If You Like Mashed Potatoes, Put In The Tags 1.) Whether You Prefer It Mashed With The Skin And 2.) What

If you like mashed potatoes, put in the tags 1.) whether you prefer it mashed with the skin and 2.) what brand/restaurant/person makes the best.

Hannibal targeting Omi to get to Chase definitely seems like something he'd do! Omi's still inexperienced and naive (especially compared to Chase, who's tricked Hannibal before) despite being a strong fighter, and he's definitely one of the things Chase cares about most, so Hannibal doing that thing where he sends body parts as a ransom note to Chase is so scarily in line with the bean. That was my favorite chapter so far I think.

Thank you so much! 💓

I'm glad to hear that! 😊

I really enjoy exploring the darker sides of the villains. With Chase it's how manipulative he can be and how self-serving his logic is, even as its threaded through with genuine care. And how brutal he can be, and just dismissive of anyone he doesn't want in his sphere.

With Wuya, it's how she's first and foremost focused on self-preservation and power, even as you can see that she's capable of friendship, but her own wellbeing always comes first.

Jack wants to matter. And by the end of the series, Omi is the primary person (if not the only one) who he matters to. Which I think is a huge part of why he went so far in Time after Time.

With Bean it's harder because he's deliberately difficult to parse. You don't know his goals, his motivations, etc. The only thing you can say for sure is that he cares for Ying-Ying, though he does seem to like Wuya. But his goals? What are they? What's worse than ten thousand years of darkness?

Bean for me is notable because he was written to be fairly inscrutable. You really have to guess at a lot with him because of how close to his chest he keeps his cards. He's one of the few characters where this approach works.

However, his blatant hatred for Chase does give a decent opening into his character and I think he'd be very capable of chopping up Omi and sending his body parts to Chase in order to hurt Chase.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;

who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (for they could not endure that which was commanded,

And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: and so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying,

Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:1‭-‬29 KJV

If you have small holes in your clothing, those bits of thread can be used to close them. You might need to use more than one bit of thread, of course. But that way there's no waste.

does anyone have any ideas on what to do with the little shreds of embroidery thread snips you have left over from a project when you need to rethread your needle? Like the 3-4 inch bits that are too long to justify throwing away but too short to be usable. I would love a project I can use for these because if feels wrong to throw them away.

maybe this is "grandchild of people who were raised poor during the depression and now hoard everything they receive" behavior but I refuse to apologize for what I"m going to brand as sUsTaInAbIlItY

Could Mr. Bennet have saved money for his daughters?

I am the sort of person who hears that girls would have so many thousand in their fortunes (JA never uses the word “dowry”, fun fact) and I cannot understand how someone with £2000/year makes a £3000 pound lump sum for their daughter. Because my brain doesn’t math very well inside itself. So I made up some tables to see what Mr. Bennet could have done if he was prudent.

First, let’s be realistic, how much can they save? I am giving three different scenarios, £25, £50, and £100 per annum per daughter. £100 each I think might be a little high, since their income is £2000 a year, that would be 25% of their income! I think £50 is well within reason, that would be only £250 per annum and therefore 12% of their income.

I did both 4% and 5% interest. These are both government bonds. I know that both are mentioned in Jane Austen’s works. The 4% might be safer and a better investment for a dowry. But there isn’t a huge difference. Anyway, here is Jane’s dowry, over 21 years:

Even if they saved only £50/year, Jane now has almost £2000 as a dowry. It’s not the £10k worthy of a baronet, but that is certainly a good start! 

If the Bennets tried hard and save £100 per year, she has almost £4000, which is what her mother brought to the marriage. Even the modest £25 per year would give the girls £1000 each by their 21st birthday, which if their father died would be combined with the £1000 stipulated in the marriage articles and give them a comfortable income. Even John Dashwood acknowledges in Sense & Sensibility that increasing his half-sister’s fortunes from £1000 to £2000 would make a big difference in their comfort (and then he doesn’t do it because he and his wife are the worst).

An alternative plan would be to put aside the £4000 that Mrs. Bennet brought into the marriage and only reinvest that income. It does seem that the mother’s money was often locked up in a “life interest” and then given to the children, which is true for the Bennets as well. Just saving the initial £4000 and never adding to it except re-investing the income would have yielded around  £11,00, or £2200 for each daughter.

Also, I really want to know how the son plan would have worked in the first place. Like Mr. Bennet Jr. is going to agree to break the entail and sell off a bunch of his inheritance, when he could just keep the entail and then get the whole pie? Or was the plan just to burden his own son with the care of a mom and five sisters? Not clear. Probably also a bad plan.

that first chap of your caroline au has me on the edge of my seat! an ancient malevolence...

Thank you! 😊 I'm so glad! I'll be quite excited to reveal who that is. 😆