#truly been a few weeks

[expatesque]

Referring to your recent post, would love to see some of the fun things you’ve bought! You have the best taste 😊

Aw thank you.

So the main categories of things have been home stuff and fashion stuff. I do have a tag (of course) but haven't posted everything so to summarize...

Home stuff

Living room: The swan table (an icon, a queen, the inspiration for the room), the insane green velvet chair (we love her, gotta keep it eclectic), snake rug (hiss hiss), a fundamentally impractical sofa (Ikea, concessions had to be made somewhere. I'm going to restuff to make it look more fluffy and expensive). I'm keeping my vintage curio cabinet, 1960's referencing 30's circular bar cart, black arched lamp, and big rubber plant. The inspiration is somewhere between this 1930's Thorne miniature room and hummusbird. I need some paintings, a little table for under the window to display a great vase (got this one in ivory, tbc if it's the right size), and some big new throw pillows (I'm thinking dusky pink). Oh also I'm getting a fish to go in the bookcase (I wanted a white Betta but my dad has said that's a bad idea and suggested a gold fish instead).

Kitchen: An oval marble topped cast iron bistro style table. Keeping my black bistro chairs (2x) and will also use 2 of my armless ghost chairs (like these). Likely to get a small floating island to get a little more counter space. Also bought an insane copper kettle ala my man Rajiv recently.

Main bedroom: I've got a new headboard for my bed (this one), I'm getting rid of the wardrobe in there (using the one in the 2nd bedroom) and will replace it with a vintage dressing table and mirror (I do like this one but would rather not spend that given... everything else) to display my great great grandmother's silver mirror, brush, etc. Need some big Euro shams and perpetually looking for a navy woven blanket that's big enough (I want it like, almost duvet sized).

2nd bedroom: Currently is an office / video game room, turning into a proper 2nd bed. I'll use my meh existing bed, need bedside tables, maybe a new desk chair.

Fashion stuff

It's been a lot of big skirts (my love the Prada one, a really full white canvas-y one, this crazy pink one, a beige cashmere Theory one), a set of heavy ribbed tops with high necks in black and browns (for autumn, this is one of them), a few cropped cardigans (can't find any specific ones that I've bought right now, but short enough to wear with the skirts), a totally sheer cream colored top (that is proving surprisingly versatile already), two cheap Zara wrap vests that I'm waiting to arrive (one in cream and one in black, we'll see the quality when they get here), a Victorian gold charm bracelet (+ a charm of a monkey holding a pearl), a pair of really gorgeous silver and mother pearl earrings from the 50s, some rag and bone soft leather mules, some baby blue Mary Janes, and a set of tiny kitten heels that I really like but am not sure I'm keeping (they're a little narrow but I think I could stretch them). I think there's more but if I think too much about it I'll be stressed (rip my budget). Pro tip: Laura Riley has an incredible fashion newsletter that rounds up what's new and what's on sale -- I've gotten almost everything I've bought on 50%+ off.

[apollorobin]

ellis of woolworth, and his page marks, and his page's page unpaid intern spencer!

[mibkid]

Tim drake doodles.

tell me why i decided to doodle tim again? IT'S BEEN YEARS. (except the few odd sketches.)

another silly goober! Huzzah!

Despite me liking Tim as a character, i don't draw him much nowadays. (probably bc i got so frustrated w the batman canon for while... it was unhealthy, now i'm just going Yolo🤙.)

ANYWAY, i wanted to test out real g-pen again but then i did a doodle w dry ink as well<3 AH I LIKE THESE DOODLES!!

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[miabebe]

Kinda want all those who follow camp seventeen to do this quiz that my cutie @monamipencil found! Please let me know what you guys get, I'm super curious 👀 This is what I got!

[buddiebitch]

in the midst of all this terrible news ryan murphy saw fit to grace us with a tiny sliver of shimmering light

thank you ryan murphy for feeding us this week

[raynavan]

Ansy and Ikrit with their full teams in @parasolladyansy‘s comic Diamond x Pearl rewrite!

also some other doodles

oooh i had. so much i was going to say but i have. forgotten all of it. i love everyone's teams and i am fully expecting to just doodle them randomly later on ghrieowugh.

[vikdec4i]

hey have you noticed this? pt. 2

got locked out of my tumblr for a few days and i finally got my password back WOOHOO!! i currently have 3 writing projects atm and one of them being viktor centric. but for the time being… i want to transfer some of the stuff i posted on twt to here as a sneak peek. ENJOY!!

