#or baking win

[chalkscrub]

random STUFF - in order, we have oap infighting, donk faces (hardest thing in the world to draw), and yet another lineup of morally dubious individuals

[clove-pinks]

The local library lets you check out CAKE PANS omg!!!

[bruciemilf]

Okay so this depends on what backstory for Lex Luthor you prefer, but assuming that it’s a family business- have you ever thought about Lionel and Thomas interacting/what their dynamic would be? Or what they thought of each other

I like to think Lionel stubbornly tried to be Thomas’ business rival and Thomas intentionally got his name wrong at every possible time. “Lex Corp? That a marine protection company? Oh Leopold you’re so funny, pal”

[justfriendsbestthings]

[pharawee]

Tag Game - Poll: 5 Fav Characters

Challenge: Make a poll with five six of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

I was tagged by @pickletrip (thaaaank you! 💜) so I decided to do it again, only this time with my favourite thirdwheelers/pathetic little meow meows (many thanks to @zhouxiangs for reminding me that I made a grave mistake by not including Wahl in the last poll).

For your consideration:

Tagging another five six people because this tag game is fun as heck: @tortibomb @markmybirds @befuddledcinnamonroll @leonpob @singto-prachaya @scarefox (only if you want to of course 💜)

[matchalovertrait]

Generation 1's Halloween #2 was a success ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨🎃୧ ⋆ ˚｡⋆

[jtl-fics]

But also... Andreil on the great British bake off (they have celebrity seasons)

Look, I'm gonna be honest.

It's a disaster in two parts.

Neil is there EXPLICITLY because Stuart found out that he had been asked to go do it because he is technically British. Stuart has asked him to be the bane of Paul Hollywood's existence and is willing to do quite a bit to make the man's life hell.

"He knows what he did." is all Stuart will say on the matter.

Neil agrees to come be a Baker on the stipulation that Andrew also gets to come. Andrew has no interest in baking other than what it can produce for him to eat, he has no desire to do the laborious task of baking himself.

Stuart offers him an Aston.

Andrew agrees.

Neil is a nightmare in the tent. He hates desserts. He hates measuring. He has never done a single prep bake. He has no idea what the desserts are during the technical challenge. He just goes with his gut (his iron gut). He produces three straight desserts that Paul will not let Prue eat for fear that she will just straight up die if she eats it. He is a pile of misery upon consuming all three.

When Neil is kicked off in round one no one is surprised. Paul pats Neil on the back as he leaves the tent and Neil just leans in, "Stuart Hatford sends his regards." he says now that the mic has been removed. Paul Hollywood's tan fades but Neil doesn't look back.

Andrew is a nightmare for a completely different reason and that reason is that he very visibly and honestly does not give a single flying fuck about what he's doing but he's doing quite well. He is the most boring man on camera, zero quips, won't interact with Noel and whoever the fuck is the other presenter by this point, just him doing exactly what the recipe requires and then he always makes a point of grabbing whatever Paul and Prue have judged and taking it all back to his station so that he can eat it. He stares straight into the camera as he eats an entire three tier cake. He dedicates every week he is Star Baker to his inspiration: Kevin Day.

Andrew makes it all the way to the Finals with impressive bakes that he basically just decided on 100% by how much he thinks it would upset Kevin to watch him eat it knowing that he SHOULD be doing weight training for the olympics. ("Weight TRAINING not Weight GAINING Andrew! Do you have to hold up two fingers as you eat the entire thing? Can you at least PRETEND it's not to SPITE me?" Kevin wails as Andrew calls him for the post-credit scene where the star bakers call their families usually but Andrew just uses it so everyone can hear Kevin Day lose his mind on Public Access.)

Andrew gets to the finals and his show stopper....it's immaculate. It's gorgeous. It's a work of art. Paul Hollywood is looking at this feat of modern baking engineering in wonder.

He shakes Andrew's hand before he even tastes it and-

"Stuart Hatford sends his regards."

Paul Hollywood is now nervous to eat this cake. Does he look out at the gathered friends and family of the contestants and see Stuart Hatford? Does he remember what he did?

He eats the cake because show obligations and it tastes as good as it looks but he is oddly silent as Prue talks about it.

