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Mavis Beacon, all paws on (key)board!
@corgionstilts.bsky.social
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Slackware brat with diabetes and a love for aerial arts and outdoorsy stuff. Also cats. Yes, I'm a witch. No, I didn't vote for the decomposing orange. Gimme my damn vaccines. He/him.
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Three. And. A. Half. Hours. That doesn't even include setting up the tree itself, which I had the sense to do before the surgery that Mavis screamed at me until I got. At least she doesn't try to climb it. Can't wait for this lemon foot to heal up.
A black Christmas tree decorated with white LED lights and various ornaments. A few blown glass color bulbs, some icicles and plastic gems, and a spun glass bell trio and ceramic potpourri ornament are mixed in with a variety of clear glass bulbs with glitter designs on them. Topping the tree is a capiz shell star.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Laundry is clean but not put away. I want it done now, but she is making me rest.
A brownish tabby cat is laying on a lap with reddish brown corduroy pants, eyes half closed and making biscuits. Behind her is a brown floor strewn with toys and a gravity water bowl.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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EAT THE JACK O LANTERN.
Seriously, our economy is cooked and the decor is made of real calories. Can't believe I'm posting the dumpster fire recipe, but if it helps someone come up with an idea for theirs they feeds them it's worth it...
A blue and white printed paper bowl sits on a rainbow striped sheet. In the bowl is roughly mashed pumpkin with corn, potato, tomato, leek, and canned meat.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Good thing that this will last a while because it took me two days and I'm exhausted. Also, what the Purina happened to corned beef and hash? Like I knew it wasn't going to be the best shortcut, but it aspires to be as good as the block of Spam that I threw in because WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MEAT???
Sadness baked at 350 degrees. A purple glass stock pot sits on a white stovetop. Behind and to the right is a white with floral print cream pitcher, handle of a brown glass stock pot poking out from behind a black oven glove, and the corner of a box of Chinese tea. The stovetop is dirty. In the purple stock pot is a mass of orange pumpkin with canned meat and vegetables mixed in. Diced tomatoes, corn, potatoes, and leek.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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First round of cooking since surgery, and I butchered a carving pumpkin. Not the easiest pick to start with but it was by the cd table and I wanted the floor space.
A purple glass stock pot with large chunks of golden orange pumpkin sitting in an oven, illuminated from above by the appliance light. Below it is a cream colored cookie sheet with charred splotches of long ago spilled food. Smushed below are canned diced tomatoes with garlic and olive oil and canned corn. Not pictured: the chopped leek and two cans of corned beef hash to be added later. Yes, this dish is a can stack with leftover Samhain decor thrown in. No, I'm not sorry.
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Victory is mineeee. Teh hooman walks liek kangaroo wit metal stiks. Nao I canrest.
A brownish gray tabby floof is curled up in a loose croissant, front paws crossed under her head. She is laying on old Rainbow Brite sheets and a comforter. Crutches leaning on a cream colored dresser with dull bronze toned shell handles. Dangling above the brown speckled floor between the crutches and dresser is a wrapped foot. Gauze pokes out from under ace bandage and covers all but the big toe. Over the ace bandaging is a short black fracture shoe.
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Round two of cooking is done. I think this may look worse than the time I accidentally made mashed chicken but it's going up anyway 😅
An unglamorous mess in a white glass baking dish with a silver utensil handle sticking up to the left. Turnip and swiss chard greens, cooked and run through a blender on chop, with the consistency of mud, are smeared throughout a pile of sliced mushrooms and chunks of rainbow bell pepper. A chunky brown mudlike puddle of food in an Early American brown oval pyrex baking dish. Bits of diced tomatoes and poblano peppers are mixed throughout a mix of pureed acorn squash and ground beef.
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Round two has started. No idea what to call this because I dumped in half a bag of egg noodles. It's definitely borsch flavored, but does that ever have those?
It's the purple glass pot from the last post but cooked and with a gold colored utensil handle sticking up to the left. Beef, swiss chard stalks, banana pepper, and turnips. Also tomato and noodles and peeled zucchini because I can't always remember what all got dumped in 😅 Fun fact: there is no point in trying out swiss chard if you already know you're allergic to beets because they're the same species.
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Sleepygills was too eepy to watch Dad making stanky vegetables this time.
Tabby cat trying to keep her eyes open as she lays on an old Rainbow Brite comforter. Her whiskers are drooping down as sleep begins to win out.
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Part one of tonight's cooking spree. Tried playing "is this an allergen yet" with the raw radishes. Nope, but they were past their prime so into a soup they went.
Two baking dishes and a glass stock pot in the oven. On the left is the stock pot with beef, swiss chard stalks, banana pepper, and turnips. Rear right is an Early American brown oval pyrex baking dish with large chunks of acorn squash, the skin still on. Front right is a vintage round glasbake dish with chopped swiss chard leaves with salad turnip greens buried underneath, topped by a mismatched purple pyrex lid. Below them is an off-white cookie sheet permanently on spillover catch duty.
October 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Halp! Halp! Teh PUMPKINS is takinover. Dunno whar flatish orange one is but is look liek ugly punkin. Crazy hooman put up tree fulla bats.
Tabby cat looking at the camera. She is sitting on brown speckled carpet with a lime green fabric tunnel behind her.
October 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Farmer's market haul of the week. Zucchini is pretty much done for the year, same with eggplant. Just as well since I don't want to look at them after freezer prepping at least a half dozen of the monstrosities. Thankfully, chard leaves are quicker to work with. Also I have pet FOURTEEN DOGS today 🥰
A sprawl of vegetables on a white stovetop. Back to front: swiss chard, turnip tops, leek, poblano peppers, a large shallot, baby gold potatoes, pattypan squash, pink tiger cherry tomatoes, red cherry tomatoes, lamb tongue, hakurei turnips, another large shallot, and anaheim peppers.
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Cooking round up. It's not too late to play the game of 'will new veggie make tongue go numb' since there are still swiss chard stalks in the fridge 😅
Soup fixins baked in a brown glass stock pot, sitting on a white stovetop and yearning for broth. Behind is a purple glass pot. In the pot are beef, homestyle egg noodles, radish greens, swiss chard leaves, kohlrabi, tomato, and onion. Food in a purple glass stock pot, sitting on a white stovetop. Beef, curly egg noodles, zucchini, mushrooms, tomato, and onion clamor for pasta sauce and some cheese. A couple bay leaves stick up from the mass, confused as to why they are still there. Salted cabbage in a printed white oval pyrex baking dish.
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Farmer's market haul of the week.
A produce horde has claimed half the stovetop once again. A slightly less ridiculously huge than usual zucchini finds half cover behind drooping swiss chard leaves, radish tops, and a gaggle of beets. In front of them are banana peppers, tomatillos, and a trio of acorn squash. At the front edge of the stove are tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and a clear bag of apples.
October 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The games will only suck for a little bit. Just ask Geoffrey the Giraffe.
A stuffed animal giraffe is sitting on a wood table. Behind is a sponge painted gray wall. The stuffed animal is wearing a light blue long sleeve shirt and shorts. Across the chest in dark blue are the words "I'M A TOYS "R" US KID!"
October 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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She just wants to sleep but some hooman that smells like eggplant keeps wanting back on the bed. I'm down to one eggplant, some peppers, and two of those like foot and a half zucchini left.
Tabby floof laying on white and rainbow sheets. She is laying on her side, one paw tucked up to the side and one ear sticking up. Too eepy to give a full glare but doing her best.
September 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Resting between rounds of prepping stuff for the freezer. It will take as long as it takes. One eggplant, rest. One zucchini, rest. The zukes are all well over a foot each so they need peeling and the seeds scooped out. Sleepy floof is reminding me to rest.
A tabby cat is resting her head on a bare knee, head pointed to the right and away from the phone. Behind her is a white and rainbow blanket.
September 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Farmer's market haul. Kinda tempted to go back for more apples but also my back feels like defective tinkertoys. At least it's not a carving pumpkin this time 😅
A pile of meat and produce on one side of a white stovetop. Overgrown vegetables tower over the salt and pepper shakers. At the rear is zucchini, followed by spaghetti squash, yellow squash, red kuri, eggplant, and shrink wrapped lamb tongue with three Jimmy Nardello peppers laying on top of them. The shakers are at the front right, hiding from the zucchini behind the eggplant. I don't normally get three zucchini at that size, but that was the deal at the cheap stand. We're getting cold early this year anyway.
September 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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"If we go just a liiittle bigger, we could use George Santos as the double and nobody would notice."
A nearly aisle-wide sombrero, going down the main pathway of a grocery/department store. Under it is a figure carrying plastic wrapped colorful paper. The sombrero is following a store employee wearing a red vest and passing displays of soda to its right.
September 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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It turned out decent, except for all the salt. Except the salt is all too necessary. I wanted to grab handfuls of thawed out peas and eat them straight from the bag.
Soup in a purple glass stock pot. Egg noodles, pork, peas, zucchini, tomato, and onion in leftover chicken broth. Also saaaaalt. Keeping headaches at bay has required having an entire day's worth of salt in every meal and constantly fighting the urge to down half a jug of water in one go. I'm starting to think that calling like eight pharmacies a month might be less obnoxious & it's only been one week of this.
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Tabby cat holding a paw up to her mouth to lick. She is sitting on a bed with Rainbow Brite sheets and blanket.
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Fall "decor" shopping: because the actual grocery store has no pumpkins.
A mound of squashes sitting on a white stove. Clockwise from top: Cinderella, hopefully not Baby Bear, unknown pastel orange pumpkin similarly shaped to a Cinderella, Orangetti, and Winter Frost. Not pictured: Howden. For a long time, I thought that I hated pumpkin because I don't do sugary vegetables. It turned out I just hadn't picked the right ones and used them for soup yet. A tamer heirloom with some tomato, cayenne, and bacon? Gimme. I may have oopsed on one of these. It's getting cooked around Thanksgiving in case it needs to be fed to someone else.
September 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Farmer's market haul. I brought the fugly bag and a tote that rarely gets used anymore, and I'm glad I did. Like thirty seconds after handing the guy five bucks: I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE. Then I got the tote bag past the stem, breathed a sigh of relief, and realized I was done petting dogs for the day.
A horde of overgrown vegetables, small patches of white stovetop peeking out from under the sprawl. Back to front: the backbuster pumpkin, zucchini, swiss chard, eggplant, cucumber, yellow beefsteak tomato, cherry tomatoes, anaheim pepper, and poblanos. A ground score turnip is sitting in the cherry tomato tray. For scale, the cucumber that those zucchini are towering over is nine inches long and ten around. No way am I clearing the stove today after getting those up there. While I have gotten into decorating a bit more than past years, the point of my big pumpkins is mostly to be cheap produce that stores well. They're not as sweet and work better for soups than pie pumpkins. Yes, prep is as draining as you probably imagine it is. Looking at the sticker prices on produce this winter is likely to be more draining yet. Worth it.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Lazy caturday morning. Even the floof is zonked out.
Sacked out tabby is laying on her side, paws curled and nose and mouth pointing almost toward the camera. She is laying on a mattress partly covered with sheets and a blanket. A golden brown biscuit is sitting on an old plate, fontina cheese melted and spilling out from a hollow in the center with green herb seasoning sprinkled on top. The plate is gray speckle on cream with scalloped edges and tan along the rim. Eighy freshly baked biscuits on aluminum foil, warmly illuminated by a light inside the oven. All eight of them have hollows in the center, filled and overflowing with fontina cheese. Herbs have yet to be sprinkled on.
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM