#ecouter-bien

[landunderthewave]

1, 4, 8, and 13 for the ask game 😊

1) What’s your blog title from?

This is probably not about the blog name but I'll do both! "landunderthewave" is a reference to the witch Tiffany Aching from the Terry Pratchett books which I like. It's a translation of her name in the Nac Mac Feegle language.

I changed the title to "Free food, free healthcare, free housing now!" when I realized that conservatives are asking for unrealistic nonsense all the time and for some reason they seem to be getting it or at least moving public discourse in their desired direction. So I thought I can do that too. Why ask for small steps when you can make real demands?

4) if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

Going swimming. I haven't been in truly forever.

8) favorite month of the year and why?

answered here

13) what’s something you learned recently?

Answered too, but you can learn more than one thing :D Today I learned that the 10 000 steps are what some Japanese scientists pulled out of their asses in the 1960s based on an erroneous assumption of calories in calories out. In reality, above 7000/8000 steps the health benefits plateau and generally engaging in some movement you enjoy will always be beneficial no matter the "steps taken".

From this ask meme

[thoughtfulfangirling]

3, 6, 12, 17 📖

3. What is your favorite genre?

Traditionally fantasy. It is my staple genre! Lately tho I've been wanting to try out other stuff and not veering as much toward it. The one I seem to enjoy the most right now is historical fiction, particularly if it has some like folk lore/magical realism/mythology events. Essentially historical fiction/fantasy 😆 The Witch's Heart, Lavinia, Circe, She Who Became the Sun, and even Finn Mac Cool come to mind!

6. What books have you read in the last mont?

I'm going to go with this asking about May since that's the previous month to now 😅

Slaughterhouse Five — Kurt Vonnegut

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

The Woman in White — Wilke Collins

King of Battle and Blood — Scarlett St Clair

12. Did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

Nothing especially stands out. I liked elementary/middle school required reading and a lot of my college required reading, but high school was a bit more of a dud. I do think I remember enjoying Antigone tho I recall very little of the story. I remember having to read the Great Gatsby and The Oxbow Incident and absolutely not enjoying those.

17. Top 5 Children's Books?

I'm going to go with middle school books because I don't really remember many children's books.

The Folk Keeper

His Dark Materials (cheating having all 3 here but so be it!!)

Coraline

Holes

The Girl Who Owned a City

[strokingbooks]

AAAAAAAAAA your stickers arrived yesterday!! They’re so cute and I love all the details (and thanks for the extras, you’re too kind!) 😍🥳

aaaaah I'm glad they arrived safely and that you like them🥹 And of course, I'm just happy you thought them worthy enough to be purchased 😭 thank you again and again!!

[davidbyrne]

47, 48, 49 🎶

47. Is there an artist you used to dislike but learned to like because of a friend’s influence? I think getting into St Vincent all those years ago took me a little while but eventually I asked a mutual on here who was a mega fan about where to start and that was the foot in the door I needed and it all came pretty easily after that.

48. Who’s an artist you think it’s criminally underrated and deserves more recognition? I do think with the internet kind of democratising this kind of thing to a point it's a difficult question to answer tbh bc what does that even mean anymore? That being said I do think when compared to a lot of pop artists Carly Rae Jepsen is genuinely underrated and also a little bit disrespected tbh. She's writing some of my favourite pop music atm and she does nothing but stay in her lane and be really positive. I love her.

49. Is there a cover you like more than the original version? Speaking of St Vincent the one I am thinking of atm is her version of These Days. I'm sure there are plenty of other songs but that was the first I thought of

[outforflowers]

2013 👋🏻

Thank you!

Funny thing these years are like a fog in my head. I was taking lithium for bipolar disorder and I couldn't take anything around me anymore (living in a small isolated town) so a friend sent me a DAAD scholarship program and I got it! Spent new Year's (2013-2014) in Germany with ravens attacking my window and there was a Rolling Stones concert on TV.

[lonely-t0wn]

🍓 (because i'm feeling impertinent lol)

omg please it's not impertinence at all! you are a treasured mutual! i love your gifsets so much, they are simply chef's kiss. you always choose the best moments and the coloring is consistent and stunning! you've kept breathing life into this fandom as we limped along through a content drought and i appreciate it so much! i also love reading your tags, they are so funny but also so insightful! i feel like you have such a mature outlook on things without taking yourself so seriously either, i aspire to that kind of balance!

Send me a 🍓 and I’ll compliment you!

[jezunya]

Tag 9 people to get to know you better

I was tagged by @birdkeeperklink :)

Top 3 Ships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Bilbo/Thorin (The Hobbit), and uh... let’s say Spencer Reid/happiness :( (Criminal Minds)

Lipstick or Chapstick: Eh, neither, really. Only chapstick when I’m doing a lot outside in the wind or sun

The Last Song I Listened To: Pompeii by Bastille

The Last Film I Watched: Knives Out, I think? Or maybe Klaus. Idk, it’s been mostly podcasts & tv here lately, not a lot of movies

Currently reading: Books- Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and I’m basically always re-reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Fics- Car Trouble by SummerofSpock, Rip It Up and Start Again by KittyDorkling, The Haunting of Hext House by BuggreAlleThis, and ofc plenty of shorter, completed fic, but those are the WIPs that come to mind that I’m currently following

Tag 9 people: @kittydorkling @thorin-divine-forever @not-that-kind-of-hot @sacrificethemtothesquid @miome-decompression @ecouter-bien @emsiecat @its-furiohsa-not-furiosah @almostdefinitelydying 

[sanguinarysanguinity]

ecouter-bien replied to your post: Happy birthday to me! Want to play a birthday game?

Happy Birthday! “Withering”

Thank you! Oo, look, it’s even an Elementary draft that came up!

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Sherlock opened the door, gave her one cool, head-to toe glance, then turned on his heel and stalked back into the depths of the flat.

Joan set her jaw and locked the door behind them both. “Sherlock!” 

“If I had known that aggravating you would have earned me a visit, I would have done so a week ago,” he called from somewhere out of her sight.

She found him in front of the stove with a pan on the gas, just breaking two eggs into it. He didn’t look up at her.

“Sherlock, you can’t keep information from me, and especially not about my abduction.”

“I’m not.” He tossed the eggshells in the sink, then took up a solid stance in front of the pan, head ducked until his chin was nearly on his chest.

“You are! You’re keeping back the information you have on Porlock--”

“You can have that information at any time,” he interrupted. He abandoned the stove to paw through the refrigerator. “You simply have to agree to work those leads with me.”

“Oh, and as if that isn’t a blatant attempt to restrict what I’m working on!”

He was rooting through a cupboard now. “I’m doing no such thing. Porlock, whoever he is, has given me valuable information in the past, and in return for that I promised him confidentiality--”

“I’m sorry?? Did you just prioritize Porlock over me?”

The glare he turned on her was withering. He turned back to his cooking, his movements tight and angry. “His information has helped me prevent good people’s deaths, and as much as I value your life -- which is immeasurably, Watson,” he turned to glare at her again, “I would rather not trade others’ for yours without reason. Which will happen if we don’t strategically assess when and how to break that agreement with him. Or have you changed your mind in the last two weeks? Is it no longer the ‘stuff of your nightmares,’ if other people die because I’ve become too emotional about you?”