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famousinmyfandom · 1 year ago

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If you enjoy what I do, please consider donating to me at ko-fi.com/roxashasboxers. I am also currently offering donation fics for a friend in Palestine. If you’re interested in a writing commission in exchange for a donation, check out this post. (Also quick reminder NOT to discuss such things on AO3 as it is against their TOS to have transactions through their site.)

Commission are currently: OPEN

I do occasionally shift things around (usually to keep parts in the same series close to each other or to vary fandoms if I’m posting a lot for one thing in a row), but this is my current upload schedule for posting on my AO3:

12/28: Griff King fic - Gate

12/29: SlimJess fic - Bite (Vampire fic 5/5) (Smut)

12/30: CurryHeyes short - Grace

12/31: SlimJess short - Growl (Werecat AU 10/?)

1/1: CurryHeyes short - Shave

1/2: SlimJess short - Ring (Union 3/3)

1/3: CurryHeyes short - Despair

1/4: SlimJess fic - Slope

1/5: SlimJess fic - Omegaverse (Smut)

1/6: CurryHeyes short - Miracle

1/7: SlimJess short - Complete

1/8: CandyGriff short - Giggle (Little Trysts Shorts 3/?)

1/9: SlimJess short - Vein

1/10: Jim Horn/Trampas short - Vulnerable

1/11: CurryHeyes fic - Mud

1/12: SlimJess fic - Match (BDSM Verse 27/?) (Smut)

1/13: CurryHeyes short - Dance

1/14: SlimJess short - Haunt

1/15: CurryHeyes short - Wrap

1/16: SlimJess short - Formal

1/17: CurryHeyes short - Sand

1/18: SlimJess fic - Pit

1/19: SlimJess fic - Palm (BDSM Verse 28/?) (Smut)

1/20: CurryHeyes short - Crazy

1/21: SlimJess short - Mountain

1/22: CurryHeyes short - Only Two Will Know

1/23: SlimJess short - Stab

1/24: CurryHeyes short - Shake (Smut)

1/25: CurryHeyes fic - Break

1/26: SlimJess fic - Temper (Smut)

1/27: CurryHeyes short - Lamb

1/28: SlimJess short - Fire

1/29: SamTron short (Smut)

1/31: ClemCurryHeyes short - Syrup (Smut)

2/1: SlimJess short - Morning

2/2: Kid Curry/Hannibal Heyes/Griff King fic - Abandoned (Smut)

2/3: SlimJess fic - Ripple

2/4: Griff King short - Assault

2/5: SlimJess short - Rule

2/6: CurryHeyes short - Ruffle

2/7: SlimJess short - Tie

2/8: CandyGriff fic - Wash (A Little Bent 1/9)

2/9: SlimJess fic - Gun (BDSM Verse 29/?) (Smut)

2/10: CurryHeyes short - Loose

2/11: SlimJess short - Trough (BDSM Verse 29/?) (Smut)

2/12: CurryHeyes short - Future

2/13: SlimJess short - Angry

2/14: CurryHeyes short - Chain

2/15: CandyGriff fic - Freckle (A Little Bent 2/9)

2/16: SlimJess fic - Wait (BDSM Verse 30/?) (Smut)

2/17: CurryHeyes short - Guitar

2/18: SlimJess short - Shoulders

2/19: Kid Curry/Jess Harper/Hannibal Heyes short - Gang (Light Smut)

2/20: CandyGriff short - Gaze (A Little Bent 3/9)

2/21: SlimJess short - Boots

2/22: CandyGriffJoe fic - Competition (Three 2/5) (Smut)

2/23: SlimJess fic - Fist (BDSM Verse 31/?) (Smut)

2/24: CandyGriff short - Blessing (A Little Bent 4/9)

2/25: SlimJess short - Honor

2/26: Jim Horn/John Woods | Sitkonga short (Smut)

2/27: SlimJess short - First

2/28: CurryHeyes short - Reflect

3/1: CandyGriff fic - Follow (A Little Bent 5/9)

3/2: Kid Curry/Jess Harper/Hannibal Heyes fic - Welcome (Smut)

3/3: SlimJess short - Legs

3/4: JoeGriff short - Teach

3/5: SlimJess short - Red

3/6: CurryHeyes short - Pray

3/7: SlimJess short - Silver

3/8: Jess&Traveller fic - Bury

3/9: CandyGriff fic - Smile (A Little Bent 6/9) (Smut)

3/10: SlimJess short - Trail

3/11: CurryHeyes short - Marks

3/12: SlimJess short - Weight

3/13: CurryHeyes short - Coin

3/14: SlimJess short - Numb

3/15: CandyGriff fic - Shirt (A Little Bent 7/9)

3/16: SlimJess fic - Leather (BDSM Verse 32/?) (Smut)

3/17: Jess Harper & Mort Corey short - Father

3/18: CurryHeyes short - Circle (Smut)

3/19: SlimJess short - Tree

3/20: CurryHeyes short - Pump

3/21: SlimJess short - March

3/22: CurryHeyes short - Sky

3/23: CandyGriff fic - Exposed (A Little Bent 8/9)

3/24: CandyGriffJoe - Guilty (Three 3/5) (Smut)

3/25: SlimJess short - Late

3/26: CurryHeyes short - Ditch

3/27: SlimJess short - North

3/28: CurryHeyes short - Valley

3/29: SlimJess short - Spoon

3/30: CurryHeyes fic - Change (Inevitable 6/7) (Smut)

3/31: CandyGriffJoe fic - The Offer (Three 4/5)

4/1: SlimJess short - Hem

4/2: CandyGriff short - Join (A Little Bent 9/9)

4/3: CurryHeyes short - Tombstone

4/4: SlimJess short - Scratch

4/5: CurryHeyes short - Fluffy

4/6: SlimJess fic - Water

4/7: CurryHeyes fic - Rope (Smut)

4/8: SlimJess short - Catch

4/9: CandyGriff short - Tastes Like Trail Dust (Little Trysts Shorts 4/?)

4/10: SlimJess short - Toes

4/11: CurryHeyes short - Fingertips

4/12: SlimJess short - Survive

4/13: CurryHeyes fic - Earthly Pleasures (Inevitable 7/7) (Smut)

4/14: Jackson Whittemore&Allison Argent fic - Perfect Disaster 1/4

4/15: SlimJess short - Shell (Mermaid AU)

4/16: CurryHeyes short - Bead (Smut)

4/17: SlimJess short - Branch

4/18: Little Joe & Griff short - Scrub

4/19: CurryHeyes fic - Revelation (Smut)

4/20: Jackson Whittemore&Allison Argent fic - Perfect Disaster 2/4

4/21: SlimJess short - Cake

4/22: CurryHeyes short - Clear

4/23: SlimJess short - Close

4/24: CurryHeyes short - Elevation

4/25: SlimJess short - Quilt

4/26: CandyGriffJoe fic - Reveal (Three 5/5)(Smut)

4/27: CurryHeyes short - Pants AND Jackson Whittemore&Allison Argent fic - Perfect Disaster 3/4

4/28: SlimJess short - Letter

4/29: CurryHeyes short - Sugar

4/30: SlimJess short - Taste

5/1: Griff & Joe short - Chill

5/2: SlimJess short - Colors

5/3: ClemCurryHeyes fic - Husband (Smut)

5/4: CurryHeyes & Tom Brewster short - Cherry AND Jackson Whittemore&Allison Argent fic - Perfect Disaster 4/4

5/5: SlimJess short - Stubborn

5/6: CurryHeyes short - Sticks (Shelter 1/2)

5/7: SlimJess short - Splash

5/8: CurryHeyes short - Leak (Shelter 2/2)

5/9: SlimJess short - Watch

5/10: CurryHeyes fic - Rot (Here There Be Dragons! 1/3)

5/11: SlimJess fic - Suit (BDSM Verse 33/?) (Smut)

5/12: CandyGriff short - Prank

5/13: SlimJess short - Truth

5/14: CurryHeyes short - Roast (Here There Be Dragons! 2/3)

5/15: SlimJess short - Sight

5/16: CurryHeyes short - Torch (Here There Be Dragons! 3/3)

5/17: CandyGriff fic - Rose

5/18: CurryHeyes fic - Pack (Smut)

5/19: SlimJess short - Rest

5/20: Griff King short - Buck

5/21: SlimJess short - Worry

5/22: CandyGriff short - Favorite (Little Trysts Shorts 5/?)

5/23: Jim Horn/John Woods | Sitkonga short - Try

5/24: SlimJess fic - Heat

5/25: CurryHeyes fic - Relax (Smut)

5/26: SlimJess short - Steal

5/27: CurryHeyes short - Fish

5/28: SlimJess short - Cuddle

5/29: CurryHeyes short - Insecurity

5/30: CandyGriff short - Keepsake (Little Trysts Shorts 6/?)

5/31: CandyGriff fic - Prison (Choice 1/?) (Dark)

6/1: CurryHeyes fic - Better Than Misery (Smut)

6/2: SlimJess short - Dust

6/3: CurryHeyes short - Charm

6/4: SlimJess short - Fold

6/5: CurryHeyes short - Insomnia

6/6: SlimJess short - Hands

6/7: CandyGriff fic - Fight (Choice 2/?)

6/8: CurryHeyes fic - Sin (Smut)

6/9: CandyGriff short - Soft (Choice 3/?) (Smut)

6/10: SlimJess short - Boat

6/11: CurryHeyes short - Found

6/12: SlimJess fic - Rescue

6/13: CurryHeyes fic - Jeans (Smut)

6/14: SlimJess short - Braid

6/15: CandyGriff short - Wrist (Choice 4/?)

6/16: SlimJess short - Shed

6/17: Jim Horn/John Woods | Sitkonga short - Wish (Smut)

6/18: SlimJess short - Bluff

6/19: CurryHeyes fic - Rust (Rust 1/3)

6/20: SlimJess fic - Awake (Smut)

6/21: CurryHeyes short - Rise (Rust 2/3)

6/22: SlimJess short - Herd

6/23: CurryHeyes short - Hot (Rust 3/3)

6/24: SlimJess short - Trapped

6/25: CandyGriff short - Eyes (Choice 5/?)

6/26: SlimJess fic - Lucky

6/27: CurryHeyes fic - Pajamas (Smut)

6/28: SlimJess short - Attention

6/29: CurryHeyes short - Bear

6/30: SlimJess short - Draw

7/1: CandyGriff fic - Hell (Choice 6/?)

7/2: SlimJess short - Lock

7/3: CurryHeyes fic - Flood (Death of a Gunfighter 1/4)

7/4: SlimJess fic - Wall (Smut)

7/5: CandyGriff short - Apologize (Little Trysts Shorts 7/?)

7/6: CurryHeyes short - Left (Death of a Gunfighter 2/4)

7/7: SlimJess short - Win

7/8: CurryHeyes short - Wave (Death of a Gunfighter 3/4)

7/9: SlimJess short - Bruise (Light Smut)

7/10: CurryHeyes fic - Argument (Death of a Gunfighter 4/4)

7/11: SlimJess fic - Mirror (Smut)

7/12: CandyGriff short - Goodbye (Little Trysts Shorts 8/?)

7/18: SlimJess short - Drift

7/19: CandyGriff short - Again (Choice 7/?)

