#so clearly this is also a universal experience 😂

[mikahorror]

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when i say i am stunned i mean i am shaken to my core!!!!?!!!!?!! it's been almost a week since i read this and i only sorta have concrete thoughts. prince of lust is not uncomfortable simply because it's smut. the premise is priest regrets his vows so he summons asmodeus, which is funny. not 100% sure on the time period but you can't be this down bad 😭 but the actual story is guy is literally beaten as a child (not described in detail) because he said an older boy was beautiful which led him to eventually try hiding in the church & he's now in his mid 30s. whole time i'm reading this like

and then to perform the ritual he has to draw a pentagram and cut his palm. the amount of will it took to not roll my eyes was astronomical but it was also kinda funny so 🤷🏾‍♀️ and i'll just leave it there.

then when asmodeus shows up he basically beats this poor man & i am questioning the choices that led me here 😂 but also he's a demon....not a sparkling example of, well anything. when the young priest interrupted i low-key panicked

this young man is doomed lol but instead (somehow) this 20 something year old walked in on a guy getting dry humped by a demon & did some mental gymnastics that would qualify for the Olympics.

and managed to walk away from it!

and here i'm thinking hmm that was short. like the clown i am.

if you don't like mentions of blood just don't pick this novella up. there's more than a little bit considering no one dies. pretty much every time don alessandro gets touched he ends up bleeding 😶 i don't understand?? not why he's being cut, claws duh. but he summons asmodeus twice in one night. you know not following god or demons is an option right???

and the tail. i just 👁️👄👁️ i don't consider myself naive but what dafuq

that's not where that goes!!!

anyway i didn't enjoy reading this one i don't think, but i don't really think it's awful. i just walked into the wrong class that's all.

[genericpuff]

I saw your "hades and apollo looking at Persephone the exact same" post and like honestly??? This series would be so much better if Hades/Persephone were intended to be toxic and Hades was MEANT to be a manipulative asshole. There are so many panels where everything is designed to make it look like Hades is the bad guy (hades following/"rescuing" persephone during the proposal) and like... ugh if it was INTENTIONAL it would be so much more interesting for the story. But it's not and it bothers me so much.

Also your "Thanatos yelling at Hades with Hades speech to Kronos" edit made my whole life, I was literally liveblogging my reading of the chapter to a friend on discord and i was telling them that everything Hades said to Kronos is something Thanatos deserved to tell Hades and I wanted someone to make an edit. So thank you for reading my mind somehow and making it 😂💖

Right, I've been dying over the same thought for ages now, if the whole point of LO was to showcase a girl being groomed and manipulated into becoming a worse person due to a richer and older man taking advantage of her... then maybe I'd be singing praises about what it's accomplished because as it stands, I really can't celebrate LO as being a "romance" in any way shape or form.

Either that, OR it should have stayed as like, a feel-good fluffy office romance story. Like if it had stayed in the territory of S1 with Persephone going to university and working in the Underworld without delving into any of the crazy supernatural fertility goddess / Kronos returning BS. Sure, considering it's Greek myth obviously it wouldn't be as 'fun' to have the characters not be actual gods who get into supernatural tussles, but LO just... isn't being written by someone who's capable of writing stories to that scale, and it's especially evident throughout the entire third season. Rachel should have just stuck to the character-driven plotlines with the grounded and intimate story beats (slice-of-life type stuff).

That's not to say she shouldn't ever try to write a bigger story with higher stakes and more intricate plotlines, but like... she's clearly not ready for that yet and I hope at the very least LO has been a learning experience for her so that her next story will either be more grounded or at the very least organized better if she can't resist doing a larger-than-life story.

also ur welcome LOL though honestly I can't take credit for that because that was basically ALL of us reacting to that scene like... wtf, this is what Thanatos should be saying to Hades fr LOL so have some confidence in knowing that you weren't alone in feeling that LMAO

[eiightysixbaby]

hey girlll i hope ur having an amazing day and feeling just as i have a fluffy request for older eddie!

we made him dinner after he’s had such a long day at work and when he cuts in the steak😂😂😂😂😂 it’s raw😬😬😬 (def not speaking from personal experience.. BUT ALWAYS MAKE SURE ITS FULLY COOKED.) and ur like mortified like😳😳😨😨😨😰😰😰 but he’s like 🤣🤣🤣🤣 let’s just order pizza boo

hiiiii girly I’m doing well & I hope you are too! 💕 this is so cute I love older!eddie 🫠

cw: just fluff! and mentions of food obviously

All Eddie knows is that the ache in his back is enough to bring him to his knees. And then his knees hurt too, so he probably wouldn’t be able to get back up if he went down.

He also knows that your sweet, cheerful face and bright little attitude are a cure-all, and the fact that he gets to come home to you makes the bad days at work that much easier.

This is further proven when the front door swings open before he’s even fully out of his truck, your smile wide as you come bounding down the driveway to greet him.

“Woah, girly, what’s up with you?” he asks, grinning as he accepts you into his arms.

Your face smushes against his chest, inhaling his scent without caring that he’s sweaty and grease-stained from the shop. “Missed you, handsome,” you hum, looking up at him and scrunching your face when he presses a kiss to your nose.

“Missed you, sweet girl. What’re you up to?”

“I cooked you dinner,” you say, biting back a smile as you start to pull him towards the house. Your excitement is palpable, clearly proud of yourself, and he finds it too adorable to explain.

“Sweetheart,” he says, stopping you in your tracks to pull you back into him, pressing a chaste kiss to your mouth. “You didn’t have to do that for me. Know you’re busy, too.”

“I know I didn’t have to. But I wanted to. I tried something different,” you say, averting his gaze. “I just hope it’s good, I’m a little nervous.”

“Baby, you made it, so it’ll be great,” he assures you, finally stepping through the threshold into his home.

The kitchen is tidied up, the only remnants of your cooking session being the dishes soaking in the soapy sink and, of course, the food itself. The table is set, two plates at each of your respective seats, glasses of wine poured. There’s a couple of candles lit, too, and he wonders how you just knew today was a stressful day. You always seem to magically know when he needs a little pick-me-up.

“What do you think?” you ask, rocking back and forth on your heels.

He just gapes at you for a second before he’s picking you up and spinning you, kissing all over your face when he sets you down. His stubble scratches your cheeks, his calloused fingers cupping your face.

“I think I have no idea how I bagged the hottest, sweetest, most thoughtful girl in the whole damn universe,” he says, smiling when you laugh.

“Oh, please. It’s just steak. I just know you always order one when we go out anywhere nice and I figured I’d try to make it myself…” you trail off, looking up into his soft brown eyes.

“Well then let’s try it, shall we?” he asks, pulling out your chair and letting you sit before he takes his spot across from you.

You don’t even pick up your fork, chewing at your nail as you watch him prepare his utensils. He presses the knife to the meat, making a clean cut into it as you observe with baited breath. His expression is unreadable as he looks down at his plate, and he opens and shuts his mouth as if he doesn’t know what to say.

“What’s wrong with it?” you ask, already putting your head in your hands. “Oh, my god. I messed it up didn’t I?”

“Sweetheart, hey, it’s okay,” he soothes, voice gentle as ever. “It’s just… it’s… raw.”

“Raw!?” you repeat, mortified in your seat as you look at him. “Oh my god, Ed, I’m so sorry. I just wanted to do something nice for you! And I screwed it up and you’ve had such a long day, and now we don’t even have dinner—”

He’s up and out of his seat in an instant, cutting off your rambling as he kneels beside your chair. “Baby, baby, come on,” he coos. “It’s okay. It happens,” he says, reaching out to stroke your hair.

“It’s not okay. I made a whole big deal about this, and it’s inedible. Unless you want to chance getting mad cow disease or something,” you scoff, shaking your head in disappointment.

“I’d chance getting any disease if it meant making you happy. Seriously, I’ll take a bite right now,” he says, smiling softly when it earns a laugh from you. “What matters is that you tried to do something nice for me. The effort you put into this just to make me happy is not lost on me, sweet girl.”

Your eyes are wide and glassy as you look at him, chewing on your lip as you fend off tears. “I love you,” you say, sighing as he rests his forehead against yours.

“You know I love you more,” he responds, kissing your temple before pulling away. “Now what do you say we order a pizza, maybe go get some ice cream from the store, and watch shitty movies all night?” he asks, his heart melting when you perk up.

“Can we get that good pizza with the cheesy crust?” you ask, making him chuckle as he pulls you to stand with him.

“Of course. Always the best for my girl.”

[yuurivoice]

since you love to write, does your job ever feel like actual work? Kinda like that saying “if you love your job, you’ll never work a day of your life.” Kinda question.

also, how much free time do you normally have?

It felt like actual work from pretty early on. The moment I crossed over from doing it for funsies to sometimes taking commissions I didn't really feel strongly about for money, it was work.

I've had to drag my ass into the booth and record on days when I couldn't even take care of my basic needs because of ADHD struggles, and that sure felt like work.

I've had to write like absolute dogshit and just accept it because I had deadlines and people waiting on me. That felt like work.

I've had to spend hours breaking down different shots needed for visual projects, like a caveman painting on a wall for a renaissance artist to reference. That definitely felt like work.

I've had to deal with community moderation, personal betrayals of trust, harassment, goddamn pr crises, tax nightmares, and shipping hundreds of orders by hand. That was work.

That old cliche of if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life is a crock of shit. But all of that being said, even though it is work, and even though it can be really difficult sometimes?

Wouldn't trade it for the world. There is no other calling for me, my heart is not satisfied if I am not telling stories, and for some reason the universe decided that this was the path forward. I didn't plan on it. I never loved voice acting, but I learned to. I wish there was less bullshit over the years that robbed me of my joy. I wish I wasn't fighting my brain for so much of the time I've been doing this.

But the good will always outweigh the bad.

It's a dream fulfilled. I never needed or wanted to be some sort of massive sensation, or have broad renown or appeal. I didn't need to become a best selling author, or create a hit video game, or do anything like that. I am happy that I've found even a small group of people who love to get lost in my worlds, or spend time with my characters, or hear them get railed in pumpkin patches.

I get to experience the magic of creating something I didn't know was within me. Again and again. Projects like BitterSweet, Shattered, and Echoes of Evalas are precious to me because of the wondrous feeling creating those stories gives me. They could all flop, and I'd do it anyway.

I was creating art when no one was ever there to listen or watch. In that regard, it's never been work. It is a function of my existence. I was made, raised, and shaped to tell stories. It's the one thing I can do. At a table of friends, an audience of hundreds, or on long drives by myself. It's like breathing. It just happens.

Being able to call it work is a privilege. I'm thrilled that I've got the chance to work. I'm happy that I even have the opportunity to have days where I have to push myself. Because it has given me more than I've ever thought it could. I was on food stamps living with family under constant threat of getting kicked out. I was lonely, isolated, and scared of the world. I was considered lazy.

Finding my lane, getting traction, and thriving was something I considered out of reach. I was ready to tap out and accept that I just wasn't quite right for life. Like maybe I just didn't have all the right parts. I was okay with it, even. I was tired.

So yeah. It's work. But I spent a long time desperate to find work I was suited for, and with a lot of recent life changes I've removed many of those points of friction that would make it tough to work. So I'm thrilled.

And that, my friends, is what happens when you ask a professional yapper if they love yapping. 😂

As for free time, it's hard to say. So much of what I do being my own boss and shit, plus creative stuff just constantly churning in my brain, I struggle to clearly define what is and is not "free time". I basically have to be on call. At any given moment something might need my attention, or creativity comes knocking. It's hard to completely disconnect.

I've done a good job of getting into the office about four times a week. That has helped me find some sort of balance, but even recent writing I've done was on my laptop at my little breakfast nook having coffee.

I think the big thing is, I can create my free time whenever I need or want to.

Anywho, this is why you don't open Tumblr when you wake up to pee in the middle of the night because then you spent 30 minutes staring at your phone writing a whole ass essay. I'm gonna go get out of bed and make something awesome now. 💖

[dotster001]

QUOR-100

Summary:Trey x gn!reader. You realize you have been relying on translator spells, and ask Trey to teach you the language. Taking you to his family's bakery for a practical experience does not go as planned.

A/N:the title is based on how my university names lowest level language classes. Kind of hope it's universal 😂

It took you an embarrassingly long time to realize that the reason you could understand everyone in an alternate planet/universe/dimension was because the school was thick with translator spells.  And it was starting to seem like you would be stuck here for a while. So you had asked around to figure out what the most used dialect was. Finding out it was the language the Queendom of Roses spoke, you had asked Trey to tutor you in the language.

"You know Riddle would probably do a better job than me."

