#i remembered to tag woowoo

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Yellowjackets S2 E3: Lottie and Nat

Hello! This is about up to Season 2, Episode 3 of Yellowjackets, and ONLY that of Yellowjackets. I have not seen beyond this spot, at all, and know NOTHING about this show. Please do not spoil it for me.  Things that are spoilery in nature, for me, include: saying things like  “Just wait!!” confirming or denying anything I put forward, outside information about the cast interviews or creator statements, leading questions like “Do you think “blank moment” means anything?” etc. Remember  that Y’ALL HAVE SEEN THE SHOW AND I HAVE NOT. This informs the way you  talk about things relating to the show. Just be really careful is all  I’m asking. Also: If there is LITERALLY any stance I  could take on this show or character that would make you upset, please  just fucking block the tag

If you WOULD like to discuss the show and my takes on it, the Discord is right here! I don’t go there, so it’s a great place to get every emotion out.

Please thank @sailorsunspot and @moonlight-frittata for backing this odd way of doing a liveblog, and remember my tip jar is always open

I’m going to combine the two because I only have a short amount to say about them individually, but I also wanted to a separate post, I don’t know. 

Nat spends a lot of this episode basically being a lens for Lottie’s organization, but one moment that I think is really good for her character is where Lisa is given the opportunity to hurt her back-- let’s not forget that Lottie essentially sics her on Nat--and you can see in Nat’s face that she assumes it will be done. THis is the only thing, even as an adult, that Nat understands, is that someone hurts you, and you hurt them back. 

Especially given that scene with Lisa and the chicken, which is meant to establish that she’s not soft and is perfectly capable of killing something. Also that she hates Nat. Which, I think given what Nat did, is fair enough. 

So the fact that she chooses NOT to hurt Nat, I think, and we’ll see if the writing feels the same way I do, rocks Nat. Because she can’t understand why you would have the opportunity to hurt someone who hurt you, and just fucking draw a line under it. It takes a lot. Nat is no longer in a position to hurt her, so she doesn’t have to take revenge. But she could. And she chooses not to. That takes some moral starch. Moral starch I’m not sure *I* have, but I would like to believe I do. Anyway, bewildering to Nat to drop that opportunity. 

I don’t know what’s going to happen with Nat at the end of it all, so this isn’t quite (yet) a criticism per se, but I will say I thought her killing herself would have been a really perfect narrative ending for her. I don’t think Nat can get back on the track. I think Natalie has spent a lot of time deciding that she’s a tragic fuckup, who cannot ever learn emotional vulnerability, and I think she’s posioning herself from the inside and I think she always will. 

I do not like Lottie, and in fairness, i think that’s a decision the show is completely happy with us making. Part of why I like this show so much is I think with every character, we are allowed to not like them or cheer for them. It’s a difficult thing to write, and I think by and large the show manages it well. Anyway, I don’t like or trust Lottie. 

Very interested however in this idea of ritual as a grounding force, that permeates Lottie’s character. Both in objectively woowoo ways, which both Taissa and I don’t really take to, but also in things like suggesting to hold a baby shower in the aftermath of eating Jackie. Baby showers are ritual! They aren’t religious, but social rituals are still rituals, and they ground us in difficult times. I perform rituals all the time, and sometimes I feel the religious element of it, but often as not the ritual itself, passed from generation to generation is sort of magic, and despite not liking Lottie I am fascinated with her inherent knowledge of this and how it comes to give her some level of power. 

The scene where she’s talking about the bees is so good. That when the first queen is born, she stings all the other queens to death, and that’s not brutality, that’s nature. Now, from that, if I didn’t know that she already survived I would assume Lottie got Taissa killed, though, Lottie being Lottie, I don’t think she would ever do it herself. Jackie is dead already. Were there other girls that were a threat to her rising power in the cabin, and that’s how they ended up running for their lives in a race they could not possibly win? It could very much be, “Oh, the forest demands that we sacrifice this girl who is a threat to me for reasons” but I could see it happening easily, and I could see Lottie justifying it to herself as nature. Same as with the bees keeping their queen warm--did the cabin almost come to exist for Lottie? I mean the girls, with a few exceptions rally around her, and Shauna’s blood on the symbol is rewarded with a bounty of dead birds. Lottie’s perservation of life is about violence. Her miracles are about blood. 

Which is an interesting--I’m going to use the word contrast here, but I don’t know if that’s quite what I mean--to the final scene with the bees and the blood. For all of this underwriting of violence as a natural act, when it comes to the death of the bees in the hive, Lottie is devastated. She feels out of control. 

Of course the bees are related to the girls: The name of the team is the fucking Yellowjackets for God’s sake, and I can pay at least that much attention. Important also is when Lottie refers to the hive as the original hive. We are about to have violence visited upon the survivors. Now, clearly L:ottie sees this presence as something from without, and it seems like the show is backing that play, though to what extent I’m never entirely sure. But when she was talking about the queen, stinging the other potential queens, she seemed to embrace that as natural, whereas she feels very much that this is not. 

And it isn’t! It’s another small moment in the “possibly Lottie is just nuts” pile, and it seems to be shaping up to be both, which I CAN really like we’ll see how it plays out. 

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El WooWoo! And a happy WIP Tuesday to you too, @wellbelesbian! And thanks @aroace-genderfluid-sheep for the Wednesday tag.

This is the situation in my writing life:

My brain: Girl, you do NOT need a new WIP. You have plenty. One of them has a deadline. MCD feels neglected. Me @ my brain: Yes, but.... what if.... Tears of the Kingdom inspired Snowbaz reunion fic?

Anyway, here's some of that. Baz's POV, because I can. It got a bit long, but you know what, here we go:

I remember the first time I saw a Sky Island. We'd just arrived at Heathrow. We were all a mess. One moment, Simon and I were on the beach, the next Bunce comes yelling about troubles at Watford, and then we're back home in England and all of us are being ushered in a car by Mitali Bunce. (Well, almost all of us. Wellbelove refused to come along and when Professor Bunce found out Shepard is a Normal, he wasn't allowed to join.) Professor Bunce drove us to Watford and I could see something was wrong. Some buildings were destroyed. Huge boulders had fallen down on them. I was so shocked and confused by the sight on the surface that I didn't even think about the sky. The moment we got out of the car, Simon put his hand on my shoulder and told me to look up. Sky Islands. They were everywhere. Professor Bunce started talking about how they just appeared overnight and that no one knew where they came from and it seemed like Normals cannot see them. They first appeared above Watford, but they've been popping up everywhere and chunks have fallen down, creating chaos and confusion on the surface The World of Mages needed everyone who was willing to help and Bunce and I didn't have to think long about it. Simon, on the other hand, was more doubtful. "It's alright. Take your time," I said. "Right," Simon said back, still looking at the sky. Bunce and I were ordered to go to whatever was left of the White Chapel. Simon decided to stay behind for, since he wasn't officially part of this brand new investigation team. I kissed his cheek. I said goodbye. I told him that he should go home and rest and that I'd see him later. I didn't know that that was the last time I'd see him.

Yeah, so, uh, just like in AWTWB, Simon walks out. But unlike AWTWB, Baz doesn't find him again. Gosh... I wonder where he went, with his wings and everything.

Meanwhile, small update on my Klaine fic: Waffle the chinchilla has been found! If you're reading this, feel free to come up with more names for little animals. I have 7 vacant spots.

And now, the weather: @quizasvivamos @blurglesmurfklaine @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @whogaveyoupermission @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @ionlydrinkhotwater @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @larkral @chen-chen-chen-again-chen ​ @cutestkilla ​​ @artsyunderstudy ​ @martsonmars ​ @facewithoutheart ​ @shrekgogurt @boyinjeans @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites @blackberrysummerblog @whatevertheweather

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I saw your tag that Jinwoo is weak to cute little things and I couldn’t help but think “that’s why he married his Haneul!” I love them very much.

Haneul being Jinwoo’s bunny has a special place in my heart now. Her cuteness has to be why she gets away with so many things. She and Jinah have that adorable aspect to them in common don’t they 😂 Jinwoo never stood a chance, the poor thing.

If I may ask, does Jinwoo have any cute nicknames that his wife calls him??

Thank you for loving them too! 😭

Both are so cute, they used their puppy eyes to get what they want. But when Jinah fails, she goes to her unnie for help.

Back then when Jinwoo was an E-rank, Haneul loved to tease him by calling him by cute nicknames or kissing him a lot. And if you remember she’s half-Korean and half-latino (I still don’t know from which country her mom is so it’s going to be ambiguous?) so she likes to call him by different petnames in both languages.

Haneul: WooWoo picioso kissy noises as she hugs him dearly <- mostly acted like that to make him blush.

“Picioso” the actual word is “precioso” meaning “precious,” or “beautiful”. But picioso sounds kind of childish and cute in Spanish. Like “a mimir.”

I think Haneul’s call him the usual ones in English like: pumpkin, honeycomb, my darling,

Spanish: mi picioso, mi amorcito, mi terroncito de azúcar.

Korean:

Jagiya – “Honey” or “Baby”

Yeobo – “Honey” or “Darling”

Wangjanim (왕자님) – “Prince”

In some it might be different language and same meaning but Jinwoo loves to hear the way Haneul’s voice change when she speak so dearly to him in another language. But he swoons when she calls him Wangjanim or the typical oppa.

[reading-cards]

Just a journal entry

Feb 11 2025

I actually try to be secular in my approach to reading cards, my belief being that the cards' symbolisms are universal archetypes that will easily resonate in circumstances that have, are, or will happen to the querants' circumstances that we want to read, but damn, sometimes, the predictive tendency seems way on the mark sometimes that it makes me believe some higher powers are guiding it. Yeah, I know that my three daily reads almost always have a predictive element, my morning tarot and lenormand spreads aimed to give me advice for and about the day ahead, but I chalk that up as more like general advice and not set in stone predictions since the future changes with what we do now... but today was a bit... making me a believer in the woowoo of the cards.

The day started with my usual tarot draw, and looking back, the temperance card of calling me to maintain inner and outer peace and balance seemed aptly the theme of the day. Then, the lenormands advice of focusing my attention on my schedule really struck a cord, as I almost missed the docs appointment for my mom because I so lost track of time doing other things. Thoughts of the cards advice giving me that advice about focusing on the time kept playing in my head. The cards are even named FOCUS and TIME cards, for goodness sake. FOCUS ON THE TIME AND SCHEDULE they were practically saying to me at the start of my day. Then I ended my day with the gypsy cards, with the cards giving me a warning about possible personal attacks and insults coming from a family member. I had gone about my evening after doing that reflection, but when I came back, my cousin and mom were screaming and shouting at each other, fighting, and I could feel myself getting affected... Thankfully, that passed, and then I did my best to maintain a calm demeanor as I allowed my mom to vent to me while I went about the house to give her her medicines. Personal attacks from the family member with peace and virtue following suit... despite the discord not directly aimed at me, I can't help but feel like the cards have precisely predicted and given me accurate warnings and advice this day... I'm having a hard time maintaining my secular look at the cards right now...

Yeah, I know my tags for my daily readings say divination and fortunetelling, but those for me were just blanket tags to broadly cover the idea that I'm also looking for general advice about the day whenever I reflect with the cards... usually I just do my daily reads, then go about my day afterwards, remembering the reflection that I did in the mornings, but today was so apt and precise with the fortunetelling... or maybe I'm just getting better at interpreting the cards or it's the universal archetype symbolisms that matched for what was soon going to come... I dunno...

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ITS TIME FOR MY HOLIDAY TRADITION OF BINGE WATCHING SANDERS SIDES WHO WANTS TO JOIN ME

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Tag Games!

Thanks to @realrollypratt for tagging me <3

Rules: Tag 10 followers you wanna get to know better

Name: You can call me V or Woodles

Sexuality: bi/pan I use both.

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Cats or Dogs: both. I have both. I love both. It’s always both.

Current Time: 4:35pm

Favorite Animal: ooof... probably either the immortal jelly fish or the Pikachu nudibranch

When I Made this Blog: 0.o I don’t even remember. Maybe like 2012???2013?? Somewhere in there.

Why my username: Woo/WooWoo/Woodles/Woochew are all common nicknames for me. 07 is my family’s racing number when we used to race cars.

I challenge: @ssodangdark @falsettodrop @zelkam @zafaraelgrimskee @mickeyandcompany @dasey @hurricanezukka @incorrectzukka @zukkanation @haikyuu-incorrectquotes

[wwounu]

I saw your tags about woowoos birthday being soon and him turning 23 and i was like "god hes old" BUT THEN I REMEMBERED IM 5 DAYS OLDER THAN HIM AND ALSO TURNING 23

KFJSDFHLKA THIS MADE ME LAUGH I FEEL YOU

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#lmao#and even in fanfics where Vash goes full creature mode Woowoo & Meryl either are already in the know/accept it immediately#or it goes to horny territory because Woowoo and/or Meryl are into that#which is fine#i'm not saying this to be judgemental it's just what i have seen in the fanfic tags#i really don't remember seeing any fic with shipping that focuses on their fear of Vash's inhumanity but maybe that's just me lol#also ya poor Vashu#but it's nice that his friends still stick by his side despite their fear#trigun fanfiction#shipping#trigun maximum#trigun

That is exactly what I'm talking about! Heck, I remember seeing a fanart on here where Vash goes creature/angel mode and he apologises to a stunned Meryl and Meryl word-bubble says "Vash, I have never been so turned on in all my life!" *Laughs* I love that art, wish I could find it again. It's somewhere. But... the canon manga... although, to be fair, her trigger to Vash's feathering out has more to do with seeing something related to the full-on mind-meld she'd experienced in sharing his traumatic memories. I think it is a good thing for we fans - whether we do fanfic, fanart, analysis or all to REMEMBER that our perspective as the audience is different than the characters' perspectives. We see the broad view, the whole picture, and we see those very well-drawn feathers and petals and go "ooh, pretty!" and don't spare a lot of thought to if we'd saw something like that happening with someone in real life, how freaky it would be. Nor do we spare the thought of these people are on a Hell-planet and oh, they've learned that their friend is a living nuke! Sometimes, you have to sit back, read or re-read the manga and look at how the characters respond to all of this. I think a huge urge for this is that we all love Vash and we all want him to have good things and we'd *like it* if people were not afraid of him. We think of him, as the audience reading a fiction, as our adorable Love and Peace featherball! Precious Plantman! In universe, he's barely-controlled / not entirely aware of his own power Ageless Living Nuke Man with some kind of Turbo-V.A.T.S. aiming skill. And people have different reactions to that.

Slowly re-reading / savoring the manga. My thoughts around the end of Trigun Maximum 2... So, Vashwood shippers, we need to talk. Well, every fanficcer really, but especially you... Why do I see so few fanfics covering Wolfwood's FEAR of Vash? All of the early volumes of manga, Wolfwood is seeing WEIRD PLANT THINGS. He was witness to the Fifth Moon incident. He sees Vash's healing capabilities in Trigun Maximum 1 and through 1 and 2, sees Vash's general endurance (the one time he got exhausted and sick and wrecked the bike notwithstanding). He saw Vash STILL IN THAT CONDITION sticking his neck out for others, just reckless with his own life and it scares him. He gets hints at Vash's general immortality and wonders if he is unkillable. He wonders at how much he is like his brother. Underneath the guidance and dare we say... growing friendship, there is this underlying terror. At least, that's what I feel from reading the manga. And it makes me feel like... mangaverse Vashwood shippers... unless you're ignoring canon and just writing something self-indulgent or you're writing a post-series AU, or at least a late-series thing, I feel like "No way they're bumping and grinding right away." And if they are? Any note on Wolfwood's wondering just what he's gotten himself into and just what he is romancing? Same with Vashmeryl in the manga... the sharing of PTSD stuff, the terror she has. She's gotta overcome her fear of Vash after that, which happens in the manga... I just feel "this is not a romance manga" and anything shippy is really self-indulgent on the fans. Which is OKAY, but... I don't know, I just don't see it when people insist on any of it being canon and it sort of baffles me at the amount of shipping this fandom has (okay, so it really doesn't because all fandoms have shipping... but, it's like, when a friend and I do shipping roleplays for Fire Emblem: Awakening, that makes a lot of actual sense because half that game is a shipping sim. It's Character Horny-Chess)! Not an anti-post, just me casually wondering, after going to the fanfiction section of Ao3 at how quickly and readily some of the shipping stuff is, even in non-ship centric fics when I go and read the manga and read "Wow, even Vash's friends are scared of him, at least a little bit, if not a lot." Poor guy.

[changkyuh]

do you have any anon that you specifically wanna thank? what is a more memorable ask you got on anon? do you think it's better to stay anon or not? is anon a big part of your blog? (hihi im new here and i got curious so i asked) -alien anon

ofc bed anon and turtle anon (who has been revealed as @soft-woowoo !!) also usagi anon on my old blog~~ i hope they find me eventually i miss them!!! tbh there’s a lot from usagi anon but i can’t remember them :/// i like going through their tag and just reading them they were very cute!!! i think it’s up to the person being on anon to decide if they want to stay on anon or not!! and anons aren’t that big of a part on my blog (this is the first time in forever i’ve gotten this many anons akdsjf)

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Yellowjackets S2E2: Lottie

Hello! This is about up to Season 2, Episode 2 of Yellowjackets, and ONLY that of Yellowjackets. I have not seen beyond this spot, at all, and know NOTHING about this show. Please do not spoil it for me.  Things that are spoilery in nature, for me, include: saying things like  “Just wait!!” confirming or denying anything I put forward, outside information about the cast interviews or creator statements, leading questions like “Do you think “blank moment” means anything?” etc. Remember  that Y’ALL HAVE SEEN THE SHOW AND I HAVE NOT. This informs the way you  talk about things relating to the show. Just be really careful is all  I’m asking. Also: If there is LITERALLY any stance I  could take on this show or character that would make you upset, please  just fucking block the tag

If you WOULD like to discuss the show and my takes on it, the Discord is right here! I don’t go there, so it’s a great place to get every emotion out.

Please thank @sailorsunspot and @moonlight-frittata for backing this odd way of doing a liveblog, and remember my tip jar is always open

Okay, so let’s start this off with my own honesty. I HATE Lottie. Lottie is pretty much everything I hate about a person, I hate her impractical, woowoo, honor your own heart, feel the rhythm cult leader bullshit. I want to note that is most defintiely informing my read of this situation. Despite all that, I ask you to pleas please please not attempt to inform me of nayhting or spoil me. Okay. 

I do not for one second believe that Lottie ended up fucking…accidentally killing Travis because of a BUTTON MALFUNCTION. I could go into how she could have lifted up his legs and put his feet on her shoulders to help keep him from FUCKING DYING, and ALSO how he didn’t actually need to be more than an inch off the ground, but this isn’t about what Lottie failed to think of in a moment of desperation, because I don’t believe in the moment of horror and desperation.  

Remember, when she’s weaving this splendid little tale, SHE IS WEAVING THIS SPLENDID LITTLE TALE. She is the framing device for what happened with Travis. She even sets the stage, with a bunch of candles in a dimly lit room, covered in soft furnishings, as if it were a sort of confessional, and she the priest, communicating the will of God. 

THis is a story, that she is telling to Nat, a woman who has proven she is willing to severely hurt someone, and who is deeply entangled with Travis. Why WOULDN’T she frame this in a way that a woman who is absolutely haunted by the choices she made in the woods would understand? Travis wanting to make it all make sense, Laura Lee showing up and horrifying Lottie*, a moment that had horrific consequences, Travis saying --a nd of course POOR Lottie would never say this unless directly asked--that Nat would just make things worse. This entire story is being cast with the sort of lens that Nat would relate to IMMEDIATELY. It has great fucking narrative flow. 

Lottie might believe her own bullshit, but I’m not sure I think she does. The show is tipping its hand to the fact that Lottie enjoys her position of power, the way she fucking corrects her little follower about her healing smoothie, and corrects Nat about the specific color they use (which in itself is something else--heliotrope is the answer to a riddle in Finnegan’s Wake, a very confusing novel altogether that requires a lot of patience and untangling, and I think there’s something in that but I can’t really get it set in my head right). She doesn’t wear heliotrope, she wears goldenrod, or whatever she would call it. Lottie thinks herself above the people she leads, and I think that was true even back in the cabin. Maybe Lottie can commune with something, but she’s ALSO a fucking grifter. I want all of it to be true. 

“Sharing is in session” eat my entire dick, CHARLOTTE. 

I mean in fairness, Nat doesn’t believe her either, and I do think that is a great impulse. 

*I concede it is intentionally played ambiguous whether or not this is a part of the story Lottie tells. I, obviously, think she does, but again, I’m admitting my anti-Lottie bias here. 

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Happy El WooWoo Wednesday. Thank you @artsyunderstudy, @wellbelesbian, @cutestkilla, @larkral and @coffeegleek for the tags.

I am still thinking about a way to finish The Class Menagerie. Yes, I am still stuck on the "getting together" part of this getting together fic, but remember how I said Blaine took Kurt to meet [REDACTED]? Yes, [REDACTED] is a dog.

Kurt holds out his hand for Mimi to sniff it. He passes the test, because Mimi licks it. “She likes you,” Blaine says. “I like her too!” Kurt says and he’s beaming. Mimi is very playful and Kurt pets her. She revels in it. At one point, he scratches her head and her head tilts back and she squints her eyes. Kurt’s about to burst. He looks up and he sees Blaine looking down with adoration written across his face. Kurt gets it. He’s only known Mimi for a few seconds and he’s already willing to go to war for her. Kurt’s certain he has the same smitten look on his face.

This is her, by the way:

No news in the podfic world this time. I haven't gotten around to an editing attempt, because classes have kicked my ass and I have been home with my parents on the weekends, which always leads to me being less productive for fandom stuff. @thnxforknowingme did film a small Audacity demo for me and the other people in the Podfic thread and I am already thinking about how to use it. I have PLANS. Just no TIME.

And now, the weather: @quizasvivamos @blurglesmurfklaine @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @whogaveyoupermission @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @ionlydrinkhotwater @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @martsonmars ​ @facewithoutheart ​ @shrekgogurt @boyinjeans @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites @blackberrysummerblog @whatevertheweather

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El WooWoo!

Thanks @shame-is-a-wasted-emotion for the tag back

I only have a small snippet to share today, since I am still in my examination period. Oh man, I hate learning for exams. Stampen, blokken, the good stuff. I'd rather do an assignment, because that allows you actually apply the knowledge, instead of just learning things by heart. (I mean, I also have 4 papers, which, yay, BUT NOT ON TOP OF THE EXAMS.)

ANYWAY. Have some Ljubili se:

Then Santana’s look goes from baffled to amused, and Blaine does remember that side of Santana. She has a cheeky grin on her face. “Damn, Hummel, is your dick so good it can turn people gay?” she laughs. “Santana!” Kurt exclaims. “It’s a good dick,” Blaine says back, which makes Santana laugh even louder and Kurt groan. But Blaine is beaming. He can’t believe he just said that!

There he goes! That's my boy! Show off that confidence, baby!

And now, the weather: @quizasvivamos @jinglejavey @coffeegleek @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @that-disabled-princess @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @larkral @cutestkilla ​ @wellbelesbian ​ @artsyunderstudy ​ @martsonmars ​ @facewithoutheart ​ @shrekgogurt @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites @blackberrysummerblog @whatevertheweather @theotherhufflepuff @esilher @kurtsascot

Also.... uh..... some personal ramblings for people who know the true story behind River fic lol.

As I mentioned, Real Blaine unblocked me a few months ago after 4.5 years (!) and I did keep sending him a birthday message every year that never arrived. Kurt did as well, in the fic. He mentions at one point that he kept messaging Blaine.

Anyway, Real Blaine's birthday is soon. Should I still message him? I will be Perceived! And like Kurt, I am eager to know more about him, whilst I also know I don't really want to be his friend anymore. So I am not opposed to sending him a birthday message, I mean, I've been doing it for 4 years, but I have no clue what to expect after that.

I do like the idea of giving Real Blaine a mini heart attack.

I asked Real Mercedes for advice and they said maybe I should send the message and then block Real Blaine or something poetic like that.

Hm. Maybe Real Blaine will re-block me.

This is just fucking weird and unexpected. Damn, we were supposed to run into each other in a train on the other side of the world in 2026, not this!

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Episode 2.1: Taissa

Hello! This is about up to Season 2, Episode 1 of Yellowjackets, and ONLY that of Yellowjackets. I have not seen beyond this spot, at all, and know NOTHING about this show. Please do not spoil it for me.  Things that are spoilery in nature, for me, include: saying things like  “Just wait!!” confirming or denying anything I put forward, outside information about the cast interviews or creator statements, leading questions like “Do you think “blank moment” means anything?” etc. Remember  that Y’ALL HAVE SEEN THE SHOW AND I HAVE NOT. This informs the way you  talk about things relating to the show. Just be really careful is all  I’m asking. Also: If there is LITERALLY any stance I  could take on this show or character that would make you upset, please  just fucking block the tag

If you WOULD like to discuss the show and my takes on it, the Discord is right here! I don’t go there, so it’s a great place to get every emotion out.

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Oh Tai, you are in so much trouble here. 

Taissa picking out a dog for her son, not even picking out a dog, just going and grabbing one because she thinks she can simply sub one thing in for another, and that’s what’s happening in her political life! She is subbing in the poltically expedient person that she needs to be, who already needs to think about being reelected, for the person that she was during the campaign, for what she promised people she could be. It’s all the smae, isn’t it? And evben then she knows it isn’t the same, the level of disconnect she feels when the gal tells her she phone banked for her and she was so happy to campaign for someone real. Tai knows she’s not real, and was she ever? Which of the Taissas is the real one? And is that changing? 

She didn’t even realize the monster she’d become, even though she knew underneath she might have killed Biscuit. And i love that Simone doesn’t fuck around here, I love it that she is going to fuck up Tai’s entire life in order to get Tai to do something to help herself. 

Having to confront her own monstrosity, hugging Steve and saying it was just a mistake, and she’s going to do better with him. Oh okay, you sent your wife and child away because on some level you believe that you will hurt them, but this new shiny dog you have no affection for yet, sure, that’ll be different. 

Tai is right that Van should just lock her up there, and can Taissa really respect someone that is so willing to hurt for her, to bleed for her? Will it only ever be guilt that binds her to Van, or will it be enough? I mean, we know they aren’t together in the future. So far we haven’t mentioned Van being dead, and with the Lottie reveal, I’m starting to think Van also survives, though i don’t love that. So is it just the trauma that splits them up, or is it that Tai is driven as fuck, and not at all woowoo, while Van is just like…following Lottie the fuck around? Writing her love for Tai in her own blood? (HINT HINT)

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El WooWoo Wednesday! Thank you @confused-bi-queer and @larkral for the tag.

Yesterday started out terribly with me having a breakdown during a meeting at my job (oof) but it ended on such a high note. I don’t really share where I live on the internet (anymore) cause ya know internet security but now I kinda wish I did cause I mentioned several times that I organised a week filled with queer events and my big event was yesterday and I am still high on energy. I was so nervous beforehand but it went really well and the actress we invited was super chill. People also complimented me and said I didn’t seem nervous at all so +1 self-esteem there.

Gah, it was so good.

Apart from that, no writing is happening. Like I said I had a wee breakdown because I’d been living with constant stress for the past 1.5 weeks, partially due to the events, but also my studies, including my thesis. How’s my thesis going? It’s going. I am almost done with the analysis but it’s still very hard and frustrating and there is a lot of second guessing.

And of course, when I am not being Responsible, I am playing Zelda. I actually gave some more thoughts to the Zelda fic idea that I shared on Monday, but I’ll once again put it under the cut for spoilers.

And now, the weather: @quizasvivamos @blurglesmurfklaine @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias (congrats on the baby!!!) @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @takitalks @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @whogaveyoupermission @bookish-bogwitch @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @ionlydrinkhotwater @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @chen-chen-chen-again-chen ​ @cutestkilla ​ @nausikaaa ​/@wellbelesbian ​ @artsyunderstudy ​ @martsonmars ​ @facewithoutheart ​ @shrekgogurt @boyinjeans @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites​ @blackberrysummerblog

Okay so I reread Any way the wind blows and I forgot that Aryll is fucking 110 in that fic. That’s old! I mean, she had to be old cause the Calamity happened a hundred years ago AND Aryll needed to be old enough to properly remember her brother, but damn.

Now, I actually don’t know how many years are between Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. We do know that Link is 17/117 in BOTW. Time has clearly passed, since children have grown up and places have changed. One change is that Link is an adult who can now drink alcohol at the bar in Gerudo Town (lmao). Someone (who also organised the aforementioned queer event) looked up the legal drinking age in Japan, which is 20, so does that mean there’s 3 years between the games?

That would make Aryll 113. If 110 was already pushing it, then 113 is really pushing it. Aryll was already weak and old in my fic, but man. So when the pirates attack Lurelin, is she still alive or did she die from old age? It’s established that Hylians have a human lifespan. But say she is alive in TOTK, then damn how will she flee Lurelin? Will Kiana and co. take her with them? But Aryll will have a lot of problems traversing through Hyrule. Even Faron is already difficult to traverse since it’s a big forest.

BUT

BUT

What if.... after Link and Aryll reunite..... and Link saves Zelda....... and Zelda sees the situation.............. Zelda goes to Purah. Purah reversed her age with Sheikah tech. And sure, it went a bit too far and she became a literal child, but she’s a teen/young adult now. This also kinda fucks up the 3 years idea, but also this is Purah so I won’t be surprised if she now sped up some aging in order to reach the age she wanted. What if, between games, Purah reverses Aryll’s age to match Link’s? Hmmmm. HMMMMM. Again, I’m just mumbling. I don’t know if this is a Legit Fic Idea, but I like to think about it.

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IT’S WEDNESDAY MY DUDES and please for the love of El WooWoo, let this be the end of the shadowban. I just got an e-mail from staff, reacting to the ticket that I sent in end October, and it looks like the shadowban has been undone. I can see my chat messages again, but I still don’t know if someone’s already tagged me, because it seems like my Activity page will not repair the lack of mentions of the past 3,5 (!) weeks. Aka, please let me know if you’ve received this tag and also, please if you like, make a post and tag me back in it, so that I can see if everything’s working again.

I have something from make a fire out of this flame, and DUN DUN DUN (potentially):

Penelope Bunce (9:32)

I was going to ask if you want to talk about what you told me last night but maybe I should wait for you to sober up

Simon Snow-Salisbury (9:33)

????

Simon Snow-Salisbury (9:33)

pen

Simon Snow-Salisbury (9:33)

what do you mean

Simon Snow-Salisbury (9:33)

what did I say???

Penelope Bunce (9:34)

You don’t remember?

Penelope Bunce (9:34)

About Baz?

Simon Snow-Salisbury (9:35)

??????????

Simon Snow-Salisbury (9:35)

no

Penelope Bunce (9:35)

Oh.

I am also planning my Klaine Secret Santa gift, hosted by @the-lima-bean​, but I will not post anything about that for SSS/WW, because that would ruin the surprise and I can hardly go:

New sneak peek of [REDACTED]:

[REDACTED] walked to [REDACTED]. They meet up at [REDACTED] to talk about their new [REDACTED] for [REDACTED].

“Have you already checked [REDACTED]?” [REDACTED] asks.

[REDACTED] shakes his head.

“No, not yet, and I don’t know if I should tell [REDACTED] about my [REDACTED].”

“[REDACTED] will surely understand!” [REDACTED] exclaims, “After all, why else would [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]?”

Full disclosure, even the dialogue etc. for this snippet is made up. I’m still at the plotting part, but you get what I mean.

Tagging, so please, Tumblr, work!: @quizasvivamos @crissmastrees-and-candyklaines @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @takitalks @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna (it only took me 3.5 weeks to get unbanned! Keep faith!) @wellbelesbian @tea-brigade @cutestkilla @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @artsyunderstudy @whogaveyoupermission @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @martsonmars @facewithoutheart​ @aroace-genderfluid-sheep​ @ionlydrinkhotwater​ @1908jmd​ @special-bc-ur-part-of-it​

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*looks to the left 👀* *looks to the right 👀*

Alright I guess I am kicking it off today. Happy WIP Wednesday/El WooWoo Wednesday/Wellness Wednesday/Wet Wooper Wednesday and all the other possible Wednesdays.

Sometimes, a WIP just catches up on you. I am still focusing more on Ljubim te and the now-sort-of-published SJAEU. But I have also been thinking about make a fire out of this flame, my CO Prompt Fest textfic. I know the deadline for that fest was October, but time is an illusion. I haven’t written for it in 2 months since I put it in the hospital in order to work on the seasonal events like COC and Klaine Advent, but I took a peek at my document yesterday because I remember it’s almost finished and not to toot my own horn, but it is good:

Aka I am back on my Snowbaz textfic bullshit. Might even pause Ljubim te for this one, since again, I am almost done with it (unlike Ljubim te). Although I have some Ljubim te under the cut:

Blaine’s eyes snap open and Kurt can see the realisation sink in.

“I…” Blaine trails off and he [REDACTED], “I… uhm…”

“Blaine-”

“I need to go.”

“Blaine!”

Blaine jumps from the bed and Kurt tries to go after him, but Blaine slams Kurt’s bedroom door shut in his face. Kurt’s left alone with his thoughts. What just happened?

Ohohohohohhh angst time babey!!!!

Tagging @quizasvivamos @blurglesmurfklaine @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @takitalks @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @whogaveyoupermission @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @ionlydrinkhotwater @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @larkral @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @cutestkilla @nausikaaa/@wellbelesbian @artsyunderstudy @martsonmars @facewithoutheart @boyinjeans​ (issa me justasmallbloginabigklainefandom!)