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Fandom: Sinners
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Stack & Smoke
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: devilswalkingstick on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Another take on this favourite scene for artists. I like the simplicity of the planes of colour, and how their signature colours are emphasised - red for Stack, blue for Smoke.
Link: the smokestack twins

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: excited

fairyniamh

Quote:

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

"Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding."

~ John D. Rockefeller

Facts: Scotch Whisky

1.) The word "whisky" translates roughly from the Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha as "water of life." Legally, Scotch must be distilled in Scotland from grains, yeast and water, and aged a minimum of three years in oak casks not exceeding a capacity of 700 liters in size that might have once contained bourbon, port, Madeira, sherry or even wine. (Water of life, in some form, seems to appear in many of the alcoholic beverages.)

2.) The English Malt Tax of 1725 shut down much of Scotland's whisky production and drove many Highlanders to bootlegging. (This is not to insult the English people, but the monarchy of this time had a knack of pissing people off with his taxes.)

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Fandom: Sinners
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Smoke & Stack (the smokestack twins)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: crunchycerealisgood on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: I just watched the movie Sinners, which has inspired an avalanche of excellent fanart. This scene of the smokestack brothers is a favorite for artists - here's one version, which includes a WIP gif. Stack is in the red hat, Smoke the blue cap (both played by Michael B. Jordan). I like the strength of the painting, and WIP vids are always fun.
Link: Nah, we cousins

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: curious

fairyniamh

Quote:

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

~ Satchel Paige

Facts: Vodka

1.) Vodka wasn’t widely available in North America and Western Europe until the mid-1900s? Vodka only became popular after WWII, when the drink branched out from its origins in Russia and Poland. (I thank them for their drink.)

2.) On May 9th 1945 after the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, it’s said that Russia ran out of vodka in 22 hours! (Good reason for celebrating!)

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fairyniamh

Quote:

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better."

"Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure."

~ Frida Kahlo

Facts: Sake/Seishu

1.) The word sake (酒) in Japanese usually means alcohol, which is a broader term. Nowadays, what we think is sake points to seishu, which is alcohol made from rice, rice malt and water with a special process unique to Japan. (This alcohol has an unique taste. Do I like it? I'm not sure.)

2.) You can drink sake cold or hot. You can mix it with other beverages if you like, but sake is at its best taken straight cold or hot. People admire the taste and aroma of it by drinking it without anything else. (This is why I am undetermined. I have only had the dry type warmed. I would love to try the sweet chilled. Do not confuse with Korean Soju. You might start a war. Not kidding.)

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minoanmiss

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Current Mood: hopeful

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: relaxed

mific

I'm very much in winter mode here as although some days are sunny, it's cold, and a lot of days are very wet. So not going outside much and not doing gardening, which I don't feel great about. I seem a bit beset by inertia in terms of things physical, possibly a mid-winter slump, but I'm doing indoors things just fine - well, the things I like doing, anyway. Not cleaning or organising! I do tidy up once a week before Fionna comes to vacuum, and occasionally the dishes get washed, but that's about it.

I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.

In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.

In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
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And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)

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Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.

mekare

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fairyniamh

Quote:

"Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force."

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."

~ Jean Cocteau

Facts: Rum

1.) Its origins trace back to the Caribbean in the 17th century. The spirit was first distilled from sugarcane byproducts like molasses, which was abundant in the region. (I prefer golden rum over silver rum.)

2.) In moderation, rum contains antioxidants such as polyphenols, which are derived from the sugarcane plant. However, excessive consumption can negate any potential benefits. (So, don't use this as an excuse to get piss ass drunk.)

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mekare

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minoanmiss

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dizzojay

Four years ago we set off on a 160 mile round trip in pouring rain to collect our two little treasures from a rabbit rescue shelter.

Since then they have grown from the adorable, teeny-tiny little kits we adopted into the walloping great chonkers we know and love today!

Happy Gotcha Day Juniper and Nutmeg!! ❤️❤️

( Bunny pics here! )