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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

CATE BLANCHETT in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008, dir. David Fincher) → Costume Design by Jacqueline West

the signs as historical anecdotes

Aries: The Greek philosopher Diogenes was once captured by pirates and sold into slavery. The slave merchant asked Diogenes what trade he could be sold into (like a carpenter, scribe, etc.). Diogenes said his only skill was leading men, and said that he should be sold to a man who needed a master.

Taurus: In 207 BC, Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter while watching his drunk donkey eat figs.

Gemini: In the midst of an impassioned debate on the Senate floor, a page delivers a private message to young Julius Caesar. His opponent, Cato, demands the letter be read aloud. Caesar initially refused, but after much pestering, showed the rival senator the note. It was a love letter from Cato’s half sister.

Cancer: The Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse Senator and gave it voting rights. The horse was named Incitatus and had a whole stable in marble complete with furniture and a staff of servants.

Leo: When Alexander the Great was in Corinth, all the great men of the city came to pay him tribute. When he didn’t see Diogenes among them, he went out to find him, and met the philosopher sun bathing next to the barrel he lived in. Alexander, conqueror of half the known world, greeted him and asked if there was anything he could do as a favor to the famous thinker. Diogenes answered, “Yes, move over a little. You’re standing in my sun.”

Virgo: Maria Fedorovna, Empress of Russia and wife of Tsar Alexander III, was known for her charitable works. In fact, she once saved a condemned man from exile in Siberia by changing a single comma in the warrant signed by her husband. Instead of reading: “Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia,” she changed the document to read: “Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.” The man was thus saved and released.

Libra:  The Greek tragedian Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head, after mistaking it for a rock on which to crack open the shell.

Scorpio: Pope Stephen VI didn’t like his predecessor, Pope Formosus, and therefore ordered his remains to be dug up and put on trial. At the infamous “Cadaver Synod” of 897, Pope Stephen VI cross-examined the corpse, declared it guilty, and had it mutilated and thrown in the Tiber River as punishment.

Sagittarius: Hippocleides of Athens got so drunk at a betrothal dinner party he jumped on the dinner table and started dancing like a madman. His prospective father-in-law Cleisthenes of Sicyon told him “Oh son of Tysander, you have just danced away your marriage.” Hippocleides responded with “Hippocleides doesn’t care”

Capricorn: The Persian king Xerxes sentenced the sea to 300 lashes for destroying two of his army’s bridges.

Aquarius: Virginia Woolf and her writer friends successfully tricked the Royal Navy into showing them their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, by pretending to be Abyssinian princes, dressing up with fake beards, skin darkeners and turbans. (Here’s a picture, Virginia to the far left)

Pisces: In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. There was no music nor any apparent reason behind it. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion.

Just some appreciation for Adam Driver’s hands. :)

Robert the Bruce & Elizabeth de Burgh Outlaw King (2018)

take that ridiculous thing off

I adore lwaboc, I really admire how well you handled their relationship going from 100% antagonistic to the killer ust and sweet pining. Any advice on how to write slow burns? I hope you're having a great day ♡

Thank you for the kind words, dear, I hope you’re having a great day as well. 🤗

Regarding your question— *clears throat* IT’S MY TIME TO SHINE. Here are a few things I’ve picked up over the years!

First, you have to decide what kind of slow burn you want to write. The most common one that I’ve seen is the physical slow burn wherein the characters realize that they’re attracted to each other but take a while to act on it. Then there’s the emotional slow burn wherein the characters have a physical relationship but don’t realize they love each other because they’re idiots. It can also be a combination of the two! You have to determine what’s best suited to your plot and your characters’ personalities.

No matter which option you go with, it’s important to remember that slow burn is all about building the dynamic. Have your characters get to know each other, squabble over differences in opinions, and ultimately learn to trust and respect each other. This is where you can take a cue from the real world— whenever people are willing to share, I love listening to their stories about how they came to be with their partner and how they eventually had the epiphany that this person was The One. Whirlwind romances do happen in real life, but I think the more common experience is an acquaintance blossoming into a friendship blossoming into something more. It can be really fun, as a writer, to try and track the different ways that can go, and drawing upon those experiences can enhance your story and make it resonate with your readership.

Slow burn is also about never taking the easy way out, lol. Don’t let them snog or confess their feelings at the first opportunity— you want to draw out that tension, stretch it tight until something has just got to snap. Don’t be afraid to throw complications in the way of the ship— hell, go ahead and keep them separated for ages if that’s what the plot requires. It’s an agonizing process but it will make the payoff so much sweeter in the end. But don’t go overboard with this, either. Throw your characters (and your readers and yourself, lbr) a bone from time to time. For physical slow burn: Let the OTP hug or nuzzle or forehead kiss or whatever in a rare unguarded moment, let them Catch A Whiff Of Each Other’s Scent, let them shiver from unexpected touches, let them daydream about how it would feel like to jump Person B. For emotional slow burn: Let each of them gradually come to realizations about the other person, let them amass this mental catalogue of their partner’s quirks that are just So Endearing, let them confess something that’s not quite “I love you” yet but is pretty damn close in a moment of abject vulnerability (”You make me feel safe,” “I miss you,” “You’re, uh, you’re not so bad,” etc.)

Tension is a huge aspect of slow burn and you’re going to want to convey that in exquisite detail during the crucial moments. This includes the characters’ immediate environment— how sound suddenly seems to be coming from a long way off, how the person’s presence seems to eclipse everything else in the room, how the air is charged with static in the space between their bodies. As for the characters themselves— who’s blushing? Who’s biting their lip? Whose hands are balling into fists or clutching that coffee mug a bit too tight? Whose pupils are dilated, who suddenly trailed off in the middle of a sentence because they forgot what they were going to say… and then, once you’ve finished setting the stage, you can either pull the rug out from under them with a cockblock ex machina or have them go at it, depending on where you are in the story.

That’s all I’ve got for now. I hope this helps. Best of luck with your writing!

“The other women tittered. The blatant affection that Ysanne and Markus showed for each other was a source of amusement among the royal court; Rey, however, couldn’t help but wistfully remember how happy the couple had seemed at her engagement ball. For a moment she allowed herself to indulge in the fantasy of being loved like that. The arm around her waist in these musings felt too much like Kylo’s, but she wasn’t very keen on analyzing what that meant. It was all only in her mind, anyway. Harmless…” 

Excerpt from Chapter Five of “Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors” by @kylorenvevo. 

A sketch based on @kylorenvevo’s “Landscape With a Blur of Conquerors.” If you’re into Reylo, and you haven’t read it, umm…. read it. Like now. It’s really well written, and I can’t wait for the next chapter update, especially now that I’m on break and my mind isn’t running a million miles a minute. 

Took a lot of inspiration from Paolo Sebastian’s and Zahir Muhad’s collections. 

BITE

↳ The legacies of Kylo Ren

The Skywalker family was a Force-sensitive human bloodline who contributed members to both the Old and the New Jedi Orders as well as the Sith. Throughout the years, the Skywalkers remain prominent in galactic affairs, having significant impacts on major historical events for over 150 years.

Do it!

fanfiction aesthetics ; when we were young by pontmercy44

fanfiction aesthetics ; walk the halls (climb up the walls) by @lachesisgrimm

fanfiction aesthetics ; you should see the things we do by @ever-so-reylo

Lately I can’t stop thinking about a mob/mafia/1930′s AU 

“You know,” he says, his tone deliberately casual - too much, for him. Rey’s eyebrow quirks up and she tilts her head to the side, studying him. “I’ve never cooked for anyone else. I mean, I have made something for Poe every once in a while, but- never a whole meal. But I like it, cooking for you”.

She doesn’t know how to reply to that, because it feels - so big. They barely know each other, and they have seen each other twice, but it’s all so natural and easy, and she can’t help but smile and say, “I like it too”.

– or: Ben loves to cook for Rey, and she’s not complaining.

(read on AO3) (ko-fi if you want)

Coffee Shop AU for my sweet @starr-destroyer​ <3

artprint : society6 | redbubble

Just love rey with long and pretty hair so much okay. 

I will start taking commissions again once I get back from a vacation in Switzerland! ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡

Reylo Fic Rec: Of Penmanship and Discourse by @intp-slytherin97

This incredible fic just crossed 150K words, a monumental achievement, so I wanted to make a little something for it! In case you aren’t reading this fic already, you MUST. Definitely one of my favorite Reylo fics out there.

Read here on AO3

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, … So, till the Judgement that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.”

– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55

we are what we grow beyond.

We call ships ‘she.’ We call our war machines 'women.’ We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not 'lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever the hell I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name them after women. Don’t try to down-play my power.

Prompt from @lilithsaur: 

Lilith!Rey and Lucifer!kylo dancing around a bonfire, like in those old cartoons when spirits of the underworld gathered and danced some pagan dance around fire. They’re not together yet, even tho that little fact, the dancing turns intense and Rey ends up kissing Kylo before returning to her realm in hell, leaving him speechless, with black clawed fingertips hovering his lips when sunlight arrives.

I was given this amazing art to use as inspiration: x

I cannot express to you how sorry I am that this took so long.

mildly nsfw under the cut 

That there was light in the underworld which emanated from anything other than raging hellfire came as a surprise to many of its incoming inhabitants; but as they passed through the veil, even the very river they rowed along came alive with vibrant blues and pinks and oranges; the river of souls they would soon meet with in permanent communion. And beyond that were the lights of the sprawling, ancient cityscape, the bright flicker of lamps lit in windows of colored glass, set back into the ageless buildings of brimstone and obsidian. Sconces burning bright on soot blackened walls, candles flickering around shrines erected to ageless, nameless deities. Then there was the Sun, something that came as a shock to all newcomers; hell wasn’t a subterranean cavern, but a realm of existence, the Sun shone there like it did in the mortal plane, bright and brutal. 

Hell was truly a bright, vibrant place. But nothing shone so bright as this demoness. She was a thin, lithe woman who writhed to the beat of primal drums, surrounded by a posse of equally nubile, beautiful men and women, sweaty and panting, the sensuality of it all was undeniable. They swayed and swung as the beat rose and fell, steadied and accelerated. But this one, with golden skin and eyes more golden still, she surpassed them all. 

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somewhere someone waits up for you. somewhere someone takes their phone off silent with the hopes of catching your call. somewhere a roomful of people plan for your return. somewhere an audience waits to applaud you, is applauding you, will applaud you for your rest of your life. and i know you swear you’re no heart-stopping beauty queen but the ones who love you still look for you first in a crowded room. still watch you, eagerly waiting for your eyes to light up with the next joke you’ll tell. or for the smile that tells them you’re okay after all. this is your fame. this is your legacy. you were loved in this world if only for a moment. and now you’re starting to forget. back then, you imagined your life as a series of miracles and you waited for it to all happen to you. but your heart caught up with the world and stopped dreaming so big. or so loud. and you folded yourself away and never told anyone how scared you were of everything. and you thought, this is it. this is the rest of my life. i’ll live on the sidelines of love and ill laugh at the right parts of the story. and it worked for a while, but you knew it couldn’t last. you, expert daydreamer. you, cynical romantic. you who once fed the birds on the stoop, knowing it would make their flight a little easier. you, who kept the light on because it helped your best friend sleep. you who smiled at the cashier like you meant it, because you did mean it. you who led the river home. you who the sky stared back at. you who the moon followed. you are not as small as you think nor are your fears as large. someday you will turn the tea kettle on, you will open the windows, you will breathe deeply and you will move forward. you will thank the ordinary things for bringing you back to the miracle of yourself. and you will waver and see a flicker of the dark calling you back and maybe you will get lost in it. but you will be found again and found again and found again.

traditional celtic folk music makes me go buck fucking wild. i don’t know what it is, if it’s just in my blood or if it’s a past life or just ‘cause it’s objectively soulful but I hear that fiddle and I immediately transform into this heartbroken irish widow in 1787 with a shawl draped over my shoulders staring over the cliffs of moher, waiting for my ghostly lover to return from sea

hey there, reylos of tumblr.hell! welcome to nole and chole’s nut fics: a complete anthology of the good shit™. from reylo classics to god-tier one shots, few things come close to the writers of reylo in terms of talent. as connoisseurs of reylo fic since the year of our lord, 2015, we’ve decided to compile some of our all-time favorites (or nut fics, if you will) in honor of Star Wars Day. graphic, meme and blurb by nole @kyluminous aka my sister in thottery.

nole’s faves (emotional nut)

Interstellar Transmissions by @ricca-raccoon and @little-scribblers-heart

Forms by @avenrue

Ja’ak by @avenrue

Like Young Gods by @kylorenvevo

To Kingdom Come by @kylorenvevo

Satan Wears a Rolex by @stoptakingmyhandx

Never Tell Me the Odds

A Line of Stones

A Proposal By Any Other Name by @lucidlucy​

Ghostwalks (Gin and Fog) by @kylorenvevo​

The Moon, the Sun, and the Star Inbetween by @silvershiner

The End of A String by @silvershiner

A New Order by @beautyandtheren​

Effloresce by @greyofjakku​

Delicate by @reyloday​

Destiny (damned me to love you) by @ahsokaren

Awakening by @southsidestory

chole’s faves (literal nut)

City Lights by @tearoomsaloon

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by @poethrotsvitha

Capture the Flag Can Be Sexy (and other lessons) by @hyenahunny

Eros by @stoptakingmyhandx

Across Six Septembers by @amilyn-lovegood

Epithumia

Little Scarlet

Kismet by @ladylionhart

The Seventh Bride by @wordsinthenight

The Hierophant by @sanctuarytrin

Dear Porcupine by @judaas

The Proof of it All by @machinewithoutfeelings

Appointment

Unexpected

Forbidden Attachments by @tearoomsaloon

Hex

Tithe by @poethrotsvitha 

Workin’ On Mysteries (without any clues) by @jedi-summer-camp

Asking Price by @reylotrashcompactor and @southsidestory​

Blame It On the Oxytocin by @arroways​

you and i by @spacedarcy

Your Pretty Little Heart by @ever-so-reylo

In Short Order

Do you have any a/b/o verse reylo fics? Thanks xx

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I sure do.

I can’t imagine finding one of these that’s NOT explicit, but putting the warnings on anyways. Suggestions welcome! 

+ - fic is mature/explicit

* - fic is incomplete

Multichapter:

*+ Summer Heat by IshaRen

*+ House of Heat by PetraTodd

+Misbehaving For Days by t0bemadeofglass

+Unavoidable by Twin_Kitten

*+I Seek My Freedom in the Moonlight by asongforjonsa

*+Marked, Take Two by ChelleyPam

*+When it comes you cannot fight the heat by Pbabes_143

+Labyrinth - a Reylo Book Of Sins Re Write by RayofDawn

*+Downfall by Shakes116

+keep on getting closer by t0bemadeofglass

*+The Voice In My Head by Water_Fox (NightSiren)

*+the thick of it by bitterbones

*+The Ballad of You, Me, and Everything in Between by bluetoast

*+ Algorithms by greyorchids 

*+Beneath the Moon, I Saw You by Poaxath 

*+Winter’s Cage by Nelsbels

*+I Seek My Freedom in the Moonlight by asongforjonsa

*+Hunger by benperor-ren (winterelf86)

+Your Pretty Little Heart by Ever-so-reylo (Ever_So_Reylo)

*+Wolves by AlbaStarGazer

*+The Mating Service by AlbaStarGazer

*+Temperature by arroways

*+No One But You by faequeentitania

*+Baby, It’s Just Biology by Polkadotdotdot

*+Lie to Me by deadlikemoi

+i want to (wail at the moon like a cat in heat) by crossingwinter

*+How Little We Know by gopherbroke

*+I Will Possess Your Heart (If You Let Me) by raptorginger

*+Arm the Doors by Minkel23

*+Club Alpha by HisAngel910

*+A Tale of Tooth and Claw by Khawapashi

*+The Lycan in You and I by Reylogirlforever

*Speed and Heat by AMLark

*+Heartstring by Oh_Snapcrackle

*+Auribus Teneo Lupum by MalevolentReverie

*+Gap Year by way_of_the_pathfinder

*+Morut'yc Morut by CajunSpice714

*+can’t turn off what turns me on by audreyii_fic

*+Blow your smoke to fog up the mirror (Write our name in hearts) by reygrets

*+I will love you endlessly by crossingwinter

*+All She Ever Wanted by ToMakeMeDreamofYou

Oneshots:

+ By the Grace of Your Training I Will Not Be Seduced by Aiffe

+ Be Mine by kuresoto

+ You’re Hard to Resist (When You’re on Your Knees) by ViciousRhythm

+Swell by Hormonal_Trashbag

+Bite. by 2kitsune

+unexpected by thewayofthetrashcompactor (BriarLily)

+lust for life by kuresoto

+The Empress in Heat by Rhonda3Green

+Knot Me Up by Eskayrobot and Poaxath

covinsky + height difference 

kylo ren + tumblr text posts