#The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2021

[thirteensfavoritetoy]

Whittaker also recently revealed that she asked her former Doctor Who co-star John Bishop for his advice before taking part in the series, after he appeared on it in 2021.

She said: "I rang John Bishop, who said he had a great time on it. And also, I remember him smashing the bowl, so I thought, 'I can’t do much worse.'"

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #jodie whittaker #john bishop #great british bake off #gbbo

[panelshowsource]

new additions to the masterpost :)

hey all ~

along with the few panelist collections i soft-launched yesterday (🥹 thanks for enjoying them), there is some new content on the masterpost + secondary masterpost!

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panel shows

bring the noise — complete series sky 1 series hosted by ricky wilson with nicole scherzinger, tinie tempah, joel dommett, katherine ryan

the guessing game — complete series bbc radio scotland radio panel show where guests are asked a series of bizarre questions; hosted by clive anderson and guests include alex horne, susan calman, hal cruttenden, matthew crosby, cariad lloyd, etc.

it's your round — complete series radio panel show where each guests invents the round to be won. hosted by angus deayton and guests include miles jupp, sara pascoe, rebecca front, josie long, bridget christie, tim key, etc.

richard hammond's brain reaction — complete series science-based panel show hosted by richard hammond alongside victoria coren mitchell, johnny vegas and ria lina

misc. tv

archiveologists — complete series two episodes of mash aka diane morgan & joe wilkinson re-voice archive footage to give us a twisted comedy spin on british social history and institutions in short 'information' films

beauty & the beast: a pantomime for comic relief (2021) pandemic era virtual panto starring lily james, oliver chris, sian gibson, kiell smith-bynoe, miranda hart, michael sheen, lee mack, etc.

imagine... jo brand: no holds barred (2019) documentary about the legend herself, featuring interviews with peter capaldi, alan davies, victoria coren mitchell, etc.

show & tell — complete series e4 series celebrating comic storytelling. each episode sees three comedians bring something to 'show' to viewers. hosted by chris addison and guests include roisin conaty, elis james, joe wilkinson, joe lycett, diane morgan, james acaster, etc.

staged — complete series david tennant and michael sheen didn't win a bafta for this but they should have

the complete stand up to cancer celebrity episodes of the great british bake off (i will work on the sport relief episodes!)

twenty twelve — complete series bbc mockumentary series accompanying the 2012 olympics, starring hugh bonneville and jessica hynes

who do you think you are? — david tennant

misc. radio

alex horne presents the horne section — complete series 2011–2014 bbc radio 4 series

party's over — complete series bbc radio 4 sitcom starring miles jupp as a prime minister coping with life after leaving office

women talking about cars — complete series victoria coren mitchell hosts an exploration of what cars symbolise to women today, including freedom, power, refuge, novelty and familiarity; guests include olivia colman, claudia winkleman, jennifer saunders, etc.

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ps. icymi these are the masterpost additions from last week which are well worth checking out!

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[thesinglesjukebox]

DLALA THUKZIN, ZABA & SYKES - "IPLAN"

Amapiano is probably our most consistently high-scoring genre. Joshua Kim explains how it's evolving...

[8.25]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: The greatest musical development in South Africa this year was 3-step, a style of house music coined by Thakzin that bridges AfroTech and amapiano. He isn't the first to have made songs in this zone (the earliest I've found is Prince Kaybee & Nokwazi's "Ebabayo" from 2021), but he did produce numerous tracks that made him its current poster boy. The genre's most clear, defining feature is the presence of a kick drum on the 1, 3, and 4 of a measure (and less commonly the 1, 2, and 3), which grants each song a more rigid foundation than the typical amapiano track. It's a perfect fit for Dlala Thukzin's "iPlan" and its hopeful lyrics. Zaba sings about not having money or a job, and his voice weaves in and out of the song, like the still-small voice inside your head that tells you to stay calm. And really, it's only fitting that "iPlan" functions as an EDM song without an all-consuming drop; what arrives instead is steady, comforting relief. Its clanging percussion has felt like a multitude of metaphors to me: the pounding beat of your heart, a sign that you're still alive; the sound of repetitive toil, like the promise of something coming from all your hard work; even a desire for reprieve amid life's constant suffering. Here is a song that acts as an invitation to grieve and to celebrate. The beat keeps going, and as I look back on another year, this serves as a nice reminder that somehow, miraculously, I'm still here too. [10]

Micha Cavaseno: I hit a place of personal burnout somewhere in the mid 2010s with the different regional dance scenes of the world made available for all of us by the internet breaking down geographic restriction. Part of it was the fast & loose fashion mentality that made sub-genres go from underrated to overrated within a span of mere weeks, and how any artist could go from essential to disposable before you'd truly had a chance to digest it. To this day, plenty of lingering questions haunt me: did I "miss out" when bubblin' was a thing (maybe)? Was Zomby right to get banned from a message board because people thought bassline and niche were the same (yes)? Did Resident Advisor's coverage specifically get worse when they eliminated the comment section and thus prevented proangelwings from lighting their ass up all the time for pedestrian summaries (no, but it didn't help)? Now I look at an artist like Dlala Thukzin and sigh that I can't in any good faith claim to have a real comprehension of the differences between gqom, afriampo, afrotech, kuduro, kwaito, so on and such... Though I know that it's there, and I need it in order to know what makes a song like this particularly good beyond how muscular yet gentle it is. It's great to admire something for spectacle, but I would like to know the brilliance (or even the clunkiness) of form one day. [8]

Ian Mathers: There's a pleasing graininess to some of the synths here that remind me of other amapiano I've heard, but I'm less familiar (but still taken) by the stiff percussion that sometimes sounds like it's slightly phasing in and out. Both play off the high, sometimes keening vocals very well. The end result is both propulsive and, especially on headphones, subtly disorienting - it can make your head feel like it's swirling. And I haven't even tried listening to it baked yet! [8]

Kat Stevens: Like finding a couple of ibuprofen in the drawer when you were looking for codeine: grateful they exist but missing that extra oomph. [7]

Katherine St Asaph: In isolation, this is a bit too muted for a desensitized tension-enjoyer like me to be drawn to. I'd probably love it in the right DJ set. [7]

Michelle Myers: Romanticized melancholy works beautifully in dance music. I want to cry in a club to this. [9]

David Moore: Just when I start to have a handle on some of the formal characteristics of South African dance music, it evolves again into 3-step. Thakzin describes adapting his AfroTech sound, broadly popular with international audiences, to South African audiences during the amapiano zeitgeist and hitting on a novel formula that involves a three-beat pattern. Anyway, that's as best as I can understand or describe it. Dlala Thukzin -- not to be confused with Thakzin (as the interviewer in the clip above jokes, but you should absolutely listen to Thakzin, too) -- created a wildly popular take on this sound, which ruled the South African charts for months starting in September. [8]

