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Hoooo boy. It's finally finished. This only took me eight months to paint. T.T

Disco Elysium is soooo good y'all; I feel like I'll never give it the credit it deserves.

I'm not even sure it's finished, but I'm just going to set this down now, though.

Clip studio paint and a ton of downloaded watercolor and acrylic brushes.

Let me know if you want me to pull out any closeups or anything

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Dan and I bought a thing called “long ziti” from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but…. I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn’t bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn’t pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.

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Now that I have discovered how easy (and not messy) it is to poach eggs, I'm doing it all the time. Today, I cooked an oven pizza. BAM. POACHED EGGS ON TOP. I got home from work at nearly 4am Friday night (Saturday morning). BAM. POACHED EGGS ON MUFFINS WITH HOLLANDAISE SAUCE AND SALAD AND CURED MEEEEATS. I am unstoppable. So far, I have poached 8 eggs and they have all been pretty perfect. THE ONLY THING THAT NEEDS CLEANING IS THE PAN AND THAT'S JUST BASICALLY RINSING OUT THE EGG TENDRILS THAT MAY HAVE FORMED!

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Freak du bois

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I ordered a buttload of perfume ingredients from Pell Wall (small business perfumer and purveyor of made-to-order perfume ingredients) and they gave me free samples and chocolate truffles and I'm just sitting here eating truffles and huffing my fancy perfume ingredients like a mad witch.

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ordered yaoi and got served yuri wtf

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Pregnante cat walk.

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you guys need to read this article about the intersection of the gothic and detective genre in disco elysium and the subversion of the expectations of the detective story through themes of hauntology, marxism, protagonist confusion and reckoning with the past. it's soooooo good

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So, it turns out poaching eggs is just as easy as dropping them into hot water??? I was led to believe this was difficult. I found recipes telling me that I would need some fancy spoon and vinegar and to swirl the water and shit but people in the comments just said to crack the eggs directly into water between 65°C and boiling so I did that and they're perfect (delicious, anyway)! The least effort of all the eggs!

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Finally ordered some compost and bigger pots to treat my £1 grocery shop herbs to luxurious new homes, since they seem determined to keep growing and not die (yay)!

The mint was just three very sad stalks when I bought it but so many new stems and leaves have sprouted and it smells DIVINE! Thyme just seems unkillable but growth is less dramatic (possibly because I keep stealing its leaves for potions and food). Rosemary is steadily growing. Basil is new and so might die but currently looks very healthy and is much too big for its pot, so it's getting repotted too!

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Quiet corners 🐈‍⬛

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Purple apple guy

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moomin sea slugs

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These two images live next to eachother on my phone and I thought yall would enjoy them together as i do

First image created by @ghostlygraphist via this post

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de una forma una mini pimer es como una cinturonga …