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duckprintspress · 2 years ago

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For This Week's Blog Post: We Need YOU!

One of our long-term projects at Duck Prints Press - something we've been working on on-and-off for a while but haven't made public yet - is a Fandom Lexicon. There are a lot of websites and blog posts that include parts of a list of fandom-specific language, but we've not been able to find just a simple glossary, so we decided to put one together. (We're not saying such websites don't exist...they surely do...but we also wanted to do our own!)

There are many challenges in making such a list (one of the most obvious being what to include - how general a term is "too" general for inclusion?) but we've been doing our best, casting a wide net, and picking the collective brains of people involved in the Press.

And...we've basically exhausted our own knowledge/memories/ideas, which is where you, yes YOU, come in!

We want your terminology! What are fandom words you've encountered and said "wait, what does that mean?" What's old fandom slang you used to use that you don't see anymore and know that some newbie would be confused by? What are words you wish you could have found on a list when you first joined fandom?

We've already put together a list of 222 general fandom terms and abbreviations (some definitely "fandom specific," others more "internet general slang") and 29 fandom-specific abbreviations (this list is, obviously, much more nascent). You can see the entire list here. (note: there is citrusy terminology on this list, both literally the citrus scale is on there, but also things like A/B/O, BDSM, etc. - it's a lexicon, after all.)

Currently, we are looking for:

general fandom terms/online terms that would be confusing to people out of context; and

over-arching fandom abbreviations (e.g., MCYT = Minecraft Youtuber, but we don't want every single abbreviation for every sub-part of the fandom - just the level that if someone saw the abbreviation "in the wild" they'd have at least some frame of reference).

Long term, we'd love to do fandom-specific lexicons as well (NOT wikis, mind you, literally just "this abbreviation often means this" with links to resources that can give more information) but that's a much larger project that would require recruiting people with enough fandom-specific knowledge for each fandom, and is not our current aim, so please don't send us stuff like that.

Have you been in fandom a long time? Do you just HATE when people use the word "drabble" wrong? Have you got a list of words you wish fandom still used, or a list of newer terms you regularly look at and go "wait wtf does THAT one mean?"? Send us your words, so we can incorporate them into our list!

You can add a comment! Put your words in a reply! Add your words to the tags! Drop us an ask! However you feel like sending the words our way, go for it.

You can see everything currently on our list HERE. (reminder: lemon text at this link)

Or, here's our current ones (as of July 24th, 2022) under a read more. No definitions yet - we're not even at that stage, we're still gathering words! (And a third reminder: yes there are lemony fresh words below the read-more. No pictures or definitions but just. The words themselves.)

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General Fandom Terms (some of which are more just general internet lingo, it's a difficult line to draw - many of these have more notes in the linked gdoc so we definitely recommend you go there instead of relying solely on this list):

[Person’s] A+ Parenting

A/B/O

A/N

AITA

Alpha

Alpha Reader

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

Angst

Anon

Anti

Anti-anti

AO3

Avatar

AYRT

Baihe

Bashing

BDSM

Beta

Beta Reader

Big Bang

Bingo

Bird App

Blorbo

BNF

Bottom

Britpick

BroTP

C&C

Camp NaNo

Canon

Canon Compliant

Canon Divergent

Canon Insert

Carrd

Casefic

Cisswap

Citrus

Citrus Scale

CNTW

Coda

Concrit

Consentacles

Cosplay

Crack

Crackship

Crossover

Danmei

Dead Dove

DL:DR

DNI

DNW

Drabble

Dubcon

Eeby Deeby

Fanart

Fanfic

Fanfiction

Fanon

Fanzine

Fave

Femslash

Fest

FF.net

Fic

Ficlet

Filk

Fix-it

Flame

Fluff

Fujo

Fujoshi

Fusion

Gary Stu

Gen

Genderbend

Genderswap

GIF

Glomp

Glub Shitto

Gong

Grapefruit

H/C

H/NC

HEA

Headcanon

Hentai

HFN

Himbo

Horse Plinko

Incorrect [thing] Quotes

IRC

Isekai

Jossed

JPG

Jump the Shark

Kink Meme

Kink Tomato

Kripked

Lemon

Lik the bred

Lime

LRT

Lurker

Mary Sue

MCD

Meme

Meta

MFL

Miette

Mini-Bang

Monoshipper

Multishipper

NaNo or NaNoWriMo

Noncon

NoRomos

NoTP

NTA

OFC

OMC

Omega

OMG They Were Roommates

Orange

OT3

Otaku

OTP

OTW

p4p

pfp

Plinko Horse

Plot bunny

Podfic

Polyshipper

Poor Little Meow Meow

Pro-shipper

PSA

PWP

QRT

Queerbaiting

Ravatar

Reader Insert

Reblog

Remix

Repost

Reverse Bang

RPF

RPS

Rule 63

S (followed by a number)

Schmoop

Scrunkly

Secret Masters

Self-insert

Selfcest

Seme

Sex Pollen

Ship

Shitpost

Shou

Slash

Smushname

Smut

Sockpuppet

Songfic

SPAG

Squee

Squick

Stan

Superhell

t4t

TBR

TERF

There Was Only One Bed

Tinhat

TL:DR

Top

TPTB

Troll

Trope

TVTropes

Twincest

Uke

UST

WAFF

Wank

Whump

Wiki

WIP

Woobie/woobify

Wuxia

Xianxia

Y/N

Yaoi

Yeet

YKINMKATO

YMMV

Zine

Our (VERY Preliminary) List of General/Overarching Fandom Abbreviations:

AD&D or D&D

ATLA

BNHA

CQL

DMBJ

GDC

HNK

HOB

JJK

JK or JKR

LoTR

MCU

MCYT

MDZS

MXTX

OFMD

SNK

SPN

ST: DS9

ST: TNG

SVSSS

SW: TFA

TGCF

TLTR

#duck prints press #fandom lexicon #help us oh internets

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killmebutneverinsultme2 · 4 years ago

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Rules for mobile (Pinned Post)

The Code

Success. I’ve sufficiently pestered the wench to make me a blog, much to the cost of a certain behorned mischief god whose presence I must share. Follow the rules below, and there’ll be smooth sailin’, savvy?

This be an exceptionally selective blog. I was me mun’s first ever muse yonks back and I’ve pestered her into writing me again, BUT, she’s horribly pressed for time. Partners will likely be very few, else ones doubling up with Loki’s. Anyone is welcome to approach and enquire, but she and I will be leaning toward those either from me own universe or crossovers with which she’s highly familiar and characters in whom she’s especially interested. Ye have been warned.

Replies are like to be slow, up to a few weeks at most.

Partners must be 18+. Various themes of an adult nature may be found here. Sexual things will be tagged ‘#filthy pirate’ with whatever level/variety of sin I deem them. More details below.

Behave. There shall be no rudeness, no passive aggression, no hate, no censorship or generally being a twit. Do I make meself clear?

The Code - Extended (below the cut)

Hi, guys. I’m Pirate (oddly known as this long before I made Jack a tumblr). Here are my more detailed rules and guidelines for writing with me on this blog, though the absolute basics are at the top as, honestly, it’s never easy to remember everyone’s requirements.

Jack is a sideblog. If you’re being followed by a benevolentgodloki that means I’m following you back. I don’t need us to be mutuals (both following each other) for us to write together, but there is a greater chance of us having a partnership if we’re letting each other know we’re interested.

How I Roll

I note myself as ‘highly selective’. This isn’t to be an elitist bugger, it’s because we all only have a limited amount of time we can put in. I want to write what I enjoy with people I enjoy. I am married with two attention-seeking cats, two jobs, a slow-brewing intended writing career and a video game addiction.

Asks/Memes - I will usually answer these no matter who they are from but I may or may not turn them into a thread I intend to keep. Some memes are very much designed to be something that continues so context can be key. If you would like to know in advance whether I intend to answer and/or keep something, please do pop me a message and I will be kind and honest.

My Threads - While Jack’s blog is still exciting and new, I’m being a bit all over the place with who and what I reply to depending on which way Jack’s.. compass.. is pointing. I do have a rolling turn order that I adhere to (to the point that I can genuinely tell you who is next at any given moment) but it’s all piled in with Loki’s threads, meaning I can take a few weeks to get round everything. Every partner gets one of their threads answered within that ‘round’ and then I go round again. However, when I’m really into something/finding something easy to pop back, I treat myself to spamming certain threads or partners at my whim. I use rpthreadtracker.com to maintain what I have.

I will remind partners of threads that have not been replied to for more than three months. If I do not do this, I have either forgotten/lost it myself, I’m not too fussed about keeping it at that stage, or you were absent for a long period of time.

My Style - I will write in both past or present tense depending on partner preference. My default is past but I like either. Please kick me if I screw up and write the wrong one. I prefer using regular size font but I will make mine small on replies to people who use the smaller so that it looks neat. I will often match partners’ lengths and some formatting details e.g. bolding dialogue, but I struggle with doing novella-length posts for reasons below.

I have a bugbear to admit about role-play. What we call splicing. A good half of my partners write this way so I’m not about to tell everyone to stop but if you’re someone who does this, you will occasionally run into some frustrations when writing with me. ‘Splicing’ is when you retrospectively write dialogue or actions as having previously happened during your partner’s last post. These things are fine when they’re passive i.e. your character muttered them, thought them or you were writing what your character was doing at the time because that’s pretty much essential. The trouble comes usually when my characters talk a lot/ask rhetorical questions and partners choose to answer every single one despite the fact my character carried on talking. I know it’s an ass that I have talkative muses and you really want to respond to every point/get a word in, but putting words and actions into the past effectively godmods my muse into accepting they happened. If you feel your muse would have full-on interjected midway through their ramble, please ask me to edit my post/stop it at that point. Otherwise if you do prefer to splice, my muse will only respond to whatever it is your character did or said last in their post. This is one of the reasons I can’t write novella, because often there is only so much you can write before you’re stepping into the territory of changing what went before and not allowing your partner to do anything about it.

TL;DR don’t ever worry about your post being too short for me. If it’s one sentence long but it’s because something fast-paced is happening, I won’t be miffed.

Shipping! - no not that kind of ship, Jack. I love shipping. Ships all around. Let’s face it, romance can be one of the most exciting reasons we bother writing. I am open to a lot of ships for Jack, practically all of them. Yes, even that one. I will do downright nasty, toxic, horrible stuff, savvy? It’s fiction and Jack is a great indulgence for bad things happening to him as much as good. That said, of course don’t force something on him without prior agreement between us. Well, I mean, your muse can try and accost him and see what he does, just don’t expect him to definitely reciprocate. Jack and I are bi/pansexual. We’re open to everything. I will admit a heavy lean toward m/m but, that said, Jack is extremely fond of the ladies, more so than Loki. I am very into Sparrington especially.

Not Safe For Ye Olde Work

Sliding down from the above topic, I enjoy the occasional smutting. It is not a requirement from my partners. In fact, I’m warming very much to fading to black depending on the context/mood/if things feel a bit repetitive. I do feel a touch more comfortable with partners who don’t need that boundary but as I’ve recently figured ‘if it needs a cut, then it’s smut’ I know when to skip on.

Saucy material will go under cuts/Read More’s and be tagged as mentioned above with ‘filthy pirate’. Additional tags will be based on the citrus scale: ‘lime’ for general grabbing, ‘lemon’ for full on sexual content and ‘grapefruit’ if things get extra kinky. I will tag things such as ‘rape tw’ or ‘noncon tw’ or ‘dubcon tw’ where necessary. Please blacklist any or all of these at your leisure, or search them if you fancy :U I do NOT tag these as ‘ns.fw’ because tumblr just completely hides them from being searchable which is useless for my partners.

OC’s - Due to my time constraints I am extremely picky when it comes to OC’s. This is a good fandom for well-thought-out muses and I know firsthand how hard it is to make headway as an OC in the RP world. However, I also understand that for people like me, I want to dip in on this site to mostly play with the characters and worlds I’m really absorbed in and ship my weaselly black guts out. Some people have more time than others to really give your OCs the time and love they deserve. Unless I’ve played with you a long time and I really like the cut of your and your muse’s jib, it’s very unlikely I’ll bite. Apologies! The same goes for crossover muses from fandoms I’m unfamiliar with, but I will let you know if that’s the case.

Limits

Threads - I don’t have a strict limit on how many to have per person but please bear in mind that the more of these you have with me the longer it will take me to get to a particular one (unless I’m spamming it back and forth). This is more a mun/muse context how many I accept.

Exclusives/mains - I don’t do these although I may consider having a maximum of 3 or 4 of one muse depending on activity levels and to ensure plots don’t get mixed up or attention feel unfairly balanced.

Triggers/squicks - I don’t like body horror e.g. graphic detail of squishy bits having bad things happen to them. I’m writing a pirate so there’s absolutely allowed to be elements of torture/violence, just don’t stab him in the eye or chop bits off him. One torture-related thing sends me into a complete freakout which I’ll discuss with partners if we’re doing a thread of that ilk as needed. Kink-wise I’m not into mpreg, A/B/O or infantilism or toilet things. Just ask me/Jack if you’re after something XD

Who I Am/What I Need From You

Being yourself is the most important thing and I promise I am not a scary person (usually). We’re only human and it’s natural that we’ll get along better with some rather than others. This is more to give you a gist of the sort of person I am and who I gel with best.

So I’m a shy hermit at the best of times. I’m trying to be better at engaging and enthusing with partners over our threads because I realise more than ever this does keep things alive and make for a more enjoyable experience. I’m not always great at it. I work best with people who are patient and don’t worry too much on what I think of them and their writing, with people who are happy to keep threads going for the longhaul rather than keep dropping everything before I’ve had the time to get to the next post, and most especially people who accept that fiction =/= reality. I do need a certain level of quality, which doesn’t always mean perfect grammar, but it must be coherent, fun and creative. I like a relaxed approach, sharing mutual enjoyment in silly fantasy world sandboxes as escapism from (and exploration of) this complicated world we live in.

If you managed to read all of this, have a drink (even if it’s water). You’re a diamond.

Pirate xxx

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the-citrus-scale · 6 years ago

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When you start a business, you must know several things. One of the most important, in our opinion, is your message. We’ve known Lemon’s from before the very first issue. It was meant to be a space for respectful discourse revolving around fandom. And it really was that simple. We wanted fanfiction, fanart, and really any fan-created content to be taken seriously and viewed as a serious and legitimate form of self-expression. We still do! The only problem is that fandom wasn’t ready for Lemon. We’ve been told for far too long that this thing we all participate in is childish, immature, and, frankly, stupid. It isn’t worth our time, our money, or our energy. Fandom believes all these things about itself too, unfortunately. And it’s hard not to. We get it, but we’re not giving up either. We believe very strongly in this idea. We know it can work, but maybe the magazine format is too clunky for fandom. It’s getting so long each month it’s like sitting down to read a novel, which is crazy. We know you’re out there, though, reading away anyway. We get 1,000+ downloads on every single issue now.

We never believed we had a perfect product, though. We don’t think you can and run a business. And yes, Lemon was and is a business. Sure, the subject matter throws people for a loop, but it’s not a “hobby” or a “project”. It is a business. Which is why we know sometimes a change is in order if you went to survive, and we do. Basically, we asked ourselves how we can ask fandom to believe it was a valid form of creative expression if we weren’t practicing what we preach. And the answer was we can’t.

