#Gft For me

[kyatra]

just watched INTO the spider verse for the first time with my Beautiful gfts (minus angie)

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

It's interesting that this sort of thing is exemplified by Dany, but not exclusive to her. Like you think Theon “Ice Eyes” Stark (who impaled Andal invaders and turned their king into the figurehead of his ship) would have done anything but sneer at Ned? At Jon? At Bran? (And in more recent generations, I bet if GRRM ever does D&E's She-Wolves of Winterfell, those Starks and their stories are also gonna be very different from our own.) Dany is just unique in that GRRM has detailed the history and personality of every one of her ancestors for the past 300 years, as well as the continent-spanning empire (built on slavery, fire, and blood) before them.

But yes. You draw strength from your ancestors' legacy despite the fact they could consider you weak, corrupt, or anathema. You idealize the stories of greatness and goodness and forget or never even learn the dark or bad parts. That's life really?

Though it's to Dany's credit that her unique upbringing as a penniless refugee, as someone royal in name only, as someone sold into slavery (to the nation that basically took over Essos when her ancestors' empire collapsed), has left her with such empathy and compassion and a need to use her great powers with great responsibility to save the downtrodden. To rescue the enslaved. To one day save the world.

And yes, this empathy would be unrecognizable to so many of her ancestors — and that's good! It's the whole point! Though arguably Daeron II, Baelor Breakspear, and Egg would be exceptions. Maybe a few others, whichever ones that would answer the call of “are there no true knights among you?” Which is rare in general in Westeros nobility, not just Targs, but still — it is the ultimate question ASOIAF is asking. Who will step up? Who will defy legacy and convention and do what's right?

And god knows I love Daemon and Rhaenyra, but they very much did not. Though that wasn't what their story was ever going to be about. (It's why it's part of a history book detailing the downfall of the house, not the actual story of the song of ice and fire and the house's rebirth.) Anyway~

this is gonna get me put on a list somewhere but if Rhaenyra and Daenerys could have met they would not end that interaction as friends Rhaenyra would be putting Daenerys in the SJW cringe compilation

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Bill Forsyth the Scottish film director and screenwriter.

Born in Glasgow July 29th 1946 and educated at Knightswood School. On leaving aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a “Lad required for film company” and spent the next eight years helping make short documentary films.

Leaving documentary production in 1977, Forsyth wrote the scripts for Gregory’s Girl and That Sinking Feeling in the hope of breaking into feature films.

Obtaining finance, however, proved frustrating and problematic. The BFI Production Board rejected Gregory’s Girl three times. Forsyth later said, “I remember one torment of a meeting when I tried to explain that Gregory’s Girl was really a structuralist comedy… I suspect my script was too conventional although nobody actually told me as much.”.

That Sinking Feeling was eventually made in 1979 with amateur actors from the Glasgow Youth Theatre, including John Gordon Sinclair (who later took the lead in Gregory’s Girl , its tiny £5,000 budget was raised from a variety of sources.

Forsyth’s distinctive voice as writer-director is already apparent in this tale of a robbery of stainless steel sinks by a gang of unemployed Glasgow teenagers - intensely humanistic and humorous yet with an underlying seriousness of purpose. This ability to create a self-contained yet believable world with a keen sense of the absurd and bizarre in the everyday is perhaps only rivalled by the work of British television writer Alan Plater. The film opened to great popular and critical success at the Edinburgh and London Film Festivals but was unable to secure more widespread distribution.

Gregory’s Girl was Forsyth’s breakthrough film. This acutely observed story of adolescence and first love set in a Scottish new town was rapturously received by both critics and public alike. Forsyth’s reputation seemed to be secured by the success of his next venture, Local Hero, a first collaboration with producer David Puttnam.

In 1999 he made Gregory’s Two Girls as a sequel to Gregory’s Girl, with John Gordon Sinclair playing the same character, but it received mixed reviews.

Gregory's Girl, to me, is still a very funny film, but it feels dated, that's not to say that it hasn't stood the test of time with some folk, indeed The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) showed a 4k version of the 1980 cult classic last August 1which was followed by a Q&A session with some of the cast including Gordon Sinclair(Gregory), Clare Grogan.

