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Even if you aren't something like a parent or guardian, if you are in their presence younger people will look to you to lead by example (whether you want them to or not), they'll look to you when they're frightened or worried, they'll look to you as a walking image of potential futures

No one is "obligated" to be a shining example for kids, but you have the ability to extend and spread kindness, to provide protection or comfort, to give the idea that someone like you (or them) can lead a life worth living

1. Promise everything.

2. Piss off everyone.

3. Deliver nothing.

I know the general tendency is to assume that any androgynous character = male or he/him pronouns but to me the smiley face from the official smiley brand is a middle aged woman and i feel like i need to get this out there

Sure, here's my disorganized recipe from hell, cobbled together from various websites and experiments. I just realized that I pasted the caramel and pastry cream in the wrong order... It's easier if you make the pastry cream first and clean that pot for the caramel. I'm on mobile. Will fix.

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1 box white cake mix, using egg whites. Bake. Flip onto a wire rack.

2/3 box spice cake mix (save the rest to turn into batter later, or portion the batter and bake it on the side.) I add extra allspice. Bake in previous pan.

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Caramel Ganache (kinda):

1 cup granulated sugar

⅓ cup butter, salted or unsalted

White chocolate and hot milk ganache (pre-prepare or don't; pour hot milk over the chocolate and stir until thick but fluid consistency. Use the same method over dark chocolate to make a separate, thicker ganache for later).

Heat until fully melted and amber, without burning. People say don't stir the sugar; I don't think it matters much for a cake like this and I stir it to help it melt faster after it has started.

Add the butter pieces and stir until smooth. It's gonna look scary. Just keep going.

Add the white chocolate ganache until reaching desired consistency. This is done now. Transfer to a holding container and immediately wash your pot. Filling the pot with water and letting the leftover scuz simmer on low helps.

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Pastry Cream (it's just custard with butter, apparently) (ALSO NOTE: I never have a ton unless I make a thin tall cake, but this amount offers an appropriate texture. Maybe double this exclusively if you can make it look pretty. IMO, I'd turn this into a mousse to stabilize it, but I haven't. Spicetrekkers Walnut Espresso Blondie has a good custard->mousse setup.)

▢ 2 cups whole milk

▢ ¼ cup granulated sugar

▢ 1 large egg

▢ 2 large egg yolks

▢ ¼ cup cornstarch

▢ ⅓ cup granulated sugar

▢ 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or vanilla bean, split open, to add to the milk during heating)

In a medium saucepan, combine milk and granulated sugar. Gentle simmer/steam. Do not boil.

Whisk together 1 large egg, 2 large egg yolks, ¼ cup cornstarch, and ⅓ cup granulated sugar in a mixing bowl until smooth and pale.

Slowly pour about half of the hot milk into the egg mixture in a steady stream, whisking constantly to temper the eggs and prevent curdling.

Immediately pour the tempered egg mixture back into the saucepan. Return to medium heat and whisk constantly until the mixture thickens and begins to bubble, about 2 to 3 minutes.

Remove from heat. Stir in 2 tablespoons unsalted butter and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract until fully melted and incorporated.

Transfer the pastry cream to a clean bowl. Press plastic wrap directly onto the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate until completely chilled (can use freezer initially, if you want).

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Layer as per image. Layer as follows:

Spice cake → Caramel ganache → White cake → Plain pastry cream → Pastry cream with add-ins → Dark chocolate ganache with oreos if you want it that way → Crushed biscoff cookies

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It is very reminiscent of a typical Southern dump-cake, but if you organized it. It's fun. With work, it could be kind of classy?

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

What position does the character hold in the story? What's their background? What is this character meant to represent? To give you an example of a character i ultimately chose not to racebend, engineer from tf2 canonically has a long family line tied to the privilege of working as the head engineer for mannco - meaning both wealth and respectability-, grew up on a ranch [thus meaning his family are also landowners], had the money and free time to attend university for multiple phds In The Fifties, and the stereotype associated with him is that of the idealised cowboy, which is a very white ideal. This obviously doesn't actually dictate anything in the real world or even for a character, poc obviously can be wealthy and powerful, but it's what engie represents: a long line of white landowners getting their money in a not so clean way. The metaphor is a key detail for me

What about the character could be bent in the angle of a nonwhite redesign? This is the same as understanding the background of the character, and also includes understanding their personality. I often make characters mixed race when doing racebends because- well. It's half because I'm mixed and biased but also because often conflict with identity and one's place in the world lends itself really well to a mixed race narrative.

Where are they from? When doing racebends, i like the chosen identity to make sense geographically because I'm Really Annoying about little details. I'll research, as an example, the most common immigrant groups in an area, what indigenous tribe is from where, etc etc. When making Heavy Evenki, i researched ethnic groups found in Russia and Siberia and chose based on where he was born.

Understanding the treatment of these groups in the places they're from and the history behind it is also really important. What I'm saying here basically boils down to Do A Lot Of Research, not only because it helps you to better understand what you're writing but because it's worth it to understand the world around you. Half the reason i do racebends is because i enjoy having an excuse to learn more about the history of people like me in other places. It doesn't hurt to be educated even for something frivolous