#matthew macfadyen I love you baby

[ovaryacted]

Talking about the same forms of media with your mutuals is so cool and so fucking funny. I’m so mad at @strang3lov3 for making me like two characters from Succession and my affection for one of them has gotten so bad and progressively stronger the more I talk to Bug to the point where I’m being bullied to write for them and if I don’t I’m gonna get robbed. 😔💔

About to write the nastiest smut with Tom Wambsgans and gate keep it cause y’all wouldn’t get it BUT ME AND BUGA BOO DO!

[emilybeemartin]

Since I'm revisiting much-maligned 2000s war epics, I gotta say I rewatched Robin Hood 2010 recently and it did not deserve the lambasting it got. I feel like at the time people complained it was too gritty and bloated but like??? Compared to what we get now??? It's downright jolly, and man they used every cent of that big budget for gorgeous sets and costumes. Plus you get a guhREAT Cate Blanchett--she carried the whole movie for me, honestly, she's such a wizard--ultra-classic Mark Strong, whippersnapper Oscar Isaac (supporting role by Oscar Isaac's bare ass, A+, 10/10, a joy to have in class), baby Luke Evans as like Thug Number 6, Matthew Macfadyen so slimy you forget he's Matthew Macfadyen, Russell Crowe... pretty much the same as every Russell Crowe tbh (STAND DOWN Aubreyad fam), a half-dozen other greats that you know and love

AND!!!!!!!

My boy!!!! THE boy, even! Alan Doyle as Alan-a-Dale!!! Casting saw that chance and they TOOK it! This is the movie that Bully Boy comes from, which I DO listen to weekly and I WILL belt out given the slightest provocation. Am I singing it now? IT'S LIKELY!

[toomanystoriessolittletime]

Negotiations

Summary: Max doesn’t want to turn you into a vampire because he loves drinking from you too much. Especially when you’re on your period. Okay and he wants you to stay human because of the ✨experience✨. But you’re in pain very single month so you make him a deal. You shut up about becoming a vampire when he manages to get through the menstrual pain simulator.

Pairing: Max Phillips x fem. Reader

Wordcount: 2.1k

Rating: T

Warnings: established relationship, fluff, implied sex, talks about becoming a vampire, lots of talks about menstrual pain, humor?

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It was dark when Max entered his penthouse. Which was… weird? You should be cooking or reading or rearranging the living room. Again. 

It was quiet, it smelled of candy and caramel and… blood. 

A smirk sneaked to his lips. 

Getting out of his shoes and his jacket he loosened his tie as he walked towards the bedroom, where he knew he would find you cuddled under every blanket you owned. 

“Sugarbabe I’m hoooome,” he sang as he walked into the bedroom, finding you indeed under at least four blankets, candy wrappers on the bed next to you. There was a bottle of painkillers on the bedside table and he could hear the hum of your heating blanket.

Pride and Prejudice was on, the Matthew Macfadyen version and he didn’t question that he recognized just from one look on the tv hanging across the bed.

“Hi,” you mumbled and he pouted at you before he carefully climbed into the little nest you made for yourself. 

“How bad is it?” he asked, pulling you into his arms, kissing your forehead. 

“Like a demon is fighting itself out of my uterus,” you took a deep breath. 

“I’m so sorry,” and he was. He hated to see you in pain. And he knew there was a solution to seeing you like this. A solution you argued at least once every month about. 

“You know I wouldn’t be in pain if you’d turn me,” you groaned and he sighed, kissing your nose. 

“I know, baby. But… You have to understand… You just… taste so fucking delicous. Especially around that time of the month… And you know… the whole human stuff is important too. Chocolate will never taste as good and don’t even get me started on pasta. Let me make you feel better?”

“You’re disgusting,” you said.

“Tell me something new,” he chuckled and you rolled your eyes. 

“No seriously. You claim you love me, yet you don’t do the one thing that keeps me from being in pain every single month. I can go without tasting chocolate. I… think.”

“I do love you. So very much that I want you to stay human as long as possible.”

“You mean stay a happy meal you can snack on whenever you feel like it?” you pouted.

He began to kiss your neck, his usual tactic to distract you. Sadly it was working every single time. 

“You’re just so damn delicious,” he hummed, his teeth scratching over your neck before he kissed himself down. You sighed, turning to lay on your back as he got closer, his cold hands trying to get under the five blankets you were under. 

“We’re not finished talking about this,” you mumbled, helping him get the blankets off.

“Ahhh there she is,” he grinned, a wicked smile on his lips as he finally found your body in just a shirt of his lying beneath him. 

“Gonna help make you feel good sugarbabe,” he wiggled his eyebrows, pulling his shirt off. 

Against your better judgement you smiled up at him as you parted your legs. 

“This discussion is not finished, Max,” you reminded him as he kissed down your body. He looked up at you, his fingers pulling at your panties. 

“Oh I know,” he grinned before he settled down between your legs, 

“But maybe my tongue can make you forget about it for a little longer.”

A week later he found you sitting in your living room, a smile on your lips that was somehow off and slightly unsettling. And not in a good way. 

“Hi baby!”, you grinned sweetly at him and every instinct within him screamed danger at him but it was you. The love of his life. What bad could happen?

“I want to make a deal with you,” you said, standing up and walking over to him, your arms crossing behind his neck, blinking your beautiful eyes up at him. 

“A deal?” he asked, a little interested. 

You nodded. 

“You keep saying no to turning me,” you said and he nodded.

“Because you deserve to stay human,” he said.

“Right. Let’s say that’s the reason. We both know you love to eat my pussy when I’m on my period.”

“What can I say? It’s…. It’s like sex ketchup. Ya know?”

“I am…. Going to pretend you did not just say that. Anyway, I am in pain. Every single month, for at least two days. Sometimes so bad that I can’t get out of bed, and yet you refuse to turn me. So I’m gonna make you a deal.”

“I am… listening,” he hummed. 

“You get to experience the same pain I go through every month. And if you still think I should suffer through this I will shut up about you turning me,” you said with the sweetest smile. 

He narrowed his eyes. 

“Just like that?” he asked. 

“Just like that. I will be complaining though. Maybe even more than before. And I expect more gifts. And cuddles. But maybe you can understand why after a little better.”

“How?” he asked. 

“There’s a machine that simulates menstrual pain. I’m gonna go first, and then you’ll go. I expect you’re not even gonna make it to Level five,” you shrugged and he huffed. Insulted.

“How many Levels are there?”

“10.”

“Will you suck my cock?”

You looked confused at him

“Orgasms seem to help you with the pain. Maybe it’ll help me too,” he wiggled his eyebrows.

You chuckled and rolled your eyes. 

“You know you can just ask for me to suck your cock. I’ll never say no to that.”

He looked at you. 

“And if I can make it to level 10 you’re never gonna ask me to turn you again?” he asked.

You nodded. 

“I will demand more orgasms though. If you make me live in pain. And we should talk about it again in the future cause I'm not getting younger and I do want to spend eternity with you,” you said and he grinned. 

“I’ll even take time off to make you feel good,” he kissed you and you hummed against his lips. 

“So what do you say?” you raised your eyebrow.

“Deal.”

Max had spent an hour reading the manual of the simulator you rented, making sure everything was working fine (and you weren’t cheating) before he put it on your stomach exactly as shown in the manual. 

“Gonna turn it on now,” he said, looking at you. You nodded as he turned it on, almost not feeling anything. 

“Turn it up?” you said and he frowned at you. 

“You sure? It’s already on Level 4,” he said and you chuckled. 

“Babe, I’m sure. This is nothing,” you squeezed his hand. 

“How are we sure this is even working?” he asked, turning it up. At Level 8 you felt some cramping, but still not as bad as on the worst days of your period. 

“I can feel it. It’s just not that bad? I definitely get worse pain.”

He hummed, his lips pursed, looking at you as he turned it to the upper level and you groaned, closing your eyes. 

“You felt that,” he said and you nodded. 

“It feels like in the beginning? My pain still gets worse though,” you shrugged. 

Max checked the machine but he could hear it working. The hum of it reaching his sensitive ears. After seeing you he felt more than confident that he’d make it through this little challenge you put on. 

As if this could be that bad? Not that he’d say you weren’t in pain. But you were human. Maybe you just… had a low pain tolerance?

And he’d even fuck you all night as a reward for staying his little human blood bag. A blood bag he loved very much. The best blood bag. Okay he should maybe stop calling you blood bag even if it was just in his mind. 

He shook his head to himself as he turned the machine off and you smiled at him. 

“Your turn,” you leaned in to kiss him and he nodded. 

“I hope you’re ready to stay human sugarbabe,” he hummed as he unbuttoned his shirt, exposing his chest. 

You just smiled, looking at him as you pulled the machine off your stomach to put it on him.

He giggled as you brushed your fingers over his stomach and you grinned at him. 

“Am ticklish,” he said and you kissed him again.

“I know,” you winked as you sat back. 

Max looked at the remote in his hand and then at you, an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. He checked if everything was how it was supposed to be before he took a deep breath.

He died.

He literally died to become a vampire. 

So why was he feeling so hesitant about this? He looked at you, your eyes looking expectantly at him. 

“You good to go? You don’t have to. You can just turn me,” you shrugged and he shook his head. 

“You know it’s not the easy blood access, why I want you to stay human right? Cause I really love you and all your little cute human traits,” he said and your eyes softened. 

“I know, babe. And I really appreciate it,” you kissed him and he pulled one of his hands to your cheek, humming against your lips.

“But you’re still doing this,” you whispered against his lips and he sighed. 

“Okay. Turn it on,” he said, giving you the remote.

He was dying. 

He was dying again and it was all his ego and this fucking machine’s fault.

“Fuck,” he threw his head back, taking deep breaths his lungs did not even need oxygen to breathe through the pain, yet he was panting like he was in labour. It felt like someone was squeezing his insides slowly. He felt your hand in his and he opened his eyes, looking at you, seeing you try not to laugh. 

“Fuck you did not have to turn it on on the highest level???” he groaned loudly.

“It’s level three babe,” you said, trying to keep a straight face and he looked at you with wide eyes. 

“You're shitting me?” he said, pulling the remote from your hands, seeing that indeed he was on level three.

“Fuck me,” he got up, walking through the room, turning it up to level four by himself, his hands grabbing a chair as he bend over in pain. 

“You want me to suck your cock to find out if it makes it better?” he heard you ask.

“Fuck you,” he said with a laugh.

You hadn’t even reacted until level eight and he was ready to give up at level four? You were in pain worse than this every single month?

He turned it up once more, grunting in pain before he decided to give up, turning it off. 

“Fuck this,” he said, ripping the machine off, finding you grinning at him from your spot on the couch. 

“Women are fucked if they are in this much pain just because of fucking evolution or some shit,” he opened the fridge, the one with his blood, to get some A negative into his body. 

You watched him drink, his eyes still on you. 

He sighed, a little pout on his face. 

“I’m gonna miss your warm body at night,” he licked his lips as he set the blood down, walking over to you. You raised your eyebrow. 

“You want to do it now, or wait?” he asked, kneeling down in front of you. He inhaled your scent deeply. 

“Just like that?” you asked. He nodded. 

“If I had known, I would have done it years ago, sugarbabe,” he said, his teeth springing out. 

You smiled, your hand brushing over his cheek. 

“What if… we wait for three weeks and make the most of me being your warm tasty human until then? I just got off my period, so we’re good?”

He smirked at you, wiggling his eyebrows. 

“You should take time off work,” he said, before you shrieked as he picked you up in his arms. 

“Why?” you laughed. 

“Cause I will enjoy marking your whole body before I’ll turn you to spend eternity with me,” he said, kissing you deeply as he carried you to your bedroom. 

[bluravenite]

aether and dew watching a movie and dew totally does Not fall asleep on aethers lap while aether plays with his hair (he absolutely does)

"IT'S BORING!!" screamed the fire ghoul, "WHY WOULD I WANT TO WATCH A SHITTY OLD ROMANCE???"

"You can't hate it if you haven't watched it yet, Dewdrop," argued the quintessence ghoul.

"GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON!!" Aether smiles as he sits down on the couch.

"It has Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen?" the fire ghoul reluctantly huffs in agreement with the quintessence ghoul's argument but refuses to rest his case, "it's the enemies to lovers staple, you have to watch it, come on-"

"Aeth, this is stupid! why would I want to watch this with you?" the fire ghoul watched expectantly, hoping if he asked enough "why's" the bigger ghoul would just give up bothering him.

"to encourage affection?" replied the larger ghoul, still with that same patient smirk from before. Dew huffed again, this time giving up in trying to convince aether to do something "more fun" and instead settled down next to him with his arms crossed and brows furrowed.

"If you wanted affection you could've just asked me, idiot-" but he is interrupted by the quintessence ghoul's laugh as he wraps his arm around the smaller ghoul and brings him in for a cuddle.

"Don't worry, firefly, you'll get it later," he sighs...

The length of the movie is spent in discourse of the character's actions. Dew insists its stupid that dancing is the only way to encourage affection and Aether says watching movies is better, he thinks Darcy is an idiot for not noticing that Jane and Bingley were in love, he growls at Wickham and Aether reassures him he's not gonna be on screen for too long, he thinks he threatens his character, even though it's just a movie.

At some point Dew gets invested and comfortable enough that he ends up between Aether's thighs leaned in over his knees and Aether braids his hair from the top of his scalp all the way down to the little stray hairs. Once the movie ends Dew feels Aether's arms wrap around his waist and the bigger ghoul leans in to place a kiss on the fire ghoul's cheek.

"So? What did you think, firefly?" He asks softly, voice almost low enough that if he weren't speaking directly into Dew's ear, you would think it was a purr.

"t'was fine-" the smaller ghoul whines, shaking his head and unsuccessfully pushing the bigger ghoul off with his arms.

"firefly are you okay?" asks Aether, turning the smaller ghoul back to face him, teary eyed and furrowed brows, chest heaving in his arms.

"said m'fine, fuck off-" dewdrop hitches, but unlike his words his body leans into Aether's arms and rests his head on the larger ghouls chest.

"what's wrong, firefly?" Aether whispers, resting himself on the other ghoul's head and wrapping him up into a hug.

"Noth-nothing is wrong!! I just- I- Ugh!" the fire ghoul cracks and shifts in his place, lifting himself from Aether's chest and staring straight into his eyes. He reaches for Aether's face, cupping his jaw in his dark boney hands, "they just- love each other a lot- that's all..."

"I knew you were gonna like it Honeydew," he smiles, "Although, I didn't think it was going to make you cry- m'sorry-" he says.

"no," dew breathes, "it's alright, it didn't- you di- you..."

"me?" Aether asks, "did I make you cry, baby?"

"fuck! Aeth, I love you..." the fire ghoul spits out, "no, you didn't do anything- I did- I never told you-" he panics. But the quintessence ghoul only smiles wide again, forming little crescent moons with his eyes as he presses his forehead to the smaller ghoul's and wipes away his tears with his thumbs, both cupping each other's faces.

"Starfire, I know..." He says.

"you knew??" Dew panics.

"I always knew, firefly," he presses a kiss on the fire ghoul's lips. A single kiss that feels like an eternity between them, a mixture of warm breath and unspoken passion that threatens to keep them glued by the lips until Aether pulls away to look at Dew again, "I always knew, my love."

>:) (mean evil grin) I have somehow mixed my favorite movie with the band ghost and once again, I AM IN LOVE AND DO NOT REGRET AN OUNCE OF MY MISCHIEF.

