#the terror brainrot 2023

[helenvader]

Gif quality questionable. But I (we) needed this.

[lady-of-imladris]

OK so this post about JFJ putting all the cool people on the Erebus with him and letting Francis deal with the weirdos on Terror made me wonder:

[queenmeriadoc]

Episode 1-4 - Dr Goodsir - @somebirdortheother

[helenvader]

@constant-and-immovable This is the gifset you mentioned in your tags to my post from yesterday. :-)

the terror said bi rights

[merryverse]

The Terror - Nature shots (sort of)

[helenvader]

Let's have our hearts broken again, shall we?

[lady-of-imladris]

Me and @helenvader 🤝 Blanky

I think everyone who watched The Terror can agree that Blanky ❤️🥹🫂😭😭

[queenmeriadoc]

Dr McDonald - The Terror - Charles Edwards

[merryverse]

The Terror - We Are Gone

[queenmeriadoc]

The terror is becoming one of my fandoms in law and I’m starting to think I need to watch it

[pesbianlanic]

july 2023 reading

books in bold are especially recommended!

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson - 3.5/5. jackson's stuff is always so creepy because of the blanks left unfilled. suspenseful and mysterious.

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda - 5/5. a BEAUTIFUL little novel about a young vampire navigating desire, hunger, and self.

Sarahland by Sam Cohen - 5/5. this collection of short stories is incredible. i will be thinking about it and rereading it for the rest of my life, i think. my absolute favorite stories were “The First Sarah” and “Becoming Trees.”

This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara - 3.5/5. each of these short stories were beautifully written. i think they just weren't for me. my favorites were "The Irates" and "You Are Not Alone."

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - 5/5. gorgeous and thought-provoking book about personhood, consciousness, environment, and communication. this is one of those books that i will be thinking about for a very long time.

Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata - 4/5. Murata is skilled at exploring the strange and grotesque in a way that makes it believable and sensible. some of these short stories fell flat for me, but the one's that didn't were incredible.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. reread because my best friend and i have the twilight brainrot right now. i'm now a bella/alice shipper. support the Quileute tribe.

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. this reread is only solidifying my bella/alice ship.

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. more rereading. the melodrama is strong in this one

salt slow by Julia Armfield - 5/5. a delightfully strange collection of short stories! my favorites were "The Great Awake," and "Formerly Feral," and "Cassandra After."

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle - 5/5. mr. tingle's foray into religious horror strikes a perfect balance of terror, realism, and hope!

[notyourbarney]

Confessing in a Sinful Grace

Here's my confession

Oh father,

I did a crime.

When the world was lost and

Was on fire,

I played mime.

Here's my confession

Oh lover,

I had no shot.

I forgot how to love yet

I brought another

Seed of brainrot.

Here's my confession

Oh sinner,

I couldn't fight.

The battle was crucial to

Justify existence

And I took flight.

Here's my confession

Oh giver,

I am confused.

I asked for a way out

Even when I had an

Answer I refused.

Here's my confession

Oh creator,

I didn't try enough.

I was within the divine

And yet I conflated

It with a bluff.

Forgive me for my wrongs,

Grace me for my errors,

I've been searching for long

Please excuse my terror.

I am singing your songs,

Grant me mercy forever.

My path might not be strong,

But I promise I'll get there.

Barney Redowan | Oct 12, 2023; 5:00

[helenvader]

You always have such lovely comments on my works, thanks! ❤ I hope to finish that trailer. It's more fun to try something new, also, how else does one learn? :-)

Re: The Terror. I wasn't ready in 2018. Now I can tolerate gore very well. Even appreciate it. Yay! I watched it twice within 10 days in August and another rewatch is on the horizon in October. It's PERFECT. The script, the music, the visuals, all the actors, the atmosphere, the tension, the horror, the desperation, but also all those sweet moments of companionship between men and character development. Just. A. Glorious. Show.

And, of course, Jared Harris. The brainrot is enormous. 🤣

Absolutely agreed on all the RoP characters you have mentioned. They all deserve love. ❤ I also love the Harfoots. And Celebrimbor. I actually love everybody, it's a great cast. 🙂

Hi I hope that you're well! I read your tags recently and I feel that you are certainly not the only one who misses Rings of Power, even if the activity in the fandom is low. Which leads me to think that maybe to revitalize it we could organize something like a ROP week in the same spirit as the Tolkien Week, with each day a theme that can be declined in the form of gifsets, fanart or fanfic, poetry, handmade creations (embroidery, cooking, cosplay).

You've hosted some good concepts (positive thoughts and your plan to show the cast that we support them) to keep the fandom collectively together, so I thought you could host this idea as well. It wouldn't be too much I hope: just make to some fanart to announce the event, the date, the rules; and I could gather a long list of people who have at some point created something for the show and we could them tag in the main ad.

I think it would be interesting to expand the daily themes beyond season 1 and the usual ones (best scenery, favorite races, favorite subplot, best costumes, best musical theme, favorite female character, favorite character played by a poc actor, best casting, favorite relationships or any other idea that you have), and save a day for the story arc people are most excited to see in season 2.

I'm sorry if I'm rambling, but the idea is taking shape as I write to you. Of course, there is no pressure to do it at all, or to do it immediately. It's just that fall seems like the right time, since the series just turned one year old.

Just let me know if there is any interest on your side, even if it's only long term.

Thanks for reading.

Hello lovely! 🌼Thank you I'm doing okay hope you are too! You actually read my mind with this because I was thinking about doing a creative challenge event like this (I really like your idea to include a S2 prompt too!) I still wanna do the cast positivity one in my pinned post but that can be a longer lasting one and maybe it can be completed in the build up to season 2 (since I'm sure the cast would appreciate some love sent their way) So for anyone interested in that I haven't forgotten about it :)

Onto a special Ring of Power week✨ I certainly love this idea and I have some time off at the end of October which could be a provisional date to put this event (week before Halloween) because yeah we're all missing our show badly 😭and I always love the fandom events in my other fandoms :) Thank you for your lovely message and I wanted to publish it as a heads up and also to see if you guys would like something like this. I love your suggestions and you've always been very supportive of my blog and it would be cool to have you and your ideas etc on board :)

So yeah my lovelies keep your eyes peeled on my blog as I was thinking about doing something anyway so this ask came at the perfect time 🥰 Have a lovely day!

[cangrellesteponme]

10, 12,14,17, 19 👁️👁️

10. what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

i’ve had to check my files for this. Sweeter Days (latest fic i posted, touchstarved vn) was in the drafts from april 13th 2023 to the very end of march 2024. nearly a year.

(and i thought it was the longest, but if we count drafts i do plan on finishing, it clearly isn’t. i started writing Running From Our Ends (kuro) on february 3rd 2022. it’s not done yet. there’s also the Breaking Point (d:bh) sequel but let’s not…)

(also, i wrote Staring Contest in like a day. so yeah not all fics are created equal…)

12. a trope you’re really into right now

right now, i think i have brainrot about two tropes: temporary amnesia and one-sided feelings. but that’s mostly for reading, i don’t write that at all (well… arguably Dichotomies (bnha) was one-sided). i don’t write a lot of tropes, but recently a lot of my writing has been about the mind and the body in conflict but also being one and the same?

14. where do you get your inspiration?

depends on what we’re talking about. for original works, my brain is just a little weird and comes up with weird stuff very often. for fanfic, mostly just from aspects of the characters i want to know more about? like how i wrote Staring Contest before we got a more detailed idea of how bard worked. and for poetry, my shower thoughts are very weird!

(as for art, which is not the focus here but who cares, i enjoy mashing concepts together a lot. so when i do more complex pieces, it’s mostly just that i thought of a thing and went “make it kuro!!”)

17. talk about your writing and editing process

well, The Ota Method is a mess. but it’s pretty systemised.

have some kind of weird thought and deem it worthy of being written.

run to pc (or, if we must, notebooks) and write the basics down (sometimes, a few lines)

whenever there’s enough time for that, do a little writing session (with background music ofc) and write as much information and details as possible. most of what i write then isn’t the actual words you’ll see in the final draft. it’s things like “something about fear but no fight-or-flight, sentiment left aimless as the fight has left him already.” (this is an actual quote from the first draft of dadbastian week day 7) that indicate what ideas i have, what metaphors i want to put in, but are simplified enough so i won’t be stuck on finding the right words immediately. usually when that’s done i have a more global idea of how it’s all going to look. (sometimes, a whole passage is often reduced to a sentence, something like: “after it’s done”, which is again a real quote from the same draft)

then, i do a second writing session. sometimes it’s later on the same day, or the next day, or it can be ages later. first draft notes are put in bold so they stand out as unfinished. and then i just write. one draft note can lead to something like “— it is hard to see any fear in him in the complete absence of fight-or-flight, hard to put an adequate name on this aimless and dulled terror, and the calm facade reigning over it all. Sebastian would once have found it fascinating. He is now appalled at the lack of fight left in his young master.” (again, from dadbastian week day 7) the process is repeated as many times as needed to finish the damn thing. i usually write paragraphs about feelings first, along with everything that involves metaphors. dialogues and more descriptive parts are often done last.

when it’s all done, it’s time to proofread (ugh) which first consists in checking that i didn’t forget to write anything, removing some repetitions (and sometimes adding some), making sure transitions make sense, and asking myself “does this actually convey the right thing?” which never leads me anywhere. and then i read it again and check for typos and other mistakes.

then i sigh as i remember i have to write a summary and figure out tags for ao3, i have a heated debate against myself about the rating, i give up and just pick one, do the things, struggle with formatting for a little while, and boom. posted.

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

well. i don’t do historical research because i hate history (and i’m very dumb), so that’s 99% of the interesting things out of the way. most of my research is one of three things: i’m trying to understand every single way a word or phrase can be used and understood in english (or just making sure i’m remembering it right, or checking that my vocabulary choices match the typical british standard), i want to have a specific image in mind about a thing i’m writing even if i don’t describe it (this is mostly about fashion. and food, oddly enough), or i’m neck deep into psychology and psychiatry for some obscure reason (so far, for all of my writing, i’ve researched anxiety, bpd, npd, aspd, bipolar but just the diagnosis criteria, ptsd, and cptsd. don’t ask me why, it just comes up!!)

I’d say the most interesting one was… well. it’s a tie between looking up the recipes of a bunch of lemon cakes and aspd.

[helenvader]

As the old saying goes...

What's better than a brainrot? Two brainrots!

The first still is by the lovely @queenmeriadoc. ♥ The second is by yours truly.

[lady-of-imladris]

I know you didn't mean THIS blanky but I couldn't resist. 😉

I love that TWO people immediately said "the blorbo. She needs the blorbo."

YOU'RE NOT WRONG. I love him. I think a hug from him (after he showers for like 2 hours) would fix me 😂