#ooogh i REALLY need a tag for this now

[twinkubus]

fun food related stuff i have been doing lately

roasted a pork shoulder. this sounds hard but in fact you just stick it in the oven for 8h on a low temp and then it is done. INCREDIBLY juicy/savory/umami, it was falling apart and good even just to snack on. it also fed me for 1-2 meals/day for a week and i still had leftovers to freeze!!

since the main cooking event had already taken place i was able to do a way bigger variety of dishes than usual, including: pork tacos w chimichurri, some rice bowls, ragu w/ polenta, stir-fry, and bbq sandwich

the ragu w/ polenta def took the most time but none of them were SUPER taxing, a lot were just kinda heat-and-go.

i have pork drippings now that i can use to cook stuff in

i also have a big bone that i am going to hopefully make a stock from

fermenting. doing end-of-year garden stuff made me go kind of ham!! right now i have 4 (four) active ferments going:

cabbage

w/ red pepper flakes + onions, i started on monday, and it smells fermenty now (Weds) so i am excited

mead

just 4:1 ratio of water and honey under the guidance of Fermentation Master sandor katz who makes it sound like you can just put honey and water and fruit/spices in a jar, shake often, and it will start fermenting.

v curious to see how this progresses bc if you look at any ‘homebrewing’ advice they are always like ‘u need separate yeast/campden tablets/yeast nutrient/etcetcetc’

my honey is like a year old but some bubbles are showing already so V hopeful about it!!

kale

one of the last garden harvests. since i put stuff in my cabbage jar i am just doing water and salt w/ this one

green tomatoes

probably the actual last garden harvest, i checked the plot today to organize some of the stuff we had chopped down over the weekend for garden cover, and some tomato branches had really small but still green and firm tomatoes on ‘em

this one is the most...who tf knows if it will go!!! no loss if nothing comes of them tho. i added a bay leaf and some celery seeds to the brine.

also from garden that i came by accidentally: mullein and marigold. gonna try to make some tincture from the mullein, dunno if i want to turn the marigold flowers into tea or maybe try a dye?? nothing to dye atm so leaning towards tea.

[woolydemon]

what are your thoughts on blurr?

I HAVE... MANY OF THEM. This is gonna be a long one (also im assuming ur talking abt tfa blurr)

First impression

I was just scrolling though the TFA tags before finishing my first watch of the show (bc... I'm like that I guess. I am willing to spoil myself stuff just so I can see fanart of them before I finish the show </3) and OF COURSE I saw him.

I immediately was like "OH,, HIS DESIGN IS FUN,," and he was a lil hyped up for me based on how ppl are like "look at this lil cute boy <33!!!!!"

Impression now

He's... not a "lil cute boy <33". But thank goodness he isn't bc I love him for that.

hearing his voice for the first time caught me off guard since ppl were drawing him.. In a certain way that doesn't quite indicate how much of a cringe nerd he actually is. He's just such a weirdo!! And thank god for that!! I wouldn't want him any other way, also I related heavily to his talking habits that's where the roots of kinning happened </3

What's also cool is that he is still kinda badass while still definitely being such a dweeb, like he ran across the galaxy!!! How did he do that??? Fucked up. Also despite being somewhat eccentric, he is definitely one of the most level headed characters on the show and that's just a fun concept to me :]

Favorite moment

probably all 13 minutes he appears in the show?????? (listen. i like him a lot)

like idk even his appearances in Velocity are interesting bc like... What is he thinking while all of this is happening.

is frothing at the mouth with rage at being controlled like a remote control toy car?? Is he freaking out over the fact he almost killed bumblebee?? is he impressed by how bee was able to quickly access situations and respond accordingly to them?? The possibiwittys..

but aside from that i just love seeing blurr being blurr at any moment, I give him full permission to infodump at all times

(also i love seeing him banter with bumblebee, wish we got more of that dynamic but alas </3)

Idea for a story

ooogh... i got some ideas.

I love seeing stories abt him dealing with the cube trauma but sometimes I think about what if he just went over to shockwave in prison and lashes out at him but in the end it just. Doesn't make him feel better and he's like "WOW. THIS SUCKS I NEED THERAPY"

Then there's an AU I've been thinking of where Blurr joins the crew from the start bc Ultra Magnus wanted someone to keep direct tabs on Optimus for him (and also intel didn't want to deal with him anymore so they just willingly sent him away </3) then u explore how he fits into the crew now (bonus points if he actually joins illegal street racing on his own terms this time, and then bee finds out and is like "dude what the fuck". There's reasons for this of course- this didnt come outta nowhere)

