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Charlie and Claire
I recently rewatched âLOST,â and I wanted to redraw one of my favorite scenes from the show of my favorite characters/ship on the show! đĽ°
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#disney#disney fanart#abc#abc network#lost#abc lost#lost abc#charlie pace#claire littleton#dominic monaghan#emilie de ravin#watership down#charlie x claire#Claire x Charlie#peanut butter#Charlie peanut butter#Claire peanut butter#lost peanut butter#lost fanart
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endless list of pairings i love  â  charlie pace + claire littleton (lost)
You know, Iâm not giving up on you either, Charlie. Itâs gonna be okay. Youâre gonna be okay. Weâll get through this together.
#lostedit#lost#charlie x claire#charlie pace#claire littleton#elosil#mine#mine: gifs#mine: lost#otp: spectacular consciousness altering love#tv: lost#they're so cute and pure i'm gonna combust#they deserved to both survive#i mean yay for afterlife reunions (that scene GOT ME i was CRYING - so beautiful)#but they deserved to both get off the island and be a family with aaron#but oh well at least we got the afterlife#(side note: that peanut butter scene is one of the cutest things i have ever witnessed)
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| they were more than lovers; soulmates who were parted too soon.
#charlie pace#claire littleton#charlie x claire#lost#lost abc#chair#what kinda ship name is chair BTW???#my favourite#my favorite ship#i love them your honor#why did he have to be the savior#she didnt go on that helicopter anyway????#hes the sweetest dad ever#best boyfriend#can i get someone wholl share imaginary peanut butter with me???#how cute are they??
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if someone pulled the imaginary peanut butter thing on me i'd kill them but charlie gets away with it because he's cute and silly.
#love him that's my babygirl#and claire is my countrywoman and fellow astrology girl she's perfect to me#i love that they acknowledge she's the only australian who loves peanut butter#abc lost#lost lb
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Still the sweetest thing on television.
Raise your standards ladies, Charlie Pace set the bar pretty high
ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE- [4/5] Eating Together Scenes âł âYou didnât! Peanut butter? No way!â
#get you a guy that pretends to eat peanut butter with you#charlie pace#claire littleton#lost#lost abc#abc lost#claire x charlie#charlie x claire#peanut butter#imaginary peanut butter#get you a guy who does this#raise your standards
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my minds just so full of thoughts of s3 rafe w/ his little housewife!!
heâs so freaking sweet. Gushing to all of his buddies at the country club about the cute little bell who makes him the best meals after a hard day of tormenting the pogues! And all of them are just like âyeah..uhuh..okay..â cause he never shuts up about you! But when you bring them all a fresh batch of peanut butter cookies with that warm smile on your face, they completely understand why Rafe is so smitten with you C:
Rafe would spoil you rotten for treating him so good! shopping sprees on the weekends, and duh, your nails are always done!! you said you wanted a new vintage von dutch mini skirt that barely covers your ass? Done! Rafe bough 5 of them in different colors and styles. Anything you look at for a little too long, or your fingers barely graze over, will be bought so beware!! Donât even get me started on how Rafe would have flowers sent to you when heâs away on missions, always so pretty and fresh, and always your favorites.
but Rafes favorite part about his housewife? The way you let him stuff your cunt no matter what. Youâre cooking? Heâs got you bent over with his mushroom tip pounding at your cervix as you desperately try to flip the pancakes before they burn. youâre folding clothes? Heâll bounce you up and down on his cock till you lose focus of what youâre supposed to be doing, too drunk on the way he feels inside of you. Cleaning? Of course he stresses you out when his cum spills onto the freshly mopped floor, so he has you lick it up!! âSânot my fault it wouldnât all fit in your mouth.â Heâd huff out.
his breeding kink would be through the roof with you! his mind spirals at the thought of you with you belly round and swollen, evidence of how good he is to you. Youâre so sweet and gentle, youâd be such a good mama to his kids! He can imagine himself walking into his home to the sight of you with a toddler that looks just like the both of you being bounced on your hip. Youâd pepper him with kisses, and your little one would crawl out of your arms just to be with him.
Safe to say, Rafe is definitely obsessed with you.
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Oh geez this might be a double ask because my phone glitched out when I tried to send previously BUT just wanted to say that I love ur Steve has older siblings au
I also need to say that I shamelessly combined that au with ur post about Tommy knowing Steve the best. Just picturing Steveâs sibs zoning out when his mom lists what he canât eat because they assume sheâs just being difficult. Flash forward a few years and they accidentally poison Steve with like peanut butter cookies and are realllly lucky that Tommy was staying over that weekend and knows heâs allergic.
anyways thx for all ur writing!
I only got this ask once so weâre good! The Steve Has Older Siblings AU has kinda been on hold for a bit because Dustin is either the easiest or the hardest character to write and right now, heâs being difficult for me.
BUT! I love this.
Iâm going to change it around a bit because Iâm on this kick right now where Steve is allergic to aspirin. Also, with the way that Steveâs mom is written for this AU, she is negligent but protective of her son. I donât think sheâd allow peanut butter in the house if Steve was allergic.
She wouldnât allow aspirin either but Richard insists that itâs the only thing that cures a migraine (hangover), and Steveâs eight. He doesnât even like taking his Flintstone vitamins so sheâs not concerned about him getting in the medicine cabinet.
Itâs not common that Tommy stays over at Steveâs when theyâre sick.
Typically his mom watches them at their house but she had to go wake up his grandma (âThat doesnât make any sense. Why canât she set an alarm clock?â/âI dunno, Steve. Thatâs what Mommy said. She had to go to Grannyâs wake.â) so Mrs. Harrington was babysitting them.
Mrs. Harrington isnât very good at taking care of them. Tommy wouldnât tell Steve that because itâll make him sad, but his mom kinda sucks at this. She doesnât even give them popsicles for their sore throats or kiss their foreheads to check their temperature. She just disappears for long periods of time to yell into the phone.
Tommyâs kinda happy when she has to go into the office because he thinks Claire might look after them, but sheâs apparently studying in her room so Steveâs brothers are doing it.
Tommy secretly likes this better because Jason and Richie are very nice to him, and they tell him that heâs cooler than Steve. No one has ever said that before! Not even Carol and they got married under the jungle gym.
Tommy likes hanging out with them even if he feels icky today.
He is standing in the kitchen next to Steve, watching Richie cut a little orange pill in half with a knife. Richie keeps muttering under his breath about running out of the âliquid S H I T.â Tommy thinks itâs funny that he said a bad word, but canât laugh about it because he can see the bottle that the pill came out of and â
âI donât think we take that,â He voices but Richie brushes him off. He says itâs like candy. Tommy has brothers too, so he knows that sometimes you gotta give in or theyâll rub your face into the carpet until you get rugburn, but, âI know but⌠but what if only I take it?â
âYou take half,â Richie tells him. âStevie over here takes the other half and then weâre right as rain. It reduces fever.â
âYeah,â Jason adds from behind them. âSo your brain doesnât leak out your ears.â
Tommy looks over at Steve but he isnât fully awake so thereâs not much of a reaction there. Plus, heâs not a very good reader so Tommyâs not sure if he even knows what the bottle says. He tries again, ignoring Jason, âThatâs not what Mrs. Harrington gave us earlier.â
âYeah, I know. This is better.â
âSteve canât take that,â Tommy tries again after he crunches the medicine between his teeth. He sticks out his tongue so Richie can see that itâs gone, and then adds, âMommy gave that to him once and it made him really sick.â
âIt did?â Steve croaks, snatching his hand back when Richie tries to hand him the pill. Richie tries to force the pill into his mouth but Steve presses his lips together. It makes his brother swear and gesture to Jason, and then Steve is snatched off his feet with a hand pinching his nose shut.
He struggles and Tommy wants to help but he â he also wants Richie and Jason to like him so, he doesnât help. Steve gasps for breath and the pill goes inâŚand Steve is fine. Heâs angry and out of breath, and his nose is still stuffy so he still kinda sounds like a frog but heâs not.. heâs not blue like last time.
Tommy thinks, oh. He thinks, cool.
Everything is fine for fifteen minutes and then Tommy is yelling out the door of Steveâs bedroom that they need help. Steve is breathing weird and â âand, I â I think heâs going to die!â
A lot of stuff happens at once. Claire leaves her room, Jason and Richie come up the stairs, and they all start yelling and blaming each other. No one really jumps into action until Tommy bursts into tears. Then itâs movement and car rides, and Tommy is sitting in the waiting room at the hospital without shoes on.
He doesnât know how long theyâve been sitting there when Mr. and Mrs. Harrington rush into the room. The only thing he does know is that heâs never seen anybody look as angry as Mrs. Harrington did when she sees them.
She looks like sheâs going to yell at them but Mr. Harrington grabs her by the arm and drags her to the reception desk. They disappear behind the white double doors that Steve went through.
