Tired and wired

misc:

consider rinsing or even soaking potatoes to remove excess starch (makes them fluffier)

if your potatoes have thin skin, consider leaving it on (tasty + nutritious)

boiling the potatoes:

salt the water before boiling

sub water for broth

boil them whole for fluffier potatoes

boil them chopped for a quicker cook time

you could even consider baking pr steaming them whole instead of boiling

potato choices:

russets (fluffy and smooth)

yukon gold (rich and creamy)

reds (great if you like the skins)

you can mix them up too

mashing the potatoes:

put them through a ricer

use a mixer (saves your energy)

wet ingredients (besides milk and butter):

broth

sour cream

cottage cheese

cream cheese

most types of cheese, really

olive oil

other ingredients:

black pepper (of course)

fried garlic

fried onions

onion powder

garlic powder

a pinch of paprika

chopped green onions

ranch seasoning packet

bouillion powder

fried bacon/pancetta

sage, rosemary, other such various herbs

-Daughters of the Great Star series by Diana Rivers

-When Women Were Warriors series by Catherine M. Wilson

-Ammonite by Niccola Griffith (fantasy/sci-fi blend)

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Other fantasy and sci-fi:

-Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor

-Octavia Butler novels (the Parable series or the Patternmaster series are great starting points with her work)

-Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

-Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

-Fires of the Faithful and Turning of the Storm by Naomi Kritzer

-The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

-Spear by Nicola Griffith

-The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood

-The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

-Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

-A Prayer for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

-Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

-Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

-Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

-The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

-The Upstairs House by Julia Fine

-An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

-The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

- Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine

- Magic of the Lost series by C.L. Clark

- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

- The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

- MURDERBOT DIARIES by Martha Wells pls read them I love murderbot

- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

- Sultana's Dream extremely short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein

“Oh, he’s chewing it, it’ll be smaller.”

“He can’t possibly-”

if you've ever had to fight off a man, either for your safety or another woman's, you would realize how insanely strong even the most sedentary man is. in addition to natural upper body strength, they have longer arms, larger hands, and stronger grip strength—it's easier for them to grab you, and when they do, you are not getting away without fighting dirty.

it's why women's self-defense classes teach unique incapacitation methods that do not rely on upper body strength, but on weak spots, dexterity, and making use of our legs.

i want all these feminists who have an issue with this to ask a man in their lives to subdue them without holding their strength back. then i want them to try and get away. then i want them to come back to me with how it went.

now, imagine a situation where a man's full intent is to hurt you, where he is exercising the full extent of his strength in an attempt to victimize you, and ask yourself how that would go.

The fact is that dicks have been used as a weapon against women and girls for as long as we can remember. Men have raped women and girls with their dicks. They’ve used their dicks to forcibly impregnate women and girls. They’ve used rape, and consequently their dicks, as a weapon of war against women and girls. They’ve found joy in flashing their dick to unsuspecting and unwilling women and girls, whether that be on the street in a trench coat or online via unsolicited dick pic. They’ve threatened women and girls with their dicks—in fact, many of the “trans women” whining about their dicks being viewed negatively are posting about how much they want to rape women and girls they call “terfs”. They’ve used their dicks to violate the corpses of women and girls. They’ve written countless myths, stories, legends, films, etc. And created countless art pieces where women and girls are raped with their dicks. They’ve used their dicks to torment homosexual women and girls with “corrective” rape.

Men and their dicks are the worst nightmare of women and girls: we commonly refer to what men and their dicks do to us as “a fate worse than death”.

It’s not that women and girls are scared of dick for no reason. It’s that we come from a long line of women, stretching back to the beginning of time, who have been terrorised by men using their dicks as weapons. It is so insulting and cruel to reduce this reality to “just being scared for no reason”.

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