#like the bad kids beach episode/christmas episode/HALLOWEEN EPISODE

[greatestwizardofthisage]

i would like to personally thank siobhan thompson for organising the bad kids secret santa

[may-be-magic]

Okay I'm gonna elaborate on this. In an ensemble show, it is absolutely vital to give your characters room to breathe and develop. So in Ted Lasso, with about 15 characters that we care about, we needed filler episodes. Sam shouldn't have had to cram his relationship developing with Simi into hints with no real fulfillment. One episode focusing on him and his restaurant wasn't enough. If the season wants to have a whole bit on Colin and Michael, we should see Michael for more than 5 minutes. Should see them at home for more than a kiss goodbye. I think they're sweet but we literally got no development for their relationship. The audience has no reason to believe it matters other than "ope character gay". Fandom makes up for a lot Michael's lack of development but it shouldn't have to.

We needed to see Ted struggling with remaining more. We needed to see more of Henry actually saying he missed his dad and building their relationship. Fuck I mean. Ted spends most of the episode when Henry visiting obsessed with Michelle. And you want me to believe he'll give up his entire new family for this kid? Come on. A whole episode focusing on Ted being disconnected and unhappy and not being a the best coach as a result wouldve been great.

Nate is redeemed during the season but it's so quick a lot of people misunderstand it or don't trust it. And with good reason. It comes off less "He's getting more uncomfortable being mean as the season progresses" and more "He improved himself for a girl" which is a fucking disservice to Nate and Nick's excellent performance. An episode just focusing on Nate and how he doesn't like West Ham. Showing him missing Richmond and the people there. It would've been so good.

Don't even get me started on the Roy Keeley Jamie of it all. Keeley's plot was separate cause of Juno's schedule. I get that. But their ending is so sudden it does a disservice to all of them. Jamie and Keeley barely share any screen time but he's will to fight his best friend for her? If we could've had an episode just of them. God what a dream scenario. Mom City is so close but it doesn't matter if they're going to flip all the characters a week later for the finale.

All of these could've been fixed with bottle episodes or character focused episodes. Jamie and Sam each kind of get one. Amsterdam was a fun concept which perfectly balanced all the characters individual stories and gave them chances to shine. But it wasn't enough.

A beach episode to give the lads a break during their win streak. A Halloween episode which focuses on how everyone's pretending to be something they aren't would fit so well for Colin. Another Christmas episode where we see Ted decide he misses his family too much. A MUSICAL EPISODE WHICH UTILIZED THEIR TALENTED CAST. It could've been from Beard's POV, maybe he accidentally drank the wrong tea again and came to work high and somehow everyone is singing. I know Beard after dark got bad reception but a lot of people love it. Its a great example of a bottle episode.

There are some many issues that plague show productions now adays. But I think short seasons do the most disservice to the viewers. It forces the writers to cram in too much. It gives the audience much less room to breathe. All for the profits of the production company. Apple could've milked the last season of weekly releases for half a year of they'd made a longer season too.

Ted Lasso, as a show, was harmed by the short seasons that are commonplace in productions today and would've benefitted from 20 episode seasons with room for filler episodes. In this essay I will-

[ayellowcurtain]

SOBBE SUPERLIST III

Ko-Fi - tips would be much appreciated 

the boys going to their bar 

Sander’s POV during the “where is the manager when you need him” clip

Sobbe having a conversation (AU where Robbe is ace)

Robbe now got an earring! 

About Sander’s bday instagram posts

Robbe moving out of the flat

Sander is related to Amber AU

part 2

Coffee Shop AU

childhood friends to lovers part 7 (the ones before that are on the super list II)

meeting at a festival AU

Blue Lagoon AU

Sander’s POV during the hotel clips 

Sobbe with the flat share fam 

Drunk!Robbe

Robbe gets hurt while out with the boys

When Sander went back to Britt after the attack

Robbe jealous of Britt

Sander’s POV during the eye-kissing clip 

the skater boys VS the art boys AU

The boys having siblings 

Sander and Milan talking about Robbe

I think they’re moving in together here

about those cute pictures at the start of season 4

Some of the Evaks being roommates

Robbe missing blond hair Sander

Sander meeting Robbe through a bad date on Grindr

part 2 

part 3

part 4

jealous!Robbe

Luca and the boys being cute friends

a random guy thinks Robbe is a cutie 

Sobbe with kids

Sander during an episode

matching Halloween costumes 

talking about Robbe’s crush on Jens

Sander afraid to tell Robbe he’s bipolar

Robbe finding out that Sander had someone before him

the waitress is hitting on Robbe

celebrity AU

Sobbe and Senne

the boys never able to live apart from each other

other celebrity AU

part 2

Win Robbe’s heart was a bet

part 2

part 3

part 4

Robbe and Britt talking

Sobbe struggling to keep their hands to themselves

soft and smutty

being cute and a little jealous at yet another party

back at the beach house

dinner with the moms

Sander needs to go away for a few weeks

part 2

part 3

part 4

Sobbe cuddling and listening to good music

Robbe filming Sander

Sobbe back at the supermarket

Robbe having dinner with Sander’s whole family

Sander hiding inside Robbe’s shirt

another bet AU

Sander finding the screenshots Robbe took of him

Robbe doesn’t know Sander’s friends 

That make out session that happened during the last clip 

I think this is when they go back home

Robbe went to visit Jens during quarantine and Sander is not happy

 Jens used to like Robbe 

a prank triggers Robbe into a panic attack

Robbe is a model for Sander’s class AU

part 2

part 3

Sobbe talking about all the important things

using no protection for the first time

after that sad call between Robbe and his dad

spending a good night in

nobody knows they’re together AU

Robbe graduating

another good, needed conversation 

Sobbe ABO!AU extra

Robbe having some hickeys

I can be your lover chapter I

talking about that day when Sander saw Robbe at the skatepark 

watching movies together for school AU

the conversation about liking guys with Zoe and Milan

Sobbe x Evak Christmas AU

[kae-karo]

2020 fic roundup

howdy pardners 🤠🤠 in order to procrastinate more writing here’s my list of all the fics i posted this year (sorted predominantly by ship and mostly in order of posting) - ft a lot of dabihawks and a surprising amount of todobaku lmao. oh and my personal faves are **starred

dabihawks (x)

a lesson in romantics (x) - 66k across 4 fics - the collection of standalone memory loss fics! canon divergent and centered around either dabi or hawks losing their memories thanks to the wonderful commission :) some solid angst and getting back together content, always happy endings!!

haven’t had enough (x) - 5.7k - silly little quirkless au where dabi goes to claire’s to get his ears pierced. multiple times. bc hawks is hot

last of the real ones (x) - 2.6k - less silly, just as little, set in canon-divergence bc i couldn’t get the idea out of my head of dabi getting red wings tattooed on him before ever meeting hawks

**dancing after death (x) - 25k - one of my faves from this year, a canon divergent sort of getting together story involving nightmares, some bad burns, and a bit of dancing

if you fall (hold my hand) (x) - 7.4k - canon divergence (bc apparently i’m a slut for that) and some hurt/comfort, ft a bit of makeout-level spice

no shame (x) - 16k - ah, and here we really dive into the ‘crack treated too seriously’ category, where the league sells feet/hand/misc kink pics to fund their activities and dabi has some photography skills and a wing kink (or maybe just a hawks kink)

broken parts (x) - 23.9k - i stole my own idea for a vigilante!hawks from my tiktok, then twisted it into a severely angsty (with a happy ending) hurt/comfort fic intended to break my own heart and piece it back together. it worked

freeing icarus (x) - 1.8k - the first fic without a happy ending i think i ever wrote, because the canon dabihawks fight actually broke me. some dabi introspection

**to the stars that burn (x) - 3.9k - the second fic without a happy ending, based more around childhood friends dabihawks working at the commission together. bittersweet but without much sweet

**king of disaster (x) - 119k+ - i poured my entire soul into this series, a fantasy au where dabi accidentally binds himself to hawks (an absolute stranger) and shenanigans ensue - this has also evolved to include todobaku, shinkami, and kirideku

enemy of my enemy (x) - 2.6k - a quirkswap space pirate au that truly tested my ability to write action scenes, part of the random prompt collection i did during october 2020

without a fight (x) - 2.2k - a rival band au ft singer!hawks and a grumpy dabi, another of the random october prompts

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todobaku (x)

like i’m bakugou (x) - 2.1k - it was supposed to be a MEME based on a TIKTOK but i made it kinda serious....and here we are. todobaku on a froyo date

take a bite of my heart tonight (x) - 5k - VAMPIRES lmao. honestly it was a blast to write tho lmao

**if we go down, then we go down together (x) - 9.3k - tdbk get stranded on a deserted island bc tropes are fun lmao. also todo tries to freeze the ocean like elsa which i think is where my writing skill peaked

cold rebellion (x) - 4k - quirkless au where its HALLOWEEN and theyre in a CORN MAZE and they don’t LIKE EACH OTHER BAKA (part of the october prompt fic collection)

make it spicy (x) - 5k+ - predominantly todobaku with a healthy dose of dabihawks and some shiggynatsu as well, a bakery and nightclub au (yes u heard me)

**stitch me up (x) - 35k - todo gets split into both halves of his quirks, sort of, and baku has to deal with it (and i love this au so much i had a blast working on it)

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bakudeku

rescue me (x) - 11.4k - basically the concept of ‘what if baku and deku were actually childhood friends tho? aka some good wholesome content

**into the dark (x) - 3.3k - afterlife au and originally part of the random prompts, baku didn’t survive the sludge villain incident and deku’s been carrying that weight for a while. and then he doesn’t survive a villain encounter...keep an eye on this one cause i’m working on a part 2 lmao

are you with me (x) - 2.1k - future fic where baku and deku are both heroes and, appropriately, the wonder duo. lil angsty but ofc a happy ending, part of the random oct prompts collection

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todobakudeku (x)

**kintsugi (x) - 117k - future fic where they’re all UA teachers, with some established todobaku + todobakudeku getting together, a lil sprinkle of erasercloudmic, a nice dose of shinkami and some great shiggy redemption arc + eri attending UA content

reunion (x) - 1.8k - another future fic lmao with some getting-back-together content. part of the random october prompts collection

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kiribaku (x)

rewrite the stars (x) - 2.8k - also a mina&kiri friendship fic, a soulmate au where kiri doesn’t get the soulmate he was hoping for (part of the oct prompts collection)

the mystery gang (x) - 4.1k - tell me how i wrote this much about a scooby doo-styled fic concept lmao. anyway, part of the oct prompts, includes some bakusquad shenanigans

wasteland, baby (x) - 4.5k - bakusquad bodyswap post-apocalyptic au and yes it’s just as chaotic as it sounds lmao. part of the oct prompts collection

like the sun (x) - 2.8k - the beach episode + baku&mei friendship (which i learned is called kat and the hat???? adorable) fluffy content, part of the oct prompts collection!

something sweet (x) - 1.2k - the actual kiribaku prompt i got lmao. coffee shop meets scavenger hunt, we adore a grumpy barista baku lmao. part of the oct prompts collection

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todokami/todo&kami

oh, worm? (x) - 16.5k - it was supposed to be a joke but oh my god i love the idea of both todo and denki being memelords and falling in love with each other over it

secret tunnel (x) - 3.6k - conspiracy theorist todo meets conspiracy theorist denki in college au format and it’s really just top tier content imo - part of the oct prompt collection

all i want for christmas (x) - 3.5k - it was supposed to be a crack concept but as per usual it became less cracky the longer i thought about it. todokami fake dating babeyyyy - part of the oct prompt collection

**hydrangea (x) - 2.9k - soft todo introspection about his lil dragon hoard of things that make him think of his friends, which he decides to share with denki

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shiggynatsu (x)

**death of summer (x) - 28k - the first fic i ever wrote for them and the most chaotic meeting i could come up with within the realm of canon divergence lmao. todofam hosting...shmigaraki

terrible people (x) - 960 - a lil babie established shiggynatsu fic about shiggy’s bday, basically just soft and wholesome - part of the oct prompt collection

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shinkami (x)

don’t want to say goodnight (x) - 3.2k - kyouka pov on a shinkami getting together lil thing that lived in my brain rent free for a long time

don’t want to say goodnight (x) - 1k - yes i’m aware i see what i’ve done lmao i see the mistake i made. anyway this one is villain!shinsou and villain!denki so it’s like,,,,,the slightly spicier version. part of the oct prompt collection

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other

**twelve over, seven up (x) - 4.5k - a bit of aizawa introspection after oboro’s death, bittersweet but mostly wholesome

a danger and a wonder (x) - 2.4k - mina&tokoyami friendship and bonding over mina’s kid and hawks’ kid (who tokoyami is babysitting) - part of the oct prompt collection

fish and feathers (x) - 4.1k - my chance to flex my remaining runescape knowledge to have jirou and denki friendship via the interwebs content

a name freely given (x) - 4.2k - shigadabi fake dating royalty au where shiggy’s fae? sure why not lmaoooo. part of the oct prompt collection

kabloom flower shop (x) - 2.8k - a wrong-number tattoo shop/flower shop kirikami au that was lowkey hilariously fun to write. part of the oct prompt collection

awake me from my nightmare (x) - 2.3k - the only fic i’ve ever tagged with mcd, an among us au of all things. baku&uraraka friendship and betrayal, part of the oct prompt collection

**for the record (x) - 2.1k - shiggy&dabi...allianceship? sort of? lmao they’re angel and demon, spies, and part of like a rebellion thing. and they don’t like each other which is always fun! part of the oct prompt collection

a different kind of hero (x) - 1.1k - established tododeku future fic where todo just got his quirk stolen (and deku already lost his in an afo fight), mostly bitter with just a tiny spark of hopefulness. part of the oct prompt collection

forget me not (x) - 2.1k - kiri&uraraka friendship, amnesia and artist au like i really went off here but it was so sweet and wholesome and i had a great time. part of the oct prompt collection

**lightning in a bottle (x) - 4.5k - chaotic kamibaku getting together but they’re WITCHES it’s a MAGIC AU and BEDSHARING IS A THING. part of the oct prompt collection

passing notes (x) - 1.6k - shiggy&eri friendship which is a thing that would be hilarious if it happened in canon tbh. part of the oct prompt collection

no turning back (x) - 6.5k - shiggy&deku friendship but make it royalty au and a 5/1 trope just for kicks lmao. part of the oct prompt collection

worthy adversary (x) - 1k - baku&shinsou friendship/childhood friends au that deserved more than 1k lmao. part of the oct prompt collection

together (x) - 3.2k - denki&mina friendship but they’re allied with vampires to fight some werewolves bc why not right? also lil taste of shinkami just like tiny bit for the flavor™. i should really do a bit more with this au huh? part of the oct prompt collection

a good thing (x) - 1.2k - shinsou&aizawa friendship? fathership? sonship? u know how it is lmao. a little sprinkle of shinkami for the flavor. part of the oct prompt collection

brighter than the sun (x) - 730 - can u tell i don’t usually write miritama lmao. some soft parallels bc they are soft. part of the oct prompt collection

try again (x) - 1.4k - dabi&shouto siblingship but dabi can time travel bc i said so (actually bc the prompts said so but whatever lmao) part of the oct prompt collection

that’s it lovelies!! nearly 600k this year and some of my favorite fics i’ve ever written, and i cannot begin to thank you all enough for your incredible support, i adore you all so much 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[incomprehensiblelentils]

@dollsome-does-tumblr​ does this and opened it up to anyone and I am feeling chatty today SO!

Because I co-write a lot with my lovely wife, I might answer some questions including those co-written stories, or I might not, depends on how I feel when I get there.

name:

Megan but I go by Lentils most places on the internet, Shadowcrawler over on AO3

fandoms:

at the moment: MCU, especially Agents of SHIELD and Daredevil; Terminator: Dark Fate; Halt and Catch Fire. Oh and I wrote Dollhouse fanfics a thousand years ago. Sometimes I will watch a movie/show and think “those two girls should be gay” and bang out 2k of fic about it and then never write for that fandom again. (I THOUGHT this was going to be HACF but as it turns out, no, it’s not done with me yet.)

where you post:

AO3, at Shadowcrawler. I also have a tumblr @lentils-writes​ where theoretically I post links to fics/advertise them in the tags, because I used to be real precious about not putting porn on this blog, but fuck it.

most popular multi-chapter fic:

Co-written, it’s definitely mallverse, which is I think the reason most writers definitely hate us because it’s very long and there are a lot of tags lmao. The problem is that every tagged character HAS shown up in a significant fashion at some point so we can’t just...untag them! It doesn’t update weekly anymore because we’re exhausted by life lmao so at least there’s that???

As for a multi-chapter fic that was just me, I don’t tend to do that so much, so actually it’s say you will, my 3-chapter Endgame fix-it where Clint dies instead of Natasha and Natasha and Laura have a past. It actually has over 1000 hits which is very exciting! I feel like it’s...niche in a way that is frustrating but understandable lol. I put a lot of my heart into it and some people really liked it, so that’s gratifying.

favorite story you’ve written so far:

Co-written, I think our SHIELD Dollhouse AU is very underrated for the amount of work we put into it. Author bias evident here because I love Dollhouse warts and all, and it’s a lot of fun translating episode plots as well as the general trajectory of the show into stuff that will work with SHIELD characters. We don’t just rewrite episodes, we really try and rework them as needed. Also it features both Skimmons and my beloved rarepair Bobbi/Kara, though of course they won’t get together until later.

Of my own stuff, I’m still really really proud of the AU where Kara Palamas didn’t die. I think that was a pretty severe misstep of the show and I think I did a good job of fixing it. (I haven’t forgotten Kara, promise!)

fic you were nervous to post:

lolololol I wrote some uh. Terminator pornography last year and. They are very porny! I had co-written a bunch of smut obviously, but that was the first time I’d posted like, PWP all by myself on purpose??? and that was TERRIFYING. Also I was very nervous to post the Engame fix-it because that was my own personal goodbye/tribute to Natasha.

how you choose your titles:

They are always either song lyrics or jokes (such as Three Lawyers and a Baby, my Daredevil Accidental Baby Acquisition fic). My WIP docs are always titled either obvious shit like “RoseJannah horse girls” or memes like “what if we belonged to a fire cult and we fucked haha just kidding unless...?” or “Morgan has two mommies.”

do you outline?:

B and I typically outline for the co-written fics, although it’s more often chapter-by-chapter outlines since that’s how we write them. On occasion we’ve fully planned multi-chapter stuff out in advance but that’s less common. Oh and the one-shots are nearly always outlined as well, just to keep ourselves organized.

When I have written planned multi-chapter fics in the past I have used outlines - particularly for the Kara one and I had to do that for the SHIELD Kill Bill AU because I was trying to follow the format of the movie. For things that are allegedly supposed to be one-shots I almost never outline, which turns out to be a terrible idea when they inevitably balloon beyond my control and become 45k like say you will. That one, I wrote out a list of scenes I thought needed to be in it and then I wrote about 75% of those scenes and then I wrote a bunch more scenes I hadn’t planned for. Don’t be like me, kids!

complete fics:

According to AO3, 89 as of right now. Uh, you do not want me to list all of them, here’s a link, I guess!

in progress:

I don’t understand what the difference is between this question and the WIP questions lmao help????

posted WIPs that I have active plans to continue at this time:

Cowritten: mallverse as I said, and its femslash smut oneshots spinoff and character flashbacks spinoff and older characters/teachers spinoff (these get updated, uh, irregularly), the first half of a Piper/Snowflake SHIELD s7 fic that we are planning on finishing the second half of soonish, SHIELD Dollhouse AU, SHIELD Teen Beach AU, SHIELD Buffy AU. You may notice a pattern!

By myself, I have: Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas, a Terminator Hallmark Christmas fic that I ambitiously posted the first chapter of in 2019 and then lost steam immediately (I am going to go back to it sooner or later bc I had some cute ideas for it); the SHIELD Fate of the Furious AU that has one chapter to go and which I do intend on finishing eventually; Three Lawyers and a Little Lady, the Daredevil Accidentally Baby Acquisition AU that is literally just cute kidfic and poly avocados and which I have a bunch of ideas for and just need to buckle down and finish some.

posted WIPs that I have given up on:

Lol so there’s a Dollhouse Caroline/Bennett Doctor Who AU that I wrote purely as idfic and which nobody ever cared about except me, and I think that ship has sailed! RIP darlings. I also had an ongoing Skimmons series waaaay back when where I posted oneshots that were like missing scenes or gay readings for each s1 episode, and I just feel like it would be inauthentic to even try and finish it at this point. (It does include the first ever Skimmons fic to be posted on AO3! Really truly, there’s one fic that shows up as older but it’s an ongoing fic and was updated with the tag way after I posted mine.)

exchange fics due soon/unrevealed:

I haven’t done an exchange since like 2015 lololol I am so bad at them. I am currently working on finishing up my MCU Femslash bingo card, very late, and I do have plans for almost all of the remaining squares!

WIPs that live in my fanfic folder and are incomplete and who knows when they’ll be finished:

“RoseJannah horse girls,” which has been put on hold temporarily but is literally just Rose and Jannah being gay while riding orbaks

half of a Daisy/Gwen fic from Marvel Rising because I know they’re not making any more of those but I stg those two were really gay

multiple fics about Elise Nelson-Page including: avocados Halloween with smol Elise, Aunt Elektra very reluctantly taking smol Elise shopping until she realizes smol Elise also likes weapons (she buys her a fake katana), Uncle Frank is a pushover and spoils the shit out of Elise, and baby Elise has a high fever and everyone freaks out but then she gets better and smile at them for the first time (inspired by baby me lol).

coming soon/not yet started:

“Morgan has two mommies,” yet another Endgame fix-it where Maya Hansen did not die in Iron Man 3 and she resurfaces and she and Pepper kiss and eventually she adopts Morgan

Claire and Colleen go on a nice date to get coffee/tea where Danny doesn’t interrupt them goddammit

Bobbi/Kara Warehouse 13 AU which is sort of like “For the Team” but gayer ft. grappling hook

X-Men: Evolution Tabby/Amara fluff

Cameron/Donna character study disguised as smut

Grace proposes to Dani with a ring made out of the metal from her power source and Carl officiates the wedding 

Dani gets horny watching Grace eat a peach and jerks off and Grace ends up hearing her and then they fuck (I have been calling this “the peach fic” in my head but I gotta stop being delicate about it lmfao it is just porn)

B and I have plans to do a Nico/Karolina Jasper in Deadland AU but we keep forgetting

I MUST WRITE FOGGY AND KAREN SADLY FUCKING IN A CHURCH WHILE THEY MOURN MATT THIS YEAR I STG

do you accept prompts:

uhhhhhh I have on occasion written a prompt for someone before but it’s pretty rare and I have enough trouble writing the shit I come up with in my own head lol. but never say never?

upcoming story you are most excited to write:

I’ve got a bit of the Bobbi/Kara Warehouse fic written and it’s nice to go back to that world. Also I’m weirdly excited about the Cam/Donna smutty character study I mentioned above, I have a lot of what I think are good ideas for it and it’ll be fun.

tagging @unwind-myself @swiftzeldas @swashbucklery @loved-the-stars-too-fondly and, if you want to, you!

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Halloween Fics

Trick or Treating may be close to illegal this year, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy spooky season by living vicariously through everyone’s favourite couple.

This Means War by thepinupchemist on AO3. (8,664 words).

Tags: Zombie Apocalypse, Horror, Humor, Bottom Dean, Top Castiel, Halloween, Barely Legal, Human Castiel, Teenage Castiel, Teenage Sam, Canonical Character Death.

My Rating: 5 stars.

Description: It should have been a normal day. Instead, Castiel finds out zombies are real, discovers some things he never knew about his best friend Sam and Sam's way-too-good-looking brother Dean, almost dies, wields a chainsaw, and loses his virginity. Kind of in that order.

Notes: Okay, that was adorable and hilarious and like the most in-character fic I have ever read? I don’t know how to describe it, it was kind of creepy.

Once Upon A Time in a Disney Store by noxsoulmate on AO3. (23,237 words).

Tags: Disney, Castiel Works in a Store, Uncle Dean, Mary is Dean’s Niece, Fluff, Adorable, Awkwardness, The Little Mermaid, Christmas Fluff, Meddling Kids, Halloween, Halloween Costumes, Marriage Proposal, Prince Dean, Prince Castiel, Weddings, Ice Skating.

My Rating: 5 stars.

Description: When Castiel Novak gets sick and loses his voice for a few days, he comes up with a clever trick to explain his lost voice to the kids in the Disney Store he works at. One little Mary Winchester, however, takes his note too serious and promptly starts a quest for his prince. Will her charming uncle be able to break the curse and be his one true love?

Notes: This is - by far - the fluffiest fic I have ever read. Mary is adorable (and generally I find kids really annoying!). Dean and Cas are adorable. Even the minor characters are written brilliantly. I love it!

Crazy Hex Girlfriend by whichstiel on AO3. (10,890 words).

Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Light Angst, Cowboy Dean, Cowboy Castiel, Halloween, Case Fic, Season 12, Witches, Monsters.

My Rating: 5 stars.

Description: Dean and Castiel infiltrate an extravagant couples-only Halloween party at the invitation of the party’s host who has been receiving mysterious threats. They patrol the party for hex bags and dark altars, interview suspects, and Dean happily scores a lot of free food. He just wishes he could score with Cas.

Notes: I love a case fic and I love a pretend relationship, so this was the perfect fic for me! It’s also about where I’m up to in the series (I just finished watching Dean kill Hitler) which was weird but also kind of nice.

Mister Scarecrow Hates Halloween by Carrieosity on AO3. (3,118 words).

Tags: High School AU, Fluff and Humor, Halloween Costumes, Humor, Fluff, Jock Dean, Shy Castiel, Caring Dean, First Kiss.

My Rating: 4 stars.

Description: Castiel hates Halloween, so being roped into working in costume at a pumpkin patch has him seething in misery. And now, of all things, the object of his unrequited crush is walking toward him, and Cas is praying the costume will hide him just a bit longer.

Notes: Now this is the Halloween vibes I was going for! A bit creepy (and not in the Halloween sense) if you think about it too hard, so...don’t. Also I forgot who Krissy was. To be fair, she was only in 2 episodes. I had to google her.

Something Icky This Way Comes by almaasi on AO3. (21,588 words).

Tags: Human AU, Paranormal Investigators, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Fluff, Romance, Case Fic, Adventure, Team Free Will, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Misunderstandings, Miscommunication, Lonely Dean, Scientist Castiel, Lonely Castiel, Virgin Castiel, Cats, Rabbits, Ectoplasm.

My Rating: 4 stars.

Description: Charlie Bradbury is a professional investigator of supernatural happenings, and Dean Winchester is her work partner and best friend, currently bunking in their office. Requiring insight for a particularly bizarre case on the night before Halloween, they call their go-to FBI lab guy, Castiel – who Dean hates. Totally and completely despises. And yet somehow they’ve always gotten along perfectly well in the heat of the moment. Anyway, there’s an ectoplasm-producing rabbit high on catnip floating around the office, and the creature’s predicament really needs to be addressed, or Charlie’s Halloween party will have to be cancelled. And nobody wants that. Least of all, Cas.

Notes: Aw, this was so cute! It was kind of like Ghostbusters, but with a rabbit instead of a marshmallow man and all your fave SPN characters.

akasha by quillquiver on AO3. (14,155 words).

Tags: Romance, Witch Castiel, Hunter Dean, Monster of the Week, John Winchester’s A+ Parenting, Sam Winchester at Stanford, Fallen Angel Castiel, Halloween, Witchcraft, Pre-series Adjacent.

My Rating: 3 stars.

Description: Five years ago, an angel fell off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon. Dean’s coming off a vamp nest in Boise when he gets the call on his Other Other Cell: two dead, definitely his kinda thing. But when he arrives in town, what originally looks like a cut-and-dry case soon turns up more questions than it does answers: What kind of monster uses medical equipment to exsanguinate its victims? Why is this monster here in the first place? And what the hell is up with the witch at the end of the street?

