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LAST MOVIE: My annual re-watch of Muppets Christmas Carol. (I honestly don't remember the last new movie I watched.)

SWEET/SPICY/SAVOURY: I have an unquenchable sweet tooth.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: My marriage is old enough to drive.

LAST THING I GOOGLED: "states of Spain" (I was playing a geography game. And I had forgotten the word "province.")

CURRENT OBSESSION: I am overwhelmed by the clutter in my house, so I am currently obsessed with getting as much STUFF out of here as possible.

LAST SONG: "Christmas in Hollis," Run DMC

TAGGING: @oolalamustachioed @chimericaloutlier @grapefruitandgasoline @anachronistique @lobsterhug

(don't worry if you don't play along, totally guilt free!)

[charmingpplincardigans]

Went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum today and took some pictures of the courtyard for @anachronistique. 🌿

[skaruresonic]

I take Arthuriana very seriously. I am in no way, shape, or form entertaining the idea of coding my game with a feature where you can make Arthur wear sunglasses the entire time. that would be Anachronistique, and this is a strictly scholarly and learnèd space.

perish the thought

[themculibrary]

Ikaris And Sersi (Ikersi) Masterlist

chip chrome & the mono-tones (ao3) - dannydays sersi/dane, ikaris/sersi T, 11k

Summary: “Welcome to Highton.”

“It’s a shithole,” Druig said, affectionately.

Sersi said, “We’re happy to have you.”

(human au. dane moves to a new estate and meets the eternals. shenanigans ensue.)

cursed and drunk on love || its not your fault (ao3) - Azurame_Neve N/R, 5k

Summary: They said that love is the most twisted curse in the world.

In which Sersi, the worse of humanity bleeds into her far more easily than expected and she started to plan the end of the world.

Fragment Mapping (ao3) - silver_penny sersi/dane, ikaris/sersi T, 6k

Summary: Sersi swallows. “I’ve got a job,” she says. “Teaching. Nice apartment, down in the city.” She worries at her hem. “A boyfriend.”

From out of the corner of her eye she can see Druig visibly startle. “A…another boyfriend?” he asks, tentatively.

It still blindsides Sersi when it happens to her.

i'll spend forever wonderin' if you knew (i was enchanted to meet you) (ao3) - notquitegucci (AllieKitaguchi) druig/makkari, thena/gilgamesh, ikaris/sersi N/R, 7k

Summary: How the Eternals discovered that Druig and Makkari were in love.

Some of them were a little slower than others.

I take the risk to feel your heart beating (ao3) - anachronistique (924inlegend) T, 57k

Summary: During the Deviants' attack in the Amazon, things take a turn when Ikaris is targeted for his powers during the battle. He is almost killed until Sersi steps in.

Life in the Margins (ao3) - Jupiter77 druig/makkari, gilgamesh/thena, ikaris/sersi T, 98k

Summary: In one of the reviews of Eternals, the film critic commented that Makkari and Druig had a romance in the margins of the movie. This story explores the margins.

Light My Love (ao3) - Redheadclover sersi/dane, ikaris/sersi T, 95k

Summary: Soteri always second guessed herself, even in the very beginning when she was born an Eternal on the Domos. Although the rest of the Eternals can see potential in her, Soteri tries to find her way while protecting the planet with her family.

Perhaps she was too gentle and kind, or that she was too reserve to fully expose herself because of her force field and teleportation ability, but that never stopped her from finding hope and love with her family members, including a brooding mind controller. Her courage and her thirst for protecting those around Soteri has pushed her over and over as time went on. However, once the Eternals broke away from one another, Soteri felt lost without her family.

Without her home.

Now Deviants are appearing once more, her fearless leader is gone, and Soteri has to find her strength to defend and protect her family like she did before. Is she willing to have the old wounds of her fragile and reserved heart be reopened again for the sake of humanity?

Love Me At The Ungodly Hour (ao3) - StarlightInTheNight E, 9k

Summary: She thought she'd learn to live without Ikaris but here she is, moth to flame, closing the distance between them as if it hadn't been a year since he left her and broke her heart.

She's still weak for that smile.

Now That I Saw You (ao3) - lodgedinmythoughts M, 4k

Summary: After all the things he's seen, his gaze will always fall back to her.

