#quarantini

[freezingsheep]

Ooh new victims!

I made some online escape games during lockdown. I think they might be the best thing I’ve ever made and they’re all free to play so please check them out if you like that sort of thing!

Would love to have nerdy chat about puzzle-making too :)

Acorn Cottage: Collaborative 2-player banana-themed game.

Escape From Catland: Help Dr Woofred Barker save us from being turned into cats! A longer game aimed at more experienced players.

NooZoo Park: This one is more of a silly/creepy self-hosted party game. For the designated gamesmaster only… the password to the NooZoo Park client entrance is BELIEVABLE (all caps).

Enjoy!

[the-solarpunk-activist]

Y'all know what's solarpunk? Or at least sustainable? A good sourdough starter. It requires flour, quite a bit of it to get started, but it's healthier for you, and you can use the discard after the initial start phase for all kinds of tasty things meaning no waste and less store bought pancakes, crackers, brownies, breads, etc.

Here's how you make a starter (disclaimer this is how i made it, I've noticed a lot of sourdough purists insisting u need to weigh everything every time you feed and you need a scale for all your recipes, etc i have done none of that and i don't have the energy for all that either)

You need:

Flour, i use unbleached but that's because i had a bag lying around i used for vegan cookies as a gift and i heard it works for starters, Harold (my starter) seems to like it so why change, but I've heard of people using literally any kind of flour

Water, enough to mix into a thick pancake batter consistency

If you feel weird wasting flour you can try the quarantiny starter idea from king Arthur's flour which uses only a tablespoon of flour and some water until it's active and then you bulk it up when you want to bake with it.

You're going to want to add your flour and water and mix until it's a thick pancake batter consistency, i started with a half cup of flour but i left on vacation and my grandma accidentally bulked it up so now it's up to like a cup.

Every 24 hours (not exact measurement and some people swear by feeding it every 12, i do 24 but it varies by person and starter) you are going to want to toss half (in the garbage at this stage) and mix in about the same amount of flour as the mixture you just tossed (ex. You estimate you tossed half cup of starter, add half cup of flour to remainder in jar) add enough water til you reach consistency. I've gotten told this doesn't work but my starter is happy and thriving so I'm sticking with it.

Once your starter is active and consistently doubling within 8 hours after feeding (you will notice it does this in the first few days, that's Bad Yeast do not use. Your starter will hit a slump and then come back to rising, that's good yeast. I recommend putting a rubber band or hair tie where it is after u feed so u can monitor rise easier) experts recommend waiting ten days from initial starter start date to use it, i waited three weeks. Toss all starter at feeding during this time.

ONCE UR STARTER IS ACTIVE then u can save all the stuff u were tossing in a jar in the fridge (i use an old spaghetti sauce jar, and my starter is also in a big olive jar lmao) and use it in recipes that doesn't require yeast, this is sourdough discard and you can find a ton of recipes online for it.

If you want to use it to bake bread, you will use it when it's at its peak rise area, usually double what it was when you feed it. This is the yeast being all active and happy which will rise your bread. I recommend this recipe for beginners:

I reduced the salt to 1 tsp and added probably around a cup and a half of whole wheat flour, i had it lying around and why not. Changes will depend on your elevation and what works for you, it's not a science which is why no recipe will work for literally everybody. Almost everybody's first sourdough bread will fail one way or another but 98% of the time it's still edible and you learn!!!

Feel free to ask questions :)

Edit: forgot to mention that you should keep your jar covered, but don't screw the lid on, i just use the flat part of a canning lid placed on top

[sothischickshe]

🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

Hey honey, ty! 😍😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚

So to the first part: yes, I've worked really hard on a lot of fics, and there's defffffinitely been various things I've struggled with, but for the second part I'm not so sure cos I feel like I'm often here complaining about them 😅🤣

But here are some which jump to mind!

the sex scene in the genie au -- this was supposed to be a short t rated fic which I was gonna wrap up fast then move back to whatever else I was working on at the time but it ballooned 😅

anything angsty (even if there's not soooo much angst on the page & it's more about the pov character's ~canon/adjacent headspace) which I wrote in quarantini, it was a weird time to put oneself into such a headspace purposefully

When I've tried to get a sense of more minor characters & their pov, espec bc the source material often treated them as plot enablers so it's (fun!) work to try to create coherent characterisation to make sense of it all. Eg Turner for found my thrill (Turner pov), Dean (and beth/dean's relationship in early s3) for the rio-Dean bodyswap fic, rhea (and her relationships with both Beth & rio) for the fic I'm working on atm (plus a bit of mick, and a little nick too), Dean again (particularly in s1 but throughout) for the cr*ck fic I'm dreamily thinking abt... A lot of rewatching etc

The sneaky doubled pov in around here we say birds not bitches -- this is a silly throwaway cr*ck fic, but it's also something I worked really hard on! It's designed to reward rereading I hope, and it was the first time I wrote fic ~from an original character's pov, and I created full back stories for both original characters AND made myself scrape lots of that detail I wrote in for myself off the page

Anything which started as a one shot but ballooned bc it was planned as a one shot so it was hard work to make extensions work anything close to seamlessly. I do like to plan, but I also love the freedom of improvising along the way and it's so rewarding (bc difficult!) to bend something this way

Emoji writey asks!

[walrusmagazine]

Why Don’t Millennials Have Hobbies?

I sought the help of an algorithm to figure out how to spend my free time. It made me question my generation’s relationship with leisure

I started by aggressively completing an adult colouring book while everyone around me made body-shaped candles. Photos of sourdough baking and people concocting at-home “quarantinis” cluttered my timeline. While these activities captured the zeitgeist of the pandemic—especially in those early months—I allowed myself to believe that in the midst of those hours between solving puzzles and baking bread, my hobby would miraculously turn up. At the peak of my crafting phase, I painted my bedroom walls purely out of boredom. Ever since that accomplishment, I have been possessed by a certain kind of hubris and invincibility. What handy task will I do next?

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Isabella Fassler (isabellafassler.com)

[emsgroovythreads]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Life Is Good Quarantini Pink Tee NWOT.

[goldenwingediris]

HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SHOW. Especially if you are interested in science, medicine, infectious disease and medical history. And quarantinis. Wash your hands you filthy animals!

[dethracischedruif]

© Rymie

RIP Quarantinis, and Other Drinking Resolutions

https://punchdrink.com/articles/rip-quarantinis-and-other-drinking-resolutions-2021/

[usatricks]

America Has a Drinking Problem

America Has a Drinking Problem

Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts From the Pilgrims’ arrival at Plymouth Rock to the rise of the pandemic “quarantini,” alcohol has been a foundation of American society and culture. The Atlantic’s Kate Julian explores how this tool for cohesion and cooperation eventually became a means of coping, and what history can teach us about improving our…

[podzolle]

I go to sleep so that I can wake up and it'll be a new day on animal crossing.

[xcruelladcvil]

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Cruella snapped her fingers for the bartender to come by. "One more of the same for the little one, and a quarantini for me," she snapped, before shooing them away. The smile came back to match the one that appeared on the stranger's. Was she having her on?

"Quite," she said with a prim smile and a nod. "Talented enough to have my own business, you know. Just moved into town," she added with a bounce of her shoulders.

"A firesuit, good heavens," she said with a roll of her eyes, more disgusted than surprised. After Monty McQueen, here was another one. She leaned back in her barstool, already itching for another cigarette. "Don't tell me you're one of those greasy race-car drivers. No wonder you feel so out of place, darling. Perhaps you ought to have bedazzled one of those firesuits and called it a day, hmm?"

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Vanellope watched the woman's expression as her bills were swept back into her lap. She caught them, folding them back up slowly before tucking them back into her card holder.

"Alrighty then," she said, "I appreciate that." The woman's inflections were starting to make Vanellope's skin crawl. She checked out the woman's dress. It was... Not Vanellope's style, to say the least. Looking up, she dropped her own sticky sweet smile, leaning her chin on her hand.

"It looks like you're very talented," she replied. She brushed her hands over the dress, suddenly feeling very out of place in the garment.

"I suppose I feel bold. Flouncy might be a better word," Vanellope mused. Then she threw back her head and laughed.

"Ha! I'm really not made for a fancy dress. I'm truly more at home in a firesuit and helmet, doing drifts around tight corners, if you catch my meaning," she chortled, sticking her hands out in front of her and miming turning a steering wheel. The gremlin in Vanellope's heart wanted to see just how long this lady would play along with her antics.

[freezingsheep]

It happened!

Weeeeeks ago when I migrated to this hellsite (affectionate) I shared the one thing I’ve actually created - the digital escape games I made during lockdown. I amended the starting forms to add Tumblr as an option for where people found the games and waited for the influx of new players.

And I waited.

And waited.

I even pinned the post to the top of my blog so it didn’t get lost. And then unpinned it a couple of days later when it still had zero notes because it just felt a bit sad. I resigned myself to the fact that maybe Tumblr just isn’t that kind of vibe and let my zero-note post slip shamefully down the stack.

But now look! My first ever Tumblrina!

Unfortunately this one is a 2-player game and only one of the characters was initiated so “A” has not actually gotten past the first screen… but still… I’ll take it!

Link added in case any of you beautiful weirdos were curious and/or fancied making my day.

[marvelousmerylstreep]

meryl streep in quarantine fancam

[le-bronzage-est-delicieux]

#quarantini hour (at Meridian Residences) https://www.instagram.com/p/B97rt1Qg2X4/?igshid=zfk2vdi5ngcb

[thevices]

After three years the rona finally got me. Make a quarantini in my honor friends. I’m fine, mostly just stuffy and annoyed.

I drove all the way across the state and all I got was this stupid head cold

[emsgroovythreads]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Life Is Good Quarantini Pink Tee NWOT.