#tea and book ask

[except4bunnies]

Tea and Book ask:

5, 12, 16, please?

📚🫖 Thanks a bunch for asking – that was fun ☺️

5. Do you have a favourite film soundtrack?

Four come to mind immediately.

„Jenseits der Stille“ because I used to play the clarinet and had the sheet music. It’s not super difficult to play and still very beautiful.

„Cruel Intentions“ because Placebo and The Verve and Counting Crows and Skunk Anansie and Aimee Mann and …

„Velvet Goldmine“ because Pulp and Venus in Furs and Steve Harley‘s „Make me smile“ and Roxy Music‘s excellent „2 H.B.“ which is a love letter to another one of my favorite movies.

„Pieces of April“ because it‘s all Stephin Merritt and made me fall in love with his band The Magnetic Fields and led to the discovery of many more awesome songs. One song has these wonderful lines:

One april day, we'll go miles away/ And I'll turn to you and I'll say: / "I've always loved you, in my way / I'll always love you, in my way."

12. Do you prefer baking or cooking?

Cooking. I find it relaxing. Not super elaborate stuff but a nice curry or one pot pasta or a casserole. Something where I can first cut some vegetables (and sometimes meat), put everything on the cooker or in the oven and can tidy up as I go along.

16. How do you organize your music playlists?

They are event (e.g. gym, vacation) or mood (e.g. good songs for bad days) based.

[dragodina]

For the Tea and Books Asks:

6, 14 and 20, please

Thanks a lot @chrisoels for asking 😊❤️, as always glad to answer, so here we go:

6. What does your dream home look like?

A small house, a small garden, out in nature, some nice hills and ways for some bicycle tours. With kindness and love and no such things as hate and malice.

14. What is your opinion on poetry?

Poetry, in all its glorius forms (and I would count fanfiction writing as well), is a wonderful way to get your mind off of the daily routine and take your mind away just for a while. Maybe its light and uplifting, or maybe it gets you to think about certain thinks. But it will make you feel one way or another.

Poetry in all its forms is wonderful if your open to it.

20. If you were to cultivate a fruit orchard, what would you grow?

PEACHES 🍑✌🏼❣️

[yukipri]

feelin kinda sad so eating an obscene amount of pasta

[theharddeck]

bergamot & bygones

what's this? a pwp novel of best friends to lovers paranormal romance novel, with control issues!older sister x dirtymouthed!best friend

Leander raked a hand through his hair and he stood up. Reyna's kitchen wasn’t big enough for him to effectively pace but he gave it his best shot. “This is the biggest favor I’ve ever asked of you,” he said to her back wall. “The last thing I want to do is make you uncomfortable, or feel like you have to, so just tell me, and I’ll literally never bring it up again again.” “Okay,” Reyna said, aiming for encouraging, but landing on confused. Leander crossed the room quickly, sitting back in the chair across from her. He leaned forward and pushed his glasses up his nose; behind them, his eyes were slightly wide, but focused on her. “You can say no,” he repeated, earnestness written across his face and Reyna appreciated his candor, but it was halfway to giving her a panic attack. “You have to ask me for me to say no,” she said, and the corner of his mouth turned up in a smile before he let out a long breath, pushing back in the chair. He looked at her from his seat, expression inscrutable, and then he closed his eyes. “I’m going to go into a rut,” he said, finally, and Reyna’s mind fully stalled. She cleared her throat. "So, what, do you want me to house sit?" Leander reached for the mug again, is fingers curling around the outside of it. He was steadying himself, and when his eyes met hers again, there was something deeply vulnerable in them. "I'm asking if you'll help me through it," he said.

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[offtorivendell]

A new article that came out on E news and states that fans speculate the next book will be about elriel also mentions that "the teacup foreshadowed her fate of being made into high fae" which reminded me of your theory.

Hi anon! Thanks for stopping by.

If you mean this news article, then yes I heard about it recently!

Firstly, it shouldn't need to be stated, but this is all in good fun. If your first reaction to this incredibly innocuous post is to be nasty about it then please take a deep breath and go outside. The fresh air will do you good. I don't know anybody who thinks that anything NOT from SJM or BB is actual confirmation.

Weirdly enough, the tea post got a few random reblogs a few days ago for no apparent reason, so who knows what was going on at the time. I'd pretty much forgotten about it - given everything that's happened in the Maasverse recently it's not been important, for spoilery reasons - but either way, whether the author of the article saw it or not, I do hope that tea will feature in Elain's story, as it would be so appropriate for a Seer to read tea leaves!

Also, while I don't think the ring is cobalt blue - it does seem more purple to me - Elain did glow in a purple gown, so... my clown makeup remains lol. 🤡

“You came,” Elain said behind her, and Nesta started, not having heard her sister approach. She scanned Elain from head to toe, wondering if she’d been taking lessons in stealth either from Azriel or the two half-wraiths she called friends. Gone was the ill-suited black dress from the ball, replaced by a gown of amethyst velvet, her hair half-up and curling down to her waist. She glowed with good health. - ACOSF, chapter 58

As an aside, apparently people are being nasty about the long book = biggest wingspan comment? Idk, I thought that was clearly a joke (and not even one made by an Elriel at that). It even reads as ship neutral to me, no matter how the E News author took and used it. I hope whoever made it knows that it was actually fucking funny, and clearly in good humour. I'm sorry people are being crummy about it.

Anyway, like the rest of the fandom, I'm hoping that we're all put out of our misery early next year with some sort of direct FMC/main couple confirmation.

🕯️🕯️🕯️

[bogkeep]

christmas haul...!!!! i have successfully rolled a charisma check on my parents and convinced them to gift me a steamdeck >:3c i'm so excited to be able to play hades 2, and slay the princess: the pristine cut, and and and!!!!!! gamez!!!!! yippee!!! yay!!!!!!!!!

here is a closeup of the Worm because it's very important

[tinyalechardy]

... he says thank you?

[tea-tuesday]

08/29/2023

this semester, in lieu of a full course load, i decided to do an experiential semester and do an externship while taking one in-person seminar. luckily, the credits amount to a full semester so it's a really good opportunity :)) yesterday was the first day of my externship! i still didn't have much to do today either so i journaled at a café and kept an eye on my inbox before my seminar...

[mischas]

Ben said she felt older than him?

Girl the book

[starhunter21]

No hate or anything, but I really can’t logic out being on team ‘women can’t rule’.

[thebeigelunatics]

i have a very important question. in the scene with sean donovan at the cafe, the barista calls out "decaf latte and an extra-strong cappuccino with extra chocolate!" i wanna know which drink catherine ordered. ☕

[except4bunnies]

Hello, is it 10 and 13 you're looking foooor? 🎶

(Of the tea and books asks, please. :D)

Oh, the Ohrwurm … Thanks for that and the questions :D

10. Do you have a favourite classic novel?

Thomas Manns „Der Zauberberg“ because I read it years after it was in my master’s exam’s canon and discovered that, yes, it is actually brilliant and a joy to read even though it’s still 200 pages too long. (Back then I had to choose an author, a genre and a period for the oral exam – so it was a whole bunch of dramas, poetry and novels, and in the period I chose, Neue Sachlichkeit, Mann was a counter example more or less, so I kind of winged it with the Sekundärliteratur :D)

13. Which season do you feel at home in?

Autumn that feels like a kind of softer summer in Italy, Greece or Portugal. And spring in Hamburg if it’s not to rainy.

[dragodina]

📚🫖 3, 8, 13 bitte gern ☺️

Hallihallöle und Dankeschön 😊❤️ Angenehme Weise das Schreiben kurz zu unterbrechen 😊✌🏼.

3. What do you order at a café?

Sooo definitely NO COFFEE 😅. Tea or hot chocolate (when its cold) or ice tea or cola (when its warm). And if I could get some food maybe Waffen, maybe a crepe or warm apfelstrudel (yes that os the actual english translation 😂). Mainly something sweet and I'm good 😊.

8. What are your top three films? Books?

I would like to add more films since I got more films that I like than books. When I think about it some more I haven't really touched a book in years 😳. And I really was reading a lot and thick books once upon a time 🙈.

Films:

- "We Bought A Zoo" - I really just love that dilm and the soundtrack, it hits so close to home and still has this beautiful message. There is one scene in that film that and with the music playing in that moment brings me to tears every time I see it again even though I have seen it like a hundred times 🥰😭❤️.

You only need to be brave for 20 seconds ...

- Tatort episodes "Querschläger" and "Schattenleben" - Querschläger because, well surprise, Julia Grosz/Franziska Weisz and Tine Geissler 😍❤️. And Schattenleben because it was the first ever Julia centric episode ever ❤️.

- "Hachiko" - For dog lovers the most beautiful and destroying movie ever 😭💔. Even though you know the story, you know how it ends, you will still cry like a baby.

- "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" - Its like Free Willy but without a captured animal. Seriously, I love that movie, even though its a movie for kids. Just like I love "The Last Unicorn" 🥰❤️.

Books:

- My mainly favourite book series is the one from Dresden author Kai Leuner. I really loved and enjoyed them and would have loved to read much more, but sadly there were only for of them, but I still love them. It has crime, a female police officer and a female attorney, who are both attracted to each other. And it plays in Dresden 🥰❤️.

- Iceland Defrosted - It has a chapter (or more? I can't remember) about Sigur Rós ❤️❣️. Do I need to say more? So it's actually a book about iceland out of the eyes of a british iceland and puffin fanboy. And it is so full of love and humor its just really awesome.

- "Zwischen uns die Zeilen" - A very beautiful story about two women falling in love. I can only recommend warm and whole heartedly.

- And I loved Patricia Cornwells book series about fictional characted Kay Scarpetta.

13. Which season do you feel at home in?

Spring and summer, early autumn maybe. When the world starts to blossom again. Birds come back and start singing their blues. The world comes alive again. The colours change. And temperatures won't drop below 15 degrees. And I will make bicycle tours again once it warms enough (for me 😅).

[bespectacled-bookwyrm]

hello seen the charater request thing may I request N harmonia from Pokémon black and white with the face C8.also I love your profile pic reshiram is my favorite Pokémon of all time.anyway I hope you have a great day and I hope you enjoy drawing N.

This face

N refrences⬇️

Here you are: N with expression C8!

I drew this picturing his sister Concordia arriving home early and finding her little bro reading one of her Harlequin romance novels. XD (N is mortified at being caught! XD)

I had a lot of fun drawing this, and I hope you have a great day, too! ^V^

[copia]

TICKETS ‼️ BUT AT WHAT COST

[novelconcepts]

Every year, I make straightforward lists of the books I want, and every year, multiple family members tell me I'm too hard to shop for because "I'm not just gonna buy you BOOKS." 😭