/lounge/ - sushi social

>>13052
Teaching myself cooking

>>13034
Turkey earthquake getting me down…
Also the Ukraine fight with Russia…

>>13210
Saucy

Was chasing a crow out of the office today….

>>17787
for the chive slaw:
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
½ bunch|125 grams green chives, cut into thirds
¼ bunch|40 grams yellow chives, cut into thirds
4 scallions, cut into thirds
1 medium shallot, thinly sliced
⅔ cup|65 grams bean sprouts
2 teaspoons gochugaru
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon black vinegar
½ teaspoon sesame oil
¾ teaspoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons chili oil
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>>16334
I found e-girl fashion interesting because I worked at a make-up store, so I kind of saw the behind the scene's of it. The aggressive use of make-up in e girl is a bit harder to pull off then the natural hidden makeup. If you're using a couple dots of concealer perfect color matching doesn't matter, but if you're smearing blush all over your face you will 100% notice if the pink's off.
Also e-girl fashion is interesting because it works best in picture's of short-form media with filters. No matter how hard skilled you are or how expensive your products are there is no hiding the fact that you have a crap ton of make-up, giga lashes, and a synthetic wig. All three of those things are blatant if you see them irl or without filters. This is a style needs a filter to smooth over the weird shine in synthetic wigs/over dyed hair, noticeable caking from to much blush, etc. Alongside that the make-up gets really melty if left on for more than 5 hours, so it has to be short form content.

There isn't an egirl fashion. Its just social media sludge, an inconsistent mix of random stuff pulled from other subcultures. So you have the aesthetic style of 2000s MySpace emo, elements of New Wave and Pop Punk, metal band shirts despite most egirls not being metalheads or references to anime, which aside from mainstream stuff, no egirl watches. The egirl is the ultimate corporate culture vulture. She follows whatever's popular and trending, a slave to the algorithm and the law of the market. What really creeps me out about egirl fashion is the lack of any real culture. When you see a metalhead covered in patches you know those patches mean something, they signal other metalheads and its a sign they're all part of a game, a common culture that gives what they do meaning. Egirls are the total opposite of this.

>>17835
Are you saying that egirls represent a strong nexus point of hyperreality? I think I'd be inclined to agree insofar as your representation is concerned.

>>17849
That's a good way of putting it. Egirls are aimless wanderers. They move from place to place, picking up the latest trending fad and dropping it again with little in the way of overall aesthetic or narrative consistency. Its hyperconsumerism pushed to its ultimate endpoint: where even the self is a commodity traded for likes and life is simply aimless wandering for the next faddish thing with the hope of increasing views, likes, and social capital. You consume the rebellious aesthetic of punk or metal without being really committed to it or even interested in it beyond superficial appearences. Its more what punk symbolized to society rather than what it actually was. Egirls are famatic consumers of signs. Even schizo nomads have community, some level of commitment to something other than self-presentation. Egirls are the ultimate aesthetic vampires. They aren't the only ones. They just stick out the most.

>>17981
That's prety cool tbh

>>17941
Topic

>>17944
Cling.

>>17964
gore

>>17965
Elk.

>>17967
kino!

First fragrance I consciously bought - described as lemon candy and it really did smell like that. For a fifteen minutes or so.. but it was still wonderful. Also read a review where someone recognized a vaginal note, a proper gourmand!

>>17765
I know some people put lavender on their closets for their clothes to smell of lavender, some do the same with cinnamon or clove too. Personally, i don't like how those scents mix with the closet's.

>>17915
I'm a beginner in the world of fragrances, i have some but they just smell good to me, nothing more.

>>17917
If you are interested, you could visit websites like Fragrantica. There, you can learn about the composition of your favorite perfumes!

>>17919
Thanks, i didn't know about that site. It has a lot of information.
Their "fragram" is also cute.

personally i don't know a thing abt perfumes, occasionally i still wear the cheap hollister festival vibes i bought when i wanted to smell of candy all the time after i bought a specific shampoo with a very very sweet melon aroma, a friend even said i look the exact opposite but when u get to know me a sweet candy scent is the most fitting :3
i'd like a more "grown up" perfume, something rather light and floral but i never find anything i'm actually happy with so i never buy some… maybe one day i'll find one that i like ^-^
my deodorant however i will never change, one time after having to buy new one after visiting my long distance (at the time) gf i tried a few different ones as i never rly had one that i always got. i chose adidas control, because the smell was so pleasant and rly comforting for some reason i couldn't put my finger on, until my gf came to visit me one day and upon coming back from the bathroom asking if i had stolen her deodorant, i'll never want any other scent uwu
>>17887
absolutely getcha, while i was never into cars or around them much gas and diesel have got something to them, solvents in general have such an interesting smell to them, the biting sweetness of acetone is nice :3 another fav of mine is ozone, once you learn to pick it out you smell it quite often, now it reminds me of my hometown where it rained a lot and the pleasant smell of ozone rolling over the earth before a storm

Thankful for Down Dog Yoga application - nice to use my flesh from time to time.

