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britcision · 1 year

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Anyway this is your regular reminder that you too can make dark hot chocolate by simple expedient of adding more cocoa powder to store bought hot chocolate

This is not superior to proper cocoa but it’s close and much easier if you’ve always had premixed hot chocolate powder, because getting the right sugar-to-cocoa ratio is a delicate art and goes Horribly Wrong extremely quickly

In emergency situations you can bake with hot chocolate powder but

1) fucking don’t

2) reduce the sugar to compensate

Orange extract is also good to add in Very Very Small Amounts

Do Not Fuck This Up

#dark hot chocolate #hot chocolate #my sweet sweet beverage #yes i am ‘there was no hot chocolate powder in the uk in my childhood’ years old #we learned the hard way #also do not microwave for 10 minutes

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ryssbelle · 5 months

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Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

#my art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #style mimic #sorry for the @s btw #yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also #this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made #i think they all got together and drew with one another #which is really cool #but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot #and ive seen others do it too so i was just like #wow they really know each others styles really well #until i thought about it and read their posts some more #style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice #and a good way to explore other ways of doing things #like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone #also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit #so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it #anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont #but ye #i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like #ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while #sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style #so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic #Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy #being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another #buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects #so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref #as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one

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crabsnpersimmons · 9 months

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I got my hair cut the other day and of course I had to draw the dca boys running a hair salon:

Sun would be so effortlessly charming. Always chatting away with customers, explaining each product he uses and how to best maintain and style their hair.

Moon I can see being popular with the less chattier customers (like me) but over time they begin to open up. I imagine he hums while working. Otherwise, he's all ears for the newest gossip.

(The clipped up hat idea came from @bamsara's solar lunacy doodles!)

Also I love the popular headcanon that the dca can speak other languages, so I can imagine them being a hit with the aunties.

The full sketch page under cut! And some of my other thoughts

Other thoughts about this... AU? Can I call it an AU? Feels kinda small for an AU, but whatever:

Eclipse works there too! Haven't decided if it would be canon or fanon Eclipse, though I really like the image of 4-armed Eclipse working on 2 clients at once (plus, the nickname Clip is perfect for this scenario)

of course they're great with kids! They'd be able to console kids that get scared of getting their hair cut. Sun would do a little trick and tell them how good and brave they are all the way through. Moon would console them and hum a soothing song (or hey maybe they notice the kid's wearing a disney shirt and starts humming some showtunes). Every kid gets a candydrop and a balloon on their way out.

y/n works at the hair salon as a part-timer and does tasks around the salon like sweeping, arranging bookings, washing hair, etc. They don't really care too much about their own hair, but the boys are always offering to style it, dye it, braid it. With y/n's permission, the boys always toy with their hair—patting it, combing their hands through it, brushing it over y/n's ear, ruffling it.

#fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf dca #dca fandom #this idea has been running rampant in my brain while I've been trying to focus on my modules these past few days #I can't take any credit for their outfits tho these were literally just what the hairdressers at my local salon we wearing that day #this all started because my hairdresser was wearing a delightfully yellow sweater #and just ohmygosh hairdresser sunny popped into my mind #this was also an experimentation with colouring with markers #need more colouring practice especially with shading #also learned the hard way that none of my fineliners are waterproof #or at least they don't play well with my markers! they seem to work with my watercolour paints just fine #sighhhhhh #crab art #New Do Same You AU

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year

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Get Their Ass.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin ling #jin chan #Yeah that's right. This guy is a named character. All those nameless disciples in the yi city arc and *this* guy gets a name.#Jin ling finally gets his much needed outfit upgrade! Rest in peace double straps.#I adore how we get to keep learning about Jin Ling and peeling back the layers on him...It's also so sad to see him so alone and friendless #especially knowing he really was starting to build peer friendships in the yi city arc...#Jin ling really is one of my top 5 characters in MDZS and its absolutely in part because of how you can *see* how he ended up this way #and we watch him learn and grow! He's doing what most adults refuse to do: Consider that his opinions are skewed and need to change.#You are NOT immune to propaganda and I adore characters who reflect and struggle with that!#Just because someone with assumed authority says something that fits into what you want to be true does not make it true B*/#In this series about rumours and warped perspectives - Jin Ling is a great example of how hard you have to work for the truth #+1 points of friendship with jin ling: He will self correct himself if he says a slur now

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dontron-9000 · 1 year

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Cass’s Apocalyptic Series has a death grip on my heart... and has been ripping it to pieces with this latest update.