Then there's all the blurrbee fics that are in my brain, but the one I find rlly fun and interesting is Blurr gets forced to have a partner bc the cube incident and of course he's like "no!! I want to avoid social interaction bc i have social anxiety problems" but he looks at the list of new elite guard members for him to mentor and he sees. Bumblebee on that list. Apparently Bee's got the chops to be a really good scout, plus his reputation as a member of Team Prime made them willing to accept him into the Elite Guard. So now Bee is mentored by Blurr and is also Blurr's emotional support bot, plus they go on fun adventures and fall in love <3 good for them

Unpopular opinion

as I've said.. blurrs not a "lil cute boy". He's not some pushover!!! he's immensely stubborn and does not let willingly let anything get in his way!! He is also super intolerant of bullshit so he's probably going to shut down any of that before it gets out of hand

also while i do rlly like the idea of longarm and Blurr being friends, I think it's rlly funny if they were bitter workplace rivals and constantly going back and forth being extremely passive aggressive while maintaining professionalism. Like how blurr was sent to earth by longarm before he was able to get his breakthrough on the Flipsides case!! I imagine that conversation being like

Longarm: hello agent Blurr, I know you have been dedicating a lot of time and energy in figuring out who amongst the entertainment guild could possibly be a sleeper agent but I'm afraid I will have to postpone that by sending you in earth to monitor Optimus prime and his crew uwu

blurr: oh. .. thats. Completely fine sir. *Cuts to him later banging his head against the wall*

Favorite relationship

hmm.. I wonder whats my favorite relationship with Blurr in it?????? wat a mystery.. /j

OK Yeah. Its Blurrbee. I'm just so in love with their dynamic in the show and also what ISNT in the show. There's actually this bit in the Allspark Almanac where Blurr talks about how he thinks of Bumblebee as slightly annoying but has his heart in the right place and??? That's so sweet?? Blurr genuinely has a good opinion of Bee from the start and respects him which is. Very different from how a lot of other bots see Bumblebee.

I'm just saying, blurrbee dynamics ARE THERE and they are INTERESTING!!! Please think abt them please think abt them plea

Favorite headcanon

I think Blurr is very defensive of any friends he manages to actually have. Like he cares abt ppl like Wheelie and Dug Base A LOT.

You can call him a weirdo all you want, he doesn't care. But you start making fun of how Wheelie or Dug Base talk?? Ur gonna face his righteous fury!!!!!! He will end ur life and I might not be joking about this

[jemariel]

Tagged by @starsinursa ! Thanks for helping me procrastinate on wingfic! xD

Rules: answer these 85 statements about yourself, then tag 20 people.

1. last drink: A fancy Ginger Mead

2: last phone call: I... don’t remember? I think I called the pharmacy robot to refill a prescription.

3. last text message: To my bestie, telling her I would watch the latest Drag Race All Stars with dinner (which was a lie, it got too late)

4. last song you listened to: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen.

5. last time you cried: Earlier today when a friend got fandom hate..... I CRY REALLY EASILY OK???

6. dated someone twice: Oh lordie, yes. My now-husband and I got together and broke up an embarrassing number of times before figuring our shit out.

7. kissed someone and regretted it?: ...TBQH done more than kissed someone and regretted it.

8. been cheated on?: Once

9. lost someone special?: For various definitions of lost, yes.

10. been depressed?: Yeah, but thankfully mine was situational rather than clinical and I figured it out.

11. gotten drunk and thrown up?: Ha ha ha ha ha ha yes.

fave colors

12. Blue

13. Purple

14. Green (@starsinursa we’re fave colors twins lol)

in the last year have you…

15. made new friends?: Fandom friends, yeah. It counts!

16: fallen out of love?: Nope <3

17. laughed until you cried?: Maybe?

18. found out someone was talking about you?: Sorta?

19. met someone who changed you?: No, not really.... 

20. found out who your friends are?: Not even sure what this question means.

21. kissed someone on your facebook friends list?: I mean my husband is on my facebook friends list, does that count?

general

22. how many of your facebook friends do you know irl?: Like... literally all of them, even if I haven’t seen them in years or only met them a couple times. 

23. do you have any pets?: Yes, a kitty, here have a picture

24. do you want to change your name?: Sort of. I want to change the spelling. (Yes, I want to be a special snowflake, but I have REASONS.)

25. what did you do for your last birthday?: Dyed my hair blue and went out for Italian food. It was p great.

26. What time did you wake up today? Uhhhh 7:30 I think?

27. What were you doing at midnight last night?: Trying to go to sleep.

28. what is something you can’t wait for?: The day when the company I work for moves somewhere I can’t commute to and I’m forced to find a new job. (Why not just look for a new job now, Aeryn? GLAD YOU ASKED, I have a detailed analysis on that question here if you will just look at this shiny powerp-- **flees**)

29. What are you listening to right now?: I have the theme song to American Dad stuck in my head, does that count?

30. have you ever talked to a person named tom?: Yeah, my father in law, lol.

