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the pain of seeing nona be raised by cam, pal, and pyrrha in a gentle, loving way and then having it contrasted by kiriona- who glibly says that her dad made her skin impenetrable and left speed holes in her body. the whiplash of spending a good portion of the book wondering if nona could maybe be gideon and/or harrow if given a proper warm upbringing, to then be faced with kiriona at her lowest, most bitter and (in her eyes) unloved self!!!!
i think they should put doctor who in the public domain and let us all start taking cracks at it on youtube
my favorite thing about louis is he's a business major in a world of theater kids. everyone's playing psychological games with each other through theater and rock music and the fractured art of storytelling and he's like "but what are the margins on my vampire hotel"
It’s so fucking bananas that the last straw for Lestat in that meeting was finding out that Louis was getting 45% of merch profits on his tour. What kind of joker ass motherfucker becomes an investor in their ex’s crash out??? Louis Du Pointe Du Lac no one ever did it like you
the ruler is hosting festivities in the capital while the nation collapses, and heretics have caused a schism in the catholic church. i love living in the middle ages.
we even have a The Plague
Google show me weird perverted knitting patterns. Knitting patterns for masochists. Weird unsettling unnecessarily complex knitting charts. Hey google give me freak knitting ideas. Creepy sweater pattern colorwork free pdf download.
australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore
oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe
WHAT
A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.
US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing
I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.
My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.
They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.
"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.
At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."
I wonder if that’s part of the reason behind my seeing an upswing in products adding corn starch or corn flour to things that didn’t have those before? <- rhetorical question, because I’m certain that’s what’s going on.
Okay, but this is such a fish of, "So, are you two...together?" with Maura laying down a, "Not yet, but I'm trying!" I swear.
not to say bridgerton is s miracle of modern cinema. but why isnt a single gay regency good
notes on things about queer regencies that are bad and ponderings upon the regency genre as a concept: 1. i think like a decent amount of romances written today they fall prey to the Therapy Is Sexy attitude that no amount of historical trapping will ever make not jarring. relatedly. its not enough to say 'homosexual' you do actually have to research historical understandings of sexuality and queer culture i think. 2. and related to this you have to let your principals be monumental asses to each other.its like some of you bavent read pride and prejudice seriously. which 3. hm well not to say your characters have to adapt fully the sentiments of the period but like they should exist as background u know? 4. this one is maybe more controversial also but you need to have charavters that arent the two mcs and maybe a younger sibling. who will personify the scanadalized ton in a vacuum BOOOORING u r all boring. 5. im that one friend thats too shakespeare but like i think many regency novels would be improved if the authors framed them less like a romance plus cravats and more like a comedy of manners. plus cravats also lol. but i think inchresting how the genre of regency has lost this framing so quickly ?? put more social commentary and negotation back in the regency novel. this is also why 6. and this one is. definitely personal but idk if its possible to untangle regency romance from an ending of marriage/working everyone back around to an acceptable normative uninterrupted society. to me that narrative of conservative restabilization is kind of at the root of it for better or worse. not that it cant be done but i cant quite see my way to it
My hypothesis (or rather, the hypothesis we keep coming back to in my research group) is that romantasy has replaced the Regency romance because you can do all the ballrooms and aristocracy and rigid social rules without having to grapple with The Empire of It All and also The Cisheteropatriarchy, which is valid but also shows a distinct lack of imagination. I do think another significant part is an inability to divorce (pun intended) the idea of the Happily Ever After from monogamous marriage, but also I suspect a lot of people enjoyed Bridgerton but then did not get good recs for reading Regency romance and were turned off by what they read (such as the Bridgerton books, which are not at all what I would recommend to someone new to the genre in 2020). There are definitely authors who were doing funky stuff with the genre but you had to know what to look for!
I've enjoyed Cat Sebastian's queer Regencies, The Ruin of a Rake really leans in to how artificial the strictures of Manners are and she has some interesting thoughts about class she keeps coming back to. (Unfortunately there is an unforgivable dearth of f/f Regencies and the ones I have read really did not do it for me.)
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Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.
He does so to dodge the draft
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I accidentally did a Wikipedia binge about 1st wave feminism and fashion and stumbled upon the 1890s bicycle suit. Do people know about this? Why didn't anyone tell me about this? This is dope as hell.
It's old-fashioned. It's modern. It's butch. It's femme. It's snazzy. It's practical.
Wikipedia talks about the bloomers and the leg-o-mutton sleeves, but I'm also noticing a lot of these outfits have absolute supervillain lapels, which I also like a lot.
love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.
*street shot of zohran mamdani clad in nasty lil suit and hard hat* five months ago i was elected mayor of new york city. in that time, we have managed to COMPLETELY defeat the Staten Island Minotaur at no additional cost to the new york taxpayer
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npr ran a story this morning on air about the recent supreme court ruling in favor of trans youth sports bans, a ruling that specifies trans girls in particular and allows even public schools in red states to do whatever kind of exclusionary policy they want. and for this story they interviewed two people: a teenage trans boy in massachusetts who participates in tons of school sports, and an activist trans man in nyc who runs a nonprofit for trans youth. I'm not saying that either of these people have absolutely nothing pertinent to say about trans youth issues, but the teenager from MA mostly spoke about how lucky *he* is to participate in sports and the activist from NYC spent the entire interview plugging the book he wrote while barely answering a single question. The activist guy mentioned that he actually has spoken to the west virginian trans girl who was part of the case, but only to say how proud/sad he is to watch her become an activist "just like him".
not to be a critic, but its crazy to me that they could not speak either TO or ABOUT the people affected by this ruling (trans girls in conservative areas) at all. a combination of transmisogyny and shitty reporting means that the takeaway from that segment seemed to be "well, it sucks, but at least blue states are still allowed to be accepting of trans youth" rather than the very real attempts to eradicate trans people from public life or the very real possibility of violent retaliation against trans girls in these states.
during the activist's interview, the radio host asked him if he could quickly dispel some of the myths around trans youth in sports somehow being unfair to cis youth, and his response was to awkwardly shrug off the question and say that the answer is simply too "complicated and nuanced" to give a short soundbite on air about. are you fucking kidding me? live on WNYC with about 1 million weekly listeners, and you can't just say with your whole chest that trans girls belong in girls sports because they are girls too? come on
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