#this is what i'm talking about

[endless-ineffabilities]

we love a man who vacuums post mental breakdown.

[sernhuh]

Fav trope in fics Nureyev thinking something SO DOWN BAD about Juno and going "Let's file it away for future consideration."

[frikatilhi]

Not that anon, but I also have an ancient and very short draft from when Huhhahhei was released that I'm never going to go anywhere with, so I'm disposing of it in your inbox, hello

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"How is taking me out of the country going to teach me Finnish culture?" Bojan asks him as they're waiting in line between a family from Eastern Finland that is trying hard to get their children to stop staring, and a big Asian tourist group. "I tell you already, it's really important. You will see," Jere pats Bojan on the shoulder. Bojan sighs exasperatedly, but seems enthusiastic. "If you say so, Mr. Guide."

The line is moving a little slower than usual. Or maybe it's just been a while since Jere's been to one of these. He tries to see what's going on at the front of the line while Bojan carefully examines everything around them like one of the children who have never been to a cruise ship before. Well. Jere smiles at him but then concentrates again. Oh, they're checking documents. That explains.

"Bojan, you have your… pass, yes?" he asks. Bojan looks confused. "You took them both? Already got them lost?" Jere frowns. He's never even seen Bojan's—Oh. "No, not ticket, pass! Slovenia, your face, your name," Jere digs his own out of his pocket. He sees the flash of understanding in Bojan's eyes. "Yeah, I have my passport. Right here." He pulls it out and soon it's their turn.

A widening of the eyes reveals that the worker recognises Jere immediately, but is a professional and asks him to remove his cap and sunglasses for the check anyway. He's let through without trouble—his passport is legal and he knows how to purchase a couple boat tickets correctly, thank you very much—and Bojan takes a few seconds longer but is soon through, too. Not without flashing a big smile at the worker, though. Bojan seems to do that when he's in a good mood.

"Is that, uh, Moomin?" Bojan asks when they reach the little bridge to take them from the solid building to the ship and, indeed, the family that had been in front of them were now getting their picture taken with a more-than-life-sized Moomintroll. "Bojan wants the photo?" Jere asks. Personally, he has more than enough pictures of himself with everyone from Loreen to the president of Finland, but who is he to take away from Bojan's complete experience? Finnish culture, or whatever he had promised.

Fortunately, Bojan seems to relate to his enthusiasm, or lack thereof, for photographers and they walk past the Moomin. They enter the ship and it's, pleasantly enough, emptier than Jere remembers. He'd been careful to choose a date that wasn't any sort of holiday, anywhere, and there were no notable artists performing. He looks at Bojan, who's stopped in his tracks and is a bit slack-jawed, staring at the inside-street with shops and cafés, the 'promenade', with a look of wonder. A child, ha. Maybe this was a good idea.

Jere tears his eyes away from Bojan's criminally distracting face and catches a young woman looking at Bojan. Is that recognition or simple admiration—Bojan is a handsome guy—on her face? But she doesn't pull out a phone or even notice Jere, so he relaxes. 

"Come on, Bojan, our room is this way," he says, and Bojan turns to him as if he'd forgotten Jere was there. "Wait, how'd you know where it is?" Bojan asks. Oh, right, Jere was still keeping his ticket that also functions as the room key. He shows it to Bojan. "The first number means, um, how high it is," he tries to explain. "The floor? Storey?" Bojan clarifies and Jere nods. "Yes, floor. Second number is lift number. See? Our lift is here," he points at the sign on the wall, further down from the entrance. Bojan looks at the four numbers on the card, then at the sign, and nods appreciatively. "That's fucking smart, actually." Jere doesn't mention how often he's forgotten and wandered around boat corridors while drunk out of his ass. Bojan doesn't need to know everything about Finnish holiday culture. Everything about Jere.

Jere finds the right corridor without trouble—he has a Slovenian rock star to impress here—and they don't need to walk too long before they reach the right cabin. Jere shows Bojan how to unlock the door, and they get in. [insert bad sex joke for accurate characterization]

It's a regular four-person cabin, but one with a window to the sea, now that Jere can afford it. Bojan deserves better than the sweaty, windowless cabins below the car deck.

Bojan doesn't stop to stare at the window in wonder like Jere, but puts his bag down and examines first the couch and three beds on the wall, then the small bathroom, then the welcome-on-board message on the TV. "This is pretty nice," he says, probably not really sure what he's supposed to think. First time and all, Jere reminds himself.

ANON FIC IN INBOX MY DAY IS MAAAAAAADE!!!!

Jere taking Bojan on a cruise 😭😭😭😍😍😍😍

Please tell me they end up hyttiisi heilumaan heck yeah

[sea-changed]

"And while it was never actually built (scenes were rigged up on location or faked using models), [Production Designer Judy] Becker's design for the Institute makes a convincing argument for the beauty and power of Brutalist architecture. 'One of the things about Brutalism and its importance is the void of historical reference,' she notes. 'It's only forward looking. And I think that's one of the reasons people often hate it—like atonal music, it doesn't have anything they can relate to. And for László, that's the point. He is saying goodbye to history and everything he wants to forget.'"

How the Colossal Sets of 'The Brutalist' Convey the World of a Visionary Architect (Elle Decor)

[petit-papillion]

Charles and Carlos in Milan | September 2022

📷 martii_eva

[gaythemayaway]

If Crowley doesn't look like a caveman in S3, I'm calling bullshit, dis unrealistic, my dude is losing it.

(Not my edit)

[therelentless]

𝕹𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖔𝖗 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 + { 𝖆𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖘 // ∞ }      ↳ { do not reblog }

[aaliyahhves]

[betty-bourgeoisie]

what are the stations of the cross and why are they being depicted in graphic detail on signs outside the Lutheran elementary school

[szczekaczz]

Stanisław Witkiewicz, Las (1892)

[lilysundragon]

This might be my favorite visual to come out of any MV ever

[tyrannuspitch]

i think part of the reason that one time travel AU (in which loki is a viking-age human trapped in the modern day) itches my brain so much is like. hmm. something about Story again. loki is in a mundane-ish world, living a "normal" "rational" life where he's shed almost all of his individual identity to survive, and he longs for a life which was in many ways objectively harder but still home. and he hates how the present caricaturises it, but he also puts it on a pedestal himself. but when he was in the past he was probably still not happy at all, knowing the character, and he was deeply religious and he aspired even closer to the myths because loki-the-person was a priest of loki-the-god... but now that he is in the present he can't see his religion the same way because he's so rapidly undergone the nihilism that science encroaching on the spiritual can inspire, and because nothing he does ever changes the time travel phenomenon trapping ppl in the modern day... but he ALSO thinks of norse pagans as His People and the christian-secular modern world as the enemy... but he was ALSO born into christianity and "saved" from it by odin... i'm getting away from the point here but. oh god it's so chewable. so many overlapping narratives of identity and narratives on which one bases one's identity. and he doesn't even know he's in a fanfiction of a movie adaptation of a comic adaptation of a myth!!! it's been like a year and i'm still gnawing on this like a bone

[stjohnstarling]

Oh, are we offering up names of our priest characters? Because I got a good one - Father Gideon Valentine - coffeewritesfiction

10/10 👌✨ Exactly.

[dkbtho]

you guys ever listen to a song and experience the music so viscerally that you're literally shaking

[ysaefinn]

valentine why are you still up go to sleep

Anon used my name and is concerned about me, this is the best day ever i could just sleep 🫶🫶

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.