#skimm

[homokoken]

icebound episode 2-3 doodles

[hldailyupdate]

“I ran into Harry Styles recently, I’m all smitten, ‘cause he was nice to me and my husband— it was my husband’s birthday. He came up and he said hello to my husband, separately. And I was like ‘Easy, Harry Styles, MY husband, hello! See which finger I’m pointing with?’ [points to his ring finger with his middle finger]”

-How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris joking about Harry flirting with his husband. (6 October 2023)

via The Skimm

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD

for The Skimm'

He talks about Florence Pugh, says he listens to Billie Elisha and Chappell Roan and more.

[crumblingspine]

Musicals about American history are so goated

[wildtornado-o]

The pain of drawing characters one way because of one character description for them and then they get described again, and it's an almost completely different design...

(This is about Ferris. In Cog Ferris is described as small and heavier set, looking older than he was, but in LoD, he's described as tall and lean, still clinging to looks of his youth)

[thelunarchaos]

Sometimes, you gotta take a peak at creator chose not to use archive warnings.

looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

[toelessbastard]

Scum villian (pidw/the fandom tbh...)has made me so much more suspecting to these damn fuck or die plots. . .. .!!!!! Damn you Shang Qinghua!!! Damn you!!!!!!

[xroyalxflushx]

I saw this from one of @incorrect-upon-a-witchlight s things and! Could not help myself, I might clean this up later 🤷‍♂️

Jornir: We will talk about this later.

Skimm: Fine, I won’t be listening.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Butter

Butter - commonly a dairy product made from cream, though it also comes in non-dairy formats.

Types of Butter

There are many types of butter. Some of the most popular types include:

American butter: American butter is the most traditional butter found in grocery stores in the United States. It comes in 2 varieties—salted and unsalted versions—and contains eighty percent butterfat (per the requirement of the USDA) and 15% water. Unsalted butter is best used in baked goods, such as brownies or pie crusts, while salted butter works when making everything from toast to sauces and roasted meats.

Amish butter: Amish butter is similar to American butter, but producers make it by churning fresh cream with higher fat content, which they then roll into one- and two-pound logs. American butter contains 80% butterfat, while Amish butter contains 84-85%. A taste test can also determine the difference between the two kinds: Amish butter has a creamier taste.

Clarified butter: Clarified butter is butter heated to its melting point and then cooled, causing the butterfat and water to separate and the milk solids—protein, lactose, and other minerals—to rise to the surface before producers skim them off. Ghee is a form of clarified butter that gets heated to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, causing the milk solids to brown and flavor the butterfat; it’s a major component in South Asian cuisine. All forms of clarified butter have a higher smoke point—the temperature at which it emits smoke—than regular butter, making it the best butter to use in high-heat recipes.

Compound butter: This type features whipped, unsalted butter mixed with sweet or savory ingredients and flavors. It’s a versatile butter for all kinds of meals: Compound butter with rosemary, oregano, and basil complements steak, while butter and minced garlic make delicious garlic toast.

Cultured butter: To make cultured butter, producers add live bacterial cultures to fresh cream and allow the mixture to ferment before churning. The result adds a tangy and complex flavor to recipes.

European butter: European-style butter has between 82 and 85% milk fat, which lends a tangy flavor and rich consistency to baguettes and pastries. Butter from Europe varies considerably according to its region: Irish butter has 82% milk fat but a deep yellow color and exceptional taste due to the grass fields of Ireland. It’s laden with beta carotene, antioxidants, and omega-3 fatty, which grass-fed cows impart into the butter along with the flavor.

Homemade butter: You can make butter at home quite easily. Add high-grade cream, such as grass-fed cream, to a blender or mixer and combine for about 7 minutes. Pour off the liquid and add seasoning; homemade butter is great for cooking and spreading.

Light butter: Traditional butter churned with more air, water, and fillers, like lactic acid, than butterfat creates light butter. While it contains less milk fat than regular butter, it is more advisable for use as a spread than for cooking.

Organic butter: Cream from cows raised without antibiotics or hormones and fed a diet of organic feed containing no synthetic fertilizers is the primary ingredient of organic butter. However, organic butter cooks similarly to regular butter and even comes in salted and unsalted varieties.

Plant-based butter: Plant-based butters use various non-dairy ingredients—from olive oil and avocado to almonds—to create a variation that tastes, cooks, and spreads like butter made from cream. It’s the butter of choice for vegan appetites and those with dairy allergies.

Sweet cream butter: Another term for any butter made with fresh cream. However, some may use the term “sweet cream” to describe salted butter.

How Butter is Made

Producers typically make butter from cow’s milk.

However, they can also use milk from other domestic animals, such as sheep’s milk or goat’s milk, to produce butter.

Cream is the primary ingredient in butter and consists of the layer of milk skimmed away before homogenization.

This layer contains milk’s fat content, called butterfat.

Churning or agitating cream releases the fat from its fatty acid and protein membranes, resulting in solid butter and a liquid called buttermilk.

The solid butter is typically pale to deep yellow and even white, depending on the species and diet of the animal used for milk. Some commercial butter producers add food coloring, such as carotene, to enhance the butter’s color.

Butter vs. Margarine

Margarine and butter are 2 types of spreads made from different ingredients.

While butter uses saturated fats like butterfat,

margarine’s primary ingredient is vegetable oil, which contains unsaturated fats that may help lower forms of cholesterol.

However, margarine and butter in stick form also often contain trans fats—to help hold their shape—making them less healthy for regular consumption.

Butter softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature (approximately 60 degrees Fahrenheit), and you can use it as a spread, condiment, or cooking ingredient.

Its rich taste and flavor make it a valuable addition to many recipes, both as a fat for sautéing and frying and an ingredient in baking recipes and sauces, especially in French cuisine.

When heated, butter enhances the taste of the food while also adding texture and a nutty flavor.

Depending on the storage method, butter’s shelf life is 1-3 months if refrigerated and up to 1 year if frozen.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grades butter based on various categories, including flavor, body, and salt content.

Grade AA butter is the highest graded butter: It’s the most spreadable and has the most pleasant butter flavor.

Grade A butter is slightly stronger in flavor and more coarsely textured, while

Grade B has a less buttery flavor and a more crumbly or sticky structure.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD

for the Skimm' - "White boy of the decade's' (speech).

[brainrotgoverner]

Can I marry you? Lay my life on hour feet?? Build a shrine???

Hi everyone, I've realized that perhaps people might be interested in this again. It's all of my viewing notes documenting important worldbuilding, or character info, or simply topics of potential interest.

[fiamat12]

There’s so much chatter today with the 2 pics from a “friend” in Australia and all those pap pics on all over press. I find myself missing your well-researched, well-reasoned voice in the cacophony of ignorance that has exploded today.

We know all over press is like backgrid. Close up of crocs? Wearing the same clothes in the pap pics at Heathrow as in the “friend” pic? She flew that 20+hrs and didn’t change clothes, just immediately went for a walk? All kinds of bags for one person who apparently lives in sweatpants if not on the red carpet? Paps just happened to be at Heathrow? This was planned and is eyerollingly obvious, just like L’s bike ride.

But even people who think it might be Luke, or are lukolas and think it’s Jake but PR, don’t seem to grasp your central thesis that L and N wouldn’t do “PR” that causes this much backlash, ridicule, hatred, that looks this fake, that looks done under duress, that may impact their careers, that makes their life with each other and BN so difficult. PR IS SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU!

Understanding that then, they should know there is a reason to enter into this kind of nightmare arrangement with the adjacents.

Because, to play devil’s advocate, if L and A were for real, you’d see them make eye contact, smile at each other, laugh together, give knowing looks, show affection easily, their bodies would naturally touch, hands would roam. Same for N and J: he barely looks at her and looks massively uncomfortable and disinterested, and she can’t seem to give J the same loving look she effortlessly gives L. J’s gay so it’s not surprising, but have their been any lusty looks between them, ever? Nope.

There have been a million sightings of L and A and there is literally ZERO joy or intimacy evident. The only pics (to my mind anyway) that look remotely like he isn’t repulsed by her are the pre bafta pics and the post bafta prom poses. And those might have been believable if they hadn’t been posed and accompanied by the most in your face pr push by British vogue and others and the continued pap campaign. The rest of the time L appears disembodied, pissed, disgusted, angry, drugged, distant, disinterested, furious.

So why are so many failing to make the connection that there are contractual obligations that were likely not made in a friendly manner? Not blackmail necessarily, but not friendly either. No one believes Nic followed A cause she likes her. If they wanted to put on the happy friends show they could’ve done it at the Baftas but of course they didn’t.

So many, too, ignore BN in all this today and the fact that Nic was so obviously pregnant. I just saw that pic/video again from Nic’s photo dump where she is wiggling in that gray Skimms (presumably from the photo shoot that came out at the end of the WT) with Luke in her phone case and her waist is TINY! The side by side of that pic and her at Big Boys (or even today) is LOUD and isn’t explained by simple weight gain. BN exists and is somewhere! And someone is that baby’s daddy!

For all the shippers who think she’s with J, there’s not a shred of evidence that J could possibly be or has taken on the role of father. Nothing in his language or behavior suggests fatherhood or an interest in fatherhood (let’s face it, he barely demonstrates an interest in Nic). We call him BN for a reason!

And lastly, L and N managed to go under the radar for more than a year, traveling internationally, without getting papped anywhere, except with J and A. No pap pics with friends, family, each other, traveling, on vacation, going shopping? Just J and A. It defies probability and is simply not believable. Which tells you all the pap pics we’ve seen are planned. Even today. (Jake’s show comes out today, shocking.)There are huge celebs who don’t get papped as much as N and L have been with the adjacents. And this from two who say they like to keep their private life private. Not buying it.

Anyway, would love to see more posts from you on all of this if you have it in you today. Your commentary (and the discussion in the comments) on all the various facets and twists and turns, no matter how small or uncontemplated elsewhere, is endlessly fascinating and hits all my dopamine receptors just right. Your granular detail and thorough research, your reasoning and receipts, and your love for our faves has me hitting refresh over and over even tho I have my notifications on.

Xo Fia, really appreciate you. Especially on days like today. I hope you know you’ve created a community of people who sit solidly in our beliefs in large part because of the work you’ve done and shared. Being on your page today is like putting on my favorite hoodie and sitting down for tea with my favorite people. 😘😘

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏 I think another great mantra that comes from your Ask is: PR IS SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU!!!

I will be posting more as the situation unfolds and since we always wait for more information patience is key. But no worries, my partner is on speed dial today... 😉

[mariacallous]

Finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refinery 29, Book Riot, Bitch Media, and more. 

"Yarrow’s biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced — or “bitchified” — women at work, women at home, women in court, even women on ice skates . . . Direct quotes from politicians, journalists and comedians about the women provide the most jarring, oh-my-god-that-really-happened portions of Yarrow’s decade excavation." — Pittsburg Post-Gazette

The nostalgic, smart, and shocking account of how the 90s set back feminism, undermined girls and women, and shaped the millennial generation from award-winning journalist, Allison Yarrow.  

To understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitch tells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. 

Trailblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, and Marcia Clark, were undermined. Newsmakers like Britney Spears, Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbitt were shamed and misunderstood. The advent of the 24-hour news cycle reinforced society's deeply entrenched misogyny. Meanwhile, marketers hijacked feminism, sold “Girl Power,” and poisoned a generation. 

Today echoes of 90s “bitchification” still exist everywhere we look. To understand why, we must revisit and interrogate the 1990s—a decade in which empowerment was twisted into objectification, exploitation, and subjugation. 

Yarrow’s thoughtful, juicy, and timely examination is a must-read for anyone trying to understand 21st century sexism and end it for the next generation.

[bruce-slutsteen]

"Hozier Breaks Down His Perfect Playlist" by the Skimm

[livin-like-a-clown]

OMG!!!

I'm currently watching Icebound from Legends of Avantirs, and I'm on episode 13, the scene with Skimm in the library of his mind is literally so sweet

his first thought being his friends, and not wanting to think about anything before meeting them 🥺

[looneylounna]

LOA Tumblr Sexy Man competition

Round Three

Skrimm Stabbaskotch

Official Art of Skirmm by Drkav

VS

Caprice De Sesto

Official Art of Caprice by Drkav