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2024 Fic Year in Review

My fifth fic year in review! It's always wild to go back and look at how far I've come. As always, feel free to grab this if you want to do your own; I've stitched it together over the years. And thank you to everyone who read my fics this year, whether it was one or all of them.

2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

AO3 Username: chamel My Page: Link Active Fandoms: Red, White & Royal Blue: 14 works Loki: 3 works The Man from UNCLE (2015): 1 work New Fandoms: The Pairing (CMQ novel; 1 work) Total Number Of Completed Works/Word Count This Year: 23 works, 303k words All Time: 135 works, 1.57 million words

Most Popular One Shot (by kudos): This Year: Trying My Patience (Try Pink Carnations) (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 9.4k) All Time: Class(room) Warfare (RWRB, Alex/Henry, T, 7.8k words)

Most Popular Completed Multi-Chapter (by kudos):  This Year: False Dichotomy (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 62k) All Time: Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood  (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 20k words)

Events/Challenges: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Gift Exchange 2024, A Royally Big Bang, Lokius Reverse Bang, idk do what you want exchange

More reflections, stats, and planned fics below the cut!

Additional Random AO3 Stats

By number of fics: 79% one shots, 21% multi-chaps

By word count: 69% multi-chaps (nice), 31% one shots

Ratings by number of fics: 48% E-rated, 26% M-rated, 26% T-rated

Musical artists contributing highest number of titles: spread out this year, but Wilco, Metric & Sufjan Stevens came in with 2 each

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?  I was wrong in my 2024 roundup post—I wrote 25k more words this year despite having 10 fewer fics. Which I did NOT expect. I figured I was trucking along to make my usual ~270k, but I forgot about The Secret Fics lol.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?  I think I have to go with Body and Soul(mate), which I'm just so so proud of. I love how it came out and I think it's really original.

Did you complete your writing goals from last year?  The Goal: My goal is to have a similar mix of fics as least year, and also to write my first collaboration with @cricketnationrise, which will be a long multichap. First part, pretty close. I wrote more multichaps (21% vs 15%) this year, which meant fewer fics in total. Second part, oops. Cricket and I have both been busy, but the hockey fic lives!! We'll get to it eventually!

Do you have any writing goals for the New Year? I can't believe I'm gonna say this but... write more original fiction. See below for more on that. Fanfic wise... finally finish some of the planned stories I've had kicking around for a while.

Did you take any writing risks this year? I submitted a pitch for an anthology, was accepted, and wrote my first original story! I had a lot of fun with it and I think I'll purse more next year. Idk if I'm ready for a whole novel and trying to get (more) published, but we'll see.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Even though it's numbers have come up since publishing, I'm still gonna go with The Impossible Soul, aka my Westworld-esque android/human AU.

Most fun story to write: Probably Body and Soul(mate). Figuring out all the body swaps and soulmate lore was a lot of fun and the whole thing just flowed so well.

Biggest disappointment: Why do I keep this question? I hate complaining publicly. 😂 My biggest disappointment is that I sometimes let fandom drama/trends/popularity make me feel bad. Being mad because a fandom loves X type of fic doesn't help anyone.

Biggest surprise: I'm not sure I really had any big surprises this year. Biggest surprise in my stats was that my percent of explicit works is way up—T used to be my most-used rating. Part of that is publishing fewer one-shots, since those tend to be T for me, whereas a long fic is more likely to be E.

Coming soon/planned for 2024: It's a little depressing how so many of these are the same as last year. Hence the resolution above, I guess.

Kissed Out (RWRB pro-pool players AU)

RWRB 1940s noir AU

RWRB conductor/piano soloist AU

RWRB Jurassic Park AU

RWRB rodeo rider/polo player AU

RWRB hockey AU (with cricket)

A shitload of prompts from my fandom fest

Extremely delinquent MTH fics

TMFU art thief/gallery owner AU

Thanks to folks who tagged me in their year in review posts, including @loki-is-my-kink-awakening, @kiwiana-writes, and @porcelainmortal

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the devils in the details- luke hughes

chapter 4; part 5: fools in love

nhl x platonic!fem!reader

luke hughes x fem!reader

the masterlist

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yourinstagram | oops. finger slipped 🤷🏻‍♀️ but i don’t regret it at all. love you more than you could even imagine luke ❤   tagged: lhughes_06

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lhughes_06 i love you too ❤

bboeser congratulations on finally going public. you guys have such a solid relationship and it’s only going to get stronger as you get older ❤

user03 wow i love this

nicohischier honestly glad it’s always been him. he treats you exactly how you deserve to be treated and if that’s not the true definition of a ‘perfect boyfriend’ then i don’t know what is 😊  | yourinstagram ❤

_quinnhughes now aren’t you glad we got you back home? 😊❤  | yourinstagram absolutely ❤  luke is my home 🥰

user12 so glad someone loves luke as much as the fans do 😊

elblue6 my babies ❤

trevorzegras you managed to hook all the brothers on your line at some point, huh? respect 😉  | trevorzegras but in all seriousness, congratulations to the both of you. the journey to where you are now was far from perfect but you managed to get there and hopefully you’ll stay on that path for the rest of your lives ❤  | yourinstagram that’s the plan trev 😊

user07 can we get some context to the pictures? please?  | yourinstagram of course! first pic: the dinner where he asked me to be his girlfriend, second pic: us goofing off one night a while ago, third pic: a very recent kiss we shared & probably one of my favorites, fourth pic: the most gentleman thing luke offered to do was tie my shoe even though i can do it myself, fifth pic: thought we needed a random kiss pic, last pic: we were at a park and luke decided he needed a nap. he looks so cute, don’t you think? 😊

jackhughes picture perfect couple. so glad you finally posted about it. was starting to feel like i had to do it myself 😂

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lhughes_06 | you have my whole heart and i plan on giving you the whole world next 🌎❤   tagged: yourinstagram

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jamie.drysdale the goofiest and also sweetest couple i have ever known 😊

jackhughes remember the rule, luke. break her heart and you’ll have to deal with me and quinn 😏  | lhughes_06 luckily i don’t plan on breaking her heart 👍🏻 besides, i am not scared of you. quinn maybe but not you 😂

trevorzegras the luckiest dude alive honestly 😏  | yourinstagram right? 😉

user12 i really love seeing this 😊

colecaufield was actually not expecting this but i love it

edwards.73 you guys are such a perfect couple

bboeser love this a lot. never seen either of you so happy before 😊

_quinnhughes you’ve got the best girlfriend ever so if you screw this up, i will never forgive you 😏

user04 the boys being incredibly protective of y/n makes me wish i knew someone like them 😔 they’re perfect

elblue6 soulmates 🥰

user08 so luke how did you finally make it official? we need to know  | lhughes_06 it’s a long story  | yourinstagram when i got back from vancouver, he made me a nice romantic dinner and he got me a ring i've been wanting forever. then he made a big speech about how much he loved me and he started rambling so i shut him up with a kiss and then he asked me 😊  | user08 awe so cute 😊

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jackhughes | you guys, this was BEFORE they started dating. we decided to take the boat out one night and they sat like this the entire time  tagged: lhughes_06, yourinstagram

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_quinnhughes they’ve always been super close so it can’t really be a surprise that this happened 😊

lhughes_06 in our defense, it was the first time in a while we had actually been able to see each other. i was not about to let the opportunity pass me by again ❤

edwards.73 they’re lucky they’re a cute couple

nicohischier 😊

trevorzegras if they weren’t such a cute couple, i would hate how lovey-dovey they are 😊

colecaufield this was the trip that you broke up with julia, wasn’t it?  | jackhughes yes. couldn’t stand her hating on my best friend anymore. had to be done  | yourinstagram oh so i'm your best friend now? how sweet 🥺🥰  | jackhughes oh don’t act so surprised. you've known this forever 🙄

user13 and people ask me why my standards are so high. i mean you broke up with your girlfriend because she didn’t like y/n, both you and quinn as well as a few other hockey boys are so protective of y/n and have threatened to kick luke’s ass if he hurts her, and luke does anything for her. she deserves happiness and you guys are doing everything you possibly can to make sure she feels loved. And that is why my standards are so high ❤  | yourinstagram they just do what any guy is supposed to do when they care. if nobody can show you that same amount of love, then they don’t deserve you. you deserve happiness too, love 😊❤

user09 i love that y/n gets along with not just the other hockey boys, but the fans as well. she is truly the best  | lhughes_06 the love of my life for sure ❤

taglist: @worldlxvlys @bunbunbl0gs @jacktoria4ever @callsignwidow

[little-miss-dilf-lover]

Hiii! Can I please request a Tangerine x fem!reader where when the Twins are on the Johannesburg job, maybe Y/n was originally working with Ladybug, but double crosses him for Lemon and Tangerine, hence why Lemon had the upper hand on Ladybug😅 (poor Ladybug, gotta love him🤧😅), now being parters with the Twins. Y/n and Tan had liked each other (romantically) for a while, Lemon absolutely loves her (platonically), so they were finally able to convince her to join them instead😅. Also omg, flash forward to the Bullet Train job, Y/n saving Tan’s life when he confronted the Prince (saving him from accidentally being shot by Ladybug…) Y/n being like, “You almost killed my boyfriend, DAD” Cue Lemon and Tangerine being like, “Ladybug is your DAD???!” 😂

Lol I’m sorry for the last part… I thought that would be a funny twist🤣🤣

hii again! hope you like it💌

change of partners (tan x f reader)

wc || 754

warnings || mentions of weapons (?)

masterlist + rules

taglist

A few years before the events of Bullet Train-

“You do know he’s not behind there?” Tapping on the shoulder of a man with a beanie.

“What?” The guy peers around to look at you. “No way!”

“Lemon? I didn’t recognise you with your disguise.”Making air quotes as you snickered. “That guy you’re after… he’s not there. He’s in the car park.” You whisper behind a pillar.

“The white homeless-looking man?”

“Yeah, he’s waiting on the fourth floor.” You disappear before you he can ask you more questions.

You felt guilty for tipping him off, but then again it was part of the job. He was getting on your nerves, on multiple occasions, you had to stop yourself from telling him to get therapy.

You made a couple of laps around the car park, running up to different levels to have a sweep. Making your way down from the fifth floor you decide to check out how things are going on fourth.

Lemon was running away clutching his empty gun to his chest. Catching up, you began to jog beside him. “I take it went well?” You pant.

“Too well.” Slowing down as he made enough distance from the scene.

“What’d you do?” Stopping the same as he did.

“Shot him twice.” He said flatly.

“Is he dead?” You asked intrigued.

“Nah, I dunno, you’ll have to ask him.” Deeply laughing as he looked around, guessing to find his brother. “Oi Tan.” He shouts in an attempt to find him.

“What?” Tangerine shouts back in reply, standing in the stairwell. “Over here.”

Turning around to look at Lemon. “What would you say about me joining you both?” Smiling at him with puppy dog eyes, hoping it’ll persuade him.

“I’d say yes, but you know what Tan’s like.” Nodding towards his brother who was looking agitated.

“I’ll make him say ‘yes’”

//

-Cutting forward to today-

You’d been running around the train nonstop, it felt like it was a literal death trap. You had so many random people that were just absolutely nuts.

You hadn’t seen your partners in a while, being too preoccupied with a reptile issue- you hated snakes as is, but the fact it was a poisonous one made you hide in the toilets, scared shitless.

Finally racking up enough courage to leave the toilets, sprinting down the aisles to make it into the next carriage. Oh thank god, Lemon is in there. Stopping yourself from walking in when you hear a gun go off. Watching from behind as the man fell to the floor. No! Wrong person Lemon!

Turning on your heel to try and find Tangerine, heading towards the back of the train.

Spotting him, eyes bugging out your head. Oh my god. He looks battered. Running up to him, “what happened?” You sadly ask, running your hands on his cut face.

“That prick pushed me off the train” he huffs.

“Jesus! I’ve got some cream in my bag, I just gotta find it first.”

“Where’s Lemon?” He asks, bending down to kiss your forehead.

“I just saw him a minute ago, I’ll go find him. Wait here.” You instruct. “We gotta get off this fucking train.”

Running into the carriages in hopes to find Lemon, they all look the bloody same. Having no luck you return to Tangerine. But he wasn’t there anymore, sighing frustratedly.

Hearing Tan shout you follow the sound. Running in between the cluster of three people. It was the annoying British girl and your old partner Ladybug, how odd.

“What the fucks going on?!” You demand, looking at them all.

“He’s been causing this girl harm, he’s got a gun aimed at her for Christ’s sake, excuse my language.” Ladybug responds.

“Oh have I fuck. She’s a dirty fucking diesel.” Tangerine shouts from behind.

“He’s not dangerous.” You flatly reply.

“Yeah, how do you know?” Ladybug asks.

“Because he’s my boyfriend.” Avoiding Ladybug’s gaze.

Lemon bustles in through the door yawning loudly. “What’s going on?”

“Not going to introduce me to your friends?” Ladybug chirps.

“Shut up, not right now.” You snap back, already feeling stressed, running your hands through your hair.

“Why the fuck would she?” Lemon retaliates.

“Because I’m her father…”

Everyone’s eager eyes penetrate your own like they’re all individually asking you a hundred questions. Backing away, “we don’t want the white death to kill us, right? I’m going to prepare for Kyoto, so I suggest you all do the same.” Walking away hoping to forget about what happened. It worked, right?

[wawamouse]

5 - first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

8 - if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

5 - first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

(oh, the math…. 😵‍💫) (also due to Wip Wednesdays, I’m pretty sure I’ve shared this part of virtually all my other wips, other than this one:)

“Miguel, is Guerra doing anything to you against your will?” McManus asks point blank.

🤣

8 - if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

Oooh, such an interesting question. My fic? Someone else’s fic? Lol… I guess I’ll go off my own. :P Damn… See, because I usually do just write sequels if they come to me, but I also have some semi-abandoned wips from other fandoms that I’d love to have finished… Ok, kind of random, but looking through my fics list, I think a lot of my Oz ficlets present interesting cases for sequels… (yes this is more than one, shh)

Sunshine and Rainbows - Diane & Gloria - I envisioned it as pre-femslash so I guess it would be interesting to try and tackle the follow up where it tips more in that direction?

Blood Race - Miguel/Chico - Would probably take a sequel in a darker direction tbh, the hearts in Chico's eyes obscuring all the blood & that sort of thing. Despite everything, I feel like I've never really attempted to write a Miguel/Chico fic that's actually all that dark or toxic (relative to them and the show setting, obviously). It's still on my to-do list.

Recognition of Another - Kenmin & Cyril - Kinda in the back of my mind still obsessed with the idea of a canon divergence where Kenmin weirdly befriends Cyril instead (not with any noble intentions but still). Idk, Cyril's enthusiasm for wushu in the show was cute for those like... 2 seconds... But, nobody cares about Jia Kenmin and tbh neither do I, really. He's just kinda fun to try an understand, Chinese dude to Chinese character 😂

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Thank youuuu @onthewaytosomewhere for the tag 🖤

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 116! 🫣

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 539,264 and counting! Got a couple big fics coming soooon(ish)

3. What fandoms do you write for? Many! Current 9-1-1, RWRB, & Psych. But I have some Destiel, Gallavich, Steddie, Starsky and Hutch, The Untamed, AND Three Musketeers things in the WIP folder too!

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Of course I do! Unless they are just really mean (which I THANKFULLY haven’t got any yet) I always want to show my appreciation for someone not only taking time to read my fic but to also let me know what they think of it! ♥️

5. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of! 🫣

6. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes! With @scripted-downfall 🫶 and hopefully soooooon with @onthewaytosomewhere

7. What’s your all-time favourite ship? I plead the fifth 🤐

8. What are your writing strengths? Angst maybe? Or the ability to see the most random thing and come up with a whole multi chapter story from it… (9/10 not even to do with the random thing🫣)

9. What are your writing weaknesses? smut 🫣😂

10. First fandom you wrote for? My Starsky and Hutch fic was the first fandom I started writing for, But I abandoned it for the first fandom I posted for, Destiel 😂

Throwing out some no pressure tags for @scripted-downfall @luainthewild @meraki-yao @30somethingautisticteacher @do-androids-dream-ao3acc @girlwonder-writes @shroomonabroom and everyone else who wants to participate 🫶🫶

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001 The Simpsons!

Favorite character: Of course it’s Lisa Simpson. 🤣 When I first started watching The Simpsons, I was really intrigued by her character, and she grew to be my favorite character ever!

Least Favorite character: It would have to be Elizabeth Hoover. Lisa’s teacher at Springfield Elementary School. I just never liked the woman, at least with Edna Krabappel, who seemed like she didn’t like Bart. The thing was, she did actually care about her students and Bart, unlike Miss Hoover, who really doesn’t give a rat’s ass about any of them and has actually bullied an 8-year-old just because she felt like Lisa was a show-off. (Granted, Lisa can be a little full of herself at times, but she’s just a kid, and Miss Hoover is an adult who has personal issues and is taking them out on a little girl.) (Hehehe, I really info dump when it comes to a character I don’t like lol.)

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Lisa and Jessica are my OTP forever and ever! And I could go on all day about why I love them, but then I wouldn’t be able to talk about any other ship lol. I like to ship Lisa with the twin weasels ( I affectionately call them this and like to think Lisa does too 😂), Sherri, and Terri Mackleberry in a polycule V-type relationship (no incest), with Lisa as the hinge. (It probably goes without saying that I also ship the twins’ separately with Lisa too, and it’s usually Sherri. 😆) third pairing (yes, we are counting the twins’ as just the second ship, okay? They’re a unit right now, so I can say more ships,😂) would be Lisa and Allison. I love to think that if they had stayed very close friends, it would have turned into a friends-to-lovers situation, and I just think their relationship would be very cute and sweet, and they would grow old together. And my fourth pair I fancy is Lisa Simpson and Francine Rhenquist... You all are probably noticing a pattern... And you’re right because I have a thing—a thing for shipping Lisa with bullies... I just think she can be a bully whisperer and tamer, okay?! 🤣 And now, last but not least, my final and fifth pairing is Allison Taylor and Hubert Wong. I just think these two are too cute for each other! And they are just two cute little nerds in love. (Shout out to my sister @twisting-echo for getting me into shipping these two nerds).

Character I find most attractive: Groundskeeper Willie hands down! Have you seen that man without his shirt on? Absolutely beautiful~ 

Character(s) I would marry: Kang and Kodos, two one-eyed aliens, just for little ol’ me lol. 🤣💕💕💕

Character I would be best friends with: Professor Frink. I always loved his character and his zany antics.

A random thought: I once had a random thought about making a fic where it would be an AU where everyone had animal-like features, and I had wanted the whole Simpsons’ family to be cats. 😅🤣

An unpopular opinion: Oh, boy, here it goes... My unpopular opinion is that I really haven’t liked how they have written Marge in the newer seasons of The Simpsons. Just some of the storylines they do for her feel like they’ve done it a thousand times before, and it’s gotten old. And I have never liked how they have made it so that Homer has no problems bonding with his daughters, especially Lisa, but nothing with Bart. The same goes for Marge. I never like how in some episodes she can’t bond with her daughter, but honestly, it’s the writing overall because they always make either Lisa an asshole to her own mother or Marge is the asshole. Just why can’t they have cute bonding episodes for the whole family like what I’ve seen in Bob’s Burgers? 😭

My canon OTP: I wouldn’t say OTP, but I had always thought Comic Book Guy and Kumiko’s relationship was surprisingly cute and sweet. 

Non-canon OTP: This wouldn’t be me if I didn’t say it was Lisa and Jessica, now would it? Yessss, they’re my little babies! This ship is very dear to me; it’s been my OTP for years. 🤣💕💕💕

Most badass character: Gina Vendetti. I love her and think she’s a little badass. I also love to ship her with Bart. She’s his scary Amazon girlfriend who terrifies everyone around her lol.

Pairing I am not a fan of: Milhouse and Lisa; just no, I have never thought they worked well together ever! It's just sad to see him pine for someone who does not like him at all. Seriously, it was a running joke that Lisa settled for him, and that’s just sad. Millhouse deserves someone who actually cares and will love him, and Lisa needs to be with someone she’s not settling with because it’s all she’s ever known, and she knows he won’t leave her because he loves her too much and it’s just not healthy or fair to either one of them. (I love my girl, but she has to let him go so he can move on).

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): I have never liked the slow decent at which they have taken Lisa’s character in how the show writes her. Back when the show first came out, she was intelligent, kind, and passionate about the planet and all living things. Mind you, she is still very intelligent, but they have taken some parts of her personality and turned it up to an 180. She is flawed, which is why I love her, but over the years, they have made her more of a snotty brat at times who throws her intelligence in people’s faces, and it doesn’t seem like she’s that kind anymore, and most of what she rebels against feels performative and hollow now. She could always be somewhat intolerant of opinions that differed from her own, often refusing to consider alternative perspectives and showing a feeling of self-righteousness. But it feels like that’s how she is all the time now, and I just haven’t been a big fan of what her character has become.

Favourite friendship: Now I’m going to completely talk about a “fanon” friendship since The Simpsons didn’t give me it in the canon of the show. I mean, sure, I could talk about Millhouse and Bart’s friendship, but sadly, while I like it, it is not my favorite, and the truth is, sometimes they abused each other more than they were good friends with each other lol. 😂😅 No, I’m going to talk about a friendship between Lisa Simpson, Allison Taylor, and Hubert Wong. I always thought it would have been nice for Lisa to at least have someone who was her friend in the show, someone she could bond with, just like Bart with Millhouse. But no, they have always made her a loner just for the sake of writing that not a lot of people like her in Springfield (poor baby, 😭) and they wasted the potential of Lisa and Allison’s friendship. In the show, they always show Lisa as a miserable adult who’s so bitter about everything. I like to think she would have grown up a little differently if she had at least one consistent friend (not Janey; Janey was just as bad as the twins’ with the way they bullied Lisa). And honestly, it would have been nice to see her hang out with two other people who shared similar interests as she did, and it just would have been cute. I definitely have more things to say about their friendship, my sister and I have made up in fanon over the years, but that’s definitely for a different post lol.

