#Bake Culture

[crustycrow]

HETEROSEXUAL CIS-PEOPLE LOOK HERE

Snaps my fingers at you as you scroll past this post

Look at me. Listen.

I'm not the best at serious posts, but that article up there reminded me of how important it is that people like you stand up for us. So hold on while I try to get this out of my mushy end-of-work-day brain.

We could fight this fight ourselves for decades trying to reach the equal laws, gender affirming trans healthcare that doesn't have a 2-5+ soul-eating years of waiting time, medical care with equal knowledge of lgbtqia+ bodies, and, what is often forgotten, inclusion in the little everyday areas of life like our way of speaking or things being set up or designed with the existence of queer people in mind.

But you joining in could get us there so much faster.

The power you have as a hetero cis person is that you set the standard for what is seen as the average way of treating us among other hetero cis people. You have been given the power of deciding what's "normal" and I'm begging you to use it.

Richard Green is a great example of to what extent your actions can help our situation, and smaller ways of support still add up to a great impact on society, and could make the days of the queer people you interact with.

Educate yourself before you speak up, but don't be silent.

[toyastales]

Caramel Cheesecake 🍰

[staff]

Tumblr Tuesday: Ten Years Too Good

It is with heavy heart that we regret to inform you that the initial report on beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world, too pure did, in fact, occur on this day ten years ago. One decade, comin' right up. Of course, it wasn't until a year later that the practice of categorizing our blorbos as cinnamon rolls began.

Tumblr, wherever you are on this Tuesday, please enjoy the swirly breads.

[sugas6thtooth]

Food from the beautiful culture of the Palestinians🇵🇸🍉!! This genocide must end! Their lives and culture must be preserved!!

[cuterefaction]

Trektober Day 13 - Baking. TBH I'd like to draw about two dozen different Star Trek characters baking, but since Odo is canonically bamboozled by the concept of stirring he had to take it :) (it's okay, Sisko will help him fix whatever happens)

[useless-catalanfacts]

Making panellets for the Castanyada festivity (October 31st) 🍪🍠🌰

Original video (without English subtitles): bet_molina on Tiktok.

Bona Castanyada!

[marzipanandminutiae]

Intentionally dumbing down programmes is bad, but I am very confused about this weird painting of having a show on while doing something else as a)new and b)evil

I remember the TV in my grandma's kitchen. Angled away from where she would cook, towards the table, and always on. Same with my other grandma, but the TV was in the living room, and it didn't matter that her sewing machine was so loud it was all you could hear, the TV was on. My father always had the TV on as well, sometimes he wasn't even in the same room.

Maybe it's a culture thing, I'm Italian, not from the US, but half watching a show while doing something else to me growing up was the norm, not the weird thing

It's weird on the part of Netflix, I think. I'm certainly not opposed to it, though like I said, if I want to pay attention to the plot I'm going to actually Watch It Intently

It's definitely a thing here, too, and has been for a while- if you watch the movie Titanic, at the beginning Rose's granddaughter has the news on while they're doing other things around the house. it's only when the piece about the Titanic comes on that Rose tells her to turn the TV up so she can pay attention

(my parents actually clashed about this when I was growing up- Dad grew up with six siblings and two parents who worked, so Background TV was a thing even thought the tech was relatively new. Mom grew up in a more sedate household where watching TV was something you focused entirely on, and the TV was off otherwise. they drove each other crazy about it)

what's strange, I think, is changing serious narrative programs that are trying to tell a story to account for the assumption that people won't be paying attention. because like I said...I think most people don't use something they want to Actively Watch as background noise in that way

[elancholia]

People in the late 20th century thought the fundamental arc of human history was exploration, whereas now it looks like it's information processing.

In traditional science fiction, the historically progressive human urge is wanderlust, the pull of unknown geography, horror vacui or amor vacui depending on how you look at it. Those writers invoke the elapse of time that separated Kitty Hawk from the moon landing. They recite a procession of discoverers that includes Columbus or the Polynesians and whose next logical steps are space colonization and superluminal travel. Era-defining technologies are transportation technologies. You still get this now, sometimes. In a much-dunked-upon scene in Star Trek: Discovery (2017), a character's litany of great inventors includes the Wright brothers, the guy who invented FTL, and Elon Musk.

The corresponding fear, of course, is alien invasion—that we are not Columbus but the Indians.

Now, the developments actually restructuring people's lives are either of the computer or on the computer. The PC, the internet, smartphones, social media, LLMs. Bits, not atoms. It has been this way for some time, though it hasn't fully made its way into culture. The progenitors of the new future are writing, the printing press, the abacus. We can see the arc clearly in retrospect, now that the future seems likely to be defined by machine learning.

Just as before, there is some anxiety that our trajectory will lead us into the grip of alien intelligences, horrendous and devouring.

If you go back to the period stretching (roughly) from the late 19th century through the Second World War, stories often hinge on wonder-substances and novel fundamental forces. This was, of course, an era in which a new force or element was turning up every other week. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting one. They discovered guncotton when some guy left his fouled lab coat next to an oven. Hence, Vril, the Ray, the "eighth and ninth solar rays" of Burroughs's Mars. In later stories, this sort of stuff is generally secondary, though superhero fiction preserves more of the old mentality.

[punkbakerchristine]

cinnamon babka 🍂🍁

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

im tempted to lock an ashkenazi jew and an amish/mennonite person in a kitchen with all the ingredients and tools they could hope for just to see what incredible, earth-shatteringly delicious dessert they make

[pocketramblr]

you know im thinking. im thinking maybe Yoichi wasn't even that into captain hero as an adult, but AfO kept bringing LITERALLY every conversation back to that because he decided to Be The Demon Lord and so Yoichi like, can't get an argument in unless he uses the same material so he's like 'oh my god i haven't even thought about that comic in ten years but even i know the bad guy didn't win. you should not be basing you whole identity, business model, and world destruction plan on your five-second impression of a comic book bad guy who didn't even win! also you shouldn't kill people!'

[sugas6thtooth]

Zaltan Manakische! More food from Palestinian Cuisine! Follow Mariam on TikTok @mxriyum for more recipes!! Palestinians are humans with lives, cultures, memories, and dreams!! Do not let Israel eradicate the people of Palestine!! 🍉🇸🇩

[starscreambbymama]

Tbh, as much as I don't care much for Rhysand, Cassian or Azriel. I believe it honestly was a missed opportunity for Sarah J Maas to expand upon Illyrian culture.

When you get down and think about it what do we really know about the Illyrians? Other than the fact that they have bat wings, they're a very male dominated culture that surrounds itself around war, they're incredibly intense in regards of training, the wing clippings, the valkyrie,the brutalization of women. The concept of the Illyrians in the acotar series is incredibly bare bones and one dimensional it's frustrating. What're their religious beliefs/practices? Their delicacies, their art, their language??? Hell as much as I do not like the portrayal of the dothraki in Game of thrones, atleast (to a certain degree) George RR.Martin did something with them. Sarah J Maas is capable of writing and coming up with interesting ideas. But how she portrays the Illyrians in the acotar series as barbaric war-mongering savages who view women as breeding livestock to pump out kids who are then basically booted off to military camp the immediate moment they grow the cognitive ability to crawl is frustratingly laughable and lazy as a writer on her part.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Today is the Day of Saint Andrew, patron saint of small fishermen. To celebrate it, in Òrrius (Barcelona Metropolitan Ambit, Catalonia) it's traditional to eat these pastries in the shape of fish.

Photo from Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural (Generalitat de Catalunya).

[vegan-nom-noms]

Mai Tai Recipe

[punkbakerchristine]

3/3 things i’m sending to my dad for the holiday season

by the way, i’m also 3/3 for making a babka on the date of a season change: one back on the summer solstice, one now at the winter solstice, and i also made one for the autumnal equinox after i entered the one at the fair. kinda wild.