#well not photography but just cool pics I take

[notbulger]

Close to the sun

[blujayonthewing]

[softly, and with a lot of feeling] holy shit

[skitskatdacat63]

I wish I could post some of my photography from today, but it's a bit too specific so I don't wanna dox myself shkfkgkg but ahhhh man I love taking pics whenever I go to the city 🥰

[kuzure-collapse]

someone who's way too chill about having a yandere that likes them

to the point where it seems more like a comedy than a terror trope

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oh, you've stalked all my social media accounts, learned my routine and hobbies, and researched all my likes and dislikes? nice, we can skip the small talk then

you want to move in with me? sure, rent is expensive these days, we can split the cost

you stole my dirty clothes and used them for nefarious things? they were getting old anyway. just replace them with newly bought ones and we're cool

you don't want me hanging around those people anymore? you think they'll steal me away? jokes on you, no one wants me. you have zero competition

you've been collecting fallen strands of my hair for your own keeping? why not collect them from my room? i tend to shed a lot and i don't have time to sweep so it would be a huge help

your room is plastered with pictures of me? huh, I've never been one to take pictures of myself. i guess it's nice to have another person taking care of that. i needed a new profile pic for my linkedin anyway. you're really good at photography.

you made dinner for me drugged with sleeping pills? thanks, I've been having trouble sleeping recently. the food was delicious by the way

you want to share a bed with me? well i guess it's been pretty cold since the landlord cut heat. come here

[noctqrnxl]

can we just. take a moment. to appreciate enzo's instagram. everything from his posts to his captions to his song choices to his stories—they're all pErFECT.

like have you SEEN the pics he posts?? i literally love photography and he is SO TALENTED. i can only DREAM of clicking pictures like his someday.

AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE POETIC SHIT HE POSTS SOMETIMES. seriously, i always look forward to reading those (well reading the shitty insta translation anyways). he neeeeeds to publish a poetry book. i'd devour it in a day!!!

anyways that's it, i just needed to appreciate how cool and aesthetic this man's account is. he knows what he's doing and he knows he's good at it. i love that. may he keep blessing us with his posts.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[spaceacealex]

Trip report!!

For those that have been waiting, sorry! I got home and immediately had to go help with a family thing. But here it is!

First, was the obvious. We had to drop off the baby boy with my parents. He had a great time with the family and was very dirty, stinky, and sleepy when we got back.

So where were we? We went to see the eclipse! As many of you know, My wife proposed to me under totality in the 2017 solar eclipse. So she surprised me with time off to travel to this last one on 4/8!

We flew to Nashville, TN and rented a car so I could scratch my road trip itch. We visited her family in KY, then went up to Cairo, IL for the event.

THIS is the public library in Cairo. It's an absolutely darling building, built originally to be a library and still proudly serving that purpose. The gals who were manning the counter were sweet, knowledgeable, and so welcoming. They had goodie bags with moon pies and starbursts and collected the eclipse glasses when we were done with them so they could be sterilized and sent down to Mexico for the next eclipse. So lovely to talk with and they welcomed us to spend the eclipse on their lawn with some local families. So we did!

We had a little picnic, chatted with some of the families, and got to watch totality in a tiny little town with so much character I still smile just thinking about it.

Hopefully you don't expect us to have top tier eclipse photography lol, but these are great for us! I got to kiss my wife under totality and it was hella romantic.

Then I got to drive more....then Kara got to drive because there were a ton of accidents and the three hour drive back to Nashville took more than six hours. So uh, my motion-sick self was struggling with the stop and go traffic.

But when we got there, we had a great night and then day walking around Eastside Nashville and pointing out the arcades I was going to take Kara to that evening.

That didn't quite happen.

Because the first stop we made in the arcade crawl is where we stayed all night.

No Quarter, the pinball arcade I now have a hat for because it's so friggin cool. We got to do many cool things there. 1)They had excellent drinks and in true Oregonian fashion I got to try the local cider and judge it. (it was good!) 2) I kicked Kara's ass at pinball. Very important. 3) I got MY ass kicked at pinball by literally every other person in the building. Also very important. Because 4) I got to play in a pinball tournament hosted by Belles and Chimes, specifically for women and non binary folks!

How did I, notorious nerves-haver and not a multiplayer pinball player join this?

5) I got to meet Quinn Hills. You know, @quinnhills ? Yeah. I'm still so giggly about it.

Hi. This pic is me, many drinks in, just absolutely giddy getting to meet (and hug!!) one of my favorite artists.

She's so sweet, so kind, and asked if I wanted to join the tournament.

Remember: do what beautiful women ask of you.

I am still kicking myself because I dropped the cliche, "your music has helped me through some really hard stuff." I mean, its absolutely true!! But I had told myself I was gonna be more eloquent than that. Oh well. I would blame the cider, but I was super excited and nervous before that, so I think I'm just a little goofy.

Kara also was happy to meet the woman who's music I had been blaring for that whole six plus hour car ride back to Nashville, and she's agreed to play pinball with me at our home bar! Major win!

We stayed until one in the morning, Kara ordered pizza to the hotel, and we had safe flights back home the rest of the day.

It was such a fun trip and I'm still losing my mind at all the little bits of it.

When I stream next (soon) I'm sure you'll hear about all this again. Along with my breakdown of eclipse conspiracies I've spent far too much time analyzing. <3

[lallelol]

So i recently found out that people could make colored pictures back in the days where you only had black and white photography at your disposal, using a process called

Trichromatic Photography

https://shootitwithfilm.com/trichromatic-photography/

You basically put red, green, and blue filters in front of the camera lens, snap 3 different b/w pics with each filter, and if you were using a projector you could project the red-coded b/w image through another red filter, same for green, same for blue, allign the projections, and boom. Color.

Which sounds a lot like the Screen / Addition effect on digital programs

So i tried it myself, and instead of using a b/w camera with a color filter over it and then tinting the image with that color (as you could do with Multiply? Probably), i just used LEDs

and i know this isn’t uncharted territory, but boi

Original:

Trichromatic Addition:

Using Screen effect on the red, green, and blue images, and switching the combinations of visible/invisible layers:

The pics do suck and they are very poorly aligned, but this makes for such a cool chromatic aberration

I think I’ll keep using it for pics, honestly it’s just fun stuff to make

Before you wonder, the colors aren’t very well balanced, but my wall is in fact pink

[margareturtle]

Ngl I think TWP would be hilarious as simply a social media au—kinda SOBH Style

Somethings it would include:

- Kit tweeting publicly about his angsty feelings for Ty (convinced he’s safe bc Ty would never be on twitter)

- Dru and Kit have a snap streak through which we see snapshots of there povs

- Dru teaches Ty about Tumblr where he has a blog about the cases he’s investigating (he uses fake names—but shadowhunters would never see it so he’s safe) and Ty gets a ton of ppl following his blog for updates

- Dru has an insta where she does outfit of the day and has a run down of the day (but she has a pic from the beginning and end of the day—sometimes it’s the same but sometimes it’s rly messed up from demon fights or messy and people are invested in her stories in the comments)

For ex: Dru somehow has service in faerie; beginning of the day: fishnets and horror t under corderoy overall shorts. End of the Day: a full whimsical faerie dress (today was a long day guys)

The only person Dru follows is Isabelle Lightwood (who she bonds with over fashion and teaches millenial Izzy about insta)

- Blackthorn Family Gc (there’s a lot of convos between Helen+Aline, Dru+Emma, Dru+Tavvy (he has a mini ipad) etc that Julian’s like “does this have to be in the main family gc?!” “YES”)

- Herongraystairs Family Gc (it’s just Jem, Tessa, + Kit—it’s mainly Jessa: hey kit, do you think you’ll be coming home soon, no worries if not, just let us know— then Kit: responds with a vine or meme Tessa: *confused at first till she reads up on them and starts replying in memes*)

