#The Best of 2022

[carolinahope]

The Best of 2022 - 7 scenes (4/7)

[samldrake]

Hello everybody and WELCOME to:

The Best of 2022!

This video was quite literally a year in the making; with clips from all the way back in January to the very end of December.

So much happened throughout 2022 and it was always my intention to share it with friends, loved ones, and you! There are clips in here from upcoming videos, streams from the beginning of the year, and the fun little adventures I had with friends irl.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did compiling these memories. Thank you for 2022 - let's make an even better 2023!

[fangomusic]

2022 En Français

La meilleure musique en français de 2022. The best music of the year in French.

[lesraarsel]

quick boorman study, bcs i miss willow :'

[marskiiii]

hes like a soggy bat.. i love him

[countandra]

[saintjosie]

#2 a reminder to trans femmes

[mimimar]

finally completed my comic based on the song ivy by taylor swift!✿ please zoom in to read the text and see the details~

✿.✿.✿

you can get the digital zine pdf here! it includes extras like character profiles, costume design, more art of willow and ivy, zine-exclusive sketches and an illustrated guide to the symbolism of all the flowers in this comic.

you can also get prints of individual pages here!

✿.✿.✿

[emo-batboy]

A Wild Battinson (Social Media AU)

Part 43 (Masterlist)

(Part 44)

Me, to myself: I just think the series was better when I posted several times a week because the pacing felt more natural, and it translates better when people binge it.

Also Me, holding two jobs and a bat: If you try to post once a day again, I will disconnect your head from your shoulders—

@bruciemilf guess who’s back

Anyways, folks! :D So I'm thinking of a new upload schedule where I spend a bit preparing the next ten or so parts then post it all in two weeks? I think that would be fun (and much better for my creative process.)

I’ll be posting the next part very soon :) But it's going to be drastically different from what I've done before. Let’s see if anyone can guess why.

Yada yada don’t die LOVE Y’ALL

[thisislizheather]

The Best of 2022

I’ll forever love a best-of-the-year list, so off we go.

BEST EXPERIENCES

Waking up at dawn to walk through Central Park during a snowstorm.

Above Photo: Central Park during a snowstorm, January 2022

Visiting part one of the In America exhibit at The Met. And then revisiting it a few months later with updated pieces.

Seeing Debra Messing in the play Birthday Candles on Broadway.

Finally visiting the incredible New York Transit Museum.

Taking Baby Dog to Central Park each season.

Above Photo: Baby Dog in Central Park, February 2022

Above Photo: Baby Dog in Central Park, April 2022

I went blonder than I’ve ever blonded before.

Above Photo: Blonde Liz, March 2022

Seeing American Buffalo with Sam Rockwell at Circle in the Square theatre with Nathan. Just incredible.

Traveling to England, Spain, Scotland, Barbados, Las Vegas and Los Angeles! (Individual posts for those coming soon, I swear!)

Seeing Mr. Saturday Night with Billy Crystal on Broadway. Love that man.

Finding the real Amityville house and seeing it in person.

Above Photo: The house from The Amityville Horror, July 2022

Going to Kim’s Video Store in Manhattan.

Visiting my best friend Harmeet’s lake house in the summer.

Having my first tea service with my friend Marla at the cutest place The Wild Tart - and then visiting the Elora quarry and gorge (where scenes from It were filmed).

Above Photo: Elora Quarry, August 2022

Rediscovering my love for Halloween sitcom episodes.

Continuing to crush Halloween.

Seeing the Thierry Mugler exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.

Visiting the newly opened Museum of Broadway.

BEST NEW RECIPES

Zucchini Lasagna

Above Photo: Zucchini lasagna

Sour Cream Banana Bread

Above Photo: Sour cream banana bread

Lemon Brown Butter Salmon

Antoni Porowski’s Moroccan-Style Lamb Bolognese

Above Photo: Antoni Porowski’s lamb bolognese

Soft Pumpkin Cookies with Salted Maple Icing

Leftover Turkey Sandwiches with Stuffing Waffles

BEST FOODS I ATE

The wild mushroom soup with truffle oil & mascarpone at Giorgio’s of Gramercy.

Above Photo: Didn’t even mind how burned this bread was THAT’S HOW GOOD THIS SOUP IS, Giorgio’s of Gramercy

The seasonal lemon poppy seed cruller at Daily Provisions.

