#space!pride and predjudice

[frodothefair]

Movies/shows I have watched numerous (more than two) times in my life:

—LOTR

—Ouran High School Host Club

—Pride and Prejudice 2005

—Office Space

—The Big Lebowski

And Wilfred is quickly on track to join that list. Somehow.

[sam0fc]

"why mr spock, you almost make me believe in miracles" - a normal heterosexual thing to say to your heterosexual husband before you share a passionate not homosexual kiss !

I uh made a thing

[ussjellyfish]

dug out my blu rays of Disco season 4 and the audio is so much better than the version I usually get from streaming. (my home internet's a bit rubbish, so the audio is always jumk). Also there's more depth to the picture, I think? the colors are brighter?

I should try blu ray rips from my laptop and see how those are.

I'm watching my happy place episode, which is Galactic Barrier.

stray thoughts under the cut.

Saru and Laira's makeup just looks...real. (I do love Saru and T'Rina's pride and predjudice style dating, it's adorable and gentle).

I love Hugh, he's so kind and gorgeous.

Osyraa and the Emerald Chain really were awful.

Michael's leaving space dock speech gets me EVERY time.

Michael and Paul really do technobabble well. I know the barrier itslef doesn't exist, but I like the color show, it's fun and scary and they had a good time with filters filming this episode.

IT IS brighter on blu ray. The reds are better, and the distance between the close to the camera shot and the further person in the over the shoulder shots is different somehow.

There's such warmth in the colors of s4. Especially compared to s1. s4 is so gold (and the fire helps).

The amount my heart jumps during one of Michael's microexpressions is ridiculous. (but happy, it is my happy place).

I shipped Michael and Laira a bit before this episode, but this one...damn. They argue, they're vulnerable together, they look after each other, they solve problems together...

I could just live in that.

(also they're very very pretty).

I think I should get up to change the discs more often. The blu ray copy is WAY better than the streaming copies I usually get.

I wrote fic often while watching this ep, and I'm trying to remind myself what writing fic felt like so I can do it. Think it might help.

[ice-connoisseur]

Yuletide 2024

Dear author,

I hope the extra information here is helpful, but if you have something different you've been desperate for an excuse to try then please disregard anything I mention that's too specific!

Sally Lockhart - My first great fictional love, from a time before I even knew what fic or fandom was. My eternal love for the found family trope can probably be traced to the door of Garland and Lockhart. The lack of fic is a constant sadness, and I would love anything and everything involving Sally, especially if it predates or flat-out ignores Fred's death. But something set in post book canon with Dan or Harriet wanting to know more about him would also warm my cockles. Basically anything Sally Lockhart and I am in.

Queen’s Thief - I wholly blame Kamet e dai Annux, with his dry, long-suffering patience and the way he manages to be both the smartest and stupidest person in the room at any given moment, for my love of these books. Costis/Kamet is my favourite pairing, and I’m also a big fan of the spyfam-in-the-palace headcanon post RotT, ala ama’s Spies and Soldiers series, so if you're going down the shippy route my preference would be to veer away from the information in Moira’s Pen. I've got a few QT fics in my AO3 bookmarks which should be a good indicator of my preferences here - I obviously love Gen and Irene and Helen and Sophos too, but Kamet and Costis win out.

Rivers of London - I don't even know where it came from, I've read the books before and enjoyed them but mostly veered away from fandom, and then a re-read this summer sucked me fully into Peter/Nightengale, and then Peter/Nightengale/Bev. As mentioned, with the latter I do prefer a full OT3, but anything that involves Bev and Nightengale bonding over their shared love and frustration for Peter, in whatever guise that takes, is more than good with me. I do have a real weakness for touchstarved Nightengale, and future-fics that involve adopted apprentices. As with Queen's Thief there are a fair few RoL fics in my AO3 bookmarks.

Memoirs of Lady Trent - HOW do these books not have a bigger fandom?! The practical courtship of Isabella and Suhail brings me so much joy, and her relationship with Tom is my platonic OTP. I'd love something that touches on things that the books can't include due to the first person POV - Tom and Suhail, either of them and Jake, any of their thoughts on Isabella and some of her more madcap schemes. But I also love the sheer pragmatism of Isabella's POV, so don't feel you have to avoid that!

In general, I love tropes, I love found families, I love getting-togethers and established-relationships, and I adore lovers-meeting-again-after-years-apart (every fandom needs a Persuasion AU...). Hurtcomfort is my jam. I LOVE AUs; full-blown alternate universes (feel free to use any fandom I have an AO3 bookmark for, or to check anonymously if it's not there), everybodylives!, modern, canon, whatifs, whatever. Slice of lifes. Outsider POVs of a relationship, be that platonic or romantic. My general AO3 bookmarks are probably a good indicator of my likes and loves, if only for how broad they are.

My squicks are relatively benign. I rarely enjoy A/B/O or dom/sub unless it’s done very well. I’m British, so blatant Americanisms in a UK-set-fic (fall and sidewalks are the two I am particularly petty about) do bug me. Angst with no happy ending is not something I need right now. I’m rarely a fan of space/sci-fi AUs. While I love a clever other fandom AU I'm generally not keen on crossovers (so give me a Pride and Predjudice AU, but don't have Mr Darcy and Nightengale interacting, unless it's in a minor cameo sort of way)***. And I think that’s about it.

Thank you so much for writing for me, I’m looking forward to reading whatever it is :D

***This is not strictly true, I can think of at least two or three full blown crossovers that I adore (coughPeterWimsey-PhryneFishercough), so maybe it's more about the setting making sense for them to interact...I need to think on this some more XD

[butidontevenlikezebras]

If you think i’m gonna wait ANOTHER TWO YEARS just to watch Space!Pride and Prejudice the sequel...you’re absolutely right

[junoeclipsed]

Ben Solo + Victorian Suggestions

[casxmorgan]

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[tobi-tobi-tobi]

shAlleth we do some moRe unecesarry headcanonS :)) WhY yes we shall.

Marauders hEadcanons

They appeared to be the height of popularity but as we know they were complete nerds

Harry would be ashamed

My dad wouldn’t have wanted to spend four hours in the library hermioNe

HoW wroNg you are Harry how wRong you are

Your dad would most definitely have spent four hours in the library

And that’s what makes them cool

Can you imagine them starting a food fight in the great hall and then being like

‘Well the viscosity of the tomato makes it much more preferable however the density of the potato may be more suited’

JuSt thrOw the fooD

We love them

Also they set trends for the school

Sometimes purposefully and sometimes not

One time sirius got dared to wear his hair in space buns for a day and suddenly space buns are the new craze

(Bun buns is a much better name for them I must say)

TALKING OF DARES

The marauders truth and dare is ledgendary

They only play when there is a party or it’s like 4 am in the morning but it’s a m a z I n g

Or mildly horrific depends how you look at it

The dared are crazy, sometimes taking weeks to complete and they are all hilarious

They have a rule that says you can only choose one option twice in a row

And when they were trying to figure out who Remus was dating it went something like

Remus - “truth”

James - are you dating someone

Remus - “mmmhmmmm yes”

James - “KNEW IT”

when his turn came around again they gave him a really easy dare something along the lines of so three star jumps

And the same with next time

Until truth came around again and James got to ask

WAIT NO TAKE THAT BACK James came up with an ingenious solution and said “make out with the person you are dating”

Remus sighs and Sirius smirks and then smoochy smooch

How did this become Wolfstar centred fbjsjf

Also they are all so caring of one another

It’s a well known fact that Remus lives on chocolate and tea but Sirius loves toast and honey every morning for breakfast and James is a sucker for shortbread biscuits

Lily makes them and he falls in love with her a little more

Also they all share uniform

All their clothes end up strewn across their dorm floor and it isn’t unusual to see Peter drowning in one of Remus’ shirts

Which leaves remus with a shirt that’s a little too tight

Sirius is not complaining

They give cute gifts to each other too

Meaningful ones

Like mugs and socks for Remus because he l o v e s them but also Sirius gave him a scrapbook with all their little moments in because he’s sentimental

Remus in return gave Sirius a charmed version of pride and predjudice where all his favourite scenes came to life to show how he saw them and all his little annotations were left in and doodles and aaa

And Sirius just falls so much in love because so much of Remus is in this book and he learns a little more with each word and andjajjfjdjd

TheRE YOU GO LOVELIES LOVE YOU

[thychesters]

pride, predjudice & champagne. | ao3 ; 2.2k a dickbabs ficlet based on this by @deadhermiteyes

“Do you think if Cass downed like... four of these, someone would notice?” Steph asks, and Barbara breaks eye contact with Dick from across the room to turn and find Steph giving her champagne flute a good stare down. Barbara’s own sits posed between her fingers, barely touched, and Cass gives hers a thoughtful look before shrugging and turning her attention elsewhere, a smile gracing the corner of her mouth. 

They’ve already been here too long, she thinks, and they’ve only been here two hours. Which is two hours too long, Dick would say, if he weren’t currently rubbing elbows and entertaining small talk with his current gaggle of sycophants. The glare he’d shot in Bruce’s direction had not gone unnoticed, though he’d quickly dialed up the charm, and Barbara can catch perhaps every other word from where she is across the room, reading his lips over shoulders from where guests sit and around elbows.

The event is fairly tame in comparison to the last few events they’ve held: only one glass has shattered and Alfred had to break up just a minor scuffle amongst the catering crew in the early hours. Dick indulges Gotham’s one-percenters in conversation, and for every one step he takes their way he’s met with three more people who want to make conversation. All of this for a plate of hors d’oeuvres he’d promised her, and she can make out some small spanakopita balanced precariously as he attempts to side-step people and is thwarted every step of the way.

Barbara sighs, gaze wandering the room as Steph and Cass sit with their heads bent together, snickering between themselves at a joke she doesn’t pay much heed to. Try as she might, she cannot help but think of everything they could be doing outside of this—the money laundering Cobblepot’s gotten his hands into, the uptick in burglaries on the west side with the warmer weather approaching. She pushes away from the table.

“I’m going to get some air,” she says, to which Cass offers a soft hum and Steph nods in acknowledgment. She casts a glance back over her shoulder to find Dick lost in the crowd, and carefully makes her way through those on the outskirts to duck out a pair of French doors to one of the patios.

It’s quieter out on the veranda, away from the din of forced conversation and fake pleasantries and the occasional well-meaning story, where the music travels from the open windows. From her vantage point she can see the sprawling expanse of the gardens and can almost pretend the city doesn’t exist, as far removed from it as she feels.

Barbara welcomes the solitude, and a small smile plays at her lips as her arm comes to rest against the stone railing, her glass beside it. A quiet scene plays out before her: a few moths darting around the light fixtures dotting the path, a few stray fireflies she hasn’t seen in months flickering in and out of view. She’ll return to the party soon enough, she decides, though this is a nice reprieve and gives her time and space to think.

She trails her fingers along the grains in the stone and watches the stars.

“I didn’t realize the real party was out here,” a voice calls out to her, and she turns to find Dick beaming back at her, two flutes in one hand and a mix of spanakopita and an array of cheese in the other. “Sorry I’m a little late; think my invite got lost in the mail.”

“Took you long enough,” she says, though she smiles and leans into his embrace as he leans to press a kiss to her temple. After handing her her plate of hors d’oeuvres—finally, at long last—he makes quick work of stripping his suit coat, leaving it folded on the railing in a manner Alfred would approve of. He scoffs at her and she watches with thinly veiled interest as he tosses a leg over the bench and settles himself to face her.

“Hey, had to go appease the masses,” he says, eying the flute she came out with next to the ones he’d brought with him. “Looks like someone’s ready to have a wild night. Should I spread word to Vale or Clark to be on the look out?”

“Har har,” she gets out through her teeth, around a bit of spinach and filo dough. Barbara watches him take a drink and gaze out over the gardens, the same she’d been admiring before he joined her, and the very same they spent a good many nights wandering as children. The grounds know their stride, her palms the feel of bark as she climbed them during games of pirates or exploration and hours spent finding just the right nook to read in. She can see a small play at his features and wonders if he’s thinking of the same.

“I felt like Bruce was trying to marry me off in there,” Dick says and she smirks into her glass.

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah, I think I had a real Mr. Bingley moment in there.” He passes his flute to his other hand, now free one settling between them. One of his shoulders raises in a shrug. “The woman I was hoping to talk to left the party and I wanted to catch her before she left. Guess that’s more of a Darcy thing though, isn’t it?”

Barbara takes a sip, and offers a shrug of her own. “Oh, I don’t know, between you and me I always kind of like Bingley a little more.” She gives him a look out of the corner of her eye to find him loosening his tie enough to slip it over his head to be left with his jacket. “Unfortunately I think this means no dramatic declaration in the rain for us, though.”

“The sprinklers go on at one.”

Her teeth almost catch on her glass. “Oh right, because if you didn’t want to make the papers before you’re sure to then.”

“Of course. Bruce told us all to mingle and place nice; no one else is doing anything of value so I’m picking up the slack. Our torrid love affair is sure to keep them talking.”

“I like how you more or less just implied the rest of your siblings were useless,” she says, snagging a cracker. Dick gestures somewhere in the gardens with the bruschetta he snagged. “And I didn’t realize our relationship was so torrid now. I really should be paying more attention to it.”

“I didn’t say they were, you just did—thanks for the heads up that apparently you haven’t been paying attention to our relationship, by the way. Now it feels very one-sided.” Barbara snickers and turns her attention to finishing the last of her champagne. “Oh, now we’ve really got that Bennet-Bingley dynamic going.” She watches him pull a face, brow puckering as he toys with his glass. “Bingley was the guy who wasn’t a dick, right? With the sister? And it was his sister who broke up Bingley and the one sister?”

“That’s a lot of sisters.”

“Well, yeah, weren’t there like six of them? But the one guy’s sister tried to break up the two of them.” 

“Can you name them all?”

Dick glowers at her, huffing before taking another sip of his glass. “This started as a joke that turned into an English lesson, great. Glad I’ve found your niche humor.”

Barbara laughs, swatting his hand away when he reaches over to poke at her. It’s always comfortable falling into their easy camaraderie, the jabs with no heat and the familiarity of it all. There’s still that sense of nostalgia they’d contended with last time, a battle of wills and butting heads until they’d found that middle ground. She twirls her glass in her hand.

Dick turns just so to cast a surreptitious glance over his shoulder. “Speaking of sisters... I still can’t believe that time you had Cass throw me out a window after we broke up.”

She snickers and shakes her head; there’s still mirth in his eyes.

“You and I both know no one makes Cass do anything. Besides, it wasn’t like you fell that far.” Barbara swaps her empty glass for the full one on the railing and then reaches for his. He watches her split the champagne between the two of them as she says: “I also had to establish dominance and who was the favorite in the event we had to split custody.”

Dick laughs, abrupt and loud and almost enough to draw attention to themselves had they been closer to the ballroom. She makes no effort to hide her amusement while he smiles at her, and she sets aside her glass and plate of food as he moves closer to her. She goes to meet him halfway, working her way across the stone, chair left by the railing and dress trailing along the veranda as she works her way into the warm expanse of his side, tucked under his arm as it trails over her own. His fingers dance along her side until they find hers, callouses smoothing over the back of her palm. Music still wafts through the windows behind them, a gentle melody she’s always found herself drawn to, always sought out during these events. Barbara leans back into his embrace, back into his chest as he holds her to him and hooks his chin over her shoulder.

They should go back soon, she knows this, before someone comes looking for them and the rumor mill starts, but they have time for this, she thinks.

Dick is warm against her, solid and welcome, and she tilts her head at the cheek pressed against her temple, then her own. The arm at her other side shifts, and she flicks his knuckle as he moves to intertwine their fingers. For a good moment they’re quiet, his fingers tapping against the back of her hand and he holds her and she lets herself be held to the tune of the gala and the occasional firefly to contrast with the stars above them.

“We used to leave the galas and come here all the time when we were kids, Dick,” she says, voice soft so as to not disrupt the stillness of the moment, the privacy and vulnerability of it. Barbara can feel his hum before she hears it, and then Dick’s ducking his head into the side of her neck to press a kiss to the exposed skin there. She squirms against him with a soft sound from the back of her throat, and he grins against her neck before pulling away. “They’re gonna find us!”

“What are they gonna do, kick us out?” he says as she tilts her head back to look at him, smiling at her all the while. Barbara huffs and noses at his jaw to nudge him back, and she gives him a quick peck as she does. She can feel the rise and fall of his chest against her back, exposed skin warmed by the material, and his breath trailing through the hair she’d pulled out of its loose braid not even an hour into the party. “I like this dress on you.”

His thumb smooths along the webbing between her thumb and forefinger, and she leans back in as he presses a kiss to her temple.

“Dance with me,” he murmurs, breath gathering at the shell of her ear, and she catches herself about to nod before she pauses. The music continues, reaching its crescendo inside, and the atmosphere around them is perfect for it: they’re close enough to still feel like part of the party, yet tucked away enough to have their own privacy. There’s music and stars and champagne where a glass alone cost more than her weekly salary working at the library could have ever dreamed of.

It’s perfect, and Barbara only wants it to last longer, for them to enjoy it for as long as they can.

“In a minute,” she says, tilting her head back against his shoulder. “I’d like to sit with you for another minute, if you don’t mind.”

“Of course not,” he returns almost instantaneously, and if anything his arm almost tightens around her. He sways just so, rocking gently to a rhythm of his own, and she entangles their fingers as she gives his a squeeze. His nose presses against her temple as her head tilts and she watches the stars, his gaze following hers.

Inside, the band picks up another tune, another melody she’s familiar with, one they’ve danced around the manor in socked feet before, one they’ve twirled around her apartment to, and the one that plays as Dick, not in words, but in actions, tells her he loves her.

“They’re going to find us,” he says, and she can feel the smile in his voice against her ear.

“Let them,” she says. He huffs a laugh as she frees a hand and reaches for her champagne, her next sip tart and crisp, and she smiles into it as he makes to inconspicuously reach around her for the array of hors d’oeuvres. He’s warm and comfortable against her, and she closes her eyes to the music behind them and solid weight of his arm around her waist.

[kendineyazar]

#StayHome #StaySafe

Here is a list of movies, by genre without rankings down below you can watch it 😗

War movies:

‏1-Atonement (2007)

‏2-Saving private Ryan (1998)

‏3-full metal jacket (1987)

‏4-Hacksaw ridge (2016)

‏5-Valkyrie (2008)

‏6-war horse (2011)

‏7-Enemy at the gates (2001)

‏8-The thin red line (1998)

‏9-The English patient (1996)

‏10-Downfall (2004)

Western movies:

‏1-The good the bad and the ugly (1966)

‏2-once upon a time in the west (1968)

‏3-The ballad of buster Scruggs (2018)

‏4-Dances with wolves (1990)

‏5-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid (1969)

‏6-The searchers (1956)

‏7-The man who shot liberty valance (1962)

‏8-The assassination of Jesse James by the cowered Robert Ford (2007)

‏9-The wild punch (1969)

‏10-Ned Kelly (2003)

‏11-Django unchained (2012)

Sci-fi movies:

‏1-The matrix 1&2&3 (2003-2005)

‏2-Annihilation (2018)

‏3-interstellar (2014)

‏4-Arrival (2016)

‏5-The Martian (2015)

‏6-bicentennial man (1999)

‏7-2001 space odyssey (1968)

‏8-Balde runner (1982)

‏Blade runner 2049 (2017)

‏9-Contact (1997)

‏10-a clockwork orange (1971)

‏11-Passengers (2016)

‏12-Lucy (2014)

‏13-The fifth element (1997)

‏14-E.T. The extra- terrestrial (1998)

‏15-A.I artificial intelligence (2001)

‏16-Moon (2009)

‏17-In Time (2011)

‏18-Inception (2010)

‏19-The Truman show (1998)

‏20-The lobster (2015)

‏21-The final cut (2004)

Time travel movies:

‏1-Back to the future 1&2&3 (1985-1989)

‏2-12 monkeys (1995)

‏3-Looper (2012)

‏4-predisposition (2014)

‏5-about time (2013)

‏6-The lake house (2006)

‏7-The jacket (2005)

‏8-The time travelers wife (2009)

‏9-The butterfly effect (2004)

‏10-groundhog day (1993)

‏11-Midnight in Paris (2011)

Zombies and post apocalyptic movies:

‏1-The road (2009)

‏2-The book of Eli (2010)

‏3-I’m legend (2007)

‏4-28 days later (2002)

‏5-28 weeks later (2007)

‏6-Mad max (all parts)

‏7-world war z (2013)

‏8-after earth (2013)

‏9-Shaun of the dead (2004)

‏10-snowpiercer (2013)

‏11-escape from New York (1981)

‏Escape from L.A (1996)

‏12-Children of men (2006)

‏13-Blindness (2008)

‏14-Resident Evil (all parts)

‏15-The quiet earth (1985)

‏16-seeking a friend for the end of the world (2012)

‏17-The mist (2007)

‏18-down of the dead (2004)

‏19-a boy and his dog (1975)

‏20-Zombieland (2009)

‏Zombie land: Double tap(2019)

Anime & Animation movies:

‏1-all Directed by (Hayao Miyazaki)& (Studio ghibli) movies

‏2-all Directed by(Satoshi kon) movies

‏3-all Directed by(Isao Takahata) movies

‏4-all Directed by(katsuhiro otomo) movies

‏5-wolf children (2012)

‏6-The girl who leapt through time (2006)

‏7-a silent voice (2016)

‏8-5 centimeters per second (2007)

‏9-Children who chase lost voices (2011)

‏10-The anthem of the heart (2015)

‏11-I want to eat your pancreas (2018)

‏12-a letter to momo (2011)

‏13- Wall.E (2008)

‏14-Toy story (1&2&3&4)

‏15-shrek (all parts)

‏16-The red turtle (2016)

‏17-The prophet (2014)

‏18-Ace age (all parts)

‏19-The garden of words (2013)

‏20-your name (2016)

‏21- Isle of dogs (2018)

‏22-Fantastic Mr.Fox (2009)

Gangster movies:

‏1-The godfather (1&2&3)

‏2-once upon a time in America (1984)

‏3-Scarface (1983)

‏4-Donnie brasco (1997)

‏5-Casino (1995)

‏6-Miller’s crossing (1990)

‏7-A Bronx tale (1993)

‏8-American gangster (2007)

‏9-Mean streets (1973)

‏10-Carlito’s way (1993)

‏11-The departed (2006)

‏12-Pulp fiction (1994)

‏13-Road to perdition (2002)

‏14-The untouchables (1987)

‏15-snatch (2000)

‏16-Eastern promises (2007)

‏17-The Irishman (2018)

‏18-Goodfellas (1990)

‏19-Public enemy (2009)

‏20-Gotti (1996)

‏Gotti (2018)

Drama movies:

‏1-Her (2013)

‏2-Lost in translation (2003)

‏3-good will hunting (1997)

‏4-Forrest gump (1994)

‏5-Cast away (2000)

‏6-green mile (1999)

‏7-Eternal sunshine of spotless mind (2004)

‏8-The curios case of Benjamin button (2008)

‏9-Pride and predjudice (2005)

‏10-one flew over the cuckoo’s nest (1975)

‏11-The Shawshank redemption (1994)

‏12-The perks of being wallflower (2012)

‏13-moonrise kingdom (2012)

‏14-The piano (1993)

‏15-The pianist (2002)

‏16-The piano teacher (2001)

‏17-The before (Trilogy)

‏18-portrait of lady on fire (2019)

‏19-blue valentine (2010)

‏20- 500 days of summer (2009)

‏21-Taxi driver (1976)

Outside of Hollywood movies:

‏1-The lives of others (2006)

‏2-Never look back (2018)

‏3-The secret in their eyes (2009)

‏4-wild tales (2014)

‏5-City of god (2002)

‏6-Cinema paradiso (1988)

‏7-Malena (2000)

8-8-1/2 (1963)

‏9-Y tu mama tambien (2001)

‏10-The 400 blows (1959)

‏11-Incendies (2010)

‏12-son of soul (2015)

‏13-The sea inside (2004)

‏14-Hunt (2012)

‏15-Ida (2013)

‏16-Cold war (2018)

‏17-In a better world (2010)

‏18-Hero (2002)

‏19-in the mood for love (2000)

‏20-Yi Yi (2000)

‏21-Train to busan (2016)

‏22-short film about love (1988)

‏23-El sur (1983)

‏24-The spirit of the beehive (1973)

‏25-Wild strawberries (1957)

‏26-Life is beautiful (1997)

‏27-Oldboy (2003)

‏28-The last emperor (1987)

‏29- it’s hard be human (Trilogy)

‏Directed by (Roy Anderson)

‏-Songs from second floor (2001)

‏-You, The living (2007)

‏-A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence (2014)

‏30- Underground (1995)

*_enjoy and stay safe_*

💥StayHome 💥StaySafe 💥 StayNegative

[lololil]

Thank you so much for tagging me barb!!! 💖✨ @briallenko, great questions you made!!!!

1. What is your favorite art piece? Just one.

I don’t know many art pieces, it is not something that I research a lot about. But there is this Brazilian artist that has made amazing works, he was called Lívio Abramo. My favorite is probably “Dina”.

2. Favorite plant (not flower, but little green buddy)

I reaaally love cactuses 🌵, specially those little ones with mini flowers, they are sooo cute

3. Would you rather live in a pretty roof apartment in Paris or in the cottage on flowered meadow?

Uhh, really hard to choose. I think right now I would choose Paris, it is actually a dream of mine to leave in Europe (specially France or Italy), but when I’m older I would like to live in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, it is actually something me and my sister have planned akdjaksj!

4. What is your spirit animal?

I don’t really know, but I would probably say a marine animal, maybe a dolphin 🐬

5. What is your dream pet?

Ugh, I want a cat so bad, but I am super allergic so that’s a big no. But I also would like to have a dog, and I’m not allergic so, yeah, probably a dog kadjksdj.

6. The best book you ever read?

Really hard to choose. I love different genres, so I guess for thriller I would choose “The survivor” (that’s probably not the title in English, but it’s the literal translation form Portuguese). I also love romances, “Maurice” is definitely on the top of my list and also “Pride and Predjudice”.

7. Favorite piece of clothes you own

Uhh, hard to choose. I love my doc martens, but I almost haven’t wore them because of quarantine 😕 I also love my platform all-star. And I have this green skirt that I love. (I don’t know how to describe clothes in English akshakdh, shit)

8. Favorite snack

Chocolateeeee 🍫🍫 but anything sweet counts! When I try being healthy I looove eating edamame (also don’t know if this is how it’s called in English, but it’s this Japanese bean) so gooood! 🤩

9. Ice coffee or ice tea?

Tbh, I don’t like neither aksjkadj. But I would choose iced tea!

10. If you had to choose only one thing you own to take and leave your home what would it be? (pets don’t count because c’mon, they sure coming with you)

I am in doubt between my drawing notebook or this panel that I drew on (I guess it’s just because I’m not that good at drawing and I wouldn’t be able to redo what I’ve drawn akjskshd) 🎨

I’m tagging @awake-dreamer18 @evilhersxlf and @oceanicinception 💫❤️ As always, only answer if you wish so and just ignore it if you’ve already done this!! 🌻 My questions are:

1. Do you have a favorite language?

2. If you could be born anywhere in the world, which place would you choose?

3. What’s a talent that almost no one knows you have?

4. What color do you think people associate with you (or maybe which one you associate with yourself)?

5. Is there something that makes you happy no matter what?

6. Would you visit space?

7. Do you believe in destiny?

8. A favorite movie, book and show?

9. How would you describe your perfect house?

10. Would you like to participate in a reality show?

[monsterkissed]

pastellieria

  i do genuinely think some queer/lgbt+ ppl will...

