subversive.petit.fours

Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997

But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham," containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890

Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago

Gilgamesh and Enkidu "loved each other like man and wife" in 2700 BC and ppl STILL act like being gay was invented by Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep in the 25th century BC

Gather round Labyrinth fic writers, if you want to write a ballroom scene in your Labyrinth fanfic; instead of putting the reader/character in a modern prom dress/ballgown, please consider:

1830s meets 1980s meets Tudor era

I hope I don’t fuck myself over before even dipping my toe into the Grishaverse fandom, but I just have one comment that keeps popping up in the back of my mind, so I’m gonna say it and hope for the best.

Everyone getting on Mal’s case for being a meh character in the Shadow and Bone trilogy? Fair and valid, I was not as much a fan of those three books as I expected to be and frankly I was more interested in the side characters than the main character drama. I didn’t process shit about Mal (or Alina and the Darkling, frankly) while reading and therefore must be neutral, so I’ll stay out of that argument.

Everyone getting on Mal’s case for “I am become a blade” being bad grammar? I’m actually pretty sure there’s context for that. There’s this story about the Manhattan Project that after the first successful atomic bomb test at Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer thought of a passage from the Bhagavad Gita: “I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”

Like the tattoo quote, at least in my reading of it, “I am become death” in that context was about looking at what you have done, at the violence you have made possible, and having to take ownership of it. I’m not saying Mal’s intent behind “I am become a blade” is good or bad, I’m just saying it matches a little bit - I think Leigh Bardugo might have been trying to reference this with the wording of the tattoo quote.

Anyways, feel free to jump on Mal for whatever, I don’t actually care that much, but I did kind of care about the grammar jab because I think it was a deliberate reference that people glossed over, so these have been my thoughts on that. 

TLDR: “I am become a blade” = “I am become death, destroyer of worlds” = a callback to another path of violence that the person couldn’t leave once they started

The first costume of "Dead Air" (Season 2, Episode 11) is a return of Phryne's classic at-home ensemble, with her knit cardigan, white sleeveless blouse, and white silk faille pants.

Worn while listening to the radio with Dot and Mr. Butler at home, Miss Fisher's sleeveless scoop-necked blouse can be seen in 1x01, 1x10, and 2x08, each seen underneath one of her comfortable sweaters. Her cream lace cardigan has been seen multiple episodes, 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06, 1x08, 1x10, and twice with different blouses in 2x07. The cardigan is made from white silk rayon fabric that the designer Marion Boyce had owned for years, and only decided to cut into it for Phryne's wardrobe.

Phryne pairs this with her wide-leg silk faille pants, decorated with a silver art nouveau buckle that can be seen in 1x01, 1x03, twice in 1x06. The buckle features a woman reaching up with one hand amidst decorative leaves and scrolls. The buckle itself is an authentic 1920′s piece, and is most likely a nurse’s buckle, historically given to nurses by hospitals once they completed their training. Traditionally, they are made of two symmetrical pieces that clasp together in the middle. Since we know Phryne served as a nurse in the First World War, this is a truly impressive and subtle nod to her history.

Her beautiful earrings are green crystal teardrops, topped with pearls, with a gold ring of jewels embedded near the end.

Season 2, Episode 11 - "Dead Air"

Screencaps from here, earring photo from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Facebook, promotional photos from various sources (x, x), buckle photo from Dayna's Blog, compilation photo by me.

My friends: talk about how many books they read in a month

My friends (ask me): What about you, read any book recently?

Me (sweating profusely, looking at probably 30 tabs of AO3): Uhm…Do fanfics count?

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I have been reading about four books for a month now and haven’t finished them, yet I read approximately 50-100k words of fanfics every day. Am I weird or am I weird?

anyway…

at first you’d think eliot is gruff and manly and just a punchy-man, but he literally also lives to cause subtle chaos

this man says the most unnerving things to a mark for shits and giggles

this man literally took a bite out of a live snake to commit to the act

we need to embrace chaos gremlin eliot more

Legitimately though what the FUCK was Nate's job??? Because I'm like 90% sure that insurance people aren't going after international thieves like they're fucking super spies or something. I don't think they usually get GUNS.

So the other day I’m scrolling through Leverage’s Crossover tag on AO3 and I’m loving The Old Guard crossovers

And like I totally get why they all have Eliot as the immortal and also why they usually make Parker and Hardison Also immortal bc OT3 like yeah yeah cool cool cool

BUT

How are y’all sleeping on Immortal Sophie???? Her whole identity crisis thing is MADE for this sort of AU

NATE AND SOPHIE THO

- Sorry it’s obvious but I have to mention the exquisite heartbreak of Nate’s son dying while Nate’s immortal

- Y’know that flashback where they shoot each other? They KILLED each other. Sophie has already been around a while and already knew she would come back but that’s the first time Nate died and that’s when he found out.

- Which adds that element to their flirty chases of “she’s like me and she’s the ONLY one I know like me”

- Sophie mentioning famous things that have been missing for literally CENTURIES that she claims to have stolen and nobody’s sure whether she’s telling the truth

- You know why her go-to role is Lady Macbeth? Because the role was WRITTEN for her. (Obviously “pretending to be a man so she could be an Elizabethan-era actor” counts as a con and therefore she was brilliant.)

- I guess this does make for an age gap that not everybody would be okay with, but personally I think it would be HILARIOUS for her to consider Nate super young and naive. He would HATE it.

- To return to that original point about the identity crisis? She for sure cannot remember all the identities she’s ever had, and periodically they’ll come across a historical figure that reminds them of her and she genuinely cannot remember if it’s actually her or not. 

- “YOU ARE UTTERLY UNCLEAR ON HOW TO BE DEAD.” 

I’m really glad that my anon has created a little corner of the Leverage Fandom I’m now involved enough in that I get these sorts of additions on my posts

Also this was EXACTLY what I was going for you read my friggin mind

I love finding out new things about Saint Robin Williams

The clip is from 16:50-17:30 for anyone who hasn't seen it.

harley escape scene but add rain by grandson

THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2022) dir. James Gunn

an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen

eliot and parker in ‘the two live crew job’ [2x07]

I love how Parker blowing up a house as a little child is just never ever expanded upon or even mentioned again. The Leverage writers were just like this tells you everything you need to know about the character and that's all you're gonna get, die wondering about it

I'd watch it.

leverage is great because it makes real commentary on actual problems and the people behind the scenes do seem to genuinely care about those problems but also it's a show where they faked an alien abduction and one of the main characters sent another character plot-relevant petplay magazines. it's a show where one of the lines from the original finale still haunts me with how true it ultimately is--"justice or order. one day, you are going to have to make that choice"--and it's a show where there's an office parody episode that involves the same character who said that insisting in a straight-to-camera interview that he "loves foreplay." they solved the DB cooper case one time. it rules

to all the people who enjoyed seeing evil rich people get what’s coming for them in knives out and glass onion, may i suggest: leverage (2008)