Trail Cooking Clean and Green

Jun. 14th, 2025 06:14 pm
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I finished textually transcribing and posted Ro and Joanna Piekarski's zine, Trail Cooking: Clean and Green, published in 1995 and seemingly impossible to find. I found it in a free box, and while the Piekarskis are apparently the kind of people who categorize raisins and unsweetened carob chips as "dessert," their thing about light, cheap, vegetarian backpacker food seemed like it shouldn't be totally lost to the void.

Check it out if that interests you!

Comic: Kissing

Jun. 13th, 2025 08:42 pm
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The winner of the fan poll, supported by fans like you on LiberaPay and Patreon!

Mori goes to Rawlin and says, 'Dunno if I like proper kissing. Can I give it a shot?' Rawlin chuckles placidly. 'Sure.' Mori leans in to kiss her, only for her eyes to go wide and her fur to involuntarily fluff. Not noticing, Mori pulls away. 'Hmm... still not sure... might need more trials... you?' Rawlin touches her lips with her gloved hand and just says, '...I like it.'

Killing God is a Skill Issue

Jun. 13th, 2025 08:14 pm
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Original posts by Phosphor of Hungry Ghosts here, used with permission: https://nightfeather.cafe/notice/AuOng8NknA7IRvgusi

A janky GIMP pen drawing of Mori shrugging. In her speech bubble is a post from Phosphor of Hungry Ghosts: "'that's like saying God should not treat his creations however he sees fit--' well, you see, if god was real I would simply kill him. skill issue."

A much sketchier drawing of Mori smirking dramatically, one hand to her chest, the other thrown out with a flame at one fingertip. She oversees a burning fire, and her speech bubble contains another Phosphor post: "maybe YOU can't kill god. but lbr. that's a you issue, my friend, not a me issue"

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Jun. 13th, 2025 07:36 am
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“Humanities degrees prevent you from becoming a fascist” is classist against people who can’t afford humanities degrees.

Less pithily, it feels like an individual-level variant of the idea that “barbarian” societies commit atrocities and “cultured” societies don’t. That died an ugly death when a “cultured” country elected Hitler.

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Jun. 13th, 2025 05:23 am
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I dislike a lot of the writing decisions in Octopath Traveler 2, but my least favorite is this whole thing about how beastlings were born without the capacity for evil. The conflict between the sinless beastlings and the sinful humans reminds me of the worst sort of Christian fiction.

VAG MOMO

Jun. 12th, 2025 07:57 pm
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We were at the nearby Indian grocery store to stock up on yogurt (only they sell it in the giant quantities we require), when Biff noticed something new: enormous Ziploc bags filled with clearly-homemade momo (Nepalese dumplings). There are a few momo joints around here; maybe it's some sort of mysterious shadow kitchen thing?

Anyway, there were tons of these big gallon-size Ziploc bags, crammed full and tersely labeled in Sharpie as to their contents: (halal) BEEF, (halal) CHICKEN, and... VAG (veg).

It's Pride. We bought the VAG MOMO.

And guys, they were delicious. So flavorful! Cabbage, carrot, (probably?) chickpeas, onion, cilantro (we think), herbs and spices. We've bought bags of potstickers from the (southeast) Asian groceries around town, and they tended to be pretty bland. Nice, but bland, so we took to cooking them with sauces to flavor them up. But these? These packed all the flavor they needed. More support for the "ghost kitchen" idea.

They were expensive ($32), but they were so worth it. That bag will last us a long time; we spent half the bag feeding us and two roommates tonight, and we had leftovers, so that's an easy six meals' worth in one bag, a good treat item. And if I'm going to shell out for food, I'm happy to be giving it to my local Indian grocery and this mysterious momo chef!

Signs of Life, by Barbara Krasnoff

Jun. 12th, 2025 09:37 am
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Hey guys! I read a great women’s sci-fi anthology from 1989 in the sci-fi library. It gave me a lot of new additions to [community profile] pluralstories, but one story that really stood out to me (and has no spirited/many-selved content at all) is Barbara Krasnoff’s "Signs of Life." It’s about sign language interpreters in a universe where the Deaf are overwhelmingly the space pilots. Krasnoff had some training in the field (though she didn’t end up entering it) and reading it made my hard-of-hearing ass very happy. I really wanted to share it with y’all, but the Visions and Memories anthology is long out of print and paper-only. Alack!

So I found Krasnoff online and asked about it, and she posted the story on her blog, so now I can share it with everyone! Hooray! Here it is: https://krasnoff.wordpress.com/signs-of-life/

That anthology was really ahead of its time, and I’m glad some of the stories are finding new life (and hopefully new audiences)! I hope y’all like it!

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Jun. 12th, 2025 06:44 am
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I just saw a Happy Tree Friends fic that warned for less violence than canon, because that’s still a lot of violence.

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Jun. 12th, 2025 04:27 am
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Terrible idea: make a CIA base in Minecraft, so people can talk about blowing it up.

Dreamwidth tips and observations.

Jun. 12th, 2025 07:52 am
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Given that I've made some observations and tips on my own journals over time, I thought it was time to share them a bit wider, so here goes:
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Thank you, kind stranger!

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:11 pm
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Rogan: so, today was rough, but a kind stranger made it much less bad than it could’ve been!

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Jun. 11th, 2025 10:33 am
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Setting aside anything about knowledge or research time, some of why I don’t have much worldbuilding about why my stories have purple dye or gay marriage or whatever the fuck is that I don’t have room. That stuff fits better in a thousand-page epic than in my short stories.

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Jun. 9th, 2025 12:27 pm
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On Tumblr specifically, a lot of dumb takes are like “this evil conspiracy wants to change society to make it less like my aesthetics. That’s bad because humans need my aesthetics to feel happy, and the people who don’t like my aesthetics aren’t really human.”

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Jun. 9th, 2025 12:24 pm
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I know LovePlus was already a thing, but somehow these new Tumblr ads for an “AI girlfriend” feel more depressing than what I’m used to.

Happy Pride, have a crisis zine

Jun. 9th, 2025 03:04 pm
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So, that's two events in a row that've been financial busts, and regrettably, between moves and stuff, we have no Pride events lined up.

So we made a Crisis Planning e-zine, which collates and cleans up all our crisis planning essays (and adds a little new stuff besides) and put it up for sale for $5.

Happy Pride.

Crisis Planning: Legal/Medical Stuff

Jun. 9th, 2025 02:05 pm
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Crisis Planning: Legal Stuff: Wills, Organ/Body Donations, and DNR/MOLST/POLST Forms
Series: Essay (Crisis Planning)
Summary: A guide to living wills, health care agents, organ/body donations, and DNR/MOLST/POLST forms (i.e., how to make sure you get the care you want and not the stuff you don't when you're unable to make your desires known).
Notes: Winner of the fan poll this month! If you want to support my work, join LiberaPay or Patreon and get double-weight for your votes. Also, these crisis plan essays have proven so popular (and regrettably necessary) that we have made a whole ebook of them up for sale for $5 here.

Nobody likes to think about this stuff, but seriously, think it over, especially if any of the following is a concern of yours:
• Ending up under the care of your abusers if medically incapacitated.
• Being denied medical care you need, leading to your “merciful” death.
• Making sure your loved ones know what to do if you’re in a coma.
• Donating your body to science.

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by Ro and Joanna Piekarski
Illustrated by Cathryn Clark

* total vegetarian, low fat
* hearty, healthful, and delicious
* lightweight and inexpensive
* quick and easy
* no-soap cleanup
* keeps the garbage out of your body, your pack, and the environment

Copyright 1995
Golden Glow
192 Porter Road
Morrisonville NY 12962

Trail Cooking - Clean and Green



You're about to discover that you can enjoy delicious, healthful, quick-and-easy, "all-you-can-eat" food while hiking, bicycling, or canoeing, without any overpackaged, undersized, overpriced prepared "camping foods." All it takes is access to a good natural foods store or coop and some planning.

Table of Contents:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner:
One-Pot Dinners
Quick-Cooking Grains
Freeze-Dried Tofu
Enhanced Rmane
Other Soup-Based DInners
Instant Taboluli
Instant Hummus
Rojo's Best Burgers and Buns
Cornmeal, Beans, and Salsa
Beverages
Dessert

Breakfast )

Lunch )

Dinner )

Snacks )

Beverages )

Desserts )

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