Look at this cutie on #TaikaTuesday.
And by cutie, I mean A Dancer. Obviously.

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I love thissss

He surely is. And I love that he's able to be an even BETTER home for Ed when he's become a home for himself. I love them so much, vex.

Stedey-Boy in his pretty salmon suit with embroidered waistcoat. He is smiling big from ear to ear with his curls shining in the sun.

Hi there. I just learned that while the name “Stede” is often labeled with the horse-y meaning (Steed), it is ALSO derivative from the word “Stead” as used in “homestead” or “place”.

I like the idea that Stede is his own home. Once he finds himself - who he really is - he is always Home.

Ed is tucked down into Stede’s bathtub under a comforting blanket. He is feeling a mixture of guilt, fear, and despair, which is evident on his face.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

-Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver

Taika is draped across a table with his head down on top of his right arm. His left is stretched out toward the camera. “Come-hither eyes” is an expression often used, and yet falls DESPERATELY short of explaining the expression on his face. It’s smokier than that. Or maybe it’s just the steam escaping through my collar. Hard to say.

On a couple of them!

A cutout of an illustration of a little boy from a newspaper which has been tucked into a page of an old school spelling book from the 1800s. He is wearing an almost sailor-style outfit common during that time period, complete with tall stocking style socks and a long cravat in the lapses of his shirt. Behind him is a Jack-o-lantern

What I love about collecting antique books is not only the historical factor, or saving something awesome from destruction, it’s the personal touches from the hands which held these books before. Like inscriptions, notes in margins, or something like this: from a late 1800s spelling book.

They sure do.

Oh and I also replaced my copy of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison that I can't seem to find anywhere.

Twenty Thousand Leagues from 1895 with beautiful writing from the book's gifter to the giftee. A set of my guy Tennyson from 1892. A really pretty War and Peace (not that old. Probably the 40's or so.) A first edition of an O. Henry collection. Pocket editions of collections from Hemingway and poets

Photograph of the title page of an antique book. Text reads: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott including introduction and notes. Yale Edition. New Haven, Conn. GAY BROTHERS, publishers, 256 chapel street, 1882

Front cover of the antique book. A very worn and faded cover with floral embossing in a shade of eggplant purple. In the center is a gold placard reading: Scott’s Poems

(Meanwhile, free Publishing House AU…)

My name is SoupBeech, and I am a book hoarder.

Some days are easier than others not to wanna go *all in* on the online hater brigade.

This day is not one of them.

Did you consider eating 40?

I want to just applaud this well-written and concise summation of exactly why his shows are so good. Co-sign every bit of this.

But also the final point reminds me of the Old Fashioned I got in a tiny plastic cup with a maraschino cherry and an orange wedge floating on top of crushed ice. Woof.

I could dress this man with my eyes closed. Which is pretty fitting, because I think that’s how he dresses himself most days. 🤣

Another collage featuring items, but this time they are more specific to Taika rather than Ed. A couple of very colorful baseball caps, some printed shorts, a vintage Fugees tee, some striped socks, a cardigan and a couple of polos knit with tigers and the other with 1975 across the chest.

Not to worry. I still have many, many, items suggested that are Taika-coded as well.

Libertine - Black Leather Harness Boots | Straight To Hell Libertine - Black Leather Harness Boots. The Libertine are women’s premium leather, black harness boots. Now with a taller, stacked heel.

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They have a men’s and women’s version, and I think the heel shape/height might be the biggest difference, but please enjoy the hunt!!

Collage of items from Straight to Hell, a clothing company. 11 items are pictured, including a silver key pendant with skull on a chain, two printed button-up shirts with tattoo patterns (tigers, snakes, and other common flash), a leather motorcycle jacket with a red silk lining (I know!!!), a black jacket with snakes like Ed’s tattoo, a tee shirt with the same, black fingerless leather gloves, black sunglasses, and black leather ankle-length boots with the familiar stirrup straps. Everything is modern Ed core.

My curated ads have finally reached peak #OFMD. If this lets you know about my singular focus day-to-day, BEHOLD!

The modern-AU Ed Teach starter pack all recommended to me in one day.

Two-panel meme originally from the movie Good Will Hunting. The scene where Will is confronting the yuppie guy at the restaurant window. In this version, terribly superimpositions have occurred, placing Stede’s head on Will’s and Izzy’s head on the yuppie’s. Top panel reads(as Stede): Do you like apples? Bottom panel reads(as Izzy): Yeah.

Same format as before, only with new lines as a continuation of the scene. Top panel reads (as Stede) : I got his number. Bottom panel reads (still Stede) : How do ya like them apples?

Having an extremely normal one over here.

It’s SO difficult to find the ones with the correct bottom.

(A universal issue to be sure)

I’ve searched and searched but that specific glass sunburst drives me up the wall.

I’ll sleep in one of those swinging nets as long as I get to choose where it’s swinging. 😆

Pretty sure viscose is made of wood pulp, so you MUST be right. If that’s the case, I’ve got somewhere they can drop me off.

You have to replace it each time they grow into full-size cats.

Hungarian Goose Down Surround Luxury Pillow Filled with Hungarian Goose Down, this super lightweight pillow will allow your head to sink right into it. Incredibly soft and comfortable to lie on. Starting at $590

I can only rest my head on the plumes of HUNGARIAN geese. (Side note, they also offer English Duck and European Duck - no, I am NOT joking.)

Also, this bed requires maintenance. My cheap ass [redacted]-year old Serta only needs me to fall into it each time the will to stand amongst the rubble of the current era becomes too great to bear.

Guess that’s not as big an issue if you can pay 57k for a bed.

It surely is.

Oh the rest of the details are awful. This was only the tiniest snippet I could stomach.