Nortey Dowuona: Zaba was hijacked, injured one of the robbers and escaped with his hand stabbed in June of this year. 3 months later this song goes number 1 on the Official South African Charts. Somebody was praying for that fool. [10]

Will Adams: Over the course of my dilettantish experience with amapiano, I've come to expect a few qualities: a) impossibly gorgeous; b) a luxurious slow build that carries the risk of; c) never fully reaching a destination. "iPlan" possesses all three, but has a bit more of Column C than usual, which keeps it at a mild distance. The low-mixed vocals might be to blame. [6]

Brad Shoup: I love how pensive this is, how Dlala Thukzin submerges the vocals until they're barely visible from the surface. It resists any easy soar the whole way through: a fantastic transition track, I'd imagine. [8]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Less a song, more a full night on the dancefloor compressed into six minutes -- some artists' entire careers have fewer moments of transcendental jubilation than "iPlan." There's this tea kettle noise that Dlala Thukzin works in the second time Zaba & Sykes go through that chorus that feels like ascension -- and then the song keeps going for three more minutes! [9]

Frank Kogan: Halfway through a People's Pop Poll, when we've finally gotten through the quallies and into Round One, Tom will grab a sentence from every track's YouTube comments and tweet out four of them at a time, one for each track in a heat. Often he'll find comments that are hilariously obtuse, though sometimes they're poignant and evocative. Anyhow, for Emma Bunton's "Free Me" (you probably knew Emma as "Baby Spice") the YouTube comment that Tom lifted was, "It's very soothing and edgy." I stared at this for a minute's worth of nervous self-recognition and then tweeted back, "'It's very soothing and edgy' are what half my reviews come down to." So "iPlan" is cutting up beats in a way that pushes beyond amapiano but is also digging back into late '10s gqom, which is edgier and more driving and more gripping hence more soothing than amapiano, so's the same 90% overlap you get in amapiano's typical soothing-edgy Venn Diagram, but with a bigger circle. Is about dogged determination, is about gliding dance moves across shards of glass, dark beauty, sharp beats. [9]

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#dlala thukzin #zaba #sykes #music #amapiano #south african music #music writing #music reviews #music criticism #the singles jukebox #Youtube

[samcybercat]

Supernatural Characters That I Liked :D

On 2nd April 2023, we finished watching all 15 seasons of Supernatural. My history with this show is that I didn't really know it was a thing while it was popular and then by the time I joined Tumblr it was "that series people on Tumblr like that I don't think would be for me". Up until late 2021, the only things from Supernatural that I'd seen were the Destiel Confession (TM), a short scene of Dean telling Sam & Jack that Castiel was dead and the montage of Sam dying from the final episode. Beyond that, I genuinely knew nothing about the show But in 2021 (I think?) my housemates and I had finished BBC Merlin and were looking for a new long series to try, which ended up being Supernatural. Our set-up was that Gemba had seen up to Season 12 (and thus had to endure us asking many questions about it), but Amber and I had never seen any of it Now, no one needs me to review Supernatural. Enough other people who know more about it than I do have done that. But it's been a long ride and I wanted to do something to celebrate it. So instead of picking apart the good and the bad, I thought I'd simply make a list of the characters I like. This is not an all-inclusive list, as in over 15 seasons there are bound to be a few fun one-off characters who I'll forget. But I tried to include as many characters as possible Starting off with my beloved - everyone's favourite Supernatural character whose name begins with the letter C...

...Crowley! (Don't worry, Castiel is also on the list lol)

I cannot understate how much Crowley kept me going with this show. We'd just come off the back of the Trickster dying and I was bummed about that, but then Crowley came along with all his yelling and his bisexual villainy and I was won over immediately. Everything about Mark Sheppard's performance was a delight and all his interactions with the rest of the main cast were so fun. When Crowley ended up on the path from enemy to frenemy to begrudging ally, it never felt like character-derailment at all. Though having said that, I also fully understand and respect Sheppard's choice to leave because he was disappointed with how Crowley was being written - as much as it was a big miss for me to see Crowley go. Crowley is my blorbo for this show He is also incredibly shippable with Sam

Next up is Sam, Mr. Skrunkly Himself and the greatest shipping bicycle I could ask for Now, some of you who I have talked to about Supernatural might remember me saying that I didn't like Sam, which certainly was true in the earlier seasons. I just feel like in the beginning, Sam's stick-in-the-mud attitude needed a bit longer to bake until he became the absolutely endearing, doe-eyed giant that he would become later on. I also think that Sam becoming a better character ended up lining up quite well with Dean becoming... less of a characters that I could enjoy, so that worked out nicely. I'm sorry that I was a non-believer to start with, Sammy, but I'm 100% a Sam Girl now lol

You're on tumblr, you know who this is I now definitely understand why this website was so obsessed with Castiel. What could've easily been a throw-away character was turned into a series main-stay and I'm sure that a large part of that was due to the clear love that Misha Collins had for the character and poured into his performance. Every time Castiel was around it was always great and, like a lot of people, my biggest problem with Castiel was that they didn't use him enough. They (probably accidentally) wrote one of the best autistic characters I've seen in a while and also, his Dadstiel scenes with Claire and Jack are one of the few times I've really enjoyed seeing a character take on the role of a parent Castiel is also incredibly shippable with Sam (sorry Destiel shippers, I'm Sastiel through and through)

Queen of my heart, Rowena! The treatment of female characters in Supernatural is another topic with not a great reputation, but you've got to believe me when I say that Rowena is a brilliant character, one of the best and most-fun female villains. When she was introduced as Crowley's mum, I knew we were in for a great ride and, sure enough, every episode she was in was charming. Ruth Connell really ran with the concept of "vengeful Scottish witch". My fears for Rowena had been that she would be killed off shortly after Crowley's departure, but I was delighted to see that she continued to be a main-stay for most of the show, ending with her destined death scene with Sam, before being triumphantly crowned Queen of Hell Rowena is also incredibly shippable with Sam, though I've also gotta give a shout-out to my short-lived OTP of Rowena x Gabriel

Speaking of Gabriel, the Trickster was definitely what kept me watching at the start of the series. In the beginning, Supernatural was a bit dry for my taste and he injected that shot of fun into it that it needed to keep me interested. His episodes were few and far between, but just knowing there might be a Trickster episode on the horizon always kept me going until Crowley came along to take the mantle from him. I was glad to see Gabriel return later on, even if I feel like they didn't really use him or play to his strengths quite as much as they did in the early episodes The Trickster is also incredibly shippable with Sam

