#tsp corde

[vellichorom]

what is going ON in this x reader, huh ???

// @ihazmunchies91's THE NARRATIVE PARABLE - chapter 10 is out now! have you read it yet?

[sysig]

Silly goofy StanNarrator (Patreon)

[black--sun]

starter for @jaegersol

A drop of rain hits his cheek, and Ichigo wrinkles his nose and scowls up at a sky that can't decide if it wants to rain or not.

He drops is gaze back to the street around him where it belongs before some dumbass can get the bright idea to mug him while he's not paying attention. It’s been weeks since he’s been to this side of town, but it seems like longer. He’s not sure why. It’s the same shoddy businesses, the same aimless people dappling the street, leaning against walls or squatting in doorways before being shooed off by angry business owners, drug addicts with hollow cheeks and vacant eyes. But all the eyes here start to look empty after a while. 

He hasn’t missed it. 

Ichigo pushes his hands into his pockets as he walks, heading toward Renji’s, stepping into a cross street and ignoring the blare of a horn. He hasn’t missed it, not at all, yet it’s hard not to feel the familiarity, like he’s a puzzle piece snapping into a shape he already knows. Even his posture falls to match the slumped shoulders around him. He doesn’t belong here or maybe he does and he’s kidding himself. 

His old apartment is here. The one he keeps for a few bucks paid to a grimey landlord just in case he ever needs a spot to lay low. Like a foxhole, and about the size of one. 

He stops at the corner and pushes his hood from his head, pawing at orange hair that’s getting too long. He’ll have one of the guys cut it. They do a good job. Assuming anyone’s sober.

[jellyfishgummy]

tsp audiobooks AU!

Stanley's the mic and Narry/Neil is the radio, barely have any lore on them lmao. Both of them are narrators.

Their team is called "The Parable Hour" since each short story goes for almost an hour, idk they tell stories mainly made by Neil or alternatively a few other writers that work with them.

Their works are kinda popular on some audiobook apps.

Outside of working on audiobooks, Stanley is a graphic designer and Narry is a film director.

Stanley's mic filter "tails" are used as masks that express different emotions, god knows what changes the symbols on each filter often.

Neil has electrical cord or outlet tails that he can replace anytime and use anywhere, it's mostly just out of a design choice but he can hack things and influence them to his will... or get hacked himself.

the adventure line is a springy-like thing that is wrapped around the electrical cords!

Since Narry likes to yap and my Stanley likes to listen, I made Stanley be the "receiver" and Narry the "sender" or something.

Their world is mixed with humans and humanoids with objects as heads.

Jim is their bartender friend from a bar they usually go to(the humanoids can still drink, surprisingly), Curie/Cynthia is Neil's "sister" who helped them get popular through advertisements in her library with a mini museum(im unoriginal fr), and Mariella is an actor from one of Neil's films; and close friend for the both of them that got them into doing audiobooks. i might not post much about them haha edit: changed from radio show to audiobooks

[harvestmoss]

Mabon

Here is what I have planned for Mabon, just like last sabbath, this includes activities, food, some spells, etc. It's more of a blog type post rather than tutorial. But perhaps this could inspire some of you into what to do today or next Mabon or whatever!

🍞 Foods

Apple Pie:

190c, 20-30 min.

Add 320g flour, 15g sugar, and a pinch of salt. Then add 220g butter. Slowly add 90 ml ice cold water. Careful not to warm up the butter, the crust must stay cold.

Add 6 apples, lemon juice, 130g brown sugar, 2 tbsp flours, cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice, cardamom, etc. 

Place the filling inside, then the second crust part on top, brush with an egg yolk.

Coffee:

1 tsp spice mix of cardamom, cinnamon, all spice, clover, a bit of pepper, nutmeg.

1 bit of caramel syrup.

1 tsp sugar.

Pour in coffee.

Top it off with foamed latte milk and a bit of the spice mix for decoration.

Fruits:

Mabon is the celebration of the second harvet, the fruit harvest, so I'm planning on eating lots of fruits like fig, apple, and berries, because that's what I have currently in the fridge. I'll have a glass of wine for dinner as well, my dinner is not Mabon themed this time around so no need to write it here.

🍎Spells

Bury a needle or a knife underneath your front door, it’ll kill anything you don’t want entering and protect your home.

Create a protective belt by cleansing the fabric or cord through smoke. Ornament with bells, mirror, charms, amulets, satchels, beads, etc. If it’s a cord, add 9 knots.

