#recongnisation

[glitterspaghettiketchup]

YEAH I CAN DRAW DIFFERENT ANIMALS FROM ANIMAL JAM!

I guess this can count as a late Valentine's Day special? So happy Valentine's Day!

[icedfiretea]

uquiz makers really do put the strangest song lyrics in their quizzes

or maybe i just dont listen to enough songs with lyrics perhaps my perception is the strange outlier

[pepsimaxolotl]

I’m actually getting my puter back in a few days this is surrral…

[alligatorangel]

why is blueys dad in the latest episode

[wolves-and-stars]

FAMOUS WOLFSTAR AU FIC RECS

(A list of the the best famous AU fics, including youtube, musician/band, and acting)

1. Sex Pistols by ArtificialAorta (ffnet) 86k

MUSICIAN/BAND AU!

I love this fic, it was on my last list too, remus is the lead singer and gutarist for the punk rock band belladonna, and he meets the lead singer of the pop band maraders, sirius black, at a press tour.

The music the author mentions in the fic is so good, it really helps you get immeresed in the scene they mention the song for.

2. Stalking Sirius by remuslives23 (ao3) 36k

MUSICIAN SIRIUS BLACK

Journalist remus lupin finds out a secret about sirius black, the lead singer of the band marauders, and uses it as leverage to gain an interview with the ever mysterious and elusive singer.

3. Whatever Words I Say by orphan_account (ao3) 23k

MUSICIAN SIRIUS BLACK

Remus Lupin is hired by lily evans and her PR company to babysit sirius black, the lead singer of her husband's band, the marauders, after the latest media frenzy cause by Sirius' cavalier attitude. Remus realises maybe sirius doesn't act out because of any of the expected reasons.

4. Never Above You, Never Below by orphan_account (ao3) 5k

ACTOR SIRIUS BLACK

Sirius just wants to shop at tesco in peace when a young boy recongnises him and drags out his father, remus lupin. It would annoy sirius, except the guy is kind of cute. (Actor! Sirius, Single dad! Remus) starring baby teddy.

5. Addicted To The Magic by orphan_account (ao3) 14k

ACTOR SIRIUS BLACK

Remus runs into a stranger on the tube and gets swept up in a whirlwind romance, except he doesnt know what the starnger does or really anything about him. Maybe he'll find out at the party sirius' invites him to?

Side pairing of james and lily, but isn't boring like all the other ones, they actually have personalities other than being the boring hetero couple.

6. Forever Is a State of Mind by orphan_account (ao3) 25k

YOUTUBER AU!

Remus lupin is runs a dance youtube channel, where he posts choreographies with his son teddy. He's also deaf and people find it hard to understand how someone who can't hear music could love to dance so much, people like rita skeeter who hires snape as a terp for a new paper article she wants to write about him. Except sanpe is the kind of terp that only signs SLS, remus runs into james, CODA, who helps him out. He also happens to introduce him to sirius black his best mate who is a MUA youtuber, with a decent amount of followers.

With a side pairing of polyamorous james/lily/regulus raising harry together. (Y'all dont understand this fic made me jump in the jegulus train way back in 2016, and ive been patiently waiting for all of you to catch up)

7. real life has no appeal by orphan_account (ao3) 7k

YOUTUBER AU!

Sirius, james and peter have a channel where they break into places overnight, trying to escape getting caught. James starts dating lily, who happens to be remus' roomate. Remus has his own channel, less break-in, more artsy. Sirius happens to text remus. They happen to fall for each other.

8. Wizard beat by eprime

MUSICIAN REMUS LUPIN

Sirius black is remus lupins biggest fan, their new roomate john finds his passion for the singer very annoying. Sirius finds his new roomate annoying, or does he?

9. The Prom Date by xivz (ao3) 48k

MUSICIAN SIRIUS BLACK

Remus Lupin does something very out of character, he sends a promposal video to Sirius Black, the very famous singer/actor/model who hes had a crush on for wuite some time.

