#my girl TESS

[amiserableseriesofevents]

To celebrate the season finale of The Day Of The Jackal airing tonight (even if I'll only be able to watch it tomorrow, sadly) I'm humbly sharing with y'all my personal ranking of Eddie Redmayne's characters based on how horny hot and bothered I felt while watching them

This is my biggest contribution to the fandom yet, enjoy!

[hatosaur]

i think of them sometimes :(

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Thinking about how Mrs. Andrews almost assuredly joined the Society to help her husband. We have no mention of him at all, but the fact that she's a missus, leads us to believe that she was/is married. And maybe her husband was sick and dying, and she wanted to help him get better. And maybe he's already gone by the time the Chosen Hour even approaches, but she stays because she's in too deep now, and she's built a community, and maybe even found new love with Eric Sweet. But then the children she cares about start being put into serious danger, and the community/support system she thought she had suddenly becomes this callous, neglectful cult, and it's such a wake up call that the thing she was trying to protect is already gone, and all she's done is harm children. And the man she's grown to care about is just... if not okay with it, too cowardly to stop it.

[redjennies]

also in case anyone objects to the language I've been using, I found out from one of the other teachers today as everyone came out of the woodwork to celebrate taking her down a peg, that one of the things another teacher reported her for was that she threw away a non-verbal autistic child's comfort toy (a child of a working single mom who needs financial help from a state program to help her get appropriate toys for her, no less) after intentionally hiding it from the girl because she "made too much of a fuss about it." like I really do not use the term cunt lightly, but she's really just a cunt and I hope she drops dead.

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: May 14, 2024

Middle Grade Gooseberry by Robin Gow There’s a lot twelve-year-old B doesn’t know—like what their new name should be after coming out as nonbinary. Or what it would feel like to finally feel at home after moving around to different foster families for years. But there’s one thing B does know: they want to be a dog trainer when they grow up. And when they meet Gooseberry—a feisty stray dog who…

[hungryfictions]

my 2023 in books

[bbaked-beans]

yeaaa quick little doodle of Tess and Alinua <3

they mean a lot. to me (@comicaurora)

[agender-wolfie]

I miss Tess 💙🪻 😢

[horrorgirlreads]

Purple mini haul 💜

[gramarye]

my thrifted cd collection btw... have acquired a few more since but regardless.

[roetrolls]

Hello friends I had a very nice day today :)

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Girl In Question

YA thriller, Sequel to The Girl’s I’ve Been

a girl who was raised as a con artist is reconnecting with her older sister and trying to live a normal life after high school ends, while she can

but her murderous stepfather is free from prison, and she knows it’s only a matter of time before he comes for her

along with her girlfriend, best friend, his girlfriend, and dog, she plans a 10 day trip into the wilderness to a fire lookout to enjoy the summer. But a few days in her stepfather comes for her and kidnaps one of them, and they’ll have to do whatever they can to stay alive

twisty & nonlinear

[clairenovaking]

Would any of the tessjoel kids be a theater kid. Would any of them do a rendition of defying gravity to their parents at 5 in the morning. 🎤🎤🎤🎤

i have to split this into parts because i have Thoughts.

so the easy answer is elsa. she's the baby, and she's the youngest by a relatively significant amount, so everyone kind of has their Thing by the time she comes along in a modern au. sarah is in college, ellie's nearly done with high school and her first girlfriend, maeve got into soccer to be like sarah and darcy quickly followed, and ruth is the painter of the family. then elsa watches singin' in the rain.

suddenly this little eight year old is goggling 'theater camp' (well, okay, she begs ellie to help her, and her big sister does so, begrudgingly) and asking to put on performances for them all every other night and tess is looking at joel like "is this really our child???" considering they HATE public speaking of any and all kinds. but elsa is a little beam of light who consumes EVERY musical she's allowed to (tess bans rent until she's at least twelve). she does get consumed by phantom of the opera, as every young girl does, and joel hates it (he tries to ban it, but tess rolls her eyes and reminds him she's eight, and not running off with a masked man anytime soon).

it's a little different in jackson verse- it's hard to find musicals to watch, but they do still find singin' in the rain. elsa is still enthralled. it's tess that introduces her to defying gravity in this verse, stumbling over the lyrics in the kitchen one day while they make homemade hot cocoa as the snow falls, and elsa memorizes every single word painstakingly until she can belt it out, twirling around the backyard in a cape Maria had sewn for her, hood included.

when elsa is fifteen she finds a beat up, waterlogged script for guys & dolls in the back of the library, and she has a Vision. she wants to put on a show for the town. she does it all- writer, director, casting, costumes, and she's the star. but in the end the show is great, if a little stilted, and elsa is so stinkin' proud of herself tess can't help but lean over to joel's ear, murmurs softly (fondly, affectionately, so lovingly) "are we sure she's ours?". joel just chuckles, and clutches the wildflowers he's holding for elsa a little tighter.

[allfallsdown]

anna torv—the last of us, fringe, mindhunter, the newsreader.

[redjennies]

one time, when I was twenty, I told an art school friend that not only is Bobby Briggs my favorite character from Twin Peaks but he's the only person on the show I find remotely likable, and I watched him go through all five stages of grief before turning to me and saying in such a soft voice, "you have the worst opinions."

[mariatesstruther]

tess facts:

- she wears a size 7 and hates that she can only ever find shoes that are a size 8 or up

- she didn’t eat shellfish before 2003 because the idea of eating crustaceans genuinely grossed her out

- she’s a reckless driver, but is deathly afraid of going on a motorcycle

- she makes TERRIBLE drinks. they’re strong and they’re deadly

- she didn’t really Vibe with being a mother, especially not to a baby. she doesn’t like babies, and she never has. you cannot reason with a baby

- she can chug beer like a motherfucker

- she’s great at pool

- she doesn’t like dogs all that much, but she grows to love buckley and the way he likes to sit on her feet

- she thinks joel and tommy going basically no-contact is so, so stupid. she and joel don’t talk about it all that much. he knows how she feels

- her favorite desert is frozen yogurt

- she was homecoming queen her junior year, then transferred to another school and won prom queen her senior year

- in jackson, it makes maria two months to convince tess to join the council. it also takes two bribes