eglantine

Kit Marlowe, Horatio Hornblower, Age of sail, Tudor poets, Fiction, Writing about writing

[kinodraws]

Horatio “I’m trying to be a good person but yall are testing me” Hornblower

[gghero]

popular ship will kill the patient. they need fanart of that one character no one likes or cares about to live

[djbodyhorror]

obtuse is such a good word. Bro that was so thoughtless it's triangle

[pangur-and-grim]

if she had teeth, maybe he’d learn to be less socially clumsy

[pangur-and-grim]

you people say things that are so specific

[purple-ocity]

very normal non sexual hobby

[homeshell]

now THIS is jewish culture

[jessicalprice]

the number of times I have said “and it was for this that ________ was thrown out of the house of study” in meetings only to get a round of blank stares

[captain-acab]

If a rabbi is thrown out of the House of Study by a distance within 50 cubits, he is still welcome to return there. If he is thrown farther than 50 cubits from the House of Study, he is banished and may never return to it.

Rabbi Balmalocha asked: If the rabbi is thrown out and lands with one foot within 50 cubits and one foot outside of it, what is the law?

It was for this question that Rabbi Balmalocha was thrown 50 cubits out of the House of Study, then shoved one cubit farther for good measure.

[meltygetswifi]

not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to

[oatmealaddiction]

I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.

[teaboot]

Insincere, passionless, money-hungry art is almost always bad art

[pangur-and-grim]

in front of my salad??

[pangur-and-grim]

you people ask too many questions

[dreamerwriternstargazer]

[eusexuanal]

Settles down on your dashboard gingerly and with a big heaving sigh

[halorvic]

[bitchydragondoodle]

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

[cameoappearance]

I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

[skyliting]

I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

[gnollgirl]

Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

[transformativeworks]

This post is in the Fanlore Article

[sum1tookish]

Probably one of my favorite random things about LotR is the fact that

a) Pippin did a Gollum impression in the books

b) Pippin had never MET Gollum before that point and never would

c) yet it was an ACCURATE impression, as it startled and was recognized by the orc he was speaking to

d) the only possible explanation for Pippin Took’s accurate Gollum impression is this: Bilbo, while telling stories to the eager children, must have imitated Gollum perfectly

[mirkwoodest]

Which also kind of drives home how weird it would have been for both Frodo and Sam to suddenly be travelling with what was basically the equivilent of like... rumplestiltskin... from their childhood bedtime stories.

[acebreathesfire]

“I’m the Labor Day Fairy and I’m here to teach you the true meaning of collective bargaining.”

[butchdogs-md]

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

[jellybeanium124]

there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

[boatcats]

Hornblower and co. getting Hotspur out of the dockyard and only finding one thing to fix (shifting the trim aft because she wasn't turning well) instead of a million things over a period of weeks.

I can understand why Hornblower finds Bush's competence so incredibly erotic attractive important.