triflesandtea
Trifles and Tea
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Welcome, weary traveler. I am A.N. Parker, and welcome to Trifles and Tea. Here we discuss trivial matters while sipping tea like refined Victorian aristocrats. I am a very strange individual trying to make her way through the galaxyβ€”a lass who fancies all things classic, literary, Sherlockian, Victorian, maritime, Celtic, linguistic, piratical, and grammatical. | ~ | ~ | "𝑰𝒕 π’Šπ’”, 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒂 π’•π’“π’Šπ’‡π’π’†, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 π’Šπ’” π’π’π’•π’‰π’Šπ’π’ˆ 𝒔𝒐 π’Šπ’Žπ’‘π’π’“π’•π’‚π’π’• 𝒂𝒔 π’•π’“π’Šπ’‡π’π’†π’”."β€”π‘Ίπ’‰π’†π’“π’π’π’„π’Œ π‘―π’π’π’Žπ’†π’”
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triflesandtea Β· 1 day ago
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I'm wheezing. You know me too well. 🀣
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triflesandtea Β· 4 days ago
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I have been utterly and completely called out.
How dare you.
(I also noticed you're a fellow Raffles fan, which is rare to see even in the world of Victorian and classic literature. *waves enthusiastically*)
i was supposed to be cool and mysterious like sherlock holmes but instead I can't stop yapping about anything and everything that interests me in the slightest. like sherlock holmes
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triflesandtea Β· 4 days ago
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What a turn of phrase. I love this.
Hey folks I’m watching House. I’m about 7 episodes in. When will they explain why Wilson follows House around like the specter of a dead wife determined to keep her widowed husband interested in living?
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triflesandtea Β· 4 days ago
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EXACTLY what @holmesoverture just said.
I am not going to get my hopes up. And if it does come out, I am not going to love it, like it, or even allow myself to experience one hint of an emotion until the end credits are scrolling by. (Then, and only then, will I admittedly break down and be emotionally unavailable for a while.)
They will not ruin this series, or so help me, I shall take drastic measures. >.>
(P.S. Sorry for the overuse of italics, but emphasis is a must. XD)
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brother. do NOT play with me on this. I've been waiting for like. 15 years at this point
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triflesandtea Β· 30 days ago
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EMBARGO.
I got the same result you did, blast it. 🀣
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Tagging @gilgamushroom, @bowl-of-wyrms, and @please-dont-pet-the-okapi. XD
alright babes, uquiz time.
find out who you would be in fantasy society. i’m reblogging with a link so tumblr doesn’t hide this.Β 
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triflesandtea Β· 30 days ago
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Commission for @inkinary
Meet Fier, patrin of Fire and Flame.
I've had a lot of fun looking at lava and vulcanos for thos one and thinking about how a constantly changing yet robust body could look like.
Thank you again so much for commissioning me :D
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triflesandtea Β· 3 months ago
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Yes. Please. POR FAVOR. A million percent. I have been scouring the internet for one, and alas! I have not turned up with one. πŸ˜”
Can we just have a Jeeves and Wooster blooper reel?Β 
Why? - Because I need it.
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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YES. Same about Donkey Hotay/Don Quixote. I used to think samurai were literally spelled "Samoorai." For YEARS. That is the hold this game had over my life.
The references in that game are insane, especially because now I LOVE classic literature and Victorian culture, so every time I go back to play P101, I find something new that I never noticed. A good example is Governor (AKA Major-General) Stanley and Mabel in Port Royal, the reference to the "Major-General's Song" ("I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General")β€”both from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. Yes, Gilbert and Sullivan, who are also full-on NPCs in the game...working at SAVOY Mercantile (Savoy Operas, anyone?). XD A character named Murgatroyd is a reference to their other work Ruddigore, too.
Now, having heard "With Cat-Like Tread" and listening to the chorus very recently (# Come, friends, who plow the sea / Truce to navigation; take another station), I had an "AHA!" moment of Gilbert having sung that in the quest dialogue. XD
It's been almost twelve years, and this game still never ceases to amaze me.
You ever discover a piece of media and go β€œoh so that’s what wiz was referencing”
Like I had no idea what the musical, Xanadu, was until someone I knew was in a production for it and I was reading the plot synopsis and suddenly the Zanada questline in Empyrea made a lot more sense.
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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WHAT THE BLAZES?!
WHAT THE ACTUAL BLAZES?!
Why am I never told this stuff?!
Finally got around to doing the Five B.O.X.E.S event and I’m just wondering WHY DONT WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE WIZARD IS THE REASON WHY BOOCHBEARD AND MR GANDRY SEARCH FOR THE PIRATE???
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The wizard is fully aware that the pirate exists and is going to take down the Armada, but the pirate has no idea that the wizard exists
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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Howβ€”
How dare you plague me with these thoughts at so early an hour?
(I LOVE Pirate101 philosophy, though, so PLEASE KEEP IT COMING.)
Spoilers for new P101 update
I love how we get to see the consequences of our actions. Like in Marleybone we pull up and see the shipwrecks and war torn skyway. We started the war between the Armada and Marleybone because we had to set Napoleguin free.
And then in Tartarus we see the ghosts of all the snakes and eagles that were killed in the Trojan War. We even see Eagilles himself, who we literally brought to the war and died because of our actions.
It’s all our fault.
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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This is a good poll!
I do think I fall into the category of disliking this movie. It's very cringy with connections between characters and plots that feel unrealistic and too "manufactured." I actually have a lot of thoughts on Christian movies like this, LOL.
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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YESSS, let's do it! I'll bring the books (got to have something to read in times of peace and quiet, no?) and some fresh lemonade!
@spengnitzed, @tea-n-tv, and @fangirlsovertoomanything, are you lot in? B)
would u like to have a picnic :3 i’ll cut fruit :3
yes!!! ill bring all the bread and baked goods !! ^_^
who else is coming ? :D
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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Yep, I had to do these.
Tagging:
@gilgamushroom @conan-doyles-carnations @ladyflyer20 @please-dont-pet-the-okapi @pomegranatepixie
5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)
I was tag by: @star-mum
Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.
Thanks you so much for the tag
Tags <3: @meeks-beas @practically-an-x-man @outer-space-face @trashworldblog @mydearlybeloathed
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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when you realize the sherlock holmes fandom has been alive for 137 years ??
that to equally batshit crazy as we were before
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triflesandtea Β· 5 months ago
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Vote for BLUE!!! πŸ’™
Alright... Poll time.
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triflesandtea Β· 7 months ago
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Yep. Just re-read CHAS for the third time a couple weeks ago, and yes, there was indeed a goatee when he was "courting" poor Agatha. XD Good stuff to know, that.
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@gilgamushroom is a hundred million percent correct, and not exaggerating in any way. XD I absolutely love CHAS. Such a good story.
(Though...perhaps I'm faltering in my Sherlockian memory, but I thought the goatee was in "His Last Bow" when he had to be in disguise as the Irish-American Altamont [named after Arthur Conan Doyle's father, by the wayβ€”Charles Altamont Doyle]. Was he wearing a goatee in CHAS as well? o.O)
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