#lafseanchai

[astriiformes]

Acquired something at one of the local Asian groceries that I plan on referring to exclusively as "The Beverage"

[operafloozy]

pinterest aesthetic tag game!!

search [your name]+core on pinterest and post six pictures

I got tagged by @pucaantaibhse and @47witchyneurons

I think the most notable thing about this is that when I logged into pinterest it was considered suspicious activity

I am apparently cottages, rains, and cities at night.

Tagging @lafseanchai @siterlas @phonestrumpet @bookishwenchmeltha @shadowen

[shadowen]

Was tagged by @astriiformes to name 10 songs I like with names in the title, which was a fun little challenge. Here’s my list:

Baba O'Riley - The Who. One of my all time favorite songs! The title refers to spiritual leader Meher Baba and composer Terry O'Riley.

Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus. The original goth rock track.

Michael - Franz Ferdinand. Half their songs have names in the title, but this is probably the one I like best.

Song for Bob Dylan - David Bowie. I could make this entire list out of Bowie songs, but I'll just stick with one.

MLK - U2. Bono has written so many songs about Dr. King, but this is the only one with his name.

Andrew in Drag - The Magnetic Fields. I love this slightly problematic song.

Lola - The Kinks. Also slightly problematic, but actually very sweet.

Jane Says - Jane's Addiction. What can I say, it's a bop.

Whatshername - Green Day. That counts, right?

Judy is a Punk - The Ramones. Can't beat a classic.

No pressure tagging: @darkmagyk @nimblermortal @lafseanchai @penguinsandbats @belleamante99

[khaleesa]

Last Sentence Tag

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

I was tagged by the lovely @staceymcgillicuddy. Here's the last sentence I wrote in that Hellcheer fic I haven't fiddled with in over a week but really do intend to get back to! (It doesn't help that it's about a heatwave and the heatwave here broke so I've been slightly less inspired than I was when I began. But we're only having Fake Fall, and the 90s are returning next week, so that may just motivate me.)

"How about a cannonball instead?"

I can't remember who all has been tagged to do this, so forgive me if I'm double-tagging! @gloriousclio, @handypolymath, @lafseanchai, @misscrawfords, and @mxkelsifer

[mygangtome]

Bonus content includes more conversations about the show, legends, and how we’re still relating to these characters and situations today. Plus things that don’t even have to do with Robin Hood, because it is more fun that way! 

Remember - Never Forget The Outlaws, and We Are Robin Hood!

Come join us on April 26th when we drop the pilot episode, “Will You Tolerate This?” (a question which goes double for our podcast)!

[renaissancecat]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Robin Hood (BBC 2006) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marian of Knighton/Robin of Locksley Characters: Much the Miller's Son, Robin of Locksley, Marian of Knighton, Allan-a-Dale, Djaq (Robin Hood 2006), Will Scarlett, Little John Additional Tags: rhsecretsanta, Birthday Presents, Fluff, Short & Sweet, not very festive, bbc robin hood secret santa 2017, implied robin/marian, Birthday, Friendship, Best Friends, Surprise Party, Costumes Summary:

Set very shortly after Turk Flu (1 x 05), the gang wakes up one day to find out just how little they appreciate what Much does for them - until he stops doing stuff for them.

[Also known as my RH Secret Santa gift for @lafseanchai! Merry Christmas :D hope you have a fab day!]

[ash818]

That post about the smoothest person on earth that you just posted - I saw that the other day, and my first thought was I could totally seen Jonathan Queen doing something like this - going to haunted house with his college buddies or going with Abby and some other friends, and his Arrow instincts kicking in before he reins in it and just goes into flirt mode. It was a great image to add to the awesome story of the post.

It makes me ridiculously happy that Jon lives in your head too. Oh my actual goodness.

Ha, Jon or Oliver in a haunted house.

There aren’t a lot of pranks or jump-scares in the Queen home, because everyone knows that tripping their startle reflex is a great way to end up concussed on the floor. I’m sure they could rein it in for the duration of The Mortuary on Canal Street, but damn that would be funny.

[exlibrisfangirl]

WIP Challenge

Rules: Write out the latest line from a WIP, and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

Tagged by the lovely @sterekxhale 💛

Here is a little treat teaser from the end of the first chapter of When Blooms The Rose:

“Why are you here?” the monster demanded sharply, revealing even sharper fangs.

I hereby tag (with absolutely no pressure): @seven-oomen @takadasaiko @theboboshow @shealynn88 @misskittysmagicportal @jacyevans @wolfflock @rebakitt3n @lafseanchai @hacash @ibonekoen (Is that the right amount? My brain is Tired.)

[ostreatus]

Like a month ago @rhubarbdreams tagged me to share the last line I'd written! Thankfully in the interim I've ... actually done some writing! This is from the Pacific Rim AU which I am making slow but regular progress on, little bits at a time:

Grace begins talking. After the first few minutes, Dani feels queasy. Not long beyond that, and both she and Sarah need to sit down.

