in the denouement parlour

Christian, enthusiast, book person. If you stand still too long I will probably start telling you interesting facts about medical history. EstellaB on AO3. Icon by oui-oui-mon-ami-icons

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(Picture is a detail from Brigade HQ, Edward Ardizzone, 1940. I believe this makes it public domain. Full version available here: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/414)

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Chapters: 1/11 Fandom: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dorothea Callum & Pete (Swallows and Amazons) Characters: Dorothea Callum, Pete (Swallows and Amazons), many OCs Additional Tags: Big Six Sequel, Kind Of, Mystery, second world war, Case Fic, Country House, background romance but not between Pete and Dot Summary:

Dorothea Callum - adrift, frustrated, and not enjoying 1941 very much - is going to make the most of her evening. A filthy storm is raging overhead, the sirens are silent for once, and there’s a chance she’ll write something she actually likes. Engrossed in her work, she almost ignores the knock on the door. When at last she answers it, she is astonished to find an old friend in need of some help.

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Chapter 2: Bridget Walker Is Undaunted is available on AO3 now!

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Chapter 4: Lieutenant Benning is Not Impressed is available now! (And here is Chapter 3: Araminta Appleyard is Not Convinced, since apparently I never added it to the reblog chain).

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Did anyone order a very delayed update of over 8k words? Good news! Chapter 5: The Wintons are Pressed but not Crushed is now on AO3.

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Chapter 6: Dr Sally is Not to be Trifled With is now on AO3.

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Chapter 7: Dorcas Chapman is Not Ashamed is now on AO3. Only six weeks after the last update…

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Chapter 8: Commander Stephens is Not a Gentleman is now on AO3. (Remember when updates were only six weeks apart? Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive).

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Chapter 9: Lady Appleyard is Not a Monolith is now on AO3.

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Chapter 10: Mr Entwhistle is Not a Careful Driver is now on AO3.

[fravery]

Lita Lacson, contemporary Filipina artist.

"Tomorrow in Yellow."

"Watercolor."

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

Women between 25 and 40:

Have you ever been on a date?

Yes, 5 first dates or fewer.

Yes, 6 first dates or more.

No.

Remaining time: 2 days 3 hours

[duchessofhastings]

Autumn >>>> Spring

YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998)

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[phantomrose96]

After 13 years of this, it's still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.

[loki-zen]

this is the correct way around and every other social media site is wrong

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[stealingpotatoes]

rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished

[polivias]

endless list of my favorite P/O scenes [1/?] ↳ 1.10 - Safe ‖ "You can count cards." ‖

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[whatishowedyouinthedark]

it's so important to have your favourite couple of poems memorized. like, if you don't have a poem memorized that you can recite to yourself standing on a windy bluff overlooking the crashing sea, what even is the point

[forthehonoroflove]

LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) requested by anonymous

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Hand-made hot water bottle cover of my favourite book, because sometimes you need something tactile to work on

[samcaarter]

Battlestar Galactica: Bastille Day

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I take back all the many and varied complaints I have made about writing mystery novels recently. Or, more accurately, I stick to them, but with this vital caveat: when a mystery finally comes together, it is magic.

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(Major spoilers for today’s Blue Castle chapter below)

“Outside was a world drowned in the light of a spring afternoon—skies entrancingly blue, winds perfumed and free, lovely, soft, blue hazes at the end of every street. Over at the railway station a group of young girls was waiting for a train; she heard their gay laughter as they chattered and joked. The train roared in and roared out again. But none of these things had any reality. Nothing had any reality except the fact that she had only another year to live.”

-I think this is the first time we see Valancy connecting beauty of any kind with her home. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we’ve had the ugly wallpaper, the unnecessary quilts, the dreary food, the old-fashioned clothes and hair, etc etc. Any kind of beauty in the story so far has come from the John Foster books. Incredibly poignant that it comes in this context. She thinks she’s been brought to the point of utter despair and hopelessness in the first part of the story, but the minute she gets the diagnosis we get to see the truth: she can still see beauty in her life, and she wants to live it.

(I know the beauty is still outside the home, and the whole point is that Valancy is cut off from it, but I think it’s still telling that this is the first time we get this kind of language from her).

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Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont in REAR WINDOW (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock