#Alexandra Lange

[elizabethminkel]

Totally delighted to represent the "I have worked in service roles too long to find coffee shop AUs romantic" stance in this fantastic piece about the trope and how it explores ideas about public space by Alexandra Lange.

(I've never worked in a coffee shop or any other food service role, to be clear! But I have been flirted with—sometimes pretty aggressively—by bazillions of men in my two decades as a mutuel clerk, and idk, customer/employee is not a dream fic scenario of mine lol.)

Also delighted to appear here alongside @earlgreytea68, I'm glad coffee shop AUs have a top-notch defender. 🥰

[merelyroleplayers]

fanfic writers might prefer the cozy setting of a coffee shop because there’s a baseline familiarity, so characters’ interpersonal dynamics, rather than the minutiae of the setup, can be explored.

Alexandra Lange, Love and Lattes: How the Coffee Shop AU feeds romance

[newkindofcozy]

“The mall is a central component of what I call the youth control complex,” says Victor M Rios, MacArthur Foundation professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “They’re seen in stores as either suspects or too poor to be treated with proper customer service, even when they have money. The mall also teaches white teens that they are premium consumers, as they witness their Black and brown peers pay a skin tax upon entering the mall.”

[sixofravens-reads]

FINISHED MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN!

I've never read an architectural history before, so this was extremely interesting. The author goes back to the origins of the mall in the 50s, and discusses its socio-economic purpose throughout the decades, as well as the architecture that makes the mall what it is, and how all of that has resulted in this wonderful generational nostalgia.

Would definitely recommend it if you're a fan of things like Defunctland - historical looks at the American Dream, consumerism, and the constant nostalgic attempts to create a wonderland version of your youth. The mall very much spent its' first few decades as architects' attempts to create a peaceful, idyllic shopping experience (explicitly geared towards the white 1950s housewife stereotype) and it's interesting to see how that's either crumbled over time or adapted to new generations and grown to incorporate youth, minorities, and, well, anyone who isn't a white suburbanite with 2.5 kids.

It did feel like kind of a dense read, though that's possibly because I hadn't read this genre before and there were lots of new people and concepts to digest. Overall, I think the author did a pretty decent job of making the subject matter accessible to the average reader!

[iffltd]

                           Beautiful    P r o f i l e s   in   B  &  W

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 482: Someone you hate

Recovering vampire Barnabas Collins hopes that mad scientist Eric Lang will be able to free him of his curse once and for all. Since wicked witch Angelique, who put the curse on Barnabas in the first place, has come back to the great estate of Collinwood, Barnabas found a twelfth century Sicilian talisman with the power to protect against witches and gave it to Lang with instructions that he was…

[milliondollarbaby87]

Manhunter (1986) Review

Will Graham was a former FBI Agent who had recently retired to Florida, he was profiler and drafted back in to help pursue a deranged serial killer known as “the Tooth Fairy” by the media. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[gameofthunder66]

American Horror Story (2011- ) tv series

-(finished) watchin' Season 1- 8/22/2023- 3 [3/4] stars- on Hulu (FX)

[naive-daydreamer]

Mahmoud Darwish, King Solomon, Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Mary Oliver, butterflies rising, Lang Leav, rachel h, Alexandra Vasiliu, Shayan Das : *writes masterpieces of stories and poems*

Me: *screaming, crying, suffering, etc. in bilingual frustration* WHY I CANNOT BE YOU

[badflicks]

American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) 🍕🍕🍕🍕

So much going on on each of the 12 episodes, but somehow… it works. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[six-of-ravens]

oh, so the reason why the 50s was a ~golden age~ where the expectation became that you would just get a single-family home with a white picket fence no matter what, was literally bc the government was giving people* money and good mortgage deals. hm. yeah. and socialism is totally evil and the government should never help people and we all just need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps...

*white people, specifically, bc the suburbs were racist as hell and even if POC could get the government benefits, builders would probably refuse to sell to them. this sounds horribly naive but somehow america (and canada too) continue to shock me with how racist they've been so recently.

[hollywoodfamerp]

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[craft2eu]

Die Sommeredition der IHM / Handwerk & Design München 8./9. Juli 2022: eine Nachlese

Die Sommeredition der IHM / Handwerk & Design München 8./9. Juli 2022: eine Nachlese

Hatte München extra die sommerlichen Temperaturen in diesen Tagen etwas heruntergeregelt, damit sich die Besucher der Internationalen Handwerksmesse München (IHM) wenigstens ein bisschen „märzlich“ fühlen könnten? Nach zwei Jahren Corona-verordneter Abstinenz wurde die mutige Entscheidung für die Sommeredition der IHM durch die Sehnsucht der Veranstalter und der Branche nach dem persönlichen…

[sixofravens-reads]

started this tonight and was instantly hit with nostalgia and love for my local malls✌️

found this book on a list of "micro histories" and I think it might be one of my new favourite genres. love learning a bunch about one very specific little puzzle piece of history.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Queer Books Coming Out January 2024

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Tentacle Wonderland by Reese Morrison 🧡 Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann 💛 Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver 💚 Soren by Miranda Page & Lina Ganef 💙 Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia 💜 Stars and Soil by Dax Murray ❤️ Deep Sounding Chaos by Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 🧡 Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar 💛 Evergreen by Devin Greenlee 💙 Matsdotter and Adrastus (Adventures in Levena #2) by Aelina Isaacs 💜 Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu Vol. 3 by Meng Xi Shi and Me Mimo 🌈 Destined by Jen Carter

❤️ Her Spell That Binds Me by Luna Oblonsky 🧡 Her Mechanic Bear Mate (Crescent Lake Bears #3) by Arizona Tape 💛 That Bitter Sting by Melissa Polk 💚 Bioluminescence by Toni Duarte 💙 Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary 💜 Don’t Want You Like A Best Friend by Emma R. Alban ❤️ Bachelorette Number Twelve by Jae 🧡 How to Share a Cat and Other Life Lessons by Evelyn Fenn 💛 A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing by Amy Allen 💙 Bound by Kate Hawthorne 💜 Moonbreak by Lise MacTague 🌈 Falling All In by Laina Villeneuve

❤️ Murder on Castaway Island by Alicia Gael 🧡 The Butler's Vessel by S. Rodman 💛 Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland 💚 Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney 💙 Amid Our Lines by Zarah Detand 💜 Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa ❤️ A Doctor’s Touch by A.A. Fairview 🧡 So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole 💛 Never Be a Saint by Mark Runte 💙 Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook 💜 Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife by Eric Schlich 🌈 City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter

❤️ Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron 🧡 Knight of Staria by Iris Foxglove 💛 The Storm Gathers by Maelan Holladay 💚 Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang Vol. 2 by Priest 💙 Fence: Redemption SC by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad 💜 Dreamer by Kris Bryant ❤️ Not Just Friends by Jordan Meadows 🧡 Winter's Spell by Ursula Klein 💛 Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters 💙 All Things Beautiful by Alaina Erdell 💜 Curse of Souls by Niranjan 🌈 Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

❤️ The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson 🧡 Curse of the Dragon Shadow by Selina A. Fenech 💛 No Shelter But The Stars by Virginia Black 💚 Shards of Trust by Fox Beckman 💙 My Fair Brady by Brian D Kennedy 💜 The Summer Queen (The Buried and the Bound #2) by Rochelle Hassan ❤️ A Luminous Heart by Cailee Francis 🧡 To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods #1) by Elizabeth May 💛 Out of Our League by Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli 💙 Earth and Water by J.L. Gribble 💜 Rend Me, The Wayward Knight by Mary Vanalstine 🌈 Prince of Endless Tides by Ben Alderson

❤️ Sweet Wicked Thing by Jessie Walker 🧡 Ocean’s Blood by Thelma Mantey 💛 Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace and S.O. Callahan 💚 A Reckless Oath by Kaylie Smith 💙 Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter 💜 Faded Moon by T.L. Morgan ❤️ Game On by Amy Aislin 🧡 The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers 💛 The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland 💙 Spark of Wrath by E.M. Lindsey 💜 Honeybloods by I.S. Belle 🌈 Love Me At My Worst by Adrian J. Smith

[chaoticfuryfest]

Das Traumschiff: Gefühle im Aufbruch - Prolog

Die MS Amadea lag im Hafen und war bereit für die kommende Reise. Hoteldirektorin Hanna Liebhold begrüßte die Passagiere am Hafen und stand wie üblich mit ihrer freundlichen und herzlichen Art allen mit Rat und Tat zur Seite.

„Guten Morgen Hanna!“ Staff Kapitän Martin Grimm kam den Pier entlang und grinste sein Seebär-Grinsen. „Alles im Griff?“ neckte er Hanna. „Aber natürlich“, konterte sie gewohnt. „Hast Du einen schönen Urlaub gehabt?“ „Ja, danke der Nachfrage“ erwiderte Martin. „Ich habe meine Schwester besucht, ich soll dich lieb grüßen!“ „Danke! Wir sehen uns später, dann kannst Du mir alles erzählen.“

Martin schritt die Gangway hinauf und Hanna blickte ihm hinterher. Sie freute sich schon darauf, mit ihm zu plaudern. Irgendwie hatte sie ihn ein wenig vermisst. Auch Martin war froh, wieder an Bord zu sein. Das Schiff war einfach sein zu Hause, auch wegen der Menschen, die dort arbeiteten. Insbesondere Hanna war ihm in den letzten Jahren besonders ans Herz gewachsen. Er bezog seine Kabine, zog seine Uniform an und meldete sich zum Dienst auf der Brücke.

„Ah, da sind Sie ja, Staff Kapitän“ begrüßte ihn Kapitän Max Parger. Ich habe Dr. Delgado, Schifferle und Frau Liebhold noch vor dem Ablegen hergebeten, ich muss etwas bekanntgeben.

Nach und nach trudelten die Crew-Mitglieder auf der Brücke ein. „Was gibt es denn so wichtiges Käpt‘n?“, erkundigte sich Schifferle.

„Ich möchte Ihnen jemanden vorstellen“, antwortete Parger. „Frau Alexandra Weber, sie arbeitet ebenfalls für die Reederei und wird uns bis zum nächsten Hafen begleiten. Dort tritt sie Ihren Job als Hoteldirektorin auf unserem Schwesterschiff an. Sie sollte eigentlich schon hier sein.“

Eine attraktive Frau mittleren Alters betrat die Brücke. „Guten Tag Zusammen! Ich bin Alexandra Weber, nett Sie alle kennenzulernen“ begrüßte sie die Crew freundlich. Ihr Blick schweifte durch den Raum und blieb an Martin hängen. „Martin! Das ist ja eine Überraschung! Ich wusste gar nicht, dass es dich auf die MS Amadea verschlagen hat! Wie lange ist es her, dass wir zusammen auf einem Schiff waren? Eine gefühlte Ewigkeit, oder?“

Alexandra ging auf Martin zu und begrüßte ihn mit zwei Wangenküsschen. Martin errötete, „Hallo Alex! Schön, dich wiederzusehen!“

Sie hatten vor etwa 20 Jahren zusammen auf der MS Deutschland gearbeitet. Martin war damals noch Offizier. Sie waren locker befreundet gewesen, Martin beschlich seinerzeit zwar hin und wieder das Gefühl, dass sie gerne einen Schritt weitergegangen wäre, aber ihr Verhältnis war nie über das Kollegiale hinausgegangen. Irgendwann trennten sich ihre Wege und sie hatten sich aus den Augen verloren.