- Kit’s youtube channel— Kit interviews “my 150 yr old parents* about historical events they’ve lived through asking the *important questions* ppl just think they’re phd historians with SUPER niche interests

- Thais loves photography and takes cool pictures of a lot of shadowhunter things and nature for her insta and for Dru’s as well ofc

- thais and jaime rivalry on twitter— no matter what the other says they will disagree (kinda jace simon dynamic)

- Ash is a gamer (he’s done all the games in thule lmao) and he does streams—ppl think his commitment to faerie cosplay is cute

- Anush helps Ty with his blog, but he’s also on Snapchat where he has Dru and so we get insight to the scholomance and Ty in the background of a lot or snaps

- sidenote: Izzy is also obsessed with making pinterest boards for her and simons wedding (I like to think that sizzy has a hybrid themed-jewish-shadowhunter wedding bc they can make it however they want)

[booburt]

Hi, I've been wondering for the photography AU what general time period it's set in, what type of camera(s) does Koby use (it looks like a canon to me but seems to make polaroids, at least that's the surface level observation I can make from my extremely limited knowledge on cameras), what type of photography he personally enjoys and the type he usually does for work (if he does it as his profession too). What does Koby aim to capture with his images, the casual mundane life of an average person, an unreal, etheral sight in a place the average person can't go, Luffy's luffiness, etc? Also what's the general budget Koby has towards camera equipment (doesn't need to be that exact, just a general "he's broke" or "He spends all his money on lenses" would suffice)? My questions are kinda vague here because I'm going to research more about photography later. Thanks in advance :D Oh yeah and also does Koby travel, if not what's the general landscape of his nearby area. You don't need to answer this since I'll probably make it up but it'd be good to know.

okok i wrote this all in the few free periods i got earlier take what you will ^_^

also a doodle i did ages aaaaago with a bit of slightly illegible info in my awful handwriting (sorry)

actual answer vvv

- its a modern au!! so set like. now!

- koby uses sony cameras primarily but yes he does have a few canons (nikon confuses him)

- he has a seperate polaroid camera!!! he usually prints digitally from sd though

- for type of photography, he started with a passion for ocean and landscape photography, mostly beaches and any scene with water in focus. he also has an interest in portraiture but his love for portraiture only comes to play when he meets luffy. cheese cheese cheeeesyyyy because luffy smiles and hes IMMEDIATELY enamoured. anyway, he starts to study and practice portraiture in depth because of the pretty boy he met in maths class and eventually works up the courage to ask him to model for him. they get super close and eventually start dating; luffy likes how dedicated koby is to his work and how cute he is when he blushes.

-SORDY got carried away with the sappy lovey stuff. koby sells his landscape/wildlife photography at local stores as a side hustle thing haha. but he doesnt really do it professionally, he much prefers to keep it as a hobby / simple income.

- koby aims to capture the beauty of colour! he loves vibrancy when shooting with a softbox or some other source of light he will usually use something to change the hue rather than plain old bw on a simple white bg

- following on he HATES shooting black and white photos unless theyre negatives because idk i think he would think it looks cool. what a guy

- with luffy photography he just likes catching luffys smile or just luffy in general; whipped dud!!! he thinks he is gorgeous

- ahahhhh budget budgettt. lenses are fucking EXPENSIVE!!! he uses a 50mm that helmeppo got him for his birthday one year (rich kid stuff. he knew koby likes photography and searched Best Lense For People Pictures and bought the first one he saw) the 50 is canon as consequence so koby uses canon for loofy pics. he has an 18-55mm he uses as well.

- he is broke yes. koby does have a minimum wage weekend job to pay for living expenses but all in all that boys pockets are empty. luffy is the breadwinner (miss rabbit with the one zillion jobs) he works about 4 different jobs and is happy to pay for anything koby wants despite kobys adamant NOs. like i said he gets helmeppo to pay for a bunch of stuff and helmeppo pays on his dads card LOL.

- koby does travel! mainly by train or boat, not often does he go to an entirely different country but he has previously a few times. when he does go abroad he takes luffy with him!!!! (he looks pretty in the snow. he likes taking pictures of him in snow)

IM SO GLAD SOMEONE LIKES MY AU ENOUGH TO ASK ME THIS MANY QUESTIONS LMAO i had fun answering all of this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thelampisaflashlight]

Shutterbug AU

[A while back I wrote an AU where Dew was a regular human who happened to fall in with the church and eventually became a ghoul of his own volition. Well, now, I'm back on my bullshit, and this time, instead of having him join the group right away, you get this.] Below the cut.

-Dew is a hobbyist photographer, he still does tech work/music as his main gig, but he also takes pictures.

Thing is, he tends to capture things in his photos that can't be seen by the naked eye, but he usually writes it off as him not being very good at taking photos, crappy lighting, etc.

Anyway, he's doing some behind the scenes sort of candid photography and takes some pics of the ghouls (Mist, Alpha, and Omega to be specific) because they asked him to get a couple for them to share privately with close friends/family, and Dew obliges, because why not?

Well, when he goes to look back at the photos, some digital, others on film for aesthetic purposes, something isn't quite right about what he's seeing.

At first, he pretends the photos got damaged/his SD card was fucked up, and the ghouls are bummed out, but it's whatever, and there's still some cool/fun background shots that made it out unscathed so it's all good.

But Dew is fucking terrified, because wtf?

-He manages to hide the other photos, fully intent on discarding them somehow, because he isn't sure he's supposed to see... whatever it is he's seeing.

So he makes the decision to burn them the next chance he gets, and, in the meantime, he's pretty insistent on NOT taking any photos of the ghouls, and keeps saying his cameras aren't working/have no memory left and all that jazz, which works for a little while, but then Omega gets suspicious.

Omega knows Dew is always taking photos of things, but he's being a bit sneakier/shy about it, and that's not like him at all.

When Dew finally does go to burn the copies he has of the photos... Omega films him doing it from a distance on one of Dew's own digital cameras and waits for Dew to sort through his camera and find the video.

But when Dew does find it, he doesn't even react, he just kind of watches it while Omega is sitting there, waiting for something, anything, any indication that he's even remotely nervous... but he gets absolutely nothing.

...Because Dew's camera is actually broken this time, as a result of him accidentally dropping it out of his bunk that morning.

-Anyway, it all kind of culminates with Dew being asked to take some pictures for Papa and, yeahh... It's kind of hard to say no to your boss, so he does.

And he makes a valiant effort not to freak out or panic whenever the photos come out ever so slightly off/messed up, and then the ghouls insist on taking a group photo with him in it.

Dew hands off his camera to someone else and they take the picture and... it's fine?

The ghouls all look like they do normally, and Dew is so relieved that he really does think it's just his own shitty skills/lack of talent, and while that's mildly upsetting, it's better than thinking he's taking pictures of actual demons.

However...

-At some point, Dew is talking to Mist about something, and brings up that he's thinking about maybe taking a class on how to take better photos, and eventually confides in her about how most of his tour photos were messed up or weird, and she asks him to show her.

So he does, and he explains that they only seem to come out that way when he takes the photo, but not when anyone else does, and Mist tells him to take a photo of her, then close his eyes and look back at her.

Suffice it to say seeing the irl flesh version of a still image he captured of a demon has Dew on a one way trip to the infirmary, because man passes the fuck out.

That's what I have so far.

[dr-spectre]

How do you get such good idol pics???? I can never get mine to look nice,, it's so hard for me to get deep cut photos when they're performing anarchy rainbow

Fun fact, if you wanna take photos of Deep Cut when they are performing Anarchy Rainbow, all you have to do is win one game when you reach ruler, and you'll be able to board their float. It used to be that you had to win a 100x or 333x battle to get up there, but thankfully after the grand fest they changed it! So keep that in mind for when you wanna take pics during FrostyFest and beyond!!

Now how to take good photos? Well, I'll give you some tips.

1. Make sure you have your subject (in this case, an idol) in the frame. Either in the middle or 1/3 to the left or 1/3 to the right.

2. WATCH THE PERFORMANCES FIRST!!! Watch them and look out for poses and different moves that they do to take good photos! If you see a cool pose or action, remember it and get ready to spot it when you're taking pics.

3. Use the zoom in feature and tilt the camera to add more spice. If you want good close ups, move your camera forward and them use the zoom in feature. But don't go too close or too far. If you want a shoulder up shot, make sure you capture the subject's full head and shoulders in the frame. Do NOT cut anything out.

Notice how this shot looks a bit wonky? It's because Callie's head gear is clipped out and it isn't centered well.

4. It's trial and error. Basically, when it comes to virtual photography, it takes time and paying attention to your own work to get better shots. It doesn't happen overnight, and it's gonna take a while. But what matters is that you are having fun!!! Fun and experimenting are the keys to improvement!!! Also, look at other people's shots and think about what you like about the shots and what you can take from theirs and add to your own, without, of course, just directly coping their work.

If you want some inspiration... here's the first photo I took in a game with a photo mode back in 2020.

Now, here's a more recent one in 2024 from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 that I was really proud of!

At the end of the day, fun is the most important thing. Okay? Don't worry about if shit looks good or not. Just follow your heart. Follow your gut feeling. And it'll work out in the end.

[strangledplanet]

hi!! you’re photography is so stunning! i really like the way you angle in your photos it’s so cool i’ve never thought to do stuff like that before! i had a question or two, you’re photography is very dreamlike and serene how long have you been taking pictures for? i’ve been taking pictures for a few months now and sometimes i get discouraged with the way my photography looks do you have any tips in capturing beautiful or angled shots like that. I had another question as well i really love how pretty your pictures on your nikon look is that camera hard to use?

thanks <3!!

thank you so much <33 i've been taking pics since i was i about 13 or 14! never really uploaded my stuff until recently though besides my stuff on my private ig. its easy to get stuck looking at your camera screen, it helps a lot to just breath and look around and find what you want to focus on! zooming in and out of a shot helps me a lot too to figure out exactly how i want to frame something. it isn't hard to use it's just a clunky old digital camera so you have to be a little patient with it, i'm sure there are other cameras from the era that work better this one was just super cheap so yea lol.

[swanimagines]

can you talk about meeting freddy??? so cool that u did omg!!!

Haha of course! I'm still buzzing about it 🥰

Ok so, I'll go day by day. Below read more we go:

After the opening ceremony, there was a meet & greet for Gold ticket holders (including me). At Starfury, meet & greet means we're in these large rooms with round tables, and the guests/cast come to our tables one by one and talk with us for a few minutes.

Well, after the first guest left our table (Amita, who was an angel btw 😭❤️), I changed seats at our table to sit with my friends.

Well then Freddy comes and sits right next to me. And I'm like 😳

Well, he asked how are we. I looked at my feet and noticed I left my bag next to my old chair, so I said I'm gonna get it and Freddy apologised for it for some reason?? I just said "no no it's fine".

I listened to the conversation with my other ear while fetching my bag so I could dive right back into the conversation, but I thought I heard one of my friends saying their name.

So, because Amita began with asking our names, I assumed Freddy does too.

So when I sit back down, I smile at Freddy and say "Jenni".

He leans closer and says "sorry?"

And I thought he doesn't hear me so I lean closer too and SHOUT "MY NAME IS JENNI!!!!!!!!"

He looks at me confused and I'm just thinking "why is he confused, he asked our names?? Oh his eyes are so blue..."

Then he repeated my name after me, he got it right the second time and I'm like "oh you pronounced it pretty good!" (No one who's not Finnish ever gets it, so it was really weird to hear Freddy saying it correctly 😂)

And then

He turns to others and asks for their names.......

