#(thank you @titleleaf)

[lesbiancolumbo]

sweet smell of success (1957, dir. alexander mackendrick) / 'ship ask game' post from tumblr user alexanderpearce

[marypsue]

I'm gonna be honest, I didn't realise AMC's The Terror (at least the first season) had supernatural elements until long after I probably should have, because all I knew about it came secondhand from the people I follow, and literally all you guys talk about is historical context and materiality (especially as it concerns having gay sex on a tallship).

[stephantom]

fave first watches of the month (nov 2024) - tagged by @rinbylin (thank you!)

So the thing is, I only saw 4 movies this November.

Tagging ummm who are some movie enthusiasts…? @cinemaocd @shiveringsoldier @titleleaf @dying-suffering-french-stalkers @lyledebeast @girlfriendsofthegalaxy and anyone who wants to do it!

[jess-bradford]

fuck it friday

thanks for the tags @wikiangela @bucked-it-up @perfectlysunny02 @bidisasterevankinard!

Buck doesn’t expect to get traded weeks out from the deadline but that’s probably his first mistake of many: you never get too comfortable in Pittsburgh, not with that new, young GM and his trade-happy trigger finger. Not even if you’re Evan “Buck” Buckley, son of the team owners and brother to the head athletic trainer. Especially not if you’re Evan Buckley, really. Anyway, it could be worse. They could’ve sent him to the Angels, rather than the Dodgers. Sure, playing with Eddie Diaz, league MVP two years running, would’ve been a dream but it’s Anaheim. They’re still firmly rooted in the cellar, looking up at the Astros like everybody else in the AL West. The Dodgers might be looking down the barrel of a rebuild, but at least it’s cool to be a Dodger. It’s way cooler to be known for Dodger Dogs than the Rally Monkey, besides. Maybe this year they’ll make it out of the wild card round—hell, maybe this year they’ll actually make it to the fucking postseason. Buck’s thirty-two, not old by any stretch of the imagination, but all the losing gets old after a while. Has been old for years. He thinks he should probably be grateful his parents agreed to let go of him—he tries not to examine that any longer than he needs to—and sent him to a winning team, to boot. It could have definitely been worse.

no pressure tags: @tommykinard6 @girlwonder-writes @thatmexisaurusrex @thegunslingerletmedrop @samuelroukin @titleleaf @bucktheally @reformedplayerbibuck (genuinely not really sure who i follow that writes and doesn't!!)

[bedeliainwonderland]

Tagged by @charlottenewtons thank you! 😘❤️ this is fun!

list your five all time favorite films and have people vote on which one matches your vibe

Tagging @gloriadenton @titleleaf @saint-garbage @valentinsylve @forensics-and-wands @poseidons-lovechild @mash1972 @celta-diabolica @aeshnacyanea2000 and anyone else who wants to play! (Gimme movies to watch)

[heavencasteel420]

WIP Game

Thanks for tagging me, @gnarly-love!

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

Save the Last Dance for Me

True Love Blooms

Hellhound on My Trail

Don't Tell Me What It's All About (technically 15 numbered documents)

Faith

The first four of these are for Stranger Things; the last is for Sweeney Todd.

Tagging: @marypsue, @forthegothicheroine, @titleleaf, @jfkadultcircumcision, @musicalchaos07

(This is the sideblog of @maddie-grove, if anyone is wondering.)

[kaphkas]

9 people you want to get to know better

Thank you @narastories for tagging me 💛

Favourite colour: evenly tied between mossy green or pastel pink. Ooh or maybe baby blue. Idk I have a lot of love in my heart

Currently reading: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

Last song: O Children by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Last series: Perry Mason (HBO)

Last movie: Lawrence of Arabia. In case the sudden influx of posts about it didn’t tip everyone off

Sweet/savoury/spicy: spicy! But I wish salty was an option 😭

Currently working on: just some fun little screen shot studies. I’m incapable of writing at the moment

No pressure tags: @jaynovz @ginnie-darling @lichfucker @hms-tardimpala @somfte @titleleaf @etoilesombre @graceling-in-a-suit @magstorrn

[clove-pinks]

It has been over a week since the beef marrow hair oil from @titleleaf arrived (Gallipot Project store link), and finally I had the opportunity to try it this past weekend. I use product in my hair during the work week, and being in my working class villain era it's usually combed away from my face and tucked under a knit hat. I wanted to try the hair oil on my clean, dry hair; and not on a day when it would be immediately smothered by a hat.

