🦆 νησσοτροφεῖον 🦆 @nessotropheion@sunbeam.city

🦆 Freddie, 26, they/them
🦆 Nonbinary, trans, queer, pan; afab and not visibly or widely out
🦆 Depressed + anxious, probably autistic
🦆 I'm a non-denominational leftist
🦆 Long-Term Goals: write more often, finish my damn bachelor's degree, live in a commune w/ my friends and family
🦆 I work as an instructional assistant at a public high school
🦆 I currently live in southwestern Oregon, recently lived in the Boise area, originally from the SF north bay area
🦆 I've worked with #ducks for 6+ years, also have both reading and experience with agroecology, permaculture, organic gardening, herbalism, etc.
🦆 I love cooking and end up posting about that a lot
🦆 Polytheist with really shitty practice habits, mostly into ancient syncretic Mediterranean stuff, and also local cultus, cartomancy, and pop culture magic
🦆 Other interests include: classics, video and tabletop gaming, anime, sci-fi

🦆 I like infodumping, so please ask me questions about stuff!!

#Introductions #Introduction

February was the last month before the new year in the old Roman calendar, and is heavily focused on purification — the month's name comes from februa (sg. februum), ritual objects used for purification, such as clean water, certain plants, or the famous goat skins used in Lupercalia. Most of this month's festivals center renewing ties with the living and the dead, reinforcing boundaries, and securing protection for city, family, and home.

Selected Festivals:

🐐 #Faunalia (13): a minor festival honoring Faunus

🐺 #Lupercalia (15): a festival which includes important sacrifices and a city-purifying race around its walls

👻 #Parentalia (13—21): a festival focused on family grave tending; ends on #Feralia (21), a more somber occasion, and is followed by #Caristia (22), a joyful celebration of family with feasts, gifts, and offerings

⛔ #Terminalia (23): in honor of Terminus, god of boundaries, offerings would be given at boundary markers

#Polytheism

This is a very basic vegan chili that my mom developed after trying various complicated chilis from vegan cookbooks, and deciding that she wanted something simple and suited to the Texan palate. It's literally just beans, alliums, tomatoes, and spices, and it's really good. I really like making this with a cup each of pinto, black, and small red beans. You can add meat to the chili if you really want to.

Notes:
🍅 For one less step, add the tomatoes at the start. The acid in the tomatoes will make the beans take much, much longer to cook, and they may cook slightly unevenly, but long cooking times are an asset in chili making.
🍅 For an extra step, sauté the onions and garlic first, then proceed. This will improve flavor, but the chili is still excellent as-is.

🥣 Stovetop: Cover, bring to boil, reduce to simmer, and cook until beans are mostly done, adding more water if needed. Add tomatoes, leave the pot lid slightly askew to allow evaporation, and continue to cook until the beans are softened to your liking and the chili is your desired thickness.
🥣 Slow Cooker: Follow your instruction manual for heat settings and timing guides. Add more water if needed. Add the tomatoes when beans are mostly done, and continue cooking until the beans are softened to your liking and the chili is your desired thickness.
🥣 Pressure Cooker: Bring up to pressure according to your instruction manual, and cook 20—30 minutes. Add the tomatoes, and continue cooking until the beans are softened to your liking and the chili is your desired thickness.

Ingredients:
🥄 3—4 cups Phaseolus beans (e.g. pinto, black, red, yellow; ideally, a combination)
🥄 1 large yellow onion, chopped roughly
🥄 4+ cloves garlic, minced
🥄 1 t oregano
🥄 2 t cumin, ground or whole
🥄 2—3 T chili powder (e.g. Gebhart's, ancho, pasilla, New Mexico)
🥄 Salt
🥄 1 qt crushed tomatoes

Method:
🥣 Add all ingredients except the tomatoes to a slow cooker, pressure cooker, or large pot on the stove. Add around 6 cups of water.

🥣 See thread for continued instructions for stovetop, slow cooker, and pressure cooker instructions.

Today is Lupercalia, and Parentalia continues!

Run around, chase out any bad shit that's blocking your way, and while you're at it, pour out another one for your beloved dead.

💐 🏺 🐺 ⚱️ 🐐 🕯️ 🥚

"...He constantly moistened his inward parts with honey, and his outward man with olive oil."
— Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.26 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D26

I wish my balls had nipple on them so someone could suck the pee out 🤔

I've got people to reply to but my students were a fucking nightmare today and I'm an exhausted wreck, sorry guys, it'll happen tomorrow 😣

Today is Faunalia, and the start of Parentalia! Pour one out for Faunus and give some love to your beloved dead.