At some point I'm going to write a post about the idea that the Lampards (and redknapps?) are Cursed. It keeps coming up in my fics, and I have Thoughts.
David and Victoria Beckham photographed by Steven Klein for Vogue Italia in 2003
i want my long distance besties to be local besties is that too much to ask
How dare you make me choose.
So, I also straight up forgot Marie De Guise, so I apologize for not including her and also for not including an option for “don’t make me pit a monstrous regiment of bad bitches against one another.”
Friends, I have been following this poll like it’s the NYT needle. Mary Stuart gained an early and substantial lead that she held the entire weekend with no clear second place. Anne Boleyn started rising in the rankings Tuesday and just this morning took the lead.
Also, specific should-out to the one person who genuinely was about to yell at me for forgetting Marie de Guise.
I may not always agree with Zladdy but here he is RIGHT and he should SAY IT!!
read my sloppy ass mare liberum last chapter outline and cried as i do every time. what the fuck was 2020 me thinking???????
I love epistolary fanfic - or even fic that just uses letters as a major plot point somehow.
Give me a Regency AU with characters passing secret love notes to each other. Give me a modern day fic with emails going back and forth. Give me a fic that starts off with an email, then goes to DMs, then phone calls, then meeting in person.
Give me characters who have distinct writing styles and choices. Give me characters who aren't comfortable writing at all but it's the only thing that they've got and god damn it, they have something that needs to be said!
Give me someone finding an old bundle of letters and reading about a long lost friendship from generations before. Give me a misplaced address and someone reading a letter that they think is for them - but it isn't! - and it still ends up changing their life.
july 2022 favs
weak and powerless - a perfect circle (dug up this absolute blast from the past)
oi bethleem - this version by uh, txomin artola and amaia zubiria (i’m using this for a chapter of a fic so i’ve listened to it 10491039149 times and it’s sooooo chill)
la poule à colin - la bouttine souriante (wholesome quebecois cringe)
actually i listened to a ton of their stuff: la ziguezon, the ‘y a ben du changement’ album, le lys vert, etc what can i say i’m a Nerd for fiddle folk stuff and they have good energy
kempe-jo - annbjørg lien (high school crush hahaha)
lies - fleetwood mac (i don’t know WHY? hahaha)
run to you - bryan adams (80s cheeeese)
enduring favs:
te lutem mos u ndal - noizy (it’s just so filthy! how could i not)
buleria - david bisbal (literally. the best love song out there? and i’d always wanted a ship that this song like suited you know?)
crazy what love can do again
Switzerland's midfielder Granit Xhaka celebrates after winning the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between France and Switzerland at the Național Arena in Bucharest, Romania on June 28, 2021. (Photo by JUSTIN SETTERFIELD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
listen galaxy brain but an 80s metal AU is the perfect place for granit like...literally nothing ‘outlandish’ he says or does would be out of place for an 80s metal guy it would just be a day that ends in Y
big fan of platonic expressions of devotion actually. yeah we're best friends of course i'd find you and hang out with you in every universe.