hiii just wanted to say that i’m legit obsessed with your invincible writing it’s like you’re in my brain everything is so perfectly satisfying!! i don’t even watch/read/know anything about invincible i just loved your svss fics so gave it a try and now i can’t get robin and mark(s) out of my mind.
thank you :)
Aww thanks!! Lol the Robin fics really are written with a high satisfaction quota in mind xD Her POV works well for it, since she'll find humour in anything - or react in incredibly unhinged ways. I'm glad you're having a fun time with the fics!
Oof SV my beloved, I did write a big chunk of AEL chaps before Invincible obsession took over, so I'm sure I'll swing back that way eventually. But for now, I have a loooot of Robin-verse writing (I'm onto chap 23 of part 2 currently!)
The dresser is completely covered in makeup, jewelry, magazines, and a scattering of gin and vodka bottles - they all have interesting or pretty shapes so Venetia collects them, and it makes for easy gifts so long as Felix is willing to trawl through a bunch of shops. Farleigh is to blame for the six-litre light-up vodka bottle currently glowing pink at the very edge of the dresser, the one they all made themselves as sick as dogs trying to drain a few years ago.
xD Thankee now I've got to remember but THANKFULLY mostly do lol
I kinda rambled a bit?? So, under the cut here
Venetia's room was very much influenced by Alison Oliver's interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygMQn0viPcE) where she describes the room as being full of makeup, jewelry, mags etc (Elspeth's effect shining through here), and very pink and black.
And just the general MESS in Saltburn really heaping up for Venetia's room as an extremely deliberate choice of hers. A sort of control/ownership in it, especially since she's there all year around, and it can be so comforting to have a bedroom as an escape and let it be a complete tip that's just yours, no one else's.
The gin/vodka bottles are inspired by my sister specifically xD She doesn't collect them the same, but the prettier ones do get kept sometimes (and we even had this MASSIVE whiskey bottle (think knee-height) filled with coins never above a 10p in our living room for years that was my granddad's), and it's kinda impressive how elaborate some can go.
SO for Venetia, it's a few things.
The casual alcoholism across the board with the Cattons, the idea of underlying fucked-ness with so many bottles of pretty but cheap, mass-produced glass and the lingering smell of the alcohol inside, a few drops where it wasn't cleaned out properly and maybe some still half-full, reflecting the lights on the dresser and her distorted reflection back at her, lovingly enabled.
The half-hidden sentimentality of her keeping the gifted ones on prime display, but mixed in among a whole load of mess so there's too many things to draw your eye. And they're all very cheap in the grand scheme of it all, but these end up being what last for years on a dresser used every single day, compared to priceless gifts tossed in a pile and forgotten.
(hi yes I'm still going??? Oops)
Now, the vodka bottle specifically...Again, blame my sister for being super into vodka and flavoured ones until she got really sick on it once and then stopped drinking it xD Also, blame a google search for 'pretty vodka bottles' or something like that, and a light-up one popped up which felt too perfect.
Flashy and objectively cheap but it's 'saw this and thought of you' and 'isn't this silly' and 'let's get sick together for no good reason just to celebrate you and us' and 'here's something for you to look at and think of those memories when it was just the three of us when we're not here but you still are'.
Pretty pink and tacky and a shared mockery but if *any* of those bottles were moved even a centimeter, Venetia would notice. Left at the very edge like she wants it to fall, but would *absolutely* cry if it ever broke.
(Felix is the one who got the sickest on their binge attempt, and would've fallen into the pond if Venetia and Farleigh didn't grab him in time.)
h: the best hairstyle your bias has ever had? minho’s light brown hair + forehead....*chef’s kiss*
q: a quality your bias shows that you absolutely love? minho’s love for animals and children 😭😭😭😭 like the way he adopted dori from an abandoned cats website and how he volunteered at an animal hospital and how he bought earrings to support wildlife conservation efforts for different animals and how he donates regularly to unicef’s children’s funds and has said that because he’s an only child he feels like those kids are his little siblings 😭😭 i could literally go on forever basically tldr; minho has the biggest heart and i love that about him
v: the best/sexiest voice in k-pop? wendy 👀👀 her voice is SO soothing and the way it sounds in slower/r&b songs.... *chef’s kiss*
a: something really attractive that your bias does? hmm i answered before and said his giggle but i also think when he goes “mmmm” in a higher pitch when he’s thinking it’s really cute 🥺
f: the first group you loved? bts...they were my ults for around 2 years before i dropped them for sf9...and then one year later i dropped them for skz LOL
l: your favorite line from a song? excuse me miss but do you have a boyfriend? DJKSLSDFKJLKSDFLJ
o: another occupation you could see your bias being? i can see minho being a kids’ dance instructor or a vet!
