#crowned and dangerous

[ilkkawhat]

Crowned and Dangerous (1997)

#georgeeadsedit #george eads #riley baxter #crowned and dangerous #george eads thirst club #mk.op #mk.gifs #mk.edit #poor upset bby #(i'd open the rest of that shirt tho) #oi watch it queuegirl

[azazel-dreams]

Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Royal Spyness books in reading order:

Her Royal Spyness

A Royal Pain

Royal Flush

Royal Blood

Naughty In Nice

Masked Ball at Broxley Manor (Prequel - short story)

The Twelve Clues of Christmas

Heirs and Graces

Queen of Hearts

Malice at the Palace

Crowned and Dangerous

On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service

Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs

The Last Mrs. Summers

God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen

#Crowned and Dangerous #Rhys Bowen #books #book recommendations #Georgiana Rannoch #royal spyness #book reviews

[lazycranberrydoodles]

i think the barbie movie would have a profound psychological impact on hua cheng

prev comic / next comic / follow for still more hualian barbie movie content because i am not done

bonus angsty version 🎉 i hate love expressions just a couple tiny lines on the mouth and eyebrows and it goes from silly to sad

:(

#this is a haha hua cheng devoted joke but idk it’s nice to think about how much of his identity and self worth is placed on xie lian #obviously since he was 10 most of his major life choices were to serve the crown prince #but in the interval time he became one of the most dangerous men in the world and decided it was his responsibility to create a ghost haven #he works on artistic mastery and alternatively brokers deals with and evades assassination attempts by heaven #if asked i think he would say he only does good for dianxia’s sake (What Would Dianxia Do) and is actually a bad person #and similar stuff about his combat and art skills #theres a question here about how much of his success is due to being such a determined person and how much #of it is luck from ‘the savior’ reversing the star of solitude #how much hua cheng is left when you take away xie lian? #he would say nothing #xie lian would say a billionaire genius playboy philantrophist etc #tgcf looooooves to talk about destiny and free will and so do i #all this to say if it was in character for hua cheng to cry at a movie hed be sobbing #this can be read as pre or post confession btw #the poll decided which version of the comic was the ‘main version’ above the cut #tgcf #art #comic #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #mxtx #my art #barbie #barbie movie #tgcf meme #lmao

[nihilnovisubsole]

THE BIG OLD JANUARY 2023 PICREW UPDATE

so another kind soul reminded me about picrew updates, and i realized the last time i'd posted screenshots was... november 2021?! man time moves fast in a pandemic. the silver lining is that, when you wait that long between updates, there's a lot of new stuff to share!

as of today, the unique item count is 186. obviously, there's a lot more in the game than what i show in these posts! the amount of categories is more or less set at this point - now it's a question of adding variety to what's already there. i'm at peace with the thought that finishing it will take as long as it takes. it's a for-fun project, and it's still fun, so on we go.

[let's not wait another year next time, though!]

#dangerous crowns #picrew #dollmaker #kindlefic stuff #art #drawings

[storge]

LI FEI as Pei Xun The Deliberations of Love (2023)

#the deliberations of love #卿卿三思 #cdramaedit #userdramas #cdrama #asiandramanet #cdramasource #asiancentral #dailyasiandramas #li fei #tuserjade #mymymy #gotta shift into my li fei mode for me and my girliesss #look at himmmmmmmmmm #he looks his best when he looks like he might commit murder lolol #and he is the Crown prince here and thats his brother so thats even moreeee !!!! #this was another solid mini for him #he was cute he was dangerous and did he die at the end you ask??... ahhhhhhahahaha not gonna spoil it

[dooptown]

just Elias Marestail II Glaspi being very pretty

#tcol #the crown of leaves #after this newest act he's definitely a fave #also thinking about his 'tumblr sexyman' qualities #he's got the looks #the mysteriousness #the personality that can jump from dangerous to innocent #his gender situation being confusing when u first meet

[shiftywing]

book 14 would've been so good if it wasn't part of arc 3

#maybe then snowfall could've had actual development instead of having to rely on the racism crown & empath ring #wings of fire #wof #snowfall #the dangerous gift

