#blackholly

[rigelthestarpk37]

“RIGEL!!! are you drawing them stupid bunnies from that dang book again !!??!!!”

Perhaps .

Anyway smiles warmly and leaves this at your doorstep

[vivienneodusanya]

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”

Cardan Greenbriar from The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black.

[vivienneodusanya]

if anyone makes a jude duarte playlist don't forget to add 'emperor's new clothes' by p!atd is all i'm saying

[justbitsofastory]

It makes me so happy to see one of my favorite authors fangirl over one of my other favorite authors.

[michellemazuros]

"Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks." Courtesy of @BlackHolly, from her novel "Ironside" of The (Modern Faerie Tales Series #HollyBlack #BlackHolly #Ironside #coffee #cafecito #coffeetime #coffeelove #coffeelover #coffeeislove #coffeeislife #coffeeculture #coffeeaddict #HumpDaycoffee #Wednesdaycoffee #coffeeistheelixiroflife #coffeeistheelixirofthegods #drinkcoffeeandbehappy #coffeeisselfcare #coffeeismyzen #coffeeisthebreakfastofchampions #coffeemakestheworldgoround (at Saint Petersburg, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9lino4nHH9/?igshid=i9dgluyocop9

[jabez-dawes]

Meet the Blogger: Procrastination Edition

I didn't get tagged but abcooper did one and last time she did one of these she tagged me and I flaked. So here I am.

Rules: Just insert your answers to the questions below.

URL: jabez-dawes.tumblr.com

Name:  Oliver

Nickname(s): Olives, Dam (I used to go by my middle name, Damascus)

Birthday: Frebrurary 16, also the birthday of LeVar Burton (!) and Ice-T (IceT? Ice T?) and the dictator of North Korea /o\

Gender: round up to man

Sexuality: round up to gay (otherwise known as "bisexual but I'm so on the fence about it")

Height: 5’ 2” and change (I may have a complex about my height. Maybe.)

Time Zone: EST

Current time and date: 09.07.2014 (American) 10:40pm

Average hours of sleep: about 6 hours according to my sleep app, which is an improvement from a couple months ago

The last thing I Googled was: "wheatgoogling" no lie - I'm very meta

My most used phrase(s): "um," "like," "well," "so," "ugh," various (mostly poetry) quotations, and "We are all born into systems of oppression, which means we are all shaped by systems of oppression, and we all participate in systems of oppression" - WHICH MEANS WE CAN SUBVERT THEM IF WE CULTIVATE AWARENESS AND COMPASSION

First word that comes to mind: verisimilitude

Last thing said to a family member: "You're wonderful. I hope you sleep well. :^*" - text to my gramma who is loopy on post-knee surgery drugs and therefore less filtered by which I mean - oh, a lot of things, you'd need context, I could fill a book, but she's great and her recent attempts at text messages have been highly entertaining

One place that makes me happy and why: Any place that makes me feel safe and comfortable in my own skin is precious, and seems to depend more on the people present than the location itself.

How many blankets I sleep under: Right now, mostly just a sheet because I run hot. There is also a soft fleece-like blanket that becomes more necessary once my core temp is down but by then I'm asleep and therefore not conscious enough to grab it, so I frequently wake up huddled in a fetal position, clutching the sheet around me.

Favorite beverage(s): Iced decaf/half-caf mochas? A good beer? White Russians? Diluted mango juice? Not orange juice. Never orange juice. It gives me a headache.

The last movie I watched in the cinema: Captain America: Surprise, Your Dead Best Friend Wants To Kill You

Three things I can’t live without: love, psych drugs, T

Something I plan on learning: Español

A piece of advice for all my followers: Be kind to each other.

Uh, if oopsimblogging still remembers me and wants to do this, that'd be cool. I figure lhomme-arme hates these things, so. misohead?

Oh my god what if blackholly did this oh my god (I mean, not that it would necessarily be that illuminating, but she's like, ugh, so awesome, the, just, I made very strange noises at my computer when I noticed she'd liked one of my posts, she's so great, buy all her books).

...I'd feel similarly if copperbadge noticed this post. Hey! Maybe I should write my own set of Qs and try to get people on board.

Pshh like I ever actually follow through on my off-the-cuff ideas. (This is why I'll never be a real writer.)

[kaiidth]

blackholly replied to your photo:one time i had a photoshoot

Holy shit, I almost scrolled past b/c I was like, ‘yeah fashion pose whatevs’, but then my eye caught the tags. You look great! I really thought this was a model page post.

baha! Thank ya. I'm glad I could confuse you:)) 

[pbandfluff]

So like Irene Adler and her maid from Sherlock BBC is my next prompt for you. You mentioned you don't watch the show, so I challenge you to watch Series 2, episode 1 "A Scandal in Belgravia" to catch up. I think you'll love them. :)

In the daytime, in public, in the mind of everyone who is aware of them, she is the assistant, the maid, the live-in to Irene's dominatrix who helps keep the fast-paced life of Irene running smoothly.

And it's true, for the most part, Kate is subservient, demure to Irene's outrageous, a much easier pill to swallow for Irene's guests, and a pretty little ornament to walk around Irene's place of work.

But she is also the one that, on the occasions that Irene needs to fall apart, is there to cradle the pieces of The Woman until they make up only Irene.