I hate hate hate hate how dog friendly everything is in the city now. Barring medical necessity, there is no reason to bring your dog to a restaurant, there is no reason to bring your dog to the grocery store, there is no reason to bring your dog to the nail salon. Dogs do not need to go everywhere you go why am I being forced to be around dogs all the time

JANE EYRE (2011)

so far on that poll that I created in a fog on my way to bed, it seems as if most agree that the "hissing only works if there are sibilants" crowd is wrong. which is nice. because they are. but there are a few days left so we shall see.

the changes I've been noticing in food on top of inflation...the worsening of textures...smaller packaging...the loss of flavor as companies reformulate with cheaper ingredients for the sake of profit

I love your writing and I am currently obsessed with A Suitable Captive. Any chance we might get to see a snippet in Lan’s POV? I love those two and could read a million words about them.

I never rule anything out, but at the moment, my brain is not especially functional, and I am just trying to get out stuff to sell. :) But Lan being seemingly lowkey but actually highkey obsessed with Fen to the amusement and then alarm of all his friends and advisors is very funny. Then Fen wins them over too and everyone is on the Fen train. lol

"Patti Smith on the biggest misconception about her...:

"The thing that bothered me the most was when I had to return to the public eye in ’95 or ’96 when my husband died. We lived a very simple lifestyle in a more reclusive way in which he was king of our domain. I don’t drive, I didn’t have much of an income, and without him, I had to find a way of making a living. Besides working in a bookstore, the only thing I knew how to do was to make records—or to write poetry, which isn’t going to help put your kids through school. But when I started doing interviews, people kept saying “Well, you didn’t do anything in the 80s,” and I just want to get Elvis Presley’s gun out and shoot the television out of their soul. How could you say that? The conceit of people, to think that if they’re not reading about you in a newspaper or magazine, then you’re not doing anything. I’m not a celebrity, I’m a worker. I’ve always worked. I was working before people read anything about me, and the day they stopped reading about me, I was doing even more work. And the idea that if you’re a mother, you’re not doing anything—it’s the hardest job there is, being a mother or father requires great sacrifice, discipline, selflessness, and to think that we weren’t doing anything while we were raising a son or daughter is appalling. It makes me understand why some human beings question their worth if they’re not making a huge amount of money or aren’t famous, and that’s not right. My mother worked at a soda fountain. She made the food and was a waitress and she was a really hard worker and a devoted worker. And her potato salad became famous! She wouldn’t get potato salad from the deli, she would get up at five o’clock in the morning and make it herself, and people would come from Camden or Philly to this little soda fountain in South Jersey because she had famous potato salad. She was proud of that, and when she would come home at night, completely wiped out and throwing her tip money on the table and counting it, one of her great prides was that people would come from far and wide for her potato salad. People would say, “Well, what did your mother do? She was a waitress?” She served the people, and she served in the way that she knew best." from Alan Light interview in Medium Thanks Thatericalpter.com

JENNIFER COOLIDGE & JENNIFER TILLY The 14th Annual GLAAD Media Awards – Los Angeles – April 26, 2003

Your disbelief destroyed the faith of my congregation. Without them, I am nothing. So I was obliged to come. And now I must kill you.

CANDYMAN 1992 dir. Bernard Rose

Hey, like, considering how, for lack of a better word, squeamish some m/m romance readers are compared to say, many fanfic readers when it comes to anatomy, do we think I need to make it somewhat clear in the summary that this is a dripping hole situation or no? Cuz you know the second some* of those readers encounter anything like a cunt they will make up reasons to dislike the story.

*I said 'some' so lower those hackles.

thinking about them

MARY & GEORGE - 1.01 'The Second Son' ↳ I know everything...

BETTE DAVIS in ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) — dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz