#Step-by-Step Pickling

[familytubem]

Quick & Easy Pickled Cucumber Recipe! 🥒 #PickledCucumber #FamilyFoodTutorials #viralvideo

[akiacia]

multi-step shenanigans

[elodieunderglass]

does Killie manage to be a flat-and-jumps jockey all the way up to retirement/greyuncle era, or does injury (and Derek) force him to find some other occupation in between the two? fascinated to know what the second-choice job would be since jockey is so much what Killie IS

(Killie the jockey OC)

I don’t actually know! You’re very right! I have no idea!

The average retirement age for a flat jockey is 31 and jump is 33. Of this, the tough little lightweight jockeys, mostly of the previous era when people were smaller, seem to keep going for much longer than you’d think, many riding well into their fifties - which is actually quite old for any athlete. There seems to be a relationship between generational jockeys and longer careers/older retirements, too, though that’s probably combinations of family support, as well as possibly passing down the especially wiry/muscular builds that do a bit better in the context. It’s a topic that gets danced around a bit, but it’s known that being more muscular and better fed, with better bone health, means you can take more damage and bounce back faster. Also, jockeys frequently retire in their late twenties without injury or being forced, because they’ve achieved their natural adult size and it simply becomes incompatible with the job. So shorter ones do seem to last longer in the job; and as a bonus, turn into those wonderfully wiry little tiny old people that stump around the place in big boots and giant coats, muttering about their allotments. Killie is set up to be one of those.

I want him to be forcibly retired, though, and I DON’T want him to go the predicted trajectory of training racehorses OR raising another generation. Even though I find it a personal Special Interest and highly absorbing, it is such an incredibly STUPID sport. I think he’ll get dragged out of it by Derek by the scruff of his neck and maybe simply kept as a Kept Man. And there might be an interesting story to explore there in itself. Who the HELL is Killie without his job? (Crisis.)

We know he’s patient and kind with children, good at nature, excellent at mental arithmetic, and somehow ends up strangely wealthy (they’d probably settle in the UK, where keeping horses in the UK is NO cheap hobby.) maybe he simply earns and saves a true fortune of prize money, from tackling a career’s worth of astronomical purses, and retires honestly to be a surprisingly pleasant house-husband.

I think @eldriwolf has fond memories of a retired jockey who was a kind and patient beekeeper and science educator. Maybe he could do that. Maybe as a nod to Tark, Diana Wynne Jones’s retired jockey, and my own interests/hobbies, he could get violently competitive about village fetes/allotment shows, and enter his increasingly serious show tomatoes or something. Killie with his own Jam Saga going on, silently fighting psychic battles with his many enemies at parish council meetings that Derek drags him to because they’re doing their Civic Duty 😌 and Killie’s having a full wizard fight on the astral plane with That Bitch Agatha-who-strategically-shoved-his-Victoria-sponge-cake-off-the-table.

Who knows!! What do you think?

[angelmush]

went to the state fair yesterday and tried so so much good food !!! my favorite things were the pickle lemonade (literally my favorite drink ever since i first tried it a couple weeks ago) and the fried pickles and the roasted corn. feeling like a true midwesterner after that :-)

[bluew0lf123]

Finally got around to watching the new Puppet History episode

Though I have many THOUGHTS™️ there’s a bit with Shane in it where he says that he’s proud of the Professor(incredibly sweet) and has always viewed his as a son and while the Professor brings up if they even know each other that exchange reminded me of this meme I made a while back so here you all go

Excited for the next episode the Professor is adorable as always especially in his little party hat hope you all enjoyed the episode as well!

[pickles4nickles]

Hi I just wanted to make a quick post, thank you to everyone who's given my big Akeshu comic zine a read so far!

I super super appreciate those who left a little tip, but also if you didn't and you just wanted to check it out, super fine as well! I'm just glad that people are enjoying the thing I spent like a whole year making

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

be yourself. unless you're the person who likes to cuddle up behind me in the checkout line and breathe down my neck, in which case be literally anyone else

[jauniegal]

literally couldn't sleep last night cause I kept imagining myself eating a subway sandwich in excruciating detail :(

[picturebookshelf]

Rugrats: Space Mission! (2023)

Story: Courtney Carbone & Jeff D'Elia -- Art: Erik Doescher

[keeps-ache]

hm hm hm !!

[mochimellowd]

LAST DAY!

Last day to preorder these Dethklok (+dethstaff) openable shaker charms!

Every 2'5 inch shaker comes with one (1.8 cm) free character acrylic piece. More pieces can be bought at an additional cost.

Currently there are no plans to have extra stock available after the preorder window closes.

If orders DO open again there are a few characters I have in mind to add, but feel absolutely free to suggest some (no guarantees)

http://CHAOSCABRAS.ETSY.COM

If you can throw a quick buck, my Ko-Fi! use code BECOMEAGEARR to get 10% off of your order (etsy only!)

-ChaosCabras

[denieatsart]

ah yes, oklahoma

where dead queer children get called filth :D

:'] yep

[inklingofadream]

i keep getting this intel ad ft. in a list of many things "empowering people with disabilities starts with adaptive ai"

it starts with pestering local businesses to be more accessible even if you, personally, don't need it, and writing to your representatives. get all the way out of here with that

[averagemrfox]

This was mostly a bonding experience for me and my octogenarian neighbors and it was too cloudy to actually see it but this was still cool to see it get so dark so quickly.

[istjury]

me irl rn