#oops all trop

[r-aindr0p]

MY SON !!!! Behold !! Look at this fantastic artwork aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the linework the colors, everything ✨✨✨

commission for @r-aindr0p 🌻

[sku11s1asher]

neuvillette x male reader for soulmates au😞😞 enemies to lover trop to omg there both rivals but slowly fall inlove with each other😭

neuvillette x nb/male reader (soulmate au)

note: ermm ignore how long it took, i forgot to check inbox, also i didn’t go too much into enemies more like haters to lovers lol (this is a long drabble bc i couldn’t think of any main prompts, enjoy it bc it really is long oops)

ooc neuv , suggestive , also they don’t really go in a order so yeah

fem dni

before finding out your soulmates (d1 haters frfr)

⋆ you and neuvillette seemed to argue over every little thing. if you breathed in his direction he’d mumble something under his breath, causing an argument.

⋆ everyone thought you both were dating, every single time you both even come close to each other theres some awkward sexual tension

⋆ he criticized every little thing you did, if said something a little wrong, he’d make fun of you, always having to run his mouth

⋆ now you personally didn’t really believe in soulmates because of how hard it is to find yours, to find your soulmate you have to actually touch them; not a touch as in accidentally graze but like an intimate type, a hug, etc.

⋆ if you are a attorney, you always would always drag on the case longer than it needs to be just to argue a little longer (you also did it to spend more time with him but, i won’t tell anyone your secret)

⋆ neuvillette and you had some weird type of rivalry, you guys knew each other for a while, every single time you felt as neuvillette liked someone you ended up taking them from him and he did the same to you.

⋆ at the same time, he didn’t honestly know how to feel about you, your personality was so different from his. he tried his best to stay away from you but, clearly it didn’t work.

⋆ his hatred for you was also contributed because of your friends, the people you hang around, the not so liked people in fontaine.

⋆ he felt as you were a competition for him at the same time; you were a little too good at your job (whatever you want it to be), now it may not necessarily be at his level but you were too good for his liking.

⋆ his emotions and feelings are all over the place. he couldn’t decide if he hated you, didn’t care, or was jealous.

⋆ neuvillette always looked at you, even if it was a look of hatred, love, admiration, anything. he always had some type of eye on you, he felt some time of connection with you.

⋆ if you ever got in trouble, he took the blame for it, which was odd as he wouldn’t really care if you were someone else.

⋆ fontaine was raining really bad, that day happened to be the day you got injured.

⋆ you had just got back from sumeru which isn’t the safest place, your injuries weren’t thatttt bad but, they weren’t the prettiest.

⋆ once you got a little healed and we’re allowed to leave, you saw him. he wasn’t doing anything important just looking at the melusine.

⋆ you walked up to him to annoy and tease him, most people were conflicted if you were enemies or lovers.

⋆ you weren’t expecting his reaction though, instead of arguing with you, he hugged you. you were frozen for a moment but eventually hugged him back, which is how you found out you were soulmates.

once you find out you’re soulmates ;

⋆ he always has some part of him touching you, even if it’s his pinkie, he needs the comfort of you.

⋆ soulmates share a mark with each other, you both have (design of your choice idk), every single time you get intimate with him, he always kisses and loves on it.

⋆ he loves praising you, if you win a court case or do something really good in your job, expect a night full of praise.

⋆ you both didn’t announce your relationship with anyone though, you both give sly comments every chance you get.

⋆ neuvillette loves you though, your the only person who gets him to act the way he does.

⋆ he’s always had a soft spot for you, before you were soulmates and when you were hating on each other every chance you both had.

⋆ once you both got into a huge argument, it was raining hard, you felt bad because he’s your bf/hubby

⋆ when you walked into his office and saw him crying you didn’t know what to do. he never got better with his emotions and expressing them with you.

⋆ “baby, i’m sorry, you were right i was wrong, okay?” you said to him while walking up to his desk. all he did was look at you and wipe his tears, not giving you a response.

⋆ he truly was the prettiest crier you’ve ever met, it was kind of a turn on, but keep your mind out the gutters your bf is cryin!

⋆ you both cuddle a lot, after you argue. he never liked having serious arguments with you though, it brought him some type of sadness.

⋆ just overall, he’s an lovin boyfriend (and hopefully husband), he’s the best soulmate you could’ve ever asked for!

⋆ ps; he still doesn’t like your friends (lyney)

[1tsstargaze59]

Here's my next two emotions, Ennui and Sadness! I'm not working on them in any particular order, just random xD

I decided to reveal some HCs as I reveal their references ^^ Gonna do Anxiety and Fear again in this post since I didn't get to last time oop-

In honor of Ennui, I'm gonna write in French and translate ^^ (I'm French Canadian in nationality so I speak 3 languages B)

• Parle Français exclusivement! - Speaks french exclusively.

• Elle peux aussi parler l'anglais, mais elle choisit de ne pas le faire, sauf pour les anglicismes. - She can speak English as well, but chooses not to, only for slang.

• Grande rêveuse~ -  Daydreamer~

• Lunaire. - Moonchild.

• Elle est la petite soeur de Peur. - Fear's little sister.

• Elle aime décorée ses affaires, faire du bricolage, écouter de la musique et regarder des émissions de télé, mais elle est ben trop parresseuse, donc elle attend que ses copains faissent ses activités avec elle. - Likes decorating things, crafts, games, music and watching shows, but is faaaaar~ too lazy, will wait for her friends to do it with her.

• ✨️~Esthétique~✨️ (won't translate that one XD)

• "Lead" emotion.

• Nicknamed Dee by the other emotions.

• Bestie with Anxiety.

• Likes bubbles and baths (separately, but best together!)

• Loves to give hugs when things get sad, which is often XD

• Total sweetheart with a gritty past qvq

• Crush on Embarrassment and shows lots of PDA.

Now for these two idiots! /pos TW for Anxiety x Fear if you aren't into that-

Anxiety :

• Always has extra stationary on her.

• Friendly Rivalry with Joy.

• Besties with Sadness, actually she's second lead emotion!

• Cannot take hinds to safe her life XD (Fear be flirting with a brick wall I swear-)

• Loves Tea and energy drinks.

• Has a "conspiracy" board she keeps her intrusive thoughts on.

• Bi icon 🧡... bi-con 🤔

Fear :

• Nerd vibes.

• Has suspenders under his sweater vest.

• Finds comfort in physical touch and big clothes.

• Jumpscared every easily, but he's good at his job, I avoid things ik will scare me like the plague lmao

• HUGE crush on Anxiety, which he's nervous about, but isn't subtle about.

• Siblings with Ennui.

• Also Bi! 💜

That's all! ^^ Have a great day!

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MOVIES I WATCHED THIS WEEK #211:

SABELLE HUPPERT X 3:

🍿 ISABELLE HUPPERT, A LIFE TO PLAY is a wonderful biography shot in 2001. The director followed her for a whole year during her work with Chabrol on 'Nightcap', just before her 'Piano teacher' premiere and winning in Cannes, and documents her preparations for the live performance as Madea on stage in Avignon. Pure pleasure to anybody who loves to see her anywhere.

🍿 THE SWINDLE (1997), an old-fashioned grifter caper and my 12th crime comedy by Claude Chabrol. Huppert and her much older partner Michel Serrault con small time dentists and insurance men at conventions, but then they move on unto bigger and more dangerous scams. Chabrol's accomplished handle of the story is a joy to behold. 8/10.

