#notes.

[vinylsoul]

boinking heads with @tehcherrya because i couldn't, for the life of me figure out claire's room. also we can't really figure out where william slept for most of these sdfsjhfs and since victor pretty much took most of claire's things, we just got our heads thinking what's left of claire's belongings and her room.

so this is the first shot of claire's room during william and elizabeth's wedding. already we can see that the angel clock survived along with the candleholder on top of the fireplace. the carpet remains the same but the angel that victor took with him is gone, evidently destroyed in the destruction of the tower, replaced instead with two chairs and a small table. which makes it feel more like a leisure place (? idk what yall call it in them days) rather than claire's room or the brothers' bedroom before.

(sorry for the brightness and exposure i can't see shit) and here is the bed and the angel!! which.... you know, victor took. which is our next problem because we all know that victor took that damn bed with him in his flat in edinburgh and then to the tower, which, again, HE BLEW UP.

so we thought this thing over here was the bed just flushed against the wall. and the dresser right next to it, so we also kinda hesitated and was like. is that a folding screen or what. but more importantly, WHERE'S THEIR BED?

we get victor's reflection when he does his sincere non-apology, and whatever is behind him doesn't look like a bed at all, so we're like. WHERE DO THEY SLEEP?

this time, we went frame for frame!! and found out that YES, ACTUALLY, THAT IS A FOLDING SCREEN RIGHT UP AGAINST THE WALL AND THAT IS A DRESSER BESIDE IT. A REALLY BIG DRESSER??? idk but all that says about this now is that claire's room is BARREN and has nothing that shows you that she once lived there, as their mother. or even as someone. so putting all these together, we put two and two together and thought that maybe they only used the room for the wedding, and left it as it is for the duration of it. which means elizabeth and william (or even separately) do not sleep in claire's room, but rather, in some other rooms that we weren't shown in the movie.

tehya also found out where the set location of claire's room was and it turns out it was in the burghley house in lincolnshire which showcases the paintings from roman history like the battle of cannae, mark anthony's death before cleopatra and scipio and a ceiling filled with figures from roman mythology!!

moreover, claire's room had two entrance/exits which could only mean it was primarily a parlor or a drawing room that was purposefully remade into her room instead (might be her request too before the marriage? idk. is that normal??). and it stayed that way after victor and william separate and head to their own cities, what with victor taking her gloves, her bed, the only family portrait (which is only present in the library) and the angel statue. who knows where the rest of her stuff is, it might probably have been buried with her too! for the dresses.... a mystery!

NOW FOR THE TOWER

initially, we thought that william slept.... on the floor or somewhere god knows where in the tower. but the tower supposedly has only one room, right?

again, frame by frame.... i thought that victor's study and his room were in different places. but nope, they're in the same room!

that's his maman's bed, and also the bed that elizabeth slept in when they went overnight..... so that would mean that the couch we see william tuck victor in is the same couch he sat down on when he rejected william's letter from the university

(it's also the same couch near the fireplace in his edinburgh flat)

which is this couch, right? and it looks small, but

same couch!!! and it also got us thinking.... WHERE does william sleep during this time? obviously, he doesn't sleep beside elizabeth. he's a gentleman. he'd take it upon himself to sleep somewhere else..... so i took another look at the room, and

THIS IS THE SAME COUCH. WHICH MEANS THE BROTHERS WERE SLEEPING ON THE COUCHES!!!!!!

SAME COUCH RIGHT BESIDE THE DOOR. SO THAT WOULD MEAN. victor's literally a few feet away from his maman's bed where elizabeth sleeps, which is pretty much how he saw elizabeth slipping out.... or how he notices his favourite bed is empty, and then he follows to listen to elizabeth and the creature talk. which leaves william sleeping by the couch.... as a heavy sleeper too, maybe? since he didn't wake up when young!victor had his "vision" too!!! BUT ITS STILL A FUNNY IMAGE REGARDLESS DFJHDBG

also tehya went ahead and looked for where each of the sets were!! claire's room and the "hallway" (actually a drawing room) where victor leaves after getting slapped by elizabeth is in the burghley house in lincolnshire, while the exterior and stairwell scenes were all shot from Gosford House in Scotland! while young!victor demanding the guards to get out of the room so he can cry is in Wilton House while harlander's set location is in a place called Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland!! AND the library.... it turns out.... isn't a library... it's the Dunecht House in Aberdeenshire!!

this long-ass thing is just.... notes for myself and tehya but also. yeah they frankenstein-ed THE ENTIRE ESTATE so it's quite difficult to visualise which room goes to which room and how many rooms really are in the estate and if the boys really got their own rooms and they just wanted to sleep in their maman's room.

we still don't know where elizabeth and william sleep in the estate for that duration!!!

[cosmicangst]

What are your favorite hentai?

i wish i could tell you! my list got nuked and a lot of the titles are very specific and i dont remember them off the dome

i will say if youre looking for hentai artists that cater to a female audience and if you can manage to find them i recommend igedoaha, rororogi mogera, harumi niina, nao tamaki, jinmen shijimi, and aizawa anji. as w porn and kinks, your mileage may vary for the content.

if youre looking for more slice of life-style hentai theres a group called the waidan that was pretty popular on bato who would upload oneshots that were based on real-life events as submitted by their readers. i also recommend browsing r/joseismut (but i imagine there'll be a lot of dead links now that bato's gone) and checking out dlsite if the artist has their works on sale to support them directly

[damnd-he]

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[travmsoldat]

Phillip being more on submissive side is surprising! Could you maybe share some insight in that (obviously, it is ok if you don't want to; thank you in either case for running this beautiful blog).

happy saturday nonny !! are you referring to the romance meme i filled out for him ? if so, the part that leans submissive is specifically referring to his ideal partner. meaning, he's more attracted to submissive types (and quite significantly so)! he, on the other hand, indicated in the section just above that one, is suuuuuuper dominant.

mind you, he's dominant not in an overly aggressive way !! in the way the comes when you just have a lot of quiet confidence and are kind of. used. to ppl acquiescing to you ksdm. you can see it in the movie as we know! sleeping beauty has so many subtleties in its characterizations but imo that's the best kind to draw personality conclusions from (i could write like 60 pages on a scene and the insight of phillip's personality i drew from it if you asked mesdkmsd).

at the end of the day, in every scene he's in... he ends up getting his way, or kinda forces his opinions / feelings one way or another. and he does it through his sheer strength of personality. doesn't take ' no ' or ' you can't do this ' for an answer by... literally just waltzing out of the room, lmao.

plusssss he's a crown prince !! and in my story -- the firstborn, the only son from hubert and juliana, and the eldest of a million cousins. all this and more contributes to his very dominant, big-brother personality, but dominant in a way that he just sort of expects everything to go his way? easy and controlled and confident.

in all the years i've written him, his submissiveness comes out in how devoted he is to his romantic partner specifically. he's very ' yes darling ', ' whatever you say, darling ' type tbh like i knowww you all see that too !! man who's got the whole world on his shoulders but will absolutely kneel at your feet and kiss your knees and ankles and all that. i really do say that this is purely for romantic partners because he's suuuuuuuch a lover boy. he's that type of friend that would forget his friends existed once he's in a relationship i'm ngl i'm ngl. he'll get better with that the older he gets .......... maybe. prolly not.

he'll do this mostly behind closed doors because, again, i do write an older phillip and i think the dominance / assertiveness of his personality matures into something that gives him a very steady, slightly more serious persona in front of others, esp. when he becomes king. less of a twinkle in his eye in public and all that. but he looooooooves quiet, alone times in the woods and behind closed doors like i said where he can just be a total suck up yes dear whatever you say dear to his partner lmao.