So I had just screamed my name at his face unprompted and without anyone asking 😊

I was silent after that and don't remember what he talked about for the rest of the time of him sitting there 😭

Saturday. The day began with Photo OPs and I was nervous af. Which resulted into me looking like a potato in all my pictures and I forgot to smile with my teeth 😭 But the hug was good. He first wrapped only one arm around me and I hugged him from the side but then turned to me fully and wrapped the other arm around me too and my brains went ASDJLDÖLNHDBLDBJKDHLGFDEJNLDL. I look so dazed in that pic 😂

At the autograph table, I told him about my gift which contained a letter and two Finnish chocolate bars (Fazer) because the other is for Caroline. He told me I'm sweet for thinking about her too asdfghjkl😭

And the last thing happened on Sunday, at the second round of autographs. We got a group photo of them for free and we could get them to sign it again. So this time, I wanted to clarify that the letter may read as trauma-dumpy but I'm not trying to make him feel sad, and told him to just read it. He promised to read it, and I proceeded telling him as a short version of what the letter contains. (Him inspiring me back into photography and it helping me cope when my dad died the following summer)

He said "oh, I'm so sorry" and then "so, have you been taking photos here?" and I said "yeah" and he said "let's see them?"....

AHNSLBGDÖ_;KKÖLDSL;*ÄJOLNDÖKÄDPLÖBHNOMÖGHFRDIOIGOUHRUKBJGREKVHIUYJBGRIHBNOLGUYBIIGNHKLOSVHNIBJKLUORGVBINKLJHUOIHNKLOGBVBHNIUGPKGVBUOISDEGBHNUORSGBUOHBNUJOGLTFRDHNUGJIKOLFVHNUBIJOGFHUJNOLBTDJHBKLNUGTFJKHBMN,LTJKULH,BNGFTL 😭

(I had my camera hanging around my neck) So there we were with out heads nearly pressed together looking through my pics for about 10 seconds 😭❤️ The autograph did a flap flap flap noise in my hand while we did it, and my hand shook for a few minutes after I walked away)

That's it. But I'll meet him one more time, he'll probably bring me his therapy bill for shouting at him so kinda obliged to 🤷🏻‍♀️

(And at the closing ceremony, I got the best seat to take photos and people think I was one of the hired professional photographers there because of those + Sunday panels photos 😂 My photos are constantly shared around the internet now. Which is cool, but the less cool thing is that they go around without credits because people think I was hired there = I don't need credits)

[newtthetranswriter]

Hello! Could I get a Tokyo Revengers & BHA Matchup please?

I’m 23, she/they, 5’4, & ISTP

Pros? I’d say I’m playful, weird sense of humour, talkative, loyal as a dog, great listener, I smile a lot (while ironically having a resting bitch face), sarcastic, and most would probably describe me as either adorable yet cursed or adorably cursed. I’m definitely not a stranger to being called a cryptid lol

Neutral? I’m very sensitive, socially awkward, tend to ramble a lot, I can be a bit of a pack rat (I tend to keep a lot of unnecessary things either out of sentimental value or just cause it think it’s neat even if other people think it’s just junk 🤷🏾‍♀️), and am a bit of a perfectionist (but only towards myself).

Cons? I’m shy, anxious, a little clumsy, stubborn, non-confrontational (unless truly needed which I go kinda overkill sometimes), and can be petty/passive-aggressive

Likes/Hobbies: Playing bass, secondhand shopping, DIY projects, music, art, photography, and horror movies

Dislikes: Being underestimated, my passions/interests being mocked, being interrupted, and...country music? 🤷🏾‍♀️

Fun facts about me:

* Sometimes I write music (mainly just basslines though)

* I once accidentally won an art show (Yes I do mean accidentally. Long story)

* Erm…I used to work at a daycare?

* I once took a trip to Spain and joined a weed club 😎🤙🍃

And I know it’s not necessary, but I also included a pic of myself just in case it’s helpful!

Hope that’s enough info. Thanks in advance!

A/n: Hello, I hope you are having a great day. May I ask how you accidently win an art show? Also you are adorable. Anyway here’s your match up, I hope you enjoy. And remember to hydrate or diedrate.

Tokyo Revengers:  Takashi Mitsuya

Mitsuya is the kind of guy who seems super serious with people who look up to him, but when he’s around close friends and doesn’t have to be perfect he kinda becomes you weird

He would be down to listen to you talk about whatever you’re working on, whether it’s a bassline or a diy you wanted to try

Loves to go with you secondhand shopping because he can get ideas and even material for new designs

Asks for your help with taking pictures of his creations when he finally finds someone to model them

I feel he is also a perfectionist so he understands want everything to be just right, he also knows how to help you take a step back and then look at the project from a fresh pair of eyes later on

If you’re having an off day and he picks up on it don’t worry about being petty or passive aggressive, he’s used to it. Afterall he has been taking care of his sisters and children are the epitome of petty

If you’re feeling anxious he is always there to talk about it, or just comfort you however you need him to

My Hero Academia:  Denki Kaminari

Denki loves your sense of humor though he doesn't always understand the sarcasm

He loves to listen to you ramble on about whatever topic has you going this time

Wants to learn how to do diy’s because damn that’s cool

If you want to watch a horror movie he is down for it just be warned he will likely scream

Will set up times for the two of you to just chill and listen to music and if you want to play him some music you wrote, you better have it recorded because he’s playing it for everyone

I can imagine you guys working together to bug Bakugo as well, like sending cursed memes, not different ones though, the same one over and over at random times to the point he makes Denki short circuit

[unhingedkitchen]

Herbed butter roast chicken

Today, in a bout of yearning for domestic bliss, we’re roasting a chicken. It feels like a roast chicken sits exactly at that junction of cosy homeliness, effortless housewife perfection and nutritious food that you actually want to eat. Just a disclaimer that the above pic is a stock pic because I'm shite at photography. But the end result looks like this.

If you’re looking for the full experience, at this point you’ll cue up the song Mall Rat from the Sims 1 soundtrack to achieve full perfect perky housewife vibes. And no, I won’t be taking questions on why I know the individual track names on the game. If you know, you know. 

Ingredients:

1x roasting chicken - free range if you can swing it, otherwise no biggie. Size is going to be up to you, as so few things in life are. 

1x Lemon

1x head of garlic

2 medium onions or one large one

Poultry rub (if you want a recipe for home-made DM me, it’s super simple to make at home) 

6-8 sprigs of thyme and rosemary

Three generous Tablespoons of butter, or a stick, depending on where in the world you live or regret living as the case may be. 

Two big handfuls of baby potatoes

Oven: Set to 200 degrees celsius / 425 Fahrenheit. Roasting time is 20 mins per 400g or little under a pound. 

Let’s go.

Method:

Place the chicken on the counter to come up to room temperature. Some chicks just have no chill and roast all the better for it.  Remove chicken from packaging and give that as well as the fresh produce a rinse under cool, running water. You thought I was going to say Cool Runnings, didn’t you? It’s okay, so did I. 

Washing the chicken is important to get all the butchery gunk off - even if you don’t see it, it’s there. Then pat it dry gently with a kitchen towel. Dry skin crisps up better. Realise that bits of kitchen towel are now stuck on chicken skin. Reevaluate life choices that lead you here.  

At this point Mall Rat would have skipped over to a track called Groceries. This is fine. Let it play. 

Grab a lemon and your herbs. Slice lemon in half, and stick that along with the thyme, rosemary and garlic into the chicken’s cavity. Marvel at how the chicken is as hollow as your soul but that no amount of herbs and citrus can heal you. Feel sad for a moment until you listen to the music again.

It’s aggressively cheery. 

Melt half of the butter in the microwave, or if you shun modern conveniences, the pan. If you’re feeling fancy, chuck a minced clove of garlic in there to subtly flavour the butter. Brush generously over chicken and get so engrossed in the task that you don’t notice that you have not turned the oven on yet. This will be a disappointing discovery once you realise it. Add some of the poultry rub into the remaining butter and mix.

Next bit is a little tricky - stick a sharp knife between the chicken breast and the skin to separate the two. Get under that skin the same way Geoff from Accounting gets under yours. Work spiced butter in there until it covers whole breast area. Might need some massaging.

