#I’ve been like hyper fixated (feels a little more serious than that tbh) on this shit since like 2014/15?

[moonyklance]

I understand I’m not the best with words (maybe that’s why I can’t finish a single WIP) so it’s easy to not fully get my point across but really, half of this fandom just needs to back up a little. It’s like a classmate coming in and smashing your block tower to bits like bro why couldn’t you just build your own instead of messing with this one? And why are the wizard klan members here?

What’s up with all the combined or swapped characters? Why are we making the straight ships break up for gay ships and then making the original gay ships straight? That one’s not bad, per se, I just worry about the implications.

And I would like to clarify, I don’t think a!yd is responsible for j3gulus, I think it’s responsible for the complete misunderstanding of certain characters. Like at some point it stops being these beloved characters and starts being an OC. Just make an OC, guys.

I think a lot of my thoughts on this mostly has to do with people’s bad media literacy. Also the whole j3gulus thing feels borderline…familial? (Anytime you have to say it’s not technically-)

Anyway! Just throwing my brain at the wall seeing if it’ll stick like spaghetti. No relevant tags because I’m really not trying to start anything, I just wanna rant and possibly find people who have similar ideas to me.

God, I feel old beyond my years. I blame tiktok too, my evidence is based off of a general feeling, your honour.

[thisismeracing]

I’m so sorry about how long this was…didn’t realize until after I finished typing it all out😅

So I’ve only been in the fandom for a little over a year (but I hyper fixated, and may have had to look into alllll the drivers before I picked the ones I like); so to my knowledge Mick is super low key about everything that’s not racing. He’s said in an interview that he’s actually gotten shyer the older he’s gotten and he noticed the biggest shift was when he was in F2. But over all I think the whole Schumi family is pretty private; and I think growing up but that environment let go how close he keeps everything to his chest.

As for Charles…I love the boy don’t get me wrong, but the more I know about him the more I question. He’s alway, always been a big deal. Always been in the media and it seems like he’s always been a homie hopper. Like his 1st public relationship was with G, lasted about 3-4 years and then they broke up, couple months later he’s dating Char (there’s been speculation that the girls were BFFs but it’s never been confirmed that they were anything other than friends). Same thing with Char, date 3-4 years, break up and then new relationship with one of her friends a couple months later.And they all look very similar. I feel like Charles is one of those guys that’s a serial monogamist; but I don’t think he’s going to end up settling down for more than a couple years until he retires. I don’t think it really helps that he’s always been “il Predestinato” either.

A serial monogamist, I- oop HAHAHAH I get ur point, nonny. I think maybe he just likes the whole dynamic of a relationship, I have friends like this, and it's pretty common tbh (or maybe, he just doesn’t really like the hook-up thing and goes for the serious side of the road), I dunno. But let’s not forget that it must be harder to keep a relationship with the constant traveling and racing schedule.

I think Charles is v human. Dating someone for four years then starting a new relationship then ending it and starting another is the most common thing in the world, but as you pointed out people see him as “il predestinato” so everything he does goes through judgmental lens.

[theworldsforgottenboy]

Well, I’m hyper fixating on heathers now

I watch heathers the movie last night and then watched a lot of animatics from the musical (there’s probably some gaps between songs so if I’m wrong about something please tell me), and I have some thoughts. I was challenged by my dad to write a film review, so I thought I’d post it

Overall I liked it a lot, the musical more so than the movie.

The movie

All the use of homophobic slurs was definitely uncomfortable, and for once in my life made me grateful that we live in the present where people (except for my brother) understand that gay or homo or (god forbid) fag isnt an acceptable insult. The “gay suicide” was also in bad taste

As someone who has struggled with depression and suicidal ideation, all the suicides in general got really uncomfortable. I didn’t feel too bad about heather chandler, but as it kept going the more grossed out I got with the theme

I cried during Martha’s suicide attempt, it struck really close to home. Martha is probably my favorite tbh

Serious pacing issues, everything happened in the first 30ish minutes and then slowed down somewhat until the end, which felt drawn out.

Movie!JD can go die for all I care (pun intended) even if he does have great cheekbones and eyebrows.

He’s so manipulative and insane, and I guess if that’s what they were going for, Christian slater did an amazing job, but he never got to the right level of intimidating with him, which again might have been on purpose for the whole cute boy thing they were going for in the beginning, but as they went on with it, he only got a little more scary even as he was going to blow up a school.

On the positive, I can believe this iteration is an actual psychopath

His character is so dramatically different than his musical counterpart it’s giving me whiplash

Veronica is fine, I guess. I don’t really have strong feelings about her character other than her diary entries were a mood

It had some nice moments too, I liked the slushy scene

The musical (heads up this is mostly about jd)

The songs were excellent, my favorites were freeze your brain, dead girl walking and reprise, meant to be yours, candy store, seventeen, and I am damaged

It gives context for some things in the movie, like why Veronica is with the heathers if she hates them so much

Somehow musical!jd is my favorite character?

I honestly could talk about him for a while, he strikes the perfect balance where his actions horrify me and to a rational human are completely wrong, but I still am incredibly sympathetic to all that has happened and the myriad of mental issues he has

He’s the perfect mix of villain and misunderstood pupydog in a way that doesn’t overshadow eachother

I like how it’s clear that he’s a deeply troubled person and isn’t pure evil, yet is crazy and dangerous and needs to go down, which is really sad

I am damaged tore my heart out after all of everything, I listened to it before watching the whole thing because it was on my Spotify playlist, but it hits harder now that I’ve seen it all, it feels so tragic yet so unavoidable.

The JD/Veronica relationship is complicated for me, it’s definitely seriously unhealthy in its current form, but it plain to see that in a twisted fucked up way he does truly love her, even if it does manifest into killing everyone who hurts her (I’m not defending it, but it does tug at my heartstrings a little)

On the other hand, I think if he was just a little less fucked up, or if he got meds and therapy, they could have worked out. If he just let them be Seventeen, it could have been beautiful.

I can recognize both right? I ship it, but only in a alternate universe where he wasn’t so lost

And part of me hopes he made it to heaven despite everything

The rest of the musical was awsome too

Sorry for the long post I wanted to talk about it

[adigeon]

for the ask meme: 1, 2, 9, 18, 19, 28, 37? i hope its not too many!

:^D !!!!!!

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.Until recently, all of my fic was first-time related, usually with a healthy dash of mutual pining. I think i wrote established relationship fic for the first time for Goody/Billy, and only drabble-length stuff. Comfort zone is still heartily first-time stuff, sarcastic characters, characters who would win the gold medal for attempting to repress serious issues, and loaded conversations that are clearly about so much more than what’s actually being discussed. I_live_for_drama.jpeg

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?Fake relationship fic!!! I kind of outlined one for Goody/Billy once but the beats didn’t feel in character at all, so I dropped it – usually I just have trouble figuring out why the characters in question would end up in this bind where they need to pretend to be dating instead of finding a more sensible solution to the problem. However, I have just now realized that one of my new favorite pairings, Xander/Xiang, is two dumb lunkheads who could feasibly actually accidentally end up having to pretend to be in a relationship holy shit

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?/glares at the new chapter of RecurrenceRecurrence is (a) the longest thing I’ve ever actually written and (b) *incredibly* close to home. So sometimes it writes itself, and sometimes it’s kind of…terrifying to work on, honestly. I 100% promise I will eventually finish it, I actually have the last chapter written and it’s just like two chapters before that soooo

18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?I should more than I do – I outline longer fic in a vague way, but tbh what that usually looks like is just writing brief moments of important scenes in a different part of the word document, and keeping them in sequential order so that I kind of have guidepost moments to aim towards. I have no idea if this makes any sense at all. I hope it does.

19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?Mental illness and intrusive thoughts? More seriously, I tend to hyper-fixate on one character at a time – for Mag7 it was Goody, for R1 it’s Baze, and annoyingly I’m currently fixated on Xiang. (I don’t know how I ended up writing this much for X/X, it was honestly not my intent, this is all @roguewen’s fault. and that gun fic. mostly sarah though). And that character ends up driving most of the writing I do for that fandom, even if I’m not writing from their POV. What I’m saying is, blame everything I’ve written in the past week on Xiang

28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.limiting this to people i’m not in frequent contact with!

@megajubbly writes AUs so, so gorgeously – check out Fiction is a lie that tells the truth for the minor miracle of making Goody and Billy 100% perfectly in character in the Harry Potter ‘verse. “Goody’s audience usually eats it up. Everyone likes a story about lifelong friends, Goody says, everyone likes to think that you can hold on to the same people you knew when you were twelve and haul them into the future with you, one step at a time.” absofuckinglutely stunning

@no-gorms/scaramouche has very clear and striking prose and lets events happen at just the right pace, which is something i really struggle with – every beat of A Single Monk feels perfectly unhurried but also doesn’t linger too long (something i have sooo much trouble with). scaramouche is also really good with compressing time gracefully: “The Kyber Temple is large enough that there’s no question of Baze keeping track of every single new arrival they receive. That said, he is made aware of the day that Chirrut Îmwe joins their ranks, thanks to Teela Jehsop’s telling him: “There’s a blind one among the new fellows.”” how gorgeously efficient is that???

@greymichaela has this lovely way of using small but incredibly vivid sensory details to evoke so much at once – in echoes, afterimages, “He could smell fried noodles and wet permacrete and diesel oil wafting in the door that opened and closed with customers passing through.” what a perfect sentence?? in Star in Orbit, “back curving like a heron in flight”. perfect

37. Talk about your current WIPs.currently:- wrestling with the new chapter of Recurrence - a xander/xiang super specific prompt fic which i’m enjoying the hell out of - bite the hand, i.e. the urban fantasy trapped-as-a-dog fic- i’m also working on – though a little stalled – a piece where chirrut ends up with a lightsaber after the events of scarif and enormously reluctant to actually wield it for reasons pertaining to the guardian-jedi relationship and chirrut’s view of what the force should be used for. i’m really excited about what it could be, but i think i need to rework chirrut’s attitude towards jedi for it to really work, which is gonna require a substantial amount of editing. so that’ll probably happen, just…idk when