#unusual cooking

[folder-stuff]

So weak and useless. Like an insect in a jar. Come on, light the fire of hope. Let it burn all the air you breathe. I'll crush you. But if you can stand it, I'll let you be on my side.

#w.i.t.c.h. #w.i.t.c.h. fanart #w.i.t.c.h. comics #w.i.t.c.h. elyon #Elyon Brown #w.i.t.c.h. taranee #taranee cook #I wanted to capture their interaction in issue 4 #haven't rendered for a long time #unusual but cool

[athina-blaine]

His own breath ragged, Ambrosius leaned in again, just close enough for his lips to graze against Ballister's.

“Let me take care of you.”

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Ballister loses track of the time and gets caught in the rain. Ambrosius rises to the occasion.

Rating: Explicit Relationships: Ballister Blackheart | Ballister Boldheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin Chapters: 1/1 Chapter Word Count: ~5k Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Light Angst, Pre-Canon, Service Top Ambrosius, Ballister Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat, Explicit Sexual Content

Inspired by @sefarlen's art here (NSFW), and a very happy Valentine's Day to you as well 😉😉😉 haha what do you mean it's apri

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Closing the door behind him with a soft click, Ambrosius slipped off his running shoes before stepping inside the apartment. His heart still raced with exertion as he pulled down the hood of his rain-slicked jacket, sweat cooling on the back of his neck and face. The rain had brought down the temperature to a crisp, sublime briskness, and it had been perfect for his evening run (even if his hair could do without the humidity).

Hanging his jacket on the coat rack, chin bobbing to the beat of his music, his eyes passed over the row of shoes, lingering on the leftmost shelf. He paused. The black boots that usually occupied the space were still absent, the same as they were when Ambrosius had first gotten home.

It wasn’t often Ambrosius beat Ballister back at the end of the day, with Ballister usually having long since buried himself in his academy reports. Even rarer for Ambrosius to finish his run and still see that shelf empty. Perhaps he’d gotten carried away with his research project in the archives. Still, why not give Ambrosius a heads-up?

Ambrosius pushed down his growing anxiety. It’s not as if Ballister has never been this late coming home before, especially with their development reports due soon. Ambrosius would just need to call, that was all. Nothing to worry about.

But first, Ambrosius desperately needed a drink. Bending down to open the refrigerator, he retrieved his water bottle and took a slow sip, eyes surveying the inside of the fridge. His fingers tapped to the beat of his music against the fridge door. They haven’t already eaten through all of those strawberries, have they …?

Through his earbuds, he heard a muffled thud behind him. He glanced over just in time to see Ballister shuffle into the main room, his gait sluggish as he dragged his hand down his face. He didn’t seem to notice Ambrosius as he let out a tired sigh, running his hand through his hair.

Ambrosius straightened, letting the fridge door close, and Ballister’s eyes snapped upwards. When their gazes met, Ballister faltered. For a fleeting moment, Ambrosius could see him attempt to mask the fatigue in his eyes, but Ambrosius’ concern must have been obvious as he quickly gave up the charade. He raised a hand, a weary smile tugging his lips. “Sorry I didn’t call.”

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#nimona #goldenheart #was writing this and mused a lot as to how cooking would manifest in this household #i think ballister would be the more technically competent cook #but it isn't something he's particularly passionate about beyond keeping himself fed #doesn't see the point in straying from the recipe #meanwhile ambs would be awful #just the worst #but he's a very eager student and finds he actually has a taste for it #so he goes off book and tries unusual things and bal just doesn't get it lol

[musubiki]

Is there anything that lime is bad at? (Other than emotional vulnerability)

i have been contemplating this for many a year....YES but i haven't decided what it is yet. i want to be something insanely mundane where someone in school asks him "Hey can you do [thing]/We're gonna do [thing], wanna join us??" and lime spends the entire day making excuses or otherwise avoiding it to an insane level.

meanwhile his inner monologue being like "All this time I've been able to hide it...I can't slip up now....the fact that I can't do [thing] for the life of me..."

#maybe it is cooking. maybe hes the worst fucking cook in the world #something dumb like that #(i cant let anyone know....im supposed to be good at everything) #if he had that genshin talent where they can only make shit food #something dumb. maybe drawing?? #something that you wouldnt nessecarily encounter regularly but enough that its not SUPER unusual to do #so many good asks today.....i love talking about my kids

[naomiknight-17]

Oh no

Ohhhh no this is entirely too much food I have made a miscalculation uhhhh

#the chicken breasts where unusually huge and i wanted to use up the bell pepper but #oh no. ohhh that is too much food #do i even have enough butter chicken sauce to cover this!??! #oh dear #food #cooking #mod post

[ufolvr]

Tumblr is a barren wasteland if ur looking for prompts sometimes. Like I'm unusually tired and can't come up with anything on my own. Somebody fry my brain back into working

#📡 incoming transmission 📡 #i think i legit cooked at driving school today like i came back unusually warm and messed in the head #and exhausted #mannnn just need to think about my f/o for the next couple hours and hope i wake up better

[chthonic-cassandra]

Another inane post about food, but I keep thinking about how I always find myself surprised by how few people in my life/social circle are actually vegetarian, and I'm not sure why I do this? I grew up a vegetarian in a non-vegetarian household and everyone around me acted like it was really weird (and, in the case of some family members, tried to sneak meat into things I ate but that's another story), so I don't know why I would assume that it's something more people around me share, but I pretty consistently do?

#personal #food #it's not an assumption that comes with judgment or anything; maybe I just want to think of myself as less unusual in this very minor way? #we do meal planning on sundays so I always end up thinking a lot about food and cooking #do other vegetarians/vegans find themselves thinking this way?

[artemisbarnowl]

I'm oversimplifying and generalising but another white immigrant privilege I enjoy is that any white person who's family's been there for yonks means their ancestors were some kind of asshole. Violent criminal. Pilgrim. Came during the whites only policy for money and more racism. This is applicable to most colonised countries. My parents got here on a boat because half their fucking country collapsed in a war what's your excuse?

#my sister and i call white Australian from way back men 'non denominational white bread boys' because they white and bland #and as interchangable as anything #if you gotta interact with a man i hope he has a bit of spice a bit of culture he was raised with but clings ro on purpose #i meet non immigrant people and im like....you have never ever thought about your place i the world and whether theres a question #around what to do when you visit someones house #shoes no shoes help cook help clean can you help yourself do you have to modify the food because its UnUsUaL

[azucarera-art]

games with cooking features + extensive & diverse dishes from diff cuisines are very sexy actually

#hell it dont even need a Cooking Feature at all #if it has food #or mentions food #or uses food to heal or augment strength or whatever #it's a 100/10 for me #extra pts if the food is made to be unusual but appetizing #tes #the elder scrolls #stardew valley #legend of zelda #dishonored #yes i mean what i said #dont tell me u didnt wanna munch on those jellied eels & blood sausage #they look good af

[here-there-were-dragons]

as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.

this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.

#a lot of people literally refuse to even eat ham or pork #not even for like religious or health reasons #just because they think eating anything but beef and chicken is 'weird and scary and gross' #every time i hear people going on en masse about how 'weird and an acquired taste' something foreign is i go and try it and i'm just like #what the fuck were all of you smoking. where is the unbearable weirdness i am supposed to be experiencing #shoutout to that time i kept hearing about how bizarre a flavor milkis soda is and how intimidating and acquired of a taste #then when i actually try the stuff. it's just fucking peach soda. it's peach soda with a faint tangy yogurtish taste. it makes good floats. #how in the absolute fuck is anything even remotely weird much less gross about this? #unless your concept of what a 'soda' should be is poisoned by a lifetime of the entire soda aisle being filled with nothing but brown sludg #from the same 3 brands that all taste like what would happen if they could distill the concept of diabetes and artificial flavoring syrup #i don't know if other countries have this but there's this weird cultural like mandatory rejection of any 'unusual' food here #way more intense than i've seen from anyone from any other country (though that might just be inexperience with other cultures talking) #people react to the mere suggestion of any food outside a very narrow range with outright disgust and genuine fear and horror #and there's a huge amount of unspoken peer pressure on everyone to also do the same #like you're expected to agree with them and you've breeched some sort of silent social contract if you don't #it's seen as *immoral* almost it feels like #it's difficult to describe unless you've noticed it yourself #americans react to the mere suggestion of eating anything outside of the same 2 meats and handful of fillers the same way #that pearl-clutching aristocrat grandmas react to hearing that people in foreign countries do.. basically anything #it doesnt matter if you're suggesting eating ube cake or suggesting eating live bugs because people will react the same way #everything that's not chicken/beef/ect is as good as bugs to people here #hate this stupid blandass country and how impossible it is to afford any food other than burgers if you're not rich #or blessed with relatives that have any idea how to cook and are at all willing to teach you #cause nother weird thing i've noticed about food culture-or at least wasp food culture-that i haven't seen anywhere else quite the same way #is that if you DO have any relatives that know how to cook then nine times out of ten they will jealously guard their recipes like a dragon #and refuse to share them with anyone #thus taking whatever little cooking knowledge was in the family to their grave #so the opportunity other people usually have for family bonding via passing on recipes? pffft no. #for some reason we seem to actively go out of our way to prevent these things from being passed on #i don't know what the fuck is up with that but i suspect it has something to do with 50's dinner party oneupmanship

[aldieb]

my worst trait may be that if everyone is doing something i instinctively do not want to do that thing regardless of the actual value of the thing

#text tag #but ty for the paw pats 🐾 #dash being unusuable means i’m absolutely cooking tho. 1.5K words 2nite (partly fleshed out from what i was standing around writing last #night while waiting for sets. a practice that makes you seem cool and normal obviously)

[silverwhittlingknife]

very important announcement: new @birdchildsnest fic!!!

#only the first few chapters have been posted but it already has many gems #''Bruce pressed a finger against his lip and stared at Tim like he was an unusual tire print at the scene of a bank robbery.'' #i love this sentence so much. top-tier bruce characterization. like an unusual tire print. that's how you know he's really paying attention #although a close second is ''That’s not how raising children works. If it were Alfred would have exchanged me ages ago'' sdfsfdsfs #i also really like the cass-never-updates-her-computer moment. cass you are NOT stupid :(((( it's okay!! you're okay!!! love yourself!!! #i esp. like how it's filtered through steph's pov so it's hard for us to tell exactly what's going on with cass except that she's defensive #also tiiiiim you should have a pet. accept a pet. you can have things. you are deflecting emotions so hard it's painful #janet muttering into her eggnog 'you hated your father' sdfdsfs bitterly-divorcing drakes are my favorite flavor #also damian hearing the tim-birthday story and immediately connecting it to terrifying talia challenges is inspired #the ''i win. you lose.'' and the tenth birthday challenge is so so good #'You know I can cook my own omelets' Jason said. 'Congratulations' Alfred intoned sdfdsfdsf

[guideaus]

I think its soo boring when ppl try to say a character's actions were ooc without the full context being revealed yet

#personal #sir it is not done yet. let them cook #ig if it ends up bad it sucks but like idk i think its interesting. whyd the character do an unusual thing huh #whats it meannn #i wanna think abt mty. ill make this thought abt mty somehow

[wizardnuke]

stimulant meds are so funny. "appetite suppressing" bro i've been back on adhd meds for three days and have eaten more than i have in the past week prior. hungy

#i don't know man. idk why the appetite suppressing meds reboot my ability to feel hunger back to factory settings but my god its working. #literally the only drug that does it too. weed? alcohol? nothin. not hungry. methylphenidate? raiding the fridge rn #woke up at 4am and demolished the leftover pizza. this is Highly unusual behavior for me genuinely #like that's Nothing. everybody does that right. no im arfid georg and can't get myself to want food for the life of me #it's so funny im not even a picky eater i am just truly ambivalent to the idea of food existing in general. like #the only food i can think of that i don't like is like. cooked carrots. and i'll still eat them. im not picky! #i just don't want to eat!! adhd hell

[radiates-confusion]

I don't know what's happened but today I've apparently decided that instead of 'putting up with' the frozen veg, and food I don't enjoy but am OK eating I'm just gonna.....

See if I have the time to cook myself something nicer? Like, I'll take the fish fingers, but maybe I'll just learn how to make the honey roasted vegs I love from whenever my dad does a roast, or like there was the consideration of making some properly seasoned white/cheese sauce to go with some pasta that my step-mum taught me to do (I went against that because I don't think everyone eating enjoys the white/cheese sauce and it'd feel mean at that point)

Is this.... Adulting? Or at least like... Enjoying foods with the capability of also being able to make them????

#I don't normally cook a lot #I do pasta #Chuck in the oven food #And that's normally it #This is... Unusual for me

[skullboiz]

its september im gonna need my state to do what it does best and stop being a consistent temperature because walking 2.5 miles in 90-100 degree weather EVERY FUCKING DAY IS REALLY GETTING TO ME like literally Grow up Face the Situation at Hand. @ The Sun

#if youre wondering. its bc school. i cant drive and my parents work. #im literally just a winter-loving girl this is cruel and unusual punishment #my body is just HOT. FOR THE REST OF THE DAY WHEN I GET HOME #IM BEING COOKED?????? IN AN OVEN?????? #ok i had to get this out of my system some more thanks for watching lycan sub scribe #skulltxt

[raceydays-hopelesshaze]

In a world where so many musicians have unique or uncommon names, shoutout to Arctic Monkeys for being made up of dudes whose first, middle, and last names are all the amalgamation of the most British and basic run-of-the-mill names imaginable

#Alexander David Turner #James Robert Cook #Nicholas Edward O’Malley #Matthew Helders #‘Helders’ is the most ‘unusual’ name out of the bunch #even including Andy Nicholson #the only thing that would make them more british is if they stole stuff from the countries they toured in #Arctic Monkeys #å