7/20: SlimJess short - Arm

7/21: CurryHeyes short - Gap

7/22: SlimJess fic - Drive (Smut)

7/23: CurryHeyes fic - Fear

7/24: SlimJess short - Wet

7/25: CandyGriff short - Belly (Choice 8/?)

7/26: SlimJess short - Press

7/27: SlimJess short - Dress Up

7/28: CurryHeyes short - Attack

7/29: SlimJess fic - Cage

7/30: CurryHeyes fic - Shoot (Smut)

7/31: SlimJess short - Alone

8/1: CandyGriff short - Honest (Choice 9/?)

8/2: SlimJess short - Step

8/3: CurryHeyes short - Micheal

8/4: SlimJess short - Juice

8/5: CandyGriff fic - Pretty (Choice 10/?) (Smut)

8/6: SlimJess fic - Paper

8/7: CurryHeyes short - Blueberries

8/8: SlimJess short - Fan

8/9: CurryHeyes short - Bath

8/10: SlimJess short - Lap

8/11: CurryHeyes short - Keyhole (Smut)

8/12: SlimJess fic - Stranded

8/13: CurryHeyes fic - Poetry (Smut)

8/14: CandyGriff short - Addiction (Choice 11/?) (Smut)

8/15: CurryHeyes short - Spray (Dark)

8/16: Jess short - Hang

8/17: ClemHeyes, CurryHeyes short - Stupid

8/18: Jim Horn/Anna York/Obie York short - Pretend (Smut)

8/19: SlimJess fic - Shield

8/20: CurryHeyes fic - Tension (Smut)

8/21: SlimJess short - Tangle (Couch 2/2)

8/22: CurryHeyes short - Candy

8/23: SlimJess short - Chicken (Werecat AU 11/?)

8/24: CurryHeyes short - Lungs

8/25: CandyGriff short - Court (Choice 12/?)

8/26: CurryHeyes/Thad Greenwood fic - Nerves (Smut)

8/27: SlimJess fic - Thrown

8/28: CurryHeyes short - Gem

8/29: Jim Horn/John Woods | Sitkonga short - Stay

8/30: Jess Harper short - Bake

8/31: CandyGriff short - Soon (Choice 13/?) (Light smut)

9/1: SlimJess short - Nails

9/2: CurryHeyes fic - Late Bloomer (Smut)

9/3: CandyGriff fic - Hope (Choice 14/?) (Smut)

9/4: SlimJess short - Bar

9/5: CurryHeyes short - Poke

9/6: CandyGriff short - Gentle (Little Trysts Shorts 9/?)

#upload schedule #god I have soooo much to share right now #but I know better than to post it all at once #gotta spread out the stories so I can spread out the feedback #and prevent future droughts #anyway if it’s on this list it’s complete #because writing is the only thing keeping me sane atm

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hall0ween-twn · 2 years ago

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LITTLE MISS STRANGE lyrics prompts

choose between corey, eddie or steve for a prompt with angst, fluff or smut. one lyric at a time please.

a/n: i'm not good at angst or fluff but i really wanted to use this as a practice. also, i just love this au and the story i've gotten to create with clemkruckinnie so much!! these songs are from my playlists and thought that fit the au a lot.

1 “your face on my ceiling, i fantasize.” 🎵 prisoner, miley cyrus feat. dua lipa

2 “i need somebody with a human touch.” 🎵 stop, spice girls

3 “but i made up my mind, i'm keeping my baby.” 🎵 papa don’t preach, madonna

4 “i'm the reason why you can't get to sleep.” 🎵 tangled up in me, skye sweetnam

5 “why do you only promise underneath the stars?” 🎵 in the dark, ava max

6 “i wish i’d never seen your face.” 🎵 change, pale waves

7 “if you really did care about me, it wouldn’t take another man to make you understand that you want me.” 🎵 same ol’ same ol’, pyt

8 “the only thing i’m guilty of is giving you too much love.” 🎵 this is me, dream

9 “it's as if you know me better than i ever knew myself.” 🎵 pieces of me, ashlee simpson

10 “is there someone else? is there a place for me?” 🎵 summer night town (english version), coconuts musume

11 “but then i understand, the friend i’m dreaming of is far away.” 🎵 show me how, men i trust

12 “darling, if you only knew, all the things that flow through my mind.” 🎵 fantasy, mariah carey

13 “i'm more than willing to rot in hell with you.” 🎵 eternally yours, motionless in white

14 “does your mother know that you’re out?” 🎵 does your mother know, abba

15 “they’re bringing up my history but you weren’t even listening.” 🎵 lavender haze, taylor swift

16 “i fell in love with that person i see everyday.” 🎵 romantic ukare mode, miki fujimoto

17 “you take my hand, and you say you've changed.” 🎵 too little too late, jojo

18 “it’s useless crying over how i was too late to be honest with you.” 🎵 bitansan, juice=juice

19 “you're not the one i'm supposed to love.” 🎵 tell my mama, christina grimmie

20 “we were right 'til we weren't.” 🎵 flowers, miley cyrus

21 “i thought it was a one-sided love, but was i wrong?” 🎵 crazy about you, minimoni

22 “no one else has made me fall as hard as what i have for you.” 🎵 no one else, reachback

23 “baby don't be gentle, i can handle anything.” 🎵 right where you want me, jesse mccartney

24 “and i only need a little time to satisfy this craving that i'm feeling inside.” 🎵 scary, britney spears

25 “i want to treasure my smile for the person i love.” 🎵 i wish, morning musume

26 “i hate the way you still know everything about me.” 🎵 unforgettable, the best week ever

27 “i can't contain my joy 'cause i finally found the boy i've been missing.” 🎵 i can hear the bells, hairspray

28 “guess mine is not the first heart broken.” 🎵 hopelessly devoted to you, grease

29 “shut your mouth and lose them tighty-whities!” 🎵 dead girl walking, heathers

30 “possible she wants you too.” 🎵 kiss the girl, the little mermaid

#[twn] little miss strange au #[twn] lyrics prompts #corey cunningham x reader #corey cunningham smut #steve harrington smut #eddie munson smut

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circusgoth-dotcom · 2 years ago

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𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛

The clown that once ran @painted-piggy-ships-archive has now taken up residence here after feeling exhausted with my very first self ship blog. It served me well for almost three years (the blog itself turns 3 in February of 2023). Can you believe I only joined Tumblr in 2020?

Anywho, the name’s Gabriel/Corey/Clownie and I am mostly attracted to a vast selection of fictional villains, but my other consistent interests include the arts (particularly film and writing) and the horror genre. This blog will be a mix of self shipping content and personal ramblings. I don’t often post straight up ns//ft content but my sense of humor can be raunchy at times and the content I’m interested in often tends to be gory/violent if not also sexual in nature so viewer discretion is advised.

Current Pronouns: They/Them, It/Its, Hye/Hymn/Hymnself, He/Him, Glow/Glows, Halo/Halos, ⭐/⭐s/⭐self, 🎄/🎄s/🎄self, ☎️/☎️s/☎️self, 🪓/🪓s/🪓self

Other Blogs: Horror Content - @phone-in-the-attic Film Reviews/etc - @cinephile-inc Batman Content - @the-jokers-husband Harry Potter Content (For people who hate JKR and aren’t terfs/bigots/etc only, of course) - @that-transsexual-slytherin (previously “americannslytherinn”) FNAF AU blog - @wheretheresaway-theresawilliam Sheep & Goat blog - @sweetness-of-the-lambs Stim blog - @carnival-stims Main/Dump - @offbeat-the-clownlord 18+ Blog - Ask for link if of age and interested ;0)

DNI: Terfs, bigots (racists, homophobes, etc), Joker/Harley shippers, proshippers, generally hateful people

F/o list below the cut (Short version) | See the complete version here!

Structure: [f/o name] [source] | [relationship status or type] [marriage or engagement date if applicable] | [tag]

🔒✨ 💗 The Joker [DC Comics] | Married (12•04•21) | 🃏A Joker and His Ace🃏

💗 Wade Wilson/Deadpool [MARVEL Comics] | Married (07•12•22) | 💣Bulletproof Boys💣

🔒✨ 💗 Jack Torrance [The Shining] | Married (12•31•22) | 🪓Darling - Light of My Life🪓

🔒✨ 💗 Charles “Chucky” Lee Ray [Child’s Play franchise] | Married (03•19•20) | 🌈Foul-Mouthed Little Fucker🌈

✨ 💗 Betelgeuse [Beetlejuice] | Married (10•01•20) | 🪲Two Bugs in A Rug🪲 [🐞Two Bugs in A Rug🐞]

🔒✨ 💗 Severus Snape [Harry Potter Franchise] | Married (date n/a) | ⛅He Saw a Glow in The Darkness⛅

🔒💞 Michael Myers [Halloween franchise] | Dating | 🔪The Night He Came Home🎃

💞 Anton Chigurh [No Country For Old Men] | Dating | 🐮Sugar Bully🐮

💞 Dr. Otto Octavius [Spider-Man 2 (2004)] | Dating | 🐙6 Arms to Hold You Tight / Does That Make You an Insect???🐙

💞 The Metatron [Dogma] | Dating | 👁The Metatron🪶

🔒💝 Hannibal Lecter [NBC’s Hannibal] | Dating | 🍽️Ella et Porcus🍽️

🔒💝 Sweeney Todd [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street] | Married (08•19•21) | 💈I Will Learn to Love Again💈

💝 Dr. Frank-n-Furter [Rocky Horror Picture Show] | Dating | 👠Material Girl👠

💝 Ashley “Ash” Joanna Williams [Evil Dead franchise] | Dating | 🍂Good. Bad. He’s The Guy With My Heart.🍂

💝 Scott Pilgrim & Ramona Flowers [Scott Pilgrim series/franchise] | Dating | ❗Multiplayer❗

💝 John Kramer [Saw franchise] | Married (08•17•23) | 🧩The Missing Pieces🧩

🔒 🏡 Pamela Voorhees [Friday the 13th] | Adoptive Mother | 🧸Mama Voorhees🧸

🔒 🏡 Jason Voorhees [Friday the 13th] | Adoptive Brother | 🧸Jason🧸

🏡 Morticia Addams [The Addams Family] | Adoptive Mother | 🥀Black Is Such a Happy Colour🥀

🏡 Gomez Addams [The Addams Family] | Adoptive Father | 🤺Either Way What Bliss🤺

🏡 Wednesday Addams [The Addams Family] | Adoptive Sister | ☠️Poison Sister☠️

🏡 Pugsley Addams [The Addams Family] | Adoptive Brother | 🧨Explosive Brother🧨

🏡 Fester Addams [The Addams Family] | Adoptive Uncle | 💡Uncle Fester💡

🏡 Addams “catch-all” tag: 🕷️*Snap Snap!*🕷️

🏡 The Sawyer Brothers [The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Pt. 1 & 2] | Cousins | 🍖Sawyer Family Shenanigans🍖

🏡 Glen & Glenda Ray/G.G. [Child’s Play franchise] | Step-kids/kid | 🎸Rebel & Rhinestone🎀

🏡 J. Jonah Jameson [Raimiverse Spider-Man] | Uncle | 🗞️

🏡 Fairy Godmother [Shrek] | Adoptive Mother | 🔮Just a MA! Away🔮

🏡 Prince Charming [Shrek] | Adoptive Brother | 👑Charming Siblings👑

🏡 Lydia Deetz [Beetlejuice] | Step-sister | ☔My Whole Life Is One Big Dark Room☔

🏡 Harry James Potter [Harry Potter Franchise] | Adoptive Son | ⚡👓

🌻 Tiffany Ray-Valentine [Child’s Play franchise] | 👰Living Dead Girl👰

🌻 Barbra & Adam Maitland [Beetlejuice] | 🌻👻 [🌻]

🌻 Peter Parker [MCU & Raimiverse] | 🕸️Spiderboy🕸️

🌻 Nellie Lovett [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street] | 🥧Try It! (You Might Like It)🥧

🌻 Jay & Silent Bob [View Askewniverse] | 🧢The One That Talks (Jay)🧢/🧢Cute Motherfucker🧢

🌻 Dante Hicks [Clerks Trilogy/View Askewniverse] | 🏒What Are You Looking At Ya Hockey Puck (Dante)🏒

#circus honks #self shipping #self shipping community #self insert #self insert x canon #self x canon #pinned post #intro post

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violetfairydust · 1 year ago

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20 Questions for fic writers

I was tagged by @dear-massacre thank you! I love you!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

0 as of yet, but I do plan on posting soonish!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

Out of all of the fics I've written for Teen Wolf, my total word count so far is 1,115,142

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Predominantly Teen Wolf. I used to write for The Hunger Games and Divergent, but those have taken a back seat.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I haven't posted full fics yet, but my mom's approximate top 5 favorites are

Spring Breaking the Rules - Liam and his friends are going on spring break and he invites his crush without consulting with his friends

Skating By - The Hales go rollerskating and run into some interesting characters who want Derek's attention. Features very jealous Stiles

Teacher Conferences - an AU where Stiles and Derek are dating during 3A. They run into Jennifer at the store the day before school starts and Stiles is jealous she's talking to Derek, and then the following day at school they get into a sass off

Operation: Hayden - Mason, Corey, and Nolan are afraid Hayden is coming back to Beacon Hills to reconnect with Liam even though he's moved on and they try to prevent the two of them interacting with the most ridiculous means possible

I Love You, You Love Me - all human AU where Scott dresses up for kids' birthday parties for extra money. Malia hires him for her young sister's party and he has major issues with his Barney costume

My top 5 most popular snippets that I have posted are

Stiles and Isaac argue about costumes from 'Here for the Boos'

Stiles' wetsuit from 'Lydia and the Princess'

Derek is concerned about Stiles from 'What Sees Us in the Dark'

Stiles is sick and Derek plays doctor from 'Doctor Derek'

Stiles wants to adopt the weird teenager from Louisiana from 'Needs a Waterpark'

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

When I was writing on FF dot net, I would sometimes, but I didn't have a lot of time. As soon as I get posting more, then yes.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Nothing Left to Lose. Bring on the brooding, inner turmoil, and mutual pining.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of my fics end on a happy note, or they're not super angsty. Off the top of my head I'm going with Family Practice because it's the fic where Stiles and Derek become parents and it's a very happy occasion.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have in the past, yes, and it was one of the major reasons I stopped posting at all.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

In my mind, yes. On paper, no. I used to, but I never posted it.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I have not.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I posted on FF dot net a fic that was really popular and then I found out one of my readers wrote a very similar fic. It wasn't stolen or a direct rip off, but I could tell it was very clearly based off what I wrote.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I've collaborated ideas, but we didn't write it together.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

I gotta go with Sterek. Always and forever.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

One of my old Divergent fics. I wrote it in Tris's POV and posted all of it, but then I was going to write it in Al's POV and I got halfway through, but readers will know how it ends.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I can come up with some funky fics. I enjoy my creativity.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Description. Either of the setting, characters, or actions. I try to flesh it out in editing, but it's difficult for me.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I don't personally do it because I'm not fluent in other languages. I'm totally fine with other people doing it. I just don't know enough to make it good.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Oof. I think it iCarly or Harry Potter.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

I'm proud of so many of them. One that I always go back to entertain myself is If I May Say because I gave myself an excuse to watch YouTube while writing. Scott challenges Malia to only reply to people with the last thing she heard in the video she's watching and her replies were perfect and concerning.

#tag game #sorry this took me so long to get to #i had to ask my mom her favorite fics and she had to think

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fabrowrites · 1 year ago

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20 questions for fic writers

ty @that-was-anticlimactic for the tag!!!!

tagging @rosiehunterwolf @only-lonely-stars @cboffshore @knowledgequeenabc

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

I've got 63 officially! One of those is a one-shot collection though so it's secretly like 85 :D

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

518,844 - let's see if I can break 600K this year!

3. what fandoms do you write for?

the ninjago brainrot is still going strong after 10 years!! I've also dabbled in Monkie Kid, SLA, and MP100

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

The Sun Rises Every Single Night

Oh, haven't you heard?

Reference Letters

Oh, can I be your Bibilly Hills?

White

Sun Rises doesn't surprise me at all, but I'm eternally shocked that "haven't you heard" is so popular. I wrote it in like a day for funsies and stuck it on tumblr, not even planning to post it to ao3, but then it blew up. it is a buzzfeed unsolved fic tho, so that might be why XD

5. do you respond to comments

what a great question :DDD I do, but not for like months afterwards 😭

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

so I think let the wild rumpus start takes the cake with this one, but it's also the first in a series so like it's gonna get better, yk? For standalone fics, my ritsu fic brother let's cry (and get it over with) is def up there, along with Dosimetry :D

7. what is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Sun Rises's ending still makes me smile when I reread it!! too fast / too slow also has a happy ending planned

8. do you get hate on fics?

not quite hate, but I'll get comments in the "it's been forever since this updated" style lol. I get it i haven't updated in forever

also i've gotten comments that my nya is annoying and like. that's not hate either im just salty

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

i do not!

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?

not really? I've done things where characters from one fandom are put in a different fandom's world, but that's not really a crossover as much as it is an au. oh and i put ryan and shane in TLNM universe so ig that counts.

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that I know of!

12. what's the longest you've spent working on a fic? and the shortest?

*cries in Skyward* um? I didn't start you in 2014 you're still young queen

the shortest was probably Perfect World! I wrote that one in an afternoon :D ignore that it's 332 words.

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

yep!! I wrote fics for a telephone event early 2023, including Fang-llo, Everything for Them, and Shattered :D

14. what's your all-time favorite ship? from all fandoms?

shadolin!!!! shadolin my beloved!!! he's a horse girl and she's a system and no one is doing it like them <3

15. what's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

my morro is adopted by the Smiths fic,,,,, also this one collab that never finished either augh

16. what are your writing strengths?

I feel like I'm really good at writing action scenes! I also really like figuring out pacing and how sentences flow.

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

details. wym these characters have to exist in a setting??? is it not enough they are talking in the void???

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

i don't think I've done it but I don't have a problem with it personally. ao3 has a skin where you can hover over words for translations too so that's kinda cool

19. first fandom you wrote for?

corey said rainbow fairies and YEAH SAME ACTUALLY. i also tried rewriting LotR as a 12 year old? fun times.

20. favorite fic you've written?

my current favorite is ceiling hung with vines hands down!! it's in the same series as Rumpus from earlier :D i also am really happy with A Heist with the Ninjagos, a CYOA fic

#fic asks #fabro cessat #fic questions

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The birthdays of the Snowball au characters.

(I'm not including Brandy and Chili because they're cannon characters, and I don't want those head cannon to be debunked later on).

Kid characters

Snowball: 8/12(♌️)

Rover: 10/5(♎️)

Bisket: 7/10(♋️)

Luna: 11/14(♏️)

Harvey: 2/9(♒️)

Pixie: 4/21(♉️)

Marshall: 4/6(♈️)

Keena: 7/25(♌️)

Harper: 1/13(♑️)

Rocky: 8/16(♌️)

Indigo: 3/8(♓️)

Atlas: 6/27(♋️)

Lucy: 8/19(♌️)

Buster: 5/30(♊️)

Jolene: 9/28(♎️)

Milo: 12/3(♐️)

Mochi, Taco, and Cupcake: 2/14(♒️)

Duke: 3/27(♈️)

Lincoln: 8/4(♌️)

Tina: 5/17(♉️)

Jupiter: 6/2(♊️)

Fluffy: 6/18(♊️)

Earl: 3/1(♓️)

Amber: 10/30(♏️)

Goldie: 9/4(♍️)

Paige: 6/24(♋️)

Cosette: 8/5(♌️)

Archie: 5/26(♊️)

Sophie: 4/11(♈️)

Charlie: 6/29(♋️)

Liberty: 3/15(♓️)

Scout: 7/31(♌️)

Cassie: 10/12(♎️)

Kai: 8/27(♍️)

Lilith: 5/10(♉️)

Corey: 8/1(♌️)

Elizabeth: 6/13(♊️)

Trevor: 9/18(♍️)

Sabrina: 10/31(♏️)

Toby: 7/14(♋️)

Belle: 2/25(♓️)

Merlin: 4/7(♈️)

Freya: 8/3(♌️)

Barkley: 6/4(♊️)

Fifi: 1/9(♑️)

Ryder: 11/28(♐️)

Ivy: 10/6(♎️)

Finn: 6/30(♋️)

Lola: 2/11(♒️)

Potato: 10/24(♏️)

Zoe: 7/2(♋️)

Teddy: 9/13(♍️)

Ella: 8/15(♌️)

Rose: 3/10(♓️)

Garnet: 6/17(♊️)

Timmy: 8/9(♌️)

Nora: 4/30(♉️)

Thunder: 10/19(♎️)

Sally: 1/30(♒️)

Lemon: 4/27(♉️)

Bonnie: 8/29(♍️)

Louie: 12/6(♐️)

Sushi: 7/5(♋️)

Adult characters

Hazel: 3/1(♓️)

Louis: 4/13(♈️)

Cooper: 6/9(♊️)

Willow: 5/12(♉️)

Lexi: 7/4(♋️)

Ace: 5/28(♊️)

Titan: 2/27(♓️)

Faith: 1/4(♑️)

Stella: 4/17(♈️)

Shaun: 1/26(♒️)

Prince: 3/18(♓️)

Eclair: 1/8(♑️)

Noodles: 3/15(♓️)

Sydney: 2/28(♓️)

Roscoe: 4/5(♈️)

Léna: 5/1(♉️)

Theo: 7/12(♋️)

Dutchess: 3/25(♈️)

Aaron: 1/29(♒️)

Peanut: 1/2(♑️)

Winston: 2/8(♒️)

Athena: 6/12(♊️)

Diesel: 4/3(♈️)

Skye: 2/17(♒️)

Navy: 5/4(♉️)

Chestnut: 2/20(♓️)

Logan: 4/1(♈️)

Tundra: 5/27(♊️)

Blizzard: 3/10(♓️)

Buttercup: 1/14(♑️)

Percy: 2/3(♒️)

Cleo: 6/30(♋️)

Bolt: 8/7(♌️)

Phoebe: 10/25(♏️)

Arthur: 9/2(♍️)

Matilda: 5/19(♉️)

Rex: 7/18(♋️)

Sunny: 1/20(♒️)

Elivis: 6/5(♊️)

Mabel: 7/3(♋️)

Bruce: 4/11(♈️)

Queenie: 2/6(♒️)

Leroy: 4/29(♉️)

Nala: 3/15(♓️)

