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neurodiverse-adulthood · 2 years

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Forbidden snacks unforbidden

Disclaimer: do not eat anything you are allergic, intolerant, or sensitive to! Moderate your diet according to your needs. Seek a dietician's help with this if needed.

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* = only taste safe-- not meant to be eaten straight but eating a little won't kill you

Bar soap: avocado, banana, mango, dried papaya, peach, pear, ice, cereal, cheese, peanut butter oat balls, giant pretzels/pretzel bites/pretzel bun, crackers, steamed rice cake, butter, flan, cake, chocolate bar/melts, candy melts, gum*, candy corn, freeze dried ice cream, popsicles, taffy, Charleston Chews, tootsie rolls, fondant, valentine heart candies, Rice Krispie treats

Bone, teeth, metal: white foods, silver foods, bone/tooth-shaped foods, ice, raw baby carrots, almonds, walnuts, other nuts, frozen fruit/vegetables, ribs, chicken legs, bone-in wings, T-bone steak, uncooked pasta, edible tree bark, edible skins/shells of some foods, pretzel sticks, cereal, cookie straws, candy canes, valentine message heart candies, Takis, hard candy, snowcone, suckers/lollipops, chocolate coins, Whoppers candy, frozen chocolate/candy, popsicles

Chalk, coal, makeup: Parmesan cheese, spices, seasoning, puffed rice cakes, cereal, powdered/icing sugar, edible sands, drink flavoring, ground up crackers/chips/cookies, Whoppers candy, smarties, sweet tarts, mints, freeze dried ice cream, sprinkles, fun dip, pixie stix, cotton candy, valentine message heart candies, mints

Cosmetic creams, whipped soap, spackle: yogurt, peanut/etc butter, cream cheese, sour cream, hummus, condiments, butter, thick drink, Nutella, frosting, whipped cream, ice cream, pudding, candy gel, marshmallow fluff

Dice, marbles, coins, trinkets: ice, polyhedral candy, frozen peas, frozen fruit, banana chips, other dried fruit, Kix/Cap'n Crunch/Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, other cereal, cheese cubes, snacks shaped like trinkets, mini pepperonis, seed beads, jawbreakers, Whoppers candy, jolly ranchers, candy shaped like trinkets, chocolate chips, Tic Tacs, mints, decorative sugar pieces, valentine message heart candies, sugar cubes, candy coins, candy legos/bricks, gum*

Dog/pet treats: foods cut into bone/fish/etc shapes, banana, blueberries, sweet potato, dried fruit, deli meat, fish, red meat, bacon, pepperoni, poultry, bread, pasta, crackers, Cheerios, Rice Krispies cereal, other cereal, human-safe dog treats, cookies, oatmeal, peanut butter oat balls, granola, jerky, Slim Jims, cooked bugs or worms, mints, gummies, sprinkles

Dough, clay, puddy: mashed potatoes, sweet potato, avocado, peanut/other butter, peanut butter oat balls, noodles/pasta, gravy, pancakes, fondant, yogurt dough, Kool-Aid dough, cocoa dough, peeps playdoh, Nutella dough, peanut/etc butter dough, warm chocolate, warm candy corn, taffy, egg-free cookie dough, ice cream, thick frosting, Charleston Chews, caramels, marshmallow fluff

Fabric, foam/sponge, slowrise squishies: peach, apple, pear, cucumber, watermelon, dried fruit, puffed rice cakes, Chinese steamed rice cakes, bread, pita bread, muffins, shredded jerky, giant soft pretzels, Rice Krispies, cake, donuts, pancakes/waffles, fondant, soft cookies, freeze dried ice cream, pop tart bites, cotton candy, marshmallow, dried apple

Glitter: cake luster dust, crushed/ground ice, warmed sugar, crushed/ground hard candy

Glitter bottles, potions, glowsticks, cleaning products: cake luster dust in any beverage, edible fluorescent colorant in any beverage, citrus juice, water with lemon, water with orange, water with grapefruit, water with other citrus fruit, dyed beverage

Inedible plants and flowers: lettuce, spinach, kale, cabbage, peas, carrots, corn, pumpkin, other veggies, watermelon, peach, apple, mango, banana, dragonfruit, pineapple, grapes, cherries, strawberries, other fruits, dried fruits, skins of some fruits/vegetables, mushrooms, seeds, nuts, herbal tea, dandelions, other edible flowers, herb seasonings, edible tree bark, breath strips, edible rice paper, edible sugar paper, edible money wafers, edible grass candy, cotton candy, gushers, wax bottle soda candies, decorative sugar pieces, gel/juice-filled gummies/candy, gel/juice-filled gum*, shredded gum*

Jelly soap: peaches, other fruit, dried papaya, pumpkin, jelly/jam, gummies, Jell-O, agar, candy gel, gel/juice-filled gummies/candy, gel/juice-filled gum*, gum*, edible/xylitol-based toothpaste*

Lava, liquid soap, molten glass, wax: hot drink, thick drink, soup, oatmeal, sauce, gravy, dip, dipping/nacho cheese, honey, nectar, jelly/jam, condiments, beverage flavoring syrups, soda/juice, syrup, pudding, caramel, melted candy/chocolate, melted butter, candy gel, edible/xylitol-based toothpaste*, fondant, milk duds, gum*

Lipstick, candles: cheese, Baby Bell cheese, butter, avocado, mango, dried mango, dried papaya, banana, raisins, pepperoni, pasta, gummies, wax bottle soda candies, candy melts, chocolate melts, frozen pudding, fruit rollups, gushers, marshmallow, fondant, starburst, candy corn, pudding, taffy, tootsie rolls, milk duds, candy buttons, jolly ranchers, Charleston Chews, candy gel, valentine message heart candies, caramels, gum*

Mochi squishies, silicone/rubber, fungi: peaches, pears, avocado, dried mango, dried papaya, mushrooms, eggs, beans, tongue, fish, medium red meat, other meats, dried fruit, noodles/pasta, dumplings, cheese, yogurt, Chinese steamed rice cakes, butter, seed beads, cheese curds, gummies, caramels, taffy, tootsie rolls, marshmallow, milk duds, Charleston Chews, candy gel, agar, gum*

Orbeez, animal eggs: eggs, peas, blueberries, grapes, baby tomatoes, peaches, acini di pepe/pastina, boba, dippin dots, gummies, Jell-O, agar, seed beads, mini marshmallows, gumballs*, candy buttons, milk duds, Kix cereal

Paint, ink, makeup, glue: soup, sauces, gravy, dip, peanut/etc butter, honey, nectar, syrup, caramel, condiments, cream cheese, sour cream, frosting, icing, whipped cream, ice cream, dyed beverage, pie filling, pudding, candy gel, melted candy/chocolate

Paper and cardboard: skins of some fruits/vegetables, iceberg lettuce, spinach, kale, cabbage, puffed rice cakes, Kix, Cheerios, Rice Krispies cereal, other cereal, breath strips, edible rice/sugar paper, edible money wafers, crackers, ice cream cone, pizzelle, fruit rollups, fruit by the foot, frozen chocolate, frozen pudding, freeze dried ice cream

Pills and medicine: ice, beans, nuts, seeds, frozen peas, frozen blueberries, corn, acini di pepe/pastina, rice, cereal, soda/juice, dyed beverage, empty gelatin/edible capsules, jellybeans, jolly ranchers, Tic Tacs, mints, Mike n Ike's, sweet tarts pills, nerds, gushers, smarties, sweet tarts, valentine message heart candies, sprinkles, small hard candies, gel/juice-filled gummies/candy, gel/juice-filled gum*, fake blood capsules*

Pottery, ceramic, porcelain: nuts, seeds, ice, dried fruit, avocado, banana, cheese, puffed rice cakes, granola, cereal, pancakes/waffles, bread, crackers, pita chips, pita bread, uncooked pasta, uncooked Ramen, Ice Chips, ice cream cone, pizzelle, frozen chocolate/candy, frozen pudding, freeze dried ice cream, popsicles, cookies, Whoppers candy, smarties, sweet tarts, mints, chocolate bar, valentine message heart candies, edible rice/sugar paper, edible money wafers, hard candy, mints

Rocks, crystals, beads: nuts, seeds, ice, table salt, beans, tea, jerky bites, meat chunks, acini di pepe/pastina, couscous, cheese cubes, uncooked Ramen, popcorn, popsicles, crystallized honey, jelly/jam, frozen honey/syrup, dyed beverage, boba, mints, crushed crackers/cookies, chocolate rocks, crystal sticks, freeze dried ice cream, jawbreakers/gobstoppers, nerds, hard candy, decorative sugar pieces, Cheerios, other cereal, sprinkles, jellybeans, chocolate chips, candy legos/bricks, ring pops, dippin dots, crystal/rock sugar, sugar cubes, frozen chocolate/candy, jolly ranchers, suckers/lollipops, ring pops, gum*, Whoppers candy, dippin dots, valentine message heart candies, seed beads, candy necklace, candy bracelet, mints

Sand and soil: couscous, quinoa, rice, poppy seeds, other small seeds, Parmesan cheese, spices, seasoning, edible fake dirt, ground up cereal, ground up crackers/chips/cookies, brown sugar sand, flour sand*, Kool-Aid sand, crumbled cake, sugar, powdered/icing sugar, pixie stix, fun dip, ground up hard candy, crushed Whoppers candy

Sea glass, plastic, resin/rosin: ice, Ice Chips, uncooked pasta, iceberg lettuce, cucumber, watermelon, chips, pita chips, crackers, sorbetto/flavored ice, frozen honey/syrup, caramels, popsicles, breath strips, mints, edible rice/sugar paper, edible money wafers, jolly ranchers, fruit rollups, fruit by the foot, crystal sticks, crystal/rock sugar, fondant, clear suckers/lollipops, clear hard candy, crushed hard candy, mints

Slime, puddy: thick soup, thick beverage, melted/liquid cheese, sauce, gravy, jelly/jam, dip, yogurt, edible oobleck*, fondant, candy gel, Jell-O, Nutella slime, pudding slime, pizza slime, seed slime, syrup slime, psyllium slime*, starburst slime, chocolate slime (1-2-3-4-5), bubblegum slime, Kool-aid slime, milk slime, taffy, caramels, egg-free cookie dough, gum*, edible doughs, marshmallow fluff

Tide pods: seaweed water pouch/bubble/bottle, baby tomatoes, peas, grapes, blueberries, pb&j, Uncrustables, gushers, pop tart bites, gummies, mentos, wax bottle soda candies, jelly donut holes, Reese's, Jell-O, tide pod jello shots, tootsie pops, gel/juice-filled gummies/candy, gel/juice-filled gum*

Wood: ice, uncooked pasta, edible tree bark, edible tree bark tea, pine/tree tea, puffed rice cakes, granola, almonds, pine/tree nuts, other nuts, seeds, sunflower seeds with shell, poppy seeds, dried fruit, jerky, uncooked pasta, uncooked Ramen, chips, crackers, waffle cone, Kit Kat's, Twix, pretzels, pretzel chips, cookie straws, ochre, canned bamboo, canned sugar cane

Yarn, string, wire: spaghetti squash, pumpkin, shredded fruits/vegetables, grated fruits/vegetables, banana, pulled pork, celery, honey sticks, string cheese, shredded/grated cheese, noodles/pasta, Ramen, mozzarella sticks, jerky, hot pizza, shredded gum*, Spaghettieis, sour straws, nerds ropes, gummy worms, cotton candy, fruit by the foot, fondant strands, edible candy grass

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cyberpoetryballoon · 4 years

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The Beautiful Chaos of Messy Instagram Cakes

How long can you really stare at perfection? When everything is exactly as you could imagine it, what's the point in continuing to look? Imperfection, meanwhile, prompts a continued gaze, even if it's only to figure out whether you like it or not.

This is the appeal of the Instagram cakes heaped with globs of garish frosting, photographed with a harsh shine—at times, unsettlingly zoomed in. Welcome to the lurid side of cake Instagram, where there are no blankets of fondant, no buttercream spackled into submission, and no faux marble surface for naturally lit flatlays. This is the part of Instagram where food gets weird.

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

What makes a "hoe cake"? Artist and designer Sara Sarmiento, who started the Instagram @hoe_cakes in late 2019, knows what fits her page when she sees it. When she started following baking accounts during a period of unemployment, "the only ones that really caught my eye were the disastrous, really messy ones," Sarmiento said. Hoe Cakes, which now has over 15,000 followers and serves as a nexus for the experimental cake niche, became a place for her to collect the cakes she found the most beautiful.

These are cakes that melt, shine, and drip—that are topped with cigarettes (and posed with a foot holding another cigarette), or bunnies humping, or the word "bitch" in rotund scrawl. They are lumpy, smeared, and half-destroyed. They could be an ornate fever dream of fruit and frosting, or a simple collection of whorls as if a tie-dye shirt became edible. The cakes are shot with flash amid fridge interiors or cluttered tablescapes, often so low-resolution they evoke the early days of single-megapixel point-and-shoot digital cameras. They may be immediately unappealing to some, but they look like nothing else on food Instagram.

Photos courtesy Sara Sarmiento

Though people submit pictures of neat, professional cakes to Hoe Cakes, that's not what Sarmiento is collecting. "I don't want to say ugly, but just like, messy in a visceral kind of way," she said of her preference. Ugly isn't a negative to her—in fact, "the uglier, the better"—though she isn't sure how other people might feel about it. "They are ugly and messy and just like, slutty. I don't know why 'slutty' is the word that I would describe these cakes as, but that is one." These cakes are Big Fondant's worst nightmare.

"Instagram food" is now a pejorative used to refer to food made to go viral. The writer Amanda Mull once described it, cronuts and all, as a "sad, sparkly lie" that turned consuming into a "status performance," since the food doesn't need to be eaten—let alone taste good—to be Instagram fodder. A side effect of this made-for-Instagram culture is that foods blend into an indiscernible swirl of dye, buttercream, and well-lit, newest-iPhone-quality photos. "[T]his is the nature of the Instagram beast: People want the cake they saw someone else have," writer Alicia Kennedy commented in a 2018 piece about the homogenization of the dessert world. Instagram cakes as we've come to know them are polished, and to make one requires abiding by a set aesthetic.

The energy in this part of the Instagram cake scene is different. Its lack of veneer is irreverent, like a shitpost selfie, the flash illuminating every pore. A corrective to the idea of "Instagram food," these are cakes nonplussed with perfection.

Photos courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

"I would definitely say fairly chaotic," said ceramic-artist-turned-hobbyist-baker Alli Gelles, describing the cakes she shares as @cakes4sport. Gelles's maximalist sculptural cakes have become some of the most recognizable in this niche. Fruit, frosting, and sprigs cover every inch, and sprinkles of edible glitter make them sparkle like a butterfly clip from an earlier era of Claire's. "A lot of the imagery, I think, is based on my Y2K bedroom... When I started working in this 'anything goes'-mode, I started reverting back to that," she said. In ceramics, Gelles prefers when she can create without obsessing over technicality, and that approach extends to cakes. "Because I'm working from an artist lens as opposed to a professional baker lens, [it's] almost like the rules don't apply."

Instagram's experimental cake niche is growing. Follow Sarmiento and Gelles, and your recommendations will fill with accounts going similarly galaxy-brained. Caitlin Palmer began making cakes in May to cure boredom and made the account @c4k3l1n to keep track of them. Palmer uses the page to share her work and to interact with other cake makers, all of whom have been willing to share tips. "It's like unprofessional people who are just trying to make very intricate, complicated cakes for kind of the first time," she said.

Photos courtesy Caitlin Palmer/@c4k3l1n

To Palmer—who describes herself as "really into niche Instagram in general," as she also has an account for mushroom content—part of the appeal of this cake scene might be the freeing nature of the second Instagram. Following the path that teenagers paved, the Finsta ("fake Instagram") is a place to be weird online. This niche, Palmer suggested, might be like "the baking Finsta." Whereas she might curate other Instagram content, she lets her cake account exist freely, trying "whatever" and being supportive when others do the same.

"For the most part, I think people are just like, 'What do I have around here?'" Palmer said. She puts her cakes on 30-cent, reflective, disposable pizza pans and takes photos with her phone, preferring flash for its ability to make cakes look "weirder" and "more sculptural." This type of unrestrained flash is, of course, what incited responses of horror to Martha Stewart's early food tweets. While photography is similarly pragmatic for Gelles, it fits into her broader mindset: "If that's really the thing that people aren't into, then you're not gonna like these kinds of cakes—it's not polished at all."

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Instagram has tried to convince us of a lot of lies, many of which we've internalized: that "flat tummy tea" is a good health choice; that Glossier products make you look like a Glossier girl; that homes exist without clutter; that some people just wake up "like that"; that food needs to look a certain way to be good. (Dave Chang uses the phrase "ugly delicious" for a reason.)

But what if food is messy and unsettling to look at? What if we took in the ugliness, questioned why we dislike it, and let it simmer, like leaning into a painful yoga pose? Nobody would die, though food stylists and influencers everywhere might gasp in shock. After, though, we might be awakened to a world of Instagram food that's weird and free, without the inexplicable standards created by influencers and brands.

Photo courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

Sarmiento loves the "glorious lump of frosting" when new bakers send her their work. To her, the barrier to entry to these cakes is lower, and there's no gatekeeping. "I want people to feel like anybody can make art," she said. It's not a coincidence that Sarmiento, Gelles, and Palmer (who works at a museum) are all part of the art world. "I think a lot of people who make the most beautiful cakes—the ugliest, beautiful, sluttiest cakes—are artists and queer people," Sarmiento said. To her, people are seeing cakes in a new light as an art form that's not just visually entrancing, but also purposeful.

Unlike ceramics, which requires special equipment and plenty of time, the satisfaction of making and decorating cakes is accessible and immediate, Gelles said. Though the idea of creating art in order to sell it has tripped her up in the past, taking on cakes as a hobby lets her create for the sake of creating.

"As far as cakes, it's like, well, if I make it, somebody's gonna eat it," she said. "Even if they don't get it, even if you don't think this is a pretty cake, you're at least going to eat it. You're going to enjoy it—and who doesn't like cake?"

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carolrhackett85282 · 4 years

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The Beautiful Chaos of Messy Instagram Cakes

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photos courtesy Sara Sarmiento

Photos courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

Photos courtesy Caitlin Palmer/@c4k3l1n

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photo courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

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melodymgill49801 · 4 years

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The Beautiful Chaos of Messy Instagram Cakes

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photos courtesy Sara Sarmiento

Photos courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

Photos courtesy Caitlin Palmer/@c4k3l1n

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photo courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

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carolinechanson97838 · 4 years

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The Beautiful Chaos of Messy Instagram Cakes

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photos courtesy Sara Sarmiento

Photos courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

Photos courtesy Caitlin Palmer/@c4k3l1n

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photo courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

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latoyajkelson70506 · 4 years

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The Beautiful Chaos of Messy Instagram Cakes

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photos courtesy Sara Sarmiento

Photos courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

Photos courtesy Caitlin Palmer/@c4k3l1n

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photo courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

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deborahaphillips54303 · 4 years

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The Beautiful Chaos of Messy Instagram Cakes

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photos courtesy Sara Sarmiento

Photos courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

Photos courtesy Caitlin Palmer/@c4k3l1n

Screenshot via Instagram/@_hoe_cakes_

Photo courtesy Alli Gelles/@cakes4sport

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ardaaman · 4 years

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Writer’s Month Day 2: Quarantine

Warning for maggot-induced body horror.

Rino looked around the room and inwardly groaned at the thought of spending a whole week here. A small, lumpy bed sat in the corner, sans pillow. The bedstand next to it was a crate with a dim glowstone and a book sitting on top of it. A bucket sat in the opposite corner.

“Well,” Asar said from the doorway, sounding altogether too cheerful for someone sentencing Rino to a week in solitary, “I’ll be back twice a day with food and a fresh bucket. Good luck!”

Rino spun around to protest his living conditions, but Asar had already swung the door shut with an ominous thud. He sank down onto the bed and, for lack of anything better to do, picked up the book. Its worn cover read “Curse Victims and How Not to Become One: A Collection of Cautionary Tales.” This time, he did nothing to contain his groan.

By the time Asar came back with dinner, Rino was beginning to suspect the purpose of this quarantine wasn’t to ensure no lingering effects remained from the curse, but to punish him for dragging Asar into the Bennuan Catacombs in the first place. He’d taken every imaginable precaution to not run afoul of the infamous curse traps in the catacombs on his expedition, but in the end the magic was so ancient and the lingering buzz of an active spell proved so faint that even Asar, the cursebreaker he’d hired to accompany him, couldn’t sense it in time.

“There’s nothing wrong with me,” he insisted the moment the door opened to reveal Asar carrying a tray in one hand and a bucket in the other.

“That’s what they all think,” Asar said with a disconcerting grin, “but half of all curse victims still have lingering symptoms after the spell is broken. Don’t want you scratching off your own skin without me here to stop you, do we?”

Even now, in the relative safety of the surface, remembering what it was like when the curse took hold sent a shudder down Rino’s spine. Reluctantly, he submitted to Asar’s expertise in this matter.

Dinner was edible, though that was the greatest compliment he could give it. After he finished and set the tray by the door, he tossed and turned on the bed—which, he discovered, was exactly as uncomfortable as he’d predicted—for hours before finally sinking into a fitful sleep…

Rino slunk through the tunnels of the catacombs, one hand trailing on the wall and the other holding his glowstone aloft. Stark shadows cast by both his and Asar’s lights dance across the walls and floors, stretching out far in front of them. His watched the darkest areas closely from the edges of his sight.

A sharp pain in his left hand drew his attention. He squinted in the dim light. There, on the back of his hand, was what appeared to be a small boil. It almost looked like it was growing and… moving.

With a yelp, he dropped his glowstone and clutched his left hand as another wave of stabbing pain hit him. There was no doubt now in his mind; he could feel the boil undulating beneath his fingers.

He felt rather than saw the next boil crop up on his wrist, then another on his knuckle, then another on his arm, then another—

The first one covered half of his hand now. Pain coursed through every inch of affected skin, like a thousand tiny bites, like… like… like something writhing beneath his skin, struggling to escape.

Fighting his revulsion, he brought his hand up to his face to better see what it was. A shooting pain emanated from the center of the boil, and he could almost swear he saw something white and wriggling beneath the surface.

That was when it burst. Maggots surged from the hole in his hand, twisting and thrashing about and falling to the ground. All over his body, they erupted from his skin like pus from a zit. White hot agony spread through his entire being. It was just an illusion, a curse, but it felt entirely too real.

He dropped to the floor, clawing at his skin, sobbing, but more maggots bored their way out of his tear ducts instead. He tried to scream, but the bile rising in his throat made that impossible. No, not bile—he coughed it up, and maggots poured from his mouth. He couldn’t cry, he couldn’t scream, he couldn’t breathe—

He shot up in bed drenched in sweat and gasping for air, his heart beating out of his chest. His arms were bleeding where he’d scratched them in his sleep. With a strangled sob, he threw himself back on the mattress and stared up at the spackled ceiling, unable to shake the image of those creatures bursting from his skin.

This, he realized, was going to be a long week.

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thatsbelievable · 7 years

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“Is it Food?“

We are constantly asked this question. People really want to know, “Is this thing that I just saw, over there, in that corner, food?” While it would be great if everything we came into contact with turned out to be edible, sadly, that is not always the case. To help you in your ongoing quest to determine if something is food or not, we’ve compiled this simple six-step plan.

STEP ONE Pick up the thing you want to eat.

STEP TWO Does it resist being picked up? Does it bite? If it does, it might be food, but you shouldn’t eat it, because it sounds like it is already eating you.

STEP THREE If it does NOT resist being picked up, and does not bite, then it is possibly food.

STEP FOUR Put the thing in your mouth.

STEP FIVE Does it taste poisony? If it tastes poisony, it might be poison. If you die, then you will know for sure.

STEP SIX If it does NOT taste poisony, it is probably food.*

*Unless it is rock, wood, metal, dirt, paper, sewage, garbage, human waste, animal waste, many plants, some species of fish, concrete, nails, other hardware items, major appliances, minor appliances, glass, porcelain, electronics, tip jars, nail clippers, acid, most chemicals, radioactive elements, action figures, automobiles, submarines, airplanes, most forms of transportation (including boats), shells, mercury thermometers, eye patches, spackle, light bulbs (fluorescent or otherwise), cans, bottles, bottle caps, swim fins, discarded foil chocolate bunny wrappers, doors, windows, buildings, magma, artificial feathers, chicken coops, paint, paintings (including paintings of food), train tracks, rope, electricity, and more.

#Is it Food?#questions #answers #asks #life hacks #tips #tricks #advice

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architectnews · 4 years

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Welcome to The Jungle House has an aquaponic system connecting a pond for edible fish and rooftop garden

CplusC Architectural Workshop has built a house in Sydney with recycled materials, a rooftop vegetable garden and an aquaponics system containing edible fish.

Welcome to The Jungle House, which has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the Residential rebirth category, is a home for the studio's director Clinton Cole and his family.

Solar panels cover part of the facade of Welcome to the Jungle House

The project, with its solar panels, gardens and pond for edible perch, was designed in response to the climate emergency to be a model for more sustainable urban living.

A complete roof structure was designed to hold all the drainage for the open-air pond and planters for beds of fruit and vegetables.

Nitrogen-rich wastewater from the fishpond, which is located between the home's outer facade and inner skin on the first floor, irrigates and fertilisers the garden. Rainwater drains into an underground tank, is filtered and pumped back up to the pond.

The spackled render was chosen to respect the area's heritage

"The system was challenging to install," said CplusC Architectural Workshop.

"But with a lot of collaboration between our plumber, landscaper, home automation, irrigation and weather-sensor contractors we were able to ensure the system was set up fully integrated without any major setbacks."

The roof structure doubles as beds for plants and vegetables

Sadly, climate change may have already negatively affected the house's aquaponics system.

"The system has been set up so that the residents can indeed harvest and eat the fish when they've grown to a big enough size," CplusC Architectural Workshop told Dezeen.

"Unfortunately during Australia's catastrophic bushfires earlier this year a layer of ash settled on the open tank and all the fish died," explained the studio. "We have to wait until mid-spring to be able to reintroduce fish to the system, so the opportunity for harvesting the fully-grown fish is yet to happen!"

A pond for fish sits between the inner and outer wall on the first floor

Welcome to The Jungle House was built on the site of a derelict house. The project involved demolishing the original building and building a new home on the wedge-shaped site.

At the front, the spackle-rendered facade was designed to make the house fit within the heritage area. A more modern panel-style facade is at the rear.

One exterior wall of Welcome to The Jungle House is covered in shiny black solar panels that generate energy for the house and act as a "billboard for sustainability", said CplusC Architectural Workshop.

Plants grow in planters behind the exterior facade

The positions of the original window opening were recreated and framed in pre-rusted steel to contrast with the new openings, which have metal frames with a glossy white powder coat.

