#please can we have character B fuck up comforting them some times

[milk-lover]

Fucking. Pet peeve in fanfic is when Character A has any sort of anxiety or sadness fueled breakdown. They call it a panic attack. And then they alway have the exact same scene, where Character B tells them to take deep breaths, hugs them, asks ‘Feeling better now?’ And the ‘panic attack’ is just? Over???

[arcadiabaytornado]

Live Playing Double Exposure First Thoughts:

A: Okay, I do love that you can pick Max’s outfit right away. I chose the rainbow sweater.

B: This sounds over dramatic but it was so intense to see Max’s face again. For a very brief moment I was 13 again watching Max wake up in the storm.

C: Am I insane or all the sounds in this game like…muffled?? I have my audio settings all the way up so it’s not that. Speaking of settings I also took the motion blur off and the graphics look so much now.

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D: I’m already finding it super interesting that Max finds comfort in the destruction of old buildings after hell week. That could mean a lot of things but I’ll wait to see if the game tells me before I get analytical.

E: I love Safiya already. PLEASE let her be a love interest.

F: I do love the camera mechanism!!!!

G: Max lost her powers after hell week? That’s also super interesting holy shit. I’d love to know more about that, though my guess is that Max maybe completed her purpose with her power and therefore lost it? I wonder what that would mean for Daniel and Alex….

H: I’m trying to not to think of Chloe to much, but man she would have loved an old abandoned bowling alley.

I: Getting used to older Max is an adjustment. She doesn’t feel out of character per se, but it is weird because I keep expecting her to act like her eighteen year old self and then she doesn’t because she’s older now.

J: Older Max is already coming off as a lot more confident/reckless than younger Max. I like that change a lot!

K: I don’t know how I feel about Max making a one liner every time I examine anything.

L: Ah fuck. Is fate after Safiya or Max this time.

M: Did they really put the “We will :)” flashback right before making us confirm that Max and Chloe broke up. I’m going to fight Decknine.

N: Max is never beating the autism allegations.

O: I know people are upset at the “high school sweetheart” line but in context it seems like Max is trying to deflect the conversation to not talk about what Chloe actually was to her.

P: The texts between Max and Chloe were so uncomfortable to read. I know the storm changed them both, but….i don’t know…it just seems weird that Chloe reacted like that to Max wanting to move in with her permanently. I’m getting the vibe that their relationship was mentally and emotionally over on Chloe’s end way before it was on Max’s end.

Q: Max is ghosting her parents now and that devastates me.

R: Can I have a middle ground option on Amanda? I’m not ready for Max to have a huge crush yet, but I wouldn’t say she’s not Max’s type.

S: Okay, the Chloe/Victoria thing seems like fanfiction. It’s the only thing so far that I’ve gone “ugh” at.

T: The Vortex Club parallel is not lost on me.

U: I’m sorry but Max’s eyes look so bad…she also looks like she had a different model from every other character for some reason??

V: I’m just going for it and saying “A date thing” If Safiya is a romance choice later on I’m going to be so mad. But that’s what other saves are for.

W: Hearing Chloe’s name is a jump-scare at this point lmao.

X: I’m loving Moses. He’s so awkward and seems really sweet. Which makes me scared he’ll be the killer because the LIS franchise does not let us have nice things.

Y: I don’t even know how Max is SUPPOSED to talk about what she’s running from regardless if she sacrificed Chloe or the Bay.

Z: I wonder if they’re going to give Max’s power a celestial explanation and that’s what’s with all the solar system imagery.

[tangerinesgirl]

Kinktober 2024 - October 6th

A/B/O Heats or Ruts // Sadism-Masochism // Anonymous Sex

Herr König x Fem!Reader

Rating: 18+, explicit

Word count: 1.2k

Warnings: a/b/o dynamics, omegaverse, breeding kink, voyeurism, threesome, monster fucking

Notes: So, this one was interesting as 1) I've never written omegaverse before and 2) figuring out the dynamics in the Cuckoo universe. Basically König is a beta, Reader an omega and the Cuckoo's are alphas.

I don't go into a lot of detail about the world, character decisions, or a lot of the backstories as I would be here all day. So I'm hoping everything makes sense and stands alone here, and is open to interpretation.

Kinktober List || Masterlist || AO3

The reception bell has a very satisfying old school ding. You look around and admire the resort, you imagine a lot of people would think it's dated, but it felt nostalgic to you. You can't help but think Shining though, but luckily it's the middle of summer and there's no evil twins (yet).

You turn back around and a man is suddenly behind the desk, without a sound. You jump, "Oh Jesus".

The man smirks, "Ah not quite my dear. Welcome to the Resort Alpshatten. My name is Herr König, how can I be of assistance?".

König has a very heavy German accent, it takes you a while to process what he's saying. He's about in his 40s, well groomed with stubble and a slight moustache, and the most piercing blue eyes you've ever seen. You almost get lost in them before you remember.

"I would like a room for two nights please".

"Ahh I see, you are omega, no?"

You nod, "Yeah... I uh heard you have special facilities here? I want to make sure this time is comfortable".

"Of course, we have whatever you so desire. I just need a quick signature from you and your ID or credit card."

You hand him your licence and start signing and dating the paperwork, at a glance it seems like any other hotel agreement, don't trash the room, etc.

König returns your licence and unhooks a key from the wall.

"Let me show you to your room".

He reaches down to grab your suitcase. You noticed he's a beta as you catch his scent.

You both walk together to a little secluded cabin.

"This is a very special room for a very special guest. We call it The Lovers Nest".

Internally, you cringe at the name. Even if this is a free upgrade, the facilities seem basic to you, cheap and cheerful. You nod as you take in your surroundings, "This is great".

"I will leave you to get settled in. Let me know if there's anything you need...any time."

---

The start of your heat hits you like a wall through the night. You were hoping this villa away from civilisation would help see through your heats. You were too tired of seeing them through on your own. But you trust König. The hotel had great reviews and has been going for years. You try to distract yourself with the television, having a bath, pleasuring yourself, but nothing seems to be working.

You wonder what else the hotel may have, so you ring reception. A familiar voice picks up the phone, "Alpshatten Reception, König speaking".

You breathe heavily down the line, "Can I get... uh... something, for my room?"

"Say no more, I shall be right over my darling", König hangs up the phone.

---

You throw on some clothes to look somewhat put together. About ten minutes later there's a knock at your door. It's König. He looks at you and notices your clothes dripping with sweat, "Oh this will not do."

You motion for him to come in. Your pheromones are through the roof you're almost dizzy from it. You need relief, stat.

"König, I-"

He catches and places you on the bed noticing you nearly fainting.

"Say less, my dear", his gaze drifts down your body briefly, then back to your eyes, as he kisses you passionately.

He starts to take off your clothes, and you help him. He removes your underwear, slick seeping from your entrance.

"Looks like you really do need my help", König starts to undo his belt, his cock bounces free. He starts rubbing himself with your slick around your entrance, before inserting himself into you.

You wrap your legs around his waist as he starts to thrust inside you. Your hand drifts to your clit, searching for more, rubbing in the same rhythm as his thrusts. König nuzzles into your neck, he pauses a moment and looks at you. He's silently asking for permission to mark you. You pause a moment looking into his deep blue eyes. You've never heard of a beta doing this before, and it kind of excites you. Even though you've just met, you are extremely attracted to him, trusting him. In the heat of the moment, you hold the side of his face and nod.

You arch your back as you feel him bite your scent gland. His teeth dig into your neck while he continues thrusting into you. Your nails claw at his back, still searching for more friction. König licks your neck after claiming you, travelling down to your breasts, licking and nipping his way down your body. Bruises already start to form as he does so.

He picks up his pace, fucking you aggressively into the bed, before his hips start to stutter as he cums inside you. He groans as his seed fills you up, mixing with your slick...but it's not enough.

"König, I- I need more. I need an alpha."

He removes himself from you and nods. Walking over to his trousers, he sits down on a chair next to the bed, removing a wooden flute from the pocket. König begins to play it.

You squirm on the bed, body on fire, rubbing your hips against the bed sheets. Fucking König just made your heat worse.

Something stands at the doorway. The overwhelming alpha scent invades your nostrils as you exhale with relief. They're not like any other alpha you've seen, making a noise like a croaky bird when they see you.

They're on top of you in an instant, shoving their cock inside you, no hesitation. König watches from the sidelines, stroking his already fully erect cock, still coated in his cum and your slick.

You moan as you feel the alphas cock deep inside you, your heat already calming down from their smell and the friction. It doesn't take you or the alpha long to cum. You can feel the alpha's cock stretch you out as they start to knot you. Their cum mixes with the already existing fluids. Your body twitches as you reach your climax, feeling the seed hit against your cervix, filling you up perfectly.

König watches the spectacle, rubbing his cock in his hand. He stands up and walks over to you, lifting your hand to replace his. You stroke him a few times before you adjust your position to be more comfortable.

You roll over so the alpha is on the bed, and you're straddling on top of them, their knot still deep inside you. König can even see it from his angle, the sight making his cock grow harder.

You move over to the edge of the bed and take König's cock down your throat. He starts thrusting inside you, grabbing the back of your head to steady himself. His hands then trail down to where the knot is inside you. He presses down on it, feeling it pulsing seed into you. The sensation sends him over the edge as he cums down your throat. His eyes roll into the back of his head from pleasure as you rub his balls, milking him for all the seed he has. You moan against his dick, feeling the seed drip down you, some leaking out of your mouth, towards your neck and breasts.

