#htgawm edits

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Alfred Enoch in The Couple Next Door (2023)

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Relationships Edits ★ Madeline Stevens

The important relationships of Madeline Stevens

Tag List: @daughter-of-melpomene

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screaming crying throwing up the annaleve brainrot never goes away

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new video!

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htgawm au • bmw cast • 90’s and present

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ugh...I'm still very upset about how part 2 handled Colin & Pen's characters post-LW reveal, ESPECIALLY if they weren't going to give us a lot of Happy!Polin married bliss after their reconciliation in ep 8. If you're gonna have a boat-load of angst in a story like this, you need to have a balance of resolution and happiness, otherwise there's, like, narrative whiplash (which is basically how I felt about the epilogue...)

HOWEVER — as right as I think I am that they could have made better narrative choices with writing and editing this season, I'm also starting to be like,

"are angst-driven stories just not for me?"

I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm down bad for the enemies-to-lovers/bickering couple trope and I always appreciate a quality slow-burn, so I'm hardly against angst in any form. That is, until that angst is prolonged longer than the plot or the characters organically would or should suffer with it.

So, maybe this is me just not understanding what it means to watch a Shondaland show?...I've never been a Grey's or Scandal person and I dropped out of HTGAWM pretty quickly. So maybe Shonda's approach to romance isn't for me and I need to recognize that in the show to enjoy it (or try to)? Perhaps I'm asking the show to be something it's not...it's like going into a Subway and asking for an ice cream cone—I don't know.

I guess my hill I die on when it comes to stories of any kind that feature romance is: don't confuse angst with conflict. They aren't necessarily the same thing. There is so much Polin angst in those last two episodes that could have resolved without resolving the conflict of the Queen/Cressida vs. LW (or even between Penelope and Colin! There could have still been tons of conflict there, it just should have manifested in them being on the same side of the conflict...more Polin vs. The Problem rather than Pen vs. Colin and The Problem.) I guess I mean having Colin be stonewalled against Penelope for so long (narratively speaking, I get that it was only 2 episodes) didn't feel honest to me. I understand where all of his feelings of anger, betrayal, and doubts were coming from and he's totally entitled to them! I'm not trying to take that very real, honest response away from him. But by the time it was, like, mid-episode 8 and Colin was still acting almost cruel towards Penelope, it started to feel like angst for angst sake, not for the betterment of the story. And whether or not angst-ridden stories are your "type" of show or not, you can tell poor choices from good ones and I do believe that even for fans of Shondaland's approach to storytelling, there was much to be desired. We all deserved a bit better than what we got.

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》》》-> ♡ 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠! ♡

》 about me...

☆ my name is mia, im 19 years old.

*** i am an adult, so please don't follow if you are under 16. thank u! ***

★ i use she/they pronouns.

• this account posts lots of age regression content. this is my safe space regarding my interests!

• im on ao3 under the same user!

• i love receiving asks/requests! i love talking in general honestly, please dont be shy!!! (,,>ヮ<,,)!

》 my interests include...

arcane: league of legends, carmen sandiego (2019), scooby doo (mystery incorporated especially!), daria, greys anatomy, htgawm and criminal minds!

》 my comforts include...

the bearenstain bears, martha speaks, arthur (pbs), charlie and lola, looney tunes, scooby doo, and bluey.

》》》->♡ 𝐢 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬!

• i will not make paci edits of real people/celebrities.

I love taking requests; however, please be specific if it's a media I'm not familiar/listed previously! ♡

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》 DNI: TERFS, HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC, NSFW, AGEPLAY, DDLG, INCEST, &/OR KINK BLOGS.

[yesterdayiwrote]

Fic Writer Interview

thank you for tagging me @mars-mystic

How many works do you have on ao3?

25.

What’s your total word count?

206,948

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

For Better or Worse

It's You I Fell Into

Confide In Me

Rapture

Plead the Fifth

A mix of F1 and HTGAWM fics, although I have generally got less engagement on my F1 fics overall...

Do you respond to comments? Why/ why not?

Yeah, I always try to! I know writing the fic is the labour, but I always feel like people have gone to the effort to acknowledge my work when they leave a comment so I always like to try and acknowledge that and show my gratitude for their time. Its nice to be noticed!

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

driving licence which was my first f1 fic was kind of meant to have an angsty cliffhanger ending, but I did end up relenting and putting a happy ending on it! I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

I tend to end up with 'and they all lived happily ever after' endings on all my fics, cos I really hate ending on a low note, even though I desperately want to teach myself not to be afraid to do that from a plot perspective

Do you write crossovers?

I haven't done yet. I think I'd get myself too muddled?

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I had hate anons on Tumblr about my fics, but not on my comments. When I wrote for a US fandom, I got in the habit of ending a lot of sentences with a question mark, more as a stylised way of indicating the inflection in their cadence and I had a commenter who would aggressively pick me up on it EVERY time - even when I'd physically gone through and edited and was sure I'd taken them out. I'm sure there was some element of good intentions, but after getting the same criticism of something I'd edited with a fine tooth comb I started to think they were maybe just being unkind on purpose...

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have a complicated relationship with smut. I can picture what I want to write or the logistics but actually finding the words falls apart. I also get kind of... idk embarrassed? I wish I could write smut with more confidence and more success!

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge. I did steal a bit of one old fic for a new fic but is it stealing if it's from yourself?

Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yes! Years ago before the advent of ao3! I can't even remember exactly what happened in it or which fandom it was for

What's your all-time favourite ship?

recency bias is making me think Galex, but Coliver from HTGAWM was my last ship and I did LOVE them. I always felt slightly freer writing them due to them being a fictional ship i think?

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

Haha at the moment all of them because writers block has been kicking my ass big style. I had a rush of creativity which allowed me to get my two girl george fics started and I'm struggling so hard to get them moving again. I really want to though even if it takes a lifetime

What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm good at setting the scene, largely because I visualise a lot of my fics as a TV show in my head as I'm writing? Although this does sometimes work to my detriment because I'm trying to hard to lay the scene EXACTLY as I'm visualising it so other people can see the same?

What are your writing weaknesses?

Smut for definite... idk I read other fics that have just great turn of phrase and I haven't mastered that. I think I can get too reliant on the dialogue rather than what the characters are thinking or doing as well...

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I don't really have any? I think unless it's for a specific creative purpose then just write dialogue in the language of the fic rather than the language it's spoken. If you do write dialogue in other languages you have to make it translatable to the reader?

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

my first fandom I wrote fic for was for my boyband crush many moons ago. Started writing a lot of very terrible self insert fic as a teenager but moved over to slash after a while.

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

I do keep meaning to write Gewis. I have wips I posted, and some I lost, then I had some very complicated feelings about them and fell out of love with them for various reasons and now I kind of regret not getting anything done when it was still relevant?

What's your favourite fic you've written?

I have a very love hate relationship with all my fics. Confide in Me is probably my favourite in terms of plot, but I read it back and wish I'd done some things differently with it. I always end up going to soap opera-y rather than genuine angst. Idk I'm too self critical lol.

tagging @63historian, @ohblimeygeorge, @russilton .... I forget who out of my moots are fic writers and idk who's done this before! Anyone that wants to do it who hasn't I guess!

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I want annalise keating brat edits. in fact I want brat edits for all the htgawm characters. I want annalise keating fuck him guess we both shit edits. I want eric matthews hot to go. I want gabrielle xwp hot to go. I want shawngela casual. I want xena and gabrielle to whatever taylor swift song fits... all of them maybe. maybe that one that's like I know how ball (xena) you know aristotle (gabrielle). and you KNOW I want annalise keating good luck babe. better be on my desk by noon tomorrow. ok good night. love u

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ok, so im watching the how to get away w murder clip and like... yeah? sexy sex? but there's too many cuts in the edit. i want to see more, but without seeing more.... if you know what i mean?

this is my main issue with modern (or should i say hollywood?) sex scenes. theyre too fast paced, not only in the progression of the sex itself, but in the edit. noah has made letterboxd mentions of how he admires films where the scene is allowed to just play out, often from one angle, and its usually in european or arthouse cinema. the fact he's said this makes me think ST is NOT being filmed like this, which makes me sad, but i guess i shouldnt have expected anything else judging by the history of the show.

my hope with byler, more than wanting to see body parts (though i wouldn't mind that - bodies are beautiful), is that the scene is allowed to play out, with the camera slowly panning in rather than chopping and changing angles. for me, this is slow immersion, desperately sensual. i can forget i am even there... i am lost in the scene, and the actors are too, because they are allowed to just be in one long take and forget the camera. ST has sometimes used what fans call 'stalker' shots, which gives them a bad connotation - its where the camera creeps on characters out of their view. but i dont think it necessarily is a bad camera shot. depends on the tone we're setting. after all, we are all voyeurs simply by watching a story on a screen, arent we? why not make the camerawork immersive too, in a nice way? perhaps, this way, there would be less shame for viewers as well, because we wouldn't constantly be reminded YOU ARE WATCHING A SEX SCENE! ISNT THIS SEXY???!!!! I BET YOURE GETTING A BONER RIGHT NOW! HAHAHA!

lmao. It would just become another part of the lives of these characters. this is why i love lucca guadagnino the director, he says he approaches every scene with the same attitude and gives it the same importance, whether its simulated sex or a tiny passing scene without lines. and honestly, it's a cultural issue too. european culture in general is more comfortable with sex and the body. you see it in food, in dance, in the way people behave and move and everything. i think in america, shock factor and sex sells, but there's also deep shame ingrained into those same things. it makes for an odd tussle, where there wouldnt even be an issue in european culture. epicurean sensuality is normal and celebrated there.

i suppose its too much to expect finn and noah to pull off a guadagnino style love scene under the direction of the duffer brothers lmao. but they seem to have their only sensuality that they bring and cannot be quelled... the van scene is honestly, very sensual and intense. so i have some hope.

but i do hope one or either of them are scooped up for a project like Queer, one day. I think they could both thrive under such a director's approach to filmmaking.

also love that we have mentioned titanic here lately because even though thats hollywood, its subtle and very sensual rather than "sexy". And in doing so, it becomes sexy. I want byler to be sensual and emotional, not sexy.

I'll always stand by my love of HTGAWM and thinking they did a pretty good job - I mean, in a show with romantic subplots and especially as a character who uses sex and his sexuality for secondary means? It's still important to the show while not being the point of the show. It's all genre, medium, story being told. Filming style.

I guess it depends on what you're watching. I feel like the sex scenes in a snappy crime procedural vs. a drama/romance film vs. a mainstream horror/sci-fi are going to be very different. There's just different style of filming. I like all the types mentioned above. Do I want to imagine what scenes of various natures would look like if Stranger Things was more arthouse lofty cinema? Yeah, that's honestly how it looks in my imagination 😆 But ST is not an arthouse indie film haha. I would never expect as such. It does allow emotions to sit, it does allow for sentiment. It's not like they're constantly undercutting any emotional moment with humor or quips or subversion fourth wall genre aware eye rolling like other media (cough mcu and sw cough), so there's that at least.

Definitely appreciative and more interested in scenes that are allowed to play out, the sensual rather than shock value or included but almost shameful. I really think a lot of it depends on tone of story and film/show. I don't think I subscribe to only allowing room to consider certain regions to be able to be successful with or engage with certain emotions and art. I think the problem is the most glaring detractors in opposition to what we talk about are loud by nature, the big budgets that demand a return so they cater to more mass appeal. Anything mass appeal is going to be imperfect about sex, since it's so devisive. Not trying to be too defensive! I just think it should be considered. I always try to consider alternatives to sweeping generalizations.

Titanic is a great example of a filmmaking style I quite enjoyed and I thought was perfection for the story it told! The history and the romance and humanity all in conjunction. I think the sex scenes, the sensuality of it all - spot on. It didn't need to be more exposed, more what I call "softcore" simulated. Sometimes I think scenes do go too far, sometimes not far enough. Titanic was perfect for Titanic. Its genineky one of those topics thats a case by case basis in my personal reads of media re: sex scenes in cinema.

But - agreed, in that train of thought at the end. We have fandom, we have imagination to make Byler spicy and sexy. I'd hate for them to just shy away completely if the intention is to include a sex scene. It should be more emotional and sensual than shocking or ashamed to really give it weight. For sure.

Also agree I'd love to see either boy in a film with material that allows then to explore on screen, show a side we haven't gotten yet. Vulnerable filmmaking, a little artsier. Some say neither really have the acting chops but I disagree. We've seen some moments of brilliance. They'd need the right script, story, directing. Material that could push them. I do believe they have it in them to deliver in some sort of future project and it would so great to see. Let's hope 🤞

[bisasterbuckley]

✨Get To Know Me!✨

Since I have been making my return to Tumblr and diving headfirst into the 911 community, I wanted to give you all an introduction to me!

So for all my new mutuals, new followers, and people newly stumbling upon my account:

★ My name is Megan (she/her/hers). Some call me Meg, but I'm open to pretty much any nickname!

★ I'm 23! Birthday: July 24th.

★ I am ADHD and bisexual (which basically my entire identity is centered around 😂).

★ Main Fandom: 911

★ Ships: Buddie, Madney, Henren, Bathena (To add: I don't necessarily ship BuckTommy but have no problem with it and enjoy it as queer representation!)

★ Blog tags: #bisastermeg 911 text posts - for all my 911 as text posts edits! #bisastermeg edits - where you can find all of my video edits (crack and serious)! #bisastermeg talks - any of my random thoughts, text posts, etc. #bisastermeg asks - answered asks #bisastermeg live posts - for when i live post watching shows/movies! (will be doing so for 911 s8 - filter 911 spoilers to avoid) #bisastermeg & roomies - what I and my chronically online roommates get up to in our apartment!

★ All Fandoms (Current or Previous): 911, Station 19, Teen Wolf, Heartstopper, RWRB, Boy Meets World, Percy Jackson, Julie and the Phantoms, Marvel, The Hunger Games, Big Time Rush, Dan & Phil, HTGAWM - and even more!

★ I've been involved in fandoms in various ways for as long as I can remember. I started with fanfic, moved to video editing, then operated a suggestion blog, moved back to video editing, and probably even more! Currently I am specializing in "911 as text posts" but may open myself to more later on.

★ My fandoms can vary based on my hyperfixations, so I am most involved with 911 currently.

★ Disclaimer: I am not interested in drama. I am, however, more than open to having respectful, nuanced discussions about differing opinions in the fandom! Not all of us will agree, and that's okay. Let's just be respectful about it, and hear everyone's opinions out!

If you resonate with me at all, I'd love to gain more mutuals and friends here, so please, feel free to follow and interact, send asks, send messages, you name it! <3

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OC PRIDE CHALLENGE 2024 ; day twenty-eight - queer artists week

Whataya Want From Me by Adam Lambert ft. Levi Campbell ; How To Get Away With Murder

Tag list: @daughter-of-melpomene

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POLL: SMG vs Eliza Dushku - Charlie Weber edition (this guy)

SMG vs Eliza polls: part 10 / ?

Answer below!

A. Secret third option - both of them! (The brilliant Annalise Keating - played by Viola Davis - says the quote. The full quote is "This is Criminal Law 100. Or as I prefer to call it, 'How To Get Away With Murder.' From the show of the same name HTGAWM.)

In the movie The Kiss - Eliza as Megan dates Zig (or Ziggy) who is played by Charlie Weber. Zig is a carefree laidback guy who is good with animals.

Zig could not be more different from Frank Delfino, the bearded guy who frequently wears 3 piece suits on HTGAWM. (his most memorable role IMO)

In BTVS - SMG as Buffy meets Ben who is played by Charlie Weber. Yes this is Ben:

Ben is a medical student who is interested in dating Buffy in S5 but she... does not.

gif/image credits: - top Charlie thirst thanks to Bello magazine - middle Charlie as Frank Delfino in HTGAWM thanks to dearjosi - The Kiss screencaps thanks to ElizaDushku.org - Ben in BTVS gifs thanks to starryeyesxx

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2.juwon

if my characters had social media : htgawm edition.

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how to survive a scandal.