Artsakh has been blocked for 2 weeks already, 120.000 people are deprived of their human rights, many of them are children. Tomorrow is Christmas, and on this very special holiday consider supporting indigenous christian nation by donating to good causes.

URGENT:

Solar Haghorti - provide hot water to the Haghorti village in Artsakh

Sunrise in Artsakh - solar water heaters for Artsakh (please read the page, donation button is in the text, it's easy to miss)

OTHER:

Armenian food bank - food, clothing, medicine

VIVA foundation - doctors and medicine (25% of what i get from my commissions this winter will go here btw)

All for Armenia - support vulnerable populations, displaced families and border communities in Armenia

Kooyrigs - aid for those living in areas highly targeted by azer\\baijan

MIASEEN - stability for families in need

To celebrate, I’m giving away 37 pieces of official and fanmade merch, including my own fantasy enamel pins and beautiful plushies handmade and donated by @googlyturtle64 ! (thank you so much!!)

Please see below Read More line for rules and details on how to enter.

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UM EXCUSE ME THOS E ARE FUCKING PIXELS HOW

Seize the Day was a calendar program made by in 1994 by Buena Vista software. It features graphics that at the time, were revolutionary because of the way they handled color cycling. These images were static bitmaps, but by changing color values, they appear animated. What is also impressive about these images is that they had full day night cycles built in, rendered also through color cycling. A few years ago, a html5 version was made. A copy was uncovered online and there is a way to use the program through DOSbox. As well, one of the original programmers for the project, Iam Gilman, has thought of the idea of remaking it, open sourced, for modern machines.

thanks for writing a more elaborate explanation. i’ve seen these pictures be spread like wildfire without mention of the technology behind it.

"The clarity of crystalline water is so contagious, it makes us think, that it has no impurity."

José Maria Amaranto

an audio file everybody is probably in need of (HQ download)

(download link)

stop everything, this is bitty doing research for his thesis

there’s more lmao, unhinged bitty energy

I showed this tiktok to my grandma to make her laugh, but now she’s all excited and actually wants to make a chocolate potato cake. We’re gonna do it.

I’ll keep everyone posted.

It’s happening, folks!

Looks good, but we’re not done yet!

Our sweet, sweet child needs to cool before we add the finishing touches!

My creation is complete!

After dinner, we’ll give it a taste test!

I wonder how it’ll taste.

Oh…

My…

God.

It’s incredible!

This stupid cake, made with potatoes … is delicious! It’s so sweet, moist, and decadent, just like a brownie! And I don’t even like chocolate or potatoes!

The recipe from the tiktok was pretty much impossible to find. I looked high and low, but everyone posted recipes that I KNOW he didn’t use because the ingredients and methods were different. After some searching, my grandma and I came up with our own recipe.

For the Cake:

1 cup mashed potato

2 cups sour cream

1 ¾ cup flour

1 ¾ cup sugar

¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

½ cup softened butter

2 eggs

1 ½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Pinch of salt

For the Drizzle:

4 oz semi-sweet chocolate

½ cup sugar

3 tbsp corn syrup

2 tbsp water

A lot of recipes called for a mixer or a processor, but my grandma and I wanted to make an every-man kind of recipe, since we know not everyone has those things. Plus they’re heavy and a pain to clean anyway, so bowls it is!

Instructions:

1. Peel and boil the potato, then mash it. Set aside to cool. Go to the bathroom, do your homework, then come back. That should be enough time.

2. Set oven to 350°F.

3. Cream butter. This means putting the sugar and butter into a bowl and mashing it together with a fork until it’s thoroughly mixed.

3. Put everything else in the same bowl, including the mashed potato. Mix and stir well. Work those muscles!

4. Grease a pan (doesn’t matter what kind you use) and spatula batter into pan. Even out if necessary.

5. Bake in oven for 40 minutes.

6. Test cake with pick. If nothing sticks, it’s finished. If batter does stick to pick, let it bake a bit longer but make sure it doesn’t burn. Remove and set aside to cool.

For the Drizzle:

1. Cut chocolate into tiny squares.

2. In a small pot, mix sugar, corn syrup, and water.

3. On medium heat, wait for mixture to sizzle and stir it. Do NOT let it boil.

4. Remove from element and add chocolate.

5. Wait for squares to melt, then mix.

6. Drizzle or pour over cake.

Enjoy!

I’m so glad there’s a recipe now, I really want to try this!

Hey here is a thing that happened. We went for a simple ganache for the glaze. Heated 1 cup of cream till hot then poured over 1 cup of semisweet and 1 cup of milk chocolate chips. Whisk untill melted and pour over your chocolate mash potato cake

Found the original recipe!  (Apparently it was listed as a caramel potato cake in the original recipe book???  Anyway, now there’s two CPC recipes!)

