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FriendSHIP Challenge
May 1 through December 31, 2024
Through fandom, I have come to know so many wonderful people and, in turn, have made a few fantastic friends. In honor of those fabulous individuals, I am hosting a challenge about FriendSHIPS.
Create mood boards/aesthetics, fanfic, fanart, edits, and fanvids celebrating characters' friendships within a fandom, add your best friend or yourself as an OC in a story, or create a piece with characters from different fandoms you think would make great friends. Love isnât just about romance and sex. Join the fun and share the love of friends and the soul of friendship.
Below are the fandoms you can create for. The list includes some of my favorites, along with a few of my friendsâ favorites. The use of a prompt is not required, but a few have been added below the cut for inspiration.
Rules/Guidelines/FAQs
Tag for the challenge: #dwfriendship24 and mention @deanwinchesterswitch-events in the post.
No sign-up is required. The challenge runs from May 1 through December 31, 2024.
All creations should be friendship-themed.
No romantic ships or smut.
No implied romantic relationships or smut.
No friends with benefits.
Crossovers and OCs are welcome.
No RPF (there are so many fandoms, and my knowledge is minimal for a few of the actors).
Everything has to be your own work! Works created with AI will not be reblogged.
If a work created with AI is inadvertently reblogged, it will subsequently be removed from the events blog and the master list.
Feel free to send me an ASK or DM me if you have questions.
All tagged (#dwfriendship24) creations will be added to a Master List.
Use warnings if they are needed!
There is no word limit, but if the text is more than 500 words, please use the read-more link.
Fandoms
Big Sky
Daisy Jones & the Six
DCU/DCEU
Doctor Who
Leverage/Leverage Redemption
MCU
Shadow and Bone
Sherlock
Sons of Anarchy
Supernatural/The Winchesters
The Boys TV
The Librarians
The Vampire Diaries
The Walking Dead
Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick
Prompts for inspiration (use is optional)
They cultivated a secret language between them over the years that no one else understands
"Just don't laugh." "I/We would never!â
B loves baking but can't eat everything they make before it spoils, so they regularly feed A with the extra.
âI seriously don't know how you came this far in life.â
Share a love of the same music
Argue over musical choices
"I can't even describe how important you are to me. You've changed my life. I wouldn't be the same without you.â
âI think Iâd follow you into hell just to see what youâd do.â
âEveryone said weâd never be friends, but look at us now.â
A falling out/Argument
Being a good wingperson
Being a bad wingperson
Museum visit
Cooking together
Hurt/Comfort
Rekindling a friendship
A is a horrible friend, but B wonât give up on them
Drunk conversation(s)
Road trip/Vacation together
"You can't eat that. It has peanuts in it. Here, I got you something else."
They're not each other's favorite person but still appreciate each other's presence.Â
"Stop screaming at me! I never asked to be involved in all this."
A: So ...you set it on fire? B: Yes, and you let yours die. A: I see why we're friends.
âWhoâs your new friend?â âI dunno. I found him/her/them bleeding on the street. He/She/They wasnât/werenât really in a position to refuse my friendship.â
âIâm aware of who I am when I say this, but your friendship is weird.â
âYou are my best friend, and unfortunately, there is very little that you, I, or anyone else can do about it.â
Why are they friends
Fake friends
A brush with death
âYou already are a handful. Together, you guys are insufferable.â
Long distance friendship
"Don't you dare to blame this on me! I wasn't the one who suggested it."
Getting a tattoo together
As always, I hope you have fun!
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hello pals! it's time for a (very late) weekly tag game wednesday! (yes, it's still wednesday in chicago!) i was tagged by @energievie, @deedala, @palepinkgoat, @juliakayyy, & @jrooc - thanks pals!
about you
name: macy
age: thirty and flirty and surviving
star sign: cancer
your first language: english, the dumbest language
second language: i can take your coffee order in perfect spanish and i think that's my biggest accomplishment in the last few years
favorite lip product: aquaphor!
the best food dish you can make without a recipe: ........boxed mac and cheese
if you drink tea, what kind?: sleepytime tea, peppermint, and earl gray (depending on the time of day)
if you drink coffee, what roast do you usually get?: i drink cold brew which i think is technically a medium roast? ah shit, i'm totally getting fired
favorite thing to watch on youtube right now: i almost exclusively use YouTube for ASMR videos
favorite thing to watch on youtube in 2012: jenna marbles i miss you every fucking day
favorite item of clothing right now: a Whidbey Island, WA sweatshirt that i magically found at a thrift store here in Chicago! the world is so small and i miss home!
favorite item of clothing in 2012: my VS PINK leggings, the kind with the thick ass waistband, y'all remember those? mine were black and baby pink
fandom
three movies you recommend: i'll give y'all my letterboxd top four: Some Like It Hot, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Moonrise Kingdom
your favorite concert: CHAPPELL ROAN!
have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion? unfollowed? babygirl this is a blocking household
have you ever left a fandom because of the fans? not because of the fans, no. i keep my circles pretty tight and use the block button liberally. i only leave when the fixation breaks and even then i still linger about like a specter of fandom's past
the best tv show you watched last year: suddenly i don't remember a single TV show i watched last year, YIKES. now if you'd said movie...[cracks knuckles] how much time y'all got?
do you have a fancasting you just can't let go of? none come to mind!
a ship you've abandoned: i do not abandon my children, i just sometimes-occasionally-infrequently-intermittently forget to pick them up from daycare, that's all
on a scale of 1-10 how willing are you to share your ao3 history? [sweeping gesture] look upon my archive and see that i am an open book
do you have a fandom tattoo? nope!
what fandom do you wish was bigger? talk to me about Anastasia (1997)
has a finale ever ruined a show for you? ruined? no. soiled a little bit, left a sour taste in my mouth, riddled me with disdain? sure, often!
have you...
swam in an ocean? many times!
been vegan/vegetarian? yes, both at different times in my life!
gone skinny dipping? yes!
gone skiing? yes!
been to a convention? yes!
i'm tagging @gardenerian, @7x10mickey, @mmmichyyy, @callivich, @captainjowl, @sleepyfacetoughguy, @arrowflier, @too-schoolforcool, @sickness-health-all-that-shit, @y0itsbri, @creepkinginc, @pomegran4te, @sxltburn, @thisdivorce, @vintagelacerosette, @crossmydna, @michellemisfit, & @transmickey â¨
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weekly tag wednesday!
i was tagged by a ton of cuties -- @darlingian @energievie @deedala @palepinkgoat @crestfallercanyon @francesrose3 @mmmichyyy @lingy910y & @juliakayyy! thanks cuties! i'm smooching each & every one of you on the cheek!
about me
name: bee age: 31 star sign: cancer your first language: english second language: french! i'm fairly conversational favorite lip product: chapstick the best food dish you can make without a recipe: tacos? tacos! if you drink tea, what kind?: english breakfast or mint if you drink coffee, what roast do you usually get?: as dark as dark can be! favorite thing to watch on youtube right now: tbh i don't really watch much on youtube these days? gallavichscenes probably lol favorite thing to watch on youtube in 2012: kiss compilations oops favorite item of clothing right now: a sweatshirt that says "come to the dark side, we have smut" favorite item of clothing in 2012: this hot little red dress that made me look like a bombshell
fandom
three movies you recommend: 10 things i hate about you, elizabethtown, lars & the real girl your favorite concert: my favorite singer of all time, during a snowstorm in nyc. there were only 35 people in attendance & he came down afterwards to say hello & take pictures, even though he's the most shy person of all time - it was amazing! have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?: yes have you ever left a fandom because of the fans?: no the best tv show you watched last year: this one's really hard... it was a great year - either the bear or the final season of succession do you have a fancasting you just can't let go of?: i don't think so? even though i really loved tpz as alex in rwrb, i do wish they'd gone with a biblically accurate height difference & cast someone like michael cimino (love, victor) a ship you've abandoned: i don't think i've ever abandoned a ship! how willing are you to share your ao3 history?: omg it's a mess, but you can peek, sure do you have a fandom tattoo?(do you want one?): i have luna lovegood's radish earrings, an ode to hamlet & my favorite number in doctor who-like tally marks! & the rebel alliance symbol. oh wow, i'm a nerd! what fandom do you wish was bigger?: the last binding series by freya marske! especially hawthorn & ross, aka rawthorn my beloveds has a finale ever ruined a show for you?: same as chani - how i met your mother. terrible shame! also a bit game of thrones. it wasn't ruined, but i wasn't happy.
have you...
swam in an ocean?: yes ever been vegan/vegetarian?: no gone skinny dipping?: yes gone skiing?: no been to a convention?: many!
tagging @thisdivorce @steorie @heymrspatel @whatthebodygraspsnot @whatwouldmickeydo @metalheadmickey @gardenerian @howlinchickhowl @rereadanon @creepkinginc & anyone else who wants to play! xx
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Getting to Know You Meme
Tagged by @texasdreamer01 (thankies texas!)
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship? Yep, got married a month ago.
02) What was your dream growing up? Dream of what? My career? My life? My fantasy? I mean I wanted to be an elf in LoTR when I was like, 12. Does that count? hahah
03) What talent do you wish you had? Asking waiters to change my order if they got it wrong.
04) If someone bought you a drink what would it be? Beer (specifically a New England IPA)
05) Favorite vegetable? Hm. I really love good arugula.
06) What was the last book you read? None I just read fanfics haha
07) What zodiac sign are you? Leo
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Nope tho I wish to get a tattoo one day.
09) Worst Habit? Probably overthinking myself into a spiral.
10) What is your favorite sport? Dressage
11) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude? Optimistic because lifes too short and I just want to be happy.
12) Tell me one weird fact about you. Uhhhhh.....I am a twin? (always a easy one haha)
13) Do you have any pets? Sadly no BUT I may.....may be trying to. foster a kitty. Maybe. While my husband is out of town for a month-long gig.
14) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Scary but also eh whatever.
15) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? I can't answer this or else I'm gonna spiral.
16) What color eyes do you have? Blue
17) Ever been arrested? Nope
18) Bottle or can soda? Bottle
19) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? Put it in my savings.
20) What's your favorite place to hang out at? Hm. Probably at home or in the woods.
21) Do you believe in ghosts? I dunno
22) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Writing, drawing fanarts, horseback riding.
23) Do you swear a lot? Yeah
24) Biggest pet peeve? I dunno, I donât know if I have one? Depends on the person or circumstance or situation:
25) In one word, how would you describe yourself? Hm. Emotional.
26) Do you believe/appreciate romance? Iâm a hopeless romantic. And I got married and kinda like this guy a whole dang lot.
27) Favourite and least favourite food? Fav: sushi. Least fav: Iâm honestly not a huge fan of potatosâŚ.
28) Do you believe in God? I believe in a universe. Wherever god is in it I got no clue.
29) What makes you happy: Sharing my art with friends, having movie nights with husband on Fridays.
30) Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: Ado
31) Favorite place to spend time: Probably at home, or out i the woods.
32) Favorite lyric: Goodbye by Bo Burnham
Am I going crazy? Would I even know? Am I right back where I staretd fourteen years ago?
33) Recommend a film: Akira
34) Recommend a book: haven't read enough
35) Recommend a band, a song, or album: Fire Hell and Holy Water by Gioli & Assia
36) Recommend a TV show: Mob Psycho 100
37) Where are you from, and do you still live there? Where have you lived? I am from the midwest and am still in the midwest
38) Do you have any pets or animals in your life? How did you find/get them? I had cats growing up and I would love to get one. I also ride horses.
39) What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten? Uhhhh. Hm. I am not sure.
40) How did you 'find' fandom? I got into Yugioh! when I was 12 and started writing fanfics and them opps here i am.
41) Make a list of 5 things that you see without getting up. My Teru and Mob figures, my Mob cat, my cat lamp, my ipad, my water bottle. I am at my desk there is a lot here
42) How do you style your hair? Down or half ponytail or pony tail. I have long hair.
I got this ask before the other writer one so I know many asks have been going around today haha so VERY much no pressure tags: @russenoire @thousand-winters @toastytoaster22 @emeraldoodles or anyone else who wants to!
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Getting to Know You Meme
Tagged by @spurious!
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship? Nah
02) What was your dream growing up? I liked a lot of things, but hadn't particularly settled on any idea
03) What talent do you wish you had? Baking
04) If someone bought you a drink what would it be? Hot chocolate with whipped cream
05) Favorite vegetable? ... Cabbage?
06) What was the last book you read? Oh, finished reading - that was a while ago, but currently I'm reading some diary from WWI off-and-on
07) What zodiac sign are you? Aquarius sun
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Just the ear piercings
09) Worst Habit? I don't even know what classifies as a bad habit uhhh I guess needing to write in the same ink colour for my notes?
10) What is your favorite sport? Archery
11) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude? I'm life will sort itself out, but it needs a few good kicks to start it - dunno if that's optimistic or pessimistic
12) Tell me one weird fact about you. ?? I'm on tumblr, what qualifies as weird, here?
13) Do you have any pets? Nope
14) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? I think it depends on the clown tbh
15) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? Nicer nails, I guess?
16) What color eyes do you have? Brown
17) Ever been arrested? Nope
18) Bottle or can soda? Bottle
19) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? How much is left after taxes?
20) What's your favorite place to hang out at? home tbh
21) Do you believe in ghosts? I've lived in a lot of haunted places, so, yes, definitely
22) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Reading, writing, listening to music
23) Do you swear a lot? Nnnnoooo?
24) Biggest pet peeve? People attributing one thing for another thing because they think doing so makes them look good/smart/moral/whatever
25) In one word, how would you describe yourself? ummmmmmmm. odd
26) Do you believe/appreciate romance? yes! i'm weird at it but i like it.
27) Favourite and least favourite food? Fave: bread, least fave: cauliflower
28) Do you believe in God? If god is real, I'm owed rent money
29) What makes you happy: Not being stressed
30) Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: Moonlight Sonata
31) Favourite place to spend time: i like! to be! at home!
32) Favourite lyric:
Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger/ The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger/ Oh, we're fading fast, I miss missing you now and then
33) Recommend a film: The Wandering Earth 2
34) Recommend a book: The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide by Thomas Easley & Steven Horne
35) Recommend a band, a song, or album: So Much (For) Stardust by Fall Out Boy
36) Recommend a TV show: Stargate SG-1
37) Where are you from, and do you still live there? Where have you lived? I've been all over the US, so no, don't live where I came from
38) Do you have any pets or animals in your life? How did you find/get them? Nope
39) What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten? Whatever gets thrown into the pan right before I go grocery shopping.
40) How did you 'find' fandom? MySpace! I was actually recommended to check out FFN, and I poked around from there.
41) Make a list of 5 things that you see without getting up. Book, book, another book, hand sanitizer, lotion. Pens?
42) How do you style your hair? Pinned up.
No pressure tags: @pandora15, @ygodmyy20, @variablejabberwocky, @stinalotte, @strangelygleeful, @obscurefrost, @dedkake, and anyone else who wants to do this!
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Getting to Know You Meme
Tagged by @audioletter 𧥠who did hers here
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship? m a r r i e d
02) What was your dream growing up? i wanted to be a vet until i realized i would have to deal with animals in pain lol
03) What talent do you wish you had? not to steal audioletter's answer here but also drawing tbh.
04) If someone bought you a drink what would it be? one of those fancy starbucks iced lime drinks with the green coffee beans
05) Favorite vegetable? oooooh hm. broccoli?
06) What was the last book you read? poking at a reread of Catch-22
07) What zodiac sign are you? scorpio sun, gemini moon, cancer rising
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? several tattoos and 2 ear piercings
09) Worst Habit? according to @audioletter, sleeping diagonally on the bed. according to Lemon, forgetting to refill her automatic feeder
10) What is your favorite sport? i like watching basketball
11) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude? uh. i don't really think of myself as an optimist but i think i kind of am a bit of one.
12) Tell me one weird fact about you. two of my chromosomes are stuck together
13) Do you have any pets? cat & borbs
14) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? if i had to choose one of those adjectives I'd go with scary but i'm not, like, super scared of clowns?
15) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? i would give myself an ass so that i can sit on hard surfaces in greater comfort
16) What color eyes do you have? blue
17) Ever been arrested? no
18) Bottle or can soda? can
19) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? we haven't left the country since before covid so. plane tickets
20) What's your favorite place to hang out at? home tbh
21) Do you believe in ghosts? not actively but like. i wouldn't be surprised if there were.
22) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? video games, crochet, watching tv, going for meandering walks
23) Do you swear a lot? i don't know what constitutes a lot? i feel like i do.
24) Biggest pet peeve? people who get on a crowded train and stand around by the doors instead of moving into the far less crowded aisles
25) In one word, how would you describe yourself? ummmmmmmm. odd
26) Do you believe/appreciate romance? yes! i'm weird at it but i like it.
27) Favourite and least favourite food? fave: probably cheese. least fave: shrimp
28) Do you believe in God? probably?
29) What makes you happy: sound of the cat purring. sitting in bed with my wife and playing our games and talking. sour candy.
30) Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes
31) Favourite place to spend time: i like! to be! at home!
32) Favourite lyric:
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam / And no emotion thatâs worth having could call my heart its home
33) Recommend a film: Clue!
34) Recommend a book: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
35) Recommend a band, a song, or album: have you heard of the mountain goats :)
36) Recommend a TV show: Freaks and Geeks
37) Where are you from, and do you still live there? Where have you lived? I'm from metro Detroit, Michigan, and I've lived there, in Ohio for school, and then in Ibaraki, Japan, followed by Osaka where I've lived forrrrrrrr. 13 years or so?
38) Do you have any pets or animals in your life? How did you find/get them? Lemon was found after a typhoon when I lived in Ibaraki. Niles and Nesmith came from the bird store where everyone wanted the fancy baby budgies and they were being ignored for being too Standard lol
39) What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten? WELL. If you don't know, some regions of Japan eat whale meat, and some regions of Japan use whale meat in their school lunch. So uh. One day when I worked at an elementary school I was blithely eating my school lunch only to be asked by one of the kids how I was liking the whale meat. đ (it's not even good)
40) How did you 'find' fandom? i actually don't totally remember? my first fic reading experience was cardcaptor sakura, and i think it was on a fansite or something rather than ff.net....and then i found my way to LJ and HP fandom.
41) Make a list of 5 things that you see without getting up. I'm at my desk at work so: rainbow glitter fountain pen, ps5 devkit, photo from our wedding, coworkers, "everything is fine" 10 of swords card from the modern witch tarot deck
42) How do you style your hair? currently a bob with bangs. i have started carrying a little comb in my handbag for this
I'm gonna tag people!
@alienfuckeronmain @sga-owns-my-soul @stargatebarbie @texasdreamer01 @acrowbyanyothername
@colonelshepparrrrd @queen-x-ishtar @hearteyesmcgarrett
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now I'm curious, can you tell us more about writing Flourish out of order? what made you decide to try writing it that way? what was agonizing about it??
I think honestly I decided to do it that way as an experiment, because so many other writers say it works for them, and on paper it does seem like a good strategy for keeping your interest focused over a long project. It's something I'd been interested in experimenting with for a while, and Flourish seemed like the right story for it because of the structure.
If your memory is good or you've read the author's notes recently, you'll know that Flourish began life kind of as a stunt -- a bunch of people on Tumblr were laughing at Rudy Giuliani, as one does, and saying that "landscaper next to the dildo store" should become the new fandom trope to replace "flower shop next to the tattoo parlor." I often get ideas by hearing something stupid and thinking, okay, but if you did want to do that for real, how would you? And I got really hooked on this idea of Quentin running this super nerdy, Ivy League sex shop, and Eliot, who comes from this canonically working-class background, struggling to find some kind of balance between his origin story and his artistic temperament in a way that was more complex than just fucking off and pretending to be someone else.
But that was really all I had, going in! There was absolutely nothing like a plot involved. I knew it would have to take place over a year or more, so I kind of broke it out seasonally and did a bunch of research about gardening in Pennsylvania specifically and the landscaping industry generally (my Kindle Unlimited algorithms were bonkers for a while). I noodled around with the concept of plants and blooming where you're planted. I came up with a huge, detailed backstory for the Waugh family, since I knew it was going to have to be his connection to his family that drew Eliot there at all, and I knew I really liked the idea that Eliot and Ted became garden buddies before Eliot and Quentin were really a thing. I had a general sense that there was going to be a culminating conflict between Julia wanting to leave the business and Q feeling betrayed by that. And at the point where I signed up for the Big Bang, that was more or less all I knew, and I thought, okay, maybe what I do is just put these characters in rooms and let them bounce off each other until I figure out what I really want the story to look like.
And honestly, that part wasn't too disastrous. I wrote a lot of the Eliot stuff first, since I had a stronger sense of his conflict, and I let Quentin's Whole Deal emerge gradually -- which is why I think his arc is a little more messy, but you can get away with messy in Quentin's case, it's Quentin.
I got to the point where I had about 30k of fiction and I was like, okay, I get this story, I can explain it to myself. I wrote an outline. And that's where I fucked up, because what I should have done is backed up to the beginning and wrote like I always do, filling in the gaps chronologically and editing completed scenes where necessary. But I was still into this idea that I was Letting the Story Lead Me or some fucking thing, who knows, and I started just tackling scenes from my outline whenever I thought of something cool to do with them.
