#Currently Watching

[bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue]

Thanks for the tag, @dominas-bg3-bullshit!!

Last Song: 3 O’Clock Things by AJR. I’ve recently become obsessed with the whole album this is on (OK Orchestra). It’s also fitting because it’s currently 3:32 AM where I live 😭

Currently Watching: The Middle and Bob’s Burgers. I like sitcoms.

Three Ships (🎵 I saw three ships come sailing in, on Christmas Day in the mooorning 🎶): Kanej, Spaye (Spike/Faye), Natsby. Also, in honor of recent events, honorable mention to Spirk—I’m so proud 🥹

Favorite Color: Anything in the purple-pink-red range on the color wheel!

Currently Consuming: Nothing at the moment. The last thing I ate was sweet & sour chicken with shrimp fried rice, my go-to DoorDash meal from a local Chinese restaurant, and it was so big and filling that I feel like I won’t need to eat again for a week.

First Ship: I have no idea��Stormpilot (Finn/Poe from the Star Wars sequel trilogy), I think???

Last Movie: Nimona, which I only got halfway through because I was tired (although I was enjoying it!). Fun fact: My mom refuses to watch that movie because she says the name sounds like “pneumonia,” which I always laugh at her about. Fun fact #2: The next day after watching it, I was diagnosed with pneumonia :(

Currently Working On: Mostly schoolwork, the most exciting of which is my creative writing thesis (a series of speculative-fiction short stories) and a final project for my Emily Dickinson class for which I’m setting some of her poems to choral music!

Tagging (with no pressure!): @allicaj @blackjackkent @geembywumbis @grishaverse-chaos @kirbeesoap @some-nerd1302 @stars-brownies-n-metaphors @wewringmagicfromtheordinary @yourscreechingruinscollector

Tag game: tag nine people you’d like to know better.

Tagged by: @oneshoulderangel

Last song: At the moment, I have "Losing Your Memory" by Alan Star stuck in my head, which I suppose makes it my current song, not my last song. Hm. I get songs stuck in my head very easily, but the last one I had there for a significant amount of time was a mashup of different language versions of "Les Rois du Monde" for about a week. "Lehetsz Király", the Magyar version, is probably my favorite of them. It's worth a listen.

Currently watching: Normally, the answer would be "random mostly terrible old movies/shows" or "nothing much", but I currently have a hyperfixation on the musical Roméo et Juliette and have been watching it in multiple languages. (Thus, the song).

Three ships: This is hard. Maybe as a result of being on the ace and aro spectrums, I'm more likely to care about which characters are interacting than whether it's romantic or platonic. Here goes:

Kedivere/Bedikay. It can be romantic, platonic, or queerplatonic, but whichever way, I'm here for it. I probably spend too much time thinking about how in Cullwch and Olwen, when Cai gets mad at Arthur and marches out, Bedwyr stays behind, keeps acting like nothing's happened, and isn't the one to avenge Cai's death. The feeling of betrayal on both sides has a lot of unexplored potential. And the version where Bedivere dies and Kay fights to bring his body back safely while mortally wounded himself... And the version where Bedivere survives Camlann and Kay isn't said to fight in it, so they might be left together after their world has fallen apart...

Platonically or queerplatonically, Galahad and the Grail Heroine. I really like the tragic Grail Quest friendships, but I like theirs most, maybe because there's something weird and otherworldly about them both. I like it when characters are strange and endearing and doomed by the narrative.

Ever since reading John Matthews' retelling, which I read before the original, I've had a soft spot for Caradoc and Guinier. The Story of Caradoc is very disturbing, and I have some major qualms with Caradoc over a detail Matthews cut out, but all the same, there's a reason these two have the best track record with magical fidelity tests. Each of them would go to the ends of the earth for the other, and together, they're stronger than any curse.

Favorite Color: Blue, particularly royal blue and some teals.

Currently consuming: Black licorice with chocolate.

First ship: This is a hard one, since through elementary and most of middle school, I tended to go along with whatever I thought the author's intentions were and was more likely to unship something. The first non-endgame ship I got invested in was Sonya/Nikolai in War and Peace. I didn't like Nikolai, but Sonya did, and she was my favorite character, so I wanted her to be happy. The first non-canon couple I thought was meant to be together was also in War and Peace: Marya Bolkonskaya and Julie Karagina. My eighth grade self did not think their letters could be interpreted platonically. I still don't.

Last movie: If the musical doesn't count, the last movie I watched was Quest for Camelot, which was awful. Though not Robot Monster-level bad, Robot Monster has an elegance to its simplicity which Quest for Camelot lacks.

Currently working on: Various fics, most of them Arthuriana or CotRK-related (I am woefully behind on the Badfic Bingo), and (theoretically) an epic-style poem, though I haven't gotten much of it written for quite a while now.

Tagging: @gawrkin, @emperorcandy, @wildbasil, @gorewound, @knightsofsomethingorother, @ladyminaofcamelot, @tasosotaso, @amashelle, @gingersnaptaff (I have no idea who's been tagged so far, apart from the people on @oneshoulderangel's post, so I apologize for any multi-tags)

[tinkerbitch69]

This is me rn. If you even care.

[vidalharkness]

“You’re so much like your mother.” followed promptly by him mind manipulating people. Iconic, I fear.

[vampiremotif]

rio coming out of the dirt like a demon, using demonic voices and greeting agatha by conjuring a flower and saying “surprise, my lady” man if i wasn’t down bad ALREADY

[poemtoken]

out of all the insane things that happened on Hannibal I think that most insane thing was that after all the time and effort and great lengths Hannibal went to so that he wouldn’t be caught, the mere prospect of never seeing Will again was enough to make him not only confess to his crimes but willingly enter federal custody just on the off chance that Will should decide to visit him. you know… just in case.

[inafieldofdaisies]

The Decameron (2024) | Season 1, Episodes 6 and 8 Parallels | Lou Gala as Neifile and Karan Gill as Panfilo

“I can't seem to die without you.”

[honeybadger-who-gives-a-shit]

Not enough people are talking about Mr. Loverman on bbc. This show has:

Two elderly black men in love

Tale about internalized homophobia

Caribbean culture in England and in Antigua

Family dynamics and intergenerational relations

Great acting

A touching story

Is based on a book (I haven't read it yet, but I heard great things)

I won't tell you more because I don't want to spoil it.

Granted, it's not a perfect show, but it is sweet and you should definitely give it a try.

[getoapologist]

his tummy hurts but he's being soooo brave about it

[sdaedal]

Olympics equestrian cross country announcer, at Versailles, most elegantly: that's a beautiful jumper. What incredible synchronicity between horse and rider. Phenomenal movement.

Me, at home, most ardently: GO HORSIE GO YOU SO FAST YOU SO SMART YOU SO PRETTY YOU BETTER GIVE THAT GOOD GOOD CHAMPION HORSIE PATTY PATS

[angel4him]

My torture begins 😳😵‍💫he ordered I play alone for a little while he watches

[doctorooh]

[trynot-moved]

“I do suppose you come from a long line of non-traditional Jedi.” - that robot is SO done with the disaster lineage lmao

[vampiremotif]

obsessed with him

[mellpenscorner]

Jane Austen: and here we have the love interest. He might have some issues, but once you get to know him, he's a great guy. Good looking, heart of gold, the works.

Charlotte Brontë: get ready for the weirdest man you have ever met.

[inafieldofdaisies]

The Decameron (2024) | Season 1, Episode 6 “A Stony Brook Away” | Lou Gala as Neifile

“What shall we do today?” “I just want to talk... about everything.”

[garethamm]

HIS PRETTY BLUE EYESSSSSS