Latest Posts by puffball-menace - Page 3

I'm at a :.|:; for words.

he's very excited about his first night as a jack o lantern

GLAD TO INTRODUCE my new uquiz!!

Here’s the picrew: https://uquiz.com/qahX7G (hope you’re fine with the amount of variety here, I just didn’t want to use any of the overly popular ones because I’ve personally grown bored of them)

@caffeinated-eccentric-polymorph @azazel-with-lots-of-time @boyswillbedogz and anyone else feel free to continue!

phantom rider magical girl transformation

youtube:

At the end of everything I look to you.

that trailer single-handedly inspired me to make my first animatic in 4 years ……anyways thank you shadow u are a plague to my mind <33333

(I’m Not an Angel - Halestorm)

i am healthy about this movie

You meet god and she's mostly dead fish. You ask her why and she says most of the world is dead fish, and she's made herself to appeal to the most common denominator, the everyman funnyman comedy show that runs for eleven seasons but with the entire universe in mind. You ask her how much of the dead fish is your fault, she says it's far less than you'd think, in the grand scheme of things. You ask her if you matter at all. If you can do anything. She shrugs her rotting shoulders and says mattering is a made-up concept, like life, but sure, you can matter if you want to, on some scale. She has many scales. She doesn't know what you mean by 'anything', but you can do everything you can. You ask her if it's enough. She says there's no base requirement for deserving to exist. She's smoking a joint and the smoke filtering out of her gills gathers and forms gas giants and red dwarfs. You ask her if there's any hidden secrets of the universe you should know and she says it's not a secret if she tells, plus it's fun to let you figure it out yourself. You ask her if any of your questions were right questions and she says you worry about being right so much it might keep you from fucking around, which is as close to meaning of life as she ever bothered to make. You don't ask but she says she loves your hair, also your whole being, also your planet. She says she figured out what love is yesterday and is trying it out, which explains the ten thousand rainbows and sudden influx in rains of fish. She offers you a drag of her joint and you wake up half past midnight behind a chain restaurant clutching a smoked salmon. The new stars are winking like they're in on some joke and you're sure if you try hard enough you'll remember what it is.

Bugga

audio by @pixelated-perfectionist, thank you for making it for me :>

I know im stealing this from coney but this is so funny they lowkey killed it at the end

what’s their fucking problem

So my friend got me this hatsune miku model kit

I finished building the head and...

NOBODY TOLD ME SHE HAS FREAKING CRAB MODE?!?!

In the CORE, straight up “wingin’ it”, and by it, haha, well, let’s justr say. my ding

Little doodle for you guys.

Dungeon Meshi - Will Marcille's Recipe Actually Make Soap?

Howdy! I'm basti. I'm a soap maker. I never get to talk about the nitty gritty of making soap, so I'm taking this opportunity while I have it.

We're gonna make Marcille's kelpie soap today.

So let's first take a look at her recipe: -Kelpie Fat - 300 ml -Olive Oil - 300 ml -Plant & Wood Ash - 150 mg -Water - 150 ml

Ignoring the obvious that kelpie fat is not real and we would have to substitute another fat...

This would...

Not make soap.

Okay, okay. Let's get the major flaw out of the way:

150 mg of Plant and wood ash appears to be an error. 150 milligrams is only 0.15 grams or 0.005 ounces.

This small amount of lye would do… nothing. At best, some of the fatty particles would saponify but you’d mostly have a puddle of oil and water.

So let’s assume this was meant to be 150 grams and return to our original question:

Will Marcille's recipe actually make soap?

Well, yes. But actually, no.

This recipe will, chemically speaking, make soap. Will it be soap you want to use? Probably not.

My skin after using Marcille's kelpie soap 🤍

We'll get into that in a moment.

Let's talk briefly about lye.

In modern soapmaking, soapmakers use two different types of lye depending on what product they're making. Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) is used to make bar soaps and Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) is used to make liquid soap.

Back in the day, wood ash was used to make soap. The lye derived from wood ash consisted of mostly Potassium Carbonate with a little Sodium Carbonate. A higher percentage of Potassium Carbonate tends to make a more paste-like soap and not firm bar soap.

The plants used to make ash lye make a huge difference. Coastal and marine plants often produced alkalis with a higher percentage of Sodium Carbonate, which made harder soap. Additionally, salt was often added to make soap even harder. This is why places like Castile, Marseille, Aleppo, and Palestine became known for their soapmaking. The Mediterranean gave the people living there easy access to sea salt, sea water, and marine plants. (And also abundant olive oil)

The fourth floor of the dungeon is a water floor, so it's possible Marcille used marine plants and salt water to make her soap. Therefore, she would be able to make a proper bar soap.

The real issue comes in when we look at the numbers. Marcille's soap is lye heavy.

And majorly so.

Using Lard as our stand-in for Kelpie Oil and Sodium Hydroxide as a stand-in for plant ash, replicating the numbers of Marcille's soap in a modern soap calculator creates a terrifying picture to anyone who has made soap before.

If you look in the top left, there's a section titled 'Super Fat'.

-81% Super Fat is... certainly a number. In layman's terms, you would need 81% MORE oil (1090g instead of 600g) to make this recipe safe.

Lye heavy soaps can majorly wreck your skin and I certainly wouldn't use it on your hair like Senshi does.

(Note: I wouldn’t recommend lye soap for hair at all, but others swear by it. Do research before trying and stop if things feel wrong.)

Okay, so let's throw Marcille a bone and fix her recipe.

First, if we want the rest of the numbers exactly the same (water, oil), we’ll set the Superfat to 0%

Giving us a recipe of: -Lard - 300g -Olive Oil - 300g -Lye - 83g -Water - 150g

Now, most modern homemade soapmakers use a 1-8% Super Fat, which means there's excess oil in the soap. I use 5% in most recipes I make. This excess oil helps soap feel nicer on the skin and helps guarantee the soap won't be lye heavy.

I'm going to add a small (2%) Super Fat to this recipe. Notice how the lye and water numbers go down slightly.

Looks good to me, so let's make some soap.

First, I measure out my distilled water in a heat and lye safe container.

Next, I measure out my Sodium Hydroxide. Yeah. It's marketed as drain cleaner, but it makes great lye for soaping. It has to be labeled as 100% lye and/or sodium hydroxide and have no additional ingredients.

After measuring out the lye, I add it to the water. I will set the water and lye mixture aside for a while, because it creates a chemical reaction that makes it SUPER hot. Please research lye safety thoroughly if you ever plan to make soap. This post is not a tutorial.

Now, let's get my oils.

I'm using Olive Oil. It doesn't need to be extra virgin, it just has to be 100% Olive Oil and not a blend. Olive Oil has gotten really expensive lately, so other oils like Rice Bran Oil or High Oleic Sunflower Oil could be used instead. All substitutions need to be run through a soap calculator.

I also have Lard. I bought this from a local butcher shop. I'm admittedly turned off by the idea of making soap from animal fat... but sometimes one must science.

Other than the items in Marcille's recipe, I'll also be adding Sodium Lactate, a little fragrance oil, and some green colorant. Sodium Lactate hardens soap faster. Fragrance and color just makes it smell and look nice :o). I'll be donating the bars made from this batch to a local charity after they're finished curing. Everyone deserves good smelling soap!

My oils are melted and my lye water is back to room temperature, so I'll mix up my soap batter. Marcille uses a spoon to stir her soap to trace but I use an emulsion blender because I value my sanity and my wrists 💀 Olive Oil and Lard are both notorious for taking FOREVER to come to trace when stirring by hand.

The oils and lye water are mixed together to create an emulsion. This emulsified soap batter is what will eventually harden to become soap. Yay, chemistry.

From here, I split the batter in half and added fragrance and color. This is, again, just for fun and not part of the main recipe. Notice how absolutely gross these colors look? Because both olive oil and lard are dark yellow in hue, the batter looks a bit nasty. Green is often a victim of this. It'll look much better later lol

After pouring, the soap will hang out in my soaping room and solidify overnight.

The next day, the soap has solidified and is no longer that nasty yellow color. Lard makes white soap. I cut the loaf into four bars which I further cut in half to make eight bars.

I cured these soaps in a cool, dark place for a minimum of four weeks before I tested them.

The cured soaps are notably VERY hard. When these two bars are clacked together, they sound like dominoes lol.

Physically, these bars developed extreme soda ash (the white-tinged film) on both the tops and the face of the bars. This is harmless, but it definitely makes the bars a little less pretty. It'll wash off when used! It's a pitfall of soapmaking in a very humid climate :D

I've been using my tester bar at the sink for a few weeks now. The bubbles produced are rather small and the lather is creamy. This recipe is not drying at all, which is great.

It's a good 'starting point' recipe, but definitely not one I would make again. When I use up the rest of the lard I bought, I'll be using a more balanced recipe.

Still, not bad for a soap made in a dungeon!

Thank you for joining me on this extremely self indulgent post.

Want more dungeon soap? Check out my website and my new Dungeon Meshi-inspired soaps.

Want to sponsor one of these donated soaps? Donate a bar here!

Yesterday i lost my glasses. And decided to document my frustration until……… I really wish this was planned, but i gotta admit, I took a big L.

Sonic x Omori trio 💙🖤🤍

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That tiktok trend but gay Hedgies heueueuhehehe(_ ̫ _")う♡‧₊˚

Iizuka on Shadow calling Sonic the real ultimate life form.

The way he covers his face and takes sooooo long to think of an answer had me howling.

e-123 omega wants to give you a file full of classified information do you accept?

my robo miku design! (m1-ku if you would)

[typewriter sounds]

classic-to-classic communication

typical neurodivergent conversation.

I am keeping this wednesday so gosh darn wholesome 🤺❤️

WE CAN ALWAYS ASK NICELY

silver the game theorist

The lake town

trans shadow is real

my first ever omori animatic !!! i wanted to explore more of mari's sentience in headspace, over the truth, over life beyond headspace, etc.

what if she found out more than she should have?