#i have a thing for letters

[grandmaster-anne]

Posted 24 January 2023 “This morning I received a card from His Majesty The King and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales.” — Nathan Ngatai

[grandmaster-anne]

“𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈”

“𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒆𝒃 16𝒕𝒉, 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 3 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔, 𝒕𝒐𝒐, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅, 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒆 & 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇𝒇, 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆! 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐?!”

“𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈

𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒕”

How incredible ! A letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip, 3 weeks before their reunion in Lisbon in 1957, has been auctioned and made public.

“Still 3 weeks to go and what a tiresome date it is, too,for me” , “All my love darling, your very loving Lilibet”🥺

Ps : Elizabeth and Anne wanted the beard off🤣

[carebeardean]

Charles has always left Edwin little notes slipped between the pages of his favorite books, in his science equipment, places he knows Edwin loves. Just silly things—post its that say “hi Edwin :)”. doodles of Edwin with his nose stuck in a book. reminders to stock up on wolfsbane. but.

Then, post canon, Edwin tentatively starts dating people. And it’s ridiculous, because Edwin’s right there, all the time, but Charles..misses him a bit. And his heads a mess, and he can’t sort out what the hell he’s feeling most of the time, and whenever he tries to say any of it out loud it comes out rubbish.

So. He writes down some of the shit he can’t say right, and because he’s a coward, hides them so he doesn’t have to see Edwin’s face when he reads them.

then Edwin starts writing back.

Neat lilac blue little envelopes appear in Charles coat pockets. In his bag. Once, in his shoe? Some nights, Edwin will clear his throat and mention something from a letter, offhand, like they’re just picking up conversation, and Charles can pretend they are. That they always have talked about the basement, the belt, the nameless fear that chokes him every time Edwin walks out the door with someone else on his arm.

Sometimes he can’t. The words get stuck in his throat. Edwin’s not mad, he’s maddeningly, stubbornly kind about it, which is worse.

Some nights they trade. A secret for a secret. Charles learns about the novels Edwin used to hide under his mattress, about all the lonely years before Charles got there. About Simon.

Meanwhile, Edwin is losing his mind, because Charles has accidentally stumbled onto what was a fucking courting ritual in his time. Love letters were something engaged couples treasured for years, kept and reread over and over. (Edwin does. keep them in a special box, will take one out and trace the words, tuck it in his breast pocket for courage).

Edwin would rather have to reattach a limb again than lose Charles trust, all the dark and beautiful things he shares with Edwin only. He knows—knows Charles doesn’t mean to make him fall more in love with him.

[theoldkyokodied]

[Hi Dennis. How was the lion feeding?...?]

This has been something I've been working on for quite a while now, as some people who look at my insta story might know, but I'm finally done!! those text messages from s14ep5 are so unhinged, they haunt me every goddamn day. To drop "i love you so much" just to follow it with what essentially is a "no homo.. for u... even tho u r so hot and i like you so much!". exploading them with my mind into a million pieces, okay?

[bubblingsteam]

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[juniper-clan]

Moon 27: Walking on My Grave (feat @in-memoriam-tgwk Glowstar!)

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[heartorbit]

stay warm! 🌟🍬🤖🎈

[frenchphobe]

griddlehark modern pen pal au where they don’t know each other but are assigned as pen pals for those pen pal projects you get in middle school and it just turns into them sending each other hate mail and somehow they just keep going for several years, even though they dont rly have to

[grandmaster-anne]

Royal response from Buckingham Palace containing a message a double sided portrait of Her Majesty The Queen. © Royal Responses

[badnewswhatsleft]

hey.. so uhh.. there are a few 1080p pro shot streams of ENTIRE tourdust shows on jack edinger’s vimeo…………… ??

⬆️ bristow va - july 19 2023 (best audio out of them)

⬆️ london night 1 - nov 2 2023

⬆️ london night 2 - nov 3 2023

there is some pretty intense flashing/strobe effect editing during calm before the storm for all the vids so just fyi if you're watching

but like haha what the FUCK

[positivelyadhd]

here is your reminder that all trauma is valid.

trauma is to do with how our brains process (or don't process) memories and experiences and that if something is traumatic for you then that is trauma.

it doesn't matter if you or someone else thinks it should be significant or not or if someone else went through the same thing and wasn't impacted by it. what matters is if it's significant to you and how it impacted you.

a huge part of recovering from trauma is allowing yourself to accept that you had it in the first place.

[obsidianbit]

I love this gay ass show with its literally life ending injuries that heal immediately, but only when convenient to the plot, and its ridiculous use of modern phrases, and its laughing in the face of historical accuracy, and its kissing the face of the fans instead of trying to outwit them, and the way everyone involved in the show seem to go 'I KNOW RIGHT! I'M EXCITED TOO!' instead of mocking the fans

[umblrspectrum]

go read Memento Nori and Like the Stars and What Friends Are For and just generally all of Ad Astra Per Aspera by LadyDaybreaker on ao3

[lurkinginnernarrator]

au where SQQ does undergo the 'qi-deviation' and is 'changed' but in reality the twin of Shen Jiu, Shen Yuan made a comment one day about how all Shen Jiu did was bitch about his martial siblings. Never one to turn down a golden opportunity,

Shen Jiu: bet

And so the twins decided to switch lives!

The qi-deviation is just so they can explain away any differences of temperament and so sj can hightail away easier.

Shen Yuan: this is going to be so easy

(spoiler. it wasn't)

Between useless sect meetings that could've been not even an email but a text message, reading fifteen different preteens attempts to sneak in dick jokes into their poetry assignments, the head cook alerting him to the fact that they've somehow run out of rice??? They're the greatest cultivation sect??? How does that happen???

Anyway, two of his Hall masters eloping together and taking an extended honeymoon (he's happy for them, but. Who's going to teach those classes now??? Him. Apparently.), sect politics and his 'martial siblings' barely even attempting a farce of civility or courtesy AND his guqin strings needing to be replaced and restrung ?

Shen Yuan is sorry 🙏🙏please come back🙏🙏🙏

Cue the allotted period of switching ending and Shen Yuan dramatically throwing the fan on the ground as Shen Jiu rolls up and goes "thanks for the vacation didi"

[damconcha]

OH MY FUCKING GOD NAMI WHO TREASURES CHILDREN AND THEIR FREEDOM INSPIRING A YOUNG GIRL TO LIVE FREELY LIKE HER KILL ME NOW