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[dubmill]

Lambourne, Essex; 23.4.2017

[groundrootvegetable]

Im arting my fight you guys

[random-brushstrokes]

Nigel Lambourne - Raised Arms (Hairdressing), ca. 1960

[artemlegere]

“And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.”

~ David McCullough Jr.

Painting • The Window • Stephanie Lambourne

[holespoles]

Stephanie Lambourne "tea for two"

[adrianicsea]

The oc relationships asks is soooooooo unfair because I want to ask you every single one about Kurt and Declan 🥺 but I will restrain myself!! Can I ask for 14, 21, and 31?

YES absolutely!!! i’m always eager to talk about kurt and declan… some of my newest OCs and yet also some of the dearest to me. it’s like they sprang fully formed from my forehead

14. what is something they argue about constantly? is it a deep-seated issue or something small? — i think there’s a LOTTTT of argument between them about declan’s desire to become a vampire for real. it’s something that declan wants (or thinks he wants) so badly that it drives him to progressively riskier & more dangerous places in search of it, and kurt doesn’t want to see declan get hurt. of course, what declan DOESN’T know is that kurt is a vampire himself— if and when declan finds out, that’s just another source of argument between them, because kurt might SAY that he doesn’t want declan to be injured, but then why won’t he just turn declan himself?

21. who typically tends to initiate intimacy first (be it conversation, action, etc)? — i think for a long while, both of them are very careful and cagey about intimacy, just because of the fact that one of them is employed by the other. once they do become involved, though, i think that they take it in turns; kurt is the touchier and more physically affectionate of the two, while declan is the one more likely to start intimate or vulnerable conversations.

31. how would they describe one another? — i think that all of kurt’s myriad conflicting feelings about declan would be most succinctly summed up like this: “declan is nothing like him [his ancestor, lord lambourne], and declan is TOO MUCH like him.”

as for declan, i think he would describe kurt thusly: “kurt is the only person in this charade i’ve embarked on that i know i can trust beyond all shadow of a doubt.”

[kingsnorthportfolio]

Peter Cook as Lord Lambourn

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[diasdesol05]

Stephanie Lambourne

[mscoyditch]

"Raised Arms. Hairdressing". 1960.

By Nigel Lambourne. British. 1919‐1988.

> random-brushstrokes

[dubmill]

Chigwell, Essex; 14.5.2023

[nellycockerpoo]

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[history-dujenoir]

Angela Lambourn

[artemlegere]

Teatime Poem

When the world is all at odds, and the mind is all at sea. Then cease the useless tedium, and brew a cup of tea. There is magic in its fragrance, there is solace in its taste. And the laden moments vanish, somehow into space. The world becomes a lovely thing, there’s beauty as you’ll see. All becuase you briefly stopped to brew a cup of tea.

~ Anonymous

🍵🐈‍⬛Illustration • My Cup of Tea • Stephanie Lambourne

[photo-dujenoir]

Angela Lambourn

[adrianicsea]

13, 18, 25 for declan :)

13. what languages do they speak? how fluently? — english only, but he’s a fluent/native speaker!

18. opinion on lying, stealing, and killing? — he’s very pro-lying, or at least he is when it comes to himself. he tends to be very scandalized when finding out that others close to him have lied to him, even if declan has ALSO been lying to them. he has a little more of an internal struggle/poor view of stealing, however, and he (initially) views killing as something barbaric and beneath him… though he won’t raise too much fuss about vampires killing in his presence.

25. how good/bad is their hearing and eyesight? — his eyesight and hearing are both pretty standard for a man in his 50s!!! among vampires, he has a reputation for having poorer sight/hearing than most— which declan is very worried about, because that’s another possible metric by which his ruse could be exposed. the contacts he uses to make his eyes appear vampiric have some magnification power to them, but they can’t imitate the supernatural low-light vision that real vampires have.