#allthestoriescantbelies

[bebemoon]

"cottage easter egg hunt" look | requested by @allthestoriescantbelies

sir the label white cotton eyelet button-up top and short set, a/w 2o19

simone rocha white patent leather scalloped mary janes, s/s 2o15

salter house "trug" bag in pink pinstripe

marc jacobs "daisy: eau so fresh spring" eau de parfum

selkie "the silk baby soft hankie" headscarf w/ lace trim in pink

[forthegothicheroine]

Happy Halloween bloodsuckers

[susandsnell]

You're so right about Katniss! Her feelings for Peeta always felt like obligation - because he was kind, because he loved her and he deserved to be loved back, because he was what she was supposed to want and she'd be crazy not to - and she had mad vibes with Joanna. (The Katniss thing is also why I hated all of the MCU Natasha ships with guys. She's my second pick after Nina for character I am convinced is a lesbian.)

Thank you so much for articulating all this and sending it my way because I've felt nuts for years reading it this way (+ it's a pleasure to hear from you)! And that's with Joniss as a relatively popular ship, lolol.

I won't deny that him saving her from starving and later all they did for one another during the Games isn't meaningful, but you put it perfectly; the text keeps telling us he deserved to be loved back, he's what she ought to want. It makes a point about why she doesn't owe Gale, but wholly kind of sells us on her owing Peeta. The text makes a point of how Katniss, very realistically, has hang-ups about debt, and how the nature of Panem's totalitarianism is such that all kind acts are viewed as transactional rather than genuine, but then completely undermines this by providing little to no meat to how Katniss' real feelings developed from the ones staged for the Games. It's one of those cases where even if the guy isn't a Nice Guy, there's textual Nice Guying going on lolol. (I do also acknowledge that these books were products of the aughts and queer characters in YA were almost nonexistent, but having recently read Moth Diaries from 2002 which actively engages with comphet, I'm feeling spoiled lol.)

Likewise, the having children thing is like -- I get it, people can change their minds and her not wanting to be a mother was a product of the dystopian society they subsequently rebuilt as well as her own experience of maternal neglect, but given what the real world has always been wrt reproductive rights and just in general treating female queerness/nonconformity as a "phase you'll outgrow"/"you'll find the right guy and want kids eventually", I don't think I'll ever not feel gross about a character who does not want kids eventually ~embracing motherhood~ lmao. It could happen, but when the characters are fictional and hence in the author's control...it feels like propaganda, especially coupled with her repeatedly stating she didn't want a husband. And the quote from the epilogue is literally "It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly." Which. Ew.

Contrast with Johanna, where things felt a lot more organic, less based on a sense of debt and more on some classic rivalry tropes that evolved into a sweet balance between an organic camaraderie and Stupid Sexy Flanders (I mean, the elevator scene? Straight girls do not react like that! "Johanna's motivational insults" and the relationship shift?)

Anyhow, thanks again for the message and sorry for the mini-essay/rant this turned into, haha. I'd be mega interested to hear your MCU Natasha thoughts, though, since your Nina tags were so accurate! (Equally biased because she was an early sapphic crush for me, haha.)

[titleleaf]

Jared Harris would make such a good Smiley

YES that's my die-hard stance, I think he does midcentury Cold War era sad wet pathetic man very very well and like he'd do the complexity of Smiley so well. The only downside would be that every time Jared Harris does "midcentury sad office job guy" roles his character dies from suicide and people would be expecting the worst.

[autisticandroids]

oh i'm so sorry but the invader zim thing makes so much sense

no i know every time i show someone IZ they're like "......OHHHHHHHH" and i feel so humiliated

[maddie-grove]

I love your tags on the Mr Collins post! Charlotte has a way more tranquil and "sensible" attitude - as does Jane, whom Collins wanted first - and the Lucas family seems silly but jovial on the whole, and a little pompous about Sir William's knighthood in a way that seems like it would both impress Collins, and better prep Charlotte to tune out Collins' obsequiousness with Lady Catherine, versus Elizabeth's being opinionated and encouraged all her life by her father to be a little openly disdainful of silliness.

Thank you!! I hadn’t even thought about the influence of Charlotte’s family. Her dad seems to rub people the wrong way occasionally, but he’s generally good-natured and his foibles don’t appear to be a major source of friction in the family or the town. And, while Lady Lucas has kind of an unpleasant frenemy-ship with Mrs. Bennet, she doesn’t seem to clash with her husband or antagonize her children. Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s flaws interact in a way that makes everything way worse. So Charlotte is much more likely to look at Mr. Collins’s behavior and be like “this is just how people act sometimes.”

