#phillip doyle

[sl0wdiver]

No I am not crying at the RTÉ Paris 2024 Irish medal winners compilation

[vexwerewolf]

Rian Johnson: So he has this live in male-partner

Arthur Conan Doyle: Ah they're in a very ambiguous but most assuredly platonic relations-

Rian Johnson: Nah they gay as hell lmfao

[viscericorde]

neat little unintentional feature of the local bookstore i like is that when certain authors are especially prolific they essentially conquer entire shelves. there's a designated george rr martin shelf, designated terry pratchett shelf, shelf that is literally just copies of dune. and who could forget the accursed sarah j maas shelf.

[detournementsmineurs]

“Miss Scarlet & The Duke (Saison 1)” série créée par Rachael New (2020) avec Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Kevin Doyle, Andrew Gower, Ansu Kabia, Cathy Belton, Nick Dunning, Simon Ludders, Helen Norton, Oliver Chris et la participation d'Ellise Chappell, septembre 2024.

[fromthestacks]

Miss Scarlet & the Duke season 1

[vietgiorgio]

"And nothing can ever be the same again." The Quiet American (2002)

Director: Phillip Noyce

Cinematography: Christopher Doyle

[raincitygirl76]

Heteronormativity is alive and well and living on Twitter. It’s extremely funny, but at the same time not.

Just thinking back to times people went through incredible mental gymnastics in order to keep assuming my ex-girlfriend (not ex at the time) was my roommate rather than my goddamn girlfriend. Not fond memories.

Getting back to the movie, if a woman had answered the door to Benoit Blanc’s apartment, in an apron and clutching a sourdough starter, the entire audience would have leapt to the (entirely correct) conclusion that this was the great detective’s wife. But some people are determined NOT to see it, when it’s another man in a clearly domestic situation in Blanc’s apartment. No matter how hard they have to try and how illogical they have to be.

Although attempting to de-queer a text by bringing up Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is….not really helping very much with the whole de-queering mandate.

Twitter is in denial over Benoit being gay.

[sapphicreadsdb]

Hi do you by chance have any sapphic fantasy recs? preferably adult fantasy but YA is fine too

sure! tho this could will get quite long... no links, sorry!, bc it was kicking up a fuss with those for some reason

+ = ya

pennyblade by j.l. worrad

lady hotspur by tessa gratton

sofi and the bone song by adrienne tooley (+)

she who became the sun by shelley parker chan

the scapegracers by h.a. clarke (+)

the third daughter by adrienne tooley (+)

the daughters of izdihar by hadeer elsbai

the malevolent seven by sebastien de castell

blackheart knights by laure eve

the warden by daniel m. ford

the unbroken by c.l. clark

dark earth by rebecca stott

witch king by martha wells

scorpica by g.r. macallister

the mirror empire by kameron hurley

now she is witch by kirsty logan

silverglass by j.f. rivkin

the woman who loved the moon and other stories by elizabeth a. lynn

...(this answer is how i discover there's a character limit per block so. doing this in chunks.)

fire logic by laurie j. marks

a restless truth by freya marske

when angels left the old country by sacha lamb (+)

the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson

an archive of brightness by kelsey socha

the bladed faith by david dalglish

the winged histories by sofia samatar

dragonoak by sam farren

the forever sea by joshua phillip johnson

into the broken lands by tanya huff

the jasmine throne by tasha suri

daughter of redwinter by ed mcdonald

the last magician by lisa maxwell (+)

the fire opal mechanism by fran wilde

...

the black coast by mike brooks

high times in the low parliament by kelly robson

foundryside by robert jackson bennett

the enterprise of death by jesse bullington

mamo by sas milledge (+)

from dust, a flame by rebecca podos (+)

uncommon charm by emily bergslien & kat weaver

wild and wicked things by francesca may

the unspoken name by a.k. larkwood

brother red by adrian selby

the final strife by saara el-arifi

way of the argosi by sebastien de castell (+)

the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart

ghost wood song by erica waters (+)

into the crooked place by alexandra christo (+)

ashes of the sun by django wexler

the midnight girls by alicia jasinska (+)

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (+)

the never tilting world by rin chupeco (+)

water horse by melissa scott

...

a master of djinn by p. djeli clark

the good luck girls by charlotte nicole davis (+)

among thieves by m.j. kuhn

black water sister by zen cho

the velocity of revolution by marshall ryan maresca

sweet & bitter magic by adrienne tooley (+)

the dark tide by alicia jasinska (+)

the library of the unwritten by a.j. hackwith

a dark and hollow star by ashley shuttleworth (+)

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

the councillor by e.j. beaton

these feathered flames by alexandra overy (+)

the factory witches of lowell by c.s. malerich

fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

...

city of lies by sam hawke

bestiary by k-ming chang

the raven and the reindeer by t. kingfisher

the winter duke by claire eliza bartlett (+)

master of poisons by andrea hairston

the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

night flowers shirking from the light of the sun by li xing

down comes the night by allison saft (+)

wench by maxine kaplan (+)

girls made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust (+)

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (+)

the impossible contract by k.a. doore

burning roses by s.l. huang

the house of shattered wings by aliette de bodard

not for use in navigation by iona datt sharma

weak heart by ban gilmartin

girl, serpent, thorn by melissa bashardoust (+)

the devil's blade by mark alder

...

we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia (+)

the true queen by zen cho

moontangled by stephanie burgis

a portable shelter by kirsty logan

sing the four quarters by tanya huff

all the bad apples by moira fowley doyle (+)

the drowning eyes by emily foster

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

miranda in milan by katharine duckett

the afterward by e.k. johnston (+)

thorn by anna burke

penhallow amid passing things by iona datt sharma

in the vanishers' palace by aliette de bodard

summer of salt by katrina leno (+)

the gracekeepers by kirsty logan

out of the blue by sophie cameron (+)

black wolves by kate elliott

the circle by sara b. elfgren & mats strandberg (+)

unspoken by sarah rees brennan (+)

thistlefoot by gennarose nethercott

passing strange by ellen klages

(and breathe)

[rudnitskaia]

I'll probably regret this note later, but I need to sort my thoughts on this somehow, so let it be. It's not a review, not a feedback, it’s just a skein of thoughts.

Let me start from afar: I wasn't going to watch Joker: Folie à Deux after all the scathing reviews I've seen. But then I accidentally found out that Sylvain Chomet took part in the creation of the credits for it, and I decided: to hell with it, at least for the sake of the credits, but I have to see it. I'll watch the first part and then the sequel in a row.

And now I'm in such contradictory feelings that it's hard to describe.

Don't get me wrong: this is a really bad movie. Everything about it is broken beyond repair: the genre, the plot, the pace of the narrative, the dialogues, the characters’ development arcs. Everything that could be screwed up is screwed up…

…on purpose.

The team that made the first movie couldn't have made its sequel so exceptionally bad by accident. It's really pure sabotage.

And from that point of view, this picture is genius. Joker: Folie à Deux is the bloody Taras Bulba of the cinema world. “I gave you life, I will also kill you!” Todd Phillips says from the screen with every misplaced song, every drawn-out scene, every gratuitous feint. I know of only two precedents of this sort, and both are from the world of literature, not cinema. Burgess, who considered and told everyone that A Clockwork Orange is unworthy of attention and even dangerous to read, and Conan Doyle, who hated Sherlock Holmes so much that he tried to kill Sherlock, but had to resurrect him anyway to meet the public's desires.

Joker: Folie à Deux truly fell victim to its creator's hatred of both the character and the industry that demands to put a comma, or even never-ending ellipses, to the place where a period is unquestionably placed. I can only applaud Phillips’ courage to bring this statement to the screens so unashamedly explicitly.

