#me: no plot only obscure memes

[vonnawithav]

I don’t like romance in movies

Now, this is totally personal opinion and preference, so please keep that in mind when reading.

“I don’t like romance plots in movies”

That sounds so weird I know. Especially when this entire blog I dedicated to one ineffable couple I’ve hyper fixated on ever since I offhandedly watched a random show on prime when I was bored.

There’s lots of things I don’t like about the idea of stereotypical *ahem, usually heterosexual* romance, and one of those things is the perceived intensity of attraction.

While I understand it to an extent, I also don’t. On the few occasions I’ve been romantically interested in someone I’ve never had the urge to rip their clothes off and jump their skin, or marry them that afternoon.

I do however, want to show them my book collection, send them obscure memes, talk about that one scene in that one show I can’t move on from yet, listen to them talk about their passions, share romantic but subtle moments, and just generally enjoy each other’s company.

Maybe this is because my lack of neurotypical tendencies, my demisexuality, or just my queerness in general, I don’t know.

But this type of romance is rarely shown in media, (again, in my personal viewing experience), especially in straight media.

You’re probably wondering what the fuck this has to do with movies. Same honestly I lost my train of thought one sec-

Ah yes.

Romance in movies feels immensely rushed to me. There is no time to sit and talk while you watch the sunrise, there cannot be an entire episode where the entire plot line is your traumatic childhood and how you two can bond over the fact both of your dads left for milk and never came back, or your wooden frog collection.

Noooo, instead, there must be this instant inexplicable attraction that causes both of your hormones to go haywire, because the plot only has two hours to not only get through this plot line BUT the other three in the background.

For romance to work in my head, 👏🏾I 👏🏾 Need 👏🏾 Bonding 👏🏾 time 👏🏾.

That’s one of the many reasons I love OFMD and Good Omens so much, we get to see that bonding time.

Ed and Stede chilling while having breakfast in bed while they look at each other lovingly?

Goals.

Azira and Crowley sitting and enjoying a good bottle of wine while talking about the end of the world?

Never seen anything better.

I think romance is at its best when subtle and calming, not frantic and unnerving.

Don’t get me wrong, I think franticness has its place in romance, especially once sexual tension has begun, but there needs to be large spaces of comfort and safety in between. (In my personal opinion)

Alrighty then, I’ll be off.

Lmk if you see where I’m coming from, or if I’m just posting insane ramblings because I’m sleep deprived and recovering from a cold 🥲.

[pricechecktranslations]

Hi! Have you ever seen the Evillious iceberg? There is only one, so if you were to search it up you’d probably find it. Could you please share explain what these things mean?

The DOEEU abbreviation(what does it stand for?)

“There is one true song” and “there is one false song”

Thanks!

…Look, it's obvious the person who made this put a lot of time into it, and they had a lot of fun with it (and other people clearly had fun with it too), but for me personally as someone who has really tried to push the idea that this is a fantasy series with plot and characters rather than just a collection of weird facts, images like this are annoying. Is it really "deep" lore if you learn about it clearly and explicitly by reading a novel in the mainstream series? I can understand pointing to like, fanbook trivia or information from obscure interviews that way but not like. Basic plot developments. But maybe I just don't get what the iceberg is "for". It's a joke post, right? It's not an actual information resource.

"DOEEU" probably means "Daughter of Evil Expanded Universe" (ie, it references an idea that the whole of Evillious is just the "expanded universe" of Daughter of Evil, which is technically true but not in the way this post implies).

I'll just say that a lot of these points are also oversimplifications, fandom memes, or just wrong (the heavenly yard blog was not "abandoned" in 2009? mothy was literally posting on it up to last year???)

One "true" song and one "false" song is the kind of obscure trivia that should be at the bottom, though. Mothy originally had an alternate version of Clockwork Lullaby (the demo) sung by Len with some slightly different lyrics, and that was one of them. IIRC the demo was on the revised Evil Food Eater Conchita album, an obscure album he only sold once in very limited amounts due to logistical issues with making it (I think he burned it himself instead of commissioning it? I'd have to double check the blog infomine).

[constellationandcompendium]

Writeblr Intro

Greetings traveller!

About Me:

She/her, early 30s

PhD graduate working in heritage

British (obsessed with tea)

Also sings and crochets

Enjoys both Star Trek & Star Wars

Occasional NaNoWriMo participant

Fanfic writer of 15 years making the jump into original fiction (find my fandom blog @thetamehistorian)

Happy to take asks / play tag games etc.

Has a habit of designing covers rather than writing

Second attempt at this blog (main blog this time, cha cha real smooth)

Tends To Write / Read

Sci-Fi & Cyberpunk

Urban Fantasy & Fantasy

Historical

Comedy (this suprised me too)

Introducing My WIPS

A crime thriller with a touch of cyberpunk...

Featuring

Man with habit of doing wrong thing for right reason

Best buds to reluctant allies to ‘I would die for you’

That ‘I can’t believe you’ve done this’ meme

Conspiracies and double agents

Lots of angst and hurt (with some comfort)

Wholesome parent / child relationships

Summary

Solaris City has a problem. Whilst the metropolis flourishes, down below in the old mines the Undercity grows wild and dangerous, it’s people cut off from the prosperity above, dreaming of the sun and spreading Haze - an addictive drug.

Elias also has a problem. Working for the Bureau has cleaned his slate but he hasn’t cut all ties with those underground. Now there’s a girl hidden in his flat and something big has been uncovered that has his contacts in a flurry.

With two days to go to a vote on unifying the two halves of the city, and his friend Sebastien caught right in the middle, Elias has a feeling that it'll only take one domino falling for everything to come crashing down.

Work Page

First Draft Complete, If Messy (Mind the Plot Holes)

A sci-fi comedy of a ship of misfits...

Featuring

Puns for ship names (and just bad jokes in general)

Captain packing up the ship and all its crew because they can no longer thrive in this household

Overly social parents (please stop inviting my professor over to dinner)

Space worker unions (and aliens)

Learning self-worth and finding strength through working together

Found family

Summary

The United Earth Ship Archimedes patrols the border of charted space. Beyond it - the vast and unexplored reaches of the universe.

It’s an exciting prospect for Aster Kobor, newly graduated from the fleet academy and hoping to make her mark upon the stars. Unfortunately, it only takes a few weeks for Aster to realise that the Archimedes is nicknamed ‘the screw’ for a reason. It’s a ship for the rejects and misfits, those deemed unfit to serve in the frontier ships and command never lets them do anything exciting. Still, Aster is determined to make the best of it and, unbeknownst to her, her meddling Captain is about to give the crew of the Archimedes their chance to show command what they're made of.

Soon a bad reputation is the least of their troubles and, whether the crew like it or not, they’ll have to learn to survive in deep space - where their only certainty is each other.

Work Page

Currently Wrangling Vibes Into ~ Characters ~ and ~ Plot ~

A historical novel about determined women, trains, and winning a war…

Featuring

One woman’s obsession with the railways

Code breaking commuters

Breakfasts cooked on a coal shovel

Being accidentally adopted by an elderly fireman and driver duo

Occasional air raid for added ~spice~

Solidarity in the face of adversity and outdated systems

Summary

Bea had always been fascinated by the railways, but her dream of driving one of the locomotives always seemed out of reach. Working the trains is dangerous, dirty, and completely off limits to the fairer sex.

Then the war came and the men went off the fight. Answering the call to help, Bea and her fellow railway volunteers find themselves with an opportunity of a lifetime. Obscured from judging eyes by steam and smoke they shadow the veteran drivers and engineers, learning what they can on the job and hitting the library when they can't.

The trains need to run, they are vital to the war effort. All it would take is one rogue bomb, one mishap to take out a driver and the wheels stop spinning.

Or at least, that's what the station manager thinks.

Work Page

Currently Doing Research and Initial Planning!

[rajakaen]

Have some latest WIPs of Tahr'rys :> It's midst ambient occlusion render and therefore has no lighting and no shadows - still, I like how it seems to develop…

I had to realize that I don't own a single completed picture of my OC that I've drawn myself. Only sketches and concept designs… Never really thought about it until some days ago ^^;

The WIP features a diversity of available armour sets and some design choices and tweaks like the glasses, the knife on his leg or the pattern of his pants. Satele Shan's Dualsaber is available but I prefer to see T holster his saberstaff on his back instead of his side. That thing is huge! Why put it on the belt? (insert bike fall meme here)

Ingame T is a Sith Inquisitor and, haha yes, an Assassin (solely) Tank. But I prefer to explore his own story, away from the game but inside its timeline. What you see here is part of what I imagine for him after he burned bridges with the Sith Order and managed to gain (at least) parts of his mental health back.

T ran away from the Sith (you read that right - though it’s an understatement of the events) and spent years on his own, trying to come to terms with himself but failing. Instead, he managed to force himself (unintentionally at first) into a shutdown process from which he couldn't emerge on his own. The Force™ and some plot twists ensued until T was captured by the Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Neo. Over time (this is also an understatement), they became friends.

There's an iceberg of information behind that char trust me - I simply don't like to tell his story to the vastness of the Internet. It's untypical and faces some unpopular truths about our own society, war and psychological impacts on individuals themselves. My OC is more like a vessel to explore arising questions and developed into a fledged-out character :o

Anyway… per se, T is still a Sith and uses his powers, but he prefers to remain unnoticed. Therefore he tends to obscure the colour of his eyes with some fancy droptacs ;) His ember-like eyes would give him right away, you know?

"Oh look, this dude looks like an anaemic vampire and has orange eyes and wields a lightsaber - he is a Sith! Oh no!" (don't mind the repost - my stuff simply doesn't appear in the tags and I don't know why)

[ssolessurvivor]

I think you should answer all the questions in the munday meme :)

@ttheagcd got to my completionism

Do you enjoy your interactions with the rp community? Generally speaking, yes, sometimes no, but being more selective and curating of my own space makes it something I love (on most days)

Have you made any friends since creating your blog? Yes! You included, I have made a few friends along the way (and hope to make more when life fucking slows down).

Have you ever done something embarrassing or made any mistakes that you can’t forget about? Hmmm, not a lot I don't think? Here or there stupid grammar mistakes or punctuation issues haunt me though after even reading a reply three or four times before posting it lol.

Are there any ships for your muse that you enjoy, or ships that you would like to see happen? I mean I love all his ships, I think having more angsty ships or ships with more 'evil' characters could be super fun.

What is something or someone you have always wanted to write with? i.e. a particular plot, a character, etc. Some more obscure characters, such as Maleficent (which I do have someone I'm starting to plot with when life doesn't get in the way lol), any studio ghibli muses could be super wholesome and fun. That's about it because some characters I'm learning are cursed that I shall never write with after bad experiences.

What are your biggest pet peeves when it comes to tumblr? The DMs are so broken for me personally for like two months they suck!! Some of the stigma behind 'oh I can't approach this person cause graphics and intimidation' can get a little exhausting but I know it can't be helped. Just the little things.

Is there anything you dislike about your muse? I don't think so? Maybe his aggression or that he suppresses some things until he explodes which clearly isn't healthy. (ooc is lack of content but hopefully more comes soon even though the creators for him are literally gone)

Do you have any insecurities about writing and/or interacting with other people? Sometimes I do get a little worried that my writing isn't good enough, like if I'm having an off day and things just don't flow quite right but I still post it anyways. Or if I feel like I don't send enough/too many memes, things like that.

What is your favourite thing about your muse? What he means to me, he's an incredibly personal creation of mine and I know this might be more abstract than the question calls for. But he is loved on many different levels for me and the fact I can try to bring awareness to not only veterans sacrifices and suffering, but also chronic pain and other little things, I'm glad to try and do that through a fleshed out character who I love.

Is there anyone who inspires you or that you look up to? I have some people here who inspire me, you being one of them and a couple other folks. Some writers inspire me and always have to write, like Adrienne Young, Brandon Mull, Grady Hendrix. I love their writing and their stories and it pushes me to try and improve my writing at any turn I can.

What time of day are you more inclined to write? During the week typically evening time is when I can sit down and get written out drafts typed and queued, but sometimes in the afternoon is when I find I get inspired, handwrite a few replies, and then type them up later. Usually on weekends it can vary from morning to afternoon, evenings are generally for other things.

What are some similarities between you and your muse? His love of handmade things. The fact Tegan quilts, I quilt myself and am amassing a collection of them. Melanie knits and crochets, which I also do, and that's where Logan gets his nice wooly socks from, scarves, and some homemade decor (specifically for fall). Otherwise I guess our other similarity is living with and learning to deal with chronic pain.

What are some differences between you and your muse? I am not a soldier or military member in any way, but a few of my family members are. So I learn from them how to portray him (learn meaning observing cause no way am I asking) and other shows how to portray his issues correctly and without diminishing it's importance or overembellishing it.

Do you have any pets? I do! An elderly, very round, cat we inherited from my husband's mom and recently passed father in law. Her name is kitty cause...she never really had a name. She currently has a bed on my desk so she's sitting right next to my laptop now purring away and I love her even when she gets grumpy and annoying lol.

Are there any pets you wish you could have? I would like to have a dog again given my last one passed away about two years ago now, I'm contemplating getting a memorial tattoo for her soon, but she will always be my first baby.

What are some of your favourite hobbies? Aside from the obvious that I talk about here all the time, I really do love reading though I'm currently in a bit of a slump because said hobbies take up the remainder of my down time right now. Otherwise I do like gaming, rebuilding my animal crossing island and trying to get it to five stars and dream addressed is my current goal after having the game since launch and never getting an island complete lol.

What is your current big obsession? Crocheting the cutest little ghostie plushies, I'm making three for my coworkers, one for mom, and I made the first one for me just to make sure I understood the pattern correctly. I'm also making Mickey pumpkin plushies too, one for me, one for mom, and two for my coworkers and I need to get the big puffy bows sewn together soon. I'm done with two so far.

Have you ever met an rp partner in real life? Would you like to? I have no met an rp partner in reality but I would love to! Would ideally be someone I consider a friend and am very close with, though.

Are you open for sharing social media with your rp partners? i.e. Skype, Discord, Messenger, etc? Yes I am!

Are you currently single or in a relationship? I am married.

[muninnhuginn]

ship game: gideon/harrow, mizu/taigen

Thanks for asking! Questions are from here. You chose two tricky ones ngl (by which I mean I'm staring at the "ship it" vs. "don't ship it" like I'm the staring at a red button meme). Okay, let's do it like this.

Griddlehark

What made you ship it?

Sth sth mutually repressed duo who are the only ones to understand specific truths about the other whilst being completely on different pages about near everything else. Clearly into each other and willing to sacrifice themselves for each other, but due to miscommunication their attempts to "atone" are taken as rejections. They pull the same trick on each other as a way to show their devotion and if it's *themselves* then they get it but if it's the other person suddenly it's "I do not see". It makes you want to bang your head in, but that's why it's so wonderfully human

What are your favorite things about the ship?

How far they can take the denial whilst doing the most insane things for each other? Harrow's religious-flavoured glasses colouring all her relationships vs. Gideon's lack of faith translating to her holding loyalty to the only one she can. There's no real pedestal to break because neither worship each other (far from it) but they devote themselves all the same.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

This is pretty subjective, but whilst I logically know Gideon is just as gone for Harrow (perhaps more because she's not there pining after The Body) and can point to specific moments that show so clearly, I do sometimes I struggle a bit to really *get it* from her end.

I think some of it is that a lot of Gideon's attraction (not just to Harrow but in general) is focused on looks, but she spends so much of her time commentating on Harrow describing how bedraggled she is. So, like, I know it's her actions that largely give her away and there is still plenty of homoeroticism (hi pool scene though ig that's also more intimate than anything), but I find Harrow's side a lot easier to understand. Weirdly, Harrow being more calculating makes her much easier to see through whilst Gideon's whole Gideonness obscures things for me. And that's part of why I found it took me so long to properly get behind the ship in the first book. The grand gestures don't show themselves until later on so for a long while I was just there like "do you even like each other?" (The answer to that is complicated)

Mizutaigen

Why don’t you ship it?

Mizutaigen alone is kinda... homoerotic rivalry flavoured. Which typically I'll make jokes about (hi dihua), but not seriously ship unless there's something extra added. It does amuse me that Taigen is highkey obsessed with Mizu whilst she spends so much of the time too tied up in her revenge quest to really care about that. But yeah, the Mizutaigen angle on its own is pretty basic so I'm not particularly invested in it beyond its comedic value.

What would have made you like it?

Adding Akemi to the mixture. By which I mean, I *do* ship mizutaigen but purely when Akemi is also involved. Without her, it's incomplete. But when you bring her in you get so much added thematic value. It's been a while since I watched so I'm struggling to think of a good example here, but all three of them echo into each other. Which is summed up by the plot-relevant porn scene with these vibes:

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Taigen sucks and Mizu also sucks but in a different way. To get the maximum possible suck...age? Add Akemi.

[gascon-en-exil]

19 for the ask meme, can be for anything

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

As much as this might be fishing to hear about some obscure kink that I'm into...that would require me to be ashamed about anything of the sort.

Instead, while this is kind of a stretch it can be frustrating to have finally broken into fic writing only to have it be for niche ships in a tiny fandom. Sure, I've gotten a lot of nice feedback and have a handful of people who are really into my stuff which is great to see, and once I'm done with my current fic I'm fairly sure I'll be able to be called a fandom authority on Papp/Roque since no one else has put this much effort into writing about those two before.

However, realistically I know it's never going to expand beyond that, because Octopath Traveler has such a modest fanbase, and that can often leave me wondering why I'm putting so much effort - the historical research alone! - into something with such a low level of interest. Still, it's been a fun experience and I'm going to keep writing so long as I have plot bunnies (do people still use that term?) for these characters.

(There's also an unintentional side effect to my not writing Fire Emblem fic, in that I can keep my fanfic work separate from the majority of my YouTube content. Doing too much of any one thing is just asking for burnout.)

