#aaron in a nutshell

[aaronskenjii]

kenji: If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're impressed.

aaron: But you do know better.

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

*Has never been attracted to a real life man.*

*Sees Emily Prentiss.*

Ohhh, I’m a lesbian.

*Sees Aaron Hotchner.*

Oh, actually I might be bi.

*Speaks to any real life man.*

Oh, no, definitely a lesbian.

*Sees Spencer Reid.*

Okay, well now I’m just confused.

[hoes-n-foes]

Aaron Warner Anderson besides being hot is also a glaring example of a homeschooled kid.

[cjbolan]

“Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince” in a nutshell

YA books: There are 2 boys, the protagonist girl HAS to date one, but how can she choose? They are so incredibly different in every way!

The boys:

[sugar-petals]

Hi caro 🌹, following what you said in your previous post , you mentioned that Tom hardy is a soft type which I agree on and I get a feeling that he might be a soft natural too cause suits look like they're floating and they don't sit right on his body like what u said for Aaron taylor-johnson is . Emily browning is another case , I strongly believe she's a romantic or at the very least soft gamine . I like seeing them stand next to eachother in this movie ( the softness in their features and them being rahuvians in astrology make them complement eachother pretty well ! ) ( I want to add them to your list of couples so bad lol) thanks and have a swell day ☀️

emily browning is so yin! apple cheeks, full lips, rounded eyes, wavy wispy hair, soft jawline... naturals really do seem to come cast/coupled/teamed/shipped with romantic types frequently.

in a modern plot, the Natural is often painted as the active, Romantic as the passive part, until the roles switch; N is the facilitator for R to live their life how they please. "everything everything" in a nutshell: amandla stenberg = pure R, nick robinson = SN.

"love, simon" had picture-perfect N type clothing for nick, as if the costume department knew his kibbe ID. i think that's one of the reasons it blew up. jeans fabric, fleece, regular shirts, slightly longer but less sleek hair, casual > overstyling.

very subtly done, with soft lighting. which suits R, C, and N very well (DC is the exception, they are film noir). harsh lighting benefits sharp yang types on the other hand, so the G and D categories (SG as the exception, they are too yin), think eva green in sin city, the shadows of the blinds mimic her angular bones, creating harmony. she's been typed as D, SD, and TR, but in any case, she has yang bones. what do y'all think her type is? she is 5´7.

FN -TR with swapped expectations seems to be THE popular couple trope, btw. TR the strong, dominant, loveless, and hardened one, and FN the naively helpless romantic who's clumsy, shy, and often the sexualized part, even if we suspected it would be the TR! and they still have a hilarious height and size difference. FN is tall and burly, TR narrow and curvy. so, disney's hercules.

the D - G pairing axis tends to be a little edgier. especially as D is frequently a villain, contrarian, or antihero role, and G is the toiling protagonist on the hero's journey or the comedic relief. as soon as the "N with R, D with G" formula is broken, as "N with G, D with R", the couple is bittersweet, like katniss and peeta.

bonus: tom hardy has the typical "sharp shoulder sitting on top of nothing" menswear syndrome there: angled suits are for angled, pointy bones. naturals are too blunt-edged. that's why all of his well-known roles have character designs that sew the shoulders rounded, no pads, no classic construction.

[b-skarsgard]

Nosferatu Director Robert Eggers for Empire Magazine June 2025

Bring Out The Dead

"HERE WE CAN see the dogs eating the dead horse," points out Robert Eggers on his Nosferatu commentary. "It's a nice detail."

This is Eggers in a nutshell. The grim everyday visuals. The passion for accuracy.

(full article under the cut)

The deadpan delivery. Among other things, Nosteratu's home-entertainment release includes the extended cut (it's four minutes longer), and Eggers' accompanying unpacking.

It's great to have it all, when such extras are few and far between these days. "Well, I didn't go to film school, and commentaries and special features were a lot of how I learned how to make movies," he explains to Empire. "I think it's important to do."

It's his final bit of work on a film (his fourth, after The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman) that has been in the works for decades; no use in cutting corners now, for the version that will exist forever. Eggers' take on F.W. Murnau's folklore interpretation of Dracula was a hit, making $180 million at the box office

— a great haul for a film about an abusive rotting corpse — and was acclaimed by everyone from young goths to old masters like Martin Scorsese, who recently said it was amazing ("There's no way that can't make you feel good," says Eggers).

