fuckingrecipes:

Culturally, western people have a lot of focus on sweet cakes and baked goods being your dessert, but as long as you consider that thing a treat, I think it counts.  (I consider eating artichoke hearts to be dessert. They’re expensive and I love them, so it counts, so there) 

Flan is caramelized sugar and milk products

A lot of East Asian desserts use rice flour – Asian stores sell “glutinous rice”  – It doesn’t actually have gluten in it, it’s just a specific type of sweet and sticky rice. So Glutinous rice flour doesn’t actually have gluten – it’s named ‘Glutinous’ because it is glue-like and sticky and opaque white.  

Which means you can have all sorts of east Asian rice-flour desserts. 
Mochi, rice flour chocolate cupcakes… 
As well as anything primarily fruit, cream, and syrup-based. 
Or rice flour pancakes, and drown them in maple syrup and pecans or strawberries. 
or Carioca
Sweet rice pudding. 

Corn normally doesn’t have the type of gluten that bothers celiacs, so that opens up ALL SORTS of South American and Mexican desserts. 
Plus just… straight up, normal cornbread is gluten-free. 

Chocolate pudding. 
A billion variations of cream cheese spread to go on fruit, rice crackers, other cheese, bits of meat, etc. 

I feel like a lot of people, when they realize they need a special diet, try to keep their original diet with ‘replacement’ or ‘substitute’ parts. 

Like a new vegetarian asking “Which vegetable is the meat?” There is no meat. You don’t need to eat faux-turkey or faux-steak – your meal will be SO much better without leaning on the ghost of what-could-be. – Enjoy what is open to you, luxuriate in the billions of flavors you can have. Removing gluten really hasn’t removed THAT many options, out of the INNUMERABLE HOARDE OF FOOD ITEMS AVAILABLE. 

Just… try desserts that naturally don’t have gluten. There are TONS. TONS AND TONS AND TONS. 

Don’t try to limit yourself to “Fake cookies” and just because cookies are familiar. 

Gluten-free brownies are usually good.

For simple cookies, mix one cup peanut butter, one cup sugar, one egg, and one teaspoon vanilla, form into inch-wide balls, smush gently into cookie shape with a fork, and bake at about 325 degrees for around 12 minutes. You can also add chocolate chips or other mix-ins and bake for more like 15 minutes. The cookies are very soft when first baked and then firm up, and you’d never guess they only have the four ingredients.

aegipan-omnicorn:

exigetspersonal:

This is not a joke. I was at a premier showing tonight, and my immediate thought was how disasterously unsafe this movie is for my photosensitive epilepic friends. @markingatlightspeed I’m tagging you with this specifically because this would be extremely dangerous for you to watch.

There are multiple scenes in this movie with full-screen, black-and-white flashing strobe effects. They all happen without warning, and last anywhere between a few seconds to more than two minutes. In a darkened movie theater, this means the likelihood of a seizure could be VERY HIGH if you are sensitive to these effects.

If you have photosensitive epilepsy or another disorder that is triggered by strobe lights, I would highly recommend you DO NOT SEE THE INCREDIBLES 2 IN THEATERS. Wait until the movie’s released on digital/Bluray, and you can watch it in a fully-lit room, with someone with you who will be able to help if the strobe effects do trigger a seizure.

Please stay safe.

Signal boost.

Why do filmmakers do this – especially in a wide-release movie marketed to kids? It’s fairly well known that strobe effects can cause seizures. There is no reason for them to be ignorant on this point.

If this isn’t something you learn in your first year at film school, it should be.

If they’re relying on strobe effects to make a scene “exciting,” then the screenplay is weak.

In this movie, the strobe stuff is (minorish spoilers below) 

Because of a villain who hypnotizes people with the ‘classic’ black-and-white spiral patterns and flashing lights on screens. There are several scenes where the effect is meant to be sort of an all-consuming thing, filling the entire movie screen, as if attempting to hypnotize the audience. It’s very dramatic, very effective, and perfectly fits the aesthetic. I’m not sure they could have gotten the same effect without the strobe effects. 

Basically, look away when emphasis is made of a screen, and in the scene where glasses are seen in a room of the villain’s hideout.

I hope they at least tried. And they should really have put a warning in somewhere, actually embedded into the footage. The theater I go to put a sign on the door, but there’s no warning actually attached to the film that would be unavoidably seen.