A projecting bay window has a wooden door that can pivot on its hinges to open to the outside. When closed, two other openings can be opened to frame views of the greenery beyond, complemented by decorative handles in the shape of birds.

Smaller windows punctuate a large window on a hinge

Another wood-lined window in the living room hinges at the top to let in air without overheating the room with direct sunlight.

Reinforced plastic grating in light green forms a fence down one side of the building next to the house. The owners have planted passionfruit vines, so neighbours can eventually come and pick the fruit.

"[It's] a symbolic gesture of an architecture attempting to give more than just an aesthetic," said the studio.

A large galvanised steel porch covers the front door

On the ground floor, an oversized porch of galvanised steel leads to a large home office with a polished concrete floor and a playroom for the children. Doors lead to a workshop and a garage with a place to charge the family's electric car.

On the floors above a glazed interior wall was set slightly back from the facade. Inside the gap, large planters filled with greenery bring nature into the house and spill out down the facade.

Wooden windows can hinge to open

A spiral staircase made of recycled timber and steel connects all three storeys of the house, doubling as a lightwell and drawing cool air down through the house.

The first floor is occupied by three bedrooms, bathrooms and a laundry. The main bedroom features the pivot window, and the other two bedrooms are filled with bunk beds and connected by bifold timber doors that can be opened to form one large room for sleepovers.

The children's bedrooms have seating that doubles as storage

Low seating in the children's rooms conceals storage and was designed to provide a vantage point to sit and watch the fish swim in the pond.

"The architecture has made a very deliberate attempt to connect the children directly with their food sources to counter the detachment from food sources that current city-dwelling generations have developed as a result of our unsustainable industrialised farming systems," said CplusC Architectural Workshop.

Recycled timber and metal cabinets are in the kitchen

Upstairs is an open plan living area that extends beyond the parapet of the original house's frame to provide views of the skyline.

Instead of a formal dining table, the kitchen has a long island-style counter that divides the space and doubles as a table for shared meals. Recycled timber was used for the island, contrasting with the metal cabinets.

Weathering steel frames some of the windows

The living and dining area opens on to an outdoor terrace with a fold-down ladder that leads up to the rooftop garden and vegetable patch. The structure of the roof beams forms the troughs for the beds of soil, with their exposed bases forming an industrial-style ceiling for the kitchen below.

As well as being intentional about the materials and setup, the architects are offsetting the carbon emissions from the renovation.

The house was designed as an experiment in sustainable urban living

"Using real power bills we were able to estimate the total carbon footprint of the project over an expected 60-year lifespan," explained the studio.

"We are now in the process of purchasing carbon-offset credits to neutralise the carbon footprint of the home and support biodiversity projects to regenerate Australia's bushland ecosystems."

CplusC Architectural Workshop was founded by Clinton Cole in 2005 and is based in Sydney. Recent projects include a concept to save the Sirius social housing building.

An aquaponics system has also been integrated in this library in Hanoi, Vietnam, that aims to connect inner-city children with education and nature simultaneously.

Photography is by Murray Fredericks.

Project credits:

Architect and builder: CplusC Architectural Workshop Project architects: Clinton Cole, Christina Cheng

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Another Stoner Classic That’ll Age Like A Fine Chablis

Ben Affleck steals the present in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, going again to his true Hollywood roots to supply Kevin Smith with a brief however candy cameo. The second comes late within the third half of this quasi-sequel to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again, and it is a disgrace that this trio fell off for the final 13 years. If this quick stretch of a reunion is any indication, Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith might create some extra cinematic magic sooner or later if they’re keen to take action.

The remainder of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is completely ‘okay’. It is breezy, enjoyable and infrequently very humorous. Spackled onto the preexisting blueprint for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again, it hits all of the notes in tune. However there’s a very heavy, been there seen that vibe swirling across the complete endeavor that weighs on the 95 minute runtime. For any fan of the View Askewniverse, it will function a welcome return to those characters. It is not one of the best entry in Kevin Smith’s long-standing again catalogue. It is not the worst both. It falls someplace within the center, however can have an extended shelf life, and I am guessing it, like a few of his different higher motion pictures, will age nicely.

Strolling into Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, you already know precisely what you are going to get. Maybe the trailers gave an excessive amount of away? As there aren’t actually any components of shock awaiting inside. I noticed this on a double invoice with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again, and that swift comedy has stood the check of time. Held inside at this time’s social media norms, it really rings as fairly prescient. Rather less heavy-handed than this Reboot at hand.

