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#i do hate the military tho coming from a military family (like i'll be the first son in a generation at least to not to be in the military)
ylskquevmxv · 11 months
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British insight for those military men fics
Coming from a British person
Use this for your angsty british backstory
Will include:
-insight to healthcare and low income situations
- opinions on the royal family (all negative)
- british food
- talks about home life and low income
• none of them would care for the queens death. They would not be mourning, they would not be sad, they're not tories. If anything theyd be glad and wishing death upon the rest of them. The monarchy sucks the only downside is that we have Charles and camilla now. Diana rest in peace
• to add on to this they wouldnt care for the coronation they would most likely insult it, they probably hate the entire royal family like almost all of the entire uk does. I am repeating this again but they are NOT tories 🚫nuh uh🚫 stop painting, price, gaz and ghost as people who love the royals while soap hates them 💀💀 they all hate the monarchy
• they most likely wouldnt drink fancy tea Pg, Yorkshire, tetley etc are their go to because that's what most of the uk drink especially low income houses as it's the cheapest. Taste of home I guess.
• also they're not out here eating beans on toast whenever they get the chance💀 they're probably eating an entire meal because they're giant men??? Like beans on toast is what parents give to their kids because it's cheap and fills them up, the only time they're having beans is with:
1) breakfast
2) jacket potatoes
3) sasauge and mash
4) Gregg's bean and sausage pasties
• also soap probably eats beans too?? I've seen fics where hes wholeheartedly against beans like??? Hes Scottish?? I know he ate beans as a kid, no one grows up and decides to have a mohawk otherwise
• they're all meat and potatoes type of men (like all british men) that's it. That's the facts
• fries =/= chips
• also british people are like really lazy when they speak
"would you like a cup of tea?"= "fancy a cuppa?"
"I'm just not in the mood to do that" = "cant be arsed"
"How are you?" = "ya alright?"
"Should we get some Chinese/Indian/Italian/etc food?" = "you want a chinese/Indian/italian/etc?"
• we tend to just drop words off In sentences because the person were talking to probably already understands what we mean and because like I said we're lazy
• British accents also vary so much!!! Even if you're from the same street you'll probably have a different accent and we also swear a lot, we also use a bunch of mixed slang as thete are people from everywhere over here (poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, india named from just my class)
• Irish travellers are also really common so their would probably be a few in recruitment  idk why people dont add Irish people to their fics ?? maybe they fear putting Scotts and irish people together (watch big fat gypsy wedding for more insight I used to love that show)
• Aussies understand us pretty well (shout out to my uncle Andy) a lot of our language dialects are pretty similar and our humour is both pretty dry and blunt
• also British people dont care for like anything?? Even tho we have free healthcare most of us just slap a wet paper towel on it and call it a day. The most reaction you'll get is a room temperature ice pack
• british teeth are also something that Americans dont really understand since we have free healthcare but I'll they to simplify it. our Healthcare is free and so is dental care but only if you're younger than 16 except for check ups etc and unfortunately alot of us are born into low income households whose parents are a)mentally unwell b) physically unwell c) involved with drugs or are just simply neglectful so that means a lot of us arent taken to the dentist and by the time we are old enough to take ourselves we would have to pay for it and some of us just dont have the money for things like braces
• also I really want to see someone include chavs/roadmen in their stories because i think it would be funny plus some of them are really nice and genuinely curious when asking
• there are things called council houses/ council estates and they arent the nicest places to live and are usually not in the best shape but it's a place to sleep, most of the people who live there are usually people who live on benefits and are really lovely (might be biased I used to live in one tho), you usually have to top up on gas and electric every so often via a card (gas) and a key (for electric) usually able to get these topped up from you local corner shop
• alot of the nosies we make are as if we're cave men
*throws paper ball into trash*
Anyone in a 5mile radius: WOOOOO
• we also make up chants alot?? Idk why but we're just a musical country usually has something about your mum, your nan, a nonce, or one of the many other british wonders *nonce = pedo
• our beauty standards are a lot less extreme like theres obviously beauty standards but there are a lot more regular looking people on tv over here rather than supermodels ?? I've been to America and some of the people on tv you'd swear they were made in a factory for hot people only. Let people be regular
• British tv has a commercial every 15 minutes or so and our commercials dont offer lawyers or medication, some our commercials have songs, silly gags in them or are terrifying (check out: money supermarket, the antibiotic song, the meerkat adverts just to name a few)
• our eggs are orange not yellow
•our sandwiches have butter on them (not all but most) + brits arent much of foodies we just eat to survive really especially during the cost of living
• our drinking culture is a big thing over here, a lot of us start drinking around 13
• we have stores like asda, tesco, lidl, aldi, iceland, sainsburys and big Tesco, corner shops are really common depending on if they're owned by a large company or not some of them arent in perfect shape and are run my people from other countries but they have good stuff so who cares about how they look
• you have to be 16 to buy an energy drink and 18 to buy alcohol/ cigarettes
• outside cats are a thing, they're not homeless they just come as they go
• for some reason people are really classist?? Because how dare the poor be alive, and I'm not talking about just rich people being bad to the poor if you have bad living conditions expect to be made fun of by other low income people 💀 you'll be lucky if yoire funny because otherwise you will just be getting bullied.
•our weather is pretty much grey, our grass is almost never fully green and usually patchy, our summers are so hot they cause wild fires because we have no humidity and no air con, our winters are a hit or miss either too cold or a regular day
• tv shows that most of us call soaps: eastenders, coronation street, emmadale and hollyoaks
• some uk shows, naked attraction, snog marry avoid, friday night dinner, bad education, plebs, come dine with me, him & her, some girls, the Keith lemon show, gavin and stacey, not british but Derry girls, inbetweeners, anything with philomena cunk in it, the great british bake off
• Some documentaries (ish) for those who love information: old people homes for four year old, emergency, educating greater Manchester, educating Cardiff, poor kids, anything with stacey Dooley or louis theroux in
• it's kinda hard to describe the uk to someone whose never witnessed or experienced it.
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romanarose · 22 days
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Hey, I love your HCs of the Triple Frontier boys <3 I was thinking about what are some of their hobbies/interests and what kind of music they like to listen to. What do you think?
excellant question nonnie!!! I have LOTS of hc's, thanks for asking!!!
Santiago Garcia
We know Santi loves Metallica
And the sountrack to TF has Fleetwood Mac and Bob Dylan
I think Santi just loves music! He flies a lot so he spends time listening to full albums.
He doesn't have a lot of free time
Despite everyones teasing, he's not here to fuck pretty women. He's here to work.
Still, despite onl a few personal items he does have his guitar. Plays it a lot.
It does help with women
When he was a kid he thought he'd become a singer, he loves Vicente Ferdanez and Juan Gabriel
Alas, for a poor immigrant family Santi couldn't abandon them to persu wishy-washy dreams, he needed to work. Hence the military.
Still, it makes him happy when he sit and play guitar, watching people smile.
He learns songs from all his friends and families favorite bands.
William Miller
Will hates modern country.
Growing up in the yee haw south I think he hates what it's become
Was not upset when Tobey Keith died at all, think he ruined the genre in the post-9/11 nationalism
He enjoys thegrassroots rock movement (springsteen, melloncamp, petty) and the blues.
Him and Santiago both love Fleetwood Mac. It combines Santi's love of rock and Will's love of the blues.
Enjoys jazz but also classical music. He has more interest in the instruments than the lyrics of music anyway.
Him and Frankie both love love love Johnny Cash (who doesn't?)
Will loves suduko
He loves things that calm his mind.
Will likes sports, it was how him and Ben spent a lot of time on the farm.
To this day he likes going out to play ball with Ben. It helps Benny with his ADHD.
Benjamin Miller
Benny does not find tossing a ball around or playing basketball helps his ADHD at all
What he does find is that is helps Will's obbsessive obsessive worrying about him.
So, in that sense, Ben likes it because 1. it's fun and 2. it's a rare chance where he can help Will. Will doesn't let people help him much
Benny looooooves trash TV
The Bachelor, Love after Lockup, Love is Blind
He likes shows he doesn'thave to pay a whole lot of attentionto.
Not that Benny isn't smart bc I haaaaate when people act like he isn't.
But with his ADHD (which I hc he has) he tends to have a lot of things going at once. He's not going to be able to sit down and fully commit to something like The Handmaid's Tale.
Will go head to head on country music with Will and Frankie
he likes the bro country like Florida Goergia Line, Jason Aldean
No one ever accussed him of great taste, okay?
He's here for a good time, not a long time.
He doesn't like the racist or anti-lgbt artists and won't give them his money for concerts
But you can't fauly him for getting don to Red Solo Cup
Also loves classic hair metal (wore an AC/DC shirt most of the movie)
Francisco Morales
Frankie loves country music and grunge
His favorite Benny singing tho
Favorite is anything Chris Cornell and I'll stand by that!!!
Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, his solo work
Frankie is a busy man, but I like to think he likes lego's
He's an enginier, so you know he's a smart man. I bet he loves making lego sets come together
Frankie has very strong opinions on children's television.
Bubble Guppies > Paw Patrol
Hates Paw Patrol but his daughter likes Skye becuase she's a hellicopter/pilot dog so he allows it.
Loves being out in nature. He's trying ot instill a love of the outdoors in his daughter, but also loves pending time with the guy, or even by himself
When he's overwhelmed, Frankie likes to go for a walks in the woods.
Will fuck up a farmers market all DAY
Oddly enjoys mowing the lawn
My man is Hank Hill
"Why would anyone do drugs hen they could just mow their lawn."
Now that he's sober, he finds lawncare is a great way to distract himself while still being a present father. He can do that while his daughter plays.
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thank you so much for the ask!!!! i love chatting about my boys <3
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chevvy-yates · 4 months
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Singapore sling for Vijay 💗Manhattan for Ryder 💗Mai tai for Thyjs 💗Cuba libre for Jaysen 💕
ok this might get shorter than usual, but I want it out of my drafts! Dx
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𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 〜 what was one of your oc’s favorite tv shows/movies as a child? do they still enjoy it now?
Vijays first movies ans tv shows were 80s movies. His nanny that always was with him bc his parents had no time watched a lot of 1980s that imprinted on Vijay in a way he's totally into 80s. So one of Vijay's favorite tv shows turned out to be Knight Rider and his favorite movie trilogy is Back to the Future. Therefore he also got the cars from the series K.I.T.T. and the DeLorean he keeps til today :) He's always in for movie nights and if he can select it it will be either the mentioned above or any other cool movie that came out during the 80s (Indiana Jones, Top Gun, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Die Hard etc.)
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𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗻 〜 what kind of people does your oc hate the most?
Clearly Corpo society. For many reasons. The fakeness, the rats, the snakes, loan shark, u name them all. He especially hates their world view, how they think they are something better, letting others lick their boots and workto death while they bath in money they do not need at all. He knows not every Corpo is the same and there are good ones as well, but these are so rare.
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𝗺𝗮𝗶 𝘁𝗮𝗶 〜 how was your oc’s life growing up? did they do well in school if they attended? do they have any awkward teenage memories?
Thyjs grew up fine. As soon as military school started for him some class mates tried to mob him tho because of his albinism and bad eye sight he's had then but his father told him how to defend himself and when he turned 16 he finally got his first kiroshi optics. He was excellent in every school subject and soon at the top of the best as he trained a lot and always believed in himself that he can reach everything as long as he truly wants it. And his family was always supporting him. He can't remember having had an awkward teenage moment (as I can't think of any yet but if sth comes through my mind, i'll let u know!)
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𝗰𝘂𝗯𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗲 〜 if your oc wears any perfume/cologne, what’s their favorite?
Obviously Versace Blue Jeans!!! <3 I don't think there much further to add. Enzo will like it, he has to! :D
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kawaii-pigeon · 2 years
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Compassion.
WELL FUNNY HOW YOU PUT THIS IN HERE since when answering asks i was riding with G and she saw a turtle in the road. Had her stopped cause he wasnt smooshed (actually it was probably a she?) So i could grab em. A lil red ear slider that i put across the road and hope they'll be okay.
And how does this relate to me?
Well when it comes to compassion... Not to humble brag 😂 most buddies know i got a big heart (and big dummy but i mean well)
But my compassion for people have been hard taken, forged repeatedly cause... I find it really hard to care about humans. An individual I vibe with? Much easier. But my compassion for animals is all encompassing.
But that probably comes up growing up very isolated from people outside of school, and bonding to the stray cats and tons of guniea pigs we had.
