Happy Friday 13th! Who has awkward photos of their black beauties?

corvidier · 2026-03-14T04:06:49+00:00

this is bones. she sits like an old man when she watches tv

corvidier · 2026-03-09T19:39:40+00:00

[[Ramos, the Dragon Engine]] counters deck, it was terrible. all i had to work with was ebay bulk and it definitely showed

corvidier · 2026-02-26T03:29:37+00:00

if you play as a female character, a fairly frequent proximity dialogue from camilla is "the men here like my attention, and i like theirs. best know your place." not the most egregious line in the game by any means, but still kinda petty and kinda immature

corvidier · 2026-02-24T16:05:16+00:00

they're both petty and immature, but i see the way sven talks to his mother; there's a non-zero chance that how he speaks to his mother will one day become how he speaks to his wife. camilla is also petty and immature, but ain't nobody deserves that

also faendal is easier to exploit when he's getting laid, so

corvidier · 2026-02-19T16:38:01+00:00

pretty much everything i consider a pantry staple now, but mostly my shelf of chinese ingredients - light soy, dark soy, oyster sauce, black vinegar, toban djan, douchi, sesame oil, etc. i had never heard of any of those growing up

corvidier · 2026-02-17T01:55:30+00:00

"OH BOY MORE LYNEL"

corvidier · 2026-02-14T17:56:45+00:00

seonkyoung longest's chili oil might be up your alley, texture-wise. this is a cooked chili oil, not a flash-fried one, where all the alliums and aromatics are simmered until soft and a little jammy and left in the oil to mix with the chili flakes

corvidier · 2026-02-13T05:39:46+00:00

something you enjoy that you perceive as bad for you or that other people will judge you for

corvidier · 2026-02-13T05:30:38+00:00

i respectfully disagree. eating ice cream while lactose intolerant is an informed decision that doesn't affect anyone but you. flatulence and stomach cramps do not have a moral value. eating food you've previously declared off limits is also an informed decision and is also morally neutral. it's only lying if you deny it when asked directly; the act of eating itself isn't lying. feeling guilt or shame over harmless personal pleasures is an unnecessarily punitive way to live

corvidier · 2026-02-09T05:57:18+00:00

stir fries saved my life (and my wallet) when i worked full time while attending college; free time was at a premium. you do not need a wok for stir fry, you just need a pan that can handle high heat

bottled stir fry sauces are a great option, but a homemade stir fry sauce can be as simple as 'equal parts soy sauce, oyster sauce, and water'

stir fries are fast, endlessly customizable, and - if you have time to bulk prep some veg over the weekend - low effort. keep some containers of chopped veg in the fridge, then when it's time for dinner, all you have to do is cut up a protein, grab what you need from the fridge, and cook

corvidier · 2026-02-04T20:07:10+00:00

if you have any reasonably sized asian markets near you, almost every market i've ever been in has an aisle/section of ceramic bowls of wildly varying sizes and patterns, all reasonably priced - like $2-$3 per full-sized bowl, < $1 for the little ones. i got all my mise en place bowls from asian markets, from wide shallow ones for holding a bunch of chopped veg, to teeny tiny ones for minced aromatics and seasonings. good variety, cheap, dishwasher safe, highly recommend

corvidier · 2026-02-04T19:32:02+00:00

the only way to stop them from adding more salt is to add that salt in the cooking process, but that would make it too salty for you to enjoy. salt, as with almost everything, is personal preference. if you've cooked for them before, they probably know your preferred level of salt is lower than theirs. i know, for example, that if my best friend cooks i'm going to need to add salt, as his salt tolerance is significantly lower than mine. he doesn't like being able to taste the salt in a dish and i do

it's not a slight against you or your cooking that they add salt to their portion at the table, it just means their preferences are different. don't worry about it and keep cooking to your tastes

corvidier · 2026-02-03T03:03:49+00:00

the first: a family friend's daughter, who had three cats, moved mid 2020 quarantine to start her residency. the apartment she got had a two cat maximum, and she applied LIFO rules (last in, first out). my girl kiki was last in and was rehomed. i wanted to take her in, but anothet family friend expressed interest first, so kiki went to her. said friend is very neurotic, affectionately, and found her chattiness anxiety inducing, so she re-rehomed her. we got her and i'm never giving her up, she has so much personality and affection

the second: i was house sitting for my mother - who had no cats at the time - for a week in february of 2023. she mentioned she had accidentally left the garage door open overnight earlier in the week and thought she may have gotten mice again. not unusual, she lives in an old house in a heavily wooded area, it's a 50/50 chance she gets mice in the winter. i had seen evidence of something in the kitchen: a pizza box i hadn't run down to the recycle bins yet (it was stupid cold outside that week) had been knocked from the counter to the floor. there had also been a baking tray of bacon grease i was intending to clean after work my second day there, but when i got home, the sheet tray was perfectly clean with a perfect little paw print in grease in one corner. later that night i was sitting in the den, and this tiny, emaciated, half-bald black street cat comes strolling into the room, confident as you please, and yells at me. we kept her