Carve a candle with your information and add desires to it. Dress it with Flying Devil Oil, light it for protection and to rid yourself of minor curses you might have let hang on to you.

🍂 Activities

I'm planning on swimming this afternoon-evening.

I'm planning on watching a movie tonight.

I'll be doing a bit of cleaning.

[disruptivevoib]

Voib I absolutely Adore your aus so far, and I'm incredibly intrigued by the mysterious chatroomverse rp. It reminds me very much of me and my friends' own setup, where we nickname our hms/w variants and have them interact in Discord through the tupperbox bot. The Sun Down names are very similar to my Heart and Mind, called Suture and Cord respectively, lmao. (Soul is Titan, which... doesn't fit in with them very well. Might change that for him, might not. Sorta suits his relationship with them.)

Anyways, ramble over. I'd love to see more, please do share what you're willing to show!

Anon that is exactly what we do LMAO

Chatroomverse/Cjverse is in a private discord server with tupperbots and we have.. WE HAVE A LOT OF GUYS.

I myself am pushing upwards of 20 guys, about 14 of which are from aus where only I own them. A lot of us have made collaborative for fun efforts.

I'm thrilled to hear other folks do it too! Though I know CJFS (the discord server for CJ fans) has an RP section already anyway!

Suture and Cord are.. brilliant names omg.

Yarn, Coil, and Twine came about because they have strings and other Chatroom members thought it apt to dub them as such!

I am always willing to share literally anything about Cjverse/Chatroomverse! I am also, however, unsure what people want to hear in regards to these guys! There is a lot of information about them since this RP began back in April of this year!

We have before considered making a Tumblr blog about Cjverse.. just for funsies mainly too! Dunno though if there's really an interest though for that kind of thing!

I do think I want to share some of the memes I've drawn for it more. Idk if I've ever posted those, actually. In RP Quotes are fun too.

As for the AUs I have in the Rp, it is relatively all of them! Eleutheromania, Sun Down, Lacuna, Swap and even ones I've never spoken about which are collaborative: Syncopation, AI thirds (those no context doodles were them all along), TSP au, Good Day Au (newest one), Labyrinths, and so on.

Which those AUs I love very very much and would be thrilled to explain at least Sync, Ai, and Laby. Good Day needs not to be revealed.. spoilers for chat members, and TSP is the Stanley Parable but thirds! So nothing to.. big there!

This is a long post. Sorry Anon!

[epersonae]

The Cooking Project: Yakitori-don

The next card in the stack was a recipe from a friend who I believe lived in Japan for a year. She shared it in Slack, and I wrote it down on a card because free Slack instances have limited history availability. (there will be another recipe later, I think, with a similar origin) I don't know exactly how long ago I wrote it down (2 or 3 years ago, probably), and I've never made it.

Summary: pretty good, would make again with a couple of mods. Unfortunately, there will be a long digression into rice cooking first.

Recipe text, transcribed

Yakitori-don (from Amanda C.)

2-4 chicken breasts 1 c soy sauce 1/2 c sugar 1 tsp garlic salt 1 onion, chopped

all into crock pot on low, 8 hrs [arrow leads to a notes that says try instant for 10 min & quick release] shred chicken, stir back into sauce serve over Nishiki (?) rice

[Nishiki rice, when I looked it up, turns out to be a medium grain white rice similar to Calrose. we'll get to Problems With Rice next]

Things that happen when you move while Trauma, or: Problems With Rice

So my favorite way to make rice, not owning a rice cooker, is with an instant pot. As it happens, I own two of them, because Ryn brought one when they moved out here. Which, I thought: perfect! One for the chicken and one for the rice.

Except, as it turns out, Ryn's rice cooker has a detachable cord. Which was detached at some point presumably in August or September 2021, and is........ SOMEWHERE. Is that somewhere in the box, which is probably in the garage? Is it in another shelf in the kitchen behind a bunch of stuff? Is it in the landfill? I have no idea (yet).

[the Instant Pot that betrayed me]

Which means there was only one instant pot, which is a lot less fun than there was only one bed.

I didn't buy medium grain white rice for this recipe, because I had long grain on hand, and, eh. But that means that my rice is in a container and does not have cooking instructions. So I opened up my trusty copy of How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, which I think I got as a Christmas present like 10 years ago, on the assumption that it would have the usual X rice to Y water for Z time formula that one might find on the back of a bag of rice. Instead, he suggests a method that is "Far easier and more reliable [...] which will work well for any kind of white rice at all" that involves a lot of watching and fiddling with the heat. (which on a gas stove can be quite tricky!) Without getting too deep into it:

I think it might have been cooked properly at the bottom, but the top was almost entirely uncooked. So I started over using his microwave method, which was fine (slightly undercooked) but also got wet starch all over the inside of my microwave. Do not recommend.

tl;dr: If I can't find the power cord for that instant pot, I will probably be buying a rice cooker.

Ok, but how was the chicken?

My one mod in prepping is my standard: I hate the texture of onion, cooked or raw, and at some point I discovered that grating an onion gets the umami of it without the texture. So I did that.

Dumped everything in the instant pot (two chicken breasts, btw), stirred it around a bit, and then set it for ...

Possibly 8 minutes, because I was distracted by all the rice shenanigans, and was just glancing at the card when I set the timer, and uh, may have read the number next to "crock pot" instead of the number next to "instant".

In any case, I did that, set it for 5 minutes before releasing (because that matched the time the microwaved rice needed to sit), and shredded, then let that sit for a little bit while I did a few other things in the kitchen.

[none of the photos I took are particularly good or interesting, tbh]

Final thoughts

It was: fine. I think I just don't really like chicken breast very much; the whole thing definitely needed a fat of some kind to be properly satisfying. But also, it's hard to go wrong with soy sauce and sugar and garlic and onion. I will say that I think cooking the onion raw in liquid made the house smell weird.

It was a decent dinner, made just enough to have leftovers for lunch today. Mostly I wish I'd had some snow peas or something, tho.

I will probably make it again with the following modifications: chicken thighs instead of breast, and either onion powder or saute the onion first for a little better onion flavor (slash less-weird house smell).

If I were being ✨ fancy ✨, I'd reduce the sauce a bit, maybe with a little cornstarch, and I can see where this is probably a big difference between crock pot (which I don't own) and instant pot.

All of that contingent on actually being able to make good rice, though.

[thewhizzyhead]

also i find it really cool how kevan brighting aka the dude who plays the narrator in the stanley parable is quite interactive with the fanbase in contributing to their own works based off the stanley parable. like, he literally lent his voice to a short film inspired by TSP alongside other videos he starred in. that's really really cool

[hellofastudysession]

[I.D.: Drawing of the mannequin that's Stanley's wife (TSP), who's smiling big and cheerful at the camera and standing in its kitchen. She has cartoonish freckles, no arms, no hair, and no eyes. A cord twines around her in loops and curls, leading to a phone seized above her with a floating hand, and a plug in the wall that's about to be delicately unplugged by another hand.

More of her hands are in the background, doing things like adjusting a bucket's tie, carrying a tray of fresh bread, and pressing the microwave's button. The cords, the phone, the plug, and Stanley's wife's freckles and cheeks are all bright neon shades of green and yellow, contrasting the dull olive-brown background, which makes a house-shaped silhouette. End I.D.]

hi, stanley!

[morgandria]

A bit of honey.

I’m late, but this is my #HaggingOut for July on the theme of Honey. It’s more a collection of things regarding bees and some recipes, since I didn’t have any active honey-based projects in July.

I love bees. I always have. I think of bees as a symbol of plenty and fertility, and a sign that a place is thriving. You can’t have a healthy land and a hearty harvest without the work of bees. Like most mammals I dislike getting stung, but it’s rare, and I’m rather content to let them buzz around me so long as we’re not pissing each other off.

Every summer I have a companion spirit that moves with me, who arrives in May and leaves by Canadian Thanksgiving. Grackle is a common guest. Last summer it was Garden Spider. I’ve had Frog, Toad, Snail, Spider, Garter Snake and Dragonfly. But most often it’s Bee, usually in the guise of a bumblebee.

I have made many lovely pieces of jewelry featuring bees over the years, a few of which I’ve kept with me:

And there’s a few that have moved on, but still remain favorites. I made a ritual cord that had bee charms for the tassel ends, and a full set of Aset regalia for a fellow covener’s first time as the vessel in an Invocation ritual that featured bees. I cannot think of things Kemetic without thinking of “They of Sedge and Bee”.

My grandparents always had buckwheat honey, which is strong and dark and thick, and that’s where my palate has stayed. I like most honey, but buckwheat honey from the fields around me sings to me. I buy my own honey from a local farm at the farmer’s market who really work hard to nurture the local native landscape. They also sell a huge bucket of their regular honey that let me bake and Craft with it to my heart’s content for quite a while.

I’m going to share two recipes, and then toddle off:

http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/09/majestic-and-moist-honey-cake/

Smitten Kitchen’s Honey Cake is hands down the best recipe I’ve tried. I stud mine heavily with nuts, more than they call for, but it’s equally as good without. I’m sure with some finangling it can be made suitable for various diets (although not vegan). I heartily recommend that you use 1tsp. of baking powder, though, and not 1 tbsp!

And I’ll share a simple Honey and Oat salt scrub recipe for the bath - it leaves the skin glowing and smells amazing.

Honey and Oat Sugar Scrub

2 c. Sugar

1 c. honey

1/2 c. oats

2 tsp. vanilla extract or 5 drops vanilla oil

That’s it from me for #haggingout! See you again soon, hags.

[sysig]

It’s him.......lad...........

[notpup200]

pup do you have any tsp stanley or narrator headcanons answer quickly (or dont it doesnt matter)

Oh hello! Sorry, it wont be quick bc I just woke up.

Let's see, headcanons huh?

Well, some of these may not be headcanons? Sorry if they aren't:

- Mute Stanley, for one. I know, its basic of a hc, but it's good okay- (points to the Not Stanley ending)(points to the entire game)

- Narrator wears glasses! He reads a lot in the story, plus it's very easy to imagine him adjusting his glasses during that one bit in the matentice tunnel.

- Trans Stanley. Enough said.

- Autistic Narrator. I just enjoy this one. Hehe. (More or less because he states in the Serious Room ending, that he has a hard time reading human emotions. Like hrgrgrg me too.)

- the idea that the Narrator is just a shadow on the wall that follows Stanley. This one is neat to me, because during some parts of the story, the Narrator seemingly can't leave Stanley? Not sure why that is, so the idea that he's attached to Stanley somewhat is fun to imagine.

- In Zending, Narrator can mimic the glowing lights of the colors during it.

- Stanley is either married still, or divorced. (Seeing as Narrator is the concept of divorce.)

- 432 is mostly glitched out, and I imagine they left the office space somehow, and ended up in the files / code of the Parable. (Gaster moment)

- Curator definitely has her hair in a bun, and glasses with those little hanging cord things also.

- Mariella works in the same building Stanley does! Biggest headcanon for me, I feel. I think it makes sense? Plus, I dunno. I think it's fun to imagine Mariella having her own Parable. Perhaps it's the business meeting, when all of a sudden, her co-workers seemingly vanish.

- adding onto the Mariella Parable thing, we see Stanley's model walk past a window in an Easter egg, which is odd, because shouldn't we see a different model? Just saying, I think that Easter egg is meant for Mariella's Parable, but somehow ended up in Stanley's.

- Narrator, while seemingly omnipresent, doesnt know everything in the Parable. (Escape Pod Ending, Confusion Ending, etc etc) So I like to imagine hes just some nerd in a booth, who pretended to make TSP. Just some guy! A stage guy, if you will.

- Narrator is a Theatre nerd. He so obviously is. Theatre kid. (Points) nerd.

Yeah that's all I got for now.

If I can recall anymore, or add on anymore, maybe I'll rb this and add on to it.

Anyways, enjoy that, I guess?

[jbird-the-manwich]

Warding and Protection During Spirit Flight

      This Post is for and dedicated to @ivycrownedwitch, who generously commissioned me for research by way of donation to the CvltSqvad Fundraiser, to gather together spells or talismans on warding, and protection during spirit flight. NGL, This was a bit of a tricky ask, and I honestly wasn’t sure where to start to find historical examples 😅 However, the search was not entirely fruitless at least from an operative witchcraft angle, and I found a few solid examples, and enough related information that anyone interested should be able to build out a warding method from a variety of materials for a variety of use cases. 

In The Viridarium Umbris,  Daniel Schulke  lists a variety of plants that could be allied to suit the purpose with a little ingenuity:

                                                 Of further interest to the topic of protection while outside the body, are these sections of Roger J Hornes Folk Witchcraft: A Guide To Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner::

      “Mallow is often prepared as an unguent and applied to the body in order to protect against harm and cushion the wearer from metaphorical “barbs” he or she may experience.”

       “[...] Simple talisman is made of rowan berries, pierced and dried, then strung on a red thread. Over it, the following charm is spoken to awaken its protective qualities:  

                        Rowan Berry and red thread,

                       Bring all evil to its sped.” 

     “[..] charm of defense and blessing was used against “elf-shot” a kind of attack from the spirit world that could be performed by faeries or by witches during spirit-flight. 

                       I charge thee against arrowshot,

                      against doorshot, against wombshot,

                      against eyeshot, against tongueshot,

                      against livershot, against lungshot,

                      against heartshot, all the most.

                      In our Lady’s name, I pray it.”  

      In Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways, Author Gemma Gary Provides the following: This recipe, apparently intended to be employed as a sprinkling powder: 

                             “To raise a protective boundary in preparation for potentially dangerous, harmful, or unfamiliar situations and in cases of suspected ill-wishing:

Clove Oil - 5 drops

Dragons Blood - 2 tsp

Fern - 3 tsp

Frankincense - 1 tsp

Holly - 1 tsp

Horehound - 1 tsp

Juniper - 1 tsp

Mint oil - 3 tsp

Mullein - 1 1/2 tsp,

Pine needles - 1 tsp,

Alum 1 - 1 1/2 tsp

As well as the following charm: 

“An old iron key, tied to a red cord that passes through a hag stone, is another charm that employs the holed stone to bestow otherworldy protection upon the home and all who dwell within it, whilst also making use of the potent protective qualities of iron”

In The Black Toad, The same author provides these examples of protective warding talismans, which could likely be put to good use for the purpose*:

The following paper talisman found in the Black Toad is an interesting example of talismanic magic, and several variations of this seal exist, a version also appears in Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft:

       Within The Galdabrok, (Flowers translation) are found a number of talismans for similar ends, which could also be leveraged specifically for the purpose of astral travel:

                        The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells By  Judika Isles is likely my least favorite texts to source, but does list the following: 

“ROLOR Square 

This magic square allegedly enables you to fly like a crow. Write the following onto parchment, preferably using Raven’s Feather Ink [Typo?] 

R O L O R

O B U F O

L U A U L

O F U B O

R O L O R

Pin this paper to your chest. Close your eyes, relax, and see whether you fly.” 

The same text recommends an incense for spirit flight,  originally authored by  Dion Fortune:

“Benzoin Dittany of Crete Sandalwood Vanilla bean Grind all the dried ingredients into a fine powder, burn on lit charcoal [..]”

As well as another incense, composed of Mugwort and Dittany of Crete, also employed as a powder, and recommends petition of the Goddess Artemis:

“Dittany of Crete and Mugwort, two herbs closely associated with Artemis, offer assistance with accomplishing astral projection, and protection during the journey.”

Burn the Herbs as incense to accompany your journey

fill a pillow with the combined herbs

Simultaneously appeal to Artemis for assistance with your goal”

And recommends maintaining Air Potatoes (Dioscorea bulbifera) on your property to prevent uninvited witches from reaching your home through spirit flight.

Again, thanks to @ivycrownedwitch​ for commissioning me for research by way of donation to the Cvltsqvad Fundraiser for Sloth!

If you would like me to dig up some spells in a similar vein from these and similar texts, please read the pinned post on my blog and make a donation to our fundraiser! 

[crystalherbalist]

banishment tea 🕯🗡

to banish unwanted energy, advances, conflict, or just about anything else.

water

cinnamon sticks

blackberries

ginger (don’t peel it)

chili powder

black tea

honey

black peppercorn

boil 2 cups of water, add 2 sticks of cinnamon, ~1/2 in nub of ginger, 1 tsp black tea, 3 blackberries, 3 black peppercorns, 2 tsp honey, dip the pad of your index finger into chili powder and rub it off with your thumb into the pot, steep 3-5 min.

optional;

charging with a black candle and/or crystals

new moon water

tie a red cord on your mug handle to further enhance the spells effects

ideal at night or in a dark space

-

as you can probably tell this might not be a flavour profile everyone will love, but its potent as hell and gets the job done, and the taste is not nearly as offensive as you might think, i actually really love it personally!

[annesnevilles]

i watched the second episode of tsp and i’m really glad my mom is cutting the cord on our cable so i won’t be tempted to waste my time on this ridiculous show again. 

[etraytin]

Quarantine, Day 195

September 22

Outdoor virtual school was a rousing success! We packed up a little kit for our journey of snacks, supplies and electronics and hiked a few buildings away to set up on the grassy lawn near the complex's playground. I spread out a blanket like we were picnicking and we got a little work station going with his notebook, pencil and Chromebook. I opened up my hotspot and we were on our way! We made hot drinks because it was about 60 when we went out, so he had his cocoa and I had my coffee in travel mugs, plus I brought all the components for complicated cracker snacks. While he was doing his morning meeting, I slathered butter crackers with cream cheese, sliced up summer sausage and spooned on bits of jelly (apricot for him, lingonberry for me because IKEA is amazing) to make little savory-salty-sweet snacks. The kiddo was skeptical the first time I offered him one of these and he is still not a lingonberry fan, but now they are his favorite. 

The nice thing about virtual class outside, besides the pleasant breeze and general feeling of finally being outdoors, is that when you are a few feet from a playground it is easy to stretch one's legs. I have been keeping an ear on the kiddo's virtual learning session but I hadn't really noticed until today how much of it is still troubleshooting each individual kid's connection/ability to navigate/ familiarity with filling out online forms. It's still the beginning of the second full week of classes and I'm sure it's going to get smoother over time, but anybody who has sat in a Zoom meeting with a non-savvy colleague can understand how boring it can be to listen to somebody else try to fix their computer in real time. This is exacerbated by the fact that they are currently doing a lot of review from last year still and it can be kind of boring too. Letting the kiddo run off and swing on the monkey bars and calling him over when it was time to learn again was very helpful for his energy level and general contentment. 

We stayed outdoors until the lunch break and then went inside to eat spaghetti and feed the kittens. My husband decided that today would be a good day to have classes in the kitten room, which was very funny except I had to be there the whole time they were out because otherwise they were running across his keyboard and chewing on cords and otherwise being very naughty and disruptive to the learning experience. The students did seem amused though. He also gave the rescue a plug for when students returned to campus. It's right down the street from the university, so a nice place to volunteer. Kiddo's afternoon lessons are shorter than his morning lessons, so he wrapped those up and went back outside to play. Outside is fun! 

Here are the furry piranha descending upon a hapless plate of gooshyfood. It never even stood a chance! The rescue coordinator called today and offered to send Sebell and Robinton to another foster and leave me with just the girls until they hit two pounds. I said I would keep the whole gang until everyone is two pounds and can go together. It'll only be a couple more weeks, and I just got a shitton of kitten food in the mail today anyway. They go in Sunday for booster shots and the boys get their flea prevention, yay! Fifty percent fewer kitten baths in our future! In other news, that call taught me that I cannot take phone calls and hotspot for virtual schooling at the same time, which is important to know.

  In the afternoon, I popped down to the city south of us and got some free butternut squash from one of my TNR friends who has many many many. This was amazing because down here in the South, squash never seems to dip below a dollar a pound and that gets expensive! Butternut squash is my favorite, too. In return I traded her my famous butternut squash soup recipe, which may compel her to keep the rest of her squash, because it is just that amazing. Check this out: 

Butternut Squash Soup 3 cups roasted butternut squash (about 1 big roasted squash) 1 cup sweet onion, diced large 3 cups hot water, 3 tbsp butter, 1 brick (8oz) cream cheese 4 cubes (4 tsp) chicken bouillon 1 tsp marjoram, 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper Equipment: Big sauté pan or dutch oven, big bowl, blender, spoon, spatula

In a large sauté pan or heavy-bottom dutch oven, melt butter and sauté onions until soft and semi-translucent. Stir in marjoram and cayenne pepper. Add roasted squash and mix well. Stir in hot water and add bouillon cubes (crushing the cubes makes this step faster.) Allow mixture to come to a boil, stirring frequently.  Put 1/2 brick of cream cheese in the blender, then add 1/2 of hot squash mix (or whatever will fit, no more than 2/3 full)  and blend until very smooth and creamy. Repeat with rest of cheese and squash, pouring all finished soup into a serving container, stir well and heat up again if needed, then serve.  This is very, very good soup, you guys. I almost always double or triple the recipe because it all gets eaten so fast. (And the recipe is kind of small, tbh). I got it from Allrecipes back in the day but have tweaked it over the years. Original recipe called for twice as much cream cheese and white pepper as well as cayenne, but it was not as good.  Anyway, this is turning into a huge monster post so I'll just say that I did a grocery store mystery shop that went well and let me get a lot of things that were deeply on sale, then visited the day-old bread store and because it was discount day got an extra 20% off. We still need lots of groceries, but having stuff like bread, milk, eggs and Hamburger Helper probably means I won't have to do a big grocery thing til payday. Go us! Also the new Allie Brosh book, Solutions and Other Problems, was released today and we got it because we preordered. The kiddo and I are reading it together. It is amazing and you should get it.