#out of the 3 annie was my least favourite

[hyuneskkami]

› 𝐊𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍 𖤓

╰ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 ✩ . . .

⊹ ࣪ ˖ a/n ☆ hi ceri!! thank you sm 💓 this is officially the first ask of this event, congrats heh <3 anyway, I hope these hcs don’t disappoint!!

▸ leo, annabeth and you are the power trio on the argo II—the three brains behind the entire quest

▸ leo thinks with his heart, and annie with her mind; you manage to strike a balance between the two and make empathetic, and logical decisions in crucial moments

▸ you also spend quite a bit of time with percy and grover, since I hc you guys to be childhood bestfriends, for some reason

▸ you also love love love spending time with nico and hazel! hazel treats you like her elder sister, while nico looks after you like his younger sister

▸ no matter how bad the situation is—on a scale of apollo to lester—you always manage to walk out of it unscathed (which is pretty surprising, owing to the number of sarcastic comments you’ve made at the wrong people)

▸ you’ve occasionally had library dates with all the girls! <3

▸ you’ve never regretted a single moment with your found family, especially since they’re always there for you, no matter what! if they ever find you going through something alone, you bet at least two of them are coming over to your room to eat your favourite ice cream with you binge watch your favourite show’s newest seasons

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[reisakumaproducer]

Rei Sakuma 2024 Card Reviews

I thought it would be fun to review all of Rei's new cards from 2024. I'll just be sharing what I like about each card, as well as scoring them out of ten. Here are my reviews <3

The Demon's Seductive Fangs - January 2024

10/10 - I love how Rei has his hand over his heart here. He's surrounded by the rest of his unitmates and is simultaneously "revived" by them. A single pose captures this perfectly. Overall, I really like this card and it looks good! Plus it came out on my bday and it's responsible for an inside joke between me and my friends

Scent That Leaves Impressions - February 2024

10/10 - It's a 3* and he's still serving cunt regardless

Mystery and Exhibition - March 2024

8/10 - This one is alright. There isn't anything jaw dropping incredible about it for me but it still looks quite good. I really appreciate how the unbloomed is from the conversation between Midori and Rei. It's a sweet moment. I think it would've been cool though if Midori was featured in the unbloomed, rather than it being from his perspective

A NIGHT of Salvation - June 2024

7/10 - The long-awaited Rei undead event 4*! Again, this one is alright. Nothing too crazy but still looks good for the unbloomed and bloomed versions

Lost One of the Legends - August 2024

6/10 - I really like the white streak in Rei’s hair. The magic looks really cool and makes the card feel unique compared to other event 4*s. Not sure how I feel about the unbloomed though. Rei’s face looks off to me, I think it might be the angle? Idk :(

Cherished Time - August 2024

10/10 - I ADORE this card. The outfit looks cozy and it gives off grandma vibes. I love the return to the glasses + ponytail combo from his repayfes card. This story is about Rei pretending to be a transfer student at Yumenosaki, so seeing a reference to repayfes is a nice touch. This card is pretty unique compared to other Rei cards simply because it tries out a new concept for him, and it works really well.

Song of the Unyielding Moon - September 2024

10/10 - Do I even need to explain myself? It's a Sakuma bros childhood card. Plus I LOVE the outfit in the bloomed card and I love cats. Rei casually wearing a suit in his childhood shows how quickly he had to grow up. This card is everything I would've wanted from a Sakuma bros lookback scout. It's perfect

Encount!! ★ Sunrises x Stars!! - October 2024

7/10 - I like how Rei looks in the unbloomed :) he looks nice in the Helios art style. The bloomed version is okay to me.

Sleeping SPARK - November 2024

7/10 - Honestly out of all the Rei anni lims, this one is probably my least favourite but I love the concept behind it. I love how Rei is put in the Spark category despite him being the opposite of energetic. It feels like a nod to him being "ressurected". The way Rei's bangs go across his forehead reminds me of Ore Rei. All the Yumenosaki Studco presidents are also in the Spark category, which makes the resemblance to Ore Rei feel purposeful to me

Intrigued Egoist - December 2024

10/10 - The unbloomed is Rei being pathetic AND it's from one of my favourite scenes in the story (the drinking trio shenanigans). I love the bloomed so much. We rarely get to see Rei in pink and this is such a fun take on the demon concept for cards

Since Rei's new 5* is a New Years one, I'll consider that a 2025 card. Anyways, these were my ramblings about each Rei card released this year. I really like the cards we got!

[asturniolos]

you too - matt s.

chapter one (intro) ; mystery boy

chapter 2

chapter 3

chapter 4

in which;

living out of an apartment in the city, it's your second year of university and things are going smoothly. one morning, your best friend annie tells you about a new boy attending your university; matthew sturniolo. he's hot, smart, and exactly your type. you don't think much of it, but once you meet him yourself, you can't seem to get him out of your mind- or your bed- and neither can he. but how long can you keep matt's triplet brothers, chris and nick, from finding out?

warnings - none (for this chapter !)

6:45am

my eyes slowly open to the sunrise slightly peeking through my window and the sound of birds chirping as i roll over, tap 'snooze' on my alarm, and sigh when i see what time it is. i rub my eyes and try to fight the tiredness flooding my body. as much as i love being to able to study literature at my dream university, waking up this early for lectures sucks.

today is tuesday, meaning i have almost 2 hours with my least favourite professor; mr bryan. luckily, my best friend annie, short for annalise, is picking me up afterward for brunch at starbucks. i would drive us there but unlike me, annie got her license the second she turned 16. i tried to get my license three times but didn't pass once and am way too scared of failure to re-try it. we're both 19 now and she's basically been my personal Uber for the last few years.

i rub my eyes once more, pulling the sheets off my body and standing up. i instantly walk to my bathroom and splash a hand full of cold water onto my face to help wake me up.

as I start to brush my teeth, i decide the silence in my apartment needs to be broken with some music. i walk back into my room and grab my speaker off the top of my dresser as well as my phone, opening spotify and clicking shuffle play on my liked songs.

valentine by COIN starts playing as a smile is suddenly plastered on my face.

