Duranie
@Duranie@leminal.space
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 11 hours ago:
I’m almost 54 and menopause has not yet been achieved, though my system is constantly teasing/taunting me with it.
I couldn’t agree more.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Throw a couple cups of milk in a pot, start to heat on medium/medium high (don’t let it boil.)
While that’s heating, take about half a cup of milk, and a couple fat tablespoons of flour and whisk it together in a separate bowl. It should be thick, but not real lumpy. If it comes out like mashed potatoes, add more milk.
Once the hot milk starts to bubble on the stove, slowly whisk in about half of your flour mixture. Let it come back to a slight bubble and see how thick it is. If you want it thicker, add more of the flour mixture. Once it bubbles for a minute or two, that’s almost the final consistency as it’s going to thicken a little as it stands. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder, etc. to taste. Turn the heat off. Add a bunch of shredded cheese. If you heat it with the shredded cheese in it, you run the risk of the sauce breaking. Check it again for flavor, and if it thickens up too much as it cools, you can always add a little more milk.
One of the biggest mistakes that people make is heating up a sauce too much after it has the cheese in it. This can make the cheese break and get gross. I also have zero issue with using pre-shredded cheese this way either. And bonus tip, if you throw a slice of American cheese in there, it’ll have enough sodium citrate to help make it a very smooth cheese sauce.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
Different cheeses depending on the end goal. If you dehydrate cheese it can be ground into a powder. I’ve seen cooks on various shows do this to recreate powders for popcorn seasoning, home made Doritos, Cheetos, or even for long term prepping/storage. Makes it easy to create sauces in a pinch as well.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
We made our entire cult out of cats 😁. If we ever end up with a non-cat, they’re first up to be sacrificed lol.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 month ago:
I used a bright white base coat with heavy application of a black wash, letting it pool to the edges of the robes. Then I went in with the Black 4.0 under the robes and inside the hood. Most visible on the back, I also used it for those branching “crack” like details. The base is also Black 4.0, but I took the picture under a REALLY bright light (and in the first image you can see the spots where I was too impatient to wait for the base to fully dry lol.) Under regular lighting the black is incredibly flat and the underside of the robes really does disappear.
The lanterns are painted silver with a black wash. For the glowing part of the lantern, I started with a bright white base, then layered the blue glow in the dark pigment, then a clear gloss over it.
I loved working on that piece, even though I often felt like screaming trying to get the right angles to paint one part and not fuck up something else lol.
It’s The Watcher from Kingdom Death Monster.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 month ago:
With some patience, sure! I just need to figure out where to upload lol.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 month ago:
If the story is true, Anish Kapoor got his hands on some and dipped his finger in the pink, flipping off Stuart.
In response, Stuart released a glitter made of shards of glass. Lol
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 month ago:
I bought some lol. It’s a truly pretty, perfect pink.
I’ve made an unspeakable number of purchases from Culture Hustle over the last couple years for a variety of pigments and specialty paints (like Black 4.0 and glow in the dark and UV reactive pigments.) I paint board game minis for fun lol.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Massage therapists hate spray tans.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 months ago:
Lol when it was discussed with the funeral home folks (who gave us the shovel to dig with - left it leaning against the back door of the funeral home the morning of) they just said to let them know when we were done so they could document what was left there for the records.
Yes. This happened in a very, very rural area lol.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 months ago:
My mom used to do arts and crafts things with gourds. When she passed there were easily over a dozen laying around the house plus a giant one she had started prepping, but never finished.
She was cremated, and the plans were to bury her in the plot she already had next to my dad. State or county requirements, however, that works, allowed us to be the ones to dig the hole to actually place her urn in the ground. When the time came, her five children, their spouses and many grandchildren gathered to dig a great big hole in the ground. We ended up taking the big gourd that she had been working on and placed it in the ground, then as we filled that with dirt we placed her urn inside the gourd. In the end everyone took shovelfuls and handfuls of earth and covered her up.
I can never look at a gourd without thinking of my mom.
- Comment on Piss Post 2 months ago:
Scrolling during an in person meeting. My God this one tested me 🤣.
- Comment on ill take a double scoop 2 months ago:
But did you finish?
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 3 months ago:
You mean like during the COVID lockdown? It was amazing. I wish people learned more lessons from that time.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 3 months ago:
I work in hospice, traveling to patients homes. I’d be more than happy to work from home, but the logistics of getting dying bed ridden people to travel to me has been tricky.
- Comment on Age + BUN = Lasix dose 3 months ago:
Your heart pushes water and nutrients out to the extremities and then the lymph system returns excess water and waste so that the liver and kidneys can filter it while making the cycle again. When circulation is poor or the heart is weak or other complications, the body has a hard time returning some of that fluid back into circulation to where the body can get rid of it naturally. This is the result. It can just sit there leading to skin breakdown, or even infection.
- Comment on Actual shitpost 9 months ago:
It’s not supposed to be dark yellow, so I’m guessing better hydrated.
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 1 year ago:
Our bodies aren’t 100% efficient when it comes to nutrient absorption anyway, so considering there’s a number of other factors at play, it’s probably making minimal difference.
When we eat, the food added to our stomachs signals the large intestine (colon) to get a move on and make room for incoming food. Caffeine can help stimulate this response, but since most nutrient absorption occurs in the small intestine, we’re not really losing anything of value. There is some absorption in the colon, but that’s mostly water being removed so we can have formed stools instead of chronic diarrhea.