[beatcroc]

makes you think about Indivisible for that blorbo meme

gah.

fave/guy i think about most-Either Ajna or baozhai but the latter not for the reason you think. Don't get me wrong her explicit canon competent-disaster lesiban-ness is a godsend, but mostly I think about how she had like. SO much fucking lore that they absolutely never brought up ingame. Like not even her postgame quest touched on it? I seriously don't even know if half of it is still canon.

Ajna..Ajna... I just love her so much and love her as such a flawed protag. You don't ususally see the role of "guy who's earnestly trying to do good but is too small-minded and just makes everything worse" handed to the *hero*. And even less often there's such a mechanical, gameplay type focus on going back and actually fixing all the shit you fucked up. Possibly the only time I've seen metroidvania backtracking be plot-relevant gdxgfdhgdg.

Cute/baby guy- there's a lot of funky little dudes in this but i think i gotta give it to ginseng & honey.... they got the spunk + canon they/them is a treat :') kushi & altun, sangmu [rip], and phoebe [surprisingly] are the runners up. lanshi is disqualified on account of being a dog. that would be too easy.

Underrated-hmmm... probably quadira? i'm gonna be real i don't remember a lot of the minor characters and i had to consult the page to even remember she existed but i remember her being like. a very subtle but very strong presence. she never said much but wasn't she just like....super exasperated by everything going on bc she had her own quest to get back to? i think she was one of those ones i came to like a lot more after the fact

Obscure fave- there are seven posts in the angwu tag and the first four of them are mine. god I fucking love angwu. She is still life goals for me. rude ass little old science lady in 3 layers of cloaks who gets to be a reclusive hermit in her tower all day but is still beloved and respected the world over for her knowlege, accomplishments, and contributions? please god. also her design is objectively flawless.

Problematic fave/meow meow- i mean dhar is THE shoe-in answer here yeah? Like. Good god where do you start with him.

Plinko-....probably also dhar. He's such a little bitch it's so funny when he whines

Superhell- queen mary. Not even for the whole tyrannical dictator moloch thing either her design just pisses me the fuck off [and the slime thing is even worse]

i am ADDING a new one on here that im just going to call MVP, because i want to mention razmi because she was so so so good and well-written. not a lot of Notes on her per se, but god she was just. shes so fucking funny and had such a distinct/unique personality. shes a weird little freak who wound up pulling a SURPRISING amount of emotional weight without it feeling off, and even in being one of the most active/chatty characters every moment with her is a blast and she also almost made me cry.

[musicalpancakes77]

Hi Hannah! For the WIP meme I want to hear more about "I told myself I wouldn't but here it is LETS GO BOYS"

GRACE hello!!! I'm so happy that you want to hear about what is arguably the most obscurely named wip i have A;LSDKFJA thank you!! This wip in particular is a project that I don't think I'll come back to, mostly just because it got too big and complicated in my head and I don't know if I have the passion- or even the want- to write the other main character- which I'm sure you can imagine kills any drive to write this beast lmao.

The more affectionate name- and the more descriptive one- for this document is "The Bobby Timeloop AU". I have a very particular love for Bobby Fulbright from Ace Attorney Dual Destinies but I also hate the Phantom, so that makes finding fics I like of him so hard. A lot of people like the phantom- and they're so valid for it! But I like Bobby and I wanted a cooler Bobby-centric fic. I can't remember how I got the idea but I do know that I did some serious work plotting out the sequence of moment (if you know how complicated and stupid the path of movement is in the last case of DD then you KNOW what I'm talking about). I even have a picture!! Though I'll put that at the end under a read more or smth haha

The general gist of the plot was that the Phantom was using Bobby not only for his identity and the privileges of his job, but he was also going to use him as a clean get away so that way he could get Bobby convicted of the crime and also get rid of a mask he probably wouldn't even need use of again. Very much a "I only kept you alive so I can wrap this up in a nice little bow and make my escape without ever revealing I have any connections in the first place" situation. So Bobby is brought along The Day Of The Crime and forced to help the Phantom set everything up- before being knocked out and forced onto the Launch pad (or wherever?? Athena was found or smth??) so that way the Phantom could make a get away while the cops found Bobby. But uh oh! Time Loop! And so Bobby is forced to replay the day, over and over again, try to stop the phantom lots of times, probably die a lot of times, get arrested a lot of times, and maybe only live to see the light of day once, if he's lucky :)

My downfall in the end is that I did not want to write the Phantom- I loved writing Bobby's bits, but I hated trying to characterize the Phantom, get in his head, find out what was Characteristic of him when I think he's just. Written kinda poorly at the end of the game anyway. And I think it was a lot more convoluted and darker than I wanted to originally go with, so while I wanted to keep it somewhat serious and comedic, it just got one-sided on Serious, which wasn't much fun for me.

I still love the idea though- just not my execution. Bobby is still one of my favorite little guys- I just don't talk about him much. Maybe I'll figure out a way to write a fic for him someday, but probably not this one :') Despite that, here's a few lil snippets, since this will probably die in my drive after this LMAO

He awoke to the sound of humming, and to a blooming pain in his left temple. There was an engine, gently purring life, over the sound of tires against gravel. Heat wafted towards his face, barely, and he felt confined to the seat he laid on. The buckle dug into his hip- the right one- as the seatbelt spanned across his stomach and down under his bulk. Despite the clothes he wore, it still chaffed.  He was…. in a moving car. His car. He’d only realized after they went over a bump and the axle made that worrying SQUEAK it always did after running through a pothole. His head lifted and his left temple slammed into the hand compartment on the door. Pain bloomed all over again. He withheld a pained noise and instead opted for a harsh exhale. Maybe they’d notice him less that way. They went over a pothole- again- and his temple flared with pain without fail.

Then there was nothing. . . . He awoke to the sound of humming, and a blaring pain in his left temple.

[proton-selfships]

hello! how abt 1, 6 & 8 for the headcanon asks? :]

Selfship Headcanon Asks

Thank you, Sol!

1) What does your F/O love about themselves?

Laurel will always take pride in her intelligence! Even through the hits to her self-esteem and ability to trust herself that come with the arc she undergoes, she'll never lose that feeling of satisfaction whenever she learns something new.

Before she changes for the better, this shows when she subtly teases her would-be victims after outsmarting them. Now, she feels those swells of pride after she feels like her knowledge has been helpful to others: helping an ailing plant perk back up, giving the perfect book recommendation, keeping up with conversations about my obscure interests so I can feel heard and understood… My beloved is so smart and wonderful to talk to! Our gardens and bookshelves couldn't be in better hands.

She's also proud of her resilience, as she should be! She survived trauma that no child should ever have to go through, then she took the time and effort to correct everything her family had taught her! And build a new happy life and loving relationship that went completely against that! I make sure to remind her all the time of how proud I am of her and how much our hard-earned love means to me.

6) Can your F/O sing?

Her actress has sung in a movie before, so listen for yourself!

I've talked before about how she doesn't care for her own singing voice, since she hasn't had much chance to practice. But when I catch her singing softly while caring for her plants for the first time? Dreamiest I'd ever seen her up to that point, and that's saying a lot. Her singing voice just sounds so sweet and innocent, unburdened by everything she's gone through. It completely melts my heart and makes me want to wrap her up in my arms…

She'll sometimes sing me to sleep after the first time I catch her with the plants, but only because she loves my reaction as I bring her into my embrace and relax against her.

8) What would be your F/O’s favorite TV/movie genre?

I'd say that aligns with her literary tastes in the sense that she tends to like things with a dark, sometimes gothic edge to them? Which is ironic, given that in-universe at least one of the most influential Gothic authors was an outcast. But she was never above reading books associated with outcasts, whether to use the spells they came up with or as a way of processing her overwhelming feelings of solitude and discontent.

(In hindsight, she jokes that she should've known something was wrong when the words of the people her family feared the most spoke so much more to her than any of the books her mother told her a proper lady should be reading.)

So the big genres she'd gravitate towards in movies and TV are drama, mystery, dark fantasy, thrillers, and occasionally dark comedy. That kind of thing.

If she had to pick just one that's her favorite, she'd go with mystery. Piecing together a murder plot or even grander scheme on her own and then being rewarded when the story either validates her observations or manages to trick her? She loves it, and she loves having me around while she watches so she can talk about it! Her favorite comfort watches would probably be old mystery shows, like Columbo or Murder, She Wrote. (Which I eagerly join her in watching so I can understand the memes about them.)

[sleepymarmot]

Bright Young Things (2003) / Vile Bodies (1930)

Yes, yes, of course I watched this for young gay Michael Sheen.

For real, the main entertainment factor of this film is embodying the Leo pointing meme every time a familiar face shows up on screen. At some point a certain someone appeared in an incidental role for a few seconds in a close-up next to Tennant and I completely fucking lost it. The UK can’t possibly have so few actors!

I’ve never even heard of the book this was based on, or was aware this was an adaptation before being informed in the opening titles, but it’s very noticeable. The script frantically jumps from plot point to plot point just like in any other feature film that tries to cram a novel in less than two hours of runtime. A bigger problem is that it’s not very clear to the viewer whether they should even try to make out a plot out of this string of scenes, or it’s a narrative that operates on vibes only. (I had to quickly leaf through previous scenes because I’d put a name to a wrong face, all while wondering if correcting myself was even worth it.) The film has a boisterous beginning, then slows down for a long time, then is given a shot of energy when James McAvoy’s character does a certain big thing halfway through (I cheered. Then I went “Oh man :/”). The plot does get a bit more coherent after that.

The ending caught me by surprise: I didn’t realize it was that late in the thirties. The radio announcement was a real “Guess he’ll die” moment, and it was immediately followed by a scene where the main character and his love interest seemed to poetically die on the same day… And then both of these were swiftly undone. The final scene was so conspicuously set during an air raid in a room filled with burning candles that I kept expecting the final frame to be a bomb hitting the building, or someone knocking over one of the candles — either way, with the pair being set ablaze just like the rediscovered manuscript. But no, it was just… a happy/bittersweet melodramatic ending? Instead of a neat destructive one? But I had already given up on the emotionally involved melodramatic mode of viewing because I’d written off the characters as unlikeable empty shells whom you study like a bug instead of rooting for! The girl didn’t even seem to like the boy and the boy sold her, what kind of emotion was their reunion supposed to evoke? And what happened to Agatha and Miles during/after the war? According to the summary on Wikipedia, the original novel’s ending is entirely different in content and tone, and much more in tune with the detached cynicism of the story up to the war, which makes me wonder even more about the adaptation’s intent.

It was nice to look at all these pretty people in fashionable clothes, and get a glimpse of a foreign historical setting. “Watching a random mildly obscure production because you’ve heard about it online and/or some star was in it” is a familiar, semi-forgotten experience, and that felt pleasantly nostalgic.

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Of course, I couldn’t resist immediately reading the original book to compare, encouraged by a review saying that it’s actually not that long. I found a public domain version somewhere and read the bare original text without commentary, even though I’m sure it’s a terrible way to consume century-old satire.

I was surprised to discover that the book is from 1930 — and still ends with a great war (fictional, I assume). No wonder the adaptation moved the setting a decade forward!

My impression that the characters and their stories were supposed evoke curiosity and contempt rather than compassion was confirmed. I now find the shoehorned sappy ending even stranger. The film version turned out to be very faithful otherwise: the unimportant events and characters are condensed well, and the weird pacing and disjointedness that I perceived as a trait of sloppy adaptation were actually true to the source material.

The last chapters of the book feel different not because of the sudden bleakness, but because the scope is rapidly narrowed to the few main characters, and most of the secondary subplots are dropped. The book, unlike the adaptation, puts a definite end to Agatha’s story (and her life), and there’s an entire subplot about a fictional film that didn’t make it to the real film, but what about the Prime Minister and his unsuccessful courtship of a Japanese noblewoman, or Miles’ brother and his rejected proposal? I thought these were going somewhere.

