#catherine's fashion faves

[world-of-wales]

❥ The Style Chronicles (1/♛) - The Duchess of Cambridge at the ARK Gala Dinner in London | 9 June 2011

[dozydawn]

Agnès Soral and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Catherine the Great (1995). Costumes by Barbara Baum.

[mending-up-your-fences]

Insane Brandi Carlile performances in 2023

(My top ten, in no particular order. Hopefully this blog brought you a smidgeon of joy this year.)

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Did you know that Brandi sang She Used to Be Mine as a lesbian duet with Sara Bareilles this year? At Girls Just Wanna Weekend 4??? And that I haven’t been the same or ever shut up since????????

She Used to Be Mine - Sara Bareilles (feat. Brandi Carlile)

Annual Grammys performance slot, this time wearing a Versace suit :)

Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile

This is the single best performance of Again Today she’s ever done, and I’m (mostly) not just saying that because I was there

Again Today - Brandi Carlile Band

Your fave (unless it’s them) would never be so unhinged as to perform the Same Song back to back in two different styles in concert, and Have It Work. (Saw this trick live and let me tell you, hook, line, and sinker.)

Right on Time and Right on Time (In Harmony) - Brandi Carlile Band

The Gay Agenda (two married lesbians singing their cover of Closer To Fine that they recorded for the blockbuster hit of the year)

Closer To Fine - Indigo Girls (covered by Brandi and Catherine Carlile)

It’s about the song choice, it’s about the fashion, it’s about the acoustic instrumentation, it’s about the stomping, it’s about the stomping, it’s about PLAYING THIS AS AN OPENER AT THE GORGE FOR JONI F*CKING MITCHELL

Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (performed by Brandi and the Twins)

Singing this with the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the audience was A Choice

Shine - Joni Mitchell (covered by Brandi Carlile)

Big year for Queen Covers that shouldn’t work, but you see in real life and the band absolutely pulls off because they are that incredible

We Are the Champions - Queen (covered by Brandi Carlile Band)

Lastly, another cover that doesn’t make sense but then absolutely kills. This performance made me more gay. 10/10.

Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn (covered by Brandi Carlile)

The Highwomen as a concept and as a Full Length concert, after four years, but especially this performance. (The whole set is worth watching. Long live the Highwomen, and may Amanda Shires successfully wrangle everyone into a second album.)

Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys - Willie Nelson (covered by The Highwomen)

[youtubeyourself]

Before there were E-girls we had Chans! Chans were usually just quirky girls who sat in front of their laptops and acted weird on 4Chan in their homes and got a cult like following because of their niche interests or eccentric looks (for that time atleast) They were usually given the chan suffix due to 4Chan being filled with weebs and horny dorks and because the Japanese suffix is used as a term of endearment, most frequently used for girls but not limited to them. The name would be based on what you were known for on the image board (creepy, loli, black) (I'm not joking about loli and black btw...)

Chan interests were but not limited to

-Anime/Japanese culture

-Something taboo (drugs, alcohol, blood, etc)

-Drawing

-Memes/internet culture

-Video games

-Thick and often bad eyeliner

-General cuteness

4Chan took interests in these girls because...well 4Chan.

Some well known chans have gone on to make decent careers for themselves while others faded away to obscurity.

Below are notable mentions:

Boxxy (BoxxyBabee, Queen of b or Catherine "Cathy" Wayne)

While not having the Chan suffix anywhere in her name she definitely belongs on the list, some could argue she was above even being considered a chan (I'm some). Best known for her online character "Boxxy" in her highly energetic vlogs which showcased her bubbly personality and iconic scene girl eyeliner we all came to love but to my surprise alot of people are unaware she actually caused an entire war on 4Chan.

Boxxy spam and flame wars had filled the image board to the point where 4chan users launched a denial of service (DDoS) attack on themselves causing the site to shut down for 7 hours. Channers took to Twitter to launch a Twitter bomb. Things got so bad to the point they doxxed her, left gifts on her doorstep and hacked her YouTube channel. In my honest opinion she was the first victim of cancel culture but I digress. Boxxy is honestly my personal fave since I was around to whitness her in real time and because her high pitched voiced pleased my underdeveloped child brain.

