#copley two

[starlesscastellation]

some sketches + lyrics that remind me of those two! I was experimenting with a new art style that I am in-between about so hopefully it's not as terrible as the brain tells me it is!

(lyrics and artists below cut if they're illegible as to not clog up anyone's page)

"Yet he laps up the vice like a wolf in the night / He's the left hand of God on the stage / And with one hand he offers salvation to lovers / The other, it taketh away" - Whisper by Burn the Ballroom

"You've been good to me / Nearly worth the hell you put me through... But if what they say is true / You've been good to her too" - You by Sammy Copley

"I know I shouldn't miss you / But you made this house a home / The trains go all night / Giving you time to change your mind" - Trains by Sammy Copley

"They got the call / And picked him up at 4am / And tore off down the road / And all the angels say ooh, ooh / You are all to blame " - All the Angels by My Chemical Romance

"I think I'm done / A million reasons, can I be your number one?" - Millions by Gerard Way

"It's what's engraved upon my heart / In letters deeply worn / Today I somehow understand / The reason I was born" -Fair by The Amazing Devil

"I never thought the sweetest sin could be my saving grace" -Chariot by Burn the Ballroom

"Sing me songs of praise / Bathe me in your rising river / Cause I'm gonna change my ways" - Change My Ways by Burn the Ballroom

"Well, it seems to me what we want and we meet all the same / And that's someone who'll worry about us / 'Til death do us part / Please keep breaking my heart / 'Til it ceases to beat / Please be mine" - When Somebody Needs You by Will Wood

"Come disrupt our silence / This pact we softly made / To keep things how we left them / And leave other things unnamed" -The Garden by Sammy Copley

[estellaestella]

While i appreciated Christopher Walken turning down the volume of his Christopher Walken-ness to fit in with the tone of Dune 2, it somewhat dulled his performance. He didnt appear to be all that invested in his fate.

I wish Denis had gone with a slightly younger Emperor. It wd hv upped the stakes a bit plus garnered him less sympathy: Walken looked too much of a victim to me. It wd hv played out different to cast someone in their 50-60s instead of 80s and with hair and beard that reminds us of Duke Leto. That wd remind us that all of the aristocracy are related in some way, which would then remind us of when Chani spoke of how different she and Paul are. One of these three underrated actors wd hv been perfect - Sharlto Copley, Damian Lewis, Billy Crudup.

[thevamplelio]

Gulian Verplanck painted by John Singleton Copley.

[relativelyfvcked]

i dont really care how tonights game goes, im still riding the high of dustin brown night

[beggars-opera]

As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses

[awesomefridayca]

Podcast: Dune: Part Two & Monkey Man

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[apoptoses]

♰ 𝔄𝔭𝔬𝔭𝔱𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔰 𝔉𝔦𝔠 𝔐𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 ♰

𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡/𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩

𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰:

Come Pull My Strings: a series exploring the chase years and a little beyond

I'll Be Your Operator - 10.3k - [Explicit] • Armand and Daniel's dinner at the Copley [voyeurism]

Flesh and Bone by the Telephone - 8.5k - [Explicit] • An expansion of the 'call paris' scene [handjobs, frottage]

Pale Shelter - 15.6k - [Explicit] • The aftermath of Armand bailing Daniel out of jail [spanking, fingering, frottage]

The Killing Moon - 6.3k - [Explicit] • Armand's pov of the events in Pale Shelter [angst, smut]

To Bring You My Love - 1.9k - [General] • Armand's pov of the subway scene in Pale Shelter [fluff]

When Half Won't Do - 12.3k - [Explicit] • Armand and Daniel set up house in London [anal, felching, breathplay, cockwarming]

Something So Trivial - 6.9k - [Explicit] • A valentine's day fic in which Daniel gets Armand a gift [lingerie, dry humping, blood play]

Til the Act is Done: mini-series exploring role reversal

Love Like Blood - 7.7k - [Explicit] • Armand and Daniel roleplay as if Armand were the interviewer and Daniel the vampire [roleplay, blood sharing, frottage]

Fade Into You - 6.1k - [Explicit] • Daniel explores giving pleasure to a vampire and getting Armand to submit [biting, blood play, canon compliant smut]

Muscles Better, and Nerves More: miniseries exploring body worship

Turn Away No More - 5.4k - [Explicit] • Daniel shows Armand all of the things he finds masculine about him [body worship, scent kink, canon compliant smut]

Come Get Your Knife - 26.5k - [Explicit] • An exploration of Armand's religious trauma and reclaiming sexuality [canon compliant smut, threesomes, anal]

𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔦𝔠

Blood Sanation - 59k - [Explicit] • Daniel and Armand reunite, re-evaluate their relationship, and repair things between them. Filling in the mission reunion from Prince Lestat.

𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔱𝔰:

Mercy in You - 3.2k - [Mature] • Armand gets Daniel to eat dinner and has a snack himself [blood sharing, mild angst, shotgunning]

Angle of Incidence - 9.4k - [Explicit] • Armand wants to know all of Daniel's body and its functions [medical fetish, inappropriate use of an obgyn office, watersports, humiliation]

Bespoke - 4k- [Explicit] • Armand, Daniel, and a pair of expensive leather gloves [leather fetish, finger sucking, fingering, bondage, handjobs, marking]

Fate as it Flows - 14.8k - [Explicit] • Daniel learns to ask for exactly what he wants [watersports, humiliation, omorashi, kink negotiation]

Red, Violent Red - 9.6k - [Explicit] • Armand learns about 20th century dirty talk, gets spanked, and indulges in some brief submission [spanking, dirty talk, teacher roleplay]