[fitzrove]

Bad dark joke but I feel like cultural representations of crown prince rudolf and the extreme overemphasis/influence of 1888-1889 in discussions of him are kind of like the internet meme thing with blobfish. Like that's his sad corpse you're parading around and showing to people,,,,,

#kdpaofksöfkfldlfl #for context: the common 'ugly fish' bl*bfish memes are not cute because they're dead animals whose tissues have exploded painfully. they #normally live deep underwater in a high pressure environment and look like more normal fish. but the gruesome corpse version became a meme #and is everywhere #i feel like crown prince rudolf is like that too #WITH THE CAVEAT that obviously we shouldnt hush hush mayerling because doing so would obviously sweep a lot of bad stuff under the rug #but the thing is... most mayerling media isnt interested in justice for mary or new perspectives anyway. its the same shit conservative news #wrote about in literal 1889........ #and theres this wider tendency to assume that 1888 rudolf is the only one there is and extrapolate his erratic and violent behaviour from #that period to other eras WITHOUT CREDIBLE EVIDENCE. like its just assumed that mentally ill ppl are always crazy and dangerous #and also this essentialist assumption that because he was so destructive in 1888/89 he never did anything good in his life before that

[bespectacledbun]

ikevil coming out in english this year has reminded me of the fact that all the servants at crown castle are deaf/mute AND that all the suitors are fluent in british sign language

#diversity win! the villains’ lair full of dangerous murderers is the most disability friendly workplace in london! #like logically it makes sense that they need reliable servants who cant blab all their secrets but it’s WILD to think about #i bet the paycheck and benefits are amazing too like if you get hired at the crown you’re set for life basically #ikevil #random rambles

[chthonicillness]

shoutout to that one physical therapist who looked at scans of my spine and looked at me in my dnd t shirt and said there was just no way someone my age would have this level of wear and tear without an intense athletic career. like i was gonna say oh right there ARE all those high school football injuries i lied about not having in my medical history. there WAS my secret stint with the russian ballet. im actually sixty five, i just look really young for my age. what do you mean theres no way the images are right before your goddamn eyes.

#i also started greying at thirteen and had to get crowns at like 20 cause my front teeth were dangerously worn down #what do u want from me.

[seawitchkaraoke]

me, watching crown of candy, chewing on my fingernails, chanting to myself: ''it's a game and they're having fun, it's a game and they're having fun, it's a game and they're having fun'''

#a crown of candy #dimension 20 #dropout #the constant contradiction of myself #is that i like dark shit and danger #but i do not actually like anything bad happening to any characters ever #except i do??? but i don't? #basically i'm an angst with a happy ending bitch #happy endings very much not guaranteed here #they have backup characters #breannan is being so mean #someone is gonna die and i don't want any of them to die! #aaaaaaaaa

[ilkkawhat]

Crowned and Dangerous (1997)

#georgeeadsedit #george eads #riley baxter #crowned and dangerous #george eads thirst club #mk.op #mk.gifs #mk.edit #oi watch it queuegirl

[mjj-nostalgia]

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO OUR DEAR MICHAEL!!!

Due to my schedule, my celebrating is going to be a little bit more lowkey - wearing a t-shirt/earrings and listening to some of his music. And of course, just generally keeping his spirit alive as always!!

I hope he can feel how much his fans love him from all over up there!

We love you, Michael! 🥹💜

#here's just some sweet pictures of him i found recently #idk if the flower crown one is photoshopped #but i LOVE IT #michael jackson #happy birthday #happy birthday MJ #bad era #dangerous era #badangerous #birthday post

[verypersonalscreencaps]

LESLEY MANVILLE for The Times Magazine (5th November 2022) 📸 Dan Kennedy

#i can't breathe #lesley manville #portrait #interview #the crown #dangerous liaisons

[nihilnovisubsole]

getting behind on posting these vacation photos! gee AK how come your mom lets you have three museums

there's a lot i loved but couldn't get decent photos of, for the simple fact that they're so much bigger than you think they are. the neoclassicists and academic painters loved to go, just, huge. it's impossible to capture the grandeur of sitting with a david in real life. i'm sure there's a lot to be said about gods and heroic ideals and trying to elevate their subjects to that mythological scale, but i'm too tired to think of it now. more later!