And that was a disaster, because what I should have realized about myself is that for me, the pleasure of writing is in the momentum of it. When I write, I do generally have a sense of what the third act will contain, but the fun of it is kind of -- building the deck or laying out the game board. I spend a lot of time setting up People With Problems, and then as I'm actually writing, I'm solving their problems, and the biggest component of that is letting them talk long enough to figure out what they think their problems are, which is rarely what I think their problems are, but to me the most interesting thing about any human being is where they're wrong about themselves. So as I write, I'm always using the things these characters say and think to build the conflict, I'm basically starting out with my story and learning as I go why they're not already doing what I think they should do -- what I will eventually get them to do.
This may all seem a little abstract, but trust me, there's a click that happens when the story shifts gears and I'm no longer setting things up, but now I'm writing to address what's in motion, not to Create Problems On Purpose anymore, but to drive those problems to a head and then solve them. And with Flourish, I never felt that click, I was never able to Win the Story, because big chunks of the first act still weren't in place until very late in the process.
And on a practical level, it meant that certain late things were supposed to be a bigger deal, but I wrote it so slowly and with such frustration that I just didn't have time to set them up as much as I imagined I would -- Quentin's contentious relationship with Marina was supposed to be a thread, and when I wrote the later scenes it was theoretically resonant that Julia says "you both made me carry this as a secret from the people I love, you both let me down." But then the way the story evolved, that just got squeezed out because there wasn't an organic spot for it and I didn't have time to create new scenes for it. So stuff like that, where if I'd been writing Act Three with complete knowledge of what actually had and hadn't happened earlier, I'd have approached it differently. And that was super frustrating and made me feel like I was fucking it up.
In retrospect, I do like Flourish a lot. I think I made the story work, mostly just through brute force. But when I look at it, I can definitely see the seams, where the transitions seem abrupt and random, where certain things still look to me like responses to events that never actually happened in the story. It's fine, it worked out mostly. But I truly never enjoyed writing it in the way I usually enjoy writing, and I absolutely think it's because I didn't have a strong, completed first act pushing me through to an ending that felt like a justified payoff to Page One.
Anyway, thanks for the ask, this was cathartic! And, uh, people should read Flourish, which I think is a pretty decent little novel about taking the hand you're dealt in life and trying to turn it into something you're proud of. It's so AU that I think even if you've never seen a Magicians in your life, it's completely readable.
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weekly tag game! tagged by @heymacy
about you..
name: lyle
age: quarter of a century
star sign: sagittarius âď¸
your first language: plain olâ english
second language: none
favorite lip product: mini vaseline, rosy lips!
the best food dish you can make without a recipe: mashed potatoes
if you drink tea, what kind?: black tea with lemon
if you drink coffee, what roast do you usually get?: the darkest of roasts
favorite thing to watch on youtube right now: iâm watching a lot of deep dives right now
favorite thing to watch on youtube in 2012: i was still getting into youtube at the time
favorite item of clothing right now: black leggings
favorite item of clothing in 2012: my navy converse?
fandom..
three movies you recommend: Babylon, Saltburn, Fight Club!
your favorite concert: shawn mendes! (my only concert but still!)
have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?: also not afraid to block
have you ever left a fandom because of the fans?: no not cos of that, other reasons like the hyperfixation fading
the best tv show you watched last year: Fellow Travelers! very gay and sad
do you have a fancasting you just can't let go of?: donât think so?
a ship you've abandoned: never abandoned! they will always have a place in me heart
on a scale of 1-10 how willing are you to share your ao3 history?: i havenât been on there in a long while so..
do you have a fandom tattoo? nope!
what fandom do you wish was bigger? give me more Funny Games (2007) content
has a finale ever ruined a show for you?: yeah! Once Upon A Time was such a waste!
have you...
swam in an ocean?: yes!
been vegan/vegetarian?: nope
gone skinny dipping? nope
gone skiing? nope
been to a convention? nope
i'm tagging @y0itsbri @7x10mickey @heymrspatel @metalheadmickey @vintagelacerosette @sickness-health-all-that-shit @shameless-notashamed @gallawitchxx if u havenât yet đ
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Tbf to SnC 25x25 was inauthentic, they had other people filming it, they had other people editing it with them, it was a lot more scripted and it was stuff which everyone else on youtube was doing at the time. Though there were moments within the series which did shine and show the real them, a lot of it felt incredibly fake and plastic and wooden and just soso cringey.
25x25 also felt very rich boys waving money around and show offy to me, which made it rather unrelatable in all honesty and this was the main reason alot of the group of SnC fans I knew online completely stopped watching them. (they stopped watching TFIL for much the same reasons very quickly)
So I can understand when they say it's inauthentic because in truth it was. We get a lot more authentic stuff in their haunted content because they do all of it themselves and its a lot less scripted and less planned out which can also be viewed as a bad thing cos as you said it means they work none stop and take no breaks even when one of them is seriously ill.
I will say I loved parts of 25x25 but overall thinking them talking badly about it is a sign of their downfall like you seem to suggest shows that you don't view their content with quite the same eyes as a lot of the fandom.
