Chiroptera Jones

On the one hand I kind of want 9pm pancakes but on the other hand the kitchen is so cold...

Nothing will warm the kitchen up quite like running the stove to make 9pm pancakes

Yeah but then I'll eat too many (it's hard to proportion one person's worth of snack pancakes) and feel all dense and weird inside for the rest of the night.

Pancake refrigerate surprisingly well. You can cook too many and eat only enough.

I'm just air frying some sausages instead. This means I can leave the kitchen while they cook and I don't have to go for a walk in the dark and wet to pick a lemon from the orchard.

Why would you need a lemon to make pancakes?

Gotta put something on the pancakes. I'm not gonna eat a plain dry pancake.

...but lemon?

Yeah lemon juice and sugar

i see you are experiencing the incomprehensible bluescreen some people have when informed of the Literal Best Pancake Topping Ever (my latvian friend had literally never heard of this before coming to ireland and for like 2 days around pancake tuesday was like "y'all are so fucking weird what even is this combo" about it being the default and beloved configuration here)

It's such a good combo that Americans make a whole drink out of it and people don't understand it on pancakes? It's like, THE classic pancake topping second only to maple syrup (which is way too sweet for me).

I’ve never heard of this, but it sounds incredible. Do you mix the sugar in with the lemon juice before pouring it on? Is it a lemon juice and powdered sugar on top situation? If you’re mixing the sugar and lemon juice before pouring on, is it enough sugar to make it thick like syrup, or is the texture closer to lemonade (American style like you referenced rather than the soda)?

I squeeze a wedge of lemon over the pancake like you do with chips and then sprinkle on a bit of sugar to take the edge off the sourness of the lemon. You can butter them first or not depending on moisture preference and how much you want the lemon to soak in.

Is this the time to share that I grate cheddar cheese into my pancake mix?

It is never the time to share such horrifying truths

Wait. Back up. What do you mean, "like you do with chips"?!

also the sugar is commonly icing sugar so it sprinkles properly but I suspect Derin’s using table sugar.

Do I seem like the sort of person whose life is together enough to own more than one type of sugar

YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR. that seems like the kinda person to own more than one type of sugar????????

why is the coffee grinder involved here. do you grind molasses to make brown sugar. is that how? inch er esting.

Molasses is a liquid. You grind plain sugar to make caster sugar.

Are we just not gonna talk abt the cheddar cheese pancakes?

Correct, we're gonna gloss right on past.

I love how you call high-income writers Spiders Georg instead of. you know. an outlier.

As a writer, I know my audience.

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

….. Didn’t know most of that

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit

Food motivated kitty princess may have gotten sushi

Oh for context it's not actually expensive sushi. Australia has like. Uncut rolls you can get from chain sushi stores for people to eat while walking the same way one might get a to go coffee or sandwich. It's awesome and really good for the kitty princess

The sushi has foreskin?

I am going to throw myself into the sea

I always like to get tempura pumpkin and spicy salmon rolls... And plain inari also cos that's very nicies... Emotional support sushi...

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

Imagine your old, weird manager who kept trying to be besties with you because you were a captive audience.