"Yeah, but you can provide me more practical speech as opposed to rich person speech. Also you're less scary than Riddle."

After months of tutoring, he thought you were ready for a real world test. Naturally, you were incredibly nervous. But he had assured you that it would not be above your learning level. 

And now you were here. At his family's bakery. No translator spells in sight. 

You both took a seat, and he handed you a very simple menu. It looked like he had made it himself. It had only ten items on it, seven of which you knew, three you didn't, and each had a picture of what it was.

He gave you a relaxed smile, and a thumbs up, and you took a calming breath and decided what item you wanted.

A woman with green hair approached your table and gave you a very warm smile. You felt safe with her for some reason. Maybe because she looked a lot like Trey. 

"Hello -, what would you like to order today? May I - - - tart?"

You didn't know all of her words. Or maybe you did, and you were slightly panicked. But you could figure out she was recommending a tart. 

"Hello, I would like to eat a lemon cake please," you said slowly so that your pronunciation would hopefully be better. What you were ordering looked more like a lemon loaf, but you couldn't pronounce that word, so cake it is.

You looked at Trey to see if you did good, but he was giving you nothing and placing his own order.

"And I will have the - tart, thank you."

The woman, who you were pretty sure was his mother, made a note, then nodded. She left to get you food, and you did your best with your limited vocabulary to talk to Trey.

He was a patient tutor, and you were grateful you'd picked him. He kept up with your boring conversations about the weather, and what you liked to do, all with a reassuring smile on his face.

After you had received your food, out of nowhere your table was swarmed by a million tiny Treys. All of them speaking at a million miles an hour.

"Trey!"

"Trey!"

"- - - - Y/N?"

"- - pretty - - -."

"- - - love?"

"Ooooooooooooooh!" 

That ooh was a chorus of oohs from all of them. Knowing whatever just happened had to be good, you turned to Trey. But he was adjusting his glasses, his cheeks tinged a shade of pink.

"No." He said.

"- - - - -?"

"You are - - - -!"

Then they all started chanting.

"Trey - - - - - - Y/N!" In a sing-song voice.

"What is happening?" You asked, and you're only response was another chorus of,

"Oooooooooooh!"

Trey abruptly stood up, and started shooing them away, then stormed away from the table, clearly looking for someone.

He found a man with brown hair, glasses, and hazel eyes, and started animatedly talking to him, pointing at your table and the tiny Treys that were trying to sneak back to your table.

One was successful, and sat across from you, beginning to eat Trey's tart.

"Hello!" She said happily.

"Hello."

"Do you - my brother?"

"I'm sorry, I don't understand."

She nodded thoughtfully, and rephrased.

"Do you like my brother?"

"Yes, he is very nice."

She laughed, and said, "No, no. Do you like my brother?" On the word like, she abandoned the tart and made heart hands at you, causing your own heart to pick up speed.

"Uh…"

"You little -!" Trey swooped in and picked her up. She squealed in delight as he started to tickle her.

"Stop, stop!" She laughed.

He placed her under his arm, and walked back over to the brown haired man, before handing her off. The man laughed, and looked back over at your table. Making eye contact with you, he winked. Trey buried his face in his hands before walking back over to your table.

"Almost finished?" He asked, nodding at your plate. He himself seemed to be picking up speed, like he was trying to get out of there as fast as possible. 

"Uh, yes," you said, also picking up speed. If the kids were asking him the same questions they had asked you, you could guess he was hoping to escape.

You both finished quickly, Trey went to go pay, his parents both shaking their heads and trying to give the money back to him, laughing, and pinching his cheeks. He sighed, and took his money back, giving them both a hug and returning to you. 

Once you were out the door, Trey put on a translator spell, and heaved a heavy sigh, before putting a smile back on his face.

"I thought you did well. How did you think it went?"

"Good, but…"

"Trey!" An older mini Trey was arriving at the bakery, carrying a large bag of flour like it was nothing. This one looked to be about high school age. 

"Hey!" Trey said back, "how are you?"

"Swamped," he laughed and turned to you.

"Is this the prefect you have a crush on?"

Trey immediately started pushing you towards the carriage and shouting a hasty goodbye over his shoulder. After being unceremoniously shoved into the carriage, both of you plopped in your seats, Trey looking a little worse for wear.

"Heh, siblings right?" He choked out.

"Yeah, right," you giggled.

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Tag list-@shytastemakerthing @leonia0

[thisbuildinghasfeelings]

Anne 😂😂

Wait, how old is Charlie supposed to be? At least 3 right? 🤔

Not to open the timeline wormhole again

Oh no Tessa! This is an impossible to answer question 😂 But I will do my best.

We'll start with the clearly established facts: Charlie was born in 3x04. This was January 2022, which we are told by the on screen explicit time jump at the start of season 3.

If we were to allow Charlie to simply age in real time, that would put her about 4 months before her 3rd birthday when season 5 starts in September of this year.

However, Charlie was walking only 11 episodes after she was born. In real time, that would have been about 3 months after her birth. Charlie was also potty training at the beginning of season 4, approximately one year after her birth in real time. Clearly a very advanced child!

The twins who appear likely to be playing Charlie in season 5 turned 4 earlier this year. If we're going with real time and Charlie is supposed to be about 3, I think (in Lone Star timeline logic) 4 year olds playing Charlie would be fine. I'll accept it!

To further complicate matters, we don't know what kind of time jump season 5 might bring! Maybe they'll say that 2 or 3 years have passed! Judging by past experience, I think the most likely thing is that we'll get a time jump at some point that's about equivalent to real time. The show tends to try to tie episodes to the dates that they are airing (while also maintaining a completely inconsistent in-universe timeline, but we won't get into that!) So we will have to wait and see what the time jump in season 5 is. Not that this will get us any closer to a definitive Charlie age, of course!

[rimouskis]

dude not to scuff my foot against the dirt about choices I made while fully knowing the consequences but also: my dad texted me saying that not only did he and my mom go meet my glamorous flew-in-from-LA movie-industry "aunt"*, her husband, and her dad at a swanky jazz cocktail bar to celebrate my "aunt's"* dad, who's 96 today(!!!), but also both of my sisters are there, both with their significant others 💔

*she's not my aunt, she's my mom's cousin, but "first cousin once removed" is a mouthful and also I call her my aunt lol

sometimes it's like man. the older I get the harder it is to live away from everyone.

it's dumb, because I love pittsburgh and I am very often so happy that I moved out here. something that's always stuck with me is my dad once told me he regretted how he and my mother never made the jump to live elsewhere. a huge part of him clearly wanted (and maybe still wants) to live out west. they honeymooned in colorado, and my dad said he wished they'd moved out there. but they both got jobs and just stayed, and now forty years later here they are, each only an hour from where they grew up.

so I'm glad I did it. I think I've gained a lot of life experience, and have gotten to know and love this city and its people. I could see this being a permanent home for me, sincerely. I have a wide network of friends across so many age groups, and I like the culture and the rolling hills and the greenness everywhere and of course the hockey ;)

but also I think about like, what if my sisters marry their boyfriends, both of whom I like. what if they settle down? I know my middle sister wants kids. I can't imagine not being around for that.

and then, on the flip side, I want to live so many places. I want to try out seattle so, so damn badly. I turned down a job offer out there a couple months ago and I don't regret it because it wasn't the right timing, but god. I want to be out there so badly.

but also every year feels closer to a year that my sisters really put down ROOTS. and it's like I can see the street lamps starting to flicker on, the universal signal for the kids out on the street to go home.

it's a complicated thing! and it's not a bad problem to have, not really. I have a lot of possibilities in front of me. there are good and bad consequences to any choice I could make. if I won the lottery I'd just have an apartment in each city and bounce between them, haha, but alas I've never bought a ticket.

anyways, I just think a lot about the lives of my sisters that I've missed out on, and my parents, and the people and family we have. but on the other hand I have a life I've lived and made and really, really enjoyed out here, so it's just a weighing of the scales, and I have to find some peace in balancing them because I feel like my story out-in-the-world isn't quite done yet.

this is getting rambly and off topic but I'm reminded of how my high school best friend once was surprised when I said I thought I'd wind up back home one day. she said I'd always been a bit drifty, a bit gone-where-the-wind-took-me, and she wasn't wrong. when I was in high school, I said I'd never move to the big city!!! I was going out west!!!

ah, how wrong I was, ahaha.

it's a complicated thing, feeling like you belong in many places at once. I belong home with my family and the city where all of our friends and family are. I belong here, in Pittsburgh, where I learned how to be an adult and where I have friends and colleagues and a million habits I enjoy and holes-in-the-wall I know and shopkeepers who wave hi to me in recognition and so many things I'd hate to give up. and every damn time I step foot in the PNW I just have a bone-deep feeling of "I belong here, I want to feel how I feel here all the time, I want to see these sights every day, I want to have the ocean and mountains and green green nature around me."

but there's only one me! and I certainly haven't ascended to the "live in three states for funsies" income bracket 😂😂😂

[paperstorm]

TK is too sweet to have fun roasting a baby! I also love how a few episodes before that he doesn't want to trick their wedding guests into arriving on time. Although, speaking from experience with my own Mexican family, Carlos was absolutely right!

He is far to sweet for his own good honestly, actual sunshine boy. And I'm so interested in the cultural differences there because I am so with TK, I am completely horrified by the idea of people showing up late to a wedding 😂 But that's very clearly my cultural understanding of what constitutes something rude or impolite or a social faux pas, and it's clearly not universal!

[alexturne]

2, 4 (about 'sit next to me before I go'), 30, 41, 48 for the fic asks 🥰

Ooohh this is fun!!

Fluff (10)

Friends To Lovers (7)

Established Relationship (5)

Sexual Content (5)

Alternative Universe (4)

I feel like this is VERY representative of my stories 😂😂 fluff all the way!! And friends to lovers and au is really what I'm all about too!!! (Sprinkled with sexual content ofc)

I'm kinda surprised that I have 5 stories with established relationships because I feel like the majority of my ideas have to do with meeting and then falling in love OR realizing feelings after years of friendship. Those are definitely the stories I'm mostly drawn to write. But it makes sense that my three established relationship milex fics are the kinda sad ones 😂

Uh, first thing that pops into my head is definitely the bath scene! The way the scene is set, the ambiance, the way I can almost smell the bath products, see the flicker of the candles, feel the soft humidity on my face, the healing waves, the soft comforting darkness, it just exudes the exact vibe I was going for. I love incorporating all of the senses when I write and this felt so alive to me, I could feel it, smell it, see it all so clearly.

Also I really liked leaving in the details about Miles' clothes. In my head he was so clearly wearing the dark blue jumpsuit and those heeled boots and I enjoyed how I managed to show it in the story by having Alex help him out of it 😇😘

I think maybe my most out of my comfort zone is "you just ain't the one for me" mostly because it's told from Taylors pov and it generally features her, the sex scenes, having someone else witness Alex and Miles and not being inside either of their heads. It's just very different but I feel like it made sense for what I was trying to do. Even if I'm fairly unfamiliar with her as a person, I feel like the character I came up with for her made sense.

I feel like it made me braver in terms of what I can get away with. And to know that a lot of things can be shown instead of said or told explicitly. A lot can be left up for interpretation. Even if some people would've liked to know what happened next, I liked leaving it up to the readers. (I feel like it was fairly obvious tho😂) I also just like that it was something so different and people still liked it, so I know not to box myself in. I can be free and experiment with my stories and tell them in the way I feel makes sense, and still have people enjoy them ❤️

Oh, that's too many to count! I'm constantly in awe of the pure skill and talent of the writers in this fandom, and I'd love to pick up something from all of them. I love how @yellowloid is so good at the deeply intense romantic stuff, just diving so deep and making us feel it too. I love the absolutely insane level of detail and expertise of @elorianna s writing and the way she incorporates real life elements, I love the world building and the cutting edge characters of @thranduil-aran-edhil. I love the humour and ingenuity in plot and character in @girlinthepictureframe s stories, I love the way @stereobone sets the vibe and mood of the fic and how they say so much with so few words (something I'll never learn 😂😂), I love the absolute heart wrenching gutpunch @blacktrickle is able to write, I love seeing you use your real life profession as inspiration for the very best sickfics.. and so many many many more!!!

I love how people characterise our boys, I love how they come up with so many amazingly interesting settings, the level of detail in their aus and canon compliant stories, I love the fluff and the heartbreak.. and most of all I love how different they all are. And how I'm different from all of them too. And there's room for all of us, and so many more that I've forgotten to mention, and how we all learn and evolve as time goes on. My heart is full.

It's not a new one, but it's SO GOOD. The last fic I read was "Hotel Room" by weirdchick333 and it's just amazing. Their works are some of the very best I've ever read and I always find myself going back to read it when I've got a bit of time to myself. Highly recommend all of their absolutely incredible stories as they're just fucking class (but I assume most of you know that already 😂❤️)

Thank you so much for your lovely questions !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[donaidk]

Back again to continue our Night Agent talk, thank you so much for responding to my previous one!

You didn’t make me feel bad about the spoiler thing, no worries there. Hubby and I were watching together and we also had to pause and just say “is that it?” multiple times when that reveal occurred. For all the advanced technology that was shown in the show it makes me think that maybe this universe didn’t really have as much of a social media presence as our society does as couldn’t Maddie just have posted online about her issues with her dad? Surely there were options available other than hiding a recording in a stuffed bear in the basement of their old house. But then that idea is belied by the fact that Peter was so harassed by the Rome Tome idiots which clearly were using an online presence. Also, why did Maddie wait so long to think about releasing that video if she hated her father so much??

In terms of your Maddie question, I totally suspected that the art teacher was in on the whole thing since he was first introduced. He was so creepily into her! That being said, I thought he was in on the WHOLE conspiracy and I was completely and utterly shocked when Colin Worley shot and killed him. His idea to seduce Maddie so that she’d shoot a PSA for the environmental group was dumb as fuck but his death scene was intense and I don’t think he deserved that.

Omg today has absolutely ran away from me 😭

I feel like it's a great example for how manipulation can fuck with someone's head. I remember a dialogue between Maddie and Chelsea where she mentioned how the lie is sometimes so comfortable that even she believes it once she falls into it. I could see her being scared about what her life would be like if she exposed the VP. No mum, no sister, no dad afterwards... sometimes staying in a shitty situation is less scary than stepping into a scary unknown. There may have been a point where she got fed up enough with him and posted it finally. But maybe her literal life being in danger was the "small" push she needed to finally act on it.

I remember staring at my screen when Colin showed up and just uttering "dumb fuck" once he was shot 😂 It was such a stupid way to go and also felt like overkill to get him killed off, but i get tying loose ends. Bit dramatic still 👀

I was - as usual - killing time today on TikTok, going down the usual peter sutherland rabbit hole and saw like 4 edits of the part whenErik and Chelsea arrest Peter and Rose at the pear and immediately thought about you and the ask that was sitting in my inbox. It reminded me how much I wanted Chelsea to be the one to stand on Peter's side after Farr pretty much stabbed him in the back, and how angry I was at Monks for being so cold towards the idea of Peter being innocent even though I think even his experience was telling him something was fishy about him being a suspect. Guess I got what I wanted in the end finally 🥺

[a-spell-a-rebel-yell]

March

hello friends from faraway! i'm on time because guess what... i'm done with my assignments (for now)! finally 😭😭😭

quite literally underestimated second semester to be much easier and less busy than first semester... oh how horribly wrong i was. the mount of assignments is no joke. more classes and more professors mean more presentations i have to do. but do not worry your girl is always on top of everything and is proud to say i've always finished my assignments long before the deadline. this proven can be a double edged sword kind of thing - my profs have very high expectations on me and many times i'm picked to be the first to present or to teach the class 🧍‍♀️ the most hilarious thing about this was that some profs keep asking me whether i come from prestigious universities (Ul, UGM, Unpad etc) whenever i was able to answer their questions accordingly, and the shock on their faces when i told them i came from a private uni 😭😂 this happened three times and to me it's a very interesting experience to observe...

the double edged sword being that i remember my mum saying i could be a 'target' and that naturally people will 'latch' onto me - and she wasn't wrong. there were occasions where i bear the burden having to explain everything to everyone because the prof deemed me capable to replace her to teach, or having a classmate that keeps asking me gazillion things about our assignments when it was already explained clearly beforehand, and the worst of all is having someone copy my work (i can't say no because i'm the youngest, remember...) i did not literally spent hours every day reading textbooks and journals for this individual to copy paste what i've written in just a few secs!? well thankfully i can be more assertive these days and tell them i do not accept to be treated this way, and it was resolved quickly... but you see, my mum is right. i'm the target 🤪

but other than that school is fun. i love learning new things. i feel like i've found the thing i'm interested the most because instead of getting scared about new things now i kinda become more intrigued and excited! still have my anxious, overthinking self popping in here and there, but i've adjusted to it. here i feel like your surrounding really does shape you, in a way now i'm in an environment where curiosity and the thirst to chase answers are highly appreciated, so i become one who questions almost everything. everyone is always prepared, with knowledge on one hand and experience on the other, so i act just as such. at my prev uni all those didn't matter much so i did feel like my mind was dulled and dimmed back then...

in the same note, this month i finally get to experience a class with a 'unique' prof, a different kind... i don't mean it in a negative undertone but he is thought provoking, if i may say. his way of teaching is like tiptoeing on thin ice and free diving at the same time, every meeting leaves an impression, an indent in my mind for sure 😂 but i must add he is very smart, has unfaltering integrity, and i respect him for that. definitely a very interesting persona and a cool lecturer! will study about preadjusted Edgewise system under his supervision, excited to start because this is the most commonly used bracket system these days.

also March this year is special because of Ramadan is here! when Ramadan started thankfully i've done 1/3 of my assignments so they didn't interfere with my prayers. what it did is mess up my sleep schedule 😂 some of my classes start at 7 AM and lasts through until 12 PM, and the lot of us could barely stopped ourselves from falling asleep at class 😭 but anyways i pulled through and made a Ramadan special schedule where i have to stop working by 6 PM, the rest of the night is for prayers and Quran reading. and no matter how exhausted i am, i will always try to go to the mosque and do 23 rakaah of taraweeh prayers. at the mosque near my house it lasted from 7-10 PM... sometimes i feel like my feet is about to fall off or that my body is too tired, but then i remember i could literally spend almost 12 hours to queue and see coldplay back at Singapore so now how could i even dare not to spend 3 hours to see Allah? that's an instant energy boost for sure 🥺

midway Ramadan, we had our first ever orthodontics dept gathering for break fasting! the tricky part of this was that my year had to prepare a performance, and can you imagine all of us swamped by assignments and fasting, yet we still have to rehearse a performance!? 😂 as per usual i became the class' ghost coordinator - if it weren't for me pushing my classmates around to do things they won't do it lol and so finally we came up with a simple choreo and kak Omi's husband provided us a song to dance to. the performance wasn't really a success as expected hahaha but our profs and seniors said they appreciated the effort 🤪 syncing our moves was so hard but oh well we tried!