Also sorry to burst the bubble but they've always been about the money ever since they started selling merch, so it is mildly amusing you've only just noticed that now.
your idea of authentic and my idea of authentic are very much opposite lol
bc while the content they do now, in theory, is them⌠so was 25x25, especially the earlier episodes.
before snc started 25x25, they were so EXCITED to film this content. they couldn't wait to post about it, they were hyped as hell to film bc it was fresh and new. that level of excitement, to me, hasn't been seen since when it comes to them talking about the content they make now. maybe with the original hell week. that was about the last time they felt genuinely excited for what they were making.
the first episode was about them getting tattoos that were about one another. it was about them connecting and showing how much they cared about one another. they showed how much they trusted each other by giving one another tattoos. that episode was all about their friendship. the car crash/drifting one was about confronting past traumas, same with the video of sam jumping off the rock in seychelles after breaking his back. the scuba diving video was how to deal with anxiety on a massive scale and really pushing yourself to do something you want to do.
these videos were such a great look into who they were as ppl, something that this fandom has bitched about since day one. everyone wants to be close to snc, and they handed that to us on a silver platter, but too many ppl wanted ~spooky content~. once the reception of their new content died off and ppl weren't watching, snc clearly lost all momentum they had for what they were creating, which is why you get things like the vegas video. like yeah, that was a little braggadocios, but snc aren't exactly poor middle class americans either. they have two fucking mcmansions, one of which they were living in at the time. having money is very much an snc thing. colby's closet is kinda proof of that alone lol
i think it also didn't play out in their favor bc it was the middle of the pandemic and travelling was still a no go. so doing exclusively travel content kinda seemed dumb and irresponsible. and it was. a lot of the content they made, they could have done back home or at least with a lot less travelling. but that mixed with ppl just wanting the same old content from them, even tho it wasn't gonna happen for a while, caused a lot of ppl to dip from snc's content altogether. it also didn't help that being in this fandom at the time was kind of a hellscape.
could 25x25 be a little over produced at times? sure. i won't argue against that. but to pretend that it was less like snc isn't reality, to me. that was them just as much as this content is them. the difference is they had a fire under their ass to make something back then. they had passion. and now this⌠this just feels like a job. like going thru the motions.
that's not to say i think they don't care about their content at all. clearly they do. but the spark of passion they one had for this haunted content is gone to me. they pigeonholed themselves into being ghost hunters and now are somewhat regretting it. they overwork themselves and have no personal lives. and that is causing them to have burn out that will eventually come to bite them in the ass.
and obviously they do shit for money and views. it's their job after all. i've never pretended to not know that. but there is a difference between "i get to work a job i love and also make a lot of money" and "i'm doing this job bc it makes money, it is what it is". it's the lack of love for the content that is starting to seep thru, imo.
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tag game time!!
Disclaimer: I'm bad at saying stuff so the answers are gonna be a bit short and maybe weird? idk
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship? uuuh yeah? kinda? my qpp is so awesome so yeah
02) What was your dream growing up? idk, at first I wanted to be a therapist and stuff, then a designer for many stuff, and now I'm just here
03) What talent do you wish you had? doing everything right the first time, cause I've quit so many hobbies for the sole reason I wasn't excellent first try lol
04) If someone bought you a drink what would it be? probably coffee? or a matcha drink. Actually, now that I think about it, my beloved once bought me my favorite drink from my fav place unprompted so yeah.
05) Favorite vegetable? uuuuh, first that comes to mind is broccoli
06) What was the last book you read? I was about to start a series but I already forgot the titles so that's fun
07) What zodiac sign are you? taurus I'm pretty sure
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? only the basic earring ones, I want more piercings, still not sure about which tattoos specifically but i do want some
09) Worst Habit? everything lol
10) What is your favorite sport? I don't play sports, but to watch it would be ice skating
11) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude? honestly, kindof pessimistic but i would say its more of a realistic one
12) Tell me one weird fact about you. I'm pretty sure I have a shit ton of health problems but going to the doctor in general makes me have anxiety attacks so I won't go willingly LMAO
13) Do you have any pets? MY DUDE!!!!! he's just a little guy who has no thoughts (yorkie dog)
14) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? I think they are just there, but some of them have some amazing makeup skills (I could never)
15) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? I just want to be a racoon or a cat.
16) What color eyes do you have? very dark brown
17) Ever been arrested? not yet.
18) Bottle or can soda? cans, so i can take the opener thing off the top and collect it.
19) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? just put it into savings cause I'm too indecisive to use it on anything instantly
20) What's your favorite place to hang out at? idk, probably in my egg chair so
21) Do you believe in ghosts? i belive they are just little guys
22) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? nap
23) Do you swear a lot? sometimes? its kinof weird because sometimes i'll be like a sailor but other times i forget those words exist
24) Biggest pet peeve? being a bigot
25) In one word, how would you describe yourself? myno
26) Do you believe/appreciate romance? i read a lot of fanfiction so
27) Favourite and least favourite food? lagasnga or however that's spelt and least is onions (the texture BLEGH)
28) Do you believe in God? i think it would be funny that every single one of them is in a shared space, so all religions are kindof right and wrong at the same time
29) What makes you happy: my friends
30) Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: heatwaves LMAO (I swear it's ironic)
31) Favorite place to spend time: idk, my phone?? dont really have a physical place
32) Favorite lyric: you know the one from the crane wives, curses
33) Recommend a film: uuuh, idk the truman show?
34) Recommend a book: THE LUNAR CHRONICLES
35) Recommend a band, a song, or album: uuuh crywank is good
36) Recommend a TV show: genloss
37) Where are you from, and do you still live there? Where have you lived? im in the same place ive always been
38) Do you have any pets or animals in your life? How did you find/get them? ma dog, we adopted that guy from a friend of my father
39) What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten? idkk ants? dirt? sand?
40) How did you 'find' fandom? wellll, i was on amino
41) Make a list of 5 things that you see without getting up. my bolillo purse, a creeper, a garfield plusie, a slinky and a ball
42) How do you style your hair? i just hope it looks good when i wake up
#tag games
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You deserve all the tattoos for you survived hospital.
I'm sooo curious about the tma tattoo ideas you might have. Will you maybe share them?
(here, a good cow tattoo)
first of all: i adore this good cow i would die for her and honestly would 100% get it i love it. it has everything - tea puns eyes tag directions i adore it.
second of all: thank you indeed i deserve all the tattoos, it was awful! and yes of course i would be delighted to share my very ugly tattoo sketches i have been doing them obsessively since december i have so many ideas
here are some very basic Eye ones but i feel like the one on the left could have GREAT potential if you play with placement - like, how cool itâd be to have it done in between the collarbones/hollow of the throat???
this is a Lonely attempt with yâknow. the sea the fog âno man is an islandâ kind of vibe - i like the idea of keeping the words if you wanted to make it more specific but not my fave
for both of these next ones youâd have to play with placement too but like. i feel like theyâd be so cool? getting Canon-Typical Worms in kind of a gruesome-realistic style i just. might do it. maybe not this time but itâs too tempting. and yeah the Vast one came to me in a dream - just imagine having this gigantic hand reaching out from the side like, in the middle of your back. and then this tiny person-shaped blob falling. to give perspective you know. i love it perfect for any Vast lovers out there unfortunately iâm terrified of heights.
also i'd be so interested in seeing some tattoo artists' renditions of the flesh flowers from MAG171 i feel like i would absolutely get one if i managed to find a design i liked but it's way beyond my skillset to attempt sketching one
also also, donât get me wrong i love the sleeves that incorporate all the Fears seamlessly but can you imagine how cool it'd be to have a full sleeve of like. little individual squares with details referring to each of Smirkeâs Fourteen and like, under it either your favourite Entity name or the name of its ritual, youâd become kind of a Dread Powers encyclopedia. alas iâm poor.
AND THEN. my favourite. the one iâm probably going to end up getting because i came up with the whole idea in five minutes yesterday morning and have been obsessed with it since to the point i actually made the appointment to see if my tattoo artist of choice could make the steam look like fog without dying because i need this thing on my body. the Martin Blackwood kinnie tattoo.
#tired answers#tma#lovely mutuals being lovely#honestly there is a DREADFUL lack of tma tattoos in the world#or at least. that i could find on the internet. i was like#doing Research and begging to find one (1) buried or lonely design i didnt hate#like yes i am aware for the buried you have the coffin or the coffin but i WILL eventually come up with an alternative#also because if it doesnt include 'Forever Deep Below Creation' somehow what are we even talking about#yes i LOVE tattoos and i especially love fandom tattoos i think they're extra-cool very sexy#one of my favourite things when i get into something new is def to start planning out subtle fandom tattoos because for some it's hard#and i like them to be you know. not super evident if possible#but it's so fun!!!#of course i. very much very clearly cannot draw.#so going to bring my not great sketches to my tattoo artist and be there like. pls help i fell in love with a podcast character#he likes tea sighing and also i need you very badly to make this steam look like thick fog somehow#is it cringe? might be but I stopped caring SO long ago#this is your sign to get that fandom tattoo you've been thinking about#main argument I see against it usually is 'oh but what if in a while i'm not into it anymore' and like#but you know what. if it's important to you and it gave you something. chances are you're going to lool fondly on it forever#even when you aren't super into the fandom anymore or you don't engage with it at all#don't stress it too much it's worth it. and they're cool!!!#long post
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Hi! :) hope you're having a good day. What's, in your opinion, the top ten fics you've read? Sorry if you've done this before đ
Ok, sorry I took so long to get back to you, but this is actually a REALLY hard question to answer for all sorts of reasons, but mainly because I donât think I can actually narrow it down to 10! There are so many wonderful fics in this fandom.Â
Ok, so I think a bunch of my favorites are classics, and most people have read them. Iâm going to give you a list of those. But Iâd like to start with a list of possibly lesser known fics that I love as well, OK? I did my best, but couldnât narrow it down to just 10 each!
Top 11 Fics That Maybe You Havenât Read
our little corner of the world by brownheadedstranger
AU. Louis is stuck in his momâs diner for the summer. Harry is the line cook with a pickup truck.
the moon made me think of you by anabsolution
harry works at a decrepit motel. louis stops by for a stay. set in the 90s.
Whether Clouds or Clear Skies by @onewasturning
âYou, young Harold, are a baker among curry houses and vintage clothing stores,â Louis says, and it forces a bark of surprised laughter out of Harry.
âIâm aâ sorry, what?â
âHarry,â Louis says, âlast night I had an experience bordering on profound.â
âYouâre making it sound like you did something sexual with my muffin,â Harry says.
Or, Louis gets into the habit of stealing baked goods while Harryâs busy keeping tabs on the weather.
six feet beneath the moon by starseas
AU. takes place over one night. harry and louis meet at a going away party.
how i imagined us by eliane
âI think about how lucky I am. The whole time, I just keep thinking about how incredibly lucky I am. â
âBecause youâre kissing me?â
âBecause Iâm kissing you and youâreâŚâ Louis stops. Then continues, quietly, âBecause youâre the love of my life, Haz.â
New York is one of Harryâs favourites.
[Sometimes reality is shitty and Louis plays Scheherazade.]
language or the kiss by @a-writerwrites
âIâve heard about you, Louis.â
Louis just looked back at him, hands on his small hips, foot tapping out an angry beat on the hardwood floor, a verse just under his tongue, waiting to spill out. âYeah? What have you heard?â
Harry slowly stood up, his long lean body feline as he came forward, slowly closing the two feet between them. âYeahâŚIâve heard about you.â Harry whispered, so close Louis could smell his cologne, something spicy and fruity, soft and wild. âYouâre the one.â
Louis looked up at him; unfortunately he had to look up. The fucker had about three to four inches on him. âThe one what?â His eyes flickered from Harryâs intent stare to his wet obscene lips. Louis wasnât proud. But his dick may have twitched a little. Just a little.