I’m so sorry that this is soooo long. 😂 Once you get me started on the Simpsons, I can’t stop rambling like a mad woman about it. 🤣 Thank you so much for this ask. This was so much fun to write out.

[messenger-of-stupidity]

Which redacted listener do you think would hide/ not mention that they speak different languages until some random or funny moment happens? because the fact that I speak 5 languages has put in a lot of funny situations 😂

Omg I wanna know some of these interactions. That kind of thing is literally some of my fav things ever. (I was gonna write a fully fledged fic in answer to this but I have way too many WIPs to do that. 😭 Maybe I'll do it in the future idk.)

N E WAYS

Personally, I think all of the demon boys can speak any language used on Earth. Like imagine Gavin travelling to Spain for example. Considering how big he is on consent and for simplicity sake, he would need to be able to speak Spanish to communicate with those he wants to feed on.

Do all demons use this? No. I'm pretty sure Vega's words just get translated into the person's native language on the rare occasions he does communicate with people.

Outside of the d(a)emons? Oh here we go.

This could just be me pushing a French Baabe agenda, but they give off the vibe of knowing another language. And as soon as Angel finds out, they immediate want Baabe to hold onto that card for whenever they need to lay the smack into Christian.

Sweetheart is another one, but I think they needed to learn multiple languages for their job. (Same with Cutie. Probably Cutie even more so since people think in their native language, and if they need to investigate someone mind, language barriers would be a pain in the ass.) Sweetheart would purposefully mistranslate words to people, just for shits and giggles. Even better if it's Milo.

But idk if any of the wolf boyos would hide it since theyve all known each other since they were kids. I also don't think they would mess with each other's mates to that extent.

Lovely and Vincent though? Those two would totally fuck with each other or other clan members when it comes to languages. Sam would probably give them the silent treatment after the fifth time in one afternoon. It got to be too much.

I feel like Huxley thought Lasko was speaking a different language when they first met simply from how fast our local fan company was talking. Especially since Huxley's speed of talking is much slower.

But you wanted listeners. So here's my list.

Cutie - nothing malicious. Work related reasons.

Sweetheart - pranks galore

Baabe - forced by Angel to wait for the "perfect moment"

Lovely - malicious menacery.

Warden - demon things

Mentor (Ollie's listener) - nothing malicious. Simply a fact of their life. They don't really bring it up, but their ability of more than one language is there when needed.

Anton's listener - I don't think they would hide it since they give off such a heavy wholesome vibes. But I also headcanon that theyre European and English isn't their first language.

Asset - AI computer tings

Honey - they only learned curse words in multiple languages (hahahaha me tho 😅)

Darlin - they got sick of falling for Lovely and Vincent's bullshit and decided to start learning the language (up in the air what it is) also since it was confirmed that they're a menace, they also started doing the same to Sam and the rest of the pack. (Sam can't escape it. Someone save southern yee haw vamp daddy)

That's all I can really think of off the top of my head (I'm having bad cramps so brain not fully operating.) But bonus:

Angel: Im learning French, Davey!

David: oh?

Angel: yeup. Like Angel is Ange in French. And please is sil vous plait

David: what else

Angel: oui oui Ange wants your baguette

David: ...

[brucespringsteen]

Hi, do you have any beginner tips for lifting/getting into the gym? I no longer want to be a scrawny waifish butch and instead wanna be able to pick up my gf and look like mid 80s Bruce… If you’re comfortable talking about it I’d love to hear if you have any tips… I’ve been researching and have learned that diet is a huge part in building muscle but as far as the gym goes I’m lost… I’m honestly mostly just nervous because I have no clue where to start and don’t want some dude to help me (nothing wrong honest help I’m just shy and get embarrassed)… Thank you!!!

hi king 🤝🏻

im so happy 2 talk about this cos im in my musclebound era again

disclaimer what i know is a mix of what i learned from my dad and reddit threads LOL and my own trial and error. weightlifting really is the gayass journey of all time 💪🏼😋

first gonna keep it real with u ive lost a lot of muscle mass from stupid life events n being sad lol but im actually getting back into a routine for the first time in over a year. so i haven't properly lifted anything heavier than the 15lbs dumbells i got at home 😂 when i was once able to press more than my weight ✊🏼😔 BUT form is so much more important than lifting heavy. u will get better results lifting at a weight that you can control and build up lifting heavier over time 👍🏼 which i can go more in depth about how to do that. good form is so sexy and makes u feel and look so badass

u might find more eloquent lifters out there who talk about the mind and muscle connection and visualization. it's really cool stuff that connects practicing mindfulness as u workout which is what makes weightlifting so meditative to me. this will also help u maintain good form and i think nourishes a healthy mindset toward working out/yourself in general

n you are definitely right about diet playing a huge part. don't worry about bulking/cutting when ur first starting out, most important thing is making sure you're getting enough protein. if u are iron deficient i would look into taking a supplement! dont know all the science but iron keeps ur oxygen flowing better, so your stamina can be down if ur iron count is low. my mindset about diet is the simpler the better and u should never be miserable lol. i will never give up beer & pizza & a good time 🫡

second most important thing is sleep. make sure u get enough.

1. back/shoulders and biceps

going to the gym can be a little scary, but that's where having a routine helps so much 🧑‍💻doing one of those dynamic workout routines u find on an instagram reel every now and then can be fun and i recommend it. BUT doing a random workout Everytime u workout will make it difficult to see results. doing the same workouts is how u can see ur progression better and focus on good form. im talking about learning the basics of benching, squatting, and deadlifting. 😜✌🏼

if u can, i would aim a routine of 3-4 times a week. I kept it like this:

2. leg day and abs

3. chest and triceps

what helped in staying consistent w going to the gym was having a set time where i would go. ritualistic

4th extra day: fun cardio like interval training or boxing. OR if i was feeling like i just needed a chill day a slow incline walk on treadmill/outside😊 then do some really intense stretching/foam rolling

here is an example of a chest/tris day

The 3 "T's" stand for tiers starting with the most difficult exercises, so I could use most of the energy I have on it.

To elaborate further on how to see progress: say this week you're able to bench press 60lbs. Next week you try 70lbs on your last rep and it's kinda hard. The third week, you bench 60lbs again, and it feels a little easier now. The fourth week, you're benching 70lbs on your last two sets. By the fifth week, you find you're able to do your entire workout with 70! Etc repeat etc

when i first started i kept one of those tiny composition books w different workouts and id also keep track of how much i was lifting when i reached a new pr/mile time/etc. u can also just keep this in ur notes app. but i found having the paper in front of me was more efficient than continuously looking at my phone and fighting the urge to check apps in between sets lol. also if i was getting texts id have No Idea which just helped me reinforce the gym was Me Time

before u buy into a gym membership tho, take advantage if they have a free trial. u can find what time is least busy/if the vibe fits for u.

another tip. put a photo 1985 bruce on ur wall trust me this will help.

I can go more indepth about specific workouts or if u got other questions, lmk!

U got this!

[battlemaiden13]

Actually Madam BattleMaiden, I have a few(I hope, no promises.) question for YOU, you don’t have to answer BUT!

What are your fanfics that you read and like? Can be any, but also can be Ut AUs related! Or maybe fanfics you suggest??

Do you make playlists for your own fanfic? Your characters? Or May others stories? Others characters??

Do you do a reference sheet for all your characters or is it all in your head? Or perhaps it’s on many different pieces of paper, media, apps?😂 chaotic organization even?

~💚𝒯𝒽ℯℴ💚~

So I basically just read reader inserts because I like the style a lot, unless the fandom is severely lacking in that department then I may branch out. I really like slow burns or soulmate au’s.  I haven’t read any in a while really, but when I do it tends to be for the fandom I am currently hyper focused on. For undertale there are a few I really like, and need to go back and re-read. 

The good boy by @absurdmageart is currently my favorite thing ever. It is the only fanfic I have ever finished reading only to immediately re-read it all again. I also just love Money and how mage writes him so I’ve been obsessed. Plus I relate a lot to Chip and how he reacts to situations so I found it easy to relate to.

For more recommendations though I would just look at my bookmarks in AO3. I don’t tend to bookmark work unless I’m really into it although not all of them are Undertale and I haven’t read some of them in a while. 

I don’t make playlists for my fics, I totally could but I think if I did they would be more character playlists. I absolutely have some songs that I associate with these skeletons and other characters although I’m not sure if these would be any good and I haven’t done it yet. @artsy-potato did make a playlist for the fifth clover aka MC and some others but the fifth clover one is a banger and I listen to it all the time. Here’s that post if you are interested. Maybe one day when I’m bored I’ll make playlists for the boys. 

Interesting you mention character Ref sheets because I’m actually making some right now! They have a lot of writing on them because obviously I’ll use them for writing but I have at least tried to draw some skeletons, I’m going to post them when I’m done, Edge’s should be finished this week at least. Before these it has just been like notebooks or random google docs to sprawl info on. Although I think I also still have notes from like three phones ago with chapter ideas in it. 

[bunnimew]

What do you think about the GOC books? Personally I enjoy them, but separate to the film. It’s very hard to connect the two worlds in my head especially when Joyce keeps rewriting the lore every couple years (no hate, love him as a person but it can get frustrating). With the added lore from his insta and stuff it just doesn’t feel like the same story

Hello Anon!!

I try pretty hard not to yuck somebody else's yum when it comes to the GoC books. I know people like them and I don't want to dampen their happiness.

But man. Do I not like those books. I didn't even finish Toothiana's, technically, because I got so bored that skimming wasn't even good enough and I took pictures of the pages before I had to send it back to the library, telling myself I'd read them later. I never went back and read them. And at this point, I likely never will.

I have a laundry list of problems with the books. And if you really want to know the full extent, you'll have to ask in a private message somewhere because I don't want to make random strangers on the internet upset. But my dislike goes beyond the movie and book canons not lining up. Honestly, Joyce should have just embraced them being different canons, and the fifth book would have been better for it.

The tidbits from his insta don't even make sense half the time 😂 I appreciate his love of imagination and I respect that he just wants kids to feel a sense of wonder, but my personal journey with imagination and wonder do not work with his modus operandi.

I love hard science. I always have. To me, the weird things that are real will always be more fantastic than the weird things someone made up. I love the whole magic is science we don't understand yet concept, and given what the leading edge of science is doing right now? It feels real to me. Scifi is my home genre, and when scifi meets fantasy? My heart sings.

Joyce threw science so hard out the window it left orbit.

So there was really never a chance that I was going to seriously like these books. And his continued dismissal of continuity, while his right as a creator, feels like sandpaper to my physicist soul.

I do enjoy seeing what people pick from book canon to apply to movie canon when writing/drawing AUs. That can get very creative and interesting, especially since some of the characters from the books are solid and would have been cool to have in the movie. Kam and I, ourselves, have used book characters in our fics, because they do add something to the whole. Twiner and Jamie teaming up on Jack has become one of my favorite things.

So I'm glad the books exist. You just won't be finding them in my personal collection.

Thank you, Anon!!

[nfornaomi]

May 29 2023 - Elfstedentocht day!

Where and how to start describing what I'd been determinedly training for for...4ish months? 😊

In sum: 14,000+ cyclists, 235 kilometers in total, just under 11 hours on the bike, 14.5 hours total including breaks. 1 fall, lots of food, strong winds, and 100% fun!

We technically had a 5:56am start time but didn't get going until close to 7 due to traffic getting into Bolsward and the huge line to get the first stamp at the start point. It was all going well until we approached Harlingen (the second town) and I fell off my bike during a wide right turn due to a split second of inattention 😅. Bloodied my knee rather badly and it ended up throbbing and seeping blood for most of the day. After that slight mishap, most of the day went by amazingly well. A few fun things to remember:

First - the energy! There were crowds at every segment; from front yard neighbourhood parties blasting music to families sitting on lawn chairs throughout the route cheering us on.

Second - the food! Rob told me beforehand that this would be an eating competition as much as a cycling event. You have to CONSTANTLY eat to make up for the calories you're burning. I thought I would have no issues in this competition since I love to eat, but it got really hard partway through. There's only so many sandwiches you can eat in a day before it becomes a chore 😛. We packed Nutella and butter and jam sandwiches, and Lars' parents were absolutely amazing and met us at 3 different points with tons of food. Egg sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, cold cut sandwiches, raisin buns, energy drinks, bananas, apples, etc. For the most part you also have to wolf down your snacks really fast since you're not taking a break at every city. So everyone is stuffing their faces while lining up / walking their bikes to get their stamps - and I'm also not great at eating fast, haha. I did love the fact that at a random point biking through farmland, kids handed out apples so you could cycle and eat at the same time, or there would be a turnoff to pick up a banana or energy gel, or when we got soup at the midpoint back at Bolsward. At the end of the day I think I'd eaten 7 sandwiches, 1 apple, 2 bananas, 4 dates, 1 granola bar, 1 soup, 1 snelle jelle, 1 piece of chocolate, half an energy gel, and looking back, I should've eaten more.

Third - the breaks! Aside from Lars' parents, we also met up with our 'support team' (the rest of the high school friends). They took the motorbikes and also brought some snacks and good chats at 3 different points so it broke up the day nicely.

Fourth - the struggle! Strong winds meant great cycling when it was tailwind (mostly the middle part of the total route). It also meant difficult cycling during headwind (the first 80km and last 30km). The first 80 was fine, the last 20 was SO difficult, especially the section towards Workum (second last city). At that point my legs had run out of gas, I was cold due to the really chilly wind, and it felt like I was going on slow motion and just couldn't keep up. I seriously wondered if I had any more to give or if I'd make it to the end going literally 10km/hr at a snail's pace. But related to #3, it turned out I just needed more fuel 😂. We took a 10min break at Workum where I scarfed down half a snelle jelle and a granola bar and when we got on the saddle again for the last 12km, I actually felt human and had a ton more energy than before.

Fifth - the end! It was super cool to make it to the finish and see so many smiling faces cheering and clapping. In addition to the final stamp and the medal, I completed the day with a Red Cross volunteer wrapping a hypothermia blanket around me since I was shiveringly cold 😂.

Painful knee and gold hypothermia robe aside, I'm so happy I made it to the end and it really felt like all the hard work paid off ⭐️🥹.

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: Smoky Nectar

Title: Smoky Nectar (スモーキーネクター)

Author/Artist: Minazuki Akira

Release Date: 2021/07/14

Cast: 

Satou Takuya x Enoki Junya

Komatsu Shouhei

Muro Genki

Taito Ban

Tsuchida Reo

Hasegawa Ikumi

Sugiyama Riho

Kobayashi Kousuke

Okada Sachiko

Kida Tasuku

Synopsis: Writer Hasegawa Mitsuru has been investigating a case that was rumored to be the work of vampires known as “Biters”. His childhood friend, Annaka Yuusei, a.k.a. Anna, warns him not to stick his head into where it doesn’t belong.

Review Proper

Just something about this is weird. The manga’s pretty fluid on its own, but it’s kinda, uhh, choppy? in the BLCD. Although I’m not sure if Smoky Nectar’s a serious manga with some comedy here and there, 50:50 serious and comedy, or is a comedy with some serious moments... it kinda doesn’t work in the BLCD. I mean, SatoTaku and Junya did well during the serious parts, but they seem to stumble during the comedy or the parts that lead to the comedic moments. Maybe the comedy just doesn’t transition well into the audio adaptation. *shrugs*

Let’s jump straight into the voice work, shall we?

I was quite interested in listening to this ‘cause yo??? Juujin bottoms??? If Daath and Kai were in these tones in Kemonohito, I would ship them 100% lmao, but then, uhh, idk, Junya was kind of a mess here. We’ll get to SatoTaku later, but I feel like they didn’t record this together. I do not like how Junya drags his moans on during their bedroom Redcross donations because he sounds very out of sync with SatoTaku’s ministrations (this is only very obvious in the first, though). I think he also has a hard time expressing the deadpan humor Mitsuru has. Sometimes my mind wanders off and starts having thoughts of either Reio, Ban, or Shouhei potentially being a better option for Mitsuru. That might just be my other issue with Junya. He was a bit too low for Mitsuru. I feel like if he was in a higher register, then he would’ve been able to express Mitsuru’s feelings better.

Now, as for SatoTaku, the man wasn’t free of my suspicions either. SatoTaku was a little too smooth to match Anna’s equally deadpan humor. I’m not saying that SatoTaku can’t comedy ‘cause sis you’ve heard Sonna ni, right??? But as compared to Anna, Shinobu’s more dynamic a character. Niyama and Ginger also gave the cast time to prepare before a big change in moods. Huh, I’m starting to think that this is the same thing that went down in Takasaki Bosco’s Torokeru Kuchibiru. I feel like Makonyan or Ono Yuuki would’ve done this better. But I know, I FUCKING KNOW, why Fifth Avenue got SatoTaku for this.

Thanks to Fifth Avenue, I know have my ringtone set to SatoTaku saying “erro” in the Mini Drama on repeat.

Goddamn I fucking flatlined on that one. I wasn’t really expecting much from the Mini Dramas, so thanks. 👍

Anyway, I also have to say that the sound effects as well as the bgms suck balls lmao. FIFTH AVENUE PLS. The main piano bgm also starts and ends in random places. There was also this part where Anna jumps off from a fucking building to the floor on the ground, making a table flip. Like we all know how a table sounds like flipped, right??? It definitely won’t sound like a chair shaking! 😂 I don’t think Fifth Avenue even cared at that point. 

This was actually a pretty decent adaptation despite the many issues I have with it. It’s pretty faithful to the manga too, although I would recommend reading the manga once before ‘cause you wouldn’t know what they were doing in real time without the visual cues. This is an action bl too, after all. If you’re looking for another vampire (the “biter” thing also threw me off a bit, but the “nectar” concept wouldn’t survive without ig) bl, I raise you Yuri Azuru’s Fujitsu de Fumou na Koi no Kami-kon starring Okitsu and Egu. That one’s a little disappointing on the action front, but it was a good vampire bl nontheless. Okitsu’s Lark was also a good comedic/spontaneous type, so that’s good vampire + comedy! 

[being-of-rain]

A stream of random thoughts from my Classic Who watch, now the second half of season 20.

20 seasons down! Not far to go before the end of the year. Also I don’t know when these watchthrough posts got so long; I remember when I just wrote a few sentences for some of the second Doctor stories. Apologies to anyone who are actually trying to read these, because I do not proofread them 😂

I forgot to mention it in my last post, but I thought it was funny how Mawdryn Undead started for the Tardis team; almost all of the Fifth Doctor’s stories start with a link to the previous story, but this one had the Doctor actually giving some explanations about the conclusion of Snakedance which we didn’t get in the episode. Speaking of, is the Fifth Doctor era the one with the most stories that follow directly on from the previous? Not even the First and Second Doctors were this consistent. I’m pretty sure a lot of the gaps Big Finish and EU stories try to find don’t actually work jsdlkfj. Pretty ironic that maybe the only story to not get an immediate follow up is Time-Flight, which readers of all my infodump posts know is the one I most want a scene immediately following. It did allow Big Finish to guiltlessly slip in months or years worth of travels with Five and Nyssa though.

Onto the new stories. Terminus is another one that felt like it could’ve been an episode shorter. Or maybe two. It started to feel a bit ridiculous when you watch Nyssa get carried away from the room she was being kept in just as someone was coming to rescue her for the second or third time. The first episode felt like the best, a bit more contained than the others in a different ship, and the reveal that it’s a plague ship at the end was very dramatic (until I couldn’t stop laughing at Olvir’s delivery of “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE” anyway). I enjoyed the Tardis scenes at the start of the story. Turlough sneaking around and breaking stuff then trying to act innocent with Tegan is great. Please give us more fucked-up bastard companions, I’m begging. Also hey! A mention of Adric! I was honestly expecting there to be a lot more references to Adric’s death, probably because authors in the EU pick up on it a lot, but I was surprised that this is basically the only one so far since the middle of Time-Flight. So it was nice to see him mentioned here, even if it wasn’t in the most meaningful way. That said, it was a very nice touch seeing the same old props in Adric’s room as there had been in Earthshock, and Tegan almost absent-mindedly taking one as a memento. Other random thoughts. The skull door turning up in Nyssa’s room was extremely goth and cool. It’s an aesthetic that did get a bit old with the rest of the plot as the story wore on, unfortunately. There was some good and rather modern-feeling anti-capitalism thrown in there though. I didn’t take not of when “I’ll explain later” started getting common in the show, but it really feels like a staple of the Fifth Doctor (classic Five avoiding difficult conversations). The garn is adorable and helpful and I cannot believe anyone would scream as loudly at the sight of him as people do in this story. The creation of the universe is such a random-feeling thing to throw into the grungy little setting, and the destruction of the universe is such absurdly high stakes. Is it really that easy to create and destroy the universe? Damn. I almost forgot that this was Nyssa’s last story. It doesn’t feel particularly notable, and she spends a lot of time captured and unconscious. Oh and predictably, I loved the character moment in the middle of the story where Turlough asks Tegan if she could kill someone. I adore taking the characters who jar against each other the most and forcing them to be stuck together, like Tegan and Turlough in the vents here or Tegan and Adric captured together in The Visitation.

