minimisfest:

Café Society
fic by lizamezzo
art by orlofsky

(warning for alcohol and innuendo; also, illustrations on this fic are throughout the text!)
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“I am not going to Momus.”

“But —“

“No.”

“Musichetta, my love, the plan—“

“Was made by you, not me.  I’ll prepare a hero’s welcome for your return, but my foot does not cross the threshold of Café Momus.  Especially not in these shoes.”

Joly cast his eyes down.  They were red, a deep-dyed scarlet, with sweetly worked embroidery and delicate heels that had long since left their precise imprint upon his heart.  Musichetta, in these shoes, was not to be questioned.

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Words: about 6000

Rating: Gen (may contain butts)

This is the highly ridiculous thing I wrote for the Midsummer Mini Mis Fest exchange, in which Joly and Bossuet take Grantaire to Café Momus for his birthday and they encounter the four Bohemians from La Bohème.  Also starring Jean Prouvaire, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Musichetta, Floréal and Irma Boissy.

(I couldn’t edit under the Read More, so I have to beg your pardon for a couple of typos and at least one flat-out mistake.  I’ll have to post a final edit at some point…)

This was my first fanwork event, so many thanks to pilferingapplesfor making it happen!  This was also my first time working with an artist in this context, and I can vouch that orlofsky is both an amazing artist and a fantastic person to work with.  Clicking the Read More will bring you face to face with the marvels they wrought; you can imagine how blown away I was when those pieces of beauty landed in my inbox.  Seriously, their art is made of pure weapons-grade awesome, and my hat is perpetually off to them.

Many thanks to those who have said kind things!  I will seriously run around tumblr high-fiving everyone who even takes the time to read this.  (Hugs are also on offer, if desired.)

santapau:

New Works of Basil Hallward (part 1 of 2).

Go to Part 2.

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scrapheapchallenge:

amuseoffyre:

savyir-genesizz-the-wizard:

just7frogsinapeoplesuit:

skarabrae-stone:

just7frogsinapeoplesuit:

wondersmith-and-sons:

theygotlost:

theygotlost:

now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like

there will EXCLUSIVELY be kink at the ankh morpork pride parade

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(Tags via @romanceyourdemons)

Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.

Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.

Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren’t welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it’s good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.

The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.

• Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She’d get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).
• Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors’ items.
• I don’t get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don’t think the queer community’s history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch’s support.
• Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the “new, updated version” if anyone questioned him)
• The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade
• Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why
• Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully’s concept of allyship is loudly saying, “Well done, that man!” and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.
• Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail
• Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon
• Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.

More from the tags, I love all of you

@seventhscorpio COME HERE

At one particularly memorable Pride, a bunch of Drag Queens from Fourecks had a fight with one of the wizards (some bloke with a hat with Wizzzard) on it because they claim he nicked their travelling luggage.

I am in discworld heaven right now laughing, it’s all so perfect and Terry would love it.

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goddess-of-alchemy:

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sandmandaddy69:

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whatcha-thinkin:

You have the opportunity to travel to a fictional universe but with an important restriction. Which if any would you accept?

MCU / DCEU but you have no superpowers

Star Wars but you are not Force-sensitive

Star Trek but you are not in Starfleet

Wizarding World / Harry Potter but you have no magic

Middle-Earth but you have no weapon training

BattleTech but you are not a pilot

Discworld but you have no magic

Dune but you are not a noble

Hitchhiker’s Galaxy but you do not have an electronic thumb

Narnia but you are not human

fuck it guess I’ll stay home

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rupertgiles:

which old musical was played the most during your childhood

singin’ in the rain

mary poppins

the sound of music

west side story

the wizard of oz

my fair lady

chitty chitty bang bang

a holiday one (easter parade, white christmas, etc.)

other (put in tags)

hannah your experiences are not universal

See Results

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professorsparklepants asked:

That reminds me. As a Spidey fan what's your opinion of the newspaper comic.

unpretty:

brawltogethernow:

We as a society don’t deserve the glory of the Spider-Man newspaper comic.

The post about creative teams reminding you is perfect really because a thing people overlook memeing on the newspaper comic is this was Lee/Romita! For a respectable chunk of years! Possibly their newspaper strip run accumulated to a more one on one collaboration than their iconic ASM run had? I don’t feel like fact checking that; don’t quote me on that.

I could call that era 616-lite, but honestly, in many ways it’s more like concentrated essence of 616. It’s like the essential oil of 616. Including how you should exercise caution before applying it directly to your skin.

It’s really just fascinating to watch how their styles kept evolving after the main comic transferred to other hands. Romita Sr.’s later inking is just, unf, and it’s really a privilege to get to see it in black and white because of the format. And even after he dipped Stan Lee remained insane in the newsprint arena for, even accounting for decades of ghostwriting, way longer than he ever wrote ASM itself. It’s bizarre that the newspaper strip exists.

But it does! And it contributes to my understanding of the mainline characterization in a way other adaptations simply cannot (largely in ways that are charmingly stupid). Like I’m not going to tell the guy who made these characters up that they would not fucking say that, and more importantly I don’t want to. Harry and Flash did not open a disco together in 616. But they WOULD HAVE, had shit ever stopped happening for five minutes.

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theblackknightofworcestershire:

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moon-drunk:

judgejudyofficial:

cuntmunism:

holy shit

Happy out of touch thursday tuesday

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void-of-erebos:

smallnico:

parrishsrubberplant:

The last three digits of your current follower count is the Dewey Decimal Classification subject on which you must immediately give a 15-minute presentation.

How would you do?

List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Literatures of Italian, Dalmatian, Romanian, Rhaetian, Sardinian, Corsican languages

I would perish instantly

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disteal:

daily-spooky:

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September 30th

ALT

October 1st

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abz-j-harding:

abz-j-harding:

abz-j-harding:

Waitin’ on them hunters to come askin’ questions….

you walkin’ about in this ‘ere fog? you sure are a fearless one….

'Tis The Season

great-and-small:

great-and-small:

Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

“I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying ‘gloom’, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies”

He was like how dare you sir I am the biggest tree fan out there

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