#eliot is my favorite character

[ultramarine-00]

I LOVE THE MAGIICCIANNSSSSS

[nixknacks0-0]

@ltwharfy tagged me in this and it was so fun to do, although it took me a hell of a long time to pick characters

make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and see which character is everyone's favourite. Then tag five people to do the same. I don't have anyone specific, but if we are mutuals then you are tagged, and please tag me in your response because I love seeing what people's favorite characters are!

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

“Kentucky fried chicken” “Kentucky Thunder” “that’s what I said”

[insane-thoughts-oftheday]

So I was talking to someone and the common thought came that Eli Ever is a Latino-coded person, and that is so true and has a relevant context to consider. what I mean is that Eli ever is a canon latina bitch in my head.

Look at him! He and this woman whose name I forgot are the same!! /hj.

I can easily imagine him saying these phrases with a weak accent because I don't think he is completely Latin-american, but he is a very close descendant of the culture

[thathopelessromantic]

i was tagged by @vamppeach to make a poll of my 5 favorite characters so:

i'm very indecisive when it comes to choosing favorite characters or what that even means to me so good luck making sense of this list lmao

this was fun to come up with so if you're also interested i'm tagging: @bookishblerb, @funk-king-sparkle, @detectiveanna, and @fauxxghost

[britneyshakespeare]

1) I wrote a tbr of plays I wanna read in September in the middle of last month and it only took me 5 days to be like "yeah I'm not liking this plan at all and it makes me miserable." Idk how ppl do tbrs. I thought it would be exciting but it actually just makes me feel like I'm doing my chores.

2) Did you know I've read 4 plays in the last year which were written by Thomas Middleton? Why? Why have I spent so much time with Middleton? I've spent more plays with him than any other author in the last 12 months except Shakespeare (duh) and John Ford (whose plays I rented from the library so I had only a month). Like, of all the things I could be doing...

[thelastspeecher]

I'm seven episodes into Leverage and my biggest takeaway is this:

Hardison has two hands

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Something I love about Christian Kane's characters are;

How soft and gentle they are one minute but the very second his character's hear/see/are told to do something...

His characters become freaking warriors.

[leverage-ot3]

op: #he deserves it#also parker and hardison#they all deserve forehead kisses

@running-in-the-dark: #(luckily he is short so I could actually reach his forehead! phew)

@lindseymcdonaldseyelashes: #i will give him all the forehead kisses#and would also like some in return if it's not too much to ask

glad we are all on the same page

i want to kiss eliot spencer on the forehead

[faorism]

some fans will do anything to act like eliot is perfect and it’s so frustrating sometimes. i like eliot too, leverage is my favorite show, but neither eliot or the show are perfect or 100% aligned with my beliefs. and it’s okay to acknowledge that! everything in canon suggests that eliot is very pro-cop. the show itself is maybe not *as* strongly pro-cop as that one character is shown to be, but they definitely portray many cops as "the good guys" and aren’t exactly saying acab. i love the show but im not going to put it/the writers/the characters on a pedestal.

^^^

re. this post

[shinybulbasaur]

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

I was tagged by @suddenrundown, thanks for the tag! I was so tempted to put "eliot's baseball hair" but I resisted (also polls don't allow strikethroughs. sad). tagging @michinaranja, @vero-niche, @acidmatze and anyone else who wants to play!

[airasilver]

Mine’s Eliot but I adore Alec & Parker. Sometimes I love Parker over the boys and Hardison over the other two but it’s mostly Eliot.

I adore all the characters but yeah, Eliot’s my favorite. Who’s yours?

[letteredlettered]

Hello!! Firstly, I'd just like to say I've recently discovered your drarry work, and I have been reading your entire catalogue of it for the last week. Pulled all nighters can't stop reading it, reading it. I devoured The Boy Who Lived Twice in one sitting and I couldn't believe how well crafted it was. Blew my mind.

Now, all of this is to say, your prose has this elegant straightforwardness that is so succinct, so clear and so evocative. Your dialogue is absolute *perfection*. What are your influences? Books or authors you feel made an impression on you? I'd love to know what you read, because god I love what you write.

Thank you! I'm so glad you like my fics.

Jane Austen is a huge influence. Whenever my prose feels indistinct and overburdened, I return to her. She says things extremely sharply and cleanly.

Sarah Rees Brennan was a huge influence on me in terms of POV. I tend to write a very tight third person, so tight that the reader can generally see things the viewpoint character cannot. Check out the first book of The Demon's Lexicon series for one of the best examples of this I've read.

I spent a lot of time with Robin McKinley as a kid. I don't think that our styles match very well; she can do an ethereal, fairytale tone that I've kind of given up on. But what I loved best about her was that she could do that tone but then write something incredibly down to earth. I would check out Beauty or Deerskin for my favorite examples of this.

I actually also came into the style I write now writing for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) fandom. While most of the stories I wrote in that fandom didn't have very sharp dialogue, I remember writing a story (a WIP still languishing on livejournal, sadly) where I realized I had "found" my voice and style. It was extremely dialogue-heavy. BtVS was famous at the time for its extremely fast-paced, idiosyncratic, snappy dialogue. The dialogue is now considered dated, and the creator is a douche, but imo it's still great writing, especially the early shows. I still go back to it sometimes to figure out a conversation with multiple people, or to work on my humor.

As for authors that have made an impression on me, I'd check out George Eliot. My favorite book is Daniel Deronda. It has wonderful dialogue, especially for an older book. Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Hugo all made pretty big impressions on me as well; I think these big, hefty books with really big ideas really influenced my language, even though I would by no means call my style 19th c.

I'd also check out Rainbow Rowell. I wouldn't say she influenced the style I write with now, because I had it before I read anything by her, but she's one of the few contemporary authors I read and think, "Yeah, I'd write it like that." I think anything by her is a great read that can give you a lot to think about in terms of style.

In my mind, Sally Rooney is a little like Rowell in terms of a cleans style that packs a sharp analysis. I'd call Rowell more comfortable, funny, and genuine, while Rooney is a bit aloof and literary. I actually don't like the stories in her books very much, but I found Conversations with Friends particularly refreshing in terms of writing style.

C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince series also left an impression on me. It has a clean, simple style, with a narrator who doesn't see everything the reader does. And I also did learn a lot from the use of the word "said," in those books--it was something I already knew! and yet.

I think some fanfic that made a big impression on me is The Paradox Series, by wordstrings (Sherlock/John, Sherlock BBC), Spice, by eimeo (Kirk/Spock, Star Trek TOS), Children, Wake Up by hollycomb (Kylo Ren/Hux, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Tarnished Gold, by prim_the_amazing (Shen Yuan/Luo Binghe, Scum Villain's Self-Saving System). The styles in these fics vary, but each bowled me over at different points with how beautifully something was articulated or how spectacularly a scene was crafted. I think about Spice all the time in particular.

I'd also say that if you're thinking about dialogue in particular, I also love both Oscar Wilde's and Tom Stoppard's plays.

If you are a writer, I did write a series on writing dialogue. Check out the tag "lettered writes dialogue". The first post is here.

[aurorawest]

Summer Reading Update (part 1)

Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig - 4.75/5 stars

This was a really well done retelling of Romeo and Juliet. I read another book from the Remixed Classics series, Dear Henry, and while that one was also good, it felt like it adhered too slavishly to The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, so sometimes things seemed to be happening only because they happened in the original. And I haven't actually read the original book, it was just...easy to tell. Teach the Torches to Burn never felt like that, and I loved how it fleshed out so many of the characters from the play.

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian - 5/5 stars

I feel like tumblr sings this one's praises enough that I don't really have to, but—everyone should read this. Everyone should read all of Cat Sebastian's books. I think I liked this one better than We Could Be So Good, but that could just be because I've found myself becoming more and more of a sucker for sports romances.

Unhallowed by Jordan L Hawk - 4.75/5 stars

Sad to say goodbye to the Whyborne and Griffin series, but I already love this spinoff!

Soul of Ash by HL Moore - 3.75/5 stars

Crow's Fate by Kim Fielding - 3.75/5 stars

The Sleeping Soldier by Aster Glenn Gray - 5/5 stars

I sound like a broken record re: Aster Glenn Gray, but please read her books. If you like Cat Sebastian's mid-century romances (like You Should Be So Lucky!) you like Aster Glenn Gray. This one is ostensibly a Sleeping Beauty retelling, but one where the sleeper actually sleeps for 100 years. In this case, it's a Union soldier who is put in an enchanted sleep in 1865 and wakes up in 1965 and oh my god, it's so good. It examines racism, it examines toxic masculinity, it examines homophobia, and how same-sex platonic affection became taboo. I'm pretty sure this woman has never written a bad book, but this may be her best.

Alec by Kaje Harper - 3.75/5 stars

Artemis by Andy Weir - 3.75/5 stars

Oak King Holly King by Sebastian Nothwell - 4.75/5 stars

I loved this one! There are so many books about Faerie and they can be pretty hit or miss for me, but this one struck just the right balance of otherworldly, inhuman creatures and characters I could root for. Shrike and Wren were lovely.

Imperfect Illusions by Vanora Lawless - DNF at pg 56

Orchestrated Love by AJ Buchanan - DNF at pg 1

Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby - 4.25/5 stars

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - 5/5 stars (reread)

The Only Light Left Burning by Erik J Brown - 5/5 stars

Excellent sequel about what happens after you make it to the last bastion of civilization after the apocalypse.

Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai - DNF at pg 12

A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles - 5/5 stars

Oh man. This may have displaced the Will Darling Adventures as my favorite KJ Charles book. Wonderful MCs, A+ side character arcs, and villains you really loved to hate. I rambled on a lot about this book to my wife after I finished it.

Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender - DNF at pg 156

His Lordship's Secret by Samantha SoRelle - 3.75/5 stars

Us, Et Cetera by Kit Vincent - 5/5 stars

Cinderella retelling with androids but Christ on a bike was this a painful read. Really, really well done. Highly recommended.

Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer - 5/5 stars

My 5 star rating diverges pretty sharply from the average Storygraph rating for this book, and I'm not sure why, other than maybe people thinks it's PrObLeMaTic. It was definitely not a super happy book, though it ends on a good note (that's a pun btw!). I thought it was a great book about a period that isn't often written about (1890s Paris) with a fascinating protagonist (who was a real person).

Dark Heir by CS Pacat - 5/5 stars

It's a CS Pacat book; it's the sequel to Dark Rise; obvs I loved it. I don't understand why this series is shelved under YA except that Pacat's publisher thinks more people will buy them. This series is the gay Lord of the Rings you always wanted and somehow is an even slower burn than Captive Prince.

Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love by Rita A Rubin - DNF at pg 50

Cover Story by Valerie Gomez - DNF at pg 176

Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace - 4/5 stars

[neversetyoufree]

Hi ! Sorry if this was already asked previously but I was wondering, have you read Pandora Hearts as well ? Some thoughts on it if the answer is yes maybe ? (Favorite characters, favorite arc or plotline ?)

I have! I read it back when I was in high school, and I reread it in full earlier this year. I'm not as obsessive a fan as I am for VnC, but I'm still quite fond of it :).

I think Oz was my favorite character back when I was a teen, but my #1 fav these days is absolutely Gil. There is something deeply wrong with that man and I adore him for it. I'm also quite fond of Oswald and Alice.

Plot-wise, two of my favorite moments are the conclusion of the Eliot and Leo arc (including the Big Eliot Moment that I won't name bc spoilers) and Gil's big triumphant return to Oz after the de-arming. The whole "Why do you have to be real?" scene is. waugh. I adore how unhinged Gil is and I get a kick out of all the scenes where he's contemplating doing something horrible, but him genuinely unconditionally loving Oz and helping him out of a crisis is even more top-tier.

I'm also a big fan of all the Jack, Lacie, and Oswald backstory chapters. And the little bonus chapter of the trio trying to dress and cook without Gil's arm 🥺🥺.

[cantheywinthehungergames]

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