the bally ballyness of it all

effie. 25+. lots of tv shows, fashion, and history stuff. previously looklikeapencil.

[bertiebingobiffy]

i'm effie, 25+ y/o, queer, and i use she/her pronouns!

prev. looklikeapencil & gayyoungtapeworm.

current username is a reference to jeeves and wooster.

i love fashion (mostly 1980s/90s), history, old hollywood, and over-analyzing every type of media i consume.

i'm an anti-monarchist but you'll see a lot of royals on here because i'm obsessed their soap opera levels of drama (and their fashion and tiaras).

sometimes i fuck around in photoshop and post edits here. sometimes i fuck around and write stuff, which is posted on my writing blog.

current obsessions: orphan black, far cry 5, half man, jeeves and wooster (source of my current url), fleabag, black sails, the terror, killing eve, gentleman jack, and mass effect

other things you can find here: anything that floats my boat, ballet, figure skating (block #fskate hot takes if you're tired of the text posts), art and photography of all sorts

my edits || writing blog || my writing

[roadkillfuneral]

obsessed with how ruben is just as addicted to the way niall makes him feel soooo overly masculine and in control and niall is addicted to having that masculinity and control exerted over him

something something if you put your hand on my throat you can see my prey animal brain understand it’s done running.

[figureskatingpenguin]

Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ): Kung Fu Panda | 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, EX

"He's Mikhail Shaidorov. He's the Olympic champion, and he loves pandas—it's there in black and white!"

(Bonus: Jackie Chan presenting two pandas to Misha at the end of the program)

[bertiebingobiffy]

okay, some ideas for the half man x derry girls crossover because i think i'm going to try my hand at a small set of drabbles/mini-fics that revolve around the same theme?

feel free to suggest a general theme of "[x number] of times they almost [blank] and the one time they did"

the times that the derry girls almost figured out about niall x ruben and the one time they did

the times teenage niall x ruben almost happened but were interrupted by derry shenanigans and the one time it they actually do something about their feelings they fuck sloppy style

there will definitely be a fic where, after the funeral, orla the psychic communicates with very dead niall and ruben while the group asks questions

[make-a-desert-call-it-peace]

Everyone looking around for rgadd on here like

[loo-nuh-tik]

Half Man | 1.05

[bbybluemochi]

“It's the best and the worst thing, all at once. It's like the only thing. It's the only thing I've ever felt. It's like I'm fucking... high off of you, or something” Half Man, 2026

[orteil42]

do you know how much of a letdown it was to grow up smelling the aged whiskey in my grandpa's pantry. the wine in my parents' dinner glasses. the anise liquor on summer evenings. and finally being of drinking age and finding out it all kinda just tastes like car exhaust

[enchantedbyhiddles]

[leonorsreign]

Princess Estelle congratulates her mother Crown Princess Victoria after her speech at King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 80th birthday gala dinner. | April 30th, 2026

[summertimenoir]

Barbara Stanwyck as Nan Taylor in Ladies They Talk About (1933)

[girlrustcohle]

i love being single except every few months when i want to be loved so bad that it eats me alive and makes me physically ill for two weeks but like the rest of the time im chill

[inkandruin]

yeah that’s what i tell my coworkers all the time

[callizinc]

When the story has a sequence where the characters each get personally tortured with their exact personalized greatest fears and traumas

[skulandcrossbones]

Not Ruben projecting his sexual desire on to Niall. This is what you wanted MY ASS!!! This is what YOU always wanted Ruben. The call is coming from inside the house.

if ruben stared headlong at his own desire i think the force of it would explode him into a million tiny pieces, so he has to look at it through niall . like some sort of fucked up human shield

[dearwalker]

[bertiebingobiffy]

honestly might write a drabble or something where orla comes back after niall and ruben's funerals where she offhandedly mentions that they finally fucked. i'm dying at the image of james fainting while everyone is going ballistic and talking over each other