Uncommon Practice

"Don't you realize what you are to me? What you're always gonna be? You're the love of my life. Everyone else is gonna be second best. There'll never be another you."

Look at this man experiencing freckles and awkward Canadian politeness and developing a fat crush.

My favourite part however is as Shane is leaving clearly uncomfortable with how their conversation went (he does a head tilt like "well, that went horribly")

Ilya notices and that's when he chirps, immediately making Shane more comfortable as he chirps back. And thus, their lovingly teasing, when they say "asshole" and "boring" they really mean "I love you" dynamic is born.

yall fighting over yalls ships while im here tuning in for the plot that is inej ghafa herself we are not the same

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FEMALEDAILY 6K CELEBRATION FAVORITE FEMALE ENSEMBLE PER MEMBER - Kate (@ww84)

We’ve got a pretty stellar selection for you in this week’s installment of Friday Reads!

Friend of the Desk Nicole Cohen ripped through Circe (”so good!” she says) and is getting started on The Vanishing Half.

Boss Lady Ellen Silva is ADOPTING A KITTEN YOU GUYS OMG (my words, not hers) so she’s getting ready with Think Like a Cat. 

Big Boss Edith Chapin says she’s finally getting to enjoy A Burning.

Arts Desk editor Nina Gregory has an advance copy of Chang-Rae Lee’s upcoming My Year Abroad – and she points out that they both share a July 29th birthday.

Senior Director of Digital Strategy Justin Bank is aiming high with the Wolf Hall trilogy. “I have a dad’s book club and our buddy Paulo has been itching for us to take it on for some time,” he says.

Desk pal and Code Switch Editor Leah Donnella says Bill Bryson’s At Home is a great companion when you’re, well, stuck at home. “Since we’ve all been spending so much time indoors,” she says, “might as well learn a little about why everything works the way it does!”

And I’m polishing off The Scapegracers, a febrile YA tale of high school witches – it’s fabulous, like Weetzie Bat with teeth. Our critic Amal El-Mohtar told me to read it, and she did not steer me wrong.

What are y’all curling up with this weekend?