What I can't neither understand, nor justify, on the other hand, is Phillips' apparent inability to draw the line between fiction and reality. To treat a character as a real-living person is sacrilege. A fictional character, no matter how vivid and solid this character is, is still a character who is meant to tell a story, to be a tool, a prism through which the viewer or reader perceives certain events. For some unknown reason, Phillips hates his character, or, to be more precise, his actions, as if he was a real person. And this statement he conveys through the story of Arthur Fleck in the second part in full. Phillips literally forces his character to become pathetic, so that God forbid anyone to have pity for him or desire to empathize and sympathize with him, forces the character to personally debunk the image he himself created, as if telling us from the screen: “Wake up, idiots, this is not the way it fucking happens”.

Thanks for the revelation, bro, we're aware. We're watching a movie. A fictional story about fictional people.

I can kind of understand that level of judgement from people who’re not involved into creating any fictional stories, at least it’s explainable, but from a person who is a long-term director himself? Never. That's a level of judgement like "videogames make people violent".

I'm fully convinced that if there was to be a second part of Joker, it shouldn't have been about him. Arthur Fleck's story didn't need a continuation, at least not a direct one. But the world Phillips created in the first movie still had plenty of material to explore, and Harleen Quinzel's character could have mediated that journey for us. She is a fan of a serial killer (there is a wagonload of such people in reality), a person living in illusions, a victim of a fake idol. You want a musical? Let it be. In her head. Like that very episode of Scrubs, you know which I mean. But it had to be her story. Not Joker’s/Arthur’s story. Not a love story, not at all — or rather, not a story about the romantic kind of love that Phillips mocks and makes fun of for the entire sequel. It must have been a story of love that was fanatical, sick, false a priori, doomed to shatter in the end. In this story, Joker was needed purely in the background, not as a real character, but as an image in fantasies, and then Harleen, blinded by his fame she extols over herself or anything in her dull unremarkable reality, would’ve been our guide to the world that was changed by Joker’s unintentional influence, and I think you yourself are quite capable of realizing how many subjects could’ve been explored in interesting, multifaceted ways from such a delicious starting point. Not to mention the fact that it's just one variant of the starting point, because the main character could have been someone other than Harleen, and the time period relative to the events of the original could’ve been different... well, you got it, there was plenty of material to explore and develop.

And that's a damn shame it wasn’t.

One thing I know for sure is that I will not forget this movie. It's a fascinating specimen that I'll put in my personal mental cabinet of curiosities for two reasons. Adoration for how filigree bad it is — it takes courage, ingenuity, and a lot of resilience to do so, for any creator; and frustration over the fact that a really existing potential that could’ve been perfectly brought into existence in talented hands was thrown into the trashcan because of the creator's mere lack of understanding (which is doubly ironic in the context of the movie I’m talking about) of where the line between fiction and reality lies.

[yandere-writer-momo]

Been thinking of Fairy Tale AU…

Jack as the big bad wolf (Little Red Riding Hood)

Reader as Red Riding Hood (adult)

Hanayama Kaoru as the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

Reader as Beauty

Katsumi Orochi as Prince Charming

Reader as Cinderella

Kureha as Prince Phillip (Sleeping beauty)

Reader as Sleeping Beauty

Baki as Flynn Rider (Rapunzel)

Reader as Rapunzel

Yujiro as the evil wizard

Retsu as Li Shang (Mulan)

Reader as Mulan

Katou as Aladdin

Reader as Princess Jasmine

Hector Doyle as the ‘evil queen’ (Snow White)

Reader as Snow White

Sikorsky as the Snow Queen (Snow Queen)

Reader as Kay

Gaia as Gerda

Jun Guevara as the sea witch (little mermaid)

Reader as the little mermaid

Or

Jun as Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

Reader as Wendy

……………………..

Courtesy of @fangurlzrul3

Jack could also be the beast

[holmesillustrations]

Vote for your favourite, the top 9 will proceed in the bracket. Since theyre all different shapes and sizes, make sure to click into the full views!

