#Marginal adaptation

[peliginspeaks]

Standing at a rainy cold bus stop and thinking about recipe books in the Neath. Battered old things from the Surface that perhaps sat in a cupboard for a good few years until their owners accepted that they couldn't afford the import on those ingredients now, and started crossing them out and replacing them with mushrooms, lichen powders, and the less dubious local meats. Glossy-covered ones titled in looping script, printed on something not quite unlike typical paper, trying to call on the tradition and elegance of a sunlit kitchen and not quite getting all the way there. Books that embrace the Neath entirely, with indexed guides to avoiding toxic ingredient lookalikes and descriptive flavour profiles entirely without comparison to Surface fare. I want to peek inside a PC's cupboards. let me see their recipes.

[margindoodles2407]

you know. mixed as my feelings are about dracula, the musical. i must say. "before the summer ends" never fails to bring me almost to tears

[akkpipitphattana]

if you know anything about taming of the shrew btw (not 10 things, but taming) the bianca/lucentio being the super kinky ones is actually really fucking funny. cause like katherine/petruchio literally have an entire scene where they’re physically attacking each other, so the absolute irony of THAT couple being vanilla in comparison to sweet bianca/lucentio is so. fucking. funny.

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

[bethanydelleman]

Hallmark's Adaptation of Sense & Sensibility 2024

Overall, I enjoyed it. It was better then I expected to be honest and it did something I've not seen before, which was put Elinor & Edward's story centre stage instead of Marianne & Willoughby. I think they cut a bit too much of the M&W story because it totally fell flat, but I enjoyed having a well-developed relationship between E&E.

They also did a really good job of explaining why Edward staying engaged to Lucy was an honourable thing and we even hear Elinor say she admires him for it. The inheritance issue was well explained too, though more blame should have gone to John Dashwood. Did not love Fanny as Lady Macbeth.

But yeah, leagues ahead of Persuasion 2022 because Elinor felt right. They turned up Edward's sassiness, but it is something that exists in the novel (he calls himself "saucy" at one point). What it really needed was Marianne actually looking desperate and sick before the rain scene.

The only characters that really felt wrong were Mrs. Jennings (not so fun), John Dashwood (too nice), and Robert Ferrars (too hot and too nice). Also, Anne was technically right but Lucy should have been correcting and shutting her up more often.

6/10?

[weldnas]

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[gasogene]

i miss watching bbc sherlock but i've been elsewhere and am about to start the summer semester . Greg..! Help..!

[fauvester]

i love your tigerghost fanart, i think my favorite so far is the one with Manny having to deal with his friends and boyfriend finding his parents hot because i felt that in my soul since i have had a friend who straight out asked me if my mom was looking for a sugar baby and i nearly threw hands, so like i feel you tiger boy.

Hehehe thank you, I'm having so much fun doing little art of the guys.. thank you nicktoonsunite for feeding us all... you KNOW plata peligrosa's got am occult lesbian bdsm fan following on miracle city geocities

[bloodsakkar]

idk how to explain this without sounding like an anti-woke conservative but

i rly think black sails is so interesting because it's literally About Minorities but because it was made by some white harvard classics major who was only interested in the subject out of intellectual curiosity about 'people rejected by society' and untouched by a lot of the mindnumbing representation discourse that wld follow (imo,, which has created rly cringy television) - i can watch it without feel like im being condescended to. and. now. theres a little condescension happening in early s3 which messes with what is otherwise a rly interesting and unique arc about the difficulty of cross-racial solidarity. and also i'm not here to say its Good that a white straight man ran a show about all these brown and gay people, i obv would prefer to have people with more expertise telling such stories (so.. brown people) and like i said he got it wrong a lot. i'm just saying i think black sails got lucky it was (mostly) able to portray marginalized groups and explore marginalization without feeling like it was gonna get hashtag cancelled if the characters didn't recite lines from an instagram infographic at the camera. aside from the issue of slavery nothing in all the interviews indicates that steinberg felt pressure to portray any given group "properly".

[the-everqueen]

"let people feel their feelings." fyi, i am also a people. with feelings.

[peliginspeaks]

Standing at a rainy cold bus stop and thinking about recipe books in the Neath. Battered old things from the Surface that perhaps sat in a cupboard for a good few years until their owners accepted that they couldn't afford the import on those ingredients now, and started crossing them out and replacing them with mushrooms, lichen powders, and the less dubious local meats. Glossy-covered ones titled in looping script, printed on something not quite unlike typical paper, trying to call on the tradition and elegance of a sunlit kitchen and not quite getting all the way there. Books that embrace the Neath entirely, with indexed guides to avoiding toxic ingredient lookalikes and descriptive flavour profiles entirely without comparison to Surface fare. I want to peek inside a PC's cupboards. let me see their recipes.

[ghostbustermelanieking]

i will say that i am only on episode 6 but. apples never fall should've been like 10 episodes and also it should not have rewritten literally everything from the book

[margindoodles2407]

BESTIES WE JUST FINISHED OPENING NIGHT

[wont-stop-biking]

is spin class still a thing

maybe its cause im on the east coast but like its never even been a thing out here

im balls deep in the bicycles fandom now and nobody ever mentions this "spin class"

[prlssprfctn]

Robin!Jason, who constantly references different books at random times by quoting them and joking about characters, except Bruce doesn't have much time to read everything that Jason goes through. Of course, he understands some nods towards classics, but Jason is an avid reader, so it is hard to keep up with him sometimes. Jason tries to drag him to watch some movie adaptations, but he falls asleep in the very beginning of it.

And then Jason dies.

Bruce goes through all his library obsessively to the point he remembers the page of every little bookmark Jason left, and he knows his little notes on the margins by the heart. He watches movie adaptations, too, even though Jason only ever watched it to hate on them. He finds new books, books he thinks Jason would like if he was alive, and reads them, imagining what kind of analysis would Jason finalise by the end of it; his opinion not always matches with Jason's, but that doesn't matter. Bruce just likes to imagine.

Years pass, and Jason returns to Gotham. Not as a boy Bruce missed so much. Or, at least, he thinks so.

But then Jason does some bitter, irritated reference, comparing them to characters of one of the books he had on his shelf, and Bruce catches himself thinking... well, they still think similarly, but the conclusion they drew had always differed from each other. It is a different situation, of course, but... but maybe he could try to make this work.

Because, if anything, Bruce is tired of imagining. Especially, not when he finally has a chance to get everything back.

On the next day after their fight, someone sends Jason a copy of a new book from his favourite author - the one that he still hadn't read - his old set of colourful bookmarks, and a little note.

Let me know what you think.

Bruce gets the book back in a week, full of frantic notes, a bunch of bookmarks, and a short note explaining what each colour means (a mystery he didn't resolve years ago, after he passed away).

And, oh, God. He completely forgot how fast Jason read sometimes.