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Agatha Wellbelove is an expresso girly. Right? | Happy (belated) birthday to my girl 🍁🍂🧡
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I push him against the bookshelf.
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Goddamn. Okay
Did you have a kid in your neighborhood who always hid so good, nobody could find him? We did. After a while we would give up on him and go off, leaving him to rot wherever he was. Sooner or later he would show up, all mad because we didn't keep looking for him. And we would get mad back because he wasn't playing the game the way it was supposed to be played.
There's hiding and there's finding, we'd say. And he'd say it was hide-and-seek, not hide-and-give-UP, and we'd all yell about who made the rules and who cared about who, anyway, and how we wouldn't play with him anymore if he didn't get it straight and who needed him anyhow, and things like that. Hide-and-seek-and-yell. No matter what, though, the next time he would hide too good again. He's probably still hidden somewhere, for all I know.
As I write this, the neighborhood game goes on, and there is a kid under a pile of leaves in the yard just under my window. He has been there a long time now, and everybody else is found and they are about to give up on him over at the base. I considered going out to the base and telling them where he is hiding. And I thought about setting the leaves on fire to drive him out. Finally, I just yelled, "GET FOUND, KID!" out the window. And scared him so bad he probably wet his pants and started crying and ran home to tell his mother. It's real hard to know how to be helpful sometimes.
A man I know found out last year he had terminal cancer. He was a doctor. And knew about dying, and he didn't want to make his family and friends suffer through that with him. So he kept his secret. And died. Everybody said how brave he was to bear his suffering in silence and not tell everybody, and so on and so forth. But privately his family and friends said how angry they were that he didn't need them, didn't trust their strength. And it hurt that he didn't say good-bye.
He hid too well. Getting found would have kept him in the game. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. "I don't want anyone to know." "What will people think?" "I don't want to bother anyone."
Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is It goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.
Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think old God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines - by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end.
"Olly-olly-oxen-free." The kids out in the street are hollering the cry that says "Come on in, wherever you are. It's a new game." And so say I. To all those who have hid too good. Get found, kid! Olly-olly-oxen-free.
— Robert Fulghum, "All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten"
What a wild ride
Happiest of birthdays to my favorite boy.
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Hi @rainbowrowell I was wondering, why Simon had any reason to like the Mage? You have expanded on flawed and complicated characters like Fiona and Malcolm that they still loved and cared for Baz so even at their worst Bazs affection is justified. But what did the Mage ever do to gain affection from Simon? Even the Mages who were on his side seemed to do it for political reasons and Agatha says Simon was probably the only one who liked him, but what was Simon's reasons? What justification did Davy give him?
The Mage brought him into the world of magic.
And then he told Simon he was the most special, most magickal child in the world.
And then he kept showing up and he kept saying it.
@rainbowrowell did I just… miss this? I have no recollection of paperback WS being released in America- and with pictures!
Forgive me if this is old news- but look! Pretty!
(Also idk much about tumble art etiquette- if I should take this down lmk)
Our birthdays are just the celebration of all the years that came before and the welcoming of a new one. Happy Birthday Baz Pitch!
(And happy birthday to the woman who brought him to us, @rainbowrowell)
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS! YOU KNOW HIM SO WELL!
sex scenes should be more explicit & have uglier people in them
I want the chest hair, the morning breath, and the wings
A lot of awtwb has Simon discovering intimacy, how to build a solid relationship he actually wants, and how to express his huge, overwhelming feelings for who he knows is the love of his life. I also think this includes Simon discovering how genuine (and overwhelming) sexual attraction feels for him.
Here, Baz opens his mouth for Simon while they kiss, and the temperature is rising. Simon is getting aroused. And part of his thoughts is that they’re “stoking fires in each other” (passion) (horny) and that he doesn’t understand what this is. Simon being attracted to Baz is nothing new by this point, but being able to act on it so freely, without inhibitions or negative emotional baggage “getting in the way” is new for him. (It’s especially new for him to be able to do this at Watford too!). This is a kiss that’s basically “setting Simon on fire” and it doesn’t take long until he’s dry-humping Baz.
This isn’t the only scene that has Simon discovering how attraction actually feels like for him, and where it can lead (or where it is supposed to lead). So many things (that I won’t get into here) are happening during the first time Simon and Baz get off together, and I also think it’s especially relevant that, while we see some kisses/intimate scenes in both POVs, we only see this in Simon’s POV, and we only see the aftermath in Baz’s (we’re getting back here)
“I want something, but I don’t know what, or what am I supposed to take”: Simon knows he wants to do something about his attraction to Baz, but he also sounds like he’s trying to understand sex, and not in a mechanical or a practical sense. Why do people do it? Sex for the sake of sex clearly doesn’t cut it for him. He knows he wants sex with Baz, and he’s told us he’s the only person he has ever wanted. And it’s not about pleasure just for the sake of it, it’s not just about getting off for him. Actually getting there has Simon seeing and understanding sex as an expression of love, as a way to get as close as he can possibly be to Baz, which is exactly what he has wanted ever since he started following him around in 5th year. To be close.
There’s also how sex is connected to one of Simon’s love languages: to provide. Simon wants to be the one to take care of Baz (whether that’s doing a little murder to feed him, or giving him whatever he wants in bed)
All the sentences in italic are focusing on Simon’s discoveries. Simon has been looking for something while in bed with Baz, and it’s at the culmination when it seems like he has found it. It’s in the climax. Is this, is this what people do? indicates how worked up Simon is before he even tells us they’re coming. Is this what he wants? Is this what I’m allowed to take? is immediately before Baz’s orgasm. It’s Simon wondering again if this is what sex is about, if this is what Baz wants too. It’s him needing to see it on Baz’s face, and being amazed by it to the point he wonders “am I allowed to take this?”
The last three sentences in italic immediately follows Simon’s orgasm. Is this, is this, is this… is again indicating how worked up Simon is in the moment (his thoughts are derailed when he’s feeling attraction for Baz on multiple occasions). But that, followed by Is this magic? also sounds like Simon is discovering new sensations, new feelings. And I have to ask… doesn’t this make it sound like Simon is discovering an orgasm? (he also wonders Is this enough? and notably, they’re still clothed. When they get fully naked and pressed against each other, that’s when Simon finally thinks “this is enough”. It’s all about being as close to Baz as he can be, which is a mutual feeling)
I think it makes sense for the characters that Baz would have already experienced a (positive) orgasm while Simon has never had one before this moment. I’ve elaborated on Simon’s uncomfortable relationship with sex and how anything related to it has likely never been good for him before this moment, based on his dissociation (which wouldn’t have started between the events of CO and WS), the self-harm, the negative emotional state while talking about the experience he did have, etc. Going through the motions is just not gonna give you “good results”, even without getting into the messy comphet of it all! (there are negative orgasms that can happen when you force yourself to go through the motions, but those do not feel good at all, they aren’t pleasurable! but I don’t think it was even that for him). It makes perfect sense Simon wouldn’t have been able to get off during his first time. We have a paragraph that’s set up as a comparison that pretty much invites us to conclude that Simon “wasn’t turned on, wasn’t in love, didn’t really want it” during his past experience, he wasn’t feeling it (perhaps quite literally, given his disassociative tendencies). And before this, neither of his past attempts with Baz ever went very far before Simon was getting overwhelmed and shut down.
I’ve also said why I don’t think it was likely he was ever comfortable and secure enough to try wanking, and was more likely to work it out through other physical activities such as fighting or sword training. It’s kinda long so I’ll just link to that post again instead of repeating everything here. But it’s worth noting again that wanking asks for some self-knowledge: not just in the physical sense, but where does your mind likes to go to get you there? What gets you hot and bothered? Someone like Simon wouldn’t be able to answer that, having lived his teenage years repressing everything about himself that didn’t fit in a certain narrative, who has spend so long avoiding questions such as “what do I want? what do I feel?” and who decidedly avoided anything that would bring up the question of sexuality. He was quite repressed in that way.
Baz knows much more about himself, about his feelings and desires. He already knew he was attracted to Simon, and used “furious wanking” as a way to blow off steam/work through those feelings when it was too much. The whole “knowing the thing he’s experiencing is attraction” is truly key here, and so he knows what he wants to do about it (he knows Simon has moles he wants to kiss, that he wants to “spit on him then kiss him” etc). Baz is also repressed, but in a different way: any positive feelings an orgasm would cause would be overshadowed then by the negative feelings of a Baz who thinks he has unrequited feelings, who thinks he doesn’t deserve anything good, who thinks he isn’t allowed to have this. (And the last part would’ve still fucked with him, if he was wanking during the time they were together but weren’t able to be intimate).
Which takes me to Baz’s POV. Simon is so happy afterwards, because of how good it was for him. It’s very, very likely that we witnessed the first time a sexual experience is ever been good for Simon. But Baz is hesitant, even though he very much liked it too. It’s only after Simon’s reassurance that he wanted and it’s happy about this that Baz gradually relaxes and allows himself to be happy about it too. It’s also very likely that we’re witnessing the first time Baz thinks he’s allowed to have this.
In a way, the discovery of sexual pleasure (specifically tied to an expression of love) is Simon’s: this is him discovering what to do about his overwhelming desire for Baz, and where it can take both of them. And the aftermath is Baz’s: the reassurance that he has permission to enjoy this.
In short, I think this is the first time Simon is able to get off, and that this is the first time Baz feels like he’s allowed to enjoy getting off because of his feelings for Simon
@carryonsimoncarryonbaz
I completely agree with everything here.
One thing though, can we all agree that Simon was probably G R E A T at giving Ags head?
I mean that boy gave his all to any assignment- you know he would go hard for her. Goddamn.
Hi @rainbowrowell quick question, Jaime mentions that Ruth wanted to send Lucy to Switzerland to get away from Davy but he doesnt know why. What is in Switzerland? (Messner? Lol)
Hmm. I don’t know. I wonder if I was making some connection to Swiss neutrality and it being a good place to disappear.
But it might be that she has a cousin there!
I very rarely cook up more story than I need.
Aside: I’ve been thinking lately about how glad I am that I wrote AWTWB, because of all the supporting characters I got to introduce and expand on. Lady Ruth and Niamh. Daphne. Jamie. Even Fiona and Mitali.
I live for the details about supporting characters. They make the story so much more full of other possibilities if that makes sense.
Like knowing Mitali and Lucy were friends makes me wonder what would have happened if Lucy had survived. Would penny and Simon be even closer? Or would they not have become friends at all cause Simon wasn’t dangerous enough?
I also love thinking about Simon’s new family. How he interacts with Jamie. How they are similar or different or how they both suck at words.
I don’t know- the supporting characters just make everything else richer. I love how you give every person a distinct personality that lives in my mind for a long time.
Hi @rainbowrowell
Settle a debate for us?
And sorry if this has been asked before.
Between Simon and Baz which of two enjoys Christmas music on the radio and who hates it when Christmas music clogs the radio?
And if they both like it which Xmas songs is their favorite?
Thanks
I’m going to go with — they both like it.
I don’t know what Christmas music is like in the UK right now …
The UK has (what I think is) a fun history with Christmas music and Christmas singles, and competition over who will be No. 1 on Christmas.
Maybe Baz has more of an appreciation for classical Christmas music because he’s a musician — but I really resist making him The Posh One in every way. Even though he has money and is part of an old, traditional culture.
He’s not Frasier Crane.
Okok but what about Simon and which songs do they sing together? Food for thought
‘I kiss him back, and back, and back …’
Okay, but, Snow for Christmas was a fucking TREAT!
Can we please discuss how precious it was? And how I need MORE after reading it.
I'm dropping spoilers below because I've reread this 5 times while at work today and need to let my emotions out.
Baz and Simon having regular lunches with Fiona? Please give me those dialougues. Gimme a fucking screen play of nothing but their lunches
Simon regularly practicing his sword skills AND distracting Baz? You cannot convince me this isn't a flirting tactic doe Simon. Let me read about Simon seducing Baz via a sword 😏
ALWAYS KISSING GOODBYE? MY HEART CANNOT.
