#kevystel

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11, 12! ❤️

hi pal!! thanks for the ask!

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

I read a ton of golden age crime fiction this year, so this applies to a lot of things! So I'm going to narrow it down to books I was also aware of specifically. I have been collecting Sarah Caudwell's Hilary Tamar books as I came across them used for years now (they all have Edward Gorey covers, which is part of it), and I finally started reading them this year. I read three out of four (because once I've read the fourth I'll be done and I don't want that to happen yet) and LOVED them. Written in the 80s, they're mysteries involving a set of British lawyers and their older friend Hilary who is an Oxford professor. It's some of the funniest, queerest, cleverest writing I've ever encountered, and as a fun added element Hilary's gender is never given. I wish I could wipe my brain and read them all over again.

12. Any books that disappointed you?

Plenty! One that stands out to me is Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh. I've been picking up Marsh paperbacks when I see them for ages (she's one of the golden age queens of mystery) but hadn't read any yet. I started with this one. It's a murder in a weird, theatrical church, and features her regular detective Roderick Alleyn. I got through the first chapters and quit on the strength of how incredibly homophobic some of the language was. Marsh was deeply involved in theater and definitely knew about queer people, so it was really shocking and disappointing.

[sixleggedboar]

how are you? ☺️

Right now? I am mostly overstimulated, reacting a lot more sensitive to everything. Probably just a result of the holiday's family hopping so I can't wait to be home in my usual space to recuperate.

Thanks Kev, I hope you're doing good!

[theriverbeyond]

☕️ ianthe

many thoughts have been said about Ianthe... what can i hope to add. she's an incredibly fun character. love what she is doing with gender. fascinated by her relationship to Naberius bc I maintain she was never as disaffected as she tried to seem, even before the relevation that he is now literally permanently interwoven with her soul. love how she always has a Scheme and Plan, excited for that all to go sideways terribly. should i have to have a disclaimer here that i do know she is awful and a liar and etc

ask game (☕️ + topic and i will Share Opinions)

[navigatorwrongway]

forever obsessed with @kevystel 's EXCELLENT suggestion of 'Mirad' as the Armorer's name, either from before she became the Armorer or as a tightly held secret. Its meaning in Mando'a, "child of wisdom" is SO fitting and it has occupied my brain since like???? January???? so many kudos on that, you knocked it out of the park

[youremarvelous]

lilia all day every day

omg really?? I was about to say I think I’m a little warmer than her but she’s a huge softy lbr. love that, I will own it. imagine lilia with pink hair 💖

[cafecliche]

PLEASE TALK AT US ABOUT YUURI AND CHRIS

!!!! HAPPILY AND WITH PLEASURE.

Chris is, at heart, a bit of a romantic, so once he catches that rose Victor Nikiforov tossed him he has visions of inspiring another skater like that one day. He’s got a little longer to go in Juniors, and he wants to look out for someone, encourage them. When he’s sent to grab a bottle of water for the baby-faced Japanese skater who went bone-white and all but fainted dead away at his first presser, Chris is pretty sure his moment has come.

As he’s wracking his brain for something Meaningful to say, the baby-faced skater leans close and whispers, in a soft, accented voice, “Kill me.” Despite himself, Chris throws his head back and cackles.

(Thankfully for Chris, that sets Yuuri Katsuki at ease like concern never could.)

Yuuri never really has an ugly duckling phase. It’s unfair, really. But whatever jealousy Chris might feel is secondary to the honor and privilege of watching the profoundly stupid things people do upon seeing Yuuri Katsuki.

“Oh,” Yuuri says, rising from his impossibly deep stretch as one of the Americans chokes on his protein bar. “Is he okay?”“Maybe you should get him some water,” Chris says, innocent. “He looks thirsty.”

Yuuri is one of the few people to know that Chris is an introvert, deep down. They spend a lot of time sitting next to each other with their phones out, occasionally leaning over to show the other a Victor video.

(As the Close Personal Friend and Competitor of Victor Nikiforov, Chris needs to downplay his admiration in public. He does not share such obligations with Yuuri.)

That said, Yuuri is 16 and Chris is 18 when they’re competing together in Paris. “Can I ask you something,” Yuuri says in his sweet, soft voice. Chris, still always ready for his Rose Moment, snaps to attention.“Where can we dance,” is what Yuuri asks. “Around here.”They get back to the hotel at 2am.

Whenever they compete together from then on, they go dancing to blow off steam. When they’re not interested in dancing with strangers, they pretend to be together. Yuuri is good at looking possessive. (That’s just how he always squints when he’s not wearing his glasses, but what Paris doesn’t know won’t hurt them.)

They fool around a handful of times, off and on, always low key and low obligation. “It’s so nice of Chris to put up with this,” Yuuri always thinks. “Thank you God and also Jesus,” Chris always thinks.

“I could introduce you,” Chris says often, regarding Victor.Yuuri always shakes his head firmly. “I need to do it right.”(He doesn’t, of course. It works out perfectly anyway.)

[flecks-of-starlight]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Some are born Chads, some achieve Chadness, and some have Chadness thrust upon them (and they love it).

[nikiforoov]

@kevystel replied to your post “i would apologize for drawing vitya with extra long fluttery lashes...”

your extra long fluttery vitya lashes are an absolute gift that you should be proud of

i am so proud of them ;; ♥