#about fez

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tagged by @dragonofmystery​

One Song: Vide Cor Meum, Katherine Jenkins

Two Movies: Whale Rider, Anna Karenina 

Three Shows: Penny Dreadful, The Musketeers, Vikings

Four People: Meryl Streep, Scott Lynch, @cocofels, whoever invented ice cream

Five Foods: goats cheese, bobotie, shepherds pie, chinese food, takoyaki

And Six People to Tag: @elenilote​ @elleblr​ @loquaciousquark​ @msfehrwight aaand others i guess

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tagged by daxassan

Name: Fez Where are you from? Hampshire, UK Favorite Color? Turquoise Favorite Number? 4 Favorite band/artists? Tape Five, Queen, Eric Clapton, Caro Emerald, Sleeping at Last etc etc Write something in all caps: WHO WILL BUY MY SWEET RED ROSES?????!?!1

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tagged by faejilly​ (aw, I'm your tumblr crush!)

why did you choose your URL?

rhe first book I ever seriously wrote was called The Raven's Sixpence, and sixpence seemed like a nice, simple url with some cute, old-fashioned traditions behind it. However, sixpence was taken (no surprise!), so it became sixpennies.

what is your middle name?

teresa, after mother teresa.

if you could own a fairytale/fictional pet, what would it be?

a squonk

favorite color?

red and teal. (don't make me choose!)

favorite song

at the moment, this or this, although it changes daily

what are your top three fandoms?

oh man I can't pick three so I'll just shout out the first ones that come into my head: dragon age, fullmetal alchemist, and the mistborn trilogy.

why do you enjoy Tumblr?

there's something irresistible about scrolling through a russian roulette of cute kittens, interesting meta, intelligent articles and pictures of men doing the dirty.

tag all 9 (six because the others are reference blogs) of your tumblr crushes (they may choose to do all 8 questions too)

(answering completely optional) cocofels​, loquaciousquark​, annundriel​, thegrimshapeofyoursmile​, elenilote​, official-dorianpavus​, swevenfox​

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How about... top movie characters? Or if not movies (I know not everyone watches movies when they're new or new-ish; I know I certainly don't) then new/updated fictional characters of this year in general?

Hmm, good question! I’ll go with fictional characters from things that weren’t necessarily new this year, but that I read/watched/played for the first time this year:

Bast from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss: a fae creature with a liking for poets shirts and buckskin boots, who’s equal amounts fiercely protective and terrifying, but really just wants things to be right again

Dorian from Dragon Age: Inquisition: Does anyone following this blog not know who he is by now? I've become a shameless fangirl!

Sabetha from the Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch: A confident, beautiful, kick-ass lady who takes no shit and has the patience of an angel when it comes to her dumb boy companions

Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy: Fluffy, badass and reminds me of Varric - need I say more?

WOW THIS IS TOUGHER THAN I THOUGHT Okay, uh… Probably Finnick Odair from Mockingjay? He’s not a new character to me since I read the books a few years back, but I loved the way that Sam Claflin acted him, especially during Mockingjay, and fell in love with him all over again.

I’ll probably think of a ton more after I post this, but oh well!

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Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. 

Technically I wasn't tagged but I saw this from mistress-snoozledazzle and let's be honest when do I need an excuse to talk about books

Mossflower by Brian Jacques. The Redwall books were huge favourites of mine when I was ten – I loved how they were written for children, but deliciously dark in places. Between the songs, the food descriptions, the regional English accents and a others, they're ones that I still own copies of even now.

Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman. This was one of my first forays into 'adult' literature and also the first book I was banned from reading – so naturally it has to be a favourite! I was a little disappointed with books 2-3, but the first one still sticks with me.

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. This trilogy is way up on my list of top favourites, hands down!

Warbreaker, also by Brandon Sanderson. Between the Mediterranean setting, a whole pantheon of awesome gods and some excellent plot twists, it's always stuck with me!

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. A fantastically quirky book about an angel and demon tasked with bringing about Armageddon, before they decide that actually, they kind of like earth as it is; my top favourite book forever.

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Kind of a given; definitely a top fav now/forever. Venetian-style fantasy with conmen and heists and stupid humour. Just... yes. Good. Very good.

Sabriel by Garth Nix. I love going back into teen fiction as an adult, especially when they surprise me as pleasantly as the Abhorsen series did – deliciously dark, fantastically written horror.

Empress by Karen Miller. I know that this book has been absolutely slated for being sexist, but personally I adored it. I sadly fell out of love with books two and three, but I loved how the main character in Empress was so unpleasant, so hateable, and yet you could always understand exactly how and why she did everything that she did. I also love fantasy books that use uncommon settings for their worlds (see above with Warbreaker), and the African/Arabic/Egyptian-style setting was right up my street.

The Storm Whale by Benji Davies. It wouldn't be long before I was on to children's books! Love this book. Love love love it. Adorable art, wonderfully touching story. Also Stuck! by Oliver Jeffers. Have I ever said that I have a weakness for good children's books? I've only got one point left so let me also throw in here The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp.

Wow okay only one space left, so it'll have to be The Magic Flute, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano. I have a signed copy of this book, and gosh, the artwork – absolutely phenomenal. Beautiful.

(okay so definitely cheating by making an eleventh point, but I'd also recommend Cooking With Bones by Jess Richards, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.

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I want ships with wrinkles.

I want ships with freckles and sun spots and laughter lines and grey hairs.

I want ships where years have worn at bodies, not hearts, where person A can slip their hand into person B’s pocket and they can pretend they’re fifteen again.

I want ships where that extra winter weight is something to be laughed over, not airbrushed out. Ships where things sag and stubble grows and people grow hairier, not younger, but beauty doesn’t dim: not in the eyes of those in love.

ships (◡‿◡✿)

old ships (◕‿◕✿)

old ships still very much in love (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧*:・ﾟ✧

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me: logs in

me: sees pizza on dash

me: promptly makes The Call

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You know you have a problem when, in an attempt to make more room in your house, you drop off a ton of old books at the charity shop and then come back out again having bought new ones

You know you really have a problem when some of those new books are books that you dropped off the last time you were there