5 times Ikaris can't take his eyes off Sersi, and 1 time she can't take hers off him.

oràil (ao3) - delphiniumblooms T, 3k

Summary: " A nighean oràil, " Ikaris says, our golden girl. He takes a little hand into his and counts the fingers. "She's perfect."

set after the events of the movie, which i have no knowledge of. ikarsi have a baby!

spit the blood back, spit the blood back, baby (ao3) - pullapartheart sersi/dane, ikaris/sersi N/R, 1k

Summary: The fall of Ikaris.

teenage headache dreams. (i want to be free). (ao3) - proud_papaya M, 56k

Summary: - non canon compliant eternals (2021) -

there were millennia that they had been the only sense of normalcy for each other, and then, one night, ikarus flew into the clouds, and never came back down to her. then thanos snapped, and any normalcy was gone, as well as dane. he needed to come back.

TLDR: writing various areas of ikarus' and sersi's past, both during endgame and before, and then writing the entirety of the eternals movie, except i'm not killing ikarus off, because that really made me sad, and i bet i'm not the only one. possibly going into after that, as well. enjoy <3 requests are welcome, as well.

The storm bursts or fades! it is not the end of the world. (ao3) - berations N/R, 1k

Summary: Ikaris doesn't think he deserves a second chance. But he gets one anyway.

Visiting Rites (ao3) - qodarkness druig/makkari, ikaris/sersi T, 4k

Summary: Sprite was the first to visit.

Or

How Druig knows all the gossip about what's going on with the Eternals despite living in the Peruvian Amazon with no phone reception for five hundred years.

Water & Stone (ao3) - lodgedinmythoughts T, 2k

Summary: Ikaris being hopelessly in love. And then, the conversation I imagine might've happened between him and Sersi after he arrives in London.

we will make a home someday, one full of love and light (ao3) - delphiniumblooms T, 1k

Summary: Sersi and Ikaris pay Phastos’ family a visit.

[angel-deux-writes]

romancing the stone???? [eyes emoji]

Romancing the Stone was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and I still like it enough that it seemed like an obvious thing to tackle! One fun thing about this one is that it was originally prompted, unwittingly, by my sister (who knows N O T H I N G about my fic habits). We were watching the movie last year and she said “you know what would be good? a remake, except instead it’s that guy who plays Jaime. Oh wait, or make Brienne the badass guy and have Jaime be Joan. Or wait, have John Mulaney be Joan”. Which, okay, is an infinitely funnier idea, but I stuck with the middle bit. 

This is another one that’s probably NOT abandoned? I have it mostly plotted out. I just have to find the will to work on it!

[allofthefeelings]

anachronistique replied to your post “Would No Doubt’s “Spiderwebs” be a better song for Natasha Romanoff or...”

the obvious answer is Gwen Stacy, imo

You are truly a visionary.

[foggiestnelson]

@anachronistique is entirely to blame for this.

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“What the fuck do you mean barbarian?”

It wasn’t the typical situation that required Frank Castle to be stuck in one place for awhile. He wasn’t in position with a sniper rifle, he wasn’t waiting out police attention or someone coming to kill him, he was stuck in a suburban house filled with people he would call friends (although likely not out loud to most of them,) waiting out a blizzard.

And what did Lieberman come in with? A fucking Dungeons and Dragons manual.

“Now, come on Frank, it’s not an insult. That’s a good class.” Sarah really was towing the ‘to have and to hold’ bullshit closely, supporting David’s suggestion that Frank take on that character that he couldn’t help but feel slightly insulted by it. “You can just give him a little quirk, like he has a dog with him that he is really soft around or something.”

The smirk over the top of her wine glass was really uncalled for.

Karen put a hand on Frank’s arm, not because she was afraid he’d lose his temper or anything, just because she didn’t want him ganged up on. “Maybe just a fighter then? No offense Frank, I just can’t see you interested in a magic casting class.”

Curtis chuckled, thumbing through one of the spellbooks. “Yeah, besides, we’ve only got room for one wizard in this party, champ. So grab your sword and turn that frown upside down.” He was clearly enjoying this too, as were Nelson and his girl, planning their paladin and cleric couple by the window with far too much intensity. Even Murdock was planning a ridiculous backstory for his monk.

It was clear Frank was pretty goddamned outnumbered.

