#mad zott

[whatimdoing-here]

Lessons in Chemistry | 1.04

#lessons in chemistry #spoilers #apple tv #elizabeth zott #brie larson #mad zott #every parent feels this lol #like you're pregnant for 10 months #and then like an hour after giving birth the nurse bein like 'PEACE' #and you're just.... alone and in charge of a whole person #and now they're you're whole life good luck #also they did such a good job with these babies #SO CUTE i wanted to steal #ugh had to redo 1 and 2 and i KNOW the coloring between 2 and 3 is off now i couldn't remember what i did

[whydoineedtowriteanamehere]

Mad Zott's parents are both pilots and that makes me feel fuzzy inside 😊 🛩

#lessons in chemistry #captain marvel #carol danvers #top gun maverick #robert bob floyd #elizabeth zott #calvin evans #mad zott

[rosesvioletspullman]

“hi dad”

#the fact that that’s how she remembers him #by reading the magazine while also looking for him #lewis pullman #madeline zott #mad zott #lessons in chemistry

[shelbbswrites]

I love how this week's Lesson in Chemistry takes Elizabeth & Mad’s life changes to center stage (Brie Larson & Alice Halsey are DYNAMIC together).

Still, I wish it didn't leave Harriet in the wings as much.

Here's my "CH₃COOH" review!

#lessons in chemistry #elizabeth zott #harriet sloane #mad zott #madeline zott #alice halsey #aja naomi king #brie larson #calvin evans #lewis pullman #rainn wilson #shelbbswrites #lessons in chemistry spoilers #bonnie garmus

[harrietmjones]

I’ve recently read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and throughout the book, I kept thinking: Are Elizabeth and Mad on the autism spectrum?

I know that on their own, various character traits of theirs, if you also had that one, it wouldn’t signify that you might be autistic but there’s just something about the both of them that reads they’re both people with autism.

I don’t want any negativity directed my way, it’s just a thought I had.

I personally have autism (I was diagnosed as having aspergers when I was 21) and I’m fed up with the outdated thoughts of some, that just because someone has poor social skills and/or is incredibly intelligent (usually bordering on genius), that that’s a sign of autism. However, there’s just a variety of other traits they both have, that gives me this thought of mine.

Just wondered what everyone else thought really.

#lessons in chemistry #bonnie garmus #elizabeth zott #madeline zott #mad zott #autism

[lessons-in-chemistry]

#elizabeth zott #mad zott #brie larson #lessons in chemistry

[topherwrites]

ELIZABETH & CALVIN

s1e2 / "in the kitchen" - renee rapp / s1e3 / "in the kitchen" - renee rapp / s1e3 / quote by unknown / s1e3 / quote by @/metamorphesque / s1e3 / great expectations, charles dickens

#calvin evans #elizabeth zott #web weaving #lessons in chemistry #lessons in chemistry spoilers #lewis pullman #brie larson #on death #on grief #long post #made this while listening to “we'll never have s*x” by leith ross on a loop #obviously not entirely accurate for them (Mad) #but... oof do not recommend #made myself very sad

[tired-reader-writer]

Pale light descends from a cloudy sky, almost warm against a monochrome world rousing back into colour.

And the air smells like the earth.

“Oh faraway on a mountain side...”

Mountains. North.

Areyan's home.

They're riding north through petal freckled fields and dew-laden grass.

It's been a while, Merlaine supposes. A few years stuck in the capital's court could drive anyone mad. He didn't know what Areyan saw in that bastard of a Shah, enough to stick by his side and help him rule, and honestly speaking he still doesn't know even now.

“...we'll go to our tent and spend the night.”

Areyan's letters to him were full of frustrations and homesickness, stupid nobles being stupid nobles, him running around untangling their messes, and complaints of the hot weather.

Areyan did not enjoy hot weather.

He took great joy in making fun of the fools, at least. Giving them stupid nicknames and viciously tearing apart the stupid-ass ideas these fools come up with.

Can you believe? one particular letter read, He was going on and on about garden sizes. Garden sizes! As if it has anything to do with the repair projects. It's not even produce gardens he was talking about, oh no. I swear, Merlaine. I swear my intelligence was deteriorating with each passing moment.

Like he said, idiot nobles with stupid-ass ideas.

He wonders why Areyan stayed at all, even if he has to admit the pigeon made good changes. Things were... getting better, ever since the country was restored.

Still.

It made him fucking miserable.

Fucking Shah took too long to let him go.

Just as Merlaine pulls a face at the thought of the bastard, Areyan's horse gallops onwards, full of force, hoofbeats accenting his joyful singing.

Yazata's sake, how does he have so much energy so early?

“The moon shines with its watchful eyes—”

Well, he looks happy, at least. Happier than Merlaine imagines him looking at court. His eyes glimmer with the brightening sky as he glances back at Merlaine, as if daring him to keep up.

“—and from a tree branch a white bird cries!”

And Merlaine has never been one to back down from a challenge.

Puffs of breath emerge in the still-cool air, their hooves sending dewdrops flying off the blades of grass.

His smile matches ones he wore back in the Zott clan village. A sharp smile, wide and free, so unlike the practiced diplomatic smile Merlaine's seen him wear before.

He likes this one better, so much better, it reflects the menace they both know he is in truth.

It doesn't take long for him to catch up and catch the carefree wrist that's not holding the reins. Then and only then they slow to an easy halt, laughter bubbling from Areyan's throat.

“Fakta*,” he grumbles. “Why'd you have to run off like that?”

“No reason in particular,” Areyan replies cheekily. Little shit. “Nothing's the matter at all.”

The pigeon grabs Merlaine's wrist right back, gripping it with a gentle sort of firmness.

Now what.

“Like hell nothing is.”

“It's true.”

“What is?” He quirks an eyebrow. “That you're airheaded enough to do it?”

Areyan gasps, all fake and dramatic. “How rude! Where lies your sense of whimsy?”

“Ick.” Ignoring the pigeon's offended noises he instead says, “Just come and spit it out. You have something to say, don't you?”

Areyan stills for a short moment, then his face morphs into a fond smile, a much softer one than the one he had mere moments ago.

“You know me so well.”

“Course I do. What do you take me for?”

“I don't know, a grouch?”

“Just hurry up and say it!”

Areyan's hand finds his, and he almost jolts on the saddle.

A steady hand, precise and rough.

The hand that wrote all those letters. The hand that heals. The hand that made all those tiny little trinkets.

Hands that have seen hard work.

“Merlaine,” he says, somehow light and serious at the same time. “Do you love me?”

His breath catches in his throat, and it's a miracle he doesn't blurt out “what” like a total dumbass.

Of all the things he was expecting Areyan to say, this was not one of them.

In hindsight, maybe he should've seen this coming.

He doesn't remember when that happened, to speak the truth— just that it did. They'd been friends for six years, almost seven, and...

That doesn't really matter.

What matters is that he does.

“Yes, I do,” he answers firmly, looking at the dove right in the eyes.

There's no need to cushion the impact, to hide.

Why would there be?

A blush blooms on Areyan's face, and oh ain't that a look— and his smile shifts again.

He doesn't know what kind of smile this is, but he does know that he likes it.

“Is that so?”

“Yeah.”

“I love you, too.”

“Good.”

“Good?” He laughs. “Is that all you have to say?”

His own cheeks begin to heat up. Damn it. “Yeah. That's all.”

Areyan leans closer, until their foreheads almost touch, a mischievous glint in those midnight eyes. “Is that really all?”

And.

Well.

If they kissed, then...

That's just the natural outcome, ain't it?

*oh god I forgot to type this in at first but it's an older Persian word? Apparently it means a particular type of dove, the Eurasian collared dove? And since Arslan's (Areyan here) nicknames include “little bird” and “little dove” it's a play on those nicknames. Merlaine also just calls him “pigeon”.

#arslan senki #the heroic legend of arslan #heroic legend of arslan #wolfpack au #winds of wolfsong #arslan #areyan (arslan) #merlaine #merlane #merlain #arlaine #rotten egg's shitty writing #very very unpolished #wasn't expecting it to be this long? #like I knew what kind of scene I wanted and there was no new whole section or anything but #it still turned out longer than I expected? #maybe I'm just bad at estimating length #enjoy my... covid-induced headache-laden work #hope they aren't too terribly ooc #it's Pars era... 326 or 327? #Arslan is about like 20 by now

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

#tumblr polls #leslie knope #daphne bridgerton #elsa dutton #elizabeth zott #elizabeth bennet #beth harmon #james mcgraw #don draper #robert crawley #micah bell #arthur shelby #Declan harp #parks and rec #black sails #downton abbey #peaky blinders #bridgerton #red dead redemption 2 #pride and prejudice #mad men #1883 #lessons in chemistry #the queen’s gambit #frontier #period piece

[rizardofether]

Idk if I'll get around to finishing these sketches but I do like some of them quite a bit so I figured I'd do a sketch dump kind of thing. Here are all unposted GW2 related sketches I've done within the last 2 years in no particular order:

Pretty detailed sketches of Rhixak and Prim. I wanted to do fullbody drawings of these two but Idk if I'll get around to doing them. They look pretty nice on their own though.

A couple messy sketches of Mib & Vizzis, as well as a more detailed one of Nise. That boy sure loves violence.

Gwizz realizing how gay he is for Lucanus. Drawing charr is so hard... Having a hard time translating them to my artstyle..

Sketches of how Corrow's body would look like under his armor. Something along these lines.

Figuring out how Kos would look like. His magitech eye stuff mainly. Also how he was when he first re-entered society, wrapped in rags.

Also Rix's outfit design. Pretty mad scientist type stuff but with a sexy twist. The labcoat ends in a loincloth type thing and there are no pants in the outfit. I mean he does wear some kind of underwear under there but yeah. He has various other outfits as this is not at all lab safe in actuality, it's just his favourite to wear on free time.

A sketchpage of various characters. Couple lines for Corrow. Sketches from before I figured out how he would look like under the armor. Possibly how his hair was back when he had hair.

Couple Zott doodles and a line for them.

Another attempt at Kos' magitech eyes and head design.

Idd and Eoi, long time no draw and first time for Eoi in fact.

A sketch to figure out Nukke's hair-growth. I did one before, probably never posted that one either but here's the updated version!

Secondly we got a very rough sketch of a new character, a mordremvari named Ru. Well, he can't really remember anything before waking up free of Mordremoth.

He thinks his name starts with Ru, but can't remember anything else, so he just goes by Ru now. Still figuring out his design but I wanted to sketch out the basic idea, though I kinda ran out of energy while drawing it.

I've gotten Ru up to level 80 but I need to work to get one more piece of armor skin unlocked for him before his ingame look is complete so until then!

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #guildwars2 #asura #charr #sylvari #art #my art #rhixak #primorsura #mib #vizzis #nise #gwizz #lucanus #corrow #kos #rix #zott #idd #eoi #nukke #ru #the oldest of these is from august 2022 #newest from a couple weeks past #the last two are those newest ones the rest are random order

[shelbbswrites]

“Introduction to Chemistry” is a beautiful culmination of the show’s recipe to success.

Like the characters with Great Expectations, I hope to keep learning lessons from this limited series.

Here's my final Lessons in Chemistry review:

#shelbbswrites #lessons in chemistry #lessons in chemistry spoilers #elizabeth zott #elizabeth x calvin #calvin x elizabeth #calvin evans #lewis pullman #harriet sloane #aja naomi king #apple #apple tv+ #books #bonnie garmus #mad zott #madeline zott #alice halsey

[theopenbowl]

I am devoted to romance novels but find myself in the middle of three non-fiction books!

Anyhoo, I came across "Lessons in Chemistry" - appropriately called "genre defying". I was amused to find it filed under romance, beach read, humor and now literary fiction, presumably to encourage sales.

It was so easy to read, so easy to relate to. It is a sly subversive book. A whopper of a debut for Bonnie Garmus. Brava!

Kinda like Shondaland's Bridgerton, it starts out docile in the form of / in the guise of a period piece. In the beginning, the gender roles and the unconventional central character (Elizabeth Zott) jump off the pages, they seem so anachronistic.

As the novel unfolds, EZ's honesty and resilience shine through. I found Mad Men and the Marvelous Mrs Maisel hard to watch, such an oppressive and stifling time in the world. Ms. Z is not oblivious but neither does she let the world pull her down. Instead she works with courage and loves with her whole heart. So simple! Bonnie Garmus' tone is perfect.

My favorite novels challenge how I see the world, they open my eyes and do it in a clever sneaky fun way. When the book starts, we're willing to be understanding of 1951 and all the discrimination because, we say to ourselves, thats how things used to be, we've come a long way. I devoured chapters at a time, and when I stepped back into 2023, I found myself blinking. Have we really come a long way?

Each time I stepped away from the book, I came back to the present a changed person... aware of my privilege, sensitive to the suffering of others, and inspired by their courage and resilience. It is no coincidence that Harriet, one of Ms. Garmus' most downtrodden characters gives Ms. Z amazing and life-changing advice.

“Before I go, Elizabeth, can I offer just one bit of advice?” Harriet began. “Actually no, I won’t. I hate getting advice, especially unsolicited advice.” She turned a ruddy color. “Do you hate advice givers? I do. They have a way of making one feel inadequate. And the advice is usually lousy.” “Go on,” Elizabeth urged. Harriet hesitated, then pursed her lips side to side. “Well, fine. Maybe it’s not really advice anyway. It’s more like a tip.” Elizabeth looked back expectantly. “Take a moment for yourself,” Harriet said. “Every day.” “A moment.” “A moment where you are your own priority. Just you. Not your baby, not your work, not your dead Mr. Evans, not your filthy house, not anything. Just you. Elizabeth Zott. Whatever you need, whatever you want, whatever you seek, reconnect with it in that moment.” She gave a sharp tug to her fake pearls. “Then recommit.” 

#notes to myself #motherhood #momlife #lessons in chemistry #nyc #books #book review

[blockbustercatalog]

Lessons in Chemistry

This is a review of Lessons in Chemistry (2023)

Beware spoilers below.

Final rating: 3/5

Pre-viewing Assumptions

(In the interest of honesty, this is written after viewing, I am attempting to remember my Pre-Viewing assumptions)

I saw a single clip on tiktok, and added it to my viewing list. It was the scene of the (assumed) main character (Brie Larson) speaking to a love studio audience. A woman compared something permeable membrain something to a skin condition and Potential Main Character (Brie Larson) encourages her to pursue medical school.

I thought the show was about a TV star (Brie Larson) building up woman and subverting misogynistic men. Also I thought it would be very science based. Perhaps Potential Main Charcter (Brie Larson) would be a rich fancy lady was large and in charge.

I was a little worried Main Character (Brie Larson) would be dismissive of 'typical' women, who preferred fashion and childbearing over the pursuit of knowledge.

Post-Viewing

(I did watch most of this before deciding to do a review blog, same with the next few posts. Once I catch up with reviews:media the format will change.)

The show has one (1) season and eight (8) episodes. I watched it all in about 3 sessions.

I absolutely finished it. I was interested in the show, but not 'awake til 2am' interested. I didn't expect that the show would be mostly pre-show, but it didn't bother me.

I immediately identified with Elizabeth Zott. I was very much a young girl uninterested in 'usual' girl interests. Love that she didn't change in that aspect as she fell in love and became a mother.

As soon as Elizabeth and Calvin Evans interacted I knew they would have at least some sort of romance. I worried it would be Calvin trying to 'encourage' her to be more feminine, both in appearance and behavior.

Needless to say I fell in love with Calvin. The scene where he tries to teach Elizabeth to swim. She looked so goofy in her swim gear.

He, unsurprisingly, died. The few scenes from the 'future' showed no evidence he was still around. I did think early on that he would turn out to be a dick and they'd broke up, but no, he was incredible.

I did NOT predict the baby. Mad wasn't hinted at in the future scenes, but as soon as she threw up in the middle of the night, 💡.

What a weird choice to fake us out about Mad. Why pretend it was one little girl, and then go 'sike' it's this other child?

I liked the episode from 6:30s point of view, but what a WEIRD choice from a show about chemistry. Very jarring switch between episodes. On no, Calvin got hit by a bus, anyway, here, listen to the dog's feelings about it.

Lots of religion talk, but makes sense with the time period. Calvin and Wakely's friendship was amazing. I loved that episode, being able to see Calvin's life and feelings change as he accepted Elizabeth into his life.

From Elizabeth's POV it really seemed like he took everything in stride. I'm really happy we got see how he struggled, not with Elizabeth specifically, but having to open his life, and caring and thinking about other people.

HATE that priest from the boys home, what a dick. Calvin was so close to gaining a home. But, then, Calvin's entire life would be different, he might never have met Elizabeth.

I think Harriet Sloane is an incredible character, her storyline is amazing. Unfortunantly it very much seems like her arc was mostly used for a character growth for Elizabeth. And while I love Elizabeth's character growth, learning to see the effect she has on other people, she never really did anything for Harriet.

Harriet and Elizabeth absolutely care about each other, but the relationship feels so onesided. Harriet gave her support/advice in raising Mad and was a stepping stone in Mad finding out more about her father.

Elizabeth did show up at Harriet's protest, and used her show to advertise said protest, both actions which seemed to have... no real effect. Harriet still lost the case against the freeway.

Speaking of, Elizabeth's brother, John Zott was also just used for character growth. I will admit, he was the catalyst for her turning to chemistry, but other than that? I guess there was the 'living a lie' moment that turned Elizabeth to being true to her beliefs, but other than that he was there to die and further personal growth.

It just feels a little cheap that both of the character's stories that were minorities (Harriet being African-American and John being gay) were just used for character growth. Elizabeth did more for Laurel Moore (literally got her a job) than Harriet. Plus John legit dies (bury your gays, much?), via shooting himself.

Im not saying Elizabeth didnt do anything for Harriet, they just didnt have any scenes to suggest she did. I think John's story could have ended with him running away or dying in a much more natural/accidental way, and worked just as well.

Production wise, it was good. Nothing super special or stand out, and it fit well with the themes. I did really like that in the 6:30 episode (still a weird choice) that the people were muffled/silent. Good way of portraying the unrealness that comes after a loss like that. Still, would have been better if the POV was a person, not a dog.

Nothing special about soundtrack, other than fitting very well with the time period.

Um,,, I think thats it tbh.

3/5 stars

#Lessons in Chemistry #Final Review

[lessons-in-chemistry]

Behind the scenes photo of Brie Larson with Ridley Haitkin (young Elizabeth Zott) and Alice Halsey (Mad Zott)

#lessons in chemistry #brie larson #elizabeth zott #behind the scenes

[readingforsanity]

Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus | Published 2022 | *SPOILERS*

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one. Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results.

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approaching to cooking proves revolutioanry. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. But as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to changef the status quo.

Laugh out loud funny, shrewdly observant and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrants as its protagonist.

In a world where women living in the 1950s and 1960s are happy to become devoted wives and mothers, enter Elizabeth Zott. Determined to become a chemist, she is succesful in doing so but is forcefully removed from entry into a PhD program due to sexual assault allegations against her adviser, allegations that prove to be true. But, in a world where it's a man's word over a woman's, she moves on.

With her only job prospect being at Hastings, a research lab in Commons, California, she begins researching but her time there is much the same as it was in school, where the work she does is taken by her male counterparts.

It isn't until she meets fellow chemist, world-famous and a Nobel Prize nominee, that her world begins to change, and oftentimes not for the better. Their love story isn't one for the books, but it is their love story. After meeting after she steals beakers from his lab claiming she had permission from her boss, and then a chance meeting with him at a movie theater where he pukes on her, they quickly delve into a relationship that changes them both for the better.

It quickly turns into the two of them living together, though no marriage is on the horizon for either of them, though not without Calvin's trying. The two of them adopt a dog that Elizabeth names Six-Thirty, and their live is seemingly perfect. Calvin attempts to teach her how to row and using her intelligence, becomes quite a good one. But, after a freak accident while running with Six-Thirty on a leash for the first time since new leash laws went into affect leaves Calvin dead, Elizabeth is devastated.

It is also told that she is pregnant, that her sickness she is experiencing is she because she is with child. And because of this, she loses her position at Hastings. Spending her time in the house rebuilding her kitchen from a normal kitchen into a lab in the home she shared with Calvin, that he left to her in his will, and helping out her Hastings colleagues with their own research, she is able to keep herself mostly afloat for the time being.

After giving birth to their daughter, whom is accidentally named Mad legally on her birth certificate, deciding to call her Madeline any other time, she strikes up a friendship with her neighbor across the street, named Harriet. Harriet begins helping with the baby, and the two of them strike up an unlikely friendship.

Over the years, Elizabeth only helped with others research, but whens he returns to Hastings only to have her research stolen and the credit given to a man, she decides to quit and takes a job at KCTV, becoming the host of a television show titled Supper at Six. Within the show, she uses her knowledge as a chemist in order to help wives all around California make nutritious dinners for their families. And when it goes to syndication after the producer of the programs has a heart attack, and her producer takes over as the head of the afternoon shows, she becomes famous across the country.

She tries to keep this fact a secret from her daughter, but she quickly learns that her mother only took this job because of what happened to her at Hastings. Overtime, Elizabeth learns the truth about Calvin and the family that he had once had, and that the donor that had been funding the research was doing it because of Elizabeth and the faith that Calvin had in her work. It also turns out that that donor was also Calvin's birth mother, having been forced to give up her son while she was 17-year-old pregnant and unwed mother.

After years of trying to reconnect with him, it became too late after he had died, and Avery Parker had buried her son for what she thought was the third time, after being told that he had been born stillborn, then again when the All Boys orphange he had lived in stated he had died and took the funds given to them in his "honor".

Ultimately, Elizabeth realizes that she has a large family that she has created with the love that she and Calvin had for each other, and with Avery Parker's blessing, she continues the research she had started so long ago.