#alliluyevas

[medievalcat]

tagged by @alliluyevas to post 9 movies I'm looking forward to watching in 2025! (thank you!)

these are recent movies I didn't get to see yet, or upcoming movies that aren't out yet. Wish I could put Saw XI on here but I've heard a lot of rumors it's not going to be out this year if at all so. even so it looks like it should be an eventful year for horror.

tagging @helpedhim @afoxnamedmulder @sonjabysonjamorgan @thewritingpossum @vampiregirls @barbreypilled and anyone else :)

[hylialeia]

top five hotd scenes!

5. "he has his father's nose" I think about the gifs with the zoom ins every day actually. engrained in my head

4. Alicent's first green dress slay + "congratulations stepdaughter". reader I gasped

3. Larys's fuck them kids monologue over his kinslaying reveal. Sick foreshadowing

2. Aemond and Luke's "fight" at Storm's End, the storm and the horror, the fear and the hubris. dragon ouroboros dragon ouroboros !

1. Viserys entering and walking up to the throne by himself, in excruciating pain, to defend Rhaenyra, his crown falling, and Daemon picking it up and placing it back on his head. they really WERE serving Targaryen realness

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

one minute you’re casually discussing war and peace with @alliluyevas and the next you wake up several years later absolutely obsessed by congressional testimony on the mountain meadows massacre. this is the Tolstoy to early Mormon history pipeline and it has a name

[translannisters]

Where did Julia @alliluyevas go 🥺

[swordmaid]

☕️ Catelyn Stark!

i love her, and anyone who is ever critical of her but makes lengthy posts justifying any of randyll tarly’s action deserves electric chair

[glorianas]

EF wanna see how fast we can do one of the biggest most complex legal debates in the 16th century?

us: well not really

EF: well ur going to

[mariacallous]

do you have any recs for Italian cookbooks? I know you don't like tomatoes and I do so our tastes might be different but I still value your ideas. Most of the Italian cooking I've done is out of my mom's Marcella Hazan which I'm considering just getting my own copy of.

Aww, I appreciate that, thank you!

Marcella Hazan would be one of the sources I would recommend you go to for Italian cooking - she’s the font from which so much inspiration and motivation for Italian cooking (and genuine Italian cooking) comes from.

I’m going to be obvious and mention Elizabeth David just because I know her books so well - A Book of Mediterranean Food and Italian Food are the two in particular of hers that I would recommend. She goes into historical as well as contemporary recipes and dives into a lot of fascinating aspects of the cooking, and I think she’s fun to read but I am also a bit weird so there’s that too.

For someone who is just as authoritative and solid on Italian cooking and Italian food as Marcella Hazan, you should also go to Anna Del Conte. She was equally as instrumental as Marcella in bringing about and expanding on Italian cooking to Britain and sometimes gets overshadowed I feel. I own her Gastronomy of Italy and her Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food and both were amazing reads.  It is really hard to locate, but her Entertaining All’Italiana is supposed to be almost transcendently good, and she has several others covering a range of different aspects of Italian cooking.

I don’t think I’ve ever read any of her books, but I’ve seen Katie Parla in a few different cooking videos and her book Food of the Italian South is one I’ve been keeping on my “to-buy list” for a while now, and I know she’s written others. In her presentation and manner she’s really straightforward and relaxed and just really enjoyable to watch, and I would think that would be seen in her writing.

It’s been ages since I’ve read one of her cookbooks, but Lidia Bastianich is another invaluable source for Italian cooking. I think her initial book was Lidia’s Italian Table, and she’s also gone the Mastering the Art of [x] route, with hers of course being Mastering the Art of Italian Cooking.

I am going to go back to being predictable and mention Nigella, She Who Can Do No Wrong In My Eyes. She’s not going to be as “authentic” as the others listed here, but she is “authentically good” and she tries to capture and retain the flavors and inspirations of Italian cooking. Nigellissima is her Italian-themed cookbook (along with the TV series based on it, which wasn’t as popular and I have several theories as to why there was a shift in how Nigella was perceived and discussed separate from but also influenced by or overlapping with the divorce and drug use allegations but that’s an entirely different topic) but literally any of her cookbooks will have some kind of Italianate recipe, because she absolutely loves Italy and is close friends with/ was mentored and inspired by Anna Del Conte.

Another one I have yet to read BUT I know is good and recommended (from people like Elizabeth David to Max at Tasting History) is Bartolomeo Scappi’s  Opera dell'arte del cucinare from the 16th century.

[heckofabecca]

top five canonical jewish characters and top five obscure background characters

Sooo I don’t actually consume a lot of media with Jewish characters? Mostly because I’m not good at reading new things! (Did I answer this question mostly by scrolling through a wikipedia list of fiction Jews? Yes.)

1. Magneto, from Marvel

2. Fran Fine, from The Nanny

3. Jake Peralta, from Brooklyn 99

4. Wise Men of Chelm, from... folklore? Chelm?

5. Tevye the Milkman, from Sholom Aleichem

ahahaha. You know me very very well.

1. Lothíriel of Dol Amroth, from LOTR

2-4. Théoden’s unnamed sisters, from LOTR

5. Amrothos of Dol Amroth, also from LOTR because I am eminently predictable :)

send me my top 5 anything!