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Truly it is incredibly inconvenient how you have to write your stories if you want to read them

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they’re finally free 🥹

#bridgerton tv #kanthony

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#not quite true #but not far off #i certainly give fewer fucks about others’ expectations in my 30s and that’s its own flowery joy

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!!!!!FUCK MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!

Lol never mind the fact he stole these flowers from an old lady's garden then out ran her when she chased him down

#a date with death #at some point I’ll stop devouring others stories and go back to my own #but NOT YET #dlc acquired!

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costume design across period pieces

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“Henry King of England, I Christophe Cremuel, curse you. The Holy Ghost curses you. Your own mother curses you. I hope a leper spits on you. I hope your whore has the pox. I hope you go to sea in a boat with a hole in it. I hope the waters of your heart rise up and spout down your nose. May you fall under a cart. May rot rise up from your heels to your head, going slowly, so you take seven years to die. May God squash you. May Hell gape.”

— Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light

#wolf hall #the mirror and the light #spoilers #i am still screaming in my head after this book #how why how did it take me so long to come to it #1260% recommend the audiobooks read by ben miles

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Voyager is our Home.

#star trek: voyager

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OTW is Recruiting for Tag Wrangling & Graphics Volunteers

Are you fluent in Russian or Filipino?  Are you interested in working with AO3 tags? Can you create banners and infographics? OTW is recruiting volunteers!  Find out more or help us signal boost: https://otw.news/rkh

#join usssss

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“Don’t wait until the last minute to do your assignments!”

listen. I don’t. But I am always trapped in a vicious cycle.

And the only thing that breaks this cycle is the dread of an imminent deadline

#ha ha ha it's me right now #do i get extra points for getting my meds out and them being next to me but i haven't taken them #okay tumblr i'll do it #adhd

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Dear Unsent Letters 2024 Author,

Thank you for thinking of writing for me for this year's Unsent Letters exchange!

I've requested all of these fandoms before (and probably reblogged many pretty gif sets) so if these ideas don't spark joy then please feel free to see what I've requested before. On the other hand, if you have your own idea before you've read any further, then please run with that. This letter -- and my letters can sometimes get long -- is here to help, not to hinder... I hope!

Please find below some loves, likes and DNWs, and then prompts by fandom (in alphabetical order!):

DNWs for All Fandoms

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics | Anyone being called “Daddy” in a sexual context | Bestiality | Body Horror | Gore | Medical Experimentation | Mpreg | Mutilation | Non-Canonical Amputation | Sadism | Scat | Torture | Vore

General Likes and Loves

5+1 Times | Alternate Endings | Angst | Backstory | Banter/Bickering | Bittersweet | Canon Compliant | Canon Divergence | Character Death | Character Death Aftermath | Character Study | Class Differences | Coming of Age | Competence | Complicated Sibling Relationships | Cultural Differences | Dark Fic | Debt & Financial Pressures | Despair | Disabled Characters | Domesticity | Different Worldviews | Enemies to Friends/Lovers | Epistolary | Examining Societal Issues | First Meetings | First Time | Fix-It | Fluff | Found Family | Friends/Lovers to Enemies | Grief/Mourning | Grumpy Character/Sunshine Character | Historical Details | Humour | Hurt/Comfort | Last Time | Laws of Magic | Living Up/Down to Expectations | Long-Distance Friendship | Marriage of Convenience | Miscommunication | Missing Moment | Obeying Canonical Boundaries (Social/Cultural/Moral) | Outsider POV | Parent/Child Relationships | Pining | Platonic Intimacy | Politics & Intrigue | Poor Life Choices | Post-Canon | Pre-Canon | Pregnancy & Babies | Presumed Dead | Protectiveness | Redemption | Religious Elements | Reunions | Romance | Sad Endings | Secret Relationships | Uneven Power Dynamics | Unexpected/Unlikely Friendship | Unreliable Narrators | Whump | Worldbuilding

Darkfic Likes

Apocalypse | Betrayal | Character Death | Character Death Aftermath | Claustrophobia | Conspiracy | Debt & Financial Pressures | Degradation | Disease | Dubious Consent | Dystopia | Fire | Forced Marriage | Gaslighting | Hauntings | Humiliation | Hypothermia | Infertility | Miscarriage/Pregnancy Loss | Murder | Paranoia | Poisoning | Prison | PTSD | Shame | Suicide | Terminal Illness | Unhappy Endings

Smut Likes (and more power to you if you can use these in epistolary fic!)

Biting/Marking | Bondage | Canon Compliant/Historically Appropriate (esp. period fandoms) | Desperate Sex | Dirty Talk | Dubcon | Edging/Orgasm Delay | Fingering | First Times | Fisting | Foreplay | Hair Pulling/Touching/Playing | Last Times | Loss of virginity (either/both/all partners) | Oral (any/all combinations/intensities/setups) | Porn with Feelings | Power Imbalance (Physical or Social/Financial/Other) | Restraint/Held Down | Rough Sex | Semi-Public Sex | Sensual Details | Vanilla Sex

1. Bridgerton (TV)

Letters during Anthony and Kate's engagement, or letters home from their honeymoon (which canonically lasts six months!)

What's in Colin and Penelope's correspondence during his summer in Greece?

2. Downton Abbey

Letters to and from the front during the war

Violet's correspondence with Edith and Rosamund while they are away "practicing their French"

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Letters between Jane at Ferndean and Adele at school

How is the Thornfield fire reported in the press? Is the aborted wedding reported?

Does Jane ever write to Miss Temple for advice, or to keep in touch?

4. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV

I would be delighted with either book or TV fic; I love both.

Articles about this unexpected marriage? Would there be a difference between reporting in Milton and reporting in London?

Along the same theme, what about Outsider POV on the relationship via letters, with family and friends writing to one another? How does Hannah write the news to Edith? Mrs Shaw, Edith, the Lennoxes? How does Frederick find and/or take the news?

Letters between Margaret and John during their engagement, or perhaps when they are obliged to be apart during their marriage.

An ONDB/Wikipedia article on John, Margaret, even Higgins, recapping their life and successes?

5. The West Wing

Copied from a past Unsent Letters letter:

I am extra specially excited about the idea of books and articles for this fandom, but it’s also the only one where emails/texts could be a thing here. So much possible fun! News articles, political blogs, email chains, text messages, speech transcripts, press briefing transcripts!

The assistants giving outsider POV on canonical events, with commentary/misunderstandings/D-plot drama?

Josh and Donna awkwardness or sweetness? I ship them, but can read it both in a “desperate pining” and “friendship/love” sort of way.

Donna keeps a diary.

Email chains, notes/memos in the office, fun reports? So many possibilities using the fandom.

They make a lot of reference to funny or awkward typos in the show; there may be some fun to have there, even in just a background sort of way. I have one of those will-spot-the-single-typo-on-a-menu-and-never-unsee-it sort of brains, so throw some in just for fun, I will see them and rejoice.

I am just excited for anything, and love all the characters dearly, and any others you choose to include. Equally, if you do go for one of the big group tags, please feel free to add or drop characters as you need to if it makes it work for you, I’m not precious, and it’s right here saved forever in my signup that it’s totally cool with me.

Otherwise:

Gaza angst

King Corn angst

Anything closely linked to an episode - I've seen this show enough times that I should be able to jump right in

Desperate pining, on either side

#dear author letter #bridgerton tv #downton abbey #jane eyre #north and south #the west wing

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

#i sung 80% of these out loud to myself as i scrolled #amazing

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#i'm in this picture and i don't like it

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KATE WEEK 2024 [5/7]

Day 5: “A” - ALTAR ↳ Kate and Anthony; the way they look at each other before and after their first kiss in BRIDGERTON 2.06 ‘The Choice’

#bridgerton tv #that first gif appearing on my screen as i scrolled basically stabbed me in the heart ow

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Chapter five, which contains my favourite scene I've ever written (and took me past 100k total words on AO3), is here!

Words: 24,999 on 5/? chapters

As the third substantial version of chapter six is with my two magnificent and very patient beta readers, this feels like the least cruel time to share.

Fic: Good Hope (Anthony/Kate)

Thanks to @slushiebear and @shroomonabroom for their truly excellent beta reading. Everything is much better for their efforts.

Pairing: Anthony/Kate

Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sharma, Colin Bridgerton, Newton

Words: 19,969 on 4/? chapters

Rating: M

Warnings: None.

Additional tags: Kate Sharma Leaves for India, POV Anthony Bridgerton, Adventure & Romance, Slow Burn

On AO3

Summary:

Kate leaves for India. Anthony follows. Colin keeps him company.

"Good God, are you duelling again?” asked Colin. “No, wait—" He shut the door. "What has Eloise done now?" "It's Anthony," said Benedict gleefully. "He's going on a romantic quest across the seas in search of his viscountess!" Colin’s face lit up with unwelcome delight. “Anthony, on a trip abroad? All in the name of duty, I suppose?” Anthony rubbed his temple as Benedict poured one out for Colin as well. “How marvellous. I quite approve,” Colin continued. “Did no English ladies meet your lofty standards, that you must search on foreign shores?” “No, brother,” said Benedict. “He seeks a particular lady who set sail from London this morning—no doubt to get away from the esteemed viscount who nearly married her sister and almost ruined both our families.” Anthony took a large sip of brandy and then another as he watched Colin do the arithmetic in his head. “Miss Sharma? She is returning to India?” “Left this morning,” confirmed Benedict. “And I am going after her,” said Anthony. His empty hand touched his watch as he thought about all the time he couldn't waste. “There’s nothing else to be done.”

#bridgerton fic #ao3 fanfic #kanthony #bridgerton tv #sobri writes things #i have no idea of the tumblr fic posting etiquette sorry

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Bertha and George Russell

in Season 2 of The Gilded Age

#the gilded age #i adore these two

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KATE WEEK 2024 [4/7]

Day 4: “H” - HANDS ↳ Kate and Anthony hand stuff in BRIDGERTON 2.04 ‘Victory’ + 2.05 ‘An Unthinkable Fate’

#bridgerton tv #yessss