Paget Eliminations // Other Artist Eliminations

Full captions and details for each illustration below the cut:

"The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him" Charles Doyle, Study in Scarlet (1888 Ward, Lock, & Co. Novel) Characters: ‘Mrs Sawyer’, Holmes, Watson

[Holmes entering Watson’s consulting-room] Harry C. Edwards, Final Problem (McClure’s) Characters: Holmes, Watson

"Miss Violet Smith, Teacher of Music." FD Steele, Solitary Cyclist (Collier’s) Characters: Violet Smith

Collier’s Cover FD Steele, Missing Three-quarter (Collier’s) Characters: Holmes, Pompey

"She fought her way out again." Arthur Twidle, Wisteria Lodge (The Strand) Characters: Warner, Murillo, Lopez, Signora Duranda

"The fellow gave a bellow of anger and sprang upon me like a tiger." Alec Ball, Lady Frances Carfax (The Strand) Characters: Hon. Phillip Green, Watson, Holmes

"Well, Holmes," I murmured, "Have you found out anything?" Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Watson, Holmes

"He was gripped at the back of his neck by a grasp of iron, and a chloroformed sponge was held in front of his writhing face." Alfred Gilbert, His Last Bow (The Strand) Characters: Von Bork, Holmes

"A nick in the parapet, fifteen feet from the body, interested Holmes strangely." GP Nelson, Thor Bridge (Hearst’s International) Characters: Holmes

"Here you are!" he cried, waving a paper over his head." HK Elcock, Three Garridebs (The Strand) Characters: Evans, Nathan Garrideb, Holmes, Watson

"I extend the same warning to you... take your reputed talents to some other field." FD Steele, Blanched Soldier (Liberty) Characters: Holmes, Col. Emsworth, Ralph (Butler), James Dodd

"One night my cries brought Leonardo to the door of our van." FD Steele, Veiled Lodger (Liberty) Characters: Leonardo, Griggs (clown), Mr Ronder and Eugenia

[galleriaartethule]

La librairie Eric FOSSE est heureuse de vous proposer en souscription deux éditions de luxe de l'Album de Jacques TERPANT, l’un des grands dessinateurs actuels. Après la bande dessinée consacrée à Louis-Ferdinand CELINE ou la mise en dessins de deux romans de Jean RASPAIL, entre autres succès,l’artiste propose en un ouvrage son Panthéon personnel, composé de 40 portraits des auteurs qui l’ont pétri et nourri : Enid BLYTON, Robert Louis STEVENSON, Herman MELVILLE, Arthur CONAN DOYLE, Ernest HEMINGWAY, Clifford SIMAK, Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT, Frank HERBERT, Philippe Kindred DICK, Louis-Ferdinand CELINE, MOEBIUS, Yves CHALAND, Jean RASPAIL, Jean GIONO, Emmanuel LE ROY LADURIE, Pierre SCHOENDOERFER, Georges DUBY, Michel DEON, Robert MERLE, Roger NIMIER, Marguerite YOURCENAR, Jim HARRISON, Paul MORAND, V.S. NAIPAUL, Philip ROTH, Pierre MICHON, Pierre BERGOUNIOUX, Jean-Loup TRASSARD, Michel PASTOUREAU, Charles Ferdinand RAMUZ, Pierre JOURDE, Annie ERNAUX, Richard MILLET, Pascal QUIGNARD, Sylvain TESSON, Marie-Hélène LAFON, Jean de LA VARENDE, Knut HAMSUN, Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE, Ron RASH. Pour enrichir votre bibliothèque : Librairie Fosse 12 rue Puvis de Chavannes 75017 Paris librairiefosse@orange.fr

[sporadiceagleheart]

