Cooking? Yes, I Fear.....

britney is free, paris is married, gaga is serving look after look on the house of gucci press tour, AND taylor just released her version of red. the girls and the gays really have not gotten a chance to breathe this month.

Formula 1 track spirits / auras / wills:

Suzuka: has agency. merciless bitch. No love in her heart. Wants to be the center of attention and will resist the narrative of the season. Possibly the evil spirit of ayrton senna lingers here.

Abu Dhabi: empty. Sterile. There is such a lack of spirit that it has become a malicious malignant absence.

Interlagos: she has a will and agency of her own. She wants something to happen like suzuka but she has an innate sense of justice. She loves the drivers, but she wants them to prove themselves. Possibly the good spirit of ayrton senna lingers here.

Imola: There Is Something Dark Here That Should Not Be Disturbed We Need To Leave Now Now Now We Need To Leave NOW

Monza: tied to the mood of the tifosi has no agency of her own unlike suzuka or interlagos but can amplify the will of others. The disused old circuit does have agency however, and its influence buffs Italian teams.

Spa: spa used to have agency but the weight of history holds it down now. The environment around it, however, is alive and angry. A place that brings out the best in rivalries and friendships. Patron saint: Michael Schumacher.

Silverstone: Her eerily flat body bears slight malice towards drivers but she lacks the power to wield it except in brief moments. Watkins Glen, however, is fully capable of exercising its agency and free will.

Villeneuve Circuit: NOT alive however the wall of champions IS alive and hungry and it wills cars to hit it or not hit it to convey its judgements to us. Also that last double chicane of the lap is alive too.

Australia: she is only awake bi-yearly and whenever she is awake there is a terrible, horrible reckoning pray that she is asleep. PRAY that she is asleep.

Monaco: no agency but IS haunted by both benevolent and malicious ghosts that have wills of their own. No idea why they hate Charles.

Singapore: she gradually comes alive each weekend as the night life and Motorsport merge. Thus each year her desires and demands are a little different and it is hard to foresee her intentions.

China: ALIVE but all of her ability to think and act comes from turn 1-2 which is the most powerful and possessed turn in any F1 circuit.

In case you are full of doubts while stumbling upon this post: You are more than your bad days. You are more than your sadness. You are more than these bad thoughts telling you that you have no purpose. You are loved. You are important. You are irreplaceable. You are so damn worthy. Nothing and no one can ever take that away from you.

yeah i love tlou sundays! (i'm sitting in my bed with the anxiety levels of somebody being hunted for sport)

HAPPY 3 YEARS OF FOLKLORE TO MY FELLOW SWIFTIES!!!!!

Happy birthday to one of my favorites; which just connected back to the little me; who used to be obsessed with the wonderful tales of love and the extraordinarily mysteries of their complexity.

From the girl who now dreams of being a folklorian fairy in a little cabin into the weeds and ancient trees!

Long live to our love, passed down like folk songs!🌲🪄🧚‍♀️

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i had to make a solution for this for myself, mostly because of depression, but it makes a nice How To for folks who are low on spoons or could use some help in the kitchen.

Fortunately i was a professional cook for over a decade. UNfortunately the first post i made explaining it was suuuuper long. Let's see if i can do better

So you select any protein that you can cook in a frying pan -- chicken breasts, ground beef, pork chops, sausages, steak, chicken thighs, whatever. You also select one or two types of veggie (mushrooms or tubers also work, i just did this with potatoes and carrots for dinner tonight).

[i like cooking for vegetarians, but this is how i cook for myself when i'm low on spoons - perhaps i'll do another post for meatless meals]

You'll also need some kind of oil, and a sauce or two of your choice in a bottle. All cooking gear is a large frying pan with lid (i prefer non-stick) a spatula, a cutting board, and a knife.

You cut the veggies into bite size pieces, cut up enough for two meals. One kind of veggie is fine, or you can do mix two or three

Put frying pan on medium heat with a little oil. Tubers or mushrooms or go in the pan a few minutes before the protein. 2 portions of the protein goes in the pan, about 5 minutes with lid (don't worry you can still get a good sear on both sides)

Now flip your protein if it's flip-able and add normal veggies, put the lid back on another five-ish minutes.

Take your protein out and put it with one portion of the veggies in a microwave safe container. That's going to be your lunch tomorrow. Put the other portion of protein on a plate to rest (you have to let a cooked protein sit a couple minutes before you serve it or when you cut into it all the juices run out and it goes dry - the liquids thicken as it cools, preventing this drying out if you let it rest, the goal is to serve it very warm but not hot hot)

While it's resting, pour some sauce from your bottle in the pan with the rest of the veggies and turn up the heat. A single sauce/bottle is fine, i like to get fancy and mix a couple. Two examples of personal favorite mixes are 1: bbq sauce and a hot sauce like sriracha 2: roughly equal parts low sodium soy sauce and worcestershire (makes something similar to a teriyaki sauce) A swallow of wine is almost always a great option if you want to add that to your sauce too, just add it to the pan before the other sauces so the alcohol has time to burn off.

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Here is the important bit. While your veggies are finishing, wash your cutting board and chef knife. Then when you dump your veggies and sauce over your protein on the plate, while it is still too hot to eat, you wash your frying pan and spatula before you eat. Now the only dishes you have left to do are your plate and fork. Maybe a steak knife.

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The whole thing takes about 35 minutes even with washing the dishes, and that includes your lunch for the next day- just pour a different sauce on and stick it in the microwave for a couple minutes (or five minutes back in the frying pan) and you have a full healthy lunch with a different flavor

You can use this technique every single meal and it yields hundreds of combinations, from pork and potatoes bbq, to salmon and broccoli teriyaki, to chicken and zucchini in a soy glaze.

It will keep you down to less than an hour of kitchen time per day total for both lunch and dinner including all dish clean up, uses the least dishes, the least effort, requires the least technique, and is, depending on what you pick out, very affordable

here are a couple more examples from this month; i didn’t take pictures of the salmon i did recently, but you get the idea

it's not super fancy, but it is easy, affordable, quick, and any flavors you want. Hope this helps some folks

Happy Cooking!

y’all expose yourselves and take this fanfic test i was just forced to by an irl so now i’m making you too