It only makes Tommy cry harder.
#So Claire knows#She takes care of Steve most of the time and was the one to answer the call when Tommyâs mom unfortunately discovered this allergy#and Jason and Richie had been vaguely told about it but didnât remember because it does not come up a lot#the peanut allergy does so they do know that one#Tommy is obviously upset because he thinks his friend is dying and itâs his fault#but heâs also scared that Steveâs parents wonât let him come over anymore because thatâs what happened for a month after the last time#Steveâs mom is interesting bc I do think sheâd be proactive enough to remove triggers from places Steve typically is#but negligent enough to not remind people that her sick son canât have specific medicine#this was a great prompt. I do feel like I went off topic though#steve harrington#tommy hagan#Steve has older siblings Au
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resident evil (university au headcanons)
a/n: this is purely based on the beginning of my last year :( feeling bittersweet
chris redfield: a third year sports medicine/kinesiology student. if you're looking for someone who almost always has a water bottle full of creatine in his bag, chris is your guy. he's never the type to dress up, especially because he insists on 8am lectures to 'increase his productivity', so he's usually in sweatpants and under armour compression shirts. he joined the rock climbing club at claire's insistence of getting involved around school, but is unfortunately still getting the hang of it. it's hard to lift all that bodyweight, so the majority of the time he just hangs there. has very little social life. he'll go to a party, drink a single beer, then leave. turns women down because it would mess with his schedule. he's paying a lot of money to be there, and save for a bit of attitude towards his professors, he takes his studies seriously. diet-wise, this man preps like a mfer. protein peanut butter shake at 7.30 am no exceptions, within a 20min time limit of his workout. the dorm fridge has an ungodly amount of boiled eggs. toxic trait: does that white man hand raise when he has a question, and usually only thinks about what he's going to say after his hand goes up. jill valentine:
sociology major, criminology minor. has her schedule perfectly planned out so nothing is before 10am. she can and will ignore chris' pleas to meet her on campus beforehand, usually preferring to go for a coffee before a lecture. is never seen without some source of caffeine in her hand. jill isn't a huge fan of sociological theories, instead choosing to focus on the statistics aspect of it.
her dorm room is an absolute nightmare. there is not a single space on her floor that is not covered in clothes, but has no shame in bringing people over despite this. she'll just kind of awkwardly shuffle them away with her foot to make a pathway.
isn't part of any clubs, mostly because she can't be fucked for that kind of socialization. people always hit on her during class anyways, so it's not like she's hurting for company. she usually hangs out with chris or claire on campus, goading chris into doing something with her or letting claire drag her along into studying. toxic trait: has a windowsill full of empty monster energy drinks. leon kennedy:
a math major, criminology minor. has absolutely handed in multiple sheets of homework with tear stains in the corners. for how nonchalant he seems to be on the outside, he really does take his studies seriously, and always shoots for a perfect gpa. he's primarily seen haunting the third floor library, always looking like he's in a perpetual state of agony.
despite all the silent attention he gets from people during lectures, he does not entertain it whatsoever. the man is there to learn. he has one class with jill where they sit in complete silence together save for a couple of witty jokes at the professor (or other students) expense. the professor both loves and hates him. he's a frequent visitor of office hours, but his assignment is always printed and crushed in his fist. he's had a few short-term girlfriends in university, but nothing long-term. he firmly believes that he has rizz, but he does not. most people just let it slide because he has that attractive weird aura around him. toxic trait: unironically shushes people during a lecture. claire redfield: engineering major, communication minor. another person who takes her studies fairly seriously. the fortunate thing about claire is that she doesn't particularly have to try, the good grades just descend on her from the heavens. it makes chris furious. however like jill, she is not a fan of mornings and is usually seen frowning angrily at the board.
has a friend with a house off campus to store her bike so she can fix it up on her days off, using her engineering notes of course. she's part of a few clubs, but isn't fond of being part of leadership or anything. claire goes purely for the vibes.
goes on a couple strings of dates with guys, but always refuses to go out with people from her classes. she's seen it crash and burn so many times that she's not doing herself. will, however, recommend other people to her brother. toxic trait: pulls up to campus at 9am with the loudest motorcycle engine known to man, and always slams her helmet down on her desk when she sits down.
