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[getmehighonmagic]

WIP Wednesday, June 12th 2024

IT IS EXACTLY FOUR MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT HERE, SO IT COUNTS.

I come bearing yacht Daddy Henry *smirk*

“Alex?” Henry says as he comes sauntering down the dock of Basin C, concern evident in his voice. “Hey, are you alright?” Alex angrily wipes at his face and sniffles into the sleeve of his crewneck. “Yeah, I’m fine,” he mumbles. He pulls his feet up onto the dock and rests his chin on his knees. “What are you doing here?” Henry crouches down next to him. “I live here. Temporarily, at least.” When Alex glances up at him, he gestures over his shoulder. “The Princess Catherine? She’s mine.” “The Princess Catherine is yours?” Alex exclaims, lowering his legs so that he can face Henry better. “Aren’t you, like, twenty-five, or something? Did you pay for it with Monopoly money?” Henry chuckles and loosens his tie. “Thirty-two, actually,” he says, undoing the first three buttons of the crisp white shirt he’s wearing under his black suit. “And no, I did not pay for it with Monopoly money. Just a few British pounds.” He grins when Alex raises an eyebrow at him, but turns serious again very quickly. “Are you sure you’re alright, Alex? You don’t seem fine to me.” Turning his eyes back on the water in front of him, Alex shrugs, grateful that the tears seemed to have stopped at last. “I’m just stressed, is all,” he confesses, his voice barely more than a whisper.

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[abustoslife]

[lohstandfound]

It's the morning of Jake Dillinger's 18th birthday. He just had a killer party, and him and his friends crashed in the living room after everyone had left.

And we mean killer in a literal sense.

Jake wakes up before everyone else and heads into the kitchen. Something catches his eye in the pool and he walks out to investigate.

The pool is red and he's staring at his own dead body. Before he can process what he's seen, Brooke screams and wakes everyone up.

One ghost, seven suspects, no memory of the night before

[mermaidsirennikita]

One reason why I think Mila Finelli's mafia books do work for me better than most other (Italian--I did really love Kresley's series) mafia romance novels I've read is that the characters do feel DISTINCT and so do the relationship dynamics.

In a lot of these somewhat darker, more erotic reads, you do get the sense that any of the characters could be switched out for one another. The heroes are always the same types of alphas, the heroines are always the same types of a) virgins or b) defiant rebels who may also still be virgins, and what really sets the books apart are a few bananas scenes here and there, and some distinct sex scenes.

And while I definitely think there are distinct sexual dynamics and kinks at play with each couple (Fausto/Frankie are obviously daddy kink-central, Enzo and Gia are.... generalized freaks with some heavier BDSM by way of CNC vibes, Giulio and Alessio also have some D/s vibes but with a more competitive edge and are very into each other's violence, and Giacomo/Emma are obviously a breeding kink/softer touch vibe) they're also just super different people.

I guess the closest couples would be Fausto and Frankie and Enzo and Gia, but even then... Fausto is a dick, but he's more rational, more doting (see: daddy), and though Frankie is absolutely defiant and strong, I actually think that though she and Fausto have more of a traditional partnership in terms of gender than Enzo and Gia (which also could be because Frankie wants a billion kids and yes she has her MBA but she's very much a wife and mom first, whereas Gia is more about her career, which keeps them from being too similar). Enzo and Gia are more into the defined D/s shit sexually, but you get the sense that she has more control in the relationship and that, at the end of the day, he is very much... her bitch. Enzo and Gia have a very similar age gap to Fausto and Frankie, but Fausto and Frankie have more of a care-focused DD/lg relationship, whereas Enzo and Gia thrive on the friction of her giving as good as she gets.

And Alessio and Giulio, aside from the obvious of being the only queer relationship in the series, are very much coded as D/s as well... But not as inflexibly as the previous two couples. Aside from them switching it up in the bedroom a little, there's also a lot of space for Alessio to take care of Giulio. Like, Giulio kinda doesn't know shit about what he's doing lol, whereas Alessio is hypercompetent (which also makes sense, as Fausto for sure spoiled Giulio and Alessio has been in essentially a different class his entire life). So while Giulio is more sexually dominant, Alessio is really the stronger, steadier, and more threatening partner otherwise. And again, they both really get off on watching each other do what they do best, which is: crime.