"perfect.", i whisper to myself, turning the volume up by a few and walking back to the bathroom.

~

7:42am

blue.. or pink?  i tilt my head at my reflection and struggle to decide which long-sleeve shirt to wear.

"y/n? you there?"

screw it. i'll just wear a hoodie.

"...y/n?"

"sorry! i'll meet you out front in 5.", i apologise, remembering i'm on facetime with annie.

"ok.. don't take too long, i have something to tell you. and it's literally freezing out here. love you!"

"bye! love you too, annie!", i exclaim, making a kissy face at the camera before hanging up. i place my phone in the back pocket of my jeans and pull my favourite grey hoodie down from my dresser, sliding it slowly over my head so i don't mess up my hair too much. i grab my airpods and a random lip gloss from my bedside table and stuff them in my bag with my macbook and textbooks. glancing in the mirror once more, i hear a honk outside followed by annie impatiently yelling my name. i quickly turn my speaker off and rush into the kitchen, snatching my apartment keys off the counter and walking out the door.

~

as i stumble down a few steps and almost drop my bag on the concrete, i finally reach annie's car. i pull open the passenger door and hear bodies by dominic fike blaring. i get in and throw my stuff in the backseat as annie quickly turns the volume down and turns to face me.

"you're not gonna believe what happened this morning." grinning from ear to ear, annie turns back to face the road and puts the car in drive.

"ooh what is it? has mr bryan finally retired?", i reply with a giggle.

"better."

"better? no way."

annie giggles too and continues driving.

"well? tell me!", i say.

"there's a new boy. and he is definitely your type."

i roll my eyes sarcastically and look away from her. she says my name and i look back at her with half-fake annoyance plastered on my face.

"annie, you know i don't want anything to do with guys right now after what happened with the last one."

"just pleaseeee trust me on this, y/n! seriously, he's so hot."

"that's what you said last time! and the time before that!", i smile at her effort to hook me up with this mystery-boy.

"no this one's different! he's cute, and funny, and genuinely smart. he's studying filmmaking!", annie says in an attempt at being convincing.

"ok ok, what's his name then?". i try to hide my slight intrigue when she mentions film making; i was originally going to study filmmaking but chose literature instead as i felt i had more of a passion for writing.

"matthew - well, matt. i don't think anyone really calls him matthew. i mean, besides his triplet brothers when they make fun of him.", annie giggles.

"triplet brothers?"

~

before reaching our university, we drove for another 15 minutes listening to music and talking about this 'matt' boy - who i was slowly getting more and more excited to meet..

note ⋆｡˚

sorry this chapter is suuuper short, chapters 2-5 have already been written and are way longer- this one’s just kind of an intro to the series!

this is the first fic i’ve written since like 2020 so hopefully it’s not too terrible, trust it will be getting a lot better !! :)

[kimtaegis]

oh, annie dearest, the treasure that you are 🤍

i genuinely come back every so often to this side of the internet and catching sight of you on the dash feels like passing by that one house on your childhood neighbourhood road that was your favourite with all the pretty flowerbeds at the front, prettiest gate, how delicate and homey the structure is. you remind me of a place that's so safe, even if just from a distance after all these years. (on and off, i think i've been orbiting your community for about 3+ years now? i don't have the best grasp of time, but that sounds about right.)

i even think my last message similar to this was about a year ago; that, at least, checks out. i think i remember because i was going through a very particularly rough time in my life then — and i was sort of needing a certain type of energy to calm the nerves down. i think it was during a night (for me) where you were interacting with people via asks and... i don't know. you existed, as a voice over text on tumblr dot com slash dashboard, and you brought me so much comfort of simply how warm you are that it brought my tears at the time to a stop. it was so soothing, witnessing your energy; i hope you know that. thank you for who you are, and how you became to be the person you call you.

please know there is one little soul on a twin sized bed out there, cozied up in blankets, sending you thoughts of genuine care and adoration your way. take care of yourself, dearest 🤍

even though it’s been a week since you sent this, I’m still at a loss of words. how in the hell do I deserve this kind of message, I can’t wrap my head around it. from the bottom of my heart, thank you so, so much for taking time out of your day to write me such warm, loving words. I genuinely don’t think I deserve them, but nevertheless I’ll hold them so close to my heart, take them with me into the new year, and come back to them whenever I need them most. it’s just insane to me that I (probably) don’t know who you are and you tell me something so incredible that friends of many years wouldn’t say to me. you really deeply touched me and I am so grateful that I can – even though I’ve never tried to be – such a person here that can make you feel this comfortable and fond. it makes me so very happy and proud to know that this is what you think of me, it’s the highest compliment I could ever receive (I’m tearing up haha). thank you isn’t enough to express my gratitude, but still – thank you for sticking with me and for all your love, I’ll treasure it forever 🤍

[stargazinglesbian]

intro i guess

Edit: i have an art blog!!! go check out @introvertedandscared if you want to see my drawings :))) ok now onto the real introductions

just a quick introduction to who I am and what I like

I’m a teenage asexual, genderfluid, lesbian. I have about a billion more labels but they’re not needed here

I use all pronouns except for she/her, including stuff like neos i really don't mind

right now im trying out the name mars, since ive been thinking about changing it for a while

My greatest dream is to work in science. right now i'm gunning for chemistry and even though i *want* to get a doctorate one day, i'm not very smart

My favourite animals are sharks, moths, frogs, pigeons, and cats.

my favourite sharks are black tipped reef sharks, my favourite frogs are glass frogs, my favourite moths are cecropia moths and my favourite cat is uhhh Cat. a all pigeons are perfect.

I love Furbies and my favourite cryptid is mothman, but Nessie is a very close second.

my favourite video game is stardew valley but I’m also a big fan of hollow knight! So far I’ve spent 40ish hours playing the game and 23 of those were spent defeating the false knight

I’m not sure what my favourite book is, I have a lot, but Annie on my mind is definitely a comfort one, the spirit bares its teeth is one of the greatest things i've ever read, and i love the entire miss peregrines home for peculiar children series! (i even blog about it sometimes)

right now i'm super into the paper girls comics, and i'm watching the show!!! the comics are where my pfp and header r from :33

I like art, even though I’m bad at it, and I have limited knowledge on playing the keyboard. i only know a couple songs, but like i'm apart of the school band (although that may be very different than what u think it is depending on where you live)

my favourite colour is pink, but I’m also a big fan of lavender

my least favourite colour is orange, but green has been testing my patience as of late

my favourite dinosaurs are parasaurolophus' and ankylosaurus'!!

my second favourite tv show is probably The Owl House and my favourite of all time is the hollow. absolute banger of a tv show. go watch it. rn.

riverdale is a tv show i am. a fan of. i mean, it's indescribable, so really i can't rank it as a favourite or not. yeah sorry

my favourite movie is i saw the TV glow, and my favourite song changes from day to day but rn i reallyyyyy love Sailor Song by gigi perez and anything by Daïtro

my favourite mushrooms are shaggy inky caps and when I saw them for the very first time in person I nearly cried

my favourite holiday is Halloween, even though we don’t celebrate it here in aus

always on the hunt for show, book or movie recs so please if you have any!!!

i've been getting into dc pretty recently, especially the batfam! my top three favourite robins are steph damian and tim!!! (in that order, roughly) and my favourite superhero of all time is Superboy (Kon El Kent) he's just... so cool. also, my favourite superhero team is young justice (the 1998 comics version, not the show)

mostly reblog stuff about space, stupid comedy, palaeontology, nature photography, and fandoms (sometimes clown husbandry too, but not much)

i tag all my posts that i write with 'original post' so do w that what you will

i also have quite a few original characters, and like 3? i've blogged about. small town freaks and empress aren't very developed, but i've made some longer posts about av. all of which are just tagged with their names

and to finish it off here’s a nice photo I took of the moon! (My favourite moon phase is waxing gibbous btw)

[burstfoot]

Arknights, 2 and 13

2 because i'm curious

13 because of the ask i got :)

Thank you for the prompts annie!!! 2. Oh jeez to pick from three??? To pick from three??? I guess if I had to pick (and this isnt from most to least fav just an arbitrary order) Goldenglow is one of my all time favourites, I love her design sooo much its so cute I stockpiled emotes and used her as an icon even before I actually started playing the game, and then when I actually got to Light Sparks in Darkness I was glued to the event the whole time... her story about trying to give the Infected and poor of Caladon dignity and having such a simple dream crushed by the greed of the rich in the area hit really close to home... I don't think people talk about the scene where Haze talks her down from committing suicide enough, that scene is REALLY good and one of the standout moments in Arknights for me. Also s3 carries me through every boss thank u susie <3

I probably have to choose between Silence and Ptilopsis cuz they're so intertwined so it would be sort of pointless to just do both of them for 2 and 3. I'll go with Silence cuz she has way more screentime even though I do love Joyce a whole whole bunch Unlike GG I had 0 clue about her before I started playing and sort of experienced her story out of order, I read Dorothy's Vision and was like "yeah she's cool :)" and then didn't think about her that much and then I finally got convinced into reading the manwha and it transformed my mind forever... the complexity of her story and relationship with Ifrit and Saria and Rhine Lab, how selfless & passionate she is to make up for the things she did wrong... ;-; < 3333. The underdog story of all of these great minds in columbia being unfolded by a tired, dedicated 5 nothing owl mom is so good. I also really love her design and Nori might be my favourite AK artist so every piece of art he does of her I love seeing. (also i really like guardians of gahoole as a kid so im obssessed with owls)

^ the bubo bubo For my third I could go with like, Specter or Muelsyse or Flametail or any other character within my favs who actually has lore to base my love upon them on but I wont. Pudding

Pudding :) Shes so cute. Let me get straight to the point. I have seal 13. I don't want to be too negative on my account hashtag peace and love... BUT... Related to earlier mentions... I kind of can't get behind Redblade/GG anymore. It's not necessarily that I hate the idea of them together, but it feels like "red miraculously showing up to save GG from problems" is pretty much the weakest storytelling aspect of Light Sparks in Darkness that exists just to move the plot along and as a whole the pairing almost always feels like it severely downplays the depths of her character in favor of STRONG MAN protect CUTE GIRL. It's a very stereotypical M/F pairing I'm much more interested in her relationship with Quercus or Haze, both of who have seen Susie at her lowest points and reached out to support her, as opposed to Red who pretty much just like. is nice to her and saves her from goons Also every single male doc / female operator pairing kinda grosses me out, it's pandering that reduces the characters to one note caricatures of themselves. If you read doc as male all of his actual in-universe relationships are made less interesting by being romantic or you are inventing a sex god chad that does not exist to magically seduce operators that do not interact with him in the story. I was going to call it self-insert garbage but the male!doc/female operator fan content i have seen is an insult to self-insert garbage.

[I don't hate m/f pairings btw mr nothing kroos nation. Men getting pegged. Mountain and domma and/or robin is cute too]

P.S. I like wracked my brain to find a yuri pairing i didnt like becasue i dont think being like. straight people are NOT COOL is going to be controversial at all on tumblr dot gov but i legitimately could not think of a popular one that i couldn't at least slightly get behind. even the worst yuri mischaracterization is fine to me ive seen the horrors of gachabro fancomics

[thesinglesjukebox]

OLIVIA RODRIGO - "OBSESSED"

She's the press conference, we're the conversation...

[7.09]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: As previously noted, all of Olivia Rodrigo's art-punk moments are perfectly calibrated toward critics who wish that 1993 never ended, but it's a schtick that works. If Rodrigo was not a tremendously skilled performer, both as vocalist and actor, this would feel tedious. The way she sneers and whispers and whines functions incredibly in her system; the music is slightly too pristine (Dan Nigro, for all of his skills as a producer, has still not figured out how to make distorted guitars sound not-Mutt Langeian), but Rodrigo's calculated derangement elevates her surroundings into something glorious. It helps that the lyrics -- co-written by Annie Clark, who tried and mostly failed to access this kind of heat the last three albums -- are actually caustic and not just fake-mean. The spite is self-directed, the call coming from inside the house. [9]

Alfred Soto: Annie Clark's responsible for the intentional melodic cul-de-sacs in the verses, I assume, while the star and Dan Nigro took care of the chorus' expected clatter. I wouldn't mind "Obsessed" on the radio played between "Like That" and "Fortnight," but she's done better than its metaphoric flatness. [6]

Oliver Maier: Didn't realise there were other bonus tracks, I've been too busy rinsing "so american" [8]. This one is another showcase of Rodrigo's efficient songwriting style: funny, expository verses line up the pins for a bowling ball hook to come screaming down the lane and annihilate them. [7]

Andrew Karpan: "Obsessed" is her sharpest rawk record yet, containing the best application of this guitar riff I’ve heard in a decade. In elevating her conceit to a literal ex-lover battle royale, perhaps something of a gender-twist on Scott Pilgrim, she turns it into something that provokes, like all good Olivia records do. A torch song for nostalgia culture, trapped by the soft, easy comfort of foreclosing on the dreams of yesterday’s future, trapped inside a past whose sounds it will never escape. “I remember every detail you have ever told me, so be careful, baby,” she says. Don’t say we weren’t warned.  [7]

Leah Isobel: I usually enjoy Olivia's intellectual approach, but "Obsessed" feels so precisely, studiously engineered to be the kind of song that teenagers call "sapphic" that it ends up losing me. [5]

Taylor Alatorre: "I like [Olivia] with the melodies, I don't like [Olivia] when she acts tough." [3]

Nortey Dowuona: Somehow this is not the most unflattering portrait of a theater kid whose talent and charm won't win them the undivided loyalty of their partner, and by extension their audience, that we're covering this week. But at least in four years/four months/yesterday we won't be regretfully disavowing it, so full points! [10]

Wayne Weizhen Zhang: Teenage romance at its most entertaining: unhinged, mean-spirited, and untethered from reality. Olivia, ride those "la-da-da-da, da-da-da"s all the way to the bank. [8]

Mark Sinker: My favourite bassline, my favourite MBV callback, my favourite mood… [10]

Isabel Cole: For me, Rodrigo’s defining moment as an artist remains the opening of SOUR: not “brutal,” which is a bop, but the little intro, where she cuts off some dramatic strings to announce before the guitars kick in: “I want it to be, like, messy.” I find that moment endearing because it feels like she’s trying to convey that she’s aiming for a certain artistic rawness, but doing so in a way that undermines her goal by calling attention to the effort involved in striking the pose. It's a sweetly teenaged thing to do, the musical equivalent of cutting up your jeans just so. Unfortunately, the reason I think about it whenever I hear one of her songs is that I can never quite shake the sense that she’s playacting at all these big emotions. Her vocal affectations -- bananies-and-avocadies whisper-singing, a deliberately tuneless wail -- are common enough in the pop girl universe, and I have nothing a priori against them, but on her they always feel like affectations, lacking pathos or bite. She sings like she’s doing an imitation of someone else, even though she writes her own songs. Sometimes she serves up a jam regardless, but on “obsessed” the hooks are not landing. The track is too muted for tension or darkness, too polished for its own rock-star fantasies. [4]

Katherine St. Asaph: I hate that I don't hate being pandered to this hard. [9]

[Read, comment and vote on The Singles Jukebox]

[heybaetae]

maybe 5, 6 and 21?

5. What do you dislike most about making graphics / gifs?

not knowing when/if my photoshop OR laptop will crash in the middle of making something before i’ve made any saves to it. i got a new laptop last christmas but there’s something that makes it crash suddenly at least once a day and it has happened plenty of times while ps is running. luckily, the program manages to recover the unsaved file when i reopen it but it’s very annoying when i’m concentrated lol. other than that, i hate when i’m trying my best to color something and i simply have to give up. or the quality of something is so bad that i can’t make it look good. after you’ve gone through screencapping and waiting for the files to load and convert to frames, some decent time has gone by and it suuuucks to just be like…nevermind. it happens often.

6. Your favourite graphic and or gif creators

my current fave thing on this whole site is this comp @kimtaegis made me for my bday a few weeks ago 😭 annie is in my list of fave gif makers obviously. i also have a huuuge soft spot for @jiniekook’s work!!! @bladesrunner makes some of my favorite tv/film gifs and i recognize her coloring every single time. @userjiminie is incredibly talented and makes some of the coolest conceptual sets i’ve ever seen! @userjungkook97 pours so much love into her gifsets and i get really excited whenever she posts something new. @userarmyhope literally never disappoints with crisp, clean gifs and perfect coloring. of course @jung-koook for her dedication to churning out massive sets almost daily. this is not even close to everyone whose work i adore, but it’s off the top of my head at the moment. <3

21. How much time do you spend on a single graphic / gif?

depends on what it is! a more elaborate comp can take me up to a couple days or more, especially if i have to search for and download a lot of footage. for example, my recent jungkook bday set took me about four days to finish, but i started it early enough that i was just taking my time and i used easily accessible content from youtube. if i need something from a dvd or a concert, that can take me a while to locate. i’ve spent ages reverse image searching very questionable screencaps just to find the origin of something for a tiny gif in a compilation set lol. but a basic gifset can take me a half hour to an hour or longer depending on how many gifs i’m including and how big they are, since bigger gifs take longer for my actions to process.

Ask a graphic / gif maker

[apothecary-apologises]

ghosts for the ask game!! (obvious i know but hehe ghosties mutuals)

Favourite character: Mary

Second favourite character: Thomas Thorne

Least favourite character: of the main cast Alison, I don't dislike I just like her least. Of all the cast ever the Toby Nightingale I genuinely find scenes with him in difficult to watch.

The character I'm most like: Robin, I can just go off on my own to watch mice and I like chess (I'm not good)

Favourite paring: Mary/Annie because I just love them so much, but Thomas/Captain is an honourable mention

Least favourite paring: Captain/Havers, I just feel like there isn't loads there and I simply don't care for it. (There nothing wrong with it I just don't personally like it)

Rating out of 10: 9/10 it's so almost perfect, but there are tiny bits that annoy me about like 3 episodes so it's dropping marks.

[tedwinisconfused]

20 Author Questions

Tagged by @blackbird-brewster, thank you, this was so fun!!!

How many works do you have on AO3?

Only five so far!

2. What's your total AO3 wordcount!

83,545 apparently, which is much more than I expected.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently and on AO3, only Criminal Minds, but in my time on ff dot net I also wrote for House MD, Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon A Time, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Annie (in hindsight, what a random assortment??)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Twin Flames (377 kudos)

Sin to Win (234 kudos)

midnight (184 kudos)

lean for me (170 kudos)

All This and Heaven Too (73)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why/why not?

I always respond to comments! Usually whenever I update with a new chapter. Comments make me so so happy (seriously I cannot even begin to describe it) so I really want to show my appreciation to readers, even though I'm usually quite bad at thinking of ways to reply.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hm most of my fics are unfinished, but if all goes to plan, midnight or All This and Heaven Too will probably have the most bittersweet endings.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Twin Flames! Maybe lean for me too if I ever finish that.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not on AO3 so far. I used to get some hate on ff dot net, but I think commenting culture in general is a bit harsher over there so.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Only unpublished for myself so far haha. But (perhaps controversial) if I ever post any it's going to be f/f omegaverse because it's underrated and there's a tragic lack of it everywhere.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've ever written?

Definitely! I'm obsessed with fusion crossovers and there's lots of half-finished ones in my docs and notes app. My only published one so far (and I suppose the craziest) is my Criminal Minds x Twilight crossover midnight though.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge! I hope not

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I've had someone ask to translate Sin to Win into Chinese, which was really cool!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I co-wrote like three chapters of a OUAT fic with my ex-best friend years ago, but I think we got bored and abandoned it, so no clue if it's out there somewhere still.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Easily JJ/Emily, literally do not get me started on how tragic they are, idk what it is but I've never been so obsessed with a ship before.

15. What's a fic you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Sorry to anyone who likes it because it was my most popular fic until very recently, but probably Sin to Win. I really hate what I did with the plot from Chapter 2 onwards and I'm confused about what past-me thought a cognitive interview was, because that's almost definitely not how they work. The plot's just a mess that I'm not sure how to unravel lol. I am still totally in love with the premise though, so maybe in the future I'll start over and delete the last few chapters.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I would definitely say writing descriptions (easily one of my favourite parts of writing in general), I love getting to capture a vibe.

Also conciseness (thanks to every English teacher I've ever had, and all the hundred word short stories I was forced to enter as a teen lol) although it can definitely be a double-edged sword when trying to reach higher wordcounts.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

OMG definitely dialogue. Idk if people reading my fics can tell but I avoid it as much as possible, and that's because between my autism and social anxiety, I just genuinely do not know/understand what people are supposed to say in a conversation + how (although I definitely think I've at least improved in structuring dialogue realistically), especially in character.

Also, just like, plots, lol.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Personally, I tend to prefer for the writer to just be like, "she said in French." I'm bilingual, English is my second language, and I feel like often when people write poly-lingual characters in particular they're kind of clumsy about the character using another language. I've definitely seen people do it very well though!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Oh boy, I'm actually not sure if I remember, I must have been like twelve or thirteen at the time. I'm going to tentatively guess Grey's Anatomy.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

It's between Twin Flames (my baby, the first fic I've ever finished) and All This and Heaven Too (I loved writing young JJ and Emily so much).

No pressure tags: @kingofhellsdaydream @introverted-author @ellegreenawayslover + anyone else who fancies it

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i know lu already asked you robin hood, so heroes if no one else has asked you first!

Favourite character:

Nathan Petrelli my terrible DILF son who I love. Idk I have many complicated feelings about him but all of them are love somehow (kinda like Peter)

Funniest character:

All the characters have their moments actually. Sylar can be pretty funny when he's leaning into the whole villain thing instead of trying to be redeemed. Angela is such an unashamedly bad bitch it's pretty hilarious. Claire has her moments when she calls people out or acts recklessly. Peter is usually unintentionally funny. Mohinder's sarcasm is also pretty fun. Ohhh I nearly forgot Rene, who's hilarious because he just does not give a shit. He does what he wants, because what's the Company gonna do? Haitian him? Oh, wait...

Best-looking character:

Mohinder, duh. (But also Nathan)

3 favourite ships:

Nathan/Peter and, uhhh...Claire/Gretchen, part of me wants to say Elle/Sylar bc it was pretty fun while it lasted but Sylar doesn't deserve happiness so...Elle/people who actually care about her

Least favourite character:

Sylar for all the times they try and redeem him and make him a poor little meow meow and make him into something he's not (he can just be a villain! Please just let him be a villain! He's fun as a villain!). But also me and Anni have just been watching season 4 and ohhhh my god, Samuel is the most annoying whiny bitch ever, he's so pathetic and bedraggled but not even in a fun way. He doesn't deserve his cracked black nail polish. Put it back. Give it to Peter.

Least favourite ship:

Sylaire is probably the ship that squicks me out the most. LEAVE HER ALONE!

Reason why I watch it:

Because it makes me crazyyyyy. Also so I can see Nathan's sexy fluffy hair in season 2.

Why I started watching it:

@judasisgayriot made me. Jk, she made me watch s1, I was fairly meh on it, then one cold November night during the pandemic I said 'lol, let's watch season 2 of Heroes just 'cause.' And then I saw Nathan with fluffy hair and a beard crying into his whisky at a bar and I've never been the same since.

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Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks @medusasfinalgirl for tagging me!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 16 atm! (1 anonymous) Which is wild to me. English was my least favourite subject in school.

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 198,609 which, again, absolutely wild.

3. What fandoms do you write for? At the minute, just stranger things. But my early fics were Game of Thrones and Bridgerton.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? I'm just going off ST fics so:

(Anything You) Want - friends to lovers mutual pining Nice (Just Ain't My Type) - silly celebrity rivals au (I Don't Have To Tell You But) You're The Only One - AYW college sequel This Be The Verse - on a theme of parenthood Stay - AYW Eddie POV

I only consider 2 of these to actually be amongst my "best" fics tho.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes! I definitely try my best to respond to everything as quickly as possible. I feel very honoured that there are people out there who take time out of their day to let me know they enjoyed. Makes my day every single time!!

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Oooh okay, Haunt Me, Then! (kinktober spectrophilia fic) for now, but it's very possible that She's Got A Boyfriend Anyway (classic cheating-on-Jason fic) might beat it when I get round to finishing it.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I don't know if any of my fics have particularly strong happy endings, but off the top of my head it's got to be This Be The Verse.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Defo not on hellcheer ones! Everyone's so nice here!!! <3 My very first fic got SO MUCH hate on it but that's because I wrote it when I was 17 and it WAS terrible.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Really never thought I would, but more of my fics have smut in them than not these days lol. Idk, something about hellcheer just really made me go ...these two should be going at it.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I don't, and I'd be very surprised if I ever do tbh.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Nope!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope again!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? I haven't, and I'm not really sure I can ever imagine myself co-writing.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? I mean, I've not written 13 fics for any ship other than hellcheer so that's something. In terms of longevity, Katniss/Peeta and Finnick/Annie still have the same effect on me as they did when I first read the book at like 13 years old.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? What a stressful question! I doubt I'll finish off Hard to Forgive (Hard to Forget) because it would be one of those proper multi-chapters (40k words ish by my estimates) and I just don't think I could do it.

16. What are your writing strengths? Hmm I'm not sure. I used to be quite good at setting a scene but I think I'm losing that a little. If I'm honest, recently I've been really proud of the sheer volume of what I've been writing and my willingness to venture out of my comfort zone.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? God, where to start. Weak dialogue, my repetitive writing style, difficulty writing endings, complete inability to do anything concisely. But I genuinely feel like I'm slowly improving bit by bit!

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I did French and Spanish in school, French to a slightly higher level than Spanish, so I'd feel comfortable including either of those at a school level (like them trying out saying things like "at the weekend I like to go to the park" and "I have two brothers and no sisters" in a class) but wouldn't want to risk anything more complex!

19. First fandom you wrote for? The Hunger Games. I never posted it anywhere, but I still have my old drafts for fics that I look back on every now and again just to see how far I've come!

20. Favorite fic you've written? So hard to choose! This Be The Verse because it felt so immensely personal to write or Cherry (sapphic hellcheer) because it was a long time coming. Both are eclipsed by a soon-to-be-uploaded kinktober foot fic that I will reveal is called Heart and Sole (and yes it's as dumb and silly as the title implies)!

Okay that was fun! I'm not 100% sure on who I follow writes but I'm p sure @gingertumericlemon, @bibiche007 and @achilleanenjolras all do, so would love to hear your responses if you fancy it!

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ur a gem and ily 💛 okay round 2.

rank lotr movies in least favorite to favorite order? vegemite yes or no? ever been to lane cove nsw? (my old home <3) are you afraid of spiders? how do you take your oreos? night owl or early riser? favorite soundtrack to anything? best board game? cheese and crackers or hummus and pita? favorite type of food (italian, indian, etc.)? dream vacation? list of all the places you’d like to travel?

HI annie sorry i sat down to play a bit of hades and it turned into a 3 hour grind sesh

two towers > return of the king > fellowship (but they are all masterpieces)

vegemite YES always

omg what the fuck yes i have!!! i used to a few suburbs closer to the city for a while!!!!!!!! i visited the library a couple times and the aldi :')

little spiders are nbd. big/hairy spiders no thank u

i twist my oreos and eat the half without cream first then the half with

i used to be an early riser but now not so much. i wouldn't call myself a night owl bc "late" for me is still like. 11pm

i listen to the pacific soundtrack when i'm studying lmao but i don't know if it's my favourite? lotr obviously slaps. lately been into barbie also!

i have lord of the rings monopoly so that. even tho no one ever wants to play it with me

hommus and crackers??? is that an option. i always have it with jatz

oooh fav type of food that is so hard! it's always what i'm in the mood for!! i love most stuff. lately i've had some rlly good japanese tho!!!

dream vacay would be probably some kind of roadtrip around ireland and the uk!!!!! i've been there before but only spent a few days in each capital city so would love to just vibe out at my own pace

ok so i'm just going to mention places i haen't been before - i would love to go to norway, finland, iceland, poland, russia if it wasn't a bit cooked, and greece :)

ask me anything!

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what about troy barnes

Hell yeah. Thank you!!!

Favourite thing about them:

Troy caring so much about his friends. Also him initially not wanting to be a nerd, but slowly accepting that more because of Abed. His character arc is so good

Least favourite thing about them:

That he left </3

Favourite line:

Don't think you can think your way out of this with your thinkingness!

or

No one gets Abed. I got him a little

brOTP:

Annie and Troy. They needed more moments between them

OTP:

Trobed

nOTP:

As always, the only one I really hate would be Pierce. Also I feel like him and Annie actually dating wouldn't work

Random headcanon:

He gets easily scared by horror movies, but he still watches them with Abed a lot

Unpopular opinion:

I wish there would've been some more stuff with him and Shirley as friends. It would've been nice to see imo. But I don't have any huge unpopular opinions

Song I associate with them:

Are songs from the show or Childish Gambino songs cheating? From the show, I mainly think of the Christmas episode where he raps with Abed. Also I'm not super familiar with Childish Gambino songs, but I did hear 3005 on a community related playlist and I really like it and makes me think of Troy

Favourite picture of them:

Troy dressed as Reggie my beloved

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Weekend Top Ten #627

Top Ten Oscar Runners-Up of My Lifetime

Hooray for Hollywood! It’s the Oscars this weekend, so I thought I’d write about them. I’ve done it before and by crikey I’ll do it again.

So one of the things I like about the Oscars is the way they sort of exist as something we can push back against. Because the films that usually win – at least for the last, I dunno, twenty or thirty years – are sort of “Oscar films”. Generally speaking, Jurassic Park is never going to win an Oscar, y’know? Star Wars lost to Annie Hall in 1978, and even setting aside the Woody Allen of it, I’ve seen both films and Star Wars is not only better but is more important in terms of the history of cinema and its importance to popular culture. So it should have won, but of course it didn’t, because an out-and-out sci-fi film has never won, unless you count Everything Everywhere All at Once last year, which of course is a sci-fi film but is a very different sort of film to Star Wars (although, in fairness, we should acknowledge how bloody weird it is, and therefore give the Academy some credit).

Anyway, regardless of whether a film “deserves” to win or not (because what is art if not eternally subjective?), part of the whole sport of the Oscars – and, indeed, any major awards ceremony, from the BAFTAs to the Brits to that time I won a Promax Gold – is disagreeing with the eventual victor and wishing that something else had won instead (I’m sure there were other really good promos made in 2013). And that’s what I’m celebrating today – the films that didn’t win.

I want to make clear though: this isn’t an “alternate universe” thing, where the runners-up are the victors. Nor is it to say that these films are, really, any better than the winning films. What I’m doing is ranking my favourite films that lost out to a Best Picture Oscar. And, of course, to lose Best Picture you must first be nominated for Best Picture. So these are all films that were in contention, but didn’t get to take home the naked bald man. Again, I’m not saying they were the best – although in most cases I do actually think they’re better than the eventual winner – they’re just my favourite of the non-winning nominees.

Partly by accident and partly by design, I’m only picking one film per year. And to make my life easier, I’ve just gone for ceremonies that I was actually alive for; although I doubt I was paying too much attention to the 1982 Oscars, to be fair, as I was probably about ten weeks old. And that’s that! There are some very famous – infamous, even – runners-up here; again, I think that’s both part of the fun and part of Oscar legend.

And the nominees are…

L.A. Confidential (1997) – lost to Titanic (1997): Confidential means a lot to me because not only is it bloody good but it’s the first film my now-wife and I ever saw together (even if, er, we weren’t going out at the time). Regardless, it’s just fantastic, a dark sunlit noir full of interesting flawed characters, a dense conspiracy-addled plot, some shocking twists, and a nuanced dissection of power and the media.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – lost to Gandhi (1982): where to start with E.T., the heartwarming, heartbreaking fantasy sci-fi fable that’s also autobiographical and also so utterly about being a kid in the eighties? Every single aspect of it, from the cinematography to the junior performances to the special effects to the music to, well, everything, just hums with quality and empathy.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – lost to Spotlight (2015): it’s so unlikely to consider that Fury Road might have won that I can’t be too sad it didn’t. I do think, though, that George Miller’s achievements marshalling the chaos into a film so propulsive, so beautiful, and so batshit should have been rewarded with Best Director. Anyway; the best Mad Max by a mile, which is really saying something.

Toy Story 3 (2010) – lost to The King’s Speech (2010): an animated film has never won Best Picture, and almost certainly never will since the Best Animated Film category was created. But the second-best Toy Story deserved to romp home; a melancholy tale of ageing and obsolescence, of our children carrying on without us, about the need for all generations to let go of the past, to chart a new future, and also about collectivism and social order and authoritarianism and togetherness and the families we build. And cinema’s second-best Ken.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – lost to Forrest Gump (1994): when I was a Baby Film Nerd, the big dialogue was Gump versus Pulp Fiction. Everyone knew that Tarantino was robbed, and that this soppy, small-c conservative pean to being a Boomer did not deserve Pulp’s gongs. But then you get older and you realise that the tragically uplifting masterpiece that is Shawshank is a better film than either of them.  