So, as the director bids farewell to Orlok, we sit down with him to close the coffin for good.

Last time we met in London, you'd been doing Nosferatu press all day, and when you walked in you said, "Moustache, moustache, moustache, moustache, moustache." As in, you'd been asked about Orlok's moustache all day. Were you surprised that that element was such a big deal for people?

Yeah. I mean, I get that. It's a hard pill for some people to swallow. But I also don't care, because there's just no fucking way that this guy wouldn't have a moustache. But I get it. I love the way Max Schreck looks too [in Murnau's original], and it's a change. So, fair play, as people say over here.

There's a scene in the extended cut with Willem Dafoe's Von Franz and Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Friedrich having this intense tit for tat. You say on the commentary that Von Franz keeps trying to get the last word in, but you dialled it down a bit because it was on the verge of getting a bit Mel Brooks.

Was that something you kept on your shoulder, ensuring that the film didn't veer into pastiche?

Mel Brooks' Dracula: Dead And Loving It was very helpful, because it points out all the absurdities in the things that don't work in this story. So I was very consciously trying to find solves for the most egregious things that come up in various tellings of Dracula. But yeah, it was just so much fun to write dialogue for Dafoe's character that sometimes it got out of hand

Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) is so mentally and physically repressed, by everyone around her, all trying to keep her in her place. Orlok (Bill Skarsgärd) represents the opposite of that. He's been abusing her since she was a kid, but sees something in her that no-one else does. She's drawn to him, and is repelled by the fact that she's drawn to him.

What was it like for you writing all of that, taking into consideration how carefully one must tread with such subject matter? Did it weigh heavy on your soul?

Yeah. But I think that what enables me to do it, in a way that I hope makes it work, is just sticking to the confines of the period. I think if it were a contemporary film and I was dealing with the same kinds of issues, it would be much more complicated to not fuck it up. And it's easier for me and perhaps, hopefully, more effective to certain audience members, to explore this subject matter [in the context of] supernatural vampires.

There are certainly many different layers at play. Orlok visits Ellen one night, and he's standing there in his big cloak, holding his sash. On the commentary, you half-joke that he's trying to look dashing for his lady. And it is funny.

That choice actually comes down to Bill. He was always asking me, "When is he feeling uncomfortable? When is he feeling jealous?" So when we were blocking that scene on set, he was like, "What do you think about this? His hand here? Trying to look, you know..." And I was like,

"Yeah, I like that. It's good."

Because even this centuries-old, abusive dead monster has this little ego and insecurities. He wants this woman to fancy him.

Yeah. (Laughs)

Did you have an intimacy coordinator on set? Because this film is not business as usual in that department: you have this monstrous demon having sex with this woman. That's a whole different level of intimacy and choreography.

Our intimacy coordinator, Bronagh [McAuley], is great. I worked with her on The Northman too. A good intimacy coordinator wants to help you tell the story, and to make sure that everyone is comfortable doing that. A good intimacy coordinator has the imagination to be like, "Okay, we're sensually caressing cavities in a corpse's back, okay, that's something we're gonna do. Cool."

Yes, it's not the usual thing an intimacy coordinator has to deal with.

No. But... (Laughs) you gotta keep things interesting, right?

In terms of the themes, the repression and sexuality and abuse, since the film has been out there, have you had feedback from people who that has really resonated with?

Yeah, I've had positive feedback with it resonating for people about... well, how personal it is, I can't speak to that. There is a lot going on with Ellen and Orlok, and going back to your earlier question, something that was on my mind very much was that... There's a lot of feminist literary criticism talking about the trope in 19th-century fiction of sexualised female characters needing to die at the end of the novel, to be punished for theirtransgressions - unconsciously punished by the male authors. And so here I am, potentially, being a post-Victorian male author and doingthe same thing. But there's also a lot of feminist literary criticism that points out that this archetype of this female who understands the other side of repressed 19th-century society and has a window into it, she is the saviour of society. And so as much as maybe these male authors couldn't handle that, or whatever the fuck, society couldn't handle it, it was clearly reconstellating over and over again, because of its need to speak to this repressed period. And so that was something that, in the writing process, gave me perhaps some more confidence to pursue what I was pursuing.