Above Photo: Lemon poppy seed cruller from Daily Provisions

The mussels from The Independent in Midtown.

The burger at The Sparrow Tavern in Astoria.

The chocolate peanut butter pie at The Angelika.

Above Photo: Chocolate peanut butter pie at The Angelika

The french onion soup dumplings from Mimi Cheng’s.

The steak Diane from Dowling’s at The Carlyle.

Every single pasta at Rezdora.

Above Photo: Truffle Raviolo (the giant raviolo with black truffles), the Grandma Walking Through Forest in Emilia (the green pasta), the Maccheroni al Pettine with duck ragu, Rezdôra NYC, March 2022

The burger au poivre at Raoul’s.

The roasted corn and couscous risotto with parmesan from Glass House Tavern.

Crab cakes from Bar Crudo in Brooklyn.

Every single thing at Bazaar Meat By Jose Andres in Las Vegas.

The absolute best BLT I’ve ever had at Sala in Astoria (served at brunch only).

BEST TV & MOVIES

The Golden Girls: I never watched it growing up but it’s wild what a great show it was.

Malice: Okay, do you know anything about this movie? If not, don’t look it up. Just watch it. I was ON CLOUD NINE watching this one. So many twists, there’s a great Alex Baldwin monologue in it, it’s just a party of a movie. Especially if you love early 90s semi-sexy psychological thrillers, WHICH I DO. Such a great movie.

Trapped: Nathan’s first season premiered and was reviewed in The Globe and Mail!

Top Gun Maverick: I know, who even am I? This is so out of character, but I loved it.

PEN15: Best new show I’ve seen in years. All women born in the mid 80s need to watch it.

The Thomas Crown Affair: Love 90s movies like this.

The Bear: Just a great first season.

The Summer I Turned Pretty: This was just a perfect summer/teen show that I didn’t know that I needed.

Barbarian: Such a perfect movie. Bill Skarsgård can do absolutely no wrong.

The Crown: Depressing to binge watch all at once, but really good overall.

Bob’s Burgers (Christmas episode): I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

BEST PURCHASES

The lip exfoliator & lip butter from Three Ships.

Every single tee tree product at The Body Shop. (As well as their whole Wild Pine collection.)

The AG Hair Colour Savour Mask that Ulta has apparently stopped selling?!

Gorgeous address labels from Zazzle.

Vicks bath crystals.

Aerie black leggings with pockets.

Holler And Glow foot mask from Target.

Black, tulle slip dress from Free People.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS

The sandwiches at Alidoro in the West Village.

Sullivan Street Bakery.

Angelina Bakery in Bryant Park.

Literally all Kylie Skin products.

Any product described as “lip oil” - BUY SOME DAMN LIP BALM FOR THE SAME EFFECT, PEOPLE.

So many recipes from Half Baked Harvest (the ginger sesame noodles with mushrooms and the sesame garlic chili oil noodles, for example). It’s a beautifully curated site but with such lackluster flavours in the recipes.

SLT. I love pilates, but this was just wretched.

The continued celebration of The Kardashians.

Part Two of the In America exhibit at The Met.

Halloween Ends. Just a mess of a movie.

A Christmas Carol (the one-man show on Broadway) was hell on earth.

I stand by all of these opinions!

And here are my favourites from 2021, if you’re interested!

[carolinahope]

The Best of 2022 - 7 actors (2/7)

[thedaveandkimmershow]

So it's 2023 and one of the things we already talked about is what we wanna do this year.

Actually, what we talked about is what we did last year...

That we wanna do again this year.

And while what we enjoyed in 2022 spread out across the entire year amidst all the other stuff we didn't enjoy at all... a lot of it did manage to cluster in December. Which, interestingly, was the month we spent the most time hanging out with friends.

So that's one lesson we picked up.

Here's the second:

It was also, somehow, a month that managed not to speed by even though there was a lot of activity in it. A lot of travel. A lot of To Do's. And yet we enjoyed all of it. And yes it does make us wonder...

Does it have to just be December?

It's probably a question we should pursue and continue to pursue because at its heart is a quality of life issue. A what do you want your life to be kind of thing.

After all, our workloads did not lighten in December. And yet we managed to spend time with more friends as well as more time with friends, not all of whom were in-state.

Our sense of time, by the way, seemed to expand to accommodate all of that. It did not seem as if the minutes and hours and days and weeks went racing by. Which, yes, makes it seem as if December's a box like the other eleven boxes of months... but with magically more space inside it.