Andrew Wins and Paul Hollywood stays exactly one entire party's width away from Neil, Stuart, and Andrew during the entire victory picnic.

Andrew gives his post bake-off speech and flat out says it was kind of boring and he wants to go home to America. The next scene is him driving off with Neil in an Aston Martin.

Edit: Thanks @the-inner-musings-of-a-worm for the idea once again!

[spaceacekid]

They should make these for the bakeoff technical challenge

[toon-link-plush-daily]

Todays toon link is sneaking into a high security meeting to learn government secrets

[bakingtherapy]

Help me... win!!

So a little bit ago I applied for a baking competition and got past the first part. Now I need help, from you all. Please go to the link and vote. There is an option for voting for 1 that is free.

[foxtrot91]

New crack-ship unlocked: Tommy/Cake

Because the amount of fic I read that mentions this man’s love for cake has me convinced of its potential. There’s no way Buck doesn’t indulge Tommy’s love for cake in the bedroom.

[defiledtomb]

4 other applicants have come in clutch for the apartment I'm hunting. If I'm still eligible I'll know tomorrow, but only to be called for a showing, if the others in the queue accept and have better conditions than me, I'll lose it. But my agent is still hopeful. Fingers crossed.

[tongues-and-teeth-and-reblogs]

still thinking about how- instead of the usual "crumbs for brains"- Affogato insults a bunch of randoms (The gingergang) by calling them "sugar for brains vagabonds" when Affogato looks to be sweetest person working in the black citadel and was homeless for most of his life. Like at the time he knows Nothing about the people he's insulting other than they came into the citadel and demanded to speak to Dark Cacao. Love that characterization, it's great.

it's really funny to me that he puts on this grandiose demeanor but actively insults people using descriptors that fit him nearly perfectly and seems to be desperate for external approval- from DE, from his disciples, even his plan if he won in LCS included the whole "I want to be around smart people who like me" thing. For a guy who spends 90% of his screen time lying he has really consistent characterization.

[autogeneity]

I think it is assuredly true that people are shaped by their experiences in various ways, sometimes for the worse, and there are a shitton of horrible experiences most people go through... but there is a sort of trauma-centric conception of self that's become popular and I find it rather,,,dehumanizing?

there's two variants of it, one like that healing post where you imagine you were once good and pure and then you were hurt and now you have to fix the damage. and another where you decide that there isn't a secret healed person underneath, and, well, everything you experienced affected you, so really wounds and trained reactions are practically all you really are.

but both seem to conceptualize very low agency, where seemingly the only agent in the situation is you as The Judge And Doctor, they who is looking at the wounds and triggers and reactions and diagnosing them and deciding what to cull. in which these judgements of course are magically free of context or influence. but the core You is only capable of Reacting.

there's this quote that often goes around:

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being. Robert Anton Wilson

I understand it is meant to be sympathetic. and like the implication is that you should be kind and understanding of people's shortcomings or whatever, which you should. and in some ways it may be true. but I don't know if having a concept of people that consists largely of seeing them as a vessel of pain and desperation, is very, idk. respectful.

thinking of this perspective, for instance, it feels to me to rob people, including yourself, of dignity.

and people can sit around explaining how humans actually like sunsets out of trauma, or what kinds of things should be done to people to train the correct reactions (oh, sorry, what good behaviours your therapist says you should reward), or whatever. or like maybe we should have a different abstraction of what it means to be a person.

[oozeandgoo-art]

Planning on practicing 3D stuff (modeling, rigging, animating, the whole shebang) without getting too wrapped-up in tiny details by doing ArtFight attacks in Blender. This character belongs to gossiehawk!

Animation below the cut ^-^

[robbybirdy]

Thank you all for your help!!!

I successfully advanced to the next round of the baking contest I’m participating in! Thank you for your support! Currently, I am in 6th place. I would really appreciate your help in staying in the competition. Every vote counts toward my goal of winning $20,000, which would significantly help me with my living expenses.

It is free to vote every day. Thank you for your support.

I am currently working on what to do with my Ko-fi and my Patreon. So that I can continue to give you all these lovely posts.