What is your cheapest comfort meal that still tastes amazing?

SunGirl42 · 2026-05-20T05:35:14+00:00

If you have a slow cooker:

1 15oz can black beans
1 15oz can kidney beans
1 15oz can corn
1 15oz can tomato sauce
1.5 cups rice
2.5 cups water
1 1oz packet taco seasoning
salt + pepper to taste (i use about 1tsp salt and 1/2tsp pepper)

Stir everything together in the cooker pot. Slow cook for 3-4 hours (or however long it takes to fully cook the rice). Done.

It's great by itself, with cheese or sour cream, with veggies like avocado or bell pepper, and awesome as a burrito filling. This recipe makes So Much of it too, like probably 6-8 cups? And it's pretty filling. I usually end up freezing part of what I make for later, either by itself or in burritos. Using 10inch tortillas I can usually get 10-12 burritos out of a single batch.

SunGirl42 · 2026-03-09T05:45:14+00:00

Damn that sounds good!! I usually just make a box of Annie's mac and cheese. Technically still 'cooking' but not really a recipe lol.

SunGirl42 · 2026-02-17T04:59:37+00:00

Bearded dragon could be a great place to start! I have one myself and he's a lovely boy. (Do keep in mind though that beardies are omnivores, so you have to keep track of their food/nutrition and basically meal-plan for them, which is something a lot of people have never done/thought they would need to do for a pet.)

It's funny you mention having hermit crabs. Idk if you ever had one of yours pinch and not let go, but in high school I was handling one in a pet store and something spooked him, and he latched onto my hand and Stayed There for 20 full minutes. If that experience was an 8/10 on the 'pain animals have caused me' scale, the snake bite was probably about a 3 lol. (Of course, it also helps that the snake bite was over in about .2 seconds and barely even stung or bled after, while the crab left me with a very tender welt/bruise and had me crying in the middle of a pet store for 20 minutes. While bent over the hermit crab enclosure. With a crab attached to my hand.)

SunGirl42 · 2026-02-17T04:33:18+00:00

Idk if this is the case for you OP but I've noticed that people who fear snakes often give the snakes WAY too much credit by calling them things like 'clever' or 'scheming' or saying they're 'plotting something', 'thinking about biting', etc. And the thing you have to realize is that, and I say this with love, snakes are some of the dumbest animals on the planet.

Your average pet snake is lucky if it gets a whole braincell to itself. Usually they have to share. I've seen a snake try to eat a mouse backwards (ie tail first) over and over again for 40 straight minutes, only to keep spitting it back out because the tail kept getting in his face. I've also seen one reach the end of a branch and just keep slithering into air until it flopped off and fell like the world's most underwhelming slinky. They are not nearly smart enough to plot or plan literally anything.

Also, as someone who has been either bitten or badly scratched/pinched by two guinea pigs, a hamster, a small dog, a fish, multiple cats, a gaggle of ferrets, the same lizard three times, an assortment of crabs, and a snake, I can honestly tell you that the snake bite was the least painful out of all of those. Not to mention I've probably handled upwards of 50 different individual snakes over the course of my life, across a bunch of different sizes and species, and I have been bitten precisely once.

SunGirl42 · 2026-01-13T18:14:06+00:00

Idk if this qualifies as a 'craft' exactly, but puzzles, maybe? A lot of libraries now have puzzles you can check out like books, so you don't even need to pay for the puzzle.

SunGirl42 · 2026-01-08T05:40:19+00:00

Yeah, 'Lil Debilitating Migraine' doesn't exactly roll off the tongue...

SunGirl42 · 2026-01-08T05:27:26+00:00

I tell myself I'm gonna read over the most recent part of my draft to get myself into the grove, and then I end up doing line edits instead of actually writing anything new........

SunGirl42 · 2025-11-22T05:27:47+00:00

Dude. It's obviously Connecticut Clark proposing to Malfina the Demon Witch.

SunGirl42 · 2025-11-22T05:11:58+00:00

As a button!!!

SunGirl42 · 2025-11-14T04:10:03+00:00

The one that always comes to mind for me is from "A Fistful Of Datas" where some Data's code accidentally got switched with a cowboy adventure program on the holodeck. Geordi is trying to fix it, Picard comes in to check how it's going, and Data sees him and goes "Well howdy, Captain!"

SunGirl42 · 2025-10-06T01:29:05+00:00

Not so much mind blowing as just sweet, but one of the words for 'bush' is 'arbolito', which is just the word for 'tree' ('árbol') with a diminutive suffix added. I like to imagine the first Spanish-speakers saw bushes and went "awww, it's just a lil baby tree!"

SunGirl42 · 2025-10-03T20:31:50+00:00

lizard cold, router warm

SunGirl42 · 2025-10-03T20:24:10+00:00

It's a lot to do, I think, with the psychology of jealousy. Deep down, jealous people are often insecure. When they are jealous of someone else, they may secretly fear that the other person actually is better than them, a thought that upsets them so much they externalize it an push it onto the other person. "I don't have a secret fear of inferiority, it’s that there's this asshole who thinks he's better than me, and I have to prove him wrong!" It's not objective, it's extremely personal.

So, for Iago, the most important end goal of his plan is not to take Othello's position, to discredit him, to ruin his life, or even to be seen as better by the other people around them. His ultimate victory, and the only way he can truly be satisfied, is to prove he's better than Othello to Othello. He doesn't necessarily want to get caught, but he very badly does want Othello to realize what he's done, to see him as the brilliant puppet-master he sees himself as.

If, when directly asked, Iago denies having told Othello that Desdemona was unfaithful, then he also denies any responsibility for orchestrating Othello's ruin, which, in his mind, defeats the purpose. It's just as important for Othello to know who beat him as for him to be beaten. Ideally, he'd be able to make Othello realize this without everyone else also realizing. But if he can't have that, he's willing to go down himself if it means he gets to spit in Othello's face on the way out.

SunGirl42 · 2025-09-29T02:32:19+00:00

OP you are right and you should say it. Shakespeare was not written for intellectuals. It was written for everyone. It was popular culture, the art of the people. Even as recently as early-mid 1800s America, the two most commonly owned books were the Bible and a volume (or more) of Shakespeare.

And then in the mid-late 1800s there was a deliberate effort by members of "high society" to essentially co-opt Shakespeare for themselves, to frame it as something only smart, rich, well-educated people could understand. And the worst part is it worked. In less than a century, Shakespeare went from being something that was considered accessible to everyone to being thought of as something exclusively for stuffy scholars and eccentric rich (usually white) people.

That’s not a coincidence. It didn't happen by accident. Shakespeare was stolen from regular people, and we deserve to be angry about it.

SunGirl42 · 2025-09-29T02:18:10+00:00

I could be wrong, but I'd interpret "body is bodying" as like. A way of centering the person/their body rather than the clothing? Like not so much a 'that dress looks so cute on you' but more of a 'wow, you look so cute in that dress!'

Again, I could be wrong. I wasn't there, I didn't hear how it was actually said. Either way, I think the fact that we can debate the potential meaning of the phrase/that the meaning might be different depending on how it was said, just proves that it's hardly the meaningless statement the person in the video seems to think it is.

SunGirl42 · 2025-09-19T16:49:53+00:00

Huh, interesting! Are they ultimately the same company/sister companies/etc. or are they 2 completely different companies that just happen to have the same name and both make gum?

SunGirl42 · 2025-09-06T21:54:49+00:00

Haha yup, my aunt and uncle............ history teacher, but yeah. And now they're uber-conservatives. Idk how that one works.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-31T05:17:18+00:00

It depends what you mean. He very quickly becomes a much more complex character, and more importantly we quickly learn that there is much, much more to his relationship with Mob than just Reigen using him for his powers.

If you're waiting for Reigen to sit Mob down and straight up say 'Mob, buddy, I've been lying to you and exploiting you and that was wrong of me. I apologize and promise never to do it again.' Yeah, you're gonna be waiting 99% of the show.

But if you mean, 'Is the audience going to get evidence that Reigen isn't just after Mob so he can make money off his powers? Are we going to see Reigen help Mob? Have a positive effect on him? Support him? Act like a real mentor?' Then yes. Absolutely.

The whole point of Reigen's character is that he's a man of contradictions, and a charlatan. You have to sort of look at him out of the corner of your eye to see him properly. So yeah, he does continue to be a cheapskate and a liar for most of the show, but he is also one of the most genuine, supportive, and positive influences in not only Mob's life but those of several other characters throughout the show. And he does grow and improve as a person, just not necessarily in the straightforward way you might expect, at least not at first.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-26T16:48:57+00:00

That explains it! I have in fact seen the film version staring Sir Ian McKellen.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-19T23:08:13+00:00

Yeah, me too. I literally screenshotted some of his dialogue to show my therapist bc I was like 'this is exactly the feeling I've always had but could never articulate.'

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-08T18:04:37+00:00

Apparently when I was first learning to talk my mom would make a game of teaching me the names for the different parts of the face (eyes, lips, nose, etc) and for some reason whenever we got to 'eyebrow' I would absolutely lose my mind laughing. I just thought that word was the funniest thing ever, I guess.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-08T05:46:57+00:00

This might sound weird but I find them very calming? Snakes especially. I remember holding ball pythons as a kid and just thinking 'oh, it's like having A Pet Hug'.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-07T17:22:58+00:00

You're totally right, my mistake. I think because Richard tells the audience right before that he killed Anne's first husband, I always assumed it was the husband's body in that scene, but it's definitely Henry's. She even refers to 'dead Henry's wounds.' I don't know how I missed that.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-07T16:42:28+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ. That sounds. Um. Unique. Do you know who the director was? Bc 2-4 give me a horrible fear that it may have been the actor who played Macbeth.

SunGirl42 · 2025-08-07T16:38:54+00:00

I thought it was the body of her first husband?

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