#The randal one is my fave

[phrandallanton]

Had a drawing fit last night, drew all these at 2 in the morning lol

[lizardsfromspace]

My fave RFK Jr. campaign ad was the one where he rambled about "organic pest control" while ladybugs crawled all over him. It looked low-res because every RFK Jr. campaign ad looks and sounds like a VHS tape you find in a valley after hikers go missing.

People will be debating what he was for many years to come. Is he the Kennedy Curse embodied into a man? Was he Randall Flagg? Was he some sort of congealed mass of the country's runaway id, a kind of Armus for American? Is he, as Dante wrote about in Dante's book, Dante's Inferno, someone whose soul went to Heck before he died so his body could be puppetered by some kind of demon? Is he some kind of omen of doom? Underneath, is he made of locusts?

All are valid possibilities, but all we know is that there was a guy who ran for President who apparently likes to attract swarms of vermin & to skin wildlife he kills to see what they look like on the inside, and who blithely uploaded campaign ads that visibly showed his own supporters repulsed and unsettled by what he's saying. May we live to see his like again

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Okay yes to all of these but also when Will and Hannibal are "assessing" Randall Tiers' mutilated body together at the crime scene and they're flirting so hard and Jack is so tired

List of times that Hannibal and/or Will were definitely horny

When Hannibal is wrist deep in that guy in the ambulance and Will is watching like he also wants Hannibal to be wrist deep in him

After Will gets out of prison, when he corners Hannibal in his kitchen with a gun to his head and they're both hoping that a bullet isn't all Will is going to put in him

When Will started therapy again and they were talking about Will killing Hannibal with his bare hands and Will licks his lips and says "I don't want to kill you anymore Dr. Lecter, not now that I finally find you interesting" but they were both obviously thinking there were other interesting things Will could do with his bare hands

When Will and Hannibal were talking in Hannibal's office after Tobias tried to kill him (although this is less horny and more of them both looking like "I need to lay him out and explore his scars old and new and create scars of my own. I'm the only one capable of properly worshipping him.")

When Hannibal goes to hand Will the knife in the scene where Will provides the meat from "Freddie" and Will is very clearly not looking at Hannibal's face but somewhere lower.

In the barn when Hannibal stops Will from killing Clark Ingram and Hannibal is talking about Will emerging from the chrysalis and hoping Will will come out in more ways than one.

Please feel free to add to this list!

[lgbtqreads]

Would love some recs for queer books centering on fandom or nerd culture if you've got 'em! Especially YA, but I'll take any age category!

Oh this is such a love of mine. First of all, if you haven’t read MK England, you are in for a treat - check out their Romance under Remi K. England, The One True Me and You, and their upcoming Roll for Love. Christen Randall’s The No-Girlfriend Rule was a big fave of mine this year, and def also try Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde, My Year Zero by Rachel Gold, Looking for Group by Alexis Hall, and, for a thriller, Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp.

Less nerd culture but heavier on fandom, two huuuuuge faves of mine are Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min and How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis. Like all-time, please do not miss them faves. I also really liked Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner (but know that it is not a Romance!) and I haven’t read The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston, but it’s def a good fit and I loved Geekerella, which came first but wasn’t queer.

[jedimemories]

The things I wanna see in Season 3 of Monsters at work!

Roger & Duncan episode, I need something fluff like hugging or figure out some kind of problem together. Because they're were so cute.

Banana Bread & Ms Flint, they're my fave couple.

Banana Bread and Thalia bonding.

More Duncan

Roger & Val

Monstropolis citizens & more locations!

Tylor and his family

Roger forgives his father and explains his faith in Laugh energy.

Other MIFT gang episodes

Mike & Sulley episodes,

Oozma Kappa returning, please

Mike's and Sulley's reaction on the news of Randall returns

Sulley and Mike confronts Randall

Randall being delightfully creepy and not hilariously creepy please.

Some angst but not so darkly.

Either Randall getting revenge or getting a redemption arc.

Fungus get a confrontation with Randall

Johnny's redemption and so he could come back to his family

And last I wanna see Boo again!

What I don't wanna see.

Bathroom/toilet jokes or I gonna vomit or get disgust.

Don't wanna any intimacy, I can't take it in any of media or books blah. I'm feeling more comfortable with brotps. :( (That's my opinion so don't pay much attention on this one.)

Randall dies. I don't wanna him to die nevertheless but I guess he could die in Season 3.

[mysticstarlightduck]

Extra 2.0 OC Favorites!

Let's go with Tristan Mallory and Randall Sloanne from Crash Stardom! for this one (:

Rules: share photos of your OCs' favorite color, season, shoe choice, weapon, food & drink, clothing style, mode of transportation, animal, pastime, and breakfast and if they're an introvert/ambivert/extrovert then change up any one of the five favorite things categories for the next round. BONUS: Add some music/songs that fit their aesthetic (the songs don't have to be their favorite songs, just fit their vibe)!

Tristan Mallory

Favorites:

Color: Pastel Shock Pink with a hint of Purple

Season: Summer

Shoe Choice: Stylish combat-style boots dyed lilac with sturdy black heels, which is both his shoe choice for singing on the stage and for daily stuff.

Weapon: An embezzled pepper spray that also has a taser function

Food: Pepperoni Pizza with extra cheese

Drink: Cold soda

Style: Fashionably loose button up shirts, usually in the color black, dark grey or bright pink, under a smooth black leather jacket and impeccably tailored trousers with a delicate belt.

Mode of Transportation: His white convertible with leather seats

Animal: Not really his favorite animal, but one I associate a lot with him - the deer. (Deers often symbolize grace, beauty, strength, and protection, all of which are traits Tristan embodies in one way or another)

Pastime: Movie nights with Noah (and also writing music in the quiet of his room but there wasn't space for a second photo so I just went with his number 1 fave lol)

Breakfast: Corn flake cereal with whole milk

Personality: Extrovert

Songs:

Use Me - Alec Benjamin

Habits (Stay High) - Rain Paris

It's Alright - Mother Mother

Protector - City Wolf

Ultraluminary - Caleb Hyles (cover)

Randall Sloanne

Favorites:

Color: Dark Teal Blue

Season: Winter

Shoe Choice: Simple black leather ankle boots

Weapon: Tactical Dagger

Food: Anything that includes seafood, especially fried shrimp or any kind of chowder

Drink: Water

Style: All black clothes, especially simple dark grey/black T-shirts with a bulletproof vest underneath, black trousers and a sharp suit

Mode of Transportation: A tuned-up, wickedly fast motorcycle

Animal: Orcas. Fun Fact! He is an Abissian, and his True Form (when he isn't using a human disguise) is based off of the orca whales/killer whales, so he kind of is an Orca!

Pastime: Playing videogames, especially retro ones or niche ones.

Breakfast: Fish Sticks

Personality: Introvert

Songs:

Armor - Landon Austin

Killer In The Mirror - Set It Off

Vendetta - Unsecret

Villain - KDA

Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea - Missio

Source for pictures: Pinterest, all rights reserved to rightful developers

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[tylorisgay]

negative character hate kinda under a readmore cuz im respectful n also i dont want ppl coming at me :p

its about randall sooooo be wary... imnot nice

this ended up being more upset at fans than the character itself cuz again nothing is literally wrong with him so again be wary

its so fucking difficult to be interested in a character who gets the most attention in this fanbase n its already a small community of ppl but my LOOOORD...

n the thing is i think hes a great character!!! hes incredibly interesting on his own but when pairing it up w ppl who kinda make up bs shit n then try to be like this is canon actually!!! its like what .

legit i dont even hate him its just his fans interpretation of him n like ....bleh theyre all just spitting out the same shit over n over

and its not even cuz my favorite characters arent the faves or whatever its to be expected ya know but BROOOOO I JUST. IN THE MAW TAG ? like mi and mu i get it i dont go there much but the maw tag...thats all i effing have !!!!!! 😭😭😭😭

n its like why let the fans deter you from enjoying a character idk man when ANYTHING has to be said about monsters at work the tag is usually fuuuuulll of him AND HE HAS 5 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIIIIME LIKE I DOOONT CAAARE MY GOOOOOOOOD !!!!!! like did u absorb anything aside from omg randall hes so sad hes so crazy ( making the worst theory as an insult to this fucking character who was just badly written) or what if randall did ABC ignoring the other characters as if hes the only one interesting in this entire franchise lolz

im literally rambling cuz yes... i am frustrated.... n no not all randall fans cuz some of yall r cool af so yes..

[luulapants]

do you have nonfiction book recs? either all time/go-to recs or things that feel important/timely to you right now? i want to read more nonfiction & you seem like someone who would have good recommendations

Hey, so I have given non-fiction recommendations before, which will include most of the important or all-time faves, but I'm happy to talk about what I'm reading more recently!

Full disclosure, I tend to read 10-20 books all at once very slowly, and I also tend to read weird, obscure books that weren't in good enough condition to get sent into prisons. Non-fiction I'm working on now:

Men, Women, and Chainsaws: gender in the modern horror film by Carol J. Clover - not very timely but SO interesting oh my god

The Tao of Statistics: a path to understanding (with no math) by Dana K. Keller - for learning vibes-based statistics

What If? 2 by Randall Munroe - the most fun you'll ever have reading about science, also great for reading before bed

Union: the struggle to forge the story of United States nationhood by Colin Woodard - CWood is my BOY for historical analysis

Health Communism: a surplus manifesto by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant - this one is really timely and important and also SUPER dense and actually requires an attention span so actually I'm having my dad read it and then deliver long, rambling lectures to me about what he's read, which probably takes longer than it would to just read it myself, but it's good father-daughter bonding

In the Light of Justice: the rise of human rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Walter R. Echo-Hawk - I just started this one, but I'm told it does a good job of focusing on modern realities of indigenous justice as impacted by historical evils

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus - because the issues we're dealing with in society aren't new and letters written during WWII are still relevant to politics today

[walker-extended-universe]

Announcing Walkerverse Fan Favorites Weekend!

We all have those characters. Regardless of the media, there's always that one little blorbo, your special gremlin, that only YOU can truly appreciate. Surely the home media doesn't!

Well, that's what this precious event is here for! It's a weekend to celebrate those Walkerverse characters that didn't get enough screentime or appreciation from canon or even the fandom.

This weekend will take place from November 18-19th. I made this event specifically to celebrate Randall and Cordell the Horse but I know everyone has their own faves to celebrate! So I've decided on one day for my faves and a second day for everyone else's faves.

Here is the schedule I've come up with:

Saturday, November 18th- Randall and Cordell the Horse Day

Sunday, November 19th- Your Faves Free Day

**Regulations for Fan Favorites**

Cannot be a main, regular, or even recurring character

Must be in 5 episodes or less of the canon content

Must be a character you love and appreciate

Some examples of characters that fit these requirements:

Hoyt Rawlins (Walker)

Keesha Barnett

DJ James

Twyla Jean

Connie (Ranger HQ)

Shane Davidson

Nathaniel Hagan

Eli McDowd

Nascha

Ethan (Pinkerton Detective)

Rules for participation:

Creations can be anything that celebrate your Fave of choice. Fanfic, gifs, moodboards, fanvids, the sky's the limit!

Creations must be submitted within the dates outlined in the schedule

Use the tag #walkerverse fan faves so I can find your creations and include them. If you want to make extra sure that I see it, feel free to tag or DM me

Please be respectful of other peoples' creations and Faves

Have fun!

Taglist under the cut (if you would like to be added, please let me know!)

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[klugenjoyer]

thjoughts on clive. love from clive

Long post inkoming

Omd guys it's my twin?!? Anyways oh boy I h-h-HATE that guy... He's so 🤢🤢🤢UGGLY and B-BAD😡😡😡

Okay but in all seriousness bro I adore him more then y'all could know. Well uh ppl who follow this hmmm mysterious anon who I definitely don't know now know what the degree of Clive brain rot I have (can't mention it here but if you know you know). But like

I knew Clive would get me as soon as I found out who he was. So for context, Luke is the reason I started playing the PL series. Anyone who knows me personally would know how me bait Luke is, I am VERY predictable. So when I learned there was this guy who had the grand plan of pretending to be Luke from the future to infiltrate Layton's life I was like oooo boy (also yes I unfortunately didn't get to go into UF blind) . What rlly marked my Clive journey's real start was definitely learning his name. Clive Dove. I got the spoiler of bruvs name from when my dear mutual reblogged q picture of him with the Clive Dove tag on it and I was like "bro... HIS NAME IS CLIVE?!?!?!?". Then the devolvation into madness really started. Uh insert discord screenshots

When it comes to head cannons though I will definitely say we all know Clive is trans fr. When it comes to my specific trans HCs for them I really enjoy transfem Clive (its a comfort hc 4 me) but when I'm doing stuff like officially like my official HCs that I stick closer too transmasc Clive. Why? Layton parallels. My whole life is fighting to make as many parallels between the two as I can mate it's a problem. It's just too interesting to me.

Other HC wise uhhh CLIVE HAS FRECKLES FIGHT ME I love planting subtle inconsistencies between him and Luke sm.

When it comes to drawing Clive I will definitely say I do enjoy drawing him more than Luke namely due to him having a tie😱😱.

My biggest struggle in drawing him prolly uhhh the freckles I curse myself with along with just his color palette ig. I can never decide how dark I want his hair to be. But tbf I do just have inconsistent coloring in my art sooo what can you do.

Other stuff to talk about with this awful man.... OH RIGHT! I'm STILL not over him being British Yuri Lowenthal like bro💀. It's so bad randall is also British Yuri Lowenthal like stawppp💀. Anyone who knows about me and my interests knows that I have a trying relationship with Yuri Lowenthal. Clive atp is prolly my fav Yuri Lowenthal character but I don't think he can take up the og for my fave yuri lowenthal voice performance (I LOVE YOSUKE!!!!)

If I'd have to pick like my favorite Clive thing... Probably still Sallufix's 'This Hurts' animation holy shit that thing is so good. The fact that tumblr user sallufix is my mutual still baffles me I am so in love with and enchanted by their work like hold shit they are like... The Clive drawer of all time to me. Also uh he made Envicto and I am obsessed with that man to no end no one even knows.

Anyways funny pictures to leave this post off with

This first one is my fave, it's my banner on my alt I still haven't used yet 🤎

Secondly we have this screen shot of someone saying "why would Goro Akechi lie" which I replaced with Clive dove (the I get in ubers and start lying one was also originally Akechi). May I note I'm surprised but also glad that I don't see many Clive Akechi parallel truthers

And finally the picture that I made to match with my friend the other night because we thought it was funny idk

[idkanymoretbf]

my honest analysis on ballon d'or from 30 to 21:

30. ruben dias - they robbed him, he was the best cb last season, deserves at least top 20

29. martin odegaard - i feel like this is perfect place for him ngl

28. randal kolo muani - i'll be honest he deserves to be on the 30th place (not a bad player at all it's just that the others who were nominated were better)

27. nicolo barella - i don't whatch inter milan that much, but the highlights i saw of him were amazing, an inredible cm.

26. jamal musiala - deserves higher imo because he had an amazing season but ok

25. josko gvardiol - had a good world cup but how is he over ruben lol

24. bukayo saka - i think he's really talented and i love him but some of the players above deserves a better place than him

23. andre onana - as i said, i don't watch inter milan usually but how on earth is he nominated and mats isn't?

22. kim min-jae - top 3 cbs last season, well deserved

21. antoine griezmann - i don't care if he deserves or not i will always root for him. one of the best in our gen.

btw this is just my opinion, don't get mad if i roasted your fave a little bit! 🙏

[c00kie-d0e]

HEADCANONS and stuff FOR MY SAUCVAU

(Self Aware Uncanny Valley AU)

This is an AU where all the game characters (John, You, Maison) become self aware.

You is my OC because idk what You looks like in the game lol

I made this so I can organize my thoughts and plan things like fanfics, animatics and stuff hehe

This gets updated a lot bc I change my mind frequently lmao I don't really take this seriously it's just a funny thing I made for one of my fave games!

maybe in this Canon Divergence AU whatever shit, John is aware of their fan base and that's why they work so hard to get to You in the game. because You is like the bridge between his world and his fans world.

does Doe really love You? or is she in love with the physical real beings controlling You that makes him feel less alone (the players)

I feel like they'll have a platonic friendship outside of the game, because Doe is more interested in The Player themself. I also wanna see what John's personality is like aside from being in love

Relationships:

Doe must want to get out of his "reality": people think she is a common pest, and his house is so messed up bc he probably has no one looking after them :( Maybe they want a way to escape her reality and thats why they r so in love with the Players???

You is just a placeholder character for the Player, and they can be mind controlled. Aside from that, they have their own personality, their own life, and dreams. You will go by they/she ig or any pronouns tbh bc they r supposed to be a stand-in for anyone playing the game

You has this barbie aesthetic and blue theme to complement Doe's emo aesthetic and red theme because THAT'S SO FUCKING FUN TO DRAW EEEEEEEEEEEEEK

MAISON GETS TAZED BY YOU'S MF GLITTER Y2K AESTHETIC SELF DEFENSE TAZER LOL

Maison survives tho, and whenever You and Maison see each other in public, they glare at each other like mean girls

You and Doe prob paint each other's nails while talking about how to break the 4th wall. Doe blabbering on about their crush on the Player while You gets an existential crisis

maybe in the YES ending, You is actually the one controlling your actions, gaining sentience for the first time, and fuckin around saying random shit to freak you out lol

The timeloops in this AU are controlled by the Player. they happen everytime you start a new game. because that's really what happens: You is put in the same situation every single day because we keep replaying the game!!

maybe the reason this game looks like it takes place in the 2000s (You's phone) is because it's forever stuck in a timeloop even though our world is advancing

Since Purple RPG exists in the John Doe universe, and we play as randall (I think idk I haven't played the game yet), does that mean there are multiple people The Player can control? As in... Multiple "You"s? Then who is the person we are playing as in John Doe and House Hunted? Dundundunnnn

While Doe and You plan to escape, Maison can't because his true body is bound to Uncanny Valley (he is literally a house) so he tries to get the Player to come to him instead

Doe can definitely tell the difference between You and The Player controlling You. You is way more impulsive, clever and joking, while The Player controlling You acts more robotic in their body language and has limited responses, usually "YES" or "NO"

John Doe will still be clingy, because she never really had a friend before, not counting the eyebirds he feeds

Their friendship dynamic might be "Idiot & Idiot in Progress", "I'm Gonna do Evil & Don't Forget your Knife" or maybe even "I Love Him, He's Different & BITCH NO YOU DON'T"

[iwatchedyougoinghomeeveryday]

So... over the summer I finally watched Lost.

I can't believe I waited over a decade to watch this show. I used to read all of the recaps in my Entertainment Weekly magazines and was closely following the fan reactions throughout the final season. I remember everyone hating the final episode and I was shocked at that. I actually started the pilot twice within the decade, but it stressed me out so much that I switched to watching something more lighthearted lol. Well, this past summer, my mom and I watched the entire show. And we freakin loved it. (Duh.) (Also EVERYONE IS WRONG AND THE FINALE IS GREAT.)

Here are my thoughts because talking about 2000s television shows is my favorite thing:

(spoilers)

I loved all of the characters and can't stand any of the hate I've seen online. THESE PEOPLE WERE GOING THROUGH SOME DEEP TRAUMA, OKAY?! My favorites: 1) Jack 2) Locke 3) Sayid 4) Sun 5) Sawyer

Jack was my favorite from the first episode. People who take on all this excess emotional responsibility are always my favorites (Matt Saracen! Randall Pearson!), but I found it so interesting to watch a character with a savior complex being thrown into a huge crisis. Did he make mistakes? Yes. Was he sometimes toxic and super messy? Obviously. But that made him an even stronger lead character and he, ultimately, was a layered and great deconstruction of the typical "hero" character. Y'ALL JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND JACK SHEPARD.

John Locke. "Walkabout". I don't even need to say more. Okay, yeah I do. He won me over in the previous episode, with him helping find Vincent and letting Michael take the credit. But this episode... I had chills. I was sobbing throughout the final five minutes. The episode got me completely obsessed with the show. John Locke was also a messy character, and he had his good and bad moments, but my God, was his story just so sad. I can't think about his ending because I'll start sobbing all over again.

Also the Jack/John dynamic was one of my favorite parts of the show. Every single one of their scenes was golden. The fact that their final conversation is what pushed John over the edge and made him want to commit suicide, AND THEN John's death and Jack's guilt over everything is what led JACK to want to commit suicide. THE HEARTBREAKING PARALLELS IN THIS SHOW MY GOD.

Okay but in the limited time I've been checking fan reactions, why does Sayid seem to be underrated?! WHY?! He was also one of my favorites from the very beginning and he's pretty much the only one to not let me down. (Okay, season 6 weirdness aside.) WHAT A MAN. If I was on that dang island, I would just be doing whatever Sayid did. Sayid says we should stay? We should stay. Sayid's going with Jack? I'm going with Jack. He was intelligent, thoughtful, strong, had finesse, could do weird things with his legs (not sexual). Yeah, he had the most yiiiikes backstory of being a torturer, but... I'D FOLLOW HIM ANYWHERE.

SUN WAS A QUEEN. She had the most iconic lines. Her takedowns... incredible. I love how at the start she was seen as the most "pure" one on the island, but she also had all these secrets and was lowkey manipulative. (I love how her arc is also the reverse of Jin's, who starts out as the worst, but becomes so sweet and everyone's fave later on. Not saying Sun became a bad person, but her character got darker while Jin's got lighter.) No one talk to me about the sub. NO ONE TALK TO ME ABOUT THE SUB.

Sawyer... first, I loved that he was a reader. Him with his little glasses... some of my favorite moments. I loved that his awfulness didn't go away in an episode. You'd have moments of him showing a deeper, more caring side, then he'd immediately remind you why you couldn't stand him. He was a jerk and didn't really shed that in until, what, season 3? He didn't really make the transition to "hero" until he jumped out of that helicopter though. Anyway, never met a character that hated himself more!!!

I was into the Jack/Kate/Sawyer love triangle for the first season and a half because they all seemed to have respect for each other. Okay, "respect" might not be the right word, but Jack and Sawyer's beef went way deeper than Kate. They never really fought each other over Kate, which was refreshing. The writers definitely dragged the triangle on for way too long, though, and at the detriment of Kate's character. Girl deserved better!!! The show should've focused on how Kate tried to redeem herself by always being there for everyone, but they kept her in love triangle limbo. I thought Kate/Sawyer made sense on the island, but they were ultimately indulging each other's worst traits. Like they bonded because they could relate to their shady pasts, so that was the strength of their relationship. Jack/Kate definitely won me over and I wish we got more happy moments of them off the island. This show could never let these characters have nice things!!!

Sawyer and Juliet... I like in theory. Buttttt I'm not as crazy about them as most fans. I think it's because I live for the build-up in a relationship and we skipped all that with them. I wanted to understand better why they were "it" for each other. But the Incident scenes, OH MY GOD WHY IS THIS SHOW MY NEW COMFORT SHOW WHEN IT IS SO PAINFUL?!

Sun/Jin, Jack/Kate, Desmond/Penny. Those are the ships.

(Okay and crackship is definitely Jack/Sawyer. Those two had CHEMISTRY.)

I love that all I've talked about are the characters. I need to rapid fire add my thoughts: I wish Danielle and Alex had more time. We deserved more scenes of them together. Danielle was a badass and Alex was, too, and their reunion took SOOO long to happen, then it was over. Also Alex lowkey had the saddest story on this show, thinking about her entire life but especially her last hour alive... I can't.

MICHAEL DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER!!! Michael and Walt had one of the most interesting dynamics, but I also loved his interactions with so many other characters, like Jin. I get why they had to write Walt off the show, with the child actor growing so fast, but to do Michael so dirty... WHY?! What he did was the worst (I can't recall anyone else senselessly killing someone in cold blood... no self-defense, just two innocent people), BUT I also felt bad because he was driven to that point by his child being taken from him. I wish the writers didn't have him tell Walt what happened because the way Michael's story ended was heartbreaking. And they should've brought Walt back once they did a time-jump!!! At the very least, they deserved to be in that church at the end.

I love that Ben has done so many awful things, literally committed genocide, and I'm just like, "Ahhhh, I love that funny little man".

Season 1 was definitely my favorite season. I didn't expect so much of it to be focused on the survival aspect... I expected more of the overt mystery elements to be the focus in the first season? But surprisingly, the survival story of the first season was my favorite. I felt like it gave everyone time to bond and they really became a little family. Later they get split up a lot, and the survival elements aren't the same, so I was nostalgic for the first season.

I've written so much and I haven't even talked about the individual seasons. I don't even think I can rank them. Season 1... easy favorite. Season 6... last. But the others all had parts I really liked and didn't like. Like season 2's first half, season 3's back half, and the concepts of seasons 4 and 5 were great (even though I think they could've been executed better in parts). One thing I wish we had was more of the Oceanic 6's time off-island. That was such a huge reveal and change in the story... I wish we saw how they were coping, not just with their lies and leaving everyone behind, but adjusting to "normal" life after being in intense survival mode for 100 days.

[not-poignant]

Unnecessary throwback, I just reread The Wind that Cuts the Night AGAIN (one of my faves) and I think about this every time i do, are there any authors or books in particular that influence your writing style? Because the vibes are impeccable in this fic and it’s something that makes me wonder about any inspiration you may have had <3

Hi anon!

I have read literally thousands of books, and I think every single one of them - especially the ones I've loved - have all influenced my writing style a little. From non-fiction to fiction.

There's definitely no single writer I want to emulate, because I pretty much never find exactly what I want to read out there. It's more like I find moments, and then I think 'oh I want to make a reader feel the way this writer made me feel right now' but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to write in their style? Or if it does, it will still be influenced by all the other things that have influenced me in the past.

*thinks* I've read so many authors it's almost impossible to single out the ones I love the most re: writing style, but here's a few: Ursula K. Le Guin, dgalerab on AO3, Robin Hobb (though I feel like I've aged out of her writing now), CS Pacat, Suzanne Clarke, Bill Bryson, Robert Holdstock, Mark Z. Danielewski, Asumiko Nakamura, Andrea Gibson, Martha Wells (particularly re: Murderbot), Hinako Takanaga, Chuuya Nakahara, John Fowles, Orson Scott Card (for all that he's a bigot homophobic dickhead), Sarah Monette / Katherine Addison, Alan Ball, Mike Schur, Brian Jacques, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Dan Harmon, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Harris, Yana Toboso, Ono Natsume, Kim Dare, Moto Hagio, Scott Heim, Gerald Durrell, Tanith Lee, George Mackay Brown, early Lyn Gala, early Sidney Bell, early Roan Parrish, Ann-Marie MacDonald, William Goldman, a bunch of classic authors and poets that we don't have time for, Tamora Pierce, Philip Pullman, and like...more fic authors I'm forgetting, lol.

(There's a mix in here, including fic writers, poets, essayists, scriptwriters and novelists).

(Also I am under no illusions that I am anywhere as good as any of these writers, they're just the ones whose styles really inspire me. Except I know I'm missing like 100 others and that's going to annoy me, lmao, I am okay with being mediocre, when I have this greatness to aspire to).

(For all the people who've ever asked me to rec some stuff, there you go, there's the list sdalkfjas).

(For anyone who thinks my writing is good, all I can say is read broadly, widely, across genres, across mediums, it's the best way to improve what you do. Though I'm mad as fuck that the list doesn't have more POC in it. I need to read far more broadly).

(Anon I'm SO glad you enjoy that fic! It was such an indulgent little story :D)

[shadowvalkyrie]

One day I will write the unhinged theory essay about how my problematic fave Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser of Outlander fame actually started out as the first female Doctor.

Seeing as DG openly admitted to basing Jamie Fraser off of Doctor Who's Jamie McCrimmon, who in his vicinity do we know that:

is a time traveller

knows a suspicious amount of history trivia (yes I know there are canon explanations but that is what you insert when you file off fanfic serial numbers)

acts with the authoritative air of someone who cannot die

otherwise has a bit of a ruthless streak as well

has a lot of opinions of what he is and isn't allowed to change about the timeline

plops in and out of his life decades apart for reasons of her own and with him unable to follow

is LITERALLY a doctor

Oh heeeeey, it's his beautiful wife Claire!

This makes Geillis Duncan the first female Master and Lord John the first openly queer companion, btw.

Alternatively, Jack Randall was originally the Master and that explains why his face shows up in the modern day (later retconned into Frank Randall, who btw also knows too much about history)?

I guess what I'm saying is, I actually don't want an essay, I want to read Outlander/Doctor Who crossover fanfic with this premise -- or time travel back into, like, the 80s and raid DG's desk drawer.

[beepbeepmfkr]

Randall is my fave character he's the only one who's not a piece of fucking shit 😂