You feel warm and satisfied, as your cunt clenches from the knot, when you cum again, moaning loudly. You look towards König who is transfixed on you, watching as you grind your hips down onto the alpha. They release another load of cum deep inside you. Slick seeping out of your entrance.

You have a feeling the three of you will be here for a long time.

[there-must-be-a-lock]

Jason Todd/Frank Castle ship manifesto and rec list!

For @dc-marvel-crossovers Pool Noodle Party.

These two are both scary motherfuckers when they want to be. Between the guns and the vengeance — yeah, the surface-level similarities are clear. But they’re also people whose core motivations are a) loss and b) a sense of justice. They lost faith in the ability of others to protect the people they love, and so they decided to do it themselves. They get a lot of shit from the other vigilantes in their respective circles for their methods of doing so; I think the lack of judgment coming from the other person would absolutely draw them together.

And at first glance, I think they can both easily be written off as angry characters, but both of them have a massive soft, caring streak under all that Kevlar and grumbling. It comes out mostly in the way they look out for (and fight on behalf of) the innocent — women, children, dogs… they’re both natural caretakers, but they’re rarely allowed to express it, and I think that caretaking is a huge part of what I love about the idea of their dynamic. They only allow themselves to be soft and to be taken care of because they’re with someone who also respects their strength.

Fic recs! Most of this tag belongs to the amazing @mightymightygnomepriest and @bittercape! Please go check out their work if you want more of this pairing — every one of their fics is great, not just the ones I’m quoting here.

forever trusting who we are by @bittercape - like I said, it’s the caretaking for me! This is peak softness, and I love the lived-in feel of the unspoken communication that comes from a long term relationship.

The rhythm of checking and mending gear is a familiar one, and Jason is comforted by the hiss of the whetstone against an already-sharp blade, as familiar as breathing.

Slightly less familiar is the way Frank leans against him when he comes back from packing up their gear. His weight is heavy against Jason’s back, seeking contact like a big cat.

can’t start a fire without a spark by @mightymightygnomepriest - Frank is literally in the rain trying to rescue a puppy in this. It’s so ridiculously endearing. There’s also caretaking (of course) and some sexy sexy sex.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jason catches sight of a calendar. He wonders if he’s been a good enough boy this year that Santa’s delivered him a dilf.

Probably not.

Even if We’re Just Dancing in the Dark by @daddyswickedqueen - a remix of the previous fic on the list, but god damn I love Sagacity’s take on this premise. The inner voices of both characters are so well done.

There’s a low laugh that could, in other meteorological conditions, make Jason shiver. Right now it’s too fucking cold and wet to tell.

Jason stays right where he is. This goddamn puppy is going to be warm and dry tonight or he’s going to commit war crimes. Again.

Parting is all we know of Heaven, (—and all we need of Hell.) by llamallamaduck - Witcher fusion! I know very little about the Witcher fandom but was able to follow without problems, and the glimpse at the world was more than enough to have me wanting more. Great characterizations.

“I’ve been around for a while, kid,” says the Witcher, shifting. Automatically, Jason’s eyes snap to track the movement. You can’t not pay attention to that shit. He’s not even making any threatening gestures; he’s rubbing his temples with one hand and is propped up by the other. Nevertheless, Jason wants to curl his shoulders, bare his teeth and show he’s not easy prey.

Make This Easy by @thepartyresponsible - it has once again been 0 days since somebody in the crossover server recced a TPR fic, and for good reason. Significantly darker than the others on this list; this is not a happy story. But it involves one of my favorite descriptions of Jason of all time:

There’s some kind of predator under his skin, the same way there’s one under Frank’s. Maybe this kid’s teeth run a little closer to the surface, but Frank still recognizes his own. It’s just weird as hell to find someone like him caged up in a body like that. He wonders if that’s what he looked like in his early twenties, some unholy mashup of empty eyes and soft edges, baby fat barely lingering on a body already smelted into a weapon.

He was never that pretty, but Russo used to be. Maybe that burning match energy is something boys like them learn early. Self-immolation as a form of self-protection. Nobody’s going to get their hands on them if they’re already on fire.

[chikaras-garden]

What are your tips for writing smut in particular? I wanna know how to write it and how to write it well.

As with any writing advice, these are guidelines, not rules. I’m also not the singular best smut writer in the universe, so please don’t feel like you have to do any of this; it’s just what works for me!

Read. A lot. And not just fanfic; find romantic and/or erotic novels you like and read actively, taking note of the turns of phrase (i.e. word choice and sentence structure) that stand out to you—then think about why. Is it the connection between the characters? The vividness of the descriptions? Not only will this help you learn effective writing, but you’ll also find inspiration you may not have thought of otherwise.

Know your characters, their personality, and their relationship to each other. This will help you write actions and, more importantly, reactions. There’s a difference between lovemaking and hatefucking. There’s a difference between Jason Todd and Dick Grayson. Are you writing comfort sex? Sleepy sex? “I’m so mad at you I have to fuck you” sex? How would Jason vs. Dick kiss a reader he’s in love with? What does each of them need to do or feel in order to be satisfied? Knowing how your characters feel and behave should guide every decision you make in your writing, whether it’s smut or anything else.

Characterize your reader. In the same vein as the above, your reader is a character. They should have a personality, likes, dislikes, wants, and needs—knowing this will help make writing their actions and dialogue flow more easily for you, and it makes the scene more interesting.

Smut is (usually) a multi-person ordeal. What I meant when I said that reactions are important is that one character isn’t acting in a vacuum and the other character isn’t, like, a sex doll. Character A and Character B should constantly be acting and reacting to each other, keeping their emotions, personality, and relationship in mind. In most scenarios, Character A is doing something with the express purpose of getting a reaction out of Character B. And even if Character B is submissive, a bottom, or even tied up, they shouldn’t be entirely passive. Their facial expressions, sounds (moans), and actions feed into what Character A chooses to do next.

Keep positions and anatomy in mind. Know where each person’s hands are, what they can reach with their mouth, and how other body parts like thighs, chest, neck, and butt, come into play. Don’t be afraid to use reference photos for this, and also keep in mind each character’s physical ability. Using Jason and Dick as an example: Dick is generally more flexible than Jason, but Jason is generally seen as having more brute strength. Their physical abilities would impact their instincts: Dick might be more inclined to twist himself to reach something, while Jason might simply move the reader where he wants them.

Slow your pace and focus on detail. Thinking about the vivid descriptions from the romance novels we like, “he sucked her nipple” is less impactful than “he made a cup of his fingers and lifted her breast to his lips” (I believe this was in The Governess Game by Tessa Dare). Why? Because we can better visualize what’s going on. The second sentence has movement that takes us though the scene instead of making us imagine it for ourselves: he made a cup of his fingers, then he lifted her breast to his lips, then (it’s implied that) he sucked her nipple. The word choice here is specific to his characterization; he’s explicitly being gentle with her, as compared to a character who would instead “bring her nipple to a stiff peak with several rough twists of his fingertips, then cover it with his lips” (I do not remember what novel this is from).

Spend some time on non-sexual intimacy. In my own writing, the actual act of penetrative or oral sex is maybe the last 33% of the piece I’m writing because there’s so much intimacy in foreplay. Sexual tension is your buildup, while the sex itself is really only the payoff, so give the same attention and detail to the kisses, touches, or even looks that get us to the main event in the first place.

Here are some more resources:

Smut terminology

Smut-writing advice

Ultimate guide to writing smut fic

[dawnslight-aegis]

glamour progression! some canonical Looks that Kaede has had over the years, lore and reasonings and whatnot under the cut~

early ARR: just some basic, comfortable traveling clothes. she didn't have a ton of money here, and her fighting style was offensively-focused, rather than defensive. she didn't even use a shield yet.

mid ARR: finally scrounged up some basic armor, but she still prefers the flexibility and mobility afforded by leather over chain or plate.

end of ARR: for the Praetorium assault, she joins as an officer of the Immortal Flames, and wears their uniform. even though it's heavy and bulky and uncomfortable.

post ARR: newly dubbed the Warrior of Light, she still favors Immortal Flame colors, but make it stylish. also helps Gerolt reforge Curtana and the Holy Shield.

early HW: after the Bloody Banquet, but before being admitted to Ishgard, she comes across the corpse of a dark knight dumped outside the city gates and takes up his sword. it's no longer safe to wear anything that associates her with the Flames, so she reverts back to her more gladiator-like style, but with light plate

mid HW: can't very well be walking around Ishgard as a heretic, so it's back to paladin for a while. she finds a full set of really nice (and warm) armor and weapons in The Aery and uses them for a bit, but swaps the sword/shield for a greatsword again in the aftermath of the Vault

end of HW: Sid gave her some armor. please imagine Zephirin's face under where her sword is planted in the ground.

post HW: had a new set of armor made to match the style of the set she found in the Aery, carries the Fortemps shield in Haurchefant's honor

early SB: when Tataru Taru makes you an outfit, you damn well wear it. also this is her RDM training arc, Marz is the main character doing WAR stuff here, Kaede is just here to vibe and help out

mid SB: Kaede doesn't care for Doman fashion in Eorzea, she has a hard enough time convincing people she's not foreign. but when in Othard, do as the Othardians do. oh this is also where she got her horn and tail decor! turns out when you go somewhere with lots of au ra, you can find cute auri accessories. who knew.

