#honesty hour asks

[sitp-recs]

If you had to read one trope for the rest of your life what would it be? (For the Honesty Hour Asks if you wanna!)

Hello lovely! Coming in with the tough asks, I see 💀 this was SO HARD but I think I’ll go with fuck buddies gone wrong to lovers, when I think of the fics I revisit the most I realize that trope is always present! Two personal favourites are The Page Eleven Wars and Five Weddings and a Potions Accident, can’t say how many times I’ve read those two. What about you??

[greyeyedmonster-18]

If you could steal the wardrobe of one celebrity, whose would you steal?

Alternatively, if you could style one celebrity, who would you choose?

♥️

these are GREAT questions.

i always have been a big fan of kaia gerbers street style (but also always joke that i would take pete davidsons wardrobe in a hot second). also shes not really a “celebrity” but theres a ballerina named isabella boylston whose wardrobe i would take in a hottttt second.

and its gotta be karlie kloss. i would style the shit out of her; lets take some risks klossy

honesty hour

[molabuddy]

im normal<3

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

happy mother's day lmfao

bonus (the girls are fightiiing):

[nowhere-again1134]

HONESTY HOUR

If you see this and want to know anything about me I’m feeling open right now

Anon or not whatever you want to know!

[aheathen-conceivably]

The Darlington story is quite different in the 1920s in comparison to the 1800s and early 1900s. I feel like if Zelda had not been the protagonist, we would still be focused exclusively on the life of rural English farmers. This made me wonder - did you ever feel fear or second-guess the concept of having Zelda move to America? Did you feel like it would alienate an audience who may have just wanted to the evolution of Henford or Windenberg over decades?

Oh HELLO, new friend! What a wonderful question, especially coming from you (who I know just went through that shift in the story). Because there is a shift, isn’t there? Not just in location, but in tone too. I’m going to give you an honest answer: absolutely, and I still do. Not so much because of the change in location, which I think is a relatively integral part of decades challenges, but in a more existential way.

I wouldn’t say that the change happened solely when Zelda moved to New Orleans, but it is probably the largest contributor. Before, we had been functioning in the relatively comfortable confines of a Sims Decades Challenge. That isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy writing it, or don’t still enjoy reading them, just that there’s usually a limit to how much of the “real” world is included there. This includes the level of tragedy and hardship the characters face, and quite often, the level of pain and sadness we can expect to feel as readers. Because of the format of a decades challenge too, we usually move on quite quickly, from one gen onto the next so that the sadness doesn’t quite linger the same way.

So I absolutely feared that once we began on a sort of “modified” decades challenge journey (read: one less about gameplay and more about superimposing the sims onto real life and the story I wanted to tell with it), I would lose readers. I was scared people had signed up or got invested in something only to realize that it’s not what they thought it was, or that I had “ruined” a story they had once enjoyed my making it too “serious” or “real.” I honestly still worry about that, and then I go back to check in on our English Darlingtons and think “man, people would be happier if we were still focused on them, wouldn’t they?”

But all this to say, ya’ll have been amazing and have helped me overcome those fears. I’m sure there’s people who have jumped ship (sorry sorry Rosella stans I couldn’t resist) and that’s okay! It’s okay for readers and it’s okay for writers. I think the beauty of this space (and all creative spaces) is that we can find eachother and the things we want to read and enjoy (or suffer through).

Still, and especially to anyone else out there writing, the answer is fuck yes. I fear and second-guess alot of plot points past, present, and future. There’s alot of mental background noise going on asking yourself things like…who are you doing this for? What’s the plotline you want to write? How does that intersect with where you want to go or what an audience wants to see? What if they hate it? What if they hate you? But frankly, I think that if I had given into that fear and stayed in Henford/Windenburg and that sort of bubble that was the 1900s, I would never have continued writing, because I wouldn’t have been following my inspiration and my gut any longer.

[fedbymoonlightt]

Loving her was like shaking hands with the devil 🔪🖤

[sitp-recs]

Heyyy, hope you have a safe trip home! I’m curious to know if you’ve ever written your own fics, and if you were to write a fic, what kind of a story would you plan and write? 👀

Thank you my friend! Great ask, and this might shock some people but I’ve never considered writing a fic, ever. I think mainly because I don’t trust my English skills for that kind of adventure lol the only type of writing I can pull off are essays. I wouldn’t even know where to begin with a fictional work, I get stressed just thinking about the amount of world building, character development, dialogue! I’ve never felt the urge to try my hand at it and it all feels very foreign. I’m also not particularly creative so I think I’d be a very unhappy and frustrated writer - I much prefer reading other people’s ideas instead of coming up with my own headcanons - probably one of the reasons why I rarely prompt for fests 🤣 so it’s not in the plans at all for me but if I were to adventure myself it would most def be a short, chaotic horny PWP. As a lil treat 😌

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Honesty Hour:

... plot of the would-be The Sign fix-it?? 👀

Curious to know. Thank you!

Four main things:

Reposition where all the flash backs are

Tharn and Phaya fuck in Nong Khai in ep 3

Tharn plays an active role in his own story

Tharn is a trans man

Honesty Hour

[curlygrant44]

🎉 If you could marry ANYONE. and I mean ANYONE. who would you marry?

"Jim. My Jim, the one I grew up with, fell in love with, the Jim I always wished would look at me and finally see something that other people seemed to and he never did. I would go back in time and stop being a coward and I would ask the question. I would kiss him and I would ask him not to go, I would promise him anything, I would do whatever it took. And I would marry him. Maybe...maybe if I had, we could've been happy..."

[kissingghouls]

What do you think Mary Goore smells like?

Anon, if you only knew how much time I spend thinking about stuff like this... you'd probably be embarrassed for me.

I think Mary smells like smoke with a dash of sweat and dirt in a powerful pheromones kind of way and less of an unwashed way. They're not picky about soaps and they'll use whatever is there, but they do care what product is in their hair so there's usually a hint of coconut.

mostly thinks cologne is a waste of time and money, but they'd lean toward woodsy and leather scents. If we get real specific, I'm gonna say sage and leather the way that these incense smell (notes: sage, marble, leather). A mausoleum themed scent? Good luck getting that away from them.

will steal your lip balm and your favorite lotion no matter the scent or flavor.

[death---dealer]

What is ur first language?

Russian, baby.

[wikiangela]

(for honesty hour) how do you think tommy would react to finding out about The Will?

I actually have thought about this a lot lol even wrote a fic! that kinda encapsulates how I headcanon or wish it would go (the actual topic of the will is just a fraction of the fic but it's there!)

I feel like he'd get it and wouldn't be weirded out by this? like, he'd get Buck and Eddie's friendship, he already saw a glimpse of how they are, and once he sees the way Buck is with Chris, he'd be like "yeah, of course Eddie would put you in his will, it makes sense all the sense in the world"

I feel like he's a reasonable guy who wouldn't get insecure about this, at least that's the impression I get haha

because like, it might be an unpopular opinion, but even as a buddie shipper (which I am), I don't think choosing your best friend as the guardian of your kid in case you die is all that crazy? 🙈 and it's not inherently romantic imo (could be tho! but could not) 💁

ask me stuff!

[watchyourbuck]

what's your least favorite 9-1-1 episode and why? 👀

ooooooo hii!!!! so I went back to check all the eps just in case I was missing one and I think my least favorites are Rage (3x05) & Wrapped in Red (5x10). the first one is bc im just not so fond of the buddie divorce era. both of their behaviors struck me as an incapability to cope with stuff in a healthy, patient manner and it made me sad that neither thought about seeking help or advice from the other. the second one i actually find kinda meh + I hated Eddie leaving the 118. even though I understood his reasons obviously, it all led to his breakdown and for a second there I was genuinely scared for his mental health. idk I guess I just love him too much lmao a lot of people enjoyed his breakdown but I was just sitting there like oh no my meow meow!!

[fiona-fififi]

have seen some people claim that that buck didn't want to/had no plans of calling tommy after their first date went wrong and only did it because eddie told him to and was wondering about your thoughts on that? (for the honesty hour thing, lol)

Hi, anon! This is an interesting question. To be honest, I haven't really seen any specific conversations about this, so I don't really know the context.

But just, personally, I think this is an interesting point to think about. I mean, first, I think the question of whether Buck wanted to call Tommy and the question of whether he planned to call Tommy are two very different questions.

In terms of wanted to, I absolutely think he wanted to call Tommy again. That boy was so smitten, even after their date disaster.

But while I think he wanted to call Tommy again, I don't know that I think he would have without Eddie encouraging him.

Because I think he had kind of resigned himself to the idea that he fucked up too badly and Tommy wasn't interested anymore and maybe he really wasn't ready. I think Buck struggles a lot with contending with his own feelings and sometimes feeling guilty for them, and I also think he probably didn't want to push Tommy’s boundaries, either, especially after the date had gone so bad when they'd run into Eddie.

So I do think Buck needed that push and encouragement to take that step to call Tommy again. And Eddie was probably the one he needed it from. Because Eddie has always provided a unique type of support for Buck. Because Eddie's primary concern when Buck is in his head about something is to make sure that Buck not only takes into account his own feelings, but also allows himself to feel them. Eddie asking Buck what he thinks? Asking him to consider his own feelings amid this new discovery about himself he's still working through? I think that was something Buck really needed to try to process what he was feeling and examining it probably helped him decide that it was worth at least trying by making that call.

So, yes, I do think Buck wanted to make that call. But no, I don't think he would have without Eddie's encouragement.

Honesty Hour, Ask me anything!

[gin-juice-tonic]

what do you think of gravity falls

This question actually needs a little bit of backstory to be answered

Growing up we didnt have cable, but one of the local channels had a cartoon block and one of the shows in it was called "Motion on Mount Commotion", and the main characters looked like this

(Sorry for the small pic, I had to look everywhere to find this, and it was the only one I could get)

Well, as I got older I sorta forgot about it but then one day I saw a screenshot of gravity falls on tumblr and was like "wait a minute"

Turns out Motion on Mount Commotion was some kind of weird rip off that managed to fly under disney's radar. I think because it was just a local show.

But anyway, I like gravity falls, but MoMC came first to me and will always have a weird special place in my heart