#these are a few of my favourite things

[suzannahnatters]

Some weirdly specific tropes that I absolutely adore but rarely see: Platonic Love Triangle Two attractive people will battle to the death over the right to be friends with you (I wrote this in A Day of Darkness and otherwise have only seen it in the kdrama Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938)

The UnChosen One In the magical fantasy world, everyone has super awesome magical powers, except the protagonist (A Dream of Fire by JR Rasmussen did this SO WELL and it made me SO HAPPY; I also plan to do it myself in an upcoming project, A Lord of Thorns and Teeth)

Dying Baby King Terminally ill teen boy should be asking out his crush and having fun, not killing himself running a country (I wrote this in The Lady of Kingdoms with my squishy darling Baldwin IV, and I've only ever seen it done otherwise in the Trevor Nunn movie My Lady Jane)

Disabled Love Interest Put your romantic male lead in a wheelchair you cowards (Stella Dorthwany's Song and Flame and @rj-anderson's Knife have two of the best disabled love interests I've seen)

Sword in the Bed You've heard of Only One Bed but this is the superior medieval variant: before they bunk down together one of them draws a naked sword and lays it in the bed between them (IIRC, it happens in the Welsh Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, and apart from that and some other medieval legends and fairytales, I've only seen it in an unfinished work by @rj-anderson auuuugh)

Fake Divorced Exactly what it says on the tin (I've never seen this? but DV I'll be writing it into the 5th Miss Dark book)

Bad Fictional Matriarchy What if the patriarchy was a fantasy matriarchy? It'd still be bad, obviously. I see this so rarely but it is always an opportunity for fantastic, layered social criticism (Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie did it well; I'm struggling to recall the one (1) other fantasy novel I read that did it!)

Sad Wet Puppy X Righteous Female Warrior ETL Enemies-to-lovers, but he's a skinny waterlogged little weirdo and she's the righteous paladin who is going to hound him to his destruction without mercy on the strength of her own heavenly wrath (it's the one thing in common between the kdrama Flower of Evil and the cdrama Till the End of the Moon and both of them sent me absolutely feral, plus I have an untitled project on the backburner that will give me the chance to do my own version of this...)

[jessieren]

Friday Favourites

In place of Fidget Friday* this week, I'm voting we celebrate one of our favourite peoples favourite things under the inventive banner of Friday Favourites.

I therefore offer the following Top Ten of the wonderful @librawritesstuff 's (who may possibly have had a birthday very recently) favourite things (Morse version)

This man... in a Tux

2. These hands

3. This needs no explanation (and Fuck You Claudine)

4. Sleepy Morse...

5. The 'cinematography' here... (Thank you Endeavour DoP)

6. S3 Messy Hair

7. Hungover slut Morse

8. White shirts

9. Catstretches

10. And... ummm... this. For reasons...

"What time is it?"

"2025 errr I mean... 1970"

Ok ok... I know I said ten but I can't leave out these beauties...

10a) Miscellaneous 'fuck he's hot'

*clearly I'm not entirely abandoning Fidget Friday and have included some of libra's favourite fidgets...

[heatherfield]

That’s it. That’s the show.

Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, Episode 2 “The Ghosts in the Graveyard” [x]

Bonus:

[myheartalivewrites]

A VERY INCOMPLETE LIST (PART 1)

I set out to make an ACD style incomplete list of things I loved about the RWRB movie throughout my third rewatch. I should've known better, because I'm not an Alex, I'm very much a Henry, and what you get instead is a VERY VERY thorough list of the things I loved in the film.

(This will have to be in two parts because I had to pause every few minutes to write shit down and it took me so long to get halfway through the film that it's bedtime now)

Alex being bratty in the limo (yes, opening scene)

Drunk Alex at the wedding, rubbing someone’s fur, chucking a canapé behind a sofa

Alex in a leather jacket 🥵

Mutters, “…you don’t wanna hear from me today”

“…article nothing of the US Constitution”

“No one in their right mind would ever give you a gun”

“You know I have a shitzu named Jonathan” and “That’s my son you’re talking about”

Shaan shoving Alex through a tree

“Hey Shaan, you think maybe I could get a little…” and Shaan's, “You’re fine”

Henry’s fake expressions, smiles, etc for the interview being so distinctly different than what we see later on are his honest ones

Alex mimicking one of Henry’s freestyle raps

“Vicky. *fists* Classic”

“Santal 33.” “It means you got good taste, Alex.”

Alex’s entire posture in the hospital closet

The way Henry laughs when he says “Oh my god it is!”

“Later, Shaan” and ✌️✌️

Alex’s flirty looks in the coffee shop (and his eyelashes)

Henry’s use of stickers on texts bc he’s a massive nerd

“I’m blocking you for the rest of the night” over Byron

Alex + orange shirt + grey shorts + thighs

Mexican textiles everywhere

Alex in a woolly grey jumper

Alex really wanting to help ❤️

Henry looking up through his eyelashes early on at NYE

“Loosen up!” and Alex drunkenly motorboating the air in front of Henry

The whole Get Low dance sequence, from Henry’s awkward dancing, to Alex’s much hotter stuff and the slo-mo, eyes meet moment

How you can SEE the moment when Alex leans in to the kiss and THAT’S when Henry panics

All Nora’s chats with Alex

Alex in a tux

Henry in a tux (lord rid me of the double breasted suits and big wide ties)

Alex pulling one of Henry’s legs up against the table in the Red Room

Henry poking at books when Amy walks in

Amy’s “Oooh God” as she runs away

“Like Stonehenge”

Henry’s smirks after “The night is young, Ma” and all the way through that scene 

The whole “Just to put it out there…” sequence

The vulnerability in “I wouldn’t mind doing this again…” and how Henry's so soft and then almost instantly pulls back 💔

The way Henry looks when he’s leaving, like he can’t believe his luck in getting to have Alex but also that he’s sure it will set him on fire and destroy him

Alex lifting Henry onto a table in the tack room

Henry hitching his hips up so Alex can pull his trousers down

“Which other famous boys have I shagged…?”

“Not here” 💔

“It’s just… who’s gonna do what?” 😂

“Hm… rigid” and the way Alex tugs on that shirt

All the little details in the Paris sex scene: Henry’s hand pushing on Alex’s back, reaching in between their two bodies to lead him in, his hitched leg… and then their expressions throughout; all the deep breathing Henry does while he adjusts

Alex’s white henley 🥵

OK, it's bedtime now! More whenever I manage to watch the second half! G'night!

(Update: here's part 2 ❤️)

[okmcintyre]

Bellamy suggests busting into the bunker with the rover, while on their day trip.

[feytouched]

a syllabus for understanding the psyche of ieva feytouched

movies

the lord of the rings trilogy (must watch more than 1x)

emma (2020)

marie antoinette (2006)

the royal opera house's nutcracker (2018 production)

anime

mushi-shi

howl's moving castle

books pt. 1: for thinking

letters on cézanne, rainer maria rilke

the book of hours, rainer maria rilke

invisible cities, italo calvino

gilgamesh, tr. by sophus helle

books pt. 2: for feeling

the little white horse, elizabeth goudge

the complete book of flower fairies, c. m. barker

the complete brambly hedge, jill barklem

the wind in the willows, kenneth grahame

the last unicorn, peter s. beagle

deathless, c. m. valente

in the night garden, c. m. valente

east of the sun and west of the moon, illustrated by kay nielsen

artworks

carnation, lily, lily, rose, john singer sargent

the execution of lady jane grey, paul delaroche

fireworks in the park, konstantin somov

cafe window, paris, gordon parks

it hurts and i'm lonely, nicholas rae klein

the legend of saint george: the rescue, maximilian liebenwein

poems

the patience of ordinary things, pat schneider

here, there are blueberries, mary szybist

sleeping in the forest, mary oliver

arrhythmia, hailey leithauser

because you asked about the line between prose and poetry, howard nemerov

scents

l'heure bleue (guerlain)

temptation (alkemia)

dorian (bpal)

flavours

umeshu plum wine

smoked salmon toast with cream cheese and dill

homemade poppyseed challah with salted butter

dark chocolate-covered marzipan

moondrop dreams tea by bird and blend

music

marie antoinette OST

the nutcracker, op. 71, act II: no. 14a, pas de deux. andante maestoso - tchaikovsky

mary on a cross - ghost

practical assignments

go horseback riding in nature at least once

swim in the ocean (do not open eyes underwater)

join a game of dungeons & dragons

go on a walk where you pay attention to all the smells you can detect

buy yourself flowers at the supermarket

write a poem and then delete it; write another poem and then post it

draw something that fascinates you every day for a month

travel alone. be homesick. stay homesick when you return home

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

codependant kubosai rolling in anger steeped in helplessness

[marz-barz143]

Lego batman is my god, bildad the shuhite is my jesus and Dean Winchesters cursed soul is my holy spirit 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[jennifersblog-en]

My highlights for winter 2024

[basicallyahedgehog]

Girls in White Dresses...

Thank you to my darling @phoebe-delia for the tag. YOU are one of my MOST FAVOURITE things, but here's a few more:

Every single mutual on this beloved hellsite. I have you all tucked in a soft, cozy corner of my heart

Coffee

Tea. And the fact that my family know I love tea to the point where two different people bought me teabag organisation boxes within a 6 week period

Hedgehogs

My manager at work. IFKYK

Musical theatre (if you couldn't tell from the title)

Making things for my little niece who is coming in five weeks, and plotting things to make for my teeny tiny nibling who is due in November but so so loved already

The Sims

My elderly dog. Specifically, how he acts all stiff and old when it's convenient, but then takes running leaps over pots when I'm gardening and pulls seedlings out of their punnets for me

Singing very loudly to Glee versions of songs when driving for work

Soft blankets

The smell of an incoming storm

Yelling at my friends in their DMs in all caps about the truly INCREDIBLE things they write and make

And also yelling at them in all caps about random things, like songs that itch my brain just right, or how proud I am of them for an act of self-care

Coming onto this site and getting the most perfect, vulnerable, beautiful insights into everyone's brains

I've lost track of who has and hasn't been tagged. So if you see this and feel inspired, you're it. Tag me so I can see more about you and what makes you happy 💕🦔

[cerriddwenluna]

List five things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity! (no pressure ofc!!)

It's Speak Your Own Language day!

Ik heb inmiddels 4 van deze asks ontvangen, dus hier zijn de eerste 5 van de 20 😅

In willekeurige volgorde:

1. De kinderen

2. Chocola

3. Vers gemaaid gras

4. Een goed boek

5. Lente

[the--write--way]

Someday I’ll write an essay about how Mireille Duroc is the ultimate musumeyaku role, an essay that you can fight me over and you will lose, because I am right. Marie Antoinette is queen, Christine is quality, Elisabeth is cool, Juliet is cute, Carmen is chaotic neutral and Sharon is a close second, BUT Mireille takes the cake. Just my opinion.

[heatherfield]

The only thing better than watching “Headless” for the first time is watching it over again (and again...).

Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story [x]

[spadealiciousrex]

Getting them hard in public.

Jerking them off through their pants while I casually shop.

Getting absolutely fucking railed in the carpark afterwards.

Taking their entire, pent up load, on my face as my reward.

[moonflower-rose]

Hey there! List five things that

make you happy, then put this

is the askbox of the last ten

people who reblogged

something from you! Spread

the happiness and positivity (ෆ ͒•∘̬• ͒)◞💕

This one is always so cute to see. Here are my five things:

Flax linen sheets - so soft, so cool in warm weather, so pleasantly wrinkled. Cosy as.

Velvet pillows - absentmindedly rubbing them with your hands or feet while reading or listening to music or talking, ugh just very relaxing and calming, I love it.

My awesome terrarium, I spend maybe a bit too much time staring at the moss and the leaves while in boring meetings, lol.

Escape to the Chateau. I've watched every season at least six times. I put it on when I need background noise, I put it on when I'm feeling sad or unwell, it just is so comforting and cheering and delightful, and they're living my dream but I don't hate them for it lol.

The Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy by Anne Rice. I first read these in my very early teens and for all their flaws I still fucking love them, and I've just finished re-reading The Witching Hour over the past two weeks while recovering from a chest infection.

Honourable mentions must also go to coca-cola, pizza, fresh flowers, What We Do In The Shadows, my bluetooth speaker(s), cheesecake, Nigella Lawson and all dogs.

[buffysgotfaith]

Who were your top 5 Wednesday characters?

Thanks for the ask anon!

Wednesday. She’s just such a fantastic character who was portrayed brilliantly. For me to really invest in a show means that I really adore the main character and Wednesday was instantly my favourite.

Enid. Another great character with a surprising amount of depth. She had such a strong arc, but I also like that you can tell there’s a lot more to uncover.

Thing. I just adore Thing. They did such a good job of getting you to love this disembodied hand.

Bianca. Thought the actress that played her did a fantastic job of making sure you always knew there was more than what was on the surface with her.

Eugene. Oh brave Eugene. The best non Addams male character on this show