I was excited to try this product because the composition is similar to the "Recipe for the Hair" made with beef marrow in the 1830 book The Whole Art of Dress! This was also the book I consulted for instructions on how to use hair oil:

The way to apply oils or grease of any kind to nourish the hair, is to rub it well in at the roots, when its essential virtue can only be of service, and then brush it well. Brushing is as absolutely required by the hair, as washing by the face, it is this that bestows that fine gloss which so much improves the appearance of the hair, at the same time excluding all dandriff [sic]. This ever forms and renders the hair of a dead and unanimated appearance, when not well brushed. A hard penetrating, and a soft brush should be alternately used. The former strengthens the roots of the hair by impelling a brisker circulation of the blood, while the latter bestows the shine or polish.

For my brushes I used a paddle hair brush with plastic bristles (hard), and a military hair brush with natural boar bristles (soft). This is what my hair looks like unoiled:

And after the hair oil!

I probably applied too much of it, although that's debatable considering the historical fashion I'm emulating.

Seated Young Man with Arm Resting on Table, 1840s. Met Collection.

One of the things I loved the most about this product was the scent of clove oil. I went about my day running errands accompanied by a delicious but not overpowering fragrance. Perhaps it liquefied more with warmth, because after several hours it seemed like I had applied it with a heavier hand—although still within the bounds of early Victorian hairstyles, and if anything not as greased-up as some pictures I have seen.

It DOES have styling properties and will hold the hair in place, although not quite with the fixative power of 21st century hair gel. Next time I will try rubbing it in more, and using my hands more than the included dropper. But I'm a fan! It's a rich styling product that should last me for a while, thank you @titleleaf for your Victorian cosmetics!

[nellygwyn]

I was tagged by @blackhyena to post nine books I'd like to read this year! Thank you! Here are mine.

I tag @ourgraciousqueen, @titleleaf, @lessthansix, @storywonker, @bimbogollum, @nellgwynn, @elizabeth-karenina, @the-perdita, and @fairclorinda <3

[laueana]

Red lipstick, cut creases, neon signs, midcentury US honeymoon hotels, cool toned stark lighting, the Twitter account CocaineDecor, night drives, and Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. I would never have gotten into a whole constellation of bands if not for you and the associations with smoky rock and roll for late night cruising in silver platform boots.

my brand! i was unfamiliar with that twitter account before but i am now following them. and i’m glad my Excellent music taste has rubbed off on you! :D

[cinemaocd]

WIP Title Game

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

The Third Wheel (Chernobyl HBO) No Poetry in Kent (Wolf Hall Regency AU) Wentworth (Jane Austen, Persuasion) Rolls' House (The Mirror and the Light/Mantel/Cromwell) A New Kind of Memoir Part II (The Terror 2018) Man of Business (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell) What Happens in Baghdad (Spooks) Attractive Beast (Spooks/The Red Shoes AU) Flying Down to Del Rio (RPF George Sanders/Delores Del Rio) A Fools Face (Lawrence of Arabia) Tagging: @liliana-von-k, @clarasteam, @idlesuperstar, @shark-from-the-park, @lesbiancolumbo, @pottedmusic, @houliwife, @bigdaddycrozier, @thealogie, @leonardcohenofficial, I was tagged by @titleleaf. THANK YOU oh fic-y friend! :D

[areyougonnabe]

Fic Writer Questions!

tagged by @palamedessextus !!! thank u i love to procrastinate on writing by writing about writing

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

110 on my main account (+ 4 on my sneaky sock for Crimes™ lol)

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

614,551 on my main account which is. hm. a lot

3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

obvi the main ones are the terror (50 fics) and good omens (35 fics). beyond that: TMA, the OA, doctor who, LOST, red dwarf, what we do in the shadows, the aubreyad, legends of tomorrow, banished, MCU, bbc ghosts, jeeves & wooster, russian doll, true detective, twin peaks, fleabag, & it's always sunny.

so technically 19, but wow a LOT of those are because i am a fiend for crossovers. (true detective x red dwarf... twin peaks x hannibal... the OA x lost.... russian doll x doctor who...) and many of the others were one-offs for yuletide. i'm pretty monofannish when it comes to writing!