I do think Giacomo and Emma have the softest relationship in the series--but it's not so much because she's this kind of babe in the woods virgin (and I will say, I did love that Frankie and Gia were NOT lol) but because Giacomo is just a much more tender guy. Like, yes, Fausto and Enzo both also had loved ones, but I think that because they'd both been running their shit longer than Giacomo had before he met Emma, they had these very set roles. Fausto and Enzo come off as more brutal, and honestly more crazy (like, Enzo is THE CRAZIEST for sure, but Fausto is a fucking nutball). Giacomo seems like a dude who's good at killing people and doing mafia stuff, but it's really like? His day job. It's not his life and it doesn't feel like his culture, even, which makes sense because he was on the fringes of the types of levels Fausto and Enzo have always been in, because his father and brother kept him separate from it. Even Giulio is more connected to that space than Giacomo, because he was groomed to take over for years.

I think it would be very easy to rely on these great sex scenes and wacky plots she writes, but the thing that does make it clear that Mila has the chops (.... and it also makes it clear that she's very experienced, lol, and someone who has had to write series with very individualized characters for professional editors in the past........) is that the characters are very DIFFERENT. Like, Frankie and Gia may both have their partners' balls in their pockets, but you see Frankie do a wheedling kind of little girl pouting thing to get her way with Fausto because she knows he looooves it, whereas Gia is like LISTEN UP ASSHOLE with Enzo (and it makes the relationship the best because nobody else can do that with him, Enzo and Gia are the greatest, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk). Giacomo is willing to let Emma go in a way that Fausto, Enzo, and honestly I would say Giulio too after working out some things, really aren't okay with. He's probably the best guy out of the series, on a moral level, while also being a scary murder man.

(Except for maybe Alessio? Because Alessio is also a scary murder man, but he literally just does it for the cash or to protect Giulio. It's PURE BUSINESS.)

I find the distinctiveness of the characters really cool, especially when I reread the books, and that is probably why I've had a hard time finding a series that really clicks for me in the same way within the sort of Italian mafia genre.

(That, and: so much of the other books center on Italian-American mafia stuff and that shit DOES NOT HAVE THE SAUCE the way Mila's Italy-set books do. Like, be real here, the Italian-American mafia has not been raking in this kind of cash for DECADES.)

[taldigi]

were there any pre canon concepts for adrien's/felix's room? i hate the canon one so much the layout confuses me

Afraid not. I think the closest we have is the information that Felix/ Adrian's family owned a hotel (this is before he was made into the villain's son.) A lot of early and even current ladybug is pretty focused around Marinette. Nathan-Felix-Adrien as a character is shockingly inconsequential to the narrative as a whole. (Which is probably why he was so easily edited throughout development whereas Marinette stayed pretty consistent.... And is also apparently still the case from what I've heard of the recent season.)

You can actually really see a lot of the inspiration that it transferred to the agreste mansion... But it also lost a lot of style and flair. Richard had a lot of art deco inspiration in the buildings associated with his character. And you can kind of see that in the hotel piece here. It's all connected, at least I believe it is.

It makes sense that the current one is frustrating. It's a mix between " oh this is what a fabulously wealthy teen boy would like" being full of video games and literal arcade machines, but still having like no personality? Like it's big. Because Adrian is rich. And it's like... Largely undecorated because Gabriel is like a minimalist or whatever... Except for all of the stuff that Adrian has because he's rich. And that's literally the end of it.

Edit: If I were to fathom a... A room that does line up with that hotel era then I would do something like this, except with more whites and golds rather than blue... Or just tailor it to however the cat's relationship to his father is.

[laurelroadpoetry]

Mackinac Island ➡️ Hog Island.

[alessandro55]

Yachting

Carlo Borlenghi

Yachting Library, Milano 2001, circa 200 pag. non num., ISBN 88-87735-126-6

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Carlo Borlenghi: “Questo libro è un doveroso omaggio al mare, alle barche, agli uomini e alla poesia che li circonda. Una parte della mia storia è qui e queste immagini la raccontano”.

Le più belle immagini di un grande fotografo di mare, che ha scattato fotografie su tutti i mari del globo, immortalando le barche più belle, i racer più veloci, le regate più importanti, le onde, gli spruzzi, l’espressione dell’uomo a prua e la maestosa solitudine di un faro…”Yachting” è questo e molto di più. E’ un omaggio al mare e ai protagonisti della vela e il grazie di un artista che ha saputo coglierne gli aspetti più magici.

20/07/24

[ladaeliseeva]

Стильная девушка

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[20240507] cr: s.yacht

[encoreyacht]

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (28 Apr - 4 May 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 Bound by Contract (BootsnBlossoms & Kryptaria) - 135K, 00Q00 - pt 2 of The Marketplace AU with Bond & Q figuring out how their relationship works for them and how Alec fits all while doing semi-canonical spy shit. Such a huge fan of this series.