But I trust Cass, and their reassurance that there will be a happy ending; and that it’s not the end for Uncle Tello.

Unfortunately, that triggered something in my brain that I absolutely had to get out before it killed me.....

Please accept this meme to help cope

@somerandomdudelmao I am so, so fucking sorry.....

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chalkrub · 1 year

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svanhildr my beloved returns

#my art #oc #svanhildr #anthro #furry #goat #illustration #oc tober #(this is day 3......i'm doing it at my own pace. lol)#I gave her some funky white eyeliner as a quick experiment and loved it so now she's got white eyeliner i guess #congrats svanhildr you've been REDESIGNED. in the smallest way possible. and also with more horn texture (that i didn't reference)#i need to reference things more i am stagnating so hard at the moment. whatever #last night me and the girlies made the age-old mistake of putting on mud face masks together and taking a cute polaroid for memories #anyway needless to say the polaroid came out darker expected and now we have a photo of us that could be very badly misinterpreted #and has very very VERY unfortunate connotations that we did not foresee in our shortsighted naivety and did NOT intend #live and learn and never let the photo escape into the outside world I guess!

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tarufai · 7 months

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#spiderman #deadpool #spideypool #comic #I did this for a class #an ENGLISH class #but we're learning about comics as literature and for the most recent paper we had an option to make a comic #and the main theme we're studying this semester is power so i made this #anyway I forgot how goddamn hard these two are to draw #I hate how complicated their costumes are like its so unnecessary #but I also think this is the most accurately I've drawn them #and they looked consistent through this whole thing #so I'm really proud of myself #and yes this is gay but i'm imagining that in this scene they don't realize they have feelings for each other yet hee hee #some of these were fuckin hard angles too what was i doing to myself!!! this was hard af!!! wtf!!!#and to be honest i drew all of this yesterday and today!!! that was so much drawing!!! og my god!!!#but it was fun he he #except i will always hate the webs on spideys costume. hell world #they have to look such a specific way and it is not easy #enough rambling. enjoy #also sorry im reuploading this because i had accidentally colored in one of spideys speech bubbles as yellow

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taylortruther · 3 months

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hot take but i truly do not believe meaningful feminist education or critical engagement of feminism can happen when your primary method is through celebrity stanning/stan wars. because i think if you truly did educate yourself about any facet of feminism, and critically engaged with it, you would not actually seek it in celebrities.

#it's why it is hard to take a lot of feminist discourse seriously when it's about how this celeb is a feminist and this one is not #or this one said something pro-women so now we call her a feminist #like...i enjoy talking about ~feminism~ in this fandom and re: taylor but it's not praxis and it wouldn't be meaningful #if that was the ONLY way i learned about or talked about it or engaged with it critically #hot taykes

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zukkaoru · 18 days

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hilarious that people think fyodor is going to tell atsushi something true about himself/his past/his ability/etc. every word that has ever come out of that man’s mouth has been a lie; why do you think he would suddenly give atsushi true backstory information?

#‘WE WILL FINALLY LEARN THE TRUTH OF ATSUSHI’S CONNECTION TO THE BOOK’#or fyodor is going to gaslight atsushi AND the entire audience. as he does #i’m not believing a word the rat says until we get cold hard proof.#bsd #bsd spoilers #<- implied #hello grace here #anyway did you guys know somehow there’s not a single person on twt who had a good take after ch118?#and if they did they phrased it in the most annoying way possible?

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limeade-l3sbian · 5 months

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cw: mention of suicide but also, hope.

REFUSE to let life force you out of your own body. REFUSE to die. I planned to kill myself on May 10th of this year. I planned to "go home." I spent so many days hiding and crying trying to avoid certain things happening in my life. Things out of and in my control. I have been hopeless for the last two months, assuming that I would be dead before my next birthday.

