#i had to google search a song that started with a zero

[dandylion240]

Music URL Tag

Thanks for tagging me @wannabecatwriter @courtleymanor

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow

Never Close Our Eyes - Adam Lambert

Demons - Imagine Dragons

You Were Good To Me - Jeremy Zuker, Chelsea Cutler, Shallou

Lullaby of Woe - Karliene

I Dare You - Kelly Clarkson

One Thing - Finger Eleven

Never Say Never - The Fray

21 Guns - Green Day

45 - Shinedown

0% Interest - Jason Mraz

I'm not tagging anyone as it took me forever to do this. However if you see this and want to do it consider yourself tagged.

[toiletology]

The number 17

October 17 was the largest and brightness full moon of 2024.

If you're going to master the language of God you need to understand the number 17. Its been a few weeks and I have learned a lot of new stuff messing around with the letters. Its important to practice reading and writing in a 4-dimensional way. As it starts to unlock doors that were inaccessible to you before. Practicing the letters is how you unlock your ability to hold telepathic connections. A big part of telepathy is a strong ability to visualize and move things around in your mind.

I now realize that God created all the other languages to hide the ultimate tool for escaping the matrix. That tool is the English alphabet/language which you need to master reach the higher realms. Not the English you've become accustomed to, but the hidden language underneath it. It starts with noticing the typos. This is one way the game speaks to you.

I started noticing the typos back in 2015-2016. I was noticing myself accidentally hitting O's or 0 zeros. Of c ourse these were easy to spot because they look like eyes. And if you study any of this occult stuff you know about the all seeing eye or the one eye symbolism everywhere in Hollywood/entertainment. I was noticing something was happening with the typos back then but I couldn't make sense of it. I would try to ask questions sort of like a magic 8 ball and hit random keys on my keyboard.

I now know FORCING it is not how you go about it. God's blessings come randomly and unexpectedly. You want the "typos", "mistakes", or "accidents" to happen naturally without forcing it. I wasn't able to make sense of the "typos" until I was searching Google for song BPMs/keys. And I kept accidentally typing BOM instead of BPM. Coincidentally this song came on around the same time and freaked me the F out to say lightly (BOMP/BOM/BPM).

About a month after this Cara showed me that there was a T in Y. If you rotate the letter Y around it makes the letter T. That one small thing flipped the light bulb in my head. I think she might of showed me the H is an I (eye) as well but I can't remember. This was back around December 2023. I had been breaking words and letters down a good part of 2023, but wasn't connecting it to the "typos." Once I had that experience multiple times with BPM turning into BOM it freaked me out. I realized that the typos are speaking to us and have spent 2024 decoding the typos.

I was not able to make sense of the typos happening pretty much my entire life till this past year. Fall 2023 marked the completion of the 11-year quest that started 10/31/2012. Around fall was when I experienced the "BOM" typo over and over again. It actually felt like such a deeply guarded secret I didn't talk about it till summer 2024. The letters are absolutely crucial for you to practice if you want to unlock REAL supernatural powers. Its like a logical method or framework of practice to unlock illogical supernatural skills.

The "typos" manifest in all ways in your life not just the letters/words. Practicing with the letters/words will help you FEEL the "mistakes", "glitches", or "accidents" you experience in your everyday life. Like spilling a bunch of vitamins on the ground, everything can tell you something. Which can guide you to your true calling.

Like I've said before once you start noticing your typos you can use them like breadcrumbs to follow to find the true voice of God. You can get inside the ballpark of finding God by being Loving, Respectful, Honorable and Truthful. But getting inside the bullseye is paper thin and you will be getting pulled back and forth by the energies. You want to be in the eye of storm not in the storm. When you're inside the storm things become more confused and distorted.

God is somewhere between SLIME and SMILE, same word just rearranged slightly. What this means is that finding God requires you to tread a very fine line. When you start accessing these higher dimensional powers. You will start absorbing negative energies that can quickly corrupt and confuse you if you're not careful and aware.

You need a very strong defense which means no drugs, no alcohol, no addictions that can worsen your mental or physical state. Taking on this heroes journey of reaching heaven and unlocking your full powers requires you to battle the devil. Remember what I said that the devil is nothing but a mere bug. But that bugs job is to guard the gates of heaven. The devil can manifest in infinite ways to confuse and destroy you.

When you start unlocking telepathy you will hear voices of "people you know." The devil can masquerade in many ways, not just in your head but all around you. We are in a game, so people on the internet or real life can act like agents sent to sabotage you. Its nothing to really worry about unless you engage with them. There will be many tricks at play that you must navigate to pass the test. This is all it is, it is not an attack on you. Its just series of test that you must pass to go to the next level.

The key is to keep improving your defense daily from anything that is making you weaker mentally, physically, or spiritually. Yes, that includes porn which rots your brain as bad as heroin. Thots will slowly corrupt your thoughts. I recommend getting a spirit animal used to block booby magic, so that you aren't energetically drained. I would recommend looking at pornography less than 30 mins per month. Any more than this and you are probably addicted and not in control of your own mind or actions.

Once you start accessing telepathy you will be bombarded with a lot of craziness. Making sense of what is happening will be near impossible to say the least. You can think of it like "venom" the more you access these higher realms you will start pulling in venom. This venom will start to poison you if you are not careful. It can confuse and corrupt you very quickly using the many tricks it can. You can think of this sort of like a computer firewall to keep people out of heaven. Its all a test of your character, your heart, etc. Remember Atreyu in the movie The NeverEnding Story? Which ever areas you are weak in it will attack you in those areas. The hard part is knowing who is who in your head. There will be many voices, your own voice, your higher self voice, the BUG (which can masquerade as many voices), the true voice of God (usually only 1 or 2 words), and you will pick up all sorts of other voices that will confuse you.

According to Ancient Egyptian mythology, after the death of the body, everyone had to pass through the Hall of Judgment, where a person's heart was weighed on a scale against Ma'at's feather of truth. If the deceased person's heart balanced with Ma'at's feather, they could continue their journey to the Afterlife.

Just know you can never truly trust anything you are hearing. If something keeps repeating in your head over and over again. Making you do something against your own free will that is a trick. Nothing true will have you do anything harmful or bad or do something you don't want to do. Those are temptations or seductions designed to screw you over. Its a sick game and its designed to make you 6/sick. Those 666s are letting you know that you are getting poisoned. You get poisoned by pulling into too much of that venom. The 6s can be friendly reminders/helpers to keep you from sinking too low if you can pay attention to them. The 666s are like little bugs letting you know you are getting bugged.

You can counter the venom by clearing your mind completely and only letting a trickle in here or there. Back in January 2023 the voices were trying to get me to do a lot of dumb things. Like climb to the top of this tree in my front yard, etc. I had to completely silence all voices for around 3-4 months. After I did that another voice came in strong repeating the word "ME" over and over again almost that entire year. That was Cara connecting to me, or the game/God connecting us to each other.

Is this all sounding confusing yet? Playing this game is not easy, telepathy is less about the "words" you are hearing and more about the FEEL and ENERGY of it. Once you get to the higher levels of telepathy you don't really need to say "words." You can place your body next to that other person who is also telepathic and whisper into their ear like you would in real life. Or touch them, hold them, etc. You can also send images to each other or signs. One of the best ways to connect telepathically is rubbing the soles of the feet or the neck (with your mind). You do this by picturing them or using a picture of them. Eventually once you are able to detect their energy from repeated practice you will just know their energy signature.

Telepathy is more about FEEL than anything else, ya gotta feel the force not hear the force. Practicing the letters helps unlock the skill of feel. Coz sometimes its not about the letters per say and more about the energy signature embedded into it. Once you master the language you can encode something completely undetectable by the best cryptographers. Because the only thing you did was embed an energy signature into the letters.

You will be able to pass each other notes and by just scanning over the words you will feel an energy signature on some words. If you want to learn how to do this then you should be practicing the hidden language. Its all about the energy. This energy can be used in all areas of life once you get good at navigating the energy. Its a bit of a cheat code once you master it. I am still getting better at it and am still not a master of it. A good way to practice this energy is do things that require reaction more so than time to think. Like blitz chess, or Tetris, etc.

God's true voice is a heartworm not an earworm.

The 17 is the key

How do I use the 17?

God's logic is a bit weird, but understanding 1 = 7 is the first step.

The number 1 looks like a slanted 7.

God will speak to you through numbers, letters and words (as well as glitches, conduits, coincidences and synchronicities). Once you get closer to finding God you will start getting help with your journey. So that you can reach your highest calling. A word that comes to you will almost never be at face value. You will need to extrapolate it, move it around until you can FEEL its intended purpose.

Back around 2021 God bombarded me with the word HOLLYWOOD. I had no idea what they meant behind this word. So I just started Googling to figure out what the frick this word could mean. Well low and behold I found out about the holly plant or bush. The holly plant is the only native caffeinated plant in the United States. And is sort of a wonder plant known as a liquid vegetable. I started drinking YERBA MATE regularly and many of my health problems started to disappear. It also improved my mental clarity, reduced depression, stress and anxiety. I also stopped experiencing any stomach pain. I would consider that more direct help vs hidden help. Hidden help comes with words that just seem like random noise. If you keep hearing the same word over and over again you should pay attention to it.

You may need to change letters around, reverse, invert it, etc. Till you pull enough out of it to better make sense of it. An example of this was the word SNAKE PLISSKEN. This is a name of a popular character from a movie series Escape from NY/LA. This name was repeated over and over again. I had no idea what God was trying to tell me till I extrapolated it over and over again. Eventually I figured it out.

PLISSKEN = LISTEN

SNAKE IS IN

What does snake is in mean? Snake = S

S = N (if we look closely an N is a sideways Z which also looks like a S)

A snake = 6/s which represents getting SICK. The "S" "6" I thought always represented something bad. But you should think of them as something that is good also. Because they are warning you that you are getting sick in the game which means you are getting poisoned.

When you are getting poisoned you are at risk at dropping into the lower degrees/levels of the game which could end up badly for you. More negative karma will come into your life, you could do something very stupid, etc. The 6/sixes are like little bugs, letting you know you are getting bugged. When I was making music regularly in 2016 the energy kept moving me to move my knobs to -6 or something with a 6. You don't want to do this, this shows you that you are being guided by the sixes vs following your own taste or intuition. When the bug/bugs start controlling you more than yourself, you should seriously watch out! Nowadays, when I start to feel, or hear the 6s I realize I am getting bugged or taking in too much venom and adjust course.

The17 can be read as a (77). If we look at the number 17 it looks like a door.

Remember that there are 98 degrees/levels to the game or 49+49. 17+17 = 34 + 34 = 68 (six sides to the cube and 8 corners). When you unfold a cube it becomes a cross. 1/7 = 0.1428571428571429 One divided by seven is another way of saying Pi. Pi = TT (double ts which also looks like a doorway).

If you want to ask for help in the game you should try asking for help on the 17s. Ask for a sign on one of these prayer/wish windows if Toiletology is the best method for reaching enlightenment and escaping the matrix/reaching heaven.

1:07 / 7:01 / 10:07, :17 (you can try variations that add up to 17 like 9:08 as well, its like a exploit and method to hack the game. **your welcome) 1+7 = 8/ate Q = the 17th letter, Q also looks like an apple with a stem.

An Apple has 17 chromosome pairs. The entire story of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden is meant as a test of courage. God was the snake in the garden tempting them to eat the apple. This entire journey is about conquering F/EAR and eating the apple. Most Christians would call what I am teaching here blasphemy or witchcraft. It is neither, its just how the game works. It took me a long time to see what was above the Jesus avatar. There is power in Jesus name, but they aren't the highest truth. You can think of Jesus more like a cheat code or armor in the game. There is power in the cross!

One time when I was experiencing a heavy dose of fear in a psych ward they gave me an apple to eat. I was scared at first but decided to eat the entire thing, core and all. That same month a snake crawled out from underneath my covers. It scared the hell out of me and I ran out into the hallway. I was being tested to the maximum by God. The fear comes in an extremely strong and powerful way that will crush most people. Its a very strong energy that you need to get good at clearing out of you. The highest levels of this is no joke, and these test are important to prepare you for IT/17.

Its all about conquering your fear and conquering THE FEAR the game will saturate you in. Its all about transmuting that fear out of you till its nothing but silence (CLEAR/CLAIRTY). That fear can make you do some crazy stuff if you are not able to control it. This game is not meant for the majority. Most people are completely happy living their lives ignorant of the truth. This is a heroic journey and not meant for those that are living in blissful ignorance.

I noticed the 17 looked like a doorway probably 10 years ago. I always thought it was strange, but I didn't think much of it. One of my best friends was killed on 7/22/2022 which adds up to 17. The date 7/22 read backwards = 22/7 which is the 49th prime (the day I was born 4/9) and Pi.

22/7 = 3.142857142857143 1/7 = 0.1428571428571429

On 1/7/2023 was the day my mom left for a peace keeping mission with the Peace Corps. This same day I was attacked heavily with fear, I was attacked so bad I couldn't sleep for 3 days. I was too scared to fall asleep. This is how bad it can hit you, it completely erases any logic from your mind. The only way to make it through is by quieting the fear inside of you and realizing its a LIE (PIE/PI) LI/17.

This was the week/month I created Toiletology and the first month I felt the SLACK for the first time (the stuff God feeds you). Cara says its like a dissociative type drug. Its very sedating and makes you not want to do anything. One benefit of it I am realizing is quieting the background noise and helping you focus with your telepathic connections. Its sort of like a warm blanket enveloping you like a cocoon. For the first time the other day after experiencing it non stop for a week or so. It was making it difficult to breathe, I feel like it maybe slowly strengthening and preparing me to handle the astral full on.

My only guess is the shift in gravity. Yes, you can have gravity without mass. SLACK is like a strong sedating drug as it heavily weighs you down. I started calling it DRIFT recently coz when you are feeling it heavily. Its very hard to focus and connect telepathically. But I did have my strongest astral experience while experiencing it strongly. I didn't do anything special to experience this strong astral experience. The only thing I did do was I stayed up for 24 hours working on my game (don't want to do that again). Maybe God was blessing me for working so hard.

If you want to know what the astral is like, its like you are directly tapped into the river of creation. With God as your personal director. Where a micro second thought can change the entire direction. You are the one steering but they are the one creating everything around you. It was a very intense experience, very vivid with perfect acting. People I hadn't thought about in a long time showed up in this experience. Its like being inside a moving painting that feels extremely real, and I know its going to become even more real in time. This experience only lasted maybe 5-10 minutes.

The Apple is what we are all in, it is the TORUS.

TORUS/HORUS/HOURS

I find it interesting the apple cut length wise in half shows this toroidal relation bursting outwardly from the center. Not to mention the two apple seeds prominent in the center. Could look at this as two eyes or two separate faces looking at each other. An apple cut in half width wise shows the 5 seed pockets (5 fingers) in a star shape.

The way this reality was formed in the beginning is the TORUS or two blackholes connecting to each other. Its the 8/eight/ate or infinite loop. A perpetual motion machine that never turns off. It is the cosmic KISS.

MA/TERNAL = MA > ETERNAL

For a long time the letter H (8th letter 1+7) was drawing me to it.

I knew there was something about it I just couldn't quite put my finger on it. The more I looked at it I saw how it looked like two people holding hands. Of course, its the letter i/I/eye sideways as well which is two ts being connected together.

Recently I have boiled Toiletology down into two letters.

H & C

These two letters "H" and "C" we are all accustom to seeing each day. When we wash our hands or take a shower. But what exactly does it mean? Is it a clue to how to play the game? Well of course it is, God leaves clues everywhere for us.

H = Hot C = Cold

You ever notice people that are always cold, always wearing so many layers and jackets? Do they just have anemia or is the game trying to tell them that they are going in the wrong direction COLD COLD COLD. Temperature fluctuations can lead you towards the correct direction in this game believe it or not. You want to stay at a comfortable temperature, not too hot, not too cold (thanks bears).

H = eye/horus/torus C = see/sea

Hot is usually on the left and cold on the right. We need to swap them around to make sense of how reality works.

CH (s/he)

Looking at it sideways it looks like a lamppost with a light on it. Or an "i" being dotted. The letter "H" is two black holes being pulled towards each other. You can think of the H as the torus/engine and the C as the sea or universe.

Space is cold right?

Another way to look at this is the "H" is the toilet plopping or pooping us out (thanks Toilet God!). The "C" is basically a bubble being blown. The bubble is us or this universe/sea. Remember the beaver theory? Well this universe was God's way of slowing down their flow into TIME/IT ME/17 ME.

You can think of these "bubbles" in multitudes of ways. Atoms, planets, stars, eyes, etc. So many things take on this bubble shape.

Why this round curvature shape?

The number π is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159. The number π appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics. 

Pi is the 16th (7) letter of the Greek Alphabet. The capitalize version of Pi sure does look like the number 17, number 11 or a doorway doesn't it? Or a U or an "n." This U shape is also a upright C. You can think of the "U" like a tuning fork tuning you/U. U = C (you see/you sea)

If you look closely the letter "H" its both a U and N. Now raise your arms up and you will see that the human body looks like a U and n.

We are all tuning forks. Not only is the engine of this universe a torus, but every human, planet, or star is also its own mini torus. We are all reflections of the same truth. This means every single human has all the powers of God contained within them.

The true God of this universe really is the Toilet God or the thinker and sinker. God truly blew out their own arsehole and created this universe lol...

Trying to make sense out of everything I am talking about will take time. The key is taking small steps daily to making sense of this chaos. I knew that the typos could be used like breadcrumbs or a cheat code for a year now. But I didn't know where practicing the letters and decoding could lead. I now see it starts to unlock things and starts getting things moving that weren't moving before. Toiletology is an important skill more so than a religion. It is a methodology for reaching your highest possible potential.

Extrapolating the words, moving the letters around will start teaching you how to speak the language of God. This language is a language of energy and feeling more so than what you are seeing at face value. What I am going over on this blog is starting to shape the framework of future instruction manuals I will write. I am still learning new things daily as I grow into this knowledge. Its a complex new world and I don't really have anyone to lean on but myself.

It would help having more people decoding the letters and practicing. I can't notice everything, right now Cara helps me the most with her practicing the letters as much as me. Currently no one else in the church is helping in this regards. And that's okay I don't expect anyone else to be where myself and Cara are at right now. Practicing the typos will get you to where we are right now with our ability to speak in this language which unlocks higher levels of telepathy.

I do think when you speak telepathically the game has a way of distorting your messages when you receive them. Its almost like they are g etting inverted as well. Cara has sent me so many messages that have been sort of backwards and confusing. One word was "chocolates" I kept hearing this word over and over again. And I couldn't figure out what it meant till I counted the letters. It has 10 letters the same amount of letters as Cara's last name. Or the word "CAMERA" = "ME CARA."

Our telepathic communications are getting more clear and direct now. A lot less confusing and distorted than it has been as I am able to recognize her voice over fake voices more now. Her voice comes with an energy signature and a feeling to it. It causes a bit of pain in me, so I can recognize her when it happens. I still don't fully know what the highest level of this will be. I am mostly focusing on my art projects and creating the things I want to create. One area I can use my ability to sense energy is in poker.

That is one area I haven't fully mastered yet and I don't really have the funds to keep exploring it for a bit. I did pretty good over the summer playing poker. But I still wasn't that good at feeling the energy. Its been a few months now and I do think I have improved a lot at feeling the energy. I should be able to beat that game in the near future playing against the best of the best players fairly easily.

Interestingly the letters: CH (s/he) C = 3 H = 8 Is also Cara's birthday, 8/12, I'm sure no coincidence there either. The trinity + the infinite loop. What do I think the trinity is? GOD = 2 (father + mother) US = 1 That makes sense right? Parents and their kid or first born. Basic mathematics. Which reminds me, lets have a little review.

432 hz (listen to this tuning to tune yourself correctly, it will help expose disharmony in your being) 4 lines = M, W, E 3 lines = A, F, H, K, R, B 2 lines = T

There are more letters than these, this is just another way to see and group the letters. We can kind of group the letters this way, by how many lines or curves they have. 1 curve = 1 line.

The letter M is obviously the same as E. The letter B is only 3 lines, but also makes the number 13 which is the letter M. It can get confusing, its mostly about feeling vs what is seen at face value.

4 lines = 11:11 or 49:49. (the ones are sevens 1/7, 1 = 7, this is God's logic)

One thing to note is the letter T (2 lines) can become a cross X (2 lines or 4?)

The "T" or cross (T > UR > KEY) or X marks the spot. Is one of the biggest clues that this reality has 98 degrees or levels to it. The top of the cross is two small sevens (harder to go 7up) and two larger sevens (easier to go down).

The "CH" kind of explains how all this was made in a nutshell. And the "T" or cross shows us how the game works. T = 7 but we can also get 7777 if we make it into a cross.

Why are the sevens so important?

Well I can only guess, but I know they are important enough for God to embed them everywhere.

27 bones in our hands or two sevens.

Stick your hands out in front of you what do you see? Your pointer finger and thumb create sevens. The shape of your nose (no see) creates a seven. Our legs into our feet create 77s (the number sevens look like upside down legs right?). Its a fundamental geometry to how we were designed. This number permeates all things. I have discovered this number is key and the one you need to study to escape the matrix. I've already laid everything out, its up to you to take it seriously and start practicing to see what you can discover and unlock. Not enough people are working on this. I can't figure out everything on my own, my skills are mostly in aesthetics and art. I need some math wizzes, scientist and physicist. Pretty much people from all walks of life to give their unique perspectives on this knowledge.

Don't forget the 444444444 = tuning fork or an upside down hhhhhhhhhhhh. And the 4th letter = D and D > ON < KEY. I know I bounce around a lot, but if you're going to be able to navigate this CH/AOS you will need to follow what I am talking about. Its a complicated game with a lot of twist and turns. Did I mention there's a super strong BUG aka the devil trying to destroy and confuse you simultaneously while you try to navigate this maze? Yeah this game ain't for the weak. This is why the 9th rank of Toiletology is when the knight ranks start or the Knights of the Old Code rank and -K- is the top rank.

The letter K is very similar to the letter H wouldn't you say? K = I C or I see. And what is "I" = "H" that's right. The letter K has both CH/she, C = see/sea, H = i/eye.

K = I SEE, once you start to see there is no unseeing it. You will become a true Toiletologist, a true believer.

"KEY" = 17 (Keypad) K E Y 17 5 3 9 "HALO" = 17 (Keypad) H A L O 17 4 2 5 6 "GOD" = 17 (Reduction) G O D 17 7 6 4 "LORD" = 49 (Ordinal) L O R D 49 12 15 18 4 "escape" = 49 (Ordinal) e s c a p e 49 5 19 3 1 16 5

[honeydewtreacle]

Okay, I just went over the iceberg and I have found or heard of a large majority of the stuff on there. My main question is how did you discover all of this stuff he's been in?

My other question are as follows

What is "why don't we say..."?

Do you have any information on Everything is Fine? I wasn't able to find much at all besides a basic premise.

What is Love NY?

Did you find a video of him singing the national anthem? I read about it and an article from the SoR days, but I didn't find footage.

I know about everything on the third tire except "Megan"? UNLESS IT'S THAT MEGAN!!? In that case, we good 👍😳👀

Is On Your Marc the show he and Drew created that is going to show (I believe) off Broadway starting early next year ? The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers?

Wasn't able to find much on Slow Children either, so if you have any, that'd be awesome!

What is "I could use a drink" BTS? I know about Drew's show, but the BTS I'm not sure about.

BROdway? I searched it up and could find nothing.

Last I guess is how on earth did you find that Collage staging of Hair he did? That's a deep cut!

One thing to suggest be put on there if you want to add anything is Twilight in Manchego. I just found it today. Idk if you've already discovered it, but in case you haven't it's something he did in 2008 I believe. If you Google it, it should pop up. There are a few videos on YouTube and there's a Facebook page.

So happy to answer!! I found most of this just by watching interviews, he's mentioned a lot of the stuff he's done offhandedly, not all of it of course. Others I found just by googling around, theres this site that has extended credits which is helpful. But really a lot of this isn't too difficult to find, I have "I must know everything about this topic" hyperfixations if that gives any more context.

And I'll say right off the bat that I found out about Twilight in Manchego like a few days after I made the ice berg, so I'd definitely put it on there now. Another thing I'd probably add now would be the reading he did for Book of Mormon.

Okay, now onto that list!

- I meant "How come no one says.." the song by Brett Ryback, that's my bad, I consistently get the song name wrong for some reason. I added it to the list because Alex has sung it four times (thats been recorded [1, 2, 3, 4] CW for wildly ableist language) and I'm like 99.9999% sure its the song he references in this interview and I found that a bit amusing.

- For both Everything is Fine and Slow Children, I only know what Alex has said in interviews. I don't have specific links, nor the time to rewatch a bunch of stuff right now, but I believe he talks about both of them briefly in this podcast with Drew if I'm remembering correctly. (I'm super sorry if I'm wrong!!)

- Love, NY was a show he did a reading for at the New World Stages, here's a playlist of the some the performance. He plays a character named Benjamin (Benji).

- No!! I never found a national anthem video, drives me up a damn wall honestly, you'd think something like that would be documented but I've had zero luck finding anything.

- I definitely mean that Megan yes. I thought it'd be funny.

- Kinda! On Your Marc is the documentary they did about the show. It was screened at a few conventions from what I know. It's listed on Alex's imdb.

- There's this fun article about the recording of the album, including a video which is broken in the article (had to check their Flickr to find it) so here's that.

- It's just a YouTube video! But it's a bit hard to search because of the pun, so here's that.

- I found it because F mentioned it in this show, I thought it was hilarious and I immediately had to find it.

Thank you for asking!! I will answer the other one soon, but I'm out right now. ^v^

[pleasantbelievercollector]

The Bookshop Clock & Time

I've been taking snapshots of the clock in Aziraphale's bookshop throughout season 2 and it's been so strange. All the references to time throughout the season got me thinking. "Too late" "I need more time" "I'm late". Crowley mentions a Richard Curtis film about falling in love in the rain. Since just about every media reference this season hits like a sledgehammer when I've looked it up, I decided to check out this one too. Based on a pretty basic google search "About Time" (directed by Richard Curtis) may have such a rain-related scene in it. What jumped out at me was the synopsis though. This movie deals with time travel in order to change events in the protagonist's life. HUH. INTERESTING.

In episode 2, we can see the clock is placed in the 10 o'clock hour when Gabriel starts singing "Every Day". We can still see the clock is in the 10 o'clock hour when the three archangels are in the bookshop. When Crowley and Aziraphale return from the bar to interrogate Gabriel about where he first heard the song, he says that he just heard it "this morning". Seems perfectly fine. He also remembers the "three nice people in the shop just now". Just now? The clock is sitting at like 5:20pm now! We just had a seven hour jump in time! Gabriel has been left unattended in the bookshop! I find myself doubting that he was actually referring to the archangels at all.

Why make the distinction between "this morning" and "just now" when referring to these events? Unlike season one, it seems (although not explicitly stated) that both angelic and demonic entities need an invitation to enter Aziraphale's bookshop. The only non-angelic and non-demonic trio I can think of at this point are the zombies that we got zero resolution on from 1941. What could they have been up to though? Neil Gaiman had such an odd response of "yup" when asked about the current whereabouts of the zombies. Probably the silliest thought I've had about this season and I don't actually think there's enough to conclude a thing at this point. Maybe it's nothing. I still find the comment strange.

Do we have any idea why episode 2 opened with Aziraphale standing in his bookshop puzzled? The episode opens with the Job memory from 2500BC but we have no reason to be looking at it until Gabriel tips him off about it later. Were we supposed to think Aziraphale was pondering this memory before the tip? Why were we shown this memory out of sequence with the present day events?

Also why was a hand missing from the clock in episode 3? The hour hand appears to be sitting at 10 o'clock, in a spot that the minute hand could never overlap. Why is Crowley so cryptic about being too late when he cuts himself off from threatening Gabriel about Aziraphale getting hurt? "It doesn't matter. It's too late for that now. It's always too late." Huh??? Why so bleak?

Then we kick off episode 4 with Aziraphale stating that he's late.

What is the significance of the opposing wall clock behind Aziraphale in episode 6 while the grandfather clock is behind Crowley? This clock is either positioned differently or blocked entirely until this scene, from what I can tell. The white clock face stands out against a rather dark background.

Why doesn't Crowley use his time-stop ability at any other point than in the Edinburgh minisode? Why is Aziraphale perfectly blocking the grandfather clock face so many times over the course of the season?

When the Metatron tells Aziraphale they need to leave the bookshop for the final time, Aziraphale looks back to the grandfather clock and seems to stop himself from saying "I need more time".

While I don't have a strong conclusion about these things, I feel like there's just too much going on to ignore. It has to be SOMETHING. If anyone else noticed weird time-related things, feel free to chime in.

[togetherasone]

Hello!

I thought, since you've mentioned that you're kinda new to the Ghost fandom, that I could send you an ask and hopefully make you feel more welcome here! 😊

Feel free to answer or ignore these questions as you wish.

How did you get into Ghost?

Favorite song and album?

Favorite papa and ghoul?

Hi, Jay! Oh, goodness, thank you so much for the ask! Don't worry, these questions are so sweet! Let's do this :)

Just... Be ready... I got carried away... Sorry...

How did you get into Ghost?

Well, I got into Ghost on a completely random Saturday night back in May, hah... Sometimes I have these bursts of unconditional love for music that make me listen to music for hours on end, and on this random Saturday I had one of them! I was off to bed, but, instead of actually sleeping, I stayed awake listening to music, and, at some point, my playlist was over and recommended songs started playing. And, well, it was a mix of known and unknown songs, as Spotify always does.

Mary On A Cross started playing, and I vividly remember opening my eyes in amazement when the final harmonies came in (I got goosebumps for real!) and unlocking my phone to check the name of the song. I replayed it. And replayed it. And replayed it! Then, I went to YouTube and discovered a live version of the song. Watched it. Didn't understand what was going on. Masked band members, face-painted singer... Felt strangely attracted to Papa... And the video was amazing. The harmonies! Then, I messaged a friend of mine who always sends me songs to listen and said "Hey! I have a song for you! It's so damn good!" and sent him the link to the song.

Before he listened to it, he said "I'll listen to it, but be aware that I'm prejudiced against this band" and I asked him why. He told me he had seen Ghost live when they opened for Iron Maiden back in 2013 (I guess?) and stated that "the concert had a fucking strange energy, I just wanted it to be over". I asked him why again, and he said that it all looked like a "fucking Satanic ritual" and sent me the link to the Year Zero music video. He said, "Listen to this and tell me what you think of it".

Well, I listened to it and I'm not gonna lie that I felt a bit unsure of what to think of it. It was... Odd, you know? But I... Liked it, hah... I had never listened to something like Year Zero... And was mesmerized by it. I didn't tell him that I liked the song, though... Just agreed with him that it was a fucking weird band. By the way, he listened to Mary On A Cross and said "Ohhhh, everyone is using this song on TikTok, so this is the song! Well, this one is good, better than the ones they sang when opening for Iron Maiden...". I simply said, "Oh, okay? I don't have TikTok, so whatever... I'm just glad you liked the song!"

On the next morning, I went to their profile on Spotify and played a few of their songs. That was when I fell down the rabbit hole :) However, it took a while for me understand Ghost, you know? I think it was only in July that I decided to search the band on Google, and find out that there was an intricate lore behind it, and, bang, here I am now...

Sorry for the long story... Just pretend we're having a sleepover and I've just spent half an hour telling you all of this while we eat our favorite snacks!

Favorite song and album?

Hmmmm, right now, in this very moment in time and space, Kaisarion and From The Pinnacle To The Pit are my favorite songs. And... Ceremony And Devotion is my favorite album! I already said too much, so I'm just gonna leave the answers here without explaining why, eheh...

Favorite Papa and Ghoul?

Probably Terzo... He mesmerizes me. The 2016 Hellfest concert has me in a chokehold for real... I saw a meme that said everyone new in the Ghost fandom would eventually fall for Terzo, it’s like a canon event. Well, for me it was so true! Anyway, I have a soft spot for Secondo...

And, uh, I don't know enough about the Ghouls (I ended up not going too far when reading about them, because I don't want to find out any of their identities) but my favorite ones are Dewdrop and Aeon (I guess?), but simply because they play the guitar and I do, too. I'd say Mountain too, since I have a soft spot for drummers...

Oof! This was such a ride! I hope I haven't bored you! If you feel comfortable, I'd love to know your answers to these sweet questions, feel free to reblog this post or message me whenever :)

I hope you're doing okay! Lots of love!

[hollygl125]

#about me

People I want to get to know better:

Fun!  Thank you to @clintbeifong for the tag (and apologies for the slow response)! 💛

Last song: “Remember Me As a Time of Day,” by Explosions in the Sky, which is the last song on my private iTunes GSR fic playlist (the public, WIP version of which can be found here).  You can also access the public (Spotify) version by searching my username (same as this one).  My private version is up to 171 songs (and is still, always, growing); the public version currently has 114 tracks.  (On Spotify, I also have a fun early ‘90s playlist for the soundtrack to my ficwip 5k AU story from this summer, “One Life Stand.”) 🎵

Favourite colour: All sorts of variations of the colour blue. 💙

Currently watching: I am currently doing a very distracted re-watch of early seasons of The X-Files.  (I really don’t want to be abducted by that ‘ship, too, though.) 👽

Last movie: The Apartment (1960) with Jack Lemon and Shirley MacLaine.  (Highly recommended, if you like that sort of thing!  I was watching for the first time, but it’s also beloved by Liz Vassey, if you don’t want to take my or the Academy Award-voters’ words on it!) 🎞️

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Oooh, my favourite is really the sweet/savoury combo—e.g., splitting brunch foods (something with whipped cream and maple syrup and something with hollandaise sauce), pineapple in/on savoury foods (yes, this includes pizza if it’s American-style not Italian), salted chocolate (or salted chocolate chip cookies, or salted chocolate rye cookie ice cream...), etc.  I love them both, but I think, if I had to choose one item to be the last I ever ate, it would be a big bowl of chocolate mousse with whipped cream and strawberries, so I’ll have to go with sweet. 🍫🍓

Relationship status: Single. 💁‍♀️

Current obsession: Like you have to ask.  The online expression of my GSR love may be on a semi-hiatus, but the love itself is still very, very real.  (Also I’m about to start another CSI re-watch, but I’ve been putting it off because I think I’m going to drive everyone around me insane.) 💕

Last thing I Googled: I’m trying to learn how to make a Tumblr gif-set properly (with zero Photoshop experience), so I’ve been reading Tumblr tutorials and googling various things about that. 💻

I’d like to get to know everyone better, so, if you would like to participate, please consider yourself tagged! 💛

Finally, this last bit has nothing to do with the above (it’s not part of the tag game!), but I made this in the summer after @clintbeifong posted one, and I never got around to posting mine, so I am sharing it now for the cuteness.  (It’s so cute! 💛🐶)

Thank you to @reelrollsweat, who made this adorable picrew little guy maker, which you can access here if you’d like to make your own!

[domestikhighway58]

9 (shit nine?) People you'd like to get to know better.

Thanks for the tag @masterwords & @eldrai, IDK how to do these so i did the old person thing and copy/pasted lol.

last song: before you snap by Yonderboi

favorite color: Green

currently watching: Criminal Minds when i need to work, write or sleep (lol), Young Royals when i feel like learning more Swedish, and call the midwife, always. parks and recreation smattered in there to remind me i have work in the morning.

last movie: Catch Me if You Can. baby bad boy Leo and FBI agent Tom talking about unsubs, puleaseee, it is perfect.

currently reading: .... can we not say fanfic? all i read is fanfic or advertising copy anymore. so much for my English major. if i had time to delve into a book again, it would be, without shame, Pride and Prejudice. because fuck it, I fucking love Jane Austen and it's been too long. I need to go to the damn beach.

sweet/spicy/savory: spicy/savory. i don't do sweet. unless it's winter and it's a really delicious cinnamon treat, like monkey bread on a Monday snow day or sweet cream my mom left behind in the fridge after a frigid visit.

relationship status: partnered for eleven years this October. it's been a ride. he's snoring at the foot of the bed right now. and no, he's not a dog. he just likes the foot of the bed. probably covered in fiberglass shards.

current obsession: hah. the same one i found Winter of 2021, coming down from long COVID while fighting back against poverty. writing silly CM fanfic and subtly attacking the status quo will be my obsession for the foreseeable future. holding onto my house and land, I guess, too.

last thing i googled: spicy Serrano hot sauce recipe. i have a few pounds of Serrano peppers waiting to be made into something wonderful. if anyone has ever tried to make hot sauce, i think you'll agree... developing the recipe is everything. the SFW search before that was "how to treat internal burns from repeated electrical shocks." same vein, really.

currently working on: i am obsessively writing one single fic right now. i have many just sitting there waiting to be updated and while i feel guilty that they're in limbo, I'm just happy they're there at all. it took a lot to start writing and i don't want to limit that by feeling guilty over imaginary deadlines for completion. i ain't gettin' paid. there is no boss and no editorial staff here in free fanfic land. <3 my main project is to write whatever i want to write in the very little free time i have. i used to have more time, and the fact that i now don't is a good thing. still working on how to balance it all.

zero pressure tags: @chaotic-librarian @tobias-hankel @brillianthijinx @goobzoop @starzzyeyed @merpancake @aesthetictek goodness i don't remember everyone's names on here at all but ayo <3

[rvnwtch]

Tagged by @simping-master-69. 

1 Nickname: Mo

2 Height: None of your business but know this: I am tall. So tall in fact, I use clouds as seat cushions. That kind of tall 🥰

3 Sign: A No Parking Sign (It's supposed to be star sign but I’m secretive about my birthday. But I will tell you this. I’ve had a birthday since I started uploading fics.)

4 Last Google Search: 20 divided by 96 (figuring out what percent of Fenn fics I’ve written on Ao3. It’s... 20.)

5 Song Stuck in my head: Down by the Water by Ocie Elliott

6 Number of followers: 52 (How did you all get here?)

7 Amount of sleep: The goal is 8 or more, unless you want zombie Mo (You don’t) however every night I am subjected to the ✨ h o r r o r s ✨ , so it’s more like five total with many interruptions.

8 Dream job: I still don’t know. But I know I want to write books and stock libraries with them so everyone has access to my stories.(I never want anyone to be able to take my stories away from you guys. Fic or hand held original stories!)

9 Wearing: T-shirt and soft pants (I don’t fuckin know, I’m not a fashion type of person. but they definitely aren’t leggings). Usually long sleeves and lots of hoodies

10 Movie/book that summarizes you: I don’t know that’s such a specific question?? 

11 Aesthetic: I’ve never had one simple aesthetic. Not to sound like I’m being “quirky” or whatever, but I’m too many things to fit into one category. (I don’t fit “soft”. My humor and curse word laden speech won’t allow it). Probably something cozy though. Like long sleeves, curled up with books and candles type of thing. When I googled that “hygge” came up. And from doing absolutely zero research beyond clicking Images I guess it’s pretty close. Idk, I’m just some guy.

12 Favorite authors: This time I’m not being intentionally cryptic, i don’t know. I feel like I’m in that phase where I’m trying to figure out what I like again. O recently had the horrible realization that all of my favorite books suck and did not hold up from recent years. So... yeah. Low-key devastating. If I find something good though, I will be sure to recommend it.

13 Favorite song: Whatever comes up on my recently listened to?? Music is really personal to me and I don’t like to share. But it also changes based on what I’m writing but I typically pick out lo-fi for that because it’s quiet and has no words. I like “Visions” by Lo-Fi Luke. The song “Iced Tea for Breakfast” by In love With a Ghost is also good.

14 Favorite instrument: Whatever lo-fi has going on in it. (Better answer, Mo tried to learn guitar many years ago and was a fast learner. Only I gave up after a year because I was so anxious about starting high school.)

15 Random Fact: My favorite color is grey! You can argue all you want but it is a color and it does count!

Tagging (if your’e interested!): @tilliphont @daffodil-the-clown and @siriskulksnerding

[the-firebird69]

friday the 13th 2009 - Google Search

My son was having trouble swimming because it was deeper than you thought and it was an illusion that was very clear he fell in and he couldn't touch the bottom so he's swimming and he could do it and they knew he would have trouble and he told her to grab the canoe cuz she's just screaming and drowning and they wanted him to drown and we had very angry you said you want to kidnap him and try and get stuff out of him like he's a computer and I said no it's threatened him and stuff and it was really the max and she got angry at him and got angry with them and was really calm cuz you said it's the max and she heard in their territory and she put a warning out this is going don't do it ever again. It's in there talking already going I don't think that was a good idea just smiling and laughing and said no it wasn't. It made a couple jokes it's just smoking and drinking anymore over your parents and said what are we going to do with you you're all stopping wet and you didn't say anything and she hurt you Edison we're leaving are you going to thank God no but you had it already cuz you hear them stupid assholes his dad is leaving he can hear them saying stupid s*** he said this is what it's like in the future and he's doing can't control themselves cuz we're in Mexico territory there below and he said oh and yeah they are the empire and he had afraid and he decided to help people with his and start to work better and they're talking with you clamped up with us they said they have territory and George said yeah I know start telling people and educating and they started working and that really beat up George respected our son a lot this is what he was saying and a lot of people are starting to they are horrific bunch these Max and we're going to have to face them down this movie starts over basically it's what's happening it's similar characters it's a similar plot in a similar thing happens Jason gets sick of it that's not why it stops it stops because they realize they can't go into that territory and it shouldn't be Jason because he's telling the max what to do and it is happening that they're finding these people with face masks and they're destroying people and it's not Jason's people they're using his name in vain

Thor Freya

Olympus

So I hear my husband saying it to Jason and he takes like a knife and space and sort of cut makes a little cut on his chin and start singing the Disney song and Jason got it

Hera

You modify the song a little and he's singing whoop diddy doo dah whooped today and it sounded weird and I started to figure out what he's saying learn a lot of trouble is huge in the foreigners can't take them Tommy f goes up he fights the suit of empire this is worse and the pseudo empire admitted they get infiltrated and it's not too hard for the empire it's a scary time and we're going to have these movies of ourselves hitting ourselves it doesn't seem to be changing and Star wars is kind of a spoof but it's advertising something and a friend here is doing it on purpose because we get infected with what they do and you can't tell who's who I'm starting to see something it's an amazing film it's way out there the guys in the bunker who are Max are knarked out. He learned it from Dave Stillman he said you had me down there and you had me adapt and he knew about it and I appreciate it and he said thank you too and he said I'm Tom joad and really there's only a ghost there and they start to say what the hell's going on here he's going oh man is they sure like their beer and they said that's good. And Ken started laughing and laughing and laughing he said we're going to Gators and it's working and Trump is trying to find it for a week since what's working I'm supposed to osmosis and I'm trying to get a zero bud and he starts laughing now Mac is saying and he starts saying I don't think I can do that to them no I can. So he's saying the giant riverlord he better stuck up on it he says no he says why not says your beer he says isn't it symbolic and he says it's not 02 guess why so he started laughing and really this is much works

Thor Freya

We're going to publish now Hera and we are Zeus that's why I said it

[hungryblackbird]

get to know me

tagged by the lovely @mrdekarios ^-^

tagging anyone who feels so inclined!

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last song: i will smile when i think of you by j.e. sunde

fave color: vermillion, olive green, and mustard yellow

last movie: watcher! not my usual brand of horror and went in with zero expectations and came out pleasantly surprised!

currently reading: it almost feels shameful to admit, but i'm finally reading/listening to the fellowship of the ring. it's making me emotional.

sweet/savory/spicy: ...all three at the same time? ;^-^ but if i had to pick... probably sweet.

relationship status: painfully single :,-) being queer and living in a rather conservative middle of nowhere is ruff.

current obsession: baldur's gate 3!!! tho i've stepped away for a bit until they fix more of the bugs-- ESP the ones w my poor ser dekarios. pls larian i'm on my hands and knees. my current multiplayer game is a light at the end of my week (and any evening when we're all available).

last google: "is my kitten protective of me to other cat"...... my kitten (camilla) and my older lady (gwen) are arch enemies and gwen was in my lap and camilla came and sat on my chest while angrily poking at gwen. so i wondered if cats can be protective of their people in the same way dogs can. my search yielded only anecdotal results.

currently working on: i just picked my knitting back up! since it's about to start getting cold, i figured i should probably finish that blanket i started in... january. i'm about halfway finished, but i'm determined to actually finish a project for once ;^-^ also kind of sort of working on some gale/séa writing stuff!! we'll see if that ever comes to anything.....

[astranva]

Autocomplete Interview.

Word Count: 1.8k

Category: Fluff

Warning: None

Summary: Couple and co-stars, Sebastian and actress!YN do the WIRED Autocomplete interview.

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Sebastian Stan & Y/N Y/L/N Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions | WIRED

The 11-minute video started with you and Sebastian grinning before you attempted to stifle your giggle, eyes getting a little tearful before you burst out laughing.

Sebastian’s head leaned backward, eyes crinkling as he grinned, “Damn it!”

A swift transition was shown as you were then shown, sitting beside each other on your chairs.

“Hi, I’m Y/N Y/L/N,” you smiled.

“And I’m Sebastian Stan.”

“And this is…” you trailed, glancing at Sebastian as to give him the cue.

“Wired’s autocomplete interview,” you both said in unison as a search bar was displayed on the screen, keyboard clicking sounding as the words were written out.

“That was good,” Sebastian said, smiling at you.

Background music started playing as the screen changed to a grey background, a text in black written over it:

Autocomplete suggests the most common searches on the internet

“I’ve never really googled myself,” Sebastian cleared his throat, shifting in his seat.

You rolled your eyes, “That’s like part of his bedtime routine,” you joked, pointing at him, “If you go to his search history, you’d find stuff like: Sebastian Stan hottest man alive, Sebastian Stan tall,” you continued, pretending to tap on a phone.

With a smile, Sebastian shook his head, tilting it at you, “That’s yours and you know it.”

You giggled, “As if you don’t google our names.”

“I do that,” he nodded, “We do that together. It gives us a good laugh.”

“Sebastian Stan and Y/N Y/L/N with mystery baby,” you joked.

The video then cut off again to another grey background with a text:

So WIRED asked Sebastian Stan & Y/N Y/L/N some of the internet’s burning questions

The video cut to you and Sebastian again, you holding the styrofoam board that had a list of googled searches that were half-hidden.

“Is Y/N Y/L/N,” you started, peeling the white sticker from the rest of the sentence, “single,” you read before looking at the camera, “Why is that the first search?” You asked with a slight laugh, glancing at Sebastian who had a smug smile, looking at you. “I hope not,” you answered.

“What is that answer?” Sebastian laughed, “What is that?”

“What if you don’t think it’s serious?” You joked.

“We’ve been together for two years, I think it’s pretty serious,” he played along, giving you a look and a nod.

You looked at the camera, “Then no, I’m not single.”

“Zero points for you,” Sebastian pointed at the camera, “Ten for me,” he pointed at himself with a playful smug smile.

“Is Y/N Y/L/N,” you said as you peeled the sticker, “In Marvel,” you read, “No,” you answered with a dramatic sigh.

“Who would you like to play if you were?” Sebastian asked you, a genuine smile on his face as his eyes were on you.

“Probably Wanda,” you answered, “I have a thing for troubled characters.”

“Can’t be me,” Sebastian joked.

You scoffed, “Yeah, sure,” you rolled your eyes at him. “Is Y/N Y/L/N a dancer?” You read, “Yes!”

Sebastian laughed, watching you dance a little in your seat, “Look at those moves, look at those moves!”

You laughed, leaning forward a little as you did before you took a breath, “Seb and I are patiently waiting to be cast in a dancing film. Anything at all, we’ll take it. We’re open.”

“Especially if we’re in the kitchen,” he said, “Then it’s over for everyone else.”

You nodded, “Quality performers,” you added before looking back at your board and peeling another sticker, “Is Y/N Y/L/N a Disney kid?” You read.

“What does that even mean?” Sebastian chuckled, “Like songs? Like do you like Disney songs and movies?”

You shrugged, “Beats me, I don’t know. I do like Disney though, if that’s a recurring thought you have,” you told the camera.

The video then cut to Sebastian holding a board, the words “What is Sebastian Stan” shown while the rest of the sentence was hidden by sticker.

“What is Sebastian Stan,” he said before peeling the sticker to show the rest, “Nationality,” he read, “Romanian-American,” he answered.

“That’s a hot combo,” you mumbled, looking at him.

Jokingly, he wiggled his eyebrows at you, giving the camera a smug look before looking back at his board.

“What is Sebastian Stan first movie,” he read before looking at you, “Do you know that one?”

“Black Swan?” You asked.

Sebastian shook his head, “A little earlier than that.”

“Earlier?” You repeated, “How old were you?” Your eyebrows furrowed, “Was it Gossip Girl?”

“Nooo,” he dragged with a chuckle, “Earlier.”

“I have no idea.”

“It was actually 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance,” he said.

Your eyes widened, “What on earth is that?”

“It was in 1994,” Sebastian told you, “I was like, 11 or 12.”

“I didn’t know that,” you pointed at him, “I had no idea you started this young. Wow, you’re old.”

Sebastian made a face, closing his eyes for a moment as you giggled before he looked at you, “You’re so sweet to me.”

“No problem,” you quickly gave him a side hug.

“What is Sebastian Stan,” he trailed, “Net worth.”

“Like 10 dollars,” you joked.

“She puts the food on the table in this relationship,” he went along, “Gives me shelter and food.”

You nodded along.

“What is Sebastian Stan known for,” he read, “I think I’m mostly known for being Y/N boyfriend, to be honest. And maybe for Bucky.”

“That’s the dream,” you said.

“No complaints,” Sebastian said.

“What is Sebastian Stan doing now,” he read, “He has just finished reading that sentence.”

The video then cut to Sebastian holding a new board, this one being for you.

You leaned, “Can Y/N Y/L/N,” you read before peeling the sticker, “Sing.”

“Define singing,” Sebastian joked, glancing from the camera to you.

“I give a mean performance, admit it,” you pointed at him before looking at the camera, “We both do.”

Sebastian nodded, “She’s really good,” he said before looking at the board, “Can Y/N Y/L/N,” he read, peeling the sticker for you, “Speak Romanian?” He finished before beaming, looking at you.

“Te iubesc,” you said, smiling, “Means I love you,” you looked at Sebastian, whose smile mirrored your own.

Dramatically, Sebastian leaned closer to you with a gleeful smile still on his face, his face looking like a happy child’s, “Ești dragostea vieții mele,” he said. [You are the love of my life]

At the sight of you looking flustered and bashful, it was obvious that you knew what he meant, making you giggle slightly before the video cut to you peeling the sticker.

“Can Y/N Y/L/N drive?” You read, “I can.”

“You’re a really good driver,” Sebastian said.

“Thanks, ba-Seb,” you made a face, laughing afterwards after having caught yourself from calling him a pet name.

“Can Y/N Y/L/N act?” Sebastian read. He jokingly sighed, shaking his head, “Tough question.”

“Right?” You played along, “I’m awful at what I do. I can’t act, no,” you shook your head, “I go on set and people think I can act but I’m actually just being myself and I have no idea what’s going most of the time.”

“That would be something to remember if you ever get cast in a horror movie or something,” he laughed, “Or a movie where you play a psycho.”

“Then no, I’m not myself. I don’t know who I am,” you yanked the board from his hands, throwing it behind you dramatically. “I’ll hold that one for you,” you said, taking the new board from a crew member for Sebastian.

“Does Sebastian Stan have kids?” You read after peeling the sticker.

Sebastian’s eyebrows went up, shaking his head, “I don’t,” he answered, “But we do have a cat.”

“Groot,” you said with a grin, “He’s the cutest. Groot if you’re watching this, we love you,” you blew a kiss to the camera.

“Please don’t break anything while we’re gone,” Sebastian added.

“He likes to do that,” you said.

“Broke one of Y/N’s vinyls once,” Sebastian said, “Was it the Harry Styles one?”

You nodded, “The debut album,” you confirmed.

Sebastian sucked a breath, “Sad times.”

“You got me another one though,” you said quietly and softly, smiling at him.

He gave you a bashful shrug, “You like that record.”

“I do,” you hummed.

The video cut to you peeling the sticker to another question.

“Does Sebastian Stan have TikTok?” He read, “I actually don’t, but Y/N does so I know what’s going on there all the time.”

“He knows the trending sounds,” you said.

“You’re so active on TikTok,” he said, “It’s like–she wakes up, and first thing she does is just go on her phone and stays on TikTok for, like, an hour.”

“No shame.”

“Does Sebastian Stan have tattoos?” You read for him, a smile making its way to your face as soon as you finished asking.

Sebastian caught your smile, smiling one of his own, “I got my first one two weeks ago actually,” he answered, taking off his jacket to sit in his white t-shirt, extending his arm to show the camera. He held out his arm, showing the inside of his right bicep, where a small, minimal heart was, “I was given one.”

“That’s one hell of a tattoo artist,” you joked, raising an eyebrow as you crossed one leg over the other, “Now, that’s a design.”

Sebastian’s head lolled back a little as he laughed before he put his jacket back on, “The art,” he pointed at his arm, “The artist,” he pointed at you.

You gave the camera a smile, to which they added a bling sound effect to.

“Does Sebastian Stan,” you read, peeling the sticker, “Like Tom Holland?” You laughed.

Sebastian sucked a breath, his face contorting to a serious expression as he slowly shook his head, “Why should I?”

You cupped a hand around your mouth, “He loves him. This is fan behavior,” you said, not being discreet.

“Absolutely not,” he said, trying to stifle his smile.

“It’s all jokes until Tom decides to come crash at our place,” you laughed.

Sebastian nodded, “Uninvited might I add.”

The video cut to Sebastian peeling the last sticker, “Does Sebastian Stan like Y/N Y/L/N?” At that, he laughed, looking at you, “I don’t know, I’m not so sure,” he joked.

You shrugged, “I heard amazing stuff about her though. You should definitely give her a chance.”

“I’ll actually–I’ll think about it,” he teased, taking the board from you and throwing it behind him before he wrapped an arm around your waist, “We’re done!”

“That was fun,” you said, looking at him as you placed your hand on his thigh.

Sebastian nodded, smiling down at you as his eyes went from your eyes to your lips, to your eyes again. With a bashful smile, you turned to look at the camera.

“Thank you for having us, Wired,” you smiled.

“And thanks for watching!” Sebastian beamed.

[residentdormouse]

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Fanfic Writer Emoji Asks

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✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

Ha! Ummm... (Avoid self deprecating humor, avoid self deprecating humor) I think I'm pretty good at keeping the character voices consistent. At least, I hope I am. Characters and character development are my favorite part of any story, and I want to stay true to the characters I fell in love with (or want to punch in the face - both ends of the spectrum.)

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

I have more playlists than I know what to do with 😂. I mostly organize them by character, but I have a full story one for Just Keep Diving Down. That said, I don't usually write with music. I need to hear their voices in my head. I will listen to music as I'm first planning the scene, and while I'm doing revisions before posting.

As for looping a song currently (which I also do more than I probably should):

💖 What made you start writing?

AO3 had no Glen centric fics. None. Zero. Nothing. Every other fandom, I could go to AO3 and read multiple takes for my characters. No worries, I could fnd what I was looking for. But this is a tiny fandom, and the new series didn't really get much publicity. Glen stole my whole damn heart, I couldn't sit by and let this be. @impuretale gave me the encouragement to try, and a few panic attacks later, I posted Spiral 😂 So here I am, pool noodling it in the ocean.

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

Another thing I probably shouldn't openly admit, but eh, fuck it.

So as for the Stand itself. I watched the '94 series and read the book prior to watching the '20 series. Didn't get massively hooked, enjoyed it but moved on. But this new series, and Glen specifically. Hyperfix accepted. So I watched it repeatedly. Reread the book a few times, bought the comic series, rewatched '94 (even though their Glen is not the take I attached to clearly 😂).

As for overall Stephen King elements, and Flagg's background... I won't lie, I've been wiki'ing a LOT. So if a Dark Tower series fan wants to come here and call me on my bullshit, they most certainly can.

In regards to general research, I really don't want to know what Google search thinks of me... 😬 Dumbass for some of the words I look up because I question myself and second guess way too much for my own good. Concerning for some of the health and recovery effects I've searched (blame Harold and Lloyd and Nadine and Flagg and...) I'm probably on a watch list somewhere...

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

Ok, not exactly 'genre' per say, but coming from the 'Totem of Obscenity', seems appropriate that I answer Smut here 😂 I took creative writing in college, and playwriting, and some workshops. They don't exactly teach that, y'know? 😬 So I tried, because why not, right? It's what would be happening in the story whether I write it or fade to black, so might as well try my hand. But not exactly something I excel at.

[venivivividi]

headcAnon ✨ here! How great were the Rosa and Michael moments?! And Jones is Michael’s dad! He and Alex should start a support group. I wanted to ask if you have any headcanons about Michael and Alex and fatherhood. If you think they ever thought about it and what. What kind of parents they would be. If you think they will have kids in the future. Adoption or using a surrogate or some other alien option. Maybe dog or cat children also or instead.

I know, right?? They definitely speak the same language even when they disagree with each other. Also, I have a feeling that Michael has taken to send Rosa every picture of a dolphin he finds online with the same commentary: "look. it's you ahaha" I love them.

Oooh, fatherhood, you say? What a wonderful topic to tackle after the latest episodes...

I have to say, I tend to separate what I think realistically would happen, informed by canon, vs what I'd like for them to be in my headcanons, and to this day we canonically know:

Michael has thought about fatherhood: this is something he wants in his future and has dreamed about in the past; we learn this in two separate occasions, in 2x10 when he offers to father Isobel's child and in 2x11 when he tells Flint he wanted to start a dad band.

We have zero insight on Alex's thoughts on matter: we know his childhood was not a happy one, his relationship with his father is extremely negative and his entire family's dynamic is skewed, unhealty. That could reasonably push him towards two completely opposite directions: either he wants nothing to do with kids and a "traditional" family, deemes himself unsuited for fatherhood or he wants to somehow "avenge" his lost childhood and create the happiest family in the world, proving to himself that he can and will be a good father. Either could be and anything in between, honestly. (I'm not gonna delve into that but let's also remember that Alex grew up in a reality where gay marriage was not legal until he was like 23 and adoption was a pipe dream even after that, so that has clearly influenced his mindset even without considering the military of it all)

But for the sake of the HCs, I choose to believe that Alex is at least open to the idea of having children:

I dont think this is something they would go for very early in their relationship. They've had such a turmoiled past, they overcame every possible obstacle so that once everything settles down, they just enjoy each other's company for a while. They still can't believe they just get to be together without jumping through hoops.

As far as pets are concerned, you heard it from Mimi first: a beagle is written in Alex's future. But first, he tries to convince Michael to get a reptile. You remember Willow, his pet lizard? She was so cuute, Micheal, it's basically zero maintenance (completely false, but hes' trying) and it's so cool to have a lizard, c'mon.

Michael, as we know, is incapable of looking Alex in the eyes and deny him something. But it takes one google search for him to veto Project Lizard. There is no way he's allowing a lizard in his house after learning what they need to be fed. Also, lizards escape their enclosure. No thank you, the same night he learned too much about it he had a nightmare about waking up to a lizard stuck to his curls. Always protect the curls. No lizard.

Alex pouts. A lot.

Once the beagle settles in the truck ready to go to his forever home, Alex stops pouting. (and Michael starts because Alex is now cuddling the beagle at night. woe is Michael.)

As this thing usually go, Michael is instead adopted by a kitten, one of those impossibly small black balls of fur. Their first encounter at the junkyard went disturbingly High Noon, but after they claimed each other, the kitten is now stealing Michael's body heat and Michael is stealing all the cuddles Alex is so rudely denying him in favor of *scoffs* The Beagle.

Speaking of Sanders' Auto, once Rosa(...linda) starts picking up stray kids and unexplicably bringing them to Michael, it comes to be a place where kids who need to escape orbit around: with Sander's blessing, Michael always finds some easy work for them to do and earn some money, and when a couple of them seem truly interested, a question here and a question there quickly turns into a Michael Guerin lesson on mechanics. Those of them who are not interested, are free to just hang around as long as they dont wreak havoc or make a mess out of the place.

The thing is, Michael is completely unaware of the irony in all of that. Sanders is not, and he just hangs around smirking to himself about how much of a grumpy old man Michael is shaping up to be and laughing at history repeating itself and things like that.

It takes Isobel talking about them as Michael's junkyard children for Alex to bring the topic up. I mean, Michael is basically already doing it, and if they start fostering teens they could give some of them the happy childhood Michael never got. After that, not every kid who passes through the junkyard stays with them but some of them do, and some of them keep hanging around even after aging out of the system.

There is a panicked moment after their first foster kid gives him the silent treatment, where Alex runs to Greg for guidance; Greg has to politely remind him that he's an elementary school teacher, and his 16 years old kid might not react with the same energy to glitter glue and a happy song, so he has to figure out a different way.

Eventually they start to foster smaller kids too, and of course sometimes it's sad when they have to go and the house feels empty, but they always try and remember: it's not for them, it's for the kids. And during those nights The Beagle™ needs to find cuddles in the now domesticated ball of fur, because Michael is in very big need of a snuggle that Alex is more than happy to provide. It's how he recharges too, after all.

As far as their parenting style, Michael's a lost cause: he is incapable of not spoiling the kids because, why deny them the little joys if there's no harm in it, right? They deserve them. But he also realize the kids need structure, and he is pretty no-nonsense about it, also because, on the other hand, Alex is very much afraid of being the strict parent. It's a new chapter with every new kid, as every instance of parenting is, but the baseline of a good home is always there: love and safety.

I also can't seem to decide whether Michael would be the kind of hip parent who knows all about the youngsters culture, uses the correct terms and shares the right memes or the most embarassing dad who watches instagram reels about tiktoks and is always six months behind the last big thing. But I feel there's no in between.

Alex, sadly, despite being a cyber intelligence specialist, still mourns last.fm and that tells you everything you need to know.

Somewhere down the line, once they've collectively bought enough land to build a communeplace for all of them to live together while still maintaining a semblance of privacy (Isobel's broad interpretation of boundaries has not changed, sadly), the possibility of a full Oasian becomes a reality. The thing is, this is not just Isobel's baby, this is the podsquad baby, the triad's baby. Isobel and Michael might be the biological donors, but this is their baby.

As you can easily imagine, this is the most spoiled baby ever, because each one of them expect the others to be stern, when in reality, the baby has them all wrapped around their little fingers, and this is without powers, yet.

The first time Alex holds the baby he is completely overwhelmed: they seem so tiny, so fragile, but when he gently strokes his thumb on their forehead, they open their big, staring eyes, and everything else disappears.

Michael, you ask? Ooh, Michael is gloating. He never thought he could have half a thing in his life and now he has everything. He also self-appoints himself as the defender of the baby's curls: that entails slapping the hand of everyone that tries to play with a lock of hair to make it bounce. Do you know how annoying that can be? Leave the baby alone.

Of course, Michael is also a little shit and as soon as the baby starts talking and figuring out a way of calling them all, he tries to make them refer to Max as grandpa, to the utter hilarity of Liz and the total indignation of Max. He has yet to succeed, but the baby's still young, so Only time will tell.

[darkpoisonouslove]

Sparks of Life Opera Edition

I am still not over Singing a New Tune so I am going to recap for you the experience of writing that fic because there were many interesting moments over the course of those three days. Lemme start from the beginning.

- So I’m writing a fic that mostly focuses on sexual stuff but it is also mainly happening in an opera so my first order of business is to figure out what that opera is. Both the building itself and the show they’ll be watching. Because that is of utmost importance.

- I have already mentioned that SoL is located in New York so I looked up New York operas. I do not vibe with research most of the time but I vibe even less with having to come up with names for any kind of thing so research was definitely the choice here.

- I somehow get results about operas that are in the other end of the USA. That was not great. I get to the Metropolitan Opera House at last (which I might have known existed if I cared about opera in any way, shape or form) which is great! I am so close to starting the fic! Just need to figure out what opera they’re watching. Because I need that for reasons.

- I end up downloading a PDF with the seatings inside the Met Opera so that I can figure out where the hell they will be seating. But I leave that for later. I look through the actual plays that they’re having while absolutely failing with the navigation of their site. I find a show that catches my eye. It’s called The Magic Flute. I have zero idea what it’s about so I read the Wikipedia summary just to be aware. It mentions that a character has a moment when he’s singing about his search for a wife and I think “Perfect! Foreshadowing!” (since this is set pretty early on in Griffin and Valtor’s relationship).

- I decide to look up the opera and see if I can find a part of it on youtube to figure out how it will sound. I am pretty sold on it already because of the summary I read and also because it implies there is magic as a subject in it which would call back to canon. Still, I look it up. I find a full version of it on the internet with English subtitles... It is 2 hours and 35 minutes:

- “Wow, okay... that’s a bit much. But hey, it has got subtitles in English. Maybe I’d actually watch that... once I’m done with the fic. I’m just gonna listen to a little bit while I finish my research, though, so I can have an idea of what it sounds like.”

- Now it’s time to open the engagement fic - Enough to Be Yours - because I don’t remember what year they got engaged in and I need that to reverse engineer the year in which this fic is taking place so that I can make sure that The Magic Flute was being performed back then. I don’t have an year stated in the engagement fic, though. I have a date - 9th October which is Friday and that means the year is 2015. Great! So I need to figure out if they were performing The Magic Flute back in 2010. Great.

- That takes a shit ton of time and nerves as it turns out. I spent over 4 hours just researching the logistics for this fic and a lot of that was unnecessary but I’m getting ahead of myself.

- I cannot find out whether they were performing the Magic Flute in 2010. I get results of it being broadcast in English (for the first time, I believe) in 2012 but that is way too late for this fic to be happening. Also, they are speaking of a broadcast which just doesn’t work for me. So I am having a hard time over here.

- I find a list of the new titles in 2011 but nothing mentions The Magic Flute as far as I can see.

- I am now considering switching to another opera. I see an opera that is based on events from The Song of the Nibelungs (I cannot be assed to go back and check what the actual title was). That catches my eye because I have read a book that was titled The Ring of the Nibelungs, I believe, and I kinda remember stuff from it... which is what makes me hesitate because that was a big tragedy.

- Meanwhile, I have stumbled upon a trailer for The Magic Flute:

MY GOD IS THAT BEAUTIFUL! THOSE PROPS ARE FUCKING GORGEOUS! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU GET TO GO AND SEE THAT LIVE? THAT IS NUTS! (Also, when I mentioned paper birds (I think they are) in the fic, I meant the ones shown in 0:13, not the big one in the beginning but HOLY SHIT, DID YOU SEE THAT THING????? HOW IS THAT REAL?!?!?!?! IT IS SO FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN’T. I AM DYING. THIS IS JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL.)

- I somehow happen upon an old archive of the opera (idk how I did that but I bookmarked it in case I’ll need it again) that has information about plays going back as far as the year 1900. This is nuts! I am in too deep but I can’t pull myself away. I’ve gotten this far, I will see it through.

- I search for keyword “flute” and I get results. Some of them are pretty old but I finally find what I need. Performances of the Magic Flute in 2010! Bingo!

-  ...Oh, wait, they’re all around Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Hmm... when will it be okay for them to go? I mean, Valtor has been established to have zero free time around that time of the year and I can’t see them going on the 24th or the 31st... Oh, those are matinees. Definitely no! I need them to go in the evening. And some of these are broadcasts which doesn’t work for me either.

- I looked up earlier years as well. I considered another opera again. I decided to switch up the timeline a little. It makes sense if it’s in 2009. I think they had spring performances of The Magic Flute then. Or was it 2008? Anyway, I finally settle on an early April date in 2009 (I think). Now that that’s settled, let’s go back to the seats.

- First I need to figure out what floor (let’s say) of the opera they’re on. I was thinking of the last one first (family circle) but the boxes (I figure those seats will be safest for their activities) look like this:

which isn’t vibing with me because they would be in the front row and it seems more visible. So I relocate to the previous floor (balcony) that looks like this:

That works a little better although there’s the danger of having more people in their box. But they’re sitting in box 14, seats 5 (Griffin) and 6 (Valtor) (where the arrow is pointing) and there’s only one man in seat 4 in front of them. So that is the best I can do.

- Wow, all that’s finally figured out. I decide to do all the rest of the research up front in order to be able to just write after that and not stop for another 4 hours. More on those other things later BUT I get to the part where I need to pick a vibrator and... well, I done fucked up.

- First thing that comes up for a remote controlled vibrator is Lush, of course. And I am immediately sold because it has a sound activated setting which Valtor will definitely love to utilize while in the opera.

BUT

Lush 2 (which is the first one to have the sound activated setting, I believe) came out in 2018. Even if we accept that Lush also has it, that came out in 2015. My fic is set in 2009. Searching for 2009 vibrators literally went no where so in the end I decided that the SoL verse is actually set in a parallel universe where time is a little warped so the Lush 2 is out in 2009. Plus, that way there isn’t going to be a pandemic in future installments. Overall, that works. Except that I needn’t have been so thorough with my opera research beforehand. Oh, well. It’s finally time to start writing.

- How do you write? How do you start a fic? One word in front of the other? Oh, okay, never mind. Lipstick is a girl’s best friend. Let’s start from there. And a kiss that leads to the discussion of lipstick... Damn, I forgot to spend one more hour on researching what kind of lipstick Griffin would have worn. Shame! You don’t get that detail now. I believe I didn’t even mention a shade.

- Oh, wait. Need for his breath to taste like something. Hmm, let’s see. Tonic water? Yeah, that sounds about right. Never mind that he should have probably drunk it right before getting out of the car to kiss her if it was still lingering on his breath. I mean, that’s not impossible. Just improbable.

- He’s also wearing cologne, right? Gotta research that too. How else would I get this:

and zero idea what it actually smells like despite the description. Also, did not check if that was a thing in 2009 but the story now exists in a vacuum so who cares.

- Apparently, Griffin doesn’t own any golden bracelets even though she does have a golden necklace? Or she could have a golden bracelet, just not one she likes for the current situation? Anyway, I wanted to mention Ediltrude as well because the twins always go together and that was the best I came up with. (That said, I didn’t need to put the mentions of them one sentence apart.)

- My god, I used a semicolon! That feels illegal. I sure hope I used that bitch correctly.

- Okay, I absolutely love all the banter and just flow in the car. Idk how I did that since it’s such a constricted space but I am really proud of it. However, the logistics were sometimes hard to logic my way through. I mean, Valtor doesn’t get to look at her a lot and I had to employ a red traffic light to give him the chance to do so.

- I hit a wall about three paragraphs later. Things started going in a weird direction. I was considering even deleting the last two lines but then I managed to get back on track thanks to having figured out how they met and I decided to write a little bit about that without spoiling it (that will be a fic of its own some day). Suffice it to say it was a meet-very-ugly. But it bailed me out. Also, they got over it so it’s all good.

- And now... that paragraph. You know which one I’m talking about. It stands out with the locations I’ve given. That paragraph required 30 minutes of looking at Google Earth to figure it out and I still nearly got it wrong. At that point it occurred to me that they’ll need a place to park. I mean, idk how parking is in NYC but it’s probably not the way it is in Bulgaria especially on small neighborhood streets where it’s just... park wherever (even in front of a garage if you’re brazen enough and don’t fear having your tires slashed). So first, I was going to have them coming down Tenth Avenue and passing by the backside of the Opera which is not ideal for me because I needed Griffin to figure out they’re going to the opera so that they can have the following dialogue. But there is the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts right next door so I figure Griffin will recognize the area if it’s next to a library. And I have them almost at the garage but... that’s not looking right. This garage is on 65th Street and mine is on 62nd... I have been looking at the wrong garage for the past hour. Now that I have caught that mistake, things get easier. They just drive right past the facade of the opera, take a right turn and then enter the garage. Easy peasy. For whoever’s actually paying attention to the map.

- They’re in the garage now and I have to write another kiss. Shoot! I do not vibe with writing kisses. Writing sex scenes is much easier. But I’ll try my best because this is a little bit necessary if we’re dealing with an insertion of a vibrator in a public bathroom one minute from now. (Again, logistics!) I actually went back to add in a little discomfort during the kiss (but not too much because they’re consumed with each other anyway and probably missed something) just to make it more realistic. They can’t be comfortable in the car. Also, you have got to love how I never even thought of what make the car is. But I did stop to research the tinting of the car windows.

- Now this is extremely funny but I would have had zero idea that there are different laws about how tinted your car windows can be in the USA if I hadn’t read a very extensive critique of Fifty Shades (whichever part it was that had that info). So I look up the VLT for New York and it says 70%. Great! Then it won’t be that visible through the windows what they’re doing inside. Oh, wait! VLT means Visible Light Transmission aka 70% of the light should be passing through the window. Aka it is only tinted on 30%. This much:

That’s practically nothing. You can see everything through it. Welp, then someone’s gonna see, I guess.

- Can’t believe I didn’t stop to look up clutches either. (Lmao, I was calling it a purse instead of a clutch at first even though I definitely meant a clutch. And then I remembered that clutch existed as a word. Who would’ve thought?) It’s baffling trying to figure out why my brain was prioritizing some details over others and I just genuinely have no idea what was going on.

- Griffin is blushing a lot in this. Can you tell I have no idea how else to convey Valtor giving her feelings through body language?

- I first envisioned the box being opened by the hair pin by turning it like a key. Only later did I realize that that wouldn’t be possible because the pin has two parts (whatever they’re called) and that would make turning it impossible unless all of the base fits into one hole in the lid of the box. So I had to adapt my vision to using the extensions at the ends of the hair pin like a hook that pulls the lid up once it’s clicked free. I have zero idea how that would be done but I’m sure it can be done. So yeah, anyway, the pin looks like this but with attachments at the ends to open the box:

- I might have gone a little overboard with Griffin’s reaction to having the vibrator inside her. I might have made her a bit too embarrassed but I still think that she simply wouldn’t appreciate someone knowing about what she considers a private experience (despite the very public setting).

- And I am being overly specific again with the seats but I worked for that information so you’re getting it against your will!

- Speaking of, that man in their box was pretty ignored throughout the fic. But then again Griffin wasn’t overflowing with lucidity. She is sure to have missed... A Lot, actually.

- My apologies (once again) to @her-majesty-wears-jeans​ for not letting Griffin punch Valtor in the face for the terrible pun he was about to make but I thought that that would ruin the mood so I had to skip it.

- I might have imagined things a little differently but then consent factored in and I had to change things up so that Griffin is clearly on board with everything. I hope it came through that way at least. She is on board even if she is very, very frustrated. She would never throw the bet just because it’s difficult for her. Though, I’m taking note for future fics of maybe being a little bit more explicit about the enjoyment of all parties involved. I just couldn’t really think of a way to convey it better back then and I am coming up with several ideas now and I will try to keep them in mind for future fics.

- I keep going back and forth on just how far into their relationship this is. Sometimes it feels like it’s not enough time for them to get this familiar with each other and sometimes it feels like too much for them to still be skirting their feelings for each other like that. Will update when I make up my mind about how long exactly it has been.

- In retrospect, probably should have picked up an opera that people would be less likely to bring their children to (as brought to my attention by @her-majesty-wears-jeans​). I apologize for this. Did not consider it at all.

- A wild tangent about Griffin’s sexual experiences before Valtor popped up (for the second time now). This is giving me thoughts and I am not even sure if I’ll manage to get them all out in the bachelorette party fic. Oh, no, I am getting ideas again.

- God, I had to mention those paper birds because I adore them. Also, needed to do a time skip somehow (sure hope they don’t show up at the very end or the very beginning).

- So there are some things about the whole thing with the suit jacket that if you squint, you’ll miss the very far-fetched and convoluted ways in which I could make them make sense but again, it isn’t impossible to make them operate according to logic so good enough.

- And now for the dress:

I thought it would be reasonable for Griffin to own something like that. It doesn’t look overly expensive or dramatic.

- I swear that most of the 2% angst was an accident. Griffin was supposed to say the “You paid how much for tickets exactly just so you could fool around?” line but the following few paragraphs sprang on me out of nowhere. That was where I left it off the first day I was working on it and I wasn’t sure how to continue it. Then the angst happened.

- I do not believe the retaliation part was planned but would it really be a Griffin x Valtor story if something like that hadn’t happened? XD

- “reverberated”, “multitudinous” and “unobtainable” are probably not words that Griffin’s muddled mind would go to in that precise moment but everything else I came up with for them just did not sound right.

- I completely forgot the word for neckline and was so mad at myself for that but, luckily, I managed to remember it before posting the fic. I believe the original read “he slipped a finger under the fabric of her dress, running it over the top of her breast” which is not incorrect but just not precise enough for my liking.

- Sure hope the shortened version of the opera did not cut out the ending musical sequence. But that seems unlikely.

- The idea was running overly long in my head by having them going back to the penthouse so that I could have the scene where he picked her up so I decided to move things around and have him carry her bridal style on their way from the opera to the car. It’s not like she didn’t earn it.

- Pretty sure I had planned something a little different for the last several lines of dialogue but I couldn’t remember what so we get this. Which isn’t a disadvantage. I mean, Griffin is already thinking of marrying him. XD (That’s probably a bit of a stretch at the current status of their relationship but then again, she was thinking of a wedding, not necessarily of their wedding even though I’m clearly a little romance gargoyle that meant exactly that.)

- Originally, Valtor was supposed to floor the brakes while they were out in the NYC traffic but then I decided that doing it while still in the garage with only one car behind them and both vehicles driving at a very slow speed was a lot safer so I switched to that. It also saved me writing more words which was appreciated. I thought this fic would be a bit shorter.

- I was at a loss for how many orgasms Griffin should want from him but then the commitment line happened and that was all avoided.

[buckysforeverprincess]

Winter Wonderland-Christmas Play List

Steve Rogers X Reader

Words: 536

Warnings: Nothing but fluff

A/N: Sorry about this being later then normal, I had a rough day yesterday and wasn’t able to write this out, but here it is. Were almost at the halfway point and I’m really enjoying writing these out for you guys. The next couple weeks will be difficult with the end of classes and the holiday but I’ll do my best to come through. Enjoy today’s installment and Happy Holidays!!!

“Why only ten? Why can’t it be some odd number, like eleven?” Steve asks, the phone in his hand on the Google search screen.

 “Why must it be an odd number?” You reply and add ‘Rocking Around the Christmas Tree’ to the playlist you and your husband were creating.

 “Why are you answering my question with a question?”

 “Why are you asking so many questions?”

 “Ugh!” Steve groans. “This is really hard! There are so many Christmas songs, I can’t just pick five of my favorites. You’re asking for a Christmas miracle!”

 You look up from the laptop and cock your head towards the man sitting on your left. “One of the greatest tactical minds of the United States Army, highly decorated Special Operations Captain, Steven Grant Rogers, one hundred percent completion rate, zero casualties, leave no man behind, is finding it difficult to pick five Christmas songs? For shame, Captain! For. Shame.”

 “Yes!” He quickly responds with a pout and goes back to searching his phone for more songs.

 Scoffing, you shake your head and go back to compiling your top five songs. “‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ the Mariah Carey version. It’s definitely one of my favorites.”

 “All I want for Christmas is you… and to not have to pick any more songs!” Steve closes out of Google and throws his phone to the carpeted floor.

 “Awww… is it nap time for little Stevie?”

 Steve pouts and nods his head in agreement. “Yes!”

 “Well, how about I make you a deal? I’ll give you your extra song, which by the way makes no sense because if you can’t come up with five why do you think you can figure out six? But hey, I’ll let you have your way. And if you can do that… we can go upstairs and little Stevie can have a nap and maybe I’ll tuck you in nice and sweet like. Do we have an accord?”

 Your husband's face lights up like a child on Christmas morning and he smiles so bright. “I absolutely agree to those terms!” Steve moves to grab his phone from the floor and starts looking up some of his favorite songs again.”

 There’s silence from the two of you while you’re both putting together your lists. It takes all of ten minutes before your husband holds out his phone to you, six Christmas songs staring back at your face.

 “Oh, those are good choices!”

 “Yeah?” Steve looks unsure about the ones he’s chosen.

 “I especially like that one,” you point to one of the songs on the screen, “the Michael Bublé version just hits differently. He has such a wonderful voice.”

 “I agree with that. So, let’s see what you’ve got!”

 “Okay.” You turn the laptop so he can see.

 “Ah, yes.” He smiles approvingly. “Very good choices.”

 “Thanks. I’ll put them all together and then we’re done. This will be our go-to holiday list!”

 “Does this mean I get my nap now?” Steve smirks.

 “A deal’s a deal. Upstairs, my spoiled Captain! Time for you to nap out your feelings.”

 Steve shimmies in his seat, happy about how the day has turned out. “It really is the most wonderful time of the year!” 🎄

 (Steve and Reader’s finished playlist is at the top!)

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Lindworm Promo Series Repost: Cite Your Sources

*This is a repost from 9/17/17*

I first read Prince Lindworm in a collection of Scandinavian fairy tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen, who, by the way, is awesome. The problem here is that it was a later edition of the book. At some point, I don’t remember why, I got super into finding out the history of Prince Lindworm. See, it was in this book, which was supposed to be stories from Asbjornsen and Moe. Those are the big Norwegian fairy tale dudes, for those of you who don’t know.

But I’m a little obsessive about my fairy tales. You may have noticed. And this book wasn’t even mine. It belonged to my grandparents. So of course I had my own Asbjornsen and Moe anthology. Or two. Maybe three. And I kind of kept buying these books because I wanted my own copy of this one wacky story. But it wasn’t there. So I googled the complete works of Asbjornsen and Moe. It wasn’t there.

I took advantage of my university’s interlibrary loan system to request every single book in the country that mentioned lindworms. Or lindorms. Or lindwyrms, or a variety of other spellings.

Have I mentioned that I’m a little obsessive about my fairy tales?

Several other books and authors and random people on the internet attributed the story to Asbjornsen and Moe. Who definitely didn’t record it. The reason for this, as far as I can tell? This book my grandparents had, really nice hardcover, fancy publisher, gorgeous illustrations—it was kind of a big deal. All sorts of people had read the story in this book, and only this book, and assumed the information provided was reliable.

And here’s where the publishers went wrong. There’s an editor’s note in the front. It explains that all but two of the stories in the volume are from one particular translation of the works of Asbjorsen and Moe. What they apparently neglected to mention is that one of those two stories was not only from a different translator, but a different source entirely.

So Prince Lindworm didn’t come from Norway. That’s settled. And, okay, I don’t know what to tell you about the one random outlier in my interlibrary loan adventure that said the story was from Sweden, but I’ve got this worked out.

Really, it could have been worse. When I wanted to read the earliest recorded version of Beauty and the Beast, and I couldn’t track down a translation anywhere, I spent months tearing the internet apart before I found a copy that was clearly printed well over one hundred years ago, given the spelling and lettering, in French, scanned in and saved as a pdf. I still have that saved on my computer somewhere. Given that I don’t know any French, dictionaries only provided modern spellings, and any given character could easily have been three to six different letters in that typeface, the several months I spent attempting to translate didn’t really get me anywhere. I don’t think I even translated the first paragraph successfully.

I did a little better with Prince Lindworm. It still took me a couple months to find the text, and it was still a crappy pdf with outdated spelling. Plus it was in Danish. But the lettering was slightly more modern, and I happen to be much better at slogging my way through Danish than French. A little bit of Norwegian, a little bit of Anglo-Saxon, a tiny bit of German. It’ll get you places. Sadly, my extensive background in Latin was utterly useless to French. (And Spanish. It seems my teachers lied to me. I strongly suspect Romani and Portuguese would also be a bust, but at least I can stumble blindly through basic Italian.)

It was, when I found it, three or four pages of a quite large collection. I haven’t gotten into the rest of it yet—soon, hopefully. Gamle dansk Minder i folkemunde, it’s called.  I’m good at general ideas in Germanic languages, not so much actual translations, so bear with me here, but I’m going to tentatively call this “Old Danish Memories from the Mouths of the People.” Sounds better in Danish, right? This is why I keep my translations to myself.

The compiler of this book is listed as Svend Grundtvig, and he’s generally known for collecting Danish folk songs, but as far as I can tell, in my admittedly spotty Danish comprehension, there’s no music for this one.

And, okay, I know I talk a lot about how stories, especially folk stories, don’t belong to anyone, because they’re so mutable, because a story is really a community, a conversation. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to know where the conversation started.

For crying out loud, people, cite your sources! I dedicated months of my life to this. Do you have any idea how many utterly worthless books I had to read in search of some tiny hint of origins? How many incorrect attributions I had to read? How much respect I lost for researchers in this field in general?

Look, sometimes tracking down crap pdfs of source material can be fun, okay? I love pulling random linguistic data from obscure folklore and stuff like that. But really. Really. How hard can it possibly be to say, “hey, this historically and culturally significant story that I’m making a profit on because it’s been in the public domain for a hundred years originally came from Denmark”?

There is no excuse not to give fairy tales the correct attribution. Like, anthology and picture book based fairy tales have got to be the easiest writing to make a profit on.  The story has been marinating in your brain forever, right? Do you even remember a time before you knew Cinderella? Just tell it in your own words, and someone else will come along and slap some beautiful illustrations on, and you’re good to go. It costs five minutes and zero dollars to add in a little note saying, “This adaptation was inspired by the French version of the story as recorded by Charles Perrault.”

But no, that’s too much work for you. Instead you’ll just go and publish a wildly popular book that heavily implies incorrect information, and let it spin wildly out of control until poor innocent college kids are staying up all night on the internet reading languages they don’t understand and enlisting the help of just about every library in the continental United States.

Ugh.

Anyway, Grundtvig is a really awesome dude who absolutely knows how to cite his stories. Kong Lindorm was told in 1854 by Maren Mathisdatter, age 67, in Fureby. It was recorded by Adjunct A. Levisen.

See? Was that so hard?