#aquamirage

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holly j

It must be said.

[marinersubmariner]

aquamirage replied to your photo: I just finished Jedi Fallen Order and I’m still...

she 100% does this on the falcon, she has a special plant that reminds her of each of her friends, but also she’s eaten a bunch of them

plants are friends AND food, it can’t be helped

[morewonders]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018), To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Series - Jenny Han Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Peter Kavinsky & Katherine “Kitty” Song-Covey, Peter Kavinsky/Lara Jean Song-Covey Characters: Peter Kavinsky, Katherine “Kitty” Song-Covey, Lara Jean Song-Covey Additional Tags: Peter and LJ are in college, long distance is hard, Peter and Kitty are bros Summary:

“Besides, she’s the funniest kid he knows; hanging out with her isn’t an obligation, it’s a riot. Lara Jean excepted, for obvious reasons, Kitty’s his favorite girl.”

Kitty confides in Peter while Lara Jean is away at UNC.

[m-azing]

Hades and Persephone on a date in Let Me Call It By Name AND/OR Emergency Voltron Team Meeting from BPR

WELL OF COURSE I CHOSE “AND”

Let Me Call It By Name (Parts IX and X)

So I’m going to combine parts IX and X to do the entire date!! IX begins with Persephone essentially fretting herself to death that she is going to be stood up by her own husband. My take on their relationship is that prior to this moment, there has not been a lot of Asking in this relationship, but an awful lot of Telling from both sides. After her conversation with Artemis in VIII, Persephone has been alerted to this fact and now, as her last resort, wants to see if she can change the game. 

Her reasoning behind choosing a bar both are unfamiliar with is to put them on equal ground (and also to hide this event from Demeter, who has been implying has been sending Strong Weather Signals to Persephone to get her butt home, thinking the marriage has finally run its course). I wanted the bar to evoke the NYTW physical theatre a little: high ceilings studded with lights, other patrons out on the town. The line about being “unable to feel drunk” is my little wink at the blurred lines between Hadestown’s fantasy and reality; if Persephone is really a goddess, of course she could make her drunk or sober instantly as she pleased. At this point she’s only drinking for something to occupy herself with, but even that isn’t distracting now, ergo she doesn’t have enough presence of mind to force the alcohol to work with her powers.

“A hush falls over the room as the door swings open and a god walks in.” is maybe the best line I have ever written, in anything, in my entire life.

Persephone is first to apologize not because her behavior is any better or worse than Hades’, but because she has always been the one in the relationship making the first move (see II). She plays her cards first in the hopes that this will set Hades more at ease, giving him the space to join her in finally actually talking about her feelings. Persephone is incredibly emotional in Hadestown, but rarely does she discuss WHY: why she is upset with changes to the underworld, why she also is upset with the status quo remaining as it is. She still has not reconciled her role as the go-between goddess; this is why she at last calms down when Hades reaches back and agrees to step out on the limb with her. Persephone is volatile, but Hades is stable–this is his strength he brings to the relationship, assuring Persephone just by showing up that he is still trying. At last, they can actually have a real conversation instead of a yelling match.

THE DANCING. Look. When ‘Lovers’ Desire” turned out to be not an Orpheus/Eurydice moment as I had imagined from 2012-2016 but in fact a weird tango/blues/freeform mashup between Patrick and Amber, I literally could not stop my arms from briefly rising, prayer-like, in the air. It was important to evoke this stage dance, but not copy it. They’re not having a moment of passion here; they’re having a moment of reconciliation. Making idle flirtatious conversation like your parents at a wedding. Letting themselves come to the terms with the fact that they ARE an old couple now, and they can do old couple things, and bring up nostalgia without having it hurt.

But there is still a little hurt. Hades has spent too long thinking it’s destiny that Persephone will leave him. Persephone has spent too long thinking it’s destiny that she’ll never feel like she’s home. Now finally those fears are plain, and they’re understandable. They at last realize they are still more alike than they are different, and in a moment of clarity, a moment of comfort, they reach out and connect. And they finally can move forward.

By Prudence Ruled (Chapter 2)

In writing the Paladins, the most important thing for me was to make them still feel like themselves, but more older, comfortable versions of themselves. They still bicker and tease but no one worries about pushing any buttons anymore. They are still huge goofballs and Coran is still definitely their weird uncle.

Yet though the OG Castle team is much closer and more relaxed with each other, Allura is still someone more distant. She’s never mentioned her mother because it never occurred to her that the Paladins would be interested or care to hear about her. She is still at all times focused on living in the present moment only; thinking too far back or too far forward is a vulnerability for her. I based Lady Vassa’s appearance on Danai Gurira and her history on what I think would be inspiring for Allura: someone fierce in battle, committed to duty, and ultimately a hero for sacrificing herself for someone else. Allura looks up to her father as a politician, but to her mother as a soldier.

The test (dun dun dunnnn) is based largely on my own Thing For Swords but also how Alteans are all a bunch of meathead jocks who literally gave toddlers harder martial arts training than human teens. As a ritual for the coronation, it represents the characteristics of Altean loyalty that Shiro has been tasked to embody: willingly giving your life for the sovereign so that the Crown will continue above all else. Yet it also places a lot of responsibility on the sovereign’s soldiers. I can imagine in Ye Olde Times there may have been many nobles a new monarch would’ve been tempted to kil, but the ritual challenges you to be controlled, trusting, and most of all merciful.

So how do the kids do? Well, they’re all over 20 now and battle-hardened pilots, but they’ve never had to recite lines at 4 am before while Coran is trying to whack them upside the head with a rolling pin he pinched from the kitchen, and they are SUPPOSED to let him almost hit them instead of everything they have ever been taught about dealing with aliens wielding blunt objects??? Keith of course is the fastest to handle the physical intimidation part, and Hunk’s memory is too good for him to mess up the words. Pidge, slippery beast that she is, is too used to finding the best way to use her height to her advantage. Lance just wants to add some pizzazz to this stuffy ritual.

Shiro? Shiro spent a year being attacked by people with swords with the intent to kill him, and this year will not leave him. Shiro, no matter than he knows Coran and knows this is fake and knows it’s part of a ceremony, cannot overpower his instinct that Not Fighting Means You Will Die. In fact, all of Shiro’s insecurities about having this bodyguard role revolve in some way around his trauma from the gladiator days: reluctance to perform; being in large, noisy crowds; being separated from someone familiar; not being able to protect his friends; and making himself purposefully defenseless and passive.

Shiro’s failure of Coran’s test confirms parts of his fear that he will let Allura down, and that letting her down will result somehow in her death. It is very much a trigger for his spiral in the next section, and as with all of his previous spirals he spins them out by working himself too hard as a coping mechanism instead of actually confronting his fears.

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@aquamirage replied to your post: i wasn’t going to talk abt this but i’ve seen all...

it’s almost like people having different opinions on fiction is part of what makes life interesting

no no i'm sure that This One Person totally knows the deep secret reason that everyone who felt X about tlj is objectively wrong about that and also their entire life philosophy and way of engaging with media

[cafecliche]

Have I ever told you about the ghost who lived in my college dorm? Her name was Lillian and she lived on the third floor and died when the building caught fire in 1880something. She liked to mess around with stuff in a friendly way so we knew she was there. Everyone enjoyed her and we'd talk to her occasionally, like "Oh hey Lillian! Want to hang out?" if she "knocked".

omg Mer this is so beyond my jam. Please tell me Lillian stories anytime.

[fahye]

aquamirage replied to your post: I hope you're recovering well from your traveler's...

do you use any submissions tracker tools at all, like grinder/duotrope?

no, I don’t; I have to admit I know OF them but have never looked closely enough at them to get a sense of how they would be useful to me personally.

and I have a sense that they would just give me something else to be neurotic about, which is...not what I need. writing is fun. right now, I don’t want to start filling the writing part of my life up with statistics, worrying about what will and won’t sell, and comparing myself to others. I do quite enough of that already. and it tends to have a stifling effect on my productivity/creativity.

[ryfkah]

revolutionarygirlshati replied to your post

“At what point during the first two episodes of “Chicago Typewriter”...”

i know there was a lot of competition but i still can't believe the celine dion slowmo dog hug isn't on this list

i also forgot Chekhov’s karmic murder deer, my favorite character

aquamirage replied to your post “At what point during the first two episodes of “Chicago Typewriter”...”

 is this that book I lent you a million years ago                

as of yet there are no bandits but that could change at ANY TIME

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a pierre and marya d being friends for @aquamirage - thank you for the coffees !

buy me a coffee and i’ll do you a doodle

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40: what's your favorite book or movie of the important genre "it's objectively bad, but it makes me happy"

probably Cats (2019) because the fact that it’s even exists against all odds just delights me so. I have seen it six times. Although tbh I struggle to rank things as “objectively bad” because to me if I have fun watching something then it’s good no questions asked. This is why The Kissing Booth is a good movie and The Breakfast Club is a bad movie.

[marinersubmariner]

I was tagged by @anhaga!

Favorite color: Blue

Currently reading: Nothing right now, but I’ve almost convinced myself to read The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood—aka published Reylo fanfic—despite the fact that I dislike both modern AUs AND genericized versions of specific characters. Am I really that desperate?? Yeah... probably... Anyway it’ll either be that next or some old SW EU nonsense, i.e. a different type of published fanfic

Last song: I Dont Know How But They Found Me - Razzmatazz

Last movie: Black Widow

Last series: I’m currently up to episode 3 of The Terror. Obviously I was expecting generally horrific stuff but uhh haha YIKES

Currently craving: It’s almost holiday cookie time and I’m ready

Tea or coffee: I’m not a big fan of either, but if forced to choose I guess I prefer tea. Then again, I drink coffee every day in Animal Crossing

Currently working on: Trying to motivate myself to do a bunch of cleaning, and photographing a painting I did last year. And in the stupid fandom realm: an endless backlog of Star Wars screencap edits and graphics of varying ambition, because noodling around in photoshop is my only outlet for how much I am still constantly thinking about Star Wars :|

Tagging: @akahypotheticals, @aquamirage, @becauseyoulisten, @cant-not, @cloudsinmyeyes

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Pattern: Cupido Cowl by Hiroko Fukatsu Yarn: 2 skeins of Noro Silver Thaw (*discontinued) in colorway #1 Needles: US 8 Time: November 19-28, 2018 Ravelry link

I was a little goofier in this photoshoot than I usually am, but because this cowl was a gift for @aquamirage, lover of all black cats, I couldn’t resist pulling out this headband and dressing up ;) The Cupido Cowl is one of my go-to patterns for cowls that just need a little extra texture to make them really stand out. The linen stitch variation worked out amazingly with the stripes of the Noro, giving this piece an almost faux-woven texture! It now lives in New York with its recipient and is hopefully keeping her cozy this winter. 

[m-azing]

#persephone vibes like: she texted that picture to Hades from the train

WINTER’S NIGH, SUMMER’S O’ER

[brehaaorgana]

aquamirage

no offense check please fandom but all of your AU...

I am not even a Check Please but I love this

i mean check, please is just the combination of romance sports genre + social media epistolary [vis-a-vis baking/hockey vlog] and so to add “cozy mystery” is SO EASY.

actually cozy mysteries are the published world’s version of fandom cute-AUs. There are like a gazillion cozy mysteries in what are popular AU settings - bakeries, bookstores, coffeeshops, florists... there are cozies dedicated to knitting or crochet or quilting or wedding planning. All cozies have a sub-genre of “but with CATS” or “but with DOGS.” and a paranormal option. every once in awhile my mom would read some cozies and i’d read them too and we almost always read the culinary ones.

and lots of cozies overlap with romance in a sense of there is a love interest AND a happy ending usually and so many cozies are in SMALL TOWNS?? 

basically you don’t even need to be a check please for this to work because the AU itself easily fits in the canon-verse and could be as similar or dissimilar as the writer wanted. it’s just so perfect it makes me mad i’m gonna have to try writing it xD