April

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Cookie Monster sitting at a table with a single red rose in a vase and a cookie. The caption in big red letters reads "AMOR"
Gaspard Ulliel wearing a WWI uniform carving something into a fucked-up tree
A slightly too dark Gâteau Breton
Puff pastry turnovers in triangle and rectangle shapes. They are made from frozen, pre-made puff pastry because I ain't messing with all that.
French Silk Pie with an Oreo crust
Cover of the book What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork by Witold Szablowski
Cover of the book Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
A big palm in a greenhouse with under planting
Cover art for A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo
Pink azaleas
A clock designed to look like an aristocrat's head with the clock face in its mouth. Designed by Maurice Sendak, made by Henry Selick.
Poster for The Color of Pomegranates
A lady in a fur and a gentleman in a bowler have a melancholy drink in "The Apartment"
Moopsy!
A blue purple and pink striped tea cozy on a pot
Broyé du Poitou. Basically a big, golden shortbread cookie with scalloped edges and a criss-cross pattern on top.
Stuffing-flavored focaccia
A lemon tiramisu in a glass baking dish
cover of A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
Hugh Dancy with his pumpkins at boob height
A very deep brown, crackly-topped, delicious-looking loaf of bread sits on a cooling rack on a grey countertop.
A deep brown, glossy challah loaf with apple chunks poking out of it.
An Italian Easter bread twist with pink, red, and white sprinkles and a blue dyed egg in the middle. Sitting on a floral paper plate.
the switchboard gals from The Apartment
Hope Holiday and Jack Lemmon down & out at a bar in The Apartment
A lego model of orchids sitting on a desk corner next to yogurt pots filled with pens, pencils, markers, and Werther's. There is a Christmas tree in the background.
Screenshot of a wall clock from Nutcracker: The Motion Picture. The clock is shaped like the severed head of a very distressed aristocrat. The clock face is shoved in their mouth.
A fuchsia-colored pie with a black crust
A plateful of dark dinner rolls with oats on top
A sourdough pumpernickel loaf on a cooling rack
A freakin' delicious slab of apple pie
Strega Nona and her pasta pot
A Bosco Nero cake based on the Dolci! cookbook recipe
One of those Bluesky user badges that says #227,991
an illustration by Maurice Sendak from his edition of Herman Melville's "Pierre; Or the Ambiguities" It is the image of a distraught, nude man whose muddy surroundings are encroaching on him.
A photo of a page from the Dacha book. This one is a yellow Dacha with white filigree detail.
Book cover for "Prisoner of Vampires" by queer New England author Nancy Garden. Watercolor illustration by Michele Chessare shows a Dracula-type vampire in a library looming over a boy reading a book about vampires. Cover caption reads "Can Alexander defeat a trio of bloodthirsty vampires?"
Two cutting boards sit on a counter. They contain ooey gooey sticky buns that have already been dug into
A raspberry chocolate layer cake with malted milk whipped cream, raspberries, and red currants. My mother's OJ and Pellegrino are in the background.
April standing in her bathroom wearing a denim jacket, jeans, and a blue thermal. Not seen are brown hiking boots.
Hugh Dancy cradling two pumpkins
Illustration of James Marshall's George and Martha who are two hippo best friends