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i need a new job
#i feel bad because my class this year is NOT bad#like they have super normal and mild behavioral tendencies#but i hate hate hate my bosses so fucking much#and i always get told Very Important Things last minute#i hate going into work not knowing what kind of fuckshit is going to happen that day#there's literally no way to prepare myself for it#i need a job thats like. completely mindless#i haven't had a job like that since early college#all my other jobs have been traumatizing fast paced and anxiety inducing#personal#im considering applying for other things and just leaving like. fuck it. im not happy here.#its not the kids fault and i will feel bad leaving them but i just cant deal with all the other parts of the job
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apparently, Booster's not a fan of having rude women cling to him but he is a professional and he's gonna pretend to be friendly and excited about shit
the 1000 kidnapped the makers of the Booster Gold comic in-universe to drain what info they have on Booster Gold b/c teh senator is still very pissed off about Booster ruining his plans
huh say what you want about Booster Gold but his villains be killing people. Like killing people killing people, on a frequent basis
also Superman is in this town and apparently not investigating any large underground lead lined structures after the last one got publicly revealed to be a villain's lair
also its wild to me that the senator is going through all this effort when he could just plant a bomb in Booster's apartment. Like Booster doesnt have a secret identity, his address is findable
like you dont have to go through all his associates and their families again Booster's villains dont play around.
Senator yer beefing with a celebrity who doesnt even know yer the bad guy
Again Booster doesnt know how big yer organization is or even what it does. He's not investigating you. He's minding his own business and stopping the very blatant crimes yer guys are committing. He didnt even know who was behind the assassination attempt for the president and yall might have gotten away with it if the Legion hadn't been there instigating
again yer beefing with a dude who's been minding his own buisness and do more commercials than patrolling. You could literally just bomb his apartment or poison his food instead of all this convoluted fuckshit
the Boostermobile got repainted to match his costume
Booster's secretary makes him dress like a normal person to avoid getting press if they're gonna eat together
also why are so many of Booster's villains visibly disabled/deformed? That's certainly a choice that the writer and artist are making
sure he's joking but between that and bith him and Dirk having her work way outside of her shift hours I dont think Booster Gold is a good boss
yeah teh way Booster mangles phrases does suggest that he's some kind of foreign. But frankly, it should sound like he has an accent of some kind given that he's speaking English from several centuries in the future (and a later comic says that his first language is Esperanto so dude would have def an accent)
also Booster feels comfortable enough to tell his secretary some of his secrets like his birth name Just, Booster Gold should have a hell of a notable accent given everything. Facetiming Skeets, a robot that doesnt have a face
I'm going to assume that floater nets are for catching people if they need to jump out the windows of a highrise building or skyscraper as like a safety feature or used by emergency services
also the star on Booster's costume is different now again Booster's villains be killing people
like its not like villains werent killing people in Ted's comics or in JLI and stuff but like those didnt really have impact panels of corpses or bodies in the backgrounds of panels or a page with cops pulling a vehicle out of a ditch and describing exactly how the folks in it died.
Also, DC comics have a lot of coloring errors for something that explicitly has editors supposed to be checking shit also how the fuck did the Senator get more goons after one minion killed 900 of them at once and another minion melted a guys head for mentioning something he didnt like. Like yes, yall have benefits but i think a workplace that homicidal you just dont sign up for it
Again where the fuck is SUperman for half teh shit happening. WHy is Superman not showing up to help with a burning highrise apartment? Does he hate Booster Gold that much?
huh, would Skeets like more robot friends?
Booster's put together that the 1000 is after him b/c they sent some chatty ass robots
huh. Are you telling me Booster hasnt been charging his suit's batteries like he should be
…did he bring a charger for those power rods from teh future? …pls tell me Booster is aware that batteries lose charge over time that his 'powers' would decrease if the charge goes down. That he should be keeping track of the charge on those power rods
writer… if yer implying that yer tech using superhero doesnt bother upkeep for the suit that gives him his powers to the point that he doesnt know why he's gotten weaker… that's …
secretary lady, why are you crushing on yer boss? Why are you upset about him being asked questions about the celebrity that he's fake dating for publicity?
why you mad that Booster is a slut for the camera? you know what he's about why be mad about it if you like him? why date a model if yer gonna get upset about people openly drooling over him and him playing into it b/c it gets him paid more?
yer bad mouthing him for doing the shit that gets him money
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20 questions for fic writers
tagged by: @merrilark
how many works do you have on ao3? None. but i do a large percentage of my fic reading on ao3. my acc is ells_bells
what's your total ao3 word count? uhhh also none
what fandoms do you write for? uhh ive written for my hero academia, a good amount of robert sheehan's cinematography, corpse bride, heaven's design team, dream daddy, and uhhh nijisanji en but finna drop a fuu-chan fic soon
what are your top 5 fics by kudos? uhhhhhhhh idk
do you respond to comments? why or why not? yes, i respond to comments when i get them. they make me giggle and kick my feet and i gobble them up.
what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? none of my fics have an angsty ending, besides the shitty two-shot i did of robert RPF where they never saw each other again after hooking up
what is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? i like the lucien one bc i was feenin for a relationship at the time and just needed it. but any of the nsfw fics where any character has any satisfaction is a good ending to me
do you get hate on any fics? no
do you write smut? if so, what kind? egregious, down bad, horrifically horny smut
do you write crossovers? whats the craziest one you've written? the only crossover i think i wrote was klaus x luba x reader (sensual soliloquies), and that one wasn't even crazy. thats 100% a possibility to happen
have you ever had a fic stolen? no, i have not. im happy i havent. bc the thought makes me go????
have you ever had a fic translated? no, not that i know of.
have you ever co-written a fic before? no.
what's your all-time favorite ship? i have So Many. just ask me and i will scream.
what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? ummm the desire fic i started writing. when the sandman comes back, i may find the hyperfixation energy to finish it, but im not finishing it rn.
what are your writing strengths? um. idk. i know my writing is considered good....but idk why. mutuals pls inform me as to why. maybe my detailing?? idk
what are your writing weaknesses? dialogue description
thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i think its neat. but sometimes im like "ok this could be better" (see some of the miguel o' hara fics written with fuckshit spanglish)
first fandom you wrote for? i think it either the flash or harry potter.
favorite fic you've written? the one im about to post.
tagging with no obligation: @seancekitsch, @super-unpredictable98
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Beverly Crusher or Tuvok for the ask game
ironically this took me a while because i was participating in an insane about the crusher family moment so severe i am lightheaded. anyway. i feel like i dont have a ton of meaningful things to say about tuvok yet except "i generally like him i think he has a lot of interesting moments i just wish they didnt regress his characterization gains with such regularity" but i do enjoy him and maybe i will come back to this when i have more coherent thoughts
favorite thing about them
love her confidence tbh like she knows she can do it all and do a great job of it. she has such a wide variety of skills between her actual job and her hobbies and i think that's very fun to see. i also think she's spectacular in the Some Fuckshit Is Happening To The Enterprise mystery episodes like im glad they gave those to her a lot bc it works within her skillset of like. ok this is how i would go about examining a scientific hypothesis this is how i would break the problem down to something manageable so i think that's neat, and i also just think gates mcfadden is very good at carrying the tension of those episodes.
least favorite thing about them
fucking TERMINAL picard disease. remember me is like the prime example of it to me to the point where i literally rewrote part of the script one time but just. so many of her plotlines get taken over to instead be about her thing with picard in ways that don't actually progress anything. and so many of the things that should be about her and wesley end up being about picard and wesley. and like clearly these are importantly dynamics in all their lives but it feels like there's a lot that gets sacrificed in the name of putting picard at the center
also i do think they have a problem with like. not letting her be significantly wrong a lot? i noticed this in like s6 but the plot frequently kind of curves to make sure she's right about things like with both ethics and suspicions they introduce new elements of the plot to be like yeah actually she did not do anything wrong and i just think that holds a character back.
favorite line
"If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe." queen of believing in yourself. i know this seems counter to what i just said about not letting her be wrong but i liked this one ok. it's about moderation. i love her confidence and i definitely don't want that disrupted in any deeply significant way but i also wish they would let her be wrong every once in a while.
brOTP
she does have really fun dynamics with like most people but hers with troi is good and i like her dynamic w/alyssa ogawa. like yeah alyssa is a subordinate so they're not like Bros bros but beverly clearly cares a lot about her as a person and i think it's neat. also riker if we uhhh. if we don't count. listen if i try to think about the host too long im gonna start setting shit on fire so we're not counting that right now ok we're just counting them in normal episodes.
OTP/nOTP
listen im combining this into one question i think her whole thing with picard is fine and despite what it sounded like earlier i actually kind of enjoy it at points i just hate the way it consumes her whole plotline. if they had just been normal about it it would have been fine.
random headcanon
god ok i know that like all the plays she stages are like Classics and all but i really think they shouldve let her at anything that was fosse-related. i think she would be a great director for that kind of deal.
unpopular opinion
i never know what opinions anyone has on any of these characters unless ive recently seen something that made me mad lmao but. idk sam @sallytwo and i were just talking about this but any attempt to reduce the beverly and wesley dynamic to like "it's good and they're close" or "it's bad and they're distant" is such a doomed endeavor. it's so much more complicated than that like they're close in that they clearly love each other a lot and they don't have a lot of open conflict but they're both deeply repressed people when it comes to expressing meaningful emotions and it definitely takes a really significant toll. again no idea where it falls on the like popular/unpopular opinion scale but it seems like a lot of people don't quite know what to do with that relationship and that's fair because it is. odd especially when you try to figure out what the writers meant for it to be.
favorite picture of them
ngl this is less about her and more about how much utility I get out of it (due to the. i have brain damage.) but it has been very useful so thank you bev
#this is for sure incomprehensible sorry ksjdfhsdkj#ty ty!!!#i do lowkey wanna come back and do tuvok i just haven't real;ly gathered thoughts about him yet yknow#ask game
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I know I’ve written something similar before and maybe I'm being petty and reading into shit too much, but I honestly just can’t deal with 9S haters. Like, you got the generic weeby incels that are jealous that their fictional waifu is interested in nerdy twink 9S which shatters their "feemales only go for the chads" shitty worldview. Those are easy enough to ignore because they’re just shit people in general and not worth my time. Plus it’s really straightforward and doesn’t have me sitting down thinking “why does this bother me so much?”.
But then you have another group of people that I honestly can’t stand because you look at their hot takes on 9S and think “did we even play the same game?” They reduce him to some flat one dimensional possessive/whiny man child thot boi (No I’m never gonna forget that insult because it’s horrifically beautiful).
I’ve been wondering why it annoys me so much when I don’t really care if people don’t like my favs from other stories and I think it’s a mix of a few reasons.
One is like I mentioned above in that they get his character so wrong, it’s like they played an entirely different game.
Another is that they act like the negative (and “negative”) things he does do is for completely no reason whatsoever without acknowledging a whole bunch of fuckshit that helps make him who he is “today”. So we just got “oh he’s possessive and violent and whiny ew” without even thinking about:
All the trauma that 9S went through both before, and during route C.
The fact that he was infected by a logic virus for most of route C. Yes, most. I don’t remember where but it says in some supplementary material that the virus was fucking with him since way before he transplanted the arm.
The fact that the Red Girls and machines were tormenting him during route C and already pushing him to the extremes. Remember what happened in the Soul Box? Plus Adam torturing him about his feelings for 2B in the copied city wasn’t exactly helpful.
The fact that his only purpose was to be a disposable information gatherer for a pointless war. He was designed with a friendly and curious and emotional personality and was forced to work alone for a lot of his life, told that he wasn’t allowed to display those emotions, and punished with death whenever he got too curious. I’d say he gets a pass to whine about missions every now and then.
The fact that 2B killed him and erased his memories FORTY-SEVEN times and just because she hates doing it and he forgives her doesn't change the fact that she did it and how much it would mess up his perception of anything really. (Bonus points if they think 2B's some perfect stoic lesbian goddess who can do no wrong and has absolutely no romantic interest in 9S). Same with the fact that she was still cold and strict with him most of the time they were together even if he did eventually find out she’s not like that deep down.
The fact that 2B was the one and only constant in his life through all his resets. It would take a fucking saint to not develop some unhealthy attachment/possessive thoughts in that situation. Especially with the Red Girls tormenting him by trying to delete his memories of her in the Soul Box. Like it’s not good or healthy and even I was like “nooo 9S baby please don’t be like that” in the clone fight/his possessive monologue in the book at that point. But it sure as hell is realistic and understandable to become possessive of someone that keeps getting taken away from you.
The fact that he hates himself for the way he feels about 2B. He doesn’t act on any of his feelings and always backs off when 2B says no about anything from calling him “Nines” to taking a break after a mission. He might grumble and complain a bit but pretty quickly shuts up.
The fact that he lost everything he loves in the span of a few hours and watched the most important person in the world get skewered by a smelly cryptid doppelganger. (Pile on the fact that said smelly cryptid doppelganger did nothing to clear things up about it when there were plenty of easy ways to do so (don't get me wrong I love A2, but she's an idiot)).
The fact that even in his route C rampage his anger was still only directed at machines and A2. He helped other androids without complaints, even ones he didn't know. And he was still visibly upset when he saw Pascal's Village and Pascal’s memory loss.
This whole nonsense reminds me of some SU discourse of people hating on Lapiz for the way she responded to Jasper's abuse. Could she have made better decisions? Maybe. But she was trapped in a mirror for 5000 years, immediately attacked after being released, then captured and tortured again. What the hell do you expect?
And to a lesser extent, it reminds me of how people react to Shinji, calling him whiny and tell all those “get in the fucking robot” jokes. The poor kid went through so much shit comparable somewhat to what 9S went through.
I guess the thing that really bothers me is that I relate really hard to 9S and the shit he went through (obviously to a much lesser extent, thankfully I haven’t lost all of my loved ones in a horrific massacre or anything like that). But I can relate to having everything falling apart in my life and not having the support or experience I needed to get through it without fucking up a lot.
And as an autistic person with a bunch of other brain shits, I was so happy seeing a character that was (intentionally or not) coded with these same things. So it gets me, even more, when I see people going “ew no he’s bad” because of those traits as if they expect someone with no support network or therapy to just be able to Handle It All on their own. When I see people refusing to be compassionate towards 9S for what he’s gone through, I’m reminded of people that refuse to be compassionate to good people who’ve fucked up because they’re unable to deal with it on their own. (And I sure as hell wouldn’t be surprised if they’re the same people.)
You can like a character or person at the same time as acknowledging what they’re doing wrong. (And on the flip side you don’t have to ignore the faults of characters you do like and paint them as beautiful flawless goddesses).
It’s not often you get a kind, gentle, and emotional male character that doesn’t act all high and mighty and above the female characters just because he’s a dude. It’s also not often you get the scripts flipped in terms of gender expectations as well. Give him a chance to come back and grow past all the trauma that shaped him during route C. He’s a good boy. He’s little, and broken, but still good.
Yeah, still good.
I end this with the wise words of a good friend: “9S is great fuck all yall nerds learn some goddamn empathy the end”.
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❝ you punched me in the face , you made me walk through shitty water , brought me to a FUCKING CRACKHOUSE ( ! ) . . . and now , i’m gonna have to kill this fucking clown . ❞
one. ⤻ statistics.
full name: richard james tozier.
nicknames, aliases:
goes by richie most of the time.
rich.
trashmouth.
bucky beaver.
a slew of childhood nicknames bestowed by bowers ‘n the crew.
age: twenty - three.
date of birth: march 7th.
place of birth: derry, maine.
current place of residence: truman island.
occupation: stand - up comedian, screenwriter, occasional bartender.
nationality: ‘bout as american as you can get.
sexual & romantic identity: he’s gay ! totally gay !
gender identity: cisgender male, he/him.
hogwarts house: gryffindor.
source material:
stephen king’s it.
it: chapters one & two ( 2017, 2019, dir. andy musichetti. )
two. ⤻ biography.
too long, can’t be fucked to read: richie has a normal childhood until he n his pals ( he’s kind of in love with them n never gets over it ) get attacked by a clown, suffer the repercussions, and then he ends up in truman and he’s fucking pissed abt it. has all his memories, wishes he didn’t.
sometimes, when i write my intros, i get stumped over their childhood bc it was a childhood ???????? nothing significant happened ?????????????? --- - wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles, shit ain’t quite the case here.
richard james tozier, known affectionaly as richie or trashmouth, is the only son of wentworth and maggie tozier, and for the most part they’re a relatively unassuming family. wentworth is a dentist whose attitude towards his own son’s dental care is simultaneously strict and lax, and maggie makes a life out of spoiling the fuckshit out of her boys but she loves it. there’s nothing out of the ordinary about the little family they’ve built ; established in their routines, in their practices, the toziers are nothing to write home about.
richie’s a handful, admittedly. diagnosed with adhd when he turns four, he’s hyperactive, loud, histrionic, a sarcastic little smartass before he knows what any of those things are. he keeps himself entertained with comic books, drinking in their bright colours and their intricate storylines and develops an infinite love for their careworn pages and their impossible tales. they keep him grounded, strange as it is --- - when all goes to shit, as it inevitably will, he’ll thumb through an old copy of uncanny x-men and the world doesn’t seem so heavy anymore. when he gets his first pair of glasses, thick - rimmed plastic frames and lenses more like coke bottles than actual lenses, he spends two hours spiraling deep into the familiar world of his comics. when he gets tripped up the first time, when he gets called fuckface or four - eyes or worse, he swallows back the lump in his throat and legs it home for his comics. when he’s reading, he’s not so hyperactive --- - he still frantically jiggles one leg, but he’s quiet, introspective --- - the silence is rare but comforting.
his sense of humour is sharp as anything, practised daily on his poor mother and father. he’s developed a slew of Voices, little impressions that differ only in tone and intention, but wentworth and maggie encourage him to keep working, keep building on them. his wit gets him into trouble at school, and numerous teachers have written in reports that richie’s got a bit of a reputation for being a class clown. ( humour is a desperate attempt to grab out, to latch onto a friend because really, he’s so fucking lonely it hurts and he just wants someone to laugh at him and entertain his endless bullshit and be there. )
shouldn’t have wished so hard for friends, because they come along in the form of the losers’ club. richie moreso stumbles across them than anything --- - knew bill denbrough because they lived on the same block, found him fuckin’ round in the barrens with some other kids and hey, it’s like they’d been best friends forever. there’s bill, big bill, stuttering bill, de facto leader and richie’s unspoken idol. there’s stan, preternaturally neat and it’s like he came out of the womb like that, already a coherent amalgamation of smiles in his voice and rolled eyes. there’s mike, with his killawatt smile and good intentions and comforting voice that sets ease into richie’s perpetually rattled bones. ben, whose creativity and quiet reassurance is something richie pines after desperately. beverly, the only girl, cigarette-scented voice of rhyme and reason and rationality. then there’s eddie, and richie swallows up anything he can say about eddie before the words come out.
it’s painful, realising you’re in love with your best friend. it starts early, a quick glance here and there that lingers, a breath that catches in your throat when you see him smile. you try and push the feelings down, swallow them whole before they can infect every part of you but darling, it’s never that easy. by the time summer arrives, you are in far too deep. you never really recover from your pre - adolescent tango with love, and it develops into an adolescent waltz with it, and --- - you get the picture.
summer brings --- - well, it’s been years now and richie’s still lost for words that fit what that summer really was. it starts with a few kids going missing, ending up dead and then it’s george denbrough, little georgie, one arm chewed off and yellow slicker tainted sticky red and then the whole world seems to fall apart. bill’s a madman on a mission, and richie follows --- - follows when it means getting taunted by a demon clown alien thing, when it means fucking fighting said demon alien clown thing, snapping eddie’s broken arm back into some kind of place whilst bated breaths are held back in case it hears. they beat it, and richie’s still not sure how but he knows that for six months after, he can’t look at a clown without digging bitten fingernails into calloused flesh of a palm. a year later, he still jumps at too - loud noises. two years later, he starts seeing a therapist because his parents have noticed he can’t sleep in the dark anymore.
high school, college applications, they all become a blur. the losers spend most nights together, endless double features, piling into cars, growing up and together and apart until the first one of them leaves, and it feels like taking a fucking bullet. slowly, they all scatter to the wind, memories firm but never forgotten and richie’s planning california, hot summers and comedy shows but he ends up in some shithole called truman and honestly, he’s not even sure how.
he’s not his happiest in truman, let’s waste no time in establishing that. he wanted to be away from derry, sure, that’s no lie but fuck, man, he didn’t mean here ! everyone seems perpetually too - happy, too bright, too naïve to the ways of the world and fuckin’ child - chompin’ clowns, and --- - he’s determined to get out of here, but he doesn’t quite know how yet.
three. ⤻ wanted connections.
a string of unfortunate exes / all you send are full stops. before he comes out, before he finally stops pretending to be something he’s not, richie dates a few girls and honestly, every single relationship ends in disaster�� because he charms them, gets them falling only to end it when he realises he can’t keep kissing them and wanting to brush his teeth afterwards. he’s got an unfortunate string of ex - girlfriends who would probably rather see him dead, and he’s semi - okay with that.
an attempt at a real relationship / you’re looking like you really like him. richie tries to date for real when he finally admits that he’s not as straight as previously believed, and it works for a while --- - it’s comfortable, familiar, keeps him warm when he needs to be but it falls apart quickly. the other can’t deal with the way he thrashes during a bad dream, borderline screams names into his pillow --- - bill mike help help help oh my god ben bill stan mike billmikestanbenbillbillmikestanstanstan help me oh fuck eddieeddieeddieeddieeddieeddie --- - the breakup is amicable, and richie can’t bring himself to hate them.
honestly im not going 2 subject yall to another 300+ words of my torturous writing if u want a kewl plot msg me and ive probably got one or i can whip up something bespoke !
#truman:intro#not 2 be dramatic but i've written essays shorter than this#━━ ˊ * ╰ 𝑟𝑒: 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 . ╱ ooc .
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1:24pm.
It's getting bad, not gonna lie.
Sunday, March 15th of 2020.
What's got me having really dangerous and upsetting thoughts lately?
Staying in a hotel on a road trip with my family made me flashback to the times where rich older men tried to straight up rape me. (Two didn't succeed. And one was moreso coercion, a sort of pressure, where he treated me like I was the scum of the earth for even suggesting not giving him a 15th orgasm, after 14 nonstop ones.... And demanding I do it, pretty much acting as if I never even said how hooking up that many times in a row legitimately left my entrance and my insides feeling like they had been in super searing pain. Cool, a rich guy having an orgasm from something they knew caused me pain then leaving me traumatized from it... I hope that man kills himself, or that some Jeffrey Dauhmer fetishist makes him his lunch.)
Family road trips = nonstop memories of abuse or times I was hurt without a single fuck in the world, all the things they've done, and isolation and silencing myself and being quiet about all aspects of my life in order to not get mocked or ignored over them. Yay.
I was in my hotel room the other night, depressed. Oh look, my younger brother got to sleep with my older brother, and I had a huge hotel room all to myself for the night. Did I create? No. Did I get fucked by a loved one or a one night stand of my choosing? No. I was so tired of living, that all I wanted was the luxury of sleep.
Plus my pussy hasn't been functioning since my breakup.... Really fucking irritating. I need an orgasm to sleep, and oh look, my clit will not fucking work. I don't.... It's hell. Just, it hurts to even write. I eventually had one, but I'd rather not share how it happened. Not since I did anything terrible, just not any shit I feel like explaining the dynamics of.
The oh so lovely feeling of "i have no boyfriend that could have came on this trip with me and then plowed me the whole night with"
Also, a night in a hotel room, under soft blankets, in a peaceful and dark room, without a fat obese woman sleeping underneath my bed, stomping around, or using her flashlight like a strobe like? I slept so peacefully, that one was almost kind of scared upon waking up at the easy sleeping.... And the look, feel, and smell of a mostly clean hotel room, beats a lifetime with Shits McGee, sharting up a storm.
My feelings towards my ex. Its like, no fault of my own that they chose repeatedly to be a coward, and I don't exactly regret what went down with them, but that doesn't mean I fully hated them. I don't know. I guess looking back at it, I don't.... entirely regret it, since I did what I felt was best for me, just like how they chose their comfort zone over things slightly controversial but beneficial for us. I wasn't gonna just stay stagnant and silenced and uncomfortable. So I spoke up. And when made to feel like I was, shit happened. It shouldn't have. But, it did.
Reminds me of how our 2nd fight happened because he did something really atrocious, and I said, "See, that's the type of shit that gets you slapped", and he scoffed and said, "No, that happens because you have problems--" and then I stopped him mid-shit talk, with every limb I could use that functioned on myself.
.......
I still don't feel all that bad.
It shouldn't have happened, but it also could've been avoided.
Like, why would you purposely act antagonizing and condescending to a hothead? Who? That would be like if my mom were crying, and vulnerable, and I decided to do some fuckshit with the intent of being seen as an asshole.
I wouldn't be shocked if she hit me.
I don't see how he thought several times that going about things in the worst way possible would have positive benefits.
Slap or not, the end result was the same; I never see him again. Therefore, it never mattered. That was the point of the last time it happened. I cared so little about the guy who had cared for me none.
The oppressed hurt their oppressors when given the chance. And so, yes, and it worked.
I dont care.
Oh damn well.
1:51pm.
It's probably since I'm nihilistically zoned out right now.
I dont feel the need to be an empath right now.
Hes not in the picture, or checking up on me.
Thats that.
Peace out.
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Hi! You talk quite a bit about adaptations, could you give your thoughts on some adaptations of other classic novels, ones you particularly like or hate?
Well, let me think. I’ll give you the rundown on literary adaptations I like or love, as it’s getting late in the evening here and a bout of solid rage isn’t going to send me off to sleep so much as bring on a bout of indigestion. Also I went to review my DVD collection and for obvious reasons I don’t own many DVDs of things that I loathed. (I do recall nearly bursting into tears after a matinee viewing of I Capture the Castle because I felt the movie ended on such a bittersweet note that I was not prepared to walk out of a darkened cinema into a sunny day with birds singing while I was still Feeling a Lot of Unhappy Things, and so I felt like I hated that movie for a long time because of the sheer mood whiplash of it all. Also I wish I’d read the book first. The book is lovely, and I think I’d’ve stomached the film better, had I gone through the book first.)
Oh! I just remembered The Wings of the Dove (1997). I should have loved it, it had a lot going for it, buuuut fuck that movie and everyone involved in it, it just fell flat, for me. I don’t even care how critically-acclaimed it was, all the characters are The Worst and I never have a moment’s sympathy enough to care what happens to any of them. I hate even thinking about this movie and it is largely responsible for how much I despise Helena Bonham-Carter to this very day. Her and Jeremy Irons (who I admit I have many more personal issues with ‘cause he’s a silver-spoon gross-ass fuckshit.) A movie has got to be pretty damn brilliant on several other points for me to get past the knee-jerk rage I feel whenever either of them appear on-screen.
Also The Portrait of a Lady was terrible and riddled with pointless alterations and please just read The Making of a Marchioness, instead. Maybe I should add Linus Roache to my shitlist as he’s in this one, as well as The Wings of the Dove.
And now for adaptations I liked:
Wives and Daughters (1999) is quite good, in my view, and the ending they added to Gaskell’s unfinished work is quite satisfying, I think. (I don’t know about realistic, but it was sweet and simple and I dug it.)
Orlando (1992) Beautifully done. (Billy Zane! I love him in everything and I literally don’t even know why.)
Little Women (1994) is a classic, but I’m also very excited to see what Heidi Thomas and Vanessa Caswill do with the new miniseries from the BBC and PBS next year.
Daniel Deronda (2002) It’s prettyyyyyy. And so is Jodhi Maaaay.
Washington Square (1997) has a beautiful soundtrack, solid direction, and a stellar cast.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) had some great cinematography and a good cast.
Dangerous Liasons (1988) I have such mixed feelings about Malkovich in this one but Glenn Close, holy shit she’s good.
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) A TRUE CLASSIC LITERARY ADAPTATION I WILL FIGHT EVERYONE. THEN PAY FOR THE RUINED GREEK RESTAURANT.The Remains of the Day (1993) A somewhat underrated classic that I think perhaps unfairly sits in the shadow of Howard’s End a lot of the time, what with the comparisons of the Thompson-Hopkins casting in a Merchant-Ivory film. (I do like Howard’s End, but, again, Helena Bonham-Carter, and I just connect a lot more with The Remains of the Day, as a story.)
Wide Sargasso Sea (2006) I don’t recall unabashedly loving this one, but I own it, so I feel like I must’ve liked it well enough. Then again, I also just found a copy of Sweeney Todd still in its plastic-wrap that I don’t know how I came by, I don’t even like the concept enough to want to watch it in the first place. Also, Helena Bonham-Carter is in it. And Johnny Depp. Why the fuck do I even own Sweeney Todd? Anyway, Wide Sargasso Sea is alright, though I feel like I preferred Karina Lombard’s Antoinette to Rebecca Hall’s.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) I’m pretty sure this is where Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews made me bi and SIR IAN MCKELLEN HOW DO YOU DO?
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) HOW DO YOU FILM SMELLS? LIKE THIS. MY GOD. (Also please read the book.)
Dracula (1992) I mean, the cast swings between pretty good and absolutely wooden, but from a literary standpoint this is one of the more faithful adaptations of Stoker’s novel out there–though this movie is by no means The Best Anyone Could Do. There’s a lot wrong with it. But then Coppola didn’t need to include the blue fire thing, but he did, and I appreciate that.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) is worth it for Robert de Niro, alone; and maybe a handful of really, really good shots. Otherwise there’s too much Helena Bonham-Carter and also Ken Branagh just recently hauled himself onto my shitlist but GOOD NEWS the character of Victor Frankenstein was always an annoying fucko and that’s canon, so feel free to hate him throughout, anyhow.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) Does not get enough love. A good antidote to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights for anyone who sat there thinking Rochester and Heathcliff were BIG PILES OF RED FLAGS. Wildfell is a cautionary tale, but actually ends reasonably happily (and more believably happily, IMO, than Jane Eyre.)
The Secret Garden (1993) Pure nostalgia for this one, excellent casting, and the same director as Washington Square.
Ivanhoe (1982) Sam Neill has no business making a villain that compelling. (I know, I know, Bois-Gilbert’s characterization is softened a lot in this adaptation.) And this time I’m bi for Neill and Olivia Hussey. Sorry, Anthony Andrews, you drop to second-slot in this love-fest. Also Rowena ruins everything but that’s canon, so what can you do?
Maurice (1987) Who doesn’t love a fluffy gay gamekeeper?
Cousin Bette (1998) Changes stuff from the book, and on the whole the story can be a bit rocky, especially in the second half or so, but it’s worth seeing for Jessica Lange, alone, I think, as well as some broadly comic notes from side-characters in Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins.
Possession (2002) Ignore Gwyneth Paltrow as best you can and otherwise enjoy the literary mystery unfolding in between some amazing flashbacks. Most of the good actors are crammed into the flashback bits, but at least there’s some snarky Tom Hollander and dastardly-but-personally-I-think-he’s-in-love-with-Roland Toby Stephens in the modern-day sections to give us some fun.
Twelfth Night (1996) Again, ignoring Helena Bonham-Carter, this one’s got a lot going for it. Trevor Nunn directing, Toby Stephens managing to be damn fine and somehow I don’t entirely mind that Orsino’s kind of a douchebag, Imogen Stubbs being cute as fuck, and stellar supporting actors.
