I always find it hilarious when more recent adaptations of Sherlock Holmes makes Holmes the dreamy heartthrob/attractive one (not that he’s not a total catch) because my dudes, Watson is right there. He is literally like a Victorian wet dream, he is everything that classic Victorian period would find appealing- adventurous, fought for his country, learned, has groomed facial hair (legit that was like the equivalent of being 6’ tall today), polite. He’s got just enough “melancholy” (depression) and rakishness (gambling) to still be a gentleman but like a bad boy gentleman. A real Romantic (both romance how we think of it today and like Romanticism) archetype. If anyone is the heartthrob here, it is Watson.
roommates birthday so im making her dean and cas photocards
i think i need to become the toxic yuri to truly understand the meaning of life
i hear john and/or sherlock start talking and i just go from 😔 to 🤩 immediately
blorbos make me so joyous
Realized I haven't linked my little genshin playlists yet so here lol. All are unfinished, I'm still working on them.
(heads up: I have a preference for sad music no matter my mood so there's a lot of that here 😬)
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Characters
Kokomi (x) this one is my personal fave so far
Kaeya (x) probably the saddest one
Jean (x) you can fit so much religious trauma in this woman
Tartaglia (x) a lot of my crazy bitch music is here
Diluc (x) he's got 47 mental illnesses and is banned from most shneznayan establishments
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Ships
Kaebedo (x) therapy. Now.
Beiguang (x) kinda horny sorry
Eimiko (x) spraying myself with a water bottle
no you know what fuck him good omens belongs to terry pratchett and it belongs to us and we are not letting that piece of shit taint and ruin something so many of us love and hold dear
i am about to bestow upon you the secret butter technique. i am sorry, but it is french. i am sorry again, this only works with cow butter. i am certain plant based butters wouldn’t work, and alternative animal butters may or may not work
has this ever been you: you have a nicely steamed vegetable, or maybe you want to make the best butter noodles, but you know that if you put butter on those it’ll just melt and you end with kind of greasy noodles or vegetables? don’t you wish it was instead a luscious buttery glaze?
introducing: beurre monté
you will take a small sauce pan, and begin heating it with 1-2 tablespoons of water (use very little water) and bring it to a hard simmer or boil
turn the heat down slightly, and add Butter. how much? however much you dare. (start with 3-4 tablespoons and go from there)
you are going to either whisk Aggressively or you can pick up the saucepan, still holding it over the heat, and swirl aggressively so the butter is skating around the sides of the pan
done correctly, you will have liquid butter that is still emulsified. you have made Butter Sauce. season it with a little salt, and toss whatever you want in it.
if you’re butter splits, i’m sorry. you didn’t agitate it enough to maintain the emulsion, and now you have melted butter.
you can use this knowledge to make other sauces by swapping out the water for another liquid. white wine becomes beurre blanc. red wine is beurre rogue.
you want to CUM? sweat minced shallot in a tiny bit of butter, add white wine and cook it out until it’s reduced by about half. then whisk butter in hard. a few flecks of minced thyme or fennel frond stirred thru, and you eat that with a nice seared fish? or scallop? or even shrimp? wow. you will Nut
your boxed mac and cheese game can also be elevated by cooking your pasta and making a beurre monté first, tossing your pasta in that and adding the cheese packet. wow. hey; you’ll cum
go forth now with this butter secret
you can hang the stars and still get cast out if heaven, so what hope is there for any if us