#i have to be restrained

[billpottsismygf]

So, I own three copies of A Christmas Carol. A couple of weeks ago I only had two - my pretty hardback one and the one in the Wordsworth collection of Dickens' Christmas books - but then I was in my local second-hand bookshop and I spotted the Penguin edition of collected Christmas writings by Dickens, which I had perused online already. I took a picture of the contents page, went home, cross checked whether there was anything in it that I didn't already have in other editions, found that there were a couple of tiny pieces that I didn't, then I went back the next day and bought it.

I felt a little silly for this, but now it's the edition I'm using to read along with A Dickens December (it was the copy closest to hand) and I'm really pleased I bought it because it's got lots of notes along with the text.

Some of my favourites so far include the fact that Dickens' original draft went on for several sentences about how much of a stupid 'poser' Hamlet is; that the bit about driving a coach in the stairwell was referencing a speech by a particular politician; and that Marley not having bowels is a pun on literal bowels, the belief that emotions were located in the bowels, and the 'biblically derived' bowels meaning of mercy or tenderness.

[beetleboness]

Whats something you could talk about all day?

got so deep in thought as to which of my hyperfixations i should handpick from my collection to ramble about, that i forgot i had water boiling on stove. would not have remembered if my mom didnt start yelling at me

i have the survival skills of a really sad bug

[s0up1ta]

they're so doomed yaoi i hate them

full thing under the cut:

[ribbittrobbit]

[kaffkanya]

they were SO boyfriends here i went insane a little bit like okayyyyy alrrr lets flirt during the life threatening situation

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

RAVENOUS 1999・dir. Antonia Bird

[bugcatcherkit]

Man that sure is a Situation where two 14 year olds push the limits of each other’s trauma responses until they both reach extreme breaking points. and then they deal with the aftermath basically all by themselves. Isn't that super awesome and totally not kinda fucked up at all.

[hcnnibal]

a1/a2 as ladies

[pyrophantom]

Amber Heard moved to Madrid after enduring abuse and a paid smear campaign that resulted in death threats towards her and her baby.

Now "victim" Johnny Depp is all over Spain and living temporarily in Madrid trying to revive his career.

This is creepy stalkerish behavior.

[lewkwoodnco]

a week in the life of London's youngest agency head (insp.)

[inkclover]

these bitches be gay

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

[reginalusus]

Doobles that sort of turned Christmas-themed, IDK. :P

Christmas angst? Is that a thing? Christmas angst, anyone...? Harvey and Jason who were once both welcomed into Wayne Manor with open arms, only to suddenly feel like they're out of place when they step into it again whilst they live their second life? The smiles are different, the smells are different, Jason opens the wrong cupboards looking for the cups, Harvey walks into a wrong room accidentally thinking it was somewhere else, this place of comfort feels colder even at a time when it's supposed to be warmer than usual.

Anyway that's what I'm thinking about now.

[scottstiles]

Every Sciles Touch 2x7 ☾ Restraint

[richardgrimes]

OUTFITS IN FILM & TV ↳ BROWN

DON'T ask why so and so wasn't included. Either I've never seen the show/movie, don't have it on my computer, didn't like the outfit in general, or simply didn't remember it.