Bill told me that he'd never played anything this evil before, and never wanted to again. It upset him. Did you feel that from him, when you wrapped?

I mean, I couldn't find him when we wrapped. I said, "Cut," and Bill fucking disappeared! (Laughs) So, yeah, he was definitely ready to get out of there.

There's a great shot in the extended cut of the shadow of Orlok's hand stretching over Ellen and Nicholas Hoult's Hutter when they're lying on the floor. On the commentary you explain that you cut it because of feedback from test screenings where people said there was too much of Orlok's shadow, but that you think maybe you shouldn't have cut it. Are test screenings important for you in terms of how audiences might receive the film?

Test screenings are important, as are friends-and-family screenings, just for getting the movie out there, getting it on its feet, getting people to watch it and understand what's working, what's not working. The thing that I don't like about test screenings is when studios get really obsessed about the numbers, because it's not enough data for it to be empirical evidence of anything. This didn't happen with Focus [Features], but when studios get stuck on the numbers, which can happen, that's when this is a fucking nightmare. But as far as getting people to watch a film, it's great. And when 85 per cent of the people say there's too much shadow, I don't know, maybe there's too much shadow. On the other hand, when all the VFX are done and the music's done and the pace is right, I think probably that shot could have been in there, but at the time, it did feel like I was going overboard with the shadow.

It's great, though, and it's there now.

Yeah, and also in terms of why it might have been fine if I'd kept it — the final music cue where the shadow creeps up the stairs and opens the door and all that shit, when the film was previewed it wasn't finished; it didn't have the kind of tension that it has now. Maybe just that alone would have made it feel different. That's the other thing that's so frustrating about previews: the movie's not done.

You and the cast did some press photos on a staircase at St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel. Did you see that people noticed it was exactly where the Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' video was shot?

I sure did, yes. I wasn't aware, but [at the time) Emma Corrin and, I think, Aaron Taylor-Johnson were mentioning it while we were getting the pictures taken.

Well, that video is iconic to some people.

Yes. (Laughs)|

There was generally an amazing response to the film. It's by far your biggest hit at the box office - has that changed things in terms of what has come your way since, and what happens next?

Yes. But we'll see how it all pans out. I'm excited that I'm already working on the next one, getting it up on its feet.

Is that Werwulf?

Yeah, unless something totally fucking crazy happens.

Nosferatu was a lifelong obsession — have you always been fascinated by werewolve and werewolf movies too?

Yeah. I mean, nothing is going to be Nosferatu, as far as personal attachment (goes], but yeah, werewolves have been an important monster as well. And it's kind of a unique genre. The finest werewolf movie is a comedy, which is kind of interesting. One thing I would actually like to say about Werwulf is. I don't know who leaked what, but it's been said and been interpreted as an official statement that [the dialogue of the] movie is in Old English. But obviously, because of the period [the 13th century] it's set in, it's Middle English, and I would just like to be clear on that.

All of your films are set in very specific time periods, steeped in history, and you've always been so immersed in the research and the writing and the production, the detail. What residue remains with you? What stays in your head?

I mean, they're all things that I care about, so... I will read an article about a new Viking archaeological find. And I will go to a witchcraft museum. I'm still interested in all this stuff.

There is only so much room I can have with things that I'm writing; two to three things can only fit in there at a time without everything getting jumbled. But I mean, I've written another medieval movie that hasn't been made.

"The Knight"?

Yeah. But also, I know a ton about Viking Age farming and a ton about Tudor and Stuart farming. So even without the research into the medieval farming, which I'm still doing anyway, I have a good foothold in it.

In February you went to London's Prince Charles Cinema to present The Witch, which had premiered at Sundance ten years earlier. Are you nostalgic like that? What did it mean to you, to introduce your debut film a decade on?

It was pretty extraordinary and humbling. And to have that crowd be so enthusiastic to see it, it was cool. And yeah, the movie changed my life.

I assume you didn't stay in there and watch it again.

