Spinning Stories

Hi my name is Emily and I have no idea what I’m doing. Fight me

[mistykaru]

needs more blankets

[thedreamthieves]

this scene is very sweet as it is but the fact that ronan’s music was what came to adam’s mind when cabeswater was prodding specifically for happiness makes me so 🥺

[thelatestkate]

[itscolossal]

Vibrant Tiled Mosaics by Ememem Repair Gouged Pavement and Fractured Sidewalks

[obishenshenobi]

I saw one of these at Notre-Dame last week, it was a lovely find!

[skywitchmaja]

when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language

[blooming-conifers]

I was eating alone at a mexican restaurant once and a group of college kids were chatting over tortilla chips. There was some jabber and then..

“ ..we had to climb over the bob wire!”

“Dude, did you just say ‘bob wire’?”

“Yea man, that spiky shit!”

“You actually think it’s called bob wire? Like fucking Robert wire? You think it’s called Robert wire?”

“Well what the hell do you think it’s called?”

“It’s BARB wire you idiot! Like Barbara wire!”

*the third guy* “Oh my god. You guys. BARBED wire. Because the wire has barbs, it is BARBED.”

“Oohhhhh!”

“Fucking Robert and Barbara wire. Fuck you guys.”

[calamitycons]

I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.

[neil-gaiman]

Given there are at least three queer couples in Our Flag Means Death, do you feel a bit of a coward re: the first series of Good Omens?

Given that I was adapting a book that already existed for my dead friend and collaborator who had asked me to adapt it faithfully as a last request, I don’t feel bad about doing what he asked at all. And with the overall Good Omens story I don’t feel like I’m in any competition with any other shows. Perhaps you will find what you were missing in Good Omens Season 2. Perhaps not. Wait and see.

[lilacsolanum]

As an 80s baby who once read every single book in my local library that showed up when I searched "gay" because I was so starved for representation, let me again go on my rant that Neil Gaiman was showing up with queer characters before some of y'all were literally born and it's okay that Aziraphale and Crowley are left to interpretation. Thank you for Foxglove and Hazel, Neil, and Wanda, and Sam Black Crow, they meant the world to me when there was so, so little of myself to see.

[neil-gaiman]

You are so welcome. (It’s one of the nice things about Sandman that even though the first issue was written 35 years ago, all the characters we would need now for the Netflix Sandman are already waiting for us.)

[neil-gaiman]

My thanks to the original asker, without whom this moment of loveliness wouldn’t have happened.

[thatsthat24]

Taking Creative Liberties ✏️

[feen---x]

[darkhoneyyy]

[jurdanhell]

this strongly resembles jude duarte energy,, i mean, the details!

[dressedindustandshadows]

I would let someone stab me with that

[clouds-and-peonies-deactivated2]

i would specifically let jude stab me with that

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

cardan gives this to jude with exactly that in mind.

[scarletaire]

👀

[adventuresoutsidethegenderbinar]

[eggscelsior]

AFTG AU where everything is the same except the strikers do victory dances

Neil is awkward as FUCK

Neil coming up with a pathetic fist-pump hop in Millport: “I miss being a backliner so bad rn”

Kevin at night practices: “okay put away the target cones now we’re working on your weak celebration moves. Confidence is KEY”

Andrew and Kevin at Eden’s: “observe the crowd for inspiration, there’s good moves in there”

Nicky and even Aaron: “no he has to experience them, we’re dragging him onto the dance floor”

Finally everyone gives up on him having any sort of decent dance move and they decide he should do some sort of taunting gesture to rile up the crowd and opponents, since starting shit is sort of his brand anyway

He finally comes up with an arms-wide “bring it on” gesture that leads into pointing at himself and tapping his chest a couple times with his thumb, palm down and hand spread open

Bee, who learned ASL for a few of her clients: “I saw Neil’s new move at the last game, it suits him :) don’t you think, Andrew?”

Andrew, kissing Neil hungrily while planning how to casually drop this bombshell on the rest of the Foxes, because his kink is Neil being a mouthy little shit (even if in this case ‘mouthy’ means talking with his hands): “Junkie”

When the Foxes find out Neil’s fourth fucking language is ASL and he’s signing “I’m fine” for his victory taunt, they flip their absolute shit

No one even bet on that possibility and Nicky is horrified at himself for the oversight

Neil absolutely came up with it on purpose to spite them all for making him have a Signature Move

Bonus: Kevin used to do a sweet dance and then tap his tattoo and raise two fingers in a number 2/V for victory/peace sign, but after he got the tat covered up, he does his sweet dance, taps his Queen tattoo with his scarred left hand, flips his hand like he’s knocking over his opponent’s King, and holds up a number 1

[nowtransparent]

I love that you make Neil’s “victory taunt” ASL for “I’m fine!”

That’s so Neil! And I love that he kept at least one of his languages a secret.

[redrabbitspod]

OOC: Hello everyone! Surprise Behind the Pod! This chapter is all about the boys being vulnerable, so please make sure to read the author's note!

- The Creators <3

Content Warning: Explicit sexual content - it's the entire chapter Mentions of trauma

[squish-this]

I don’t know what Daniel Radcliffe is doing these days and this clip doesn’t help but here’s my thoughts on the matter:

[ragesingoddess]

Re reading the raven cycle yet again and the bond Gansey and Adam have is literally making my heart ache.

I feel like the reason they keep clashing so much is that they both represent qualities they each admire but at the same time qualities they feel like,respectively, they are lacking.

Adam struggles a lot in his internal monologue, feeling like his background in poverty and abuse doesn't match the person he wants to represent which is a person collected, sure and confident, a person like Gansey.

"Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day, he'd have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside."

-the raven boys, chapter four.

Adam is talking about Monmouth here but Gansey's place, just like his journal, is a metaphor for his true self, the person he is when the Richard Cambell Gansey the third mask falls off.

Gansey on the other hand, has such a hard time understanding Adam but he admires him a whole lot and he desperately wants to believe that deep down they have the same values. He admires how hardworking Adam is, how he doesn't take anything for granted and how he fights alone for what he wants accepting nothing handed out to him that he hasn't earned himself.

"A car was a wrapper for its contents, he thought, and if he looked on the inside like any of the cars in this garage looked on the outside, he couldn't live with himself. On the outside, he knew he looked a lot like his father. On the inside, he sort of wished he looked more like the Camaro. Which was to say, more like Adam."

-the raven boys, chapter thirty one.

Gansey knows he is not like Adam in many different ways and Adam knows he is not like Gasey in just as many others. But Adam feels like his inside looks more like Gansey while Gansey wishes his inside resembles Adam. Their whole relationship is driven by their shared admiration of each other combined with their total inability to really understand where the other one is coming from due to their very, very different backgrounds and upbringings.

Their relationship is so complex and every time I return to these books I'm amazed by how much growth both of their characters achieve and how much they need each other for their characters arcs respectively.

[tamamita]

Thoughts on the moon?

gonna head up there one day and get that piece of shit flag off of her

[mrsmummifikation]

This time of year can be frustrating for people in the aro/ace community.

I will be here, whenever you need to talk. 

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[normal-horoscopes]

Christianity would be a lot cooler if their non-boring mystics didn't get rejected as heretics smh

EXACTLY! WE NEED MORE WACKY PREACHERS! BRING BACK THE FRONTIER PREACHER

[weaver-z]

1823: The Joseph Smith Incident

[sheathandshear]

there’s this ~thing now where the leftosphere takes how much a person enjoys certain sex acts as a benchmark for how feminist they are and like. hmm. no. bad. a cis man can dislike pegging and cunnilingus and also love & respect his girlfriend as an equal. a cis woman can be uncomfortable with being sexually dominant and prefer PIV over oral without being a tradwife doormat. trans people can be comfortable or uncomfortable with their junk or both situationally and it doesn’t mean they’re more or less trans. switching or being verse isn’t inherently more liberated than being an obligate top/bottom/dom/sub. being kinky doesn’t automatically make someone a feminist or a misogynist and neither does being totally vanilla. same with being poly or mono, having lots of sex partners or a few or one or none, being very sexually active or occasionally so or totally celibate. sex isn’t activism and erotic enjoyment isn’t praxis. stop that.

[foxsoulcourt]

sex isn’t activism and erotic enjoyment isn’t praxis. stop that.