#the only books i read growing up were harry potter and twilight

[bforbetterthanyou]

Eleanor of Aquitaine and Queen Victoria!

Eleanor of Aquitaine : Who should play your favorite historical person?

Oof, it’s been a long time since I really thought about a fancast for Anne Boleyn. Olivia Cooke keeps finding her way all over my dash and, more than once, I’ve had to do a double-take when scrolling past a gifset of her in HOTD because my first thought is “oh it’s just another gifset of Anne Boleyn.” So I’ll go with her and also Emily Carey who plays the younger version of her character.

Queen Victoria : Favorite historical fiction?

I’ll have to say TBD on this one.

Queens ask game

[animentality]

I like Hunger Games and all, but can we admit now that it didn't really "spark" any revolution, when the white teens that read it just grew up to be government bureaucrats or corporate lackeys just like their parents wanted them to be, and now they actually complain about like, BLM protestors disrupting the traffic to their dead end careers?

Consuming a popular product does not matter nearly as much as how you actually interact with it.

Elon Musk was a fucking fan of Parasite. You know. The fucking union buster.

Simply seeing or consuming a piece of media does not mean you understand it or actually were changed enough by it to make a difference in your own life or the lives of others.

Sometimes media is just a symptom of the disease, and not the disease itself. Sometimes media becomes more progressive, rather than being the act of progress itself. Sometimes, an idea is addictive and defines a generation...without actually changing a generation.

Now I'm not digging on Hunger Games.

I think Hunger Games is great.

But I wanna beat Harry Potter fans over the head with a frying pan, because there was a brief time in the 2000s where adults were glowingly talking about how Harry Potter was raising a generation of children who would grow up to be "less" bigoted and more understanding...

And now I want you to take a look around and tell me what has become of Harry Potter fans, and THEN tell me how media determines a person's morality.

When really, it's more that a person's morality is totally separate from the media they consume, 99999% of the time, but maybe occasionally, it opens their eyes to certain class struggles or to certain ideologies that they already mostly agreed with.

I then want to further point out another example: Twilight.

Did it really teach a new generation of girls to seek out abusive boyfriends?

I don't think so.

No more than any goddamn trashy YA romance where the guy is stalking you.

I love media, ok, I love books and TV shows and movies, they matter to me personally, but only when I feel it is relevant.

And that's why you need to understand, that for other people, it is the same.

Most people will prioritize their money and their wellbeing over the messages that their media is giving them. It's only natural. It's a survival instinct, after all.

I just warn you all, to keep your eyes open and see that media often is clouded and warped by much more powerful societal forces.

You can't think that the same 40 or so middle class white men and women writing books and scripts and carefully curated TV episodes in Los Angeles, CA are the only instigators of change.

[wisteryahs]

india amarteifio. demiwoman . she/they. ― is that AUGUSTA DANBURY i saw during this years first ball of the season? the TWENTY year old is preparing finding a suiter but is enticed by the social season. They are known to be ARDENT, but also CANTANKEROUS, but focus on the positives when finding their chosen one.

just a friendly reminder that augusta uses she/they pronouns. if you need any help, please don't hesitate to reach out.

PLAYLIST.   /  PINTEREST. /  CONNECTIONS

i. basics.

full  name:    augusta danbury

also  called:   auggie, gusta, gus (only by close friends)

titles:   lady danbury's grandchild, liege augusta danbury

age:    twenty

gender:    demi woman, she/they

orientation:    biromantic, pansexual

birthplace:   london, england

status:    unbetrothed & unwed.

ii.  personality.

positive:    ardent, well-meaning.  resourceful.

negative:  cantankerous, impulsive.  rebellious.  selfish.

character parallels: katniss everdeen (the hunger games), rosalie hale (twilight), kate & edwina sharma (bridgerton series), hilda spellman (sabrina the teenage witch), king george (queen charlotte: a bridgerton story), and molly weasley (harry potter)

iii.  appearance.

faceclaim: india amarteifio

height:   five feet,  six  inch.

hair:    black.

eye  color:    dark  brown.

iv.  family  ties.

father:  earl dominic danbury (lady danbury's heir)

mother:   former countess harriet danbury nee byrd (npc, deceased)

sibling(s): utp danbury, utp danbury, & utp danbury ( 3 older siblings)

grandmother: lady agatha danbury

grandfather lord herman danbury (deceased)

cousins: children of lady danbury's children

aunt(s): melissa danbury, anne danbury

uncle(s): cedric danbury

v.  history.

ACT I: A ROCKY BEGINNING

born as the youngest to dominic danbury and his late wife harriet danbury, augusta was named after the late queen consort augusta. during childbirth and a extrmely harsh labor, augusta's mother lost her life due to an infection from childbirth, that left her bedridden. in a matter of days, the countess harriet danbury was dead due to a fatal infection. thus, this meant that augusta was the last of her mother's children and grew up with the love of her mother. however, her grandmother helped her son raise her grandchild to become a proper member of society.

ACT II: GROWING WITH WINGS

for what seems like a century, augusta was taught the basic of what it meant to be a "proper woman" — although she felt anything but. their governess taught her how to write, read, embroider cushions, play the piano forte (decently), and a bit of history. yet, what augusta felt most passionate about weren't any of this. instead loving the thought reading a science book and learning about the stars. a taboo subject — by far, that her father scolded her about on multiple occasions. sometimes augusta would find herself sneaking away on horseback late at night to get a glimpse of the stars in the sky. in their eyes, stars were a place that she could take her away from all her pain and suffering. a place instead of not being seen as just a maternal match for someone; a place they could be herself.

ACT III: A BLOSSOMING FLOWER

once augusta hit the age of womanhood, there was no going back for them. instead, she is preparing herself for her first season in hopes of finding herself a partner. the hopes of finding the youngest a danbury a match is all thanks to their status and names upheld. (however, augusta wishes nothing more to not mind a match but will bite her tongue for the sake of her family). only time will tell.

vi.  wanted connections

friends

potential suitors

family friends

frenemies

[neiptune]

ok so, sry for answering in the comments and continuing the conversation here, but the character limits in the comment section had me walking in circles (also sorry for the long text ahead, talking about books always has me rambling)

admittedly i had to google who ferrante is, but now that will definitely be a name i'll look out for the next time i'll go the library- do you have any recommendations? :))

i started regularly reading classics only about three (?) years ago bcs the ones that were written in english i wanted to read in their original language and it took me some time to grow confident enough in my english level to attempt to get through them (as you probably noticed english is not my native language😂) so I have a lot to catch up on!

what i read from dostoevsky i rlly liked (made the mistake to read anna karenina as my first russian novel when i was fifteen - took me some time to get back to russian literature after that)

as cliché as it is, i actually really enjoyed what i read of austen's novels as of now, i just started reading my first murakami so i'm excited to see what that will be like. not (exclusively) but in general i also really enjoy oscar wilde and ocean vuong's works, i have to read a lot for university so during the semester i started reading more short stories and poetry or just light romance or sometimes fantasy novels that don't need my full concentration. or i just reread some of my favourite novels when i was like 15/16 as comfort- what are your comfort books?

sorry againf for the loong text, i hope you have/ had a good day! :)

Please never ever apologize, I love getting messages in my inbox <3 Bonus points if related to books, I've been so excited to reply to this!!!

Yes I absolutely do have one suggestion: please read the my brilliant friend series. I know they're 4 books but after you finish the first one you're not gonna be able to stop: the writing is phenomenal and they have pretty much changed my life. The books tackle female friendship, childhood, competition, adulthood, the post-war stultifying culture of naples, class struggle and so much more in a way that will leave you gasping for air. If you decide to give them a go please let me know, I'd be so happy to hear your opinions! (not going into more detail otherwise this post is going to be 5 pages long lol)

I 100% couldn't tell you're not a native!!! Found myself being a lil jealous of how well spoken you are instead (obviously not a native either here haha) and I must say, I've always read a lot of classics, mostly english literature and mostly bc of school assignments! Lately I've been slacking, there are so many books I bought bc I wanted to enjoy them in their original language but eh, never really touched them again :( I miss being an avid reader and I hope to get back on track this year! I looooove murakami like I know he's problematic but his books have changed my life, especially norwegian wood! I must admit I only read pride and prejudice by austen and didn't like it, also never watched the movie, but I'm willing to give her another go through sense and sensibility eventually :) I'm also trying to step out of my comfort zone and read more fantasy, I really liked the priory of the orange tree and the ninth house! Anddd I also love horror so I should really explore it more, I absolutely love shirley jackson! NOW ONTO COMFORT BOOKS. I'm so sorry but harry potter will always bring comfort to me. JKR can absolutely get fucked but those books shall be held close to my heart forever, they just feel like home. I also non ironically loved the twilight books lmao I'd be absolutely willing to reread! I'm gonna add a few more to the list: little women, the pollyanna series, the hunger games, wuthering heights, the secret history, alice in wonderland, the secret garden and literally any goosebump!!! My turn to apologize for the long ass reply but books are a topic I love too much so I can hardly shut up 🥰

[haru-kuneko]

I just have lots of WIPs including random other concepts in my head and they're all stuff I've always wanted to read. Without giving anything too much away, they're all about aliens, robots and angst mixed with weirdness galore but fun to read (at least for me). Once again, each chapter is gonna be short 'coz people have short attention spans now.

I remember buying either cheap horror books at the school Book Fair or comic book magazines at the mall growing up because a lot of books they had for my age were generic Wattpad teen fics, Twilight, or — ehm! — Fifty Shades of Grey. It's like how come there are a lot of cool, entertaining books for young kids then only a few for older audiences (e.g. Tuesdays With Morrie, Scott Pilgrim or Harry Potter).

"just write the story you want to read!" they said. well, guess what, now i have 14 unfinished drafts because apparently, i want to read 14 different stories at once.

[labradorite-princess]

All of the book questions!

You're so cute!!!!!!! Thank you so much for asking!

do u prefer a standalone or a series?

Series.

I want more info

2. ur fav genre?

I've really been into horror lately!

ur least fav genre? why?

I don't really like non-fiction

That being said I have not read many books of this genre.

3. a book which had a tv adaption that was better than the book itself?

Avatar The Last Airbender

4. enemies to lovers or friends to lovers?

Enemies to lovers

5. ur fav book trope?

Werewolves!

6. ur least fav book trope?

Love triangles

7. the best protagonist u have ever seen in a book and why?

Answered

8. if u were stuck on an island and could only have three books w u what would they be? (series would be counted as one cuz as i said so)

Twilight

Harry Potter

A Court of Thorns and Roses (I have yet to read this series so I'll have something new to read)

9. the worst book u have ever read?

This is a hard one!

An Abundance of Katherines

I couldn't even finish the book

10. the best book u have ever read?

This is a hard one too!

I can' pick just one!

Ik it's a cop-out.

11. a book/book series u wish u could read for the first time ever again?

Answered

12. ur fav author( if u have any)?

I don't really have a favorite author

I just read books that are interesting to me

13. an overrated book?

Dirty Wolf by Aidy Award

I had such high hopes! And some things felt rushed or overlooked.

14. an underrated book?

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Such an amazng book!

15. the book that made u fall in love with reading?

Twilight

I'm gonna add a TMI here so please don't feel like you have to read this part.

I didn't get into reading until the summer of my fifth grade year.

I have a learning disorder that makes reading hrd for me.

I was even held back in second grade bc of my reading skills.

At one point I had 3 differrent tutors. I saw them all separately.

16. a book to get u out of a reading slump?

Circus at Devil's Landing

17. a book with a strong female protagonist?

The Golden Boys by Rachel Jonas & Nikki Thorne

18. a book u came across randomly but ended up loving it?

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

19. do u prefer audio books or e-books?

E-Books

20. hardcovers or paperbacks?

Paperbacks

21. a book that u hated at first but now love it?

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

22. a book u used to love but now hate?

Willow by Julia Hoban

23. a book genre u haven't read? why?

I haven't read many mystery books.

Idk why.

24. a book that had u bawling ur eyes out?

Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

25. ur fav quote from a book?

I can't think of anything rn...

26. a 'fanfiction' trope that u like to see in books?

Supernatural

27. the last book u read? did u like it?

Circus at Devil's Landing

I loved it!

28. do u annotate ur books?

I do not.

29. give any 3 book recs to ur followers!

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope - I have only read the first few chapters and it seems like a v good book!

The Black Farm by Elias Witcherow

[oveliagirlhaditright]

1, 5, 8, 20, 23, and 24 (to start with) for the book asks?

Thank you so much for the ask, my friend! -hugs-

1.A book that's close to my heart... Hmm. I think I'm going to have to go with "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. I mean, I've always been a big Phantom fan (because of the musical), even before reading the book, but I just love the themes of this novel so much. And Christine is great. It's also one of my top-favorite standalone books, for sure.

5. Something in fiction that reads like poetry: “And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.” - "Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater. All of her writing is so poetic. (This was either on the back of the book or in the book jacket, so I've always remembered it. LOL)

8. A book you finished in one sitting: Quite a few of them:) I know I did "New Moon" and "Eclipse," back in the day. Also, the "Life and Death" Twilight book when that came out, because the gender swap thing was so weird for me to try pull off in my head, I felt like if I had a grasp of it for one day--and then got through it all in said day--I could manage it. But if I had to keep thinking of them gender-swapped for days and coming back to it, it would be even weirder. A number of the Harry Potter books (I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter growing up, so I read them all as soon as I turned eighteen: which was right before "The Deathly Hallows Part 2" came out in theaters), like "The Prisoner of Azkaban" and "The Order of The Phoenix," maybe? Perhaps even more of them. And so many of the Buffyverse books that I've been reading (the last two books in the "Wicked Willow" series come to mind). LOL. And probably many more that I'm forgetting... I know I was only supposed to list one here, but I guess I cheated. Oops.

20. A book that got you out of a reading slump: "Peter Pan" by James Matthew Barrie and "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke. I read "Inkheart" right after "Peter Pan," I think. And I was in a major reading slump before I got to these, that they then got me out of. I don't know which one did it, per se (if it was one more than the other), so I'll just say that it was both of them:)

23. A book that's currently on your TBR... Quite a few of them! But I'll limit it to two. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," that I've wanted to read for years, but just haven't gotten around to doing yet. And "Crazy Rich Asians," because it just sounds fun. And the author of that book sent everyone who did NaNoWriMo one year--including yours truly--a pep talk, which was a very cute and nice read, that made me want to read the book even more. I may be remembering this part wrong, but "Crazy Rich Asians," might have actually been a NaNo project, which is hella cool, if that's the case.

24. A book on your nightstand: "I Am Not Okay" by my friend Laura Josephsen (I think the book is actually called "I Am Okay," since the "Not" is crossed out), and "The Alicorn: The Daughters of Eldox Book 1" by Caroline Misner.

[shadowlineswriting]

Rowling

I’m going to handle J.K. Rowling in two posts. She’s most known for creating the Harry Potter universe, of course, but she also wrote a realistic fiction novel after the initial HP series was done. It’ll be much easier to reflect on the two stories in separate blogs. 

So, Harry Potter. I had a complicated relationship with HP growing up. You see, it was written for my generation (meaning my age group was the first to experience the initial novel). All of my classmates were reading it when it came out. However, I was not allowed. My parents weren’t familiar with it and were concerned, I think, that I’d read HP and believe magic was real. As such, when it was on my Battle of the Books reading list in fifth grade, I was not given permission to read it and consequently had to sit out the part of the Battle that asked the HP questions.

Naturally, all this did was make me insanely curious about the books, especially since they just kept coming out (there are seven in the original series). By the time I’d reached high school it was all anyone could talk about whenever books and movies came up (by then, the first five books and the first three movies had been released). 

My family took a week-long trip to see some friends, and their kids showed me the first three movies (in the middle of the night when the adults were asleep, of course). I was instantly hooked (I defy you to find an 8-14-year-old who loves literature but hates HP). Having seen the first three movies, I was determined now to read the books, even if that meant defying my parents.

I read the first five books at school during study hall and lunch. My friend Caleb would loan them to me and I kept them in my locker to ensure my parents didn’t see a copy in our house. By the time this adventure was done, the sixth book had also come out and the fourth movie was hitting theaters. I really, really wanted to see it, and in my defense, at that point I’d told my parents that I’d read the books (I guess I figured that was a time when it was better to ask forgiveness than permission, since they couldn’t do anything about it by then). Therefore, my dad agreed to go with me to see the fourth movie. My little sister came, too (I have no idea why) and she got so scared by Voldemort that Dad had to take her outside the theater while I sat inside finishing the movie.

Anyway, since everything was out in the open by then, I was able to finish the seventh book when it came out my junior year. I was not allowed to attend the Barnes & Noble midnight launch party with my friends, but my friends were very nice and let me borrow a copy once they were done with it (which, given that it seemed like the whole world was waiting for the last book to come out, was pretty quick). That day I remember teachers giving up completely on getting anyone to pay attention. One of my teachers didn’t even try--she just let us read the books right there in class, I guess knowing that no one would concentrate until we knew whether Harry or Voldemort won the day.

I love the Harry Potter books for the same reason I respect the Twilight books: Rowling did something that no author had ever done. She created something unique that became its own world. To this day, the HP universe is still the highest-grossing literature series of all time and Rowling is the only author to ever break $1 billion (if you Google a list you’ll see that another author pops up, but her money came from inheritances, not book sales, so in my view Rowling wins that contest).

We also own three of the side novels: The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, and Quidditch Through the Ages. I’m not a huge fan of fictional supplemental literature, but these are very small--novellas, really--and they’re all first editions, so of course we’re going to keep them.

Say what you will about the story itself, I think it is impossible to respect storytelling and not give Rowlling credit for this incredible thing that she created. It’s on my bucket list to go to Harry Potter World someday, and I honestly cannot wait! 

I have mixed emotions about the fact that HP will next be turned into a seven-series TV show, but I have high hopes. A TV series will give room to stay true to the books in a way the movies never could (they had to cut SO much), but then again, they could really mess this up.

Guess we’ll see! 

[vicea]

dream merch discord recap (june 12, 2021) - disclaimer: i may have missed some things or mistakenly heard other things, apologies in advanced for that!

he has not played the new minecraft update

dream “knows” the date george is coming to florida but he’s not saying it :p

dream doesn’t have anyone muted on twitter

dream guesses his favorite disney princess is belle

sapnap has seen dream’s feet before

he’s not actually connor’s dad in the dsmp lore

dreamnap do not have nicknames for each other D:

dream likes olives but especially black olives

his mother makes homemade pickles

he doesn’t have a phone case

he has dropped his phone from his ear onto concrete in the parking lot before and the screen didn’t crack

dream has six fingers /j

he pours cereal first not milk when making cereal

dream calls sapnap nick most of the time :D

what’s your dream car? “idk the one that gets me to point A to point B consistently”

he finally fixed his sleep schedule, woke up at 8 am today

mrbeast owes dream a tesla because he never sent dream the audio file

dream is a very analytical person - he thinks with numbers/data

creativity is one his strengths that he is the most proud of

3 to 4 years ago, dream used to say george looks like shawn mendes a lot, now he doesn’t resemble him as much

patches is currently sleeping <3

swimming is very relaxing to dream, he swam the other day!

many houses in florida have pools than other places, even the cheapest houses in orlando have pools

dream has merchendise defects (misprints on merch) + milestone merch and he wants to give them away to those who live in orlando (probably to anyone but the event will be held in orlando) though he doesn’t want it to be a covid super-spreader thing so once you pick up your item you gotta dip. just all an idea though

he has been donating them to charity too though :)

dream has likely read Heroes of Olympus before a long time ago

he says that he’ll do a give away of his childhood books with his signature on it

he was obsessed with the series (Percy Jackson) 

he really liked the Alex Rider series

has all of Maximum Ride books, 39 clues books

has read the legend series, the twilight series, and the maze runner

has all/read of the harry potter books, divergent, eragon

he would read all the time, to the point he would read more than one book a day (a book worm he says)

dream had a goal to read 200 books in a year and he wind up reading about 150

he doesn’t want to call it a library but- growing up he had something like that that had 600 or 700 or more books in it (privileged he admits it)

he has not read a book since he started youtube (about 2 years)

dream has a folder called Book that has his own writing in it

word count: 76000 words for one of his stories 

another one he wrote 5 chapters of

he sounds very excited/embarrassed talking about the stories he wrote he’s so endearing

the very first paragraph of one of his stories (he was young when he wrote this) “What exactly is darkness? is it the lack of light? is it a pit of nothingness? ... your mind is full of darkness...” then he couldn’t continue.

the story is about a kid who wakes up in a cell and has no idea where he is with other people who are in the same situation

dream has a world building document

he has a sequel to the first book he has ever written

he found a query letter that he wrote because he wanted to get his book published- he finds it very funny

he’s calling himself a nerd but idk it’s kind of endearing

“as you can tell i’ve always been incredibly cool and not a nerd at all! ever.”

he cringes at his own old videos

dream took a lot of inspiration from witches and wizards by james patterson for writing

the story is written in a way where the main character is actually writing the story so you’re getting input from the main character during it. there’s a lot of sarcasm in it and it’s making dream laugh

very first person narrator

he feels like it’d be very cool if he were to publish his works he wrote when he was 16 on amazon or something but he probably never would because he’d have to read through all of it and it’s just embarrassing for him

dream used to video call sapnap fairly frequently- even before youtube

he strictly remembers, a very long time (at least 7 to 9 years) ago he was at his old childhood house he video called sapnap. he was wearing a (technically) suit and he remembers specifically that he was giving sap a tour... 

“snazzy in a suit”

he had no reason to put on the suit (wow time is a flat circle huh)

drista is pretty close to sapnap’s height, she’s like 5′7″ but sap is still taller than her

dream filmed the whole thing when he and sapnap met but... it’s... gone because when he was clipping that one clip for twitter... it edited the whole video

he’s sure when they meet up with george they will film that too :D

DREAM IS PRETTY SURE THAT HE AND GEORGE WILL MEET THIS YEAR-- HE SAYS A 95% CERTAINTITY the five percent is like either restrictions or visa issues

dream does not play any instruments but he had a guitar hanging on his wall when he was younger...

dream is convinced they’re the same height but also sapnap is probably taller??

they had george compare his height to a door frame and dreamnap were googling for any doorframes to find any possible chance that george is taller than 5′8″ ... nothing came up

there’s a chance they’re both lying about being 5′8″

sap and george will literally just show up in stilts to prove they’re taller than each other /j

dream without shoes is between 6′2″ and 6′3″ with shoes he’s 6′3.5″

dream is talking about awesamdude’s fake height arc again LOL

dreamnap are very private people so they don’t bother each other but george doesn’t care and would just barge into their rooms and start bothering them- they were all joking about that over a voice call

he will visit europe

he thinks that greece would be a cool place to visit because sapnap’s family is from there :) so it’ll be like a nice “treat” to go back with sap :D

dream isn’t entirely sure that the dream team meet up will happen this year but he’s working out the details because he wants to make sure it’s safe

he’s talking to youtube about his face reveal

it’s up to george if he wants to eat healthy when they finally move in

dream just has a lot of meat and vegetables in his house

spinach with chicken is good

not much fruit (only apples and tomatoes)

“DRISTA IS 5″ is trending on twitter LOL (her height got cut off)

dream doesn’t want people flying to different places because he doesn’t want to encourage travel so he wants to do all of the meet ups with a two day heads up at most

he thinks that it’s awesome that ranboo and tubbo are meeting soon !! :D

it’s very cool to dream to see how far everyone’s has come since the beginning of the dsmp. everyone has done so much

dream finalized his youtube plan a couple weeks before he uploaded his video and he was talking to drista about how he was gonna be a big youtuber in a parking lot :”)

she was the first person he really ever talked to about it

dream would love to teach george how to drive it’d be really funny :D (a very good video or a livestream idea) 

dream knows how to ride a bike, he used to have to bike to school

he can’t explain dnf.gay he has no clue he is not responsible. sapnap was the one who found it LOL. he is adamantly exclaiming that it was not him

dream doesn’t worry about views/likes/dislikes a lot- mainly views but that’s for the new uploads

he hasn’t uploaded in like a month and a half (*cries*)

he wants to stream at some point but he doesn’t know when 

he wants to play geoguessr but not now... he doesn’t want to alt stream rn- maybe tomorrow!

he is insisting that the splash text on his minecraft home screen is by callahan

he asked callahan to send him bunch of text files that are dream team related so that the splash can rotate through it but callahan thought it was funny (it is) to put only dreamnotfound <3 so it doesn’t ever change at all and dream doesn’t even know how to change and he has asked callahan to change it but he said no (even though dream pays him LMAO)

the video referenced in the padilla’s video is still in the works, it might be handed over to sapnap though !

he has no idea if he will be in MCC pride yet

padilla got dream’s input for the video, dream found him to be a very nice guy ! :) it’s the first interview that dream did that wasn’t by a person with a negative opinion of dream

dream felt relaxed doing the interview with padilla 

?????? he’s blaming callahan for his “dnfisreal” nickname in bedwars 

he’s blaming callahan for a lot of dnf-related stuff

callahan runs the dream fanart account thus the liking of dnf content

he’s so insistent that it was callahan

dream admits that he was lying about the twitter and other stuff but for sure callahan did code the splash text in LOL

dream liking that tweet “the chances of george doing a hot tub stream is the same of dnf dating” was “funny” he wasnt trying to do any commentary...

the inside joke of “oh it’s all just a joke to you” originates from george and sapnap actually always fighting (like them yelling and shouting at each other) and george said something really mean and sapnap was hurt then geroge said “it was just a joke” and sapnap replied with that line and ever since then it’s been a meme LOL

he says that everyone does the hand-on-the-passenger-seat-while-reversing thing

dream is offline raiding with his chat with 6k people

dream appreciates us and will talk to us soon! 

[sokayisaidiot]

Why Tommy is one of THE BEST written characters in existence.

Alright, that’s it

Here I give you my fuckin Take on why Tommy is one of the best written characters out there and can easily compete with best-selling Novels like Percy Jackson and Harry Potter. I’m sick of a trashing that doesn’t even make sense. So buckle up. Here I will tell you why Tommy has one of the best written characters in history of Books and Movies. Remember, I write this all in my perspective and take many examples of other character books as well

Before this all starts, I will also talk about the main characters of some series, since Tommy has the reputation of being a “main” character.

When I look at the books I’ve read, I see a large range of characters and there way of making the story interesting.

Now, to establish a good character, we need key points of motivations, to make them relatable and bla bla blub:

Personality

Part of the story

Their Powers

Flaws

Relationships

Prized Possessions

History/the backstory

The moral and story the character tells

First tho, I want to explain some words I’m going to use here!

Mary Sue/Gary Stu:

Those are characters who are flawless, have missing chunks of personality and mostly one way written. They are easy to achieve when you are trying to make your character look badass.

Examples in some Fandoms are

·      Rey Skywalker (Star Wars Sequels 7-9)

·      Hermione Granger (Harry Potter Movies)

·      Bella Swan (Twilight)

Tree-System:

Imagine a tree. You plant something small and soon you have something giant with many branches, roots and connections. You have the seed you plant and with caring and care you let it grow. Then you have somewhat a sapling. The tree grows with the care and soon you have a tree with many branches.

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Personality

Negative:

Tommy’s personality is very brash and out of control = He’s barely containable in fights, going off to do his own risky plans and starting two or so fights. He can’t forgive a person very easily like Eret, who took it a long time to get forgiveness and Techno, as he shot Tubbo at the Festival. He makes decision that also cost his life like the duel because he hates losing

Tommy can be very lazy, giving the thought he wouldn’t have to do the hard work = Shown when he tries to steal the hearts of seas from Eret or potions from Techno, bargain with “drugs” by Puffy and Ponk or gives other people the work he doesn’t want to do like he did with getting cobblestone

Like a child, he often clings to close people and annoys others for attention = His desperate attempts to have company or someone praising him shows, when he tries to get Philza’s approval (or a pat on the back), constantly looking out, if Tubbo’s either okay or where his is,

He doesn’t like to wait or doing things in the long run = He constantly asks when something is finished, when they could go or in his exile, when he was allowed to go back to L’Manburg

He doesn’t show often his cooled down, scared and vulnerable side = He often overshadows his trauma with a facade of jokes and bad hidden hurt he brings out. When he talks about something bad, he’s clearly confused, not really knowing on how to understand it. Also he runs away from things he can’t control a panic attack like visiting the final control room or looking away from the holes in Logstedshire

He runs without head into a battle so often as possible = Only when they had their final showdown for the disc, Tommy was seen preparing in story, thinking it would be his last fight

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Positive:

But as he has negative traits, his positive shows to many people clearly.

His unwavering loyalty to the closest of people = His loyalty to Tubbo, Wilbur And L’Manburg are, were and always will be a part of him. He stands against anyone who goes against that, even if it means pain in many ways.

Passionate about dear projects of his = You can see Tommy talking about his discs or see an video where he would spent days getting different discs. Those things are very known to be rare things, so for Tommy to possess it gives him somewhat power. L’Manburg was the same passion, even a bit more, as you can see he was ready to give up his most prized disk. The last and in the moment is his hotel

Bravery like no one makes him as one of the dangerous person on peoples hitlist = He stands up for others. He stood up to L’Manburg. He in the end didn’t care that he lost a life. When he sees a foe, he won’t stand down and submit, he will fight against the oppression and tell them that in the face. During the mission to get a visa, he stood against Schlatt, even if they were clearly in the loose of people and disadvantage. Or getting an apology of Sapnap for killing Niki’s fox. Fighting against 5 people with just one ally while the other is a hostage.

His leadership = There are not many people who can take it up, but Tommy is an exception. He can coordinate people with his loud voice and somewhat thought plans. He is charismatic, even if he’s not so good at it like Wilbur, he still can motivate people to fight for themselves or others. He’s seen to lead others into battle and taking in the fighting part a leading role

Unselfish. That’s one of the most arguable things about Tommy`s character = You can´t look at a kid and say he is selfish because he wants to get something dearly back. Especially Tommy, after he gave the things up, he cared about. But if something is happening again, he will lay it down to do the other thing. As seen by the egg, he had a hard time thinking what to do. He, in a long time, didn’t want to be catalyst for something to happen. Not when he in the moment could have stopped it. So doing this act for himself ones, was a good decisions, since they clearly weren’t ready for war

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Part of the Story

Outside of the story:

Let’s all just get something “straight”. What would Dream SMP without Tommyinnit. Now. Don’t get me wrong. All the creators on the SMP are amazing. They are all wonderful and deserve every bit of Attention and fame they get. But just imagine.

We heard from Tubbo, he was the one, who got him into the SMP. Schlatt and Wilbur came because of a “visit”. Quackity was added because TOMMY said he was bored. And from that, we got somewhat of a tree system. As Tommy was invited and drawn into conflict by Sapnap (shoutout to best boy!), he got more people.

He also has the highest viewership and kind of shortest streams, since he is doing college next to Youtube and Streaming. He can’t give up his high viewers since all of those 200.000 (average) – closing 650.000 People (doing something like a big lore stream in prison or the disc final), choose to watch him.

Also a reminder again, Tommy has his storyline as does everyone else. When we saw Tommy and Techno during the partner up arc doing something with the dogs, they saw the start of the red vines arc BUT said they were on the wrong storyline. Tommy was asked by the eggpire writers if he wanted to be a part of the story and he said yes. Why do you think he nearly says nothing about the egg. He leaves it to the writers. Also, it was said by one of Wilbur’s Character descriptions, that Tommy was okay with others doing something with his character, while Techno was more reluctant with his.

Let me say it again, every creator is awesome and individual! Nobody should be compared to others. But with Tommy coming to the Dream SMP, there really was a change in the game.

Remember, that’s because we also have a BT (before Tommy) and AT (after Tommy) Timestamp in the wiki!

Inside of the story:

Now, with Sapnap, Alyssa, Ponk and Tommy in the first ever big conflict its shown the importance. People assume Tommy is one of the conflict bringers, even though he was dragged in it by having something stolen by Sapnap and then forced to fight with him, to get it back.

The Consequences he’s got where having his discs get stolen. This is what Tommy’s biggest character motivation was the first two seasons. Those discs are known on the server and when you think about gifting something to C!Tommy, it would be a disc.

Techno = Disc Wait

Badboyhalo = Disc Pigstep, Chirp

HBomb = Disc Pigstep, Wait

Tubbo = Stal

LazarBeam = Far

Tommy is a openminded boy who longs for funny little adventures and pranks, since he is just a young person. It’s in his nature.

So why, when he does something, are people looking on him?

Because the things he was and is a part of some of the biggest events. And him being so loud and brave and rash lets him stand out. If you look at the old (hah) Revolution of L’Manburg, who can you hear talking the most and the loudest? Tommy and Dream. They were the most outgoing about the war with Sapnap, Tubbo and Wilbur following. Fundy was more quieter (thankfully he has so much more lore now).

Tommy’s character is known to fall or be dragged head first in almost every conflict. He has connections to who? Mostly everybody. So of course he’s connected big parts to the stories.

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Powers

Okay. Every “main” character or character with huge importance to the story has some kind of power. Looking at Dream, who is a “demigod” or Ranboo who I don’t even have to talk about. So what about Tommy?

Well. He doesn’t have any. Tommyinnit is one of the people, we get to have as an “human” character

Hannah = nature “Spirit”

Karl Jacobs = Timetraveller

Antfrost, Technoblade, Ranboo, Fundy = Hybrids

Dream = Something something green blob

Awesamdude, Puffy, Philza, Sapnap, Eret, Schlatt = Adding Features (wings, eyes, body parts)

Badboyhalo, Skeppy = completely different species apparently

Tommy has, as we know of the moment, a not confirmed power. The assumptions of the egg are not clear, since we haven’t seen those interact in a while. All we know is, Tommy didn’t get hurt, destroying a part and not feeling anything, while being in contact. That in canon considered.

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Flaws

As talked before in personality and also in an assumption, we see the pattern of loyalty and brashness repeating.

Flaws are the most important parts of a character. It shows the struggle of their adventure and learning how to live with it.

Percy Jackson learned loyalty is nothing, if you don’t have someone to project it on.

Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker learned being a hot head didn’t really bring him forward and it’s important to have a plan

Frodo Beutlin learned that it is okay taking care of yourself and what attachment means

Anakin Skywalker learned fear is controllable and it shouldn’t be a remaining part of your life

Tommy learned over the time that his rashness could hurt others, loyalty couldn’t come back to him like he gave it out and he learns even more in the coming future.

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Relationships

Tommy’s relationships is a mess of strings. Some are badly knotted and some are very clear.

A characters connections is an important part for the character himself.

Relationships in life are

·      Enemies(-figure)

·      Rivals(-figure)

·      Friends(-figure)

·      Family(-figure)

·      Lover(-figure)

·      Complicated family(-figure)

·      Complicated friend (-figure)

Relationships are a part of everyone’s life. Not with everybody is a good relationship holdable. Either it’s because their hurting each other or another person. People change and that’s a part of life.

