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끝까지 신나게 달려봅시다 👍

Let's have fun and run till the end 👍

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[ladycibia]

Every time I look on Tumblr, I see a wild Chibi Jaskier riding away into the sunset on Roach and it makes me cry every time. Did Geralt ever catch up to him?

the legend says he’s still chasing him

[elizadoolittlethings]

I’ve Got You

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Mystrade Thoughts

[elizasmarkgatissblog]

You Are A Very Strange Lady

Part 1 - Molly Makes A Mistake

Molly swore to herself that she would never go on a date ever. In Her Entire Life. All men were ‘dick-heads’! Including Sherlock, of course!

Walking out of the pub in a hurry, she twisted her ankle as she missed the step to the pavement. Biting back the agony searing through her leg, the doctor made her way to the lamp post carefully. Resting her back on the cool metal, her coat still in hand, Molly felt vulnerable. Her black dress was unlucky. The straps sliding down her frail shoulders made her feel pathetic.

Biting back the unshed tears, with determination, she slowly leaned one shoulder on the post, while donning the coat over the other one. Hugging the solid piece of metal, she straightened the collar and buttoned herself up.

As she sighed with relief now that she could forget the disastrous interlude, a cabby came sliding to a halt.

Cabby driver: “Need a ride, miss?”

She yanked open the door and shuffled in. Giving her address to the driver, Molly slipped out her shoe and rubbed her sore ankle.

Hobbling to her apartment clutching her shoes in one hand and her purse in the other, the tears started to well up. Pursing her lips with determination, she climbed the stairs, opened the door to her apartment after missing the keyhole three times, closed the door silently and slid to the floor.

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The ping of a message on her phone woke her from the daze. Ignoring it, Molly got to her knees, held on to the door handle and slowly stood up on her good leg. Hopping over to the kitchen counter, she rested on the stool and looked back at the door, where her purse and shoes lay on the floor.

Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Molly held on to the counter and  moved her way to the refrigerator. A wry smile sprouted on her tender lips seeing the empty freezer.

Letting her coat fall on the floor as she hobbled her way to the toilet, she divested herself of her ornaments and her dress long the way. She would regret it later, she knew it. But, it couldn’t be helped.

Finally reaching the bathtub, she slid inside and lay still for sometime to catch her breath. Should have taken some medicine she vaguely thought to herself. Too tired and still full of the alcohol that she downed to shut out the one-sided conversation with her ‘supposed to be’ date, her mind sank into an uneasy haze.

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The strong arms that held her were so inviting that she moved hers around the shoulder as she felt herself being lifted. Sighing in relief, she nuzzled the neck and felt the collar. Moving her head further up to feel the skin, she felt herself falling. Only, she was now lying on her bed.

Curling up into herself, Molly folded her hands under her head when she felt her leg being straightened and something ice-cold on her feet. Alarmed, her eyes flew open, as her rapid breathing cleared her senses.

Silently she watched the muscles of the forearms deftly moving; removing the ice pack and then applying a lotion followed by a bandage. Her leg was moved to it’s original position, the injured one over the other.

“Thank you,” she uttered, her head resting on the pillow, hands folded under her cheek.

She could see the glimmer of a smile in the corner of his lips as he rose silently from the bed and started to clear the remains of his ministrations.

Molly was too awake to sleep. She could hear sounds from the kitchen and curiosity got the better of her. Gingerly moving her leg onto the floor, she braced her hands on the bed to raise herself, when,

“You need to rest that leg. I don’t need to tell you that,” came the soft voice from the doorway.

The bedroom was dark and Molly could only see his silhouette.

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Silently she lifted her arms, like a child wanting to be carried. The response was not immediate. She could feel the questioning eyebrow and pursed lips  on that face.

In one swift step he was by her side and she was up like a feather in a breeze, moving to the kitchen. There she was sat, in her petticoat from the night’s outing, makeup smudged, hair tousled and leg bandaged.

The counter top was strewn with containers from her fridge - vegetables she had diced, tomato puree that she had forgotten about. Her eyes roamed to the stove top and saw pasta boiling away.

Resting her chin on one hand, she couldn’t help but voice her feeling, “I didn’t know you could cook.”

No response.

