#Linzis 2020 thanks

[thedaveandkimmershow]

Our main source of indecision  regarding whether or not to move off Capital Hill back to our house had to do with how well suited living over South Lake Union (over to the right, slightly out of frame) and downtown Seattle (over to the left) suited us.

When we moved to the Hill in 2019, Kimmer worked in Ballard, I worked a combination of home, the UW, and Small World Productions over by Madrona. So when we moved, we moved to within a few miles of everywhere we worked.

Of course when everything shut down at the beginning of 2020, the Ballard office closed down and Kimmer became fully online from her home office that faced the Seattle skyline from the east. Lake Union, Queen Anne Hill, and the Space Needle became part of her every day at work. Me, the beginning of 2020 marked the end of editing with my trusty iMac that in no way was able to cut 4K footage, so, on the advice of a friend who's well versed in post-production, I reached out to Puget Systems in North Auburn, a specialty business that put together my Adobe-centric work station that enabled a transition to fully working from the apartment for a time. Clients would literally do drive-bys in front of our apartment building to hand over hard drives.

By 'n by, I was out and about again with some work at the apartment but increasingly on location using a combination of walking, light rail, bus, and an occasional drive. It was all convenient. It was all quick.

Kimmer, in the meantime, continued fully online in front of Seattle up close and the Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Then we moved.

And it wasn't the worst. thing. ever.

The house, in fact, is more suited to our life together right now than it was when we moved out four years ago. There's been a fair bit of remodeling in those four years and it definitely shows. Kimmer's still online with a coupla days in Edmonds which is a bit like driving to Ballard when we lived in the Hill. 

And my commute?

Well, lemme just say I did this before we moved to Seattle and, in the intervening years, public transportation's gotten better. Especially with light rail. 

Of course it's not only that public transportation's gotten better... in most cases I've simply learned how to use it to get to more places. Definitely thanks to Google Maps.

Which means we haven't had to give up on our favorite Seattle hangs. I can take a bus from work and easily land at Pub 70 to meet Kimmer. Or we'll meet that way at Linzy's place. Or, like last night, I'll take a bus and a trolley to Tapster on South Lake Union where we'll meet up for drinks. And if we're in the mood for a movie after work, there's a bus leaving the Northgate light rail station that drops me directly across the street from the Crest Theater in Shoreline.

And so on.

Definitely there are more affordable shopping options on my way home from the Lynnwood Transit Center than anywhere between my work in Seattle and the apartment.

My point?

Most of what I just described, well, I didn't think of them while we were figuring out whether to move or not. It all just seemed like downside until there was no financial choice but to move... and we moved.

And danged if that didn't just work out for us.

Huzzah!!!!!

☺️

[smolbeandrabbles]

2020 Thank Yous!

Not to repeat the same old phrase, but yeah, 2020 hasn’t exactly been the best. I want to thank all of you for being a part of mine, for being the very best of all the things that happened this year.

You guys are truly the best! There’s a fair few of you now, and you make me the happiest little blog runner ever-!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 💕

I did want to give a few of you shout outs though, because you deserve to know how much you’ve helped me through this year, and I will be forever grateful:

@purebloodwitch @mendelskrull @alotofrandomfangirling @missunsympathetic @crawlingmist

Comments, requests, tags, screaming at me at 3am in DMs? You had it all. Thank you for all the laughs and encouragement, the ideas, the rambling and ranting you’ve had to endure!, even just checking in and chatting with me regularly - I’ve just had some really great conversation this year over the internet!

@sufferthesea @sagitariusrising

Two of the greatest content creators I’ve ever had the pleasure of talking to.

Your work has saved me so many times this year. I’m extremely grateful for you both. For our in depth conversation. For finding my own work in yours. And feeling like I’m home.

I am honoured.

@mandy23b

What can I say? I think I could say so much and still not say enough.

I am blessed to know you, I am BLESSED to get to talk to you, for us to scream about ideas together, share our hyperfixations with each other (and lives too) without judgement. I can be myself and have no worries.

I am so proud of you this year. (Yes I know, I said it again.)

I am so grateful for your friendship, your inspiration and creativity, for always being honest with me and giving me tough love too, when I needed it most

For keeping me sane in this insane year. For being my voice of reason and a good ear.

Thank you. Even though I cannot say it enough.

~~~~

All of you, for making my 2020, deserve so much more than I could ever give ❤️ but I’m glad that I get to share all this with you 💙 and share in your joy 💜

I love you all so much! Here’s to 2021! May we make it great together 💜💙

[shakemytomb]

hey guys it’s still me your resident lotr slash skyrim slash dragon age high elf oc, but you can call me linzi. my 2020 goal was to engage in more melee combat, but i’ve mostly just perfected being a cat mom. why yes, this is a chino moreno stan account thanks for noticing!! not that you were wondering, but yes my animal farm is my most prized possession, and i also like to stab people with needles for both fun and funds. if you’re interested in lord of the rings lore or hear me talk about how many times i’ve watched the bbc dracula show? you can find me on gh tauntthebeast

[knitting-gay-nerd]

1, 8, and 10 for the Tea and Books Asks

Thank you for the ask! :) 

1. What period of history do you enjoy learning about?

I love learning about pretty much any period of history, but I really love learning about the American Revolution. With most of the other periods I’ve learned about on my own, I’ve learned a few cool facts and moved on. It’s modern enough that I can fairly easily understand what people are writing, but it’s long enough ago that it feels like a completely different time. Though, at this point, February 2020 feels like an entirely different time...

I also grew up in a place where there are historical sites literally in some people’s backyards. There are so many parks and monuments relating to the Revolution nearby. That probably had an impact on it as well. 

8. What are your top three films? Books?

Ooh, this is a hard one. 

I don’t watch movies all that often, but these are the top three that I can think of, in no particular order:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (which is going here because it’s beat out by other favorite books). 

Up 

Mulan (the animated one obviously)

And here are the books, which were hard in a completely different way (that’s why I cheated), in this order:

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams (as well as the following series)

This one is all the animal books I still have on my bookshelf: National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, Finding Danny by Linzi Glass, James Herriot’s memoirs, Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan, Maxi’s Secrets by Lynn Plourde, and, of course, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. (Because I cannot let go of any dog or horse books. I have kept all of them since I was very small. These are just the ones I have honored with a place on my ever increasingly inadequate bookshelf.

I’m also reading The Name of the Wind, which I love, but can’t justify putting on the list until I finish it. 

10. Do you have a favorite classic novel?

This one’s hard too. If we’re going by how my 7th grade language arts teacher (hated her by the way) defined a classic novel, (which was convoluted and I don’t really understand it myself) it would be The Lord of the Rings (which I am counting as one book). (Those books were the only ones on the list that she gave us that I enjoyed or remembered in the slightest.)

But, if I go by how everyone else defines a classic novel, it is To Kill a Mockingbird. 

[a---z]

TRANSMISSIONS

www.twitch.tv/transmissions2020

Our collective isolation highlights that all forms of community are now more important than ever, and it is vital that we find mechanisms to support each other through this precarious time. In this extraordinary landscape that we have found ourselves in, it is clear that many artists, writers and thinkers are having exhibitions, opportunities and subsequent fees cancelled for the foreseeable future. In response to this, we are establishing a new project called TRANSMISSIONS. This is an online platform which will commission artists to share their work within a classic DIY TV show format.

Episode 1

| 23 April | 9PM GMT

REPLAY | 24 April | 9AM GMT

w/ Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / Bruce Bickford / CAConrad / Salvador Dali / Brice Dellsperger / Tessa Hughes-Freeland / Juliet Jacques / Sam Keogh / Jiji Kim / Quinn Latimer / Mark Leckey / Kalup Linzy / Sade Mica / Laure Prouvost / Christopher Soto / Patrick Staff / The Cockettes / TV Party / Unarius Academy of Science / Su Hui- Yu –  Curated by Anne Duffau, Hana Noorali & Tai Shani Episode 2 | 30 April | 9PM GMT REPLAY | 1 May | 9AM GMT w/ Sophie Jung Episode 3 | 7 May | 9PM GMT REPLAY | 8 May | 9AM GMT w/ Tarek Lakhrissi – Your world is already ending Episode 4 | 14 May | 9PM GMT REPLAY |  15 May | 9AM GMT w/ Johanna Hedva – Tom Cruise Studies with expert guests Vivian Ia and Matthew Miller Episode 5 | 21 May | 9PM GMT REPLAY |  22 May | 9AM GMT w/ STRAWBERRY JAM:  A LITERARY HOUR with Mykki Blanco Episode 6 | 28 May | 9PM GMT REPLAY |  29 May | 9AM GMT w/ CAConrad with invited poets

Season 1 of TRANSMISSIONS will run as six weekly episodes screening every Thursday at 9 pm GMT and repeated on Fridays at 9 am GMT on Twitch. The 1st episode will air on the 23rd of April 2020 which will be curated by Anne Duffau, Tai Shani and Hana Noorali. The subsequent five episodes will be hosted by invited artists.  Each artist included in TRANSMISSIONS will be paid a fee in return for their contribution. With a sense of community, all the money used to pay artists in season 1 has been kindly donated by established UK art institutions and commercially stable artists.

Season 1 is funded and supported by, Artquest+DACS, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Studio Oscar Murillo, Somerset House Studios and Wysing Arts Centre.

  Episode 1 |  23 April | 9PM GMT

REPLAY | 24 April | 9AM GMT

w/ Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / Bruce Bickford / CAConrad / Salvador Dali / Brice Dellsperger / Tessa Hughes-Freeland / Juliet Jacques / Sam Keogh / Jiji Kim / Quinn Latimer / Mark Leckey / Kalup Linzy / Sade Mica / Laure Prouvost / Christopher Soto / Patrick Staff / The Cockettes / TV Party / Unarius Academy of Science / Su Hui- Yu –  Curated by Anne Duffau, Hana Noorali & Tai Shani

Episode 2 | 30 April | 9PM GMT REPLAY | 1 May | 9AM GMT w/ Sophie Jung

Sophie Jung, The Bigger Sleep, 2019 courtesy the artist and Kunstmuseum Basel. Photo: Julian Salinas

Working across text, sculpture and performance, Sophie Jung’s work navigates the politics of re/er/re/presentation and challenges the reductive desire to conclude. Her texts unfocus on blurring scripted hegemonies and tap, hop, stammer and stumble over and across languaged powers. She employs humour, shame, the absurd, raw anger, rhythm and rhyme, slapstick, hardship, friendship and a constant stream of slippages. Her sculptural work consists of bodies made up of both found and haphazardly produced attributes and defines itself against the dogma of an Original Idea or a Universal Significance. Instead it stands as a network of abiding incompletion, an ever-changing choir of urgencies and pleasures, traumas and manifestations that communally relay between dominant and minor themes. Sophie Jung is invested in triggering a de-categorising of concepts and a deconceptualisation of categories and understands her approach to “stuff” – both legible utensil and metaphoric apparition – as an uncertain queering slash querying of historical materialism. Sophie Jung (lives and works in Basel and London) received a BFA from the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and a MFA from Goldsmiths, London. Recent projects and exhibitions include Sincerity Condition at Casino Luxembourg, Woman Standing at The National Gallery, Prague, Taxpayer’s Money for Frieze LIVE; Dramatis Personaea at JOAN, Los Angeles; The Bigger Sleep at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart and Block Universe, London; Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water at Blain Southern, London; Producing My Credentials at Kunstraum London and Paramount VS Tantamount at Kunsthalle Basel. She is currently working on solo exhibitions at E.A. Shared Space, Istituto Svizzero in Milan and Galerie Joseph Tang in Paris and works as a guest mentor at Institut Kunst, Basel.

Episode 3

| 7 May | 9PM GMT

REPLAY | 8 May | 9AM GMT

w/ Tarek Lakhrissi

– Your world is already ending

Tarek Lakhrissi is a visual artist and a poet based in Paris. His works have been exhibited in Auto Italia South East (London, UK), Hayward Gallery (London, UK), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Grand Palais - FIAC (Paris, FR), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris, FR), CRAC Alsace (Altkirch, FR), Artexte (Montreal, CA), Šiuolaikinio meno centras/CAC (Vilnius, LT), Espace Arlaud (Lausanne, CH), among others. He is a featured artist in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney NIRIN (2020).

Episode 4 | 14 May | 9PM GMT REPLAY |  15 May | 9AM GMT w/ Johanna Hedva – Tom Cruise Studies with expert guests Vivian Ia and Matthew Miller

Tom Cruise Studies is a meander of curiosity. There is no driving inquiry other than the question, "What's, like, up with Tom Cruise?" Hedva considers the various roles Cruise has played onscreen and in public, from religious zealot, to cocky upstart, to a man oppressed by his own masculinity, to couch-jumping love-nut, to an exiled actor who clawed his way back into Hollywood via a maniacal obsession with doing death-certain stunts. Joined by two expert guests, Hedva and Vivian Ia will consider the astrology charts of Cruise and L. Ron Hubbard, while Matthew Miller will share his theory that the Mission Impossible franchise is Cruise's vehicle for making public apologies to his ex-wife, Katie Holmes.

Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the novel, On Hell. Their collection of poems, performances, and essays, Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, will be published in September 2020. Their essay, "Sick Woman Theory," published in Mask in 2016, has been translated into six languages, and their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, frieze, The White Review, and Asian American Literary Review. Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Performance Space New York, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon, as well as featured in parrhesiades. Their album, The Sun and the Moon, was released in March 2019, and they’re currently touring Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House, a doom metal guitar and voice performance influenced by Korean shamanist ritual.  

Vivian Ia lives in Berlin. Their poetry is Pushcart-nominated and has appeared or is forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Tiny Seed, The Gravity of the Thing, Fourteen Hills, and Berkeley Poetry Review.

Matthew Miller is a video director from Sacramento, California. He works in both live-action and animation to create short films and commercial projects. In the last four years, he’s directed a series of short films for The Getty Museum with artists and authors such as Ellsworth Kelly, Yo-Yo Ma, Mary Beard, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Ed Ruscha. He is currently in quarantine with his wife and Snoopy-esque dog, Millie, in Hawaiian Gardens, California, where he has been dividing his time between starting a garden and collecting ideas for a film project.

Episode 5

| 21 May | 9PM GMT

REPLAY |  22 May | 9AM GMT

w/ STRAWBERRY JAM:  A LITERARY HOUR with

Mykki Blanco

Join musician Mykki Blanco for an hour of music and poetry readings. Spoken word, lyrical breakdowns, a presentation on two  20th century American literary figures Bob Kaufman & Mina Loy as well as a first time listen to new unreleased musical project.

Episode 6 | 28 May | 9PM GMT REPLAY |  29 May | 9AM GMT w/ CAConrad with invited poets

CAConrad's latest book JUPITER ALIGNMENT: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals, is forthcoming from Ignota Books in 2020. The author of 9 books of poetry and essays, While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books), won the 2018 Lambda Book Award. They also received a 2019 Creative Capital grant as well as a Pew Fellowship, the Believer Magazine Book Award, and the Gil Ott Book Award. They regularly teach at Columbia University in New York City, and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books, essays, recordings, and the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films) online at http://bit.ly/88CAConrad

"CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious." ---Tracy K. Smith, New York Times.

Thank you to:

All contributing artists, writers, poets, composers and thinkers; Maxwell Sterling; Adam Sinclair; Lori E. Allen; Artsquest. An artist-run programme that uses research about visual artists’ working conditions to provide support for professional artists; DACS; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Studio Oscar Murillo; Somerset House Studios; Wysing Arts Centre; Cabinet Gallery; Lisson Gallery & Max Bossier

https://www.twitch.tv/transmissions2020

@transmissions2020

TRANSMISSIONS collective is composed of:

Anne Duffau

is a cultural producer, researcher, and founder of A---Z, an exploratory/nomadic curatorial platform exploring artistic practices and knowledge exchange through collaborations, presentations, soundscapes, screenings and discussions. She has collaborated with a range of projects and organisations including ArtLicks, Southwark Park Galleries, Mimosa House and Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London Please Stand By, or-bits .com, PAF Olomouc Czech Republic & Tenderflix. Anne has previously run the StudioRCA Riverlight, London programme (2016-2018) and is currently the interim curator at Wysing Arts Center, a Tutor at the School of Arts and Humanities, and is the acting Lead in Critical Practice, within the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Practice Programme. She has performed live music under Alpha through a number of projects and collaborations.

Hana Noorali

is an independent curator and writer based in London. In 2019 she was selected (together with Lynton Talbot) to realise an exhibition at The David Roberts Foundation as part of their annual curator’s series. She curated Lisson Presents at Lisson Gallery, London from 2017-2018 and from 2017 -2019, produced and presented the podcast series Lisson ON AIR. In 2018 Hana edited a monograph on the work of artist and Benedictine Monk, Dom Sylvester Houédard. Its release coincided with an exhibition of his work at Lisson Gallery, New York that she co-curated with Matt O’Dell. In 2007, she co-founded a non-profit project space and curatorial collective called RUN active until 2011. In 2020 Hana and her curatorial partner Lynton Talbot will be publishing an anthology that examines the intersection of poetry and film with (p) (prototype).

Tai Shani

is an artist living and working in London. She is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. In 2019 Tai was a Max Mara prize nominee. Her work has been shown at Turner Contemporary, UK (2019); Grazer Kunst Verein, Austria (2019); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy (2019); Glasgow International, UK (2018); Wysing Arts Centre, UK (2017); Serpentine Galleries, London (2016); Tate, London (2016); Yvonne Lambert Gallery, Berlin (2016) and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016).

[artwalktv]

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges. 2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection Short Of The Week Official Selection Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin 1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313

[hotfps]

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges. 2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection Short Of The Week Official Selection Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin 1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313

[challengeartistsimple]

Zoe and Hanh from Kim Tran on Vimeo.

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges.

2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection 2020 Short Of The Week Official Selection 2020 Horizon Award - Finalist

Short of The Week's Write-Up: shortoftheweek.com/2020/03/18/zoe-and-hanh/

bykimtran.com/ My instagram: instagram.com/kimtran.texas/ My twitter: twitter.com/KimTranTexas

Film facebook: facebook.com/zoeandhanhfilm/ Film instagram: instagram.com/zoeandhanhfilm/

Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Tina Nguyen and Tuan Tran

Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate

Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin

1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez

Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo

BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle

Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313

[ozkamal]

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges. 2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection Short Of The Week Official Selection Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin 1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313

[smolbeandrabbles]

Hey 2021!

I know I’m 6 days late, but I finally got my laptop back and she has a brand new hard drive and she is *fast!*

I know that this would traditionally be your Mendo Mid-Week, so I also think now would be a good time to give my blog update/announcement.

First off - I will be taking a writing break throughout January 2021. Last year was a tough one. But, I promised myself I’d do 2 fics per week for 2020. I accomplished that, and I’m glad that those fics meant I met so many of you lovely lot, and also helped a bunch of you through 2020. It’s been my pleasure and also my honour! 💙💜

That doesn’t mean that things aren’t in the works, I have plenty of ideas being jotted in drafts and notes and have February’s fics well drafted, so look out for those when the time comes!

Secondly - When I do start again in February I will be dropping from 2 fics a week to 1, on Wednesdays. (I just need that self-care time, and I’m also hoping to finally getting around to writing my own novel this year!) That does not mean that Sinday/Sundays will completely disappear, I will still post this particular type of fic on Sundays 😉

I wanted to thank you for your support during 2020. And whilst I’m taking a posting break, I’m still around on Tumblr - so come talk to me! It’s the best way to fuel my creativity and jump back in and better than ever from Feb onwards!! 😘

I love you guys so much!

Take care of yourselves! 💕

Linzi xx

[smolbeandrabbles]

So... I don’t really have any blog theming today-! 😅😅

As this is the last fic before the 25th...

I just wanted to say to you guys, if you celebrate, that I hope you have a really, really great Christmas!

And if you don’t celebrate then I wish you a Happy Holidays! And still hope that you have a brilliant day and brilliant week!

I love you guys, thank you for helping me through 2020 - whether you’ve been here since the beginning or you’ve only just turned up

I love you all! 

~ Linzi x 💙

[smolbeandrabbles]

!Thank You 2019!

This isn’t so much a thank you year 2019. 

But a thank you for 2019.

At the beginning of this year I decided to take the leap and publish my first piece of writing to tumblr - I hadn’t published work of mine to an audience for ages and was incredibly nervous about it.

12 months later I realise I needn’t have been. Because thanks to that piece of writing I have met so many incredible and AWESOME people. Made some truly amazing friends, and grown as a writer and a person because of you.  YOU GUYS are the absolute best. Thank you so much for being there with me through 2019. The Ben Mendelsohn fandom is never going to cease to amaze me, your love, kindness and support not only of me, but of each other is incredibly inspirational.  Here is to 2020 and another incredible year (which... it already is in the UK but whose counting)

In 30 minutes time my final piece of work for 2019 will be yours! 

It’s also my 100th piece of published writing to Tumblr.  And trust me, when I put up that first piece I never imagined I’d get here Thank you all so much!

I love you guys,

May everything you’re working for in 2020 come to you - because I know how much you deserve it

💙💜

Linzi 

xxx

[thedaveandkimmershow]

918PM

We’re on the last leg of our flight home, somewhere north of San Jose, CA, from where we launched back into the sky.

We’ll land somewhere around 11:30 tonight (hopefully) at Sea-Tac International Airport. As to what we’ll be landing into... that’s pretty much up for grabs.

Oh sure, it’ll be cold. We know that.

And yes. It’ll be snowing somewhere.

We know that, too.

Will any of that information prevent us from making into our own beds tonight?

No idea.

The devil, as they say, will be in the details.

In the meantime, then, some thanks are in order.

To Linzy for finding the Anaheim Majestic Garden. The castle that was our home these last few days.

To Kimmer who booked everything but for that afternoon dinner at the Blue Bayou reserved by Linzy. Kimmer not only booked the four corners of our adventure, she expertly handled all the course correcting in real time as we went.

To Martin for being a most excellent and engaging fellow adventurer. It was a pleasure, sir.

To Derek for not only being a stand up human being, for driving us everywhere, but also for being the person who always makes our trips to Southern California worthwhile. We’d come down here just to hang out with you and nothing else.

To Shane for going easy on me during the Nerf War. You are a gentleman, sir.

To Kyle and Dylan: you guys legitimately crack me up. I’ll be on your team any day. :-)

And to all the people we met along the way and shared time with, from Uber drivers, wait staff, hotel staff, grandparents, parents, and kids with whom we had the pleasure of chatting with on rides, buses, and waiting in line...

We wish all of you a fond fare-thee-well.

Now.

In a little over an hour from now we’ll be landing back in our home town. And provided we actually make it home during whatever conditions exist on the ground, we shall re-enter our lives in progress. A night in our own bed followed by a return to the work week as it engages the snow.

Still and always, though, we’ll have kicked off 2020 properly. With a bit of adrenalin and adventure. Laughs and fun for sure. Family and friends. And even a touch of sleeping in and resting up.

Onward!

:-)

[alotofrandomfangirling]

This is so sweet, thank you so much, Linzi 😭😭❤❤❤ trust me, you've made my 2020 happier too ❤ may we have an incredible 2021 🎉

2020 Thank Yous!

Not to repeat the same old phrase, but yeah, 2020 hasn’t exactly been the best. I want to thank all of you for being a part of mine, for being the very best of all the things that happened this year.

You guys are truly the best! There’s a fair few of you now, and you make me the happiest little blog runner ever-!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 💕

I did want to give a few of you shout outs though, because you deserve to know how much you’ve helped me through this year, and I will be forever grateful:

@purebloodwitch @mendelskrull @alotofrandomfangirling @missunsympathetic @crawlingmist

Comments, requests, tags, screaming at me at 3am in DMs? You had it all. Thank you for all the laughs and encouragement, the ideas, the rambling and ranting you’ve had to endure!, even just checking in and chatting with me regularly - I’ve just had some really great conversation this year over the internet!

@sufferthesea @sagitariusrising

Two of the greatest content creators I’ve ever had the pleasure of talking to.

Your work has saved me so many times this year. I’m extremely grateful for you both. For our in depth conversation. For finding my own work in yours. And feeling like I’m home.

I am honoured.

@mandy23b

What can I say? I think I could say so much and still not say enough.

I am blessed to know you, I am BLESSED to get to talk to you, for us to scream about ideas together, share our hyperfixations with each other (and lives too) without judgement. I can be myself and have no worries.

I am so proud of you this year. (Yes I know, I said it again.)

I am so grateful for your friendship, your inspiration and creativity, for always being honest with me and giving me tough love too, when I needed it most

For keeping me sane in this insane year. For being my voice of reason and a good ear.

Thank you. Even though I cannot say it enough.

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All of you, for making my 2020, deserve so much more than I could ever give ❤️ but I’m glad that I get to share all this with you 💙 and share in your joy 💜

I love you all so much! Here’s to 2021! May we make it great together 💜💙