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[verosnacks]

Zippy's Chili (Imitation)

Ingredients:

1 small onion, diced

3 garlic cloves, minced

1/2 a bell pepper, diced

1/2 Portuguese sausage, diced

1 tbsp neutral oil

1 lb ground beef

1 tsp salt

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tbsp chili powder

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp paprika 1

(15 oz) crushed tomatoes

1 (15 oz) tomato sauce

1 (16 oz) red kidney beans

2 tbsp mayonnaise (kewpie is best)

2 bay leaves

Instructions:

In a pot, cook ground beef. Season with salt.

Add onion, garlic, and bell pepper. Cook down.

Add porteguese sausages and spices.

Add crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce.

Add 2 bay leaves, simmer on low for 30 minutes.

Add mayo at the end.

Notes:

2024/9/02 - Delicious as is. Maybe tad less chili powder for spice. Tastes close enough.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvgpIbM6pM

[chipper-smol]

Bully the celestial demigod

[gardensnakie]

They are SOOOO normal

[zippityzap]

Thinking about it, most of the Eggman/Robotnik henchmen across different iterations of him fall into one of two categories: two dipshits, or an abused smart guy who either really loves or really hates Robotnik

[doctorbeth]

Pojo and Mambo's Hospital Visits

Hi All! I'm back with a bunch of new stories, and Pojo's is first. To paraphrase Panic at the Disco:

Here I come

Oh, how it's been so long

I'm so sorry I've been gone I've been busy writing posts for you!

Well, actually I've been busy taking care of stuffed animals, which then leads to stories that lead to posts but, you get the idea. :-)

Anyway... the first pair of patients I'm going to share are relatives (the same style of animal). They came to the hospital nearly four months apart. Pojo is about 2 feet tall, Mombo is closer to 3 feet, but their relationship will be obvious.

Here are Pojo's diagnosis photos:

I've seen some of his relatives in the past, so I knew he was originally an almost velvety fur, and he had red suspenders. Pojo had lived with his human for over 50 years. She wrote:

"As you can see his entire body needs to be replaced and re-stuffed. His plastic parts, if possible, need to be cleaned but if not, I love him the way he is. His pants, arms and head are black, his shirt is yellow and he has red suspenders. Please let me know if you can help him."

Now, as you may have realized by now, I try not to replace actual bodies, rather, we replace the stuffing as part of cleaning (because stuffing does not clean or dry well), and then recover. And that was the plan for Pojo when he arrived in May.

Here he is starting treatment with his bubble bath:

Next up, once he dried, was recovering his fur. A perfect texture match to his original fur isn't possible without a donor, so I sent photos of two options. One was a modern fluffier fur:

And the other was a modern minky fur which is smoother:

His human opted for the minky. So surgery proceeded till the next decision point, what ribbons for his new suspenders:

His human opted for the narrower fur.

Pojo was almost better.... last little bits included putting in his new heart (from the new minky fur) made with a bit of his original stuffing:

And then he was ready to fly home to Illinois:

His human's response? He is beautiful!

But I promised two chimps in this post and the second was here this past month. Mombo's predecessor had been with his person for over 60 years, but his condition was such that his human felt a new Mombo was needed. So he searched the web for a Mombo in better shape. He found one, but it was holding a banana in one hand, and needed stuffing and some seams tightened up. So the human opted to send the new Mombo to me, with the original Mombo's hand! The plan was to spruce up the new Mombo, repair his seams, replace his suspenders, and replace the banana hand with the original Mombo's hand. And here's the New Mombo (Mombo reincarnated?) all better and ready to fly home to Florida (you can see how much bigger he is than Pojo!):

Mombo's person wrote: He looks great n enjoyed the attention.

[zippy7133]

This belly can’t be contained

[zippylemon]

shes just like me..

[protagaster]

Calypso, gesturing to her fellow suitresses and their collective guards: HAH! You really think you can beat all 108 of us by yourself?

Penelope: I was forced to take my husband's place in a war that lasted for damn near a decade.

Penelope: After that I had my journey home delayed multiple times by many different gods, watched as every single member of my crew died a horrible and painful death, and was then left imprisoned for 7 years on an island with a man who didn't know the meaning of the word "no".

Penelope: When one of those previously aforementioned Gods tried to further block my journey home, I proceeded to stab her with her own trident.

Calypso and the rest of the suitresses: [stunned silence]

Penelope: I'd start running if I were you.

[idvoteforthatdaddy]

I was hoping for a return of Sonny Perdue as AG Secretary, but of the 15 possible people in the running for the next Secretary of Agriculture. I'm rooting for either Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller, Current House Ag Chairman Rep. Glenn Thompson or Zippy Duvall. But my favorite of the three is GT.

[nopes--and--dreams]

he’s in Doctor Manhattan’s kitchen or something

[somereaderinblue]

May I offer you a concept design for Odysseus of Troy?

I shall now offer you a summary of my reaction in 2 images:

[lordofdestructionm]

A "meet the family" Vikdecai AU fanfic? What a treat!

"Jealousy" by savoyytruffle

Where Mordecai gets to introduce his...work partner...to the Heller's

[hoaxghost]

It's- an interesting but turbulent dynamic

[kwamiofadoration]

Pokémon Grass Starter Blinkies

free to use! credit not needed but very appreciated

Fire Starters

[zippy7133]

What you see when I’m adjusting my pants for the millionth time

[zippylemon]

chimera falin wip!