end of SB: we liberating Ala Mhigo in full red mage regalia my friends

post SB: it's just a cute witchy look, Kaede didn't do the Mhach raids so idk how she even got this one. I just like it. she spent most of the SB patches in Ishgard so maybe she bought it from Leofard or something. for REALLY late post-SB (aka Ghimlyt Dark) please see "early ShB"

early ShB: puts her rapier away when her friends start dropping and she has to go to actual legit war. opts for some heavier actual plate mail, but you can't fight evil if you ain't cute. also she got that top from the bowels of Orbonne Monastery, and it's reminiscent of her childhood hero, Agrias Oaks, so it's important to her

mid ShB: Kaede has Feelings about Voeburt and how it's basically Ishgard but with au ra, ask her about them some time. anyway she tries to PLD for a while on the First but it starts exacerbating her light poisoning, so it's back to dark knight time

end of ShB: yikes, girl. yikes. anyway Voeburtite+Crystarium gear is a nice cross-section of the places in the First that really spoke to her

post ShB: neo-Ishgardian top, Halonic gauntlets, I think it's safe to say she is homesick, someone let her go home and see her man already

early EW: Sharlayan is...not Kaede's favorite place. she went there straight from Ishgard so she's just wearing some of her normal civilian clothes tbh. if you see her out and about in Ishgard this is probably the kind of thing she's wearing

mid EW: Garlemald is fucking cold and depressing, even when you have a nice heavy coat. while she's here she gets her arm broken and her shoulder dislocated, so she has to do red mage stuff until it heals. I didn't include it here but it's the heirloom casting top+ravel keeper gloves+virtu duelist boots.

end of EW: a return to the iconic look after getting her shield arm fixed by Haurchefant in the Aitiascope. also all her friends died. it's a bad time. Tataru made her some boots though.

post EW: holy shit baby girl finally learned how to heal, it only took almost dying to make her stubborn tank main ass learn. she changed her hair because she's On Vacation rn. also she's engaged! idk where the yorha top came from, I don't consider the nier raids canon lmao. her staff has a chunk of the mothercrystal on it though

[waltwhitmansbeard]

campaign two drabbles

caleb/essek

“C'mere, I don’t mind letting you sleep on me.” 

“I am trusting you with that hand, darling. I hope my trust isn’t misplaced.” 

Giving them their personal space 

Interlacing their fingers with the other’s when they least expect it

“Get some sleep.” 

Keeping a guiding hand on the small of their back.

"I'm sorry...I didn't even realize."

Post-Echoes of the Solstice

beau & caleb

“Hey, leave them alone. They just fell asleep.” 

“Don’t you dare wake them up.” 

“I won’t let them put their hands on you.”

“What have I told you about getting into fights?”/“They were talking shit about you!”

Telling the truth even when it hurts

“You fell asleep. It would’ve been cute, if I hadn’t been so paranoid you were actually unconscious.”

Protecting other characters from harm even when they know they'll get hurt

"You can barely walk. Sit down."

"I don't know how you're even conscious at this point."

"That's not just a scratch."

"You think this is me avoiding you? This?"

"Do you know that your eyes actually have three different colours?"/"You're very close."

"Can we talk?"

beau/yasha

Collecting flowers on their way home

"Look, I made this for you. I also made one for mum/dad/parent."

"She's my date. Fuck off."

"When's the last time you slept?"

"Why are you bleeding?"

everyone else

Reassurance in the form of food/movies/games, forcing them to take a second away and relax with you (veth & caleb)

Breaking down mid-hug because they just needed this so much (keyleth & vilya)

Helping each other out (jester & caduceus)

“As soon as I heard what happened, I dropped everything and rushed over here.” (beau & clara)

Person A and person B accidentally giving each other flowers at the same time (jester/fjord)

Games (beau & jester & veth)

Platonic kisses (essek)

Comforting the other as soon as they're alone (jester & caleb)

"I made pancakes!" (caduceus)

"Please...what am I doing wrong?"/"What aren't you doing wrong?" (jester & the traveler)

"Did you mean it?" (jester/fjord)

Tea (caduceus)

Forest (caduceus & colton)

Yeza takes care of Veth when she's overworking herself (veth/yeza)

Holding your face in their palm as they smile widely before kissing you (jester & the traveler)

Being calmed by the familiar feeling of the other’s body moulding into theirs (vilya/korrin)

A strong herbal lavender, a dark-red evening gown, a grey sky laden with rainclouds (jester & marion)

[fanartandfanfiction]

PLEASE READ: idk if I was just half asleep or if I hit some sort of character limit, a chunk of the story is missing and it won’t let me add it. Please read the version I reblogged with the rest of the story. Sorry 😩

So @hogwartslegacyreactions had a hilarious idea about various characters seeing their future with MC in a crystal ball. I loved the idea and (with permission) wrote a oneshot about Leander Prewett (he’s the least likeable to me)

It’s late, I’m tired, I didn’t proof read, I’m gonna hope it’s fine

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Leander Prewett sat in a worn, yet comfortable arm chair. He was holding a small red haired girl, and another ran up and crawled into his lap, shoving a storybook into his hands.

Two hands rested on his shoulders, then someone kissed the top of his head. He looked up and saw…

“ELLE?!”

“You don’t have to shout, I’m sitting across from you!” The grumpy slytherin girl glared.

Leander stared at her in shock. With white blonde hair and cold blue eyes, she had the look (and disposition) of an ice Queen.

“Take a picture, it’ll last longer. Are you done yet?”

“Uh. I don’t think that was right, let me try again.” He focused on the crystal ball once more.

He saw himself standing at an altar, a tear running down his cheek as he looked at his bride approaching. And that bride was Elle.

“I think it’s broken.” Leander shoved the ball towards her.

“It can’t be broken, dumbass! Let me try.” He watched her as she focused on the crystal ball, curious to see if she got a similar vision. Based on the way her eyebrows shot up and her jaw dropped open, he was guessing she did.

Elle shoved the ball back towards him. “Perhaps you’re right, this one isn’t working properly.”

“You saw it too, didn’t you?” He asked.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about!” She barked.

“I think you do.”

“No! Just write something down so we can turn our assignment in.”

“Elle-“

“Divination is stupid anyway.” She snatched the paper from his hands and gave it to Professor Onai before storming out of the classroom.

Leander looked up and saw Professor Onai giving him a knowing smile. His cheeks turned pink and he quickly gathered his belongings and headed out the door.

“You’re shitting me!” Garreth gasped.

“No, I’m not. I’m guessing she saw the same thing the way she reacted.”

“Is that why she’s looking at you now?”

Leander looked towards the Slytherin table. “Yes, but I don’t think it’s an expression of love, more like hatred and violence.”

“Maybe you should try to get to know her! Imelda and I are very happy. Opposites attract, and all that.”

“I don’t think she’d agree to that, I’m pretty sure she hates my guts.”

“Then perhaps you should pick on Sallow and Gaunt less.”

“I don’t know. I don’t see us ever tolerating each other.”

“I guess we‘ll find out eventually!”

“No fucking way!” Sebastian gasped.

“And I know that smug bastard saw it too. He was trying to get me to admit it.”

“Personally, I don’t hold much stock in divination and crystal balls.” Ominis said, eating a sandwich.

“Maybe if you could see one you’d feel differently.” Sebastian smirked.

“Asshole.” Ominis grumbled.

“So what are you going to do about it?”

“What do you mean?” Elle frowned.

“I mean are you going to try to get to know him, or spend time with him?”

“Ew.” Elle wrinkled her nose.

“Come on, it could be worse! You could’ve married Ominis!”

“I don’t know why I put up with your abuse.” He glared.

“Because you loooove me.” Sebastian snickered.

“I’d rather marry Ominis. You know what? Ominis, will you marry me? Change the course of the future?” Elle clasped his hand and batted her eyelashes.

“As flattered as I am to be your plan B, I’ll have to pass.”

“What?! You’d be lucky to marry me.” Elle playfully shoved him.

“I mean no offense, I just don’t intend to marry anyone and drag them into the fuckery that is the Gaunt family.”

“You know what? I’ll take the bullet. I’ll marry you, Elle.” Sebastian grinned.

“I think I’d rather marry Prewett.”

“Hey!”

Elle was studying in the library when a shadow covered her book.

“Mind if I join you?” Leander asked.

“Yes.”

Prewett sat down and she huffed. “That wasn’t an invitation to sit down!”

“I think we need to talk about what we saw.”

“And I think you should fuck off.”

“Could you try being less aggressive for once?”

Elle loudly shut her book, causing nearby students to jump. “What do you want from me?”

“I told you, I want to talk about it.”

“About what, exactly?” She crossed her arms and glared.

“About our marriage and our children!” Prewett said a bit too loudly, making everyone turn and look at him.

“Would you shut up about that?! Divination Is stupid.”

“But we both saw the same thing! That has to mean something!”

“You want to talk about it? Fine, we’ll talk about it. We’ll talk about our adorable red-headed children and our cottage by the ocean and our dog!”

“Oh, I’d like a cottage by the ocean, that sounds lovely.”

“Prewett!”

“Look, I’m just saying we both saw it, and it wouldn’t hurt us to try to be friendly to one another. Well, perhaps friendly is pushing it. I’d take anything besides hatred at this point.”

“Oh my god can we just drop it?! Because sitting here with you having this conversation is not winning you any points with me.”

“Fine, be difficult. At least I’ve made an effort!” Prewett got up and left in a huff. Thirty seconds passed before Garreth took his place,

“Don’t waste your time, Garreth.” She said without looking up.

“Hello to you too! You have no idea why I sat down. Maybe I have questions about our homework for muggle studies, or I need ideas for a date with Imelda, or perhaps I just enjoy your sunshiney company!”

“Is it any of those things?” Elle smirked at him.

“No, but I wanted to seem mysterious.”

“I have no desire to spend time with Prewett.”

“He’s not a bad guy!”

“Then why did he threaten to shove Ominis’ head in a toilet?!”

“To be fair, Ominis started it.”

“He hates Slytherins. I am one, in case you haven’t noticed.”

“Look, Elle, Prewett’s really rattled about what he saw. He’s trying to understand it and wants to at least get to know you a bit.”

“Yes, but I don’t!” Elle said, full of frustration.

“Don’t make me do it.” Garreth said with a sly smile.

“Do what?”

“Oh you know EXACTLY what I’m referring to.”

“No, I don’t.”

“Fine, allow me to remind you. I took the fall for you in potions class when you nearly blew up half the classroom. I’m officially cashing in my favor.”

“Come on, anything else! I’ll let you copy my homework!”

“Nope. One date with Prewett.”

“Absolutely not! You didn’t say anything about a date!”

“May I remind you that I got detention for a month?”

“Ugh!” Elle put her head down on the desk.

“He’ll pick you up at seven! Wear something nice!” Garreth grinned at her as he left.

“She agreed?!” Prewett was dumbfounded.

“Sort of.”

“What does that mean, sort of?”

“She owed me a big favor and I cashed in.”

“I don’t know, Garreth. It’s pointless if she doesn’t really want to be there.”

“Mate, if you’re waiting for a day where she’s going to willingly agree, it’s not happening. Go on the date.”

“Fine.”

“Um, you’re welcome, by the way! I told her you’ll pick her up at 7, wear something nice!”

“There!” Imelda put the last pin in her hair.

“Thank you, Imelda.”

“Just so you know, I’m on your side with this. Prewett can be an ass.”

“Yes, well your boyfriend cashed in on the favor I owed him for this so I’m going to try to get through it with an open mind.”

“Alright, here are the shoes. Try not to break your neck.”

She took the nude colored spikey heeled shoes from Imelda with a raised eyebrow.”Are these shoes, or a weapon?”

“Garreth is a lot taller than me. Prewett is tall too, so they’ll give you a boost.”

“Are you sure about this dress?” Elle looked at herself in the mirror self-consciously. The dress was royal blue with a flared skater skirt, much shorter than anything she owned.

“Yes, you look stunning!”

“Thanks for your help, Mel.”

“Of course! Let me text Garreth and see if Prewett is here yet.”

“Holy shit.” Sebastian whispered to Ominis as they approached the Slytherin common room.

“What?”

“It’s Prewett! He’s here with a bouquet of roses! Poor sod.”

“Oh dear. I don’t see this ending well. Perhaps we should just go to the undercroft.”

“And miss this, are you kidding?!” Sebastian gaped. “I just wish I had popcorn.”

“He’s here. Are you ready?” Imelda asked Elle.

“I suppose.” She and Imelda went downstairs and she opened the common room door. She was surprised to find Prewett standing there with a bouquet of roses. “Oh fuck.”

“I’m sorry?” Prewett raised his eyebrows.

“Sorry, I just…wasn’t expecting…thank you, they’re lovely.” She blushed a deep shade of crimson and took the flowers.

“I’ll put them in some water in our room.” Imelda said with a grin.

“Thanks, Mel.”

“Are you ready?” Prewett asked, looking as nervous as she felt.

“Sure, I guess.”

“Have her back by midnight!” Imelda said gleefully before slamming the door.

“Um, you look lovely, Elle.” Leander said quietly.

“You don’t have to say that.” She blushed.

“Why? I meant it. You look very nice.”

“Oh! Um, thanks.” She felt even more nervous.

“Shall we?” He extended his elbow and she looked at him like he was crazy. She hesitantly took it, surprised at the firm muscles in his arms.

“So where are we going?” Elle asked as they began walking.

“I thought maybe we could grab some dinner, there are a couple of nice restaurants in Hogsmeade.”

“Alright.” Why was she so nervous?

Prewett froze and exhaled before turning to face her. “Look, I’m just going to come out and say it, I’m super nervous since we’ve never really spent any time together and you hate me and Garreth sort of made you come.”

“I don’t hate you.” She replied.

“Really?”

“I dislike you, but I wouldn’t call it hate.” She grinned at him.

“I suppose that’s better than hatred.” He smiled in return.

“And technically I could’ve told Garreth no. He couldn’t force me to do it. Also, there are much worse things for him to have cashed his favor in on.”

“What exactly did he do to collect such a big favor from you?”

“Oh, I nearly blew up the potions classroom. I wasn’t paying attention and grabbed the wrong ingredient. He took the fall for me.”

“Wow, he was already in enough trouble with professor Sharp.”

“I know, but he leaned over and whispered ‘I’ve got this, I won’t get in nearly as much trouble as you.”

“I’m pretty sure Garreth could blow up the school and get away with it.”

They stopped as they saw Ominis and Sebastian. “Oh, hi guys.” Elle said nervously.

“Elle. Don’t tell me you’re seriously going out with this jackass.” Sebastian said, looking at her like she was crazy.

“Don’t start, Sallow.” Prewett glared.

“Can’t you just go out with one of the girls from your fan group?”

“Hello, Ominis.” Elle said, quietly squeezing his hand while the other two boys bickered.

“Hello, Elle. You smell lovely.”

“Thanks, it’s something that Imelda sprayed in my hair.”

“-oh SCREW YOU, Prewett!”

“I’d better intervene.”

“Do try to have a good time.” Ominis smiled.

“HEY! JACKASSES!” They both stopped and looked at her. “Sebastian, stop acting like an asshole. Prewett, stop letting him rile you up. Let’s go before my feet begin bleeding from these death traps masquerading as shoes!”

“Fine. But I’ll be waiting up for you.” Sebastian glared.

“You really don’t have to, I don’t think Prewett intends to murder me, and also we both know I could take him down in a heartbeat.”

“Hey!” Prewett protested.

“Let’s goooo.” Elle practically dragged him along.

“You couldn’t take me down in a heartbeat, I think-AUGH!” Prewett’s legs were swept out from under him.

Elle extended her hand to him. “What were you saying?”

“That was a cheap shot!”

“Ok, fine, you’re prepared now. Go on, attack me.”

“I don’t want to attack you, we’re supposed to be going on a bloody date!”

“Ugh, fine.”

They walked in silence until they got out of the castle. They began walking the path to Hogsmeade since it wasnt too far, and a nice evening. There was a group of Gryffindor girls who giggled and whispered as they passed. Elle stuck her middle finger up at them.

“You just make friends wherever you go, don’t you?” Prewett said sarcastically.

“I stand up for myself. Unlike you, I don’t have a legion of fans. Quite the opposite. I can’t blame them, knowing my family, but still, I won’t let them push me around.”

“Why does that matter, your family?”

“Don’t pretend like you don’t know.”

“I don’t, actually. To be honest, I’m not sure I even know your last name.”

Elle gaped at him. “We’ve been in school together for seven years! How self-absorbed are you?!”

“Well I don’t know EVERYONE’S last names!”

“Selwyn. Elle Selwyn.”

“Oh. OH!” Prewett’s eyes widened. “Um, yes, I’m familiar with your family.”

“Wonderful.” She said sarcastically as she stomped ahead of him.

“My family would kill me if they knew I was going out with a Selwyn girl.”

She whipped around to face him. “That! That is the exact reason I’m treated differently! And why Ominis is treated differently! Because people like you hear our last names and assume the worst! You know what, forget it.” Other people on the path to Hogsmeade were giving them strange looks and making a wider path.

She pushed past him and headed back towards the castle. “Elle, wait!”

“No. I have no interest in getting to know someone who has already made a thousand assumptions about me.”

“Don’t act so self-righteous! You’ve made assumptions about me too!”

She turned around with a venomous glare. “Have I been incorrect? Did you not immediately feel differently towards me? Perhaps a bit nervous for people to see you with me? Leander Prewett, the golden boy and Elle Selwyn, the venomous snake!” She turned around and began leaving again.

“My god, would you stop yelling and being angry with me for five minutes?!”

“Excuse me, did I hear you say you were Elle Selwyn?” An older woman asked.

“What’s it to you?!” She snapped.

The old woman gave her a wicked smile. “A Selwyn girl would fetch me a pretty penny.”

Elle’s eyes widened and just as Prewett shouted at her to look out, he was struck over the head and knocked out.

Prewett bolted upright with a gasp. “Elle!” He began frantically looking around and realized his arms were bound at the wrist. “ELLE!”

“Quit your screaming, she’s fine.” The old woman glared at him. “So you’re a Prewett boy? Not worth quite as much, but I imagine your family would like to keep you alive.”

He finally saw Elle’s small form in the corner of the cell they were in. It was fairly dark but he could see the rise and fall of her chest. “Fuck! Elle!” He tried his best to make his way over to her, but with arms and feet bound, it was difficult.

“What did you do to her? What the fuck did you do?!” He was trying not to panic, but they were both bound and wandless.

“She’s fine, but you won’t be if you don’t shut your mouth!” The woman stormed out and he heard a door slam, leaving them in almost total darkness.

“Oh my god. Oh my god! FUCK!”

“I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be brave?” Elle mumbled.

“ELLE!” He crawled over by her as she slowly sat up.

