Middle aged millennial, out of fucks to give.
I write fic when I'm not pretending to be a fully functioning adult. Feel free to drop by and chat, I'll make us a cup of tea (or something stronger).
Tolys glowered at Gilbert, who was too close to his face to focus into one image. The only thing he could make out well were the eyelashes too fine and pale to notice from a distance, then the strange sheen to his grey eyes that implied color, a red-blue iridescence. He thought vaguely of jay feathers. “Gilbert.”
“What?” He was still trying to get himself straightened up enough to use the wall behind Tolys to stand. It never amounted to enough to get off his knees, and Tolys blinked. Gilbert was here. Ivan was not.
“Get over here.”
“I’m already over here, the fuck do you want-“ Tolys raised two uncoordinated hands to Gilbert’s chest, and once he had a sure grip on the material, enough so to stretch it out of shape, he pulled Gilbert in until their mouths met. It must have shocked the other, because he jerked back out of reach, only to grunt when he was reeled back in and kissed insistently.
The Killing Fields, Chapter 8.
Happy birthday @doomspiral !!
I loved this scene, they're so messy, also it's in a banger chapter, very delicious I had to draw something from it. Everyone go read TKF NOW!! (but read the tags)
silly liet + others doodle and a chibi lietpru for @doomspiral 's birthday ! ty for being my friend and listening to me b annoying abt things and goodluck on all your rock-based and writing endeavors .... i hope all the books u read for the rest of the year are good and normal(relative)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Chapter 7
Inspired by the movie Casablanca
Summary:“Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” During WWII, Europeans seeking refuge in America must first pass through Casablanca. Cynical expatriate Alfred Jones runs one of the most popular cafes in town and is all too content to profit off these poor souls - until he meets a man who just might change his point of view.
Characters: Roderich Edelstein, Alfred Jones, Mathieu Williams, Angelique Mancham, Gilbert Beilschmidt, Francis Bonnefoy, Eduard von Bock, and a cat
Summary: On the brink of disinheritance for spurning his parents’ wishes that he should settle down and marry, Roderich Edelstein enjoys a bohemian lifestyle in the shining Austrian capital of Vienna. But that lifestyle comes with a price — one Roderich cannot afford to pay as his gambling addiction bleeds him of what money he has. Trying to save what dignity he has left, he makes the ultimate bet: sponsoring an unknown boxer by the name of Gilbert Beilschmidt in an underground bare knuckle boxing ring. Will Roderich’s gamble pay off or will he discover Gilbert is more than just a means of recouping his losses?
Si yo digo que todavía es el aniversario de Hetalia, todavía es el anivesario de Hetalia (?)
My contribution to the Hetalia 20th anniversary fanzine: Draw a Circle, it's Hetalia! (which you can download for free at @hetalia-20-anniversary-zine ❤️🥂
I want to make you feel like a humid Southern night, where the Spanish moss drips from the trees like lace, and honeysuckle buds perfume the air. Sticky, glistening skin. Sultry and forever.
and fifty dozen mosquitos are sucking your body dry and cicadas scream so loud you can never sleep and watch where your honeysuckle ass steps or you’ll plant your foot on a pissed off copperhead
Lit! How have you been? I was thinking today about Ivan's scene after Tauras’ escape where he’d been brought more smuggled books written in Lithuanian by his lieutenant from a parish-turned-illegal school. And then I had this scene pass through my mind of Griphook betraying Harry and his friends during their Gringotts heist in the last Harry Potter book and how, in one of Harry’s flashbacks, we see the scene where Voldemort murders the goblins in Gringotts, including Griphook, for their failure to stop the trio.
All of this to say, do you have any visuals for Ivan’s discovery of Tauras’ escape? I’m not saying that Ivan suddenly started Avada Kadavra-ing the men under him, but how do you think that he might have reacted? Do you think that he might have regretted his mercy of sending a doctor to bandage Tauras? Did he think back to the time when his sister has been taken away and saw his failure to sentence Tauras as a scolding from Divinity, as in ‘You witnessed what’s been done to your family and now you’re doing the same onto others? Here's what you deserve.’ You know how much I love your Ivan, and would like to hear any thoughts you might have about the behind the scene.
Hello hello! Oh yes, Ivan was pissed. There was at least one hole punched through a wall, maybe some furniture thrown about, that sorta thing. More under the cut because it's kind of long :)
News got to his senior lieutenant first about the escaped prisoner, leaving him with the regrettable job of telling Ivan. Ivan remained stony. They went up and inspected the room. There was no obvious means of escape. The lieutenant went to the window and opened it, noting the three stores drop to the street below. He suggested to Ivan the prisoner possibly could have used the drain pipe. Or had help. To which Ivan put his fist through the wall, followed by much incoherent Russian swearing as he flipped the cot Tauras used as a bed and kicked a table. After he had calmed down enough, he sent for the guards and the doctor to question them -- though he did leave the plaster dust from the wall on his uniform as a not-so-subtle warning to all of them.
He was most suspicious of the doctor, not believing someone as injured as Tauras was could have gone out the window and climbed down the pipe on their own, without help. But Ivan could not prove it -- the guards saw the doctor leave. The doctor's housekeeper saw him return home. No one saw him go back to the custom's house later that night. After that, Ivan had to assume Tauras did it all on his own. I think because of that, he may have regretted sending the doctor only for the fact if he hadn't, then he would have been 100% sure Tauras did escape on his own. When Ivan makes a decision, he tries to do it to leave no room for doubt. It's either A or B, 1 or 2. He can't stand leaders who cannot make a decision, a by-product of serving in Crimea. So he always aims to be as resolute as possible. Which doesn't always work. He does have doubts, he's human. As much as he wishes things could always operate logically and in the most efficient manner, feelings do get in the way and cloud things sometimes.
Ooohhh, I like the scolding from Divinity take! But I honestly don't see Ivan as very religious or one to believe in things like karma. He doesn't really start trying to come to terms with that part of his past until later. He sees the similarities between himself and Matas as coincidence at first, and it does inspire a fondness, though the fact Matas keeps bringing up Tauras whenever Ivan visits does irk him. But again, he does see the similarities between himself and Matas at that age too. He did keep the letters his sister sent and would write to her, so he understands it in a way. When Tauras turns himself in, Ivan is truly thrown. He doesn't know what to do. He can't believe this prize he's been hunting, the person responsible for the smuggled books, is also the same one who escaped under his watch. He also can't believe Tauras willingly turned himself in, and runs through a gamut of emotions from gloating to suspicious. He thinks he got everything he wanted...but it doesn't make him feel any better. And the colonel's reaction only solidifies that. That's when he starts to question and confront his past with his sister.
Thank you for the ask! You always send such fun ones to think about and answer!
the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴
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