#i am delighted by the deep

[deadhaven]

Especially the lies.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[moeblob]

Right and his work menaces (Brent and Karen).

I don't remember last I mentioned it but apart from crude nicknames to people (except Chris), he also just puts them in his phone really weird (except Chris, who is literally in his phone as Chris). And I bring this up because in Right's phone, Karen is saved as "Lawful Obligation".

[idontmindifuforgetme]

At a point in my life where coming off as racially ambiguous is bothering me bc I want to be proudly Arab more than ever before

[thebirdandhersong]

in my you're on your own kid era again (I never left)

[firstelevens]

Hello, hello! I’ve been binge reading ALL of your SAMBUCKY fics and I was wondering if you ever planned to write ‘six evenings at Barnham Court’ as a full Sambucky groundskeeper-royal fic? Idk I’m invested in it after reading the parts in ‘steering my heart like a wheel in your hands’.

Hi!!! I'm gonna be real, this message was an absolute delight to receive because I, too, am invested in Six Evenings At Barnham Court and I have to stop myself from throwing references to it into all my F1 AU fics.

Although I've learned to never say never when it comes to fics, I would say that the odds of me writing Barnham Court are pretty low. I did, however, think about it a lot when I was writing 'steering my heart', and I was just riffing on it the other day with executive fic producer extraordinaire @sesamestreep so here's some lore under the cut to tide you over:

in the last quarter of the book, Simon gets engaged to a wealthy heiress to save Barnham Court and Jack is devastated and returns to New York, and Bucky who was "definitely not invested in this book, Sam; it's just vacation reading" was so obviously upset that he refused to finish it and Sam ended up reading the last few chapters to him

a character based on Steve does appear in the original fic as the housekeeper's child, but she was gender-swapped so it wouldn't be wall-to-wall dudes, so people who only read the book and not the fic don't realize who she's supposed to be

they adapt Barnham Court to a miniseries, naturally, and Sam live-tweets the finale because 1) he believes in causing chaos and 2) Freddie isn't old enough to disown her dads for being embarrassing on main yet

The Barnham Court miniseries features (for literally just like one episode) the actor from the F1 movie who took one (1) picture beside Sam and led to Bucky flying halfway across the world to make their relationship public. His character hooks up with Jack. Bucky claims that he's just annoyed because it didn't happen in the book but we all know better.

the book was selected for Oprah's Book Club, as canonized by the cover that Emma made for it and you better believe there were some horrified F1 girlies watching their moms pick up a book at Target that they knew was just smutty RPF

the Barnham Court roses that get referenced in the excerpt from 'steering my heart' are a recurring theme from the book (that's why they're on the cover!) and Jack plants them around the cottage he moves into upstate when he leaves England and the novel ends with Simon selling Barnham Court and coming to New York to find that Jack rescued the part of his home that he loved the most and surrounded them with it so Simon would never have to go without it, THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK!

[ravencromwell]

The poem evokes human greatness and human vulnerability. People are “godlike” in their courage and skill, but even the greatest mortals fall and clutch the dust between their bloody fingers. The beautiful word minunthadios , “short-lived,” is used of both Achilles and Hector, and applies to all of us. We die too soon, and there is no adequate recompense for the terrible, inevitable loss of life. Yet through poetry, the words, actions, and feelings of some long-ago brief lives may be remembered even three thousand years later.

--Emily Wilson's introduction to the Iliad

[popppyfur]

what an incredible day to love poppy trolls dreamworks

[setaflow]

Dorktown Gang how we feeling?

[goldkirk]

My five happy things for the day

• paper that has a good feeling texture

• things not feeling like an emergency EVERY second of the day, only part of the time

• the fact that these cheapo stamp ink pads from Walmart a few years ago somehow still have a bit of functioning ink not dried out?

• I’m able to track and retain conversations for longer periods of time again, I’m finally finally finally feeling some progress

• putting on a warm hoodie or coat when feeling chilled

[allisonreader]

It's funny how big of an impact things we watch as we grow up leave.

Like I just read an article interviewing Alyson (last name not remembered) who played Lunnette the clown on The Big Comfy Couch.

My parents and I still quote things from the show. One line in particular.

"Who made this big mess!?"

Then we give blame to who did. Messy hair day, still referred to the person as Major Bedhead. We'll still even reference Molly the dolly.

The Big Comfy Couch is hardly the only thing that gets referenced.

There are still times when (though my brothers don't really know the show) that we reference Skinnamarink TV with Sharon Lois and Bram. Especially some of their songs. (Skinnamarink-y dinky do- I love you. I love you in the morning and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening and underneath the moon...)

Ants in the Pants is another one that still gets a reference at times and that show had some fun music on it. Songs that I still think about to this day.

I still think about Babar a lot, but we don't necessarily reference it, though I do like to pull out (moonmen never kid) at times. I also still think about Theodore the Tugboat and will go and listen to the theme song at times.

And of course there are the classics like Little Bear, Franklin, Arthur and others, but they're not ones that necessarily actually get directly referenced. Though I'm sure that there are many shows that I'm missing.

Anyways that's just my little musing on kid shows.

[affixjoy]

Miles O’Brien has exactly ONE nice shirt. He’s such a blue collar dad and I love him so much.

[lexydakitten]

went to the aquarium today instead of doing monday why do i still have monday rage. its literally not that serious i talked to a guy in my class for like 5 minutes about what our favorite sharks were as the chairs sprayed us with water and i remember absolutely nothing else lol. too unserious of a day for the rage i mean really

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

hi guys, may i introduce you to the concept of ailette/hestio

If hesphael is ephael giving in to hestio with some jibes that have little to no heat behind them, then ailette/hestio is ailette returning hestio's energy even more and hestio not being able to take it. Ephael teases hestio with a ☺️ or 😄 face while ailette is like >:)) and she does not pull punches. she would embarrass him happily and watch him combust. They compete on a bunch of inconsequential things and hestio loses 80% of the time because ailette is just too cool like that.

[e-louise-bates]

"We make our own lives wherever we are, after all ... college can only help us to do it more easily. They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here ... everywhere ... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness." -LM Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

Man, Kevin Sullivan really flattened these excellent words of wisdom from Mrs. Allan to Anne on the importance (or not) of Anne going to college into the generally cheesy aphorism of, "I went looking for my dreams outside myself and discovered it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it," didn't he?

(Also, wow is this akin to what Miss Fowler tells Emily in Maud Hart Lovelace's Emily of Deep Valley over a similar theme of whether college is necessary to the building of a full and rich life: "You've discovered, I see, that we have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house ..." I guess Mrs. Allan and Miss Fowler would have been kindred spirits.)

[ourceliumnetwork]

oh shit y'all.

i've done gotten invested in Gurren Lagann. we're like 19 episodes deep in this paint and i have been emotionally compromised by the silly mechs.

believe in the me.