The best baby boy, Jack! On paper, the concept of Lucifer's son joining the team felt like a desperate attempt by the writers to show a new, younger audience that they were still hip and relevant, but that ended up not being the case. From the moment Jack appeared, he was wonderful, bringing the same energy as Castiel, but with that child-like optimism attached that would lead to him ultimately saving the day and making a better world for everyone. Seeing the trio raising a son was also brilliant and actually the perfect kind of fanfic-fodder the show needed. My biggest regret for Jack is that he came along after most people stopped caring about the show, so he didn't receive the appreciation I think he deserved

I actually feel bad that it's taken me so long to get to Bobby, as he's one of my big faves, but in my defence he wasn't in the later seasons very much. Bobby went from being "Guy who tells the brothers where the monster of the week is" to the actual perfect father-figure they deserved. There was a reason why when Dean gets to heaven it was Bobby waiting for him and not John, and it wasn't just because getting Neegan back was probably expensive. Bobby is another underrated autistic icon imo and excellent boyfriend-material for Crowley. Even though I was sad when his time on the show was cut short, he was one of the few characters who I felt was given the right amount of fanfare for his send-off

Ketch! I love Ketch! He's our fave in this house. After the very dull Darkness season, I had my hopes low and was rolling my eyes when the British Men of Letters were introduced, but then they ended up being so cringe that it cycled back around to being funny again. We would cheer every time Ketch appeared

Yes, I like Bela and think she was fun in her appearances, you're all just mean about her :(

This version of Meg specifically was wonderful and top-tier shippable with Castiel. It's no wonder that she was the one they called back to play The Empty all those years later. Meg's flirty banter was the perfect foil for Castiel's serious cluelessness and I would always look forward to scenes with both of them

I'm gonna be real with you: most of the season-long villains were very hit or miss for me, but Zachariah was one villain who I thought was excellent. It's a shame he was so early on, so I don't remember too much about his specifically, but I do remember enjoying him and how powerful he made the angels feel

Pamela or, as she was known in our house for a long time, The Woman Who Was Fine About Everything. When Pamela first appears she's like "Two brother? Awesome, let's have a threesome!" ...Then she gets her eyes blasted out. When we next see her, Pamela is totally cool with being blind and is even using it to help her work. ...Then she gets killed off. But when we next see her in the afterlife, wouldn't you know it, she's totally cool with being dead. Even when she later appears as a figment of Dean's imagination, she's fine with that, too. So here's to you, Pamela. Wherever you are, I know you're totally cool with it!

Kevin Tran and his mum. These two characters are the absolute example of deserving much better from the writing, especially Kevin. At least his mum got some cool scenes when she tried to rescue him, but poor Kevin was basically the Wincester's hostage who then died to give Dean more man pain. Which is a shame, because Kevin was great and I really wish we'd been given more fun scenes with him

Hannah (Agent Stone version) ...Look, it's Lee Majdoub, the guy who plays Agent Stone in the Sonic Movies! Turns out he had a brief role in Supernatural as one of Hannah's vessels. I wish he'd stuck around, but as a big Sonic fan I'm glad he moved onto other things :')

Claire Novak - I never expected the kid from Castiel's vessel's old life to come back as a full character later on, but Claire filled the role of the vengeful daughter who grew to respect Castiel so well and I definitely wish we'd seen more of both Claire and her short-lived relationship with Kaia. I also had the exact same Grumpy Cat plushie that Castiel gave to Claire, so I was very endeared by that

Both the original Death and Billie who came after him were excellent! Both very different and strong personalities who filled every scene they were in - when these two appeared, you really knew Dean had to sit up and pay attention, because shit was about to get real

Another one of my top faves, Eileen! Imagine my surprise when Supernatural of all series introduces one of the very few portrayals of a deaf character I've seen and she ends up becoming a recurring character and love interest to one of the main characters. Eileen was annoyingly killed off-screen, but then they made up for it by having Sam go to such lengths to bring her back. She had an adorable relationship with Sam. ...Then they killed her off again and left us to only assume that she must've been returned to life by Jack, but never actually showed that. Oh well, I will choose to believe that the blurry woman they showed with Sam in his montage in the last episode was Eileen and they got the happy ending they deserved

Rufus went from having a somewhat subdued first appearance to being Bobby's partner in crime and that was when he really shined. Another character who was killed off far too early, wasting his potential, but I enjoyed the few Bobby & Rufus episodes that we did get

Garth was just a nice guy and I wanted good things for him. After his short, but successful, role as The New Bobby, I'm glad that Garth was able to retire and live with his werewolf family without becoming yet another victim of characters dying by association with the Winchesters

Becky went from being a very fun nod-to-the-fandom character to having that... one very uncomfortable episode with Sam... to disappearing for a long time and finally coming back to be shown living her best life with her family and thriving. Screw Chuck for killing her off, but I choose to believe that she came back

Crowley having a son who was brought to modern day from ye olde Scotland and then let loose into a park somewhere will never not be funny to me. I liked Gavin for the few episodes he was in

...And I'm bored of looking for screenshots now, so I'll cap this off by also giving a shout-out to fan-fave, Charlie, who they once again killed off before they should've done but at least had some good episodes, Balthazar, who was the idea friend for Castiel and gave me big Dionysus Hades Game vibes, Metatron, who really grew on my from his initial introduction as villain to reluctant frenemy, and to Chuck, who was a character who really annoyed me for most of the series, but then once they started playing him as a straight up villain it felt like he was the perfect way to sing the series out. Amara also got a lot better in later seasons from her unfortunate first appearance and it was a shame about her hand-wave ending I have mixed feelings about Dean. Goodnight

#Supernatural #spn crowley #Sam Winchester #Castiel #Rowena Macleod #not gonna tag anyone else #these also aren't in order of faves btw #just what i'd remember as i was writing

[wndawtch]

𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐬 ⊹˙

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it was mid 2021, the pair were celebrating their anniversary in Camping Les Prairies De La Mer, France.

chris was such a sucker for love, especially with you.

always starting at you in complete love, always finding a way to hold onto you, finding way to include you or link about anything back to you!

y/n was going to get some more delicious sugar cover freshly baked donuts with ice cream dipped in melted belgium chocolate.

chris didn’t even notice as first where y/n.

thought she was off into the sea… to surf again.

if chris knew how to surf, he would non-stop have his hands glued onto y/n waist🤭

10 minutes passed, y/n was walking back in a hurry.

trying to get back before the ice creams were just empty wooden sticks…

chris was of course in his own world, thinking of you were both going to do in the next few minutes, or what you mind was running away to.

chris was distracted by ruffling his large even tanned fingers, rummaging through any pieces of dirt, clumps or debris of all sort.

keeping his mind in a calm way.

he saw you running back, he quickly ruffled the sand again.

saving himself out of embarrassment, he’s was a little shy<3

beautifully designed the way he carved your name into the sand, exclamation point at the end, surrounding you name with poorly drawn hearts…

that seem to look like they’ve been drawn by a 5 yr old, but heyho!

“thanks honey, how was the trip?”

“ofc sweetheart! one freshly back sugar-covered donut along withhhh, one large belgium chocolate ice cream!” y/n happily responds with dragging out the the t whole having a massive smile with dimples on her sun kissed skin <3

chris’ respond with a teddy bear hug, no doubts

y/n realizes that there was a letter left carved into the sand, chris didn’t do such a great job hiding after his act…

“what was you doing, while i grabbing our 5th snack of the day mister!?” she spoke with a mysterious tone…

chris was just… frozen. completely frozen

“oh that, uh yeah, i don’t actually know who did thatttt” chris was just digging himself a deeper & deeper & deeper grave at this point…

he caved in, finally.

“yeaaa, i was writing your name into the sand” he replied with a nervous smile, holding his thumbs hoping your wouldn’t find it weird.

“chris, why do you need to be nervous about theses things! it’s cute, i literally adore this small interquit details about. it’s main reason why i married you, you himbo”

y/n softly spoken while rubbing more sun screen onto his back, while drawing random shapes on his largely, muscular back.

he instantly pick you up, engulfing you into a massive smooch onto the lips.

while he ‘accidentally’ spilling the ice cream over you chest.

it’s just so he can put his head in between you breasts…

the playful man he is :)

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𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐜𝐡 ୧ ‧₊˚ 🤍 ⋅

#wndawtch’s fics! #chris evans #chris evans x you #chris evans x female reader #chris evans x fluff #chris evans comfort #chris evans fluff #husband!chris x wife!reader #husband!chris #chris x wife!reader

[jess-moloney]

This woman’s online presence is so fucking weird. I could understand Jess not having Twitter. Weird in 2023 if you’re pretty much under 40 not to, but okay. Not everyone’s cup of tea. Sure. What I don’t understand is miss I’m-A-Serious-Business-Professional not having a LinkedIn. Even if it’s not updated. If her track record is as stated and some verifiable, why not have one? If you pivot and co-own a business, that’s something to be proud of and have it listed. If you need networking as badly as she does, that’s a good place for it.

Privacy isn’t her issue. Her issue is pretty obviously that only having Instagram (that we know of) is best because you can pick and choose what people see, hide things from certain people, archive things…everything she needs to have the persona she does.

The question then becomes how she’s explained this to Jamie. We know it’s because she’s a pathological con artist. But, they got together in early 2021. He had to have asked at some point if she was this great talented manager and owned a second business, why aren’t you promoting your business? Why don’t you wear your brand’s clothes? Why if you manage people that live in New York, do you live in California? It’s a head scratcher that he either never had these questions or was so under her spell in the beginning that he didn’t care.

I suppose there’s like a 1% chance her businesses are legitimate. Honestly at this point with what seems like a defunct management business and Ice Studios which is a joke, I think she has an OnlyFans.

Any number of people would see tattoos and a wannabe goth “witch queen” thing and pay for something. What that something is? Don’t know. Could be tame, could not be. Her lifestyle (her plastic surgery alone) takes upkeep. You’d be surprised what people do for money. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if she’s a sugar baby. I’d be so curious to know if either of those theories are legit. It’d make sense.

You make very good points here. I also wanted to add if she has an OnlyFans (which I wouldn’t put past her) not only is there goth/tattoo appeal but very sadly there is ED fetish content. The more emaciated and skeletal she looks the more those people would get off on it. She may get off on it too as it’s clearly something she’s worked very hard on achieving.

If her business was legitimate (at least Ice Studios) and successful, trust me, we’d have heard of it before Jess and not only because of Jess. Maybe it’s making just enough money to keep it out of the red but it’s not making millions. Pull 100 people off the street and ask them if they’ve heard of this brand. A thousand. Two thousand. You are guaranteed to starve to death before you find a person who knows this brand without googling it first. I’d bet my life savings on that.

As for her “management” company, if she had high profile clients of any type she’d be way too busy to be following Jamie around or yanking him on Snowboarding trips just for Instagram clout. She wouldn’t be able to follow him to all these conventions and she wouldn’t have time for those stupid baking videos (or care to make them). We’d also see her with other celebrities doing something. Someone of note would mention her. She’d wouldn’t be ignored by everyone she tags on IG. I mean could she be making just enough money, barely, to keep both businesses from bankruptcy? Yes. She’s 100% not successful or wealthy from it.

Something is going on with this woman and she’s hidden it very well. She doesn’t even seem to care that the Ice Shop is down and has been down for days. No one at Ice seems to care. How well well fan that brand be doing if they can’t even be arsed to put up a note about their broken down scam site? I don’t know how she got Jamie so blind to all of this long enough to trap him in the cage she has him in now but whatever she did it was probably awful and this whole situation seems like a nightmare for him.

#jess moloney #jamie campbell bower #jamie bower #mail

[laresearchette]

Sunday, November 12, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: BEACON 23 (MGM+) A HEIDELBERG HOLIDAY (W Network) 8:00pm KIDS BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP: SWEETS-GIVING (Food Network Canada) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?: LAWMEN: BASS REEVES (CBS Feed) CANDACE PARKER: UNAPOLOGETIC (Premiering on November 16 on TSN5 at 8:00pm) AMERICAN MONSTER (TBD - Investigation Discovery) GOOD COP, BAD COP (TBD - Investigation Discovery)

2023 FIFA MEN'S U17 WORLD CUP (TSN3) 3:48am: Venezuela vs. New Zealand (TSN5) 3:48am: France vs. Burkina Faso (TSN3) 6:48am: Mexico vs. Germany (TSN5) 6:48am: Korea vs. U.S.

