#the margaret atwood one.

[sunsetofdoom]

@man--eater tagged me in her WIP Wednesday extravaganza, so I guess I'm posting about my Stolitz Fingersmith AU for the first time. Wherein they are both seventeen, and Blitzo has taken a job as an accomplice to a con artist- to become a young prince's valet and convince him to elope with the con.

Blitzo swallowed, very hard, and abruptly tried to bow for the first time since he’d stopped performing. It was a reflex to make it grandiose, to sweep out his arms and make it huge, but ah fuck the water. He caught it just in time, trying to just bend a bit at the shoulders. “Uh, your- Highness,” he half-guessed. Was that right? Striker warned him that one of them meant the prince and one was the king and getting them messed up was bad. “I’m the new, uh. Valet. The Count sent me.” Calling Striker a Count felt fucking ridiculous. Asshole. He straightened, and checked for the prince’s response. The birdlike face was unreadable, but he blinked all four of his bright red eyes at slightly different times. Creepy. The house creaked in the unbearable silence. How did these people live without any city sounds at all? “Brought this up for you,” Blitzo managed, twirling the drugged water almost elegantly. It splashed up onto his hand, and he didn’t flinch, but it was a near thing- the dress code in this place wouldn’t have allowed his gloves, so he kept his sleeves pulled down as long as possible to cover the scarring. “Reginald said you take it at night? Whenever you’re ready, I guess.” Prince Stolas tilted his head to the side, and shut his book. The noise was quiet and final in the still air. He brushed his crest of feathers back from his eyes, set the book down, and stretched until he stood, every movement haughty and debonair. He must have been at least ten feet fucking tall; Blitzo wanted to kneecap him immediately. He walked with long, even strides, barely blinking. A few steps in front of Blitzo, he leaned down, tilted his head again. Reached out his hand, sheathed in an elegant, pearl-buttoned glove, and perched his slim fingers on the glass. Then he plucked it out of Blitzo’s grip and hurled it at the wall.

Blitzo shouted, covering his head involuntarily; the drugged water left a spreading stain on the gorgeous golden wallpaper. The glass itself was in shards all over the hardwood floor. Prince Stolas stood up tall, turned around, and flounced back to his divan, his long tail brushing Blitzo’s shoulder as he went. He picked up his book, and sat back down to read.

Tagging @blitzwhore @hazbin-helluva-itch and @nyxofdemons (HI I see you in my notes I want to be friends) and @gloriousmonsters; plus @miss-spooky-eyes, who does not know what Helluva Boss is yet, but who loves Fingersmith absolutely to death and trusts me (unfortunately) to write just about anything.

[nebulous-bitch]

love as violence

caitlin conlon, phantom pains // tina tran, out of the ruins // venetta octavia // iain thomas // yves olade, the miracle mile // sara manguso, love letter (clouds) // traci brimhall, come the slumberless to the land of nod // unknown // margaret atwood, power politics // madeline miller, circe // warsan shire // richard siken, planet of love // hozier, cherry wine

[maracllea]

Paul Atreides: The Sun Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll. To be lit up from within vein by vein. To be the sun. ― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975

@jitterati | world war I memorial in church of ss peter & paul, gilbert bayes 1919 | total solar eclipse, maria mitchell 1869 | dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve | dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve | november 9, colleen hoover | dune: part one - the photography, chiabella james | bust of antinous, palazzo altemps museum | poem, lucie thésée, tr. by richard archambeau 1941 | dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve | holy things in this world, emery allen | dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve | untitled, lauren treece 2012 + ruin and rising, leigh bardugo 2014 | @toneelspeelster | @gallixie | dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve | the other tiger - selected poems, jorge luis borges, tr. by tony barnstone 1999 | dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve | @jitterati

[yourdearestenemyluke]

magdalene: poems, marie howe // oscar wilde, an ideal husband // selected poems, margaret atwood

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "One More Garden,"

[guiltyonsundays]

Margaret Atwood sat down to write Alias Grace and she said imagine the personification of 19th century ideas about white femininity (madonna whore complex embodied in a celebrated murderess and lunatic who may also be a virginal brutalised victim and is certainly a menial domestic servant skilled in textile crafts with a submissive yet composed demeanour) and white masculinity (a spoiled upper class manbaby who immediately judges every woman he interacts with on how attractive he finds them and has nonstop violent sexual fantasies while thinking himself the pinnacle of civilisation and chivalry and rational scientific endeavour) and then showed the man fucking falling to pieces while the woman is like. you good bro

[asoftepiloguemylove]

heyy if you can find anything on it, could you please do a web weave on having gone through so much but being strong through all of it and never allowing yourself to hurt? and/or maybe being jealous of other people who are able to express their hurt when you cant

i hope you're doing okay <33

Han Kang Human Acts / Margaret Atwood / Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Anita Barrows & Joana Macy) To the Younger Brother; The Book of Hours / Eleanor Hsieh Jenny Holzer said... / Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere

[finisnihil]

If you claim to write a feminist retelling of a Greek myth and then use it to villainize all female characters but the one the story circulates around I will be feeding you to the mares of Diomedes sorry not sorry

[crowfromfoggyforest]

Rumbelle x Is/Not by Margaret Atwood part 2

[-> part 1]

[rosyjuly]

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, Russia, 2016 x Power Politics by Margaret Atwood

[bladeborne]

selected poems: 1965-1975 - margaret atwood // the sandman vol. 9 the kindly ones - neil gaiman // the sandman (2022) // agnes of god - john pielmeier // the sandman universe: nightmare country vol. 1 - james tynion IV

[corruptedtwinks]

Tory Adkisson - Anecdote of the Pig /// Anne Sexton/Linda Pastan - The Poet Of Ignorance/Why Are Your Poems So Dark? /// Gregory Orr - Origin of the Marble /// Twenty One Pilots - Polarize /// Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale /// Ernest Hemingway - The Complete Short Stories

[ghost-of-diogenes]

A Llewellyn Watts centric episode AND The Urca de Lima treasure? Like from Black Sails!? This episode of Murdoch Mysteries was made for me specifically.

[yourdearestenemyluke]

Quote from Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood // Lucerys Velaryon and Aemond Targaryen

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "Nothing,"

[moriartyyouwhore]

what if life didn’t feel like a flashback from a Handmaids Tale episode though