Pouting, Molly fidgeted with the containers.

“Leave those alone,” was the only retort.

Now incensed, Molly mumbled, “Why are you here?”

The sudden movement made her look up. Glancing at those eyes in which she had only seen aloofness, she read something that Molly was determined not to believe in.

“I’m not falling for this. Don’t think I will. I’ve had enough with men for a lifetime,” Molly stated as she swivelled on the stool holding onto the counter.

“Does that mean you are not having food?” the response was immediate with no break in the movements.

Molly watched the waistcoat fold and smooth as the shoulders moved dexterously from stove to counter top to the sink in her small kitchen.

“Actually, I’m starving,” Molly grumbled half-heartedly.

The chuckle was new. Her eyes narrowed at the back of that head, the hair gleaming a dark red in her kitchen light, slicked back neatly, the strands near the neck a little out of place, probably from the day’s work and the coat rubbing constantly on it.

“All you need to do is choose your date more carefully, next time,” he continued, as he searched for plates.

“There is no next time,” Molly breathed out, frustrated.

The aroma was very appetising as a plate was placed in front of her. She tried to grab the fork that was extended to her and felt a tug. Looking up, the smirk on those lips held her captivated for a moment.

Closing her eyes, she whispered, “Thank you. May I eat eat now.”

She felt the release and quickly dug into the pasta.

Eyeing the glass of water that was placed before her, Molly asked, “No wine?”

“No, you’ll need pain killers for that ..” Molly interrupted him. “And you?”

“I have to go back to work,” was the defeated reply.

“Oh,” Molly responded, fiddling with the half empty glass.

____~____

“Shall I help you back to bed?”

Molly shook her head silently.

“You will catch a cold.”

Molly watched the counter being cleared and wiped down and wondered how much she was ignorant of. Long artistic fingers neatly folded the washed cloth and hung it to dry. The glistening gold ring on the right hand caught her attention.

“Why aren’t you married?” the question was blurted out before she could stop and make sense of her thoughts.

The fingers stopped in motion midway between unfolding the rolled sleeves, the gold band twinkling mischievously. Clenching his fingers and releasing them, Mycroft swiftly moved to the door, took his coat, umbrella  and scarf  from the hanger, opened the door and walked out.

“I have informed the hospital that you’ll be on leave tomorrow,” with that he closed the door, his footsteps echoing down the stairs.

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[luniapoetry]

The music I listen to says more than my words ever could.

[elizadoolittlethings]

Dracula uncovered: We talk to cocreator Mark Gatiss about that episode two twist

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As the BBC’s blood-draining drama concludes tonight, we talk to the show’s cocreator about the two episodes so far: how they originally planned to set the second episode in the Seventies, how Dracula could make a second-series comeback, and that twist...

GQ: First, congratulations on the on the huge success of Dracula so far. You must be thrilled with the reception...

Mark Gatiss: Yes, well, I don’t honestly read reviews. But I’ve seen it’s got five stars and so on, so I don’t have to! What I like more than anything is getting a sense of a buzz, a lovely sense of something happening, which is always nice.

GQ: So the big twist at the end of the second episode is that, after the period setting of the first two episodes, the third is set in the present day. Dracula AD 2020, if you will...

MG: [Laughs.] Everyone’s saying that!

GQ: Was that always going to be the case?

MG: Yes, it was. Steven [Moffat, cocreator] sent me a picture the other day – it was one of those Timehop pictures – and it was actually three years since we went out for lunch to literally start thrashing it out. Our very earliest idea was to do episode one and was sort of a very tight, 90-minute version of the novel. Episode two would be something like Dracula at 1972 – sort of period but modernised. And three would be completely modern day. But then we talked about how it would be a shame to feel like we got through Bram Stoker in one episode and that maybe the best way to look at it was to try to do the book in three episodes. But do each one very distinct. The idea came with doing [second episode] "Blood Vessel" based entirely on four pages of the book, just expanding this this marvellous idea [of Dracula sailing to England], and then we can have this twist which no one would see coming. And incredibly we got away with it. I really thought it would leak. But no one saw it coming and I'm so pleased, as we live in such a spoilery age.

GQ: The second episode is almost like Snakes On A Plane, only Dracula On A Boat...

