#making cocktails at home

[butterbourbonandothersins]

This martini is made with Lillet Blanc, a French apéritif, with notes of orange, mint, and vanilla.

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[oatbugs]

procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

#on my friends living room floor they love together but one of them has been london for weeks or maybe months #to be with her love. im on a foam mattress from one of their beds next to a glass bottle of water opened by one of them #in a mug given to me by another. the weather felt like my childhood today and it also felt like 2 years ago. #(put space in the heavens Einstein's idea and hes your friend too so nothing to fear) around the table they drank and laughed and i thought #i hope you keep growing so full with the love you receive . i hope your appetite becomes insatiable from how used to it you are #and i know youre all leaving soon but i hope one day you miss this and that youll be happy you miss it #its worth missing i think #i thought he didnt care but he said after exams hes going walk around this area over and over #(this is near where he lived and where we visited almost daily for a year) #(hed come across the bridge on a lake) #we went where she used to live and at the entrance a fox sat calmly. it just yawned and stared. #it felt important somehow. i think maybe their impressions of me will never be close to how i feel inside but i think #i love them enough for that not to matter. i dont think theyll ever know this. i dont think if they did it would change much. #and seeing them smile makes my heart glow anyway. today i tried their malaysian tea the ginger burned my throat #they warmed my heart. hes going to canada soon and hes going to the US soon and shes going everywhere soon ill never understand #how were supposed to live with memories and with seperation and with the past but we do it anyway so i think it doesnt matter much #i wanted to write a poem for the lab rats with the fibre optic wires lit with blue forcing them to turn around and around #something about how im sorry that the two photon arrays burned the inside of your brain. im sorry about the sharp points of multielectrode #arrayes. im sorry about everything we do to you. she asked to see me tomorrow. im trying to have self control but i miss her so awfully #last night my friend talked to me and i updated on everything that happened with love and the lack of it and she just started laughing #and she told me about the same thing from her side. and she told me about how she loved london because she would walk the streets #and she felt like the people were her. and her eyes would go over the people and the bag of bagels and the construction men they probably #have a kid at home maybe shes a daughter. this kid is crying for her mother and the building you just walked past caused #blisters and pain and people died in it and very likely people were born in it. we talked for hours and i felt like #i was holding her hand just like that time she held mine watching a horror film. i love her so much #my friend is a genius and i remember her picking up the charms of my phone and staring at the leaf hanging from them. shes side stepping to #music drinking dangerous cider and cocktails from a movie and chit chatting with billionaires and undergrads #i love her dearly. his head covered in electrodes. she tells me about a syrian guy shes in love with and she says #what you feel and what i feel is like cocaine. ive tried a lot of fucking cocaine. #she says ive reminded her of what living actually feels like and to never put energy into someone who doesnt see me this way.

[bxbygxxsx]

idea of a perfect date

Fucking in public places 💕🩷🥰

#answered asks #nah I’m joking 👀 #making dinner together #baking together #watching a film together (at home not the cinema bc I hate the cimema) #going on a picnic #playing board games together #nice walk by the beach #mini golf!!! #going for drinks/cocktails #pottery painting!!

[docholligay]

Me, reading this: oh HAR DE HAR, @verbforverb, let's make fun of the American by making up silly things. VERY FUNNY, VE--

*googles*

I am going to get on a tricycle and pedal furiously to the White House to engage the nukes. The UK had a good run, but it's over now.

#I regret everything I have ever learned about this country #except the Walkers prawn cocktail chips those can stay #also the sparkling juice which I now make at home #everything else though #gone #'Doc isn't America's entire legal system based on--" #LISTEN IF I NEVER HAVE TO HEAR THE WORDS PELICAN CROSSING USED AS AN ACTUAL TERM #I AM HAPPY TO REBOOT THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH #is it working THAT well? No. Shut up. Totally worth it.

[moraxsthrone]

I JUST GOT C2 KAEYA *sobbing weeping kissing his face*

@kaelily HE CAME HOMEEEEEE!!!

