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fangirlinglikeabus · 8 months ago

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you know, there are many truly disastrous ways to start a proposal, but i think henry lennox saying he wished margaret didn't love her beloved childhood home so much is a real contender

#that plus his legitimate surprise that she was telling the truth about how small her father's living is...wow dude #i don't actually think he's a particularly bad man but i think both of these things show a failure to truly consider and take seriously #margaret's perspective #north and south weekly #laura talks books

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not-your-bro · 2 years ago

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got something to say to me? 😤 well say it in front of my vampire boyfriend

#im 80 pages into lady of the lake and feeling extremely normal about it dont even worry #having a discreet conversation amongst the flowers what the hell.......#what if we kissed in the palace grounds 😳#sorry but the way geralt just wants to go back to talking with regis when ppl keep interrupting them!!! i'm!!!!!!!#the witcher #the witcher books #geralt of rivia #emiel regis #geregis #geralt x regis #laura reads the witcher

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alphacrone · 1 year ago

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Lockwood & Co. - What Could Have Been (Season 2)

#lockwood & co.#lockwood and co #lockwoodandcoedit #lockwood spoilers #lockwood book spoilers #mine #ok to rb #arsema thomas was my dreamcast for holly but #i always imagine her with lik 50s vibes and laura harrier had that aesthetic nailed down in Hollywood #i also think the show would have done the cape scene differently #hence lucy's weird frost vision during the bone glass scene #i chose this kipps scene bc it's my favorite he's like I'm Actually Just Talking to Lucy Because You Morons Won't Listen Also Fuck U George #plus i feel like they'd use it to torture lw a little bit in the show #i also NEED to know what they planned on doing with norrie

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goldencherriess · 14 days ago

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Pip in "As good as dead" breaks my heart. That girl needs a long hug and some real lovin'

#I started reading the book a few days ago and it makes me cry at almost every page #pip fitz amobi #pippa fitz amobi #agggtm #a good girls guide to murder #as good as dead #book tumblr #book talk #random ramblings #laura reads

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fictionadventurer · 2 months ago

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2024 Reads: 23

23. Free space--talk about any book you read in 2024 not otherwise covered

Have I talked about The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz yet? It's a historical novel about a Catholic girl working as a servant in a Jewish family in the early 1900s that reminds me a lot of fiction actually published in that time period. It's extremely inaccurate about how a family would have treated their domestic servants--that girl should have been fired a dozen times--but the exploration of religion was respectfully done on both sides, and it's a solid story that made me want to check out more by the author.

#answered asks #books #the hired girl #laura amy schlitz #healerqueen #i swear i did read books that were not victorian/edwardian vintage fiction #i was going to talk about some of them #but this kind just kept coming up and i thought you'd like this one more than some others i could mention

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whoslaurapalmer · 1 year ago

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laura (1944) / laura by vera caspary -- baseball games

bonus still from a deleted scene where mark makes it to the game (with company) --

#laura #1944 laura #vera caspary #laura hunt #mark mcpherson #waldo lydecker #clifton webb #dana andrews #otto preminger #lulu talks about 44 laura #lulu makes gifs #last one where i have a bonus deleted scene i'm pretty sure. those are the two that stand out #there's that 'alternate original ending' though but i haven't figured out where i want to fit it against the book. if i want to #have to read that scene again. god how i would kill to get my hands on a physical copy of the l'avant-scene that the deleted scenes are in #ANYWAY. mark and laura baseball buddies.............#and that still from the deleted scene is such a fucking DELIGHT!! waldo and shelby's FACES!!!#MARK'S FACE!!! MARK TOOK THEM TO THE GAME!!! no the killer certainly did not stop him.#pretty sure i got all the baseball mentions -- there's another one when mark first talks to laura but it's. slim so i didn't include it

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rearranging-deck-chairs · 7 months ago

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obsessed with their different reactions to being called starcrossed lovers

#im gonna pretend mattie didnt die and visits them sometimes back in toronto #it's such a cute dynamic they have #the two evil (affectionate) sisters who just loving teasing laura #also one of my favourite things abt this show is the choreographing they do for the static camera #i bet it's so annoying to have to think about but i love watching them all move so coordinatedly through the frame #somehow still making it look natural #also i know laura is the storyteller one and i dont really know enough abt romanticism to make any definitive claims abt carmilla #but having scrolled her blog a bit to figure out her tastes in music and art #i wonder if theres a part of carmilla that kind of enjoys being starcrossed. or doomed in a sense #or maybe she that she wouldnt have CHOSEN this story necessarily but that she has resigned herself to it #on account of her vampire nature #and sees a certain beauty in it #that all her romances are doomed #idk. im still figuring her out #also im reinterpreting that exchange mattie and carmilla have in this scene #carmilla calls mattie a utilitarian which is probably right #mattie then callls her a nihilist and carmilla corrects that to existentialist #and mattie says absurdist at best #but those arent designations like back and forth as i had read it before #it's just carmillas philosophy theyre arguing about. i THINK. or maybe it's both of them #putting a pin in that until ive read more books #also kind of obsessed with how laura and danny and maybe the other humans are so quick to ascribe a morality to the vampires #based just on the 'shes a vampire!!' while obviously by necessity the vampires have spent wayyyyyyyyyy more time thinking abt their ethics #or maybe not by necessity for all of them but to mattie and carmilla it definitely seems like a necessity. or inevitability #they mustve spent countless hours over the centuries talking abt this if they can joke abt it in this way now #and in different states too like i can imagine distraught Im A Monster type conversations but also just sort of academic debates and also #carmilla reading some new book that has come out and mattie being like what newfangled thing are you into now #i guess utilitarianism was also newfangled at some point. theyre both older. but you know #carmilla is a poet. dont know if she writes poetry but she looks at things in a poet's way i think #also dont think shes entirely a romantic but i do think some of her tastes lean more toward the romantic

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fangtasticlol · 2 months ago

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hi hello as someone who regularly goes through the columbina tag and does not trust hoyo with her writing at All but is simultaneously so insanely incredibly hopeful for the Possibilities the Potential. i am so insanely curious about your columbina thoughts. the themes... the narratives........ what are they to you what are you hoping to see. what is your perfect columbina vision. <- sorry i know i am literally a stranger in your inbox im just extremely intrigued and i trust The Vibes your blog is giving off

hello!! thank you i tried to make my blog look decent lol, the amount of thoughts i have on columbina… i cannot even explain. to me at least,shes everything, shes poetry, shes the winter solstice, she is death, she is an eldritch horror beyond our comprehension, but shes also the concept beauty and fragility. shes been around since the dawn of time in teyvat and simply exists, she watched evolution happen while sitting on a beach. it might be ooc too and im okay with that too but i like to think of her as a mother figure to the children of the hearth to some extent, shes like those old beatrice potter animations or the aristocats, she sits in a small log cabin singing songs to the children with her harp so they get a good nights sleep. she is apathetic and silly she enjoys life but does not take it too seriously as shes seen how the world works better than anyone. she should be depicted in the same way a skin walker is, a white beautiful doe in the middle of an old overgrown corn field at night. she enjoys caring for things like plants and animals but is completely un-bothered by death, its just another milestone in something or someones life or story. or. something like that lol sorry honestly i cannot describe how much i love her with words something about her design and potential just scratches my brain and i could make like a million page essay about it. and whatever they decide to do with her I hope it is treated with the care you’d give a dying flower. oh also shes totes a cannibal girlie i forgot to write that but i feel like it goes without saying idk why lol

#this is a jumbled mess i didnt have good sleep last night and i didn’t expect someone to ask me abt my current interpretations of this diva #but im happy #hope this is a fun answer for you id love to know what you think abt columbina #in my eyes arle and bina are like the modern laura and carmilla #if you havent read carmilla i recommend it its a very old vampire book #columbina #OH AND SHES A SLEEPY GIRL BC YEAH I AM TOO #ALSO WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HER AND RONOVA HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT- ok ok i digress #im officially done yapping #no im not actually her connection with fairytales and and and literature and-*i'm pulled of stage by a comically large hook*

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fangirlinglikeabus · 11 months ago

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“Did you ever hear such nonsense as they talk, Mrs. Huntingdon?” he continued. “I’m quite ashamed of them for my part; they can’t take so much as a bottle between them without its getting into their heads—” “You are pouring the cream into your saucer, Mr. Grimsby.”

this is actually super funny to me. anne bronte underrated comic writer

#laura talks books #bronte blogging #the tenant of wildfell hall #wildfell weekly

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selfinflictedgunshotwound · 3 months ago

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i also find it very funny how people think laura actually cared about james at all when his name is only mentioned 4 times in the secret diary and they all occur in the same paragraph in which she's mentioning lying to dr. jacoby *scratches head* ... meanwhile here's just a few of the times she mentions bobby