#geez its about time I post SOMETHING on this blog

[muerteslament]

UM!?

MY FUCKING REACTION TO THAT INFORMATION:

LIKE???

The thing is I already headcanoned him as poly or maybe even ambiamorous! So when I saw that on the official Cult of the Lamb twitter I was genuinely SHOCKED HA!

We love a poly bisexual king 💖

[yan-randomfandom]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I wish you guys nothing but the best! Please take care of yourself (⁠っ⁠˘⁠з⁠(⁠˘⁠⌣⁠˘⁠ ⁠)♡ Let's go thru more & more years!!

Also, I decided to do a summary post for every end of a year! I'll be talking about the fandoms I've written for, my experience with them & list of anons!! (our own personal wrapped lol)

If you don't remember me, I write yandere, or not, stories for a bunch of characters!! :D

2024 — This one is special because it's the first year -4°

You just gotta Keep Reading 😺

[If you don't wanna be tagged, please tell me!]

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Gravity Falls!!!

STANLEY PINES.

Remember that name. If not, then I will. He's my very first muse to write for, who eventually gets posted on Tumblr. I owe this man my life, so thank goodness he's not real 😭

The GF fandom... gosh... my first tumblr fandom interaction, and I love you guys. So much. You're all so engaging, encouraging, endearing, and every other positive 'E' adjective that can describe you all!! 💛

I had so much fun writing the characters, geez.... Stan, Ford, the twins... AAARRGHH I MISS THEM

But you guys also made me realize how much I struggle at writing part 2s for one-shots LOL Having said that... there's a lot of requests I haven't answered, and ones that I was going to, but unfortunately lost motivation. And I rlly wish I could 😮‍💨 I'm sorry guys! but they're still safe in my inbox!

You're all so supportive and active, it makes me wanna cry 😭 My fics received so much wonderful arts and I just love how creative you all are 💕💕 [Godling!Reader was so loved!!]

ARTIST LIST:

@tyrannastar

@ctghost

@thebrokenmechanicalpencil

@thewaywardwanderer

ANON LIST:

Ikan anon

™️ anon

🐲 anon

🪴 anon

PLEASE TELL ME IF I MISSED YOU 😭 I DONT MEAN TO 😭 i fr just realized how messy my navigation is .. still, thank you all for stopping by my blog!! omg!!

TOTAL FICS: 18

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Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish

PERI FAIRYWINKLE-COSMA.

I searched for "yandere peri x reader" and i remember seeing nothing 😩 that was lowk a surprise—so I had to do a traditional method of 'write what u want to read' LOL

This might be the most chill fandom ever and it's so endearing (⁠´⁠ε⁠｀⁠ ⁠) I loved writing for you guys, genuinely!!

My first ever request came from you guys too, specifically saying "More yandere peri" WHAHHAHAH REAL— LET'S BE VERY HOPEFUL AND PRAY FOR SEASON TWO OKAY GUYS???

We only have one named anon for this fandom— 💘ficto anon !! You're also my very first named anon ... heheh (⁠ʃ���ƪ⁠＾⁠3⁠＾)♥️

TOTAL FICS: 10

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Arcane

EKKO.

I love this guy, but I didn't expect to write and post him as my first arcane fic 😭 THE BOY SAVIOR FR!! MY INSPIRATION

This is the most miserable fandom I've been active in 😭 Arcane show is leaving us in pieces and its showing by y'alls comments LMAOOOO

But this is also. the hardest fandom i wrote for. ngl. the characters.... the world building... I had to wait for the whole season to come out just because,,, pulls my hair out in a very demure way

I wish I could have written more for you guys but I had a specifically busy month with Arcane rippp ｡⁠:ﾟ⁠(⁠;⁠´⁠∩⁠`⁠;⁠)ﾟ⁠:⁠｡

I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT BUT—— THAT ONE ANON WHO I RECOMMENDED @reareaotaku TO OMG!! that was lowkey amazing and even better that u actually did it rea !! lets goooooo

There are no named anons unfortunately, but I did name some myself!

ANON LIST:

Mage anon

Age Gap anon

Jinx anon

I think Age Gap anon is the same one as some of my other reqs, hi anon XD u keep coming back wahahah—so sorry i couldn't fulfill all your requests tho 😭 ESPECIALLY your Viktor requests. I had to stop because idk,, it felt like i was doing something wrong w Vik's character every time I tried 😔

— HOWEVER, i have a bunch of drafts. kinda long tbh, you can personally message me if u want to read them :)

And Jinx anon, I'll hopefully get back to your request someday.... I wanna take it more seriously this time ⊙⁠.⁠☉

TOTAL FICS: 10

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Minecraft Story Mode

ROMEO, THE ADMIN.

Bruh this guy LMAOOOO He was just so pathetic in the game that I had to write for him (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)

This is the smallest fandom I wrote for, but it did get four requests! By 💘ficto anon following me from FOPANW,

and @skykaykay !! had 2 more additional parts with Romeo 🛐 glad u liked it enough to request for more 😭

For the yandere!Aiden, we got fanart from @sumthinganarchy ! Here's the link, and gosh... I'm pretty sure you're 💘ficto anon (tell me if you want me to not mention it!) and I just want you to know that,, thank you for sticking around 🙂‍↕️

AND LASTLY, an unreleased request—Isa, the founder. It's written, but incomplete still!! i'll post it this january 2025 🫡 btw anon yes i love your energy too WHAHAHAHA

TOTAL FICS: 4 (+1)

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Independent

We got two requests for fandoms I'm not exactly in, but did see!

That would be...

Tinkerbell

Cars

The Amazing Digital Circus

By these two anons...

Nyx anon, who requested for, well, Nyx and another for Ada Wong! It sucks that idk resident evil so I'm not confident enough to do it😭 AND,,, SCOUTFAIRY READER X NYX,,, IM SORRRRYYYYYY but if you're still interested you can remind me !! i might be able to.... yesss....

Anon that did not name themself, but I'm naming them to 👑 anon. Hilariously requested for Finn McMissile and I don't know why I didn't question WHO it would be 😭 (i know her irl. sigh)

Now for TADC, I'm actually in the fandom but only made one work for it. Absolutely spontaneous after hearing the music video of "Happy Place" it's a fun listen and watch btw, I recommend it if you like TADC!! the actual voice actors are there!

And after allat,

Thank you so much for reading my writing, everyone :D Made a lot of good memories this year, and hopefully my work did the same for you!

I have a lot more to say but my brain suddenly forgot everything I wanted to say, so now I'm speechless.

But, I'm also planning to become a bit more,,, inactive? hiatus-ish? in this account to focus on my bigger projects. only getting to post spontaneous writing rn

However, requests are still sort of open, and you can see my active fandoms in my sideblog, @pokepokee !!

I'm so much more active there!!! I reblog all of the fandoms I'm in.

Although for requests, it's going to be more rare for me to answer now. Just keep them coming though, who knows, I might suddenly have an idea.

Thanks for your support! Happy new year!!

[bungoustraypups]

For the fic writer ask game!! 14, 19, 22 (because I lowkey need advice too >.<), 29

(Also it makes me send asks from my main blog but this is @rashoumon-homo)

(questions are from this post! i am still accepting these asks too!)

sorry this took forever ahaha idk why i just. did Not answer these. but!

14. where do you get your inspiration?

anywhere and everywhere! usually from listening to music, or reading other works of fiction, but not always! sometimes i recycle ideas from old fanfics from old fandoms ive written, too

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

oh geez uh. i've micro-researched lots of things for fic reasons, but a lot of what i include in fics comes from things ive like, already known about them in my life before writing the fic, but uh

i've done quite a bit of research into pregnancy for my fics since i write a lot of pregfics and babyfics and it's actually super interesting imo! its such a common thing ppl (not me, im the son of a biologist lmao, biological functions are never simple & i assume nothing) just assume they either know everything about already or that cant possibly be that complicated when it really is

22. do you ever worry about public reaction to what you’re writing? how do you get past that?

i'll admit i used to worry a lot more but now, i may have brief moments where i worry, but i honestly just don't care anymore. i relieve myself by saying "the people who matter will react well and the people who won't react well don't matter" and it's def advice i pass on. the more you tell it to yourself, the easier it'll get to believe it!

i also rarely get hate comments, probably bc my fics never get all that popular and i'm fairly unknown in most of my fandoms, but if/when i do, i just delete em lmao. fic is not the place for "constructive criticism" or w/e and i don't give a fuck about the feelings of people who feel so entitled to other people's work and time they leave nasty comments on a fic, mine or anyone else's

29. how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

it's not lmao. i can't explain my process, but chances are, if a fic title isn't a song title/lyric or a parody of the title of something else, i had to think on it for A While before it came to me suddenly in a flash of inspiration

[toinfinitywinning]

it’s been a Long time. Maybe I’ve been lazy. Not really. No offense but a daily blog kinda is like but have you slept since the last one? I know a lot can change in 24 hours though. But anyway I can’t think of anything better to do than to try to write about pain at the same time I’m experiencing my worst. Where, ibuprofen and Tylenol rebound and youre left with a parallel to someone taking antibiotics when they’re not needed over and over to where eventually just quit taking it. You’ve expired it, gone the opposite Way. But ain’t that a Bitch tho. Please help us.

At this point Covid took me hostage for potentially the rest of my Life. No hyperbole. For the Second time in about 10 days I have wept and wept in immense, indescribable Pain you only know if you’ve also experienced constant Chronic Pain. Hard crying helps take in some endorphins but then I get another Headache so it’s just all Fucked -that’s the word, the only appropriate word for my currency. And, the best endorphin in some cases. Carries its own presence. Idk if this writing is helpful or not LOL.

I certainly don’t write for pity. It is just the truth that any contact is exhausting and can cost me. From seeing my family? Working? Hiking? A roller coaster? Anything like what would gentry do? TBH idk what it’s costing right now b/c I’m already spent. Then I’m like that is the most selfish thing ever. Then I’m also like I have to be selfish some to stay sane. I write to Connect. I think I can count on like 5-7 fingers having cried like this.

Even after all the …stuff I’ve been through. Mom reminded me of the endorphins potentially available when you cry like that. How tragic we’re desperate enough at times to attach a good feeling to something so terrible while you’re crying trying to pocket some b/c there’s certainly no sunshine in the other one.. B/c Exercise or exertion aren’t options. In a sense I like give the computer sheet of paper my Pain and when I hit Post it should all Go away until it says successful. Then I close my iPad b/c my eyes hurt.

Like most people with a 180 life spin you’ve most likely not seen it coming—for me, Especially after conquering so much and finally being in a Good place and looking up up for the first time in a long time. I’m still mad about that. Angry really. It’s unfair but even my situation is in isolation. It’s possible somebody in Singapore is feeling the same Pain. Or I think I went too far, China. +, we are bonding over this!

It’s not just the positive interactions and experiences we find solace in. I can’t get through this alone and putting my pride aside has been a difficult task I’ve pretty much holstered. I’m not much for a Group Project ever b/c I usually End up doing it all anyway or sitting in a circle with toilet paper with adjectives but that all we’ve got in a sense. Most of us used to be able to say headache or Migraine and a few hours to 48 hours it’s usually passed. That was me. Every Day it’s just Deep in my bones. My bones that hurt. That cry out and are dry and dancing. Get me there.

Anyone is sure welcome to share their story. The loneliness that is already a different one might feel more insulated. And, I’m sorry, sorry you’re dealing with w/e it might be. That’s the circle of metal chairs you’ll probably only find in Baptist churches I should be looking for.

Can we have Faith without Faith in that? I thought I Left seminary. Ah geez.

I gotta Go.

[the-kipsabian]

So. What I think about you. It’ll take some telling to get there. Might get a bit sappy but here goes nothing.

So I’m a pretty new fan of wrestling, less than a year of proper watching still. It was a bit of a spontaneous thing, a friend made watching another sport would post things, and eventually I decided to take a peek and see what all the fuss was about. And in the end, I really enjoyed what I saw. I could get into that, but it’s not exactly important to where I’m going with this.

I don’t remember exactly when I first saw Kip. It was after his feud with OC, but still close to new years. And I thought, geez this guy is neat. Had no idea what was going on with any of his past work, I just liked the way he moved, I guess. So I thought, let me dig a little deeper into this. Eventually I ended up at your blog, and let me tell you, you were a hell of a resource to this baby fan. I’ve always been a bit nervous about following new people (had some bad experiences in the past I’m not eager to repeat) so I think I sort of lurked a while before I actually hit that follow, probably by accident honestly.

So then was Kip and Penny’s trip to Japan, and this is where I got introduced to Chris Brookes, who I’m not sure I even have words for how fond I am of him now. So I very much attribute that to you, and I’m pretty thankful for the introduction to an absolute bastard giraffe man who I adore.

Eventually I got a bit more settled into my new interest, started posting a bit on tumblr, reblogging gifs and the like. And then, just like how I got into wrestling, another fairly distant mutual joked about being interested in what they were seeing. So we talked a bit, I recommended some of what got me interested, and I think in the end that got me a new friend. In a way, I can wrap that back around to you, too.

I see that you struggle a lot. Sometimes it’s with writing, or art. You still make cool things, and I’m pretty awed by that. I’m looking forward to what you’ll make next. I doodled a rabbit on the back of a shopping list today, for the first time in months. It felt like a little victory. I wonder sometimes if your writing, your art, feels like that too. I’ll still celebrate it as if it is.

I’m not really sure how to end this. I guess I just want to say, we aren’t exactly friends, or at least, I don’t feel I can claim that we are right now. But I do think about you, and root for you. And in myriad little ways, you’ve changed my life. That feels a little strange to write, but it’s not untrue. I suppose no one can really know what impact we have on anyone else. At any rate, I hope you’re doing well, I saw you were sick this week.

-🐓

first of all: CHICKEN ANON YOURE BACK HELLO!! its been a while i hope youre doing well! 💜

legit when i read this first thing in the morning, i fucking cried. just.. theres a lot to unpack here, i try not to ramble but this. something like this is literally why ive been keeping on posting everything i do despite occasionally feeling like theres no point to sharing anything. ive always been telling myself that i first do it for myself, and then share it in case theres someone somewhere down the line that might be looking for this content later

and to hear that there is even one (1) person literally like this out there, using my blog and the content i put out to familiarize themselves with my blorbo, im... like oh my god 💜💜

im really glad it has helped you make friends too 💜 and while i dont know who you are, i would consider us friends no matter what tho, especially after hearing this. so glad things like this have helped you to get more into the community, thats amazing! and to touch up on the art thing, yeah its hard at times to pick things up again after a long while of not doing anything - i literally wrote a drabble last night after not writing anything for a week and i havent even seen my drawing tablet in like two months now lmao - but im so happy to hear about your grocery list rabbit!! little doodles here and there are definitely better than nothing, especially if you enjoy doing them!

youre so precious anon, i hope youre having a good day. im still slightly sick, getting better now thankfully so i should be fully operational the next few days and oooooh when that happens its all over you fuckers when i get back to writing (this is affectionate i swear LMAO)

thank you, i love you 💜

[occasional-mountains]

Good Afternoon, Tumblr,

Geez, I’ve really been out for 4 years? Quite a lot has happened since then in both my life and the world. As for myself, I finished college, moved out on my own, and got a job that has nothing to do with my degree. Oh, I also discovered I’m nonbinary (it/him). My journey of self-discovery and expression has been a really fun one, and living on my own and meeting all kinds of new people in a new place has done wonders for my mental well being.

Enough about me, though, you guys come to this blog for mountains, so I’ll give you some (occasionally that is). This time, these ones are from Colorado instead of my usual Cali mountains. There’s two reasons for that: 1) it’s a chance to show off different mountains from a different state and 2) I haven’t been to Cali since I got my new phone. It’s still an iPhone, but the picture qualities are higher resolution, so that’s a plus for a picture blog. Yeah, I don’t have the top of the line cameras for this blog. I just do this as a hobby.

Anyway, Colorado mountains. They’re gorgeous, what else can I say? Well, a lot more. They’re diverse, just like Cali mountains. It’s amazing how much variety there is in a mountain range. Snow tipped mountains, mountains harboring lakes, rock raided mountains, flora flourishing mountains, titanic tree territories within mountains, the list goes on. Not to mention some of these types overlap each other for some beautiful combination. On an unrelated side note, it’s also a lot easier to breathe in Colorado since it’s not a swamp of humidity like Florida is, and getting a whiff of fresh, snowy mountain air is a much needed escape that can’t be replicated.

This particular mountain is in Crested Butte, which is a quaint little place that’s a ton of fun to ski at. I’ve only been once myself, but some members of my family have been a couple of times. Anyway, I like how much is captured in this image going from the bottom to the top. It starts off with a shining layer of snow cut up by tracks of joy with a mix of prospering and decaying trees taking residency upon it. Overlooking the landscape of nature’s lots is a colossal mountain, possessing its own patrons of trees in several villages cut off by paths of precious snow. The mountain’s protruding peak points towards the oscillating sky, half of which prides around its deep blue hue rivaled only by the mighty ocean far away from this land while the other half is cloaked in a thin layer of menacing clouds that robs it of ruling the heavens. Another prisoner of the sky’s blanket is the omnipotent sun, which refuses to let a simple curtain contain it. It pierces the grey veil, beaming down an illuminating glow to the landscape that is accented by some shadows thanks to ominous vapor.

Whew, got a bit carried away with my explanation, but perhaps that’s enough to make up for a 4 year absence. Plus, I had a lot of fun writing all of that. Gave me some creative writing practice, which is something I missed doing. Hell, I’ve secretly missed doing these blog posts. I’m definitely gonna return to posting here occasionally (hopefully that doesn’t mean nearly half a decade), but my next post probably won’t be as verbose as this one. Anyway, catch y’all on the flip side.

[lalalian]

This x1000.

I absolutely love making scripts (hell, my whole blog lately has just been about one of my scripts 😭) but these people genuinely make me so fucking angry 😭😭😭

I actually almost stopped posting my scripts right in the very very beginning of my account when I posted my first script (it was my first elite school dr script— both filled and empty versions).

I genuinely didn’t expect such an uptick in followers and comments for that one TikTok, and it was even more overwhelming to respond to the same exact question.

Maybe it was because the process of getting to the link was too hard? I provided both the link and a QR code to scan to get to the script— but I’ve had so many people tell me to just DM them the script.

This was also before I even hit 100 followers on TikTok, so I couldn’t just put the link in my bio either. Eventually I did (before the link was clickable) and then I’d get flooded with comments like:

“I can’t click the link”

So I’d copy and paste the same exact answer of:

“Please copy and paste the link into Google!”

Then I’d have to deal with people getting offended at that answer because that copy and pasted comment sounded too mean. I remember I’d used to get a “okay geez” or “you didn’t have to yell”. So now when I comment something, it’s always always filled with emojis like 🫶💞💕 to avoid sounding rude.

I’ve had people get irritated that my link leads to all my scripts instead of just the one script in the video… but the thing is, if I were to do that, I would no doubt get more comments that wouldn’t be able to use the link…

because a lot of people can’t simply copy and paste a long link.

I’ve literally told someone in my comments section that the link LITERALLY leads to ALL my scripts, and they were like: “yeah I just see this purple looking page, not the (insert script name here, idk which one it was)” purple looking page=my beacons ai page.

When I said that the page she was sent to has all my scripts, she got mad and said smth like “okay well I don’t see the script I want”

………….

it’s in the…. scripts…. tab………..

its…. It’s the second script… in the script tab….

Ever since I’ve used linktree or beacons ai, I noticed that I’d get a little less of these comments, but of course there’s always going to be someone in your comments + dms asking for a link.

I have videos pinned to my TikTok account, all of them are mini tutorials on common questions any script maker gets asked. But it’s almost as if nobody uses them 😭😭. I’ve remade them three times in an effort to making things seem less daunting or just explaining it in an easier way.

If you didn’t know how to play a game, you’d refer to the instructions (in some way), yeah?

It’s frustrating when people spam my comments with ‘where’s the link’ when the link is either in the video or my old linktree literally directs you to a different website……. That has all my scripts.

This happened too when some people didn’t know how to duplicate notion scripts, so I used to include a short tutorial on how to use a notion script.

Nope, I still got comments like ‘how do I get the script?’

It’s…….. it’s in the video……………. just watch……. the video……..

Really dumb pet peeve of mine, but I’ll always, of course, respond kindly whenever this question is asked 😭

The instructions do also say ‘all my scripts’ which would also insinuate that it directs you to……. all my scripts………. not just one

To whoever’s reading this,

please

you were taught how to read for a reason.

It’s another story if you simply don’t understand, don’t worry abt that!

(This is abt my TikTok account, not on here btw.)

[tinyorangepotato]

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[windudemon]

why an infp would love an entp?

entp doesn’t truly love anybody under normal circumstances, not “really”. (this is why i associated extps and extjs as dismissive avoidants in another post) so if infp can make entp love her, she would get a super rare love that’s impossible to find in nature! and woot! infps are all about rare and unique and obscure.

also: “The Supervisor (infp) sees the Supervisee (entp) as quite interesting and capable, but incomplete and therefore in need of some help and advice.”

so for an infp, entp can be a very interesting project. can you teach this person totally alien to fi ability to love and trust and vulnerability and stuff? it’s like picking a mistreated dog from shelter and keep giving it love even though its first intinct is to bite. but the very fact earning hard to earn love makes it more valuable, more special to infp!

if you are interested with your supervisee pay attention as this is the most important part: “When there are more than two people present, the Supervisee (entp) often attempts to release themselves from the control of the Supervisor (infp) by starting arguments for the sake of it or by attempting to manoeuvre themselves into the commanding position.”

i definitely have been as asshole to my current infp gf in this way quite a few times. this is because okay, i guess i can trust you and be nice and “love”… geez! but that’s when we are one on one. others can not know i have feelings!

= fi trickster

= hard se role

advice to entp who is dealing with infp therefore: make sure and don't hurt the se vulnerable of them. don't be impactfully bossy or sudden or stuff like that. control the fe child, don't sacrifice the infp for a joke or something.

visit my main blog @ demonwindu.wordpress.com

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[jilytoberfest]

Author - @thequibblah

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, Suze! You can find her on ao3!

1. What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

All of my writing quirks are insane, not interesting, and one of the ones I hate (and love to mention) the most is that I am super, super neurotic about numbers and love keeping track of my timed sessions. I have been known to have Excel spreadsheets for my writing…

2. What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your stories?

Hmm...probably the exact balance I strike between juggling things in my head vs. being super organised. I think when I came back to fic I thought I could handle a lot with minimal organisation, but I have proven myself very, very wrong.

3. Do you have any suggestions to help others become a better writer? If so, what are they?

Read. A lot! I know people dish out that advice a ton, but it can’t be understated — and read widely. Try to read published books as well as fanfiction. You’ll learn a lot about developing your own style by sampling the breadth that’s out there. And read about writing, not because everyone’s methods will work for you, but because it’s both interesting and helpful to see what other writers find helpful. Plenty of well-known authors have blog posts or even memoirs about writing, so go find what your faves say about their approach!Everything else, I think, is subjective. But these two are essential.

4. What do you think makes a good story?

For me personally, a good story is immersive. It sucks me into its world totally, and makes me feel along with the characters. It makes me not want to put it down — and when I do put it down, I feel like the world around me has changed with the experience I’ve had in reading.

5. What is the first book that made you cry?

Oh, geez. Charlotte’s Web for sure, ha, but I basically spent all my teen years crying into my pillow over young adult fiction, so there’s a long, long list after that.

6. Does writing energize or exhaust you?

Energise, for the most part. I won’t lie and say i’ve never been stressed or tired even writing the most exciting parts of my fic, but by and large the experience of writing is cathartic.

7. Have you ever gotten reader’s block? If so, what are your tips to overcome it?

Oh, often! I usually change format or genre when I'm bored of reading — or I watch something or listen to a podcast instead. Usually it’s just that I'm forcing myself to read something I'm not that excited by, or not in the right headspace for. So taking a step back is what helps best.

8. Do you think someone could be a writer if they don’t feel emotions strongly?

Honestly, I think anyone could be a writer. All it takes is reading, and practising expressing yourself — a.k.a., practising writing. It has less to do with actually feeling emotions yourself, and more to do with being able to imagine and express emotions. So, yeah, that might be easier if you feel things strongly, but it’s not a requirement. You could be the most repressed person in the world (LOL) and be a successful writer.

9. If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?

Oooh — I think to stick to my guns and treasure every idea. In young-me’s defence, I do still have tons and tons of notes with discarded plots and concepts, but there’s no such thing as hearing that piece of advice too much. Being able to tap into creativity — and being able to come up with concepts that are uniquely you — is special!

10. What was your hardest scene to write?

Like, ever? I think, keeping things vague in the interest of avoiding spoilers, there’s always a lot riding on big relationship beats — fights, shippy moments, etc. — that stresses me out as much as it excites me, ha. And the fights tend to be the harder ones for me, because it’s hard to parse the emotion I feel the characters are feeling and sell it so that the reader can believe an argument would escalate the way it does. (I love writing arguments, though, so it’s totally a love-hate scenario!)

11. What is your favorite childhood book?

Ah, I have about nine million answers to this, but I’m going to pick a maybe lesser-known answer — I adore the Old Kingdom books by Garth Nix, and haven’t found anything that makes me feel the same way those books did.

12. How long on average does it take you to write a one shot or a chapter of a fic?

I’m a pretty fast drafter once I sit down to write, and I usually manage about 1000 words every 30 minutes, but it takes weeks of pre-planning to get there. Maybe it’s just that I'm a fast typist, lol.

13. A fic that inspires you?

Gosh, what fic doesn’t? I feel like if i answered this honestly i’d list out dozens, and Joy would be furious at me for exceeding the character limit or something. But I'll choose one at random — I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Burn Easy”by efk_girldetective since I first read it. Warning, it’s mature, but what I love about it is that it’s a Muggle AU that still manages to immerse me in the magic of its setting. I feel just as transported reading it as I would reading something set in Hogwarts — and I want all my fics to feel like they’re their own little universes!

14. How do you edit your work?

Bold of you to assume I “edit”... No, haha, seriously, I just reread my own writing a lot. Like… I can’t overstate how much. I tend not to do big-picture edits, because usually (with a multichap like Come Together at least) I’ve done enough planning before I draft that I don’t need to do massive restructuring once words are already on the page. So I just line-edit my way to posting, and miss plenty of typos in the process.

15. Where does inspiration come from?

Art of all kinds! I read and watch a lot of things that I cherry-pick fic ideas from, and of course music factors into my writing process so heavily, playlist-making is a step of its own.

16. Who has been helpful for you as you write for the fandom?

Well. WELL. I think it is a well-known fact that I would languish without the support and friendship of Clare ( @clare-with-no-i ) and Senem ( @keepingupwithpotters ). I worry that I’ll miss someone if I continue to name names, but there have been loads of people sprinting with me on Discord of late or just direct-messaging me on Tumblr and I appreciate all of them so, so much!

17. What is your fav POV to write from?

I said recently that while I find it easier to write from Lily’s POV, James is fun because he surprises me more!

18. What is a fic you would love to write but are worried you won’t be able to accomplish it/nervous it wouldn’t work out?

I’m not necessarily nervous it won’t work out...but I’m writing a loose Edwardian era AU with magic that is...basically a novel and I’m not entirely sure there’s a target audience for this...but there’s ME and I know I can’t wait to read it LOL.

19. Do you ever self insert in fics?

Well, I think there’s a little of me in pretty much every main character in my stories — it makes it easier to grapple with their emotions, their quirks, and their flaws when I have a direct reference point. And there are other characters who are, say, aggressive Jily shippers who exist in the background that I relate to for obvious reasons LOL. But I’ve never straight-up dropped myself into a story — though I could do it and find a way to make it hilarious, I think.

20. What is the story you are proudest of?

This is so hard because my answer changes so often! But I will give the easiest one here: Come Together has taken so much of my time and has been such a labour of love, and I sometimes forget how far I’ve come with it. And I’m really proud at having done that.

21. Do you prefer writing canon jily or muggle au?

I wouldn’t say Muggle AU, but I think I like canon vs. AU for different reasons — the former because the wartime pressure offers the kind of stakes you can’t really get in other universes, the latter because of the flexibility and range. Which I know is such a non-answer, but I do like both equally and I just switch between my WIPs when I get tired of one or the other, ha.

Thank you for doing this!

[roseverdict]

girl help my tag rant got cut off short

please know that it was almost finished anyway but i had a few more potshots to take at my 4th-grade teacher who loved to use "you should know better" at the drop of a hat whether the children in her care actually knew better or not, for i will bash her "teaching" at the drop of a hat

A kind person whose social justice vocabulary is outdated or inadequate for the concepts they’re trying to communicate is a better person than anyone who’d rip them down as a bigot for not keeping up with the euphemism treadmill. Morality is measured by how you treat people, not how well you’ve memorized a continuously evolving set of shibboleths.

[chicoriii]

Season 4, Episode 2 - Mensonge (Lies)

Welcome again. I had been logged out from Tumblr for the whole weekend, because I was afraid of untagged spoilers, as I've seen one screenshot here accidentally, fortunately it wasn't spoilerish. And I've watched the Lies today. Again without reading other's people opinion about the episode, so I probably write things that have been said before.

I enjoyed it more than Truth. But not because it's better written, I think the overall quality of both is similar. Lies is about characters I care about more, so it's natural that the episode is automatically more interesting to me. I dislike both Luka and Jagged (to be fair the only member of the Couffaine family I like is Juleka) and that would be hard to make me caring about them, the best thing I could say about any of those characters is that I tolerate them on screen. Sometimes. Don't get me wrong, Truth was the best episode for Luka and Jagged, but they are still dull and/or annoying to me. Creators need to develop son-father relationship more to make me interested in it, that arc was too shallow in Truth.

But the post is about Adrigami episode, not Lukanette one.

I'm surprised that we got only one not very long scene with civilian Marinette. But not surprised that she's still pining over Adrien. Just like Chat is pining over Ladybug. As I'm keeping saying, it's not gonna change. But really, Marinette thinks that Adrien's life is perfect? She should know that tight schedule could be a big problem and has she forgotten what terrible father is Gabriel? Of course she doesn't know details we know, but she should be aware that he isn't as good parent like her own. So probably her enamored brain can't see bad sides of life of her loved one. She still can't think rational when it comes to him. Another reason why she should stop putting him on a pedestal. We need some friendly Adrienette so badly, we need to see Adrien telling her more bad things in his life. He isn't used to complain, but I think he needs to tell someone the truth about his family life. I hope Marinette will be that person.