Tommy realized, even tho it hurt, that Techno wasn’t good for his mental state and health. It went against everything Tommy ever stood for.

And Tommy and Tubbo’s relationship wasn’t really that broken. It’s normal for friends to fight. Normal for them hit their heads in. Tommy and Tubbo were surrounded with people who were, at the time, a terrible addition to their mental life.

The Dream SMP doesn’t talk it out, hell the talking club was just destroyed because they preferred fists over words. So why do you think everything is going out with a fight, if it’s all they learned.

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Priced Possessions

Every character has to something a connection.

Might it be Percy Jackson and his sword

Might it be Harry with his glasses, broomstick and wand

Frodo and his stupid ring

For Tommy we all know it’s his ender chest inside and secret chest. He keeps many belongings in his chests and always has been one for those things. He kept flowers, compasses, Friendship signs and most importantly, his discs.

The care for something of items are important. Might it be a teddy, old photo or jewelry. People get protective over it, because it holds sentimental value to the person.

If you ask me, to let go of my teddy bear, I will show you my middle finger. Probably beat you up too.

You can’t just throw out your memories into a fire or pit of lava. This is just showing you never had a care and everything you had a memory with it before would have been gone.

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History/Backstory

We don’t have much here, but still something to work with.

A Hero doesn’t have an easy live. And it’s an said thing that every Hero needs an origin Story.

Tommy, said not really anything about his past.

All we know is that Tommy didn’t have anyone, presumably an Orphan, he knew the sleepy bois already a long time ago and he never learned on how to ride a bike, saying he never really had a family.

Signs that he didn’t even leave half a good life are:

·      his knowledge on stealing and preferring this over working for it

·      Liking to live in weird spaces like carved out holes in sides of hills (his hobbit hole or the basement by Techno) or living in his tent over a hole house

·      His liking of cobblestone and dirt, which are easy gettable blocks

·      Holding his goodies and friends close to him

·      Craving for attention or contact in general

And now for the part with the dream SMP.

We saw how it changed him. We saw his trauma and all the bad things that happened to him.

And that’s why we say his actions came from those past experiences and things. We are NOT excusing them, but showing. Past trauma CHANGES a person. It brings experience and a heavy amount of pain and anger. ESPECIALLY at a young age, you will change due to your experience in life. You will grow worried and anxious. Tommy did that. He grew more anxious, angry, scared and also experienced.

Stop saying trauma doesn’t explain it. Yes. It does. His lashing out came from his past and negative experience. Imagine growing up in a world where this is the norm. War and banishing. As well as death. Tommy has reasons why he is acting and does stuff.

Understand it. You don’t have to forgive him or anything. But understand it.

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The moral and the story the character tells us

When we see Tommy, we see a boy who went nearly through it all. Mental/Physical Abuse, Abandonment, War, Suicidal thoughts, betrayal, Death, etc…

He doesn’t show forgiveness for his abuser. Still has signs, that he fights with the past abuse, but he tells us a story of learning from past mistakes, that even in the darkest hours, there’s a way out. Things will, can and be ugly and those are dark hours, but in no way should you think that it’s over. Life is more than one way and can always turn into a new direction.

Life takes something old away from you. Life gives you something new. You lose someone, you find someone new. Friends can turn into enemies. Enemies can turn into friends. You can meet the weirdest people. You can meet the most amazing people. You can be alone and in the next second, you’re not. You will often lose, but you also can win if you give everything.

Life can be weird and that’s okay.

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My Fazit (that’s german)

The thing is, he is very real for many viewers such as myself. He acts like how many teenagers his age reacts.

He doesn’t be “baby”, because he shows the “ugly” sides of trauma. He shows that attachments are good and you shouldn’t forgive your abuser. In no way. He shows that acting out and lashing out are two things that happen, when you have been in wars for many times and nearly just know that.

He has many flaws and mistakes but those make him even more real. He is showing how he is growing.

As a person, friend, (pseudo-)family.

He is real to many of the viewer since he doesn’t have any powers that are existing in our world to solve their problems. He knows that nobody would have helped him and Tubbo against Dream if he didn’t pay others.

Also that you can’t be friends with everyone and that it’s okay that not everybody likes you.

Tommy´s character is the most human and realistic character in a way of how we would react. We are humans who are lashing out and who are having ugly sides.

And also please stop saying that, since I really can relate to Tommy and I don’t want to be feeling like a “bad-written Character”…

And Don’t even get me started on Tommy’s acting dude!

He is one of the best actors and that one livestreams! In from off 200.000 – 600.000 People!

On the face cam alone is so much to see…  

·      You can see his face with each emotion shifting,

·      when something funnily weird happens, he looks dead eyes in the camera

The voice acting…

·      His breathing,

·      the stuttering in his voice,

·      THE GODDAMN EMOTIONS IN HIS FACE

HIS MUSIC CHOICE!

·      He changes the music fitting for the situations as in fighting scenes or funny moments.

·      He also has some funny bits with his music.

·      Like a goddam DJ!

The ingame character

·      His movements and head stares

·      The jumping around when he gets overactive

·      Long stops when he thinks or is sad!

You can see, I am a person from Tumblr and saw way too much bullshit around tommys character.

Stop critiquing him so badly.

You could say, I woke up and chose violence

>:D

[trustmeifyoudare]

so i saw everyone posting what fandoms they are in so i decided to curse you all and show you (bare in mind i’m probably missing a few and this will grow in about a week)

BOOKS 

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Blood Family by Anne Fine

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

Dellia by David Scidmore

Diamond City by Fransesca Flores

Divergent by Veronica Roth (btw I’m erudite)

Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Grimm Brother’s Fairytales

Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

HOO by Rick Riordan

If It Bleeds by Steven King

Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES BY SHANNON MESSENGER (capitalized because this was my first official fandom)

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wider

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan

Matilda by Roald Dahl

i’m trying to read Maze Runner by James Dasher but i don’t have the first book yet

Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (I have only read the first series so goD HELP ME IF YOU SPOIL THE REST)

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene

Order of the Sanguines Series by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell

PJO by Rick Riordan

going to read Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard soon but i am going to finish the book i’m reading right now. okay so i’m reading four books right now but we aren’t talking about that. my record is seven books at once

Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott

Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Glass Spare by Lauren DeStefano

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (holy shit it was so good at the beginning but in the middle it got really slow and i don’t talk about the last book. no offense dudes)

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria

TOA by Rick Riordan

i really want to read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and i have it cued up but i keep on getting distracted. btw this has been going on for a year so we will see how it goes

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

MOVIES

ALF

Aquaman

Frozen

HAMILTON

Highschool Musical

MCU

Pirates of the Caribbean

Pre Marvel Spiderman Movies

Spiderman into the Spiderverse

Stars Wars

Snow White

TV SHOWS

Agents of Shield (still watching)

Clone Wars

Corner Gas

Danny Phantom (like, two episodes)

Doctor Who

Girl Meets World

Knight Rider

Last Man Standing

Max Steel

Miraculous Ladybug

Phineas and Ferb

Star Trek

The Flash

The Owl House

The X Files (though my parents won’t let me watch it now because i’m too innocent. fun fact, i wasn’t allowed to read the hunger games and twilight until last year. i’m in grade 11)

Quantum Leap

Vegetales

Wizards of Waverly Place

ANIME (yea i know it isn’t very big but it is really hard to find anime when you don’t have a streaming site with it)

Attack on Titan

Fairytail (halfway through)

My Hero Academia

Seven Deadly Sins

SONGS (i cannot function without music so ya)

Alec Benjamin

Alessia Cara

Alex Sampson

Astrid S.

Au/Ra

Ava Max

AViVA

Bea Miller

Bebe Rexha

Britt Nicole

Carys

Cher Lloyd

Clara Mae

Ellise

for King & Country

Francesca Battistelli

Finneas

Gracie Abrams

Hailee Steinfeld

Hollyn

Imagine Dragons

Jeremy Zucker

Jessie Murph

Lin Manuel Miranda

Munn

NF

Nightcore (fight me)

Olivia Rodrigo

Sasha Alex Sloan

Selena Gomez

SHY Martin

Taylor Swift

Tate McRae

Tenth Avenue North

Toby Mac

Unspoken

[allisonreader]

Seeing all the Hunger Games and Lunar Chronicles popping up on my dash has me in a thoughtful mood. The Hunger Games was the first popular book series that I read while it was in the full swing of it’s popularity. At that point I had still never read any of the Harry Potter Books (which I had never read until after high school and only because my youngest brother had gotten into them and made us watch a marathon of all the movies, which I had seen before because of my best friend at the time, but they had all confused me terribly. Doesn’t help that I probably ended up watching Goblet of Fire the most due to coincidence.) Never had I read Twilight or gotten into any of those movies (though that same friend of mine gave me a run down of the books when she read them and my dad actually watched the movies.) Still haven’t read or watched Twilight and don’t really have any desire to. The "popular" series I had read growing up were not really being talked about a whole bunch, though still familiar with most people. I was reading multiple Nancy Drew books, Babysitter's Club, Jenny McGrady Mystery series (Christian), The Royal Diaries (fictional diaries written as if by real royalty like Anastasia, Queen Victoria and others), Lady Grace Mysteries (I always forget this series title and confuse it with Lady Jane Grey for some reason, probably because it’s the same time period-ish), The Mandie Series (which my aunt and uncle gave me the first two books and I loved them), Sweet Valley Twins (hand-me downs from my cousins), On The Run (and other books from Gordon Korman), Chronicles of Narnia and so on. So it wasn’t that I wasn’t reading current books, they were just ones without hype or from the 80's. I hadn’t even really heard about Percy Jackson books until again after high school and my brother had started reading them. I honestly only read Divergent because I had seen a trailer for the first movie and though, "oh, that looks good, I’d like to read the books it’s based on" then was horribly disappointed by those movies and have honestly never read the books again, unlike The Hunger Games, which I have, multiple times, same for Lunar Chronicles, and others. (Literally chose Prince Caspian for a book report in grade 6.) I've gotten to this point now and have completely lost the plot and thought of where I might’ve been going for this. So take this as it is.

[poisonintopositivity]

(My Very Own) Top 20 Sterek Fics

Here is my very own Top 20 Sterek Fics (out of order)

For me, these fanfictions are a “MUST READ NOW!!!” kind of deal. These authors have so much talent, it’s incredible. These stories are just marvelous and deserve LOVE ! So, I decided to share them with you.

I’ve read most of these fics several times and some of them are even my bedside table books (with Harry Potter and the Prisonner of Azcaban and Jane Eyre)

So here we go!

1:  Enemy Lines by @qhuinn -  150k - Explicit - Dystopia - Enemies to friends to lovers - Action/adventure

This is the story of werewolf Derek Hale and human Stiles Stilinski: two people who grew up in the same town but completely different worlds, their realities split by the war between men and wolves.

Years later when Derek returns to Beacon Hills, he does it as Alpha of a military pack on a mission to capture those responsible for the region’s resistance. With his main objective, Sheriff Stilinski, out of sight, he settles for the next best thing: his son, Stiles.

Neither of them suspects they’ll need to trust each other if they want to make it out this alive.

2:  Actions Speak Louder than Words by @isthatbloodonhisshirt - 435k - Explicit - The BEST and slowest burn there is - Spark Stiles/Mute Derek - Friends to Lovers

“I apologize.” The cop finally looked back up at his face, seeming thrilled. “It’s just—it’s been so long. And we finally have you.”

That was a bad word. Not found.

Have.

Stiles wrenched his hand free and took a step back, but before he could even think up a gameplan, he felt a prick in his neck and jerked away, reaching up to slap one hand against it and twisting in the same moment.

One of the others had come up behind him while he hadn’t been paying attention, and his vision began to swim even as his eyes caught sight of the half-empty syringe the guy was holding.

3: Radio Tower by @hyperlittlenori - 130k - Explicit - Dystopia - Hope - Slow Burn/Build 

Everything was different. The world he knew was gone. It’d been a long time since he’d started thinking he was probably one of the last humans on earth, that out there the only sentient beings were those that would devour him whole. He wasn’t sure why he continued with the radio broadcasts, continued to talk into nothingness. The only explanation was that there was a spark of hope in him yet that he wasn’t alone. The lonely safety Stiles has built around an old radio tower in the middle of nowhere is about to be broken. Stiles isn’t sure if Derek is a harbinger of chaos or hope at the end of the world. 

4:  The Hollow Moon by @thepsychicclam - 180k - Explicit - Fix-It - Memory Loss - Slow Burn/Build

It's the summer after Stiles' first year of college, and he's working a crappy job and dealing with nightmares and anxiety - but he's okay, he swears. He makes it through most days without too much trouble. Then, a certain werewolf comes back into town. Which Stiles doesn't care about, nope, not at all.

After two and a half years, Derek returns to Beacon Hills with his small Pack. Though he tried to move on, something just kept drawing him back to Beacon Hills, he's just not sure what. Now, he figures he can start building something like a life - but he keeps getting distracted by Stiles Stilinski of all people.

5 :  Amor Fati by @alocalband  - 43k - Explicit - Consent is sexy - First Time - Fluff & Angst

When Stiles gets thrown into the bank vault about twenty minutes after him, Derek isn’t even surprised.As it turns out, neither is Stiles.

6 :  (not so) Pure Imagination by theroguesgambit - 33k - Explicit - Shared fantasies - Angst with a happy ending - hotdamn! 

"There is a world where whenever someone fantasizes about you, you can physically feel it, but you have no idea who is thinking it about you."

Stiles knows it's wrong, but he's been Fantasizing about Derek and he can't bring himself to stop. Derek doesn't know who's taken an interest in him, but he's enjoying it way more than he probably should.

7: What I Did On My Summer Vacation by grimm - 119k - Explicit - Wolf!Derek - Slow Burn/Build - Friends to Lovers

There's something weird about Beacon Hills that Stiles can't quite put his finger on. The way everyone in town knows his name the day he arrives. The way they insist the melancholic howling that echoes through the forest every night is just a dog. The way his dad denies getting a dog, even though Stiles comes home to find one sprawled across his bed, some big black thing whose eyes gleam red in the right light. The way that massive oak tree out in the woods vibrates under his touch, pulsing with sickly life.

There's something weird going on in this town, and Stiles is determined to get to the bottom of it.

8:  Stand Fast in Your Enchantments by @devildoll - 77k - Explicit - Captivity - Feral!Derek - Angst with a happy ending

"Stiles knew damn well what a pissed-off wolf sounded like, and every hair on the back of his neck was telling him that somewhere in this room was a very pissed-off werewolf." An AU in which Derek is feral, Stiles is magical, and they eat a lot of fast food.

9 :  What Fresh Twilight Bullshit Is This? by @isthatbloodonhisshirt - 196k - Explicit - Soulmate - Slow Burn - Misunderstandings 

“I am not Bella!” he insisted, shaking his fist angrily at Jackson, as if he’d been the one to suggest he was. “I am not Bella! I am, like, a Jacob, at least!”

Lydia made a noise of debate from his right and he whipped around to look at her.

“What?! What was that sound?!”

“You’re more of a Mike,” she insisted, shrugging neatly and flipping some curls over her shoulder.

“Wha—” Stiles had never been so offended in his life! “I am not! No way! I am a solid Jacob!”

“Mike,” she argued.

“Who’s Mike?” Scott asked.

“Shut up, Scott!” Stiles insisted, pointing a finger at him but still glaring at Lydia.

10 :  taste your beating heart by @cinematicnomad​ - 112k - Mature - Pack Dynamics - Slow Burn/Build - Stilinski Family Feels

Something was wrong in Beacon Hills. Derek was halfway across the country when he felt a call to return to his hometown, and somehow Stiles had been talked into letting the werewolf stay in his guest bedroom. This could lead to nothing good.

11 :  between the click of the light and the start of the dream by @thepsychicclam 105k - Explicit - Pack Dynamics - Getting Togheter - Fluff & Angst

A twig snaps, and then Stiles hears breathing and the rustle of leaves. He strains to get a better glimpse into the darkness, but it’s pointless. There’s nothing but a black void.

It's Stiles' senior year, and he's trying to concentrate on normal things - like the lacrosse championship, spring break, prom, graduation (and definitely not Derek) - when he starts having nightmares and waking up in the middle of nowhere. Oh yeah, and he's being haunted by a hag. Great.

12:  And You Say You're Alone by taelynhawker - 30k - Explicit - Pack Dynamincs - Bad Friend Scott - Romance

Between the kanima, the Argents, and Peter's untimely return from the dead, everything has fallen apart. Stiles and Derek try to put their lives back together once the crisis has passed. Stiles deals with the aftermath of being tortured, and the distance growing between he and Scott. Derek attempts to become a stronger alpha and keep his pack safe, and that includes Stiles.

13:  Trust Fall by Stoney - 144k - Explicit - Body Swap - Hurt/Confort - Slow Burn/Build

Stiles is fairly certain that a case could be made for every bad thing in his life coming back to Peter Hale. This time it's pissing off a powerful witch, who retaliated by swapping Stiles and Derek a la Freaky Friday, because sure. That makes sense. Um, there are GPAs on the line, not to mention the whole thing where his dad wants to shoot Derek on sight. Except who he sees as Derek is actually Stiles, and Stiles did not sign up for filicide.

Great. Wait...does this mean he's the Alpha until they figure this out? Holy. Shit.

