Suspiciously Modern

40-something fangirl in New England. Tweets at @linaerys.

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Jacob Elordi with his dog on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN

[phantom-threaded]

Frankenstein 2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro

[andorerso]

Cassian Andor is a...

mansplain

manipulate

manwhore

manslaughter

malewife

Voting ended onFeb 14, 2023

[the-linaerys]

Manipulate-manwhore-manslaughter is the new girlboss-gatekeep-gaslight

[catscafecomics]

I am trying.

[kanjabeto-deactivated20180421]

Behind the Scenes: Diego Luna ©Tyler Kindred & Michael Muller // Malibu Magazine, Vol. 14 | Issue 06

[designingmonkey-deactivated2024]

Skarsgard prime is still the best Skarsgard

[chipthekeeper]

Aldhani crew family pics from Varada Sethu’s instagram

[rebelle-capitan]

Found this earlier. Not really sure what to do with this information.

[the-linaerys]

Let this picture inspire 1000 Andor fics

[blumineck]

I did some more fantasy archery trope testing. This time the arrow stabby thing!

[quasi-normalcy]

@noctumsolis​

[the-linaerys]

Hot

[gerrikellmn]

General Counsel Gerri Kellman + the meaning of “professional”

[the-linaerys]

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

Cassian Andor/Luthen Rael (Andor 2022), 1800 words, Rated E

Summary: 

He has offered, frequently enough that they’ve shorthanded the conversation. Still don't want me?

Still not relevant, Luthen always replies.

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When they run into some guards in lower Coruscant, Luthen and Cassian need to disguise what they're up to.

[rahulkoh]

“When you send me for a role and it says ‘South Asian, his name is Raj’ … I say ‘I don’t fucking want it.’ And then the next one comes in and it says it doesn’t have a race. ‘This is John. 30s. Handsome.’ … When it says that, I want that fucking role. So I want to take from the majority. That’s the only time I think about race.” —Rahul Kohli on Blackman Beyond podcast

[whatevergreen]

Please, please take roles from Chris Pratt.

[gingersnapwolves]

petition for Rahul Kohli to replace Chris Pratt in everything

[bookshop]

The "WTF?!" spread

I frequently do personalized spreads when I do readings, and I made a new fun tarot spread just now, thought I'd share if anyone else wants to use it! Feel free to credit me, or not, whatever!

[girlcaligula]

“Why do people like a character who’s committed war crimes but hate this other character just because they’re annoying” because it’s fiction Susan, and being annoying in fiction is a greater sin than being a supervillain, because it won’t make me want to read about them. It isn’t difficult to understand

[zombieporno]

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” (Oscar Wilde)

[charlesoberonn]

The war crimes are fictional but my annoyance is real.

[ultravioletness]

I’ve been making gay knights (and dames) collages on my phone at work

[charlottearthistory]

‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

[antihumanism]

The second best thing about erotic art is seeing people reject their initial reaction to it. The comments are full of people saying “oh my first thought was,” and, yeah, your first thought was right. The barbarian youth is sexually dominating the old Roman order. If you actually could get your mind out of the gutter you’d be the first animal to ever do so.

[lets-talk-about-sects]

[the-linaerys]

Oh look, The Eagle

[pacey-grey]

I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.

People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.

[tundrakatiebean]

I made a quilt for one of my college professors once. He and his wife had some trouble with the pregnancy and she was on bed rest for a while. He’d mentioned it to us because he might have to leave in the middle of class if something drastic happened. Nothing did happen in the end, but I knew this was a big deal for them so I made a quilt. The first real one I’d ever made.

It was an bilingual alphabet quilt. Both the dad and mom spoke Japanese and that was a big part of their lives so I made a quilt with the English alphabet and a hand embroidered picture of something that matched the letter with both the English and Japanese word for it. I appliquéd the letters and designed all the embroideries myself. It was a lot of work but when I found my professor to give it to him he almost cried when I showed him. They sent me a picture of the baby on the quilt that I still have even though the baby is I think 12 now. For a while they had it hung on the kid’s bedroom wall and they said he would bow to it in the morning to show his gratitude and respect for the work put into it.

If you think someone is worth making something for you should do it! It’s an act of love and care in a world that is so often bereft of it.

[the-linaerys]

I'm 44 and I still have my baby blanket on my bed and I'm pretty sure it was made by one of my mom's grad students