Musings of a Faerie Doll

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

Here's my recipe:

4c sugar (or 3.5 c honey)

About a tablespoon of salt (optional)

2c vinegar (my favorite is apple cider vinegar, but any non seasoned vinegar will do.)

Herbs (a couple of handfuls of fresh mint leaves and a cinnamon stick is my favorite.)

Directions:

Combine the sugar and vinegar in a med/large saucepan.

Set burner to med/high heat.

If using stick cinnamon, toss that in now.

Bring to a boil, skim any junk off the top.

One it boils, remove from heat and add herbs.

Allow syrup and herbs to cool.

Strain into clean glass jars or bottles.

When thirsty, dilute this syrup at another 5 parts water to 1 part syrup, adjust to taste. (Batches can vary.)

Also: now that you have a sticky mess, what I do is get out a glass, fill it about 2/3 of the way with cold water. Pour the water into the saucepan, and stir it around. Filter the water back into the glass through the strainer that has the sticky herbs in it.

The glass is 2/3 full of a test batch. Add ice and sip!

Great flavor combos:

Any sugar works including white sugar, morena sugar, brown sugar, black sugar and grated palm sugar. Honey is the original sweetener, but it can be tricky to measure and it tends to be expensive. I'm interested in trying molasses, too.

Mint + cinnamon in Apple Cider vinegar

Star Anise+ White rice vinegar

White or red vinegar and rose petals

Cardamon with any vinegar (can be combined with rose petals)

Fresh basil and any vinegar (Sweet Thai Basil is particularly lovely)

Use carbonated water as your mixer for a refreshing option!

Add muddled fresh herbs

Terrible Mistakes:

Don't over boil it; you will make Accidental Candy that will NOT dissolve in water

Don't use seasoned vinegar (such as sushi rice vinegar) because the salt content is way too high.

Dried herbs sort of work but fresh is better.

me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:

no.

NO.

starting to rock back and fourth.

you do not understand.

you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.

we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.

do not tempt fate youngling.

step away from the paywall.

that is how you summon the ancient evils.

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

ok so first of all lets start with the t rex. her very first moment is the goat leg ending up on the car, but we can see in the next shot that she is very capable of swallowing the goat whole. so how did that leg get there? given evidence that t. rexes were likely social creatures, i like to imagine that the leg on the car was more “here you go have part of my meal because you’re small” for the humans

next is her communication. i want to look at one specific thing, which was actually the thing that prompted the post

to me, that certainly looks like eye pinning. eye pinning is a behavior in birds that signals high stimulation. here’s what it looks like in a bird

it can be positive or negative, but in this case it’s probably not negative, because there’s nothing forcing the rex to stay there. if she wanted to leave the situation she could hit the bricks

the continual roaring also sort of suggests play behavior to me. there’s not really any sense in making a shitload of noise at your prey (unless you’re trying to scare them out of cover, but we know she doesn’t need to do that because we see she’s strong enough to just break into the car) so, especially because they keep screaming, that reads way more like “im making noises and they’re making noises back ^w^” then it does as trying to intimidate prey for some reason

play behavior also makes sense because we know, canonically, she’s crazy understimulated. alan grant says as much when he mentions that they aren’t feeding her in a way that promotes hunting behavior. the way she noses at the jeep and spins it really just looks more like curious interaction than anything, as well as all the chasing people she does

next, the raptors. their really famous scene is the kitchen, but first let’s establish some facts about them. we know from muldoon and what we’re shown that:

- they’re smart enough to use one of their own as a distraction for flanking maneuvers

- they’re good at problem solving enough to wait until the electric fences are turned off to systematically test them for vulnerabilities

- they’re absurdly fast. “60 mph on open ground” fast

- they are absolutely not in a big enough enclosure

- they’re not fed in a way that promotes hunting behavior either

so when you put all this information together and then look at the kitchen scene, i don’t believe for even one second that the “hide behind the counter” routine is fooling those two raptors for any time at all. that entire sequence of loudly scrambling around the kitchen while something that can keep pace with a cheetah pretends it can’t catch you? yeah that makes WAY more sense as play behavior than it does hunting, especially since we see numerous times that there are many things on the island easier to catch and eat than a bunch of skinny humans (this goes for the rex, too!)

the bit with the noises is also true here. more true, if anything. muldoon tells us the raptors are ambush predators, so why on earth would they get into a hunting ground and then risk scaring their prey off with the loud barking calls? “hi we’re here come out and play” is a much more sensible use of a call loud enough to hurt a human’s ears from across a room in that situation

No actually I’m gonna start

If police HAVE to arrest the “primary aggressor” in domestic violence situations, the following trends take place:

Police arrest the person with the less visible injuries. Given the prevalence of strangulation in intimate partner violence, especially heterosexual, and the fact that ~80% of strangulations leave no marks, while defensively clawing at your attacker does…

^ Incidentally, if you do have a fight between family or household members that’s not abuse (it does happen!) this tends to punish the winner

Police arrest the more annoying person. The “hysterical” person and yes I’ve seen that word used in police reports. The thing is: after being violently attacked victims generally can’t calmly interact with the police. The perpetrator sometimes can.

Victims who are not ready to leave for WHATEVER REASON, and I will never judge what that reason is, will get frantic because one of the main income contributors is in jail and he’s gonna blame THEM for it when he gets out unless they do all they can to help. Sometimes even if they do all they can.

The perpetrator won’t be in jail forever and may not even be in jail longer than a couple days, so even in scenarios where this would benefit someone, the benefits are under a ticking clock. That’s not enough time to do anything to make themselves safe, because —

Arresting the “primary aggressor” is now the end of the case and of police involvement and no further assistance is offered (in many many places).

Putting the abuser through the court system causes serious financial and emotional stress,

That they take out on their victim.

One night I was hearing shouting, slamming, and something that sounded like furniture being moved/thrown around. Then I distinctly heard:

"I'm gonna fucking kill you!"

I called 911.

The police arrived, and called me to let them into the building. They went upstairs, and the woman who lived up there came flying down to the first floor, where I had my door open. I invited her in.

She was the leaseholder on the apartment with her toddler child. He didn't officially live there but was always around. She needed him to take her to work and provide other transportation.

I said that I worked nights, so I could always give her rides during the day.

She thanked me, the guy was dragged out in handcuffs, and we went about our lives.

Two weeks later, I hear the big fight going on up there and I hear her try to go out the back door, and she screamed "Oh my God somebody help me!"

911.

I let the cops in.

The same officer as before tells me that they can't do a lot about domestic violence. They can arrest the perpetrator, but the victims never choose to press charges.

"If the noise bothers you, Ma'am, I suggest that you move."

1) my stuffed animals were mostly dogs and cats and bears, implying that bears were a future pet option

Obvs not all access is wheelchair access I'm just a wheelchair user so hence it centring around wheelchair access

(Inspired by Ruth Martin on Insta go check them out they're super cool and amazing)

Me: I am literally just doing my job. Everyone else is slacking off.

invisible

never explained

always a different size

you have to guess the size