the kitchen is a living thing. it has a temper that can rage HOT & UNRULY, a tantrum unshackled that leads to ruin, wreckage, becomes contagious until it infects the patrons & the line cooks & even the guy wringing the grey sweat out of the mop over its bucket.
( the kitchen is a living thing. it can be beautiful, majestic, an unparalleled magic when tended to. )
the beef is a BEAST.
carmy doesn’t have the energy left to tame its fury tonight with sizzling grease spattering the mending out of the tousle of hair half-raked back off his scalp. the crowd is constant, raucous support of the cubs & too many old styles dunked into the teamsters poking & prodding the monster. the brick catches the way his shoulders back up to it, pricking the red asper into the pilling white cotton stretched across her torso. a rake of his fingers, washed raw & pink & rich with calluses, peels his temple before plucking a cigarette to bobble at his lips.
he barely has time for the exhale, to fish for the lighter worried into his pocket next to the pack when he sees @ceremonially. his knuckle curls around the smoke, lip a quirk on its way up. “ shit. ” a whip of his thumb against the wheel hits twice before the spark swells into the alley. he sips a deep breath, squinting against the haze. “ ----- figured you’d lost my number. ”
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❝ well, well. aren’t you a sight for sore eyes? ❞ from lance
she’s wiping his dried blood off of her hands like it’s a commonplace occurrence. it is, but some days, it bothers her more than others, so forgive her if it takes her a moment longer to gather herself before she can fold calloused hands between each other and give him her full attention with a grin that’s all exhaustion and tease. it doesn’t quite reach her eyes. ‘ baby, i’m sorry i can’t say the same about you, ‘cause uh — ’ a once-over is given reluctantly, and she’s forced to acknowledge the patchwork of bandages she’s had to do on hunter just to keep him from falling apart. she likes him better standing, even if he drives her up a wall. ‘ you look like shit. ’
she doesn’t think she looks much better. she’s seen the black eye in the mirror, felt the fractured ribs under the shirt she’d stolen out of his bag, knows that under her left sock is a badly sprained ankle turned black and blue. but she heals like nothing human, knows that this’ll be better for her in two or three days time.
hunter doesn’t get that luxury, which she’s only reminded of every time she looks at him. he’ll leave her behind one day, and she’ll just have to live with that. but she’s still got the here and the now, so instead of waxing poetic about her unchanging condition, she pulls her legs off of the edge of the awful motel bed so she can sit up with a groan and lean in a little closer. ‘ you hungry ? i raided the vending machine for a gourmet selection of potato chips and skittles. ’
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@ceremonially asked: “That is a fucking health hazard.” from mia
“... It’s frybread, beans and corn beef.” Tim replies irritably, placing the lid back onto said pot of baked beans and herding Mia away from the stove. He pauses by the counter to grab the plates to hand off to her. “Here, do something useful than try and play Gordon Ram.sy and set the table, please? Everything is ready so I’ll call the rest of the guys in.”
No he doesn’t give her a chance to argue and spins back around to retrieve the utensils as well to set out, mentally making note to never volunteer to participate in culture week next year.... Even though he’s certain he followed his mom’s recipe correctly.
meme // accepting!
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@ceremonially FEAT. JOHN MURPHY
there had always been a sentient atmosphere to the forest that unnerved soira. everything around her crackled with the electricity of life. breathing, waking and watching — everything in the quelled was always watching. as if treading along the belly of a sleeping beast, she was cautious with each gentle footfall. one misstep could be a matter of life and death. the sharp crack of a twig near her heels made her jump and whip around to glare at her noisy companion. where Soira was careful, Murphy was careless. ❝ might i remind you, the last thing you want to do here is draw attention. ❞ dark eyes flit back and forth in a quick scan of their surroundings, shoulders only relaxing when deeming the coast to be clear. it seemed as though the forest had spared them this time, but there was no telling how many more strikes they had left.
she wondered how many times Murphy had stared death in the face. when the renegades caught wind of Noxir dumped in the quelled they had immediately sprang to action. but by the time they had mapped out their plan, an entire month had passed. it was no easy feat tackling a journey in the quelled so one could imagine their surprise when they had found survivors. Soira fell into step beside him, eyes turned forward to follow the bobbing lantern that guided them through the thick woods. they had been shafted to the back of the travelling group, no one wanting anything to do with the man she had saved. he’s your problem now, she had been told and with the stubbornness of a bull, she had taken on the challenge. ❝ are you ever going to tell me what you did to make them all hate you so much ? ❞ she scrutinized him from the corner of her eyes. disheveled and rough around the edges, but weren’t they all ? if she stopped having faith, stopped believing in the good in people, how did that make her any different from the powers they were fighting ?
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Deuteronomy 12: Moses Tells The Israelites To Worship God In One Holy Place
1 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land.
2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
4 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way.
5 But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;
6 there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit,
9 since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.
10 But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety.
11 Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord.
12 And there rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
13 Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.
14 Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.
15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
18 Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to.
19 Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.
20 When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.
21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.
22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the Lord will choose.
27 Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.
28 Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
29 The Lord your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,
30 and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”
31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.
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