#very good and basically 10/10 kinda meat

[quilveor]

I finished Chicory

it's such a good game omg.

also every time I saw Kiwi out and about singing I just smiled more.

Go play Wandersong AND Chicory.

And Beastieball. It's not out yet but there's a demo.

Wishes Ultd. are masters of the craft.

[ystrike1]

Taming a Corrupted Slave Man - By Purple Village (8.5/10)

Love is off the table. Everything is a lie. Constant mind games. It's exhausting. Our protagonist is kind of a sociopath but I get it. Being the only woman with healing powers in the country is crazy stressful. The problem is everybody is crazy, and all of the love stories here end in blood. There's a surprise twist yandere too.

Aren is the only daughter of a very special family. Literally only the current king knows she has healing powers. It's a rare thing. Her family gets tons of royal cash because her existence is so convenient. She's VERY sheltered and her father loves her VERY much. He refuses to have more kids, because he loved his wife who died in childbirth. He spoiled his special daughter too much.

She dies at the hands of her fiance, Duke Daiman. He's a strong, brilliant Knight...with a heart condition. She cured his heart, because she fell for his good looks at first sight. Daimen took advantage of her. He is a genius with royal blood. He uses her family money to attempt to usurp the throne. He also brings in a lover named Lillian, because he thinks she's that stupid. He thinks she will let him have a lover, because she's so lonely and she loves him so blindly.

Her father died in war. Her fiance is all she has.

She stands up for herself.

She says she will not let another woman in.

She attempts to break off their engagement, and he stabs her in the back.

Why?

Well, he doesn't want her to marry into another family. She's too useful. Her healing powers are too valuable. If he can't use her no one can.

His lover smirks while she dies.

Aren basically wakes up evil it's wild. She values her servants. She adores her father utterly. She will not let him die in war. The law dictates that a man from every family must go to war, so she decides to adopt a "brother" into the family. A meat bag to be used so her beloved father may live. There's not even a whiff of romance.

Aren knows who the most talented swordsman is.

She goes out to pick him up.

It's a slave named Cassadim. He became a royal servant under the Crown Prince in her past life. He was known for his unreal beauty and his savagery in battle.

Aren feels a little guilty for like a second, but she uses the royal money she has to buy him. From then on there is zero remorse. Her father knows, by the way. She literally tells her father he should adopt a fake son to use, if he's still not willing to remarry. Aren and her father are both actually interesting because they're "nice" on the surface, but if you annoy them...well...bye? Aren is against(?) traditional slavery. Kinda. She doesn't like torture. She intends to let Cassadim live well as her brother. As a noble. If he doesn’t die in battle he will lead a charmed life...but omg buying him to take her dad's place is soooo messy. Evil ice princess dang.

(Also Cassadim was used for "night services" as a slave, so she does save him from that. She NEVER does anything sexual to him. She also uses her powers to fix his scars, and health issues that piled up when he was an arena fighter. He's getting a pretty good deal. A healthy body. The possibility to survive as a noble son. Yeahhhh. Slight problem though. SHE NEVER TELLS HIM. HE DOESN'T KNOW HE'S A WAR HORSE UNTIL IT HAPPENS. AH! but by then he is willing to die for the family so I guess...the plan worked...)

By the way nobody knows Aren is a healer. She of course steps in to save the prince.

Cassadim doesn't know EVERYTHING, but he knows. He doesn't trust Aren. He's totally right to be suspicious. He also uses her. He mistakenly thinks the King is the one who destroyed his home country. So he uses knowledge he gets from Aren's medical book collection to create poison. He goes to the ball with her.

He poisons the prince, Leon.

And now he's in love....not really. Leon thinks Aren is the most perfect and convenient wife. She says no and he gets pushy. Cassadim finally gets jealous. He likes living with Aren and being her brother on paper, but he doesn't know how to feel about her getting married. He starts to act immature for the first time. He has been spoiled, on purpose, by Aren. This is the way she wants him to be. Clingy. Protective. Willing to die for her.

She tells him she knows everything. She knows he poisoned the Prince. He did it because HE used to be a prince, but his country was burned to ash.

The King didn’t do it.

Duke Daiman's father did.

How convenient.

Aren jumps on the chance. She convinces Cassadim to go against the Duke with her. She pins the blame for the poison on the Duke too. Her revenge is perfect...Cassadim snaps for the first time. He accuses her of being a seductress. A liar. Someone who will never care about him as much as he cares about her.

He's sort of right. They fall in love later, but Aren is totally obsessed with revenge for half the story.

He actually attacks her.

Things get tense.

Then we get the classic yandere ramblings. Yes, after years of "love" Cassadim loses. He is putty in her hands. Unable to stand the thought of her getting married or even sleeping next to someone else. He starts begging her to use him when she has "urges", because he doesn't want another man to do it. The Prince, and actually lots of people, start to comment about how weird he is. His worshipful love is an open secret.

Aren grabs her last puzzle piece. Tol. A slave that was tortured by Daiman and his butler. Aren does a great favor for Tol. His tongue was cut out. She grows it back for him. Tol is grateful and he agrees to lie for her. Someone must be blamed for the poison incident.

The plan is:

Aren pretends to be a foolish girl in love with the Duke, who visits him in prison.

She will then claim the Duke encouraged her to commit treason and hide signs of his crime.

Tol will pretend to be a witness, as he has been a slave in the ducal house for a while.

She unleashes the plan when Daiman thinks he is safe. When he's out of prison with an alibi, at the Prince's royal birthday.

It goes off without a hitch. Daiman freaks out and has a seizure in front of everyone. Then, all of his enemies know about his secret weakness. If he doesn’t go to jail that's fine. One of his many enemies will take advantage of that weak heart of his.

Aren gleefully laughs about how she easily could have been his savior. He had the LITERAL ONLY MAGICAL HEALER in his grasp, and he chose to abuse her.

He falls from grace, and even the prince acknowledges how scary Aren is.

Plot twist.

Daiman was obsessed with Aren in their shared past life. He cut her off from the world. He kept her his secret and he coveted her power and he was madly in love...but he was a bad yandere. He was not openly affectionate. He enjoyed controlling every step of her day. He knew she loved him unconditionally, so he made her chase him and beg for his love when she was lonely.

He brought in Lillian, a random woman, purely to make Aren jealous.

When Aren lashes out for the first time ever Daiman stabs her because he sucks, and he doesn’t want her to leave him. He didn’t want Aren to hate him. He just wanted her to be lonely whenever he wasn't around. He stabs her the second she falls out of love with him.

Lillian desperately tries to seduce him to save her own life, but Daiman cruelly torments her before he kills her too. He blames Lillian for ruining his perfect Aren.

Cassadim is a little less crazy. He gets the right to wed Aren after he does well in the war.

The audacity.

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[kalims]

Hi hi! Can i request this with the vice leaders ? You can choose any other character u like to substitute ortho

‎˃ ᵕ ˂ . . "oh my god something hurts and i don't know what.. but he's my type. oh you meant blood type?"

basically. "you're losing a lot of blood! what's your type?"

when a magical shift practice goes incredibly wrong you're asked a question you didn't quite process at first.

parts. one , two

characters. vice dorm leaders, floyd, ruggie, ortho.

includes. gn reader.

cw. head injury, violence, blood, mentions of hurting someone heehee.. 😁 platonic for ortho.

trey clover

he looks away for one second and all of this happens in that span of ONE second? *points at the ramshackle prefect bleeding on the grass* he can't keep his eyes off his underclassmen can he...

when riddle said he wanted the roses red I don't think he meant this.

trey would probably silently wish for the person to get their karma because how much force did they have behind their magic for it to collide to your head and split it open. 😭 if it's his dorm mate then maybe he won't wish violence secretly but still.

