#this has been my first travie in a while ough

[lastmidtownshowmp3]

Travie but he urple

[funnywormz]

not technically a tv series but the hotel?

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!!

favourite character: the manager....... lobby boy is a close second but he can't beat the manager for me....... it's funny bc i didn't like her much at first but the way her character develops throughout the series is so compelling and goddddd i care abt her so deeply. she's so funny and silly without realising it sometimes but she's also So Sad. i love how over the series she softens up just a little bit personality wise and you can see her start to care abt the others despite herself......... i can't fully explain it but she just fascinates me so much im so hyped to see what travis does with her in the future. also her internal monologues while dealing with guests can kinda be a big customer service mood at times LOL

funniest character: i want to say the manager again but im gonna try to be fair here.......... i think the owner is the funniest character but completely unintentionally on his part lmao. he's so Grumpy and his absolutely all consuming hatred for the lobby boy in the earlier seasons is so funny. he just sees the lobby boy standing there and is absolutely fuming exploding with rage. he's silly. also his rivalry with the manager kills me they're just playing passive aggression 4d chess 24/7

best looking character: ok so we never get to actually see them but it's the manager. i know it's her. i instinctively feel like the concierge is probably hot too but the manager is the sexiest of all of them i just know it

3 favourite ships: uhm. i can't rlly think of 3 lol but my top 2 are managerboy (obviously teehee) and ive started becoming fond of the bellhop x the auditor too (idk if it has a ship name). i don't rlly listen to the show with shipping in mind though so i can't say it's something i think abt much. although i am Insane abt managerboy to a degree lol

least favourite character: OUGH. uhm........ idk probably one of the guests lol i don't dislike any of the main cast though

least favourite ship: honestly i don't know enough abt the shipping in the fandom to have a least favourite........ it's not something i think abt often enough to have ships i don't like lol

reason why i listen to it: bc it's good!!!!! idk why i enjoy it so much bc just the basic premise doesn't seem like something i would enjoy, like as a concept it just seems sorta fucked up and repetitive but the writing is just so good.......... i can't help but get into it and care abt the characters despite the fact that they're objectively horrible lol. i adore them. and the horror is so good and the stories are so compelling and always have this deeply emotional level to them that i didn't expect at all when starting the show

why i started watching it: bc of izzy's @/filthyguts amazing art for the show! its art captures the vibe of the show so well i love his stuff so much.......... very very good art. it's been inspiring me a lot tbh lol but im so fucking busy that i can't find the time to draw myself rn and it's tearing me apart a lil bit rip. but anyways yeah i think his art for the show should be compulsory viewing for anyone who listens to it, it complements and adds to the podcast itself so well

[gautierprotectionsquad]

My live reactions while listening to Batman: Unburied

Listening to Batman Unburied. It’s SO good. Bruce Wayne is a forensic pathologist and his parents are alive and he’s trying to catch a cannibal called the Harvester except it’s all in his head. Back in the real world Bruce Wayne is “dead” and Barbara is the real main character other than Bruce. Batman is not batdad in this, which is fine, but it’s weird that Barbara is a character but Dick is not.

WAIT FUCKING WAIT IS THAT JUSTIN MCELROY? THE MCELROYS ARE IN BATMAN UNBURIED?? WHAT???

I’m loving DC deciding to put Riddler in more stuff instead of the Joker. Joker’s overused.

Why did riddler saying “it’s mr.nigma” sound like he introduced himself as Mr.Ligma lol.

“Ace has mostly stayed by the window waiting for master bruce.” Awww Ace.

LOVING riddler in this. He’s so funny. Also loving that this is Barbara focused. And they got a diverse cast. 

So Bruce was actually getting better and healing from his parents death only to feel super guilty when he realized it and decided to push everyone away. Unburied has been reminding me of BTAS. Bits and pieces of things happening here have happened in BTAS before. The forgetting he’s batman, the psych evaluation with a lightshow,referencing gray ghost, living in an alt reality in his head where his parents were still alive, and now Batman feeling guilty he’s moving on from his parent’s murder while dating vicki.

There’s griffin and travis on Ep 4!

The conversation between bruce and his parents at the beginning of ep 5 OH MY GOD! YAY! I love this; it’s SOOOO good!

So Hugo Strange is the real villain! Now Bruce gets to beat up the Mcelboys.

Ep 6 riddler. dude. He’s so silly. “Ah hoy hoy! You need me on the fairway. You need me for luck. But once you have me, you’re well and truly fucked.” Silly man! I love the riddler in this! “The improbable jawline beneath the cowl.” this man truly did play riddler gay (and we wouldn’t have it any other way.) i love riddler in this SO MUCH.

WHOA TWIST! RIDDLER DIDN’T STAB GORDON! 

“This city and its cartoon bullshit”.

Strange is DEAD? Did his own guy kill him?! The cannibal dude? No, not that? Strange isn’t behind everything?

WOAH batman’s doing the thing his subconscious Brucie does. HOLY…REALLY?! Is that new or has this batman always done that?

So it’s MadHatter? No, not him either.

Something about batman villains cursing is so funny.

BATMAN APOLOGIZED? Like it was nothing!

Dude! Connecting cannibalism with eating the body of christ. 

Wow they’re bringing in all the villains except joker here. There’s ivy!

He doesn’t know ivy’s name?

This is a new backstory for her i think. Her dad makes bioweapons? And he fucking tested them on her! That’s so fucked up! Wow this guy sucks so bad, he even killed his wife bc she cared about her daughter.

She had a girlfriend named Alex in college in this! neat. (i think this ivy and stiefvater’s swamp thing would get along) uh oh i think something bad is going to happen to Alex. Ok she’s fine she just didn’t like Ivy killed a guy. Ivy can’t kiss anyone in this universe. Huh.

So bc bruce tried to protect this tree, that’s what led to ivy and strange working together.

Obv he chooses vicki. He can always catch the bad-people later.

AH fuck! Batman is compromised! AH what a cliffhanger right before the last episode.

“Leaping lords, gray ghost!” GRAY GHOST HAS HIS OWN ROBIN??? NAMES POLTERGEIST!!??!? AAAHH!

“You chose a world where we were disappointed in you” OOF

OUGH there’s Bruce feeling guilty he’s moving on from his parent’s death! In his own words! “It’s not just about you anymore. I LIKE it.” YES YES YES YES. “we don’t have to be the first thing you think about when you wake up” T_T

NOO ALFRED’S BEEN COMPROMISED! 

“I have something you don’t. I have a dog.” LOL

YOU CAN’T KILL OFF ISLEY!

Bruce apologizes AND TELLS ALFRED HE LOVED HIM!!!!!

The final message of unburied: ACAB.

Looks like ivy’s still alive. And she got back together with her ex.

Why does bruce interrupting riddler’s dinner sound like a date and flirting?!

overall review: 10/10

[robinpixels]

i would LOVE a rec list for some fics

hOOOH ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT LETS GO >83c

Two things first:

-There are some other, really promising fics I’ve read and am keeping up with that as of now aren’t yet far enough in the story for me to rec em quite yet, so I’ll do another one of these in the future for them if another list is wanted! >83c

-I won’t be reccing NSFW with Aloy here because…she’s around my age and it’d feel weird and uncomfy for me if I did tbh
Let’s start with some of the Big Guns™!! (This…turned into more of a love letter than a fic list hMDJSJDJSMDJSEMDJ ^^;)
The ‘That One Fic Where Elisabet Lives’ Saga-Second Dawn (Writerly)hOOOH B O Y O WHERE DO I START THIS BEAUTY IS PHENOMENAL. I remember not being too sure about how the premise would play out but reading it anyway because GAIA and Elisabet. Binged the whole thing in an afternoon and never regretted a spot of it.It’s a post-canon fic where GAIA is back online with much help from Aloy a year after the game’s events. GAIA soon decides to bring back wife Elisabet from the beyond. As you do. A many-feels story is what’s promised and that’s what you get–a buncha Sobeck fam goodness but also all the existentialism you’d expect if you dragged and dropped a technically-dead person into the 30th century (which in this fic has a good deal of wonderful elaboration of its cultures and customs and themes)Also, you’ll likely come out of this with a hefty desire to give Ted Faro a kick in the nuts–something that I myself have been wanting to do so since July 2017, so, y'know. Fair.Leaving the crusty trillionaire behind Lis is honestly the crown jewel character here, with GAIA and Aloy close behind. I just…words????? word s??????¿¿¿¿¿ Their developments are lovely and intricate throughout the whole thing and you get adorable Mom!Lis and playful cheeky GAIA and Aloy being able to get a semblance of fulfillment and chill for once in her on fire garbage can life and heal well i jUSTi’m very emotional here take this doodle of a Good Scene and leave my heart bE


-Identity (CZGoldedition)A prequel of sorts to Second Dawn, about GAIA and how her consciousness develops alongside Lis’ companionship. I find the fic particularly shines in its characterization of GAIA, especially in her earlier development where she doesn’t quite know How Do when it comes to humans and boundaries or even how to pose her own hologram (I love her…So Much she’s doing her beesssst) but BY JOVE is she going to try to be the most understanding person out there, GET IT GIRL

This fic also introduced Lis/Samina and Travis just being the biggest yet oddly well-meaning lil shit and aAAAHHHH I L OVE THIS CHARACTER WORKK

-Of Breaking and Reforging (thoroneaquila)Fun fact: while writing these down in notes I’ve dubbed this and the one following it 'the fics about Avad that made me cry’. Because daMN if it iSN’T TRUEThis particular one takes the form of a letter by Avad written to Aloy, confessing the experiences of his life as a Carja prince during the Red Raids. Thoroneaquila consistently writes Avad really honkin’ well–his quiet but passionate nature and the guilt that pushes him to do better is always palpably yet subtly there, and the whole thing is just written beautifully start to finish. Worthy of the hand of this benevolent king that’s for sure, soft-spoken yet fiercely sincere even in print.

-Sundust (thoroneaquila)PART TWO OF SUN FAM SAD TIME. This time Avad literally right after the Liberation and his coronation. Just as wonderfully written as the last one, except third-person present-tense now. I particularly liked how it weaved worldbuilding with the prose to the point that this one-chapter take just. Felt so rich. Also I love thoroneaquila’s Kadaman a whole lot and want nothing more than to wrap these preciouses in blankets and hiss at whatever comes to deal them harm. THEY’VE ENDURED EN OUGH THEYRE DOING THEIR BEST

-laburnum (alpacas)I haven’t been able to comment on this one yet which is a trAVESTY this ditty to Ersa and Avad and their story is just nothing short of a good engaging time. It gets REALLY into the nitty-gritty of Jiran’s court as well as immediately after he is dethroned, and alternates between the two. The seeming effortlessness of the establishment of setting and mood between chapters impress me every time–it paces something marvelous and does a great job weaving OCs and appropriate worldbuilding into the swing of things. Also, fuck if it isn’t amusing to see that Ersa’s very first impression of her future sunshine honeybuns was how easily she could conk him dead with a bucket to the head.

Also seeing her wanting to throw hands every ten fucking seconds was amazing. Her complex characterization is amazing. I like this Ersa. Please can we have this Ersa.


-Anthropotheism (penhaligon)AI FAM AI FAM AI FAM AI FAM AI FAMGAIA’s subfunctions become AIs of their own, resulting from the shit HADES pulled with the code-shackle-dissolving-hullaballoo. Aloy has a Terrible No-Good Day until she does something that catches one of their attentions, and the path to restoring GAIA suddenly isn’t so difficult anymore.This fic gives s o much love to some great NPCs in, imo, the most badass way. Also you got the former subfunctions interacting with each other like family and squabbling and regarding Aloy and GAIA as their own too and gahhh it’s so go o dAlso Aloy gets a pet sawtooth. He is named. And I love him.

Shit has gotten Real recently in the fic’s proceedings and i’M HANGING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT HEREAlso kudos for dropping a meme midway through the thing–that had me snorting and giggling for five minutes str aight.


Oneshots/Mostly character work/Ship fics:aIGHT here’s where more of the ship-centric ones and character pieces happen. and full disclosure on the ship part: I’m a sappy wlw who stans Aloy the Disaster Lesbean so that’s what’s going to comprise my list hehe >:3c (I won’t be doing doodles for these, since there’s so manyyy TwT; and i’m running low on steam and time)
-You Would Have Loved Her So (snowghostikrie)A short but artfully written scene of Avad letting his walls down around his loving stepmother and getting to mourn Ersa properly at long last. I love this in its sadness and comfort and just Nasadi being the BEST™
-Guessing Targets (Recourse)HHHH W O W WAS THIS LOVEY it’s some good ol’ Aloy/Vala the night before the Proving, where they got a bit more heart-to-heart than the game would lead you to think. It’s a wonder on both their characters and is so charming and a good warm fuzzy read I just love this
-Up in the Night (prettyaveragewhiteshark)SO SHORT BUT SO GO O D I was looking up Aloy/Vala content since i’d fallen hard and this was one of the only things in the AO3 tag at the time. It’s so s o sweet (bittersweet, given context to the future) and?? just a good read about two gals being pals over the fireplace?? Oh this fic just warms my heart
-Where Sun and Shadow Met (blacksandunderstars)ELIDA/ALOYY i have a soft spot for this rarepair and nowhere is it more present than in this fic. It just starts off with the premise of Aloy sharing her deepest losses with Elida around Atral’s death to comfort her. (I think I’ll need to put in a tw for allusions to suicide just in case, since that was what Elida was planning on) They end up having an uplifting and adorable interaction and the end of the fic is just?? 👌🏽👌🏽 dear goodness it’s a soup of adorable and I just want aLL OF IT

This is by no means an end-all-be-all list tho!! There are more I’d love to add but probably will save for a better day, but for now here’s some Good Shit™!! >83c