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Heirloom Tomato Tart with Sautéed Shallots, fresh basil, and Vegan Ricotta. 🍅 This stunning tart is surprisingly easy to prepare & divine in every savory bite.

Get the full recipe here https://www.consciously-vegan.com/heirloom-tomato-tart/

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Books I got as gifts for myself for my birthday. I’ve already read three of them but wanted a physical copy for myself.

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why don’t we run away?

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Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday! Who’s psyched? I’m going to be doing the Chicago bookstore crawl. Ten bookstores in 7 hours…and I get 10% off for the year at all of them!!

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“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”

Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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Enemies With Benefits

Chapters: 10/10 (Completed with new chapter added!)

Pairing: Spike/Buffy Summers, Riley Finn/Buffy Summers (Temp)

Rating: Explicit / NC-17

Words: 25k

Summary:

“I can feel it Slayer. You know you wanna dance,” his deep, melodic voice rumbles next to her ear.

She tries to ignore the way her body is reacting to him.

“Spike in case you forgot: we’re mortal enemies!”

“You always get this wet for your mortal enemies?”

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My take on the Something Blue AU.

Spike and Buffy get some alone time while under Willow’s spell. Things get hot and heavy and of course the spell breaks…yeah. At that exact moment. Things start to get more complicated from there. After the spell is over, they quickly find out that their attraction to each other, however, is not. Buffy tries her best to stay away from Spike, but he won’t let her go so easily…

They fight and they shag and they hate each other till it makes them quiver, but will they ever be friends? Will they ever be more than just enemies with benefits?

(Set in season 4, but with lots of Spuffy references from the other seasons.)

Read here on AO3!

Or here on EF!

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Classic Vegan Cheesecake

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For someone who says they love reading, I sure do a good job of not reading

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2022.02.24 // 16:27  espresso and a new york city winter’s day

pic: west 3rd street, manhattan, n.y.

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hygge reading day

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus vol. 2 Reviews (SPOILERS!!!)

The Queen of Hearts

Aw, Spike and Dru! This is a story about their journey before Sunnydale. Right off the bat, they're driving and listening to the Allman Brothers and I love this issue already. Dru's monologing, Spike's quipping. And then they eat a police officer. They go to St. Louis to have some fun before they're off to Sunnydale. Everything is called the queen of hearts, from the song to the casino, and I love that. On the boat in the casino, the owner is a demon, nothing novel about the whole of it. He called upon an elemental demon and then put a boat on top of the water, all hell broke loose. That's really all there is to this issue, but Spike & Dru are fantastic and funny and I could read stories about them forever, ''I'm a princess, Spike. Am I your princess? – You know you are, poodle.'' The colors and artwork in general are amazing.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus vol. 2 Reviews (SPOILERS!!!)

MacGuffins

For some reason, Buffy is totally sexualized in this issue. I kinda hate that. It's a short issue about these horny and inappropriate McGuffins which is bad enough without the tight top and jean shorts. Also, she says stuff like ''jinkies'' and speaks of herself in 3rd person. These MacGuffins also grab Buffy by the butt and I'm seriously shocked that this ever made it to print!? Apparently, MacGuffins are a designed test, but for me the story doesn't work. All she needs to do to pass the test is catch them? Urghh... Totally dumb and unnecessary, worst issue so far. I'm only giving it 2 stars because it's a Buffy comic.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus vol. 2 Reviews (SPOILERS!!!)

