#except ruth

[midmorninggrey]

Rules: Make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

Tagged by @layalu!

tagging (with no pressure) @critters-and-doodles @carnalapples @breninarthur @theaceofdragons

[boyinatown]

LETS FUCKING GO NEW PERSON ADOPTED TO THE FAMILY. Everyone meet @mayasadamnsimp

[inamindfarfaraway]

Stephanie Lauter is initially defined by her archetype as the popular girl in high school, but she must have been so lonely before Pete. Her mother is dead. Her father hates her and makes no attempt to hide it except to protect his reputation, constantly insulting, belittling and exerting authority over her when he isn’t busy with politics. She talks back to him, but doesn’t deny his descriptions of her. Miss Tessburger is the same. Her apparent friendships with the other cool kids, the kind of people who openly state the belief that looks are everything (not so different a paradigm to the one her father lives by), seem to be shallow and distant. Max rules the main popular clique with an iron fist to the point that they all stop bullying immediately and the school’s rigid social hierarchy crumbles once his influence is gone; and yet despite him having enough respect for her to try to protect her from what he believed were the undead during the prank, she was unaware of how big a problem his bullying was until she saw what he did to Pete, so she can’t have ever been that enmeshed in his circle. She dismisses her kindness to the losers as “the bare minimum” rather than lean into the potential for real friendships with them or leverage it to have power in this new group. It’s almost as if she doesn’t want to mislead them into thinking that she’s worth their time.

She’s cool because she acts like she doesn’t care about anything, and why would she? Life has never given her anything to care about. In fact, it’s punished her for caring. No matter what she does, her dad tells her that she’s worthless and stupid, so she stops trying to do well in school and starts sneaking out to parties full of alcohol and following through on flirting with the football players. She might as well make her body feel alive, as she can’t fix the fuck-up in her skull. Her phone is legitimately what she cherishes most in life. It can’t love her back or hug her or make the real world better, but at least it gives her an escape. It’s her space to control. Her pictures that she likes to look at, her music that drives her dad’s words out of her head. Her private conversations with people she chooses. At least it’s hers. (It isn’t. Her dad has been bugging it since she was twelve.)

Then Pete is nice to her, and in two weeks he becomes what she cherishes most.

Then she has to kill him. And shouldn’t she have seen this coming? Shouldn’t she have learned her lesson by now? Caring just means you have something to lose. That’s why she never wanted to love him like she does.

She pulls the trigger.

[kazuaru]

🌈!!!!

[ollierachnid]

Dale's smug little ordeal once he's arrested, which in itself feels orchestrated (loitering at the bus stop while he has a car, every note he owns crammed in cases, backpack like he's about to have a sleepover, longlegs outfit ON), stating his name and immediately asking for Lee. He knows they will inevitably be bought together. The weepy tone he uses with her that he doesn't with the prior interviewer... the single tear. You can never quite comprehend what's an act, what's an actual emotion, or if it's all so entwined it's basically negligible. Such a vessel for his religion that his attachment to Lee is undecipherable. Can a husk feel anything for anyone.? Is this an act, is it genuine? Does it matter. One million thoughts forever and ever.

[pretty-boy-eddie]

Stephanie after hearing the Loser Squad call Pete He-He for the hundredth time: so is there like... A meaning?

Ruth: We joined the GSA our freshman year and he got so nervous introducing himself that he said his pronouns were He-He.

Richie: he wasn't even using he/him at that point

Ruth: He left right after and threw up in a bush-

Pete, red in the face: can we not talk about it please?

[cutestkilla]

Tea for (more than) Two

So, in a delightful turn of events, I recently got together with some pals who are also TOTALLY NORMAL about Carry On. And we did our best to replicate afternoon tea at Lady Ruth’s house. And I thought it would be kinda fun to share the results (and some recipes, which are at the end under the cut). So, here they are, featuring:

Scones! (Sour cherry, ofc.)

Cake! (Chocolate with Chocolate-Orange Buttercream featuring a super respectful remembrance, Lemon Drizzle, and Classic Victoria Sandwich.)

Lavender Earl Grey shortbread cookies!

