#dumplins

[gurkandbannis]

DUMPLINS THAT TASTE LIKE MAGIC!

Get ready for some dumplins! 😚 If it is one dish that we allways say to oursealf that we need to have more, it got to be dumplins 😁 Try this recipe fo yoursealf! 😘😘 1 carrot 250g grounded beef 1tbs sesam oil 1 tbs soy sauce 80g flour 40g rice flour 5-7tbs water If you like what you see, feel free to comment below. We upload a video every single day so be sure to follow so you can take a part in our journey🥰🥰

[porcelaintooth]

[esmeblaise]

The thing about berrykin is that theyre not human, they grow and mature differently. Apple was considered fully self sufficient and capable before Strawberry found her but she resonated with Strawberrys idea of not being alone and taking care of each other

[brookesdreamery]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN DREAMERS!!!! 🎃🦇🧡

Here is what I imagine the Strawberry gang is up to on this spooky night 😋

Hope that you all are having a wonderful Halloween!🧡

(Almost didn’t finish this in time 😅)

[fryingpan1234567]

shows and movies that are the same flavor, inexplicably

🍒cherry limeade🥤

Heartbreak High

Boo, Bitch

Do Revenge

Mean Girls (2024)

🍬saltwater taffy🍥

Mean Girls (2004)

Legally Blonde

Clueless

Mamma Mia

🍫dark chocolate and cinnamon🌰

13 Reasons Why

I Am Not Okay With This

Moxie

Ginny and Georgia

🍪graham crackers and molasses🥃

X

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2020)

☕️burnt black coffee🫘

It Follows

The Bye Bye Man

The Candyman

🍋‍🟩lime and honey🍯

Umbrella Academy

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Enola Holmes

Dead Boy Detectives

🍮white chocolate w coffee center🫘

Young Royals

Tiny Pretty Things

First Kill

🥯everything bagels w cream cheese🧈

Work It

Feel the Beat

the Kissing Booth trilogy

Dash & Lily

Dumplin’

Pitch Perfect

Red White & Royal Blue

Senior Year

🍓strawberries🍭

Heartstopper

the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy

The Prom

🍒zero sugar cherry coke🥤

Black Phone

Stranger Things

the Fear Street trilogy

IT (chapters 1 and 2)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

🥂champagne and buffalo sauce (don’t ask)🥡

The Adam Project

Red Notice

every Fast and Furious movie after the fifth one

Uncharted

Free Guy

🍬bubblegum lollipop🍭

Zombieland

Army of the Dead

Warm Bodies

Deadpool

Birds of Prey

Suicide Squad (2021)

Violent Night

🍯butterscotch and hot chocolate☕️

Harry Potter

Wonka

Mary Poppins

Magic Schoolbus

Winnie the Pooh

Paddington

Slumberland

Narnia

[elderwisp]

somewhere in another universe, they figured it out

[stabbyfoxandrew]

Hey could i get a snippet of arsonist neil/firefighter andrew?

WIP Wednesday (8/21) | Arsonist Neil / Firefighter Andrew AU (Part 215)

“You’re not standing on my shoulders either.”

“Stop joking,” Aaron sighs.

“I’m not. My job requires me to be able-bodied. But I supposed I could help you a pick out a step stool.”

“Will you help me, us, with the kids?” Aaron asks, straight out. No tiptoeing. Andrew considers it for a moment. 

“Oh? I would be allowed near them?”

“Of course you would.” Aaron says, but it sounds more like a question than anything. It almost hurts his feelings. Maybe it would if he had any. Andrew snatches the bags off the counter, ripping one through Aaron’s hand, and stuffs them all into a drawer.

“I will help you paint your junk room. Clean it out, pick a color, and call me.” Andrew says, leaving the other part unanswered. He doesn’t want anything to do with kids. Never has. Even when he was one.

Aaron smiles, apparently satisfied with that. Then he continues to smile and stare until Andrew has to ask, “What?”

“‘Uncle Andrew’,” Aaron says, not holding in a laugh. Andrew balks at such a horrid phrase.

“Absolutely not. They can call me Andrew or nothing at all.”

“We’ll see.” Aaron grins.

“Maybe they’ll get us confused. Maybe they’ll call you Uncle Aaron,” Andrew muses, making Aaron’s signature glare (Andrew thinks it was his first) appear on his face. 

“If you teach my kids to call me—”

“I doubt I’ll be around them enough to teach them anything. Besides, they’re just ‘two little thingies’ right now,” Andrew says mockingly. “Not even close to being born, let alone talking.”

“You’ll be around them plenty.”

“What makes you think I want to be anywhere near a pair of screaming brats anyway?”

Aaron thinks for a minute. “Because they’re mine.”

“And we are so well known for spending time together.” Andrew rolls his eyes.

“We’re doing better.” Aaron counters. And he’s right. They’ve spent more time together— on purpose and not just the forced closeness caused by sharing a cousin, house, and collegiate exy team— in the last month than in their entire lives.

“We’re doing better.” Andrew concedes.

Aaron nods, then wets his lips. “Will you come for Christmas?”

“No. I’m busy that day.”

“Doing what?”

[matttheratkingart]

Part 2 of the Epilogue

Text under the more:

Laying close to him on folded towels and an old blanket, wearing his borrowed jumper, on a backroad of his town under his stars, I am acutely aware I have been surrounded on all sides. Were this a match, I would be losing.He has home advantage.

(The bitch of it is he always has home advantage. Everywhere he goes is home.)

(And I will be honest.I stopped fighting the play a long time ago)

[maslosstuff]

Strawberry fam + my theory that strawberry family being based of previous generations (her grandma is the last one)

[holdingonforheaven]

I'm thinking about Bryce Dallas Howard in Argylle. And how the whole movie, I kept thinking, "she looks like me." Elly Conway/Rachel Kylle is midsize. I'm midsize. I kept being struck by seeing a character who looked like me on screen, and god, if I was so surprised by it, I can't imagine what it's like to be fat and never see positive fat representation. Even just neutral fat representation. Elly's body is never discussed in the film (in contrast to a movie like Love Actually, for example, where Natalie's body is a constant topic of conversation for the other characters, to the point that they treat it as her defining trait). How many characters are out there, especially female characters, who get to be fat and not have it be the focus of their story?

The only one I can think of that comes close is Dumplin. And even in that movie, her weight isn't the primary conflict (it's not a weight loss story or anything like that), but her insecurity about it is still a source of tension that causes conflict between her and several other characters (Ellie, her mother, Bo).

I don't really know where I'm going with this. I like to think the body positivity and body neutrality movements have made a lot of progress since the heroin-chic days of the 90s and early 00s. But if it's still notable to me to see a midsize character in a major motion picture, maybe we haven't come as far as we think.

[dreamyboogrem]

haha second sonic sona go brr

[carriagelamp]

Early Spring (March - April) Books

My main takeaway from the books I read over the past couple months that by god if you're going to do something, at least commit to the bit. I would say the books I liked the most this month were the "cheesy" ones or the oddballs, and my least favourite were just... profoundly average. So basic and uninterested in its own premise as to be offensive. At least if you're over-the-top you're making me feel something! Which is more than I can say for some of the books on my list...

Dumplin’

I’ve seen this book frequently in bookstores, and I know it was fairly popular at the time so after my mom watched the film and recommended it to me I decided it was about time to read it properly. 

The plot follows Willowdean, a fat girl who is generally fairly comfortable in her skin — or who has always seen herself as such. But with her former pageant queen mom getting into the latest pageant season, her best friend getting more and more involved in romance, and Will finding herself enamoured with a coworker she is struggling more and more with complicated feelings about how she views herself and how others view her. In an effort to fight back against it, she decides to sign up for the most recent pageant.

It was decent! I can’t really complain. I got the audiobook and it was fairly chill, low-stakes listening. High school drama is never my first choice, but there were enough good things about this book. My biggest complaint is that the ending was very anticlimactic. This is the sort of book where I want the big, cliche, over-the-top satisfying finale! It's about misfits taking over a small town beauty pageant!! I want it in the style of Hairspray or Legally Blonde or something!!! But the book was so painfully self-aware that it really tripped itself up in “therapy talk” and "realistic" endings that just took the wind out of its sails, rather than asking what the satisfying ending is. Still, worth the read if you enjoy a YA coming of age story.

Fence v1

Christ all mighty folks. I feel like I’m being gaslit here. This comic had some rave reviews on goodreads so I grabbed the first couple books from the library and it’s? actually just awful? I figured, hey, this will probably be done in the style of a sports manga, right? I enjoy a sports manga from time to time, especially a queer one. And you can tell that that’s what it’s inspired by. But holy SHIT is it boring. Like the art is AGONIZING. It’s stiff and uninspired and emotionless. I’ve read manga that’s managed to make the fucking board game go look like a high-stakes action adventure, and this book managed to make TEENAGERS WITH SWORDS boring as hell. I don't know enough about the author to tell if this is indicative of her usual work, or if the fault lays in just the blandest art imaginable but seriously, what the fuck. Don’t read this. I’m gonna go reread Haikyuu instead and remind myself that some people know how to draw sports scenes that are capable of making me feel things. Jesus.

Fullmetal Alchemist

A reread ♥ I stumbled across an FMA fanfiction by pure chance at the beginning of March and it made me dig out my books and reread the first few volumes. Always a cozy story to return to. If you've never taken the time to read Fullmetal Alchemist... honestly I'm not sure what rock you've been living under but you should do it. An unshakeable classic for a REASON

Home of the Brave

I picked this one up because I really enjoyed Applegate’s free verse novel Odder and I heard this one was written in a similar style. I knocked it out in a single day, it was a very quick read but a very heartfelt story. I can't say that I think everything about it was done perfectly, but for the style and intended audience, it was pretty solid. Made you look at things from a different perspective, had some really heart-wrenching realities to consider, and a lot of feel-good heart.

It followed Kek, a young immigrant from Sudan who has come to live with his aunt since his father and brother were killed and his mother is missing. It explores Kek’s adjustment to living in the United States, how the trauma continues to affect him, and how he begins to make friends — with a neighbour living with a foster family, an old woman, and her cow.

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid v1

I’ve seen gifs of this around, and found a copy of it in the used bookstore so I figured… why not. Is it a good book? No. Not sure I'd bother reading the second, but it was weird enough to have made it worth reading. If nothing else, the premise was strange, art took me by surprised at time, and managed to make me chuckle along from time to time.

Kobayashi helps out a dragon who is now determined to live with her and help her out in an effort to seduce her repay her kindness. The story starts with the dragon being completely heartbroken that Kobayashi would honest rather just take the train on her commute rather than ride a dragon to work because scales are frankly uncomfortable.

Murder Most Puzzling

A fun little book of brainteasers! Each mystery includes a short story description (based around a private detective and her harried assistant) along with hand-drawn art. Between these two things, you’re supposed to deduce who the culprit of each crime is, with all the answers in the back of the book. It was pretty to look at and fun to work through, especially with a friend.

My Happy Marriage v1

Quite enjoyed this one! Is it a really well-written book? No. It’s very simple. But the plot is exactly the sort of sweet, cheesy story that I enjoy.

A very Cinderella-esque story, Miyo is from a noble-born family but suffers under her abusive family: an indifferent father, a cruel step-mother, and a selfish, haughty step-sister. She is treated even worse than a servant, and has resigned herself to existing like a meek, cringing shadow in her own home — her lack of magic that people in her class are expected to have makes her feel like this is entirely earned and inescapable. The story kicks off when she is callously married off to a young nobleman who is notorious for scaring away brides within days; he is said to be cold and cruel. Miyo is perfectly prepared for this new home to be no different than her last home...

Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino 

A sequel to Old-Fashioned Cupcake, in which Nozue and Togawa begin to navigate the more complicated aspects of a relationship that has progressed beyond outings as friends and casual dates, to spending nights and a growing interest in living together. A homophobic society and their own hang-ups make this a complicated topic to navigate and there’s a lot of ups and downs, but it’s ultimately just as sweet as the first part.

Railsea

My favourite read from spring so far — absolutely deranged, I’m going to have to read more by this author. I saw a tumblr post that described this as a dystopian Moby Dick novel crossed with Treasure Island… with giant mutant moles rather than whales and trains instead of ships. Frankly, if that doesn’t also grab you by the throat and make you want to read it, I don’t know what to tell you. The author’s writing style is very distinct, and mimics what you expect from something like Moby Dick or Treasure Island, and he doesn’t bother holding your hand as he introduces this strange world to you. The world-building is really top tier, it’s completely bizarre and yet it feels very natural once you see how it works. The underlying themes are also just breath-taking. It was a masterfully written book and just a pure delight, especially once the second half kicks off.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Speaking of books that got rave reviews and that I feel are gaslighting me…

This came to me highly recommended and the goodread reviews seemed to agree… and guys, just wholly shit. Pure opposite of Railsea. Boring trite language, world-building that made absolutely no fucking sense, and characterization that felt like negative space. A pure void of characterization that sucked my entire will to live into it like a black hole. Like, this book so clearly did not actually give a shit about its own premise and didn't make a single effort to create a cohesive world or narrative... it leaned on tired tropes so heavily that it creaked. I had a couple mutuals that got to listen to me liveblog this and I couldn’t get through more than a couple paragraphs without losing my shit. Complete garbage, clearly riding on the coattails of A Court of Thorns and Roses without understanding what actually made that series compelling. I absolutely did not finish this book. The little bit I did read nearly killed me.

Heaven Official's Blessing (TGCF) v6

I continue to be completely enamoured with Heaven Official’s Blessing. The only reason I’m not tearing through these books faster is because a) I don’t want it to end and b) it keeps making me want to stop and write fanfiction about it instead. Getting to learn more about Xie Lian's past, the fall of Xianle, and the complete collapse of his life was just... ouch. My heart. Had to stop and cry about Xie Lian and Hua Cheng a LOT during this one folks.

The Wild Robot Protects

The third installment of Roz’s life on her island with her son, Brightwing, and her various animal friends. This time a deadly tide is sweeping through the ocean, killing any living thing that comes in contact with it, putting enormous strain on the resources of the island as animals try to move inland to escape it. Roz takes it upon herself to venture north and find the cause of this tide.

It was… meh. A middling book. Not bad, good for kids who are enjoying this series, a good lesson about how pollution, the inter-connectivity of nature, and marine conservation. But given how good the first two books in the series were, I was a bit disappointed with this one. It felt long winded and boring, with nothing of note actually happening until literally the last couple chapters.

[esmeblaise]

so what if i told you i was working on my version of a strawberry shortcake reboot

character summary 

[brookesdreamery]

Here’s my redesign of Apple Dumplin’ for my Zomberry AU!!!!!!✨🍎✨

I go further in-depth about her design, personality, and role in my AU in my newest YouTube video, so if you’d like to learn more check it out!😋

[candycandy00]

Wondering how many of these hot anime men I could pull with nothing more than southern charm and delicious home cooking.

[catfindr]