😍 Out of the Dead Lands (orphan_account) - "Someone is building machines that look and act like people. Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier tries to be Bucky Barnes." - 62K, stucky, very angsty with a happy ending, robots, identity porn (of a sort) - SO GOOD! (thank you, unknown author, for orphaning your work instead of deleting it.)

💖💖 +207K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

February (xoxobuckybarnes) - MCU: stucky, 5K - Steve and Bucky celebrate Valentine's Day in Wakanda

if the bad times are coming let 'em come (suzukiblu) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 9K - accidental interdimensional swap puts still recovering WS into 1940s with pre-serum Steve

Maybe Our Kind Don't Fit Round Here (Rainne) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 5K - companion fic to above - 1940s pre-war Bucky with modern Steve

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Um, Actually - s1, e21-32

Royal Pains - s8, e1-8

Ghosts (US) - s3, e10

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s10, e1

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "The Name" (s21, e17)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Five Years in the Making" (s16, e17)

Dead Boy Detectives - s1, e4-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Lost Notes - S1 Ep. 1: Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written

Dinner’s on Me - Niecy Nash-Betts

Under the Influence - Ham on Wry: Sandwich Board Advertising

Under the Influence - Cars Are The Stars: Automobile Brands in Hollywood

⭐ Lost Notes - The True Story of ‘Tainted Love’

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] SPACE CRAM: Reasonable Hoop Dreams - "The Menlo County Summer League 3X3"

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Dead Boy Detectives

Homophilia - LOL LOL OMG LOL with Steve Yockey

WikiHole - Virginia (with Lauren Lapkus, Naomi Ekperigin and Mary Holland)

Switched on Pop - Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Summer Guide

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Old Cahawba

Wild Card - Jenny Slate turns fear inside out

It's Been a Minute - How Chicago's Black press shaped America

Consider This - Judi Dench reflects on a career built around Shakespeare

Shedunnit - The Murder on the Links

Vibe Check - Every Girl Has A Good Gay

⭐ 99% Invisible #580 - Mr Yuk

Today, Explained - One Flu Over The Cowcow’s Nest

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Checking Into Hotel Imperial with Deborah Cohen

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Idea Of You

Throughline - The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure

⭐ If Books Could Kill - "Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried

⭐ You Are Good - My Own Private Idaho w. Cecil Baldwin

Dear Prudence - My Brother Is a Budding Alex Jones. Help!

⭐ Endless Thread - Episodes We Love: Doom Jelly

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Fall Guy And What's Making Us Happy

Re: Dracula - May 3: Your Friend, Dracula

It's Been a Minute - An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision

Armchair Expert - Chris Pine

Re: Dracula - May 4: The Eve of St. George's Day

Today, Explained - The tourist tax

Welcome to Night Vale #247 - Rerun

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Who

Dua Lipa

Back to the Yacht

Endless R&B Throwbacks

Hozier

[getmehighonmagic]

WIP Wednesday, May 29th 2024

God, it's been a while, huh? *sweats nervously*

Thank you so much @kiwiana-writes, @onthewaytosomewhere and @suseagull04 for your continuous tags ♥ And everyone else over the past couple of weeks as well, of course!

I've been steadily working on finishing take me back to San Francisco, and I'm almost there! That said, certain pictures of Nick sparked a new idea for a one shot, so... I had to start a new WIP. It couldn't be helped. Here's the beginning of it:

The first time Alex lays eyes on him is when he’s celebrating his twenty-first birthday. He’s seated at a booth at Patrick Molloy’s, June on one side while Nora is on the other, and he’s sipping from a rum and coke. Not the first rum and coke he’s ever had, but definitely the first one he’s ever ordered by himself. He had totally planned to look cool and collected, and enjoy his birthday without embarrassing himself, but then… well… He happened. “Jesus, are you okay?” Nora asks, patting his back when Alex chokes on his drink and starts hacking it up in search of oxygen. June hands him a napkin and winces. “Half of Marina Del Rey can hear you knocking on death’s door,” she snorts. “Fuck you,” Alex wheezes, but he’s not looking at his sister, so his words kind of fall flat. He’s gorgeous, with his tousled, caramel coloured hair, sharp jawline, and impossibly full lips. He’s wearing dark jeans that hug his, admittedly, very nice figure, a light blue, denim button-up and a navy colored blazer.

Thank you for your patience with me, I promise I'll be more active again soon! ♥

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