we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!! we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!
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De Mi Rancho A Tu Cocina: an abuela from Michuacán shows you how to make DELICIOUS rancho food and occasionally shows you scenes from around the rancho.
Doña Lupita: Another abuela, this time from Guerrero, making incredible-looking food over a comal
Simply Mamá Cooks: Tejano woman with a Korean-American husband makes recipes from both cultures, great for classic easy-to-make weeknight comfort food recipes, too
Li Ziqi: a real-life Disney princess from Sichuan who shows you how to make sauce with duck egg yolks, starting with hatching the ducks that lay the eggs
Dianxi Ziaoge: another Chinese farm girl, she shows you her idyllic life in rural Yunnan as she makes food with her HUGE RIDICULOUS FUFFYBOI, Dawang, often joining her on adventures
Wild Girl: Yet another Chinese farm girl, this time from Guizhou, who has a little bit more of an emphasis on cooking with food foraged from her gorgeous surroundings
Catch The Sea Official: A young woman living in the fishing city of Rizhao, foraging her own seafood and then cooking it up. I could watch her squeeze the water out of cat’s eye turban snails all day.
Am Thuc Me Lam: A son who videos his mother farming and cooking in rural Vietnam
Traditional Me: Young woman in rural Sri Lanka lives with her grandmother and brother, makes incredible looking food set to jaunty music with lush scenery
Village Cooking Channel: Five VERY ENTHUSIASTIC Tamil men make large batches of food for their local old age home.
Veg Village Food: Punjabi Sikh granny makes huge batches of vegetarian food for local needy children.
Desi Food Recipes: Soothing Indian granny shows you how to make classic Desi dishes in non-giant size proportions
Maangchi: The Julia Child of Korean food, everyone fucking loves Maangchi
Jun’s Kitchen: Japanese guy makes food with his cats, what’s not to love?
Stove Top Kisses: Southern soul food served up with a fun, bubbly personality
I’ve done some Twitter threads on this topic, so thought it might be nice to do a Tumblr post too. One of my pet peeves is when people act like adult fantasy (or sci-fi for that matter) is just a straight white dude thing and that diversity only exists in young adult fantasy. That’s such a disservice to all the authors of marginalized identities currently writing adult fantasy!
Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics.
EDIT: TERFS CAN FUCK OFF!!! I would think you absolute vile pieces of human garbage would be able to recognize when a post is trans inclusive but apparently I have to publicly tell you to get off my fucking post. I hope all of you die in a ditch.
Edit 6/26/20: I no longer recommend The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear.
So I don’t go off about it here as much as I do on Twitter, but fantasy food is My Passion and I really wanted to make something to explain why alsjdfjs
Always found it really cool how culture and environment reflect a country’s cuisine in real life, and how this can be applied in fantasy too! Tamriel’s pretty diverse, so I thought it’d be cool to take a common dish (bread, in this case) and showcase how different it is throughout the provinces! Some tidbits are based on lore/in game texts (what I could gather, that is) though most of it is just headcanon, haha
