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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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So, I read the description for next week's The Librarians: The Next Chapter episode:

"Lysa, Charlie, and Connor find themselves trapped in a mysterious manor after their magic door malfunctions. The manor seems to be the setting for a series of Agatha Christie-style murders, and they must solve the mystery before it's too late."

Considering that the episode is written by @seanpersaud @sineadpersaud of @shipwreckedcomedy, I feel like this is as good an excuse as any to revisit Poe Party this week.

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I'm gonna tell my grandkids this was Amazon's My Lady Jane

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I would like to add Jack Four Seasons to this list

What does it mean if I'm attracted to BJ Righteous Gemstones

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The My Lady Jane soundtrack is so so so good idk who curated that for the show but they did an amazing job

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"We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us."

-LAPD Chief Michel Moore, discussing the 2020 uprising

Decentralization is key. Don't let anyone tell you our movements need centralized leadership or control.

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I don’t know why but I started thinking about Libby confronting Nora about how their mother treated the latter more like a partner [in terms of how much she relied on her] rather than a daughter, and I think that realization packs a substantial punch when you really start considering Nora’s character. Fiercely independent. Platinum blonde shark. 

It makes me appreciate Libby more as someone who was younger, but in some ways was more aware of the situation than Nora was. Someone who can the equal Nora always deserved now albeit in her own fun-loving, romance-obsessed, motherly sort of way. 

It also makes me love her relationship with Charlie even more. He and Nora are so alike; so on the same wavelength naturally. He’s her equal in toughness, snarkiness, and in how she understands and deals with her internal conflicts. He’s also her equal in love and how he expresses it. The way he finds that perfect balance of loving her self-sufficiency and toughness but knowing exactly when to be comforting, soft, and gentle towards her is perfect. 

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MY LADY JANE (2024) 1.02: WILD THING

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edward “horse boy” bluemel

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Um, my God, I'm reading this book now and this section DID make me cry as a parentified eldest daughter*

*I'm also ridiculously lucky that this reminded me of my husband 🥹

Who got you crying like that???

Reading this and realising I'll never find rl Charlie Lastra who says things like this just to stop me from crying...

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guilford saying “I should go” and then remaining a breath away from jane’s face, ghosting his lips over her lips, her nose, her forehead; like it’s almost impossible to leave her

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 2

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YOOOOOO I JUST GOT MY FIRST LIBRARY CARD SINCE LIKE 2007 IT WAS SO EASY???

Like they literally just needed any photo ID with an address, I thought they needed like unopened mail and paperwork and crap, it took 5 goddamn minutes, I did it on my way home from work

And was NOBODY gonna tell me libraries have websites now with ebooks and audiobooks and documentaries and British TV and shit???

Why the FUCK have I been paying Netflix

GO GET A LIBRARY CARD

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New Catholic call and response just dropped

"Malört be with you"

"And with your Spirits"