Just some clarification under the cut. ✨
My lovely moots. My lovely of lovelies. I understand how shitty the throes of social anxiety are. Believe me, I suffer from them too as I am a chronic overthinker. 🤪 But to any mutual who is reading this and is wondering where I went, where I've been or if I'm mad at you, my absence from being online, reviewing fics or just having everyday conversation with everyone has absolutely nothing to do with you. You are still my friend and nothing will ever change that, and that's a promise!🫂 I still love you with all my heart and I could never be angry with someone when there's absolutely no reason for me to be! I have just been rather busy with - you guessed it - painting(and drawing digital gift doodles for my moots).😅 When I start mixing and applying colors to a canvas, I get in this zone where a meteor could straight up fall through my roof but I would still be too focused on painting. 😅 I start as soon as my husband leaves for work and continue the entire day, so by the time evening rolls around, I've spent most of my spoons already. 😮💨 I rely on the few hours in the evening to decompress with my husband before doing the routine all over again the next morning.
To the moots who have reached out to me asking if I'm okay or if I'm mad at you, I swear, once the holidays have ended and I've knocked out all my xmas gift paintings, I will be right back on my bullshit. Not only is my TBR list growing like mad, but there is literally so many things I want to draw and paint and write for my own self!!!(Even my husband is asking me to draw his OCs! Oh wait, did i mention my husband is making original characters now? 🤩) And if that wasn't enough, I don't know how it happened, but I have gotten three writing requests in the last couple of weeks. 😱 I feel more behind than ever!
Patience is all I need. Kisses and love to each and every one of you. 🫂✨💋
- 🍭 Candy 🍬
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“In Venice, he’d looked out of his room at the Danieli, to see Armand staring from a window across the way.“
The hotel Daniel checks into early in his and Armand’s relationship, the Danieli, is fascinating.
The original structure was built in the 14th century by the wealthy Dandolo family, and then later in the 16th century was divided into three separate sections for different members of the family. It was turned into a hotel in 1822, and joined with two other grand buildings: Palazzo Casa Nuova (previously the site of the Venetian treasury) and the Palazzo Danieli Excelsior (a building erected in 1948 when a structure separating the Palazzo Dandolo and Palazzo delle Prigioni was torn down to make way for the expansion of the hotel).
It’s situated near the entrance of the grand canal, the same canal Marius and Armand lived on together, and overlooks the lagoon.
When you walk inside it looks like this:
The grand steps into the palace, which were once outdoors, are now inside, protected by a great 19th century glass ceiling.
The front desk is made of beautifully carved, renaissance style linenfold paneling, retaining the original design of the hotel from 1822.
Every common area in the hotel is pure luxury, filled with antique furniture and artwork. And the rooms themselves?
Decorated in a baroque-meets-victorian style, every single one is to die for.
Even the simpler rooms are beautifully attired.
In the book, however, it says that Daniel sees Armand in a window across the canal. I did some digging to figure out exactly which canal it would have been talking about and which rooms have that view (and thus exactly how much luxury Daniel would have been treating himself to)
The canal view rooms are some of the more expensive rooms. While not as ostentatious as the suites with their mural ceilings, they’re still listed just a tier below the suites. Through the balcony door there you can see the windows Armand might have been in. Across the canal is a more budget friendly hotel, the Venice Ca’Rosy.
The canal Daniel’s room overlooked is a lovely place all on its own. In this photo the Danieli is on the left, the Ca Rosy is on the right.
Current prices for rooms at the Danieli start at $700/night. Unfortunately the Danieli has changed ownership and will temporarily close in January, and undergo ‘extensive renovations’ over the next two years. What that means for the decor it’s hard to say.
I think it says something interesting about Daniel that he stayed here. When he had the money from his advance for Interview in his pocket he ate at the Copley (within another luxury hotel that he possibly was staying at) and then chose a hotel that’s amongst the priciest in Venice and paid for one of their finest rooms. It makes you question whether Armand introduced him to an expensive lifestyle or if he always had a taste for fine things, just sometimes when his life was falling apart he couldn’t afford them.
(There’s also the fun question of did Armand not speak to him in Venice because this is a building he has memories in but that’s a whole other meta post)
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Honestly Lucifer, Ball and Michael threesome... Hot, into it
this is what the entire last book is. just 400 pages of these 3 going at it
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My uni tutor keeps telling me I'm writing at too high a standard and I should be aiming for a level 4 essay instead of a PhD essay and he said that after reading my introduction which starts with
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this is a genuine question and one you do not have to answer if you don’t feel comfortable, but why no zombie au? do zombies make you queasy or something? again, you can’t completely ignore this question, i am just curious.
It’s the aspect of societal collapse!! There’s so much helplessness and paranoia (and I already suffer from a lot of paranoia when I’m NOT thinking about zombies) that come with zombie AUs that genuinely lowers my mood and makes me afraid of something like that really happening because I mean an infectious disease is a little more plausible to me than like,, werewolves,, and with werewolves or vampires or whatever they’re like unlikely to be encountered, yk? They’re a myth or a legend or a scary story in their worlds rather than the dominant population like zombie AUs are :’)
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AND!!!! Pirate Babs, maybe a bit like Elizabeth Swan, daughter of the governer turned pirate but the son of a famous pirate and then she sets up a sort of safe port for pirates when she can no longer move around the ship easily due to injury gained while pirating!
ANON YOUR MIND
ya know how in PoTC 3 there's that safe cove that all the pirates know how to get to but nobody else does??? the place where the Pirate King lives and where the Brethren Court meet up? YEAH THAT'S BARBARA'S DOMAIN
She was the captain of an all-female crew (the one that Stephanie joined) but then she was injured in a battle and lost her ability to walk. She found a hidden cove and completely repurposed the ENTIRE THING. new docks and places for ships to berth, a huge-ass fortress, connections to pirate ships and fleets all over the globe, etc etc. She's like. the most powerful pirate of all time because she has all the resources of every single pirate who allies with her at her disposal. SHE'S THE PIRATE KING
(After Barbara became the Pirate King and started living in the hidden cove, she made Stephanie captain in her place; after Cassandra joined the crew, the two became co-captains)
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