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meili-sheep · 2 years

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Just saw this post while definitely not procrastinating my work and immediately had the urge-- to make-- dOMESTIC BULLY THE FATUI HCS GIHDNSHFKSJF

Because yes chaos, but sometimes chaos needs some chill too :))

I feel like diluc would be really good at baking. Specifically cookies and bread. Just those two things. I imagine bread since its just rlly easy to make it, just slap some flour and water together, put it somewhere hot, wait and boom you got something edible. He probably had to learn in his 4 year angst fest since i do imagine him being lost in the wilderness or at least away from civilization for long periods of time and the easiest thing to make was bread made of just water and flour. Mans couldnt flavor it, so the next best thing he could do was make sure its cooked properly, using his pyro vision to keep the fire stable for long amounts of time. I imagine that over time his control over the heat gets so precise that he strategically toasts it for more flavor. The cookies part i imagine would be when he finally got back to mond, and that was the first real sweet thing he had back in mond. Sprinkle in some "i love adelinde, she is my surrogate mom", some past memories of late night cookies when he was a child, and a bit of the crippling realization that adelinde wont stay young forever oh god mORTALITY-- and hed be immediately learning the "family recipe".

I imagine yelan would be really good at sewing. Specifically, anything that had to do with string or yarn, and not the making clothes kind of sewing. Cats cradle, crochet, knitting, making tiny charms made of line and twine and string, etc. I legitimately forgot that her entire thing has to deal with string but im too far deep so wERE JUST GONNA KEEP GOING. I imagine she first got into it as a small child via the cats cradle game. She had and still has extremely dexterous fingers and hands, very useful for gambling and cats cradle. She did grow up kind of lonely though, so there werent a lot of people she could play with or just properly interact with like a child. So she just started learning and playing all by her lonesome. After she mastered single person cats cradle, she moved on to other things like the one handed rubber band game (i never figured out how to make the star and i am still sO PISSED ABOUT THAT after all these years), ayatori (hehe ayato), rainbow loom (war flashbacks), and so on. But as time went on, people slowly started to notice the rapidly declining supply of string they had so she had to quickly change her string thievery and games. Meaning, she learned how to sew. She started knitting little squares and shapes, she started embroidering blobs of colors on spare cloth, crocheting lines upon lines of thread on handkerchiefs as practice and so on. She kept the hobby up since apparently knowing how to sew cloth helps with sewing wounds shut. Its also very calming, helps with keeping her sticky fingers sticky.

Ayato i can see being an expert at paper folding-- paper games and origami. As the head of the yashiro commission, he has to have encyclopedic knowledge on his countrys culture and history to properly prepare, celebrate and respect the festivals and events it has. I imagine hed come across it while personally overseeing preparations for a festival or doing personal research. Maybe he sees the people putting up homemade paper decor like paper lamps, kites, the weird star thing they always require us to make during christmas, maybe he comes across a short snippet talking about its importance. Eitherway, hes alerted to its existence and is intrigued. His rich boi self is amazed at the ingenuity of the not as well off people, and sets off to learn to ensure that the next years festivals and events are a little more connected to the people and showcase a little more of their rich culture and history. He starts off learning how to make paper decor, expertly folded and made stars and squares and paper lamps and slowly but surely snowballs from there. He starts making more than shapes, little paper airplanes and cranes and fortune tellers. He was actually caught by thoma once playing paper football surrounded by folded pieces of paper. He said he was "doing research on the "commonfolk" and their games". Hes not exactly wrong but hes not exactly right either. It got to the point where thoma had to drag him away from the paper walls since he wanted to replace them with his own paper. His totally normal interest and definitely not weird kind of obsession does have its high points though, as he personally made and painted the paper fan his dearest sister ayaka uses. He got it right after 50 tries.

Idk just-- fisbdbdsfhksdkkd domestic bully the fatui ganggggg

Also hhhhhh i am seeing a trend with the length of my asks-- AHAHA sorry if its too much :,))

Don't worry about length! I have a tts reader just for such a reason. (I mean it's because i have dyslexia and reading is hard but I love the ideas)

I will refute bread being easy to make though. I'm a hobbyist baker and bread is one of those sneaky recipes. Simple ingredients but knowing the right texture and how long to leave it out rise. How many times it needs to rise and what is the best temperature for rising at. And then of course baking itself. I've yet to get a good bread out. It's yet to raise enough but I now I have a bread hook so I might try again. Ah but I sidetrack. I'm sure diluc might would be able to get an edible version out for himself.