I had been tired of clown Chat in Truth, but this episode lets us to see the situation from his point of view and now I understand more why he behaves like that. I think that he tries to hide from Ladybug how much he miss spending time with her that way. He is aware that's because of her new responsibility and he doesn't want to make her feel bad for it. Those scenes were so sweet. How much Chat wants an Akuma to appear just to see his lady. Not very noble, but I can't blame him. It only shows that Adrien is a normal human being. We all are selfish from time to time and it's healthy (you only have to find a good balance, being as selfish as Chloé and as selfless as Luka is not good).

Geez, why they can't put the right title of the piece? That's a different composition than that one used back in season 2, but the smartphone's screen says the same. And none of them is actually Raindrop Prelude. This is Raindrop Prelude. They are not even any of Chopin's preludes. I won't be surprised if both are not Fryderyk Chopin's compositions either (although I haven't heard all the solo piano pieces composed by him, so I can't be sure). I love classical music, so I'd love to know what pieces Adrien's playing! By the way, I recommend to listen to all of the 24 preludes, they are usually very short but interesting compositions. If you're too lazy to listen to all, check out number 20 at least, that's a pure, very atmospheric, beauty. One of my favourites melodies ever created.

I have always thought that Adrigami has more chemistry and it's generally more entertaining to watch than Lukanette (sorry stans, but you probably don't even follow me and read my posts,  there's a reason why I'm warning that my blog is not Luka and Lukanette friendly in its description). I feel that in this episode as well. Absolutely it's not a perfect relationship and it can't be, as Adrien is still into Ladybug. It's clear that Kagami is the one who really cares, Adrien is more distant. It seems that he's abashed of Kagami's physical intimacy, like he can't be open to her when he's still in love with Ladybug. That was really sad to hear Kagami's words that she's lying to be more often with him and he lies to not spend time with her. But relationship can't work if only one side is invested in it and they both need to learn it. They have some things in common, I like how they spending time together, so I'm sure they would work much better as friends. I'm sorry for Kagami and I wish her a better boyfriend who would love her truly. In some way it was a repeat of Truth, as we've seen Adrien leaving Kagami all of sudden, because of Akuma's attacks, but this time it's not as heavily portrayed like it's not working only because of superhero responsibility, that I didn't like in the previous episode. Another reason why I liked how Adrigami is shown more.

I really, really loved that we've learnt something new about Kagami and that's amazing it's something I have in common with her. I'm really surprised, since she didn't seem to have an artistic soul before. I also love seeing she likes draw animals, it's like me, I'm trying practise it. I enjoy drawing animals (and creatures like Kwamis or Pokémon) more than humans. But at the same time I feel angry at her mother. How could she dare to say that Kagami isn't good enough? Trying to kill a child's hobby is always unforgivable. She's much better than me (I'm a little jealous, but that's not the first time when a teen has much better skill than me), but my family and some others I know in real life often say that I'm talented and some people try to convince me to take pay commissions. That’s me who knows the best than I'm not skilled enough to take money for my art (they don't know really good artists in person and they don’t draw themselves, so no wonder they are not aware that my works aren't that good they think). Maybe some day, but not now, so I only enjoy drawing gifts for others. I'm also got interested in a real French artist she mentioned - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and I've seen some of his works. Very good for Miraculous for mentioning artist like him, I have never heard about him before, but maybe French students learn about him in school.

Seeing Adrien making Chat's pose was hilarious. I'm sure it's food for true selves trope supporters, but I also agree with Kagami that both model poses and Chat's poses are not ALL Adrien poses. He's more than that. That seemed like he has problems with being natural when he's on the pressure. He's learned how to make model poses, but I also think that when he is in full clown mode is also an act. But that's a mask which he has putted all by himself. In which he tries to be as much different than his public image as he can. Of course being dorky is also a true Adrien side, but not all the time. Being just a cute and polite boy is also true him. It seems that Adrien is not aware of it.

Marinette's lucky charm bracelet is an akumatised object once more. That and the fact she was asking him what he was doing on the boat tell us that Kagami probably think that Adrien is in love with Marinette (it could make also her wonder what stop them from being together if she knows that Marinette likes him as well).

I also liked her reaction to imminent breaking up more. It's more human reaction in my opinion. Some anger, but not too much. She says she doesn't want to see him for a while and that's completely understandable. Adrien has broken her heart, so she need some time to take care of herself without being interrupted by him. I'm going to say something that could be seen controversial, but in my opinion her attitude is way more healthy than Luka's. He still waits for a girl who clearly likes another boy much, but she's trying to really give up on him. And I would like to see a scene in which she says him that Marinette is not worth his waiting, he should be open for another love instead. Uff, I was really worried that they might kill Adrien and Kagami characters. But nothing really bad happened in the episode between them, everything was in-character. Of course salters will still find reasons to hate Kagami, they can say she's possessive towards him (that's true to some extent, but I think it's not really toxic, as she's still cares about his true feelings).

I need to say that Lies is the worst S4 Akuma design we've seen till now. Riposte and Oni-chan were much better. Also the battle was the worst part of this episode in my opinion. It wasn't completely bad, but it felt somewhat boring to me. I definitely enjoyed fights against Truth and Furious Fu more. The thing about that I liked the most what how they made use of Fang.

So the season 4 version of Chat Noir's transformation theme is exactly the same they used in the Shanghai special. It wasn't obvious, since Ladybug's one is a different one than that in the show. I noticed that that Ladybug's theme feels more like a new composition which only uses parts of an original version, while Chat's is clearly "just" an arrangement of the theme we know since season 1. Maybe that's because it's supposed to symbolise that she has even more responsibility now, as she's the Guardian as well. Chat's role hasn't changed that much as hers. I also think the new arrangement sounds cooler, it's more electric guitar-driven. I can't wait to get any of the episodes in which there's his transformation sequence with 5.1 audio to rip it.

All three released episodes are nice for Ladynoir a lot, their scenes are all sweet and wholesome. It almost feel like Ladynoir is close to happen. But I feel that's just calm before the storm. Marinette hasn't reached to her worst moment yet. I'm sure Ladybug will have more breakdowns like that in the season 3 finale.

Three episodes aired and I'm not amazed by any of them. But I don't want to be salty, I'm not worried about that. That's true for season 3 as well, I enjoy the second part of the season more as well. It's important to save the best episodes for later. And I have never expected that I would love all the S4 episodes, despite of pre-release statements, it's impossible. I'm not disappointed. Yet. Just give me some Adrienette food. Please.

[arsenicpanda]

I know I should ignore you, and I screenshotted you so I could block you, but like, you're wrong in so many places that it bothers me enough to respond. But I'm gonna be polite and put it under a cut.

1.) Joke's on you, the ship I was complaining about people shitting on was bugabitha.

2.) I don't give a shit if people dislike jabitha, bugabitha, or any other ship; I don't give a shit if they have whole blogs dedicated to hating those or any other ships so long as everything is appropriately tagged so shippers don't see it. But I do care about people leaving replies and tags shitting on a ship on a post that's content about that ship, made by someone who ships that ship, right where the content creator can see. Like, a post creator can't help but see the tags left on a post now, you do know that, right? It's rude, and I do so hate rudeness. If you want to insult something, do it on your own post, and leave content creators and their creations alone. Like, it's tumblr etiquette 101, this shit ain't hard, and I'm disappointed someone would ignore it and be an asshole.

3.) Damn, you caught me, I've made 20+ jabitha gif sets (including this one, which contains 56 gifs), commissioned fanart, talked about it repeatedly, worked on (but not finished) fic for it, and endured harassment that severely soured my fandom experience (especially re: bughead) until I snapped because I want attention. In all seriousness, how crazy do you think I am? Why would I spend time, money, energy, and mental health on something I didn't genuinely enjoy? Come the fuck on.

