#ft ask game

[fairytail-multishipper]

a ft get to know you

what’s your favourite character:

favorite ship:

favorite arc:

favorite op/ed:

an unpopular opinion:

best ft duo:

Ohh! How fun!

Favorite character: Natsu and Lisanna, but I also love writing for Zeref and Loke.

Favorite ship: Nali 🫣

Favorite arc: Edolas or Phantom Lord

Favorite OP/ED: Mashayume Chasing or Strike Back because I’m a basic bitch. My all time favorite ed is Be As One.

An Unpopular Opinion: Zeref and Mavis’s relationship shouldn’t have been written as a romance. Age difference aside, the tragedy of their relationship shouldn’t have been romantic but platonic instead.

Best FT Duo: Gray and Natsu. Romantically/plantonically, I think their relationship is probably the strongest we see.

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FT ask game

7, 10 + 15 (apart from the main couple cause I assume they're the fave!)

(from @feelingpure)

Hiii!!

7. A crack question: which food represents every character of Fellow Travelers?

Oof idk if this is gonna make sense jgjgkd

Hawk: Pastrami on rye (I actually have no idea for this one, it appeared to me)

Tim: sweet milk caramel toffee (my boi is sweet and sticky (clingy))

Marcus: Mac and cheese (the kraft kind of)

Frankie: spicy ramen

Lucy: a crème brûlé (she's got fancy european girl taste probably okey, don't come at me)

Mary: idk why, but a strawberry cheesecake always pops in my mind when I think about her

10. If the show had one more episode, what would it be about?

Okay, so I really liked how the show ended, I think it wrapped up perfectly, but if there was a 9th episode I'd like it to show what ends up happening to Jerome bc like we get thrown that he is positive to HIV but then nothing else?? That's one thing, then it'd be about what Hawk does after, he won't go to Milan and will stay around idk if san Francisco, but maybe he does and helps with Tim's legacy with fighting for aids bills and that! I honestly would love maybe some flashback to young!Hawk like the first times he found out he liked men and more with his parents idk more backstory (I'm a sucker for Hawk okay)

15. What is your favorite relationship from the show (could be romantic of platonic)?

Besides Hawk and Tim, I think my favorite relationship romantically would be Marcus and Frankie!!! They're just so sweet in the 80s with their little family and holding eachother up, plus the development Marcus more than Frankie had to make to finally have a stable relationship was great in the show. Now, a platonic relationship that I adoreee has gotta be Tim and Mary! Cmon, they're adorable together and their friendship was beautiful back in the 50s and we know they kept touch until the 80s.

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3, 12, 14, and 15 for FT asks? :D

Okay so to start with I’m sorry that I took so long to answer this!! Thank you for asking you lovely person and also I’ve been drinking for hours (merry christmas ho ho ho 🎅🏼) so these answers may be a load of unintelligible shit but lol whatever lets go

3. What is your favourite episode and why?

It might be a controversial one but honestly? Episode 1. I just love beginnings. The hope and potential and possibility of a fresh start, the excitement and thrill of the unknown, the electricity of new connections, I’m just a sucker for it. I watched episode 1 when it first aired and honestly felt as though it could’ve existed as a stand alone short film. It was the perfect way to set the scene for the series but also was such a beautifully told story in its own right. Idk if any of you have watched Weekend by Andrew Haigh? Idk if I’m chatting nonsense here but it gave me a similar vibe to that… all the emotion and potential and unspoken truths simmering under the surface, intense feelings manifesting as sexual interplay… all of it culminating in what felt like somewhat repressed and wasted potential. I’ll shut up now lol but it was such a perfect first episode. I could babble about it endlessly.

12. Which song, used in soundtrack, you liked the most?

Ooooh such a good question - are we talking about the score, or are we talking songs that were included? Whatever I’ll do both

Score wise can I just say it is the most fucking gorgeous soundtrack, I am such a slut for a good soundtrack and this one has me in a chokehold I love it. It’s so emotional, I cry just listening to it. Paul Leonard-Morgan I loge you you’re a genius

My favourite piece of music from the score has to be Waiting for Tim, it makes my heart ache. I’d love to say something a bit more eloquent about it but honestly it just makes me want to throw up from emotion ✌️ omg and Forbidden Joy that plays during the game of charades in ep2, that scene makes me feel like someone just scooped out my insides

Aside from the score I loooove anything by Arthur Russell, especially Love Is Overtaking Me. If Its Magic by Stevie Wonder is also amazing, especially as a choice for the opening scene. Also You Turned The Tables On Me by Anita O’Day. And omg Found A Cure by Ashford and Simpson that plays when Tim and Hawk are dancing in the club, so so so good

14. Do you have any unpopular opinions about Fellow Travelers?

Hmm….

I don’t think it’s controversial, but I do think that all the people on TikTok and the like who comment like ‘Fuck Hawk he’s evil and never loved Tim!!!’ must either be emotionally constipated or like 14 years old. Like how can a fully grown adult watch this show and come to that conclusion???? And whyyyy are people so obsessed with good vs bad? ‘Tim is an innocent baby and Hawk is a BAD MAN’ like how is that all you see?? Surely that is the least interesting thing about these characters? The most wonderful thing about this show is that everybody is painfully human, they hurt and hurt others and make mistakes just like we do. How can you boil down an entire human being to being ‘good’ or ‘bad’? It’s boring and I have no interest in it. It’s so telling of the time that we live in, that people immediately want to categorise human beings based on their perceived morality. All the characters in this show are just shades of grey, they are nuanced complicated human beings carrying all the complexity that a human being should carry. The focus should not be on bad vs good. It frustrates me!! That is surely the least interesting thing about these characters!! They have such rich inner worlds and such complex motives and you want to reduce them down to “Hawk is bad man and Tim is innocent baby and Lucy is evil lady” ugh it’s so BORING how is that all you see

15. What is your favourite relationship from the show (could be romantic or platonic)?

Oh this is so easy. Obviously fav romantic is Hawk and Tim - pretty self explanatory, I won’t elaborate or we’ll be here all day

Favourite platonic is Tim and Jackson without a shadow of a doubt, I’ve talked about this quite a lot on here already (I think? Or was that on reddit?) but yeah, I just feel as though they were connected from the moment Jackson was born and, similarly to how infrequent Hawk and Tim’s interactions were, Tim and Jackson remained connected for life, regardless of how much time and distance was placed between them. They were kindred spirits. I feel as though their scenes together were some of the most pure and honest and powerful in the entire show.

[feelingpure]

Hiyaa!! 12,4,6 and 20 for the ft ask game please <3

Hiya! Apologies for the delay in answering. 🤎

12. Which song, used in soundtrack, you liked the most?

Atm it's definitely Found A Cure by Ashford & Simpson. It's the song playing when they're first at the disco in episode 7, it's so joyous. Listened to it a lot in the days following that episode, something about it gives me a big dopamine hit and makes me wanna dance.

4. What is your favourite scene(s) and why?

I think the last time I got no. 4 I said the christmas scene in episode 4 when they're in bed; right after the present swap, and before the um fluid swap. But I wanna add the other one that comes after too, when Tim's talks about wanting to spend christmas together in New York. I just squeal at both of them being so cute in that one, Hawk's so soft and Tim's so happy, and there's a nose boop. It ticks a lot of boxes. 🥺🥹

6. What is your favourite parallel/reference in the show?

I'm certain I said something different in a prev ask, but I'll say this for now since it was on my mind. Earlier I thought about “It's not... who we sleep with. It's who we love.” from Tim in episode 3, and then the “He was the man I loved.” from Hawk in episode 8. Idk, and now I'm like; damn, Tim basically looked Hawk in the eyes at the end of episode 3 and said 'IT'S NOT THE LYING ABOUT SLEEPING WITH EACH OTHER THAT HURTS/IS HARD, IT'S THE LYING ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE LOVE EACH OTHER’ waaaahhhh.

What was the first indirect love confession? I'm recalling a scene in episode 1 where Tim is about to say something about their relationship status and Hawk cuts him off to say something like “the person you fuck.” instead, hmm so that links with that episode 3 moment too. I wonder what he was gonna say.

Now I'm remembering that bit in episode 3 where they're at the restaurant and Tim is begging Hawk to admit that he loves him via song. 😭😭😭😭 Ok, moving on.

20. If Fellow Travelers had a spin-off or continuation, what would you like it to be about?

A spin-off one: How Lucy Got Her Groove Back. 😆

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FT ask game

8, 9, 10 + 11 🧡

(asking for sideblog reasons, so this is from @feelingpure)

8. How did you discover Fellow Travelers?

Ashamed to admit but, via clips on TikTok🥹 it didn’t take a lot of convincing though, mid-century queer love stories are my JAM and this show hit literally ALL the right spots <3

9. What are your favourite headcanons?

Ok so I LOVE the idea that Tim got to live out all the little relationship things he wanted to do with Hawk, maybe during the 70s? Dancing, eating in a restaurant, going to the theatre. I just know in my heart that San Francisco gave him all of that

Oh and, I have a LOT about Bob (the little priest guy Tim had his first time with in university) but i won’t write them all here because it would be an endless scroll - I have maybe perhaps written a whole fic about them that I’m going to post soon though so💅

10. if the show had one more episode, what would it be about?

Hawk keeping Tim’s legacy going😤 Being true to himself, using his job to help activist causes, all that good shit. “You’re going to keep lying about yourself even after your dead” not anymore baby. New trauma new Hawk girls, this tragedy is finally gonna be what makes him break the cycle

11. What era did you like the most?(50s,60s,70s,80s)?

50s!!!! Not only because queer romances set during the 30s/40s/50s is my bread and butter and whatever else goes on bread BUT also because !!! Their happy little pillow talk moments GIRLS !!! Tim showing hawk his little family photo album. Tim’s little ‘It is I🤓’ when Hawk first rings him. How Roy Cohn was written/acted. Marcus pissing on that one man’s shoes in the Washington Post bathroom. MARY’S PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!. ‘I can’t bear being this happy.’ And then every single Hawk/Tim scene also as just a minor add on <3

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4 15 and 17 for ft asks ! :)

4. What is your favorite scene(s), and why?

 

I love them all, but my favorite is EP at the cabin. The scene when Tim asks

 

"And where would you be?"

 

And Hawk says

 

"Here, if you want me to be."

 

It's such a strong scene, more than the sexual tension between them, showing that even after Tims leaving for the army, and the scene we see in the final EP when he returns home, they still feel for each other, and Hawk still loves Tim and is there for him when he needs him, but only if he wants him.

 

15. What is your favorite relationship from the show (could it be romantic or platonic)?

 

The obvious favorite is, of course, Hawk x Tim, but I do like Hawk and Marcus's relationship as well; they can really talk, and Marcus isn't afraid to call Hawk out, especially as we see in the scene about forgetting Tim's birthday.

 

17. Do you have recommendations of books, series, films, or other media similar to those of Fellow Travelers?

 

Two movies I'd recommend are

 

The normal heart (which ironically has Matt Bomer as well)—it's a heartbreaking piece but so beautiful at the same time.

 

Moonlight, the acting is amazing, and the cinematography is gorgeous!! And the story is so sad and so beautiful, yet it ends with an ending that feels fit for the film, if that makes sense.

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for the FT ask game: 3, 6, 9, 10 and 16? :D

3. What is your favourite episode and why?

this is hard but i think ep 6! first off, i love tim entering his activist era and i’m just obsessed with his look here. but i love the complicated dynamics between hawk and jackson, tim and jackson, hawk and lucy, and tim and lucy. i really loved tim and jackson’s scenes, especially with the knowledge that tim saw baby jackson in the hospital. also, the scene where jackson shows up at the cabin and excitedly announces he dropped acid makes me holler every time. shoutout to etienne kellici for that line delivery. it’s perfection.

6. What is your favourite parallel/reference in the show?

as much as i love “promise you won’t write” “i won’t” in the last episode, i adore hawk saying he loves jackson “beyond measure” in ep 6. (another reason why it’s my fav ig.)

9. What is your favourite headcanon(s)?

i desperately want to believe that tim and hawk kept up some sort of correspondence before tim dies. i also need jerome to survive and he, marcus, and frankie live together as a happy found family forever and ever.

10. If the show had one more episode, what would it be about?

i’d want an episode focused solely on marcus and frankie. i’ve spoken about this before, but their relationship feels a lot less underdeveloped than tim and hawk’s. idk what era i’d want this episode to focus on tho… maybe the 60s (again with ep 6!) because i want to know a lot of details that are kind of glossed over. is marcus still writing for jet magazine? how did frankie decide to go into social work? etc etc.

16. If you could give the show an alternative ending, what would happen in your version?

i don’t say this often, but i genuinely think the show ended on a perfect note. hawk at the quilt, finally admitting to his daughter that he loved tim… heartbreaking obviously, but brilliant. there are some characters who i’d like to have been mentioned at some point like leonard and lucy (just for closure), but ultimately i think the ending is perfect.

[fairytail-multishipper]

I wanna talk

Fairy Tail Ask

Since the manga has ended I came up with some asks based on this wonderful adventure called Fairy Tail.

1) What made you watch fairy tail?

2) What do you prefer: Manga or anime?

3) What is your favourite arc?

4) How much do you love Ichiya?

5) Your brotp?

6) Your otp?

7) Your notp?

8) Your favourite dragon slayer?

9) What do you love about fairy tail?

10) What is your favourite zodiac sign?

11) Which character do you think is underappreciated?

