PKMN & A Latte

PKMN & a latte

Morning ⛅️ Cirrus is keeping me company as I work on these Hurricane Helpers. I like the idea that he likes making coffee with me (I always thought Minccino / Cinccino sounds like a coffee drink lol)

I was talking with a friend about making lattes at home without any barista equipment, so I thought I’d share what I do here: all you’ll need is your microwave & a tea whisk (I have a metal one, so I can’t say how a bamboo one would be different)

Make your coffee (stir in any sugar or sweeteners here so it can dissolve).

Warm up your milk for 1 min or until steaming (1 cup of milk takes about 1 min)

Whisk the milk until you get smooth foam (you want to keep going until the bubbles smooth out, about 1 min)

Slowly pour the milk over your coffee.

& there you go - easy latte! Probably won’t make any fancy latte art with this method (I mostly just make clouds lol ☁️), but it works! If you want to take it a step up, you can add things like cinnamon, cocoa powder, or my favorite, lavender (just steep the lavender at step 1 for 4 min & strain). Have fun! ☕️

PS: be sure to pick a milk or plant milk that has some fat content in it - you don’t need to get cream or whole milk, but if you try with something non-fat, it may not foam (I heard oatmilk & soy milk make pretty good foam for plant milks 🌱)

Sorry v_v;

(slight TW?)

A little earlier, I posted a screenshot from a news story that upset me, about FEMA’s hurricane relief efforts in NC. I took it down because this seems to be a developing story, & didn’t want to accidentally spread misinformation.

What we currently know about it is 1) there was a man arrested for making an armed threat against FEMA employees, & 2) due to violent threats driven by recently spread misinformation, FEMA had to pause their door-to-door help out of safety concerns.

All I’m hoping this is the last we hear of anything like this, & that these organizations that help in natural disasters like hurricanes (FEMA, NOAA, etc) will be allowed to continue the good they do for those who welcome it.

Did you give Emmet a green scarf because Barry normally has one?

lol that’s because Emmet takes on the role of Barry in DxP REWRITE as the rival character! Different teams, certainly different circumstances, but yeah! Part of it was for the plot, but part of it was based on my own playthrough of Shining Pearl where I just decided to name the rival “Emmet” & pretended all his running around was Emmet looking around Sinnoh for clues about Ingo:

It is funny; I gave Emmet his messenger bag & green scarf, but they both already wear stripes & both are always battle-ready, so it wasn’t too much of a stretch on the imagination! 💭

I want to donate so bad for the Hurricane relief... but I only have PayPal!!! :'o... Is there a way to donate with paypal at all?

Hi! I think I might’ve turned PayPal off on my Kofi due to some recent weirdness? But you can always try donating directly to Greater Good Charities, & messaging me a screenshot of your donation confirmation if that’s more comfortable ^_^

To anyone else reading, this is the last day for this fundraiser, so put in your donations either to my Kofi or Greater Good Charities now if you wanna participate!

Hurricane Helper (day 5)

We’re almost through the week of this fundraiser, & this has been a wild ride, lemme tell you XD We got an advocate, emotional support plushes for kids in the storm, a bunch of Shinies, & more!

I was very happy to see Reshiram - they honestly don’t really need the rain gear (their Dragon type cancels out their Fire type’s weakness to Water), but I ended up giving them a little rain hood. Jumpluff was also nice - kind of like if Oddish could fly! >u<

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If you’d like to participate, just visit either my Kofi or Professor Case’s Kofi, & comment the Pokemon you’d like as a thank you with your donation (or if you’d rather donate directly to our chosen charity, Greater Good Charities, just screenshot your donation & message us with your requested Pokemon!).

On behalf of both of us, we’re so grateful for the donations so far to help those affected by the hurricanes. No donation is too small - every penny is greatly appreciated (& you get a rainy doodle as a bonus!) 🩵

Thank you so, so much! 🌧️

PS: if you’re really hurting for cash & can’t donate (been there 🥲), one very easy, free way to support us is just reblogging this post or the last ones I made! That way, the word spreads out to anyone who can afford it. Thank you! 🩵🩵🩵

Hurricane Helpers (day 6 LAST)

AND WE ARE DONE!! \^0^/

Thank you all so, so much who donated, liked, &/or reblogged our Hurricane Helper fundraiser. While we’re still waiting on Professor Case’s final number, on my end we’d raised $500+ for Greater Good Charities! I can only think of how many people that would help. 8u8

This last batch of Hurricane Helpers turned out to be almost all red-toned for some reason (also I got so, so many Fire-types working in the rain through this lol? XD) Enjoy, & once again, thank you!! 🩵🌧️