Prickle-Eye Bush

[frankenmouse]

Been reading the Lord Peter Wimsey novels and did not fully anticipate how strong my reaction to Peter would be. It’s like he was intentionally engineered to hit every trait that activates the blorbo center of my brain.

What do you MEAN he was traumatized in the Great War by being buried alive and sending men to their deaths and continues to be haunted by it to this day? That he uses humor, prattle, and literary references to create an air of silly assedness to both obfuscate his intelligence and protect himself? That he is simultaneously vain and self-disparaging? That behind all of it he’s just a twitching pile of frayed nerves, duty, genuine love for humanity, and longing?

Oh jail for Dorothy L. Sayers! Jail for one million years!

[apesoformythoughts]

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

[prickleeyebush]

“Sir,” said Milady, “is your presence an indispensable accessory of my captivity? Could you not spare me the increase of torture your visits cause me?”

I'm very much enjoying Milady manipulating Felton with such ease and insulting Lord de Winter like this and basically maybe she should be allowed to kill D'Artagnan.

[prickleeyebush]

So I've learnt the true and only definition of the term emotional whiplash and it’s the end of S2 E5 of Black Sails

[lordsausage]

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

[prickleeyebush]

“Do I actually have to fight him?”

“Well what the FUCK did you think was going to happen?!”

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen

[finelythreadedsky]

in re conversations that thankfully seem to be occurring only on other sites, i actually love when the fiction i'm reading uses words i don't know and have to look up! admittedly it does not happen often, because i am an adult who read a lot as a kid and has since done what is frankly maybe a bit too much education, but please do casually drop words like phalanstery in your book so i have to look it up and then find myself reading wikipedia pages about 19th century socialist utopianism! please do throw around rare plants and birds whose names i don't know because they're not native/common anywhere i've ever been! then i get to look at pictures of things that i've never seen before!

[prickleeyebush]

I hope at the end of this book Planchet gets to retire to… I don't know a big castle or something and live out the rest of his days in peace.

[no-where-new-hero]

"If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle," said Harriet, severely ... "I used to piffle rather well myself."

[hailingsweetpotatoes]

Peter in Chapter 28 of Have His Carcase: "I refuse to believe in a fourteen-letter word until I'm absolutely forced to."

Peter three chapters earlier: "He hasn't marked any of the real sesquipedalians"

[prickleeyebush]

I've just finished Season One of Black Sails and OH MY GOD???

[prickleeyebush]

Richelieu: Were you duelling? You know that's illegal.

Athos: I definitely was not I just threw someone out of a window.

Porthos: Yeah I would never duel but I would hit someone with a bench.

Aramis: I'm going to be a monk, therefore would not even CONSIDER duels but I did draw my sword and someone impaled himself on it.

[prickleeyebush]

“D'Artagnan,” said Aramis in a reproachful tone, “how could you believe that we had made a disturbance?”

I’ve no idea how he could possibly have believed that Aramis.

[prickleeyebush]

“As he, however, had no other hat, he picked up this as he ran, and arrived at his quarters, very pale and quite out of breath.”

I'm not sure I would have stopped for the hat.

[wizardissues]

having a lot of fun with the thing harriet keeps doing in have his carcase where whenever wimsey throws hearts and flowers at her she’s like “get ahold of yourself :/“ but then when he misses a single moment where she looks cute in a dress or he could have said something romantic or he could have asked her out she goes >:( for a second before internally going GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF

[wizardissues]

he doesn’t compliment her dancing and she spends like 5 minutes having a silent crashout until she finally snaps and is like I KNOW I SUCK AT DANCING. and he goes ?? and then he goes !! and THEN he goes “i would dance the sun and moon into the sea with you. i have waited a thousand years to see you dance in that frock” and she tells him he’s an idiot. a+ behavior harriet clearly zero feelings here

[wizardissues]

when he leaves the room without proposing to her she repeats “this is good i like this i’m a fan of this” multiple times to the empty room. oh harriet we’re really in it now

[real-language-facts]

resurrected a dead language and it came back wrong

[victoriansecret]

Eighteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenth ceeeeeeeeeeeentury <- the long 18th century