#heidi travels

[heidiamalia]

We leave for Scotland tonight!

[sgippy]

[inchidentally]

Can we talk about the little guilty look to Oscar when Lando said "that was never planned" about Australia? That is so cute. I'm like you I never expected they were close enough yet to randomly meet up during the break. I think Oscar was already gone then? But so adorable how Lando felt a little guilty anyway.

no I know !! he said that entire segment about Australia to Oscar instead of Lawrence and I loved Oscar's little nods when Lando said "that was never planned" ;__; then the whole overly explaining why he made the spontaneous trip like baby boy Oscar doesn't mind that you visited your good friend of like three or four years and not him <3<3

and yes, Nicole tweeted abt the dog missing him and Oscar had already flown back to the UK!

and like just to clarify !! this is all intended as a joke and lighthearted please dear god no more hating on men who have literal gfs over this one 48h trip etc etc

[sweetygirl90]

Recuerdo que hubo un entonces donde mandé la computadora a arreglar, mi papá me prestó al suya para dibujar y terminé probando tonterías mientras esperaba.

Bueno, acá hay una publicación con los dibujos en cuestión, empezando con los tortolitos de Jardín de lotos. (?)

Un Vortex, porque aunque está loquito lo queremos de todos modos.

HABÍA VUELTO DE VER INTENSAMENTE 2 Y ME NACIÓ TRATAR DE DIBUJARLA, NO SÉ POR QUÉ LO HICE JAJAJA

Heidi, toda linda extrañando a su ex. No sé si alguno la recordará, pero ella sale en Polka y Geppaku.

Esta vendría a ser la madre de Francoise, que sale en un extra de Geppaku. No tiene nombre, así que yo le puse Céline :D

Ybueno, eso era todo lo que tenía, me vuelvo a mi cueva, chao.

[purichou]

after im done with grad school i really wanna do one of those worldpacker/workaway things on a farm in a setting like only yesterday or suzaku (naomi kawase)

[linnheidi]

As I was walking past Gregory lake in a strong breeze, a squiggly man parks his van and jumps out of his car to take a photo. I wonder why, its a muddy lake. What is there to stop the car for? On closer inspection its not a camera, but a strange device in his hands. He looks excited as I walked past him. He sees me and says: There is strong winds (he reads off his gadget). I was like, yeah, I can feel it. Trying not to sound sarcastic. He replies with a cheerful and childlike glee and a toothy smile: You know what that means? He doesn’t wait for my reply. He turns and opens up his trunk. A part of me is thinking I will end up in that trunk. But its already full of windsurfing equipment. Time to surf!

[cultivating-wildflowers]

2024 Reading - August

There I was at the beginning of the month all worried about my potential page count for August, and then I went and read well beyond that. It's fine. I'm just a baby. The good news is that I seem to have caught my reading stride again--I actually wanted to spend my evenings reading a physical book, and didn't feel like reading was a slog. And even though I'm only halfway toward my original reading goal for the year, I've made good progress through my digital TBR.

Total books: 9  |  New reads: 8  |   2024 TBR completed: 1 (0 DNF) / 27/36 total   |   2024 Reading Goal: 53/100

July | September

potential reading list from August 1st

First of all, please admire this graph:

I haven't read this many pages in a month in like two years. (This does count pages and hours I read for books I ultimately DNF.)

Moving on.

#1 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol 1 by Beth Brower - 5/5 stars

A quick, charming read with surprising depth. I actually cried at one point. And I definitely want to read more. It’s a pity each volume is so small and that none are available through any library in the state.

Note from end-of-the-month Phoebe: I bought Volume 2. And another book by the same author.

#2 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 5/5 stars ('24 TBR)

Expertly crafted historical setting effortlessly blended with the dangerously fantastical. Rich, complex characters who are people of their time. A totally engrossing writing style with asides and footnotes and sharp dialogue that left me laughing with delight. So many tiny elements that combined to make up exactly the sort of story I crave. I wasn't expecting to be enthralled, but I was from the first page. Maybe it rewired my brain a little bit.

I will grant it's not for everyone, but it was PERFECT for me. Just don't ask me what the plot is.

