‘And all I ever knew...’

Intermittently on Tumblr to talk about old gay books, &c. My main fandom home is on Dreamwidth, and my fic is here on AO3.

[hussyknee]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Remaining time: 4 days 12 hours

Rebagel for science pls.

[infertilityidol]

it's always "why do you pace so much" and never "how was the pacing was the pacing fun"

[keepthemacramesecret]

we dont talk enough abt how insane this is in like ten different ways what do you Mean raffles started telling bunny old secrets in ham? they traded keys?? raffles was Physically Hiding From Him because he was in that bad a state and bunny was that pushy. (same guy who was pestering him about a telephone to talk through the night... yea i bet)

and raffles is clearly not only ashamed about it (!!) but also still singling Bunny out as the one person who he would usually let be an exception to his self-isolation even back then.

[hms-ratfiish]

oh tvtropes accurate as ever

[wonderstruck]

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

[upongoblinhill]

𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘉𝘌𝘈𝘜𝘛𝘠 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘏𝘖𝘜𝘚𝘌 𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘜𝘙𝘈𝘉𝘓𝘌; 𝘐𝘛𝘚 𝘒𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘕𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘐𝘕𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘌.

-Piranesi

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

trying to explain to my therapist that i have a lot of feelings about asymmetrical, hierarchical brothers-in-arms relationships but am also a quaker who doesn't approve of either hierarchies or fighting

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

brothers without arms, because we're pacifists,

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

that post about praise/punishment kinks being bad pedagogy but it's quakers feeling conflicted about hierarchies in their fantasies

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

using quaker business method to define the relationship

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

meeting for worship for business

agenda

1. what are we

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i'm sure there are quakers out there managing to have perfectly kinky sex while keeping hierarchies confined to the bedroom but i *am* cracking up at the idea of calling your submissive "friend" during sex to reinforce the idea that consensual subjugation doesn't detract from the fundamental equality at work here

peace, equality and simplicity in the streets

violence, hierarchy and complexity in the sheets

[slayknif]

Happy birthday Horatio

[chiropteracupola]

happy 249th birthday you miserable little man

[sanguinarysanguinity]

250

[educatedinyellow]

John Singer Sargent waterways

I saw my friend @sanguinarysanguinity was excited by the prospect of maritime portraits by Sargent, and I always love seeing more of his work, so I idly searched. He has a sketchbook of sailors at work, a sailor portrait or two, and some studies of boats in the harbor and watery landscapes. But I find myself most drawn to the pictures he did of people working or playing at the water's edge.

Two Girls Fishing (1912)

En route pour la pêche / Setting Out to Fish (1878)

Ramón Subercaseaux in a Gondola (1880)

(I've seen this painting in person, actually, and was charmed to read that the man here is Sargent's friend and fellow artist, and they are perched at opposite ends of this gondola simultaneously drawing each other!)

Festa Della Regatta, Palazzo Barbaro in Background (1903)

Figure in hammock, Florida (1917)

Egyptians raising water from the Nile (1890-91)

Man and Pool, 1917

Siesta on a Boat (1876)

[samwwise]

I wonder if people will ever say, “Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.” And they’ll say “Yes, that’s one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn’t he, dad?” “Yes, my boy, the most famousest of Hobbits. And that’s saying a lot.”

[ghostiaeu]

They're canon chat trust me

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[dykecinema]

which one is better (no nuance)

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Voting ended onJul 8

[pr0digus]

begin writing sentence -> begin describing historical activity -> three hours of research -> one sentence finished -> repeat

[regshoe]

Book meme

Tagged by @verecunda, thank you! :D

The last book I read: Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver. An interesting book, not sure it totally works but a lot of good stuff in there.

A book I’d recommend: I don't hear much about Naomi Mitchison round here, and I think more people should read her. 'What if Rosemary Sutcliff was a Scottish socialist?' would be far too over-simplified a way to put it; Mitchison is absurd in both prolificness and range and so far everything I've tried from her has succeeded at something different. I started with Travel Light, a fantasy sort-of fairytale deconstruction, and would recommend you do so too.

A book I couldn’t put down: This does not happen to me very often! The first time I read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was a memorable exception.

A book I’ve read twice or more: I have read The Longest Journey five times and find something new to love about it every time. ♥

A book on my TBR: *checks TBR* ...Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin has been on there for a while, because I wanted to find out what Raffles and/or Hornung and/or Wilde meant by that multi-layered reference. Next time I want a nice old brick, maybe.

A book I’ve put down: I don't do this very often either! But my last DNF was not that long ago, and it was Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx. An ecological-political history of wetlands by the author of 'Brokeback Mountain' sounded so promising! But it was sloppy, which I really can't tolerate in non-fiction (and because it was non-fiction there wasn't the 'but I want to find out what happens' factor, which often keeps me reading fiction even when it's not very good). Maybe one day I will read 'Brokeback Mountain' and see if she's better at fiction.

A book on my wishlist: Is that different to my TBR? Or is it more a book I specifically want to acquire a copy of? In that case, the edition of Kidnapped with illustrations by Lynd Ward, because I love that Alan so much.

A favourite book from childhood: The 'Chronicles of Ancient Darkness' series by Michelle Paver. I was obsessed with the detailed and vivid Stone Age wildwood setting (and glad that the would-be canon het couple never explicitly happened).

A book I’d give to a friend: Well, that would depend on what the friend's tastes are!... maybe I would go back to my rec from above and choose the Mitchison I thought best suited the friend's tastes, because she can suit such a wide range of them.

A book of poetry or lyrics I own: I don't think I actually own any books of poetry, embarrassingly enough. I suppose the long fragments of narrative poems in the History of Middle-earth come closest.

A non-fiction book I own: On the other hand I own lots of non-fiction books. King of Dust by Alex Woodcock, about Romanesque architecture in West Country churches, is a recent very good example in a subject outside my usual territory.

What I’m planning on reading next: I've just started Micah Clarke by Arthur Conan Doyle (thank you, @chiropteracupola). After that, I have Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope and Murder before Evensong by Richard Coles on order from the library, so I suppose one of those!

[catilinas]

[tolkien voice] morgoth probably didn’t know what a flower was. and if he did it would piss him off