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swingprince replied to your photo “I’m focacciaing it up!  This is actually a half recipe (I know it...”

Looks SO SO tasty! Just want to tear it apart and dip it in semi-melted garlic butter before eating it!

I’ve been dunking it in pizza sauce :D 

xjust-another-marvel-fangirlx replied to your photo “I’m focacciaing it up!  This is actually a half recipe (I know it...”

Breakfast burger???? Is this an American thing because I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing here in the uk... if it was I would have definitely be having burgers for breakfast by now.

Nah, it’s not an American thing either, but I’ll let you in on a secret: you can have a breakfast hamburger anyway. :D You just need to eat a hamburger for breakfast and boom: breakfast hamburger. (There are a few places in Chicago that will serve you a burger for breakfast, but they’ll still look at you a little weird.)

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What do you think Lupin's attraction may have been towards Tonks? Surely if they got married and had Teddy, then there he had to have found her adorable/beautiful and wife material. What do you think?

I think he found her adorable, beautiful, and wife material. c;

To get into the nitty-gritty, though, I’ll break it down into a couple of topics:

Remus, so often melancholy and lonely, was first amused, then impressed, then seriously smitten by the young witch. 

What a revealing little quote. It suggests that what Remus values in Tonks from the start is her vibrancy. And by that, I mean the literal spark of her personality. Tonks is, to Remus, the pleasant bite of cinnamon gum, or that surreal moment in time where you watch the beams of sunlight through foggy trees. Remus is described as shabby, graying, tired. His pottermore illustrations are actually a good way to show the dynamic with Remus and Tonks: Remus is dressed in simple browns and muted shades. But Tonks is royal purple, a splash of pink, a drop of yellow. Tonks is a sunflower bathed in daylight, and she is blinding to someone like Remus who has lived for so long in the dark.

But Tonks is also very human, and she’s cute, and clumsy, and has probably struggled to pronounce “cinnamon” and “amoeba” and “anemone” just for fun. Tonks isn’t afraid to laugh at herself. But she also gets embarrassed, too. Tonks has hates and fears and pains, and where Remus hides who he is and what he feels, Tonks’ very appearance changes in response to her emotions. She lives like water, riding her emotions out like waves and being unafraid of the tide. Remus respects this about her, because this is one of her strongest traits. Tonks is unashamed of who she is, and she has been put down for being different just like Remus has but still flaunts her bubblegum pink hair because damn it, the world isn’t going to take her down. She is undefeated in ways that Remus is not. She is brave in ways that Remus is not. And she’s also immensely intelligent, a talented witch, and an Auror to boot. To someone like Remus, who lives in this isolated little shadow, Tonks is this incredible figure of inner strength and compassion for others, and he respects these things about her most.

But Tonks is also a little goofball, and he makes Remus laugh. And Remus hasn’t had a good laugh in years, okay, so when he actually coughs up his drink in the kitchen of Grimmauld place and Sirius is patting his back and asking him if he’s going to live, Remus is actually really impressed. Tonks tells dirty jokes right up there with the rest of them, wise-cracking and having a good time, and Remus feels relaxed around her.

She also doesn’t pity Remus. Actually, she reminds him that he shouldn’t pity himself either. She doesn’t put up with Remus “pity party” Lupin, i.e. “You’d know perfectly well who I’d fallen for if you weren’t so busy feeling sorry for yourself.” She’s patient with him, though, and she doesn’t ask about lycanthropy just to sate her curiosity. She does it because she’s actually interested in him and his life, how it affects him, and what she can do to help. She reaches out to him like a friend, like James and Sirius did, and Remus finds her capacity for compassion and her ferocity in battle to be these conflicting notions, and yet both perfectly in sync somehow inside this young woman who literally brightens up the room.

And of course Remus found her pretty. Beautiful, if he’s honest, and he told her so once they were together. But the thing with Tonks is that she could choose to look any which way, and she chooses to be herself. She has bright pink hair just for fun, because she likes it. She’s not tall, or thin, she’s not “perfect.” Tonks has imperfections, and she keeps them there because she--what, likes them, maybe? Or simply because they’re part of who she is, and she wouldn’t change them. Maybe she has one foot that’s longer than the other a little, and one shoe always had to be charmed to be a bit bigger. Or maybe she’s got knobbly knees, or crooked knuckles, or a tooth that kind of sticks out when she smiles. But Tonks smiles anyway, and who cares about her feet?

These were the things that really made Remus stop and think, and he spent a lot of time in awe of her. It’s no wonder he fell for her, really. She was his opposite in all these obvious ways, and that’s exactly why he was drawn to her. She saw in him all the things he had never let himself be, and he saw in her all the things that made him believe in hope again. Tonks is the person who, just by being her insecure, clumsy, compassionate, brave self, was able to sort of bring the color back into Remus’ gray world, and it would have been like coming out of a depression: all of a sudden he can taste his food, he can see the green of the trees, he can smell the grass... not literally, of course, but still.