No. No, thank you. (Laughs)

[imperiuswrecked]

Here lies Namor. Invader. Avenger. International Terrorist. - Namor (2024) #1

I am Namor. The Terrorist Propaganda says I have issues. Don't trust the Terrorist Propaganda. - Bucky Barnes: Winter Solider (2014) #1

You know what annoys me about Aaron's writing, where is Defender? Namor is part of and actually is the instigator in creating Marvel's The Defenders, the first trio called Titians Three consisted of him recruiting Hulk & Silver Surfer to aid him in stopping humans from hurting the Natural World in The Sub-Mariner (1968) #34. This would later spin out into Doctor Strange recruiting Namor, Silver Surfer, Hulk, and later joining them Valkyrie for the main and first wave of The Defenders. A team made up of outsiders who defended the world from supernatural threats. Namor is literally a founding member of (in my very strong opinion) the best modern team he's ever been on.

Yes, he's Namor the Avenging Son, but he was only ever called Terrorist by his enemies. Namor wouldn't think of himself in that way, he'd call himself a Defender, a Protector of his people, of the seas, his home. If Aaron means Invader as in he was part of the Invaders team then that also is a defense because he and the Invaders were fighting in WWll.

Namor knows the humans see him as a threat and for the most part he doesn't care if they label him as a monster because he's always had this strong belief of defending his home and people, he worked past his hatred of humans to help them all the way back in the golden age, but time and time again the humans do something that he has to respond to.

If you ask me for 2 panels to understand Namor in a nutshell then it would have to be;

The Defenders (1972) #53

Sub-Mariner (2007) #4

He's actually so easy to understand if people actually took the time to read his freaking comics. He's complex yeah, but that's what makes him so interesting as the first comic Anti-Hero!

Aaron focusing on Namor's outsider status isn't something new, it's been explored in his comics a lot of times. What really frustrated me was back in Avengers (2018) #9 Aaron had the chance to set up Namor to combat Captain America in terms of ideology of what is right and wrong, how is the defense of his homeland wrong? how is resistance against oil drillers, and poachers, and corporate greed, and polluters, and giant space robots falling and crushing his city and people wrong???

Human Laws have always been in favor of Humans, not the Atlanteans, not the Sea. Instead of exploring the concept of Namor being a Defender of his home and his people, Aaron constantly labels Namor a Terrorist. The he makes Namor want to atone for the wrongs he's done (never specifying exactly which ones, just a general "crimes against surface humanity") while never addressing or exploring the wrongs done to him by the humans/surface world!

Even now Aaron sets up Namor for conflict under the sea, and states it's for the best interest of the human world that their shipping lines and cruises be uninterrupted by the "shrieking blue skinned warriors who've invaded their coasts". Basically it's "We humans don't care if the Atlanteans are suffering so long as they suffer in silence and don't bother us or disrupt our money & lives".

Aaron writes in Avengers that Captain America offered aid to help the Atlanteans, but it's Namor who's rejected it, why would he accept help from the people who constantly hurt his people? Why would Namor ever trust them when they've broken his trust so many times in the past? Humans make promises and then break them all the time. Why should Namor ever accept the crumbs they deign to give him in return for obedience and silence so the humans can keep doing whatever they think is right? Why is the Surface World more moral and more right than the Undersea World? It's Namor's land, it's his home, they broke his laws, they broke his home, his people, his seas.

I've always said the biggest obstacle and mistake writers often encounter when writing Namor is they come at him from a very surface world mindset, where the humans are right and Namor isn't. Namor was never meant to be a champion of humans, but of the Atlanteans, the Seas, and all it's creatures.

I could not care less that you are breaking the Laws of Man. What you do here violates the Law of Namor. And thus you shall now endure Namor's Justice. - Defenders (2012) #1

Namor being seen as a Invader/Terrorist began back with his first fight against The Human Torch in Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #8, Jim was championed as the Hero of Humanity, while Namor was labeled as Public Enemy No. 1. and even now 85+ years later Namor faces persecution for doing what he was raised to do all his life, be a king, be a protector of his people, take justice and vengeance for the wrongs done against his home and people.

Aaron wants to focus on Namor's outsider status of being born half human/half atlantean. He's already shown Namor being bullied and nearly killed as a child for being born different by his people, but that isn't anything new, that's been canon that Namor is an outsider among humans and atlanteans, it's canon that the Atlanteans are just as racist as the humans, but often they're framed as worse than the humans.

