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[old-lady-at-heart]

Five Nice Things About Me

Thanks to Ollie for prompting me to do this! (Nothing I love better than a bit of self-affirmation before bedtime...!)

1. I am damn good at my job.

2. My eyes are a lovely blue-grey color.

3. I bring the party.

4. Sometimes I can carry in all my groceries in one trip (i.e. I'M STRONG LIKE AN OX!)

5. My summer style is on-point! It's just about time to break out my high-waisted skirts and sun dresses...! WOO HOO!

[girlinplaits]

I'd just like to make a formal apology to Ollie of slothpaws

for stalking and creeping round her blog like I am. I am just having WAY too much fun with these old posts. They were funny the first time round, but today they are just hilarious.

You and the dream team are the best and I kind of worship you all now.

I feel like this is very relevant right now...

He's climbin in your [blog] He's snatchin your [posts] Tryna [spam] em so y'all need to

Hide your [blogs], Hide your [posts] Hide your [blogs], Hide your [posts] Hide your [blogs], Hide your [posts] and hide your [comments] Cuz they're [spamming] errbody out there

x

My bad everybody! It SHOULD calm down, but I cannot be held accountable for my actions because this is tumblr and tumblr. SO YEAH. tumblr.

[chicadificil]

14000romances made me do it!

Tag Game

Rule 1: Always post the rules  Rule 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones.  Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to the post.  Rule 4: Actually tell people you’ve tagged them.

I was tagged by my musical soulmate and fellow emu 14000romances

My questions:

1. What’s the last book you read that you hated?

I am trying to get through Vampire Academy right now, I don't really hate it but it's just blahhh!

2. Beatles or Stones?

65-67 Stones and Sergeant Pepper/White Album Beatles

3. What’s your favorite t-shirt?

I love anything with polka dots or stripes! I am a big print girl!

4. Do you give a hoot about college basketball?

umm...if UCLA is playing! Go Bruins!

5. Who’s your current platonic/non-sexual celebrity crush?

Ilana and Abby from Broad City! Richie from HBO's Looking also does it for me! oh yay and Sharon Rooney...but in all honesty none of these are non-sexual!!!

6. Weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in a library?

I have only worked in libraries so I have seen weird stuff..men masturbating (barf), men looking at porn on the public computers (eww)! Can't they keep there hands out of their pants and watch porn in private!

7. Crosswords in pen or pencil? pencil..who does them in pen?

8. Ever locked your keys in your car? (I just did this the other day…)

nope and now you have totally jinxed me!

9. Have you ever yelled at a movie screen in the theater?

nope, but I yelled at my computer screen all season long while watching My Mad Fat Diary!

10. You have a tank full of gas and a free weekend…where do you go?

Vegas, San Diego or Los Angeles

11. Favorite presidential facial hair?

umm Teddy Roosevelt? did he have a moustache?

I'm spreading the love and tagging greenangelheart, old-lady-at-heart, i-love-mmfd, zero-for-starters, slothpaws, girlinplaits, anniecaffeine, lovecaravan, fckyas-mmfd, serawildish, louislouiton

My questions:

1. Smiths or Morrissey?

2. Last book you read that you would recommend?

3. What are your favorite shows besides My Mad Fat Diary?

4. What are the top 3 songs on your itunes playlist?

5. Would you call yourself a feminist?

6. What is you guilty pleasure movie?

7. What is your go to song when you are feeling down?

8. Last album you bought on a actual C.D.?

9. Favorite season?

10. You invite me over for dinner. What are we having?

11. Are you crafty?

[fckyas-mmfd]

Your turn! Do them all! ;) - slothpaws

LMAO! Tell you what, I’ll do all the ones I haven’t done yet, lol

5. First Impression of Finn? 

 - You fugly bastard, step on somewhere else, rude fucker.

12. If you were Rae, would you choose to see Oasis or stay back with Chloe?

 - As I’ve said before in  previous post, if it were my best friend, I would stay behind with her.

16. What would you change about the last scene with Finn and Rae outside of da chippy?

 - I would have made Finn kiss Rae, dammit. I’m still seething mad about that not happening.

17. If you were Rae, would you also miss Tix’s dinner date and party at the rave instead?

 - Yap, I would have gone to the rave, hahaha but I would have called to tell her though. If I remembered that is.

19. Which Gang member would you get along with the most?

 - Archie

20. To what degree has the show ruined affected your life?

 - Well I’m going to say that it has majorly affected it because I do nothing but spend my time thinking about the fucking show and writing fiction which I haven’t done in years.

It’s like I’m in My Mad Fat Diary school, where I analyze the show, do group projects with the fandom, debate, and write.

Am I right or am I right?

[greenangelheart]

For Ollie - SANDALWOOD

Ollie suggested a fic based on this lovely song.  Here is a little something for you, which I hope you like...

