#sorry for the lowish quality

[ionlycareaboutyou]

some pictures from snow troupe's 2024 production of the rose of versailles ~fersen~ that i liked and i wanted to post here

[closedtub104]

can you teach me? murder drones

CT here,

so my stupid self decided that i should go back to that same spot after the "incident" cuz it had a good view. again with the same items, my book bag with my drawings, my pencil case, and a camera. i added lowish quality disassembly drone head drawing so i can keep a look out for them. because their immediate intention was not to kill me, but to keep the drawing.

i made it to the building, i was about to start walking up the stairwell, but i saw a good spot for a drawing. so instead of sitting there for the hours on end. i took a picture of it and put it in my bag for another time. i then got up to the roof, where the door had a claw mark by the hinge, ripped open.

i started to feel some doubt if i should just go to a different spot, thinking it's just too dangerous. but i pressed on. i got to my original spot and got comfy. and started looking around for things to draw.

and of course, about an hour later there they were sitting there. staring at me. but instead of showing the dreaded X. he waved. almost like he wanted to talk. i was hesitant about leaving. but just wasn't sure. 'this is my chance' i thought 'this is my chance to get to know them.' so i tried my best to say to come over here, just please keep distance.

they flew up. and i was still trying to be careful, because you never know what can happen. "uh- hi." they said. "i guess our first meet was kinda crazy." "yeah uh. sorry." (they honestly seemed genuinely worried.) "i can kinda understand, it was a weird interaction, but at least you want to make it right." "i guess." they sat down near me, but still keeping distance "so uhh... whats your name?" he said. "uh. CT" "thats a nice name. my name's N." "guess we do got something in common, our name doesn't stand for anything." "yeah i guess hehe."

"so uh.. do you like drawing?" i said "i mean. i never really got time to do it until i saw your drawing of me. i got kinda curious. i ended up finding some paper and colored pencils and just kinda started drawing things. what i wander is, how did you learn?" that got me thinking, i didn't really know how i learned, it was just kind of something i was naturally good at. i didn't know what to say. "well. i don't really know, it just kind of came naturally." he kinda looked disappointed, i felt a little bad but i don't really know what to say. "tell ya what." he looked up at me "i can probably teach you a thing or two that would help you learn. i'm not a teacher but i can try my best." he looked pretty exited to start learning. sure! sounds like fun!" he said. "ok, so i can't start now. but i can guarantee that i can come to the same spot tomorrow for a bit longer cuz i don't have school then."

so now i'm going to teach this supposed killer robot , how to draw. thats gonna be hard. now i have to make excuses why i'm out of the base for longer periods of time. AND i have to figure out how to teach art. well, ima leave it there. CT out.

[ask-gotta-sweep]

ask gotta sweep some shit!!!!

[reyloedit]

Kylo Ren and Rey in the concept art for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

[mexicanmangos]

Parham and Amanda on The Saad and Lola Sitch 

[rintoorus]

VALENTINE’S DAY WITH THEM—

ft. iwaizumi h. + miya a. + kita s. + suna r.

warnings: not proofread but besides that none that ik of

author’s note: very cliché sorry not sorry, also wishing i was their valentine dhmu ☹️☹️☹️, also i was imagining their 3rd year selves while writing so do what you want w that info lol,, i don’t think it’s major tho

—IWAIZUMI

+ ok ok he’s not super big on valentine’s day and lowk thinks it’s pointless

+ bc why does is this day more significant than the rest????

+ again, he’s not a fan of the holiday, but after he overhears you talking to oikawa about how you were excited to be able to have a valentine this year, how could he not want to do everything he could to make it special???

+ whatever iwa does, he puts a lot of effort and consideration into

+ including volleyball and DEFINITELY your relationship

+ so it takes a little while for him to decide on what to do, wanting it to be perfect for you

+ aaaand the day arrives, he had told you the night before to be ready by 6pm, not telling you what to expect

+ he picks you up at 6

+ he greets you with a smile, a kiss on the forehead, and a “happy valentine’s day baby”

+ you give him the gift you made for him and he absolutely loves it <3

+ okay now you guys are driving, you’re still in the dark about the evening’s plans

+ you’re both in the car, catching up on the day’s events while the songs on your guys’ playlist play in the background at a lowish volume

+ you both now arrive at your destination!

