#they're probably a perfectly cromulent person

[deathspeaker]

Sometimes...

Sometimes you read something that is so... wrong... fundamentally wrong on every level and it's like... yeah we're probably on the same ideological 'side' but like... WHAT ARE YOU READING!? What... mistakes have brought you to these idiots that are so contradictory to evidence, research, and science, to arrive at these points!?

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Day 42: Low-FODMAP Gluten-Free Pork Stir Fry

This turned out pretty great! So much so I almost didn't notice the lack of garlic. This recipe comes together really quickly, so have everything all chopping and mixed before you start cooking. Which is a lesson I learned from experience. Definitely a weekday meal. Without further ado, the recipe:

Low-FODMAP Gluten-Free Pork Stir Fry

1 1/2 - 2 lb pork tenderloin

2 tbsp gluten-free soy sauce

2 tbsp dry sherry, plus another 1 tbsp dry sherry

1/2 c chicken broth or water

3 tbsp oyster sauce

3 tsp sesame oil

2 tsp rice vinegar

1/2 tsp ground white pepper

2 tsp cornstarch

1 lb green beans, ends trimmed and cut into 2 in lengths

1 red or yellow bell pepper (but not green), chopped into strips

1 can water chestnuts, cut into matchsticks

2 in piece of ginger

scallion greens for garnish

salt, pepper, and vegetable oil

Cut the tenderloin up into 1/4 in strips, 2 in long. Combine pork strips, soy sauce, and 2 tbsp of sherry in a bowl and marinade while getting together everything else. Whisk together the remaining sherry, chicken broth, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and cornstarch, and set aside. Shred the ginger and put in a small bowl. Chop everything else.

Heat oil in pan over medium-high heat until just smoking, and cook the pork until well browned and cooked through. Transfer the pork to a bowl. Add the green beans to the now empty pan, with more oil if necessary, and cook until the beans are crisp-tender and spotty brown, about 5 minutes. Transfer to the bowl with the pork. Add the water chestnuts and peppers to the now empty pan, with more oil if necessary, and cook until softened, about 2 minutes.

Clear a space in the center, add more oil, and add shredded ginger. Cook until fragrant, then mix into the water chestnuts and peppers. Add the beans and pork back to the pan and stir to combine. Stir up the sauce and then pour in the pan. Cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce is thickened and reduced, 2-3 minutes. Sprinkle with scallion greens and serve with rice.

I love how quick this came together, and satisfying it was. I had some trouble getting the pork strips as thin as I wanted -- I ended up cutting a bunch of them in half in the pan while they cooked -- which isn't ideal. You could probably screw around with pre-cooking the tenderloin or something. but that would mess with the ease of the recipe, so.

Quick note on FODMAP content: As far as I'm aware, the only ingredient in this recipe with questionable FODMAP content is the chicken broth, as those often have onions, celery, or other high-FODMAP ingredients. I'm just going with the broth because I, personally, feel like it's a small enough amount to squeak under the threshold, but everyone should make the choices they're comfortable with. Water is a perfectly cromulent substitution.

So! Loved the ease of this, and the quickness. Would do again.

Disclaimer: I am no dietician. I'm doing my best to minimize FODMAPs in my diet, but it's possible for me to be misinformed or mistaken about various ingredients.

[hellslayersomething]

thoughts on all the DA4 news this past week, from a tired old veteran who's been wandering the bloodied plains of the DA fandom since Origins' release:

I still don't believe that this game actually exists and won't until it's in my hand, in my PS5, I've clocked 50 hours, and I hit credits.

After the news came out that there were 7 companions, I told a friend I would need a solid 4/7 of them to be pre-existing characters in the canon. Harding, Neve, Lucanis, and Emmerich put it at exactly that number, so good show there.

The "Hero Shooter" character reveal trailer was a massive mistake. BioWare and the influencers they're paying had to spend the past two days doing frantic PR to convince people that the game doesn't actually look like that, it's not indicative of the game's tone, it definitely feels like Tevinter Nights and not Fortnite, and it's not a fee-to-pay live service game. They should have led with the gameplay video.

All of the people freaking out about Lucanis being labelled a "Mage Killer" just goes to show that DA discourse truly is a circle. (Also, read "The Wigmaker Job", it's so good.)

The dialogue suuuuucks. Wow, it's been a while since I've encountered a game that respects its audience's intelligence this little. [Earthquake] Harding: "The tremors are getting worse!" [demons show up] Neve: "And we've got demons!" Is BioWare expecting the core player base to consist of people who have never encountered media before? The extent to which the game over-exposits is quite actually mind boggling. I'm genuinely curious if there's anyone who watched this video who didn't come out of it feeling insulted by the game's lack of trust that you have basic cause-and-effect recognition skills. I know people like to bandy about "media literacy is dead", but surely it hasn't gotten so bad that players need to be told out loud "Watch out for lightning" when a boss shoots lightning at them. I'm hoping this was just included for the sake of the gameplay video, but several of these very bad lines seem pretty integral to what's happening on screen, so I guess we'll see.

The dialogue and voicing for the trash mobs is especially bad. I hate to say the word, but I truly think "cringe" is applicable here.

Nice FFXIV reference. (Listen, if this game is going to play follow-the-leader with any one other game, since apparently DA can't get away from that habit, FFXIV is the one I'd want them to chase. Certainly a better fit than Overwatch.)

The battle system seems fine. Reminds me of DA2's, which was perfectly cromulent. Sincerely, I don't expect deeply satisfying gameplay from DA, they've never delivered it before, no need to start now. Passable is fine.

Happy to see the DA2 dialogue wheel return too. Hope that means the invisible personality system comes along with it.

No rivalry system :( Again :(((((

Seriously though, the marketing for this game is a massive mess and their marketing lead should probably be out of the job. All of the news from this week has led to increased confusion about what the game is, what it's called, whether it is DA4 or not, whether it's a single player RPG or not, whether it's an effective franchise reboot or not--and they're all but shadow-dropping it (theoretically) after 10 full years of releasing no other Dragon Age games. This franchise has close to no momentum (many people considered it outright dead until this week), and now that they're ready to start actually talking about DA4, they've completely stumbled out of the gate and given themselves only 3-6 months to come up with a PR plan to correct for that. Embarrassing, frankly.

I guess that's it. The new gameplay video has returned my mood on DA4 from "absolutely the fuck not" after the character reveal video back to a resounding "I nothing this game", which is...actually maybe a worse place for me to be. The last time I went into game feeling a hollow nothing from the promotional materials, it was FFXVI, and we all know how that turned out for me. Anyway, in conclusion:

[marvelandponder]

The pure glee I have whenever you post one of these is real, just so you know.

Scruffers is indeed a very good boy, confirmed. What he turns into in Equestria is an interesting question and let me give you a picture that raises more questions the longer you think about it:

Have fun!

Anytime you see lettering on a titlecard, that was me! Really interesting to see someone pick up on some of the thought process I put into the lettering - you're bang on for the most part. And Bevin redid the art for this one at one point so I think you got at her thought process too!

You know? I think Radiant Rogue was a typo; I probably meant Radiant Rouge, like the makeup. And then I decided to keep the typo because I thought the name was a bit more interesting. Maybe Rouge is her stage-name lol

Great title-card analysis! They absolutely do reflect where Sunset is emotionally, and tracking the tone of each titlecard as the story goes on is a great place for insight

Okay, so Timber’s pun and hospitality addressing her vegetarianism? 10/10. Sunset’s care for her gf overcoming her desire to stay in bed? 10/10.

