#I made a Frankenstein reference so I can tag this post with Frankenstein stuff right

[can-of-w0rmz]

It has been FIVE DAYS of having gone from “constant mild cold symptoms” to “I’m-struggling-to-get-out-of-bed-and-haven’t-updated-my-journal-in-days” sickness and I’ve decided denial is the best way to go so from this moment forward I’m deluding myself into thinking I’ll be completely better tomorrow and hoping I don’t Victor-Frankenstein-ify my ass and pass out in the middle of my English classroom because I was too stubborn to just wait until I was actually better

[ohnothewheatisonfire]

ok J&H Fandom, let’s talk:

“Popular” blog @thatsmyhyde​ is a prominent creator in the J&H Fandom. But here’s where the problem shows up: 

the content they make is concerning at least, and full of red flags at worst. 

DISCLAIMER: This is all information I have gathered through their tumblr blog - I am not aware of what other things they may be posting on other social medias or their written work.  ANOTHER DISCLAIMER: Please be polite, I am a minor, and am just creating this post to ward off / warn other minors from following this person. If you are an adult interacting with this post and blog, be mindful of your actions and be responsible

Trigger warnings for: discussions of homophobia, discussions of p//phillia, fat-shaming, fat-phobia (?), etc. Just be on general edge for this post, we’re talking about a lot of weird stuff

I will be linking their posts as I am not going to take screenshots of their art.

This is not a comprehensive list of all the things they’ve done - these are the ones I could think of and was able to adress. If you have anything additional you want to add to this post (such as concerning things they may do on other social media), feel free to reblog and add on the things you need to say, just please don’t be dumb. 

Let’s start with the premise: Henry Jekyll creates an alter ego, Edward Hyde. They begin a relationship - an emotional and physical one. Their AU features Jekyde (A popular ship in the fandom, the name stands for Jekyll x Hyde), people have various views on this ship. 

So far so fine, right? Here are the problems:

1. Their Henry Jekyll is an awful person. Now, let’s start by saying that of course you can have bad people in your works, those are, after-all: villains. The problem is,Henry Jekyll is a harmful walking gay sterotype, and an outlet for Biscuit’s obvious fat fetish. But their relationship isn’t just toxic it’s romanticised in how toxic it is.

a. The harmful stereotype - Their Henry Jekyll has a “thing” for younger men, even though he is in his middle-ages, and Hyde looks like a young child. (Age gap relationships are their own thing - they come with their own burdens, and this is not the post to discuss them. This topic will lead into the Edward  Hyde section of this post.) But, it was a known homophobic scare-mongering tactic of straight parents to accuse everyone who is gay that they are ‘out to prey on your youths’. This is a stereotype that stigmatized the LGBT community, and still harmfully affects them to this day. 

b. The fat fetish: Jekyll is frequently seen with cake (as seen here, here, and here)  or being self-loathing, to the point of suicide. (click the link here to acess a list of suicide and other crisis hotlines! you matter to me!). Now, the self-loathing could be a symptom of depression or other mental illness, so I am not going to talk about it, as a person with mental illnesses.  But the self-loathing in addition to him being fat is not good. Media is drowning in the “self-loathing fat person” and as someone who isn’t thin i’m tired of seeing this. 

- The fetish aspect comes in him constantly being referred to “Chonky”, a term usually used for overweight/obese cats and being drawn obsessed with cake. It fetishises his weight and dehumanises him into something people call their animals. Also, here’s more of Jekyll eating food and being embarassed by it, though this time because it’s seen as “servant’s food”. 

- Biscuit admits to liking them “Big and chunky” in posts like this. 

[Photo id: A string of texts that says: tantok, frankenstein, twink lore, dorian slipped through the cracks and got himself sketched by yours truly the other day because he brought lord henry along, he and the slime didn’t have to fight to the death because they’ve both got their own chonky old toxic henries to focus on, but this blog still ain’t big enough for the two of ‘em. end id]

- They also talk about how they ‘prefer’ to draw fat (chonky) people. Image attatched above. the thing that should be noticed is that they say ‘chonky old toxic henries’ . they, once again, are making fat people a fetish. 

[Photo id: Anonymous asks: are you gonna make a victor design tho biscuit responds: Oh, man, anon, I hate to disappoint but.....probably not. Aside from my non-humanoids and hellspwans (slime gremlins, corpse creatures, and etcetera), I’m extremely uninterested in drawing young thin men. I really need middle-aged chonk to hold my attention. If poor Victor Frankenstein had only been 40-something and round when he made his great creation, then he’d definitely get a design from yours truly. As it is though, he’s not holding my attention enough to want to. end id] 

Biscuit once again talks about how he doesn’t want to draw ‘thin men’, because he is only interested in older ‘round’ people. He, is, once again, bringing to light his fetish for fat people. 

2. Edward Hyde is basically a child - Edward Hyde is drawn in boy’s school clothes, is taken in and raised like a child after Jekyll’s death, and is constantly cooed over by the creator, even earning a nickname of ‘slime’ from them. In addition, he also has ‘family photos’ taken with Utterson, has his toenails kept, is the height of a child, and teeths. This, paired with the fact that he is in a toxic, abusive, relationship with a man in his middle ages is concerning and should not be romanticised. 

[Photo id: the text reads: In his first year of existence, Hyde lost teeth and regrew them in a mildly similar fashion to a kid losing baby teeth - except it wasn’t all of his teeth (Just the canines and some random molars) and they weren’t replaced with a larger set, just with teeth exactly the same as the ones that had been lost. No one knows what was up with this. the teeth are still in Jekyll’s study in a little jar. end id]

a. Hyde is treated like a child after Jekyll’s death. Hyde teething is concerning because that’s something infants do. He also clings to utterson like a child. The idea that he gets taken in by Utterson, whisked away to an estate out in the country, despite both of them having romantic feelings for Jekyll is. how do I put this: WEIRD. (seriously, imagine your father/father-figure dating ur significant other / having a crush on them before you two got together and after). 

b. Hyde dresses like a child, whilst being sexually active and wearing lingerie. Now, on their own, these traits aren’t a problem - but together? They are very much a problem.  

- Hyde dressing as a child is concerning because he is also treated like a child at certain points in their “lore”. After Jekyll’s death, Hyde becomes a singular entity, and is taken away by Utterson. To care for, like a child. This post sums it up well: he wears both children’s clothes and lingerie. 

- Hyde has a very strange appearance - if you compare it to his early design (which was less cartoony and looked more like a man in his twenties), Hyde’s current design is concerning. Why does he have the height of a child? Why does he have eyes that take up a grand part of his face? Now, one could argue that ‘he is not human’ - but if he is treated like a human, whilst wearing children’s/youthful clothes, teeths, and his general enchanment with the world - he appears as human (and looks eerily similar to a child), which is why him being sexually active, wearing lingerie, and being friendly with prostitutes (one that gave him underwear and other articles of clothing)  is concerning. 

- That said, Utterson is directly talked about being ‘adopted into gremlin fatherhood’ (paraphrasing). 

[Photo id: the text reads: 59. Jekyll is irresitibly attracted to everything about Hyde, but if he could somehow be forced to list hte most attractive physical attributes of Edward Hyde in his opinion, aside from Hyde’s youthful appearance in general it would be his eyes, his overbite (Jekyll perceived the way Hyde’s-) the screenshot cuts of the rest of the paragraph. end id] 

- Jekyll has a ‘thing’ for younger men. This is to the point that the most attractive part about Hyde is that he is young. (or looks like it), Hyde looking very young is concerning because that would make their verison of Doctor Jekyll a p*dophille . This is something the artist has either not recognized, realised, or simply does not acknowledge. 

3. The toxic relationship (and how it’s romanticised) - The relationship in this ‘AU’ is: love comes first, toxic nature comes second. If you scroll through the blog you may see some reference of ‘Henry Jekyll is such a toxic person teehee’ and a lot of them kissing, being together, smiling, or enjoying life. Now, obviously, an artist - if they do not want to - should not draw characters being toxic to each other. But it is concerning when the above points come into a factor, that the toxic nature of their relationship comes second to the highs of their relationship, at least on their blog. 

Here is one of the only examples I’ve seen of Biscuit talk about the relationship in a detailed negative light. 

4. The fandom - Whilst Biscuit says it’s ok for minors to interact with his blog (in that blog he says that he tags nsfw - which is true.) he does not regularly mention that his jekyde is toxic - not in a concerete way. He romanticises it (despite acknowledging it’s flaws), and the only way it may or may not be (i would not know) acknowledged is his fic: which is mature and not meant for minors. He does not tag his posts with regular triggers for things like: alcohol, drugs, mental illnesses, or abuse (any variants). They’re not even in his blog’s description! If Biscuit had acknowledged it in his blog, something along the lines of: “Hey! This blog has <content warnings> be warned when interacting! But no, he does not. 

- A lot of the people who draw things, or generally interact with Biscuit are minors. Being exposed to such a thing may be harmful to my peers, and I am worried. To minors who are fans of Biscuit: if you’ve made it this far, thank you, I know you’re mature and responsible, but being exposed to content creators like Biscuit could lead you down a dangerous path of having this kind of thing normalised to you. Be careful with the content you consume, please! And thank you for making it this far, I’m sure you’re a lovely person :)!

Thank you for taking the time to read this! Stay safe, tell the people you love that you love them. 

[ilkkawhat]

fav fic titles

[Rules: List your 20 favorite fic titles, whether they're story titles or chapter titles!  They can be funny, creative, eye-catching, whatever makes them your best.  :)  If you don't have 20 favorites, or don't have 20 stories, just do however many you want!]

tagged by @impossiblepluto and believe or not, 237 fics and I really don’t have many.

1) Half Past Midnight - my first re-emergence into writing and publishing CSI fic after many, many years (though honestly I don’t count a lot of my teenage stuff cause it was hot garbage anyway) and I didn’t actually even notice until I think I posted the first or second chapter that technically, when the team is watching the feed for the first time, it is a little half past midnight so. that was just cool to sort of subconsciously gather lmao

2) The All In series: Atrophy, Agony, Augury - Alliteration, pure and simple lmao very satisfying and esp in my most recent graphic series for it. It’s all about that Suffering

3) Agony Ch. 26: Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve - The longest I’ve written for any of my multi-chaps to date, this chapter means a lot to me on so many levels and I feel like it’s title is due in part to my own bout of agony going on with some pretty severe depression so. Yay self projection

4) Specimen Stokes & its chapter titles - Even before the shrinking twist I was giddy about dubbing Nick a “specimen” just for the like. idk, human experimentation aspect and because he’s super hot. The chapter titles are all composed of things you’d find in a lab which has actually started to become a little tricky for me (and I super want to name this one chapter “Feed My Frankenstein” but it’ll break the trend lol) but I had a dream recently about a chapter called “scissors” and I know exactly what would happen in it. Whether that’ll be this story or the sequel, I’m stoked.

5) First Flight - It originally had a double meaning but I scrapped half of the fic’s plot for reasons but recently I figured out how to restore that double meaning with a brand new twist that wasn’t necessarily gonna happen. I also have a tentative chapter called “no cake in the breakroom” that’s gonna be the most angsty, gut wrenching thing I ever write and I’m weirdly excited for it

6) Finder’s Fee - Out of all of my episode-related titles I actually think I like this one the most? and by that I mean where I either twist the name of the episode (i.e, Assume Nothing > Everything Assumed) or take a line from the episode as the title. This was another “means a lot to me” fic too (coughSelfProjectioncough)

7) For Your Viewing Pleasure - Okay this was another episode related one and I just like it cause it was a super underrated creepy ass line in Grave Danger and I wrote an entire fic about it in a week. out of nowhere.

8) Last Breath & its chapter titles - Mostly composed of song titles, I tried to choose things that would kinda give a clue/set the tone for the chapter. I’m a sucker for Evanescence’s knack for angst in their lyrics lmao

9) Hollow Heart & its chapter titles (specifically “The Rescue”) - My first lemon fic! Angsty lemon!!!! Really kinda harder on the angst than the lemon aspect esp since I’m (still) not that good at writing smut but! I thought it turned out pretty good.

10) Stone Heart - Grave Danger AU, so naturally love it because of that, but it’s a reference to the lyrics of Outside Chance and something I actually want to get tattoo’d some day (I’m thinking a tattoo of the tape recorder, a pair of glow sticks, and a ribbon that reads “stone heart” on it)

I swear I do actually love more of my fic titles but these were the ones that resonate with me right now.

Also bonus, some titles of unreleased fics (subject to change) mainly just an excuse to gush over my WIPs that I actually have a name for cause otherwise I legit have documents titled “shock waves word vomit” or “attempt at writing word vomit hospital meat jekyll shit::

Bonus #1 The Violence in the Pouring Rain - Nick/Naomi (OC), one of my favorite uses of lyrics from Halsey’s “Hurricane” cause yeah. They’re trapped in a hurricane. Also a dream fic.

Bonus #2 Augury Ch. 1, I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight - I’m gonna be taking a real dangerous leap with this chapter into a territory I’ve never written before and feel a little idk not uncomfortable but just. worried about doing BUT...I feel like it’s gonna be one of my best in terms of build up and action and how the chapter ends. (and if you’ll notice, I used that song for the “trailer” I made even though I gotta finish Agony first LMAO)

Bonus #3 The Pancho Problem/The Sanders Solution - The Pancho Problem was one of the earlier CSI fics I posted when I started publishing in 2018/2019 but unfortunately I had a moment of weakness and deleted what I had going for it. I do want to revisit it one day and re-work what I thought was wrong and one of my chapter titles for the Pancho Problem was “The Girl with the Flower Tattoo” which at the time, I thought was fucking amazing.

Bonus #4 The Beast You Made of Me: More Nick in captivity, but think of The Most Dangerous Game for the human hunting aspect, and idk other creepy shit like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for torture. Basically I’m gonna make Nick into a feral human beast by the end of it. With long hair and a scraggly beard. And literal shit thrown at him. Eventually finds his way home after a full on YEAR to find out...he doesn’t have one anymore.

Bonus #5 The Day the World Went Away: The assclowns haunted mansion fic I promised for years lmao. Combining inspiration from Twin Peaks, Silent Hill and my own dreams, I hope it ends up being done in time for this year’s Halloween lmao (or earlier)

Bonus #6 Nick + Jack + Nick: DaltonStokes + Nick Corelli. Cause we need to give Nick Corelli some love dammit.

[banjjakbanjjak]

FIC WRITER INTERVIEW

Thank you for the tag @amywaterwingsa and @amphipodgirl. I managed to slot in this interview just before Miranda Priestly called me. 

Name: Derek. Or banjjakbanjjak on here and on AO3. And yes that is a reference to Gee by Girls Generation (and no I’m not Korean, just a diehard SONE).

Fandoms: While not my first fandom by any means, the first one I’ve created…stuff for is Carry On. Tangentially related, the fandom name for Girls Generation is SONE, which was used to be clowned on by other fans as Scones.  Simon Snow loves scones and I have come full circle.

Where I post: AO3 only. My art goes on Tumblr though!

Most popular one shot: I write long things mostly, but I do have two one-shots. The smutty Snowbaz one is infinitely more popular than my niche Malcolm x Natasha one, who would’ve thought? Anyway, it’s called An Oral Tradition and it’s a fun time (NSFW).

Most popular multi-chapter: That’d be Lonely in London, a Sleepless in Seattle AU. And honestly, I’m very proud of it – it’s a balm-type escapist fluffy fic that was soothing to write.

Favourite story you’ve written so far: Honestly? Carry On, Inquisitor which was my first fic in the fandom, and first fanfic ever (I pretend I don’t see my old FF.net attempts). Mainly because I had 0 interaction with anyone in the fandom, and I knew going in it’d be a niche crossover. So I had no expectations and didn’t worry about things like kudos or hits. I wrote the fic for me because I wanted the story out there. It’s long, I plotted, revisited a great game (Dragon Age Inquisition) and a great little furlough project. If only I knew it’d become a thing.

That or the title crawl I made for The Rise of Snowalker

Fic you were most nervous to post: That’d be Wayward Prince. Mainly because this is the first WIP whilst being friends who are in the fandom. They’ve all been lovely. It’s just expectations I put on myself? I know how popular the 90s cartoon film is so there was pressure to deliver something that was fundamentally Anastasia, but with enough originality in it to make it work. And also because I underestimated how much Carry On Countdown would suck me in (aka distract me). I vow to finish this fic in 2020.

How do you choose your titles: Given my “talent” lies in twisting stories to make them Snowbaz, most of the heavy lifting is done for me when it comes to titles. I think of themes, or puns or something that can marry the original IP with Snowbaz.

Do you outline? Y E S. To those that don’t, I salute you. Chaos is a ladder, and I’m impressed. I outline specific POVs, dialogue exchanges and even sometimes full blown scenes in chunky bullet points. Handy too when I get lazy and I could just copy and paste it across and Frankenstein it to make it look right.

Complete: (I had to check) 7 completed works. 3 works based on “nerd” properties (Dragon Age and Star Wars), 2 Rom-Coms (When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle) and 2 one-shots!

Coming soon: Snowflake Exchange that I finished today (got it done in three days thanks to outlining) so that’s due to come soon. I promise to you that Anastasia won’t become a vapour-fic. And given I just finished playing Cyberpunk 2077 expect that to come out before the patch the game up properly. 

Prompts: Not really my thing because I like writing what I like, and I feel enough obligation as it is with my self-imposed fics. I say this after doing 10 prompts for Carry On Countdown.

Tagging: @otherworldsivelivedin @anika-222 @palimpsessed @scone-lover @foolofabookwyrm @ninemagicks @hufflepunky @caitybuglove23 @arca9 @xivz @pipsqueakparker

[rosewinterborn]

11/11/11

I waited too long to do this, so now I have 44 questions to do. RIP. Tagged by @writersblockandapotoftea, @arwallace (I know you tagged @expositionpreposition but it’s easier to do it here!), @shit-she-wrote, and @atinydino

Cap:

Who was your childhood hero?

Honestly, probably JKR. Again, RIP.

If we didn’t start the fire, who did?

People like my dad who say “millennials” like it’s a derogatory word probably

What made you start your wip?

Reading too much Dresden Files and also looking at magic academia posts on Tumblr (Gutter Witch); Reading Eragon (Companion to Dragons); Wanting to make an open magic world (Witches Anthology); Reading too much Stucky fanfiction (Fractal); Listening to the Magnus Archives three times through in a month (CHAF3k); wanted to go on a magic adventure with my high school friends (Children of the Light)

Hogwarts house?

Gryffindor!

Star Trek or Star Wars

Star Wars, though I like both

What was your pre-teen bop?

Uhhh Taylor Swift’s whole second album

If you could have a fantasy creature as a pet, what would you pick?

A dragon about the size of a cat that could sit on my shoulder and talk to me

What’s your pet peeve?

Feeling like people are upset with me but won’t talk to me about it

Dracula or Frankenstien’s Monster?

Haven’t read Dracula so Frankenstein’s monster, I guess.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve said to a friend?

I mean I had a conversation with two lesbians about dildos yesterday, soooo

If you had to murder someone, who would it be?

No one. I honestly don’t think I’d be able to live with myself after.

A R Wallace

Which book(s)/series would you compare your current WIP(s) to?

The Dresden Files. Though I did have someone say it was like reading a better-written Mortal Instruments. I was tickled.

Would you be willing to adapt your WIP into a movie one     day? Why or Why not?

Yes. Please. Let me see my work come to life.

What is your ‘writing ritual’? (do you make sure     you’ve made a cup of tea, sit in a particular spot, etc.)

I don’t have any particular ritual, I usually just try and seize the energy when I have it. Right now I am trying to sit at my actual desk to work, though, and during school if I had anything that I desperately needed to get done I took my ass to a coffee shop and told myself I wasn’t allowed to leave until it was done.

How much has writeblr helped you with your writing?

It helped me find a writing community that inspired me to get back to work after the depression had taken it away from me. I’m not as active on writeblr as maybe I could be, but the writing discord I found through it has been a lifeline.

If you could be one creature (real or mythical), what would you be?

A dragon. But like, one of the ones that can shapeshift. I also like being human.

Sum up your favorite WIP in one sentence

Oh god I’m supposed to have a favorite? That’s not gonna happen…

Gutter Witch: Local teens sick and tired of prophetic bullshit

Children of the Light: Estranged assholes learn to love each other again and also stop the apocalypse

Fractal: Hell on Earth in so many ways

Companion to Dragons: Girl’s asshole father sends her and her sister on a suicide mission and thinks that’s the end of it (surprise!)

Witches Anthology: literally a whole bunch of short stories so I’m not gonna try

Which of your characters is your favorite?

Whyyyyyy idk in GW probably Hunter, he’s fun to write. Overall maybe Sterling, my enby necromancer in the anthology

Which of your characters is your least favorite?

Hunter’s mother. Like honestly, every time I write about her she gets worse.

What do you believe is the most overused trope in your WIP’s genre(s)?

Melodrama.

Favorite season?

Autumn

If you could travel anywhere in the universe, where would you go?

Several places in Europe, in no particular order.

Eva:

1.     What’s the first story you remember writing?

A story about a cat and a mouse becoming friends.

2.     How has your taste in books changed since childhood?

I’ve tended a lot less towards high fantasy. I think it’s too much of an energy investment to try and understand the worldbuilding right now, whereas you can usually just jump into urban fantasy. I’ve also gotten a lot more interested in horror.

3.     Do you see any similarities to your favorite books in your work? If yes, what are they?

If I’m being real honest, most of my wips are direct rip-offs of stuff I’ve read/watched/listened to, at least in the first draft. I usually try and direct my obsessions into creative energy at some point, with differing amounts of success.

4.     What sort of music inspires you?

Stuff with strong beats/baseline and vaguely rebellious lyrics. So like, lots of Imagine Dragons and Fall Out Boy. But also trailer music like Epic Score and Two Steps from Hell

5.     Favorite book?

These are the most evil kinds of questions you guys.

I can’t think of any published books I’d call my absolute favorite, but I do have a handful of fanfics I read on at least an annual basis: War, Children, by Nonymos; To Be Vulnerable Is Needed Most of All, by perfect_plan; and Schroedinger’s Romance by lesbuchanan

6.     Favorite mythology (Greek, Norse, etc.)?

Probably Celtic? I’m really rusty on it though

7.     Dream vacation?

A long, long trip through Europe without having to worry about money

8.     Favorite writing snack?

I don’t really eat when I write because its too much of a distraction :P

9.     What tea do you drink the most while writing?

Irish Breakfast

10.  Do you have a special writing cup, that you drink tea out of specifically when writing to fill you up with inspiration?

I have a couple I’m more likely to grab, like my Night Vale Community Radio mug or my white Starbucks mug with the gold lettering

11. Write your favorite quote from your recent wip!!

Just outside the beam of light was a circle of what looked like black paint, tiny sigils scratched into it, shimmering uncannily in the dark. Wisps of that grim light drifted from the sigils to the figures at their center, dancing around Mara’s hands, clutching at Hunter’s shirt. Anywhere they touched his skin, blood seeped from a new laceration, sluggish and dark and horrible. 

“Hunter,” she breathed. 

Then she heard him. 

“Run, Cady,” he croaked. “Tell my mom...she’s a bitch.”

Ames:

1.     What’s your favorite season and why

Autumn! I love rain and also that it’s not super hot or super cold

2.     What’s your favorite food?

Bread.

3.     Who’s your favorite character in your most recent WIP?

Hunter Bishop, asshole extraordinaire

4.     Do you hide easter eggs in your writing? If so tell me a few.

Hm. If I do, I don’t consider them easter eggs, just references. Though I did have someone in my creative writing class ask if the sandwich my protagonist was eating was based on one served in one of the restaurants on campus (and he was right)

5.     Would you prefer your WIPs to be turned into a movie or tv series? (feel free to tell me about more than just 1)

Gutter Witch should just be a movie, and I’m leaning towards that for Witches as well. Fractal could go either way, though I’m leaning towards TV show. Children of the Light could go either way. CHAF3k will hopefully be a podcast at some point.

6.     If you could have a writing studio anywhere with anything in it, what would it be like and where would it be?

I like the nook I have, though I think I’d adjust the height of my desk chair and add a coffee maker and a closer bathroom so I don’t have to walk all the way across the apartment. Oh, and I’d get a massive whiteboard so I can go all conspiracy theory on my wips.

7.     What music do you listen to to get you in the zone? (the writing zone)

Trailer music! Epic Score and Two Steps from Hell. I can’t listen to music with lyrics while I try to make the words go.

8.     What’s your worldbuilding process?

Panic.

But actually, I think of the aesthetic I’m after and then try to make everything build off of that. Along the way I usually try to figure out what thing I’m consciously or unconsciously basing it off of so that I can make necessary changes.

9.     Who are your most influential authors?

JKR (sorry), Laini Taylor, Juliet Marillier, Tamora Pierce

10.  What’s your favorite kind of cookie?

French macarons

11. Give me your favorite excerpt for your recent WIP!

“I wanted to talk to Madge.”

“Madge is dead,” Hunter said, confused. 

“I’m aware,” she said. “I asked Death to take me to her, but she said she couldn’t and suggested projection instead.”

Hunter turned from the stove with the most dumbfounded expression Cady had ever seen outside of cinema. “You asked Death,” he repeated.

Cady snorted. “Yeah. I asked Death.”

“The cosmic power, Death.”

“The cosmic power, Death. We’re good friends. She comes over for tea on occasion.”

Hunter stared at her, expression halfway between disbelief and suspicion. “You’re fucking with me.”

“I’m not fucking with you,” Cady said. “Death is the whole reason I came to this Coven. She sent me here when I was thirteen.”

Hunter sank back against the counter, looking almost faint. Whatever he’d been cooking began to sizzle alarmingly. “Death has been...in this apartment.”

Cady nodded.

Not tagging anyone else on this one. I’ve learned my lesson lmao.

[fweet-prince]

Okay I looked through all the responses so far including tags, I've got some responses to some patterns I've seen:

To everyone who said this is why they hate West Side Story, this why they love West Side Story, that I'm wrong because West Side Story is great, etc.: I have never seen West Side Story I have no opinions on West Side Story please stop @ing me about West Side Story

Related, to everyone who mentioned Gnomeo and Juliet, Noughts and Crosses, or any other stuff: I haven't seen any of those either, except AtLA. To which my responses are: yes, comparing Zutara to Romeo and Juliet is real unsettling to me, but also doesn't make sense because them having a romantic relationship wouldn't be any more forbidden than all the treason Zuko is doing anyway. And: yes, the Gan Jin and the Zhang are pretty close to the kind of senseless hatred I'm talking about, good example!

To both the people saying that I'm wrong because forbidden love stories across race and/or class lines can be really good and the people saying this is why forbidden love stories across race and/or class lines suck: I didn't say there aren't good stories about forbidden love across race and class lines. I said that comparing those stories to Romeo and Juliet creates some really unfortunate implications.

To the person who said "op you really expect ppl to have read romeo and juliet" and, more seriously, to the person who made a very good and valid point about how Romeo and Juliet as a concept that exists in the collective consciousness isn't necessarily the same as the text of the play: you're right! I don't expect everyone to interpret the comparison the way I do, and I think most people who make the comparison either aren't thinking of the implications past "forbidden love" or don't know much about Romeo and Julliet past that in the first place. I respect and appreciate that the cultural understanding of Romeo and Juliet isn't entirely connected to the play (hmu about gothic lit and especially Frankenstein sometime because the way that stuff has become something completely different in collective consciousness than it was originally written as is fascinating). I'm not upset for anyone minding their own business on tumblr making the comparison. I'm frustrated with big studios' marketing teams for making the comparison without thinking through the implications, especially when it's a deliberate parallel and not a one-off comment, because they should be able to hire someone who's read and really examined the material they're alluding to.

To the people who were surprised there's Shakespeare discourse in 2020: fuck yeah there is come check it out! More seriously, study of Shakespeare is still really common even in public schools, which means there's gonna be a bunch of teens and young adults with strong opinions yelling about it on tumblr the same way there is for everything else a lot of people know about. Shakespeare tumblr tends to be more chill about the discourse though, a lot of us are English majors and know how to disagree about a text like grown-ups.

To the two people who brought up that Romeo and Juliet is derivative of Pyramus and Thisbe in the first place: 1) I'm not very familiar with Pyramus and Thisbe, but would love to hear thoughts on how it relates to Romeo and Juliet and the "alike in dignity" aspect, and 2) even so, Romeo and Juliet is the text people refer to explicitly, so Romeo and Juliet would be the one carrying the connotations of that allusion.

There's also a really interesting reblog on the post that I wanna reblog and respond to on its own but I'm gonna have dinner first!

Tired of people comparing every forbidden love story to Romeo and Juliet, especially ones about class or racial divides. It’s important to how the story works that the Capulets and Montagues are alike in dignity and that the feud is baseless and petty on both sides. If the Capulets had spent centuries systematically disenfranchising the Montagues, it wouldn’t be Romeo and Juliet. The play relies on both families facing roughly equal losses and being able to make roughly equal apologies and roughly equal reparations. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two kids who weren’t allowed to love in a world full of senseless hatred, and if you give one side a valid reason to hate the other—if either the Capulets or the Montagues are right—it stops being that and starts implying that the opressed have as much to do with the environment of hatred as their opressors do

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Gothic & Horror Themed Clothing! | Avelina De Moray

Today i’ve a bit haul/evaluation video for you, on a company that contacted me referred to as malefic apparel. So there is full disclosure, i will with yes this can be a backed video as they were variety adequate to send me a variety of their merch for me to try out and do an honest evaluation, so let’s ! Good day Avelina De Moray here, welcome back to my channel i’m hoping you all are doing good i will by means of saying that this video was once quite difficult for me to movie and that had nothing to do with the merchandise it used to be that I actually could not to find each piece that they gave me.

I’ve been sporting so lots of them I needed to go through like six washing basket after which some the place in the dryer or in the outdoor on the clothesline. And the whole lot is black!! You know how difficult it is to find that one single object, when the whole thing is black!!!!!! Anyway first world issues correct!!! I labored through it, I’ve obtained the whole lot here and let’s start with what i am wearing!! That is by means of some distance my favorite. Now if you comply with me on instagram (which you must in the event you do not – head on over there!) you might have seen many posts of me carrying this! I lived in it when I was in the usa, it is so cozy. I’m going to movie some pictures in my wardrobe so you guys can see the whole lot cuz you cannot rather get a just right proposal of it once I’m sitting down and sporting it and although I simply keep objects up it it can be it’s simply higher this way trust me so what i love about that is that it can be loose so I got so small on everything so that you can perhaps choose your sizings should you desired to head and purchase anything from them and what i like about that is the unfastened fit it’s just a little open up the aspect so put on a lovable bra in case you recognize you flush any individual and as you realize I used to be in the usa twice final year in April and September and both of those trips were for IVF when you did not comprehend i’ll be doing a video that quickly but my factor was back to the IVF all of the medicine made me very bloated so this used to be a lovely exhibit to wear once I didn’t want dermis tonight clothing and a number of my wardrobe like the pants i am sporting now can you see these infants intellect similar to forty five levels up anyway when I used to be going through that feeling very bloated I truthfully seemed 4 months pregnant and that i wasn’t this shirt used to be outstanding it’s all cotton so it is very it’s a very mild weight and the print will just appear at that without doubt it can be a play on Jack Daniels it appears equivalent sufficient to be recognizable that it can be looking to be just like that but one of a kind sufficient that I find it irresistible so i admire matters like that it has some lace up element here which i love I’ve never pulled that tight and a few little grips up here I more commonly received this like a hundred instances and it is washed fairly well so not one of the prints have come off and i consider that is main for you guys to grasp if i’ll truthfully overview something and endorse it to you then I need to love it myself so we would say taking a web page out of Jeffrey stars guide it’s Evelina de maurienne entrance and this one obviously is okay so out of everything that they sent me I most likely have some favorites my next favorite is this Frankenstein tank it is just probably the most superb match it is actually similar to the tanks that I promote in my retailer possibly they are utilizing the identical in influence sure but again very lightweight and have got to have lycra in it given that it’s obtained somewhat bit of a stretch this is very becoming this isn’t one you need to wear if you are feeling a little bloated otherwise you just don’t love matters that have a slimline match considering the cock surely goes in like so i am small I would often get away with a medium simply depends how i am feeling so simply hold in intellect if you’re watching at their tanks they they’re very distinct they are going to say on their internet site I consider like this one is a loose match and this one is like turtle physique con tight i love that the tag is printed so you’ve 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very brief and they smelt additionally very small so again everything I bought set used to be small but this one as you’ll see it fits but it seems like an extra small so i’d surely sighs up the reduce is super lovely I have no idea in case you name these a crop high kind of neck and with a bit of luck you can see that there we go it is like got a matte black print of black number one so yeah of direction being a style o-poor ban or goth mostly that simply dies they have got like quantity one who’s not going to like the backside of the dress sort of blows out in a lovely means so at this one I surely must put on tights beneath it to duvet the backside that’s satisfactory I just desire I had a long gone up a measurement in this one to make it just a bit extra relaxed I think they do have particularly a large variety of plus-dimension as good so if you’re watching at these things and like woman it’s fascinated by tiny humans individually i’m now not tiny i am no i do not wish to go into physique sizes seeing that every person is extraordinary and that is exceptional however i love that they cater for bigger men and women and i like that they cater for smaller people so this subsequent one says which and the best way that which is printed is really intelligent so you’ve got got overwhelmed broomsticks to make the W a candle a little bit dagger which possibly for you bloodletting or some kind of ceremony you’ve got bought a crescent moon and of direction a little bit cat I idea that used to be fairly lovely that one is exactly the identical cut it’s a earlier person who I confirmed you the subsequent one is this tank I chosen this one i like the black white and crimson theme so you have got acquired rest Elian warts and then a bit coffin so it can be another tank fairly particularly tight tremendous comfy on same because the Frankenstein one i love how that looks it’s so rock and roll under a leather-based jacket that you could just jazz it up quite quite simply ok subsequent up is a v-neck graphic workforce they may be sizings are very one-of-a-kind from from each and every item so this one is a small however i would say that that’s a relaxed fit it’s now not like a tight child doll style t-shirt it can be a comfy wearable no longer sticking to your body type shirt so i’d say that is cotton it doesn’t suppose as stretchy as the tank tops so if you are simply having a extra casual day that looks beautiful once more I hit the whole lot photograph tees and love the jackets are just made to head collectively so i pair most of picture tees with some sort of leather-based accent you are not able to relatively go improper while you try this a different thing that this appears relatively great with is skinny like black denims my god then I pile all of it together they definitely despatched me plenty of stuff so this next one is just a little really evil looking we’ve received blessed other destroyers and that i put a pentagram there why the culty what 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that’s still pod i will get a bunch of prime of a punch if I particularly really opt for out when you consider that i really like my food so ships like these are a ought to to duvet that out if you wish to dress it up somewhat more similar to pop some heels on excellent excessive buried so you then simply instantly it look a little bit so this subsequent one is fairly unique to all the other matters that they set me and i’ve noticeable Christiana one and simplest who you’ll have heard me recently converse about on Instagram that’s an extra woman that i am going to do a collaboration with she remains to be this so good and it can be a different one of the vital looser ones like the final one who I just confirmed you and it is bought some pleasant path of element on the facet but she began quite well by means of tucking into like just a little I believe it used to be a pleated miniskirt i’ll show you i will do the identical thing i’m like a dam that looks relatively fine so that you may 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this is false tho. like yeah they are blank dog tags but those are dog tags were used in wwi as well. (and similar ones being used today) if you want some further info...  SPOILERS he was never in the war, he was born after wwii. he was kidnapped as a kid and then experimented on by the big bad (mother miranda). he has lived in the funky evil village his whole life and stayed in his factory pretty much the whole time. its likely he found it in his scrap yard (where a bunch of metal junk ends up) especially considering they are blank (so probably lost or thrown out sometime).  he also just wears random metal shit around his neck. like right next to that is spring scale balance hook. absolutely no reason to have that around his neck but the boy loves metal. he also has a compass which is hilarious considering his effect on metal, so that also just becomes a piece of junk around his neck.  he is mostly a big ol reference to victor frankenstein and the creature itself.  

spoilers are over

some stuff with this specific twt post (twt is hell)  lots of german people got rightly upset at the idea that having a german name = you are a nazi.  lots of jewish fans of re felt INCREDIBLY babied by this post and kept saying that op should have waited until a jewish person made a post themselves if they really found it to be an issue (but guess what if you play a game you can see he has no nazi connections!)  and finally this post is just incredibly reactionary and very “give me woke points for pointing this out!” which shouldn’t be part of “activists” spaces (especially since this is a fictional fucking man). people are also rightly upset at the watering down of the word “nazi”. being a nazi includes ideology and behavior, none of which heisenberg shares. the most he has got is he is named after “werner karl heisenberg” who was a nazi scientist (and either an incredibly bad one at that OR purposefully slowing the party’s efforts down during the war, its hard to know for sure. tho im not saying he was a good person i don’t really beileve in that sorta thing when applying it to irl ppl) 

a heads up for all the resi fans who aren't aware of this

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