The Inheritance (1997) Look, this is a little-known Louisa May Alcott thing, and I’ll be honest, it’s not Groundbreaking Television. As far as direction and score and acting and script goes, there is no danger of anyone ever losing sight of the fact that it’s a made-for-TV-movie from 1997 and Meredith Baxter was probably the biggest name they could get for it at the time. Anyway, there’s a reason I own it, and that reason is that watching it is the equivalent of a big mug of hot chocolate after a terrible day. It is pretty and sweet and funny and the villains and heroes are clearly marked from the moment they appear on-screen, and is it perhaps a bit too sweet? Yes. Embrace the sugar-shock.Titus (1999) Goes on a little long, perhaps, but you can’t look away. Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange go toe to toe and it’s a thing of horrific beauty. Shhh don’t question the batshit bloodbath, just let Julie Taymor do her thing.
Enchanted April (1991) Run away to Italy with your girlfriends. Just do it.
The Princess Diaries (2001) A modern masterpiece. GET OFF THE GRASS.
Bleak House (2005) Oh my God, this cast??? Is so magnificent?
Persepolis (2007) One of those films that are so good you need to lie down afterwards. Again, please also read the graphic novels.
Any Agatha Christie adaptation, ever–I am HERE FOR IT.
I know I’m forgetting one I thought of earlier, but oh well.
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foggy and william for the sleepin meme! (and bonus maxwell if u want ovo)
i was gonna write ‘*cracks knuckles* let’s do this’ but then i thought abt that post that’s like ‘*breaks fingers*’ and i started laughing too hard to type
(im so sorry but im Only going to do foggy for this for now because i just Cannot focus on anyone else atm i’ll,, probably try to do will later)
Who is a night owl:
i am, unfortunately,, foggy has to be up early in the morning and between missions at fuckshit o’clock and just Who I Am As A Person i’d be bad about getting into bed on time, but,, i feel like the prospect of spending as much time in bed w foggy as possible on top of not wanting to disturb him would encourage me to get into bed when he does tbh
Who is a morning person:
foggy, out of necessity - again, he has to be up early for work in the mornings, so his body’s just in tune with being up early in the morning, but he doesn’t like it. there’d be mornings where he runs 10-20 minutes late because i had a vice grip on him and honestly it wasn’t like he was trying that hard to get out of bed anyways.
Are they cuddlers:
MAJORLY. i need loads of physical affection and am hugely physically clingy, and you look me in the god damn eyes and tell me foggy nelson isn’t as well
Who is the big spoon and who is the little spoon:
i’m the big spoon!! i just like holding onto people and burying my face in their neck & back, and i’m most comfortable when i can like,, squeeze someone to my chest, i guess, is the best way i can describe it?? like i guess it’s probably a stim thing. and like, as for foggy, u know that one brooklyn nine-nine quote, the. “it makes you feel safe”
What is their favourite sleeping position:
spooning, or on our sides like face to face in that thing where one person is nestled in the other’s chest, or. i have this weird thing where i like to start sleeping on my side (usually holding something) but when i’m half asleep i have to roll onto my back to knock out so. he’d probably roll over to curl up on my chest.
Who steals all the blankets:
i’m not sure it’d be a huge issue bc we’d always be latched onto each other and shit, lmao. in the event that we weren’t for whatever reason i’m not sure it’d be…….really a thing? i think he sleeps on his back when he’s not curled up w someone and so do i, all sprawled out and shit, so
What they wear to bed:
i wear just a shirt and no pants, & honestly i think he probably does too? maybe just underwear depending on the night
Who likes seeing the other wearing their t-shirt:
i mean we both do tbh (not all my shirts are big enough to fit him so i’d wear his more often, but the point still stands)
Who falls asleep mid-conversation:
FOGGY DOES esp if he’s drunk. like the conversation is probably winding down anyways because
Who wakes up in the middle of the night with nightmares:
i just Don’t have noticeable reactions to nightmares in my sleep (i’ve only ever woken up Once from a nightmare and it just…….happened to be the end of a sleep cycle) nor nightmares really in a traditional sense, so. it’d be him, if he gets that kind of thing (i would h ate for him to deal w nightmares tho ): like i’d do everything i could to take care of him and comfort him and lull him back to sleep but. i would just. hate for him to be miserable in the first place you know)
Who accidentally punched the other in their sleep:
i dddddddddddon’t think i thrash much or do any of that shit in my sleep. so it’d be more likely to be him? but i probably wouldn’t even feel it (or i would but i wouldn’t really process it and i’d just resituate and go straight back to sleep)
Who can’t keep their hands to themself:
uhhhh both of us i think lmao. sometimes one thing leads to another, sometimes it’s just an added bit of extra contact that’s more than appreciated.
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