The brand new film takes sequel and remake tradition to job, whereas giving us all of the cliches concerned for a really meta expertise that’s really in contrast to the rest seen in latest days. It performs good with Millennials and Technology Z, in contrast to the latest Shaft reboot, and does not alienate its potential youthful viewer’s members whereas nonetheless making an attempt to satiate the older of us within the crowd. The unique appeared extra edgy, however that is to be anticipated on this present social local weather.

That does not cease Smith from taking over some taboo subjects. He recruits present AEW World Champion Chris Jericho into the fold as a KKK chief, dragging the white supremacy group right into a wacky head scratcher of a scene that appears to be an ode to The Blues Brothers, however could confound teenage Antifa wannabes who do not get the joke. There may be greater than sufficient pot smoke drifting in regards to the film’s edges to slip it into being a stoner cinema traditional. Full with scenes that wiggle in, make little sense, solely to dissipate and disappear without a lot consequence. You do not want many energetic mind cells to take pleasure in this experience.

Take Matt Damon’s return as Loki for instance. He’s reprising his position from Dogma, and makes the requisite Marvel jokes about Tom Hiddleston. The cameo arrives early, and from the left area. Damon is seen by himself in a church. No rationalization given, none actually wanted. And he seemingly goes onto narrate the film, although the comedy has clomped alongside for no less than twenty minutes without one. However Damon’s Loki narrates only one scene. After which isn’t seen from or heard once more. Stoner cinema at its most interesting, I suppose.

It will need to have been the edibles. However it does not actually matter. A part of the allure right here is that Kevin Smith is making up his personal guidelines as he goes alongside. It is loads like his most up-to-date efforts in that regard, hewing nearer to the aesthetic present in Tusk and Yoga Hosers. I like these two motion pictures rather a lot. Whereas there aren’t many in line with Kevin Smith himself, you possibly can depend on me as one of many few followers of these two carnivalesque creature options.

This is not a stream of aware monster film, although. And the ‘making it up as you go alongside’ conceit flips and dips every now and then. The gist of the story is similar to the primary go round. Jay and Silent Bob are heading to Hollywood to cease a film from being made about them. This time it is a reboot of Bluntman and Power. It is actually simply an excuse to hold a collection of sketches from. And it offers Jay a daughter. Some jokes work. Some arrive as flat soda. However it’s by no means a job to eat something thrown on display. A number of the dialogue may make you shrug, however it’s by no means disagreeable.

General, it is a pleasant expertise. And a welcome one. Watching Kevin Smith play himself because the director of Bluntman v Power made me a little bit itchy. In fact, he appears to be like identical to Silent Bob. And Smith goes for it, giving us a scene the place Bob slides into Kevin’s footwear as a part of a scheme to get Jay’s daughter into the upcoming BVC film. It is completely ridiculous. However I’ve to forgive this whimsy. Robin Williams did the identical actual factor on an episode of Mork and Mindy, the place Mindy takes Mork into Robin’s dressing room after a stand-up present, and the 2 have a well-meaning dialog about how exhausting it’s to 1) Be an alien and a pair of) Be well-known. I feel the episode aired after Popeye hit theaters. It is precisely the type of sitcom period throwback you’d count on from Kevin Smith. Bizarre. However no less than Smith is stealing from the classics.

Alongside the experience right here is Kevin Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith, who is basically carving out a distinct segment for herself. She’s not fairly like another actress making the scene for the time being, and she or he’s so fetching and humorous. It is too dangerous Lily-Rose Depp could not have popped in for a fast reunion. Johnny Depp, who appeared in Tusk and Yoga Hosers additionally does not present up. Perhaps they’re going to return in Moose Jaws, which has ceaselessly promised to offer us the dying of Silent Bob. Although now, contemplating what has occurred to the director since he first conceived the concept, maybe he can return and revise the scene ala Mario Van Peebles in Jaws 4: The Revenge, the place his character died, however reshoots introduced him again to life. Severely, nobody desires to observe Silent Bob really get killed in a film.

There are no shock cameos in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Kevin Smith, who notably likes to speak loads, has just about given all the things up from the phrase leap. There’s a good ode to Clerks when the gang lastly make it to Power-Con. However aside from that, I felt like I used to be watching a film I might already seen a few instances earlier than.

Due to that, I do not assume I am feeling as smitten by the entire ordeal for the time being. However as Redman says within the film about his personal comedy traditional How Excessive, I really feel this might age right into a superb chablis. Maybe a while faraway from seeing Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again or any of this present movie’s promotional materials, I will take pleasure in it extra. Proper now I will chalk it up as a nice diversion. And what extra might you ask for in a comedy proper now? Jay and Silent Bob is hitting the street by way of 2020. You’ll find tour dates on Fb for a metropolis close to you.

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