#get it bc my names kendall

[stargirlies]

how i see myself⋆˙⟡♡

celebrity place food

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got this cutest idea from @sincerelyzai !! 💭

this was so fun to make <3

[lizzardwitch]

Top 3 Kendall Ships?

Ooooof I've got a lot to say let's go

3rd Place: Kendall/Ivan. Definitely not helped by the fact that I crushed heavy on Ivan (still do) when I was a kid & and that I just as heavily related with Kendall then as I do now. It's so adorable how Kendall always looks to Ivan whenever shit is going down and he tries to make her feel better, the entire episode where he destroys the suit of armor and IMMEDIATELY upon clocking how terrible the situation is, tries to do something about it because he doesn't want to make her upset especially is too fucking cute. They're like a subversion of the princess/knight dynamic, instead of insisting that Kendall be his damsel in distress, Ivan adores her just the way she is. The way he's constantly calling her "m'lady" (even though he does this with every girl) has me weak every time. In the Halloween episode where they were skipping together in their costumes <333. Their height difference is also adorable (and I think it's great how someone who is so used to old customs and traditions manages to get along with and have a deep bond with someone who is constantly developing technological advancements and believes in science).

2nd Place: Kendall/Shelby. Probably one of my favorite wlw ships in fiction, I absolutely adore the development their relationship had from the beginning where they would antagonize one another, moreso on Kendall's end to Let Sleeping Zords Lie, when Kendall actually makes good on her creed to correct her mistakes and begins to cooperate with Shelby more. Given how they're the only main female characters out of the entire team of 10 and incredibly intelligent, it's really nice to see them stand in solidarity with one another and support each other given their similar situations and interests. Definitely giving the writers props for subverting the childish trope of pitting women against each other for no reason in favor of character development for both. Their sunshine/sunshine protector dynamic is so cute and Shelby helping Kendall relax while Kendall employs her musical background to help Shelby got me going crazy oh my goddddd Kendall/Shelby girlfriendism is so real (+ I actually have some drafts/drawings for a Madoka Magica AU featuring these two lmao since I'm a sucker for pink/purple girlies)

1st Place: Kendall/Heckyl, hands down. This is gonna turn into a yap fest but I've been obsessed with them for nine years and that shows no signs of stopping any time soon, they're in my top 10 favorite ships of all time. Much like Ivan, I crushed heavily on Heckyl when I was a child (and still do) and absolutely ate up his flirting with her, calling her 'pretty lady' and things of the like. You can see it gradually, when he hesitates between saving her or revealing his identity upon Wish Star attacking (although he's still in his evil arc so he runs off). When he catches glances at her while working. When Shelby revealed his villainous nature and referenced him saving her from the car she looked and sounded so heartbroken during the scene :( (and in the Beauticruel episode he mentions that love hurts, which I interpret as him feeling at least a twinge of remorse about fumbling his relationship with Kendall)

I also love how in the finale they actually work together more once he turns good (after literally SAVING HER AGAIN AAAAAA), like how they cooperate in taking over Sledge's ship along with James & Phillip, and he's STANDING WITH HER IN THE MEGAZORD AND STAYS BY HER SIDE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST SNIDE. I'm willing to bet the only reason it took him so long to turn good in the finale was because Kendall wasn't in the café to convince him lmao

These two are the standard of what I want in a relationship: his constant flirting, the way they're both sassy, snarky, and intelligent but also provide a great contrast (her stoic, deadpan nature w/ his flamboyance and effervescence), and when his convictions are turned for the better, he always comes back to aid them no matter how much he wants to deny it initially (he's such a softie omg). These two are like the old married couple of the show. The autism/adhd couple next to Chase/Riley. The girlboss/malewife next to Shelby/Tyler, if you will. I've got so many headcanons & AUs for them, drawings of them, fics for them, I have a playlist for them, I'm just delusional over them bro

[krystaldeath]

Woe, ocs for a story Ive been developing since like 6th grade be upon thee

Outfits from outfit ask meme by @/traulisms

[strawberrystepmom]

Kendall 🌚 if it isn’t too much trouble may I ask for a genken astrology reading? I’m not really familiar with his lore but I wanna know what your dynamic is & how you two love each other <333

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 man thank you for asking I truly started tearing up thank you so much me when ppl care…anywho I hope you’re having a beautiful day my beloved nana <333

gen’s chart is the left and mine is the right. as you can see there are some pretty interesting differences, namely the amount of earth placements he has vs the amount of uhhh not earth or anything reasonable placements i have. at the jump i'm positive other astro girls will read this and go sheesh and that's fair. BUT my interpretation of this is that we move through life differently but when we're together, we bring out the best in each other.

also all of this capricorn in his chart makes me so wet. this man was literally born to be a leader. i feel this chart actually fits him so well. he's more hardworking than he would let people believe, he's blunt to a fault, he is a workaholic (again, even if he pretends he isn't), he's motivated, he will get shit fucking DONE when it's time to get it done and he does.

aldsjfla;sjdfkasjdf okay now that i've sufficiently glazed him i will do a full compatibility breakdown below!

we'll start with venus the big one for romance. my aquarius venus and his capricorn venus are a good match because i personally believe every air venus needs an earth venus to temper them and quite literally be the rock that holds their edges down like a picnic blanket lmfao....i need freedom but if someone offers me stability i will take it. he wants stability but craves freedom as a little treat and i'm happy to give him some if it means i can have my own. we balance one another out with a mutual understanding of the way the other works. he knows what he wants and will wait it out. i know what i want but want there to be a foundation first and he's willing to let that happen.

i also feel that our mars match ups are really strong. my leo mars makes me bold, direct, pretty roll with the punches and i don't get mad about much unless i feel my pride is threatened so i never take his spitting or mouthiness very seriously. he's a capricorn mars, so he's very direct to the point of it being almost hurtful sometimes even if he doesn't intend it that way. he can be a bit surly but the playfulness of leo and the tendency to use sweet words and touches and playing to people's egos easilyyyyy tempers him.

capricorn sun brings a lot of grounding to pisces sun. i tend to be a bit breezy, kind of anxious and out of it at times, and he can grab me by the shoulders and shake me out of my own head and he's good at it. a little "hey. get it together." works bc i know he doesn't mean it in a way that he's insinuating i'm a mess he means to climb out of whatever emotional hole i've managed to dig for myself and fix it. LURVE that about him.

gemini moon is curious by nature, something that can make a scorpio moon close itself off, but scorpio is also easily sussed out by people who are genuinely interested in them. i can glean pretty immediately that he is interested and wants to really know me so i give him little bits at a time. he takes it well and doesn't ask for more necessarily but asks me to explain my thoughts. explain my feelings. explain my world. let him in. he gets there eventually to see the true Thought Daughter beneath the feather cuffed sleeves.

so yeah!!!! i think overall we're pretty compatible. i like the way we balance each other out at the very least and tbh i'm sensitive but i know when someone Means it bc i am also intuitive so most of his bluster truly does not bother me. i like it. it's just a condition of adoring him.

[praetoravila]

can i have this dance?

a/n: this drabble takes place during big time dance! for context, instead of logan trying to ask camille out the entire episode, he tries to ask olive out but she's too busy with the planning of her quinceañera which is the same night as the dance. she's a lil disappointed that the boys can't come bc of them being on the dance committee but the biggest disappointment comes from her parents. @ceruleanmusings is to blame for this drabble somehow growing legs and turning into a proper ficlet. oh! and olive’s dress is the one that sarah cushing wears in the quinceañera episode of superman and lois. hope you all enjoy!

taglist: @raging-violets @myloveforhergoeson @ceruleanmusings @nolanhollogay @bibaybe @daughter-of-melpomene @selangkir @happinessismagicc @joshdiaz

the dance was in full swing when olive showed up. it was a little bit after 9:30pm, and she waved wren's concerned looks off as she made her way into rocque records, her extravagant ball gown dragging on the floor.

so what her quinceañera had sucked? so what her parents hadn't show up?

again.

it was totally, completely fine. she didn't need them or some stupid party to signify her turning 15. she could focus on prom instead and find her friends and have fun for the first time this night.

she stumbled through the hallway, passing by james and kendall who were bickering about something while jo watched on, a soft smile on the blonde's face. carlos was dancing with the jennifers and olive bit back a laugh at how ridiculous he looked.

finally she entered the big ballroom, where most of their classmates were. she scanned her eyes over the crowd of excited students before she found the one she was looking for.

logan was standing by the punch bowl, dressed in a simple black suit. his hair was spiked up with more product than usual. he looked cute. hell. he looked hot, leaning against the wall like that.

"hey." olive said as she walked up to him. logan's eyes bugged out of his head as he took her look in. "whoa."

"yeah. wren insisted that i get all dressed up for my quinceañera. it was stupid. i didn't even end up staying." she shook her head, the loose strands of hair falling in her face.

logan tucked one strand behind her ear. "i'm sorry we couldn't be there." he said quietly, and olive shrugged. "wasn't worth it anyways. rafael and mara didn't show up."

logan frowned at olive's causal use of her parents first names. "really?"

"yeah. i'm used to the disappointment though. it sucked that i didn't get the chance to dance at all." she said, looking down at her feet.

she was still wearing the heels that wren had practically forced her into. logan's body shifted closer to her, and she looked up at him, the sudden realization that with her heels on, she fit perfectly under his chin.

"well since you didn't get to dance at your quinceañera, can i have this dance olive pasqualina?" as if on cue, the music changed from an upbeat pop song to a soft ballad that olive remembered from the third high school musical movie that she had watched a few years ago.

"take my hand, take a breath pull me close and take one step..."

olive bit down on her lip as she nodded, letting logan grab one hand and place it on his shoulder, the other grabbing his fingers and intertwining them with hers. his left hand ended up on her hip.

slowly, they began spinning around towards the centre of the dance floor, ignoring everyone else around them, unsure but steady. she stumbled for a second and logan caught her, their chests flushed against each other. she looked up, her heart pounding.

"it's one in a million the chances of feeling the way we do and with every step together we just keep on getting better so can i have this dance?"

zac efron and vanessa hudgens crooned in the background as olive felt time slow down as logan leaned down to kiss her.

it wasn't the kind of kiss you saw in movies. it was slightly awkward from the angle that she had to crane her neck, and logan's lips were chapped and rough and jesus did he smell like 'cuda cologne - winter's edge her brain supplied, remembering it from one of james' many useless rants, but it was a first kiss.

it was a pretty damn good one if olive thought so herself.

they pulled apart, and olive's stomach flipped with butterflies inside. it was ridiculous she thought to herself. logan looked equally as shocked.

"we just kissed." he said matter of factly, like he couldn't quite believe it.

“was that your first kiss?” olive asked, and the blush on logan’s face told her everything she needed to know. the brunette boy nodded slowly, and olive could feel those stupid butterflies rising again.

“it was a good one.” logan said with a soft smile. “i’d be willing to have you be my second. if you are?”

she could feel her face becoming equally as red as she shifted closer again.

“yeah. i am.”

logan’s fingers gently grasped her jaw as he leaned in, and olive breathed in his cologne as she lost herself to the feeling of his lips against hers again.

maybe her quinceañera hadn’t been a total bust.

[sashkapi]

Yahoo!! Sorry if I already asked, but have ya thought of making a kick x kendall future kids oc/ocs? If so, what would be their name and gender? :3

It took me more than a year to answer this because I was considering how much of my cringe I can put on the internet. Anyway here we go dfkjghdfk

Imma be honest I genuinely don't see Kick and Kendall as a type of people to get married and have a family. Like idk, as adults I see their relationship as pretty casual, they would be more interested to do their own thing and spend time with each other whenever they feel like it.

*deep inhale*

STILL, I HAVE LIKE A 5000 WORDS ON GOOGLE DOC ABOUT NEXT GEN KBSD AU

I did came up with lots of ideas for other characters' kids too but it's a bit outdated bc I don't really see Janther as a thing that much anymore. I dunno if I ever post that but like…. It exists I guess

So this two brats (affectionate) are Chloe and Kennedy.

Chloe is a photographer :) She shares her dad's thrill seeking attitude but doesn't really have a talent for acrobatics and is a bit clumsy. So whenever she sees a potentially cool shot (because it's never just a normal view, she HAS to go down in the gutters or climb a lamp post) she goes straight for it and most likely will get stuck. She is crafty as well, most of her schemes to get the best but complicated picture requires only like, a camera and a stick.

She has a lil quirk of spelling her name with a "K" because she doesn't want to be left out of the family. It annoys Kendall a bit because "My little sunshine, please, you know that's not how you spell it"

Kennedy on the other hand is more chill. He is more level headed than his sister, but still can be emotional at times. He actually likes doing stunts and dangerous stuff but is insecure about it because when your dad is famous daredevil you are bound to be overshadowed in that matter. (Giving fankid daddy issues if fun) Other than that he also enjoys reading and almost a bookworm. Almost. 

Also. Mommy's boy.

Both have their mom's knack for academics so they rarely worried about their grades. Both are actually in the top bunch of their classes with Kenny being straight A+ student. The only reason Chloe isn't like that is because she does her homework right before the lesson.

And because of Kick and Kendall's experience with older siblings, they really didn't want Kennedy to be antagonistic towards Chloe. They kinda succeeded by making them spend more time together, so while they still fight (siblings be siblings) they are more friendly overall, with Kennedy taking care of his sister on his own accord and Chloe frequently asking Kennedy for help with her shenanigans. Here are some doodles with @shaniartss kindall fankids Kayla and Kathleen too because tee hee

You can tell I like Chloe

[scribefindegil]

[Ask Game] Writing Patterns

I was tagged by @marypsue

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern.

"Mob yawned." (A Haunted Home, MP100)

"Kendall/MIT Katie hisses out an annoyed little sigh as she elbows her way onto the subway car." ('Neath the Streets of Boston, Charlie On The MTA)

"There is a thread." (Instrument, Pentiment)

"Summer was coming." (Through All Your Creatures, Pentiment)

"Mathieu did not consider himself to be an optimistic man." (Omnia Sperat, Omnia Sustinat, Pentiment)

"On a warm November night, Tsubomi found herself wandering downtown towards the Divine Tree, caught up in the crush of the crowd, to see what all the fuss was about–" (The Brassica Heresy, MP100)

"You’re four, and when you come running downstairs the kitchen smells like sugar and citrus and warmth." (Candles, MP100)

"Sing to me Muse, O, sing of the boy who was named for a goddess Bright-eyed, raven-haired Artemis, cunning in words and in actions How he won lustrous, coveted gold from the nymphs and the satyrs Seeking to use it to find and to rescue his sea-stranded father." [Okay okay I'm cheating bc I have a whole pseudo-academic introduction to this fic but. The dactyls are more fun. Behold them.] (Artemis Phaulos, or, Kolpher's Artemisead, Artemis Fowl)

"The cool winter sunlight falls through the narrow windows of the room, casting bright lines across the plastic sheeting they’ve taped down to the floor." (As the Walls Close In, MP100)

"After Claw’s thwarted attempt at world domination, life in Seasoning City began the slow but inevitable slide back towards normalcy." (In Case Of Emergency, MP100)

Okay it's very funny to me seeing how short a bunch of these are given that I feel like a hallmark of my writing is that I do not know how to shut up, but I do like a punchy opening line! And simple, scene-setting declaratives. And dactyls.

Fandom-wise this was more of a spread than I was expecting because I'd forgotten how many things I wrote for exchanges at the end of the year. (Highlight of those is the Charlie fic which was written in like 2 hours while unspeakably exhausted right before the Yuletide deadline but which still brings me great delight.)

Not tagging anyone bc I feel like I've seen most of my fic-writing mutuals get tagged already, but feel free to steal if you so desire!

[royrockstone]

treat it as a prompt to spread your food motifs thoughts, would love to hear some (especially after finale)

ty for askinggg <333

4x10, as told through food:

Caribbean Air Clear was a big win for caroline ed truthers. caroline’s food stuff has always been a stand-in for her failure to parent— she is either resentful of having to, or unable to, nourish them; she gives food in paltry amounts because that’s how she parcels out affection. and the kids find what she does give them inedible. at the Peter Munion Pitch Dinner, she announces that the portions are going to be small, and the only thing that looks like palatable food in her kitchen (the cheese) is reserved for peter— a person she actually chose to put in her life and seems to be happy with.

in contrast to logan, who tested and punished them around food, i read caroline’s inability to nourish them as more unintentional— she just can’t do it because she feels so much bitterness about her family. i also think there’s gender stuff in there— she's not Womanly bc she can’t cook (or, more likely, have someone else cook) properly, she’s like if the wire mother didn’t even give milk. in some ways, she’s sort of girlish rather than womanly (expressing in chiantishire that she wants to like have fun and drink and fuck and gossip rather than settle into being an older woman who’s best days are behind her. and she gets along best with her girliest kid, roman.) it always makes me feel crazyinsane that the one moment In The Light that roman seems to have gotten is laughing with logan about caroline’s inability to feed them (“three muddy trout for six and fill up on mustard”) those kids had no chance to be fed emotionally or physically lol </3 

meal fit for a king! lets talk about it. it is, first of all and foremost, sweet! it’s a time when food is being used playfully and you’re expected to eat rather than expected to abstain. but theres also such a dark side to it imo, as with all affection for the roys. 1. shiv spits in the blender (in a mirror of when she spit in kens notebook in s3) which is meant to be at least a little bit degrading 2. the whole point is kind of degrading (the name sounds like something logan would do — see boar on the floor, dinner for winners and mole in the hole from the script books) make kendall eat something disgusting, not as a test per se, but as a way of humbling him just a little. food is still lowkey a weapon even when it’s sweet and silly. (also theres some kendall jesus motif— roman crowns him but in a way that’s mocking etc) 3. it’s sweet specifically because the foods are a) unwanted— the roy kids have been starved, of affection and literally of food, and they’re making something genuinely nice with scraps and b) not luxurious— it’s not ortolan or kendalls endive salad, it’s bread ends and cocoa powder. 

there was an interesting moment that mirrored my 4x08 food lore thoughts— ken offers roman rum punch when he’s still trying to woo his board vote against shiv, and roman ignores the punch, pours himself a shot, then grabs a beer. kendall is the one who locked him in a cage and made him eat cake, he’s the reason they had to eat roast chicken, roman experiences his brother as always trying to subordinate him by controlling what he consumes (which is obv a corollary to trying to control him in business.)

on the less thematic/more personally self-serving ed headcanon side of things, nothing has contradicted my hc that roman hasn’t eaten solid food since logan died. all he does is lick Peter’s Special Cheese, drink coffee (sleep deprivation won succession, actually), and drink alcohol. we see roman eat cake at connors rehearsal dinner, pre-logan death and during what he thought was a secure time in the sibling alliance, then never again. his habit of snacking on little bits of fruit and desserts has totally disappeared. tho it's not shown, i could see him eating the night of the election when he realized he won at something and was expecting to crush it at the funeral the next day. if hes becoming logan, hes allowed to eat. but the second he flames out at the funeral and realizes he is, in fact, still a dead man walking, he’d go back to not eating. trying to please the dad in his head, or to express his essential deadness/emptiness without his dad. 

ofc, we don't rlly see the other siblings eat, either (i have laser-focused Roman ED vision so something might have slipped past me. does shiv taste the breakfast tom brings her?) notably, no one ate at the Funeral Planning Committee breakfast, they don’t eat at the tailgate im p sure, i don’t think anyone touched the food at the Munion Pitch Dinner. (tbh concerned for shiv’s fetus re: having adequate calories.) i think part of it is grief and part of it is collective family Disorder and part of it is the good old competitive strong dog weak dog stuff.

i made a joke that roman is going to end up like caroline, but i kind of meant it? i can see him having no food in his house, cocktail in hand, snugly burying himself some place out of the way and fucking around with mild self-destruction for the rest of his life. (altho rather than a failhusband i think he’d try to replace logan yet again and end up with a partner who was pretty brutish or domineering) 

ty again!

[goatsandgangsters]

you all might remember my struggle to wrap my head around the hotd family tree ouroboros

well I had a dream that was essentially succession-style shenanigans with alicent's failchildren and I woke up like "oh haha and it works bc there's two boys and a gi—RHAENYRA IS CONNOR"

and we really should have used this frame of reference for me and my bad-at-names-ism bc suddenly everything clicked for me and I was like

"ok ok I GET IT NOW, so Connor is married to Uncle Ewan but he and Caroline were childhood lesbians and before Logan died he told Connor he wanted him to take the company but the company expected Kendall, and now Roman's gone and hit Connor's hypothetical-child with his SUV and then set Kendall on fire, I UNDERSTAND NOW"

[panelshowsource]

random thoughts dump of the week bc none of this deserves its own post

coming down from a smol john kearns kick and really enjoyed it, guy has a ridiculously sweet presence and i really like his voice. it also brings me great joy his previous career was working in museums and as a tour guide. i would like that life, i think (i worked at universal orlando for a little bit in 2013 and was always super jealous of the vip tour guides lol). he mentioned on one of his rhlstps that despite winning arguably the biggest (british) comedy awards there are, he never released a standup special or dvd, and he kinda wants to keep it that way so he has something special between him and his live audience — and that really made me sad face. like, my guy, what about those of us who can't see you bc won't leave that damn island. (also ed gamble's new tour having no nyc date felt personal...) in another episode, he talked a little about, in great part due to social media, people want comedians they can know everything about, get the whole look of; comedians who are the same people onstage as off. he's not like that and doesn't really like the idea of that. i think there's a lot to say about that subject but i'll just leave it for now...

speaking of touring ed byrne next week!!! and jimmy and alan carr coming up!! what a fun time :')

speaking of rhlstp and ed, one thing that occurred to me and i thought was quite funny upon listening to his recent episode is that both richard and ed have that self-aware side of them that admits to bitterness, professional jealousy, annoyance with critics/haters, believing they're not as successful as they deserve to be, etc. while it can come off whiney here and there, it's not too obnoxious or anything, i just found it amusing they had this (often concealed or private) quality in common. i might even put jenny eclair in that camp (others too but that's a discourse i don't really wanna start lmao)

if another youtuber, following amelia dimoldenberg (and munya? does he count?), had to go on taskmaster i would probably vote for ollie kendal off of jolly. in my mind he and alex would be genuinely good friends outside of the show

man i miss the horne section podcast so bad

honestly, i'm a little surprised david mitchell doesn't have a podcast. he loves radio, it's not too demanding of a gig, and he's got tons of interests that could make engaging premises for podcasts... i'm sure someone has floated this to him before, so i need the reason why he said no. maybe he was busy with his book. would love a history pod fr

does anyone else ever remember when david mitchell was in rick and morty and just sit back and go O_O also when he was on graham norton with hillary clinton like lmaooo i just love the idea of the booking agents for that show being like "we're having fucking hillary clinton on who can we bring for comic relief who is a household name but not problematic but intelligent but actually funny" i mean they hit the jackpot of course but it cracks me up that that's his brand

did david ever watch succession? rob def did but i need more about it from both of them

sometimes i think about when david accepted his bafta for peep show and the music that was playing while he walked to the stage was "sex on fire" by kings of leon hahahahaha like what who was djing that night fr

where did charlie brooker go

speaking of back in the day — and i do mean back, like 15+ years ago — and my main panel show obsession was buzzcocks, there were a few non-comedians who would come on panel shows who were properly fucking funny, like martin freeman and josh groban, and i'd always pray they'd eventually come on again. and i think at the time the person at the top of my list was professor green. how random is that TT he was just always up for laugh and just so likable. i also LOVED the song "just good to be green" with lily allen in like 2010 lmaooo this really ages me :)

been really enjoying some old angus deayton-hosted stuff, like old hignfy and wilty. i got into panel shows after he'd stepped out of the spotlight, but i remember being crushed when i found out about his scandal. i also remember stephen fry standing up for him and chastising paul & ian publicly after That Episode of hignfy — which absolutely blew my mind, even though stephen has always said what he thinks — and i agreed with him and am not sure even today if i fully forgave paul & ian for how they treated angus. ik he's still here and there, but i wonder if we'll ever see him in any properly notable capacity again

just watched the latest hignfy actually and jack dee pheww he's ageing very nicely let me just say it and pheww emmanuel sonubi please and thank you. also, paul's outfit was quite nice. an enjoyment of the eyes indeed

i've been making a lot of typos in my gifs lately for literally no reason other than not proofreading my rushing and it's embarrazzing i'm gonna do better

speaking of gifs i have NOTHING!!! in my drafts folder. nothing. no content. nothing is made. nothing in the queue. [sigh] sounds like tonight we be bustin it out huh. idk about other gifmakers (i actually don't follow any other panel show blogs, but this isn't necessarily a panel show blog thing, just a regular original content thing) but i don't usually make gifs throughout the week — instead, like, marathon gif like two times a week and build up 10–20 drafts to post throughout the week. if you gif every single day or to keep up with all of the new content, it starts to become a chore, which is never fun :(

speaking of which i probably won't gif outsiders too much because people don't seem to care too much about it + the webrips are just...so ugly in gif form, even at 1080p! it's a dave thing fr, taskmaster used to be the same way -_-

okay here we go into gif mode btw i got some of your requests and will def make them!!

[c0rpsedemon]

actually if we're talking abt the wellie wishers' names you have to admit that ag was p smart irt naming them, since they're a modern line w all modern characters meant to stay around for a WHILE, they picked older baby names that were on the rise back into popularity then, which has led to now where it's like bryant? yeah that's a v common type of name for a kid that age, camille? also common, ashlynn? there are a ton of em, kendall? yeah there are totally a ton of kids called kendall, emerson? see, in the 3 years i've worked in childcare i've had multiple. the only exception is willa which, despite having been on the rise in the 2010s and peaking in 2020, is still a p dated name (source: have gone my whole damn life having older people go 'oh like the novelist? i haven't heard that one in a while' and kids getting confused and calling me willow), but even then she still fits in fine bc her name fits the same naming conventions as the rest

[myloveforhergoeson]

Uhh... I'd apologize for the wall of text I just left on your new chapter on AO3, but my mother always told me to never tell a lie. ;)

AHHHHH thank you SO MUCH i know it was so long and so much information to take in but im so so so overjoyed that you enjoyed! thank you for taking some time out of your day to write such a thought out and sweet comment 😭 literally my #1 motivator. us james girlies gotta stick together!!!!!!

i know you left the comment on ao3 but i've got a lot to say back so imma take some bits and pieces and write them out here ehehe

"I'd noticed that James seemed a bit hesitant to talk about his parents. Especially his mother. And I saw Roxy wonder if she was the type of girl you bring home to your parents. But I think for her, everything's going to become clearer at Mother's Day. It's not that James is ashamed or anything. I think it's because he loves her so much and he doesn't want his mother ruining what they have. She is a bit... domineering."

YES UGH roxy just doesn't get it bc she has such a good relationship w her dad and mentioned way way back after she broke up with dak that she thought he was hiding their relationship (which he was... but she's just speculating) so she's just a teensy bit freaked out about james potentially doing the same thing. and it's totally like you said, she just doesn't understand quite yet. from what she knows about the diamond family, she sees james' dad as the problem, not his mom. she's in for a ride lol

"But, seriously, side note for these two: OPEN UP TO EACH OTHER!"

mannn they struggle with that don't they 😭 it's so hard to write! not that i'm a perfect communicator in my own relationships but... yeah i remember being 17 and wanting to share ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about myself so...

"Kendall sure knows how to bribe her, doesn't he? And the cheeky payback with Kendall on the ice is so Kendall. I really love how you touched on Kendall being a prodigy on the ice. And of course he was the Captain. I can see it. And the nicknames too. Sir Rounded. Pretty Boy. Tensie. Sensacional. Please, please, PLEASE have the boys refer to each other by those nicknames at some point. Or even Roxy."

roxy and kendall are like brother and sister to me; of course he knows how to get what he wants from her!! especially when joe jonas is involved... but yes!! they talk big hockey game in the show but we never really get to see it; so i wanted to highlight that just a little bit. go captain go! i really don't know anything about hockey irl but i do know that nicknames are a big thing at least in the american league! did my best. if you ask my friends im equally as terrible at nicknames in real life. and don't you worry roxy is definitely calling james pretty boy at some point in the future (she already did in the rockstar au!) but i'll have to find a way to work in the others. did anyone almost catch that kendall nearly told her logan's real name? hortense... 'tensie... oh god she's going to freak lmao...

"Side note: I love how all the hockey guys are super chill. I actually like that image of them being so aggressive on the ice, but actually be teddy bears in real life. (Something that especially fits Carlos.)"

:)))))))) even though they appear for so little in this chapter the hockey boys mean so much to me. if anyone reads my monthly book reviews... well... you know i love a good hockey romance! they're all themed quite similar - the giant, violent sports machine actually has a soft side... god i'm such a sucker for it! james really isn't like that, at least not in the way his friends are, but i gotta squeeze in some self-indulgence in here and there. i named most of the guys after characters from those books! hawkins comes from nate hawkins (icebreaker by hannah grace) ((i know! you can all boo me later)) callaghan comes from russ callaghan (wildfire by hannah grace) graham comes from garett graham (the deal by elle kennedy) miller comes from rory miller (the fake out by stephanie archer) logan (not that one) comes from john logan (the mistake by elle kennedy) and streicher comes from jamie streicher (behind the net by stephanie archer) PHEW!!!! we love a cameo

"And the way Roxy got tricked by Katie was so... that was just glorious. And the way Roxy freaked out when she realized what was happening was great too. This is making me excited for Big Time Crush. Their conversation at the end was such a great touch. I'm glad Katie has that older sister figure in her life."

katie MASTERMIND strikes again... though if she just asked rox would've taken her anway!!! she was just embarrassed... it's hard for her to talk about her feelings when she's growing up with not one, but FOUR, overprotective older brothers! someone left a comment on my wattpad and said they really loved the roxy/katie interactions and i realized they had like. such little time together so i needed to fix that asap! i don't have an older sister, but i am one, so i tried to channel that energy into that scene hehe

"AH! JO SAID THE L-WORD ABOUT KENDALL! Damn. That episode is gonna be even more heartbreaking now."

>:) sorry. had to! bothered the fuck out of me they never said it in the original show soooo

"And the cat's named Hippocrates?! That is such a Logan thing, though. And I love how Logan and Roxy were able to talk to each other about their respective heartbreaks."

eheheh it took me sooo long to come up with a name for the cat, it was originally einstein but we talked about hippocrates in one of my classes the day i edited the chapter and it just felt more fitting... here is the mister in the garden himself. thanks google!

and yess lord i love writing logan and roxy so so so much. out of all of them (even james!) she's most comfortable talking with him; i accidentally made them really similar personality wise and they just get along so well

"Aw, Carlos got Roxy on an early morning run. AND HE BROUGHT A PUPPY! (Her age doesn't matter - all dogs are puppies to me.) Missy sounds so cute! And the way she led the run is so cool. And I'm with Carlos. Keep Missy away from Lightning. He's such a protective dog dad."

MISSY!!!!! you are so right all dogs are puppies and missy is no exception!!!! i read somewhere a long time ago that dalmatians are natural leaders, so i just let our girl have her moment! my dog can be like that too though; she has her favorite walking paths! as for keeping her away from lighting... i think missy can hold her own :) but yes carlos is such a protective dog dad. that's his baby!!!! and here is missy, thank you once again google

"And seriously? James needed to ask if he could kiss Roxy at midnight? Also... can I live in Roxy's dream house?"

yes!! he's a gentleman!!! they were drinking!!!!!! but rox was def thinking the same thing as you hehe. and she's sooooo funny! miss ma'am gets a few drinks in her and she just starts blabbing and blabbing (just like me fr) for anyone wondering what her biggest fantasy is... she's literally living it idk what to tell you. dream job, living in her dream city, dating the hottest guy ever who is so sweet and attentive to her, and he's FAMOUS? not that james needs to know that she thinks that :) lord knows she's going to love the introduction of one direction in the third season...

lmaooo there you go - an equally as long wall of text i am also not going to apologize for... i was bursting with all this information and just waiting for someone to ask loll. you know me. i can talk about my own silly story for hours and hours and hours-

thank you so much again for reading! i'm so excited for the next chapter of take a shot in the dark!!! and i noticed you put in a new section of your ao3 for kaelyn knight stories? are we getting short stories in the future!? ahhhh!!!!!!

[utheny]

what do you think will happen if Tom loses CEO? Jesse talks a lot abt the equality in tomshivs relationship now but I feel like according to what Jesse says abt shivs money and name, she still has more power than Tom, specifically bc she also gave him the job Lowkey (by saying no to Kendall).

re: equality - i really think one way or another shiv will assert power over tom and tom will give in because that’s just how their dynamic works BUT i also do know that tom already knows when to say yes and when to say no and shiv is also aware of this. so i kind of agree with the equality in terms of their “romantic” relationship. in terms of business, tom is still expendable cos he was just appointed as us ceo but i see him really doing a great job at being a ceo cos he’s scared to lose his job; and yes shiv will be fine because she has billions in her pocket. when they get past the mistrusts and betrayals, i see them really working well together. shiv might give advices to tom occasionally.

if tom loses ceo after having been appointed, in terms of their romantic relationship, i honestly still think they would still work. they already know each other’s underneaths and they have a baby coming.

but i think it’s a different case if tom hadnt been appointed in the first place. when shiv was still on the running to become ceo, she asked tom, who’s basically nothing at this point, if he was interested in a real relationship with him but tom couldnt trust his emotions for shiv to say yes to her so he says he doesnt know. but when tom was appointed as ceo, tom offered his hand to shiv and shiv placed her hand over his. albeit not affectionate, i still see it as acceptance. tom couldnt trust love for what it is and he needed power (ceo) to act on his love for shiv. the ceo role kind of put an equal footing in their relationship. with that being said, if he wasnt appointed, they would have continued with the divorce because tom has nothing over shiv and i think tom is just tired to be pushed over by shiv every fucking time. they will still coparent, have sex occasionally and compete with their dating life. theyre gonna be the divorced parents we will all be rooting to get back together. lol

i dont know if i made sense and answered your question but that’s my take 😭🤧

[ravenousgf]

You should write a rote/succession crossover slash jay (UNLESS)

don't do this to me don't tempt me......i have so much to read and watch and people to avoid calling i cannot start thinking about a crossover. but IF i did.

