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Pemmican Comments

You can use meat grinder instead of blender to grind dried meat, nuts, fruit, salt, etc... The sticky berries get ground into the dried meat eliminating that issue. Add a little solid tallow in also to keep the blade and other moving parts lubricated.

If you make it with onion or garlic powder it makes a great soup/stew starter that you can add foraged ingredients to. Use hardtack to thicken the stew.

My family in the northwest are salmon fishermen. They make a version of it with salmon and berries mixed in. I’ve some in a soup and just plain. It was honestly great plain like a powdered jerky. They warned me not to eat too much because it was like it was a concentration and highly nutritious. It gave me lots of energy and it was hard not to eat too much when it tasted so good. I love it!

Roald Amundsen used pemmican on all his expeditions, he was first to reach the geographical South Pole in December 1911 and he sailed the Northwest Passage for the first time in 1903. He used half and half of fat and meat, he added oatmeal and peas. And for the dogs he made dog pemmican with fishmeal and more fat. His description: "Pemmican tastes excellent, takes up little space and can be eaten raw, fried or boiled." Especially as provisions on a sledge expedition, it is invaluable".

The key to longevity is getting all the water you can out of the tallow, meat and fruit. I generally add just 10% by weight dried fruit to the meat and then about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of salt per pound of the dry mixture, then equal parts by weight dried mixture and rendered tallow. For my last batch I smoked the meat for an hour before I dried it and ground it up and the flavor was absolutely amazing! It's definitely the best trail food ever.

Last time i rendered tallow i saved the crunchies for my dog, she loved that mixed with her kibble!

From the comments though I think there is a misconception about what tallow is. You can just heat any animal fat and filter it but heat it again and get all of the moisture (bubbles) out. Then if you put it in jars and keep moisture away it will last for a very long time.

Moisture is what makes fats go rancid. That is why adding nuts reduces the storage life too. But actual tallow is made from the fat around the kidneys. Even at room temperature or above it is solid rather than liquid. It has more the consistency of wax, basically. But that's why it is good for this. And candles. It isn't affected by water and keeps all of the dry ingredients away from the moisture, which is what makes things go bad. Other fats are fine for short term events like hiking or camping but for true long term shelf stable Pemmican kidney fat tallow is what you want.

The Fat of the Land by Vilhjalmur Stefansson compiles many primary sources from times and places where pemmican was produced in large quantities and served as a staple for months or years.

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Fantasy names ideas (with meanings!)

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I always have trouble coming up with names for side characters, so hopefully this can help you as much as it helped me! The names in brackets are additional ones that are similar.

Male Fantasy Names

Aldric – (Germanic) old ruler / wise ruler

Caelum – (Latin) sky / heaven

Druvan(/Dhruv) – (Sanskrit) steady / immovable

Fenris – (Norse) named after the mythical wolf Fenrir

Kaelen(/Kaelan) – (Celtic) warrior / mighty

Leofric – (Old English) beloved ruler

Maelor – (Welsh) prince / lord

Rurik – (Slavic) famous ruler

Torin – (Gaelic) chief / thunder

Zarion – (Hebrew) full of sadness

Baldric(/Balrik) – (Old Norse) mighty warrior

Garron – (Irish) strength / protection

Ithran – (Arabic) crowned / majestic

Jorah – (Hebrew) autumn rain / early rain

Oberon – (Germanic / French) noble bear, associated with royalty

Female Fantasy Names

Ariella – (Hebrew) lioness of God

Brienne – (Celtic) noble / strong

Elysande – (French) noble / gracious

Isolde – (Germanic / Celtic) ice ruler / beauty

Lyra – (Latin) derived from the constellation Lyra, lyre

Mirabel – (Latin) wonder

Seraphine – (Hebrew) burning one / angelic being

Taliyah – (Arabic) blooming / rising

Yvaine – (Old French) evening star

Althea – (Greek) healer / wholesome

Calantha – (Greek) beautiful flower

Elira – (Albanian) free spirit / liberated

Selene – (Greek) moon goddess / light of the moon

Eleanor – (Greek / French) shining light

Gender-Neutral Fantasy Names

Aeris – (Latin) air / ethereal

Elynor(/Aenor) – (Greek) light / shining

Lior – (Hebrew) my light

Orin – (Celtic) pale / fair

Rune – (Old Norse) secret / mystery

Selwyn – (Old English) good friend / companion

Vesper – (Latin) evening / evening star

Aenor – (Germanic) strength / honor

Ilan – (Hebrew) tree / oak

Soren – (Scandinavian) stern / severe

Next up, country name ideas?

