#broadlybrazen

isn’t the long text included so that the post has a better chance of showing up in google search rankings?

I remember someone brought this up on that original post and here’s the thing: that’s both 100% correct and misses the point completely. The issue I have anyway isn’t huge blocks of texts, it’s huge blocks of badly written text. Write all you want if it’s engaging; if I’m in a rush I’ll scroll down to the recipe but there’s a decent chance I’ll go back and read it while I eat the food.

Also, while I’m completely uneducated in the intricacies of SEO I have to assume that having a dedicated repeat readership is part of the goal when it comes to selling and making money of ads, not just initial hits, and if you’re a good writer I might look at recipes I don’t otherwise care about or bookmark you as a blog to follow, vs. if you wrote some rambly nonsense I might click now, but I’m not going to stick around unless your recipe is truly exceptional and not something I could have just as easily found elsewhere. You get new hits but not repeats, at least out of me.

This is also assuming the goal is to get hits and not to be all new-agey but I’m very pro the idea of not feeling obligated to monetize your hobbies - I always felt that pressure when I was younger and it made me drop a whole lot of things I loved for years until I realized “oh I can just do this and make gifts for my friends and not feel like I’m squandering my time by not also creating an Etsy store or whatever.” Obviously the reality is many people do use this as an additional source of income, and hits and likes and comments are nice, but I don’t think we can assume that’s universally true of all people with recipe blogs.

that salmon looks great but when I cook it that long it ends up VASTLY overdone o_O what are we doing differently

To be fair, I was cooking a substantial piece of salmon, and the cilantro lime sauce keeps the moisture pretty retained.

We talking obligate predator or ‘animal that eats other animals’ because it forever fucks me up that Fox Squirrels eat birds? Considering the actual definition of the word:

Tie between the Virginia Opossum and Coyote for extant, probably Haast’s Eagle for the extinct, because I love how deeply intertwined verbal history can be with paleontology.

Now if you mean order Carnivora I’ll say whatever the extinct fossa that was the size of a cougar for my extinct category, because she’s a trans icon.

“Everything is fine, which is why I would rather not subject him to eating charred meat with *this* group of carnies!”

Ha you're a 51% majority and this would actually write a serious wrong, since Book Paul is described as having deep brown skin and straight ink-black hair.

*head in hands* of course he was 

broadlybrazen replied to your post “Dev Patel can, must and should play Paul Atreides”

I might actually care about Dune if Dev played Paul & would also enjoy the decade-long freakout from the rabid fanboys