#Gracie ac

[pridebicons]

trans gracie pride icons

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[anwism]

Label causes Gracie’s downfall

[jisuto]

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Marcia “Felt Good About You” Meyrink

Paul “Risk” Holden

Chet “Blowing Smoke” Baker

Darrel “I love you, I’m sorry” Curtis

Sodapop “us” Curtis

Cherry “Let it Happen” Valance

Ace “I knew it, I know you”

Ponyboy “Normal Thing” Curtis

Terrence “Good Luck Charlie” Dipp

Bob “Free Now” Sheldon

Beverly “Close to you” Jitney-Bush

Johnny “Packing it up” Cade

[ifwebefriends]

A Reflection of Starlight Review

(TW: brief mentions of COVID, cancer, and suicide) (spoilers for Les Mis but no spoilers for AROS)

Please indulge me as I tell a bit of a personal story.

I took French all throughout high school and also participated in French club. I was also really into musical theatre (and I still am) so I was interested in the musical Les Misérables. I saw it live once and it was incredible. Sometime during my sophomore year I tried to read the original Brick but didn’t get very far, it’s just kinda not my thing I guess. But the characters were so charming and endearing to me and I was primarily moved by the stories of Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. I was moved by how their characters and stories mirror each other and how they’re so alike but their differences drove them to very different places. During my senior year of high school we watched the 2012 Les Mis film in French club one day. At the end when Javert kills himself, almost everyone in the room cheered, but I did not. While Javert did many bad things, had a very narrow worldview, and made things so much harder for our protagonist, I still felt pity for him. I felt pity that he lived by this one doctrine all his life because he kind of had no other choice and when faced with the idea that he may be wrong, he was so distressed and had no one to turn to, so he took his own life.

Earlier that year, I started reading a fanfiction called A Reflection of Starlight by AutumnGracy, and I was quickly sucked in. For those unaware, it is a continuation of the Les Mis book that starts with one big difference: Jean Valjean saves Javert from drowning after he throws himself into the Seine. From there, the two grow closer and Javert learns to live with the fact that the law isn’t infallible with the help of Jean Valjean.

I started reading this fanfic in the spring of 2019 and I didn’t finish it until today, January 15th, 2024. Over four years. To my credit, it is a HUGE work, spanning over 379,000 words; that’s longer than the entire Hunger Games trilogy, which is about 301,000 words in total. A lot has happened in my life since I started reading that slowed my progress. The COVID pandemic hit, I got diagnosed with cancer, beat cancer, started college, had a cancer relapse, beat the cancer relapse, and got a boyfriend all in the time that it took me to finish this thing. This is the longest text that I have ever read.

And there’s a good reason why I stuck with it: it’s absolutely amazing. While I didn’t read the original Brick, the wording and structure of the story seems very appropriate for the original time period and story. It’s extremely well-written and tells a compelling story all on its own that gives all of the main characters a resolution to their pasts and a hopeful and happy ending. It’s kinda plot-heavy, there’s a lot of original stories and plot lines taking place, but it is all engaging and wraps up really nicely.

The center-point of the story, however, is the growing relationship and eventual romance between Jean Valjean and Javert. From beginning to end you see how this beautiful relationship slowly develops and grows. And I mean SLOW. This is literally the slowest burn that I have ever read. But it’s worth it. Even before it’s explicitly romantic, there are lots of cute, endearing moments between the two that kept me hooked. They’re even asexual which makes my aspec heart so happy. This is probably the greatest fanfiction that I’ve ever read.

@autumngracy thank you so much for such a wonderful work. Your authors notes throughout were entertaining and made me feel like I was experiencing this story along with you. Your writing is phenomenal and I hope you know how great your skills are.

[pepprs]

acnl is a superior game to acnh in almost every way except the graphics. it’s actually making me mad

[goldenmusicmoments]

Top 10 Albums Of 2023:

Ryan Beatty - Calico.

Hazlett - Bloom Mountain.

Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance.

Brandon Ratcliff - Tale Of Two Towns.

Samia - Honey.

Cannons - Heartbeat Highway.

Boygenius - The Record.

The Aces - I've Loved You For So Long.

Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black.

The Japanese House - In The End It Always Does.

Once again narrowing down to ten albums from the initial list of contenders proved to be quite the challenge. There have been some phenomenal releases this year and many that didn't get the recognition they deserve. These ten albums stood their ground for various reasons. Ryan Beatty's album 'Calico' is definitely 2023's Album of the Year. The rest of the albums aren't placed in a ranking order. If you haven't yet heard any of the records on this list then you have to do so immediately.

It will be exciting to see who is gearing up to release new music in 2024. We already have had a few announcements for album releases and then there are predictions of who could potentially be coming out with new music. However as usual it will prove to be quite the stressful task selecting the ten standout releases.

Happy New Year to you all!

[animalcrossingshowdown]

[4m4zing-gracie]

After playing some NewHorizons, I just wanna say.

Is no one gonna question how a fuckin' GIANT CLAM can somehow out-swim a human in terms of speed? Like how the frick does it do that, it rarely moves in real life as far as I know, correct me if I am wrong--

[ruxashes]

Guarda "I miss you, I'm sorry | Nancy & Ace" su YouTube

I don't wanna go, we've been here before

Everything i know brings back to us

[elapach24]

I really miss here, but I barely have enough time for 1 social media at the time, and I haven't even downloaded tumblr on my phone, so this is the most abandoned one.

I want to come back and, specially, be more active on my fandoms, though I don't have many mutuals or know how to effectively interact in here hahaha

[oideyo-animalforest]

New icon btw. ww Gracie w transflag colorpicked off her (a different render but shhh)

[rosiewalks]

Dolly intro: LOL

This post will include both the bigger OMGs and the midsize Tweens. I do have a bunch of the little tots, but I don't really consider them part of my doll collection.

OMG

Loretta I got used in a big lot. I love her hair; it's a very nice texture and I love to just twirl it around my fingers. I got her at a time when I was having a lot of anxiety about driving places with my cranky baby, so driving an hour to pick up this doll lot was good exposure therapy.

Miss Royale. The blacklight features! the bonkers themeing! I don't take nearly enough pictures of her for how much I love her.

Ace and Ursula (with bonus Loretta), the beginnings of my LOLler derby team. More to come on that in a future post.

Gamma Babe -- I kept everything from her: all clothes and accessories, her box, her other box, the little shoe boxes. I absolutely adore this retrofuture space babe.

Tweens

Haribo with bonus candy tots. I love her over-the-top design, and especially her little gummy bear belt! Though I'm always afraid of losing the bears; they come off really easily.

Gracie Skates is precious.

Aya , another one with perfect themeing.

Cora with all three of her heads. I'd love to have more in this line; the headswap mechanic is so fun!

[robinniko]

i gotta admit the song us by gracie is such a good song lmao, like the entire song to me is good not just taylor’s part as well, which i am admittedly picky when it comes to taylor’s features but like this song just fits both of them very well

[ifollowmagicalrivers]

Are we getting full circle?

is this real?

-🤯-

gracie has performed this song

at the previous two shows

it’s on the deluxe album

concrete walls

voids

been there done that

watch it be the real thing

taylor lost a year

fake fantasies and games

she chose to beard again

instead of walking straight

to 'us'

i usually stay far far far away from the bearding cause the idea of it makes me want to punch people in the face and i'm all for a silent resistance or whatever but it's about fucking time

to call the amateurs cut 'em off the team ———

WONDER WHY THOUGH

🤦‍♀️

MAYBE BECAUSE SHE'S

FINALLY

GETTING THE HELL OUT

OF THIS PLACE

AND BE FREE

----- the one time i decided to post something on twitter

cool cool

well 🤷‍♀️

like…

people change apparently 🫠 ——— there’s no i in team or whatever but @daisyswift3 MASTERMIND

and if we’re really 🛬 after 🎢 and a lot of 🎡 then maybe the only way forward is to look back make it make sense

———— so what’s "straight"?

no it’s not matty

i know

but it’s time to let

bygones be bygones

this guy is the master of performance art

who might have outmastered himself

or maybe this was also part of the f*cking story

------ karma

karma is the yellow brick road karma is a queen karma takes all my friends to the summit karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me

finally

———

🌋 “straight? what’s straight? a line can be straight, or a street… but the heart of a human being?”

[pepprs]

another year of failing to catch an arowana in acnl 😭💔