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#i am begging you
RENO MY RENO! Canadians fix peopleβs home improvement mistakes and are super nice about it but FIRM with man who donβt finish projects!
so far some shows that have worked for me:
Lord & Ladles - scottish chefs cook historical feasts in historical mansions! you meet wacky old money people and learn about strange things their ancestors got up to! you get to watch as world-renowned chefs fail at catching a fish! someone makes a hedgehog out of marzipan! people in the olden times ate some crazy shit! every episode ends with the chefs cheersing each other while lying on vintage furniture!
Big Dreams, Small Spaces - cute british people have cute yards that cute gardening man helps to make into much cuter yards. one lady wants to grow vegetables to share with her neighborhood. one lady wants to sculpt a huge mud head covered in moss coming out of the ground. one dad wants a garden for his downβs syndrome kid so he makes a sensory garden with a thousand different smells and textures. one couple wants to grow flowers for their wedding. itβs all wonderful.
Nailed It! - a bunch of people probably got high and decided to throw money at this show idea. everybody tries their best and everybody comes away either having learned something helpful, having had a rollicking good time, or having won a bunch of money. all the judges are good sports and nobody is made to feel bad for doing bad. also thereβs some fucking crazy shit they get up to with modeling chocolate i tell you what.
Skin Wars - actually a lot about artists and their craft??? not really at all about sexy ladies being naked??? very cool stuff done by people with atrocious fashion sense and a complete willingness to buy into the moment. a few bad apples but mostly the reality-show-ness is pretty toned down and people are there to make cool art.
A Cook Abroad - chefs go to different parts of the world and learn about food there. A dumb white guy makes bread with adorable egyptian ladies! A british man gets exhausted by the length of roads in argentina and is only recharged by steak! An awesome woman makes cheese in france!
Love Your Garden - british man does garden makeovers for wholesome deserving families with special needs. Maybe a little bit on the weepy side of things but his assistants are all great and have fantastic hairstyles and people in wheelchairs deserve flowers!
Puffin Rock - this show is supposedly for babies but it is SO PRETTY and SO CHARMING and itβs about animals and nature and stuff and doesnβt really completely shy away from that?? like, one of the characters is a little rodent and the seagulls are the bad guys and heβs actually afraid of getting eaten?? anyway baby birds sing songs with baby bunnies and play splishsplash with baby seals and snuggle with baby animals of all sorts in a beautiful hand painted island.
Animal Airport - hey did you know some crazy shit goes down in Heathrow?? Did you know that there isnβt rabies in the UK? Everyoneβs doggies and kitties have a long trip but they all get home in the end and also there are turtles and cheetahs and bugs and fish and everything!!!
this list is so relevant to my interests it hurts.
iβd also suggest the bbc historical farms seriesβitβs not on netflix, but it *is* mostly on youtube. the metafilter guide that originally introduced me to it is here. there are a bunch of different series of it, now, and each one is a group of archaeologists and historians living on a period locationβvictorian farm, they live in a farmhouse from the era, and they farm and raise animals and etc wearing period clothing, using period tools and sources as guides. and it sounds like it could be cringey, but theyβre all experts in their fields and actually really invested in trying to do things well, so instead itβs a bunch of shows about teamwork and being friends (most of the core team stays the same) and learning things, and itβs delightful.
similarly, the sweet makers and victorian bakers have modern confectioners and bakers recreating period foods wearing appropriate clothing and using cookbooks from the era to guide them. (warning that one of the sweet makers episodes deals heavily with the history of sugar, and the slavery and horrific abuses associated with the same.)
I just want to second big dreams small spaces
It is absolute perfection
No one has mentioned
KITTEN RESCUERS
Another vote for Big Dreams, Small Spaces. Its host, Monty Don, has two other documentaries called Italian Gardens and French Gardens, about French and Italian history through their gardening traditions. Both are excellent.
Monty Don is great.
Australiaβs Cheapest Weddings and The Good Cop (this one is fiction, but still) though short are part of my Netflix comfort stuff (besides other series mentioned above).
Two years?! Iβm in!
why not
Iβll try it
Double your nana, double your yum
give me luck double banana
No fucking joke, I was offered 4 days of film-set marshalling and I told him I was unavailable for one of the days but I could cancel. And he told me heβd potentially found someone else.
I reblogged this.
And not 20 mins later, he came back to me and said if I really want it, let him know now. So fuck. Wow.
I just did thanks for the prayers.
btwβ¦ important PSA: cutting off the mold on the surface of food does nothing. you can only see the spores on the surface, but mold itself has spread and grown roots into the food. by the time you can actually *see* the spores, that piece of food is completely full of it. youre still eating mold.Β
many of which are poisonous and have been shown to cause cancer. youre not even supposed to sniff it, because that can get spores into your lungs. like if you look up the health and safety guidelines for mold they barely stop short of telling you to put on a hazmat suit.Β
like produce is okay as long as you cut around it at least an inch, but cooked foods? you gonna die. stop eating mold peopleΒ
does that include bread
itβs been linked to before but this is a good solid source
and thereβs a lot of βwhose doing this!?!??β in comments
the answer is, unsurprisingly, poor people. poor people, and people who fear poverty, honestly
itβs horrible what that will do, how people will endanger themselves because of it, of fear of food scarcity
source for that: me, a lifetime of living under the poverty line and also being mentally ill
I already knew this but I am rebageling this post to warn others! <3
Because saving kitties is important.
This is a freaknβ wonderful idea and needs to be spread around to let people know.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now iβm thinkingβ¦.maybe this is the good luck post
β¦..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
sometimes u just gotta clean your room and apply an elaborate skincare routine and pretend thatβs equivalent to getting ur life in order
you could be my boyfriend of 85 years or my husband of 586778 years or my favourite teacher or my most beloved mentor but if you are a man and you yell at me or raise your voice at me i can 100% guarantee our relationship will never be the same ever again there is something so treacherous about men who needlessly raise their voiceΒ
Okay, but replace man with womanβ¦ Sounding a lil sexist.Β
why stop there!! letβs replace man with gecko!! i HATE reptiles!Β
:(
awww. i donβt mean you gecko girl itβs okay iβm sorryΒ
In my personal experience, women raise their voices because they feel like they arenβt being listened to. Men raise their voices because they feel like they arenβt being obeyed.
SPILL. THAT. TEA.
Soulmates are not your ~other half~, thatβs just nonsense. You are a whole person already, not half a person. A soulmate isnβt even inherently romantic. A soulmate is just the other sock in a matched set. Youβre still a whole, complete sock on your own, you are perfectly functional paired with any other sock, itβs just that itβs even better when you match. A soulmate is literally just the person who makes your soul go β!!! Same hat!!!β and wave excitedly.
i love this
this is literally the only interpretation ofΒ βsoulmateβ that I can tolerate or acceptΒ
i swear to god, men raising their voice is the most terrifying thing in the whole world. they dont understand, like its an immediate panic response, game over
I actually had no idea women found this so scary
my downstairs neighbors fight on a regular basis, and every time he starts yelling iβm a little afraid heβs going to kill her. i have no reason to think this except that he is a man and he is angry
My math teacher has a loud voice and a temper and he scares the living shit out of me almost everyday. Heβs made me and other kids cry more than once and he and his teacher buddies make a joke out of terrifying students.
this was women in general? i knew my gf didnβt like it but I was unaware if this affected most women
Yes, it does
As a woman, I had no idea it effected other women like this. I was too afraid to even talk about it. I thought I was weak. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
My dad thinks itβs funny that I used to cry when he raised his voice. I freak out whenever some one does. Once my director did, and I started crying I couldnβt stop. Iβm glad to see Iβm not aloneβ¦
This is so importantβ seeing how common this isβ and I also want you all to know that this is not normal. It isnβt something instinctively ingrained into women, to be afraid of men. There is no natural state of men being a threatΒ that women constantly have to be afraid of.Β This is cultural. So many women and girls here have a mutual understanding of this feeling, and I think it really shows an unsettling truth about our society, particularly about how men are raised to act and how so many women have this defensive reaction gradually develop. Itβs so important that these people have their voices heard, because it teaches us about problems that we just canβt deny the existence of any longer.
