#emergency chicken

[michaelnaghtenshanks]

Emergency Chicken Recipe This is a simple chicken recipe using just barbeque sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic powder to make a tasty sauce for sliced chicken.

[sarabethsilver]

One thing that frustrates me about Gilmore Girls is the way Jess is written between S2 and S3. Or more accurately, how other characters' reactions to him are written.

S2 Jess causes trouble, there's no way around that. But the townsfolk are way too hard on him, and the show is VERY clear about that. We're meant to see Taylor as hysterically overreacting about Jess. We're meant to see the Town Meeting about evicting him as a bad thing. We're meant to feel badly that the town blames him for the car accident. We're meant to think that Lorelai was completely unreasonable in that situation. Jess has FLAWS, sure. Even Rory and Luke, arguably the only two people who give Jess a chance, are pretty clear in sharing their thoughts when he's made a mistake. But Rory and Luke are not wrong when they speak about Jess' strengths and potential. And S2 wants me to know that!

But in S3? Suddenly the message seems to be that Jess was bad all along. Which is especially weird because S3 Jess doesn't really cause trouble. Instead, his minor mistakes in his relationship with Rory are blown up into catastrophes. Rory is SAD. She hates who she is with Jess (which is apparently Jess' fault, and has nothing to do with her own lack of communication skills). Rory stops defending Jess. She regrets ending things with Dean, and ultimately describes choosing Jess as a mistake. Jess flunks out of school, and it's presented like it was 100% his dumb fault. Jess then falls apart at Kyle's party, and it's presented like the obvious and unavoidable conclusion to his arc. (Dean? The guy who STARTED the fight? Is portrayed as justified, even honorable.) Luke steals Jess' car and kicks him out, and the show is utterly committed to portraying this as a necessary step in Jess' growth. Luke questions himself about that choice for exactly one second... and he's IMMEDIATELY assured that he did nothing wrong. A message the show sticks with, by the way, for the rest of the series. Luke HAD to kick Jess out. It was NECESSARY. Jess needed to HIT ROCK BOTTOM.

It just feels like a missed opportunity. S2 was such a fun exploration of the faulty judgments and assumptions adults can make about teenagers. The show highlighted the unfair pressure adults put on Jess AND Rory. We were exploring the idea of "good" kids and "bad" kids, and how both types of assumptions are reductive and harmful. Great stuff, and a big reason why S2 is my favorite season.

But then S3 rushes to "correct" that notion by emphatically concluding that Jess is BAD and Rory is GOOD and the adults were right all along. And Jess doesn't become good until much later. After he's "learned his lesson" by getting kicked out, thoroughly chastised, and silenced into the "right" kind of good behavior.

[fumifooms]

Hijoushoku to Gochisou / A Feast of Emergency Rations

Mayonaka no Waltz / Midnight Waltz

Nagabe

[granny-griffin]

you know when @pikahlua said “I measure my ingredients by my pot size” I really should have paid more attention

[fagsex]

i dont play real video games because i know how i get playing my little faggot games for ice cream boys and that is not going to translate to a game with actual pressure or plot

[ohio-thestate]

I have an unending hatred for those microwave dinners like why are the bbq ones the only ones that taste like anything

"spaghetti and meatballs" oh you mean starch noodles with tomato water and flavorless pieces of meat?

[rowenabean]

oh I wonder if I can coax anyone into bringing me chicken bones for soup

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

girls will literally just memorize long, specific words and phrases and spend all day every day hoping and praying that someone will need them to say it (i'm girls)

[promithiae]

I have more filling and more dough, but I'm out of steam

[lilyaceofdiamonds]

My pizza bar apparently closed a couple weeks ago, and i’m so fucking sad now

[dreams-in-daylight]

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[grubloved]

its fucking SOUP TIME

[fagsex]

[tuesdaygray]

just over shared about my snake being sick in the work teams chat. should i kill myself?

[mishervellous]

tagged by @energievie and @creepkinginc for this handwriting tag game ✍️

rules:

1. write “hello”

2. write numbers one through nine

3. write the alphabet

4. write the quote: “Sphinx of a black quartz judge my vow.”

5. pick a quote or a lyric

chicken coded handwriting 🐓

tagging @surviving-maybe, @mikhailoisbaby, @lukewarm-chickensoup, @heymrspatel, @vintagelacerosette, @gardenerian, @celestialmickey, @metalheadmickey, @ian-galagher, @ardent-fox, @rereadanon, @sickness-health-all-that-shit, @doodlevich, @suzy-queued, @sweetbee78 and @depressedstressedlemonzest 💙

[amtrak12]

It's readable! Ch 18 of Can We Keep Her is readable with only line edits left to do before tomorrow JUST IN TIME FOR BRIDGERTON DAY!! \0/ LET'S GOOOOOO!