That’s girlfriend stuff. insp by @howls-unmoving-castle

One of the things I love the most about Tim Bradford & Lucy Chen is that they are just  simply a good example of what a healthy relationship should be and look like. And once they are fully out in the open, their relationship is going to FLOURISH.

They communicate honestly and openly with one another. They know what the other needs without having to be asked directly. Tim is always willing to step in if needed, but knows and trusts when Lucy says she has something handled. And Lucy knows when to step in when Tim is struggling from his emotional trauma in a way that doesn't bring attention to it, and with no expectation of any acknowledgement in return. Tim is constantly impressed and surprised by Lucy. You can just feel his pure happiness that he's finally got his person, his missing puzzle piece, and vice versa for Lucy.

One of the little details that I loved from this episode was Lucy showing Tim how to use the new coffee maker (he's of course totally impressed but can't show it fully), and then she gives him the mug of coffee she just made with no fanfare or fuss, like "it's okay, babe, I got you." It was such a small gesture, but filled with so much love. And I just *swoon.* 

They love one another completely, flaws and all. They truly know each other "so well." 

And, while I would have loved Tim to have swooped in like a knight in shining armor when Lucy got herself into that harrowing domestic call, I'm ultimately glad he didn't. Because Lucy has proven time and again that she saves herself and she doesn't need Tim to do that for her, which is again so healthy for the two of them. 

I just love these two ding dongs and how well they compliment each other. I know you need conflict for drama or whatever for a television show, but I'm perfectly content with watching these two just gush over the other and be so totally happy and at ease forever. It's all I need, and they warm my little heart up so much. That might make for boring tv, but I don't even care, give me domestic bliss Chenford for a million more seasons. 

Again, they are both such a goddamn delight, and brighten up my weeks. And I just love love love this show so much. 

I can watch no longer in silence. I must complain about you by such means as are within my reach. You’ve ripped out my soul. I am half agony, half hopeless. Tell me not that this is it, that such precious Jane Austen adaptations are gone forever. 

I offer you my screenwriting advice with a heart even more desperate than when you almost broke it with the release of the Persuasion trailer one month ago.

Dare not say that this movie is accurate, that this Anne is a stronger protagonist than her book counterpart. I have loved none but her. Pretentious I may have been, annoying and demanding I have been, but always with the film’s best interests at heart. 

The book alone has brought me to you. For it alone I sat and watched. Have you not realized this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I would not have waited even ten minutes after turning off the TV to write this, could I have mastered my own feelings, as I think you must have guessed mine. 

I can hardly type. I am in every instant recalling something which makes me want to punch a wall. You rewrote Anne as a snarky girlboss, but I can appreciate the nuance of her book counterpart when it would be lost on the Netflix execs. Too horrible, too disgusting adaptation! You do us insult, indeed. You do believe that there is not a single brain cell in your audience. Believe mine to have shriveled up and died while watching this movie, most painfully, in the brain of

-Everyone Watching

I must go, and cleanse my remaining sanity with the 1995 adaptation; but I shall return hither, to laugh at this adaptation with my friends, as soon as I can stomach it. But another sentence of clunky narration, another infuriating wink from this horrible version of Anne to the camera, will be enough to make me cancel my Netflix subscription forever.

Look at Bradford’s moves.

“No, it’s good.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26644411

First Kisses is back!

Thank you to @pools-of-venetianblue for the prompt and @hobbeshalftail3469 for helping me out when I got stuck...

Robin and Cormoran || Hug at Robin’s Wedding

He’s a good man. He offered to help me with my land come spring.

#GUESS WHAT BEEYATCH#matthew and gilbert are gonna have a chance to be family in this universe! #matthew will eventually get to hold those lil’ anne/gilbert babies! #matthew cuthbert lives forever in the awae ‘verse – pass it on! (via @dollsome-does-tumblr)

“She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.

i literally couldn’t help myself when it came to writing smut for these two. i blame @pools-of-venetianblue 😬

Lorelei’s Plan to date Cormoran ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  for the Cormoran Strike Fest of Firsts: Exes (for @pools-of-venetianblue​ and @lovebeyondmeasure​ who get an equal share of credit and blame ♥︎)

This quiz has EVERYTHING:

Scarred and misanthropic ex-soldiers

Musk and cardamon-scented heroes

Outspoken, scandalous older women

Fake marriage tropes

Third-act conflicts!!

Sounds about right. This quiz was amazingly fun. I will probably take it again with different combinations.

Lucifer is alive with the sound of music.

EW has exclusively learned that season 5’s ninth episode will be a full-blown musical episode. Titled “Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam,” (wonder who speaks that line of dialogue…) the hour will feature multiple musical numbers and shouldn’t be confused with the final season’s fourth episode, which is 1940s noir themed and contains two song performances.

Music has always been a big part of the WBTV drama’s DNA going as far back season 1. In fact, showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson have always wanted to do a musical episode but were waiting until they came up with the right story.

“We wanted to have a real grounded story reason why they’re signing and dancing, and not just, ‘Oh, this is going to be the one where everybody sings and dance,‘” Modrovich tells EW. “It’s been a little game of Tetris [planning the episode] but it’s super fun. It’s going to be amazing. It’s going to be just such a bucket list thing for me.” At the moment, though, they’re keeping the story’s details close to the chest.

While walking the dog yesterday, we found the tracks of a pack of wolves that had passed across the edge of our property. (I live out in the highway in Alaska.) I took a picture of my hand next to a wolf track for comparison. 

Now here’s a picture of my hand with one of our dog’s tracks:

And he’s not an especially small dog; he’s a 55-lb retriever mix.

And the dog’s tracks next to wolf tracks:

Wolves are huge.

dude, i’m tellin you, for real Sometimes people ask if my klee kai is a wolf, like, seriously. And I’m always like oh no, ha ha he kind of looks like one, though, hunh? But inside I’m always like “uh, my dog weighs thirty pounds, wolves weigh more than me and my dog put together – if he was a wolf you wouldn’t be asking if he was a wolf, you’d be peeing your pants and demanding we leave”

like, a wolf is as tall when lying down as most dogs are standing. here, see for yourself. Labs are a very dog-sized dog, wouldn’t you say? Check this out

(this is a wolf in Alaska that found an unfenced dog park and slowly over the course of months learned how to hang out and have fun with the dogs)

SO BIG THO - here, have some more examples

“the” cursed medieval knight makes it seem like this is a common rom-com trope 

@copperbadge

“So which of you is the science teacher and which of you is the cursed medieval knight?”