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Tulip Vase 003, porcelain, 2024

#art #ceramics #porcelain #pottery #trans #trans art #I’m loving all the tentacular bits

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She can't keep getting away with this

#cat #astrid d. cat #just a little guy #I love her silly little face

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#cat #silly #schrodinger’s cat #just a little guy

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Interesting! I’ll have to look into this.

Do you want to play dnd but your friends are all too busy?

Try journaling games! I feel like I've never seen anybody else really talk about these online, but they're really fun. They like a solo rpg based on narrative and story. The rulebook has a bunch of prompts and random ways of selecting prompts/creating scenarios that you create a story with.

Theres a whole bunch of different games out there, some simple some complex, and so many different genres. I've just finished playing a game of Thousand Year Old Vampire, playing a gay scottish vampire from the 1500s who accidentally killed her crush/lover shortly after becoming a vampire, eventually becoming known as the corpse feeder for feeding on battlefields.

Now I'm playing Koriko, where I'm a 16 year old witch who is doing a Kiki's Delivery Service style year in a new town, and you play with tarot cards and by stacking d6 towers. Whats not to love

#journaling games #writing

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Marcille successfully brings back her love interest with wings and claws and blood all over and suddenly she has to be reported to elf cops and be thrown in elf jail?? Can a woman not love to the point of blasphemy anymore?? What a sick world we live in

#god forbid women do anything #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #marcille donato #falin touden #necromancers take their lesbian situationships extremely seriously

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(by vimalchandran)

#cat #photography

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Leave me and my weird names in peace

#fantasy #fantasy writing #writing memes #writing problems

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I just made a meal I’m quite pleased with, so here’s a recipe.

CAT’S SPICY CHORIZO CURRY

INGREDIENTS

1 large onion, diced

4 cloves garlic, minced or finely chopped

1 sachet tomato paste (50g equivalent)

1 tbsp whole peppercorns, freshly ground (or 2tsp pre-ground if you don’t have a mortar and pestle, but I’m a sucker for freshly ground pepper)

1 tsp chilli powder

1 tbsp ground cumin

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp cooking oil

200g chorizo sausage, sliced into discs (approx 3-5mm thick)

1 400g can of chopped tomatoes

1 400g can of red kidney beans (drain off the liquid)

1/2 cup pickled sliced jalapeños (drain off the liquid) (you could also use 2-3 fresh chillies, or dried, or leave them out if you’re not a fan of spice)

INSTRUCTIONS

Grind your peppercorns and mix your spices (and salt) together.

Heat your frypan to medium-high heat (about 7/10), add the cooking oil, and brown your chorizo slices. Remove the chorizo and set it aside for now.

Your pan should be nice and oily now from the chorizo and the cooking oil. Put the spices in the pan along with the tomato paste and cook them for around 30 seconds. If they get a bit clumpy, add a little water to smooth everything out.

Add the onions and garlic and sauté until translucent.

Add the chorizo back in along with the tomatoes, beans, and jalapeños. Turn the heat down to medium-low (the mixture should be gently bubbling but not violently so) and cook for approximately 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Serve on rice. This recipe makes approximately 4-5 servings.

WAYS YOU COULD MAKE THIS MORE EXCITING

I came up with this meal because I already had most of the ingredients - I only had to buy the onion, beans, tomatoes, and chorizo, so it was cheap. If your budget stretches a little further, there are things you can do:

- roughly chop some spinach and add it around 5 minutes before you finish cooking. Green things are good for you!

- if you don’t have spinach, you could use frozen green beans.

- it’d be nice to have a little sour cream on top.

- if you’re vegetarian, replace the chorizo with a can of lentils or black beans and you’ve got yourself something vaguely approximating dahl makhani.

- this recipe makes a fairly thick curry. If you like your curry runnier, try adding another 1/2 a can of chopped tomatoes.

- you could also try adding 1 cup of coconut milk for a smoother, creamier, less spicy taste.