^ very unlikely even if he holds you very special in his heart. but then again if you are he'd want to get that sweet karma. hides secret sadistic side

anyways! I think will only smile a little but his main priority is to make sure you are feeling alright when you spill out your type which is him apparently?? he's secretly pleased btw. and he starts giving you unintentional special treatment. you're the first one to taste his pastires mwhehhehe.

overall, trey is more helpful more than the screaming advice and cater who barely did anything but rush into the building to grab his phone. I rate it 9/10 experience, he baked your favorite treat with a feel better card.

was the split head and the headache that made you want to split it again worth trey's baked goods? of course how could you ever doubt. ☹

ruggie bucchi

ruggie: 👁👄👁 this man would joke a lil' to lighten the mood as he recognizes the seriousness of the situation once he sees you struggling to even stand up.

he would take it in a way that depicts that the occurrence is quite normal, but at the same time you're...you. and ruggie is sure humans don't exactly have the higher tolerance to pain compared to other beastmen.

he doesn't mean it in a degrading way okay. ☹

some random student asked for your type and you didn't miss a beat when you said. "hyena with blue eyes." all the hyena's just perk up and eye each other with confusion painting their faces.

savanaclaw: 👁👁👀👁👁 basically eyes are going to you and then to ruggie. the latter just laughs and ushers them away. if he's not the only one that's a hyena with blue eyes, then you gotta specify more prefect. 🤨

as much as he'd like to pretend this didn't happen leona would have his ass if the herbivore's blood stained the terrain. when he said beastmen liked meat I don't think he meant ... your blood, on the rocks, on the floor, dripping behind you as you walk.

if anyone were to walk in they'd probably think you committed a whole ass massacre. 💀

but since it is you, he'll help. you've helped him out a couple times, he should return the favor duh

8/10!

jade leech

wow thats a lot of blood, good thing he knows how to clean it up! 😁 don't ask why he knows btw. it generally depends where you got hit, if you got hit on a grassy field he'd either just spray some water on it so the blood gets washed off.

but if you're in octavinelle he's gonna have to drag you off somewhere safe or else some kind of sea animal gets attracted to your blood and tries to eat you. 💀 as much as it'd be interesting to see

"my, you've wounded me." he'd probably say this kinda shit and give you that dark hot grin. yeah the one that has anything within his vicinity turning into track stars and booking it.

butttt he wouldn't be phased by blood very much. dare I say he's encountered it plenty of times, usually on his own accord, sometimes not on his own.

maybe jade would be a little suprised because this definitely fell out the circle of his calculations. what a nice suprise! you made his day a lot better prefect 😍😍 now how would you react if he discretly pressed the wound masking it as dabbing?

jk jk

or am I?

7/10 does a great job on taking care of you 👏 but only if you overlook that his smile seems like he's secretly planning your murder and relishing your pain. he is relishing your pain btw because he's a SADIS--

floyd leech

magical shift practices are boring :( so you'd rarely see floyd in one since he's seen it plenty of times until he eventually got bored of taking apart of the same game over and over again.

so just when he's about to step out you literally fly in his path and he almost stepped on you, his mouth was already opening to tease you about how much you wanted him to stay but then you smile at him looking very out of it.

did I mention the blood pouring out of your head? I think this is a good time to mention it.

floyd is still smiling but there's a menacing look on his face when he looks behind him to quickly check who exactly did it to you. it's easy to spot when the most terrified looking person is avoiding his gaze.

atleast someone had the reaction to help the man up and start asking you about how many fingers they were holding up.

okay so I thought this was funny, let's see floyd asking jade a smart thing to say to which his brother replies with asking which blood type you have in case you've possibly lost too much blood! so floyd just tells you and you tell him 😃

"slimy bastards like you apparently.."

awwww he likes you too 😍😍 forgets that you're literally bleeding out and is too happy. what have you done.

6/10 overall, would've been better if he reacted quickly to bring you to the nurse. and you're sure you would've been on time out on a bed for days if you lost more blood.

jamil viper

😐🙁

can his life be more peaceful please which god did he anger in his previous life to deserve this and since he's the vice dorm leader of scarabia he's more exposed to chaos he definitely does not want to be in.

literally does not bat an eyelash when you start listing off his qualities, some being... interestingly going into deep detail, and some he hadn't noticed himself. he's flattered, prefect /sarcastic. really he actually is but he won't be very happy if you die on him.

was that him being overdramatic? jamil? dramatic? maybe but he can't really cross off the possibility of death. so you're in like, top tier premium care even if he's a little reluctant to give up yet again, more hours of his freedom. 🙏

jamil can cook, he can clean, he can take care of you.. what else can you ask for? 🤨 husband material right there fr. you wake up everyday with your breakfast ready... what a nice life. you don't even have to life a finger!

10/10 don't judge me I'm biased. he starts treating you normally after though so just relish the luxurious treatment you receive!

rook hunt

oh mon dieu! 😱 this is an absolute disaster!

non non, this won't do. nothing shall ever taint your beauty regardless but that doesn't mean that he'll let it happen.. beauty must always be preserved! oh trickster, how much pain you must be in..

how beautiful the way your crimson blood paints the tiles so.. elegantly!! deadass makes it into some kind of art piece. /hj please convince him that you may think that bleeding out isn't very elegant but I don't think you're in the right mind rn. 🧍‍♀️

why am I wording this like a drama

anyways. I guess you could say that as an eccentric character, it's expected of rook to be overdramatic sometimes but it's mainly out of pure actual worry.

oh prefect, he's very elated that he fits your exact criteria of a lover.. can you hear his heart about to leap out his chest? *dramatic pose* was he a theater kid??

but he'll store your words very safely in the back of his mind. for now he must act accordingly to such a horrifying disaster.. vil wouldn't be too happy if any damage to your head becomes apparent!

...8/10, very nice care. he's part of pomefiore you know. they don't know only about self care. 🙄🙄

ortho shroud

he could tell the person was gonna miss the goal by like two inches and hit your head instead despite being in the stands 🧍‍♀️would help if he wasn't restricted for access.. is that a thing? lets pretend it is.

you think idia didn't give him the necessary equipment to deal with a medical situation? you're absolutely wrong. idia did, so that's why you're already patched up in less than 5 minutes after being hit!

okay so let's pretend you're talking about [insert character] so ortho's gonna be like nodding innocently, actually showing you people that matches your description.

100/10. period.

lilia vanrouge

serious mode activated.

okay it's more subtle compared to others but there's a certain edge to his words that gets every student in vicinity rushing to follow his every single command. a stubborn savanaclaw student? now they're listening because of lilia's voice alone.

oops old habits die hard.

generally I think lilia would take it more faster than others. given how he's probably witnessed it a handful of times. but he definitely hasn't met a human so... airheaded and blunt at the same time, how entertaining.. you really are cute, aren't you?

the most you'll get is a giggle and a smile. but overall he's more focused on treating you, akin to a... fretting mother? I guess his insticts took over for a second.

it's either treating you like a baby or treating it very seriously. he's right in the middle, nothing more, nothing less.

5/10, would rate higher if he didn't make you pass out right after his 'soup' was registered by your tongue. just... you can let him handle everything BUT the food please.. unless you prefer taking care of yourself alone that is 🤔.

[thechekhov]

Dungeon Meshi Quick Reacts (CHA 19: Tentacles)

They’re all adorable, but Marcille, WHY are you in capris and sandals in a dungeon gurl please I’m begging you

Last chapter, Laios had to have a lie-down. This chapter, it’s Marcille’s turn.

Passive Perception - Orym vs. Chilchuck. FIGHT

A much more positive outcome than I was expecting, to be honest.

hold up. You’re telling me all those chapters happened within the span of A WEEK

dungeon time dilation real

lmao. ‘Someone’s paying me for this, idk who’ Big Grad Student energy

Knockoff Vax and Vex, got it. 

Not everyone is an head over heels for Falin as you are, I guess. They’re wrong, of course, but I get it.

damn bruh, that’s cold

And despite all of that, Laios still tries to warn them. We don’t deserve him.

I give them three days.

I was too generous.

HOLY SHIRTBALLS.

THEY HAD A KID WITH THEM? WHO BRINGS A TODDLER DUNGENEERING

Damn, these guys must be loaded. 

How much would YOU accept for someone to just use you as a meat-shield repeatedly? 

Right, they don’t come back if it’s outside the dungeon.................... but the spirits in the dungeon can’t escape. 

Just like the spirits trapped in Marcille’s little experiment jar. They remain there.... because of the barrier..............

..................................... 👁👁

That seems good and healthy. 

It’s creating a weird feedback loop of an ecosystem, basically. If that’s really the case, I’m not surprised things are going sideways. 

........he has a very punchable face, this old man.

.......oooooh gurl u don’t know even the half of it. 

Horrible, ominous, creepy. 10/10

the monster-infested sword continues to be an excellent character. 

Really enjoying the implication that Laios was this capable even BEFORE he got Sword-Friend that is now Monster-Detector-Automatic. 

DOLLAR STORE VEX!! NOT YOU TOO!!

Ah yes. The old Barbarian reach problem. 

you just know when Laios starts saying shit like this you’re in for a treat

SENSHI WITHOUT HELMET??? REAL SHIT????? I thought it was like. Stuck on his head eternally. 

He trusts you. Don’t let the boy down!

I kinda love Senshi without the helmet, guys. This is a problem. 

I mean, it looks like you’re capable of it! :D 

OH NOOOO NOT HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE

my dude. buddy. pal. can you SEE?

And is this really the time?!

........b.............banana............

Chilchuck, from across the room to Namari: 

Vinegar makes me retch so this is the first time I am not actually enticed by a food but... why does it taste different to all of them?

This is what you’re missing out on, Namari. Aren’t you jealous? 

The risk you took was calculated..........but man are you bad at math. 

.........idk man, it sounds to me like Laios and his quick thinking and ability to sacrifice himself to be a pin cushion was what really did you both good here, but what do I know?

[dear-ao3]

Favourite pasta recipe??? :) I need new recipes to try out. doesn't have to be very detailed if u want. Alternatively, dessert recipes for holidays!!

Tysm

Okay So

i love fucking around and finding out with pasta. its what my dad always did with pasta when i was a kid and it’s so fun. i’ve made some good stuff. tho, i must warn you, this might be some absolute white bs seasoning so feel free to adjust that as needed

the absolute ride or die of pasta recipes that i make at college is called tuna noodle casserole. is it mid? to a degree. but it’s better than the dining hall and it makes good leftovers and you can kinda add whatever you want. this was one that i grew up eating and i think it came out of an ancient cooking light cookbook. here is my version:

what you need: 2 packets of cooked tuna, 1 package of egg noodles, frozen peas/corn/ whatever you really want, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, some kind of grated/shredded cheese, a decent amount of bread crumbs (like a cup), half a chopped onion, like a cup of milk, a dash of lemon juice or some kind of acid, salt and pepper and whatever else you want for seasoning

preheat oven to ideally 450 but you can also do 350

sauté your onion in your preferred oil until it has some color and smells good

while that’s sautéing boil your egg noodles to just slightly aldente cause you’re gonna bake them eventually

once your onion is sautéed, add in your can of soup, milk, lemon juice, and salt and pepper/whatever else spices you want.

once that’s in a good sauce consistently, take your cooked noodles and put them in some kind of oven safe container. dump the sauce on top of the noodles along with the peas and corn or whatever vegetables you want and your tuna. break up the tuna and you can put in the juices if you want but i never do. mix it around pretty well.

combine your breadcrumbs and your cheese. you can also add seasoning and spice here. i’ve put in old bay before and my boyfriend likes it with his moms balachong. sprinkle over the top evenly.

bake until the top looks crunchy (usually a half hour or so but keep an eye on it)

and that’s it. it tastes decent and it’s good leftovers. making it in a wide pan is best for maximum breadcrumbage. it’s also pretty cheap. i’ve made it for less than 10 dollars before when i’ve bought everything at target.

i’ve also made this funky pasta and sausage thing before a few times. i absolutely invented this based on whatever i had in my measly fridge and what was on sale so.

what you need: a pack of chicken sausage (i had chicken soup sausage but anything works), some chicken soup (a can, a premade thing, i think i had a small cup of wawa chicken soup), pasta of your choice, seasoning, vegetables if you want (carrots, celery), seasoning (i used garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, thyme, worstershire sauce, fish sauce, and dried basil) and an onion/few cloves of garlic if you want

sauté your onion/garlic in your oil if choice

slice your sausage into little coins (i use all 4 links cause my boyfriend is a himbo weight lifter who can and would eat a refrigerator, but 2 is fine for a normal amount) and add it to the pan along with any vegetables

cook until it has some color/ vegetables get soft ish

add in your chicken soup. if you don’t want to add the chicken, you can just add the broth. the sausage shouldn’t be swimming in the broth but it should be nicely covered (you wouldn’t need more than a can)

continue cooking down the broth, ass whatever seasoning you want to make it taste good

while that is happening, boil your pasta

once the pasta is boiled and you have a nice soupy ish sauce going on, add in the cooked pasta. the pasta should soak up the rest of the broth (especially good if you are making this to have leftovers)

and that’s that one. i suppose you could do this with any meat and soup combination.

another good and easy one is basically just some pasta and vegetables that i add some funky chickpeas to. my boyfriend really likes this one cause of the flavors because he is asian and if it doesn’t have flavor he doesn’t want it

what you need: pasta of choice, broccoli or green beans, a can of chickpeas, cheese for putting on top, meat if you want it, cloves of garlic, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, maple syrup, pepper, soy sauce/fish sauce, seasoned salt or regular salt and olive oil.

preheat the oven to 350

open the can of chickpeas and rinse them off, place on a baking sheet covered in foil or parchment paper

combine some garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, seasoned salt soy sauce/fish sauce and maple syrup in a bowl (measurements don’t really matter, we cook with vibes here) in a bowl and then spread over the chickpeas, coating them well

put the chickpeas in the oven, checking on them and rotating them around every 10 minutes. they take about 30 minutes.

boil water for your pasta

chop your garlic and sauté in some olive oil

add the broccoli or green beans and your meat if you’re using meat

once that’s all done put the vegetables in the pasta and top with the chickpeas and some cheese and munch

as far as dessert goes. i’m ukrainian and we mostly just eat whatever generations old recipes my great aunt uses for dessert. but, there is a cranberry bread recipe in the back of the cranberry thanksgiving book that is very very good (esp with cream cheese). my grandma used to always make raspberry squares which were SO GOOD but i don’t have that recipe and we haven’t made them in literal ages.

the cranberry bread:

there is a really good and really simple butter cookie recipe tho that’s like basically three ingredients. i’ve made it gluten free before and it works as long as you have the 1:1 complete flour.

what you need: 2 cups of all purpose flour, 2 sticks of unsalted butter, 1/2 cup to 1 cup of white sugar, a bit of salt

beat the room temp butter and sugar until combined. add in the pinch of salt (can also add in vanilla if u want)

add in the flour little by little

roll out dough on floured surface

cut into shapes and add sprinkles if you want and cook in a 350 oven for 10-15 minutes each batch.

we make these literally every year, they’re perfect for gifts cause they’re easy and not very expensive. everyone loves them. i love them. i’m going to go make a batch now.

