#Laurent Spoons

[bionicboxes]

OC icons whipped up for artfight :)

[thoroughfvre]

" i know i fucked up but don’t shut me out . . . please let me in.  you have to give me a chance to try and fix what i've done ."

[metalandmagi]

Inktober day 3: This Inktober, I'm challenging myself to draw Laurent from Captive Prince in the style of different manga authors!

It's October 3rd, so here's Laurent in the style of Hiromu Arakawa, author of Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon, and the manga adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan.

[ruthplaysthesims]

Greta Laurent

Ah, yes; the nepo baby who dumped her highschool sweetheart for a wealthier guy... Personal feelings aside... For now 😒

Greta was born and raised in Tartosa. Though she was born with a silver spoon in mouth, Greta never felt like anyone understood her. Things for her felt worse when her little brother ,Jace, was born. During a gala her parents hosted, she felt like an outcast and slipped away from the gala, knowing no one would care if she left. It was then that she met Carlos, who was just stargazing not too far from the event. They both hit it off and began dating Shortly after. Carlos was deeply in love with her; in love enough to tell her about the struggle with his father's addiction. She felt for him and tried to help him the best way she could. From helping him with some of her allowance to helping him get a job at the wedding venue.

As they got older, Greta made friends that were in her class and one day they were gushing about their wealthy partners and asked Greta about her love life. She talked about her relationship with Carlos and the friends ridiculed her for wasting her time with a "poor village boy" she was too flustered to defend him. The more she hung out with them the more distant she was from Carlos. Noticing her distant behavior, asked what the problem was. She would retaliate by throwing indirect insults toward him.

One day, there was an important wedding taking place and Carlos was set to play for a celebrity couple that were getting married in their venue. He was promised a handsome reward if he played well. This was exciting as he was planning on buying a few gifts for Greta to make up for the past five anniversaries he couldn't get her anything. Just as he was set to play, he caught her cheating on him with the groom's son. He pulled her aside, demanding an explanation. She got angry, slapped him and berated him for being in the circumstance he was in. She told him she'd be damned if he thought he'd drag her down his "poverty hole" with him and broke things off there and then. After he played the piano, that was the last time she saw him as she went to study in Brindleton Bay.

Now, she works in Tartosa as a celebrity wedding planner. The last she heard about Carlos was that he no longer worked at the venue, and he was nowhere to be found in Tartosa.

[emsee22]

The Real Meaning of the DC Spoon from Still

In Still, Beth picked up the DC Spoon which we thought meant she was going to go with the rest of the group to DC. After her death, articles were published claiming that the DC spoon foreshadowed that she was the only member of the group that was not going to know about DC. However, DC was more an Abraham, Eugene, and Rosita thing, and the only other people involved were Glenn, Maggie, and Tara because of the deal Glenn made with Abraham back in the church. Well, for me, there is too much resurrection symbolism around Beth for the spoon to truly signify her death, AND Rick, Sasha, Carol, Daryl, Carl, Tyrese, Michonne, Gabriel nor Morgan headed to DC. Here's what I think the DC spoon signified:

The cure.

The Washington DC storyline was about the cure. But Eugene was a poison (he lied), he was not the cure. There are theories about Beth having been bitten and that Grady was looking for a cure, stemming from the walker the direction focused on with blood on his mouth outside the funeral home, to the guinea pig symbolism, etc.

I think Beth really is going to be associated with the real cure. They have been building up to it, with Laurent in Daryl Dixon, and with Alicia in Fear The Walking Dead. But if they brought a real cure up in season 5, the show would have become all about that.

Sometimes I think the show writes lines that are not only about the story but messages to the audience. Remember how Bob was viewed as a Bet proxy? When he was dying, he dropped a Beth line about there still being good in the world and staying who you are. Then Sasha asked him why he didn't tell her that he was bit and he said "because then it would have become all about the end, and I was really enjoying the middle." If the show brought up a real cure, for the audience, it would have become about the show ending, when they had so much more story to tell.

Beth will come back, and she is coming back with a cure.

[frangipanilove]

"Home" is North o’clock

Through this entire first season on TWDDD we’ve seen Daryl on a mission to find a way to get back home. He’s been desperately searching for a functioning radio in every episode, and has managed to stay laser focused on traveling north, to find a way home. Despite constantly getting sidetracked along the way, he’s now nearing Le Havre, where the people of Union of Hope have promised to help him find a ship to America.

