experiments in tea #15: gunpowder green (thes de la pagode)

A break from the scheduled tea haul sipdowns; I drunk this yesterday evening because next on my Yumchaa list was the Russian Caravan and I was not about to put caffeine from two black teas and a thoroughly oxidised oolong in my body at 9:30pm. Green still has some, but I'll probably still be able to sleep afterwards.



This is a French brand, so I didn't actually buy this one and wouldn't have got my hands on it if I didn't want to pay international shipping (which I don't, but is a shame because some of their other teas do look really nice), but my dad got a this tin from a TK Maxx (TJ Maxx to those in the US and possibly elsewhere) and I wanted to try it so I did.

The tins are lovely - looking online it doesn't seem that Thes de la Pagode do them for all their blends, but they're shaped like lovely little pagodas. Some of them are square, but some of them are round and have little tassels and they're so cute.

( Gunpowder Green )

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deadly strike (hades, gen, ~400 words, artemis centric)

deadly strike (442 words) by scientistsinistral
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hades (Video Game 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Artemis (Hades Video Game)
Additional Tags: Character Study, man archery is a skill, the strength and accuracy required, and artemis is like 'this boy better learn the first skill of archery OR ELSE'
Summary:

your attack is stronger, with added chance to deal critical damage.
The first lesson of hunting that Artemis needs to teach her cousin: it's all about finding the right mark.

Coming back to this old collection because I'm replaying Hades and wanted to at least finish one round of what I started. I may have been too ambitious with my initial goal of doing all of the boons knowing my attention span, but there's no time limits on these things, right?

Anyway, here's Artemis, the huntress: writing this really made me remember the one time I tried archery and was not very good at it. Even in video games, I'm still not very good at it; Hades' aim assist helps a lot!