plot-essential seagull existentialism

rob. ace, non-binary, they/them. historian and translator. find me on ao3 as TheGoodDoctor. find me on instagram by asking nicely. find me irl in england or wales, on a hill, looking at the sea.

[doctors-star]

i know not why or wherefore but

On promises, and compromises.

it's been raining a lot in the uk lately, and i love folk music. here's a fic about those things, more or less. also helen and siegfried, again, who compel me.

[sondoyonder]

jonathan strange & mr norrell (2015) - details appreciation (3/?):

'My hands trembled like that in the Peninsula and after Waterloo. Sometimes it was a sign that I was afraid. Sometimes a sign that I was doing great magic. The two things go together.' - 1x07

[catcrumb]

[jetlagupdates]

Ben replied to a Reddit post!

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

looks like reform hogs are scraping the bottom of the bin for the tiniest bit of dirt. it takes a bin to clean up clacton!

context under the cut. british politics are very silly

nigel farage was a member of parliament "representing" clacton (he goes to the US to schmooze with trump more than he spends time in his own constituency). he's leader of reform, a far right party and is a fascist piece of shit. he also looks like a sea devil from doctor who

he's responsible for brexit, which has tanked the uk economy and is also in the epstein files.

it was discovered that he accepted five million pounds from a cryptocurrency billionnaire in thailand and failed to declare it, which, if found guilty, would cost him his seat in parliament. so to worm his way out of the investigation he quit

this triggered a by-election in his constituency. he immediately announced he would be running for his seat he resigned from. an obvious farce to flex the support he supposedly has.

thing is every other political party could tell what he was doing so boycotted the election.

enter Count Binface, intergalactic dictator of the Recyclons from Sigma IX:

He's been a joke candidate for some time. In the UK anyone can run in elections, you just need ten signatures from residents and £500. This time, he genuinely has a chance of winning. Without the other major parties to split the vote, he could potentially unite the anti Reform vote in Clacton and win Nigel's seat

so Nigel will either win and the investigation into him will continue, which will lead to him being fired, OR he loses his seat to a man with a bin on his head.

it is BINEVITABLE

[shiftythrifting]

The face on this panda is fucking me up

looks about right to me

[themuppetmasterencyclopedia]

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[worthyofmygrace]

[Image ID: Text message that reads "Did you see that the spider in the bathroom appears to have taken a lover?" End of ID]

[armadillorollup]

know the difference!

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[ruinedchildhood]

[atlinmerrick]

I just laughed for one year watching this. The casual walk-off is just deadly.

[turing-tested]

Sorry am on lsd. Shouldn't have told you 2 eat a sandwich. That is your decision not mine. Sorry

this ask is so awesome. my favorite part is I can't find the other ask they're apologizing for.

[nemfrog]

Moths attracted to lamplight. And is that a bat who wants to fill up on some moths? In Field and Forest. 1928.

Internet Archive

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

[itsbasil]

you put those tags on this post where they belong

[chameliyun]

just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony

[dagenssvenska]

Jag efter en dålig dag på jobbet