A Few Good Men (1992) – lost to Unforgiven (1992): I don’t think Rob Reiner has won an Oscar, despite making (deep breath) Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, The American President, and lots more besides. This courtroom drama is a precision-tooled piece of moviemaking, harnessing star power and screen charisma, turning Aaron Sorkin’s script into cinematic perfection. Unforgiven’s still pretty good, mind.

Goodfellas (1990) – lost to Dances With Wolves (1990): if there was one guy who was always the bridesmaid, it was Scorsese; the list of films he directed that were “best runner-up” is pretty long. Here, though, we have his sumptuous crime epic, a dissection of mob life and excess that is just a minute-by-minute marvel to behold. More like Greatfellas, amirite?

There Will Be Blood (2007) – lost to No Country for Old Men (2007): we were properly spoilt for choice when it came to deeply dark neo-Westerns at the 2008 ceremony. The Coen brothers took home the laurels, but Paul Thomas Anderson’s brutal, widescreen expose of the American dream is both sumptuous and stunning, with a complex and compelling central performance by Daniel Day Lewis (who did win an Oscar).

Beauty and the Beast (1991) – lost to The Silence of the Lambs (1991): the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture, and the only one before the Academy upped the number of nominees from five to a maximum of ten. Arguably Disney’s best film of the renaissance era, it marked the fully-fledged Broadway-isation of the franchise, with huge musical numbers that felt like they tripped off the stage – plus, of course, requisite fantastical Disney magic that could only be animated. Anyway, it’s amazing.

Apollo 13 (1995) – lost to Braveheart (1995): Ron Howard’s best film is an unsentimental procedural about very smart people doing very smart things in a moment of high drama. Manages to be tense and compelling even though we know what happens at the end. Just exquisitely made from beginning to end, with tremendous performances.

Okay, so one more thing, maybe you noticed; but I decided to omit from consideration the first two Lord of the Rings films, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. This is because Return of the King cleaned up in 2004 (Christ, twenty years ago), and I think we can all agree that it was accepting on behalf of the entire trilogy. So it feels a bit churlish to complain that the other two films didn’t win, even if they were actually my favourite films from their respective years (and even though my overall favourite of the trilogy is still Fellowship). So I’m letting them slide today, because really, spiritually, they were winners in 2004. Even though in actuality they were big fat losers.

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I haven't drawn my girl in so long but I love her so much!! 😭 I'll take this opportunity to talk about her

1. Fave tea: Bergamot! It's also Sylvain's favourite and they are twins. As for snacks, anything sweet, she loves sweet things!

2. Her table manners indeed live up to Lorenz's standards, she's a noble lady and knows proper etiquette. She actually lives up to all Lorenz standards

3. She's not very sociable, so when it comes to sleepovers it would probably be with Mercedes and Annie. Camille is somewhat friends with them; they don't talk much though.

4. Cami likes to study with Sylvain, pre-timeskip Cami is most comfortable with him (out of all people💀) and with Dedue, as both don't really talk much and don't need words to communicate. As a girl liker she's really awkward with ladies

5. Least fave chores of her would be attending to pegasi and horses, mostly pegasi as she's terrified of heights. Fave chore would be either weed eating plucking or anything in-door really.

6. Between Shez and Byleth, kind of both? But I'd say Shez. In 3 hopes they would be girlfriends🥺

7. She did grow up in the CoS faith and she follows it, post-timeskip is not as religious though

8. She would do pretty well at fishing tournament actually! It's her side hobby

9. She carries around a "suspicious tome" with suspicious spells in suspicious language. She is curious to translate it and learn cool spells but she keeps this book a secret as it. well it looks suspicious and is usually on fire

10. She wanted to live a life different from a standard fate of a noble woman with a crest, and she actually manages to do so! When the war began she gathered the courage to run away instead of returning to the Gautier territory

11. Her dream class would be brawler! She wanted to be a strong woman.

12. She'd love to keep fish. A big tank with fishes. Or an owl, as long as she doesn't have to do much to look after it

13. Camille is not made to be a mounted unit, but in my 1st playthrough Sylvain was a mounted unit and she'd name his horse something silly like Mr. Boop or something.

ok i'll continue some other time, i just wanted to talk about her

Questions for people with FE3H oc's, in no particular order:

1) What's their fave tea, and do they have a fave snack to go with it?

2) Do their table manners live up to Lorenz's standards?

3) Who would they have a sleepover with, and what would they do during it?

4) Who would they most like and most hate to study with and why?

5) What's their fave and least fave chore?

6) Would they get along with Byleth or Shez better?

7) Did they grow up in the CoS faith, and do they follow it now?

8) If at the monastery at the time, would they take part in the fishing tournament, and how well would they do?

9) Do they have any sentimental keepsakes they carry with them?

10) As a child what did they want to be when they grew up, if different to the path they ended up on?

11) What combat class do they secretly wish they could be?

12) What animal would they keep as a pet? (Ignoring allergies, I'm asking what they'd like not what they could have) - mounts don't really count for this

13) If they're a mounted unit what would they name their mount?

14) Do they prefer form or function?

15) If they could visit a country outside of Fodlan, where would they go?

16) Who could they win an arm wrestle against? A game of darts? A game of chess?

17) What sort of things do they find funny?

18) Are they an early bird or night owl?

19) Sweet or savoury?

20) What are they afraid of? Including phobias

21) Are they more likely to get laugh or frown lines?

22) How did they decide on their personal/post skip outfit, and was the price or the aesthetic a bigger factor in their decision?

23) What skill or ability are they proud of that they don't get to show off often?

24) What is their fondest most treasured memory?

25) In a modern FE3H au, what would they be instead?