but that's why he leans more to the submissive types, bc they tend to fit with that personality easier. if someone's more forceful / dominant romantically with him i think he honestly wouldn't be used to that and like that at first LMAO. he can be very entitled and arrogant at times ..... at the end of the day once he's over the initial shock dskfm he looooooves a challenge and experiencing new things. he's a leo sun, libra moon, and sag rising after all !!! first he would tend to bro-zone those kind of people i'm ngl skdmf just cuz he's VERY VERY VERY roughhousey with his friends who are all pretty cheeky and dominant like him. things can change tho ...... like i said, he's suuuuch a lover boy. and an absolute sucker for good looking ppl lmao. bit shallow at first in that way. he is ... a dog ... at times ....

i'm sorry i rambled so much more than you were probably looking for LMAO. but thank you so much for your kind words at the end !! i'm doing my best heeeere, and i love this character so so so so much, and if you can't already tell i LOVEEE random questions because all i DO is analyze Everything haha.

thank YOU for appreciating and recognizing it !! ily !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foralteregos]

so anyway I was possessed

I forgor their scarf so I drew in the pin in the last second. Hope you like

OH MY GOD?? HI??? THANKNYOU?? AH????? EXPLODES???? I ABSOLUTWLY LOVE THE WAY YOU DREW THE??? YEAH IM EATING THIS THIS I MINE

[thinkbrink]

NOTES ON [...] gender expression.

thinking about jordan's gender expression specifically with the use of she and he and how they've felt more comfortable with they because, to them, their relationship with pronouns and its use has been greatly weaponized against them, specifically by their parents. ' he ' is an expectation, a specific image that's used to uphold whatever concept paul and kayla want to project about the li name. and even so, when they present more fem, you can see that's when jordan is more forthright, confident, and commanding — traditionally "masculine" traits. but that doesn't take away from who they are in their masculine form ? they're still themselves.

it's as if they have to constantly project the traits associated with the opposite gender to be validated as a fluid person and to be validated as jordan. it's not duality, there's no shift in who they are between how they present — it's ability related, it's a surface-level thing to them in an ideal world where gender expression wasn't something people couldn't wrap their heads around. but, they recognize the inherent biases that come with referring to them as he vs. she and how some may see it as an "either or" comparison, rather than all-encompassing.

[goldsleuth]

ARC. GOLDEN-FACED WANDERER / OF A THOUSAND ROADS

This is my default verse and where majority of threads will take place unless otherwise. Concerning canon: while I follow some of the comics, it is done so loosely (the one that I take lots of inspiration from is Secrets of a Unicorn and its film adaptation). So, here’s the rundown.

Tintin is still an ongoing independent reporter. He bears a nomadic lifestyle but does have a residency in London. He does not sleep as often as he should; he is always adventure-hungry. Always had a penchant for the obscurity, he seeks them out throughout the globe. He’s a notorious sleuth; evading death countless of times, from guns drawn to his head, drowning under crashing waves, and falling down unimaginable heights. In spite of finding himself within the call of danger, he lives to tell the tales (as long as he shall live, he will have a story). He forever remains close friends and actively works with the courageous, greatest captain known to man: Captain Archibald Haddock. Tintin is always noted with Snowy at his side.

Some more [study] notes on Tintin:

While Tintin is a widely known name, there is still an alluring nature about him. Mysteries are the very essence of Tintin. People are drawn to him by association with his work(s), but also because he’s unsolvable—an enigma, a bare-boned case file. There is no written record of his upbringing, and Tintin is not his real name. He’s well aware that many people are trying to solve him; he continues to paint a hazy picture and continues to answer with more falsehoods that are painstakingly calculated. He also has people actively trying to kill him.

On the topic of alluring: it’s hard not to keep away from him. His presence feels familiar, yet he’s not. There is an overwhelming curiosity that grows within someone, and it keeps them coming for more.

Tintin is portrayed to be in his early 30s. (This does go for all other verses)