[papakhan]

do you have any Chance headcanons? Bro deserved better.

I do actually! thank you so much for asking (he really did deserve better :'(

Chance is one of the oldest Khans who was born into being a Great Khan, rather than being a remnant from the New Khans. His mom was effectively winging it his entire childhood and he maybe grew up a little too fast as a result. Jessup is his younger brother by about 10 years and Jessup has always absolutely adored Chance, basically never left his side from the age he could walk.

Before Bitter Springs Chance was part of the Khans who cleared routes ahead of the rest, helping the movement of their home base go a little smoother. A lot of Chance's side of the work was Physically moving things out the way, like clearing debris from roads that were intact enough for Khan wheels which could be anything from big rocks (on post war roads) to prewar cars (on prewar roads)

He's always had his long blond hair but it used to be neatly plaited before Bitter Springs, nowadays he doesn't really have the mental energy to even wash his hair, and barely lets Jessup do that

Bitter Springs took a huge toll on Chance's mental health. I hc that he was one of the Khans trying to make sure that the evacuation path was safe when he got cut down and spent the remainder of the fight being mistaken for a body while he drifted in and out of consciousness. He woke up surrounded by a lot of fire and bodies and never spoke a word since. He feels guilty for not being able to tell anyone the path wasn't safe before it was too late and has what he saw burned into his mind. my man needs therapy so bad

While I do like and enjoy all the "Chance uses sign language" headcanons I personally believe that he's very despondent and withdrawn due to his PTSD and rarely makes attempts to communicate. Jessup is effectively Chance's carer and makes sure that he's fed and drinking enough water and is physically clean etc. and he's the best guy who knows what Chance is trying to say and is very protective of him. Side thing but Jessup is actually a very caring and compassionate guy he just has a very brash tough guy attitude.

The Khans aren't very good with mental health as a whole (they can't really even deal with Papa's depression) not for lack of care they're just not in a good place atm. I think if he got the help he needed he would start to communicate more but it'd take a long time to get there. I think he'd maybe start with signing and writing things before trying to use his voice again

I also think Chance same height as Legate Lanius but a lot bulkier. I know he's got washboard abs in all roads but Everyone does in that comic I hc him to be fat!! I think he's stronger than Lanius but Lanius is faster, but that speed doesn't count for much when your weapon is 15x bigger and heavier LMAO Lanius would get destroyed by Chance Chance would beat him to death with his own mask

More Chance stuff

He is a clean 7 feet tall, Jessup is 6'2" and everyone thinks he's short he's not he just looks tiny next to Chance

I also hc him to have brown eyes and freckles like Jessup

I don't like the necklace he has in all roads because the thors hammer symbol often gets associated with like. na//zis. so I often redraw it as a key or coin. I don't think the artists meant anything by it honestly they were probably just associating Chance with the god of thunder because of his size and strength but personally i'd like to stay far away from it especially considering canon Chance has blond hair and blue eyes. anyway

My man likes a good steak, he and his mom used to compete for who could make the best meat rub. He's not a fan of sweets

The heaviest thing he's lifted was the front end of an NCR truck with the driver still inside. That driver had nightmares for weeks

Like Regis, Chance is one of the Khans who the NCR and others who arent Khans tend to recognise but never actually speak to. I think even before he stopped talking people just kinda gave him a nickname because he was just So recognisable. The NCR probably had their own codename for him over the radio.

[feddy-fagbear]

I am more intrigued could you explain me the Michael and Charlie lore of your version of the fnaf?

so- ironically enough thats kinda what my current wip is about (okay really its abt explaining how the actual fnaf plot ties into everything but shhh) but- well ig let's start at square one

THIS ENDED UP LONGER THAN I EXPECTED IM SORRY FOR GIVING YOU AN ESSAY, this like is basically the entire plot of the au, im sorry, im just- really insane

Charlie's Dead, Now What?

funniest way i could subheader this thing.

charlie and michael are ~2 years apart in age, she was killed when she was 10, michael was 12, this was shortly after his younger brother died, i dont wanna get into why cuz thats a tangent abt william and his Things. so basically, michael's 12, his brother's dead, his best friend's dead, he's kinda curling into himself and then suddenly, like 5 years later, surprise, charlie's back. she didnt die??? but michael like- went to henry's house after a funeral didn't he? did he make that up? how else did he get her hair tie???

yeah, henry did some unethical shit, but who cares? william did worse so surely we can just- gloss over this. and that michael does, because HOLY SHIT CHARLIE'S ALIVE???? LIKE SHE DIDNT DIE???? (she did, just- she's back.) notably she feels like, sounds like, bleeds like a human. she's a human, and there is flesh that is very real, and- i made a post abt this literally earlier today abt the fact she's basically a meat puppet of a creature, but she's back! who cares! she got better

michael was also having a notably Not Fun time during those 5 years btw, 3 years later his little sister goes missing (dont question the timeline, i dont know if it works, i just thought of it and decided it was good enough) and so he's kinda dealing with the weight of that, his parents' marriage is crumbling and he's supposed to ignore that, and just life is getting Bad. so he becomes a total scumbag, really. (in turn, henry views him as a disappointment, and about as good as his father and this is important, it plays into things later)

Yay, Things Are Decent Again!

famous last words. michael and charlie obviously catch up, start getting close again, charlie's told to stop hanging out with him, and she says "no im gonna keep hanging out with michael, youre a dumbass, dad", and this just means michael deals with worse shit for like the last year of his teens, cuz like the moment he's 18 his mom basically fucks off to nowhere (maybe like- washington? who knows. she could be in europe for all michael knows, he didnt keep in touch, she hated him!) and his dad like- kinda also disappears for long swaths of time but who cares abt him, michael's kinda happy abt that, and henry is just- harping on his ass for being a "bad influence" around his daughter who might start smoking or something because of him, the fucking... bastard??? he's a teen with trauma but who cares, its like- the 80s, everyone's kinda fucked up and doesnt care (joking)

but yeah, michael still refuses to stop hanging out w/ charlie cuz 1) homie's got a fat fucking crush and 2) no one tells him what to do. but yknow, charlie hears abt this, gets into a fight with henry abt it, nothing like comes of it but its put strain on their relationship ("oh but pyro its important charlie cares abt her dad" i like destroying canon, henry's a shit dad TO ME and charlie doesnt feel all that connected to him to begin with), and michael starts yknow- doing odd jobs, mostly customer service cuz he doesnt have a reason to fucking go back to freddy's yet because honestly?? why would he without someone like basically forcing him to

he gets an apartment and like by the time charlie's 18 she's moved in with him, theyre sailing pretty smoothly, and... henry cuts off all contact with charlie. she's not really fussed about it (and he's not dead) so it impacts nothing, just means theyre... on their own. but they manage for a couple years and then things get bad enough michael has to work at freddy's for a bit!!