“God, Prewett, my head is pounding, would you stop screaming?!” It was then that he noticed she had a head injury too.

“Are you alright?”

“Bloody fantastic!”

“THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR SARCASM!”

“Can you get my shoe?”

“What?” He blinked at her.

“My shoe! Can you get it?”

“You’re worried about the shoes? I’ll buy Imelda new ones.”

“FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE ME THE SHOE!”

He scrambled over to her and used his hands to the best of his ability to get her shoe off. “This isn’t easy, you know!” He got her shoe and awkwardly handed it to her as best he could.

“Come here, as close as possible.”

“I don’t think now is the time to-” He looked at her furious expression and silently scooted over.

“Luckily Imelda seems to like shoes that double as weaponry. Pull your wrists apart the best you can, it’ll cause the rope to stretch.” She attempted to use the heel of the shoe to cut through the rope to no avail. “Fuck. Ok, I have another plan, but you won’t like it.”

“What is it?”

“I’m fairly certain I can cast a wandless severing charm, but you might get cut.”

“Since our other option is to be stuck here, I suppose it’s worth a shot. Just…try not to cut me.”

“Right. Ok. Hold still.” She took a deep breath. “Diffindo.”

Prewett let out a small yelp, but his hands were free. “I think you cut my arm.”

“Sorry, now undo the ropes on my hands.”

He scooted behind her and undid the ropes as best he could with his trembling hands. Once her hands were free, she started on the ropes at her feet.

“Hey Elle?”

“What?” She looked up and he was staring at her. “What?” She repeated herself.

Leander pulled her face to his and kissed her, which was a lovely moment until she slapped him upside the head. “Not now!”

“So later, maybe?” He smiled.

“We’ll see how it goes. Untie your feet.”

He got the ropes off his feet and looked to her for direction. “Now what?”

“Try to locate our wands.”

Prewett got up and walked to the bars of the cell. “I think they’re on that table. Any chance you know a wandless summoning charm?”

“I can try.” She walked up beside him. “Accio!” Nothing happened at first and she swore. She took a deep breath and tried again. “Accio!” This time her wand rolled off the edge of the table to the floor. “Ugh!”

“Where did you learn wandless magic?” Prewett asked.

“There’s a book in the restricted section. Accio!” It rolled closer.

“You’ve been in the restricted section?!”

“You haven’t?” She asked.

“No, it’s restricted! It’s in the name!”

“So is the forbidden forest, but I go there all the time. ACCIO!” Her wand rolled forward enough for her to pick it up. “YES!” She let out an excited giggle before summoning Leander’s wand.

“Alright, I don’t know how many people are out there or what to expect, so stay behind me.”

“Shouldn’t I be in front of you?” Prewett asked.

“Why?”

“Well, I’m a gentleman, and a gentleman always protects his lady.”

She wrinkled her nose in disgust. “Just stay behind me.” She blasted the lock off the door. She removed her other shoe and held onto it. Prewett followed close behind.

The door flew open. “What the hell-”

“STUPEFY!” Elle sent the woman stumbling backwards. “Incarcerous!” Magic chains wrapped around her. “Do you see my purse?”

“What’s it look like?”

“A purse! It looks like a bloody purse! I don’t imagine there’s an abundance of them in here!”

“No need to take my head off! Here it is, and my phone.”

“Text someone and tell them we’re in danger, quickly!”

Leander sent a quick text and put his phone in his pocket. “Alright.”

She began moving forward. “Hey, don’t you want your bag?”

“A gentleman carries a ladies bag!” She shouted back to him as she pushed the door open. He sighed and followed along.

They found themselves in a large, dusty looking room. “Where are we?” Prewett asked.

“I’m not certain, but I think it’s some sort of ruin. There’s a lot of dirt and crumbled bits around.”

“You’re not supposed to be in here!” A voice shouted. They were quickly swarmed and began firing spells.

Prewett thought he was making pretty good progress until he looked and saw Elle had taken down twice as many enemies as him. He saw one coming up behind her that she didn’t notice. “ELLE! BEHIND YOU!’

Elle turned around and slammed the high heeled shoe she’d been holding into the man’s face. It gouged him in the eye and he was screaming. She depulsoed him out of the way and acted like it was nothing.

Prewett, on the other hand, promptly turned around and threw up. Luckily it was on a dark wizard who’d been sneaking up on him, so it was a good defense. The man swore loudly and Prewett swung the purse and knocked the man out cold. “My god, what do you keep in this purse?!”

Leander looked around and realized it was quiet. He turned around and watched Elle pull the shoe out of the man’s face. The eye was still attached and she gave an annoyed sigh and plucked it off. Prewett turned around and vomited again.

“Jesus, I didn’t know you were so squeamish!”

“You ripped that man’s eye out of his head!”

“He’s dead, what does he need it for?!”

Prewett let out a small chuckle. Then a louder laugh, which turned into a full on knee-slapping laugh.

“Fuck, you’ve lost your marbles.” Elle swore.

“I’m sorry, it’s just- we were going on a DATE and somehow we ended up here and you just ripped a man’s eyeball out! I keep waiting to wake up but it hasn’t happened yet!”

He was still laughing when Elle slapped him across the face. “HEY! Laugh when we’re safe! We need to keep moving.”

Little bursts of laughter were still spilling out of him as they went onward. Elle tripped and fell, letting out a string of curse words.

“Elle!” He helped her to her feet and she had tears streaming down her cheeks.

“FUCK, I think it’s broken!” She was holding her left foot up and her ankle was at an angle it definitely shouldn’t be. Prewett gagged and she shouted “DON’T YOU DARE THROW UP ON ME!”

“I’m ok, it’s alright. Do you have any potions?”

“No, I didn’t think I’d be needing them!”

“Right. Ok, I’ve got an idea. Climb onto my back.”

“Absolutely not.”

“Would you rather walk on a broken ankle?!”

-PLEASE GO FIND THE OTHER HALF THAT I REBLOGGED BECAUSE I’M A DUMBASS-

[emberfrostlovesloki]

Aaron and Criminal Minds December Prompt List [a ramble]

Photo credits after the tag list

Good evening loves! We made it to November! It’s hard to believe. I know it felt like crawling over some metaphorical finish line to get here, but I made it and you did too, and I’m proud of you for that! As we start ramping up to the holiday season, I’ve been having Hotch thoughts, as per usual. This month I thought I’d make a prompt list and share it with anyone who would like to write along, a la @imagining-in-the-margins. I won’t write for all of these, but I will for at least a few. The rules for using these prompts are that there are no rules! You could use any Criminal Minds characters, OC’s, reader inserts, etc. You could draw, write, make mood boards, or anything else you can imagine. I have included 31 prompts for each day of the month. I also get inspiration from plain old words, so I’ve included 10 December-y words that might inspire something. I've tried to keep the prompts non-holiday center as everyone has their own traditions/faiths. Lastly, I’ve included a few dialog and art prompts too. You can find that all below the cut. If any of these prompts inspire you to create, I’d love to be tagged to see what you have made. This is all just for fun. I wish everyone a great start to the month. Please know I’m proud of you wherever you are right now. Love - Levi ❄️❄️❄️

General Prompts

Character A gets Character B and an advent calendar. 

Character A’s child is in the school pageant with Character B’s child. 

The team gets snowed in on a case. 

Character A goes caroling and sees Character B get into a dangerous situation; Character A intervenes. 

Character A buys some holiday-themed underwear to surprise Character B with. 

Character A buys a gift that can’t be wrapped for Character B. 

The sidewalk is icy and Character A unceremoniously falls into Character B. 

Character A is too sad to celebrate the holidays and Character B provides some comfort. 

Characters A and B get stranded in the airport trying to get home for the holidays after their flight gets grounded. 

Characters A and B read A Christmas Carol aloud to a group of children. 

Christmas dinner at Rossi’s. 

An unsub strikes while the team is off, so they have to come together. 

Characters A and B bump into each other at a Christmas tree lot. 

Character A knits/crochets a scarf for Character B which is way too long. 

Characters A and B find a stray kitten in the cold and decide to adopt it. 

Santa Clauss is a woman this year. 

Character A buys gender-affirming clothing for Character B as a gift and to let them know they accept them as they are. 

The team watches the most cringy Hallmark holiday movie they can find. 

Character A shares their spice wine recipe with Character B. 

Characters A and B serve at a shelter for those less fortunate. 

Character A and B are forced into the office alone - work does not get done. 

Characters A and B meet at an ice skating rink. 

Character A has been overworking themself and Character B does the holiday prep for them. 

The team makes sure everyone’s dietary needs are met before the office potluck. 

Characters A and B take the next step in their relationship. 

Characters A and B find themselves under the mistletoe. 

Character A makes a revelation about Character B. 

Character A hears Character B sing for the first time. - forthcoming for my love, Rome (@criminalskies)

Character A looks for a sexy outfit for New Year's Eve. 

Characters A and B plan for the future. 

Classic New Year’s kiss shenanigans. 

Word Prompts

Yuletide 

Twinkle 

Snowball 

Sweater 

Bitter 

Gingerbread 

Fireplace 

Avalance 

Stocking 

Flannel 

Dialog Prompts 

“Wait, you LIKE eggnog?” 

“If anyone says anything about mistletoe I’m going to scream!” 

“I’d tell you what I want for Christmas, but it will make you blush.” 

“Ohhhh… I didn’t mean it to be an ugly sweater…” 

“Hey, just a heads up. My friends will think we’re fucking.” 

“Let’s skip the office party and go out on the town instead.” 

Art Prompts

Any CM kid asleep under the tree. 

Any BAU member in an ugly sweater. 

Any BAU member wearing reindeer antlers. 

Characters holding hands.

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[thedreadvampy]

Midcentury American novels update:

Finished Farenheit 451 on Thursday and it didn't hit me to the degree Catcher in the Rye did but I do completely get the sense of despair and the hunt for something to cling to. Umm also there's an actual nuclear apocalypse in this book which I. Did not know through my general cultural osmosis. And it made a lot of the stuff that initially read a bit as 'you can't say ANYTHING now cause of 50s Woke' less irritating in hindsight, cause the looming presence of nuclear war gives some real crunch to the overall theme of looking away from the discomfort of acknowledging what's wrong. Still not 100% comfortable with 'well we started burning books lest minorities become offended' as a midpoint comment but like I read this when I was 12 or 13 and very much came away with the sense that it was a shallow What If TV But Too Much kind of story that was very pleased with its own intellectualism. and I don't really think that's what it is I think it's a primal scream of WON'T ANYONE DO ANYTHING????? CAUSE I AM TOO SMALL AND TOO STUPID AND TOO COMPLICIT BUT NOBODY ELSE IS MOVING EITHER???? which you know. I can connect with at this time.

anyway then I reread One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest yesterday. That one I actually have read as an adult, like 10 years ago, and what I remembered mostly from it was the degree to which either the characters, the author, or both, truly despise women. On reread I don't think that's entirely fair, although it's hard to tell inside one character's very limited and metaphorical perspective - I don't think Ken Kesey hates women, I think that Candy and Sandy are relatively whole people and the other women in the story are avatars of the system abusing the men on the ward, so Chief Brogden sees them as such. Getting over the general 60s misogyny miasma, though, I really really liked it and stayed up very late last night finishing it, I think it has a lot of very coherent things to say about trauma, power and marginalisation and I think it's all a bit Foucault. It's odd that I remembered it as being very het-white-American-male in tone because this time around it felt very interested in how people are artificially marginalised in order to preserve power, and specifically in the violent assimilation of Indigenous communities, so I truly don't know why I went away last time feeling it was so tone-deaf. It's really good, is the thing.

(As a side note, cause Sam's copy is an 80s film tie in copy - there's no fucking way that film is good, right? Cause I actively cannot imagine how you would make a film adaptation of a book that exists so much in one mostly-silent character's head, kind of unmoored from time and moving between reality, metaphor and hallucinations, and with a fairly distant relationship to the literal events, and have it not be shit. Animation could maybe do it and you could potentially do it with a really good effects department to establish early on that this isn't a neutral, literal depiction, but even so it feels like doing this in a visual medium would undercut the fact that most of the book's story involves stuff that isn't really happening on a visual or audible level.

Like about a tenth of the text is Chief Brogden drawing connections, conclusions, describing the emotional and sensory experiences of things like dissociation, anxiety and electrocution, and generally explaining why the things that he and the other patients do that seem random make sense to him. And even with heavy voiceover it seems to me that a) a film would mostly be us watching mental patients act the way we expect mental patients to act, without the insight we get through his eyes, and b) it would inevitably need to be about what a guy McMurphy is, either positively or negatively, which to be entirely honest is kind of not what the book is about even though that's the plot of the book?)

The book isn't about McMurphy, it's about people realising they've not only had their agency taken away, but given it up themselves, and how they react to that and what it would mean to reclaim that. McMurphy's one of several people going through that arc, and he's going through it in an opposite direction to the people around him, but it's not more about him than about Chief Brogden or Billy or Harding or even Nurse Ratched. But I feel like because of how film language works, it would be very hard to make a film of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest where McMurphy wasn't the main character. And he's not. Chief Bromden is the main character as well as the narrator - his life is defined by people collapsing under unbearable pressure and giving up their freedom and agency, which is how his tribe lost their land and how he lost his agency and his power of speech, and watching McMurphy force the people in power to subdue him by force rather than him caving in, the Chief makes actual choices about how he wants to respond to power that don't involve him falling out of reality or becoming invisible. and I think like halfway through I was like 'ehhh don't really get why Kesey went with a specifically Native protagonist' and by the back end of the book it is extremely clear to me why.

Cause his arc has a lot to do with the violence against indigenous communities and while I don't think that the book is primarily a metaphor, per se, because it very much is literally about institutionalisation and the stigmatisation of inconvenient Madness, I do think it's also saying things it wants us to apply to other relationships of power and assimilation, starting with the forced assimilation and land theft of Native Americans, and touching in on class, politics, race and sexuality more generally. Not much on gender, mind - I don't think that it does actually despise women, but it also isn't very interested in interrogating anything about them other than the impacts they have on men, which 🤷‍♀️ 60s innit.

idk I liked it a lot. I liked Farenheit 451 pretty well and better than I expected to, but Catcher and One Flew have both got me in this kind of rambly post-read mode where I'm just turning them over and over in my head to look at them, you know?

[dontwalkwiththedead]

Muses and Rules.

C A N O N C H A R A C T E R S

Rick Grimes

"I don't take chances anymore."

Daryl Dixon

"Is that supposed to make me like you?"

Beth Greene

"I've survived and you don't get it,"

[ Note ] : These canon characters are the ones I've had the most experience playing and feel the most comfortable using as canon leads in a plot or ship. With that being said, there are other canon characters I'm very willing to play as side characters in a plot. :) Shane Walsh. Carol Peletier. Simon. Glenn Rhee. Hershel Greene. Carl Grimes. Sophia Peletier. Lydia.

No matter who I play canon-wise, I try my best to portray them as accurately as I can, while incorporating my own twists.

C O M I C C H A R A C T E R S.

Billy Greene

fc: Jonah Hauer-King https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pEgoeED0hsZZ0MDCty5m-0DRiPDSsp1VS1tEORNWxEY/edit?usp=sharing

"I just wanted to play my fucking drums."

Jeffery Grimes

fc: Alex Pettyfer bio coming soon

"Tell Rick Grimes, Jeffery's looking for him."

O C C H A R A C T E R S.

Peter Dixon

fc: Charlie Heaton

"You goin' in, or should I?"

Alice Henley

fc: Emilia Clarke

"I'm gonna cut off your dick, let you bleed out, then when you turn I'll feed it to you. How does that sound for serious?"

S H I P S.

( MxM, FxF, MxF. )

Canon Rick x Negan Rick x Daryl Rick x Andrea Rick x Michonne Daryl x Beth Daryl x Carol Daryl x Negan Daryl x Glenn Beth x Negan Beth x Daryl Beth x Tara Beth x Andrea Beth x Glenn ( Don't be afraid to pitch a canon ship that isn't listed here! In any ships involving Beth, she will be 18+ )

Ocs Alice x Rick Alice x Negan Alice x Daryl Alice x Andrea Alice x Tara Alice x Maggie Alice x Beth Peter x Beth Peter x Glenn Peter x Negan Peter x Rick Peter x Andrea Peter x Governor

( Don't be afraid to ship Alice or Peter with your OC or a canon character not listed. I'm open to most ideas! )

R U L E S.

(I promise I'm not mean, I just know what I like! <3 )

(18+) ONLY. I don't feel comfortable writing with minors.

MUST be okay with NSFW content. I will always respect your triggers but would like any plots we do to include some level of violence and smut. If you don't like these themes, no shame, we just aren't the right fit.

No pre-established romantic relationships. (I do make rare exceptions for this depending on the plot.)

I love ocs. I've had some incredible roleplays with amazing ones and will never turn you down for wanting to use yours. WITH THAT BEING SAID--I heavily prefer well-thought out ocs with bios, not blurbs. If I'm going to write a canon character against yours, they have to be fleshed out. I don't want their whole personality and creation to revolve around being with a canon character. It's boring. I'm here for plots and character development, not to solely fulfill fantasies. My ocs have flaws, strengths, backgrounds and can hold their own in a plot without a ship. It makes the story more exciting!

5. Pretty please put effort into the plot and the characters you play. I love smut but don't just want to write smut, or constantly have my character saving yours. I want there to be things happening around our characters, not just to them.

6. Don't pressure me for replies. I work in film and in a bar. Sometimes I get insanely busy. Most times I'm free. I will always do my best to communicate when I'm not, but if you pressure me, I simply won't respond. Especially if I don't respond for an hour and you message me three times. (With that being said if I haven't responded in like a week, feel free to follow up.)

7. If you've read this far, come say hello! I don't bite. :)

[findyourrp]

welcome, to my begging hour, apologies for this being a little long <3

🪐

Anyways, hiiiiii! I'm Chainsaw/Fami, 20. she/her, EST. My semester starts in like a few weeks so activity may fluctuate. I (try to) write a minimum of 500+ words which is split into like three paragraphs. Openers/beginning posts can stretch to 600-1000+ words and 5-10 paragraphs. I like to write, sue me. Reply times vary greatly, sometimes I can do once a day or once a week. I prefer a partner that isn't a stickler for reply time in general, I'm happy to wait (I've waited a month for a reply before) and I hope that extends to me. Please do not bump/nudge/poke me for a response, I will leave instantly. Bad experiences has lead to a zero tolerance thing with that.

Very open to ooc! I love chatting about headcanons, making fanart, playlists, etc, etc. I do not like shutting up! Let me babble about our ocs and ships! Age requirements for potential partners is 18+ for my own comfort.

I have writing samples on standby if needed, and I prefer if you could send some in your first message! Okay now onto the nitty gritty!! As the title says I'm looking for something Spiderverse or Overwatch, for canon/oc (I do doubling more on that below!). ATSV is now on streaming sites, makes my brain rot way worse! I just fucking love Spiderman, Miles is my fav. AND pve is out for ow, I'm eating!! I'm eating!!

Spiderverse

Characters I'm seeking: Miguel O'hara, Peter B Parker

Characters I can write: Gwen Stacy (very selective with my Gwen muse for reasons), Miles Morales, Hobie Brown, Spot (Jonathan Ohnn), Pavitr Prabhakar, Lyla, Peter B Parker, probably others if you ask nicely

Interested in writing Hobie, Lyla and Pav ngl but I'm happy to write anyone in general! I just wanna practice my muses since I write little short stories all the time.

Overwatch

Characters I'm seeking: Cole Cassidy (PLEASE), Genji Shimada, possibly looking for an Ashe or Mercy too,,,need to finish the girlies I want to pair with them tho Characters I can write: A lot, I used to write Overwatch a lot in the ow1 days. Some muses are rusty, some muses I hate writing in general! But just ask and I'll let you know <3

Open to AUs, canon divergence, etc. I prefer if we use the latter for our storylines, mostly because I think trying to make a plot around ATSV is tough. Same with Overwatch. Canon divergence is fun anyway, yeehaw. Hope to hear from you!!

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[epickiya722]

REACTIONS TO EPISODE 24 - A YOUNG WOMAN'S DECLARATION

Jumping right into it!!

LAST EPISODE'S REACTIONS

Starting with Nezu's UA barrier plan!

How did he become principal?!

"I also kept my eye on the threat of Shigaraki." He would. He's Nezu! He is going to be prepared.

Did Katsuki and Shoto speak at the same time? 😆

"That's why I paid for it myself!" Kaminari's reaction! 🤣 NEZU GOT BANK!!

MY GREEN BOY LOOKS SO SAD!!!

😭💔

Okay, so the civilians are mad. What is else is new?

Now truth be told, not mad but scared. Which is understandable. Everything is suddenly thrown into complete chaos.

"Doesn't having OFA make him a Nomu?" You... what crap are you smoking? Is it because he has multiple quirks?! By that logic, Shoto is a Nomu, too!

INKO RUNNING TO GET TO IZUKU, HER BABY!! HER ONLY SON!! WHY Y'ALL DO THIS TO HER?! 😭💔

KOTAAAA!!!

Class B taking care of Eri! Aaaaw! Off topic, Monoma looks good in lavender!

After Best Jeanist explained all that, someone still... can I punch him? Can I punch that guy?

"... shift the burden onto us." BITCH, HE WAS SAYING THEY NEED MIDORIYA TO REST!! THAT CHILD, HELLO!! GO TO HELL!

LET HER HUG HER SON, FUCKING PLEASE!!!

Danger sense is going off... THEY REALLY INTENDED TO HARM A CHILD THAT IS FIGHTING FOR THEM!!

THAT'S RIGHT, OCHACO!! LET THEM KNOW THAT YOUR FRIEND, YOUR CLASSMATE, YOUR FELLOW HERO STUDENT IS FIGHTING!!

"Will you please look at him?!" FOR REAL!!!

Heeey, big lady! Oh, she's so adorable!

"We'll clean up the messes you can't." That's right, Katsuki! Let him know it's about teamwork!

BABY OCHACO IS SO DAMN CUTE!! 💞💞💞

"My parents always looked like they were tired, and that pained me." Ooooh, Ochaco!! I know the feeling...

"Don't tell me you want us to get all beat up like that, too?" Take off that All Might shirt, you don't deserve to wear it, you fucking disgrace.

That's right, Tenya! "She's fighting. For the sake of everyone's smiles, including yours." Heroes deserve to smile, too.

She really just wants to people to understand that they have to do this together. She wants people to smile. My feels!!!

Seeing the Midoriya's cry makes me... nope, I'm already crying! 😭😭😭

"He's just a normal high schooler!" EXACTLY!! HE STILL LEARNING!! TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF EVERYTHING AND DO GOOD BY PEOPLE!! TRYING TO TAKE ON THIS HEAVY BURDEN BY HIMSELF!!

I haven't seen him cry this hard and I just... that's right, Izuku, let it out. You need to.

The flashback to Kota getting shoes that look like Izuku's!!! 😭❤

"This is the story of how I became the greatest hero." Haven't heard that since forever!

"And the story of how everyone became the greatest heroes." Yeah, I needed to cry today.

OOH MY HEART!!

Kota, don't apologize. You still moved to comfort him, sweetie. You are still a child, you're going to be scared. More than what I can say about some people. *glares at a certain civilian wearing an All Might shirt he doesn't deserve to wear*

"So you don't have to cry anymore! It's okay!!" HE IS MY SUNSHINE!! AAAAWWW!!

The way the big lady helped him to his feet!! Ooooh, she is just so...! Her heart is so big!!

"In the end, UA said it was okay." Because UA is about it!

"Crybaby hero" okay, from her it sounds endearing.

"But I'm lucky because that meant I could see you again." Looking on the bright side of things!! Again, big heart!!

Spiky head dude from season 1! Long time, no see!

"... can't we listen to what he has to say?" THANK YOU!!

... wasn't he like always there before Izuku got into Yuuei? He was present during the Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods scene. CALLBACK CHARACTER!!

"This is the only place where he can rest up without worry." And he's right. Had he rest up at some other place, he would be always worried. Yuuei is a familiar place.

"But then the same thing would happen at Shiketsu..." THANK YOU, LADY!!

"I felt like I was in the audience and the heroes were the performers on stage... and then before we knew it, we had forgotten the soul behind the man... In the midst of that, what are those who are left fighting for? If we reject even those who are fighting now, then what'll be left for us?" BETTER LISTEN TO HIM!!

"We'll get it all back." Izuku... please... my heart...

That'sright, Hawks! THE CONNECTIONS!!

AIZAWA IS SMILING BECAUSE OF HIS CLASS!! 😭💜

They... now I'm in my feels about Shirakumo.

All Might... All Might!!!!

OKAY!! The episode made me want to cry, but let's applaud Sakura Ayane's performance as Ochaco!! Amazing as always!!

[bl-recs-and-reviews]

This is BL challenge for you (if you choose to accept them).

1.a) Please write your top 3 or top 5 favorite tropes in BL.

b) From each trope, write at least 3 BL that you love.

(Feel free if you want to write the reasons or not of why you love them).

2. a) What is the first BL that make you want to know more about and eventually love BL?

b) What is that one BL that have a special place in your heart (for whatever reason)?

The BL can be in in the form of manga, manhwa, manhua, books, tv series or movies.

Thanks so much if you want to answer this long ask.

This looks like fun :) I accept!

Sorry for the late reply this took a while to answer properly ❤ It' so hard to choose

1. Top 5 Favorite Tropes in BL and corresponding shows (in no particular order)

Arragended relationship: - Seven Days (manga) - Now this is one of my favorite manga of all time. So simple yet so good. How you end up falling in love with someone as a result of an experiment - Ookami e no Yomeiri (series/manhwa) - This one is beautiful to look at. Not for the people that cringe at furry stuff. It's an arranged marriage, and how by observing/looking at the other person you like what you discover. - Kieta Hatsukoi (series/manga) - This one is probably known by all. Cute, simple, funny and light hearted. Honestly the more time goes by, the more I think of it fondly ❤

Enemies to lovers: - We Best Love (series) - It's not everyday that a show manages to do an enemies to lovers twice with the same couple. I particularly love S2. And how the love is clearly still there but the hurt is still hurting. - Bad Buddy (series) - Not perfect but with perfect moments. Some amazing scenes that will forever be my favorite. The rooftop scene particularly makes me put it here ;) - Semantic Error (series/manhwa) - The best kbl out there. Proper enemies to lovers, with an adorable height difference. Amazing. 10/10

Miscomunication (done right) - My Personal Weatherman (series) - I am currently losing my mind over this show because of how many of my favorite tropes are happening in it. They miscommunications on this show feel very true and understandable. And despite them they sometimes do manage to communicate well :) - Escape Journey (manga) - Ogeretsu Tanaka is one of my favorite mangaka. And in Escape Journey she manages to make a very realistic depiction of a relationships between flawed people who's happiness is stopped by their lack of communication - Cupid's Last Wish (series) - This is one of those underrated gems that not a lot of people have watched. But let me tell you I loved it, so much. Especially when you have complex relationships, made complex because of unresolved feelings and lack of understanding of the complexities of other people. I love it when characters fuck up and then have to learn to fixs thing properly

Opposites attract - Doukyuusei (manga/movie) - I feel like I talk about this one all the time, but I love it so much. It's such a good story. The pace, the build up, the characters, the love, the everything. I just love it very much. Sunshine x Glasses guy basically xD - King's Maker (manhwa) - What's with me and blond action mains and calculating dark haired with glasses smart guys? In any case, one of the only manhwa's I've read. And I love it. It's got politics, angst and pinning. What else do you need? Kabe Koji (series) - Guess who's also a sunshine boy in love with a dark broody guy? This is the epitome of opposites attract, and japan knows how to do them. Another little hidden gem that maybe not a lot of people know

Hurt/comfort - Mou Ichido Nandodemo (manga) - This is one of my favorite use of the anmesia trope. It's a short manga, where amnesia comes to fuck us around but then it gets overcome in a really cool way. One of my favorite mangas :) - Mainichi Seiten series (manga) - This was one of the first long series of various volumes that I read. It starts very lightheartedly and then goes to sorta dark places. I really liked it because of how bittersweet it was - Oni to Tengoku (manga) - This one is a comedy. With an age gap and questionable behavior older men manage to have a very sweet love story while healing from past trauma. Isn't it neat? Also I love when sex is used as a healing tool, it resonates with me

2. a) The first BL that made me interested in BL

My gosh this one is hard. I don't really remember cause it's been forever. And I was always into "unusual romances". I really liked the strong "bromance" between Zoisite and Kunsite in Sailor Moon, back when I was a kid. I think the first BL coulpe I consciously liked was Touya and Yukito from CardCaptor Sakura. So I always had a penchant for liking those secondary couples. I guess there was no proper first BL that made me interested in BL. I just ended up finding the genre because I had a prior interest.