That’s it, that’s the recipe. Go forth and conquer!

#recipe #curry #chorizo #spicy chorizo curry #cooking on a budget #cooking

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I work in a second hand store and can confirm we’ve sold some Obviously Cursed stuff in the past, mostly old dolls, clown statuettes, stuff like that.

#second hand stores #cursed tchochkes #evil dolls

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Feline Bowl from the 14th - early 16th century made during the time of the Inka Empire (Tawantinsuyu).

[image description: a square-ish bowl with a carved cat head sticking out of one end and a tail sticking out of the other. On the bottom of the bowl are stubby paws. End ID]

@citruscity added your ID to the original, thank you!

#cat #cat art #bowl #cat bowl #Inca #just a little guy

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I feel I must share this as it has to do with my namesake

Scout’s little face!

she’s a fierce pigeon, and she would destroy us if her beak wasn’t so cute and useless

#pigeon #round #r o u m d #borb

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I find a book needs a plot outside of the romance plot to keep things going, if the entire story is resting on these people and their relationship it often can’t bear the weight. When a misunderstanding has to be the major third act drama it often looks idiotic, and I find myself yelling “oh my fucking god just sit down and talk for five minutes!” at the characters.

If your plot is “I have to get my boyfriend back from the evil necromancer but oh no this friendly mage in my party is nice and kind and attractive” then the evil necromancer can be a load-bearing pillar for the drama and plot, the weight of the narrative doesn’t entirely rest upon your protagonists.

Another pet peeve of mine is the timeskip epilogue to show the couple married with kids, which is a very common trope in romance but annoys me to no end. Marriage and children is not the only possible desirable future! Shed the heterosexist shackles of the patriarchy that insist that a woman’s ultimate happiness comes from matrimony! Aaargh!

Readers of Fantasy Romance or "Romantasy" (I know people have differing definitions for these terms, but for the sake of this poll, just assume it means a romance story that takes place within a fantasy world or backdrop):

A couple notes:

This is specifically *not* nuanced because it's a "would you rather". Pick which is more important to you even if you like both.

If you prefer your fantasy without romance or where the romance isn't a huge part of the story or where there isn't a happily ever after for the main ship, you are not who this poll is about because you read fantasy, not fantasy romance.

Feel free to get into more detail in the tags/replies

#romance #romance fiction #romantasy #fantasy romance #writing #writing problems

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All the weebs love me for my swag and by swag I mean my dope new wax seal of a cat enjoying ramen.

This is by far the most absurd hobby I've ever had but being fair, it's also one of the cheapest. How much joy can be procured for $7? More than you'd think!

[ID: A photo of my hand holding a round stamped wax seal; it is black with a gold center where the stamp impression is placed. The impression is of a cartoon cat with a massive bowl of ramen, using chopsticks to scoop noodles into their mouth.]

#stamp #wax stamping #wax stamp #clay #pottery

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We don’t mention the Sophia Gardens flipper and we don’t mention the Regrettable Incident of ‘81 at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds (but nor shall we forget such vile behaviour!).

My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

#commonwealth gothic #cricket #‘81 shall live on in infamy forever

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Omg those eyes!

You abandon Dearborn? You leave her alone with only her sister, all her toys, a heated bed, two scratching posts, and a huge bowl of food like a MONSTER? For FIVE HOURS?

Jail for father!! Jail for father for -- is that catnip?

[ID: Dearborn the tortie is sitting on the sofa, dimly lit, gazing upwards past the camera with enormous and very sad eyes. I left her alone for a wole evening and she's not mad, she's disappointed.]

#cat #Dearborn the cat

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#aromantic #aro #aroace #fanfic

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You could replace “Liliana” with “Harrow” in this and it would still work.

Gideon: Liliana is mad at me.

Gideon: Apparently I'm being  “reckless” and “stupid” and a “Gideon”.

Gideon: The last one's literally just my name, but it sounded like the worst thing.

#magic the gathering #mtg #gideon jura #liliana vess #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus