#FOR ME ANYWAY

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

Run BTS Challenge Suga and Jimin

bonus:

#bts #min yoongi #suga #bts suga #park jimin #jimin #bts jimin #bangtan #yoonmin #bangtan sonyeondan #bts gifs #my gifs #been wanting to do this one for a while #i know others have done it but i wanted to do it my way lol #i wanna do hobi's too #and maybe tae and jk's #idk we'll see lol #not me listening to lorna shore while making these lmao #bonus is one of the hottest things yoongi does #for me anyway #also he looks so good in this #like damn someone shake his tailor's hand #cuz those pants y'know? #seems like he likes this choreo too #not to neglect jiminie of course he looks lovely lovely lovely as well #but damn yoongi

[fairycosmos]

what’s having a sibling like?

like having someone else's existence irreversibly woven into your own. from beginning to end

#for me anyway #anon

[matchabot]

strawberry mango wildfire

#Fire Emblem #Fire Emblem Three Hopes #Hilda Valentine Goneril #Leonie Pinelli #science has yet to prove why the golden deer girls are the most fun to draw #for me anyway

[andillwriteyouatragedy]

gotta create the art you want to make. don't make what you think someone else wants. don't make what you think has mass appeal. don't make what you think will sell. don't make anything less than what you want to make. make EXACTLY what you want to make. make it from your soul. please don't stifle yourself! it's YOUR art! only YOU are possible of making it with YOUR ideas and YOUR visions and YOUR skills!! make YOUR authentic art!! we want to know what YOU specifically will make!! YOU!!!!!!

#it's not sunday if i'm not incoherently rambling online #about something i feel passionate about #but incapable of fully verbalizing #ANYWAY #on art #art #words #personal ramblings #on writing #for me anyway

[raayllum]

CHET variant is Aaron approved (other liked tweets here)

#cube hostage exchange theory #cast and crew #twitter #aaron ehasz #s5 #s5 spoilers #arc 2 #rayllum #5x08 #tdp spoilers #tdp #the dragon prince #mine #fandom history #for me anyway #rayllum fandom

[themalhambird]

I don't think Maria Bertram believed in romantic love as a concept before she met Henry Crawford. She doesn't really have any examples of it- Sir Thomas shows Lady Bertram respect and she shows him deference, but whatever spark might have existed there once is long gone before Fanny arrives at Mansfield. Her Aunt Norris probably spends more time at the Park than the Parsonage, we never *meet* Mr Norris- their partnership isn't going to inspire Maria with hopes of being able to emulate it. She gets engaged to Rushworth because he is rich, because he's handsome enough to look at, because her aunt wants her to and society expects it, and because she wants out of her father's house. She has no reason to think of marriage as a partnership, or anything other than a transaction that allows a woman to move in society independent of her father. And on that score, she can be pleased with the prospect that Rushworth offers her. The problem is that, unbeknown to herself as much as anyone else, Maria *is* a romantic, she *is* capable of falling hard, she just didn't have the opportunity to learn that about herself before she got engaged. And I can't help but feeling it must have come as a nasty shock when she realised, too late, that she found Crawford more than generically agreeable. Which doesn't excuse what happened- and she really should have taken the out when Sir Thomas offered it- but its fascinating to think about....

#for me anyway #maria bertram my problematic fave #mansfield park

[ssssstudent]

so i was scrolling through the SCP Anomalous Items wiki, as you normally do, and i found:

NERD SOLIDARITY

#scp #good omens #the bentley #scp wiki #scp foundation #good omens bentley #good omens crowley #crowley #nerd stuff #autism #<i guess #for me anyway

[layla-carstairs]

crazy to think about how I first read tsc when I was 14/15 and how I was the same age as Kit & Ty & Livvy. and now tlkof is going to come out around when I turn 22 and they're going to be 18 (& 15) still. I'll probably be 24 when the last book comes out like. I'll be 24 and Livvy will still be 15....

#I'm not going to make an elderly joke here because in truth I'm not even 20 yet like I'm not old #it just weird with these specific characters #for me anyway #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #the wicked powers #twp #the last king of faerie #tlkof #the last shadowhunter #tls #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #livvy blackthorn

[dastardly-lemondrops]

Snape's got to speak at least three languages because I speak two and he needs to be better than me at things. Just in general.

#pro snape #severus snape #Welsh has got to be one of them #for me anyway

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

The longer I look at Operetta’s doll the more she just doesn’t look worth 60 bucks to me.

Like she’s cute but she really just looks like a G1 playline doll and I don’t think that’s worth it tbh.