#yes the group to see the mona lisa was wild lmao #and yes for the record i did think 'so THIS is what i was going for with dangerous crowns'

[alexis-royce]

🪞,🔥, and🐍. You said the Academic was kind of bad at Glasswork, didn't you?

🔥 — Least favourite Master of the Bazaar?

The Academic and Stones do not get on well. The Academic will occasionally do espionage chores for it in The Khanate, but by now, that’s more of a duty to the group as a whole. The Academic has had a few peeks into the pasts and inner lives of its colleagues, and while Pages, Wines and Spices took it relatively well (Fires is in there too, but doesn’t know), Stones merely re-experienced its trauma.

Even if we disregard biological reasons for hoarding, each of the Masters has an emotional reason for their favorite subject. It’s pretty obvious that Stones’ aggressive hoarding is either in response to or was exacerbated by getting collected itself. It’s not a hoarder of rocks, but a hoarder “of value,” which means that if unchecked, there is no way that Stones wouldn’t simply expand its own hoard to encompass everything else. The other masters have concrete-if evil- goals and interests. But Stones seems like it's trying to get all the value and power not out of enjoyment, but so that it can pin things up where they can’t hurt it. And Stones may no longer be called the Khan of Shackles, but we know exactly what it was known for collecting in the Fourth City.

Also, Stones’ manner of speech: its penchant for antiquated personal pronouns (thee, thou, etc) isn’t just a writing quirk to make Stones sound different, but means that The Academic can tell exactly when Stones means to talk down to them. Wines might use the Royal “We,” but it desperately craves jocular companionship. Pages might make up words to sound smart, but it does honestly want others to use them too. Stones uses language as yet another barricade. That’s a personal pet peeve of The Academic’s.

The Academic is also not a fan of Eaten. They turned away from the name when they realized that they actually could win the Marvellous. To seekers, mourning Eaten is all-encompassing. The Academic doesn’t know the whole story, but whoever Candles was is gone now. Seeking is an inadequate way of balancing the scales. And for their money, if you want to find meaning in nothing, The Discordance is a magnificent and rich expanse of the beauty of meaningful nothing. Seeking is a study closing your eyes very tightly and ignoring beauty.

(Note: If you point out that Stones might have collected living humans, but Pages uh. Pages has some. Uh. You know. Bodies? You’d think that Happles would be the one to but we all know Happles just eats them. Anyway. If you point that out then The Academic will agree with you that Pages is an unforgivable monster but you’ll still see them a day later, humming merrily pushing a wheelbarrel full of proscribed material, even though their Connected: The Masters is maxed out)

🐍 — Snakes or cats?

Neither. Much better to keep playing both sides against one another. If they’re distracted at home, then they have less time to fuss about in Real business in London.

🪞 — Do they enjoy being in Parabola? Why or why not?

Parabola’s a necessary evil, and while there are interesting things to find, the Academic would tell you that directly interfering with the dreams of others is the greatest cheat of all: if we bypass a man’s conscious mind, we bypass rational discussion.

This is of course utter hogwash; The Academic’s real argument is “I don’t want these grapes anyway, they’re sour.” They barely made it through the parabola section of Heart’s Desire, and the whole place is quite a lot of nonsense to them. It’s like this tumblr post:

Also if word about Parabola got out, it could be a serious business competitor to the railroad. If there’s ever an exceptional story about someone trying to use parabolan mirror-jaunts as a fast mode of travel, expect the academic to shut that down immediately and with nasty, extreme prejudice.

#well that got pretty long #asks #fallen London #the ex-disgraced academic #If Stones is your favorite you have good taste though #Adornment and Sugarplum both really make it stand out as a strong character #I get the feeling that it was legit very very dangerous back in the skies #If it wasn’t so good at collecting then it wouldn’t have been such a crown jewel itself