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like you get those ‘i hate to cook! 101: easy meals for the kitchen novice!’ and it still wants you to make a three-cheese spinach casserole

mine would be like

did you know you can put chocolate chips on a spoonful of peanut butter and obtain the perfect snack

did you know if you crack some eggs into your pasta sauce and stir there’s more protein in it so you can go longer without having to make another goddamn meal

did you know you can mix a cup of cooked rice to any condensed soup instead of water and now you have dinner and breakfast

also put cheese on it

put cheese on fucking everything

dump all your chinese delivery into a hot pan and crack two eggs into it, stir, now it is soft and good

if you add a kraft single to mac and cheese from the box it’s magically more delicious (and if you also add hot sauce then it’s spicy)

nachos: chips + shredded cheese + salsa + rummage in fridge in case there’s other things?  and then under the broiler for a minute or two.  if it’s hot it counts as a meal!  works good on stale chips.

an incomplete list of vegetables that won’t instantly rot on you: anything frozen, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes (they get wrinkly but u can still eat them), carrots, onions…i throw away a lot of veggies that have gone soft :(

2. Just before it’s ready, when there’s about a pinkie fingernail’s worth of water on the top, add in a tablespoon of peanut butter. 

3. Stir. Cook the rest of the way. 

4. It’s a meal! It has carbs and protein, it’s filling, it tastes good and it looks and feels like a legitimate dish, which is great for lifting the spirits a bit. 

Since no-one explained how to cook rice: (1) put bit of oil in pot, heat up on medium flame, (2) add 1-1.5 cup rice, mix up and add a bit of salt (you may need to reduce flame), (3) while you’re doing that, boil water in an electric pot, (4) add 2 cup water for each 1 cup rice; reduce flame a few seconds before you do that and mind the steam won’t hit you, (5) cover and set a 20min timer.

Pasta: (1) boil water, lots of water (covered pot goes fast; you can also use an electric pot for a shortcut and bring to a full boil on the stove - experiment), (2) up to 100 gr pasta per 1L water will work, but the more water per pasta the better, (3) reduce flame to medium (light bubbling), add pasta, set time to 10min, (4) check and add time as necessary - you may not need to.

Egg or bean noodled cook faster than pasta - like, half the time.

Easiest pasta sauce: 20-50gr of butter, melt; 1-2tbs lemon juice, homogenize; dump in pasta (and possibly peas, boiled from frozen). Taken 5min or under and will liven up pasta that’s been sitting in the fridge.

Easiest cream sauce: 1 standard (250ml) cream carton, 1 tsp shredded cheese (keeps well in freezer) or more, 1 tbs cottage cheese, spices to taste. Heat in a small pot on a small-to-medium flame while stirring constantly (if it’s too hot to stick a finger in, it’s too hot). Takes maybe 5-10min. Will keep in fridge up to 1 week.

Rice freezes well. Pasta doesn’t. Plain pasta (and most noodles) will last for up to a month in the fridge, though, and just dump it in the pan with some ketchup/tomato paste(+oil + water) and you’re good.

…nobody said that dry onion lasts? Dry onion lasts. Fried onion freezes well and keeps forever. So does diced garlic. If you like ‘em but worried about them going bad/don’t always have the time or spoons to deal with ‘em, there you go.

Fresh bread freezes well. Keep emergency bread in your freezer, sliced. It’ll thaw in the fridge/on the counter overnight, or you can stick a slice as-is in the toaster (just turn it up 1 notch relative to your usual preference).

Potatoes in their peel are the single most nutritious food. (You can, actually, survive on mashed potatoes.) A boiled potato will stay good in the fridge for a couple days. Boil partway (should still somewhat resist a fork), turn over/toaster oven on 150C (350F) or higher while you do the rest, slice potato(s), spread like deck of cards, brush oil over (with the sort of silicone brush one uses for eggs - costs next to nothing and you’ll be glad you got it), bit of salt, stick into oven and come back 20-40min later. Will re-heat well.

All of the following are good in eggs, just (1) dump them in the pan before the eggs, (2) the more you fluff up the eggs the betters: cubed semi-boiled potatoes, sliced/cubed tomatoes, tinned garbanzo beans (<-legume), tinned/frozen corn. Tinned and frozen stuff lasts forever. A pre-boiled potato and a couple eggs will save your ass on a cold, miserable morning.

3 shortbread cookies + 2 glasses of milk = 500kcal balanced dinner. Or breakfast.

1 cup cooked pasta + couple fluffed up eggs + shredded cheese (from frozen) to taste, in a stove-top pan or in the oven for ~20min = full meal.

Black lentils, cooked, will last nicely in the fridge - and unlike other legumes, they don’t need a pre-soak and only take 20min to cook. ½ bowl + 3 tbs oil + 2 tsp lemon juice + ¼ onion = dinner so nutritious you won’t believe it.

Cottage cheese and honey. No really. You only need a couple tsp honey for 250gr cottage tub.

1tbs peanut butter (flat as you can make it) + 3 tbs soy + 2 tbs maple/honey + 1 tsp vinegar = marinade for ~500gr of whatever. Takes ~5min to mix, 20min-2hr to soak, 5-10min to fry (non-stick pan and you don’t need oil). This + pot of rice (<-make while chicken/meat soaks) = lunch for a week. (Or dinner, if dinner’s your main meal.)

A tin of mayonnaise will last for months in the fridge. Hardboiled eggs last a nice while, too. 3 hardboiled eggs, chopped + 1tbs mayo + 1/3 onion chopped = 5min of work and egg salad for a few highly nutritious meals.

Also, ramen, drop an egg and a handful of some kind of frozen veggie(the previously mentioned ones or even some mixed carrots and peas) it adds a lot of nutritional value to your ramen, makes it so much more filling, and makes it have way better flavor than plain ramen. 

Buy a jar of Better than Bouillon. Amazon has them for as cheep as $2.99 a jar and one jar has enough in it to make a couple gallons of broth. Just one teaspoon of this stuff added to 1 cup of water will give you a deliciously broth for soup. Pick your flavor and drop whatever veggies or noodles you’ve got leftover in the fridge and you’ve got dinner. It’s also great to add to the water you’re cooking your rice in to give it some flavor as well. 

Don’t buy boxed Kraft mac and cheese. It may seem like an easy approach but there is a cheaper approach. A 3 lb bag of macaroni noodles is only a couple dollars and you can get a 1 lb bag of the powdered cheese just like in Kraft for $10 on Amazon. I bought a bag of cheese powder that size and it lasted me more than a year and I made mac and cheese once a week. You can also mix it with milk and broccoli and you’ve got a great dinner of broccoli cheese soup. 

Are you hydrated?  If not, have a glass of water.

Have you eaten in the past three hours?  If not, get some food — something with protein, not just simple carbs.  Perhaps some nuts or hummus?

Have you showered in the past day?  If not, take a shower right now.

If daytime: are you dressed?  If not, put on clean clothes that aren’t pajamas.  Give yourself permission to wear something special, whether it’s a funny t-shirt or a pretty dress.

If nighttime: are you sleepy and fatigued but resisting going to sleep?  Put on pajamas, make yourself cozy in bed with a teddy bear and the sound of falling rain, and close your eyes for fifteen minutes — no electronic screens allowed.  If you’re still awake after that, you can get up again; no pressure.

Have you stretched your legs in the past day?  If not, do so right now.  If you don’t have the spoons for a run or trip to the gym, just walk around the block, then keep walking as long as you please.  If the weather’s crap, drive to a big box store (e.g. Target) and go on a brisk walk through the aisles you normally skip.

Have you said something nice to someone in the past day?  Do so, whether online or in person.  Make it genuine; wait until you see something really wonderful about someone, and tell them about it.

Have you moved your body to music in the past day?  If not, do so — jog for the length of an EDM song at your favorite BPM, or just dance around the room for the length of an upbeat song.

Have you cuddled a living being in the past two days?  If not, do so.  Don’t be afraid to ask for hugs from friends or friends’ pets.  Most of them will enjoy the cuddles too; you’re not imposing on them.

Do you feel ineffective?  Pause right now and get something small completed, whether it’s responding to an e-mail, loading up the dishwasher, or packing your gym bag for your next trip.  Good job!

Do you feel unattractive?  Take a goddamn selfie.  Your friends will remind you how great you look, and you’ll fight society’s restrictions on what beauty can look like.

Do you feel paralyzed by indecision?  Give yourself ten minutes to sit back and figure out a game plan for the day.  If a particular decision or problem is still being a roadblock, simply set it aside for now, and pick something else that seems doable.  Right now, the important part is to break through that stasis, even if it means doing something trivial.

Have you seen a therapist in the past few days?  If not, hang on until your next therapy visit and talk through things then.

Have you been over-exerting yourself lately — physically, emotionally, socially, or intellectually?  That can take a toll that lingers for days. Give yourself a break in that area, whether it’s physical rest, taking time alone, or relaxing with some silly entertainment.

