#Ashta

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Atayef (Middle Eastern Pancakes) 

[discordinthediscordorsomething]

oh also i made this. features most people who are still active in the server

[morethansalad]

Vegan Ashta (Middle Eastern Clotted Cream)

Perfect to pair with fresh fruit, stuff in Middle Eastern desserts, and more.

[stymshots]

Ad ashta

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Ashta Uran Selem, 2023

[therealgchu]

omg, i just noticed that the ashta looks like meatlug!

well, at least not as knobby version of meatlug.

are ashtas just pointier gronkles with really bad attitutes?

[amuuuwaves]

hi i watched sd gundam. i am soooo normal about this.

[marulki]

[bulecelup]

lunch

[starlitcrows]

storyboard of that one field scene from pride and prejudice (2005) but my thabes fire emblem ocs + concept art doodles

[siodam]

A lively young man.

[amalgamasreal]

Reminder to artists: Suletta isn't just tall

She's the tallest Gundam protagonist in her entire age range.

[kaxtwenty]

Having finished six Gundam shows, including Gundam's original trilogy (0079, Zeta, ZZ) and with GQuuuuuuX on the horizon, I've been thinking a lot about what I think Gundam is really about. I've talked before about Gundam being a story about loneliness and finding a place where you can belong, but I think there's a third thematic throughline that pervades throughout every show.

Survival.

In the shows I've watched so far, each story is about people thrust into conflicts they didn't start nor fully understand and having to do their best to get through it without dying or losing themselves to the madness of it all. These characters rarely have that much power to change the world around them and can only hope that their actions may one day lead to a future where they and their descendants don't have to fight.

To me, compared to similar franchises like Star Wars, Gundam stories are generally less about creating a better future and more about not losing hope in one. As a kid who's had to come into adulthood in the 20-fucking-20s, I find endings like IBO's and ZZ's a lot more relatable and even kinda needed in this day and age. Sometimes, the world just refuses to really get any better and the best you can manage is to survive it with the people you love.

These shows have honestly helped me cope with a lot of the...everything that's happened this year and I can't thank them enough.

[stymshots]

Think they’ll have that on the tour?