Welcome back to Wednesday Links, everybody!
I love hearing about all of your yummy fall foods. I do have to make a point to pick up some candy corn soon. I am an unabashed candy corn and candy pumpkin lover. How do you feel about Halloween candy? Any distinct favorites?
For me, fall means lots of dips and soups. I love a soup or a molten lava hot dip with a crunchy little chip. Ugh, so good! And now I’m hungry.
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Tara: Kris and I teamed up with Laura Green from the Sapphic Book Review podcast to talk about the implications of Project 2025 on access to LGBTQ fiction, state-level challenges, and we include steps that anyone can take, even if they don’t live in the US.
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Sarah: SO many people on Twitter, BluSky, and elsewhere have been talking about how much they enjoyed the chemistry and the potent visual nostalgia of Veronica Mars and Seth Cohen in a rom com series – especially Cohen, I mean, Adam Brody as the lead. I was extremely excited to make this list of romances that should fulfill any additional yearning for cross-cultural or interfaith romances for the NYT. (And if you watched Nobody Wants This I’d love to hear what you thought!)
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Lauren sent us this link for trope yarn and knitting kits.
Lauren: I found these knitting kits based on romance novels! You can pick your colorway based on your…theme? Trope? I immediately thought of the rest of the Smart Bitches when I saw it.
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Romancing the Vote was featured on a list of Democracy Heroes! Sometimes I see or read things that remind me of how great this community is.
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
Made corned beef and cabbage over the weekend which was so good, and Reubens with the leftovers. Felt like fall!
Yes to the candy corn and pumpkins, @Amanda! One bag of each yearly, name-brand always.
Here on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, we’re still in the mid-to-high 80s every day (with tropical storms continuing to bubble up in the Gulf of Mexico like it’s still August), so the thought of Fall foods isn’t really grabbing me right now. However, I do plan to make a massive lasagne this weekend (the secret is LOTS of black pepper and crushed fennel seeds in the sauce) to try out my new convection oven, and I’ll be having a serving for lunch every day next week.
I LOVED Nobody Wants This! As a big fan of The OC and Veronica Mars? I was in heaven. Also love the supporting characters, they were all amazing. I binge watched it on a day when I was having internet problems, and the first few episodes were slow going. Usually I would have stopped watching and waited, but I persevered because it was that good!
Where I live we have an excessive heat warning through Sunday and triple digits forecast through at least next Tuesday, so not doing much Fall cooking here. I have been cooking more winter squashes lately– the cat likes them, and it’s nice to have something other than the usual round of summer vegetables.
It’s still hot in New Mexico, and our air conditioner is out, but I’m looking forward to cooler weather and soups, stews, and casseroles. For the spooky season, I enjoyed this Lovecraftian version of Jolene: https://youtu.be/MGSdYFR50Y8?si=jZHfmKZF96N59VZ2
I plan to wear my Romance the Vote to the polls.
**bracelet from an auction
Here in Downeast Maine the overnight lows are already in the mid 30s, and I’m definitely craving soup!!
For any of those looking for yarn and support for folks hit by the hurricane, my sweet friends in Asheville run the Purl Emporium and have opened up for online orders. They could use the support! ❤️
Linked below!
I went to https://purlsyarn.com and bought some gift cards to donate. They send you an email with the card information, and you can just reply and tell them to donate it to a local crafter. Very easy!
Amazing, @SusanE! I realized only later I had linked in my name and in fact not below in my earlier comment. ❤️ /
Purl’s Yarn!