****

Derek had stood in front of the bathroom mirror for a few minutes trying to control the panic as he saw himself as Stiles. As the loud mouthed human friend of the pack. He was going to kill Peter. He was going to kill the witch, then he was going to kill Peter. Maybe even resurrect him again just to kill him all over.

They were going to have to play this cool. They would have to stay calm and focused. Which is of course why the universe threw him into this situation with someone who physically couldn't be calm and focused.

Of course.

14:  Gravity's Got Nothing on You by @zosofi - 84k - Explicit - Fake/Pretend Boyfriends - Humor - Romance

“Three weeks,” Derek says.

“Still don’t want to,” Stiles says.

“I’ll pay you,” Derek says, and that… that has Stiles interested. Alf’s Antique’s may be a great job, but it’s not a high-paying job, and half of Stiles’s tuition is coming from financial aid, so…

“How much,” Stiles asks, “are we talking here? Because I know your family, dude. And it’ll be kind of awkward after.“

“My family thinks you’re some sort of fucking gift to the world,” Derek seethes, like he’s jealous, “they’ll probably be pissed at me when we break it off, so don’t worry about that. Five hundred bucks.”

“A thousand,” Stiles says, because screw ethics. Also, the Hale family is loaded. Derek can deal.

15:  Every Step You Take by @nokomiss - 49k - Mature - Magic - UST - Secret Feelings

Stiles accidentally ends up magically bound to Derek. It’s super.

16:  Baking My Way Into Your Heart by theSilence - 179k - Mature - College AU/Coffee Shop AU - Slow Burn/Build - Friends to Lovers

Derek is an uptight college student, all work and no play. His carefully scheduled life is thrown kilter when his regular barista is replaced with someone new.

17:  Windows by @drgrlfriend - 83k - Explicit - Blind!Stiles - Friends to Lovers - Found Families 

Derek has a new neighbor who won't stop looking.

Excerpt:

“You’re blind,” Derek said flatly, the anger draining from him so suddenly he felt almost woozy. His vision cleared, his claws sliding back into blunt fingernails.

“Thanks for the memo, genius,” the kid said acidly. “I can still fucking defend myself, so don’t take another damn step.”

“Fuck, I...I’m sorry,” Derek stuttered.

“What?!” The kid’s brow crinkled. “I mean — what?! You’re fucking sorry!?” His lips thinned into a harsh line. “What, is this some kinda Hallmark movie where you’re discovering the error of your ways because you don’t want to rob a blind person?! That’s fucking condescending, man. I’ll have you know that —”

“Just, wait.” Derek interrupted what was apparently the start of a convincing argument as to why he should rob the kid after all, feeling his head start to spin. “This is — it’s a misunderstanding. I’m — I’m not robbing you. You’re — you’re safe, okay? I’m taking three steps back. Just — just let me explain.”

“Explain why you came busting into my apartment? Yeah, go right ahead, man, I can’t wait to hear this epic tale.”

18 :  Just to See You Again by MellytheHun (@loserchildhotpants​) - 15k - Explicit - Love Letters - Getting Together - College AU 

A sterek college!AU where writing student Stiles specializes in love letters, runs a blog about it and can be commissioned to write love letters on behalf of lovers who are at a loss for words.

He makes some cash, he’s good at what he does (especially when he gets to be a little more explicit in his letters), it pays for his textbooks and that’s all he’s really looking for and life is fine. That is, until someone anonymously commissions him to write a love letter to mathematics student, Derek Hale.

19:  Chasing Slumber by @hyperlittlenori - 21k - Explicit - Post-Nogitsune - Porn With Feelings - Fix it

Stiles finds solitude and a glimpse at recovering from his ordeal with the Nogitsune in a dingy motel far from Beacon Hills. Inhuman blue eyes follow his silent struggles in the darkness of the room and he can no longer pretend to sleep, pretend he hasn’t been profoundly changed by all that has happened. He can only let his fingers stretch out across threadbare but clean sheets and clench around them, in a failed attempt at not reaching for Derek.

20 :  the thread is ripping by @thepsychicclam - 36k - Explicit - Pinning - Angst with a happy ending - Flashbacks

Stiles is 27 now, with a master’s degree and a career and a house and a serious boyfriend and a life in San Francisco that doesn't include Derek. But then Stiles unexpectedly shows back up in Beacon Hills, and Derek would recognize that scent anywhere.

If you are interested, feel free to check out my Sterek Fic Recs Collections on A03.

On this lovely note, happy reading guys!

[anishbala97]

An Unpopular Opinion on Reading

A few days ago, I watched an interesting video by a YouTuber named JaidenAnimations. She expressed her dislike for reading and the circumstances behind it.

Well, Jaiden used to love reading as a kid. She loved Geronimo Stilton and its creative narration. Over the years, however, her love for reading eventually disappears as she grows up.

She thinks reading became a necessity and punishment in her childhood. The former has made her read books only to save her grades in school.

The latter served as parental pressure to read books during vacation. It might have good intentions, but good intentions do have terrible outcomes. It was enough for to completely give up on reading.

After watching the video, I realized that the whole ordeal resembles me. You might remember Scholastic Book Fair if you’re from DPS. DPS used to host the said fair at every Parents-Teachers Meeting. I used to buy either puzzles or Geronimo Stilton books.

Over the years, however, my interest in reading books has waned. One of the main reasons was the school itself. I know bad association might have played a role in destroying any interest in reading reading.

The school forces you to abandon your childhood. It shoves you into the world of consumerist mindless robots. As if going through a personal tragedy and bullying wasn’t hard enough for me.

One such reason was when school forcibly spoon-feeds you with books that you’ll never read again. In class 9th, we had three men in a boat, and I didn’t care much for it because I felt reading it was a chore. You still have to read it anyway because your grades depend on it.

The school expects you to speak English on campus, even though most conversations are in Hindi. They tell you to read books and newspapers. Sadly, nobody has time for that since coaching classes and tuitions are busy tormenting us. Then they wonder why most people struggle with speaking English.

Let me ask you something? How many of you have learned English in either school or through novels? I sure did not. I’ve learned English through Hollywood, video games, or conversations.

It’s funny because English is the most practical subject in an impractical education system. If you’re learned the language outside of school, there’s something wrong with our education system.

It’s also worth noting that I can’t make any imagination through staring at words. That’s one reason why I don’t like novels. They’re almost entirely words with no pictures. However, I can read comics or manga. I find them entertaining, not because it has illustrations. It also makes you feel the intensity of an event or arc.

For instance, I find Attack on Titan’s War of the Paradis Arc entertaining. It’s the last arc of the manga, and the battles are climatic and violent. I also remember Uzumaki by Junji Ito. The story revolves around a town losing its mind because it is obsessed with spiral objects.

I’ll still choose mangas, comics, graphic novels over novels because of their illustrations. Furthermore, it’s entertaining.

Sometimes when I argued with my sister, I retaliated by tearing her Twilight books. That move only makes the argument much worse. My hatred for reading is so deep-rooted that I have read the novels in only single digits.

The ones that I’ve read were

1. Watchmen,

2. The Alchemist,

3. Five-Point Someone, and

4. Adultery.

I prefer movies or YouTube videos to understand more about the novel-created worlds like 1984, All Quiet on the Western Front, Harry Potter, and any Steven King stories.

Ironically I don’t like reading, yet I like writing articles. In this fast-paced content consumption, it’s hard to read books anymore. Maybe in the future, if I try to invest my time in reading, who knows, I could make a difference in this world.

[touyasdoll]

43, 38, 31 and 21 for the ask thingy!!

- 🍄

21. what are your thoughts on love?

sigh. I have so many. I wish there were more of it. I think that love could be easy, but a lot of people make it unintentionally difficult, for one reason or another. usually as a result of something we learned as kids or as a trauma response. it's inevitable and it's sad, but that's why learning how to love appropriately and/or seeing someone else do the same is so rewarding. I also really just love love. like, in all forms. I say I love everyone and like. I mean it. there's varying degrees of love and it takes on so many different forms and I just love that. I love how subjective love is from person to person, yet how it's also so universal.

31. do you collect anything?

I do! I collect cups bc I just love them <3 I also collect manga, figures, and tickets from every movie/show/etc that I go to bc I like having a little physical token of all my memories <3

38. do you have any weird f3tishes?

weird is a subjective word and I'm not in love with the word fetish, just bc of the connotations people associate with it, but I am particularly interested in: hands, tattoos, piercings, lingerie, thigh highs/stockings

43. what books did you grow up with?

I really didn't ever read much as a kid. I only read the last two Harry Potter books. I did INHALE Twilight. I read a few books for fun. most were just ones that looked cool when I saw them in the library and I can't recall the names. one was some YA werewolf romance novel that I wish I could remember the name of lmao. and then when I was much younger, I really loved all the Junie B. Jones books <3

invasive but general asks

[laurenhufflepuff2]

A list of fandoms I'm in (in no particular order, will probably be updated regularly. Some fandoms are more intense and some are more casual. Depending on the fandom, I could go on and on about fandom topics for HOURS. Let's get into it!)