(semi copied from my post + expansion)

currently doing a wardrobe analysis on viktor. im doing this in a perspective that clothes exist as means of communication. i wanted to write abt him bc viktor, in general, rarely speaks. but then i come to the realization that he wears clothes like he carries words. to clarify. remember when viktor argued w mordecai over grammar?? as he believes it "never makes any sense".

he shares this sentiment with formal clothing, evident in his conversation with mitzi about wearing his tuxedo for once. like do you see the vision?? he doesn’t see a point in this. i would argue there is way more to it than this but i will save that for the actual analysis itself. but it’s really as simple as viktor being the number one hater of nonsense. his dislike of formal clothing can be a reflection of where he lies in society— among the working class. but, compared to what he wears, a tuxedo is restrictive in this line of work, it’ll only hold him back.

moreover, viktor being off the field due to his injuries amplifies this avoidance. now that his job description is basically standing behind the counter, he has no reason to be wearing durable materials. in fact, mitzi is right that him wearing a tux would benefit him a lot in this case. but he doesn’t not only because he simply dislikes to do so— but because he will lose that fragment of identity and dignity he holds by a thread.

while some of you can run my ear off that this makes him insufferable, i implore you to really absorb his past and the very reason he got here in the first place.

and all of this links back to viktor's most prominent trait:

he is conservative.

viktor's aversion to change was never by choice but by the fact he lives in a completely different reality than everyone else. he chooses things that are genuine to him— and the thing is, viktor's "aggression” or “indifference” did not appear in a vacuum. it is an accumulation of everything he has been through and it's not something you can easily let go. taken away to fight for the same nation that fed you false promises?

i'd wear my anger to death too!!

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so far this is all i have. the bigger piece will be very full on (and lengthy) but i will try my best to format it in a way that doesn’t get too convoluted. i will also try my best to connect back to other characters. because to be very honest, people very rarely view viktor as an individual person. whenever i do see people talk about him, it was always in a light where he is a guardian to ivy. and i have been guilty of this as well. so i want to step back from that and actually dig deeper into his character, because i think there’s a lot more to him than we all let on.

[songtwo]

like if white ppl wanted to make a movie about learning from ur mistakes and reconciling with your past they should’ve just made it about someone who like cheated or whatever not about a very real situation that kills, torture, rapes and kidnaps hundreds of mexicans everyday and doesn’t even let us have small businesses or go outside or live normal everyday lives bc of how much damage it has caused in our society like kys jacques audiard and everyone involved in that movie

[bbyboybucket]

The downside of being a fan of The Boys that nobody talks about: it ruins horror movies for you. 😭😭 It makes you so desensitized that anything that happens in a horror movie, any violence or gore, doesn’t shock you or even creep you out slightly. You just sit there like “damn I’ve seen more fucked up stuff on the boys than this” 😭

[sunnibits]

is anyone else like a huge fan of various medias, huge fan of characters, loves exploring plots and themes and character development, genuinely very enthusiastic about storytelling in general… but like, somehow physically incapable of making plot lines you care about with your own original characters. or like straight up being unable to create ocs you’re actually invested in???

like, you know what you like, you enjoy so many stories, you spend so much time digging into and delighting in the themes and tropes you like, and yet every time you try to make an original concept yourself it’s just impossible to make something compelling to you???? which makes no damn sense bc it’s literally coming from your own head so wouldn’t it be as self indulgent and perfect for you as possible??????

or is this just a unique me problem bc I swear to god it’s driving me insane

[that-handsome-rogue]

Happy new year. This one has been interesting… to say the least. Much has happened yet much has slowed down. I haven’t been here long but I’ve certainly felt welcomed and more worried for some of you than I thought I would be…

Well, I’ve nothing more to say. Take care and be decent to one another. Unless they’re your enemy, then stab them in the back. Happy year of the snake.

[seiwas]

dropping in to see how everyone's doing!!

[wexhappyxfew]

I know I said I would give you all of my $3 for Annie and Brady to kiss but if I steal a quarter and up it to $3.25 can Judy and Rosie kiss too?

IN CONCLUSION. YES.

[whoslaurapalmer]

sometimes I have to make a phone call (and this one is. a very important phone call) and I'm like okay if it goes wrong how can I. get dressed/eat lunch/do x task afterwards!! i should do that first. and it's good to yknow be ready for the day like a person when you make a phone call. but then I am. avoiding doing anything and don't get any of the other tasks for the day done because I haven't done the things I need to do before I make the one (1) phone call like GET DRESSED i can't take out the trash and recycle without any damn pants on

[hollytree33]

I’m back!!