Hello friends! It’s been a goddamn hot minute, and I apologize. I’m mostly active on TT these days because they play most nice with my Timelapse videos of my work. Most stuff gets reposted on Instagram as well, but I’ll try and be better about posting progress here too.
I’m currently working on a Sesshoumaru cosplay. I’ve got the first triplet of blossoms on kikkō (1/14) finished, and now I’m working on the red fieldwork of his collar, but instead of solid I’m doing a seigaiha design. My goal is to have him done by 2024 for competition: what’s another year on a costume that’s been in the works for three this December?
@richardiancox you think David Kaye would get a kick out of this? 😂
Are you aware of ASMR videos & of how some folk are using them to relieve stress & insomnia? Saw an article at smithsonian magazine's dotcom & would include the link, but The Tumblr Gods won't let me, so here's the article title - How Researchers Are Beginning to Gently Probe the Science Behind ASMR.
I am aware of them, but they give me the creeps. No judgement, of course, especially if they work for other people, but they make me really uncomfortable.
Except, quite notably, Bob Ross. Anne and I have been known to watch an episode of The Joy of Painting before bed, as what we call “nite nite programming.”
Some people don’t get the response, and some people get the pure opposite: fight or flight. I’m in the latter group, and a lot of whispering and smacky mouth sounds trigger my misophonia and make me want to punch things.
So yeah, glad ASMR helps people, but also not so glad that it’s popular because it’s a bunch of sounds I can’t stand without feeling on the verge of physical pain.
There is this beer commercial that comes on TV now that has ASMR sound effects. The first time I heard it was on our surround sound, and I startled my poor husband by diving for the remote in a desperate bid to mute the audio horrors.
I hate, hate, hate, HATE the tonal quality of whispering, especially sylibant whispers. It’s an instant and visceral reaction that has tightness in the chest (to the point where it nearly hurts) akin to panic and very much a desire to stop the source of the noise immediately and violently if necessary.
Talking quietly does not (for me) do the same thing. I can listen to Bob Ross all day, and have, I used to watch the show regularly and try to follow along.
For my own nite-nite programming, I enjoy any of the nature documentaries narrated by David Attenborough, How the Universe Works, and Futurama.
Aka Inuyasha pretends to be tired of these two sleepy heads but he cannot fool Ranma and the others, no matter how many times he tried to look annoyed.
Godai Yūsaku needs to be fall-down drunk in the background. 🤣
I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?
a pallet of ramen noodles
I hate ramen noodles tho
hmmmmm
bees?
Are you suggesting that I eat bees for a week
This is roughly what I make sure I have in my kitchen all the time along with rough estimates of local prices (MN). I buy a lot of things when they’re on sale and stockpile them.
instant oatmeal packets with fruit in them - $3 probably and this can be breakfast all week and maybe even a lunch or dinner too since you usually get 10 packets
bag of rice - $2-3 depending on size. 1 cup dry rice makes enough for about two meals depending on what you add in. if you get cheap rice, rinse it before cooking
canned beans - usually under $1 per can - mix the can with your rice and you have a meal. chili-spiced beans will make bean tacos. Rinse non-spiced beans before adding to anything.
Tortilla - usually around $3 but you get like 8-10 of them. Tacos, wraps, and quesadillas are all fair game here
lettuce - $2 max around here, either a head of something or bagged precut depending on preference, use as a salad or on tacos
protein other than beans of some sort - probably $5-7 for meat, $2-3 for eggs. sometimes I can get bags of frozen chicken breasts in this price range and each is usually 2 meals if I add in a bunch of veggies. fry/scramble eggs and add to any of the options.
your favorite stir fry sauce - $3ish
vegetables - $5ish. literally anything that you can 1. fry in a pan and 2. you’ll eat. fresh carrots are usually pretty cheap. get frozen if it’s cheaper and you’re strapped for cash/prep time on this part.
alternative to stir fry: pasta (~$2), fresh tomatoes (~$2), cheese (~$3).
cheese and fruit if you have extra - look if your store has loyalty cards for free that you can load coupons on for cheese there’s always one it seems like.
ahh thank you!!!
Reblogging because there’s never knowing who’ll need it.
Adding also: the single most nutritious food on earth is potatoes in their peel. Potatoes + some milk and butter = everything you need. They don’t last all that long, but they’re fairly cheap and the quickest cheat to “How do I not fuck my body up.”
(Cooked potatoes’ll last a while in the fridge. Potatoes nearing the end of their useful lives? Cook them to half-done first, figure out what to do with them later.)
Easiest baked potatoes: slice thinly but not paper-like, spread like cards, brush with oil (a silicone baking brush is totes worth the little it costs), spread salt and pepper (a little less than you think you’d like), cover with foil, stick in oven or toaster-oven at 150C for 40min. (If you have the patience, at that point click up to 180C, remove the cover and add 10-20min.) Reheats well, lasts in the fridge longer than it’ll take you to nom.
Dead-Animal-Free Whole Protein: some legumes + some grain. AKA rice and lentils, or rice and beans. (Maybe some fried onion for flavor; onion’s cheap and stays good a descent while. Fried onion makes everything taste better and keeps forever in the freezer, so frying up a bunch and keeping portions is not a half-bad idea.) (If going for the beans option - lentils are cheaper around here but fuck if I know what it’s like in your area - dump some tomato sauce and oil in; canola or soy are best health-wise, and far cheaper than olive; avoid corn.) Oh, what does instant couscous go for in your area? It keeps for fucking ever, it’s usually cheap, and it takes well to any and all added taste.
If you get to choose, black lentils taste the best and need the least soak-time (0-20min), green lentils are best for cooked stuff and red lentils are best in soups. (Red lentils + potatoes + root vegetables of choice + spices; cut into small pieces, cook, run through the blender if you wanna [stick blender’s awesome], freeze in portions.)
When possible, get instant soup mix. Get the good instant soup mix. (The kind that’s not made primarily of sugar, yeast or both. The rest is optional.) Dump 1/2tsp (or more, but start on the low end) into couscous, or chicken, or sprinkle over potatoes being stuck in the oven. Whatever. It’ll make most cooked-food-type things taste better. And again, lasts forever on the shelf.
If you can have eggs (goodness knows they’re sometimes expensive), dump some tomato sauce in a pan (tomato sauce lasts forever on the shelf), add some oil, onion/beans to cook in it, hot peppers if you wanna, then when it’s nearly ready crack an egg or two in. Hard-boiled eggs last a remarkably while in the fridge, so when eggs reach near the end of their usable lives, just hard-boil and stick in the fridge.
(Have eggs as often as you can, particularly as you have brain-shit going on. You need all the eggs, salt, and 60%-or-more chocolate you can get. Brains are made of cholesterol and salt, so folks with neuro or other brain shit need more of both. Potassium is also aces. You know what has the most potassium? Tomato paste.)
Grated cheese keeps in the freezer for ever. Grated cheese will make a lot of things taste nicer. Preserved lemon juice keeps forever in the fridge. Grated cheese + oil + lemon = instant and awesome pasta sauce that’ll liven up the weeks-old dry pasta in the fridge.
Slices bread also keeps well in the freezer. Try to have half a loaf or a loaf. Dry bread gets cut in cubes, mixed with oil and the aforementioned instant soup, stuck in oven at lowest until properly dry, then kept in an airtight jar to add to soups.
(Over-ripe tomatoes come cheaper. They get turned into soup or sauce, then frozen in portions.)
this is a very good post but why are we glossing over the fact that the alternative to ramen is bees
i have it on pretty good authority that bees are not an affordable eating alternative to ramen.
Seriously, bees are expensive
Trufax.
And speaking as someone who is also living off oatmeal, beans, and brown rice, if you need recipes, I have them!
Today I made 16 bean soup with chicken sausage and it was crazy good and I got 8 servings out of the one batch (froze half). I usually get the cheapest beans I can find, and GOYA bags of beans are usually $1-2. I soaked them overnight,rinsed them, and threw them in a gallon lidded saucepan with 2 boxes of chicken stock (also on sale for $2), two bay leaves, sauteed green pepper, onion, and celery, some garlic from a jar, about two tablespoons of dried herbs de provence,and the “fancy” bit was adding $6 bourbon and apple chicken sausages. You can actually sub veg stock for chicken and skip the sausage and make it vegan and it would still taste great.
Oh and I’ve been doing steel-cut oats. I don’t buy the name brand ones, I just pick whatever store brand/generic I can get for less than $4. They take about ½ an hour to make, but they’re super tasty and I make 2 cups
of dried oats at a time
with dried cranberries and that’s breakfast for 4 days at least.
I’ve also been making black bean soup, red beans and rice, and curried potatoes and chick peas. I got 100 quart and pint take-away containers from Amazon for $20 and they all stack neatly and are perf for one serving of whatever.
Additionally, depending on where you live, whole rotisserie chickens are something like $4-$7 and are easily 4 - 6 servings of protein and on TOP of that, if you stick the carcass in a ziplock bag and then the freezer you have excellent soup makings. Using bones in soup literally squeezes all viable vitamins and minerals out of the suckers. Soup made from lots of bones is great to keep around if you get sick, it’ll feed and sooth you relatively easily and as you get better you can add noodles. ON TOP OF THAT, a quarter to a half cup of soup broth added to a lot of dishes also adds those nutrients PLUS flavor.
Yall are clutch for this lmao cuz ima need this for about the first month after I move
Reblogging cause who knows what your followers are going through rn
reblogging for all my followers who may need it
Chicken and broccoli stuffed shells is also a really good meal that can go a long way, you can make the filling and portion it into baggies for filling your shells later:
Motzarella, either loaf or pre-grated. As much as you like. When I make a batch I usually use either half a large loaf or a whole little one.
Parmesan cheese, I buy the less expensive Kroger brand.
Tomato sauce/marinara- I buy the Hunts sauce, you get allot of sauce for not allot of money.
Bargain Alfredo sauce- Again I use the Kroger stuff. It’s inexpensive and tasty.
Chicken breast- I use three, when I make this I’m making it to stretch. My husband and I usually eat one chicken breast between the two of us. So that’s approximately three meals worth of protein for two people, also cut with other things which will make it go further.
A baggie of frozen broccoli- I like the kind with florets and ends, since it’s less expensive but you still get nutrition.
Pasta of your choice- I like the large shells but this filling/topping can go with whatever you like.
Cook your chicken breasts in the oven to safe temp, I season them with onion & garlic powder and some pepper. When they are done, let them rest for 5-10 min so you don’t burn the crap out of your fingers.
While they do that, you can grate your cheese and mix all the ingredients OTHER than the chicken, Parmesan and the shells. You will need a big bowl or Dutch oven or something of that nature.
When your ingredients are together and your chicken is now safe to handle without burning yourself, cut it up! Small bite-size pieces will integrate better. Toss it in your mix!
Now, here is where you can choose what to do, you can just freeze the chicken mix in portions you like, or you can put it in shells and THEN freeze.
For two people I’ll take the little recyclable loaf-pans from the baking section and sort my uncooked shells into them. If you’re cooking for one, you might be able to find even smaller ones. However, you’d probably be better off buying some Ramekins if you don’t have any and just freezing the filling.
Fit as many shells as you can without layering them. Then, fill/cover in sauce. You don’t want any pasta exposed. But you also want your filling to stretch, so if you have extra, you can come back and add more on top. When you have them prepped, you can cover them freeze.
When I go to cook them, I pull them out the freezer, put the oven on 400 and bake them for an hour.
If you just froze the filling and want to make -single serve/small portions you can cook a shell or two aldente (after thawing the filling in the fridge) and put it in a oven safe bowl or ramekin. Fill as above and bake on 375 for about 30 min or so.
When your meals are plated, sprinkle with Parmesan and enjoy.
PS: always use a food thermometer to make sure your eats are up to safe eating temp! Foodborne illness suuuuucks.
Also:
If you can swing it, buy eggs in bulk! They are amazing filler food to have on hand, and are very useful!
I buy five dozen eggs for $9-10 USD about every month/month and a half. They can be eaten alone, such as boiled/poached/fried/scrambled or in combination with so many other things!
Sliced boiled egg in ramen, scramble and egg for homemade fried rice, you can have eggs over toast or IN toast (eggs in a basket/hole in ones). You can make French toast, you can add an egg to tuna salad, you can make scrambled egg grilled cheese. You can make fried potatoes and have an egg for your protein! I like making a sunny side up and putting it over my bowl of ‘tatoes, so that the yolk will run down.
Omelettes galore! Get a baggie of the cheap frozen vegetables (a Normandy or California mix is what I like) -or an even less expensive can of tinned mixed veggies-when you go to make your omelette and toss them in as filling with some cheese.
Also- don’t be afraid to go to your local food bank. If you need help, you need help. Go to bargain grocery stores if you can, like Grocery Outlet. Live near seasonal farm stands/farms that sell their own produce? Don’t be afraid to ask if they will sell you the ugly but still edible produce at a discount if they still have it. The worst they can say is “No” and you never know if you don’t ask.
Inuyasha and Kagome don’t have children, because not only would Inuyasha outlive Kagome he would also (likely) outlive any hybrid kids. Instead they play awesome aunt and uncle to Miroku and Sangos kids while Kagome takes her training as village priestess and healer seriously…which having children would make very difficult.
They also do responsible things like get Inuyasha counseling in the Modern Era for his anger and family issues. As a result he starts learning a “human” trade to help be a contributing member of the village beyond just being muscle. Kagome calls him on his shit when he’s being a pigheaded ass, and he does the same for her when she’s being petty and jealous. They grow as people and eventually learn to communicate the problems they have before it turns to arguing like they did when they were younger.
It’s not exciting, but it’s my idea of their happy ending at the end of the fairytale. Maybe someday if I have the courage to write I’ll elaborate on it.
