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#I like how my smooth legs look #But I only shave if someone is gonna be seeing my legs #So maybe once every couple weeks

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fillingthescrapbook

I asked my friends on Discord if they used "psipsipsi" or "swswsw" when they are trying to call kitties, and I got a wide array of answers and it got me wondering--

How do you

Thank you to @space-glitter-gay, @frogs-under-logs, @justoneofthosebibliophiles, and Virginia for the blessing and the other options!

And to thank you for your answer, here's a photo of our adopted kitten:

#I can purrr #So it's like a purring trill #It works on our cats

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specsthespectraldragon

shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

coffee-or-hot-cocoa

i need all the help i can get for finals

finnglas

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.

So you know.

This might be the real one, y’all.

greeneyedpixie99

At this point literally anything helps.

songtaegguk

For my upcoming mid terms, semi finals and finals. Please.

kimlockholmes

Eh fuck it let’s do this not like i’m gonna lose anything anyways

confused-wanderer

Fuck it we ball

confused-wanderer

This?? Worked??? I swear I was stressing out about a major decision and was out of options. Today, I went from having 0 to 3 AWESOME ones to choose from😭😭 REBLOG MAN THIS WORKS

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vaspider

4-Step Shabbat Trifle

2 boxes of chocolate pudding
6 cups milk
1 quart heavy cream
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 quart strawberries
3 bananas
2 boxes vanilla wafers

Step One:

Slice the fruit. Make coins out of the bananas, place in a shallow bowl. Cut the top flat on one strawberry and set aside. Slice the strawberries lengthwise (so they look like little tongues). Put in a separate shallow bowl.

Cover bowls. Set aside in refrigerator.

Step Two:

Make the whipped cream*. With a hand mixer or stand mixer, slowly stir the confectionery sugar into the heavy cream. Then slowly turn the mixer up to its highest speed, and whip until a soft peak forms when you take the beater out. DO NOT whip too long. You'll get sweet butter.

Cover bowl. Set aside in fridge.

Step Three:

Make the chocolate pudding. Whisk the milk into the pudding mix in a large bowl.

Cover bowl, set aside in fridge to soft-set pudding, at least 5 minutes. Take those 5 minutes to clean up to this stage; clean your cutting board and get stuff washed up or in the dishwasher. You'll be glad you did that later on.

Step Four:

Assemble trifle. You can use any bowl with relatively straight sides, but a trifle bowl works best. I got mine for $15 at Fred Meyer and it's one of the best little indulgences I've gotten for myself. Trifles are easy to make and easy to change up, so if you have a little extra, spoil yourself by getting the right dish for the job.

Tools you will need:

A small bowl of clean water
hand towel
2 large spoons or silicone spatulas. Yes, you really need 2. I find the ones shaped like this work best

Arrange your bowls of fruit on the left side on your work area (if you are right-handed) so they are easy to reach. Put the boxes of vanilla wafers in a large bowl so you're not trying to dig down in a box for the next cookie and then knocking the box over or whatever. Put that next to the fruit. Put your wet ingredients (whipped cream and pudding) on the opposite side of the empty trifle dish from the fruit. Set the bowl of water and hand towel where you can easily reach it.

These instructions are specific for a reason! You are less likely to drop a spatulaful of pudding on the table if you are dishing from your dominant hand side. It's less of a big deal if you drop a banana coin.

Create a layer of vanilla wafers, curved side facing down, on the bottom of the dish. Spoon a big spatulaful into the center of the dish and use the spatula to spread the pudding outward from the center to make a layer of chocolate pudding. Go all the way to the glass!

Wet your fingertips in the bowl, shake off any excess so you don't drip water on the pudding. Put strawberries around the glass to create the decorative strawberries around the outside of the trifle. Damp fingertips will help you separate fruit when it sticks to itself.

Make a layer of banana coins on top of the pudding.

Dry your fingers off so the cookie crumbs don't stick to your hands.

Make a layer of cookies on top of the bananas and then a layer of whipped cream on top of the cookies.

Spread the whipped cream using the same technique: put a big spoon in the center and spread outward.

If you get pudding or whipped cream on the glass at the wrong spot, use the straight edge on your spatula or a paper towel to wipe it off, if you are trying to be fancy. If you don't care as much about appearance, fuck it!

Make a layer of strawberries on top of the whipped cream. Set a ring of banana coins against the glass for this layer.

Make a layer of pudding on top of the strawberries, then a layer of bananas on top of the pudding. Set a ring of cookies around the glass: face the top of the cookies towards the bowl, as they are curved and will fit the curved bowl better. Plus it looks prettier. Add a thin whipped cream layer, about halfway up the cookies, and then put strawberries on top. Another pudding layer, then bananas.

On top of the bananas, a layer of whipped cream. You'll end up with a little extra pudding and whipped cream, so put those away in the fridge for later snacks. Or just eat it now. I won't tell anyone.

Anyway, put a ring of cookies around the outside of the top, then strawberries, and in the middle, put the one strawberry you didn't slice, top side down.

Stand back and admire your work. Good job! Wow, you are a fancy adult making a fancy dessert! I'm very proud of you. Everybody is going to be very impressed. Seriously.

Put the trifle in the fridge for at least an hour so the pudding fully sets.

Notes:

You can use Cool-Whip or canned whipped cream if you want to or have dietary restrictions. If you can make the whipped cream yourself, though, it's incredibly easy and it tastes so much better in this than the spray can stuff. Plus, it is always so impressive when you tell people, "oh, the whipped cream is homemade."

You can make a fancy from-scratch pudding if you want to. I just don't always want to do that, and the Jello boxed puddings are fine. :) The fresh whipped cream makes the big difference.

Once you figure out the trifle "formula," you can modify it however you like! What you need for a good trifle, IMO, is:

a creamy element that isn't whipped cream and carries one of the main flavors of the dish. This is usually a pudding or a custard.
whipped cream. This can be plain or can carry a flavor, like adding cocoa powder or a flavor extract. If the whipped cream is flavored, it should complement the creamy element, not be the same as it (so you don't overdo one flavor).
a contrast element. Usually this is fruit-flavored, but you do you. The flavor of this element should complement or contrast with but not be the same as the creamy element. This can be fresh fruit, but it could also be cubed fruit-flavored jello, compote, curd, whatever. You can have 2 of these if they work together well (like strawberry-banana) but this is where it can get too complex of a taste or have too many flavors fighting each other.
a baked element. Usually this is a softer cookie, like vanilla wafers, but you could also make a cake in a square pan, trim off the edges, slice the cake in 1/2" to 1" strips, and then cut the slices to make squares. You can also use shortbread fingers or coins. You can make the flavor of this match any of the other flavors, if you want. I always view this as my "base" flavor, though, the one I build the dish on.

Once you understand the formula, you start with your baked layer, then add others on. Some ideas:

Marble cake, cheesecake pudding, blackberries, chocolate whipped cream.
Devil's food cake, raspberry custard, vanilla whipped cream, fresh raspberries.
Shortbread, dark chocolate pudding, fresh mango, whipped cream
Crushed chocolate Graham crackers (leave plenty of bite-sized pieces, don't grind it to dust), peanut butter pudding, whipped cream, fresh bananas
Spice cake, vanilla cheesecake custard, diced Fiji apples and walnuts, whipped cream. Maybe add a little caramel if you're feeling extra fancy

Depending on the fragility of your baked element, and whether your fruit will get all manky or not, you can assemble a trifle up to a day ahead. Sturdy options like vanilla wafers or cake, and berries or mango, you can assemble a day ahead. Bananas or graham crackers? Nah, do those day-of.

You can use wine glasses to make parfait-style trifles. This is a Smooth Move if you're having a date over and making them dinner. Dang, look how fancy you are. Such an adult who definitely has all their shit together.

This is one of those things which, if you learn how to do, really makes you look like you are super fancy. It takes maybe half an hour, 45m to do if you're using pre-made cookies, between chopping the fruit, making the pudding and whipped cream, and putting it all together, but it looks really fancy and it tastes good and you can so easily modify the flavors to make ✨️someone's favorite thing✨️ for a birthday or anniversary. You can put birthday candles in a trifle, just saying.

Anyway I've been writing about trifle for literally over an hour now. I turned off the show I was watching bc it was distracting me from writing about trifle.

I guess I should stop. Make trifle!

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(Hey, I spent a lot of time on this. If you make trifle now and go "dang, that was good trifle, I enjoyed it," consider tipping me or buying me a ko-fi, getting some queer swag or subscribing to my Patreon, which is mostly queer love poems and sometimes short stories and essays. Thanks!)

bisexualbaker

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Okay, first, that looks absolutely deliciamous, and I'm eying some of those variations to boot.

Secondly, for anyone who has them, large pastry/piping bags might be a good option for moving pudding or whipped cream from bowl to bowl. Not for everyone! If you've got hand pain or tremors or something, spoons and rubber spatulas with big handles are probably more your friend than bags you have to twist and squeeze would be, however gently. And you'd still probably want to smooth the pudding or whipped cream out after you pipe it regardless. But bags could offer a bit more control and/or somewhat reduce the chances of spilling, depending on your circumstances.

vaspider

Yeah, for something like this I tend not to bother with pastry bags, but it can be a good option for accessibility for folx! I also have seen people use large ziploc bags (so nothing comes out the top when you squeeze it bc it's shut) and cut off a corner once the bag is filled.

And yeah, I uhhh. Daydream about flavor combinations a lot. I love to bake and cook, I've been baking as long as I can remember. @dadhoc says my cooking is like "food jazz," in that I know what makes certain dishes work and therefore I can riff off of them, and I love doing so.

vaspider

Bringing this one back because it's about to be trifle season. Yum, fresh fruit!

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asexualbookbird

reblog to BOOP the person you reblogged from :3

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hmm no wikipedia i didn't know that. i mean that's pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT'S THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

archwrites

[ID: screenshot of a Wikipedia factoid that reads, “Did you know that Script Ohio has been called one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence?”

The video shows the Ohio State University Marching Band performing its traditional Script Ohio routine, in which the drum major leads the band single-file to form an enormous cursive Ohio on the field. The crossovers require absolute precision timing. It is a FEAT. At the end, the drum major leads out a sousaphone player, who kind of high-kicks his way to dot the I. (Wikipedia calls it a “bounding goose-step.”) He gives a sweeping bow to each side of the stadium. The band then sings “Buckeye Battle Cry” while accompanied only by the sousaphone. Here’s the Wikipedia article, which has a much better description than mine. ]

summersdaydream

Sometimes I forget that not everyone is from Ohio, and therefore not everyone knows about TBDBITL.

I was in marching band in high school, and even though we were one of the best in our district, we couldn't even come close to matching that level of technique and precision.

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natalieironside

archibaldtuttle

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

archibaldtuttle

Hi this currently has 37 thousand notes and I just want to ask - why?

desperate-acts-of-capitalism

Big Things Are Coming

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copiasjuicebox

do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

#10:02pm #And that I'm scared because it's raining our power is out and our basement is flooding

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kittenofdoomage

sister-equalist

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat.

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sylviaodhner

Cars and Independence

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elodieunderglass

Raising kids in a walkable town really underscores the inconvenience and dependence of cars as well. The reality really is completely opposite from the belief. It’s hard to really get across that using a car is a barrier/limiting factor when you have babies and small children. And it’s hard to get across what a much higher quality of life you have when the stuff you access most often - daycare, school, train station, coffee shops, toddler groups - is within a ten-minute walk, so you just wrap the baby in a carrier, fall into step with a friend and go do it. I think that car-centered parents in America are living a much harder and more isolated life, and I’m sure it ripples outward from there. I think that the children in turn have more independence, more relationships, more control, more feeling of ownership of the spaces they move through.

summersdaydream

Unfriendly reminder that not everyone can live in a walkable community. Cars are necessary for rural people, and they remain the most convenient and customizable mode of long-distance transportation.