Have you changed any of your medications in the past couple of weeks, including skipped doses or a change in generic prescription brand?  That may be screwing with your head.  Give things a few days, then talk to your doctor if it doesn’t settle down.

Have you waited a week?  Sometimes our perception of life is skewed, and we can’t even tell that we’re not thinking clearly, and there’s no obvious external cause.  It happens.  Keep yourself going for a full week, whatever it takes, and see if you still feel the same way then.

So here’s the thing about callout culture, and why I’ve finally hit this point where I just want to throw it wholesale out of fandom:

There is an important difference between:

“This thing you made bothers me because my experience is _____”

"This thing you made is terrible and you are harming every person who experiences ____”

Because here’s the thing: fandom creations are not a psychic link into someone’s head. You cannot look at someone’s fiction and determine why they wrote it; you cannot look at a piece of art and decide what others take from it. And when it comes to things like disability, trauma, all those things White Knights love to save us from, you have a very wide range of experience. There are people out there who are writing from lived experience - they just react to their situation differently. What may infuriate and enrage you could be cathartic to someone else.

In fact, I’m going to take it one step further: since when was it a requirement that all fanworks reflect real life?  Have we forgotten there’s a line between reality and fiction?  Cause you know what, there’s people out there who aren’t up to reading Hard Hitting and Hyper Realistic depictions of the shit they go through 24/7. Some of the people who write fluffy stories about characters magically healing via the power of improbable romance are people who desperately need that fantasy in their life. As long as people are not claiming their fiction should be everyone’s reality (*coughcough Fifty Shades of Grey*), can we not leave them in peace?

In short:

Yes, it’s okay to avoid works that trigger or upset you

Yes, it’s okay to tell a creator that you were bothered by something that showed up in their work

But for god’s sake stop assuming that someone’s work of fiction reflects their real life beliefs and experiences

And stop requiring that people whip out their trauma and disability cards to prove they’re allowed to explore something in fiction

Use the fucking back button once in a while and

Also:

- Not everything problematic causes actual harm in the universe. Words, art, and fiction can absolutely affect people’s views and behavior, can influence them to do wonderful or awful things, but that doesn’t mean they always do. A work’s potential to cause harm is limited by its potential to persuade and the size of its audience—and the interactions between the things a work of fiction depicts, the messages it sends about them, the audience’s interpretation of those messages based on context, and the audience’s evaluation of their validity are incredibly complex. Fiction doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but it doesn’t have a one-to-one relationship with reality either. So fucking stop equating “wrongheaded” and “problematic as a trend in the aggregate” with “harmful” as an excuse to be a horrid bullying shitstain about art and fiction that bothers you.

- The capacity to harm, or even the fact of having caused harm, doesn’t erase all the ways something might have value and doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist. Fuck vigilante censorship. Fuck it right in the ear.

Another stellar addition. One of the things I most commonly see callout culture fail to address is the context and scope of a situation. Wrong is Wrong, the rhetoric goes, so it would be hypocritical to complain about Situation A but stay silent about Situation B.

Not everyone abides by it, obviously, but seriously. SO MANY hurtful/nasty/awful things can be avoided if you just take ten seconds to think 'is this a dick move? yes? maaaybe let's not do that, ffs'.

In case that's not clear, this includes both people who write some horribly offensive shit (I can remember a few cases of using real-life disasters as or just after they happen as a setting to write shipfic, which, dudes, so! not! the place!), and also people who see A Trope They Don't Like It Must Be Wrong And Eliminated!!!! (Here are two things that help with that: the phrase 'your kink is not my kink, and that's okay', and the back button.)

it’s sort of ironic that the original article on spoon theory costs so many spoons to read, so i decided to write a brief summary for people who need it

spoon theory is an analogy

in it, spoons = energy

you get [x] number of spoons a day ([x] amount of energy), & doing things costs [x] number of spoons ([x] amount of energy)

for example, you get 10 spoons today; getting up costs 1, making food costs 2, making a phone call costs 2, watching a tv episode costs 2, etc

the purpose of spoon theory is to explain to abled/healthy people what being disabled/chronically ill is like, in a way they might find easier to understand

it highlights how little energy disabled/chronically ill people have when compared to abled healthy people, how much more energy things can cost, & how careful they have to be in prioritising what they spend that energy on

disabled/chronically ill people also use it as a way of talking about their energy levels

if you say “i’m low on spoons”, you’re not just saying you’re low on energy; you’re saying you’re low on energy because you’re disabled/chronically ill

for this reason, abled healthy people don’t get to say “i’m low on spoons”

creator of spoon theory has said it is okay to apply it to mental illness as well. 