Oh This Is Where The Nightmares Start

this is just where i put all the gore. no but michael decides to work a week at freddy's just for the little extra cash it'll give them, and yknow he talks abt how terrifying the job is to charlie and midway through the week they realize something...

there's something that shouldnt be there in those suits.

anyways he finishes the week, ends up fired for tampering with the animatronics, and then goes back after getting fired, scrapes out the whole- regrowing dead children inside the suits, and then like- he and charlie uh- "properly dispose of the bodies" (burn them in the woods)

yeah this solves the dead children thing, sorry. yeah this au is mostly abt them healing after the fact

and then they get a Call. from who? william Some Strange Random Guy who's like "michael, i'll give ya a tip about how you can find your sister" and michael is So Fucking Broken at this point he's like "yeah sure i'll work at an Afton Robotics Company to get answers"

.... he survives... gets attacked by ennard at his apartment, charlie saves his ass, but uh- yknow- the thing about humans is theyre persistence predators... and ghosts dont have bodies to worry about....

so yeah he gets fucking ripped apart one day in the most brutal of ways, charlie can really only watch, helpless, and then there's this like year? two year gap were michael's like- dead and a skin suit as far as charlie's aware, and she's kinda- fucked- and has to finally reach back out to her father- but eventually! michael turns back up!

Part 4: Corpse Era

OKAY COOL SO MICHAEL'S NOT DEAD, except he's totally dead, but there's no like- metal spaghetti monster in him and he's just- walking about like normal, the scar apparently healed so whatever reason he's alive charlie... doesnt know.... but yknow what? she isnt gonna question it they have greater worries

like a metal spaghetti monster, and also the fact No One Knows Where William Is, and thats kinda Why Henry Disappeared, so like.... yay??? but anyways everything after this is just general lore bullshit so let's get back to the fun stuff

after william's dealt with (burned to death, it works the first time, steel wool era doesnt exist to me solely because im not a Lore Expert and we have such little info rn it feels like id just slam myself into a glass wall), and ennard is... gone (yeah this is a plot hole, listen, i'll patch it soon, maybe it also dies in a fire real nice and easy like) charlie and mike are kinda- left to their own devices now figuring out what to do with their life and well.... they just make the best they can out of it. theyre stuck on the outskirts of society but... it's perfect to try and find a way to heal, to move on past... everything they've seen and had to do and.... yknow- maybe they'll get to be truly happy one day. not in any traditional sense but who needs things to be in any way traditional when your entire life's never been that

i do plan to write some fluff and really bulk out this last bit but for now its kind of nebulous and floaty in my head cuz i just- suck at writing endings that feel... whole and complete? but i think a sort of vague "things arent good but they'll get better" is all you can really ask for in a situation like this yeah?

[desudog]

wait you HATED sweet pool omg. its my least fave out of the n+c releases ive read so far mainly for how flat the characters felt to me and how clumsy a lot of the plot felt but i rlly loved the aesthetic/general vibe it had so thats rlly interesting to me,if ur up for it id love to know what didnt click for u ^_^

when i judge how bad a VN is with my brother (avid VN reader as well) we use Sweet Pool as a basically "zero" on the scale of professional, large VNs.

Sweet Pool's writing was WEIRD. I can do some weird, thats fine. Weird ass-birth stillborn meatslugs? ... okay, ill... look past that. ok i wont lie, the constant ass-birth was hard for me. i really did try to not judge it on that but like, there was almost constant buttbirth going on. ive made peace with this by now, kinda making a link to myself about the connections of it to being an unintentional trans narrative in many ways and all but like. it was WEIRD. and kinda hard to read. it didnt strike me as horror, it struck me as "weird fetish i have to sit through. oh my god is he licking tha- PUT IT DOWN Z-DAWG. Ok christ."

The characters were also weird. I laughed out loud in surprise at how stupid the "i saved you from being raped <3 SO I CAN RAPE YOU, PSYCH!" scene was. like wtf was that??????

(I hope you werent planning on USING that butthole, mister!)

i did not enjoy the art style, i think its the ugliest N+C art style yet and since. not my thing. many angles and proportions look weird. the CGs looked stiff and uninspired. it NEVER grew on me. no shade to people who liked it or the artist it just.. wasnt my thing. not unbearable but just. not. as good as it could have been and def took away from the experience.

i didnt like any of the endings. it wasnt scary it was weird. the pacing was weird. for being a BL, it had very little love just... wtf. and im so sad abt what they did to mikoto bc i liked him before uuuUuUuUu yandere plot twwwwist. bleh.... dollar store keisuke! they would FORCE the true end so you maybe go, "maybe the true end is satisfying and good an-" no. its not. fuck yoU!

sweet pool was painful. i dont know how else to put my experience. i 100%d it because i 100% everything when i can, and i was literally pushing through like a hiker in a snow storm to finish it. every 3 seconds was secondhand embarrassment. the "jerking off in the classroom" scene comes to mind. i got up and took a break for that one because it was just unbearable. idk how anyone could slap one out to this vn. im not sure if anyone ever has. which makes the sex weird. actually, i dont think there was a single consensual ero scene unless u count the true end fusion scene.

(proof god does not love us)

the aesthetic/vibe was... ehhh... not super unique IMO. school setting immediately put me off, a more gritty and cool toned, dark palate made things interesting but, its still a "weird thing happens in high school" story. kinda bored to death of HS settings in VNs.

i did like the protag tho! he was interesting and it was nice having a chronically ill protag even if it was just a plot device to make him be able to miss school while going on a... dark apartment birth marathon.

sweet pool felt like a bizarre, amateur fanfiction for a fetish i dont have.

the soundtrack is very memorable as well as the opening pre-game sequence, i liked the concept of the choice button meanings, but they were very rough in actual use.

this is my favorite CG i appreciate the aquarium set up instead of a fish bowl (though he could do better...)

(shame about them turning into meat popcorn tho...)

i liked the iguana lol

i didnt care about these guys so much i dont even remember their names most of the time. except zenya. i liked him cus hes so cute and batshit crazy and has intersex swag.

(does this shade match my festering flesheye?)

all in all?

i give sweet pool a 2/10 butt babies.

--------- CONS:

no shortage of buttbirth stuff

seems to have lost the "love" in "BL".

some characters arent even original... FROM THEIR OWN STUDIO.

boring, hard to follow story

character focus on a character who has no personality. this guy is the gijinka of the hair that gathers at the drain of your shower.

designs that just are not very memorable or unique, without the personality to work with

story has routes but none of them were thought much of, should have just been a kinetic

confusing choice buttons

WAY too many choices for a VN with 3 candidates. makes 100%ing a drag.

predictable story

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PROS:

no shortage of buttbirth stuff, i mean, if youre into that

a soundtrack that makes up for the lack of good ero because this OST FUCKS

still a better love story than twilight

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note: i read it in offical ENG, so i was no doubt getting a lower quality version. i dont think the original text would have helped getting it more than a single grade higher.

[gonad-transformer]

For the five point axis kink rating: cannibalism, gore, and primal play :3

Ah jesus babe, I gotta do fifteen separate axis ratings now!! And they all have so much overlap!!