Reasons you may not like it: 1) It's huge and a bit of a time investment. 2) It is largely character-driven and, while well-paced, doesn't have a lot of external pressure to keep the story exciting. 3) It's somewhat verbose, in a Tolkien sort of way. 4) Something of an open ending (which, weirdly, didn't bother me?). 5) As the magic tips from human to fairy, it develops a dark and occult flavor. This is nice for people who like their fairies to remain distinctly wicked within the narrative (rather than roguishly morally gray), but there are decidedly dark elements. I tried to watch the show a few years ago and didn't make it through the first episode, and as I recall it was because the fairies came off a tad too dark for me. Somehow it was better on the page.

#3 - Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden - 4/5 stars

This is both the biography of a man who escaped the North Korean prison camp where he was born, and also a biography of North Korea itself over the past 50-odd years. Sparse and somewhat stilted, full of facts and figures, it reads more like an article than a story. I'll say it's an important story, despite the surrounding controversy, but the writing style didn't do it any favors.

Note regarding the peculiar controversy surrounding this book: A few years after the book was published, Shin Dong-hyuk contacted Harden and revised his story as told here. The base details remained the same, but timelines and locations had changed. Yeonmi Park faced the same controversy following the publication of her memoir of her childhood in North Korea (In Order to Live; which, weirdly, I read in August of last year), which to me says less about the veracity at the heart of both individuals' histories and more about how trauma, in particular that brought about by political violence, can impact emotions and memory. If you're interested in reading this book, definitely check out Harden's updated forward examining Shin's altered account. Harden himself repeatedly acknowledges Shin as "an unreliable narrator of his own life".

More like this: "In Order to Live" by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers; "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah; "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

#4 - Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford - 4/5 stars (audio)

If you couldn't tell, I'm desperately trying to fill in some of the missing letters for my second year of a self-imposed alphabet titles challenge. This is my fifth attempt at a "T". Attempts three and four are below in the DNFs. I decided to bank on an extreme change of pace with this one.

A solid middle grade adventure, and one I'll definitely recommend in future. Fun and unpredictable and my head hurts, because time travel always does that to me. Ridiculously short chapters, for some reason.

More like this: A bit like "A Wrinkle in Time", a bit like "Meet the Robinsons" (the movie; haven't read the books).

#5 - The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud - 4/5 stars

I DNF'd this last year after trying and failing for a month to get into it. I had definitely been in the perfect mood when I started the series last year, but for some reason The Empty Grave gave me no end of trouble, and I gave it up about a quarter of the way through.

Not so this time. This time it took me all of four days to finish.

Thankfully this follows the tradition of refreshing the reader's memory of previous events in the series, because I'd forgotten some of the pertinent details. Either because of my foggy memory or because of something else in the story, the ending fell kind of flat for me, like it was missing an element to deliver a good emotional conclusion, or like it didn’t fully satisfy the stakes set up at the start of the book. I consider this series more young adult than middle grade, but the way it wrapped up definitely felt middle grade in style.

Still a solid ending for sure, just a little confusing.

#6 - A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle - 5/5 stars (reread) - 50th read of the year!

Comfort book my belovéd.

#7 - The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution by John Oller - 4/5 stars (audio)

Francis Marion is one of my dad's favorite figures of the Revolutionary War, and man, I can see why.

The writing itself is somewhat dry, crammed full of names and dates technical details of battles; but Oller manages to weave a solid narrative as he combs through the legends surrounding Marion and picks out the facts.

More like this: "Lion of Liberty" by Harlow Giles Unger.

#8 - Heidi by Johanna Spyri - 4/5 stars (audio)

"Heidi" was one of the movies I watched on repeat as a kid. Not the Shirley Temple version, but the 1968 made-for-TV version that apparently took some liberties with the plot. (But according to Wikipedia, it's most memorable for interrupting a football game for its premier.)

The book is a cozy classic children's book, plain and simple. It feels a bit like The Secret Garden with an orphan coming to an unfamiliar place and thriving there (plus helping an invalid thrive as well); and a bit like L.M. Montgomery pushing all of us to get outside and breathe some fresh air.

#9 - The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany - 4/5 stars (audio)

Absolutely gorgeous.

You might like this is you like: The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton; or the narrative style of the legends told by characters in the Queen's Thief series.

Useless fun fact: Lord Dunsany's name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett.

DNF

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - Hilarious two-star reviews proved it's not something worth finishing and it doesn't deliver on the premise. (It's not even about Hamnet. It's a "re-imagining" of Anne/Agnes Hathaway-Shakespeare and guess what. She's a strong, wild woman who practices witchcraft in late 16th century England. Groundbreaking. I need to stop skimming summaries.)

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert - Got about a third of the way through this one before I realized...I just didn't care. The premise was good, and the delivery was kind of meh but not bad--which, considering how rarely I read newer YA these days, was actually a point in its favor. But then we got to the reveal and I went "Wait. That's it?" and lost interest. I don't think magical realism is for me. Also, it didn't affect my decision to stop reading, but I didn't like the audiobook narrator.

Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa Albert - A companion book to the Hazel Wood duology, presented as the book-within-a-book that the Hazel Wood revolves around. I read a couple of the stories out of curiosity, but the allure of that book-within-a-book is gone when it's told in the same voice as the actual story.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - I...have no idea. What is this? I got a little over halfway through it before it got to be too much and I gave up. I liked the writing voice well enough but the story meandered along a plodding, darkly sentimental route and I got lost. And a little disgusted.

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart - I wanted to like it, but it was too bawdy for me.

The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley - Robin is such a hit-or-miss author for me, and this one was a solid miss. The premise was too absurd for me to stick it out. I might have given it another chapter, but none of the characters were really grabbing me, and I wasn't fond of how McKinley chose to portray Marian.

Currently Reading:

The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett - I swear I'll have finished this by the end of the year.

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - I'll finish this one pretty quickly.

[carriagelamp]

I was doing quite a bit of travelling this month, so audiobooks were a blessing (thank you for my life, P.G. Wodehouse). I had a few physical books that I carted around with me, but mostly I really appreciated the bliss of being able to pop in headphones and listen to a story on the plane or to help me fall asleep in assorted inn/hostel/hotels…

A Bear Called Paddington

Speaking of travel, of my destinations this month was the UK! Had an excellent trip, got all around the country, including London. I was thrilled to see the Paddington Bear statue at Paddington Station, so I decided I needed to reread the first book of the series since it’s been years since I read any of them.

A Bear Called Paddington tells the story of how a young bear “from Darkest Peru” winds up in London. The Brown family find him in at Paddington Station with a tag that says “please look after this bear, thank you”. Not able to stand leaving him on his own, they bring him home and that is, as they say, history. The stories are all quaint little adventures about the well-meaning Paddington exploring every day London life and the inevitable mishaps and misadventures he gets drawn into.

Black and White: Tough Love at the Office

Ah, the Toxic Yuri everyone’s been talking about! I honestly don’t quite know what to say about this one… this author had a very specific fetish she was going for and succeeded! It’s all about an office rivalry and how out of hand it gets, very kinky. There is absolutely nothing of substance here but tbfh if you read that title and decided to pick it up substance proooobably isn’t what you’re looking for. The art is nice! I wouldn’t bother reading more, but I had fun reading this.

Heidi

Another childhood classic I hadn’t read in years. It felt like a good summery read so I decided to revisit it since the last time I read it was probably late elementary school and I remembered having vaguely warm feelings for it. The story is about a young orphaned girl named Heidi and how she is sent to live with her gruff grandfather up in the Alps. Despite people having doubts about her doing well in such a harsh environment or with such a harsh man, Heidi takes to the mountains immediately and her bitter grandfather is soon softened by having her around. Things get complicated though when Heidi is taken away from her uncle and forced to live with another family, far away from her mountains and the world she knows…

I enjoyed it well enough. It was sweet and endearing like children’s books from this era are, though the moralistic Christianity was a little heavy fucking handed for this particular atheist. Could have done without. Not sure I’d bother rereading it again now that I’ve been reintroduced to the story, but it is a nice one and obviously a classic for a reason.

Into the River Lands // Mammoths at the Gates (Singing Hills)

I seriously can’t sing my love for The Singing Hills Cycle loudly enough. Go read it! Go go go! I was iffy when I read the first book, it took me a little bit to really understand what the book was trying to do, but by the time I hit the second book I was sold. By Into the Riverlands I was in love. 

These stories continue to follow the cleric Chih as they travel the lands collecting story for their monastery which exists to keep detailed records of all sorts of stories, both historical and fictional. These books are fascinatingly meta, and tend to weave multiple stories together with the framing device of Chih in the present day and then whoever is telling them their stories. It means that things often aren’t said plainly and you have to pick apart these various stories and the biases they’re being told through in order to understand the overarching story of the novella. Into the Riverlands is about Chih trying to collect stories about legendary martial artists from the riverland region and the companions they joins up with to travel a dangerous river road. Mammoths at the Gates is about Chih returning to the monastery only to find that it’s been besieged by mammoths and that an important cleric has died. They get wrapped up in trying to help mediate both the siege, the death of the cleric, changing relationships, and how stories affect the way we feel about people.

Star Crossed

This one was… a comic. I’m not really sure what to say about it. My girlfriend bought it for the pretty art and lent it to me and it was… a fine read. The art was definitely pretty! But the pacing was brutal. There was some genuinely lovely ideas and the relationships that were set up seemed appealing, but everything happened at such a breakneck speed that there was really no chance to feel anything. I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about it anymore, honestly. A problem was no sooner introduced than it was resolved. This felt like it either needed to be a story with a much smaller scope, or it needed to extend over quite a few more books. Ultimately if you want a story about star people, and a king/body guard thing, and some nice art it wouldn’t hurt to read. But like… you aren’t getting much. Kinda just made me want to go and reread Dogsbody instead which did sentient star politics in a much more interesting way. 

Right Ho, Jeeves // Very Good, Jeeves! // Thank You, Jeeves // Code of the Woosters // Joy in the Morning // The Mating Season (Jeeves & Wooster novels)

So! I got a little into the Jeeves books! They made absolutely perfect falling-asleep-books since, much like Bertie, they don’t take a lot of brain power. They’re like eating a bowl of popcorn for my brain. They were fun, silly, with just enough scheming to keep things interesting. I adore Bertie Wooster with my entire heart, and it’s always very fun to see Jeeves swoop in to save the day. My one condemnation is that this is very much a “if you’ve read one, you’ve read them all” sort of series. Which clearly worked for me! I wanted more of the same and by god I got it! Could not for the life of me tell you what each book was about, but I had a blast listening to them and intend to listen to more too after I’ve had a break. Every time Aunt Dahlia turns up my heart sings. I am also delighted to have reached the books that feature Gussie because he's also an absolute delight!

[kimkibunisa]

Bu bu seferde

Heidi gibi Alplerin eteklerinde

[dollybambieyes]

me and the girls rn xoxo

[heidiamalia]

Scotland trip planning begins! Flights are booked!

[anothersideoftheglobe]

On my sixth day in Switzerland, I went to Heididorf, a fake village celebrating the book by Johanna Spyri on the mountain above Maienfeld where the majority of the book was set.

Think Hobbiton in Matamata, but Heidi. Quite cute, great for fans.

The area around was stunning - when you talk about Switzerland in the summer, this is EXACTLY what I think about.

[themaskedsam]

Heidi Helwig

[entheognosis]

To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way.

Heidi Priebe

[p1nkprincess444]

ᴀᴅᴅɪᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜ - ᴛᴏᴍ ᴋᴀᴜʟɪᴛᴢ

female!reader x tom kaulitz

word count: 1,173

contents: 18+, cheating, small angst, small fluff

part two

You both had known one other since you were fourteen. Tom was your first love, he was your first everything but neither of you ever seemed to get the timing right with your relationship, and then with little to no warning he was married. You tried to be the supportive friend, you tried to be happy for him, but when you were alone in your tiny apartment at night all you could do was cry about what could have been. Occasionally Bill would come and check on you but most of the time it would end with you crying in his arms. Bill was one of your closest friends and he was the only one who knew of your feelings for Tom. 

Bill had now somehow convinced you to come out with him to a club, so now you found yourself in a short party dress with high heels holding onto his arm. He brought you over to the bar buying you shots and other random colorful drinks to help you loosen up. You slowly became increasingly more tipsy as Bill fed you drinks. With no hesitation as a song came on he pulled you up from the bar stool. You both made your way out onto the dance floor where his arms locked around your waist pulling you close to him. The movement of your bodies pressing together felt effortless and free as your hips moved with his. Bill’s hands held onto your hips pulling you against him as he moved to the music with you unaware of the eyes on the two of you. 

