#virtual ground

[prettyflyshyguy]

Hi. Had a bad few days so wanted to draw something fun, and this has been in my WIP folder for years. Last time I did this meme it was with C-Virus AU Leon, and I said to myself I'd do another so here we are. This time with my favorite horrible woman - Walking.

Walking is from Virtual Ground and it's probably just a weird coincidence that she looks identical to O'Byrne.

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster

[mynonsenseistingling]

Night City Night Life

[horsebf]

Robert Sean Leonard as Cruise Ground Control (1998) dir. Richard Howard

[the-labyrinth-of-me]

THE DARK PLACE

- a documentary by Alice Wake

[littlelovelore]

did not expect him to show up at my bedroll like this

but I'm not disappointed...

[ghostoffuturespast]

Well any man with a microphone Can tell you what he loves the most...

[elliescardcollection]

[gothhabiba]

Palestinian seb3 baharat recipe roundup

#1

Arabic-language, Palestinian youtuber, from her mother

1/2 Tbsp nutmeg (جوزة الطيب) (optional)

1 1/2 Tbsp cassia cinnamon (قرفة) (quills or bark)

3 Tbsp allspice (بهار حلو)

1 1/2 Tbsp cardamom (هيل)

1/2 Tbsp cloves (قرنفل)

1 1/2 Tbsp black pepper (فلفل أسود)

1/2 Tbsp ginger (زنجبيل)

1 1/2 Tbsp coriander (كزبرة)

1/2 Tbsp dried lemon / loumi (لومي)

Measurements after grinding. Tbsp = ملعقة كبيرة, tsp = ملعقة; not US customary measurements.

Comment says ginger is modern; Wikipedia says loumi is commonly an ingredient in Gulf-region 7-spice.

#2

English-language, Palestinian youtuber, from her grandmother

1 cup black pepper

1/3 cup cinnamon

1/2 cup allspice

1/4 cup cardamom

1/4 cup cumin

3 cloves

2 nutmeg pods

Measurements before grinding. US customary measurements.

#3

English-language, Palestinian food writer.

6 tablespoons whole allspice

6 cassia bark sticks or cinnamon sticks

3 tablespoons coriander seeds

1 tablespoon black peppercorns

1 teaspoon cardamom seeds

1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds

10 whole cloves

2 blades mace

1/2 whole nutmeg, crushed

Called "nine-spice" but it's the same blend. Measurements before grinding; US customary measurements.

#4

East Jerusalem Goods store, seems to be owned by Israelis?

"Our baharat is a mixture of: clove spice, English pepper, black pepper, nutmeg, cardamom spice, cumin, and a touch of dry coriander."

"English pepper" refers to "فلفل انجليزي" "falfil inglizi" "English pepper" aka "فلفل افرنجي" "falfil afranji" "French pepper" aka "بهار حلو" "bhar hloo" "sweet spice" aka allspice. A direct translation of the Hebrew "פלפל אנגלי"; it doesn't seem to be in common use in Arabic otherwise.

#5

English-language, some white lady living in the "Middle East" claims this is used by "Arabs in Israel"

1 tbsp ground cardamom pods (the black seeds inside)

1 tbsp ground dry ginger

½ tbsp ground nutmeg

1 tbsp ground black pepper

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

½ tbsp allspice

Measurements after grinding. US customary measurements.

#6

English-language, "Levantine" food blogger, recipe from mother & grandmother

1 tablespoon Coriander

1 tablespoon Allspice

1 tablespoon Cumin

1 tablespoon Cloves

1 tablespoon Black pepper

1 tablespoon Cinnamon

1 tablespoon Nutmeg

Measurements after grinding. US customary measurements.

#7

Arabic-language, labelled "Palestinian", page with various regional recipes

2 parts allspice berries (فلفل إفرنجي حب؛ بهار، فلفل هلو؛ كباب صينية)

1 part black peppercorns (فلفل أسود حب)

1/2 part cloves (قرنفل)

1/2 part ground cinnamon (قرفة مطحونة)

1/2 part cumin seeds (كمون حب)

1/2 part ground ginger (زنجبيل مطحون)

1/3 part nutmeg, whole or ground (جوزة الطيب مطحون أو حب)

The recipe gives various terms for allspice which in fact refer variously to allspice (the first three) and cubeb berries (the last one). In this context allspice is certainly what is meant.

Measurements variously before and after grinding. It's unclear whether the "parts" (جزء) are by volume or weight; black pepper is almost twice as dense as allspice...

#8

English-language, comment on "Middle Eastern" recipe that calls for "baharat":

"My family is Palestinian and came from Jordan. The 7 Spice Mixture we use is Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove, Black Pepper, Cumin and Coriander.”

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

why is job hunting.

that's it that's the post

[prettyflyshyguy]

Roy how'd you do that. Roy. Roy.

Roy and O'Byrne are from Virtual Ground.

[olgipolgi]

Gods that smile 🖤

[usadapekora]

[purpleturtledove]

Abby Anderson - Seattle Day One - On Foot

[netripper]

pics for an upcoming pair of boots by @visixv and @breezypunk! plusss peep the upcoming glasses by beanchan2077 🕶️👢✨

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

NOT TO BE DRAMATIC BUT FIRST 1K OF SUNLESS GROUND WRITTEN!!! a little bit:

She and Darren have been at the cabin for eight months. It belongs to a college friend of his—an arcing property flanked by evergreens and nothing more. She could lie to herself. Say she’s gotten used to waking every morning at yolky dawn in the bedroom she occupies alone. She’s gotten used to the scalding silence at midnight and gotten used to lighting the candlestick on the nightstand even in the middle of the day. The same instant peach oatmeal Darren keeps buying every time he treks out to the city because she said she liked it once. She can’t bring herself to tell him she can’t handle the flavour anymore, the way she’s gotten used to it and the way she’s gotten used to her hair getting longer, nearly touching her shoulders, the way she’s gotten used to her waxen face in the bathroom's uncovered mirror. She could lie. But nothing changes the truth even when she stays up all night, rocking back and forth, hoping something will. She made it out—no more running, no more hiding. It’s a good thing, and yet the prospect is so lonely, so frightening, that she sometimes considers walking into the woods until she makes it out the other side a woman who did not survive alone.