I keep seeing discourse about “bi lesbians” on Twitter (ftr I’ve never seen anyone actually use that id… just people being mad about it) and yeah every single one of them sounds like this. Like imagine being so mad about what someone personally feels describes their sexuality best

there is a general fetishisation of suffering where people seem to think “i have Earned my orientation/gender with my pain, how dare others claim it” and the flawed reasoning there is clear, and some ppl are obviously just bigoted against other groups and find the idea of sharing space and experiences with them obscene, but i think it’s not a conscious thing ppl consider? they have an immediate reaction of “i do not like this new thing” and then just ride it out bc it’s more comfortable than going “well hang on, maybe the world is just more complicated than i thought, maybe i have been cruel to these ppl”

so then you get a bunch of “neutral” posts about “remember this pride season some ppl do not like X model or X identity, don’t force it on them” and they sound very reasonable until you realise that really what they mean by “force it on them” in any kind of practical terms is “do not talk about it in a positive light, or ideally at all, without adding a huge disclaimer about Me and My feelings about the thing being Bad” and uh. suddenly that nice, polite, calm ~middle-ground~ style post reveals some inherent predjudices

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random tag

tagged by @morathicain , thank you!

do you make your bed? Nope, only me falling back into it.  what’s your favorite number? My brain doesn’t function with numbers, so no preferences there what is your job? I work at a shop that prints shirts and embroiders stuff, just to pay rent.  if you could go back to school, would you? No, done my fair share of that... can you parallel park? i got my license when 20, but haven’t driven a car really since i got it, so i probably can’t anymore no  a job you had that would surprise people? selling baked goods? do you think aliens are real? Probably, space never really attracted me though, kinda scary. can you drive a manual car? See above. what’s your guilty pleasure? i’d say fanfiction, though i do not feel guilty.  tattoos? One since i’ve been 16   favorite color? all of them music? right now actually k-pop, but a lot of genres, i love a positive element even to the saddest ballad, it needs to do something to me do you like puzzles? not really  any phobias? nothing that i would call that no  favorite childhood sport? roller skating  do you talk to yourself? yap, mostly in English, even if it is not my native language what movie do you adore? mhm, depends on the mood, the one i can almost always watch is Pride and Predjudice with Keira Knightley. coffee or tea? I always hated coffee but now i drink it more than tea first thing you wanted to be growing up? Artist, I believe

I am tagging @sfjessii @accidentallyadramablog and whoever wants to do it

[uglybitch]

i agree that italians and italian americans are completely seperate groups and that it is important to say so. but i think that it is such a specific situation in which the difference really arises. i mean part of the italian-american identity IS pride in being decendent from italian immigrants, and a lot of it is about connecting with and celebrating that. it’s a synthetic identity where they take being italian and add the identity of “immigrant,” which does create something new entirely, however is still contingent on italian-ness.

i also think people just need to cut italian americans some slack, they’ve gone through a lot of shit in american history and are still facing the effects of the outdated predjudices they faced upon arriving. they are only NOW getting the chance to overcome some of the economic barriers they’ve faced, because their mass migration was THAT recent. in america, currently, i know less rich 2nd-3rd gen italian americans than i do rich 1st gen italians and that’s not to say that whollistically they are more privileged, but i am saying that italian americans have a different identity than italian people as a result of a lot of bullshit, and we’d just like a space to feel safe.

and to put us at fault for the stereotypes we are victims of is kind of unfair. we got our lives and identities turned into punchlines, and now even the people we felt a connection to are turning their back to us. it’s just frustrating to me that we cant even seem to find allyship amongst italians. this weird pseudo-infighting of italians vs. italian americans is just a terrible lose-lose fight and if anything shows how similar we are in that we have strong senses of pride in our history!

[butidontevenlikezebras]

The signs as Reylo things

aries: Skype! In Space

taurus: Rian Reylo Johnson

gemini: ‘YOU’RE NOTHING. But not to me (-:’

cancer: Adam Driver playing w/ Reylo action figures on television

leo: ‘THE SLIDE’™️

virgo: Rey changing outfits to go meet her emo crush Kylo Ren

libra: Kylo Ren as Mr.Darcy in TLJ

Scorpio: Hand Sex campfire scene

Sagittarius: TFA lightsaber battle in the forest

Capricorn: Shirtless Kylo

Aquarius: Rey beating tf out of Luke for creating Kylo Ren

Pisces: ‘BEN’

[longlivetheprinceofalderaan]

ITS FUCKING DARTH DARCY BITCHES. PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE IN SPACE

I'm sorry but I can't be the one to freak out with this reference