Tentacular Investigations

twelvelevens:

creature of the night 🌙✨

frenzyarts:

Something I’ve learned after reading through the barbie tags is that similar to Link, barbie is also LGBT all at once

This is also Urianger Final Fantasy XIV.

baglsasha:

estrogenesis-evangelion:

estrogenesis-evangelion:

cis people are scared of trannies because we walk right through walls that are solid to them. like ghosts

this reads like a shitpost but i mean it sincerely

Me every day

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fuckingrecipes:

sp-eedysp-special:

alexseanchai:

shanastoryteller:

is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription

will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

This buttery, chamomile tea-scented loaf is a sweet pop symphony, the Abba of cakes. A pot of flowery, just-brewed chamomile isn’t required for drinking with slices of this tender loaf but is strongly recommended. In life and in food, you always need balance: A sip or two of the grassy, herbal tea between bites of this cake counters the sweetness, as do freeze-dried strawberries, which lend tartness and a naturally pink hue to the lemony glaze. This everyday loaf will keep on the counter for 3 to 4 days; be sure the cut side is always well wrapped.

Ingredients
Yield: One 9-inch loaf

½ cup/115 grams unsalted butter
2 tablespoons/6 grams chamomile tea (from 4 to 6 tea bags), crushed fine if coarse
1 cup/240 milliliters whole milk
Nonstick cooking spray
1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar
½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
2 large eggs
1 large lemon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1½ cups/192 grams all-purpose flour
1 cup/124 grams confectioners’ sugar
½ cup/8 grams freeze-dried strawberries

Preparation

Step 1

In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon chamomile to a large mixing bowl. Pour the hot melted butter over the chamomile and stir. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour.
Step 2

Use the same saucepan (without washing it out) to bring the milk to a simmer over medium-high heat, keeping watch so it doesn’t boil over. Remove from the heat, and stir the remaining 1 tablespoon chamomile into the hot milk. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour.
Step 3

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with the nonstick cooking spray and line with parchment paper so the long sides of the pan have a couple of inches of overhang to make lifting the finished cake out easier.
Step 4

Add the sugar and salt to the bowl with the butter, and whisk until smooth and thick, about 1 minute. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, vigorously whisking to combine after each addition. Zest the lemon into the bowl; add the baking powder and vanilla, and whisk until incorporated. Add the flour and stream in the milk mixture while whisking continuously until no streaks of flour remain.
Step 5

Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake until a skewer or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean (a few crumbs are OK, but you should see no wet batter), 40 to 45 minutes. Cool in the pan on a rack for 30 minutes.
Step 6

While the cake cools, make the icing: Into a medium bowl, squeeze 2 tablespoons juice from the zested lemon, then add the confectioners’ sugar. Place the dehydrated strawberries in a fine-mesh sieve set over the bowl and, using your fingers, crush the brittle berries and press the red-pink powder through the sieve and into the sugar. (The more you do this, the redder your icing will be.) Whisk until smooth.
Step 7

If needed, run a knife along the edges of the cake to release it from the pan. Holding the 2 sides of overhanging parchment, lift the cake out and place it on a plate, cake stand or cutting board. Discard the parchment. Pour the icing over the cake, using a spoon to push the icing to the edges of the cake to encourage the icing to drip down the sides dramatically. Cool the cake completely and let the icing set.

We out here torrenting recipes now? Reblog

Recipes do not have a copyright.

Anyone can copy and share recipes. It’s why cookbooks often have the same shit in them with only minor changes,

It’s the rest of the article that has intellectual property. Blogging about your life or whatever to create ad space.

Torrent away, me hearties

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animate-mush:

sharkangelic:

wheeloffortune-design:

you know you’re good at your job when every single person tells you “thank god you’re back”

Boss makes a dollar
You make a dime
You read unsanitary pirate slash
On company time

Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you’re back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

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batsarebetterthanpeople:

Between Ryan Gosling Ken and Benoit Blanc I’m starting to think that it’s some sort of animal abuse to keep casting big name actors in stoic macho manly man rolls instead of giving them goofy little guys to play. Like look at them their coats are shiny, they seem so much more lively and energetic. We need to make sure all actors have enough goofy little guys to play before peta gets involved.

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doctorscienceknowsfandom:

sule-skerry:

lilnasxvevo:

stovetop00:

We’re winning.

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know … they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

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hera-the-wizard:

mayonnaise-uncle:

hera-the-wizard:

undeaddfelix:

hera-the-wizard:

undeaddfelix:

hera-the-wizard:

oh so when a so-called “ARCHAEOLOGIST” goes around robbing graves and taking their contents back to their so-cakkklled “MUSEUMS” it’s all fine and dandy, but WHEN I, YOUR LOCAL, SMALL-TIME NECROMANCER-

Bro if I die you can raid my tomb

thank you so much! you wouldn’t have any issue with being RAISED IN UNHOLY SERVITUDE TO THE WORLD’S SOON-TO-BE TYRANT, now, would you?

Nah bro you’re cool

sweet! now if you’ll sign YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL TO MY NECROMANCEROUS WHIMS, uh, here on the dotted line:

Yessiree

hey what’s your name there

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chechula:

Again, it is zucchini harvest time at the central Europe.
This is how my corridor looks like. (we have these in all shapes since my grandma is collecting seeds and with years passing by plants are degenerating into new and new…zucchini-pumkin-squasch mutants =_=)

How are zucchinis doing all around the world?

bad-comic-art:

I’m truly about to lose my fucking mind right now they just forgot to draw Batman’s face, it’s just not there, I feel like “is the characters face there” should be pretty high on the editors checklist but that’s just me I’m a bit of a nitpicker

The Batman’s Grave #9 (2020)

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