What a shame that the misunderstanding about “shooting” didn’t make it to the adaptation — it’s one of the few passages in the novel I found genuinely funny. Speaking of dialogue, I thought the “parties” monologue in the film was very unnatural and theatrical, and sure, in the novel it’s not said aloud but belongs to the narrator.

The minor character who hosted the fateful party was in the novel actually, uhh, a major character from the writer’s previous novel who made money via human trafficking?? That would have been very confusing for the movie’s audience, so I think it was pretty clever to throw all that out and make her Miles’ mother instead. Too bad a more serious take on Miles warranted a new surname: “Miles Malpractice” is a great name.

Miles’ role was expanded a lot for the film, which I think we all agree was a good choice. Most of his lines in the movie, including the tearful goodbye, aren’t in the book at all! So that’s another thing that was made more dramatic for the film. You win some (Miles), you lose some (the ending). The moral of the story is… Stephen Fry is better at writing a gay character than a straight romance? No wonder; the question is why he even bothered with the latter.

[lichfucker]

For the WIP folder game: Brain Damage in D Minor, and In Vera? 👀

ooh this is fun because these are both me taking the plot of a movie I like and then applying it to The Blorbos, but in completely opposite directions

brain damage in d minor is a black sails fic based on music and lyrics (2007) which is my favorite rom-com of all time. flint is a washed-up jaded has-been who was in a boy band in the '00s until he got outed and his boyfriend died and now he's 45 and he has no friends and no career and he can't write a new song to save his g-ddamn life. silver is the guy flint hires to water his plants and he just so happens to be an uncannily good lyricist.

it's silly, it's dumb, it's fun. "brain damage in d minor" is a placeholder title and I'm very afraid it will stick. I keep putting off working on this fic because I'm an insane person and I know that I'm going to want to actually write and record all the music.

I've only written two scenes—the opening and the morning after flint and silver hook up for the first time. last time this meme went around I posted like 3/4 of the opening scene lmao so here's a few lines from the other one:

"Here,” Flint says, offering Silver the mug. “I made you some coffee. Whole milk and four sugars, just how you like it.” The mug nearly scalds Silver’s skin when he takes it. Why is Flint kneeling so close? “I actually prefer it with three sugars,” Silver says, “but thank you. That’s—You didn’t have to.” “You order it with three sugars,” Flint says. “Then, when you think no one’s looking, you add a fourth. And I know I didn’t have to. I wanted to.” For all the talk of sugar, it’s Flint who’s sickly sweet right now: the sweet crinkle of his eyes, the sweet curl of his lip. Silver hides a nervous swallow beneath a mouthful of coffee—fucking hell, it tastes perfect. Flint shouldn’t know how to make Silver’s perfect cup of coffee. Gun to his head, Silver couldn’t make Flint’s perfect cup of tea; why the fuck does Flint know how to make Silver’s perfect cup of coffee?

in vera is the piece I am most actively working on right now! it's a fic for the fetch phillips archives series and it's based on in bruges (2008). there's a flashback in the first book in the series, wherein fetch has an uncomfortable incident with his mentor, then gets sent on a forced vacation to a city called vera so they can get away from each other for a little while. fetch then goes on a bender in vera, meets a general from an opposing army, and defects. shortly after fetch joins the army a big world-changing event happens and his former mentor dies.

this is a canon divergence au wherein fetch gets recaptured by his original organization after defecting to the army but before the world-changing event happens. he's sent on yet another forced vacation to vera, this time with his mentor, and. well. let's just say it's going very badly and will certainly get worse!

I'm working on chapter four right now but here's a little snippet from chapter one for you:

The streets spread out from the city center like a spiderweb, and Fetch is a helpless insect scuttling across the strands, trapped and unsafe. And Hendricks, for all his comfort and bravado, owning every cobblestone he steps on, may very well be the spider. As they meander toward the inn Hendricks booked, Fetch looks for any familiar landmarks from his first trip here. This is the corner where I puked up three glasses of burnt milkwood and half a turkey leg. This is the street where I nearly got run over by a newsboy on a bicycle. This is the bench where I fell asleep and got shat on by a bird. This is the shop where I spent twenty minutes trying to remember the Elvish word for “toilet” before I found out that it’s pronounced completely differently in the Veran dialect. Or was it over there? No, wait, it was a few blocks south. I don’t know. These buildings all look the fucking same. Most of the memories are obscured beneath a thick haze of stress and booze and grief. Primarily booze. They come back to Fetch in little flashes; they aren’t worth remembering once they do. Every façade of rough white rock broken by silvered doors like shards of mirror set into the stone: he keeps catching his reflection as he passes, and it always comes back warped. Stretched and bowed and grotesque. He doesn’t look Human anymore. Or maybe this hunched and hulking creature is the most Human he’s ever been. It’s not as though he can leave his humanity behind. It’s tattooed onto his fucking arm.

ty iz my beloved 💛💛💛💛💛💛

[deafknell]

Echidna (ask character meme)

Now the real question is - which version of Echidna? >:3 Let's go with the Echidna Subaru interacts with.

Sexuality Headcanon: She's somebody who would be curious about all forms of love as part of her thirst for knowledge, so I can see her being interested in anybody that could provide a new experience.

A ship I have with said character: Hmmm, Emidona maybe? I've seen some cute fanart and it is funny seeing Echidna lose her shit over Emilia just being nice to people.

A BROTP I have with said character: Toxic brotp has to go to Subaru, but like... any of the witches works. I really want to see more about them interacting, but I've been slacking lately. Oh, and if we're counting all forms of Echidna, then Omega and Palmyra and Colette is pretty interesting.

A NOTP I have with said character: Subaru. I dont mind it if its portrayed as a very toxic ship, where its very clearly wrong, but it feels weird seeing a witch willing to let him die millions of times for her curiosity just have a happy relationship with him. Sends a bad message to me.

Oh and Echidna/Roswaal. That one's just...yeesh.

A random headcanon: Scarfdona has a lot more going on behind the scenes (Capella trying to hunt her down in Cat's Eye, for example) but I have a strong feeling Echidna intentionally made her in a way to obscure certain knowledge (like how she was made, her purpose, memories) just so that if Echidna-As-Omega were to meet her, it'd be a goldmine of new info.