“Christ --- fine.” He paused, grabbing one of the sheets as Karen leaned in and kissed his cheek, the tips of his ears burning a little. The dinner party turned snow-in apparently was going to get pretty nerdy, but he could handle it, he guessed. He knew when there were battles to fight, and he knew when he could suffer a few hours of some weird game with Karen sitting on his lap like this, helping him figure out dice or whatever. His eyes caught on the page in front of him, and he grinned.

“But I’m playing the bard.”

[fahye]

for the commentary meme, The Manor House; roughly the 500 words preceding ""The next level down," she says, "this would be a cage."" (I could not really carve out a good starting place before that was 500 words!)

The door. It's locked, but Arthur knows a thing or two about locating keys in this house, and besides: it's still a door. He could kick it down, he could shoot out the lock. He feels faintly sick at the thought, as though he's drunk again, as though half a lifetime's defences could be dismantled in a heartbeat and leave only the raw dregs of a person who bears no resemblance to Arthur at all. How do you guard yourself, when the guarding is who you are?

His hand falls to his side and clenches into a convulsive fist which he then has to release again, painfully, finger by finger. With wrenching effort he turns his back on the door.

"I'm not opening it," he says.

"I didn't ask you to," Ariadne says, so beautiful in her fierce poise. "That's not what we're asking for. That's not why we're here."

Arthur bites down on the obvious question because that’s her script, just as this is her design, and it's his fucking skeletons that are being doorknocked here so he has the right of mastery over his own words. If nothing else.

When he's silent, Ariadne's mouth thins with purpose. "The next level down," she says, "this would be a cage."

(not c&ping all 500 words but JUST FOR ILLUSTRATION)

Brief moment of hilarity for the importance of ‘this is her design’ long, long before that particular motif reared its head in a Hannibal context.

This is one of those fics where the more I talk about it the more weird I feel because it’s so, so obviously some of the DEEP BARREL-SCRAPINGS OF MY SOUL, and this scene is the emotional crux of the whole story. It’s a story about letting people in; it’s a story about how the fear that build walls also traps you within those walls (yes. a cage.) but that this doesn’t mean you have to let people smash them down. The guarding CAN be who you are, and can be important to you, and even people who love you don’t have the right to demand entry before you’re prepared to give it.

(It’s a callback, obviously, to the central question that Arthur has about Eames’s own self: How do you guard yourself if you aren't yourself?)

AND THAT’S WHAT THIS SCENE IS. Arthur thinks that he is being asked to reveal his secrets, because the whole damn point of mind-heist work is to build a design around someone’s secrets and get them to open the door--the safe--whatever--and reveal the thing they don’t want to reveal. And both Eames and Ariadne have stripped down to their vulnerabilities in their own mental architecture. It’s Arthur’s turn. That would be fair.

Not opening it is terrifying because he feels like he’s failing. And he hates to fail.

But what Ariadne and Eames are ACTUALLY doing with this piece of personality architecture is saying: we have seen the thickness of this door, and we have seen how important it is to your structural integrity. And we want you anyway.

[fourteenacross]

@anachronistique is winning Slack today 😂

[inceptionpositivity]

@anachronistique - Your talent for writing Ariadne/Arthur is awe inspiring. I wish I had a fraction of your talent with words. 

[charmingpplincardigans]

@anachronistique and I went to Disney today and mostly we just took pictures of ourselves in front of buildings I couldn't fit into said pictures and talked about fandoms we want to see crossed over with that game about the obnoxious goose.

I'm gonna need fan art of Crowley and the goose having a slap fight with their wings STAT.

[aquamirage]

what was your favorite random-ass thing happening during Balaga and The Abduction?

i don’t know if this counts but paul pinto came up right next to us at the end, before the curtain, and gave us this direct goofy smile like “I’M GREAT, RIGHT”

natasha smashing the painting, various makeouts????, pierre’s piano jam and triumphant giggle, every OTT thing anatole did, whoooooooooooaaaaaaa, everyone raising their glasses and clapping (i raised my piergoi box which @operamatic passed to me quickly when she saw I was confused by having nothing to hold up), HAPPINESS FREEDOM AND LIFE

also this was the club and so not relevant, but i’ll never forget Party Sonya as long as I live

[themculibrary]

The Eternals Masterlist 2

part one

a love like ours turns even the darkest coldest realm into the happiest of homes (ao3) - OceanSpray5 druig/makkari G, 42k

Summary: Humans know the myth of Hades and Persephone. What varies is what they know and how it differs from how it happened. But the truth is not a far stretch from what they see. And the love the humans describe, the love two Eternals share, retains every bit of its essence immortalized in the myth as the fable of true love itself.

