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[depsidase]

[queer-nanea-mitchell]

Rebecca's Cookbook

Next up in my cookbook series is Rebecca! There weren't enough foods mentioned in her books for an entire menu, so I also took inspiration from a number of turn of the century Jewish-American cookbooks, which I linked where possible. The cover images are all taken from her paper dolls.

Breakfast

Potato and onion knishes

Bagels

Cheese Blintzes

Raisin Bread

Dinner

Cabbage Rolls

Borsht

Challah

Noodle Kugel

Favourite Foods

Egg Creams

Latkes

Rugelach (I am aware the link is to a recipe for a pastry labeled kipfel, but from what I can tell it should be near identical to a rugelach recipe before the cream cheese became a mainstay of the recipe in the 1940s. For whatever reason I could not find a period cookbook that called it rugelach)

Chicken Soup

Other hypothetical historical character cookbooks:

Cecile and Marie-Grace's Cookbook

[queer-nanea-mitchell]

Nanea's Cookbook

So Nanea's books have so many great foods mentioned that I just knew I had to make a "cookbook" for her. However, unlike Cecile, Marie Grace or Rebecca, Nanea and the rest of the beforever girls never got paper dolls I could use for cookbook covers.

I am not an artist, so my alternative was Frankensteining together art from Nanea's book, elements from the American Girl Magazine paper doll series and some drawings in Photoshop. I'm honestly pretty proud with how it turned out and really excited to make cookbook covers (and maybe even craft books if I can come up with enough ideas) for the rest of the historical girls!

All these dishes are mentioned in Nanea's books, except for the onion fritters which are a recipe from when Hawaii had too many onions which does come up in her series, and the Spam eggs & rice which seems the most likely candidate for what the Mitchell family is having for breakfast when we are told Nanea's mom made scrambled eggs and rice.

few of the linked recipes are unfortunately no longer viewable as newspapers.com seemed to have just closed the loophole that allowed you to see articles without paying. But I promise I could read them a month ago!

Breakfast

Guava Bread

Malasadas

Pineapple Juice (to follow the great AG cookbook tradition of recipes that aren't really recipes)

Spam Eggs & Rice

Coconut Pancakes

Portuguese Sausages

Dinner

Lomi Salmon

Onion Fritters

Luau (Chicken and taro leaves cooked in coconut milk)

Potato Salad

Favorite Recipes

Two Finger Poi

Kalua Pig

Rice Balls with Pickled Apricot

Strawberry Shave Ice

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Spice Lady Cookies

[queer-nanea-mitchell]

Cecile's and Marie-Grace's cookbook

I was inspired by the Caroline cookbook @desertdollranch came up with to make some of my own for the other historical characters who never got cookbooks. All the images on the front are from their paper dolls. I had to change the cover layout slightly so they could both be featured.

I've followed the format of the original cookbooks. All these dishes are ones that are actually mentioned in Cecile and Marie-Grace's books and I've linked recipes from as close to their period as I can find (with the exception of the tomato-shrimp bisque). Most link to some of the earliest published Louisiana cookbooks from 1885 which compiled recipes from even earlier.

Breakfast

Beignets

Pain perdu

Custard

Sweet orange buns

Porridge

Dinner

Ham and sweet potatoes

Red beans and rice

Stewed okra

Dandelion greens

Pecan pie

Favourite Foods

Pralines

Gumbo

Hot chocolate

Tomato and shrimp bisque

[desertdollranch]

If Caroline had been introduced to Pleasant Company as a historical character a little earlier than 2012, she might have had a cookbook as part of her collection. I did a bit of editing to come up with what the cover might have looked like. It uses a lot of her signature color of medium pink, and the image of Caroline holding the bread comes from her paper dolls & play scenes set. The bushel of apples and jar of preserves is from Felicity’s paper dolls. 

For the contents of the cookbook, I hunted through Caroline’s central series carefully to find any mentions of food. Following the standard layout of all the other six Pleasant Company character cookbooks, here’s what some of the recipes could have been:

Breakfast

Biscuits and honey

Bacon

Cornbread

Potatoes fried with onions

Gingerbread

Dinner

Baked beans

Stuffed whitefish

Lima beans

Roast pumpkin

Trout

Asparagus

Favorite foods

Carrot pudding

Apples and cabbage

Hasty pudding

Strawberries and cream

Raspberry cobbler

Apple pie

Burnt sugar cake

[fakelawyerbug]

I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.

[iridescentoracle]

#imo the potluck analogy applies- it would be rude to critique someone's icing technique at a potluck bc it wasn't as good as at the bakery #but if they had decorated their cupcakes w hate symbols it wouldn't be rude to tell them that's gross and gtfo #in fact it would be inappropriate to NOT say anything in that situation #or to complain that another guest who did point it out was 'ruining everyone's potluck' #and pointing out racism in fan works is 100% the second thing not the first! (via destructions-daughter)

[swamp-spirit]

There's also a tendency to conflate anyone who critiques general trends with bad faith randos. Like, there is fandom behavior that is 100% racist and should be talked about, but there are also trends of racist/sexist/ableist preferences.

If I say "I am uncomfortable with fandom's tendency to write trans men as feminine and submissive" I do not mean "I think every person who writes feminine submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I don't even mean "any cis-person who writes feminine or submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I mean "I would like writers to seriously think about why this is so common, why they write that, and if it fairly and genuinely engages with what it means to be a trans man, or if they just think it's hot when submissive people have vaginas and didn't want to write omegaverse of m/f".

Similarly, when people say "fandom is systemically less interested in black characters, less willing to give flat black characters rich fanon than flat white characters, and less interested in black characters in ships", the response is not to explain why you, personally, just happen to like popular white guy in that fanon. Your job is to look at yourself and ask if you tend to "just happen to be more interested" in the popular white guy across fandoms, be honest, and start unpacking that. Sometimes it's easier to love the flat character who's already getting 10,000 fics with headcanons and art and meta.

If somebody says "I wish there were more gluten free options at the potluck. I hate always showing up and not finding anything I can eat*", they are not asking you to throw your cake in the trash and weep. They do not want to hear your long speech about how actually this is your grandmother's recipe, and you've tried it with rice flour actually, but it just didn't work. You think about what you can do, and you listen to how they feel.

*The metaphor here not being that you can't read fic that isn't "good rep". The metaphor here is that it can be isolating to be in spaces where nobody is trying to make sure people like you are welcome.

[spaceistheplaceart]

and i would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling... monsters???

[ditto-2713]

🙏thank u sir

[greenekangaroo]

The doom marine of shredding mad strings coming in clutch

[melancholygirls]

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

[stillalittlekid]

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

[christ-with-a-why]

[melancholygirls]

I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭

[zillanovikov]

every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.

[thesplendidsnout]

From the Nib, by Mattie Lubchansky

[shiopomu-remade]

[aberrantemotion]

I don’t think I could create a better visual representation of depression with adhd if i tried.

[vilestvillaincontest]

Vilest Villain Contest! Round 3! Part 4!

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Voting ended onJul 22

[bill-cipher-offical]

CHAT, MAKE ME WIN 👏👏

[bill-cipher-offical]

MIMOSA I SWEAR IF YOUR FOLLOWERS MAKE ME LOSE AGAIN I WILL MAKE YOU EAT SOMETHING OTHER THAN FRIED APPLES AND GLITTER TEA

[mimosa-sex-tea-people-contrsf]

Jokes on you Bill for all you know I could be into that shit

[glumshoe]

May I have backstory on your theatrical hate for geologists?

long ago the Titanic collided with a rock and sank

[maximumsunshine]

Is ice a rock? I mean I'm not really questioning you. I just never really stopped to consider that water was a thawed rock.

[imgoingtogobacktheresomeday-dea]

Ice counts as a rock and this is stressful

[wyndelinewriter]

And all because rich people just had to have their telegrams sent.

[jaywrites]

Ice is a crystal

[glumshoe]

naturally-formed ice is a crystal mineral, glaciers and iceburgs are mono-mineralic metamorphic rocks

[glumshoe]

if you want to live-trap a geologist you need four things: a large box, a long stick, a rope, and a really cool rock

simply place the rock on the ground, tie one end of the rope around the base of the stick, then use the stick to prop the box up above the rock

wait

when the geologist crawls under the box to get to the rock, yank on the rope so that it collapses and then jump on top of the box

now you have an angry geologist under a box and what you do next is really not my problem

[villephox]

Honestly, you really can’t find a really cool rock without being a geologist. If you’re not a geologist, you cannot know what will kill a geologist.

[glumshoe]

to catch a geologist you have to think like a geologist

[milligramspoison]

What in the ACTUAL FUCK DID LONDON DO TO DESERVE THIS

[annotated-dc]

One of the new additions to the show in My Adventures With Superman's third season, are the Flamebird communication watchs that Jimmy distributes among the four protagonists. This is itself a riff on the old signal watches that Jimmy has in various continuities to contact Superman if/when Jimmy finds himself in peril.

Oddly I think that this might be the first time that Jimmy decided to give Lois a watch as well, considering how she's just as, if not more, danger prone than he is.