thatlittleegyptologist
lostinhistory
Big news for the tourism industry if true
Ahh yes, we put all those temples in Egypt, buried beneath the sand, as an elaborate ruse. The wAs sceptre isn’t about power it’s just a proto hockey stick. The pAt loaves are the pucks.
shoku-and-awe
monstrousgourmandizingcats
Tried this and it was perfect. With a really, really hot pan and a thin layer of sesame oil, this was the crispiest tofu I’ve ever made, by far! And it’s vegan too, and it’s yummy both hot and cold! Thank you, Maangchi!
It’s very simple to make, but my tips would be…
• The sauce: Make it before the tofu. The flavors need time to come together.
• The pan: Big, very hot, not crowded. Both to let it cook properly and so you can see between the tofu slices and watch the crust forming beneath.
Uhhh I made this again, but I was too hot and tired to even chop green onion for the sauce, so I just dipped it in honey mustard aaaaaand….. it tastes just like chicken nuggets???!
Not sure if this is key to the process, but I’d fried the tofu slices in advance, cooled it and put it in the fridge, and then reheated it in a frying pan and sprinkled on some salt. Lovely.
I made this, underfried the tofu somewhat because my stove is crap, and then dumped the leftovers into a hotpot with some root vegetables and smelt (small oily fish). The final result was very good.
suppermariobroth
Officially licensed Super Mario build-it-yourself gingerbread castle kit.
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morrak
fallonbean
I’m sitting the sweetest most cuddly baby boy
I would die for him and I’ve only been here a week
elodieunderglass
disasterbipippin
Ok but do Merry and Pippin and Frodo have jobs? Or are they just? Chilling?? Like Sam is a gardener obviously, but what the fuck do the others do? I get that theyre Rich Kids(TM), but what do they do all day?
Merry and Pippin are the heirs of important political figures in the Shire, so they probably prepare for when they’ll take over those positions or something. But what does Frodo do?? Is he just the Professional Nerd Of Bag End?????
Frodo’s job is to be the Mysterious Bilbo Baggins’ Nephew, and just do weird shit, so that the other hobbits have something to gossip about while they do actual work
Do the bagginses have any political power, tho, or are they just rich??
Only the kind of political power that comes with being wealthy and related to everyone who matters (Frodo is related to both Merry and Pippin), which officially isn’t much, but unofficially is A Fair Amount
So what youre saying is that Frodo and Bilbo are kinda like the Kasdashians…….bc that seems fair enough tbh
That is exactly what I’m saying
Every time I think I don’t really care about lotr anymore I remember that it’s the story of Sam as he helps 3 trust fund babies do physical labor for the first time in their life
Aren’t they landed hobbit gentry or something?
Yeah, something like that. Pippin’s dad is the Thane, basically the patriarch of the whole Took clan, and Merry’s dad is the Master of Buckland, again the patriarch of a very large family (Brandybucks). Bibo came home from his adventure with a lot of money, so he was set for life, and then adopted his young cousin Frodo and left his entire estate (minus a few gifts to relatives) to Frodo, so Frodo was also technically set for life. What I find most amusing is that, in spite of wealth and influence, the Tooks and Brandybucks were seen by the Hobbiton hobbits as being kind of eccentric, and Bilbo’s admirers thought he’d done a very kind and noble thing by adopting Frodo. “Mr. Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back to live among decent folk.”
I assume the Tooks and Brandybucks made most of their money from farming and animal husbandry, same as most other hobbits.
The Tooks and Brandybucks, despite being richer than the Bagginses, have a reputation of being adventurous and not very ”hobbit-like”, which is why I believe the people in Hobbiton thought it was noble of Bilbo to adopt Frodo from Brandy Hall, because he’s a ~nice Baggins~ and doesnt fit in among the crazy Bucklanders. Buckland is known to not be as peaceful as the rest of the Shire. But it’s strange as well, because at that point, Bilbo, despite being a Baggins, was known to be the most eccentric of them all, after he came home from his adventure, and was known amongst the locals as ”Mad Baggins”
This is literally a flawless character analysis and Im not joking
morallydiseased
seananmcguire
There’s a bit in Hogfather where two bands of carollers meet in the street.
The first band are upper class aristocrats, who are pleasantly singing carefully edited carols, raising donations for those sections of the poor who they deem worth receiving for being “suitably picturesque and not too smelly and could be relied upon to say thank you.”
The second band is the Canting Crew, the worst beggars in the city, who are all singing and howling and screaming different songs at the same time loudly and badly.
And it’s here that the book says that carolling and wassailing come from old midwinter traditions, when you had to stamp and scream and shake the darkness out of the world. And unnoticed by either band of carollers, squiggles of darkness, the black mould of the soul that forms in winter’s short, bleak, grey days, are squeezed out from their hiding places and into the night by the Canting Crew’s horrible, horrible singing.
Cozy commercialism contrasted by the seasonal urge to rage against the dying of the light.
And that’s what burning the Gävle Goat is like to me.
niceprophecies
catasters
badsciencejokes
fine-ass-fatshion
arcticflakes