However, probably my first proper BL was Junjou Romantica. It was the first long length BL anime that I saw. I was blown away. Up until then it had only been crumbs and soap opera side couples. Oh, how things have changed since then :)

b) A BL with a special place in my heart

So many. And it always changes. But I guess one that will always have a space in my heart is the combo Tokyo Babylon and X/1999. CLAMP's golden age of mangas are some of my favorite of all times. And X was so good (but forever in hiatus). The characters, the conflicts, the angst, the everything. Subaru and Seishirou's love story. The fate of the world depending on Kamui's love. Where else are you gonna find a story where the choice that might save the world is the selfish one? Where realizing that you're in love with your childhood friend is what might stop the fighting? And also this moment:

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If you know, you know. I wonder what I would think if I read it now, but still forever in my heart.

This was a lot of fun! Thank you so much for the ask ❤

[madtomedgar]

fanfic tropes :)

body-swap

arranged marriage

fake identities/'identity porn'/identity reveal

This is one of those hippie schools where they don't do letter grades btw.

Body swap: in theory i love love love it, but in execution it is often stupid. The potential for autonomy issues alone is so good. Like. I need the character to be preoccupied with how the other person is going to feel when they get their body back OR being kind of shitty about it on purpose and setting up the other character for The Horrors when they do get their body back (but then that needs to come to a head!). It's a great way to explore power/powerlessness if one character is physically much smaller/weaker than the other, who is much stronger and tougher. Forced empathy that nobody wants and therefore backfires horribly yes yes. The other fun thing about bodyswaps is the necessity of acting, and then you get to see how the characters see each other, and that often reveals a whole lot about their biases and assumptions. And like. Seeing how others see you is imo often A W F U L so like. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.

Unfortunately it's mostly used for silly hijinks, "why didn't u tell me???" bs, and an excuse for "what if we had to fuck. and we were in each others bodies. and we were both boys O.O" and like. yawn. Do better. The potential is sky-high here people, get it together.

Arranged marriage: frustrating. in most fandoms i'm in i just do not buy socially mandated same-sex marriage. Arranged marriage is about property transfer and alliance through future offspring. That's not compatible with same-sex relationships being given the same social capital as straight ones. So as a set up for romance, i don't love it. As angst fodder where you have characters for whom this is like. The worst option? Yes, love it. Especially if they do care about each other but the situation brings out the worst in them. As you can tell I love torturing my faves. But yeah as a set up for romance, because I can't suspend my disbelief as far as worldbuilding for gay shit, and I'm supremely uninterested in hetero romance, not my thing.

Fake identities: hmmmmmmm. I like the concept. Usually the execution is kind of half-assed. I would LOVE a long fic where post-canon Lan Xichen thinks that he's found the re-incarnation of Jin Guangyao or like. Jin Guangyao possessing someone and is determined to be with them but it's either deeply unclear whether this person really is Jin Guangyao to the audience (but could go either way but never comfortably confirmed) OR it's clear to literally everyone else that this is Just Some Guy who is grifting OR it's a ghost or demon of some kind pretending and preying on Lan Xichen's guilt for nefarious purposes, but they can't get Lan Xichen to a) believe them or b) care because like 38 years of solitary confinement have Fucked Him Up Beyond Recognition :D.

But yeah the Potential I see here is like. "I'm stuck pretending to be this person and I have to be convincing but also they were a dick to you and I really like you so uh.... please have every good thing at my hands? oh shit they're back D:" (there's a kdrama called the crowned clown with this premise and it's GREAT especially because when the love interest finds out that the dick husband has been replaced with nice husband she is SO UPSET). Or like "i love you but i know if you knew who i was you would despise me so lemme just pretend to be someone else. maybe someone specific that you do love. this will be fine because it will never come out consequences are for other people" which. Yi City. Or the evergreen "you know me as I am now but not anything about who I was which I'm pretty sure is a load-bearing ignorance. Hope nothing happens to change this" which... that's less "pretending to be a different person" but it counts. But yeah I feel like it's mostly just "ooooOOOOoooo this EVIL person was PRETENDING THE WHOLE TIME!!! *gasp*" and that is just. the most boring iteration.

[anddreadful]

full thoughts on frank wildhorn’s dracula having re-watched it in its entirety for the first time in many years:

- I watched a recent upload of an (american) community theater production, specifically because a) its sound quality was surprisingly good and b) my recent interest is because a local theater is putting it on, so given the opportunity, I wanted to see whatever version of the show is currently available for north american licensing

- the production was charming but the community theater (technically dinner theater! I went on a google hunt to find the theater and it’s only two hours from me lmao) was community-ing so I can’t really write home about the acting. or the singing although mina had a nice voice

- the one place I will dunk on the production is how hilariously chaste mina and dracula were. the biting scene was notably stiff and un-suggestive of sex despite taking place on a bed. maybe one of the actors wasn’t comfortable with doing anything more, but they had only one kiss, and it was so late in the show and such a teeny little dry peck on the lips that I hollered. at that point just don’t do it and pretend theirs is an ~intellectual connection or something

- dracula did do a creepy hair-petting thing to both renfield and Mina that I was a big fan of

- “if loving you keeps me alive, then how can leaving me be right?” is such a funny lyric. dirtbag manipulative boyfriend dracula

- I knew not all the songs were on the studio cast recording, but I had forgotten HOW MANY songs aren’t on it. where is How Do You Choose? If I Could Fly? It’s Over????? I had fully forgotten there was a life after life reprise. I was obsessed with the studio cast recording in high school and I know all those songs by heart (except for a perfect life because I think it’s bad) and now i’m like. why was I gatekept from so many of the songs!! why is there no professional english recording of Its Over!! answer me frank!!!!!

- this is not a new thought per se but a) I so love that all the suitors are present and themselves b) this show squanders them. jack has no personality whatsoever (I would trade TWO mina ballads for a jack song please I beg), arthur gets needlessly dunked on, and quincey is delightful and incredible and also narratively extraneous given that he doesn’t kill dracula or die at the end

- on that note, though, I cannot believe they included quincey being the first person to promise mina to kill her if the time comes in a book-accurate version of that scene. even the 1992 version doesn’t do that!!!! and this is basically just an adaptation of that movie!!!!! is this the ONLY dracula adaptation to include that detail? it’s a top five book moment for me so I very literally love to see it

- I understand that we had to beef up van helsing as a character SOMEHOW but was a dead wife song really the best we could come up with

- there are too many sad slow songs in this show for what it’s trying to accomplish! some of them immediately on top of each other! and some of the songs distinctly go on for just one too many verses 😭

- does the mina/ dracula romance make any sense? no. does the show make any effort whatsoever to make it? no. am I into it anyway? yeah. fuck it. I have terrible taste and so i think dracula as a disembodied voice like HI? HELLO? DON’T IGNORE ME? and mina being like “unfortunately, i’m into it” rocks

- “She Devil, Nosferatu” and “the lady in white” from that other dracula concept album are both so superior to “undead one, surrender” I almost feel bad for Frank and co there, but “the master’s song”, “life after life”, and “deep in the darkest night” still fucking slap

- the train hypnotism scene was soooo good except for the part where mina did dracula’s accent. not sure if that’s standard but I wish we hadn’t done that

- i’m not THAT well versed in musical theater as an art form and also all art is derivative etc but i do know that wildhorn has been historically criticized for derivativeness and…… yeah! you can tell where he mimics sondheim, and it doesn’t work because you can’t casually mimic sondheim and get out alive. i can’t think of the moment but there was some bit of music I could have sworn was out of Phantom, and it’s obviously a big general inspiration. not to be Boss Baby Guy but I see a lot of Les Mis DNA in it too (what is It’s Over if not The Confrontation in a goth hat)

- the dialogue between songs is serviceable at absolute best, and it’s a shame that it’s so consistently sacrificed at the altar of moving the plot the fuck along. for the most part, only mina and dracula meaningfully connect via song, so it would be nice to use the dialogue to flesh out relationships more often. lucy and mina being besties is a highlight!!!

- ultimately i had a blast but it must needs be said: the show is not good. the best possible execution of “literally just the novel dracula but dracula and mina are having a secret tragic love affair” is probably what we get in the 1992 dracula movie, and if there’s a way to translate that to stage well, it’s not this shallow, silly speedrun. but again. this trash is my trash. the painted cardboard castle of bad dracula adaptations is where i live.

- I actually think it would be really interesting to be involved in a production only because to make these characters function in terms of acting, I think you’d have to invent and extrapolate a lot in terms of motivation and characterization to supplement the text. which would be fun for me, a person who thinks about versions of dracula characters all the time already