#littlewhitely

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Lemon...? Cinnamon? :D

Opinions on snails

I prefer snails over slugs - I think they are pretty cute with their little eyestalks. 

Describe your aesthetic

This is difficult, because on the one hand I’m very into cottagecore, but I live in the city and that’s basically a fantasy. In the real world I go for clean lines and timeless design. I like a mix between simple forms and natural materials. In clothes I also have a ‘less is more’ approach. I don’t do bling or neon. Comfort is everything to me. 

thanks for asking, bab! <3

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The Changeling Improv Fiasco

For some reason the play was still As You Like It. It hadn’t turned into The Play yet, and Benedick had great hopes of it remaining so throughout the evening. There had been the wrestling, the banishing of Rosalind, the transformation to Ganymede and Aliena and even the confrontation of Olivier and Orlando and all was still more or less going as planned. True, Keys, who played the role of Charles the wrestler, would have to be replaced with Yoko after tonight, since ‘you will try but one fall’ had turned into ‘you will fight to the death’. Alyssa, who played Rosalind, had done some seriously impressive improv to assure that the new Orlan-NO, as Benedick called him in his mind when he was sure no-one was listening in, only mildly sprained some of Keys’s body parts. It was a calculated risk. All actors knew the dangers of the craft. No-one with black glistening skin and eyes without pupils was going to scare them off. Even if they weren’t a regular.

There were some Regular Visitors that Benedick had almost grown rather fond of. Some only showed up for Waiting for Godot and he’d have to soothe the Estragon of that evening with promises of other nights and other plays. Others came for nothing but Shakespeare. For example, the Other Evellyn sometimes replaced female parts that the original Evellyn was going to play, which was something of a blessing because if you looked past the extra fingers and the occasional flicking of the tongue, she beat the original by a mile when it came to monologue-delivery. Other Evellyn also graciously placed the Evellyn she was replacing in the same props-storage room every time she came to Visit, to avoid Drama. She was quite pleasant, really.

Some of the cast never avoided any drama. In theatre, that group is fairly small. Benedick shook his head. RATHER. Not the other word. Not even close to the other word. No. Rather small. The rining in his ears stopped. He breathed. Close one. What had he been thinking? Right, drama. Some actors here LIVED on drama. Of course there was Hu’tho’lugh, the thing with the purple and the claws and the sash, but when it came to humans, Jaques was a close second. Benedick sat down on the props-table. He mouthed along the lines of Jaques, as played by Jaques. “Invest me in my motley; give me leave to speak my mind, and I will through and through  cleanse the foul body of the infected world, if they will patiently receive my medicine.” Jaques might do with a little less speaking his mind and a lot more cleansing of his own sometime soon. Benedick had given him several whispered warnings that playing the part on which your name was based was a terrible idea. He, for example, would NEVER want to play Benedick. That’s why the name was so suitable. But there was Jaques, on stage, in an already-descending glittering mist, playing himself. Intensifying his identity and his ties to his name. Foolishness of true Shakespearean proportions. Good job Jaques. Very appropriate.

Benedick buried his face in his hands while he listened to the idiot’s final lines. “But who comes here?” A thought occured to Benedick. He hadn’t seen it as a fighting scene, it hadn’t been so in the original script. But anything could happen. Orlando, no, OrlanNO was in control of the lines. “Forbear, and eat no more.” Benedick peeked through his fingers at the stage. Between the curtains, he could see the back of Jaques. Nothing of his posture revealed there was anything wrong, but if OrlanNO had been looking at Benedick the way he was currently looking at Jaques, he wouldn’t have been able to squeak out ‘Why, I have eat none yet’ with such volume. Benedick crept closer to the curtains as the actors on stage started to realise what was wrong with every line spoken. “Nor shalt not, till my hunger is satisfied” was never in the script. The senior Duke was played by The Captain that night, and Benedick had to commend him for how little he stuttered during his lines. In fact, he had almost got to “rude despiser of good manners” before he lapsed into silence. His eyes met Benedick’s, who then glanced at OrlanNO with uncertainty. The changeling looked less and less like the Wilfred that he had been trying to imitate. Benedick somehow doubted that they would find poor Wilfred back in any props cupboard anywhere. White teeth glimmered in the bright stage lights. OrlanNO looked hungry. Famished.