Chabrol directed Huppert in 7 movies, of which I've seen three. But I must see them all, with the first being 'Violette Nozière'!

🍿 Narrated by Isabelle Huppert, FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, MY LIFE, A SCREENPLAY is the new documentary about the auteur "Frank Truff". It was a project he started himself, before dying too young at 52. As such, it's not great: fragmentary, unfinished and it jumps randomly from period to period. But it offers many wonderful clips from his personal life, with some new insights as to what influenced him the most: His pained relationship to both his parents, how important were children to his world view, his early friendship with Jean Genet and André Bazin. Recommended at any Truffaut fan. (I need to hunt down the last few of his films that I didn't see, especially 'Mississippi Mermaid', which is hard to find). (Ending Scene From His 'Les Quatre Cents Coups' Above).

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First watch: MIRROR, my 6th or 7th poetic film by Andrei Tarkovsky, and without any doubt my favorite film by him. I can't understand why I waited so long to see it. An emotional and visual masterpiece, about fragments of dreams and small pains of memories. Why is this film so magnificent? The boy's mother, who was Tarkovsky's real-life wife, was angelically beautiful. I am going to re-watch this film again and again. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 10/10.

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"Basically, I show up at work in the morning and ask: Who's dead?"

What goes into creating the right, balanced obituary? I did not expect to find the 2017 documentary OBIT so engrossing. It's a straight-forward, talky look into the writers of the small obituary desk at the New York Times, and how they do their work. The journalists interviewed were intelligent and reflective people, with insights and stories to tell. It turned into thoughtful study of fame and mortality. And their enormous, defunct "Morgue" of paper files! The NYT of today is just a shadow of what it was only a decade ago, and I'm sure most of all these smart people are no longer there. 9/10. [*Female Director*]

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2 BY WILD HUNGARIAN PAINTER MILORAD KRSTIĆ:

🍿 MY BABY LEFT ME (1995) is a psychedelic, erotic vision of having sex in all the most explicit ways, but drawn in a cubist, surrealistic style. 1940's Picasso would have loved it! A must see for anybody who loves abstract pornography.

🍿 "My nightmares are getting stronger and stronger..."

How come I've never heard of his first eccentric feature film RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR from 2018?? Not too crazy about animation, especially when mixed with crime-Noir trops like kung-fu fighting, car chase, action killings Etc. But this original pop-art story of kleptomaniac, circus-trained acrobat art thief Mimi is rich with so many throwaway references and avant-garde Easter eggs, that I was compelled to watch this extraordinary Art History Course twice back-to-back.

The beauty starts around 0:12, and doesn't stop until the end. The end credit mentions some of its inspirations: CIA subliminals, Warhol's Double Elvis, Hitchcock ice-cube cameo, Joan Miró soup, Peckinpah’s 'Convoy', 'Oops, I Did It Again', Soviet propaganda, the black cat from Manet's Olympia, hundreds more...

This will surely become my January's most memorable viewing: Highly recommended - 9/10 and 10/10.

EXTRA: So I had to watch my other Hungarian animation favorite, Réka Bucsi's SYMPHONY NO. 42 - again, for the 15/20 time... I think I'll just put it on every week, like a record of a song you love.

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2 JAPANESE DRAMAS:

🍿 THE INHERITANCE (1962), my 4th jazzy Noir thriller by Masaki Kobayashi. A dying industrialist wants to divide his $7M estate between his young wife and 3 heirs he bore out of wedlock, and everyone around him schemes to get a piece of it. The corrupting influence of greed, lust, betrayal and selfishness. It includes a rape scene which radicalizes the only impartial character, the CEO's loyal secretary, and turns her into another revenging vulture.

Next on my list - his nearly 10 hour epic 'The Human Condition'.

🍿 MEGANE (GLASSES) (2007) is my second film by Naoko Ogigami, and a companion piece to her 'Kamome Dinner', which I enjoyed so much last week. It even features 2 of the same 3 actresses who played 'lost in Helsinki' in the previous story. But the super-minimalist, "eclectic" plot of an anti-social woman on vacation on a tiny, remote resort inn, where nearly nothing happens, and where everybody takes comfort in doing nothing, bore me for 25 minutes. ⬇️Did Not Finish⬇️ - Sorry! [*Female Director*]

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ETERNITY AND A DAY (1998), my first Greek Magical Realism work by Theo Angelopoulos. It's a story about me, memories of an old poet who's about to die, remembering the many people in his life who are no longer there, and regretting all the decisions that brought him to where he is now. In the end, the only person sharing this last day in his life is a random boy, an Albanian "Squeegee kid" whom he rescues from the police. ''My only regret, Anna... is to not have finished anything. I left all as a draft, shattered words here and there.''

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3 WITH TILDA SWINTON:

🍿 CAPRICE (1986), my first by Joanna Hogg, was also Swinton's very first film, credited here as "Matilda Swinton", made while they were both in art school. An Alice in Fashion-land trifle about a young woman who enters and lives inside a fashion magazine. British New Wave /Duran Duran style nonsense. [*Female Director*]

🍿 THE SLUGGARD (Also 1986, starts at 38:00) was a wordless artsy film school-type attempt at symbolism. She plays a dirty slob.

🍿 Joshua Oppenheimer's new apocalyptic THE END was hailed by David Ehrlich and other critics, as a ground-breaking achievement and the best musical of 2024. So I was excited to finally be able to see it. It opens with a TS Elliot quote, and it stars oil tycoon Michael Shannon and wife Tilda Swinton who fortified their family in a salt-mine luxury bunker 25 years after everybody on the surface of the earth perished. A bold and ambitious project, like 'The umbrellas of Cherbourg', it combines a meditation on the lies and the guilt of being left behind, with characters who burst out singing whenever they want to underscore a painful emotional point. But in the end, it didn't work for me; Except of one beautiful song, If only I, the rest of the score, as much as it tried to emulate Stephen Sondheim, was forgettable, and at the end of the 2.5 hour run, the dramatic interactions of the family felt like an unfocused soap opera. 5/10.

(I was going to follow up with his 'The Look of silence', the companion piece to the masterful 'The act of killing', but never got to it.)

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"You took your shot, now I'm taking mine".

When Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, of 'Every Frame a Painting' fame, stopped producing terrific videos 8 years ago, they penned a thoughtful 'Postmortem’ piece. When they returned last September with new essay, THE SUSTAINED TWO-SHOT, they teased of their first live-action narrative short.

THE SECOND is that short, and it feeds on all the insightful knowledge seen in their videos. How exciting!

It dropped yesterday together with another essay, WHERE DO YOU PUT THE CAMERA. It all makes sense now!

And then, they also posted a bonus video of 'Behind the scenes - Animatic vs. Final'.

More: IN PRAISE OF CHAIRS.

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2 BY ISRAELI DIRECTOR SHIRA HAIMOVICI:

🍿 THE HISTORY OF LONELINESS (2013) tells of a young woman who's addicted to attending 'Shiva' sittings. Like Harold of 'Maud's, she clips death announcements from the papers, and visit the homes of the grieving families. Until that time...

