brocreate:

based on the novel by nicholas sparks

gingerhaze:

I drew a thingy. I can’t help it, they are my favorites. Two nonpowered humans ballsy enough to fight alongside superpowered macho men. I love them.

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fennecdesign:

This is probably my most used home brewing recipe, and the simplest. It’s an easy soda, refreshing on it’s own or tasty mixed with gin or vodka. I love to make a large batch before parties, everyone loves it and it costs less than even the cheapest generic sodas. The major plus here is once you have the basic recipe down it’s not too hard to make tweaks and changes to suite your personal preferences. This ginger ale is entirely different from most American brands (i.e. Vernors, Canada Dry), in that it’s flavor comes directly from fresh ginger root which is spicy and refreshing. The carbonation comes from a minor act of fermentation by bakers yeast as it ‘eats’ the sugar in the drink, creating carbon dioxide (fizz!). This is the same reaction used to make alcoholic drinks, just on a shorter and smaller scale (in this case the amount of alcoholic content is negligible, around half a percent).

To make a 2 liter bottle of Ginger Ale you will need:

• A cleaned out 2 liter plastic soda bottle with screw-on cap.
• A fine grater or zester.
• A funnel.
• A 1 cup measuring cup.
• A 1/4 cup measuring cup.
• A 1 tbsp. measuring spoon.
• A 1/4 tsp. measuring spoon.
• 1 cup sugar (raw or cane is fine)
• A chunk of fresh ginger root.
• Bottled lemon juice or  1 medium lemon.
• Active baker’s yeast.
• Water.

To make the ale first combine the dry ingredients inside the 2 liter using the funnel; 1 cup sugar and 1/4 tsp. yeast. Next grate the ginger until you have at least 2 tbsp., depending on how flavorful and spicy you want your drink to be, you could use up to 4 tbsp. Pour the ginger and then the lemon juice (1/4 cup of the bottle stuff or the juice of 1 fresh lemon) into the bottle as well. Then fill the bottle the rest of the way up with lukewarm water within one inch of the top, using the water to rinse any remaining ingredients from the sides of the funnel into the bottle. Cap and shake gently until all of the sugar is dissolved. Find a warm place to stash the bottle, I think the top of  kitchen cabinet is a good place and let the bottle sit for 1-2 full days checking periodically to see how firm the bottle feels. Once the bottle no longer gives at all when you squeeze it’s ready! Move the bottle to the fridge (this will stop the fermentation process) and wait until the ale is chilled to serve. If you don’t like chunks of ginger in your drink wrap a piece of cheesecloth over the neck of your bottle when you pour. The chunks will mostly settle to the bottom of the drink anyways.

Further options:

I love adding extra flavoring to my ginger ale by making my soda with an herbal tea instead of water. My favorite flavors are hibiscus, lavender, or peppermint but there are many other options as well (pretty much any edible herb you’d like!) I make the tea ahead of time, using boiling water and dried herbs to taste making sure it’s cool to touch before add it to my other soda ingredients (if it’s too hot it will kill the yeast!) The hibiscus is especially nice because it gives the soda a striking magenta color. Consider making a number of smaller bottles of ginger ales with different flavorings, experiment with different colorful and medicinal herbs. 

TFTA: Texts From the Avengers (pt. 6)

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cupcakeforger:

THE HAWKNEST IS COMPLETE.

EVERY HAWKNEST NEEDS A NATASHA. 

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just wrote a paper in two hours on how Iago admitting he’s gay for Othello could have saved everyone in that damn play.

my WIP thesis was, “If Iago had just come out and said he was jealous of Desdemona and wanted Othello’s sweet bod, everyone would have lived and gotten laid.”

now time for bed before my 8am exam. whooooooo

Maisie Williams (x)

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thecunningclock:

“You look like shit.”

lmnpnch:

Four favourite Jeremy Renner pictures -> requested by anon

cockvengers:

Fury: They called him Winter Soldier. Supposed to be the KGB’s secret weapon. Story went that they came him on ice and only woke him up for the big gigs. Up until today, he was just a myth.
Natasha: He’s very real. He was one of my trainers back in the red rooms.
Steve: You can’t seriously be implying that this Winter Soldier person is Bucky.
Fury: We were hoping you could tell us, you saw him last night.

theatlantic:

In Praise of Single Mothers

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

In a notable nugget former Sen. Rick Santorum said at a town hall meeting, “We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it’s falling apart because of single moms.” Not long after that, in a public appearance in Erie, Pennsylvania, he accused single mothers of “simply breeding more criminals.” This past fall, he argued that single mothers voted Democrat because their lives were so hard and urged Republicans to “build two parent families” in order to “eliminate that desire for government.”

This Mother’s Day I confess that I am very proud to be from what some would call a broken home. Not because it was easy watching a young woman struggle to be a mother on her own after ending a violent marriage, but precisely because it was so very hard. And “hard” seems to be a word we now avoid, disparage, and devalue in our insta-everything culture.

In other words, the very values that Santorum and so many others say these solo moms undermine are just the values I learned from mine — and the community of women like her I grew up with outside Washington, D.C. What did we learn from these women who worked one or more miserably paid jobs while battling domestic turbulence, hunting for child support, hustling to pay rent, and forcing us to do our homework all on their own? 

Everything.

Read more. [Image: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon]

coulsonisms replied to your post: tmi

hmmm never tried that

I highly recommend it.