Got back yesterday from going down to the Oregon Renaissance Faire this weekend, here are my final costumes for Friday night party and faire proper respectively. Came out pretty great, always super fun to work on a project that brings together so many of the different crafting disciplines I've acquired (and often leads me down the slippery slope to acquiring new ones)—see tags for an non-exhaustive list of some of the major ones at play. Really happy especially with how the main event costume came out, may have to do at least a partial day at the WA faire in August just to get another excuse to wear it around
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It actually makes sense in the context—(1) the base game is a pick-up-and-play single session type game, while the expansion turns it in to a big multi-session campaign game and (2) the expansion box is specifically sized so you can pack all the base game components in it and have it all in one box, still hilarious having an expansion box almost three times the volume of the base game...
Reed Richards when he's had one or two too many and is just being a real dick to Ben Grimm
For others in parts of the northern hemisphere where it's fresh berry season, because it's one of those things I know but forget too often myself:
You might see that pint of tasty fresh looking berries and think "those look great but I know I'll not eat them all before they go bad." Ignore that thought and buy that those berries. Heck, buy two portions. Eat as many as you want fresh that day.
With what's left, combine in a saucepan with a about two tablespoons of sugar (give or take depending on the sweetness of the berries) and a tablespoons of water (or brandy if you're feeling fancy) for each 8oz of berries. Bring to the boil and boil hard for about three minutes, reduce to a bare simmer and bubble away another ~10-15. Cool and keep in the fridge and put on everything for the next week (it'll keep at least twice that and probably longer but in my experience won't keep around that long).
A quick compote like this keeps a lot of the fresh flavor so you're still getting the benefit of tasty seasonal fruit without that "I ate twelve berries and let the rest turn to moldy mush" guilt.