Gonna start with primal cuz my interest in the other two kinda originates there tbh

Primal

Simplicity: 10/10. Literally anything you can do in this space is fucking hot holy fuck

Eros: 10/10. I'm a painslut and I love to be bitten and scratched and manhandled and used, it feels fucking good. And it's exhilarating as fuck to be on the giving side of it

Agape: 10/10. Desire to the point of primal and unstoppable ferocity is like. Fuck, it does things to me. Fear and empowerment and disinhibition and intensity and exhilaration. And like, for me, on the receiving side, being wanted that intensely is deeply comforting. It's so fucking good

Narrative possibility: 7/10. I think at its most basic it is kind of a one-trick pony. There's A Predator, There's Prey, Predator Fucks Prey Hard. Or sometimes There's Two Predators, They Each Fight To Fuck The Other Hard. But if you add other stuff alongside it — I think most commonly (or perhaps just most appealingly to me) owner/pet or similar dynamics — then you can get into some really juicy narrative territory

Problematicity: 9/10. You've got aggression, sadism, masochism, pretending to be animals in a sexual setting... it usually at least brushes up against non-consent and/or snuff. If the kinds of people who are liable to yell at strangers about their kinks ever find this post (or this blog, really) I'm never gonna hear the end of it

Cannibalism

Simplicity: 6/10. Like, I'm into this, but only really in a primal form. Hannibal Lecter coolly and methodically killing, butchering, cooking, and eating people does fuckin nothing for me. Someone tearing into me with their hands and teeth and feasting greedily and messily on my warm, raw flesh gets me fuckin going. But like, as long as you've satisfied that particular distinction, it takes very little else to make it work, and as long as that initial intensity is present in some way you can subsequently take it in less visceral, more "refined" directions and I'll still eat it up, as it were :3

Eros: 7/10. Warm, wet, slick. Flesh and meat and intensity etc.

Agape: 10/10. Again, like... desire to the point of ferocity, to the point of ravenous consumption... fuck dude, it's so good

Narrative possibility: 8/10. You can get creative with this shit and the contexts surrounding it

Problematicity: 10/10 lmao are you kidding me

Gore

Simplicity: 5/10. My tastes here are still kind of nascent and evolving, and as yet there's a somewhat narrow range of gore that I find truly appealing. I'm not much a fan of overt focus on organs/entrails themselves (with the heart being a very notable exception); medical-adjacent gore, e.g. vivisection or invasive surgery, doesn't do a whole lot for me; I'm not super into snuff qua snuff, although it's kind of unavoidable in this space and there's certainly plenty of cases where it works for me; and I'm not really into necrophilia at all. I'm here for the ecstatic intimacy and vulnerability of a living person's inner workings laid bare. The warmth and intensity of flesh and blood and muscle and sinew. It's an expression of passion first and foremost

Eros: 7/10. To repeat myself: warmth, intensity, flesh, blood, muscle, sinew. To be inside of someone, or to have someone inside of me, in a vastly more intimate and visceral way than simple penetration sounds fucking hot. That said, it's actually kind of rare that gore gets me physically aroused, hence the score being as low as a 7; this is a much more psychological kink for me

Agape: 10/10. To repeat myself again: ecstatic intimacy and vulnerability. Intimacy and vulnerability that go far beyond the bounds of the safe or sane, that violate a person's most basic physical barriers. If more than one person is opened up, you've got the possibility of merging and intermingling bodies and beings in a truly grotesque and utterly intimate way. It fucking rules

Narrative possibility: 10/10. Tbh I think gore kind of thrives on the narratives surrounding it. Like, it's very nice in isolation, but it shines best as an element of a larger narrative. And there are so many ways for a story to involve gore. This is the most narratively versatile kink in this little trio, I would say

Problematicity: 10/10 lmao are you KIDDING me

[rewatching-sam-and-dean]

Canadian + Supernatural Things

Just have to get something off my chest.

I just saw this list about if Supernatural took place in Canada. And like, some of the points are kinda funny: the first blade made out of a moose antler made me laugh (but it’s stupid given the story of Cain killing Abel with a donkey jawbone-pretty sure they weren’t in Canada), or Sam and Dean saying “Fuck it” if a case required them to drive across Saskatchewan (because, come on. It’s Saskatchewan, lol), or people definitely dying by the time the boys drive across Canada to get to them since, unless you’re in a big centre, towns can be very far-spread. But, the rest are so much typical Canadian “These are the Only a things We are known For” items thst it just makes me nuts. Tim Hortons is a coffee shop/fast food chain. It is not the equivalent to a Gas ‘n Sip. That would be like a 7Eleven. Dean would not preferr butter tarts over pie. First, butter tarts are gross. Second, pie is not an inherently American thing. Canadians eat pie! Dean would NOT order poutine instead of a burger all the time. That’s just fries, cheese curds and gravy, people! No meat content, unless it’s fancy poutine. Also, how many Canadians even eat poutine on a regular basis? I’ve probably had it like 10 times in my whole life, maybe. We eat burgers here, too! Nobody actually says “hoser.” And Sam and Dean being Canadian wouldn’t make Crowley Canadian, so his catch phrase of, “hello boys,” wouldn’t change. At all. Worst of all, despite what this list says, Dean and Cas would not be married if SPN took place in Canada because straight people exist here, too. And Dean still wouldn’t be in love with Cas, even if he were Canadian. 🙄

List here, if you’re interested (X)

Look, I get it. This is just supposed to be fun/funny. But, it’s lists like this thst make Canadians sound stupid. We clown on ourselves more than Americans do in sitcoms. It’s as if, we only understand the world in Canadian stereotypes or something. And this list in particular doesn’t use one-for-one comparisons. Rather, it uses bizarre comparisons, like saying Sam and Dean would ride around on a polar bear instead of in a ‘67 Impala (my example, not the list’s). Most American cars are also available in Canada. Most American music we also listen to in Canada. A lot of American food is also eaten in Canada, especially more midwestern or northern food. I mean, I live about an hour from the US border, and have even lived there, and the biggest differences I’ve noticed is people being allowed to own handguns, wider shoulders on their roads, way better road conditions in the US, more frequent small town, and much cheaper alcohol (on a simple level).

We aren’t that different on a person-to-person or product/consumption level. I’m not saying there aren’t some big differences in terms of social norms, idiocies, politics and social structures, but those can differ wildly state-to-state alone.

But the things we consume … those are very similar. So lists trying to compare an American Sam and Dean to a Canadian version just don’t make sense and they rely hugely on basic Canadian stereotypes.

The points about driving distances, lack of frequent small towns, Sam and Dean needing health cards for each province, the weapons they could access, these things make sense to comment on. And these would definitely make the show feel different. Goodbye Americana. But, good lord, can we stop pretending all Chadians only have like 10 products, foods, locations thst we all eat, use and patronize all the time? Ugh!

Okay rant over. (And likely to be deleted later).

[theretherian]

'kin tip for the picky eater carnivores - sous vide is like MAGIC holy shit

i'm autistic and have huge sensory problems with food, and for the longest time i couldn't stand steak (or most other meats, save for like chicken sometimes, burgers sometimes, and corned beef) like at all. texture bad. bleuh. especially fatty meat. I am the type of person who gags if I'm eating meat and there's like any fat at all. And I can basically only eat meat well-done - if it's at all pink that's too much for me, even on like burgers or anything like that.

HOWEVER. Sous vide. Beautiful. I don't know why but sous vide steak, the fat on it does not bother me at all. I think just cause it's a lot more melty than rubbery so it doesn't feel weird in my mouth. You just get all the nice flavor instead. Also the way it's cooked it can actually be decently pink on the inside and there's absolutely zero concerns cause it's been sitting in extremely hot water for like three hours - which also makes it super nice and tender. Very good for that "ripping apart meat with my teeth" feeling. Very juicy. And if you sear it for that nice crispy outside? chef's kiss.

sous vides can be kinda pricey but apparently some air fryers have a sous vide built in, so if you have one of those I definitely recommend trying it out. very nice and very good 10/10

[rainfallbeats]

some sanitization hcs im throwing into the enclosure for yall to eat up in honor of my boy Rome being partially sanitized (also i saw that ask and i wanna throw my hat in the ring now) [note: a lot of my hcs are based off the developer fact that sanitization is based off of zombies, so tw blood mention, panic attack mention, disassociation mention, and generally darker things. also tw linking some stuff to losing a tooth, in case that bothers anyone] - sanitization causes scarring that essentially works like dead areas of your body but like. dead in the way fungi are. dead in the way viruses are - sanitization can't really spread much on its own, it needs to be fed occasionally into the host for it to really take effect - if the area on the host infected by sanitization hasnt been given it in a while, the sanitization will sort of. i want to say dry but its not really doing that? it basically becomes a scar itself, changing back to the hosts ink color over time but never really going away. it'll slowly start travelling to the beak/mouth via bloodstreams and out, basically the host's body filtering the infection out of the system as the body starts to become aware of the infection. - the sanitizer that filters out the mouth is no longer infectious at this stage since the sanitization has already "dried" and scarred, so it's not particularly dangerous - usually, the filtered sanitization will be a very thin coat across the beak that evaporates naturally (them ink-eating microbes are CHOWING DOWN) - however, if the host has more severe scarring, it will build up over time. basically turns into a tooth-bleed situation, its painful and nauseous and disorienting and everything yadda yadda. Rome's actually a solid example of this. the back of his shoulders and his hands are both infected pretty damn badly, and every few months hes spitting up a lot of sanitization like he just lost a tooth. -1/10 experience :( - anyways! fun fact: sanitization now has the funky side-effect of making your ink and subsequent sanitized scarring glow via bioluminescense!! it isnt always active. - hosts can make their entire body glow and unglow (???) if they want to, but they cant make specific parts of their body glow and heightened emotions completely throw the control out the window - with emotions, the host's body will flicker and light up in wonky ways that they cant control, for example flashing when theyre mad/threatened and softly glowing when their content. yes their blushing glows, fuck you - the host's eyes and teeth can also glow!! theyre some of the first things to light up since theyre so close to the brain. i originally did this just to look cool (tbh all of this glowing stuff started like that lol) but some sci-fi science later and boom ive actually got reasoning behind it - and when i say their body glows, i dont mean the whole thing no no no. the parts of their body that light up are: eyes, teeth, blush, tentacles, scarring, and most notably blood veins. god that would be so painful to draw but *god it would look so fucking cool omg* - moving away from that, the host will be hungrier than the average person. particularly, they need more meat than usual and require more carbs to function. for partially-sanitized hosts, this can easily be fixed with some (preferably raw) meat, poultry especially being a good one. however a completely, full-blown sanitized victim would absolutely try eating another person if not supplied with enough food - basically, they fuckin that shit up!!!! EAT EAT EAT - hosts are much more likely to get eyebags, even if they sleep relatively well. its just kinda unavoidable for them. also neat tidbit!! you know how artists will draw scared/unnerved characters with that black shading between their eyes? thats much much more literal for sanitization hosts. insert explanation about this being because theyre partially dead due to sanitization here (part 1 because this got LONG)

i have lots of longer asks like this i need to actually read through so for now ill be posting some of them to look at later

i had a sanitized octo oc so i wanna think abt sanitization stuff for when i rework him

[petermorwood]

I bought some minced lamb last week with an eye to BBQ during incoming hot weather, but the weather turned out so hot enough that standing over glowing charcoal didn’t appeal. In addition the horseflies were especially rambunctious; I swatted three off me in the couple of minutes I was checking the outdoor temperature and deciding Nope, too hot.

Eating food outside is fine, being fed on outside, not so good.

*****

So the other night I used it to throw together this Lamb Kofte Tajine, a vaguely North African version of meatballs in tomato sauce. “Throw together” is accurate, I winged it without consulting any books or recipes and even the cooking procedure is highly inauthentic; far too fast for one thing. It worked, though, and was very good.

(The last time was an Indian-influenced treatment: more slowly cooked, just as vague, just as good.)

Putting already-minced meat in a food processor may seem excessive; however there’s a good reason when making kofte / kofta / kufteh (etc.). These are North African / Middle Eastern / Indian meatballs, the original word means “pounded”, and processing recreates a very fine pestle-and-mortar texture which holds together without assistance from egg or breadcrumbs.

*****

A vegetarian version could simply replace the meat meatballs with lentil ones; there are plenty of recipes online including Moroccan-style. I also think this would work splendidly using falafel; they might not keep the crunch of freshly fried ones, but they’ll have the same crust and mouthfeel as the grilled kofte.

This was even good cold, not that there was much left. I plan to remake the basic sauce then boost it with harissa (Tunisian chilli relish) or zhoug (Yemeni coriander relish) to see if it makes as good a dip as my imagination suggests. That imagination is also suggesting not just home-made pita bread to dip in it, but pita cut into strips and fried in olive oil so it stays crunchy.

Yum...

*****

Anyway, here’s how to make the sorta-kinda-tajine.

Sauce

1 onion, chopped finely 2-4 cloves of garlic, chopped finely 50 ml olive oil 1 tsp allspice 1 tsp chilli 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp ginger 1 tsp paprika ½ tsp cloves Two 400 g tins of chopped tomatoes

Kofte

500 g minced lamb 2 tsp black pepper 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp mint

300 g couscous

1 small or ½ large preserved lemon, chopped finely (If unavailable, use 2 Tbsp lemon juice and 1 tsp salt)

Method:

Heat the olive oil in a pan and sauté the onion and garlic until soft. Add the dry spices and stir fry for a minute. Add tomatoes and simmer for about 10-15 minutes. while preparing the meatballs.

Turn the grill (broiler) full on and preheat.

Put the minced lamb and its dry spices in a food processor and whizz until well combined. Form into meatballs; 500g of minced meat should become 8 of about golf-ball size.

Put the meatballs on the grill rack and brown on all sides, then transfer to the sauce and simmer gently, uncovered, for about 15 minutes while preparing the couscous as per packet instructions.

If there are none, put the couscous in a saucepan and cover with boiling water, stir, and put on a lid. Leave for five minutes, check for tenderness and re-lid for longer if need be, otherwise fluff up with a fork.

Remove the sauce and meatballs from the heat, stir in the chopped preserved lemon and serve on a bed of couscous. The sauce should be thick, fragrant, tangy but not hot.

For heat, use harissa or zhoug. These are usually sold as jars of salsa-like paste, so stir 2 Tbsp of relish into 2 Tbsp of EV olive oil and set it out in a small bowl with a spoon. (NB, heat varies with brand, so taste-test before use!)

*****

When I plated up, I got fancy with some pickled chillis, a couple of strips of preserved lemon peel and a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds.

Not absolutely necessary, but certainly photogenic...

[princemick]

kyle don't be like that!! share the recipe!!

oh ofc! its really easy.

it's basically just a spicy, creamy, cheesy tomato pasta and it takes like 10 mins to make and just uses two pots!

completely vegi but easily changeable to be plant based or to add some meat or fish, tuna or some ground meat would prop b great w it.

u just need:

garlic, shallots, tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, rucola, heavy or cooking cream, feta and mozzarella and then ur own preferred spices and any other veggies or things u might wanna add.

I'm putting it below the cut but I hope yall enjoy. also it's my own recipe so its not very like. specific akjdsbak but ok.

I like it with parpadelle bc they fuck.