BILLIE JEAN KING CUP (SN1) 9:00am: FINAL: Canada vs. Italy

GRAND SLAM OF CURLING (SN) 10:00am: National - Men’s Final (SN) 2:30pm: National - Women’s Final

NFL FOOTBALL (TSN4) 9:30am: Colts vs. Patriots (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 1:00pm: 49ers vs. Jaguars (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 4:00pm: Lions vs. Chargers (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 8:20pm: Jets vs. Raiders

NHL HOCKEY (SN360) 1:00pm: Chicago vs. Panthers (SN) 6:00pm: Stars vs. Wild (SNPacific/TSN2) 7:00pm: Canucks vs. Habs (TSN2) 7:00pm: Canucks vs. Habs (SN360) 8:00pm: Sharks vs. Ducks

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 7:00pm: Nuggets vs. Rockets (TSN5) 8:00pm: Thunder vs. Suns (SN Now) 8:30pm: Timberwolves vs. Warriors (SN1) 10:00pm: Trailblazers vs. Lakers

HEARTLAND (CBC) 7:00pm: Lou's forced to face the reason for her insomnia; Amy works with a new client who has a surprising connection to Katie; Jack wins over a prickly dude ranch guest….A GUEST HORSIE!

THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW (CBC) 8:00pm: The four remaining bakers get fancy for Patisserie Week and the last chance to make it to the finale.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND: DRILLING DOWN (History Canada) 8:00pm: Matty Blake returns to Oak Island and gets an insider's look at the incredible challenges and triumphs the fellowship of the dig have experienced this year in their quest to finally solve the old Oak Island mystery.

BIG LIES IN A SMALL TOWN (Lifetime Canada) 8:00pm: Young mother Rachel frantically searches for her teen daughter, Hannah, after their car crashes outside a small town; people die mysteriously in Rachel's wake as she gets closer to finding out that the local doctor kidnapped her daughter.

ETERNAL SPRING (documentary) 8:00pm: Members of an outlawed spiritual group hack China's state TV to expose brutal repression; celebrated comic book artist Daxiong tells the story of resilient activists fighting for religious freedom.

CRIMES GONE VIRAL (Investigation Discovery) 8:00pm/8:30pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A defiant victim refuses to give up even when a thief runs him over; an unarmed security guard saves the day when a gunman storms in; brave homeowners tackle flames after an unprovoked car arson; a crossing guard risks her own life to save a child. In Episode Two, a quick-thinking employee outsmarts armed thieves; a mother jumps into action when her son gets snatched off the street; someone attacks a woman in her own driveway; a burglar literally gets stuck, with comedic results.

SKYMED (CBC) 9:00pm: A sick patient hits close to home, leaving Crystal reeling; Hayley struggles to face the consequences of her actions when Wheezer discovers her secret.

BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT (Nat Geo Canada) 9:00pm: Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine uses his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, who's led the country for 35 years, and runs in the 2021 presidential election.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): As Rick and Marty Lagina and their team relaunch their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery, they make a number of the most historic discoveries ever unearthed in North America.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #heartland #the great canadian baking show #the curse of oak island: drilling down #skymed #the curse of oak island #fifa men's world cup #tennis #curling #nfl football #nba basketball #nhl hockey

[amberfaber40]

Snack eyeballs halloween featuring jerked beef, halloween, and cured

Snack eyeballs halloween featuring jerked beef, halloween, and cured

This holidays stock photo created by Apolonia is perfect for projects featuring ham, gammon, and eye.

Jack Skellington Oreo Pops | Recipe in 2021 | Halloween treats easy, Halloween party themes, Hallowe

Jack Skellington Oreo Pops are so easy to make and would be great for a Halloween Party!

40+ Creeptastic Halloween Party Food Ideas for Kids

Ghouls and goblins, the witching hour is here! Don your baking hats and dust off that cauldron to whip up creeptastic treats for all.

55+ Best Halloween Dessert Recipe Ideas For 2022

Looking for a new Halloween dessert recipe? These super creative ideas will give you the spooky inspiration you need to make yours sweet and scary!

Halloween Cakesicles

Coffin Shaped Homemade Pop Tarts | Fun Halloween Recipe

Melted Jack O’ Lantern Brownies

Easy Halloween Treat Recipes

Enjoy these Easy Halloween Treats that are frighteningly easy and delicious! Perfect for your Halloween Bash or class party! Kids love 'em!

Bloody Halloween Cupcakes

These bloody cupcakes are a delicious way to celebrate the Halloween season. There are three steps to the process of making these bloody cupcakes. Whether you're looking to create a Halloween party treat or something

10 Healthy Whole-Food Halloween Treats

10 Healthy Whole-Food Halloween Treats that are "Pintrest Worthy."

[stageyrebecca]

Why I’m not interested in the WhatsOnStage Awards

This year marks the 23rd annual WhatsOnStage Awards – the ceremony celebrating theatre up and down the country, as voted for and nominated by the public. I love a good reason to get together, dress up and have a laugh, but I won’t be taking part.

And this isn’t to take anything from the fantastic people and productions that are eligible or have won in the past. It’s simply my opinion as a fan of underrated shows and performers.

The awards cover a range of categories with production awards such as West End, Off-West End, Concerts but also performance awards for Best Takeover (i.e. new cast members in an already running show), and Professional Debut.

On the whole, the awards mean well and they include the all important fans where other awards are nominated and selected by an elite few. But there are just a few things that, for me, make me uninterested in the WhatsOnStage Awards.

The Eligibility Criteria

Generally, to be eligible for a nomination, the production, and therefore the performers, need to have begun between 26 November 2021 and 22 November 2022. But there are categories for long running shows such as Best West End Musical.

My first thought here regarding the dates is that the major history-making West End musical The Drifters Girl is not eligible this year, as it began previews in early November last year and shut in October this year. This meant it only a handful of weeks to get nominations in last year, vs shows that typically would’ve had nearly a year to garner a following. And since it closed last month, it isn’t eligible for Best West End Show either. And while all awarding bodies will have cut off dates, it seems unfair when it’s fans who have to nominate in.

One thing I do rate is that regional and touring productions are rightly squared up against each other as equals in most categories. With such high quality non-London productions, this seems fair and in my opinion, a more accurate reflection of the talent on display in this country. So this could range from the Great British Bake Off Musical in Cheltenham, to Bonnie and Clyde in the West End.

Even some performers themselves don't know if they're eligible, which seems to be an unfair skew towards people who do know.

And that’s what causes, in my opinion, the largest downfall of the awards.

The Nomination Process

Every year the WOS Awards occur, we get a flurry of performers and productions who rightly want to be nominated. And what an honour it must be to be nominated and even win an award where it’s come from the people. But these performers and productions shouldn’t have to ask to be nominated. Not least because some of the greatest performers don’t use social media which is WOS’ biggest communication channel, but the awards should naturally have a longlist of eligible performers and productions prepared, surely!