In TWDDD 1x5 Deux Amours we see Daryl, Laurent and Azlan make their way up the river, heading north, to The Nest. We get to know Azlan, whose story involves a tragic loss which took away his reason to live.

We also heard how a clock represented a turning point for him. It saved his life, he explains, and gave him a purpose to live. I took one look at that clock and realized it was the French equivalent to Beth’s DC spoon from 4x12 Still.

I’ve written a lot about the intersection between Sirius symbolism and North Star symbolism (here and here), and once again, in TWDDD Deux Amours, we see a representation of how “north” represents “home”.

In TWD season 5 we saw it explained by Carl to Judith; that if you’re lost at night, just find the North Star, it’s at the end of the Little Dipper:

Of course we all remember Beth picking up the DC spoon/Little Dipper in Still…

Daryls entire time in France has revolved around traveling north, to the place called The Nest, where he’ll deliver Laurent and get a ticket to a trans-Atlantic cruise in return.

When Azlan dies he gives the clock to Daryl, tells him to follow the river north, until they arrive at the place depicted on the clock, The Nest (which in reality is Mont Saint Michel). When Genet’s people catch up to Daryl and Laurent, Daryl gives the clock to Laurent and instructs him to follow the river until he sees The Nest.

So the navigational themes are strong around both the clock and Beth’s DC spoon. The DC spoon for obvious reasons; the North Star is at the end of the Little Dipper, as Carl explained. The North Star will help you find your way, it’s a compass in the sky.

Azlan’s clock on the other hand, is pretty much a regular compass, in that clocks can be used as compasses. I’m not making that up, a clock can be used as a compass. That is an actual thing that people do.

Basically, what we’re seeing here is that Azlan’s clock is synonymous with Beth’s DC spoon.

And remember how all of Daryl’s efforts of getting to the north involves constantly searching for functioning radios? He’s been talking about radios non stop since he washed ashore in Marseille.

Well, in 1x5 we finally saw him get a hold of a radio. It was in a flashback from right before he was taken aboard the French Research Vessel of Horror, where we also saw a character randomly named Grady!?!???

Totally side-eying that, particularly because we also met another dude named Juno, which @wdway brilliantly recognized as a reference to the Alaska state capital Juneau! Which, again, ties right into the north symbolism because of this license plate from 5x16 Conquer:

That’s the Big Dipper and Polaris (North Star) there on the Alaska state flag!

And remember how I in this post from last week talked about how tptb sometimes uses silly word plays as symbolism? Words and phrases that phonetically sound similar? Like serious/Sirius, beer/bear, Monet/money and the classic Del Arno Foods/"there are no foods"… (which was interestingly also taken from 5x16 Conquer, where we saw the Wolves luring walkers into trailer trucks, in a perfect parallel to what we saw in Daryl’s flashback from Maine,..)

Yeah, speaking of phonetical similarities...

In TWD 10x17 Home Sweet Home we heard Beth's name for the first time in a very long time...

Maggie has no reason to believe that Beth isn't dead so I wouldnt worry about that part. What's interesting is what she's calling her sister; Bethie!

If I was ever instructed to find a name that phonetically sounds like Bethie...

...Bessy sure as hell would be among my top contenders...

Bessy, as in the name the radio operator has assigned to his radio...

I have talked about how radios are Sirius symbolism, right? (that's a rhetorical question, I have talked about it ad nauseum)

And I think I have explained that Sirius means "return/resurrection/coming back" a couple of times as well...

Bessie the Radio sure seems to be well tuned into the symbolism around "returns" and people "coming back"...

You’re free to do with that as you please...👀

[justforbooks]

Laurent Cantet

French film director who won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes film festival with his improvisatory education drama The Class

The social-realist boom in 1990s French cinema produced compelling new voices such as Jacques Audiard, Bruno Dumont and Érick Zonca. The most humane and rigorous of that group was Laurent Cantet, who has died aged 63 after suffering from cancer.

Cantet, who often worked in an improvisatory mode with non-professional actors, won the Cannes film festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, for his education drama The Class (Entre les Murs, 2008). Sean Penn, president of that year’s Cannes jury, called the film “a miracle, a perfect movie, just so exciting to see. We walked into the jury room afterward and it was like we had swept up the floor and our work was done.”

A kind of Parisian Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it was arrived at by cross-pollinating drama and documentary to create what Cantet called “documented fiction”. François Bégaudeau, author of the autobiographical novel Entre les Murs (Between the Walls, 2006), on which the film is based, plays a version of himself: an enthusiastic inner-city teacher who inspires his adolescent pupils but also crosses swords with them.

In one scene, François is taken to task over his use of anglicised names in his mathematical exercises: Bill has 12 apples, Bob has three, but what about, say, Rachid or Aïssata? This playful scene plants the seed for one of the film’s main themes – the use of language to gain leverage, and to reshape the world.

The movie’s sharp-eyed visual style lends these semantic wrangles a strong cinematic dimension. Shooting on location with three high-definition cameras, Cantet achieved an omniscient documentary effect. “This gave us a lot of freedom, allowing us to improvise, to capture the energy of the pupils rather than interrupt them when we wanted a different angle,” he explained. The students and staff in the film, who were all drawn from Françoise Dolto junior high in the 20th arrondisement of Paris, generated many of the scenes in collaboration with Bégaudeau and Cantet.

The movie’s overall tone is one of bruised idealism. “It shows the richness of multiculturalism rather than its weaknesses,” said Cantet. “The film is utopian about the possibilities this kind of setting offers, but pessimistic about the school system in general.”

The Class received an Oscar nomination and became Cantet’s most successful film. But the three features that preceded it were more impressive, withholding even the smallest spoonful of sugar to help their messages go down.

He made his debut in 1999 with Human Resources (Ressources Humaines), in which a business-school graduate starts a management job at the factory where his father is a welder. The newcomer clashes with the union at first, then has a change of heart when he learns of planned redundancies.

That film, which the critic Ginette Vincendeau called “generous, sensitive and innovative”, addresses with Loachian fastidiousness the challenge of reconciling principles and productivity. Both Human Resources and Cantet’s 2001 follow-up, Time Out (L’emploi du Temps), explore how work defines us even in our most interior moments.

Time Out concerns the middle-aged, middle-class Vincent (Aurélien Recoing), who conceals his unemployment from his wife and children, and instead lets his days drip by in service stations and motel lobbies. To retain his role as breadwinner, he cheats cash out of gullible investors he meets on the road.

The film was inspired by the case of Jean-Claude Romand, who lied about his non-existent job, and finally slaughtered his family. Cantet and his regular co-writer and editor Robin Campillo (who later became a director in his own right) stopped short of such horror. “We wanted him to have a disconcerting banality,” Cantet said. “He’s just someone who slips and trips down a certain pathway.”

Some audiences found a note of hope in the final scene, in which Vincent attends a job interview. Cantet was quick to scotch that reading. “The notion of work is so full of wealth and worthiness that the prospect of Vincent finding employment again is obviously a winner,” he said. “But not having a job can be of a certain wealth, too. For people like him, work can only be slavery, so to see the last scene as a happy ending is a denial.”

Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) applied Cantet’s usual scrutiny to a different milieu, albeit one still steeped in exploitation and commodification. Charlotte Rampling and Karen Young play sex tourists at a Haitian beach resort in the late 1970s who find themselves competing for the same 18-year-old gigolo (Ménothy Cesar). Neither woman is interested in the young man’s plight under the corrupt regime of President “Baby Doc” Duvalier, though eventually the country’s political strife eclipses their feud. The film has a starkly Fassbinderesque view of the intersection between sex, money and power.

Cantet was born in Melle, a town in western France, and raised in nearby Niort. His parents were both teachers. He attended university in Marseilles, then studied at the Paris film school IDHEC (L’Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques), where he met Campillo. Their first full-length collaboration, Les Sanguinaires (1997), was made for French television as part of a project looking ahead to the new millennium. (Human Resources was also made for TV, but earned an international cinema release.) Asked about the 13-year gap between graduating and directing Les Sanguinaires, he said: “I spent a long time trying to discover what I wanted to say in a film.”

Reactions to the movies he made after The Class were mixed. An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 1950-set novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012) met with muted acclaim. Return to Ithaca (2014), about a reunion of five friends in Havana, made few waves. It was Cantet’s second project in the city: he was one of seven directors who contributed to the portmanteau project 7 Days in Havana (2012). It was part-funded by Havana Club rum, which features prominently on screen.

His 2017 drama The Workshop (L’Atelier), about the relationship between a female teacher at a summer writing school and a male teenage student radicalised by the far right, revived the simmering tensions of Heading South, and represented a real return to form, though in fact the film had been gestating for more than 15 years. Cantet’s final picture, Arthur Rambo (2021), was inspired by the real-life case of Mehdi Meklat, and follows a young writer from the banlieues whose career is wrecked by offensive social media posts that predate his fame. He was working on a new film, The Apprentice, at the time of his death.

“My characters are never heroes,” Cantet said in 2008. “They always have weaknesses. That’s what motivates me to write them. They are people looking for their place in society: a place which is much harder to find when you don’t march in step with the rest of society. It’s something I can recognise in myself: keeping the world at arm’s length. Perhaps making films is a way of making up that distance.”

🔔 Laurent Cantet, film director, born 11 April 1961; died 25 April 2024

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[adolin]

Top five: fic ideas you'll never get around to writing

OH this is hard!! some fic ideas I gave some serious thought but I've definitely put to bed now:

the one Stormlight Archive AU where Kaladin takes the Shardblade pre-canon, at least how I had originally conceived — I care a lot about it still but I think I missed the right moment to write it (girl who hasn't written SA since before Oathbringer came out)

The Captive Prince "Laurent is sent as a slave to Akielos" AU that absolutely everyone has written in that fandom! It was my NaNo project for 2018 and I did finish the 50k of it but I don't have the spoons to actually edit what I have and wrap it up.

more recently — Ted Lasso, I had a couple of Jamie-centric fics I wanted to write before I got properly into the fandom that I just don't vibe with anymore post S3! I especially remember bein very excited by a whumpy conversation on an anon meme and now I'm like. I can't see the appeal at all

some of my more elaborate TLT concepts that were Just Vibes and won't ever be touched unless I learn to write meaningful short fic. I have a whole list in my notes app full of thoughts like "AU where Harrow's parents got arrested for mass murder and she and Gideon are brought to the emperor" or "AU where Augustine puts himself in between John and Mercy in act 5" and I'm like. I don't have time to coalesce that into a full-fledged AU! Alas

that one EPIC asoiaf AU I started writing in like... 2014? What if Aerys burned King's Landing before Ned and Robert's army got there. It's never getting finished but it had Benjen Stark as Cersei's child bride and Lyanna in hiding in Pentos and it fucked so hard in my mind

[top 5 asks]

[most-hated-blorbo-bracket]

Update on how many unique characters you’ve received?

As usual, super long list, so here we go!

These characters have two+ (2+) submissions, and are likely to be included.

Vriska Serkat

Eridan Ampora

Shiver

Kokichi Ouma

Haiji Towa

Minoru Mineta

Simon

Boston

Bill Cipher

John Gaius

Regal Farseer

Ayin

Kylo Ren

Mal

Jurgen Leitner

Merlin

Darkstalker

Kyubey 

Ty Betteridge

Sasuke Uchiha

Dazai Osamu

Glenn Quagmire

Rose Quartz

Makima

c!Dream

Izzy Hands

Akio Ohtori

Katsuki Bakugo

Bramblestar

Michael

Don Quixote Doflamingo

Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus

Ansem the Wise

Kusaka Masato

Azula 

The Metatron

Evan Hansen

Stella Goetia

Pierce Hawthorne

Le’garde

Lance Dubois

Santa Claus

Meenah Peixes / Her Imperious Condescension 

Greg Heffley

Tony Stark

Donald Trump

Jace Herondale / Wayland / Lightwood / Morgenstern

Teddy / Kuma

Mr. Bungee

Julia Mazzone

Sentinel Prime

William Afton

Cullen Rutherford

Shou Tucker

Junko Enoshima

Ardyn Izunia

Sosuke Aizen

Happosai 

Simon Laurent

Caillou 

Ōchi Fukuchi

Jin Guanyao

Micah Bell

Cici

These characters have been submitted only once, and have a lower chance of being accepted.

Michael Scott

Detective Saracusa

Paul Von Oberstein

JJ

Box

Damian Wayne

Cersei Iannister

Shredder

Splinter

John ‘Jack’ Seward

Akane 

Abyss Sibling

House

Nickel

Julie-Sue

Tim Drake

Xisuma

Dr. John ‘Jack’ Seward

Hisoka 

Gra’ha Tia

Elias Ainsworth

Trishna 

Erlina and Brugaves

Five Pebbles

The Entirety Of Homestuck

Willy Stampler

Miguel O’Hara

Medusa Gorgon

Gamzee Makara

Rohan Kishibe

Teruhashi Makoto

Gordon Blackwall

Rebecca Costwolds

Dio 

Anakin Skywalker

Sigma Kilm

Caesar Clown

Shiki Tohno/Nanaya

Mori Ougai

Asuka 

Marlon

Pencil

Touichiro Suzuki

Alexander Hamilton

Georg Weissmann 

Dean Winchester

The Operator

Kromer

Scrappy Doo

Foreman Oyun

The Eleventh Doctor

Any Character From Welcome to Nightvale

Will Shuester

Marie

Silver Spoon

Jayne Cobb

Byakuya Togami

Prince Louis 

Coco

Princess Daisy

Light Yagami

The Pale King

Yoshiharu Hisomu

Himiko Toga

Sebastian Mechaelias

Mystery Hunter (Jeremiah Hartley)

Muzan Kibutsuji

Clara Oswald

Ranpo Edogawa (Beast)

Heath cliff

Inspector Tobias Greyson

Roland

Huey Emmerich

Tom Wambsgans

Yuri Briar

Jacopo Bearzatti

Quiche

Alastor

Meredith Rodney McKay

Every Single Country In 1993

Cicero

Val Velocity

Jiren 

Noor Pradesh

Blackbeard 

Kristoph Gavin

Morris 

Dan Moroboshi

Muu Kusunoki

Julia

Shen Jiu

April O’Neil (2012)

Johnny

Adam

Ronaldo

Makoto Itou

Ianthe Tridentarius

Disembodied Voice

Viren

Spamton

George Wickham

Floch

The New Ninja

Sakazuki Akainu 

Petyr Baelish / Littlefinger

Childe 

Wen Chao

Stormcaller

Chibiusa

Ashfur 

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd 

James T. Kirk

Billy

Mikan Tsumuki

Teruteru

Orochi

Millions Knives

The Mage

Lotor

Otto Apocalypse 

Sanji

Woodes Rogers

Zeke Jaeger

Dean Venture

Absalom 

Aloise Trancey

Cynte

Akito Sohma

Pierre

Monokubs (Except Monodam)

Edelgard 

Chrollo Lucifer

Chloe Bourgeois 

Zhou Zishu

Wanderer/Scaramouche 

Elon Musk

Il Dottore

Goeffry St. John

Nikola Tesla

Louie

Ogai Mori

Astarion 

Mary Keay

Dr. Henry Miller

Booker

Voice In The Calm Ad On Spotify

Akechi Goro

Victor Frankenstein

Five

Riley Finn

Anyone From The Locked Tomb

Elias Ainsworth

Nefera DeNile

Angel Dust

Blitzo Buckzo

The Once-Ler

Moash

Zenos Galvus

Marvin Falsettos

Solf J. Kimblee 

Father / Dwarf In The Glass

Henry the Eighth 

Aranea Serkat

Bro-Strider

Caliborn / Lord English

Feferi Peixes

Skizzleman

Black Pete

Narumi 

Cozy Glow

Holly Blue Agate

Every Genshin Impact Character Ever

Drew

Dio (Zero Escape)

Matou Shinji

Chris McClain

Thistleclaw 

Rumpelstiltskin

Ruruka Ando

Sheldon Cooper

Buck Cluck

Valens Van Varro

Verstael Besithia

Kevin

France (Hetalia)

Tumblr Staff

Slayer 

Volgin 

Yumichika Ayasegawa

Roshi 

Chibiusa

Akio Himemiya

Ali Lectric

Rafe Cameron

Raven Queen

Duke

Sandy

Everyone In Romeo And Juliet

Bella Swan

Haiji Senri

Tsumugi Aoba

Vivienne Medranno’s Impsona

Buzz McCallister 

Eugene Coli

Live Action Buggy

Aizen Sosuke

Kyouichi Saionji

Ibara Saegusa

Yu Ziyuan

Mahiru Koizumi

The Little Palace Mistress

Eichi Tenshouin

The Old Palace Master

Rafal 

Jonah Magnus

Queen Scarlet

Nanami Kiryuu 

Hiyoko Saionji

God

Roger

Judo

Ken

Steven Universe

JD

[thecouchsofa]

🍀 August AND September Stats 2024 (Month in Review) 🌻

🍀 August: 🍀

Total words written: 11,243 words

No. of days written on: 10/31 days

No. of days used for editing: 4/31 days

Most productive week: August 1-7, with 6,454 words written

Most productive day: Sunday the 4th - 2,891 words written

🌻 September: 🌻

Total words written: 19,877 words

No. of days written on: 11/30 days

No. of days used for editing: 0/30 days

Most productive week: September 1-7, with 10,512 words written

Most productive day: Sunday the 8th - 3,348 words written

Fics worked on (across both months): 6, including:

Angsty Azkaban fic (not the final title)

Seer Laurent (not the final title) (Captive Prince)

Cornerstone (James Sirius/Scorpius PWP)

'Kill James Potter' Microfic

August Storms Over Devon (Hermione/Ron)

Erised

Favourite fic written: Seer Laurent

Longest Fic written: Seer Laurent

Fics posted across both months: 4, including:

Stretched Out (5.5k, E)

Future Histories (6k, T)

August Storms Over Devon (1k, T) (Hermione/Ron)

Kill James Potter Flash Fest - Chapter 16 (600 words, T) (James/Lily)

Thoughts: This took so long because I was waiting for two fics to go off anon, but it took longer than expected for that to happen 😅 I also had two 0 weeks in this batch - August 8-14 and September 15-21, which join April 8-14 in the fight for this year's wooden spoon! These months were all about playing the waiting game and working on stuff that hasn't yet been posted, so there's quite a lag in numbers. September's stats look far healthier than August's, with a greater spread of numbers, indicating an even pace. Here's to October, which is shaping up to be a great writing month! 📚

October goal: 20,000 words (this is conservative as I've already done 13k in 6 days, but who the fuck knows, honestly)

⭐ Total word count for 2024 so far: 285,923 words ⭐

[beeesworld]

Damen: Do you like being the big spoon or the little spoon?

Laurent: I am not a spoon. I'm a knife, and I'm gonna stab you in the eyeball.

Damen:

Laurent: Oh sorry, I forgot who I was talking to for a sec. Come here-

[bionicboxes]

a man with no name died last night and i woke up wearing his face

[joxngwon]

Lee Jongwon.

Lee Jong-won (Hangul: 이종원; born December 31, 1994) is a South Korean actor and model.[1] He has acted in several dramas and films. He was chosen as the brand ambassador for the world-renowned brand, Yves Saint Laurent.[2] He rose to fame for his role in the drama The Golden Spoon. He also appeared in singer IU's music video titled Strawberry Moon in 2021. (source wikipedia)

Name: Lee Jong-Won

Hangul: 이종원

Born: December 31, 1994

Birthplace: South Korea

Instagram: wonjong_

[tealeavesandthorns]

SENSES & OTHER SPECIFIC HEADCANONS.

MUSE:  Maria Bloomsco

what does your muse smell like?

Maria uses Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Over Red Eau de Parfum as her perfume, and she does pop some on in the morning before she leaves. She uses cocoa butter on her skin and she shampoos/conditions with apple or coconut scented stuff. By the end of the day though, depending where she's been working, there's a mix of perfume, the sort of musty robust smell of old books and pages and tea or coffee. It sort of lingers in her hair especially.

what do your muse’s hands feel like?

Soft, even her scars are soft. She moisturizes them a few times a day, often after washing them. Sometimes moisturizing them is also a soothing thing.

what does your muse usually eat in a day?

Breakfast is often toast or cereal, if it's toast it's buttered often with strawberry jam. If it's cereal it's granola. Maria rarely has a fry up or anything massively heavy but she will treat herself to eggs in the morning sometimes. Lunch it often depends, it depends if she remembers, if she's not caught up in her work and it depends if she's at work or at home and whether she has company. If she's at work and remembers it's often a sandwich from a local deli. If she's at home it depends what's in the fridge and what she feels like, sometimes she might just have a pastry or cake. Dinner it also depends Maria is a big fan of Italian and it's her go to comfort food over anything else, so in the evening it usually is something Italian themed or based. She's a big fan of Southern European Cuisine in general to be honest. However she also loves fish and chips from a good British chippy.

does your muse have a good singing voice?

She does! Maria has quite an old fashioned voice, she likes to sing a lot of old things and show tunes and her voice sounds a bit Vera Lynn and a bit like some of the older disney princess singing voices.

does your muse have any bad habits or nervous tics?   

Maria tends to babble when she's nervous, she over explains, she just rambles on until someone stops her. She's always done this since she was a kid. Two things that came after everything that happened to her, was flexing her hand, flexing it into a fist when she's anxious and there's another one where she moves her thumb around her first finger repeatedly.

what does your muse usually look like/wear?