Iβm glad Iβm not the only one
My fellow men, pay attention. I didnβt realize how scary this could be until one of my exes explained it to me, and itβs heartbreaking.
Also, when we move too much during an argument, or lean forward, itβs scary, and I never knew. I was even a little insulted at first, because surely she didnβt think I would hurt her. But see, that doesnβt matter. It wasnβt a sign that she mistrusted me specifically; itβs a conditioned response. (Although if you keep doing it once you realize it scares her, she SHOULDNβT trust you.)
Not every woman has been physically harmed by a man she trusted, but every woman KNOWS a woman who has.
I used to be horrible about this, because I didnβt realize how intimidating it was. I didnβt understand why the woman I was with clammed up or tried to tell me what she thought I wanted to hear, and I only got angrier, and acted even more like an asshole. It was wrong. It was abusive. It didnβt matter if I INTENDED it that way; it was still emotionally abusive. And it was inexcusable.
I get that when passions are high, and when youβre frustrated, itβs a natural tendency to let your voice get louder, to shout and gesture and lean forward. But you can train yourself to do better. You can train yourself to keep more of an even tone, to refrain from large and fast gestures, to not lean into her personal space. I did. Iβm not perfect at it yet, but goddamn it, I WILL be.
Donβt tell me itβs too hard, that you just canβt do it, or that you βshouldnβt have to.β Iβm 53 years old and just now getting the hang of it, and if this old dog can learn something new, so can you.
Note to guys: It really, REALLY doesnβt matter if youβre thinking, βbut I would neverβ¦β
History is littered with the bodies of women who believed a man βwould never.β This includes women killed by men who honestly, deeply, truly believed they βwould neverββ¦ right up until she said that one thing or moved in just that way and he just got so mad, just that once, and pushed her or punched her or slashed her or shot herβ¦ just once, yβknow, to shut her up, or because she was flinching and didnβt she know that HEβS NOT LIKE THAT and IβLL TEACH HER TO BE AFRAID OF MEβ¦
We are trained, from infancy, that Men With Loud Voices are a source of pain from which we cannot escape, and attempts to escape may result in more pain. And as soon as weβre old enough to comprehend a world broader than our immediate circle, a world that extends into the past and will run into the future, we realize that there is no way, no way at all, to tell which men βwould neverβ and which men βwould neverβ¦ except if.β
We live or die on that βif.β And any man who doesnβt like facing that hyper-vigilance can work on fixing OTHER MEN, not womenβs fear.
The reaction shouldnβt be βnot all men are like that;β it should be βno woman should have to live in fear.β
Itβs telling that so many people will hear a story of long-term abuse and say, βwhy did she stay with him?β and not βwhy did he treat her like that?β
This made me cry.
Donβt skip over this.
if someone claims to be feminist but doesnβt support this, then they arenβt a feminist
IMPORTANT!!!
^^truth.
Usually I can shrug this shit off butΒ βman upβ has always pissed me off. Iβll act however I fucking want, it wonβt change my genitals.
Yes. This is how our sexist society hurts men and teaches them to keep themselves, other men, queer people, and women in their places
If youβre relatively new to the Harry Potter fandom, you probably havenβt seen a very potter trilogy. If not, you need to do so right now.
Itβs got surprisingly accurate character portral
Draco alone is a gift to earth
Not to mention the drama
Overall itβs just really hilarious
the most disheartening feeling is spiraling again after being okay for a while