One comic reviewer questioned if Aaron is making statements about the current political climate but honestly anyone who reads Namor comics can see these themes, the tensions among atlanteans and humans, have always been there. What remains to be seen is if Aaron can actually deliver on some good writing.

[hamiltonconfessions-but-better]

im just like the rest of yall i miss being a shameless hamilton obsessed middle schooler i would show people i just met that hamilton in a NUTshell youtube video and launch into aaron burr sir with my friends constantly and my phone wallpaper was all hamilton animatics and in every photo i would do that ☝️pose from the album cover and write the lyrics on my arm in pen bro i MISS IT and now i just talk about it on the internet cause im embarrassed to bring up hamilton to people in real life 😭 but i always want to but i hold back cause i know they dont wanna hear it 😭

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[ssahotchnerr]

it’s this one! https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMrv58Qrt/

STOP 😭💓 aaron in a nutshell

he's already in Dad mode™ - standing super near because ellie's a bit enamored by the candles in front of her, and continues to point at them 😭 her little finger gets closer and closer to the flame each time so he's at the READY to ensure she doesn't burn herself 😭 (he's a nervous wreck)

but AHHH after ellie (aaron) blows out the candles, she's ecstatic and aaron is equally so 🥹 hehe she's just so tickled and aaron's matching her energy right back, telling her what a good job she did, and how he's so proud 😭 "i did it!" "you did sweetheart🥹!" 😭😭😭

aaron also finds your eyes and gives you a lil wink 🥹🥰🥰🥰💓💕 he's sooo 🤭 sneaky

[rablackwellwrites]

The Lion and the Peacock

Chapter 1

Valentin Auclair knew his life was well suited to him. He'd never had complaints. In fact, he was one of the few in royal circles who had none at all. He did speak to the brother in law of a Marquis once and they compared notes: “We hold no office, no souls rest upon our word, yet we have the good will of being a relation to those who do carry such responsibilities,” the man had said. That really was the whole thing in a nutshell: getting to bask in the shine of power and wealth without the responsibility, or risk of leading someone else into disaster. It was a fine place to sit in life.

As the spare son of an Earl, he had to keep up appearances and fulfill minor family duties, but that truly was the end of any responsibility. He wasn't just a spare son, he was a spare and then some, the youngest of a flock of six. Even his sisters, Sylvaine and Paulette, would step into their father's role before anyone cast their eyes at him. And thus, Valentin got to live his life perusing his pleasures, unbothered by anything more consequential than the weather.

As the smallest child in the family, and the youngest boy, he'd been allowed to attend music lessons with his sisters, where he'd fallen in love with the lute. With its complex strings and layered sounds, he took to it right away even as his sisters begged him to play the harp with them. He mastered the harp as well, begging for more music lessons as he got older. There was something about coaxing music from stretched gut and metal, something almost magical. Valentin wanted to learn more.

A spare son—not expected to lead, but still educated and trained for the task—might be allowed some music lessons, but only after his other learning in strategy and statecraft were finished. Extra daughters were always given music lessons if they so desired, even in a court like theirs, where daughters were in line to inherit their father's title should something devastating happen to the three brothers before them. That was almost unthinkable in this modern age, where children were more than twice as likely to live to their adulthood than they were back in his father's days. It was easy for their parents to allow Valentin to learn more and more about music, taking lessons from their court musician, his maternal uncle. Valentin could master a new instrument in less than a season, and their Uncle Aaron encouraged this by taking him down to the big markets every season, both of them searching for more and more exotic instruments. But Valentin always returned to his lute. It was his favorite, and his best instrument.

Once his other tutors realized playing helped the young lordling listen better in any lesson, Valentin was allowed to play whenever he wanted. He was always more attentive when his fingers were occupied and a song could spool through the back of his mind. If he could also learn about trade routes and grain values at the same time, so be it.

Valentin didn't take this life for granted, not one moment of it. He knew that his ability to play in court along with his uncle, receiving praise and applause from his peers, and then walk outside the following morning and play for the cows and the workers in his father's fields without judgment or scorn from either front, was a gift he never wanted to return. Yet, in the back of his mind, he knew the day would come when he was asked to do more for the family, more for their lands and their people.

He was ready to be told to join his uncle, apprentice to the court musician and composer, so that he could in turn find a place in another court in a few years' time. He was ready to be sent to give music lessons to another noble family, to teach daughters and youngest sons like his tutors had before him. He was ready for many things, for many small, reasonable expectations to finally be placed on him.