With regards to performer categories, some performers themselves seem unsure if they’re even eligible. And if they’re pushing for us to nominate them, and it turns out they’re not eligible, it seems deeply unfair on those who are eligible getting a reduced amount of nominations – particularly as you can only nominate one per category (more on that later…).

As it’s such muddied waters, in my opinion, the only way to clearly and fairly lay out the eligibility criteria is for WhatsOnStage to keep tabs on everything. Perhaps this is simply WOS having a database of everything that’s eligible each year as it opens, closes and performers change. Or maybe it’s WOS approaching the production companies to flag the parameters of eligibility if they would like to put forward their shows and performers. If the awards are something that productions should want to their name, this sounds like the fairest option. Especially as some brilliant shows only have a short run so their fanbase will only stretch so far, vs a long running show.

WOS’ news feed is particularly comprehensive so I’m sure it’s an easier task than retrospectively wading through the nominations to double check their eligibility.

But this is not the only reason I think it’s unfair to pin it on the consumer to nominate.

Fan-nominated and awarded accolades astronomically skew towards social media. It’s almost as if it’s a deep requirement to have a large online presence or celebrity status in order to be deemed a better, or award-worthy actor or creative.

And the nominators don’t even need to have seen the show to nominate – they could be a follower who just happens to like someone or, dare I say, be influenced by someone to nominate forward actors and productions that they haven’t any intention of seeing. And there’s no real way to stop it without WOS keeping a longlist of eligible creatives and productions.

This leaves an unfair shortlist of nominees… which is before we’ve even gotten to the actual award process.

Voting for the awards

Once the WOS Award shortlist is released, it is another round of asking for votes on social media, where again it feels like a popularity or ‘most followers’ contest. Or they can ask their followers to vote for their friends. While a follower may not actually go ahead and do this, the chances of them doing so are exponentially increased over someone who doesn’t ask.

And that also leaves what I’m coining ‘ghost votes’. I’m sure we’re all guilty of having voted in polls where we have no real association or care with what’s actually being asked, so we therefore vote for what has the most ‘recognisable’ quality.

The WOS Award voting process will always have people with good intentions voting for productions more than worthy of awards… but there will also be categories where you can vote for something you don’t care for. For example, I might want to vote for Bonnie & Clyde in all its categories should it be shortlisted for an award… and then I’ll come across Best New Play. I’ve not seen any new plays this year and yet I’m still able to vote in it, and it’s easy to just select something I’ve heard of rather than something I think is genuinely worthy of that award.

But that gets into weird voter ID territory. When Back to the Future was eligible for the awards earlier this year, they had QR codes projected onto the curtain - perhaps this is a fairer way of asking people to vote.

And while WOS say that they reserve “the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend nominations/voting should there be causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the fairness or proper conduct of the nomination/voting process”, it doesn’t take even a few minutes to see how easily fans like to exploit the awards process by voting more than once (with some even having dubious GDPR implications):

The Impact

This is pure speculation, but awards that are voted in this way, to me, don’t hold as much weight as other awards and therefore shouldn’t have industry impact.

It's clear to those who are fans of theatre on Twitter that these are solely fan nominated and fan voted, but I wonder if it's as clear to those who just pop to London and see posters covered in WOS Award accolades. Perhaps that's why WOS renamed the awards from the Theatregoers' Choice Awards.

Awards, on the whole, don't mean a great deal anyway; I'm at peace with the fact the majority of my favourite shows won't win awards for a variety of reasons, but they don't make or break shows like they're known to on Broadway.

I imagine when a fan favourite wins an award, the WOS social media interaction goes through the roof. Even by their own admission, WOS have shared that they operate as an advertiser, and perhaps an awards ceremony which feels like it includes the fans at the most foundation level is their greatest marketing tool. It makes the fans feel included and are able to dictate what is deemed award worthy - and in some way or another, fans will pretty much always dictate what shows stick and what don't.

But perhaps the WOS Awards are a marketing tool for producers. Similar to Musical Con, they prove who the most popular talent in the industry is, and who fans are willing to show up for and even pay money to see (the WOS Awards invite fans to purchase tickets to be in the audience). And you honestly can’t blame them, it’s practically free research that they’d otherwise have to pay thousands for. Producers could therefore angle particular actors to be in their own shows in future to increase ticket sales - it's already known that some casting directors consider who have a large social media following.

So in short, the awards don’t appeal to me because:

The nominations process is dubious as eligibility is vague, pinned on the consumer and the nominations should be held by the awarding body

Despite reflecting the entire UK’s talent-base vs other awards, the nomination and award process are predominantly reliant on asking for votes on social media

Having a dedicated social media shouldn’t be prerequisite for receiving awards

The inability to actually prove you've seen the material shortlisted inflates certain nominees coupled with ability to create multiple accounts to vote

All together, for me, these ruin the integrity of the awards

What do you think?

Have you nominated anyone for a WhatsOnStage Award this year? Will you be voting when the shortlist comes out?

*Images by Dan Wooller & WhatsOnStage

[suegreene]

[Download Book] The Great British Baking Show: A Bake for All Seasons - Great British Baking Show Bakers

Download Or Read PDF The Great British Baking Show: A Bake for All Seasons - Great British Baking Show Bakers Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook.

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 A Bake for All Seasons is The Great British Baking Show's Ode to Nature, packed with timely bakes lovingly created to showcase seasonal ingredients and draw inspiration from the changing moods and events of the year.Whether you're looking to make the best of asparagus in spring, your prize strawberries in summer, pumpkin in autumn or blood oranges in winter, these recipes - from Prue, Paul, the Bake Off team and the 2021 bakers themselves - offer insight and inspiration throughout the year. From celebration cakes to traybakes, loaf cakes, and breads to pies, tarts and pastries, this book shows you how to make the very best of what each season has to offer.?

[mamusiq]

National Pumpkin Day October 26 National Pumpkin Day recognizes a favored autumn decoration and food on October 26th. Not only do they make great fall decorations, but the pumpkin also completes a variety of tasty recipes. Join a pumpkin competition or visit any of the many fall festivals featuring the beautiful gourds.

NationalPumpkinDay

By October 26th, we’re in a frenzy of pumpkin obsession. We cannot wait for the big November holiday for pumpkin pie. No siree, we need pumpkin everything! Bars, cookies, coffee, cheesecake, pasta, and oatmeal. Pumpkin Chunkin’, pumpkin patches, festivals, bake-offs, and television specials. Let’s not forget jack-o-lantern carving, too! This fruit grabs Americans’ attention. As it should! This squash is native to North America. The oldest evidence of pumpkin-related seeds dates back to somewhere between 7000 and 5500 BC to seeds found in Mexico. The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon, which means “large melon” in Greek.

Within recent years, white pumpkins have become more popular in the United States. The United States produces 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins, with Illinois producing more than any other state. In 2021, Italian Stefano Cutrupi claimed the title of the world’s largest pumpkin when his gargantuan gourd weighed in at 2703 pounds (1,226 kg). That’s 300 pounds heavier than the 2014 winner from Switzerland. In 2020, Travis Gienger grew the largest pumpkin in North America. The hefty vegetable weighed in at 2,350 pounds. It eeked out the previous winner, a 2,145-pound pumpkin from Streator, Illinois grown by Gene McMullen. Pumpkins are packed with nutrients, but they’re not only good for humans. Did you know that pumpkin may be recommended by veterinarians as a dietary supplement for dogs and cats? Since pumpkin is easy to digest, if your pet is experiencing certain digestive ailments, don’t be surprised if your vet says to give them pumpkin puree. Poultry also benefits from eating raw pumpkin as a supplement to their regular feed during the winter months to help maintain egg production. As a seasonal food, it sure comes at the right time of year. Since it’s packed with vitamin C, it can boost your immune system to fight off those nasty colds, too. HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY Ah, pumpkins! They bring to mind wonderful memories and inspire us to artistry. Whether we frame the perfect photo at the local pumpkin patch, carve up the scariest jack-o-lantern or whip up the tastiest batch of pumpkin bars, this is a holiday worth sharing. Roast some pumpkin seeds while the family rakes up those fall leaves. Pour a mug of hot apple cider and bake up your favorite pumpkin recipes, too. Or try a new one. We offer several for you to try! As always, invite someone to Celebrate Every Day® with you, too. Pumpkin Lasagna Savory Pumpkin Raviolo Debbie’s Pumpkin Bars Pumpkin Pudding Use #NationalPumpkinDay to post on social media. NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY HISTORY National Day Calendar® continues researching the origins of this garden squash-related holiday.

Pumpkin FAQ Q. Who carved the first jack-o-lantern? A. The tradition of carving vegetables for Halloween has its beginning in Ireland. There, they carved turnips to ward off the devil and evil spirits during the ancient festival of Samhain, also during Halloween. Irish who immigrated to the Americas brought the tradition with them and found the pumpkin suitable for carving. However, carving pumpkins in Ireland has become a more modern practice.

[miaxalmani]

𝒎𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊 ⇢  𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎 & 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚

FILMOGRAPHY

SERIES

2009 (age 17): Modern Family - minor role, 3 episodes

2012 - 2014 (age 20-22): The Mindy Project, 2 seasons

2015 (age 23): Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - role: Xan

2019 - present: Rush - role: Rowan Bleu 

FILMS

2003 (age 11): The Haunted Mansion - role: Megan 

2003 (age 11): Cheaper By The Dozen - role: Sarah Baker

2005 (age 13): Are We There Yet? - role: Lindsey

2009 (age 16): Princess Diaries - role: Lilly

2009 (age 17): 17 Again - role: Maggie

2011 (age 18): Princess Diaries 2 - role: Lilly

2014 (age 22): Bridesmaids - role: Megan

2016 (age 24): The Other Woman - role: Amber

2017 (age 25): John Tucker Must Die - role: Beth

2019 (age 27): Booksmart - role: Gigi

2021 (age 28): Malcolm & Marie - role: Marie

APPEARANCES AS HERSELF

2015: Wild N Out

2018: tour film

2018: Broad City - guest role, 1 episode

2019: Drag Race UK - guest judge

2019: Saturday Night Live - host & musical guest

2020: The Great Celebrity Bake Off

DISCOGRAPHY / SONGWRITING CREDITS

ALBUMS / EPs

MIA - released 2008 [ listen ]

Move

DNA

Replay

Leave (Get Out)

Here

Gloves Up

Starving

Beautiful

Why Not

Unwritten

Wings

Ocean Eyes

Masterpiece - released 2010 [ listen ]

Come Clean

Mad Love

I Can Only

Fuck Apologies

FAB

Power

Dear Lover

I Am

2 Little 2 Late

No More Sad Songs

Good Thing

Strip

Masterpiece

Bounce Back - released 2016 [ listen ]

Man

Touch

Small Things

Notice

Ferrari

When The Party’s Over

Joan of Arc

Think About You

Bounce Back

Kiss

The Cure

Domino

Woman Like Me - live rock version

bonus track: Touch - acoustic

Who I Am - released 2018 [ listen ]

X2

Don’t Play

Who I Am

Cut You Off

Unloveable

Kissing Other People

Don’t Start Now

Trash

Animal

Definition

Sweet Melody

Kissing Other People

Confetti

No Time For Tears

Boys Will Be Boys

Love, Me EP - released 2019 [ listen ]

M5 (official title tbd) - work in progress, release date tbd

WRITTEN FOR/COLLABS WITH OTHER ARTISTS

Lilah Thorne (and her band)

Pretty Girls by Britney Spears

Children by Billy Porter

**if anyone wants to be added as someone she’s written with/for or a collab, let me know**

#𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐆 𝐒𝐈𝐒┆career. #𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑┆musings.

[itmocca]

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C episode 3

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C episode 3: Dizzee Rascal, Nick Grimshaw, Philippa Perry and Reece Shearsmith tackle vegetable slices, a royal technical and a 'selfie' made entirely from biscuit. #gbbo #SU2C

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C episode 3: Dizzee Rascal, Nick Grimshaw, Philippa Perry and Reece Shearsmith tackle vegetable slices, a royal technical and a ‘selfie’ made entirely from biscuit.     MC Dizzee Rascal, radio DJ Nick Grimshaw, psychologist Philippa Perry and actor-writer Reece Shearsmith brave the baking tent in the name of charity. All that stands between them and the title…

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#Dizzee Rascal #gbbo #Great British Bake Off 2021 #Great Celebrity Bake Off #Nick Grimshaw #Paul Hollywood #Philippa Perry #Reece Shearsmith #The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2021 #The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C

[rob-pattinson]

JAMES MCAVOY “The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up To Cancer” › 2021

#james mcavoy #mcavoyedit #mcavoys #useralex #userdaniel #still #edit #*

[dailylmgifs]

"Oh, yeah, I've just fingered my cake." JADE THIRLWALL on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C (2021)

#jade thirlwall #jthirlwalledit #bbelcher #chewieblog #useroptional #dailymusicqueens #dailymusicians #popularcultures #blogmusicdaily #femaledaily #flawlessbeautyqueens #breathtakingqueens #ladiesblr #gifs #jt: british bake off #2021

[allwaswell16]

{Recently Read 1D Fics}

September 2021

These are all the One Direction fics I read and enjoyed in September. There are 17 recs here in all! You can listen to my podcast to hear me talk about each of these fics as well as an overview of what was posted on ao3 in September including the fics on this month’s fic roundup which you can find here! Please let the writers know if you liked the fics by leaving kudos and comments! Happy reading!

