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[NEW/OLD] Alexa Demie via lilmami_lani Ig post.

26/07/23

[ace-writer-lani]

Works

Hi I'm Lani! I go by she/they. Sometimes I draw, but I mainly write fanfics. (I've recently gotten back into writing PJO fics).

Anyways, I'll be linking all of my finished/WIP ao3 works here as well as some future fics I have planned.

My asks are always open if you want to ask questions about my fics or if you just want to say hi! (I'm always down to ramble about all the character lore I have stored in my notes).

Current WIPs:

-The Blooming from Darkness series (My son of Persephone Nico AU)

Part one: One Death One Bloom (completed; 14.6k) Pre-Lotus Hotel & Casino Part two: Hidden Seeds (completed; 9.5k) In the Lotus Hotel & Casino Part three: The Children of Spring and Destruction (WIP; 19.7k) Titan's Curse -> HoO

-Violence: The Question (A Series) (WIP)

A fic centering around Reyna pre-canon/pre-TLH

-A Final Revelation (WIP; 3.3k)

Based on this post where Jason is stuck as a ghost in the living world and can't enter the Underworld until he resolves his Unfinished Business: confessing his feelings to Leo

-The Undeserved and Unfinished (WIP)

Coming soon

-The Languages of Love by Solangelo series

The Love Language of Lying (completed; 9.9k)

Solangelo fic based on this post

The Love Language of Fighting (completed; 1.1k)

Will spars against Nico

The Love Language of Gifts (WIP; 2k)

Solangelo 5+1 fic based on this post

-The Sparks of Fire (Valgrace) series

Engines and Explosions (completed; 1.1k)

Valgrace oneshot based on this post

Kitchens and Kisses (completed; 2k)

Leo somewhat tries to teach Jason to bake

-2024 Solangelo Week

The Love Language of Fighting (completed; 1.1k)

Prompt: Free Day

-Notes of Change (WIP; 13.3k)

This is my small Solangelo post BoO fic

Completed Fics:

-Only know for sure that I'm all yours (forever) (1.4k)

Solangelo proposal fic based on this post

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[lanyhstyles]

PAUL KLEIN

[flightyalrighty]

out of curiosity, which voice actors do you hear in your head when you read certain characters' dialogue? (eg: i personally hear shadow's voice as ian hanlin's from sonic prime!)

Sonic and Shadow are both Jason Griffith to me any time I write their dialogue. He's iconic for me, y'know? For Sonic in particular, it's like a combo of Jason's Sonic Unleashed/SATBK performance and his Sonic X performance when he was doing some kinda light Bugs Bunny New Yorker thing with his voice.

Any time I'm writing Sonic he's got that nuance in the acting but also he's like, i dunno,

"Whatcha talkin' about, Shadow? Y'mean we've been goin' around killing folks? Stop joking around, huh! Ain't no way I'd do somethin' like that!"* *Not real Infested dialogue

Whereas with Rouge, I actually end up hearing Lani Minella. She's Rouge to me. Plus her voice seems, i dunno, the most fitting for an 18-year-old? More than Kathleen Delaney anyway (no offense to Kathleen Delaney).

If I had the money for it I'd buy a cameo from Jason to voice a comic page in a heartbeat. Like one where it's just Sonic and Shadow. Like page 2-2.

[regaliasonata]

Ranger Pride Icon Batches #6🏳️‍🌈

Blake, Carter, Lani and Kimberly

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[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, October 13th

Coach Marin: (faces her) After the fall of the Soviet Union, documents came into light detailing experiments with fish DNA on their Olympic swimmers. Tarpon... mako, shark... But they couldn't crack it. Buffy: And you did... sort of. Why? Coach Marin: What kind of question is that? For the win! To make my team the best they could be! Do you understand we have a shot at the state championship?

~~Go Fish~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Pricey Business by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Self-Love by Val_Creative (Buffy/Buffybot, T)

Full of Memory by unendingwanderlust (Buffy/Giles, Explicit)

I might run out of time by latinadoll (maxfenig) (Buffy/Spike, Explicit)

The Edwardian Cult by LaFoiAveugle (Faith, T)

Poultry by Sdhuskerfan (Buffy/Giles, M)

Irony by KaibaSlaveGirl34 (Marcie/OC, T)

Memo: Buffy, vampire Slayer Re: My death, you by KaibaSlaveGirl34 (Mayor Richard Wilkins, Buffy/Angel, T)

Moving On by esskay123 (Angel/Spike, T)

An Issue of Betrayal by satinsafe (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Who's the Big Bad? by Holly (Buffy/Spike, PG)

Pricey Business by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Lawfully Wedded - Chapter 1 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, T)

Life's a show, and we all play a part ... - Chapter 1-3 (COMPLETE!) by MCorey1317 (Buffy/Angel, T)

The Dysfunctional Family Reunion - Chapter 1 by Sterek16_2003 (crossover with Bones and Teen Wolf, Buffy/Spike, Willow/Faith, Connor, Illyria, Gunn, Cordelia, M)

Vengeance, Chapter 1-10 (COMPLETE!) by Belladamon29 (Buffy/Angel, Explicit)

Soul Mate Magic - Chapter Twelve by emma-m-black (Giles/OC, 18+)

Leaving the Dead Man's Party, Ch. 2 by rkm (Buffy/Spike, R)

The Degradation of Duality [Series Part 2] Ch. 56 by Ragini (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Little Light, Ch. 12 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Love Letters You Never Sent Me, Ch. 3 by Spikelover4ever (Buffy/Spike, R)

Unholy Matrimony, Ch. 13 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Be Back Before Dawn, Ch. 7 by Blissymbolics (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Science of Being Yours, Ch. 3 by Maxine Eden, ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Breaking Point, Ch. 2 by though_you_try (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

reciprocity, Ch. 3 by HappyWhenItRains (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

There's A Crack In Every Wall, Ch. 1-7 (COMPLETE!) by bunniesarebad (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

From trash to treasure, Ch. 1 by Sweetbutnutty (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Son of a trickster... or huckster... 6 by CrazyDan (Xander, FR18)

Hellmouth Munchkins: A Slayer's Story, Ch. 6 by JoshuAB (crossover with Munchkins and Superman, Buffy, Xander, Willow, FR15)

Everything Has Changed, Ch. 1-2 (COMPLETE!) by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, PG)

I Do! Ch. 38 by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Meme: the buffy-cordy dichotomy by shkspr (worksafe)

Manip: A song for a love that shouldn’t have been by spyder-baby (William Pratt/Drusilla, worksafe)

Some quick sketches for Faith Lehane day by aa-arttss (Faith, Buffy/Faith, worksafe)

A fanvid set to Dean's song "DIE 4 YOU" by bananabeans88 (Buffy/Spike)

A Buffy/Giles manip by thecrazyknight (worksafe)

Collage #199 LANY - ILYSB by thedecadentraven (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Collage #201 by thedecadentraven (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Prophecy Girl banner by RachM (Buffy, worksafe)

A digital drawing by R383CCA (Buffy, Spike, worksafe)

[Reviews & Recaps]

BtVS Season 03 Episode 05 “Homecoming” is iconic for... by freackthejester

So I never completed my Buffy dvd collection growing up… by eto-bee

Angel Rewatch as an Adult: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been by wizard_of_ahj

Favorite guest star on Buffy by Fatbunnyfoofoo

New Moon Rising by Buffy the Vampire Straya

[Recs & In Search Of]

✨ Spuffy Fic Recs — September by veronyxk84

What alternate Buffy do you want Faith to meet? [some Buffy/Faith fic recs in the replies] by juanabaloo

I wanted the Spuffy scene in Spike’s crypt in 6x03 to be longer [and a related rec request] by thequeenofsastiel

404-na is looking for advice while watching (how to do a more in depth watch and get the most out of it)

OtherwiseFortune4 seeks fic recs where either Faith or Buffy loses their powers

[Community Announcements]

Fanged Four Family Bingo 2024 Roundup

[Fandom Discussions]

Poll [closed]: There are 4 categories of railroad spikes, which one would Spike BTVS use as a nickname for his penis? by aphony-cree

Re: Saw your post about the SA only making Spike the focus, and I agree... [anti-Spike, anti-Spuffy] by becomingpart2

xander is NOT riley’s number one fan by camellcat

do you guys think spike would want to take buffy's name if they ever got married? by camellcat, aphony-cree, girl4music

y'all ever think how the thesis of buffy at the end... by recallthename

i keep getting tripped up by how strangely woke angel the series is (this whole show is trans coded) by notdamien

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 1950s Super Panavision 70 [discussion of a trend in AI-generated videos] by NileQT87

Mine is better.... [Spike and Cordelia have an argument about whose soul is better] by GoSpuffy

Jasmine vs the First by DonutDaniel

Angel season 4 borrowed ideas by anthonycaruana

What's your take on Gunn? by enrichyournerdpower

Which villains have kind of weird goals? by purplemackem

Parents on the Hellmouth by Lady_Alisandre1066

What do you think of the Slayer bonding between Buffy and Kendra? by jdpm1991

‘Forever’ and season 6 foreshadowing. by JarvisCockerBB

Spike and Buffy were linked from the start by mavelits

Was Pylea’s lack of music a way to keep Sweet banished? by AnAngryPlatypus

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

James Marsters & Emma Caulfield Comic Con Holland 2024 Reports, Pics & Videos via dontkillspike

Video from Comic Con Holland Amsterdam (includes cosplayers) by James Marsters - The Official Page

James Marsters' next scheduled con appearance is Winnipeg Comiccon 25-27 October via jamie_marsters

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your wish is my command, Oakley Terezicaptor

“That’s a very iconic photo! When everything was fun and I wasn’t depressed!… I am not actually depressed. I keep fighting this battle alone where I joke that I want to die and everyone believe me” Tubbo

“And if I can’t run away from my problems, then what’s the point?” Scott

“I am just that good of the sister. I dropped everything to be my brother” Lani

Scott: Told them they are playing chokers while we are playing chess.

Martyn: The thing is, I am playing Mahjong and I have no clue what I’m doing.

“If you are going to be an absent father, can you at least be absent?” Cleo

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TELL ME ALL ABOUT THE WORSE BOOKS YOU HAD READ!

Did you… just… awaken my deepest rage?

(forgive me for being a bit ooc, but I simply must for things like this)

A LIST OF TERRIBLE BOOKS I READ:

Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem was one of the first bad books I wanted to read so long ago simply because it was the number one thing people in the book community were talking about. It got taken off the Bestsellers list within 24 hours because the company behind the book was buying bulk copies to make it number one. The writing is cheesy, and there are too many characters you will not care about, plus the protagonist is unrelatable and annoying.

All of the Onision books. Well, specifically, I heard someone read them since I did not want to actually own those dreaded books. I cannot fathom how these three books of his clearly reflect the twisted author. They all boil down to being about a male character believing the world is out to get them when, in actuality, it is just the author’s strange power fantasy ranging from beating up and/or killing characters who wronged him to having sex with women because it is a man’s human nature to breed? It’s all very strange and it’s only scratching the surface.

The “poetry books” of Gabbie Hanna. Critiques of the author aside, her poetry is essentially the equivalent of what I would have written at the age of 12. I bought used versions of the books because my brother and I wanted to read, laugh, and cry at just how unfinished and empty the poetry is. I remade two of them, and maybe someday I want to recreate all of them as a little writing challenge, hehe. Not to say these books were bad, but they were such wasted potential of what could have been.

Lastly, The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, a light novel adaptation of an iconic Hatsune Miku song…

I CANNOT FATHOM THE DISAPPOINTMENT AND BITTER HATRED I HAVE WITH HIS BOOK! This needs to be a separate post because THIS BOOK is why look at reviews before buying them now. Long story short, it is a strange “love story” with unlikable and boring characters and a very broken plot, and the only one you will care for is Miku, who doesn't deserve to be in this story.

I even made annotations on it. I only do that with books I need to write an essay on…

If you were to, i dunno, send me an ask about why I hate this book so much, you can do that ( -3-)/ *puts ask box where everyone can see it*

Honorable mention:

After by Anna Todd. I read the original version of it soooooo long ago and was uninterested in reading the rest of it. Finding out it became and actually published work shocks me because somehow, I heard it was a lot worse than I thought. I refuse to read the rest of it to this day.

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Mitchell Mondays #3:

Chelsea Morning

Artists cannot outperform Joni Mitchell's with her own songs. Most who attempt to do so wind up sounding like Neil Diamond: he's all bluster, bombast and bongos.

The strings here are pretty cool actually, even though they have no idea what song it is that they are appearing in. And the uncredited bass player rocks. Still, the overwhelming sense one gets is that Neil Diamond needs to shut the hell up.

Chelsea Morning may have stupefied the kids in the studio audience in Joni's live TV take, above, but it got all kinds of musicians' hearts racing back in the day. Mitchell was not yet an untouchable icon so everyone from gave her ode to a sexy summer day a go. Check out this earnest and clear headed Finish version which even tries to recreate Mitchell's ricocheting vocal gymnastics at the close:

And at least this male-led soft rock Swedish take features fewer of Diamond's swaggering spin moves:

Who can blame all these Scandanavians for giving the song a go? Chelsea Morning places perky bounce alongside rippling joy, plus it contains a singularly brilliant appeal for new love: "Oh, won't you stay, we'll put on a day and we'll talk in present tenses."

As with so many of Mitchell's early masterpieces Fairport Convention and Judy Collins were the first to take up the challenge that is Chelsea Morning.

Fairports' pre-Sandy Denny version came first. They do a seasick Beatles thing with the Ian Matthews' verses, Richard's teenage guitar playing is alternatively bold and dull, the percussion is bonkers and there's a fender bender depicted at the end: the band, who'd barely set foot outside central England at that point, seemingly imagined the Chelsea neighborhood in New York to be one big cartoon traffic jam.

I love everything Fairport touched in this era so my objectivity is suspect when I say their version is great. Even so, it surely is not the song's apex.

Judy Collins 69 version is equally busy and decidedly less cool: a rock band, which probably features Stephen Stills on bass, bongos and balogna, competes here with a bubble blowing birthday orchestra. Collins lets the song get stuck between her Wildflowers orchestral and her Who Knows Where the Time Goes light/psych rock phases. And no one in Chelsea is happy about it.

Great as Collins could be on occasion, her take simply does not work. Indeed, like every other attempt at Chelsea Morning, her cover sends us hurtling back to Joni's own unfussy, jubilant and utterly complex original solo arrangement.

It's simply Joni's song: no one else has ever really understood what it would be to stand in her posh shoes.

So maybe the key is to not even try and channel her. That possibility lead us to my favorite cover of Chelsea Morning, which comes compliments of the great bossa nova / funk act Brasil 66. Band leader Sergio Mendes, who just passed away this fall, set a smooth American, Lani Hall, at the mic in 1970 and told everyone involved to avoid swing the song without any sense of mimicry.

What emerges served as a blueprint for everyone, including Mitchell herself, who wanted to transition Joni's music away from white washed soundscapes. Mendes' piano sends nearly all of Joni's incense, jewels and curtains airborne and aloft.

The rainbow simply never washes away with this song. It's always out there, eager to shine on us. We just need to take the time to look.

[whitegownsandflowercrowns]

The Characters of 2023

It’s time to talk about…The Characters™️. They shall be graded on a scale of “get behind me” to “I’m getting behind you”

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Belinda (The White Lotus)

The only unambiguously decent person at the resort (who stayed longer than an episode, sorry Lani) and just the absolute best who deserved better. GIVE HER HER OWN WELLNESS CENTER GODDAMMIT. Scale: GET BEHIND ME

Ellie Williams (The Last Of Us)

Precious, hilarious and ferocious.

SCALE: While I could technically get behind her, I’ll have her get behind me in order to spare her trauma.

Misty Quigley (Yellowjackets)

She has never done anything wrong in her entire life (she has committed multiple murders and was a horrible person even before the plane crashed). But it’s fine, we love her anyways.

SCALE: I’m getting behind her 100%.

TOP 10

10. Quinni Gallagher-Jones (Heartbreak High)

Deserves better, the sweetest, I love her so much.

SCALE: GET BEHIND ME

9. Peter Gordon (The Power Of The Dog)

The second that Tumblr discovers this movie (highly recommend by the way) it’s all over. I need people to join me in understanding the power of Peter Gordon.

SCALE: I’m getting behind him. Easy.

8. Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)

Absolutely tragic, could have been saved by listening to Preacher’s Daughter, has the best theme. Of course I love her.

SCALE: GET. BEHIND. ME.

7. Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)

Fictional husband. Absolute king. Get this man a cup of coffee immediately.

SCALE: He’s an FBI agent, so I should probably get behind him.

6. Armond (The White Lotus)

An icon, a legend, and the moment. No one is doing it like him, and no one will ever do it like him again.

SCALE: Honestly we’re probably on the same level. We’ll fight Shane together.

5. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)

Served (both literally and figuratively) at unprecedented levels. Absolutely horrendous in the most amazing way. I am a stan forever.

SCALE: Probably getting behind her.

4. India Stoker (Stoker)

She has the best fashion sense and was always true to herself (even if true to herself meant…well, the movie). Love her.

SCALE: I’m getting behind her.

3. Laura Lee (Yellowjackets)

The human embodiment of Sun Bleached Flies. Sweet sweet girl, was not built to survive Yellowjackets and deserved better.

SCALE: GET BEHIND ME. DON’T GO ON THE PLANE.

2. Alicent Hightower (House of the Dragon)

Come season 2, everyone has their (genuinely awful) character that they will be defending to the death. She is mine. Do not come to me with Alicent slander; I will justify it.

SCALE: Young her needs to get behind me, older her and I are probably on the same level.

Helaena Targaryen

Who else? Love absolutely everything about her. I’m dreading Season 2, but in my mind she’s away from King’s Landing, happy and safe with her babies. She is The Character.

SCALE: GET BEHIND ME, I WILL BE SEEING THE REST OF THE CAST IN COURT

[breathe-2am]

ICON/THEME CHANGE

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I will always love my lani theme but i gotta focus i'm shifting into weewoo mode