12) Which character do you think is overpowered?

13) Where would you want your guild mark to be?

14) Who is your favourite character?

15) What are your thoughts on the final chapter?

[kaiserouo]

Well someone has to give it its driver updates, Gabriel

[themouthwashes]

If Curly sees Sterkan Anya: "Thank God, she's alive. Though she does look a bit different, did she do something with her hair?"

She is still really angry about the whole thing, probably Curly got pretty much fixed by the Sterkan too. So Anya can punch him.

[clockworkreapers]

the idea of sburb happening Aleph Null and then it goes up the chain of command to be like: "Um so... one of our inner empire planet colonies has just been destroyed in a matter of hours and we have no explanation as to why"

"What."

[cheatingtime]

[judehatesmaths]

Oh God I'm horrible with this idk ehats up with my phone but it erased an ask, I think it was from @startagainbuttercup about the FT ask

11. What era did you like the most and why (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s)?

Ooooh for me definitely the 50s, I liked the drama and yhe relationship dynamics (they were hot cmon) plusss it had all those soft cuddles AND THE DANCING NAKED SCENE!!!! that's the softest and has gained numer 1 spot in my heart. The 80s for me comes second, a bit too much heartbreak but Skippy with his beanie was too adorable.

14. Do you have any unpopular opinions about Fellow Travelers?

Idk how unpopular it is, but I hate when people trash talk about Hawk. I've seen a lot of posts (not here but tiktok) about how Hawk is a coward and its unforgettable all that he did and how he's so shit almost. It's hard to come out, it's damn hard to be true to oneself and I understand why Hawk struggled with it so much. We can't judge him with a 2023 pov when the man has lived under such different circumstances

24. Bonus question: if you were a character in Fellow Travelers, who would you be and why?

If I were to be one of the already existing ones, probably Hawk bc he and I share the same braincell (kidding) but no, I do relate a lot to Hawk (except for him being so flirty and that)

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9 and 10 for the fellow travelers ask game :)

9. What is your favourite headcanon(s)?

Ohhh that’s a good one….

I’d love to think that there was some form of contact between Tim and Jackson in the years between ‘68 and ‘79. Maybe years later Jackson looked Tim up, maybe wrote to him, maybe not. I just love their dynamic.

Oh, another one - I’d love to think that after Tim passes away, Hawk receives a package in the mail that contains a letter from Tim and his gold cross. A parallel to Hawk breaking his promise and writing in ‘57 and giving him the paperweight. It would kill me but would hurt so good, you know?

10. If the show had one more episode, what would it be about?

I would’ve loved an episode in between 6 and 7. I’m not sure what the overarching plot would be, but I’d love to see some of Tim’s time in prison (as flashbacks) and his transition to living in San Fran. Also how he reconciles his faith with his sexuality. And his coming out to his family… that would’ve been a hell of a scene.

I’d also have loved to see more of Jackson, and his struggle with addiction, and how that impacted the dynamic between him and his dad. And I’d love to have seen the phone calls between Tim and Hawk leading up to episode 7. There’s a tiny delusional part of me that hopes and prays that we’ll get something like this as a deleted scene… I mean it’s never going to happen lol but a girl can dream.

[feelingpure]

can you do 5, 9, 12 for the FT ask game? :3

Hello!

5. What is your favourite sex scene from the show?

I think it's still Hawk tending to Tim in episode 4. 😆 Can I only choose 1? A close 2nd is that one we saw in the '57 flashback in the finale. And an honourable mention to their first time together too, post chicken noodle soup. They all seem pivotal for their own reasons (though every scene with these 2 is pivotal ha), and a lot of what puts these ones up there for me is what takes place just before and/or after.

Hm, I think I've found a pattern in my picks too cause they all seem to the times where Tim is the active partner (though in 2 out of 3 of them Hawk seems to be the most, uh active lol).

9. What is your favourite headcanon(s)?

Thinking if I have any new ones since last time... I think it's between Lenny escaping that horrible hospital and living happily ever after, and Lucy having extra marital affairs.

12. Which song, used in soundtrack, you liked the most?

Found A Cure by Ashford & Simpson, from episode 7 when they're at the disco! I think I last listened to it yesterday, so I'm still regularly jiving to it haha.

And the lyrics are quite interesting for what's taking place in the scene too; it's about love being the cure/medicine for all of life's pains, meanwhile they're popping actual pills in the club and still emotionally destroyed by their love for each other. A terribly ironic/pointed bop for where they are at that point, especially for Hawk (at least that's how I interpret it).

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hi!! 🥰 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16 and 20 for the FT asks? :D

3. What is your favourite episode and why?

One day I will list all of them and why because ALL OF THEM. But with a loaded pistol held to my head I’d have to say ‘your nuts roasting on an open fire’ (4?) 1. Because sorry but who came up with that title is it in the book???? i love it. 2. BECAUSE.. BECAUSE,., BACEUSE…BECAUSE E,, BECAUSE UHM. BECAUSE .. Them. Them spending their Christmas together. The TIE!!!!! Tim’s little shoulder giggle in bed. Hawk picking that bespectacled twink UP. ROCKETTES IN RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL BABY!!!!!. The cufflinks paralleled with the bracelet. That scene where they move the plot along during foreplay??? You know the ‘why can I never say no to you?’ Bit like UGH. Also!!! Tim’s family!!! Him so happy to be wearing the cufflinks at Christmas dinner always finishes me🧎🏻‍♀️ and then so much more but my memory exists only in 5 second segments and weird smells so i can’t think off the top of my head but. Basically just everything🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️

6. What is your favourite parallel/reference in the show?

I don’t know about it being my favourite, I’d have to put a lot more thought in to admit something like that, but one that’s been on my mind recently that I haven’t seen talked about very much is the scene where Hawk tells Tim about his plan to move to Italy and asks Tim to keep it between them, and Tim throws out the most Chekhov’s gun of reply and goes ‘I’ll take it to my grave’ and he DOES. when Lucy comes to talk to him in the 80s, he knows their planning on moving to Italy. He knows Hawk’s plan for Italy. I think maybe at that point, he’s kind of certain that Lucy does too, they don’t need to say it outloud. idk. I just kind of. he kept his promise girls i

8. How did you discover Fellow Travelers? / 9. What is your favourite headcanon(s)? / 10. If the show had one more episode, what would it be about? (Answered in my first ask reply!!)

14. Do you have any unpopular opinions about Fellow Travelers?

I’ve seen a LOT of hate for Lucy’s big final speech in the 80s saying goodbye to Hawk, especially the ‘I thought, once he was dead, things might all be over and we could live like a normal couple’ (paraphrasing) and like I get it, she’s wishing for our special little lesbian lumberjacks death and like bitch omg. But also not at all bitch, that piece of writing was so BEAUTIFULLY truthful. We spend 8 episodes of everyone just lying and lying and lying. To themselves and everyone else around them. Then BOOM episode 8 comes and everything’s just finally laid arse cheeks out in the sun after DECADES and it’s so REFRESHING. Like yeah, ofc she wished Tim was just gone. I get it. She’s held onto this hope she never actually really believed in because the lying had clawed in so DEEP, that thinking there might be a way out of the mess they’ve curated for themselves in life without having to up-end everything good in it as well, was all she had. Telling herself Tim’s death would be the end of it, even though she knows about the other affairs (the gardener i think it is?? etc), was the last bit of hope she had, just how Hawk seems to have stuck his claws into the Italy dream and not let go of it the entire time, despite knowing he’s dug far too deep in for it to ever become a reality now. But then she meets Tim and realises this isn’t just the soldier who wrote the love letter or the criminal Hawk kept in his cabin, this is the man Hawk loves, and that’s never going to just be gone. This ruins everything. She can’t hold onto the lies or the hope anymore. And she tells Hawk all of this and it’s so raw and beautiful and brave and we BOO her???? no not on my watch girls. No more Lucy hate!!!!! I’m leading the march

16. If you could give the show an alternative ending, what would happen in your version?

It was all a bad dream Tim had from drinking some slightly gone off milk and uhm they actually get uhm married and live happily ever after in San Francisco attending aerobic classes <333

Ok no but, I really like the ending. I was STRESSED about how they were gonna pull it off satisfyingly with so many ends to tie up and not a lot of time left to do it but WAOW did they give us something beautiful !!!! I think maybe something I would have liked to see (not actually changed, but just purely selfishly bc i love them) is Tim and Hawk dancing at the gala 🥹 like i get why they didn’t, that would have been too much of a leap for Hawk’s character at that point in time but AGH how i would have fallen at Ron’s feet and kissed the ground that little man walks on if we had got to see that

20. If Fellow Travelers had a spin-off or continuation, what would you like it to be about?

i want a PREQUEL and i want to see Kenny and I want to see Bob and I want to see Lucy’s trip to Europe and I want to see more of that initial relationship between Hawk and Lucy’s brother (pardon me but what the shit is his name again? Kevin or something??) because listen there is something there, they only briefly go into it but i can literally see all scenes in my head, there’s so much potential!!! I need to go read some fics now