Sometimes I Write Stuff?

↠ Tim & Lucy scenes ↳ 2x13 - Follow-up day

Me waiting for the fics I’m reading to be updated even though I’m also not updating my current fic

some of you just cannot accept that “i just don’t like it” is a complete reason to not engage with media or a facet of media

it doesn’t have to problematic or offensive or anything. you can just not like it. who cares

generally a satisfying category structure, but jam is chunks of fruit in a jelly substrate. if the substrate is too liquid your toast gets soggy with not enough coverage in between chunks of fruit. “liquid” in this jam description suggests bad jam. i will die on this hill

also shoutout to German which just says “Marmelade” for everything like good luck in your grocery adventures

FWIW I was taught (for English) that jam is a spreadable preserve made from non-citrus fruits, marmalade is from oranges.

100% with you that the substrate must not be the consistency of a thick syrup, but jelly for me stands up on its own, like a properly cooled pudding would - ideally, jam "juice" is the consistency of yoghurt, for me. A conserve is even worse though, that should be very much specified it's swimming in liquid, as it is a shelf-stable kompót/compotte.

Can you tell I'm peckish?

that’s a great rule of thumb for marmalade in English because 99/100 times it means orange marmalade.

broadly, the only fruits commonly jarred with rind and all are citrus, and seville oranges are classically used.

i do think, though, that marmalade should be assumed to contain rind, and that the rind is a defining factor.

“orange marmalade” without any rind is sold as a concession to pussies offered for children and people with texture issues available and many prefer it, but it’s not classic. imo it’s technically an orange jelly. amusingly, Tiptree labels theirs as an orange jelly but with ‘marmalade’ in smaller type so that the orange jelly buyers don’t feel excluded. well done, brand team: (edit: see f/u post there is a “no peel marmalade” also and i have a lot of questions)

top brands like Tiptree (a good Big Marmalade brand and an easy way to go down the marmalade rabbit hole: not definitive but fun to peruse and illustrative) give you lots of choices re eg coarse-cut vs fine-cut bits of rind as well as degree of bitterness, which is a function of the quantity of rind as well as the type of orange, and generally include a no-rind option. if you get into marmalade enough you’ll see other types of orange, most of which are less bitter even with plenty of rind in, but also lemon, lime, grapefruit, blends, exotics. i, in what apparently is my self-anointed capacity as Marmalade Category Structure Czar, rule that all citrus marmalades are legit marmalades, but beyond citrus it’s iffy. if the rind is used, especially if it’s prominent in the texture of the jam, or if the jam is unusually bitter as basically-sweet jams go, the thing can probably make a marmalade case for itself.

i’ve occasionally seen the word “marmalade” used for savory-sweet vegetable chutneys to be used as sauces. this mostly suggests to me that the product branders or menu/recipe writers are trying to be all fancy-rustic. i’d allow it under poetic license iff coarse jammy texture with bits of citrus rind in it; strain out the rind, you’re on thin ice; jam that’s never met a citrus fruit in its life, you’re a chutney, go home.

Just to echo the citrus thing - have some British staples.

For some reason (Brexit?) Rose's marmalades have become bloody hard to find in Ireland, and even Tesco - who used to make a very good Lemon-Lime - have discontinued it.

At this rate we'll end up making our own.

ROBERT CARLYLE Once Upon a Time (2011–2018)

#this sort of thing is legitimately better than the standard ‘finishing each other’s sentences’  #or just saying it at the same time  #the whole just not speaking words like humans  #just sort of random sentence fragments bc the drift compatibility is doing all the heavy lifting  #[WORDS WITHOUT CONTEXT]  #[OTHER RANDOM WORDS]  #[danny and rusty turn and act as one]  #everyone else: what just happened.  #I live for this sort of dialogue character building malarkey

Dean: he’s not going to mess with you anymore. Not on my watch.

Literally on Deans watch:

I think there needs to be a name for the kind of writer's block where you know what the story is, and generally how to write it, but you've been working on it for so long that you're exhausted because it's just. not. finished.

Anyway that's how I'm feeling about my writing at the moment :/

Writer's Are We There Yet

Marie

CRIMINAL MINDS 2.21 — "Open Season"

One moment why I love this show so much

BRIDGERTON 2.03 A Bee in Your Bonnet

They lied to me 😭... I thought you just dream it and the rest just happens 🤧