I use fresh ones which take like 4 minutes to boil but otherwise just boil ur pasta already when u start

to a second pan I add a crushed clove of garlic and two thinly sliced shallots. I just cook them w a big oll slab of butter.

then as that cooks u can cut any other veggies u wanna add, courgette and mushrooms r nice w this.

just let it cook in the butter on high heat w some pepper and salt, basically just brown the shallots so make sure you're constantly moving your pan.

then when that's all good n brown n smells all nice I add a good splash of cooking cream and a small bit of pasta water so the cream doesn't burn.

then I add a big slab of tomato paste or if u want u can also add some fresh tomato's and like squeeze the juices out so u have a makeshift tomato sauce and as that simmers cut the rest of ur tomato in small pieces and add them.

then I let that cook n add my spices which is a two diff bbq spice mix, union, paprika, chilli and cayenne powder. just add how much u like n how spicy u do or don't want, I obv taste it and see what it needs if its to spicy I add some more cream n if its to creamy I add some extra tomato paste.

then ur basically done, I just pull apart a ball of mozzarella in the pan and stir it constantly on high heat. I add the pasta to a plate, make sure my saus is thick enough that when I move it in the pan its like semi solid but its still very much like a liquid saus, kinda an inbetween.

then when u add the saus I add a good lot of fresh rucola and pull apart some feta on top!

and thats it!! its easy and cheap if u buy in bulk esp if u dont add more veggies then just shallots, garlic n rucola.

u can easily leave out the feta I wudnt recommend leaving out the mozzerella but u can add burrata instead it wud prob b great.

[justshitandanime]

Kamigami no Asobi/ Ludere Deorum (Anime) Critic, opinion, whatever (no major spoiler)

So, I just end to watch this short anime (12 episodes) and I’m like MEH. I don’t care about the game, truly, I give 3 fucks. Is only about the anime.  

The basic plot is “A bunch of gods from different religions have to take classes in a school with a human for a REASON”. And at first, when you see which gods are (Japanese, Greeks, Nordic and Egyptian) you can think: Ok, this will be great! Like, knowing that Greeks, Nordic and Egyptians in some point fight historically between them, the god’s relationships must give a lot of drama and conflict, right???

WELL NO, ZERO. The story now is “Everyone love the human, plot less deep than a paper” ISTG.

Let’s start with the only woman in the series, a girl that’s so annoying that make me want to rip off her hair. Zero personality, she only adds something because the rest of the gods are pretty much teenagers with the mindset of a 10 years old child who seems to never see humans in their lives for more than 5 minutes (which in some point it contradicts it because one of the gods almost marry a human??). Typical lady who can’t stop to cry for legit anything but, somehow save the world and somehow know how help everyone…

The gods are just plain stupid, which, coming from beings hundreds of hundred years old, HOW THE FUCK? The only ones are the two who are like on top the school, Zeus and Thoth (this last one was my main reason to see this anime), who act a little more as millennial old god. One of them literally have the attitude and personality of a toddler…

The only big GOOD APPLAUSE to this anime was make the Egyptian gods (Anubis and Thoth) NOT WHITE and neither with “people of color offensive stereotypes”. Are the same, act the same, as SHOULD, but brown skin color.

But the rest is a little meh. Both are the only different ones, the Japanese gods look just as the Nordic and Greek. Their “god form” is a mix of Sailor Moon style with some vague representation of their characteristics.

Their personality are based on one quote of wikipedia, ignoring the 99% of their original lore, their relationships are also very basic. Half of the screen time are just simping over the girl, trying to see who will keep her as if she was just a prize and not a being with own brain (hello misogyny my old friend) and she is pretty much a toy with no self-love or even the ovaries to speak (she shutters and say “but” all the time).

They also end shirtless or semi naked way too often to be barely 12 episodes long and make me think, whoever made it, was thinking in “I will make a bunch of hot dudes, showing tasty meat, to make the girls see this anime”.

Another issue with the design is that they look pretty similar. Except the change of the hair color and style, they are the damn same, to the point of be hard to identify them at first, even the girl has THAT FACE. Again, only is easy for the Egyptians gods and Zeus. They are all so absurdly THIN like, damn, they have muscles but, you know, to have these muscles, do you have bones below or something? They are eels…

Their conflicts seem so damn deep in some point that make you think “ok, now the drama start!” but no, all is fixed in one chapter as if they put the issue under a rug.

The names are a big “wtf”. The character Melissa is showed as if is going to be important but I still try to figure out why the fuck they made him/her.

Being an old shitty person a side, I can say, even so, they somehow manage to be charming enough to make you get a little sad when the bad shit happens. After all, they are just a bunch of bimbos: no brain, pretty, nice guys.

There are a few plots twist that can make you say “cool”.

Background and scenery are great, night skies were my favorite.

Score: 2.5/5 and 5/10. Is fine if you are bored one day and want to binge a fast show without need to think, but don’t expect too much. And kinda avoid it if you are fan of any of these gods (much less a nerd of their mythology) or you will end spitting foam and cursing in old latin.

[gizkalord]

fast review of ep 3 and a few big picture thoughts now that we’re halfway through (spoilers ahead!)

the good:

THE RETURN OF THE KING (haydenkin). more fever dream/vision anakin please

good scenes between obi-wan and leia. their discussion about their respective parents was really nice

i would have liked a bit deeper of a dig into what it meant for him to give up his parents, as a contrast with anakin’s arc with his mother. obi-wan expresses sadness of having to leave them behind—are these feelings he’s always had/acknowledged? or have they only been brought to the forefront because of what happened to anakin? does he wonder if separating anakin from his mother played a role in his fall? basically how has his thinking in these regards changed?

still think reva was either a youngling who escaped the temple and resents having been a jedi/obi-wan for not killing vader, or she resents the order for never taking her in. her reaction to the carved order symbol was way too passionate/personal.

i am certain this is going to start coming out when she interacts with leia because this whole situation will somehow parallel her own childhood hang-ups

inquisitors jockeying for favor!!! fantastic

SO glad tala is a good guy

the secret bunker was v cool

QUINLAN VOS

vader burning obi-wan as revenge is 10/10 on brand we love to see it

very cool contrast of obi-wan being proficient with his blaster but very bad with his lightsaber

interesting that he lets obi-wan go at the end? just the way it was shot made it seem like he was thinking something. probably some combination of him being disappointed in obi-wan or not satisfied with how his revenge fantasy was playing out lmao

the bad/neutral:

the sets are kinda meh, just feels a bit cheap at places, which sucks because i feel star wars without good set design is like star wars without a good soundtrack lol. i think mandalorian has had the best showing for set design for live action, but overall both tbobf and now obi-wan have had underwhelming set design. vader’s castle interior was particularly bad. i’m sure it has to do with tv production constraints, but honestly this is another reason why i’ve preferred animated star wars tv this whole time.

going off of my desire to see more of obi-wan’s feelings towards his parents, in general i would like a bit more thematic callback to the prequels. what mistakes does obi-wan believe he made? how does that relate to the jedi order’s issues as presented by the prequels? does he believe the jedi made any mistakes, or is he shifting all the blame to himself? any show that purports to be about obi-wan and anakin’s relationship and anakin’s fall should honestly be discussing those issues.

anyways entirely possible we’ll get more on it, now that obi-wan has physically encountered vader

there’s a bit of flatness overall—again, i think it might be a combination of tv budget and me feeling like they’re not fully committing to digging into the real meat. i still think this show is going well though!

precocious children are tricky to write, and this show has demonstrated that lol. maybe my standards for kid character writing are higher this morning because i was watching stranger things 4 last night.