#winter time drink

[thebutlerspottery]

Holiday Coffee Cocktail

INGREDIENTS: 4 oz strong coffee 1 1/2 oz amaretto liqueur 1 1/2 oz coffee liqueur 1 oz butterscotch schnapps 1 oz creme de cocoa fresh whipped cream grated chocolate, for garnish DIRECTIONS: Combine strong coffee and liqueurs in a glass. Stir to combine and top with fresh whipped cream. Garnish with grated chocolate. Serve warm […] Holiday Coffee Cocktail My previous blog is enjoying a cup of…

[fullcravings]

Lavender Latte Recipe

[sanctus-ingenium]

I love the moth guy a lot. Such a cool design! He's a photographer, too? What a funky little guy. Do you have more to tell about him?

Patches is a large (about 1.6m long) sphinx moth descended from the family Sphingidae. He is based off of a combination of striped hawk moth and tersa sphinx moth and he is distantly related to both :)

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I have to explain some of the setting - so every few million years, a mountain appears. It appears in the same spot on multiple different parallel dimensions, and it is there for maybe 45 years at a time. During this time is the only time these parallel worlds can touch, intersect, or meet one another. The last time this happened, members of the class Insecta came over, and found a different world with a ludicrously oxygen-rich atmosphere and some extremely energy-dense plants. They were able to develop, in the intervening years between then and the time of the story (think 1910s on earth) into the dominant life forms in this new world, many becoming quite large and developing complex societies and technology of their own.

The mountain reappears. This time, some of our insect characters (Nettle Rove [Staphylinidae] among them, though he is much younger than Patches and arrived at the tail-end of the time window) cross the mountain again, either by accident or on purpose, and find earth there, and human society. There's not enough oxygen there to fly or do much physical activity but they can still survive there and participate in a type of cultural exchange. So we have a First Contact type situation, but that's not what everyone really cares about. See, the humans have climbed the mountain and found at its peak, hidden in the clouds, a city. Completely devoid of life (even microbial), but obviously made by somebody. So the actual premise of the story is the exploration and mystery of this place.

Patches is 18 when the mountain shows up. He has just had a fulfilling caterpillar-hood of territorially murdering everyone he meets (kind of a solitary species! some members of Sphingidae will literally fight to the death if they meet as caterpillars) and, he is naturally extremely curious about the world outside His Tree. he meets his mate/bestie, Rosy Wing and while they do spend a lot of time terrorising everyone they meet, eventually they get interested in what's on the other side of that giant mountain. after meeting up with some humans trying to map the place, a camera-maker has a bright idea to send up Patches, who can hover very still in place, to photograph the strange lifeless city from the air (the humans are in full steampunk swing so obviously they have airships but atmospheric mixing between the different worlds makes it too dangerous to fly them, given that a stray breeze from the insect world might make a combustion engine blow the fuck up). the mixing is also sufficient to allow the insects to fly on the mountain but not for very long, meaning that most exploration of the city is on foot. The development of this aerial photography technique reveals that, from the air, the city appears disproportionately huge, and seems to stretch on for infinity. Because of this, and Patches' part in it all, an entire industry strings up for city exploration, and by Nettle Rove's time twenty years later, it has descended into bitter and violent rivalries between wealthy patrons funding expeditioneer teams. Murder is legal there (it's legal in insect world too. have u met insects? they love murder)

As for Patches himself, he is a barely-socialised semi feral freak with an incredibly upbeat and curious personality who is so so so devoted to Rosy Wing (who is.. similar, but more into people instead of cameras). Until their habit of harassing and thieving from randos goes poorly on a city expedition, and their entire team gets caught in a shootout. There were no recorded survivors. Our guy survived by playing dead but Rosy Wing was not so lucky. With Patches' hindwing in tatters, his only hope of being able to fly again and get of there was to use Rosy Wing's own hindwing as donor material. And that's how he got his name (he didn't have one before) :3

Rosy Wing was similar to an eyed hawk moth in appearance

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In Nettle Rove's time, there is a persistent rumour of some weird old hermit in the city. These claims are dismissed, but something's out there drinking the blood of random expeditioneers, and that thing might know more about what lies at the heart of the city than anyone else...

okay thank you for reading love u

[crushedsweets]

Everytime i scroll through my HC masterlist i Hang my head in shame cuz there’s no way I spent that much time making that many posts about A CREEPYPASTA AU (I so badly i want to be making that many posts everyday again)

[hamartia-grander]

That's a neat serennedy analysis post but the comment ab the scene being the most humanity shown in all of resident evil is so incorrect and just more proof that no one in this fandom pays attention to female characters or just any character who isn't Leon

[pookielious]

"..Whadyou think I should write to these parents dick."

"Hear what I said nix ? You've been demoted."

"Yeah. demoted. got chou, cause I don't know how to tell them their kids never made it out the goddamn plane."

"You tell them what you always tell them, their sons died as heros"

"You really still believe that?"

[princehendir]

My perhaps controversial alcohol opinion is that drinking is not fun at night. It is only fun when it is late afternoon &, the sun's out and you're outside

[macaulaytwins]

Mornings at Hampden College

[acocktailmoment]

Warm & Cozy Mulled Wine !

Ingredients:

1 bottle Full-bodied red wine, like Italian Red, Southern French, New World Merlot, Red Zinfandel, Shiraz

¼ cup Member's Mark™ Organic 100% Pure Maple Syrup

¼-½ cup Bourbon or brandy

1 Orange, sliced (plus more for garnish)

2 Spice Islands® Saigon Cinnamon Sticks

3 whole Star anise pods, plus more for garnish

4 whole Cloves

Instructions:

Add all ingredients to a medium sized pot and stir together.

Heat until the wine almost reaches a simmer over medium-high heat. (Avoid letting it bubble! This will cause the alcohol in the wine to evaporate.) 

Reduce heat to low, cover completely, and let the wine simmer for at least 15 minutes or up to 3 hours.

Remove and discard the orange slices, cloves, cinnamon sticks, and star anise.

Serve in a mug garnished with additional orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and star anise pods, as desired.

Courtesy: The Real Kitchen

This article was not sponsored or supported by a third-party. A Cocktail Moment is not affiliated with any individuals or companies depicted here. 

[widowshill]

— Are you sure Burke wants to buy Collinwood? — Yes, he said so. I'm just afraid it's only the beginning of what he wants.

[adrienschat]

*screaming on the top of my lungs* that’s not what Jesus would have wanted

(Venting in tags)

[joycrispy]

Very quietly, the one year anniversary of the end of The Horrors passed sometime in the last two weeks.

It was a fantastic year. I am so fucking grateful to be free.

[fangirlforeversthings]

Them: imagine all of your favourite fictional characters coming together in a meet up

Me:........soo.......

...four ancient spartans including a polemarkhos a king a misthios and a general, a pirate captain, two dwarfs, an elf, the King of gondor, a former assasin te*rorist, three superheroes, five witchers, two vampires, two jedi knights, a jedi master and his clone commander, a clone captain, a Senator, a mandalorian and his adoptive alien son, a firebending war general, and the devil walked into a bar....

[fallingforchristmasworld]

[thecrimsonjaguar]

ok. like i might be way off but can you imagine if the fate of the stability in your world depended on the mental state of a depressed old man in another dimension?

[shartfinz]

my problem with art is I don't have an obsession with random media that I can make cringe aus for I like mcr that's real people 😭 I miss liking Homestuck more I could actually draw when I liked Homestuck more