#wood chunks

[inthecityofgoodabode]

May 2024: Kebab Weekend

It might not look like it but this thin line of trees between a highway and a field filled with utility lines is a much needed habitat especially for birds:

"As swift as the swallow that flies through that air." - The Creggan White Hare by Daoiri Farrell:

Squirrels are sloppy eaters. Squirrel planted sunflower:

Saturday dinner - salad, grilled vegetables with steak, chorizo & shrimp:

The art of imbuing food with smoke flavor on a gas grill. This is a roughly 50/50 mixture of pecan & apple wood. The pecan is strong like hickory, oak & mesquite while the apple is sweet & light. The blend renders a smoke flavor that is balanced like a beautiful katana crafted by a master. The blackened pieces are wood chunks that have seen one or more grillings. The water, with its minute particles of ash, is retained & poured into our compost bins. Nothing is wasted... only transformed:

Maybe we'll get grapes this year:

More squirrel planted sunflowers. Given the effort that my queen & I have put into trying to grow sunflowers in previous years, it is a little annoying that the squirrels managed it by just being sloppy eaters:

My 3 minute egg timer that I've started using to time when I'm grilling. My queen likes her steak well done. On our gas grill, 16 to 18 minutes produces a well done steak that is still juicy. She says I could teach the cooks at the local steakhouses a thing or two about cooking a well done steak properly:

Sunday dinner. My queen requested more grilled delights. This time the protein was chicken:

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

head cannon that karl is part lycan so he likes eating raw meat and also another head cannon that ethan stopped eating meat after the events of re7 so ethan is living with some feral man who brings dead animals to his doorstep to try and woo him

(it does not work)

[barksbog]

did you know you can get branches for free in the woods

[stellarsightz]

swimming through the void, we hear the word // we lose ourselves, but we find it all

[gingerrhd]

Inktober 2024 day 10

Been listening to the jello dubs and tbh they're right.

One thing about the postal service, is it's taught me that a lot of adhd and autistic adults have found their home in running the same routes every day and I think that'd suit mae

[pensivespacepirate]

rudyard funns' your adjudicator cross

[static-scribblez]

“Our senses restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed, they existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” - Maya Angelou, ‘Where Great Trees Fall’

Bonus:

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

Sun Wukong's assorted lingpai (mandate tokens)

[ID: 1) An illustration of the two sides of a mostly rectangular lingpai made of wood. One side reads "令" and the other reads "弼马温", both written in seal script. The bottom of the lingpai is adorned by horses facing outwards, clouds by their feet.

2) An illustration of the two sides of a stone lingpai shaped mostly like a rectangle, but flared at the top and bottom. One side reads "令" and the other reads "美猴王", both written in seal script. The top of the lingpai is adorned with a dragon-pearl surrounded by flames and clouds. The bottom is adorned with mountains, the sea, and coral. The borders of both the top and bottom are decorated with clouds and flowers. The top is swirled in a way that resembles a lingzhi or a ruyi.

3) An illustration of the two sides of a red jade lingpai, shaped mostly like a rectangle but with a curved top. One side reads "令" and the other reads "齐天大圣", both written in seal script. The top of the lingpai is adorned by a ruyi with a flower and mountain at its center. Below the ruyi is a lotus flower, which sits on top of the forehead of a Yazi carving. Clouds extend out from either side of Yazi and below him are flowers. The two sides of the lingpai have the carvings of cloud pillars wrapped in a stylized waterfall. At the bottom are clouds which could also be the foam from the waterfall. Lotuses float atop this foam/these clouds. At the center of the bottom is a mountain with a ruyi at its foot. This ruyi also has a flower within it.

4) The lineart for the three lingpai, with accompanying commentary. The one labeled "BiMaWen" reads "carved and burned wood," "simple, only horses and clouds," and "ornamental, basically no power." The one labeled "Beautiful Monkey King" reads "carved from a chunk of Sun Wukong's stone egg," "customized from Ao family royal lingpai template," and "mostly sea, cloud, and dragon pearl imagery." The one labeled "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" reads "carved from red jade," "fully custom, in style of an emperor's lingpai but HuaGuo," and "flowers, waterfalls, mountains, ruyi, Yazi, and clouds imagery." At the side are simple doodles of the three lingpai. The first is light brown with a yellow cord, captioned "simple cord, no tassel." The second is grey with a red cord and tassel, captioned "silk cord and tassel." The third is red with a red cord and tassel, captioned "braided cord," "jade and gold accented." End ID]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

A tornado touched down a couple counties away and my area was in a watch hours ago but it's been done for a while now so I had my bedroom window open for the breeze

and my house was just hit with a massive and terrifying surge of wind that made me genuinely think we were about to be picked up by a tornado and that was strong enough to literally rip my door off of its hinges in the seconds it lasted 🙃

[tswwwit]

Just some Thirsty Thursday Answers here! Semi-NSFW

Bill chalks another one up on the board of 'Things Dipper Likes That He Didn't Know He Liked', which is almost one-to-one with 'Things Bill had his fingers crossed hoping Dipper was into' It was a long journey to get Dipper more comfortable in his own skin, and longer to add 'in bed' to that, but now? Bill is having a great time.

