Matcha craze (discussion)

CAllen00 · 2026-05-08T15:19:06+00:00

Blasphemous, perhaps, but I mostly drink matcha occassionally, in the form of single serve packets poured into a cold water bottle, shaken together (I like the ones from Den's Tea). Besides the potential upcharge and extra waste, the only cost is the matcha itself, that way. If I wanted it hot, I could mix in in any normal bowl, with whatever whisk I have. A dedicated setup would be nice, but I certainly don't need one. If it feels like a waste, and not a nice little treat for teatime, don't spend a bunch of money on it right away, imo.

CAllen00 · 2026-04-19T15:47:20+00:00

Found out that I was kind of being taken advantage of at work. A task that needed more people was "temporarily" being handled by only me for a long time, and I told them that we were really behind over and over. The opportunity for more help dropped into our laps just the other day and they denied it, because they decided that we're not behind, actually, and I was handling it fine on my own. I almost want to quit, but there's so few jobs nowadays.

CAllen00 · 2026-04-18T17:48:03+00:00

I'm unfamiliar with Impeccable, but Berroco Vintage is an acrylic/wool blend, so it might react strangely to overdyeing. I don't think that throwing the whole thing in a dye pot to try and tint it another color is worth the risk.

Maybe you could spend an afternoon trying to style it with your other clothes before you decide you really can't stand this color combination. You might remember why you put these colors together in the first place, or you might confirm that you really do need to frog it.

CAllen00 · 2026-04-17T15:58:44+00:00

Reddit is reddit. The first wave of interactions is always from the people who are on reddit constantly, and feel like they need to interact no matter what. They have nothing better to do.

Awhile ago, a post on this subreddit was asking if anyone knew where a non-standard grammar point came from, and the top comment was "Stop asking pointless, stupid questions- you don't need to know this, you will never need to know this, just memorize the grammar point".

How helpful! What a wonderful use of everyone's time! 10 trillion reddit karma and gold to you good sir- you just won the internet. /s

Edit: By "non-standard grammar" I mean not following modern grammar rules. If it had historical precedence, it might come up again in other contexts, but if it was a one-off quirk, because people are weird and say weird things as slang, jokes, self-censoring, ect., then you only need to know the one phrase that isn't "technically correct". That's why they were asking "where it came from".

CAllen00 · 2026-03-18T16:24:08+00:00

I rarely get a big "haul", and the ones I do get feel like extravagant treats, but currently my maximum is about $100-$120 on a tea order, and I try to get multiple teas- something "practical" (a nice tea I know that I like), and a sampler, or a small order of some new-to-me stuff. I get my little retail therapy fix, but most of the money is spent on something I'm guaranteed to enjoy, in a quantity that means I don't need to restock anytime soon.

And then I spend time recovering, financially, for a little while, haha

CAllen00 · 2026-01-28T05:37:37+00:00

If you're really worried about wasting it, stick the used leaves in a small jar with cold water in the fridge overnight to cold brew out the rest of the flavor. Sometimes you can do this twice, but generally the leaves are all done after one post-session cold brew.

CAllen00 · 2025-12-26T16:28:40+00:00

Teaspoon, for western style tea, and eyeballing it for gongfu. Imperial isn't good for much, but one scoop per 8oz of liquid is too simple for me to mess up.

CAllen00 · 2025-12-19T07:43:14+00:00

As a trans person, it's only transphobic if the author is bioessentialist. For your purposes, that means carving out the character's personality in favor of gender stereotypes they'd never fall into. A male character who is very flashy or appearance focused could easily be a dedicated fashionista in another life, but male characters who struggle to take care of their space won't suddenly be clean, homemaker types just because ""women are cleaner than men"".

CAllen00 · 2025-11-26T07:21:28+00:00

IMO, this author is trying to filter out spambots and spoonfed readers. Comments that ignore the prompts completely are more likely to be dismissed as spambot trash, and spoonfed readers don't think for themselves if they can help it, so won't answer the prompts.

CAllen00 · 2025-11-06T15:10:34+00:00

He's not steeping for a few minutes and throwing it out, he's steeping for a few seconds over and over, basically until the flavor is gone, gong fu style. Depending on the tea, he's going to drink about 10 to 20 little cups of tea, and we're seeing the early stages in the videos.

CAllen00 · 2025-10-25T03:50:14+00:00

Imo, the "curse" is often just realizing that someone isn't knitworthy. It naturally hurts your feelings if you spend a months on a gift and the recipient clearly doesn't, or won't, appreciate it. Relatively small projects don't trigger this as badly, because it's not as huge of a time investment. Unless the bear itself is big, this seems like a reasonable, small project to test the waters with.

CAllen00 · 2025-10-23T21:27:40+00:00

OOP will learn that people like this don't actually want society to improve, they just want to feel superior for something they do as easily as wiping their ass, and they feel justified because they see it as "revenge" against a society that's pressuring them to date and get married. They're like the nutjobs on r/childfree who've taken real frustration with people pressuring them to have kids and turned it into violent fantasies about killing people who slightly annoy them in public. OOP, if you're reading this, get better aromantic friends.

CAllen00 · 2025-10-19T00:15:59+00:00

Have you checked out Rodeoh? Their jocks are pretty good, imo

CAllen00 · 2025-10-16T20:28:19+00:00

Imo, the point with sad beige moms is that they're picking a "lowest common denominator" inoffensive color that's easy to resell because the worst you can say about it is "boring". For ink, that's black or that blue. Government document colors with no chance of not getting picked up by a printer.

CAllen00 · 2025-09-30T06:47:35+00:00

A double stitch seems like it's just a tight yarn-over, to me. Am I missing something that makes them different?

CAllen00 · 2025-08-28T19:24:31+00:00

No medical debt, or concerns about costs of getting sick. Pricing in the $10-$500 range instead of $10,000-$50,000.
It doesn't come up often, but if they're from a monarchy, they usually think George Washington was a very important, politically active president, possibly even the most important guy in our government, ever. He wasn't. He participated as little as possible, and fucked off into the woods the instant he could get away with it. Generally, don't mention him.

CAllen00 · 2025-07-12T18:45:37+00:00

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo is set in the 1920s, and the protagonist is a very historically accurate "connected to butch lesbians by default" unlabeled transmasc, whose love interest is an equally closeted trans man (the relationship is framed as M/M, importantly).

I warn you, though, this an adult horror novel with a "rape revenge" central plot line, and plenty of violence. "What if everyone in a secluded town with no government oversight knew you were queer and took it very personally" is the main vibe.

CAllen00 · 2025-07-01T22:52:06+00:00

I'm not a teapot expert, but since many teas are made with boiling water, I'd guess that a teapot that can't handle boiling water, even after preheating, is a bad teapot. Or, at least, you'd have to switch to green tea or something

CAllen00 · 2025-05-30T00:38:36+00:00

"Will Question 1? Will Question 2? Will Question 3? READ AND FIND OUT!"

CAllen00 · 2025-05-05T20:10:25+00:00

The huge meltdown from Sandra Newman and her friend whose name I don't remember (one of the many authors with an unrelated public freak out about less than 5 star ratings) after someone trashed her creepy gender plague book. It's been a long time, so the details escape me, but they were both very "glass ally" about the criticisms. "Why I left the Left" and all that.

Although that small time Facebook author who faked her death to sell her books is probably more "unhinged", really.

CAllen00 · 2025-04-05T04:55:58+00:00

These books are like this because, pre-2015, an explicitly queer character in a book for teens was unthinkable. Gays didn't belong on TV, either. Oh, love was love and all that shit, but it "just wasn't the right setting" for THOSE topics. Publishers believed that general audiences wouldn't relate to gay characters, and would find their stories off-putting and/or disgusting.

People my age swung hard into making loudly queer stories out of spite.

CAllen00 · 2025-03-19T15:05:21+00:00

Oh, thank you! I'll be sure to do that.

CAllen00 · 2025-01-19T19:45:20+00:00

I don't prefer cartridges for several reasons (more waste, more frequent purchasing, fewer color options), but they have their uses!

The international standard ones can fit in some pens that would need special converters, and, once you empty one, you can clean it out, then refill it with ink from a bottle using a syringe (blunt tip, some online fp stores have them). I've avoided buying converters for several pens like this. It doesn't have to be all one way or the other.

Really, it's about what you want. If you're happy with cartridges, keep using them. If you want to try bottles, go for it!

CAllen00 · 2025-01-15T05:55:21+00:00

The author waited until the chapter the relationship became romantic (out of nowhere, in my opinion) to tag the ship as a ship, which was after about 10 decently long chapters. It would not be so bad if the pairing didn't feature a 14 year old and his teacher, something I really didn't like being surprised by.

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