âYouâre the one to beat.â
OR the one where Louisâ the best at everything until Harry comes along and makes him think twice. About everything.
so here we are. by @sweariwouldnt
Louis isnât sure if theyâre keeping on or giving up.
heroes of the orange skies by queenmcgonagall
Louis likes bathroom walls and Sharpies, Harry likes metal, Zayn likes Liam and Liam likes Zayn, Niall is wise, and they all go to the zoo.
Coup de Foudre by angelwarm
Harry moves to the front door accompanied by insistent lightning flashes. He acknowledges it could also be a murderer on the other side and that he will likely be dead in five minutes.
It should stop him. It doesnât.
Harry decides not to waste another second and calls through to the other side, âJust a second.â He turns the key in the latch and opens it andâeverything around him drops away in one long cloud coming into another cloud.
Taste of a Poison Paradise by objectlesson / @horsegirlharry
Louis notices Harryâs mouth right away.
Take My Breath Away by @realitybetterthanfiction
There is a prestigious school in the British Royal Navy classified as Premier Delta - or as it is known by its flyers, 1D. These select pilots are an elite set of Naval lieutenants who are trained in the skill of aggressive aerial combat. They are instruments of war, trained in times of peace. They are dogfighters, relentless and fearless in their mission to protect their beloved country. From their lofty vantage, they are always watching, waiting, and ready to lay it all on the line.
Lt. Harry Styles, call sign Sparrow, is a prodigy when it comes to flying. The owner of an unrivaled Naval pedigree, being a pilot was always written in the stars for Harry. With his trusty RIO, Lt. Niall Horan, Harry has made an unprecedented ascension in the ranks of the Naval aerial combat elite, and has been recruited to the esteemed Premier Delta flight school, carrying on his familyâs legacy. What he finds there are unexpected friendships, perilous challenges, and something beyond what he ever thought possible. Because as his father had always told him, before the great Captain Styles went tragically missing in combat, you donât fall in love with the sky, you fall in love with what keeps you on the ground.
Iâll list the âclassicsâ under the cut
Top 11 Classics
Wild and Unruly by @gloriaandrews and @100percentsassy
Harry is a cowboy sitting on the biggest oil reservoir in Wyoming, and Louis is the paralegal assigned to pressure him into selling his land.
Love is a Rebellious Bird by @gloriaandrewsâ and @100percentsassyâ
AU in which the boys still make music. Louis is the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, Harry is the New! and Exciting! interim conductor/ex-cello prodigy who âhas made Mozart cool againâ according to Esquire Magazine (Louis hates him immediately, which is definitely why he internet stalked him in his dark bedroom late at night that one time), and Niall is the best. Zayn and Liam are around too.
Donât hum Bolero.
Wear It Like A Crown by zarah5
AU. As part of a team of fixers hired to handle a gay scandal in Buckingham Palace, Louis expects Prince Harry to be a lot of thingsâmost notably a royally spoilt brat. Never mind that the very same Prince Harry used to star in quite a number of Louisâ teenage fantasies.
These Roads We Stumble Down by @onewasturning
Heâs completely drenched, not one millimetre of him not covered in rain, and the old sheepskin cover over the seat is probably going to stink afterwards from the damp. But even with what seems to be a constant tremor shaking his body, brown hair plastered to his forehead, and a blue tinge to his skin, heâs still probably the most gorgeous person that Harry has ever seen.
Or, Harry picks up a hitchhiker in Oxford, and itâs a long ride to Glasgow.
Into The Blue by zarah5
AU. In which Louis is Harryâs scuba instructor and quite happy to provide the requested special treatment, pun fully intended. It canât be all that difficult to convince Harry that theyâre on the same page, right? Also, Niall and Liam may or may not be dating, and Zayn is surrounded by emotionally stunted idiots. He bears it with dignity.
another hazy may by deLILah
louis is a terrible poet and harry lives in the now and they have six weeks to fall in love but, really, it only takes six seconds. bookshop meets military meets summer romance au ft. marlboros, the backstreet boys, and underrated literary devices.
No One Does It Better by nodibs
Harryâs an alcoholic and Louis is a bartender. The first time they meet isnât the first time theyâve met.
Speaking of Marvels by navigator and quitter
AU. Louis is a nanny in suburban New Jersey, and the neighborsâ son is home from college for the summer. It was supposed to be a fling.
Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart by mcpofife
Louis is ready to find the love of his life, but first he has to stop falling for the punk rocker next door.
Pull Me Under by zarah5
AU. As the first British footballer to come out at the prime of his career, it helps that Louis Tomlinson is in a long-term, committed relationship. Even if that relationship is fake. (Featuring Niall as Louisâ favourite teammate, Liam as Louisâ agent, and Zayn as Liamâs boyfriend, who just happens to be good friends with one Harry Styles.)
Young & Beautiful by @mizzwilde
Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesnât stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes.
There are so many more that Iâve lovedâŚI tried to keep this mostly to longer, chaptered fics, but there are wonderful PWPs and one shots and other terrific long ficsâŚthere are just so many good writers in this fandom! Hope you find some here you donât know yet! Let me know what you think if you read any!
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