So, without further ado, we’d like to introduce The Citrus Scale, LLC. We are a news and media company focusing on fandom dynamics, cosplay, writing fanfiction, and more. We will still be offering fandom news analysis, articles, interviews with all your favorites, and feature all the best fan-created content on the Internet. We’ll just be doing it without the magazine. We will also be adding a YouTube channel and website that we hope will be your go-to stop for free writing resources, the most up-to-date and relevant news, and an open-minded community that believes fandom is legit, damnit!

But you’ll have to play a role too. In order for us to know what you like, what you don’t like, and what you want us to feature, you have to tell us. This part isn’t optional and it costs you nothing, other than a negligible amount of time. You already spend your free time here anyway. We just need your honest opinion on the content. This venture was meant to be a reflection of all of us. We can’t do that if you continue to lurk. If you do, it’s like we’re talking to ourselves, and if that’s all it’s going to be, we can do that without the extra effort. Please don’t take this as a threat, our subtle version of ‘if you don’t give us feedback, we’ll take it all away’. But the reality is that if you don’t support the content that you want to see, it will disappear eventually, because it appears as though that content isn’t enough to engage with. As creators, we take that to heart and assume that means we’re doing it wrong. We will continue to find what works best, but we can’t do it alone anymore.

We understand the confusion and apprehension. Most people don’t want you to criticize their work. However, and this is important, this is supposed to be a space for discourse. We have to have a conversation to make this happen, and we’re well aware not everyone thinks like us, and that’s more than okay. That’s how we grow, learn, and move on. We want your voices. All of them. We don’t want to just hear what we’re doing right, either. We want to hear what we’re doing wrong too, as well as what you want that we haven’t delivered yet. As long as your criticism is constructive, we’re prepared to listen. You can get in touch with us through any of our social media accounts. We would also love it if you would join our Discord server and give us feedback that way. The Discord server acts as a forum for all of our announcements, and for interacting with other fans just like you.

Now to the fun stuff! We’ll still be doing monthly themes, and Marvel’s starts on August 1st. This will include daily releases of infographics, fanart, interviews, and more. We’re just taking apart the magazine and making it easier to digest. In fact, this move will allow us include even more content. As we wait, though, we’ll be doing a grand opening week for The Citrus Scale! We’ll be hosting giveaways, playing games, and having surprise guests, so stay tuned for more announcements!

The Citrus Scale, like Lemon… only bigger. ;)

#announcement #lemon mag #lemon magazine #press release #marvel #marvel issue #captain marvel #marvel fandom #mcu #new direction #new business #news #media news

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stemroses · 3 years ago

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Omg yes!

See I didn’t know what “lemon” “slash” “citrus scale” and like everything else we use in fanfics mean when I first started. (Mainly bc I found fanfics in the fourth grade and never stopped). So I basically had to teach myself “huh… those words that they use but don’t mean the actual meaning means that the people do stuff you’re not suppose to do. Interesting. Weird.., but ok”. So I really liked the fics that were like “stop reading here” or “skip to next chapter if you don’t wanna read smut” . ❤️❤️ bc I miss that. A lot actually. We should bring that back. Give me my warning back.

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

#anyways #fun times #I lowkey still put a warning as an A/N on chapters that have smut in them #gotta all cap„bold„italicize„underline that shit in hopes that it catches the reader’s attention lmfao

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jiminthestreets-bonesinthesheets · 6 years ago

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Lost in Translation

Title: Lost in Translation

Fandom: Star Trek

Pairing: Mckirk

Rating: i have recently been advised that i should use the “citrus scale” so... Lemon (eventually)

Tags: minor character death, hurt, little bit of self destruction, stranded, possible smut down the line

Summary:

“Attention citizens. This is the crew of the Enterprise asking for your aid. On Stardate 2264.78 a shuttle manned by our captain and fourteen cadets was ambushed by an unknown source and chased out of sight of our ship and into open space. Those cadets as well as our captain, James Tiberius Kirk, are still missing. We are asking anyone with any information on their whereabouts, or regarding the attack, to please contact the Enterprise immediately. Our family would appreciate any assistance you can give.”

AO3 Link

Masterlist

Special Thanks: wanted to give a huge shout out to my girl Katie, AKA @goingknowherewastaken for being a huge inspiration for this fic as well as for being a huge help (especially when it comes to putting up with my frantic ramblings lol) you're awesome boo <3

A/N: So this is a work in progress but it’s basically finished and I’ve been making great headway with this recently, so this will be the first fic I’ve ever finished! Woohoo!! And I'm thinking that I’ll probably stick to a Sunday post schedule.

Also a little note for y’all to keep in mind while reading. I have tagged this fic “possible eventual smut” and that’s because right now I don’t have any planned buuuuut… I'm going to leave that option up to you guys! Between the readers here and AO3, if you're still with me by the end of this fic, leave a comment and let me know if you would be interested in an epilogue or end scene with smut. I’ll post a reminder at the end, but keep it in mind while reading.

And if anyone is interested in being tagged for future posts for this fic or any others I may post, please let me know and I’ll add you to the list! Thanks for reading <3

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Chapter 5

Leonard slammed a fist on his desk and ran the other hand down his face, ending the comm. He couldn’t take much more of this. If someone didn’t find Jim soon he was going to have some kind of nervous break down, in fact, he was surprised he hadn’t had one already.

He decided to take himself up on that drink and left his office, not even giving a wave to anyone at the nurse’s station as he stalked past. He was on his way to his room when that old saying popped violently into his head, playing over and over again, “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone,” and hell if that weren’t true.

He’d known Jim Kirk since the day he sat next to him on the shuttle in Riverside, and he’d be the last to admit that there had been something between them right from the get go, but now he wished he had. He’d spent years trying to convince himself that what he felt for the kid wasn’t anything more then friendship, but after a few close calls he started to realize that maybe he couldn’t keep up that charade for much longer. Now Jim was missing, and every emotion that he had tried for all those years to push down and ignore, because ain’t no way the kid would have feelings for a grumpy old man like him, came quickly flooding back to him, pushing him into a sort of self destructive spiral.

It started slow. The first few nights Jim was missing he had spent them locked up in his room, trying to quell the frequent panic attacks that were suddenly plaguing him. Thoughts and visions filled his head of Jim dying in so many different ways. Jim floating in space, mangled in the shuttle crash, by infection, by dehydration or starvation… alone. The thoughts quickened his heart and tightened his chest, but no matter what he did he couldn’t vanquish the thought of Jim dying alone and without knowing what he should have told him years ago.

He had hoped that throwing himself fully into the rescue efforts for Jim and the cadets would maybe help deter these thoughts, but it only made them worse. Each day he would join Spock, Nyota, and a few other members of their crew in mapping out different routes and possible locations. Only, when Leonard started seeing for himself what kinds of planets Jim could have landed on, he was sure one of his panic attacks would turn into a heart attack. As he stood motionless and silent in the ready room off the bridge, looking at pictures and listening to Spock talk about different planets along the shuttles possible routes, “volcanic planet,” “made up of 87.65% water,” “host to a race of hostile inhabitants,” and more, Leonard could hardly contain his very high, and quickly rising, level of anxiety.

He managed to hide it fairly well during these meetings with Jim's rescue crew. Holding the emotions inside and saving his attacks for when he was in the privacy of his own room, alone, where he could drown his fears in a glass of bourbon. And that’s where it quickly went down hill, and fast. What started off as his usual one or two glasses a night, turned into three, then four, and eventually he found that even the entire bottle couldn’t stop the scenes from running through his mind.

Now, eighteen days into searching for Jim and again coming up empty handed, he found himself sitting on his couch, having already emptied bottle number one, and half way through bottle number two. And even that didn’t seem to be enough tonight.

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“Lieutenants log, Stardate 2264.96. It has been eighteen days and still no sign of the captain or our missing cadets. I have sent out alerts in all areas of the quadrant in all native languages as well as several foreign ones, and still no one has reported seeing our missing shuttle or crew members...”

Nyota sighed, running a hand down her face. She had been on the bridge for she didn’t know how long, composing alerts and translating them into as many languages as she knew in an attempt to find Jim, or at the very least have someone come forward with some information that could lead them in the right direction. At this point they were grasping at straws and practically guessing when it came to searching planets. They might as well have closed their eyes and thrown a dart at a map. They had no idea where the shuttle had even gone, and no one in this entire quadrant seemed to know either.

She ended her comm and turned back to the screen where she was working on her latest translation. The bridge had been quiet all shift, everyone solely focused on finding their missing captain and crew.

She heard the rush of air as the turbo lift doors opened and closed, and heard the footsteps as they walked steadily across the bridge and stopped behind her. Though she didn’t turn around and instead continued her work.

A gentle hand touched her shoulder, an attempt to gain her attention. “Lieutenant,” the steady voice of their acting captain broke through the silence, “have you been here for both shifts?”

She turned to face Spock, realizing now that the bridge crew behind him were not the faces her usual shift crew. Quickly turning back to her screen and looking at the time she sighed and slumped back in her chair, “Yeah, I guess I have.”

Spock leaned over her slightly, looking at the screen, “Are you sending out another alert about the captain and the cadets?”

“Yes.”

“How many have you sent out?”

“Not including the thirteen native languages of this quadrant…” she thought for a moment, “this will be the eighth.”

“What language?”

“This one’s in Klingon.”

“May I?” She gestured to the screen and pushed her chair to the side so Spock could better view the message. He leaned fully forwards and began reading the text, “Attention Klingon citizens in the Omarian quadrant. This is the crew of the Enterprise asking for your help. On Stardate 2264.78 a shuttle manned by our captain and fourteen cadets was ambushed by an unknown source and chased out of sight of our ship. Those cadets as well as our captain, James Tiberius Kirk, are still missing. We are asking anyone with any information on their whereabouts, or regarding the attack, to please contact the Enterprise immediately. Our family would appreciate any assistance you can give.”

When he finished reading the passage, he backed away and turned to her, hands folded behind his back, “Do you think the Klingons would help us if they did hold information pertinent to the captain’s rescue?”

She shrugged, “It’s worth a shot at this point. So far everything else has been a bust.”

“You do have a point, Lieutenant.” She nodded in response and Spock watched as her head slowly began to fall into her chest. He placed his hand on her shoulder again, jolting her from her half asleep state, “Come, Lieutenant, you must rest. If any information is discovered I will contact you immediately.”

“No,” she said as she stood from the chair and Spock began gently guiding her towards the lift, “Spock, I have a few more languages I wanted to translate that message into. Just-”

“Nyota,” he stopped her with a hard look, “we will be no help to Jim, the missing cadets, or the rest of the crew if we are not well rested. Get some rest and we can continue the translations tomorrow.”

“Yeah,” she nodded, getting into the lift, “you're right. I’ll be here tomorrow morning to continue the translations.”

Spock gave a nod as the doors closed and she ordered the lift to her deck. In seconds the lift doors opened again and she slowly made way to her room. She was just about there when a familiar blonde head of hair came towards her from down the hall.

“Christine, what are you doing up so late?”

“Emergency surgery on one of the engineering crew,” she huffed a breath and rubbed her already red eyes, “I was actually already off shift and in bed when M’benga called me in to help.”

“Doesn’t doctor McCoy usually take the reigns on these kinds of things?” She quirked a brow and crossed her arms, “At the very least he's usually present during the surgery.”

“That’s just the thing,” she shrugged, “no ones been able to get him on comms. He left the sickbay around noon without telling anyone and no ones heard from him all day.”

“That’s odd.”

Christine rubbed a hand up her arm, shifting slightly closer to whisper to Nyota, “I'm worried about him, Ny,” she stepped back, not sure if she should disclose this next bit of information to a lieutenant, but she needed to tell someone and she didn’t think that someone should be Spock, considering his track record with Leonard, “I keep finding empty bottles of alcohol all over his office, he's leaving shift early, I don’t think he's done a surgery or even an exam on anyone in weeks, he won’t talk to anyone, spends most of his time in his office gaping at those maps. I know this all has to do with Jim going missing, and believe me we are all feeling the loss right now, but I'm afraid he's spiralling into something he won’t be able to pull himself out of and soon it might… it might get really bad if someone doesn’t pull him out.”

“You’re right,” she nodded, “what's his room number? I’ll check on him.”

Christine pulled up the padd in her hand and tapped away for a second before looking back to Nyota, “Room, 226.”

“Ok, I'm on my way,” she turned to head back to the lift before calling out, “I’ll comm you when I’ve got him.”

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Nyota arrived at room 226, the room of her good friend Doctor Leonard McCoy. She knocked and waited, looking around the deserted hallway. It was long past midnight and the ship was eerily quite as she waited. When she heard no answer or rousing from the other side she knocked again, this time shouting, “Leonard, I know you’re in there, please let me in. I know this change in you is because of Jim but we can talk it out, just open the door. People are worried about you.”

Still no one answered and she would admit that she was starting to get worried too. She took another look around the halls, making sure she was still alone, before quickly hacking into the lock pad beside Len’s door and breaking in.

She entered to the room in complete darkness. She closed the door behind her and called out for Len but again there was no answer. She ordered the computer to turn the lights on and gasped when she was finally able to see. And what she was met with was a room full of countless empty bottles, a passed out doctor on the floor in front of the couch, and a bottle of half empty bourbon slowly leaking in his hand.

She ran over to him, turning him over and taking his face in her hands shaking him gently, “Leonard, wake up!”

When all she got in response was a groan and a still unconscious Leonard, she grabbed her comm and called Christine.

“Uhora!” Christine’s voice came through the comm, “Did you talk to Leonard?”

“Not exactly,” she grunted as she hauled the limp doctor off the floor and slung his arm over her shoulder, “meet me back in sickbay, find an empty room and prep a bed for me. I’ll be there in ten minutes.”

Before anything else could be said she ended the call and began dragging Leonard across the room and slowly down the hall. He was no help to her at all, only grunting in protest at the upright position and occasionally shuffling his feet and throwing them both off balance. And after what seemed like a life time they finally made it to the lift that would take them to Christine.

When she had first laid eyes on Leonard lying lifeless on the floor, her first thought was to call Spock. He was after all, their acting captain in Jim's stead, but when rethinking that strategy she decided against it. Spock and the doctor did not have the best past and she could only imagine the fight that would ensue when Spock found out that his chief medical officer had nearly drank himself into a coma. And with Jim being gone and tensions already on the rise, she was sure it would most likely end in a blood bath. Instead she decided it best to keep this incident quiet and leave Len in the trustworthy hands of nurse Chapel.

When the lift door opened Christine was already there waiting for them, eyes blowing wide upon seeing the limp state of Leonard hanging off uhora’s shoulder. She quickly ran inside the lift taking up Len’s other side and lead them all to the room she had prepped in the far back of the sick bay.

They landed Leonard on the bed and shaded the windows before closing the door, leaving the three alone.

“What happened?!” Christine instantly began scanning Leonard, checking all vitals while waiting for an explanation.

Uhora sighed, running a hand through her hair before answering, “Jim still missing has clearly put a strain on all of us in many different ways. I found him passed out in his room surrounded by empty bourbon bottles. I can’t even begin to guess how many bottles he drank before he passed out.”

Chapel ran a scanner over him, eyes on her padd. “He’s lucky you found him and not someone else.”