I'm thankful to have a washing machine.
Clean clothes are such a blessing.

>>18202
I used to be a very unfit kid, in my early adulthood my knees were terrible, I could barely run for a minute, and I struggled a lot physically.

I started working out, stretching, feeling my body and working to grow and transform in it.

Slowly over 2 years I began to change. I hardly noticed it, but a few days ago I saw a wall and climbed it! I could run for long, and fast! I had noticable muscles I'd finally noticed when someone commented on it. It feels so good to be embodied in my flesh! I feel better now than I have my whole life!

>>10751
I'm very thankful for being transformed and embodied. I'm so very thankful for the changes and improvements in my body and being able to feel and be present in my body.

A breakfast sandwich with a nice cold glass of milk.

>>18228
I am proud of you!

Stick to a schedule

pray

>>17095
What am I praying for?

>>14437
>>17141
Pray for the reckoning

>>10778
Atomic Habits. Tiny changes snowball into dramatic transformations. So long as you desire it and give yourself the room to fail then you can.

Too many people are afraid to try and fail, but failure is life's greatest teacher. So give yourself the room to try and to fail because through the process of trying again and again you will learn, you will grow, and you will be transformed. Celebrate however far you've come, and let yourself try just a little more each time. Love yourself and love the process, knowing that with each strike you take you will eventually level a whole mountain! So don't ever be afraid to try, only to have never tried at all. This needs to be said, because too many people limit themselves with negative self-talk and define themselves in static terms. Picture related.

>>14437
This can be helpful, but again don't be too strict on yourself and remember that life is a process of continuous growth and transformation. You must love yourself, give yourself permission to try, and just do the best you can. You may be able to get close to the green, but don't beat yourself up if you fail to because no one is perfect. I don't always eat healthy, I don't always sleep "optimally", I don't always focus well, but I do stay curious, seek to learn, and believe that I can try.

Have a great life sushi~ <3

this is nice board

>>17156
>>17136
Please remember the guidelines. Sushigirl (especially /lounge/) is a place for comfyposting and kindness. If you're still running on the pessimistic ethos of 4ch and places like it then you might be better posting over there. Uncomfyness isn't welcome here.

>>17157
Exactly. Kindness costs nothing.

>>17883
If kindness costs nothing why aren't more people kind?

>>17888
Because life is painful and people hate themselves/others. The only way they can justify these feelings is by treating others like garbage.

>>16292
>>16294
Took me long enough but I finally finished it. I made them a house, too. Now I want to fence this area and make a second house for when they grow up.

>>16291
Might as well update on the kitchen too, it's nice to see how different it looks.
It's been a busy summer, but we're close to finishing all our projects!

Replaced seven old slat vents with rusted out screens with new grate vents. They got some fancy temperature controlled open/close mechanism on them, we'll see how that works out. Would have been a trivial project except that the siding was installed hanging over the vents so I had to cut out some sections.

>>17024
I didn't know primitive survival posted on sushigirl!

>>17023
>>17024
That is seriously impressive and cool!
Love the ducks they're cute

I think it's undeniable to come to the conclusion - if you do any sort of retrospective and introspective thinking - that we live in the time of kali yuga. "the age of quarrel and hypocrisy"
Everything appears fine and dandy to you, especially if you happen to live in a secure working or middle class environment. But you probably never stop to ponder exactly whose sacrifice and backs are broken from the oppressive nature of capitalism which provides that security for you. To be honest, it is quite selfish to say "we live in the greatest age known to man" when you are perfectly aware that the so-appearing flourishment of our civilization is only made possible through exploitation of the less fortunate. Ultimately though this myth most likely arises not only from your own dishonesty but also ignorance. I would recommend you at least read Rene Guenon or David Bentley Hart

>“But I don’t believe in the myth of progress. If he literally means that we have emerged into a period moral superiority in every sphere, I mean, yes, Western industrial societies flourish and they look after their own, they’re also complicit in many more discrete violence’s, violence’s that are hid from everyday view, wars that are not fought on their own soil, exploitation of other peoples, their resources, their economies. The use of…cheap labor in China to mass produce products to give us a level of material comfort that allow us to look after one another. Yes, we have altered the way in which we go about enacting our violence’s, we have drawn in our borders a bit, and we do in modern societies have functioning welfare states that are somewhat more provident toward our own, but the notion that we’re better off now morally, that morally we’ve advanced in an unambiguous way, and in every sense, and because we’ve thrown off religion, as if religion existed in the abstract and we’re a single monolithic reality, or as if religion were to blame for the atrocities of the twentieth century, which is the age of the great march forward of the secular national state as a project, I think it’s just a wild over-simplification, and a dangerous one, because I think it allows one a degree of a moral complacency and optimism not warranted by history….”

>“It’s a realist view to recognize that just because we tell ourselves that we’re morally superior to our ancestors when you actually get down to the ways in which our society isPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I wanna decent holiday to relax & recharge..