🍿 SUMMER SHADE (צל בקיץ) (2020) starts as an un-interesting story about a vacationing teenage girl cooling off alone in a waterhole in the mountains. But then it becomes very interesting when 4 ultra-orthodox Jewish young men arrive at the little pond for a ritual immersion "tevilah", and chase her off. [*Female Director*]

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METRONOM (2022) is an anxiety-filled Romanian drama taking place in Ceaușescu's oppressive Bucharest of 1972. The first half is an unfocused story of an ordinary teenage girl who's boyfriend is about to leave the country with his family. It's a drab and noisy world, boring and joyless.

But in the evening she goes to a party and they dance to the corrupting music of Jim Morrison. It is being transmitted from an off-shore 'Free Europe' station which was illegal at the time, and everybody's life changes dramatically when the Romanian secret police bursts in and arrests all the kids for treason against the state. It turns sharply depressing very quickly.

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MY FIRST TWO WITH ROBERT TAYLOR:

🍿 THE LAST HUNT was a hard watch. A revisionist western about the genocide of the American Indians, told via a story of two buffalo hunters, one evil and one who had a nominal change of heart. The American original sin, even before importing black slaves from Africa, was the deliberate extinction of all Native Americans. When not slaughtered outright, their way of life was destroyed through the annihilation of the massive herds of buffaloes which sustained them. This movie shows some of the killings, simulated or not, and is generally very unpleasant, even for meat-eaters. It was made in 1956, and unsurprisingly did not do well in the box office.

Robert Taylor plays the Bad Guy as a cruel, self-loathing sadist, an open racist and a mean rapist. But he ends up frozen to death, in a similar position to the one Jack Torrance found himself.

🍿 THE HOAXSTERS (1952) was a shameless piece of American Cold-War, anti-communist propaganda, a "Documentary" made during the height of McCarthyism's reign of Red Terror Scare. Wow! The virulent demagoguery is hysterically prescient. Capitalism version of "Triumph des Willens". You have to see it to believe it.

Robert Taylor was one of the narrators. It's strange that his real-life good friend Ronald Reagan didn't participate.

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SPLASHBACK (2024) is a black-and-white, old-fashioned comedy about a "Milton"-type mousey guy who works in the supply room at Cape Canaveral during the Apollo 11 launch, and who invent the "pee net" you put in the urinals. It looks like an elaborate American production, but it's actually a small-time Croatian gig done on a shoestring. The best part was the title sequence done in 100% Saul Bass style. 3/10.

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THE ONLY LAUREL & HARDY PREQUEL-SEQUEL COMEDIES:

🍿 "He who filters your good name, steals trash."

TIT FOR TAT (1935) was apparently the only sequel these two made, a perfectly excellent 2-reel comedy. A feud between two neighboring store owners with a fine escalation of grievances, while a customer helps himself to free goods from the store which they neglect. 7/10.

🍿 THEM THERE HILLS, made 5 months earlier, was so successful, that they went ahead and followed it with 'Tit for tat'. But that was of distinctively lower quality. Oliver Hardy was really abusive to his pal, here and actually, always.

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THE GRANDMOTHER (1970) is my 7th or so film by David Lynch. I swear that it was on my planned watch-list for this week, even before the news of his death broke. It's a 33 min. experimental short about an abused boy who "grows" a grandmother from a "seed". I'm sorry that he dies, but I never liked any of his films too much, and didn't like this one either. 1/10.

RIP, David Lynch!

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THIS WEEK'S SHORT FILMS:

🍿 NIGHT BUS (2019), a strange and nightmarish Taiwanese animation with a mysterious plot that get weirder, more violent and uglier for 20 straight minutes. Atmospheric score and unusual visual style. CW: Monkey death, brutal vengeance, unrequited love.

🍿 In WILD LIFE (2011), a young Englishman moves to the Canadian prairie province of Alberta in 1909. A wonderful short by Canadian animator duo Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, and their first of two nominations for the Academy Award. Brilliant imagination, extremely well told. This is my third shot by them, after 'The flying Sailor' and 'When the day breaks'. 9/10 - Recommended! [*Female Directors*]

🍿 A STAR IN THE NIGHT, Don Siegel'e directorial debut, earned him one of the two Oscars he won in 1946 (The other was for his documentary short 'Hitler Lives'.) It's a modern day retelling of the Nativity story plus some elements from 'A Chris!mas's Story' thrown in. 3 cowboys riding in the desert and find a motel somewhere in Arizona or so, with Nicky, its mean owner with the thickest Italian accent you ever heard. I've never seen a more sentimental hogwash in all'a my life! But it worked! 8/10.

🍿 A PURE SPIRIT​ (2004), ​my ​5th by Mia Hansen-Løve​ , and her very first short. Basically, it's just a poetic exercise of a young woman walking in the park. [*Female Director*]

🍿 THE WINDSHIELD WIPER won the 2022 Oscars, and I'm sure I disagree. Interesting Rotoscope cell animation, but otherwise it's a collage of unrelated snippets about modern dating. There's some hipster sitting at a cafe, smoking a whole pack of cigarettes and asking himself 'What is love?'. 2/10.

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THROW-BACK TO THE ADORA ART PROJECT:  

The whole Adora Art Project!

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(ALL MY FILM REVIEWS - HERE).

[sardonic-sprite]

Its November fucking first, Halloween is over, the ground is covered in snow and I've been rehearsing for the christmas show for a month so there will no longer be any stopping me

Ok so best laid plans of mice and men yadda yadda I did not in fact complete whumptober in time, but fear not, I'm still filling all the requests, I've got a lot written, just be patient and it'll all come hopefully by the end of November.

Related to that, I promised that since whumptober was to be all batman related, I'd run something with similar rules for all the non-batman fandoms I'm in when I had time to refamiliarize with those source materials. Originally I said December, with Winter Whumpterland in mind, but as much as I love everyone's ideas, I need to return to my own creative roots for a while after this batch, so instead I'm looking at taking those requests for either Januwhump or Trop-A-Thon (run by amonthofwhump), based on my school schedule. Januwhump would have 15 days of prompts + Alt, Trop-A-Thon is one week with 4 optional prompts per day. If y'all want something more like whumptober, 30 days with a theme and 3 options per day, you'll have to wait for June of Doom. Please drop me a line here or on AYW 31 to say which option you'd like best

Between now and whenever that is however comes my favorite holiday (like literally 10% of my fics are christmas themed... oops) along with HOLIDAY BREAK FROM SCHOOL WHICH MEANS WRITING TIME! Now I usually dabble in some amount of Winter Whumpterland bc I can't help myself when it comes to hurting the batboys it seems, BUT.

Last year (and the year before, only I chickened out lol) I sort of tried to make my own start up event for Christmas called Christmas Countdown Playlist, because music is my favorite thing about my favorite holiday. This time I wanted to reach out (since I... know people? Am tumblring?) And ask whether anyone would be interested in me making an annual Thing of this event. The gist would be

12 days of prompts all based on christmas songs or lyrics

Still open to any faith or nonfaith, just that xmas songs are what inspire my generalized prompts

Fluff whump angst anything goes

Any type of created content

Open from Thanksgiving to new years to participate as much or as little as desired

Thanks so much for reading and I hope to hear from ya soon!

[wordbunch]

hope your day improves!! 🫶🫶

if you could hang out with any lotr/trop character for the day, who would it be and what would you guys do?

if you could ask tolkien one unanswered question about the lore, what would it be? OR if you could somehow convince him to change something about the existing lore, what would it be?

if you could make any two characters from lotr or trop interact for a day, who would it be and why?

if you could change the race of a lotr/trop character, which race would you change them to? (i.e. making elrond a hobbit, sam a wizard, etc)

also, do you have any theories on what's going to happen next season of trop? :)

hi cutie!! ahh thank you for all these wonderfully distracting questions, honestly they're MUCH appreciated! 😌💖 i just put on a facemask and i'm ready to chill out a bit so here we go! 👀

ATM I would love to hang out with Merry and Pippin (a package deal oops) because I am in need of some tomfoolery and activities that require no braincells 😂 pls let me just roll down a grassy hill and laugh without a care in the world 🥺🥺🥺

I can't wait to meet JRRT in the afterlife and bombard him with questions 🤓 I would atm ask for help with my english thesis LMAO, but I would definitely make him add more cool women into his stories!!! 😤

I'd love to see (again just self-indulgent fun lksjlgkha 🤭) TROP Isildur, a certified baby and also a troublemaker, just hang out in the shire and be stupid with the hobbits, it would heal my soul🥰🥰🥰 but if we go for sth more serious, he needs to have a proper conversation with Aragorn and sort out some issues oops 👀

OMG I'd make Sam an elf for a day because he's so fascinated by them and just has massive heart eyes for everything they do!!!! it'd be so pure to see how he would act as an actual elf; also give him ultra magical plant growing powers ✨🌷💚

As of right now I have no theories (sadly) but I miss the show and look forward to seeing more 🥺 I would like to see more about the Istari because they fascinate me a lot and i want more info about the whole wizard lore!!! 😍😍😍😍

thanks again for this, i'm sending you a hundred hugs!!! ✨

[conundrumoftime]

Good things about getting a fic exchange story done before the deadline:

No worry about missing the deadline, unlike every fic exchange I ever did before this year!

Plenty of time to proofread (did we just refer to a canonically one-handed character having hands, plural? oops)

Lots of time to do extra gift fics for others

Lots of time to catch up on that AO3 To Be Read list

Downsides:

Can't show it to people or talk about it for WEEKS. gnargh.

So I'm not going to talk about the fic itself but since I'm here anyway, and procrastinating on some job application stuff I really should be doing: the fic I just wrote has once again got subject matter that overlaps with my own job, and while I didn't set out to do this I think part of me is always trying to process it. It's the same with my TROP WIP 'Shadow-Bride' and it's the same with my Babylon 5 WIP (on hiatus! not abandoned!) 'Set Fire to the Stars', although it's different work things in both of those. I end up writing about things I have dealt with at work by putting them into a fantasy sci-fi situation and working through them from there, and not even realising I'm doing it until partway through.

I'm being vague about what these things are, sorry! But they're also abstracted to a greater or lesser degree, and like I said there's different work things included.

I just find it interesting, really, that while I don't use fanfic to work through personal life grief or traumas or things that need working through (or if I do it's in a way I'm not aware of), I seem to do it with work stuff all the time.

[martyrmarked]

trop s2 spoilers

trop is absolutely baffling unbelievably expensive tolkien fanfic but unfortunately i kind of fucking love s2 OOPS

ENTS. TOM BOMBADIL. INSANE CHARACTER CHOICES. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT. A DUMBASS SIDE PLOT WITH NOT GANDALF'S STAFF.

THIS SEASON'S GOT IT ALL???

[rausule]

bietjie daarop wil gaan pik, sal ek intussen julle neste oppas."

Die rawe was natuurlik baie dankbaar en gou vlieg hulle daar weg, in die rigting waar Hasie beduie het. Maar soos julle julle kan voorstel, het die perde gou agtergekom dat niemand na hulle kyk nie en het in 'n kits na alle windstreke weg- gehol.

En Hasie, die onnutsige ding, het nooit die rawe se neste opgepas nie. Hy wip sommer daar weg, op soek na verdere avonture.

Toe kry hy 'n seuntjie wat skape oppas. ,,Middag, Skaapwagtertjie," groet hy weer vrien- delik.,,Gaan dit goed met jou?"

,,Ja, dankie, Hasie," antwoord die seun.,,Bring jy goeie nuus?"

Nuus?" vra Hasie.,,Al te seker. Gaan kyk 'n bietjie in daardie klompie bome: daar sal jy pragtige raafneste kry. As jy net in die bome klim, sal jy hulle maklik bykom. Ek sal intussen na jou skape kyk."

,,Baie baie dankie," roep die seun opge- uit.,,Ek wil juis so graag 'n raafnes besit."

Sonder meer gooi die seun sy herderstaf na Hasie en hardloop so gou soos hy kan in die rigting van die bome. En wil jy glo, hy het netsy rug gedraai en daar wip-wip Hasie weg, op soek na verdere avontuur.

Met vinnige hale spring hy oor die mooi, groen gras. Toe gaan sit hy op sy hurke en bespied die wêreld. Daar op 'n afstand sien hy 'n donker skaduwee al nader kom. Naderhand sien Hasie dat dit broer Wolf is. Maar Wolf gewaar hom nie dadelik nie en Hasie kug so saggies, om sy aandag te trek.

,,A! my ou vriend," begin Hasie.,,Lekker dag, nè?"

,,Lekker dag, jou voet!" brom Wolf baie nors. ,,Hoe kan ek 'n lekker dag geniet as daar niks te ete is nie? Dis miskien 'n goeie plan om jou sommer op te vreet."

Hasie se hare het van pure skrik orent gekom, en sy baard het sommer slap gehang.

,,Wat sêêêêê... Oom?" vra hy bangerig. Wolf sluip al nader, met 'n nare honger-uitdrukking in sy oë.

,,Ek het gesê dat ek jou sommer sal opvreet!"

,,0...0, O," piep Hasie. Ek dink nie dis 'n goeie plan nie. Kyk, Wolfie-lief, ek is net vel en been. Ek het lanklaas geëet."

„Ek ook. En as ek niks vetter kan kry nie, sal ek maar by jou begin."

Nie so haastig nie, Wolfie, nie so haastig nie. Ek kan jou sê waar lekker, vet is. Sommer 'n hele trop. Heerlike, sappige skaapvleis! Kyk, daar wei hulle op die veld wagter om na hulle te kyk!" sonder 'n skaap

Wolf kyk waar Hasie wys en toe hy die skape sien, lek hy sy lippe af. Jy's darem 'n gawe kêrel, Hasie! Tot siens! Ek hoop jy kry ook iets om te eet." Hy sluip gou daar weg en in 'n kits is hy tussen die skape, wat blêrend in alle rigtings hardloop.

Hasie slaak 'n sug van verligting dat hy so gou van Wolf ontslae geraak het. Hy lag tog al te lekker en wip-wip is hy daar weg, op soek na nuwe avonture.

Hierna het Hasie maar stadig gevorder, want hy wou ook sy honger stil. Hier pluk hy 'n groen grassie af, daar 'n sappige blaartjie. Maar hy kon niks verder vind om te doen nie. Wei-wei kom hy naderhand bo-op 'n berg. Daar gaan sit hy op sy hurke, om die wêreld te bekyk.

En watter vreeslike toneel het hy voor sy oë gesien!