Benedick’s hands clutched the curtain. He took a look at the stage, the audience, the teeth. Then he straightened his back, shoved his bell-cap on his head and thrust himself onto the stage. Touchstone was not in this scene, but the Duke didn’t look like he was going to say another word till next week and the show must go on. He stared at the audience, jingled slightly and muttered a joy-less ‘hey ho nonny nonny’ before doing something truly foolish. He addressed OrlanNO directly. “What would you have? Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.” OrlanNO had stopped bothering with lines. It was an improv fiasco, but what else could a fool do? “I see you almost die for food…” He exchanged looks with Jaques, who croaked “would you have it?” Benedick cling-clanged over to OrlanNO, who was eyeing the first row rather than the kettle-of-stew-prop that they had on stage. An audience member instantly dropped her bag of M&M’s. The sound of rolling candy made OrlanNO growl.

Touchstone took over. Benedick heard Touchstone say “I was bid to come for you.” And with a jump that made all the bells on his suit sound like the world tiniest and most excited cathedral, he landed off the stage, right in front of the audience. “Good ev'n, gentle friend” was also part of his lines, which cobbled themselves together to suggest some audience interaction might be required at this point. Thankfully, the first few rows had got the point rather swiftly. Touchstone’s bell-cap came off and in it, any and all audience snacks were gathered. Touchstone looked at OrlanNO for approval. “So-so.” The voice was almost Wilfred’s again. He sounded almost pleased. “'So so’ is good, very good, very excellent good; and  yet it is not; it is but so so.” Touchstone looked pointedly at the people in the back rows, who started throwing their snacks onstage. This seemed to put OrlanNO back into his good humour. Touchstone climbed the stage and presented the ‘meal’. “Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.”

The hungry changeling dropped to the floor and grabbed for the food. OrlanNO seemed capable of speech while eating. As the contents of the hat were being devoured, somewhere from the inside of OrlanNO came the lines: “Pardon me, I pray you: I thought that all things had been savage here; and therefore put I on the countenance of stern commandment. But whate'er you are that in this desert inaccessible, under the shade of melancholy boughs, lose and neglect the creeping hours of time. If ever you have look’d on better days, if ever been where bells have knoll’d to church, if ever sat at any good man’s feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what ‘tis to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement be: In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.” Touchstone decided that Adam could wait for his part of the meal just a little longer. To distract the audience from the sound of loud chewing, he prodded Jaques. “Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre presents more woeful pageants than the scene wherein we play in.” Jaques nodded, and to his credit, took the centre stage. While an expert demonstration of the word ‘gnawing’ could be witnessed behind him, Jaques started ‘All the world’s a stage…” Touchstone crept back into the curtains. The show went on. 

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LittleWhiteLy: Great thanks to lurkeymclurker for giving me the idea in the first place. 

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[persephonesyndrome]

littlewhitely replied to your post: Why did i buy this lipstick

It works very well with your eyes and hair! Cute. :3

that is VERY SWEET of you but i feel this photo does not do justice to how offensively neon it truly is

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100 things about me

Tagged by: bbcjunkie

1. What is your full name? Daniëlle - rather not say, because I don't want my Tumblr to show up in Google when you Google me

2. How old are you? 18

3. When is your birthday? January 10th

4. What is your zodiac sign? Capricorn

5. What is your favorite color? Night blue

6. What’s your lucky number? 13

7. Do you have any pets? Not anymore, sadly

8. Where are you from? Drenthe, The Netherlands

9. How tall are you? 1.74 m (5'7)

10. How many pairs of shoes do you own? LIke five I actually wear. I also have some old sneakers, flip-flops and sandals.

11. What did you last have for breakfast? Two buns with cheese

12. What was your last dream about? I don't remember (even though I usually do). The night before last night I dreamt about a university I kinda want to attent but probably won't. 13. What is the best thing about you? I can talk. Like: if there's a problem and the solution is talking to someone, I can do that.