Take your onions, give it a rough chop. Have a little cry and pretend the onions made you do it. Slice the leftover half lemon into wedges.

Place the onions in the roasting pan along with a halved head of garlic, sprigs of your herbs and those leftover lemon wedges. 

Wonder for a moment whether you should have saved one of those wedges for a bit of tequila. Realise it has touched onions so it’s probably too far gone, but make a mental note to do that next time. 

Take some twine (or regular non-minty dental floss, don’t judge me) and tie the chicken’s legs together. The official explanation for this is that it will stop the legs from burning while the meat is undercooked. I won’t go into the non-official explanation here but it involves Interpol and the patriarchy. 

Take the chicken and gently lay it down on top of the veg and herbs in the roasting tray, breast side up. Check that the oven is the correct temperature. Because you were a numpty and forgot to put it on until way too late, drink some water while you wait.  Also, halve those baby potatoes, salt ‘em, and toss it in the pan so it can roast in that delicious chicken fat. They will take around 30 mins max, so if you have a bigger bird, throw them in 30 mins before done. 

Finally, slide the roasting pan into the oven. Take out your oven mitts and this point and put them on the counter so you don’t try to touch the pan with bare hands like a certain author once did. 

Now leave it alone for an hour, go write some fanfic, come back to check on how things are going. Rudely, it won’t ask how things are going with you but no one’s perfect.

If the skin on the breasts are browning too quickly like a middle-aged, pale English lady on a beach in Ibiza, chuck a little square of foil on it to shield it from the hot rays of the oven. 

Take the oven mitts and remove the pan from the oven. Make a lil’ foil tent for it, and let it rest for 20 mins. Take a rest yourself, you deserved it. Decide to disregard this advice and refresh Tumblr again. 

Remove chicken from pan once it's rested and place on cutting board. 

Take the veggies out of the pan, squeeze the now sodden lemon until the juice drips into the pan too. Mix with whisk to incorporate. 

Add a sprinkling of cornflour or potato starch to thicken into gravy. Strain pan juices through a sieve, cheesecloth or your sanity, whichever is thinner at this point. Press down to squish any remaining bits of veg through to maximise flavour. 

Dish up, pour a lil gravy on the chicken slices and enjoy. Congratulate self on how awesome you are. You did it!

[chevvy-yates]

I wanna take new Hizumi pics so bad. Real photography I mean.

I'm gonna take at least two outfits with me to Japan so I can hopefully do a little shoot on the other side of the planet somewhere in the middle of Tokyo. It's the perfect fucking setting for Hizu I mean. Sad I cannot take my Bladerunner blaster with me neither buy a katana there because I won't get it home either.

So one outfit will be a Demon of Kabuki copycat as Hizumi is smart and knows Tygers will not go after them. x)

and another one is maybe just simple black combined with orange. Hizumi had neon orange right from the start in their first outift I chose for them anyway but you do not see much of it as it was just the top underneath a lot of layers and the heavy 80s leather jacket.

How to explain Hizumi's style?

Look, Hizu's style is my style and my style is a mix of my … boys … sort of … alltogether lol

Hizumi is going to have mostly black like Ryder but has accent colors like orange (which I got for Thyjs as well but also for Jaysen) and purple (Vijay).

And you may laugh, but my cupboard is exactly colorcoded as I coded each of my boys. I don't own a lot of purple tho but have clothes that are super VIjay coded too. The entire left side goes camo/olive green (Thy) to brown (Jay) over to some weird color mixtures (V), though I don't own much purple. Then it goes on with a few white clothes over to grey and then to a load of all black (Ry) just to end with neon orange/yellow (Thy again bc he's oranje boy too).

I also want to look for a cool samurai/oni mask. The one I own is alright but I imagine hizumi collects a few. I also imagine hizu having different kiroshi optics or they use simply contact lenses, as only the right eye is cyberware. I doubt I'll find a real cool lookin samurai mask though. I researched online already for this. But I do not give up hope.