#seasonal baking

[punkbakerchristine]

holidays are really for baking.

halloween, you have things like devil’s food cake, red velvet cake, spice cakes, and pastries in the shape of ghosts, pumpkins, bats, cats, and tombstones. depending on where you are in the world, there are traditional goods like barmbrack in ireland and day of the dead loaf all over latin america.

thanksgiving, you have spice cakes, pumpkin pie, apple pie, bread, and the dinner.

christmas—oh, boy, christmas. gingerbread men and sugar cookies. lots of bread, like it’s surprising how much bread there is: in places like sweden, there’s a bread called kanellängd which is braided and cinnamon-y. in germany, you have stöllen. in italy, there’s panettone. in britain, christmas pudding and everything is infused with ginger, wine, or both—for boxing day, you have leftover meat pies. then you have hanukkah treats like latkes, chocolates, and sufganiyot. you have bananas and plantains with kwanzaa.

new year’s… got one word and that’s “champagne.”

valentine’s day, kind of gives you an excuse to make everything red and pink.

st. paddy’s day, gives you an excuse to spike everything with bailey’s. also, soda breads.

easter, everything is light, springy, and often nutty? like there’s lots of almonds and coconut involved. also, v cute color schemes.

memorial day, everything starts getting summery with fruit pies and tres leches cake.

4th of July… raspberry pie, cherry pie, and blueberry pie. lot of no bake stuff because the kitchen is hotter than holy fuck. also, star-shaped cookies if you’re daring.

depending on the year, something for the olympics, like my mount olympus pie.

then there’s kind of a lull with the dog days of summer—unless you’re willing to try your hand at fair food, i.e., funnel cake and pastrami sandwiches—until it all loops back around into the autumnal equinox and you start smelling cinnamon and anise again, and you get the itch to make some bread or a cake.

[bakedbeanchan]

I love the first season of atla

[esthers-wine]

There is magic in the night, when pumpkins glow by moonlight.

[reunitedinterlude]

dan: can you say anything and then say “gays,” as if that's a type of gay

[dreamingofnextseason]

[gina025]

Snow days

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[mellxncollie]

Dylan Bachelet The Great British Bake Off — Season 15, Episode 08

[chillfaerie]

POV: You're doing the Duets quests and he shows you this

[captainbucky-yt]

LUKE THOMPSON AND YERIN HA | Take the Lead, Shondaland [x]

[punkbakerchristine]

chocolate for the maternal unit and me, blueberry and cream cheese for the paternal unit 🫐✡️

[archivegeo]

drawing autumn snacks

[daily-deliciousness]

Sheet pan baked salmon and potatoes

[one-time-i-dreamt]

not a dream

Just finished Netflix's Is It Cake, Too? (season two of Is It Cake?) and one of the contestants freaking hand painted the Mona Lisa in under 10 hours and did I mention that it was also a cake?

Miko Kaw Hok Uy, everybody!

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[laurenluvss]

SPRING

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

[taddymason]

Thinking about Jay’s role in the team, and I know I’ve mentioned before that Jay’s main themes are family, and that if given the choice between his close circle of loved ones and the greater good he’ll choose the former, but also another thing that sets him apart from everyone else is the reason why he’s a ninja. With characters like Zane and Cole it’s mentioned multiple times that their purpose is to take care of others, those who can’t protect themselves. Nya and Kai also have this duty/responsibility theme that makes a lot of sense considering the circumstances they both grew up in, and that they both have in common that they want to prove themselves at first and then focus on the role that “they’re supposed to” play (aka; Kai accepting that his role isn’t to be the green ninja and that his duty is to protect Lloyd, and Nya accepting to stop being the samurai X which was her way of proving herself even without being a ninja and in the end becoming the water ninja). Lloyd has a mix of all of this because he's constantly the chosen one in every situation since he was 10, and it's all he knows as a way of life, but back to the topic:

Jay has nothing to do with this.

And I'm not saying that Jay doesn't care about helping people, or anything like that. It's just that it's very interesting that he's the furthest away from having this motivation to be a ninja. Even Wu, in one of the books, confirms that Jay in the pilots saw the opportunity to be a ninja as an excuse to have exciting adventures after a rather humble life in which Jay was going from one hobby to another.

And while the other roles in the team always come back to the theme of protecting others and all that, the reason why Jay is chosen instead is because he's a dreamer. In the flashback and the Ninja of Lightning book Wu explains that the reason he chose Jay was precisely because he had this ability to think outside the box and motivate others with his sense of humor. In almost every first season there is an instance where Jay quickly adapts to a situation just by seeing the other side of things that others don't see, and having this amount of skills: He's the one who discovers how to do spinjitzu, who finds the temple of light, who adapts first to space/digiverse, who does best in the Ninja Roll episode, etc. It's not that Jay is the smartest or strongest, but give him anything and the guy, in some unconventional way, will try to take advantage of it and build a spaceship out of literal scrap metal.

There aren't really many examples of this in the later seasons, BUT, it's worth noting that Wu also chose him because Jay knows how to motivate others with his sense of humor. And what does he do in S12 when he's separated from the others and trapped in a video game? He makes a resistence to oppose Unagami and inspire people who were also trapped in that game.

With all that being said, I just wanted to point out how distinct Jay's role on the team is and his motivation for being a ninja in the first place. It's not like he has this heroic duty, or necessarily wants to do justice, he's just a guy with a normal life who wanted to have exciting adventures and tap into this creativity of his and do some good in the process if it ended up working out. Which is sad with how things are right now but whatever…