In 2022 the popular Scottish actor Peter Capaldi spoke of how Bill Forsyth saved him from living off pakora and lager after featuring him in Local Hero. The Doctor Who and The Thick Of It star praised the Scots film director in an acceptance speech after receiving a Bafta Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television.

I love Capaldi's affection for our country, speaking to the audience while holding his Bafta, Capaldi said the award was “for getting lucky, and for being lucky enough to be born in Scotland”.

He said: “Forty years ago I was just up here (in Glasgow) as an art student, living off pakora and lager for breakfast.

“Bill Forsyth scooped me up and put me in Local Hero.

“It was an act of kindness and confidence that baffled me and much of the industry to this day, but I wouldn’t be here without him and nor would a lot of others.”

Capaldi landed this breakthrough film role aged 24 playing Danny Oldsen, a naive young oil industry executive, in the film.

A number of actors, including Dee Hepburn, will be a part of a celebration of the films of Bill Forsyth at the Outwith Festival of music and arts which takes place in Dunfermline from September 3-8. It will also screen That Sinking Feeling and Local Hero at the city’s Carnegie Theatre.

[indigitalembrace]

(ooc: for readers sakes I’m dropping the cypher, but in universe the message is still encrypted)

shame. didnt wanna kill pinkie but looks like it cant he avoided. listen i might have an in. my younger sister got mixed up in this. they were helping host knito on their pc. thats how i found about all this. but anyways. i could do a sneaky and pop somthin in their pc when they are sleepin. might take me a while thou. they changed their password. again.

or you could try to bust in urself. they are the one on here that calls themself Sec.

-Goblin

[CONNECTION STATUS: HIDDEN]

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[markets]

how are you doing Angie

i have all of gft on the line helping me fix this i sent them a 7 minute voice memo

[daily-mizuki-water]

I might give you a life my predicament update because all the other pharmacies scare me but first are you okay? You've got a lot of undecipherable letters going on,,

- 🦇

P.S. Sorry if I caused you rabies

I'm fine, other than the rabies.. and the rain.. and the curses.. thanks for asking! You might not have been the one to give me it.. there's a lot of animals out there and I've been bitten by all of them.

qfr wtofu lgsr zg gft roktezogf wteqxlt dn yqdosn iqztr dt qfr vt vtkt hggk..  wxz n'afgv~♪

[bauhausluvr]

HOLY FUCK IT WAS L'S BIERHDAY TODAY??? THE DAY I HAPPENED TO GIVE HER, HER LEAVING GFT??? WHAT ARE THE CHANCEs

I was so sad bcz she wasn't there for me to give her it but then she rushed up to me right before the exam and thanked me im so happy omfg AND SHE SAID HER HUSBAND DIDNT EVEN GET HER ANYRHING 🙄🙄🙄

[dorascorestore]

“Gatefish Transport”

どこかの国の配送業者みたいな名称ですが。笑

Xは登録しているけど、私の個人的な連絡先を知らない方、又は様々な理由でTumblrのアカウントを作りたくない方に向けた謎の請負い先がGfTです。（敢えてfishは小文字にしてみる）

Xのアカウントさえ保持していれば、先ずは在庫表（金額、ロット）を確認出来、注文、発送まで進行する事が出来きます。

注意点は鍵垢であるため、認証待ちをしていただきたい事。在庫表等、ネット上に晒すにはデリケートな問題でもありますし、ある程度ルールを守れるお客様との間で取引を行いたいというのが本音ではあります。

今まで通りラインやメールでのお客様には必要ないかとは思いますが、念のためGfTアカウントの方も並行して動かしますので、Xの方がご都合良い方、是非ともご使用いただければと思います。

↓GfT X

[afteriwake]

Fanfic asks for the new year -- 2, 3, 7, 9, 11

2. Will you participate in any fandom exchanges or fic challenges, etc? I will definitely be running another regular round of @wipbigbang this year (and I'm probably going to do art again for the unclaimed fics and actually stay on top of it this time...whether I try finishing any of my WIPs is another matter) and I am currently running the International Fanworks Day Mini-Bang at the aforementioned big bang. I may do a fic for that as well, since it's really laid back.

I will also be finishing up the five prompts I got in December for @mollyappreciationweek at some point in the early half of the year (and I'll be running a February week-long round for Valentine's Day/Galentine's Day/Singles Awareness Day as well as another prompt-a-thon in December), and if you do Christmas In July again I'll take prompts. I may do the Spook Me Ficathon instead of Fictober...not sure. But I do plan on doing Spook Me this year after missing the sign-ups the last few years. And if I get enough participants, I'll do another round of @sherlollysecretsanta and make mod gfts as well (which reminds me...got to email participants in this round about the fic covers).

3. Do you anticipate writing for a new fandom this year? Which one? I do! One of the WIPs I'm bouncing around finishing for WIPBB is the Knives Out Cablanca fic you are letting me finish, and I've never written Knives Out before. As for all mine fics? It's not entirely new, but I tossed out a Marvel's What If...? fix-it idea for Peggy/1602!Steve which I might write, which will be my first time writing specifically for that show.

7. Will you change anything about the way you interact with other writers? I'm going to try and read more fic written by people other than @dreaminonao3 (I have a backlog of @sobeautifullyobsessed's fic that I'm going to read when I have a good chunk of time to donate to reading some of her long WIPs, and I have a ton of bookmarked fics across a bunch of different fandoms on my Firefox account), and make damn sure I comment and comment often. I'm also going to try and reblog more fic recs over on @mousedetective, where I have a bigger audience.

9. Short term goals… what do you hope to complete this week or in January? Since I finally seem to be over my food poisoning, this week I hope to do the mod gifts for Sherlolly Secret Santa and write at least one or two things for @greenskyoverme, including the newest chapter of "What Stork Brings." As for January? I want to get as much art done for the 2023 round of WIPBB that I owe as I can. I also want to write something new for my birthday on the 23rd, since I'm not expecting a whole lot this year.

11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes this year? Not really? There isn't much I haven't tried at least once in the 25 1/2 years I've been writing fic.

Now, new ships, on the other hand? That I'm game for...

[seasons-beatings]

Happy holidays, @roxenworks!

From your gifter: Hello @roxenworks! Enjoy your season's beatings gft, Apollo and Elliot seems really really interesting, and I LOVE dragons.

Apollo hated whenever Elliot was gone. He wasn't sure WHY, Elliot being gone was good, as mean as that sounded. Elliot tortured him but...

Well, Apollo deserved it. That's probably what Father is thinking, whatever Aollo did wrong he had it coming. And even if he didn't, this is where father wants him.

... so why did he hate when Elliot was gone?! It was relief from the punishment surely... but at least he wasn't alone staring at the hunting trophies, when Elliot was here at least he wasn't focusing on the long dead eyes, or really on the weapons or furs everywhere.

Or it could be that Elliot leaves the lights off when he goes hunting... one time he was gone well into the night. Apollo barely cared that he came back and kicked his whimpering body in the ribs, he was just glad he lit the candles again. Or maybe the anticipation was just worse, seeing Elliot and him doing whatever he pleases to Apollo is at least real and not just him spinning stories in his head, imagining far worse things that Elliot has done.

... done so far.

Or... the longer Elliot was gone the more Apollo came to the fact at least he was listening to someone when they were together. He was making Elliot some weird sort of happy even at his own expense, and that was good... it was good, no matter how much he suffered for it.

He couldn't deny that.

Elliot didn't even lock the doors when he left. At first it made sense, Apollo was a red dragon who could deal with any intruders... but no. Apollo just wouldn't dream in a million years of trying to escape, Elliot didn't think most likely.

... Apollo stood up from his spot on the floor, wincing at his sore legs. And everything else. Elliot liked it when he sat and waited for him while he was out hunting. He shouldn't be standing up, father... he may have sold him but he'd be so disappointed if he could see Apollo. He wasn't thinking! His legs were moving on their own as painful as it was, ever insistent on trying to get away from here for some reason. It was too fast it was so too fast...

And now his hand was on the door handle. Apollo wanted more than anything to go and sit back down and just wait for Elliot... but he couldn't get his hand off the handle. His heart was pounding in his chest.

He could go OUTSIDE. Away from ELLIOT.

Apollo opened the door, paralyzed. The sun would be setting soon and he couldn't be out in the dark he COULDNT, but it was... it wasn't like there weren't windows in Elliot's hunting lodge. But this was OUTSIDE outside... he hadn't realized how stuffy inside was, or how uncomfortably warm it had gotten until he felt the bite of the cool air.

He stood there for... he wasnt sure how long. At least an hour, maybe? It was hard to tell. Elliot... he could hear the clinking of his equipment, and his heavy boots down the path. He should... no he shouldn't have gotten up. His gut twisted, guilty guilty guilty. He could barely care Elliot was going to hurt him, he'd have made Elliot upset.

The dark dragon had a wyrm body slung over his shoulder. He looked a bit taken aback by Apollo standing in the doorway, looking very distraught, but as he got closer the on edge-ness turned into a smirk. The sun was almost gone...

Apollo yelped as Elliot threw the wyrm at him, scrambling to catch the thing. He didn't know why he assumed it'd be more bloody, it looked like it was killed pretty quickly and humanely. Elliot brushed past him, shoving him against the doorway. "Take that inside, and close the door behind you."

The sun was going down down down... and Elliot hadn't turned on the lights yet. Apollo did as he was told, taking in that last breath of air. He tensed up as Elliot took off all his scary sharp hunting equipment. "... how was the hunt-"

"Now tell me-" Elliot help up a hand without even looking at him, shutting up the red dragon immediately. "Did you really miss me THAT much to stand at the door and wait for me?"

Apollo... it wouldn't be a lie really to say yes. He hesitated before nodding his head.

Elliot chuckled, rushing forward in an instant and grabbing Apollo's face in his hand. It... no, with Elliot's smirk this couldn't be gentle either way,but despite the fact it felt like Elliot's claws were digging into his skin he almost wanted to melt into the touch...

... when just a bit ago Apollo had his hand on the door handle. He was... not a coward. Elliot- Elliot is scary and cruel and would have hunted him down and would definetly not have killed him as nicely as he did the wyrm. He was just... doing what was best. For him and Elliot. His head felt foggy...

"You really are a pathetic little thing aren't you?" Elliot's sharp teeth were on display. "Just when I thought you couldn't get any better, you wait all day waving out the window, crying your eyes out and missing the guy giving your little life its meaning?"

Apollo blinked, Elliot's spiraling eyes, the fog, trying to think on what he did... it was a bit too much all at once. He couldn't focus on what Elliot was saying, which was quite dangerous. Father would have... father would have not done good things if Apollo hadn't been paying attention to HIM... "I- I missed you yes- or... yes I missed you but-"

"But yes, obviously you weren't crying," Elliot rolled is eyes, throwing Apollo's chin down as he went back to arranging and putting his gear away. "No need to be so LITERAL. Of course I'll be fixing the crying thing tonight but GOSH you can just be useless when you're not screaming..."

"I- I'm sor-"

"Clean that thing off, why don't you?" Apollo couldn't quite tell... what was... maybe this was normal? Elliot liked hearing his voice crack and break under pressure he had said once, unless Elliot knew Apollo... Apollo did NOT plan on running he didn't but that somewhere IN Apollo something made him get up and go to the door... "or is the first born son of the Duke of Asteria too spoilt to know how to prepare a wyrm?"

Apollo just nodded again, his arms were getting sore from the big wyrm, so he took it over to the kitchen looking nervously at the knives and carvers... he didn't know how to do this, but he couldn't risk angering Elliot more right now of course.

"That's a good toy..." that still made Apollo's skin crawl... he wouldn't think to speak against Elliot but... surely he was mistaken in what father wanted him to do with Apollo, surely... "and then come upstairs when you're done, I want to try some more things on that list of yours. Make is snappy."

A door slammed upstairs as Apollo shakily got started on the wyrm, hoping he didn't screw up... the sky grew darker and darker, all light leaving the cabin except for one upstairs.

So what choice did Apollo have, late into the night, between an unlocked door to the darkness of freedom, or to the light shining upstairs, luring him to punishment...

Not much of one at all, really.

[kyatra]

my parents tweaking trying to get background checks on 2/5 gft before we meet up seriously has me rolling bc of all of us who would you all say necessitates the most thorough identity verification:

[scaryfaggot]

If gft doesnt reply to me right fucking now im going to become A villain

[folklauerate]

Your last story has many quote-worthy moments (it made my forever child free heart skip a beat, i admit it. You have a gft, my friend) but i am still here : "Three years they’d flirted around the edges of something greater between, push and pull, antagonistic and tender, unyielding until something snapped, and they’d kissed, one fateful night, drunk off of something far stronger than the drinks at the karaoke bar. Kissed and brought each other into each other's lives, thoroughly intertwined, irrevocably joined." Idek why, again the story is great all around, for many reasons and not only the obvious ones lol- it's like with the prof AU or my personal, all time favourite, "an affair,three ways", i need to know everything, the past and future and the present...gah. All this to say, you're really great and i'm happy you write, and that youhappened to like Kate and Anthony and that we're both here rn ... :)

First of all--thank you :,,) This ask would've been nice and so welcome any day, but it's specifically lovely today as I've been having a weird couple of days with writing and irl stuff, but I also got some personal news today that's not so great, and this really made me smile, and so I really want to thank you for this! <3

I'm so touched that you liked that oneshot--and that you love the Prof AU and the cheating au! Those are some AUs I'm the most proud of. I'm also so touched to hear it made your own childfree heart skip a beat :,) <3 that's so sweet.

That quote is so interesting for you to mention specifically, and I'm chuffed to hear you liked it! With PWPs/oneshots in general, I find that world-building is so important to make stories feel immersive. I'm the sort of writer who really values making sure the world of the story feels real and realized, and, if it's PWP, that the kink/porn feels earned, that there's a level of emotional investment and heft so that it all feels realized. Just writing a breeding kink for the sake of it wasn't something I could do, lol! In this instance, since I'm establishing the kink within the context of an established relationship, it was important to me that the relationship felt familiar and real. That was sort of in two bits--first, in that sentence, that summed up their entire history and the start of the relationship, and then them living together quickly after getting together, and the familiarity with which they do chores together (Anthony cooking dinner+doing laundry when Kate walks in, Kate picking up things for them at the department store). That sentence was did a lot of heavy lifting lol, as it really did condense years of their backstory into one bit. It was a tricky one and I'm glad to hear it stood out to you in a good way!

I totally get the need to know more haha. I feel that way with any fic I'm a fan of. With this AU, I imagined them meeting at a holiday party where they're there with mutual friends. I mention offhandedly that they both work on Wall St; they do vague finance jobs for different firms. In my mind, Anthony and Simon both work at the same firm, and Simon and Kate are friendly, and he invites her along to the holiday party. Simon introduces her to Anthony then, and it's not really an enemies to lovers arc, but they have a little antagonistic banter, ya know? In real life, who is really having a enemies to lovers arc lol ya know? People just meet people, and they exist on the periphery of their life, and sometimes you don't like someone! I think these two thought the other person was hot, kept running into one another in social settings because they're both friends with Simon, and then with Simon and Daphne getting married, they continue to bump into one another. So you have this three year period where they go from feeling like "oh this person is hot but kind of rude" to feeling ambivalent, to thinking the other person is funny/a good laugh, to sort of looking forward to being the person they can hang with at a party when they don't want to be there, to sort of having a crush on the other person but not making a move. And it's three years, so they're dating other people throughout that time, so maybe the timing just isn't right. But they go from being in the same social circle to being friends, you know how it works, that sort of slow build. They realize they like spending time together, they realize there's feelings, they're both single, and they end up the last ones at a karaoke bar after Simon's birthday party. Anthony offers to walk Kate home and they kiss and have a one night stand with the understanding that it's going to be more! Like at this point they were already friends who know stuff about one another's families lol, and have a good understanding of each other, and, like I said, have been crushing on and off/not single at the same time. But yeah, after that night, it moves pretty quickly from there. Kate's lease happens to be up six months into the relationship and he insists she move in with him, they're both very happy together, and know that the relationship is heading towards marriage.

That's the long version of that sentence :)

Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for the ask <3 I'm really grateful to be here with you <333

[indigitalembrace]

"I don't think you can kill a concept. an idea. Maybe with a program you can. But...If the littlest bit of us is left. We come back again and again. And I- I need to help him. Before he gets killed. Because he could come back angrier. less rational to change, to knowing its wrong to hurt-

...Like I was.

And on the other hand. If he can be deleted forever...I can't lose the opportunity. To know someone like me. To be-

better. together. For once. I can't let that happen. I refuse to lose someone again."

"...sorry Sonny. But I've got to go. ...I'm used to travelling Tv channels, I'm sure I can find a way out and to where I need to go...somewhere"

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[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Bill Forsyth the Scottish film director and screenwriter.

Born in Glasgow July 29th 1946 and educated at Knightswood School. On leaving aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a “Lad required for film company” and spent the next eight years helping make short documentary films.

Leaving documentary production in 1977, Forsyth wrote the scripts for Gregory’s Girl and That Sinking Feeling in the hope of breaking into feature films.

Obtaining finance, however, proved frustrating and problematic. The BFI Production Board rejected Gregory’s Girl three times. Forsyth later said, “I remember one torment of a meeting when I tried to explain that Gregory’s Girl was really a structuralist comedy… I suspect my script was too conventional although nobody actually told me as much.”.

That Sinking Feeling was eventually made in 1979 with amateur actors from the Glasgow Youth Theatre, including John Gordon Sinclair (who later took the lead in Gregory’s Girl , its tiny £5,000 budget was raised from a variety of sources.

Forsyth’s distinctive voice as writer-director is already apparent in this tale of a robbery of stainless steel sinks by a gang of unemployed Glasgow teenagers - intensely humanistic and humorous yet with an underlying seriousness of purpose. This ability to create a self-contained yet believable world with a keen sense of the absurd and bizarre in the everyday is perhaps only rivalled by the work of British television writer Alan Plater. The film opened to great popular and critical success at the Edinburgh and London Film Festivals but was unable to secure more widespread distribution.

Gregory’s Girl was Forsyth’s breakthrough film. This acutely observed story of adolescence and first love set in a Scottish new town was rapturously received by both critics and public alike. Forsyth’s reputation seemed to be secured by the success of his next venture, Local Hero, a first collaboration with producer David Puttnam.

In 1999 he made Gregory’s Two Girls as a sequel to Gregory’s Girl, with John Gordon Sinclair playing the same character, but it received mixed reviews.

Gregory's Girl, to me, is still a very funny film, but it feels dated, that's not to say that it hasn't stood the test of time with some folk, indeed The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) will show a 4k version of the 1980 cult classic on August 17th, which will be followed by a Q&A session with some of the cast including Gordon Sinclair(Gregory), Clare Grogan, tickets go on sale this Monday (31s) at 12 noon.

Last year the popular Scottish actor Peter Capaldi where he spoke of how Bill Forsyth saved him from living off pakora and lager after starring him in Scottish cult classic Local Hero. The Doctor Who and The Thick Of It star praised the Scots film director in an acceptance speech after receiving the Bafta Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television on Sunday.

I love Capaldi's affection for our country, speaking to the audience while holding his Bafta, Capaldi said the award was “for getting lucky, and for being lucky enough to be born in Scotland”.

He said: “Forty years ago I was just up here (in Glasgow) as an art student, living off pakora and lager for breakfast.

“Bill Forsyth scooped me up and put me in Local Hero.

“It was an act of kindness and confidence that baffled me and much of the industry to this day, but I wouldn’t be here without him and nor would a lot of others.”

Capaldi landed this breakthrough film role aged 24 playing Danny Oldsen, a naive young oil industry executive, in the film.

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AAAHHHH VARIS. i think gft told me to tell you i was scared when we were on hyperbeam lastnight

gft why are you scaring wilba 😔😔 what did it do to deserve this