sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

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wild time in usamerican senatorial politics. truly the establishment has rotted from the inside and collapsed. whatever comes next, the old guard commentariat is not ready to understand it..

[merinnan]

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2600 fics in the Lewis tag and surely SOMEONE has reckoned with the potential that is Hathaway canonically falling for and making out with a trans woman?

...SURELY?

[glintglimmergleam]

I do not think I am ready to write a trans woman protagonist in Lewis fic. I don't have the insight or experience. But I do want to read it, I want to read something that gives Zoe dignity and James a new kind of depth...

[glintglimmergleam]

now I want a trans empowered redux of Life Born of Fire, bc it doesn't take much imagination for an AU in which Zoe Kenneth was excited for her transition

Which could result in a wonderful love triangle involving Will McEwan, Zoe, and James Hathaway...

And unlike in het love triangles, the gay man, the straight trans woman, and the bisexual man could all actually share all sides of the triangle

[glintglimmergleam]

....well. Finished s2e3 "Life Born of Fire" and WOW I forgot how transphobic that episode was, with a very 2008 "gay is okay but trans is simply too weird" attempt at progressiveness.

and from this episode was Repressed!Hathaway launched!!!

[glintglimmergleam]

oh my god the giant mirror in Hathaway's bedroom is canon

should have known the fandom wouldn't invent such a ridiculous detail

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s2e3 quote of the episode:

Lewis: Just for the record, sergeant. Is there anything I ought to know about you and Will McEwan?

Hathaway: Like what, sir?

Lewis: Anything relevant to the case!

Hathaway: [carefully drawing breath] No.

ah now, only if Lewis had asked the right question!!

[buffysummers]

same

[glintglimmergleam]

only 12 minutes in and it's RIDICULOUSLY obvious Hathaway should have been pulled off this case immediately for conflict of interest. Lewis should have called it as soon as Hathaway admitted he'd once stayed at the victim's house for the summer when they were teens.

I guess the only excuse is that only 2 seasons in, Lewis can't yet parse Hathaway's dry tones for the lie.

[glintglimmergleam]

anyway. time to go watch the [fandom-]famous Conflicted Catholic/Repressed Homosexual episode of my murder mystery show. byeee

[glintglimmergleam]

Ruth is a Cinderella story, one of the oldest: the story of a poor, hard-working young woman whose kindness merits her a kind, wealthy prince in return. But what separates it from other Cinderella stories for me is the grief and the famine. And Naomi.

Someday I'll write a Book of Ruth post about how the protagonist of the story is actually Naomi, and why that matters.

[glintglimmergleam]

Sometimes lately when I am struggling, I remind myself of the incredible hope that is the Book of Ruth: when you are at rock bottom, fighting against despair, someone may come around the corner and join you in something new. The desert of Moab is not the ending.

[grecoromanyaoi]

“autism wouldn’t have been difficult before capitalism” “nothing that caused me burnout existed before industrialization” well what if your boots feel weird against your skin. and your cape is itchy and too heavy. and your brooch keeps making an annoying sound everytime you move and this party is too loud and you’re hungry and there’s pigeon stew but you can’t stand the texture of pigeon so you ate some olives and now your hands feel oily and gross and you drank a little bit too much wine (bc there’s no clear water. also it was too bitter) so now your head hurts and you feel a little hot but not hot enough to take your cape off and you promised this time we leave when I asked, Aurelius! you promised! and don’t forget we still have a three hour ride back home you promised it’s not going to be like last time! or something of the sort.

[grecoromanyaoi]

the ‘Life only started sucking in the 19th century’ attitude as anti-capitalist praxis is truly hilarious like. personally, if the sun was even a tiny little bit too hot on the back of my neck while i was being kidnapped and taken as a war captive after *insert empire here* conquered my home i wouldve been pissed. praefectus if the shackles feel weird on my skin im killing us both

[lakevida]

just saw someone say they were "hyperfixated" on cooking with seasonal squash i love that nothing means anything

[goofstep]

i’m seriously traumadumping pepper all over these boiled eggs

[junglejim4322]

I’m gaslighting my stove

[cogentranting]

Wild that there are people upset over Nolan's Helen casting, given that he was legally obligated to cast Lupita Nyong'o since she is factually the most beautiful woman in the world