#Michael Lin

[theonlyadawong]

Sunset Boulevard

Dir. Jamie Lloyd

Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond

(Photos by Marc Brenner)

[straw-for-brains]

Charlotte St. Croix as Dorothy Gale (u/s) Michael Lin as Toto (u/s)

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 1 — Soulmates ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @goldengroovy's @olnfweek2024

MC: Micha

Long ass ramble under the cut 😂

Okayokayokay SO-

I love soulmate au's. I cannot tell you how many fics I've read or how many prompts I've played with or media I've consumed or how many bullshit ideas I've come up with in my own head for them, I CANNOT.

It's just - hhhhhhhhhhhh- Soulmate au's and Time Travel au's are just the shit that gets me out of bed some days 😩💖my world weary soul drinks that shit like medicine, okay?

That all being said, it's probably a little ambiguous which au I picked to some, so let me explain: There are two au's I'm mashing up here really, both are from fics I've read back in the day. One being a Clack fic and the other a Thilbo one 🤷‍♂️kind of calling myself out here but w/e, they were good fics.

The Thilbo one is easier to explain - the concept is "Heartsong" which is, literally what it says on the tin. You find out who your soulmate is the first time you hear them sing (and no, that does not mean everyone is just a naturally good singer - they can be ass at music but, the point is, when you hear them their song is the perfect song for you and your heart knows that). There's a lot of little nuances to this one - things like you hearing your heartsong when you dream so you always know the moment you find them. Also people who have quiet dreams because their heartsong died, sometimes before ever even meeting them. etc etc. The heartsong also seems to expand, in some respect, to instruments (as Thorin plays his harp one night and Bilbo starts to hum without thinking about it because it sounds wonderful to him and that's how Thorin finds out).

Overall, it's a very soft and sweet concept to me and as someone who has a deep love of music, it's also one of my very favourites.

The Clack one is a little less easy to explain? I think. Maybe because it's nuances are so round about but I'll do my best. The concept for this one is "I Only See Colour When I'm With You" - anyone who knows how Clack fics usually go knows where this is probably headed 😂 and I am sorry to have hurt you but, overall, the idea is: You live in a noir-esqu world where everything is black and white. This only changes when you find your soulmate, of course, who brings the world into full saturation and lets you see colour for - possibly - the first time in your life (I say possibly because I genuinely can't remember if you start out colourblind or if it's an age cap thing).

Unfortunately, for as much as I adore this concept, it's been a long damn time since I read the fic and I don't even know if it still exists somewhere. So I can't actually recall if it was a 'you have to touch them' or 'you have to hear them' thing but the fic takes place with Zack on the cliff right before Midgar where he holds Cloud and looks at the sky - so I'm willing to bet it's a touch thing.

I also really loved this fic because it was the first one I'd read that brought in the concept of multiple soulmates to me - As Cloud later sits with Aerith and sees the colour he couldn't see with Zack, meanwhile Aerith only sees black and white, because she was only able to see colour with Zack (who was never able to see colour with her, because he needed Cloud for that).

Essentially, they all needed each other to see the world in colour. As a polyam person who didn't quite realise I was poly back then, it was a very comforting (and now dearly cherished) fic.

Anyways! Now that you have the background on the two concepts, you can kind of get what I'm going for with this piece.

Tamarack, Micha and Qiu are all soulmates in a fuzzy, desaturated world (I'm sorry, I'm not cruel enough to but them in complete greyscale LOL) and the way you find your soulmate is by hearing them sing and, when they do, your world is suddenly vivid and bright and beautiful. Suddenly, you can see things as they were meant to be seen and it's a permanent change (unlike the Clack fic) but things are always clearest and brightest when your soulmate speaks or sings 💖

I get a real kick out of the idea that Micha's known for fucking months that Tamarack is his soulmate (if not years) because he's always listening to her play but never says jack shit about it because he's emotionally constipated that way 😂Though genuinely, it's probably because he just doesn't think he's her soulmate and he's a bit against finding out he's right honestly.

Joke is on him, he's Qiu's and Tamaracks soulmate! And he couldn't have picked a better moment to grow a pair an take the risk 🥰

[miosko-art]

1 Day - First Meet

\To feel that beautiful moment again, I replayed it again OwO\

My Luca's Shock Variations

[shovson]

Michael Schumacher & Andrew Shovlin | Canada 2011

[elposting]

GUYS IM SEEING ANDREW RANNELLS AND LIN MANUEL MIRANDA AND AIDY BRYANT LIVE IN JANUARY AAAAAAAAAAAA

[fairytale-poll]

BEST MODERN FAIRYTALE ADAPTATION! ROUND 3, MATCH 3 OUT OF 4!

The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley is based off various fairytales; Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones is based off Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer.

Propaganda Under the Cut:

The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley:

The Sisters Grimm was a formative read for me as a kid. It’s fun and episodic, but over time it also examines both what place fairytales have in modern lives and uses fairytale characters as an allegory for self-determination.

Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones:

One of my favorite books. "As she clears out her old bedroom, Polly discovers that below her memories, in which she led an entirely normal and unremarkable life, there is a second set of memories, which are rather unusual." It's about memory and taking control of your life. Also books. It's one of those books that get better the more you re-read it.

The coming of age fantasy of all time. Giants in supermarkets. Stories that come true backwards and sideways and upside down. Memory fuckery. The hardest part about being a hero is the sheer embarrassment and that's how villains win. Bad driving. Friends, ex-friends, age-inappropriate crush, people you're supposed to be able to rely on who are useless, people you're warned against who save you and who you save in return but all the same that thing they did is not okay. Laughter and phantasmagoria and this is exactly what growing up is like y'all.

Everyone, especially those who have been let down by JKR and Neil Gaiman, needs to go read Diana Wynne Jones. She's the original, they're the bad mimeograph (JKR) and the reflection (Gaiman). Just go read them, okay.

[lin-archive]

[forflightlessbirds]

art for a friend's fic ( @sheepinwolfcountry check out anagapesis everyine it's so.... hwaiaoah. /pos)

eyestrain under the cut

final product + with the original colour scheme i wanted! actually v proud of this one teehee

[marauderstiltheend]

Looks like I have a new show to binge on... Slay the Gods

All Mythologies are in this. Look at that animation. Just wow.

Based on "I was learning to slay the gods at an asylum" by Yinyu Sanjie.

[samwintermusik]

I thought, I should post it here since I mentioned Tumblr and a few of our beloved ones.

I tried to explain how my neurodivergent ass consumes media. Can someone relate?

[mayday396]

Oh my God they can fucking disqualify Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting for having an Unfair Advantage? BUT MICHEAL FUCKING PHELPS WASN'T?

OKAY WTF

[pythiaswine]

thinking about how difficult it must have been for Rachel Fawcette [Hamilton] to leave her firstborn behind in order to safely remove herself from Lavien's house. how much it must have eaten her up inside and how there was nothing she could do because her husband owned her and he owned their son and he owned everything that was hers and if she stayed, there's no telling what could have happened to her. And she lost her firstborn son over it, fuck the rest of everything she lost and how people treated her, she had no claims to her son who clearly grew up to resent her for what she, if we think critically for a moment and look at the context and the subtext and hey, let's face it, the TEXT, likely had to do. how women were constantly pitted in the most volatile of situations in those days and how she did the difficult thing and saved herself.

but yeah sure let's reduce her to Whore because that is so much more impactful through a modern lens, like sure let's give her disgusting husband, and every other fucking man throughout history, the glory of successfully making the women they hurt out to be cheating whores. let's tell her son's story by calling his mother a whore every other fuckin song. let's act like "son of a whore" at the end of all things is more of an insult to him than it is to his mother, the so-called whore who clearly had it so bad at Lavien's that she fucking left. do we not realize that by reducing her to that, we let Johann Michael Lavien fucking WIN? i'm sick. so fucking sick to my stomach I hate it here

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 2 — Sick Days ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @goldengroovy's @olnfweek2024

MC: Micha

So, I've mentioned this in at least one other post but, Micha is a very sick little guy ✊😔pour one out for the baby homie

I've tried to do research to back up a condition for him (I've also mentioned he's based off an old OC, so this research has been going on since I was a kid really) but 🤔 to be honest, the older I get as a person who also has chronic illness myself, sometimes there just isn't a nice clean box to put your sickness in and sometimes doctors are just as confused about what's happening to you as you are 🤷‍♂️ So, at this point, I'm just going to say he's chronically sick. Like, whatever, I guess! It's just a part of who he is.

Now, with that disclaimer out of the way, if you want the nuances to his condition: He faints in cold weather and goes hypothermic really damn quick. He can be easily fatigued and his immune system can crash if he isn't careful about taking care of himself.

This all being said, Micha is a very stubborn and very angry little child that frequently likes to push past his limits 😂 he hates that his illness limits him and it plays a really big part in his developing personality. It's why he's competitive and combative, it's why he keeps going even when he should stop. It's why he's so independent but also why he's so brave. It's also a big reason why he gravitates towards Opa 🥺💖 they have similar temperaments and I think Opa is going to be a really amazing influence on him as he grows up.

In the meantime, Micha's going to give the gang a few scares throughout the years of knowing each other 😂 he'll certainly mellow out as time goes on and take a priority onto his health because he's at least practical enough at his core for that to kick in naturally. The early years will be an experience for everyone though, I think.

[brokehorrorfan]

Funko will release Pop figures of the Insidious franchise's Red Faced Demon and Wheezing Demon in September. Each 3.75" vinyl figure is $12.

[teenwolfpackincorrectcaptions]

Pack, what is one item on your bucket list?

(I do not speak for Teen Wolf or Paramount+. This is for fun.)