[Image ID: A screenshot of a Facebook post from Weisenback Farm. The post is a photo of two 5 gallon jugs of distilled white vinegar; one is 4% acidity, one is 5% acidity. The caption reads: Just a little warning for all those who are canning pickles or anything using vinegar. This year you cannot just grab a plastic jar of vinegar or even pickling vinegar without checking the label. Safe pickling requires 5% acidity... for the first time we are seeing 4% acidity vinegar... on the shelves. That renders anything pickled in the 4% NOT shelf stable. I belong to several canning FB pages where everyone is warning... for the first time ever... to check those labels or you could be throwing out many jars of unsafe pickled vegetables. End ID]

The National Center for Home Food Preservation issued this letter on July 14, 2023 warning people

They recommend that anything you have canned in the past 24 hours using 4% vinegar be stored in the fridge, and anything that was canned more than 24 hours ago using 4% vinegar be discarded.

Now thats a bunch of bullshit on the corporate end

New Fic: At the Drop of a Veil

Title: At the Drop of a Veil

Ship: Damen/Laurent

Creator: @seekthemist | Seek_The_Mist (AO3) 

Rating: Explicit

Word count : 19,140 words

Warnings/Tags: Auguste Lives (Captive Prince), Political Alliances, Sexual Coercion, Dubious Consent, Enthusiastic Consent, Explicit Sexual Content, Marathon Sex, It's never just the Tip, Semi-Public Sex, Size Difference, Everyone Has an Excellent Time at the End Trust me on this, Age Difference, Just the Tip, Here Laurent is 16 and Damen is 21

Prompt #: 37: "to celebrate their alliance, king aleron gifts damen with a night with his youngest son during the winter festivities in vere. he does so in front of an audience, and physically hands laurent over to damen nudging laurent to give a step forward."

Summary: "The Battle of Marlas could have brought the relationship between Vere and Akielos to a breaking point, but it didn't. As the peace treaty is finally signed, King Aleron has a very clear idea of how to ensure the agreement is truly felt.

"Since the formal establishment of Vere and Akielos as independent reigns, there had been twelve peace treaties. The Peace of Marlas, signed by King Aleron and Theomedes-Exalted before the beginning of autumn, would be the thirteenth.

The thirteenth peace would not go down in the history of the Kingdom as an abject failure. Not if Laurent could help it."

Read it here on Ao3!

Don’t forget to kudos and comment to show our wonderful creators your love!

Sometimes I resurface with 13k of porn in a 19k fic <3

The epidemic of young queers ignoring or cherrypicking queer history is really biting us all in the ass because Montana just tabled the bill that banned trans and gay panic, and many of the younger queers I’ve come across have no idea what gay panic really is, or what that means.

All they know about gay panic is the “Oh my gosh! I talked to a pretty girl/boy and I’m a girl/boy hehe so flustered” that at some point replaced the actual meaning of gay panic. Do you know how dangerous this is, that they don’t know of the dangers of trans and gay panic? It’s lethal.

As things in the US become more dire for the queer community, I’m begging the young queers: read up on queer - our, your - history. Talk to your elder queers. Really look into current politics surrounding the queer community. Don’t get all your info from social media, and absolutely do not take what you see on social media at face-value. Get yourself educated and prepared for what’s to come. It’ll save lives, I promise you. 

for context, gay panic was a common legal defense used first in the mid-1800s and became a “mental condition” or some such nonsense in the early-1900s.

it could be used to justify assault and went as far as murder if the defendent said they found out the victim was gay and went into some primal rage.

the trans panic defense is the same concept but against trans people and i’m pretty sure it was most often used with cis men against trans women after or during sex.

basically a horrific but legal way to say that it was the queer persons fault for being queer and that justifies violence against them.

please let me know if any part of this is wrong and add stuff i left out!

Gay Panic has been a defense in 104 MURDER cases in America.

and if you use it as a defense, you are 32% more likely to get a reduction in your sentencing.

its not about being flustered. its about being murdered.

And Trans Panic will be just the same. We need to protect our community. We need to protect them.

And if we don’t, that blood will be on our hands.

captive prince fanart for @carryonmylovelies bday!

I think I might have made it too dark?

‘Long live king Laurent of Vere!’

Yes! Okay! I thought I’d never draw a fanart for Captive Prince but here I am proved wrong yet another time;) So here it is our precious son in all his shining glory:) 

But! I’ve not read The adventures of Charls the Veretian cloth merchant yet (just excerpts here on tumblr):< So here is the deal: if you buy me an e-book (at the moment I don’t have a convenient way of purchasing it) I’ll draw you your favourite character from Captive Prince^^ sooooooo anyone interested? (write me a pm)

Captive Prince headers ୧ ‧₊˚ 🎐 ⋅ art by c-leadraw              awanqi

For @beautifulduckweed  ❤️ for the @caprivalentine exchange.

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear Candy. 🥰 Thank you so much for giving so many wonderful prompts to choose from. It was quite a task, because there’s so much I wanted to do and so many ideas to choose from. In the end I went with pre-canon Laurent & Auguste. I hope you’ll like it, I had a lot of fun with it. 😊

A big thanks to the mods for the organization. 🥰

Look at my Valentine’s Day gift for the @caprivalentine exchange, just immaculate baby Laurent & Auguste vibes, I love itttt

Friends, rev your high fives.

Here's the card we'll be using for this month's edition of our bingo! Grab it up and get going. Remember, zero need to sign up, but if you want to share it with us so we can reblog and share the love, make sure you do so by next Wednesday, November 2.

Below the cut: a list of definitions for each of the squares in case you need help or ideas (don't worry, those will be added to the FAQs post for easy reference), and a black & white version of the card, in case you just really don't like yellow.

hello, hello -- happy w.w. to all who celebrate -- and as part of that delightful day, I wanted to get a sense of interest in a similar project that might have a slightly wider scope. You'll see the details in the linked google form.

Fandom's not *dead*, it's just... tired. And busy. And overstimulated-while-simultaneously-not-taking-anything-in. And sometimes people feel like they can't send a message or leave a comment or whatever because a) they just didn't have time when they saw it, or b) because they thought the post was too 'old' and it might feel weird, or c) who knows! Tons of reasons. But, in general, it's the interaction and communication that makes fandom feel alive, so -- we want to encourage that! Wouldn't that be fun? A little 'hey, I see you!' across the various dashboards.

It'd be super helpful if you'd take the little survey. (It's seriously little: two questions plus an optional short answer.) Share it widely! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! And then, at some point, a later project (with an actual title) may come your way.

Another WIP i’m too lazy to color

why does everyone forget about orlant that man was nothing but iconic and sexy as hell and his one-liners always killed

kinda early arthur/eames vibes like when they first met i think

I love how the whole balcony scene is literally

Laurent: this is the funnest thing that's happened in forever

Damen: don't get get a boner you're gonna die don't get a boner you're gonna die don't get a bo-

~ Snake ring.

Place of origin: Egypt

Culture: Hellenistic

Date: 200-1 B.C.

wip

back to my original fantasy gays roots with some kingly DamenLaurent