#WFTH

[misskittyspuffy]

Amy Acker & J. August Richards - Paris, march 15th, 2025 ("Whispers from the Hellmouth" convention, by Geek'n'Cheese)

[jamiemarsters]

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FYI Charisma Carpenter will be joining James Marsters at Whispers from the Hellmouth Apr 20-21!

Her extras are on sale now, grab them at the link!

https://www.billetweb.fr/whispers-from-the-hellmouth

https://bit.ly/JMWFTH2024

charismacarpenter @realjamesmarsters #CharismaCarpenter #JamesMarsters #WFTH #WhispersFromTheHellmouth #Buffy #BuffytheVampireSlayer #BtVS #CordeliaChase #Spike #Cordelia

[aliregression]

Little!Matt headcanon

💙Regresses at a younger age- maybe like 2-4

💙LOVES cuddles so much

💙He has attachment issues

💙 “Mama pwes cwme wfth”

💙Adores his paci

💙Also has a big stuffie collection

💙Loves to watch bluey

💙Sings along to the theme song

💙He also loves his blankie

💙Doesn’t like his veggies

💙You have to mix them into something (fried rice for example)

💙or bribe him with one more episode of bluey

💙Very Quiet

💙Speaks in few words/small sentences

💙Or just points at what he wants

💙Cue him pointing at the toys he wants

💙Speaking of toys

💙He is a dino little

[thehotelpod]

with 6.2 Lila, Ozzie, and Ren - Room 6 coming in just a matter of days, it is a good time to relisten to our 2021 Halloween CreepyPodcast Crossover Special We Found The Hotel co-written by @pacificobadiah!

6.2 is a companion piece to WFTH, they mirror each other like the Staff and the New Crew. This is not required reading but it has been brought to my attention that maybe not all of you have listened to this yet.

So yeah it is required reading now actually. Go listen. If you don't listen to the overture you recognize the themes when they come back.

(this was before we had Izzy so i had to canva something up leave me alone)

[mcforwhatiam]

Beastie Boys by Tom Sheehan, 1994

[dandystones]

City of in-between

A whole year late but I’m finally penning down a post dedicated to my travels in Stockholm. Here goes.

Lonely in a big city - that's what I loved about this place; that vibe. 

Maybe that speaks more about me than it does about Stockholm but somehow the memory that left the greatest impression was actually the short walk between our Airbnb to the train station. It was about 10 mins and we often had to trudge a little because it was sloped. We visited in the beginning of winter so the cold air would also make us walk a little faster when our legs and faces start to freeze. 

Despite that, it was always a walk that brought me peace. There were tiny offices and supermarkets peppered around these short, dull-coloured European apartment buildings. I loved admiring their exteriors and the spaces within that their windows exposed though. You could see into houses and offices most of the time and they almost always look like what you’d expect to find in an IKEA showroom.

We'd chosen to nestle our temporary home in a residential part of Stockholm called Reimersholme, it was a little island off the main city that only had one entrance & exit via a bridge.  

It was quiet, but not silent. People here walked with a conviction, like they had some place to be and it’s easy to feel out of place if you’re just strolling aimlessly towards your next tourist destination. 

Somewhere in Stockholm, someone's probably walking their dogs. There’s so many of them everywhere, tiny ones on a leash bunny hopping along the cobblestone streets. People take them everywhere - shopping in malls, dining on the streets, strolling in the parks. It was these little moments of joys that made walking around in the cold more enjoyable.

Public transport was expensive, perhaps it was the fact that we were tourists and weren't able to buy day/week train passes. But that's okay, we'd heard about their unique subway stations designs that made train journeys feel like a walk in the museum. Somewhere in Stockholm, someone had taken the time to colour its interiors to make it look like a beautiful, modern cave. It was pretty novel.

In the city center itself, it was buzzling. It was probably the only place that buzzed with excitement that was close to what we had in our shopping streets here. Maybe it was the fact that it was Christmas, or maybe that’s just what shopping does to people. 

Though, if I had to pick my favourite place it would probably be Gamla Stan. As a testament to that, we actually came back to this place 3 times over a period of 5 days. Aestheics wise, it was stunning. The floors were lined with cobblestone and in the epicenter were these vibrant, old-town apartment buildings adjacent to each other that housed a Christmas market as well as a plethora of traditional shops. 

There were also plenty more to explore in the tiny streets that branched out into more hideouts, cafes and novelty bookstores. It intrigues me as to how many sides of Stockholm you can find within walking distance of each other, one thing that have in common is that all of them have a tendency to look both modern yet stuck in time (almost, medieval at times).

It was a city with an interesting balance, a city of in-between - lonely but friendly, fast but not too fast, modern but traditional, safe but not comfortable. I can’t quite place my finger on it. 

When people ask me now “what’s the first place you’d like to visit once the pandemic is over?”, I can’t help but think “Sweden”. I’m not sure why, at the time I didn’t feel like I was particularly connected to this place. Sure it was beautiful and I think about my time here so much, much more than any other country I’d visited. Perhaps it was the fact that things and places and people always feel a little different in a memory, like its untouchable in a safe bubble inside your head. Or perhaps it was because it’s the last place I’d ever travelled to before the pandemic kicked in. 

I do miss Sweden, and just travelling in general too. I’d made it my life goal to travel the world and in everything that I do, whether it’s building my career or planning my life, I havent found anything else that I wanted as much as being able to experience different cultures and lifestyles for extended periods of time. Sometimes, when I talk to my friends who tell me they’ve given up on the idea of travelling because they want to start a family or “settle down in life”, I struggle to understand why it has to be an either-or situation. You can have both and not feel like you have to sacrifice your wants to acheive your goals. Goals change and sometimes they stay dormant until you decide to want it again. It doesn’t always have to be an all-or-nothing situation. 

Being in this pandemic has made me realise I can survive without travelling. It’s a little empowering to know that when you lose the thing you want the most and it doesn’t cripple you, maybe then you’re going to be okay. Because you know, you can always try it again someday. 

[writefmtheheart]

Finish the story. Write from the heart.

[katesficnotes]

margaret pleads w arthur not to go to battle, a la [ this ], but he replies that her dreams are equally likely to be right or wrong and he may die, but he must fight as their father did.  she replies that their father fought and their father died.  he tells her that, if he does not fight, a far worse fate than mortal doom awaits him, for he will have died to himself, to his honor, to his duty, and to all that he believes and holds dear

[thequeendesi]

Can you add me to the angel taglist plzzz

I can sweet pea!

I have you down and you’ll be tagged from 2 on!

I posted one a couple minutes ago!! I hope you enjoy! <3

[misskittyspuffy]

Paris, March 16, 2025 - "Whispers from the Hellmouth" convention by Geek'n'Cheese

Marc Blucas noticed I was taking pictures of him and made a pose for me 😆 Marc is a really funny guy! And a very, very sweet person, he was such a good sport with everyone. Even if you don't like Riley, I recommend 100% meeting Marc.

He knows his character is mostly disliked by the fandom, and that's why he never did conventions before. He explained to us that he started recently going to conventions because he thought that +20 years later, people would be less passionate about it, and for the past few years, he didn't regret that decision because he had really great interactions with fans.

For those wondering, the hat was gifted to him by a fan :)

[jamiemarsters]

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FYI Mark Lutz will be joining James Marsters, charismacarpenter, @tommylenk, @mercedesmcnabofficial & @reagandotcom at Whispers from the Hellmouth Apr 20-21!

His extras are on sale now @ https://billetweb.fr/whispers-from-the-hellmouth

https://bit.ly/JMWFTH2024

@markdlutz @realjamesmarsters @geekncheesecon #WFTH #MarkLutz #JamesMarsters #Buffy #BuffytheVampireSlayer #Angel #AngeltheSeries #CharismaCarpenter #TomLenk #MercedesMcNab #AdamBusch

[mcforwhatiam]

This is always good to revisit (and has Ricky's Theme, too)

Beastie Boys on SNL - Sure Shot & Heart Attack Man

[mcforwhatiam]

Beastie Boys at the Astoria in London, 1994

Taken by @/frameframeframes on Instagram

[rhyme-the-rhyme-well]

"MCA has control of the board" [x]

[dandystones]

The Mother Wound

“When you grow as old as I am you can’t any longer say this was someone’s fault, and that was someone else’s. It isn’t so clear when you take a long view. Blame seems to lie everywhere. Or nowhere. Who can say where unhappiness begins?” - When Marnie Was There.

A new goal I’m working towards recently is watching as many Studio Ghibli movies as I possibly can. I’ve never actually watched much anime growing up, but my sisters have always talked about the beautiful cinematography & stories of Studio Ghibli productions. Now that I’m on a break, I thought what better to watch than the gold mine that is Studio Ghibli films.  

I must say, I’m quite enjoying it. So far, I’ve gone through Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Totoro, When Marnie Was There, Ponyo, The Tale of Princess Kaguya & From Up On Poppy Hill. They’re all so deep, dark, cute, retrospective in their own ways. I must say, I really did enjoy Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service & Howl’s Moving Castle for their furry / fantasical / inanimate characters but the one that struck me the most was definitely When Marnie was There.

The theme of ancestral or generational trauma in the movie is something that struck really close to home. The part that left the deepest impression was how it protrayed generational trauma being unknowingly passed down through one’s family of origin when we’re not careful to be self aware, leaving our children to carry its burden in this life and the lives of those they would subsequently create.

As a child of both parents who were children of emotional neglect, all of us as offsprings within our family of origin struggled to understand what healthy love looked like. We never saw it in our parents, grandparents great-grandparents during our formative years and we passed on our version of what love is to the people around us. We carried those feelings of inadequacy in our bodies, buried so deep in places we're not sure how to release it. Ultimately, it gets projected in the way we raise our children, the way we talk & interact with them.

As 2020 came to a close, counselling brought me plenty of affirmation and understanding about how the generational trauma in my family might look like - through the continuous analysis & observations of childhood stories and life events that my parents had shared over the years. It's very eye-opening and a little heart-breaking to see all the ways they never felt loved and how it ate them up on the inside. It also brought me great relief to know that there is a reason and process as to how my parents became the way they were; people I'd spent my whole life resenting because they couldn't meet the idealistic expectations of perfect parenting that I'd projected and hope they would be. It helps me to take their actions less personally and really look at their intentions - they always care, they just never really know how to show it, and that may never change.

I've been thinking alot about my personal goals for 2021 and through counselling & other bouts of clarity, I've been guided to what my counselor calls "my spiritual mission":

- break the cycle of ancestral/generational trauma by effecting positive change in my family

- learning to communicate more effectively & helping people to feel heard & release their negative emotions.

My counsellor's goal for me is to become a counsellor myself within my family - to enable them to talk about their feelings more often instead of avoiding them like they've always done. She says that while it might seem like alot of pressure & that I'll have to be extremely patient, it's also all very exciting.

In many ways, I'm thankful to have this deep mutual understanding with a professional who is as invested in my well being as I am and who expects zero reciprocity in return. It's freeing and something that I wish more people acknowledge as a true benefit of being in therapy in our society.

As I end off this post, I wanted to leave this quote that brought me much clarity and is pivotal point in my spiritual journey thus far. My hope is that many more will realize that this obscure concept of ancestral/generational trauma is and could be the biggest source of unreleased resentment and regret in our lives, especially for folks who never grew up with healthy, secure parents.

[writefmtheheart]

Journal Prompt

Reflect on your own writing style. How do you plan out your writing? Do you plan at all, or do you just jump into the introduction paragraph? Do you feel like you work effectively? If so, what other strategies could add to your process? If not, how might you improve your pre-writing skills?