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.

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "Thinking of Georg Trakl", Country Music: Selected Early Poems [ID'd]

[lhoandbehold]

The full saga of Margie and the Nuns (so far). Realised I never compiled these in one place.! Also, bonus Margies!

[oldshrewsburyian]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Sister Boniface Mysteries (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sister Boniface & Sam Gillespie (Sister Boniface), Sam Gillespie & Felix Livingstone, Peggy Button & Sam Gillespie, Sister Boniface & Ruth Penny, Sam Gillespie/Ruth Penny, Peggy Button & Felix Livingstone Characters: Sister Boniface (Father Brown), Sam Gillespie (Sister Boniface), Felix Livingstone, Ruth Penny, Peggy Button, Kingsley Markham, Original Characters, Mrs Clam (Sister Boniface) Additional Tags: Case Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Season/Series 04, Season/Series 04 Spoilers, Bechdel Test Pass, POV Third Person, Dialogue Heavy, Canon Character of Color, Male Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, Arthur Conan Doyle Canon References Summary:

Ruth was supposed to dazzle. Figuring out how and where to do it just took time... and a little help from her friends.

Meanwhile, the police force of Great Slaughter -- with the invaluable expertise of Sister Boniface -- are trying to solve the enigma of a cake theft, and other curious incidents.

Chapter 7 is up, in which Peggy reports a curious incident, Felix and Sam have a conversation with an estate agent, and Sam and Ruth have a conversation in the pub.

[museum-of-tea]

pickwick - earl grey

[wexlermendelssohn]

“You don’t need an argument for buying butter. It’s a natural, human instinct.”

— Dorothy L Sayers, Murder Must Advertise.

[oldshrewsburyian]

I’m watching Ace of Spies right now and yeah, Sam was a total hottie! Good show too.

Where would we be without shows about morally complex and indubitably hot spies, I ask rhetorically!

[fiery-kitty]

Head Reliquary of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent (1624)

[ajn-illustrated]

Oh kings and queens of the golden age of Narnia, we're really in it now

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#'Dni if you've read to kill a mockingbird' what's is this the Florida banned books list #Who r u Ron DeSantis

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#can somwone pleasw provide context to whatever the fuck op is referring to

[s-a-blotsky]

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird

[concupiscience]

[ddewpointreflectionn]

Riß F is one of seven surviving medieval architectural drawings of Cologne Cathedral.

The view of the west facade depicted on drawing F stands out from the drawings of the late 13th century due to its height of 4.05 meters and the precision of the drawing. The entire elevation is composed of a total of 20 parchment sheets glued together. The drawing, which had been lost for a time, was rediscovered in two parts: the north tower in 1814 in the attic of the inn "Zur Traube" in Darmstadt, and the central section with the south tower in 1816 at an antiquarian's office in Paris. -Dr. Marc Steinmann, art historian

[vhagar-balerion-meraxes]

THE NEVERS S01E01 - "Pilot"

[oldshrewsburyian]

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: 9781984820716 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

HUGO AWARD WINNER • WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantas

A fellow choir member recommended this to me as "fantasy mystery with a female Sherlock Holmes." I told him that he had me at "fantasy mystery."

[hagenlastkiss]

Katharine Hepburn pruning a tree in Connecticut around 1980 (aged 73), being transported on a motorcycle by Nick Nolte in the movie 'Grace Quigley' in 1984 (aged 77), shoveling snow from the roof of her NYC townhouse, 1988 (aged 80),

[didanagy]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA (2002) dir. tom clegg

[oldshrewsburyian]

The granite courtyard of the temple dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy was busy with flocks of purple-gray pigeons, incense sellers, flower stalls, and devotees praying for good fortune. A heavy curtain of incense smoke from the hundreds of burning joss sticks made the temple appear like a fading memory, one moment clear as the wind brought remembrance, and the next forgotten as the smoke reasserted itself.

The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

You've been kidnapped but the main character of the last TV show you watched is coming to rescue you.

Who’s rescuing you?

[theroyalgardens]

Houghton, Cambridgeshire, England