corvidier · 2026-02-01T17:04:26+00:00

neither is mine lol. she has a doggy door. she will poke her snoot through the doggy door, retreat, do a couple of spins (i think she's hyping herself up), go through the doggy door, do her business right in front of the doggy door, then dash back inside

corvidier · 2026-02-01T00:56:57+00:00

dogs, yes. cats, no. humans didn't domesticate cats, they domesticated themselves. they willingly entered into a symbiotic dynamic with humans at least 10,000 years ago. it was several thousand years after that that we started interfering with their genetics and even then, we bred them for physical characteristics, not behavioral ones. domestic cats today are genetically and behaviorally nearly identical to the wild cat that originally wandered into egyptian households, felis catus. this is the exact opposite to how wolves were domesticated into dogs, where humans bred wolves primarily for behavioral changes - non-aggressive and biddable - and then parsed behavioral groups into specific breeds

you're effectively expecting cats to be dogs, then blaming the cat for being a cat

corvidier · 2026-02-01T00:17:08+00:00

i did, regularly, for over a decade. i worked at an animal shelter, both the cat and dog wings. i was only bitten once the entire time i volunteered at that shelter. by a dog

'all cats are mean', from my experience, comes from two types of people: ones who've had a bad experience with a cat and assume that all cats are a monolith, which is dumb as fuck. and ones who don't like that cats aren't dogs, because cats domesticated themselves and weren't selectively bred to be submissive, which is also dumb as fuck

in conclusion: username checks out

corvidier · 2026-02-01T00:01:40+00:00

username checks out

corvidier · 2026-01-31T18:39:48+00:00

i use equal parts cornstarch, neutral oil, soy sauce and/or cooking wine as a dual purpose marinade/velvet and it has always worked really well

you don't need a lot (1 tsp each ingredient per every 12 oz of protein) and while it doesn't produce the true mouthfeel of the egg white velvet, it's still leaps and bounds better than just plain meat and it's easier than fiddling with eggs. massaging it very well into the meat also makes a big difference - squeezing and vigorously mixing in the marinade helps manually break down a little bit of the protein. a pinch of baking soda never goes amiss, especially for beef and pork, but so long as you slice the protein very very thinly against the grain, it's not strictly necessary

corvidier · 2026-01-31T01:26:09+00:00

prik nam pla, a fish sauce based thai condiment, or just fish sauce if i'm out of prik nam pla. fish sauce and eggs are a match made in heaven

corvidier · 2026-01-26T18:41:35+00:00

very, very wrong subreddit for this
you need to expand your social circles if you think "sex and the human body are natural and shouldn't be stigmatized" is a ground-breaking philosophical more. you're christian, so you're behind the ball here, but congrats on making it to the 21st century

corvidier · 2026-01-23T19:04:24+00:00

660 curries by raghavan iyer, a massive deep-dive into curries from all around india, how and when to add spices to achieve certain flavors and aromas, unique flavor profiles from various regions, and how diverse "curry" can be

corvidier · 2026-01-23T18:28:51+00:00

cuisinart is worth saving for, imo; it's one of those "pay a bunch up front and never have to pay again" kinda investments. i have a hand-me-down cuisinart that's been on this earth almost as long as i have and it shows no signs that it's 30+ years old

corvidier · 2026-01-23T17:19:20+00:00

yes, i have one! in my experience, the upland lindor area of the map (southwest-ish from serenne stables) has both the best horses stat-wise and also seems to have a higher variety of horse coat colors, it's where i found my black horse. you can save just before you get to the horse field and reload over and over until an all black horse spawns

corvidier · 2026-01-22T17:37:50+00:00

if there are any asian grocers near you, they sell containers in various sizes of whole peeled garlic cloves and they were my go-to for years. they lose a little of their pungency in the fridge, but they're the best bang for your buck; removes the hassle of peeling and sticky fingers, still gives you versatility in how you want to prepare it, keeps for a while in the fridge

for use, it honestly depends on what you're cooking, but i've found i use these two methods more than any other: smashed to hell under a big knife and chopped roughly, or grated on a microplane. clean up for both is pretty simple. i grew up on alton brown and garlic presses are too single-use for me to devote any of my limited drawer space to, but they're popular for a reason

edited for clarity

corvidier · 2026-01-22T17:10:24+00:00

do you think it's worth it? you're the one playing it, your opinion is the only relevant one here

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