I'm supposed to tag as many people as there are words in the sentence, but I can't think of enough people to tag! Right back atcha @rhubarbdreams and also tagging @astriiformes @lafseanchai @dreamlogic @redead-red @sugarfey and YOU if you're reading this!

[astriiformes]

As someone who knows a fair bit of Norwegian, seeing written Danish and Swedish is so funny because like. Danish feels just a little bit uncanny, like just slightly to the left, to the point that I have gotten the two confused before. But Swedish just feels like you are messing with me on purpose.

[shadowen]

Friend: I was typing Luca Marinelli's name into a tag, and I mistyped it as 'marinara'.

Me: Oh my god. He just had a minor heart attack and has no idea why. His grandmother felt that insult.

[khaleesa]

@mxkelsifer tagged me last Sunday to do Six Sentence Sunday, but I was so busy writing I didn’t actually get around to it! So here’s six sentences from Guidance Counseling Chapter 11, which may or may not be finished by Monday...

I tag @a-strange-inkling, @bratanimus, @cricketsatnight, @hangon-silvergirl, @lafseanchai, and @little-scribblers-heart​ and anyone else who wants to do it. (And if you don’t want to do it, absolutely no pressure!)

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"Oof," said Jeff, "them's the breaks, man." 

Eddie whipped himself in the face with his hair as he jerked to glare past the empty passenger seat at his bandmate. "What do you mean, them's the breaks?"

"I'm sure it was a beautiful dream while it lasted," Shawn said.

Eddie slammed the passenger door and stalked around the front of the van, climbed behind the wheel, and slammed his door, too. "Chrissy's not going to break up with me because we were late to school, shitass." 

[mygangtome]

"Five BBCRH Things We Can't Stop Talking About, and One We'd Really, Really Rather Not Ever Have Mentioned"

“Will Saw London, Will Saw France, Will Saw What Was Lacking in D’Jaq’s Underpants”

Turk Flu will always hold a special place in my heart as the first Robin Hood episode I watched in full (I’d caught a few others here and there and it piqued my interest).  But it also holds a special place for the introduction of this character:

Djaq.

There was no doubt that this character was going to make an impact on the gang and the audience from the get-go.  When the magnifying glass came out, Djaq didn’t wait to try and reclaim it.  He was unafraid to show anger at the idea of converting to Christianity.  And he did manage to flip the idea and get into Much’s head.  He was the negotiator between the other captives and Robin. The knowledge from his physician father helped save Little John. 

Bravery, cleverness,and smarts all made Djaq a good fit for the gang.

What might have not been a good fit was this:

Djaq was not a he, but a she!

It was certainly a surprise (hush, Robin, you just want to be right all the time), but it wasn’t a problem for the other outlaws.  Djaq became a part of the gang.

It wasn’t the first time that we had a gender reveal in the show, with the Nightwatchman being unmasked to show he was Marian.  But Djaq’s reveal was a bigger deal in a lot of ways.  She was introduced as a complex character instead of a mysterious figure.  And she stays with the gang and becomes a part of the group, instead of being a satellite as Marian is to the outlaws. 

Djaq was a breath of fresh air to the gang, bringing a new perspective with her desire to help and make a difference, and she makes her own place as much as she is accepted into the gang.

And we get some comedy with the reveal as well – Will gets smashed in the face with a branch and the shock of realizing that Djaq was a woman. And later, John’s face while he tries to balance the person that he assumed was a young man was a woman is as hilarious as it is quiet.

But past the comedy, we get so see an interesting start to Djaq and Will’s relationship.  Will doesn’t say anything, and the plans to free the slaves and destroy the mine are seen to without throwing that bit of knowledge into the mix.  It was irrelevant at the time.  And his outing of Djaq’s gender was out of a protective instinct – “It wouldn’t be safe here, to join us,” he says, directing it to Djaq and not Robin. 

In short, Djaq promised to be a fascinating and fun character from the get-go, but the revelation that she was a woman made it that much more interesting and awesome.  Here we have a woman of color, knowledgeable in science and medicine.  She’s strong, smart and able to hold her own; yet we can see vulnerability in how she waits for the gang to agree to let her join them. And all this in just the first episode she’s in! 

Turk Flu is a favorite for many reasons, and Djaq’s introduction – the slow unfolding of which takes most of the episode – is high on that list. 

Never forget the outlaws, especially Djaq!    

[scribefindegil]

@lafseanchai replied to your post:

Why did you obtain this lore? 

I knitted a scarf/shawl thing that’s intended to be a gift for my very-soon-to-be-sister-in-law out of an acrylic blend, and I was really frustrated with the way it wouldn’t lie flat, so I googled whether you can block acrylic, and the consensus seems to be that you can’t really block it per se but you *can* murder it!

so i did that.

[lafseanchai]

Fic Writer Interview

Tagged by @astriiformes

Name: LAF, lafseanchai, and ladyarcherfan3 on AO3

Fandoms: Currently writing for The Old Guard, and I have a lot in Star Wars (all three trilogies, TCW, and Rebels), and Robin Hood BBC back in the day. I have also written a handful for Fury Road, Arrow, and Supernatural, and even Dark Angel.  

And I wrote one for Prison Break that I just got a comment on, and I was like, “oh, yeah, I did that! Wow, blast from the past lol.” 

Two-shot: A two chapter fic? There’s The Devil You Know (Robin Hood BBC). Dark Night of the Soul (Robin Hood BBC) is also 2 chapters, but more of diptych. 

Most popular multi-chapter: Hmm. I don’t write many multi chapter fics, so that is hard to say. In terms of hits, kudos, and bookmarks, Apocalypse Now and Later (SPN/Dark Angel) and Mind Games (Dark Angel) rank the highest. That is what happens when you write for fests and big bangs, and also the SPN fandom was huge then, so getting even a silver of that meant a lot of hits.    

Actual worst part of writing: My inconsistency, and why is it so hard to make words reflect the images in my head. And I am not great a writing out long plots, which makes trying to do long multi-chapter fics difficult. I should practice more, but hey, you know, life. Writing is the worst hobby. 

How you choose your titles: Lots of song lyrics, mostly. Some punny sort of things (Apocalypse Now and Later is time travel and timeline wibbly wobbly stuff, An Arrow To the Knee is from the meme and also references an incident in the show). Other than that, two word titles are kinda my thing apparently.  I am a basic bitch, lol. 

Do you outline: In my head, lol. Since I don’t write a lot of multi chapter fics, and nothing is every terribly long, outlines are not always a big deal for me. I get a good sense of the scene I want to write, do lots of mental planning, and then start to get it on paper. See above about the worst part of writing. 

When I do outline, it usually takes the form of bullet points as I get ideas and fill it in from there. I have a Old Guard Summer Camp AU that I have a vague outline for, as that is going to be the longest thing I have written in a while. 

Ideas I probably won’t get around to but wouldn’t it be nice: Oh my god, do I want to write a “Shaak Ti survives Order 66 cuz she was on Kamino, but some of the younger clones’ inhibitor chips didn’t work/hadn’t kicked in yet, so fandom’s Clone Mom (TM) has a bunch of children and adolescent clones and they form a weird little family and have shenanigans and deal with clone and Jedi angst and trauma.”  I fell in love with Shaak Ti to begin with because she looks hella cool and was an adult Togruta (Ahsoka was still a kid as Rebels was not a thing yet, and I wanted that montral cosplay because I am an idiot), but then a lot of fan fic was consumed where she was the Clone Mom (TM), and I have lived for that fanon ever since.  

Callouts @ me:

Do you have to put horses in every possible fic? 

You’re a pretty good writer, you don’t need to be prolific, and your fics have always made at least one person smile (or cry, depending on the day). 

You’ve gotten this far with doing the bare minimum of research and outlining, but if you want to do more long fic and different topics, research isn’t bad.   

Best writing traits: Horses in everything! I mean, yes, but also that is my personal indulgence. I often get people completing how I hit character voice, which is a big deal for me. If I can hear and see the charater in my head in the scenes as I write them, and that gets translated to the page, I am over the moon. 

Spicy tangential opinion: I am not actually a big fan of coffee shop or high school AU’s.  I have been surprised by a few, but they have been from people whose work I basically just will read no matter what. 

tagging @gloriousclio, @nettlestonenell, @ecouter-bien, @sacrificethemtothesquid, @rosietwiggs, and anyone else who wants to play. 

[jammeke]

i was tagged by @liztiel. Thanks! :D

hardcover or paperback / rent or buy / reads in silence or reads with music / standalone or series / annotations or pristine pages / ebook or physical copy / dog ears or bookmarks / mismatched series or complete set / cover matters or you don’t judge / lend books or keep them to yourself / enjoys lit classes or despises them / browses shops or orders online / reads reviews or goes in blind / unreturned books or clean library record / rereads or once was enough / fanfic enthusiast or a stickler for canon / deep reader or easily distracted / must read the book before seeing the movie or order doesn’t matter/ has neat bookshelves or messy bookshelves / skips ahead or resists temptation / reads aloud or in your head / guesses plot twists or never sees them coming

I tag: @hurlumerlu, @ravenya003, @gloriousclio, @jadelotusflower, @nettlestonenell, @ladytharen, @ladymarianor, @boyswithbowsandarrows, @thatonceandfutureprat, @kcrabb88, @hacash, and @lafseanchai.