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When I was younger, I was in love with the idea of moving out to a lone island and never speaking to anyone again. I wasn’t good at talking, physically, nor did conversations come easy to me, so I kept quiet and I was totally fine with that. But while the people closest to me rolled their eyes at my wishes (again, lone island), nobody told me how talking to people was fun. Nobody told me how nice of a feeling it was to feel a new friendship blossom, to have inside jokes with people, to hand out compliments and get them back, to ask questions to people who are excited about having the answers, to remember something that someone mentioned last time and make them feel heard, to flatter people, to share slightly embarrassing facts and be able to laugh about them, to have people to say hi and bye to. It took me years and years and years to gather the courage to speak, but it was so worth it. It’s so much fun.

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50 Dark Academia Names For Your Female Characters + Meanings & Origins

Alecto - unceasing in anger (Greek mythology)

Ariadne - most holy (Greek mythology)

Cassiopeia - she who entangles (Greek mythology)

Circe - hawk (Greek mythology)

Drusilla - dewy-eyed (Roman)

Eris - strife (Greek mythology)

Fionnuala - fair shouldered (Irish)

Galatea - she who is milk-white (Greek mythology)

Hekate - will (Greek mythology)

Idony - ancient wisdom (Scandinavian)

Isolde - ice battle (Arthurian)

Kore - maiden (Greek mythology)

Lenore - light (Spanish/French)

Lilitu - monstrous woman (Mesopotamian mythology)

Maeve - she who intoxicates (Irish)

Nyx - night (Greek mythology)

Orion - rising (Greek mythology)

Pandora - all-gifted (Greek mythology)

Queenie - noble queen (English)

Rhaenyra - dark reign (Game of Thrones)

Selene - moon goddess (Greek mythology)

Themis - justice (Greek mythology)

Ursula - little female bear (German)

Valeria - strength (Roman)

Willow - willow tree (English)

Xanthe - golden flower (Greek)

Yseult - ice battle (Arthurian)

Zelda - dark battle (Germanic)

Zephyrine - from the west wind (Greek)

Aella - whirlwind (Greek mythology)

Brynhild - armored battle maiden (Norse mythology)

Catriona - pure (Scottish Gaelic)

Deirdre - sorrowful (Irish)

Elspeth - God's promise (Scottish)

Felicity - good fortune (Latin)

Gwendolyn - white ring/circle (Welsh)

Harlow - rock clearing (English)

Idalia - from Idalium (Greek mythology)

Jericho - scent of beauty (Hebrew)

Kalliope - beautiful voice (Greek mythology)

Lumen - light (Latin)

Morana - death (Slavic mythology)

Nerissa - mermaid (Greek mythology)

Octavia - eighth (Roman)

Persephone - bringer of death (Greek mythology)

Quintessa - fifth (Latin)

Seraphina - fiery serpent (Hebrew)

Theda - goddess (Greek)

Umbriel - shade (Roman mythology)

Xenia - hospitality (Greek)

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Fandom has a same face problem and Rick isn’t all the descriptive Jason and Luke were drawn similarly for a long time. A lot of the white characters just all sound the same to me until TOA where he seem to try to be better.

It's less same-face or even Rick's descriptions. For Jason, it's extremely intentional that he's described similarly to Luke; it serves a narrative purpose. Everybody else has different descriptions. (The real egregious example of his is that nearly all his redhead characters are almost identical.) The fandom just has bad character design etiquette. Same Face isn't nearly as much of a problem if everything else about the character is different, but the fandom rarely varies anything else if anything at all. Sometimes they actively lessen the difference between characters - the amount of times I've seen a lineup of the Argo II girls and they all have the exact same skin tone and hair color and eye color and body type. Or the amount that characters actively described as having different body types (Jason [very muscular], Frank & Meg [fat], Clarisse [plus-sized], Nico & Leo [small and scrawny], Mr. D [pot-bellied] & the Dionysus twins [resembling their father], Magnus [tall], etc etc) are all instead given identical figures.

I suspect part of it is because the fandom back in the day was HEAVILY influenced by old anime fandoms and it never really shook that inspiration - which is why a lot of the classic PJO fan designs look the way they do. But this also means everybody has chronic same-face and same-body type and the fandom never grew out of it.

The solution to this is obviously... well. just get better at it. Explore experimenting with it. Broaden your horizons. I have literally studied specifically character design professionally and if people would like specific tips or advice I'd be happy to oblige. For pjo fandom my number one suggestion would be the silhouette trick - if you translate the design into silhouette it should still be clear who the character is. For example, here's my lineup of the Seven silhouetted:

This isn't even a great example (i could stand to push the designs further and their poses aren't ideal for this exercise) but you can STILL tell who is who. Beyond anything else if you can vary their silhouettes to be distinct enough then you're doing great.

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mirage & mindflayer

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buddie first kiss being them extremely happy that bobby's alive. buck is so so happy and smiling going for a hug with eddie and eddie is so so happy and fond of buck he just places his hands on buck's face and kisses him hard. they're both in shock about bobby and about the kiss but they're so so happy they can't stop smiling so they have to stop kissing so they just hug and touch foreheads. they're just so so happy.

(fujo bobby is so so alive and so so happy too)

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