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spiri--ts-blog · 7 years
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theres 143 of you on here lol go follow @guillotin-e bec ause i moved
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spiri--ts-blog · 7 years
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again, ive moved to @guillotin-e if anyone cares to find my new account.
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spiri--ts-blog · 8 years
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im moving blogs
new blog is @guillotin-e​
goodbye and so long
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spiri--ts-blog · 8 years
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Space is so creepy and wonderful. Who the hell needs hell when there’s space.
Like there’s an old constellation called Eridanus that you can see in the southern sky, and its not a very interesting constellation. It’s a river. It’s actually the water that’s pouring out of Aquarius, so in the sky it’s kind of boring. It’s a path of stars.
But within Eridanus, in between the stars, there’s a place where the background radiation is unexplainably cold. Because after the Big Bang, there was all this light that scattered everywhere, and it’s the oldest light in the universe, but we can’t see it. It’s so dim that it only shows up as a glow of microwaves, so to us, it just looks like the blackness of the night.
But there’s this spot in Eridanus where that little glow of ancient microwaves isn’t what it should be. It’s cold and dark.
And it’s enormous. Like a billion light year across. Of mostly just emptiness. And we don’t know why. One theory is that it’s simply a huge void, like a place where there are no galaxies. Voids like that do exist. Most of them are smaller, but they’re a sort of predictable part of the structure of the universe. The cold spot in Eridanus, if it were a void, would be so enormous that it would change how we understand the universe. 
But another theory is that this cold spot is actually the place where a parallel universe is tangled with our own. 
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Lavender Lemonade
4 tbsps (¼ cup) culinary lavender*
2 cups boiling water
2/3 cup sugar
1 ½ cups fresh lemon juice (about 8 lemons)
2 cups cold water
* Culinary lavender is lavender harvested for the purposes of cooking/eating. Please don’t buy the perfumed air-freshening kind because that is going to be utterly gross. Steep the lavender in 2 cups of boiling water for 15 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve and discard the lavender. Place the lavender tea and the sugar in a small saucepan and set over high heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves (you don’t have to put it over heat, but I do this because I’m impatient and want the sugar to dissolve faster and completely). Remove from heat and let cool to warm. Stir in the lemon juice. Stir in the cold water. Add more to taste. I prefer to keep mine on the concentrated side because I like to mix it with seltzer water when I serve it. Serve over ice. Makes about 6-8 cups depending on how dilute you want it.
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spiri--ts-blog · 8 years
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even my comics just want to lie down for a bit
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spiri--ts-blog · 8 years
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Broke af?
But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?
Let me tell you a thing.
This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 
This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 
AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 
You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 
Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 
Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 
Make your own pasta–gluten free. 
She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.
She has vegan recipes.
A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin will get you a really filling soup…or throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger. 
Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 
She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 
Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 
Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.
I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 
If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 
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spiri--ts-blog · 8 years
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I am a huge fan of space, both outer and personal
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all those clothes I can’t wear, all those girls I can’t date
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-space related asks-
pluto: what do you love most about yourself?
mars: who is your ideal best friend?
earth: what’s your ideal house/home?
saturn: what’s your aesthetic?
jupiter: if you could choose your own name what would it be?
neptune: what’s an album that you can listen through entirely w/o skipping song?
venus: go to piece of clothing/outfit?
mercury: what’s something you couldn’t live without?
uranus: what’s your zodiac sign?
the moon: favorite quote?
the sun: what motivates you?
kepler-22b: if you could go anywhere, where would it be/why?
phobos: what was your favorite song as a child?
ceres: out of everyone/thing in this world, who would you elect president?
titan: if you could die your hair absolutely any color and pull it off, what would it be?
callisko: what’s your ideal job?
enceladus: who is your favorite person? what are they like?
hyperion: do you have a favorite store/shop?
comet: what’s your biggest secret?
astroid: what’ your biggest fear? i there a reason why you’re scared of it?
shooting star: who is your ideal s/o?
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Farm boy
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Good friend
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i feel so !!!! disconnected !!!! from my friends, family, art and self. how do i ground myself and feel like im me again. i feel like a piece of dust floating around
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spiri--ts-blog · 8 years
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*hears footsteps toward my room* please don’t
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