Moon Custafer

ive said it before and i’ll say it again not enough historical romance focuses on technicalities

really for this kind of thing it’s no use going to published trad romance and i should know that. the really good shit is 400k on fanfiction dot net for a heterosexual pairing you’ve never considered from a piece of media you havent thought about in years written by a bored doctoral candidate who’s read a lot of primary sources from the long 18th century

recently rediscovered my absolute favorite entry in the genre: customs and duties by tortoiseshells, which is an insane technicalityromance set in 1738 boston, ft the stuffy british navy guy from pirates of the caribbean/ofc, smuggling, puritanism in the john calvin sense, the legal realities of widowhood, several real historical governors of massachusetts, debts, accounts, and of course customs regulations

I would also like to nominate and psyche's lamp shall darkling be, a story based on the 2025 Frankenstein movie that gets into the intricacies of 1850s convent school life, the process of Catholic ecclesiastical courts verifying miracles, multiple points of mid 19th century marriage and inheritance laws pertaining to property, and also spells the word connection with an X so you know the author has been in the 19th century literature trenches 

Sadly no email so far, and they close for the weekend at 6, so it looks like it'll be next week. I will have to contain my twitches.

Read envelope like Penelope and vice versa that is all

I don’t even watch this show, but I love how everyone in the cast seems to be a cheerful dork in real life

I think the battle is long since lost on what the “-coded” suffix means, but I (old movie guy specifically invested in queer coding) seem to be unable to let go of how annoying I find the fuzzy popular use of the term. This is probably a flaw in my character.

Coding is intentional, it’s a way of communicating indirectly with the audience through a shared language of signs. That’s why it’s called coding, because it’s communicating in code. It isn’t when a thing reminds you of another thing.

I wonder if it's partly an effect of the associations of code shifting from "secret message that only the intended recipient can understand" to "list of instructions for a computer".

"Based in Christ" is funny, do you think Jesus was going to Ye Olde Costco?

Also, some people, typically the elderly, do have little carts they put stuff in. It's fine.

using naturalistic fallacies to justify not wearing sunscreen specifically is so wild to me. there's so many animals out there protecting their skin the best they can without thumbs. you think a pig wouldn't wear sunscreen if it could? they have to settle for mud. you're out here in the sun not even wallowing first.

The problem is people always want to wear the same outfits you do with sunscreen. Go and wear the biggest sunhat and wear clothes that cover all of your skin if you wanna do that it's much more natural to humans before sunscreen then just wearing stupid shorts