#mortalfollies

[thefutureiswhat]

ethelrida for the ask meme?

Thank you! <3

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

favorite thing about them: The fact that she doesn't take shit from anybody.

least favorite thing about them: She didn't give Oraetta's cute ginger cat any pets! (That we saw, at least.)

favorite line: "Is that what you see? A girl?"

brOTP: 🤷‍♀️ (We need to get her some friends who aren't her outlaw aunts...)

OTP: Lemuel, I guess... not super invested, though.

nOTP: 🤷‍♀️

random headcanon: Not my idea, but I've seen it suggested that she could be the author of "The History of True Crime in the Mid West," using a pen name. It's an interesting theory.

unpopular opinion: I can't think of one?

song i associate with them: "King of the World" by First Aid Kit (I'm nobody's baby / I'm everybody's girl / I'm the queen of nothing / I'm the king of the world)

favorite picture of them:

[wellreadwyvern]

✨ANTICIPATED TITLES✨ Time to share another peek into my NetGalley TBR! I can’t wait to read these books! [➡️Scroll the graphic for summaries] ✨The Hundred Loves of Juliet by Evelyn Skye (8/1/23) @delreybooks ✨The Imposters by Tom Rachman (6/27/23) @littlebrown ✨Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall (6/6/23) @delreybooks ✨The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love (7/25/23) @randomhouse ✨To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (5/9/23) @delreybooks ✨The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (7/11/23) @tordotcompub @torbooks ❓What’s a highly anticipated book on your own TBR list? Thank you to @netgalley all the tagged publishers for early access to these titles. #thehundredlovesofjuliet #evelynskye #theimposters #tomrachman #mortalfollies #alexishall #thepossibilities #yaelgoldsteinlove #toshapeadragonsbreath #moniquillblackgoose #thesaintofbrightdoors #varjachandrasekera #netgalleyreads #netgalleyreviewer #anticipatedreads #arcreader #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn9qtShrqSP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[belladonnafey]

@tibialtybalt thanks for the tag!!

tagging @trigonalidae @classicsnerd @cyber-feline @mortalfollies @myladyvesta

[sleeeepy-demon]

Get to know me tag

I was tagged by @giaffa, well, actually I asked them to tag me cuz i am so bored lol

Do you make your bed?

everyday babey!!! (I am very proud of it)

If you could, would you go back to school?

No, thanks I am done!

Can you parallel park?

I could when I got my license 8 billions years ago. I haven't driven since so I dont know if I could do it now...

A job you had that would surprise people?

Girl I barely had jobs...I dont think any of them is surprising.

Do you think aliens are real?

Yah at the veryyy least some funky bacteria is having a cosmic journey on a rock rn

Can you drive a manual car?

I only ever drove manual. If I still know how to drive at all is the question shkjfd

What is your guilty pleasure?

everything I do I do feeling guilty and with little pleasure, (the worst offender might be drawing nsfw things tho dskjhjf)

Tattoos?

empty :c too much ocd

Do you like puzzles?

No, I am stupid and I dont like to be reminded...

Any phobias?

YES but I am not telling you what! Its that bad :-) I also hate needles but I deal with it (cry about it when I need to get vaccinated/have my blood drawn)

Favorite childhood sport?

I hate all sport.

First thing you wanted to be growing up?

Well. I remember this vividly for some reason. I had to draw what I wanted to be when I grew up for my homework in like the first year of elementary school and I was like?? I do not dream of labor or adulthood. So I thought about it and ended up on ice cream maker/vendor, as I really liked ice cream.

Do you talk to yourself?

Yea. Way more and way weirder than i should probably...

What movies do you adore?

I am bad at movies I dont knowwww

Coffee or tea?

Love tea hate coffee

Favorite color?

rn I am not sure...probably lilac lmao

no pressure tags:

@mortalfollies @snaso102 and uhm, I dont, know...