Dresses, Maria's always been a girl big on dresses, she's always loved them and she wears them mostly on a daily bases. At home she wears dresses too, it might just be a different type. She tends to dress in seasons though and winter/autumn is mostly jeans and big jumpers or shirts and big jumpers at home. Summer it's dresses and very occasionally shorts.

is your muse affectionate?  how much?  how so?

Very very much so, Maria comes from a long line of very affectionate people and once she knows you/is friends with you she can be very tactile (where allowed), even if the person isn't the sort who likes being tactile, Maria will show her affection in other ways, remembering things, buying things, doing lots of little things for others. Maria cares very deeply about people, about their well being and about their happiness and she does the best she can to help people.

what position does your muse sleep in?  

On her own she sleeps facing the door, often with her arm around a pillow or blanket and her legs sort of splayed out a bit. There's usually a book either somewhere on the bed or it's dropped on the floor. If she's with someone cuddling probably, whether she's the big spoon or little spoon it doesn't matter.

could you hear your muse in the hallway from another room?

Not really, maybe music, singing, laughing but not anger or anything. Maria is quite quiet when she's angry, it feels dangerous and scary when Maria's angry with you or disappointed. There's this look she gets on her face that is terrifying.

tagged by/stolen: @dontcxckitup tagging: everyone!

[twdmusicboxmystery]

Daryl Dixon, S1 Edits

***Please ignore. Just updating my index.***

From Ep 1: L'ame Perdue

Painting That Looks Like Emily 09/11/2023

Beth Waking at Grady/Daryl Waking in Convent Parallels 09/11/2023

Singing by the Fire Parallels 09/12/2023

Daryl-Merle/Cordon-Michel Brother Parallels 09/12/2023

Cans as Alarms Parallels 09/13/2023

Greenroute vs. Red Route 09/14/2023

Guitar Parallels 09/15/2023

Apple Symbolism 09/16/2023

From Ep 2: Allouette

Lady Bug Symbolism 09/18/2023

Off the Shoulder Parallels 09/18/2023

Kids Howling Like Wolves/Beth = Wolf 09/19/2023

Tonight is Good/We'll be Good 09/19/2023

Number Parallels/18 Miles Out 09/20/2023

Isabel/Black and White/2 Wolves Promo 09/21/2023

Daryl Watching Mork and Mindy Thinking of Beth 09/21/2023

Alone/Allouette Daryl Wrists on Forehead Parallel 09/22/2023

From Ep 3: Paris Sera Toujours Paris

(From Twitter) This is Daryl's Show, Not Carol's 09/22/2023

Crazy Conductor: The Music Lives 09/25/2023

I Get It Dialogue Parallels 09/26/2023

Beth/Sylvie Try to Kill Walker But Daryl Does It Parallels 09/25/2023

Saving Artwork Parallels 09/26/2023

Record Parallels 09/27/2023

Luck Theme 09/27/2023

Refusing Alcohol Parallels 09/28/2023

Theme Parallels: Take Care of Self/Not Need a Hero 09/28/2023

Breaking Glass Over Bad Guy's Head Parallels 09/29/2023

Consumed Parallels: Looking Out a Window 09/29/2023

Consumed Parallels: Paintings 10/30/2023

Partial Moon Parallels 10/30/2023

From Ep 4: La Dame de Fer

Faith Parallels 10/02/2023

Percy/Antoine Parallels 10/02/2023

Christmas Parallels 10/03/2023

Consumed/Red Car Parallels 10/03/2023

Getting Candy from a Douchebag Parallels 10/04/2023

Volunteers to Stay Behind So Others Can Leave 10/04/2023

NDE>Music>Marriage 10/05/2023

Art/Painting Parallels 10/05/2023

Spoon Parallels 10/06/2023

Dawn + Yellow Clothing Parallels 10/06/2023

Friends in the Enemy Camp with Questionable Morals 10/07/2023

Piglets as Sacrifice/Beth as Sacrifice 10/07/2023

Blossoming Romance (Sylvie and Emile) Parallels 10/08/2023

From Ep 5: Deux Amores

Broken Time References 10/09/2023

Joan/Grady Parallels 10/09/2023

Grady/Juno/Alaska Parallels 10/10/2023

Daryl/Beth/Laurent/Hug Parallels 10/10/2023

Azlan Fixes Watch/Daryl Fixes Music Box 10/11/2023

Bessy Mention 10/11/2023

Beth/Isabel Waking Up Parallels 10/12/2023

In the Name of All Those We Lost/Beth 10/12/2023

Daryl/Bob Alone Parallels 10/13/2023

Red Object/Strobe Light Parallels 10/13/2023

Claimers Parallels 10/14/2023

Walker Shadows on Plastic Parallels 10/14/2023

Azlan/Beth/Crucifixion Parallels 10/15/2023

From Ep 6: Coming Home

Have You Ever Been In Love/Beth 10?/16/2023

Take a Piss Dialogue Parallels 10/16/2023

Gravestone Parallels 10/17/2023

Daryl is a Badass 10/17/2023

Symbols Hanging From Rearview Mirror 10/18/2023

Are You Not Entertained 10/18/2023

In a Trunk + Yellow Polo Parallels 10/19/2023

At First I Was Afraid of You/Glad I Could Help 10/19/2023

Coda Symbol Behind Daryl in ep 6 10/20/2023

Blond Falls on Face Parallels 10/20/2023

5x02 Parallels 10/21/2023

Lost Shoe/Foot/Leg Symbolism 10/21/2023

Not Saying Goodby Parallels 10/21/2023

Battlefield to Beach Parallels 10/22/2023

[folfar]

11, 39, 43

11. Link your three favourite fics right now

Okay so this is SO hard, but I'm narrowing it down to these ones that i've read/re-read recently:

the full length of the soul - spinawren (@wrenaspun)

I love amensia!fic so much, i could eat it with a spoon, i could have it for breakfast lunch AND dinner and still be hungry for supper. also this fic focuses on my favourite man in the world, damianos of akielos, and spina is a genius, so it has to take first place. it also features my favourite trope of all time, PINING WHILST MARRIED (i was raised on heyer novels and am incapable of changing at this point) and everyone should read it. this fic should have a thousand kudos, or, failing that, five hundred comments, so let's get it together, fandom

hand in unlovable hand - @thickenmyblood

okay yes it is everyone's favourite fic but it is everyone's favourite for a REASON, because once again it focuses on my babe damianos at his worst, and i love to see a character reduced to ash and be forced to build themselves back up again with an understanding of how and why they have failed. this fic made me want to change my life. PLUS: best ancel ever??

Ultraviolence (in my linen and curls) - @rmayuscula

if kallias has a million fans i am one of them, if kallias has ten fans then i am one of them, if kallias has one fan, that's me. if kallias has no fans, i am not alive, if the world hates kallias i hate the world ETC. and this is the kallias fic OF ALL TIME. I really love Kallias as a POV character - he's a brutal romantic rather than idealistic one; he's a version of Jokaste that makes sense; he's what living with the consequences looks like. And this fic gets that - Leo puts it together so beautifully and so well that it makes me cry. I love this fic.

39. Share a snippet from a WIP

From an upcoming chapter of Sunblind!

“Excuse me,” Laurent says, and slips out with Lord Soandso.

“You are from the south?” Auguste says, because what else do you say to a spymaster. 

Kallias nods. “Akielos.”

He doesn't seem inclined to say anything else, but Auguste is still jittery, still wants to talk, anything to stop thinking about the baths.

“Have you been in Laurent’s service long? Were you a courtier, before?”

“I was a slave,” Kallias says, in the same way men used to say to Auguste that they had served in the borders, or out at the archipelago. Auguste doesn’t know how to talk to slaves. But he does know how to talk to soldiers.

“I am glad you’re free of it,” he says simply. “Where?”

A little crinkle forms at the edge of Kallias’ mouth. “Ios.”

“The palace?” Kallias - sylph-slim, curling hair - the cheekbones - beautiful once, he thinks again.

The crinkle shows again. “Correct. In the household of the older prince.” 

“He must have been a brute,” Auguste said. “I saw what he did to Damen’s back.”

Kallias raises his eyebrows.

“Damianos-exalted,” Auguste hastily corrects. “I know ach- akielons like titles.”

“Yes,” Kallias says. “That’s it.”

Laurent slips back in. He’s white as a sheet, and Auguste hurries over to his side.

43. Do you take a sadistic joy in whumping your characters, or are you more the "If you hurt them I would kill everyone and then myself" kind of person?

anon. let us be serious here. OBVIOUSLY the former. I gave auguste a bunch of friends for the sole purpose of killing and maiming them.