#mifhortunach

[nonsensegnomes]

just wanna chime in with, god you GOTTA watch the dirties, it’s genuinely insane how good it is - a truly AIRTIGHT found footage film

do NOT even worry about it my friend i am sooooo far ahead of you on this front – i had the archive.org file up on my laptop when you sent this ask, and now 2 days later i've watched it twice... and STILL i cannot get that cliff scene fight out of my head! movie that makes you go what in all this is real we are!!!

[solomontoaster]

for the spotify asks!; 6, 22, & 87 ? :)

6. Evening Prayer aka Justice by Ezra Furman

22. Honey Honey from Mamma Mia!

87. Fallen Angels by Black Veil Brides

Ezra Furman I get and Mamma Mia I get, I did not realize I listened to enough Black Veil Brides this year for them to make my top 100.

[silverview]

thanks @52stations for tagging me! tagging @mifhortunach @kookaburrito @batatadulce9 @fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles @donotbelasagne if you want to 😊

[boostockingbaby]

15 Questions, 15+ mutuals

Thanks for the tag @mariacallous

Were you named after anyone?

Saint Mary Magdalene herself

When was the last time you cried?

Listen, I’m not proud of it, but yesterday there was a video of the Wikipedia page for CBT (NOT Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, the other one) vocoded to the US National Anthem and I laughed so hard I cried.

Do you have kids?

No. I’d like to eventually someday, but I’d also be fine if it never ends up happening for me.

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

I use it sometimes, but I’m way less defensive than I was as a teenager.

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

How they’re acting. I’m not very good at putting names to faces, but I wish I was!

What’s your eye color?

Blue-gray

Scary movies or happy endings?

Either!

Any special talents?

Speed-reading? I have many good qualities, but they’re not really the kind of talents that would be fun to show off at a party— unless we’re having a trivia night, and then I do pretty well in everything except the sports category. I can do decent impressions. Many people say that, but I actually can.

Where were you born?

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

What are your hobbies?

Reading, writing, editing, cooking, hiking, tabletop rpgs, being silly on tumblr and discord. I try to have a balance of many different things!

Have any pets?

No— my apartment is too small right now.

What sports do you play/have you played?

I am not a sporty person, but I did small-circle jujitsu for a year and a half before I moved, and I loved it! I would like to find another dojo, but I also can’t really commit to anything right now. I was forced to do Scottish Highland dance for a few years as a child, which I was not particularly good at. I also was involved in shooting sports through 4-H for over a decade, first as a safety thing, then branching out into other disciplines.

How tall are you?

5’ 11

Favorite subject in school?

English

Dream job?

Forensic Psychologist with a particular focus on policy advocacy, developing community-based solutions, and making services accessible to under-served and isolated areas— with a side of fiction writing under a pseudonym for fun.

tagging @theboarsbride @atomic-two-sheds @mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves @crocodilenotes @sarahchagalls @meme-streets @knifebucket @palis-delon @thatsonebigoof @greetings-from-mordor @curly-cottage-girl @tybaltsjuliet @mllecosettefauchelevent @forthegothicheroine @gorevidalscaligula @hunterbiden @stripesysheaven @gracefullysaint @tanaudel @pendraegon @cithaerons @lovelyamneris @hotcassavetessummer @changelinq @sweetfluffernuts @mifhortunach @emiliosandozsequence  @laurabeatrix

[thesedamncannibals]

tag game!

tagged by @shithitsmynipples

Do you make your bed? Never! Idc. Also I take naps so I don't see the point.

What's your favorite number? 108. . .cuz its tim rogers @ on twitter. IDK.

What is your job? I don't have one :( I wanted to work when I was a teenager but my parents don't want me to and I can't drive and theres 1 car, etc.

If you could go back to school, would you? I'm going to school soon and I'm not that excited. But in the future if I want a career change I could go back, sure.

Can you parallel park? (ㆆ_ㆆ)

A job you had that would surprise people? None, omg this is for people with independence

Do you think aliens are real? I mean yeah, but they don't look like grey humans or whatever.

Can you drive a manual car? I don't think I even want to drive. But most countries barely have any public transport so idk.

What's your guilty pleasure? I have no guilt about my pleasures tbh. Probably because none of them make me feel EXTREMELY good y'know?

Tattoos? No but I want one. Maybe a back tattoo. A back tattoo of a double headed snake. My skin scars easily though it might not work out. I have so many keloids lol

Favorite color? Red.

Favorite type of music? I don't listen to a whole lot. I guess I like heavier stuff? Chat pile is my favorite band.

Do you like puzzles? I like video games. I did play sudoku for a bit but I got bored.

Any phobias? Not any real ones. Spiders I guess. The fear of my life slipping away from me without me ever getting to be independent and alone. um, being stuck in bureaucracy hell ykwim.

Favorite childhood sport? In my childhood the boys played soccer and the girls didn't do shit. And I.. . did homework in class.

Do you talk to yourself? No, I don't even like the sound of my inner monologue.

What movies do you adore? This is hard! The Passenger, Peep Tv Show, Talk to Me, Any Alan Clarke film, Let the Right One In, Gonin, Scream, Dinner in America, Blindspotting, Swallowtail, Summer Vacation 1999, I saw the tv glow, Cure, etc. I watched hunger (2008) and all of us strangers recently. Those were great.

Coffee or tea? I like both, I drink more tea though. Warm water win.

First thing you wanted to be when you grew up? Psychologist. LMAO.

tagging @ereb1d , @wheelsup30, @mifhortunach, @constant-fagging and anyone who wants to :^)

no pressure.

[nevercouldhurt]

Tag game! Tag nine people you would like to know better. @metamagic-adept tagged me !! thank u :)) apologies it has been a long time... i have neglected my tumblr notifications Last song: RATATATA by BABYMETAL and Electric Callboy, its become a tradition for me to listen to any newly released babymetal song constantly for as long as possible. its the only song ive been listening to sdfklj its good

Favourite colour: bright red, like hurts your eyes a little bit

Currently watching: haikyuu :) i rewatched the entirety of it very recently and i have started it over again (excited for the movie coming out next week :o !), and im always watching the untamed, and i just finished season 1 of killer eve, its fun. also dungeon meshi!!

Sweet/savory/spicy: savory i think... had a desire today to just have broth in my fridge to drink Relationship status: in a relationship for 5 years 3 months :) very happy Current obsession: haikyuu :3 reignited special interest.. old friend. also, media club plus excellent podcast, and friends at the table, im relistening to their season winter in heiron which has been so fun, and i love their current season palisade!! oh and stardew valley expanded, and the ajin: demi human manga!! and the untamed and babymetal :)

Last thing you googled: "coffee with comrades" its a podcast i listen to every once in awhile!! i like it a lot, but i realized it hadnt updated in a bit nd i found out its bc it has ended <3 rip i will still listen to the ones i havent gotten to yet tho

i will tag (no pressure!): @mispronouncing-michaelangelo @mifhortunach @mostlyreliable @comradesnufkin

[youngmiddleold]

was tagged a while ago by dear mutual @mifhortunach thank u!!<3

last song: Human Sadness - julian casablancas + the voidz, been into the strokes for a bit and slowly branching into the band members' solo projects. this one has been bringing me lots of comfort lately.

current book stack:

Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection by Niobe Way

I found out abt this one through interviews with Lukas Dhonte (who directed Close (2022) one of my favorite movies I've watched all year!). He mentions this book a lot as his main inspiration in constructing the character dynamics in the film. its heavy academic texts but I'm quite liking it!

I Would Prefer Not To: Essential Stories by Herman Melville

its a pretty edition of melville. need i say more? I do need to also write an essay on benito cereno lol

... and a bunch of shakespeare! for uni:/

last movie: life of pi (2012)... ang lee rly rly tried to make me like this shite story but its not happening unforch!

last show: Just binged the latest season of black mirror! it was mostly good fun, but honestly in generally felt pretty toothless? only one of the episodes out of the 5 really struck me, the way that the best BM eps do.

current obsession: berserk!!! i binged the manga in the span of a single day a few weeks ago n boy did my brain need that mental break. slowly working thru the 1997 series n really enjoying it too:>

tagging: @cinemaandallthat @joziokowalski :)!

[mithridacy]

tagged by @sabakos !!! post here

rules: tag 10 people you want to get to know better

relationship status: in a couple! it’s pretty uncomplicated rn aside from being long distance :( we're both poly though

favorite color: red <3

song stuck in my head: Stripdown - Agent Side Grinder

last song i listened to: Red Like Fire - O. Children

three favorite foods: umm idk but recently its been persimmons, lime sparkling water, and spam musubi

last thing i googled: due to my issues i almost always search things on incognito mode, but "universal numeral classifier accessibility hierarchy" was normal enough to go in the browser history i guess

dream trip: someone will need to get me on a plane to japan one of these days, it's becoming an embarrassment. otherwise i'd really like to do more roadtrips around the west coast/midwest, maybe even with someone this time! but traveling alone can be rly fun

anything i want right now: hhh the most pressing one is probably irl friends that i see outside of school. a nice notebook. also this is a big ask but i'm ready to have interests again and maybe even creativity.

tagging @mifhortunach @grand-magnificent @faerieconsort and anyone else who'd like to! haven't been interacting with too many people on here lately tbh

[housmania]

✨get to know me better meme✨

i was tagged by @hypallepse ! ty 🥰

3 ships: fitzier, johnlock (any iteration)...that’s like 90% of my blorboposting--stede/ed even though it’s canon?

first ever ship: honestly i barely knew what ships were until sherlock season 3. i emerged from the primordial muck of 2014 fandom chaos and i’ve only gotten worse since then 💖

last song: “Always Summer” from the Brideshead Revisited soundtrack

last movie: glass onion! cathartic, gay, and janelle monaé is there: ideal film.

currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell because @explorersaremadeofhope‘s JSMN posts reminded me I’ve wanted to read that since devouring Piranesi in one night

currently watching: 1899. apparently i just watch Cursed Boat Media™ now

currently consuming: possibly you meant food but i’ve listened to benjamin britten’s sea interludes every day this week because t h e  s e a . 10/10 “staring at the water and having Emotions” energy.

currently craving: apple cider with a chai latte packet mixed in--just trust me on this one.

tagging: @hotgirljamesfitzjames @mifhortunach @asparklethatisblue @thesoftdetective; feel free to ignore if it’s not your thing :) and anyone else who’s interested!

[cctinsleybaxter]

@mifhortunach

Color Like a Classic Comic Book

I'm doing some tinkering on Fauxstalgia stuff, and since I believe in sharing resources, here's an RGB PNG version of the official DC pantone guide, with the swatches re-sampled from current pantone standards. This set is from 1982, but should be generally believable for most stuff post-WWII.

The versions floating around online (two of which are under the fold) are scans of prints and are not accurate for color-picking.

Now, these colors would also be altered by the printing process, but for clean, pre-print versions, here's some authenticity.

[cawsaurus]

7 & 14 ! (for the spotify wrapped!) :)

Hamilton - Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)

Modest Mouse - Float on

Thank you for sending the ask! ♥🌟

[lothiriel84]

And here’s The Bunker, as requested by @mifhortunach​​

The first character I first fell in love with: David & Dave. They’ve got really nice voices. (Sorry, Tom.) The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Adam the InterviewBot, probably? He’s my clunky metal boy, and I’m ever so proud of him.  The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Huh, Kallo, maybe? The character I love that everyone else hates: Dunno. Who did the fandom hate, again?  The character I used to love but don’t any longer: N/A. I’m still 110% David & Dave trash. I’m not even sorry.  The character I would totally smooch: Okay, listen. First of all, you simply can’t use such language in David’s presence. Secondly, as David would definitely murder me if I was foolish enough to attempt anything of the sort - well, there’s always Dave. I’m told he’s got really nice hair.  The character I’d want to be like: Hmm. I’d say either Gertrude, or Emma.  The character I’d slap: Oh, Robert Swinton, hands down. Good thinking of *someone* to ‘take care of things’, as it is.  A pairing that I love: ...do I really have to spell it out? (It’s David/Dave, obviously. I mean, duh.) A pairing that I despise: I wouldn’t say I despise it, but I do tend to wilfully ignore Katie/Dave for fanfiction writing purposes. 