He was not ready to be sent to serve the King himself.

[donotadoptme]

I hope y’all know that the reason why I hc Aaron T. so freaky is not because I’m some horny teenager who makes everything sexual.

I genuinely think this guy is the funniest and him being so unable to control(both control himself and controlled by others) just gives to this character more. For me, of course.

The same with my mean Jesse hc. I don’t hc him mean because I’m a ten year old who reads toxic wattpad maffia fanfics and is into men who are assholes. It’s the pure character and character development I see in him, in this. And in the other members too, I just haven’t talked about them yet.

So in a nutshell, I’m not giving him this wild character because I’m a touch starved dumb bitch who wants to be banged all day so I over sexualize all of my favorite characters. It’s because I love this character for him, it fits with the band’s dynamic so well. They balance each other out, that’s also why their friendship is so good.

That’s all I wanted to say bc I was scared that y’all will think I’m something what I listed here that I’m not. (Does this make sense? English very much not my first language but y’all prolly know that)

[rabbitcruiser]

National Whipped Cream Day

Picture the scene: you have been cooking some delicious pancakes for yourself and your family to enjoy for breakfast or brunch. Some family members smother their pancakes in butter maple syrup, while others prefer to eat them with a pile of cut fruit. But the thing is, you know that you want something different.

So, you decide to bring out some whipped cream and gently apply a beautiful dollop to the top of your pancakes. All of a sudden, the room goes silent. It is at this point that you know you have stumbled upon the perfect accompaniment to a stack of pancakes. And now, everyone wants to get in on that whipped cream game too!

There is no denying that whipped cream has the power to transform many different sweet treats, desserts and even hot drinks. The sheer simplicity of it has the power to turn almost anything into a culinary work of art.

Now it is time to celebrate the very essence of whipped cream on this day, National Whipped Cream Day!

History of National Whipped Cream Day

For those who have never sampled the delight that is whipped cream, they have certainly missed out on something great! In a nutshell, whipped cream is a type of sweetened cream that gets “whipped” by a whisk or mixer until it becomes light and fluffy. The air that is added through the whipping process creates something that is altogether unique and delightful.

To achieve the best results, a cream that contains no lower than 35% fat is getting whipped. The process of creating whipped cream is simple, involving either a hand whisk or mechanical agitation with a high-speed mixer, although hand whisking would certainly be a lot of work.

While some people prefer the plain taste of whipped cream, others take things a stage further. It is often possible to find whipped cream that is flavored with ingredients such as cinnamon sugar, vanilla, or chocolate.

Today, there are also dairy-free variants of whipped cream for people who struggle with milk intolerances or do not eat dairy for other reasons. Most of these are marketed as vegan-friendly and can still be delicious.

Many people might think that whipped cream is a relatively modern culinary invention. But, believe it or not, the origins of this tasty treat date back to the 16th century!

The earliest known evidence of whipped cream appears in the form of recipes that hail from 1549. An Italian Renaissance cook, Cristoforo di Messisbugo, listed whipped cream as an ingredient in one of his recipes. His cookbook, Banchetti, Composizioni di Vivande e Apparecchio Generale, refers to something called “milk snow”, which is believed to be a primitive form of whipped cream.

Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, whipped cream was also known as “snow cream”, which is a delightful and endearing term for it. The earliest known literary references to whipped cream seem to date back to 1629 in France (crème fouettée) and 1673 in England.

National Whipped Cream Day is actually a nod to pay homage to the birthday of Reddi-wip founder Aaron Lapin, who was born in 1914. It was in 1948 that he invented Reddi-wip, which is now one brand name of the aerosol canned version of sweetened whipped creams and also non-dairy whipped toppings.

How to Celebrate National Whipped Cream Day

Get on board with enjoying National Whipped Cream Day using these ideas and more:

Enjoy a Dollop of Whipped Cream

Some people might need a dessert to enjoy whipped cream on top of, but others might be happy just to turn the Reddi-wip can upside down and squirt it into their mouths! Even folks who would not normally partake in dessert can use this day as an excuse to celebrate.

Plop a spoonful on top of a stack of pancakes, inside a rolled up crepe, on the side of a piece of chocolate cake or in a variety of other ways. Choose fresh whipping cream made at home or enjoy the premade versions. No matter what, the right way to celebrate this day will certainly include taking part in a breakfast, lunch or dessert that includes whipped cream!

Use Whipped Cream in a Favorite Recipe

Adding whipped cream to various recipes can change the whole thing into something more glorious. Try out these ideas for recipes that include whipped cream, whether of the homemade variety or in a frozen non-dairy form:

Lemon Curd Mousse. One simple dessert that will impress guests uses a jar of lemon curd (an English treat) that is carefully combined with a bowl full of sweetened whipped cream. Serve with fresh berries.

Fluff Salad. Quick and easy, this fruit salad makes a refreshing side dish or dessert that’s especially easy to put together for the hot summer months. It uses fruit, mini-marshmallows, nuts, coconut and, of course, whipped cream.

Oreo Trifle. Make it with Oreos or really any type of cookies. Trifles are easy to put together and don’t require baking. Simply layer whipped cream with cookies, pudding, fruit and more.

Chocolate Cream Pie. Well, it doesn’t actually have to be chocolate! Peanut butter, coconut cream, or Key Lime pie. Really, any cream pie will do, as long as it is piled high with a huge dose of sweetened whipped cream right on top.

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[forever-will-last]

hi, this is a first for me, but i just wanted to let you know how much i love your style of writing. i’ve noticed you previously mentioned a while ago about action sequences and how you find them the most difficult to write (please forgive me - memory's a bit foggy on the exact word, sorry!), but all that’s to say - you do nail it when it comes to describing what’s happening. storytelling as smooth as butter, and you offer so much to the reader with your time, effort, and words.

as for the questions … 9, 14, and 30 - are there any au’s you’ve been itching to pen down but they never made it to paper?

also... this could be a tall order (but feel free to brush it off if you want to keep it hush-hush!), but is the new wip … a cadina wip?

in a nutshell, a big shoutout for not only sharing your words but also putting it out there and nviting us on a journey through your thoughts - really great stuff.

(i think people who stay anonymous put emojis to maintain an identity? if i’m wrong, please ignore. if this is true, here it is: 🧿)

Thank you so much for the kind words!! It really means a lot to me and absolutely made my day! :)

For the numbers...

From this ask game!

9. Do you write every day? If you wrote today, share a sentence of what you’ve written!

I do!! For the most part, that is. There are sometimes days where I don't get to or I write very little, but I try very hard to write every day. I don't set a word minimum for myself, but I often end up writing at least a few thousand a day.

As for a sentence (well, it's a few, but it's very short), this is from the new secret WIP (which, I think this will answer your other question about whether or not the new WIP is Cadina ;D) -

Cady has to stop herself. She doesn't want to be weird. Okay, she absolutely thinks Regina’s hot. That's normal. And an objective fact. Regina is hot. But that's besides the point.

14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick?

Honestly? The original dead!Aaron au (don't look for me). It's much shorter but I think the visual representation of the grief and emotions would be extremely powerful.

30. Ask anything!: are there any au’s you’ve been itching to pen down but they never made it to paper?

I've really wanted to do more supernatural aus! I LOVE supernatural aus. I have this one alien au I've joked about sometimes that I actually did write a little bit of prior to don't look for me and a thousand pics, but I never ended up coming up with much of a coherent plot or even lore for the aliens in the story (some of the characters were secret aliens, for reference). I'm also a huge fan of werewolves and witchcraft, so maybe one day something with that as well!

I've never had somebody use an emoji to maintain an identity before but I love it! Thanks so much again for the kind words and the ask!! :)

[michaelcosio]

Mostly True Stories, 10am

Jan 26, 2025

There's a vibrant storytelling scene in Sacramento, but there isn't a place for A-list storytellers to perform in town. That mostly happens in the bay area. The series, In A Nutshell, will feature 4 professional storytellers from the region to tell stories based off of ever changing prompts from Aaron Carnes, the organizer of the series.

from Good Day Sacramento

[metaphoricalcolours]

it makes so much sense that aaron dessner cowrote the secret of us with gracie, i mean it was only a matter of time until this album sneaked its way into my life. i didn't listen to it immediately but of course it was gonna be over as soon as i felt hit by free now... especially the bridge. it wasn't enough for mr dessner to work with taylor on some of her most heartbreaking songs ever, no, he just HAD to keep the job going with other artists... i told you things is my year in a nutshell, nothing less. it has truly been a let it happen to i told you things pipeline, what an absolute fail. blowing smoke? i knew it, i know you? i love you, i'm sorry? "and i'm not gonna miss his shitty friends and nights of their binge drinkin' / and i'm not gonna miss his old inflated ego, shallow thinkin" in tough love? "pull the trigger on the gun i gave you when we met" in close to you???? gave you i, gave you i??? and, ironically, us. isn't even my favourite song on the album but "if history's clear, someone always ends up in ruins / and I history's clear, the flames always end up in ashes" makes me sick! YOU NEVER READ UP ON IT, SHAME, COULD'VE LEARNED SOMETHING! a since we're talking about aaron and taylor... the bridge of that's so cool, of course... "made it out alive, but i think i lost it, said that i was fine, said it from my coffin, remember how i died when you started walking, that's my life"??? and seeing how great someone is, calling them special only for them to show you in the worst ways how wrong you were about them. "but i know what i know and you're just another dude". it's embarrassing and humiliating to think about how much you invested in someone, from every point of view, only for them to prove they were either putting on the greatest act in history, or that you were the one who saw them in a different light. "waited for your walls to close on me, they did, i spun 'round, hate the way i spun 'round, all the way till i could barely breathe / "you paint a picture of us just to burn it, fool, i'm a fool if the shoe fits" in cool?? i truly believe art finds us when we most need it and i think i listened to this album at the right time. ironically, i'd shown it to the person all those songs ended up reminding me of -only having listened to us. at the time- and that will always sting. you just don't expect someone you love to make you relate to lyrics that make you feel like your heart's being ripped out of your chest, do you?

"don't stop talking to me and maybe stay here forever." ha, this timing. the deluxe version of TSOU came out after the events. but this person happened when i least expected them to, when i wasn't even looking for somebody, just like in packing it up. but this year has taught me something, don't let them know we're in pain. limit feeling. shitshows only happen when you tell and show people how you feel. you'll give them your heart and they'll tear it apart and walk out. if you put your pain on display, people won't soothe it even if they pretend to care, how foolish i was to believe, or at least hope for that. they'll know exactly how to hurt you and take advantage of it. showing your feelings is the beginning of your downfall.

if it feels like a trap, you're already in one.

[lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos]

Johnny Cash Hurt, Within Temptation Summertime Sadness, Lacuna Coil Losing my Religion, Lacuna Coil Enjoy the Silence, Anthrax Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Anthrax Neon Knights, Ninja Sex Party Don’t Fear the Reaper, Bump of Chicken Hybrid Rainbow, Wake Me Kiss from a Rose, Machinae Supremacy Gimme More, Epica Replica, Megadeth Paranoid, Rabbit Junk Metro, Goldfinger 99 Red Balloons, Alien Antfarm Smooth Criminal, Halestorm Gold Dust Woman, Halestorm 1996, Halestorm Straight Through the Heart, Shinedown Simpleman, Marilyn Manson Sweet Dreams, Marilyn Manson Tainted Love, Marilyn Manson Personal Jesus, Marilyn Manson You’re so Vain, Otep Breed, Jorn Running up that Hill, Soil Black Betty, Four Year Strong Spiderwebs, Four Year Strong Bittersweet Symphony, Gwar If you want Blood, Aaron Lewis Nutshell, Aaron Lewis What’s Up, Aaron Lewis Sober, Tfmjonny Rainbow in the Dark, Corrosion of Conformity Lord of this World, No Doubt It’s my Life, Sabaton For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Murder Dolls White Wedding, Dope Rebel Yell, Standy & Marc Korn You Spin me Round, David Guetta Baby Don’t Hurt me, David Guetta and Bebe Rexha I’m Good (I’m Blue), Razed in Black Damage Inc., Sabaton Feuer Frei, Stone Sour Creeping Death, Funker Vogt Harvester of Sorrow, Ensiferum Battery, Killswitch Engage Holy Diver, Korn Another Brick in the Wall, Korn Word Up, Bush The One I Love

Some of this is the cover is better, some of this is I just really love this cover.