#kel screams into the void #kel.plays genshin ◇ #kaeya bb welcome home #i've missed you #come here let me look at you #you must've been so cold out there all alone #you look so skinny what have you been eating? #well come on let me cook for you bb #then we'll have a few cocktails and you can tell me all about your adventures #while we soak in a hot bath #and i'll wash your hair #and give you a nice back rub #and smooth your shoulders down #and swallow your cock #i'll make it all better kaeya bb

[mollypaup]

one thing that always fucking Gets Me is in apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic media someone has stockpiled supplies with the intent of dying and leaving them for someone else.

#just remembered a novel i read in elementary school #where the moon is knocked into closer orbit and causes a permanent winter on earth #and one of the neighbors of the protagonist #stops eating and using fuel and water #and eventually dies from this #but left everything in her home to her neighbors and their two daughters #it's a fun sort of anger grief sadness gratefulness guilt emotional cocktail #anger at the disregard for her own wellbeing #grief and sadness at the loss #gratefulness because genuinely the food and water and wood and gas will go a long way #and guilt at the idea of being grateful that someone has suffered and died for your sake #that book was very good from what i recall #and ended with the gut punch of #if they had ever bothered to make the three mile trek into town #that the local government had built a crisis response #and were handing out bags of food #but they never knew it was there because they were too frightened to leave

[possiblytracker]

got dragged to a pub quiz with some of my housemates buddies and was fully convinced i was not really gonna have a good time and itd probably be too loud and i wouldnt be much help etc etc etc bc my mood is still not great but i forgot im a competitive motherfucker when it comes down to it and the sheer rush of euphoria that comes from knowing a few more obscure answers that had the rest of the room hemming and hawing is gonna carry me through the next week probably

#when nobody else in the wetherspoons in rural wales knows what the capital of florida is or what you call a female swan #the big ass grin spreading across my face and sheer rush of Power listening to 2 people the next table over arguing over whether #its jacksonville or miami. you Fools. you absolute buffoons. i know more than you/j/j/j/j #i am so exhausted now and the 'yea this is Over you are enjoying urself too late' sadness is creeping back in but it was worth it #we came 3rd...... the prize was a whole pitcher of some cocktail for the group but i do not drink so i just went home to bed #a female swan is called a pen btw i knew that six month long job spouting swan facts at 8 year olds would come in handy someday #IDK i still have a lot to work through but i feel like i should make a slightly less depressing post today skdfjh;; #shoutout to my housemate for always somehow noticing when i have just not left my room in a day and coming to drag me out of it #i was so close to just not eating again (which tbf. i didnt. until like 6pm whoops) #but now i have done that AND touched grass AND socialised AND feel good abt myself a bit.. so..... #i worry a lot that people dont really. notice or care that much when im struggling/when they do that its annoying or a burden so #im very grateful to have people who care about me enough to try and pull me out of it. i hope wherever i end up after this #that i can surround myself with more people like that #man this feels pretty bittersweet to think about as well but in more of a cathartic kinda way. i guess #trying to think abt things slightly more positively so i dont turn into a festering black pit of bad vibes for the next few weeks #and my blog still inexplicably feels like the nicest place to sort through this kinda thing

[born-to-lose]

Man I miss mixing drinks ://

#it was so cool and so much fun juggling l those bottles and glasses why are the circumstances absolute shit #i was told i make the best tequila sunrise and asbach cola and cuba libre 😌 #i would try some cocktail recipes at home if the fucking alcohol wasn't so expensive like no way #well jack daniel's is only €20 and bacardi is €11. i'll think about it but for now my liquor shelf is packed and i need to get to that firs #i wanna share some bartending stuff with you guys so bad 😭😭 pls send asks #mel talks #but for now good nighty babes

[pynkhues]

not sure if youve written abt this before but what is your take on the shiv/kendall/roman's pre show mental breakdowns that are alluded to?

Ah! I don't think I have written about it before, anon, so thank you for asking!

I've been percolating a bit of late on @waystarresourceco's recent posts which have indicated that neither Kendall nor Shiv went entirely to college in America, with Kendall having his EMBA from INSEAD, not Harvard Business School like many of us (including me!) thought (he did do his undergrad at Harvard though), and with Sarah talking about Shiv going to the UK for college.

I'm interested in that for a whoooole range of reasons, haha, but what I think is particularly relevant to your ask is that it sort of emphasises this divide between the four siblings, with Connor and Roman having been sent away as children, and forever fighting their way back in there after, and Kendall and Shiv being kept close as children, only really leaving in early adulthood, but also forever having a sort of mmm, close and given seat at the table as favourite son / heir apparent and treasured / only daughter.

After all, in many ways, both Kendall and Shiv were on the same path, right? Logan laid a map for Kendall which Shiv scoured and did her own variation of to try and best him at the journey. Kendall was groomed for a role, and Shiv was groomed to be a perfect daughter, only to decide she wanted to be the perfect son. The effect of it though I think was that both of them spent formative years under pretty stifling expectations, while both Roman and Connor were forced in their formative years to develop a degree of independence because they were pushed from the nest.

As a result, I do think Kendall and Shiv both tend to thrive within structure, and that they both tend to fall apart when that structure isn't there, while Roman and Connor have learnt to thrive without it, and struggle to exist when they're forced to live within it.

Because I think that's really the implication of all of their meltdowns - Roman's seems to have occured when he had to try and work under Frank in the LA office on projects he hated, while Kendall's and Shiv's both seem to have happened when they're too long left to their own devices. It's all spill, right? Just the context of their respective abuse means it leaks under different forms of pressure.

#i think especially that it makes sense too in like #mmmm #higher education is both this really huge and interesting space for social discussion and mobility and progressive thinking #but it's also absolutely a symbol of class and wealth #which i think checks out with kendall and shiv both possessing a progressive language #and the way they both like to think they lean left even when they just lean selfish #but how that space away from home out from under logan's thumb away from expectations #while also potentially facing up to some hard truths about the politics your father's made a fortune off #was probably a bit of a molotov cocktail to deal with mentally #and roman and connor would've faced that too but i suspect in different ways #i also think all four of them are socially naive which won't help with any of this #but especially shiv and kendall #which again is probably symptomatic of all of this right? #idk! i hope this makes sense haha i'm still on a lot of cold and flu meds #hbo succession #succession meta #welcome to my ama

[glitterdisposition]

there is a certain time of day that puts a pit in my stomach and makes me anxious and emotional and sad. this is why i work nights

#idk i went from hanging out with my sister and my mom and laughing and making cocktails and cooking dinner #to turning off the music and going to sit on the couch to eat dinner #and then my sister left #and my dad isn’t home yet #and it’s too quiet #and i want to cry #i think im lonely

[toyonberries]

Always be kind, you never know who may have stepped on a bee over the weekend and now has a big itchy sting that's been driving them crazy and keeping them up at night

#its me im the idiot who walked through the grass barefooted and got stung #never been stung by a bee before and boy the itching really is so much worse than the sting itself #if anyone has any tips or home remedies to make it feel better i would love to hear them #right now i'm using calamine lotion for the itch + numbing with ice packs + taking a drug cocktail of benadryl advil and caffeine #tbh i don't feel like any of them help for more than a few minutes #also might have given myself an ice burn from trying to numb it too much so I think I need to stop doing that even though that helps most #really suffering rn #kaia

[lovestruckficto]

me and P03 have adopted a son and his name is edgar electric dreams

#his design really is the perfect mix of my main account's sona and the scrybe i love so much im ngl #yes i watched the movie #i wont make a post for this specific thing but if you see it #the scene where edgar is trying to do all those things for miles to keep him at home like make dinner and a cocktail #and miles is just fucking annoyed with him #im sorry but thats just polaroid's endgame state #moments before l3shy decides to tell p03 he wants a divorce #p03 was most certainly doing something for him #to try and make him happy #and that fucking sucks

[idsb]

What’s a good movie to watch while I drink my feelings haha asking for definitely not me!!!!!!

#also i have whiskey at home but maybe ill buy an overpriced cocktail from this venue #this photographer who gets every opportunity ever who i fcking hate and think isnt even good was hired along with me #and we were kinda shooting together which should be exciting and ‘flattering’ cause the industry is obsessed with her #but she was there taking actual photos and i was making fucking tiktoks which like #idk i already want to give this stupid fucking caree up cause im not here to make tiktoks #and its such a punch in the fucking stomach that i HAVE to cause youve gotta do both to get hired #meanwhile they were willing to pay this girl and also me just so she DIDNT have to make tiktoks #and then she went backstage to go do artist portraits rigbt after and i….. didnt #idk i just feel so fucking hopeless and angry and im sick of this i fucking hate tiktok i hate video i want!!!!! to take!!!!!! pictures!!!!! #i am a fucking PHOTOGRAPHER #And its better this than no job at all but im so goddamn sick of these industry darling photogs and then me #feeling like the ugly stepsister or w/e

[wabblebees]

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#rehearsal tonight was rouh but still fun soits fine im just. exhausted #i was achey and brain-foggy as FUCC #so i came home and had meself a drink. and then when i was done i was like eh im still feelin. yk whatever so i made myself a Drink™️ #and oooooh bITCH #started making a grillcheese halfway thru drinkin the Drink™️ so when that shit hit my siystem i FELT it lmfao #ooooooooooooh bitch #we good im Chillin chillin now im just. HOOooo bOY #ive decided that alcohol is always gross (save for the like. jack daniels watermelon shit bc that was fuckin GORGEOUS goddamn( #HOWEVER. cranberry juice makes everything better😌💕 #AND ! so does grilled cheese<3<3 #so vodka+cranberry juice is fun even tho it still tastes at least a little bit (or a lottle bit if u dont mix it right💀 oops) like alcohol #and my sandwich turned out perfect and my ''cocktail'' turned out fine and Very Alcoholic lmfao #3 shots vodka & can pineapple juice & buncha cranberry juice & splashes of grenadine+lemon juice #PLUS a squeeze of coconut cream which!! is also what i i sugared the rim of my glass with!! which felt all fun+fancy so im :> #i def could still taste vodka but eh it still tasted better than the one (1) drink ive had at a restaurant (raspberry lemon drop)(gross) #((not GROSSgross but. tasted like i shouldve been DRUNk after drinking it and i was decidedly Not so. hmph🙄)) #aNyWaY this is all nonsense that doesnt matter but i felt like telling Someone so. void it is! #thanx for listenin/readin lmao #my friends are all sleepin and i should be soon as well -- hopefully i do but 🤷we'll see🤷 #im still kinda 👁👄👁 from rehearsal so im trying to bring it down+chill tf out so i can Get Some Fucking Rest before too long yanno? #so like. yeagh! #hope yall are doin well #byeee<3<3 #bee speaks

[pithyorangecurd]

Wish I had money for alcohol right now, I want some bourbon so bad I could die.

#i have heavy cream at home and creme de menthe ill make some cocktails when i get home #hmnnnnmmmg #im pasy the irritable stage and now im desperately miserable and just want to work and finish

[lostjulys]

mutuals i am inviting u to my place on a saturday afternoon mutuals i am making u yr favorite fancy silly cocktails and we r playing tabletop games. mutuals i am giving u homemade sloe gin and homemade cherry brandy and homebrewed dandelion wine. not all at once though.

#i have NO idea how 2 articulate this statement in a way that won't get terribly mis interpreted. but godd i love like. #the social aspect. i guess. of alcohol. like. i hate getting smashed i don't like drinking fr the sake of it. but ohh it's so fun and #delightful to mix fancy cocktails and get interesting liqueurs.. the inherent magic of picking yr own raspberries and making yr own #raspberry liqueur. the inherent tenderness of making yr own cherry brandy with cherries from yr own tree and giving it to people u love for #a taste of summertime in midwinter. mulled wine. god u can really tell i come frm a family that does a lot of home brewing NNKFSDKFSKDFKD #dot text #alcohol ment #also i just rlly love making cocktails for other people. its like the same satisfaction as baking smth for someone but quicker #and easier <33333333 #u get what i mean?