#moonlitserenade

[abduphotography]

Beneath the gaze of a luminous moon, the night whispers secrets over the serene waterway.

[zymzalchemy]

🔥👹 Amber Harper is here to ignite the Halloween spirit with her devilish allure! As Pinup #13 of our "31 Pinups of Halloween" series, she brings fiery passion to the night. 👹🔥

[firstprince-ao3feed]

some bright morning comes

some bright morning comes https://ift.tt/I1b9weg by moonlitserenades Eventually, Henry settles again, his body bracketing Alex’s, and just…looks at him. Mirth is still alive in his expression, but his eyes are warm and soft and impossibly loving, and sometimes Alex truly cannot believe that this is his life. That after so many years of completely misplaced loathing, he gets to be the one to see this version of Henry, the one who’d been so carefully bundled away, so heavily armored for so many years. Words: 1177, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: Fluff, ...that's literally it it's just fluff via AO3 works tagged 'Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor' https://ift.tt/hGYW7TX August 25, 2023 at 07:54AM

[gingerpeachtea]

💖 A drabble that made you want 100K more words

never knew by moonlitserenades on ao3!! it's one of my absolute favorite moulin rouge fics and i reread it all the time :) <3

(fic recs ask game)

[ao3feed-hadestown]

prove it (before gods and men)

https://ift.tt/1ANYnZK by moonlitserenades There is a world in which he does not turn and look back. There is a world in which he does not have to learn what it looks like--her face, lit with love and contorted with agony as she whispers his name one last time. A world in which he does not have to know how it feels to reach out for one last touch of her hand only to watch her vanish right in front of his eyes. Words: 1036, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Hadestown - Mitchell Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: F/M Relationships: Eurydice/Orpheus (Hadestown) Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death via AO3 works tagged 'Hadestown - Mitchell' https://ift.tt/QAaci8H

[lovebirdsounds]

In the nocturnal garden of sound, lovebirds unfold a moonlit melody. Their lullabies, accompanied by the celestial glow, create a bedtime serenade, inviting you to drift into dreams under the wings of tranquility. #LovebirdNocturne #FeatheredLullabies #MoonlitSerenade 🌙🎤🦜

[texastaildraggerskk]

When frogs serenade you in your garden 🐸

[lokigodofsex]

@moonlitserenades JESS YOU KNOW 😭😭❤️❤️❤️

bro what if we stood on the deck of a ship in the moonlight and you gave me a compliment that assuages my deepest fear and confirms my greatest desire, and then we both exhale shakily and step a little closer to each other? what then?

[whosthewhatnow]

HAPPY WEEKEND! FRIDAY FOLLOWER SHOUT OUT:

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[pilferingapples]

PILF I would love to know your thoughts on the Les Mis miniseries, if you've seen it!!!

ahaha oh goshLET THE  RECORD SHOW I WAS DIRECTLY ASKED 

I have seen it ! Repeatedly! I have…a Lot Of Thoughts about it? Enough that it would make a lot of very very long posts, so this is just a thumbnail summary (and under a cut for Spoilers and also discussion of all the triggering things LM is full of):

This is not an adaptation that left me feeling neutral  about much in it, I’ll give it that. 

Things I loved: 

-Excellent scene and set design! That may sound like I’m reaching for something nice to say, but like…how Good it was really jumped out? The furniture, the posters, just…generally everything.  The fact that the few places they fudged and used modern doors or molding or something were noticeable ��is really telling; the rest of it was that  consistent that such minor anachronisms actually stood out instead of just fading into the background. The environment is a huge part of Les Mis, basically an ongoing character, and it was nice to see it so well represented!

-Some fantastic casting choices!  I didn’t love absolutely every choice (though I wonder in every instance of that if it was the actor or the script/direction) and there are some Unfortunate Implications to discuss in the overall pattern of the casting, as others have said at more length.  But geez there are some fantastic performances!  Ellie Bamber’s Cosette really got the character in a way I’ve rarely seen, and Gavroche was fantastic. The whole Thenardier family in general was really  well acted (allowing for some of the Choices made at the script level), and the Extras in so many scenes had a ton of life, which is great!

-Georges! A rare Wild Georges Pontmercy! And he was very good; his scenes in Episode 1 were some of the most effective. 

- The barricade sequence–the barricade sequence proper– flat out astonished me. I was expecting less than nothing , because that’s about what most English-language adaptations do (…and then Episode 4 Happened and my expectations sunk even lower…) but holy carp– from Lamarque’s funeral to OFPD, this is the best Barricade Sequence in an English language non-musical adaptation I’ve seen. No, it’s not the full-on-full-cast Barricade Days adaptation of my dreams, but it’s got its own consistency and development, despite inheriting…issues…from the rest of the series. I understand some of the reasons other people don’t like it, but. It’s really good.  I find something new to appreciate there every time I watch it. 

Things I Hated: 

- So many changes that don’t actually change anything  and so only serve to make the characters’ motivations incoherent?  The whole Champmathieu thing is the most representative but it’s all over…

- Valjean. Pretty much everything done with Valjean post-Petit Gervais. If I start getting into it, it’ll take over this whole post,  but just. Valjean. 

- Everything that was changed about Eponine’s story. I am livid  about this. The script went out of its way to rob her of her moments of power and agency and the show’s attempt to frame a teenager forced into sex work by poverty and her parents as ~~sexy was appalling. Erin Kellyman is a fantastic actress and she deserved better. 

-In General, every attempt at being ~~sexy was repulsive. I mean I realize I’m not someone who’s generally charmed  by Sex Appeal the way some people are but like. Tholomyes. W H Y.  

-The costuming game was bizarrely weak?? I know a lot of people sneer at the very idea  of caring about costuming, how very trivial , but! It’s an important tool in visual storytelling! It can convey so much information about the world and society of the story, and then build  on that to  express the characters’ relationship to their world and society in addition  to more obvious character signifiers (like “pastels for the ingenue” type stuff).  And the era of Les Mis has such massively socially-coded Fashion Modes to use as shorthand!  And it’s all just. So badly handled.Ugh. I will be here All Day if I really start but. It was bad and it’s always  distracting me when I watch it. 

-Very Weird Pacing choices; some of it was weird changes in the narrative (both additions and deletions)  , and a lot of it was just actual pacing in-scene (”Javert Dramatically Eats a Sandwich” may be the poster child here:P).  

- I WILL FIGHT A PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT OF THE SOUNDTRACK. Just because this isn’t the musical doesn’t mean the soundtrack needed to try to score for a horror movie via leaky plumbing.  

I don’t even know:

BBC Javert. Because I mean….he’s a wreck , character-wise. He has zero internal consistency on any level besides “obsessed with Jean Valjean”. It’s a hopeless ruin of one of the story’s most well-realized and complex characters. But it’s like…bad to the point of parody. Javert by Kate Beaton. By the time he’s screaming WHERE’S YOUR LEADER, JEAN VALJEAN?!?  at the barricades I just. I can’t . I cackle. It’s hilarious , it shouldn’t be but it is!  An absolute mess of a character, but Entertaining in ways he’s. Not really supposed to be.   -10000 Points for Actual Javert, +10000 points for Comedy. 

- The Ending. Like…I see what it was going  for, but the show needed to give the momes a lot more time to earn that ending, and also do…about a million other things differently. I generally don’t think it Works, which is too bad, because it is  an interesting idea, but..yeah. It throws me out of the show so my last impression of the whole thing is  like…Structural Analysis, instead of Emotional Engagement , and that’s not really what LM is built for, so I can’t count it as a win, but…I do appreciate the desire to try to make a final statement…?  So I’m Very Torn, here. 

–anyway this is mostly Thumbnail Reactions and it’s still  absurdly long?? I can talk in more detail about any of it if you want, but I think I better cut myself off here for now! 

[cheesethesecond]

I know I want a Bucky song. Whatever mood you're currently feeling:)

Spinning by Jack’s Mannequin

I lost my place but I can’t stop this story / I’ll find my way but until then I’m only spinning

[rohanmcleod-blog]

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Congratulations to @drlisathompson who won my Moonlit Serenade Giveaway for simply liking my moonlit post and also following me!!! You have won a Jewelry In Candles Moonlit Serenade Scented Candle with your choice of jewelry inside courtesy of www.SurpriseJewelryInCandles.com You will be contacted via PM by me on how to claim your prize. #winner #drlisathompson #moonlitserenade #moon #moonlit #moonshine #jic #jicnation #jewelryincandles #surprisejewelryincandles #rohanmcleod #atsocialmedia #congratulations

[ao3feed-harringrove]

don't threaten me (with a good time)

https://ift.tt/2Yml1Ln

by moonlitserenades

"I don’t want anything from you.”

Billy smirks again, dangerous. He hasn't moved away. “That’s not true at all, is it?”

It's Steve's turn to scoff, now, but it comes out breather than he'd like. His heart is kicking madly in his chest, and he wonders, rashly, if Billy can feel it. It's like that day in gym class all over again--aggressive, competitive, but tinged with something intense and dizzying that Steve is afraid to name. He swallows, and forces himself to try to sound normal when he replies. "So, what, you're a mind reader now?"

Words: 3127, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: The Party (Stranger Things)

Relationships: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington

Additional Tags: Internalized Homophobia, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Just like an excessive amount of profanity, Steve Harrington is a disaster bisexual, they're gonna figure it out eventually, Slow Burn

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Yml1Ln

[nooelgallagher]

Thanks to @moonlitserenades Flagpole Sitta has been in my head for days.

[ao3feed-stucky]

by moonlitserenades

At some point, it starts to rain in earnest. Steve is drenched by the time he registers someone sliding onto the bench beside him, but he doesn’t move until the person tosses his now-sodden sketchbook into his lap and says, “You never did have any goddamn sense.”

Following a whirlwind search for Bucky after the events of TWS, Steve struggles.

Words: 648, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Slow Burn, Bucky Barnes Has Issues, Bucky Barnes Returns, Steve Rogers Needs a Hug, Angst

[sirjayofnj]

Hey friends...

I’m co-moderating a fun blog involving funny/crazy RomCom ideas with my Queen @moonlitserenades.

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