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ifiknewiwouldtellyou replied to your post “This is notepad.exe erasure”

I don't see "multiple scraps of paper, napkins, and receipts that must be pieced together five years later when you find them while moving"

I think that makes you the DM. :D 

needsmorecrazy replied to your post “SAM. SAM. SAM. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. I CAN'T LINK THINGS IN AN ASK...”

i need this and need this NOW i don't care if they have to film it over zoom in their prospective kitchens and eliot's hair is actually a mop on top of his head I NEED THIS!

Honstly I’d pay cash dollars to see Christian Kane play Eliot in a wig fashioned from a mop. I was never even fond of the long hair, I much prefer it when he wore it short, but I know that Eliot’s Hair is extremely important to fandom and it did reach a certain peak of gloriousness that has rarely been rivaled in television history. 

arukou-arukou replied to your photo “ALL. THE. CRISPS. @underanothername let me know there was a large...”

I don't know why I'm so suspicious of the Lamington crisps, but I absolutely am.

kholden83 replied to your photo “ALL. THE. CRISPS. @underanothername let me know there was a large...”

@arukou-arukou​ because lamingtons are cake? Which is a weird thing for chips to be flavoured with. I don't recall seeing those ones in stores, but I wouldn't have bought them anyway because I don't like coconut

bluroux replied to your photo “ALL. THE. CRISPS. @underanothername let me know there was a large...”

I have heard from several Aussies and a few Kiwis that the Lamington crisps are an abomination, and proof that Australia has gone very, very wrong somewhere along the line...

I love this whole exchange but I feel compelled to add also that as a flavor it’s very confusing to Americans, who have generally not encountered a lamington. I don’t know if Aussies are aware of this but lamingtons look a little like small dark-rinded cheeses so I assumed from the photo, which I saw before the text, that it was some kind of smelly-cheese flavored crisp. Biting into a lamington crisp while expecting, say, gorgonzola, would have been an interesting experience. 

brilliant-starlight replied to your photo “Found the most hipster of hand sanitizer at the hardware store...”

I think this is significantly less hipster now than it would be if you found it before the pandemic since a lot of distilleries have switched production over to sanitizer. Seems only fair they still get to brand stuff.

I have to say I’m dying for the Malort hand sanitizer bottle. I’ll take it empty, I just want the bottle. 

larathia replied to your post “SAM. SAM. SAM. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. I CAN'T LINK THINGS IN AN ASK...”

yah but it seems Noah Wyle will be doing Nate's job, and to paraphrase Nate, the point in that conversation where I punch Noah Wyle in the throat nine or ten times would come up FAST. I really did not like him in Librarians *at all*. He could really, really fuck up the role of Mastermind here.

He was a lot in The Librarians, but that was also heavily contextual. I’ve seen him in roles where he didn’t chew the scenery like that, and I suspect he really cut loose in The Librarians because the movies were super cheese fests so he knew he could get away with it, and also he’s meant to be the slightly undependable swashbuckling geek dad. He put a bit more manic energy into Flynn than I think most people would have, and more than he put into the movies previous, but his character in Leverage will be in a very distinct context from that -- if he IS an experienced crook like the others he’ll still be a newcomer to their established group, and if he’s a white hat like Nate was, all the more so he’ll be the student, not the teacher. Like, I have reservations about it too, but I’m willing to give him a very generous benefit of the doubt, especially having been a fan of his from ER. 

I wish I had the show runner’s ear, I’d pitch Bobby Dismas to them as another addition. :D Hacker, hitter, grifter, thief, mastermind, data nerd. 

swingprince replied to your photoset “Post office bounty! I posted this image yesterday but fucked something...”

What does one need to do to get people to send them stuff?

I mean, there’s no way to say this that doesn’t make me sound like I’m being an asshole or think you’re one, which I don’t because I get the drift of the question, but I think you can’t really start from a place of “I want to get people to send me stuff.”

It wasn’t something I set out to do, but after many years in fandom someone said I should get a PO Box, and I did, and posted it in my tumblr, and people sent me stuff. It’s a slightly strange experience for me not because I think it’s weird but because I sometimes wonder why people would bother to send gifts, but I remind myself that people are generous and want to reach out, and sharing a connection over crisps or cat toys or salt and pepper shakers is a fun way to do it. I always make sure I post photos so people know I’m grateful and enjoying their gifts and letters, and when I know someone and know they’d like a thing I’ve found, I sometimes send packages or letters out myself. It’s less a transaction than it is a gesture of friendship or affection -- it’s a strengthening of a relationship that was already there.