#wok prime

[themoonstonechronicler]

Funniest thing about wok prime is how over in jasnahs and ahvens(taragangians) sides of the story people keep mentioning onyxseers, who can see the future if they have onyx

and over in merins(kaladins) side he keeps going "hmm, renarin has this black rock hes really obsessed with and he keeps making weirdly accurate predictions and he wont explain how, i guess hes just really good at algebra."

and this is never commented on ever

[moash]

on the coppermind for wok prime to confirm my hazy recollections about some of the plot points that were mentioned to me in passing because i never read it and tbh this sounds kind of based

[trans-ralsei]

kita is WOKE. she eats WOKE ramen and is in the war against WOKE culture on the side of the WOKE. she will cancel you. over her ramen

[pluage-docters-go-brrrrrr]

I remembered the wok left post.

Translation:

Post: they want you to fry rice

Who

The wok left

How am I going to fry rice if the wok left

Skill issue

Me: that's why I can't fry rice.

Ratchet: you could've just said "no and I would've understood.

Me: oh, sorry.

[epicmilly]

crom.

[femmefaggot]

[puddlejumper38]

Wind and Truth thoughts under the cut

Spoilers for the entire book.

-Oof. The ending. I will come back to that, but its first up because its overshadowing everything else like a giant storm cloud. - :( speaking of. Goddamn it, I liked the Stormfather.

-I want to note, right here, that I still do not trust Szeth to make a single good decision. I don't think he should be the law. I hope he goes back to sheep farming and has no power over anyone ever.

-Interestingly, I like Nale better after this book. He was just a terrifying figure before, but now he's interesting as a person too. (He's still scary)

-What The Fuck Was With Moash Getting Spiked? As a devoted Marsh fan, I am against spiking in general. I have no words about how much I do Not like Moash being crystal spiked.

(side note: I think I dislike Moash properly now. Yes, the guy has some points, but.... he continued even with his own emotions. Attacking bridge 4. That's.... thats too far for me. If he'd decided to fight anyone Except bridge 4 I could have dealt with that)

-Saw that Gav was being prepped to hate Dalinar. Was still as tricked as Navani.

-So. We meet Auxiliary and learn what the fuck with Sigzil. I still don't like the Sunlit Man as a book and it coloured how I viewed the Shattered Plains fight here. I do like Aux.

-I trust Ishar even less than Szeth, therapy or no

-I really enjoyed the flashbacks in the spiritual realm. I loved getting all the gaps filled in, finally. (Or most of them anyway.) Also it just felt like WoK in vibes in a way that I just really appreciated.

-Appreciated the trick with Venli on the Shattered Plains. Not... Hmm. Not sure it matters anymore though. We'll see.

-I particularly liked the Interludes here. I remember those took me a while to get used to back in WoK.

-Had seen enough theories to be unsurprised about Shallan's mother being Chana, but I doubt I'd have thought of it myself

-Formless wasn't there! I thought that was off, because Shallan never fully manifested her, but still didn't clock it. I do love that. There's always details in Sanderson's books that I just don't see coming.

-Jasnah's povs... I just didn't like them. Can't quite put my finger on why, but she shouldn't have played by Taravangian's rules in the first place. She lost, but I don't feel like she lost in the way she thinks she did. I hate her lack of flexible thinking and nuance from someone who is supposed to be a good scholar. I liked her better in WoK Prime. We'll see how her book is, years from now.

-Renarin and Rlain's pov's were another real highlight. I was worried about this one, because Branderson - bless his mormon socks - can be as hamhanded as Dalinar sometimes. But this was just very well handled in my opinion. In character, not forced, and remarkably relevant to the overall plot. Nice.

-I should have known as soon as Adolin wanted to see Dalinar again that he wouldn't. That was a major hint.

-Ah shit I should get to Dalinar.

-That could be its own post.

-Kaladin first then. I.... didn't want that for him. In any way. I could see it coming - because fuck knows it couldn't be Szeth and once these ideas are raised something has to happen. But still. Its not good for anyone and I can only hope its more temporary this time. Yes, he gets a bit of a break. No, he has no friends with him. Poor guy.

-All right. Dalinar.

-I have been angry at Dalinar since Oathbringer. I think he's a good character! But yikes. I mean all of the Blackthorn behaviour, not only Evi.

-I did not want him to be Honor.

(actually I don't think I want Anyone to pick up Shards)

-Hey, he's not Honor, though. Anymore.

-INSTEAD TARAVANGIAN IS!! HEY WHY IS THIS HAPPENING

-Cultivation can try to flee all she likes this is still her fault.

-Taravangian of all people.

-It was a Good Ending, its also terrifying for Roshar in the short term - but better in the long term! - and the cosmere in general

-Odium needed to be freed from Roshar, for all the reasons thrown at us readers with all the delicacy of a chull in a china shop in those last few chapters (read fond exasperation here, I Got It The First Few Times)(last few chapters of YatNP were similar)

-Retribution is a little More than just freeing Odium.

-That said; It could never be as simple as one side winning the contest and I'm glad it wasn't. That would've disappointed me.

-So no more Stormlight in the Stormlight Archives?? Well, we'll see.

-And Dalinar is gone. I am sorry for it. It was going to happen in some way or other (I'm not sure taking up a Shard counts as surviving)(I'm not sure being bound to serve Odium would count either). But... I am sorry for it. I'll miss him.

[paeoniaanomala]

im procrastinating sleep so i figured id lay out my ideas for the Spirk Timeline.

i am going to flat out ignore any lore in kelvin universe this is a strictly TOS deal because i a) have no interest in AOS and b) have not seen any of it

5 year mission: i don't think anything happens in the five year mission. spock is too conflicted identity wise and way too shielded to let anything remotely overtly romantic occur- and jim is too frightened of spock outright rejecting him (he had right to be worried, in my opinion- given spock's three year vacay on vulcan right after the five year mission) obviously like Somethings going on and i think the Enterprise rumormill is well fuelled, but i dont think either party does anything about it. maybe jim tries to confess at the end of the five year mission and it goes so poorly spock thinks it prudent to purge himself of all emotion?

The Divorce Era ( 3 year gap -> TMP ): jim is stuck at a desk job he hates, gets MARRIED (iirc) and then divorced, and i believe the whole time hes just so miserable over spock. spock meanwhile is failing miserably at purging himself of emotion (as shown in the novelization of TMP- thanks, roddenberry) because of his Emotional Connection to jim. ultimately TMP is one of my favorite st stories because its such a satisfying character arc for spock, who realizes emotion and logic can co exist and has that one scene. you know the one. i mark TMP as the spirk get together.

WOK: peak old married spirk. need i say more?

SFS: world shattering romance movie

TVH: old married spirk but spock has amnesia :( at least he's still secure in his identity not back 2 square one. idk! spirk get togehter

and after that its all just OMS in my mind to be h. i know spock gets like alternate universed and kirk gets nexused but i know in my heart and mind they are still alive in the prime universe and they are happy.

[awindandtruthliveblog]

[Wind and Truth: Chapter 70]

Remember that time in WoK Prime where it was spelled Dalenar. That was weird. Dale-nar. Da-len-ar. Awful.

Wow boy hates sarcasm ig

Aw, Szeth, you have no idea how much Kaladin cares about you now. Like a kitten introduced to a new home. Scared, with no idea how safe and warm they're going to be.

Spren (and Nightblood) not understanding emotion, and not being the only things in fantasy to do so, kinda bothers me. Star Trek does this with Data too. It's used as a way for the human character to express themselves, or in this case show a little bond happening, but the questions asked never feel genuine. Like, child levels of "how do we deal with emotions". I guess it doesn't hurt anyone.

Szeth's so right about good and evil though. Giving Nightblood a crisis, but he's awakening more anyway.

Must he, Nale? Do it alone?

Moss? This guy's name is Moss? But they have that in Shinovar probably

Wait Ash is the Lightweaver patron, but I operated under the assumption she was a Dustbringer because of the POV characters of each of the 10 books being one of each order. Windrunner, Lightweaver, Bondsmith, Willshaper, now Skybreaker. Next we have Renarin, Lift, Jasnah as their own orders. I guess I assumed Taln would be the Stoneward because that's his aligned Order. But the Herald books could be anything, I guess. Taln Dustbringer truthing here

Moss is the fucking Riddler what

Wow that bit about thoughts becoming stone is good. But uh. Sometimes it helps. I guess.

Tone is discordant, with a chaotic rhythm? Venli has to snap them in place to make Anti-Voidlight? Alternatively, and much more likely, page 1042 of RoW describes the tone of Anti-Voidlight as discordant to singers, but the same to humans. So, probably that.

Also RoW informed me a few pages later that Elithanathile is considered by Navani to be the tenth name of the Almighty. Whatever that means. Odium's extra little guy?

Purple cremling Sleepless

Stormfather's mercy for Eshonai, and Timbre's help for Venli. Spren can break Odium's control.

Thundercloud! They've got Warrior names!

Glad she and Thude are making up. Venli's gonna be an outsider forever, she should have someone. Also her mom, probably.