Boxxy has went on to attend comicons and do voice acting (you definitely heard her in some videos, don't worry)

Creepy-Chan (Tussin Chan, Cute Chan, Allicat, Queen of /X/)

My second favorite Chan since I was also around to witnesses her in the prime of her popularity (we get it I've been chronically online since a child)

Creepy chan being the given pseudonym of fashion model Allison Harvard, whose photos were shared on 4chan as early as 2005 due to her eccentric and at time unsettling looks, (Ex: large eyes, heavy makeup, slim body, pouty lips, lanky hands) and peculiar interests like fascination with blood, she earned several nicknames on the site. In 2009, she gained mainstream notoriety after appearing as a contestant on the reality television show America's Next Top Model and spoiler alert: she came in 2nd place.

Creepy-Chan has continued her modeling career. (You go Allison!)

Cracky-Chan (Sky Queen, ScareCrowMaiden, Goddess of 4Chan)

Now this one... Is a relic, despite being the first chan/camgirl on the site's board /b she seems to be lesserknown compared to Boxxy and Creepy-Chan but she is a huge part of 4Chan lore because she defined what /b/ thinks today of camgirls. It was Cracky who first coined the phrase "'sup 4chan" which is now widely used on imageboards and forums. (Or was...) "Cracky-chan" was given to her because she looked as if she had "Snorted crack" due to her messy applied red makeup, heavy eyeliner and distorted mischievous smile. In 2005 photos of her wearing the classic Japanese schoolgirl uniform with black animal ears and badly applied make-up appeared on the random board. The first ever Cracky image to be posted. It showed her in her iconic sailor outfit with the phrase “’Sup 4chan” written on her palm. The images were quickly pronounced cute and sweet by Anonymous and she was given the name Cracky-chan. Now like with most girls on the site the basement dwellers on 4Chan obsession with Cracky-chan had developed such a grip on /b/ that 4chan's then-Admin W.T.Snacks put a wordfilter over cracky [which has since been lifted] in an effort to discourage cracky discussion. (When you posted the word "cracky" it was automatically changed to a random word ending in -cky such as Jacky, Packy, etc)

During this time the teenage "Cracky-chan" laid low and kept out of the spotlight due to the unexpected attention and internet fame which caused her fanboys to mourn the lost of their queen...so they leaked her Livejournal full of drawings, portraits and selfies.

(Some of the photos had nudity, menstrual blood on the face and her in gothic lolita fashions)

What drove /b/'s enduring obsession with Cracky-chan was the collection of self-portraits that Cracky had made being artistic and usually having unusual themes (blood, guro, lolita, other typical chan themes) She was so loved that fansites were created of her in which she would come out of hiding to ask them to be shut down due to unwanted attention.

Despite being the backbone of Chan culture, She has faded into obscurity which is said to be a result from her father contacting the then admin of 4Chan to remove all traces of her daughter since she was being stalked,harassed and her job has been contacted. In 2022 I did find a person on Twitter claiming to be her but the post hadn't gotten alot of attention, their faces did match up but it was hard to tell since the adult woman was bigger in size compared to a smaller teenage girl, the Twitter account is now gone.

(Soon to be updated)

[ladygarfunkel]

[anna8910]

Favorite Kate outfits in no particular order other than chronology 

[the-empress-7]

Hi Empress! Thank you for posting such amazing content of my fave Royal couple. 🥰 I love following your blog and seeing them thrive - and seeing all of Kate’s drop dead gorgeous fashion. This tour especially has blown me out of the water. She just keeps serving killer looks! It’s truly like she’s had a rebirth since the Bond Premiere and I cannot wait to see what else they have in store for us - and I can’t wait to watch them go from D&D of Cambridge to P&P of Wales to King & Queen. 🥰

Question for you - I’m new to Royal watching and am a bit confused. Why was it offensive that the Jamaican PM referred to her as Kate Middleton? I’ve referred to her as that myself (I’m American and people where I live get confused if I say Duchess Catherine, but always know who I mean when I say Kate Middleton). I also refer to Meghan as Meghan Markle. Should I not be referring to these ladies in that manner? As much as I dislike MM, I also don’t want to be hypocritical or offensive or anything. If I’m going to criticize her, I’d rather have the high ground. And of course I definitely don’t want to be offensive towards Kate. I know the Jamaican PM said a LOT of absurd/offensive things but I wasn’t sure why that was one of them. I thought I’d seen even fans of hers call her KM so I’m just a little confused about it all and would love some insight if you have the time. :-)

finally an ask Tumblr will let me answer....let's hope it works.

Anon, she has hasn't been Kate Middleton since April 29th 2011. She is The Duchess of Cambridge. Of course many around the world met as her as Kate Middleton and that name stuck. But you and I are not Prime Ministers or Government Officials.

For the Prime Minister aka a government official to refer to her as Kate Middleton on an official communication was 100% incorrect. When it comes to formal communications getting the simple facts right is important.

[lizisanamimal]

Pls talk about today's fashion even if it's wrong...

I don’t want to be a dick today okay? Haha

As for Kate I think she played it safe (duh) we all knew she was going to wear Catherine Walker, I just wish she would stop wearing the same outfits but with a few variations (longer, different colours, some lace here and there) but for this time and given the hurried circumstances I think they already had her measurements and she just picked something she already wore. I loved the entire look, it wss pretty regal, safe and basic but regal.

As for Sophie (not trying to be a dick) but wtf were those sleeves, anyway I am going to move on from the sleeves because homegirl is very dramatic when dressing and yesterday was not the exception. Louise was lovely as always, I despise people saying she is being dressed (as if she has no say in her own life) too “old”, what the fuck are they expecting her to wear? A mini lace black D&G dress a la Kourtney Kardashian and those ugly Versace platforms for her grandma’s funeral? Anyway, Louise looked lovely and appropriate, fuck you all.

Zara is my fave (yeah I know we are talking about a sombre thing) because she rarely misses with her outfit, makeup, bag and hat/fascinator combo.

[hshqgossip]

THE RESULTS ARE IN !! find them under the cut. ( last year’s winner is in the brackets )

LIFE OF THE PARTY

jelani ( serafina )

DRAMA KING

arnauld ( giovanni )

DRAMA QUEEN

mimi ( barbie )

RAY OF SUNSHINE

lola ( aisling )

TRENDSETTER

olimpia ( olimpia )

DIRTBAG

jelani & george ( jelani )

FALLEN ANGEL

fanni ( natalia )

HALCYON

ariel ( ariel )

COQUETTE

dahye ( dahye )

LOTHARIO

jelani ( tajiri )

NETIZEN

ionie ( parker )

SYCOPHANT

( sergi ) nicolò

BLACK SHEEP

teo, george, hafiz & lixue ( silje )

CLASS CLOWN

aurel ( parker )

SHARPEST TONGUE

olimpia ( giselle )

BIGGEST GOSSIP

astrid

BIGGEST FLIRT

george & jelani & vitoria

BIGGEST GROWTH

fanni ( natalia )

BIGGEST OVER-ACHIEVER

tekla ( catherine )

BEST ENTRANCE

inna ( haera )

BEST NICKNAME

no clear winner but the best votes in our biased opinion were: the green goblin of ireland [ aisling ] and arnauld’s fifth limb [ freja ] and big dick kris ( ebba fucking bernadotte )

BEST ENTERTAINER

aurel ( leonardo )

BIGGEST PRANKSTER

george ( parker )

BEST SHOULDER TO CRY ON

fumiko ( layla )

BEST PERSON TO BE STRANDED ON AN ISLAND WITH

rohan ( rohan )

MOST LIKELY TO WIN THE HUNGER GAMES

lixue ( rohan )

MOST OUTSPOKEN 

aisling & olimpia

MOST LIKELY TO SUCCESS

gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss: ebba, lixue, tekla & wiebke ( lixue )

MOST LIKELY TO NEVER BE SINGLE ( NON-MARRIED ONLY )

no one won this but these are the names that were suggested: petro, aurel, fanni, arnauld, dianna [ married ], olimpia, zhenya, valentina [ married ], beau, sergi, biel, freja [ married ] ( fanni )

MOST LIKELY TO NEVER GET MARRIED

natasja ( jelani )

MOST LIKELY TO TALK YOUR EAR OFF

dominique ( cecilia )

MOST ACCIDENT PRONE

wendy ( rowen )

MOST LIKELY TO SAVE THE PLANET

aisling ( aisling )

MOST GULLIBLE 

lola & miray

MOST TRAGIC BACKSTORY

milena ( vitor )

MOST FASHIONABLE

mai & ines ( anneli )

MOST CONTROVERSIAL

arnauld ( arnauld )

MOST INSPIRATIONAL

tekla & fumiko

THE RAVENCLAW

catherine, areum & kaspar

THE GRYFFINDOR

leonardo

THE HUFFLEPUFF

meixu

THE SLYTHERIN

arthur jr.

LOVE TO HATE

arnauld ( arnauld )

NUMBER 1 BACKSTABBER

elyse

POWER COUPLE

femke x samuel ( femke x samuel )

DREAM COUPLE

tekla x thore ( tekla x thore )

DYNAMIC DUO

isabela x ebba ( kaspar x wiebke )

INTER-GENERATIONAL DYNAMIC DUO

rohan x astrid ( rohan x astrid )

BRAINS & BRAWN

lixue x lixun ( tekla x thore )

PARTNERS IN CRIME

silje x olimpia ( bastiaan x isabela )

NEVER GONNA WORK

alexei x anneli ( jelani x astrid )

CUTEST COUPLE THAT NEVER WAS

levente x zhenya ( levente x zhenya )

JUST KISS ALREADY

lola x teo ( ilija x astrid )

TIME FOR A WEDDING

ebba x rohan ( viggo x armani )

BEST BROMANCE

aurel x jelani ( aurel x jelani )

SQUAD GOALS

femke x ebba x thore ( team bad taste in men ( kseniya x leonor x natalia ) )

FAVE FAM

the croÿs ( the romanovs )

FAVE CRACKSHIP

nadya x fanni & nadya x zhenya ( roman x anneli )

FAVOURITE RIVALRY

catherine x effie & arnauld x alexei

FAVOURITE ENEMIES

aurel x elyse

MOST SHOCKING REVELATION

arthur sr.’s death and art’s involvement & farnauld breakup ( kaspar x wiebke plans )

MOST HEARTBREAKING MOMENT

the thekla thread where tekla disowns fanni ( death of the crown prince of san marino )

MOST ROMANTIC MOMENT

sergi being protective of zhenya ( ebhan’s ‘i love you’ )

MOST BROMANTIC MOMENT

catherine covering up a murder for arthur jr & jelani and levente’s onsen date & isabela being ebhan's cover in india ( aurel x jelani dress up as beyonce x jay-z @ halloween )

HAPPIEST MOMENT

leobela wedding ( birth of samke’s baby )

BIGGEST MISTAKE

arnauld bombing brussels ( levente telling sylvia about milvente lovechild )

FAVOURITE FIGHT

the croÿ birthday brunch ( milena vs. levente )

BIGGEST WTF MOMENT

arthur sr dying ( theo x catherine fight over a desk )

FAVOURITE EVENT

the english murder mystery

FAVOURITE NEWS ARTICLE

the chinese intervention in brussels article

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

What were your favourite and least favourite outfits from the tour?

I've decided to rank them from my least to most fave

10 - the blue Hope Fashion skirt and Zara blazer

I see what she's trying to do but no. I think it would work with the skirt, a white blouse and the blazer open. I would also swap the accessories to a different colour

9 - the Ralph Lauren jumper

This is textbook KMiddy and there's nothing wrong with it but it's a bit... blah. I also don't like this jumper

8 - the Barbour jacket and Campbells of Beauly jumper

I don't dislike this outfit and I LOVE the boots. I also really like the cap... but I don't like the jumper. I'd like it with her Penelope Chilvers boots and blue jeans but not here

7 - the pink Me + Em dress

I HATE TO PUT THIS SO LOW!! I love the fact she wore a pink dress to meet Mila and I quite like it when Kate's sat down, but I think the dress is super shapeless. On a purely satorial level, I do not like this. On a symbolic level, I want nothing to change

6 - the blue Catherine Walker coat

The day Catherine stops wearing Catherine Walker clothes will be the day I am finally happy. I quite like this coat, but it gives me Marshmallow Kate vibes. I think it needs to be tailored more but I love the accessories

5 - the green Massimo Dutti blazer and Reiss trousers

I love the fact this is green!!! It's very Kate - it's casual but dressed up with a blazer. I will also always have a soft spot for her Superga trainers

4 - the camel Massimo Dutti coat

This is my favourite of all of Kate's coats. I want her to wear it every day. I stand by my argument that this would look better with a) a skirt or b) a pop of colour but it's so good

3 - the casual Seeland jacket

Green jacket, skinny jeans, and boots is the 2020 Kate what striped top, skinny jeans, and wedges were to 2010 Kate. I really like this look. It's basic Kate but it works and she knows it

2 - the Erdem jumper and Holland Cooper blazer

Nautical Kate is iconic. I love her in stripes, I love the fact she's in actual trainers. My heart would have loved a dress or the return of her red Reiss suit, but it's cold and rainy so I accept this alternative

1 - the Holland Cooper tartan coat

Flawless. Faultless. The fact Tumblr keeps advertising this coat to me is cruel because I need it in my life. It's S T U N N I N G

[world-of-wales]

❥ The Style Chronicles (2/♛) - The Duchess of Cambridge at the Irish Guards Medal Parade in Windsor | 25 June 2011

[dozydawn]

Catherine Bach, 1983. Photographed by Ron Galella.

[wordspin-shares]

10 Fandoms, 10 Characters, 10 Tags

Rules: make a new post, and post your fave 10 characters from 10 different fandoms 

Thank you so much for the tag, @the-october-reviewer!

I’ll be focusing on TV shows, so:

1. Charlie Bradbury — Supernatural (but also Sam, Rowena, Lucifer, Bobby . . .)

2. Sophie Hatter — Howl’s Moving Castle (there’s so much more to her in the books, though)

3. Caroline Forbes — The Vampire Diaries (love her growth; but there’s also Ric and Jo)

4. Klaus Mikaelson — The Originals (he’s just so fascinating, both bad and good)

5. Rumpelstiltskin — Once Upon a Time (seriously, Gold was, well, gold; talk about fascinating)

6. Joey Gladstone — Full House (he may look like a goofball . . .)

7. Merlin — BBC’s Merlin

8. Catherine de Medici — Reign (a finest Queen Bitch; gotta adore Megan Follows)

9. Violet Crowley — Downton Abbey (it’s Maggie Smith; need I say more?)

10. Gregory House — House MD (gotta love Hugh Laurie)

Tagging: @thecharmedburrowspn-files​, @darknightfrombeyond​, @the-old-fashioned-girl​, @ocfairygodmother​, @randomestfandoms-ocs​, @randomfandoming1​, @ocfanhub​, @margothedestroyerr​, @heirsoflilith​, @star-linedsoul​, @trench-coat-wearing-angel, and anyone else who wants to do this!

[helaenatargaryens]

dig a little deeper;

i was tagged by @danielsousa (thank you sm elke!!)

do you prefer writing with black pen or a blue pen? black

would you prefer to live in the country or in the city? city, but i’m also scared of it skdjfjggk

if you could learn a new skill, what would it be? i would love to be good at colouring with pencil crayons - i’m good at sketching but can’t colour lmao

do you drink your tea/coffee with sugar? yes, definitely

what was your favorite book as a child? i most definitely shouldn’t have read them at age 10 but i was obsessed with the mortal instruments, and still am to this day

do you prefer baths or showers? showers

if you could be a mythical creature, which one would you be? a mermaid or a fairy!

paper or electronic books? paper all the way

what is your favorite items of clothing? i love all my chunky knit sweaters, i’m annoyed because it’s too hot to wear them rn

do you like your name? would you like to change it? i like my name overall! part of me wishes i’d been named after something/someone cool though

who is a mentor to you? my mom i guess? i look up to her but idk if i really have a mentor

would you like to be famous? if so, what for? i think i would be too anxious to be famous, it would stress me out being in the public eye all the time

are you a restless sleeper? when i’m trying to fall asleep, definitely, but once i’m out i’ll sleep through basically anything

do you consider yourself to be a romantic person? at heart, yes, but i hide it well sjdjfjfkg

which element best describes you? i would probably have to say fire

who do you want to be closer to? my school friends

do you miss anyone at the moment? the same school friends lmao

tell us about an early childhood memory. when i was four or five i managed to see an episode of grey’s anatomy on tv and seeing people’s gross injuries scarred me for a long time (i actually didn’t even know what show it was until my sister watched the same episode last year and it was a very trippy moment for me)

what is the strangest thing you’ve eaten? probably nothing tbh, i’m boring when it comes to food

do you like spicy foods? not really

have you ever met someone famous? i met catherine tate at a convention a couple years ago! i have her signature on a poster on my wall, she was super sweet :)

do you keep a diary or journal? i have a journal, but i always forget to write in it for long periods of time

do you prefer to use pen or pencil? pens >>>>

what is your star sign? leo!

