#Miss Sophia Kitty

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Miss Sophia Kitty from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

[fragmentedflouncy]

One thing you should know about me is that I really miss my cat.

[spiderb00]

ONLY MINE

Sophia Laforteza x reader 

“the only thing that made the party interesting for Sophia, was you” 

Genre – fluff    Warnings – none  (Request)

Now playing – Drinks or coffee, by ROSÉ 

The party was on fire, loud music could be heard from afar, and people were dancing and drinking like crazy. With all the responsibilities weighing on her shoulders, Sophia had never been to a party again, but when her friends stepped up and threw an insane birthday/new year's party for her, Sophia couldn't say no.  

Leaving the duties of leader for one night, all the Filipina wanted to do was have fun, she greeted everyone who was in her field of vision, hoping that each person she passed was a specific person. To tell you the truth, Sophia liked all people, but at that moment, she only wanted you.   

You and Sophia studied together, when you both finished high school, Filipina went after her dreams, and you went after yours. When you met in Los Angeles, Sophia couldn't believe she was seeing you in front of her again. Talking to you, she found out that you followed your dream in music, and now you were simply Olivia Rodrigo's newest guitarist.   

You came closer again, and it was as if nothing had changed. You were still the same clumsy nerd as always, while Sophia was still that focused and confident woman, as she always was. Sophia knew that you were not very fond of parties, preferring the company of musical instruments to anyone else. But she thought for her birthday it would be different, and you'd swallow the shame and social anxiety for her.   

Sophia's friends spoke to her, they said that you would possibly not show up, not wanting to let the Filipina create false expectations. For a second, Sophia even wanted to believe it, but she couldn't, something inside her created hope that you would appear in the crowd, just because of her.   

When you parked your car in front of the house where the party was taking place, you immediately saw several drunk people, having fun, some arguing and couples making out. When you entered the house, you could hear sighs and whispers, people were talking about you.   

Tonight, you were feeling more confident, your head screaming that Sophia's birthday was too special an occasion for you to wear only sweatshirts. With that in mind, you wore a different outfit, still thinking about comfort, you just changed your hoodie for a black tank top, putting on jeans, your favorite sneakers and some accessories. The tattoos on your arm drew attention, and it was the first time people noticed you and your body.   

Quickly walking past the people and trying to get rid of the stares everyone was giving you, you finally got close to Sophia. The Filipina also looked at you with a look that was hard to decipher, and for a moment you wondered if you should have really come to this party.   

"Happy birthday, Laforteza!" You said, reaching over and making the shorter woman pull you into a tight hug.   

"I thought you wouldn't come." The black-haired woman said, her face buried in your neck.   

"Hey." You walked away, holding both of Sophia's hands. "I wouldn't miss your birthday for anything." Leaning in, you gave Sophia a kiss on the forehead.   

Sophia enjoyed the moment with you before being interrupted by one of your friends, the man quickly approaching and stopping next to you.   

"Wow, YN..." He looked you up and down. "I've never seen you so hot! You're getting everyone's attention at the party."   

When he said that, something clicked in Sophia's head, looking around, she saw that it was true, you had caught the attention of the whole party, and now, half the girls there were looking at you in a way that Sophia didn't like at all.   

"Sophia, who is your kitty friend?" One of Sophia's friends asked, getting close to more of you, according to Sophia.   

"Oh, that's Yn. We went to high school together." Sophia says, coming closer to you and grabbing your biceps, to keep a distance between you and the girl.   

"Well, they always say that the pretty ones end up in Los Angeles." Sophia's friend said, winking at you and bringing the bottle of beer to her mouth. "So, Yn. Are you with anyone?"   

"Oh, I-"  

Before you could answer, Sophia stepped in front, grabbing your wrist and pulling you away, only telling the woman who was trying to flirt with you that she would be back soon. Entering one of the rooms of the house, Sophia finally let go of your wrist, practically throwing her way in as she closed and locked the door.   

"Sophia, are you okay?" You asked, genuinely concerned about the Filipino's strange attitude.   

"I should ask you that, I mean, she was flirting with you shamelessly!" Sophia said, running her hands through her hair. It was as if the Filipina was nervous about something you didn't know.  

 "Oh, I didn't know she was flirting with me..." You say, looking at Sophia afterwards. "Does she have a girlfriend?" Sophia's eyes seem to turn red when you ask this question.  

"Why do you want to know? Are you interested in her?" Sophia asks, by her tone of voice, if someone from the outside saw the two of you, they would be sure you were a couple of girlfriends fighting.    

"No. But the way you're talking, it sounds like she was doing something very wrong in flirting with me..." You said, waiting for a response from the Filipina.   

"She wasn't doing anything wrong." Sophia said, her voice getting lower and lower. "I just got jealous." Sophia said, raising her head and looking in your direction.   

A little surprised by the words of the woman in front of you, you pointed to yourself, wanting to confirm that you had heard it right.   

"You." Your finger pointed toward Sophia. "You're jealous" You continued. "Of me?!" Pointing to your chest you saw Sophia shake her head in confirmation.   

You swore you would faint, your crush has always been saying that he was jealous of a girl flirting with you.   

"I like you, Yn." Sophia said, coming closer to you and making your heart race. "Do you like me?"   

Sophia had pithy eyes, she moved the back of your neck, caressing your hair. When you nodded, Sophia tilted her head to the left.   

"Use words, baby..." Sophia said, her lower lip protruding forward, pouting.   

"I like you too, Sophia." You said, putting your hands on her waist awkwardly.   

"Good girl."  

It was the only thing Sophia said before connecting her lips with yours. The kiss made you feel like you were in free fall, electricity passing through the bodies of the two of you. Sophia's lips were soft and you wanted to kiss her for the rest of your life. 

Slowly moving away, Sophia left small kisses on your lips, until she moved away completely and admired your dirty mouth with her lipstick and lip gloss.   

"Only mine." 

Hello guys, I wanted to post something for Sophia's birthday, and since I was already writing this request, so here it is.

I haven't reviewed it yet, but I think I'll do it tomorrow. Sorry if I have typos, I'm sleepy and a little drunk.

HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS

xoxo, spider.

[itsanerdlife]

Wicked Intentions 17

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Stark!Reader // (Seriously close) Steve Rogers x Reader // Clint Barton x Reader // T’Challa x Reader.

Warning: Violence. Language. Bullying. Girl Fights. Name Calling. Degrading Comments. Angst. Degrade of Woman (to a point). Criminal Life. Illegal Shit. Fights. Alpha Males. Stalking.

Characters: Peter Stark. Howie Stark. Bucky Barnes. Steve Rogers. Clint Barton. TC (T’Challa). Ben Reilly. Cledus Kasady (CK). Brock Rumlow. Gwen Stacy. Wanda Maximoff. Becca Barnes. Amore Lorelei. Kitty Pryde. Frank Castle. George Barnes. Joe Rogers. Winni Barnes. Pepper Stark. Wade Wilson. Eddie Brock. Warner Strucker. Barney Barton. Bobbi Morse. Pietro Maximoff. Logan.

A/N: This is a Bully Romance. High School setting. Mafia Family Life. Woman are on a lower level than males in their world. Just a heads up. This is the third installment of the series. Bad Intentions, Cruel Intentions, and Wicked Intentions.

Credit: Huge shout out to @ml7010 for all the help, pushing, hyping up, putting up with my changes midway through. If it wasn't for this peach, y'all never would have gotten this series or nearly as far as I am now.

Sitting in class, I stare at the back of Ben Reilly’s head. He shifts uncomfortably with the weight of my stare but doesn’t dare look back.

Smart boy.

Out of the corner of my eye I see TC exchange a look with the one behind me. Gwen is smirking to herself, in front of TC.

Warmth creeps in from the back, he leans in on his desk, to get closer to me.

“We have a rule, baby girl.” His chuckle trickles down my neck, making me smirk.

“I haven’t done anything, Boss Man.” Licking my lips as I glance over at him. Pretty blue eyes watching me.

“We can see you.” That pretty face smirking at me. Dragging my bottom lip in, I press my lips together, smirking at him.

“I better be all you see.” Lifting my brows at him, I turn back to stare at Ben. Bucky chuckles, sighing. TC shakes his head, smirking.

“You can’t have bruises for the wedding photos, Y/N.” Gwen whispers at me. “You made your mom a promise.” She gives me a pointed look. Rolling my eyes, I smirk.

“Fine, I’ll hit him with something not my fist.” I shrug.

“I mean,” Gwen shrugs, smiling at Bucky.

“She’s Chaos, I know.” He sighs.

When the bell rings, instead of waiting for Bucky to lead me from the room, I watch Ben practically trip over his feet hurrying from the classroom. Smirking, I slide from my seat, handing my bag over to TC at my side. Practically skipping out of the room, the three following me.

Steve, Clint, Bobbi, and my brothers are joining together as I come down the hall, grinning.

“I love that grin.” Becca slides up next to me, grinning.

“Let’s terrorize someone.” I link my pinky with hers.

“Hell yes.” She falls into step with me as we follow Ben through the halls, towards the cafeteria.

“I want to kick in her in the knees.” Gwen huffs.

“You’ll be back to terrorizing people with Smalls, in no time.” Peter laughs.

“Stevie?” I call looking back. He chuckles, cutting off from us, with a wink. Bucky shakes his head at me, Clint laughs, TC grins at me, Wanda and Sam joining us, from another hall.

Cutting between other students, getting nods, smiles, and a few say “hey”. Buck accepts a few props as we step into the lunchroom. Eyes scanning the room.

Steve’s sitting at a table, Sophia’s legs over his lap, whispering in her ear.

TC nudges me tipping his head towards Ben who is standing there watching the two at the lunch table.

Skipping up next to him, Becca slides up on the other side of him.

“Oof.” I snicker. “Can only imagine what he’s whispering in her ear.” Tipping my head, I glance over again.

Steve’s brushing a lock of hair back, leaning in on her. She’s laughing, blushing, melting into him.

“My brother doesn’t miss.” Becca comments. “Them girls will just forget their boyfriends, give up their trust funds, to take a ride on him.” She snickers.

“Looks like she forgot about you.” I smirk at Ben.

Ben speaks between his teeth. “Why are you doing this, I didn’t do anything.”

Shrugging my shoulder, I take slow steps around him, Becca moving in the opposite direction.

“You’re a spineless little fuck.” I comment.

“And barely scrapping by alive.” Becca smirks at me, over his shoulder.

“True. So spineless little fuck.” I stop in front of him, staring him in the eye. Becca stops at his back. Trapping him still. “Word is, someone in this school is watching me.” Searching his face.

“Everyone watches you. You’re Y/N Stark. You killed Brock. Your dad is the devil. You’re a woman at the table.” He stares back at me.

“Nah, Reilly. Not watching me for who I am. Watching me for someone else.” My lip curls. “You know like your ass did.”

“I don’t know of someone watching you.” His eyes slowly cut past me. Shifting to look back, Steve’s lip locked with Sophia, hand between her thighs, gripping one.

“That’s gotta hurt.” I laugh looking back to Ben.

“Probably like when Buck watched us kiss.” He snaps back, glaring at me. The hand comes from nowhere, gripping Ben’s neck. His eyes get wide.

“Now, now, Reilly.” I smirk. Buck squeezes, Ben gasps. “Watch your mouth.”

“Really shouldn’t have let you live.” Buck growls.

I wait a moment, checking my nails, adjusting my ring on my finger. Taking a deep breath, watching Ben turn red. Locking eyes with Buck, he lets go slowly.

Waiting for Ben to gasp for air for a moment before I continue.

“So you know nothing, about someone watching me.” I ask again. Ben coughs a few times, shaking his head.

“Here’s what we’re going to do. You do that shady shit you think you’re good at. And you report back to TC with anything you hear, or your girl gets fucked by a Saint.” I shrug.

“And in CK fashion, since you crawled so far up his ass, I’ll be sure he films it. Spreads it around school. No denying it then.” Becca hisses near Ben’s ear. Buck smirks.

“And then I’ll cut you from town. Banish you. You’ll be treated like you never existed.” I smile at him.

“Yeah, fine. I’ll report to TC.” He grumbles.

“Awe.” I coo at him. Patting his cheek sharply. “Don’t be so sour Benny, you did this to yourself.” I give him a good smack on the cheek making him flinch away, before whistling loudly. Leaving Ben there, living with his regrets.

——

“Mmm let me ask something.” Sophia tips her head back, giving access to her neck. He trails kisses, nips and the tip of his tongue down the side.

“Hmm” he chuckles.

“Why? You’ve never shown much interest before, now.” She giggles.

She grasps the sides of his face, pulling him back to her mouth. His hand gripping her thigh squeezes cause her to moan into the kiss. Her chest pushed into him, getting as close as she could to him without mounting him in the cafeteria. He hears it in the noise of the room, through the chatter and action. A whistle.

He chuckles pulling back, slipping his hand free.

“Why?” She grins at him.

He pushes her legs off his lap, standing up, putting distance between them. He grins looking over to where Ben Reilly stands watching her.

“Your man don’t look to thrilled.” He laughs, looking back to Sophia who is paling as she stares at her boyfriend. “Oh and I wasn’t interested I never would be in a bottom, nobody like yourself.” He laughs, adjusting his T-shirt.

“Rinse your mouth out and wash your hands, Big Man, might wanna see the nurse for some antibiotics to be safe.” Chaos laughs as she passes them. Sophia sees red. Jumping up from her seat at the table.

“You bitch!” She moves for Y/N only to be cold cocked by Gwen out of the blue. Sophia hits the tiled floor crying.

Y/N grins at Gwen. Who is getting a disappointed look from Peter.

“Oh shove it, Peter. My belly doesn’t outreach my swing yet.” Gwen brushes a pink curl from her face moving on.

“All my bitches love me.” Chaos grins at the rest of them, making them all laugh following her away from Sophia.

------------ Everything Peaches 9/21/24 @mo320 @ml7010 @kmc1989 @babizza @coley0823 @destiel-artemis @royal-sunflower @camelliasblossom @shinycupcakebaker @purpleeclipseeggsland @daughterofthenight117 @hisredheadedgoddess28

Bucky 'Fuck Me Up' Barnes: @jbbarnesgirl @kaylaphantomhive

Series tags: @sebastians-love @otterlycanadian

[manyfandomocs]

Ever After High Fancast

(For my EAH fanfics, here is every named + seen student at Ever After High) if I’m missing anyone, idk, let me know but I already did way more than I probably needed to And anyone is free to use these they’re all a mixture of casts I’ve seen from lots of other platforms + my own thoughts

Apple White, daughter of Snow White - Kathryn Newton

Raven Queen, daughter of the Evil Queen - Jenna Ortega

Briar Beauty, daughter of Sleeping Beauty - Alisha Boe

Madeline Hatter, daughter of the Mad Hatter - Rhea Norwood

Ashlyn Ella, daughter of Cinderella - Sadie Sink

Kitty Cheshire, daughter of the Cheshire Cat - Savannah Lee May

Daring Charming, son of Prince Charming - Ross Lynch

Dexter Charming, son of Prince Charming - Jack Champion

Darling Charming, daughter of Prince Charming - Natalie Alyn Lind

Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio - Whitney Peak

Hunter Huntsman, son of the Huntsman - Booboo Stewart

Lizzie Hearts, daughter of the Queen of Hearts - Anya Taylor Joy

Cerise Hood, daughter of Red Riding Hood - Brittany O’Grady

Ramona Badwolf, daughter of the Big Bad Wolf - Savannah Lee Smith

Rosabella Beauty, daughter of Beauty (Beauty and the Beast) - Isabela Merced

Blondie Lockes, daughter of Goldilocks - Meg Donnelly

C.A. Cupid, daughter of Cupid - Hunter Schafer

Melody Piper, daughter of the Pied Piper - Paris Berelc

Sparrow Hood, son of Robin Hood - KJ Apa

Faybelle Thron, daughter of the Dark Fairy - Ester Expósito

Farrah Goodfairy, daughter of the Fairy Godmother - Brenna D’Amico

Ginger Breadhouse, daughter of the Candy Witch - Halle Bailey

Duchess Swan, daughter of the Swan Princess - Julia Rehwald

Hopper Croakington II, son of the Frog Prince - Dylan O’Brien

Courtly Jester, daughter of the Joker Card - Sophia Anne Caruso

Chase Redford, son of the Red Queen - Sang Heon Lee

Alistair Wonderland, son of Alice - Owen Patrick Joyner

Bunny Blanc, daughter of the White Rabbit - Emma Myers

Poppy O’Hair, daughter of Rapunzel - Sophia Lillis

Holly O’Hair, daughter of Rapunzel - Abigail Cowen

(more in the next post there's so many hold on)

[moistreicher]

Lies of P Headcanons

P and Carlo as a twin

(wrote this while almost falling asleep.)

•Carlo is the mischievous kid while P would be the angel however P seems to get always caught up with Carlo's tricks which puts both of them in trouble despite P was only dragged into it involuntarily.

•Carlo loves to steal P's things like his notebook filled with his inside voice, his book, fountain pen and his favorite handkerchief. P would be confused for all items his missing and worries that he might be too careless of his belongings and needs to keep them in check without knowing Carlo steals it behind his back.

•Carlo might be a little overzealous of P being favored by Geppetto even though he knows to himself that Geppetto loves them both equally (unlike in game where Geppetto didn't even think of anything to P and only using him) but he gets quite possessive of his father's attention everytime he sees Geppetto compliments P. It does not happen everytime where Geppetto would get so affection with P since Carlo is with Geppetto more but he fears the idea of falling out of love which will never happen.

•P is aware of Carlo's hostility towards him everytime he gets close with his father or with Carlo's friend so he tends to stay away from Carlo's friends/acquaintance to avoid such situation with his twin. And would spend time with Gemini and Eugene more and sometimes he'd be lucky and be with Sophia all day. He really distant but he will not distant himself from those who are in favor of his company.

•P might be the angel but he gets a little mischievous sometimes too but not too much that will be out of his character. Sometimes he'd write something on Carlo's notebook with a forged handwriting and mess with his twin by writing some funny names and light teases. He will giggle a little by doing so but completely poker face when Carlo's were to react in front of him.

•Carlo might be mischievous but his dead honest. If you want an honest critique wether how you look or how well you have done, his the right one to ask just be prepared of what his gonna say cause he might have a smile of cute kitty, his tongue does have razors but it won't kill you so just hang on tight.

•If Carlo were to be the honest one then of course P will be the liar. He uses white lies most of the time. He does not lie to do I'll intent but rather to avoid conflict and further uprising problem. If he noticed Carlo were to be doing bad and feel down because of it, he will lie and tell him that he likes what his doing and looking forward for him to improve more so that Carlo can be proud of something. Though he might be able to lift your spirits up with his light words however it is still a lie. A white lie. He does not wish to harm with his lies so please do keep that in mind. A little dishonesty cannot hurt.

•Carlo might have been possessive of his own father and steals P's things only to find out himself that he is also possessive of P. Yes he does feel possessive and jealous if his father were to give P a pat on the head but his also the same towards his own father cause he too wishes to give P some attention that's why he often plays tricks with him but too shy to give him a gentle interaction. The reason why he steals P's things is because he thinks that since P is his twin meaning his other half meaning P belongs to him and what P have is also his. A sense of self claim of his own twin. Though his possessiveness do make up to his name however it did not harm anyone nor anybody.

•Carlo had once interrogated Gemini if his twin were to do something bizarre or something out of ordinary or something he would never do in front of anyone else except Gemini. Gemini didn't know what and why would he answer but he did anyways since Carlo seems quick to show his mischievous side and made Gemini worried. He said that P seems to go to a specific spot and take a riddle from the Kings of Riddles machine and enjoys most of it. And because of that Carlo had always been asking what P did for the day or what other things Carlo does not know. Gemini is getting sick of him and wishes the silent twin back.

•P is quite grateful to have Carlo sometimes especially at banquets and parties they were invited in because of their father. P struggled with the crowds and their questions and Carlo would look like a hero to P so he would often stay with Carlo first then if a crowd were to attract he would disappear immediately leaving Carlo in the spotlight only.

[heartsbreaking]

WANTED CONNECTIONS ( mutuals only )

if you write one of the muses and are interested in interacting or plotting feel free to send some memes or hmu in the ims/on disco

these are 99% platonic, if you want shippy dynamic i have ideas on my muse's info pages

KÀRA HRAFN : i would love interactions with loki, thor, maybe sif or even odin. also i would love to write with wanda or strange, or legit any magic user in the mcu. would love some threads with the young avengers too (especially cassie, kate and wiccan)

ALEKS VASILYEV : would love to write aleks against either of her brothers anatoly & vladimir. would also love to write against any of the defenders and street level heroes in the mcu

MARINA REYES : robbie reyes. give marina her older brother. also any agents of shield muses

CLARY STARK : gimme tony, gimme pepper, gimme peter, mj, ned, flash, gwen, harley, riri, give clary friends.

KITTY CARVER : jason carver, give me sibling things and angst, also give me more interactions with adult muses in hawkins

MADELYN & VIVIAN KELLMAN : someone write gerri for the girls pls i'm begging.

VIVIAN KELLMAN : gimme friends from college, influencer girlies, gimme chaotic ships for her

OPHELIA WAMBSGANS : i would LOVE to have a tom or shiv to write with but i'm incredibly hesitant to approach someone first. i'd also love a kendall, connor or willa.

RAFAELLA FLORES & SOFIA LENNOX : gimme more members of the richmond wfc and plots with other ted lasso muses, i'd also love some interactions with people's other athlete muses

EMILY CRIMM : gimme emily interacting with the richmond team and staff, gimme her dad, give emily friends

ALEJANDRA ROJAS : would love some threads with her getting to know the richmond team/staff, and generally making friends with her older brother's friends. (would pay in cute instagram reels for a dani too)

ALICE LAHEY : more teen wolf muses come interact with her i miss this fandom

BEATRICE DE MARTEL : more interactions with legacies muses (generally begging for this love her or hate her for being a weird lil girly she needs friends and enemies), gimme mikaelson muses too! would love a klaus but i will accept anyone. also if anyone writes aurora and doesn't ship her with her fucking brother come write with me.

CECELIA DE MARTEL : same thing as above, someone find me an aurora to write with that doesn't ship her with her brother so that cece can have her older sister. also same goes above for mikaelsons. i would also love to throw cecelia at more witches

CARRIE DAVIS : gimme more interactions with the yellowjackets thanks

KAT HARRISON : literally any twd muses carl, enid, daryl, rick, alden

CARLY SIMPSON : someone write gwen (carly's co-pilot), give her more interactions with top gun muses in general

DANA CORTELL : give her more interactions with top gun muses,

JACK HARDING : if anyone writes bill, find me. also any twisters muses i would love to put jack in more situations

SABRINA TYLER : gimme brina interacting with the 118 and becoming friends with them through buck, also i will find a way for her to interact with the 126, i'm not sure how but i will

ALYSIA DIAZ : generally would love to see alysia interacting with the 118 & 126, would love a main eddie. would also love interactions with people's musician ocs

SOPHIA DIAZ : would love a main eddie, would love threads with the 118 and also threads with other people's like legal/crime based muses.

STEVIE BURTON : more threads with the 118 :)

LUCIANA SCARCELLA : give me vampire interactions, i would love to build up luciana's history with other vampires (both friendly and unfriendly dyns)

YASMIN KARA-HANANI : i would love to throw yasmin at y'all's muses who are more business and crime based. come love my nepo baby finance girlie

CALYPSO : would love some interactions with other pjo muses, the gods ect

GABRIELLE GAO : gimme bullet train characters, gimme people who know here as an heiress and not an assassin

[starlighthome74]

Homecoming:

Act 2: Scene 4

Masterlist

[Kik isn’t usually one to dress feminine, but they are very excited about this dress. A simple, white, retro-style gown that stopped mid-shin. The bodice was fitted nicely to their form, and the skirt’s volume created the classic 50’s silhouette. This was a dress Sohpia was letting Kik borrow, one she wore to prom in Freshman year. Deb had bought matching pink rose corsages for her, Sophia, and Kik, contrasting sharply with their army green dinosaur watch, a usual accessory fastened on their right wrist. The only missing piece were the shoes, which Deb was going to hand them at Homecoming. Until then, their beat-up Converse would have to do.]

[Music blares over their old stereo, and Kik sways along to it as they mouth the words. They hadn’t felt pretty like this in ages. Spinning in the mirror, they smile softly at their reflection as the fabric of the dress billows around them. The room grows ever brighter, like the sun peaking suddenly out from cloud cover, as Kik realizes that they’re finally going to leave this damn house. Just a little longer.]

[They take a seat at their vanity to get started on makeup, picking up a particularly bright shade of red. Candy Apple Red, the label reads. Opening the lid, Kik twists the bottom of the lipstick and begins to apply.]

[A knock, and Edwin’s head pops in. The room visibly darkens, Kik freezing in their seat.]

EDWIN: Can we talk for a moment?

KIK: Sure, Uncle.

[Edwin opens the door and steps in, standing in the doorway. His expression is something between mild annoyance and gentleness.]

EDWIN: I want to talk about this evening. My expectations.

I’ve decided I will come pick you up at nine, which is a reasonable one hour past curfew and two hours at the event.

[Kik looks up from where they had gone back to their makeup, mouth falling slightly open. Instead of sadness, instead of going along with it, Kik felt something new settle: anger. They meet Edwin’s eyes in the mirror.]

KIK: That’s not fair! You said I could have this sleepover weeks ago, what do you mean you’re picking me up at nine!?

EDWIN: That was before you broke curfew.

[Kik rolls their eyes with a scoff, and Edwin’s face morphs into shock.]

[Kik, for their part, is tired of this constant game. No matter what they do, no matter how obedient they are, it’s never quite enough for him. They drop the mascara in their hands and stand, facing Edwin with a ferocity in their eyes they haven’t had in years. They’re so close to leaving, they can taste it. They won’t let Edwin take this away, too.]

KIK: We both know that’s bullshit. Please, I can be better about curfew and about all of the rules. I just want this one night. I know I’m not normal, but I want to pretend, at least.

EDWIN: Do you think I’m a fucking idiot, Katherine?

[Kik blinks, confused.]

You don’t think I haven’t noticed all of your favorite things disappearing from your room? Your stuffed dinosaur? You don’t think I didn’t notice you smuggling clothes in your backpack?

[Horror dawns on Kik as it dawns on them that Edwin knows, and they step back instinctively. Edwin barks out a laugh at their dumbstruck face.]

EDWIN: You really thought you were clever, didn’t you? Don’t you think I keep an eye on you, Kitty? Wouldn’t want my research to run off.

[Kik feels their heart thrumming in their chest, their breath starting to shake. No. No, this can’t be happening.]

EDWIN: I’ll let you go to Homecoming, but I’ll be making sure that you’re not going anywhere. Hatchetfield High was looking for chaperones, very convenient.

KIK: Fuck you.

[Kik nearly spits the words, and the ferocity of them catches Edwin off guard. He chuckles, leaning against the frame of the door. No way out.]

EDWIN: You’re getting much feistier, aren’t you! Now, there’s no need for that. I know you must be disappointed, but–

KIK: You are a fucking monster. You’re ruining my life because you want to make a name for yourself, but you have to be a great man for that. You’re nothing but a fucking shell, living off others like a leech.

[Hatred spills out of Kik with so much intensity it shocks them. Edwin’s face falls to cold fury. That wasn’t as entertaining, apparently.]

[Edwin pushes himself off of where he’s leaning to stalk closer to Kik, his tall frame looming over them. Kik squares their shoulders and locks their jaw. They’re not going to deal with this anymore, and certainly not while lying down. They are going to fight like hell.]

EDWIN: I’m going to pretend like this didn’t happen. I don’t want to have to stop you from going to Homecoming, but I will if you push me. Are you almost ready to go?

[Kik is almost ready to scream, actually. They fight tears as they try and figure out what to do. They can’t let him win, they’ll never get another chance to run again. Edwin drops the chiding nature from his tone.]

EDWIN: You do look stunning, by the way.

[They can’t risk that. They can’t risk never getting another chance. Shaking their head, they step backward, away from Edwin.]

KIK: I’m not going to do this anymore.

[Edwin sighs, exasperated and condescending, and begins to follow them. Kik realizes that he’s going to make them if he can’t convince them, their eyes search the room for anything they could use–]

EDWIN: How long will it take you to realize that you never had a choice? KIK: No.

[Edwin steps closer, reaching out for Kik, and they can’t breathe. The last few times he’s hurt them flash in their mind, and they realize they’re going to have to fight him.]

[They push their hands into his chest and shove as hard as they can. Edwin stumbles backward, tripping over Kik’s duffle bag they’d packed for tonight. Kik doesn’t waste time, dashing out of the room as Edwin scrambles to his feet.]

[Kik runs down the stairs as fast as they can manage, feet scrambling on the hardwood as they change direction, headed towards the back door. Edwin’s shouts follow them, their name a curse on his lips as his boots thunder behind them. Kik hops the fence, gaining a little more of a lead as Edwin clambers over the obstacle, and takes off into the woods behind their house, heaving breath.]

[Twigs and shrubs scratch their legs and arms, and they keep their eyes ahead of them. The ground ahead of them is uneven, with gnarled roots and moss-covered stones covering the forest floor. Edwin’s gaining on them, and they duck left to dodge his reaching hands. He grunts in frustration, stumbling to a halt and then trying to quickly catch up again. Kik makes the mistake of glancing back, causing their foot to slip on a patch of wet moss. They tumble sideways, landing on the edge of a small creek. As they stand, Edwin snags them by the hair, and they shriek.]

EDWIN: Why couldn’t you just stop fighting?!

[He pulls them closer, locking an arm around their upper body to lock their arms in place. Kik struggles, screaming out as he jerks on their hair.]

I don’t– I never meant to hurt you, you just never comply– Stop fighting!

[He shakes them in his arms, and Kik startles at the harshness of his voice. Desperate, they stomp down as hard as they can on his foot, slipping out of his arms once more. Edwin yells out, snatching Kik by their arms again and throwing them into the creek. Their hands fly forward, but they can’t fully catch themself before their head slams into one of the bigger rocks sticking out of the water. Cold water soaks into the fabric of their dress, now stained with mud from the scuffle, and the world almost feels like it slows down. Kik reels from the sudden sharp pain, and Edwin kneels next to them, and for a moment they think it’s over. Edwin will pick them up, they’ll go home, and it’ll be over.]

[Until his hand finds the back of their head, pushing their face into the icy water.]

[Kik struggles wildly, bubbles spilling from their mouth as they thrash against his hand. He jerks them up by the hair again, watching them sputter and gasp.]

EDWIN: Have we got it out of our system now? Do we feel better after throwing a tantrum?

[Edwin stares at Kik flatly, his tone soft and condescending as they shiver, wrapping their arms around themself. He shakes them a little, making it clear he is looking for a response.]

[Kik spits at him instead.]

[In response, Edwin grabs them by the jaw to shove them in the water again. As Kik opens their mouth to scream, the meaty part between Edwin’s pointer finger and thumb lodge between their teeth. They bite down with all their might, and Edwin lets go, pulling his hand out of the water. His hand bleeds, and Kik spits blood from their mouth as their eyes land on a melon-sized rock.]

EDWIN: AGH! Fuck! I oughta get a goddamned muzzle–

[With a yell, Kik heaves the rock down and smashes it into Edwin’s head, knocking him sideways. They follow, rolling and pinning their Uncle under their weight.]

EDWIN: Wait– Katheri–!!

[THUMP. The rock comes down once, then twice, then a third time. Kik’s screams are so loud the birds in every surrounding tree take flight, tears running down their cheeks. They look down at the scene before them and pant.]

[A otherworldly, insidious giggle fills the silence, hiccupping and shrill.]

[cherienymphe]

What were your fav and least fav moments in season 3 <3

Ok so (spoilers below the cut)

Faves:

Rafe. Literally Rafe. He was just so funny and such a little shit and one of my favorite things about the season

Riara!!! I loved their interactions so much and when he was like "I always liked you Kie" I went what is actually happening right now cause 😭

Jiara! They hurt so good tbh. The difficult and angsty scenes between them were needed imo. I knew it wasn't going to be smooth sailing and it was difficult watching the way her parents treated him and basically threw his own fears about him and kie in his face and my God the self sabotage was driving me insane and they kept highlighting the differences in their classes but they were cute

Cleo. Literally just Cleo but especially her and Pope. I was surprised by how much I loved them because it seemed like OBX was like yeah let's put the two leftover black characters together but unfortunately they were right and they were cute. Hashtag black love I guess 😭

Cleo and JJ. Not what you think. Cleo's genuine fascination with JJ was hilarious to watch. It was like every time he opened his mouth she'd look at him like he was the most bizarre and mind stumping creature she'd ever met. Also them being two sides of the same coin and equally chaotic was everything

Ward dying!!! I rejoiced so loud it was embarrassing

John B reuniting with his dad but the buck stops there (see least fave things for more)

Y'all gone hate me for this one but I was actually here for Sarah and Tooper? And I do not know why tbh. Can't even tell you. Definitely don't hate her and John B. I think I just enjoyed the drama of it all.

Rafe and Barry. Loved seeing the murder boyfriend together again.

Just the mere knowledge that Rafe was getting it in. Good for him. Good for Sophia.

Rafe and Rose fighting. That was very hilarious to me. "You missed"

Everyone looked great

That motorcycle thing JJ did that made my Kitty purr

Topper going off the deep end in a jealous rampage

Pope telling Rafe it's not over like yeah. I look forward to round 4

Kelce 😭 I actually missed him

Topper helping them steal the "cross" like what was he even doing there? It was so funny to me because you have the whole gang and then...topper 😭

Rafe almost choking his dad out. That was great. Also when he almost killed him. That was a moment

Friar Cameron

Least fave:

WARD. FUCKING WARD. I wanted him OUTTA THERE from day one. How he managed to be so self righteous while sucking so bad I do not know

The fact that Rafe didn't kill ward. That was highly disappointing but alas

Big John. Just a horrible father. Found myself wishing he'd stayed missing.

They were putting the boys THROUGH it my gawd. Idk if they were like yeah we tortured tf out of Sarah last season so this season let's make it even. I mean Pope finding out Rafe melted the cross? Almost going on a villain arc? JJ having no home and nowhere to go and being treated like shit by Kie's dad? John B almost dying? Being forced to be an accessory to murder? Getting cheated on while literally going through hell? My goodness

The show is TV MA so how tf you're going to show Sophia waking up in Rafe's bed half naked and show Rafe getting dressed but don't show us what went down in said bed. Why am I watching Sarah and John B about to do the so but I can't get a crumb for Rafe?

Really wanted to see Rafe give Sophia that tour. No I won't shutup about it

Kie's parents. It's amazing how I found myself thinking they'd grown on me because surely it's hard trying to be a parent to Kie with everything going on but then they just weren't listening to her at all and literally forcibly shipping her off was sooo. And then for them to be celebrating their discovery at the end like they didn't doubt her and JJ the whole time was so ugh

[arcplaysgames]

Alice gets bored of these losers and demands that they be thrown in the trash.

I love the little detail that Morgana lands on his feet bc he's a cat, that's really cute.

No one is 'really like' anything, Ryuji, the self is malleable and internal malice that is not released upon the world is toothless. The presence of l'appel du vide does not mean a heart has been corrupted and may not even been a problem in search of a remedy. Our actions in reality are what dictates what is real by definition.

Anyway yeah we're in a trash dump, let's get out of here.

REVERIE WHY DID YOU TOUCH THAT

ooh big spooky block? well well don't mind if I do. THIS IS HOW DOCTOR WHO EPISODE 1x06 "DALEK" HAPPENED, REVERIE!

Now do we say that Sophia or Sophia, because that's super important to me.

What would you like me to become, that's a fascinating question.

Now........ was that a manifestation of what Reverie wants or do you have some kind of prime directive going on? I hope it was Reverie because there would be something understated and sweet about Reverie imbuing a blank slate with his desire for companionship after so long away from his friends.

But also that's probably not what's going on here.

i'm SCREAMING about Morgana being in shocked mode and defaulting to "uh can I help you" HONESTLY says SO MUCH about him

also we're definitely referencing Sly Cooper here right

Persona 5's DNA is literally like 70% Sly Cooper and 30% Bryan Fuller Homoromanticism. That's how you get Persona 5.

man i miss sly cooper.

MORGANA YOU ARE A MEOW MEOW PSSPSSPSSPSS WHISKERY MINT LOVING KITTY CAT. and i love you.

DON'T JUST NOT FINISH THAT SENTENCE, what noun are you putting behind that possessive form, Ryuji, I am DYING to know

are you assuming reverie is adopting another little sister out of the blue bc that does admittedly have precedent. he is an old hand at finding slightly feral traumatized girls and slowly assisting them in acclimating to society.

hm. reverie should be a social worker. he'd probably be great at helping people who have been through traumatic events.

HMMMMMM

/squints at

hm.

we're gonna get along great, sophia, so long as you don't turn out to be a magical manifestation of a spooky phone app that is like Alexa but with Occult powers. please don't wind up being the evil app.

[tenjad129]

The Dream-Quest of Tanya Mousekewitz

WARNING: This is a modified repost of an old blog post from my now-deleted UlyssesBobMac tumblr account, and so, proceed with caution or something...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, young and old, this may seem a very unusual procedure speaking to all of you in a very long while...

But with all four Funko Pop figures from An American Tail of Fievel (pictured), Papa, and Fievel's cat friend Tiger coming on my very doorstep this month, followed by a Funko Pop figure of the Fievel Goes West version of Fievel's sister Tanya (also pictured) coming on my doorstep this coming November , I have this most unusual subject to discuss with all of you:

Now, my appreciation sometimes for the beautiful, the pretty, and the lovely in any kind or type of animated character (whether 2D hand drawn or traditional stop motion animation in the past or especially 3D CGI in more recent times) may have reportedly been stoked maybe when I was a little boy, or perhaps even during some kind of long ago day care screening of one of the lesser known non-Disney animated classics of the early 1990s, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, which would be Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells' 1991 Amblimation-produced sequel to Don Bluth's original 1986 An American Tail film.

While everyone else teared up over the late great James Stewart's last performance (as the voice of the cowboy dog Wylie Burp) -- "one man's sunset is another man's dawn" as he will put it just before the end credits....

And while just about everyone else was roaring about the antics and humorous exploits of Fievel's cat friend Tiger (voiced by the equally late Dom DeLuise, who also voiced Dee Dee's imaginary friend Koosy in Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory)…

Even now, I was mostly enthralled, especially nowadays by this nine minute long segment that occurred between about 44 minutes and about 53 minutes within the 75-minute movie itself:

Now, This sequence, occurring as it was between 44 and 53 minutes into the 75 minute long An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, takes viewers into the world, and especially the dream world, as well as the fulfillment of the 'epic dream-quest', if you will, of Fievel's older sister Tanya Mousekewitz (the Fievel Goes West version of whom some certain Don Bluth fans still can't stop complaining about for not getting along very well with her brother, who happened to be Fievel himself).

In the beginning of the sequence, after a villainous cat dropped Fievel (who ends up being trapped in a wine bottle by T.R. Chula the Spider-Man thingy)...

(Hold it RIGHT there, Catty Are Waul!)

Said cat -- Cat R. Waul, who happened to be voiced by John Cleese of Monty Python fame -- discovers Tanya the mouse girl singing the beautiful and lovely song 'Dreams to Dream' (through the combined singing and music scoring talents of The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's original voice actress, Cathy Cavadini and the late great movie music composer James Horner) to herself while doing chores for her family, The Mousekewitzes...

Just before she sings and dances with a paintbrush before singing and dancing with Cat R. Waul's front paw...

Very beautiful song, isn't it? Anyway, Cat R. Waul took Tanya back into the Green River Saloon that he happen to run, and presents Tanya to Tiger's cat girlfriend Miss [Sophia] Kitty (voiced by Amy Irving, Steven Spielberg's already-divorced wife at the time)…

After an argument between Miss Sophia Kitty and Cat R. Waul, Miss Kitty then comforts the frightened Tanya...

Before allowing her to fulfill her epic dream quest to sing a song or two to the whole entire world, and that is when Tanya gets a very beautiful, lovely, pretty, and VERY stunning saloon show girl makeover:

But after Cat R. Waul finally gets to introduce Tanya on the saloon dance hall stage, she is frightened a little bit...

But Miss Kitty pushes her anyway to the front of the stage, where all the cats booed her very presence...

And this is when Tanya summons up the courage to let a very BIG, LOUD, glass-breaking HIGH singing note fly out of her singing mouth to get everyone's attention while at one point the camera zooms into the inside of her singing mouth....

While unintentionally freeing her little brother from the wine bottle that he's trapped in for most of the segment, of course!

And then, while Chula chases Fievel around the saloon, Tanya finally does a catchy song and dance performance called The Girl You Left Behind, another song that Cathy Cavadini contributed to the Fievel Goes West soundtrack in collaboration with James Horner, and also known as The Girl I Left Behind according to the film’s official end credits roll.

Alas, the spell that Tanya's saloon performance had just cast on even me is soon broken, when, at the end of that nine minute long scene from Fievel Goes West, Tanya rejects Fievel's pleas for her to escape with him from the saloon, and after fetching Fievel a note to read ("Thanks for the adoration..."), was almost last seen in the movie when she pulled away from him and dances away from Fievel after kissing the public away, leaving him devastated before an intricate fadeout or perhaps even a slow and intricate dissolve to later that night...

And that was when they switched all the way over to Fievel and Wylie Burp training Fievel's cat friend Tiger to be a dog. (Although Tanya did return to simply warn the mice crowd and the Mousekewitz family that they are on a mouse trap, only to disappear after removing her saloon showgirl makeup and melt and disappear into the celebrating, dancing mice crowd after the mice declares victory against the cat gang of Green River, Utah, just before Jimmy Stewart's last performance as Wylie Burp doing his last speech to Fievel before the end credits).

So it REALLY dawned on me that many fans of An American Tail (1986), or anything else that Don Bluth himself had ever worked on or even involved in, thought that the makers and writers of its notorious 1991 Don Bluth-less sequel, Fievel Goes West, including writers Charles Swenson and Flint Doyle as well as directors Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells were very unfair to the character of Tanya as well as the relationship between Fievel Mousekewitz (voiced by Phillip Glasser) and his sister Tanya (voiced in Fievel Goes West by The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's voice actress Cathy Cavadini), and not just because there wasn't enough scenes of Tanya in Fievel Goes West itself, but it's probably because since the writers and makers of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West fear that the original Don Bluth film's signature song 'Somewhere Out There' was way too sappy for 1990s audiences at the time, they ultimately ended up having something something very different in the place of Fievel and Tanya's more tightly knit relationship in the original Don Bluth-involved film of An American Tail, and unfortunately for many fans, something much more argumentative a brother and sister relationship, like the kind that one sees in a whole lot of movies and television shows that were made in the 1990s at the time, and it still seemed to them to be something of a ruinous trick, and still does strike some AAT fans as being something of a VERY ruinous trick, certainly as far as what the makers and writers of Fievel Goes West did to Tanya as well as Fievel and Tanya's sibling bond with each other.

And so, there had always been, and always would be some unfair complaints about the Fievel Goes West version of An American Tail's Tanya: Not just because there wasn't enough scenes of her in FGW, but also because her wish and goal and motivation to be an actress and/or a singer was much stronger than Fievel's to the point that she ends up arguing with and ignoring her own little brother altogether. And it was Fievel Goes West that branded Fievel and Tanya's sibling relationship forever!

Also, the female characters in the American Tail franchise (or especially any character who is either not named or other than Fievel or his cat buddy Tiger), like the Don Bluth original film's Bridget, for example, were at their very best memorable especially from afar and at their very worst passive if just plain marginal, just like Tanya herself!

Damn, I always wanted, and just once, for Tanya to actually, really reconcile with, as well as forgive and even apologize to Fievel for not getting along very well with him most of the time in Fievel Goes West!

But still, the beautiful, lovely, pretty, gorgeous, and stunning image of Tanya Mousekewitz, sister of An American Tail's Fievel himself, clad as she was in her saloon showgirl outfit, makeup, and eye shading, and so vividly, so beautifully, so subtly to life by a team lead by Dutch-born animation artist Rob Stevenhagen (who, along with co-directors Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells and character designer Uli Meyer had also previously worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Richard Williams and for Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg back in 1988), was still burned into my memory even to this very day and age.

Now, the subplot in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West that involves Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewitz and her epic dream-quest to sing a song or two to the whole, entire world at large, even in a saloon and dance hall pack full of kitty cats, was now my most favorite part from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) itself, for a few reasons:

1) First of all, I thought what Tanya first sang in the fully excerpted nine minute sequence posted above (the aforementioned Dreams to Dream as sung by Cathy Cavadini for the movie) is guaranteed to REALLY TOUCH my own heart all the way down to its very core (just as Cavadini's song demo of Dreams to Dream did to the aforementioned James Horner's, so much so in fact, that he successfully persuaded one of the movie's producers, Steven Spielberg, to hire Cathy Cavadini as the new voice of Tanya in Fievel Goes West, though, according to Cavadini herself, Tanya was already voiced for that movie by somebody else replacing Amy Green, the original voice of Tanya in the Don Bluth movie).

2) Secondly, I thought that 'this (Tanya singing Dreams to Dream as well as her pretty saloon girl dress and makeup and her subsequent saloon dance hall singing and dancing performance) has got to be the loveliest and most beautifully stunning (if one of) things or scenes that I have ever, EVER seen outside of Disney's 1990s Renaissance revival, and not long before the rise of the Toy Story studio PIXAR or even Spielberg's own DreamWorks Animation (the latter now being famous and legendary as the studio behind the Shrek films)!'

3) The third thing I thought was "I hope someday, Fievel's sister Tanya could take center stage in her very own story (or at least especially one outside of that one subplot involving her within Fievel Goes West)!"

and especially...

4) Finally, and last but not least, the fourth thing is that, given my reaction even when watching An American Tail: Fievel Goes West especially as a child myself, I REALLY and always wanted Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz (or the Fievel Goes West incarnations or designs of both characters, in particular) to end up fixing and reconciling their tightly knit sibling bond sometime beyond the events of Fievel Goes West itself even after not getting along well by the end of that 75 minute long cartoon movie from the early 90s. And it would still seem that I always sympathized with both Fievel as well as the version of Tanya as she appeared in Fievel Goes West itself, a sort of sentiment that some or many fans of the American Tail movies hopefully shares with me. And in a way, and even though I must still have to make my lifelong dream movie epic entirely my very own, my lifelong dream movie epic idea and project, though I still don't know what may be its ultimate name, shape and form yet, should also be my very own way of making such a childhood or even lifelong wish come true one day, even if, in so many other ways, my lifelong dream movie epic project and ideas should also especially be a sort of reboot of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West itself (even if it may come complete with similar visual character or creature designs to Amblimation's design variations for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West on the Don Bluth-type animated cartoon mouse character designs as they were visually depicted in now classic stuff such as Don Bluth's work on The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail) , among many other inspirations and influences on me and the movie epic of my lifelong dreams, though, again, I still don't know what its ultimate name, shape and form should really be!

I mean, I also liked the Fievel Goes West character redesign of Tanya (the art of which comes complete with two tufts of brown hair at the front, and a GREAT BIG brown, furry ponytail sticking from the back of her head) more than the incarnation of her with the Eastern European headscarf in the Don Bluth-involved original.

Now, to be fully truthful, saying that Fievel Goes West lives not only in the shadow of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) but also in the shadow of Don Bluth's Original American Tail as far as even the American Tail franchise goes may well be a VERY big understatement of facts.

The cinematic and animation worlds seems to be divided into two different camps: those for whom every frame of animation art featuring Fievel of An American Tail fame should be enshrined in some golden vault or even some kind of golden archive, and those for whom Steven Spielberg presented and produced for us all around the world the first two American Tail films (both the Don Bluth original and especially the Amblimation-produced Fievel Goes West) as well as the original 1988 Land Before Time movie (with Don Bluth as well as with Star Wars creator George Lucas) and only the respective original films of An American Tail and The Land Before Time are [STILL] worth remembering.

As usual, the truth may lie somewhere in the very middle in between. Was everything starring American Tail's Fievel the mouse or Land Before Time's little sauropod dinosaur protagonist Littlefoot all that good or great? No, not always quite.

Were the original American Tail and Land Before Time films from Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg (and plus, in the case of the first Land Before Time movie itself, Star Wars creator George Lucas) the only worthy films ever to come out of their entire respective franchises? No, not at all!

But anyway, yes, it is true that after Bluth's breakup from Spielberg over the latter's interference on the former's work on Land Before Time, things started to become progressively tough for both Don Bluth himself and Steven Spielberg's VERY own theatrical big screen animation production and presentation output, and that An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is admittedly still notorious in so many Hollywood circles and especially among the Don Bluth fandom for lacking in the dramatic or nightmarish soul and spirit that everyone had come to know and love about the original 1986 Don Bluth American Tail (in fact, some thought Fievel Goes West to be way too wacky, way too comedic, and especially, way too lighthearted in tone) and the fact that, as a box office failure coming and going in the shadow of Disney's 1991 animated Best Picture Oscar nominee, Beauty and the Beast, it contributed to the eventual decline or downfall of Steven Spielberg's cartoon animation production and presentation output (despite the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit three years earlier, and a further three years on from Fievel Goes West itself, Spielberg cofounding DreamWorks with David Geffen and ex-Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg 30 years ago in 1994), but actually, Fievel Goes West will always and forever be best remembered perhaps for featuring Jimmy Stewart's last performance (as the voice of the aforementioned Wylie Burp), and it certainly is not as terrible, bad, or insulting as the critics and reviewers of the time would label it.

But anyway...

WHAT are your own memories of and also your own opinion on Tanya Mousekewitz and her quest to sing a song (or two) in Fievel Goes West?

P.S. PLEASE just try and be safe from all that Hurricane Milton chaos down there, ladies and gentlemen, if you happen to be somewhere down in Florida...

[bohnsky]

My favorite drivers 2 months and 3 weeks into liking F1:

1. Alex Albon

Nothing changed here. Albono is probably the love of my life. I even had a dream about him in which I was more or less friends with him and had the biggest crush on him. He just seems like such a nice, fun and genuine guy and I would give (almost) everything I own to be friends with him.

The weekend wasn't optimal for Williams, but it wasn't the worst and as long as Alex is fine, I'm happy.

Also I finally started to appreciate Lily the way she deserves. I know it's toxic af, but I always find myself having problems with the wags just because of pure jealousy, especially when it comes to people like Alex (I just love him so much). But I try my best not to. I've always liked Lily as a person and now I finally also like her as Albono's wag. She seems to be good to him and they both deserve to be happy.

2. Sergio Perez

Yes he's still up here, I'm still obsessed. And I'm still sad that there seem to be very few people who don't constantly make fun of him. Bless everyone who is nice to him.

I am soooo insanely happy that both quali and race went well for him for once. But the sprint race sucked. And for some reason my brother felt the need to make fun of him for DNFing. Like he didn't even watch it, he has no idea what happened, but felt the need to rub that in my face. But I guess that's what a brother is there for.

I've been reading tons of Chestappen fics lately. I'm really sad that I got into f1 too late and missed their honeymoon phase. I joined after the divorce. Which is probably for the better, because it would've hurt too much seeing the divorce in real time.

Seeing them on the podium together was greath tho :)

I just wish they would hug :(

3. Charles Leclerc

Charles on Pole and P3 in the race!!!! I was so happy for him!! P1 or 2 would've been better of course, but there is no stopping Red Bull so it's basically a win and I love that for him.

Also is it just me or is it super awkward when the Red Bulls are basically ignoring Charles when spraying Champagne on the podium? He deserves some attention as well😭😭

Honerable mentions:

Sophia Flörsch. She's not in F1 but F3, but I just need to mention her. The first woman to score points, I'm so proud of her😭😭

And damn what a race starting from P24 to P7. She deserves way more attention than she's getting, so please take this as your sign to go support Sophia!

Max. As always, his hair. And him in civil clothing is going to kill me someday. It's not like I'm seeking Max content (except for Chestappen or Lestappen stuff), but when I see it I usually like it. His smile is the sweetest and the hug he shared with Christian after the race made me melt.

And I feel like I need to say again that even if I don't like this total domination that's going on, Max totally deserves it. He just is that good.

Lance. I need simply need more Lance content, preferably Strollonso content, thank you very much. Lance just seems like a sweetheart to me. I usually don't like giving celebs, or people I don't personally know pet names, but Lance is such a baby girl, the princess of kitty town.

Saturday drove me crazy. I felt so bad for Lance crashing because he changed to slicks and basically destroying not only his and Fernandos chance of getting into Q3, but also the Williams. He must've felt so bad. I know I would've.

But hey, we got stroints.

Esteban. It's the same with Charles and Pierre. I started liking Pierre mainly because he's close to Charles and now I start paying more attention to Esteban. And he's a really good driver. I love that for him.

Fernando. My mom, who doesn't know anything about f1 or the drivers, randomly said that she likes Fernando the most. When I asked why she said because of the f1 intro. She thinks he looks likable and I think that's funny.

Also big F for him, I hope he got to enjoy his birthday despite all the shit that was going down in Aston that day.

Pierre. I was so happy for him! It was "only" a sprint race, but podium is podium.

Also I've been reading many Yukierre fics lately for some reason.

Yuki. Like I said, I've been reading a lot of Yukierre. But also, Yuki got points :D

And my brother said something against Yuki, which made me mad (he likes to dislike the things I like, honsetly I'm just glad he doesn't shit on Alex)

Carlos. The team really made him drive half the race with a broken car. It sucks so bad, I just want my vroom vroom boys to be happy :(

Also Carlando are just so cute, I can't with them.

Oscar. Same as Carlos. Oscar just had such a good weekend and then he has to retire after the first turn. That was really sad!

So that's it for now, hope everyone gets to relax a bit during summer break :)

[lenniharrisonsims]

Four Year Anniversary Portraits

Holy Simsdom Empire, Glimmerbrooke

Imperial Palace

HIM Tsarina Ekaterina Ivanov

Full Name: Ekaterina Olga Ivanov Title(s): Empress Regnant of Simsdom Empire Nickname(s): Kat, Kitty Birthday: January 13th Residence(s): Imperial Palace (Glimmerbrooke) Previous Names/Titles: Crown Princess of Simsdom Empire, Crown Princess Ekaterina Ivanov-Norton, Princess of Britechester, Duchess of Foxbury, Queen Consort of Willow Creek  Parents: TIM Tsar Alexei & Tsarina Nadia Ivanov Spouse: HIH Prince-Consort Matthew Norton Children: Crown Princess Ophelia, Princess Rosalind, Prince Benedict

HIH Prince Consort Matthew Norton

Full Name: Matthew Richard Norton Title(s): Prince-Consort of Simsdom Empire, Admiral in Imperial Navy Nickname(s): Matt, Matty Birthday: October 27th Residence(s): Imperial Palace (Glimmerbrooke) Previous Names/Titles: Crown Prince of Willow Creek, King of Willow Creek, Prince of Britechester, Duke of Foxbury  Parents: TM King Richard & Queen Sophia Norton Spouse: HIM Tsarina Ekaterina Ivanov Children: Crown Princess Ophelia, Princess Rosalind, Prince Benedict

HIH Crown Princess Ophelia Ivanov

Full Name: Ophelia Nadia Ivanov Title(s): Crown Princess of Simsdom Empire, Princess of Britechester, Duchess of Foxbury Nickname(s): O Birthday: May 4th Residence(s): Darkwing House (Britechester), Maritime Manor (Foxbury) Previous Names/Titles: Princess of Simsdom Empire Parents: HIM Tsarina Ekaterina & HIH Prince Matthew Partner: Naval Cadet Luke Marin Children: N/A

Naval Cadet Luke Marin

Full Name: Luke Arthur Marin Title(s): Naval Cadet in Imperial Navy Nickname(s): N/A Birthday: February 8th Residence(s): Darkwing House, Marin Family Residence (Britechester) Previous Names/Titles: N/A Parents: Mrs. Allison Marin & Mr. Owain Marin Partner: HIH Crown Princess Ophelia Ivanov Children: N/A

HIH Prince Benedict Ivanov

Full Name: Benedict Richard Ivanov Title(s): Prince of Simsdom Empire, Marquess of Gibbs Hill, Naval Cadet in Imperial Navy Nickname(s): Ben, Benny Birthday: July 20th Residence(s): Imperial Palace (Glimmerbrooke), Gibbs Hill House (Britechester) Previous Names/Titles: N/A Parents: HIM Tsarina Ekaterina & HIH Prince Matthew Partner: Miss Taylor Prescott Children: N/A

Miss Taylor Prescott

Full Name: Taylor Eloise Prescott Title(s): N/A Nickname(s): Tay Birthday: February 27th Residence(s): Prescott Family Residence (Henford) Previous Names/Titles: N/A Parents: Mr. Prescott Partner: HIH Prince Benedict Ivanov Children: N/A

HIM Dowager Tsarina Nadia Ivanov

Full Name:  Nadia Katherine Ivanov Title(s): Dowager Tsarina of Simsdom Empire Nickname(s): Nadie Birthday: July 7th Residence(s): Hayes Park (Glimmerbrooke) Previous Names/Titles: Princess Nadia Amsberg of Cestana, Tsarina Nadia Ivanov Parents: TM King Leopold & Queen Wilhelmine Amsberg of Cestana Spouse: HIM Tsar Alexei Ivanov Children: Tsarina Ekaterina, Queen Anastasia, Queen Misha, Princess Maria, Prince Nickolai, Princess Natasha, Prince Yuri, Prince Ygor, Princess Yelena

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Steel slides out slick over a flood that turns crimson-stained cloth redder, darker, warmer, wetter with new blood before Griss realizes that he's laughing right in the kid's face. Or that the flames beneath the cauldron have started at a stray corner of his robe, licking it black. Or that he'd caught himself with one arm thrown haphazardly over the rim of the cauldron, that hot iron sears a line on the underside, or that he's plunged his hand into the scalding liquid and that when he pulls it out, it comes out clean but angry-pink.

He's always surprised at how easy it is to manipulate emotions. How all those "bonds" people like this kid think make them strong are really just big, glaring weak spots waiting to be exploited. He'd read the scriptures, he knew them like the back of his hand, but it'd been hard for him to imagine how anyone would fall prey to it. Chad isn't the first victim he'd witnessed, but it still surprises him that the knife had made its way to his shoulder, and that his ears ring with some saccharine declaration about friendship.

With the blood, a throbbing pain blooms from his shoulder. Just like always, it feels like something he's never been able to have but covets nonetheless. An addiction always demanding more.

His eyes flutter shut for a moment and he looks like he's savoring it all - the new scent of blood, his aching shoulder, the burn under his arm, the sting across his fingers.

"Mm, that feels good. Kitty's got claws after all." Slowly, he opens his eyes and smiles. "Wonder what Sophia's gonna think? I bet you made up a cute story about what I did to her, or what I might do, but here's the thing you're missing: she'd tried to heal me earlier outta the goodness of her heart. So that means we're practically friends."

Inching out from under Chad and the cauldron, he manages to get his feet back underneath him again.

"Now I've got something she can take care of, just like she wanted." A gesture at his bloody shoulder. "I bet she'll be thrilled to learn her little kitty cat did it."

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Possible Other Book Pairings Part 1: Pride & Prejudice

I’m kind of a strange JAFF writer because I have very few One True Pairings. The only pairing in Jane Austen I will not mess with is Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland because I love them too much. I’ll happily kill Elizabeth Bennet or make her and Darcy never meet. And I am always trying to get Fanny away from Edmund. I might write up some of these in the future, but here are my possible cross book pairings for P&P characters:

I wrote a Persuasion and P&P crossover (which you can currently read for free) and spoilers, the pairings were Louisa Musgrove & Bingley, Anne & Darcy, Elizabeth & Wentworth, Jane & Captain Benwick, and Caroline & Mr. Elliot (he likes her, it’s fine). I also prevented the Wickham/Lydia debacle and Mary married Mr. Collins.

Northanger Abbey: I think Darcy would be interested in Eleanor Tilney, but he’d probably see Catherine as a little sister. Bingley might be drawn in by Isabella Thorpe but he’d get over her pretty fast. Caroline divides her flirting time between Frederick Tilney and Darcy. I think Elizabeth would find Henry Tilney fun but I don’t know if they would actually work as a couple (they both like to talk too much). I think Jane might be better suited to Henry. Lydia would probably actually like John Thorpe and would definitely be BFFs with Isabella.

Emma: Emma and Darcy would probably like each other but that pairing would be THE WORST and WE CANNOT ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN. I am fairly certain that Darcy wouldn’t agree to move to Hartfield full time so we are safe. Emma and Darcy are basically the same person and I think they’d bring out the absolute worst in each other. Bingley would probably like Jane Fairfax, and I could see Frank Churchill being interested in Georgiana (aged up a little), though he’d flirt with Elizabeth. I think Elizabeth would be happy with John Knightley. Lydia and Kitty would be all gaga over the Hot Preacher Mr. Elton, but as he’s looking for money he’d be after the newly rich Miss King. Charlotte makes a play for Mr. Woodhouse. I could also see Jane being happy with Mr. Weston.

Sense and Sensibility: Darcy would probably love Elinor and hate Marianne. Bingley goes for Marianne’s looks, not sure if he would like her personality... but to be honest he might find it endearing. Lucy Steele would be ready to try for both Darcy and Bingley, probably focusing on the easier mark of Bingley. I think he would see through her and Darcy certainly would. Wickham would try for Sophia Grey. Elizabeth would probably love Willoughby and then be disgusted by him when she found out the truth. I could see Jane liking Colonel Brandon. I’m not sure if anyone pairs well with Edward… maybe Jane? Jane can’t marry everyone! Lydia and Kitty would be all over Willoughby but probably dismiss Colonel Brandon as too old. None of the men are rich enough for Caroline.

Mansfield Park: Bingley has trouble picking between the two beautiful Miss Bertrams but settles on Julia because she actually has an okay personality. Darcy is completely uninterested in them, but is drawn in by Mary Crawford. He clues in to her amorality WAY FASTER than Edmund and then falls for Fanny because she is awesome (she also activates Saviour Complexes and we know Darcy has one of those). Elizabeth would probably like Henry Crawford but if he tried the flirting-with-multiple-sisters thing she would shut him down (because she actually has good sister relationships). I could see Edmund maybe getting together with Jane. Caroline tries for Tom Bertram, since he’s the heir, and has very little success because she’s not a racehorse and that’s what he’s into right now. Lydia and Kitty fawn over William Price with all his exciting sea journeys. Henry Crawford probably wouldn’t actually marry.

(And yes, I leave out Mary Bennet a lot, I just don’t find her very interesting or likable...)