I am a writer, a "master of the keys", an accomplished creature!!! and a SIMP for stupid silly Jane Austen characters, SO, it is only fair that i subjECT YOU to my rot AS WELL!!! ENJOY!!!

[shutterbug-12]

TAG GAME: EIGHT SHOWS TO GET TO KNOW ME

Tagged by @santabarbara-skies​​, aaayyyy! I hardly get tagged so yaaaaaay! 

Also this is kind of hard, but I’ll try (and like Em, I’m adding explanations, sort-of-kind-of, but not fancy formatting because I’m lazy). 

The West Wing. Still my all-time favorite. Is it idealistic? Sure. Is it preachy sometimes? Yeah. But does it make my bleeding liberal heart glow and hopeful? You bet. Do I want to hug a pillow whenever someone says, “A guy falls in a hole...” or “What’s next?” or “Babies come with hats.” or “He loves teams, I love him so much” or almost-anything-CJ-or-Sam-says? Almost always. So, yeah, it’ll always top my list. 

Psych. Burton Guster, my beloved. I started this show for two reasons: Dule Hill was in it and I just finished the West Wing and needed to keep that connection going; and it a Sherlock Holmes adaptation-sort-of, and I am basically on board for almost anything that is loosely modeled on Holmes. But I stayed for, oh, god, all of it. The two idiots at the center of it all, for Shawn and Juliet, for Lassie, for the bond between Lassie and Juliet, for everything. It is just an absolute delight, come on, son, jerk chicken, Pluto, suck it, meeeeeee, incarcerated in a blueberry, TT Showbiz, MC ClapYoHandz, I would rather fill-in-the-blank, pineapples, Banana as in Bananarama, you know that’s right. 

Friends. Another one that’s definitely dated and contains plenty of sexist, fatphobic, homophobic, and other problematic content. But I have a huge soft spot for this show and would still be one of my desert island shows, if not my #1 desert island show, because it makes me laugh every. single. time. It’s not my favorite show, but it’s the one that makes me feel the most, I don’t know...home? Like I’m going back to this place that isn’t perfect, but somewhere I grew up and so it means a lot to me. And a lot of it really is still funny and adorable and heartwarming, you know?

Ripper Street. Another one that has Sherlock Holmes vibes, but also includes my favorite handsome man, Matthew Macfadyen. Plus, period drama goodness, with an excellent cast overall, great acting, good writing, and a great ending that’s bittersweet but fitting and satisfying. The character arcs are just fabulous. There are lots of hats and vests. And dry dark humor. And moments that will break your heart to pieces. But others that will give you life. Probably one of the most underrated shows on this whole list, if not the most underrated. Plus the fandom is (still) lovely. Seriously one of the nicest, best fandoms I’ve ever been a part of.

House MD. The one that started it all for me, and by “it all” I mean my leap into internet fandom communities. So it’s quite special to me. I was one of the only House/Stacy fans on the planet, I think, but that’s how it goes. And more importantly: the friends I made because of this show! The fics I wrote! (Eden in particular, still one of my favorites I’ve ever written for any fandom.) The fics I read! Plus the show itself is my cup of tea, being yet another Sherlock Holmes-esque (Holmes--Homes--House) story on this list. Hugh Laurie just kills it every damn time (although, much like Macfadyen, I just...can’t get used to and actually really hate his American voice/accent, just no, please stop, please just speak in your normal voice, please). The only downside is that it doesn’t have a ton of rewatch value for me, but maybe one day I’ll get back to it again. 

Black Sails. Another awesome period drama that was/is criminally underrated and under-watched. This. Show. Y’all. If you haven’t seen it, just see it. It’s got everything. The characters, so deliciously flawed but sympathetic and layered! Jack my favorite sassy ratboi captain. Flint, everyone’s favorite murder husband. Tits! Fruit! Oh, the production value is gorgeous, the ladies are badass, and it’s just a romp. Watch it. 

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Heeeey, another period piece, dramedy this time, though. And one of the more female-centric shows on my list. It’s hilarious, plain and simple. Jewish culture is everywhere in it, which I adore and appreciate. Tony Shalhoub as Abe Weissman and Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson are nothing short of brilliant in it. I love Lenny, but only because I love historical shows that weave in real people (I’m not a Lenny/Midge fan, sorry; I was rooting for Benjamin, even though I didn’t think it would pan out). I can’t wait to see how the series ends. I’ve loved every minute of it. 

The Mindy Project. My guilty pleasure show, and I shouldn’t feel that guilty about it. A show about a successful doctor who struggles to find love and herself in the big city? Yes, please. It’s sweet. It’s absolutely hilarious. Mindy Kaling is so relatable sometimes it hurts (in a good way). I wish I had her entire wardrobe, it’s amazing. Even the supporting cast is adorable and endearing and you just want to hug all of them and tell them they’re doing great, sweeties. It’s a super-sweet pick-me-up show, just a joy. 

And I tag...whoever. Here are a couple: @houseocats​ @olivelune​ @scienceoftheidiot​ @deelaundry​ @hondagirll​

[lawlessfm]

oh this looks INCREDIBLE. casually throwing some faces i'm considering in the ring for suggestions in regards to roles you could see them taking on if you don't mind?: matthew macfadyen, buddy duress, colson baker, salomé das. <3 i have some ideas but have never written in a setting like this before. either way, thank you bunches! all the info you have up is so magnetic.

That is such a sweet and kind message to log in and see!    You’re so thoughtful,    thank you so much   —    this group and lore has been my baby and I am so happy to see the love and passion it’s received!    You are very much noticed!     First up,    I absolutely adore Matthew Macfadyen and I could definitely see him as sales management for Anunnaki Pharmaceuticals or even the owner of El Anhelo!    Buddy Duress has such a specific vibe to him and for some reason it always reminds me of Blade Runner 2049.     With that said I can easily see him as a jazz musician for The Godfather House Of Blues or maybe even the headliner DJ for Gravity Nightclub!      He’s definitely giving me the tortured artist vibe!      Colson Baker as a capo for Jade Tribe when?!!!      Or even a principal ballerina role ( I think it suits his aesthetic for some reason and no I won’t elaborate ).     Salomé Das is my absolute favorite of the ones you sent it,   I am not even sorry.       I can see her as a bartender for the Olive Branch and maybe the owner for Slow Down Cafe,    with some White Crocodiles associated in the mix.     I hope this helps! 

[dumpywoof]

What if I told you Tom's want to have a baby with shiv in season 3 is him trying to recreate his relationship with Greg within his home

I think tom was able to except the death of his job due to him being able separate his work life and his home life, something none of the Roy's are able to separate obv. Waystar royco is a family run business and the Roy's are a business run family. I think this contrast is well illustrated when tomshiv are going over the prenup and we see Tom's phone call w his mom. His tone is very casual when wishing her a happy Thanksgiving but when she switches to talking about the prenup his tone is more serious. Then, when talking to shiv about the call he refers to her as his lawyer and shiv says something like, "u mean ur mom." Tom leaves behind his family relationship w his mom when she is working with him, a line shiv (or any of the roy siblings) never draw. While working for waystar she never referrers to Logan as her boss, she always simply calls him dad.

Then in season 3 tom knows his job life to be dead, talking of his cancer of the career and calling himself terminal tom. He knew he had failed said life and wanted to find fulfillment in his home life that he still had ahead of him. I was watching/reading some interviews w Matthew Macfadyen recently and they got me thinking about how he says tom views himself as sort of a mentor/almost a father figure towards greg. Tom's relationship w greg is messy and so many things at once, but, I think tom found fulfillment in being able to be greg's work dad in some weird fucking way.

Also, the scene where tom talks about getting shiv pregnant for the duration of his prison sentence then coming back home to a baby makes it very clear to me that his want to have a child isn't coming from love for shiv. He quite literally doesn't want to be there for her, but, just for the child. Oml I could continue ranting about how shivs feelings towards her own femininity and sexuality play into the hypothetical tomshiv child but I feel like I should shut the fuck up maybe.

But but but, I just think it's so insane that tom saw the death of his work life quickly approaching him, and with this came the death of his and gregs work relationship. So, tom tried to recreate part of that relationship by getting shiv pregnant. Tom wambsgans wtf is wrong with u why is he like that.

[mrdarcygenderenvy]

2005 Joe Wright Pride & Prejudice (ranked out of 10 on my own esoteric metrics)

As Pride & Prejudice-s go, this is the Big One for a lot of people my age. It’s a classic and I have Opinions.

IN SHORT: The film is full of disgustingly lovely visuals and COMMITTED TO THE ROMANCE/ YEARNING to a degree I frankly respect. Immaculate vibes in individual scenes. Lbr, 2020 Emma wishes it had the energy of this film.

Extra credit: Romantic Horniness rating

The unashamed breathless horniness of this Mr Darcy is the defining feature of this film to me and also the film knows it. CONSIDER: the first proposal being a 100% ‘staring at each others lips angrily’ scene in the rain, the classique hand flex after he helps Elizabeth into a carriage, the mystifying choice to have him wandering the moors tits-out in the sunrise, and then fate wafts Lizzie out there too and the two of them practically try to eat/ make out with the sun like a leaning tower of Pisa photo op.

Every creative choice in this film is towards its own idea of what’s pretty and sexy - even if for me, that actually most closely lines up with my personal aesthetic when the thing they have a big hard on for is ‘shots of a lake in afternoon light’ and ‘cool rocks in the peak district’.

mmm

FAST TAKES - The (UK) ending is mystifyingly abrupt - The sisters’ casting is bang on, especially Rosamund Pike Jane (EFFERVESCENT) - Wickham barely gets a look in because everything’s too busy looking beautifully lit but maybe that’s okay - Why is Caroline Bingley wearing a sleeveless dress A CLASSIC

Wildness: 6/10. Yes, it’s a horny romance adaptation of a book whose main appeal is not necessarily romance, and what’s more classic hollywood than that. BUT ALSO, think about the swing scene where Lizzie spins a bit and the seasons pass, the choice to have a pig walking through the house and prominent pig balls shot, and the admirably bold idea of prioritising a long continuous shots of ‘lake’ and ‘in and out of the windows of the house’ over bothering to flesh out Wickham or Mary or explain why Lizzie is inside Darcy’s house. Also, the ‘sculpture gallery, having a big wank over classicism and colonial spoils’ vibe bit of Darcy’s house MAY BE in a real old house, but it fully looks like they’ve teleported to the modern day british museum in a piece of masterful surrealism. This film is fervently here for the aesthetic above all else, including things making sense, and surely there’s a feral energy to that.

LAKE!!!!

Mr Darcy gender envy rating: 4/10. I do not personally find Matthew Macfadyen attractive and I’m pride and prejudiced against this era’s hair. That said, he is tall, which I do envy, and he is a bit pathetic, which I relate to.

(TANGENT, I’m arguably more envious of his cheating, boisterous, lusciously moustachio’d avatar in 2012 Anna Karenina, a very theatrically visually lovely adaptation by the same director where him and Kiera Knightley are brother and sister both giving sort of ‘fun horny fuckup’ vibes. If you liked this P&P, I recommend this film. Also do you think despite Jude Law always having nasty energy, he only started being increasingly cast as evil as his hairline receded because society is terrible? I’M GETTING OFF TRACK.)

How much I have a crush on Elizabeth rating: 8/10, Kiera Knightley is obviously a babe but as a young teenager I was definitely more emotionally overcome by seeing her being a pirate

Shoutout to: That fucking great tree Elizabeth sits on in Derbyshire. THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SCENE OF THE FILM IT’S SUCH A GOOD TREE

Also shoutout to the Lady Catherine Reveal scene that my partner thinks is really funny because they really linger on revealing it’s Judi Dench. Like ‘guess who we fucking got…… wait for it…. JUDI DENCH, BABY!!!!’ and then she’s sitting in this insane room of paintings which I guess is just the fanciest filming location they could find, who needs context

OVERALL RATING: a wet horny classic

[lewyn-martell]

i agree with you so hard re: kierans interviews like, god i love his performance but theres always something i disagree with and i feel like most of the succession actors have interpretations that i feel are off?. also in his recent interview he gives his own interpretation of the dog cage scene and i read it shaking my head like no...

Yeah, I think the actors I disagree with the least are usually Jeremy Strong and J. Smith-Cameron (also, I haven't seen that many Alan Ruck, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen ones, but I don't remember any major complaints about their views either and I like how they can step back and be fair), but even they sometimes say some weird things, especially Jeremy (I literally only have one thing where I was like "hmm but is it though?" that JSC said).

But yeah Brian Cox is too into his character's headspace, and Kieran Culkin sometimes says things that are just.. WILD... like, Huh! Nice speculation you got going over there, but let's capitalize that S because I don't think you're aware of that word dripping from your "facts", namely "Gerri tied my shoes when I was a little boy", "Roman is a closet lib, he's definitely not in agreement with the facist's politics and is only considering what he can do for the company" or "Roman completely re-wrote the memory about the dog cage incident and he was never bullied by Kendall" (which I actually think it's something to consider that has merit, but it's so incomplete. Like, he even says "I think something made him feel like a victim" BABY GIRL YOU'RE SO CLOSE!!)

In any case, it's completely normal that we're not gonna be one mind in everything the actos say; they have to go to some lines of thinking of what makes sense to the characters on a human level and are way too tied to their viewpoint and motivations, ignoring themes, narrative or even other characters. That's why I usually steer clear of them and am far more interest in what the writers, directors etc. have to say about a show or movie.

[iwouldvebeendrake01]

“The work you take seriously, and what’s required of you, but I always find that creative sets... are the ones where there’s a lot of play happening. And if I can find ways to make people giggle or do little pranks it relieves any sort of tension and it bursts the bubble of people living in their own heads. [...] We had an ongoing gag that in fact maybe this whole time Margaret’s actually kind of evil genius mastermind, and she’s set out to completely emasculate Mr. Wilcox, so by the end he’s a giant baby, and he can’t string a sentence together anymore. We imagined him sat in his bedroom just in a giant diaper. On the last day of filming, I planted a diaper inside Matthew Macfadyen’s costume, and then a training potty in his bathroom, and I put a pacifier in his pocket. [He also] was given a cup of tea in a sippy cup with a bib [during lunch break]. It was very naughty.” - Hayley Atwell

“Hayley and I would laugh, she had a gag that she actually infantilized Henry and turned him into a great big baby. That she sort of kept him chained up at Howards End forever, like a sort of baby man.” - Matthew Macfadyen

“Matthew [Macfadyen] is so good in [Howards End]. He’s such an intelligent and sensitive actor, and so funny. This is my third time working with him, so that was great. That only helped. We trusted each other, knew how the other works, and were able to have fun doing it.” - Hayley Atwell

“This is the third time [working with Hayley], I think. As actors, often you make great friendships and then you disappear and don’t see each other for years. So especially for this production, it was lovely to have that relationship already, so we hit the ground running, really.” - Matthew Macfadyen

[skatingthinandice]

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@zuvlelhype asked: THE LAST KINGDOM - thanks greta! 💛

the first character i ever fell in love with:

i haven't rewatched for years (i know, i know) so i can't really remember, but i started watching the show because david dawson and matthew macfadyen were in it, so tbf it was probably alfred. aethelwold, leofric and odda the elder came pretty soon after though

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not:

honestly, it's probably alfred?? i don't not like him, but other characters have by far surpassed my original love for him

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not:

ooh this one is cruel, and again i don't not like them, but in terms of how i felt about them at the time vs how i feel about them now, probably, unexpectedly, aethelflaed x erik

my ultimate favourite character™:

leofric! though aldhelm is a very close second. those boys live in my head rent free

prettiest character:

my girls slay me with their beauty every time, but aethelflaed sits as queen

my most hated character / character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate:

if you know, you know

my OTP:

aethelflaed x aldhelm, until the end of my days, and leofric x uhtred, beyond the end of theirs

my NOTP:

uhtred x aethelflaed. just no.

favourite episode:

it’s the moments that stand out for me, not any particular episode. “if it is valhalla you want, i will do my best to give it” / “i will not do it, lord” / “should i sing you a song?” / “you are not dying” / “i probably wasn’t the man for that task” for instance, random example

saddest death:

i'm still traumatised by poor halig, oh god

favourite season:

season 3, for many reasons, but mostly for the aldflaed moments and getting to see leofric again

least favourite season:

idk really, they all have standout moments, good and bad, and it's been a while since i've rewatched

my 'you're a piece of trash, but you're still a fave' fave:

this is a description of haesten if ever i saw one

my 'beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this' fave:

thyra! my bby girl who is too sweet for this world, too pure

my 'this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it' ship:

erik x haesten, and it's all christian and jeppe's fault. also aethelwold x cnut bc i’m full trash and what of it

my 'they're kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i'm not too invested' ship:

probably finan x osferth (now with bonus eadith). ‘baby monk’ is a cute nickname okay

[itsnotthesamething]

@kyosohmastan thank you for tagging me I’m so excited to do this!❤️😭

Rules: Name ten favourite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) then tag ten people.

1. Niklaus Mikaelson

(Holy shit I would kill or die for this evil little shit, also one of my favorite characters of all time)

2 Naruto Uzumaki

(Honestly Naruto might be my fav character of all time, but it’s hard for me to pick because like the entire cast of Fruits Basket exist😂)

3. Mr. Darcy

(Omfg Mr. Darcy leaves me woke and I’m a hopeless romantic, especially the 2005 film, Matthew Macfadyen was the perfect choice for Fitzwilliam Darcy)

4. Kagome Higurashi

(Kagome is seriously one of the most understanding and supportive characters I have ever seen in fiction. I love her and Inuyasha sooooo much😭😭😭)5.

5. Steven Hyde

(Hyde is my spirit animal and I love his anti gov, stoner ass😂)

6. Hermione Granger

(Come on, who doesn’t want to be Hermione fucking Granger?)

7. Kyo Sohma

(I wasn’t going to add any FB characters cause it’s pretty obv from my blog I love them but I couldn’t make a list of my favorite characters and not include Kyo)

8. Damon Salvatore

(Once again I love this lil sassy shit. He has a special place in my heart❤️)

9. Aang

(My sweet baby cinnamon roll😭😭)

10. Alex Vause

(Alex just seems like a boom ass person, I would totally hang out with this edgy queen❤️)

None of these are in an particular and I had a lot of trouble choosing😭😭 but I had a lot of fun.

And I tag everyone! Please do it, it was fun and it’s exciting to learn new things about people😭

[drakewalkerfantasy]

(One) __ Tag

Thank you @boneandfur for tagging me :)

1.(One) thing I love to do when I have free time: reading, recently this is mostly fanfiction, but when I find some really good interesting book I can read it until it is not completed. I don’t read a lot literature nowadays, but I really love doing this.

2. (One) food that I’m obsessed with: One food... I’m obsessed by sweets, I can’t leave a day without them, also during my pregnancy I was forced to cut them down at some point almost completely, because I had gestational diabetes and amount of high readings may have harmed baby, so I just stopped almost eating at some point, or just had some salat as every single high reading made me desperate and sad... than I figured out that some amount of sweets and even pizza were fine for me to process... in small amounts, not whole chocolate bar. So now I’m compensating again for this 3, 4 or 5 months :)

3. (One) thing I hate doing everyday: dishes, my husband do them. Ooops.

4. (One) character in choices that I’m in love with: Ohhhh f...ck!!! I can’t name one?? Honestly.... My first love was Drake Walker.... But I’m now trying to choose between my always so flustered Beckett and so proper to the fault... Mr Darcy Sinclaire... Okay... As hope latter is a bit older and somewhere close to my age... I will go with him. So my ONE true Choices love is Mr Sinclaire. But it doesn’t mean occasionally I cannot cheat with Beckett, right?

5. (One) character who I can’t stand to even look at: Again... I cannot name ONE such character... I probably will go with Dickless Dick Richard? To be honest I wanted to reap granny’s head off during last chapter... but she at least didn’t tried to rape MC.

6. (One) huge pet peeve of mine: It’s too hard to say... But probably when people say something without consideration of other people feelings or not thinking first before speaking. (this is huge issue that my hubby have, but I love him no matter what, but we have a lot of fights because of this)

7. (One) thing I like better on Tumblr than I do in rl: make friends, I have not so much in real life and when I have them they either some people from work I got to know or my longterm friends, with whom I barely speak now. Or meet them once per year or half a year as they leave 2-3 hours from me and visited me once after I moved out to this side of UK. I still love her with all my heart, but now when I have a baby I also can’t visit her as often as I done before. so it was a time when I didn’t seen her for 6-7 months. and she seen my baby girls irl when she turned on 1 year, when I seen her lil boy when he was max a month old :) I have one other friend in Latvia, but I see her once per year and we rarely speak on facebook. 

8. (One) thing I love about myself: I hate all about myself. One thing that I may love about myself is that I easily joining the work team and they always say how lucky they are for having me there, this quite fluttering, also I love work at this place.

9. (One) celebrity you wish you could meet in rl: 

Male - Matthew Macfadyen. He is my crash. I just don’t want even tell what I would do with him if I wouldn’t be happily married and if we would met and for some miracle he would got a crash on me. 

Female - Willemijn Verkaik, she is adorable and her voice I would die for it. @elles-choices if someday you will have opportunity to see her life, please don’t loose it. I seen her performance three times during her time in UK. Twice within a couple of months apart as she got an injury and needed to cut her time there short :( So we booked tickets to see her last performance as Elphaba in Wicked, and third performance was when I had no hope of her returning as Elphaba in UK and she done this during some year celebration, so I book tickets on her first performance :) for me, husband and his parents.

10. (One) friend on Tumblr who I can’t live without: I have a lot of people I met there who I love and appreciate a lot. But if I need to name just one this would be @elles-choices I met her just like 2-3 months ago, but I love speak with her. 

I would like to tag: @elles-choices @walkerismychoice @tmarie82 @fluffy-marshmallow-heart @darley1101 @harrington-sinclaire @scgdoeswhat

[arowanlike]

Hey saw ur post abt p&p and when I first picked up a collectors copy of p&p for the first time the girl showing it to me specifically told me that the Keira knightly version sucked ass and that I should watch the Colin Firth version or else live my life in shame. I was set on the path of righteousness early in my travels

thank you anon. i love you. you may lead the enlightenment. Matthew Macfadyen will never be the right Darcy because his signature Darcy Pout is merely haughty, not haughty AND disapproving. Colin Firth dripping wet in a fountain imprinted on me too young, like a baby duckling, and even as a grownass Lesbian tm, I would like to kiss him tenderly on the lips, mouth closed of course. please track down this girl who shared this information and pass along my number so we can talk about how fuckn thin Keira Knightly is in that movie and even tho i would like to kiss HER even more than Colin, it’s wrong.

also Lydia is better in this version, fight me.

[fullregalia]

not that much fun.

If you ask me to describe 2021 ten years from now, I’ll probably respond that it was a strange and blurry year. People love to talk about liminal spaces these days, and this year was a liminal space. It was the emotional equivalent of going to the beach that makes you old. 

January was pretty much a nightmare for everyone, and February to May felt like a slog. Then I started a new job, returned to the pottery studio, and somehow, I looked up and it was Thanksgiving. I’ve felt like this is not really a year I want to reflect upon much, probably due to both fatigue and self-preservation. In some ways it was tougher than 2020, but a few pieces of culture made it more tolerable, and I want to share those:

TV

Remember when HBO crashed because we all tried to watch Mare of Easttown? Honestly, the only TV that mattered to me this year was Succession season 3, and while it did not bring us an iconic Boar on the Floor scene, we did get Tom explaining Nero’s relationship with Sporus to Greg. We are not worthy of Matthew MacFadyen.

Also, Sex and the City is back and it’s like the tasti d-lite version of itself, but I will be watching all of it, lol. 

Reading

I managed to read more books in ‘21 than last, a minor victory! I started the year leaning heavily on my hometown library, and then mid-year I finally became a BPL patron! I read mostly fiction this year, but my favorites were three nonfiction releases:

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith III

The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang

Notable mention for the new Sally Rooney, who I hope can just write novels from now on without all the crazy hype (I hated that ending, though); Cool for America by my neighbor Andrew Martin; and Our Country Friends by Shteyngart for capturing a bit of the early pandemic agita in a readable way. 

Podcasts

If 2021 was just 2020 but with vaccine, then it tracks that I basically only stayed sane by listening to the same podcasts that kept me afloat the year before. Grateful for David Sims, Emily Peck, and Jason Stewart aka Them Jeans. In fact, I even saw Who? Weekly live! I still don’t know who Bella Thorne is. Crunch crunch. 

Odds & Ends

I’m leaving out movies and music this year even though I consumed a fair bit of both. I did a lot of back catalog action and didn’t watch or listen to too many new releases (though I will state for the record that Matrix Resurrections hits the metatextual notes in a way And Just Like That... wishes it could). I finally saw American Utopia on stage, which was fantastic, and hearing Once in A Lifetime performed live was practically a religious experience for me. I debated going bankrupt for a vintage Amadeus t-shirt at the A24 auction ($380?!). I continued to spend time in Upstate New York and Western Mass, which has brought me a lot of joy. I baked a delicious Tarte Tatin, made impeccable custard for our Christmas pud, and had a fantastic dinner at Gramercy Tavern where there was a dude who was so blotto before 7 pm the maitre’d asked him to leave--New York is back, baby! I also recently bought a Le Creuset and am excited to start using it more now that we’re deep into risotto season.

I’m sure if I were being more thoughtful and/or earnest I’d have something more poetic or insightful to say, but that’s what twelve months of working from home does to a person. Curious to see what 2022 brings; I remain susceptible to optimism despite the lessons of lived experience. Twitter remains a deranged place that makes me laugh until I cry, at least (who can forget Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s balls). May we all find something resembling serenity if only briefly, and remember: it’s a choice to log off!

[daydreamlng]

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