Paradoxical Movement - 11k - [Explicit] • Armand learns more about Daniel's body via endoscopy ft. two endings depending on your taste in kink [medical fetish, gagging and choking, praise kink]

These Hands Stained Red - 8.2k- [Explicit] • Daniel allows Armand to drink from him while he sleeps [consensual somnophilia, marking, blood play]

Apotheosis - 6k - [Explicit] • Armand takes Daniel to church and keeps him from being bored by placing a vision in his mind [blasphemy, religious imagery, blood sharing, coming in public]

Climb to the Sun - 6.3k - [Explicit] • The morning after Pompeii, where Daniel explores his fetish for being bitten and sharing the blood [blood sharing, coming untouched]

Once Bitten Twice Shy - 4.7k - [Explicit] • Christmas fic in which Daniel takes Armand to see holiday lights [mild angst, blood sharing, frottage]

More Than Neither - 6.3k - [Explicit] • Genderswap fic: butch!Daniel gets her period, experiences some body dysmorphia, and gets help from femme!Armand [eating out, period smut]

The Weightiest Business - 13.3k- [Explicit] • Just before moving to Night Island Daniel and Armand explore Tokyo and all its culinary delights [feeding fetish, hand feeding, pet play, handjobs]

𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔟𝔩𝔯 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩𝔰:

Like Sugar - [General] • A sweet kiss on a hot NYC night [fluffl]

Lift Up The Receiver - [Explicit] • Armand interrupts Daniel's business call on Night Island [handjobs, teasing, blood sharing, fooling around during a phone call]

Every Part - [Explicit] • "You know what they say about men with big feet, Daniel" [foot fetish, Armand being a literal ankle biter]

Playing Doctor - [Explicit] • Daniel breaks his ankle. Armand takes care of him. [med fetish, public handjobs]

Sleeping In - [General] • Daniel's late mornings have turned into late evenings [vampire Daniel, fluff]

𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡/𝔏𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱

𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔱𝔰:

Those tender moments - 3.5k - [Mature] • Lestat doesn't feel at home at Trinity Gate. Armand helps change that. [blood sharing, fluff]

A matter of taste - 3k - [Explicit] • Armand gets stuck with an ugly sofa at Trinity Gate. Lestat takes care of the problem with him. [blood sharing, canon compliant smut, fluff]

Precious and Fragile Things - 4k - [Explicit] • Armand tries on lingerie for Lestat and teaches him a lesson in a dressing room. [mild cbt, lingerie, sub!lestat, canon compliant smut]

𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔟𝔩𝔯 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩𝔰:

Leather - [Explicit] • Armand visits Lestat backstage at a concert. [blood sharing, sub!Lestat, leather kink]

"This is the last time" prompt - [Teen] • Armand entertains Lestat in Auvergne [fluff]

𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡/𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩/𝔏𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱

Three of Hearts - 6.9k - [Explicit] • A card game gets out of hand and ends in Armand playing voyeur again, this time to Daniel and Lestat [canon compliant vampire smut, pet play, dom!Armand, threesomes]

𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡/ℜ𝔦𝔠𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔬

The Devil's Water - 6.5k - [Explicit] • Amadeo can't sleep, and finds solace in Riccardo, among other things [friends with benefits, anal, marking, fluff and mild angst]

Art Lessons - [General] • Riccardo helps Armand regain his creative spirit [fluff, kissing]

𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡/𝔅𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔞

Objects of Virtue - [Explicit] • Armand passes a rainy afternoon in Bianca's rooms and helps her bathe [handjobs, fingering, teasing]

𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩/𝔏𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱

"This was a terrible idea" - [Teen] • Daniel and Lestat go out for the night [fluff, kissing]

𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡/𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩/𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔰 + 𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔰/𝔓𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔬𝔯𝔞

Collared and Yoked - [General] • Marius watches Daniel and Armand lounge together, and discusses his relationship to them with Pandora

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

taylor swift lyrics x colors x textiles in art – blue

Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Marie-Joseph Peyre – Marie-Suzanne Giroust 💙 Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Lady in the Boudoir – Gustav Holweg-Glantschnigg 💙 A Place in This World – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester – Jean-Étienne Liotard 💙 Dear John – Speak Now // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 State of Grace – Red // Portrait of Mrs. Matthew Tilghman and her Daughter – John Hesselius 💙 Red – Red // An Unknown Man – Joseph Highmore 💙 All Too Well – Red // Portrait of a Man with a Quilted Sleeve – Titian 💙 Everything Has Changed – Red // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Starlight – Red // Mrs. Richard Brown – John Hesselius 💙 Run – Red // Judith with the Head of Holofernes – Felice Ficherelli 💙 This Love – 1989 // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 Delicate – Reputation // Miss Elizabeth Ingram – Joshua Reynolds 💙 Gorgeous – Reputation // Marguerite Hessein, Lady of Rambouillet de la Sablière – workshop of Henri and Charles Beaubrun 💙 Dancing with Our Hands Tied – Reputation // George Albert, Prince of East Frisia – Johann Conrad Eichler

Cruel Summer – Lover // Peter August Friedrich von Koskull – Michael Ludwig Claus 💙 Lover – Lover // Lady Oxenden – Joseph Wright of Derby 💙 Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince – Lover // Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi – Alexander Roslin 💙 Paper Rings – Lover // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 London Boy – Lover // Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson – Anthony van Dyck 💙 Afterglow – Lover // Portrait of Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn – Fyodor Rokotov 💙 Christmas Tree Farm – Christmas Tree Farm // Portrait of Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck – Anthony van Dyck 💙 invisible string – folklore // Two Altar Wings with the Visitation of Mary – unknown artist 💙 invisible string – folklore // Portrait of Madame de Pompadour – François Boucher 💙 peace – folklore // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 hoax – folklore // Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau 💙 coney island – evermore // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Carolina – Carolina // Mrs. Daniel Sargent – John Singleton Copley 💙 Bejeweled – Midnights // Elsa Elisabeth Brahe – David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl 💙 The Great War – Midnights // Portrait of Françoise Marie de Bourbon – attributed to François de Troy 💙 Hits Different – Midnights // Mrs. Benjamin Pickman – John Singleton Copley

[darkacademicvibes]

We Think Similar Thoughts

Lonely!fem!reader x Lonely!Remus Lupin

CW: Swearing, a little bit of mean!Remus but not to reader, mentions of The Prank.