Notes: Okay, this was kinda cute. Cas just seemed a little OOC, but it wasn’t too bad, and apart from the fact there wasn’t much Halloween stuff, it was actually quite cool! I am a sucker for a djinn, too, even if it was only actually there for about five minutes.

Hocus Pocus by thepopeisdope on AO3. (4,622 words).

Tags: Alternate Universe, Witch Castiel, Hunter Dean Winchester, Post-Break Up, Witch Dean Winchester, Halloween.

My Rating: 3 stars.

Description: Halloween season is always a hassle. It has its charms, of course, and no one can deny that it’s great for Hocus Pocus’ sales, but that doesn’t mean that Castiel has to like it overall. Not everything is about his shop. And currently, he very much does not like it. The fact that his ex then decides to show up unannounced is the icing on top of an already rough day.

Notes: Charlie is an absolute mood in this, and now I want to see Cas in a witch hat. That picture must exist somewhere, right?

For a Scarf in October by almaasi on AO3. (1,687 words).

Tags: Scarves, Fluff, Brotherly Bonding, Halloween, Metrosexual Dean Winchester, POV Sam Winchester.

My Rating: 3 stars.

Description: A scarf is just a scarf, right? (Sam and Dean take a pointless journey through the Halloween-decked aisles of Target.)

Notes: Aw, who doesn’t love a little bit of Dean overcoming social norms, especially in a spooky season setting!

Kiss or Treat by destieldrabblesdaily on AO3. (946 words).

Tags: High School AU, First Kiss, Fluff, Halloween.

My Rating: 3 stars.

Description: Castiel has been dutifully handing out Halloween candy all night, entertaining the many kids ringing the Novak house's doorbell, but he's in for a big surprise when the bell rings once more and it's his crush Dean Winchester suddenly standing there on his front porch...

Notes: A fairly cute little oneshot, with Dean being an adorable big brother, as usual.

Oi, Gigantor drop the candy! by hoveringcat9 on AO3. (4,413 words).

Tags: Halloween, Halloween Costumes, Party, Alternate Universe - Human, Gabriel Loves Candy, Doctor Castiel, Paramedic Dean, Fluff, Caring John Winchester, Hurt Sam Winchester, Protective Dean Winchester, Insecure Gabriel, Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, First Kiss, First Meetings.

My Rating: 2 stars.

Description: Sam had pretty much given up on finding his soulmate, he definitely didn't expect it to go down like this.

Notes: The idea was fine, but as you can probably tell from the title and description, the writing was fairly terrible. It is also mostly Sabriel focused, but Destiel is there in the background.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this treat, and a happy Halloween to you all!

[purplesurveys]

1031

Do you usually take blame or blame others? Depends on the context, I guess? When things go wrong on a very deep and personal level between me and people I deeply care for, I usually try to find reasons to blame myself. But if it’s something superficial, like if someone messes up at work through no fault of my own, then I’m able to point my finger to whoever fucked up.

Have you ever been to a McDonald’s in another state? I’ve been to McDonald’s in different provinces and also  in different countries. The McDonald’s we went to in Baguio was so surreal because we discovered that they were still using styrofoam containers that they had already phased out years ago everywhere else, and they also never changed the original spaghetti and chicken recipes I grew up with. It was such a blast from the past. As for other countries, I’ve tried out the McDonald’s in Malaysia, Indonesia, and China and made sure to order items that we didn’t have back home.

Have you ever seen 50 First Dates? Yeah, it’s one of my semi-guilty pleasures. It’s such a cheesy movie, but idk the concept is unique and the supporting characters made the whole movie enjoyable for me.

Do you like or hate the smell of fish? The fishy smell at the market can be pretty strong and bleck, but generally I don’t mind the smell of fish. I live in an archipelago, man. We live and breathe seafood. Idk anyone in real life who doesn’t like fish.

Have you ever been to Sea World? No.

Do you know someone who suffers from short term memory loss? I don’t think so, no.

Have you ever read any of John Green’s books? Yeah, but the only one I’ve gotten to read in full was The Fault In Our Stars. I also got to start on The Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns, but because I only borrowed those copies from friends I never got to read either until the end. All were okay, but I don’t find John Green’s writing to be as great as it was once hyped up to be.

If so, which one is your favorite? I guess TFIOS, since that’s the only one I got to read through to the end.

Are you a protective person? With my loved ones and pets, yes.

Have you ever experienced an earthquake? Yeah I’ve felt a lot but fortunately it’s never been a severe one. Just super brief earthquakes where the most that happened to me was a little swaying.

Would you rather go to a beach or city for a vacation? I love beaches, but a change in scenery would also be nice because I already go to beaches for vacations fairly often. City.

Does your license plate number contain the number 8? I never actually memorized my plate number LOOOOOOL I think so? It’s either a 6 or 8.

Were you ever a ghost on Halloween? Nope.

Has someone ever held the door open for you? Yeah, security guards tend to do that for customers/guests. Sometimes, nice strangers that I enter a place with will do it for me too.

Are you a fan of penguins? I think fan is pushing it far lol. I like penguins, but I’m not obsessed.

Have you ever stayed up all night on a school night? Just a handful of times, and it was always as part of a groupwork. I’d never willingly go through an all-nighter for myself.

What’s your favorite brand of chips? Doritos or Pringles. We also have a local brand that makes these deeeeeelicious salted egg chips, but I’ve never actually taken note of what the brand is.

Has anyone ever sang to you? Not to me. But a lot of people have sung around me.

Are you a good painter? No. That’s why I opt for paint-by-number kits, because those come with a guide haha. I can’t actually craft images by myself – that skill belongs to my sister who has an insane talent for painting.

Before buying a car, do you usually test drive it? I’ve never bought a car by myself; my dad takes care of the car purchases. I know he test-drove the Vitara, but idk about the other cars we have.

Have you ever written a poem and then read it aloud? Hmm, I don’t write poems. I don’t find the vast majority of them appealing, and only once in a while will there be a poem that is able to speak to me.

Do you like pineapple? Nope.

Have you ever met your favorite author? I don’t have a favorite.

Do you look more like your mom or dad? Most comments point to my mom, but I’ll get the occasional remark that half of my face is my dad’s as well. I’m a good mix of both.

Have you and your best friend ever liked the same person? This hasn’t happened before.

When was the last time someone called you babe or baby? Maybe August? I’m not too sure. It’s been a few months.

Do you have an older brother? No. But I’m super close with my eldest cousin on my mom’s side and we grew up together and all that, and I pretty much consider him my older brother. He’s definitely more a brother than a cousin to me, and it has always felt and been that way.

Are you a fan of art? Yes, especially paintings and dioramas.

Did you get your mom or dad’s eyes? My mom’s, I think? I really don’t know, I’m bad at recognizing this kind of stuff. You’d have to ask people who actually see me on a daily basis.

Have you ever seen the movie My Girl? Is this the one with the really sad scene of a boy’s funeral and the girl’s like, “He can’t see without his glasses”? I haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve heard about that scene a million times.

Do you watch Teen Wolf on MTV? Ugh, MTV’s teen shows are such a cringefest to me. I never followed it, but I’ve had to watch a few eps back in high school when my friends would watch it while we were at someone’s place. Not my cup of tea.

When it was on, did you watch Cory In The House on Disney? I watched a few episodes, especially when it was still new. But we were also in the process of moving then and we didn’t have cable for a few years in our new house, so I had to miss out most of it.

Do you have any blackheads? I don’t.

Do you have any freckles? Nope.

Do you have a movie that you have to watch during the summer every year? No, but I have something similar. I like watching Love Actually at least once every year, during the Christmas season. I like watching Two for The Road once a year as well, regardless of the time of year.

Do you think that life isn’t fair sometimes? I mean yeah. It doesn’t revolve around me, so I know it won’t always be fair.

When was the last time someone bought you flowers? Valentine’s Day last year.

What was the last book you read? Midnight Sun. Haven’t touched it since September, though.

How many books do you plan to read this summer? It’s past summer, and I haven’t been doing a lot of reading in general.

Does your house have a dishwasher? No, not a common appliance here.

Do you know anyone who has a flower tattoo? I probably do. But I haven’t seen people outside of family for so long that I can barely remember who has which tattoos. I’m pretty sure I know someone who has flowers.

Do you like the name Carter? It just reminds me of the underwear brand honestly, so not a fan.

Have you ever had a secret admirer? No. Should there be one, they shouldn’t be having high hopes; I wouldn’t be interested in the least.

How many different languages can you say goodbye in? There’s English, Filipino, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Japanese – 7.

Agree or disagree: You like Adam Sandler movies. Disagree for the most part, but 50 First Dates is cute.

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Did the last type of shoes you wore have laces? Yups. I wore sneakers when I went out to get Starbucks last Friday evening.

How much money did you spend yesterday? The charging cable that I ordered arrived yesterday, so I had to shell out ₱140 for that.

What genre is your favorite movie? It’s a romcom/drama. My other favorite is a drama.

Are you texting anybody right now? Nope. I’m all alone today, which is the way I want to be for this weekend.

Who was the last person you were in a car with? My parents.

Do you like the picture on your license/I.D. card? I really do, hahaha. I don’t know why the people at the LTO gave me a pass, but I had been allowed to smile with my teeth. That helped make my license photo turn out super well and I no longer feel embarrassed whenever I have to take it out and present it somewhere.

What’s your favorite thing to snack on while watching a movie? Potato Corner fries. Can’t be any other type of fries.

When was the last time somebody hit on you? July or August when this random guy slid into my PMs. I had never had so much fun blocking somebody so fast.

Was the last person you met a male or female? The last new person I met was male.

Which one of your friends do you feel most comfortable around? Angela or Andi.

Do you own a map of the world? I mean, I guess. I have a collection of the World Almanac for Kids books, and it had always included a world map in its Countries chapter every year.

What’s your favorite Thanksgiving food? We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.

Is the light on in the room you’re in? No, doesn’t have to be as it’s bright out and I can see the sun from my window.

Who did you last spoon with? Gabie.

Are you currently watching TV? No.

Have you ever had surgery or stitches? Never. Hope I’ll never be needing one.

Do you own any clothing that has animal print? I have a tank top with cheetah print that I sometimes wear at home.

Does your family eat dinner together? Yes, every evening. We don’t eat together when my dad is working abroad, but since he has stayed home for all of 2020 because of Covid, we’ve gotten to eat together as a family all year.

Where do you work? Somewhere in Metro Manila; I’m not giving the city away.

Are you in high school? I got out of there nearly five years ago.

Do you have a TV in your room? I used to, but not anymore.

Are any of your electronics charging right now? My phone and laptop both are.

What was the last video game you played? Mario Kart 8.

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Are you hungry?: I can def go for a snack, or maybe even a full meal. It’s taking everything in me not to order Popeye’s or Army Navy from Grab rn.

What color is the chair you’re sitting on?: I’m sitting up in bed; my sheets are blue with gold/yellow prints.

What did you buy last time you went to the store?: I got bottled coffee when I went to 7-Eleven a week ago.

Do you like salsa that has fruit in it?: ...Don’t all types of salsa have fruit in them though? It would be brand-new knowledge to me if I was told not all salsas have fruit.

Have you ever opened up your computer to clean the fan on the inside?: No. I’d rather have professionals do that.

Can you count in binary?: No, and I never even understood how it works.

Do you think stained glass windows are pretty?: No. Mostly because it reminds me of cathedrals.

Are you a chocoholic?: Nah. I like chocolate, but I can live without it.

Are you scared of snakes?: I mean if they were venomous or obviously wanted to eat me whole, of course. But I’ve also already held a couple of snakes before.

Have you had your wisdom teeth removed?: No.

Do you like hard or soft pretzels better?: Soft all the way. I find the hard ones too salty.

What was the last magazine or catalog you looked through?: I don’t even remember. Maybe Tatler? My grandma has loads of those at her house.

When was the last time you wore a raincoat?: I don’t think I have ever worn a raincoat.

Have you ever been carded when buying something?: Idk what that is but nothing out of the ordinary has ever happened to me whenever I’ve made a purchase, so I’m gonna go ahead and say no.

Do you eat meat?: Yep.

Corn and mashed potatoes, or beans and rice?: Both pairings aren’t really a part of our cuisine, so neither sound appealing to be honest. As someone who thrives on rice, I hate the idea of eating beans with it; so I would go with corn and mashed potatoes even though I’m having a hard time imagining how it would work.

Can you sleep with the light on?: I probably can, but it would take me a lot longer to fall asleep.

What’s your operating system of choice?: Mac/iOS.

Have you ever broken a bone?: Never.

Do you have a favorite highlighter color?: I don’t have a favorite color to use, but I prefer pastel shades in general over neon.

Do you have a flashlight?: My phone has a built-in flashlight, but we also keep a couple of emergency flashlights at home in case of blackouts.

Do you like watermelon?: I like some watermelon-flavored stuff like candies, but I’m not fond of the fruit.

…Honeydew?: Hahahahahaha. BoJack Horseman, anyone? Anyway, I’ve never had honeydew and probably wouldn’t like it considering my established opinion on fruits.

Can you shoot a gun?: I’ve never tried, so I’ll say no. I’ve always been meaning to go to a shooting range though; I feel like it’ll be such a cool experience.

Do you like salad?: Not for the most part. The only kind I enjoy is spicy tuna salad, which only has lettuce in it alongside tuna sashimi and spicy mayonnaise.

When was the last time you smashed your finger?: I don’t know if I ever have? This doesn’t ring a bell to me.

What color is your computer?: Silver/gray.

Have you ever made ice cream in chemistry class?: No, my chemistry classes in high school and college were never that fun.

Has anyone ever walked in on you while you were on the toilet?: Sure.

What color hair do you have?: Black.

Do you use the microwave often?: I wouldn’t say so; just a couple of times a month.

Are you good at spelling?: Sure, I’d claim that. Thank the movie Akeelah and the Bee; that movie made me super passionate about spelling and dictionaries for a time. I can still feel its effects today because I’m still very much particular about spelling more so than any other kind of writing/language mechanic.

Have you ever petted a donkey?: I’ve never even seen one before :o but I’d love to have the chance to pet one, heh. It would make me so happy.

When was the last time you went to the doctor’s for a physical?: 2016.

Do you like a lot of ice in your drinks?: Sure.

Have you ever painted a room? Never have, but would like to give it a try.

[lovemesomesurveys]

survey by starsareonly2nd

Have you ever been to Las Vegas? Nope. I’d like to go sometime, though. I’m not into the casino scene, but they have fun shows and other stuff to do there.

What did you have for breakfast this morning? I didn’t have anything. I’m about to have dinner soon, which is the first thing I’ll eat today.

Do you have any loose change in your pocket? I don’t have any pockets right now, but I never use pockets anyway.

Do you like Taylor Swift? Not a fan, personally.

What's your favorite Disney Channel movie? I have several from my childhood and teenage years.

If you met your favorite celebrity, would you be calm or star struck? I’d be starstruck in a calm way; like I’d most likely be too shocked to get more than a few words out. I’m sure I’d come off as shy or boring haha, which is why I’ve refused to meet or interact with my favorite celebrities even if I’ve already had the chance to. <<< Aw, omg I’d be the same way. I’d be freaking out internally for sure. I wouldn’t know what to do or say. My awkwardness would definitely shine through.

Are there any lights on in the room you're in? Yeah.

What's your favorite subject in school? Mine was always English. And obviously psych in college.

What's your favorite holiday? Christmas and Halloween. Do you ever have to do yard work? I don’t do the yardwork.

Is your school close to your house? The schools I attended are all local and pretty close by.

Speaking of school, how did you get there today? I’m done with school.

Do you think Bad Romance is a catchy song, or an annoying one? I like it.

Do you use perfect grammar online? Yes. I’m one who texts that way, too.

Are you currently using a laptop? Yep.

Do you have any live versions of songs in your music software? Nope.

Did/do you listen to Britney Spears songs? Yeah.

Is it a windy day? It was a little windy today.

In the past week, have you ridden in a taxi? No. I haven’t taken a taxi in several years.

What shorthand do you use the most? “lol”, “wtf”, “wth”, “omg.”

Do you ever wish on stars at night? Nope.

What color are your eyes? Brown.

What album is the current song you're listening to off of? I’m not listening to music, I’m watching Eli Roth’s History of Horror on AMC. I love this show, each episode discusses different aspects and themes of horror movies through interviews with actors, directors, etc of horror films and show clips from the movies talked about. Tonight’s episode is about body horror and the movies they’re discussing are pretty disturbing :O Like, Hellraiser... wtf is that??! I’ve never seen that movie, but yikes. Or this Japanese movie, Audition... 

What are you doing after you finish this? I’m about to have dinner. And after watching that show ^^^, I’ll watch this other show called Cursed Films. That’s an interesting one, too. As the title suggests, it discusses films that have been said to be cursed. Like, if you’d heard about the Poltergeist curse. Last week they did The Crow and what happened to Brandon Lee is so sad. Tonight they’re discussing Twilight Zone: The Movie. 

In your opinion, what song is the most overplayed right now? I don’t listen to the radio, haven’t for a few years now, so I don’t know.

Are you in a band? Uh, no. I can’t sing or play an instrument. 

How clean is your bedroom? It needs a little tidying up.

Is there a pen within reaching distance of you? Yeah.

Are you sitting at a desk? No, I’m sitting on my bed.

Does your favorite band have a male or female lead singer? One of my favorite bands, Linkin Park, had a male lead singer. RIP Chester Bennington. :(

Do you normally shut your bedroom door before you go to sleep? Yep, always.

Have you seen the movie Moulin Rouge? I haven’t. 

Would you ever dye your hair a different color? I’m gonna stick to dyeing it red for now.

Are there any framed pictures in the room you're in? Yes.

Have you ever been to a Broadway show? I’ve seen Phantom of the Opera.

Do you watch So You Think You Can Dance? No.

What's your favorite movie soundtrack? Hmm. I don’t know.

Do you prefer group or individual work? I much preferred doing my own work. Group projects added more stress for me. Although, I did like group presentations better than doing one by myself. Being up there with other people to back each other up and not having the focus solely on me helped a bit. 

Do you have a key to anything besides your house? Just my car.

Are you wearing anything with stripes? No.

What time did you go to sleep last night? I kept falling asleep off and on, but I didn’t fall asleep for good until after 9AM. :/ I ended up sleeping until 5PM.

Did anyone tell you you were beautiful today? No.

What show did you last watch? I’m watching the show I mentioned earlier, Cursed Films.

Do you think you'll do anymore surveys today? Yes.

What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Strawberry.

When was the last time you stayed home from school sick? I don’t recall, I’ve been done with school for 5 years now.

Could you ever complete a 500-piece puzzle? I have before. I used to like doing puzzles when I was a kid. I get the urge to do one every now and then. Perhaps I’ll get into them again.

If you could run a red light and not get caught, would you? Um, absolutely not. Getting caught is the least of it when you run the risk of possibly KILLING someone or yourself or getting badly injured. Doing stuff like that is how accidents happen. Don’t do it.

Do you like to listen to music as you do your homework? I did sometimes.

Did you think Adam Lambert's AMA performance was really that controversial? I don’t recall that performance.

Do any bands flat-out annoy you? Not currently.

Do you have a mirror in your bedroom? Yes.

Was today a birthday for any of your friends? No.

When was the last time you rode in a limo? My dad actually used to work for a limo service when I was a kid and I got to ride around in one a few times. It was fun.

Do you take naps daily? Not daily, but I have been taking one more often lately.

Do you still make Christmas lists? Yes, my family and I make one for each other.

Do you watch the show Dexter? No.

What's the background on your phone? The lock screen is a pretty picture with a Bible verse and my home screen is Halloween themed. I’ve been switching the theme each week this month with different Halloween themes. I love the new update that allows you to add widgets to the home screen and you can change the background.

When were/will you be a a sophomore in high school? I was a sophomore in 2005.

Are you scared of any animals? I mean, I wouldn’t want to encounter any lions, tigers, or bears. ha. But I’m not afraid to see them at the zoo or in a photo or something, but killer whales? Nopeeeee. Not even a photo or on TV.

Have you ever been to any sort of convention? Hmm. No, I don’t think so.

Which song did you last listen to on repeat? I don’t recall. I don’t usually listen to songs on repeat. Not literally, anyway. I’ll listen to a song a lot, but not back to back to back.

Where do you want to live when you grow up? I am “grown up”, but I better have my beach home one day. 

Are you currently using a blanket? I actually do my blanket over my legs right now. :O It’s finally getting cool at night, which is nice.

Are there any songs that make you cry? Yes, a few.

How many siblings do you have? Two.

What are you doing this weekend? Yesterday I slept until 5PM, got up to make coffee and checked my social medias and emails, started this survey, watched Carrie, Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Cursed Films, and Pet Semetary, had dinner, did my Bible study, read, ate ramen, and now I’m finishing this and watching YouTube videos. Today, I’ll watch my church’s livestream and then do much of the same things but with different TV shows/movies, ha.

Do you prefer swimming at the beach or in a pool? I don’t like swimming at all. I definitely never swam in the ocean, though. Nopeeee.

When was the last time you had a haircut? I got a trim back in February.

Which musical instrument do you think sounds the prettiest? I love the piano.

Are you in band or chorus at your school? I was in choir for a few years and did violin for one year in elementary school.

Do you know what you want for Christmas? I have a few little ideas.

Do you watch fireworks on New Year's Eve? On TV, ha. I like watching the New Year’s Eve festivities every year.

Is your birthday within the next three months? No, my birthday was back in July.

How long is the song you're listening to? I’m not listening to music. I don’t even know the last time I was when asked this question to be honest. I like to listen to ASMR videos while doing surveys.

Are you anticipating anything this week? I’m anticipating it to be a typical week for me.

Is your mom or dad the older parent? My dad is by 4 years.

Have you taken the SATs yet? I never took the SATs.

Do you watch anything on E? Yeah, KUWTK and Daily Pop. They play movies sometimes, too, so I might tune in if they’re playing something I like.

Are you going to get off the computer now that you've finished this? Nope. I’m going to do more surveys.

[argylemnwrites]

OTP Questions

Thanks for tagging me @addictedtodrakefanfic, and thanks for building this list of questions @mskaneko! I always find things like this crazy fun!

1. What other couple would your OTP get along with?

Like, in universe? They get along very well with Liam and Iris (who I will write more about going forward), although Iris and Riley are closer in the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe even though they see each other in person less often.

2. Do either of them have secrets even the other doesn’t know?

Not really, most things have a way of coming out with these two, and most of their “secrets” aren’t something they intended to keep from the other, it just never came up in conversation. The closest is probably that Drake slept with a woman Riley knows at court years before they met, but when Drake tried to tell her, Riley said ignorance was bliss and that she did not want to know that detail.

3. Who is the one that sees the big picture, while the other focus on the small details?

Riley is a big picture optimist (”everything will sort itself out” type of thought pattern most of the time) usually, whereas Drake tends to focus on the details, even though they often frustrate him.

4. Who does stuff on impulse?

The one who moved to Cordonia with guys she’d known for less than 24 hours on a whim, hahaha!

5. What is their favourite holiday?

Drake loves Christmas, Riley loves Halloween.

6. What is their favourite board game?

Drake prefers card games, but he does enjoy Risk quite a bit (Riley refuses to play with him because she finds it painfully dull). Riley likes Clue and Monopoly.

7. Who would go out of their way to do something silly to make their partner laugh?

Riley

8. Favorite canon moment of them?

When Drake asks Riley if things would be different between them if they met under different circumstances after the Tariq incident. The moment is such a perfectly vulnerable one for him, that it just holds a special place in my heart.

9. Least favorite canon moment of them?

“I don’t know what to say. My kid sitting on the throne? I mean, it would be an incredible honor.” - Drake Walker, on his honeymoon, agreeing to King Liam’s plan to name his yet-to-be-conceived child heir to the Cordonian throne before discussing it with Riley.

10. Who is the competitive one?

They are both incredibly competitive. They both insist the other one is more competitive.

11. Who likes to go on drives to nowhere in particular

Seeing as Riley never got a driver’s license growing up in Manhattan and feels incredibly uncomfortable behind the wheel, we’ll go with Drake here. I could see him doing this to clear his head on trips to Texas.

12. Who sings along with the radio?

Riley will if she’s in a good mood. Drake will if he’s drunk.

13. Who would accidentally set the kitchen on fire while cooking?

Riley. Not only is she a mediocre cook, but she’s more easily distracted and might tend to forget she left something on the stove.

14. Who is more seductive when they are drunk?

Drake gets really affectionate and cuddly when drunk, but whiskey dick is a thing so... Riley is a happy drunk primarily (unless she is drinking to cope in which case she is a very sad drunk), not so much a horny drunk. She does get pretty handsy when she’s just tipsy, though.

15. Who wakes the other up in the middle of the night to tell them a cool dream they had?

Neither. Riley is difficult to wake up, so Drake wouldn’t bother when he could just tell her later. Drake is such a light sleeper that Riley wouldn’t want to be one more disruption to his sleep just to tell him about an interesting dream.

16. Who asks weird questions in the middle of the night?

Riley, if they’re both still awake. Otherwise neither.

17. Who likes to walk around the house naked and who tells the other to go put some clothes on?

Okay, so all this makes me think of is the Seinfeld episode where Jerry is dating a woman who chooses to be naked all the time and it brings up the discussion of good naked and bad naked. Riley is prone to stripping down for “good naked” tasks pretty often. Sometimes it’s just to flirt and tease, but other times it’s to persuade Drake to do something he doesn’t want to do. He catches on to this tactic pretty quickly, so he will tell her to cover up and that it isn’t going to work if he suspects she has ulterior motives. This behavior pretty much comes to a halt once Riley is pregnant as she isn’t as confident given the changes that are occurring to her body, and after they have a kid, nudity as a flirting and/or manipulation technique just doesn’t happen all that often.

18. Who is always ready to have sex at any time, at any place?

Both of them, although Drake won’t at his work functions/parties in the It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment universe because he’s too nervous they’ll get caught and he’ll get fired.

19. Who likes to surprise the other with a lot of small random gifts?

They both buy each other things, but Drake’s gifts to Riley are more practical (he’ll grab her granola bars or creamer before she runs out) whereas Riley chooses more random fun items that just made her think of Drake.

20. Where did they take their first picture together?

Maxwell snapped a pic of them walking back from the first cronut run together.

21. Who knows the most useless facts?

Drake. Riley often questions how accurate his claims are, but he’s right more often than not.

22. Who is more likely to forget their own birthday?

Neither, but Drake is far more likely to try and downplay his birthday. Riley never lets that happen.

23. Which bad habit of their partner do they find the most annoying?

I don’t know if these are truly bad habits or just irritating ones, but Drake cracks his knuckles absentmindedly, which can get on Riley’s nerves, and Riley never returns food to the same spot in the refrigerator, which really annoys Drake.

24. Who is the better driver ?

Definitely Drake. Riley doesn’t really drive, though Drake has attempted to teach her during trips to Texas. She’s just not that interested in learning.

25. Who is more likely to admit they are wrong in an argument ?

This is a struggle for both of their stubborn asses. Drake is more likely to say he’s wrong, but Riley truly means it more often when she says it.

26. What is something that reminds them of one another?

The smell of peaches reminds Drake of Riley. Probably an obvious answer, but whiskey reminds Riley of Drake.

27. Would they get matching couple tattoos? If yes, what it would be?

Nope, neither one of them are tattoo people.

28.Who sleeps wrapped up in a cocoon of covers?

Neither. Both prefer just a sheet and a thin blanket, plus a quilt/comforter if it’s winter.

29. Who would win in a pillow fight?

Riley’s agility and impressive aim give her the slight edge.

30. Who likes to take photos of the other when they’re not looking

Riley would be more likely to do this

31.Where would they go to get away from everyone else and just be alone?

In canon, Drake goes fishing at a small creek between the capital and Valtoria. Riley goes to the undercroft area of their estate. If they are looking to get away together, they go camping on the grounds of their estate, cycling between a few different locations so it’s harder for the staff to track them down.

In It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment, Riley is very willing to share “her beach” with Drake. If they are looking for a longer getaway together, they’ll rent a car and get out of the city to go camping.

32. If they got to pick what one another wears for a day, what would one another wear?

Riley likes seeing Drake dressed up in a simple suit since it’s a break from the usual. Navy would be her preferred color. Drake would have Riley wear a slim cut red dress with a length short enough to be sexy but not so short that he feels that everyone is going to be checking her out.

44. What do they love most about each other?

Drake loves that Riley has a bit of a temper, but uses it for “good,” such as calling out stuck up, snobby assholes (He loves that she swears up a storm with her temper, too). Riley loves the way nothing she can say or do phases him.

Bonus: 3 random HC about your OTP

In canon, they host a Superbowl party every year, even though neither one of them really cares about American football, because Riley feels this is one America tradition they can still embrace without it being seen as a “thing” by the press (They drew some flack when they tried to have a July 4th barbecue with fireworks because that was seen as too political)

In It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment, they attempted to rent a cabin to get out of the city for a couple of nights around New Year’s Eve to escape the insanity that first year, but Riley did not have a driver’s license and Drake’s Cordonian license was deemed insufficient, so they had to text Liam to emergently transmit them some additional documentation. He essentially just wrote a three sentence letter on stationary with the royal seal stating that Drake had a driver’s license in good standing.

In any universe, they will intermittently have intense poker nights (just the two of them), that devolve into drunken rounds of strip poker and insane bets.

Tagging @drakeandcamilleofvaltoria @ravenpuff02 @omgjasminesimone @fromthedeskofpaisleybleakmore​ if any of you are interested in joining in the fun (sorry if this is a repeat tag for any of you), or anyone else who sees this and wants to play along!

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What you should watch while staying at home part 2! AKA the Disney+ list based off the U.S selection.

Disney+

Lab Rats (TV show)

Rating: TV-Y7

Summary: A scrawny 14-year-old, having discovered his inventor stepdad has three bionic, super-powered teens living cloistered in a secret lab beneath their home, brings them out into the world.

Seasons: all four seasons and the spin-off are on Disney+, except for part 2 of Lab Rats vs. Mighty Med because that is a Mighty Med episode and Mighty Med is not on Disney+ at the time of this post.

Why you should watch it: Lab Rats was the reason I started writing fanfiction (if you're brave and like first person fics, my profile on fanfiction.net under the name Brentinator is full of cringe worthy fics) and it's probably the reason that I like action/adventure so much. It's super funny, it's very dramatic and it has good messages about family and teamwork.

Kickin' It (TV show)

Rating: TV-Y7

Summary: A once-in-a-generation young karate fighter named Jack joins the Wasabi warriors.

Seasons: 1-4 on Disney+

Why you should watch it: it's a comedy about teenagers in a karate dojo. Yeah, it's Disney so it is cringy, but it makes for some good laughs. Leo Howard is a little cutie, there's an episode with Billy Unger (Lab Rats) and Kelli Berglund (Lab Rats). There's some whump in a bit of it, and Jason Earles (Miley's brother in Hannah Montana) is the sensei. It's great.

Austin and Ally (TV show)

Rating: TV-Y7

Summary: Following the lives of Austin, an aspiring confident musician, Ally, a quiet talented songwriter and their two friends.

Seasons: 1-4 on Disney+, part two of the New Year's special is season 2, episode six of Jessie.

Why should you watch it: this was the first Disney Channel show I watched. Ross Lynch was my first celebrity crush, the first soundtrack was my first CD, and Trish gave me some representation as a plus sized woman/teen. It's pretty cringe, but the songs are all amazing and some of jokes are knee slappers.

Good Luck Charlie (TV show)

Rating: TV-Y7

Summary: The Duncan family are adjusting to the surprise birth of their fourth child, Charlie. When parents Amy and Bob return to work they put their latest addition in the care of her three older siblings.

Seasons: all seasons and the movie in between seasons 2 and 3 on Disney+, the second part of the Christmas episode in season 4 is in season 3 of Jessie.

Why should watch it: it's just a good comedy about a family with a lot of kids.

Brave (movie)

Rating: PG

Summary: Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.

Why should you watch it: this movie holds a very special place in my heart. I watched this movie with my grandpa the Christmas before he died, and it's a memory I hold very close. It's also the best Disney princess with red hair, fight me. And my Merdia Halloween costume where I carried around my dad's bow and arrows can't be beat.

Chicken Little (movie)

Rating: G

Summary: After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.

Why should you watch it: a lot of people say this is Disney's worst animated movie. But this is a very nostalgic movie for me, and some of the jokes can't be beat. Also, aliens.

Bad Hair Day (movie)

Rating: TV-G

Summary: A buddy comedy about a high school tech-whiz whose prom day abruptly shifts into a wild ride across town, thanks to a down-on-her-luck cop and a jewel thief.

Why should you watch it: it's Ally from Austin and Ally and the mom from Good Luck Charlie trying to protect a missing necklace, and the two of them grow a motner-daughter type relationship during it.

Descendants 2 (movie)

Rating: TV-G

Summary: Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay try to adjust to life in Auradon, but Mal becomes overwhelmed with pressure and returns to her roots.

Why should you watch it: I love the Descendants franchise, but the second movie has the best songs, the best acting and the best villains. I'm obsessed with China Anne McClain and she's a great villain. But watch the first movie. After all, it has Dove Cameron, Booboo Stewart, Sofia Carson and the late Cameron Boyce with some of their best acting being displayed.

High School Musical 2 (movie)

Rating: TV-G

Summary: School's out for summer and the East High Wildcats are ready to make it the time of their lives after landing jobs in a wealthy country club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family.

Why you should watch it: I'm not a huge HSM fan, but I love Sharpay and Ryan, and I love the movie that's on their turf. It also has my favorite HSM song in it, which is Bet On It. Probably watch the first movie first though.

Geek Charming (movie)

Rating: TV-G

Summary: To win a school popularity contest, a high school diva permits a film club classmate to record her popular life, but the film starts documenting her decline instead.

Why you should watch it: this is possibly my favorite DCOM, and Sarah Hyland is so good at her job, it's insane. It's overshadowed by what happened between the leads afterwards, however.

How to Build a Better Boy (movie)

Rating: TV-G

Summary: Teenage tech whizzes unwittingly use military software to program a robotic boyfriend.

Why you should watch it: probably why I like it so much is because it has China Anne McClain and Kelli Berglund, and it's a cool concept. Also has Noah Centerpiece if you like him as well.

Teen Beach Movie (movie)

Rating: not rated

Summary: Two surfing lovers, whose doomed relationship is nearing to a close, find themselves swept into a a dimension traversing wave that sends them into a beach movie musical in the 60's.

Why you should watch it: it's not a great plot, but the acting is pretty good and the songs are so amazing. Also, Ross Lynch. Not a huge fan of the sequel, but you should still check it out if you like the first one.

The Emperor's New Groove (movie)

Rating: G

Summary: Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.

Why should you watch it: this is the movie I grew up on. I knew all the quotes, I knew all the jokes, and one time I barged into my sister's youth group shouting "boom bam, baby!" It's so good and so funny.

Finding Nemo (movie)

Rating: G

Summary: After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Why should you watch it: my other childhood movie. Also knew the quotes, and the jokes, and I spoke whale in church when I was very young. There may also be a Finding Nemo Irondad AU from me in the future.

Holes (movie)

Rating: PG

Summary: A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.

Why should you watch it: to this day this is the most accurate book to movie adaptation I've ever seen. Also, Madame Zeroni.

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (movie)

Rating: G

Summary: Mickey, Donald and Goofy are the French three Musketeers.

Why you should watch it: well, it's what the summary says. The Mickey Mouse gang as the musketeers. And it has la pit in it. "No, not la pit!"

Pocahontas (movie)

Rating: G

Summary: An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.

Why should you watch it: is it historically accurate, no. But does it have one of the sweetest romances in the history of Disney, I would like to think so. And Pocahontas is just one of my favorite Disney princesses, even if she's not technically a princess.

Tangled

Rating: PG

Summary: The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

Why should you watch it: a carefree princess, a attractive and hilarious thief and the cutest little chameleon ever! The animation is gorgeous, the songs are amazing and Mother Gothel is such a good villain.

Pooh's Heffalump Movie (movie)

Rating: G

Summary: A Heffalump is heard trumpeting in the hundred acre woods. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet are scared and rush to Rabbit's house for advice. Roo joins them and they all agree that Heffalumps are nearby after finding a huge footprint. They decide to set out on an expedition to catch the Heffalump. Roo is not allowed to come along because he is too little.

Why should you watch it: I watched a lot of Winnie the Pooh movies when I was little, because Winnie the Pooh is my mom's favorite Disney franchise, but this one is my favorite. It's so soft, and it has a good lesson that even if you're different, that doesn't mean you're evil or scary.

Read it and Weep (movie)

Rating: TV-G

Summary: A shy and retiring high school student develops a peculiar alter ego that changes her life forever.

Why should you watch it: it's about a writer in high school! This is one of my favorite Disney movies ever, and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Sky High (movie)

Rating: PG

Summary: Set in an era where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young William Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.

Why should you watch it: clearly, I like movies and shows about superheroes (I mean, I write for Marvel). This movie is about William, who hasn't gotten his powers yet, and has been lying to his parents that he has before he goes to superhero high school. The ending is weird, but I love this movie.

Tagging some people so it gets spread around: @marvelous-writer @clover-roseee @canary-warrior @blondsak @breanadaveport-mendel @seek-rest @willelbyers

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a list of asks

@padawanyugi tagged me in this, but Tumblr decided to eat any notification that I got tagged, so I’m glad I saw it on my dash because I like filling these things out. Thanks for tagging me! I may have typed A Lot.

Favorites: What types of books do you enjoy? Tell about what you’ve read recently (Or maybe about a book you hated recently!)I like spec-fic and sci-fi, although less “hard” science fiction, and I also enjoy fantasy. I read a lot of YA even though I’m in my 30s just because it seems easy to find a story I want to read and I’m not usually in the mood for dense prose.

I’ve been rereading the Wheel of Time series since it’s getting an Amazon TV show; it was my first non-LOTR fantasy series and I love it to death, warts and all, although I love joking about the weak points with other people who’ve read it. I think the last other thing I read was A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, which was a queer YA historical fiction, and it was a lot of fun. I wish I’d had access to all these queer stories when I was an actual teenager, but better late than never.

What types of music do you like to listen to? Share five songs from your music library. I really do like a bit of everything, although I gravitate towards certain genres more often depending on the season or time of day, so I’m going to cheat and pick 5 per season. Summer for me is lots of peppy pop (pride playlists!), punk and rock and punk-adjacent stuff, just upbeat stuff in general. -Weekender, by The Royal They -Break My Heart, by Dua Lipa -Toutes les femmes savent danser, by Loud -Ruby Soho, by Rancid -Womanarchist, by Bad Cop, Bad Cop

In the fall, my inner goth kid craves darkwave, goth rock, dramatic folk, roots rock, and also anything that reminds me of Halloween. -Iuka, by the Secret Sisters -Bela Lugosi’s Dead, by Bauhaus -How’s It Gonna End, by Tom Waits -Under the Milky Way, by The Church -I Put a Spell on You, by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins I could go on about the Christmas music I like at length (Boney M’s Christmas album slaps, ngl) but I’ll just skip that and say that I listen to more classical and piano pieces in the winter. I’m terrible at remembering names, so artists only: -Ludovico Einaudi -Chopin -Debussy -Saint-Saëns -Dvořák And in spring I’m usually just depressed af and listen to whatever. -FML, by K.Flay -Weird Part of the Night, by Louis Cole -Juodaan Viinaa, by Korpiklaani -P.O.H.U.I., by Carla’s Dreams -Marryuna, by Baker Boy

Do you have a show or movie that you can just put on anytime and it’s your comfort? Definitely Star Trek. I’ve rewatched the various iterations (except TOS) so many times. Also Mean Girls and Bring It On, idk why.

Do you have a favorite dessert? Tiramisu or creme brulée! Or macarons. I don’t eat dessert really unless I’m at a restaurant.

Do you have a favorite cold drink? Sparkling water, hands down.

Do you have a favorite game? The hours I have put into the SIms in my lifetime is probably shameful, although I haven’t played in a while. Don’t Starve is another contender for hours played, but I am also really fond everything by Amanita Design

Do you have a favorite part of your self care/beauty/health routine? I haven’t been doing it much lately since I’ve been dealing with some uncertain health issues with my joints (actually have a rheumatologist appointment later today), but savasana after a long yoga workout is borderline ecstasy.

Do you have a favorite type of take-out food? Indian for sure.

What’s your favorite type of exercise/physical activity? I have a love-hate relationship with running. I don’t actually love it but I love how I feel after. I really enjoy yoga. I love playing in the water at the beach, bodyboarding and swimming.

Pick between: (you choose the context)

Cook or bake? (I love cooking A Lot)

Space or ocean? (Hard to pick, but I grew up by the ocean and it’s 100% my happy place)

Chocolate or vanilla?

City or suburb or rural? (I grew up in an isolated rural village and I miss the quiet and the slower pace of life, but I do not miss the lack of amenities and opportunities, or the smalltown gossip. I also don’t drive bc of epilepsy, so I’m fucked as far as transport in rural settings.)

Past or future?

Shower in the morning or evening?

Mac/Apple or PC/Android? (Linux in general!)

Sing or dance?  (I don’t have an amazing voice but I can carry a tune without it being painful, and I love singing along with songs.)

Get up early or sleep in? (I actually love sleeping in but with two kids, early morning is my only time to myself, so I wake up before 6 most days AGGH.)

Shoes, socks, or bare feet? (Hate socks. I’m barefoot at home all year round.)

Marker, crayon, or pencil? Pen!

Tea, coffee, or hot chocolate? (Coffee in the morning, tea later on.)

Random questions:

Have you ever had any pets? (Had dogs and a cat as a kid, and as an adult I’ve had betta fish and cats, and I have a cat currently.)

What is your academic background/job field? I did my undergrad in linguistics, and I am currently a stay-at-home dad lol. I do freelance editing and transcription on the side. I don’t think I’ll ever work in my field bc I really don’t have the energy to go to grad school.

What’s something random that you’re into (even if you aren’t good at it)? I signed up for a Cape Breton step dancing class in university and I loved it.

Are you good at putting away your clean laundry right away? It depends on the day, but generally yes. Mine and everyone else’s. When I lived alone? Absolutely not.

What’s one of your pet peeves? Someone trying to have a conversation with me when they have the radio or TV on. I can’t follow what you’re saying if someone else is speaking! I hate having that stuff on as background noise in general.

What’s something you’re pretty good at? I’m a great cook.

What’s the most recent nice thing you bought for yourself? A new conditioner ig? lol

Can you sew? I can mend a small tear or sew on a button, but it’s been years since I did more than that.

What’s a chore you hate (or a chore you enjoy)? I hate vacuuming so much. So much. Maybe if I had a better vaccuum cleaner I wouldn’t mind it, but I just feel like I’m fighting with the stupid thing, getting caught up on its own cords, caught on furniture, can’t quiiiite reach a spot... HATE IT. I like shoveling snow sometimes, though.

Tell us a fun fact about yourself. I am 20 years older than my youngest sibling, and five minutes younger than my “oldest” sibling.

Never have I ever... Gone fishing, even though I’m from a fishing community.

What extracurriculars did/do you do in school? In high school, I played trumpet in band until the band got dissolved from lack of funding. I played soccer one year, was in a play another year. We had an art club for like a semester that I was in. In university the first time round, I did step dancing and intramural hide and seek  Second time around, I was in the linguistics club to help with assignments. (We were very much encouraged to work in pairs or groups for a lot of different classes. The only thing was that you did need to list your group members on the assignment so the prof knew who you worked with. My first morphology class in particular, we had a whole homework club where a huge portion of the class got together to work through assignments and help each other understand, and the prof would quite often show up. </tangent>

Deeper questions:

How’s your quarantine/last few months been? The cabin fever was really bad before the weather warmed up. I struggle with seasonal depression every spring, and it’s gotten much worse since we moved to Edmonton because of how long the winters are. (Snow from September to May/June? Fucccck.) It’s frankly horrifying to look at what’s going on in the US, but even though we have far fewer cases here, I’m really anxious that we’ll see another wave soon. Otherwise, I think I’ve adjusted. Home-schooling, hand-sanitizing, social distancing, masks...All feels kind of normal now, which should maybe concern me.

What do you think of human nature/society/etc.? I am like the least philosophical person you will meet so I don’t think I really have many thoughts.

What’s something you are insecure about? Writing my L2 if a native speaker is gonna read it.

What do you think is the meaning of life/reason that humans exist in the universe? I don’t think there is one, and that doesn’t bother me.

Do you think you’re better (whatever that means to you) than you used to be? Definitely. My adolescence and early adulthood was rough. I was dealing with a lot of trauma, untreated bipolar disorder, and I self-harmed for a very long time. I could not imagine making it to 30, let alone being stable and happy. I actively avoided thinking about the future because it made me spiral. But I was lucky enough to get help, consistent help from a doctor I clicked with, and it made a world of difference. I think younger me would be disappointed at how mundane my life is, but I’m thrilled to be boring because boring means no life-upending mood episodes. I have a happy partnership and two delightful kids and I couldn’t ask for more.

What are your thoughts on religion? I’m not religious and my own experience being raised in the Catholic church was frankly traumatic, but I know that it’s a source of comfort and community for many others and I think that’s awesome for them.

Do you think that there are aliens out there? I think so, although I think that we may not even know what other kinds of life to look for and may not recognize it even if we find it.

What’s something that’s been on your mind recently? We’re moving cross-country in less than a month (driving, no less, nearly 5000 km) and I still have so much to do to get ready aosjdoajdoasijdoaijsd

[sroloc--elbisivni]

It’s been three months since my dad died.

I think about him every day. Never in the same way twice. Sometimes it’s like last night, where I started remembering the way he grinned and the way he made salmon and how much I miss him and start crying into my pillow. Sometimes it’s like today, where I feel numb and dull and empty until I realize it’s been a quarter of a year and I’m not going to do anything for the rest of my life but get further and further away from him, and the person I was when I knew him. And then I start crying on a plywood platform thirty feet off the ground at work.

I’ve been working a lot this week. This whole semester, really. I’ve wanted to be busy. I’ve wanted to not think about things. And I hate it, because I know that thinking about him is one of the only ways he’ll get fully remembered, and I’m too afraid of getting lost in missing him, and I need to move on and be in the world and I don’t always want to.

But the further away I get, the more I lose. So let me tell you about my dad.

‘You’ being, the general world I guess. You don’t need to read this. I just need to say it. Pretend I can shout at the world “A GOOD MAN IS DEAD” and have it matter.

My dad was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and he had the state in his bones—one time I needed to know what city for paperwork, and I texted him to ask if it was Fargo, and he said “No, the other big eastern city.” He understood blizzards and thunderstorms and dressing for the cold, and he taught them to my brother and me even though we were growing up in coastal California, where only one of those happened, and then rarely.

He was brilliant. If you want to know anything about my dad, it was that he was brilliant, and he was kind, and he was loving. He also had several small strokes at the end of his life that meant he didn’t remember or retain things well, and that he got more irritable, and reclusive, and locked into routine. We didn’t know about the smaller strokes until a month before the one that would kill him. Just that he was getting more distant.

My dad was prickly at the oddest times, and he had a temper, and he hated telemarketers, and bad drivers. He lashed out when he got mad and got sulky when you lashed back. He could snipe, and pick at things you didn’t even realize you were sore about, and didn’t know how to listen to a problem without trying to fix it.

He was good at fixing problems. He would take apart a toaster to fish out a burnt piece of bread, and study up on the riding lawnmower engine and go at the engine over and over again, and learned like he breathed. He wanted to write a book about learning, about the way we think and how it actually works, and what thinking is and what learning is and therefore what teaching should be. He believed that learning was just patterns of action. He and my mother literally wrote a book on how to teach in a way that built things up, rather than trying to pick at people’s behavior until they did what you wanted.

My dad was a teacher. He was a wonderful teacher. He taught me how to ride a bike, and drive a car, even when I was yelling at him, and he taught me how mean, median, and mode worked for a third grade science project. He helped talk me through algebra, and fractions, and division. He tried to teach me editing, but that went badly, because I was fourteen and had decided I knew what was best, and he never knew how to let things he cared about go.

He was a teacher for all of his adult life, even though he only ended up in the teacher’s program at his college because he took the RA’s keys after the RA left them lying around and he thought that was irresponsible, and the authority in charge of his punishment was his mother’s friend and also the Dean of Education. He stayed in the education program at the University of North Dakota for the next several years, helped found the school’s first no-hazing fraternity, found a skull with some friends at an archaeological dig site and held onto it for a couple years, went nocturnal for a while, and wrote his dissertation on the way we learn and the history of education. He talked about cave paintings, as early human abstract thought, but he didn’t get to see them until last year, when we went to France. My brother and I had to make sure he didn’t fall, as we went down into the cave, because it was rough and sloping and he was unsteady on feet he couldn’t quite feel anymore.

My dad had diabetes. My dad loved food. By the end of his life, he had lost feeling almost all the way to his knees, and insulin was taking up more room in our fridge than the eggs and milk put together. He was a great believer in the power of ice cream, as a special treat or just to hide in the fridge for when you wanted a taste. His favorite food that I baked was chocolate chip cookies. I made them with his mom’s recipe. Every time i was baking, he’d walk by and try to steal a piece. He stole popcorn every time we made some, too. Called it a ‘popcorn tax’. He used food as a love language, which made it awkward every time you ended up stopping on the way home for dinner without him, on a night he was cooking. He loved going out to eat, and would always talk to the waiter. He would always talk to anyone, really. More than the rest of us would like. My brother and i would always complain that he didn’t have to tell people our whole story, that they didn’t care. But he cared, and sometimes strangers did too, and sometimes they became friends.

My dad loved having friends. He loved knowing people, and talking to them, and learning from them and teaching them. He loved people, but had the misfortune of marrying an introvert and fathering two more. He was the popular kid in high school, on the football team and the newspaper. It was a Catholic high school—he was a Catholic until college, and then he started asking a lot of questions and never really went back. But he remembered all the theory, and all the questions, and all the things they tried to answer, and he could tell you about them if you wanted to know. My mom remembers when he met her aunt for the first time, a former nun, and they spent a good hour debating the finer points of something she couldn’t understand and barely remembered about the Holy Stations. He was good at that, at making you feel in every conversation that he was looking right at you, and interested in what he saw.

He got his doctorate in education, moved to Colorado, learned to ski, learned to parallel park—at 38, something I never failed to bring up when he was trying to teach me to drive—got married, became a step-father, started a charter school, had a wonderful couple of years teaching things the way he felt people would learn them, worked a paper route to try and keep it going, closed the school, dressed his stepkids up as Jawas for Halloween, got divorced—not necessarily in that order. I wish I’d asked my dad more about this part of his life. All I have are unconnected stories. Eventually he went back to North Dakota, and met my mom, and they spent the rest of his life together as “itinerant academics,” trading off who found a job at another university when they wanted to move. They got married at a courthouse two days before Christmas, because my dad needed health insurance and Mercury was going into retrograde. They had a kid in St. Paul and another in Tacoma. They were progressive educators, at a time when that wasn’t a comfortable thing to be in the Northern Midwest, and they made the giraffe their mascot because they kept ‘sticking their necks out’. I didn’t really appreciate that my parents were rebels against a system until I found out that in his first year of teaching, my dad and his friend had adjoining classrooms, and they came in with sledgehammers one weekend and knocked down the wall so they could have a big open classroom.

I found that out at his funeral. So many people my parents know are scattered all over the country, which is great for road trips and hard for gathering. They sent stories instead.

My dad played the guitar, and he sang in his first year of college—at a Catholic school choir, before he transferred, and the Beach Boys on the bus. He loved the Grateful Dead, and Jimmy Buffet, and the Eagles, and Peter Paul and Mary, and the Kingston Trio, and Bob Dylan, and he loved singing along in the car and dancing along in the kitchen, shuffle-step bouncing to the beat. He wore a sweatshirt with the logo of the elementary school my brother and I went to for fifteen years at least, from the time I was in kindergarten to the time he died. I remember it getting covered with cat hair, after the cat followed us on a walk to school too far to turn around and take her home, so he picked her up and carried her the rest of the way. She shed in terror. He used to carry the little half size cello I started learning on to school and back, every Wednesday and Friday, on his back making jokes about being a Sherpa.

My dad liked jokes. My dad liked to laugh. He loved comic strips, and insisted that my brother and I be allowed to read as many as we wanted. Probably the reason he and I got so very good at reading. I would recite Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield and Baby Blues to him, retelling what I remembered and hoping he’d laugh at the punchline. I’d show him things I found on the Internet when I got older, still trying and trying to make him laugh. I was less and less successful over time.

He was excited about the new Star Wars movies. I remember him telling me from his computer in his office, showing me the article. I remember going to the midnight showing of Episode VII, but not VIII—he couldn’t stay up that late. We saw Rogue One with my uncle, weeks after it came out. My dad was always the one who took us to movies as a kid. He liked stories. He liked to have fun. He liked Terry Pratchett and Robert B Parker novels and books about how the universe worked that took him months to finish. He had a brother, a younger brother, and lost him months after he lost his dad, years after he lost his mom. He saved things from them—the couch he grew up with, half a dozen chairs, boxes and boxes of books and records, a flag on the wall, a breakfront with china in it, all kinds of other keepsakes. My dad liked things. liked to save things. Liked to remember people—and he had a good memory. Up until the end.  I came out to him about my gender six times, because he just couldn’t retain it when I told him. and every single time, he was supportive, and careful, and kind, even when he didn’t understand.

He loved our dog so much. He would make her food just so, with kibble and wet food and bacon grease all mixed together and heated in the microwave just so she’d like it. He used to take her on walks, every single day, and took her everywhere in the car with him. They walked on the beach a lot. My dad loved the beach, probably because he lived so far away from it until he was 51. I was born when he was 52.

My dad worried a lot about math education. how people get traumatized by math, and when they become teachers and parents, they pass on that learning math is hard. He worked for UC Berkeley for years, running a program to give engineering students the skills to become teachers. He ran a summer camp in Emeryville for STEM for high schoolers. Or…middle schoolers? I don’t remember anymore. He made these math models, abaci and blocks that showed ones and twos and tens and how numbers fit together into bigger numbers, and then he painted them all the colors of the rainbow so they wouldn’t be scary. So they’d be toys, something fun and beautiful and clever.

There are so many more things, about what a full and beautiful and complicated human he was that I can’t pull to mind or don’t have the words for, but I need you to know he was more than everything I’ve managed to pour here. 

He wasn’t perfect, but he was the best dad I could have had. He was smart enough to answer all the questions I asked him, and he gave wonderful hugs, and he loved with a heart as big and open as the prairie sky. And I miss him, so, so, much, and it hurts to think of how I’ve been missing him for a long time, as little pieces of him broke off and drifted away when we weren’t noticing.

His name was George W. Gagnon, Junior. People called him ’Sandy’ as a kid to keep him distinct from his dad, because he had blonde hair as a baby. When I was little, it was dark, dark brown on the sides and circling the bald top. In the beginning of July it was a snowy white.

He’s my dad, and he’s gone, and I’ve spent the past three months knowing that I’m never going to go home again, not really. And knowing that ‘family’ is too big and whole a word to fill with what we have left.

I can’t cry in front of other people anymore. And I don’t want to talk about how I’m feeling, or what the world is like now. I just want people to know.

A good man is dead. He loved, and was loved, and laughed, and learned, and ate good food and made bad jokes. And even after writing all of that—I still miss him, and he’s still gone.

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master fic list

Hello, it’s been a thousand years since I sent this around, but I’ve written a lot of fics in the past year (yes.  one year.  all of this.)  

With my OCs going through their arcs, I though it would be pertinent to bring around all their old stuff.  And why not send all the fandom stuff around with it? 

So anyhow, there you go.  Close to 200 stories.  Knock yourselves out.

