#ridiculous interview

[mxanigel]

impulsive OC interview

"Interviewer": Thanks for taking the time to chat with me today.

Shion: This is silly. You realize this is silly, right?

Yes.

All right. Just making sure.

So let's dive right in. How do you feel about being pregnant?

Oh, you're starting there. It's honestly not something I wanted. I've never seen myself as a mother. You know full well why.

*coughs*

A n y w a y. Just because I've never desired it doesn't mean I'm opposed to it. Though did you have to pick those particular circumstances?

Which ones, specifically?

That might be the worst possible time for Levi to discover that he's going to be a father.

Perhaps, but would you want to raise this child any earlier?

*pauses* You have a point. However, he might have liked it to happen earlier.

In the middle of a war?

All right, perhaps not. Were you going somewhere with these questions?

You derailed the interview by asking your own.

That makes it a conversation, doesn't it? And you enjoy conversations.

True. I did want to ask about the child's name. Why Petra Zoë Ackerman?

All three of us care deeply about remembering those we've lost, and we all knew Petra. Though I didn't know her for as long, she was essential to me fitting in despite being an outsider. I didn't realize it at the time, but she helped me remember how to make friends, how to open up to others. Perhaps I would've eventually been honest with Hange and vulnerable with Levi, but perhaps not given how much shit hit the fan starting with the disastrous 57th Expedition.

Whoa. I didn't realize that.

Why does this not surprise me? *laughs* At this rate, you should've called the fic "Where Did This Come From?" rather than "Cut to the Feeling."

Ouch.

As for the rest of our daughter's name, it includes Ackerman for what I hope are obvious reasons, and I insisted on Zoë because Hange is as much her parent as myself or Levi. And that's plenty for one little girl. I didn't need to burden her with my last name as well.

That's so cute~

I'm glad you think so. Though that comment means I need to remind you just how damned silly this exercise is.

Sure. Just roll with it for me, please?

Fine. What else do you want to know?

The three of you fall in varied places along the ace spectrum. How do you feel about, you know, sleeping with them?

*chuckles* For someone who writes smut, you sure like to be coy with questions like these.

Shush.

On the surface, it may seem strange, right? People should want sex to have sex. And I do. Occasionally. For me, there's a gap of sorts between the "attraction" part and the "having sex" part. In general, I don't feel sexually attracted to other people -- I see a person, they're a person, perhaps a gorgeous person, yet sex just isn't part of the equation. Raunchy jokes and conversations aside, sexual thoughts often don't occur to me in situations others might see as inherently sexual. For example, sleeping next to Levi is one of my favorite things in the world, but that's because we're vulnerable when we're sleeping, and him being comfortable with me at his side in such circumstances brings me so much joy. I'm so happy he's amenable to snuggling.

But back to your question. If I'm going to have sex, I need to be in love with that person first. And I'm in love with Levi. So sleeping with him in the not-literal sense appeals to me, assuming I'm up for sex in that moment. The same goes for Hange, though sorting out those feelings takes a while. But you already knew that.

Hey, OT3s are new to both of us.

I'm not sure whether I should berate you or thank you for being your guinea pig here.

How do you even know what a guinea pig is?

What, you think we don't have pets within the Walls?

I hadn't considered it before. Okay, this feels like a good place to stop.

Here? Not earlier? *laughs*

Thanks for playing along, Shion.

Sure. But I recommend against making a habit of this.

I don't plan to!

[vampiricshadow]

[daftmooncretin]

supernatural movie reboot but its a ghostfacers mockumentary about their attempt to make a “serious film” about sam and dean winchester. opens on ed and harry going “CUT!” and the camera pans to a guy that looks kind of like jared padalecki pulling off a party city wig. turns out the finale was actually part of the ghostfacer’s retelling of supernatural. Sam Dean and Castiel spend the entire movie chasing after ed and harry trying to stop the thing being made. (its a huge commercial success and they screen it at the destiel wedding)

[mcqraw]

they want to fuck each other so bad it makes them look stupid

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[gilf-armand]

okay fine here’s your iwtv gay sex collection! take it!!!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

“mia why did it take you 45 minutes to make an instant noodle”

well uh

well

look i got more ingredients in my kitchen than good sense okay

[chirpychipslive]

rick wright cluelessness moodboard

[shop5]

If AMC Vampire Chronicles keeps Daniel around to write down Lestat’s account I keep imagining the opening scene like:

“My name is Lestat, I’m six feet tall–”

camera pans to Daniel, unimpressed, typing 5’10” at best into his laptop.

[whirlybirbs]

tbh i have a running gag in my head about the mha heroes + late night talk shows, but all i can really muster rn is: dynamight and sabrina carpenter on snl.

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Look at this sad pathetic baby 🥺

Lestat in And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else

[kanakori]

thinking about this still.... for no reason

[rodrickheffeley]

Claudia im sorry I wasn’t your mother . I wish I could blow up every man on iwtv with my brain.

[thestarsarecool]

GEOFFREY: Do you think you were ever Paul McCartney's best friend?

DENNY: I don't know. I felt we were friends. Whether I was his best friend ...

GEOFFREY: Well, there wasn't anyone else who was around anymore, was there?

DENNY: No. But I mean he had his brother, he had his family.

GEOFFREY: Was he very close with Mike?

DENNY: Yes. But in an elder brother sort of way. I mean he certainly wouldn't spoil Mike, but he'd still buy him a car once in a while or help him out. I don't think they were the best of friends all the time. There's a competition there, but then you get that in a lot of families.

GEOFFREY: Personally, I think Mike is extremely talented and his McGear allbum was brilliant. I always look on that LP like a Wings album.

DENNY: Yes. Well, we all played on it. Paul was very much the main man there, the producer.

GEOFFREY: I don't quite understand why it didn't do anything.

DENNY: I know. That's always upset me as well. Let's put it this way: if Paul had pushed that like he did his own albums, it would have been big, and it deserved to be. Frankly, I was a little bit disappointed that Paul didn't get behind that. I think he mainly left it to Mike. We all know that Mike hasn't got his kind of money and couldn't have promoted it properly.

GEOFFREY: It's funny how he never drew Mike into the family business.

DENNY: Mike might not have wanted to, you know. There's that brotherly rivalry there.

Source: Geoffrey Giuliano Interview with Denny Laine, 1989. Transcribed in Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney.

[mikimeiko]

Beautiful babygirl who has done nothing wrong in the entire history of the universe <3

[petit-papillion]

That's my self-aware football king. 😘