4.) Wow, geez, I didn't know jabitha was a rare pair, that's such news to me; it's not like I track it on every platform in search of content and discussion and am more aware of this than anyone else. And you're so right, the merits and value of a ship are totally 1:1 related to its popularity. Seriously, of course it's unpopular, it's season 5, everyone already has their ships picked out. There aren't a lot of us genuine shippers because, again, everyone has picked their main ships by now, so jabitha is mostly a multishipper thing. And yes, I am aware of the ba fans who "ship" jabitha and use it as a cudgel, and I'm aware of z***** and her crew who "ship" it because they hate Betty. But there are people who genuinely ship them because they're cute, have good chemistry, and have a good dynamic. Why do you find that so hard to believe? And so what if it's unpopular? It's a good ship, let me and my fellow shippers enjoy this.

tl;dr lol you're so wrong about, like, everything

[the-little-shoebox]

Summer Gardening

I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR! I DID NOT WRITE THIS! This was written by my friend @theatresweetheart and I am posting this on my blog with her permission as it retains a pairing between her character and mine. I only edited slight dialogue for Derek to stay more in character. With that disclaimer, ENJOY! The summer sun was warm against her back.

Vienna’s wings twitched lightly against her back, the colours dancing slightly through their iridescence. She was knelt down in the dirt, her hands hovering over a small wildflower that was barely standing up on it’s own. She smiled down at it, though there wasn’t much she could do to help it grow faster than it naturally would. She was an electric fairy after all and while most fae had a natural green thumb, she had always been more fascinated with everything else.

Of course, she respected Mother Nature and would do anything for her, as her clan believed they were all children of Nature.

However, Vienna was not talented in garden magic; flowers, sprouts, saplings, all of it was difficult for her to get a hang of. Her parents had tried to help her, but it had never taken off. She’d made a sprout grow once…right through the roof of their home.

She hadn’t tried again.

So, instead, she watched it grow and flourish in its own time. She could help nourish it through actions and watering the little plant, but that was it. In a way, it almost made her feel human. It was a taste of a different world. Of course, she was currently courting a human, which also gave her another taste of a different world.

That very same human was also outside. He was currently hunched over his own little garden on the other side of the cabin.

Speaking of Derek, Vienna turned to look over her shoulder to see if she could spot him. At first, it was hard to. Through all the greenery (which was mainly a passion project of hers, where she had felt as though she needed to do something with her time earlier that spring), she finally managed to track him. He was knelt at the base of a wooden box, using a watering can to help nurture his own plants. What Derek had planted were herbs and spices.

Using homegrown fruits and vegetables felt like a reward. Not to mention they were fresh and delicious. It was something Vienna was used to, the concept of humans buying produce from all over the world had been extremely foreign. Why purchase things from different countries when you could just grow it yourself?

Derek himself was an incredible cook. Vienna had never been talented in that either, so she was extremely thankful she was with a man that knew his way around the kitchen. She also realized that being her size and trying to cook in a human kitchen would be hard. Not impossible, but difficult as all get out.

Letting her fingers brush over the soft petals of the wildflower, she stood up and brushed the dirt from her shorts. She stepped lightly on the small stones littered around before fluttering her wings enough to raise herself off the ground. In little to no time, she had crossed the distance between herself and Derek. The fairy hovered over him for a moment, almost entirely certain that he knew she was there. Her wings buzzing was a constant noise he was used to, he had told her many many times before.

However, he didn’t react to her presence as she fluttered near him. For a moment, she almost thought he didn’t know she was there.

“See something you like, huh Sparks?” His voice startled her out of her thoughts and she felt her cheeks go red.

“As a matter of fact, I do,” she responded, leaning her weight forward to bring herself in that direction. She hovered in front of his face and she could see her own reflection in his sunglasses. She used that reflection to fix her sunhat and adjusted her shirt, making sure it was situated right. She saw Derek quirk an eyebrow in her peripheral. Not to mention the smirk that was creeping across his face. “This shirt in specific, if you must know. Has to be some of my best handiwork, if I do say so myself.”

“Yeah yeah, right whatever you say,” Derek mused with a low chuckle, shaking his head before leaning around her and returning back to watering the plants.

“Though,” Vienna continued not a moment later, fluttering down near his shoulder and looking up at the human as he focused his attention anywhere other than her. “This shirt looks really good on you. I didn’t think floral was your kind of print.”

Derek snorted. “That's because it's not usually my style. All my other shirts are just in the wash right now.”

“Well, for what it counts, I think you look dashing.”

Derek turned his head enough to see the fae out of the corner of his eye. “Says the fairy in the sunhat.”

Vienna made a face at that, though her facade broke a moment later when she smiled. “I burn easily. I have to protect myself as best I can in the heat of the sun.” She lifted a hand to her eyes to shade them a little more as she turned to look in the direction of said sun. “Actually, working out in the heat has made me rather thirsty. Care to take a break with me? I’m sure you could use a drink of something cool too, plants aren’t the only things that need to be watered.”

Vienna found her features brightening even more when Derek laughed. Derek had the most amazing laugh. It made her heart flutter every time she heard it. It sounded like warmth and honey, sugary sweet but deep and rumbling. She counted herself insanely lucky to be able to date someone as incredible as him.

She hovered a little closer to his face, so when he turned to face her head on, she was nearly directly in front of him. She was so close she could see his eyes through the dark lenses of his sunglasses.

“Geez, you like my personal space almost more than I do,” Derek rumbled. She could almost feel the vibrations in the air and she giggled. “Alright, how about some lemonade to cool you off?”

“That sounds wonderful,” she leaned forward and pressed a feather light kiss to the bridge of his nose before pulling back and turning her attention out toward the cabin’s outdoors. It would feel overgrown to someone else, but there had been a lot of painstaking attention poured into everything in that garden. Placed there by her own hands. “Oh! Maybe we could sit outside on the porch! You’ve been working all morning and you deserve a break.”

“Hey, not the only one that’s been down in the dirt around her Beetle,” he quipped after her.

He pushed himself into a stand and brushed himself off. Vienna’s eyes followed him up. She had been around him so long she often forgot just how big he was compared to her, but instead of focusing on the height difference, she easily fluttered herself up to be at eye-level with him once more.

“Hang on a sec V. You’ve got dirt on your hands. And…I think I see something right about—”

Before she could manage to back up out of his reach, Derek’s hands had come up behind her. Once he had cupped them underneath her, Vienna had stopped her hovering and sat back on her knees as he brought her closer to him. His thumb raised up and brushed ever so gently over her cheek and he pulled back with a smug look.

Vienna’s cheeks were on fire. Her heart thundering in her chest and she found herself absolutely beaming. They had been together for a few months now, but there was just something so captivating about how Derek held her. How gentle and precise he was with his motions.

“—there. I not's entirely sure how you managed to get dirt on your face, but given the personality it's attached to, I'm not surprised.”

Then, Vienna felt herself being moved without having to move herself. She was then pressed up against him again in an impossibly gentle kiss and she felt as though her heart would very nearly explode.

Goodness for all living creatures, Vienna had to be the luckiest fae alive.

“Well then,” Derek murmured against her and Vienna brought her attention up to him, meeting his eyes as best as she could, even going so far to push the brim of her hat out of her eyes so it didn’t ruin the view. “Let’s get some lemonade poured yeah? Some quiet time on the porch with my little lightning bug doesn’t sound so bad.”

“Yeah,” she breathed out unsteadily, a huge grin on her face as she gazed up at her human. “Lemonade still sounds amazing.”

[lokislittlesigyn]

A Day’s Work - Pt.1

Hi everyone!! This is an older fic I started a while ago and was pretty happy with. It seemed a good opportunity to get started with posting things. Basically, this is a random au (may simply classify silly/nonsense fics into a separate au category of their own) based around Marvel, focusing on Loki and my own interpretation/characterization of his wife Sigyn. hence... you know, my blog name and pfp and. yeah, you get the picture.