[snowdropsandtigers]

I'm trying to think of one for you but i think i would also guess 6C+ and now i can't think of anything else!

Alas, I may have blocked you by making my own guess! 😆

[die-rosastrasse]

I was invited to a mutual costume ball by my two dearest souls @claircaelis and @lamentofspring

Arriving as Urania, the Muse of Astronomy and Astrology🌙✨

Thank you for the invitation angels 🖤 I'm inviting @gatabella @allthestoriescantbelies @journal-d-une-sucrerie @xasymptotax @flowerytale @iridessence and anyone who'd like to join (feel free to reblog this post or say that I tagged you)

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Out of Context WIPs

Rules: summarize your WIPs badly and let people vote on what they’d most like to read!

I was tagged by @jammerific! Thank you!

Tagging: @allthestoriescantbelies @phosphorescent-naidheachd @forthegothicheroine @bebemoon @findthefallenstar @anddreadful

No pressure at all! Just trying to tag people who I know write things

[god-infected]

Arrived as the ghost of an Ottoman concubine (this is the whole fit no blouse I have my tits out)

mutuals costume ball moodboard, tagged by angels @roseverie & @rosehaunt (thank you 🩷🩷🩷)

tagging: @amadryades @artemisinfurs @allthestoriescantbelies @effervescentwoman @forthegothicheroine @hecatesdogs @museenkuss @felicitypdf @florid-fragments

[bebemoon]

christmas gift for a swan princess?

marina bychkova's porcelain enchanted doll "princess swan" is my knee-jerk answer. followed closely by lalique's "bathing naiades" hair comb .

[forthegothicheroine]

Via Paperback Paradise. (”Another completely real book!”)

[uneorchide]

“from blossom to blossom (…), to sweet impossible blossom”

mini spring moodboard for @allthestoriescantbelies

[titleleaf]

3, 4, 8, NINETEEN

3: screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

oh no... girl i'm sorry about this for you specifically but "the ending of Red Dragon, the novel, is a triumph of heterosexuality and a reaffirmation of normative happily-ever-after heterosexual married bliss (and that's why NBC Hannibal's s3 finale is better)". Like... are you thinking about the ending of the motion picture Manhunter... because Will Graham's marriage is fully toast at the end of Red Dragon. Paging Tammy Wynette, because they are getting a D-I-V-O-R-C-E. The ending of that novel has a lot going on but my man is not in a state of bliss.

4: what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

I block people all the damn time for very stupid reasons but I think the pettiest reason I've blocked someone was for saying something mean about Robin Lord Taylor's Penguin way back in s1. My repulsive son, who has never done a decent thing in his life.

8: common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

I actively need to stop myself from making this an airing of my Will Graham-related grievances. So: people are a little bit too chillaxed about Thrawn's art collecting. By the time he's fully in Imperial service that shit is pretty fucking sinister!

19: you’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…

You might think this is where I cop to how much I enjoy a naughty vaguely effeminate kinda incestuous manchild villain in a period piece, but actually it's where I cop to something much worse: Mike Flanagan's Fall of the House of Usher is so much more enjoyable than anything else he's created and it is so goddamn stupid.

[autisticandroids]

i can't explain it, but you definitely feel like someone who grew up loving the supernaturalist!

no it's literally like. just very apparent about me lmao. just a sort of obvious fact.

[maddie-grove]

When I was a kid slasher movies were all the rage and my parents would NOT let me watch any of them, seeing it as very shocking that my peers all had. Consequently I was obsessed with them and begged to be told about any my classmates had seen and one girl whispered to me about a movie where the killer or whoever targeted a girl and called her a very bad word in the process, dramatically pausing before revealing this word was "hoe", and getting exasperated when I did not know this word.

I love that that's the thing that scandalized her--never mind the murdering. But eleven-year-old me was also absolutely floored to find out that the Francesca Lia Block book my mom had given me (at Easter!) contained the word "fuck," while barely batting an eye at the references to child abuse and heroin addiction.

As for the Candyman story...what Kendall-from-camp said was that, if you said Candyman's name five times, he would appear and then you would never be happy again. She might've been trying to pass it off as an urban legend rather than a movie--we were debating trying to summon Bloody Mary and scaring ourselves by playing Hand-of-God with our flashlights--but I'd seen a copy of Candyman 3: Dawn of the Dead in a grocery store, so I knew better.