But I like to think when he was young like before he started training with the knights he really hung around Adelinde and he baked with her. Which he took up once again when he returned home. He also gardens to get fresh ingredients for baking with Adelinde. It really is the closest he gets to feeling like he actually has a mother and a family.

I do love Yelan sewing, knitting and crocheting. I think it's what she does when She actually gets to go home. It's super relaxing but keeps her hands busy. I also like the idea of her knitting this for Diluc and Ayato.

I also think Ayato well good with paper folding and calligraphy. He actually also good with hair. Having helped Ayaka with her hair for years. So he'd happily braid Diluc's hair or help trim Yelan's

But domestic bullies are so sweet man I just want them to have a little house and just take a nice vacation together.

#Bully the Fatui Brigade #diluc ragnvindr #diluc #kamisato ayato #ayato #yelan #yelan genshin impact

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ratthewrodent · 4 years

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Ok, I love lifestyle bloggers but to be honest I can never really trust their reviews of things because there's just no way I can be that motivated, consistent, organized, or self-sacrificing. But oh lordy do I try.Here's some of the "zero waste"/ "buy it for life" / "Environmental" things and hacks I've tried and how they compare to the normal products I would have used. 5/5 is going to be exactly as good as a normal product.A disclaimer- I am a young, able bodied adult woman with no kids, no allergies, and non-sensitive skin. I'm also going to be referring to products very generically, because many I bought locally but have identical or similar items all over the market. Also there will be TMI for things like body care and butts and stuff so... yeah.Saftey Razor (5/5) - I genuinely don't know how disposable razors managed to so thoroughly usurp safety razors, it is a marvel of marketing. I bought a super cheap safety razor ($20ish) and a 5 pack of blades because I was nervous and yeah there was a bit of a learning curve but not more than normal shaving? I'd say the biggest difference is the fact that pressing harder doesn't change anything and if your shave isn't close enough you need to switch angles instead of just going over and over again. I am not a patient shower-er and I have not yet cut myself. I've used it to shave every area except the Brazilian wax area. No razor burn to be seen (but again I have non sensitive skin). I dispose of the blades first in any old plastic container or can I'm getting rid of anyway before the trash, but that process may be more difficult with children who have access to bathrooms.I could see how blade removal could be difficult for folks with shaky hands, and obviously self harm triggers from the blades are present.Shaving Cream Bar (4/5) - Not as satisfying as a foam, but equally as effective. Docked a tiny bit for being very slippery to handle, especially when on its last legs. Also tough to spread around bikini areas.Cardboard Tube "natural" deodorant (2/5) - I really wanted to like this one more because I loved the smell and the idea of it, but these suckers are fairly expensive and I also seem to like,,,, crush them???? I am not raging hulk of a person as far as I know but these suckers just have not managed to keep their whole shape and "push-up-ability" for me. Also I'm a real sweaty bastard and while it smelled nice it was not workday capable without a re-application. All in all it was just too much money for a semi-crushed nice smelling stick for me to buy again.Old tee-shirt cotton pads (4/5) - I was shocked, shocked I tell you, with how well this ended up working for me. I was completely unwilling to actually sew a hem around the squares I cut from a no longer wanted cotton shirt and so I felt crazy looking at these stupid little fraying bits of scrap cloth. But I put them in an old tissue box and they blended right in with my bathroom. Applying products to the squares and then my face is exactly as good feeling as a standard disposable wipe. I used a different small basket I already had for dirty ones so I could wash them in larger batches because my morning process does not leave room for me deal with them one at a time because my life is a mess sometimes.Washing them is... a process. At first I tried hand washing but then drying was not happening and my partner did not deserve the punishment of tiptoeing through a bathroom with like 50 cotton squares just around. Also cat hair got on everything. Eventually I ended up with the solution to use a mesh bag (like for bras) and added them to my laundry load that way so they dont get lost.Honestly I would try this one if only because you have nothing to lose. You're getting rid of the tee shirt anyway, rub your face with it first and see if you like it!Silicone period cup (4.5/5) - I really like mine and it takes a bit of practice, but I'd say it's well worth the learning curve. Once you know how to do it you can pop that sucker out, wash it and pop it back in in less than 3 minutes tops. Holds like 8 hours