Cicerothewriter's Blog

I am a historian, librarian, and writer of slash fiction. My favorites include MST3K, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Vienna Blood, Magpie Murders, Lawrence of Arabia, old school Doctor Who, the Omnibus podcast, The Adventure Zone podcast, books, Latin, dogs, cats, bats, and other animals, and history.

[the-gershomite]

One of my all time favorites: Talespin

[zombooyah]

The Night Stalker (1972) dir. John Llewellyn Moxey

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[draconym]

I've probably posted about this before but it still gets me that Ripley (my parrot) has a special nickname for my spouse, Tev. Like he knows and uses the names of everyone in his flock (me, Tev, Steve, and Cheese. also a couple of our friends and my mom's dog) but because Tev calls him "Ripley buddy," a couple years ago Ripley started calling him "Tev buddy" instead of just Tev. He doesn't call anybody else buddy. He knows that 'buddy' is a special suffix for him and Tev to use with each other's names because they love each other. Doesn't that just melt your fucking heart

[draconym]

They love each other

[catsofyore]

Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection and when I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!

[katenepveu]

acrobatic squirrel

This squirrel attempted to jump a full six feet (yes, I measured) from a nearby bush to the bird feeder. Its first two misses were spectacular, so much so that when it made it on the third try, I let it hang out and eat as many peanuts as it wanted.

(I'm sorry I didn't manage to get the leaps to sync up, but I've already spent quite a lot of time turning the video into gifs that'll upload here, so.)

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[el-toca-discos]

Publicado en el verano de 1980, Give Me The Night fue él único disco producido por Quincy Jones para George Benson. Se posicionó en el puesto N°1 en la lista Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums y en el N°3 en la lista Billboard 200. De mis preferidos. Discazo por donde lo aborden. Un lujo!

Disfruten!.

[ferocioustrout]

“mom coded” “sister coded” “wine aunt coded” what if she’s his friend instead. you’re actually allowed to be friends with women

[drill-teeth]

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

[sassycurse]

one of the best feelings tbh

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

Hi im a librarian amd that's not now this works. If a library allows you to have a digital card and not live in the area, you are NOT taking away resources from other people, that's not how anything works. Please keep doing it!!! The more people that use our services, the more money we can get from funding sources!!! Please use us!!! We are not utilized enough, by people in or out of our community. Thanks.

[looknikolaihowromantic]

Has anyone else watched Vigil in the Night (1940)?

Sorry about the low-quality GIFs. I couldn’t find any English subtitles, and the video quality was quite bad. So I struggled with this one, lol. It was pretty difficult to understand without subs :(

But look at him!! He is just a baby here AAAAA 🥺🥺

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[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - Moss Rose (1947)

[littledeviantsworld-deactivated]

Did you ever just feel so lucky for knowing someone you met online? Like.. I was one click away from not following you. I was one second away from never even knowing of your existence.I would never have been this happy!!!...