A/N I would suggest slotting this in somewhere after the sexy party but before Chop's rave suggestion (I forget if the show timeline allows this or not)

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The hypnotic strumming and Archie's smooth vocals wound their way round the pub, as if they were carried on the air by angels.  Rae knew this was a ridiculous notion, but all night her and Finn had been communicating via their secret method, i.e. him tracing nonsense on her leg and her trying not to keel over and faint, or worse just jump him right there and then in the pub, and quite frankly it had left her feeling that achingly familiar, feathery light sensation that settled somewhere deep in her stomach and unfurled from there.  An image unbidden jumped into her mind of her and Finn, clothes askew, rolling around the sticky floor trying to avoid the chewing-gum, as the rest of the gang looked on in... bemusement?  Rae wondered what the rest of the group would think if her and Finn were to get together.  Dreams and fantasies she told herself, dreams and fantasies. 

This was not stopping her from savouring every word of the song Archie was now singing, and applying every little bit of it to her and Finn.  Out of the corner of eye she watched as Finn gently bobbed his head to the music, next to her she could feel his leg move against hers, subconsciously in time with the music.  He seemed to be in a world on his own, his brown eyes, darker than usual in the murky pub light,  glazed over as he seemed to be staring at something behind Archie's head that Rae could not see.  Rae itched to lean her head against his shoulder, feel the soft material of his top rub against her cheek, and just let the wistful lyrics of the song wrap like a warm sheltering cocoon around them.

As the last note mingled and faded with the smoky white haze that hung heavy in the pub air Finn turned, his eyes catching Rae's for a moment.  Rae wondered if she was just projecting her own feelings, for it seemed to her that in that glance there was a bubbling frisson of deep emotion staring back at her.  It was too soon before he blinked and turned back to slap Archie on the back on his triumphful return to their table, applause still rippling around the pub.

"Archie you were great," Rae smiled over at him. "Cheers Rae, you really think so?" "Absolutely," she assured him, "I love that song." 'M.E.T.O.O.' Finn's forefinger had returned to tracing letters on her leg, the movement against the fabric sending shivers through her as she tried to concentrate on what Archie was saying about changing the arrangement or something, before he headed up to the bar to get in another round of drinks for everyone.

Across the table Chloe sighed dramatically, “D’ya know Rae, you were so right about us not needing boyfriends.”  Rae rolled her eyes, then immediately hoped that Chloe hadn't caught it.  "What d'ya mean Chlo?" Izzy asked. "Just the other night me and Rae were talking on the phone and Rae was saying how happy she was single and I couldn't see it then, but now I totally get it." Chop let out a laugh, "the day Miss Chloe Harris doesn't have a swarm of men around her will be the day this one 'ere doesn't leave a trail of ladies in his wake, eh Finn?" he poked his friend playfully, as Finn dipped his head looking like he wished he was anywhere but there right now. Rae tried to ignore the implications of what Chop had just said and plastered her brightest smile onto her face.  "So what's bought on this surge of clarity then Chlo?" knowing it was complete bollocks and that she was probably trying to stir something up, or maybe some guy at the bar hadn't immediately dropped to his knees in fealty to her.  Maybe it was some new ploy to get Finn.

Before Chloe has chance to answer Archie arrived back at the table performing a careful balancing act with drinks and packets of crisps.  Rae took a long swig of the snakebite that was plopped down in front of her, as Finn also did with his pint.

"So what we all talking about?" Archie enquired as he sat down. "Chloe here is swearing off men," Chop was still laughing about. "Cool, right," Archie nodded. "I think it's a really good idea Chlo," Izzy nodded as sagely as she could, "it says stuff like that in all the magazines."

Rae sat back in her seat rolling her eyes again, as ever all the attention was focused on the lovely Chloe, though there were some advantages to this.  It meant that she could try and shift her position surreptitiously so that she could look at Finn, without it being obvious to everybody else.  He was studiously rolling a smoke, a small line of concentration forming between his eyebrows, as his fingers worked the small slip of paper.  She noticed he didn't seem to be paying the blindest bit of attention to Chloe's ramblings and she smiled small to herself.  Rae felt a tingle deep within as she watched his fingers nimble and quick, she imagined they would taste of the tobacco he rolled, if she brought each and every one of them to her lips.  That thought was not helping her racing heartbeat.  

"Hey Rae," Finn's voice practically caused her to go into cardiac arrest, unexpected as it was. "Ummm?" she responded, wondering if he knew she had been staring.  Again.  "I left some CDs at yours from the party I think, d'ya mind if I pop in after this to pick 'em up?" "Yeah no problem," Rae nodded.  Finn flashed her a quick smile before lighting his cigarette taking a long drag.  Somewhere in the background she could hear Chloe rattle on about love songs or something.  It reminded her of the way she felt when Archie had been singing earlier, and how she would write about the way Finn's hair curled at the bottom as it brushed against the collar of his shirt, if she could.  More than that she would love just to tug the material of his top down a little bit and pepper the soft skin at the nape of his neck with little kisses, inhaling the scent of his shampoo.  She remembered it having a fresh, woody scent when she had lain next to him after the sexy party.   She wished she could get closer now to confirm that memory.  She had tried smelling her pillow afterwards, but it just smelt of her mum's fabric conditioner.  Vanilla or something.

Next to her she felt Finn stiffen a moment, Rae looked around for the cause and tried to keep her face neutral as she noticed that girl, Anna, from the sexy party walk towards their table.  "Hey, that party was so great the other night!" her smile dazzling and wide, "any plans for another one before summer's over?" Rae noticed that she looked directly at Finn now, and she also didn't miss the dark shadow pass over Chloe's face before it was replaced by her own brilliant smile.  'So much for being happy single huh Chloe?!' she thought to herself, rolling her eyes again.

Stubbing out his cigarette in the ashtray on the table Finn stood up from the table, "I'm going to head off, Rae you ready?" he asked.  For a minute Rae was sure he must be addressing some other Rae.  A more beautiful charming Rae like Anna or Chloe.  Then remembered the arrangement for him to come and collect his CDs.  "Erm sure," she said trying to coolly slide out from behind the table without sending all the drinks flying. "Aye aye, what's going on here then?" Chop wolf-whistled.  Izzy's half-playful punch to his upper arm was matched by Rae's quick rebuttal, "Finn's just collecting some stuff from mine," she hoped her burning cheeks weren't giving her away as she tried to conceal herself beneath her hair.  She was about 99% sure that there were four pairs of eyes burning into her back as she left the pub, she didn't think Archie would be giving them much consideration, because, well he's Archie.

The walk back to her house was strange. Rae didn't for the life of her know what to do with her hands.  Had they always been so ungainly and awkward at the end of her arms she wondered.  Finn was quiet next to her, and for once Rae didn't know what to say to fill the silence.  As they entered her house Rae realised they hadn't been alone since the sexy party.  Memories of the night and the morning after made her smile as she ran her hand along the wall to find the light-switch in the dark, Finn slightly bumping in to her as he followed her in through the front door.  Rae pointed Finn in the direction of the CDs stacked in a pile by the radio in the living room.  She watched as he ran a hand through his hair as he scanned the pile for his own.  She longed to be able to run her own hand through it, to feel the softness and watch it fall messily against his face.  God she would kiss every single hair on his head, scratch that, on his body if she could.  Perhaps she could just tell him that falling asleep next to him had been the best night of her life.  By a mile.

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As he walked away from her house Finn noticed Rae's bedroom light come on through the thin curtains, and he remembered how just a few nights ago he had talked until he slept, and how soft Rae's hair was as it fell across the pillows beside him, and how he wanted to just grab her hand and feel it's warmth burn against his skin.  

[mymad--fatdiary]

MEME: TAG, YOU’RE IT.

I was tagged by Rae-Nelson

Rule 1: Always post the rules. Rules 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 12 new ones. Rule 3: Tag 12 new people and link them to the post. Rule 4: Let me know you’ve tagged them.

The Questions:

1) Are you a book person?

Definitely! I love a good book.

2) Nico Mirallegro or Dan Cohen? (my respect for you is on the line…)

Nico durrr... that bloody boy has taken over my brain for the last few months -_-

3) Who is your favourite musician?

Oohh thats hard! I don't really have a favourite musician, I mean my all time fave band is The Smiths but in terms of solo artists.... Morrissey or Ed Sheeran probs.

4) Who is your favourite author?

Philippa Gregory

5) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

London! I dunno I've just always felt really happy and at home there.

6) Do you have insecurities? (You don’t need to tell me. I just want to see that you’re perfect the way you are, and to never forget that)

God yes! Biggest one's been my weight, I've struggled with it my whole flipping life. (And thanks baby btw)

7) What is your favourite clothing accessory?

My hair? (Ok it doesn't really count but with red hair an outfit never looks plain.)

8) How would you best describe yourself?

Erm I s'pose I'm quiet until you get me talking about something I'm passionate about and then I won't shut up!

9) Favourite Rinn moment?

This was really hard! But aside from the ending which is perf, I love the bit where Finn beats up Big G because at that point Finn and Rae don't even get on that well and then it all changes and ahhh

10) Favourite MMFD line?

"From now on, people can either accept you for who you are or they can fuck off."

11) Which character do you feel that you relate to most from MMFD?

Rae, 100%. I literally cried through half of the show the first time I watched it because I found all the shit Rae's going through so close to home.

12) What do you want to happen in season 2?

Slushy Finn moments, I don't really care what but just pure cuteness like cuddles and sharing food and Finn being a sweetie and yeah. And them to shag as well of course ;)

My Questions:

1) What was something really good that happened to you today?

2) Whats your favourite tv show (aside from mmfd)?

3) Whats your most embarrassing moment been?

4) What's the best advice you've ever received?

5) Who do you ship most in the show?

6) Name a favorite of each: band, album, song.

7) If you could be anything in the world, what would you be and why?

8) When did you start shipping Finn and Rae (if you ship them that is)?

9) Celebrity crush?

10) Is there one person you want to be with right now, if so who?

11) If you could be reincarnated as any animal, which would you chose and why?

12) If you could live in any other time period, where and when would you live, and why?