The Last Knight of the Crying Spire

Anonymous asked: Hey can I recommend that instead of making challah, you make a brioche? They're basically the same thing, but challah has a significant religious and spiritual meaning to the Jewish faith. Both challah and brioche are sweet eggy breads but brioche doesn't have a religious meaning. Sorry if this is rude, it's just important to me.

will-o-the-witch:

voicelessalveolartrill:

will-o-the-witch:

pieceofshir:

starlightomatic:

will-o-the-witch:

will-o-the-witch:

Whew, it’s a good thing I’m Jewish then.

This is from several years ago now and I still think about it constantly lmao

Also before anyone asks, yes you can bake challah if you’re not Jewish. Just don’t claim it’s better than what somebody’s Jewish mom makes because you will never win that battle

Also challah (the bread, not the dough-sacrificing ritual) is basically the same as other braided eggs breads in Europe, like Polish chałka and Czech vánočka. Cause Europe is where Ashkenazim picked it up, through cultural exchange.

Also all Jews know that all bread is challah when it’s Friday night and mom just didn’t have time/energy to bake the bread

That pita is now challah

So is this laffah

A baguette will work too

But fr never act like your challah is better than my mom’s bc I’ll get really violent really fast

I can’t even count how many times I’ve used regular ol’ sliced bread at Shabbat. Sweet Hawaiian Rolls are also great. 

My mom doesn’t even bake challah and I will still square up to defend her honor lmao

If goyim couldn’t make challah, then I would have been spared hearing my order at Einstein Bros described as “tchallah bread.” 😒

Gd giving me access to photoshop was a mistake

bemusedlybespectacled:

whetstonefires:

sixth-light:

coasttocoastlikebutteredtoast:

the-alexandrian-alchemist:

boyjadzia:

terminalsigma:

Sometimes I like to imagine what kinds of weird youth subcultures existed in the Byzantine empire

@the-alexandrian-alchemist

Unlike the Gladiator-loving Romans, the Byzantines were more into chariot racing (mostly because they were Christian and had banned Gladiatorial battles). Like, ridiculously into it. So into it that the fanclubs for the various racing teams became so huge, powerful, and intense in their rivalry that they could easily put any modern sport rivalry to shame. Young fans were also known to adopt trendy hairstyles (which often involved shaving a lot of the head except for bangs and side-braids, or just shaving the whole front half) based on the major nomadic cultures the Byzantines encountered, especially the Huns and Avars. These clubs became so intense in their rivalries, that they spilled over from sports into other issues, mostly politics and religion (different clubs tended to support different theological teachings and would argue about them even while cheering on their teams in the Hippodrome). All of this exploded into a giant riot in 532 CE, when a brawl between the two biggest fan clubs (The Blues and The Greens, named for the teams they supported) spiralled completely out of control and turned into a city wide riot that burned down a huge amount of Constantinople (including the original Hagia Sophia). Some political rivals of Emperor Justinian used this as an opportunity to try to launch a coup and use the riot to help them. After being persuaded to stay and face the rioters head on by his awesome wife Theodora, Justinian ordered his best general Belisarius to bring an end to the riots. Which he did. Brutally. An estimated 30,000 people were killed by Belisarius’ soldiers (in a city of roughly 500-600,000 people). And that’s why fandom rivalries are really really bad and never end well. 

I should note, all of this only applies to the Early Byzantines. I got nothing on the later Byzantines. 

To really bring the point home on just how bad ass Theodora was, the story goes that just before Justinian was ready to flee, Theodora had insisted on staying and when Justinian pointed out she might be killed, Theodora replied, “Purple is a lovely color for a burial shroud.”

Context: purple was a heinously expensive dye legally only allowed to be worn by the emperor (& empress). She was saying she would rather die as empress than live and be deposed. 

Theodora had married into the purple from humble origins and she took it seriously.

Also one thing I’ve always liked is Justinian and Theodora loudly and publicly supported opposite sports teams so everyone would feel like they were represented, and Theodora’s sports loyalties were tied into her backstory because the other team fired her dad from his bear-wrangling job when she was a kid so supposedly she still had a grudge.

@whetstonefires are you telling me emperor justinian i and empress theodora were fucking kayfabe

beardedmrbean:

great-and-small:

magicallysapphic:

shrimpy-in-wonderland:

Some Queenie fo today

i’ve never seen a mouse that looks so much like a mouse before

She looks like she belongs on the cover of a beloved illustrated children’s book 🥺

Anonymous asked:

Apparently the Target Halloween collection already dropped and sold out. Ghoulish Garden and the works. BBW released theirs this past monday (the 18th), and Home Goods is LOADED with new Halloween. At Home has a trickle. This is a WILD year for TL:P

gothiccharmschool:

I was at a Seattle-area Home Goods over the weekend and they were filling the shelves with Halloween goodies. I’m waiting for Michael’s and Joann Fabrics to launch their Halloween collections. Please oh please more spooky dark florals PLEASE.