Cake Wrecks ([syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-07-24 01:00 pm

Stop And Smell The Clichés

Posted by Sharyn

Normally I avoid clichés like the plague.

Still, when it comes to buying a cake, sometimes you've got to grab the bull by the horns.

(Just don't grab the other end.)

 

See, I'll bet you dollars to donuts:

... that some of you are going to get wrecks.

 

You may think you have all your ducks in a row:

(or maybe to be rowed...)

... but let's face it: There's a good chance the baker's ...

... a poo ant short of a picnic.

 

And they might get your cake ...

... bass ackwards.

 

I mean, does a bear ...

 ... sit in the woods?

(Aw, Pooh.)

;)

 

Look, you're probably never going to get the baker to eat crow:

 

So don't make a tempest in a teapot!

(Actually, don't make anything in this teapot.)

After all, you've still got a cake, and maybe the manager will mark it down.

 

So rather than look a gift horse in the, uh ...

... gaping mouth nozzle of despair?

... just enjoy your cake.

 

I think Shakespeare put it best:

"That which they call a rose by any other name...

"... still looks like meat."

 

Thanks to Scott D., Deanna C., Laura M., Wolfie W., Anna M., Autumn J., Reba S., Jesea J., Lana H., and Maria V.  for letting us have their cakes and read them, too.

*****

P.S. If you need a drink after those cakes, then I have JUST the game for you:

"These Cards Will Get You Drunk" Party Game

And since I have the constitution of a dizzy squirrel, I propose an alternate version where instead of drinking we eat whoopie pies. Any seconds?

*****

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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-24 02:29 pm

Mister Miracle #17

Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer


Scott and friends seek shelter in a hotel for the night and are mistaken for a group of gangsters.


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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-24 12:29 pm

Ka-Zar #8

Writer: Mark Waid

Pencils: Andy Kubert

Inks: Jesse Delperdang


Parnival enacts his master plan.


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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-24 10:31 am

Justice League of America #258

Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils: Luke McDonnell

Inks: Bob Smith


The President has shut down the Justice League due to mounting pressure from Glorious Godfrey and his cronies.


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Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books ([syndicated profile] smartbitches_feed) wrote2025-07-24 08:00 am

The Rec League: Awkward Sex

Posted by Amanda

The Rec League - heart shaped chocolate resting on the edge of a very old bookThis Rec League came from our staff reviewer Shana:

Have we done a Rec League on books where the couple’s first time having sex is awkward or bad and they had to learn how to give each other pleasure? I feel like I remember us talking about those romances but I’m not sure what we might have called the Rec League. I love historical married couple romances, and this trope feels somewhat adjacent.

Carrie: Jennifer Crusie does this a lot – a good example is in Trust Me On This ( A | BN | K | G | AB | Au ) where the first sex is meh but as they start to trust each other the sex gets better and better.

Amanda: It’s been awhile since I’ve read it, but I believe the main couple in Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren had some awkwardness.

A Lady Awakened
A | BN | K | AB
Sarah: A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant fits this VERY well.

The Bromance Book Club but I’m not sure if specifics count as too much of a spoiler.

And Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai

Amanda, what about The Bride Test?

Amanda: Hm…I honestly can’t remember? I don’t think so. There’s a lot of awkwardness in general about being around each other, but I don’t remember the sex scenes being awkward. (Commenters please chime in!)

Susan: One of Courtney Milan’s definitely fits this – The Duchess War?

Claudia: You are right, Susan — famously bad first sex.

What romances would you recommend? Drop them in the comments!

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Travis ([personal profile] torachan) wrote2025-07-23 07:55 pm
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Daily Happiness

1. Last day of relative calm before the new store opening. Tomorrow and Friday is the soft open and then Saturday and Sunday are grand opening weekend with a ton of events planned. I'm going to have to help out at least some of the day all four days, but I'm planning to take Monday off to recover.