I'm not a strong black woman who can brave any storm and come out stronger of any situation. I'm soft, I'm a crybaby. I get scared, I call my mom when I'm sad and I have been struggling with depression since I was old enough to understand what my life was.

I woke up last night, full tremors and found I wasn't sad anymore. I was angry. I was fucking pissed. Why the fuck was I trying to convince myself that I didn't deserve a good life?

Because I do. I do deserve a good fucking life. I deserve everything I wish for others. I deserve love. I deserve friends. I deserve safety. All of it! And so do you.

We're not spare humans who this world could give or take. You're a real fucking person with real fucking desires. You are not some written character that needs to be strong or needs to be killed off.

You and I both deserve a good life. And know now that when I saw that to you and anyone else, I know I deserve that too.

#This feeling will fluctuate #When things get hard I will feel this way again #But I'm learning just like you and I'm trying to get my mind tight just like you #We got this

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reverse-mermaid · 5 months

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former gifted kids sound off in the comments lmao

#did you know #its so good for your brain to be told you're really smart at like eight years old #and to then to spend your adulthood either trying and failing to achieve the impossible standards set for you in childhood #or struggling your way through re-learning that it's okay to be mediocre and it's okay to have to try really hard at things #we don't have to get it right the first time lads

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cator99 · 2 months

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out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

#being called butch just reminds me of how much males have the freedom to navigate between male archetypes and how people pay attention to #the distinguishing features of these varying masculinities #but when a female is seen as masculine it all gets lumped under the “butch” category #her masculinity is seen as unnatural and therefore incapable of being considered genuine or taken at face value as it is with males.#its always brought into question instead of taken in consideration with the rest of the woman's life and experiences and her particularities #Hence... Butch is still being treated as though its a huge lesbian cultural phenomena instead of a specific niche thing #also i dont mean to invite the “you dont pass!!” anons again bc that idiot is missing my point entirely (which is that im truly not trying)#but the fact is that for the past 3 years i have found myself increasingly navigating the male social world #and discovering what it means to me as a female to have access to the ability to take my “masculinity” for granted... relax #forget about it #etc #i think thats entirely antithetical to the Butch thing which seems to rest on the tension of other peoples expectations of her #people broadly are more surprised to find out that im interested in women just as much as they're surprised that im a gym queen iykwim...#ive worked hard for this and now that ive gotten the Woman Social Role thing pretty much entirely out of the way i am living the dream #i think a large part of that is learning as a dyke to appropriate the language of gay men theres a reason their terminology had #staying power even when their scene was *literally* dying meanwhile all that seemed to survive from dyke spaces was butch n femme ??#its because theirs didnt necessitate the building and maintenance of a scene in order for the subculture to hold its head above water #their labels *largely* weren't predicated on their relationships to gender roles and its telling that for dykes it was #their labels rested on the need to simply show up anonymous n be able to easily flag whether they were looking to fuck or be fucked #alongside the set of circumstances under which they would be fucking or getting fucked or what have you #it all comes back to the restrictions of female social blah blah blah and i think the sooner we collectively set down what we see as our #responsibility as lesbians and as feminists to Be A Woman the sooner we can step outside of that #n start thinking clearly about our individual circumstances and the necessity of putting on your own oxygen mask first before helping others

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clockworkclownart · 4 months

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Day 7 - Mind control- #DannyMay2024

this one goes out to all those great mind control fics in the phandom ~ 💚 please leave your favorites in the replies, i want to read more! 💚

#danny phantom #dannymay2024 #danny fenton #mind control #this one turned out more pink than i planned #but that ok XD #PLEASE DO NOT REPOST MY ART THANKYOU #gosh i love all the angst potential in all the ways that danny gets controlled and mind controlled in the show #the vlad arm with the ring was a reference to a fic i read ages ago were vlad gets a set of jewelry cast from the shards of freakshows staf #so the phantom danny was originaly an accident when i changed the layer type on the folder and danny looked so spooky #but it looked too good and gave me an idea #so i edited to look like a green eyed trapped version of danny #the spacing of all the items wasnt as good as i liked #but we live and learn #my art #clockworkclownart #side note why is it so hard to find references for some of the stuff in this show #ive had to screen shot so much from episodes

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cybertron-smash-or-pass · 3 months