“Those were my thoughts exactly,” she nodded, “I thought about calling Spock for help but I thought maybe it would be best to keep this quiet.”

“You’re probably right.” She pulled the scanner away, placing it back in her pocket and put the padd on the bedside table before turning to Uhora, “He’ll be fine. Nothing I can’t fix with a few good hypos.”

Uhora smirked, crossing her arms and standing, “I’ll be back in the morning to talk to him when he’s more himself, so don’t let him leave this room until I get here.” Chapel nodded, “And you should get some sleep too, Christine. Don’t let this fool keep you up all night.”

“I will. Good night, Nyota.”

“Good night.”

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For the first time in a long time Leonard woke up to a blinding headache. His eyes were so heavy and sore they didn’t even want to open, and sitting up was definitely not going to happen right now.

He ran a shaking hand down his face trying to remember what happened. He remembered making it to his room, then soon after receiving a comm from Spock informing him that the mission had yet again been a failure, and they would have to move on to another planet to search for Jim. Next thing, he had a bottle of bourbon in his hand and the rest is a haze.

Though he didn’t remember what happened he was sure he could put two and two together and figure it out, but how he had ended up in the sickbay would remain a mystery.

As he rifled through his jumbled thoughts for an answer the door opened, letting in a little too much light for his over sensitive eyes, and he shot a hand up to cover them.

“Oh, is that too bright for you?” A woman's voice hit his ears and he groaned in response, “I'm sorry, let me just open it a little more then. Or how about I do you one better. Computer, lights one hundred percent!”

As more light flooded the room Leonard hissed and rolled onto his side, which was a horrible idea as he felt his stomach lurch with the motion. Though he was far too stubborn to blow his stomach contents, and also not willing to stand to run to the bathroom, and forced himself to get over the sudden wave of nausea.

He let out one more groan as his stomach screamed at him, along with his liver, and he slit his eyes open just enough to see a familiar figure standing before him, arms crossed. “Uhora. What are you doing here? And why am I here?”

“You don’t remember?” She spat, walking closer to him, “I had to drag your dumb ass here after I found you passed out on your floor last night! I had to pull Chapel out of her room after she already worked a double and assisted on an emergency surgery because you were nowhere to be found, just so she could save your sorry hide from dying of alcohol poisoning!”

Yep, it was just as he had suspected. He clutched his stomach as another wave of nausea hit him and he looked up at her, “Look, Uhora, I-”

She raised a hand to stop him, “I don’t even want to hear your lame excuse Leonard. I had every intention of coming in here this morning and being as sympathetic as I could, but I couldn’t do it. I know your situation is slightly different then the rest of us, but you're not the only one who’s effected by Jim's absence!”

His brows furrowed and he pulled himself up in the bed to sit up slightly, “What do you mean my situation is different?”

She met his confused eyes with ones filled with pity. “Leonard, I know how you feel about Jim, I think everyone knows.”

“How I feel about him?”

She moved to sit on the edge of the bed facing him, all sternness replaced with the sympathy she spoke of before as she placed a hand on his shoulder, “The two of you were made for each other. I’ve seen the way you look at him, and how he looks at you, I’ve seen the way you act around each other and I know it’s more then merely friendship between you. But Leonard, you have got to pull yourself together. Jim is out there somewhere, along with fourteen other cadets who all need our help. No doubt when we find them they are going to need their chief medical officer in top condition to patch them up, and Jim is surely going to need his Bones just the same way.” He laid his head heavily back on the bed, letting it all sink in as she continued, “If you love him as much as I know you do, you'll sober up and get ready for when we do find him. And when he does get back, you should probably do something about that unspoken bond between the two of you. If this is anything to learn from, it’s that our lives are too dangerous and unpredictable to wait until it’s too late.”

She gave his arm a pat and left him alone to wallow in her words. He sighed, thinking over what she had said and decided that as always, Uhora was right… about everything.

He rolled to his side again and searched the room for his comm finding it on top of his shoes beside the bed. He grabbed it and rolled to his back, holding the comm in front of his face, before taking a deep breath and speaking as calmly as he could. “CMO’s log, stardate 2264.97. It’s… it’s day nineteen now in our search for the captain, and I won’t lie… I am struggling with his absence. After some much needed words of wisdom from Lieutenant Uhora I’ve come to realize some things, or rather finally come to fully accept them. All I’ve got to say is we better find you soon, Jim, and we better find you alive, cuz I’ve got a lot to say to you kid… a whole hell of a lot.”

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A/N: A very Leonard heavy chapter XD And I hope y’all are still enjoying this despite the horrible things I do to our boys, but I promise there are some good times ahead! As always let me know if you would like to be tagged, and thanks for reading <3 Tags: @goingknowherewastaken @bi-e-ne @weresilver-in-space @medicatemedrmccoy @reading-in-moonlight @resistance-is-futile81 @0dannyphantom0 @haveyouseenmymind @jimboy-mccoy @flaminglupine

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kmp78 · 7 years ago

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Christmas fest in Budapest 🇭🇺

Okay, first things first:

sadly but not surprisingly the ripple effects from last year´s massacre in Berlin were clearly visible: the Budapest Christmas markets were surrounded by concrete blocks and ever-present police officers were packing not just tasers and hand guns, but also actual machine guns!

I gotta say, it makes Christmas spirit a bit harder to come by when you have an Uzi in your line of sight at all times... 😔😨

But, it is what it is and all we can do is look forward to better times!

If you are looking for a budget-friendly, extremely well-located, spotless AND FABULOUSLY NAMED hotel in Budapest, you need not look any further than...

Ehe. 😁

When I was surfing the net for accommodations and came upon this gem... Well, it was a done deal at that point!

The only thing that annoyed me were, shockingly, other tourists! I´m sorry all you Russians out there but I have to say it: learn some ferkin´ manners, Jesus Christ! Is Vladimir banning all citrus fruits from your country or was it just plain greed and nastiness that drove one of your countrymen to dip elbows deep into a bowl of lemons and shove them in his pockets?! Like... really? Couldn´t leave just one for my tea? Not that I would have wanted it anyway, what with his disgusting bare hands having groped them... Sick. 😠

Also the Brits sitting next to me were at their best (?) behavior and judged absolutely everything in sight. Apparently “this English breakfast isn´t proper English”.

Well... DUH! You ain´t in good ol´ Blighty now, guvnor! Suck it up! You can munch on your bangers and mash back home!

And fun fact: almost directly across from our hotel was... 😒

Mom´s comment when she saw these:

“Oh my, those pants are way too short! That looks so stupid! What kind of man would want to wear those?!”

I just wept in silence. She does not need to know. 🙊

MOVING ON!

Some local treats: the Hungarian KFC (shut up) offered something I had never seen nor tasted before called a “Qurrito box” which consists of a semi-Mexican style burrito thingie with chicken and rice and all that good stuff inside - it was really good! 😋

In some more non-fast foody selection, the markets had plenty of amazing and curious offerings!

An interesting observation about the Christmas markets in Budapest: they are very different from their counterparts in Berlin and Vienna etc. in the sense that here the stalls are very “down to earth” and not at all “mass production-like” as they tend to be in bigger cities.

The goodies and crafts for sale were a lot more personal and homely, which I absolutely adored!

They utilize pine cones, dried fruits, vegetables, meats etc. in all imaginable ways with amazing results! 😍

If air travel wasn´t such a god damn hassle these days and bringing liquids on-board wasn´t a capitol offence, I so would have bought those pickled jalapeno/cabbage/paprika kitties! Look how cute, @ginie62! 😍

And yes, the markets were as picturesque as I had hoped for! 👌

Something that no decent Christmas market could ever be short on: BOOOOOOZE! ☕

To balance out all that drinking, you have to get some filler for your tummy as well, and when in Hungary you absolutely have to go for the most traditional Hungarian food of them all: goulash!

Really tasty and cheap! And on a chilly winter day, it also warms you up inside so win-win! 👌

If goulash does not tickle your fancy, you could try another local treat called lángos which is deep-fried dough topped with whatever you fancy, basically. Could be savory or sweet, anything goes!

I went for sour cream and grated cheese. YAS!

On another day I tried a lángos which was wrapped up in burrito-style, with salami, onions and cheese inside - yet another success story! 👏

And for dessert you have to sample another Hungarian delicacy: chimney cake!

It´s basically a wheat coffeebread which is first rolled around a mold and roasted over an open coal fireplace...

... and then while it´s steaming hot (aka steam rises from the center, making it look like a chimney!), it is rolled around in an assortment of flavoring options, such as cardamon, chocolate, cinnamon etc.

I went for the basic and traditional option aka cinnamon and sugar! Yumz! 👍

And for @kweenbeyass who might want to add Budapest to that bucket list: you´ll be happy to hear that they are extremely tourist-friendly over there! For example, on their main tram lines they have clearly marked all interesting sights along the way (in English) and indications where you have to get off! Very handy indeed! 😉

And any English language help you can get will be a plus, because the language is...

Yikes. 😨

And speaking of traveling: did you know that Budapest has the world´s 3rd oldest metro system? It dates back to 1896, and while it may not look like it belongs in the 21st century...

... I can assure you that it works like a charm! We never had to wait for more than 3 minutes for the next train! Sometimes I did almost wish we did have to wait around a bit longer because the stations were so adorably quaint! 😍

Another fun activity I always enjoy while abroad is lurking around the local grocery stores for all sorts of weirdness, and Budapest did not disappoint in that regard!

Gyros chips? Cheeseburger chips? Hotdog & ketchup chips? Pizza chips?

WHAT?

And this banana has got to be 11 and then some inches...

Ugh. 😵

The Market Hall is also worth checking out, if not for anything else then simply for the vibes of yesteryear. You can really sense the Soviet era still.

Fun fact: they had a random scale screwed to a wall which we could not figure out the purpose for, until we saw that people who had just purchased their potatoes and peas and whatnot marched over to that scale and measured what they had just bought aka they made sure the seller had not screwed them over with the weight of their produce! I guess not all people can be trusted...

And for any communist enthusiast, there were lots of trinkets on offer...

While in town, I discovered they had a Titanic exhibition which I naturally wanted to check out since Leo is my friend-in-law through six degrees of separation from Daddy-o and all.

They had built replicas of the cabins for the richies and the poor folks...

... and had actual items salvaged from the wreck itself! Whoa!

Budapest is also “littered” with fun and curious statues, like this little fella who I met alongside the Danube river.

This guy here had the best business idea! He juggles and entertains in front of cars who are waiting at the red light, and then before the light turns green he takes his hat off and does a quick round from car to car, collecting donations for the little show he put on! Genius! 👏

And while Bucharest may be the “official” residence of Count Dracula, Budapest also boasts some eerily majestic castles.

A nighttime activity you absolutely HAVE TO experience is a trek up to the Fisherman´s Bastion. Holy bejeebus, the views are... yes I will say it... INCREDIBLE. 👀

The Parliament House is also worth a closer look! 🤩

But please do be careful when trekking around after dark as the surrounding park is very poorly lit and there are dangerous steps and ledges all over - we had a near-catastrophic incident which luckily only resulted in a banged-up lip and bruised knees. 🙁

All in all, I can recommend Budapest as a vacay destination to anyone who is looking for a little taste of old time glory and ascetic vibes mixed with modern day comforts and conveniences! 👍

#budapest review #hungry for hungary?#you won´t be after reading this looooong ass post #sorry i got a little carried away there...#budapest done

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keyaanthom91 · 4 years ago

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weightloss18-blog1 · 6 years ago

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DAY 54 OF MY JUICE FAST -GREEN JUICE BENEFITS

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DAY 54 OF MY JUICE FAST -GREEN JUICE BENEFITS

hey guys today is day 54 of my juice fast I thought I would do my podcast my live podcast early why actually it's not early because I've been doing them between 5:00 pm

and 6:00 o'clock um but when I do these live podcasts and I almost sounded like I was turning into a French lady the way I just said live podcast um I like to do them first thing in the morning and when I settle down at night those are like the times that there's pretty much nothing to do because first thing in the morning this it's just too early nothing's open if he was going to go take care of some errands or I'm a housewife so it's not like I'm working so if I had something to do I basically um it's too early so I just get on my podcast and I talk about what's going on you know and I hope that whoever comes on to the live stream and motivates them what is going on in my situation and my weight loss journey so as you can see in this illustration here I have got the AC V the apple cider vinegar um and I wanted it I wanted to try it with my limes I has fresh I had cut up – I'm sorry I'm messing things up I had cut up 6 limes into halves and I have an electric citric juicer so that it can arm squeeze juice like oranges lemons and limes and then I use my nut bag because I don't want the pulp and I separate the pulp from the lime or the lemon the orange juice that I'm making so I have a thing with lime juice I love it it tastes so good with the combination of fresh lime juice even the lime the lime skin the green part which I'm going to start incorporating as well is delicious and lime juice um but for the time being as you see in this illustration the true lime gives it in its actual its actual lime that's been dried out in it gives you that green skin flavor when you add it to this mixture now I was inspired to make this concoction because I love lime juice and I'm on a liquid diet so I have to to do things that are like desserts for me but their juices because I can't do smoothies um that are satisfying and I love limeade I used to buy the simply limeade at the supermarket and I loved it I love the lemon raspberry and I loved the just straight limeade now I'm still tweaking this because I think I'm gonna switch off because I used 64 ounces of purified water in this batch and that's just gonna be in a refrigerator so when I want to after I drink my green juices 32 ounces of that I want to have when I have a taste for that lime sweet taste I want to have the lime juice in the refrigerator already chilled and I will pull 8 to 16 ounces into a glass and be satisfied but one thing that I did do and I was hoping that it did not ruin the lime juice was I added the apple cider vinegar that you see in this illustration and it didn't but just to be on a safe side I added the true two packets I might have to step my game up and put three in it even though I don't taste the apple cider vinegar and I think the reason is because it's a sit it's a citrus the lime and lemons and apple cider vinegar is basically in the same family the way it's produced it's a very tangy you know bitter you know something that you don't really want to drink on its own unless it has a sweetener add and add it to it so I tested it out so I cut up six lemons I'm sorry six limes so what I did was I added six tablespoons this is what's different to this lie made that I made homemade from home because I had put a cup of raw honey and I don't care if it's processed sugar from candies or raw honey from bees sugar spikes your insulin your body does not know the difference so for me to drink that kind of dessert as I call it at like 6:00 o'clock about hour and 44 minutes ago I was drinking it it's gonna spike my insulin and it's going to stay spiked and it's not gonna burn any fat so what I did was I added the apple cider vinegar which also and I don't care what nobody says people think there's no way that apple cider vinegar can um cause you to lose weight I'm gonna tell you one reason apple cider vinegar helps you lose weight one it lowers your insulin levels it doesn't keep it spiked it keeps it with your body doesn't have to deal with the the insulin spike so your body's not gonna store any fat because your insulin up your insulin levels are going to be at bay and it's a good appetite suppression because since being on a 54 day juice fast don't think that there has been days that I didn't want to go on my refrigerator and cut up some of them vegetables I had enough of them and make a salad and add some gorgonzola cheese or some blue cheese crumples and some salad dressing and make me a salad which it still would have been it would have been all fresh raw on produce but it wouldn't have been the way the juice fast is designed and so that would have been eating solid foods so I didn't do that but I also noticed I like to look at a lot of food eating shows on YouTube that's like my number one to go to every single day I look forward to seeing people's mukbangs and eating shows or how to cook you know exotic meals so I can duplicate that at my own home and I noticed that even though there's been some delicious rich savory I mean even let's talk about things that are basic like fried crispy chicken I have not had the urge because of the apple cider vinegar when something either it's apple cider vinegar or whatever you might use other than apple cider vinegar suppresses the appetite it doesn't matter what you see in your face or you smell if the brain is saying I'm not hungry you're not gonna eat when when now the difference between but you know like people who are on weight loss journeys now and when they wasn't you could be not hungry you know prior to taking apple cider vinegar but the difference is when you smell food and see it you eat just because it's there but when you have something like apple cider vinegar which is a suppressant and it makes you not feel hungry it doesn't matter if you smell it see it you're not gonna want to taste it because the brain is saying I don't want it that's the difference between eating just to be eating and taking a suppressant that suppresses your appetite if you're taking something that suppresses your appetite I don't give you 600 pounds and you love food and you're addicted to food if there's something that is stimulating the brain an anti suppressant you know and you don't have an appetite you just are not gonna eat as much as you might be addicted to food and you're looking at that and you say to yourself well I don't eat this now I might not see this buffet ever again in life you're just not gonna eat it's plain and simple there's no other way to to say it but I got inspired with this lime aid from the Master Cleanse I don't like drinking lemons on the Master Cleanse I didn't like the maple syrup that went with it or the cayenne pepper so I had to do it that works for me a lot of people that watch me will say that girl says that all the time she does it you know anything she does as a diet or regiment to lose weight I do it I tweak it so it works for me I don't tweak it way change it around so that it's not what it's you know what it's supposed to be anymore and then I get up on a video and say I'm not losing weight I don't tweak it like that I just took out the lemons and switched it for the line now another thing I'm going to it's gonna probably take a few times to get this right but I think that I'm gonna switch out the raw honey because I don't think that it goes well with the apple cider vinegar because I'm not really tasting the apple cider vinegar but I am tasting the raw which Ronnie is delicious but I want to taste the lime juice and I'm tasting the rawness of the honey and I think it's kind of on the same scale as the lime juice it's it's it's 50/50 and I don't want I don't want um the taste of the raw honey I want lime juice that's sweetened so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna switch it out to raw sugar which will give it a more neutral flavor so that means it's gonna complement the line because all I'll taste is the sweetness from the raw sugar and not the you know like how the the honey has a flavoring to it the sriracha was just gonna sweeten the lime juice and I'll taste the lime juice better because I don't want to stop thinking in my head while I'm drinking this juice that I make every couple of days because you get eight servings in 64 ounces or you get four servings if you drink 16 ounces of it either or it's even thinner than a juice with veggies and fruits in it that you make from your juicer basically it's like you're drinking definitely water so even if you're done with your juices for the day if you have a sweet tooth this is the go-to drink that I would you know suggest that people arm add into the drinking regimen and yes I had to find a place for my very favorite limeade that I make from home that I'm very proud of and I had to incorporate the apple cider vinegar because it's good to put it in the foods that you're eating so I'm not eating any solid foods so I wouldn't put it in things like salads or stews or anything like that I would put it in my juices so as much as I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to mess up my limeade and then kill the taste of the limeade I have things to help bloom I won't say I don't want to mask any flavors I want to complement everything the the apple cider vinegar with the lime and then to step it up a notch use the true lime two or three packets I used to in this illustration here so that you know basically I can make it taste like lime juice even more so with the green skins hold on one second guys I'm sorry for that I had a very important phone call that I had to answer um but you gotta be real careful I think that it's a it's a chemistry thing that if you haven't passed in science class you know when you were in middle school or high school whatever or in cooking school or just learning how to cook you know apple cider vinegar can be horribly the worst thing that you can put inside of your juices you gotta know the right combination so this is my first batch making it everything turned out good and it's so weird I don't have any complaints from the taste of the apple cider vinegar I don't taste that it's that raw honey and I'm going I'm going to the next batch that I make I'm going to add the raw sugar because sugar has just the neutral taste I don't care if it's raw or process it just tastes like sugar sweet and that's all I'm looking for only thing different that I'm doing is I'm not using processed white sugar or eat I mean even the brown sugar that you get that's not raw sugar is processed but I'm using raw sugar because it's better for the body but the bottom line is sugar is sugar so it's gonna complement the lime a by just using sugar rather than honey because it's gonna give it a neutral taste it's gonna give the lime juice a sweet taste rather than this you know rich you know raw honey and if you know and if people want that thing if they want that going on fine but no I want to taste my lime juice okay so I'm just gonna leave that at that but I'm telling you this concoction that I made you if you drank this every day for 10 days because this is really a Master Cleanse juice and if you put in 6 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar you will definitely eat less because that is what the ingredient in apple cider vinegar is and that's what it does it suppresses your appetite it's not a miracle where you drink it and then you're just losing fat no it speeds up your metabolism and it also suppresses your appetite I'm finding myself rushing for cutoff because I don't eat or drink any juices only thing that I do drink besides the my fruit juices with the green the greens in it is my detox tea at night with the dandelion powder in it and now I have added my finger water purified water and 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and I take that before bedtime and matter of fact as we speak you're gonna probably hear some gulping because I'm going to drink down the apple cider vinegar as we talked sorry for that I just drank down 16 ounces I didn't plan to drink that much liquids I like to just cut to the chase and maybe eight ounces or less and two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar I had a 32 ounce glass of ice water purified water even the ice cubes are purified you know they're not tapped from the tap and I cut up some fresh lemons and squeezed them in the water and I drank that earlier today so what I did was I had about sixty obviously 16 ounces left of that 32 ounce lemon water so what I did was I took and I pour it in a smaller mason jar the other 16 ounces and then I took the the lemons and I squeezed that juice into the mason jar and I put the two tablespoons of ACV apple cider vinegar and I do notice that it does make it taste better it does it actually makes it totally taste like a different drink that's more tolerable and I don't know if it's just in my head or what but it does taste good and for me even when I'm drinking herbal teas especially if the herbal teas like I was drinking a green tea with Senna I don't put sugar in it because it defeats the purpose it's supposed to be doing something for the body that's good but adding sugar to a herbal tea it defeats the purpose but with the lemon fresh lemon not the fake kind you get inside of the little fake plastic lemon it just gives it a different taste and this is what I'm explaining about this can that I had made that I got inspired to make from the Master Cleanse I learned a lot from the Master Cleanse that's where I get the detox tea at night I still do that even though I'm not on the Master Cleanse I do make the Master Cleanse juice but I don't use cayenne pepper I use and I don't use lemons I use lines and I just use the limes freshly squeezed I'm taking off the pulp with my nut bags that I have and as we already know because I've been clarifying this up set to use and now the honey I'm gonna start using sugar raw sugar so that it tastes neutral it tastes like lime juice rather than lime juice with the raw honey taste I'm not really looking for that rich honey taste I want to taste my lime juice so anyways I'm yeah so it tastes really good the ACV mixed with fresh lemon juice so you know I always have lemons around the house and I definitely always have limes but in this case as much as I like limes better than lemons I will be squeezing Karen they're fresh lime juice I mean I lemon juice because it's working for me it's really working for me so if anyone has any questions you can leave it in the chat I also have my email address if you want to send me any personal questions I also have my link to my facebook page where there's no one on that page unless it's related to juicing or some type of weight loss it's basically a page it's not a group but it's a page same thing but it's not a group page I set up it's just a regular Facebook page that I had since I think 2010 and I turned it into juice pay age where I can put the recipes of some of my juices that I make and you guys can try those recipes out and then I put my videos as I upload them onto that channel if you don't always be on YouTube you know you you can go over to either my Twitter coz my Twitter links there follow me there or on Facebook the links there I will accept the friend request and keep it moving you know we can do this together we got to be supportive because there's gonna be times that this weight loss thing I don't care if it's juicing kedo intimating fast Jenny Craig slim fast whatever it is that you're doing is going to be some rough patches and you're gonna slip up sometime and you need and you're gonna feel bad about it and you're gonna need someone that's gonna say to you everything's gonna be okay stop beating yourself up everything's gonna be okay and it's gonna be okay because I've been there before and I felt the same way that you felt but I dusted myself prosper because sometimes people fall off the wagon and they don't get back up because of the simple reason once they're broken and they disappointed themselves they turn back to food and once you turn back to food and you see how fast you can put on a weight and then you put on more weight then you start it with on the weight-loss journey you kind of say I give up I can't do this this is just too much stress trying to lose this weight and you say to yourself as hard as it is to get to where I needed to get to on this weight-loss journey and then for me to pick up some food or some pizza or whatever mess up my whole regiment I don't want to start over again it's hard I don't want to start the 80% of having to focus on what I put in my mouth to lose weight and the 20% of working out because you only need 20 percent of the whole hundred percent in order to lose weight 80 percent of weight gain is what you put in your mouth it starts in the kitchen once you get control of what you put in your mouth the 20 percent is just a bonus the 20 percent is just the bonus and when I say bonus it's to tighten and shape and mold the body as you're losing weight is also good for people who are losing weight fast and they don't want this skin to be loose and also when you're working out it also overall makes you look healthy because you're toning up your collagen your muscles your tissues just everything is lifting gravity is not your enemy anymore when you work out but that's 20% of it you notice when people start diets and they don't work out that 20% they look sickly when you're doing the 80/20 method which is 80% is what you put in your mouth and the 20% is the bonus for the Titan and in the contouring of the body so that you look more healthier and you're getting the benefits from the food and then the 20% of working out it just makes you just come together and that's just the bottom line so I'm not gonna make this podcast any longer I want you guys to subscribe to the channel like this video make sure you share this video and make it a favorite because I say make it a face so that you have something to come back to and listen to when you have a downfall but understand that's why we call 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38 Kitchen Tools professional chefs can’t live without

Obsessed foodies everywhere have a kitchen crammed full of the latest fancy kitchen tools. With the newest gizmos promising to do everything a whole load better than anything before, it’s easy to see how state-of-the-art kitchen gadgets grab our attention.

Of course it’s important to have a well-stocked kitchen. With a whole host of cooking implements to choose from you’ll be able to do almost anything. The biggest problem for budding home chefs is to overlook the essentials in favour of the latest tech gadgets. Sometimes the simplest tools in the kitchen can make all the difference between success and failure.

Don’t be overwhelmed. Here, in conjunction with Mike James and Wickwoods – we’ve put together a list of 19 essential kitchen tools most professional chefs couldn’t work without, plus 19 favourites for going the extra mile. If you really want the gear to make some of the best food in the world, here you have it. You never know, the next stop could be a place on BBC’s Masterchef…

Essential tools for the budding chef

Here are our 19 essentials to make cooking up a storm relatively easy.

1. Knives

– All chefs have good knives at the top of their essential kitchen-tool list. You’ll need at least 3:

Chef’s knife – it needs to be sharp and feel good in your hand. It’s worth spending a bit of money on it.

Paring knife is essential for peeling, coring and slicing smaller foods.

Serrated knife – essential for slicing bread and cakes. Pick one that’s large enough to slice a loaf.

2. A whisk

– An essential tool for batters, sauces and mayonnaise.

3. A microplane grater

– A must-have for grating citrus, spices, ginger and garlic.

4. A set of chopping boards.

– If it’s a wooden chopping board you are after, then bamboo is a sturdy and cost effective choice. Joseph Joseph’s Index colour-coded chopping board set is very cheffy, and great for food hygiene.

5. A silicone spatula

– For scraping the last drops of sauce out of a pan, getting smoothies out of the mixer, sauteeing onions or tempering chocolate.

6. Tongs

– You won’t regret buying these. From tossing salads to turning meat for a perfect sear, these are definitely in the top 10 of essentials.

7. A cast-iron skillet

– Keep it seasoned with oil and it will last a lifetime. Gets a great sear on vegetables, fish and meat.

8. Glass mixing bowls

– 3 will do (small, medium and large).

9. Measuring spoons and cups

– Even if you’re a throw-it-all in kind of chef, some recipes will require measuring precision.

10. Kitchen scissors

– A must-have for opening bags to snipping herbs.

11. An AnySharp knife sharpener

– (Ssh Pru Leith, from the cheffy TV show The Great British Menu, raves about these). But any knife sharpener will do.

12. Meat thermometer

– To make sure your joints are cooked perfectly.

13. A cake tester

– A simple tool to check your bake is suitably baked.

14. A decent blender

– From protein smoothies to vegetable purees, the high-powered blender does it all. Vitamix is the Ferrari of blenders, but a basic one will do.

15. A lemon squeezer

– We know Jamie Oliver flexes his muscles and goes gadget free with lemon squeezing, but if you haven’t got the strength, then you��ll need one of these.

16. A long-handled wooden spoon

– For stirring jams or anything else that spits.

17. A Kuhn Rikon peeler

– For the obvious. It’s a chef’s favourite.

18. A mortar and pestle

– Essential for grinding spices and making pastes.

19. A rolling pin.

– Essential for even distribution of dough and other flat foods

Kitchen wants for the serious chef

If you have the space, and you are serious about getting to the Masterchef finals, here are some kitchen gadgets that will definitely help refine your culinary delights.

1. A salad spinner

– Buying whole leaf lettuce is cheaper, and it tends to be crisper and fresher.

2. An avocado scoop

– A very neat piece of kit if you’re an avocado fan.

3. A mouli

– What can we say except it makes perfect mash.

4. Mandoline

– Watch your fingers, but so cool for precise, fine slicing.

5. Silpat baking sheets

– Thin, flexible mats that can be used instead of parchment paper.

6. A bamboo steamer

– Cooks fish and vegetables to perfection.

7. A digital scale

– For uber-precise measuring.

8. A dehydrator

– No longer just a kitchen fad, but requires counter space. A dehydrator is a raw food lovers dream.

9. A champagne stopper

– Just in case you don’t finish the bottle. Unlikely we know, but just in case, you’ll get a cheeky glass the next day.

10. Smoker

– There are a whole range of gizmos for the art of smoking meats, fish and veg. From simple stovetop designs and smoking guns (yes, really) to full-on outdoor BBQ style cookers, this kitchen tool lends a touch of the serious to the home chef.

11. Kitchen Aid

– We almost put this in the essentials list. It definitely provokes kitchen envy. Think Nigella Lawson. Everything gets cobbled together in her KitchenAid.

12. Oyster knife

– For shucking the oysters of course.

13. Melon baller

– Not just for melons, great for making garnishes look fabulous.

14. A slow cooker

– A staple for savvy home chefs.

15. Pressure cooker

– For those unctuous foods such as braised duck, oxtail and pork belly. Quicker than a slow cooker, the pressure cooker is a great way to achieve slow-cooked dishes you may not otherwise have the patience for.

16. Le Creuset casserole

– Another one that almost made the essentials list. So versatile – can be used on the stovetop and then transferred to the oven.

17. Immersion blender

– Once you’ve tried one of these, you won’t want to give it up. Puree soups in the pot & emulsify sauces in the pan.

18. A chinois Mousseline

– It’s a fine mesh sieve for straining stock. It’s also the trick to producing velvety, restaurant quality soups.

19. Nespresso Machine

– Who doesn’t need access to a decent cup of coffee?

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