My love and compassion for animals is probably my biggest trait, ive never been able to stand knowing I could do something to improve an animals life and not try. It tore me up as a little kid because i didnt understand WHY the cats had to be outside when people kept killing them for fun..
Ive tried to do some volunteer work for local humane societies but they dont like when you volunteer outside your county for some reason (we dont have a shelter in mine, assholes)
And, I never got why peoples compassion for animals stops at just mammals.
For people?
I tend to get really uncomfortable, especially when its people i dont know well, and it takes a harder effort for me to want to be compassionate. Call me a heartless bitch but i just tend to look away.
Which i suppose, is the problem with society at large, we are too uncomfortable when someone is in visible need and just... Look the other way.
And i could rationalize it to the live long day. But theres always times people, and myself included... Could help... But don't.
Aaaand i hope to make up the difference by at least trying to improve the lives of those i love and care for 😭
Sometimes tho, theres people i cant help but feel my heart ache. Mothers, lil scrawny kids, really old men... Veterans cause fuck ive always hated the military but to throw someone who risked life and limb into the street??
Maybe i think im worse then what I am. Trying to give the vet by my walmart cash and food thinking i dont do enough.
Bonding with my friends, supporting their hobbies, wondering if im not doing enough, family and their endless obligations and wondering if im not doing enough.
But at the very least I work and try to be a warm lil soft spot in a cold harsh world.
Yet?? If you get to know the true me? If i choose to let you into my heart? You'll find bountiful compassion.
And with bountiful compassion comes bountiful hurt and sadness, cause damn...
Do not fucking look at me during humane society commercials. Do Not perceive me during sad moments in a story. If the animal companion dies I WILL BE EMOTIONALLY DISTRAUGHT-
which.. is also funny. I claim to hate people/humans so much, but I'll still wail.
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hospitalterrorizer · 5 months
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diary51
11/1-2/2023
wednesday - thursday
today sucked but that's okayyy.
not really but whatever. it's not because errands themselves were stressful. but first i should list off positives of the day, i made a guitar sound just now, it's crazy feedback freakshit, really cool to me, kind of really gets the pv stuff down too, which is mental. i recorded vocals and re-wrote lyrics for that song, and i'm sure i'll need to go back in, but it's huge to have that idea down and stuff.
anyways, today sucked because my gf's mom decided, while she and my gf were out together separate from me, me in the laundromat, laying into her about basically random bullshit, from me not having a job (i try! no one wants to hire me, there's huge gaps in my employment history, i can't act right in interviews or something i guess, sometimes i accidentally put "would prefer not to answer" for questions of gender on the questionnaire things, and it's apparently not something you're meant to do) and then getting into how we behaved on the trip, she believes for some reason that i think there is no war in israel when what i said to her, days ago in arizona, was that world war 3 is not going to start and china is not looking to invade america or use a nuclear weapon on us because one why would they start mutually assured destruction, unless they destroy america totally and just america (and what would they get?? no land, no resources, they are extracting all the capital they could want because they have beaten us at manufacturing and basically everything (we still have to see if they will achieve communism tho (i hope they do))), and two like i just said, they have beaten us industrially, america wants to stoke hate for china to start something because one: america is racist and evil and two: humiliated about not being number 1 (and all boomers are too thus the china is evil fantasy). i was also pro palestine and said that israel is obviously to blame here in every way, because they hold their people hostage essentially feeding these deaths to justify greater and greater strides towards genocide. in the car, she was agreeing with me, but she just does that. she also kept talking about how she had family who were in the military, and a husband too, and like wow who cares, the first place they test all the propaganda, where all the red scare cold war bullshit hit first, panic over those paper tigers that are kept to just destroy the world if we wanna. stupid. she also brought up multiple times that i am uneducated because i didn't get my degree because i could not justify going to school during covid virtually because i would be so bad at it and stuff, so she thinks i am like a stupid uneducated hick, something she loves to use against all kinds of people!!!!! she's so classist it honestly makes me sick.
she also brought up bill maher, and how disrespectful we were, and how she was so upset hearing us make jokes, and my gf asked if she thought i liked hearing him make bathroom gender jokes, and her mom was like "well he's just a man. it's a choice. he isn't one of them right." and a bunch of other shit, so my gf came in to tell me all this, she sees her telling me, and then she just calls my gf to say that if she's going to have a conversation then at least include her, and then she literally abandons us in the fucking laundromat for a while until my gf calls her, and during the call she begins ranting about bill maher again, and how he's making jokes for a different generation and how we don't understand, and also how i need to "pick a side, he's either transgender or not." and more stupid nonsense, but she at least comes to get us again. the whole rest of the day she acts like nothing happened, and that she isn't an abusive/manipulative bitch. my gf cursed her out during the first go around, and she was so pathetic, she acted like she was being abused and had to get away from her evil daughter defending her partner and getting upset her mother is literally a stupid and bad person who can't get over gentle banter over fucking bill maher. i can't believe he's developed into this great a problem in my life. he is a demon that looms in my existence now until i die, or he dies. not that i am wishing for his death (sincere, it feels awful to wish for people to die unless they are intensely rich demons like bezos who have so much funding behind them they are literally impervious to wishing (i think my superstitious sectors of my brain are over active in unfun ways that can rule my life sometimes but whatever (just washing my hands of intent and telling everyone my intent is perfect and good and i would never hurt anybody i am just nice and happy and not evil)))
it's so whatever, literally too stupid for earth.
this isn't even all the news of the day though, my gf's brother had a party last night, and he had a friend over who was on acid, coke, weed, and booze, and he had an ego death moment, obsessed over his own death a while, shit himself, ripped his clothes off, screamed, slammed his head into their mirror and broke the thing into one million pieces or whatever, climbed on the countertop of their kitchen totally naked, screamed about dying more, and ran out of the house to beat a cop up and steal his car and drive it 5 miles out into a car with 2 people in it. there is a video.
needless to say he is traumatized, his friend is in the trauma unit, the people he crashed into are in the trauma unit, no one is going to come out of this even half okay.
hearing that, and the thing with her mom insulting me behind my back (not new but it sucks and this is the worst it's ever gotten), today is kind of a stupid nightmare. but i feel okay basically. i was more pissed earlier and my gf left a drink in the laundromat, she mentioned it in the car ride to the grocery store, and i said "another one of today's disappointments" and her mom said something and we just said it had nothing to do with her, the statement. maybe that sucked of me. whatever, kind of. i don't like being mean but how else is she supposed to take the hint that she is being not a good or even likeable person when she acts like this, and is only being delusional when she believes she's in the right.
and i totally am grateful she drives us around to help us run our errands, she doesn't have to but, like, she does it because she thinks she's going to get payment from it some day, and she also does this because literally, i hate to bring it to him again, but she has fantasies of her daughter going on bill maher or cnn, and hoping her daughter would agree with anything she says in her head, she'd get to finally have her genius thoughts spat out in the most meaningless information streams the general public are exposed to, hoping her daughter will be an 'expert' that can be used by the media to bludgeon people with basically because they are wrong and she would, being her daughter and hopefully (but in actuality she disagrees with her entirely) agree with her, and prove that she, ******a, is right about everything. she would like to reduce her daughter that she has beaten, manipulated, called an accident, into a mouth piece and robs her of herself totally in her daydreams. a miserable excuse for a parent. i am grateful though. i try to like her. sometimes she is a very kind woman, or she makes the effort which counts i guess, but my gf is beyond ever being convinced that she really is nice, rightfully so, i'm just on my way there, i am going to lay down in a sea on the other end of some mountains and let the sea take me away, the wash whispering oh well a million times over.
some people only have ressentiment. that's how her mother is. the wasted life. she hates that i don't work because hard work is all that matters, she doesn't see the ways i work hard but all her hard work has given her is arthritis and misanthropy.
i should put some images here about this vague malaise.
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yanase masamu - a length of capitalist's drool.
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combatwoundedveteran - this is not an erect all-red neon body
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mark mccoy - wound
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hans bellmer - la poupee
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ilona jurgiel (idk if she called this anything, striking though)
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jean cocteau (tragically i do not know where this is from, making me feel stupid, but it strikes me right now as meaningful).
i don't know if these images connect at all really for anyone else but they are pretty things to adorn myself with, little resonant chimes that harmonize with right now distantly, or maybe in detuned 5ths, some kind of gamelan tonal array.
i always feel like anything where someone has their guts out though, re: mark mccoy + the cwv album cover.
anwayssssssssss ughhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhh:
byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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uncanny-tranny · 3 years
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thank god daddy biden lifted the transgender military ban so we can go die for oil
now if only we could have federal protection from discrimination we'd have it all
What am I supposed to tell my local recruiter now
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telltaleclerk · 2 years
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Book asks!
18, 86, 108
And 135 because you always have the good stuff.
18. Your least favourite book ever.
I'm only including books I actually read all or most of the way through. I don't think it's fair to include a book in this list when I read less than a hundred pages. SO... that being said... it's an entire series. The Soldier Son series by Robin Hobb... I hated it. She is one of my favourite authors of all time but this book... I just... couldn't. The whole SERIES. And I READ the whole series because she's one of my favourites ever... and I thought: I'm going to give her a chance (they're gigantic books too... 3 GIGANTIC fantasy books). And NOPE. Do not read it. It's not connected to any of her other books/worlds so you don't need to for any reason. Just don't.
It's one of those books that gets to the end and it had no point. The entire story had NO point. That's how I felt. I'm sure she'd meant for there to be a point... but it just... nope. And... there was this whole obesity-magic/storyline in it... where the main character ends up basically eating a bunch of magic and becoming fat despite the fact that he's not eating because it's the magic that's making him fat... and then he gets kicked out of military school and ostracized by EVERYONE for being fat... and I just... ugh. As a fat girl I hated it a lot. And then at the end (as I recall because I only read them once) he gets rid of the magic and gets thin again and just... goes on with his life and gets to be happy again now that he's no longer fat and I just WHAT THE FUCK?! I was so mad.
I could see what she was doing with some of tho other themes and whatnot... the indigenous people in these books are being colonized and losing their way of life because of it... they have magic but are being caged in iron so they can't use it etc... and the main character is from a semi-prosperous family in the prairies... so I get where she was going with all of that... I just hated the main character's storyline. SO MUCH. And when it all comes back around and it's like: he got the life he wanted in the end. All of the suffering seemed to have no purpose to me really. I don't even remember the lasting effect anything had on the world.
Sorry for the rant. I really did NOT like this series. And considering that I own SEVERAL copies of the rest of her books that's saying something. Because I LOVE her as an author. But not everyone can make awesome stuff all the time.
86. A book with an insane plot twist.
Ok. Ok. I know I talk about The Raven Cycle a LOT... but it's on my mind... The Raven Cycle has SEVERAL awesome and insane plot twists that I love so much it HURTS. And I'm not going to tell you what ANY of them are... because you should just read the series. It is AMAZING!!!
108. a book with a small town setting.
Wellll... you know The Raven Cycle is set in a small town... OK I'LL STOP! :D
A Complicated Kindness by Miram Toews is set in a small Mennonite town in Manitoba. It's written in a way I NORMALLY don't like... she doesn't use quotation marks for dialogue... normally I would put a book like that down IMMEDIATELY... and then set it on fire... but I got sucked right in by this book despite my hatred of that formatting choice. It's REALLY well written and a really good read. Recommended!
135. Recommend any book you like!
You are a GEM for this one!!!! BUT HOW TO CHOOSE?!?!
Ok.. I'm going to do two.
First: Since I crapped all over one of her other series' up above... I'm going to recommend ANYTHING else by Robin Hobb. Keep in mind that a lot of her books are set in the Six Duchies... and are all kind of interconnected... so even though you can read some of them alone... I think they work better all as one long series (despite being a bunch of sets of trilogies)... so I would recommend starting with the Farseer Trilogy. The first book is Assassin's Apprentice and it's SOOO good. Bastard of the king is trained from a young age to be an assassin for the court and kept hidden. And I just... YES! YES PLEASE! I recently just got the illustrated hardcover of this book and OH MAN SO GOOD.
Second: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison is super fun and awesome. And started as a Sherlock wingfic that the author published. I'm assuming some changes were made. But it's awesome. A twist on Sherlock that I really enjoyed, with lots of throwbacks to the classic Sherlock mysteries.
Thanks for the ask!!!
If anybody else wants to ask, you can do so HERE
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