[tomjopson]

⭐⭐⭐ - for the 'directors commentary' asks, if yr doing them! [abt anything, but ngl esp any of the lozer stuff if theres still anything you've not said already yet, lmao] :0 !

concerning the lozer fics, I go into pretty deep detail for hope lost on yesterdays in this post, but here are some fun things about where we are on the ladder:

The title was kinda a reference to Hickey’s line, but more evocative of the ladder as a symbol of hierarchy as well as the imagery of ascension/descension, which I think is the same symbolism the showrunners were going for when they named that episode “The Ladder”

Really kicking myself after the fact that I didn’t include some interactions during the night Tuunbaq was on Terror’s deck. I realized later upon rewatching “First Shot A Winner Lads” that Tozer and Little are both very present in that scene.

Introvert!Little and Extrovert!Tozer is what keeps their ship dynamic going. Plus, Tozer blatantly being the one to approach Little and initiate conversations is cute to me.

I firmly stand by my belief that Edward Little is a tactile person, and because of his rank and his taciturn nature, that man is very touch-starved, so Tozer approaching him and breaking that barrier was like finding an oasis in the desert for Little.

I also have to chuckle that their first conversation is Tozer asking him if he’s picked a costume, because I’m sure in Little’s mind (post Fitzjames asking the same damn thing), he doesn’t need more reminders for how much he’s dreading Carnivale. 

[nonsensegnomes]

okay this isn't letting me edit it after i saved a draft,,, WEIRD!

all i was going to say is i could feel this queasiness building in my stomach as the opening scenes kept hinting at the past & then the reveal of just when they got together..... OH man 🤢

also i watched this with my family lol, which was kinda an awkward but rewarding choice? – got to the scene with her daughter in the changing rooms & my parents (who are far less interactive viewers than me & my sib) BURST out with objections, which was very very funny to me!! so ultimately Fun For All The Family :)

@mifhortunach

just wanted to let u know that ur talk about may december DID make me go see it yesterday && boy!! some film for one film lol

oh yay!!! quite frankly an honour to pass on the good news of Charles Melton Oscar Buzz 🫡 but fr i always feel like you watch so much more new cinema than i do, so i'm glad to have added something to the conversation!!

i'm really still reeling from the fact that it was THAT good; it's such a testament to the film that i went in sooooo hyped & it didn't fall flat but actually measured up on every level.... tho i suppose i really didn't know much about it lol, besides from the fact that reggie fromriverdale probably had something fucked up going on with one of the leads; was not prepared for it to be THAT horrible right from the jump though 🫣 it was such

gonna think about

[absolutebearings]

for the fic author asks, if they've not been done already!; maybe, 1 & (specifically the 2nd part of) 2 ?

1. What was your first fic and could you stand to reread it today:

The very first thing i ever wrote was a fic called futile, for the kotor fandom. i didn’t even post this on ff.net, this was a specialty kotor fansite that hosted fic and art about the series, and it was a pretty cool community. i got some of the best concrit i’ve ever received on that fic – the person writing it did not hold back and laid out methodically everything that i did wrong, and what needed to be better – and let me figure out HOW to make it better for myself. it was invaluable. i mean i cried about it at first but once i put it into perspective it was an incredible asset. rereading that fic now would probably be just as instructive.

2. What’s your most recent fic and how far do you think you’ve come?

Recent fics are a three-for! since i’m literally bouncing around 3 word drafts like a squirrel on speed. 

We got Appassionato – joplittle indulgent fluff, survival au angst/romance/smut overload

Many Returns is something I just started, a 4 part series about joplittle birthdays on the terror

then the mAIN EVENT – THE (REDACTED TITLE) LONGFIC. OUTLINE IS 20 CHAPTERS AND IT COULD BE MORE

as for how i’ve come, i think a pretty decent amount. i love nothing more than to improve, than to get closer to making the abstract explicit, so that means lots of study, lots of nitpicking. honest conversations with editor brain. an idea has no form, but a story is universal. alone in your head you can amuse yourself with your imaginings, but once you put it to words, it’s something you can share. 

Fanfic author ask meme

[possibly-not-a-ghost]

i’ll not do the bounce back, but! songs 42 & 17 ? :)

42 is The Manic by Amarnte and then 17 is Path to Isolation from the RWBY soundtrack. I'm unsurprised that my playlist has a lot of what I'd call Sad Bitch Music