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edit: noticing a lot of new younger followers and would like to remind you guys that I am an adult and I do reblog explicit text posts, jokes, or otherwise suggestive content, so even though I don’t share blatantly explicit images this blog absolutely isn’t child friendly. I’m not gonna check the ages of all my followers or tell you what to do, but you need to be aware that there is sexual content here. Be responsible
edit 2: Do not ask me to reblog posts, especially if I don’t know you. This goes doubly for donations posts.
(It’s still totally fine to send me non donation posts btw so long as there is no explicit pressure to reblog them.)
edit 3: the reason I prefer people block instead of softblock me if they don’t want me to follow is simply that I will not get the memo for softblocking and will refollow
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Whale Shark has never been especially kind.
She had almost always lived alone, leaving her pod early. She preferred the quiet of alone, no hassle, no fuss. She didn’t really try to be cruel either, didn’t go out of her way to be an asshole.
Her way of thinking was that, if she left other creatures alone, she would be granted the same curtesy; to live unbothered, to eat her meals of filtered krill (no killing there) and travel the seas in peace. Not out of niceness, but out of ease.
This rule she lived by altered, when she was caught by the two legs.
Later, she would suppose it was because of her species, whale sharks were slow to attack and considered peace loving by others. She had been out catching her lunch, in the open ocean, when they got her, when their harpoons and spears cut through her flesh and their barbed nets caught against her skin. she was at first, in simple shock, and did nothing as they hauled her over onto the deck of their ship.
Then she felt rage.
The Whale Shark had never felt rage before, had never had to sit with that intense anger, red and bleeding in her mind.
and then they bled.
By the time they had her packed in their water filled cage, steel barring her way from fulfilling the needs of the red pounding in her skull, she had killed five of those bastards, had snapped them in half, said halves littering their ship. she had heard their weak bones snap and felt the hot redness, and oh, it was the red of that anger, that rage, she was certain, of their insides on her skin.
And she was amazed at how good it had felt.
she had never considered her strength in such a way, had only been aware of it in the fathoms she swam and the miles she travelled, and had been rather in awe of it as they used their pulleys to lower her down into the bowels of the ship.
And she knew if they came to her again, and within reach?
They would not underestimate her again.
the whale shark would become the most violent player in the games. she did not limit the violence to humans, although they were her favourite prey. Often smaller, weaker mermaids, who got on her wrong side would suffer badly at her strength. The Eel is her friend though, they get on well, teaming up during the games and laughing about their kill count in their time out. they get on great.
From my gladiator mermaid concept,
bit of a redesign for her
truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.
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Sometimes, you're mixing up more flour[1] so that you can bake muffins and then you spend over an hour...
converting the original recipe from a volume ratio to mass via weighing the ingredients,
figuring out an appropriate multiplier to fill 2/3-3/4ths of your container[2],
actually mixing the flour,
realizing your multiplier is extremely wrong (ended up doubling it),
mixing more flour,
making a little label for the container (a sticky note with packing tape serving as lamination)
typing up a silly tumblr post about the experience,
finding the original webpage to link it in the tumblr post,
realizing the recipe actually has grams already but the ratios are radically different than what you got,
reweighing the ingredients and recalculating the amounts (but at least you know you want about cups total this time),
making a new label, and
actually finishing the tumblr post.
No, I have not started making the muffins themselves.
[1] I can't have gluten or potatos and have only found ONE gf all purpose flour that doesn't contain potato starch within a managable price range. And that one flour isn't sold anywhere in this region (or the last area I lived in). Thus I make this blend myself.
[2] A large plastic container I bought years ago. I only partially fill it up so that I can just shake it to mix instead of need to use a mixing bowl and whisk.
Links to the recipes (with even more commentary) under the cut.
The original flour: https://www.whattheforkfoodblog.com/2016/01/14/nightshade-free-gluten-free-flour-mix/
By volume:
1 cup white rice flour
1 cup brown rice flour
2/3 cup arrowroot starch
1/3 cup tapioca starch
By mass from my measurements (you can look at the webpage for theirs) to make about 3 cups total:
140 g white rice flour
140 g brown rice flour
80 g arrowroot starch
40 g tapioca starch
Bob's red mill works well for all of the ingredients, but I hop between various brands depending on what's available or on sale. The rice flours needed here are *not* the kind of extremely fine rice flours you often find in asian grocery stores though. (Probably use bob's red mill as a reference even if you end up buying something else.)
I find it to be a very forgiving blend (thankfully, given my conversion/calculation nightmare). From what I've seen, the important thing is to keep the rice flour to starches ratio fairly close, though even that isn't super sensative.
I've done all brown rice flour and all white rice flour and many ratios in between. I've also done many different ratios of arrowroot and tapioca. I think I've even replaced some of the starches with corn starch (not a very large porportion though) because I didn't have quite enough.
(They're indeed correct that the rice flours don't have the same density. However, I found that the difference was only about 20g/cup so I just averaged them.)
Also the muffin recipe: https://meaningfuleats.com/the-best-gluten-free-zucchini-muffins/#wprm-recipe-container-28797
I made it once about two weeks ago and they were great. I also added (about) 1/2 tsp of xantham gum (also chocolate chips and walnuts). Though, tbh, I honestly don't know if xantham gum makes much of a difference in most recipes. I should probably do some tests at some point but not today.
I'm gonna try it with chia eggs this time though. I've found this to be an extremely safe sub for lighter baked goods like cakes or muffins (and it often works great in other baked goods too).
Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1.
The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.
Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemic’s early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.
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