#mcicioni-blog

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post: Rewatching The Tide of Life, British miniseries...

ROME forever

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mcicioni-blog hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet: When people say “Jaskier is purely straight”

looking forward to you writing them …

awww I guess I will. Don’t have an idea in mind yet, I guess I have to watch the series again, because I didn’t read the books nor played the games. I will mostly relay in the series. But I’m so hooked that I know I will write them. Maybe even write an OT3 with Yen.

Just have to get a decent idea and get to those idiots characters slowly.

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mcicioni-blog replied to your chat:

I am 72 years old. At the beginning of this year I went to a meeting and met a 69-year-old woman. We are now good friends and beginning to become more than that. Am telling you this because … one never knows in life. Just sayin'.

That makes me so happy for you! <3 And thank you for the kind encouragement!

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@mcicioni-blog replied to your post “this is blondeyes but by their other names, don’t worry I’ll change...”

Am confused. Who are Karro and Sen? Why are they Blondeyes in disguise? Why are they mentioning Sentenza?

oh, um, well for all intents and purposes they are blondeyes....

I got interested in writing another longer story about Castellan and Angel (well, more accurately it came back to bite me after a year of not writing it). And I figure since I’m choosing Castellan’s perspective and it’s going to be mostly her story, I wondered what it would be like to make it original. Or at least original, but with Blondie and Angel hanging out there, but I mean, for all intents and purposes I’ve written them into my own characters anyways....

So I rechristened Blondie to ‘Karro’, short for ‘vaquero’. It’s what his old partner, Luis, used to call him. And then Angel I just called ‘Sentenza’ because honestly, I kind of hope people read it and think “hey is that a reference to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”? wait a second...”

Karro calls him ‘Sen’, which is much akin to Blondie calling Angel Eyes ‘Angel’. ie. Karro is the only one he’d put up with that from. Everyone else just calls him Sentenza, what he calls himself.

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  How do you just ignore the blatant sexism in...

(applauds, applauds, applauds, applauds). And a few operas are a tiny bit woke (Tosca? The Marriage of Figaro? Would you consider The Threepenny Opera an “opera”?)

I’m not going to give Mozart any woke points, but I will admit Tosca is one of my all time faves (there - point for Puccini!) and it’s very satisfying that the man who sings not one but THREE arias about how much he enjoys the rape aspect of rape gets killed.  I don’t know if I would call it a feminist piece LOL but yeah, it’s pretty satisfying in that regard.  

And I’m actually unfamiliar with The Threepenny Opera so I’m willing to go with Wikipedia and say it’s not really an opera.  ;)

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post “almost halfway through the last episode of the first season of Black...”

No F/S moments yet? Didn't you enjoy the way they loked at each other during the raw pig scene? And yes about Vane, who seems to be gated by most fans, and who is a foul bastard at the beginning, but acquires depth and dignity as the show goes on imo

I thought that Vane’s backstory (and return to confront and conquer it) gave him depth and made him more understandable. I think he has some good inclinations, and wants to be better than he is but is simultaneously kind of self-sabotaging (I think he has a lot of self-loathing, and that that’s a big part of his relationship with Eleanor), buut as soon as I think maybe I like him, he does stuff like refer to Anne as Rackham’s dog, or fondly remind Eleanor how hot she was when she was 13. :/ 

At least, this was my feeling as of the ending of season 1. Now I have binge-watched the first half of season 2 (it feels much more fast-paced and suspenseful) and he’s grown on me much more. In fact, in the Flint vs. Vane conflict, I think I’m mostly rooting for Vane. Like Eleanor said, Flint chose to instigate this, and Vane has no way to back out and save face.

As for F/S, iiiidk haha. I think I do remember a flicker of something in that scene you mentioned, some light-hearted teasing. But for the most part, they seem to both be focused on their goals right now, not on each other (or other people in general). Flint is very much stuck in his own head, and Silver is just trying to find his way through chaos. Now that I’m halfway through the second season, where Silver has positioned himself as Flint’s right hand, I can see more of a connection forming. Silver seems to be becoming more curious about who Flint is (I think maybe the first moment where I could see something really forming there was when Flint asked Silver if people, and Silver himself, saw him as a villain, and Silver seemed so surprised at the idea of Flint really caring about that. “And with all the things you’ve done? It must be horrible to be you.” Or something like that.)

One thing I want to say about Flint is that, although I’m not really sure I like him, yet, that fact might actually make the reveal of his relationship with Hamilton more powerful and more of a subversion. He’s not the first gay character in TV, but he might be the first of the Tragically Cynical, Morally Ambiguous, Physically-And-Intellectually-Impressive “Alpha” Male TV-Protagonist trope to be unambiguously not straight. Imagine if Mr. Favor spent a whole season and a half brooding and barking at people and getting people to follow him in spite of themselves again and again, etc., and then during one of his many moody “heavy is the head that wears the crown” scenes, we suddenly got a flashback of him tenderly kissing another man. In canon. It really is kind of amazing. I knew it was coming and I was still amazed.

So, now, at this point, I can feel the Flint/Silver possibilities, yes. I could see something happening there, some directions the story could take. Flint reconnecting with his younger self, forgiving himself. Silver bringing a lightness.

I still am a little more interested in what’s happening with Anne and Max and Jack, at the moment. And even in Vane and his struggle to survive and be respected and free and powerful and also not a brute. Which I think earning Eleanor’s respect (even more than her love) kind of symbolizes for him.

I think usually when I get really invested in a ship, there has to be one or more characters that I’m drawn to in that way where I can’t really pick apart whether I’m attracted to them or I want to be them, or just recognize something in them. I think the character most like that for me on this show right now is probably Anne. And there’s something about Anne and Jack’s relationship that feels very real to me--that connection that’s something better than romance, that feels almost like siblings, where they’re just so comfortable with each other, and where whatever happens, they still know that they will have each other. Flint and Silver have both yet to really win me over. But that could change. Already I am feeling a little warmer toward Flint, after that last episode (which ended with a memory of him and Hamilton kissing--well, that and then a current-timeline cliffhanger).

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post “If anyone has gif ideas, I’d be open to taking requests, btw”

Anything Rowdy/Jed from Season 8 ? Specifically, the final scene of "Ride a Crooked Mile" or the scene with Our Heroes held captive in the fake soldiers' tent in "The Testing Post"? Please?

I’ll give it a shot, Mirna! Unfortunately, I haven’t found great quality videos of these season 8 episodes, so the outcome might not be very pretty. But I’ll see what I can do.

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post “If you're still taking them: Silverflint and 29!! ������”

<3 <3!<3 Would you ever consider putting it on AO3?

hey! a bunch of these ficlets are posted on ao3 in a multichapter fic!

it’s right here

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post “A Fistful of Dollars revolves around the phallic rivalry between Clint...”

I NEED THE FULL REF. PLEASE. PLEASE.

sadly its not very good, but here

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mcicioni-blog replied to your photoset “jamesemcgraw: married by the ocean by @reluming One night, he...”

I have read most of your stories and my favourite one is the one you wrote for me, it answers every one of my emotional need. Just - please - keep writing for other people. Maybe for publishers, maybe not. But don't keep your gift for mots justes and metaphor for yourself alone.

<333 thank you, as always! you’re so lovely. honestly, i admire people who say they write for themselves, but i have never been one of those people. i only write for other people, in the sense that i write because i want to make somebody out there happier, or less lonely, or a little bit more understood, and if i accomplish that for even just one person, that gives me an incredible amount of joy. i wouldn’t write if not for that possibility. :’)

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mcicioni-blog replied to your photo “wehadfacesthen: Alain Delon, 1962”

Watch The Leopard. Sad, beautifully shot, conservative view of Italian history

ooooo maybe i will! sounds interesting 

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post: So I guess I’ve started watching Route 66 properly...

Good heavens. I watched Route 66 as a teenager, looooong before I knew about fandom, let alone slash, and it fascinated me. The dynamics between Tod and Buzz are great - Tod has the wealth and the culture and a great deal of common sense, Buz has the street smarts and the sharp tongue. I still remember three or four shippy episodes very clearly. Please keep posting!

They have a great dynamic and I’ve been enjoying it so far (also the premise alone appeals to the very core of my being). And I’ve already noticed there are some fics on ao3...

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 mcicioni-blog   mcicioni-blog replied to your post “Was just thinking last night how nice it was that the wound on my shin...”  

sowieso tut es mir leid

Dankeschön! Obwohl soviel Ungeschicklichkeit eigentlich kein Mitgefühl verdient. XD

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@mcicioni-blog  replied to your post “about the murder sweaterboy”

Wow. Impressive. Perfectly coherent. Love it (although I am not a big fan of AUs).

thanks! yeah, they’re different from writing canon-close fic. Normally I like to fall somewhere in the middle but as I get deeper into a fandom and have done most of what I want to with main-thread canon, the idea of an AU becomes more attractive. 

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mcicioni-blog replied to your post “I’m going camping”

Have lots of fun, don't step on any snakes, come back full of stories for us

No snakes! Just lots of lizards and squirrels and one deer. And a very loud and echo-y pack coyotes howling spookily in the middle of the night.

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mcicioni-blog replied to your photoset “this is a pretty weird episode”

Worst childbirth scene I have ever seen in my life. The bulls' names correspond to actual places in Scotland. Can't make up my mind as to whether Favor is being just sarcastic or downright horrible to Rowdy.

You mean in the bathtub scene or like, the whole episode? 

Sadly that’s a pretty common question I have about Favor, in a lot of episodes. “Is he trying to be funny or is he just being mean?”