TDA - TLH Parallels:

Whatever you do, don't imagine post-infirmary-scene Thomastair sound asleep, snuggled up in the narrow infirmary bed.

The writer's blessing:

May you write 1,500 words with ease.May your characters be lively and not cardboard.May you need little editing.May your muse visit you as soon as you sit. May the Internet not distract you much. May your phone lie dormant while you write.

Niall Horan

May 11 2024

Robert is such an underrated character

y'all are sleeping on Lady Audley's Secret. this is some peak Victorian Gay Shit™.

“There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile . . . no sound sweeter than your laughter . . . no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness.”

Lillian and Westcliff from It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas 🍂

Commissioned with margana_mgn 🧡

Blood loss? No I know exactly where it is

So in Learn About Loss, Jem (Brother Zachariah) inquires after Annabel Blackthorn, believing her to be an Iron Sister. This must surely mean that Malcolm will not do anything too obviously necromantic in CoT, otherwise Jem surely would have heard.

// Illya Kuryakin’s smiles //      —for @koimizu

It’s an old tradition that during a leap year women could propose to men. This was usually depicted as old or ugly women trapping men, but some art focused more on the role reversal and could be quite cute.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.