#thanks for the tag 💗

[honeyandthunderstorms]

rec five fics with titles you particularly enjoy!

I've been tagged 3 times now so I feel it is only right to do this challenge lmao anywayssss tagged by these lovelies: @love-mariiii @formulaocean @starrwrrld 💗

where you go, I go by @ladysomething — the famous skyfall edit of charles’ sunset lap x max’s storm lap!!! need I say more? iconic of her to use this lyric as the fic title. also this might be a wip, but its my all time fav lestappen fic. I will suggest this fic to everyone bc its truly amazing.

right where you belong by @amarynas — right where you belong… in max’s arms, Charles. no, but seriously so cute and fluffy with a bunch of angst. Max and Charles deserve to be happy and they get that in this fic and the companion fic 👀

grapefruit mignonette by @slapshots on ao3 (idk if they have tumblr) — named after the food Max makes per suggestion by Charles. he later lists it in his menu “love notes” under “first sight” and my heart squeezed in my chest. also deliously filthy. need i say more? one of the first fics I read in this fandom and I still reread constantly when I want to get my dose of chef max hehe

frechheit by @additiva — I actually love fic titles in other languages and this word literally means cheekiness which Charles is the cheekiest mf alive in this fic. one of my fav fics and I highly suggest it bc AH slightly older max? they're both hissy bitches and I love them.

long live (the walls we crashed through) by @fabbyf1 — taylor swift lyric and one thing you might not know about me is that I fuck heavily with my girl tay tay. also this song is so f1 coded so there’s that. anyways, childhood friends to lovers anyone??? love the rewriting of the narrative. God knew they’d be too strong as friends and made them rivals instead. but this fic? this fic tells the story of them growing up as friends beautifully and how they fall in love.

my bookmarks page wouldn't work on ao3 so I had to go searching lmao anywaysssss no-pressure tags: @beensinning @sediciii @zettychez @qdverti 🫶🏼

[babygirllinds]

Share 5 top songs you have on repeat right now! 💜🎵

tagged by: @radiocheck (now I know your side-blog lmao) — thanks for the tag, lovely 💗💗💗

According to my Spotify ‘on repeat’ playlist…

Hungry Eyes — Eric Carmen

If I Could Fly — One Direction

Willow — Taylor Swift

Man! I Feel Like A Woman! — Shania Twain

You Can’t Hurry Love — Phil Collins

no-pressure tags: @foreverralways @awkwxrdapple @jynxmirage @fantasygirlsuniverse @sweetlittleladybug @callsign-shortstack

[tzarrz]

i listen to fog lake too much

[ritahayworrth]

Dexter, this is Ms. Imbrie and Mr. Connor from SPY magazine.

SPY? Your tastes have changed a little, haven't they, Sam?

HIGH SOCIETY (1956) dir. Charles Walters

[honeyandthunderstorms]

I'm gonna be honest, I thought mine would be worse 😅

no-pressure tags: @beensinning @formulaocean @toppamplemousse @chock-and-bates @carbonmono @hitthatapex

y’all expose yourselves and take this fanfic test i was just forced to by an irl so now i’m making you too

[honeyandthunderstorms]

tagged by the lovely @formulaocean <333

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

adding the ship next to the wip since I don't just write lestappen lmao, but as you can see, titles are something I come up with when I post 😅 i’d add my ongoing works but I literally have written NOTHING since I last updated (sorry in advance). some things have chapters written, paragraphs, or even just a couple of sentences hehe

leztappen (lestappen obviously)

nanny charles au (lestappen/aka my other controversially younger Charles/older Max fic)

charlos (real original, I know)

choscar (real original part 2 — completely unrelated to the charlos one)

risk (charlos)

princess (lestappen)

roomies (piarles)

miami (lestappen)

infidelity (charlos)

is it casual now? (lestappen)

hero worship (chollie… I wrote this in a daze and half asleep and have never added onto it but it’s still there in my wip folder so i might go back to it)

no-pressure tags 🫶🏼: @beensinning @mothlau @chock-and-bates @itshoneywhatever @usedtobetam @hitthatapex @sediciii @carbonmono @wedriftlikelonelyplanets @scuderiadebauchery @carronyaflowers

[honeyandthunderstorms]

ahhh thanks for the tag <33 this is very mecore, so i’d say pinterest didn't let me down hehe

no-pressure tags 🫶🏼: @starrwrrld @beensinning @formulaocean @carbonmono @venomandperfume @imlittlebitdie

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒: 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ "𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 + 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒," 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.

thanks @ghosts-and-blue-sweaters and @cbuttonduo for the tag!! <3

wow i’m obsessed with this and i feel it’s fairly accurate!!

tags (no pressure): @thewildballyntynesgrow @bronzetomatoes @cloverstellar @clingyduoapologist @seeking-elsewhither @thoughts-of-caly

[babygirllinds]

TV Tag Game 📺

- list 8 shows for your followers to get to Know you better. thanks for the tag @awkwxrdapple 💗

1. The Magicians

- if you see me post anything other than Top Gun and memes, it’s usually this damn show. I have it on DVD & was immediately obsessed with it when I first saw it. I fell in love with the characters that I even went out and bought the book series (I have yet to read them though). Queliot is my true OTP and my heart aches for what the show did to Quentin. I will never get over it 😭

2. Gossip Girl

- this is my guilty pleasure show. I always hate telling people I love this show because it’s so drama filled and toxic relationships are everywhere, but this is definitely my comfort show. I always rewatch it and can find myself saying the lines along with the characters.

3. Chuck

- funny story, the person who does this show also does Gossip Girl 🤭 I’m in love with Zachary Levi and he did this character so good. It’s just a goofy, but fun show where you’re constantly rooting for the main character, Chuck. You can’t help but fall in love with all the characters as well (Casey, my love). It’s a fun lil spy show that my dad actually got me into.

4. Ouran High School Host Club

- y’all can pry anime out of my cold dead hands because this is also another guilty pleasure show. Definitely a comfort show as well next to Gossip Girl. It’s only one season and I’ve watched it time and time again. It’s such a fun show and definitely kind of weird, but I can’t help but love it.

5. Demon Slayer

- once again with the anime 😅 I’m eagerly waiting for the next season to be finished so I can watch it. I’ve finished the manga and I’m not ready to see it come alive in the show. I definitely end up sobbing each season and I love seeing how all of the characters interact. rip rengoku, I miss you 😭

6. Grey’s Anatomy

- the amount of tears I’ve shed watching this show 😅 I had to stop at one point because it made my mental health very unstable because I was crying every day because of it. I ended up started over back in 2020 and immediately fell back in love with the characters. I still have the biggest soft spot for the first season main characters though :/ I haven’t watched it since the beginning of season 18 though and idk if I want to finish it without Meredith now that she’s gone.

7. The Walking Dead

- I LOVE this show. My sister and I started rewatching it and finished it as soon as the last season ended. I definitely sobbed when my favorite characters died, but now I’m rooting for Michonne to find Rick and for everything to be alright — I can’t wait for the spin-offs they’re planning on.

8. Stranger Things

- as almost everyone else, this show has taken a hold of me ever since I watched Season 1. Season 3 was the best by far, Season 4 had me going crazy, and I’m so ready for Season 5 already. Aka I’m ready to be a sobbing mess for whoever they decide to kill off 😭

no-pressure tags: @foreverralways @fantasygirlsuniverse @callsign-shortstack @jynxmirage @waaugh @r-dtoblack @sunwarmed-ash

[tohruies]

post-lament anthropocene: stars intertwined

“there’s never a shortage of tasks to be completed at the academy. i may not be the one making discoveries, but if i can make life even the slightest bit easier for those who do, then it’s all worth it!” — coco

☆☆☆☆ attribute: spectro weapon: sword

art by ruiaes!! 🌟 / some extra lore notes below; there is not much currently but i will add to it over time ٩(^‿^)۶

archive>> huaxu academy’s lab technician and secretary to xiangli yao, who works diligently to brighten up the space in ways too subtle to be named—always helping, always working—often to the point of exhaustion, though she never seems to mind.

much like the researchers at the academy, she too once sought to ease the burden of the lament through discovery, but those days are now simply dreams of the past, ones that she buries beneath kind hands and reassuring words. though she may not create a better future as she had once envisioned, to be able to lift some of the stress off another, or to be able to make them smile—perhaps to make the present kinder for others is enough to keep the floods of guilt she feels at bay.

resonance power:

resonance evaluation report:

overclock diagnostic report:

[volcanocraft]

hiii how did you like the wild life finale?

This seems to be a really contentious subject for the fandom and that's wonderful! I always enjoy when opinion is extremely diverse on a topic, i genuinely believe it contributes to a safer and more creative environment.

I think a lot of people forget that critique is ultimately derived from hope and love, it takes real time, dedication, and focus to understand and verbalize what they mean. Both parties want to see their series doing well. It would sincerely suck if everyone was so indifferent to the ending that one opinion homogenized the consensus of the fandom. It would be even worse if no one was allowed to voice their concerns or favourite moments in fear of betraying an established community narrative or attacking the ingenuity of the games.

Negativity comes from the same place optimism does. I have seen opinions I both agree with and heavily disagree with fundamentally, and I am ultimately very grateful to see both!

Thanks for asking my opinion. I don't think I would've written anything about it if you hadn't asked. Here you are!

The Good

Grian, Jimmy, and the ever present Cain Instinct

"It was always going to be this way, Jim." <- Said by someone who has a very normal relationship with a man hes known and attempted to nurture for around a decade.

I have to remind you that this is the second time Grian deliberately intended to end Jimmy’s life series, the first time is when they were Southlanders and he "snapped" at him for not taking his warning seriously.

I literally can't say anything that Grian hasn't said himself. If you watch his finale episode, he's constantly staring at Jimmy and thinking about how he could kill him right here and now. He switches to his sword, fidgets, stays silent while Jimmy and his group prattle on. Literally licking his lips and thinking about what to do. Ultimately, he chooses to strike without any chance of retaliation in the one place Jimmy feels safe in. And then when Jimmy is dead, Grian assumes he's watching him and says to his literal ghost "I love you"

Zombie Mechanic

I think this was a genius way of reintroducing the members who died early on. I don't think the series would've been the same without their revival. It was a super fun mechanic and their reduced health and commodified status balanced it out for me. You watched them lower your friend's casket into the ground but the next day he's back and he hugs you and you do not see any warmth in his eyes.

The Powerful Homo-eroticism of GemJoel [Canonized Edition]

The influx of gemjoel art was one of the best things in the entire world for me. Can you fucking believe i predicted it too. Now people refer to Joel as Gem's wife. This is everything I could have ever wanted. I've done three lines in celebration. Their dynamic was amazing too and i love that my inbox got flooded with anons as soon as any one of them said something incriminating. it's too bad they didn't battle it out for winner at the end with blood and tongue...

Good-FUCKING-Bye Canary Curse

I started getting really annoyed with how this specific fanon interpretation of Jimmy began to bleed into every single analysis of the series, creating relationships between characters and themes that were not there. I would argue that Jimmy himself barely believes in this supernatural phenomenon. I'm a hater and I only like it when I can fetishize watcher lore in a biblical sense.

The Bad

Leading Cause of Death... Snails

"You either loved the snail mechanic or you didn't" I say as someone who neither loved or hated it. But I think the fact that the snails ended so many peoples finales and contributed to so many deaths is a very valid criticism. I will say that Lizzie's snail and Skizzlemans whole episode kind of make it worth it, because it was just so fucking funny

I Wouldn't Have Attended Trivia Night

This is ultimately the point where I dropped off engagement wise. I think the trivia should have been minecraft-mechanic related and not about traffic life. "How many crafting recipes use wool?" Some of the questions were niche which makes sense because they were about specific moments. It doesn't matter if we think that lilac and poppies were important, no CC is going to, and the pool gets even smaller when you eliminate everyone who wasn't involved in that moment.

Conclusion

Personally, not my favourite. I think it lacks a lot of nuance the other series really cultivated with their simple mechanics which relied a lot on the ingenuity of the player themselves rather than situational opportunity. You could probably tell I lost interest because not even gemjoel could save me when I stopped posting about it. I got a lot of casual enjoyment out of it but that's it. I also eventually started feeling sore that the deaths were very coincidental. If you want a taste comparison, my least favourite life series is Secret Life and my favourite is Limited Life.

Some of the complaints I've heard is that there was not enough time for players to create alliances, flesh out cross-faction dynamics, or hold meaningful conversations. I disagree. There was a lot of motive for the players to collaborate and figure out the gimmicks together. They would even frequently congregate on the field at the bottom of the mountain. I think the wildcards helped make every conversation count and they could've talked at length if they wanted to (the G's did pretty often; as did Cleo and Bigb during the eating episode). There were a lot of chances to immediately take one another out but they decided instead to wait. Alliances were established and kept: the bamboozlers were ride or die for eachother, the spanners were tragi-comedy incarnate, and if cooperation's not your thing, you had team BET barely holding it together. People frequently encountered one another. I thought it was good.

Despite how I personally feel about it, I actually think its one of the best life series "objectively" in terms of content and watchability. There was genuine anticipation in seeing what happens each week. Each perspective was very personal because at that point it was about reactions and adaptability. If this was my first introduction to the life series, I'd be really pleased. But it does set up a kind of false impression of what the general theme of the series is. I guess you can think of this season as like... the beach episode [extended edition]. I did not get the impression the players were tired of the mechanics. The advent calendar format kind of does lend itself to a forced and rushed wrap-up finale.

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

my 2024 gif wrapped!! (tagged by the marvelous @raplinenthusiasts & @cosmicdreamgrl & @jkvjimin) ♡ ↳ sharing my most popular and favorite gif sets from the past year under the cut

january - seokjin reminding us what's important in life - dimple!!!!!!!!!, rapline tear!!!!!!!!!!!!! love wins all / beginner's heart, king hoseok

february - serendipity jimin; stunner taehyung - hope world dance practice; missing jin hours; valentine for annie <3; hobicore mixtape!!!

march - 5th muster taehyung, fri(end)s performance - gone phishing, tangerine yoongi

april - human mint chocolate - gq jin; user magic shop ot7; trivia love (this one hardly resonated with anyone as much as it did with @rainbowcoloredpalmtrees ily)

may - kim seokjin pink google search; yay omg - lost! mv

june - being a cutie 101 by park jimin - whatever the fuck jinmin have going on here, calm down heart, stop racing!!

july - now playing: who, w korea jin (in yellow) - w korea jin (in white); the chokehold he still has me in

august - confidence goals with jin; 'i love that i am handsome' ok, stages of grief with kim seokjin - run jin, in summary; bangtan in turtlenecks part 15 (it's on a deep sleep for now, hang in there enthusiasts)

september - vogue korea jin; goooooooorl i get it, vampire jungkook; i love that one too!!!! - pat's mixtape; a labor of love, nuts namjoon; that time i imported text from a third party software i was playing with

october - gq japan jin; listen!!!!!!! where is more (non) shaky footage.... i'm mad - i'll be there live clip; i loved how my coloring turned out <3, i also like this namjoon, and my supertuna video game (sorry i picked 3)

november - princess jin; y'all are real for that one - save them; taehyung just kills me

december (so far...) - laughter & joy jin; yeah :') - pretty namjin; i have always wanted to gif this (thank you sky!!)

thank you for another year of supporting my nonsense ♡ this year was actually very hard for me and i love coming here and just being silly

if you'd also like to share, please do, but no pressure of course!! whether you are still active or not, whether you made things every month this year or not.... i loved all of your creations this year! i hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and i wish you all the best ♡ ( @rjshope @magicshop @heybaetae @kimtaegis

@jinstronaut @btsjk-biased @btsiu @jung-koook @loversmore

@kookjinnies @thatgoddamngingerundercut @yooboobies @taee @agustd3 @vminsos

@sugajimin @namchyoon @bladesrunner @94erz @kth1 @taehyunghobi @starcatching @sugurugetos @dazzlingkai ) the way i had to break y'all up to tag you all...... cheers!

[caribaheine]

tagged by: @ronandreams & @deadpoets, ty!

tagging: @raisy @readingfolklore @localundeadgirl @yuiaka @slvrroses @ms-oswald @fate-graphite @beloved-buckley @libraryfag @itwasmagic @ms-primadonna @danielsousa @marthanielsn @gshina @tisdae @fearlesstvs @deweyduck @henrywinteris @someoneoffthestreet @swkywalker @bruceewayne @hellshee @chjhiro @wizardhowls @leopard-skin-pillbox-hat-ok (no pressure as always!)

[solaestial]

today (2/19) marks exactly one full year since i first started playing end roll!!! 💉👁💞💗✨ p2 for the day i finished the game is here <3

the non-russell characters are me and my oc, who was my several year long main fixation until then haha

a big sappy thank you to end roll for motivating me creatively, helping me out of my comfort zone socially, giving me purpose, making me want to keep living, and reminding me after years without of what genuine happiness feels like <3 truly a rewiring brain chemistry moment

ANDDD a big thank you to segawa for bringing such an amazing and life-changing game to life to begin with 🥺🙏🙏

[edenfire]

💞💗 gorb overload!! 💗💞

thank you to everyone who participated in my little gorb event!! I hope you enjoy akira being overrun by an army of gorbs🥰💘💞🌸

I know the results weren't what we wanted, but it's not the time to give up!! we gotta keep surviving together💞💞

[honeyandthunderstorms]

thank you @carbonmono for the piccrew selfie tag :3

my roots are def worse than this but yea <333

no-pressure tags 🫶🏼: @beensinning @formulaocean @starrwrrld @mothlau @fractured-muses @fwoom @itshoneywhatever @chock-and-bates @ashzerog19

[liyrical]

hmmmmm the older i grow and the more i think about it the more i feel like fandom spaces (beyond posting fanart & nonsensical text vomit) are Not For Me. i think i shall simply be in my own swamp and sometimes people can visit if theyd like and i will say hi and we can have fujoshi tea break and have a Nice Time