Confessions of a Bookaholic: My reading blog

[lonelydrinkinggames]

HGTV's House Hunters/House Hunters International Drinking Game

Take one drink when: - It’s a city where you’d never want to live - A couple has completely opposite wish lists OR a single buyer contradicts their own wish list - A property is more than $100,000 over-budget when buying or $1,000/month over-budget when renting -Take another two drinks if the realtor then calls it just “slightly over budget” - The buyer complains about something cosmetic as though it can’t be easily fixed (namely: paint color) - “Open concept floor plan” - “Rustic charm” - “I don’t even know if my bed will fit in here” - “Stainless steel appliances” - The buyers are seen doing an obviously staged activity (eating crepes in France, eating lobster in Maine, riding in a stupidly nice car that you’ll never be able to afford let alone the mansions that they’ve been touring and whining about, etc) - A couple seems doomed for divorce

Chug for the duration of: - A realtor complaining about a buyer’s unrealistic needs/behavior

Finish your drink if: - The buyer chooses the property you absolutely never would’ve guessed in a million years

[bluejayreads]

- We don’t know the language and haven’t attempted to learn despite us claiming moving here has been a long time dream, but we’ll start taking classes as soon as we buy a place. - We moved to the islands because we want a slow and relaxed lifestyle. Everyday will be a vacation! - What do you mean we can’t have full size American appliances in this tiny French apartment? - We need a lot of entertainment space for the friends we don’t have yet.

[celloface]

The fact that Jane wrote the Scarlet quiz she wants to base her life decisions on only makes it weirder… Like, why not just think about it and decide at that point, if you’re using logic you created and just happened to shape into the form of a quiz?

[bluejayreads]

Also the fact that Sutton failed the quiz shows that you should probably not base decisions off of quizzes since Sutton was a great roommate for her. Since it asks basic questions that potential roommates should discuss like cleanliness I think it’s fine to use as an ice breaker to see how common your lifestyle is with certain things though. But not be the main deciding factor

[outofcontextarthur]

wait mr ratburn is gay? i never considered this but honestly?? i feel like it makes sense.. i never paid much attention to him tho except i remember he made puppets??.. but i wanna hear ur reasoning i want to believe this

all the reasoning u need is right here:

this was mr ratburn in his youth. you see this? straight men cant do this. case CLOSED

[autisticsquidward]

a prophecy

[bluejayreads]

Why did no one tell me that Arthur is still airing? I assumed PBS Kids just played reruns. Does Clifford have new episodes to?

[teamcocroach]

okay not even gonna lie i know jane has her problematic moments, but sometimes i feel like when kat and sutton snap on people y’all are like YAAAAS QUEEN GO OFF but when Jane does it, y’all are like “jane just honestly does not understand her place and she’s annoying and also i hate her” like?????

[showmethebeautiful-deactivated2]

That’s because Kat and Sutton go off someone in a rare moment of frustration. Jane goes off on someone at least once, every episode.

[soothsaying]

and she doesn’t seem to learn that going off on people/being quick to judge isn’t a good thing

[bluejayreads]

Also Jane has done some really dumb, unprofessional things and then gets surprised when there are consequences. Like the boss drinking game thing between her, Kat, and Sutton. Why would she do that via company email? Wouldn’t it be easier to text. Texting is where you vent about a boss or employee you don’t like, not company email. Also I get why she doesn’t like Patrick. He’s annoying and also does a lot of unprofessional stuff but if she wants to keep her job and write what she wants she can’t be a jerk to him.

[ashes-and-embers]

One of my favourite hobbies is giving extra firm handshakes to straight men to assert my dominance

[bluejayreads]

Can I get lessons from you? I want to intimidate straight men.

[maiselous]

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is funny because the Jewish women are exactly how John Mulaney described them.

[thatlittleweird]

I want John Mulaney to be in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and just play himself

[bluejayreads]

Add to the immortal John Mulaney conspiracy.

[jai-makes-music]

[yugirimistwalker]

this is the last year that we can make this stupid joke so im going to make the most of it and post it every day until 2020

[bluejayreads]

Bold of you to assume I won’t be making this joke in 2020 when people ask me what I’m doing at the moment.

[bluejayreads]

Since we agree that John Mulaney has the voice of a 1930s radio announcer and the appearance of a 1950s dad, can he make an appearance as a comedian on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?

[probablybard]

modern greek mythology adaptation where hades and persephone are played by john mulaney and his wife

[proseandpeonies]

She’s hades, he’s Persephone

[honey-sunny-bee]

Oh no, no. John Mulaney is 100% Hades.

Loves his wife

Is actually pretty chill except when it comes to stupid people

Can’t stand up for himself when others try to do him wrong

[hearthburn]

And from what we hear about her, she’s very Persephone.

Easy to underestimate

Knows her own mind

Will cut you

[appendingfic]

“So, I meet this wonderful lady. Just fantastic, my heart does that thing where it’s skipping beats, and I - all of you think I’m going to talk about how I suavely asked her out, and that is not what happened. 

“I ride up in my chariot, and the first - this is literally the first thing I say to her is ‘do you want to meet my dog’?

“And this - I - this is a sign that this woman is my soul mate - she looks at her friends hanging around and says, ‘sure, catch you later, guys’.

“I’m going to skip forward here a couple of dates - no, don’t - this is not the story of how my wife met my dog - and her mom - her mom - finds out she’s seeing me. Now I know everyone jokes about how a girl’s dad is this big, hulking - going to hunt you down if you’re dating his daughter and he doesn’t like you. But if you say that, it’s because you’ve never had some girl’s mom glaring up at you from like - her mom’s like two inches taller than her, so this little furious glare from around my chin area, saying her daughter’s not allowed to come see me anymore.

“And this - okay, this is when I knew I was going to marry this girl, she looks at her mom and, cool as anything, says, ‘Too late, mom. I met his dog, ate dinner over here. I’m staying’.”

[alexandragrace]

WAIT…so does that mean….Petunia is Cerberus?

[choirofthecosmos-deactivated201]

FUCKING YES!!

[corvidae-gorgon]

@peculiar-persephone 😭😭

[peculiar-persephone]

Oh my god I’m crying 😭😭😭

[bluejayreads]

Plus have you seen Annmarie Tendler in florals and crowns? Beautiful

[stevencharleston]

Report: White Man in Local College Class Will Not Shut the Fuck Up

[stevencharleston]

i really enjoy looking at the tags on this post

[20-million-bees]

Some of my favorites:

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Okay… to those who watch Mrs. Maisel… am I the only one that wants Lenny Bruce and Midge to get together?

[bluejayreads]

I’m so conflicted. Because on one hand I want them to get together and I think she has the best scenes and most chemistry with Lenny and that he understands her in ways others don’t. On the other hand I love so much what they have now, as friends and equals and peers going through a similar situation that I’m afraid their relationship becoming a romance would ruin that. I think the writers are talented but I don’t know if I fully trust them to pull it off.

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

See… I don’t really think there is a friendship, not in a conventional sense. Because even though they are technically just friends, there is that underlying chemistry that automatically makes it more than just a friendship already

[bluejayreads]

hmm good point. at this point is he divorced from Honey since he sang that all alone song? 

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Okay… to those who watch Mrs. Maisel… am I the only one that wants Lenny Bruce and Midge to get together?

[bluejayreads]

I’m so conflicted. Because on one hand I want them to get together and I think she has the best scenes and most chemistry with Lenny and that he understands her in ways others don’t. On the other hand I love so much what they have now, as friends and equals and peers going through a similar situation that I’m afraid their relationship becoming a romance would ruin that. I think the writers are talented but I don’t know if I fully trust them to pull it off.

[diamondcitydarlin]

can mrs. maisel, as a show, stop treating Joel like god’s gift to women pls 

there is absolutely no reason for women to be flocking to him like they do fucking hell. on a shallow level he’s not v attractive (I know people have different tastes but he’s not the conventional greek god levels of attractiveness that would warrant that kind of attention sorry) he has a horrible personality being both entitled and rude, apart from his dad’s check he’s not swimming in money nor is he especially successful. he’s awful. AWWWFUL. Can we be done with him? DEAR GOD CAN WE BE DONE WITH HIM??

If we must have Midge with someone there are literally thousands of better options; Susie, Lenny, Benjamin, hell why not Shy? 

Fucking hell I hate Joel and his storylines have been irrelevant and boring and he has done literally nothing to warrant coming back into Midge’s life. FCUUUK. 

[bluejayreads]

A relationship with Shy would actually be really interesting since it’s the 50s and it would be an interracial relationship. I think she has great chemistry with Lenny though, whether romantic or platonic. They totally stan each other.

[bluejayreads]

Ok but Ben already said he was fine with tours and supported her career as a comedian. Why did she go back to Joel? Ben would have been fine waiting 6 months to get married. After the whole thing trial he went through with her father, waiting is not that big of a deal as long as he knows she’s still interested. He knows that she’s amazing and gonna make it big and unlike Joel he doesn’t feel threatened by that. I understand there is lingering feelings but Joel still isn’t good enough for her. She didn’t even bother talking it over with Ben. He doesn’t want some housewife that makes jello molds, he likes her for her. She decided it wasn’t gonna work even before Lenny’s whole thing about being lonely forever.

[bluejayreads]

I know companies collect data on us to show ads relevant to our interests/search history blah blah, but I just got my period and I’m getting Instagram ads about periods.

[bluejayreads]

Woah a couple on House Hunters didn’t pick one of the three houses and decided to keep looking and bought another house instead. I didn’t realize that was allowed. Plot twist