A Stake to the Heart

Act 1: Deceit Another layer of Buffy's pre-Sunnydale life, which I utterly adore finding out about. Back to original illustrations, Buffy looks absolutely stunning. Wow we have a cold open to Buffy's parents' separation, very accurately dimming their voices, because kids rarely hear anything besides ''our family is falling apart'' (''The words blur together.''). Ahahaha Buffy almost stakes Dawn and then the little monster of a sister FINALLY gets that everything she'd previously read in Buffy's diary was reality. Whistler raises an excellent point and it almost makes me tolerate him – Buffy being a few centuries too young for Angel. Aaaaaaand! Giles complains about the sunny weather in Sunnydale ahaha! I love everything Giles does. Librarians being smart and ridiculously hot, of course. And some of them have vampire calendars on their walls. LoL, Rupert! This weird-looking demon (''a malignancy spirit'') follows Buffy around, talking about her dad, filling her head with all sorts of bad and heavy imagery, until she eventually sees Hank with some woman – I really love the metaphor for emotions here since I've been through the whole parents separating, dad leaving thing. Act 2: Guilt I really love the creepy imagery that depicts the Summers' sadness and guilt, because that sh** really follows you around like a demon. Also, the parallel to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is quite brilliant here. Principal Fluuuuuutiiiiie! What a guy. What a soon-to-be-eaten-by-hyenas guy! Cordy and Harmony sighting! Cordy being witty as ever. God, I love Cordy!! Oh, and something else: Jesse is here and I'm really glad we get to see him... well, anywhere, since he was apparently a big part of the pilot Scoobies but they never mention him again after being turned and staked. Things get really ugly in this act and some of the best horror elements are on display here. This issue may be my favorite of all. Oh, and Dawn disappears for a moment. Just a moment, though. Act 3: Abandonment Well, this is another depressing entry with Buffy and Dawn lamenting their parents' divorce and the demon getting a grip on Dawn because of her sadness. But theeeen Buffy goes wild on the demon, apparently she can see her. Also, oddly, getting into a ''pure state of being'' means getting naked. Oh, Angel! This scene is huuuuugely weird tbh. Also, the part where the demon literally pulls Buffy inside of her? Yeah, awkward and creepy. But then we finally get into this other (dark) dimension we've been seeing from the beginning. Abandonment Dimension? Whatever, it's all spooks. It turns out, this malignancy spirit Angel brought on actually trying to help Buffy, is the very reason evil forces converge onto Sunnydale. Performing this ''naked'' spell, Angel somehow screws up AGAIN and points the malignancy towards Sunnydale. La boca del infierno, as Whistler puts it. There's this funny scene where Giles is settling into Sunnydale High library and talks on the phone to his mother - wtf, never heard of her before - and then the malignant demons show up and he's all like ah... mmm... I have to ... go. Joyce picks out four cities for where they would move and Buffy pulls a name out of a hat. And THAT is the only reason they go to live in Sunnydale. I'm loving this Omnibus vol 2 more and more. Act 4: Trepidation Buffy and Dawn sleep at their dad's and it's really sucky to see him reassuring them they're still gonna be a family knowing what I know from the series. Best quote ever: ''Everything will be fine once we get to Sunnydale.'' I wish these Angel and Whistler scenes would stop, we get almost no exposition whatsoever. I gotta say, they are the one minus in an otherwise excellent issue. We're finally in Sunnydale and trouble immediately ensues because another malignant demon is roaming the town, some creepy moth-lady provoking people into being indecisive and acting all tired and cranky. After some decent horror imagery, Buffy gets rid of the demon. This issue is mostly just about how Summers women settle into Sunnydale and Angelus decides he needs a new name.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus vol. 2 Reviews (SPOILERS!!!)

Angels We Have Seen on High

This issues sees a different style of illustrations and I kinda like them. They're far from the show's tone (as well as that of the comics, as well) but somehow appropriate because for me they add to the comedic effect of BTVS. Dawn is insufferable as ever, giving us a short ''previously on'' and getting into trouble, then having to be saved. Again. This is a very short volume, actually giving us lots of exposition on Buffy's life so far, her love-hate relationship with Dawn, and the fact that Angel's lurking around, of course also showing us that Buffy's very much on board with helping the helpless. Like like like!

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A short story from my first week at Bard College.

Good luck at school, everyone!

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Dog Eared Books. San Francisco, CA. IG: @bookaquarius

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