Chocolate Potato Cake

½ cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs ½ cup milk ½ cup hot riced potatoes [just pure potato, mashed, no milk or butter or pepper or salt or whatever, just pure mashed potato] 1 cup flour 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp clove ½ tsp nutmeg ½ cup grated chocolate ½ cup chopped nut meats [optional, never ever feel pressured to add nuts to your chocolate cake, our guy here didn’t!]

Just… put everything into the mixing bowl in that order, with lots of mixing in between each addition.

Into a greased and/or lined tin, and then into a moderate oven for 55 minutes (or until cooked).

Frosting

2 Tbs butter 1 cup sugar ¼ cup milk 1 square unsweetened chocolate ½ tsp vanilla [also optional, since again, not mentioned by our maker here!]

Boil, but be careful it doesn’t burn. …Basically?  Stir constantly!  (also, apparently the vanilla only gets added after the mix is taken off the heat…)

He did a long-form!  He explained the steps!

Oh, it’s this lad again! Hey @petermorwood, here’s your friend that you introduced me to the other night.

Note to everybody: there are few cake bakes that potatoes will not improve (…okay, maybe not angel food cakes, I’d keep the potatoes out of those But still). Mashed potatoes trap moisture in the cake and (paradoxically, also) improve its keeping qualities.

Commission I got from @ bigskycastle !!🥰💖 Of my ancient Link and Zelda designs~ I’m so in love with how it turned out in their style.

Two adventuring hylian best bros, going who knows where

Thank you clam man

forever reblog

He says so, so I must do it.

DAY6 HQs from GM Pictures

Cr. GM Pictures

I somehow hit 2,500 followers even though I almost never post original content! So I thought I’d finally give back to this fandom in some small way since it’s all of you who have kept this blog alive by being amazing content creators <3

This giveaway is for the Solas necklace and Solas laminated tarot cards seen in the above images.

Rules:

If you have any further questions please message me! Thank you so much for these last 4 years running this blog and good luck <33

princess tutu is forever my favorite magical girl/duck, even when i have no refs and my memory of details is hazy

Princess Tutu Episode 25- The Dying Swan

Subtitle: Romeo und Julia

Background music: Romeo and Juliet- Romeo and Juliet Before Parting (ACT III Farewell before Parting) composed by Prokofiev

Reference:

Fakir and Duck danced the pas de deux from the Balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet (except one from Farewell before Parting scene). AND they danced IN REVERSE ORDER!

I think their pas de deux might imply their relationship became closer but it was time for them to part. **cry**

do you ever read fanfiction so good you wish it was a book that you could buy and put on some shelf in your bedroom and gaze at sometimes and remember how amazing that motherfucker was instead of having to squint at it on your too bright phone screen at 3 am

That’s what Lulu is for folks!!! Make your own fanfic-book! For cheap! It’s quite easy once you get the hang of it!

It

Is

So easy

(even easier if you don’t bother doing personalized covers like me but I wanted it to look realistic)

Ooohhh @epicstuckyficrecs those are gorgeous! ❤️ I only got the one done so far but I’m so pleased with it and will definitey get a few more!

Modern media and technology is SO FREAKING AWESOME! 😃

Thanks for the info!

Apparently this is something I’m going to be doing now too

I’ve done this for three of my fics (Remember I Loved You, Swallow your Soul and Nothing Burns like the Cold) and it’s ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.

I know @thepoolofthedead ’s dog ate up their edition of Swallow Your Soul too!

Yall need to be doing this!

whoa. I definitely need to look into doing this with some of my fave long fics. Maybe when I finish writing this last installment of my Wordsmith verse, I’ll even do it with that!

Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: Knives Out (2019) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benoit Blanc/Marta Cabrera Characters: Benoit Blanc, Marta Cabrera, Alice Cabrera, Lieutenant Elliott (Knives Out), Trooper Wagner (Knives Out) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Harlan Thrombey playing games from beyond the grave, estate reconciliation is traumatic, half-your-age-plus-seven-years rule is in FULL EFFECT, dude she could have DIED, Twisting the knife Summary:

When the truth was revealed, often it was not the last he saw of the parties involved. He was anticipating having to testify at Hugh Ransom Drysdale’s trial in the spring, for example. But this was new territory for him.

As he put his focus towards the problem at hand, in the back of his mind was the realization that he had to approach this not as the great Benoit Blanc—

But as a friend.

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IT’S THE FINAL CHAPTER! *DIES*

….NOW ONWARD TO THE SEQUEL!!!!!

*DIES SOME MORE*

Everyone should read this fic, it’s sooooo good!