itainttippythebird:

“If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot… no, a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human… slouching hopefully towards Tadfield… forever.”

Thank you Terry Pratchett and @neil-gaiman for my all time favourite book

One of the books I’ll never get tired of reading: screamingly funny, delightfully quirky, and deeply, deeply humanist.

marilynwhitmore:

Frances McDormand on Aging

“I know that I haven’t done press or publicity in 10 years; I made a conscious choice not to. I was starting to not like the job of acting because it also involved not just the promotion of what I’d done, but myself. And I wasn’t interested in that part, also it was just getting too close to my personal life. I couldn’t live the way I wanted to live. And a friend of mine said: ‘Women need you. Younger women need you. They need your image and they need your voice and it’s a very selfish thing you’re doing.’ And that was about five years ago, so it took me about five years to really listen to her. But I think, I believe that’s true.”

Hear, hear. 

P.S. Ms McD, you may also find there’s an added bonus – you may  need younger women, their views, their suggestions, their support.

Source: marilynwhitmore

bloncos:

the-sun-of-rome-is-set
reblogged your photo and added:

omg there are other people who ship old Western stuff?!

pls tell me Harmonica/Cheyenne fic exists

Yeah! It’s a relatively small group but misc western shipping fandom exists! I haven’t come across any Harmonica/Cheyenne fic but I am in support of it if it exists. (And I like the idea of Harmonica/Cheyenne/Jane too! And I believe that did get requested by a couple folks for Yuletide last year but I don’t think anyone took it up.)

I love the idea of Harmonica/Cheyenne unreservedly. Preferably without Jill, who is a great character in her own right (and beautiful to boot), but makes things problematic by being attracted to Harmonica while Cheyenne is attracted to her.

Anyway, in the last scene Harmonica and Cheyenne do ride out together into the sunset. Pity it doesn’t last all that long.

Please feel free to join our group. Those of us who write have posted stories in an AO3 collection called Westfic. Have a peek and see what you think.

soldier by chance

bal-lantine:

The truth comes to him all at once
out of the darkness of a moonless sea night two weeks back on the
account.

“You never cared about the gold in
the first place, did you?”

He watches Flint blink at the
bookshelf in the cabin for a moment and then turn to him, face
quirked in inquiry. His reflexes are a little slow, expression
blurred by the rum Silver had produced earlier in the evening with an
accompanying smile that said come, we deserve this.

“Has the guilt hit you at last?”

“No,” Silver says honestly, and
breathes through a smile when Flint laughs in response. Once such a
laugh might have terrified him, and the fact that it now only elicits
a feeling of warmth within his chest is the source of no small amount
of wonder. Of all the transformations he has undergone, this may be
the most unexpected.

Keep reading

I really like this. 

fibu:

actual back to back scenes

This is really amazing. First there’s Thomas’s voiceover that ends with “The moral of the story is, everyone needs a partner” – CUT to Flint looking pensive and fiddling with the rope. Then there’s the “strange pairs can achieve the most unexpected things” – CUT to Flint looking pensive, then looking at Silver, assessing him.I have seen this scene half a dozen times and every time I’ve felt like shouting YAY! 

P.S. I showed this ep to a heterosexual male friend (not a fan, but who knows about slash because I told him) a couple of nights ago. He watched this scene, turned to look at me, and smiled.

Source: fibu

ellelan:

⤕ silverflint meme: 7 scenes – 3/7:

If you have something to add, you should just fucking say it. That’s not why you did it. Really? Would you like to tell me why I did it, then? Well, I wasn’t there, but, um, I’d hazard the guess that you learned of what had happened, told him how fucking stupid he was, and in that moment, he gave you a look that amounted to something less than contrite. And in that moment, you felt it. Felt what? Darkness. Hate. Showing indifference to the authority that you sacrificed so much to acquire, disdain for refusing to acknowledge that his actions, had you not intervened, would have led to an outcome that he would have held you responsible for reversing. Pride. Questioning what kind of man you are if you don’t seek retribution for the offense. So what are you saying? You saying I went too far with him? Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn’t go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that’s what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever even knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it… Rather than it use you. You have some experience with this, I imagine, living in fear of such a thing within you? Yeah, I do. I can’t tell if this was a warning or a welcome. – Black Sails,309

Such a wonderful moment of self-awareness and open admission. Love and heartbreak at the same time, for both them and me.

Source: ellelan