#tea processing

[farmerstrend]

Kenya to Host Africa’s First Decaffeination Plant in Kwale: What It Means for the Economy

Kenya to host Africa’s first decaffeination plant in Kwale, revolutionizing the tea industry with value addition, job creation, and sustainable production. Discover how this $3.2 billion investment will boost farmer earnings and position Kenya as a global tea processing hub. Decaffeination, the process of removing caffeine from tea while maintaining its taste, is coming to Kenya! Africa’s first…

[karlrincon]

Merry Xmas 🎄.

[flightless-stranger]

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Early morning at the Kitty Cafe!

I had a lot of fun playing with this one.  Hermits and kitties, what else do you need in life?

Close ups under cut!

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

No one talks about this enough but props to my boy Jonouchi for going through the five stages in record time

[mightytato]

no uh...no halloween themed art, sorry! but i got a buncha toshi's of different kinds here for you guys, hope ya like em~!💛 my bf likes all might's shadow, so i added it for him lol

process and separate toshi's under da cuuutt

my process is all over the place as usualheheahhaha

who gave him the kisses though... was it you?🫵🏼🤨

[sacredfixation]

Loki and the violence of physicality.

From the very start, Lokis experience with touch is about power & possession.

As a baby, he is taken from Jotunheim, Not rescued. he is handled like a stolen artifact, a trophy of war.

As a child, touch never seemed much about comfort, it was control. A hand meant to remind him where he stands, what he is allowed to be.

Thor, for all his love, is rough. Playful shoves, dragging Loki by the arm, knocking him over. It is familial, maybe, but it is still forceful.

In Asgard, when he is handled, it is with expectation. Servants dressing him, guards grabbing him, Odin guiding him into place. It is all directional touch movement imposed upon him.

Loki learns, very early, that touch is something that happens to him, not for him. That it is a way to move him into place, to contain him. Even when someone means well, it is still a form of control. Until TVA Loki, rarely has he been touched in a way that feels safe. That feels like choice.

when he falls, touch is punishment.

He is slammed by the Hulk, thrown by the avengers in battle.

Loki is bound when captured, muzzled, handcuffed, paraded.

when Loki grieves, no one really touches him with kindness. When he dies, it is by force: stabbed, choked, crushed.

Touch has only ever been about control, submission, violence, or restraint. So of course, Loki learns to be untouchable. He learns to be slippery, a trick of the light, a flicker. He makes himself untouchable before anyone can reach for him first.

Loki does not naturally touch others. When he does, it is intentional, weaponized, or performative.

Lokis hands hold weapons before they hold people, his illusions and projections: they make him untouchable even when he is standing right there. Romance? seduction? typically a tool. it is all performance.

Loki doesnt just avoid touch he redefines it, because if he is untouchable no one can take anything from him ever again. This is a man who has been handled his whole life, so what does he do? he becomes a man who is impossible to hold.

Loki does not seek comfort through touch, he does so through manipulation, words, through proving he is smarter than you. He does not ask for closeness, he makes himself something interesting, undeniable, that you will come to him.

Until TVA loki, if he touched you, it was to hurt you, to trick you, to control you. He touches to remind people he is now the one in control.

[devotion-disorder]

does anyone else also experience like, horrible caffeine intolerance..........i made the grave mistake of 'wanting to drink a nice cup of milk tea' and now im suffering the consequences (incurable migraine). typing this while coughing blood like a sickly victorian child who has just contracted smallpox

[robertmatejcek]

Untitled Character Portraits with Found Objects (Matches, Matchboxes, Beads, & Fibers) - tea-toned cyanotype photograms (5 minute solar exposures) on watercolor paper - robert matejcek - 2025

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” - Vincent van Gogh

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[noodle8]

Can I request a Mathia from Fallout 1?

The original she/him legend!!

[tanuki-kimono]

Playful chôchin (lanterns) on golden-cream ground for this antique kimono.

The lanterns are not those used for Obon but the type you see hanging in front of ochaya (tea houses), where geisha and maiko traditionally entertain patrons.

Op stresses they like to wear this kimono during a festival presenting an Oiran procession:

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Decided to take the leap and post the little fanfic I wrote at the start of the month to AO3. The Yiling Laozu takes a break in the burial mounds. Also, there is a worm.

[tenti-q]

🧡🎃pumpkin boba tea art process🎃🧡

[scoldingdarjeeling]

It’s…Not a One-Shot Anymore 🫠

17,678 words and counting. When this baby is off it’s leash—mama’s gonna pop that Prosecco (Frfr)

[kov-nyn]

Obi-Wan watching with morbid fascination as Cody puts a mug of water in the space microwave.

Obi-Wan: ...What are you doing?

Cody: I'm making tea?

Obi-Wan: Oh, dear... Do you know what temperature the water is?

Cody: Um...hot?

Obi-Wan: Oh, darling, no...

[friend-crow]

Okay, so.

I fucking love tea, and especially preparing tea for people. I love that it can be as simple or as elaborate as you want to make it. I love how many different types of tea there are, and how many different ways of preparing and consuming it. I love the variety of snacks that different cultures enjoy with tea. And teaware. God I love teaware.

I love that even when friends live too far away for me to actually make them tea, I can still send them new tea experiences.

I love the way people open up over a cup of tea. The ritual of it provides enough to do with one's hands and eyes to make it easier to talk about difficult subjects.

I love that the act of preparing tea can be both a performance and a form of meditation, and most of all an act of hospitality and love.