Little did either of you know Tom and Heidi were already in the club when you arrived. Tom noticed you almost as soon as you walked in, taking in the way your party dress hugged your body and the way you held onto his brother. He knew he loved his wife but watching as you laughed and held on to Bill sparked a deep seated jealousy within him. Now watching as you grinded against Bill was his breaking point. He couldn't stand the way Bill was pulling your hips into his and the way you would whisper something into his ear making a smirk show on his brother's face. Tom tried to focus back on his wife who was pulling him close for a kiss or a dance but his gaze just kept traveling back to you. 

His gaze locked on you as you whispered something into Bill’s ear before you walked off. He carefully departed from his wife. As he followed you he maintained a far enough distance that you wouldn’t notice him as you walked into the girls bathroom. 

You walked into the surprisingly empty bathroom pulling open your small clutch as you began touching up your makeup. You heard the squeaky door hinges creak open as you applied your lip gloss before the sound of the lock clicking echoed off the bathroom walls. Your eyes glanced over to whoever had entered and to your surprise it was not another girl, it was Tom.

“ Tom- I didn’t know you were here... ”

Before you could get out your next sentence his lips were on yours. His hands possessively cupped your face pulling you into the kiss. You stumbled back from his sudden movement but he caught you, one of his arms moved to wrap around your waist desperate to keep you close to him. His hands moved down pushing up your dress so it was now bunched around your waist. He hoisted you up onto the countertop pushing open your thighs as he deepened the kiss.

“ Du gehörst mir. ” { You’re fucking mine. }

He pulled you closer to him, his hardened cock grinding against your panties through his jeans. It was almost too much for you to process. I mean Tom was married for god sake why was this suddenly happening now? Why did he suddenly crave you as much as you craved him? All your questions were soon pushed to the side as you felt the sensation of the bare head of his cock rubbing against your panties. He wasted no time before hooking them to the side and pushing into you. It had been several years since you and Tom had sex so needless to say he had grown a bit. His cock was stretching you to the brim as it slid in and out of your tight cunt. The sounds that filled that empty club bathroom were ungodly as your moans and his grunts mixed with the sound of skin slapping together. You reached a state of pure bliss as his cock abused that soft spongy part inside of you. The back of your head pressed back into the mirror behind you as your eyes shut while your moans grew louder. 

“ Open those eyes, look at me while I fuck you. ” His voice was strained with desire as he punctuated each of his words with a deep thrust of his cock. His hand gripped your chin forcing you to look into his dark brown eyes, “ Lass mich diese hübschen Augen sehen, Engel. ” { Let me see those pretty eyes angel. }

Your y/c/e eyes slowly opened and locked on his, he pressed small gentle kisses to your lips as he murmured how much he loved you against your lips. The whole moment felt so right and so wrong as his hips slammed into yours. You both knew he was married but in the moment the small gold band wrapped around his ring finger meant nothing. It was simply just another piece of jewelry.

“ I’m so close Engel, ” his hips stuttered as his impending release was closely approaching. 

His cock was bullying your cunt desperate to make you cum before him. His hands that were gripping your hips ever so tightly were pulling you in to meet each one of his brutal thrusts. Your moans were turning into screams before you released around his cock and without missing a beat his cum painted the inside of your cunt. His hips began to slow until coming to a stop still pressed against yours. Your head moved to rest on his shoulder as you both caught your breaths. 

“ Bist du gekommen, Engel? ” { Did you cum angel? }

You could only nod as it felt like you were on a completely different planet. Your face was pressed into his neck planting gentle kisses against his soft skin while his hand gently stroked your hair.

“ Was this just a one time thing? ” My words were completely muffled against his neck making it impossible to understand what I had asked.

“ What was that my love? ” Tom had gently pulled you up so now his large hands were holding your face in his hand again.

“ Is- was this just a one time thing? ”

Tom’s thumb gently traced your bottom lip as he shook his head, “ No- no I want more of you. We’ll figure something out, love.”

You nodded in response as you slowly moved in for a gentle kiss. His lips met your in a sweet sensual kiss almost like a promise to you.

୨୧ if this post does well, i'll be releasing a part two!! ୨୧