Pastry Dragon

Putting all my hyperfixations together and doing my best

[pastrydragon]

Rules and Regulations

What I wanna write:

Let's keep it to head canons!

Reader x character

Character x character

NSFW but I'm probably gonna keep in pretty general.

I will be writing full fanfictions (hopefully) and I will be updating you all with links and descriptions as I go.

I mainly write for villains but there are a few exceptions on the fandom list so stay sharp!

Disney Villains (My most popular fandom!)

DC villains (Mainly batman.)

Overlord the anime (Loved for it's potential, not it's current form.)

Marval villains (Yet more dramatic weirdos.)

One Piece (Because watching fascists get obliterated is awesome)

Undertale (I cannot stop hyperfixating on it)

I may add or take away, but this is the list for now, onto the rules.

No Pedophilia

No Incest

No Non-con or dub-con

PLEASE try to watch your grammar and spelling, I know that it's hard for some people but it's very difficult for me to decipher poorly worded writing because of how my brain works.

I'm a human, with a lot of things to do, a dog to take care of, and a slew of mental illnesses. If I don't write for a bit, don't worry about it, obviously I get to it eventually.

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[bogleech]

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

[pastrydragon]

hey you remember literal years ago when somebody asked you for headcanons about Evil Manta? And then they asked a follow which you shamed them for misogyny for? That was me, it haunts me every time I think about it. I was 12 and did NOT intend to imply anything sexist (idk if u remember the post or not even but I asked about a hypothetical wife/who his son’s other parent was, but I missed smth u said in the previous post ig and you said smth along the lines of “a woman shouldn’t have to be there just to play mother and wife” which BARS I agree but that was NOT what I was saying at all) and I basically just never clarified what I meant out of embarrassment. So I’m getting this off my chest! Sorry this is a lot but again, 12 y/o me was crying because someone on the internet thought I was sexist 😭

OMFG Yes I do remember you and this message is sending me! I'm sorry I made you cry as a child that was not the intention, I just wanted you to reexamine the question. I hope you're doing great and having a better time interacting with people on Tumblr! Thanks for submitting this it made my day.

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[ariaste]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!

[great-art-and-a-purple-tongue]

Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter

It isn't so much about edible plants as it is about decorative ones, but I think it fits the theme of this growing list enough for me to add it.

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[passionpeachy]

The point isn't "stop criticizing indie artists" or "defend your favorite show under this post". I don't even watch Digital Circus and no one is above criticism. Literally every indie show is getting torn to shreds on twitter right now and I'm not saying this to defend anyone I don't know. The point is "someone who actually has the power to kill us all and get away with it deserves way more ire and accountability than a cartoonist and I expect grown adults to understand this"

[freegazafromhamas]

Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist

Black woman gets swept up in antizionism. Realizes she is wrong and shares why, in a very articulate way.

"I can't claim to be an activist if I'm not informed."

Goes to Israel and Jerusalem against massive social pressure.

Queen shit.

[mariacallous]

[hazel2468]

Literally had someone say to me the other day something about why can't Jews just make a home where they're at? Why do Jews need a whole country?

And like... You know, for a while, that was a popular idea!

And then the entire fucking world proved that Jews aren't safe, and that we cannot trust anyone but us to protect us. And all of the assimilationists and the Bundists were fucking murdered in the Shoah and all the other atrocities that followed.

Zionism is a vote of no confidence in the rest of the world to keep us safe.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[buddhistmusings-deactivated2025]

I think part of what is so upsetting about some people's participation in activism related to I/P is that many have framed the conflict as a binary choice between two opposing teams.

What if I genuinely want the best for everybody involved? What if I believe violence against anybody on the basis of their nationality/ethnicity/religion is wrong? What if I see both Israelis and Palestinians as fully human, worthy of dignity and respect, undeserving of violence directed at them?

[frizox]

Then you play into the oppressor’s narrative of holding themselves as equal to the people they’ve oppressed.

Maybe the best thing Zionists could do is stop the process of colonisation, which they actively support by EXISTING in Palestine, and go back to the countries where their grandparents still own properties 🥰

[buddhistmusings-deactivated2025]

This is antisemitic Holocaust denial. You're minimizing the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish victims.

It's also denial of the genocides experienced by Jews in the Middle East.

All human beings are equal and deserve life, shouldn't be displaced, and shouldn't face dehumanization.

Your rhetoric is horrific.

[buddhistmusings-deactivated2025]

I've blocked them but holy shit... where their grandparents still own properties is so antisemitic....

Their grandparents are very often victims of the Holocaust, and the many efforts to displace Jews across the Middle East.

Jewish people experienced displacement at the hands of Europeans and Middle Easterners.

I've heard this so many times. That after the Holocaust Jews were supposed to move back in? To the homes where their neighbors ratted them out? The properties that were confiscated from them?

And none of this horrific bullshit is helping Palestinians, who, again, are being deeply harmed on basically all sides. This rhetoric harms Palestinians and appropriates the symbols and movements that are supposed to be part of making them more safe and free and misuses them for antisemitic purposes.

[buddhistmusings-deactivated2025]

They even say the quiet part out loud. That what they oppose is a certain kind of human being being allowed to exist.

[thequeeranachronism]

My grandparents were warned not to return because others who’d done so had been murdered. I don’t know anyone who “owns property” in the countries we were expelled from.

[maimonideznuts]

Tripolitanian Jews are famous for our mansions in Libya (obvious sarcasm). Lol no, if we ever set foot back in that country we would be murdered.

[the-library-alcove]

"their grandparents still own properties"

*snort*

This is Targowa 67, in Lodz, Poland. It was my paternal grandmother's family bakery and apartment.

My great-uncle was sent to the gulag by the Soviets when he tried to reclaim it after the Holocaust, and when we tried to reclaim it in the 1990s--as we had the paperwork still--the city government, which owns it now, threatened our lives. "You would have to come here to press the suit, and we would not be able to guarantee your safety" was what they said.

But hey, ignoring all of the history and stuff stolen from the Jews who then had to flee to other countries, while their oppressors got rich off of what they stole is just easier and gives a better sense of superiority, doesn't it?

Bigot.

[squeeful]

Approximately 40+% of Baghdad was Jewish before the Iraq government (with the gleeful participation of the Muslim citizens) ethnically cleansed the country of Jews, seizing the modern equivalent of billions of dollars in property, businesses, and bank accounts. Much of the modern state of Iraq is built on that economic seizure.

The French embassy in Baghdad resides, rent free, in such a property. France’s official stance is that such “abandoned property” is forfeit to “finder’s keepers”. But only if the owners are Jews.

[nonasuch]

I think most people don’t realize how much of Jewish diaspora history consists of our being used as a sort of ‘break in case of emergency’ slush fund by whoever controlled the territory.

Like, I didn’t fully understand this either until fairly recently! But it is so convenient for a ruling power to have a population of people who are literate, exempt from religious prohibitions on certain kinds of financial transactions, and incredibly easy targets for resentment and hatred.

So much of the last 2000 years of Jewish history involves Jews being 1) allowed to move to a region, 2) barred from most occupations, 3) steered (or forced) into fields that allow them to build up some degree of wealth and success while 4) serving as an involuntary meat shield between the peasantry and the ruling class.

And then when there’s famine or war or plague or social unrest or revolution, it’s so easy to aim all the blame at the Jews, who were doing pretty okay for themselves up to that point.

We take the fall for whatever has gone wrong, get killed or expelled, and conveniently are forced to leave behind the homes and businesses and wealth that we’d managed to build despite our deliberately limited options. Whoever’s now in charge gets the spoils, and those of us who survived have to go start over somewhere else.

This is an old, old pattern. It has happened to someone in the family of just about every single Jewish person alive, usually more than once. In my direct family tree, it happened to all my great-great grandparents, who left the Pale in the midst of the 1880s wave of pogroms. Hell, I have an uncle by marriage who had to flee Iran as a teenager in the 70s — that’s the 1970s, to be clear — and his family left behind homes and farms and bank accounts. Everything but what they could carry.

I feel like we talk a lot about how antisemitism persists in a culture and manifests in individuals across the political spectrum. But it’s also helpful, sometimes, to take a higher-level view of why antisemitism is useful to ruling powers in a given region, because that usefulness is also a big part of why it persists.

[soedgyimacircle]

Obviously this is an oversimplified cartoon, but let me preemptively handle some points.

Hamas fires rockets out of population hubs like schools, apartments, and hospitals.

Hamas also often keeps families inside the launch sights under the idea that to die and make Israel look bad is honorable.

Israel airdrops leaflets near the discovered launch sights warning everyone to evacuate before they take out the building. They also send a dud shell on top of the building about a minute before the rest of the shells so that people know which building and have time to get out.

Because so many Palestinians are determined to die to stain Israel, they stay in the buildings anyway.

This is what gets the media attention.

This is what allows Hamas to paint themselves as “Freedom Fighters” while they sacrifice their own people.

[straightpalechristianrepublican]

People need to read this

[scartale-an-undertale-au]

And this is from 2014. it worked so well that hamas just continued its strategy and the world still falls for it heel over head

[biglawbear]

This was posted in 2014. This is ten years old. And y'all have fallen for it.

[karleyn]

And they will fall for it in another 10 years I’m afraid.

Because a lot of what they grew up with whispered to them “jews are bad” (because Antisemitism isn’t dead. Never has been. And it wasn’t invented in 1933)

Going against that whisper means unpacking what you have learned your entire life. It probably means unpacking what your parents learned.

Many are not willing to put in that work if they can feel good about themselves without it.

[sunder-the-gold]

I’ll once again point out that Israel, instead of simply barraging Gaza right back every time, took the FAR more expensive and difficult option of designing, building, and maintaining the Iron Dome to protect themselves from Gaza rockets.

[chutzpahchesed]

you can think that the premise of what self-defense entails has limitations and that the destruction wrought in this war went too far, and that war crimes were committed and those responsible should be held to account. that is a reasonable, warranted criticism. most of what we have witnessed for three years, though, has been heavily distorted or misinformed, or outright Jew hatred and calls for more violence masquerading as criticism.

the dismissal of and/or denial of and/or celebration of Hamas’ terror attacks and murder of Israelis has helped no one and has very effectively damaged the process to ensure a better future, caused more harm to Palestinians and Israelis alike, and skyrocketed antisemitic hate crimes worldwide.

the fact that this post is now twelve years old and preceded 10/7 by nine years is chilling and should lead to serious self-reflection by everyone who’s cheered them as “resistance,” but it won’t.

[freegazafromhamas]

We have also only seen “self defense has limitations” applied to Jews and no other group.

No, the concept of self defense having limitations is only ever used against the Jews.

And what are the consequences of self defense having too many limitations?

Allies bombed 500,000 German civilians to death in World War II, definitely more civilians than the Nazis bombed to death.

What would have happened if the world came down on the Allies to say, “sorry, you bombed too many civilians, you’ve hit the limit of what I consider to be the limitations of self-defense. You now must lay down your arms and let the Nazis massacre you and send you all to death camps to be massacred there. Sorry, thems the rules. Self defense has limitations and you just hit yours, nothing personal!

But that’s exactly what the logical conclusion is of "self defense has limitations”. The conclusion is you hit that limit and then you are forced to roll over and die to the psychopathic genocidal aggressor.

That is what they want for Israel. For the Israelis to roll over and die.

“Self defense has limits!” = “I only love dead Jews.”

Simple as.

[when-you-fail-again]

[rosemehdee]

hurting ur friend with a really sad headcanon like 

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

This has been going on for a while in gaza

Global Protection Cluster alleges sexual abuse of Gazans by aid workers | The Jerusalem Post

Alleged misconduct by aid workers include violence, exploitation and abuse, trafficking, and forced prostitution, the Global Protection Clus

And a looooong, long time, among wider UN agencies, and therefore all around the world as well

UN Peacekeeping has a Sexual Abuse Problem

A Haitian woman was selling charcoal on the empty edges of her small town when a white, uniformed United Nations peacekeeper offered her a l

Sexual harassment and assault rife at United Nations, staff claim

Exclusive: Guardian investigation points to culture of impunity as UN employees allege offences including rape

The UN Lists Hundreds of Paternity Claims Against Peacekeepers: Do Member States Care? - PassBlue

The UN Lists Hundreds of Paternity Claims Against Peacekeepers: Do Member States Care? - PassBlue

Sexual exploitation and abuse: UN intensifying efforts to uphold victims' rights

The UN received 758 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by staff last year, together with related personnel and partners,

UN Peacekeepers' Sexual Assault Problem

The world's most powerful states must take action against the sexual exploitation and abuse of women being committed by too many peacekeepin

The UN is a good idea, currently run by fallible and oftentimes despotic people

[meow-moment]

i do not minmax i do not play competitively i do not optimize my build i do not grind i do not topscore i do not give a shit about leaderboards. i play to have fun and if im not having fun i go do something else

[anongalu]

[thesituation]

my stance on the trans athlete debate is always and forever going to be that sports should be completely desegregated because humans have one of the smallest levels of sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom and the disparity we see between male and female performance is entirely caused by social factors rather than anything biological. “should trans women compete against cis women” i think cis men and cis women could compete fairly but that’s apparently a little too spicy for people to wrap their minds around bc they’ve been told their whole lives women are biologically inferior & never thought to question that. or wonder if it’s maybe a self fulfilling prophecy of some kind. are women biologically inferior or do they appear so because patriarchy demands that of us?

[seracadash]

Some people blame solely the racism (specifically against people with darker skin) and misogyny in fandom and the prioritizing of white guys on the Source Material.

Then in Sinners the most popular guy is the white guy thats the personification of racism assimilation that doesn't appear in half the movie, a movie with 2 michael b jordans and increible black characters. In the locked tomb (book with mostly women) Silas and Colum, 2 white charas who are family and don't appear that much in the first book, have more fics than Coronabeth and Judith, a white woman and a black woman who keep appearing in the story and one of them canonically confessed her love to the other. In BG3 there is more fics with MC X Gortash (light skin bad guy that makes a tiny appearance in act 2 and then appears more in act 3) than MC X Wyll (Black guy who is literally one of the main characters in the game that is also impossible to skip, while you can completelly miss Astarion or Gale on accident). In Dragon Age: The Veilguard Davrin (the black guy) was the guy with less fics before the game was out when no one knew the characters so you couldn't judge in writing or content. In the Bridgerton show the most popular ship is the only main one that features 2 white people, etc etc like it just keeps happening and saying "its the source material, fandom just works with what it has" is just not true.

And finding excuses why Every Time Actually It Makes Sense that the fandom would focus in the white guys no matter what show is justs doing mental gymnastic instead of admiting racism and misogyny exist everywhere, including fandom.

[jeaniefranklins]

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

[headspace-hotel]

How do they communicate? How do they expect others to communicate? How well do they understand their body and their own capacity for pleasure? What do they tend to do to make their partner feel comfortable? How comfortable are they showing emotion in front of others? How much insight do they have into what their own emotions mean and are connected to? What are they focused on during the encounter? How conscious are they of exchanges of power and vulnerability? very very very good