[ginevralinton]

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

Thank you for tagging me @ailendolin

Names: name meanings, name suggestions, name origins, name statistics, first + middle name combinations, name variants and diminutives...I just love to talk and think about names and have since I was little! I currently do some work where I get to write about names too :)

Villette by Charlotte Bronte: okay, maybe more specifically, Ginevra Fanshawe...but I did write my MA dissertation on this and it was, at first, 10,000 words too long because I had too much to say. Also once spent nearly an hour talking to a therapist about Villette and Ginevra and Lucy (she asked, tbf) so...

Exams: ever want a really boring time? talk to me about the organisation, regulations and setting up of exams, ask about access arrangements, situations, packing up papers, just general exam related stuff/thoughts... I know - so very dull.

BBC Ghosts: it occupies my brain a lot, as I'm sure is obvious if you follow me here

Guinea Pigs: look, I just love my guinea pigs - one of the few animals I'm not scared of and I just love to talk about them and about guinea pigs in general :)

(I nearly included 'Books' but decided that was maybe a bit too general??)

I'll tag @sonnet-of-anarchy @its-a-hare-pom-pom @thelastplantagenet @mortalfollies if you wish to do this

[retourne-toi-eurydice]

Tagged by @mortalfollies ! Thank you, i love these 🫶

Challenge: Make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite!

[catsafari25]

Thanks for the tag @mortalfollies 💕

🎶✨When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers  🎶✨

1. Tongues and Teeth - The Crane Wives

2. Stray Italian Greyhound - Vienna Teng

3. W.I.T.C.H. - Devon Cole

4. Better Tomorrows - from del Toro's Pinocchio

5. Messing About in a Boat - from WitW musical, 2017

As for the tagging... uh let's go with @tcrmommabear @wolfiethewriter @yellowsomethings @sindysugar @lestatslestits – but consider yourself tagged if you qant to do this too!

[siriuslygrimm]

Impish Intertwinements

#BOOKREVIEW - Impish Intertwinements - #MortalFollies #blog

After finding herself at the center of a curse a young noblewoman seeks the assistance of a rumored witch, getting entangled in more than she might have bargained for in Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall. In 1814 the young Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds herself facing a variety of difficulties with seemingly inexplicable origins. While attending a ball scandal nearly befalls her as her dress starts���

[triplicatesgirl]

19!

The Moon Will Sing — The Crane Wives

[yiffgod]

@mortalfollies

capris!!!!

[thefutureiswhat]

Top 5 Tracks from all the soundtracks?

This is Season 5 heavy, because it's the soundtrack I've listened to the most, and the most recently.

"Linda," Season 5 - When I first heard it, I was like, "Who the hell is Linda, and why does her theme go SO HARD?"

"Open (Meet the Families)," Season 4 - I could watch Season 4's opening sequence a million times, and same with listening to the music.

"Rye's Theme," Season 2 - AKA "Wrench and Numbers (Inception BWAAH Remix)." Is it blasphemous to say I like this more than the original? It's just so epic!

"Fargo Season 5 Main Theme (Secret Suite)," Season 5 - The one I waited all season for... that never showed up. I think Jeff Russo said on Instagram that he wrote it as a "musical epilogue." Not quite sure what that means, but I really wish it was featured in the show.

"Dot (Moving)," Season 5 - I heard a portion of this in a pre-season teaser and thought it sounded cool, and later my ears perked up whenever I heard it in the show.

Ask me my "Top 5" anything Fargo-related!

[belladonnafey]

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material

tagged by @mortalfollies :)

1. RPDR controversies, both controversial queens + edit/riggory controversies

2. recent developments in our knowledge of the migration and breeding or the European Eel (a. anguilla) and how unspecialized tagging systems are affecting our ability to get usable data

3. Euripides’ treatment of gender and motherhood in his plays, specifically in Medea and Electra, and how it contrasts ancient athenian social ideals.

