#untested

[5e-homebrew]

Blunderball Bat

Weapon (Club), Gains Versatile (1d8), Uncommon, +1

A bat used in blunderball, it’s made of a sturdy, magic-infused wood from the swamps of ____.

When wielding with one hand, you can use the bonus action Called Shot.

Called Shot, Bonus Action, 3/ Short or Long Rest

Point at an enemy you can see, and grab the bat with two hands for your attack action(s) on this turn. You gain an extra 20 ft of movement this turn. For the rest of the turn, all attacks made with the bat against the creature you pointed at count as Shove attacks as well as normal attacks.

[glossahistorica]

TO DESTROY COCKROACHES.

TO DESTROY COCKROACHES.—Cucumber-peelings are said to destroy cockroaches.  Strew the floor in that part of the house most infested with the vermin with the green peel cut pretty thick.  Try it for several nights, and it will not fail to rid the house of their not very agreeable presence.

The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, May 1855, Collected Vol. 4, p.63. [x]

[wanna-life-me]

AFGHAN ASHAK OR AUSHAK AFGHAN DUMPLINGS

By Mirriam Seddiq

INGREDIENTS:

2 Cups Lentils (rinsed) (yellow recommended)

2 –3 Large Leeks

For Lentil Sauce Base

1 Large Onion

2 Cloves Garlic

2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste

1 1/2 Teaspoons of Salt

1/2 Teaspoon turmeric

1 Teaspoon cumin

1 Teaspoon chili powder

1 Teaspoon ground coriander

3–4 fresh tomatoes

2 Cups of water

Spices for Leek Stuffing

1 Teaspoon ground cumin

1 Teaspoon of ground coriander

1/2 teaspoon of turmeric

1 teaspoon of garlic powder

1 teaspoon salt

a few cracks of black pepper

Chili flakes

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Rinse your lentils.

2. Chop your leeks finely or use a food processor that can slice them thin. Either before or after, wash them and drain them thoroughly. Leeks retain a lot of dirt and sand.

3. This will give you many more leeks than you need. I always take a bag and freeze the rest of them. You can save them for ashak in the future, or use them to make my bolani recipe.

4. Boil lentils on medium and simmer for about 10 minutes covered.

5. Begin on your sauce base for lentils. Chop onion and place in oil.

6. Add 1 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric, 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon ground coriander, and 2 tablespoons of tomato paste. You do not want a raw tomato paste taste. Then add 2 cloves of garlic. Add your fresh tomatoes. Cook on medium until lentils done.

7. After tomatoes get soft and lentil base gets cooked, add about 2 Cups of water. You will use the water to loosen up the sauce. Let the water incorporate into the sauce mixture.

8. Take cut leeks and add all of the spices to them and mix thoroughly.

9. Now take your wontons and assemble your dumplings. The easiest format is to take them and make a “half-moon” and wet the edges after you fill then, fold over, and pinch edges with a fork.

10. Boil dumplings for 3-4 minutes.

11. Plate your dish with my yogurt sauce base. Cover the yogurt with your dumplings and then cover the dumplings with the lentil mixture. Cover with some green for appearance.

[novedadesemmalita]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Rollei 35s Sonnar lens Untested

[kangals]

have definitely harped on this before but it really does just drive me absoluely insane when you see a dog breeder talking the big talk of "well i dont breed my dogs FOR DOG SHOWS because i dont BELIEVE in showing, dog shows are just BEAUTY PAGEANTS and mean NOTHING, i breed my dogs for WHAT MATTERS which means HEALTH and TEMPERAMENT and GREAT FAMILY PETS!!" and then you go to look at their dog for more info and it's the most poorly-structured off-type albino lilac double merle dog you've ever seen with zero titles and a single Embark panel as proof of health testing.

[amorimato]

pope innocent xiv paper doll is live on gumroad and he's free!! literally

downloads are set to pay what you want 🫶. u can print each image individually, or download a pdf to print Letter size. For the dxf/similar plotter format please dm me!

let me know if u make him please. please.

might make a cardinal vestments version if any1 is interested in that

I should mention this is based on the lovely Innocent design by JaraDraws for Delectatio Morosa🫶 so this is fanart^2?

[goodthingscomeinthrees]

not to sound all "old man yells at cloud" but this nymag article is genuinely frightening. it's like no one wants to think anymore!! if you can't do anything without consulting some kind of ai, you're going to atrophy your critical thinking and problem-solving skills entirely.

i'm so incredibly glad i finished uni in 2020, before *waves hands* any of this. i've never used an ai bot, ever, and i don't plan on changing that anytime soon.

[villainanders]

So called morally gray women enjoyers will see a morally gray women and then claim she’s not morally gray so they can enjoy her

[kaiasky]

i find it very dispiriting to talk to MLs who have actually thought about communism and political philosophy deeply. bc theyll always start talking about like. the threat of the growth of institutional bureaucracy into an oppressive class all its own & the various ways to forestall that. the necessity of the workers having the right to immediately recall any representative, workplace democracy instead of naive centralization etc etc.

& its like buddy!! the fantasy of communism is that instead of putting some idiot asshole named "Mark Ets" in charge of the big excel spreadsheet called 'All_Production_For_2025.xlsx' they could put some reasonable commonsense-but-still-kinda-nerdy guy named Me. buddy! u are really harshing my vibe here! here i was imagining simply Fixing The Shit. and now ur saying i have to do democracy with my *coworkers??* fucking have u SEEN coworkers? they are probably top 3 groups i dont wanna do democracy with, second to "family members" and "fellow countrymen".

[dragongirlbunny]

foolproof* strategy for getting a girlfriend

- if not woman, trans your gender

- get plural

- :)

[glossahistorica]

TO CLEAN FEATHERS.

TO CLEAN FEATHERS.—The following receipt for cleansing feathers of their animal oil gained a premium from the Society of Arts: Take for every gallon of clean water one pound of quicklime, mix them well together, and, when the undissolved lime is precipitated in fine powder, pour off the clean lime-water for use. Put the feathers to be cleaned in another tub, and add to them a quantity of the clean lime-water sufficient to cover the feathers about three inches, when well immersed and stirred about therein. The feathers, when thoroughly moistened, will sink down, and should remain in the lime-water three or four days; after which, the foul liquor should be separated from them by laying them in a sieve. The feathers should be afterwards well washed in clean water, and dried upon nets, the meshes of which may be about the fineness of cabbage nets. The feathers must be, from time to time, shaken on the nets, and, as they dry, will fall through the meshes, and are to be collected for use. The admission of air will be serviceable in drying. The process will be complete in three weeks; and, after being thus prepared, the feathers will only require to be beaten to get rid of the dust.

The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, May 1855, Collected Vol. 4, p.63. [x]

As a rule, I suggest you look for contemporary advice when attempting to recreate crafts from historical sources, and always utilise proper safety equipment and ventilation.

[wanna-life-me]

Berry Buttermilk Cake from Smitten Kitchen

Ingredients:

1 cup (135 grams) all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

4 tablespoons (55 grams or 2 ounces) unsalted butter, softened

2/3 cup (130 grams) plus 1 1/2 tablespoons (20 grams) sugar, divided

Finely grated zest of half a lemon

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 large egg

1/2 cup (120 ml) well-shaken buttermilk

1 cup (5 ounces or 140 grams) fresh raspberries

Method:

Heat your oven to 400°F. Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with nonstick spray and line the bottom with a round of parchment paper.

Whisk dry ingredients — flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt — together in a small-to-medium bowl and set aside. In a larger bowl, beat butter, 2/3 cup of the sugar, and zest together with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluff. Add vanilla and egg and beat until well-combined.

At low speed, mix in flour mixture in three batches, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour, and mixing until just combined. Spoon batter into cake pan, smoothing top. Scatter (see neurotic note, below) raspberries evenly over top and sprinkle with remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar.

Bake until cake is golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack and cool to warm, 10 to 15 minutes more. Invert onto a plate to serve in wedges.

Notes/Tips:

1) Directions like “scatter” [for the raspberries] always scare me. Where’s the science? Here’s what my neuroses taught us: the ones that were downward were almost all swallowed by the batter. The “o” ones stayed empty, like cups. Both were delicious.