#all of these are inspired by real people i know in my real people university btw#let me know if yall want more of these they're super fun to write#resident evil#resident evil x reader#resident evil fanfiction#leon kennedy x reader#leon kennedy fanfiction#leon kennedy headcanons#chris redfield x reader#chris redfield fanfiction#chris redfield headcanons#jill valentine x reader#jill valentine fanfiction#jill valentine imagines#claire redfield fanfiction#claire redfield imagine#claire redfield x reader#leon kennedy#claire redfield#chris redfield#jill valentine
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requests: CLOSED â fluff only, refer below !
i. midoriya
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we are made of stardust
â itâs hard for someone to pinpoint their earliest memories. maybe it was the moment they blew their candles out on their first birthday, or when they scraped their knee while learning to ride a bike â for you, itâs the smell of lavender fabric softener.
k. bakugo
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i a-door you
â bakugo hits on you. literally.
it took me by soap-rise
â of course your public nuisance no. 1 has to hog your favorite shower stall the day you forget your body wash in it.
prickle me pink
â bakugo finds himself taking care of the cactus you gifted him against his better judgement.
clair de lune
â thereâs nothing you and katsuki wouldnât do for your baby girl, and that includes giving her the moon.
h. shinsou
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peanut butter and jellyfish
â shenanigans with your not-so-secret boyfriend ft. sleepovers with eri, a cat eating pizza on you at 3am, your classmates being nosy, and an aquarium date.
k. takami
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my caffeine mix-up! â pt. i | pt. ii
â you accidentally pick up the number two heroâs coffee so picks you up instead.
s. todoroki
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hug me, not it!
â your boyfriend has hidden beef with your plushies.
t. todoroki
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peaches (you're the cream of the crop)
â a series of grocery trips after touya is discharged from the hospital gives you both a sense of normalcy you never thought youâd be able to have again.
ikea meatballs before marriage?
â your fiancĂŠ and you get a little too into playing house when youâre supposed to be furniture shopping for your new apartment.
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all eye wanted was you
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sero reminds you of a few important things that your all-seeing quirk overlooks.
sick (but never of you)
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your husband shota insists on taking care of you when you fall ill, despite your protests.
good parts
â no matter how dark your brain gets, hitoshi is determined to help you see yourself in the same light that he does.
picture perfect
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keigo sees you wearing his merch and just canât get enough.
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Fic idea... so this takes place before 2019, but imagine if when Claire was little, Allison told her about Five's peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches, and Claire decided she wanted to try one đ
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Rewatching the Umbrella Academy has me thinking once more about Five being just Five. All the others have normal civilian names, chosen by Grace supposedly, except for him. That leaves two slightly hilarious options.
Five was asked about a name prior to hopping forward in time and was like 'nah I like being a number' and blinked away or the more plausible option that
The names were chosen after Five left
Which leads me to this idea that each of the Umbrellas had given thought over the years to a name for their lost, wayward brother.
Luthor: Guy. Am I the only one seeing Luthor crying because Five had been the Boy within their team and then never got to grow up but if he did he'd be a Guy. It feels like him to equate Five's alias to his name.
Diego: Diego would come up with nerdy, annoying names for a nerdy, annoying brother. He'd think to himself that Albert would fit him and Diego would call him Albrat when he was being a prick. If he were still around that is.
Allison: Allison would be flipping through the baby book when pregnant with Claire looking for names with meanings like Lost or Traveler or Beloved Son coming up with names like Wendell or Calian.
Klaus: Klaus would absolutely refuse to mentally settle on a name. He's gone through a million of them from Mario to Klaus Jr to Off Brand Peanut Butter Cup to Jeff. It's easier to play around with different names than to think about how Five isn't around to choose.
Ben: He seems like the kind of dude who never really formed any other names for Five. Like Five is Five? He listened to Klaus's ideas from silly to serious and Ben was never able to take them seriously.
Viktor: He'd given it some thought during childhood but never really thought about it seriously until Five returned. Though unmentioned, some of the ideas that Viktor had tosses around - before and after Five's return - were some suggestions Five would have approved of.
#the umbrella academy#its funny the points you fixate on even YEARS between watches#I'm just as weirdly fascinated by Fives lack of civilian name now as I was when TUA first came out#Its something... almost dehumanizing in a way he never really grew outside of the role he was literally born into#I can imagine as the other siblings grew up and thought on Five they'd come up with names#this idea that your brother left before he had a chance to be a person not a number..... only for him to return and now he's barely a perso#its silly what they'd come up with#but damn something about that motif gets me
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Title: Arms Around His Angel
Author: blackhorsedances
Artist: stonelions
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, minor Benny LaFitte/Garth Fitzgerald IV, Gabriel/Kali. Charlie Bradbury/Meg Masters; Jody Mills/Donna Hanscum. Past Dean and Lee Webb; Past Dean and Lisa Braeden; Past Dean and Benny LaFitte. Sam Winchester/Jess Winchester. Jack is Sam and Jess Winchesterâs son.
Length: 36041
Warnings: No major archive warnings Content Warnings: Mention of James and Amelia Novak dying in an MVA (no gore, nothing on screen), mention of the humane slaughter of a steer (no gore, nothing on screen).
Tags: !Inventor Castiel. !Rancher Dean Winchester. Bisexual Castiel Novak. Semi-comfortably Bisexual Dean Winchester. Top Cas/Bottom Dean. Smut and fluff. Mostly safe sex. Hurt/comfort. Happy Ending.
Posting Date: October 14, 2024
Summary: Castiel Novak invented cutting-edge solar technology and left his position as CEO of Angelus, Inc. to protect himself and his technology from his dysfunctional brothers. He found safety on a 20 acre farm in Kansas with a pond, house, barn, and his trailer. When his twin and sister-in-law are killed, heâs drawn back into the business, and into danger, to protect his niece Claire and his technology. Dean Winchester rebuilt Winchester Ranch after John almost destroyed it. He has 500 acres of land, a ranch house, and a big barn. He raises American Wagyu beef. Heâs a single Dad with a great son, Ben, a giant moose brother Sam and Samâs wife Jess, and an adorable nephew Jack who roams around the ranch with his trusty sidekick, Honeybee, Deanâs old palomino mule. Castiel and Dean meet accidentally at a hotel and share a night of wildâand completely anonymousâintimacy. When Castiel wakes up alone, with no note and no phone number from his ���Cowboyâ, he assumes that the night was a one and done, and regretfully moves on with his life. Dean keeps thinking about the âAngelâ that he spent a night with, but is pretty sure that he doesnât deserve that kind of a guy in his life. Jack and Honeybee discover âMister Casâ and inadvertently set the stage for âCowboyâ and his âAngelâ to meet. But sinister forces are moving in the background. Will they be able to overcome the forces that are trying to keep them apart?
Excerpt: âWhatâs Jack doing, Sam? Garth says he and Honeybee are out most days from breakfast until well after lunch. Jody says he packs peanut butter and banana sandwiches.â Sam shrugs. âHe says heâs out visiting Mister Cas. I think he probably found the fort we built that one summer, and is holed up out there with sandwiches for his imaginary friends. Let it be, Dean. The heifers are out in the north pasture. The steers are in the east pasture. Thereâs nothing out by the fort to worry about.â âSnakes, Sam. There are snakes to worry about.â Sam looks at Dean across the kitchen island, and shakes his head, hair flopping over into his eyes. âYouâre the one that told me that a mule will kill a snake faster than you can say âsnakeâ, and I believe you because Iâve seen Honeybee do it. Let him be. Ben will be out of school in a couple of weeks, and heâll be following Ben around like a puppy.â âHeh, youâre probably right.â Dean runs a hand down the back of his neck. âI know I am, Dean. You worry about all of us, but you worry too much. You canât watch over everyone all of the time.â
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âScreaming at Paul Hollywood, a man whoâs [sic] job is cooking, being shocked by the mystical magical never been used before flavour of ⌠gochujang,â said one viewer. âHow come paul hollywood couldnât pronounce âtacoâ and has never heard of gochujang but kept calling it âchoritho,ââ asked writer Claire Carusillo. The old-fashioned nature of TheGreat British Baking Show â watch these bakers of varying skills finagle their way through traditional English recipes with bits of flair â once felt like a perk rather than a flaw, but the showâs dedicated audience is growing frustrated with the judgesâ dated tastes. . . . A disastrous âVegan Weekââthemed episode from series nine had both judges confused about the taste of nutritional yeast, though neither balked at the tofu-and-soy-milk ice cream Giuseppe DellâAnno fed them in the âFree-From Weekââthemed episode of series 12. While the show seems to sneak in challenges that celebrate alternative ways of eating and cooking, watching the judges engage and evaluate those foods feels a bit like watching them eat a plate of broccoli: They chew and swallow, brows furrowed, with little enjoyment. . . . For one, the Baking Show participants and audience have come to know these judgesâ flavor preferences like the back of their hand âLeith likes booze, Hollywood doesnât like peanut butter, and both show disinterest in the âgrassyâ flavor of matcha â and adjust their recipes accordingly. When Georgie Grasso cooked a rather traditional Bakewell tart in Pastry Weekâs signature challenge this season, the judges fawned over her adherence to convention. Sure, a standard dessert baked right can be a treat, but the bakes are intended to be personalized. (And other contestants, like Gill Howard and her chocolate-hazelnut profiteroles, have been downgraded for playing it safe.) For a show that has evolved to reward and encourage spectacle in design and originality in lieu of âhow things are done,â there ought to be one evaluator who can represent that. What Baking Show instead increasingly feels like is trying to pick out a movie to show your parents and hoping the final choice doesnât offend anyone.
What this piece should say and doesn't, is that all of this is because Bake Off is inherently British in its structure and approach. Where other cooking shows require judges to have diverse palettes and wide ranging experience with ingredients in order to be able to judge dishes based on ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of flavors and textures, the judges on Bake Off are there to be paternalistic authorities to be catered to. They and their judgment are at the center of the show, not the food, or the bakers themselves. It's very telling that when the show moved to Channel 4, the language around judging changed from "the bakers will now be judged on their bakes" to "the bakers will now face the judgment of Prue and Paul" with the onus being on the judge's opinions, not the bakers' skill.
It's inherent to the Britishness of the show that there's a constantly reinforced social hierarchy in which the judges are at the top and the bakers must vie for their approval in an almost servile way; it's even more inherently British that the judges' approach to their job is to expect the bakers to cater to their personal tastes, not to expand their own palates - and that if they ever do, like when Paul went to Mexico to try new foods and brought ideas back for Mexican week, they still don't understand basic flavors let alone how to pronounce the names of ingredients and dishes correctly, and use their experience to lob condescending remarks to working class contestants who've never had the same opportunities, instead of offering knowledge and insight.
The same mindset of paternalistic classism that informed British colonialism for centuries is clearly apparent in Bake Off: this is why what sets it apart from other cooking competition shows is the judges' limited palate being forced on a group of middle and working class contestants who vie for the Hollywood Handshake and gear their recipes towards the judges' taste instead of their own creative impetus. Bake Off used to be a nice, innocuous show that set itself apart from the rest because it was about learning and support. It changed not just because Channel 4 wanted to imbue it with more tension (by tightening task schedules and extending the tension soundtrack to meet the needs of extended sequences in which bakers are panicking). When the show began to venture outside the confines of traditional British baking to more modern and international ingredients and flavors, it pulled back the curtain on how out of their depth the judges were, and what resulted was the current dynamics because of an unwillingness to learn and an insistence on enforcing class dyanmics.
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Allison (gets a call): Hello?
Kidnapper: We have your kidâŚ
Allison: Claire?!
Kidnapper: What? No, your son
Allison (relived but confused): But I donât have a son
Kidnapper (becoming frustrated): Then who is the brunet kid who asked me for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then cussed us out when we didnât have it?!
Allison: Oh my gosh they have Five!!
Five: Iâm right here
Allison: Oh okay good!
Allison:âŚ
Allison: OH MY GOSH THEY HAVE KLAUS!!
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Four Weeks til Christmas â¨
By: mysweetcreature on Ao3
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snippetďżźďżź from the new chapter:
Itâs not until theyâre sitting around the kitchen table chewing on the last of their sandwiches when they hit their first hiccup, âWhere does Buck sleep, Uncle Johnny?â She asks innocently.
John gets whiplash from the speed of his neck turning to face Gale, the startled look in his own eyes could be attributed to many reasons. One being that, that was the first time Claire had ever referred to him as Uncle Johnny without other adults or likely his Momma prompting her to. Two being that, he is feeling extremely unequipped to answer that question.
Bucky clears his throat harshly, swallowing around the hard lump of peanut butter that feels lodged in the back of his throat, âHe has a room, but Buck could sleep wherever he wants to.â He says, finally.
Or: The one where Johnâs sister, Anna (Annie) passes away due to a fatal car accident on Thanksgiving. The only thing she left behind was her six year old daughter and Johnâs niece, Claire, who heâs never met. A story about the trials and tribulations of the Buckâs trying to become new dads, dealing with grief and making the perfect Christmas for Claire. Theyâve got four weeks, can they do it?
Ch. 2/3 (plus a possible epilogue đ¤Ť)
Word Count: 13,980
#mota#clegan#mota fanfic#christmas fic#kid fic#john egan#gale cleven#buck x bucky#mysweetcreature fic
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