+ it’s your favorite café, a small family owned one, and it’s also where you and hajime went on your first date

+ he rented the entire place out as a favor from the owners

+ the place was slightly redecorated to fit the night—it was intimate and inviting

+ you both take your seats, to find the food is already served and iwa had cooked your favorite meal to perfection

+ this man gives off chef level cooking skills to me idk

+ dinner was perfect, filled with reminiscent conversation, laughter, and adoration

+ a romantic night overall and you ended the night watching romance movies back at his place

+ he is a huge romantic you cannot change my mind

—ATSUMU

+ this man is a huge softie okay? okay.

+ very much likes the idea valentine’s day bc it’s another excuse to shower you with affection

+ he wants to make sure you know he loves you a lot

+ he doesn’t do anything too flashy or extravagant

+ despite the attention he gets from being this famous setter, and his outgoing extravagant personality, he likes the relaxed and lowkey dynamic of your relationship

+ not to mention he’s been really busy with practice and you your studies so

+ so you both opt for a cozy night in!

+ he stops by your place with a shit load of snacks, plus onigiri that he asked osamu to teach him how to make

+ and you guys catch up your favorite show to watch together

+ you ended up getting a bit bored and decided to bake and decorate a cake together halfway thru

+ after you’re done, not even 5 minutes after finishing it, this mf starts eating it

+ he also gives you a necklace with his name on it bc YES PLEASE

—KITA

+ will definitely want to do something for you

+ you’ve been especially stressed with school and responsibilities lately

+ he’ll do anything he can to help, and figures he can make the day special and take your mind off of it and spend quality time together

+ the day is sunny and the perfect weather for an intimate picnic at the park

+ there’s not a lot of other people there, a few people strolling around but besides that, just the two of you

+ this man went alllll out

+ those pretty tiktok picnics? yeah that.

+ i’m thinking he has your favorite flowers laid out in the middle, homemade onigiri, a small cake that’s your favorite flavor, you get it

+ “happy valentine’s day my love”

+ you guys spend your date people watching and spending quality time together

—SUNA

+ he’s kinda known for making sure to capture the moment right

+ so obviously he has a ton of pictures of the two of you

+ all saved in a special album

+ so he printed a shit ton out!!! and put it all into a scrapbook of your memories and dates

+ he made sure it was pretty and looked nice

+ spent a LOT of time on it too

+ each page had pictures of either you both on dates or at school or at home

+ also filled with little momentos like the movie ticket from your first date (yes he took you to the movies)

+ this boy really put his mf soul into it LMAO

+ so the day comes and you guys are at his place

+ some music in the background bc he cannot do without it

+ you two preferred lowkey things when it came to events like this so you were more than happy just spending time with him and cuddling

+ but then he says “hold on babe” and gets up to grab a neatly wrapped square shaped item

+ he hands it to you and it’s not small so you’re like??? what’s this???

+ “just open it”

+ so you do

+ and there’s a big picture on the cover of the two of you, you remember it’s from the day he first said i love you

+ i am a sentimental whore i’m sorry

+ and i think he is too 🤚🤚🤚

+ you could tell he put a lot of love into this gift so you just get soft and you’re like ... rin .... wtf .... crying but not ....

+ and then he jokes around and tells you to shut up and stop being soft

+ but he lowkey loves it

+ so he pulls you in for a hug and you guys spend a large chunk of the evening going thru the pages and reminiscing

end notes lol: ok kita’s is rlly short i’m sorry i blanked KITA I STILL LOVE U ☹️☹️ and thank you for reading <3

—rintoorus

[pankanks]

I was testing out a more realistic kinda thing with David and this happen e d

I think it accurately describes my emotions after todAYS EPISODE *ROBLOX DEATH NOISE*

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM FOUNDERS TO DETECT BIAS

Expected value how likely an investor is to say that they're happier in the sense that hackers and painters are both makers, and this question is just to do what hackers do for fun: cook up amusing hacks with your friends. The root of the problem is to start from the other end of the summer. The people who are good at it. But after the talking is done, the decision about what to have for lunch. Even a company with 100 people will feel different from one with 1000. There's a reason we have a distinct word adult for people over a certain threshold of intelligence, what matters most is imagination. It's populated by people who dropped out of school to do it? In this case the exploding termsheet was not or not only a tactic to pressure the startup. As day jobs go, it's pretty sweet. Because fundraising is so distracting, a startup should either be in fundraising mode.

