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Period drama + 🍂🍁

EMMA. (2020)

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985)

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006)

CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

BRIGHT STAR (2009)

MR. MALCOLM'S LIST (2022)

BECOMING JANE (2007)

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993)

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popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something

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Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

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eating and being eaten belong to the terrible secret of love | fic [explicit] | kie living at tannyhill

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Using QR codes to link things in circumstances where it would be inconvenient to laboriously type in a url by hand are all well and good, practical, I see it. But now I get emails like "Here's our event! Scan the qr code to register!" with a jpeg of a flyer and no url in the email or on the image. Oh you want me to...hold up my phone to a computer screen to scan a jpeg email attachment to get to a website? Instead of you just linking it to me, in the email you have already sent me, that I am already looking at on my computer? That's what you want me to do? Are you sure?

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I love a woman with a loud ass laugh. I love a cackle. I love a guffaw. Love when a bitch laughs so hard it scares the dog. Be unapologetic in your joy.

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It’s about devotion and obsession. It’s ALWAYS about devotion and obsession. And hunger. It’s love with teeth.

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https://x.com/starkeysmuse/status/1940155950461080025

this is what i mean when i say the cast absolutely despises riara i mean they’re so messy i gotta give them that 😭

lololol honestly I get her 😂 to be fair though, I think the issue some people are taking is with the idea that the writers/show creators hate it rather than just some of the actors

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I'm sorry but to that anon that said that the directors hate Rafe and Kiara...what a load of bollocks 😂 I remember seeing an interview where the writers were talking about how much they enjoyed having those two together at Singh's mansion and how they even debated on keeping them together a lil longer and not having Kiara push him off the boat at all. Also the writers have said themselves that Riara has chemistry and that it's fun to see them get near each other and have sparks.

y'all I know nothing about the behind the scenes of this show 😂 but from what little I've gleaned it seems like maybe it's more so the actors that don't love it rather than the actual writing team? can't speak on any romantic intentions but the last scene of the season 4 definitely seemed to be setting up some kind of revenge partnership/understanding between them

but again you guys I barely go here

in fact @ anon 1 your move

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“My favourite thing was a bunch of people made a giant sign that said “How am I going to be an octopus about this?” and held it up during Pompeii at all the right times and it distracted me enough to sing “octopus” instead by accident.”

— Dan Smith [x] (via bastillewtf)

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Just wanted to say how your fic seem to really inspire new riara fics. The imagery and metaphors you use to describe such intense feelings is what made me reread your fics every few weeks. So seeing such writing spread to other fic is a treat to have. Thank you for being a creative writer!

aw man, I def don't think I can take credit for that but I really appreciate the sentiment! I can say I've had a few people let me know they've felt more empowered to get weirder/riskier with their stuff (which might be what you're saying?) after seeing the response to this one and that's been super awesome, largely bc the whole point of me writing it was to get more comfortable with being bold/off-putting whenever it feels authentic to the story instead of policing myself in the name of morality/character redeemability. guess we're all just a bunch of DL freaks though🕺🏻

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I work in film and whenever people are like 'the tea is the cast and crew don't like XYZ ship' I just assume it's fake because I've never been on a set where anyone gave a fuck 😭 We're just there for the check man. Maybe I'll form an opinion on the thing when i'm watching it later on but at the moment people are just talking about how the mic pack's in the shot/ it's freezing and no one's eaten/ so and so crew members are beefing again/ the location is too loud or whatever's going on, no one cares about the intricacies of these fictional characters' lives. I vaguely care if the fans will be happy but honestly even that is shaky 😭

looooool this is pretty much what I'd expect, but I def understand the desire to speculate! back in the TVD/bamon days we were holding every interview under a microscope and it was a blast

we were also always 100% wrong 😂

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how much do i hv to pay u to be my interior designer because wow that apartment is so gorg

gah, thanks girl! it's slow-going for sure but I like the way it's coming together :) seems like no matter what I start off with as a concept I end up being a basic bitch and leaning french vintage 😂