Fanfictional Podcast #29 | ko-fi | fic recs

-Larry-

Hold You Now by @solvetheminourdreams

(M, 131k, ex-fwb, British Louis, American Harry, PR specialist to freelancer Harry, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, consultant to recruiter Louis, travel, slow burn, flashbacks, pining, lack of communication, no cheating, mild smut, a MUST READ emotional journey)

Three years ago, Harry Styles said goodbye to communications consultancy firm McQuiston Worldwide, leaving a life of travel and agency PR behind.

Know a Trick or Two by SadaVeniren / @sadaveniren

(E, 44k, Harry Potter au, magic, mpreg, one night stand, accidental pregnancies, mpreg Louis, mpreg Harry, muggle Harry, wizard Louis, quidditch player Louis, time jump, kid fic, Hogwarts, smut, so much fun!)

the one where Muggle Harry and Wizard Louis have a one night stand and get more than they bargained out of it.

Compass to my Soul by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 31k, canon, a/b/o, omega Louis, alpha Harry, touring, angst, hurt/comfort, omega drop, touch deprivation, alcohol, cuddling, miscommunication, nesting, touring, no smut, I cried the whole way through because Louis is so vulnerable and sad, help I'm sad just thinking about it but also I loved it)

Louis Tomlinson, omega, is 1/5 of world famous boy band One Direction. He spends his time hoping his bandmates don’t notice him.

Not Ready for This by @berzerkshires

(E, 18k, kid fic, single parent Louis, single parent Harry, dual pov, summer, secret relationship, smut, loved the dialogue and they were having way too much fun sneaking around lol)

Louis and Harry are both single fathers and their children decide to go out on a date.

Man, Deconstructed by jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom

(E, 13k, sculptor Harry, artist Harry, strangers to lovers, misunderstandings, mistaken identity, stress baker Harry, disaster gay Harry, embarrassing situation, meet cute kind of lol, smut, bh, this was absolutely hilarious and embarrassing lol)

the one where a well-meaning best mate, a sculpture-worthy arse, and a heaping dose of misunderstanding combine to create sheer and utter chaos, and also, maybe, the best thing Harry’s ever found.

One Vote Can Rock the Boat by @2tiedships2

(M, 12k, a/b/o, alpha Harry, omega Louis, protective Harry, strangers to lovers, NYC, placing bets, oral sex, knotting, smut, whew this was hot)

the one where Omega Louis shows off his “I voted” sticker as one of the first 100 customers to get a free vibrator. The beautiful alpha behind the counter informs him that he’s customer 101.

My Sun and Stars, Moon of my Life by@ohharold

(M, 7k, Game of Thrones au, arranged marriage, dragons, fantasy, violence, mpreg Harry, smut, never read/saw GOT but this was very cool)

Harry was used to the luxuries of Kings Landing and then Pentos but when his brother is desperate for the crown he is entitled to, Harry must be part of an arranged marriage to a ruthless Khal of a Dothraki tribe.

baby I'll never leave (if you keep holding me this way) by we_are_the_same / @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed

(T, 6k, lockdown au, teacher Louis, baker Harry, strangers to lovers, accidental breaking and entering, motorcycle, fluff, emotional hurt/comfort, no smut, so lovely)

It is singing. Whoever is trying to rob him is in his kitchen, singing an eighties pop song under their breath. And they made cookies?

Call Me, Beep Me, If You Wanna Reach Me by therogueskimo

(NR, 6k, uni au, Brits in the U.S., strangers to lovers, first date, first kiss, embarrassing situation, pining, humor, Siri, so cute and funny)

“Will Harry Styles ever text me?” Louis looked back at Liam and Liam just smirked at him.

Birthday Princess by @kingsofeverything

(E, 4k, bartender Louis, Harry's birthday, alcohol, micropenis, oral sex, meet cute, semi-public sex, car sex, smut, funny and sweet and hot all at the same time)

Harry celebrates his birthday with Blow Jobs (and Slippery Nipples and Sex on the Beach) and drunkenly propositions the bartender in the bathroom.

Scent Partner by amomentoflove / @daggerandrose

(E, 4k, a/b/o, alpha Louis, omega Harry, strangers to lovers, pwp, heat, scenting, smut, meep!)

If both parties agree, they meet at a heat room for the omega’s heat.

The Cake Fairy by @homosociallyyours

(G, 2k, Harry/Louis, baking, flirting, slice of life, baker Harry, fluff, cute and fun!)

When Louis' attempt at making a Barbie princess cake is a huge, messy fail, Liam suggests he call in The Cake Fairy.

truth or dare by @jaerie

(E, 2k, strangers to lovers, truth or dare, alcohol, size difference, micropenis, size kink, smut, woah holy shit lol)

Harry likes small dicks. He finds a stranger that has one.

Take Me Home by SunTomato / @sun-tomato

(NR, 2k, uni au, roommates, banter, ot5, friendship, time jumps, no smut, really sweet)

Moving house sucks. Of course, it doesn’t help that, while the four of them had been trying to divide and pack everything before the deadline this weekend, Louis had spent his time unpacking it again.

The Bachelors and the Bachelorette by @turnyourankle

(NR, 2k, Bachelorette au, fake relationship, ficlet, shower sex, smut, hot and fun!)

With little left to do Harry and Louis both signed up to be contestant on the Bachelorette.

-Tomlinshaw-

the next bit was spanners to my plan by LadyAJ_13 / @ladyaj-13

(T, 6k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw, canon, fwb kind of, casual sex, secret relationship, no explicit smut, communication issues, texting, ah such great Tomlinshaw banter and dynamic!)

Louis and Nick end up shagging on the sly, everyone sends far too many emojis and far too few words, and eventually they're going to have to sort themselves out.

-Zouis-

driver's license by wordsnnotes / @quelsentiment

(T, 6k, Zayn/Louis, enemies to lovers, bed sharing, snow storm, winter, misunderstandings, banter, Canada, Louis pov, alcohol, demisexuality, unresolved tension, no smut, obsessed with this)

Louis is taking the exam to get his driver’s licence for the 3rd time (okay, sue him), and the examiner keeps getting under his skin, until they suddenly get stranded in the middle of a snow storm, and have to learn to cooperate.

#fic rec #28th appreciation #1dsource #trackinghome #trackinghappily #tracksintheam