Plus he’s the grinning pile of shit already!

Courtney Milan is a fabulous author if you’re looking to bring some class and race diversity into your regency romance reading. She also handles mental health issues like dyslexia and PTSD reasonably well imo.

How do you not have more stars.

Yeah, I actually thought this was supposed to be 90s-throwback for the first row or two of clothes. Ankle flares, the lace-up thing, and cutting your jeans apart and patching them up to make a skirt were all totally Things when I was in high school in the 90s.

More like some paid leave running out and meagre savings.

I caught a show - I think it was just his maritime works? - a couple of years ago at a museum in MA, it was fabulous. I didn't study him outside the survey classes in my first two years of university so it's cool to read articles like this.

Fellow art historian high five! I don’t think we get enough of those. Also Turner rules.

I once worked at a historic house museum that had a piece of cake cataloged in its collection. It had been served at the original house owner’s wedding anniversary in (I think) so was not quite 100 years old when I knew it, and it was still squishy. It was supposedly dark fruitcake (I think all the alcohol in those…

Can we also hate on their stupid ellipses?

I think we got free drinks. Having a row to myself was treat enough.

I had an Icelandair red-eye like this. It was glorious.

Are you fucking with with me? Nectarines are mutant peaches?

Really? Every superfan I’ve known has been a man. Including my husband. Which makes me a little worried because after six jillion episodes he ought to be able to plan the perfect murder and getaway.

I was basically this otter. A glare and a “NO THANK YOU” go a long way.

That’s scary. Good thing you didn’t actually need medical attention :/

My personal favorite was when a group of older ladies wanted to lay hands on me and my couple-weeks-old baby in the supermarket so they could pray for Jesus to help me through “this tough time of raising a precious baby all by myself”. Pregnancy had made my hands swell and I wasn’t wearing my wedding ring. Can’t…

Lol. Guess that qualifies too?

It’s called Crazy Love and ...it’s crazy. See Scarlet’s description in this thread.

I love that kind of thing! Let me know if you remember the names of the shows.

I’m 99% sure it was a Reader’s Digest book called The World’s Last Mysteries (kinja isn’t letting me link but you can just google that). The cover looks familiar so I know we had that one but I can’t be totally sure it’s the one I’m thinking of. It’s from the 80s and I know there have been more recent discoveries…