[petermorwood]

Mushrooms in Cream Sauce...

...or Pilze in Sahnesoße.

This is for @killerblackberrypie, who went looking for the version on our "European Cusines" site and found the site gone.

@dduane had taken it down for maintenance, a new theme and to take some new photos, but while the site was down it web-provider went belly-up. These things happen.

"European Cuisines" Will Return - just not quite yet.

Our recipe was, ironically, one of the recipes slated for new pics, so while this text is from the site's offline backup (with a couple of tweaks from me, because why not?) photos are sourced from the web.

There are many, many other recipes online; they're mostly in German, but Google Translate handles Rezeptedeutch well enough. I've linked to a couple, which is only fair since I'm using their pix.

You'll also see the French word "champignons" in German recipes as often as German "Pilze"; I don't know whether this indicates a French origin for the recipe, or refers to a specific mushroom, or makes the dish sound more classy.

Here's one: Champignons in Sahnesauce mit Spätzle.

And here's ours...

*****

Pilze in Sahnesoße from European Cuisines.

Contrary to popular belief, Germany is not a vegetable-free zone.

In fact, unless you find yourself buried in some tiny backwater in the Black Forest or someplace similar, Germany is much kinder to both vegetable-lover and vegetarian than a lot of other places. It will be rare to find a menu that doesn't have at least a few vegetarian or at least mostly-vegetable options on it, often far more creative than you might expect.

But leaving aside for the moment the issue of vegetarianism per se, Germans really do like more vegetables than potatoes and cabbage, especially seasonal ones in their prime. Asparagus season, for instance, has its own name: Spargelzeit - "asparagus time".

And mushrooms (all right, not as true veggies, but at least as fungi) turn up as stars in many entreés, especially in dishes meant to be served in the autumn, "Pilzsaison", mushroom season, when the good little creatures are coming up all over in the woods and the supermarkets.

This recipe calls for the mushrooms to be sautéed with onions in bacon fat (the bacon is added later). The pan is then deglazed with white wine, and various spices are added, one of them being paprika, which instantly suggests that this recipe probably sneaked over the border from Austro-Hungary, possibly via the Czech Republic.

Finally the cream and bacon go in.

The result is substantial, surprisingly elegant, and yummy.

This is definitely a recipe for a high-end Hobbit menu: an entrée for anyone who doesn't want their mushrooms upstaged by overly large amounts of meat.

The bacon-fat and bacon CAN be left out completely, making the dish meat-free. Use more butter along with more mushrooms and a red pepper diced small, and add 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika.

*****

INGREDIENTS

NB, we work in metric so that's "correct"; Imperial is converted and "approximate", though it won't make much difference. Just don't combine them or your mushrooms might crash into Mars...

1 kg / 2 lb fresh mushrooms, domesticated or a mixture of wild types to taste

125g / 1/4 pound bacon, diced

60gr 1/4 cup butter or margarine

2 large onions, diced

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon paprika

60ml / 1/4 cup (or more if needed to deglaze) white wine, preferably a medium or medium-dry one

A pinch of nutmeg

A pinch of mace

250ml / 1 cup heavy cream

The juice of half a medium-sized lemon, strained

2 sprigs of fresh parsley

METHOD

Clean the mushrooms with a soft brush or dry cloth. (Never wash mushrooms.) If they're big, cut them in half.

Fry the bacon in a wok or large pan until lightly browned. Remove the bacon from the pan and set it aside.

Add the butter to the pan drippings. Add the onions; sauté until lightly browned.

Add the mushrooms; cook them until they're tender, stirring often.

When they're tender, raise the heat slightly and stir in the wine, salt, pepper, paprika, nutmeg, and mace. Cover the pan and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.

Remove from the heat. Add the cooked bacon, cream and lemon juice. Reheat until just warm. Do NOT let this mixture boil!!!

Garnish with parsley and serve with noodles, dumplings, mashed potatoes, whole potatoes... And some crusty bread to chase the last of the sauce.

*****

Our original photo used Spätzle, as in the first pic. Ribbon tagliatelle works just fine as well, while here is Saure Pilz-Sahnesoße served alongside Bohemian Dumplings, a long bread dumpling boiled in water or stock then cut into thick slices.

From the same site, here's a simple potato treatment, Pilz-Sahnesoße mit Kartoffeln:

As far as we've been able to make out, the main difference between mushrooms in cream sauce as a main dish, and creamy mushroom sauce for use with something else, is the proportion of mushrooms to everything else, and often the size of pieces into which they're cut. Really small bits are one more ingredient, large generous chunks are much more front and centre.

Ours is definitely a main course, and though we haven't made it for a while, the memory of that last time still makes my Mind Palate go...

Soon. Soon...

[sparklytriumphkitten]

Wat some spoilers

So what you think is future for this two? Is it over for good or was it all a set up for sa arc 2 where Jasnah will be main character? 

At the end of the book Wit said in his thoughts that he loves Jasnah, Jasnah also said multiple times that she enjoyed their relationship, Wit was said to be fond of it too. So only set back was that Wit kept lying in other words he didn't completely put his armor down. 

But Jasnah mentioned that she wrote letter because she didn't want to argue with him, so Wit will be against break up. And she mentioned that he would be angry about it. 

And his letter sounded sad and regretful. 

So was this all to set their relationship and conflict for arc 2?

Problem is lying, we know that Wit will return to Roshar and his order is literally about truths + in his letter he acknowledged lying as his main flaw. 

Hoid is one if not the most important character in cosmer so if he's to have a character development it seems likely to be in cosmer's magnum opus that is sa.

I also find it interesting that in Way of Kings Prime Jasnah was in love with Taln who was in love with her. Taln is also immortal and his conflict was that he loved Jasnah but he put roshar as a whole higher than anything else. And that's literally Wit's arc in wat. He mentioned multiple times that with teras yes but he will let roshar burn. But in last chapters he says that it was always his belief but in the end he wasn't so sure. 

So I think Jasna and Taln was original idea that get scrapped but same as Taln's arc or character concept or idea from prime went to Dalinar in wok, the idea of immortal who puts overall over personal went to Wit's character. I don't think that Sanderson will go with Jasnah/Taln in original series because he mentioned that prime will be released only when all possible spoilers happen. It's already released so Jasnah/Taln seem no longer to be a spoiler. And he wouldn't likely make her fall in love with Taln in arc 2 because they will have very similar conflict to Jasnah/Wit and he already said that he dislike to repeat ideas, like when Taln's madness idea went to Dalinar in book 1 he said that he changed Taln's concepts so it would not repeat with Dalinar. 

Prime is overall very different. Navani wasn't in book at all and Adolin died in book 1. 

So I assume that Jasnah and Wit are set up for arc 2 

From author's point of view making character admitt they love someone then saying that they will return to Roshar looks a lot like set up.

I not exactly say that Jasnah and Wit could have a happy ending, what I am trying to say is that I think they are meant to be each other main love interests overall and will have interactions and development in arc 2.

Tell me everything you think! I have no friends who read sa and I want discussion

[themoonstonechronicler]

I can't be the only one who desperately wants a sequel to the way of kings prime. like obviously it's never going to happen, and the book is very flawed, but i want to know what the hell was going on.

[stormtide-leviathan]

Wait what’s this about then (from the trivia section of shallan’s page)

hi bestie i think i was the one who relayed to you the wok prime info. dalinar is betrothed to shallan i think she was like 16. idk what became of it bc i never finished it but yeah...

thank you bestie 💕 we hate to see it! navani/dalinar definitely an improvement

[pixelfoodie]

Longjing cha, also known as "Dragon Well Tea" or "the national drink of China", is a renowned and unique green tea produced in the Zhejiang province in China, particularly in three areas - Xihu, Yuezhou and Qiantang. It is a mountainous area with mild climate and plenty of rainfall throughout the year, offering prime conditions for growing tea trees. The tea is known for its "four wonders" - delicately aromatic flavour, uniquely sweet taste, beautiful and attractive visual appearance and the emerald green colour of the tea leaves. The leaves have a truly distinctive shape - smooth and flattened along the inside of the leaf, which is the result of a unique production process known as pan-firing or pan-frying, highly skilled shaping and roasting of the leaves in a hot wok. The process gives the tea a delicate, toasty aroma and a sweetness that lingers in the mouth long after the drink is consumed. src.: https://www.tasteatlas.com/longjing-cha

[losyr]

Let's be real, I'm cooking harder than shrimpo with a wok and day old leftover rice tonight

I had him in mind as essentially the prime distractor, but way, way more punishing. You're at 1 heart, and you need to get to the elevator? Lmao nah, you kicked twisted toodles because brightney kept stealing her, and you wasted your stamina without knowing. Good luck with 3 star speed stat and no stamina for 10 seconds while panicked toodles is tunnel-visioned on you.

Also, I know he's missing 4 from his stat pool, but I didn't know where to put them, and I liked the one broken star for stamina.

He's also supposed to have stress lines under his eyes, but I made them too small and compression made them dissappear

And the framing is shit, leave me alone :(

[doolallymagpie]