#made it instead I’m sorry ✊😔

[ziracona]

I can’t include them all so here’s a combo of ‘came to mind first,’ ‘talked about positively most often by fans,’ and ‘stuck in my head’.

Public Apology Big Iron isn’t here. There were a lot that didn’t make the cut but that one specifically I stg I put in and only realized after posting had not. It was 100% meant to be on this list and I’ve failed us.

[colourlikechampagne]

hiiii it’s me again 🤭 ANYWAY! OMG!! I was rereading your connect (bc yknow it’s SAUR good) — and I had a thought! 👀 so like the first alternate reality in Washington with h7 made me think of like college!enha au and wingwoman!mila who is trying way too hard to get della and the boys together 🤭🤭

🐻: “There’s no way they’d like me back—“

🐼: “Shhhhh!” ( aggressively puts finger to Della’s lips to shush her ) “It’s okay, trust me, I got this!” 😌

and then mila launches this huge elaborate plan with the help of alice where they try and stage “coincidental” meetings between them, and also just them hiding behind bushes watching della and the boys interacting and then high-fiving whenever they do anything remotely flirty 😆

it would be so funny 😆😆😆 sorry della, pls excuse my mila, she’s very chaotic and watches too many dramas so thinks she’s a love expert (she’s not) 😔✊

ANYWAY that’s all! sorry but I’m so delulu over the possibilities hope you’re okay with me idea dumping heheheh 🤭

hiii! idea dumping is 1000000% okay and appreciated! and i absolutely LOVE THIS IDEA OMGG though i’m a bit sad that mila is helping her ‘boyfriends’ get on with another girl in this universe ☹️ though this is sooo cutee!

imagine della just going nuts because she likes all seven of them instead of just one or two but it’s literally because mila and alice keep making sure that all seven members have their moment with her (and that all of them have feelings towards her as well) 🌝🤍

[bee-boppin]

2, 11, 15, 20 💖

Teehee thnk u for the ask brabby <3 ✨😚

2. Top 5 Books Of All Time (I’m choosing to go with books that were meaningful or formative for me throughout my life instead of my favorites because it adds some spice. Also I had to stop and restart multiple times because I realized I was writing paragraphs about each gfhfdgjk)

The Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff

Huge comfort book, read it during grief counseling because it was a gift from my dad. I don’t even remember what it was about but i was insane about it when I was 11

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Was assigned to me and one other kid with the same reading level in seventh grade and I was so mad, everyone else got cool YA novels and I was so jealous. Then I finished it in two days and didn’t shut up about it for weeks.

Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage

Counting the whole series as two books but my two favorites are Queste and Fyre. The septimus heap series is the reason I never read h*rry p*tter because I got a few chapters in and went “this wizard book fucking sucks why would I read this instead of *my* wizard book that Angie Sage wrote for me specifically” and I was so right it's such a fun series. The main character’s best friend is named Beetle. O Beetle Beetle. That’s his name. Also I had a crush on Marcia but ignore that.

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

Some may hate on me for including a poem as a book but I don’t care. Made me cry in class, Bear can vouch. Good book.

11. What non-fiction books do you like if any?

I loooove big nonfiction books about like one specific topic with tons of pictures. Love to look at things love to see them. My astronomy text book has fold-out pages of super high-def pictures of space and I love it.

15. Recommend and review a book

I love to recommend recent books I’ve read so my most recent read I’d recommend is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I’m not gonna review it because I. Won’t shut up if I do. I have a seven page research essay abt it if u rlly want my thoughts dfgsfhs.

20. What are things you look for in a book?

I’m super particular about what I read because I lose interest in things so fast, so I love a book that challenges me. Any book that I find too predictable or lacking in depth I drop so fast. My bus driver wrote a book and he wanted me to review it and I never had the heart to tell him I got bored after the third chapter. Sorry Michael I’m sure it was a good book. ✊😔

[gerrydelano]

I think, a bit off tangent of the specifics of Georgie/Jon/Martin, another issue is that the ignoring canon mindset has also done a remarkable bit of damage to fandom, and TMA is no different. There has been willful, deliberately bad faith interpretations of canon with no critical thinking because they're just going to take it straight to fanfic anyways, they just need the characters and events, but everything else is basically just.. made up with the names given by the authors. Characters that might as well just be OCs because they refuse to even listen to canon.

Now, I'm all for ditching canon when it comes to fanfiction, but one of the wonders of fanfiction is exploring what was, what could've been, or facets/takes that maybe the canon didn't explore, but fandom just doesn't do that. Fandom consumes mindlessly, mauling that which it claims to love, which is ironic, considering TMA circles around capitalism and consumerist analogies.

In order to meaningfully detach from canon, you have to critically engage with the canon given. If you just take and take from canon without thinking critically about what canon is trying to say, then how can you meaningfully explore that which canon doesn't give us? This extends to interpreting characters. Georgie, Melanie, Martin, Oliver, Jon, Gerry, Elias, Jonah, Peter, Michael, Tim, Helen, etc. All of these characters butchered and taken out of who they are because fandom wanted to consume what would reinforce what they think the story is or what it should be, instead of engaging with what the media is actually saying.

I'm sorry this is so long, I just went off 💀. I tried to make this post accessible but idk if I did it right.

don’t worry about length, you’re good! i think for accessibility, my tip for you would be don’t do the colored text! i’m pretty sure i saw a post saying the colored text doesn’t pick up on screen readers, but even for those who don’t use them, it’s a little eye strain-y and difficult to read.

that said! i agree wholeheartedly with what you said here, yeah. there are definitely times you can say “fuck canon” but when you’re saying it to virtually every single thing, then, like... write your own stuff, man, i dunno. i don’t have that much more to add at 4:30 am but know i’m right there with you, stay strong 😔✊