#covers dining

[mawnurcpssblog]

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[inspiredlivingspaces]

IG pamelajaccarino - 1920’s Tudor interior. Interiors by: @teresamannsdesign

[ahappydnp]

okay yeah sure it was weird and parasocial and an ""unhealthy coping mechanism"" but dnp gotta understand that was OUR emotional support flat

[life-spire]

[anon-e-has-a-tmblr]

Ya boi is making a shelf

[waitmyturtles]

[I’m flipping furiously through my manga volume of Our Dining Table, making sure that I’m correct: I believe Our Dining Table, episode 3, is not canon to the manga (which is FINE, I’m not a canon fascist!) -- but if this zoo/bento episode appeared in any web/Twitter specials, I very much stand corrected!]

Another lovely one from Our Dining Table/Bokura No Shokutaku. Such a quiet, well-paced, lovely show. 

Inukai as Yutaka does almost-cringe really well, as the comments of this post discussed last week, and this week, Yutaka really almost took it to the edge. His approach to his colleague to ask for help to learn how to make bento.... oof. I was this close squirming to the edge of my seat. So well done.

I think this framing of Yutaka 1) needing to learn how to make a bento, 2) needing to learn how to ask for help, 3) getting that help, and 4) receiving the warmest gambatte ever from his colleague -- I think, for the dorama’s sake, it was a necessary vignette to help build up Yutaka.

Because next week, when Yutaka runs into his brother in the grocery store -- it takes him out in the manga, and I have no doubt that Inukai is going to nail it in real time in the dorama. 

So: in this episode, we see Yutaka going through a process of gaining confidence. He’s already feeling validated as a human through his developing relationship with Minoru and Tane-kun.

But I like that, in the dorama, this spreads to Yutaka’s social life/workplace, and that his colleagues are also seeing this change in him.

I didn’t quite put it this way when I was reading the manga for the first time, but we see blips of what happened in Yutaka’s childhood -- he was pushed away while groups of people, his family, ate. I didn’t call it this back then, but it was dehumanizing. 

So what we’re seeing in Yutaka NOW, through Minoru and his family, is Yutaka’s REHUMANIZING. And a lot of that process, I realize, will totally be awkward! And Inukai is toooootally nailing how awkward it is for Yutaka to be going through this growth/regrowth process.

Ugh -- and it’s SO BEAUTIFUL TO SEE. HOW QUIET HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH MINORU ARE. How quiet that confession was to Minoru about not knowing how to make bentos, how nervous Yutaka was -- and, clearly, how moved Minoru was to be one of the recipients of those bentos.

Man, it gives me the shivers that this show is taking the time to fill in the emotional craters that Yutaka has from his upbringing. And I continue to love the portrayal of Minoru’s parenting towards Tane-kun -- and slowly, slowly, how Yutaka brings energy and skills to that shared parenting as well, because that’s what we’re seeing develop.

I knew I loved this manga because of how directly sweet it was. But what I didn’t realize, watching it in dorama form, is that it is SERIOUSLY breaking a HUGE Japanese paradigm of queer couples not being able to be married on paper and have official families. (In TsukuTabe/She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat, a Japanese lesbian is shown on social media as living overseas with her partner and a child.)

As a mama, I’m seriously getting chills watching Yutaka and Minoru grow in their very unofficial (as of now) partnership in sharing care for Tane-kun, and it is BLASSSSTTINNNGG my mom heart to wonderful little bits. ALKJSDKLJFSDF I LOVE THIS SHOW! This show is SUCH A MUST-WATCH, PEOPLE!

[hangsawoman]

my heart aches so hard for lottie because every time she finds something for her, something that helps her cope or lets her be, it gets taken from her. first laura lee, the girl who really sees her and lets her be. she helps her find what she needs and supports her and loves her so hard. and she dies. and then the wilderness, the woods. they take her in and let her be everything she ever needed to be and she is so free. and then it gets taken from her. and she can’t cope with that and her parents despise her for it ..my god she had (has?) to feel so lost for so long.

[toyastales]

A chic way to keep the bugs out

[apolloskazoo]

ellie finding paw patrol themed bandaids around jackson & snatching them & bringing them home bc she thinks they’re funny. her seeing joel asleep on the couch and trying to stifle her cackles as she starts putting paw patrol bandaids on all of his scars (he’s a hardened apocalypse survivor, he’s got a lot). him waking up and ellie being unable to hold in her laughter, and she tells him not to take them off no matter what

joel going out on patrol a couple of hours later covered in paw patrol bandaids

“joel what—”

“don’t ask.”

[mawnurcpssblog]

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[holmesoldfellow]

"Dining with Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook" by Julia Carlson Rosenblatt and Frederic H. Sonnenschmidt (1976)

[vintagepromotions]

Cover of the menu at the Starlight Roof, Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan, New York (1935).

[vintagehomecollection]

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[lupismaris]

My mil won/stole the mini tool box (with drawers and such) from our in-laws white elephant on Xmas and I had assumed it would be used for her art supplies as it was intended for when I put it in the gifting pool (the in-laws are heavy crafters)

So tell me why I came home last night to find my new bottles of T carefully displayed in one drawer and my antiseptic in another

[james-p-sullivan]

every year for christmas i bake cookie boxes for my coworkers and every year i try to outdo myself. this was 2022 and ive already begun planning for 2023