#suburbanbeatnik

[dwellordream]

HOTD is such a mess this season I think I'm going to reread A Common Grief and pretend that's canon. Rhaenyra/Gwayne 4EVAH!!!

My boy… look at what they did to my boy…

JK I’m not surprised Gwayne is a pompous dick in the show, it’s about what I expected lol. I’m just glad I finished the fic before he appeared.

[anghraine]

I love your thoughts on Psych. Have you ever watched Leverage?

Thanks, and nope!

[titleleaf]

Omg, thank you both for enabling me! I’m obsessed with anything that comes in a tiny bottle (or a tiny bottle that something once came in) but my niche is becoming vintage perfume samples and samplers, especially those that got given out as free samples/promotional gifts. Please ignore the power tools in the background; I contain multitudes.

(left to right -- Personality Perfumes nip selection tube; Arthur Philippi Five O’Clock; Blue Waltz / Selected Famous Perfumes nip selection box; something from Gianfranco Ferre; Estee Lauder Knowing; uhhhh... not sure / Gems Honeysuckle from the 1970s I’d wager; White Shoulders; Image EDP, unknown but I suspect it’s something Matchabelli; fully a mini of 4711 that lost its label/ a quintet of minis from the same line: Mystic Moment; From A Misty Garden; Blue Hedge; Lily Of The Valley; Sparkling Gold)

My favorites of these are midcentury 1940s-through-1960s perfume nips, which come in a patented breakable (glass or frangible plastic) vial like the mini version of the OG vial poppers were stored in -- as a storage method it apparently keeps vintage scents damn near how they must have originally smelled without the decades of air exposure you get with bottles, but I’ve never had the bravery to break open any of mine. I just really love the thought of getting free samples of often very prestigious/high-end fragrance from my electrical company, credit union, etc.-- it’s not quite the democratization of luxury fragrance some people were hoping for in the 20th century but they are extremely fun. 

The other type of promotional bottle I collect seems to have been distributed by the Fuller brush company -- I’d wager they’re from the 1950s or 1960s? Some of these bottles are still partly full, but I’ve found them scattered across enough estate sales that they seem to have been widely-distributed and well-loved. Rarity isn’t a big priority for me, which is good for my wallet but bad for my storage space.

As you can see, I don’t really care much about the bottles/minis I collect being in pristine collection, I just really like hoarding small things. I also semi-collect a bunch of full-sized Avon bottles, but if you go to estate sales those bottle will begin materializing in your home physically no matter what you do.

[thebrassglass]

Artist suburbanbeatnik is holding a Cyber Monday sale, on these beautiful original pieces and more, over on her deviantArt site.

[temiel]

suburbanbeatnik replied to your photo: Did… did I actually size this right for it to show...

We need more hot Twi'lek boys in Star Wars

I am SO down for equal opportunity attractiveness. The lack of canon hot twi'lek boys is a tragedy (although young Cham Syndulla from the Clone Wars cartoon is possibly about as close as they get, but mostly for mashing all my revolutionary buttons pretty hard).

[dwellordream]

I'm in love with your writing (as you know). BTW do you read historical romance as a genre? I'd love to hear about your faves if you have any.

I’ve read a few Georgette Heyers and my favorite was Regency Buck, and I also love Anya Seton’s Dragonwyck and Katherine, but my all time favorite historical romance is Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale.

[chthonic-cassandra]

Finally, I have found a fellow Tanith Lee fan on Tumblr! I love her works so much, and very few people know about them. I've been really enjoying your reviews. Thanks for posting them!

You are very welcome! I'm afraid I've fallen rather terribly behind on the reviews (by...well over a year), but I'm glad that you've been enjoying what I have posted.

[dwellordream]

Miss Dwell, you might remember me from SB. I adore your SI A Common Grief so much, I've often recommended it on SI rec threads on The Citadel subreddit. I just wanted to say how much I love what you've written, I love all the plot twists, and the characterization is on point! *chef's kiss* Are you thinking about putting it on AO3 at some point?

When I figure out the outline and feel prepared to update it again, probably!