#tea and book asks

[starrybluez]

1, 2, 6, 8, 11 💙☕

Thank you again dear 💙😊🍵

1. What period of history do you enjoy learning about?

60's to 90's are often my favorite eras to learn about - for history, music, fashion, cinema, so many things 💙

2. Who is your favourite fictional character and why?

I have so many! I'll just list one I don't think I've mentioned yet. One of them would be Blanche from the Golden Girls. Her delivery was so good. And for years, I never knew that Southern accent wasn't her real accent. But she played the Southern belle part very well.

6. What does your dream home look like?

Some ideas lol...bright, colorful Bohemian style with lots of windows

8. What are your top three films? Books?

Not sure if I could narrow it down to 3, but here goes. 3 of my favorite films are "Loving Vincent", "The Little Princess" (with Shirley Temple), and "Sing Street". Books would be "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (I prefer the first book in series and the movies are favorites too), "Anne Of Green Gables" (again, the movies were also favorites) and "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"

11. What character archetype or trope is your favourite?

Not sure how to answer this. It depends on the movie or book and it's usually different for me in each one. I also had to look up both "archetype" and "trope".

[sheisraging]

3, 4, 5, 8!

3. What do you order at a café?

Ugh so much iced coffee. Cold brew if they have it - which they usually do.

4. Libraries, botanical gardens, or art galleries?

Ooh that's tough. Probably art galleries, but more like museums (which I assume counts here... because I said so).

5. Do you have a favourite film soundtrack?

It's probably Dirty Dancing (which is also my fave movie, so that makes sense)!

8. What are your top three films? Books?

Films: Dirty Dancing The Lion King Call Me By Your Name Books*: Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett *The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (just gotta note that it replaced Queen of the Damned after almost 20 years on the top 5 list)

Thanks, Megannnnn!

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[lemonwarrior]

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11. What character archetype or trope is your favourite?

Oooo good question. This one is kind of hard. There's so many good ones!

I love characters that aren't written at all to be your favorite, like made to be hated. But they don't do the simple "they kick puppies" like they got complicated reasons to be hated they just have something about them that you despise.

also i just love the big dumb nice guy, himbo archetype. like every show has one, sometimes there are ones lacking one of the three main identifiers. or one of them isn't as strong as the others. but each show's got one if you look hard enough.

also also surfer dude. any gender, just got to be crazy chill.

[tinyalechardy]

... he says thank you?

[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.

on kindle unlimited, or you can pre-order a paperback through your local indie bookstore!

[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. ☕

[copia]

TICKETS ‼️ BUT AT WHAT COST

[sheisraging]

11 and 16 for the tea and books asks - please and thank you!

11. What character archetype or trope is your favourite?

The sunshine one and the grumpy one is a trope right? Probably that one. Or like enemies to friends to lovers or something of that nature.

16. How do you organize your music playlists?

LOL I do not. I just add whatever comes to mind to random playlists, usually by season... sometimes by month. Sometimes by the thing I am doing right then like 'laundry'. It's great.

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[coquelicoq]

raksura for the ask meme?

YAY

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) moon was designed in a lab to appeal to me personally, so. it's about the trust issues!

scrunkly (my "baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) the sky copper clutch!! traumatized children imprinting on a guy with baby fever is usually what i go to fanfic for so to have it right there in canon? incredible. i love all of frost's little tantrums and idk, just the way that she claims moon as her family in a way that has nothing to do with court politics? she's like, we're your clutch, obviously. and this is our court because it's your court, and all the other jabronis who live here are on thin ice. she's ready to throw down with moon's wife/the government at all hours of the day and she's like six years old. i love that moon has that energy in his life even though he personally is pretty confused and exhausted by it lol.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) it's hard out here for an ember stan because he is in so few scenes relative to the space he occupies in my psyche! i need 5000% more interactions between him and moon. him and stone. him and shade. him and river. him and the teachers. him and the clutches. him and jade and balm and chime. oh my god him and malachite? him and celadon? him and delin??

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) niran. i'm always up for a "longsuffering ship captain resigns himself to another restless night of hearing gigantic shapeshifters with incredible stamina fuck nasty on the roof of his cabin" moment. technically i have never been in that exact situation, but i feel like i can relate.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) river who is CLASSIC poor little meow meow territory like yes his whole personality is being a grade A asshole and sure he tries to kill my blorbo a few times, but once you get to know him he's so sad and pathetic that i'm kind of like okay where can i sign up to defend him from the largely factual aspersions of his dozens of quite frankly justified haters? he'd hate that. the good shit 👌

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) stone. every time he crankily says "why did i ever reproduce" upon finding himself entangled in yet another ridiculous clusterfuck thanks to one of his hundreds of idiot great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, an angel gets its wings. he's depressed and antisocial but he can't totally check out because he has to mediate relationship issues between his dumbass relatives. love that for him.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) malachite but specifically because malachite would not be scared of superhell. she'd skulk around being invisible, maybe fuck some shit up if she felt like it, and leave when she got bored. she probably makes it like. opal night's sister city or something. and nobody in the court is at all phased. yeah that's our reigning queen who recently got back from vacation in superhell. she does that. she says it's relaxing.

