my time travel bucket list, in no particular order:

  • Victor Hugo (argue with)
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (model for)
  • Freeman Tilden (learn interpretation from)
  • Gerald Durrell (catch animals with)
  • Hiroshi Yoshida (learn printmaking from)
  • Ernst Haeckel (fangirl at, lbr)
  • John James Audubon (paint with)
  • John Muir (go hiking with)
  • Apsley Cherry-Garrard (ask about Antarctica, offer sympathy to)

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to read something by John Muir.

I’ve just begun My First Summer in the Sierra and he’s already got me helplessly charmed by his defense of poison oak’s right to exist

Coronation Ceremony 2018

doctorjanedee:

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…a Goblin Emperor fanworks exchange, will be changing hands moderation-wise this year but will still be going ahead. Nominations will begin mid-next month, date to be determined, and in the meantime you can check out the community at https://coronationceremony.dreamwidth.org/ or previous entries at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CoronationCeremony. Do give it a look if you’re interested, or stop by the Discord at https://discord.gg/n4bFn7C if you’re interested in meeting some of the potential participants. Can’t wait to see you all/see you again. ❤

It’s official: the schedule is up, with countdown timers to follow.. https://coronationceremony.dreamwidth.org/9017.html Go forth and start thinking about potential people/pairings/worldbuilding you’d like to see this year.

Ladies, gentlemen, and otherwise affiliated, we are open! Go nominate some tags at https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/2501. (Also, because single-fandom exchanges on Ao3 can be kind of unintuitive, the nominations instruction post can be found at https://coronationceremony.dreamwidth.org/9369.html if you need clarification.)

nothwell:

Take Me Like a Sailor is now available for pre-order!

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Morgan Turner, agent to the Winthrop estate, owes everything to his
benefactor. When the late baronet’s will tasks him with finding the lost
heir and making a gentleman of him, he is determined to succeed.

Thirteen
years ago, Evelyn Winthrop ran away to sea. Now that his hated
patriarch is dead, the ancestral home he returns to is more shadowed
than what he left behind. Ungrateful relations and old friends alike tie
a knot of scandal and depravity only a sailor could hope to unravel.
And all the while, the siren song of the sea calls him to return at the
first opportunity.

Neither anticipated forming more tender attachments.

To
Evelyn, his unexpectedly handsome agent is the only thing anchoring him
to shore. He sees a captain’s soul within Morgan, and his heart is
caught upon the hook of command—if only Morgan would return his
affections.

To Morgan, his new employer’s charms threaten to tear
down the thorns that have grown around his heart—thorns he cultivated
to restrain his unnatural instincts.

When the estate and all who
live there are threatened by a maelstrom of bitter secrets and sinister
plots, it is down to Morgan to take command, down to Evelyn to hold
fast, and down to them both to navigate their own treacherous sea.

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