Okay, but I also want more family drama from the Grimms and Pitches. Uncle Cyril? Tell me what this man has done to find himself on the wrong side of Malcom Grimm and Simon Snow. Spill that tea. (I will always map Baz's entire family tree if you let me.)
The sofa is PINK!! Need I say more?
Wing Flap Shirts!! I'm so glad our dragon baby finally has clothes he can wear without needing magic. NOW. Which one of you lovelies is drawing this?
"He reaches up and carefully starts to loosen my tie. He's become very skilled at this over the last few months." 😏😏😏
Baz internally swooning at EVERY thought of Simon being his boyfriend.
Simon being a GOOD boyfriend and immediately being up for another dinner with Baz's family. For Baz. Because he's so GOOD
Baz referring to Lady Salisbury as Simon's grandmother? ADORABLE. Lady Salisbury being cool with Simon and Baz bring "as gay we want. We can be extra gay, as a treat." YES. GIVE THESE BOYS A KIND FAMILY FIGURE WHO ACCEPTS THEM WITH NOTHING BUT LOVE. Please give me more visits with the Salisbury family. I need the wholesomeness.
WHERE CAN I READ ABOUT FIONA AND NICOS WEDDING!?!?!?
"We could be married with children --" "Could we?" PLEASE GIVE THEM A FAMILY
Can I get more fanart of Baz with his siblings. Because they are precious little things. And I need more of Petra and Sophie climbing Baz like he's their personal jungle gym. I need more pre-teen Mordelia spending wholesome time with her brother. I need to see Swithin climbing this fucking Tibetan mastiff. Thank you very much.
Can we please give Rainbow Rowell a massive thanks for giving us a more detailed description of Malcom Grimm finally??
I will foot the entire fucking production crew to have that dinner recreated for the screen. I would sell my soul to a Demon like Shepard if it means I can have a quality holiday special of that dinner. Fucking. Hell. Baz IMMEDIATELY grabbing Simon to ground him. Simon SUPPORTING HIS MAN and holding his hand. SIMON BELIEVING IN BAZ THAT HE'S GOT THIS DINNER IN THE BAG AND JUST SERVING BAZ FOOD. Malcom and Daphne crying and pouring drinks over Baz finally finally finally getting to eat dinner with him. Sophie getting gravy in her hair.
And can we also discuss the fact that this scene proves that these little girls know their big brother is a vampire? And they still adore him? They still climb all over him and practically beg for his attention? That these girls just want to spend time with their brother and aren't afraid in the slightest of him?
FANG BACKSTORY BREAKING MY FUCKING HEART. Baby Baz fucking hiding in the barn. Terrified. And Fiona just fucking supporting her nephew. I 100% cried during this scene.
Edit Add cause I somehow forgot to mention : Simon's fucking obsession with Baz's fangs. Like. Honey. No, his family does not want to watch him drain a deer. That's just you.
"I think I got drunk with Baz's dad at dinner." Had me rolling.
Backtracking. WE HAVE CAREER OPTIONS FOR SIMON. And so help me. I would refuse to talk to this man too if he tried to join the RAF or police force. Like. He really needs to address this hero-savior complex with his fucking therapist. For fucks sake. Stop trying to save people Simon. Just get your fucking fork lift license and RELAX.
Really. Die Hard? Are we shocked?
THE. FOREHEAD. KISS.
End of discussion. (But really. Discuss. Because I am feral right now. And I cannot focus on writing lesson plans in this state.)
Can you please explain to me the British police things and the controversy surrounding them? Like I know what they are but I don’t understand why Baz and Penny wouldn’t talk to Simon afterwards. Is it dangerous? Racist? Both?
Okay, but, Snow for Christmas was a fucking TREAT!
Can we please discuss how precious it was? And how I need MORE after reading it.
I'm dropping spoilers below because I've reread this 5 times while at work today and need to let my emotions out.
