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
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.
At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.
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Derek being so socially uncomfortable when we meet him is one of the saddest parts of Teen Wolf to me. He was such a friendly kid who grew up in a wolf pack, wrestling and playing and having zero personal space. Everyone lived in one big house and ran around the woods together. His mom babied him and scratched his head. He played basketball. His big sister definitely used to tackle him and throw him around. He wasn’t built to be alone and every pack he builds he punishes for not being the original. He was never meant to be the leader. He was always the baby. He only survived because he was young enough to still be in school. Kate Argent when I get my hands on you-
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I think people forget that Stratt amnesticized Grace with the goal that Ilyukina and Yao would be there to help him, y’know NOT DIE, and then THEY DIED before he woke up.
So like she gets the recordings and realizes Yao and Ilyukina are dead before he wakes up so he’s got no pilot, no engineer, and no memories.
And then you also have to remember that the EXISTENCE of these recordings and the fact they were accompanied by the Taumoeba means that an amnesticized Grace somehow managed to save earth without a pilot or engineer and shoddy memory that only vaguely gives him enough to work with as he works.
In my head he has the triskele tattooed over his heart, just for Derek. Stiles just goes and gets it done when he turns 18, and comes home one night, and bam, there it is. Derek can’t even speak.
They wreck two tables and an armchair that night, and scar Scott for life the next morning when he walks in on the cuddly aftermath.
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Grace crediting Carl as an essential co-contributor for figuring out why astrophage is attracted to Venus and for the breeding of astrophage doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.
Scientific contributions and discoveries made by people of color, women, and non-advanced degree holders so often get swept under the rug or erased entirely and Grace made sure Carl was recognized.
It’s one of the first things we see in the movie that shows us as an audience that, at his core, Grace is a good person who isn’t driven by ego. A lot of scientists wouldn’t have thought to credit Carl or would have intentionally downplayed his contribution.
I’m really glad the writers included that in the movie and I’m also curious about people’s thoughts on Carls presence during project Hail Mary before the launch.
Ever since the strange solar storm that hit the Hail Mary caused Rocky to change into a human, there's been some adjustments and rough learning curves. Grace expected that. However, what he hadn't anticipated was the involuntary physical reactions his friend would cause him. A flushed face, elevated heart rate, and the ever-present awareness of Rocky's every move. It didn't help that Rocky remembered they no longer had a barrier between them. 🪨🦊
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Dennis has always believed he is just truly unlovable. He's had friendships and relationships but they have all just fizzled out through the years. They tolerate him for a bit but then he does something wrong and they quickly drop him. Just look at his family, the people who were designed to love him couldn't accept him for who he was so why should anybody else? How he's managed to maintain his friendship with Trinity this long honestly baffles him but he's not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Being unlovable was a simple fact that he had come to accept over the years. When he really thought about it, he supposed it was a little sad but sometimes you just have take the hand that God dealt you.
Now Dennis has started seeing Robby, but he’s sure it's just a casual thing. They spend nearly every night together but it's always at Robby's place. Occasionally they will go out if their days off align but it's not a regular thing. He's heard all the rumours and the warnings about the 'seven-week itch' but he is beyond thrilled. Seven weeks is longer than any of his past relationships have lasted so he will take what he can get.
Robby, on the other hand, thinks he has finally found the person who has cured the itch. He's found the person he wants to spend forever with and he's not going to give him up. The way that Dennis has slotted into his life so effortlessly seems so perfect that they must be meant to be.
The relationship has become very serious, very quickly. But poor Dennis has never had a serious relationship before so he doesn't realise it. He's moved his stuff in, he's wearing Robby's clothes, he's deleted his dating apps, he's rearranged Robby's kitchen because 'it just makes more sense to have pans near the stove', he's somehow enticed a stray cat to move in. Her name is Moxi (short for Amoxicillin), she's a tabby and Dennis adores her.
And Robby is just letting him because it's the happiest he's ever been. It's also the happiest Dennis has ever been too but he knows there's a time limit and they seem to be hurtling towards it.
Seven weeks after their first kiss passes by without any fan fair. Dennis assumes Robby has a different marker for the start of their relationship so he's just patiently waiting. Seven weeks after the first time they have sex goes by with nothing. Seven weeks after their first proper date and nothing. Seven weeks after Dennis first spent the whole night at Robby's, still nothing. Seven weeks after their first blow out fight as a couple and still Robby does nothing. Seven weeks since Robby gave Dennis his own set of keys to his place, yet again, nothing. Seven weeks after they became co-parents to Moxi still brings nothing.
