Let’s Make Pasta Mistakes Together

Caitlin/25/she/her. Strong love of music, gaming, and the social sciences. A teacher apparently. Not your manic pixie dream girl. Basically never NSFW and always tagged. Please request content warnings if you need them or I'll just forget. If you want to be mutuals, please tag your NSFW content.

[silkywishes]

i don’t take criticism

[letsallgotothelobby]

Silenced. 

[stoic-space-wizard-deactivated2]

[memewhore]

[ursamajori]

[id: a tweet by knoxmulder on twitter that says: “my restaurant started a challenge: if we go 30 days without having to ask anyone to put a mask on we will give away free donuts for a day. So far the longest we’ve made it on any day is 2:30pm”. under is a tweet that says “we open at 11”. end id]

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

Bless you, Dolly

(via)

[aletheyass]

these all happened in the second half of march so happy anniversary to vanessa hudgens saying “it’s a virus and i respect that and like people are going to die which is terrible but like inevitable” on instagram live and happy anniversary to ellen saying “this [27 million dollar mansion] feels like a prison” and happy anniversary to madonna calling the virus a “great equalizer” while bathing in a bathtub with rose petals in it and happy anniversary to sia posting a picture that just said “virus <3″ and happy anniversary to priyanka chopra clapping to her empty garden and happy anniversary to gal gadot et al.’s imagine video

[frogcoded]

also happy anniversary to jameela jamil’s tweet about how “this virus is the clap back from nature we were waiting for”

[thecaitortot]

I received two confessions from friends in one night:

One of my friends has borderline personality disorder. I could have guessed this but didn’t want to make assumptions.

My other friend said his greatest fantasy is to cum and take a bite of a Big Mac simultaneously. I could never have guessed this, no matter how many tries I was given.

And I just. Cant.

[lisbonsteresa]

impeccable

[biboenvivo-deactivated20190629]

[munchausenbyproxy]

shout out to the funniest tag ive ever fuckin seen

[liberalsarecool]

Billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than the working classes they exploit. #TaxTheRich

[literallyaflame]

oh??? millennials vs. gen z tiktok drama??? i think u mean "people who would've bullied me if i'd been in high school in 2010" versus "people who would bully me if i were in high school right now"

[slutforwings]

had a customer ask me ‘do you have any cookbooks for men’ and i think the saddest part was that we did

[icannotreadcursive]

Actually valid thing about this though:

I have some of my mom and grandma’s old cookbooks, mostly from the 60s and 70s. They all have dedicated sections for explaining what various cooking terms mean, how to do various things including how to measure correctly, one even talks about how/where to store different ingredients and what staples to keep in your kitchen.

The cookbooks I’ve bought in my lifetime? Don’t do that.

They assume that the people buying cookbooks are people who cook, people who already know these things, so they don’t take the time and page space to explain. The only recent cookbooks I have that bother to explain this stuff at all are a couple that are meant for children, and one that’s a Japanese cookbook for westerners that wisely doesn’t assume its readers are familiar with a whole different culture’s cooking techniques.

Now, I know we like to complain all over this website about how so many boys are simply never taught growing up how to do regular household things because they’re “women’s work” and a lot of families just have no expectation that boys do them. That includes cooking.

That means we get a lot of grown men who don’t know how to cook.

They might have a handful of foods they’ve memorized how to put together but they don’t know or understand the basics of how to function in a kitchen because they were never given the chance to learn or develop those skills.

From what I’ve seen of them, those Cookbooks For Men—in addition to having like tool metal and fire aesthetics—explain those basics, in line with the recipes if not in their own section.

So to any guys seeking that out: good for them!

Is it kinda dumb to be gendering cookbooks? Yeah. But if that opens the door a little bit for men who have been raised to be uncomfortable with the perceived femininity of cooking to learn? Then I’m glad those books are out there!

[isaacsapphire]

Yeeeeah, you also see stuff like Good Eats as more... "Male coded" in terms of audience, that assumes that the reader doesn't necessarily know much about cooking already but isn't an idiot, and gets into the Science of it.

[moral-autism]

Tangentially: I have no idea what the quality of Cooking for Geeks is as a cookbook, but its explainer sections got my partner to have a much better vocabulary for her preferences, so I’d recommend flipping through it.

[psiotechniqa]

This is why youtubers like Binging with Babish is so popular with his series “Basics with Babish” where he explains the simply from the ground up

[memecucker]

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do… research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

[memecucker]

Unless you’d consider yourself an expert on medieval history, if it feels easier to get into ‘the mind’ of an 11th century knight than it does a normal 21st century person of a different ethnicity than yours that’s not a sign of ‘being woke’ and you should ignore any weirdo twitblrs that basically wanna reskin racial Othering as a good and moral thing to uphold bc that’s what this discourse amounts to

[baseballigator]

I would much rather have white people wanting to learn about my cultures through trying to write about them than to have them be so scared of getting it less than perfect that they’d ignore them completely. And even if something is not quite right, there’s a massive difference between maliciousness and ignorance, and people treating those two as the Exact Same Bad also contributes to this othering attitude.

[qujoie]

[okiitos]

Balloon for when somebody lands in the hospital for something that was definitely their fault.

[bathroomcube]

[adultwithmuscles]

did you type in “wizard staff with orb” but the results were too feminine? or did you preemptively assume that the selection of wizard staffs with orbs would be so vast, you needed to narrow down the results to only the most manly?

[bathroomcube]

no it autofilled to that and i thought it was so funny that i needed to know what would come up

[thebibliosphere]

Is anyone else having recurrent nightmares about not wearing a mask in public? Or is that just my broken psyche processing the trauma of the last year? 😬

[thebibliosphere]

I’d say I’m glad we’re all in the same boat but god I’m really not.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thesailorsenshi]

mads mikkelsen’s firm grasp on the kaleidomoon scope proplica is the mood for today lads

[thesailorsenshi]

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

[unsettling bonelike crunching of plastic]