#in this case it’s cake.

[sunsquiggles]

72,000g of sugar

[qiinamii]

we'll do fine.

[unreachedgalaxy]

some anastasia the first for your tl today. i have always thought anastasia's was the first tongue to be sewn and her jaw-only facepaint is why the ninth house skull is jawless. anyway can't wait for alecto the ninth to release and prove me wildly incorrect

[mayasaura]

Spin the wheel of Locked Tomb characters and answer for who you get:

[ssomepersonn]

this week's batch of bugs

[mushtoons]

Can we please please please see Simon get a big hug from IK. I think he needs it. I think they both do

we kinda made it cringe and turned it into angst dhdjdjdj

[scarecrowbutch]

had a dream about t4t petrigrof a few months back and had to make something of it

[rowan-crowan]

I just watched the Fionna and Cake finale, and putting aside any debates about the ending, the animation was absolutely gorgeous in these episodes! I was pleased to see them keep up the fun visuals all the way to the end, especially in the Casper and Nova segments.

As I was watching those, though, I couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity.

Whimsical, unrealistically textured 3D elements?

Retro game interfaces? Where had I seen this style before?

It wasn't until I got to the credits that I realized.

LOUIE ZONG WORKED ON THIS EPISODE!

[thelailasblog]

[that-lynx-named-breeze]

spider

[tanuki-kimono]

Super cute leather cases and wallets created by fisherman_leather, using old 菓子型 kashigata designs.

Kashigata are molds used to make Japanese style sweets, especially rakugan (a type of higashi ie. dried candies), though they can also be used for more "moist" wagashi cakes. They can be made from cherry wood (木型 kigata), or ceramic, etc. Some are bit-size while others are quite big and detailed!

[eveninglakehomeworld]

so, in case you were wondering, that Nevarran Hazelnut Torte from DA: Veilguard is in fact very yummy! this is Emmrich's mother's recipe, which Lucanis makes for Rook, taken straight from the game!

recipe is transcribed as-is from the game below, with any additions/changes we made [in brackets].

CAKE: One and a half cups of sugar Two cups of finely ground toasted hazelnuts Three quarters of a cup of sifted flour Two teaspoons of baking powder (sift into flour) Eight eggs, whites & yolks separated One and a quarter cups of apricot preserves Apricot liqueur for brushing ICING: Eight ounces of chopped up dark chocolate One cup of heavy cream Pinch of salt Two tablespoons of orange liqueur or rum or strong coffee (if wanted)

INSTRUCTIONS: Beat egg yolks with sugar until thick and light yellow. Beat egg whites in fresh bowl. Mix ground hazelnuts into the egg yolk and sugar. [my partner also added a teaspoon of vanilla extract here.] Slowly add flour, then GENTLY!!! fold in egg whites. Butter and flour two eight-and-a-half-inch pans [we used 8 in.] Bake around an hour, 325 degrees. Take cans from pans, cool, split in half. Brush with apricot liqueur. Warm apricot preserves, strain out skins. [partner put skins back in a pan with the apricot liqueur before brushing it on and let it warm up a bit to cook off some of the alcohol taste bc he didn't like it lol, then he strained the skins back out again and brushed that on.] Spread preserves across cakes, then some icing, as you stack. decorate with icing and whole hazelnuts! ICING: Gently boil cream, then pour over chopped up chocolate. Add pinch of salt for taste. Stir, then let rest for 15-20 minutes to make sure it's all melted. Cool completely, then whip it up and decorate the cake. Can add in coffee or liqueur (or both) to taste. Can also add in ground hazelnuts when whipping up the icing, to add texture.

other notes:

my partner made chocolate bark for the outside of the cake. tutorial for that here! we didn't add toppings of course, just the plain chocolate.

we kind of just freestyled the decorating in general... we put some shucked hazelnuts in a plastic baggie and smashed them with a meat tenderizer to get the little pieces we sprinkled/dusted on most of the top, lmao. saw someone else make this cake and draw the mourn watch symbol on the top with icing which was v cute!! wish we'd had the time for that!!

[doctormargarine]

Hashtag girl or something

[comicake]

Really wanted to bake smth for the finale of season 2, so here’s my attempt at making theatre cake. It’s a little bit wonky but I put my whole heart into it! The building is also kinda difficult to recreate cause it’s connected to other buildings in the street, I think (but I don’t really know much about architecture, anyway 🫣)

And then I tried to burn it, of course, for all the awful things they did to my poor Claudia and Madeleine.

So, here’s the ruins in all of theirs chocolate cake glory 🫡

[kristalijah]

HE'S CHECKING OUT GARY!!!! I REPEAT, HE'S CHECKING OUT GARY!!!!

[dykedvonte]

MacCready being one of the few companions to not lose affinity if you eat people makes sense when you remember the fungus in Little Lamp Light grew from decomposing bodies. Like the kids weren’t eating people directly but they were eating people adjacent things.

Not to mention how the Lone Wanderer can trick the kids at LLL into buying “strange meat” to eat which is just human so it’s more likely than not they have just straight up ate people so he’s either very desensitized, knows what food desperation can do to people or feels he really has not ground to stand on since he was in the same boat whether he wanted to be or not.