2) Make your own almost-buttermilk: No need to buy buttermilk especially for this or any recipe. Add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice (easily extracted from your zested lemon half) to one cup of milk and let it sit until it clabbers, about 10 minutes. Voila, a perfect buttermilk substitute!

3) These days I “one-bowl” almost every cake but haven’t updated this recipe accordingly. Should you be lazy like me, beat the butter, sugar, and zest in a big bowl. Add the vanilla and egg. Sprinkle the surface of the batter with the salt, baking powder, and baking soda and beat it well to thoroughly combine/disperse it. Add half the flour (eyeball it), the buttermilk, and the remaining flour, beating after each edition until just combined. Then continue with the pouring and baking instructions above.

[donnakori]

... did u kno that for the first time ever, in a way that is so cutting edge u would not believe, we r starting to also consider the MATERNAL effects of ceasing regular medications taken before pregnancy, not just fetal impacts...........

[meowmikyu]

with the knowledge that I already own two DS’s and a 3DS, should I buy a pink DS from the thrift store if it’s still there when I go back tomorrow

[ganondoodle]

(idk if anyone wants to keep hearing my opinions on totk book stuff but-)

apparently it says that rauru DID have kids, multiple even, which yeah... is kinda necessary for zelda to even be connected to them so much so that sonia can SENSE a blood connection (which, even with all the excuses with magic, is just a little too far for me to suspend my disbelief bc its over, OVER, ten thousand years worth of generations that seperate her from them that one lil touch of the hand can sense that (feels more like an attempt to make you care about them or .. see them as zeldas "better" parents just bc they exchange a few nice words, i never got the feeling they were 'better' parents and its also kinda disrespectful to her actual parents, like sure rhoam wasnt the best but i wouldnt call rauru better just bc he was polite)- i could see maybe the light power of hylia or sth but since its the coolest dude that ever lived rauru now that had it which still doesnt make sense and makes me unreasonably annoyed and she can sense BOTH of their powers in her? nah) the fact theres NOTHING about them in the game itself is just so ... no way they planned any of this

i dont think theres anything they can do or say that wont make be believe they either

are making it up alla 'fix it in post' mentality trying to hastily explain stuff the game never bothers to do to try and appease fans or let it appear as if they thought about it at all

something went really REALLY wrong during development, which kinda seems likely given how the game turned out (im sorry i cannot let go, its not just the writing, the game design too and how little was changed in the map while being so damn expensive, i dont know how people dont feel scammed q_q)

given that they (allegedly) spent the last entire year of development on polish (where??? where????? huh??? like it would make it more understandable (EXCEPT for the price) if there was alot of trouble, which was also bc it got delayed and ... turned out like this, but they dont want to say it, especially given their reputation, with that quote i have heard way too many times 'a delayed game blah blah') i just??

are they just gonna go and do it like they did with kashiwa (kass)? "they uuuh where flying around the whole time ony cool sonau tech maschines, you just dont see or hear from them ooooorrr they were uuuuh out of the country at the time" (sending invitations to other continents to join their glorious kingdom ;) )

(bet they are also gonna say they did all the stuff like ... moving the shrines around (lol?) and lifting the islands up into the sky- which is still weird bc ... didnt they also say they were living in the sky before coming to the surface?? so where?? did they park all their islands on the surface and the mystery kids had the keys so they had to repark them back into the sky after they returned off camera?? xD also why are the islands so different as an environment if they where from the surface? like even the STONE up there is different- and if they were first in the sky then on the surface and the nback in the sky .. why is there not a single yellow tree or grass in the past- you cant really argue that it changed bc they were up there so long bc .. nothing else changed, the suddendly and totally always there sonau buildings are largely in prime condition, only some slightly moldy, and what we see of the glorious past looks barely any different from the present, aside from like ... some standard trees shuffled, no castle yet and that glowy uwu filter DESPITE that stupidly long time frame between it)

[luciolefire]

Seriously fuck Ebay for adding that "let AI write your item description for you" feature. It's completely useless and just regurgitates what was written in the title with more words. When I'm buying broken stuff to fix I need to know if the seller knows what's wrong with it, not "this non-working retro Sega Genesis system will be a great addition to any gamer's collection!"

Just. Write your own description. It doesn't even have to be a paragraph, just a few words. Please. It's not that hard. 🤦‍♀️