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One Hit Wonder - Charlotte Winslow 🥇

Especially because of the way that they positioned this entire scene. I mean… look at how the animators designed this. 

This movie is about wilful loss. 

Just… stay with me for a second on this one. Because Treasure Planet may be one of the only fucking movies I’ve ever seen that says losing may be the best and brightest option. 

You’ve got Jim, who’s emotionally tumbled up inside, chasing things just to feel anything, losing more and more of himself the farther he goes. He’s desperately searching for something metaphysical and losing miserably, and so he decides instead to try and look for a treasure, wondering if maybe a tangible goal could fulfill him. 

And then you have Silver, who we’re not yet sure of emotionally, but physically, he embodies the idea of accidental loss- where he’s lost parts of himself trying to find something material. Obsessing over things and objects and, in return, failing. He decides to give it another go, trying to steal a ship and take a crew and eventually succeed in hoarding the largest treasure the galaxy had ever seen.

Then the physical and the metaphysical meet. And they sit. And they talk. And, on a single trip on a single boat, they find what they need. 

And they find it in losing. 

Silver gives up treasure. 

Jim gives up trying to earn a lost fathers pride. 

And it’s only by giving up their goals that they can find new ones. 

I’m not saying that this movie promotes giving up dreams. Far from it. This movie, instead, promotes the wonderful and delicate idea that if we push ourselves onto dreams, we’re likely to lose them and, in return, lose ourselves. 

It’s the things that we allow to happen to us, when we let ourselves to be vulnerable, that truly change us and make us whole. 

—

Kristie Betts

1. It helps you regain your perspective on life.

2. It helps you to think more clearly and rationally.

3. It helps you to relax, and to unwind properly.

4. It helps to regulate and to calm powerful emotions.

5. It helps you figure out what you truly think and feel.

6. It helps you find solutions that are meaningful to you.

New Yorker: take a left up over at 6th and catch the bus between 12th and 32nd. there you’ll see a hotdog cart at the corner of 53rd…you gotta go on straight past to 47th. between 8th and 34th there’s a little place, ask for Mikey, tell him I sent you an he’ll let you in aight

So today I had to take care of my 4 year old cousin. As usual, he expected me to bake him some sort of a dessert. As much as I love working alone, when it comes to kids, I like to get them involved in anything that I am doing , so they can learn to appreciate everything they are given by experiencing the hard work behind it. So today, Viktor baked his first brownies. 

Ingredients :

Batter:

Milk Chocolate - 300 g

Flour -  125 g

Coconut Flakes - 30 g

Cocoa Powder - 50 g

Espresso Powder - 50 g

Granulated Sugar - 400 g

Bourbon Vanilla Sugar - 8 g

Brown Sugar - 100 g 

Pinch of salt

Six eggs

Unsalted butter - 250 g ( at room temperature )

Instructions :

Prepare your pan and put it aside. Make sure to spread butter on the entire surface of the baking paper, not only underneath.

Preheat your oven to 180 C.

Chop your chocolate in big chunks. The only things I actually did were give instructions, use the knife where we had to and turn on the oven. As you can see , my little one was getting ready to steal a little bit of chocolate for his own enjoyment. 

Next step is mixing up your sugar in the motion he is actually describing with this hand.

Crack your eggs one by one and mix them with the help of a hand mixer.

Incorporate as much air as you can and make sure the sugar dissolves completely. My little one was counting the yolks and pointing to an egg shell that fell into the batter.

Once enough air had been incorporated, you are ready to melt your butter. Viktor was protecting his spoon, hoping I will not dare use it myself.

Make sure the butter is hot enough so the chocolate melts as well once you add it.

Mix it with your hand mixer. Viktor gave up on the spoon easily.

(Tasting it is optional.)

Gradually, add the chocolate into the other batter and mix them together well.

No need to use the spoon anymore, don’t follow the steps of this child. By this time, he was already pretending that my batter bowl was his steering wheel. 

After the chocolate is incorporated, the batter should look like this. Now it is time to add the dry ingredients.

Sift the flour, cocoa powder and salt and incorporate them in the batter without deflating it. He made a bit of a mess.

Use a spatula.

Add your coconut flakes.

Pour the batter into your pan and leave it in the oven for 20 minutes.

Take it out and wack it down on the table a few times so the top layer breaks and forms that delicious crust we all love. This will also even out the interior texture.

Sprinkle a bit of sugar on top and put it back into the oven for another 20 minutes.

Let it cool completely before you take it out of the pan.

Cut it in squares.

Serve it with a scoop of ice-cream or even by itself. 

And there you have it ! The most delicious and moist brownies. 

By the time we finished, my brother joined as well. This was all team work and we had an amazing time together.

PS : I’ll let them bake from now on. Giving only directions feels great.