at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
print disabled access and the internet archive
to access books on the IA that have lost public rights (aka most of them) all you need to do is this:
fill out this self-reporting form, where it asks if you have a disability and are thus eligible for print disabled access.
what this form asks is if you have ever had accommodations during schooling, if you are mentally ill, have a physical disability, etc. and you submit it and in a few days you get access.
they do not ask for any sort of documentation or information, just say 'i'm disabled'...they want to give it to you.
This isn’t stealing disabled resources or whatever btw. It’s a loophole they came up with after a lawsuit a few years back that said books couldn’t be publicly available to everyone (for copyright reasons). They want you to exploit this system because they wanted things to be free in the first place. The only downside is you can’t download pdfs directly and to download the epub you need conversion software. The in browser reader is really manageable tho ! Especially with an archive.org account where you can bookmark/list/favorite.
Bianca wants to help parent the baby. Unfortunately she can’t resist the urge to kick
no need to fear, I did eventually convince her to sit nice with little Bug
warrior name BABYKICKER
You sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday.
THE X FILES : season 4 episode 17 (TEMPUS FUGIT)
omg u think ancient greece is for morally good progressive leftist girls n gays n ancient rome is for ontologically bigoted n violent cishet white men? shld we tell everyone? shld we throw a party? shld we invite the song of achilles
absolutely could not live with myself if i did not share this with all of you:
The chewerrrrrrs
this is the full video of the hyraxes drinking tea btw it’s great. the guy chides them because the tea is hot
one thing visitors comment on is how much Belphie groans in his sleep. like we'll all be sitting in the living room, and they'll say "what in the world is that loud ominous groaning," and then they'll follow the noise to a heating vent where Belphie is upside down on a sheepskin rug, groaning like a christmas ghoul
resplendent on his furs
Julie Andrews, promoting her return to Broadway, in the stage adaptation of Victor Victoria! New York, 1995.
Jared Harris talking about filming The Terror with Tobias Menzies in Russell Potter's class at Rhode Island College, November 2018
JARED: I think there was one take — the walk and talk at the beginning of 8, where he reveals what his background was. And we get to the end of that dialogue. And we’re looking at each other and the director didn’t say cut. And we were staring at one other and it extended the moment. And Tobias says “What are we supposed to do now?” And I said “I think we’re supposed to make out.”
[audience laughter]
JARED: But, but, I mean that’s a flip response but it was a sort of love story in a sense, in that one of the things that was key to the survival of these people was, you know, you have to have hope in your own situation, you have to believe in your survival. You’ve got to care about each other.