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She/her. Author of Negatives and Apertures, paranormal horror romances. Co-author of The Trident of Merrow with Kristopher Lewis. Food enthusiast. Buy Negatives: https://books2read.com/u/mgnvGK Read Apertures: Ambermarshallwrites.substack.com

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 1d

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Amber Marshall Blogs - Issue 7

Happy Halloween!

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 14h

At least it has a flared base.

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 14h

My $25 stainless steel coffee tamper came with a red velvet bag like it's a high-end buttplug or something. 🤣

A moderately priced espresso tamper with an unnecessary fancy red velvet drawstring bag.

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 16h

D'awwww ☺️

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 16h

Ah crap, I was working and missed it.

a cartoon pikachu is standing on a beach in front of the ocean and looking at the camera .

ALT: a cartoon pikachu is standing on a beach in front of the ocean and looking at the camera .

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 17h

On my machine the total time is about 4 hours for French and 5 for "sandwich bread." I'll keep experimenting and posting about it.

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 18h

I find that simple enough to understand.

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 18h

Saved posts disappear if the author deletes them, which proves that there's no substitute for taking a screenshot.

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, I'm pretty normie IRL when it comes to this stuff, but I IMAGINE that if you're dom, you like ordering people to hit you, and otherwise you just like when things get a bit rough and bitey without it being some codified S&M dynamic. 🤷🏻

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 19h

This machine has a few recipes and I started with the most basic. A few of the others have longer fermentation times so that will mean more flavor. At least one calls for more salt too.

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 19h

You like it when they fight back, maybe? 🤔

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 19h

Considering that machine loaves are tall rather than long, it'll probably be where I start my cuts/taste for quality control 😉

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 22h

I dunno, I know someone in that situation and she's more like an indentured servant...

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1d

people hear tech guys say their ethos is Move Fast and Break Things, they mentally add "in pursuit of Innovation" but no, breaking things is the means and the end. they move fast to get a spot under the next piñata, cause if you break the things these guys break, most times a lot of money falls out

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Ian Mothman (regular, not spooky) @ianfortey.bsky.social · 1d

I know now
I'm not the devil
For if I were
I wouldn't try so hard
To put out all these fires

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 22h

There are so many quotable, thought-provoking lines. And laughs!

michael swaim 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @michaelswaim.bsky.social · 1d

an excerpt from my novel The Climb, which is by turns a fantasy epic, memoir, play, screenplay, joke book, pop culture essay and spiritualized sci-fi.

MICHAEL
(sobbing, gasping)
I know that when I die I'm going to turn
into a tiny speck of energy that's all alone
lost in a big grey void and I'll spend
eternity looking around for a little pocket
to be in or another little speck to talk to
but there isn't anything, just being all
alone for eternity. My brain is sure of this.
I know this to be true. Imagine that. I
know it.

JENN
I'm so sorry for that, but the world is
bigger than us. I can't always comfort you
the way you want to be comforted. I don't
always have the capacity for that.

MICHAEL
Well, that sucks.

Michael smacks asphalt and his head cracks open. Brains everywhere.

Divested of so much ballast, jenn flies ever faster until they finally surpass the cosmological constant and reverse time. When they reach the spacetime where Michael's head was burst, they pause to unspool the visible portions of his brain and read them, run the memories through their fingers like ticker tape.

jenn continues backwards, whipping past their Little Dog, who pins
them with an e_pression of hurt and bewilderment as they are
abandoned to the timestream. It's a look that will haunt jenn for the rest
of their life.

All is submerged beneath a tsunami. jenn fires off a few 3D-printed
hollow-point high caliber rounds at the waves, but it doesn't work,
which is crazy.

CHYRON - "LESSON - Another good reason to be kind is that, sooner
or later, we all get our brains smashed out."

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Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes the quick tips at the beginning of Cook's Illustrated is reason enough to subscribe. Every single one this month is super useful.

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 1d

The basic recipe is a little bland but there are a few others to try (including French and "sandwich bread" that both have longer fermentation times, which = more flavor).

Structure, crumb, and texture are perfect.

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 1d

"But otherwise kids would be catching the bus in the dark in the morning! 😥"
So instead the sun sets as soon as they get off the bus in the afternoon and they can't play outside after school. My kid keeps wanting to ride his bike at dusk, real safe.

Amber Marshall 🍂🥧🦃 @amarshallwriting.bsky.social · 1d

I tried out their basic recipe for a 1 lb loaf and it looks good! Just a wee hole from the mixing/kneading blade. I just took it out so I'll wait for it to cool some before trying a piece.