But I could be very wrong! I just want more info on how exactly the different Echidna's matter to the plot.

General Opinion over said character: Very polarised. Witch Echidna was fascinating, I love her long rant in the WN/LN (which got fully adapted in the manga as a whole page spread!! 2000 words over like two pages) and the sheer psychological horror she poses during arc 4 as Subaru's surrogate parent - super good. Her relationship with Beatrice is so cruel but there's so much you can do with that dynamic. I don't care for Echidna and Roswaal's dynamic beyond how messed up it makes Roswaal, but even there I can admire the writing.

But I'm not really fond of the several different Echidna's running around. I can understand Omega, but Scarfdona doesn't even have a unique name. I have very mixed feelings about Scarfdona, from her shortening Ana's lifespan by spamming Jiwald uselessly to her muted role in the Ana camp (Only Ana knows her, despite meeting Scarfdona when she was 12. I know she's an intelligent character but keeping that under wraps for 10 years??) It just feels like that iteration is very lackluster compared to what we've expected from Dream Echidna and Omega.

Thanks for the ask!!

[lowkeyclueless5137]

More crappy memes

Unpublished au flavored tho :v

I decided to just introduce these obscure aus by just yeeting a summary and a meme :'3

Honestly it sounds like a dumb idea, but I really enjoyed myself doing these as a breather so :v

Ok, we have 8 aus to see :3

Smol note: why is Idia so memeable?!

More under ✨️le cut✨️

Magical girl Idia au:

This au is crack, mostly since Idia is just hit with all the tropes of your usual magical girl story. His only motivation is born from the fact that the main antagonist(which is literally named 'evil overlord') cursed ortho to be a smol pocket kitty. The plot armour is so ridiculous and obvious that Idia himself goes to LENGTHS to just get rid of it(spoiler: he fails). Add to it the fact that NRC collectively thinks a pretty girl in a sparkly skirt and high heels saves them, cue Idia just trying his darn best to survive this school year.

Surveillance duty(horror au):

This one was in the drafts for SOOO much... like I didn't know if I should make just 1 oneshot or a full lil series... but the premise is that Riddle, a teacher at a high-school, offers to vouce one night of camera duty for the guard. From there a series of shenanigans and actual horrors make Riddle to realize that there is more to the school than the eye lets on. Also that the elderich monster is kinda hot

Ps: my fave part is the unholy abomination of energy drinks and coffee Riddle brews. Yes, this is the au that started that bandwagon

Addams Deuce au:

As the title says... Deuce's an Addams, which in twst actually has them be vampires. :v It's mostly a rom-com type of crack, Deuce trying to adapt to nrc and also nrc trying to adapt to Deuce. Doesn't help that he has a venomous snake as a pet.

Matt Hatter au:

I also like this one :v. Basically, the grandfather on the father's side of the zibvolt family leaves as inheritance a cinema. Sevek discovers the truth about the movies the zibvolt family once made along with the parallel world they created. So Sebek has to embark on an adventure to restore and maintain peace in the movie world, while also attending his guard and student duties.

Monster high au:

You had to expect it from me. This one, surprisingly, has a pretty interesting plot, following a timeline made out of the mh movies, starting with Why do ghouls fall in love, ending with an eah movie: way to wonderland.(It's my way of making parallels). You have everything in there! From ghosts and a shy boogieman, to forest monsters and Demons who accidentally blow up things. Most of them actually have pretty angsty stoties, so it's not all that happy. :v

Wild magic au:

In which wild magic is like in s7 of winx. The source of that dark magic is guarded by the nrc Dormheads and some students. Rsa is a school for fairies, which tries to defeat the 'misterious wild magic mages'. The teachers at nrc, nor the Rsa or anyone else knows that some of the nrc students actually got wild magic and they would rather keep it like that. They are petty, they don't like to share :v

Shazam! Au

In which poor, sweet, innocent Ortho is thunderstruck with God powers and now has to juggle school life and 'superhero' life all while he and Idia try to fit in with their new adoptive family. Ace clearly hypes him up, Sebek's the voice of ration and the rest? Well the rest shouldn't really know for now. Apparently since the supposed to be mentor dipped, the heir of Hades's powers, which so happens to be idia, is now tutoring Ortho.

Over the garden wall au(another horror au):

In which Idia and ortho venture into the forest, but only ortho gets out. Being cursed to take place of a monster that ruled that place, idia lurks through there and tries to control his new powers and not led madness consume him. Also he has some fear-hate relationship with butterflies :v.

And those are all :3

For now >:3

Yep, those are chaotic and I couldn't focus one bit on them without having someone to egg me on or ask me about it.

Ironically, they are all(minus addams deuce and Matt hatter aus) fully fleshed out with a lot of details. They can get wild at times, but hey! That's the charm :D

So go on... theorise or ask on why do I think these memes are hilarious /hj

Because really, there is sum insane mental gymnastics there.

Hope you enjoyed another silly round of crappy memes!

Until next time! Buh bye!

[childeproof]

doing the self insert questions for amelia! warning for mentions of drugs, s/a, & relapsing (all vague).

1 — give us a quick run down of your s/i!!

amelia e. woods (cis woman, she/her), a famous child star that faded into obscurity as she grew older. she turned to drugs & partying during her late teenage years / early twenties just to stay somewhat relevant. at the age of 22 she opted to sober up and move to new mexico with her parents. by the time the breaking bad series starts, she’s around 25 i imagine!

2 — post a meme that describes your s/i.

3 — where does your s/i live? do they aspire to move or are they content with where they are?

she lives in albuquerque, new mexico with her roommate jesse (and previously with another roommate named daisy, who she called daisy-dill). she’s pretty content with where she is! she does want to move into a bigger house but that’s only if she ever has kids.

4 — what's a song that describes your s/i? even better if you have a playlist!

songs that are distinctly amelia core are hollywood baby & dumbest girl alive by 100 gecs. she would absolutely hate both of these songs because of the genre but they are HER. hollywood baby relates to her backstory & dumbest girl alive also fits the vibe considering the hollywood movie-esque opening before a loud “angry” guitar comes in. i think dumbest girl alive would be more her when she’s doing her partying / when she first moves to new mexico. angry, sarcastic, bitter, etc.

5 — what is your s/i’s profession?

she used to be an actress but now she is a news reporter! she enjoys news reporting by a lot, especially when it’s a heart felt subject. she likes most of her coworkers too!

6 — what does your s/i have most in common with you? what's different about them?

both me & amelia are early risers, we both are very interested in schedules, we’re of the same race (african american).. um, we both can be bossy, sarcastic, clever, etc. she takes the type a personality all the way though. she is scared to relax because she’s worried she’ll let go of herself. we both can be argumentative but we don’t always mean it offensively, we just like debating ideas. we both were “good” kids. “gifted” kids.

7 — if your s/i was an animal, what would they be?

I THINK ABOUT THIS A LOT! i believe she would be a deer (a mecore animal in general) or calico cat..

8 — how did you get the idea for your s/i's backstory?

i dunno.. she told me herself idk.. /hj some of it is more personal (i haven’t touched on the s/a she’s been through but that mirrors my own experience) but other parts are just things i thought would be interesting.

9 — give us an example s/i outfit (or describe it).

her style is a mash up between “goody two shoes” (whatever annie edison has going on in her closet) and 70s sort of casual femme clothing. she and her old roommate daisy got along well fashion wise.

10 — what are some of your s/i's major skills?

she’s good at debate (a club she was president of in high school), she’s a decent singer and has sung on television before, i would so just her tv presence, it helps a lot with her job. i dunno,, tv news reporter skills, that’s what she has. and she’s good at picking locks (don’t ask).

11 — what is your s/i afraid of?

relapsing… and bugs. she hates insects. except worms, she likes worms. they’re chill.

12 — if you had to compare your s/i to an already existing fictional character, who would it be?

ok so her kin list? you’re asking for her (unofficial) kin list? annie edison , kyoko kirigiri , courtney (tdi) , twilight sparkle , edelgard (fe3h) & elsa off the top of my head.

13 — has your s/i's story changed since you created them or has it stayed relatively the same?

not particularly, minor details change but the general plot is the same (as of now, lol).

[iviarellereads]

Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 46

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(Eighth House icon) In which Mercymorn the First has a great and terrible revelation.

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EMPEROR'S MURDER

Gideon had the best of intentions for Harrow's body, but no plan survives contact with the enemy. Harrow's body was ill-equipped for this kind of combat. Fortunately, her Lyctoral healing is in full swing, so Gideon has time to accommodate, if by accommodate, you mean die three times to the nightmare bees and come back again for another round. Gideon feels really bad for each death and losing (and regrowing) a thumb to the Heralds's "hunger only thumbs could satisfy",(1) as well as for removing Harrow's makeshift bone armour because it makes it too hard to move.

She moves through the hallways, taking out Heralds, until she finds Mercy, who is confused and terrified. Confused because whoever's in Harrow's body is standing and gawping like a human, something Harrow was never capable of, and also terrified because Harrow was supposed to have been eaten already. Gideon takes from this, and Mercy confirms, that Mercy stabbed Harrow.

Mercy gets hung up on what happened to Harrow's eyes, asking why she has "her" eyes.(2) She didn't think to check Gideon's corpse's eyes. Then she talks about a lot of confusing stuff about a plot to do with the Ninth House, and a workaholic commander, and Gideon(3) chasing her down. Now, Mercy has to take the River all the way home and fight through the Ninth House just because of the commander's failure.

I did not know what the fuck to say to this incoherent spew. She said, ragged, peevish: "What? No tongue in your head, you--you mutant, you mistake, you great big calf-eyed fuck-up? I need to think. I need to think. Why are those eyes now in your face? Unless..." [...] She paced backward and forward. [...] When she spoke at last, she sounded frozen and numb. "I see. I understand. Lipochrome. Recessive. You are the evidence. He lied to us ... and you are all the proof I needed. I don't have to breach anything. I don't have to go back." She exhaled. "Good God ... Cytherea would have known as soon as she looked at you."(4) And I said: "What the fuck are you talking about? What the hell are you talking about? What other Gideon?" "The Lyctor sent to kill your mother," said Mercymorn. "But Harrow's mother--" "I'm not talking to Harrowhark, you facile dead child," she said disdainfully. "I am talking to you ... Nav ... Gideon Nav ... Gideon! What a laugh ... you abomination, you heresy, you failed ambition nineteen years too late."

Mercy stabs Harrow's body again, right through the heart, perfectly deadly with a needle-precise strike. However, Harrow's Lyctoral healing kicks in. She narrows her eyes, saying it's too late to have learned that trick. Gideon presses the attack.

Unfortunately, Mercy has ten thousand years' advantage, and Gideon is about to be slaughtered when there's a click and a blast that rips Mercy's chest apart. Mercy starts screaming, not in pain, but in the same terror in which Gideon found her.

Cytherea's corpse has shot Mercy. And she does so again, and again. Mercy isn't quite dying, but she starts frothing at the mouth with rage-fear.

Cytherea stops, turns to Gideon-Harrow, and says "Goodbye." Gideon knows she probably ought to go after the corpse of the Lyctor who flirted with her then tried to kill her, but it's complicated. Instead, she just asks, semi-rhetorically, what the fuck is going on.

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(1) Llamas With Hats reference! I'm not as personally familiar with this piece of internet history but my attention was drawn to it by another post on Tumblr, suggesting that everyone talks about none pizza with left beef but nobody talks about the more obscure memes and refs. I'm trying! But no one person was everywhere. (2) Whose eyes, exactly? What do Gideon's eyes have to do with anything? (3) Presumably, as we now know, Gideon the First. (4) She did, too, whatever it is to be known. Recall the scene from Gideon the Ninth, chapter 10. Where I now realize I probably should have gone into the "lipochrome recessive" line. Lipochrome - yellow organic pigment, usually from lipid (fat) compounds. Recessive, of course, meaning a gene that won't express if another, more dominant gene is present as well.