The callback to Timber’s thoughts about the point of getting out of bed for bacon? 15/10

Hehehe, yeah, I loved the care they're each showing in their actions here. That's one of the wonderful thing about writing for Equestria Girls: this universe is so full of love that you can bake it into the small actions these characters take for each other. Also, Timber's a great new best friend to Sunset

I haven't considered if Sunset might have ADD/ADHD before, but there are a few signs. Ever since Testing, Testing 123, I've headcanoned Dash as having ADHD because she struggles in structured learning environments, but Sunset's also someone who gets bored if she's not engaged or challenged properly. Interesting thought. If she is, does she know?

The Sparkles are a phenomenal set of people, but exactly how often they see each other, yeah, even in MLP canon it was ambiguous (what with Twilight living in the castle over there in her own dorm).

The idea of Sunset being Solstice's intern/apprentice is legitimately so adorable. She would've been a great clinical intern, if she wasn't dealing with what she is currently

You're the first person to mention that they noticed the connection between seasonal magic and season depression! That is what Solstice referencing here, he's making a pun that also happens to be quite literally true.

Also what a dork. Adorkableness going right up into adulthood. It’s Sunset and Twilight in the future.

As someone who's written a lot of Future Sciset with my old pal Reagan, yeah. Apt comparison. Time might change their bodies, grey them out, and they change and grow as people, but adorkableness is one thing that never really changes. Fun fact: Later on in this story there's a blink and you'll miss it reference to two of the next gen Sciset kid names that Reagan and I made together. I'll tell you when we get there

You never know what could be expanded on in The Ex Files!

I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word

Celestia does love Sunset like daughter, and whether or not she's aware of Scruffers, she's pretty sneaky

Hehe, yeah, Bevin's choices for what to illustrate always delight me. No exception here

::holds up a mirror to you:: Look at it!

Ooo, body swap analysis! Some of this is really close to what I had in mind, some different but still fitting!!!

Timber deserves all the nicknames

Banana suit for Environment? Wait do you go to Waterloo? You might have to answer in our DMs as not to out both of us as Warriors XD

Luna super relates to Artemis for reasons she can't quite put her finger on...

HA!!! I didn't even notice the French thing, that's hilarious XD

Also it probably is his real name, why would he change his last name to directly reflect his powers?

Yeeeaaahh, seems like that would be a bit of a tell if he was trying to hide his magic by changing his identity. Also, how bad must it have sucked when Solstice realized how fitting his name is to the magical powers that isolated him? Talk about prophecy. Thanks, Solstice's dad (who does have a name, but that's spoilers)

Aww, I'm glad the teenspeak is right. It's so fun to write!

I frequently forget about these one-off little comments made, but Flash's aunt defintely intrigues me, too. Flash has always been around outspoken ladies, I guess!

Buh! Barbarian! Buh-buh-Barbarrrrian!

Another thing that slips my mind: Solstice did have kind of a crush on Radiant. Something else took his attention away, strangely...

The crown is something to watch

I love Solstice, and I'm sorry he had to go through all that. But yeah, he's setup as a character who can parallel our girl. Important to keep an eye on that

Timber did say no, contrary to what you might expect! I'll be interested for you to see why as we go on!

You know, I can't blame you for being nervous. To cap this off with another Simpsons reference: x

Empathy for the Devil Commentary: Chapter 9

Rebel Without a Cause

Note: There might be some parts that don’t make sense because even though I edited this thing at least twice I’m still finding errors anyway.

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quinlynn is probably going to tell you that's wrong but for your purposes "bi lesbian" is a perfectly cromulent description

the various complicated words are mostly not used by people you or I would call straight, but honestly I think it's easier to ignore the words and focus on the experiences they're trying to describe — no one word is really a good description of "kind of wanted to be a woman, but mostly because it would make it safer to love the person I loved; now that I'm safe no matter what, I don't particularly want that anymore," but that doesn't make it outside the range of human experience, you know?

I want to go to a gay bar but I’m worried that I’m going to see a cute guy at the gay bar and he’ll think I’m not interested just because I’m a lesbian!

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