extremely popular opinion in this house!

i'm master roksn

jesus FUCK i thought this was going to be about like, having an affair with a fan or something interpersonally shitty, not this???

and that she was "found on the beach" to really emphasise the exotic orphan narrative, god i wanna fight that man in the car park

it's SO annoying because going "they banned it because a black woman did it!!" obscures the very real racism she faced which had nothing to do with backflips and a lot to do with a) figure skating's enduring and insidious antiblackness and b) Didier Gailhaguet specifically being a piece of shit

Any Old Diamonds and the magpie series are the ones i've re-read the most!

the lynx was when we were on the way down a really narrow mountain road, we nearly collided with another car so my dad stopped to take a breather and there was just a lynx in the forest giving us the universal cat stare!

my auntie used to take us on moose safari when i was a kid (i.e popping big bags of microwave popcorn and driving us to the forest after dark), we rarely saw any moose but we were kids allowed to stay up after bedtime so we didn't really care

i approve of using the figure skating scoring system for deliciousness

"She's turned the weans against us!"

thanks so much!!! Ducks looks really good, I love Kate Beaton

he's read both of those, i should have said! will check out The Arab of the Future

helly hansen being marketed as bougie in the states is so funny to me, like i know they sell expensive sportswear as well but my main association is like, fishermen / the guys who load planes at the airport, classic ~~to you straight from the scandinavian forests~~ rebranding

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my mum makes a version of this with goats cheese and honey (i would add a fig to that) and they slapppp

my self employment motto is if you're gonna be your own boss you gotta be your own union rep! union rep says all employees get to take their full holiday entitlement!

every time!! "that's my fiance lucy" uhhhh i think you'll find