2. Jasper is such a handsome guy.

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laughing_tree ([personal profile] laughing_tree) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-23 07:20 pm

The Flash #21 - "Bad Moon Rising, Part Two"

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The day my little boy came home from nursery -- and I've never shown him any my comics, he was three at this point -- and he goes, "Daddy, I'm a superhero," and he runs around the house punching stuff and breaking things. And I'm like, oh shit, I have appeared to have built a career around the fact that moral righteousness is who can hit the hardest, who can break things the most. And that really, really staggered me, and I had to really think about it. -- Si Spurrier

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laughing_tree ([personal profile] laughing_tree) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-23 06:43 pm

Absolute Martian Manhunter #4

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Because, while I do think we're pretty radical, and it's pretty different, at the same time, if I'm drawing from anything, I'm drawing from those early Detective Comics stories, and going back to that. And that was a version of the Martian Manhunter who was kind of mysterious and almost mystical in his abilities, in the sense that he could seem to really do anything, whatever the story called for, and his perspective on humanity was really important. -- Deniz Camp

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Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books ([syndicated profile] smartbitches_feed) wrote2025-07-23 06:00 pm

Links: Romance Kickstarters, Adaptation News, & More

Posted by Amanda

Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.Welcome back!

(WingedNike, if you’re reading this, it’s officially Wednesday and you haven’t missed the post!)

Life is life-ing. However, I’m grateful for reconnecting with friends lately. Lots of social activities on my calendar, and though I may grumble and gripe about having to leave the house, I haven’t regretted it yet.

We did a Costco run last weekend, and I love finding new things to try. I get so excited to stock my fridge! Anyone else a Costco fangirl?

From Georgina: A retirement/care center in New Zealand was renamed the Essie Summers Retirement Village in honor of Summers, who was the NZ queen of romance.

If you love collecting pretty book editions, this Kickstarter for special Jane Austen editions has about a week left.

Led by Adriana Herrera and Ali Hazelwood, a collection of dystopian romance novellas is set to launch soon on Kickstarter. The plots sound really interesting and the collection has a great group of authors.

This article is from a year ago, but I don’t remember hearing about it or posting about it. In fairness, a lot has happened in a year. Not sure if there have been any updates since, but Lyla Sage’s Rebel Blue Ranch series has been picked up for a possible adaptation.

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!

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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-23 06:14 pm

Incredible Hulk #164

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani


The Hulk is captured by a bunch of weirdos in a submarine.


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Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books ([syndicated profile] smartbitches_feed) wrote2025-07-23 03:30 pm

Olivia Dade, Historical Romance, & More

Posted by Amanda

Wooing the Witch Queen

RECOMMENDED: Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis is $2.99! Thanks to everyone who let us know about this sale. Carrie gave this one a B+:

In these trying times, it’s incredibly comforting to read a book in which people have faith in other people and in which people are given the opportunity and tools they need to develop faith in themselves.

In a Gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests, three magical queens form an uneasy alliance to protect their lands from invasion…and love turns their world upside down.

Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.

When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well…

Little does Saskia know that the “wizard” she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he’s in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?

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You can find ordering info for this book here.

 

 

 

At First Spite

RECOMMENDED: At First Spite by Olivia Dade is $1.99! Lara gave this a B+:

If you’re looking for a book of sparkle and light, then this is not the book for you. It’s heavy going emotionally, but so well-written that I could not put it down. My normal routine went out the window because I NEEDED to know how things would unfold. The cast of supporting characters are sincerely charming and I do look forward to the next book in the series.

When Athena Greydon’s fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. Which is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors, is only ten feet wide. Her ex’s home is literally attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third—AKA the uptight, judgy jerk who convinced his younger brother to leave her—is living on her other side, only a four-foot alley away.

If she has to see Matthew every time she looks out her windows, she might as well have some fun with the situation. By, say, playing erotic audiobooks at top volume with those windows open. A woman living in a Spite House is basically obligated to get petty payback however she can, right?

Unfortunately, loathing Matthew proves more difficult than anticipated. He helps her move. He listens. And he’s kind of…hot? Dammit.

Matthew may not regret ending his brother’s engagement, but he does regret what the breakup has done to Athena. He’ll help her however he can. If that means finding her work, fine. If that means enduring nightly steamy story hours, so be it. And if that means watching Athena through their windows a bit too often and caring about her a bit too much…well, nothing can come of it. She’ll never forgive him. Even if she did, how could he ever tell his beloved younger brother the truth—that Matthew wants the very same woman he encouraged Johnny to leave?

Add to Goodreads To-Read List →

You can find ordering info for this book here.

 

 

 

Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams by Sarina Bowen is $1.99! This is book three in the Brooklyn Bruisers hockey romance series. It seems that illustration covers have claimed another series.

A goalie has to trust his instincts, even when taking a shot to the heart…

Mike Beacon is a champion at defending the net, but off the ice, he’s not so lucky. A widower and a single father, he’s never forgotten Lauren Williams, the ex who gave him the best year of his life. When Lauren reappears in the Bruisers office during the playoffs, Beacon sees his chance to make things right.

Lauren hates that she’s forced to travel with the team she used to work for and the man who broke her heart. There’s still undeniable sexual tension running between her and Mike, but she won’t go down that road again. She’s focused on her plans for the future—she doesn’t need a man to make her dreams of motherhood come true.

Lauren plays her best defensive game, but she’s no match for the dark-eyed goalie. When the field of play moves to Florida, things heat up on the beach.

One of Mike’s biggest fans doesn’t approve—his teenage daughter. But a true competitor knows not to waste the perfect shot at love.

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You can find ordering info for this book here.

 

 

 

The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right

The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right by Suzanne Allain is $1.99! This is a historical romance that came out last December. The heroine posses as a her cousin and I was pretty meh on this one.

When a young woman trades places with her noble cousin, their innocent ruse leads to true love in this sparkling new Regency-era romantic comedy of manners from the author of Mr. Malcolm’s List.

When Arabella Grant’s wicked aunt dies suddenly, both Arabella and her cousin Lady Isabelle cannot help but feel relieved. She’d made their lives miserable, and now Lady Issie is free to read to her heart’s content, and Bella is free from taunts about her ignoble birth.

Their newfound freedom is threatened, however, when Issie’s great-aunt commands her to travel to London for a come-out Issie has never wanted. Issie, who is in poor health, is convinced she’ll drop dead like her mother did if she drops into a curtsy before the queen. So when her great-aunt turns out to be nearsighted and can’t tell the noble Lady Isabelle from her commoner cousin Arabella, Issie convinces Bella to take her place. Bella can attend all the exclusive entertainments that her lower birth would typically exclude her from, and Issie can stay in bed, her nose in a book.

Add to Goodreads To-Read List →

You can find ordering info for this book here.

 

 

 

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knight_moves ([personal profile] knight_moves) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-07-23 10:27 am

Star-Lord (Marvel Preview 4)

I had a yen to go through Starlord's backstory and apparently it's even more of a mish-mash than most comic book characters, with retcons having consigned his original origin story to an alternate reality. Still, I find Marvel Preview 4 an interesting taste of seventies sci-fi, with its zeerust futurism, hints of astrology, In Search Of The Unknown UFOism and NASA worship coupled with the usual capes and lasers.

(Yes, there are capes. It's the future, jabroni.)

This is SF coming out of the same primordial soup as Star Wars (which would premiere two years later) and it's just fascinating to me how it's simultaneously so modern and yet so of-another-time.

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Cake Wrecks ([syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-07-23 01:00 pm

For Auld Lang Swine

Posted by Jen

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I dub thee... LADY PIG.

Or PIG BUG.

Or MISS BUGGY.

Or... Bob.

Yeah, I like Bob.

 

Thanks to Katya A. for keeping it ladylike. And also for the excuse to post that picture of Miss Piggy. ("Hiiiii-YAH!!")

******

P.S. I collect ridiculous phone cases, and thought some of you might appreciate my latest find:

Peach Piggy Butt Phone Case

The butt is 3D and squishy soft and would make an EXCELLENT gift for your best friend, because she's weird like that. :D

*****

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