Siruius Black happes to accept his request. And is determined to break the rules of their contract by relentlessly pursuing him.

10. The tell-all end-all with Sirius Black by wolvesandstars 1.5k

MUSICIAN SIRIUS BLACK

This one is by me, sorry about the shameless plus, i really wanted the list to have 10 in them.

Give it a try, its about how the paps speculate about sirius blacks mystery boyfriend and all the conspiracies surrounding him and his ex-best friend and ex-roomate remus lupin.

[plantsarecooleh]

My interpretations of the j+h characters

note that these just my interpretations in my au, some of these his stem from other retellings such as the musical.

Also some ships because I’m just a girl

warning, GAYS.

context:

Jekyll, utterson, and lanyon were all college buddies who met in college. Utterson had a whole love at first sight (though he thought of it more as a “passionate admiration”) for Jekyll. However, they didn’t get to spend much time together due to utterson practicing law, and Jekyll practising sciences and medicine.

For a similar reason, this led to Jekyll and lanyon growing very close, lanyon would make comments about how “if Henry were a woman, I’d marry him” (He doesn’t know it yet, but these words will get him into the worst situation ship of his life) anyhow, Jekyll and lanyon eventually hit it off, being a little more than the “good friends” they claimed to be, but uh oh! There’s a problem!

Lanyon preferred to keep things real, when it came to medicine and sciences. Sticking within the safe boundaries that were set for them by previous scientists. Jekyll, however, liked to experiment with very metaphorical sciences. These experiments were dangerous, and frankly, this obsession was terrible for Jekyll’s mental health. Lanyon tried to dissuade him, but this led to a big fight between the two.

Their breakup arc ensues.

Jekyll isn’t over lanyon (lmao imagine being hung up over your ex) lanyon gets married to a wonderful woman he loves, Lucy Harris. He doesn’t care about the rumours surrounding her. Jekyll is less than pleased about lanyon’s marriage.

characters:

Jekyll Jekyll had always had anger issues, but he also had a frail ego. He wanted to be violent, to lash out, to be loud- what he didn’t want, was for people to think he was those things. So he masked and buried his emotions under his gentle and kind persona. He is rather introverted, and dresses modestly, despite his wealth. Quite soft spoken, also. His gentleman mask cracks under very stressful situations, getting very agitated, or snapping back at people who try to talk to him. This constant masking is the core of his belief for his theory of ��� the duality of man”, when in reality, he just doesn’t know that most people don’t have anger issues. After lanyon got married, jekyll snapped. He couldn’t believe that lanyon would betray him like that- even though jekyll knew that their “relationship” was over ever since that fight. He didn’t know how much longer he could keep up this “kind and gentle Dr. Jekyll”, so he decided to cope in a way he liked to call :”the other fellow” (bonus points if you get the ref) . With this, a problem arises. Jekyll had kept his mask on for so long he forgot how to take it off. So, he made a potion he dubbed “HJ7”

Hyde Hyde is the product of HJ7, and as most interpretations of J+H suggest, it does indeed change jekyll’s appearance. and while the affects aren’t as drastic as some variations, it enough to notice, to see the man and wonder “ who is this man? He looks vaguely familiar”. But as for the drug’s effect though, that is about how far it goes. “Releaseing Hyde” is more of a placebo effect for jekyll. And he uses this to cope. He had a scapegoat, a new persona that he could use to satisfy the untasteful urges that were begging to be let out. Personality wise, hyde is mean. Really mean. He doesn’t care if you’re rich, poor, man, or woman, no one is safe from hyde’s taunts and meanace. He still can keep a polite(ish) conversation with someone, though it may turn into a treat match. Hyde is the bruttaly honest side of jekyll. The side that still likes lanyon even if he’s married, the side that has a strict moral compass no one can figure out the boundries of, the side jekyll wished he could be. And deep down, “hyde” knows he doesn’t exist. He knows that this is just a front so that jeykll has still recongnise himself as “perfect”. And he doesn’t mind and at all.

Lanyon Lanyon is a good fellow. He’s kind, he’s outgoing, hospitable, smart… but he may be a bit adamant on how sciences should stay within known boundraies. On the surface, this was the reason jekyll and lanyon fell apart. But if you were he, you’d know that jekyll was pushing the boundries of humanity, morality, his sanity near the edge with there experimental sciences. Being the caring friend he is, he tried to desuade jekyll from persuing such experiments. Jekyll thought he was crazy. Whilst trying to get Jekyll out of the hole he’s dug himself into, lanyon got dragged into a hole of depression. That was until he’s met his wife, and soon “he and jekyll” had become a thing of his past, a friviolous phase he’d had in college. Lanyon was ready to start fresh again, and if jekyll were to reach out again to reconcile, lanyon would greet him with open arms. Until then, he’ll let jekyll sort his own problems out.

Utterson Utterson is what you’d call boring. He had a strait-laced no-nonsense personality, never had stong opinions on anything and anyone, Until he met jekyll. god, how could someone be so perfect? Jekyll was kind and caring and emotional and all the things Utterson wished he was. The three friends met on the first day of college, and their relationship went strong thereafter. Though utterson wasn’t as close to jekyll as lanyon, he saw no harm in admiring from afar (stalking in a bromance way). After graduation, utterson became jekyll’s lawyer, and natrually, he was thrilled to be closer to his crush good friend. Throughout the story, jekyll and utterson have a slightly toxic relationship. Utterson being unable to say no to jekyll, and jekyll knowing that (and using it to his advantage). How else did jekyll convince utterson to write a random person into his will, even when utterson disapproves?

TL;DR

jekyll is still hung up on his ex (lanyon) and Hyde is a evilsona that’s used to cope with his anger issues

lanyon misses Jekyll, but his life is pretty good. If Jekyll wants to reconcile, great! Of not, oh well.

Utterson is pretty unemotional, until he fell head over heels for Jekyll. God, i sure hope Jekyll doesn’t exploit utterson’s feelings for him.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

It’snotthepointit’snotthepointdon’tsayitit’snotthepoinOHMYGODIWOULDDOANYTHINGFORJAREDHARRISILOVEHIMIWOULDFOLLOWHIMINTOBATTLEIWOULDTERRAFORMAPLANETWITHHIMILOVEHIM

this is so cool and also rosencrantz and guildenstern's sign names are killing me lol

[ya-boi-haru]

I talked about this in my yap cmv stream, but I want to put it here too:

An interpretation I have of the "Glitched Wings" (mainly from the Gold cmv) incident is that when Midas glitched Icarus' wings, Midas's eyes decayed in one big hit, rather than progressively like its shown in "No Way Out".

This is because the "Force" (whatever Quixis magic is responsible for chosing when and who a Quixis is - because (for example) Midas was not responsible for when Icarus was going to be Quixis, they were just chosen by a "magical force") is torn between 2 Quixis'.

Midas is long overdue to give Icarus the Quixis title, and the Quixis magic starts to flow into Icarus, but they can't control it/don't realise they can.

Now Quixis is a "Guardian" of sorts, protecting all the realities, so to hurt them would be dangerous as the realities wouldn't have a protector anymore. Midas is suffering with decay, but again, they aren't supposed to be Quixis, Icarus is and "The Force" is trying to be with Icarus.

Since Midas glitched their wings and and badly hurt Icarus/ put them in danger, "The Force" could recongnise this as someone trying to hurt the current Quixis (cause again, Icarus is supposed to be Quixis, so "The Force" is confused). So as a type of defence mechanism, "The Force" retaliated and decayed Midas' eyes to "neutralise the threat".

The two types of way the decay can spread (again, according to my interpretation/headcannon) is progressively or sudden.

Their hands progressively decayed, Quixis magic is very hands on (i.e., the movements and even the fact that Icarus *touches* stuff and it wacks) so Midas' hands decaying it's like slowly exposing them to a posion.