31. something that’s getting on your nerves?: Sometimes when my husband coughs, he coughs REALLY LOUDLY. Like, hurts my ears loud. 

32. most visited website: Gotta be Ao3... with tumblr a close second but I actually tumbl mostly on mobile.

33. hair color: Currently a sort of dark sky/light aqua blue. 

34. long or short hair: Short, though I’m thinking of growing it back to long.

35. do you have a crush on someone?: Ok no lie, my husband and I both kinda have a crush on this person we met through pirate LARPing.....

36. what do you like about yourself?: My positive outlook on most things.

37. want any piercings?: **shrug** Not really?

38. blood type: A+

39. nicknames: My friends call me Slarman, which is a bastardization of my maiden name. I’ve been Jemariel online since there was an online. 

40. relationship status: Married (I know, weird, right?)

41. zodiac: Aries, but if you want to get into it I’m more influenced by all the Aquarius in my chart (rising, moon, at least one other)

42. pronouns: Not set in stone, but usually she/her is fine.

43. fave tv shows: Supernatural, Sherlock (even if it pisses me off), Bob’s Burgers, Brooklyn 99 (need to catch up), Adventure Time, Steven Universe

44. tattoos: Yes! 3 currently. A fandom-related tattoo I got when I was like 18 (and no, I do not regret it), a big back/shoulders piece dedicated to mathematics in nature, and one on my calf that’s both a tribute to my favorite Beatles song and a memento to a very important time in my life.

45. right or left handed: Rightie

46. ever had surgery?: Does getting your wisdom teeth out count?

47. piercings?: My ears are pierced.... I had a belly button piercing at one point but it rejected within 6 months.

48. sport: I say, what a rugged group of gentleman. Tell me, which color are we rooting for?

49. vacation: There’s this place in the San Juan islands where you can rent a yurt. It’s. The most amazing.

50. trainers: Ummmm... yes?

more general:

51. eating: Just finished some steaks and a bomb-ass mushroom sauce.

52. drinking: That ginger mead I was talking about earlier....

53. i’m about to watch: The inside of my eyeballs. (Probably going to bed as soon as I finish this.)

54. waiting for: Uhhhh... the 2018 midterm elections?

55. want: Wingfic to be done so I can post it.

56. get married: Have the T-shirt.

57. career: I went to college to save the world and now I make energy drinks.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

which is better:

58. hugs or kisses: I mean, both are lovely, but if given the choice I’d probably like a long lingering hug from someone I trust and love.

59. lips or eyes: Hmmm probably eyes.

60. shorter or taller: A bit taller.

61. older or younger: A bit older.

62. nice arms or stomach: I’m cool with either, but I guess arms, because chubby tummies are adorable and cuddly. <3 -- I’m just gonna leave @starsinursa’s answer because it’s true and too cute.

63. hookup or relationship: I feel like I should say relationship because that’s where I’m at, but the honest answer is, if there were no consequences, hookup.

64. troublemaker or hesitant: Hesitant.

have you ever:

65. kissed a stranger: Yeah... again, done more than kissed....

66. drank hard liquor: Oh yeah. *tips scotch*

67. lost glasses: Nah, I don’t wear them.

68. turned someone down: Sorta? 

69. sex on first date: Yuppp.

70. broken someones heart: Yes, and it will remain the biggest regret of my life.

71. had your heart broken: Yep.

72. been arrested: Nope. 

73. cried when someone died: Yes.

74. fallen for a friend: Yeah...

do you believe in:

75. yourself: Sometimes.

76. miracles: Nah, not really.

77. love at first sight: Ehhhh... no? Connection, lust, chemistry, yeah, but love takes time to build.

78. santa clause: Nah

79. kiss on a first date: Yeah probably.

80. angels: Nah.

other:

81. best friend’s name: Sarah

82. eye color: Mine? Or Sarah’s? (Blue either way.)

83. favorite movie: The Princess Bride. I’m one of those who can quote it backwards and forwards.

84. fave actor: He’s sort of the white bread of the acting world, but I just really enjoy Tom Hanks and his movies. So. Yeah.

I agree with starsinursa, I feel cheated out of my 85th question!

Ooogh, tagging 20 people eh? That aren’t already tagged??

@reallyelegantsharkfish @honeybeedestiel @cthulhubert @rosemoonweaver @honeybeedestiel @hellagayangelofthelord @honey-and-vinegar @ltleflrt @jhoomwrites @casgirlat221b @naruhearts @maimalfoi @yeneffersalamander @suckerfordeansfreckles @amirosebooks @jasminrogue @hellagayangelofthelord​ @60r3d0m​ @caraina​ @paperwhitenarcissus​ If you’d like to do it, if not, zero pressure! <3