lauren, that's not very heterosexual of you.

Flava Flav and Paris Hilton the ones out here advocating hardest for the Olympic women's hockey team.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

Interestingly, the premise of the show is based on the final scene of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. So I guess canonically the Ark of the Covenant is in the warehouse?

I rewatched it recently and was struck by how well it meshed with Supernatural. If you made a crossover show between spn and the x-files it would look something like wh13. (Since it’s Canadian it shares a lot of casting with spn, txf, Leverage, and Buffy)

I was first introduced to the show by the crossover it did with Eureka, so Claudia Donovan was the first character I met. She’s so cool! She’s the resident tech genius/hacker at wh13, and her introduction in that show is kidnapping the mentor character to help her save her brother. Since you kin Sam Winchester, I think you’ll REALLY like her.

Myka Bering: one of the Secret Service agents in the pilot. She has an eidetic memory and is very detail oriented. She does NOT react well to being reassigned to the warehouse; assumes it’s punishment for a mission that went wrong and resulted in her partner’s death.

Pete Lattimer: the other Secret Service agent in the pilot. He’s goofy and crass and enjoys getting on Myka’s nerves. He’s also very intuitive and gets “vibes” which are implied to be supernatural.

Artie Nielsen: the sole warehouse agent before Pete and Myka get reassigned. He’s gruff and no nonsense, the mentor. He has been working at the warehouse for decades, and so is VERY knowledgeable about artifacts.

Leena: she owns the B&B where the warehouse agents live and consults at the warehouse. She can see auras around ppl and artifacts. I love her so much <3

Claudia Donovan: introduced a few episodes in. As I said earlier, we meet her when she kidnaps Artie to save her brother. She blames him for her brother’s apparent death and needs his artifact knowledge in her rescue attempt. Also mentioned earlier, resident tech genius and hacker. She’s also very connected to the warehouse and the creation of artifacts. I don’t know that I would consider her “punk” but definitely alt in some way.

Steve Jinks: introduced in the S3 opening. Human lie detector—like Pete, Leena, and Claudia, his abilities are considered supernatural. He and Claudia become super close (like salmondean codependent close).

The show makes some attempts at queer representation, with mixed results. (It was definitely made in the 00s, but the racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. are nowhere near spn levels). Also the actors for one wlw ship intentionally played it as romantic even when writers/directors didn’t.

Also I love Indiana Jones so that’s really all you needed to say /silly

For the first three episodes all we know is that there’s a shadowy figure hacking the Warehouse that Artie is desperately pretending isn’t going to get in, and we watch them very clearly get in.

Then comes episode four and Claudia is, one) Claudia (young, female, looks like shit, semi-crazy), two) in the Warehouse, and three) kidnapping Artie with electrified handcuffs.

We spend the next 35 minutes going from thinking she’s going to kill Artie, to thinking she’s actually psych ward insane (that picture did her no favors), to thinking she’s very tragic in the way villains are tragic, back to insane, so on and so forth.

Like, that whole performance, both the writing and Allison Scagliotti’s acting, is so good. Because as you’re watching you’re getting a very complete picture of this character, even as she’s getting more sympathetic or we understand what’s going on more, you still kind of get the feeling that we could be watching her villain origin story. And we literally don’t settle out of that until Joshua is saved.

And like, in hindsight? Everything she was doing was, maybe not rational, but it made complete sense, the logic checked out and while it was extreme it wasn’t irredeemable or anything. It’s crazy because despite your first impressions watching the episode she’s still the same character we see through the next five seasons, just incredibly desperate, and running out of time, and dying.

So it’s like, there’s two completely different images you get of this character from this episode and they’re both true to her, it’s literally just a difference in circumstance.