>>4636
People just don't know where to look for information and learning resources in general. While it is true that most books and scientific articles are behind a paywall, there is a considerable amount of solutions to get access without paying anything (pirate libraries are ironically the largest libraries in human history).
Yet, most people are not aware of these solutions since they have a biased perspective about how one makes a business out of a web service. That being said, maybe these solutions wouldn't exist if they suddenly become mainstream.

>>17869
True. Also True. True. Yeah that's the problem: I'm stuck trying to figure out how to pull a salivary stone out when I can't even make cereal.

>>4817
Here, take this with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFHQobvqXI
>>4818
Yeah don't do that please also that's not even a real place.

I have dreams that are either about romance, architecture, or night terrors that I'd rather not get into because uncomfy. Usually the romance and architecture ones seem to merge. I had a dream recently about being in this mansion on the water intentionally shaped like a boat where I would have nice, cozy times with this girl I really like and been talking to (outside of dream). We would cuddle in the night, and occasionally invite our friends over for karaoke and movies that were projected on this huge living room screen and make nice dinners in the kitchen together. It was really surreal but I honestly loved the dream and have been cherishing it in my head for some time since I had it.

>>17845
That sounds wonderful, I hope this warmth stays with you.
Many years ago I had a dream like that, and every once in a while something reminds me.
Even now, the strength of feeling it evokes amazes me.

>>17860
Me again, I guess I was thinking about that dream, and how I'd explain it to someone.
I realised to explain the feeling fully, I needed to explain a little about someone in it, and in exploring that I realised it was a feeling I'd carried with me more than half my life, and never mentioned.
So here you go rolls, the rambling secrets of an insufferable fool.
We met in the first year of high school, which where I'm from means around 14 years old.
We grew to be pretty good friends, and in time I developed pretty strong feelings for her. I didn't think she was interested, and I valued the friendship, so I kept it to myself.
Over time we drifted apart, took different paths in life.
She ended up dating an exceptionally dull classmate, at the time it was a bitter feeling, but I moved on.
Through talking out those feelings, and some similar ones in return I ended up very close to her then best friend, now one of my closest friends.
We both moved away to study, and drifted further still. We met up a few times after that, but she wasn't the person I once knew.
The last time we spoke she was utterly preoccupied with money, and virtue signalling to her fancy new friends. The dull classmate had dumped her, and she was now dating a guy with very wealthy parents, and who was absolutely smitten with her, but had all the personality of a damp paper towel. She was telling me how great everything was going, but it felt so forced, so unnatural.

I'd been going through a bit of a low patch myself, and I sort of expected the meet up to bring back some pangs of youthful yearning, of tragic unrequited love.
But instead it was just sad. To see the wonderful little weirdo I used to know leading a life I know she would have once found abhorrent. Aspiring to things I don't think she really wanted, and settling for easy conveniences over following her passions.

>>17861
Sometimes I wonder, what if we had got together all those years ago? I doubt it would have lasted, but perhaps it would have set her down a different path. Perhaps could have held on to the wonder and beauty she used to see in the world, and made peace with who she was, instead of reshaping herself to another's mould.
But back then I didn't really know what was coming, and the suspicions I had I didn't really credit.
I'd have been going against what I thought was best for her then in persuit of my own teenage horniness.
And if things had gone my way from the start, might I have ended up the same way? For sure my experience back then shaped who I am today.

It's all very presumptuous of course. I've no good reason to believe I know what's best for anyone. But what I wouldn't give to find out what might have been.
In recent years I've come to realise she's probably pretty autistic and didn't really know how to make sense of her feelings and others advances back then.
The life she was living when we last met was perhaps a mask she adopted to fit in with the people she saw as successful.
I hope it's not that simple, I'd much rather believe she really is happy with what she's got. But it's hard to believe…
And of course, that was years ago too. Perhaps she has moved on, and found herself. That would be the best outcome.

That's kind of what the dream was about. It came to me a few years after that last meeting.
There has been some kind of apocalyptic event, I don't know what exactly, but there was noone around but the two of us.
We were working on a farm, planting potatoes and digging channels for irrigation. It was hard work, the sun was fiercely hot, she was complaining constantly and I was finding it harder and harder to put up with.
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>>17862
Apologies for the blog post, I typed the whole thing on my phone in the tiny reply box. It was so long (or perhaps so self indulgent) the server wouldn't accept it in one go.
I don't really know why anyone would want to read it, but I do know one of the things I love most about this place is reading the little pieces of themselves others share, without any real reason or reward.
Touching fragments of humanity, floating in a big cozy soup.

But, finally, I have made it back on topic.
The last dream I can remember started with my next door neighbour climbing in my bedroom window to ask me where I got my alarm clock because he really liked the sound. I explained it was from Lidl, and I'm not sure if they still sell them. I offered him mine, but he declined. We both had a cup of tea, I let him back out the front door and went off to work.
It seemed a perfectly casual interaction at the time