#femalegothic

[nickmillerscaulk]

Top 5 cities and top 5 movies released between 1995 and 2005.

oooh these are fun. ty, alex!

top 5 cities (going with cities i have/would want to live in):

melbourne, australia

nyc, ny

seattle, wa

chicago, il

somewhere in ireland (i've never actually been so idk which cities to rave about, but i desperately want to go)

top 5 movies from '95-'05 (literally just going with the first ones that come to mind bc this is v difficult to narrow down):

Bring It On

Miss Congeniality

You've Got Mail

The Princess Diaries

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days

[dhaaruni]

Btw I have a boyfriend ~formally~ and things are great minus the fact Delta forced me to checkin my carryon with my medication and then lost it on my impromptu trip to see him.

I may get it back but not before the 3-day weekend is over!!

[acapellas]

started as a rhae/cent ended up a daem/yra, feel like i failed at lesbianism but it’s not my fault the gothic incest hits 🥲 what comforts me at least is that you + femalegothic also find it compelling so i can’t be all wrong….

gotta say anon, we must free ourselves from the shackles of 'shipping=personal morality' discourse. is it compelling to you? does it make you feel something? then enjoy it! and don't feel bad about it!

[theseventhveil1945]

tagged by @slayerbuffy :)

tagging @femalegothic @hachikos @emmathompsonegot @olgaofkievv @nicollekidman @newwave-cowboy

[riosnecktattoo]

Hi!! This is so random but I feel like you read this before it’s a fic where Beth and Rio do drugs 🙈 and hook up . It’s a college AU I think she does the drugs so she could study better and somehow of course that involves with hooking up with Rio 😂 don’t remember the name of the Do you happen to know what I’m talking about and if so can you link it please? 

COCAINE FUCKFEST MY BELOVED

That's Make Our Way to the Stars Tonight by queen @femalegothic/@bethsuglywigs and now I am rereading it too

[pynkhues]

tagged by @femalegothic <3

Rules: Shuffle your spotify Tidal 'on repeat' playlist and list the first ten songs

Darling - Halsey

Wah-Wah - George Harrison

Not Angry Anymore - Thelma Plum

Supalonely - BENEE

Dance Me to the End of Love (Leonard Cohen cover) - The Civil Wars

What Good is I Love You? - Dusty Springfield

I Wanna Be Here - E^ST

Cherry Red - Ida Maria

Valerie - Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse

HISS - Megan Thee Stallion

Tagging: @foxmagpie @nakedmonkey @riosnecktattoo @s-endeavour and anyone who'd like to do it! :-)

[asilverspring]

9 people to get to know better tagged by @femalegothic

last song: the archer by taylor swift

favorite color: pink either hot or baby

currently watching: evil, sharp objects, and i’m always watching 30 rock and satc

sweet/savory/spicy: savory

currently playing: connections and mini crossword

current obsession: iwtv, changing up my personal style/wardrobe, the carel kina mary janes i got on poshmark, the keep by jennifer egan

last thing googled: in print we trust

tagging @rostovs @colllateral2004 @carmelas @kristenbouchard @elizabethmaryjennings @woman-respecter @willowrosenberg1997 @bawnjourno @foxmulders

[waermeflasche]

9 6 People to Get to Know Better tagged by @femalegothic

last song: satyros by faun

favorite color: wine red

currently watching: i have genuinely watched nothing but my nightly 20 min news show in over a week. Therefore zeit im bild i guess 😔

sweet/savory/spicy: sweet

currently playing: hayday

current obsession: making cocktails, learning french, reading through all the classics one should have read I can find in my library

last thing googled: malta cities where to stay

Tagging @newtrenchcaot @banannasposts @liskie @lightflame @mountaincryptid @pointlesseffigy

[humanbra]

I was tagged by @sothischickshe 🫶 (sorry for the delay lol)

Rules: Tag 10 people you’d like to get to know better!

Relationship status: single

Favorite colour: raspberry red

Song stuck in my head: can't fight the moonlight

Dream trip: idk somewhere pretty by the sea

Last googled: BBW urban dictionary (there is context to this)

Anything I want now: a wifi

Last song listened to: Diamand v2

Currently watching: Just finished my HPI rewatch, I watched a mini series called Sous Contrôle so I'm a little in between rn

Currently reading: HPI fics lol

Current obsession: if we're talking in general then color analysis, if we're talking celebrities then Audrey Fleurot

10 of your comfort shows: Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, The Office, HPI, House M.D., The Leftovers, The Nanny, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Veep

tagging: @foxmagpie @zouille-loose @misshazelevers20 @femalegothic @winonasfilm @xstrawmari @hemerae-ramblings @wegottastaytogether @unicornscully @msbolandbotwin

[hejihra]

tagged by @deadwivesclub 💜 to list the top nine first watches of 2023.

I'll tag: @femalegothic. @emiliosandozsequence. @virgomoon. And anyone else who wants to do this.

[dhaaruni]

Me to my Succession watching friends this spring:

[mistlekissy]

https://www.tumblr.com/femalegothic/721933949015834624/fork-found-in-the-kitchen?source=share who let Harry into the White House omg

filed under: hobama proof

[joeyjoeylee]

I loved BSOTL! I think about Gretchen saying "Super Best Tiger" on the daily and giggle to myself. My cat side eyes me.

I wanted to know if you had plans to write more Brio or write anything in general?

Anon, you've made me Grinch Smile thinking of Gretchen and her never-ending exasperation with her Boss slash Little Brother-Cousin she will always partially see as a 5-year-old trailing after her annoying her 🤣 🤣  Putting answer under a cut b/c I may word vomit:

I've written a bunch and it's funny you mention Gretchen, b/c I just checked and I'm up over 5K words into her POV companion to the series. (4K into Annie's, 3K into Courtney's, etc.)

I had also started imagining a canon-jumpoff AU where everything is the same except for Beth/Rio meeting a couple years down the road instead when she is shiny newly-minted Super Go-getter City Councilwoman Trying to Do "Local Business Outreach" For the Community (and her public profile/own benefit natch) and he is Local [Crime] Business Owner wanting to work this situation [her, the connections, her, more money, her] to his benefit now that Nick is in jail and Rio no longer has that previous protection on the City Council. I wrote one chapter there and it is 2K words of basically Beth/Rio's first meeting, staring fixedly and obsessively at each other across his desk trying to figure each other out (this means "manipulate each other") while Mick stands silently behind Rio totally ignored by both, desperately thinking, please. stop this immediately. I can already see this is the worst idea ever. please. I'm so tired already. please.

My actual finishing/posting problems with all this are both micro and macro tho:

Experiencing plotting issues with the other POV structures that I can't quite figure out how to fix. Should they all go together, chronologically, weaving back and forth from like Gretchen to Annie to Gardner, etc. (which means something could be revealed in like, the Annie one covering the summer between 1L/2L that would be picked up in a Gretchen one later) or each one standalone covering the entire time period of watching the Brio trainwreck? How realistic are some of scenes given they would only have information they had personally witnessed or been told about by two unreliable narrators? Too much detail and backstory into the own POVs making them too OC (original character AND out-of-character) and not enough focus on Brio? Making each a standalone "arc" (I know I'm not using the right words here as I'm not enough of a creative writer to articulate it) with beginning, tension, resolution, to stand in their own rights given how long they are or just break them into vignettes?

Lingering never-leaving thought that I need to break off from my one "story" and do something new, so I pick up the outside POVs, then tell myself "stop! be more creative!" and drop them again.

The other POV thing has been done so much better by much better authors. I'm thinking of femalegothic's On the Outside Looking In and mego42's listening through the air shaft (and tooshyforthis’s AITA for wanting to stop paying my wife’s ‘business partner’ and yelling at her? Dean POV literally the most original hysterically perfect format that I’ve ever seen with these two eyes and I think about it at least weekly and laugh) all the time and the others I've read over the years and not sure it's even worth it to try to make a pale copy of those.

Pandemic/quarantine being "over" means I'm back in my thousands of people public office full-time which is a nonstop chaotic energy drag on this lifelong Introvert such that I come home every night and just want to mindlessly scroll Reddit/Tumblr and look at pretty pictures and read brilliant other writers, not actually ROUSING myself to concentrate and contribute anything myself (my default state tbh). During quarantine, I could block off hours at a time to try to immerse myself into writing uninterrupted and now I just don't have that. I wish I could be like other people who can furiously write during like, the 5 interminable minutes before the latest Zoom call starts, but I really can't. I need it to be uninterrupted blocks of time with no other distractions or it ain't happening.

Continual (inexplicable) internal pressure that if I start something, I must finish it such that I don't really want to post a WIP and have it hanging over my head unfinished. It's funny, I was scrolling back through my late summer 2020 Tumblr the other day trying to find something and saw that I had estimated early on that I would post BSOTL a chapter every two weeks. That is HI-larious in hindsight given the gap between the later chapters. But I had the spirit back then and thought I could get it done quickly. Now with the series no longer active and the fandom much quieter such that I'm not being reminded of this hyperfixation at all times, I'd fear I'd let things lag even more, and ya girl would be eaten alive by the "unfinished" aspect of the whole shebang such that it's better not to post at all.

Feeling that the fandom has "moved on" so to speak, which obviously is totally understandable given the passage of time, but makes me think I should "move on" as well into some new obsession and focus energy there (have not found this yet, open to all suggestions as to what to fixate on now instead!)

This is more than you wanted to know, Anon, so I am sorry as per usual. If I do get anything polished up enough tho, I will either post promptly I promise or ask you for a burner email and just send it to you so I can feel like I accomplished something lol.

Thanks again for the note, I'm really glad something I wrote gives you a regular giggle - makes me happy!

[pynkhues]

URL song tag game

Thanks for the tag @kimwexlers-brownhair! I know you tagged me at @owlishgirl, but I hope you don't mind me posting here instead.

RULES: spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters.

On my Knees - Middle Kids

Willow Tree (live) - The Waifs

Let You Down - Hungry Kids of Hungary

I Like That - Janelle Monae

Same Mistakes - The Echo Friendly

Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - Lana Del Rey

Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll - The Killers

I'll Believe in Anything - Wolf Parade

Red Eye - Kid Cudi feat. Haim

Lost (Season One) - Camp Cope

I also made a playlist, because why not, haha.

Tagging: @foxmagpie @mego42 @femalegothic @nakedmonkey @s-endeavour @hypermania @misshazelevers20 @riosnecktattoo @lemoncupcake @carry-the-sky and anyone who'd like to do it :-)

[dhaaruni]

My #beloved @femalegothic is always right

[blizabrth]

NSFW 12

12. How are their afterglows?

I know the moment in 2x09 after they have sex in Beth’s bedroom is tainted with her ulterior motives to get Rio out of her house, but I personally think both of their behaviors in that scene are still accurate to how they would behave any other time, and even with any other partner.

Rio likes to bask in it. To laze around in that honeyed moment after. He likes to linger, to participate in playful pillow talk. He’s relaxed, all of his hard edges melted down and gone ooey-gooey—his lover can get him to agree to or do anything when he’s in this sort of enamored state. He likes sharing that lull with his lover, might roll a joint to pass back and forth, to make it all last a little bit longer. He’s still physical, likes his lover to stay close and in bed with him, kissing, cuddling, really drawing it out and extending that intimacy as much as possible before having to put himself back together for the “real world” again.

And I feel like Beth, on the other hand, clams up pretty quickly. The deed is done and it’s time to move onto the next task on her to-do list—her brain is already 6 steps ahead of where she is. She’s used to that, too, since she’s always had someone or something waiting around the next moment’s corner for her to tend to. The moment after sometimes feels more intimate than the sex itself, and in order to break that intensity which makes her so uncomfortable, she’s the one who typically gets up first, uses the restroom to clean up and returns already dressed again.

They balance each other well in this way—Rio can convince Beth to slow down and actually enjoy the flood of happy chemicals; Beth eventually prods them both upright and out of bed so they don’t stay there for days-on-end without food or water, lol. Rio still wishes Beth liked cuddling more, though. Their middle ground might look something like Beth sitting upright in bed scrolling through her email on her phone while Rio snuggles into her side, an arm thrown across her lap as he absent-mindedly traces shapes on her skin with his fingertips. After awhile Beth might set her phone down, checking on Rio with gentle scratches across his head, asking, “Want to order in?” and getting a muffled noise of affirmation from him buried in her side and the pillows.

ask me about some shippy headcanons!