#the paying guests

[mactiir]

14 for the end of year asks

14: favorite book you read this year?

Ok, there's this author named Sarah Waters. She is a lesbian author who writes extremely buckwild historical fiction plots, except she writes like Charles fucking Dickens and like 90% of her characters are exceedingly gay and in need of intensive long term therapy. Every time I pick up a Sarah Waters book I need to block off at least 20 hours because I no matter how I feel going in I know I'm gonna MARATHON that arcane motherfucker and then not be able to explain the plot at all because they are all fucking Insane. Describing a Waters plot makes me sound like I am describing a particularly vivid gay nightmare. Anyway, back in February I read "The Paying Guests", which is about a woman living with her mother after WWI, and they have to rent out the top floor of their house to lodgers to make ends meet cuz all their fuckin men died in the war. So she falls in love with the wife of the couple that moves in, and they end up having an affair, and the first half of the book is a very normal, if stressful, affair/lovestory/what if husband finds out?? plot. Then out of NOWHERE the wife fuckkn. brains her husband with an ashtray and he dies on the carpet and then the lesbians try to frame it on some random passerby by dumping his body in the street and it comes out HE was having an affair with his nail technician and the murder gets blamed on the nail tech's boyfriend and the lesbians are like "oh my god we're going to end this random boy's life by accident" because they didn't think the police would find a culprit for some fucking reason but they don't fess up and the entire last 300 pages are them having panic attacks in courtrooms and giving the Polite English Cold Shoulder to police detectives ("Very good inspectah, are we quite through?" while internally screaming) while their entire relationship falls apart over this little tiny dealbreaker of wifey bludgeoning her husband to death in cold blood and then telling no one while landlady/lover is left to deal with the fallout. I read it in 24 hours. It's 10/10 very good and I recommend Sarah Waters unconditionally.

[vfterluna]

Nowhere else in the world could they have been together so publicly, holding onto each other like this. It wasn't at all like making love. It was a lark, pure, childish. And yet it was like making love: the thrill and intimacy of it, the never letting go of each other, the clutching of fingers and the bumping of thighs, the racing and matching of heartbeats and breaths.

— The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters

[thetriptm]

- Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

[thewinchestah]

THE WAY HIS EYE IS TWITCHING HE’S SO PETTY

HE’S SO PISSED

AHAJSJSJSJSAA I LOVE SO HIM MUCH

[quarterpastmidnight]

Ooh the tension in this book is almost becoming unbearable....Frances, dear Frances...she's gonna end up in such a pickle ain't she?

[doggirlhen]

the thing is you have to get a good grade in being an art commissioner. you cannot be a bitch when paying for art. you have to be patient and nice. i have not been perfect in my years of paying other furries for art of my funny animals but i can, with confidence, say ive gotten a good grade. artist friends of mine agree im awesome and fankly the Keys to being Awesome at being a commissioner are just like. being nice and recognizing artists arent machines. theyre people who have their own lives and are not infront of their tablet drawing for everyone 24/7. youll find them posting about some game or movie when youve been waiting three weeks for something and thats fine. youll find them having difficulty getting something exactly like how it is in your brain because, like all people, they cannot read your mind. you gotta have everything ready and upfront and be ready to answer questions. its fine to be a little nitpicky and a little "sorry im not quite sure on this pose, could you do X Y and Z" and not be an asshole about it. after a certain number of "can you do X different" you have to realize its either not going to be exactly how you want it to be or the artist is going to want to kill you with hammers. and thats fine. i think artists have every right to want to kill you with hammers.

[mar1066]

I am enjoying The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters supremely, have some memes.

[nocek]

so yeah, if you ever wondered how easy I'm to distract with new shiny idea....

...of giving Miles the nicest things because he deserves them so much <3

[syl-stormblessed]

brb just gotta go scream about how Ianthe was so focused on the fact that she was Ianthe Tridentarius that she failed to realize when she stopped being Ianthe Tridentarius entirely and became Ianthe Naberius instead

[vfterluna]

Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response.

- The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters

[meiwks]

So basically… Dan is being too tsundere to admit he wants to help Conrad out properly, will proceed to provide for this kid and pretend it’s a burden. Got it.

[kukekakuningaskris]

as the tour has now had 20/22 shows it's funny to me how tallinn is the ONLY one to get astp during the concert itself and not in the soundcheck but also the only one to NOT get šta bih ja. iconic.

[monstermoviedean]

just had such a rush of nostalgia for the s9 that never was. 2013/2014 was like, peak avengers tower culture and in the midst of that the winchesters had a bunker! and kevin needed a place to stay and cas was human and then charlie and crowley both were there and we really did believe for a minute that it would happen. but alas.

[tasteofyourblood]

casey frey in abbott elementary