Pairing: Loki / Sigyn (basically an oc based off the marvel/myth namesake)

Warnings: The Collector being creepy (as usual), some capture but don’t fret! It’s short-lived.

Summary: The Guardians of The Galaxy have been, well, guarding the galaxy on their own time. But when a handsome reward for the safe return of an Asgardian princess is released, they may get more adventure than they bargained for.

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"Peter, you're an idiot." Gamora took a seat in the Milano’s cockpit, releasing a loud sigh.

"Yeah, yeah, I know..." Peter turned the ship, and within seconds the were on their way to Xandar. "It's not my fault that guy had literally the ugliest mug in the galaxy."

"He was not carrying a mug," Drax piped up from behind them, furrowing his brow at Peter.

"Face, then! Ugliest face."

"I disagree." Drax settled back into his seat. "You have the ugliest face."

"I am Groot."

Peter glared over his shoulder. "If you don't cut it out, I swear I will turn this spaceship around." Soon, the bunch of misfits reached Xandar. Landed, and took the opportunity to roam the city - partly in search for unclaimed bounties.

"Okay, since we haven't had the best luck under Quill's leadership lately, I’m electing myself as new leader of the group," Rocket smirked, holding a tiny baby Groot on his shoulder.

"Hey!" Peter huffed, "That Sakaarian was just one guy. One dude out of the whole universe. Every one of us has had a - a slight disagreement, over a keg of beer."

"I am Groot."

"Okay, except you. But you don't count."

"I am Groot!"

"All right fine, you count!"

Gamora rolled her eyes, walking over to a large, white wall, containing a screen that was shifting between advertisements. "Hey, come look at this." She put her hand up, stilling the screen.

Peter furrowed his brow, his hands on his hips. "Reward for the safe capture and return of an.. Asgardian? Asgardian princess?"

Rocket whistled. "Gorgeous."

"Yeah, I guess she's pretty-"

"I was talkin' about the money."

Peter's eyes settled on the bounty price, then widened. He grinned. "How do you guys feel about a rescue mission?" ~~~~ Sigyn awoke with a pounding headache. She blinked. Looked down at her bound hands. Great...

It was dark, but in the further reaches of the shadows she could make out the edges of rusty metal walls. In front of her stood an equally-rusted cell door.  Past it, another cell stood, identical if not for the fact it was empty. She stood, steadying herself against the wall. Voices came from down the hall.

"...won't remember anything. I gave her a double dose."

"Dunno, Asgardians are tough..."

"Not this one."

Two men stepped in front of her cell. Each wore patchy, well-worn clothes. One looked tanned and scruffy, the other had blue skin marred with scars.

"Oh look, she's awake," The blue one chuckled.

Sigyn stepped back, eyeing both of them. "Where am I?"

"That's not much'a your business, is it?" The man glared at her.

"Where are you taking me?"

"Knowhere." He smirked.

She blinked. "What... You must be taking me somewhere."

He nodded. "Knowhere. Hang tight, princess." Both men walked off, leaving her alone. She huffed, eyeing the door... Then noticed the clothing she had on. Interwoven leather and cloth, bits of metal, armored bracers on her forearms... Nothing like what those men wore.

What was going on?

She sat back down, defeated. Her headache became overwhelming, throbbing... She placed her head in her hands. ~~~~ Meanwhile, onboard the Milano, Rocket stepped over to a table in the center of the common area. "Now, behold." Rocket set a metal object that looked haphazardly thrown-together on the table. "A genuine Asgardian tracking device. Call it an A-T-D."

"You found a way to track Asgardians?" Peter raised his brows, arms crossed.

"Well yeah, why'd you think I called it an Asgardian tracking device?"

"I am Groot."

"Exactly! The nerve of some people!"

Peter rolled his eyes. Gamora spoke up. "How does it track them?"

"Now that is a good question." Rocket pressed a button on the side of the device. It started beeping slowly. "I won't reveal all my secrets, but it basically traces Asgardian DNA."

"Where did you get Asgardian DNA?"

Rocket grinned. "I have my ways."

"So we'll follow your tracker until we find the princess, grab her, maybe shoot some guys, and take her back to Asgard safe and sound?" Peter shifted his weight.

"That's the plan."

"..I love it. Good work, Rocket."

"Well, I am the resident genius." ~~~~ Soon, the Guardians reached Knowhere to the tune of Drax’s snoring, the tracker’s continuous beeping, and Suspicious Minds playing softly.

The tracking device released another loud, long bloop before returning to its rhythmic beeping - unfortunately, out of sync with the music.

"That toaster of yours better work," Peter huffed.

"I told you, Quill, it's already working. It's brought us this far, hasn't it?"

"We'll see. Asgardians are usually easy to spot anyway," Gamora stood, walking to the front of the cockpit. "They're loud and overbearing. Proud."

"Yeah but they've got a full medieval look, right? Armor and everything?"

"Yes, usually."

"So we're looking for a ren faire princess. Got it."

Rocket and Gamora exchanged a confused look. She shrugged.

The Milano landed, and the Guardians - after waking up Drax - began their search. Peter lead the way.

"All right, we should stick together. Remember what happened last time we came here."

"You ruined our chance at selling the Orb?" Rocket smirked.

"Okay, first of all, that wasn't entirely my fault." Peter huffed, glancing at Gamora. "Where should we start..?"

"I think we should follow the tracker," Gamora glanced around, "And keep an eye out for anything sapphire. Asgardians like wearing distinct colors - from her picture, it looks like sapphire is hers."

"Right."

"Hey, I got something!" Rocket held up the tracker, which had begun beeping faster. "This way!" He scampered off, the team in tow.

They reached the same bar they'd visited before,when waiting to meet the Collector.

"Geez, this thing is going crazy..."

"Rocket." Gamora said.

"I mean it's really losing its mind. Maybe I should've-"

"Rocket!" Gamora pointed to the betting table.

There, on the other side, the princess was being lead to the Collector's back room.

"...Oh."

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The two men from before lead Sigyn through a strange, crowded room, past droves of cheering spectators. What was going on? She tried bumping into people to get their attention, tried catching someone’s eye, but the blaster pressed to her back kept her lips sealed.

They reached a back room. Walked through a maze-like trail of glass cages, lead by a pink woman whose smile looked far too forced.

Sigyn looked inside the glass cages, gasping when one of the beings inside moved. What is this place? she thought, swallowing hard when they stopped walking. Sigyn stood between the rugged aliens who lead her, staring forward at the strange man before her. He lowered a contraption that looked much like a mix between binoculars and glasses, setting them and the precious stone he was examining on the table before him.

"May I present, Taneleer Tivan, The Collector." The pink woman nodded to him, then disappeared behind more glass cages.

"As promised," The blue man smirked, "An Asgardian. The princess herself. Safe and sound. Not a scratch on her."

"Oh," the Collector leaned over the table, studying Sigyn much like he had the stone. She tensed. Felt a chill go down her spine. "How you managed a feat such as this, I cannot grasp.." He walked around the table, reaching out to Sigyn. When she didn't move, the men forced her hands toward him. He took one, kissing it, gaze never leaving her face. "It is an honor, fair princess."

Sigyn was frozen in fear. She clenched her jaw, pulling away from him as soon as he'd let her. "I-I.. What do you want with me?"

The Collector only chuckled. "She looks reasonably healthy.." He grabbed her jaw, turning her face back and forth. She gritted her teeth, staring at him.

"About that..” The blue man smirked. “We want two million additional units. Seeing as she's a healthy, young princess, seems fair.."

"Yes.. Yes, that would be fair. Stellina," He called. The pink woman returned. "Transfer the units to these gentlemen."

"Wait- I'm not for sale!" Sigyn struggled against her captors. "I am not a princess! I don't know who you think I am, but-"

"Quiet," the blue man snarled. "We hit her with a big dose of Amnesiac Gas."

The Collector glanced at her with an amused expression. "How long until it wears off?"

The man shrugged.

"Well, never mind, then..." He sent Stellina to open one of the glass cages. "I trust the Asgardians have no idea you are here?"

"Not a clue," The other one snickered, "We made out in the dead of night. Didn't even know it was us takin' her."

The men started moving toward the cage. Sigyn's heart leapt from her chest.

"Wait- Wait, no, no no no, please don't! Please!" She kicked, managing to rip her arm away from one of the men, only to be firmly grabbed by the Collector himself, who kept one hand around her wrist, the other on her throat. "Now, little beauty, don't struggle so. I do not intend to hurt you." He brushed a finger across her cheek - gentle. Too gentle. Tears welled up in her eyes. "You will be a prize addition to my collection." In a swift movement, he pushed her into the cage, and before she could jump out, Stellina closed the door. It locked with a snap.

Sigyn slammed against the glass, tears flowing out steadily. "No! Let me out! Please, I beg you, I'll do ANYTHING!" She hit the glass with her fists.

"Pleasure doing business with you as always, gentlemen." The Collector shooed the two men off, then turned to Stellina. "Do something about that noise. But do not hurt her, or you will take her place."

Stellina bowed her head, then turned to Sigyn, who was still pounding on the glass.

[unexpectedreylo]

Yes, It’s Been Half A Decade Since TFA Was Released

Five years already?  Geez!

If you’ve been following my humble Tumblr blog since the beginning, you’ll know I was not truly a Reylo until I saw TLJ.  Before then, I was dealing with a movie that left me with a lot of mixed feelings.  Why?  I missed George Lucas for one thing.  He has an indelible style that few can match and few really cared about that universe and its characters as much as he did.  I was very unhappy to hear a month before TFA’s release that Disney tossed out his story and came up with something he didn’t really like very much (as later confirmed in Bob Iger’s memoir).  As a long-suffering prequels fan I didn’t like either the vaguely anti-prequel tone the pre-release hype took.  Whatever you do in life, don’t disrespect the man who created the GFFA. 

The post-release hype probably annoyed me even more.  Remember the doofuses screeching on t.v. that it was the best SW movie since TESB?  LOL.  (No, that would be ROTS and the only thing that came close since was TLJ.)  I hated that a movie I felt was flawed not only got passes from the media that really trashed Lucas and everybody who worked on the prequels, but also got lavish Best 10 lists and award nominations.  I was one bitter chickie for a while and later got a good laugh out of the backlash.

I thought it would be funny to post what I thought at the time, with added commentary:

Oh yes, the movie. My mother called it…it’s good, we all enjoyed it and were entertained, but Lucas’s touch is definitely missing. The romantic epic sweep of Eps I-VI, the goofy and whimsical touches, the feeling of being immersed in another galaxy, and Lucas’s gift for aesthetics aren’t there. The visuals don’t have that beauty and some of it is kinda ugly. The creature designs just aren’t as good. It’s not the kind of movie you watch dozens of times to catch little things. Even John Williams doesn’t have a knockout track like “Duel of the Fates” or “The Imperial March.” But it’s hard to think of how this was ever going to live up to any of it any more than I’d expect Suzanne Collins to write a Narnia book as good as C.S. Lewis. We lost those things when we lost Lucas.

I like the visuals a lot more now but TLJ’s cinematography rules the ST.  Still feel the same about creature design; I see better aliens and creatures on The Mandalorian.  One weird thing about the ST is how the filmmakers seemed to have avoided putting in anything at all that we’ve seen before.  No Jawas, no Togrutas, no Twi’leks, no Zabraks, no Quarren, etc.. Just Chewbacca and Admiral Ackbar.

The music didn't leave much an impression on me at the time but now I love “Rey’s Theme,” “Kylo Ren’s Theme,” and “March of the Resistance.”

As long as we’re on that note, I’ll get to the film’s flaws first. The movie has a lot of snappy, arch, and funny dialogue but you can tell the script was cranked out in a hurry. It lacks the careful structure of its predecessors and cribs a little too much from ANH. Poe disappears and you are led to believe he’s dead then he suddenly shows up healthy and hale with no explanation. Abrams’s first Star Trek film was riddled with unbelievable coincidences and unfortunately this movie has some of those too, such as when Han and Chewie just happen upon the Falcon in space. The film does very little to set up what’s going on and why, such as why the hell is the Republic fighting the same a-holes after all of these years. Abrams prefers instead to keep the action going instead of doing much exposition, which is pretty much what he did with the Trek films. Those little moments in Lucas’s Star Wars films don’t happen much here. Things must always be occurring, which dumps all of the responsibility for character development and world building on Rian Johnson and Colin Trevorrow. I have no idea why they decided to be all teasy-weasy with who Rey’s parents are instead of just telling us. (I suspect Luke is her father.)

LOL!   I guess the adoption by proxy thing at the very end of TROS proved me right or...did it?  Yes, my first assumption after seeing TFA was that Rey and Kylo Ren were cousins.

As for the rest of it, I still feel the same.  Rushed script, borrows too much from ANH, precious few explanations/set-up, not as good structure but still full of humor.

BB-8 is a charmer, Finn and Rey (who are so going to hook up) HA!  But remember I thought Rey and Kylo were cousins! have some charm and potential growth as characters, and it was great seeing our old crew again even if not under ideal circumstances. (Personally I would’ve preferred NOT to have broken up Han and Leia.) Hux had some mustache-twirling moments and Abrams was at least smart enough not to kill off him, Ren, or Snoke just yet. Finn and Poe have a good rapport (maybe they’re going to hook up).

Stormpilot definitely pinged the slash-dar.  It was completely unsurprising to find fans shipping them.

Abrams seemed to have avoided the mistake James Cameron made in “Avatar” when he killed off his most threatening villain while planning sequels. As you might have guessed, I was really shocked at Snoke’s death in TLJ.  I wasn’t expecting that until IX.  I was also really shocked at the casual, quick-get-rid-of-him ways both Hux and Ben were killed off in TROS.

The most compelling aspect of TFA for me was the Skywalker family drama, which made me wish it was more up front rather than a subplot. Ben Solo/Kylo Ren is a conflicted guy with a huge chip on his shoulder and it makes you wonder exactly what happened to him because I think he may have mental issues. Leia knows there’s still good in him but can a guy who commits patricide be saved? (RIP Han…I so knew this would happen because I figure it was the only way Ford would’ve done another film). Can his cousin/half-sister or whatever Rey save him? Would she want to? With Luke back in the picture and Artoo activated again, what will happen next? Even though they split up Han and Leia I liked the banter between them; it’s sad because they clearly still loved each other.

This is still true for me.  A few days after posting this it struck me just how nihilistic TFA was because I found Han and Leia’s split unnecessary (had Han gone out for Chinese food or on a mission for the Resistance instead of just being a loser smuggler, it wouldn’t have changed anything that happened in the film) and what I thought was Kylo’s certain fate to be a narrative bummer.  TLJ made me think they weren’t going on that direction only to be proven right in TROS (sadly).

I’ll dispense with the stupid Snoke is Plageuis theory and my dad wondering if Finn was Mace Windu’s lost son or something, though I’ll give him half a point for Finn turning out to be Force-sensitive after all.

I don’t know why people have said this takes them back to the ’70s because the film really is a 2015 movie made for an audience reared largely on the MCU, YA flicks, and other staples of contemporary geek culture. It is what it is and we aren’t going to get back the films of George Lucas and his influence. TFA might not be an awesome Star Wars movie but it is at least a good sci-fi action flick.

I still stand by most of this.  Time and TLJ made TFA a better movie in my eyes.