femchef daily

You can find me on ao3 as biscuit_tin... So. I'm a pastry chef - I bake tasty things, knit, reblog stuff, gush about my kitties, and post things I draw. Sometimes I complain about things, but that's pretty much it. Feel free to ask me questions - I'm a thirty-something ace who definitely doesn't have stuff figured out, so bear with me, yeah? (They/Them or She/Her are fine)

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[wholesome-animal-images]

[spatort]

@sinnsenke couldn't leave this in the tags

[maryreadings]

obsessed with this silly tiger

[bugwars]

girl it’s just a 3 day trip, you do not need to bring your terracotta warriors 🙄

[sivavakkiyar]

Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns, Yusef Lateef

[donjuaninhell]

Wait, I'm pretty sure this is a doodle Coltrane did in his personal copy of Lateef.

I don't have a higher res image but there it is with his signature.

[sivavakkiyar]

Yup! Lateef included it in his repository as a tribute after a reprint

[lcatala]

Music theory is like if you made occult sciences about something that actually works.

[sivavakkiyar]

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods”—FZ

[notatzimisce]

I will never shy away from the word goon. goon is the only way to describe a particular type of henchman, lackey, or thug. look at these guys. they're goons.

[teashoesandhair]

I'm in a little local cafe and the women behind the counter started griping to each other, "Oh Christ, Stephen's back again," "It's him, is it? I thought he'd stopped coming," "It's definitely him, look, it's bloody Stephen on a Thursday morning," "Do you want me to get rid of him or are you going to do it?" and so I was peering outside, trying to spot this nightmare customer, this pestilence of a person, this pox upon the cafe trade, and then one of the women from behind the counter ran outside, clapping two trays together loudly and yelling "GET OUT OF IT, STEPHEN!" and it turns out that Stephen is an absolutely gigantic fuck-off seagull who hangs around outside, menacing people for crumbs

[innovadesexual]

[stormingchaos12]

[aniseandspearmint]

Knead and roll him like the dough he CRAVES IT

[pmamtraveller]

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite recurring bits of characterisation in pre-20th Century literature is describing a character as having "strange fascinations". Depending on context, this means either that they're a weird sex pervert or that they're the most tedious nerd you can possibly imagine, and it's handy to have a single phrase that covers both of those attributes because in my experience they're very often found together!

[lord-margolotta]

reblog if you, too, have "strange fascinations"

[hellallamerican]

i need everyone to get into college football right now i am dying to talk about the texas tech situation. this is the kind of thing that will be referenced for the next 100 years. there will be documentaries and biopics about this.

[hellallamerican]

no one asked but here

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

this is all just startomg but its so juicy and delicious. the NCAA is going to crumble to dust if they cannot get this injunction overturned. schools like georgia and nebraska have plenty of money so a suit isnt necessarily a concern, but this will absolutely change college football forever. i cant stop reading about it.

[hellallamerican]

update on this: texas tech is claiming that every school who has/is considering cancelling all contests is "afraid" that texas tech is better than them. what's funny about this is that sorsby's stats are average. he is not good enough for this kind of protection. many schools who have already cancelled or are considering it have much better quarterbacks than sorsby. also, texas tech's head coach had said that it's actually ok that sorsby bet against his own team because it "its not murder or assault."

[hellallamerican]

the attorney general of texas has threatened to investigate the Big 12 conference if they sanction Texas Tech

[hellallamerican]

the claim is now that texas texh university just cares so much about brendan sorsbys mental health that they have to sue everyone who calls this an integrity violation. any other school who wouldnt defend an athlete that committed this violation "doesnt care about mental health"

[digitaldiscipline]

This trash fire boy has declared for the NFL supplemental draft.

ESPN is breathlessly reporting on his treatment for gambling addiction and discussing professional teams who should draft him

which, of course, entirely overlooks the abandonment of any sense of morality or ethics of those teams' management, or the broadcast network that makes fucking bank on controversy as well as nfl football.

capitalism is a rot.

[croaksac]

HUGE developments in the big silly baby wearing fluffy pajamas fandom:

Oregon Zoo 05/30/26: This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

[femchef]

Which Sweets Do You Want to Learn About

Alright - I've been working on a panel presentation off and on for AWA and I'm getting ready to submit my proposal in a few weeks for the 2026 convention. I want to know which desserts potential con goers are most interested in learning about.

The content of the presentation is about the history of yogashi in Japan (Western-style sweets post-isolation beginning with the Meiji period), and includes a visual presentation on how they are prepared. I have a top 20 list of popular yogashi I've been working off of for my research, and I've narrowed it down further to 12, but I can't exactly cover all of them in detail, so which ones would you most like an info dump on?

Which Yogashi Do You Most Want to Learn About...

Melon Pan

Nama Choco

Strawberry Cake

Mont Blanc

Souffle Cheesecake

Madeleines/Financiers

Shu Cream Puffs

Baumkuchen

Mille Crepe Cake

Souffle Pancakes

Mochi Donut

Hokkaido Cheese Tarts

Voting ended onJun 15

[femchef]

The survey will be up one more day, so if you haven’t already voted please take a moment to pick!!!

[scrixels]

My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^

[femchef]

Which Sweets Do You Want to Learn About

Alright - I've been working on a panel presentation off and on for AWA and I'm getting ready to submit my proposal in a few weeks for the 2026 convention. I want to know which desserts potential con goers are most interested in learning about.

The content of the presentation is about the history of yogashi in Japan (Western-style sweets post-isolation beginning with the Meiji period), and includes a visual presentation on how they are prepared. I have a top 20 list of popular yogashi I've been working off of for my research, and I've narrowed it down further to 12, but I can't exactly cover all of them in detail, so which ones would you most like an info dump on?

Which Yogashi Do You Most Want to Learn About...

Melon Pan

Nama Choco

Strawberry Cake

Mont Blanc

Souffle Cheesecake

Madeleines/Financiers

Shu Cream Puffs

Baumkuchen

Mille Crepe Cake

Souffle Pancakes

Mochi Donut

Hokkaido Cheese Tarts

Voting ended onJun 15

[femchef]

Which Sweets Do You Want to Learn About

Alright - I've been working on a panel presentation off and on for AWA and I'm getting ready to submit my proposal in a few weeks for the 2026 convention. I want to know which desserts potential con goers are most interested in learning about.

The content of the presentation is about the history of yogashi in Japan (Western-style sweets post-isolation beginning with the Meiji period), and includes a visual presentation on how they are prepared. I have a top 20 list of popular yogashi I've been working off of for my research, and I've narrowed it down further to 12, but I can't exactly cover all of them in detail, so which ones would you most like an info dump on?

Which Yogashi Do You Most Want to Learn About...

Melon Pan

Nama Choco

Strawberry Cake

Mont Blanc

Souffle Cheesecake

Madeleines/Financiers

Shu Cream Puffs

Baumkuchen

Mille Crepe Cake

Souffle Pancakes

Mochi Donut

Hokkaido Cheese Tarts

Voting ended onJun 15

[asynca]

So what i'm getting is that fellow sapphics really like this trope  🤭 

So to answer: yes, it was adapted from an AU fanfic, but no, not in any of those fandoms.

[asynca]

guys I'm crying. I'm crying. this is one of those cases where readers know more about you than you do. Because it is actually true that my corporate villain Thing probably WAS coined by being an original tomb raider fan because I *did* used to ship Lara/Natla, but that's not the fandom THIS particular fic is from.

I mean I DO know that sapphics like ordinary woman/intensely wealthy corporate ice queen but like. I had no idea it was like THIS XD

[bogappreciation]

anyway read Unaccounted For