This is just soft, lonely people making friends with each other. If it gets 20 Notes I'll make it a series, not the next post, but the one after will hopefully be a 'She's a drug' part 2. Hopefully being the key word.

Anyway! Enjoy :)

Edit: Made a soundtrack :D

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Remus has no where else to go.

The room of requirement is the only place he can think of that the others wouldn't bother him. He's hurt, and he has every right to be, so why was it bothering him so much? Sirius tried to make a monster out of him, Sirius tried to use him like some pawn in a game of chess, and then he labeled it a prank and called it a day, expecting Remus to forgive him. Remus feels like he has no one left. It's been two days and Peter has forgiven Sirius, and he can see James starting to miss his brother.

The door appears and Remus walks into the room, the door vanishing the second Remus' hand leaves the bronze knob. The familiar secret library smells more like home than the dorm has the past few days, but the sound of the piano in the back of the room has him on edge. Who else could be thinking the exact thought as him?

𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

He peers around the last bookshelf by the familiar grand piano and freezes, you sit there, playing so beautifully, and looking so sad. Your fingers seemingly float over the keys as you sing softly under your breath, he can barely recognize the song. To The Bone, by Sammy Copley. A song he's never particularly enjoyed, but hearing it so quietly compared to how Sirius plays the record, the loudest his record player can go, he doesn't mind it all that much. Though it's still far from being a favorite.

You finish the song and prepare yourself to play again before pausing, "you can sit down, you know, I don't bite" you murmur, and for a moment, he's surprised at just how sweet you sound.

He sits down in the window seat, grabbing his copy of 'The son of the wolf' by Jack London. Your eyes follow his movements before turning back to the black and white keys in front of you and beginning to play again, singing the only song you know by heart just a little louder than before, ignoring the way Remus Lupins eyes watch you instead of his book. After playing twice more, he seems to find the courage to ask the question that has been on the tip of his tongue for the last eight minutes. "Why are you only playing that song?" your fingers start up again, playing the same song as you think.

"It's the one I know best, I've played this song enough to be able to claim I know it like the back of my hand"

"What are you doing in this specific requirement room?"

"I'm lonely"

"How are you talking and playing at the same time?"

"I know this song like the back of my hand"

"Why are you lonely?"

You laugh softly, a gentle smile on your lips as he asks question after question. "Why are you?"

Remus Lupin pauses, thinking for a moment. He knows who you are, he has Alchemy with you every Thursday fourth period. And he saw you signing up for the same professor course he did last week at Hogsmeade, offering to teach music to the younger kids on your weekends. He teaches literature to kids just one year above your student group. It's a fun program, he likes teaching. He knows he wants to be a professor when he graduates, preferably one of the muggle studies professors. Historic literature is his favorite muggle studies class, it always has been.

"My friends aren't good people sometimes" He admits, picking at the sleeve of his favorite sweater. There's a small hole, right where he chews on the sleeve, he notices. "But I asked you first" your fingers dance over the keys as easily as if they were toying with a pencil.

"I don't know why I'm lonely, I think I just am" you admit, sadness twisting slightly in your heart. The room provides you a simple cinnamon roll, extra icing. Remus feels guilt prickle down his spine, and the room provides him with a beat up copy of Alice In Wonderland. You smile at it as he flushes red.

He's seventeen years old, for Merlin's sake!

He pushes the book away as you finish your song again, the more you play, the less he minds it. If he didn't know any better, he'd say he was beginning to enjoy it.

"Maybe I'm lonely because I don't make friends easily" you continue, and it has him sitting up in his seat properly, legs crossed and using his finger as a bookmark. "All the friends I do have never write to me over holidays unless I write them first, and I'm always having to walk behind them unless I want to walk on the grass. I'm not a very good judge of character, so I stick with whoever has the mind to accept me; I tag along when I'm invited, and I hope they have a good time when I'm not" you shrug, pulling the cinnamon roll apart, piece by piece, eating the small chunks of sweet bread as you pull it to bits. Icing coats your fingers, but you don't mind, and it makes Remus smile.

"I could be your friend" he offers.

"Why?"

"Well, you're lonely, I'm lonely, why can't we be lonely together?"

You turn back to the piano, your brothers voice ringing in your ears.

𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥? 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺.

"I like green, it's my favorite colour" Remus states, and for a moment, you're confused.

"What's yours?" he wonders, you hesitate. "I can never choose between brown, and Y/F/C" you wait for the judgement, for the laughter, for the familiar comment 'brown? like shit?'.

It never comes.

"I like brown but I wouldn't say it's a favourite" you stare at him for a long moment before a smile tugs at the corners of your lips and you can't help but smile as you look down at the half finished cinnamon roll in front of you, your hair falling to hide your face as you untuck it from behind your ear. A part of you wants to accept his offer of being friends, but another part calls it a temporary situation. He seems mad at his other friends, the other three boys that make up the marauders. Of course he'd be looking to spend some time with anyone else.

"y'know, I really don't like To The Bone, but you play it differently. It's nice your way. I prefer it" warmth spreads through your chest, the only compliments you ever got on your musical talents were from the kids you teach, but they're amazed by everything at their age. It's nice to be complimented by a peer, of course, you'd probably get more compliments if you bothered to play in front of people, other than twenty-four nine-year-olds.

"Thank you, is there a different song you like that I might know?"

He thinks for a moment before, seemingly nervous, he requests a song.

"Do you know 'Here comes the sun'?"

Instead of answering, you wipe your fingers on the small brown napkin that came with the cinnamon roll and begin playing. Singing quietly along. Sadly, you can't play Here Comes The Sun without singing it, otherwise you constantly lose your place and have to start again. A common issue for you. Thankfully, Remus doesn't seem to mind as he leans back against the window, watching you play.

It's definitely not the exact song, and it's certainly not as upbeat, but Remus finds himself enjoying that about your music. It's soft, almost like if hot chocolate on a snowy day was a genre.

He can't quite explain why, but he feels the need to watch you as you play.

He's always thought of you as pretty, your Y/H/C hair and Y/E/C eyes, and the few freckles that dot over your nose and cheeks. One, higher than the rest, sits high on your cheekbone, not far from your eye.

He's even occasionally considered approaching you, but you always seemed to slip away from your shared classes unnoticed. And you almost never eat in the great hall, choosing to wander around as you eat instead.

He allows himself to admire the way the golden sunlight shines in fractured streaks of soft yellow over you and the piano, the light making the highlighter on your nose a bit more noticeable.

He likes your style, beat up pink converse and your uniform, little things added and taken away to make it more.. 𝘺𝘰𝘶, he supposes.

Your blue skirt is supposed to have silver plaid squares, but you've charmed it to stick to a simple plaid pattern of different shades of blue, your grey sweater isn't a school one, and he can see the way some of your hair sits underneath the fabric, like you hadn't bothered to pull your hair out of the sweater after putting it on; and you have a bracelet on, made out of brown, yellow, and white embroidery thread.

"I think dinner is starting soon" Remus announces. You press a wrong key and wince, frowning.

"Okay"

"Do you want to head down now?"

"I don't know"

"Okay"

It's silent for a moment before you stand up. "You mean it? You really want to be my friend?" he nods, gathering his things slowly as you return a book from your bag to a nearby shelf. "I do, why?" he asks. Did you think he was lying before? The thought makes his heart hurt a little. "No reason, do you want to sit with me for dinner?" You wait for his answer, but you don't get one. You turn to face him, and he's smiling at you sweetly, offering his hand.

You quickly pull your bag over your shoulder before hesitantly accepting his hand, he leads you out of the room and rolls his eyes at the sight of Sirius Black leaning against the wall, holding a folded piece of parchment and toying nervously with the corners. Sirius falls into step with the two of you, sending you a questioning glance before turning to Remus. "Moony, I know I fucked up bad, but-" Remus swaps hands with you, pulling you away from Sirius as he cuts the boy off. "But nothing, Sirius. I'm hanging out with a friend so if you don't mind, could you fuck off? Thanks." Remus snaps, and you raise an eyebrow as guilt flashes in his eyes and Sirius stops abruptly, watching the two of you walk away.

"Sorry, Y/N" you shrug, entirely unbothered.

"It's fine, if you're mad at him, I won't question you. I trust you have good judgement" you assure him.

He laughs and smiles at you teasingly. "You just complemented yourself y'know, so confidently, too" your face burns as you realize what he means. "Oh."

"Don't worry, I think I have good judgement too" he bumps your shoulder with his arm gently. "Yeah, makes up for how freakishly tall you are" you murmur jokingly, and he laughs.

You both slip into a seat at the Ravenclaw table as the rest of the marauders watch from the Gryffindor table, all missing their friend as guilt stings at them.

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[comtessezouboff]

Paintings from Buckingham Palace: part I

A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07

100 followers gift!

First of all, I would like to thank you all for this amazing year! It's been a pleasure meeting you all and I'm beyond thankful for your support.

Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust. The British monarch owns some of the collection in right of the Crown and some as a private individual. It is made up of over one million objects, including 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on paper, this including 30,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 450,000 photographs, as well as around 700,000 works of art, including tapestries, furniture, ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, armour, jewellery, clocks, musical instruments, tableware, plants, manuscripts, books, and sculptures.

Some of the buildings which house the collection, such as Hampton Court Palace, are open to the public and not lived in by the Royal Family, whilst others, such as Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace and the most remarkable of them, Buckingham Palace are both residences and open to the public.

About 3,000 objects are on loan to museums throughout the world, and many others are lent on a temporary basis to exhibitions.

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This first part includes the paintings displayed in the White Drawing Room, the Green Drawing Room, the Silk Tapestry Room, the Guard Chamber, the Grand Staircase, the State Dining Room, the Queen's Audience Room and the Blue Drawing Room,

This set contains 37 paintings and tapestries with the original frame swatches, fully recolourable. They are:

White Drawing Room (WDR):

Portrait of François Salignan de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (Joseph Vivien)

Portrait of a Lady (Sir Peter Lely)

Portrait of a Man in Armour with a red scarf (Anthony van Dyck)

Portrait of Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (François Flameng)

Green Drawing Room (GDR):

Portrait of Prince James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (John Michael Wright)

Portrait of Frederick Henry, Charles Louis and Elizabeth: Children of Frederick V and Elizabeth of Bohemia (unknown)

Portrait of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia of Autria and her Sister, Infanta Catalina Micaela of Austria (Alonso Sanchez Coello)

Portrait of Princess Louisa and Princess Caroline of the United Kingdom (Francis Cotes)

Portrait of Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, Frederick, Later Duke of York and Prince George of Wales (Allan Ramsay)

Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess of Wellesley (Martin Archer Shee)

Portrait of the Three Youngest Daughters of George III, Princesses Mary, Amelia and Sophia (John Singleton Copley)

Silk Tapestry Room (STR):

Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, Playing the Harp with Princess Charlotte (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick With her Son, Charles George Augustus (Angelica Kauffmann)

Guard Chamber (GC):

Les Portières des Dieux: Bacchus (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)

Les Portières des Dieux: Venus (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)

Les Portières des Dieux (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)

Grand Staircarse (GS):

Portrait of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Consort of Great Britain (Martin Archer Shee)

Portrait of Augustus, Duke of Sussex (Sir David Wilkie)

Portrait of Edward, Duke of Kent (George Dawe)

Portrait of King George III of Great Britain (Sir William Beechey)

Portrait of King William IV of Great Britain when Duke of Clarence (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Portrait of Leopold I, King of the Belgians (William Corden the Younger)

Portrait of Prince George of Cumberland, Later King George V of Hanover When a Boy (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Portrait of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (George Dawe)

Portrait of Queen Charlotte at Frogmore House (Sir William Beechey)

Portrait of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld, Duchess of Kent (Sir George Hayter)

State Dining Room (SDR):

Portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (Allan Ramsay)

Portrait of King George III of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (Allan Ramsay)

Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (Jean-Baptiste Van Loo)

Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach when Princess of Wales (Sir Godfrey Kneller)

Portrait of Frederick, Princes of Wales (Jean-Baptiste Van Loo)

Portrait of King George II of Great Britain (John Shackleton)

Portrait of King George IV of the United Kingdom in Garther Robes (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Queen's Audience Room (QAR):

Portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (née Anne Luttrel) in Peeress Robes (Sir Thomas Gainsborough)

Portrait of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn in Peer Robes (Sir Thomas Gainsborough)

London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards the City (Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto")

View of Piazza San Marco Looking East Towards the Basilica and the Campanile (Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto")

Blue Drawing Room (BDR)

Portrait of King George V in Coronation Robes (Sir Samuel Luke Fildes)

Portrait of Queen Mary of Teck in Coronation Robes (Sir William Samuel Henry Llewellyn)

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Found under decor > paintings for:

500§ (WDR: 1,2 & 3)

1850§ (GDR: 1)

1960§ (GDR: 2 & 3 |QAR 3 & 4)

3040§ (STR, 1 |GC: 1 & 2|SDR: 1 & 2)

3050§ (GC:1 |GS: all 10|WDR: 4 |SDR: 3,4,5 & 6)

3560§ (QAR: 1 & 2|STR: 2)

3900§ (SDR: 7| BDR: 1 & 2|GDR: 4,5,6 & 7)

Retextured from:

"Saint Mary Magdalene" (WDR: 1,2 & 3) found here .

"The virgin of the Rosary" (GDR: 1) found here .

"The Four Cardinal Virtues" (GDR: 2&3|QAR 3 & 4) found here.

"Mariana of Austria in Prayer" (STR, 1, GC: 1 & 2|SDR: 1 & 2) found here.

"Portrait of Philip IV with a lion at his feet" (GC:1 |GS: all 10|WDR: 4 |SDR: 3,4,5 & 6) found here

"Length Portrait of Mrs.D" (QAR: 1 & 2|STR: 2) found here

"Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria and her Son, le Grand Dauphin" (SDR: 7| BDR: 1 & 2|GDR: 4,5,6 & 7) found here

(you can just search for "Buckingham Palace" using the catalog search mod to find the entire set much easier!)

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Agathario AU Ideas

Oceans11/12

1) Agatha as Danny and Rio as Tess

2) Agatha as Rusty and Rio as Isabel

I’m willing to expand on this more if someone wants to use the idea but I do not have time right now lol. However I love the idea as these two as thieves 😂💀😂

Castle AU

Rio as Kate Beckett and Agatha as Castle and Billy as Alexis

Rio as Kate because Rio is more likely to bunch someone and Agatha as Castle because she’s good at using her words to manipulate people and that could tie into being a good writer or something lol

Orange is the New Black

Rio as Alex and Agatha as Piper. IYKYK

Nikita

Agatha as Nikita and Rio as Michael

Billy is Alex

The Old Guard

Agatha as Andy and Rio as Quynh

Billy as Nile

Alice and Jen as Nicky and Joe

Lilia is Booker I guess

Sharon is Copley

White Collar

Agatha is Neal and Rio is Sara

Peter is Alice who is married to Jen

Lilia is Mozzie and Billy is the new guy on the team that Agatha ends up taking under her wing

Batman

Agatha is Bruce Wayne and Rio is Selina Kyle

Lilia is Alfred, Jen is Lucius Fox, and Alice is Jim Gordon

Billy is Dick Grayson

I have more but I don’t have time to put them down right now lmao.

[hurricane-eva]

Trove

I made a LOT of scribbled notes as I watched this one!

*It opens with CLICKY PEN!!

Favourite lines

Morse: "Nothing suspicious?" Max: "Only you."

Max:"I'm a pathologist, not a road sweeper"

Bright: "This... girl competition, or whatever it is"

Morse: "Venerable the Bede may have been but not clairvoyant"

Max: "He had a fractured everything"

Morse: "A man can't serve two masters. Sooner or later you'll have to choose."

