explorersaremadeofhope

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tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.

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you ever see shit that makes you think “i know i’m very online but i’m not online enough for this one”

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Yo bro who got you smiling like that !

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Spin the 17th century death wheel and tell me how you died in the tags

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A new drawing- visualising the books always stacked up on my bedside table.

From top to bottom mine currently are:

The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff

Every Elizabeth Strout book

Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

A crime thing I know I won’t like with a cliched ominous house on the cover

Bleak House by Dickens, I’m going to guess the second half

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

An Elric omnibus by Michael Moorcock, absolute nonsense and I love it

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman, waiting on my third Libby queue after tackling 30% on each of the other borrows

And finally on the right- gigantic The Lyrics by Paul McCartney, doesn’t fit anywhere and I don’t currently have a coffee table for it to be in its natural habitat

You can buy a print in a couple different colours via my Etsy shop

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On writing sexual tension

⊹ standing too close. like just barely not touching. why are their shoulders breathing on each other??

⊹ conversations that sound normal but feel like foreplay. “pass the salt” has never been so loaded.

⊹ one of them says something flirty and the other freezes for 0.2 seconds like “oh.”

⊹ eyes dropping to lips and then—back up. with effort.

⊹ holding eye contact just a little too long. like... are they gonna kiss or duel??

⊹ unintentional physical contact that lasts one second too long and now they’re both broken

⊹ a hand on the small of the back. that’s it. that’s the tweet.

⊹ tension so thick that other characters start noticing like “hey are you two okay?” (they are not)

⊹ “accidental” sleepovers. “oh no there’s only one bed.” yeah. suuuure.

⊹ biting back a smile. biting back a moan. biting anything really.

⊹ one of them walks away and the other has to physically restrain themselves from watching the hips

⊹ lots of sighing. frustrated sighs. horny sighs. “i want to kiss you but I’m emotionally unavailable” sighs.

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DAY ONE

IT'S DAY ONE OF OUR WORLD TOUR!!! WHILE WE'RE STUCK AT THE AIRPORT, LET'S BUSY OUT THOSE LONG FORM FICS AND START LEAVING THOSE COMMENTS!!!!

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The heartbreaking thing about trying to improve your prospects as a young person who financially vulnerable is that it takes literally insane amounts of confidence and perseverance to get through it. The path is so hard that there’s no room for the doubts that other young adults are allowed to have.

Because if you ever express doubts about your capabilities the people who are supposed to support you go “you’re right, maybe you’re just not cut out for this” because they don’t fucking want you there. They want nice young people from middle class families who don’t struggle to adapt like you do.

And that’s so shit because you usually don’t have parents who can advice you in thing like this. You don’t have parents who went to college who can sit you down and tell you with confidence that you can do this, because they’re not entirely sure what you’re up to.

So you start to believe that maybe you just are too stupid. But that’s not true, it’s just way tougher if you have to work your way up to something.

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i am very good at wildlife photography

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Columbo and Brenner in Identity Crisis have so much UST you could cut it with a knife

He wants to fuck that weird little guy so bad

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you ever wake up from a dream amd immediately think "well that was a bit heavyhanded"

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WITHNAIL & I (1987) dir. Bruce Robinson

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Lofoten | From the peak of Tjeldbergtind

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@whumpril | Day #17: (Alt. Prompt) Clammy Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

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The shocking thing about loving jopson from the terror (who is my son) was that everyone had primed me for fitzier and even for the fact that there’s a funny little gay villain. But no one had at all had prepared me for the fact that Jared Harris has a Jeeves level right hand man who wants to shave and dress him even when they’re all on the brink of death and would push aside food to crawl to him in the middle of starving to death. Like that’s sure something