of blood no problemo.Old clothing "paper" towels (2/5)- I wish this worked for me as well as the bathroom squares did. But between the cats and my general messiness old clothes were just not absorbent enough to clean as well as my actual wash rags. I may just have shitty clothes though.They did work well for very specific instances like wiping up a spilled drink on a flat surface, but not enough for me to be willing to have a basket of old shirts just sitting in my house.Bamboo Travel Cutlery (0/5) - No shade if you like these but they were garbage to me. I bought them because I was tricked by green-washing and cool advertisements and I wish I had just packed a normal fork.Bar Shampoo/conditioner (2/5) - While these technically did a job, they did not work for me and my partner (and we share shampoo). He has thick curly locks and the shampoo and conditioner in a bar was just not able to permeate without some very meticulous showering and we are not meticulous people. Our showers are 10 minutes give or take, and we needed something more simple. I am also a clutz and would always drop them, losing whole dollars of shampoo at a time.Some crazy shampoo/conditioner that a local hippie delivers to me in a metal tin so I only needed one reusable pump (5/5) - Hell yeah! I can't really do a good recommendation on this one because obviously not everyone is as lucky as I am to have a zero waste shop in the same city as they are. But here is my plea - give your local hippie shop owners a chance, do some intensive googling for local businesses and you may be pleasantly surprised at what you find! (by the way, if you're in the Tacoma area A Drop In The Ocean makes my shampoo)Bidet (5/5+) - Honestly I tell people who arent zero waste to get a bidet. Just get one, they're so good. Mine was like $30 and it only shoots cold water and it's still the best thing that's ever happened to me. I still use toilet paper with mine but now it's like one square at a time for drying purposes.Cast Iron Pan (5/5) - Im in love with my cast iron. It just sits on my stove and I cook everything on it. That being said, I've never managed to get it truly seasoned to be non stick on its own, I add a lil oil to it for that. I also literally dont know what all these crazy care instructions on the internet are. My father used a cast iron for 40+ years and he cleans it with water, sometimes a little soap if it's uber gross and it's literally fine. I've seen him re season it once. Not a good pan for people who have muscular troubles with their hands though, these bad boys are pretty heavy.Also side bar: Advice about cast irons online is terrible it's all so pretentious and frightening to read if you don't have background knowledge but I swear, it's super simple. All those people using big words and crazy continuous care are just like, high on their own knowledge or something.You clean the cast ironyou rub that bad boy with some vegetable oil or criscoyou throw it upside down in the oven at 375 for an hour and let coolBAM all done. It is now seasoned forever. If for some reason you feel the seasoning getting thin somewhere (maybe because you're like me and accidentally left it in soapy water overnight because I'm a sinner) Just do step 1-3 again.A mason jar instead of a reusable cup (0/5) - I dropped my bag because I'm a moron and it fucking exploded because it's glass, maybe 5/5 if you're not a moron but I'm unwilling to attempt again.Keepcup TM (1/5) - Very cute but the lid stopped working after I kept putting boiling hot drinks in it. My friend's still works fine so maybe it's a fluke, but I didn't get another.A $2 reusable starbucks cup (4/5) - Because I broke every other cup I guess. I also beat the shit out of it with no visible damage so far, including microwave, freezing, dropping and dishwasher. They are pretty thin though so I use a knit cozy so I can hold it when hot. Also doesn't seal shut.Cutting open the bottle of my swiffer cleaner so I could refill it (5/5+) - Only thing that makes my swiffer worth it. The seal is a lie, there's threading under there. The instructions linked are a good way to do it, but I literally just hacked at the edge of mine with a knife until it came off. I refill using a cleaning concentrate and it works equally as well as the original cleaner. Throwing in that I got a reusable swiffer pad set of three as well and they work great too. Just throw them in with the laundry when they're dirty!Powder Toothpaste (1/5) - Again, power to you if you can use this. My teeth felt clean but I also wanted to barf while using it. I did use it all, which I am proud of, and I did gag every time, which I am not.And finally...A metal reusable straw (3/5) - It's fine I guess. I cant really take it places with me but it's nice for when I drink at home.I am so sorry this got so long. I don't know what happened. Quarantine is just so boring. Hopefully maybe other people can leave honest reviews of them trying to live normal lives with zero waste products too and add validity to this monstrosity or maybe just point out things I missed or something. via /r/ZeroWaste

#IFTTT #reddit

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