#kaz watches buffy

[theprotagonistisdead]

it's so funny to me that in once more with feeling spike goes off on buffy about not having broken into song yet but then immediately sings one about how buffy makes him feel alive. dude forgot why people in musicals sing. because they can't just say their feelings because it's too much. he will tell her more about his feelings for her but not yet. it's still too much right now.

[make-me-imagine]

Requests

Status: CLOSED

Alright, requests for all of my fandoms are open. Send some in while you can, they will not be open long!

Writing Prompt List #1 *210 prompts (fluff/romance; angst/emotional; Misc/Humor; & Scenario Prompts)

Writing Prompt List #2 *200 prompts (fluff/romance; angst/emotional; Misc/Humor; and Scenario Prompts)

Sensory Prompts #1 *125 prompts (nature ambiance; fluff/relationship; angst/sad; scary/horror; comfort; and Misc.)

Sensory Prompts #2 *around 130 prompts (nature/outside ambiance; relationship/fluff; angst; scary/horror; comfort; and Misc.)

Rules Page *Basic Rules: - I only write 'x reader' inserts; no ships or oc inserts - GN!Reader only - I do not write specific body types, or for other specific physical characteristics, since I try to keep my inserts as neutral as possible - No nsfw; no pregnancy/children, no readers/character fics below 18

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You can request for fics/oneshots or headcanons.

You can send in your own plot, and/or 1-3 prompts. Feel free to mix and match from the prompt lists!

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Full Fandoms List Below Cut:

9-1-1 (FOX show)

Evan “Buck” Buckley Eddie Diaz Det. Lou Ransone Howard “Chimney” Han

The Boys:

Serge “Frenchie” Hughie Campbell Billy Butcher

Bridgerton

Anthony Bridgerton Benedict Bridgerton Simon Basset Colin Bridgerton *maybe others? 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Spike Angel

Criminal Minds  (I have only watched seasons 1-11)

Spencer Reid Aaron Hotchner Derek Morgan

Doctor Who

Ten Eleven Twelve

Elementary

Sherlock Holmes *I have not watched the whole series so I wont write much for in-show plot points

Firefly

Malcolm Reynolds Simon Tam

Lark Rise to Candleford

Daniel Parish Fisher Bloom Sir Timothy Midwinter Alf Arless Mr Rushton

Leverage 

Eliot Spencer Quinn Alec Hardison

Magnificent Seven Tv Series (1998-2000)

Chris Larabee Ezra Standish Vin Tanner Buck Wilmington

The Mandalorian + TBoBF

Din Djarin Cobb Vanth Boba Fett (prefer platonic)

M*A*S*H (Tv Series)

Hawkeye Pierce BJ Hunnicutt Trapper John

Merlin (BBC)

Merlin Arthur Gwaine Percival Lancelot

Moon Knight

Steven Grant Marc Spector Arthur Harrow

Person of Interest

John Reese Others; platonically is preferred

Prodigal Son 

Malcolm Bright Gil Arroyo 

Shadow and Bone:

Kaz Brekker Matthias Mal Alexander/Kirigan ?

*I have read the Grishaverse books, so I am willing to write around that plot. But the characters will be in character for the show, and the characters will be written as 20+ as their ages are not stated in the show but it feels as though they are aged up in the depiction. 

Sherlock (BBC)

Sherlock Holmes Greg Lestrade Jim Moriarty

Star Trek: Discovery

Christopher Pike Gabriel Lorca (willing to write for an alternate ‘Prime’ version of Lorca) Sarek Spock **I’m in the process of watching Disco and am currently on Season 3. I will be watching Strange New Worlds when I can. **please make sure to specify which Spock you are requesting for (Disco or AOS.)

Star Trek: Enterprise 

Captain Archer Trip Tucker Malcolm Reed 

Star Trek: Voyager 

Chakotay Tom Paris

Stargate Sg-1

Jack O’Niell Daniel Jackson Jonas Quinn Cameron Mitchell 

Stargate Atlantis

John Sheppard Carson Becket Ronon Dex

Supernatural  *Have only watched seasons 1-9

Sam Winchester Dean Winchester Castiel Gabriel Gadreel Balthazar Crowley Lucifer Caine

Teen Wolf 

Derek Hale Peter Hale

Vampire Diaries & The Originals

Elijah Mikaelson Klaus Mikaelson Damon Salvatore Kol Mikaelson Lorenzo “Enzo” St John Finn Mikaelson

**Never watched The Originals’, so I only know the Mikaelsons from TVD.

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MCU:

Original Avengers:

Tony Stark  Steve Rogers Thor Bruce Banner Clint Barton Natasha Romanoff

Others:

Bucky Barnes Sam Wilson Helmut Zemo Loki Heimdall Vision Scott Lang Peter Parker (Garfield and/or Hollands; aged up) Dr. Stephen Strange T’Challa Agent Ross Shang-Chi Peter Quill

*** Feel free to ask about other MCU characters; I will write for most (depending on if I like the request as well) ***

X-Men

Original Timeline Movies:  Logan/Wolverine Scott Summers Kurt Wagner “Nightcrawler” Viktor Creed “Sabertooth”

First Class Timeline: Charles Xavier Eric Lehnsherr Hank McCoy Alex Summers Azazel Peter Maximoff “Quicksilver” Warren Worthington III “Angel”

**Many of the younger characters ages are not obvious in the First Class movies, so everyone will be written/suggested as 20+

The Eternals

Druig Ikaris Kingo

Venom (1 & 2)

Eddie Brock

Deadpool (1 & 2)

Wade/Deadpool  Ajax/Francis Cable Domino

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Star Wars Universe

Episodes I-III

Anakin Skywalker Obi Wan Kenobi

Episodes IV-VI

Luke Skywalker Han Solo

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Han Solo Lando Calrissian Dryden Vos

Episodes VII-IX

Finn Poe Dameron Ben Solo/Kylo

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The Hobbit/Lotr

Thranduil Thorin Kili Fili Bard Legolas Aragorn Eomer Faramir Elrond

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Fantastic Beasts:  ((JK Rowling is a bigot and anything I write regarding the wizarding world is of my own imagination and a continuation of a world I want untainted by her bigotry)) 

Newt Scamander, Percival Graves *So far I have only seen the first movie

**I will possibly write for characters from Harry Potter or Marauders, such as the Weasley twins, Malfoy, Cedric, Remus, Sirius, etc. But if I do, it will be after they leave Hogwarts and are 18+.

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Star Trek AOS

Cpt. Jim Kirk Dr. Leonard McCoy Spock Montgomery “Scotty” Scott Pavel Chekov Hikaru Sulu Khan *please make sure to specify which Spock you are requesting for (Disco or AOS.)

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The Outsiders

Darrel “Darry” Curtis Maybe: Sodapop Curtis Dallas Winston ^^Aged Up

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Pirates of the Caribbean (1-4)

Captain Jack Sparrow Will Turner James Norrington Elizabeth Swann/Turner

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Magnificent Seven (2016) 

Joshua Faraday Billy Rocks Goodnight Robicheaux Vasquez Red Harvest

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Maleficent I & II

Conall, Borra, Diaval, Maleficent

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E 

Napoleon Solo Illya Kuryakin

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Kingsman: The Secret Service and The Golden Circle

Eggsy Unwin Hamish Mycroft “Merlin” Jack Daniels “Whiskey”

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Jane Austen/Period Movies: 

Pride and Prejudice (1995 & 2005) Characters: Mr. Darcy and Mr Bingley (other characters if requested)

Mansfield Park (1999 & 2007) Character: Edmund Bertram

Sense and Sensibility (1995/2008) Character: Edward Ferrars 

Emma (2009 & 2020) Character: Mr. Knightley

Persuasion (2007) Character: Captain Wentworth

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Outside Characters: 

Actors who have multiple characters outside of the listed fandoms that I am willing to write for!

Charlie Hunnam:

Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) Raymond Smith (The Gentlemen) William “Ironhead” Miller (Triple Frontier) **Will also write for Ben Miller

Oscar Isaac: 

Santiago “Pope” Garcia (Triple Frontier)

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[witchthewriter]

💀👯📺📚✨🐐🗡️🧇🧨🧤.

You don't have to answer these questions if you don't want to. I hope you are having a lovely day.

I wanna say thank you to @brilligbroilledbooks for coming up with this!

Of course, I want to answer them! Thank you for taking the time to send in the ask! Also, I'm not sure if all the questions are in relation to the Grishaverse??? So I'm just going with whatever...I want lol oops

💀 Favorite villain?

I mean The Darkling was a pretty good goddamn villain but the best ones are when you start to agree with them. When their perspective starts making sense, that's when you know you have a good villain. So with that being said, I guess ... the Joker? I mean the Darkling is a DAMN good villain, so yeah he will always be one of my favourites. But also I love a good female villain so Jennifer Check from Jennifer's Body?

"Jennifer! You're killing people!"

"No, I'm killing boys-"

It really is a cult classic.

👯Favorite ships/duos/dynamics (friendships are also ships!)?

Me & Money (lol just kidding...👀), Katniss & Peeta, Nat & Wanda, Nikolai & Zoya, Jesper & Nikolai, Buffy & Faith, Sansa & Dany, Sansa & Margaery. These are all romantic ones though - friendship ones are; Inej & Nina, Genya, Alina & Zoya, Buffy & Willow, and Peeta & Finnick.

📺Favorite tv show quote/scene?

I think would have to be Carmy's scene in The Bear, when he's at the AA meeting and finally opens up. I just related so much, he says he didn't have friends growing up, he had a stutter, never had a girlfriend...here's the scene if you want to watch it. Trigger Warning though! And then at the end of the series ... god I don't want to spoil it for you, but I have never cried and laughed so loudly and so much at the same time.

For Grishaverse -

When Jesper and Kaz are taken to see Dresden (or whatever his name is) but it's really to see Nikolai and just ... god the interaction, the witty banter. Kaz's side eye with Jesper about knowing about him being a durast.

📚 Favorite book quote/scene?

In William Shakespeare's play, 'Much Ado About Nothing,' the scene where Beatrice and Benedick are talking and she yells, "O if I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace!" (Here's the scene if you want to check it out). I got it tattooed actually, except it says "I'll eat his heart in the marketplace." To me, in the play, it means the social constructs are obstructing Beatrice from standing up for her cousin, but my tattoo means ... f*ck the social norm, f*ck tradition - I can and I will call anyone out. Let me know if anyone wants to see the tattoo... if no one cares, that's totally chill as well lol

For Grishaverse -

My favourite quote would be Genya talking about her abuse from the King. It's so much more hard-hitting than in the tv show. I cried and cried while reading it. Because I think the King was still alive, and she got to say it to his face while Nikolai was there as well.

✨Which Grisha order would you belong to?

Oh my god! I'm always thinking about this. On one hand, I would love to be a summoner, but one that doesn't exist - I wanna be the main character like that tehe oops. But then again, being a durast would come in handy!!! But then there's also being a Heartrender, and no one can survive without their heart so I just want to be the most powerful 👀

🐐Who/what is your emotional support goat?

Jesper - whenever I feel overwhelmed, I'm like 'Jesper would be laughing right now, I need to chill.' But also my pets - Baloo (my lab cross rottie) and Silly (my cat who is currently asleep on my bed). Also...The Hunger Games series is my emotional support movies??? I think that says a lot about me ...

🗡️Wraith, what are your knives' names? (Moral principles that you value - yes, also name the knives)

I would name my knives like they name their swords in Game of Thrones.

Maiden Death

Fate's End

Vicious Hope

...Bad Luck

My moral principles are:

Everyone is equal and has equal opportunities (except for those who have done unforgivable things - that's a whole other discussion).

I think we should Eat the Rich - no one needs that much money

Water should always be free - everywhere

Abortions need to be legal and accessible (everywhere and without hassle)

Religion has no place in government

Marriage equality is an obvious yes - I can't believe we're still arguing about this

Guns need to be banned

Education is free, yes that includes university degrees

Medical care also needs to be free as well

Okay so that turned into opinions rather than principles...

🧇Heartrender, if you had to betray your country for food what would it be?

Okay so I don't know if you guys have these outside of Australia but we have these chocolate bars called Picnics. They're a wafer covered in caramel, then nuts with Cadbury chocolate. They're what waffles are to Nina - I would eat these for the rest of my life. I can easily eat a bag of 12 in less than 30 minutes. They're ... delectable. I'm actually eating them right now ahahah oh my god

🧨Demo-expert, how do you code your experiments? (Favorite hobby)

My fav hobby is ... this. It's this account, writing for you guys, making moodboards, researching astrology signs, mbti, pair ups, headcanons. This, as well as learning about witchcraft and tarot. Reading, and extending my writing abilities.

🧤Dirtyhands, what's your weakness?

Um... being ridiculed/insulted. But also talk sh*t get hit amirite ladies?! I think it's being rejected, looked down on, and thought of as disgusting. That's my weakness. But if we're talking...how would the enemy get me to do anything, it would probably be kidnaping my family???

[takaraphoenix]

Shadow and Bone: Season 2 Review

Now that I’ve sat with my s2 feelings for a day, I want to put something a bit more coherent together.

Second seasons are always tricky. They tend to fall victim to a major quality drop; very often, a first season manages to be mindblowing and the second season falls completely flat. With how much I loved season 1, I spent the past year very afraid of what kind of quality season 2 might have.

The short of it: I was pleasantly surprised, I don’t think there was a quality drop, I think that quality-wise it was pretty much en-par with season 1.

Sadly, that does include the major flaw - cramming too much plot into too few episodes. Eight episodes are just not enough for just how much they make happen, watching it all is so overwhelming in how quickly everything happens and how nothing is allowed to breath because we have to rush to the next thing because we just don’t have the time to sit with anything. And that’s a shame.

At the very least they could have given this 10 episodes to allow it all to be loosened a little bit more, though I still think that this would have been the perfect jumping off point for a Six of Crows spin off and splitting the two major plotlines this season - the Shadow and Bone season 2 focusing on Alina’s story and giving the Crows their own spin-off. Simultaneous release and make them crossover, when Zoya and Tolya go visit the Crows and when the Crows come join SaB for the season finale, those interactions could have still happened, but I think there would have been less whiplash and more focus if the rest had been allowed to happen in two separate shows.

My favorite thing about this show has been and still is that it has great characters. The plot’s... questionable - I’m not gonna lie, I’m very happy they mixed the book series (despite what I literally just sad; I think it served s1 very well to mix them) - but the characters are so amazing? I’m the type of person who usually really latches onto one characters, that’s mine, and the others become secondary characters to my fave. I don’t think I’ve ever latched onto as many characters before.

I love and adore Aleksander so much, I don’t think I’ve ever felt this feral about and attached to a villain before in my life. Alina is the most compelling female lead I’ve met since Buffy Summers, honestly - she is strong, capable, soft, beautiful, amazing. I fell for Inej so very hard so quickly, she is so amazing. Jesper is absolutely brilliant, that balance of snark and soft coupled with canon bisexual. And I even latched onto Kaz in my own way, because his trauma-response in regards to touch made me project my asexuality onto him and there aren’t many characters that I headcanon as ace so I have a very, very soft spot for those characters in particular too.

That’s already more characters than usual and I genuinely that that would be it. I knew that season 2 would bring new characters and I had hoped they’d be nice additions but I actually grew unreasonably fond of them too.

Tolya and Tamar are absolutely amazing. I wish we could have had more focus on Tamar and particularly her romance - I didn’t like that the Tamar/Nadia basically only happened in the background, like I get that we are pressed for time, I do, but you are wasting so much time on so much straight relationship drama because this show is playing Noah’s Arc to degrees that are very rare to see outside of CW shows honestly, so it would have been nice if I had gotten at least a little focus on the one wlw ship on this show, especially since they did have great chemistry on their scenes together. And Tolya is adorable, the big, strong guy and then he loves poetry and I’m gone.

Nikolai actually makes me feel like someone tailor made that guy for me. The snark! The jokes! The insistence on not remembering Mal’s name! The high levels of chemistry with Alina and the fake marriage trope with Alina! He’s a pirate! He’s a prince! He’s handsome! He’s amazing! What can’t he do! Gotta love him.

Genuinely my favorite part really was on Nikolai’s pirate ship. I would have absolutely watched an entire season of Alina and Mal as parts of Nikolai’s crew. Just. Pirate stuff with Nikolai, Tolya, Tamar and Miradi.

I really thought I would be... disappointed this season. Maybe that’s why I’m not. Because I set my expectations incredibly low so they were hard to beat, but honestly? I genuinely enjoyed the season.

The costumes were absolutely stunning this season, the costume department went all out!

The new characters were great. The plot is still whatever to me, I have thoughts on that that may be worth a separate post at some point but the thoughts aren’t changes from season 1 so it’s not really impacted by season 2. Nothing in season 2 really did anything drastic that disappointed me plot-wise. Well, that’s maybe untrue, but... nothing disappointing in an unexpected manner, perhaps, would be a better way to put that?

Aside from maybe the book spoilers I knew, like that firebird thing. I read about that. I was expecting some epic shot, with an actual firebird, some cool reveal. Not an info-dump from Baghra, of all people. That was... anticlimactic. And it also honestly made no sense? In the books, Alina and Mal went and found the actual firebird, because they were looking for the firebird. Because Alina wanted to use the firebird as her amplifier. And then realized that Mal was the amplifier that would work for her. The show kind of... muddled that together and decided that Mal couldn’t find the firebird because he was the firebird. But he... he wasn’t? He wasn’t a bird, he may have been the amplifier, but he wasn’t the actual firebird. That was... weird, boring and also kind of illogical.

I do think the show’s biggest issue is its pacing. It’s like we’re running a sprint, but it’s actually the length of a marathon. I feel out of breath. Please slow down.

I liked the ending. The ending surprised me in a positive way. I did not see a corruption arc for Alina coming at all. I really didn’t. Been advocating for this since like episode 3, nobody told me there would be actual Alina corruption in canon so that’s a nice surprise. I like how this could be a final ending that would leave things open for interpretation while still wrapping up all major plotpoints, but it definitely invites season 3. A very sensible way to end a season when you write for a Netflix show and never know if you will be allowed to live or die.

[romanocheese]

I have covid apparently so I've been sleeping a lot and watching stuff

Do you have anything you suggest because I'll be here for a while

BUCKLE UP BABEY you're getting a long recommendation list!!

shows to stream:

- inside job. adult cartoon about conspiracies and the shadow government. co-produced by alex hirsch, so you know the weirdness is gonna be good (1 season, 10 episodes)

- buffy the vampire slayer. 90s vampire/demon show. dorky special effects and dorkier ensemble. will make you laugh and make you cry. also gay witches in s4 (7 seasons, ~26 episodes each)

- our flag means death. gay pirates. what more is there to say. (1 season, 10 episodes)

- the umbrella academy. fast paced, off the walls superhero drama written by gerard way. you can practically taste the cocaine he was on. the soundtrack fucks so hard. (3 seasons, 10 episodes each)

- bob's burgers. sitcom cartoon about a family that runs a burger joint. i normally dislike sitcoms but there's just something about this one that endears me to it and it's somehow become a comfort show. (8 seasons? 9 seasons? i dunno but you'll be set for weeks)

- good omens. an angel and a demon in love try to stop the apocalypse. hijinks ensue (1 season, 6 episodes)

- i have no idea if you like shakespeare or not but if you do feel free to dm me and i can get you recordings of hamlet or much ado about nothing, both starring david tennant

on youtube:

- kaz rowe (media history, queer history, general history)

- miniminuteman/milo rossi (archaeology)

- bernadette banner (historical dress)

- sarah z (fandom history deep dives)

- hermitcraft

all recommendations come with your warm beverage of choice, a hot bowl of your favorite soup, and a good blanket. sleep lots, stay hydrated, and get well soon my friend <3

[raining-anonymously]

Ok this is the second time I’ve been tagged so I’ll actually do it now! Thanks @fan-of-chaos and @sharada-n!

Rules: bold what you prefer

coffee or tea (hot chocolate) | early bird or night owl | chocolate or vanilla | spring or fall | silver or gold | pop or alternative | freckles or dimples | snakes or sharks | mountains or fields | thunderstorm or lightning | Egyptian or Greek mythology | ivory or scarlet | flute or lyre | eyes or lips | witch or fairy | opal or diamond | butterflies or honeybees | macarons or eclairs | typewritten or handwritten letters | secret garden or secret library | rooftop or balcony | spicy or mild | opera or ballet | London or Paris | Vincent van Gogh or Claude Monet | denim or leather | potions or spells | ocean or desert | mermaid or siren | masquerade ball or cocktail party

Rules: name your top ten favourite characters from ten different fandoms

In the order I thought of them:

Seam (Deltarune)

Mettaton (Undertale)

Crowley and Aziraphale (Good Omens) (i couldn’t choose)

Loki (Norse mythology in general)

Ben Linus (Lost)

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)

 June Egbert (Homestuck)

Linus Baker (The House on the Cerulean Sea)

Virgil (Sanders Sides)

Rules: bold the statements that apply to you

AIR: I have small hands • I love the night sky • I watch small animals and birds when I pass them by • I drink herbal tea • I wake to see dawn • The smell of dust is comforting • I’m valued for being wise • I prefer books to music • I meditate • I find joy in learning new truths from the world around me

FIRE: I don’t have straight hair • I like to wear ripped jeans and overalls pants & leggings • I play an organized sport • I love cats • I am not afraid of adventure • I love to talk to strangers • I always try new foods • I enjoy road trips • Summer is my favourite season • My radio is always playing

WATER: I wear bracelets on my wrists • I love the bustle of the city • I have more than one set of piercings • I read poetry • I love the sound of a thunderstorm • I want to travel the world • I sleep past midnight most days • I love dimly lit diners and fluorescent signs • I rewatch kids’ shows out of nostalgia • I see emotions in colours not words

EARTH: I wear glasses • I enjoy doing the laundry • I am a vegetarian or vegan • I have an excellent sense of time • My humour is very cheerful • I am a valued adviser to my friends • I believe in true love • I love the chill of mountain air • I’m always listening to music • I am highly trusted by the people in my life

AETHER: I go without makeup in my daily life • I make my own artwork • I keep on track of my tasks and time • I always know true north • I see beauty in everything • I can always smell flowers • I smile at everyone I pass by • I always fear history repeating itself • I have recovered from a mental disorder • I can love unconditionally

For tagging people I’ll do @makerofmadness @softichill @seamvil @stqrryskiez  @mistery-elijah plus anyone who sees and wants to do it!

[auroraphillip]

rules: tag nine people you want to know better.

tagged by the lovely @addys-beth 💕💖💞

three ships: fred/wesley (ats), joey/pacey (dawson's creek), and a tie between inej/kaz (sab) and buffy/spike (btvs)

first ever ship: fred/wesley (ats) my beloveds <3

last song: i think it was seeing blind by niall horan from my joeypacey playlist

last film: honestly i don't think i've watched a movie in 2022 😬 i think my last film was white christmas on christmas

currently reading: .........textbooks.....

currently watching: i'm watching the good place and haven with my mom, and i'm also watching little house on the prairie and i started rewatching anne with an e last night

currently consuming: nothing

currently craving: chocolate

tagging: @joey-potters, @bettycoops, @neve-campbells, @tabithatate

[sandalaris]

LATE! but for the fandom asks: BtVS and Shadow and Bone? 💖💖💖

BtVS

my favorite female character: At the moment it’s probably Faith. Her journey and her approach to slaying has always been fun and interesting, but I’ve been thinking more about the things that lead her there lately. The bad choices she made and what could’ve gone differently with a nudge here or there.

my favorite male character: Xander Harris. I know he’s grown some hate over the years, but I love him dearly. He still one of my favorite characters of all time to this day.

my favorite book/season/etc: Season five is the best in my opinion. I’m not even sure why, but its just so good. Or maybe it’s just the last really good season of BtVS, because I feel like the show went down hill after that.

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): Hush is just an amazing episode. They do a lot with so little spoken dialogue, and the misdirect with Tara was just awesome.

my favorite cast member: Anthony Stewart Head, I always like him in whatever I see him in.

my favorite ship: I have my OTP, Spike/Xander, but at the moment my favorite ship is Angel/Willow. Every now and then I get back on them and need content, I’m just so damn picky about them and they’re on the rarer side ship-wise in the fandom that I hardly ever find anything I like. :(

a character I’d die defending: Xander! >:( He gets way more hate than he deserves and I am not here for it. I won’t got into a big defense now, many people have done a better job than me at it anyways, but the amount of blind hatred he gets is staggering.

a character I just can’t sympathize with: Warren. It’s not just that he killed Tara, but he entire storyline is basically just him being bitter and angry that life isn’t “fair.” I’d argue that he got way more than deserved from life to begin with.

a character I grew to love: Cordelia Chase. During my first watch through, I didn’t care for Cordelia until about season three. I loved her after that, and she was probably my favorite part of AtS. 

my anti otp I will call it notp until I die!: Spike and Buffy. I shipped them for a half a moment when I stumbled across a random season five episode before I ever started watching the show. Then I actually watched the show and just wasn’t into them at all. It’s not that I don’t see the appeal they could hold for others, but they hold absolutely no appeal to me and I really don’t like the subplot of Spike being in love with Buffy that happened in season five. 

Shadow and Bone, possible spoilers ahead! You’re getting multiple answers for almost all of these, btw :P

my favorite female character: 

In the Shadow and Bones trilogy it is my girl Genya. She had some amazing lines/moments and she put with so much all for the chance at a better life. And she was this subtle badass, fighting back in her own small ways, like the method she used to poison the king. I’m a little disappointed they didn’t show the Queen all fake and plastic looking in the show considering how Genya would purposely tailor her just a little off as revenge. I still like her in the show, but she hasn’t yet grabbed me the way she did in the books. I actually don’t think I have a favorite female character in the show at this point.

Nina and Inej mostly tied as my favorites in the Six of Crows books, but Nina made me laugh more which gives her just a little bit of an edge. She’s fun and flirty and doesn’t let anyone, even Kaz, keep her from being herself. She’s also a pretty good grifter, able to use her skills with languages and her ability to read people to get what she wants. 

I didn’t actually like Zoya all that much until later on in the series (a mistake on my part because Zoya is awesome), but King of Scars made her one of my favorite characters. Yes, she’s prickly and prone to jealous sniping when her position is threatened, but she’s also unapologetic in who she is and genuinely wants what is best for her country and people and will do whatever it takes to get it. She learned a hard lesson at a young age that being nice won’t protect her and has fought to keep herself and those she loves/are loyal to safe.

my favorite male character:

I’m not positive he fits the label of “favorite” but I certainly found the Darkling the most compelling male character in the books, and he’s pretty far up there in the show as well. I probably enjoy watching him on screen the most as well, although I feel like in the show Jesper was my actual favorite male character. He was certainly my favorite in Six of Crows books, and the show version of him captures book!Jesper perfectly. 

I wanna say that Nikolai is my favorite somewhere, because I love him so much (he’s funny and sarcastic, which I’m always a sucker for in a character), but I feel like he doesn’t quite count for reasons I can’t put my finger one.

my favorite book/season/etc

Out of all of the Grishaverse, Six of Crows is hands down my favorite. It’s a heist! With young morally-gray criminals who don’t all have this nice heart of gold under it all, who break into-and out of -an unbreakable prison while spouting off witty dialogue! 

There’s only been a single season in the show so far, but I’m excited to see more!

my favorite episode (if its a tv show)

Probably the episode two. There’s something about the way things were revealed and the subtle unfolding of many of the characters that I like. 

my favorite cast member: 

The only one’s who’s name I know is Ben Barnes and I only learned that when he was announced as the Darkling and Tumblr had a meltdown. *shrug* I mostly was like, “that’s the guy from The Punisher. He’s good at playing the villain, so yay.” 

my favorite ship

I don’t want him redeemed in the slightest, nor do I particularly want a happy ending for them, but I love the dynamic between Alina and the Darkling. That push/pull they have, how very alike they are even as they are very opposite, and how she just can’t shake her draw to him and him to her, although he doesn’t try as hard as she does. They have this connection, are insanely compatible, and part of this tragic appeal of them is that in another life they could’ve had that happy ending together. It’s beautiful and tragic, to see how you’ve broken something before you even had it. And there’s something so appealing for me in that, in how their feelings are this tangled mess that can’t be undone and the way they really are the only people who can fully understand the other and the bond that forges between them. 

On a lighter note, Nina/Matthias was my favorite ship in Six of Crows for a long time, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention how much I love Kaz/Inej.

a character I’d die defending

Zoya maybe? Or Matthias? 

a character I just can’t sympathize with

The apparat. I kept waiting to see if his motives were something I could relate with in the books. They weren’t. He’s just a creepy old man who wants Alina to die and become a martyr so he can lead the church in her name. 

a character I grew to love

Probably Zoya. She seemed to be such a stereotypical mean girl in the first book, there only to make things hard on the main character, and I fell for it. She really is so much more than that.

my anti otp

I will accept the term anti-otp just this once because I don’t really have a notp for the show or books. The closest I have is Alina/Mal in the books. In the show I can actually see it and will probably aw over them when they get together, but in the books? He doesn’t seem to care of Alina at all, even as a friend for most of the first book, and gets downright petty and bitter when she’s revealed to be the Sun Summoner. But I can see their friendship in the show, on both sides, and that’s gone a long way for me. It’ll probably never be a ship I love, but I think I’ll probably grow to like it well enough.

[theprotagonistisdead]

I'm rewatching btvs s2e17 passions, and i know that i'll be really sad once season 5 rolls around, but oh my god is joyce annoying right now

[mellifera38]

Grishaverse on Netflix

So I’ve had some time today at work to come to terms with the fact that they are making a Six of Crows/Shadow and Bone Netflix series and these are my thoughts on it: No.

It would be one thing if it was a proper full series and it was just Six of Crows- I might hold out some hope because they’d have more than eight freaking episodes to flesh out the characters. Eight episodes for two different book series??? Especially one series that I didnt even like? I just don’t think they could do enough with that short a time frame to make anything I was satisfied with. You cant fit 5 books into eight episodes. You just cant. Unless they pull some seriously miraculous shit I don’t trust it. EDIT: I’ve been informed there may be multiple seasons. This has reduced my fear by a whopping 5%. 

I’m not all that worried about the usual things- that they will cast Nina as a skinny girl or Inej as a white girl. Leigh has held out this long and I don’t think she’d accept a Movie/TV deal unless she had enough say in it to keep things like this from happening. There are a lot of ways they could screw this up just like they screw up almost every book series ever put on screen. The one thing that my mind kept wandering to though while I was digesting the big news, was one simple thing that is a deal-breaker for me. The thing that has made me NEVER actually want this series adapted to live action is that I don’t think it’s possible to adapt Kaz Brekker to screen. Or at the very least, what a fucking daunting prospect it would be. It’s one thing to cast him (and even fandom can’t agree on a damn fancast) and another to actually write him for television without it being a disaster.

I don’t think it can be done- not without being able to hear his inner voice. Who he is as a person and who he presents to the world are VASTLY different things- that’s like the point of him. No one ever knows what he’s actually thinking or secretly planning. He’s built up a specific image of himself in order to get the things he wants. If we cant hear his inner voice, what we are going to get on screen is either just his ‘persona’ as a sarcastic heartless criminal (who says a lot of weirdly poetic shit for a 17 year old btw- I’m sure that will translate well) or they are going to overshoot and end up with a flat “edgy dark brooding antihero with a tragic backstory” stereotype. He walks such a delicate line in the books to subvert this bad trope and Leigh Bardugo is a fucking genius in how she wrote him. I don’t trust any director to manage the same feat on screen. Hes going to end up an embarrassing badboy stereotype I fucking know it and I can’t fucking handle it haha. I’m also afraid they will “soften him up” or make him angsty to make him more likable as a protagonist (and make up for this lack of inner voice- which in the books is the only reason you can empathize with him). This is a gang leader and murderer who plucks people’s eyeballs out and threatens to kill people’s families/friends/dogs to get what he wants from them on a regular basis. He’s objectively a bad person and in any other series he’d be the damn villain and I don’t want them to shy away from that and make him something he’s not. He’s not an asshole with a secret heart of gold. Villains can fall in love and make friends too and they are still horrible people. The other big fear is of course that they will end it with him and Inej kissing (because on tv and movies the love interests always kiss at the end) which would be unfathomable for kaz due to his trauma. I don’t want him to be ‘cured by the power of love’ or some shit and If they try to turn him into fucking Angel from buffy I’m gonna set my hair on fire. I trust Netflix slightly more than the usual Hollywood asshats who love nothing more than to piss all over a good book series, but I don’t trust them that much. I’ll probably wait to see what other people have to say about it when it comes out before I watch. I can’t handle another ‘golden compass’ fiasco- I’d rather pretend it doesn’t fucking exist than be let down for the millionth time.

[thegreatgayescape]

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom: It Will Steal You Away, And Get Away With A Lot

Six of Crows and it’s sequel, Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo are a treat to read, like watching Ocean’s 11 or The Italian Job. However, these characters are a bit more original then George Clooney being suave, or Marky Mark pretending to be George Clooney. I’m here because there is a gay romance subplot and an ace romance subplot.  

These novels take place in Bardugo’s magical Grishaverse. Unlike her Shadow and Bone series, which mostly took place some time ago in Ravka (fantasy-Russia,) for these two books, we are in post-industrial revolution Kerch, (fantasy-Netherlands.) If you have read Bardugo’s original Grishaverse trilogy, you are rewarded, but they aren’t required reading.  

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are heist books. Are they perfect? No. Will rereading them ever be as good? No. Do they adhere to a strict formula? Yes. That’s the genre.

Book one is about breaking into the impenetrable Fierdian Ice Court to retrieve a prisoner, and book two is about stealing from a prudish Kerch businessman. In the course of the two books, the crew inadvertently saves the world, very Suicide Squad, very need-little-evil-to-stop-big-evil. 

If you are familiar with the heist genre, you know the structure. Act one: assemble the crew of outcasts. Act two: reveal the plan, using each outcast's skillset. Act three: everything goes wrong. End with a double-cross. Bardugo strays from the model about as far away as she can, while retaining a comfortable predictability. If you love Dungeons and Dragons, these might be your thing. The party is nothing, if not balanced. 

One of my main gripes about these novels is the party is too balanced. We have six, (well, really five,) loveable, broken characters, each on their own redemption arcs. Each get romantically paired off, based on their mirroring baggage. It does the characters a disservice to make their love interests so very dichotomous to themselves. Zero main characters don’t fall in love. Really. Like a Shakespearian comedy.

We have team rogue, made of Kaz, the mastermind, pickpocket and lockpick, and Inej, the spy and assassin. (Jeez. Fifth edition much?) I could just as easily call them team no-touching. More on that latter. 

We have team daddy-issues, made up of Wylan, the demo-expert, who’s got a rich dad that hates him, and Jesper, the gunslinger who’s got a poor dad who loves him. Spoilers: one of them gets a sugar daddy by the end of the book.

We have team WWII soldier, made up of Nina, who uses magic, and is from Ravka (fantasy-Russia,) and Matthias who hunts magic-users, and is from Fierda (fantasy Germany.) 

Which brings me to my second gripe, Matthias, as a character, doesn’t work. When we first meet Matthias, he is trying to kill Nina, his beloved, with his bare hands. Cringy but not a deal-breaker. Even Buffy could make the whole “do-I-want-to-kill-you-or-kiss-you” thing work twice. 

But Bardugo leans heavy into her Nazi-allegory, straight into gas-chambers. Bardugo wants you to fall in love with Matthias, a duty-bound soldier who got indoctrinated with hate, while Matthias deprograms himself from said hateful doctrine. But it’s unearned and it's uncomfortable. @reading-while-queer sums it up better than I can here: https://reading-while-queer.tumblr.com/post/168221649969/six-of-crows-leigh-bardugo

Those are big problems. Bardugo kinda gets away with it? 

Give me the gay: His name is Kaz Brekker. Also called Dirty Hands. And he’s my touch-repulsed, sex-repulsed, hard-asexual boyfriend. He’s the second in command of The Crows, one of Ketterdam’s rising gangs. He’s canonically dashing, wears finely tailored charcoal suits, has a huge bad-boy thing going on, and he’s disabled. Yes! Give me a heart-throb, who is disabled and asexual. I’m here for it. 

Kaz delights in his well-earned monstrous persona. But when we see him interact with Inej, he stops to get active, verbal, enthusiastic consent. And boy gosh golly, it is everything to read about how much he loves Inej. Yes! Give me stories about asexual people where they are passionate, desperately in love, and not the robotic automatons they are so often portrayed as, if not completely ignored. 

Both Kaz and Inej have their own trauma about being touched. I can’t personally speak to the authenticity of the ace experience, but I can tell you Bardugo got much of the PTSD right. And it was super cool reading about two characters struggling to navigate boundaries and trauma in the middle of a heist.

I have less to say about Inej’s queerness. I read her as demi, and figuring herself out. Nina and Inej have a trusting and affectionate relationship. Their romance is not canon, but popular on the internet, and not canonically untrue. Nina’s sexual appetite, much like her appetite for cuisine, delights in a lot of everything. Both Inej and Nina did some kind of sex work, which bonds them further. While Nina chose her profession based on a lack of better options, Inej was trafficked. 

Inej talks about how being Suli, fantasy-Romani, she was actively fetishized and commodified before Kaz saved her from the whore-house. Bardugo really pushes her luck with that troupe. Arguably, Inej saved herself, using Kaz as an exit. Inbetween Inej’s agency and Kaz’s asexuality, Bardugo, the real master of misdirection in these books, gets away with it. 

Wylan and Jesper are our canonically gay couple. Jesper is a useless bisexual and a corrupting force of Wylan, our innocent, soft, gay ray of sunshine. They do feel like more of an afterthought. But so does everyone compared to Kaz. While it’s fun to watch them flirt, if they were the only queerdos in these books, I wouldn’t bother reviewing them. 

Big picture, Matthias is the only straight character of the main six. Both Inej and Jesper are people of color. While race affects the plot, whiter characters are not better, as we see with the fantasy-Nazis. Nina talks openly about enjoying food and being big, and no one doubts that she is both large and beautiful. Kaz’s disability affects the plot, but it’s impossible to predict how before reading. These books are delightfully anti-capitalist, which tastes queer to me.

They read like a straight-cis-white-woman writer doing her best to write diversity, queerness and body positivity into her fiction. And it mostly works, considering I have lower standards for straight-cis-white-women-writers. And heist novels. And New York Times Best Sellers. 

Berdugo is a great world-builder if allegory doesn’t bother you. Her timing and tension were spot on. I could hardly put these books down. Yes to queer stories that are action-fantasy-adventure-heists. Overall, I give it 5/6 crows. Literally. Bardugo gets away with a lot but I draw the line at Matthias. Luckily, Kaz is everything. 

Check out Leigh Bardugo here: https://leighbardugo.com/ or follow her on twitter @LBardugo or on here @lbardugo . You can buy Six of Crows on Amazon here:  http://a.co/d/5eJmmx2 and Crooked Kingdom here: http://a.co/d/cojkPSr.

[ashesandhackles]

Thanks for the tag Starling, and @scattermeamongthestars ❤️

3 ships: Kaz and Inej from Six of Crows. Spike x Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Takiko Okuda x Rimudo Roun from Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden.

First Ever Ship: Ron and Hermione from HP!

Last Song: Cynthia's Tears - Atlas Maior

Last Movie: can't remember 🥹

Currently Reading: Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Currently Watching: just some old shows that I have already watched.

Currently Consuming: millets and sambhar!

Currently Craving: chai ❤️

Tagging @thecat-isblogging-blog @bluethepineapple @thedreamermusing

Thanks for the tag @incalculablepower!

3 ships: 1. Harry/Ginny always and forever. My OTP. It's poetry. 2. I'm currently obsessed with Nesta/Cassian (ACOTAR), I think I read ACOSF at exactly the right time. Nesta speaks to me on so many levels and Cassian is trying so hard despite his insecurities. I just love them both so much 😭 3. I recently rewatched Doctor Who and was reminded of how heartbreakingly beautiful Amy/Rory are, they chose each other again and again even when they had to sacrifice so much. They're perfection!

First Ever Ship: Seems bizarre to say it now bc I don't even ship them anymore, but the ship that got me into fanfic as a teenager was Rose/Scorpius.

Last Song: Flaws - Bastille

Last Movie: Top Gun: Maverick

Currently Reading: A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J Maas (yes, I finished it and immediately started it again. Yes, when I'm finished I'm going to work my way through her entire catalogue of work)

Currently Watching: Just finished The Last Of Us pilot 👌

Currently Consuming: Love of my life, diet coke

Currently Craving: possibly the most Yorkshire answer ever but I would commit crimes for some chips & gravy

Tagging @lanaturnergetup @hinnyfied @somesunlitdays @ashesandhackles

[bookofmirth]

❤ ♡GET TO KNOW ME TAG❤ ♡

I was tagged by @highladyofemotions, thank you!

1) Rules: tag 9 people: I tag @rebornasqueen @a-court-of-feels-and-sobs @dorianthekinkymf @aelinsassryvergalathynius @hollow-kingdom @cass-ian @vilya1 @elidexlorcan @study-read-repeat @aelinofthemoonfire

Relationship Status: married

Last Song I Listened To: Milk & Honey by Billie Marten - seriously this is the most relaxing album ever

Last Book Read/Listened To:  The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 by various people (graphic novel) and for an actual book, Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat

Favorite Color: grey

Top Three Shows: 1) Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2) Friends 3) Les revenants

Top Three Characters: Buffy, Aelin, Mustang (this changes every time I answer one of these I swear)

Top Three Ships: Moriel, Rowaelin, and everything is various ties (feysand/nessian, Lila + Kell from Darker Shade of Magic, Inej + Kaz, etc.)

2) Rules: BOLD the statements that are true for you!

APPEARANCE:

I am 5'7" or taller

I wear glasses

I have at least one tattoo

I have at least one piercing

I have blonde hair

I have brown eyes

I have short hair

My abs are at least somewhat defined

I have or have had braces

PERSONALITY:

I love meeting new people

People tell me that I’m funny

Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me

I enjoy physical challenges

I enjoy mental challenges

I’m playfully rude with people I know well

I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it

There is something I would change about my personality

ABILITY:

I can sing well

I can play an instrument

I can do over 30 pushups without stopping

I’m a fast runner

I can draw well

I have a good memory

I’m good at doing math in my head

I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute

I have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling

I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch

I know how to throw a proper punch

HOBBIES:

I enjoy playing sports

I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else

I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else

I have learned a new song in the past week

I work out at least once a week

I’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months

I have drawn something in the past month

I enjoy writing

FANDOMS ARE MY #1 PASSION

I do or have done martial arts

EXPERIENCES:

I have had my first kiss

I have had alcohol

I have scored the winning goal in a sports game

I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting

I have been at an overnight event

I have been in a taxi

I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year

I have beaten a video game in one day

I have visited another country

I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts

RELATIONSHIPS:

I’m in a relationship

I have a crush on a celebrity

I have a crush on someone I know

I have been in at least 3 relationships

I have never been in a relationship

I have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them

I get crushes easily

I have had a crush on someone for over a year

I have been in a relationship for at least a year

I have had feelings for a friend

MY LIFE:

I have at least one person I consider a “best friend”

I live close to my school

My parents are still together

I have at least one sibling

I live in the united states

There is snow right now where I live

I have hung out with a friend in the past month

I have a smartphone

I have at least 15 CD’s

I share my room with someone

RANDOM SHIT:

I have breakdanced

I know a person named Jamie

I have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce

I have dyed my hair

I’m listening to one song on repeat right now

I have punched someone in the past week

I know someone who has gone to jail

I have broken a bone

I have eaten a waffle today

I know what I want to do with my life

I speak at least 2 languages

I have made a new friend in the past year

I have been given flowers before

[musicislife1396]

So, I was planning to do a review post today. But I just really didn’t feel like being thoughtful and critical and all that. So as I was watching some Booktube in procrastination, I came across this tag. I saw Sam from Thoughts on Tomes do it, and I believe the original creator is Kirstin @ Kirstin Reads. Even though people sometimes OTPs from film and TV, I will only use book couples because otherwise, this will turn into a full blown dissertation on my ships.

Alright, here we go. Prepare for a lot of fangirling, ranting and so forth. This is going to be a long post. Grab some popcorn.

1. Pick an unpopular OTP that you ship

Hmm… I’m not sure how unpopular this is because it’s the Harry Potter fandom. I don’t think there is any ship that is unpopular in the Harry Potter fandom, but Snape and Lily Potter. I love Snape and I wanted him to be happy. And I understand that it wasn’t going to be a good relationship and I absolutely think that Lily did the right thing getting away because it was toxic. Although, I personally feel like she made a  mistake giving up on him, not necessarily as a romantic interest, but as a friend. I strongly believe in not giving up on your friends. I will go to hell just to drag a friend out of there and I think that’s one of the most powerful kinds of love that is or should be the foundation of romantic relationships as well. And for all his faults, Snape had that loyalty, that unconditional love that cannot be explained by infatuation or attraction or fluffy romantic butterflies. That’s why some of my favourite OTPs are based on friendship.

I didn’t necessarily want them to be canon, but my heart still ships them together in a “What if” sort of way. And I also personally believe that, at least as far as we are shown, which might be biased because we only see Snape’s memories, but I don’t think James Potter was a good choice either. He was immature and an ass and we don’t see him growing out of that. So I really don’t care at all about that relationship.

Okay, that derailed. I feel very passionately about this. I have written longer essays than this on obscure, background Harry Potter stuff. But let’s move on now.

2. Pick an OTP that you didn’t ship at first but do now

I don’t really know what to say for this. I usually either ship a couple or I don’t. Well, sometimes I’m just indifferent. But I don’t think I’ve ever not shipped a couple and then shipped them. Actually, I have just not from books, so for this question I will pick a TV couple and that is Willow and Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I did not like Tara at first at all. And I was a hardcore Willow/Oz shipper and I wanted them to get back together and I just did not like this ship at all. But then Tara really grew on me. And especially after re-watching the show. I still don’t really like her as a character in season 4. But I do like her in later seasons. My favourite Willow OTP is still her and Oz, but her and Tara are my second. I really, really hate everyone else that Willow is ever with. I can’t… just no.

3. Pick your most hated NOTP

BUFFY AND RILEY! Okay, I said I’m not doing TV shows, but I needed that out there. My most hated book NOTP… there are different ways I could look at this. I could tell you just an OTP that I hate because I hate the book and the characters. Or I could tell you an OTP that that I just don’t like them together. I’m going to do both, because I can’t decide.

An OTP that I just hate because I hate the book and the characters is Mare and prince whatever his name is. Cal, Cat, Cam. I don’t even remember. I absolutely hate Mare with a passion, if you’ve read my review of Glass Sword, you know how much I hate that book and Mare in particular. I don’t really have a problem with Cal. I just don’t care about him because he’s so one-dimensional and tropey and boring that I just don’t care.

And one OTP that I just don’t ship them together is Celaena Sardothien and Chaol from the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.

 Art by Linneart

I never particularly liked Chaol. I don’t hate him, but he’s a little bit too boring and self-righteous for my taste. But I really did not like him with Celaena. I literally ship her with anyone else more than I ship her with Chaol. Anyone. I got a really sibling-y vibe from them for some reason and I don’t… that’s just wrong. I can’t ship that. It doesn’t work for me. And I really think that their relationship was completely ruined by them being together. I think there was potential for a good friendship there, but it was completely ruined and that kind of annoys me.

4. Pick an OTP that took waaaayyyy too long to get together

I don’t have any such OTP. I quite enjoy slow-burn romances. I hate, hate, hate insta love and I actually really like relationships where the two partners grow together, grow to know and love each other. So I don’t have an answer for this.

5. Pick your favourite non-canon OTP

I don’t know… maybe Ruby and Clancy from The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken. I mean, not really. I like Clancy because he’s so clever and scheming. I don’t particularly care about Ruby though. I don’t know. I can’t think of any other answer though, so I’ll go with Ruby and Clancy.

6. Pick Your favourite BROTP

Will Herondale and Jem Carstairs from The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare. Forever. I just love them, they’re my babies. I love their friendship so much, I don’t even know how to explain my love for them, I just ugh! I love them. That scene in Clockwork Princess. If you’ve read the book, you know which one I’m talking about. When Will is on his way to… wherever he was going. It broke my heart. I cried so much just… I cried.

7. Pick an OTP you adored in the books but not as much in the movie or tv adaptation

Jace and Clary from The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.

Art by Firelordwael

I love Clace. I am a very hardcore Clace shipper, but I did not really feel the relationship in either of the adaptations. I did not like Jace at all in the film, even though I loved Lily Collins as Clary. And in the show… I’ve yet to see season 2 of it. But I had a lot of problems with the first season of the show and the relationship between Clary and Jace was one of them. I didn’t feel it at all.

8. Pick a popular OTP that no matter how hard you tried you just can’t ship it

Dorian and Sorscha or whatever her name is from Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Mass. I can’t even find any nice fanart of them.

I’m always picking the same series, but I just really didn’t like this relationship. I know a lot of people did and were really upset by what happened, but I just didn’t really care. I was even a bit relieved, because it just rubbed me the wrong way. It felt like that relationship was used as a crutch and I don’t like that kind of relationship. I like relationships where the two partners make each other better. And that just wasn’t it.

It wasn’t a good, healthy relationship. They had nothing in common. Her crush on him felt like a celebrity crush and I felt like he was only with her because he was broken and lost and needed a crutch. And I think that a lover is never a good crutch. At least, not a new lover. Like, getting into a new relationship as a crutch… I don’t like that. I don’t agree with it, I cannot get behind it no matter how much I try.

9. Pick your favourite LGBT+ OTP

Hmmm… I’m gonna go with Alucard and Rhy from the Shades of Magic series by V. E. Schwab.

Art by Victoria Ying

I love this series. I love all the characters. I just, I love them. Nothing more to say.

10. Pick your al time favourite OTP/s

I mean, there are so many! I would say maybe Feyre and Rhys. My babies.

Art by Charlie Bowater

Some other ships I absolutely love are Kaz and Inej from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.

Art by projectnelm

Will and Tessa from The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

Art by Taratjah

To name a few. I could go on and on naming OTPs and showing you pretty fanart, but this post is long enough as it is, so I will stop here.

Feel free to do this tag if you want to. Let me know some of your ships, let me know if you agree or disagree with some of the things I said.

OTP Book Tag So, I was planning to do a review post today. But I just really didn't feel like being thoughtful and critical and all that.

[cosmicrhetoric]

top 5 fave main characters?

this is gonna be those characters that make ur heart swell and u just...theyre such good people and theyve been thru so much

in no particular order:

neil josten: i JUST reblogged a post about this i just....’dan i said please’....’r u gonna behave’ ‘yes coach’ neil u KNOW ur lying anyway he just doesn’t care about himself and it breaks my heart. cause he says hes all about self preservation but the boy went to the ravens for the exact opposite. and his relationships?? to his team?? dan was ready to shank riko for laying a finger on him (all of them were but dan was the one who almost said something) and even in the small ways...allison painting him back together everyday...matt ALWAYS having his back and renee offering her knives. Nicky fuckin cries everytime he remembers neil doesn’t love himself, kevin promising to teach neil every night even tho his days are numbered...even aaron, who fuckin hates him, knows he’s a fox and he’s theirs. i love him. so much. 

harry potter: the OG SWEET BOY he’s so good he has a conversation with a SNAKE cause he understands what its like to be in a cage...r u crying yet...i am...honestly just wants to have a fun time with his friends? and he couldve been such a little shit he was abused his entire life but no, it just made him the sweetest boy who ever lived UNLESS you fuck with him or his friends. then he’ll fuckin come for you ‘there’s no need to call me sir, professor’. that boy is LILY EVANS thru and thru right down to dissing snape

luke skywalker: this boy....just watch this and tell me you didn’t feel something for him. i was gonna put anakin on this cause im a shamless stan but why would i do that when luke is better in every way??? he’s just so kind to everyone he meets but he’s absolutely ruled by a sense of justice and like...his unshakable faith in the good of the world rlly inspired me to also believe in the good for once...he looks at a fascist galaxy and thinks ‘this is beautiful in some ways. it needs some work and i am willing to tear down those walls but it could become something beautiful and thats why i fight’ JUST LIKE HIS MOM theres a REASON han and leia imprinted on this kid. theres a reason obi wan looked at him and saw the best of his parents. 

buffy summers: a feminist icon??? who has been mistreated at one point by her friends and mentors and the people she saved but it doesn’t matter, cause she has the strongest sense of PURPOSE like she just keeps. getting. back. up. like theres not even a question. not only can she slay demons in a virginal prom dress, she can talk a boy down from suicide and she can defeat a crazy strong vamp without her powers cause he hurt her mom and NOTHING. NOTHING will EVER top the moment when angelus is about to kill her, and buffy realizes that she, herself, is all she needs. everytime i feel shitty (and thats a lot recently) i think about buffy catching that blade and opening her eyes. sure of herself. full of belief. and says ‘me’. she’s left, and she’s all she needs to get through. 

tiffany aching: um EVERYONE needs to read all of the discworld books but TIFFANY. girl is NINE in the first book and shes just the smartest kid who’s a little selfish and a little jealous of her little brother. 1) parents that love n support her even if they dont get her 2) ALSO has the biggest sense of justice ive ever seen in a child...when you read a nine year old taking an immortal being by the face and going ‘this isn’t reality. grow the fuck up’ it just really fuckin affects u man....someone has to stand up for her land and well, damn, i guess its gonna be her cause no one else is stepping up to the plate...she rules the world as a nine year old she holds the entire world in her palm cause the land is her bones and whatev and she has to let it go. she’s like lawful neutral matilda. 

honorable mentions include sakura from ccs, simon from gurren lagan, matilda, kaz brekker from six of crows, karou from dosab, artemis fowl, and all of my ocs

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A Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is happening, and it will cast a black lead

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is happening, and it will cast a black lead

As it turns out, today's so-called golden age of television looks an awful lot like '90s TV. Really, it's for the best though, because amazing shows keep getting the green light to come back to our screens. The latest news we're excited about? The Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.

If you came of age during the '90s, you most likely watched the show during its original run from 1997-2003. Buffy  was a late '90s staple, after all. And, we already have our first bit of casting news: As People reports, the revival will cast a black actress to play the titular character.

The news of the reboot has garnered mixed reactions from Buffy buffs. There's a LOT to live up to. After all, the show had such a meaningful impact on tons of people who watched the supernatural high school drama about vampire slayer, Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar). On one hand, it's incredibly exciting that a new generation will get to meet Buffy's friends, Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), and her boyfriend, Angel (portrayed by David Boreanaz). On the other hand, the prospect that the Buffy 2.0 could fail to portray the grade-A witchcraft/vampire teen storylines that the first version of the show nailed is a tough possibility to face.

Fortunately, a lot of the original Buffy creators will team up for the reboot. As ET Online reports, Buffy creator Joss Whedon will serve as the executive producer of the reboot. So will the original show's producers Gail Berman, Joe Earley, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui. Hopefully they'll all make sure that the new Buffy retains the originals' magic (and magick).

But back to the most exciting news: the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot will be more diverse.

The original Buffy was notable for its inclusion of LGBT characters. That didn't mean the show included many people of color, though, and it sounds like the new reboot - which doesn't yet have a network attached - will improve in that area.

Many fans celebrated the idea of a more racially diverse Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.

Because Buffy is powerful AF. To some, having her played by an actor of color will make the great show even better.

The good news is if they make a black Buffy the Vampire Slayer they won't kill her after a few episodes. pic.twitter.com/90IQZNvyhk

- Ben Siemon (@BenjaminJS) July 20, 2018

Can Queen @nicolebyer play the new Buffy on the #BuffyTheVampireSlayer reboot? Thanks pic.twitter.com/EqLizY4puo

- Tom (@_WinterAnderson) July 20, 2018

On the other hand, some people would prefer a new vampire slayer to helm a reboot.

Because just re-making Buffy but with a black actor strikes some as recycling old roles - a reductive move.

BAD IDEA. I'm all for some BUFFY spinoffs, with diversity and great representation and telling interesting stories with their own new spin on the mythology of the buffyverse, but don't reboot what Buffy was (the greatest television show of all time). https://t.co/7R8y4CC4yT

- space ace dad (to be) (@TheConorHilton) July 20, 2018

Also, I'm not interested in seeing a black slayer take on the role of Buffy or even seeing gender and race bent reboots. It's boring and insulting. We deserve our own mythology.

- Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) July 20, 2018

The show is still so early into production that it's hard to know how the reboot will go. ET Online reports that Monica Owusu-Breen, who worked with Whedon on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., will write the pilot. Knowing that a woman is creating the new iteration of Buffy should at least count for something, considering the show's feminist impact.

As more information about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot comes out, hopefully, everyone's fears will be slayed.

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