sulphur and honey

lo • 31 • uk • fifteenstitches on ao3 • fifteenhickeys on twitter

[hickeyknife]

hello I've written a patcap fic

✨ the love inside

After a disastrous crush on his flatmate puts him in hospital, the Captain decides to rent a house by himself. Relationships are clearly for other people, not for him. He's far better off living alone.

Except he's not alone.

➵ E

➵ 7 chapters, ~39k

➵ complete

Read on AO3

[winningmachine]

Being small Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

[alivehouse]

what do you mean you havent used mindfulness techniques to accept the state of the torture labyrinth as is yet. its like youre not even trying

[hickeyknife]

gritty everyone is alive 1970s au where pat (married) & cap (discharged) meet because they're cruising in the same truck stop bathroom

brake light (~3000 words, E rated)

[hickeyknife]

obsessed with u tagging that post as hamlet, youre so right.... 'just because you removed the stressor does not mean the stress is gone' no matter how many people he stabs thru a curtain he is not gonna catch a break

"wellness is a state of action" and he can't take action !

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[hellothanksjellyfish]

Just gonna leave this here

[achillesinhighheels]

It’s a tony soprano summer

[godisafujoshi]

What this means

[uncensoredhijabii]

[iwatch-thebees]

me forcing my followers to look at my newest obsession

[globeshaped]

Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)

[fairycosmos]

you literally can’t even do something anymore because there’ll be a consequence. and you literally can’t even do nothing anymore because there’ll be a consequence

[chancellor-ake]

I could never wear any of those dumb “I hope both teams have fun” shirts because no I hope my team wins by 30 and the other team explodes on the field

[joebraltar]

jennifer niven buying sandy anderson's jawbone on ebay in 1999 might be my favorite polar anecdote ever like i truly do not think anything can top how insane that is

[vintage-polar]

Okay so I googled it because I HAD to know more and I found these photos!

[ben-dover-art]

James Fitzjames being my muse for expressing my gender dysphoria in visual form but also will I ever be as pretty as he is?

Sorry AMC's The Terror still has me by my little T-boy ovary still.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” is such a zinger even 400 years later. hamlet truly would have killed it on twitter

[rochenn]

Concepts for a Ghosts show set in eastern Germany. MDR Ghosts, if you will. These guys have been in my head since before WDR Ghosts came out. I kept to the general template provided by BBC Ghosts with some deviations. Details under the cut 🏃

Unna, roughly equivalent to Robin. Inspired by the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg, a woman buried 9000 years ago with antler headgear and boar tusks in what is now Sachsen-Anhalt.

She speaks fluent German, however she does so with a heavy Saxon dialect, presumably out of spite. One could suspect she was never a real shaman when she was alive.

Ekki von der Wies', mysterious and entangled in eternal combat with the equally dead White Knight who is not allowed inside the house on account of being stuck on his (also dead) horse.

Doesn't speak to anyone besides Unna, who is the only one who knows Ekki is a woman.

Mutter Magdalena, abbess of the Catholic monastery that used to be where Schloss von Sydow now stands. It was burned down and leveled in 1632 by the Swedish king's Protestant armies.

Sort of takes on Fanny's role as strict keeper of tradition and order in the house. Gets very excited about gardening. Also, you're going to Hell.

Henricus Camerarius, or just Henri. Inspired by the real Ignatius Fortuna, servant to a princess-abbess in the 18th century, who seemed to have held a privileged position at her court.

Fluent in Latin, and fast to pick up modern slang. Something of a Mix of the BBC original's Annie and Kitty.

Franz Emil Arendholz, romantic, literally. Fairly straightforward equivalent to Thomas, but make it Weimar Classicism. Can someone keep lethal objects away from disciples of Goethe, please?

Hates the French.

Wilhelmine "Willa" von Sydow, of the noble family after which the house - Schloss von Sydow - is named.

Born too soon to dance her feet off in the Roaring 20s. Might have killed her husband about it.

"Herr Hauptmann" - Captain in the NVA. Very communist. Very stiff, which shouldn't come as a surprise, considering how he went out. Has a northern dialect if you listen close.

There's a lot to unpack here, but he'd rather not.

Manfred Kaminski, or just Manni, if you like. Voluntary football coach, professional electrician. Has relatives on the other side, but doesn't really care to go there - he's been around the block. He worked for the GDR's trade fleet when he was younger, you know?

Anyway, here's Patrick, if Patrick were to be a guy with a Berlin twang so thick you could insulate a wall with it.

Egon Reinecke, SED politician, runner-up for Bezirksleiter of Leipzig before 1989. After reunification, he remained in the party - now called PDS - mostly to embezzle money. Took to capitalism like a fish to water.

In other words: Red Julian!

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So, that's personal take on an eastern German version of Ghosts! I'm fine with what the actual WDR/ARD show went with, but I was disappointed by the potential left on the table, especially regarding the East and its treasure trove of history and archeological finds.

This is the first time I've drawn any of these ghosts, so the designs, causes of death, etc might not be final.

If you've read this far, tysm for taking the time to look at my little guys <3

[fxf]

Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart photographed by Chantal Anderson for The New York Times