Baz and Simon having regular lunches with Fiona? Please give me those dialougues. Gimme a fucking screen play of nothing but their lunches
Simon regularly practicing his sword skills AND distracting Baz? You cannot convince me this isn't a flirting tactic doe Simon. Let me read about Simon seducing Baz via a sword 😏
ALWAYS KISSING GOODBYE? MY HEART CANNOT.
Okay, but I also want more family drama from the Grimms and Pitches. Uncle Cyril? Tell me what this man has done to find himself on the wrong side of Malcom Grimm and Simon Snow. Spill that tea. (I will always map Baz's entire family tree if you let me.)
The sofa is PINK!! Need I say more?
Wing Flap Shirts!! I'm so glad our dragon baby finally has clothes he can wear without needing magic. NOW. Which one of you lovelies is drawing this?
"He reaches up and carefully starts to loosen my tie. He's become very skilled at this over the last few months." 😏😏😏
Baz internally swooning at EVERY thought of Simon being his boyfriend.
Simon being a GOOD boyfriend and immediately being up for another dinner with Baz's family. For Baz. Because he's so GOOD
Baz referring to Lady Salisbury as Simon's grandmother? ADORABLE. Lady Salisbury being cool with Simon and Baz bring "as gay we want. We can be extra gay, as a treat." YES. GIVE THESE BOYS A KIND FAMILY FIGURE WHO ACCEPTS THEM WITH NOTHING BUT LOVE. Please give me more visits with the Salisbury family. I need the wholesomeness.
WHERE CAN I READ ABOUT FIONA AND NICOS WEDDING!?!?!?
"We could be married with children --" "Could we?" PLEASE GIVE THEM A FAMILY
Can I get more fanart of Baz with his siblings. Because they are precious little things. And I need more of Petra and Sophie climbing Baz like he's their personal jungle gym. I need more pre-teen Mordelia spending wholesome time with her brother. I need to see Swithin climbing this fucking Tibetan mastiff. Thank you very much.
Can we please give Rainbow Rowell a massive thanks for giving us a more detailed description of Malcom Grimm finally??
I will foot the entire fucking production crew to have that dinner recreated for the screen. I would sell my soul to a Demon like Shepard if it means I can have a quality holiday special of that dinner. Fucking. Hell. Baz IMMEDIATELY grabbing Simon to ground him. Simon SUPPORTING HIS MAN and holding his hand. SIMON BELIEVING IN BAZ THAT HE'S GOT THIS DINNER IN THE BAG AND JUST SERVING BAZ FOOD. Malcom and Daphne crying and pouring drinks over Baz finally finally finally getting to eat dinner with him. Sophie getting gravy in her hair.
And can we also discuss the fact that this scene proves that these little girls know their big brother is a vampire? And they still adore him? They still climb all over him and practically beg for his attention? That these girls just want to spend time with their brother and aren't afraid in the slightest of him?
FANG BACKSTORY BREAKING MY FUCKING HEART. Baby Baz fucking hiding in the barn. Terrified. And Fiona just fucking supporting her nephew. I 100% cried during this scene.
Edit Add cause I somehow forgot to mention : Simon's fucking obsession with Baz's fangs. Like. Honey. No, his family does not want to watch him drain a deer. That's just you.
"I think I got drunk with Baz's dad at dinner." Had me rolling.
Backtracking. WE HAVE CAREER OPTIONS FOR SIMON. And so help me. I would refuse to talk to this man too if he tried to join the RAF or police force. Like. He really needs to address this hero-savior complex with his fucking therapist. For fucks sake. Stop trying to save people Simon. Just get your fucking fork lift license and RELAX.
Really. Die Hard? Are we shocked?
THE. FOREHEAD. KISS.
End of discussion. (But really. Discuss. Because I am feral right now. And I cannot focus on writing lesson plans in this state.)
@rainbowrowell talking about how she thinks we won’t follow her to middle aged Simon snow…
As if I don’t EXCLUSIVELY read middle aged Simon snow fanfiction
I’m 21. Your young audience will follow you.
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