MG: [Laughs.] That was the working title...

GQ: But also a bit Murder On The Orient Express. Again, on a boat...

MG: Well, the problem was, and in the first draft actually, he [Dracula] was more hidden, literally hiding in the box and appearing nightly to knock people off. And we can't do this. We've promised ourselves to foreground the character more. So what if he was just hiding in plain sight? What if he was just one of the passengers, and as soon as you do that, then it becomes a list of potential suspects. Except it's like Colombo – we know who the murderer is! And yet he’s also like the detective.

GQ: Very quickly, I really want to know who wrote the very funny line from the first episode, “You should never rush a nun”?

MG: I think that was one of Steven’s. Yes, definitely one of Steven’s.

GQ: So, naturally I don’t want you to give anything away that would count as a spoiler, but can you give us any idea of how the time leap happens from the ship going down at the end of the second episode to Dracula arriving on the coast in the modern day? I trust he hasn’t been just walking on the seabed really slowly all that time...

MG: [Laughs.] No, no, he's just been in the box longer than he thought.

GQ: A really terrifying element of the first episode was the undead victims of Dracula nailed into wooden boxes for eternity. How did you come upon that particularly nightmarish scenario?

MG: It was partly inspired by The Hunger, a fantastic Tony Scott horror film with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. It’s not quite the same idea but her lovers all reach a point after several hundred years where they start to decay and she doesn't. And so she puts them away in the attic. It’s very moving, a wonderful film. With Dracula, there's some sadness to it. But it came from our initial discussion. Why is Dracula special? What are the rules of the beast? That’s why the episode is called that. You know, there's so many things... he’s simultaneously all powerful and also vulnerable to practically anything. You know, I don’t know how he gets out of bed. He can’t cross running water, he can’t touch hawthorn, sunlight, crucifixes... so we just had to figure out just what our rules are. And then that became a very exciting thing, with Agatha [the nun] saying why can’t he come in uninvited? Maybe there’s more to it... And so part of that is that he’s different, he’s the best of them, he chooses people very carefully and literally absorbs their talent.

GQ: As you say, you have, with these rules, a kind of fun with this idea of these were seemingly disconnected things in the first episode where you have to start with the idea of: are they all part of the same thing? You know that all these things that seemed to be not connected at all. But are they? Do you get to the bottom of that in the final episode?

MG: Yes.

GQ: I’m guessing you’re not going to tell me any more...

MG: No…

GQ: Fair enough. I know Dracula doesn’t exactly lend itself to an ongoing Sherlock-like series. But does that necessarily mean that there couldn't be another three films later on down the line?

MG: Well, Dracula tends to come back, doesn’t he? I mean, certainly, it's interesting. It's not what Stoker ever had in mind. Well, actually, the truth is, Dracula was a success. But the book was not the sort of success we imagine it to be until after he died. If he'd known how much of a success it [would] be [he'd have] definitely written a sequel! But Dracula is a strange book. It's very haphazard. The first third is extremely good but the rest is uneven. There’s an interview he [Stoker] gave to an American paper where he vaguely talks about a sequel set in America, interestingly... And in the series of films he does come back a lot.

GQ: It’s quite graphic. People get beheaded, a baby gets turned into one of the undead at one point... Was there any part you got pushback from the BBC on?

MG: The baby in the carpet bag is actually in the novel. It’s a ghastly little moment and it’s not done very often [in adaptations]. Dracula had brought it as a little tit-bit for his bride. We had a lot of discussions but there wasn't much pushback really about gore. Really, I was thrilled with how much we got away with. But it's funny, isn't it? The thing that caused most people sleepless nights was the fingernails falling off. And no one is going to send a memo saying, “I'm afraid we can't have people pulling their fingernails off at nine o’clock on BBC One”, because it’s not the most horrific thing in it. And yet it is, isn’t it? But we wanted to make it properly scary. My favourite bit of episode one is where Harker uncovers the vampires in the boxes and is chased into Dracula’s tomb and then Dracula rises up from it. It’s pure Hammer Horror.

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Well, Imma hop onto Town Of Salem for a bit so my phone chargers. If anyone wants to join me check the tags to this post.