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The Bramble Cocktail

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20th Century Nostalgia (Masato Hara, 1997)

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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes

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sweet strawberry rolls

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Yellow is English

I just did the poll about what color what subject was in school and who the fuck is saying yellow was anything I've never used yellow for any of the school subjects in my life get the fuck away from me with that shit

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A close up of the stars Alcor and Mizar, in the big Dipper constellation, with Sidus Ludoviciana.

Mizar is actually a bi-nary star system. These stars were the first binary star ever discovered according to all known reports

The Mizar system is the brightest/bigger one.

The smallest speck you see between Mizar and Alcor is a object that is called Sidus Ludoviciana or HD 116798 and is a 8th magnitude star and is four times the distance away from us as the Mizar binary system is.

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I woke up to a raging migraine that lasted from 5pm, to 3am.

Why am I up during these hours? I work the night shift now.

It is now just a dull headache that isn't too bad if I don't move too quickly or bend over.

I have blankets I could be finishing but I don't want to run the risk of messing them up if it actually turns out my migraine has turned to a silent migraine, so I decided to make a scarf instead where I don't matter if I mess up or not because the blankets are for other people, but this scarf isn't.

No idea what this stitch is called. The video never named it. If anyone knows I would like to know.

#crochet #yarn crafts #blue scarf

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I am also working on another blanket, really more of a long throw, that is going to be black, grey, and a denim blue when it gets done.

Ignore that cat hair I have cats.

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I made my brother a blanket. Mostly because I noticed that he got sad when I made blankets for myself and I said they weren't for anyone in particular. I've just started crocheting as I usually knit.

So I made him a blanket using premier basix yarn. Linen and Cocoa. Using the Alpine stitch, and a simple flat border.

I left it outside his door because he works days and I work nights. He was living for a 2 week trip out of town, so I put it in a box and left it for him to find in the morning. He was so excited when he found it in the morning. And he took it with him for "a little piece of home while on the road" according to him.

#crochet #blankets #yarn crafts #alpine stitch

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Lemon Lamb

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

“There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone.”

Toula’s life is complicated. She wants to please her family, marry a good Greek man and raise Greek babies… but it just isn’t happening. With her 30th birthday looming, Toula’s decision to break out from her family’s traditional stranglehold allows her to meet and fall in love with non-Greek Ian. How Toula’s food-obsessed, restaurant-owning mega-family react to her vegetarian boyfriend is fantastic. “It’s no problem,” says the bewildered aunt. “I’ll make lamb.”

Ingredients:

3 lemons, one peeled thinly and juiced, 2 cut into chunks

3 garlic cloves, chopped or crushed

good Greek olive oil

2 tbsp fresh oregano 

1 leg of lamb (approx. 1.8kg [4lb]), butterflied

2 onions, halved and sliced

salt and ground black pepper

Greek salad, to serve

Serves 6

1. Put the lemon peel, juice, garlic, olive oil, oregano, salt and pepper in a bowl. Mix well, then add the lamb. Massage the marinade in with your hands and leave to marinade for at least two hours. 

2. Preheat the oven to 240c (220c fan oven) mark 9.

3. Scatter the onion and lemon chunks over the base of a large roasting tin. Lay the large leg bone in the bottom of the tin to act as a trivet. Rest the butterflied lamb gently over the top and roast for 25-35 minutes. I know, I know, it seems like a very short time, but trust me - 25 minutes will give you very pink lamb, 35 minutes less so. 

4. Remove from the oven and leave to rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, strain the juices from the bottom of the roasting tin into a pan. Taste and adjust the seasoning. If you like a thicker gravy stir in a little cornflour mixed with water and keep stirring as you heat to prevent lumps.

5. Carve the lamb into thick slices. Serve with crushed, boiled new potatoes, gravy and a big Greek salad on the side.

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“Visit earth” they said. “It‘s a xeno-zoologist’s dream” they said.

That place is just too weird.

They’ve got birds that fly underwater.

Air breathing mammals that live in the deep oceans.

Fish that walk on land.

Birds that can’t fly.

Mammles that CAN fly!

Insects that consume heavy metals!

Mushrooms that eat radiation! ZARKIN MUSHROOMS!

Don’t even get me started on that continent they call Australia.

And I don’t think any of the gods, both old and new, could explain what the zark this thing is supposed to be!

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So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.

What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.

Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.

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not a dream

my grandma, who I live with, asked my mom after I left for work today whether I was wearing a wig

I curled my hair

grandma thought it was a wig

she sees me every day

wig

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New blankets! And a cat as tax

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Laena was given a cradle egg, and it did hatch. But what hatched tried to eat her, took a bite right out of her arm, and was deemed malformed and sickly and believed to be a wyvern egg rather than a dragon egg.

And Seasmoke is hinted at being a cradle egg for Laenor laid by Meleys as it states she "laid an egg, which they put in the cradle with Laenor, and it hatched." So either it died or it is Seasmoke.

And according to a behind the scenes book, all of Alicent's were given cradle eggs that didn't hatch outside of Daeron's.

Not all who claimed dragons later in life didn't have a cradle egg.

The tradition of dragon eggs in cradles was revived because of Rhaenyra's bastards.

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The tradition of cradle-eggs first started when Rhaena (daughter of Aenys I) put eggs in the cradles of her younger siblings Jaehaerys and Alysanne, which grew into Vermithor and Silverwing, respectively. (For some reason, she didn’t put an egg into the cradle of her younger brother Viserys or sister Vaella, probably because both died young.)

However, this tradition of cradle-eggs didn’t become a real tradition until Viserys I made a royal decree that eggs be put in the cradles of Rhaenyra’s “Velaryon” sons.

Only three of Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s children rode dragons, and only 1 got a cradle-egg. Daenerys died when she was ~7 from the Shivers, and before she died Jaehaerys tried to get a hatchling from Dragonstone for her to bond with. Saera tried to claim a dragon after her father disowned her, showing that she didn’t have a cradle-egg to bond with from birth.

1. Aemon DID get a cradle-egg: However, it’s unclear whether this egg hatched into Caraxes, Aemon’s eventual dragon.

2. Baelon: In his mid-teens, he claimed Vhagar, who was already centuries-old.

3. Alyssa: In her mid-teens, she claimed Meleys, the Red Queen. She wasn’t a cradle-egg, since Alyssa wasn’t already bonded to her; she considered claiming Balerion before thinking that Meleys would be faster.

Rhaena didn’t give a cradle-egg to either of her daughters, because they were born in Casterly Rock and Dreamfyre didn’t lay any eggs yet. Later, Rhaena offered for Aerea to claim one of the hatchlings on Dragonstone, but Aerea claimed Balerion and died shortly afterwards.

No one in the next generation got a cradle-egg.

1. Rhaenys claimed her dead aunt’s dragon, Meleys.

2. Viserys claimed Balerion, who was centuries-old.

3. Daemon claimed his dead uncle’s dragon, Caraxes.

1. Laenor didn’t get a cradle-egg, but he claimed a young dragon named Seasmoke when he was ~6. This was probably to prove that he was a legit contender for the Iron Throne; Rhaenys was disqualified because of her gender, and she focused on getting her son to the throne. To beef up his credentials, Rhaenys had Laenor claim a hatchling at a young age.

2. Laena claimed Vhagar, who was centuries old.

3. Rhaenyra claimed Syrax, who was implied not to be a cradle-egg. When she was 7, she went to the Dragonpit and claimed Syrax.

4. Aegon II claimed Sunfyre when he was 13. Sunfyre was definitely not a cradle-egg. He was born in Dragonstone, as he was “driven by some primal instinct to return to his birthplace,” which is where the wounded Aegon reconnected with his wounded dragon.

5. Helaena claimed her great-great-aunt’s dragon, Dreamfyre.

6. Aemond claimed Vhagar, who was centuries old.

However, in 114, Rhaenyra gave birth to her first “Velaryon” son. Both Rhaenyra and her husband had silver hair and purple eyes, but Jace had brown hair, brown eyes, and a pug nose. Immediately, everyone gossiped that Rhaenyra had cuckolded her husband with her sworn shield, Harwin Strong. Viserys I hoped to put an end to the gossip, so he made a royal decree that an egg be placed in Jace’s cradle. If the egg hatched, it would be definitive proof that Rhaenyra’s sons are Targaryens. (This makes no sense, since they would be at least be half-Targaryen no matter who their father is. No one thought that the half-Targaryen Aegon, Helaena, Aemond, and Daeron couldn’t claim dragons.)

Later in 114, Alicent gave birth to Daeron. Viserys couldn’t admit that he only put eggs in the cradles of Rhaenyra’s sons because he doubted their paternity; he put an egg in his son Daeron’s cradle as well; this egg hatched into Tessarion.

This started a tradition where every newborn Targaryen would receive an egg in the cradle. Rhaenyra’s four successive sons had cradle-eggs; even the two who were legitimate Targaryens and had silver hair/purple eyes. Daemon’s two daughters were each given an egg in the cradle; Baela’s hatched into Moondancer, but Rhaena’s was sickly and died. Even Aegon II and Helaena’s children were given eggs in the cradle; the cradle-eggs was a tradition at this point, and it would be odd for Viserys not to give cradle-eggs to his grandchildren by his son.

This tradition continued even after the dragons went extinct. Aegon V received an egg in his cradle, and he hoped that his would be the one to hatch.

This is why Aemond didn’t have a dragon in 120. In 114, he was 4 so too old to have a cradle-egg. His older siblings claimed adult dragons when they were 11~13, and he was only 10 so he presumably would’ve tried to claim one when he was in his early teens. However, his younger brother Daeron and younger half-nephews (Rhaenyra’s sons) were all bonded to their dragons, so Aemond was self-conscious that he was the only dragon-less Targaryen. Viserys’ joke was Aemond could have a dragon “if the lad is bold enough” hurt his pride, and he over-compensated by claiming the biggest, most terrible dragon in the world.

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