Now Dennis has started to panic because he is in completely uncharted territory with no idea what to do. Until he finally realises what has happened.
Robby doesn't even consider what they have a relationship, so why would he get the seven-week itch? Dennis knew he was unlovable, did he honestly think someone like Robby would see him as anything more than a colleague who was good for a bit of fun?
But while Dennis might be unlovable, he wasn’t incapable of loving. And unfortunately for him, he was falling in love with Robby. So, he’s decided the best course of action is to cut all ties with Robby before his heart breaks any further.
Robby comes home from a long shift and smiles when he hears the tinny sound of Dennis’s funk music coming from the bedroom. His smile drops instantly when he sees Dennis with a duffle bag on the bed and clothes haphazardly thrown inside.
“Den? Baby? What’s going on?” Robby’s hands were itching to grab the clothes out of Dennis’s hand and demand he stop but he knew that was not the adult response.
“I’m going back to Trin’s.” Dennis replied, not wanting to look Robby.
“Just for tonight?” Robby asked, his eyes zoning in on the key on his dresser, sans the ridiculous tractor key ring Trinity had gifted Dennis. It gave him his answer.
“No, for a while.”
“What is happening here?” Robby dropped down onto the bed and finally looked at Dennis’s red-rimmed eyes. Robby’d fucked up and he wasn’t even sure how and now he was going to lose Dennis.
“I’m trying to make this less awkward for you. I knew this was coming so there are no hard feelings, I promise. I can still be professional because we need to work together.” Robby just stared at Dennis as if he couldn’t understand what he was saying. “I’m saving you from having to dump me, look I’m packing myself away nicely!”
“I wasn’t planning to break up with you.”
Dennis nearly flinched at Robby’s response. But why would he break up with someone he didn’t even think he was in a relationship with? Someone like Dennis wasn’t even worthy of getting dumped in Robby’s eyes.
Still, Dennis ploughed on. This was going to be hard but he could cry on Trinity’s shoulder when he left. Least, he hoped he could, unless she too had come to the same realisation as Robby.
“You are, and that’s fine. It’s not you, it’s me.” Dennis cringed at the cliché line but in this case, it was genuinely true. “I’m just unlovable.”
Robby just stared in disbelief as Dennis shrugged at him like this was his tiny cross to bear. A small little anecdote told at parties. ‘Oh Dennis Whitaker? I hear he’s unlovable.’
“Who the fuck told you you were unlovable?” Robby demanded through gritted teeth, Dennis frowned at his response. Nobody had ever cared when he’d said that in the past. They just sort of accepted what he was saying because they knew it was true.
“Noone has ever outright said it but they’ve never denied it either. I suppose my Mama did always say I was the hardest of all her boys to love and that God sent me to test her but even motherly love had its limits.”
Robby quickly rose from the bed, gently cupping Dennis’s face and brushing away the tears that had started fall.
“You, Dennis Whitaker, are one of the most loveable people I have ever met.” He said, kissing away his tears. “You are kind and giving. You are always there for people. You are funny. You are amazing. Despite everything, you are cheerful and happy. You are perfect. So fucking loveable.”
“Yeah?” Dennis grinned as Robby peppered kisses on his face.
“Yeah, and do you know how I know you’re loveable?”
“How?”
“Because I’m in love with you. My life is so wonderful now you’re in it.” Robby nuzzled at Dennis’s blushing cheeks. “I’m pretty sure if I asked everyone in the Pitt they’d all tell me they loved you too.”
“Robby! Stop!” Dennis laughed. “I love you too.”
Robby pulled Dennis into him, not so subtly throwing the contents of Dennis’s duffle bag onto the floor to sort out later because they need the bed. And there is no way Dennis is moving out.
Later when Dennis is retelling the story to Trinity of his almost break-up with Robby, he expected her to laugh at how ridiculous the pair of them were. Tease him about how men just don’t know how to talk about their feelings and communicate with each other.
Instead, she hugged him tightly and fiercely whispered into his ear.
“Fuck you, you're unbelievably loveable!”
Dennis learns that he has always been loveable, he just didn’t surround himself with the right kind of people. Now he’s found his people and his home he never feels unloved again.
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