Thursday: "Go home" Morse: *does not go home*

Morse: "I suspect the truth is I was myself all too much"

Morse: "Everyone's someone."

Morse: "A bunch of overgrown schoolboys playing with the dressing-up box?"

Music

I am, as @itsa-me-cavaradossi knows, NOT good at recognising the opera tunes in these episodes, let alone their relevance to the scenes, but I DID RECOGNISE BRINDISI FROM LA TRAVIATA so I'm pretty proud of myself. (Just don't ask me how it's relevant. I know it's a drinking song, that's all I know. ALL I KNOW.)

Word I Didn't Know and Had to Look Up:

"Murophobic" means afraid of mice and rats.

"Salmagundi" is a cold dish or salad made from different ingredients which may include meat, seafood, eggs, cooked and raw vegetables, fruits, or pickles. (I wrote it down and now I don't remember how in the world this word was even used in the episode or who said it)

Monica

MONICAAAAAAAAAHHHH *incoherent morsica noises*

Morse

The PTSD in this episode is soooo OUCH. (Also catnip for Eva.) The backfiring car and just how OUT OF IT he is several times.

Copley-Barnes

Yuck. I had to google to make sure I was remembering right about this dude showing up in OG Morse (I was) and that it was the guy I thought it was (also it was) and that his daughter Imogen was the "Im" turning cartwheels in the garden in this episode and HOO BOY DOES THAT GIVE ME THE ICKS.

Question

What does Bright mean when he says "I ask with no side"?

And now for spoilers:

Sex with daughters is the sick theme here, it seems. I wonder if they did that parallel with Infernal Serpent on purpose.

Oh, and I know the glasses off before suicide was also a nod to OG Morse, but I can't remember which episode. I wanna say it was the creepy church episode in season 1, but don't quote me on that. As much as I roll my eyes at much of OG Morse, I *love* the easter eggs and connections and I'm glad that I've seen it so I can at least have that background.

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Hello Equine Frens!

I've been super lucky to convert MORE cc to ts4 from ts3! Thank you Foxiary/HRxCC for letting me convert your beautiful cc! This set is part one out of two! It consists of four jumps. Different variants/swatches for each jump.

A big shoutout to Foxiary again but also Robin for recoloring their DIY jump poles to match as well! All creds go to both of them, Thank you so much for everything! <3.

( as well as copley! thank you for taking beautiful pictures of these jumps and pons (: ! )

Creators

• HRxCC - https://halymsroses.tumblr.com/

• Robin - https://hiddenshrinestables.tumblr.com/

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Loved MONKEY MAN. What a delight of a film! It has a couple of slow spots but it is so much fun! People comparing it to JOHN WICK movies are selling it short. Dev Patel is out for blood and he acts like it. Sharlto Copley is brilliant in his 5 minutes of screen time. As for Dev, man, major props to him!

Cultural side notes: (a) Kudos to Dev for putting the modern day saint in museum level ancient carved wooden sandals. (b) I'm still proper shocked to have seen that the musician was played by a living legend, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. The interplay of sounds made by him and Dev in the workout scene is a clever play on a "jugalbandi", a sort of performance where there is a 'dialogue' between classical dancers and musicians; the musician puts down a beat and the dancer has to 'say' it back to them through their footwork. That scene was so much fun! (What's even more amazing is that they even had another scene before this as a primer, where the maestro plays two tablas as though they are two voices talking to each other. They thought this through!)

[materassassino]

WIP WTHURSDAY

It's already Thursday, as usual, because @emmalostinwonderland has no idea what timezones are 😔

ANYWAY! Now that I'm settled with wifi and such, I'm back to writing, and this time you get a snippet from the matchmaker!Copley fic from @whatkindofnameisvolta

“Watch out for Copley, you two,” [Nile] says, grinning. Joe and Nicky have the backseat to themselves, Joe with one leg hooked over Nicky’s, Nicky rubbing circles on Joe’s wrist with his thumb as he reads (he doesn’t get carsick, apparently). They’re always like this when it’s just the four of them, unconcerned with whoever might see their small intimacies that speak of years together. Nile thinks it’s quite sweet (until they start actively making out – she has no idea how they’re still so horny). “Why?” Joe asks warily. “He’s figured something out,” she replies. “Or rather, he’s put two and two together and come up with orange.” “Intriguing,” Nicky says, lowering his novel. “Tell us more.”

Tagging uhhhhhhh @wingsofbadass, @non-un-topo, @youssefguedira, @dangerouscommiesubversive and @veradragonjedi

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Friends Again

Book: Open Heart Pairing: Dr. Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Dr. Sawyer Brooks) Rating: General Category: Fluff Word count: 2.2K Summary: Ethan loses something important. Prompt: Imagine your OTP where both of them have a piece of jewelry that symbolizes their friendship, and it was just for fun and definitely not serious. But when one of them loses their jewelry, they start to realize that it (and their relationship) meant more to them than they thought. A/N: This is a prequel of sorts to Bad Dream. Some of the dialogue used is taken directly from Open Heart: Second Year.

A week before the conference in Miami…

The hour-long drive seemed to pass in the blink of an eye with conversation flowing easily between the attending and his intern. They had reached their destination, the Boston Medical Library, situated on the University of Massachusetts campus. 

“Thanks again for coming and helping me with this research. I’m sure you had better things to do this weekend,” Ethan said, parking and turning off the engine. 

“You. Are. Welcome,” Sawyer playfully chimed as she unbuckled her seat belt. "And what’s better than solving a medical mystery and saving a man’s life?” 

She didn’t have to add “duh” to the end of that sentence. Ethan heard it in her tone and it made him smile on the inside. “God, where have you been all my life?” he thought to himself.

As they headed towards the library, they couldn’t help but notice the large farmer’s market set up in the adjacent parking lot. 

“That looks fun,” Sawyer remarked as she eyed the various booths from a distance. A variety of vendors sold everything from fresh produce, to homemade baked goods, to arts and crafts. 

Knowing it would make her happy, Ethan couldn’t resist. “Do you want to check it out?”

“You wouldn’t mind?” she asked, surprised. 

“Not at all. Believe it or not, I enjoy going to the farmer’s market. My dad and I would go when I was young. There’s a good one at Copley Square you should check out sometime,” he recommended, guiding her toward the first row of tents.

The pair strolled from booth to booth, inspecting all the different goods for sale. Along the way, they laughed at the silly products, exchanged personal stories, and sampled some of the food and drink. 

“Ohmygod,” Sawyer moaned, the chocolate melting on her tongue. “You have to try this,” she insisted, holding a sample to Ethan’s lips. Naturally and without thinking, he leaned forward eating the morsel right out of her hand, his lips brushing softly against her fingertips.

“It’s good, right?” she watched as he chewed and nodded affirmatively.

“Would you like me to pack up a box for you?” an older gentleman approached. 

Ethan reached for his wallet, “We’ll take two boxes.” 

“Happy wife, happy life! Am I right?” the vendor chuckled as he filled a container with chocolate truffles.

Seizing the opportunity to have a little fun at Ethan’s expense, Sawyer quickly replied. “Oh, he’s not my husband… yet. Two years of dating and he still hasn’t put a ring on it,” she waved the back of her ringless left hand. 

Ethan snapped his head to Sawyer and with bulging eyes silently asked, “What are you doing?”

“Back in my day, you took a test drive and either made the purchase or kept looking… none of this leasing business,” the outspoken elder shook his head. “I proposed to my beautiful Margie one month after our first date, and I married her three months later. When you know, you know… you know?”

“That’s what I’ve been telling him!” Sawyer continued the act, gently backhanding Ethan in the gut.

Ethan pinched the bridge of his nose and whispered under this breath, “For Christ’s sake.” 

Sawyer burst out laughing, finally breaking character. When the vendor looked at her puzzled, she confessed. “Sorry, we’re not actually together.” Elbowing Ethan in the side, “I just couldn’t resist messing with him. We’re just friends.” 

“Well, in my experience, that's a good place to start,” the man winked, handing Ethan his purchase.  

As they walked away, he shoved a box of truffles towards Sawyer with feigned annoyance. “Friends? Ha! More like a giant pain in my ass,” he contended. 

A short while later they found a fresh produce booth. Ethan quickly occupied himself, inspecting and sniffing different fruits and vegetables. If Sawyer had been paying attention, she might have learned how capable he was with all the beautiful ingredients, but she was distracted by another nearby vendor. When Ethan struck up a conversation with the produce farmer, she slipped away to make a quick purchase.

“Where’d you go?” Ethan asked when she returned.

“I got you something. Hold out your hand,” she urged.

Ethan raised a skeptical eyebrow, but reluctantly did as she said. 

Sawyer looped a braided leather bracelet around his wrist and fastened it. 

He took a closer look, examining the metal charms. One with the letter E, and another with the letter S. “What’s this for?”

“It’s a friendship bracelet,” she explained, “and since I'm giving it to you, it's official now. We are definitely friends.”

“Is that so?” 

“I don’t make the rules,” she shrugged.

“I’m pretty sure you just did.”

Ignoring his snark, “Oh, and it’s tradition that when someone gives you a friendship bracelet, you get to make a wish.”

Ethan just rolled his eyes. But as juvenile as it seemed, he knew exactly what he would wish for. “I’d wish for you,” he said to himself.

“Hey,” she took his hand and held it for a moment. “In all seriousness, you know I’m here as a friend, right? I mean… I’m learning a lot working with you on this case, and I’m grateful for the experience, but that’s not why I volunteered to help. I’m not here as an intern kissing your ass.”

Ethan knew from the very beginning that Sawyer was someone he could trust. Unlike other interns who would expect something in return, like a leg up in the competition, he knew she had no ulterior motives. Just the kindest and most genuine heart. 

He looked her in the eye and squeezed her hand. “I know, Sawyer.”

Five months later…

Alone in the beer garden at Donahue's, Sawyer sat on her tucked leg, facing Ethan’s glowing profile. He stared straight ahead, transfixed by the firepit's dancing flames.

Having mustered the courage to confront the elephant in the room, Sawyer broke the somber silence that had settled between them. “Ethan, why didn’t you keep in touch?” She watched him take a deep, anticipatory breath. “No word from you at all for two months? After everything that happened between us?”

Ethan took a moment to find his words, then turned his head to meet her eyes. “Everything that happened between us is exactly why I didn’t contact you,” he began to explain. “Sawyer, if we’re going to work together on the diagnostics team, we need a fresh start.” 

Resisting every urge to reach out and take her hand when she looked away from him, he pressed on. “Your professional development is too important to jeopardize it with whatever… whatever it was that we had.”

Sawyer snapped her head back to face him, “‘Had’, past tense.”

Ethan reached for the whiskey bottle that he had grabbed from inside and poured himself another glass. The sleeve of his green leather jacket rode up just enough for Sawyer to notice a braided bracelet wrapped around his wrist. The same one she gave him a week before their relationship went from friends to forbidden fruit. 

“Yes. And the past is where it has to remain,” he added. Ethan’s eyes bored into hers, searching for understanding and begging for forgiveness. 

After a long moment, Sawyer broke the connection, looking down at his wrist again. She thought it ironic that he would wear a reminder of “whatever they had,” while insisting that they must now ignore and bury their feelings for one another. That cheap piece of jewelry meant something to him. And the fact that he wore it now, meant that she did too. 

So without concern for the consequences, she tested her theory. Surging forward, she wrapped her hand around the back of his neck and kissed him. A long and gentle kiss. An act of forgiveness, and one that he seemed willing to accept since he hadn’t pulled away. But when she leaned back, she saw the turmoil written across his face. Just as she had months ago in Miami. 

“Dammit, Sawyer.” 

A few weeks later…

As much as he hated to admit it, Ethan desperately missed Sawyer. He missed their easy friendship. The way she always seemed to know what he was thinking. The way he could talk to her about anything. The way he could be himself around her. Not Dr. Ramsey, but just Ethan.

Though they saw each other almost everyday, their interactions were mostly transactional. It had been difficult to let their guards down around each other. Ethan found it too tempting to cross the line, and Sawyer grew tired of the knock-backs.   

The night that she helped him set up his Pictagram account reminded Ethan of the way they once were, before he left for the Amazon. It felt normal again. The friendly banter, the trust, the laughter… everything seemed right in the world for those few hours. 

After she had gone home that evening, Ethan opened his desk drawer, finding a cherished item. It was something that he’d kept near and dear since the day he left for the Amazon.  

“...how are you supposed to know when you’ve met the right person?” 

“It’s love, Ethan… you just feel it…” 

He slipped the leather over his fingers and rolled the charms with his thumb, as their conversation echoed in his mind. Then he thought back to the day Sawyer gave him the bracelet. 

“When you know, you know…” he recalled the old, outspoken man saying. 

There was no doubt he felt something for Sawyer, but was it love? Not having much experience with the feeling, he allowed himself to consider the possibility. But how to know for sure? That’s when Ethan remembered something else the vendor at the market said, when Sawyer told him they were just friends.

“Well, in my experience, that's a good place to start.”

A few days later, Sawyer approached the diagnostics team’s office. She spotted Ethan through the glass windows and paused to watch his odd behavior. He was searching for something, lifting up files, checking around the coffee station, and rummaging through the pockets of his outdoors coat. He was on his knees looking under his desk when she finally entered the room. 

“Shit…” he muttered, unaware of her presence. When she cleared her throat, he startled and stood up.  

“What’s going on?” she asked.

Ethan tried to act normal, organizing items on his desk. “Nothing.”

“You sure? It looked like you were searching for something. Can I help you look?”

“It’s fine. Don’t worry about it,” he clipped. Fortunately, June and Baz joined them for the start of their meeting, and the rookie team member didn’t press any further.  

A couple hours later, Sawyer bumped into Bryce as he stepped out of the men’s restroom. “Oof!” he grunted.

“Sorry!” she quickly apologized as he caught her shoulders.

“Geez, Brooks, I know how bad you want to hit this, but at least buy me a drink first,” he teased, soliciting a roll of the eyes from Sawyer. “Whatcha up to?” he asked.

“Just a quick bathroom break, then off to check on our DT patient. You?”

“I’m on Ortho this week. On my way to scrub in for an ACL reconstruction.”

“Niiice. Well, have fun. I’ll catch you later,” she said, putting her hand on the door to the ladies room.

“Oh hey, do you know where the lost and found is? I found this bracelet on the floor.”

Sawyer instantly recognized the accessory. The personalized charms featuring the letters “E” and “S” were undeniable proof. Then it hit her. Was this what he was searching high and low for earlier? 

“Luckily, I know who that belongs to, and I’m more than happy to return it to them.”

“Cool, catch you later,” he waved.

That afternoon, Sawyer returned to the diagnostics suite. There she found Ethan standing in front of the smartboard, studying MRI results.  

Acknowledging her presence with a side eye glance, “Did you need me for something?”

Sawyer demanded that he hold out his hand.

“Whatever for?” he asked, turning and giving her his full attention.

“Just. Give me. Your hand,” she insisted.

He yielded and held out his hand. 

Sawyer fished the leather band from her pocket and wiggled it in front of his face with a satisfied smirk. "Could this be what you were desperately searching for in the office earlier?"

Ethan hesitated, contemplating what he should admit. He finally decided on, “Maybe.”

She took his hand in hers. But before sliding the bracelet onto his wrist, she looked him in the eyes. “Will you, Ethan Jonah Ramsey, be my friend again?”

He rolled his eyes, cracking a big smile as she batted her eyelashes and eagerly awaited his answer. Then he twisted his lips playfully, as if he had to think about it. 

Sawyer squeezed his hand hard, letting him know there was only one acceptable answer. 

“Okay, okay,” he begged for relief, “I’ll be your damn friend.”

“Good…” she said, her tone more serious as she slid the bracelet over his hand, “because I’ve really missed that lately.”

“Honestly… me too,” he confessed quietly.

“There. That’s a much safer place for it. Wouldn’t you agree?” she asked, making sure the reminder of their friendship was snug and secure.

“I suppose you’re right,” he agreed, giving his wrist a twist.

“Well, friend, maybe we can talk later tonight and catch up a little?”

“Sure, call me,” he started, but then, “No, wait–”

Sawyer’s face fell immediately, assuming he suddenly remembered that he was trying to maintain those infuriating professional boundaries. 

“What are you doing right now?” he asked. “How about a walk to Derry’s for a coffee break?”

Sawyer’s happy smile returned. “I would love that… bestie.”

“Let’s not push it, Sawyer.”

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