14. Put shuffle on your iPod, what were the first 5 songs?

Under the Same Sun - Ben Howard

A Lot of Moving - The Avett Brothers

Work This Body - WALK THE MOON

Still - Daughter

Interlude - My Chemical Romance

15. Favorite song? i don't think I have one right now. I have just been listening to random albums this week, after a good month of nothing but Queen.

16. Favorite TV show? Euhm, right now, probably How To Get Away With Murder.

17. Favorite movie? Why so many favourites? I don't think I have a favourite movie. Hmm. Maybe my IMDB can shed some light on this question. I'll just say Shrek, since that's probably the film I've seen the most (I even quoted Shrek to answer a question in school this week - no-one got the reference).

18. What do you look for in an ideal partner? Pfff. Intelligence, I suppose. That is probably needed to keep up with me anyway, since my thoughts always go all over the place and I usually don't bother explaining things.

19. Do you want children? Definitely not.

20. Do you want a church wedding? Only if my partner wants it. I'm not religious at all.

21. Are you religious? Nope, my interest in religion is purely scientific and philosophical. 

22. Have you ever been to the hospital? Yes, I broke my finger once, almost broke my wrist and one time had to go to the emergency room because I had a serious urinal infection and my normal doctor was off for the weekend.

23. Have you ever met any celebrities? Only Dutch celebrities (at debating contests and tv shows and such)

24. Baths or showers? Showers, I don't even have a bath.

25. What color socks are you wearing? Black with white snowflakes.

26. Have you ever been famous? Just infamous in my town. Although I write for the biggest youth website in the country, and some of my colleagues did get recognised because of that.

27. Would you like to be a big celebrity? Just famous enough to be participating in "Wie is de mol?", which is the best adventure show ever. It's Dutch and features semi-famous people who have earn money by doing several tasks, while one of the other candidates (the mole) tries to prevent this, without the others knowing. The person who guesses who the mole is wins and gets the money.

28. What type of music do you like? A pretty wide range of things, I guess. Mostly rock though, but I've been listening to folk and indie too lately. I've also always loved classical music.

29. Have you ever been skinny dipping? No

30. How many pillows do you sleep with? Just one

31. What position do you usually sleep in? On my side

32. How big is your house? Pretty big, I guess.

33. What do you typically have for breakfast? On weekdays I have some sort of shake and a banana, because I can't really get food away in the morning. During the weekend I usually have buns with cheese.

34. Have you ever fired a gun? Nope, just cross-bows.

35. Have you ever tried archery? Yes! Cross-bows as well as normal bows. My parents and grandpartens actually participated in the national

36. Favorite clean word? I just swear

37. Favorite swear word? I really like godverdomme (god damnit), but I spent a lot of time in school with my Christian friends. I probably use shit and kut (cunt) the most.

38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? Probably when I was in Rome. I think I stayed awake for some 40 hours and then I felt like I was freaking high.

39. Do you have any scars? Yes, on my knee.

40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? Not that I'm aware of.

41. Are you a good liar? Pretty

42. Are you a good judge of character? No idea. Probably.

43. Can you do any other accents other than your own? SOme

44. Do you have a strong accent? Nope, people always ask my why I don't sound rural or complain that my Dutch is too neat. 

45. What is your favorite accent? Scottish

46. Name all the countries you’ve been to? Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Italy, Vatican City.

47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing? Probably my formal dress.

48. Can you curl your tongue? Yes

49. Are you an innie or an outie? As in belly button? Innie

50. Left or right handed? Right

51. Are you scared of spiders? No, but I don't like them too much either.

52. Favorite food? Lasagne

53. Favorite foreign food? Lasagne

54. Are you a clean or messy person? Messy. Chaos is my second name.

55. Most used phrase? Shit, or maybe "ja maar" (yes, but)

56. Most used word? "verschrikkelijk", I guess ("awfully)

57. How long does it take for you to get ready? 10 minutes. Less if I'm going to miss my train.

58. Do you have much of an ego? I try not to

59. Do you suck or bite lollipops? Suck, until they're almost gone

60. Do you talk to yourself? All the time

61. Do you sing to yourself? As long as there's no-one else around or I'm cycling.

62. Are you a good singer? Well, I got a 10 in music class for my singing once and then they bugged me to join the school band.

63. Biggest Fear? Being left alone 

64. Are you a gossip? Sometimes

65. Favorite character in anything? Sirius Black

66. Do you like long or short hair? No preference

67. Can you name all 50 states of America? Probably not

68. Favorite school subject? Hmm. I pretty much hate everything right now. Biology maybe? Since I'm going to study it next year.

69. Extrovert or Introvert? Introvert

70. Have you ever been scuba diving? No, but I can probably take a course on that when studying, since my university also offers a marine biology degree.

71. What makes you nervous? Going out (like, even to friends), concerts, tests, basically everything.

72. Are you scared of the dark? Usually not

73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes? All the time

74. Are you ticklish? At certain places. At others I have learned not to be.

75. Have you ever started a rumor? Nope.

76. Have you ever been in a position of authority? Not really, just debating team captain.

77. Have you ever drank underage? Well, that is a very complicated question. Technically: no. I had my first drink at 16, which was the legal drinking age at the time. However, a year later they raised it to 18, which obviously didn't stop me from drinking.

78. Have you ever done drugs? Other than alcohol, no.

79. Who was your first real crush? I'm not really sure. Maybe my third grade teacher?

80. How many piercings do you have? None

81. Can you roll your Rs? I wouldn't know what to do if I couldn't.

82. How fast can you type? Rather fast. I have managed to type 800 words in 20 minutes during word wars.

83. How fast can you run? Slow. Like a turtle. 8 km/h maybe? If I'm being chased by a Dalek that is.

84. What color is your hair? Bright red, thanks to the wonderful thing that is called hair dye. My natural colour is the ugly variety of Emma Watson-blonde.

85. What color are your eyes? A grey-blue

86. What are you allergic to? Nothing

87. Do you keep a journal? No

88. What do your parents do? Dad’s a banker, mum's a primary school teacher.

89. Do you like your age? Yeah, it's al right, except for the part where I have to pay for health insurance and earn a shit wage.

90. What makes you angry? Many things. Injustice, my school, people who don't do what they're supposed to, rude drivers.

91. Do you like your own name? Not too much

92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? For my-hopefully-never-existing-babies? No.

93. Do you want a boy or a girl for a child? Neither.

94. If you had to have someone narrate the story of your life to you when you died, who would it be? Morgan Freeman

95. What’s the best thing you’ve ever won? Well, getting a job is like winning, right? So in that case: my job as blogger for a bigish website.

96. How did you get your name? My parents just liked them.

97. Out of the original 151 which is your favorite Pokémon? Euhm. Well, I live Eevee a lot.

98. What browser do you use? Google Chrome, but Firefox when I need to pretend I'm in a different country.

99. Color of your bedspread? Black

100. Color of your room? Dark blue on one side, grey on the other.

And now I need to tag people. All right. Let's see. I tag: itisimothman, not-famous-just-me, littlewhitely, dakvis and marshmallowsoul.

And as always: please tag me. I want to see all your answers!

[evanna11]

The gifset about the Stephen Fry audiobooks for HP... which episode is that and where can I find it? I don't think I've ever seen it before!

It’s ep 156, literature.  It only aired the other day :p. Saw it saturday to sunday night on bbc (so wikipedia tells me it might be the XL edition?)

[flippolife]

littlewhitely replied to your post “Yow Dutch people! I need help! I need to translate “prutserijen.” As...”

It's a very distinct and unique and archaic word, I'd almost say; don't try to translate it. 'Silly things' doesn't quite cut it, or you might have to resort to the very English 'nonsense' 'ridiculousness' 'piffle' 'tosh' or 'balderdash' ...

It has become nonsense. Luckily for me, the film is not that long. Nor do people say THAT much. Most difficult thing is that the emotion and context has to fit, so I can't just translate things.

But it's almost done!

[mikifull]

littlewhitely replied to your post:"Of course, people who like to look up everything...

Maaaaaybe not. I love you, you know that. :P

I love you too! <3 -hugs-

[practicefortheheart]

littlewhitely replied to your post “Halfway into season 2 of ATLA and so far my conclusion is that...”

WHOOO yes, atla is amazing and you're going to love the fudge out of it

I have been binging it pretty hard - it’s really good!

[roflandtroll]

 littlewhitely said: Oh my son it is sinful to blink in such a way. Your dad doesn’t allow it.

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littlewhitely replied to your post: ughhh i hate realizing a better topic when im at...

Noooooope. A well-structured argument is key to a good paper, and redoing a lot after youve finished is not going to work so well, so youll have to restructure the whole thing. If youre not willing to do that, then maybe you shouldnt.

oh, i'm completely aware of that. the problem wouldn't have been so much the structure as the flow-- as it stood, the second and third paragraphs would have contained a lot of information that was only loosely connected to my new thesis. it would have remained relevant in a general sense, but would have made the paper drag. i reworked a few things, though, and i think it works now.

plus, i think i maybe didn't properly state what i meant-- it wasn't an entirely new topic that i came up with, but a more refined take on the original topic (initially i was arguing that one of ezra pound's translations was significant because it retained cultural information. now i'm discussing how his emphasis on time preserves the influnces of daoism and confucianism in li po's work. gosh what an exciting paper). restructuring wasn't totally required.

so i totally appreciate the advice, but i've got it under control (for now) :]

[evanna11]

huffledorkable heeft gezegd:

Gosh, this sounds exciting, I’m glad it’s going okay. I already freak out when I’ve been away for a week or two and there are things changed in the house that I don’t know of. I’m not ready to be on my own yet. But you’re doing great! :) *hug*

i have totally freaked out over changes when i was away on camp or something before :p. and i kinda freaked out when i went to visit..guess i'll see what happens next weekend. but being closer to uni and getting out of the house/having a calm living environment is just really nice for me atm :). you'll be ready when you're ready :) *hugs*. 

you-didnt heeft gezegd:

 I live on my own since half a year now and I can totally relate to everything you wrote. It’s calm and nice, but also quite overwhelming in the beginning. I got the hang of it really fast and I hope the same for you :)

thanks :).  yeah it'll probs get easier after a while i hope.. kinda slowly getting used to things/still have to figure some things out (laundry will be much better once i've washed everything once and know what programs etc to use :p).

ferrentes heeft gezegd: 

I know the feels. Moving out is weeiiiird. I’ve been living on my own for about six months now and stuff is still weeeiiiird. Like going home to my parents, is kinda home but not really anymore and my room is getting more home moment by moment.

Uhuh, that and it's weird.. i guess i more thought of it as getting a second home and didn't really think home at my parents would become less home but yeah.

littlewhitely heeft gezegd: 

This is all very familiar. It’s like limbo, awkwardly in-between homeness. And yeah, suddenly, housework takes up at least twice as much time as it did when you were at home. I hope you settle in soon, it sounds like you’re gonna have some fun. :)

thanks :). it's kinda nice to hear that this is how it goes for lotsa people :). and uhuh housework is taking ages atm. apparently i'm super slow at washing dishes :p.

[flippolife]

littlewhitely replied to your photo:A behind the scenes of my film making proces....

Yaaay! It’s getting so REAL all of a sudden! I really hope it’s going to be amazing. :)

You are not alone in that hope! :p

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littlewhitely replied to your post “I managed quite well the last few weeks, but now I am sad to report I...”

Cupcake time.

I have a cupcake tin! 

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queerturnofphrase replied to your post “my switch lite should arrive today, but it’s not here yet - they are...”

what are you going to name your island

I don’t know, I still need to come up with something...

zigster-ao3 replied to your post “my switch lite should arrive today, but it’s not here yet - they are...”

that shit is just rude

littlewhitely replied to your post “my switch lite should arrive today, but it’s not here yet - they are...”

URGGHH

I know! And someone else got a package, and mind didn’t show up! I don’t think it’ll get here today. SO SAD. 

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littlewhitely replied to your post “It's my day off and I have done absolutely nothing so far.”

You did a thing! Good thing! I hope you find something to do that makes you smile. :)

watching an animal crossing livestream! XD 

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littlewhitely replied to your photo “Inktober #20! I was listening to Potterless while drawing, so this...”

NINA THIS IS GORGEOUS.

Thank you! <3