#read this all in a scottish accent

[popcorn-plots]

The thing about being aegosexual (in my experience) is that sex/masturbation feels more like a chore than anything.

Welp, looks like the vagina craves a dick again. Wonderful Just another day. We almost made it two whole months without needing another round to keep the good ol' brain happy

[p3achj3llyf1sh]

i love when narinder just stares with his big evil eyes

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Our Lady Of Mysterious Ailments & The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle

books 2 & 3 in the Edinburgh Nights series

paranormal mystery set in a climate-ravaged future Scotland, plagued by ghosts and magic

follows a 15yo Black girl who’s finally gotten an in to learn scientific magic properly - but it turns out to be an unpaid internship, so she has to take more jobs delivering ghost messages and investigating mysteries to take care of her gran and little sister

in book 2 she’s investigating a strange illness centred on a magic school for boys

and in book 3 she’s attending a global magician conference held in a creepy castle - when someone’s murdered, and they’re locked in until she figures out the culprit

Zimbabwean magic, friendship, disabled characters, no romance (so far)

[sciderman]

thank you for the ducks, me and my home country also really love Donald Duck and other ducks and Don Rosa is a celebrity to us

i'm so bummed that the ducks aren't very big here in the uk! the rest of europe has it right. the ducks deserve to be beloved. whenever i travel to other european countries i gather all the duck i can find. i have so many books in different languages just because i physically can't resist a book filled with ducks.

the first scrooge book i ever scored on an english bookshelf was don rosa's life and times of scrooge mcduck and it's one of my favourite books i own. i just fell in love with scrooge. i love him so much, he feels like family to me. i love his family, and i love how funny and weirdly honest the familial relationships are. i just... augh. i want to hug every duck book i own. they literally are like serotonin on a page, for me. life can't be so bad, if i have ducks.

i think the thing that makes me love the ducks so much vs a lot of other media is that donald and scrooge especially are just. so. they're defined by their flaws. scrooge is stingy. donald is quick-to-temper. those are their defining characteristics but they're still the guys we love and we root for even though their defining characteristic should make them unlikeable. but we LOVE them. and they're at each other's throats but we loooove them we looove them we love them. they're jerks to each other but we LOOOOVE them...

i think i remember reading something about the success of donald duck overseas vs the success of mickey mouse being that - mickey is the poster child and kind of has to be sweet and sanitised, but donald can get messy and that's why we love him. and i love him.

love a little cutey ducky with anger issues from birth

sighs.. family...

[blaithnne]

Can we as a fandom collectively move on from writing Scrooge’s accent out in dialogue? Like the “ye” thing? Please. Please. Please. Please Please Please PLEASE—

[crusaderguy]

Main reason why they're friends is because they're both the least respected guys in the room, although for different reasons.

[autistic-katara]

ppl who phonetically transcribe accents r so annoying sometimes cause ull be reading a super emotional moment and one character will unironically non-humorously go “oh mah god luv ahm so sorreh” like pls 😭

[thealogie]

do you or the followers have a good omens audiobook rec

I’ve only listened to the full cast recording with Michael Sheen and David Tennant on audible and it was very….just okay. I haven’t done a comparison to the book but I felt they got rid of some dialogue tags and “stage directions” for the sake of making it cinematic experience. I prefer audiobooks to be a little bit less like a radio play, but it got the job done. Anyone have other recs?

[greaseonmymouth]

the longer I stay in the UK the easier it’s getting to identify accents as I hear them more often than before I got here but nothing else I can do tops watching random videos here or tiktok or whatever on mute and being able to tell what accent that person has just from lipreading

[gordonsgano]

Graeme’s short film “Hoots” is so funny

[m0th-t33th]

i so badly want to read my favourite bits of books & send them to a discord server but i have a stupid fucking accent so i Cant.

[cj-theyoungling]

Simon Riley x Reader

cw : Being drunk. This is pure fluff soooo.

synopsis : Simon goes to a pub after a mission and ends up getting a bit more drunk than he bargained for. After asking for you incoherently Gaz finally gets you on the phone.

author's note : This was inspired by this work I read while I was on the train and I had to put my two cents in. Simon might be OOC in this but it's my story so I get to decide how he acts drunk.