Of Hades, who is only a man. Of Persephone, with wind in her hair.

And they sang it la la la la la la la…

Or, how Druig and Makkari come to be immortalized as Greek mythology's most faithful couple: Hades and Persephone.

built to fall apart (then fall back together) (ao3) - agents_cxrter druig/makkari T, 20k

Summary: My name is Makkari, she tells him, spelling each letter then offering her name sign.

“Makkari?” He repeats, name sign effortlessly rolling through his fingers.

The pleased smile she gives him feels better than any spark of remembrance he’s ever experienced.

or; in a world inspired by the comic run where the Eternals minds are wiped, Druig and Makkari bump into each other (literally).

chip chrome & the mono-tones (ao3) - dannydays sersi/dane, ikaris/sersi T, 11k

Summary: “Welcome to Highton.”

“It’s a shithole,” Druig said, affectionately.

Sersi said, “We’re happy to have you.”

(human au. dane moves to a new estate and meets the eternals. shenanigans ensue.)

Come Home, Unbeliever (ao3) - un_familiar makkari/sersi G, 3k

Summary: Because, after all this time, born anew, she remembers what it was like to share a mind with a Celestial, even for a moment. It was overwhelming space, pinpricks of light coming into being simply by will.

-

Re-imagining Eternals: Celestia but this time I get to talk about religious trauma metaphors. Also Makkari and Sersi are dating (Gaiman's Eternals and Eternals: Celestia SPOILERS)

Eternity Together (ao3) - certifiedglutenfree druig/makkari M, 15k

Summary: Druig hates the idea of soulmates. He especially hates that he doesn't have one, because that means his crush on the girl in the library won't work out. But the universe does seem to work in mysterious ways and maybe just once in his life the universe will be on his side.

Forgiveness (ao3) - Wundersmidget sersi/dane T, 1k

Summary: After the Emergence, Sprite ponders her relationship with the other Eternals and especially Sersi.

i'll spend forever wonderin' if you knew (i was enchanted to meet you) (ao3) - notquitegucci (AllieKitaguchi) druig/makkari, thena/gilgamesh, ikaris/sersi N/R, 7k

Summary: How the Eternals discovered that Druig and Makkari were in love.

Some of them were a little slower than others.

In Paper Rings, In Picture Frames (Oh, You're The One I Want) (ao3) - OceanSpray5 druig/makkari G, 14k

Summary: Or, Druig and Makkari get married and wait for the rest of their oblivious family to figure it out.

I take the risk to feel your heart beating (ao3) - anachronistique (924inlegend) ikaris/sersi T, 57k

Summary: During the Deviants' attack in the Amazon, things take a turn when Ikaris is targeted for his powers during the battle. He is almost killed until Sersi steps in.

Light My Love (ao3) - Redheadclover sersi/dane, ikaris/sersi T, 95k

Summary: Soteri always second guessed herself, even in the very beginning when she was born an Eternal on the Domos. Although the rest of the Eternals can see potential in her, Soteri tries to find her way while protecting the planet with her family.

Perhaps she was too gentle and kind, or that she was too reserve to fully expose herself because of her force field and teleportation ability, but that never stopped her from finding hope and love with her family members, including a brooding mind controller. Her courage and her thirst for protecting those around Soteri has pushed her over and over as time went on. However, once the Eternals broke away from one another, Soteri felt lost without her family.

Without her home.

Now Deviants are appearing once more, her fearless leader is gone, and Soteri has to find her strength to defend and protect her family like she did before. Is she willing to have the old wounds of her fragile and reserved heart be reopened again for the sake of humanity?

Missing you is like missing a part of myself (ao3) - Mimisempai phastos/ben G, 1k

Summary: As Ben receives a message from Phastos announcing his return, he thinks about how much he had missed Phastos.