#she’s 50 but it’ll probably come up to 60 with shipping like ghoulia did #for me anyway #monster high #idk like I was really considering getting her #but I think if I were to get an operetta doll for my collection it would be like an OG Operetta doll or something

[secondbeatsongs]

new year, new food crime

I hate it when recipe bloggers tell you the entire rundown of their day before giving the recipe, so just to start off, I'm going to put this here:

3 cups of liquid (water + shrimp water) 3 packets unflavored gelatin 1 tbsp vegetable base (or a bouillon of some kind; that'd probably be fine) 1 large handful of shrimps (approx 20) 3 eggs, hard-boiled and sliced 1 small bag mixed frozen vegetables, thawed a gelatin mold or bowl with a capacity of 4 cups

now, looking at this ingredients list you might be asking, "hey SBS, what the fuck did you cook this time?" and to that I say: buckle up.

so I've been watching Arne & Carlos' videos for a bit, firstly because I was curious if they were gay (they seem to be), and secondly because I like their knitting patterns

but their channel isn't just knitting! they also cook together, and it's fun and chaotic, and one of the things they cooked…intrigued me.

I don't know how this dish is spelled. cabaret? kabaret? there are only a few recipes for it online, and most of those are not in english. but essentially, it is a Norwegian aspic with shrimp, vegetables, and hard-boiled egg in it.

what is aspic, you might ask? well, it's…I mean…it's meat jello. that's what it is. you cook meat for a while (some recipes say to use pig's feet, snout, etc), and it makes a gelatinous broth, which solidifies when it cools.

delightful!

however, I am not willing to make aspic from scratch for this, so I substituted it with unflavored gelatin packets. hooray!

(apparently in Norway, you can buy packets of instant aspic! but since you can't do that here, I looked up what ingredients are in instant aspic, and after putting them through google translate, decided "huh, seems like gelatin powder with some kind of bouillon", so that's how I ended up here)

this recipe isn't so much cooking as it is…construction. like sure, you heat up the gelatin, but after that it's pretty much just putting stuff together.

and apparently you can make this with pre-cooked or canned shrimp, but I only had the raw frozen kind, so I put them in a saucepan with just enough water to cover them, heated them until they were fully cooked, and then saved the water from the pan to mix in with the gelatin.

so, shrimpy water + enough water to make 3 cups of liquid, and then I mixed in vegetable base until it tasted…fine. (it didn't taste good, it just tasted…okay.)

then I heated up the liquid in the microwave (in a big 4-cup measuring cup), mixed in the three gelatin packets, and there you go! that's all of the cooking done.

now, for the assembly.

I put some of the shrimp all the way at the bottom of the jello mold, trying to arrange it so that it would look nice. I sliced the hard-boiled eggs, and put the prettiest slices of egg around the edges, sprinkling in some vegetables and pouring gelatin as I went.

…and then I gave up on being artistic, and just kinda lumped everything else in, and covered it with the gelatin mixture.

(unfortunately I didn't think to take pictures of the assembly portion of this, because I was multitasking at the time and got distracted, but you'll just have to trust me that it was a tolerable experience, and didn't look very interesting)

after that I chucked it into the fridge (gently), and left it alone while I streamed with makerrcat for a bit, stayed up way too late, and then passed out in a dramatic fashion.

13-ish hours later, I rescued it from its frigid prison.

hmmm

stare into the murky depths with me for a moment. look at this…nightmarish placid soup. this motionless broth.

one of my egg slices definitely didn't get covered all the way. 

ah, well.

to unmold this monstrosity, I put it in a bowl of hot water for a minute or so, until it seemed like it could pull away from the edges. it really didn't take much, so if you (god forbid) try this yourself, keep an eye on it. gelatin melts fast.

then I put a plate over the jello mold, and flipped it over.

after a few tense seconds, it released from the mold with a slimy kthnk sound.

carefully. nervously. I lifted the mold.

and then I let out an involuntary "oh!" because…

…it's kind of…eerily beautiful?

like in a horrifying sort of eldritch way, it looks…lovely

vegetables and shrimp and eggs, suspended not just in space but in time, preserved and surrounded by a gelatinous cocoon…

I just like staring at it, okay! I just think it looks cool! so here's another picture of it from the side:

the egg slices…the little bits of yolk…enchanting

it definitely smells like food. but it's unclear what kind. vaguely shrimp-vegetable-egg, but muddled

let's cut into it

oh. oh god. it made kind of a…squelch? when I cut it?

hold on, you have to experience this for yourselves

god. deeply unsettling.

now, seeing what the inside is like is kind of interesting! there are places where the gelatin has sort of splintered apart from being cut, and there are gaps where pieces of vegetable have fallen out.

but...how does it taste?

...

fuck.

I really like it

this bizarre combination of textures is weirdly satisfying! the squish of the egg and the gelatin, the slight crunch of the vegetables and shrimp, it's just…good?

the gelatin itself just tastes vaguely of broth, but I don't mind it! I don't know if I would eat it by itself, but with the shrimp, egg, and veggies, it's perfectly okay!

the shrimp, egg, and vegetables of course just taste (respectively) like shrimp, egg, and vegetables, but that's...fine? I like all of these things, so this is pretty enjoyable!

so, some of the recipes I managed to find mention serving it with sort of a mayo-mustard mix, so obviously I have to try that

this...helps? like, it tastes really pleasant?

not that it was bad before, but it remains an enjoyable experience!

and a video that I saw (but could not understand) seemed to show it served on a piece of bread, again with the mayo-mustard.

this is also fine! I enjoy this too! I don't feel like it needs the bread, but it's all right!

this is bizarre.

I think most people would probably hate this. it's got the look of a 1960s party food (which is probably what it is), and "meat jello" isn't a texture that modern society regularly enjoys, but…I love it.

I actually love this.

I kind of understand now why people call dishes like this a "jello salad", because…I mean, I'm eating it, and my brain is saying, "yup. this is a salad" and I have no fucking idea why, but this right here? salad. for sure.

cold, wet salad.

damp, even.

so like...is this objectively good food? probably not.

but is it fun to eat? I think so. 

it's refreshing, somehow. it's light, but also more filling than I expected it to be. I have no idea how much would be considered a reasonable serving, but I intend to figure it out as I go along.

so I'm not saying "go make this!" because although this combination of textures plays well with my brain in particular, I don't think that would be the case for everybody.

but I will be eating the rest of this.

weirdly? weirdly, it's just good.

-

an edit, a few days later:

I have done it. I have consumed the entire thing. and I enjoyed every bite of it.

in fact, I plan on making it again! probably more than once!

food crime? no. food…

(pauses to look up what the opposite of "crime" is)

…food blessing. food virtue. food achievement! food…benevolence.

this is what cabaret is.

at least, that's what it is to me.

(create and consume at your own risk.)

#food crimes #food #beware the tags if you haven't clicked the read more #beyond this point there are spoilers #well. I dunno. can a food crimes post be spoiled? who knows. probably #anyway #you have been warned #cabaret #kabaret #aspic #gelatin #shrimp #by the way #I decided a reasonable serving is about 1/4 of this recipe #that was enough for lunch #serve it with a slice of bread and a glass of milk #and I think that'd probably be enough for dinner #for me anyway #idk how other humans operate #I did genuinely enjoy this by the way #this isn't a joke - I really genuinely loved this #there was something so pleasant about the texture #it's hard for me to explain #but it was delightful #joyous even #and I will make it again #oh! another thing #one thing that's the opposite of ''crime'' is ''justice'' #so it could be ''food justice'' #which is‚ if I'm not mistaken‚ what happens in a food court

[yourlegacysnotyourstosee]

Tbh no one is doing transfaggotry like Lazlo Cravensworth

#hes is transition goals tbh #for me anyway #hes so slay #lazlo wwdits #lazlo cravensworth #what we do in the shadows #wwdits

[kynimdraws]

A well-cherished Almyran rug depicting two lovers :)

"They must have been good friends :)" - some Fodlan historian

Art for Claurenz week 2023 on twitter

#claurenz #claude von riegan #lorenz hellman gloucester #fe3h #few3h #claurenz week 2023 #kyleeart #fe argent skies #tagging it under my au bc its kinda a weird hybrid of the two fodlan games #for me anyway

[bluerose5]

The potential of Evfra/Ryder/Jaal is so good. They just walk into his office one day, and...

Evfra: Would either of you like to explain to me why I received reports that Akksul almost killed one of my best soldiers, and you let it happen?

Jaal: Oh, come on now, as if that is somehow worse than the time Ryder— *cuts to Ryder, who is signaling for him not to say shit* —uh, the time Ryder definitely did not die on the Archon's ship!

Evfra: They... WHAT?!

Ryder: Hey, I got better, didn't I?

Evfra: I swear, if you two don't end up getting yourselves killed —permanently killed— one of these days, I'll do it myself.

#mass effect #mass effect andromeda #jaal ama darav #evfra de tershaav #pathfinder ryder #scott ryder #for me anyway #rydaal #scott x jaal x evfra #ryder x jaal #ryder x evfra #jaal x evfra #bluerose rambles #bluerose shitposts

[spooky-b1tch]

if any of you ever saw what was in my likes i promise i wouldn’t be ur tumblr crush anymore

#shit nasty as fuck fr #in a good way #for me anyway #i have secret kinks #but doesn’t every one #shut up lexi

[zarvasace]

New Shatterproof story up :) 3.4k, Warriors-focused.

I'll do more backstories, there are at least five to explore, but I'm taking it slowly to build up some momentum!

#my writing #linked universe #lu warriors #shatterproof #j need to make that a real tag #for me anyway #disability au