The sound of your ringtone fills your bedroom and wakes you up with a start. You fumble around the empty sheets looking for your phone, you squint at the brightness of the screen and answer once you see Simons contact photo.

"Hey! I think Ghost is asking for you. He's a little bit wasted right now." I man in a baseball cap says to you. You watch as he hands the phone over to Simon.

Simon's face fills the screen, once he catches sight of you the fabric of his balaclava folds in a way you know means he's smiling. "Hi baby." You coo at the screen. His eyes light up as he brings the screen closer to his face. You can tell he's drunk when he leans against Price as he replies.

"Hi doll. I miss you." He slurs his words together, between that and the usual muffling of his mask you can barely make out what he's saying.

"I miss you too Simon." This elicits what you can only assume is a frown from him.

"You don't call me that." He grumbles, you giggle in response and the sound of Price chuckling comes through the phone.

"Damn! You're whipped LT!" A Scottish accent shouts, also clearly drunk.

"Where are you love? I'm gonna come get you." You start putting on your sweatshirt and shoes, you laugh as you hear Simon ask Price the name of the they're at. You hang up, much to Simon's dismay, and drive to go get him.

You enter the mostly empty pub and quickly catch sight of the table full of burly men who all seem to be arguing over something.

"Well is she your wife Ghost? You have their last name saved as Riley." The one who answered the call says, now having shed his cap from earlier.

"Why didn't you tell us about her." Another man says, his hair is sticking up in a mohawk.

Price chuckles at their antics, having caught sight of you walking towards them. "Nice to see you again." He greets, giving you a quick side hug.

"Again?!" The mohawked one says incredulously. You chuckle and introduce yourself to the two men. Simon, suddenly alert once you start speaking stands and wraps his arms around you tightly.

"I missed you doll." He mumbles into your neck, ignoring the laughs from Gaz and Soap.

"I missed you more baby. Now let's get you home, you're wasted." You chuckle as you lead him away from the table. You wave at the men and get Simon into the car.

Once you get into the drivers seat Simon grabs your hand and holds it tightly. You smile as you begin to drive home. Making sure to take a few pictures when Simon falls asleep in the passenger seat.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Fireborne Blade

high fantasy novella about a knight who’s planning to prove herself by retrieving a powerful fabled blade

follows her venturing into the dragon’s lair and facing it’s powerful magical effects, with a mage-squire who she doesn’t remember hiring

as well as flashback chapters of her past, preparing for this quest, an excerpts from archive records of other knights’ encounters with dragons

[captn-duck-gremlin]

Like it all started when you and some friends decided to do some urban exploration, visiting a broken abandoned military base. Now while there your friends are of course being dumb, touching things with bare hands, no face coverings to protect them from whatever harmful things could be in the air, respect for the possible dead is on floor level with them. You on the other hand, you got gloves, a face mask just in case, you're apologizing to anything you bump into. You did the research, this place went down from an unexpected attack, so there might be a corpse around somewhere (or lingering spirit). You give a short prayer to anything that looks like a corpse, regardless if you follow in those beliefs or now; you just want to be respectful to the dead. And yes, this place is haunted. Obviously. Now the important part, at one point or another 4 damned souls have clung to you. You dont notice at first, you barely feel that buzz that you're being watched. But the first unnatural thing to happen to you starts in a dream, a weirdly detailed dream. You're a housewife in the 50s. Cute summer dress, lovely home, nice street. But it feels too real, the patterns on the walls stay perfect no matter how long you stare at them, you can read lines from books you've never seen before, you look at your hands and they don't look distorted like they usually are in dreams. Then a man walks through your front door like he owns the place, you don't recognise him. At all. Yet he speaks to you in such a nice rough voice from his cigars, calling you such sweet things. Treating you like his wife. Then after what felt like hours from playing housewife you wake up, confused to hell and back. You brush it off until the next night, where you're sucked into another oddly very detailed dream, but its so different. From housewife in the 50s to maiden in the ye old times. The man is different, instead of tough, friendly bearded husband, you now have dark knight with skull markings. Helmet stays on at all times, but despite the rough and scary armour and vibe, he treats you like you're the finest silk, the sweetest flower, like you'll shatter if he so much as looks at you wrong. And after living through that you wake up once again incredibly confused. Is this what the backrooms feel like? You don't know, you don't want to know. Night rolls around once more which you dread and sure enough another weird dream with a new life. Now, at a farmland on the outskirts of an old styled town, you got chickens, goats, two cows, some ducks and a bulky husband with a silly mohawk. You don't know what year it is, what century you're at, at this point you're just rolling with it. Husband got a nice accent, Scottish you might think it is. He's absolutely spoiling you, treating you like a princess for no reason. Not like you're complaining. After that dream, you wake up contemplating that you might be losing your mind. But no, you're just being haunted by demons who like spending time with you through your dreams. Moving on. 4th weird dream, this feels further up into recent years, maybe 2000s. Cute husband, looks like a sweetheart, is a sweetheart. His skin is darker from the other ones, but not like you could tell with Sir Skull and Bones. He has a smooth voice, could probably sweet talk a bear. Time with him was almost too sweet. You swore his pupils nearly went heart shaped when he looks at you. And like the rest of them, you wake up confused. And thats just how your nights go, things in the day go.. strangely.

Oh and quick reminder, don't run from them.

[kindred-spirit-93]

PARIS YOU SHOULDVE KNOWN BETTER

survived todays exam & finished my first round of the musical!!!! more thoughts and an art ahead :D

this is a continuation of my very initial thought process, i absolutely plan on several relistens bc 1. im in love lol, but also 2. im still a little confused? and want to see if i missed anything while listening and read more, but other than that

LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about this musical it really is a gem

delulu prince paris is so funny to me (so sorry helen)

cassandra my queen i will get to drawing u i promise

AGAMEMNON YOU DIVIDE US ALL..... WITH YOUR BITCHING! AND BROODING XD

the part with the achaeans in the horse was hilarious i think one dude was like u come here often? and a guy was like fuck yeah i do

LOVE HAS POWER SLAPS. EVERY SONG SLAPS. *slaps paris*

i love literally everyones vocals, theyre all perfectly cast and the melodies feel like they were composed for them individually aaaaa

love the parallel from seems even the gods laugh with me to must be angry with me. im always weak for repeated motifs & callbacks

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unfinished helen lol (ft. sea foam green eyes and pearls for 'dite):

and this idiot twink (inspired by @kyleesarthell awesome animatic :D)

uncoloured bc he dont deserve it. also im cold & tired lol maybe later

@yourlocalhellenic hey bestie :]

paris the musical!!

im officially losing what little marbles i had to begin with. anyway about half way through and i have initial thoughts :3

first off love the vibe its so funky and idk why i find it absolutely hilarious yet fitting. i want agamemnon to be break dancing while planning paris' murder

speaking of which, paris is so delulu its hysterical and im so here for it. i want to punch him he has that vibe

also the part where hes singing his heart out and having his disney princess moment while im assuming hector is yelling at him to get down is too funny

so far cassandra is my favourite, her vocals & melodies are the best so far imo i love her and need to draw her immediately

helen! is such a vibe and im kinda confused bc im listening to this without a. lyrics to follow, b. background knowledge on this adaptation, and c. while studying (not my brightest idea lol)

point is is she being influenced by aphrodite when she sings abt the 'perfect stranger'? shes totally in love with and happily married to menelaus right? and is being manipulated or am i reading it all wrong?? someone pls help :')

PATROCLUS BEING LIKE GUYS WAIT FOR MY BF LMAO very cute ngl, he gets a 9 for being a supportive 'friend' lol

business is now stuck in my head yay :')

will add more tomorrow hopefully as i continue lol. feel free to add thoughts and stuff in the meantime :)

[thecrimsondandelion]

I’m so fucking excited to see Poor Things at the cinema