No Such Beauty as Where You Belong (ao3) - Ilyann ikaris/sersi, druig/makkari G, 21k

Summary: Druig and Makkari through the ages.

on a wednesday, in a cafe (ao3) - TaraLy gilgamesh/thena T, 111k

Summary: Thenamesh Coffee Shop AU. No angst, no plot, only love (and food).

oràil (ao3) - delphiniumblooms T, 3k

Summary: “ A nighean oràil, ” Ikaris says, our golden girl. He takes a little hand into his and counts the fingers. “She’s perfect.”

set after the events of the movie, which i have no knowledge of. ikarsi have a baby!

teach me to love (ao3) - iamjustabird gilgamesh/thena, phastos/ben G, 49k

Summary: Thena has just moved next door to her old friend Phastos with her young son Druig in tow. She’s worried about how he’s going to adjust to the move and to his new school, but Phastos assures her that his friend and neighbour Gilgamesh is the best teacher a kid could ask for. She’ll see about that.

teenage headache dreams. (i want to be free). (ao3) - proud_papaya druig/makkari M, 56k

Summary: - non canon compliant eternals (2021) -

there were millennia that they had been the only sense of normalcy for each other, and then, one night, ikarus flew into the clouds, and never came back down to her. then thanos snapped, and any normalcy was gone, as well as dane. he needed to come back.

TLDR: writing various areas of ikarus' and sersi's past, both during endgame and before, and then writing the entirety of the eternals movie, except i'm not killing ikarus off, because that really made me sad, and i bet i'm not the only one. possibly going into after that, as well. enjoy <3 requests are welcome, as well.

the blues and then purple pink skies (ao3) - TaraLy gilgamesh/thena G, 4k

Summary: It’s been a month since their first conversation on the bus, how are Thena and Gilgamesh doing?

The Eternals: Prelude (ao3) - EchoVdV makkari/sersi T, 25k

Summary: A loosely interpreted collection of stories recounting the endeavors of the Eternals to reclaim Earth from the Deviants. Due to many of these characters having a major lack of personality, in the books and especially in the movies, many characters are radically reimagined, especially if you're expecting them to be similar to the movie versions.

Visiting Rites (ao3) - qodarkness druig/makkari, ikaris/sersi T, 4k

Summary: Sprite was the first to visit.

Or

How Druig knows all the gossip about what's going on with the Eternals despite living in the Peruvian Amazon with no phone reception for five hundred years.

we will make a home someday, one full of love and light (ao3) - delphiniumblooms sersi/ikaris, phastos/ben T, 1k

Summary: Sersi and Ikaris pay Phastos’ family a visit.

[z-bot]

@anachronistique replied to your photo: That hiatus was WAY LONGER than I said it would...

FRIEND Z! I’m glad you’re alive! And that you’re not falling down anymore!

FRIEND NOMES! I am glad you are a Nomes. Keep up the good work.

[allofthefeelings]

anachronistique replied to your post: Narrative conventions require Tippy Toe to...

   please do at least one of those commissions                      

Crowdsource this one, Tumblr: What is a reasonable amount of money to blow on asking an artist to draw a goose harassing a superhero?

[foggiestnelson]

happy birthday, @anachronistique

“Jack!”

Sixty-seven days. Certainly, he had not been counting. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson did not count the days between Miss Fisher’s departure and subsequent return, for that would imply that he had been pining for her, which he certainly had not.

At least not in any manner that he would admit to.

For Jack Robinson was not a man to pine, not a man to imagine how their reunion might go. For all of the --- passionate nature of their goodbye, sixty-seven days had given him ample time to imagine that she might have reconsidered her affection. Even when she had kissed him, there had been a flip line on her lip about how he should be far more afraid of things stealing her away.

And Jack had always been a quiet, practical sort, not daring to hope in any best case scenario.

So when her voice echoed through the police station, that clear, high pitched cry that sparked a joy he’d long worried had died in his heart, when she came barreling in past Collins in a fury of bright scarves and jingling bracelets to practically charge straight into Jack’s arms, each and every one of those worries that she might have regretted anything just evaporated, like morning dew.

And the kiss put paid to any that dare remained.

“Did you miss me?” she asked, only after they’d pulled away breathless, the click of the door closing as a bashful Collins decided that discretion was the better part of valor, and Jack found himself chuckling, low in his throat.

“I suppose I’ll have to provide a more clear answer on that, won’t I?”

And just like that, the Detective Inspector’s afternoon was blissfully and entirely occupied.