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it’s just me and the 5 people on here who know my oc by name against the world

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nah because why do edwardian motor dusters go so hard. the VEIL??

THE GOGGLES

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Vintage Robin Hood imagery.

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i like to make my cereal in a cauldron just so dinner is more exciting

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‘Krakatoa, a 75-pound, 7.5-foot long Komodo Dragon, celebrates his eighth birthday with fellow eight-year-olds from R.B. Hunt Elementary School at his enclosure at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park in St. Augustine, Fla. The children sang Happy Birthday to the large lizard as he was presented with a meat cake topped with mice.’

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i do like sensitive young men i just couldn't eat a whole one unless i was really hungry

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it feels like the 63rd of janaury

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recently we were out on a hilltop taking photos of the comet and suddenly some car's headlights blind us from across the bay. literally four miles away.

who the fuck is out here with these nuclear fusion powered headlights. who puts naval searchlights on their fucking toyota tacoma.

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i have escaped ye Hogge

very much enjoying the antiques freaks carnacki episodes because the combination of a) thick-written victoriana b) stupid hijinks described weirdly and c) silly voices results in an experience best described as 'what if arthur conan doyle wrote the dover boys'

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the WIPs of your that most intrigue me at present are:

blood of the ash-tree (georgian vampire time!)

hornblower? animorphs?? crossover??? (eeeelaborate pls)

FotH Green Knight (let's Pearl-Poet this canon up)

and EotN fire-breather of hispania (i love all your temeraire AUs and universe expansions)

strong opening with the eternal Request for the Vampiremen. I have not written on them much of late but here is an old snippet...

Rowlandson stumbled on the stairs, his left foot catching against the carpet and tugging it askew. He winced as his leg twisted under him, aching as it often had since he had first broken it falling from a horse, some seven years before. The scar of the bullet-blow that had felled him in the first place still showed upon the opposite shoulder, but it was in his shin and his ankle that the lasting pain had made its nest. Now, in his state of half-exsanguinated exhaustion, the effort required to keep his stride was nearly too great. Rowlandson caught himself against the nearer wall of the stairwell, cursing viciously when the lightheadedness didn’t fade.

the hornblower animorphs crossover is based on the fact that it is canon in animorphs that the animorphs kids were at the battle of trafalgar (as well as agincourt, which is a whole other worm can yet to be investigated). you know who else was at trafalgar? william bush.

<This Hornblower — he is your war-prince, then?> It was an odd way of putting it, but Bush found that it could not be termed entirely incorrect. “Captain is the more commonly used word, Mr. Isthill.” The long eyestalks flicked first to him, and then to Hornblower, who was conferring with the other members of that strange party. Isthill cocked his head to one side, birdlike in his curiosity, but appeared to determine assent.

foth green knight — how could I resist merging two lovely instances of 'happily married estate-owning couple and their impulsive steadfastly honorable third from a distant court?'

It was less a chapel than a tiny shrine cut into the rock, a little alcove carved into the cliff face just far enough that a man might stand within and not feel the wind upon his face. The toppled stones around it seemed to imply it was once greater, that that sacred stillness it held had extended for paces beyond its current bounds. A man in green sat slumped at the chapel’s entrance, his head bowed over his folded hands. One waterfall of liquid birdsong, and then, with a fluttering of wings, the notes trickled away. “…Ardroy?” The man raised his head, his long hair shimmering back and forth from red-gold to green-gold in the frost-thin light. He nodded, unspeaking, sorrow written plainly across his face.

'a fire-breather of hispania' is best summarized as 'what if esca brought home a dragon egg instead of a wolf cub,' and has expanded itself delightfully into... mostly just me gently adjusting the plot to fit a dragon inside it, which is very fun.

The dragonet was a tease and a trouble from the very beginning — he hid among the ceiling beams and descended suddenly on Sasticca when she was cooking, he snuck up on Uncle Aquila’s tired old wolfhound and nipped at his tail while he slept, he made a mess of every room and sent Esca chasing after him, the atrium all a flutter of lost papers where he had been. But Marcus laughed, laughed as he had not since Isca Dumnoniorum. “You have a gladiator for a body-slave, and a dragon for a pet — there was peace and quiet in my house, once,” said Uncle Aquila ruefully, turning a draught-piece over and over in his hand. The remains of his game lay scattered across the floor, the folding table knocked down by an errant tail, and Aquilillus, his head in Esca’s lap, was presently nibbling a corner of the board. But there was merriment in his eyes — merriment that, had Marcus seen both his uncle and himself, was written in the same hand on both their faces.

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writing is so fun

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WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE RUBBER-LINED RAINBOW PIG ROOM

very much enjoying the antiques freaks carnacki episodes because the combination of a) thick-written victoriana b) stupid hijinks described weirdly and c) silly voices results in an experience best described as 'what if arthur conan doyle wrote the dover boys'

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yeah. i've got the wikipedia page for rat. on cassette.

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once again it IS the wip folder ask game thanks to @vastwinterskies having tagged me:

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

today I feel like putting Really Truly All of them, so I will tag people up here and then hide everything else under a readmore — @dxppercxdxver, @baronetcoins, @tgarnsl, @dotsayers, if you'd like to share?

not fic

blood of the ash-tree

mothycompass

mothycompass matthew focus

[research paper] which is the thief of joy

hornblower

chichester visiting

animorphs crossover

crawling

cable tier

flight of the heron

tam lin au

ladyhawke au

to keep it real

worms time

french vacation

green knight

winter birds

first snowfall

sharpe

soldier's lass

sharpewolf

ladyhawke au 2

kissing the homies goodnight

sharpe and strange

babygirl you're coolawesome

seville oranges

waterloo 2 / causeway

kissing the homies 2 bro hookup

kidnapped

uh oh lads it's alan breck again

alan just happens so much

wood-god

boys get a little fancy

home to aucharn again

the low road

something other than those

selkie au take 2 (treasure island)

an oak tree in ithaca (treasure island)

werewolf montjoy (h5)

two magicians (potc)

assorted flintlock fortress (tf2)

fun for boys (with scalpel!) (the body snatcher)

tem au (h5)

doublecast au (h5)

a fire-breather of hispania (eagle of the ninth)

laurence :( (temeraire)

whose woods these are (h5)

with apologies to seamus heaney (taskmaster)

folktaletelling (doctor who)

uh oh biggles fic (biggles)

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made a label for my sharps container...

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There’s certain hobbies and interests that aren’t inherently conservative or regressive but do attract a lot of people who are those things or worse and when you’re a progressive person involved in those hobbies hearing that someone else is interested in your hobby usually has to involve some “But are you normal about it?” conversations before you get too excited

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Posh Fancy People Name Generator (Debrett's Peerage 1903)

Do you spend a lot of time coming up with silly names for your Jeeves and Wooster fanfic? Do you and your friends get together on weekends to LARP as Oscar Wilde characters? Do you just want to feel grateful that your parents didn't name you Allnutt?

Then have I got the random name generators for you! 

Introducing two Debrett’s Peerage (1903) Name Generators, by yours truly! 

It will give you a first name, TWO middle names (so posh), and a surname, all taken from actual once-living human beings whose names were recorded in the 1903 edition of Debrett’s Peerage 

There’s a posh man version and a fancy lady version

(I also included an optional tick-box to add a title/peerage rank and/or some silly bonus info from me, but you can keep it name-only if you prefer) 

here are some of my fave Actual Names that I found. now imagine how much sillier we can make this by putting it all in a blender

please note: lettice is her middle name. her surname is gore. miss lettice gore, you are an icon.

A few notes on logistics:

Names are not weighted and were entered into each category only once, regardless of how common or uncommon they were in 1903. This means you’re as likely to be named Wyndham as you are to be John, because frankly it wouldn’t be fun if every man you generated was named John 

However! First name and middle names are separate lists, so your first name could be the same as one of your middle names; alternatively, both of your middle names could be the same because middle names are pulling from the same list. This should enhance the absurdity 

The name ‘Napier’ appears in Debrett’s Peerage as a first name, as a middle name, AND as a surname. While it’s statistically unlikely, it is technically possible to generate the name Napier Napier Napier Napier for yourself 

Spelling variations (eg, Ann vs Anne) were included as separate names

The generator is continuously being updated with more names, because there’s a whoooole lot of names recorded in Debrett’s Peerage (yes, I am manually reading and entering names from a 2,000+ page document. what of it.)

For the bonus tick-box: the titles are all real, but they may be paired with a different peerage rank than they were in actuality (e.g., if you generate Lord So-and-So, the So-and-So is a real title, but the generator might tack it onto a Earl instead of a Marquess, etc). I didn’t include any royalty, just aristocracy 

For the bonus tick-box: most are a straightforward “you are a Countess” but some are me being a bit silly and having fun