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griddlehark, in bed the kiss

#real life crying actually #painting of all time AND ITS GRIDDLEHARK'?? thank you for this gift. #tlt #griddlehark

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wont you share with me

#AUGHHHHHHHHHHH #GRIDDLEHARK #tlt

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several days after finishing the game of kings i now realize i've been picturing chappell roan as christian stewart for the entirety of my reading experience

#the lymond chronicles #the game of kings #the cover for good luck babe just cemented it in my mind i fear #captain's log

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no, oh, damn you, no 

#the lymond chronicles #francis' expression...........AUGHHHH. PAIN

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i love the lymond chronicles because the marketing is so hilariously bad. you find a book tucked on a shelf at the used bookstore with this blurb:

It is 1547 and Scotland has been humiliated by an English invasion and is threatened by machinations elsewhere beyond its borders, but it is still free. Paradoxically, her freedom may depend on a man who stands accused of treason. He is Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of crooked felicities and murderous talents, possessed of a scholar’s erudition and a tongue as wicked as a rapier. In The Game of Kings, this extraordinary antihero returns to the country that has outlawed him to redeem his reputations even at the risk of his life.

and your immediate reaction is, okay, so this is some cheesy tropey 1950s historical romance, right? lots of sex and swooning? perhaps a bodice that might, if we permit ourselves to exercise our imaginations, get genre-appropriately disposed of? female characters who are, at best, POV vessels?

and then you open the first page and it hits you with one of the most obtuse, incomprehensible, historically-informed first chapters I’ve ever read, your protagonist is not so much a dashing antihero as a pathetic depressed should-be-in-college asshole mercenary, your female characters are compelling and wonderful and entirely uninterested in being swept off their feet, the character closest to a Spunky Rebellious Romance Girl ™ is in fact a young man intent on becoming a criminal out of his sheer desire to be Different, and also there is a pig, and it is drunk. this is what you came for, right? says Lymond– just Lymond, you aren’t even on a first name basis with your protagonist for several books– menacingly. This Is A Historical Romance Book. nothing to see here.

#THE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK!!!!! #LADY CHRISTIAN I WILL THINK ABOUT YOU FOREVER #the lymond chronicles #anyway. read the game of kings

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it's crazy that we got the first textual queer lymond allegations in 1961 but i personally didn't need it i had him all figured out as soon as he did this

don't worry mr craw ford i saw your dreamlike punctiliousness

#did somebody say francis crawford of lymond etc etc #the lymond chronicles

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how kate somerville looks musing about lymond's feminine gaze and exquisite wrists and musician's hands and long lashes and "eyes like a kitten's"

#the lymond chronicles #im in the tag for the game of kings and look who i find! hi cami

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Sëlynn aka 쉬시턴 aka Sëlynn Lee aka Selynn Draws (South Korean, b. South Korea, based Frankfurt am Main, Germany)Female Artists - A cat in grandma's veggie basket, Paintings

#art #kitty..........

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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#never im sorry but the smell sucks ass. why would i willingly get Closer

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your honor my client should be at the club

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#i usually take a shower in the morning #i wish i could pick the two in the summer option but unfortunately thats what i get for living in a drought area from june to september

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If im reading a 800 page book I should be freed of all other responsibilities in my life. Like sorry I can’t do that right now because im reading this long ass book. Yeah you know how it is

#me with lymond

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I heard you like magic🪄✨👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

#chappell roan #ohhh i love this art

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thinking about fleetwood mac and how they actually sang songs about each other. and performed them. about how much they loved or hated each other like what the fuck how

I mean can you imagine. singing about how somebody broke your heart and they’re literally harmonizing. they’re right fucking there. they’re in touching distance. insanity! complete insanity! I would either break down crying or fully snap and break their neck

fucking. silver springs!!! ‘you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you!’ no fucking kidding he won’t stevie he’s literally behind you playing the drums! absolute madlads

#fleetwood mac #i need to watch more of their live perfomances

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Nina Simone's gorgeous white netted jumpsuit, performing in Newport, 1967. Photos in part by David Redfern/Getty and John Rudoff via Flickr.

#nina simone #photography

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"educate yourselves because we’ll need all your intelligence. stir yourselves because we’ll need all your enthusiasm. organize yourselves because we’ll need all your strength."

Antonio Gramsci (22 jan 1891 - 27 april 1937)

solidarity forever, solidarity for all 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#my art #captain's log #my stuff #free palestine #🇵🇸