#affair baby

[uraharastephfiction]

So

I'm all for the headcanon that Anastacha is Francis' daughter. There's even the famous phrase 'The Milkman's Daughter'.

However, it's because of this phrase and the story behind it that I'm just not on board with the idea that Francis and Nacha were married and now divorced. Francis is THE MILKMAN! It's a long time joke (and it stems from many, many true stories) that housewives have affairs with the milkman while he does his rounds. When a child looks nothing like the rest of their family, people might jokingly refer to them as 'the milkman's kid', implying they're an affair child. My thoughts on all this? Nacha and our milk boy, Francis, did some homemade milk shaking while Nacha's actual husband was either at work or getting eaten by Doppelgangers. Or maybe Mr Husband noped out of the marriage when he figured Anastacha wasn't his.

Maybe there was never a husband and Nacha just found herself knocked up with the Milkman's kid. Either way, I don't think they had a relationship that stemmed more than just sating each other's needs during the milk round. I don't think Francis even knows he has a daughter unless Nacha would have told him. But hey; there's room for them to grow close together and bond if that's your kind of thing. I just don't think they were ever married or in an actual, dating, relationship.

[frogdisco2021]

Percy "immediately starts beef with every god he meets by having no filter" Jackson versus Nico "every god thinks he's neat even though he's been nothing but weird and off-putting" di Angelo

[rejectingrepublicans]

[tricoufamily]

you say you like aliens and yet you are weirded out by the weird aliens. curious.

[brainrockets]

They released "A County Affair" in the free public feed. Go listen to it immediately! It is so good!

Aabria is a goat who is also maybe Satan.

Lou is a washed up racehorse with dreams of one last score.

Brennan is a slutty grandma chicken who is as ruthless as she is devoted to her grandkids.

Will they pull off the score?

Remember. No loose ends!

[thelampisaflashlight]

Aeon, watching the water and earth ghouls playing around by the lake: "Mister Aether, what are they doing?" Aether, carrying a pair of folding chairs: "It's just Aether." -looks over- "Ohhh, they're at it again." Aeon: "At what?" Aether: "LARPing. Live Action Role Playing." -sits down- "They have, like, an ongoing narrative and shit, and it's a whole thing, because they decided they were warring kingdoms..." Aeon: "Ohh..." Aether, cracking open a beer: "As I remember it, Delta is a wizard, Mist and Rain are knights of he realm, and Dew is Prince Dewcifer, heir to the throne of... Something." Aeon: "You forgot the name?" Aether, handing Aeon a beer: "No, that's just what they named their kingdom." Aeon, sipping his drink, makes a face: "...Oh." Aether:"Then you have Ivy and Pebble, they're the rulers of Oaks Grove, fey creatures who are at war with Something, because, and this is the funny part, Prince Mountainous Rangeous of Oaks Grove, Mountain, got kidnapped by Prince Dewcifer." Aeon: "...Dew kidnapped Mountain?" Aether: "They got a bit too into character during a scene and went off to hook up in the woods." Aeon, nodding: "This all tracks so far somehow." Aether: "The other big drama is that-" Rain, walking over, waving at them: "Aether, can we borrow your protégé? We need someone to play the affair baby and Aeon looks the most like Dew and me." Aeon, jumping up: -looks back at Aether- Aether, waves him off: "Be sure to stage whisper, I don't wanna miss the plot."

[whiskeyswifty]

Midnights - Taylor Swift (Matchbook Redesign)

A matchbook for each song, as imagined locations that could have inspired the songs themselves. From the hushed corners of a West Village tavern to the glittering main stage of a Vegas show. You never know where you'll find yourself when the clock strikes twelve.

poster and shirts and stickers in my etsy store

[alicent-targaryen]

HOTD APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 ▸ Free Choice

(BISHOP!DAEMON x QUEEN!RHAENYRA ▸ Renaissance!AU)

[zhoras-bitch]

[redgoldblue]

sorry i watched the project strigas affair last night and i'm still thinking about. about the innocent's wife, anxious and upset, saying "I never should have let him out of my sight!!!" about her husband going undercover in possible danger, Napoleon replying, "I know how you feel," her doubtfully going "Oh do you really, Mr. Solo?" (fair), and then anything Napoleon could have said in response being interrupted by Illya, still in his undercover outfit, knocking on the door.

the first thing Illya says is grumpily informing us, the audience, that he's been out - undercover in possible danger - longer than was planned and that he couldn't contact Napoleon about it.

Napoleon makes this face in response

this seems fine and normal

[princepotatosack]

What If Choices' Race-customizable LIs Had Surnames Reflective Of Their Ethnicity?: An Experiment Just For FUn (Part 1/3)

As we're probably all aware, Choices has been going ham on their formula of "one LI whose appearance is choosable" for the past few years (ever since they started drawing criticism for narratively favoring white male LIs, i.e., when the Ramsey bubble finally burst; draw your own conclusions), and these LIs almost always have canon names or default names associated with white Anglo Americans. This is one of several reasons these LIs are described by players as "white-coded", or written as if they are white men with any changes reduced to a one-line afterthought, which kind of nullifies the point of romancing an LI of color.

Getaway Girls impressed me with branching that gave two of the six Jordan appearance options (the ones described in the asset files as "Indian") the surname Paudwal, as opposed to the other options that had the surname Parker. And then they NEVER DID IT AGAIN (ingnoring Kiss of Death cause it was a weird case I don't know how to categorize)!!

So here's me assigning surnames to race-custom LIs of other books because it's fun for me:

DISCLAIMER: The Choices single LI formula has for the most part consisted of a white LI, a Black LI, and one or occasionally two other option(s) of varying races. Framing it as white, Black, and "wildcard" raises a lot of questions about racial dynamics and percieved binaries in the United States which are NOT the point of this post but I didn't want to not address it. Also have to address that I will not be assigning new surnames to the Black LI options since most of them are American and a lot of Black Americans have Anglo surnames due to the community's history with enslavement and enslavers, and Choices has simply not given us enough lore to determine if each of the custom race LI Black options are African (or another background) and which languages are a part of their heritages. Would really appreciate if they started writing more African LIs though. Also, similar reasoning applies to face options described as "Native American" in the files re: American colonization.

ALPHA

Channing Luna

These face options are described in the files as "Hispanic". Luna was a Spanish-language surname sound match for Lowe, and plus it also means "moon"!! Yippee werewolf theme!!!!!

Channing Liu

These face options are described in the files as "Asian". The Chinese surname Liu was just the closest sound match to "Lowe" tbh.

BABY BUMP

Clint Kao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". He reminds me a little of the Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao (rip) so in my head he's Taiwanese like meeee!!! Which sucks cause I didn't like this LI that much lmao. Anyway Kao is the Taiwanese spelling of the surname that is Anglicized as Gao in Chinese Pinyin so I gave it to him cause he reminds me of Godfrey Gao (rip). Not a spelling match but then again there aren't any Chinese surnames that start with the same letter and sound as Covington (e.g., Chang and Cai both start with the letter C but start with the sounds "ch" and "ts" respectively.).

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

Charles Quiñones / Charlotte Quiñones

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Went with sound matches since there aren't many (any?) Spanish-language surnames that start with K like King.

Charles Kim / Charlotte Kim

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I thought Kim was a pretty good sound and spelling match for King. But it did make me realize that although Kim is the most common surname in Korea by a lot, a Choices Wiki search revealed to me that there's only one character in the entire Choicesverse with that surname and it's the FBI guy from Veil of Secrets?

DISTANT SHORES

Edward Mao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". I originally chose the Japanese surname Morishima because it was an initial spelling match, multisyllabic, and had the ending "ma/mer" sound, but I wanted to honor the great Ming Dynasty Chinese tradition of piracy and its far-reaching legacy. So I went with the Chinese Mao.

Also I know he's canonically from like England which would explain why he's an 18th-century Asian man with an English first name but just for fun if he was from China I think he would be called Mao Aiwei. Or Morishima Eiji if he was from Japan.

Edward Montoya

This face option is described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Montoya was a relatively close Spanish-language sound match.

And if he had a Spanish first name too he would be Eduardo Montoya ovb.

THE DUCHESS AFFAIR

Nathaniel Pandit / Natalie Pandit

These face options are described in the asset files as "Indian". Not a lot of sound matches for Pippin but the Sanskrit surname Pandit has the intial "P" and the ending "i" sound, plus it means "scholar" and fun fact, this word is also the origin of the English term "pundit".

Also since in my research I learned that the vast majority of Indian immigrants to England in this time period adopted English language aliases for use in English society, I came up with some potential real names for these face options: Nathuram for Nathaniel and Nalini for Natalie.

FIRST COMES LOVE

Blake Mai

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I decided on Mai since it could be Vietnamese or broadly Sinophone.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Blaine Juárez

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Not any Spanish-language surnames that start with the letters "Ha" as far as I know so I went with a sound match.

GUARDED

Ash Harada

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". The Japanese surname Harada is a sound and spelling match and also one of the most common surnames in Japan! EASAYY!!! Though headcanoning them as Japanese brings the total number of Choicesverse Japanese-Americans Named Ash to three. Laugh out loud.......

Part 2

Part 3

[the-unconquered-queen]

If you think about it, the eras of PB’s obsessions form a pretty linear timeline of a shitty relationship. Hear me out: first came the barrage of wedding books, then it was the pregnancies and parenthood, but now they’re tired of the picturesque shit so we’re on to the affairs and homewrecking. At this rate we’ll be playing divorcees or widowers by next year.

[berrys-blue]

on the destruction of love

taylor swift, illicit affairs // @otrtbs, art heist, baby! // emily juniper, coming home to her // boygenius, $20 // fragments of sappho (tr. anne carson, if not, winter) // charles bukowski, the people look like flowers at last // florence + the machine, kiss with a fist // rupi kaur, milk and honey // @mayzarbewithyou, crimson rivers // sade andria zabala, coffee and cigarettes // florence + the machine, the bomb

[indeliblescarspivotalmarks]

swifties when illicit affairs eras tour version:

[everlasting-choices]

Now that I’ve read the first chapter of Ship of Dreams, I think I’ve come to the realization that the standards in which I judge a PB book’s enjoyability have changed quite drastically over the years. Once upon a time I would give a book 6 full chapters before deciding whether or not I liked it. These days it’s a more instantaneous judgment. Now I judge a book solely on how horny and cringey the MC is in the first chapter.

[this-blog-needs-a-new-name]

A family portrait 🫰🏼