i'd have to reread the assassin trilogy ofc but what i like so much about it is the lack of a single patriarch who moves all the pieces. King Shrewd ends up a victim of his body and old age and power-hungry politics and chronic illness and it's so interesting to think about how that would translate to Logan bc obviously succession is about his disintegrating empire and body. His power is a combination of privilege, business sense, political pandering, and luck--much like Shrewd--but there is genuine love in the Roy kids wanting to be king bc like i said it's ultimate confirmation of Logan's love for them. here i think fitz would be kendall, raised on a lie and indoctrinated early and wavering between absolute support and the desire to get free. the fool would be roman, with no life of his own and loyal to the last but also cynical and self aware about it all and disdainful of the way the politics relates to the interpersonal relationships in a way no other character is bc his love is real but cannot be expressed that way. ofc in this crossover there's nothing romantic between them lmao but yeah they have an antagonistic but loving relationship bc they're both dogs in the same cage. chade, burrich, and galen are the old guard (c-suite in succession like COO, head of PR, legal counsel etc) --witnesses and even instruments of abuse and coverups in the name of the empire, playing a huge part in the violence inherent to these childhoods.

unfortunately i cannot begin to think of who shiv would be just bc she's less of a play on a known archetype than the other characters--not to say any of the others are worse written, just that shivs character is a combination of very specific circumstances that don't really have an equivalent and also there aren't many female characters in the trilogy lol. but actually come to think of it shiv can work as kettricken, tangentially --heir to her own empire, seen as both young girl and sacrifice, then reduced to a wife, isolated, but still determined to exercise any power she has for her own (significantly less altruistic) objectives but at the end of the day being defined by her husband and her marriage, being betrayed by someone close to her. she's continually lacking agency while being punished for trying to seize it due to systemic misogyny. there are differences ofc but given shiv starts the series as a politician, intends to make her husband ceo, and is then lured back in with false promises while still being overlooked as a woman--their characters have differences but it would be soo fascinating to see what would change with the circumstances and what would stay the same, if kettricken were shiv. regal is tom btw and in this universe he succeeds in getting the princess (shiv) to marry him. but i'm flexible on this not sure abt it yet

sorry that was a whole rant lmao but i might just end up playing with this like dolls you're soooo evil and big brained for putting this idea into my head. sooo many thoughts

[f1nalboys]

i get why u r upset but arent people allowed to vent in their own stories and post it? and if i remember correctly, havent u posted fics where characters are fatphobic? im confused i guess

hm ok, i see where ur confused i guess. the main difference is TAGGING! i tag anything and everything in my stories (sometimes overly but i like to be on the safe side,) especially if they’re triggering like fatphobia. i’m not policing anyone’s writing or their venting through their fics, what bothers me is when it’s not outright stated “this character who u want comfort from is going to fatshame someone to make the reader feel better bc they’re having body image issues.”

i’m fat. i’ve been called heinous fucking names and bullied for it (among other things) since i was in the sixth grade. i fell in love w fictional characters who have never uttered a nasty word about fat people in their stories bc of that, and i avoid properly tagged stories where they say things like that.

vent how u want, god knows i have worked through my own body image issues via fanfic, but all i ask if that u tag it so people who don’t want to read it can properly make that decision.

as for me writing fatphobia myself, yes, i have! the only one i’ve actually posted that i can remember is my kendall fic, but i just checked and i properly tagged it as including that so if someone was reading it and decided they didn’t want to read anything including fat shaming / fatphobia, they know right away that the fic isn’t for them.

idc what u write in ur private time, i don’t care if u hate fat people, i don’t CARE! just tag it!

[praetoravila]

Can you tell me more about Macie? 🩵

oh hell yeah. tagging @selangkir bc they asked to know more about macie as well!

she is my baby girl. first ever oc i ever came up with. used to write drabbles w her in my gr 5 english class. this girl is the start of it all for fandom for me guys

her storyline has changed a bit over the years but the general gist is, she’s a former beauty pageant kid who decides she wants to be a musician and moves to la!

she’s signed to rocque records and she is friends with btr! they’re like her older brothers. she’s closer to kendall and james of the four boys

her and katie are mischief partners for life.

she has cptsd (complex post traumatic stress disorder) and autism. she gets diagnosed with cptsd at age 9 and autism at age 17.

she’s been homeschooled her entire life (pageants made it hard for regular school bc of the hours she was putting in, and now it’s just her norm)

her mom and her have a…. complicated relationship which i touched on in this post. all macie wants is her mom’s love, but she’s also trying to reconcile with the fact that her mom is her abuser, and that a relationship with her mom is unsafe.

her and her dad are extremely close and he definitely spoils her (partly bc of his guilt over what happened with her mom)

she speaks three languages! english, spanish and cajun french! spanish is her first language and english is her second. she typically thinks in spanish then has to translate it to english

she releases 12 albums over her music career! aristotle is her debut album.

her favourite colour is seafoam green

her full name is maciella (a combination of macie and gabriella since those were the names her parents liked) evangeline smittens-garcia. most people just call her macie or mace. her dad calls her mac (pronounced mack) for short as well

she has two older sisters miranda and maeve who are identical twins and 10 years older than her