#watch this space :)

[deliciousnutcomputer]

Peaky Movie News!!!

How far advanced are you on the Peaky Blinders movie?

“It’s gonna happen. It’s gonna happen this September. I’m just doing the final polishes, which will continue up until the day before we start shooting. But we’re there. We’ve got everything sorted, we’ve got all the commitments we need, we are ready to go. I think the film is gonna be a step up again, and it’s gonna be great that Peaky fans can meet in one place and watch it. The budget will be bigger, but also because we know we’re ending this chapter, we’re all going to try to do our best. Cillian [Murphy] is really up for it. So I can’t wait for it to start shooting.”

Of course now, Cillian is an Oscar winner too…

“Isn’t it amazing? I’m so pleased for him because he deserves it. After every award that he won, he would text and say, ‘I really can’t wait to be doing Peaky.’ Confirming that none of this was going to change what we’re going to do next.”

Do you think audiences are going to be shocked or delighted by what happens in the movie?

“I hope shocked and delighted and horrified and then delighted again and then shocked again!”

#I think my heart can't take this..“delighted shocked and horrified”..uuurrrrggggg can't wait!!! #peaky blinders movie #watch this space #peaky blinders #cillian murphy #tommy shelby #steven knight #natasha o'keeffe #lizzie shelby #ada shelby #Arthur Shelby #sophie rundle #paul anderson

[vyorei]

I've seen two single reports of a bombing in the West Bank but they're from new sources I'm unsure of and I'm not getting it anywhere else yet, I dearly hope this isn't true even tho I've seen video footage of the blasts and injuries

That's potentially a massive escalation if true, I'm posting this as a Watch This Space, I really hope I can recall it as misinfo

This is to be confirmed

#Al-Ansar Mosque #West Bank #West Bank Palestinians #free gaza #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #free palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Watch this space #To be updated #To be confirmed

[murderbot-fanimation-project]

Yeah, that's right, the Murderbot Diaries fandom is full of incredible talent and brilliant artists, and we're only dropping cooler and more talented stuff with time.

Can't wait for the Murderbot Diaries Fan Animation to drop this Friday? To tide you over, we're featuring some of the show-stopping animatics that went down in fandom history before us:

I'm Not Your Hero - The Murderbot Diaries Animatic by mar @souldagger

Ganaka Pit // Relax (Take it Easy) by Kes Beacon @kesbeacon

Murderbot Diaries: Exit Strategy Spoilers by MonnieBiloney[Art] @monniebiloney

murderbot crack by @broken-risk-assessment-module

They Don't Care About Us | Fugitive Telemetry by thymia @alex-van-gore

And finally, bringing together many of the previous incredible artists onto our team, is the Murderbot Diaries Fan Animation Project. Watch this space!

#mbfanimationproject on Tumblr | Instagram | YouTube

#mbfanimationproject #Murderbot #the Murderbot Diaries #Martha Wells #animation #fanart #murderbot fanart #All Systems Red #Artificial Condition #Rogue Protocol #Exit Strategy #watch this space #production meme

[dustybones]

my contribution to the DJ Shadowheart fic mug set! @capriclonus put so much heart into this work and I'm really excited to share the entire mug collection soon!

#watch this space #for real if you haven't read this fic yet GO DO IT #it's a fandom staple at this point #and make sure to comment and kudos! even one word or symbol means a lot #bg3 #shadowzel #shadowheart #lae'zel #dusty art #shadowzel mugs

[justleaveacommentfest]

FROM OUR BONES TO YOURS:

OUR GIFT TO YOU IS COMING LATER THIS WEEK. WE PROMISE. WE DIDN'T FORGET AND THEN ORDER IT AT THE LAST MINUTE. THIS IS ALL METICULOUSLY PLANNED

#just leave a comment fest #watch this space #it's coming it's coming

[leavingautumn13]

wip

#fallout 4 #nick valentine #autumn.wip #gonna have to make a reference for how i draw nick's face at some point #just for me #just so i can draw his face more #anyway working on bigger nora character sheet right now as well as a height chart for my fic #also! commission types! because that's a go! #still not sure WHEN but sure it's coming #watch this space

[thetriumphantpanda]

Okay listen. I’ve been waiting for an excuse to scrap my abandoned dbf!Joel idea and start a new one. Pleased to announce, I now have the perfect idea. We’re talking full enemies to lovers. Full on ‘I hate you and I hate that you make me feel this good’. We already have a moodboard. This is bad. This is really bad.

#dbf!joel #oooops #as if I needed this in my life #following the mantra that I write for me #and I need this #watch this space #Joel Miller

[zymandia]

the people trying to turn tumblr into twitter are missing the unique opportunities we have here. Let’s turn it into reddit, instead.

#twitter #tumblr becomes reddit #watch this space

[luhafraser]

Anymore stories to tell ?👀

#sam heughan #caitriona balfe #outlander #once upon a time #coincidences #interesting facts #secrets #stories #the truth #watch this space

[blamemma]

las vegas gunna be such a shit show and get such negative reviews that f1/liberty are gunna be like ah what shall we do to improve this next season...i know...a sprint race!

#like i just fucking KNOW it #watch this space

[avocado-writing]

heheh

#Cooper Howard x reader #The ghoul x reader #watch this space

[awheckery]

something magical is going to happen very soon

#watch this space #darling

[murderbot-fanimation-project]

Murderbot fans in July 2021: Let's make a fan animation for our favorite series! How long could it possibly take?

#mbfanimationproject #The Murderbot Diaries #animation #production meme #watch this space #behind the scenes

[j-nipper-95]

Six Sentence Sunday

Yes, 2023 is drawing to a close. Yes, I have been lurking for (I think) months at this point. Yes, I have been writing. Thank you so much to everyone who has been tagging me in recent weeks/months, I'm so sorry I haven't been interacting as much with you all as I have in the past. In the last few months I just haven't had the social battery to do much more than just lurk in comments sections, and sometimes not even that (autistic burnout is not fun, can confirm, 0/10, do not recommend).

But I'm back, and here's hoping 2024 is a good year, and one that's productive where writing is concerned! 2023 was a pretty good year for me; I published my first fic (which was also the first bit of writing I've properly published anywhere!), and I sent off my first query for ASR! To a proper literary agent! Like ... WHAT?! I still can't believe it!

As for the end of this year, let's get one last hurrah in for the year of 2023 with the final WIPsday of the year. Chapter 11 of Trails is coming, it just needs to be edited. Here's an unedited snippet of the chaos you have to look forward to.

“When I tell you to, run like fuck,” Fiona tells us, clicking the hammer back on her revolver.  “How many more rounds have you got?” Penny asks. “Enough to take down half the idiots aboard this ship.” Fiona takes up a position on one side of the hatch, her finger on the trigger guard. As she moves I hear the tell tale clink of a box of rounds, and see the outline of it in her trouser pocket for the first time. “Fiona,” I caution. “Maybe we should try to do this quietly.” “No chance of that, boyo. I’m killing as many of these fuckers as I can before we go overboard.” “Fiona,” I try again, but she isn’t listening. “The lifeboat is on the right side,” Penny whispers to us, eyeing Fiona out of the corner of her eye. We’ll lower you into it, Baz, then follow.” I guess I don’t have much of a say in this, as Snow is literally the only reason I’m still standing right now. I nod, and Penny creeps up the stairs behind Fiona, who does so about as well as a bull in a china shop. She storms out onto the deck and I’m actually surprised by how long it takes for bullets to start flying. There’s a solid fifteen seconds or so, which allows Bunce to make it up the stairs and gesture for us to follow, before an alarm is raised and Fiona does what she does best: cause chaos.

This hiatus with Trails wasn't planned, but work and general holiday madness got in the way of the tentative schedule my beta's and I had. New Year, fresh start, once more into the fray, as they say. I hope you can join us for this fics future shenanigans.

Tagging for the new year: @artsyunderstudy @aristocratic-otter @bazzybelle @blackberrysummerblog @bookish-bogwitch @cattocavo @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @cosmicalart @cutestkilla @dragoneggos @erzbethluna @ebbpettier @fatalfangirl @frjsti @henreyettah @hushed-chorus @ic3-que3n @ileadacharmedlife @ivelovedhimthroughworse @krisrix @larkral @letraspal @martsonmars @nightimedreamersworld @orange-peony @prettylightsbigcity @palimpsessed @phoxphyre @raenestee @shrekgogurt @skeedelvee @stardustasincocaine @subparselkie @that-disabled-princess @theearlgreymage @wellbelesbian @you-remind-me-of-the-babe 

#snowbaz #snowbaz fanfiction #the trails we blaze #the road to el dorado!au #cotta2023 #2024 #writing in 2024 #roll on the new year #happy new year everyone! #ASR #A Survivor's Revenge #original fiction #watch this space

[arthurian-texts]

There’s a scene in Chretien’s Knight of the Cart that’s absolutely crucial for how I see Gawain and Arthur’s relationship, one that probably sticks in my mind more than any other for how subtly and succinctly it captures so many complexities of their dynamic.

For context, this is right after Arthur agrees to let Guinevere go into a quite obvious trap (which ultimately leads to Guinevere’s abduction by Meleagant) with only Kay for protection, simply because he’d promised to grant whatever Kay asked. We’re told that “there was no one who was not upset” at this decision, but no one dares openly stop it or contradict Arthur - who is, after all, the king.

