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I think my favorite are the Ifrit

I do like them

I'm going to need a break soon. Been sitting on my butt too much.

The visuals are cool

US schools for 20 years - feel like a fair number don't remember much of life before the US occupation

Later, Rahne

I'd like to play out that phone call later, Mr. D. HUGS

BBL!

Yeah. Sorry to bring up the RL stuff that's so down but hey, the DeBukes have broken international laws for less so I can't see the Rovers turning up their noses

Honestly, it is so horrible...

playing pretend to make a difference is less hopeless than how I feel IRL

Mentally, emotionally, it helps to at least be able to make a difference here.

the thing about the Afghani women - it's visceral. It's not theoretical angst. These women are being betrayed by their fathers and brothers and cousins.

And that mindset isn't limited to the Talibam

Nope.

The warlords were not exactly upstanding guys

You see it with the angry incel "MRA" that just killed a three year old

you see it with the Quiverfull guys and Proud Boys and GamerGaters

Different skin, different frame, same shit.

I will let my fantasy self do some good, when I feel helpless to do anything

My own thought there. Sounds like Widow Harkson is about to put some pressure on folks

Sparrow might be new to having money, but she'll sure as hell use it for others

I think Hope has to keep her from blowing it all on charity

I think Hope has put some of that 'fun money' into savings for her secretly

Well, iirc, Hope is now drawing a salary as "Widow Harkson's" personal assistant

True! SHe's had to hire a manager for coffee shop, part time anyway

woo!

Might be a good place to have a few changeling employees

Oh dear... I can see it now

"But hope, she speaks English... and you could EXPAND"

Coffee shop AND hookah lounge!

To be fair, not like the middle east is a stranger to coffee

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mmmm, turkish coffee is GREAT. I understand that the arabic brewing method is very similar

I have a campmate that makes traditional turkish coffee with the sand and the little brass pot

Yeah, the brewing method is, but Arabic coffee often contains cardamom and other spices. MMMMMMMM

yesssssss

Pennsic also has an arabian cafe

cardamom, saffron, ginger, sometimes fragrant flowers

mint, or green tea with mint is often very popular, esprcially in Morocco

Yes,Maghrebi tea - with spearmint and sugar

sometimes perfumed with herbs, flowers, or orange blossom water. In the cold season, they add many warming herbs like pennyroyal mint and wormwood.

Gunpowder tea was introduced into North Africa by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries via Morocco and Algeria. James Richardson recorded a description of a Moroccan tea ceremony in the 1840s, and said that during his travels tea was drunk widely and all day long.

Aw shit. I just made a Moroccan Sluagh, didn't I?
(blingly blingly ding!)

a Merchant of fine teas and finer secrets

ha. Or a Shaytan who lures folks in with coffee then gets them in trouble

"Oh yes, we HAVE coffee, but why drink coffee when you can smoke the poppy?"

made a quesadilla from ozz & leftover sketti sauce

shall we see how this went?

Mmm do