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

lol they're all going to be for good omens... let's see

1. "it's a new craze" - the podcast fic. imho this fic is the definition of "The Claw," a.k.a. the phenomenon that sees some fics plucked out from the fray to become super popular. i'm not denying that it's good! i still think it's pretty clever! but its popularity was probably as much a function of timing as of quality

2. "what a way to make a living" - the uber driver fic. honestly still pretty proud of this one, it flows well and is structurally interesting and genuinely very funny and the perfect length. i had a blast in good omens fandom writing comedic fic, this one

3. "dearly departed" - another one i'm still very happy with. my first ever finished multi-chapter fic & the story that proved to me i could sustain a plot and original characters and also that people would actually enjoy it. so a pretty big deal!

4. "blame it on my juice, baby!" - the fake love potion one. i wrote this fic while delirious with horrible fever cooped up in a tiny council flat airbnb bedroom in london. i think it's still pretty strong although since writing it i've developed a severe aversion to the "meddling friend engineers a get-together" trope in fic & so cringe a bit when i read it back, lmao

5. "greatest hits" - the one with the original songs! the songs are still good.... the fic is ehhhhhhh i guess.

5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

i don't respond to comments on most of my gomens fic anymore because 🤷‍♀️ but i do try to reply to everything i get on my terror fic/smaller fandom stories! my replies are usually very lame but i do like to take the time to thank people for reading.

6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

i usually don't write angsty endings because i'm a weenie BUT the one exception is probably my terror/TMA crossover which cannot be said to end well by any means lol

7) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

dearly departed has a very lovely ending... i will also plug my OA fic heat rises which is GREAT and has a GREAT ending and nobody read it because nobody watched the OA. i'm fine it's fine

8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

as mentioned above, yes, compulsively... award for craziest simply has to go to It's Always Sunny In Another Dimension which is, yes, an IASIP x OA crossover. i apologize for nothing

9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not that i can recall, [bubbe voice] tenks gad!!!

10) Do you write smut? If so what kind?

i do i do.... when i first picked up fic writing again after college i thought smut would forever totally beyond me but after some very kind encouragement from friends i tried my hand at it & was off to the races.

i would not say i am an expert at it by any means but i have a lot of fun with it, & people seem to generally appreciate it, so i will keep going!

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

also no, phew

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes, a bunch of my gomens fics have been translated into chinese and russian, which is so so super cool!

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yuh, i had a few legendary cowrites in GO! the slow show metafic with cherry @fremulon and the shitscript crossover extravaganza with hallie @kalelraejepsen !!! both tremendously fun experiences

14) What’s your all time favorite ship?

that is a very tough one. if you go by my ao3 bookmarks it's aziraphale/crowley, which might be true still tbh... but i dunno. maybe ten/rose because that shit never leaves you.

15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

in terms of fic i already started posting, there's my one terror WIP with amnesiac tozer that i swear i WILL finish one day... and same goes for my good omens music & lyrics AU, which i fully expect to pick back up and finish off when i inevitably return to the fandom for series 2.

as far as stuff that never made it out of drafts, i started a hodgson-centric fic a few weeks ago that i got like 4k into before realizing i need to seriously refine my approach. so hopefully after exe fest i will get around to that!

16) What are your writing strengths?

well i am funny. so i've got that going for me. other than that ummmm i don't know. i don't think of myself as a particularly good or strong writer bc i really am just here for a laff. i think i can turn a phrase well and get the most out of imagery; i'm good at coming up with compelling story concepts and weird gimmicks, i guess?

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

i fundamentally don't know or understand how People Actually Act And Feel so i have a hard time getting realistic or interesting reactions and conflicts out of characters. my plots (when my stories have them at all) are very powered by external events, i wouldn't call myself a character-driven writer by any means. for the same reasons i struggle with voice and dialogue beyond superficial signposting via vocabulary/syntax. also, sustaining a long story/finding enough Stuff To Happen to fill it up/having the patience to keep writing... is something i need to work on for sure.

18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i'm a lame american who only speaks english so honestly i don't really have thoughts!

19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

i distinctly remember hand-writing in my notebook two or three pages worth of a story about what happened to the main precog in "minority report" after watching the movie when i was like seven. the first fandom i actually wrote fic for and posted it online was probably doctor who circa 2010 ish? but my warrior cats RP career predates that by a few years and i did a LOT of writing there. oh warriorsforest39 dot proboards dot com you are missed....

20) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

SEX GHOST AU! SEX GHOST AU!

tagging folks :))) @laissezferre @titleleaf @theburialofstrawberries @girdedheraround @flanneryoconnorfanfiction @wreathedwith if u want!!

[marypsue]

fic writer self-recs

I was tagged by the lovely and talented @titleleaf!

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

I'm gonna try not to just reproduce the same list from the last time I did this (although I can't fucking find it, so who knows), and also shine the spotlight on some that I think don't get as much attention but that I'm still very proud of anyway!

(But also, the road goes ever on. It's always gonna be the road goes ever on.)

1. house rule #3 (MCU Thor, Avengers [2012])

“Darcy,” Jane says, firmly. “Breathe.” “I am totally breathing,” Darcy protests. “Look, after you offered me the job, she bought us a bottle of sparkling wine and thanked me really cryptically and I basically haven’t seen her since. And in that time, Selvig’s dropped off the map, and a supervillain calling himself Loki who could be her fraternal twin pops up and starts chewing German scenery in a helmet that looks exactly like the one in this book.” Darcy sits back in her chair, bouncing off the back. “Also, I told her about this professor who was a total pain in my ass, and like two weeks later he was on leave for ‘undisclosed reasons’ and he still hasn’t come back.” “This…could all be a coincidence,” Jane says, lamely. “Oh yeah. Same way that weird homeless guy you kept hitting with your car showing up inside that storm was all a coincidence,” Darcy says. “Oh, my god. I’ve been watching ANTM highlights with a supervillain.”

I love Darcy Lewis, I think the narrative voice in this one hits her sense of humour just right, and it makes me astoundingly nostalgic for the early 2010s.

2. definitely not bfu rpf (definitely not Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher Unsolved?)

“Even Scully took it seriously when the shadow government gave her cancer, man,” Bryan says, when he sees the glitchy footage. “There – okay, there are two issues with that line of logic,” Zane says. “First, cancer. That’s detectable by current medical science. It’s not exactly a matter of belief. Second, Dana Scully is a fictional character.” “So you won’t get an exorcism?” Bryan says, sounding defeated. “Bryan, my dear, I think you already know the answer to that one.”

Back when the Watcher guys were still attached to Buzzfeed, there was a really popular fandom trope that went around that Shane was secretly a demon. However, nobody seemed to have taken the next logical step - that if Shane was a demon, he wouldn't believe it.

(I don't write RPF, because I tried it and felt weird about it, but I just had to get this written, so I changed everybody's names to something that rhymed with the real-life people's names. Legally Distinct Buzzfeed Unresolved.)

3. Girls In White Dresses (Supernatural)

Mary’s the first to appear in the kitchen doorway, pistol raised, eyes flinty. But she pauses, just for a moment, when she sees Dean, and Jess’ stomach drops. Whoever - whatever - Dean really is, he at least hadn’t lied when he’d said he was Sam’s brother. He’s Mary’s son. And Mary’d just had to watch, helpless, while one of her sons died. Mary’s going to hesitate. But Jess can already tell that Dean won’t. By the way Dean's grinning, she can tell he knows it too.

I had to unfridge some of SPN's many, many freezer-burned women. Also it was so much fun to try to think up ways to hurt all of them emotionally as badly as the show likes to hurt its big strong men emotionally. (Lady Gaga voice) It's equality.

4. i hold with those who favour fire (Crimson Peak)

Perhaps she looks too long. Perhaps her eyes are playing tricks on her, perhaps it is only the lingering warmth of the body melting away the fallen snow, but it seems there are more autumn leaves gathered under Edith’s frozen form, more reds and golds spilling from beneath her nightdress and her hands and her golden head. The leaves flicker and dance, as though caught in a high October wind, though any such wind would be stymied by Allerdale’s protective walls. It isn’t until the hem of Edith’s gown begins to blacken that Lucille sees that what she had taken for autumn leaves are flames.

This one was written for a prompt meme where I asked for a character and a monster/mythical being, and wrote something short connecting the two. I should do that again, that was fun.

5. Boiling a Frog (Rick and Morty)

“It’s strange,” she says, tipping the contents of her cup carefully into the drain under the vending machine’s dispenser and crumpling the cardboard cup in one hand. “None of this feels really...real. Like, Grandpa Rick should be here complaining about how hospitals are breeding grounds for superbugs and how sitting in waiting rooms is pointless because unless you’re a doctor, there’s fuckall you can do to help anyway.” Morty suddenly looks uneasy, but Summer’s not sure if that’s because of what she said or because of the coffee. “I’m glad he’s not,” he says, and then looks horrified.

I broke up with this show when it became clear it was going to wallow and spin its own wheels and suck Rick's dick forever and that at least one of its creative minds genuinely seemed to think that was great and smart and good storytelling and if you didn't love it then you were just too stupid to appreciate his brilliance. But every once in a while the show managed to do something really interesting by approaching something heavy and awful sidelong with absurdist sci-fi and gross-out humour in a way that just worked for me.

I tried to do that here and found out just how hard it is to get a handle on that tone of almost manic energy with total black despair oozing out around all the edges. I think it really turned out, here, and despite no longer having any interest in anything to do with the show, I'm proud of it.

Also, I still love Summer.

I'm going to tag @daddygrandpaandthebeaver, @bixxelated, @marzipanandminutiae, @definitely-not-a-bug, @aquitainequeen, and, as usual, anybody who'd like to do it!

[pianodoesterror]

10 Fandoms, 10 Characters, 10 Tags

@oleworm tagged me - thank you very much!

In no particular order, and how I feel on this midday in March:

1. The Terror (2018) - Francis Crozier

2. Franklin Expedition (loophole I know) - James Fitzjames

3. Tolkien - Luthien

4. Greek Mythology - Dionysos

5. Moomins - Snufkin

6. Russian Literature - Behemoth (Master and Margarita)

7. Star Trek - Captain Janeway

8. Master and Commander - Jack Aubrey

8. Greek Literature - Medea

9. Classical History - Alcibiades

10. Studio Ghibli - the dog in Howls Moving Castle

(11. - because it's almost its own world by now; @lobsterbang's Others I am not the first - Jude)

Tagging @norvegiae @paramaline @itsevidentvery @lobsterbang @veganthranduil @rhavewellyarnbag @laissezferre @kahootqueen69 @gullbones @titleleaf @hickeywiththegoodhair @fleur-de-paris

[deadpanwalking]

list 5 6 TV shows that make you feel better (thanks, @cinematicnomad!)

and tag 10 other blogs: @queenofnots @sob-dylan @firstman2018dirdamienchazelle @anthonyblundetto @paramaline @rockybalboas @arathesane @jonsleftrib @titleleaf @knee-uh

[bedeliainwonderland]

Tagged by @charlottenewtons to post my top nine first watches of 2023! Thanks ☺️❤️

Tagging @starringcillian @titleleaf @amarimeta @forensics-and-wands @dana-is-snax @dissidient and whoever else wants to share (tag me if you do, always looking for movie recs!).