And it’s then that we get this crucial exchange:

No one’s grief was strong enough to prompt him to follow after her until Sir Gawain addressed the king, his uncle, in private. “Lord, you have behaved like a child, and I am astonished,” he said. “But if you heed my counsel, then while they are still near, we shall follow them, you and I, along with any others who wish to come there. As for me, I could not hold back from racing after them. It would be wrong for us not to follow them, at least until we know what will happen to the queen, and how Kay will behave.”

“Let us set off, dear nephew,” the king replied. “You have spoken courteously now. Since you have taken this matter into your hands, have the horses bridled, saddled, and led out that we may mount without delay.”

There’s always a very delicate balance Gawain is walking in how he interacts with Arthur, and you see it even in how the relationship is described here: the king, his uncle. On one hand, Arthur is Gawain’s relative, which gives him a certain leeway to treat him, if not quite as an equal, certainly much closer to it than most people could dare. But on the other hand, Arthur is the king, Gawain’s king, and questioning his authority too strongly would be considered unacceptable.

And I think you see that balance in such a fascinating way here. We’re told that everyone was unhappy with Arthur’s decision, but only Gawain dares to say so. Not only that, he basically tears into Arthur in incredibly strong terms: “You have behaved like a child, and I am astonished.” Clearly, Gawain feels confident that he’s earned the right to speak his mind to Arthur - to give him a piece of his mind, really, in this scene - and he doesn’t seem remotely afraid that there might be consequences for doing so.

But. But. Notice that crucial little detail there: in private. Gawain very pointedly waits to say anything about this until he and Arthur are alone. In public, around the other knights, Gawain doesn’t say a single word to contradict Arthur’s decision. In private, he tells him he’s acted like a child.

I’m reminded of a post I wrote a while ago about Game of Thrones, pointing out that Jon and Daenerys both make a distinction between being criticized in public and in private. Daenerys tells Jorah and Ser Barristan: “You’re both here to advise me. I value your advice. But if you ever question me in front of strangers again, you’ll be advising someone else.” And similarly after being crowned King in the North, Jon tells Sansa: “You are my sister, but I am king now. When you question my decisions in front of the other lords and ladies, you undermine me.” (Emphasis mine.) In both cases, I think the point was pretty clearly not ‘You cannot criticize me’, but rather ‘You cannot publicly undermine my authority’.

Arthur doesn’t need to tell Gawain this. Gawain knows. And I think you get a powerful sense of the trust between them from this short moment: Gawain trusts that he can speak his mind freely to Arthur without consequences, but he waits to do so until it’s just the two of them. In return, Arthur doesn’t stand on his ego but listens humbly and accepts Gawain’s criticism. I think it’s particularly fascinating that he tells Gawain he’s spoken courteously. On the face of it, “You have behaved like a child, and I am astonished” doesn’t sound remotely courteous - it sounds downright rude, in fact. And yet Arthur clearly doesn’t think so. He not only admits that Gawain is right, he endorses the way he said it as correct and praiseworthy.

I think that’s a great demonstration of how Gawain’s courtesy isn’t just a synonym for “polite”: it’s about his ability to follow social codes for correct behavior. Here, the measure of his courtesy isn’t that he always minces words, but that he understands when it is and isn’t acceptable to speak bluntly.

And I think it’s telling, too, that even when he’s basically telling Arthur off, he still addresses him formally as “Lord”. That might seem like a meaningless formality when the rest of what he’s saying seems anything but respectful, but I don’t think it is. I think it’s a constant reminder that Gawain never forgets Arthur is his king, or the respect that’s due to him, even when he’s openly questioning his decisions. He might seem harsh, but yet it's always tempered by a fundamental deference and he's careful never to overstep those lines.

He knows his place, not in the sense of being a doormat, but in the most literal sense of understanding the multiple - in some ways conflicting - roles he occupies and the expectations thereof: As Arthur's nephew, his knight, his subject, his advisor and right-hand man, arguably his friend and/or surrogate son (or brother, depending on your interpretation) as well. The fact that he manages to thread that needle so well is a testament to just how intelligent and socially adept he is, and the fact that Arthur gives him leave to speak his mind so bluntly to him in private is a huge testament to the mutual trust and respect between them.

#king arthur #sir gawain #arthuriana #round table #chretien de troyes #analysis #the knight of the cart #this blog is not in fact dead #watch this space

[jilyawards]

New 2024 Jilyawards Team

First of all our thanks must go to Ava for steering the ship these past two years of awards. It takes a lot of energy and organisation to run an event like this every year, and we are very appreciative of you volunteering your time. 

With Ava’s exit a new team effort has taken over the awards for 2024! We have mutually decided to maintain our anonymity to avoid awards related things bleeding over into our personal blogs. 

We also extend our thanks to @jilymicrofics for offering us space in their community discord to post links. 

We have some exciting changes coming this year so watch this space!   

The Jily Awards Team

#jily awards #jily awards 2024 #new year new team #watch this space #jily