#wizards of baking

[loonyloopylupin96]

Imagine bringing Wading Through Waist-High Waters to life and getting David and Gary - or Ben Barnes and Andrew Garfield 😍 - on this

@equippedtolove

[movfie]

James and Oliver Phelps showing off the many different sets from Wizards of Baking 🪄

New episodes premiere every Thursday evening on Food Network

[derpymidnight]

Just watched Wizards of Baking,, everyone just grew up crushing on the Weasley twins right???

[imagitory]

...Okay, seriously, is this being done just to appeal to me??

[that-one-emo-potterhead]

Can't wait for episode 2 of #HarryPotterWizardsofBaking!!!

:D

[beirarowling]

[wizardingsworld]

JAMES and OLIVER PHELPS HARRY POTTER: WIZARDS OF BAKING S01E01 | "Platform 9 3/4"

[risetherivermoon]

dorcas showing barty, regulus, evan & pandora how to carve a pumpkin after finding out none of them know what jack-o-lanterns are,

[devotioncrater]

"no hints were dropped" ok not to be that person but here are the hints that were dropped regarding Colin and Trent being gay:

1. Colin mentioning Grindr in a joke

2. Trent touching the arm of a man in the background

Here is one of the hints that Keeley was bi (even though I do believe she's been canonically bi since season 1, but not everyone sees it this way)

1. Her desktop background was in the colors of the bisexual flag

Here were some of the hints that Ted was bi:

1. Bisexual flag colored triangles above his head in the hallucination sequence

2. Inverted pink triangle next to him in that same sequence (and you can't tell me the creators didn't know, when the Homomonument is based on that symbol)

3. Countless (countless!!!) comments about men's physiques ("huge muscular thighs all caked in mud", whistling at a picture of Pep, "look at that head of hair", "he's strong", "he looks like a Rodin sculpture in cleats", etc.)

4. About a man (Higgins) and a woman (Rebecca), he had to say: "that's a crowd I don't mind being smack-dab in the middle of"

5. Him checking Trent out in the pub in 2x07 (his eyes are up there, Ted!)

6. "It could go either way", "I contain multitudes" and other comments in this vein

7. Bi lighting as he entered the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn

8. Giving similar looks to the female waitress and the male waiters in that restaurant (including a waiter in a cowboy costume that looked like he belonged in a gay club, who tipped his hat at Ted when greeting him)

9. "That's cause you were put into a box", "That box ceases to exist today", the box in the hallucination sequence breaking into triangles (as in the bi triangles and the inverted pink triangke), "we've been playing too rigid", "our guys need freedom", "fast, fluid, free, with full support", the "box that one needs to break out of" being a prominent motif in season 3

10. Wishing Beard called him pet names ("Honey, is that an ingredient or something you just called me?")

11. His crush on Pep

12. The connection between Ted and Colin: "my whole life is two lives, really", both wearing orange in Sunflowers, "I just want to kiss my fella" (Colin doesn't say "fella" , but Ted says it all the time), Ted just needs to get inspired and Colin's play is "inspirational" after he comes out, as per the commentators

And so much other stuff that, had Ted not self-identified as straight (*cough* put himself into a box *cough cough*) , you could make the case that he was canonically bi.

Here are some of hints that there was a romantic connection between Ted and Trent:

1. They hit a lot of romantic beats, and not in the jokey self-aware way in which Roy and Ted hit them in "Rainbow", but in an organic and sincere way

2. They both checked each other out: Trent checked Ted out when Ted was changing in front of him, Ted checked Trent out when Trent came up to him in a pub and hit him with a pick-up line while his date that looked a lot like Ted waited for him outside

3. Did I mention that Trent was on a date with a moustachioed man who dressed in a similar style to Ted? Let's mention it again

4. In that very bar, during a 50 second long conversation, Trent managed to say the word "love" three times. I searched the word "love" in the transcripts of the episodes. There's no other instance in which its frequency is this high

5. "Love our chats" incomplete rule of threes

6. "Sport, it's quite the metaphor" (implied: a metaphor for love; see also "love's a beautiful game" from the song Ed Sheeran wrote for Ted Lasso), "Also makes for a heck of a nickname", "Good night, Ted", "Good night, sport"

7. The soft, romantic, melancholic song playing in the background of this scene, while Ted and Trent are the last ones left in the office, with lyrics such as "When your words begin to crumble like the sidewalks all around this crummy neighborhood / From the chalky cliffs of Dover / I'd come over, I'd start over if I could"

8. Trent wearing sunflower colors in the episode "Sunflowers" and in the finale; sunflowers symbolize Ted's home (it's not subtle). He's the only character dressed like that. I'm still looking for any other explanation other than "Trent is Ted's home"

9. Their constant flirting and the way they look at each other with incredible fondness

10. The entire episode "The Strings That Bind Us". It's structured around Ted and Trent's relationship, and the way Trent changed because of Ted (in season 2, Ted defined a soulmate as someone who changes your life forever). The red string metaphor. Ted points out that soulmates are connected by a string tied to their little fingers. Ted and Trent both extend their little fingers out in similar shots. They are connected by a huge block of red in their last scene of the episode. Ted makes several comments about other men that apply to Trent ("Look at that head of hair", "Frames his face nicely", "My favorite one, he was clean shaven"). Many more details that lead back to Ted and Trent: Nate tells the restaurant owner to tell Jade he said "Hello". Immediately after, Ted and Trent say "Hello" to each other. The map that Nate's father used to ask out his mom has the number 1.3 written on it and an illustration of two people at a table in a restaurant. Ted and Trent went to a restaurant together in season 1, episode 3. The last scene of the episode mimics a "Race for Love" scene from a romcom, with Trent chasing after Ted. Trent also does not say a word to anyone other than Ted in the entire episode. He is completely focused on Ted

11. "Trent, what do you love? Is it writing?" and Trent ends up writing a book about Ted and naming the manuscript after Ted and he only cares about Ted's opinion on it (he leaves the room when Beard starts reading, but stays in the office after hours just to watch Ted read. "I just wanted you to like it.")

11. Trent's crush on Ted, confirmed by Jimmy Lance (and also obvious in the show, if you ask me)

Now, why would I believe that none of these hints were intentional? Maybe some could be explained away, but all of them? The hints we got for Colin, Trent and Keeley were so much smaller than this, and those turned out to be intentional.

anon i wish i could offer you the response you deserve, but i cannot stop rereading this masterpiece & focusing on the portions of evidence you provided that i didn't even pick up on until you laid them out. holy shit

[freckles-and-books]

Current read. So good so far. I expect nothing less from Kingfisher.

[gavamont]

A wizard that uses a wooden spoon for a wand and stirs extra love into their chocolate chip cookies with it. Also a +4 bonus to dexterity and constitution saves for the next 24 hours.

[movfie]

James and Oliver Phelps in the SiriusXM photobooth

November 13th, 2024

[lulublack90]

Prompt 30 - Champagne

@jegulus-microfic October 30, Word count 976

Previous part First part

After the first time that Regulus had come over to James’s, James couldn’t keep him away. It turned out Regulus was an avid baker and kept finding excuses to borrow James’s kitchen as he hated using the shared kitchen in the Halls as no one cleaned it properly, and he’d had a few instances where his baked goods had been removed from the oven, so someone could heat up a pizza. James was more than happy to let Regulus come over and cook or bake or whatever else he wanted to do. James made sure his baking cupboard was well stocked, so Regulus didn’t have to worry over ingredients. 

Regulus had told James in confidence one afternoon while he melted chocolate over a pan that his Mother had caught him in the middle of his first kiss, which just happened to be with a boy, and that she'd kicked him out. 

“I think I’ve always liked boys,” Regulus confessed, barely meeting James’s eye. “She gave me ten minutes to get my things and get out. I slept in the park that night.”

“What about the guy you were kissing? Couldn’t he have taken you in, or a friend?” James had pressed. 

“Barty was my only friend, but he was too scared to let me stay as he’d have to explain to his dad why I got kicked out, and he said he didn’t even know if he liked me that way enough to risk everything,” James had pulled him into a hug at the end of his story and Barty Crouch was put on his shit list. 

Regulus was in the kitchen, putting the finishing touches on his homemade pumpkin pie. James had been fascinated, as Regulus had made his own pumpkin purée. James would have just used a can. But damn, did it taste good. 

He’d waved Regulus off after they'd enjoyed a slice and settled in to binge-watch the Lord of the Rings for the hundredth time, when his phone rang. Regulus was phoning him. He answered it thinking maybe he’d forgotten something. 

“Hey, Reg, what’s up?”

“J-J-James…” He was crying and sounded scared. 

“Reg, what’s wrong?” James sat up straight on the sofa as he strained to hear what Regulus was saying. 

“S-s-s-s-s—” He was stuttering worse than James had ever heard him. 

“Reg, take a breath, it’s alright, I’m right here,” James said, calmly in the most reassuring voice he could. He heard Regulus inhale shakily. 

“S-s-s-someone broke into my room,” He said, sniffling. James jumped up, shoved his feet in his trainers and was out of the door before Regulus could say any more. 

When he got to Regulus’s room, even he was shocked by the wreckage. His drawers were all open, and his clothes were tossed around the room. All his drawings that had been Blu-Tacked to the wall had been torn down and shredded into pieces. Every last one of his paints had been squeezed from their tubes into the carpet and smeared into the fibres, and his bed was covered in a liquid that James had no problem identifying. James immediately removed Regulus from the room and shut the door. He took his hand and marched him down to the head of accommodations office and banged on the door until someone answered. 

“Potter? Please don’t tell me you've moved back in,” The older woman groaned when she recognised her caller. 

“Lovely to see you as well, Minnie,” James said cheerily. “We have a problem.” He said more seriously, pulling Regulus forward from behind his back and continued. “Regulus came home about fifteen minutes ago and someone has broken into his room and completely trashed it,” Minerva's eyebrows rocketed up her head.

“Show me,” She said sternly and followed them back down the corridor to Regulus’s room. She took one look and her nostrils flared in anger. “Well, Mr Black, you won’t be able to stay in there for a few days. Give me a moment and I’ll find you alternative accommodation.”

“No need, Minnie, he’s staying with me,” James said, turning to Regulus. “That is if you want to,” Regulus threw himself at James, folding his slender body into James, his face nuzzling into James’s hoodie. 

“Yes, please,” He said quietly. James wrapped his arms around him and held him tight. 

“In that case, would you like to collect what belongings you can. Let me know if anything is missing, and I’ll keep you updated on when you can move back in,” Minerva had softened her voice and Regulus nodded silently. "Do you have any idea who might have done this?" She asked. Regulus shook his head again. 

"I don't really know anybody here. I-I-I haven't made any friends yet," Regulus answered, still clutching tightly to James's front. James ran a soothing hand down Regulus's back and was pleased when he felt some of the tension leave Regulus's body. 

"We will get to the bottom of this, Mr Black, and believe me, the culprits will be punished accordingly." Minerva promised before leaving them, to it. "Oh and Mr Potter, it is Minerva or Ms McGonagall," She warned James over her shoulder before disappearing around the corner.   

James helped him gather his clothes into bin bags. They’d all need washing. James carried them back to his flat in one hand, the other was taken by Regulus. He was so glad he had that spare room right there. 

A week later, Regulus had given up his room at the Halls and moved into James’s spare room. Sirius and Remus turned up when it was all official, with a bottle of champagne to celebrate. James was overjoyed Regulus had agreed to stay, but it was already making it harder for James to keep his feelings to himself. He’d try his best, though, because Regulus was special, and he deserved the world. 

Next part

[that-one-emo-potterhead]

8 days until Harry Potter Wizards of Baking premieres!!!

[beirarowling]

I'm calling Elizabeth and Juan to be the winners of Wizards of Baking.