Fortunately, I saved a copy of the original post (and have tried them all), so for both posterity and some free drink recipes, here they are, starting with Kaidan (the rest under the cut):

1 1/4 oz Bourbon (we recommend Maker’s Mark)

1/2 oz Spiced Rum (we recommend Captain Morgan’s)

1/4 oz Triple Sec

Optional:  Ginger beer to fill

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;

Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);

BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;

Charlotte Dillon - Research links;

Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;

One Stop for Writers - You guys… this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;

One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It’s FREE!

Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;

National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;

Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;

Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;

The Creative Academy for Writers - “Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication.” It’s FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;

Reedsy - “A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book” It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;

QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I’ve never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);

Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It’s FREE but has a paid plan;

Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;

I hope this is helpful for you!

Deity: The Walker of the Wheel

“ Traveler! Why don’t you pull up a stone and rest your weary self, Come share a tale, join me in a song.  Between us there are as many miles to go as there are stars uncounted, but maybe we can number a few of them before we’re through”. 

Setup: There are some gods that demand the worship of all, who seek to spread their gospals to the four corners of the earth. Then there are the small gods, the humble guardians who preside over their little corner of reality and ensure those who journey through it are well taken care of. 

The Walker of the Wheel is one of the latter, a guardian god of roads, travelers, and the infinite horizon who protects those who venture far from home. Appearing as a broken down tramp, a traveling mapmaker, or an adventurous youth, the Walker eschews a concrete identity or even a name, preferring to intercede in the guise of a fellow wanderer rather than act through miracles or celestial agents. 

Holding no temples save for the small roadside shrines erected by fellow travelers, the existence of the Walker is lore held only by those who live their lives on the road, cobbled together out of scraps of road-lore and tales of secondhand encounters. 

Astral travelers are also known to draw the attention of the Walker, who holds stewardship over forgotten gateways between the realms. 

Adventure Hooks: 

Exhausted and woefully lost with darkness closing in, the party hears the plucking of an old guitar drifting across the landscape, leading them to a small campsite and the hermit who presides over it. The old codger offers them hospitality and a drag off his jug of barleywine, in exchange for their tales of adventure and woe.   When the party awakes in the morning, they’ll find the Walker gone and themselves a stonesthrow from their destination, having crossed valleys and rivers in the span of a single night. 

Those that impress the Walker are likely to be rewarded with good luck charms touched by a bit of his divine grace. Dented compasses that point the way home, guitar picks that conjure visions of the past when used to strum a nostalgic song, well worn walking sticks that allow for tireless travel over harsh terrain. These items all show evidence of having many owners in the past, as well as handetched patterns of stars and constellations. 

While generally a god of good spirits, the Walker cannot stand those who prey upon travelers, and woe to any robber or highwayman who draw his attention.  The party bears witness to this wrath when bandits attack their inn, hoping to kidnap and ransom a merchant who also happens to be staying there for the night. The Walker appears partway through this standoff, and with a strike of his stick dissolves the bandit’s leader into a pile of road dust. 

Titles: Our Old friend, Master Dust, The Starry Hermit, Wornboot Bill, The Roadwarden

Signs: Whirling Stars and Nebulas, music on the edge of exhaustion, dreamlike landscapes.  

Sweet potato and corn chowder, from the New England Soup Factory cookbook.

Serves 15. It serves 12 but like.....it's way way more than 12 servings. I only ever make half

Ingredients:

7 peeled sweet potatoes, chopped

4tbs butter

2 cloves garlic, chopped

3 peeled n diced carrots

Peeled and diced Spanish onion

2 ribs diced celery

8 cups chicken stock

5 dashes Worcestershire sauce

1/4 c packed brown sugar

1 tbs coriander

2 c heavy cream

Can (16 oz) whole and creamed corn each

Salt n pepper

Boil two diced sweet potatoes for ten minutes. Then drain and rinse with cool water, and set them aside. You can just like chop the rest how ever you please because they will be cooked n puréed

Melt the butter in a stock pot and add all the veggie matter MINUS THE CORN. Also keep the sweet potatoes you already cooked out of there. Onion, garlic, other sweet potatoes, carrots, celery...all that. Sautée for ten minutes. Then when it's sautéed you can add the stock.

Bring the pot to a boil, then reduce and let simmer for like a half hour? Until the sweet potatoes are like mushy. Then take it off the heat and add everything else EXCEPT THE CORN or the reserved sweet potatoes.

And then you purée that sucker. Trying to blend it conventionally made me cry like a baby every time I made this soup. Use an immersion blender. It's so not worth it. It's so much crap and it's so hot...just use an immersion blender, please.

Then we add in the Textural Chunks. The reserved sweet potatoes and our cans o corn.

Put it back on the heat for another 5-7 minutes to let it come to a consistent temperature.

And then it is made. Your soup. Complete. It smells divine and tasted just as great.

My tips:

IMMERSION BLENDER

The textural chunks are neat in theory but I think the sweet potato could all just be puréed honestly. Corn's fine though, unless the creamed corn deal freaks you out.

Just make haaaaalf this is so much fucking soooup wtfffff

If you leave the milk out until you're ready to eat it you can just like freeze a whole lot of this and reheat + add cream and corn when you want it

Salt this fucker good

More Worcestershire never did a body harm.