[belle-keys]

wait wait what do you mean that ml rio shaded olivie blake on main about a shakespeare reference

[delicateartisantrash]

My Mom Is Cool

My mom is unfamiliar with the term "robofucker" and has probably not heard me say "robot porn" because i think i usually say Allen or just Transformer or something

Anyhow she just referred to one of my stories i was showing her the stats on (my mom likes following my author blog progress and she also sometimes reads the reviews with me we're silly yes) as Techno Smut and I

how was I today years old hearing that for the first time

I love it

I'm stealing it

T e c h n o s m u t

conversations I never thought I'd have with my mom, I adore her.

[binah-beloved]

i know Librarians can't leave the Library, but it would be fun if they could. you and Binah could walk around and get some fresh air, just enjoying each other's company. maybe have a picnic

[zestyaahbutler]

Wait is her psychiatrist Hannibal?!?!

Hey!! Something like that 🙂 her psychiatrist is heavily inspired by Hannibal.

I really enjoyed Silence of the Lambs and the Hannibal series and movies. I haven't read the books which I really should. But I am super interested in Hannibal as a character. I'm also a firm enjoyer of the cannibal trope as both a metaphor for love but also exploitation of power/ego.

Shes a redhead with a 70s blowout. Think curtain bangs but this is another image that is very her energy.

Amulya's psychiatrist is a woman by the name of Milana Spezia Deodato. She is an Italian woman that originates from a family of werewolf hunters. From a young age she was raised to be a hunter and it caused her to develop some peculiar behaviors and habits as a result. On the outside though, she is a very intelligent woman who at most seems a little eccentric and polite but snooty. She is also known as a very good cook! She was hired in the 1970s by Hellsing via a recommendation l from Sir Islands.

In my lore, I have it as Islands beinf part of the roundtable but his family owns and runs hospitals. Milana did her years of residency at one of the hospitals that the Islands operated. She obviously made an impression with the family and Islands himself for her background in monster hunting and how she was researching how to apply it to her field of psychiatry. Islands suggested her to Arthur for a new department of Hellsing that was focused in rehabilitating individuals who had experienced encounters with the supernatural. This was in hopes of keeping the operations of Hellsing from the public more and that people could return to normalcy in an easier fashion. Some people who have those experiences never exactly recover.

For Milana, she was given people to research and treat, while she got a good paycheck. But it also gave her plenty of food. Her cannibal habits are not known by anyone in Hellsing(aside from Walter ofc but listennn). Anybody she takes are simply seen as having fallen in battle and missing. She was always very good at covering her tracks.

Arthur handing Amulya to her was out of desperation because realistically, Amulya couldn't express the worries she had to any psychiatrist. It would put Hellsing at risk. Additionally, it gave Amulya someone in-house to talk to. If she had an episode, she always had immediate support through someone with actual experience and licensing.

Amulya came to rely on her and was being treated properly for some time. Many of her lapses was due to her own spiraling.

Milana had varying thoughts on her. She found her intriguing and a good ticket to get a look at what Arthur is like behind closed doors. She found herself very entertained by her dynamic between Amulya and Walter. She knew of his feelings from observing them both. It wasn't neccesarily wanting to match them up but more that she was interesting in seeing what would happen. The possibilities, the reactions of them all. She did eventually get bored of the situation. Milana did know Amulya was going to commit suicide before it occurred. It was how it affect Arthur, Walter, and anyone else in the organization. She got what she wanted, though she was out under alot of pressure by Arthur after the fact but Amulya's death was seen as her mental state getting the better of her.

After one of her attempts, Milana did start doing sessions with Walter. It was a conflict of interest but they couldn't exactly afford anyone outside of the organization. Their sessions was ordered by Arthur so Walter couldn't exactly refuse. Walter was never a fan of her. She had a habit of prodding anyone she talked to so he felt like he was always under a microscope. He never wanted to be analyzed while all she wanted to do was analyze him. Milana knew he was involved in an organization separate from Hellsing while he found out she was a murderer and cannibal. He was disgusted with her despite his own actions. Really they were two fucked up individuals that found a messed up but hesitant (on Walter's side) kinship with one another.

Milana remains in Hellsing till after the battle of London where she moves to America for a new start and new roster of meals.

Her and Walter's dynamic is this: