ExitAriel
@exitariel
RWRB, Hollanov, ExitAriel on AO3, 🔴☂️♣️♾️ The phrase "see attached bibliography" is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.
I have returned from the near-Canadian wilderness w/ two things to share: Our ("our") lake is a loon habitat. Did you know loons, unlike other birds, have solid bones, not hollow? So when they dive they can go incredibly far. But that means they're heavier than other birds and suck at flying....
First day back at the pool and Jesus Christ, I cannot face a whole summer of this....
TFW you're just reading the paper and the FirstPrince prompts are jumping out at you.... For your consideration: ACD plays for the US. Henry plays for the UK. 38 days criss-crossing the continent and playing for their lives shouldn't leave time to fall in love but, well. Those curls are lethal...
Maggie, Jackson (who has no dignity) and Sundae (who has plenty) send their love.
....it's a fantastic folk art mosaic that covers a full building, inside and out, and the empty lot next to it.
Not so much abandoned as postponed. Again. To *next* Easter. For the third year running. FirstPrince Superstar:
New Traff Pat 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/80072726 Five plus one (plus one more) universes in which Alex runs into Henry at a party. Featuring misleading signs (on a highway and elsewhere), heated glances across a crowded ballroom and a pony named Louisa. My contribution to Karaoke Keyboard!
God, I have such big feelings about HR Ep 6.... Not least because I've *been* the kid whose nightmare -- a nightmare I had no plan for responding to, because planning would have involved sustained *thinking* about it happening -- was my parents finding out the truth.
*Sigh!* I have so much Christmas-work to do. I have so much work-work to do. And all I *wanna* do is curl up under a blanket and read fic....
It's at about the halfway mark in Chapter Eight, right before Henry goes back to England. It's right after the equally absurd digression about the lyrics to "The Twelve Days of Christmas." God, I love this fic....
All songs/artists I was introduced to by @pagemelt.bsky.social @richhellle.bsky.social @jafffacakes.bsky.social and ClottedCreamFudge. Thanks for the bangin' soundtrack, fandom friends!
Aight. Imma play too. Aging singer-songwriter Henry and aging rocker Alex reunited at the Grammys:
Y'all -- it's October, I need spookiness. Hit me with your best FP vampire recs? (My go-tos are SMC, CCF and the Henesmee stories but -- there must be more out there, right?)
Ok, can we talk about this one? I mean....the hand? The cones? The LABEL? Somebody somewhere was cracking himself up when he posted this ....
I'm currently obsessed with this song ("Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend) that is, to me, so FP-coded I actually checked when it came out to be absolutely sure it wasn't written in response to the little pink book. 2008. 17 years ago. Apparently it's my /brain/ that's now terminally FP-coded...
Wait -- have y'all read about the first openly bisexual half-Mexican trauma surgeon in the history of daytime television? NO?! Ohmigod. You must READ THIS: archiveofourown.org/works/65265673 Quite possibly the best and funniest @jafffacakes.bsky.social joint yet.....
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1:
Listen, you deserve a really excellent Friday night, so here's what you're gonna do: Pour yourself a glass of water. Lock the door. Silence the ringer. Get comfy. Read Dr. Alex's absolutely decadent latest that's a carefully calibrated 60% smut, 40% angst. This is how it fucking *starts*:
I mean, how can anyone not love a story that now and then hits pause on the epic yearning to throw in an exchange like this one?
My nearest & dearest have already seen this but it remains my favorite bit of what I'm working on right now that I will, I swear, finally fucking FINISH shortly: