#thank you very much for joining me

[lesbianlotties]

look at you trying to resurrect the first kill fandom; specifically the ones into hot, middle-aged women. please, continue...

KSGJDHFGJ i will thank you!! 🫡

listen... i watched (several times) and loved first kill as soon as it came out. and back then i also thought hey the moms have insane chemistry and they should kiss. but more aggressive fandoms took over my mind far too soon. however last month i watched Gia (1998) for the first time ever and i literally fell in love with Elizabeth Mitchell... and i decided to make everyone else's problem too!!

so i just had to revisit first kill and make the most out of the experience!! i'm very happy for the support <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel(ft. Mark Webber & Jenson Button)

[bluepallilworld]

The sun goes down and the creatures...

It is time...

Welcome to the party!

Here's the dark cream shipkids halloween collab!

Warning for blood, halloween music and some horror themed background elements ;3

Close-ups! (Click)

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Credits time!

The kids:

-Mimosa and Mu are mine

-Celestial Star and Luna Light belong to @help-im-a-gay-fish

-Estrella belongs to @shinechermont

-Aim belongs to @zu-is-here

-Ruby and Meridix belong to @orange-dreamzer

-Ares belongs to @puddle-of-creativity

-Nightingale belongs to @catlover31

-Soltice belongs to @laf-e-taffy

-Diaphanous belongs to @amarald

-Mirage belongs to @ari-cuno

-Mager belongs to @faeroviolet

-Fenzo belongs to @im-to-good-for-names

-Andromeda and Eclipse belong to @dragon-tamer-1

The background+ team (look at how big it was this year!!!):

- @diofasolia did the music (spooky scary skeletons :P) (I did some singing), the customized pumpkins, the bloody chair and the lovely lady coming out of the tv

-@orange-dreamzer did some bats, the big cake, a... flower a bit special and empty wrappers

-@pmd-appreciation did seats (pumpkin pouffe, dusty stool, skeleton armchair), the cauldron of snacks, horror movie poster, string of bats, the window, the drinks, the candles

-@amarald did the table, the black cat, the chocolate cherries and a witch hat

[we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono]

🔥 MY ART FIGHT ATTACK FOR THIS YEAR (PART 2) 🔥

check out all of these ocs they’re so great and their stories are all WONDERFUL!! and if you like any of the characters here, please go send your love to the creators listed. some of them dont have tumblr but i still recommend yall to check their other social media account hehe ❤️

here are the names of the owner’s OCs!⬇️

SoundHaptics

leni-illust

kenjakuuuu_

Dahyuniie

zirkkun

kalenya

_NERIAIRI_

jasjanken

Gladys_isglad

TheAnxiousAuthor

pinketeer

amaimint

aikoo3

just-here09

biologicz

Keroooo

DawRushesIn

Vampirelily_ii

sinae

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I've always wondered if you happened to have a discord? If not have you ever considered making one?

i do have one! however i use it very sparingly because 1) new people (especially groups) scare me & 2) brain's been fucking weird for a hot minute and i barely talk to people i'm already friends with let alone strangers

[forcedhesitation]

Man.

there's just something about the love between a woman whose impending death is inevitable and a man who's an immortal undead...

[rebornofstars]

Hey! How do you feel sepfember is going? I've enjoyed seeing all the lovely art and writings. Hope you're doing well!

luna!! hi!! thank you for the ask 💞

sepfember is going more brilliantly than i ever could have hoped. it's been absolutely wonderful seeing people coming together to create things! i've been trying my best to express my joy in the tags of my reblogs, but i'm not sure anything ever could! it's been truly wonderful. i have loved every minute of it so far - writing the prompt drabbles every day, and checking the tag for other people's work to reblog, and sniffing out beautiful art for the queue... a couple of times people have pinged me on the LU discord too, to show me sepfember art, and it entirely melted my heart. and i can't tell if it's coincidence but i'm seeing more sepfember-unrelated/untagged female focused art on my dash too!

in a franchise that caters a great deal to male gamers (and in my own linked universe bubble where all of our main characters are men), my only wish for this event was to balance the scales just a little - create a little bit of brainspace in our minds for the women. show more people who they are and what their names are and what they do! spare a moment to wonder about their goals and motives and characterisation. because they do exist! there are more women in this franchise than even i thought before this event! and i think they're worth celebrating, don't you?

[theghostofashton]

a year ago today, i watched the LS pilot. i knew there was something special about this show, but i couldn't quite figure out what. never could i have imagined it leading to all of this. i've been inspired in a way i had been missing for months, written more than i have in a really long time, and had the honor of meeting some of the kindest, most talented people in this fandom, and i'm so grateful. thank you all for being so sweet and welcoming, it's meant the absolute world 💕

request a prompt if you want to!

[redstrewn]

Notes are cool but when u start talking to me...thats worth 50 notes babey

[abihastastybeans]

@jilymicrofics - January 2023

Prompt no.31: Demand (ao3)

“Red, we need to ask you something.”

“Hmm?”

“Lils, we need you to focus here.”

“What?” Lily asked, exasperated, looking at the boys who were staring at her expectantly.

“We need to know what you think about soup,” Sirius said. “Is soup good all the time, or is it only good when you are sick?”

Lily blinked. “Do you not see that I’m busy?” she asked back, gesturing at the letter she was writing.

“It’s just a question, Lily, tell us and we’ll leave you alone,” James asked, dragging himself to sit upright in front of the fireplace.

“Why is this even a question you have?” she exclaimed, throwing up her arms.

“Because, James and I think that soup is good only when one is sick, but Remus thinks that soup is good all the time,” Sirius reasoned. “Which is the same thing because Remus is sick all the time.”

“Fuck off,” Remus directed at Sirius, before turning back to Lily. “So, what is it, Lily?”

“What did Peter say?” she asked.

“Oh, he said he doesn’t like soup at all,” James said, making a face.

Lily took a deep breath and considered the three of them. “I think soup is good all the time.”

Remus pumped his hands up in the air just as James exclaimed, “No!”

“Well, you wanted my opinion,” Lily shrugged. “You have it.”

“No, but Lily!” James walked on his knees till he reached her chair. “Soup? Really?”

“What do you have against soup?!” she demanded.

“That’s what I asked!” Remus chimed in.

“I don’t have anything against soup,” James stated. “I just think that soup is good only when you are sick.”

“So, does that mean when I ask you for soup, you wouldn’t get me a bowl unless I’m sick?” Lily asked, feigning indignance.

“I’ll get you whatever you want, Lily, what even is this question?” James grabbed her hands.

“You know,” Sirius observed. “That is very believable because you’re literally grovelling at her feet right now.”

“Anything to get Lily to have the correct opinion about soup,” James grinned.

[apoloniaspiegelgold]

All my life I've been told by all kinds of people that they can never really tell what I'm feeling or what's going through my mind because apparently I'm always just hiding everything behind a smile so that I've become rather unreadable. And then he just. Takes one look at me and goes 'Yeah. I know that face, oh here we go again, she's about to unleash her thoughts. She's gonna bash that theory I just showed her so hard. Where's my popcorn?' I hadn't even said anything yet and he was already laughing.

And to be honest. It's quite nice to be known, actually.

[quietlyblooms]

i sent all my asks out and i’m beginning to think this blog is the best thing i could have done for my motivation and inspiration tbh!! everything is so much easier when i don’t have a bunch of choices on my end :’ ))

[compacflt]

I love your interpretation of Mav and Ice. I love how realistic they both feel because well, they're white men in the Navy starting in the 80s. What it does make me wonder about Carole? I know you don't write for her but your analysis of Top Gun itself just made me wonder about her. Like whether she was a traditional military wife or just kinda met Goose and fell into it. Did Goose's death and the period between his death and her's change anything? Did it make her more skeptical of the military because of the cause of Goose's death or was her asking Mav to not let Bradley fly purely out of her hurt for Goose's death and not a moral/political thing also. PS. I read your Slider fic and absolutely adored it

well… i think any attempt to flesh out Carole’s character is gonna be completely based on conjecture, because we’re not given more than “slightly naive Christian woman who doesn’t always say exactly the right thing.”

But I think it’s helpful to remember where she fits into the narrative at large, and why: Carole Bradshaw is the villain of the Top Gun franchise. Top Gun is her villain origin story.

The rhetorical purpose of the top gun franchise is: to make money, obv, AND to get people to join the navy. (to what extent it’s successful at achieving that latter goal is the topic of a different post… im certainly not the first to say it’s pretty easy to find an antimilitary reading of TG.) but if top gun is aiming to portray the navy as someplace you want to be, and someplace where you have to earn a spot to be (as I keep repeating over the last couple weeks, it’s all about honor), then Carole Bradshaw becomes the villain of the recruiting story of Top Gun: Maverick, because she (momentarily) prevented her son from joining the navy with the honor he thought he deserved, and she is to blame for the emotional through line of the entire movie. Thank God! we don’t have to blame maverick for fucking up and preventing Bradley from achieving his Dream Of Working As A US Military Contractor! we can blame his dead mom instead, so that maverick is still a good guy whom we, a moderately-conservative pro-navy target audience (🤑), can still root for & pay money to see.

so yeah narratively speaking she’s just a scapegoat. She has no agency in the story whatsoever, she’s only an object to receive blame. any backstory/reasoning/character we invent for her doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t really matter WHY she does it—whether she hates the military or not, narratively speaking we have to blame her just the same either way—it just matters that she does it. and then she has to immediately die so she can’t explain herself and maverick has to self-sacrificially take the blame. Because otherwise the plot of TGM wouldn’t happen, which would not achieve the rhetorical goals of making a bunch of money and getting kids to sign up for the navy.

[frau-wilhelm-klink]

For anyone who wants and/or needs Burkhalter in a towel, here you go. (My apologies for not enhancing them, but none of the pictures have ever came out right when I've tried it in the past.)

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

I just realised today that it’s been over 8 years since I published my first piece of reader insert fanfiction (not for DL but it laid the groundwork for what was to come) and it’s absolutely crazy to me. I don’t know that I’ve talked about it on this blog much (for it was not good by anyone’s standards) but I used to publish on Quotev and I made a couple of friends on there who really helped me when I was going through a hard time in real life (not that I think any of them necessarily realised how much :’) ). Sadly we all sort of drifted away from the site and lost contact but I still think about them sometimes and hope that wherever they are they’re doing well. 

I miss our little community on there too and the silly conversations we used to have, as while I don’t think Tumblr ever quite had the same vibe, I do think it’s grown a lot more impersonal over the years (or at least that’s certainly been my experience). 

Anyway I don’t know that there’s much of a point to this other than me reminiscing but if we���ve interacted at some point while I’ve been running this blog, or even if you just silently like a lot of my posts (because believe me, there are usernames I recognise even if we’ve never properly talked), then I’m grateful and I hope that you’re happy and doing well.