#number 68

[chaoticcosmos666]

I will be crying in the club this game. Such a deserved move for an absolute legend imo

[i-did-not-mean-to]

Scribbles & Drabbles 2022

There Was A Bed Made Of Earth... by @the-red-butterfly

Characters: Elwing & Dior

Rating: Gen

Review: A beautiful walk taken by Elwing to talk to the father she's lost. We always see her as the wife of Eärendil and the mother of the twins; let my friend take you on a deceivingly peaceful walk to meet Elwing, the daughter and orphan.

A piece full of longing and pain as well. Be prepared!

[whywishesarehorses]

We went on the briefest of trail rides to pretend we were doing the Tevis and galloped up one of the slopes with my hands outstretched and I was in heaven

And then I picked a pound of wild blackberries while she made faces at the Arab mare

[awanderingcatharsis]

WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK.

[vintageghoststories]

anyways i care abt wtnv as a person who lives in a small town and is queer bc Yes Its Terrible but its My Home and i love it despite how much i fucking hate it and how much i wish it could change . Like Odifgtghhgjgj ALSO. with strexcorp and how many "outsiders" are coming into small towns to get away from city life Unknowingly Bring That City Life With Them and ruining the culture of the small towns And Also Capitalism Bad . like yeah they were so fucking right abt thatactually .

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Moon: What do you two think you’re doing?

Blood Moon, in tears: Wrapping baby brother a Christmas gift?

Moon: Do you want help? That looks like a mess.

Blood Moon: Yeah…

Moon: Okay, watch and try, okay? *shows them how to wrap presents with one of Sun’s presents* Got it?

Blood Moon: Our hands are taped together…

Moon: Okay, you’ll learn. Let me get the tape off.

Blood Moon, pouting pitifully as Moon gets the tape off their hands: Thank you.

[get-back-homeward]

David Jacobs, the suave and arrogant showbiz lawyer whose clients included The Beatles, Marlene Dietrich, Liberace and Judy Garland and who introduced Epstein to the gay scene in the capital was also a key player. Bullock calls it a “support network for the entertainment industry”. They needed it. While success brought money, attention and a certain freedom from the mores of contemporary society, it also caused problems.

Until the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 legalised homosexual acts between consenting adults over the age of 21, gay men had been confined to a crepuscular demi-monde and were confronted with a rise in prosecutions and several ‘sensational’ court cases well into the 1960s that had served to keep them in the closet rather than face misguided public opprobrium, the attention of the police and, frequently, blackmail.

The business uniform of single-breasted sharp suit and thin tie might have still ruled the roost but as the 1960s started to get underway, the author points out, “We really see people starting to come out of their shells and being a bit more flamboyant and less guarded in what they’re doing. People are kind of realising that within entertainment, and particularly rock and pop, you can probably get away with a little bit more”.

In other words, there was lots of sex and drugs to go with the rock n roll for successful gay men in the business and that necessarily meant existing within a network of people you could trust. “Certainly, there were parties at Brian Epstein’s house where he would just invite anyone around who he thought would be interesting and fun and just let them carry on while he would pick out who he fancied and take them off to another room,” says Bullock. “There was a certain amount of you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours in business terms but there was also a feeling that it was also much easier to play in that way, to host parties for this kind of network and for the people this network knew in a place where you were not likely to be arrested, not going to get busted or have the press hammering at your door.

“David Jacobs was always being asked to come and get people out of sticky situations,” explains Bullock. “Brian was blackmailed several times, often by the same ex-boyfriend… including on one occasion when this guy made off with some of the takings from the Beatles’ Candlestick Park gig in San Francisco and some pills, private papers and photographs before demanding $10,000 for their safe return. Blackmail was going on so often, they got used to having to pay-off people to shut them up but when you have so much money lying around I guess it’s not that much of an issue and certainly paying off the occasional blackmailer has got to be better than going to a club and being caught out and having your name splashed all over the newspapers.”

From “The Network of Gay Men at the Heart of Britain’s Pop Culture Revolution” by Bill Barrows on the release of Darryl W. Bullock’s The Velvet Mafia book | photo credit: Scott K. Runyen [x]

[prisonpodcast]

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[echoes-fandoms]

Are you ok with proshippers interacting?

Of course, darling! Being against harassment is the right thing to be!

[i-did-not-mean-to]

Scribbles & Drabbles 2022

At Your Gravesite by @maglor-my-beloved

Characters: I won't give that away

Rating: T

Review: Nervous-crisis-inducing! I want to warn you; these are 300 words of pure pain. It's like drinking 300 shots of acid. Swallowing 300 razor blades. You cannot imagine my desperate wailing upon reading this heart-wrenching account of three graves that are visited and cried on by those left behind after tragedy strikes.

This one will stay with me for a long time...it is gorgeous and terribly, awfully destructive in its concise, precise sharpness. My heart is bleeding!

[s0ngsandstars]

Enstars Characters by their 2024 Birthday Luck Rankings.

Including the teachers because I love them. Luckiest is Chiaki at number 6 and unluckiest is Niki at 343! If that's all you're here for. Everyone under a cut because it's a long list

6 Chiaki Morisawa 9 Mitsuru Tenma 17 Leo Tsukinaga 18 Nagisa Ran 20 Mika Kagehira 26 Kaoru Hakaze 32 Hiiro Amagi 45 Jin Sagami 58 Ibara Saegusa 65 Rei Sakuma 65 Izumi Sena 77 Kohaku Oukawa 84 Mao Isara 88 Kuro Kiryu 90 Shinobu Sengoku 98 Hajime Shino 104 Mayoi Ayase 116 Tsumugi Aoba 119 Midori Takamine 119 Adonis Otogari 121 Madara Mikejima 123 Tsukasa Suou 136 Rinne Amagi 148 Nazuna Nito 149 Wataru Hibiki 154 Aira Shiratori 169 Souma Kanzaki 173 Jun Sazanami 175 Yuzuru Fushimi 179 Sora Harukawa 185 Keito Hasumi 208 Arashi Narukami 213 Hokuto Hidaka 217 Koga Ogami 228 Hiyori Tomoe 235 Kanata Shinkai 241 Makoto Yuuki 244 Subaru Akehoshi 247 HiMERU 261 Eichi Tenshouin 275 Natsume Sakasaki 278 Tatsumi Kazehaya 280 Akiomi Kunugi 286 Hinata Aoi 286 Yuta Aoi 292 Ritsu Sakuma 301 Tetora Nagumo 313 Tori Himemiya 331 Tomoya Mashiro 334 Shu Itsuki 343 Niki Shiina

You can find the birthday luck ranking list here.

[quietlyblooms]

oh i already feel better 😮‍💨

[ariibees]

Posting some more art fight attacks now that the event is over! Not all of the ones I did, but some of my favorites :) Character credits under the cut.

Top to bottom, left to right:

Velos | LonerEevee (Tumblr, Artfight)

Fein | Yampie (Tumblr, Artfight)

Horntail | RandomObject (Artfight)

Ansel | Kaiiquz (Tumblr, Artfight)

Zenaku Jintao | Shadowflux (Artfight)

[mossflower]

this is fucking hilarious i did the maths and literally two thirds of my hozier listening time was eat your young

[0last-ditch-effort0]

random stitchy stats

I have done:

51.76% (this is an older photo) 3422 stitches this year ave 263 stitches per session ave 213 stitches per week

[sevarix-blogs]

imo it's the best haydn string quartet out of all 68