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[penny-anna]

Ugh I’d die for Samwise and that’s the truth.

wouldn’t we all

[holmesianpose]

Just rereading Over Fathoms Deep to get me through a tricky week and can I just say that a) it’s incredible and it may actually kill me, and b) my entire chest has been tight and tense for CHAPTERS AND CHAPTERS because oh my GOD Sherlock, please just tell him all the thoughts in your head. I want him to KNOW. Sigh. These two. Anyway thank you for your writing, it’s beautiful.

OMG THIS ASK! *clutches lovingly to chest* THANK YOU!!!!

I don’t know why I didn’t answer this sooner because reading this made me SO HAPPY. Thank you thank you thank you <3

[tinypiratebastard]

Ahoy folks!

I used to be flintsfancyscaffcaff, but I was living a lie, and hiding behind the caff, so now please help me to acknowledge that really, Flint is fancy.

[urcadelimabean]

flintsfancyscaffcaff said: Anne and her eyes, her gaze - there is SO much communicated both visually and textually about what she sees/can see/will see/wants to see/is shown. Like when you see little moments of frustration or tenderness from her POV, or the way in which her awareness of her own sexuality opens up slowly, starting with max being seen from afar, through a doorway, in the dark, in a mirror. Shrouded, but visible. Anyway yeah I adore this. X

flintsfancyscaffcaff said: Oh, the mirror the mirror. It makes me think SO many things. Like...considering /when/ this all began (not that long after the horrors on The Beach) I sometimes see Max looking at Anne looking at Max’s reflection as an indicator that Max can see in her a reflection of her own distress, anger, trauma, and Anne sees a reflection of her sexuality, and that split second of furtive observation is framed by a mirror because they’re in the midst of a moment of sudden recognition.

This is beautiful!!!!!!! I’m in love with what you pointed out about this moment being literally framed by a doorway, and this very delicate light illuminating Max in the darkness. Everything about it is so beautiful and meaningful, combining the way Anne’s trauma caused her to help Max as an extension of helping herself and how she then sees in Max a reflection, and then also how for the first time she’s letting herself see a woman as an object of her own desire, and this moment of suddenly seeing and being seen in return, this “furtive observation,” scares and deeply touches her ❤️

[intolerablexsacrifice]

When you’re alone, and I know you barely are, when you have a moment without eyes on your back, do you study your skin and and feel the scars you’ve gathered, and wonder how many there’d be if the world hadn’t scarred your heart?

  “Not really.” 

It’s a short, curt answer, but it’s the truth: Flint doesn’t look at his body if he can help it. He’s cursed with constant introspection: to look forever inward at himself, to measure his value, his utility, the depths of the rot that’s been consuming him since London and maybe even before then. He cannot avoid looking at that. But he can ignore his body, has been training himself to do it his entire life, to ignore hunger and thirst and pain and desire and exhaustion until the form he inhabits is nothing but a vessel, an extension of his will. He can ignore it, so he does. Constantly.

[gruntsandpoetry]

HEY, hope you don’t mind this ask! I remember seeing somewhere a gifset of tomarcus with the lyrics to ‘A Miracle’ (y’know, the song the writers put in ep 1 so we knew how hard to ship them) overlaid. I don’t suppose you have it tagged??

Not sure if you’re looking for one of my gif sets, or one made by someone else (since I know several others have made sets with those lyrics), but if it’s mine you can find it here. :3

[intolerablexsacrifice]

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Open weeping MY FIDDLY MAN

HE'S SO FIDDLY!!!

[intolerablexsacrifice]

HEY OKAY BUT I THINK ABOUT THAT BRAWL APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED TIMES A DAY bc I’ve ALWAYS read it as the arsehole insinuating that James is letting Thomas fuck him*. I also think that part of the gossip surrounding Thomas’ “madness” is absolutely him being into dudes, when Hennessey is eyebrowing at James for using Thomas’ first name, I think he’s genuinely worried bc he KNOWS that James is queer, he can see how enthralled he is and he too has heard the rumours ‘is it true he’s quite mad?’

Y E A H KSDNFKJNG i don’t know if you saw the thing i rambled about on my personal earlier, but when you couple the weird wording of pickram’s insults with like... the whole gentleman’s friendship thing and the potential power imbalances that arise from that (aka, whoever is of lesser status between two bedfellows Could Be Letting The Other Fuck Them For Benefits Or Whatever) it’s like. KDSJFNDSLKFNJG. !!!!

and YEAH i think hennessey definitely Knows(TM). i’d previously written james as not knowing that hennessey knows, but recently i’ve shifted to writing it as like. an unspoken thing between them because chances are hennessey was the reason james hadn’t already been reported to his superiors for sodomy or whatever the fuck (but i do hc that he and other officers have been flogged for it r i p we don’t talk about that)

(although ALSO that does then make hennessey’s ‘not this. it is too profane’ speech sound more like he’s lying/just saying what hamilton needs to hear rather than what he believes, which... I DON’T KNOW THAT I AGREE WITH, plus my reading has always included james being 100% shocked/surprised by hennessey’s betrayal BUT I GUESS LIKE... MAYBE PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE HENNESSEY HAD PREVIOUSLY ACCEPTED IT... EH WHATEVER IT IS WHAT IT IS)

ANYWAY TLDR I LOVE YOUR THOUGHTS I LOVE YOU