A US Think Tank has labelled Tony Abbott as the most incompetent leader in an industrialized democracy saying his policies lack coherence, does not communicate with his ministers and advisers, is ill informed, fails to understand complex issues, and concludes that Abbott must go as “[Australia] can do much better for a Prime Minister than Tony Abbott.”

This was met with the general public going “fuck… now even the US is looking down on us politically.”

"Yeah, we know. We tried to get rid of him too" responded a third of the Liberal Party.

"This is not new news. This does not surprise us" said almost everyone who had paid any attention to politics in the last year and a half.

"We’re so ashamed…" wept the general Australian public. "Fuck. We’ve still got a year and a half to go before he’s gone…" Many started breaking down into inconsolable tears. "WHY? WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO BE CURSED LIKE THIS?" they screeched at the vast, empty sky.

When Tony Abbott heard this he simply said “but you’ll be glad to know I removed the Carbon Tax?” not even sure himself if he knew what the words coming out of his mouth meant. They had been repeated so often. Where did they come from? He didn’t know. He didn’t know a lot of things… like how to govern a country apparently.

"I’m… uh… I’m uh… not… uh, that is to say I am positively not, uh, compe- I mean - incompetent" he said before lazily bumping into a door hoping someone with more knowledge of doors would come by and open it for him.

"This is not new news. This does not surprise us" said almost everyone who had paid any attention to politics in the last year and a half.

     I can see the point, though, of including them, since it would open up the possibility of meeting others who are like them. I know I would like to talk about it some times.

Okay. So. To take you even a slightest bit seriously, OP...

I'm sure you are/have been a teenager, right? You know how well-meaning relatives tend to tease people all 'when are you going to get a [boyfriend/girlfriend]?' etc. etc. etc.? You know how fucking annoying that is? I hear it is pretty fucking annoying, even for hetrosexual people in non-fucked up families!

Now imagine that getting a SO is about as appealing to you as, say... crocodile wrestling. You know that some people do it, and they can even make it look pretty awesome, but honestly you don't really get it and you think they're kind of fucking weird, why would anyone want to do something that mostly-pointless/potentially fatal? Except of course everyone expects you to get a SO, unlike wrestling a croc, and they won't. stop. harping. on. about it.

And now. Now imagine that the above is your reality, but you don't even know that asexuality/aromanticism/etc. are, in fact, real things that happen to people. And given the way people are all rah rah romance relationships, you don't equate not being interested in relationships etc. as not liking croc wrestling, but more like not liking chocolate. Everyone likes chocolate, right? Except you don't! There must be something wrong with you. You must be broken. Oh god, how do you fix it???

I'm pretty sure I don't have to rehash how deciding that an innate part of yourself is Wrong and Bad and Must Be Changed can fuck a person up hardcore, right? That's pretty common knowledge now, right? Because seriously.

and I found a free pattern to make a playmat sized quilt out of some ‘Good Night, Moon’ patterned fabrics

the mat is 46” x 46”

but I want to change the shape and make it bigger

do you think I can find some online graph paper I can play with?

that I do not have to print out?

my google-fu is failing me

I just want to make it five by eight feet so it’s more a blanket for her

Nature makes research papers open-access to the public Research papers published by the journal Nature will be made free to view online in an effort to make it easier for scientists to share their work with their peers and the public.

Publishing company, Macmillan has announced that it’s making 48 of its journals free to access, including Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and Nature Physics. Citing on-going library and individual subscriptions as their primary source of income, the publishers are now planning on using an iTunes-like online repository called ReadCube to host and display read-only, PDF versions of the journal articles. 

The PDFs will only be viewable on a web browser, will be annotatable, and copying and printing will be disabled. Share and repost links will be made available for use in news articles in social media. Institutional subscribers will have access to every paper dating back to the very first edition of Nature in 1869, while personal subscribers get access from 1997 onwards. Those who don’t want to pay for a subscription can access the articles for free via a URL provided by a subscriber.

“We know researchers are already sharing content, often in hidden corners of the Internet or using clumsy, time-consuming practices,” Timo Hannay, the managing director of a division of Macmillan called Digital Science, which has invested in ReadCube, said in a statement. “At Digital Science we have the technology to provide a convenient, legitimate alternative that allows researchers to access the information they need and the wider, interested public access to scientific knowledge, from the definitive, original source.”

Hey aytag. I have a couple questions about SCC pets. Specifically, is it okay to sell .psd uses of SCC pets that were created using a PBC +Life Seed? Do I need to ask the original artist for permission, or is it just a given?

Also oh man oh man that kitsune-ish pair, I WANT SOME. :D