#cellardoortumbles

[roane72]

Hey! I know I'm a bit late but I wanted to pop in and wish you a happy birthday. I hope it was filled with tasty things and as little work stress as possible and capped off with many a steamy Mark-Hamill-filled dream <3

Heeeeee. Why thank you! I almost got all my birthday wishes, I’ll say that much. ;)

[isagrimorie]

1) OH MAN BORGEN IS SO GOOD. I hope you can get your hands on it :) and 2) RE: genderbent Finch, I always picture Nicola Walker from Spooks. She'd be perrrrfect. She's a brilliant actor and has wonderful command over those sorts of microexpressions that ME has down so well.

I’ve seen the first two episodes, and I am hooked! I want to know more how Birgette Nyborg will navigate through 4 years as Prime Minister! 

Nicola Walker! Yes, I know her, oh man now she would be an interesting genderbent Finch!

[roane72]

aww yiss voice meme time: 2, 8, 24 :)

OMG I hate you. Okay. Hang on. Working on it. :D

[iampeevee]

cellardoortumbles replied to your link “Fic: The Other Top Drawer”

And lo, the heavens opened up and decreed that there shall be a light at the end of Sylvia's abysmal Monday workload, and that light shall be named Peevee Writes Matt Murdock Getting Pegged. There was much rejoicing :D

I had a liiiiittle inkling this might please you! (http://cellardoortumbles.tumblr.com/post/118539737630/same-claire-same) :D

[lesbianrustcohle]

cellardoortumbles replied to your post: Hella cute and hella queer today

both of these things are hella true <3

sylvia <33333 i miss you! :)

[lesbianrustcohle]

Newton loved him. Loved him in that vivid, explosive way he had, loved him with a ferocity Hermann wouldn’t have thought possible, especially after all this time apart. Newton loved him without hope or gain for himself. Newton loved Hermann simply for being Hermann, even when he was infuriating, or awful, or embarrassing. He didn’t love Hermann for the way he made Newton feel, he didn’t love Hermann for the reflection of himself in his eyes. Newton loved purely, inasmuch as love — a churning miasma of a million different shades of other emotions — could be pure. Newton loved Hermann the way Hermann loved Newton.

what_alchemy, "Seeing in Color"

[justgot1]

hmmmm let's go with the 5's: 5, 15, 25 :)

5:  How often do you change your sheets...really.

When the bed fills up with crumbs/bodily fluids/coffee drips/small random items that have no reason for being there like paper clips or small plastic figurines.  Or when the top sheet has been irretrievably kicked to the bottom and it's easier to just pull it off the end than pull it back up.  Needless to say, the timing of this can vary dramatically depending on the kind of week I'm having.  Could take a week, could take a month.

15:  Do you own sex toys?

Natch.  I'm middle aged and single, what do you think??  BOB and I go way back.  You know, BOB.  Battery Operated Boyfriend.  And his backup teammates, Other BOB and The New Guy.  It takes a village. 

25:  What's changed the most since 5 years ago?

God, everything?  Let's see, I was two years into my last job and miserable, I think that would be about the time I was jumping ship to another department just to gtfo of the communications office; I had a kid in daycare/preschool; I was slowly climbing out of debt, being all responsible n'shit, which is a strain, as I'm naturally feckless.

Now, Girlchild just wrapped up third grade (!!); I'm unemployed and one year into a BFA with no clear idea of where I'm going with all this, except deeply BACK into debt like a friggin' idiot, but frankly I can't think of anything else I'd rather do right now.  Ah, ill-thought-out impulsive life decisions, how I've missed them!

Five years ago my life was pretty steady.  Now life is teetering on the edge of chaos and I literally don't plan more than a month or two ahead.  This is where I'd say some defiant, bracing thing like "but I'm so much happier!" but that's self-justifying bullshit; back then I was stressed from boredom, now I'm stressed from anxiety.  I'm just one of those people.  I'm never entirely happy.

[aprillikesthings]

adulting meme: 4, 14, 24!

4: If you were to acquire a baby tomorrow what would you name it?

I've always loved the name Isobel because of the Bjork song, but it turns out it's a super-common baby name these days, so no. Um. Hermione? Why isn't anyone naming their girls Hermione?!

14: Is sex better now than it was in high school/college?

I didn't have sex in high school. We'll have to loosely define college--I was in community college off and on for about seven years. So, er, the four years after I graduated? Um. My first serious boyfriend after high school was a total sweetie but we weren't sexually compatible, and we were together about, oh, three years? The next dude was completely the wrong person for me but the sex was absolutely amazing, and we were together just over two years. (No but seriously: his favorite thing ever was giving oral, to the point of a fetish--which is just going to be hard for other straight dudes to live up to. But we fought nearly constantly and were terrible to each other.)

And now I'm with someone where the sex is frequent AND good AND we're compatible in other ways. On top of that, I know myself a lot better. So, I'd say better now.

(that was an essay, oops)

24: Have your political views changed since you left school?

I've actually become WAY more blase about some of them. I look at the passion I had then--I went to the WTO protests in Seattle! I lived in a tree off and on for several months! --and I wonder what the hell happened. To a certain extent, I know that a lot of the problem is that the day-to-day grind of activism and organizing, the meetings and discussion and research and looking at who's in office or which judge is trying which case and dealing with laws and bureaucracy and all that shit--despite knowing how hugely important all that stuff is, I'd rather stab myself in the face than do any of it.

I will say that tumblr has really strengthened my feminism and whatnot. Not that I do much about it other than talk about it with people who mostly agree with me.

In any case I've always been a feminist and a tree-hugger and a little closer to socialist.