4. Just general student affairs shit, especially the need for more robust transfer student programming in colleges and the need to move towards accessible (including sensory friendly ) programming options

5. Riverdale, apparently.

tagging: @justconstantly @myladyvesta @tsunamiscale @pathos-logical @cyber-feline

[sleeeepy-demon]

Thanks for the tag @mortalfollies, sorry i am 8 billions months late as always! 💗

🎶✨When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers  🎶✨

Stranger Days - Skeggs

2. Ultimate Steve - TWIABP

3. Sobercoaster - Beddy Rays

4. Antonymph - Vyolet Pony

5. Sand on The Beach - Fidlar

@giaffa ofc, @salamancers, @coolart2024, @bonesandwitches, @goldendeadleaves, @wadd4, @skelxton, @andante-weatherwax, @the-voices-in-my-insomniac-head, @sleeplessangels I tried tagging some people I interact less with, if you wanna do it do it, if not, no pressure! ^o^

[ginevralinton]

thank you @mortalfollies for the tag! (and apologies for the delayed response - life has been life-ing)

Do you make your bed?

Yes - not in any nice aesthetic way though

If you could, would you go back to high school?

nope. nope. nope. I work at a school (specifically my old secondary) and I would hate to have to go back and be a student again

Can you parallel park?

I can't drive so no...

A job you had that would surprise people?

Not sure if it's surprising as such but people I know now are surprised I worked at a swim club, people who don't know about my name obsession are surprised by the name-website-related job, and I guess I never intended to be working at the place I never wanted to be at?

Do you think aliens are real?

They are possibly, probably, because it feels unlikely this can be the only inhabited planet in the whole entire universe

Can you drive a manual car?

No

What is your guilty pleasure?

Currently watching 'AITA' reaction videos 🤷‍♀️

Tattoos?

I have 8 ! I got a new one recently :)

Do you like puzzles?

Are we talking jigsaw puzzles or do word puzzles count? Jigsaws, no, but I do like some word puzzles, and at the moment, I love those 'word wall connections' from the NYT. (you can play them all here for any one who is bored or wants distraction)

Any phobias?

Dogs (and dog-adjacent animals) have been my life long phobia sadly

Favourite childhood sport?

Probably trampolining, but like, on my own, not competitively or anything. I used to like swimming too, but only in the evenings

First thing you wanted to be growing up?

Eh. I asked my ma this was a while back and she said I didn't really want to be anything... but I guess maybe an author

Do you talk to yourself?

Sometimes

What movies do you adore?

I don't really like movies

Coffee or tea?

Coffee :)

Favourite colour?

Blue or pink

I'll tag @sonnet-of-anarchy @thelastplantagenet and @its-a-hare-pom-pom if you wish to do this!

[retourne-toi-eurydice]

*tagged by @mortalfollies - thank you! 🌼*

Last song i listened to: Parasite by Siiickbrain. Can recommend if you're going through a Time and need moral support to eat bread (or something)

Currently watching: Young Dracula. Unfortunately unbingable due to tween audience-friendly repetitive plots but vamp dad hot so 🤪

Sweet/savoury/spicy: sweet!

Relationship status: i am literally never not single

Current obsession: jigsaws. Got a new one the other week and sat down at 10pm to do "a bit" before bed, but when i eventually went to turn the lamp off the room stayed the same brightness- because it was 8am

☝🏻 it was this one from Hobbycraft. i think i may have just been hungry

[belladonnafey]

nine people i’d like to get to know better:

tagged by @justconstantly

last song I listened to:

canary in a coal mine by the crane wives! i have the fool in her wedding gown playing on repeat tonight

currently watching:

nothing really except for RPDR S16. dunmeshi and better call saul are next on my list of what to watch post finals + i just finished breaking bad

sweet/savory/spicy?:

all are good but probably going to go with savory. i can only do sweets in small amounts before i feel sick

relationship status:

in a relationship :)

current obsession:

this is also a rough one bc i dont have time for much with the semester ending. definitely stardew 1.6, also have been researching biocontrol programs a lot and finding that really interesting.

tagging (no pressure <3)

@mortalfollies @affishionado @thefaultinoursprinkles

@cowboysapphic @rabbitfishes @awondrousway

@tsunamiscale @a-dux @theurbanspaceboi

tagged some very new mutuals sorry abt that