Finger sandwiches! (Egg & cress, Lemon and prawn, Caprese on focaccia, and Coronation chicken - all on freshly baked bread.)

A selection of teas! (Including Simon's Sour Cherry looseleaf blend, Simon Snow Tea, some proper English Breakfast, and of course Earl Grey.)

A giant slab of butter! (Fancy butter.)

A basil plant!

A crucible!

A sword through the table!

Special cameos by a Watford goat (wings hidden) and Prof. Minos (tiny fluffy edition)!

Sadly, no tea trolley, but we did our best to provide glamorous staging anyway.

It was pretty much the best, guys! Highly recommend. Recipes (including dairy-free versions for many treats) below the cut.

Chocolate cake with chocolate-orange buttercream (dairy-free)

Using this recipe for the cake, and this one for the frosting (instructions at the end for a chocolate variant). A hot tip is to use egg whites instead of aquafaba (they whip up much faster) and of course to add orange zest, per AWTWB ch 89.

Lemon Drizzle Cake (dairy-free)

Using this recipe, using vegan butter and replacing the self-raising flour with some flour/baking powder/salt ratio from the internet. Garnish with Kellogg's ICEE Cereal or any other weird cereal you saw at the store and couldn't resist trying, for a little visual flair.

Classic Victoria Sandwich (dairy-free)

Using this recipe, substituting butter with vegan butter, milk with a non-dairy milk alternative (ideally soy but in this case oat milk was used), and replacing the self-raising flour with the same flour/baking powder/salt ratio from the internet as above. Regular old granulated sugar can be used in place of caster sugar. Garnished this with some black raspberries, but any attractive fruit (or weird cereal) could be used.

Sour Cherry Scones

This recipe from the Joy of Cooking does the trick! Use the GOOD butter.

Lavender Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies

You can find the recipe here

Overnight Focaccia Bread

Lemon and Prawn Sandwiches

This recipe came from @cookingmywaythroughcarryon and there are tons more there for tea party inspiration, including alternate versions of some of the above, so definitely check it out!

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Richie: *sorting his m&m*

Richie: Wait... does this make me racist?

Ruth: I think it makes you neurotic.

Pete: That's not a great word, but yeah, ocd tendencies. Autism maybe, I'm not sure.

Reese: I do it too, I think it's fine.

PJ: Yeah, that makes you racist.

[fanciestghost]

[laevanders]

Another instalment of the Nerd Prudes dressing up as other shows I guess (except that now it's only laustki)

[affo-gatto-gateau]

Here's my random NPMD headcanon:

Ruth is the youngest of 8. The sibling closest to her is 6 years older. Her parents (and she has a few) barely talk to each other and talk to her even less. All of her siblings have moved out, so it's just her mostly alone in the house.

She pretends she loves the freedom. Even though she is civil and enjoys her siblings company when they visit, she only sees them once every few years (they all fled Hatchetfield as quick as possible). There's a reason the nerds always camp over at her house.

She hates waking up alone.

[ruthytwoshakes]

Some continuous contour line practice! (Not lifting pen off of the paper)

Honestly one of my favorite ways of drawing hehe

[the-way-astray]

Do you ship this book couple will reveal the truth.

no . . . you wouldn't . . . you wouldn't take this anonymous dumbassery to an official poll blog . . . nobody would betray me so . . . did you actually do this. hey. hey anon. anon come back. did you actually do this to me or are you just trying to scare me. anon. anon come back

[specialability]

Poirot S01E08 (ITV, 1989)

Hastings: Well my incognito is gone for a start. Poirot: Why, why is this? H: Well the pub's so crowded I'm having to share a room! And you'll never guess who with. P: No, Hastings, I will not. H: Japp. P: With the Chief Inspector Japp?! H: And the room has only got one bed.

[kazuaru]

On repeat - @elderwisp oc tag

Here's most of my oc's & their current fav song.

x|x|x x|x|x x|x|x

[master-missysversion]

The doctor meeting Gat and immediately telling her that Gallifrey would be destroyed in the future was kinda unhinged. I kinda love it. "You are only serving at the glory of bone and ash" she's crazy

"Misery loves company" on an extreme level