Hail Muse! etc.

celia, 29, she/her/hers. god meant for me to be a spinster librarian circa 1885 but here I am

[sexhaver]

lmfao the Scots in town for the World Cup have made a pilgrimage to Boston's world-famous Cop Annihilating Slide

[beggars-opera]

Update from the Scots in Boston: GWash has been Coned

[talkingpiffle]

Dorothy L. Sayers (June 13, 1893-December 17, 1957)

Happy 124th birthday!

Portrait by Sir William Oliphant Hutchison, c. 1949-50.

[talkingpiffle]

Happy 133rd!

[gruntsandpoetry]

Daniel inquired about Lestat's stutter three times in 3x01, and each time Lestat either did not or could not answer. It was only when Gabriella (and all the trauma she drags in her wake) entered in the final moments of the episode that was saw for ourselves it was true.

[importantcatpics]

[whatcha-thinkin]

The bar is closing and you and your drunk friends are hungry! In your opinion what's the best drunk food?

tacos

pancakes

hot dogs

chicken wings

burgers

pizza

nachos

Philly cheesesteak

ramen

peanut butter & jelly

dude see if there's a [tag] nearby

I would never bring this garbage into the temple that is my body

Remaining time: 9 hours 53 minutes

[thepopculturearchivist]

Notes On Literary Fame

LIFE, June 2, 1927

THE NEW YORKER, June 2, 1928

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Regarding the George Sand ditty, I’d always seen the last line as reading, “They do these things so well in France,” which scans better. Perhaps she changed it later.

[lioncourtz]

JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac

An Inside Look at 'The Vampire Lestat' x

[kingfucko]

i dont care if monday sucks... tuesday cost me sixty bucks... wednesday thursday give no fucks. it's friday im a duck

[brawlingdiscontent]

Sure, Daniel.

IWTV 1.5/ TVL 3.1

[tarmairons]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S02E08 x S03E01

[vaguely-concerned]

I am so charmed by how tumblr-esque dorothy l sayers' way of expressing her fondness for her hero is. she truly was spinning that guy around in an anachronistic microwave and chewing on him and beating him with hammers and biting him biting him biting him and so on with the greatest affection imaginable fr fr. she may have been vastly more articulate and educated than I'll ever dream of being and I respect her writing skill immensely, but blorbo brain recognizes blorbo brain across the ages too. she literally starts out at 'he's like a little worm ❤️in a top hat :)' and only keeps going from there and it's glorious. tell me that descriptions like 'he looked, with his long, narrow face, like a melancholy adjutant stork', 'true, he is all nerves and nose --' and 'he was a colourless shrimp of a child' are not in the same literary tradition as, if removed in time from, the modern tumblr idiom for blorbo appreciation. you can't. I'm right about it. anyone can give their hero hard grey eyes and ptsd but it takes tumblrina instincts to also repeatedly liken him to a bewildered heron

[adelidae]

getting up from bed tips

getting up from bed cheats

getting up from bed codes

getting up from bed ending explained

[incisedwound]

im saying shit like this to women all the time

[notbecauseofvictories]

actually, the central romance of Music Man makes more sense if Harold Hill is wildly desirable, floats from town to town selling the Brooklyn Bridge on the strength of his charisma and how much everyone wants to fuck him.

mostly because that means when he shows up in river city and hears that Marian the Librarian seduced a secure and permanent position out of the elderly town miser, he would think: ah, another creature like me.

(not that “sadder and wiser girl” isn’t a phenomenal song on its own, but it takes on a different tenor if it’s game recognizing game rather than HH just refusing to go after nice, church-going girls.)

plus, leaning into that characterization would mean that marian is sadder and wiser, did in fact befriend (or seduce) specifically to have access to books and then later, to keep accessing them; she’s a con man too, just on a lesser scale due to lack of opportunity.

romance between two people who think of sex as largely a way of getting what you want, except that one of them likes to read, and the other can play the piano by ear.

[notbecauseofvictories]

also….who are we kidding when it comes to her ‘‘little brother’‘ Winthrop.

[notbecauseofvictories]

#let’s all be honest: marian and her mother left to “help out a cousin in Chicago” and then came back with a baby     #marian only ever referred to this baby as her brother. mrs. paroo only ever called him her son.     #but if you were the family doctor. or maybe someone who knows a little bit about gestational math and menopausal women.     #you might have some follow up questions.     #anyway stay tuned for other hot takes about this american musical from the 1960s.  

[notbecauseofvictories]

“What’s the other thing I’m entitled to know?”

[Harold Hill gazes meaningfully at Marian, then looks back to Winthrop]

“Well, the other thing’s none of your business, come to think of it.”

[pristinanomine]

This icon has a whole Wikipedia page just for him

[semi-sepultusviator]

well. so does the original aloysius!

[playwrongs]

Part of me thinks that we should revive the old Broadway convention of song lyrics that are full of filthy, barely disguised double entendres

[beggars-opera]

*Looking at a gay couple* so which one of you is Colin Mochrie and which one is Ryan Styles