciples. when they wanted to laugh, he’d play with them and when they wanted to cry, he’d be beside them with a comforting hand and caring words. 

and even when everything was being slowly and painfully stripped away from him, he still made time for that little boy in the burial mounds who’d run after him. he’d plant him in the ground and make him laugh in the place that hadn’t heard such a sound in hundreds of years. he’d be the warm arms wrapped around him when the night was cold and the soothing voice when his nightmares grew too fierce. 

then wwx dies and when he comes back he and a-yuan have both irrevocably changed but that doesn’t matter bc wwx does what he always does when he sees kids: he plays with them when they need to relax and teaches them when they need to learn and protects them when they need the help and most importantly, he loves them with every bit of himself (and they love him back, especially his special little radish)