My OCs

Jax Beach

Intro part 1 (Mel is angry with Todd; she attempts a rescue)–not a sickfic

Intro part 2 (Todd is hungover; he doesn’t know why Mel is angry)–contains vomit

Intro part 3 (Todd still feels like shit; they attempt reconciliation)

Drabble prompt fill (Mel is sick and a mess; Todd assists)–contains vomit

Prompt fill (Todd catches Mel’s bug)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Mel’s sick after an argument)-contains vomit

Travel Sickness (Todd’s ill on a plane)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Todd’s getting over a stomach bug and doesn’t feel up to cooking)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Mel is sick after a Christmas party)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Todd has a migraine)-contains vomit

Happy Anniversary (Todd is seasick on a cruise)-contains vomit

You’re my angel, just not in the morning (Mark is a good samaritan)-contains vomit

2K18 Story Arc part 1 (Troy has a bug, he meets Mark)-contains vomit

Short drabble: Troy + migraine  -contains vomit

Prompt fill (Mark and Troy’s first date)-contains vomit

200-word ficlet (Troy deals with a stomach ache alone)-contains vomit

2K18 Story Arc part 2 (Todd’s sick at the grocery store)-contains vomit

2K18 Story Arc part 3 (Troy has a migraine and his sister assists)-contains vomit

2K18 Story Arc part 4 (Amelia discovers secrets at a dinner party)

2K18 Story Arc part 5 (Todd ruins Mark and Troy’s moment)-contains vomit

Mike & Co

Intro (Mike runs away, gets pulled over, and gets sick; Jason and Colby rescue her)-contains vomit

Flu hits the Deangeles-Carson household, part 1 (Mike is sick)-contains vomit

Flu hits the Deangeles-Carson household, part 2 (Jason is sick)-contains vomit

Flu hits the Deangeles-Carson household, part 3 (Colby is sick)-contains vomit

Prompt Fill (Jason is sick and passes out at school)-contains vomit

Prompt Fill (Colby’s up in the middle of the night being sick)-contains vomit

Drabble (Mike has an ear infection, Colby helps out)

Prompt fill (Colby has appendicitis)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Jason shivers his way through finals with a fever)

Prompt fill (Colby has an morality crisis)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Colby has an emotional breakdown)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Jason works himself to the point of illness at the gym)-contains vomit

Mike and Jason at Thanksgiving (Mike has a hard time)-contains vomit

Jason vs. finals week, part 2 (Jason comes home from his exams and is immediately sick)-contains vomit

The Mike fic that wasn’t (Mike grocery shopping with ED-Brain–major trigger warnings)

Prompt fill (Colby gets sick in bed, and Jason takes care of him)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Colby and Jason are both sick and fighting)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Jason is sick from too much sugar)- contains vomit

200 word ficlet (Jason sick, and it’s Colby’s fault)-contains vomit

Better you than me (Colby’s sick and Mike assists)-contains vomit

Party hard, fall harder (Colby and Jason are both sick after a party)-contains vomit

Pain weigh out the pride (Ash is ill after a crisis in ballet class)-contains vomit

Friends and fears (Mike faints at school, early in her ED days)

Tied game, lost lunch (collab w/ @lickstynine- the kids attempt a casual basketball game)-contains vomit

2k18 arc part 1 (Mike can’t do anything right)-contains vomit

2k18 arc part 2 (Jason tries to handle things)

2k18 arc part 3 (Ash and Hannah take a road trip)-contains vomit

Short drabble: Jason + Nauseated

2k18 arc part 4 (Colby and Mike have a heart to heart)

2k18 arc part 5 (Everybody together having emotions)

200-word ficlet (Colby’s breakfast doesn’t agree with him)-contains vomit

200-word ficlet (Overtied and bickering Jason and Colby)

200-word ficlet (Carsick Colby)-contains vomit

Hannah’s Birthday Drabble (Hannah has a cold for her birthday)

The Bostonians

Intro part 1 (Hildur has a disappearing episode, Pierce leaves her a message)

Intro part 2 (Pierce has a migraine, Hildur appears to assist)-contains vomit

Pierce in college (a flashback of Pierce’s test anxiety)-contains vomit

Hildur: an anxiety genesis (a flashback of Hildur’s childhood anxiety)

Drabble (Hildur’s sick the first time she spends the night at Pierce’s place)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Hildur and Pierce at the aquarium)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Pierce is unwell and feels worse when all he’s had is coffee)-contains vomit)

Hildur and Pierce at Christmas (Hildur has a fever while out looking at holiday lights)

Heart of the matter (Pierce reveals a secret)-contains vomit

Happy Birthday, Hildur (Hildur’s not well on her birthday-2018 arc part 1)-contains vomit

Discovery (Hildur suffers morning sickness and talks to Pierce-2018 arc part 2 (Hildur and Pierce go to an appointment with the midwife-2018 arc part 3)

Dare (Hildur and Pierce make plans-2018 arc part 4)-contains vomit

Under Pressure (Hildur and Pierce navigate moving house- 2018 arc part 5)

Sigh (Hildur confronts some issues-2018 arc part 6)

Other people’s OCs

…and an unhappy new year (for @anonyony1)-contains vomit

Christmas eve with the usual suspects (for @lickstynine)-contains vomit

Fanfic

Titan A.E.

Stuck in the red (re-imagining the scene where Akima is shot and receiving treatment on New Bangkok)-contains vomit

Swallow your pride (Cale is sick on public transport)-contains vomit

MCU/ Spiderman

Prompt fill (Peter’s sick after the civil war fight)-contains vomit

No sympathy (Peter has a bad Halloween patrol)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (The day after Halloween is another bad one for Peter’s stomach)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter shouldn’t try to drink with Tony)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter’s sick in the car while Happy’s driving)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter leaves school because he’s sick, and May thinks he’s ditching)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter’s sick while at the Avengers facility, Pepper Potts comforts)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter does badly on a mission because he’s sick)

Prompt fill (Peter has a migraine)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter has a concussion)-contains vomit

spidermanspotter (Peter and Tony laugh about social media and migraines)

Ruins (Peter’s powers interfere with his dental surgery)-contains vomit

Live and learn (Peter’s sick at school and Tony picks him up)-contains vomit

Running (Peter and Tony have an argument.  Peter runs away)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter is overstimulated and has a panic attack)-contains vomit

Rerun (Peter is sick at the Avengers facility again)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter has a migraine while training with Tony)-contains vomit

Aftermath (Peter heads to Avengers tower after his showdown with Vulture)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Peter gets a concussion while on patrol)-contains vomit

200 word ficlet (Peter nauseous coming off patrol)-contains vomit

Playing the fool (Peter’s sick at an Avengers party)

Beautiful oblivion (the ffing Spider-Man novella)- contains vomit and big tw for eating disorders

200-word ficlet (Peter’s nervous meeting Steve)-contains vomit

MCU/ Captain America

Who are the stars (Bucky’s in cryo; Steve can’t deal)-contains vomit

Left with what you had (Bucky’s carsick on the way to T'Challa’s palace, then overwhelmed with memories once they get there)-contains vomit

Wait for tomorrow (Bucky contemplates suicide; Steve rescues him)-contains vomit

Stay with me, we’ll take the night (the 4th of July is a disaster for Steve and Bucky)-contains vomit

Come to me now and rest your head (Read on AO3–A short Stucky novella)-contains vomit

Drabble: Childhood Illness (Steve’s sick at school, Bucky is there to help)-contains vomiting

Needle and the thread (Steve’s a wreck after coming off the ice)-contains vomiting

Pumpkin spice and everything nice (Bucky’s not a fan of Steve’s PSL)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve has food poisoning and Bucky assists)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky has appendicitis)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve is depressed and wakes up ill)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky’s sick while Steve’s out of town, Nat assists)-contains vomit

Prompt fill(Steve has a migraine, Bucky picks him up from work)

Prompt fill (Steve’s getting ill, but Bucky’s already having a bad day)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky’s not feeling great, Steve doesn’t really notice)

Prompt fill (Bucky’s triggers)

Prompt fill (Bucky takes initiative to tell Steve he’s ill)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve has a concussion, Bucky assists)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky’s on is first mission, it goes badly, and Steve’s not feeling great)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky’s drunk)-contains vomit

Morning after (Bucky’s now hungover)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve runs himself ragged taking care of Bucky)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve has the flu, Bucky is a good caretaker)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky has the flu)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve’s poisoned on a mission and Bucky helps him)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve has a bad run-in with mind control tech)

The gun still rattles (Bucky battles with depression again)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Pre-serum Bucky with a migraine)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve is seasick)-contains vomit

Ignite your bones (the ffing Stucky novella)- contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky’s unwell, and he calls Steve to come home)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Steve’s seasick again, this time with Bucky)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky’s sick with a bug)-contains vomit

Dodging bullets with your broken past (Bucky has a concussion and a setback)-contains vomit

Sail away (again) (Bucky’s seasick this time)- contains vomit

200 word ficlet (Steve’s seasick on a cruise)-contains vomit

200 word ficlet (Nat and Bucky stuck in an elevator)-contains vomit

200 word ficlet (Bucky waking up with stomach flu)-contains vomit

Beatitude (Bucky continues to struggle with depression)

Butane in my veins (Steve’s poisoned on a mission and doesn’t want to disturb Bucky)-contains vomit

Burning for you (Steve has heat exhaustion)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Bucky is carsick except not really)-contains vomit

MCU/Avengers (Other characters)

Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway (Natasha is in crisis, Steve attempts to help)-contains vomit

And if the night is burning (Nat’s hurt on a mission, everyone needs a mental health day)-contains vomiting

Open fire (Natasha is in crisis, Steve asists)-contains vomit

Clint and Laura sickfic drabble (Clint’s up during the night with a stomach bug)-contains vomit

Clint and Laura sickfic drabble, part 2 (a continuation of the above)-contains vomit

I’m just a ghost running scared (Bruce is ill after hulking out, Nat assists)-contains vomit

Short drabble: Loki + stomach bug

Burning black (Nat on Fire 4.0, Nat’s held captive and assaulted)-contains vomit and TW for implied rape

MCU/Jessica Jones

A ticket costs only your mind (Jessica Jones/Avengers crossover: read on AO3)-contains vomit

Criminal Minds

Look at this photograph (Spencer has a migraine) - contains vomiting

Spencer whump for 13x01 (a re-telling of a scene from season 13 ep 1)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Spencer has a migraine, Derek assists)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Spencer has the flu)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Spencer has appendicitis)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Hotch visits Spencer post-prison)-contains vomit

Country roads (Penelope gives sick Spencer a ride home)-contains vomit

200 word ficlet (Spencer with pneumonia)

200 word ficlet (Spencer coughing up blood)

Prompt fill (Spencer with a concussion)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Spencer with concussion + flu)-contains vomit

Prompt fill (Spencer is down with a migraine during a case)

Prompt fill (a prequel to the previous one)-contains vomit)

Scar the armada (an experiment in prompt fills aka migraine Spencer 3 times over)-contains vomit

Short drabble: Reid + careworn

Short drabble: Reid + heat

200-word ficlet (Spencer has a siezure)-contains vomit

200-word ficlet (Spencer’s sick at a housewarming party)-contains vomit

Thunder chasing the wind (Spencer has a migraine and JJ assists)-contains vomit

200-word ficlet (Spencer isn’t looking forward to the flight)

[flirting-with-psychology]

Was your ex cute? As much as I can say I had an ex, yes he was cute. But not really noticeable at first, I didn’t start finding him cute until I got to know him. Not that he was unattractive, I just didn’t really have an opinion either way. Frustratingly, I still think he’s cute now

Do you have a taste in your mouth right now? What of? Water

Which is your least favorite day of the week? Depends on my class schedule

Do you ever write or talk to yourself in your head when you’re bored? Yes

Do you prefer listening to things through headphones or speakers? Speakers

What was the very first CD you bought? I think Freaky Friday was the first CD bought for me, but I can’t remember the first one I bought

What was your favorite colour when you were a kid? Do you still like it? Pink. I still like it 

Do you like your friend’s parents? Some

How many times have you moved? I’ve had my mom’s house my whole life, moved into my dad’s apartment and then his house, and moved to 2 different dorm rooms.

What is one of your biggest irrational fears? Spiders

Does the thought of being pregnant gross you out? It doesn’t gross me out but I don’t want to be pregnant

Are you more hungry or thirsty right now? Neither

Are you prone to headaches? A little

What color shirt are you wearing? Black with patterns

Have you ever felt like someone of the opposite sex truly cared about you? Yes

Would you rather kiss someone five years older or five years younger? Older 

Are you a mean person? I try not to be

Is there anything you want tattooed? No

What are you listening to right now? Imagine Dragons

Think back to yesterday, what were you doing around this time? Looking up screencaps of Raydan from The Crown and the Flame because I love him

Have you ever fallen asleep in the last car you were in? Maybe

Have you ever been cheated on? No

What’s something you do every day besides breathing, eating, and sleeping? Thinking about boys

What’s the nearest blinking object to you? Me?

What were you for Halloween last year? The leg lamp from A Christmas Story

Don’t you need to charge your phone right now? Kinda

When’s the last time you laughed really hard? The other day at Avenue Q

When’s the last time you cried really hard? Really hard? Not sure. Most of the times I’ve cried recently have just been a few tears

Do you believe that karma can come back and slap you in the face? Not sure. I don’t really believe in karma

Are you currently trying to avoid somebody? No

Are you feeling guilty for something? Mostly for not doing anything productive but also a little bit for stringing some guys along and not saying what I would want said to me in those situations

When you’re sad, who/what usually cheers you up? It depends on what I’m sad about

What was the last thing you bought? A bottle of moscato

Do you own suspenders? Maybe from when I was a kid

Are your nails/toes painted? Yes

Are you usually quiet or loud? Quiet when I don’t know people well, but then when I’m comfortable I’m louder. And when I do things in my house I’m generally loud and clumsy about it, as my friend Cristi can attest

Do you ever check your horoscope? Not anymore

What color is your microwave? Black

What was the last thing you ate? A bowl of cereal

Do you talk to people even though you hate them? Sometimes

Name something you have always wanted and never got. A boyfriend

When was the last time you went outside? Today

How many hours do you spend on the computer a day? Too many

Do you have any siblings? No

Do you know someone named Curt? Yes but with a K

Have you ever been to Texas? Yeah for the Alamo Bowl

Do you have an alarm clock? I use my phone, but I also have some that I just use as regular clocks

Can you play the piano? No

Do you go to church? No

What color was the cup that you last drank out of? Blue

What is the show that you watched when you were little, and you still do? None. Although I kind of want to watch episodes of Arthur

Do you have shoes on? Nope

Do you have a printer? My parents do

Do you read the paper? No

Do you have a swingset? No

What is something you do every summer? I used to do band camp, but now that I’m graduated I won’t

Do you have a job? Nope

Do your siblings text you? N/A

Do you tend to make things complicated? I overthink, so they’re complicated in my head

Do you want a small or big wedding? Big

Have you ever searched for your own house on Google Earth? Yes

Would you rather have cash or a gift card? Cash, I forget I have giftcards

Did your last kiss end up with you and the person doing anything sexual? Yep

Do you live near a beach or amusement park? There’s an amusement park about 45 minutes away

Who is your ex dating/talking to? I have no idea. I kinda hope he’s still single, I want to find someone before he does

Do you have your eye on anyone at the current moment? Yeah a few people, but since it’s summer I’m also more open and looking

Ever been called a bitch? Probably

Who would you be shocked to see call you? Anyone other than my parents and the doctor’s office

If you could drink only 2 things for the rest of your life, what would it be? Water and alcohol

Would you date someone taller than you? Yes, that would be preferred

Have you met anyone that has been a major influence on you this year? Yes, probably several people

Ever kissed someone who smokes? Yes. I thought I’d hate it but I was so attracted to him that it actually tasted ok

Have any interesting conversations lately? I had a fun chat with this guy I’m kind of trying to flirt with

If your friends warn you about someone you like, do you listen? Not really 

Who did you last pinky promise with? I have no idea

What do you do when you’re having a bad day? Procrastinate even harder

Does it take a lot for someone to annoy you? No

Do you own your own computer? Yeah

Did you ever have to share a room with one of your siblings? N/A

What happened at the last party you went to? It was a grownup party so I talked to some of my mom’s work friends, a couple of which are actually pretty cool and we talked about boys

Have you ever smoked a cigarette? No

What’s your hair like at this present moment? Messy

What’s the worst film you’ve ever seen? Window Water Baby Moving

Do you like to flex your muscles? No

Have you ever completely misunderstood what somebody was saying? Yeah

Favorite kind of cake: White or chocolate

Did you get any compliments today? Yeah a guy on tinder said I was beautiful

How old is the last person you kissed? 24

Why did you kiss the person you last kissed? Because I had a crush on him in middle school

Do you have any fears? Who doesn’t?

What’s your sign? Sagittarius

What is your favorite color? Green

Are you a procrastinator or do you get things done early? Procrastinator

Are your parents going to buy you a car? Not that I know of

[melodxxy]

TAG GAME

Many thanks for being tagged!! ☺️

RULES: Answer all the questions, add one of your own and tag as many people as there are questions

1. COKE OR PEPSI: COKE

2. DISNEY OR DREAMWORKS: Disney

3. COFFEE OR TEA: secret option number three HOT COCOA

4. BOOKS OR MOVIES: hmm love both but I prefer books more

5. WINDOWS OR MAC: Mac

6. DC OR MARVEL: 😭😭 don’t make me choose

7. XBOX OR PLAYSTATION: PlayStation love my baby PS4

8. DRAGON AGE OR MASS EFFECT: I haven’t played either

9. NIGHT OWL OR EARLY RISER: Night owl in that friend who texts you at 4 about peanut butter

10. CARDS OR CHESS: Chess, I’m Ciel Phantomhive when it comes to chess

11. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA: CHOCOLATE 😋

12. VANS OR CONVERSE: converse

13. LAVELLAN, TREVELYAN, CADASH, OR ADAAR: I haven’t played dragon age yet 😭

14. FLUFF OR ANGST: Fluff cause I enjoy puking rainbows

15. BEACH OR FOREST: Forest

16. DOGS OR CATS: Both!! They’re so freaking adorable

17. CLEAR SKIES OR RAIN: rain cause it helps calm me down

18. COOKING OR EATING OUT: cooking most definitely

19. SPICY OR MILD FOOD: spicy

20. HALLOWEEN/SAMHAIN OR SOLSTICE/YULE/CHRISTMAS: Halloween! I love dressing up plus I enjoy spending it much more with my family and close friends

21. WOULD YOU RATHER FOREVER BE A LITTLE TOO COLD OR A LITTLE TOO HOT: a little too cold I enjoy cold weather over the heat

22. IF YOU COULD HAVE A SUPERPOWER WHAT WOULD IT BE: something involving nature

23. ANIMATION OR LIVE ACTION: animation 24. PARAGON OR RENEGADE: I haven’t played mass effect 😭

25. BATH OR SHOWER: bath because I love bubbles and bath bombs

26. TEAM CAP OR TEAM IRONMAN: Team Cap for the win!!

27. FANTASY OR SCI-FI: Both, I have a soft spot for both genres

28. DO YOU HAVE 3 OR 4 FAVORITE QUOTES IF SO WHAT ARE THEY: I can only think of one off the top off my head “To live will be an awfully long adventure”

29. YOUTUBE OR NETFLIX: YouTube because there’s much more to watch

30. HARRY POTTER OR PERCY JACKSON: HARRY POTTER AF

31. STAR WARS OR STAR TREK: Star Wars

32. PAPERBACK BOOKS OR HARDCOVER BOOKS: Hardcover they make me feel all smart

33. FANTASTIC BEASTS OR CURSED CHILD: Fantastic Beasts!!!

34. ROCK OR POP MUSIC: Rock

35. WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN YOUR LIFE: Love (aka @jewish-mothman)

36. THE LAST BOOK YOU READ/THE ONE YOU’RE CURRENTLY READING: The Count of Monte Cristo, I just finished reading Hamlet for school

38: SONG THAT MAKES YOU SMILE/SONG THAT MAKES YOU CRY: Is there Somewhere you can meet Me by Halsey and Goodbye by 2ne1 left me in tears also LOSER by BigBang left me shook

39. SUSHI OR WAN TAN SOUP: Sushi

40. SPRING OR AUTUMN: Autumn I enjoy the cool weather

41. DRAWING OR WRITING: writing because it expresses my emotions much more

42. SINGING OR DANCING: Singing

43. TV SHOW/MOVIE/BOOK THATS LIKE YOUR HAPPY PLACE SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS MAKES YOU SMILE: Steven Universe or Adventure Time. No matter what episode it is whenever I’m in a bad mood I just watch either of them

44. FIRST GOOD CHILDHOOD MEMORY THAT POPS INTO YOUR HEAD: when I first went to Disney World and Universal Studio

45. IF YOU COULD VISIT ANY HISTORICAL TIME PERIOD, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY? : none of them really

46. PINEAPPLE PIZZA OR NAH? Nah bro

47. TV OR MOVIE? Tv

48. FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Mint chocolate chip or anything extra chocolatey

49. WHAT FICTIONAL CHARACTER DO YOU RELATE MOST TO? Luna Lovegood because I was always the weird kid that got picked on when I was in school

50. LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO?: Check in by the hip hop unit of Seventeen

51. TOP 5 OTPS?: lapidot, Jacob and Queenie, Stevonnie, Bubbline

52. What makes you happy: the lights above my desk, candles and rain

MY QUESTION 53: A song you can’t get out of your head no matter what

I tag @jewish-mothman @mr-universe99 @lillian-or-jeannie-who-am-i @1800assbutt @smyd @planetary-spinning

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Random Qs

Survey #34 on the Countdown to 2018!

Another survey from yesterday.

Have you ever been to Las Vegas?

I don't specifically remember it if I have.

What did you have for breakfast this morning?

It's only 4:38 AM right now.

Do you have any loose change in your pocket?

I don't carry cash and I'm wearing PJs right now.

Do you like Taylor Swift?

Yes, I do like several of her songs.

What’s your favorite Disney Channel movie?

Real person? The only such movie I've liked in a long time was Descendants. The next one's coming out this summer too.

If you met your favorite celebrity, would you be calm or starstruck?

I don't have a fave celebrity, just faves based on their work. I'm not even remotely interested in meeting them, though.

Are there any lights on in the room you’re in?

There are three different lights on since the sun's not even up yet.

What’s your favorite subject in school?

I'm not in school anymore, but my fave classes were always choir, English and literature arts.

What’s your favorite holiday?

Halloween, although Christmas is a close second.

Do you ever have to do yard work?

No, but I used to mow the lawn on the riding mower when I was a kid.

Is your school close to your house? Speaking of school, how did you get there today?

Do you think Bad Romance is a catchy song or an annoying one?

I thought it was rather catchy but overplayed.

Do you use perfect grammar online?

English grammar is mostly made up of subjective guidelines so there's no way to be "perfect" even if you're a grammarian.

There are some hard rules that help make the language easier to read for everyone, but a lot of it is just preferential. The spelling of words is so much more important in the long run.

Are you currently using a laptop?

I'm using a Chromebook now.

Do you have any live versions of songs in your music software?

I mostly use Pandora Plus, but I dislike live versions of songs most of the time.

Did you or do you listen to Britney Spears songs?

I have before and sometimes they come up on PP too.

Is it a windy day?

I don't hear any wind noise out there right now.

In the past week, have you ridden in a taxi?

I've never ridden in a taxi.

What shorthand do you use the most?

An assortment of acronyms mainly. I don’t use letters to shorten words such as “u” and “c”, just full-on acronyms.

Do you ever wish on stars at night?

Not usually, and I don't believe I've ever seen a shooting star either.

What color are your eyes?

They're dark brown with green sunbursts and grey flecks throughout right now.

What album is the current song you’re listening to off of?

I'm not listening to music right now.

What're you doing after you finish this?

Possibly another survey or else I'll be posting these. Or I’ll end up in bed and post these later on. Maybe tomorrow.

What song's the most overplayed right now?

I don't know right now. I've been switching stations a lot in the car.

Are you in a band?

I'm not.

How clean is your bedroom?

It's just messy. There aren't dirty dishes and leftover foods or anything like that.

Is there a pen within reaching distance of you?

I don't see any at least.

Are you sitting at a desk?

My Chromebook is on a table right now.

Does your favorite band have a male or female lead singer?

My top favorite band is made up of a trio of women. It's Perfume which is a Japanese band.

Do you normally shut your bedroom door before you go to sleep?

Yes. I don’t want either of my cats jumping on top of me while I’m trying to sleep and I don’t want our dog to come in and steal anything either.

Have you seen the movie Moulin Rouge?

I don't think so.

Would you ever dye your hair a different color?

I used to count that as bod-modding for myself, but I guess I'm okay with the idea as long as it's a natural color only because it's not a permanent change.

Are there any framed pictures in the room you’re in?

There are a few, but only two are of real people.

Have you ever been to a Broadway show?

Not on B'way itself, but I've seen a few musicals such as Cats here in my area.

What’s your favorite movie soundtrack?

I haven't listened to a full soundtrack in a long time, but I like some songs from Suicide Squad.

Do you prefer group or individual work?

The latter usually.

Do you have a key to anything besides your house?

I don't carry keys at all. I have to leave with someone else mainly due to DTD so I never need a key.

Are you wearing anything with stripes?

I'm not.

What time did you go to sleep last night?

I initially went to bed at 8 PM on Saturday night, but I woke up abruptly at around 1 AM. Then I didn't get back in bed until around sunrise on Sunday morning.

Did anyone tell you that you were beautiful today?

No one's even seen or heard from me directly today. I've only made one post online too.

What show did you last watch?

The first episode of the three-night event on ID about Casey Anthony.

Do you think you’ll do anymore surveys today?

Probably, but I could be mistaken.

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

My faves are the cookie dough Blizzards from Dairy Queen.

When was the last time you stayed home from school sick?

No idea since I haven't been in school for over a decade.

Could you ever complete a 500-piece puzzle?

I'd rather do something else.

If you could run a red light and not get caught, would you?

I don't drive, but I wouldn't do that anyway. It’s stupid not to do as the traffic light says unless you just have a death wish.

Do any bands flat-out annoy you?

Why would they if I don't have to listen to them? I just change the station or thumbs down the track.

Do you have a mirror in your bedroom?

There's a large one on the back of my bedroom door.

Was today a birthday for any of your friends?

I don't think so, but I have no way of committing such to memory between dyscalculia and long-term memory problems.

When was the last time you rode in a limo?

I've never done that, but I've never understood the allure.

Do you take naps daily?

I never nap intentionally.

Do you still make Christmas lists?

Sure, if I need to.

Do you watch the show Dexter?

I've never bothered since I didn't like the premise.

Have you ever been to any sort of convention?

I haven't.

Which song did you last listen to on repeat?

I don't remember.

Where do you want to live when you grow up?

I'm already an adult, thanks.

Are you currently using a blanket?

No, I'm not.

Are there any songs that make you cry?

Not every single time I hear them. I'm not that one-dimensional.

How many siblings do you have?

I'm an only child.

What're you doing this weekend?

I don't know yet. It's only Monday and the sun isn't even up yet.

Do you prefer swimming at the beach or in a pool?

Neither really. I don't like swimming in salt water and chlorine. I'd rather swim in freshwater lakes.

When was the last time you had a haircut?

Back in February. The first one butchered it pretty much and the second was unhelpful. I want to find a better place to get my hair cut than the two I tried. I'm just waiting for the bangs to grow more right now.

Which musical instrument do you think sounds the prettiest?

Ocarinas, pianos, flutes.

Do you know what you want for Christmas?

I was thinking of getting the Nintendo Switch then, but I'm not sure since it's only April right now.

Do you watch fireworks on New Year’s Eve?

We don't usually do anything special for NYE around here.

Is your birthday within the next three months?

It's next month on the 27th.

How long is the song you’re listening to?

I'm still not listening to music.

Are you anticipating anything this week?

No, I'm not.

Is your mom or dad the older parent?

My mother's slightly older.

Do you watch anything on E!?

Only if Mom is ever watching it. I'd more likely turn the TV to ID or a cartoon.

Are you going to get off the computer now that you’ve finished this?

I think I am going to take a break again for some food, actually. It's 5:10 AM right now.