Versus things such as their eyes that decayed in one big hit. It was the Magic backfiring on them for using something they're not supposed to, to do something they aren't supposed to.

I also like to think the bit of decay on their chest (that you can see peeking out of their shirt in Sherbs cosplay) that matches the glitching scar on Icarus' chest, from when Fable tried to "Cut out Quixis" from them, since "The Force"/Quixis is split between two people, it affected Midas as well as Icarus.

- Which is ALSO another reason why I think Midas didn't do anything to help Icarus at that moment with Fable. Yes, they knew about Centross' sacrifice, thus knew what was about to happen, but also Midas was getting hurt by Fables actions as well and couldn't do anything to stop it or help.

Hope this all made sense, thank you for reading my yap :D

[ckret2]

Hi, love your fic it's fantastic but I was wondering, does Bills voice sound like himself? In chapter 2 Ford said he recongnised his voice but other characters like Wendy or the waitress didn't even comment on it. Is it just similar enough but not really echo-y like before?

Lot of folks asking about his voice this week! Yeah, he sounds exactly the same, except without the echoey effect.

It's a difference of exposure.

Anyone who was around town square when Bill arrived (starting at 1:50) heard his voice, but I counted and he talks/laughs for a total of 1 minute and 4 seconds, most of which is also accompanied by arriving monsters, shuffling facial features, and siccing bubbles of pure madness on the townspeople. They had very little exposure to his voice before they fled or were petrified, and they were distracted the whole time.

I believe the line "Welcome, one and all, to Weirdmageddon!" was magically projected so most of town could hear him, but not loud enough to be heard outside the edge of town, so most people only heard one (distant, distorted, possibly muffled by walls) sentence out of him before the whole world went crazy. I don't think he projected any other announcements to the rest of town.

Anybody who remained hidden throughout Weirdmageddon or who was petrified, brought in as a statue, un-petrified while Bill was outside, and evacuated before he got back, never heard his voice.

The townspeople in the robot Mystery Shack heard some yells and taunts while fighting Bill, which were partially drowned out by giant robot mechanical noises, and they were focused on fighting.

The zodiac members got about 32 seconds of dialogue when Bill arrived. For those that had never met him previously (Wendy, Robbie; McGucket met him 30 years ago but we don't know if they spoke), this is all they ever heard him say.

Wendy might have heard him speak during Sock Opera, but 1) we don't know if she was ever told Dipper was possessed, and 2) we don't know whether he actually sounded like Bill, or if switching voice actors was just an artistic effect and he actually just sounded like Dipper talking weird.

All in all... most of the townspeople have heard very little of Bill's voice, with an echoey effect, during extremely stressful situations where they were more concerned with survival, over nine months ago. It's very easy for humans to misremember, forget, or change details in their memories, especially if they're about stressful events and happened some time ago. Especially once his voice has changed from alien to human, most people won't recognize him until/unless he says something particularly Bill-ish; and if he does sound familiar, they're likely to think "huh, that person's voice sounds kinda like Bill's, what bad luck."

The waitress was working at a diner at 3 a.m. She works the night shift. She was probably asleep when Bill arrived in town, and might have never heard his voice. Wendy—meeting him in the dark—briefly thought he sounded kinda familiar... but realizing he was the infamous Toga Lady was enough to convince her THAT'S why he seemed familiar, because memory is malleable like that.

Ford spoke with Bill regularly for around three years, might have heard other recordings of him while traveling through the multiverse, spoke with him a couple more times just before/after returning to Earth, and had several lengthy conversations with him during Weirdmageddon. Ford didn't just hear Bill; he knows Bill. He'd know his voice. Plus, the attempted murder was a bit of a clue.

[fraudulent-cheese]

I mean i also forgot these two but fair point

You know for a character that takes himself so seriously he makes alot of silly expressions

deeply unserious man

[bhyancinth]

i may not know the words but my heart still recongnises the song of my people

[tazabel]

Ok, Odysseus, the raining* king of Ithaca, is my Roman Empire.

And I don't particularly mean all the "adventures" he went through or the wrong he might have done.

It's the pain of a parent who has not been able to watch his child grow up.

He remembers him as a baby. He was once very close to home, to be able to see (and raise) him still as a child, but that too was taken from him. If it weren't for the right circumstances, he might not have recongnise him in adulthood.

* I apologize for this silly joke that still makes me smile.

[whatcannotbesaid-shallbewept]

The biopic epidemic is bad for a number of reasons (awful Pacing, misinfo, general boringness) but the worst thing about them, is how empty they feel.

I love Llewyn Davis and Tick Tick Boom. Before those movies I didn't care about the early 60s folk scene, or a failed musical from the 80s. But those movies made me care.

Those movies were full of passion. Made by people who were obsessed with the topics they were making a movie about. And it showed!

But all these new age biopics (Especially music biopics) are supposedly about artists who were extremely passionate about their craft - but you feel none of it. None of them made me care.

The Biopic Epidemic has turned into a machine - put in a person's life, a barely serviceable movie comes out.

They can't lean too hard into comedy, because then the Oscars won't pay attention. They can't be about anything "frivolous" from the subjects lives, because the Oscars only give awards to movies about Important Topics.

How do serious drama movies adapt to a market full of IP, superheroes and franchises? You make a serious drama movie about something recongnisable.. like a brand. Doesn't matter if that brand is Elvis or Pop Tarts - it just has to be something people recognise.

So these movies can't be "too serious" or go too deep into any one topic, because they have to be scientifically precise brand of milquetoast to appeal to Awards and the general public.

So all the movies end up feeling the same.

No central conflict, no emotional core, no defining info beyond what you'd find on a Wikipedia article.

The bohemian rhapsody and Whitney Houston biopic might as well be the same movie with different actors. They didn't make me care about either of them.

I don't understand why I'm supposed to be excited for a Bob Dylan or Beatles biopic that will feel exactly the same as every other biopic I've watched.

These are unique people, with endlessly fascinating lives and characters. But no matter what, the movie won't feel any different from the last music biopic.

[yeahivegotanaccount]

By the way, just countering the inflated pride with 'you suck' is a really bad idea. Not because of "you're worth it and can do no wrong"-type of thing, but 'cause rather than owning up to other people you're still focusing on yourself and start making the self-punishment the get out of jail free card; start restraining yourself on the small stuff only to enjoy the depths of your cruelty on the stuff that actually matters.

Something stupid in my brain makes it so I consider arrogance fucking awesome and unfortunately telling it to go fuck itself kinda worsens the issue. Eugh. Man, why figuring out the problem doesn't solve it.

[recoveringsoulsposts]

You don’t have to be an expert to recongnise the humanity of people especially children. The lives of Israelis isn’t worth more than the lives of Palestinians. Fuck Douglas Murray and the entire conservative right. THEY HAVE NO SOULS.

FREE PALESTINE.

[fraudulent-cheese]

Now that im thinking about it, i think my favorite wlw ship involving Emma is probably her and Nichelle.

They'd be super supportive of eachother and both girls would def need it; Nichelle could use that between the first two seasons of the reboot considering her elimination from the first season, and Emma 100% needs that considering her previous relationship. Also, she's pretty lonely in the cast, like at least Nichelle has Damien.

Also their relationship to fame's def interesting to explore. Nichelle's a famous actress, and while it's never said in canon, the kind of fame that comes from getting easily recongnised by even people who don't seem to be super interested in movies implies she's probably been an actress for at least a little while (you don't get fame overnight usually). Emma on the other hand is on social media and most likely has a following on her own outside of Chase's thing. (not sure if she qualifies as an influencer? but she's probably semi popular oj the in-universe TikTok). I think their different relationships/experiences with fame would be interesting to contrast between eachother.