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fandomsecrets2025-08-14 07:09 pm
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Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-13 06:50 pm
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nverland (nverland) wrote in creative_cooks2025-08-13 04:31 am
nverland) wrote in creative_cooks2025-08-13 04:31 amSpicy Dill Pickle Dip
Spicy Dill Pickle Dip
Prep Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Servings: 6
INGREDIENTS
US-
1 cup Nonfat Plain European Style Yogurt
1/3 cup Sour Cream
2 1/2 tablespoons Calabrian chili paste
1/2 lemon, zested and juiced
1/2 cup diced cornichons
3 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan
1 1/2 tablespoons minced dill
1 tablespoon thinly sliced chives
1 grated garlic clove
salt and pepper to taste
Metric
236.59 ml Nonfat Plain European Style Yogurt
76.67 g Sour Cream
2.5 tablespoon Calabrian chili paste
1/2 lemon, zested and juiced
77.5 g diced cornichons
3 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan
1.5 tablespoons minced dill
1 tablespoon thinly sliced chives
1 grated garlic clove
salt and pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
In a mixing bowl combine yogurt, sour cream, chili paste, lemon zest, and lemon juice and stir together.
Add cornichons, Parmesan, dill, chives, and garlic. Stir together.
Season with salt and pepper and stir together.
Serve with potato chips, crudité, crackers, or crostini.
NOTES
Make our dill pickle dip up to 3 days in advance. Do not add garnishes. Transfer the dip to an airtight container and refrigerate until ready to use.
When ready to use, give the dip a good stir and top with garnishes before serving.
Variations
Add 1 teaspoon of cumin and/or smoked paprika to the dip for a slightly smoky flavor.
Omit the chile paste if spicy isn’t your thing!
Add more herbs like sliced chives and minced thyme to mix things up!
Add some shredded Gruyere or Swiss, pour it into a heat-safe dish, top with more shredded cheese, and bake for a hot dip!
Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-12 05:53 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-12 05:53 pm[ SECRET POST #6794 ]
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airiefairie (airiefairie) wrote in talkpolitics2025-08-12 09:48 am
airiefairie) wrote in talkpolitics2025-08-12 09:48 amThe end of the 10K steps myth
A new international study published in The Lancet shows that walking around 7,000 steps a day is sufficient to significantly improve health and lower the risk of serious conditions:
All-cause mortality: –47%
Cardiovascular disease: –25%
Dementia: –38%
Depression: –22%
Cancer: –6%
Type 2 diabetes: –14%
Falls: –28%
LINK1 / LINK2
Turns out, even walking as few as 4K steps daily offers noticeable benefits compared to very low activity levels (~2K).
Granted, additional health gains continue beyond 7K steps, but the return diminishes, making 7K a practical and achievable target.
Funnily, the widely held belief in the 10K step goal originated from a 1960s Japanese marketing campaign rather than scientific evidence. Hardly surprising that it has taken hold in public perception.
So... rejoice! For smart folks now suggest that 5-7K steps may be a more realistic benchmark for most people. And just as effective.
All-cause mortality: –47%
Cardiovascular disease: –25%
Dementia: –38%
Depression: –22%
Cancer: –6%
Type 2 diabetes: –14%
Falls: –28%
LINK1 / LINK2
Turns out, even walking as few as 4K steps daily offers noticeable benefits compared to very low activity levels (~2K).
Granted, additional health gains continue beyond 7K steps, but the return diminishes, making 7K a practical and achievable target.
Funnily, the widely held belief in the 10K step goal originated from a 1960s Japanese marketing campaign rather than scientific evidence. Hardly surprising that it has taken hold in public perception.
So... rejoice! For smart folks now suggest that 5-7K steps may be a more realistic benchmark for most people. And just as effective.
Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-11 06:19 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-11 06:19 pm[ SECRET POST #6793 ]
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oportet (oportet) wrote in talkpolitics2025-08-11 10:57 am
oportet) wrote in talkpolitics2025-08-11 10:57 am(no subject)
I don't know what's happening in Gaza.
I'm on the other side of the world with nothing but tv and internet sources to rely on. I've seen plenty of horrific pictures and videos, read a few strongly worded articles describing horrific things, but nothing seems certain.
If you can't know, the next best thing is knowing the possibilities. It shouldn't be too hard to narrow them down. It wasn't. I did it already. There are 3. Put that sexy guessing hat on, here we go...
A) Israel is doing nothing wrong. No genocide, no starvation, no sniping kids, no bombing churches or mosques or hospitals or journalists, no international treaty/convention lines have been crossed whatsoever.
B) Israel is doing the aforementioned horrible things and is getting away with it because (insert any variation of 'jews control the world')
C) Israel is doing the aforementioned horrible things and is getting away with it because (insert explanation that absolutely does not in any way imply any variation of 'jews control the world')
A seems pretty basic, but if that is your choice and you want to elaborate please do.
If B, you can just rank where you are on a 'jews control the world' scale from 1 (acknowledgement they have a disproportional amount of leverage/influence) to 10 (they have weather/earthquake machines)
If C - this seems to be the least explained position so unfortunately you have more explaining to do. Good thing explaining is fun.
I'm on the other side of the world with nothing but tv and internet sources to rely on. I've seen plenty of horrific pictures and videos, read a few strongly worded articles describing horrific things, but nothing seems certain.
If you can't know, the next best thing is knowing the possibilities. It shouldn't be too hard to narrow them down. It wasn't. I did it already. There are 3. Put that sexy guessing hat on, here we go...
A) Israel is doing nothing wrong. No genocide, no starvation, no sniping kids, no bombing churches or mosques or hospitals or journalists, no international treaty/convention lines have been crossed whatsoever.
B) Israel is doing the aforementioned horrible things and is getting away with it because (insert any variation of 'jews control the world')
C) Israel is doing the aforementioned horrible things and is getting away with it because (insert explanation that absolutely does not in any way imply any variation of 'jews control the world')
A seems pretty basic, but if that is your choice and you want to elaborate please do.
If B, you can just rank where you are on a 'jews control the world' scale from 1 (acknowledgement they have a disproportional amount of leverage/influence) to 10 (they have weather/earthquake machines)
If C - this seems to be the least explained position so unfortunately you have more explaining to do. Good thing explaining is fun.
Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-10 02:35 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-10 02:35 pm[ SECRET POST #6792 ]
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paranoidangel (paranoidangel) wrote in tardis_library2025-08-10 02:10 pm
paranoidangel) wrote in tardis_library2025-08-10 02:10 pmRec [fic]: The One Where Hardison Meets The Doctor by seraphina_snape
Title: The One Where Hardison Meets The Doctor
Creator:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
seraphina_snape
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1813 words
Creator's Summary: Hardison gets to meet the Doctor for Christmas.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor, Alec Hardison, Tenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None
Reasons for reccing: It's a fun fic, since Hardison is a Doctor Who fan, but the Doctor can explain it away.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28381302
Creator:
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1813 words
Creator's Summary: Hardison gets to meet the Doctor for Christmas.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor, Alec Hardison, Tenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None
Reasons for reccing: It's a fun fic, since Hardison is a Doctor Who fan, but the Doctor can explain it away.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28381302
Silver Adept (silveradept) wrote2025-08-09 10:18 pm
silveradept) wrote2025-08-09 10:18 pm
Entry tags:
/run/media/silveradept: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
So, on the recommendation of many (including seeing things related to it popping up in my channels regularly, and a fair number of people who are apparently all-in for the main trio being a trio romantically), I watched KPop Demon Hunters.
Have some non-spoilery thoughts, in no particular order:
Have some non-spoilery thoughts, in no particular order:
- I wonder how ONCE feels about having gotten TWICE to be the group doing the movie credits version of one of the songs played in snippets throughout the movie.
- Daniel Dae Kim and Ken Jeong make perfect sense for the roles they're cast in.
- Speaking of voices, the one they cast for the greater-scope villain was delightfully correct, although the casting direction seems to have suggested that he move in the direction of "clipping syllables in an English-as-Second-Language" way. I don't want someone to speak in something that isn't comfortable to them, or to not sound like themselves, but it felt more like a conscious direction rather than someone's natural cadence to do it that way, and it made the greater-scope villain come off slightly more like a Bond villain being played for a bit of camp than as the greater-scope villain. Maybe I'm reading too much into the delivery, or maybe the intention was for this character to sound just slightly off from the rest of the cast.
- The Netflix subtitlers managed not to figure out something that fansubbers of various Asian series have known for decades, and even those who subtitle K-Pop releases: how to properly subtitle songs. Which is a major strike against them for a movie that has an awful lot of singing! We didn't necessarily have to go full-on for the kind of karaoke-style, rainbow, motion-filled subtitles that fansubbers of anime and toku series got (get?) made fun of for using in their releases, but these subtitlers went in the direction of just putting the syllables of the words in the subtitles, or otherwise doing Revised Romanization of the spoken or sung Korean and leaving it at that. So there's no context to those lines, nor what they look like in Hangul (which you can see in one of the shots that is the behind-the-scenes for TWICE recording the song playing over the first part of the credits), nor a translation of what the Korean says into English (or whichever language you want as the subtitles.) Admittedly, it would be more offensive to just put [Korean] or [Speaking/Singing in a Global Language] for those sections, but only just. The purpose of the subtitling there is so that someone can follow along with the audio track and make sure they're not missing anything, and if the audio track includes singing in Korean or rapping in Korean, as it does in this movie, the subtitlers have a responsibility to render it comprehensibly. (Bets on whether Tumblr has a transcript of all the songs that renders them correctly and translates them correctly at this point?)
I'm very unhappy with the job the subtitlers did on this movie, and I think Netflix needs to release a revision to accurately reflect what happens in the movie. - I suspect there are more than a few things about the movie that I missed, because my understanding of symbology of both Korean cosmology and mythology and the intricacies of K-pop fandom isn't as complete as it should be to fully appreciate what's going on here. (I did at least understand the light sticks, banners, appearances on various shows and the part where the performers are basically on their public game anywhere the public might see them, which includes never ever wanting to say or do anything that would say there was a relationship between idols and anyone at all, including other idols. Not that it stops the fans from shipping them, either in their own groups or possibly with other groups that they're seen with or rivals with.) Most of my understanding of K-Pop comes from people like brithistorian and andersenmom, so thank you for your help and answering the silly questions that I've had over time.
I did appreciate the music through the decades montage at the beginning, and I'm not sure the average watcher will realize just how much Korean music is influenced by American styles of music through those eras, before the phenomenon that we know of as K-pop comes into existence. (And which exchanges/inherits a fair amount of its cues and norms with Japanese pop idol culture, such that we think of them as J-pop and K-pop, at least over here in my neck of cultural existence.) - Related to this, however, it looks like Sony Animation went with the same general style and animation timing that they used on the Spider-Verse movies at times while I was watching it. While, for Spider-Verse, the animation timing is a deliberate decision and works for the comic-book nature of the multiverse being portrayed, here, the dance sequences that should be smooth as butter in the animation, probably even with some extra key frames to make sure it all goes well, several of them hitched and were otherwise more jerky than I would have expected out of a studio trying to match the intricate choreography that can accompany K-pop. It's possible that these hitches and jerkiness were my Internet connection having hiccups or my computer having a hitch, but I don't think so. Others can tell me how smooth their watch was of the movie, but for the moment, I'm chalking this up to Sony Animation's house style and timing clashing with what you would want animated K-Pop to look like. (There were noticeably fewer hiccups in the action sequences, which is why I think I think it was a style decision rather than a slowdown, because action animation would be more likely to have degradation than the dance sequences, in my opinion.)
Yes, but what did you think about the plot?
It was a perfectly serviceable plot. You'll recognize all the beats if you watched the first Frozen movie, although it is harsher to the lesser-scope villain than most Disney films would be. This particular version of the movie leans heavier into the "Demon Hunters" part of the title, and I don't know if that was the right decision for the plot, because the plot sets up both a movie where action and stylish fighting, accompanied by singing, will determine the outcome (the direction they took) and a movie where the principal heroines and their principal opposition are in a for-all-the-marbles stakes idol game to be determined by who has the bigger fanbase after the agreed-upon final duel at the Idol Awards competition. That would have made the K-pop part of it much more important, and given them all the tools they needed to wage an epic battle across various releases, appearances, and the rest that wouldn't have to involve all that many attempts at direct sabotage or fighting between the two groups, even if there was an awful lot of things that could be excused as "special effects." I'm pretty sure if the writers had enough experience with how idol systems work and the less than savory elements of the companies and managers of the various idols, they could write a very good movie full of underhanded tactics, diss tracks, "accidental" social media leaks, and all the rest of it. I think focusing on the K-pop aspect would also make the internal divisions and the character conflicts in the protagonist trio work better, as each of them starts giving in to more of their worser aspects in trying to beat their rival team, and that would make the parts of the plot that are about secrets and lies work better, since the character hiding the biggest secret will have had the opportunity to see the very worst aspects of the team and believe such things are their actual selves, instead of their more restrained forms. (Which will also make the ultimate climax portion of the movie work better, as well, to make it much clearer why the protagonist team ends up where they do and the way they do before the final battle.)- Final thought: The movie could cut the gag about certain members of the trio having heart eyes and popcorn eyes about the prettiness of the pretty boys in the rival group. It doesn't actually contribute to the plot, and it makes the characters shallower in a way that doesn't suit them. They could certainly make commentary on the boys being eye candy, even supernaturally so, because that's how they're drawn to be, but the majority of the movie shows this trio as a focused, work-first, idol trio who want to enjoy their downtime, except for that one member who keeps pushing them to not take their breaks. They're not shown as flighty or otherwise susceptible to that kind of distraction, and they primarily work through it when it happens, so thy could just cut the gag entirely and replace it with something else that would work better. Like an offhand comment about how those boys are trying to get by on their looks, while they're getting by on great songs. And then eventually admit to themselves that the boys have catchy songs, too, but stay primarily focused on making their own, better songs to beat them, since they never really try to change their look to be more attractive to the fans than the pretty boys.
Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-09 03:32 pm
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Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-08-09 03:28 pm
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nverland (nverland) wrote in creative_cooks2025-08-09 07:53 am
nverland) wrote in creative_cooks2025-08-09 07:53 amColor-Changing Margaritas
Color-Changing Margaritas
Yields: 4 servings Prep Time: 0 hours 5 mins Total Time: 4 hours 30 mins
Ingredients
2 c. sliced purple cabbage
4 c. boiling water
1/4 c. kosher salt or coarse sea salt, for rim
8 oz. tequila
4 oz. triple sec
3 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
1 c. lemonade
4 lime wedges, for garnish
Directions
Place cabbage in a large heat-safe bowl. Pour boiling water over cabbage and let sit until water turns deep blue, 5 minutes. Strain out cabbage and let water cool.
When water is no longer hot, transfer to ice trays. Freeze until solid, 4 hours.
In a medium pitcher or measuring cup, combine tequila with triple sec, lime juice, and lemonade. Wet rims of glasses with a lime wedge and dip in salt.
Place purple ice cubes in glasses and divide margarita between them. Garnish with a lime wedge and serve.