Yeah, An Utterly Fabulous Movie. I Also Loved Harry’s Pidgin French As Someone Who Speaks French, That

Your cane is beautiful

Your wheelchair is impeccable

Your walker is good

Your prosthetic is divine

Your hearing aid is bewitching

Your scooter is striking

How have I not seen this before?! It’s awesome

Today’s problem

what do chairs for dragons look like.

credit: rookalbis

Also the murders.

Irene: Do you think all of my wanted posters are for petty theft?

Irene: [Several stolen books fall from her jacket]

Irene:

Irene: Well, that’s part of it.

Yess! These all sound dead brill would love to read or write this.

18th Century Manners

I love Regency Romance, don’t get me wrong, it’s one of my all-time favourite genres, but I really feel like there are not enough people who appreciate the non-romance shenanigans that the rigid code of politeness in force in Approximate-Regency-Period England allows. Where are the stories about:

1. Someone accidentally wanders into the wrong social group without realizing it, Certain Things are never openly discussed, ergo two discreetly gay dudes have been effectively members of a smuggling operation for like 4 years without anyone noticing the misunderstanding. A Discreet Communication Carried For A Friend is a  Discreet Communication Carried For A Friend, after all. 

2. Elderly matriarch of large and successful family is discovered on her death to be the widow of the wrong Sir Henry, at no point did anyone notice because It’s Rude To Pry, entire family has been slavishly obeying the whims of a completely unrelated stranger for 30 years purely because she turned up and announced that she was Eccentric Uncle Henry’s widow. 

3. Trans dude makes his first foray out in male attire, meets a bunch of Lively Young Gentlemen while out drinking, they’re friends now, his entire made-up-on-the-spot backstory is accepted without question, nobody questions him for the next 50 years because he’s Lord So-and-so’s Dear Chum and therefore is just presumed to have been vetted at some point. Once or twice a Fellow Chum finds out, is mildly shocked, and then Never Speaks Of It Again Because One Does Not. 

4. Being a werewolf is HELL when it takes 2-3 hours to get dressed to socially acceptable standards and all the best parties are on full moon nights so people can see to drive home. 

5. Angry ex shows up to be poisonously sweet at a party, it is Literally Unthinkable to be so rude as to tell them to leave. 

6. All your friends are 100% down to help each other cover up a scandal. So far your friends-group has concealed 1 lesbian affair, 2 het affairs, smuggling, extortion, and 2 murders. 

7. Being an obnoxious old lady is super fun when everyone else is too polite to Sass You Back. You eventually find a stroppy young woman who drops even sicker burns than you do and adopt her as your heir. 

My eyes, my eyes!

One of these days I am going to have to think of the crackest ship that there is and write something for it

I'm thinking Irene x Ao Shun

This is beautiful! I love this ship and am a proud member of the Daegal Fan Club, I’m just about to rewatch his episode as well- super excited. Thanks for sharing this, it’s wonderful.

no they don't meet in canon yes i do ship them together what of it

Damn, girl you talented

“A fox’s teeth are very sharp.” (2013-2019) Silk filament on silk-hemp blend with hand-dyed silk chiffon scarf.  Text is Sandman: The Dream Hunters by @neil-gaiman, design inspired by illustrations of Yoshitaka Amano.  Dress by L.L.K.  Photo credit to Kenneth Williams.

Six years ago, my unbelievably talented wife decided to undertake a ridiculously long and complicated project: to embroider a story onto a dress.

We live in a very casual college town where no one ever dresses up for anything, so we began a tradition of throwing formal New Year’s Eve parties, and L being L, she made a dress every year. In 2013, she decided to take it a step further: she would create a dress inspired by Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: The Dream Hunters and then embroider the entire story onto the dress. The dress itself was the work of a few weeks and looked beautiful on her at the party, and then the real work began: planning, mapping, embroidering and embroidering and embroidering. She estimated it would take approximately ten years of doing needlework an hour or two each evening, leaving plenty of time to take nights or even months off. She finished in under six.

I can’t summon words to describe how proud of her I am right now. I mean, I am always proud of her, as she is an exceptionally kind and caring human being as well as a polymath (seamstress, carpenter, baker, programmer, naturalist, and tenured professor of biology), but she has created a true work of art and I hope it ends up in a museum somewhere to immortalize her talent, skill, and patience.

She’s currently trying to figure out her next project.

Yeah, he just wants someone to break silver’s pretty face, if not permanently. Preferably him but he might be gracious and let Irene do it as she also suffers from Silver.

Silver: one day, I’m going to say “fight me” and someone really is just going to fucking deck me

Vale: believe me, that day is closer than you think

Oh my God that’s so exciting! I’m adoring the Wolfstar P and P so will for sure read the book. That’s really impressive and fun, hope it goes well for you!

ATTN: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LOVERS, ESP ARTISTS - EXCITING PROJECT

I have been thinking a lot about the love, effort and joy I have derived from writing my Wolfstar P&P fic, and I have decided that I want to adapt it into a piece of original fiction.

I have no allusions - this is queer trash romance with a regency twist. 

BUT. It’s joyful for me to create, and I think fun for people to read (I mean, if they don’t find it resonates as original fiction as well as it does fanfic, that’s ok too! And understandable! But I’m curious to find out.) 

I’ve been looking into the self-publishing sitch on Kindle/Amazon for a while now, and I think it’s time to take the plunge. 

So, I’m planning on completing Pride and Prejudice over the next month and a half, and then adapting that work into original fiction. 

I will rewrite, rework, polish and shine that motherfucker until it gives Casey McQuinston a run for her money (except, yanno, prolly not? But we can dream). 

I also have a few original shorts of the gay romance and smut variety which I plan to self-publish in the near future as well. 

I have even decided on my pen-name for all this romance and smut I’m apparently going to publish, P&P aside - Annwyn Vix. (Had to give a little nod to my fanfiction pen name, after all.)

I wanted to share this with you all because I have felt so incredibly lucky and supported by my loyal readership (small but mighty! And the comments absolutely go off). 

You have lifted me up on days when I have felt sad, and reminded me that creativity and sharing and connecting with others is its own reward. 

To that effect - I wanted to reach out to the artists who follow me and would be interested in partnering for the branding and cover design of this original work. I envision something quite colourful and minimalist. (You would be paid for your work, of course.)

I’m not going to get rich writing this (some money would be nice) but if I can build up a community on Patreon at all similar to what I have found here and on AO3, I will feel like I have really achieved a huge life goal of mine. 

I love you all. Thank you for taking the time to read my work. 

Stay tuned for the next chapter.