at the end of March, i got to meet the barudaks - Dimas/Aria/Kanti/Syifa and it's our new group name lol it was 4/4 before 😂 the weirdest mismatched bunch from senior high school that somehow became my closest friends... well that tends to happen when reality lumped you in lol. this time we celebrated Kanti's bday and her return from her internship at Maluku. had a potluck and everyone had to bring food with their initials as the first letter of its name, i brought (s)iomay! spent 5 hours playing at Aria's house and just talk about anything from job to love life, playing Nintendo Switch, it was so much fun i love laughing a lot with them!

oh boy March has been quite eventful! halfway done with second semester, can you believe it!? i feel like as i get older time somehow moves faster, i'm now about to prepare to enter my clinical years starting in third semester... more exciting things to come! will visit Bali twice (Menjangan at May 20-22 for huge ortho dept gathering and social charities, then Denpasar at September 19-21 for Indonesian Association of Orthodontist annual meeting) and other seminars 🤩🤩

right now we're entering the last 10 days of Ramadan and i'm feeling emotional as usual because how can it end so fast!? i feel like i haven't done much this time. so much rain these days and i can only keep reciting my prayers... may Allah grants us the chance to see Ramadan again next month 🙏🏻

well, that is all for now. see you on April post. until then, keep yourself healthy and happy, my dear friends 💙

[ageless-aislynn]

Sorry for the brief disappearing act, frens, but I finally managed to get the footage I need to finish my Mass Effect: Andromeda vid and I'm putting the final touches on it! 😁

You know, I keep trying to get back to writing things for my own enjoyment again but I can truly say that this vid was made just for me. I wanted my love for this couple to shine through and I think it does. Or maybe I just love them and it makes me happy to see my bbs being happy. I don't know. It doesn't matter. The thing is that making this was a very positive experience and sometimes those are few and far between these days. 😐😉

Anyway, thanks so much to everybody who has tagged me in things, I'll be happily working on them in the next day or so! I love getting tagged and I'm really going to try to, you know, pass that feeling along instead of just vague!tagging like I've been doing. 😶

By the way, if you don't like getting tagged in tag game-ish things, please let me know. Also, if you do but I don't seem to be tagging you in them, also let me know! When in doubt, I don't tag.

I also realized that I've repeatedly tagged a few of my mutuals who are actually not mutuals any longer and that made me feel like a jerk. I just didn't realize they unfollowed me at some point and then here I am, apparently Really Not Taking The Hint, oops. Apologies for that, even though, you know, they won't be reading this because they're not here anymore. But still. Just putting that out there into the universe and all that.

Okay, back to finishing up my vid then hopefully posting it tonight! Then it's back to finishing up my final 2 romance playthroughs before NaNo begins. I wasn't originally planning to Romance Everybody but I find it fun to try out different powers and combat styles while advancing the main missions in order to advance the romances. Though I'm making Scott a terrible Pathfinder by ignoring all of the side quests and non-romance loyalty missions. He even forgot to visit his comatose sister and mannnn, she read him the riot act when she woke up!

Eobard: "And then Sara looked something like this when Scott walked in the room after ignoring her most of the game..." 😡🤬

I honestly enjoy most of the missions and fights in the game and the ones I don't are pretty easy to avoid now that I know where they are. I even found a couple of missions I'd missed and that was really cool!

Welp, I'm outta here!

(I seriously cackled when this happened to poor Emile in Halo: Reach! It was so random! I actually have gotten killed by one of the Banshees getting shot down and crashing on my head, though, so clearly it's a hazard! 😯😂😉)

Love you, frens! 🤗🤗🤗

[thestitchywitchy]

I’m so sorry you’ve been having such a hard time lately, and bad luck :( this past week or so has been very funky energy wise and I do hope it lightens up for you. I hope it’s okay to ask about this, if you don’t feel comfortable answering then no worries. When I have a lot of bad things happening to me I worry about being cursed or having bad energy and attracting this stuff because it’s what a lot of spiritualists say happens when bad things happen. What’s your view on this? I wanted to ask because you clearly have experience with bad luck :/

Lmao what a way to phrase that last sentence! That made me laugh. Like I want to find a reason to be offended by it, but I can't 😂 thank you for your well wishes, dear

Though I do believe people can attract certain energies, I also put mundane reasonings before spiritual ones. I live in a bad city and though I do live in a nicer part of town, criminal activity happens around here daily. My neighbors, who aren't bad people, we're robbed as well. I also live in a really expensive state to live in so it's quite common for people to live paycheck to paycheck around these parts. So I don't believe my "bad luck", as you put it lol, is by me attracting bad energy, but simply just the times we're living in. I do my best to put a lot of love out into the world so I don't see this as the universe punishing me, but by giving me another lesson to learn from.

I believe asking yourself if you're being cursed when bad things happen is just a way to avoid responsibility of simply... accepting that life happens. Shit happens is a saying for a reason lol. Sure, I know there are a handful of people who have an evil eye on me. But am I worried about them? No. I've got bigger fish to fry and I know I'm divinely protected and guided. This is just another step in my journey.

I don't know what kind of answer you were expecting, but that's my take on bad luck lol

[glamorouspixels]

Hello! Do you have any recs for fics that center Jane and Phryne's relationship? I love the show but I feel like Jane as a character needed more attention.

Oh, I am delighted that you would come to me with this, thank you! I know you asked specifically for Phryne & Jane stuff, but the second part of your question (giving Jane as a character more attention) can be interpreted to include Jane & Jack fics too, so you're getting both! :D

Phryne Fisher & Jane Ross Fanfic Recs

a safe place to land by missymeggins

This one is about Jane struggling to feel at home at Wardlow, and feeling restless and having an almost instinctive desire to leave. It focuses 100% on Phryne and Jane's relationship. Because of her own past, Phryne can relate to Jane's experiences and she helps her feel more comfortable at Wardlow. I'm really in awe of this fic. It's super nuanced and full of feelings!

Bon Goût non Raffiné by QuailiTea

Phryne helps Jane with her French lessons by introducing her to a scandalous and surprisingly sexual etiquette book. I just reread this one and I'm in love with how Phryne-esque Phryne's parenting style is 🥺🥰 It may be unconventional, but it works and she clearly knows just what Jane needs to feel better.

Friends and Relations by @rain-sleet-snow

Mac wants Jane to have more positive role models in her life and starts tutoring her in science. What starts out as weekly after-school lessons turns into an adorable friendship. The focus is more on Jane's relationship with Mac than with Phryne, but it's still Jane-centric and I would highly recommend it!

In Time with Miss Jane by @aurora-australis-tumbles

In this one we see Jane interacting with almost everyone, but Phryne keeps appearing all throughout the fic. It's about six different expressions of love portrayed through six different interactions between Jane and various members of the Wardlow family and all of the scenes are wonderful 😍

All Wrapped Up in Each Other by @omgimsarahtoo

While not exactly Jane-centric, this fic contains what is probably my all-time favorite exchange between Phryne and Jane so I'm putting it on the list. It's a wonderful mix of family fluff and romantic Phrack moments, including a pre-Christmas weekend getaway where Phryne and Jack manage to stay naked the whole time. We also get a brief hint that Jane might be into girls, which is an idea I have a massive soft spot for myself <3

Jack Robinson & Jane Ross Fanfic Recs

of fate and plaits by @leliesblou

A university-aged Jane has an injured wrist and needs help with her hair, and Jack, being the only one around, gives her schoolgirl braids. He tells her about his sister and nieces and "contemplaits" (pun stolen from the fic's summary) his family. Yep, it's just as adorable as it sounds and you should go read it :D

Unconventional by @rubycaspar

*dissolves into a puddle of fluff and feelings* Jane runs into Rosie at a book sale. Without knowing that she is Jack's ex-wife, Jane tells Rosie what Jack means to her 🥺🥰 Jack shows up a short time later. He and Jane eventually return to Wardlow with a ridiculous number of books, and they talk about who they are to one another, which results in the cutest and most heartwarming conversation everrr. Go read iiit as soon as you possibly can!

Mistaken by Skald_of_Askr

Please don't be scared away by the fact that this is incomplete. The two chapters currently posted can be read as standalones and they're both wonderful. The premise of the fic is that Jack slowly realizes that he's Jane's dad, and it's told through various slice of life-type of scenes. The two chapters posted are wonderful. I especially loved chapter two, in which Jane gets sick and Jack takes care of her, but both chapters are amazing.

Basement by whosrickygoldsworth

Jack and Jane get trapped in a basement and they use the opportunity for some father-daughter bonding time while they wait for Phryne to rescue them 😂 Jack teaches Jane about Shakespeare, which means the fic is both fluffy and educational!

Old-Fashioned by @gaslightgallows

This one could fit into either category. I'm putting it with the Jack & Jane fics because it involves Jack's Christmas present to Jane, but it's really about the three of them as a family and it is heartwarming and adorable. They're all sleepy and soft and wearing pajamas, and there are hugs and hot cocoa, and by now I've read it more times than I can count 🥰

The Way You Roll Your Eyes by yours truly :D

Another "Jane is queer" fic with Phrack elements set at Christmastime! Jane and her friends are throwing a pre-Christmas party. Jane's invited over one of her friends, whom she has a crush on, so they can get ready together. Because Jane is nervous and she's never done another person's makeup before, she asks Jack if she can practice on him. While the first half consists almost entirely of Jack & Jane bonding time, chapter two is when Phryne comes home and discovers that she rather likes the sight of him in makeup 😇

[shut-upjohn]

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

72.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

245,015.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Really on L&O. I have other fandoms but thus far my writing muse is picky and doesn’t run with a lot of other universes.

4. What are you top five fics by kudos?

Unmarked File, Reassurance, Taken?, When the Lights Go Down in the City, and The Last Thing I’ll See, in that order.

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

I try my absolute best but I do have this bad habit of reading comments via email and then thinking I’ll respond later when I’m on AO3, and then completely forgetting to do that. But I do see and appreciate them all <3

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

Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh…

Jury’s out? I think “In Love With The Night” is the only fic I ever stuck to killing EO off in, but it was a very considerate death. I personally think “falling in between the lines” is one of the worst. It’s bittersweet but unapologetically about unresolved grief/love.

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

Cheesy happy or earned happy? There are a lot of little random ones that make me happy (Baby Blue) but then there are more climatic ones I love (Lights).

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Occasionally.

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

Published? No. I wrote one make out scene and was pretty uncomfortable writing it. I’ve experimented with writing some but I’m taking that to my grave.

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

Only in my head, I can never quite find the proper context to actually write the random connections my brain makes.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don’t think.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don’t know how I would begin checking for that, it took me a full two years to realize I could bookmark stuff.

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

Yes, “From The Depths”. I woke up to @rgrdsalxndra and @maggells tagging me in a violently angsty drabble on Twitter that was like “here, we need Death, your turn” and everybody hated us for like a full 24 hours. It was glorious. We should do it again sometime.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Ooh. Desmond and Peggy, EO, Outlaw Queen are up there for sure but how can I pick??

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Legacy. It just requires a lot of effort to move forward and I haven’t touched it in a while. I usually get stuck on WIPs when I’m scared I’ll miss out on adding an important piece if I rush myself (that happens when plots live in your head too long) but that one I’m stuck because getting from point A to point B is very complicated.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I’m supposed to have writing strengths??

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

If I feel like something’s getting too cheesy or doesn’t feel like it’s grounded in the characters (which happens often), I slam my laptop shut and don’t open the doc for several months because if I look at it, I’ll delete it.

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

No. I would make a fool of myself. But @somuchwhatever you could write in French?!?

19. First fandom you wrote for?

L&O.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

I feel like you have to break down what you mean by “favorite” because I will likely have a different answer for each “aspect” of a fic if that makes sense. That said, my favorite written things are fics I had an experience writing. Like clearly envisioned each moment and couldn’t stop writing until it was out. To me that will always be my best writing, and I think I got that most in “Lights” and “Unmarked File”. “In Love with the Night” was a close second, but I also ripped my own heart out with that one so it’s a little bit less pleasant to remember.

I don’t know anyone’s tags on here😂but whoever wants to, feel free to do one.

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Got tagged by @somewhereapart, and I figured y'all may be sick of seeing me just post fic so here ya go.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

88

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

305,612

3. What fandoms do you write for?

AO3 tells me I've written for Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, General Hospital, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: OC, Lie To Me, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and The West Wing. And I honestly can't think of any others outside of just ficlets I've tossed into the wild over the years.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Flinktober 2022 (EO, SVU/OC)

i remember skies (EO, SVU/OC)

gala (EO, SVU/OC)

bizarre love triangle (EO, SVU/OC)

Chautauqua (EO, SVU/OC)

I did not include one that was cowritten with a bunch of other people because I will always assume the kudos are for them.

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

As often as possible. If someone takes the time to comment, I want them to know that i care enough to acknowledge and thank them for that kindness and effort. Especially when I write mostly for a fandom where I've seen people specifically state that they will read works but NOT comment on them as some sort of punishment for whatever random/imaginary fandom sins the writer whose free content they are enjoying has committed. That's just dumb and unkind, so I make the effort to let people know their comments are appreciated, even if it takes weeks to circle back.

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

Hmmm. There are several chapters in the first flink posting that would qualify, but I'm going to go with my largest Sam/Jack (SG-1) fic, Gravity Sings. It's hard to pretend it's not angsty when you've literally killed off half the planet.

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

Hmm. Not really sure. I'm a sucker for fluffy endings, so I tend to write them quite a bit. Maybe waltz or Chautauqua?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Occasionally, but I shut it down quickly. If you come up in someone's space where someone is providing you free entertainment and be rude? Don't expect a pass from me about it. The scroll bar isn't difficult to use, and neither is the back button. I use it frequently on poorly-written works or things that may be well-written but just aren't my thing. What I don't do is sling entitlement issues around demanding things be written to my satisfaction (unless you employ my beta services, in which case, you asked for it!). :D

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

I never really did prior to the first flink experiment, and I created that experiment purely to practice writing smut. Well, I take that back. @rgrdsalxndra would be the first to remind me I'd often cockblock Elliot and Olivia by having them dream-smutting without real-life release. But I started that project with the express purpose of getting better and more comfortable with writing smut, so I'm making that the hinge point.

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

Because SVU and OC are different shows, I write them regularly. But if you mean out-of-universe crossovers, I've only really written one, R.E.M. (SGA, BSG, Buffy). It was based on a prompt from an LJ friend, "Elizabeth Weir, Kara Thrace, and Buffy Summers walk into a bar..."

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware. There are much better people out there to steal from. Also, I always assume if something is similar to what I've written, it's because fandom truly does become a hivemind at some point. Nothing new under the sun and all.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware. If I had to guess, I'd say Gravity Sings would be the most likely candidate since SG-1 fandom is probably the most global and that fic has been around much longer than any other likely candidates.

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

Wrote Wet Dream with much better smut writers than myself in a group chat, and a bunch of us in SG-1 fandom way back in the day once built an SG-1 AU loosely based on The Big Bang Theory called The House That Jack Built, and I have several entries in that little universe.

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

How does anyone pick this??? I love them all for different reasons. I will say EO has a grip on me nobody else ever has, but then they have that 25 year slow burn that is just absolutely and sickly delicious.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Glazed and Fired (SGA) was originally the first part of a 5 Things fic that got away from me, and I had always intended to go back and finish it but eventually just put it away for good. I fully intend to finish my others (Skies, I'm looking at you).

16. What are your writing strengths?

Grammar. Economy of language (this is also sometimes a weakness). Getting into the head of characters who are typically very closed off.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I feel my writing is way too mechanical. I'm also still not comfortable writing smut. I always walk around with a sense of imposter syndrome with my writing.

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

I'm literally one class shy of a degree in French, and I had to write many upper level term papers in that language, but let me assure you I have zero plans to ever write in another language. I sincerely applaud those of you who do.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Stargate SG-1

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

Geez. It probably changes regularly, and I'm hesitant to say because my faves are never anyone else's. all i ever wanted (a rather dark Elliot-centric fic) holds a very dear spot in my heart just because of how my muse just grabbed a keyboard and churned it out. This is not a popular opinion, and hardly anyone read it, but I still love it a lot. And just because it was the first fic I wrote that was widely recc'd, I have a soft spot for Things Not Dreamed (SG-1), a Sam & Jack & Daniel fic written from Daniel's POV.

tagging in a no-pressure way (and sorry for any double tags):

@morethanwords229, @whatbecomesofyou, @samwrites99, @rgrdsalxndra, @shut-upjohn, and anyone else who wants to do it!

[heybaetae]

please i wanna know all about the rise of bangtan drama 👀😂

LMAOOOOO ok twitter follower

let me preface this by saying i did not know this youtube series existed before i started seeing tweets about it, so clearly the “documentary” in question is simply NOT apart of the universal army experience that a lot of people are making it out to be. i have never even seen these videos pop up in my recommended on youtube…so there’s that 🥴

BUT ANYWAY, i guess after bts announced they’d be coming out with a new docuseries with disney+ about their career, the editor of this completely FAN MADE youtube series made these really odd tweets implying that their work felt threatened by the prospect of a new official documentary from bts

come to find out that their series is literally made by compiling clips of official bts content including their ALREADY EXISTING docs, movies, youtube content, interviews, etc.

….so as delicately as possible and without trying to dismiss her work (because content creating as a FAN is very time consuming), the amount of views and acclaim she’s received on these “episodes” she’s made have clearly gone to her head. even more bizzare, a lot of people who like her videos are behaving as though hybe and bts owe her some kind of recognition or credit because she “did it first” …but she owns literally none of the footage she uses, so they’re completely forgetting that if none of the content she recycles clips of in her series existed, she wouldn’t have a series at all because that’s literally all her source material lmao. all it would take is a couple copyright strikes on her videos to get it all taken down, that’s what’s so baffling to me.

she deleted those tweets and made a couple threads on her personal account trying to explain that she thought she was helping bts with her series because it’s “from an army perspective” but like…they certainly didn’t ask her to do that, so her place as a fan needs to be clearer. she essentially makes long fan edits and calls it a documentary series (someone even made an IMDB page for it and this thing is listed under all of the members’ individual profiles…i cannot) and people are praising her a little too much imo. i guess her series pushes some narratives that are questionable and her editing puts them in a kpop box and glosses over a lot of important issues surrounding bts in that industry, so i’m very confused why people are calling it a staple for new armys and how it helped them learn about bts when they could have just watched all the official content bts put out themselves if they needed a proper introduction. it makes no sense to me and it’s very alarming and also just. hilariously bizarre. i don’t condone the bullying but girl, respectfully, what the fuck. 😂