#the best baguettes

[binsofchaos]

The Best Baguettes in Paris

[avelera]

I know that the Gaiman "word of God" on Dream of the Endless's romantic history is, "He has had many more lovers than the ones we see" with regards to Killalla, Alianora, Nada, Calliope, and Thessaly (ugh) and as someone who will absolutely incorporate word-of-god canon , it's the height of hypocrisy to just dismiss this.

And I will accept that probably Dream has had some sexual encounters outside those five canonical relationships, like the implied Lucifer and Titania flings.

But I just can't escape the sense that the whole, "Oh yeah, he's had tons of other lovers like, just loads of them, believe me, the dude is definitely not billions of years old and only had a half dozen romantic encounters all of which ended in tears, that would be crazy, right??" is just more... something a dude would say about their super cool dude character?

Because I personally like to, in this one instance, rigidly stick to canon as we see it on the page. And that canon is: Dream was deeply lonely and never even officially hit a half-dozen long-term lovers in his life and he only married once. He is a divorcee and he is sad and he is lonely and he would love to find someone to be with and be in a relationship and just continuously eluded him. And our evidence for this? The Wake.

We have some of Dream's past lovers show up at the Wake. Bastet specifically notes that they could have been lovers, probably should have been, but it never happened. Titania implies a relationship but won't say anything more and obviously it was not long-lasting romantically speaking, whatever it was.

But basically, if we take the Wake as an on-the-page canonical account of the living beings who were Dream's lovers and who had enough of a connection to actually show up, it's still a depressingly small number for so long a life, for a character who is defined by his romanticism and loneliness. Even if we say, give or take, there might have been a few more, none of those after Nada could be mortal, so we can't just say they're all dead. That means the other immortal lovers either didn't show up or didn't bother to speak. And sure, if there's other immortals in the mix, sure, we could "Doylist" say the comic just doesn't have room for them all but really, to me, the more compelling take is... there just weren't that many for Dream, and that it's deeply sad. Some of it was, yes, his own fault, probably a lot of it. But it's still sad.

And more importantly, it's a more interesting character. Anyone can say their stupidly powerful godlike character who is beautiful and magical and can craft dreams and stories and is this Byronic hero of poetry and darkness is also someone who had a bunch of romantic partners and can definitely hook up with anyone he wants, psshh, obviously but... a character who is all those things and can't get this one major part of their life together to the extent that he's demonstrated to want a loving partner which he is repeatedly shown to want, is just... it's a certain kind of unique for that character and I'm here for it.

[technicbread]

[spill-to-t]

Having a mini job in a german bakery is basically like:

"Oh, so what kind of bread is that?"

"Bitch, there are like 500 different types of bread, I wish I knew myself 😭"

[dutchgp]

Esteban dragging that alpine into q2

[phopollo]

For your humble consideration;

And because I think the TBD is full of a bunch of sillies;

[mehkers]

“Tu peux passer le sel, sil tu plaît?”

Tamaki nodded his head and passed the salt to you, but froze midway. “…Quoi?” His eyes like saucers bore holes into you.

“Quoi, ‘quoi’? Tu peux passer le sel?” Reiterating your request, you kept your hands outstretched to the salt Tamaki was holding out, pretending like this was normal.

Your boyfriend, Tamaki Suoh, while being Japanese he’s also half French. Living in France for most of his life with his mother before moving to Japan to join Ouran High School, he’s quite fluent in French. Time to time the eccentric blond would drop word in French whenever he spoke, which made him seem more like a princely gentleman from France than the childish dork he actually is.

Since Ouran is an elite school for the rich, students being able to speak French wasn’t quite surprising, but you.. oh you, the transfer student along with Haruhi, he was not expecting such fluency from you.

“You- Tu- Tu parle la Français!?” He scrambled, sitting up and grabbing your shoulders from across the table. The rest of the Ouran Host Club members were here too, since he decided that it was normal to bring friends along in your dates.

“You didn’t know?” Honey-Senpai gulped the cake down, his sweet voice being the first one to pop up.

The orange haired twins leaned on either side of Tamaki’s shoulders, smiles wide like Cheshire Cat. “Hmm, flustered, boss~?”

Tamaki pushed the twins off, and instead grabbing your hand, the salt now forgotten. There were hearts in his eyes, and his face gained an ambre of pink hues.

You laughed, amused by his reaction. “Oui, mon amor, je parle la Français. J’ai étudie la Français dans mon école précédente.”

“Ahhh incroyable ! Je suis très heureux… Très heureux!” He exclaimed repeatedly. You were about to say that you weren’t very fluent in it, and that you were still learning, but the blonde cut you off and went on a whole rant in French. You caught a couple of words like “ma petite chou” and.. wait never mind, it was basically just him squealing. The rest of the Host Club came to an agreement to leave the two love birds (Tamaki and you) alone for a sweet time.

With an abrupt kiss, he finally shut up. “Mignon~” Tamaki turned red and pouted, while your joyous laughter filled the air. The rest of the date went by smoothly, and ended with buying tickets to the next plane to France.

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Translations:

* Tu peux passer le sel, sil tu plaît? = Can you pass the salt, please?

* …Quoi? = …what?

* Quoi, ‘quoi’? Tu peux passer le sel? = What, ‘what’? Can you pass the salt?

* Tu- Tu parle la Français!? = You- You speak French!?

* Oui, mon amor, je parle la Français. J’ai étudie la Français dans mon école précédente. = Yes, my love, I speak French. I studied French in my previous school.

* Ahhh incroyable ! Je suis très heureux… Très heureux ! = Ahhh amazing! I am very happy… Very happy!

* Ma petite chou = My little cabbage (direct translation) It’s kind of like saying “my darling”

* Mignon = cute

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[hetaletmego]

People today: Ew Hetalia is so cringe who's out there making pretty personifications of countries

People through all of history: Hi my name is Marianne Rép'ublique Française France and I am inspired by the writings of Spanish philosopher Juan de Mariana (that's how I got my name) with loosely tied hair inspired by First Empire fashion and a lot of people tell me I look like the goddess Demeter (AN: if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Mariamne the Hasmonean but I wish I was because she's a major fucking hottie. I'm an allegory of freedom but there's a bust of me in every prison. I have pale white skin. I'm also an allegory of the republic, and I first appeared as a design meant to replace the royal seal on official documents (I'm republican). I'm a neoclassical figure (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly vaguely ancient clothing. I love ancient Greece and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a red phrygian cap symbolizing the emancipation of slaves since Antiquity and a loose off-the-shoulder chiton with a chemise underneath because I'm a sexy ancient Greek allegory but I have good Christian morals too. I was leading the people outside the Assemblée Nationale. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun king, which I was very happy about. A lot of royalists stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[h0wlthew0lf]

bad to the bone riff

these r lowkey so old also sorrh for makifn thtmsmfurriws....

[redshrimpnb]

French dudes in the qsmp are unhinged:

Étoiles just went out of the cage thing and he went directly discovering the map without thinking

Antoine is too preoccupied being a boomer and screaming Mr. Worldwide and Brazil with sunglasses on

Kamet0 argues with every other French like he’s their old fed up husband

Was even Aypierre there? He took some materials to help build up the house for Pomme but we almost didn’t hear of him

Baghera, shot out to you, you’re a single mum with a good heart

Philza is going to be a part of Pomme’s family I stg the French are LOST (it’s not their fault it’s in their genes, thankfully Baghera is from Switzerland)

Anyway I still love my country, je suis un garçon et je mange la pomme lmao

[sunset-a-story]

I wasn’t sure which of you was best to ask, but I assume you will pass this question along and it will be seen by you both either way :p so, let’s say, for shits and giggles, that hamsters were able to have knacks … what do you think Baguette’s would be?

OHMYGOD THIS IS THE NICEST ASK. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We talked about it came up with several ideas.

--A teleporter like her daddy

--A phaser so no cage could ever hold her back

--But I think what we like best is a pocket creator, which is a knack where you can create pockets/rooms of space that sit outside our dimension. You could temporarily create a doorway in a wall that leads to a room but if you walked around to the other side of that wall, it wouldn't be there.

Baguette would use this to create extra big pockets in her cheeks so she could stuff MOAR food in them. We're imagining just bags of carrots disappearing into her little mouth to pull out later for snacking. An entire actual baguette emerging inch by inch from little Baguette's cheek LMAO

Baguette Update: b r e a d

[eteisvalssi]

attending a normal social gathering and not ending up infodumping about a certain slovene band is apparently not something i’m capable of doing

[psalacanthea]

remember, if you have leftover bread, you can just rip it up into little chunks and fry it in a pan with some olive oil or butter for breakfast. Once the bread is browned to your specifications, just toss in some beaten eggs and scramble them up with the bread.

I generally fry up some tomatoes or mushrooms with it, too

[twodotsknowwhy]

The current drama at my work is that a reviewer called out baguettes mediocre, so we went into a deep dive on his instagram, discovered he prefers sourdough baguettes made with whole wheat flour, which is fine for him but should be disclosed ahead of time and traditionalists should not be punished for his proclivities