Aoyama getting the life sucked out of him from a bunch of flowers and going through Kunieda’s psychological torture about his broken quirk just for Hagakure to hop out on cue like
What do you do when a loose dog surprises you and your unfriendly-to-strange-dogs-dog when you’re chilling outside your house? You step back and hope for the best!
I watched All's Well that Ends Well by Shakespeare, which is a forced marriage situation (the girl loves the guy, he hates her, the king forces them to marry). I could not help but thinking of Mansfield Park, especially because the guy's name is Bertram (!), but I also think it gives us some context for Fanny Price. The main female character, Helena, acts like her very love is contemptible and almost a sin:
That I should love a bright particular star,
And think to wed it, he is so above me.
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Th’ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love....
What power is it which mounts my love so high,
That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
Then I confess, [to his mother]
Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,
That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son.
My friends were poor, but honest; so’s my love.
Be not offended; for it hurts not him
That he is lov’d of me; I follow him not
By any token of presumptuous suit,
Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;
Yet never know how that desert should be.
I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
....My dearest madam,
Let not your hate encounter with my love,
Helena is also a poor girl taken into a rich household, though her parents are dead and she's an official ward. It makes me think that Fanny is less "pure" than we think of her, because her love itself would be forbidden and ungrateful. Helena expects her adoptive mother to hate her for it. (The mother doesn't, she totally ships her son and Helena)
Fanny also is jealous when Edmund and Mary are together, which is something she doesn't have the right to be either. While we may think of Fanny as flawless today, I'm not certain she would have been viewed the same way when she was written. Fanny was forbidden from falling in love with the Bertram sons and she did anyway.
We also see in both Catherine Morland and Fanny Price, women who fall in love first, which wasn't the "proper" way. I think Fanny may be more subversive than we give her credit for.
howard just took his inhaler because he’s still absolutely breathless after being swept off his feet by :o!!!!! LALO SALAMANCA??????????? howie found his knight in shining armour :)
FIC AUTHOR SELF-REC TAG
Ahh! @kay-elle-cee thanks for the tag. I do love a bit of self love.
When you get this, reply with your 5 favourite fics that you've written. Then pass it on to five other writers. Spread some self love.
I have to include my love, my excecutioner, my magnum opus…
Between the Desire and the Spasm
Words: 19.8k. Chapters: 7/?. Rated: M.
Trains are arguably the centre of everything. The sinew of civilisation for muggles and wizards alike. They are where all walks of life converge. Congregate. In synchronised traversal. Shared agony inflicted by the piercing screech of metal on metal, bonding all patrons aboard a carriage. And outside. A passing glimpse of someone you thought you’d never see again. Trains. They change everything.
The No Voldemort AU @merlinsbbeard and I are writing together...
All's Well That Ends Well
Words: 24k. Chapters: 7/25. Rated: M. Co-writer: @merlinsbbeard.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. And the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have very small minds, indeed.
Or: Lily Evans is flung into the vicious cesspit that is the Hogwarts Dating Scene. Filled with boys and Quidditch parties and Firewhisky and friendly inter-house relations and tears and mean girls and public displays of affection—gag.
The fic that I am taking so long to write because each chapter rips my bloody heart out...
To Live Without A Heart
Words: 1.3k. Chapters: 2/?. Rated: M.
James wasn’t home that night. It was the one decent thing Peter did, and James hated him for it.
One of my first smutty microfics...
Beetle-Browed Boy
Words: 483. Chapters: 1/1. Rated: E.
Being properly loved was not something Lily was accustomed to…until James: a ficlet.
A micro in which I experimented with poetry...
Familia, Amor, Fides
Words: 128. Chapters: 1/1. Rated: G.
The Potter Family Motto: 'Familia, Amor, Fides.' Family, Love, Loyalty. It was something James took very seriously: a ficlet.
UWM Special Collections holds a considerable Shakespeare collection because for many years our library was home for the Modern Language Association’s New Variorum Shakespeare project under the general editorship of UWM English professor Robert K. Turner, Jr. (1926-2012). In memory of Bob Turner, we are pleased to begin our new Shakespeare Weekend series with the thirty-seven volumes of The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club from 1939-1940.
Each of the Limited Edition Club (LEC) volumes of Shakespeare’s work are illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. This week we present Volume 1, Shakespeare’s comedy of infidelity and character swaps All’s Well That Ends Well, illustrated by the noted German-American illustrator and graphic artist Richard Floethe (1901-1988). The volume was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish. The title page and colophon say that the illustrations are from Floethe’s drawings, but we suspect that they are linocuts, much like the prints he produced for the 1937 LEC edition of Pinocchio.
so happy to have met my favorite author, the woman that verbalized the chaos and horror in my brain through her art especially with her book bunny! i love her soooooo ♡