#whenlifegivesulemons

[alexhornecloset]

Alex's banana jumper from Aloha from Deer!

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thanks for the submission!!

[prawns-are-cannibals]

Hi! TM ask! 10 & 17?

10. If you could pick any old contestants to come back for a special, who would they be?

Ohh I do always enjoy this question, as it changes slightly fairly often. At the moment, it's Richard Osman, Mike Wozniak, Nish Kumar, Rose Matafeo, and Judi Love.

17. Critique your favourite series, and compliment your least favourite series.

Series 10 is my favourite. My main critique is that there wasn't a capable contestant in the whole series. Which did lead to some funny moments, but it does make things interesting to have contestants with a range of usefulness. I can really see why people don't like it.

Series 8 is probably my least favourite. But it does have my favourite task of all time, which was the hide and seek one in the train station/train yard. It just looked so fun to do, and really showed the contestants personalities.

Taskmaster Asks

[everyshadeofwrong]

TM asks! 1 & 2?

hey thanks!

1. Favorite series:

in a lot of effort I can narrow it down to s5 and s11, not sure if I can pick only one 😩

2. Greg or Alex:

oh nooooooo this is the one question I don't have the answer for

alex is baby greg is daddy I can't separate them I can't tear this family apart

[unquietspiritao3]

i’m going to see james’s show on march 12th aaaaahhhhhhaahhhhhh!!!

shoutout to @whenlifegivesulemons for letting me know he’s coming here!

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Ill Crawl Home to Her

by whenlifegivesulemons Tim didn’t know what happened. One second he was at work, the next he was in the cave staring at a teenager. Percy didn’t know what happened, or that his name was actually Percy. But, he did know one thing, he wasn’t supposed to be here Words: 413, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: F/F, F/M Characters: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Hera (Percy Jackson) Relationships: Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson, Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain, Percy Jackson & Bruce Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Tired Tim Drake, Amnesia, BAMF Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), BAMF Percy Jackson, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Everyone hates Hera, that should be a tag, Powerful Percy Jackson, Attractive Percy Jackson, Other Additional Tags to Be Added via https://ift.tt/o9AuLhz

[alexhornefan]

whenlifegivesulemons

#it's the hand touch that does it for me#as if he could feel through Alex's trousers if he's wearing long johns#alex horne#greg davies#taskmaster

Well after the touch and once Alex says no, he reaches down to the trouser leg, so I think Greg was going to feel up the trouser leg to find out. And for some reason, even though he protests, asks if everyone has to see, Alex pulls his trousers down anyway.

Greg wanting Alex to take his trousers down.

[almondbabydoll]

It has been a rough two months. I ended up getting so sick, that some of my hair came out. I was beyond stressed out and I was just going to the motions. One of my friends asked me what weekend would I be free. Next thing I know my flight has been arranged but he had ordered my favorite makeup @juviasplace from @ultabeauty 🥰😉. He listens when he needs to. Sometimes it’s just the small things in life you need to make you feel so alive. #greatpickmeup #whenlifegivesulemons https://www.instagram.com/p/B1NLvKnBYgA/?igshid=hrnjr1ny34pr

[tocanycvintage]

READ ABOUT OUR JOURNEY BELOW + VOTE! "TOCA NYC STORE" as Favorite Boutique in the @weheartastoria We Heart Astoria's #bestofastoria 2017 nominations! Link in the bio to vote! Thank you friends and followers for nominating us! . Almost 4 years ago this is the day Justin and I had to put on our game face! What game? We had not idea at this very moment. All we knew is that Justin and I overbid on a collection of authentic vintage "NYC Opera" costumes, not knowing it would fill up a 16ft truck. We thought our second bedroom (walk in closet would suffice) We now know we made the best mistake of our life. We thought we would start an Etsy store for a side business, HAHA!! We only had one day to find a space to store these costumes before we had to pick them up, and the next day Justin started hanging pipes. After finding our storefront 1 day later with no option but to take it, we thought what did we just do? What are we going to do with this space? We had no time to think and knew we had to create a vintage shop because that's where our passion always led us. Because the cost of storing costumes was not going to cut it. We invested everything and then even more and walked into a field we knew little about, but knew we loved. We jumped fast into the deep end together and learned as time rolled along. Astoria has allowed us to learn the ropes while we have gained momentum and made many mistakes along the way. We still have so much farther to grow, and maybe hopefully we can leave our night and day jobs! But we thank you NYC for always reminding us that "WE'VE GOT THE EYE"! Congrats to all the other nominees who also all have a very similar story, and what's great is we all support each other because we love Astoria !! Astoria has allowed all us little folk to risk it all and follow our dreams! Thank u Astoria! . . #smallbusiness #bestofastoria #weheartastoria #onedayatatime #AstoriaSmallBusiness #astoria #astoryofastoria #shopsmallastoria #queensvintage #astoriashopping #nycvintage #astoriavintage #bestofastoria2017 #whenlifegivesulemons #astoriaqueens #astoriany #queensvintage #queensny #bestofqueens #nycsmallbiz #nycsmallbusiness #bestofnyc #weheartastoria (at TOCA NYC STORE)

[reactingtosomething]

The Rare and Realistic Female Friendships of The Bold Type

The Setup: The Bold Type is a new show on Freeform (formerly ABC Family), and Miri is a tv addict with self control issues.

I never meant to fall in love with The Bold Type. We’re still in the thick of Peak TV, and part of my job is staying at least conversant on a wide range of tv. Plus I’m 26 and only sort of know what I’m doing with my life, so sometimes I really need to stress-watch 7 1/2 hours of Friends/Gilmore Girls/Grey’s Anatomy. Between the two, there’s not a lot of time to fall in love with something new.

But I truly loved Aisha Dee’s performance in Sweet/Vicious (RIP my favorite new show of last season), it seemed like fun, and the ad campaign was pretty effective, so obviously I was planning to at least watch the pilot.

And then I saw this bit of wisdom:

Kids, if you’re not following Caroline Framke on Twitter, you’re missing out.

That description sounds like about 8 different things I love, so that’s a great starting point. But what really gets me is what every decent creative writing professor will tell you is the note behind the note—it’s not that the setting is modernized or that the romantic relationships are a little less Straight and Narrow than their 2003 counterparts were (although YES #kadena). It’s that the core of the story has finally, finally gotten a makeover. This is a story about and (largely) for women that is actually about women and their genuine relationships to each other.

Wait a minute, you might say. 2000’s era romcoms were about women! Katherine Heigl played so many women who were type-a, had given up love for a (still conventionally feminine) career and wanted love but not from the bad boy with the secret hard of gold! All of those women were women.

And they totally talked to other women, right? ….Right? They had friends. Or at least self-absorbed sisters/employees. They definitely had ponytails and spoke to each other at some point. One was Judy Greer that one time.

Please note that I unabashedly love every single one of these movies. But that ^ is the best gif of two women speaking to each other I could find and let’s not pretend that that is ok.

What I’m trying to say is that The Bold Type is a goddamn breath of fresh air in a way we’ve been largely conditioned out of expecting: the women are friends with each other.

That is foundation the entire show rests upon. It’s far from the only thing going on—there’s romance, personal ambition, sex, socioeconomic differences, cyberbullying, immigration, and a LOT more—but the fact that Kat, Sutton, and Jane have each other to bounce off of and come back to informs it all.

When Jane (Katie Stevens) makes it out of the assistant pool, her friends are there to celebrate, not tear her down. 

When Sutton (Meghann Fahy) is unable to take a leap for her career because she doesn’t have enough financial security, her friends are her sounding boards, her cheerleaders, and her safety net.

I’M NOT STILL CRYING ABOUT THIS, IT’S FINE.

When Kat (Aisha Dee) is a little bit unreasonable (about her own cyber safety, about the realities of being a Muslim seeking a visa in this country, about workplace politics, etc.), her friends are secure enough in their relationship to call her out about it. And she (eventually) listens.

When Jane reveals that she’s never had an orgasm, her friends offer to help her figure it out AND remind her that there’s nothing wrong with her either way.

And when Kat is unsure of whether or not she’s unsure of her sexuality, she has her friends to talk to without fear.

I could have written volumes about Kat’s coming out, but many people have done so gorgeously already. I’ll content myself with this: Not only is Kat a queer woman of color, which is an intersection we see too rarely in media, she is also someone who began questioning her sexuality as an adult without having to be ashamed or made the butt of any jokes. The importance of characters like Kat cannot be overstated right now.

Why do female friendships matter so much?

Because they are a part of life that—like many parts of women’s lives—is so rarely shown in media. There has never been a period of my life when none of my core relationships were with other women. This is true for just about every woman I know, but it’s not true on most tv shows. Even a lot of “chic flick” movies and tv shows are predicated on a frenemy relationship. And even more often they’re about one woman and her dynamics with men. The women of The Bold Type have very important relationships with men (romantic and otherwise), but those are not their only relationships or even their most important ones.

Love interests will probably come and go—longform storytelling dies without conflict and change, and while The Bold Type seems delightfully committed to the primary sources of both being the characters’ jobs and ambitions, not every romantic relationship can last. Their jobs will evolve. I bet one or more of our protagonists will leave Scarlet, if only briefly. And I’m sure there will even be fights at some point. But at the end of the day (or the season), I’m confident that Jane, Sutton, and Kat will have each other to come back to.

And that means we will have them to come back to.

So plop down on your couch/bed/floor, Snapchat your girls, be kinda gay if that’s your thing.

Although I’m still hoping for a show to actually say the world bisexual with the kind of blind-but-jaded hope only a girl who moves to LA and still thinks “Hey, maybe it’ll rain” every time the sun isn’t literally staring her in the face can have.

The Bold Type is that rare show that comes out of the gate feeling fully formed AND holds onto that strong sense of identity. That fact, like everything else on the show, is rooted in the love Sutton, Jane, and Kat have for each other. That’s what makes it all work, and damn does it work.

There’s a lot more to be said about The Bold Type: about the subversion of the Dragon Lady older woman boss trope (Melora Hardin of The Office and Transparent plays Scarlet’s EIC), about how shockingly moving Aisha Dee’s performance during the Soul Cycle sequence is, about the importance of sexual autonomy and the fact that that can mean not having sex at all for some people, about Jane’s realization that we’re never as woke as we hoped we were but that doesn’t mean we can’t improve, about the use of confined physical spaces like the closet and the elevator to convey intimacy, and so much more.

Hopefully @writerininky113 and @whenlifegivesulemon will start watching soon and we’ll have a full Reaction. For now, you can watch The Bold Type on Freeform (Tuesdays, 9/8c) and Hulu.

Also the soundtrack is full of jams and I’ve been listening to the spotify playlist semi-constantly for the last 3 weeks.

[swedetastic]

Oh look we were just talking about this @whenlifegivesulemons !!

Greg looking at Alex in a very normal way

[katie--slater]

taylorswift isn’t this hilarious?! My neighbor has a guy mowing the lawn on his head b/c he’s bald!! Bwahaha 😂😂

[miss-pavlichenko-blog]

This is me turnin up #whenlifegivesulemons @kimi.miyazaki 🏃

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Ill Crawl Home to Her

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/o9AuLhz by whenlifegivesulemons Tim didn’t know what happened. One second he was at work, the next he was in the cave staring at a teenager. Percy didn’t know what happened, or that his name was actually Percy. But, he did know one thing, he wasn’t supposed to be here Words: 413, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: F/F, F/M Characters: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Hera (Percy Jackson) Relationships: Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson, Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain, Percy Jackson & Bruce Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Tired Tim Drake, Amnesia, BAMF Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), BAMF Percy Jackson, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Everyone hates Hera, that should be a tag, Powerful Percy Jackson, Attractive Percy Jackson, Other Additional Tags to Be Added read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/o9AuLhz

[alexhornefan]

whenlifegivesulemons

This is absolutely amazing! I think they're totally right about the potential for significant income from sales haha 👍

I mean, I'm absoltely planning on gettong one and I don't give a stuff about football. But Alex Horne is a lovely bloke and that's enough of a reason.

[unfoldingnarratives]

Getting so much better at making lemonade... feeling grateful for all the ups and downs, for the people who came, went or stayed... this weekend experience was beautiful... #whenlifegivesulemons #lemonade #grateful

[darisa-taveras]

Sporting my vegas gear that he got me. My story hasn't ended just a chapter in my life I wanted it to last til the end but not all stories end up how we started writing it. Its all good. Just took a nice hot shower. I finally put some food in my system and now netflix and off to bed cause I have errands for tomorrow even though it will be a huge challenge . Get my card back. Food shop and wash clothes without my cart (that someone stole in my building) and with a bad foot. #moremotivation #challengeme #whenlifegivesulemons #imjustgettingstarted #keepingthemindbusysotheheartisdistracted