George: 5/20(♉️)

Jessie: 4/8(♈️)

Miles: 1/12(♑️)

Piper: 3/18(♓️)

Ollie: 2/1(♒️)

Venus: 1/4(♑️)

Neptune: 3/16(♓️)

Oscar: 3/7(♓️)

Chase: 6/12(♊️)

Hannah: 4/2(♈️)

Odie: 5/18(♉️)

Diva: 3/5(♓️)

Frederick: 1/9(♑️)

Apple: 5/11(♉️)

Dash: 6/8(♊️)

Tasha: 2/22(♓️)

Hunter: 1/19(♑️)

Misty: 7/14(♋️)

Frost: 6/15(♊️)

Ginger: 5/2(♉️)

Otis: 9/10(♍️)

Meadow: 4/30(♉️)

Victor: 2/21(♓️)

Anka: 6/11(♊️)

Hero: 8/9(♌️)

Maddie: 3/6(♓️)

Frank: 5/13(♉️)

Camilla: 4/17(♈️)

Harris: 2/3(♒️)

Dove: 2/24(♓️)

Specter: 12/16(♐️)

Darcy: 1/18(♑️)

Nola: 4/26(♉️)

Wanda: 4/5(♈️)

Runner: 7/12(♋️)

Summer: 12/9(♐️)

Duncan: 9/25(♎️)

Princess: 3/21(♈️)

Schnitzel: 5/2(♉️)

Raven: 8/30(♍️)

Gambit: 6/7(♊️)

Bianca: 4/28(♉️)

Adam: 2/13(♒️)

Sandy: 1/7(♑️)

Cosmo: 3/4(♓️)

Marshmallow: 5/31(♊️)

Todd: 8/5(♌️)

Alexa: 2/10(♒️)

Nacho: 3/17(♓️)

Mandy: 4/3(♈️)

Harry: 7/6(♋️)

Penny: 3/9(♓️)

Chico: 6/4(♊️)

#Bluey #disney #ludo studio #dogs #Ocs #birthday

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screenwritinggym · 1 year ago

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Chill Sentenza - Mon petit frère Ahmed-Mandela et sa femme Ubah sont corrompu alors méfiez vous de lui et sa femme et la liste des gens corrompus ci-dessous.

Cher petits frères, Koshin et Amida Taouil, il est temps de mettre un terme au cirque de mon petit frère Ahmed-Mandela et sa femme Ubah. Ils se sont avérés corrompus, mettant en danger notre confiance et la stabilité que nous cherchons à maintenir.

À partir de maintenant, mon ami Rocca sera le messager pour vous transmettre cette information, et il vous suffira de lui faire confiance pour vous mettre en contact avec moi. Soyez vigilants en traitant avec Ahmed-Mandela et sa femme Ubah, et agissons ensemble pour préserver l'intégrité de notre groupe. Restons unis dans cette démarche.

Mon père en Somalie est aussi corrompu, je ne lui fais pas confiance, c'est pour ça que je l'ai mis en contact avec Booba car ils sont corrompu donc ils vont s'entendre à merveille en Somalie.

Chill Sentenza, tu dois éviter mon père en Somalie car il est corrompu, tu dois laisser Booba et Abd'al Malik bosser avec mon père le corrompu, as-tu compris?

Qui se ressemble s'assemble, mon père le corrompu avec ces potes corrompu Booba et Abd'al Malik. Dream Team of Corruption.

Tu dois avertir notre ami Shurik'n, il doit éviter mon père en Somalie car il est corrompu.

En Somalie, sachez que mon père est un homme Somalien corrompu comme Booba et Abd'al Malik donc c'est l'équipe parfaite, ils vont s'entendre à merveille.

Voici la liste complète des corrompus dans ma ville Strasbourg:

1- Ahmed-Mandela et sa femme Ubah - Corrupt people.

2- Mon père en Somalie et son pote Omar El-Bechir - Corrupt people.

3- Booba Élie Yaffa et Abd'al Malik du Neuhof - Corrupt people.

4- L'Mouss du Zoel et Farid du Neufhof - Corrupt people.

5- Les Meufia du Zoel et Yan Gilg et Mahooni - Corrupt people.

6- Sugulle et son fils Ahmed Sugulle - Corrupt people.

7- Mouloud Achour et Leila Bekhti - Corrupt people.

8- Marion Cotillard et Guillaume Canet - Corrupt people.

9- Mélissa Theuriau et Jamel debbouze - Corrupt people.

10- François Hollande et Marie-Ségolène Royal - Corrupt people

11- Nicolas Sarkozy et Carla Bruni-Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa - Corrupt people

12- Barack Hussein Obama II & Michelle Obama - Corrupt people

13- Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan & Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - Corrupt people

14- MBS Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud & Jared Corey Kushner - Corrupt people.

15- Vivica Anjanetta Fox & Halle Maria Berry - Corrupt people.

16- Jack Ma Yun Chinese business magnate - Corrupt people.

17- Ma Huateng Chinese business magnate - Corrupt people.

18- Sir Li Ka-shing is a Hong Kong billionaire business magnate - Corrupt people

19- Zhang Yiming is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. - Corrupt people.

20- Markus Alexej Persson also known as "Notch" Swedish billionaire - Corrupt people

21- Melanie Perkins (born 13 May 1987) is an Australian billionaire technology entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Canva - Corrupt people

22- Larry Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman and entrepreneur - Corrupt people

23- Bill Gates of Microsoft - Corrupt people

24- Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim (born 3 May 1946) is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. - Corrupt people

25- Naguib Onsi Sawiris (born 15 June 1954) is an Egyptian businessman. - Corrupt people

26- Mohammed "Mo" Gulamabbas Dewji (born 8 May 1975) is a Tanzanian billionaire businessman and former politician. - Corrupt people.

27- Strive Masiyiwa (born 29 January 1961) is a London-based Zimbabwean billionaire businessman and philanthropist. - Corrupt people.

28- Isabel dos Santos (born 20 April 1973) is an Angolan businesswoman - Corrupt people.

29- Frank Rafael Rainieri Marranzini is a Dominican businessman billionaire in tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. - Corrupt people.

30- Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British business magnate - Corrupt people.

31- Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (born 15 June 1950) is an Indian steel magnate, based in the U.K.. - Corrupt people.

32- Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian billionaire businessman. - Corrupt people

33- Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire businessman. - Corrupt people.

Voilà mon ami Chill Sentenza, tu dois avertir Rocca et Amida Taouil.

P.S.:

Chill Sentenza, voici une info utile pour toi, tu dois savoir que mon père en Somalie et Omar El-Bechir sont des potes de la corruption Somalienne. Si tu ne savais pas, maintenant tu sais.

Omar El-Bechir et mon père sont des amis anciens depuis les années 1970s, c'est des anciens de la politique africaine et ils sont très dangereux, ils me font flippé ses deux mecs car ils sont corrompu, c'est pour ça que j'habite à l'Elsau car mon père et Omar veulent me capturer et me forcer à quitter le pouvoir en Somalie, as-tu compris?

Omar El-Bechir et mon père veulent le pouvoir pour eux-mêmes et ils veulent me forcer à abdiquer, ils aiment pas la France et l'Italie.

Sache que mon père en Somalie est un homme dangereux et corrompu comme son pote l'ancien président du Soudan "Omar El-Bechir", voici la page wiki:

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theart2rock · 1 year ago

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Living Colour

Die Alternative Rock-Band aus New York Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2023 spielen Living Colour mit ihrem einzigartigen Sound im Dynamo Zürich. Tickets sind via ticketcorner.ch erhältlich. Die im Jahr 1984 gegründete Rockband Living Colour aus New York City ist unteranderem für ihren Hit Cult Of Personality bekannt. Unter der Leitung von Gitarrist Vernon Reid fand sich die Band Mitte der 80er Jahre mit Corey Glover (Gesang), Will Calhoun (Schlagzeug) und Muzz Skillings (Bass). Die Musik der Band ist eine kreative Fusion mit Einflüssen aus Free Jazz, Funk, Hard Rock und Heavy Metal. Ihre Texte reichen vom Persönlichen bis zum Politischen, wobei sie in einigen Fällen den Eurozentrismus und Rassismus in Amerika angreifen. Das Debütalbum der Band, Vivid, wurde 1988 auf Epic Records veröffentlicht. Das Album erreichte Platz 6 der Billboard 200 Albums Chart und wurde später von der RIAA mit Doppelplatin ausgezeichnet. Das zweite Album Time's up erschien 1990 erreichte Platz 13 der Billboard 200 und wurde mit dem zweiten Grammy Award für die beste Hard Rock Performance ausgezeichnet. Ihre erste Veröffentlichung auf Megaforce Records, The Chair in the Doorway wurde 2009 veröffentlicht und erreichte Platz 159 der Billboard 200, angeführt von der Single Behind The Sun. Verpasse Living Colour mit ihren altem und neusten Hits nicht! Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2023 im Dynamo Zürich. Schnapp dir jetzt deine Tickets auf ticketcorner.ch - Datum: Freitag, 15.12.2023 - Venue: Dynamo, Zürich - Uhrzeit: 19:00 Uhr Doors, 20:00 Uhr Show - Preis: CHF 48.- Stehplatz Quelle: Good News Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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paradimeart · 2 years ago

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I find there is an absolutely stunning lack of tfa megashock out there, FOR SOME FUCKING REASON?? It's all there. The loyalty and homoerotic devotion. The entirety of Shockwave's mission. That "my ever-loyal Shockwave" scene. I am so unwell about them.

Additionally, in regards to the superhero au, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are teenagers and I'm assuming Shockwave is around Megs' age if not older. Physical embodiment of "how do you do fellow kids" at Boot Camp.

tfa megashock is so fucking real the “my ever lotal shockwave” scene gets me. corey burton is crazy and he plays BOTH OF THEM he knew wgat he was doing

& ues bee and bulkhead are teenagers (bee js 14 and bulkhead is 18 or 19 i dont have definitive stuff) and shockwave and megs are 50 somethings. if ur curious prowl is late 30s op is mid 20s ratchet is early 60s and blitzwing and starscream are some kind of early middle aged same for lugnut. all the cons are old as fuck except blackarachnia basically. shockwaves longarm persona is proooobably 18 ish so you got this old ass man trying to pretend he knows how to use instagram reels

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staal-eric-archives · 3 years ago

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title: mitad y mitad

keywords: penpal; secret identity; mutual pining; friends to lovers; high school au; grandma yvonne supremacy; nerd!corey; photographer!corey; jock!owen; love confession; first kiss

word count: 2,685

pairing: gentle giants (corey schueneman x owen power)

i was listening to these two songs (x,x) for one of my favorite ships from soy luna on my way home and the story kind of just came out naturally... enjoy!

~⁎~

thenerdygiraffe is typing...

thenerdygiraffe [19:15] you make it look so easy!

Corey looks at his computer as he nervously waits for an answer from his penpal. There are a lot of comments under his last video and he doesn’t know how to feel about it because he’s not used to all this attention. But most importantly, one of his favorite fans is also commenting on it.

And Corey knows who this is but now one actually knows that the infamous sniper is him. He doesn’t like the attention. He prefers staying anonymous for now and take a chance by showing some cool tricks on the camera without even showing his face and write about the hockey team on his blog.

But that’s all about it. He choked the tryouts of the local team because it stresses him too much. He just doesn’t mind being an absolute nobody like this.

Although, the situation is getting a little bit out of hands because thesniper is getting popular everyday... and everyone wants to obviously know who it could be. And Owen Power particularly wants to know because he talks about this sniper everyday like he has a crush on him or something. But what Owen isn’t aware of is that thesniper himself has a long-time crush on him too.

thesniper [19:50] thank you! that one wasn’t easy...

Corey blushes. The thing is that his smile vanishes because he knows that Owen isn’t in love with him, he has a crush on thesniper. What would he say if he ever discovered that his identity was just... Corey? The awkward and geek Corey? Corey shakes his head because it’s never going to happen.

Owen is popular. Everyone wants to be around him and he’s easy to talk to. They talked a few times for school projects and stuff but Corey is not the kind of being talkative or to engage a conversation easily.

But behind a computer, everything is easy for him because he lets words flow easily and it’s not in person.

thenerdygiraffe [20:16] i can’t believe you’re really not on any hockey team... why?

thesniper [20:16] not really talkative or anything...

thenerdygiraffe [20:17] why don’t you come to the skills challenge at our school? it’s opened to everyone!

Corey knows everyone can do it. It’s usually to raise funds for the team trip and he always participate by buying a ticket usually. Unfortunately, this year, due to his accidental fame, Corey has to face it: he has to make thesniper go.

The thing is that he doesn’t know what to do. He’s torn between keeping his identity a secret or to reveal it to everyone. Even if it terrifies him to do so, he knows that he can’t hide behind his computer with this cool nickname for that long.

Another message pops up but this time, Owen is talking directly to Corey, which surprises him.

thenerdygiraffe [20:20] are you still going to be at the photobooth this year?

He frowns. He’s actually surprised that Owen remembers that... He doesn’t know what to answer because he knows that he can’t be in two places at the same time.

thegentlegiant [20:21] maybe? i don’t know if it’s still available...

It’s a plain lie but he hopes that Owen will buy it.

thenerdygiraffe [20:21] are you serious? it’s your booth! and you’re super talented at it.

It makes Corey smiles. Owen is the type of the ‘gentle’ popular guy. He’s always smiling and talking to others.

thenerdygiraffe [20:21] my grandma wants her annual picture :D

thenerdygiraffe [20:22] you know my grandma! she will not let it go until she has what she wants

thegentlegiant [20:23] i’ll go check if it’s not too late tomorrow

thenerdygiraffe [20:24] come on corey! i know it’s still available. i can write your name if you want to.

His plan is never going to work. He can’t possibly be at two places at the same time. But Owen is so damn persuasive and he knows that his grandma is a star when she comes to the event. Grandma Yvonne always loves encouraging his grandson and she loves when Corey takes good pictures of Owen.

thegentlegiant [20:25] tell grandma Yvonne that she will have her picture

thenerdygiraffe [20:26] (: i knew i could count on you!

thenerdygiraffe [20:27] see u tomorrow!

thegentlegiant [20:28] bye (:

Corey closes his laptop and he sighs. He’s going to have to elaborate the best plan ever to make this happen.

~⁎~

“Did you guys see that?!”

Corey eavesdrops the conversation when Cole Caufield goes to the rest of the hockey team’s section of the lockers. His locker is a little bit across theirs and he can even see them from a good distance. He still doesn’t react that much, though. He just wants to see their reaction.

“No way!” Gally exclaims. “He is not...”

“What’s going on?” Owen asks, as he arrives towards them.

“Owen! Your sniper is doing the competition this weekend.” Trevor teases him.

“What? How do you guys know that?” Owen questions, surprised.

“The lists just went public.” Jack explains. “And thesniper is on it so I guess you will finally able to meet him.”

Owen then takes a look at Cole’s phone and it’s Corey’s cue to disappear. He closes his locker before taking his things for the morning classes. He makes sure he has everything but he doesn’t notice that Owen is just... beside him, actually. He jumps a little when he sees him as he’s about to close his locker.

“Owen!”

“Sorry.” Owen apologizes while laughing a little. “I didn’t mean to. By the way... this is uh... from my grandma...” He pulls out something out of his bag and he gives it to him.

Corey is surprised. This is some of her cookies. “Oh, why?”

“For the photos. She said it’s a payment in advance you know.” Owen is almost blushing.

Corey is getting mixed signals and he tries not to think twice about it. “Oh. Thank her for me, then.”

“Hey Corey!” Cole salutes him with the unmatched energy of a Labrador that Cole has. “Did you see that?”

“Cole, stop bothering everyone with that.” Nick tells him. “I think everyone saw it. Sorry, man.”

Corey laughs. “That’s fine. You just informed me that he was going to do the skills competition.”

“You’d be able to unmask it!” Cole gleefully tells him. “King of the photography. You could totally know who it is.”

He has to think fast. “I could, yeah. We’ll see. Thanks for the cookies again, Owen.” He thanks as he tries to fake rush to his class, even if he knows that he’ll be there just in time.

That was close. Corey still doesn’t know how he will be able to do it but he knows that he will try to figure something out before the competition or it’s all going to be a major flop.

~⁎~

thenerdygiraffe [17:11] are you really coming this weekend?

thesniper [17:15] yes, it’s true

thenerdygiraffe [17:16] i know it’s going to sound weird but... is there any chance that we could meet before the even?

thesniper [17:17] i know it sounds like a fanboy or something omg i’m sorry...

Corey stops right there. He doesn’t even know what to answer to that. He already feels like an imposter enough. He feels like he’s using Owen or something... even if Owen said to him that he understands a part of his anonymity.

thenerdygiraffe [17:18] it felt wrong, i’m sorry!

thesniper [17:19] no. i mean... it’s just... it will be my first time in a big crowd and i’m already stressing out...

thenerdygiraffe [17:20] of course! we’ll meet after then?

thesniper [17:20] for sure, it will be a pleasure to finally meet you

Corey bites his lips.

thenerdygiraffe [17:25] yeah sure! goodnight!

thesniper [17:26] goodnight!

He closes his laptop and just lays in his back. He doesn’t even know how he will manage to do his crazy day but he will have to figure everything soon because he can’t be at the photobooth and on the ice at the same time.

He takes his phone and he sends a quick message to Owen under his real self, before he forgets about it.

thegentlegiant [21:00] thanks for the cookies, by the way, they were delicious

thenerdygiraffe [21:01] good to hear! i’ll tell her you said that

Corey smiles and he puts his phone down before doing his night routine to take on another day.

~⁎~

The day of the competition, Corey calls coach Saint-Louis to tell him that he’s going to have an appointment around eleven but that he really wants to stay in the photobooth for the annual pictures, which the coach agrees to it, obviously.

He’s nervous. He finally has a plan but he doesn’t know how the people are going to react to him live. And he still doesn’t know if he wants to reveal everything to everyone yet. He guesses not because it would have the most intense consequences.

Is he really ready to risk everything in front of the whole town? Because literally, the even went sold out when everyone learned that the sniper was coming.

At his booth, he’s nervous. More than usually. Then, Grandma Yvonne comes by him. “Corey! My favorite photograph.” She says. “Still very growing up, I see. Very handsome every year.”

Corey smiles. “Thank you grandma Yvonne.” Like every year, he helps her go to her seat in the stands.

“You can call me Yvonne and you know that.” She tells him as she pats his arm. “I’m waiting for my picture after the event, alright?”

“Alright, I’ll do that one first.” Corey winks at her as a promise.

He goes back to his booth until the skills competition is announced and he goes to suit up to be the sniper.

“And now please welcome the Internet sensation, the sniper!” The local announcer says.

Everyone is going crazy about the sniper because Corey has a crazy damn shot and he’s really good at it. It drives the whole arena and he’s kind of enjoying it. But he knows deep down that they are applauding the sniper and not really him.

And in some adrenaline rush or something, Corey takes off his mask to reveal the truth to literally everybody.

“Corey?”

There is a big silence at first. Then, people whisper everywhere in the arena where Corey is just standing there while everyone is trying to make sense of what just happened. And there’s him, in the middle of the ice, trying to recover from what he just did. Revealing his identity was not the main goal but all this adrenaline just gave him the strength to do it.

But right now? He’s goddamn terrified to be humiliated in front of the whole school because nobody is saying anything.

“Corey! Corey!” Someone starts to chant in the stands.

“Corey! Corey! Corey!” There’s even some claps and some cheering. Corey just turns on himself to see the support from everybody. He’s smiling like an idiot and he’s probably blushing but he doesn’t really care.

He doesn’t until his eyes meet Owen’s in the far of the ice. His heart is beating fast and he feels like his whole world is going to crumble to the ground because he feels like he catfished him or that he betrayed him by carefully not telling him who he was.

Owen likely wants to skate towards him but Corey’s suddenly surrounded by literally everyone. He doesn’t really get to say anything, it’s just people who want to talk to him and take pictures with him.

He’s finally able to escape and retreat to the locker room where he can relax a little bit because he knows that it’s going to make a buzz through the whole school and most probably the whole town and Internet. What was he really thinking?!

Someone knocks on the door. “Hey Corey.” It’s Nick. “I know it’s overwhelming and stuff, but there’s someone that really wants to have a few words with you. Just open the door, I promise that it’s not a trick or something.”

Corey trusts Nick’s words because he’s the serious guy on the team. He opens the door to see that it’s no other person than Owen himself behind that door. No words are exchanged. He just lets him in the little space of the locker room.

It’s a long silence. It’s funny how they were able to talk behind a machine and that now, they seem terrified to talk to each other. Corey has always been the under-radar guy with his camera gear and his quiet personality. Owen is the complete opposite but he’s the kindest person ever.

“Are you disappointed?” Corey finally breaks the silence to risk it all. He doesn’t even look at him as he looks down to the floor.

“That it’s you? Corey...” Owen breathes as he lets out a nervous laugh. A million things run into his head even if he doesn’t know exactly how he really feels like and because he just didn’t say anything clear. “I was... I was hoping it would be you.” Corey blinks his eyes before finally looking up to Owen. “I am really glad that it’s you, Corey.”

“W... What...?” He finally asks.

Owen takes place beside him on the stalls in the locker room. “Deep down, I’ve always hoped that it was you because... because I like you, Corey. I’ve liked you for a really long time and... yeah. I’m so glad that it’s you. I felt guilty because I was falling in love with someone else but I’m relieved to see that I’m in love with the same person.”

Corey blushes because that’s probably the most romantic thing someone ever said to him. Owen’s confession is so raw, honest and true. “I... I like you too, you know?” He replies. “It’s just... Like it told you when I was the sniper. I’m not always comfortable in social situations and I guess that... because you’re so popular I thought I would never be enough for you or something.”

Owen comes a little closer to him. “You don’t get to decide that.” He then takes Corey’s hand in his before meeting his eyes. “By the way... I promised grandma Yvonne that I would bring someone tonight for dinner and I think she already knows the answer of who I wanted to bring all along. So, are you free tonight?”

Corey has a little smile. “Yeah. Absolutely.”

~⁎~

“I’m so sorry I couldn’t get the picture of Owen this year, Grandma Yvonne.” Corey shamefully apologizes to Owen’s grandma.

“Nonsense!” She says, giving silent instructions to Owen to put the table in the dinning room of her little house. There’s a fine scent of comfort food and both Corey and Owen are hungry. “I’m happier to see that my Owen boy finally brought you home after all these years. By the way, I’ve always brought two because Owen wanted one for himself because you were the one that took it.”

That surprises Corey which raises so many other questions or clues that he missed. “Grandma!” Owen chokes as he’s suddenly turning every shade of pink.

“Psh! The boy can know now! He’s right here.” She chirps.

“I always tried to take the best picture of Owen since he was also my favorite. That’s something that we both share, Grandma Yvonne.”

“I always knew you two were meant for each other. Grandma always knows best.” She proudly takes credit.

After the dinner (and a lot of embarrassing moments from Grandma Yvonne for Owen), they both go on the swing in the balcony of Yvonne’s house while they are just talking together and holding hands. Corey’s head on Owen’s shoulders as they swing slowly and enjoying the evening.

“I’m glad it’s you.” Owen says. “I don’t see myself with anyone else.”

“Me neither.” Corey looks up at him.

Their eyes meet before their faces naturally draw into each other until their lips meet for a soft and long-awaited kiss.

#gentle giants 💘#schuenower #owen power #corey schueneman #hockey rpf #dsjklhfjdshfsd #they 💕#milou graphs #milou fics #milou writes #milou ships and writes #milou comfort corner

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zukkaoru · 3 years ago

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Fic Writer Review

tagged by @bisexualpercabeth tysm for the tag!! <3

1. how many works do you have on AO3? 85 lol

2. what’s your total AO3 word count? 489,407.. don't ask how much of that is just from the past year lol

3. how many fandoms have you written for and what are they? i have posted fics for 20 different fandoms on ao3 and i am not going going to list them all out but my top five are atla, 0uat, tlok, h$mtmt$, and tales of arcadia

4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. plum blossom 2. you clutched my brain and eased my ailing 3. my calamitous love & insurmountable grief 4. five times ryan came out (and one time he couldn't) 5. feels like love

5. do you respond to comments, why or why not? i usually try to but sometimes i simply do not know what to say. or i let too many comments build up in my inbox and end up just not responding bc i'm overwhelmed oops

6. what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? uh. it's gotta be one of my old 0uat fics bc i don't usually like to write angsty endings anymore skdgfdj i'm not sure i want to link to any specific oneshot but if you're curious you can look back through my ao3 ig there's also looked me in the eye and told me you would never go away but that's part of a series so the entire coherent story doesn't end angstily lol

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7. do you write crossovers? if so what is the craziest one you’ve written? i don't really anymore but oh boy. the craziest one i've ever written? one of my friends and i started writing a fic back when we were like ten and we literally called it The Megacrossover (the mega for short) bc we just. shoved as many fandoms as we could in that thing. it started out just being a pjo / hp / thg crossover where the characters got reaped for a hunger games based on their cabin at camp half-blood but then we ended up including doctor who and 0uat in the plot to get everyone out of the arena, and then we brought in olaf for some reason (?) and we also had plans to bring in characters from divergent and the maze runner but unfortunately we never finished. anyway. long live the mega. it's still in a binder on my bedroom floor at home

8. have you ever received hate on a fic? yeah but not recently. my favorite was someone hate commenting on chapter eleven of a doctor who fic i posted on ff.net that i wrote when i was like 13-14. and when i called them out in the author's note of the next chapter, saying "if you don't like you don't have to read" they commented again and said something like "well obviously you don't know if you don't like it until you start reading, stupid" like yeah bro but. eleven chapters? if it took you that long to realize you didn't like it, that's sounds like a you problem

9. do you write smut? if so what kind? nope lol

10. have you ever had a fic stolen? not that i know of lol

11. have you ever had a fic translated? nope

12. have you ever co-written a fic before? not besides The Mega. but corey and i create (mostly cursed) AUs together which is close enough <3

13. what’s your all time favorite ship? i am morally obligated to answer outlaw queen for this. but currently matchablossom is occupying all my thoughts

14. what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? oh there are so many atla fic ideas i have that i'm not sure i'll ever have time to flesh out and write. there's one i came up with based very loosely on the song snow by ricky montgomery that's sokka-centric but it's very complex and elaborate and i could definitely see it being upwards of 200k words and i just. don't have time for it which is very sad to me bc it would be so good if i did

15. what are your writing strengths? i'm so bad at questions like this. i don't know?? sometimes i write and i like everything about what i'm writing and sometimes i write and i hate it all. i guess dialogue ? sure

16. what are your writing weaknesses? action scenes. describing the physical details of the setting. sometimes (see: a lot of times) i write sentences so long and convoluted that they make sense to no one other than me.

17. what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? gonna be honest i really haven't seen that much of this? like i think it's cool when it comes up bc i love other languages! but i also always worry i'm going to be mistranslating something whenever i do it skdhjgfd also if you're going to be doing a lot of it, i feel like you should probably include a translation somewhere so people know what's going on without having to like. switch back and forth between the fic and google translate or smth

18. what was the first fandom you wrote for? percy jackson

19. what’s your favorite fic you’ve written? it's probably gotta be this ultraviolet morning light (which is now on the second page of my fics what the heck???) tuvml is my baby and the longest fic i've finished to date and i still think about how rising sun verse zuko and sokka are doing quite often. i've also still got a couple half-finished fics for that universe and a longer sequel i'd love to publish someday but i've been. distracted by other fics

tagging (with no obligation): @that-was-anticlimactic @smilehoneyy @bisexuallsokka @beachytablecloth and anyone else who wants to!!

#tag game #i wrote some pretty angsty fics after robin's death so #technically my fic with the angstiest ending probaby comes from that time #but i wasn't super active on ao3 and i will not be providing a link to any of my old fics that are not on ao3

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grigori77 · 4 years ago

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2020 in Movies - My Top 30 Fave Movies (Part 2)

20. ONWARD – Disney and Pixar’s best digitally animated family feature of 2020 (beating the admittedly impressive Soul to the punch) clearly has a love of fantasy roleplay games like Dungeons & Dragons, its quirky modern-day AU take populated by fantastical races and creatures seemingly tailor-made for the geek crowd … needless to say, me and many of my friends absolutely loved it. That doesn’t mean that the classic Disney ideals of love, family and believing in yourself have been side-lined in favour of fan-service – this is as heartfelt, affecting and tearful as their previous standouts, albeit with plenty of literal magic added to the metaphorical kind. The central premise is a clever one – once upon a time, magic was commonplace, but over the years technology came along to make life easier, so that in the present day the various races (elves, centaurs, fauns, pixies, goblins and trolls among others) get along fine without it. Then timid elf Ian Lightfoot (Tom Holland) receives a wizard’s staff for his sixteenth birthday, a bequeathed gift from his father, who died before he was born, with instructions for a spell that could bring him back to life for one whole day. Encouraged by his brash, over-confident wannabe adventurer elder brother Barley (Chris Pratt), Ian tries it out, only for the spell to backfire, leaving them with the animated bottom half of their father and just 24 hours to find a means to restore the rest of him before time runs out. Cue an “epic quest” … needless to say, this is another top-notch offering from the original masters of the craft, a fun, affecting and thoroughly infectious family-friendly romp with a winning sense of humour and inspired, flawless world-building. Holland and Pratt are both fantastic, their instantly believable, ill-at-ease little/big brother chemistry effortlessly driving the story through its ingenious paces, and the ensuing emotional fireworks are hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure, while there’s typically excellent support from Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) as Ian and Barley’s put-upon but supportive mum, Laurel, Octavia Spencer as once-mighty adventurer-turned-restaurateur “Corey” the Manticore and Mel Rodriguez (Getting On, The Last Man On Earth) as overbearing centaur cop (and Laurel’s new boyfriend) Colt Bronco. The film marks the sophomore feature gig for Dan Scanlon, who debuted with 2013’s sequel Monsters University, and while that was enjoyable enough I ultimately found it non-essential – no such verdict can be levelled against THIS film, the writer-director delivering magnificently in all categories, while the animation team have outdone themselves in every scene, from the exquisite environments and character/creature designs to some fantastic (and frequently delightfully bonkers) set-pieces, while there’s a veritable riot of brilliant RPG in-jokes to delight geekier viewers (gelatinous cube! XD). Massive, unadulterated fun, frequently hilarious and absolutely BURSTING with Disney’s trademark heart, this was ALMOST my animated feature of the year. More on that later …

19. THE GENTLEMEN – Guy Ritchie’s been having a rough time with his last few movies (The Man From UNCLE didn’t do too bad but it wasn’t exactly a hit and was largely overlooked or simply ignored, while intended franchise-starter King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was largely derided and suffered badly on release, dying a quick death financially – it’s a shame on both counts, because I really liked them), so it’s nice to see him having some proper success with his latest, even if he has basically reverted to type to do it. Still, when his newest London gangster flick is THIS GOOD it seems churlish to quibble – this really is what he does best, bringing together a collection of colourful geezers and shaking up their status quo, then standing back and letting us enjoy the bloody, expletive-riddled results. This particularly motley crew is another winning selection, led by Matthew McConaughey as ruthlessly successful cannabis baron Mickey Pearson, who’s looking to retire from the game by selling off his massive and highly lucrative enterprise for a most tidy sum (some $400,000,000 to be precise) to up-and-coming fellow American ex-pat Matthew Berger (Succession’s Jeremy Strong, oozing sleazy charm), only for local Chinese triad Dry Eye (Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding, chewing the scenery with enthusiasm) to start throwing spanners into the works with the intention of nabbing the deal for himself for a significant discount. Needless to say Mickey’s not about to let that happen … McConaughey is ON FIRE here, the best he’s been since Dallas Buyers Club in my opinion, clearly having great fun sinking his teeth into this rich character and Ritchie’s typically sparkling, razor-witted dialogue, and he’s ably supported by a quality ensemble cast, particularly co-star Charlie Hunnam as Mickey’s ice-cold, steel-nerved right-hand-man Raymond Smith, Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery as his classy, strong-willed wife Rosalind, Colin Farrell as a wise-cracking, quietly exasperated MMA trainer and small-time hood simply known as the Coach (who gets many of the film’s best lines), and, most notably, Hugh Grant as the film’s nominal narrator, thoroughly morally bankrupt private investigator Fletcher, who consistently steals the film. This is Guy Ritchie at his very best – a twisty rug-puller of a plot that constantly leaves you guessing, brilliantly observed and richly drawn characters you can’t help loving in spite of the fact there’s not a single hero among them, a deliciously unapologetic, politically incorrect sense of humour and a killer soundtrack. Getting the cinematic year off to a phenomenal start, it’s EASILY Ritchie’s best film since Sherlock Holmes, and a strong call-back to the heady days of Snatch (STILL my favourite) and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. Here’s hoping he’s on a roll again, eh?

18. SPONTANEOUS – one of the year’s biggest under-the-radar surprise hits for me was one which I actually might not have caught if things had been a little more normal and ordered. Thankfully with all the lockdown and cinematic shutdown bollocks going on, this fantastically subversive and deeply satirical indie teen comedy horror came along at the perfect time, and I completely flipped out over it. Now those who know me know I don’t tend to gravitate towards teen cinema, but like all those other exceptions I’ve loved over the years, this one had a brilliantly compulsive hook I just couldn’t turn down – small-town high-schooler Mara (Knives Out and Netflix’ Cursed’s Katherine Langford) is your typical cool outsider kid, smart, snarky and just putting up with the scene until she can graduate and get as far away as possible … until one day in her senior year one of her classmates just inexplicably explodes. Like her peers, she’s shocked and she mourns, then starts to move on … until it happens again. As the death toll among the senior class begins to mount, it becomes clear something weird is going on, but Mara has other things on her mind because the crisis has, for her, had an unexpected benefit – without it she wouldn’t have fallen in love with like-minded oddball new kid Dylan (Lean On Pete and Words On Bathroom Walls’ Charlie Plummer). The future’s looking bright, but only if they can both live to see it … this is a wickedly intelligent film, powered by a skilfully executed script and a wonderfully likeable young cast who consistently steer their characters around the potential cliched pitfalls of this kind of cinema, while debuting writer-director Brian Duffield (already a rising star thanks to scripts for Underwater, The Babysitter and blacklist darling Jane Got a Gun among others) show he’s got as much talent and flair for crafting truly inspired cinema as he has for thinking it up in the first place, delivering some impressively offbeat set-pieces and several neat twists you frequently don’t see coming ahead of time. Langford and Plummer as a sassy, spicy pair who are easy to root for without ever getting cloying or sweet, while there’s glowing support from the likes of Hayley Law (Rioverdale, Altered Carbon, The New Romantic) as Mara’s best friend Tess, Piper Perabo and Transparent’s Rob Huebel as her increasingly concerned parents, and Insecure’s Yvonne Orji as Agent Rosetti, the beleaguered government employee sent to spearhead the investigation into exactly what’s happening to these kids. Quirky, offbeat and endlessly inventive, this is one of those interesting instances where I’m glad they pushed the horror elements into the background so we could concentrate on the comedy, but more importantly these wonderfully well-realised and vital characters – there are some skilfully executed shocks, but far more deep belly laughs, and there’s bucketloads of heart to eclipse the gore. Another winning debut from a talent I intend to watch with great interest in the future.

17. HAMILTON – arriving just as Black Lives Matter reached fever-pitch levels, this feature presentation of the runaway Broadway musical smash-hit could not have been better timed. Shot over three nights during the show’s 2016 run with the original cast and cut together with specially created “setup shots”, it’s an immersive experience that at once puts you right in amongst the audience (at times almost a character themselves, never seen but DEFINITELY heard) but also lets you experience the action up close. And what action – it’s an incredible show, a thoroughly fascinating piece of work that reads like something very staid and proper on paper (an all-encompassing biographical account of the life and times of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton) but, in execution, becomes something very different and EXTREMELY vital. The execution certainly couldn’t be further from the usual period biopic fare this kind of historical subject matter usually gets (although in the face of recent high quality revisionist takes like Marie Antoinette, The Great and Tesla it’s not SO surprising), while the cast is not at all what you’d expect – with very few notable exceptions the cast is almost entirely people of colour, despite the fact that the real life individuals they’re playing were all very white indeed. Every single one of them is also an absolute revelation – the show’s writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (already riding high on the success of In the Heights) carries the central role of Hamilton with effortless charm and raw star power, Leslie Odom Jr. (Smash, Murder On the Orient Express) is duplicitously complex as his constant nemesis Aaron Burr, Christopher Jackson (In the Heights, Moana, Bull) oozes integrity and nobility as his mentor and friend George Washington, Phillipa Soo is sweet and classy as his wife Eliza while Renée Elise Goldsberry (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Jacks, Altered Carbon) is fiery and statuesque as her sister Angelica Schuyler (the one who got away), and Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter) consistently steals every scene he’s in as fiendish yet childish fan favourite King George III, but the show (and the film) ultimately belongs to veritable powerhouse Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting, The Good Lord Bird) in a spectacular duel role, starting subtly but gaining scene-stealing momentum as French Revolutionary Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, before EXPLODING onto the stage in the second half as indomitable third American President Thomas Jefferson. Not having seen the stage show, I was taken completely by surprise by this, revelling in its revisionist genius and offbeat, quirky hip-hop charm, spellbound by the skilful ease with which is takes the sometimes quite dull historical fact and skews it into something consistently entertaining and absorbing, transported by the catchy earworm musical numbers and thoroughly tickled by the delightfully cheeky sense of humour strung throughout (at least when I wasn’t having my heart broken by moments of raw dramatic power). Altogether it’s a pretty unique cinematic experience I wish I could have actually gotten to see on the big screen, and one I’ve consistently recommended to all my friends, even the ones who don’t usually like musicals. As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t need a proper Les Misérables style screen adaptation – this is about as perfect a presentation as the show could possibly hope for.

16. SPUTNIK – summer’s horror highlight (despite SERIOUSLY tough competition) was a guaranteed sleeper hit that I almost missed entirely, stumbling across the trailer one day on YouTube and getting bowled over by its potential, prompting me to hunt it down by any means necessary. The feature debut of Russian director Egor Abramenko, this first contact sci-fi chiller is about as far from E.T. as it’s possible to get, sharing some of the same DNA as Carpenter’s The Thing but proudly carving its own path with consummate skill and definitely signalling great things to come from its brand new helmer and relative unknown screenwriters Oleg Malovichko and Andrei Zolotarev. Oksana Akinshina (probably best known in the West for her powerful climactic cameo in The Bourne Supremacy) is the beating heart of the film as neurophysiologist Tatyana Yuryevna Klimova, brought in to aid in the investigation in the Russian wilderness circa 1983 after an orbital research mission goes horribly wrong. One of the cosmonauts dies horribly, while the other, Konstantin (The Duelist’s Pyotr Fyodorov) seems unharmed, but it quickly becomes clear that he’s now the host for something decidedly extraterrestrial and potentially terrifying, and as Tatyana becomes more deeply embroiled in her assignment she comes to realise that her superiors, particularly mysterious Red Army project leader Colonel Semiradov (The PyraMMMid’s Fyodor Bondarchuk), have far more insidious plans for Konstantin and his new “friend” than she could ever imagine. This is about as dark, intense and nightmarish as this particular sub-genre gets, a magnificently icky body horror that slowly builds its tension as we’re gradually exposed to the various truths and the awful gravity of the situation slowly reveals itself, punctuated by skilfully executed shocks and some particularly horrifying moments when the evils inflicted by the humans in charge prove far worse than anything the alien can do, while the ridiculously talented writers have a field day pulling the rug out from under us again and again, never going for the obvious twist and keeping us guessing right to the devastating ending, while the beautifully crafted digital creature effects are nothing short of astonishing and thoroughly creepy. Akinshina dominates the film with her unbridled grace, vulnerability and integrity, the relationship that develops between Tatyana and Konstantin (Fyodorov delivering a beautifully understated turn belying deep inner turmoil) feeling realistically earned as it goes from tentatively wary to tragically bittersweet, while Bondarchuk invests the Colonel with a nuanced air of tarnished authority and restrained brutality that made him one of my top screen villains for the year. One of 2020’s great sleeper hits, I can’t speak of this film highly enough – it’s a genuine revelation, an instant classic for whom I’ll sing its praises for years to come, and I wish enormous future success to all the creative talents involved.

15. THE INVISIBLE MAN – looks like third time’s a charm for Leigh Whannell, writer-director of my ALMOST horror movie of the year (more on that later) – while he’s had immense success as a horror writer over the years (co-creator of both the Saw and Insidious franchises), as a director his first two features haven’t exactly set the world alight, with debut Insidious: Chapter III garnering similar takes to the rest of the series but ultimately turning out to be a bit of a damp squib quality-wise, while his second feature Upgrade was a stone-cold masterpiece that was (rightly) EXTREMELY well received critically, but ultimately snuck in under the radar and has remained a stubbornly hidden gem since. No such problems with his third feature, though – his latest collaboration with producer Jason Blum and the insanely lucrative Blumhouse Pictures has proven a massive hit both financially AND with reviewers, and deservedly so. Having given up on trying to create a shared cinematic universe inhabited by their classic monsters, Universal resolved to concentrate on standalones to showcase their elite properties, and their first try is a rousing success, Whannell bringing HG Wells’ dark and devious human monster smack into the 21st Century as only he can. The result is a surprisingly subtle piece of work, much more a lethally precise exercise in cinematic sleight of hand and extraordinary acting than flashy visual effects, strictly adhering to the Blumhouse credo of maximum returns for minimum bucks as the story is stripped down to its bare essentials and allowed to play out without any unnecessary weight. The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elizabeth Moss once again confirms what a masterful actress she is as she brings all her performing weapons to bear in the role of Cecelia “Cee” Kass, the cloistered wife of affluent but monstrously abusive optics pioneer Aidan Griffin (Netflix’ The Haunting of Hill House’s Oliver Jackson-Cohen), who escapes his clutches in the furiously tense opening sequence and goes to ground with the help of her closest childhood friend, San Francisco cop James Lanier (Leverage’s Aldis Hodge) and his teenage daughter Sydney (A Wrinkle in Time’s Storm Reid). Two weeks later, Aidan commits suicide, leaving Cee with a fortune to start her life over (with the proviso that she’s never ruled mentally incompetent), but as she tries to find her way in the world again little things start going wrong for her, and she begins to question if there might be something insidious going on. As her nerves start to unravel, she begins to suspect that Aidan is still alive, still very much in her life, fiendishly toying with her and her friends, but no-one can see him. Whannell plays her paranoia up for all it’s worth, skilfully teasing out the scares so that, just like her friends, we begin to wonder if it might all be in her head after all, before a spectacular mid-movie reveal throws the switch into high gear and the true threat becomes clear. The lion’s share of the film’s immense success must of course go to Moss – her performance is BEYOND a revelation, a blistering career best that totally powers the whole enterprise, and it goes without saying that she’s the best thing in this. Even so, she has sterling support from Hodge and Reid, as well as Love Child’s Harriet Dyer as Cee’s estranged big sister Emily and Wonderland’s Michael Dorman as Adrian’s slimy, spineless lawyer brother Tom, and, while he doesn’t have much actual (ahem) “screen time”, Jackson-Cohen delivers a fantastically icy, subtly malevolent turn which casts a large “shadow” over the film. This is one of my very favourite Blumhouse films, a pitch-perfect psychological chiller that keeps the tension cranked up unbearably tight and never lets go, Whannell once again displaying uncanny skill with expert jump-scares, knuckle-whitening chills and a truly astounding standout set-piece that easily goes down as one of the top action sequences of 2020. Undoubtedly the best version of Wells’ story to date, this goes a long way in repairing the damage of Universal’s abortive “Dark Universe” efforts, as well as showcasing a filmmaking master at the very height of his talents.

14. EXTRACTION – the Coronavirus certainly has threw a massive spanner in the works of the year’s cinematic calendar – among many other casualties to the blockbuster shunt, the latest (and most long-awaited) MCU movie, Black Widow, should have opened to further record-breaking box office success at the end of spring, but instead the theatres were all closed and virtually all the heavyweights were pushed back or shelved indefinitely. Thank God, then, for the streaming services, particularly Hulu, Amazon and Netflix, the latter of which provided a perfect movie for us to see through the key transition into the summer blockbuster season, an explosively flashy big budget action thriller ushered in by MCU alumni the Russo Brothers (who produced and co-wrote this adaptation of Ciudad, a graphic novel that Joe Russo co-created with Ande Parks and Fernando Leon Gonzalez) and barely able to contain the sheer star-power wattage of its lead, Thor himself. Chris Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, a former Australian SAS operative who hires out his services to an extraction operation under the command of mercenary Nik Khan (The Patience Stone’s Golshifteh Farahani), brought in to liberate Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal in his first major role), the pre-teen son of incarcerated Indian crime lord Ovi Sr. (Pankaj Tripathi), who has been abducted by Bangladeshi rival Amir Asif (Priyanshu Painyuli). The rescue itself goes perfectly, but when the time comes for the hand-off the team is double-crossed and Tyler is left stranded in the middle of Dhaka with no choice but to keep Ovi alive as every corrupt cop and street gang in the city closes in around them. This is the feature debut of Sam Hargrave, the latest stuntman to try his hand at directing, so he certainly knows his way around an action set-piece, and the result is a thoroughly breathless adrenaline rush of a film, bursting at the seams with spectacular fights, gun battles and car chases, dominated by a stunning sustained sequence that plays out in one long shot, guaranteed to leave jaws lying on the floor. Not that there should be any surprise – Hargrave cut his teeth as a stunt coordinator for the Russos on Captain America: Civil War and their Avengers films. That said, he displays strong talent for the quieter disciplines of filmmaking too, delivering quality character development and drawing out consistently noteworthy performances from his cast. Of course, Hemsworth can do the action stuff in his sleep, but there’s a lot more to Tyler than just his muscle, the MCU veteran investing him with real wounded vulnerability and a tragic fatalism which colours every scene, while Jaiswal is exceptional throughout, showing plenty of promise for the future, and there’s strong support from Farahani and Painyuli, as well as Stranger Things’ David Harbour as world-weary retired merc Gaspard, and a particularly impressive, muscular turn from Randeep Hooda (Once Upon a Time in Mumbai) as Saju, a former Para and Ovi’s bodyguard, who’s determined to take possession of the boy himself, even if he has to go through Tyler to get him. This is action cinema that really deserves to be seen on the big screen – I watched it twice in a week and would happily have paid for two trips to the cinema for it if I could have. As we looked down the barrel of a summer season largely devoid of blockbuster fare, I couldn’t recommend this enough. Thank the gods for Netflix …

13. THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – although it’s definitely a film that really benefitted enormously from releasing on Netflix during the various lockdowns, this was one of the blessed few I actually got to see during one of the UK’s frustratingly rare lulls when cinemas were actually OPEN. Rather perversely it therefore became one of my favourite cinematic experiences of 2020, but then I’m just as much a fan of well-made cerebral films as I am of the big, immersive blockbuster EXPERIENCES, so this probably still would have been a standout in a normal year. Certainly if this was a purely CRITICAL list for the year this probably would have placed high in the Top Ten … Aaron Sorkin is a writer whose work I have ardently admired ever since he went from esteemed playwright to in-demand talent for both the big screen AND the small with A Few Good Men, and TTOTC7 is just another in a long line of consistently impressive, flawlessly written works rife with addictive quickfire dialogue, beautifully observed characters and rewardingly propulsive narrative storytelling (therefore resting comfortably amongst the well-respected likes of The West Wing, Charlie Wilson’s War, Moneyball and The Social Network). It also marks his second feature as a director (after fascinating and incendiary debut Molly’s Game), and once again he’s gone for true story over fiction, tackling the still controversial subject of the infamous 1968 trial of the “ringleaders” of the infamous riots which marred Chicago’s Diplomatic National Convention five months earlier, in which thousands of hippies and college students protesting the Vietnam War clashed with police. Spurred on by the newly-instated Presidential Administration of Richard Nixon to make some examples, hungry up-and-coming prosecutor Richard Schultz (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is confident in his case, while the Seven – who include respected and astute student activist Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) and confrontational counterculture firebrands Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Jerry Rubin (Succession’s Jeremy Strong) – are the clear underdogs. They’re a divided bunch (particularly Hayden and Hoffman, who never mince their words about what little regard they hold for each other), and they’re up against the combined might of the U.S. Government, while all they have on their side is pro-bono lawyer and civil rights activist William Kunstler (Mark Rylance), who’s sharp, driven and thoroughly committed to the cause but clearly massively outmatched … not to mention the fact that the judge presiding over the case is Julius Hoffman (Frank Langella), a fierce and uncompromising conservative who’s clearly 100% on the Administration’s side, and who might in fact be stark raving mad (he also frequently goes to great lengths to make it clear to all concerned that he is NOT related to Abbie). Much as we’ve come to expect from Sorkin, this is cinema of grand ideals and strong characters, not big spectacle and hard action, and all the better for it – he’s proved time and again that he’s one of the very best creative minds in Hollywood when it comes to intelligent, thought-provoking and engrossing thinking-man’s entertainment, and this is pure par for the course, keeping us glued to the screen from the skilfully-executed whirlwind introductory montage to the powerfully cathartic climax, and every varied and brilliant scene in-between. This is heady stuff, focusing on what’s still an extremely thorny issue made all the more urgently relevant and timely given what was (and still is) going on in American politics at the time, and everyone involved here was clearly fully committed to making the film as palpable, powerful and resonant as possible for the viewer, no matter their nationality or political inclination. Also typical for a Sorkin film, the cast are exceptional, everyone clearly having the wildest time getting their teeth into their finely-drawn characters and that magnificent dialogue – Redmayne and Baron Cohen are compellingly complimentary intellectual antagonists given their radically different approaches and their roles’ polar opposite energies, while Rylance delivers another pitch-perfect, simply ASTOUNDING performance that once again marks him as one of the very best actors of his generation, and there are particularly meaty turns from Strong, Langella, Aquaman’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (as besieged Black Panther Bobby Seale) and a potent late appearance from Michael Keaton that sear themselves into the memory long after viewing. Altogether then, this is a phenomenal film which deserves to be seen no matter the format, a thought-provoking and undeniably IMPORTANT masterwork from a master cinematic storyteller that says as much about the world we live in now as the decidedly turbulent times it portrays …

12. GREYHOUND – when the cinemas closed back in March, the fate of many of the major summer blockbusters we’d been looking forward to was thrown into terrible doubt. Some were pushed back to more amenable dates in the autumn or winter (which even then ultimately proved frustratingly ambitious), others knocked back a whole year to fill summer slots for 2021, but more than a few simply dropped off the radar entirely with the terrible words “postponed until further notice” stamped on them, and I lamented them all, this one in particular. It hung in there longer than some, stubbornly holding onto its June release slot for as long as possible, but eventually it gave up the ghost too … but thanks to Apple TV+, not for long, ultimately releasing less than a month later than intended. Thankfully the film itself was worth the fuss, a taut World War II suspense thriller that’s all killer, no filler – set during the infamous Battle of the Atlantic, it portrays the constant life-or-death struggle faced by the Allied warships assigned to escort the transport convoys as they crossed the ocean, defending their charges from German U-boats. Adapted from C.S. Forester’s famous 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by Tom Hanks and directed by Aaron Schneider (Get Low), the narrative focuses on the crew of the escort leader, American destroyer USS Fletcher, codenamed “Greyhound”, and in particular its captain, Commander Ernest Krause (Hanks), a career sailor serving his first command. As they cross “the Pit”, the most dangerous middle stretch of the journey where they spend days without air-cover, they find themselves shadowed by “the Wolf Pack”, a particularly cunning group of German submarines that begin to pick away at the convoy’s stragglers. Faced with daunting odds, a dwindling supply of vital depth-charges and a ruthless, persistent enemy, Krause must make hard choices to bring his ships home safe … jumping into the thick of the action within the first ten minutes and maintaining its tension for the remainder of the trim 90-minute run, this is screen suspense par excellence, a sleek textbook example of how to craft a compelling big screen knuckle-whitener with zero fat and maximum reward, delivering a series of desperate naval scraps packed with hide-and-seek intensity, heart-in-mouth near-misses and fist-in-air cathartic payoffs by the bucket-load. Hanks is subtly magnificent, the calm centre of the narrative storm as a supposed newcomer to this battle arena who could have been BORN for it, bringing to mind his similarly unflappable in Captain Phillips and certainly not suffering by comparison; by and large he’s the focus point, but other crew members make strong (if sometimes quite brief) impressions, particularly Stephen Graham as Krause’s reliably seasoned XO, Lt. Commander Charlie Cole, The Magnificent Seven’s Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Just Mercy’s Rob Morgan, while Elisabeth Shue does a lot with a very small part in brief flashbacks as Krause’s fiancée Evelyn. Relentless, exhilarating and thoroughly unforgettable, this was one of the true action highlights of the summer, and one hell of a war flick. I’m so glad it made the cut for the summer …

11. PROJECT POWER – with Marvel and DC pushing their tent-pole titles back in the face of COVID, the usual superhero antics we’ve come to expect for the summer were pretty thin on the ground in 2020, leading us to find our geeky fan thrills elsewhere. Unfortunately, pickings were frustratingly slim – Korean comic book actioner Gundala was entertaining but workmanlike, while Thor AU Mortal was underwhelming despite strong direction from Troll Hunter’s André Øvredal, and The New Mutants just got shat on by the studio and its distributors and no mistake – thank the Gods, then, for Netflix, once again riding to the rescue with this enjoyably offbeat super-thriller, which takes an intriguing central premise and really runs with it. New designer drug Power has hit the streets of New Orleans, able to give anyone who takes it a superpower for five minutes … the only problem is, until you try it, you don’t know what your own unique talent is – for some, it could mean five minutes of invisibility, or insane levels of super-strength, but other powers can be potentially lethal, the really unlucky buggers just blowing up on the spot. Robin (The Hate U Give’s Dominique Fishback) is a teenage Power-pusher with dreams of becoming a rap star, dealing the pills so she can help her diabetic mum; Frank Shaver (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is one of her customers, a police detective who uses his power of near invulnerability to even the playing field when supercharged crims cause a disturbance. Their lives are turned upside down when Art (Jamie Foxx) arrives in town – he’s a seriously badass ex-soldier determined to hunt down the source of Power by any means necessary, and he’s not above tearing the Big Easy apart to do it. This is a fun, gleefully infectious rollercoaster that doesn’t take itself too seriously, revelling in the anarchic potential of its premise and crafting some suitably OTT effects-driven chaos brought to pleasingly visceral fruition by its skilfully inventive director, Ariel Schulman (Catfish, Nerve, Viral), while Mattson Tomlin (the screenwriter of the DCEU’s oft-delayed, incendiary headline act The Batman) takes the story in some very interesting directions and poses fascinating questions about what Power’s TRULY capable of. Gordon-Levitt and Fishback are both brilliant, the latter particularly impressing in what’s sure to be a major breakthrough role for her, and the friendship their characters share is pretty adorable, while Foxx really is a force to be reckoned with, pretty chill even when he’s in deep shit but fully capable of turning into a bona fide killing machine at the flip of a switch, and there’s strong support from Westworld’s Rodrigo Santoro as Biggie, Power’s delightfully oily kingpin, Courtney B. Vance as Frank’s by-the-book superior, Captain Crane, Amy Landecker as Gardner, the morally bankrupt CIA spook responsible for the drug’s production, and Machine Gun Kelly as Newt, a Power dealer whose pyrotechnic “gift” really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Exciting, inventive, frequently amusing and infectiously likeable, this was some of the most uncomplicated cinematic fun I had all summer. Not bad for something which I’m sure was originally destined to become one of the season’s B-list features …

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