do you like your cereal crunchy or soggy? crunchy definitely

what would you want your legacy to be? i don’t really know, but it would be cool to be remembered for discovering something

do you like reading? what was the last book you read? i read casino royale recently (it was..questionable) and i’m currently reading frankenstein!

how do you show someone you love them? i put effort into keeping in touch, i’m generally pretty bad at it because i’m super introverted sometimes but if i really care about someone i’ll do it

do you like ice in your drinks? iced coffee is my fave, so yes

what are you afraid of? basically everything. spiders, death, and heights to name a few lmao

what is your favorite scent? there’s this one specific bath and body works christmas scent called “vanilla bean noel” and it’s my favourite smell in the world

do you address older people by their name or surname? i just avoid their name until either they or someone else tells me what to call them

if money was not a factor, how would you live your life? i would do some traveling, read all the books i wanted, live my fashion dreams, and probably go to some movie premieres too

do you prefer swimming in pools or the ocean? pools because i hate it when i’m swimming in a lake and seaweed touches my feet djfkfkgkg

what would you do if you found $50 on the ground? if someone had just dropped it or it was in a wallet i would give it back to them, if it was just lying on the ground with no info i would probably keep it

have you ever seen a shooting star? did you make a wish? i haven’t seen a shooting star but i do wish on normal stars when i can see them

what is one thing you would want to teach your children? just to be respectful of others and their opinions. if it’s not affecting you or harmful to anyone, you don’t need to criticize them. 

if you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it? probably something small, maybe a flower or a classy looking fandom design, and probably on my wrist or ankle

what can you hear now? i’m listening to my film score playlist, so “across the stars” from star wars

where do you feel the safest? in my room, it’s important to me to have my own space

what is one thing you want to overcome/conquer? my fear of being an adult and managing everything myself - i’ll be 18 in just over a year so i need to get over it pretty soon lmao

if you could travel back to an era, what would it be? i wouldn’t want to stay permanently because obviously there were huge issues, but i think it would be interesting to see what victorian life was like. either that or the 80′s

what is your most used emoji? 

describe yourself using one word? analytical

what do you regret the most? not staying in touch with any of my friends from middle school. i miss hanging out with them sometimes and it sucks that none of us tried harder to stay in contact

last movie you saw? little women (1994)

last tv show you watched? warrior nun, which sounds insane but is actually pretty good so far

invent a word and it’s meaning. fluss - when you get nostalgic for a place/time you never been to (otherwise known as the feeling i get while watching little women 1994 skdjfkgkh)

tagging: @castelllans @tmhnks @gcndalf @dicaprios @deanerys @madney @carolthor (no pressure!)

[ladygarfunkel]

[laughingpinecone]

Trick or Treat 2020 letter!

I am laughingpineapple on AO3  

Hello dear author! I hope you’ll have fun with our match. Feel free to draw from general or fandom-specific likes, past letters, and/or follow your heart.

All requests are art or fic - for art, the stuff I like is the kind that depicts the characters doing something. I’ll always be happier with a very simple drawing of two characters walking together or sharing a cup of coffee than with an ambitious composition that looks like an Avengers poster. I also enjoy seeing them wear different clothes, getting a feel of what their fashion sense is like beyond their canon outfit(s).

Likes: worldbuilding, slice of life (especially if the event the fic focuses on is made up but canon-specific), missing moments, 5+1 and similar formats, bonding and emotional support/intimacy, physical intimacy, lingering touches, loyalty, casefic, surrealism, magical realism, established relationships, future fic, hurt/comfort or just comfort from the ample canon hurt, throwing characters into non-canon environments, banter, functional relationships between dysfunctional individuals, unexplained mysteries, bittersweet moods, journal/epistolary fic, dreams and memories and identities, canon-adjacent tropey plots, outsider POV, UST, resolved UST, exploration of secondary bits of canon, leaning on the uniqueness of the canon setting/mood, found families, characters reuniting after a long and/or harrowing time, friends-to-lovers, road trips, maps, mutual pining, cuddling, wintry moods, the feeling of flannel and other fabrics, ridiculous concepts played straight, sensory details, sickfic, places being haunted, people being haunted, the mystery of the woods, small hopes in bleak worlds, electricity, places that don’t quite add up, mismatched memories, caves and deep places, distant city lights at night, emphasis on non-human traits of non-human characters (gen-wise, but also a hearty yes xeno for applicable ships), emphasis on inhuman traits of characters who were human once and have sort of shed it all behind

Cool with: any tense, any pov, any rating, plotty, not plotty, IF, nerdy canon references, unrequested characters popping up.

DNW: non-canonical rape, non-canonical children, focus on children, unrequested ships (background established canon couples are okay, mentions of parents are okay!), canon retellings, consent issues

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hurdy

I love the game’s world and all the little stories and legends that fill it. Great atmosphere, great lore, so if you feel like getting a little worldbuildy and indulging in the scenery and its story, please do! A focus on the sense of camaraderie in a caravan would also be great (like people could do on Gamecube.....). Hurdy’s a bit of an odd duck for that theme, but maybe he hitched a ride at some point? With whom? Amidatty or De Nam maybe, among the nominated characters? I love the whole cast so anyone goes. Do they travel together enough for them to cotton onto the weirdness of the whole Gurdy situation? Got any run-in with Lady Mio? Or what’s his status after the miasma is lifted, can he go back to Tipa, can he/they begin to heal? What does healing even look like for him and Gurdy?

Ghost Trick: Cabanela

You know.. him. Dazzlingly OTT, untiring, rock-solid self-esteem, loyal to a fault, following a rhythm of his own, flawless intuition until it fails and it all burns down... him. I just want to see more of him doing stuff! The way he’s chill and open toward new people (like Sissel and Missile in ch15) makes him perfect to throw at most other characters and see how they react to the sparkles... I’d love some focus on how ridiculous his aesthetic is, half Saturday Night Fever half hardboiled detective half bubbly preteen (for a total of 150%) and yet he makes it work. Or how ruthless he can be, possibly for the sake of the people he cares for. The quote “The intimacy of big parties”. Him and Alma in the new timeline bonding over knowing (once Jowd has spilled the beans) but not remembering that terrible timeline. Some tropey scenario on the job. Snark-offs with Pigeon Man, by which I mean PM snarks and it bounces off him like water off a spotless white goose’s back. Dreaming Sissel but he’s strange... and wrong?

Ship-wise it’s only Cabanela/Jowd whenever it’s not infidelity, Cabanela/Alma in what-ifs and Cabanela/Alma/Jowd for me (and Lynne/Memry and Yomiel/fianSissel on the side). There are a bunch of shippy prompts in all my past letters - I would however reiterate here that Jowd. is. the worst tease. always.

Conversely, Cabanela/Lynne and Cabanela/Yomiel are NOTPs especially from Cabanela’s side. So while I appreciate the thick tension of a good Yomiel VS Cabanela confrontation like everyone and their cat, and also really appreciate a roughed-up Cabanela, and I do love Yomiel in his own right... I don’t want Cabanela being into it. Adrenaline junkie he may be but this hurts and his coat’s a mess and there’s no perfect winning scenario so he hates every second of it. (JOWD being into it is another matter altogether and he should probably mind his own business)

Kentucky Route Zero: Carrington, Cate

Act after act, intermission after intermission, I somehow didn’t see the arts rising to such a dominant theme in KRZ and it’s stuck with me since the ending finally hit. It’s great and moving. So! Who better than good ol’ antler man to linger in those feels! Carrington’s playwright adventures or Carrington&anyone you fancy, either way I’d listen to him ramble for a week and I would like to know more about his big dramatic plans. Or maybe him helping someone, more or less accidentally, by offering his unique takes? Overriding my “no canon retellings” DNW for a hot second, did he ever figure out what was going down in the Death of the Hired Man (or Nap of the Hired Man as the case may be) interlude?

For Cate, I’m mostly interested in two things: life on the river and mushrooms. Maybe both! The Echo river ecosystem is intensely fascinating to me as opposed to life on the surface and life on the Zero, and yet all these environments are permeable. So what’s a moment in her daily life that encapsulates the river? Someone they picked up on the Mammoth, a strange island that popped up at some point? Cate&Will bonding extremely welcome, I’m love Will. And then there’s the mushroom hunting. I don’t know much about mushrooms, but I do know that they’re cool. Cate seems to agree, so if you’ve got a story or pic in you about her and them mushrooms, I’d love to see it.

Pyre: Volfred Sandalwood

This is a Volfred solo, Volfred&literally anyone or Volfred/Tariq, /Oralech or /Tariq/Oralech request. If &Manley or &Brighton, I am not interested in more lenient takes on their characters than canon’s. fwiw I also enjoy Jodi/Celeste and Bertrude/Pamitha a lot!

I feel deeply for all of Pyre’s main themes - literacy, degrees of freedom, the fragile time that is the end of a historical cycle, nobodies rising up to the occasion, building a better society, and of course found family, “distance cannot separate our spirits” and all that jazz, and Volfred is squarely rooted at the center of all of them. Just please tell me things about my fave. His relationship to the Scribes (as a historian, a some kind of vision, via *ae or once he’s a star himself)? A ‘forced vacay’ Downside ending where he looks at the Union from afar and keeps living in this strange transformational place? Life in a cramped Blackwagon that was meant for like 5 people tops and is currently eight Nightwings, a herald and an orb? Since he picked him for the job to begin with, does he respect and cherish Hedwyn as he dang well should? What does it feel like to try and Read a herald? Was he ever in danger, in the Commonwealth or in the Downside? Does he puff up as prime minister because he’s nervous, and who can see past his hyper-professionalism and lend a hand? Please roast him big time about the votes he assigns to the various Nightwings in his planner? What’s his attitude toward the flame’s purification (what with being a tree but mostly like, as a general concept. He did nothing wrong!) (well he definitely said some things wrong and sometimes oftentimes the ego jumps out, but his intentions did nothing wrong)? When did his calculating approach fail him? Something with Pamitha along the lines of that edit that goes “Can we talk, one ten to another?"/"I am an eleven, my girl, but continue."? btw that ‘emphatically yes xeno’ from my general likes is only applicable here I guess so: emphatically yes xeno to both shippy interactions at all ratings and to gen explorations of what a Sap is like...

Shenmue: Qiu Hsu, Xianzi Bei

Cormorants... kung fu... cormorant kung fu. They turned out to be my faves in a very likeable cast and I’d love to see either or both of them slice-of-life-ing it up in Niaowu, or anywhere up or down the river. The rest of the cast is welcome to join! Did Ren end up at Liu He Hall for whatever reason, or did Shenhua chat up a cormorant, as she does? Id love to see a spookier mood too! Ghost story time in Liu Jiao shrine maybe?

The Silver Case: Catherine, Kodai Sumio, Kuroyanagi Shinko, Kusabi Tetsugorou, Macalister Edo, Morishima Tokio

I‘m all for the surrealism, big things being introduced and never picked up again, Rashomon’ing it up with six explanations for the same thing where no single one can be true, people dying and then popping up again like nbd...  maybe the thing I like the most is characters transcending their humanity and looming over the dystopian world like ominous avatars. Correctness’ first ending had me swooning, that kind of mood is unparalleled. I have played TSC, FSR and 25W so far and have vague memories of K7. I’m aware of the “everything’s connected” readings but that’s not my main interest in these games. Mainly I see Lospass as a real island but also a metaphysical  place of transformation first and foremost, where strange things happen that don’t make sense elsewhere, but I’m good with anything that works for your story! There are a few & prompts for these fine folks in my Press Start letter [here].

For Catherine, I’d love to see something along the lines of her YAMI appearance, on Lospass on her own or hanging out with another character of your choice (or Tokio again). Sumio leaves me at a loss for words... if you’ve played 25W, maybe an expansion of his [intense ethereal whooshing] moment? He’s a gust away from vanishing from existence altogether... &Sakura and/or &/Tetsu if you want. Or his time in prison or a return to Lospass or whatever’s going on with that one, really. For Shinko I’m itching for different team-ups! Throw her at anyone you like and see what happens! FSR-era Tetsu could be cool, or off-the-grid Tetsu, or Tetsu&anyone... as for Edo, I’d be curious to see his pov on anyone and anything! WAS the Flower Sun and Rain the friends we met along the way? And Tokio... oh Tokio. Something about older Tokio and his gaggle of tulpas (Slash and whatshisface from YUKI who looks suspiciously like YAMI Tokio himself?)? Any...thing...about any part of his life from Lifecut onwards? Any portentous encounters?