Becoming Harriet Vane

Bluestocking, feminist, itinerant scholar. She/her. Fueled by tea. Always open for questions and discussions. This adultbooklr-ish blog also includes history, fictional detectives, architecture, and Fantasy Canon Law™. Curator of @teaformrholmes.

[spirit-of-art]

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Der Mönch am Meer (The Monk by the Sea), 1810

[floranada-a-sense-of-place]

Train Journey Royal Scotsman

[oldshrewsburyian]

WIP ask:

Aspidistra?

As you may have cleverly anticipated, there are metaphorical aspidistras at the Duchess of Denver's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Christmas Party:

“All right,” said Peter placatingly, “nobody’s chucking aspidistras.”

[oldshrewsburyian]

'courage' for the WIP guessing game

I couldn't find courage itself directly (alas!) but found one of its relatives:

I mean: she’s so fine and courageous that she just goes straight ahead when she thinks something needs doing, and she doesn’t seem to mind the risk, and Wilfred’s the same way, and…”

[oldshrewsburyian]

WIP ask: kiss!

Surprisingly difficult to find the noun rather than the associated verb! But here it is, from The Silly Bodyguard AU:

Brienne bent, and pressed a kiss against the crown of his head.

[onefootin1941]

[oldshrewsburyian]

Ask game: whippersnapper

What a fun word! I regret to say that it is not in any of my WIPs.

[billgibbarchive]

Bill Gibb for Baccarat, Renaissance Pinafore Dress With Terracotta Shirt, ca. 1970. 

Images from 1stdibs.com

[tartharyen]

welcome to the new world.

25 YEARS OF A KNIGHT'S TALE THEATRICAL RELEASE – 11 MAY 2001

[character-association-game]

whos the blorbo you have the most merch of? it can be handmade or official or unofficial or ANYTHING just. merch

[clawmarks]

Chemnitzer Fibel / hrsg. vom Pädagogischen Verein zu Chemnitz ; Bilder von Karl Mühlmeister - 1910 - via e-rara

[museum-of-tea]

clipper - chamomile, lemon balm & lavender / snore & peace

[dinindourden]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean

[oldshrewsburyian]

Ask?

Thank you! From the 1930s Ivanhoe AU (sic):

But hearing Rebecca ask after Gurth’s health and his dog, and even smile a little when he recounted Fang’s latest mischief and achievements, Wilfred thought that perhaps he had made the right choice after all.

[oldshrewsburyian]

WIP ask: submarine

Alas, I appear to have no submarine! No submarines in Foyle fic, and the fic set in the 1960s is just too early for the yellow one. (Thanks for the ask, though!)

[oldshrewsburyian]

For the WIP word asks: breathe or sleep?

Thank you! I think you have already seen this, but, from Ivanhoe Noir:

Temple looked down at her, slumped against his shoulder, her face slack with sleep, and he wondered how many kinds of fool he was.

[lokincest-deactivated20180601]

Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in