Thursday edits for angels surrounded by angels Shan'ann Cathryn Rzucek and Bella&Nico and CeCe, Candela Sol Rodriguez, Alyssa Jane West, Emma Nicole Speer, Avielle Richman, Ava Jordan Wood, Leiliana Wright, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Lucy Morgan, Mercedes Losoya, Norah Lee Howard, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Judith Barsi and Heather O'Rourke, Makenna Lee Elrod Seiler, Eliahna Torres, Jackie Cazares, Mary E. Sullivan, Olivia Grace Thompson, Lester Stillwell, Alexis Brianne “Lexi” Stempien, Blake Lee Stafford, Emma Grace Stacks, Kelly Doyle Sparks, Christy Lea Sparks, Kelsey Shelton Smith-Briggs, Michael Daniel Smith, Alexander Tyler “Alex” Smith, Laura Ashley Skinner, James Asa Rudder, Ashley Nicole Romer, Jennifer Jailene Rodriguez, Angel Divine Randall, Miakailah Renee Ramsey-Franklin, JonBenét Ramsey, Kelli Shay Powell, Allyceea Mabel Brynne Ennis, Janet Carol Pierick, Patricia Sue Phillips, Pete Peterson I, Kaitlyn Nikol Pukatsch Parsons, Cheyenne Rose “Chey Chey” Newton, Emanuel Wesley Murray Jr., Maud H. Munn, Doris Denise Milner, Bruce Edward Miller, Ruby Miller, Lucille Miller, Gwenyth Marie McWethy, Natallie Elizabeth McNelly, Minnie E. McKendrick, Bradley Gene McGee, Joanne Ena Lynn, Jessica Marie Lunsford, Brittani Lynn LaFollette, Eva Gladys “Gladys” Kincaid, Elisa Izquierdo, James Alan Ray Hubbard, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Janessa Micheala “Nessie” Horner, Nina Viktoria “Tori” Bashenova Hilt, Angela Dawn Harter, Michelle Heather Guse, Lori Lee Farmer, Anna Katherine Grudziecke, Edith Clare “Edie” Grierson, Aiyana Emily Gauvin, Thomas Edwards Gallagher, Gerald Alfred Gaddy, Annie L Foster, Leah Foster Whitacre, Julie Alliot, Rowan Damia Ford, Kathy Fiscus, Mary Ruth Davis, Ettie E. Davis, Joan Angela D'Alessandro, Tessara Kate “Tessa” Crespi, Samantha Joy “Sammie” Crespi, Nina Craigmiles, Lacy Cheyenne Cook, Eleanor Emily Cook, Edward Parsons Cook, Dakoda James Clapper, Nevaeh Amyah Buchanan, Hayley Renae Reasor Briggs, Noelle Elizabeth Braun, Skylar Mark Brady, Edna Louise Blank, Celeste Elizabeth Berg, Teri Earlene Bender, Katherine Marie “Kathy” Beets, Barbara Ann Barnes, Bessie Barker, Baylee Almon, Marivel Mercedez Alvarez, Jessica Anders, Elli Grace Perez-Speer, Adilynn Holmes Speer, Anniston Noel Speer, Ciara Nicole Floyd, Nelani Ciara Koefer, Jade Nicole Simmons, Elizabeth Ann Byrd, Story Wren Worth, Abigail Elizabeth “Abby” Fedosoff, Kezia Mason, Isabella Sara “Bella” Tennant, Avery Lana Linda Brown, Sadako Sasaki, Sarah McKayla Brooks, Jessica Scatterson,Jessica Marie Bock, Layla Salazar, Emma Catherine Grace Thompson,

[byneddiedingo]

Gabrielle Anwar and Billy Wirth in Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993)

Cast: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Billy Wirth, Reilly Murphy, Christine Elise, R. Lee Irmey, Kathleen Doyle, Forest Whitaker, G. Elvis Phillips. Screenplay: Raymond Cistheri, Larry Cohen, Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, Nicholas St. John, based on a novel by Jack Finney. Cinematography: Bojan Bazelli. Production design: Peter Jamison. Film editing: Anthony Redman. Music: Joe Delia. 

Abel Ferrara's version of Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers is nothing if not economical. The economy extends to the title: Don Siegel's 1956 version and Philip Kaufman's 1978 one were called Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Ferrara even drops the definite article. The story, too, has been pared down. Ferrara's version sets the story on a military base in Alabama instead of the urban California of the previous films. It also shifts the focus to a teenage girl, Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar), who comes with her family to the base when her father (Terry Kinney) is sent there by the EPA to investigate chemical pollution. The dynamic of a rebellious adolescent in a military culture is perfect for the conflict between individualism and conformity, the theme that unites all of the versions of Finney's story. In addition to her father, Marti's dysfunctional family consists of her stepmother, Carol (Meg Tilly), whom she dislikes, and her young half-brother, Andy (Reilly Muphy), who annoys her. Andy is the first to sense that something is seriously wrong in their new home when, during an art class at day care, all the other kids produce identical finger paintings. As they hold up their paintings, the teacher murmurs approvingly at each one until she comes to a halt at Andy's, which is unique. She clearly disapproves. One by one, the fact that people are being somehow replaced by identical but emotionless beings becomes clear. Ferrara is not particularly interested in the mechanics of invasion and transformation that took up more narrative space in the previous films. We get some nicely disgusting body horror scenes, but the response of Marti to the alien takeover is what drives the plot as she teams up with a handsome young helicopter pilot named Tim (Billy Wirth) to fight off the invaders. Tim's stoic military manner keeps us unsure whether he's not already one of the pod people, an ambiguity that persists until the end of the movie. Body Snatchers is a good rethinking of material whose previous versions are now considered classics. The source material was mined again for a fourth version, The invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2007), which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig but bombed with the critics.   

[cosmos-coma]

Seized - Part 2

A/N: Sorry it’s a little shorter, but its nice and sweet for you! Once the action really gets going I’m hoping to make them longer

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Female Reader

Words: 964

Summary: It’s finally your day off and you want to spend it doing absolutely nothing at all so what better thing to do than sit under a tree and watch your favorite sergeant train his squad?

Part 1 | Part 2 |

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It was a week or so after your arrival that routine finally began to settle into you once again. Between getting settled and immediately getting to work your infantry had been feeling a little rocky to start. But you’ve finally started to settle into the grooves and soon enough the base was sure to feel like a second home (or 3rd… maybe 4th…?how many times have you guys moved now?). 

Today was your day off, a perfect one at that. Sunny with few clouds scattered here and there to break up the monotonous blue sky. You did your barrack checks first thing that morning, sure your fellow soldiers had all their things in order. Thankful they barely needed any correction and your job was done in no time. The rest of your day was free at last.

You suppose you could go off base and explore the nearby towns… but that sounded like too much work for your day off. You just wanted to sit back and relax, maybe watch the world go by for a little bit. Is that too much to ask?

Thankfully not. 

After grabbing a well-worn book from your pack you wandered slowly outside to find the perfect spot, sunny and warm, and- oh? You heard yelled commands and huffing breaths in the distance. “People must be training nearby.” you thought aloud, “maybe that could be something entertaining to watch between chapters….” Your feet carried you toward the sounds of effort, the commanding voice growing more and more familiar with each step. 

A large curved tree offered you the perfect place to settle down, the sun gently warming the base of the trunk where you now sat. Across the field, you could see Sergent Barnes and his small squad of men going through their drills, a small smile on his face as one of his men cracked a joke you couldn’t hear.

Bucky’s laugh rang out through the courtyard, as his squad all laughed along with the probably terrible joke that was made. Bucky had always prided himself on being a good sergeant, one that wasn’t too much of a hard ass when he didn’t need to be, it let his squad see him as a friend rather than walking and talking orders-to-be-given. He smiled as he shook his head, turning them on to a different exercise now. 

Slowly he walked around his squad, inspecting their form and making little suggestions here and there as he saw fit. However, as he walked around a new figure caught his eye beneath the looming oak tree across the way. Your hair billowed gently in the season’s breeze And your skin was aglow with the illumination of the sun. You glanced upward from your well-worn book- one you must’ve read a thousand times already- and locked eyes with him across the field. A gentle smile came to your face before you looked down again, and Bucky could feel his heart bounce around in his chest.

“Right, um… Doyle your knee’s aren’t high enough! Townsend move those arms! Juniper! Come on, Juniper…” Bucky yelled at his men, suddenly very aware of every misstep and mistake they made in front of you. His squad was a reflection of himself and they should be the best that they can be, especially in front of you. 

Raised eyebrows and confused expressions passed from man to man as they went through their drills, quiet and questioning mumbles accompanying them. But the men did as they were told, perfecting their movements bit by bit until their Sergent found something else to complain about.

