#TCL fanfiction

[idealisticrealism]

Chapter 1/6, 1500 words, Thony x Arman, warning for graphic depictions of violence

Summary:

Hayak finds out about the guns, and Arman pays the price.

(set around 1x07)

[kneazle]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Cleaning Lady (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thony De La Rosa/Arman Morales Characters: Arman Morales, Thony De La Rosa Additional Tags: post 2x05, 2x04 mentioned, things get Spicy, but it's not complete smut? Idk, Softness Summary:

Thony was the warm shore and he was the cool ocean constantly reaching, running to meet the shore but never able to stay.

[cor-ardens-archive]

cavehags

omg this is fascinating! i've never read the carnivorous lamb and now i think i'm going to have to. this is such a good and thoughtful review. i agree, this was not a good movie -- i cannot understand the desire to take intentionally "edgy" subject matter and present it as completely lacking in conflict, not only in terms of power differentials and trauma but also in terms of normal life stuff!

thank you for this!!! this movie does not deserve the depth of your thoughts on it

i cannot understand it either, and i was unsure if the writer-director wanted to make it edgy of it was a personal fantasy of his or what. maybe he thought it would raise interest, which i suppose it did, because i’ve only ever seen people refer to it as the gay incest movie.

also, thank YOU for the ask, i’ve been dying to talk about the carnivorous lamb reference since hardly anyone’s familiar with both works. i don’t exactly recommend the carnivorous lamb because it’s just hard to recommend something like that, but it’s definitely worth a read if you’re interested. i’m just fascinated by stories that explore both war and family abuse & dysfunction. there are many cringe moments in the book that made me laugh, but like. in discomfort. it also has cocsa, and some scenes are quite explicit.

like i said, it’s often ridiculous and theatrical, but in a way that makes sense, it’s definitely not edgy just for the sake of being edgy like do começo ao fim.

also to address your parenthetical - and i hate to tell another absurd story about my life, BUT - my high school girlfriend made me watch this to pregame for reading her supernatural fanfiction. SORRY

YOUR GIRLFRIEND DID WHAT

(was it wincest fanfiction? because that would make sense)

inescutcheon

my thoughts on the subject haven’t yet fully crystallized, but whereas TCL felt like it knowingly straddled the line between tragedy and farce, sincerity and cynicism, DCAF felt like it oddly wasn’t bold enough to commit to saying something with the story it set out to tell, which was reflected in how it did not contain the same… idk, tension, perhaps, in the narrative emotion allowed to dominate

i agree fully! i think DCAF was afraid of itself or even of committing to anything. it doesn’t really have much to say, and the ridiculousness is just that, ridiculous, while in TCL it serves a purpose. it’s like a play and the characters know it, but they still have painful moments of humanity. 

courtesyname

Ouvi falar que esse filme parece um comercial de margarina

é exatamente isso que parece. tem uma cena, por exemplo, que eles tão lendo uma poesia de hilda hilst, e em teoria devia ser interessante, mas na prática parece exatamente um comercial de margarina.

[capricious-writes]

21 Questions Tag Game

Rules: Answer 21 Questions (they do not have to be the same questions) and tag [21] people (Don’t know who to tag right now, so I’m gonna leave this one open ended)

Tagged by @quilloftheclouds    

>>> There, I finally got this all filled out! There was no way I was gonna just give this one up, because there were one or two questions that I REALLY wanted to answer ... <<<

 1. Height?

I’m 5′7″. Not 5′6″. NOT 5′6″ (I will go to my grave with this) [Excuse me I have a taller younger sister]

2. Eye Color?

Medium Light Brown (Glorious) Idk

3. Hair Color?

Chocolate Brown (Equally GLORIOUS)

4. Favorite Color?

Brown. (See it’s all falling together)

I actually have an incredibly complex system of favorite colors for different reasons, the explanation alone of which would take multiple paragraphs, but - 

- Brown

- Pink

- Purple

- Orange 

- Green

(in that order... why am I like this?) I don’t care, it’s fun

5. Favorite IceCream?

Default Chocolate, but sometimes I need a mix-up.

6. Favorite Music Genre?

EDM. I didn’t used to know edm ~existed~ so I thought I liked pop-music. But what I really loved was the strong beats, the electric syncronicity, and the strong technic sort of sound. Yeah - that’s EDM apparently. 

7. Favorite Song?

Default - Party In My Head by September

8. Following How Many Blogs?

wow, 95 apparently. I’ve never looked at that till today, and I’m certain it’s increased within the last week or two from slipping into Writerblr territory.

9.  Favorite way to procastinate from writing (Besides Tumblr)?

My Favorite? Probably laying on my bed and staring at the ceiling while I wonder if I’m gonna take a nap. I like it because a) it’s mind decluttering time, and b) maybe I get bored and try to write. I don’t do it TOO often though.

10. Favorite way to get inspired for writing?

Just think about what’ll be interesting about the next scene I write. Or focus on what scene I want to get to. Otherwise, not sure really.

11. Favorite Live action movie?

Knight and Day. Whatever its issues - it’s my default ‘favorite,’ even if I’ve seen a better movie. It’s got tons of action and humour and I LOVE that. AND I’ve rewatched it several times - rewatch value is always a big one. It’s a tad lackluster, story-wise, but it still entertains every time.

12. Favorite Non-Disney cartoon

There are way too many good ones, so I’m going to have to default to all the animated Justice League cartoons. Mainly because their batman is my FAVORITE batman, despite even them not blending the Bruce IS Batman idea together. I think Gotham got the closest to that, but I haven’t watched more than a season of it I think. 

13. Favorite Disney cartoon

So hard to say! Cars 3 was particularly satisfying because I knew the movie was going to be fantastic the moment the trailer took my breath away. On the other hand, there’s also the fantastic DuckTales reboot - but then there’s always the Milo Murphy show that tied in with Phineas and Ferb during its finale and - 

Guys there’s too many!

14. Favorite Book character

I really liked Artemis Fowl. Him being a protagonist good guy as a villian slowly reforming himself without knowing was SUCH an amazing characterization. There was always something missing from it though. I could never quite pinpoint what,  but it got SO close that it was still the most brilliant and fantastic thing I’d read up to that point. 

15. Favorite Fanfiction

Very difficult. “Flowey Isn’t a Good Life Coach” had me hooked for two days until I finished it (leaving me empty, disorientated, and lost). But there was also tons of Gravity Falls fanfic that I adored (I made a rec list on my mainblog a while back too actually). And I think there was another fandom that I just had to look at ... but I don’t remember it right now. 

16. First Original Story

I have these spiral notebooks with words in them from when I was 12. Half ready and rumbling to write, half seventh grade writing project - I think my MC was named Jane? No more than 20,000 words at most.

- Girl goes to different world where danger threatens to destroy it. She is 'chosen one' in a line of 'chosen ones' and her best friend is actually from there. He's basically been her guardian all the while, and he's sort of half lizard mutant.

- Along the way they meet a useless mad old man. An angsty but suave, but irritable dude named shadow. And a more sensible local guy who leaves his 'tribe' to help save his world.

I just ... I love how - to use a euphamism - how 'classic' it is.

But you know what, there are some good parts. Just starting out, tropes, cliches, and plenty of mistakes sure. But it’s also telling of my style even just beginning. For instance, the main MC and her friend that’s a Guy have these moments that are really close and build their relationship - but it’s not romantic. Everyone’s ‘friends,’ and it’s really telling of where my priorities aren’t, ha.

17. Favorite Book

I DON’T KNOW. HOW DOES ANYONE CHOOSE?

18. Favorite Book Genre

Action, adventure, but also with magic-is-science I guess? 

19. Favorite Trope?

I love funny tropes I guess. Subverted tropes. Oh! I recently saw a drabbled post about a villian and hero’s friendly, but still antagonistic relationship. I ADORE that. Think Doofenshmirts and Perry the Platypus's relationship. Or Megamind and Metroman. It’s fantastic.

20. 5 skills/interests you have other than writing

1. Amateur-Intermediate Origami

2. Amateur-Intermediate Piano

3. Amateur-Intermediate Lollygagging

I don’t really know what else. My interests leap from place to place. 

21. 5 Fav Mythology Creatures

1. Dragons are cool

2. Phoenixes are GREAT

3. Kitsune and or Foxes with lots of tails are just - Stunning 

4. Three-headed doggies are thrice the fun, adorableness and blood curdling terror

And I’m required to say Gargoyle, because I have another WIP named the same after the MC. I’m completely ignoring it until Blooming Under Night is finished (or I decide to be a fickle beast), but it does have a few thousand words to its credit, sitting in a file just waiting for me to figure out how to give it proper TCL. 

[idealisticrealism]

1100 words, Thony x Arman, nil warnings

Summary:

Arman goes to Marco's funeral.

Canon divergence for 2x02.

[idealisticrealism]

[idealisticrealism]

1600 words, Thony x Arman, nil warnings

Summary:

Arman learns what Kamdar did to Thony at their first meeting, and Kamdar learns more than Arman intends him to.

(Canon Divergence set roughly between 2x03 and 2x04)

[idealisticrealism]

2200 words, Thony x Arman, warning for crude language

Summary:

She calls, and he comes running. Or: my version of the phone call between Thony and Arman in 2x04.

[idealisticrealism]

Oneshot, 2800 words, Thony x Arman, nil warnings

Summary:

Just as he gets out of one set of chains, he finds himself in another.

Somehow, though, he's going to find his way back to her.

(Or: an expansion of the Armony reunion in 2x03.)

[idealisticrealism]

Your Cage Is Mine (The Cleaning Lady fanfic)

Your Cage Is Mine 1800 words, Thony x Arman, nil warnings

Summary: He may be the one behind bars, but she's just as trapped– and only together can either of them be free.

Or: an expansion of Thony and Arman's phone conversation from 2x01.

(Also, here is the newest chapter of Little Messes, since I forgot to make a post about it lol)

[idealisticrealism]

Someday Soon (The Cleaning Lady fanfic)

Someday Soon

Summary: Arman spends his first morning with Luca and Thony.

(Futurefic, newly-established relationship)

1400 words, Thony x Arman, nil warnings

[idealisticrealism]

Chapters 2 and 3 now up!

Chapter 1/6, 1500 words, Thony x Arman, warning for graphic depictions of violence

Summary:

Hayak finds out about the guns, and Arman pays the price.

(set around 1x07)

[idealisticrealism]

Chapter 4 is up!

Chapter 1/6, 1500 words, Thony x Arman, warning for graphic depictions of violence

Summary:

Hayak finds out about the guns, and Arman pays the price.

(set around 1x07)