#live from the workshop

[triflesandparsnips]

Guess who's doing alchemy in the studio again!

(ME, IT'S ME)

Time for

The Wash-Balls of Neroly

Version 3.1

So anyway, where were we?

Previously on "Trifles and Their Terrible Tribulations": The soap had jellied at an early stage, but adding almond meal led to miracles.

Following all that, I was going to be so careful with the next batch. Which is why, naturally, I started it soaking back on November 29th and... promptly didn't stir or even check on it until tonight, almost an entire month later.

Figure 1. Portrait of soap mix that has decided to show Mercy.

This is, in fact, a really good consistency to end up with! No jelly in sight, and it somehow is the right consistency to tip into the mortar for the next step: a shittload of scents.

Figure 2. Two "drops" of labdanum resin-oil, and thirty-eight drops of Neroli oil, because Simon Barbe did not fuck around.

These get folded in gently (though not with that terminology), and the mix is now back to a bit of a thick, soupy consistency.

Figure 3. That's some good soup.

The directions at this point say to beat "a long time to mix it well", and this has caused me Sadness in the past when even beating for a significant period of time did not yield anything like a stiff "paste" that could be rolled into balls, requiring that I find solace in salt as an additive to get the soap to calm tf down.

Almond meal was the version 3.0 revelation (due to it being a Secret Additive, related to the preparation of "dried" labdanum).

And tonight... I shall add almond flour.

WISH ME LUCK.

[fusionsprunt]

me when my meteor-powered robot gf attempts to murder me 😳😳

[kiiirtiiiniii]

witness my willpower wane in real time thru degrading comic quality

Sovi was a tiny teen and just light enough for even Hornfels to carry them around... which was handy since they take after H in the work until you drop sense AND the living in the museum sense.

> next Sovi comic here <

[edwards-exploit]

it's still april even if its not 4/4, so here's four of them!

(derek being d4 was inspired by @.mean-scarlet-deceiver's fic, which you should totally read if you like gordon having character development but still being fundamentally Gordon and derek existing)

[seashellronan]

i love you mary oliver, the trees will save me

[ice-truck-killer]

So we have this belief here in my culture that kids can see things us adults can't see (so does animals) and it's often overlooked as imagery friends or wild imagination but some people swear that what they saw when they were kids was real and not at all imaginary. So my question is

Reblog for a bigger sample

[squirrelwrangler]

Watched the live action Little Mermaid with my sister, we nitpicked the hell out of it because I have the animated film memorized and noted the few rare changes that were liked. As that five-year-old girl that rewatched the movie and the two VHS singalong tapes where Sam Wright played both Sebastian and himself because those were my favorite rivaled only by Beauty and the Beast, the two elements I adored was casting Halle Berry to begin with (her voice was perfect) and making Eric’s kingdom colorfully and blatantly Afro-Caribbean. I wanted Sam Wright to cameo and I think Jodi Benson did. But the camera work was uninspiring and colors cheap and dreary especially underwater. The big plot change was what the Broadway show did too, but there were a lot of little scene changes that didn’t work. Javier Bardem was by far the weakest part. Will never re-watch but it didn't make me as angry as Pinocchio. But a hair worse that the live action Beauty and the Beast which I did not like. ...if they're going to constantly remake Disney movies from my childhood could they pick the weaker ones and improve...

[orcelito]

Good News for me, it seems like my application to the new apartment is being accepted :]

The leasing coordinator messaged me to say she's sending the lease to me to sign tomorrow, & so long as I submit the payment by the start of the term (April 30th), then the apartment will be Mine.......!!!!!

Wonderful News!!!

[triflesandparsnips]

Live from the workshop, trying another batch of soap of neroly, and GUESS WHAT FOLKS

WE GOT

GOO

[aideshou]

Hai Wen Lin

kitesinsolidarity 🪁❤️💚🖤🤍

[pikslasrce]

todays recap:

the only true victim of communism and feminism (my phone)

working on posters for the iwd march this week

MY poster for the iwd march this week (žena=/=pička in translation: woman =/= cunt)

venue kitty (she has one eye)

some other posters

[teenagefeeling]

speaking of intellectual disabilities, did you know that many disabled adults work in places called sheltered workshops, where they are legally paid sub-poverty wages? that article goes into more detail about what they are and how they work, but the gist is that they're intended as temporary employment that can help disabled adults transition to the mainstream workforce, but the reality of the situation is that most people who work there stay for decades and are never able to "graduate." for a few years now, the illinois (where i live) government has been trying to pass a bill increasing wages in sheltered workshops, but it just failed to pass again.

many states have phased out subminimum wage or closed sheltered workshops, but plenty still remain open. in the worst cases, sheltered workshops are extremely inhumane and exploitative, and even in the best cases they simply don't provide a livable income for disabled adults (again, many of whom work there for decades and never transition to the mainstream workforce; i personally know multiple people who have worked in the same sheltered workshop for my entire life)

[mastcrmarksman]

@overclocks gets this because i am impatient (and have contiuned playing fo4 so don't worry i am getting more the fallout world i fucked up a bos quest via the guy i was suppose to protect died oops he walked in front of my shotgun actually on accident)

He can't actually be certain that he wasn't still asleep in the cryo pod he had woken up in. What scattered parts of the events leading up to the big freeze had informed him that his pod hadn't been in the same place that he had left it. None of it made sense and the world outside? It all made even less and to top off this nightmare? No working hearing aids or anyone in sight besides overgrown bugs and rabid fucked up looking mutts.

The whole word is sad, but that's one of the saddest thing about. Everyone he's tried to talk to has shot him or realized he was fresh, lost, and easily believe any lies they told him. Reading lips wasn't something that came with high accuracy or left any room for understanding tone, infliction, and any other giveways someone might not be telling him the whole story. The issue was a lot of people covered their faces, so communication was strictly trading bullets or fists.

Clint's still alive, it's been roughly a month since he's worken up aand traveled far. He's still has about a much information as he woke up with; he's two hundred years out of time and shit sucked. Friends were probably long dead, still popsicles, or who knows where considering Clint found himself way off from when he went to sleep.

He's made due with living so far, started to understand the lack of law of the land. Everything's shit and caps make people talk (not that he understood a lot of people). There was this really old lady, who was fucked up looking with no nose, who says there's this pesky pest with robot moved into one of her workshops.

Her lack of defined lips made this really had to read along with lack of eyebrows, made it harder for him to make any real judgement. Clint's got not a lot to go off of but she's clocked his deafness and told him if he got rid of this pest (the robot he figures he can disable and scare off the guy) than she'd solve his whole broken hearing aid issue.

Remove the man from her workshop and Clint could start to make some real progress on figuring out everything. That's how he ends up, perched and readying up the bow he's been working on since he woke up. It's taken him a better half of this terrible month to find good wood, a good knife, and get to carving. Arrows were the next part, and now it's time to test that. All he had to do was scare the guy out and not get shot by his robot.... or the scary looking suit he has which Clint's seen a few of those around out here. Tony would've loved those.

He sees the guy exit and that's when the warning shot is nocked then loosened. An arrow flying a great distance to graze past the guy. SCARE HIM OFF, that's all he had to do and then maybe Clint can start making sense of the wasteland.

[glittercleric]

One of the first year apprentices has been trying to get me to play dnd with them for ages now. Mostly we didn't get to make more concrete plans bc one of us was always at front desk or away at school. And now that we've finally managed to exchange Discord info, I'm just sitting here staring at the invite, too shy to join... 🙄 I just really want his partner and friends to like me I guess? And am afraid they might not? Even though you know. He told them about me and it sounds like they'd really like me there. Which is just wild to me. I don't feel like I have much appeal to befriend... but that's just the anxiety I suppose.

I will join the server eventually. After more poking from him, most likely. You always gotta basically force me to have fun.

[space-mist]

should i infodump abt my fanrace for starbound...

[ploverbear]

realized just now that my revealation of "having something to look forward to in the morning makes it easier to get up" i had a month ago further applies to, like, the duration of my life