Enlightenment is good! Perhaps still slightly too long, but better than most other stories before it. The space ships are a very cool setting (very Treasure Planet. Has any other media used the idea?) and they get a very good dark and oppressive tone. Not in a way that’s immediately obvious, but a subtle way that you think about how small a ship like that is, and how it’s staffed by people who can read your mind and control the matter around you. The fact that Marriner started following Tegan around and not taking no for an answer made it all feel particularly claustrophobic and horrifying for her, so I can’t blame her at all for wanting to go back to the Tardis. This is also maybe the most interesting story of the trilogy for Turlough. How he uses his charming, weaseling ways to try and help the Doctor is fun to watch, it’s so different to how most companions operate. And I love that delicious character moment near the end of part two when Turlough betrays someone in front of the Doctor, and the Doctor looks disappointed and Turlough looks ashamed, but there’s a sullen air of something else too. Like they both knew a moment this was coming, but it was still awful for both of them to live through. Poor Turlough. I think it’s a shame he doesn’t get more golden opportunities to try to kill the Doctor in the trilogy, which would’ve made the whole thing more interesting. As it is he just doesn’t get many opportunities at all, and spends most stories just causing a little bit of trouble with the hope that it will somehow get the Doctor out of the way. I’m not sure the conclusion of Turlough’s arc at the very end of the trilogy is particularly satisfying either, with a symbolic choice to hand over the Doctor for wealth. I’d adore seeing this exact plot done again in New Who honestly, with a modern-day focus on character arcs and emotional storytelling. The way the White Guardian banishes the Eternals is pretty cold-hearted. It’s always strange to see some scripts have the Doctor act as though the White Guardian is the good guy, when even back in the 70s and 80s you can see the seeds that would grow into the idea that basically everyone has about the Guardians nowadays: that chaos and order do not equal evil and good. I’d also love to see the Guardians turn up in New Who incidentally. I don’t care if they’re unbelievable or inherently cheesy. It’d also follow up on the White Guardian’s warning at the end of Enlightenment that the Doctor should beware his third meeting with the Black Guardian... something that never happened on TV. I looked at the list of EU stories the BG appears in, and almost all of them are set before Enlightenment, only the Key 2 Time trilogy is set after it, and as fun as that depiction of the Guardians is, it doesn’t at all line up with the warning here. Random thoughts. I love how when Turlough is playing chess at the start of the story, he’s playing white. The Eternals say that they apparently hid the Tardis inside the Doctor’s mind?? Now that’s a throwaway line that you could write an entire script about. Nice to have an Aunt Vanessa reference for Tegan. I’d love to see the Eternals appear some more as well (Tardis wiki apparently counts the villains from Can You Hear Me? as Eternals because some short story said so, which annoys me a little because they’re explicitly not Eternals in the episode). Five in an all-black wetsuit looks fantastic jskdjf. Finally, after the last episode, I listened to the start of some audios set soon after it- Freakshow and Cobwebs. And is it just me or is Tegan written and performed a lot more aggressively in the EU? She was a bit more excitable early in her time on TV, but by Enlightenment she seems a lot slower to get into a fight. All of her issues with him on TV, which are few are far between, are quite tame compared to her attacks on him in Big Finish. I can’t yet tell if I don’t like the audios apparent flanderisation of her, or if I can appreciate them finding ways to make the companions more engaging, which Fifth Doctor era Who sometimes needs.

The King’s Demons is only two episodes, but even then it feels like a pretty weak plot to fill it. The way it ends after the Doctor and co steal Kamelion by bundling him into the Tardis, leaving the Master and his mess behind to sort itself out is weird. It’s so funny when Turlough calls the Master “whoever you are” near the end of the story, because you realise no one’s explained it to him. The Doctor and Tegan have substantial history with this guy, but Turlough’s just like “who’s this dickhead.” When the Master has Turlough at his mercy, I think it would’ve been cool to see him tempt the boy with power or freedom or something only for Turlough to shoot it down, just to show how he’s grown spending time with the Doctor. You know, the old special effects almost never bother me in Classic Who, and I can deal just fine with the slow story pacing. But the one thing I miss from New Who is the focus on character development and emotional growth, which I’ve said before. Idk if I’m using the right terminology to explain what I mean, but yeah. I adore antagonist-to-companions like Turlough, and I’d kill to see a good showrunner do a story arc with one in New Who. Give me a villain or hired assassin who we get to see grow bit by bit into one of the Doctor’s strongest allies, or even best friends. Also, at one point Turlough says of the Master “he’s the evil one,” and the emphasis in the delivery was so weird. The line was clearly meant to be ‘he’s the evil one,’ as opposed to the Doctor being evil, but it came out ‘he’s The Evil One,’ like Turlough’s gone all spiritual and giving the Master a title. I notice line deliveries like that surprisingly often in Big Finish audios, like the actors clearly misinterpreted what the line is trying to convey, and it always makes me feel like the director should’ve stopped to correct them. I guess there wasn’t much time for that in Classic Who though. I did just remember one delicious moment in the story when the King (actually Kamelion under the Master’s control) forces the Doctor to either let the Master be executed, or let an innocent man be executed in his place. I mean, morally it’s a pretty obvious choice, but the Doctor’s face when he’s forced to consciously condone the execution of his old friend, combined with the sting of realising that the Master had created the scenario himself to force him to admit it, was some tasty drama. It’s hilarious how Kamelion is introduced like a proper companion at the end when we all know his fate and the curse of Kamelion jsdkfj. Though it would’ve been cool to see him in more Dr Who stories, I really need to get round to the few audios with him in it. And finally, the Doctor is a real dick at the end to Tegan, damn. Chill out dude. First you leave Tegan behind, then you get so attached to her that you guilt her into staying with you.

The Five Doctors! A classic. And honestly, good pacing too! At least, it feels like good pacing 😂 There might be some parts where not much happens for a while, but there’s always fun things like fan-service to keep my attention. It being edited into one long episode probably helps, as opposed to being cut into multiple episodes that draw your attention to the fact that one or two of them barely have any plot in them jfsdkljf. Also I just checked, and it looks like The Five Doctors is the longest single episode of Doctor Who. I’ve got the TV Movie at 1 hr 25 min, The Power of the Doctor at 1 hr 27 min, and The Five Doctors at 1 hr 30 min. I don’t have much to say about it as a whole, so I’ll just go through my notes more or less in order! I love the new console reveal at the start, it’s lovely. And the Tardis team actually getting free time to relax is a cute change of pace too! Turlough doing some drawing is a sweet little hobby for him to have, and (thinking of Four to Doomsday) now I want him and Tegan to do some art sessions together, maybe rope Five into it as well. Tegan’s once again very put together in a crisis when the Doctor starts having his cosmic angst. I think the Doctor must have seen the potential in her when he named her as the crew coordinator to keep everyone together in Castrovalva, she’s really grown into the role. I wonder why Borusa chose to kidnap Sarah Jane- presumably the same reason he kidnapped the Doctor’s enemies. To play on the Doctor’s curiosity and need for a good story? I don’t know, he says something about “a game within a game.” Honestly Borusa acts fully cracked later in the story, not at all like any other depiction of him. It would’ve been nice to get more reason why he was acting like that. Maybe he’s just a fan of the K9 & Company spin-off. Though it just occurred to me that he also kidnapped Susan by herself, she was just the only protagonist to be shown getting time scooped. Shame, that could’ve been cool. Also with Sarah Jane, why was she so ready to ignore K9′s warning of extreme danger? Is he the dog who cried wolf before? And when he says that the Doctor is involved, Sarah dismisses him with “well now I know you’re imagining things.” Why??? Is she that pissed off at him for not coming back to pick her up again? Girl’s got issues. Also, she was extremely not here for this whole adventure, complaining the whole time. I think I would be like that if I had my day all planned out, I barely had enough social energy to run a quick errand, and suddenly I was transported to Gallifrey for an adventure. I’d be like “can I go back to my bedroom yet.” I’ve always appreciated how location shooting from the unfinished Shada was used so that Tom Baker could still be represented with some previously unaired footage. That’s a good example of using the resources available to you when your story hits a snag in real life. Three treats the Master so suspiciously, it’s hilarious. Seeing him casually steal the high council seal is so funny especially when you know he keeps it with him until all the way in The Time of the Doctor. I also got a laugh out of “Now what do we do, fly?” and “What are we going to do now?” “Die.” Keep living your best melodramatic life Turlough. Everyone i this story has garbage eyesight. Susan and One not seeing the Tardis in an open field until they’re like 10 metres away, Five and Susan and Tegan not spotting the Cybermen until they’re somehow surrounding them, the Cybermen later getting a full eyefull of Tegan and One before they duck out of cover. The staging of some of this story is just so poor. Is this a case of bad directing? Lack of time? Bad location filming? Some bits just make me think that surely, surely that could have filmed that better somehow. Five meeting Susan was so weird. She seems very excited to meet him, but he just stares at her starstruck and dramatically, and they end up just standing there looking at each other like the world’s most awkward family reunion. I swear to god, every second Fifth Doctor story has me wanting to grab his lapels and tell him to go to therapy jsdljkfhslkdjf. It was funny and cute how everyone (except One) in Rassilon’s tomb was excited to see the Brigadier. Team Tardis’ blorbo. Later when the Master turns up, the first three Doctors do a wicked combo dunk on him which is always funny to watch, but does Two even know who he is?? I suppose you could say he met the Master recently (in the EU) and quicklly figured out this is a new body, but I think its funnier if he just sees his other selves wrecking this random dude decides to join in just for fun :3 Gosh I love companion meet-ups in multi-Doctor stories, so it’s a shame that this story, and a fair few other multi-Doctor stories, are much more interested in the different Doctors interacting than their companions. Give us companions from different eras getting to know each other, or the Doctor chatting with a past or future friend. I’m trying to think of good examples, and one that springs to mind is the final episode of The End of The Beginning. And Daughter of the Gods. Even The Light at the End. And I really have to get round to reading Cold Fusion someday. Why is the First Doctor the one to figure out the trap of Rassilon when none of the other Doctors do? It’s weird when multi-Doctor stories act like the earlier Doctors are wiser than later Doctors purely because of out-of-universe nostalgia, when surely it should be the other way around. I like when One is depicted as the flawed adventurer that he is, acting like he’s wise and forging a new path when in reality he’s still taking with him a lot of the biases and things to unlearn from Gallifrey. Daughter of the Gods is good at depicting that (honestly it’s one of the best multi-Doctor stories ever, it does so many things well). In any case, the stone faces coming alive are still such a cool and unnerving effect that help to really sell the ending of the story. Also, I’d forgotten that Two has a line earlier about how there are rumours that Rassilon was a cruel man, it’s neat to start the start of the transition of the character into full villain. Is Flavia like the only member of the high council left at the end of the story?? Why on earth did they send high council members into the Death Zone to investigate it before the start of the story? If Flavia just becomes President by default, it’s little wonder her reign is mentioned to be a bit of a disaster in the EU (This reminds me, I’m excited to one day listen to Time In Office, the audio about Five being president for a bit). The episode has a great line to end on. And I like the end credits music as well! Gotta have some cool end credits music in an anniversary story I guess.

I’m looking forward to getting into more Five/Tegan/Turlough stories in season 21! They’re such a fun team. Again, apologies for saying so, but I think that losing Adric and Nyssa has left the show with the strongest actors and the most interesting characters. I’m looking forward to seeing how Turlough is characterised, and learning more about him in his final story. Also, since I didn’t find anywhere else to say it, I do like a characteristic hand gesture like the one Turlough does with his fingertips together in front of him. Going to pepper that into my own life for a bit just for funsies.

[kingkatsuki]

Random Bakugou headcanon for ya Jo!

I know some people say that Bakugou might like someone who's as fired up as he is or someone who is submissive.

I just sorta imagine him with a partner who kinda balances that? Like at home, you're really lovey dovey, and teasing him with soft smiles and kisses that make him swoon even after years of being together, you don't really object to whatever he wants to do and just go along with it.

And then there are the times where he's acting up at work, like threatening Deku for like the fifth time in under an hour, and you just glance over at him with a slightly annoyed look, and he just shuts up so fast. You have definitely kicked his ass before and he just doesn't want to jinx it.

Aww I love this!!

Definitely definitely giving “the look” and he just stops because he knows what you’re capable of😂 I also like the idea of him getting into fights or arguments with paparazzi, reporters, other heroes/villains or just random men in bars and you just step in with your palm on his chest and it just completely grounds him? Like you’re whispering to him that they’re stupid or not worth it and he should stop and he just does. You can still feel the heat radiating from him but you’re the presence that just calms him?

But I also like the idea of bringing him out of his comfort zone too? Like being loud and bubbly and he’s just happy to sit and listen to you? Content to see you happy or smiling- and getting him to do new things because it’s not what you’re doing, it’s the fact he’s getting to do them with you?

[crazycatsiren]

So I asked someone about figuring out possible signs from deities and how to differentiate them from intrusive thoughts, since I have anxiety and depression. Like I told them, I was worried that I was missing something from the gods because whenever I have random thoughts or feelings I often immediately question or try to ignore them.

But this witch basically said to listen to my intrusive thoughts and to not discredit anything.

And now I’m kinda just feeling anxious (like usual 😭😂) because I don’t think this witch really understood what I meant by intrusive thoughts. I don’t think she was telling me to, idk, follow any sudden urges to hurt myself. I really don’t think she meant any harm.

But at the same time, what if she is (somewhat) right? Like, I know the gods would never ask me to hurt myself - so I know extreme thoughts like that are NOT them. But what about other thoughts I just have randomly? Like little urges that don’t hurt anything or anyone but I ignore them for whatever reason because my anxiety pings them and I second guess myself (and third and fourth and fifth guess myself….).

So now I’m worried that I AM missing some signs from the gods. But then I get nervous because that would imply I should pay more attention to my thoughts and my thoughts are not usually nice to me. I’m trying to learn how to pinpoint thoughts that are bad and instead of feeding them, question them and tear them apart and NOT listen to them.

So I’m just…. I’m kinda lost. I don’t want to miss signs that the gods might be sending me, but………

Basically me —> 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

This is not an easy question for me to answer, I'm afraid.

I also don't think this is something you should be discussing with someone who is not a mental health professional.

In my personal experiences, gods know better. They won't send us intrusive thoughts. They won't try to communicate with us by means of intrusive thoughts. Gods are aware of our mental illnesses and they will try to circumvent that. The last thing gods would do is contribute to the turmoil of our minds when they want our attention.