#him seeking out comfort like this SIIIIIGH

[blindmagdalena]

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"I have a family."

[usertoxicyaoi]

hello faiza, hope u r well!!! i wanna watch skam espana and like,, wanted to ask u if it's good?? i trust ur taste and yeah wanted to hear ur opinion on it before i watch the whole thing and get dissapointed lol is every season good, do i need to watch all of it or could i just watch season 3 and 4 bc they look the most interesting to me?? thanks!!

hiii anon!!! siiiiigh its. i haven't watched s3, so i have no opinions on it. but its 4 seasons, and you can choose to watch all of them, or pick and choose if you like!

s4 is .... there's a Lot going on. so i feel like equal importance/time isn't given to the several different plots going on (all of which are v v important!) and bc of that, characters feel underdeveloped, kasim being the Biggest victim of this treatment. also idk i'm just v v upset that this is a season about and for muslims, yet ... we barely see the muslim characters/interactions??? and that annoys me. let amira be around muslims more! let her seek advice and talk to them, like her parents/muslims friends/kasim! instead its just .... her love interest, dani, who is a white non muslim boy, has somewhat become her only source of strength and comfort and someone to confide in. and ... it just .... rubs me the wrong way bc he Doesnt get it. but amira HAS fellow muslims in her life but they're depriving her of these important conversations, some of which are issues that are a intra community/intra faith thing, like the topic of muslim men and their behaviours/habits, of physical touching in relationships before marriage, of dating etc.

and oooft amira's love interest, according to all the skams, was supposed to be a moc. but dani isnt. so the disconnect is even stronger. and ok. so lets say they wanna portray a r/l between a muslim poc and a non muslim white person, then atleast make the non muslim white love interest show that he is Trying to understand his partner's religion and boundaries and respects them and adheres to them. but ... he isnt. and the backlash of that was amira being called a prude and backwards thinking.

which leads to my main issue of this season. they introduced kasim, a muslim moc. the way they did so made it set up and feel like HE was amira's love interest. no skam has EVER shown 2 muslim characters be in a romantic relationship - this would have been the first time, and it would have been Huge if they had gone thru with it. idc if its a het romance, i do not care. i would rather have a positive healthy het romance between two muslims of colour be shown on screen, bc THATS what is needed to be shown in the west.

but no, they made kasim gay and demonised him (and what good did that do? Nothing. it wasnt a Woke Move to have a gay muslim moc at ALL bc the audience Hates kasim now) and had amira instigate kasim's coming out to his sister and like ..... what's up with that, man. when you had the better option RIGHT THERE of pairing up kasim and amira, and yall do this.

[revasnaslan]

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7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

An uncomfortable shiver ran up the back of Hec-Tor’s spine— neutralized, dissected —and he swallowed the bile that rose in the back of his throat. “… the highest honor,” he repeated slowly, his voice cracking. “And just what is so honorable about being dissected ? Were their bodies even cremated afterward?”

Caduceus glanced at him, hesitating, and his ears drew back against the sides of his head. “We are not cremated when we die.”

Hec-Tor’s heart stuttered in his chest. He didn’t want to believe what Caduceus had just said, desperately hoping that he just had misunderstood or misheard. Surely— surely —Anillis wouldn’t have denied the Minders their afterlives, even if they had actually been seeking to harm Hec-Tor. Nobody deserved to be damned to the Void instead of being allowed to pass on. But he could tell by the look on Caduceus’s face that he hadn’t misspoken.

Hec-Tor felt as though he was going to vomit, and his breath hitched.

Caduceus took a step towards him, his brow pinched in concern.

“Get out—”

“Hec-Tor—”

A few unbidden tears managed to escape, sliding down Hec-Tor’s cheeks. “I said get out !”

i mean i like this whole chapter, but this part especially. i wouldn’t be able to fit the whole scene on this ask, so here’s just my favorite snippet of the scene in question. i think i really captured how distressing hec-tor’s situation is in this chapter, which i’m really proud of cause the entire first scene of it had to basically be written from scratch when i was editing. the original scene was far shorter and didn’t go into his feelings as much, he didn’t punch a mirror with his hand, he actually dyed his hair instead of grabbing the closest thing in his panic and staining it...

idk i think the end outcome is much better, so i’m very proud of it.

12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

siiiiigh spop doesn’t inspire much of anything but vitriol from me anymore. but i definitely think any hordak and entrapta episodes pre-S5 will hold a special place in my heart. S5 ones i can’t enjoy because of everything surrounding them and how tacked on they feel but hmmmmm 🙃🙃

22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).

this is from Out of the Depths, a mer!keith/pidge au i wrote back in 2017 for the voltron rarepair bang. so it’s been roughly three years since i wrote it, and it’s only 26k, which just shows you how much longwinded i’ve gotten over the years. if you’re interested in reading the original, you can find it here. i warn you the writing of that fic is not as polished as this passage 🤣🤣

When Pidge entered the second observation room, she found the lights had already been dimmed for the night, casting the room in near complete shadow. The only structures she could make out were the tank wall and the door on the far side. This room was far smaller than the other one, with only a singular tank and a thin walkway following alongside it, looking into the water.

As she made her was passed, there was a flurry of movement in the tank, and her gaze was immediately drawn to it. She caught brief flashes of glowing yellow eyes and purple bioluminescence, a large dark shape of a shark-like body through the dark water. Her curiosity was piqued. Paying the darkness no mind, Pidge approached the tank wall and peered inside, resting her hand against the glass as she tried to get a better look. If this mer was anything like the other one, he’d be keeping to the plant life at the back of the tank.

Which is exactly what he did.

Really, though, she should have known that attempting to observe him in the dark would be a useless endeavor. She would have to try again in the morning, and perhaps then, he’d be a little more adventurous. A little more willing to be seen. As she turned to leave, however, she heard something shift through the dark water, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw a flash of glowing purple. When she turned, her heart nearly stopped in her chest.

The mer was watching her, out in the open, mere inches away from her. He was far closer than Pidge was comfortable with, even though he couldn’t actually reach her. It was so dark in the room now that she could only make out the outline of his body and the biolumiscent markings that followed the lines of his chest and throat. Pidge let out a sound that was similar to a yelp as she hastily backed away, and in her haste to put as much distance between the two of them as possible, she slipped on a lingering puddle of water and hit the ground.

The mer trilled softly, ears perking straight up as he tilted his head to the side, but his expression—if he had been making on at all—was difficult to discern in the darkness.

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