“Okay,  Sergeant…” Doyle finally spoke up, the remnants of his Irish accent peaking through as his movements slowed to a stop along with the rest of the men, “forgive me for being so frank, but you’re being more of a hard-ass than even Colonel Phillips.” All the squad mumbled in agreement quietly as Doyle continued, “Are you sure you're not just being a ass about our form because you’ve got that pretty lass over there watching you?” A knowing grin spread across his face as Bucky faltered for just a moment.

Oh they had him now. 

“Pfft, woman? What woman..?” Bucky said, putting on a confused tone and looking around, every part of him exaggerated as he tried to play it off in front of his squad. With wide swings of his head he pretended to look around before he finally settled on you, your eyes looking up from your book as if you knew you were being talked about. “Oh, THAT woman? Oh, no I- I didn’t even realize she was here, uh…” 

You sent a smile and a friendly wave his way, to which the whole troop excitedly waved back, whooping and yelling pleasant greetings your way. Bucky’s cheeks flushed with embarrassment  as he lifted his hand low and awkwardly waved back. He could just hear your bubbling laughter ring out across the field as you shook your head in amusement, yelling a few greetings back at the men. 

Bucky turned back around to his squad, silently resigning to the teasing that was sure to come from these same shit-eating grins and muffled snickers.  His eyebrows settled low in his expression as he took a deep breath through his nose and addressed his squad.

“Doyle?”

The huge grin on Doyle’s face barely falters, “yes, sergeant?”

“.... Go run 10 laps.” 

A snort of laughter left the Irishman as he nodded abruptly, “aye, Sergeant” he agreed and set off in a jog as the rest of the squad devolved into laughter once again. 

“The rest of you! Back to work!” Bucky yelled as he rubbed the blush from his face, hoping you couldn’t see his mortification.

These men were gonna be the death of him.

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[clairelsonao3]

Damn, almost missed this somehow lol (sorry, the numbers don't copy 😔)

OC you most struggled to make?

How many projects do you have going on right now? Are there any that you doubt you’ll ever finish?

What are all the “kinds” of writing/art you do? (short stories, poetry, screenplays, digital, painting, clay, etc.)

What are your favourite books?

Thanks for the asks, Anna! From this ask game.

OC you most struggled to make?

Probably one of the ones that appeared in one of the WIPs I've since scrapped (which explains why I scrapped them). My characters talk to me, and sadly, sometimes they say "Yeah, I don't wanna be in this book." 😂

Before I decided to continue with my current WIP, I had plans for a contemporary romance focused on royalty (and non-royalty) from a fictional country. I loved the male MC, but the female MC was just resisting me at every turn. I couldn't get a clear picture of her face, her background, her motivation, anything. So into the bin she went.

I also had another YA historical romance going for a while that I put on the back burner because the male MC wasn't working for some of the same reasons, although I'm still in love with the concept (it was Oliver Twist-inspired!).

How many projects do you have going on right now? Are there any that you doubt you’ll ever finish?

If you count "projects that exist in my brain," the number is probably infinite. I've had things I've wanted to write for 10 years or more( see above) but haven't for various reasons. In terms of official WIPs, I'd say 3, but only one is really active at the moment.

What are all the “kinds” of writing/art you do? (short stories, poetry, screenplays, digital, painting, clay, etc.)

At different points in my life, I've written short stories, poetry, flash fiction, screenplays, stage plays, and even songs. I thought learning as many forms of writing as I could would make me well-rounded (it really just made me exhausted). And that doesn't even take into account the nonfiction writing I do. At the moment, though, I'm more or less only working in long-form fiction (i.e. novels).

What are your favourite books?

Thank god the question was "books," plural! Here's a selection off the top of my head:

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Magus - John Fowles

Dreamland - Kevin Baker

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (also Loon Lake by same)

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges

The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi

The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

Troubling a Star - Madeleine L'Engle

The Secret Garden and A Little Princess - F.H. Burnett

The Chronicles of Narnia (favorite being The Magician's Nephew) - C.S. Lewis

This list should not be considered exhaustive 😂