#playing the palace

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[when-sanpape-arts]

shuro's terrible, horrible, no good very bad lunch.

restaurant au: 1 / 2

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Playing the Palace

Author: Paul Rudnick

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, romance, LGBT+, contemporary

Blurb: After having his heart trampled on by his cheating ex, Carter Ogden is afraid love just isn't in the cards for him. He still holds out hope in a tiny corner of his heart, but even in his wildest dreams, he never thought he'd meet the Crown Prince of England, much less do a lot more with him. Yes, growing up he'd fantasised about the handsome, openly-gay Prince Edgar, but who hadn't? When they meet by chance at an event Carter's boss is organising, Carter's sure he imagined all that sizzling chemistry...or was it mutual? This unlikely but meant-to-be romance sets off media fireworks on both sides of the Atlantic. With everyone having an opinion on their relationship and the intense pressure of being constantly in the spotlight, Carter finds ferocious obstacles to his happily ever after, including the tenacious disapproval of the Queen of England. Carter and Prince Edgar fight for a happy ending to equal their glorious international beginning.

[findmeinthefallair]

The healing and lasting love of a mom

[icannotgetoverbirds]

help me escape homelessness and live with my lover!

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Also I have hella bad waiting mode anxiety that is made better by knowing what to expect after what I'm waiting for happens, so if anybody wants to tell me how this process will go, I would greatly appreciate it.

Bonus points if you give me some ideas in the notes of mundane things to do with my wife!

[dykealloy]

just a silly little guy

[personinthepalace]

Hiroki Suzuki as Loid Forger in SPY x FAMILY Musical (2023)

[ghost-proofbaby]

can y'all please come into my humble abode and imagine something with me i don't yet have the wits to write a full fledged fic out of (yet)?

so, everyone knows how when you get a tattoo, part of the healing process is the itchy phase, right? and for obvious reasons, you can't scratch it. favored method, in my experience and fellow tatted friends, is to just give it a good old slap.

perfect. so now, with this in mind, can you imagine having gotten a large hip/ass piece, and how mortifying it would be to smack your own ass to soothe that itch? and it's just plain painful. you want your new ink to heal properly - it's gorgeous and you put a lot of time, pain, and money into that damn thing - but it just sucks.

enter best friend eddie.

he loves your new ink. thinks it's fucking sick. nearly creamed his damn pants when he found out you were doing a hip/ass tatt (because how can he ask to see it without being weird? how can he react to that without being weird when he's spent the last several years with the world's most pathetic crush on you?) at first, it's fine. you show him the tattoo in a totally friendly, totally platonic way. he hypes you up, he calls you 'the most metal person he knows'. flourishes you with all the compliments and looks at you with starry eyes out of sheer awe at the way he's managed to snag a person into his life who is just so. damn. cool.

but the days pass by, that new ink begins to heal, and it fucking itches.

when you first proposition him, you're even more embarrassed than he is. stumbling over all your words, the request coming out contorted every wrong way. you don't want to make things weird, but is it really that weird for a friend to help a friend? it is really that weird to ask your best friend to smack your tattoo to help with that itch you can't even really properly reach?

it's just friends helping friends.

and that's the mantra you both repeat to yourselves - as you request the embarrassing favor of him, as he agrees almost too eagerly, as you find yourself face-planted in your bed wondering how deeply you can bury down your shame as he tries to make jokes to make it all a bit less awkward.

it's just friends helping friends, until eddie's hand lands down on your ass with a resounding smack, and that first little whimper escapes your lips.

[timelessbian]

poseidon being so whipped for sally that he lets her keep him on magical speed dial this is literally the funniest change the show could possibly have made

[sydhina]

i cant stop thinking about charles and edwin and their closet full of boardgames

[monkiinart]

back from vacay baybee!!!!!! daggy age doodles

[six-demon-bag]

A NEW CLIENT

GEORGE REXSTREW as Edwin Payne JAYDEN REVRI as Charles Rowland ALIX WEST LEFLER as Emma (01.01) The Case of Crystal Palace DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024)

[libraryleopard]

i really do enjoy the contradictions in crystal's character–she's amnesic but still has a strong sense of personality and agency, she finds power in her ancestry but was also clearly shaped into being such a callous and self-serving person by her parents. very tasty tension in her character, much to think about!

[storge]

ZHANG LINGHE as Xie Wei Story of Kunning Palace (2023)

[livinginadumpster]

canonically edwin can probably play piano but I think we can all agree he's truly a violinist

charles would definitely go for brass, in my opinion trombone. also he can play three chords on guitar.

crystal would play cello no question. double bass is also a possibility. she can play a different three chords on guitar.

niko is viola to me but I know she would go crazy for a tambourine. also I feel like she could kill it on drums or even bass.

[finelythreadedsky]

keep thinking now about the idea of the ancient greek stage building as a doorway into death, which is separated from the stage (the space of the living) by the screen of the skene. cassandra calls it as much ("the gates of hades") when she enters the house of atreus. by convention characters cannot die on stage but must exit, usually into the skene, to be killed. cassandra's just extra explicit about it because of her foresight, but every entry into the stage building is a step into death. and then some people come back out of it!!!