#elladoraevans

Wait, do you have the “cellphone hidden on carpet” carpet? 

You know what’s super funny? I DO own that carpet but THAT photograph isn’t of it! The photograph you commented on is this carpet (shot from a different angle): 

[ID: A photo of a large, busily patterned rug in shades of green and cream; there is a trash bin and the edge of a coffee table in one corner.]

Which is my living room carpet. But if you walk out of my living room and into my front hall....

[ID: A photo of a narrow “runner” style rug in a cream-and-blue pattern, lying on a woodgrain-patterned vinyl floor in a hallway.]

That’s the same carpet, or rather the same pattern in a runner instead of an area rug, as the one in the photo you linked to. It’s available in several sizes, and I happen to have bought the runner for my hallway. 

I just really like very busy Turkish-style rugs! Both are from the same place, esalerugs.com, which has always done right by me, so whenever I need a rug they’re my go-to. These are just two of the five rugs I’ve bought from them. 

I think it’s possibly more complicated than that; I think a lot of it depends on where your...emphasis, for lack of a better word, is in fandom. Like, if you are primarily in fandom for ‘ship related reasons, perhaps that’s a big influence. Possibly even if you’re a big Peggy Carter fan, because the show demonstrated to us that Peggy was a whole person who didn’t need Steve to find fulfillment. I multiship and for me the weight is more on the story/character side rather than the ship side, so for me I didn’t like it because I felt it was just poor storytelling, and particularly poor characterization of Steve. But that’s just where my interests in the fandom lie. 

People who really want a happily ever after, and aren’t interested in other aspects of the story, I can see why they’d like it. And that’s not a slam, it’s okay to want that (I love a happy ending myself), it’s just a different interest. And I can also see why they might not be interested in watching Agent Carter in the first place, because it begins with the premise that the happily ever after cannot happen. The prince is dead, and this is what happens to the princess after. 

So, I think it’s a large confluence of things, but I don’t know that watching Agent Carter is more likely to influence opinions on Endgame -- I think the level of interest in Agent Carter in the first place probably plays a big part. 

Evaporated milk is probably the closest American product but it does not appear thick enough since only 40% the water is reduced out.

elladoraevans on this post 

It looks like sweetened condensed milk, which sounds horrifying with onion soup mix.

kruthie73 on this post

The can (and consistency of the contents) in the video looks like Media Crema. It’s a Nestle product and, in my area at least, can often be found in the Mexican section of regular grocery stores.

Kiwis on various discussion boards have confirmed evaporated milk is too thin and condensed milk is too sweet, and I think neither have the right fat content, but they’re closer than say, normal cream. Media Crema does look closer than either, though I’m given to understand it might also be rather thin for the purpose. Still, it’s on my list to try. 

bonnie131313 on this post

A friend who moved back after years in New Zealand tells me that Nestle Extra Thick Cream is a good substitute and available here in the USA. I don't often see it at the market but you can order it online.

Oh, that one I hadn’t heard of! I’ll look into it. 

femalesafetyhazard on this post

Layers, huh? Like... like an onion? :P

I was thinking like a Seven Layer Dip but yours is way funnier :D

arvethli on this post

You clearly just need to visit NZ @copperbadge so that you can go moose hunting while eating onion dip.

Cat Castles by Carin Oliver shows you how. We did this at my library as a program, great way to use up the cardboard boxes we get the books in, and the leftover yarn and fabric from other crafts.

Oh neat, I’ll check that out! What I desperately need is some kind of guide to how to cut cardboard cleanly -- no matter what blade I use or how hard I try it always looks raggedy and awful. I’ve tried everything from standard sharp scissors to a ruler and a scalpel, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. 

fanmouse replied to your photo “Monster is IMMEDIATELY IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT.  It occurs to me that...”

I did wonder at Hallowe'en, Sam, if you were going to put black, felt cutouts of eyes and a mouth on the orange sulk gourd. :D

OH MAN WHAT A GOOD IDEA. Next year! And I can put a ghost face on the blue one! 

jehnt replied to your photo “The cats can’t possibly know that I may have an ear infection and...”

my cats were super judgmental of me today because i didn't get out of bed until 3 pm. I woke up at 10, I just stayed in bed reading. They kept sitting in the doorway giving me twin looks of disapproval.

Hey Sam - are you talking about "If you believe" from Prince of Egypt? Cause I searched and couldn't find a song called "There can be miracles" and am desperately curious.

Yeah, it’s tehcnically When You Believe, I went back and changed it -- I always mistake the title (both lyrics are in the chorus) because I haev a ukulele tab version that calls it There Can Be Miracles. 

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Sulk clove!

For when you’re feeling extra smelly about sulking! :D 

kimmiesue13 replied to your video “doctorwhoarchiveofrandomness: My six-year-old (who has recently...”

Damn, Six year olds sure learn different stuff than I did when I was six. This is so cute!

When I was six I was obsessed with stop motion animation and other monster-movie special effects, but when I was six home movie cameras were still a bit of a luxury, so I just had books and Wil Vinton movies -- I’m so glad that kids now have access to so much I didn’t and can make little animations like this! 

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May I ask why post-apocalypse are a hard no? There are definitely some genres that I look at once and back away from at high speed.

I did an essay about it here on tumblr a while ago that I can’t find now, when I was getting about one recommendation a month for Zombies Run, but the short answer is personal taste, really. Part of it is that very few apocalypse or post-apocalypse stories are built on hope; most seem to be a kind of voyeuristic exploration of people being awful to each other, which is not only something I’m not interested in but also sort of contradictory to how we know people react in disasters. Rebecca Solnit wrote a great nonfiction study of this called A Paradise Built In Hell, but the book also sort of proved to me that I didn’t want to read postapocalyptic literature regardless of its levels of hope, because I had a really hard time with the nonfiction book. So yeah, I could talk about the flaws in the genre, but I also make exceptions on occasion (Snowpiercer comes to mind) and it boils down to basically “It’s not my bag.” 

elladoraevans replied to your post “elladoraevans replied to your photo “Monster is IMMEDIATELY IN THE...”

This sounds counterintuitive, but try a fine sawtooth edge. It's what we use at the library and if you get a dedicated cardboard cutter, you can even cut circles out for the cryptids to jump in or peer out.

Yeah, someone in asks suggested to me a cardboard knife with a serrated safety edge, and apparently they run about $8 at hardware stores, so I’m going to pick one up and try one of those. 

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Please inform your cat that they are baby