Culinary life

Just your ordinary food blogger :)Â With the occasional Gorillaz/Steven Universe/anime/feminist/body positivity post ;p

[sweetoothgirl]

Cookie Dough Desserts!

(recipes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

[novantinuum]

The Atlas personality, drawing on the myth of the giant Atlas from Greek mythology upholding the world, is typically found in a person who felt obliged during childhood to take on responsibilities (extending beyond normal household chores or looking after siblings) such as providing psychological support to parental figures, often in a chaotic family situation.

They are thus liable to develop a pattern of compulsive caregiving in later life.

The result in adult life can be a personality devoid of fun,

and feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders. 

Depression and anxiety, 

as well as over-sensitivity to others 

and an inability to assert their own needs, are further identifiable characteristics. 

In addition, there may also be an underlying rage against a parent for not having provided love, and for exploiting the child for their own narcissistic needs.

While Atlas personalities may appear to function adequately as adults, 

they may be pervaded with a sense of emptiness and be lacking in vitality.

(Write-up sourced from wikipedia.)

[advanced-procrastination]

One of my students wrote a very eloquent and well-researched paper for her english class about the unfair advantages and lack of accountability given to student athletes, and she specifically called out how much worse it is with football and basketball, and bruh. People are getting heated over this shit. She spoke nothing but the truth, and the football and basketball teams are PISSED — coaching staff included. Like she legit created a little controversy at our school by calling out the fact that athletics are prioritized over academics. WITH SOURCES.

And what’s funny is she played it smart — not only by giving herself some plausible deniability by writing it about high schools and colleges in general rather than just about our school, but also by calling out the worst sports specifically. She could have left it at ALL student athletes, but by explicitly stating that football and basketball are the worst perpetrators, she won all the other athletes to her side — golf, tennis, swimming, track. Instead of having all student athletes at her throat, she turned everyone against the basketball and football teams.

I’m so proud of her. Nobody listens to teachers when we bring up that half the football team is failing all their classes, but let a fellow student bring it up and everyone’s ready to riot.

[fireyourowncannons]

When I was in high school I was tasked with writing a paper on a school issue and I wrote about how school budget was being disproportionately favored towards the football team and other sports in general. At the time, Colorado had laws in place that made it so anyone with the desire could request budget information for public schools and how they were used.

My mom had done that. Printed off like 80 pages of budget reports. We found staggeringly huge money wastes. The football team had hired a retired NFL coach (not cheap) as a second string coach. Instead of using the county approved vendors, the Poms team had their uniforms custom made at Victoria secret because the pomp’s coach worked there on weekends but the price was like three times that of the approved vendor.

I brought some of these points up in my paper in discussion how other extracurriculars like theater, band, etc had to have boosters to be able to afford basic necessities (theater had asked for some extra dividing walls that could be used to partition the choir room to allow for boys and girls to change in privacy instead of in the open like we usually did but were denied because it wasn’t in our budget). I was told by my teacher it was incorrect and I needed to cite sources and not “libel” programs at our school with baseless accusations. I brought in the forms printed off the next day and was told I was being snotty and vindictive and that those programs helped bring in money from the state because our football team was so good.

The band room had instruments from the 70s that were falling apart. The theater department didn’t have a budget for set design so the director spent it out of her own pocket to get screws and wood. There were ACADEMIC clubs that had to be cancelled because there wasn’t money to pay teachers the overtime to be sponsors after school. The school’s television program, which ran the daily announcements, operated with some of the most ancient tech. Again, because their budgets had been slashed in favor of sportsball kicking.

Teacher was a sponsor for one of the sports that had just recently gotten brand new uniforms despite the fact the old ones were only about 3 years old. I was livid about being shoved off. I didn’t care that the football team making state helped with some sponsorships—they didn’t need to be dumping money into professional NFL coaches. The Poms team could have done a booster to get the fancy uniforms. It was ridiculous. I ended up going to a school board meeting and asking why on earth this was acceptable.

Well. Apparently it was not and not being monitored because the following year the principal (who was so avidly pro sports you would have thought she assumed school academics were an annoying side purpose for public education dollars) was asked to retire. Can’t fire teachers or administrators easily thanks to the unions which have their upsides but seriously so much shitty behavior was covered up by that. It ended up leveling off and the next year we got more money in the budgets for other extracurriculars but I won’t ever forget the attitude I got for trying to expose the grifting done for sports over academics or “nerdy” extracurriculars.

Karma got it though, the following year we sold out every damn night of our production of West Side Story and made back our budget and then some.

Sports are important, don’t get me wrong but the privilege they are afforded, the lack of accountability at the top, and the turning of eyes in favor of making wins is sickening and it goes beyond just college level athletics.

[godspeedmp3-deactivated20200914]

jenny slate / two, sleeping at last / an oresteia, euripidies (trans. anne carson) / the chaos of stars, kiersten white

[sweetoothgirl]

Coffee Cheesecake

[nathengyn]

a compilation of all my planned good omens studies/recreations to commemorate finishing this project! they’ve been a great learning experience, and a bit of a trip down memory lane, though i must admit the monet ones are probably my favourite. 

redbubble | society6

[cherryteddy]

Somehow when I listen to this part Gabriel’s face keeps showing up in my head, so I have to draw it :P I hope you will enjoy this little comic ;)

[ugly--cupcakes]

20 Inspirational Halloween Cupcake Ideas

[sweetoothgirl]

oat milk latte

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matcha panna cotta

[sweetoothgirl]

Vegan Coffee Walnut Cake

[taikova]

steven has had enough and decides to, finally, rest.

[vulcan-moon]

couple of lil wine things

[taikova]

steven’s properly a teenager now and in an emo phase. i’m celebrating with those grey hues and trying to get used to the black shirt…

*pearl voice* also you really want steven to wear greg’s nasty old shirt that he wore every day of the year, when he had no carwash? that he spilled MILK over?? not likely, get the boy some unused shirts, even if they’ve been in a warehouse for at least 30 years.

[sweetoothgirl]

Baked Pumpkin Donuts

[ugly--cupcakes]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes 

[sweetoothgirl]

ruffled milk pie