#it's also why i can't be mad at maddie. there's just nothing to have feelings about at all

[im-not-batman]

Okay i am SO excited that people were interested so here it is. I need to preface this with the fact that it won't be totally 1-to-1.

9-1-1/The West Wing Fusion crossover AU thing

SO, i already said Bobby is the President. Not only does it make sense for his relationships with everyone else, but he is also very similar to Bartlett in a lot of ways: the Catholicism, the hidden illness (Jed's MS and Bobby's Alcoholism and PTSD), the strong moral compass and the way they are always everyone's go-to for advice. Also the way they deal with problems and conflict.

Athena is obviously FLOTUS. Unfortunately i suffer with Can't-Stand-Athena Disease, so i'm leaning on my love of Abbey for this one. But they're both very capable, intelligent women who can't be told what to do. Both are completely devoted to their families and are even self-destructive with that love sometimes. (Athena going after Amir (DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THAT - FUCKING ACAB) and Abby secretly treating Jed's MS and putting her lisence in question).

May and Harry should take on the roles of Zoey and Ellie respectively. May still being the older sibling, i just think they fit the personalities of the siblings better that way. Harry being distant and aloof until they have a breakthrough, May being close to the family and friendly with the other staffers. Also the Charlie/Zoey of it all.

Hen (my beloved) is Chief of Staff. This feels obvious. She's already Bobby's second in command, she's got the instict for it, and the respect of all the others. I also think she would still have a fire fighting background and she got into politics later. I just think that experience would be vital for her as COS, similar to Leo's military service. I also think a professional history like that would also commmand respect from strangers.

For Deputy Chief of Staff I'm (perhaps predictably) going with Eddie. I was toying with the idea of it being Chim but you'll see why i didn't got there when i explain his role. But yeah, Eddie's perfect for this one. Both he and Josh are dramatic about everything, they both have well-meaning hearts that sometimes results in them doing or saying stupid shit, they have deepseated issues that cause them to push people away. Also, need i say it? SHOOTING ARC! This also (again predictably i fear) allows for the EPIC ROMANCE of Josh and Donna to be mapped onto Buddie.

Which brings me of course to Buck. He's gotta be Donna. They've got the shared history of failed relationships with some not great people (but remain hopeless romantics anyway), Buck flitting from job to job and Donna not having much work experience go hand on hand too. Also they're both very capable and intelligent but hide it/don't realise that fully. I like to think that Maddie qas the one to get him his job amd Eddie was just a bit too scared to question her.

Now Maddie. This might be an unpopular decision because on the surface they are nothing alike, but I'm putting Maddie in Toby's spot. Not only does she suit Director of Communications perfectly – Maddie is the fucking QUEEN of coomunication (season 5 notwithstanding lol) but she and Toby share a lot of their values. Sure, Toby's a miserable, pessimistic asshole about it, but they both believe in a very black and white definition right and wrong. They are both loyal to a fault (even Toby's treason was an act of loyalty you can fight me on this but you will LOSE) and do everything they can to protect the people they love. Also i just love them both so much i want to fuse them into one because it makes me feel like a mad scientist in a lab trying to create the perfect character out of goo and slime and glitter.

Anyway! For Maddie's second, I'm really not sure. I was thinking maybe Linda or Josh but neither fit particularly well to me. Idk, let me know what you guys think.

Okay. Chim. Think how perfect he'd be as Press Sec. Please. That man is BORN to be on camera. He's charismatic and friendly and relatable, he comes across as approachable but fr who would cross him if he put his foot down? No one! Also. I IMPLORE you to please imagine him doing the Jackal. It was so hard to figure out who i'd trust to take up the mantel of CJ "baddest bitch around" Cregg because i love her so much but when i started to consider Chimney it felt obvious 😅 i also just think he'd love to have the opportunity to evicerate an asshole on live television, and he DESERVES that opportunity too. And if you were wondering: Yes I DO ship CJ and Toby. Hence Madney being their counterparts.

Now for my boy Charlie!!! It of course HAS to be Ravi!! Those boys are the sweetest loveliest boys on the planet! They pair up so well! I also have a headcanon that, similar to Charlie, Ravi has younger siblings he's always had to take care of because their mum died and their dad worked too much. So. Yeah. Also lowkey May x Ravi nation where are you please accept me into your ranks.

Anyway, i hope this is acceotable to everyone who was interested. I might write something in this AU one day but if you have ever interacted with me before you should know not to hold your breath lmao

Tagging @pangrams-n-palindromes from my other post so they see this, I hope that's okay!

[tobiasdrake]

Digesting Sonic 3. All things considered? I'd put it at a solid "Pretty neat".

I came out of theaters with a very solid... Meets Expectations. Trailers pretty much gave away the whole film but y'know it's a family movie so parents need to know what to expect.

Shadow the Hedgehog

It kinda feels like they went into this knowing that Shadow's going to sell out tickets and they don't need to try with him, because they didn't try. The film's take on Shadow is shockingly barebones, to the point that they even just recycled the "Sonic heart-to-heart with Knuckles" scene from the second film for his inevitable turnaround.

Gerald and Eggman eat up all the villainous screentime, with Shadow tagging along behind them and occasionally saying one or two lines to remind us that he's mad.

As a result, Shadow's story feels heavily undercooked. He, Gerald, and Maria were part of a G.U.N. project and then G.U.N. besieged their own facility because of reasons, and Maria was killed by an explosion brought on by an accidental misfire while two G.U.N. operatives were fighting over whether or not to shoot at them.

Why was G.U.N. attacking themselves? Who knows. Doesn't matter. Literally all that's said on the subject is "They're going to take Shadow away." The film aggressively does not care why Maria's dead or what G.U.N. even wants from Shadow.

They can't have wanted much. They left him in a vault for fifty years. Weird thing to do when you're so desperate to seize control of him that you'll shoot your own people to get him.

...yeah, this one's not nearly as tightly written as the second movie. Shadow's basically a nothing character; He's just here to facilitate cool scenes delivered in Keanu Reeves's trademark cardboard acting. It's Gerald, Eggman, and Sonic driving the plot.

Even when he does get an opportunity to be distinct, such as wondering aloud whether Maria would want them to destroy the Earth and being silenced by Gerald, the fact that Reeves cannot emote to save his life leaves the delivery hollow. Shadow is a character driven by emotional response to grief, and he's being played with a voice that cannot convey an ounce of feeling.

Even in the climax when he turns, he's Sonic's "And Also Featuring" until he becomes a tool to facilitate Eggman's spectacular finale. The movie is never really about him, in stark contrast to how Sonic 2 handled Knuckles. He just brings the novelty of having Shadow on the screen sometimes, and often feels like an obligatory afterthought.

The Eggmen

So that leaves Gerald and Eggman for the villainous duo. I think we all went into this expecting that it might be Eggman's swan song, and boy, is it. Playing dual roles as himself and his wicked grandpa, Jim Carrey chews enough scenery to last a lifetime.

The Eggmen feel like there are... ideas of a story between them. Gerald is grieving for Maria and lures in Ivo to help with his plan. Ivo laments that he's never had the love of a family before, which leaves him emotionally vulnerable for Gerald to manipulate.

But Carrey's Eggman is a character who rejects emotional sincerity and serious storytelling, and always has been. Every step along his way is suitably ridiculous, all the way up to his sudden heroic sacrifice.

Seeing Eggman go is an emotional and heartfelt moment, not in a "Losing a beloved character" sort of way but in a "Farewell, Jim Carrey" kind of way. The films' take on Eggman has always been a hollow vehicle for Carrey's comedy, moreso than an actual person who exists in a universe. We all knew that and if you're still here for movie 3, you've probably accepted that.

This film brings the Carrey-est performance that Carrey's ever Carreyed in these movies before sending him off so nakedly and unambiguously that they can leave the audience certain he won't return again.

Team Sonic

The films' bizarre take on the Sonic cast as a nuclear family being parented by Tom and Maddie is as weird as ever.

Idris Elba's Knuckles steals every scene that he's in. He is now officially the Guardian of the Master Emerald, but in the same way that you might make one of your brothers Guardian of the Litter Box. It's just his chore. That he doesn't even do because he recruited one of his friends to do it instead.

Wade Whipple is the Guardian of the Master Emerald.

Tails and Knuckles mainly play support to Sonic, Tom, and Maddie in the film. They get punched out of the first Shadow fight, play mission control for Tom and Maddie's infiltration of G.U.N. HQ in the second act, and get fired for most of the film's climax only to impossibly show up in Earth's upper orbit out of absolutely nowhere at the eleventh hour.

But despite having little to do, they're very present and provide a lot of personality and charm to the film. And where they do get to step in, such as Knux finally getting to "break glass in case of emergency", it's a lot of fun.

This all makes the film incredibly charming. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are fun characters to watch. Eggman and Gerald are fun characters to watch. Tom and Maddie get some cute moments. And also Shadow is present.

It's not as good as Sonic 2, which had an unbelievably simple plot carried by the wit and charm of its cast knocking heads together. Sonic 3 is trying to tell a more complicated and dramatic story than either the series's tone or general storytelling competency is suited for, and the result is something like making fart noises in a mortuary. But the wit is still witty and the charm is still charming, so it gets by nonetheless.

That Post-Credits Scene Tho

Everyone shut the fuck up and pay attention because Sonic 4 is going to be fucking it.

I know all-a y'all are excited for Metal Sonic and I don't even give a shit because Amy Amy Amy Amy Amy Amy Amy Amy

[ladysomething]

oh hun, and anon whose birthday was Idk when (hbd by the way! and don't worry, you're still young, love) if you guys feel old, how am I supposed to feel (early 90s baby here) 😖

the only reason I have not gone insane this week over the lack of wygig, has been weariness. first time I'm actually thankful for my shitty working hours.

and you know who IS going insane?? my brother! who actually has normal working hours! good for you maddie, having a random man drooling across the world, crawling up walls waiting for your moment to come back. (talking as if I was not the same) and nahh, the fisting is nothing. they've seen me read this stuff for yeaaaars. well not exactly but you get what I mean

honestly I shall praise. I have nothing else to do right now, and as I can't over analyze this week's chapter, I must yap about why I love your way of writing. and over analyze the snippet.

1. your way of writing is one of my favorites in ao3. you have this talent to get in people's heads and make them NEED to see more. crack. cocaine. I guess my mom would be much more happy that her children are addicted to this rather than irl drugs. mad(s) respect for that.

2. you're kinda a mastermind as well. everything is so well thinked and planned. kudos to saiyanwitcher as well for helping you out with this one. beautiful.

3. your characterization kills it. look, I've NEVER met this people, let alone think they would actually be in this situation. but. if they had to go through something like it. this is the way I think they would be like. I can bet on it. swear even. it just. fits. lovely.

4. I love that you make these long chapters that feel like nothing. you just inhale them. every time I read you I'm always looking at the little bar in the screen that tells how far along we are. I just don't want it to end. but even if you leave a cliffhanger, the chapters always feel complete. like it was meant to finish there. no more no less no further ahead. perfect.

5. I love how you engage with us. feed us crumbs and see how the world sets in fire, sometimes going insane with us too. is just refreshing. I like to imagine you in your couch, throwing us a bone and laughing at how we go nuts about it.

+1. I love the Max crush that you created in me. thank you very much for that. lives were changed. eyes were opened.

+2. my brother and I were going crazy over jealous Charlie. I quote him "oh lui è innamorato. che bello. y no se da cuenta! sei molto stupido Charle" (that's 'oh he is in love. and he doesn't even realize! you are very stupid Charle' for you) Imagine that with angry hand movements and frustrated pacing through a kitchen with a pan on his hand. proper italian, my brother. lost some points throwing some spanish in there but I would still give him like a 8.3/10 for the performance. go and sink us even more in the stereotype/jk

+3. I was today years old when I found out saiyan was the way english speakers write saiyajin. I even had to google and triple check it because I wasn't sure whether it was actually like that or my dislexic brain was just messing with me.

all to say. I love everything you write. give me that fire changed my brain chemistry first. I also found out way too much later than I would've wanted that it was your fic as well. not today but still not so long ago. lovely beautiful thing it was too.

birthday anon started it!!!

also what can I say ... thats my sheer power .. random men drooling across the world ... 💅 but also, them knowing that you read that stuff and reading it with you is very different I fear.

thank you 😭😭 that's very kind, and I'm so happy that that's the effect it has. it's exactly the effect I want!

@saiyanwitcher is the real mastermind tbh. I just write it!

personally I think characterisation is one of my strongest points as a writer, so I'm glad that it hits for you like it does for me!

ahhh I'm so glad they go fast! sometimes I write a chapter and I'm like ... this is 10k of absolutely nothing .. how boring.

I do absolutely laugh, I'm sorry. I laugh a lot.

+1. I'm so glad I've encouraged you to see the light. my Max crush rages fiercely every single day.

+2. YOU'RE ITALIAN?! please remind your brother that my DMs are open if he and his gf break up.

+3. I'll be so for real. I have no idea what you're talking about.

omgggg I'm so glad you loved GMTF too. my fave fic of mine tbh.

thanks for dropping in as always!!

[kaylinalexanderbooks]

Character voice

Thanks to @elsie-writes here, @elizaellwrites here, @mk-writes-stuff here and here, and @willtheweaver here.

Rules: rewrite a given line in your OCs' voices!

Got long, under the cut :)

"I've got a headache."

Lexi: "Oh, man I got a headache. Well, that's what ibuprofen is for. Time to go out to a crowded bowling alley!"

Maddie: "I've felt worse. I'll be fine." (Is dizzy)

Ash: "I have felt worse before. Maybe I should use those probing devices :)" (bad idea)

Gwen: (if she has nothing to do) "I should probably go lie down. I don't feel good." (If she does) "I feel terrible, but I'll push through. For [person]."

Robbie: "Pfft I'll be fiiiine don't worry about it! I have braved through more before!" (Is later seen lying down)

Akash: "No need to worry about me. I'll take some Tylenol and be okay."

Jedi: "I will be alright. We have medication for a headache." *Injects himself with some over the counter drugs*

Carmen: "Everyone BE QUIET I have a headache!"

Everyone is so healthy here (:

Prompt: Uh oh, you forgot to do something very important!

Lexi: "Oh no! I forgot!?? How??" *flips frantically through her color-coded planner* "I couldn't have forgotten to write it down.... it's not possible...it has to be here somewhere..."

Maddie: "I did? Whoops."

Ash: "Oh. Sorry. Uh, guess I'll try and remember next time."

Gwen: "Oh my gosh I am so sorry I forgot!! I've been under so much stress lately... It won't happen again. What can I do for you to help?"

Robbie: "Oh SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT--" *scrambles around trying to get it done in five seconds*

Akash: "WHAT?! Shit, there's no way I forgot... Guess I did, huh. What is wrong with me? This is why I write stuff down... Oh, um, sorry I forgot, man. Uhh hey is there any way I can make this up to you? Like now? Cause this may haunt me."

Jedi: "Oh, I am terribly sorry... It must be sleep deprivation... I apologize, I will go do that now."

Carmen: *borderline panic attack, likely kicks or punches something*

"Where are we? How did we get here?"

Perfect for TSP actually

Lexi: "Wait, what just happened? Everything just simultaneously changed. The temperature and humidity levels are different. I must be dreaming." (Anxious)

Maddie: "Woah that was super weird. Where do you think we are? (Excited and curious)

Ash: "What-- that isn't possible...but it clearly is... what happened?" (Is also genuinely curious)

Gwen: "Woah. How did we get here? It's... admittedly cool here. Beautiful even."

Robbie: "Holy shit, where are we?! Did I blackout? Or was I just walking and not paying attention so much I took a wrong turn?"

Akash: "Dude...what happened? Did we take a wrong turn? I don't think we did - I was paying attention."

Jedi: "Well... *looks around and pokes at the map on his tablet* it appears this map was not as straightforward as I assumed. I frankly have no idea how we got here. I suppose we are lost. Well, if we must be here, let us survey the area and collect data." (This is what I call the Star Trek Voyager method)

Carmen: "Who gave me wrong directions?! There is no way I possibly got lost. Who can tell me in precise detail how we got here?!"

"I don't have enough curse words for how much you pissed me off."

This one was harder than I thought because most of these guys don't get cold angry, but I'll try.

Lexi: "I have a pretty large vocabulary. I know all the synonyms for, like, every curse word. But I don't think that I know enough for you!"

Maddie: "Hm. I'm not sure I can think of enough curse words that can describe how I feel toward you. Like, none of them work."

Ash: "I would love to cuss you out, but nothing is accurately describing how mad I just got."

Gwen: "I'm not exactly one for swearing, and I'm really pissed that I can't use any cuss word in English, Spanish, or Italian because you're making me so angry."

Robbie: "Bro, I have the most creative swears I know, and even I can't think of one you deserve."

Akash: "Y'know you're pissing me off so much that I literally cannot think of a good enough swear for you."

Jedi: "I will have you know that I am not one for expletives, and I see that this is because I have never been able to find one that quite describes how I am feeling toward people like you."

Carmen: "I would love for you to see how angry I am, but unfortunately you're such an irritating idiot that I cannot find a single swear in my vocabulary that can accurately depict that fury!"

"You want me to eat that?"

Lexi: "Oh, you want me to eat this? Um, that's...fine, thank you.... Y'know I actually ate a lot earlier, and I don't think you want me to eat anything else...thanks though. Really thoughtful of you."

Maddie: "I don't want to eat that."

Ash: "No offense, but I'm not going to like this."

Gwen: "It was very sweet of you to think of me, but I don't actually like [ingredients]. Yeah...sorry. I feel bad, can I do anything for you?"

Robbie: *long exhale* "Look, man, I know you worked really hard on this. And...yeah it's awesome for you to uh....do this. But...I don't think you want me to eat that."

Akash: "That food looks interesting. Oh, you want me to eat that? Umm. Okay..."

Jedi: "It would...be my pleasure to eat this. However, I am afraid I don't quite like this meal."

Carmen: "Why would you want me to eat that? It's gross."

Alrighty that's finally done. Softly tagging @aziz-reads @atelierwriting @mysticstarlightduck @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @stesierra @rickie-the-storyteller @sam-glade @memoriethereaderandwriter-blog @ahordeofwasps @spitefulbull + anyone else who wants to

Your phrase is, "Who would leave milk on the counter?"

TSP intro

TSP tag list (ask to be +/-): @thepeculiarbird @illarian-rambling @televisionjester @finchwrites

[galaxysharks]

maddox does anything and expects disappointment ....

It's sad Maddox day. That's okay, I love angst. And she really does, to be fair, she has evidence to credit that response.

I mean based on events in the series...

Leaves her phone near her brother, gets outed to their parents and spends her summer not knowing what kind of response she's got waiting for when camps over.

During camp, she's scared and nervous, so she's clinging to her gf a bit. Madison breaks up with her AT THE DANCE.

It's okay tho, new summer, right? But no.

She gets ready to go to her yearly escape! Sorry, you now have to take your brother, who hates you. You better take care of him! And that's on top of you other duties!

EJs back! We love EJ! And he brought friends! Except all she does is introduce herself and they already don't like her.

That's okay tho! We can still play games with EJ and he'll help everyone get along. Sorry, EJs super busy and he doesn't need her being needy on top of that.

Oh, she knows about star signs! She can bond with Ashlyn! Nope, Ashlyn's super touchy about it and started yelling.

It's okay, she can apologize and they can start over. EJ is always talking about how nice and great his cousin is. Apology failed, Maddie's big mouth got her in trouble again and Ash is mad.

Ok it's still her night! She can show them how fun camp is! Except Jet is here with his new best friend Ricky, and he's making fun of her. And they all like him way more than her...

Okay, back to play prep. Oh she yelled at Jet and now he's run off and no one can find him.

Good news! Jet's back! But the parents had to send him back, and she's definitely going to catch hell for that when summer is over.

Okay now she has to pretend to cry on command, because she's spent the past decade running tech because of her stellar acting skills... At least Ash isn't mad at her anymore.

Well nevermind! She tries to quietly pull Ash aside to talk about clearly a confusing crush. And Ash is yelling again... Oh great now Jets jumping in on the scream at Maddie session.

Let's just go cool off in the barn... Of course Jets here, and guess he likes singing again, why not, at least their parents will be happy.

Color wars goes well, too well, Jet is acting weird. He's happy tho, so that's good.

Nevermind, Happy Jet for some reason thought it would be a good idea to invite Madison. You know so she can wreck another prom.

Ok, Mad's more pleasant than expected, but now it's confusing. Maybe they can be together again? And she was just getting over her too. And Ash tolerates her again....

Maybe she should try and open up to the girls..... Actually, Kourt and Gina need her support right now. Take a raincheck on feelings.

Opening night time! Oh good Ash's mythic boyfriend has arrived.....and he's adorable.

Alright, plays going well, everything is running smooth.....until the power cuts!

Okay, dramas over. Time for the premier! Jets her best friend again! Now they just have to sit back and watch. Whoops! Channing caught her ass on camera being a big gay mess! And Ash is uncomfortable.... brilliant. At least she can tease Jet for also being a mess on camera. God she's just been outed to the nation.... Can't wait to see the parental fallout from that.... And school, all of schools gonna know now too.

And all that's Just Season 3

This girl trusts nothing and no one. She just assumes things will go poorly for her.

[daniclaytcn]

what are your thoughts on how this season is going? Overall I'm enjoying it but I have to admit I'm very letdown by the lack of any meaningful conversations between Buck and Eddie. Like I wish Buck would confide in Eddie the way he has in the past about so many things about his latest situation. It's very evident that the writers or Kristen are purposely keeping them apart, for narrative purposes or some other reason I'm not sure.

I do hope that does change going forward because I love this show but Buddie is my OTP of the show and I would like to see a lot more of them this season then the crumbs the show has given us.

How about you, what are your thoughts as we have maybe 2 or 3 episodes of the season left?

thought i'd club these two asks together, since they have the same question (first anon, i think you meant we only have 2 more episodes of 6a left?)

i'll admit that i'm missing the buddie interactions as well, but i do think it's all being done for a purpose—they're building up to something big, in my opinion, either in the midseason finale or in 6b. i think we've all been a little taken aback because the distance between buck and eddie in 5a had more obvious reasons: taylor being in the picture, and eddie's impending breakdown. right now, eddie's taken a backseat this season (though cursed very ominously hinted at something in store for him and chris), and while we all know that buck is gonna break eventually, he's not barreling towards it as fast as eddie was, nor will it probably be as intense. we don't really have any idea of how his current arc will unfold, so it's too soon to say what exactly they're trying to do with this distance.

still, i'd also like to remind you that buck and eddie aren't the only ones having less screentime—we've seen extremely little of maddie and chim (which has definitely been a surprise to me). the show's been taking the opportunity to not only explore new dynamics, but to have characters like hen at the focus, and most of the major arcs and dynamics this season have involved her in some way.

Like I wish Buck would confide in Eddie the way he has in the past about so many things about his latest situation. right, but again, we know why buck isn't doing so—he's making a bad decision and on some level he knows that, so he obviously isn't gonna talk to one of the few people who is capable of getting him to change his mind lol. the arc isn't wrapped up yet, so we can't just assume that buck is never gonna open up to eddie about it. in season 5, eddie only confided in buck when push came to shove. i can't imagine it would be any different with evan hides his true feelings from others buckley.

anyway, i guess what i'm trying to say is, we need to reserve our judgements until the end of season 6, or at the very least, the end of 6a. there's no point in getting preemptively mad until we can see the full picture—the fandom kept doing this in season 5, and looked quite foolish by the time 5b came around. if it's impossible for you to enjoy the story right now, i understand that completely, and i also advise you to take a break from the show and get caught up later. if you think that nothing can make this storyline better—well, then i suggest you drop the show altogether.

[embracedthevoid]

Hi I just wanted talk to you about your fic " Summer of love" and how much it affected me in really strange way. I mean Im usually in love with angst slow burn happy ending type of fiction readers but yours, I can't describe it well enough: it hurt me so bad that left me with tangled pool of emotions : the more I read each chapter the more I felt angry at Wille and the way he wanted to keep having stable simple life but still going after his teenager crush too. I felt frustrated too at how he wanted everything but did nothing to make change or simply move on and forget about it(if possible but I know that's hard with first love!) I felt sad and hopeless at how love can drag one souls and mind to cling to the tiniest (unreal) hope with no control over his life or body! I felt lost and confused, heartbroken and mad at every details that went through your story and I couldn't decipher at first why!yours fic is the first one where I wished for it to be with NO happy ending, for Simon to find love some where far away from Wilhelm's foggy world where he can't find himself or find way out of it.i wished for Simon to move on and find happiness for the rest of his life with no fear of losing it at any second or waking up like it was sweet dream that quickly ended before he even get the to best part of it.

I didn't know why I was( and still) super mad at Wilhelm's character, at how he didn't take risk for his lover, he didn't left his comfort zone and just stayed with empty soul, hoping vainly to build life with someone else he doesn't feel that burning flames with, wanting and choosing to settle down in fake loveless marriage. He didn't make efforts to change, he didn't push through or faced his worst fears and nightmare to reach to the other side where everything true, beautiful and real is there.. But he didn't!

I hated that so much, because I understood that pain so well that futil despair, holding into the less troubling, less desirable. Because I felt that too in way somehow I am there too choosing to live life void of risk and trouble and real love and independence and just existing peacefully or cowardly (if you want see it that way).

You're really really an amazing writer ❤️❤️

Oh my goodness, you've actually made me cry real tears. I'm legit sitting at my computer on a Sunday night with tears in my eyes because of this message. At first, I thought this was going to be a less than pleasant comment based on they way you opened, but I'm so so happy it didn't turn out that way hahah.

This makes me so happy to hear. You have no idea what this means to me. When I started the story there was an active thought in my mind that I didn't want the reader to be on Wilhelm's side. I wanted them to question him and what he was doing. To sympathize with him but also feel for the people he hurt and is currently hurting.

Life is hard and complicated and sometimes 'easier' just feels so so so much better as a short term solution. But doing the hard stuff, making the hard choices, is exactly that, difficult and messy and often end with someone getting hurt. Sadly Wilhelm is learning this too late. And I think seeing where Maddie is in her life and how happy she is, really helps Wilhelm see that. Because she chose the opposite of him. She took the risk, and it paid off, and now he's kicking himself for making the choices he did as a kid.

As for the wishing there was no happy ending, I'm honestly with you there. I've grown to love Marion and much as I have Wilhelm and Simon and I don't want any of them to suffer for Wilhelm's mistakes. But alas, the outline was completed months ago, and the story must go on as it's meant to.

Thank you so much for sending me this. As a person who actually wants to make a career out of being a writer, stuff like this makes my heart sing and my mind happy and motivated. So thank you anon, I adore you. 💜.

[low-budget-korra]

Comments on Euphoria s02e06

-Ali is a angel. His scene with Gia so good, I think it was the first time Gia was receiving attention.

-KATHERINE! Kat was weird about Cassie since s1 and I didn't catch that?

Also brain desorder? Really? Damn Kat and Ethan is speaking the facts. Kat doing what incels thinks feminists do

And to think that ~according to rumors~ Barbie is barely in this season because she argue with Sam about her character's arc and all , and to think that Kat's arc could be worst them already is rn? Damn.

- Fez and Lexi, and them watching movie together. If the leak was truth and something bad happen with Fez i will riot.

Narrator: It's gonna happen, everything that is on the leaks it's happening

-Nate didn't like, hate is mom or something? Or they forget that about him too? Is this conversation a foreshadowing and it's actually Cassie who will have Nate's baby? I have so many questions about Nate, his character is such a disappointment. In S1 he was a asshole and a terrible person but still was interesting and complex character to watch, now he is just the typical abusive guy that we have in basically every show now.

-Cassie hurting yourself because of Nate? That's the lowest of lows. Lexie speaking facts too.

I don't even feel mad for Cassie at all. She seriously needs help, and will ended up dead or killing someone. Maybe not this season or even not in the show but girls like her usually don't have a happy ending

-Maddie and Samantha scene was so good, but Maddie shouldn't be drinking and Samantha shouldn't be offering her alcohol.

I can't ship them cuz Maddie is a minor but I can ship Samantha with me and that's what I'm gonna do.

-Maddie and Nate scene was intense but I was "cool" because I knew nothing was gonna happen because I saw the leaks and I knew Maddie wasn't gonna die. But this one of the few scenes this season that Nate is Nate, u know, the s1 Nate. Btw , I hope he dies by the end and now I want Maddie to kill him.

Outstanding acting by Jacob and Alexa

-Its cool that he is given the DVD to Jules but it's so off character of him to do it right now in the story. This whole season I feel Nate is weird and kinda of off, I've talked before and will talk again when I do my review of the season

He love u Jules, that's why he gives u that disc. That's also why he was having a thing with Cassie, but again, it's something I will comment more later.

-Leslie last scene was a knife though my chest

-I didn't miss Eliott at show. I miss Kat, I mis McKay, I miss Fezco... I think this says a lot about how his character ain't that important, he is just a device, a plot device. Which is okay, the problem is that Euphoria (at least in S1) didn't have much space for that since it is more of a character driven series, and the only device that was Tyler, didn't have like half of the screen time Elliott had.

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166 notes • Posted 2021-03-01 21:40:57 GMT

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Gimme a moment of your time, if you would, to talk about Maddie Buckley (and, indirectly, her brothers, both of whom she loved so much, but only one she could save).

Maddie Buckley loves her baby brother more than anything- more than her parents and certainly more than Doug and there is nothing she wouldn't do for Buck, and that's where Philip and Margaret and Doug all miscalculated.

(They also underestimated Maddie in her entirety. She is kind and loving and fierce and stubborn and so much stronger than anyone ever believed, except maybe Buck, because he thought Maddie could do anything. And we don't know about Daniel, not really, only that he was there, so briefly, and the only evidence left is his sister's smothered grief and his brother's existence).

Maddie is nine when she looses her brother, and she doesn't just loose him to death, but also to their parents' grief as they make every piece of Daniel's very existence disappear.

(Except, they can't make Evan disappear and Maddie refuses to let their grief bury the brother she has left).

And maybe Philip and Margaret were different when Daniel was alive, but if they were it just meant Maddie lost them to their grief too.

So Maddie, no longer allowed to talk about Daniel (her brother), and not allowed to really process that grief, that loss that's almost impossible to understand that young, pours everything she has into herself and into Evan.

She holds him close and makes pinky promises and patches up his hurts (both physical and emotional because he doesn't know and can't understand why their parents are like that and it makes her so mad because she and Evan are right there. Don't they matter too?

And the answer, is, of course. Of course they matter, but it'll take over twenty years and running across the country for them to find the people that will love them as fiercely as they love they each other. To find a family).

And then she meets Doug who is sweet and charming and makes her feel wanted and valued. Who listens and adores her and supports her.

Who wants to know everything she does and every where she goes and after a life time of indifference from the two people who should have cared unconditionally it feels like freedom.

It feels like love.

She doesn't ever want Evan to know any different.

And then she goes with him to Boston and leaves behind her brother, and it breaks her heart but she always plans to come back.

(There is nothing in the world that will keep her from Evan)

But then she's married and her parents cut her off completely and Doug and her parents make it difficult for Evan to come see her or for her to see him and she can feel it in her soul that everything is wrong wrong wrong

And then she's back in Hershey and she sees how her parents are suffocating Evan - her baby brother who's heart is so big and so fragile and she loves more than anything. Who is bright and kind and just wants to matter.

(He matters. He matters to her so much more than he knows and her heart breaks everytime she sees the doubt in his eyes)

She knows if he stays with their parents, or even here in Hershey, he'll be suffocated by the ghost of their family's grief and he won't even know it.

She gives him her jeep and the money she'd been hiding and sends him away

(Oh, how she wanted to go with him but Doug was so mad when he found out and she never wants him near her brother again and she knows, she knows, he'd hunt them down if she went.

She won't ever let this monster have her brother.

She couldn't save Daniel, but she can save Evan.)

Evan wanders from place to place and state to state and Maddie treasures every postcard, talking about his adventures and the life he's living. He sounds like a weight has been lifted off his shoulders. Carefree and happy the way young boys in their early twenties should.

And then he's in Los Angeles and Evan becomes Buck and he finds a family in the 118 and she's so so happy when she reads his post cards. He's loved and cherished and she knows it.

And then things with Doug get worse and she clings to his Christmas card and wishes -

Then she's in L.A. and Buck has grown so much and she's so proud and she gets to meet the family he's built and -

She finds love - real love, the kind that props you up and makes you happy and feel safe. She gets folded into this makeshift family of first responders and gets to watch her brother grow more into himself and into this family he's found. She finds her own place in it and is so unbelievably happy.

(She couldn't save Daniel, but she saved Buck and got to see him thrive, and she hopes that, in whatever comes after death, Daniel can see them - and know that they're both happy and loved).

She didn't know this life was possible for her and Buck but she's so, so glad they've found it.

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[didon]

I'm going to have to argue your point here.

I don't know where you go to look for your Buddie content but clearly it's in the wrong place. The Buddie fandom I know has angst sure, but it's also filled with descriptions of romantic gestures, of kinks, of au and more! Angst is far from the only thing being written and being discussed let me tell you that.

Name me one fandom without angst though. Yeah life is fun and we all want to have happy stories where nothing wrong ever happen but that's not realistic. Plus, writing has always been an outlet for people to deal with their emotions. I know that the more depressed I get, the more angst you can find in my idea and in my stories. It's not done consciously but my writing is a reflection of me. And for the broken home part, there are a lot of tumblr posts that give reasoning as to why people think that the Buckleys were not good parents, that they might even have been abusive and since abuse come in more than one shape and form you can't police how people write it.

If you didn't know how tumblr work, it will post certain things in tags even if you don't actually put any meaning that post like yours can actually end up in the Buddie tag so yeah you have to expect shippers to react badly then. Especially since a lot of us are queer and you are acting like we're crap you step in. I'm a queer woc so whenever people call me racist or queerphobic I take offense because I have struggled with those my entire life.

Concerning your story, I want to tell you that it was incredibly written and that you are a good author. However, maybe it wasn't your intention, but it can be triggering. Just because you say it's meant to be an empowering message, seeing queer people once again be targeted may not feel that way for a lot of people. You can't force them to see it your way and you can't get mad at them for how it makes them feel. You put your work out there and people are allowed to feel how they feel about it.

I'm sorry you got anonymous hate though. Especially since I know that a lot of it has been going around in the 911 fandom especially toward Maddie's fans and Buddie shippers. No matter what is the reasoning behind, anon hate always suck.

A little thing though toward the recent trend of gatekeeping certain ships, fandoms and even communities: who the fuck gave you the right to do so? The fun part of fandoms is that everybody is included especially women and queer people who basically laid the foundation on which any fandom stands today. Unless someone is shipping a child with an adult or a gay character with someone of the opposite gender, you are not allowed to police who can or cannot ship stuff. There is no fandom police driving around and arresting people for shipping stuff especially since women have been pioneering queer ships for a long time. Especially since woc have done more than their share of shipping white couples at their own detriment and now are simply expecting the basic right of shipping whoever they want.

So, stop attacking an entire group of people based on the characters they ship because it is insulting and you are no the authority in charge here. People are allowed to ship whoever they want (that is not completely offensive that I will agree on) and just blacklist the angst tag if it displeases you that much.

If I have to deal with the ableist and misogynistic jerk on ao3 that keeps on writing insulting stories about Maddie and JLH, I think you can deal with people maybe processing their emotions and own traumas through their writing.

Seeing as barelyprolificincrediblylazy blocked me, I have no qualms making this post.

Stop being discriminatory against the members of the buddie fandom. Stop posting hate about members of the buddie fandom and then deleting said posts, over and over (source one and two). Not every person in the buddie fandom is a female, let alone a straight female. While you are allowed to feel like people are being homophobic in what interests them writing wise, being discriminatory like that is not alright.

Stop being a hypocrite. You’ve made posts earlier, but one post (x) said this:

And it’s so fucking twisted that I see writers who get all these prompts for, like, suicide attempts or self-mutilation or them beating each other up or having someone else beat them up and it makes me so, so uncomfortable. As a gay man, it also makes me feel pretty fucking unwelcome.

Yet, you literally write a story where a serial killer goes after LGTBQ+ members. And then you’re calling the one’s writing things where Buck get’s abused growing up, or dealing with depression, homophobic? Yeah, no. That’s incredibly fucking hypocritical.

Stop calling writers in the fandom who are trying to work through their own problems by writing Buck having a bad history, or bad PTSD, or depression, writers who like torture porn, homophobic. You have no fucking clue what these writers are going through, and what they’re trying to escape from when they’re writing.

Overall, just stop. You have good posts, sometimes. 

But a lot of the time your passive aggressiveness towards members of the fandom is gross, and the fact that you won’t accept people telling you not all writers are straight females, and just continue calling writers homophobic because they write things you don’t like is just as terrible.

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Crowsourced ideas for the EAH/OUAT crossover because I can't get it out of my fucking head apparently and I need to write them all down in a single place

Apple -> takes the place of baby Neal as Snow and Charming's second child, exacerbating Emma's bitterness because like, if you're a bit jealous that your parents are raising and doting on a baby like they couldn't go to you, that feeling must multiplicate tenfold if said baby is a little girl with blonde hair

Raven -> Regina's baby with Robin. Implies that Cora never dosed her daughter with an infertility spell and also that the whole Zelena pregnancy shebang was avoided somehow PLEASE I need this for my sanity. Has magic blood but ON GOD, Regina will bash Rumple on the head if he comes near her kid with weird power-teaching ideas

(when I made the first post about this I completely forgot that Sparrow Hood is a guy that exists in EAH, but it's fine, we can pretend he doesn't OR Regina can have twins - Raven and Sparrow are names that go so well together, after all! And the prospect is hysterical! Surely nothing could go wrong with those two in the same nursery!!!!!)

Ruby and Dorothy were implied to do some travelling together in the show, right? Maybe they could find the remains of a wolf pack like that of Ruby's mother, except all that's left is VERY mistrustful wolfblood young sisters Ramona and Cerise in severe need for adult intervention. Time for Red Kansas to become chaos moms and break some walls the girls have built, I guess

if Jefferson already has one daughter, there is no reason why he couldn't have TWO daughters! Enter Madeline/Maddie, AKA Grace's mad (honorific) little sis

Cinderella is already called Ashley in OUAT so I'd be loath to keep her daughter as Ashlynn but...Lynney? Lynette? Something? Anyway, a glorified Alexandra LMAO same for Hunter, though - for one, where would Graham get a son, and for two, would he name that son Hunter? Nope. Definitely not. Needs workshopping

other kids I have floating around are Briar (but Aurora is already pregnant in canon so whatever that's easy), Crystal (technically as the daughter of the Snow Queen she should come from Elsa or Ingrid's line, but that doesn't sound likely...maybe Anna and Kristoff instead?), Alistair Wonderland (probably Alice and Cyrus' offspring, but that would mean not interacting much with the rest of the crew), Lizzie Hearts (Cora has no right to a third daughter, so what's the closest thing to the Queen of Hearts? Anastasia the Red Queen? Idk??????) etc etc

and now the actual protagonist in my heart, Cedar Booth Wood

so because of Jojo's intervention, her backstory is established as such: she's the result of one of August's pre-canon flings that ends up in Storybrooke when she's quite young. That narrows the window of time where she could have been conceived before her dad was either wooden/a third grader/being a whole dumbass, but I wanted her to be about the same age as her friends and that means keeping her at about 5yo upon her arrival (timelines are wonky because OUAT's timeline IS wonky, but hardly anybody will even read so far, so ssssssh)

August is her nearest relation available, so that's why he gets a handful of child so suddenly. He is...a bit in shock, but he ends up loving her once the surprise wears off. Marco is OVER THE MOON because it's free granddaughter. Archie is just begging that at least ONE member of their family has a kid in a plain, normal way at some point in the future

then the angst kicks in because it turns out daddy's enchanted tree genes are just a little too strong and they resurface quite vehemently once Cedar steps foot in Storybrooke. Maybe she starts turning into wood, or has an averse reaction to lies, or both, I don't know I'd love it to be both, but I'm scared that I will get yelled at for torturing this child any further

the central point is - I was discussing this topic with @bewilderedmoth the other night and she had a STRONG hand in helping me reach the conclusion that a) this is probably the Blue Fairy's fault, so fuck her b) since Cedar is so young in this AU not only would August be desperate that she gets...cured? Un-cursed? Something, but he'd also realize that...shit. He wasn't much older than her when he got thrown into his personal hellscape. That's fucked up. Who thought it could be a healthy learning experience (see point a)? Unhand his kiddo RIGHT NOW or so help him

finally, this unreasonably funny concept from yours truly, to send you off on a lighter note