is everyone obsessed with homosexuality?

[groans loadly]

[quillinhand]

hi <3

figured i've gone long enough w/o an intro post, so read on for a (re)introduction and a short list of the things i'm into!

who's this?

i'm quill! she/they, aroflux bisexual. tamil. south asian living in canada. here's a list of (mostly) everything i post about.

shows

house md, strangers from hell, tvn stranger/secret forest, beyond evil, the story of minglan, go ahead. lots of kdrama and cdrama. small doses of the night manager and jeeves and wooster.

movies

mcu, vikram vedha, ponniyin selvan, knives out movies, all the woods of indian cinema tbh.

books

pjo, grishaverse, hunger games, an assorted list rlly i'm not in a lot of book fandoms these days.

music

the mountain goats, the strokes, queen, abba, olivia rodrigo, conan gray, hozier, gigi perez, sabrina carpenter, chappell roan, billie eilish, bad bunny, doechii, the marias, clairo, boygenius, taylor swift, raye, SHINee, BIGBANG, the odd musical, tamil music in general.

misc.

mahabharata, world mythology, history, languages(i'm learning french and korean!), actors and celebs i like, screaming about my hobbies(of which there are many), chronic pain, politics.

tagging and organization

obviously this is a lot and i tend to post and reblog abt everything rlly, so organization isn't exactly my thing. however, i do tend to be pretty consistent in tagging fandoms, so if you want all my sfh posts and reblogs #strangers from hell should be the place to go. here are a few of my tags:

#from the ink well -> for responses to asks (SEND ME ASKS!)

#let the quill bleed -> for everything i write

#ink stains on carpet -> for visual media that i make

#quill watches minglan -> i've been liveblogging the story of minglan for over a year now, and you can find all my screaming there. :)

#quill watches house md -> relatively new! if you've been on my blog anytime these past few months you know that i've been kinda losing my mind over this show and i've started posting episode notes, so watch out for that!

#gofundme palestine -> i reblog fundraisers for palestine under this tag, so if you can help in anyway—whether it be sharing or donating—there are lot of fundraisers and resources to keep an eye on here.

hmmm, what else? i'll tag all the most prominent fandoms that i'm in on this post, so you can find your way there. there are also a few things i wanna start doing fairly regularly, so if i ever do commit to them check back on here to see the tag update! onwards to....

links!

my ao3 -> no posting schedule whatsoever i'm so sorry

my dw -> see above.

my twt -> currently on priv but that will change. at some point. maybe. request to follow anyways i'll fb

my strawpage -> it is a truth universally acknowledged that everytime u send me a gimmick/ask god starts weeping(in a good way!) send me things!!!

DNI???

look, i don't really think DNIs work and i won't bother putting together a list or anything. that being said, if you're bigoted in any way this probably isn't the place for you. if you're like super averse to seeing anything nsfw this probably isn't the place for you either...and it really isn't my responsibility to moderate your internet experience. you've been warned.

so...what else?

idk man! if u wanna ask me anything ever ask box is open and waiting for u(i am at times really late when it comes to answering but pls know i appreciate each and every ask!!!) if u wanna spam like/reblog js know that we're getting platonically married next spring. if u wanna tag me in anything DO it! that's really it lol i love you all and i hope you have as much fun reading my rambling as i do. :D

[auxphono]

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Happy Pride Month

[auxphono]

Reblogging this yearly for anyone who needs a very clean version <3 Happy Pride.

[drosophilamania]

Reblog to put the sex and magic back into pride

[gaylilsherlock]

im curious who do u like better juwon or dongsik???

ohhh that’s an excellent question that I’m not sure I have an answer to!

I find joowon fascinating from an academic perspective— his daddy issues, unresolved love and anger and confusion over the loss of his mother, his yearning for connection while keeping everyone at arm’s length, his need for order and cleanliness, etc. and then of course there’s his constant rushes to judgement where it concerns dongsik, that man makes him throw all his order and control out the window and he gets all his deductions wrong because he can’t see the forest for the trees when it comes to dongsik. it’s endlessly entertaining.

but then

when I think about dongsik, a deeply sad, deeply tragic, self-flagellating, self-sacrificing man who has such an intimate relationship with love and grief and loyalty it makes my head spin… he’s a flirt, he’s such a good cop it makes him dangerous, he laughs and makes people laugh but is so so so deeply lonely himself. I think about how he spent half his life searching for his sister who was right under his nose the whole time, I think about “oppa’s so sorry, oppa’s here, and he’s so sorry…” and I think about how in his own way, he, too, loses all rationality when it comes to joowon.

I can’t pick my favourite, don’t make me >_>

they’re both so important to me T-T I see different aspects of myself reflected in both of them, I think that’s why I can’t really choose~

[quillinhand]

hi matthew matthevil here um um character ask 17

hi! um currently favourite character position for house is tied so im gonna cheat and give a song for wilson and foreman.

17. Quotes, songs, poems, etc. that I associate with them

foreman: i have one choice and only one for this

haha what an obscure song choice.

They've been sayin', "You're sophisticated" They're complainin', overeducated You are saying all the words I'm dreaming Say it after me

foreman really does distinguish himself, doesn't he? he's very professional, ridiculously qualified/educated for the job, put together. doesn't mean you can't tell he's unhinged, but he does go the extra mile in making sure that he's regarded as someone worthy of sophistication and respect...think marty hamilton, yk???

Don't go there 'cause you'll never return I know you think of me when you think of her

ok first line makes me think of how similar he is to house, yk? ik foreman analysis 101 but something about how foreman is always one push away from the lines house trips over in like literally every episode. he doesn't want to be but also he won't ever admit that he is, so. don't go there.

i dunno what i can link the 'think of her' line to but!

But then it don't make sense when you're tryin' hard To do the right thing but without recompense And then you did something wrong and you said it was great And now you don't know how you could ever complain Because you're all confused 'cause you want me to But then you want me to do it the same as you

no words js 1x09 DNR good god please save me from forehouse hell.

You were waitin' for the elevator

hahaha 1x08 poison

You were sayin' all the words I'm dreaming No more askin' questions or excuses Information's here Here and everywhere

forehouse? FOREHOUSE! you have to understand from fucking 1x01 pilot foreman has cracked the code to saying the right fucking thing and going the exact right direction and you can! tell! that it scratches such an itch for house it drives me crazy. additionally, from foreman's perspective, house is saying the wrong thing in any given moment but he's learning. information's fucking here. he's getting the full package + benefits of the diagnostics fellowship from hell. a great deal of the show up to what i've watched till now is, very much, about fellows learning. about foreman learning. the whole fucking show is about foreman im gonna kms

also everytime the song uses the pronoun 'you' i imagine forehouse and everytime 'we' pops up i think of the og fellows dynamic and it makes me want to bite through the ceiling.

wilson: truly i tried very hard to get a song that was just wilson but! i cannot avoid house in the stupid conversation...so.

firstly this is house & wilson thesis

People say friends don't destroy one another What do they know about friends?

secondly

And I handed you a drink of the lovely little thing On which our survival depends

house...wilson...vicodin...1x11 detox...

Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises Our house sinking into disrepair Ah but look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes

there is more i can say about this song and i could talk about it forever but at some point the post has to end so i'll stick with just the last little bit of the song above. something about how wilson is lying, you know. you can say this about him and house but also him and any relationship he gets into, him and anything, any lie he perpetuates about himself. he wants to be good guy he wants to be happy and he isn't, not really, so he'll say he's miserable but he'll stick with house anyways (2x16 safe i think about you all the time). so he'll pretend to hope, pretend to fall in love over and over. look at this fucking showroom filled with prizes. do you believe him yet?

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[birdplushie]

it's funny when people call what two characters have going on a "secret third thing" and then they're just coworkers. not that secret

[the-bar-sinister]

"it's true to me because I want it to be true" is great and fine and wonderful in the context of fiction, but you cannot under any circumstances deliberately confuse the issue by pretending or insisting or joking that it's actually a real part of the source material.

You have to acknowledge that a separation exists between what you have made up about the characters from nothing and what's actually included in the story as text or you lose all grasp on media literacy.

[anistarrose]

realizing a headcanon of yours happens to make an element of canon even more heartbreaking when you hadn't even considered it from that angle previously

[ID from alt: emoji rubbing their hands together and grinning evilly. End ID.]

[ribbit-ribbit-mfer]

you can headcanon a character as queer. that's fine, we all do it. but you can not get mad when said character isn't included in posts about canonically queer characters. because they are not queer in canon. if they come out, they'll be included.

[valtsv]

my problem is if i enjoy something enough i will be nitpicking. i Will have things to say about where and how it failed. out of nothing but love straight from my heart. unfortunately this often makes me indistinguishable from a hater who has never experienced joy or kindness. such is the amateur critic's burden.

[valtsv]

all of my favourite things are like beautiful racehorses that trip over their own feet a hundred times. but they get back up again. and goddamn, you should see them run.

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[str-ngeloop]

everything you see on tumblr is biased towards the perspectives of the types of people who post a lot on tumblr. this is essential to remember

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[headspace-hotel]

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

[headspace-hotel]

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

[headspace-hotel]

there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

[questions-within-questions]

Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

[normal-horoscopes]

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

[stargazing-enby]

This is my new favourite post in the world

[astronomical-bagel]

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex

[birdplushie]

i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself

[rocketsaurus]

Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.

what time do you go to bed? (local time)

7pm or before

8pm

9pm

10pm

11pm

12am

1am

2am or after

it's never consistent

some other time entirely

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!