Eers het hy so effentjies gegiggel, met sy pootjie voor sy mond. Toe haal hy sy pootjie weg en giggel hardop, met sy mond wawyd oop

En wil jy glo, toe sit hy op sy hurke en skater soos hy lag. Sy lyfie ruk so van die lag dat sy ore flap-flap om sy gesig. Later rol hy soos hy lag sy vier pootjies in die lug. Hy het so baie gelag dat die trane eintlik gestroom en die grassies natgemaak het.

En waarom het die onnutsige ding so baie gelag? Van bo-op die berg kon hy duidelik al die kattekwaad sien wat hy aangerig het. Dit was vir hom al te snaaks.

Hy sien hoedat die tier dood onder die krans lê en hoe die arme boer sukkel om daar te kom, en hoe die takke van die bome sy klere skeur. Hy sien hoedat die perde weghol omdat niemand na hulle kyk nie; hy sien hoedat die rawe se neste besteel word terwyl die rawe agter die perde aanvlieg; en hy hoor hoedat die skape jammerlik bler omdat Wolf onder hulle is, terwyl die wagter voëlneste soek.

Ha! Ha! Ha!" juig Hasie. Ek het dit alles gedoen. Slim Hasie! Ek is tog so slim! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

Toe begin hy weer opnuut lag, en hy lag en lag en lag totdat-ja, dis waar- - totdat sy lip bars.

Ek jok nie. Van daardie dag af het elke hasie

'n gesplete lip. En as jy my nie glo nie, moet jy maar self gaan kyk dit wil sê as jy vir Hasie kan vang, eendag as hy op soek is na nuwe avonture. -

TOEPASSING

(1) Watter van die volgende sinne beskryf Hasie die beste?:-

(a) Hasie was sommer 'n mooi diertjie. (b) Hasie was 'n liewe, onskuldige diertjie.

(c) Hasie was 'n baie dapper diertjie. (d) Hasie was 'n mooi, maar baie skelm en onnut

sige diertjie. (2) Hoekom het arme ou Tier so gebewe? Wat het Hasie gedoen om hom te help? (3) (a) Waaraan sal jy altyd dink as jy na Hasie se

gesplete lip kyk?

(b) Dink julle Hasie het dit verdien dat sy lip gebars het? (4) Waar sou julle na Tibet op 'n landkaart gaan soek? (5) Wanneer: (a) loop 'n mens jou rieme styf?

(b) trek 'n mens iemand se siel uit?

(6) Veronderstel jy was Hasie, Watter plan sou gemaak het na Tier jou wou opeet? (7) Wat dink jy was die atoutste ding wat Hasle gedoen

[elrondsscribe]

10, 11, 12, 13?

(Do forgive me if all these are Rings of Power answers! RoP by far gave me the biggest feelings of anything I consumed this year.)

Biggest fandom disappointment of the year!

Oh Lord …

Well since you asked, I’m gonna whine about it one more time, and that’s the way that the RoP fandom has continued the long tradition within the greater Tolkien fandom of trashing Celeborn.

And like. I don’t want to make this about shipping, but the Haladriel side of the fandom (which is a sizable chunk of it) really is a no go zone for me for this reason. Like again, I have nothing against Haladriel in theory, but the way that it re-popularized a decades-old tradition of seething resentment toward Celeborn for daring to exist as her canonical spouse … all I can say is ‘thanks, I hate it.’

Biggest squee moments of the year!

Literally every weekly release of Rings of Power had at least one moment that made me squeal out loud, even in the early weeks when I was being a dedicated hater! The one I remember most clearly was when I saw this wide-eyed cutie pop up on screen and heard the name Isildur?? Girl I was on the floor screaming.

Favorite main character of the year!

Favorite main character, okay. I think actually I would have to give that honor to Queen Regent Míriel!

Favorite villain of the year

I haven’t talked about him at all, but I love Adar a lot. I love what he’s doing in RoP thematically, and I love him for his own deeply irresistible self. Counterintuitively, this is why I’m pretty excited about what’s next for Adar — like, I loved Joseph Mawle and I’m gonna miss him, but I’m also excited to see what Sam Hazeldine is gonna bring to the table!

[emarasmoak]

Hot Sauron From ‘Rings of Power’ Has Taken Over The Internet

"...and in the darkness bind them," IYKYK

Article from The Mary Sue. Extract:

What has really pushed Halbrand a.k.a. Sauron thirst over the edge, however, is shipping him with Galadriel, played on The Rings of Power by Morfydd Clark. The two of them flirted, in that intense but chaste way we expect from Lord of the Rings, and he basically asked her to be his Queen in the finale. There was arm touching. There was staring. Is it wrong? Absolutely. There are dozens of red flags. He’s the once and future Dark Lord. He becomes the embodiment of evil. Galadriel is also married, though in Season 1 she believes herself to be a widow. I ask you this: And????

One does not simply thirst into Mordor. Have you heard the word about Hot Sauron on Rings of Power and how everyone is shipping him and … well … you’ll see. While other fandoms fight over whether it’s appropriate to like a villain, TROP fans are quietly falling for one of literature’s biggest baddies. Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ahead, definitely for Season 1 and perhaps for some upcoming seasons as well.

Sauron’s hotness is canon.

While the series has condensed the canon and events in Middle-earth history as presented in J. R. R. Tolkien’s books, stories, and appendices, one thing we know is this: Sauron was a hottie. This is something that even the most rigid Tolkien fans cannot deny. In Tolkien’s biblical Middle-earth text The Silmarillion, at the start of a chapter titled “Of The Rings of Power and the Third Age,” Tolkien says this:

"When Thangorodrim was broken and Morgoth overthrown, Sauron put on his fair hue again and did obeisance to Eönwë, the herald of Manwë, and abjured all his evil deeds. And some hold that this was not at first falsely done, but that Sauron in truth repented, if only out of fear."

(I know the chapter says Third Age, but I believe that passage describes events in the Second Age that lead up to it.) The appendices to The Silmarillion also specify that “Annatar,” the name that Sauron uses when he is the “Lord of Gifts” and the titular rings of power are in production, took a “fair form.” The good looks are only temporary, however. When Numenor ultimately falls and Sauron creates the One Ring, The Silmarillion notes:

"In the midst of the Land of Mordor [Sauron] had fashioned the Ruling Ring. There now he brooded in the dark, until he had wrought for himself a new shape; and it was terrible, for his fair semblance had departed for ever when he was cast into the abyss at the drowning of Númenor."

The execution from page to screen was still a surprise.

So we knew that Sauron would be easy on the eyes in The Rings of Power and we knew that he would be seductive in some kind of way. That’s how he gained the trust of the elves, dwarves, and men before stabbing them all in the proverbial back with the One Ring. That said, I don’t know about y’all, but I assumed that Annatar—or whatever calls himself—would be one for the Legolas girlies, a.k.a. hot in an Elven way. I didn’t expect him to be hot in a rugged, unwashed, Aragorn way. RIP me, I guess.

Enter Halbrand, played by Australian actor Charlie Vickers, who we now know was (sing it with me) Sauron all along. Hoo, boy. Handsome and sad and dark and smirking up a tempest. Galadriel meets him on a raft in the sea. She’s on a quest to find and defeat Sauron after he murdered her brother in service to Morgoth, the Big Bad before him, and ends up not only befriending him but clearing a path for his return. Oops!

Shortly after they meet, Galadriel makes a costly assumption and projects a backstory onto him that is immensely appealing to both her and to fans: a reluctant hero and heir to the Southlands—an exiled king, just like Aragorn, right? Wrong! Halbrand will technically rule over the Southlands, but only because that area of Middle-earth is destined to become Mordor. Still, the hero’s journey that Gal and unsuspecting viewers were sold on had us looking at Halbrand and the things he did in a particular way.

Sauron has been manipulating Galadriel, but is also at a crossroads.

One of Tolkien’s letters that likely inspired Vickers’ take on the character states that “when Morgoth was defeated by the Valar finally [Sauron] forsook his allegiance; but out of fear only; he did not present himself to the Valar or sue for pardon, and remained in Middle-earth. When he found how greatly his knowledge was admired by all other rational creatures and how easy it was to influence him, he became prideful.”

Technically, The Rings of Power cannot directly adapt The Silmarillion for legal reasons, so these letters are actually important. Vickers also alluded to using Tolkien’s letters as inspiration in an SDCC interview with ScreenJunkies prior to the Big Sauron Reveal.

That passage alludes to Sauron making an attempt at a normal life, and maybe even feeling some private remorse before ultimately going down the path to becoming not just Morgoth’s servant, but his second coming. That makes him complicated. And complicated characters are very, very, very hot—especially when they’re tempted by a Dark Side.

Swooning over a hot villain is not exactly a new concept.

Anakin Skywalker, Kylo Ren, Loki, Killmonger, Draco, Harley Quinn, the Darkling, the Goblin King, Regina Mills … need I go on? We know they’re bad, but they’re not real. We don’t owe fictional heroes our loyalty. They can’t see us. In fact, we can even cheer for the hero while being attracted to the villain. Fans contain multitudes!

As long as you don’t bully others for not sharing your opinions or headcanons, or start using fictional characters to justify your actions or the actions of abusers IRL, it’s chill. Stories, especially in fantasy and science fiction, help us work through our fears, anxieties, and dreams in a safe space.

He even survived a shower—which I know sounds wrong, but fans were not happy when greaseball Aragon got a wash and blowout in Return of the King. Think Steve Rogers shaving in Endgame, but so bad it had us rooting against basic hygiene.

We know he’s the villain even though he might not necessarily realize it.

If you were less familiar with Hot Sauron as a concept before The Rings of Power, this might make you look at Peter Jackson’s films in a whole new light.

What has really pushed Halbrand a.k.a. Sauron thirst over the edge, however, is shipping him with Galadriel, played on The Rings of Power by Morfydd Clark. The two of them flirted, in that intense but chaste way we expect from Lord of the Rings, and he basically asked her to be his Queen in the finale. There was arm touching. There was staring. Is it wrong? Absolutely. There are dozens of red flags. He’s the once and future Dark Lord. He becomes the embodiment of evil. Galadriel is also married, though in Season 1 she believes herself to be a widow. I ask you this: And????

We know for a fact that this ‘ship is not the endgame.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun, appreciate the time they had, or maybe hop over to an AU in the meantime. Galadriel can have fun too. Strong, confident, zealous, smart female characters like Galadriel in The Rings of Power are boring as Entmoots if they aren’t allowed to make mistakes. Bring on the ‘shipping manifestos, fic, Tumblr posts, gifsets, and many fancams set to Taylor Swift songs.

Let me be abundantly clear: I want someone to look at me like this. I do not want to be deceived by the Dark Lord and under the control of the One Ring he made behind my back and won’t even let me wear in our engagement photos. I don’t actually want to see Galadriel to become a Dark Elf Queen at Sauron’s side, but I want to see her think about it and wrestle with her feelings and/or Halbrand. When Celeborn returns, I want him to be part of a love triangle. There’s a difference!

Too grossed out by the inevitable flaming eyeball of it all to be attracted to Sauron? That’s your prerogative. To be fair, there are a lot of hotties on Rings of Power. But Hot Sauron isn’t in competition with Hot Elrond, Gilgadaddy, or ElenDILF as far as I’m concerned. I love ’em all. The more the merrier! I’ll just be over here with the other dark and twisted devotees.

[hithelleth]

2, 3, 13 & 23 for the fandom year in review ♥

Favorite ships this year Galadriel/Sauron from TROP, Thony/Arman from The Cleaning Lady, Beth/Rip from Yellowstone

Favorite TV shows to watch this year The Cleaning Lady, Yellowstone, TROP

Favorite villain of the year Well, that's either easy or hard to pick, depending if you count our completely unsuspecting-but-absolutely-very-sus-Halbrand-but-oops-actually-Sauron a villain??? I know, I know, Sauron=evil incarnate, except, well' nothing is evil from the beginning' and TROP delivered on this tenfold.

If not, then Robert Kamdar (or Kemdar? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) from The Cleaning Lady. Hats off to the writers for the story arc and the actor for pulling it off. He really was a villain-villain that I hated but loved to hate.

The most missed of your old fandoms I'm sure you already know the answer; best fandom was and remains best. I've made friends in other fandoms since and have had occasional good fandom chats with them but there really hasn't been anything like Revo fandom.

IDK if it was that fandom culture shifted after 2014/15/16 or our little show just drew all the right people together. And I'm so grateful for all of you, because the more I'm healing the more I'm realising in how bad places I was in those years and I honestly think that without all of you thousands of miles and even continents away, I wouldn't be here. But even if it was just a like on a post, it told me that someone saw my suffering and cared. And it made all the difference.

Uh, now I've gotten on a sentimental tangent. ❤️ to all of you!

Oh, but maybe it doesn't really count as missed, because most of us are here following each other despite more or less branching out into different fandoms, lol. I guess miss in terms of fandom talk, but as people I feel like we're still friends even if we interact more infrequently. *sends smooches all around* :D

[padfootagain]

Hello everyone! It is that cold time of the year again in the northern hemisphere, and I am here to bring you the cuteness we all deserve! I made an event with that theme last year that worked very well, so, I'm going to make another one this year! (I think I'll make a tradition out of it, tbh, because it is a lot of fun to write!!)

I'm also taking this opportunity to thank all of you, my lovely followers, for your love and support. There are almost 3.8k of you these days reading my crazy nonsense. Thank you all so much! I hope you all have a wonderful and magical winter time.

But enough chatting! Let's explain this new devilish plan of mine!!

 Carole, what is this all about?!

 Usually, when I make an event, I let you choose the characters, sometimes some prompts too or other similar things to guide the story, but I'm the one choosing what happens. This time, it's gonna be the other way around!

You're going to choose the tropes, and I'm gonna choose the characters!

How is this gonna work? Easy. I have gathered a little list of common wintery/Christmasy prompts. You will vote for your favourite trope. The five tropes that raised the most votes will be used to write a story for the characters of my choosing.

But you have another job too!

I will not write just five fics. I will write more (I will also save some tropes of the list that weren't chosen and that I feel inspired by, so if your favourite trop was not chosen, there is still a chance that I might write it anyway!), and I will also choose some of the tropes that you will propose for me to write! You will vote for your favourite trope on the list at the end of this post, but you can also propose a prompt that is not featured on the list (and I warmly invite you to do that, I am counting on you all to help me on this!!). I'll pick up my favourite tropes for me to write out of your propositions :)

 What tropes can we propose?

 Anything that you would like! The event is placed under the sign of cuteness, so I will try to favour them, but angst is welcome too. You can literally send me any idea you have that can take place during winter time. And for those of you who live where, at this time of year, it's sunny and warm, then you can still send me prompts with that weather! (If you can tell me where you are, I can make it happen in your country then!) So, if for you, the Christmas tradition is to go surfing, then give me a prompt with that!

The tropes can be anything you think of, a classic I forgot, something you do at that time of the year... anything. I just need a trope. What do I mean by a trope? Just take a look at the list below, it should help you see what I am looking for.

To submit a trope, send me an ask through my askbox! Anon or not, I don't mind, but it is easier for me to keep track of my messages using the asks rather than the pms or comments on this post. You can submit as many tropes as you like.

I will probably keep the tropes in my askbox, if you want to check if I have received your trope alright (as we all know how reliable Dumblr is, these days), don't hesitate to ask me if I received it alright by sending me another message (askbox or pms).

Remember two rules though: I do not write smut, and I do not write about children dying, so these kind of tropes are banned. For the rest, send whatever you'd like!

 What about the votes?

 Send me an ask to vote! Here again, it's easier for me to keep track of all the messages I receive if I get everything through my askbox. Anon or not, it doesn't matter, so if you're shy, just switch to anon!

You can vote for only two tropes! So choose wisely. You obviously can vote only once, or it's cheating.

 You can vote and propose a trope, you can vote and propose several tropes, you can vote and send me a trope a few days later, you can only vote and finally you can only send a trope. It depends on how you would like to participate :)

 But then, which characters are you going to choose, Carole?

 I have that power this time, I am choosing which characters will go through all that adorable, tooth-rooting fluff. However, I obviously keep your happiness in mind. Which is why I will make sure to choose characters of different fandoms, so that everyone is represented and you can all read about a character you like! I will also make sure to write for my most popular characters, obviously. I want to make as many people happy as I can!

 When is this cuteness going to be poured upon us?!

 You have four days from now on to vote and offer me tropes for this event. So, the votes will be closed on November 13 at 6pm, Paris hour.

I will then start posting fics, from mid-november all the way to January. Depending on how tired of it I am, I will stop either after New Year's Eve, or who knows, maybe only at the end of winter!

What is for certain is that, until the next decade is upon us, I will be posting one fic for my event (at least) every week! So you will have a good dose of absolute cuteness :)

At this rhythm, I'm counting at least 8 fics (but let's be honest, I'll write more than 8 fics with that theme, you know me, I love winter!).

 So, to sum up!

 You have until November 13 to vote or submit tropes for this event.

You can vote for your favourite trope among the list below, and I will write a fic for the character I will choose using the 5 tropes that gathered the most votes.

You can also submit a trope of your own, I will choose my favourite ones amongst the ones I have chosen.

One fic every week at least, until the new year!

You can stay on anon or not, just think about sending me your message through my askbox, or your vote/submission will not be taken into account.

 I hope you all have fun with this event! Have a lovely winter, and a Merry Christmas!

List of the tropes you can choose from :

-        Fake dating AU : Oh no! You need a fake boyfriend/girlfriend for the holidays, or your parents will never shut up about you coming alone!

-        Snowstorm: You are both stuck, alone, in the middle of nowhere, and it's snowing too hard outside to go anywhere. Brilliant. What on earth are you going to do, waiting for the storm to wane?

-        Blanket: it's freezing, and there is only one blanket. You might die frozen, who knows... Guess you two will have to share…

-        Cookies: baking cookies and gingerbread for Christmas! It turns ill quickly though. Who was the first one to throw flour at the other?

-        Snowball: the snowball fight is merciless, just the way it should be.

-        Shopping: Shopping for presents is hell. Or is it?

-        Fall: Oh no! It was slippery! And you fell… on them… dear, you two are very close… why is your heart dancing the samba like that?

-        One bed: You're stuck in an hotel. Only one room left. And there's only one bed…

-        Freezing: No blanket. No fire. Nothing to keep warm. What can you do, except cuddle… huh… I mean… share body-warmth?

-        Lazy: It's snowing outside. But it's warm in your home. A lazy afternoon cuddling and watching snowflakes sounds lovely.

-        Dog issue: Your dog has run off! Across that field! You're running after him, and pouf! The next thing you know, you've fallen in snow. You're damped and cold, you guess you have to accept the help of your lovely neighbour to help get you warm again.

-        Decorating the tree: It's so lovely to decorate the Christmas tree together!

-        Neighbour: you can't carry that big tree on your own. Or maybe you're missing an ingredient for the family dinner. Guess you'll have to ask that lovely neighbour of yours some help…

-        Gift: You open your gifts together, and it's perfect!

-        First Christmas: It's your first Christmas together. It's a little strange, but also so cute!

-        Alcohol: Ha, partying for the new year. Of course. You're a little drunk though, so I guess they will have to take care of you.

-        Oops: One of you has had a little too much to drink for the new year. And none of you meant to confess what has been confessed but… oops.

-        Walk in the snow: Just a cute afternoon spent exploring through the cold

-        Happy New Year!: It is a tradition to kiss the person next to you for New Year's Eve when midnight strikes. Right?

-        Carols: It started as a ridiculous karaoke, you're not sure when it turned into dancing together.

-        Mistletoe: Where does that mistletoe come from? But now, you're both under it, and well, guess you have to kiss. You know, for… hmm… the sake of traditions.

-        Kids: Christmas morning with your children

-        Resolutions: you write down your list of good resolutions for the new year together.

-        Ice-skating: you go ice-skating together, and there are a lot of falling involved, but a lot of giggles too.

-        Secret Santa: You have organized a secret santa at work. What you don't know, is that your crush and you have picked up each other's name.

[drivingsideways]

thefeastandthefast replied to your post: Fandom meme: B and U, please!

f, g, k, l, n, y (any or all) ��

 lol, ok, gonna go for all :D because it’s 1 am here and I’m 100% here for unhealthy life choices. 

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom

Well, I’ve been lurking (mostly just reading fic!)  in the Harry Potter fandom for like 20 years now, I think, so technically that’s the longest :) 

G - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it

George/Living Her Own Damn Life from The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton (though of course,i was too young to frame it as an OTP. But basically any female character/freedom has been my otp since I learnt to read lololol) 

Ok, more romance-y OTP was probably Mulder/Scully, even though I didn’t have access to the internets and had no idea that shipping was a thing then. :) 

K -Say something nice about someone in any of your fandoms

I’m gonna sorta cheat and say YOU’RE THE SWEETEST <3 <3 <3

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves (chars you’re neutral on are fair game, as are chars you dislike)

Ah, hmm, Silver from Black Sails, I suppose? I enjoyed the canon version of him more than fanon/fandom discourse version (oops!). I like that he’s so smart and glib and also A Total Mess, emotionally (uh, is that a “genuinely nice thing” to say? :p) 

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

So current fandom being TRoP, first off I’m going to say, I wish it was bigger!!! More people should absolutely get emotionally invested in a 70 episode show that ends very very badly!! And then come and cry with me about it!!

But I wish there were more gen-ish fics/ episode coda/ character based stuff (though I’ve been guilty of writing mostly shippy stuff myself!) 

Uh, and as for shippy stuff, GOD PLEASE SOMEONE PUT ME OUT OF THE RAREPAIR HELL OF HAVING TO WRITE EVERY SINGLE FIC FOR MY OTP. 

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)

Well, currently, that seems to be Good Omens, since that’s pretty much been my dash 24/7 for a month now and it shows no sign of letting up? I don’t personally care much for the show or the book, but I’m enjoying how Wholesome/Adorkable the content for this fandom is, especially the fanart/ headcanons. 

[princessesol]

2019

Tu te réveilles et tu soupires. Tu te lève et tu as mal. Les vêtements d’hier et d’avant-hier gisent sur ton plancher. Ton mascara date tout autant. As-tu au moins l’énergie pour te doucher? Non. Tes chats on faim, la vaisselle s’empile, tes colocs voudraient tellement que tu te forces. Toi, tu ne penses qu’a ton café.

Les yeux mi-clos, la cigarette au bout des doigts. Un trois minutes de calme, avant de devoir courir.

Ne maque surtout pas le bus. Oh attend, ton ex pleur. Tu le consoles encore.

Au boulot, fatiguée de la veille, tu fonctionnes sur le pilote automatique. Tu perds la voix. Tu perds intérêt. Tu comptes les minutes restantes. « Montre l’exemple. C’était ta responsabilité. Force-toi. »

Oops, lève les yeux. Tes amis s’ennuient de toi, ton frère t’appel, ta date s’impatiente. Il ne faudrait pas que tu les oublies.

Comme tu t’oublie toi, hein.

Les journées se ressemblent et les semaines se mélangent. A ce point là tu es habituée. 2h de sommeil? Tu en dormiras plus demain, allez, il n’y en a pas de problème!

Les nuits sont sombres et lonely, alors tu te glisses dans ses bras. Le temps d’une nuit il te sert fort. Il te protège, tu peux presque te laisser allez. Tu t’enfouies dans des étreintes sans sens, dans des bras sans amour. Il n’est pas lui, mais il t’apaise et tu recommences. Tu le sais qu’il se fou de toi, mais tu préfères ça que rien. Au pire, tu en trouveras un autre pour faire semblant. Ivre de fatigue, blasée d’obligations, vide d’émotions. Tu le regarde mais il ne te voit pas.  Ça en devient presque une drogue. Tu te dis que le petit moment d’affection vaut le drop dans l’estime. Haha j’ai des petites nouvelles pour toi ma belle, si tu continues comme ça tu vas foncer dans un mur. Tu le sais déjà. Écoute-toi dont. Comment tu veux que les autres te prennent au sérieux si tu ne le fais pas toi-même?

Mais ma belle, fait attention, ton sourire se fait rare. Il ne faudrait pas qu’ils le remarque. Il ne faudrait pas que tu t’effondres. Donne un petit coup, comme tu sais si bien le faire. A la longue ça devient presque naturel, presque facile. Comme si la fin approchait une fois pour toute.

Tu croyais que tu avais enfin le droit de prendre ton souffle? Vaut mieux regarder ton planning. Les examens finaux son demain. Pourquoi tu n’as pas regardé avant? Maintenant tu rush un peu plus, tu casses un peu plus vite. Ta tête est partout, mais ma belle, ton avenir se joue ici, regarde devant toi! Tu respireras une autre fois j’imagine.

Tu commences à manquer d’air, je sais.

« As-tu étudiée ? Est-ce que tu manges? Je t’aime encore, mais… »

Ta tête tourne, tu le sais, mais après une puff ça ira mieux. Tu crois. Tu te gèle pour ne pas pleurer, mais tes yeux restent toujours pleins d’eau. Tu avances mais chaque jour il faut recommencer. Les nuits sont de plus en plus courtes, les matins passent en flèche. Mais la journée est tellement longue. Ma belle, tu viens de t’endormir dans un couloir, penses tu vraiment qu’un deuxième café c’est la bonne idée? Demain tu te prends une Red bull, pis une cigarette de plus. Ça, ça va le faire.  

Ma belle, fait attention, tu es en retard.

Aujourd’hui ta famille a besoin de toi. Ils ne te voient plus. « Qu’est-ce qui se passe? Passes-tu trop de temps avec tes amis? Négliges-tu tes études? » Oui. Ils veulent te voir, juste une soirée, le temps d’un souper. Ils ont juste envie de jaser, de prendre des nouvelles, mais… ils ne sont pas ta priorité, tu cancel des plans, tu ne réponds plus aux appels. Tu es trop occupée.

Ton alarme sonne, il est 7h. École. Tu réfléchie aux répercussions, aux alternatifs, aux avantages. Tu chouchoutes le diable sur ton épaule. Finalement ce matin-là tu ne t’es pas levée, mais entre toi pis moi, c’était sûr. Tu surprends pu personne ma belle. Ton travail devait être remis hier de toute manière. Tu manque encore les explications. Pis encore.

Tu voudrais partir mais ton compte est à sec, pourtant tu fais juste ça travailler. T’aurais peut-être pas du fumer tes paies. Tu voudrais t’envoler mais la chaîne te sert au cou, plus tu tires plus tu l’échappe. En plus, il te parle encore, pis tu réponds. Rendu là même toi tu ne sais pas pourquoi tu le laisse faire, mais tu ne l’arrête pas non plus.  Tu voudrais pouvoir pleurer? Non continu d’accumuler ma belle, toute manière t’as pas le temps. Et surtout, n’oublies pas ; il t’aime, juste pas assez.

Coupe, coupe, coupe tel des adieux. Coupe, coupe, coupe sur ta peau.

Mais il n’y a pas juste du mal, y’a des jours où il fait beau. Le soleil plombe sur ton visage, tu fermes les yeux et tu inspires. Même si ça ne dure que 7 minutes, dans un parking ou un arrêt de bus, ça fait du bien. Ça donne tellement l’impression que ça achève, pis que tu vas pouvoir enfin prendre un day off.  

On te regarde et tu rayonnes, tu ris. Toujours partante, toujours aidante. Tu dis oui sans te soucier, tu dépenses sans regret.  Mais dans tes yeux, quand on regarde vraiment, oh… dit moi ma belle, que vois tu quand tu es seule avec toi-même?

Are you crying yet? I didn’t think so.

Amaigrie et cernée, it’s your new look honey. Ils s’inquiètent pour toi, mais toi, quand vas-tu commencer à t’inquiéter? Je sais que tu te penses forte, mais, pendant comment de temps tu penses que tu vas pouvoir endurer tout ça? Tu es constamment malade, ça ne te sonne pas une coche? Je sais que tu as mal au cœur, mais un repas par jour, ce n’est pas suffisant ma belle. Combien de fois il va falloir te le dire? Tu le sais très bien pourtant, il y 3 nouveaux trous sur ta ceinture.

Chaque semaine tu comptes les jours. Tu essaies de déterminer quand ça s’arrêtera. Quand tu vas pouvoir finalement prendre le dessus et sortir la tête de l’eau. Je sais que tu te le répète à tous les jours, que c’est bientôt fini. Encore quelques mois et tu vas pouvoir prendre un break. Mais chaque semaine, le compteur retombe à zéro. Tu boudes ton agenda, c’est ça vivre dans le déni ma belle, après tu te tape des all-nighter pis tu t’en veux

Tu te réveilles et tu soupires ma belle.