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Retiring

Gonna be retiring from BB and more than likely Tumblr RP-ing in general.

I’ve just been getting more and more anxious about it and a lot of things really as time’s gone on and I don’t think I can keep doing things like this anymore.

Might try to indie with Gamzee at a later point in time? But probably not as Indie gives me it’s own form of anxiety, on top of the fact that I don’t think I’d be fun to interact with as well as some other issues and things I tend to internalise and convince myself of.

Anyways thank you for the fun time and interactions, it has been an overall enjoyable experience.

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Some silks from the other night. I don’t really back-bend anymore. I kind of gave up working on it because my lower back is so dodgy it didn’t really seem worth it. It’s flexible (ish) enough and I don’t really want the pain of pushing it all the time. So you know, meh. Maybe I should get back to it since my knee doesn’t allow me to push splits flexibility anymore though. Haha. Got to work on something!

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Espeon and Umbreon starry night cake 🌙✨

The top layer is chocolate cake, bottom layer is blackberry cake, both with colored whipped cream cheese frosting. Outside is painted with buttercream. It didn't turn out quite as I imagined because the cake made a pretty small canvas for adding much detail (6") and the buttercream kept melting in the heat, but it was still a fun experiment 🤗

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chocolate pound cake

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Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake

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Chocolate Chip Mini Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache and Edible Sugar Paper

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Made pokeball browned butter shortbread cookies to share with my local trainers, but a couple of them look awful suspicious... 🤔

It's so easy to make shapes with just cookie dough, all I needed for these was a circle cookie cutter, a knife, and my hands. No icing needed! 🤗

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OOC GAMZEE RAMBLES IN THE CLUB

(( @rifleshotsandflowerpots​ mun asked me how I thought Jade and Gamz got as close as they did and instead of writing a single response like a normal person I rambled a bit and now here’s some lovely BB Gamz lore :o) ))

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Gamzee was really quiet when he first got introduced to the crew and brought along to them with the Baron, hid in his shadow all the time and shying away from literally all of the people and contact until he was drawn out and away to hang with the other younger crew kids (read; Karkat just dragging the clown out of the safe shadow to interact with) but he was definitely still very nervous and skittish, didn't talk much, didn't talk a lot, hummed and made little noises of agreement where it was needed, one or two word answers at best, didn't meet eyes, people aren't real safe and he'd been terrible with interacting with them, especially with the added thing of 'you're not allowed to attack/fight these guys, not really now behave' which put him way out of understanding how to deal with things. 

 But dogs? Dogs are good. They're safe things. No malice of their own. They only hurt in response to being hurt or on orders and that's understandable Gamzee got that understood that that was safe and secure and firm and known. And Bec? Bec is a really good dog. Bec is soft and enthusiastic and kind and Gamzee didn't have to worry about double meanings in his words and actions because Bec's a dog and it's really easy to believe that when Bec's excited to see him and have him around then it's genuine and pure and true and he just didn't have that with the others at that time, barely had that with the Baron so it was a good thing that he could cling just the littlest bit too.

And with Bec comes Jade who's steel-sharp and sugar-sweet and also happy to have him around and that's not... that's not a thing he's used to, not ever not at all and it's hard at first, it's really hard to accept that Jade's a genuine thing and not mocking him, not pulling his leg or trying to one-up or get something from him so he's sharp and abrupt and detached and snappish at time and all of the much like a dog that's been hurt too much to think that affection and kindness doesn't come with a sharp hand close behind but Jade's a stubborn thing and he likes her, he sees her genuine and chills out, starts to accept that maybe she's doing this to just be nice to him because she wants to and no other reason and that's nice, that's new. It's good he can learn that, can let her learn him and maybe do this friendship thing a bit.

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Get it off your chest.

Surely there is something that you want to say to my muse, now is your chance to say it. On or off anon, vent your frustration or praise them for whatever it is they did to earn your respect. Pretty much just say a thing to my muse and see how they react.

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I am very proud to present Volume One of Friendships Forged - A Fansim Project

I’ve been working on this project for a while and today is the launch of the First Volume; Of Beginnings and Alley Cats I hope this is enjoyed and please feel free to leave any feedback on any of my social media or even drop me a Ko-Fi ^_^

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Better Homes and Gardens’ vintage lemon sponge pie recipe:

I found this recipe for Lemon Sponge Pie in a recipe file of Mother’s. She was an instinctive cook and most of the food she prepared didn’t come from recipes, but I guess this pie (one that she especially liked) must have been different. She noted on the bottom of the card that this recipe came from the Better Homes and Gardens. And maybe it did originally, but I think it is more likely that Mother copied this recipe from a friend who had originally found it in the magazine.

I (who am NOT an instinctive cook) cheated a little. I used margarine instead of the butter listed in the recipe and I used a pie crust from the freezer section of my grocery store. Also, I lost track of the time it had been in the oven after I lowered the temperature, so I sort of guessed at how long it had been in there. .

Mother didn’t usually serve this pie chilled, but that may be because with all the food she had to store for the seven of us, she didn’t have extra room in any of her three refrigerators.

Compared with the lemon sponge pie recipe that was written on grandma’s receipt that we posted earlier, this one is more custard like and the other more spongey. Of course, that could have to do with how long I cooked it (or didn’t..)

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Despite this mask of happiness,                                                     I drown in dark despair.