Not even joking.

If I had to guess, I would say it's the quality of time we spent. Not simply doing... but hanging out. You know? In a way, doing nothing with our closest friends. We didn't go places with each other. We didn't do things together. We just were. Together.

We spent time with each other and only time. Investing that time in conversation across a spectrum of topics and experiences and emotions. The consequence of of which, I'm pretty sure, is that Time.

Did not race.

As if Quantity Time is hitting the gas...

And Quality Time is hitting the brakes.

Talk about things that make you go hmmmmmm... right?

Of course 2023 has its own treats lined up in the coming weeks and months and we're definitely looking forward to those. But it's that mastery of Time we lucked into in December that's capturing my imagination. Because it's a lesson that very much seems like a good one, a most valuable one, to carry with us into the new year.

😊

[fangomusic]

The 100 Best Songs of 2022

Playlist

The 100 best songs according to Fango Music. Have an excellent 2023!

[consultingfujoshi]

something something puss trying to outrun the literal personification of death for the whole movie whilst perrito walks around always wearing the sock his family literally tried to drown him in as a sweater, something something accepting that life is short and literally growing into your own mortality and making the most out of the hand youve been dealt

[cyborb]

very fluffy volcarona that i made last year for the zine fire blast!

[theerurishipper]

I feel like people really underestimate the importance of Dick being the first Robin. Like, reverse Robin AUs are interesting and such, but I just hope people realize that in the context of canon, they would never work. The reason Batman and Robin ever works is because the first Robin was Dick Grayson specifically. Because Bruce would never have taken in any child if Dick's tragedy hadn't specifically happened to mirror his own experience. Dick Grayson was the only one Bruce truly saw himself in first, because the fundamental event that defines them is the same. And he sees the opportunity to help someone the way he was never helped, to make sure that Dick didn't go down the dark path he did. So, my point here is that the only one Bruce actually made the choice to take in, the only one who could kickstart it all, is Dick Grayson, because he is the only one with whom Bruce could immediately empathize and connect with.

This never happened with any other Robin. He took in Jason because he missed Dick, he took in Tim because Tim forced himself into the role, he took in Steph because he was trying to make Tim come back to being Robin, and Dick made Damian Robin. Of course, he loved all of them, and they all have their unique relationships with Bruce that are very important and inform their characters, and he does need them too. But he specifically formed this connection with Dick that made Dick the only person he ever considered taking in. It took a very specific set of circumstances in Dick's backstory that made Bruce commit an impulse adoption that just isn't really present in any other Robin's story. And the reason Jason or Tim or Steph or Damian or anyone else whom Bruce has taken under his wing even got that chance is because of the work Dick Grayson put into Bruce Wayne.

Before Dick, Bruce was reckless and didn't care at all about himself, to the point of almost being borderline suicidal. He was more brutal, more violent, etc. The reason all this changed, is because of Dick Grayson specifically. He was the one with whom Bruce opened up, with whom Bruce was forced to grow up, to take responsibility and learn to take care of both Dick and himself. Dick, to Bruce was the one who brought "color to their [his and Alfred's] monochrome lives." Dick Grayson's specific brand of happiness and joy changed Bruce for the better. Dick gave Bruce hope. This is true for other Robins too, but only because they followed the precedent that Dick Grayson set, only because they slid into his role (they have their own interesting relationships with Bruce, but this specifically is from Dick that other Robins carried on. A legacy, if you will). Dick Grayson turned Bruce into the kind of man who would become a serial adopter.

Without his influence, without his precedent, there would be no Batfamily, because Bruce would never have gotten to the point where he would be able or willing to take in someone else and care for them properly (It took living through his trauma again to get him to take Dick in lmao). Hell, there would be no Batman because Bruce would have gotten himself killed a long time ago if Dick hadn't helped him learn self-care. Dick knows Bruce best, because he understands him on a fundamentally deeper level than anyone else in the world. And he's the only one who can make Bruce open up at his rawest, most downtrodden state. He is the only one who can give Bruce at his lowest that kind of hope. There is no Robin without Dick Grayson. It's literally a tribute to his parents, using their colors and the name his mother called him. He created that identity as a symbol of hope. He helped Bruce become the kind of man who could and would let other people that he had to care for into his life. Without Dick Grayson, you can simply forget about any other Robin or the Batfamily as a concept even existing.