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TFA Arachnus Prime

#maccadam #transformers #poll #smash or pass #request #arachnus prime #optimus prime #tfa #god the things i would let him do to me #i need to see my beloved upstanding sweetheart optimus tormented and emo. for my mental health.#its so rude that we never got to see this in an episode proper mannnnn #like. this will break him. but i need to see HOW he acts when hes broken #does he oean into being evil? does he go to megatron like blackarachnia did? how hard does he cling to his faith in the autobots?#what will it take for that faith to shatter beyond repair? this is mr 'cogs in the great autobot machine'#who cannot see how heartbreaking that sentiment is #would being cast aside and treated as lesser; as a wretched and disgusting THING by the society he swire to protect do it?#enough to make him start questioning the history he threw himself so wholly into learning?#and whats his dynamic with megatron in a world where he works for him? does megs recognize the respect optimus craves? feed into it?#does he remember his name in a galaxy who sees him as only a terrible beast? is it all to string him along into getting his way?#does he know hes being played? does he bother caring?#these are the questions that keep me up at night #anyway snag me in your web and lay eggs in me daddy 💖💖 bite me like a dirty little bug 💖💖💖💖💖💖

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tifa-simp · 2 months

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One of the thing makes me fall in love with Tifa so deeply is that she cries more than anyone in this game. FF7 is a game with many deaths and lost that sometime you might feel human lives become trivial. But Tifa is there to mourn for them, for her father, for Nibelheim, for Jessie, for Sector 7, for Aerith and more. And while Cloud always keeps moving forward and Barret chooses to solely focus on his goal, Tifa always looks around and back, reminds not only her but her friends that the path they're walking affects many people, they have to think of the others too. Tifa doesn't let herself dwell on grief but she doesn't let herself be numb to the pain either. She's the one who'll cry for you and with you, how many of us have someone like that by our side?

#tifa lockhart #final fantasy vii #ff7r #ff7 remake #ff7 rebirth #And yes this is to the asshole that call her a weakling #I hope you won't have to experience having no one bother to shed a tear for you #but that'd be hard considering your mindset and disgusting choice of words #Tifa will cry for 1000 times and she'll stand up and kick ass 100000 times more and we all love her for that #learn to express yourself in a more healthy way #society has way passed the “not crying=tough” mindset #it's 2024 old man wake up and smell the grass

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moongothic · 2 months

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Seen a few people too many discuss the concept of Dragodile Baby 2 and my hot take is that there's no way in hell Crocodile would ever detransition just to go through nine months of horrible dysphoria again, let alone go through pregnancy ever again (or allow Ivankov to even touch him, what if they died and weren't able to trans Croc's gender again afterwards? Hell naw, ain't worth the risk)

But this leaves an opportunity for a Funnier Option:

Dragon wants another baby? Sure, but it's his turn to carry it >:)

#Moon posting #OP Meta #Dragodile #CW Pregnancy #Iva-chan's HRT is *MAGIC* HRT. You get a fully functional cis ass body. Dragon can be forcefemme'd and impregnated WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY #I just. Imagining the convo that would lead to this has me in hysterics okay #Like Crocodile completely casually telling Dragon off like ''I'm not going through pregancy again. Your turn''#Like he's not even SERIOUSLY suggesting Dragon do it (just refusing going through it again himself)#But then Dragon actually considders it #Innitially horrified by the thought but then figuring like. Crocodile went through it and survived. It can't be that bad can it #Dragon would have to learn the hard way just how Bad it would in fact be lmaooo #Also hey Dragon getting to experience Gender Dysphoria in Turbo Mode would give him like a better understanding of The Shit Croc went throu #He'd be able to understand Croc's feelings and appreciate what he put up with for their baby #Which would be great if they were actually getting back together after The Divorce etc etc #Also Croc would get to be a doting husband for his temporary-wife like he was meant to be and that's just great #Dragon flipflopping between horrible dysphoria and being head over heels for his mob boss husband being so gentle with him? Adorable #((Just for clarity this is not a critique of other people's idea of Dragodile Baby 2. I just wanted to share The Funnier Option))#((You know me I love two things; gut wrenching tragedies and comedy. That's it. The two genderdsdjfghsjkdfgh))

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