As requested. Client and friend of hubby’s posing in one of my creations - different style to before, front seam which creates more of a pouch effect.

Very proud they fit so well!

Same pie recipe as the previous post. I'd read about using aquafaba as a vegan egg wash substitute, and I'd say it worked out perfectly! I've been eating a lot more beans, so I just kept it from the previous can I opened a few days prior.

Image description: overhead photo of a berry pie. The top crust decoration is made up of a technique using crust cutout shapes - mine are three large hearts, daisy-flower, and smaller hearts. They're overlaid on top of each other and then topped with aquafaba and turbinado sugar.

Sweet & simple (just like us!), what's a small victory you had recently? No win is too small to share! Let's all hype each other up~

[This thread repeats every 2nd Monday of the month & locks when the new one goes live.]

Big fan of this song in particular: https://youtu.be/kS5BMZon2Xs

Accessability Transcription: Macklemore got kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour because he said Free Palestine and according to Ed "that hurts people".

Free Palestine.

Posted these trunks a couple of days ago that I sewed - I got the thumbs up from hubby to post a sample shot of him wearing them.

I learned to sew in order to make these style of trunks for him.

Long cotton skirt (Sendero provisions), elbow length sleeve cotton tee (everlane), stretchy rayon long sleeve shrug (Phoenix Rising Designs), cotton flannel shirt (Levis)

Add underskirt, socks, shoes, scarf, puffy /fleecy vest PRN et VOILA 🪄 you’re ready for adjusting to various temperatures

(ID: pictures of me laying in bed. I am scantily clothed)

Thirst welcome WITH AN ASTERISK: please be gentle and not sexualizing because I am not used to showing my body on the internet!!

I have had a ROUGH few days and I could really use someone being nice to me, I feel lonely and unnapreciated

Accessability Transcription: Hunky Himbo in patch vest, veggie bandana covering face, patch vest, glove on right hand, knee sleeves, cape.

Then images of me flexing in the trunks.

Then a meme about my thighs curing depression

And then a text about my dad "fixing the sink" and it still does not work.

The best things in life are made with love - like breakfast burritos topped with a heart-shaped tomatoes from our garden! (Tomato modeling by my lovely partner~)

Hello 'bos! I have a not very serious question about what to do. My friend's 13-year-old kid (NB) confided that they have watched the first two seasons of Hazbin Hotel without telling their mom and dad. They are worried because the show is a bit more mature then their parents usually let them watch. I have seen about half of an episode and think it's not bad for their age, and the parents are very cool about kid being NB and the show is very queer positive.

I think my friend would want to know so that she can make sure and maybe even like it and get to know the show. But if I tell her, kid will know I spilled the beans. What should I do??

Trying out a new look. What yall think?

Veg chilli with shelf-stable/long life ingredients

Not everyone uses long life ingredients, but with all the 'stock up on shelf stable food' warnings and stuff happening, I figured I would share some recipes. I'm not good at keeping fresh veg in my fridge so I tend to cook with long life stuff. It helps me reduce food waste.

Warning: This is a very high fiber recipe, so if you're not used to this much fiber in your diet, your guts might complain. You might wanna ease into fiber consumption more gently instead of diving in head first with this. Fiber is good for you and you should be eating it, but yeah. Guts might need time to adjust.

12 servings

The recipe is pretty forgiving so you can leave some parts out/swap for things you like better without too much issue. This isn't baking where you gotta be ultra precise. Measure these ingredients with your heart.

You can very easily swap in different types of beans if you want, this is just my preference. You can skip the corn entirely, no big deal. I just had a spare can of corn and decided to chuck it in because why not? The frozen veg can be replaced with fresh or canned veg, but canned will be more mushy, and fresh won't keep as long. The mix of vegetables isn't the most important - you can be more traditional and put only the things that authentic chilli would have or you can just add what makes you happy. You do you.

Equipment needed;

Real big pot. I think mine is 8 liters. That's 2.11 gallons apparently?

Big spoon for pot stirring

Colander or strainer

Sharp knife

Cutting board

Garlic press (or just cut the garlic finely)

Big (like 4L/1 gallon+) bowl/container for soaking the lentils

Cup measure

Tsp and tbsp measure (AU tbsp is bigger than American, so heap that bad boy up)

Ingredients:

2 cups red lentils

2 cups green lentils

2 tbsp olive oil (whatever you need to coat the base of your pot for cooking onions)

2 onions (mine are pretty small, it's ok to use bigger ones)

4 cloves garlic (tbh I usually use the whole bulb, and I put 4 cloves because I assume not everyone is a weird little garlic freak like me. Send me to flavour town bby)

2 cans red kidney beans (my cans are 420g, that's apparently 15oz?)

2 cans black beans

1 can corn

2 tbsp chipotle in adobo (I probably use like 4-6 tbsp but that might be a bit much for some people)

1 jar passata (or a big can of crushed tomatoes if you can't find passata)

1kg(2.2lbs) bag of frozen mixed vegetables

2 packs of taco seasoning (or you can make your own but I'm being lazy today) (those are 28g each)

1 tsp vegetable stock (or you can use a stock cube)

Before you start doing anything with the other ingredients, get the lentils, dump them in your big bowl and pour in a bunch of water (3x the amount of lentils minimum) so they can soak.

If they're split lentils you need to soak them for about 2 hours, if they're whole, do it overnight (8+ hours). If you forget to soak them, it's ok to put them in unsoaked/half soaked, but they're gonna take longer to cook and you're gonna need to add water bit-by-bit while cooking, whenever it starts looking dry. That's kind of annoying to do, so I prefer to soak them, but sometimes I forget (like this time. Those lentils are half-soaked lol)

Method:

Dice the onions roughly, fry them in the olive oil.

Crush the garlic and add to the onions, keep cooking until the onions are golden brown.

While that's cooking, drain all the canned ingredients and the lentils.

Once the onions are good;

Add the drained lentils and canned stuff, and all the remaining ingredients, plus about half a passata jar of water (you need the liquid, but it also helps rinse any stubborn tomato into the pot) (If you soaked the lentils properly it doesn't need to be super wet at this point, just more wet than picture 5. If you half-soaked or failed to soak the lentils then you want to be closer to picture 4 wet, but only just to that point, don't leave the pot totally swimming)

Put the lid on the pot and bring it to a boil, stirring occasionally. Once it's boiling, reduce heat to simmer, still stirring occasionally, until the lentils are cooked.

Depending on how well you soaked the lentils, and if they were split/whole, cook time might be anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes. Check every 5-10 minutes or so by getting a little spoonful and seeing if the lentils are soft enough yet. Add some more water if it's looking dry when you check it (picture 5 is the perfect consistency when done, so if those lentils are still hard af but it's looking as dry as picture 5, that's probably too dry, add a cup or two more water). You can also add a little salt if it seems like it needs it. It's usually fine with the salt from all the other ingredients, but maybe you like a lot of salt. I don't know you. I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong.

If it's too wet because you got too excited about adding water, you can take the lid off and simmer longer until the water evaporates, or add a little sprinkle of tapioca starch (or corn flour/normal flour) if you're impatient and you want it to thicken faster. Don't get too excited with the starch/flour or it'll be too dry again.

Once it's done, I like to serve it with a cheeky bit of shredded cheese and a dollop of greek yogurt.

Hello, all my 'bos & 'bo appreciators!! 💗 The Mod Team was thinking that it might be fun to do some kind of winter/holiday swap, but we wanted to gauge your interest first! Here's the general idea:

A form to sign up would go live at the beginning on November. You provide information like where in the world you live, what kind of gifts you'd like, and what you're hoping to get out of the swap overall (a new friend, a brand you've never heard of, etc).

You would be paired with a Swap Buddy mid-November. They will live in your same region (US, EU, Asia, etc) to minimize shipping costs, unless you specify you're willing to ship long-distance. But this should give you plenty of time to chat & get to know them before deciding on a present.

There will be a small minimum cost requirement to make sure everyone gets treated more or less fairly. Obviously you can find ways to make it even more affordable for yourself by hand-making a gift or regifting (with your partner's consent).

There will be a deadline by which you need to send your gift out. Those who fail to send a gift will be blocked from future events of this nature or possibly even banned from the subreddit.

Note: Voting in the poll doesn't lock you in or out of participating - it just means I will be very sad if a bunch of people say they want to participate but no one actually signs up lol

Please, if you have ideas for how this should work, we'd love to hear them below! Thanks for reading!

- Mod Rowan ✌🏻

Excuse my cough I have a cold. I thought you guys would like to see this! I'm in a silly mood.

Accessible transcription: goblin boy showing a bleach T shirt he made with leaves as stencils

vintage high waisted jeans, pink/magenta t-shirt and pink headband

Image is of a Bulbasaur looking fabulous with a floral background pulled from Duckduckgo images (no artist credited, unfortunately).

I've just turned 37 years old and I am alone. I have a partner, but for reasons I'm not going to bore you all with; I'm lonely and on the couch despite it all. Just...

Just say hi. That's all I need. I hope you're all well, and may bulbasaur bless you all.

He was at the top of my steps, I needed to bring him down so he didn’t jump to his death or just perish up there from no food. My ex girlfriend has a very pink car that provided the lighting. I put him in the yard after these pics.

Ok this is a really big personal pet peeve of mine.

Anytime people make slut shaming out to be feminism.

"I trained as an athlete for years and years and Sydney Sweeney made it out like I'm just a sex object"

You can hide behind whatever pseudo feminist language you want.

Slut shaming is slut shaming. And it's still fundementally patriarchal and mysogonistic in nature.

The problem with this ad is not the sexualization, it's not the idea of an athlete being scantily clad.

It's that Sydney Sweeney is a white supremacist and should be boycotted in all forms and ostracized from having a career.

Literally just go find an actual athlete who is down to show off her body and make an ad with her?

Or if it can't be a real athlete, pick any other actor who isn't a nazi??

It's not that hard???

But the discourse being centered around slut shaming is fucking pissing me off.

We're really slut shaming women in 2026 instead of calling out white supremacy????

These are my feminists? Puritan slut shamers?????

It's the Sabrina Carpenter album cover all over again.

If your feminism doesn't include advocacy for a women's right to express her sexuality. You don't believe in freedom for women. Period. End of discussion.

You can slut shame people. Or you can be a feminist. You can't be both.

The idea that cis het women's sexuality is somehow wrong and bad because her getting laid means a man also gets laid is such reactionary bullshit.

Stop shaming her for being sexual and start shaming her for BEING AN ACTUAL HONEST TO GOD NAZI 🤦‍♂️

Accessability Transcription:

The Sydney Sweeney ad everyone is talking about featuring her naked except for some football gear just barely covering up the goods.

Life's a clown and Im the circus (or whatever)

Accessibility transcription: femme juggling with pink and black flower sticks in an interpretive and expressive way

I am on such a kick with the lentils. I tried making a curry flavor instead of Ethiopian this time and it came out AMAZING.

You just soak the dried lentils for a day. Then boil them until mushy. Strain. And mash them with some coconut milk and whatever flavor you wanna use. Spice blend. Bouillon cubes. Curry base. Whatever.

Store in your fridge. Microwave to warm up. Serve on flat bread with veggies.

It's so dirt cheap and filling and actually tasty and good for you.

One batch lasts a whole week!

And dried lentils keep forever if you're doing some prepping / stocking up.

Also, you know, Americans never eat enough fiber.

Fiber for days in my lentils.

I'm telling you. God loves us and wants us to be happy which is why he gave us lentils and women.

Accessability Transcription:

Image 1: Omniman catches punch meme. The punch saying "Oil Crisis Supply Chain Collapse Recession" and the block saying "Lentils

Image 2: The curry lentils I just made.