Delayed
TITLE OF STORY: Delayed CHAPTER NUMBER/TITLE/ONE SHOT: One Shot AUTHOR: freudensteins-monster WHICH TOM/CHARACTER: Actor Tom GENRE: Humor, Romance, Fluff FIC SUMMARY: Tom and a virtual stranger are forced to share a hotel room after their flight is grounded. RATING: T WARNINGS/TRIGGERS/AUTHORS NOTES: Based on this prompt suggested - and beta’d by - ladyaudiophile. I’ve rarely written Actor!Tom, or from his POV, but there’s a first time for everything. Starring Moscow!Tom. Enjoy.
“I’m sorry, but there’s been a mistake,” I tried, very calmly, to explain to the flustered woman behind the counter. “We’re not together,” I gestured to the woman beside me, Magdalena – Maggie, whom I had only met an hour before. “So we’re going to need two rooms. Or at least a room with two beds,” I added, trying to be as amenable as possible.
lower-income people tend to be “hoarders” and richer people are able to do more “minimalist” living spaces. if u don’t have much, you will hold onto any little thing that comes across your way. you got a new tv, but you still keep the old tv because you know things can break. you keep extra boxes of macaroni and cheese lying around because there will be a week when you don’t have money for groceries. you hold onto your stacks of books and clothes for dear life. those are your assets. physical evidence of where your money’s gone. it’s hard to get rid of it. the bare wall is terrifying when you don’t have much.
Fuck. This makes so much sense and explains so much about me. I must have inherited this from my mum.
so I’d normally put this in the tags but it’s kind of a lot so just reblog this from OP to skip my commentary. But I dogsit for a family who is clearly LOADED. Their house is immaculate. High, vaulted ceilings, wood flooring, two chandeliers in one room. These things are fancy, right ?? I really don’t know, anything that isn’t tile or 30 year old carpet seems fancy to me. It also so… bare. Everything is organized perfectly, they have no excess. Their decor is extravagant and yet minimal - it is carefully and precisely executed. Nothing that doesn’t match the aesthetic sits in their living room. I tried to replicate some of it, but it’s just not possible. I have every book I’ve ever owned, my mom keeps papers upon papers, VHSs in a dresser, how do you just get rid of these things when you know you may not have the opportunity to buy them again? How must it feel to live in such orderly quarters where everything is replaceable?
This really locked into my brain when I was reading one of the declutter your space things and it suggested getting rid of duplicate highlighters and pens. /Pens/. It suggested that you needed one or two working pens, so if you had extra you should get rid of them. That was when I realized minimalist living was /innately/ tied to having spare money, because the idea was, of course you just went out and bought the single replacement thing whenever the first thing broke. You obv. Had the time and money to only ever hold what you needed that moment, because you could always buy more later.
there’s a nice article titled “minimalism is just another boring product wealthy people can buy” by Chelsea Fagan which i feel addressed lots of my problems with minimalism, you can read it [here]
Norman at Boondock All Saints Day premieres 💚💚💚
#Norman #FBF #sexyaf #BDS #Flandus #boys #McManus #sexyshorthair
people I still want to stab over a decade later:
Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
- archive everything on your blog you want to keep
- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
#if dog dies we riot
This is true ! YAY!
Us before TTDW in 2013: This might be Tom’s last Marvel film :(
Tom: yeah :(
Loki: *reveals he’s still alive at the end in a dramatic twist*
Tom:
Us in April 2018: Is Loki going to die in Infinity War?
Tom: Everything is fine :)
Loki: *dies in infinity war*
Tom:
Us: Okay it’s finally time we accept that Loki is dead. We will probably never see him in anything Marvel again and we have to except that.
Tom: Yes but all good things come to end, I still have the memories :)
Marvel: *confirms new Loki series starring Tom Hiddleston*
Tom:
A room of skulls I saw at the National Gallery of Victoria. My only regret is that I didn’t climb all over them.
Awesome idea! Climbing on skulls is a great hobby for the weekends :)
It’s the ultimate goth activity.
That moment when you accidentally fangirl at work and get busted by a co-worker:
“This great, towering Scandinavian play about a family in pain, and there were all sorts of things about my own experience in my own life that I didn’t fully understand, I certainly didn’t have the language to articulate. But I felt it in Paul Scofield. I felt him articulate it on behalf of the entire Littleton theater. And that’s when I understood the power of acting.” - Tom Hiddleston on seeing ‘John Gabriel Borkman’