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I tagged 133 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#outoforbs ( ooc. ) - 38 posts

#yandere!anon - 32 posts

#anti charmed reboot - 15 posts

#dubcon cw - 14 posts

#lemon cw - 11 posts

#( bramble watches charmed 1998. ) - 7 posts

#look how you bring me to sin ( gideon x chris ; dark crackship ) - 7 posts

#charmed 1998 - 6 posts

#v. see these eyes so green ( werepanther!chris. ) - 5 posts

#( bramble watches charmed 2018. ) - 5 posts

Longest Tag: 127 characters

#[ like buddy. my guy. dude. did you even watch the og show or were you too distracted by the sexy clothing and flashy powers? ]

My Top Posts in 2022:

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5 notes - Posted June 13, 2022

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6 notes - Posted February 6, 2022

#3

Charmed (2018) fans: This is a reinterpretation, a modern-day Charmed. You aren’t meant to sit there and compare it to the original. Harry isn’t Leo; Macy, Maggie, and Mel aren’t the original Charmed Ones. It’s a darker interpretation of the original Charmed. If someone is just gonna compare shows, they shouldn’t be watching them.

Okay, except here’s the thing: The reboot’s showrunners gave it the same name, the same basic concept, almost the same logo, and even use some of the original show’s mythology (Whitelighters, Darklighters, a Council of Elders, a demonic Underworld with a hierarchy, the Source of All Evil). There are numerous call-backs to the original show in the form of the Window of Opportunity, a split-second shot of Melinda Warren (the progenitor of the Warren line of witches and ancestress of the Charmed Ones) in the Veras’ Book of Shadows, Mel’s girlfriend being a police officer who gets tangled up in the Charmed Ones’ magical lives (a la Andy Trudeau), and Parker and Maggie’s relationship was directly inspired by Phoebe and Cole’s relationship in the original show, complete with Parker becoming the Demon Overlord in season 2 and asking Maggie for her hand in marriage as his queen. Not to mention Harry and Macy is the reboot’s equivalent to the Piper and Leo ship.

The network CANNOT do all of that, capitalizing on the original series’ name and fanbase, and then not expect people to compare the two shows. Especially not when Constance M. Burge, the creator of the original show, is credited in the reboot’s pilot despite having absolutely nothing to do with the reboot. (Legally, they had to credit her.)

As for this reboot being a darker interpretation of the original Charmed? Only in terms of the lighting, maybe. The original show’s pilot (“Something Wicca This Way Comes”) alone dealt with three estranged sisters moving back into their childhood home after the sudden death of their grandmother, discovering new powers and the fact they’re witches (all on their own, no less; Leo didn’t show up until the third episode and the sisters don’t find out he was a Whitelighter until 14 episodes into the 22-episode season), a serial killer who turns out to be a warlock (and Piper’s boyfriend) targeting female witches to gain their powers. He then tries to kill Piper before she freezes him and makes her escape, and then he goes after her in an attempt to murder all three sisters before they use the Power of Three to vanquish him (again, all on their own).

As for the rest of the season:

s01e02 “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” features a demon who poses as a photographer and targets beautiful young women to steal their youth, leaving them either charred skeletons or as old women (if the process is interrupted)

s01e03 “Thank You for Not Morphing”: Victor, the sisters’ long-lost estranged dad, suddenly comes back into his daughters’ lives after they’ve discovered that they’re witches, plays on Phoebe’s longing to form a connection with him, and is revealed to be working with shapeshifting demons to steal the Book of Shadows

s01e04 “Dead Man Dating” is essentially a supernatural murder investigation, with Mark enlisting the Charmed Ones’ help (as, being witches, they’re the only ones who can see him) in catching his killer before his soul is dragged to the Chinese afterlife by Yama

s01e05 “Dream Sorcerer”: the antagonist is a mortel incel asshole researching dream-leaping, using his abilities to kill women who’ve rejected him by invadng their dreams and murdering them in the dreamscape he’s created, which kills his victims in real life. He repeatedly targets Prue, and he dies before Inspectors Andy Trudeau and Darryl Morris can question him.

s01e07 “The Fourth Sister”: a lonely teenage girl with an interest in witchcraft is manipulated and preyed upon by an evil entity who presents itself as someone she can trust completely, all so she can be accepted

s01e10 “Wicca Envy”: Prue is framed for the theft of a valuable antique tiara by her boss in an attempt to blackmail the Charmed Ones into giving up their powers

s01e12 “The Wendigo”: the first episode where any of the sisters are transformed into another being against her will, played entirely for horror. Not to mention the serial killer Andy has been tracking down is the very FBI agent who came in to help with the case.

s01e13 “From Fear to Eternity”: aside from the first-ever introduction of Barbas the Demon of Fear, this whole episode revolves around the sisters’ worst fears come to life, and at least 10 other witches are already dead through the course of the episode. Phoebe faces her fear of losing one of her sisters, and Prue finally sees their long-dead mother’s spirit when Patty comes to help her. 

s01e14 “Secrets and Guys” a young black male witch (whose only living relative is his father, his witch mother having died of illness a few months prior) is kidnapped by thugs who want to use his powers for a bank heist, kidnap Prue when she comes to help the 13-year-old boy, and it’s heavily implied the robbers would have killed them to tie up loose ends

s01e15 “Is There a Woogey in the House?”: your childhood nightmares are very real. You’re welcome.

s01e18 “When Bad Warlocks Turn Good”: take away the supernatural aspects, and this episode is primarily about a man being pressured by his highly toxic family into a part of their life that he’s already cut himself off from and turned his back on for his own well-being and mental health.

s01e22 “Deja Vu All Over Again”: at the end of each time loop, at least one of the Halliwells has to deal with the pain of seeing a sister die, and on the final time loop Prue sees her boyfriend (who she’d finally opened up to only weeks prior about being a witch) die while he’s trying to protect her and her sisters.

All this while juggling jobs and trying to have a normal life, as well as living in fear of their powers being discovered. The only major emotional stakes in the reboot’s first season are Maggie wanting to get into the sorority, later suddenly discovering she’s half-Black with her and Macy having the same father, and starting a relationship with Parker when he’s technically still dating Lucy; Macy keeping her job at the geneticist lab, trying to start a relationship with Galvin after some mixed signals from them both, and finding out the source of her “darkness”; and Mel using a spell to rewrite reality to keep her police girlfriend Niko safe from demons without bothering to get Niko’s consent first or reveal to her girlfriend that she’s a witch, as well as something something the S’arcana, sticking it to the Elder witches (while secretly working for them), and finding out who murdered her mother. And something about stopping the apocalypse, which the Veras don’t take seriously half the time anyway.

All this in just the first season. The second and third seasons of the reboot aren’t much better, IMO, but if you like the reboot, fine, whatever, you do you. Just don’t get mad when fans compare the two shows, because it’s really difficult not to do so.

7 notes - Posted March 22, 2022

#2

Writing a witch based in the Charmed (1998) universe: Things to Know

magical witches are different from practitioners. Practitioners draw on outside sources of magic and can cast spells but are otherwise normal humans. Magical witches are a different humanoid species and have an internal spring from which they access their magic (Prose: Mystic Knoll)

witches are further categorized into lower-level and upper-level witches.

basic powers belonging to all witches are mediumship, scrying, potion-making, and spellcasting. Upper-level witches also possess the passive power of high resistance; lower-level witches do not.

Most witches have only one or two active powers. Melinda Warren having three powers was unusual, as she was the progenitor of her family line; the only other witch on-screen having more than two active powers is Richard Montana (conjuration, energy balls, telekinesis, fading)

Projection is an incredibly rare active power; the only witches seen possessing it on-screen are Wyatt Halliwell and Billie Jenkins, both of whom are upper-level witches with a major destiny and prophecy about them (the Twice-Blessed and the Ultimate Power, respectively)

witches can also be Firestarters (Christy Jenkins, Juliana O’Farrell) and empaths (Phoebe Halliwell)

Witches belonging to the Warren line possess one of the powers Melinda Warren carried down (premonitions, telekinesis, molecular immobilization) or a variant of the powers (cryokinesis, pyrokinesis, divination, molecular deceleration).

Male witches are witches. Witches (male or female) who kill another witch to steal their powers and turn their back on the Wiccan Rede in doing so become warlocks. A witch can also become a warlock by being magically bound to a warlock in a dark binding ceremony. (Warlocks can also be born to one or two warlock parents instead of being made.)

After receiving their powers, a newly-fledged witch must make the choice within 48 hours if they are going to use their powers for good or for evil. This is known as the window of opportunity.

Good witches are guided by a Whitelighter, sort of a guardian angel/guide/healer for good witches. Once a good witch turns evil, they have renounced their right to a Whitelighter.

A witch’s blood has magical properties and can pass the individual witch’s powers onto a mortal if the mortal is injected with the witch’s blood. Doing so will eventually cause the mortal to go insane and die, as humans are not meant to have magical powers. (TV: Astral Monkey)

Witches are the base for some demonic species, such as banshees (TV: Look Who’s Barking) and succubi (TV: She’s a Man, Baby, A Man).

Vampires and extremely powerful upper-level demons are immune to witch powers, with multiple demons only able to be vanquished through the Power of Three possessed by the Charmed Ones.

The Warren line is the most powerful line of witches, culminating in the arrival of the Charmed Ones: three sister witches, and the most powerful good witches of all time.

Witches can interbreed with humans, Whitelighters, Cupids, demons, and Darklighters. Whitelighter-witch relationships are forbidden, with the only exception being the eventual marriage of Charmed One Piper Halliwell and Whitelighter Leo Wyatt (their resulting children are all Whitelighter-witch hybrids).

8 notes - Posted January 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

re: Elders / Whitelighter rank/species confusion

Certain subsections of the Charmed (1998) fandom have the fanon that because Leo Wyatt was an Elder Whitelighter when his second son with Piper Halliwell was conceived, Chris is half-Elder as a result and therefore as or more powerful than his prophesized Twice-Blessed brother Wyatt. This fanon, however, is incorrect in regard to canon.

“Elder” is a specific rank of Whitelighter, one that can be earned (as we see with Leo becoming an Elder Whitelighter in the season 5 finale) or given to a chosen recipient (already destined to become an Elder Whitelighter) when the current Elder retires, as seen with retiring Elder Whitelighter Remus passing on his powers to the young male witch Kevin. All Elders are Whitelighters, but not all Whitelighters are Elders. The Elders are the elite of Whitelighter society, the rulers, and as such they have powers to go along with their higher rank that non-Elder Whitelighters do not have.

Common Whitelighter powers are the following: orbing, sensing, healing, omnilingualism, dream-walking, photokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, and invisibility. As a result of their higher ranking, Elders receive powers that ordinary Whitelighters do not have, namely electrokinesis, portal creation, force field, telekinetic orbing, and power granting/stripping. 

The closest comparison would be to Time Lords/Gallifreyans and the species/rank confusion there in Doctor Who. All Time Lords are Gallifreyans, but not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords. The Time Lords are the elite of Gallifreyan society, the only ones blessed with Rassilon’s gift of regeneration and the ability to time-travel in a TARDIS thanks to the Rassilon Imprimatur. (In the early days, regeneration was also granted to House priests as well.)

Now that that is established, let’s move onto the fanon surrounding Chris and him supposedly being half-Elder Whitelighter.

Since we’ve established that Elder is a higher rank of Whitelighter and Leo did not change species when he became an Elder, Chris is an ordinary Whitelighter-witch from the Warren line. Elder is a rank that Chris does not have, so his Whitelighter side is no more powerful than Wyatt’s. Actually, we see that Chris struggles with certain aspects of his Whitelighter side: he is unable to heal, and he doesn’t have the same language ability that Leo does.

There are other things to consider when taking into account Chris’s lower power level in comparison to Wyatt: Birth order and the prophecy of the Twice-Blessed. We see with Prue that the firstborn witch in a sibling set is always more powerful than their sibling(s). Wyatt was the firstborn out of Piper’s children, and he is the subject of the Twice-Blessed prophecy. Magic was out of commission on the day Wyatt was born, and he is the heir to Excalibur.

In comparison, Chris is not the firstborn and there is no special prophecy about him that says he’s destined to be super-powerful. Nor is he the heir to Excalibur. He was also not born in the Manor, so he doesn’t have the connection to the Nexus that Phoebe and Wyatt did. He is much less powerful than Wyatt, but he makes up for that in how he uses his powers: he’s honed his telekinesis to scary degrees, able to telekinetically crush a person’s heart within their body, scatter a Whitelighter’s orbs, and fling someone telekinetically across a room hard enough to make the individual briefly lose consciousness on impact.

Chris is nowhere near as powerful as Wyatt in both his witch and Whitelighter sides, but he doesn’t need to be. He’s the underdog, and making him as or more powerful as Wyatt due to him being “half-Elder” or somesuch completely undoes the entire point of why the fandom loves him so much in the first place.

10 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

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Phoebe Halliwell or Maggie Vera?

If we are just comparing first two seasons Phoebe to first two seasons Maggie, then I would have to pick Phoebe. If we are taking all eight seasons into account, then I would have to pick Maggie. A lot of Phoebe's choices during the middle seasons left a lot to be desired. She kinda treated her family like crap cause the writers wanted to force this whole Phoebe x Cole storyline.

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charmed

GIVE ME A SHOW / MOVIE / FANDOM TO SCREAM ABOUT

my favorite female character: All the sisters to be quite honest

my favorite male character: Leo, Cupid, and Drake de Mon

my favorite book/season/etc: I enjoyed all of the seasons, like there was never a dull moment with that show. However if I had to choose, the whole Phoebe and Cole thing lasted way too long.

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): The Seven Year Witch despite it being a sad episode ‘cause of Drake dying. But I really loved it because yes, even though I hated Cole and all the shit he put Phoebe through, he at least did that nice / good thing for her. Drake and Phoebe should have been a thing but it was sweet while it lasted and I’ll forever love that episode.

my favorite cast member: I really don’t have one

my favorite ship: Leo x Piper forever and ever

a character I’d die defending: None ‘cause none of them really did anything drastic in the sense of needing to be defended or it didn’t last long.

a character I just can’t sympathize with: Cole. He knew what he was doing when he started it and shouldn’t have been surprised that Phoebe was going to kick his ass to the curb and never want him again.

a character I grew to love: Pru after many rewatches and remember that actor does not equal character despite there being a lot of noticeable things between Shannon and Alyssa bleeding into Pru and Phoebe.

my anti otp: Phoebe x Cole

@battleincarnate // accepting

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talking about ships...

i registered on tumblr quite some time ago in order to have fun and interact with other fans. hopefully i’ll have pleasant time here (probably should confess that sometimes i regret finding tumblr because as much as i like it, people here seriously need to obtain common sense firstly and secondly they should google what decency and toxicity are).

i plan to possibly create content for pairings which are forever in my heart. i realised that some of them are not only ‘not popular’ but ‘barely there’. if everything goes my way  i’ll try to slightly change the situation.

anyway, i decided to list my favourite pairings and relationships and bits and pieces of information you should know about me/

I’m huge fan of Mylene Farmer (my childhood icon), Jensen Ackles and Dylan O’Brien, Ian Bohen, Kaya Scodelario, Adelaide Kane, Sophie Turner, Emma Stone, Lily Collins, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Lena Headey, Holland Roden, Crystal Reed, Colin Firth, Kate Beckinsale, Kate Blanchett, Norman Reedus, David Tennant, Billie Piper, Christopher Eccleston, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Foy, Hayden Christensen, Katie Mcgrath, Rachel Weisz, Emmy Rossum, Hugh Jacman.

I’m also an EXO fan, EXO-L (Aeri), as well as NCT fan, czennie. 

Absolute DC Universe fan.

I will not tolerate hate towards characters listed below:

dean winchester (spn)

stiles stilinski, peter hale, theo raeken, lydia martin (tw) 

teresa agnes (tmr) 

sansa stark (got)

severus snape (hp)

kylo ren|ben solo, rey (sw)

*when i use anti it means that i really don’t like it (hence the anti) and don’t want to discuss it unless you want to tell me how much you hate it too; not friendly means that i’m primarily indifferent but can be really irritated and annoyed if provoked. 

teen wolf: 

stydia, steter, steo, stallison, tbh every ship with stiles is my ship (unless it includes sc*tt, m*lia and derek then it’s defenitely NO, these characters could die and i would celebrate), 

pydia, cordia, allira, lydira, peter/cora (more hales with hales)

ot3: cora/stiles/lydia (stordia), peter/stiles/lydia, peter/stiles/cora, theo/lydia/stiles (stydeo)

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anti malaria toyota trash, jesus mcwerewolf (not my nicknames but they’re wonderfully descriptive), moody broody eyebrow pity-that-a-hale, i hate them with a passion of thousand suns =)

anti marrish (i just can’t ship her with a cardboard character), anti jydia (emotionally abusive assholes with pathetic background stories are not allowed to be beside my girl)

really not jackson whittermore or how is he called? friendly

supernatural:

dean/happiness

i guess dean/jo harvelle or anyone who treats him well which brings us back to the first point

nope: anti the other brother, pathetic excuse of a character - some nongel; destiel and wincest

the maze runner:

thomas/teresa, 

thomas/gally, 

i ship teresa with everyone

thomas/sonya (’cause i can)

harriet/aris/sonya

(this is movie version, although in the books i don’t ship anyone, i mostly cursed while reading)

notp: trenda and newtmas, brenderesa

EXO:

chanbaek (these two are actual real life soulmates and the manifestation of dream coming true)

and everyone with everyone (ot9)

IT:

bill denbrough/richie tozier (bichie)

bill denbrough/beverly marsh/richie tozier (ot3)

bill denbrough/beverly marsh (billverly) 

bill denbrough/pennywise (too interesting dynamic to ignore this ship)

not reddie friendly (i’m sick of this pairing already)

charmed:

cole turner/phoebe halliwell (phole)

stranger things:

nancy wheeler/jonathan byers 

not steve harrington friendly

mike wheeler/eleven (jane)

mike wheeler/will byers

harry potter:

harry potter/hermione granger

severus snape/harry potter

severus snape/lily evans

james sirius potter/albus severus potter

not weasley friendly, not drarry, dramione friendly

anti maradeurs, anti jily, anti ronmione, anti hinny, anti ron x harry

silmarillion and lotr:

maedhros/maglor, melkor/sauron, melkor/feanor, feanor/fingolfin; 

turin turambar/nienor niniel (how can i make it easier for myself? ofc i should make it worse! tragedy is like a poison in my veins and it refuses to leave), 

luthien tinuviel/beren

aragorn/boromir, boromir/faramir, 

aragorn/arwen

merry/pippin

the cruel prince, the wicked king of the folk of the air series by holly black:

cardan greenbriar/jude duarte - i’m having fun with desribing them as faerie prince and lethal human or stubborn and oblivious in admitting feelings, awfully charming teenagers 

the oa:

hap/the oa

notp: homer/the oa

DC:

batjokes (batman/joker)

joker/harley quinn 

poison ivy (pamela lillian isley)/harley quinn

jaytim (jason todd/tim drake)

brujay (bruce wayne/jason todd)

batcat (bruce wayne/selina kyle)

wonderbat (bruce wayne/diana prince)

notp: superbat, nightbat, bruce/talia

game of thrones:

jon snow/sansa stark (canon, idc what anyone thinks)

rhaegar targaryen/lyanna stark (my eternal cursed lovers who made the world bleed)

robert baratheon/lyanna stark (the infinite what if of the story)

i/m very lyanna stark protective

petyr baelish/sansa stark (i’m intrigued when sansa owns him otherwise NO)

cersei lannister/jaime lannister (no offence but this fucked up dynamic always wins)

a lot of crackships tbh 

anti targaryen restoration, anti jonerys, anti jonrya, not braime friendly

not sansan, sanrion friendly 

voltron:

sheith (shiro/keith)

keitor (keith/lotor)

sheitor (shiro/keith/lotor)

sharkon (shiro/zarkon)

kidge (keith/pidge)

punk (pidge/hunk)

heith (keith/hunk)

krolivan (kolivan/krolia)

keith’s dad/krolia

lowkey allurance (lance/allura) but lowkey

anti lance and his pairings, anti klance

pirates of the caribbean:

jack sparrow/elizabeth swann (sparrabeth, should have been canon)

anti willabeth (only grown up i realised that elizabeth was robbed)

victoria:

lord melbourne/victoria - vicbourne

doctor who:

9th doctor (10th doctor)/rose tyler - ninerose/tenrose and david x billie forever (yes, i’m aware that they’re not in a relationship but i’ll always love them together)

13th doctor/rose tyler and every doctor/rose (except 11th)

12th doctor/clara oswald (this is so hard, my love for them stems mainly from the actors themselves and the age difference, otherwise...)

rtd-era friendly

very anti-moffat, not amelia pond, river song friendly, anti doctor/river, anti 11th doctor

the haunting of hill house:

hugh and olivia crain are ideal match made in heaven. i cry and i smile when i think about them

nell and arthur vance, my heart broke for them

this fandom will crucify me if they know whom i ship with whom because i give no f about shipping nell with luke or theo

marvel:

tony stark positive

loki lafeyson positive

loki/jane foster (lokane)

peter parker/gwen stacey

maximoffcest

polyamorous guardians of the galaxy

notp: stony, stucky,... anti steve’s ships, thorki, scarletvision, cherik

anti steve rogers, anti wanda maximoff (after pietro’s death), anti team cap

x-men positive, jean grey positive

logan/rogue

different crackships

tomorrowland:

casey newton/frank walker

star wars (actually i thought i would never be a fan of sw and here we are);

anakin skywalker/padmè amidala (anidala) - just nostalgic and tragic feelings from chilhood times

luke skywalker/leia organa - yeah, you got it right. my incesty space twins

han solo/leia organa - i warmed up to them, it’ll never get boring with them

kylo ren|ben solo x rey (reylo/benrey) - yeah, it’s all because of them *currently the ship which cured my depression

anti finnrey, damerey, kylux (idc about discourse, im just rarely a multishipper)

pro kylo ren, pro rose tico

finn/rose tico (stormflower)

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rogue one:

cassian andor/jyn erso (rebelcaptain)

i love everyone from rogue one 

my ahjussi/my mister (dorama):

park donghoon/lee jian - soulmates in every sense of the word, is this what true love looks like...

anime/manga (yeah, i was a big fan, can still call it myself now actually):

bleach:

kurosaki ichigo/grimmjow jaegerjaques (you can kill people with this name, i swear)

kurosaki ichigo/abarai renji, 

ayasegawa yumichika/madarame ikkaku, 

hisagi shuuhei/muguruma kensei (i cant believe what sensei did, i remember loving shuuhei to pieces and thinking about his crush on captain kensei and the tattoo, oh the tattoo and now the captain returned and shuuhei is his vice, can you believe it? мальчик, который смог, я охриневаю до сих пор)

and ohhh yes, renruki and ichihime - kurosaki ichigo/inoue orihime, abarai renji/kuchiki rukia (believe it or not but i never shipped any het pairings in bleach but these 2 are the exceptions. i’ll forever be amused that people didn’t get their vibes throughout the series. ah also, brotp ichigo and rukia for life)

ulquiorra cifer/inoue orihime (just a little bit, very promising and intriguing dynamic)

d.gray-man:

allen walker/lavi

allen walker/lenalee

lavi/lenalee

lavi/allen/lenalee (i just love them ok?)

allen walker/johnny gil (crackship too but the latest ark really did it for me)

07-ghost:

everything hurts just thinking about it; i’m in love with their realationship because ofc it’ll never be explicit but their platonic friendship had some serious romantic undertones

frau/teito klein

katekyo hitman reborn:

no f idea i kinda shipped everyone with everyone

yamamoto takeshi/gokudera hayato (classic)

shingeki no kyojin:

jean/eren (erejean)

eren/mikasa (eremika)

jean/mikasa (jeankasa)

eren/mikasa/jean (ot3 erenjeankasa)

connie/sasha/jean (ot3 springlestein)

connie/sasha (springles)

but tbh eren/mikasa/armin/jean/connie/sasha and no one can stop me with my ot6

eren/historia (erekuri; more curious than actually shipping)

notp: ereri

satsuriku no tenshi:

isaac foster/rachel gardner (zackray)

boku no hero academia:

katsuki bakugou/midoriya izuku - katsudeku (bakudeku)

kirishima eijirou/kaminari denki - kirikami

bakukirikami - ot3

anti tododeku, kiribaku

berserk:

guts/casca (i’ll just mention here, i won’t tolerate hate on casca and femto apologism, get this sh*t away from me)

casca/judeau

farnese/serpico (they grew on me, didn’t expect that)

umineko no naku koro ni:

battler ushiromiya x  leon ushiromiya/shannon (sayo yasuda)/the golden witch beatrice

battler ushiromiya x ange ushiromiya

jessica ushiromiya x kanon/shannon

(spoiler!!!!) so long i/ve been waiting for the end of the series and i was mindblown by sayo’s story. i always felt that the most important stuff happened behind the scenes. i was so hurt while reading. this is probably the incarnation of the incestual love story of all times (for me ofc, just my opinion). it was so heartbreaking that the only people sayo found herself to be in love with were her actual relatives and she was also a child of incest thus her struggles with her own feelings of denial, disgust and misery. in the end, i think she got her happy ending. everyone did. in the golden lands.

let it be known that i’m not a fan of naruto but im salty enough to ship naruhina out of spite

the promised neverland  

ray x emma

[jessicakehoe]

20 Audiobooks About Race and Racism to Download and Learn From

Anti-racism reading lists have been doing the rounds over the last couple of weeks. But rather than just a performative display of allyship, we hope this movement brings about real change, which will only be possible if people make the genuine effort to seek out Black voices, read more about systemic and structural racism, and do the work to unpack the implicit bias and racial disparities that have led us to this moment.

We recently shared a roundup of 72 books, movies, podcasts and resources to educate yourself on anti-Black racism, but if audiobooks are more your thing, these 20 titles—some narrated by the authors themselves—are a good place to start.

You can find audiobooks at Audible, Google Play, Scribd, Apple Books, Overdrive, Libro and various other iOS and Android apps.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” this book addresses questions about American history, the idea of “race,” and the Black experience in the form of an intimate and urgent letter written by the author to his adolescent son. The audiobook is narrated by the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, adding to the personal weight of the book. Length: 3 hours and 35 minutes

The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole In a 2015 cover story for Toronto Life, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times he had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. His subsequent book chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country, and he narrates its audio counterpart himself. Length: 8 hours and 14 minutes

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad Narrated by Layla F Saad, an anti-racism educator and international speaker based in Qatar, this audiobook teaches listeners “how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.” Length: 5 hours and 19 minutes

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Exclusively available on Audible, the audiobook is narrated by Trevor Noah himself, and tells the story of the comedian and Daily Show host’s experience growing up as a biracial child in South Africa during Apartheid. Length: 8 hours and 44 minutes

Becoming by Michelle Obama In this memoir, Michelle Obama takes people on a journey through the experiences that shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing work and motherhood to her time in the White House. Narrated by the former First Lady herself, the audiobook won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album this year. Length: 19 hours and 3 minutes

Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard Montreal writer Robyn Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses “the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities” in Canada. Length: 12 hours and 16 minutes

They Said This Would Be Fun by Eternity Martis Written by a Toronto-based journalist, this memoir shares what it’s like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus, namely, Ontario’s Western University. Narrated by the author, the audiobook paints a visceral picture of four years of anti-Black racism and tokenization by fellow students, romantic partners and others. Length: 7 hours and 42 minutes

The Color Purple by Alice Walker There are two audiobook versions of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel available exclusively on Audible: one narrated by the author Alice Walker herself, and one performed by Emmy-winning actress Samira Wiley. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the Southern United States in the 1930s. Length: 7 hours and 58 minutes

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The abridged audio version of this coming-of-age story, tracing Maya Angelou’s childhood and adolescence in a small rural community during the 1930s, is narrated by the author herself. Length: 3 hours

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Through 12 central characters—black British women of various backgrounds—this novel paints a portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, and also looks back at the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. Length: 11 hours and 6 minutes

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama Originally published back in 1995, when Barack Obama was just starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate, this memoir journeys from New York to Kansas to Kenya as Obama—the son of a black African father and a white American mother—traces his family history and reflects on growing up between two worlds. Narrated, of course, by Obama himself. Length: 7 hours and 8 minutes

Beloved by Toni Morrison Narrated by Toni Morrison, this book by the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning author “stares unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery,” telling the tale of a young woman, born a slave, who escaped to Ohio but 18 years later is still not free. Length: 12 hours and 3 minutes

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds A “remix” of the National Book Award-winning book Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi, this audiobook sees Kendi teaming up with YA author Jason Reynolds to reveal the history of anti-Black racism in America and inspire hope for an antiracist future. Length: 4 hours and 11 minutes

In the Black by B. Denham Jolly This book lays out writer B. Denham Jolly’s personal and professional struggles in Canada as a Jamaican student who went on to become a high school teacher before entering the nursing and retirement-home business. As an advocate for the Black community, he also fought a long battle to get a license for a Black-owned radio station in Toronto, eventually launching it in 2001. Length: 8 hours and 39 minutes

They Call Me George by Cecil Foster This untold story about the birth of modern Canada shares the experiences of Black train porters whose minority status rendered them “politically invisible and second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian.” Length: 12 hours and 56 minutes

You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson This essay collection about race, gender and pop culture from comedian and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinson is as hilarious as it is political and poignant. Length: 7 hours and 41 minutes

Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey For parents questioning how (and when) to speak to their children about race, this book is an important tool, written for families, churches, educators and communities who want to “equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions.” Length: 8 hours, 59 minutes

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Presenting the essential writings of Black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, this collection of fifteen essays and speeches takes on everything from racism and sexism to ageism and homophobia. Length: 7 hours, 32 minutes

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi In this audiobook, author and historian Ibram X Kendi helps listeners work through antiracist ideas to help “see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.” Length: 10 hours and 43 minutes

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Addressing issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions and more, this book by writer Ijeoma Oluo helps to bridge the gap between people of colour and white Americans struggling with race complexities. Length: 7 hours and 41 minutes

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Weekend Planner: 20 Awesome Things to Do in Los Angeles

Here are 20 of the coolest events happening in L.A. this weekend. Want the 411 on additional events and happenings in LA? Follow editor @christineziemba on Twitter or Instagram.  

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FRIDAY, FEB. 2

GIRLSCHOOL FESTIVAL 2018 (Music + ideas)

Girlschool’s third annual woman-centric music festival returns to the Bootleg Theater this weekend (Friday through Sunday). Founded by Anna Bulbrook of The Bulls and The Airborne Toxic Event in response to the dearth of women in alternative music and festivals worldwide, Girlschool’s mission is critical. The schedule is filled with performances and afternoon talks, panel discussions and more. Highlights include a Friday keynote conversation between Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia) and poet Morgan Parker; Shirley Manson performing Garbage songs with string quartet, harp, the Girlschool Choir...and a “very special secret guest”; and sets by Jay Som, Bosco, Moon Honey and more. Day passes: $22-25. Weekend pass: $60. 

AN INVITATION TO DANCE (Film series)

The Norton Simon Museum presents An Invitation to Dance, a film series that screens four films starring dance legends Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly every Friday in February at 5:30 pm. The series celebrates the many dancers on view in the current exhibition, Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor. Screening this week: Top Hat (1935). The film is free with general museum admission ($12-$15). 

CULTURE CLASH: SAPO (Film)

Culture Clash, one of the nation’s most prominent Chicano-Latino performance troupes, debuts SAPO at the Getty Villa on Friday at 8 pm. The production, based on Aristophanes’ The Frogs, features L.A.-based band Buyepongo, whose sound fuses cumbia, merengue, punta, jazz and funk. From the Getty: “Culture Clash’s riotous adaptation takes place in three epochs as it dissects three important elements inspired by Aristophanes’ original: An ancient journey on the road to Hell, recent fire storms near the 405 and an after party in the 1970's with a Latin rock band from the Bay Area also called SAPO (Frog), hoping to meet a record industry God but ending up somewhere between Malibu parties and the El Monte Swap Meet.” The show runs Fridays at 8 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays at 4 and 8 pm. Tickets: $20. 

OFFICIAL MONTY PYTHON INSPIRED ART SHOW (Art)

Gallery 1988 holds an opening reception for an Official Monty Python Inspired Art Show at the gallery on Friday night from 7-9 pm. The group art show honors the British comedy troupe, and prints will be online and available for purchase the following day.

SWEET VALLEY GROUNDLINGS (Comedy)

The Groundlings present their newest stage show Sweet Valley Groundlings, following the gang’s typical teenage stuff every Friday and Saturday night. The show opens on Friday night at 8 pm, and this show features bites catered from The Darkroom. Sweet Valley Groundlings runs Fridays at 8 pm and Saturdays at 8 and 10 pm through April 14. Tickets: $50 for opening night; all other shows are $20.

MEOW MEOW / THOMAS M. LAUDERDALE (Cabaret)

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents torch singer Meow Meow in concert with Pink Martini founder and pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale on Friday at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on Friday night at 8 pm. Get ready for a night of music, comedy and mayhem and a century-spanning repertoire. Tickets: $29.50–$69.50. 

Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2018 opens at Bergamot Station this weekend. | Image: Julie Blackmon, 'Lost Mitten,’ 2010.

CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHS LOS ANGELES 2018 (Photo)

The 9th edition of Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2018 returns this weekend to Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. Discover, browse and/or buy the best in vintage and contemporary photography from 30 dealers from the U.S., Canada and Japan. Free admission. The opening night preview takes place on Friday night form 6-8 pm. 

“FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT REVISITED” / AWESOME; I FUCKIN’ SHOT THAT  (Film)

American Cinematheque presents the series, 10 Years of Oscilloscope Laboratories: A Weekend of Celebration, beginning on Friday night at 7:30 pm. Oscilloscope Laboratories, founded by Adam Yauch (MCA of Beastie Boys fame) and David Fenkel (co-founder of A24), is noted for its esoteric film choices for distribution and production. The opening night features Fight for Your Right Revisited (2011, directed by Yauch), followed by Yauch’s Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! A discussion follows with Mike D and Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, and Fight for Your Right Revisited cinematographer Wyatt Troll. Special Ticket Prices: $20 General, $18 Students/Seniors, $15 Cinematheque Members. No vouchers.

FIRST FRIDAYS (Science + music)

The Natural History Museum’s First Fridays returns for 2018 on Friday with the theme, L.A. Invents: A Becoming Los Angeles Series. The programs explore the intersection of nature, culture and creativity in LA. Longtime veteran journalist Patt Morrison returns to moderate and host the series, and Friday’s performers include Phoebe Bridgers at 8 pm; John Doe and Exene at 9 pm and DJs KCRW Resident DJ Anthony Valadez and DJ Reflex. Tickets: $20. 

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Film fest)

If you want a little mini-road trip this weekend, then head north to the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which runs through Feb. 10 at the Arlington Theatre. The festival showcases films representing 58 countries and includes 45 world premieres, 53 U.S. premieres, along with tributes, panel discussions, and more. In addition to film screenings this weekend, tickets are still available for a Gary Oldman ($35) tribute on Friday and a Saoirse Ronan tribute ($20) on Sunday. Saturday’s Virtuosos Award honoring Daniel Kaluuya, Gal Gadot, Hong Chau, John Boyega, Kumail Nanjiani, Mary J. Blige and Timothée Chalamet is sold out. 

SATURDAY, FEB. 3

ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST DAY (Food + politics)

Saturday is Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, and to mark the occasion, all Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams scoop shops open their doors three hours early on Saturday, donating 50% of sales from 9am to noon to She Should Run, a nonprofit organization that is working toward getting 250,000 women running for elected office by 2030.

SMORGASBURG DUMPLING DAY (Festival)

The first Smorgasburg Dumpling Day comes to Santa Anita Park on Saturday from 12-4:30 pm. Come to the park for horse racing, beer and dumplings from Workaholic, Brothecary and more. Buy the Dumpling Package ($30) and get an order of dumplings, one craft beer, a $5 betting voucher, club house admission, program and tip sheet, and trackside and grandstand seating. A 4-pack package will set you back $110.

PANTIES ON A BUDGET: COUPLES THERAPY (Comedy)

The L.A. sketch comedy troupe Panties on a Budget brings back its Couples Therapy show to the Ruby Theater at The Complex this Saturday and next at 8:30 pm each night. The show focuses on a couples theme: first dates, longtime married couples, old friends and coach/athlete. This show includes sketch comedy, theater and audience interaction. Tickets: $10-$15. 

GIANT ROBOT: AUTOKITE (Art)

Giant Robot presents AutoKite, a solo art exhibition by Jacky Ke Jiang aka AutoKite. His portfolio includes industry work for the Walt Disney Animation Studio, Cartoon Network, and illustration, animation and art direction on the game Sky: Light Awaits. There’s an artist’s reception on Saturday night at GR2 Gallery from 6:30-10 pm. The show runs through Feb. 28. 

Movement + Narrative is a group art exhibition that opens this weekend.| Image: Andrew Hem, 'All The Way Low' 2017, Acrylic on linen, 25 x 36 inches, Courtesy of sp[a]ce gallery.

MOVEMENT + NARRATIVE (Art)

Movement + Narrative is a group art exhibition, curated by F. Scott Hess, that opens at sp[a]ce gallery at Ayzenberg in Pasadena on Saturday. Artists include: Alla Bartoshchuk, Carl Dobsky, John Griswold, Kenny Harris, Andrew Hem and others. “The works in this exhibition promote interwoven themes of movement and narrative, with perceptions of the former creating the latter.” The opening reception takes place on Saturday from 6-9 pm, and the works remain on view through March 11. 

THE WORKJUICE PLAYERS: UNDER COVER (Comedy + variety)

The Thrilling Adventure Hour's WorkJuice Players [Busy Philipps, Janet Varney, Autumn Reeser, Mark Gagliardi, Annie Savage, Marc Evan Jackson] and surprise guests sing their favorite songs about songs in a special benefit for Education Through Music LA at Largo on Saturday night. Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm. Tickets: $30.

DEMETRI MARTIN (Comedy)

Comedian Demetri Martin plays The Theatre at Ace Hotel on Saturday night as part of his Let's Get Awkward Tour. Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm. All ages. Tickets: $39.75-$49.75. 

STRFKR + REPTALIENS (Music)

On Saturday and Sunday, Reptaliens and STRFKR  play a sold-out Teragram Ballroom. Get there early for Reptaliens—the husband and wife team of Cole and Bambi Browning—before headliners STRFKR Doors at 8 pm, show at 9 pm. All ages. Tickets: $26-$30. 

SUNDAY, FEB. 4

SUPER VEGAN SUNDAY (Food)

On Sunday, Smorgasburg LA teams up with Eat Drink Vegan and Vegan Street Fair to bring you the first Super Vegan Sunday at Smorgasburg LA. The event features 12 popup vegan vendors, including Amazebowls, Donut Friend, Senorita, curated by Eat Drink Vegan and Vegan Street Fair, with more than 35 other weekly Smorgasburg LA vendors offering special vegan dishes for the day. 

THE BLACK BOOK, VOLUME IV: BLACK LOVE IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS (Talk)

The Hammer Museum presents The Black Book, Volume IV: Black Love in the Hour of Chaos on Sunday at 3 pm. Writers Tisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy use film clips, music videos, excerpts from literature and social media to celebrate black love in all its forms. From the Hammer: “This dense but fast-moving presentation looks at the creation, manifestation, nurturing, and resilience of black love in the face of white supremacy and anti-blackness across generations.” Free. 

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