This is certainly an eye-spy scenario! Dipper wasn't doing any of this out in the open; knowing Bill and his.... well, everything, Dipper would be extra vigilant to make sure he wasn't around!

That doesn't mean he managed to find every eye, though. And more often than not, he sort of forgets that, oh yeah, there's one literally on him. Bill's careful not to point that one out too much, or his human husband's going to start wearing a single glove or something. That'd ruin a lot of his fun.

Any roleplay with set pieces, like 'demonic sacrifice on a fancy altar' or 'tense and weirdly erotic game of cat and mouse until one of them falls into a trap'! Bill's a big fan of setting the atmosphere. But while he can do a lot of setup in the Fearamid, sometimes you just gotta block off a pretty large section to really get the full 'looming temple in the darkness of night in the mysterious desert-or-jungle' experience! It's just not the same if you can't see the stars in alignment high above, while a big magical circle thrums around your grand and terrifying temple. 😔

(The set piece is arguably easier to manage than wrangling Dipper into some of the proposed outfits. Some of the jewelry is just cold and digs into tender places, Bill, c'mon.)

[ufonaut]

Highlights from Parker: A Portfolio of Words & Pictures Vols. 1 & 2 by Darwyn Cooke, featuring some concept art as well as a pivotal scene from Butcher's Moon (1974) -- the final book in the original series.

Regarding Jack Palance as Parker, Donald Westlake (or Richard Stark, if you prefer) was once quoted as saying:

[cemetery-irises]

Matthias being startled and concerned at how the other survivors don't find Louis terrifying and just unceremoniously kick it like a football when they want it to fuck off

Hell even VICTOR did it!! Actually as far as Matthias can tell, Victor was the first... But why? Why does the quiet mailman decide he wants to chuck Louis around like he's a non-threat? And why does everyone copy him??

godd yeah i think he's just. so used to louis being a little bitch that he kind of forgets other people havent been tormented by this hellspawn for their whole life ifjdnfnfk

[utisticgator]

Like yes, you could date a cis woman... but she can't do a flawless impression of the villagers from element animation. I can.

[waywardsalt]

i think more loz dungeons should’ve done what the ice ruins did and just give you the boss key right out the gate as proof of how fucked you are

[pastafossa]

I'm going to be really sad about losing a bunch of my art supplies/pieces so if that's not your thing, feel free to scroll by.

Nothing like going out to the garage to get some wood for your upcoming projects only to find there had been a leak, water pooled on the floor beneath the boxes in your work area, and had ruined a bunch of the wood you'd been painstakingly collecting for carving for years.

The irony: most of the wood that was ok? Common basswood that's easily replaced. It was mostly my rarer woods that were ruined.

Cherry, maple, walnut, cedar, buckeye. Woods with beautiful grains. Precious butternut that's going extinct. Gifts from my wood carving teacher and mystery wood castoffs from other woodworkers who didn't need them. Odd shapes and pieces I had plans for. Gone. Everything in this pic, from what's inside the box to what's in the can (some of which can't be seen) had to be tossed due to mold from the water damage. You can't put a price on this wood emotionally. I literally just want to cry. Fucking years, some of them already partly carved and I just hadn't had time to finish them since moving here.

The only silver lining I can think of is that I have another box of wood in the house, with some rarer woods in it. But this still really, really hurts.

[sparklespeckles]

Slowly chipping away at Bloodborne. Spent the other day lost in the Forbidden Woods and got frustrated. Took a break and found the boss today. You know that picture about mining for diamonds or something and one gives up just as they're reaching the motherload? Yeah that was me. I was one muddy path away from the boss.

That frustration was only compounded when I found the beggar, clearly eating a body and I said to myself, it would be really funny if I sent him to the Chapel and he killed everyone. So I did that. And he killed the old lady. And im like "to be expected". What was NOT expected was the heartwrenching performance of the Chapel Dweller, crying over the old lady dying. I regreted my decision inmediately. So, today I rectified my mistake by killing the beggar.

I let the Amygdala take me and got to a new area but was advised not to fully explore it just yet, so I turned back.

All thats left to do now is beat the snake people and hopefully I'll be free of these woods.