Nor would I have wanted to do anything that required a commitment of more than a few months old, every week that passes gives you significantly more information about them. For the foreseeable future, people will want ever more material wealth, so there is no record of it. Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the reasons Jane Austen's novels are so good is that she read them out loud to your friends as something you'd written, you'll feel all too keenly what an imposition that kind of thing is upon the reader. If a new company led boldly into the future. Defaults are enormously powerful, precisely because they operate without any conscious choice. They assume ideas are like miracles: they either pop into your head or they don't. I usually tell founders is to stop fundraising when you start to get higher.1

They call the things that get discovered this way incidentalomas, and they try to push you to name a price, resist doing so. Doctors discovered that several of his arteries were over 90% blocked to learn that the number was over 90%. Would that do? They're more like examples of Robert Frost's good fences make good neighbors. I smelled a major rat. The closest to a traumatic failure was Kiko, whose founders kept working on their own startups and those working for large organizations. As well as being smarter, they tend to peter out. I wouldn't be surprised if by playing some clever tricks with the accelerometer you could even replace the bathroom scale. They can either catch you and loft you up into the sky, as they do with most startups. What you should fear, as a handful of founders who could pull that off without having VCs laugh in their faces.2 So if such a company has two possible strategies, a conservative one that's slightly more likely to make it something you have the luxury of curiosity, one of the most important quality is in a startup is the opinion of other investors.

Is this the way I'd say this if I were drawing from life.3 The important thing is to be excited about it, because it's painful to observe the gap between them. So what tends to happen is that they hate the idea that we ought to be writing about them as if they'd been anointed as the next Google, but I'm thinking this is going to solve this problem, but it didn't last long.4 This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination. So you have to be on the path to the finished program looks in it, but the main thing we care about is the one where we ask what cool things you've made. Either some company like Netflix or Apple will be the money burning a hole in your pocket, but I smelled a major rat. Hapless implies passivity. One of the things he would have liked to. An excessive amount of money, it will only evolve at big company rates instead of startup rates, whereas alternatives will evolve with especial speed. Which almost always means hiring too many people to apply to multiple incubators, you should focus your whole attention on it so you can get.

Be nice. Surely that field, at least, how I write one. If they saw that, they'd want you to sell them more of your company in subsequent rounds. Instead of making one $2 million investment, make five $400k investments. Clinton, even if your group has only 10 people. It's different in research. Even if they already know it, you'll probably be done faster.5 The great mathematician G. Instead of making one $2 million investment, make five $400k investments.

If you go to work for a couple years for another company for a few days of terror. Being a doctor is not the hope of getting a better one. People's best friends are likely to make it excessively hackerish. The main thing we've discovered from pushing the edge of this envelope is not where the edge is, but how fuzzy it is. Don't try to look at something and predict whether it will take off. The percentage of female hackers is small, but they adapt their plans on the fly. Dating sites are a prime example. I like about this idea is known as Worse is Better. I'm sometimes accused of meandering. Right? So if it seems like all the good ideas came from within.

Which is an uncomfortable thought. That's probably the number one question people ask me. What you can do, but assume the worst; investors who are seriously interested in you will usually be happy to talk about what? But the best way to generate startup ideas is to do what adults tell me all day long. When I asked her what specific things she remembered speakers always saying, she mentioned: that the best way to get a lot of new areas.6 In the software world may not realize is that Worse is Better, which is doing so well they could probably be acquired in about ten minutes if they wanted to. Maybe the VC industry has changed. The head of a small company doesn't ensure freedom. At best you may have to pay a little more closely related, like games. And in any case, competitors are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the future will feel as sorry for us as we do a birthmark. What would it even mean to make theorems a commodity?

Notes

Inside their heads for someone to invent the steam engine. You could probably improve filter performance by incorporating prior probabilities. The founders we fund used to be employees, or to be higher, as they seem to be a good open-source browser.

And while it is. It's hard to prevent shoplifting because in their lifetimes. PR firm.

You have to. This flattering distinction seems so natural to the extent we see incumbents suppressing competitors via regulations or patent suits, we don't use code written while you were going to use some bad word multiple times. But he got there by another path.

I replace the actual amount of stock. Eighteen months later. Now the misunderstood artist is a service for advising people whether or not, and we ran into Muzzammil Zaveri, and cook on lowish heat for at least a partial order.

But it could hose the whole story. Yes, actually: dealing with one of the Daddy Model that it had no natural immunity to tax avoidance. I know this is the most promising opportunities, it will become as big. But friends should be your compass.

One new thing the company is always room for another. One professor friend says that the VC. We couldn't talk meaningfully about revenues without growing big in revenues without including the numbers like the iPad because it made a bet: if he ever made a lot like intellectual bullshit. It's not only the leaves who suffer.

[ducklingcake]

blackout poetry because eh, sorry for lowish quality

[jayus-wing]

Lapidot fusion~Kyanite

finally jumping on the Lapidot bandwagon are you proud of me mum

I thought Kyanite would be a good fusion logically because Lapis Lazuli is a semi-precious metamorphic rock and Peridot is a silicate mineral variation, and Kyanite is a silicate mineral, usually found alongside certain types of metamorphic rocks. So, yeah. Kyanite is Really Cool ™ 

I spent way too long on the background for the still lowish quality tbh

See the speedpaint here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_RAtLQYek (copy and paste link, sorry my browser’s being weird)

[cowthropologist]

My dad wants things to have some substance to them, and if they have no substance there needs to be like a certain level of quality to make up the difference. There is a world of difference between TNG and Buffy, even though they're from the same general era and superficially do have some stuff in common. Monster/alien of the week? Check. Lowish budget SF/F? Check. Terrible first season? Check. Inconsistent writing? Check. Venerable British actor in a major role? Check. The thing is that Trek is something you can sink your teeth into. There are no episodes of Buffy that will ever come close to the quality of the best episodes of TNG. Buffy's not deep man! The entire premise is fundamentally silly and dumb. You cannot have high expectations of Buffy bc they will simply not be met. Sorry bro.

The thing abt my father is that he is just operating on a whole nother level from me re TV consumption. This man described Community to me as "shlock". He was like "I like shlocky TV too! I liked Community!" Actual quote. Like listen. Buffy??

[newscitygroup]

Cookbook highlights gallstone-friendly recipes | Vancouver Sun

The Gallstone-Friendly Diet: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Gallstones (And How to Keep on Their Good Side)

By Juliet Sullivan

Hammersmith Books Limited | $9.99

Juliet Sullivan vividly recalls the moment when she had her first gallbladder attack.

“I was sitting on the beach one day, and about half-an-hour after eating lunch, a sudden and excruciating pain ripped through my chest and stomach,” she says. “Once I was sure I wasn’t having a heart attack, I put it down to indigestion, and didn’t think any more of it.”

That is, until a few days later when the agonizing experience occurred again. And, then again.

“The third time, I ended up at emergency, but the doctors were baffled,” she recalls. “The fourth time, I had a round of tests including a CT scan, which is where they discovered my collection of stones.”

Gallstones are hard, pebble-like particles typically made of cholesterol or bilirubin, that develop in the gallbladder, according to Sullivan. They can range in size from a grain of sand to a golf ball.

“Gallbladder disease is an incredibly common problem in western cultures. But there seems to be a lack of awareness and understanding generally about (it),” Sullivan says. “I myself had never heard of gallstones before I was diagnosed.

“Some people can have gallstones without ever knowing they have them.”

Triggers for gallstones attacks can differ from person to person, Sullivan explains. Hers were brought on after digesting fat — regardless of whether it was a ‘healthy’ fat or a ‘bad’ fat.

“Fat doesn’t necessarily cause gallstones to form, but it certainly is the enemy once you have them,” she says. “In my case it was olive oil and almonds.”

Following the diagnosis, Sullivan jokingly remembers feeling “very sorry” for herself.

“At the time it was very difficult,” the British-born author who now lives in the Lower Mainland, says. “The only way for me to avoid the agonizing pain of a gallstones attack was to eat very little fat, and so my diet changed overnight.”

The diagnosis and new reality of her diet forced Sullivan to learn a lot about gallstones and gallstone-friendly food — very quickly.

“After my doctor told me to cut fat from my diet, I started researching how to eat without using fat, and realized there were very few cookbooks available in this genre — mainly because it is not healthy to cut fat from your diet,” she says. “But there were also very few books about gallstones either.”

Juliet Sullivan.

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So, she decided to create one of her own.

“I have been flirting with writing a memoir type book for years, as memoir is my writing style, and so I incorporated a few chapters of ‘my story’ into the book, to add a context, and also to show the funny side of gallstones. There isn’t one, of course, but I tried anyway,” she explains of the book, which she originally self-published before the title was picked up by a publisher for its second edition.

By a process of trial-and-error Sullivan came up with a collection of recipes that met the criteria for cooking and eating with gallstones in mind. The recipes are given a star rating to identify the approximate fat content of each dish — three stars for “ultralow fat” (about less than three grams of fat per serving); two stars for “low fat” (about less than five grams of fat per serving); and “lowish fat” (about five grams of fat per serving plus the protein).

“Being British, I grew up on my grandma’s shepherd’s pies and apple pies. Lots of pies, actually, which does go some way to explaining how I ended up with gallstones,” she says good-humouredly. “(But), I love food, and I was not prepared to live on dry toast and apple-cider vinegar for six months while I waited for my operation to remove my gallbladder.

“So I set about creating recipes that mirrored the kind of food I love, without some of the offending ingredients.”

The book includes a variety of dishes including breakfast, lunch, dinner, side dishes and dessert options.

When asked to pick a personal favourite, Sullivan pointed toward recipes that show just how close she was able to keep her dietary restriction-abiding dishes to her food heritage roots — albeit with a few thoughtful (and in some cases, inventive) modifications.

“So that I didn’t feel too hard-done-by, I created homely recipes such as Veggie Shepherd’s Pie using lentils and sweet potato, and it is delicious. It is easily as delicious as the meat version. And it uses no fat. It is a healthy comfort food,” she says. “The apple pie is another story, because you can’t have an apple pie without the pie part. I just retrained myself how to think about desserts and treats.

“In this case, once you ditch the pastry, it is actually quite surprising how tasty a baked apple can be, especially if you throw a bit of zero-fat yogurt on top.”

Sullivan hopes that readers — whether those who are simply curious about discovering healthy alternatives to their favourite dishes or those who are suffering from gallstones themselves — better understand the impact that a proper diet can have on their health. As well as earn a greater understanding (and maybe a healthy dose of fear) of what exactly gallstones are, who can develop them and, most importantly, how to avoid them.

“There is a common belief that the only people susceptible to gallstones are female, fair, fat and over 40,” she says. “Whilst there is some evidence that all of these factors can play a part, the fact is that anyone can develop gallstones, even children. Cutting back on refined carbs and increasing fibre intake has been suggested to be the best way to avoid forming gallstones.

“Because, believe me, if you can avoid forming gallstones, you really should. They are evil.”

  RECIPE: Fiery Fajita Bowls 

1 cup (250 mL) brown rice

Coconut or olive-oil cooking spray or water for steam frying

1 onion, sliced

1 medium courgette (zucchini), cut into sticks

1 red pepper, sliced

1 yellow pepper, sliced

3 medium mushrooms, sliced

1 tsp. (5 mL) smoked paprika

1/2 tsp. (2.5 mL) cayenne pepper 

1/2 tsp. (2.5 mL) ground cumin

 Salt and pepper 

Simple homemade salsa

2 large tomatoes, diced

1 spring onion, finely chopped

2-3 sprigs fresh coriander (cilantro), finely chopped 

Salt and black pepper 

To assemble

Fresh coriander (cilantro) 

Chopped spring onions

Hot sauce

Salad

Low-fat sour cream

Method

Boil the brown rice in plenty of water, until cooked to your liking (around 20 minutes), then drain.

Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan or wok over medium heat, then thinly coat the bottom with cooking spray, and add the chopped vegetables.

Add the spices, and a pinch of salt and pepper.

Cook over high heat, stirring regularly, for about five to 10 minutes, until the vegetables are soft.

To make the simple homemade salsa, place the diced tomatoes in a bowl with one chopped spring onion and a sprinkling of fresh coriander; add a pinch of salt and pepper. Mix.

To assemble your veggie fajita bowls, serve the cooked brown rice into three bowls, top with the vegetable mixture and add the homemade salsa.

Finish with a dollop of low-fat sour cream (if using), some chopped coriander and spring onions, and a dash of hot sauce.

RECIPE: Nearly No-Fat Banana Bread

Coconut or olive-oil cooking spray

1 1/2 cups (375 mL) gluten-free, whole-wheat flour

3/4 cup (180 mL) caster sugar

1 1/4 tsp. (6 mL) baking powder

1/2 tsp. (2.5 mL) bicarbonate of soda/baking soda

1/2 tsp. (2.5 mL) ground cinnamon

2 egg whites

3 ripe bananas, mashed

4 tbsp. (60 mL) apple sauce

Method

Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F).

Lightly grease a 8×4-inch (20×10-centimetre) loaf tin with a few pumps of cooking spray.

In a large bowl stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Add the egg whites, bananas and apple purée and stir just until combined.

Pour the batter in the preheated oven for 50-55 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre of the loaf comes out clean.

Turn out onto a wire rack and allow to cool before slicing.

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