Harry Potter, Disney, Marvel, DC comics, Miraculous Ladybug, Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra, Star Wars, Literature, Winx Club, Nintendo, Minecraft, Little Witch Academia, Voltron, Coraline

Details:

Harry Potter- I got into Harry Potter in 7th grade and now I am the resident expert in my family and in my friend group. I read all the books, watched all the movies (notably the British version), and I've seen the Fantastic Beasts films as well. I've also read Tales of Beedle the Bard (the Warlock's Hairy Heart was traumatizing) along with the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them textbook (plus an updated edition). I also read The Cursed Child script and while I mean no hate to anyone that liked it, I hated what it did to the canon. I am in Hufflepuff with some Ravenclaw tendencies (I took the Pottermore quiz 3 times, 2 out of 3 I got Hufflepuff, the other time was Ravenclaw). I had a pottermore account and I was so upset when it got converted to the Wizarding World page. I cosplayed Hermione in 7th grade complete with British accent and even monologued as her for a talent show (classmates and teachers would recognize me as the Hermione girl all the way through high school). I was obsessed and I still love it even if J.K. Rowling has gone off the deep end on Twitter... yeah... my favorite character is Hermione but I also relate to Luna

Disney- there's so much that goes into the Disney part of my fandom list. I'm excluding Marvel and Star Wars from this part as they were originally separate entities before Disney got the rights to them. I have seen almost every animated Disney film ever and often use random movie quotes in conversation. My favorite villain is Maleficent, my favorite princess is Ariel (followed by Belle, Rapunzel, and Anna). I relate to so many of the characters. I'm not sure who my favorite Pixar character is though (I love Violet, Sadness, Dory, and Piper (from the short)). My favorite Disney fairy is Fawn. My favorite characters overall are Ariel and Stitch. Disney is definitely on the list as one of my biggest obsessions. My favorite movies are Lilo and Stitch, the Little Mermaid, Inside Out, Alice in Wonderland (original), and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Marvel- I mostly get my Marvel exposure through the MCU, other movies, and animated TV shows. I have difficulty reading graphic novels so most of my comic book knowledge comes from friends, posts, or wikis. My favorite characters are Spider-Man, Captain America, Peggy Carter, and Scarlet Witch. I also like Gwenpool, Deadpool, Spider-Gwen/ Ghost-Spider, Venom, Squirrel Girl, Daredevil, Mantis, Gamora, Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor, Loki, Bucky, Black Panther, and most MCU characters. Out of the X-men I really like Professor X, Wolverine, Mystique, Magneto, Nightcrawler, and Quicksilver (either version- MCU or Fox).

DC- this was the franchise I was more familiar with growing up but again, graphic novels aren't easy for me to read so most of my knowledge comes from information pages about the comics or from tv/movies. My earliest experience with DC came from the 60s Batman series, with Catwoman and Robin being my favorites. I also watched the Wonder Woman series from the 70s and a handful of CW shows, my favorite of which being the Flash and Arrow. I also managed to watch all 5 seasons of the Teen Titans Cartoon Network series from 2003. With that being said, my favorite characters are Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Flash, Batman, Nightwing/Robin (Dick Grayson), Green Arrow, Starfire, Raven, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Alfred. I also like most of the bat family, and when it comes to CW I LOVE Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost and Cisco.

Miraculous- this is one of my guilty fandoms but since this is Tumblr I'm not too worried about it. I love Marinette and I relate to her on an astoundingly deep level (minus the stalking and obsession with potential lovers, that's creepy). If I had a miraculous, I'd probably want the Ladybug one, but the Cat miraculous, fox miraculous, and snake miraculous are good too. My favorite character is Marinette/Ladybug.

Atla/Tlok- I jumped on the avatar bandwagon just when it was starting to get popular, so I managed to get through the series before the memes took over everything. Same with Tlok, although i couldn't completely avoid the spoilers for that when i started it. I've been wanting to get into the comics because of the short story comics I've read, they seem easier to read than superhero comics. My favorite characters are Aang, Katara, Ty Lee, Iroh, Korra, Jinora, Asami, Suki, Appa, Momo, Naga, and Pabu. I also like Sokka, Mai, Zuko, Lin, Kuvira, Varrick, Zhu Lee, and Azula. I feel really sorry for her and while I understand that a redemption arc would undermine the importance of her corruption arc, I still wish she could have one. I would love to be a waterbender or an airbender... maybe a waterbender raised in the air nation? Obviously, being the avatar itself would be awesome. The show has taught me a lot of great lessons and put a lot of stuff into perspective for me.

Star Wars- oh boy, talking about this one is dangerous. I've seen firsthand the horrors of the Star Wars fandom but then again no one will probably see this anyway so... I've seen all the movies and I remember watching the clone wars series with my brother when I was younger but we fell wayyy behind and it's taking us forever to get back into it. I've also seen the Mandalorian and quite enjoyed it. I like the prequels unironically, in fact, the prequels are some of my favorite movies. I especially like how they switched from lightsabers being heavy weapons to light weapons that can be used for all kinds of tricks that make for epic battles like the ones we see in Revenge of the Sith. The sequels were fun to watch but when I would analyze them along side their predecessors, I came to the conclusion that, for me, they were good to watch but did not do anything good for the rest of the franchise. My favorite characters are prequels/clone wars Obi Wan and Anakin, Padme, Ashoka, Leia, R2D2, BB-8, R4-P17, the Mandalorian (Din Djarin), and Grogu. If I had a lightsaber I'd want it to be blue, but when I was little I got a purple one like Mace Windu because it was closer to pink and I was into pink at the time. I still have that lightsaber and none of my friends have a purple one so it's one of my flexes. I feel like I wouldn't make a good jedi because of attachments being forbidden, so I'd probably become a grey jedi.

Literature- this is a broad term I use to cover all the random books and stories I liked reading and have studied. So we have Shakespeare (Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet), The Great Gatsby (bored while reading, loved to analyze), Grendel (HATED reading, loved to analyze, Grendel really needed a hug and a friend), The Crucible, Fahrenheit 451, Dark Life (+ the sequel Riptide, both are by Kat Falls good reads, sci-fi and kind of dystopian), The Once and Future King

Winx Club- I think the show is trashy but I still love watching it. I haven't been able to get through season 6 though and I hated what they did with season 8 and Fate: the Winx Saga. My favorite character is Bloom along with Stella and Flora. I prefer rai to nick. My favorite transformations are magic winx, enchantix, and harmonix. My favorite member of the Trix is Icy followed by Darcy. My favorite Pixies are Chatta and Lockette.

Nintendo- mainly Pokémon above all else, followed by Animal Crossing. I have also played (mostly as player 2 or just never beat or watched my brother play) mario games, legend of zelda, pikmin, and kirby. Games I haven't played but I just liked the characters/the lore and probably learned about through Super Smash Bros. are Fire Emblem (Lucina mostly), Metroid (Samus and baby metroid), and Kid Icarus. Pokémon is where I'm most knowledgeable but you'll most likely beat me in battle. I am however great at MarioKart and I always destroy my friends at it. Terrible at fighting games though.

Minecraft- I like playing this casually. Sure, I'll play for hours and hours on end for months, but I prefer to stay exclusively in peaceful when playing Survival mode and I don't make anything too ambitious in Creative mode. I like to write, so sometimes I'll make a rough layout of the settings of my stories in different worlds. I prefer interior design and decorating when building, and when in survival mode I focus more on mining and gathering while my brother works on ambitious building projects. I just bring him the raw materials and furnish the interior when he finishes the outside.

Little Witch Academia- this takes up a smaller portion of my fandom list because there were only 2 seasons and a couple movies and I watched the whole series years ago, but I still enjoy it. At one point I wanted to cosplay Akko, and I loved the nod at Twilight through the Nightfall series. And I especially liked the twist that Shiny Chariot was Ursula, which I suspected for some time. The blend between magic and technology was fun to see, but I was so sad that the series ended RIGHT when Akko finally showed signs of magic proficiency. Also, Shiny Chariot being the reason Akko couldn't do magic was heartbreaking.

Voltron- this takes up a much smaller portion of my fandom list mainly because I haven't even finished it. I know hardly anything about Transformers aside from the Bumblebee movie so to me I just watch it for fun. It reminds me of power rangers, star wars, and star trek, and then there's just a transformer insert. But I don't know anything about Transformers so maybe the show is more rooted in canon than I think.

Coraline- I am in a love-hate relationship with Coraline. I have watched the movie several times, I've read the book, I've watched hours of theories and analyses on youtube, I've watched behind the scenes videos by Laika, and I even wrote a script for a fan film parody. I am amazed at how original the story is and how impressive the stop motion animation is but I also have recurring nightmares from it and it scares me/creeps me out to the max. If anyone asks what my scariness limit is, it's definitely Coraline.