#this would probably work better as a gifset but i don't have the time to figure out how to make those tonight so i played a little with-

[fallinglikemagic]

Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairytale.

Well, that's why we're here! To make it better.

But...life isn't like a fairytale...

That's right! It's up to you to make things better...

Isn't it?

[markantonys]

i was looking at your latest gifset and realised why cauthor is such an amazing ship. mat needs someone who has his back in the way rand does. all the years of his parents and everyone else telling him he's no good, he'll never amount to anything - that kinda stuff sinks in until eventually you start to believe it yourself. and i'm not saying mat doesn't have any flaws of course, but I think some of the time his actions are dictated by what he believes about himself, that he really isn't worth it.

but rand - he's been mat's protector from day one, hasn't he? always in his corner, always defending him and letting mat know without equivocation that he is worth it, that he is a good person who deserves love and a second chance. and that was even before the whole dragon reborn thing came into play. when mat said at the start, "don't stay up-mountain too long" rand answered, "i won't". he won't stay up too long because he misses mat and knows mat needs him too. is it any wonder even ishamael shipped them?

THIS!!!!!! all of this, i'm weeping!!!! i remember in the wait between seasons i was going "oh man the cauthor reunion will be so angsty, rand will be so hurt over mat having stayed behind at the waygate!" but then we got to the actual reunion and it turned out i'd sorely underestimated rand's love for mat! rand is nothing but happy to see mat again, he gives him 100% unconditional love and understanding without bringing up the waygate incident at all, except for taking a moment to tell mat that they aren't better off without him. because he knows mat well enough to guess that the reason he stayed behind might've been that he thought the gang was better off without him, and he loves mat enough to believe this IS the reason rather than supposing something less charitable like selfishness or cowardice. and rand himself, for the first time in his life, has been struggling with feeling his loved ones are better off without him ever since the eye of the world, and this has given him new empathy for and new insight into how mat has felt for his ENTIRE life.

i know that "i'll take care of you" "it's rotten work" "not to me, not if it's you" has become a meme at this point, but it truly is the perfect descriptor of the cauthor dynamic! and on both ends too, since in s2 we see mat starting to be protective of rand and take care of him too now that rand's getting his own share of Issues. mat also assures rand that they aren't better off without him, after all! their lil amateur therapy session in cairhien is so perfect because they are both so well-positioned to understand the internal issues the other is currently dealing with, because it's similar to their own issues. and they each have their own way of showing care, and it just so happens to be perfectly suited to what the other needs; rand is very earnest and vocal in telling mat he's a good person, which is what mat needs to counteract all the fears that have been driven into him since childhood about being worthless, and meanwhile mat takes care of rand by teasing him and joking around and making him smile, which is what rand needs to lighten the burden of being TDR for a while. no wonder ishamael ships them, indeed! he is not immune to homoerotic devotion!

also, what really gets me is that mat didn't get to witness rand's passionate defenses of him in fal dara! nynaeve, you better have been recording the fight on your phone so you can show it to mat, he Needs To Know just how well rand continues to speak of him even when he isn't around. there probably won't be time for it in s3, but i would love a scene where egwene and mat talk for the first time after the great waygate abandonment, and mat's apologizing and egwene's like "well i was pretty mad at you at the time but we're cool now" and mat asks if rand was mad at him too, because he needs to know if he hurt rand but knows rand won't admit if he did because he'd want to spare mat's feelings, and egwene tells mat that rand was not mad at him and in fact defended him tooth and nail against everyone else, and mat's like 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 trying not to cry, and egwene's internally like "oh my god can you two just make out already". this scene happens between 2x08 and 3x01 in my heart!

[pixelwixard]

GIFs from X-Men '97 S01E01, "To Me, My X-Men"

I'm still working out how to clip this show. One-liners, impressive animation, maybe some light shipping when I notice it or care to highlight it -- that's the current standard. Might try shorter action sequences another time, but for now they work better as videos.

Special notes for this set:

Despite my earlier expression of distaste for Cyclops, he actually ended up with several GIFs. The second to last one was the most '90s line spoken on the show, so I had to.

Rogue/Gambit won this episode's shipping representation. Funny. I don't really care for Gambit that much, but I'll acknowledge the chemistry there.

Apparently, I love Storm in Goddess Mode because she got two GIFs. Second one probably would have been better as a gifset because the framerate is garbage, but I wasn't in the mood to do a gifset. Go watch the episode and see it happen, it rules.

[mazzystar24]

I've been thinkin bout that bt scene. Obviously I might be totally wrong but idk, I feel like T kinda muttered "god I hope so" into his wine glass & not directly at Buck & he was being maybe kinda insecure, like in his head maybe since we assume he's older & more experienced he might think that's why Buck is sticking around?

Like idk, it's a call back somehow to the first date and the closet comment? Like T wants this to work out because he thinks Buck is adorable but you know they aren't really clicking so ya know whatever works? (But eventually it will fully break down)

And the way Buck said "but you think I do?" about the daddy issues is like Buck goin "....wait what?" in his head because his head does tilt a bit to the side like 🤔🤔🤔 And it's showing that they don't fit.

That it was intentionally weird & off putting.

Tho I do think the bit where T says "but your father is alive" wasn't meant to be snarky. Buck then says "Exactly" which I took as Buck being all "exactly, my dad's just THAT shitty and he's not going to change."

Off course then the speech Buck gave Chris is a bit eh, but like two things can be true at the same time. XD

Also I'm def not a bt shipper, Buddie all the way but yeah that's just how it came off to me. Lol.

I hope this makes sense.

I have been swamped with exams and neglected my inbox so 💐💐💐💐💐

Eh I feel like it was definitely more flirty than insecure like I’m tempted to add the gifsets for reference but I don’t want it to show up in the gif makers’ notifications but yeah like as he’s saying it it’s 100% like suggestive vibes rather than self deprecating making a joke about an actual insecurity vibe

Like I think for me this is definitely a horses not zebras moment

I do keep think that maybe the like off putting moments are intentional because so many weird choices have been made with BT

For the your dad is alive I think I wasn’t super clear on my opinion on it but like I don’t mean he said it to be snarky per say more so that the implications behind that line are things like “you’d feel differently if he wasn’t” or “you can fix things before he does” or as if that’s something to be thankful for or recognise when talking about his pseudo father nearly dying

Like the reason I hate this line isn’t that it necessarily has to be cruel intentions on Tommys part but rather that this sorta narrative gets forced down traumatised peoples throats CONSTANTLY (sometimes with good intentions) and it’s such a bullshit rhetoric and it’s even more bullshit to use that line while talking about this found family/pseudo father he has nearly dying

Also yeah that’s definitely what that “exactly” was meant to be like yup a dead dad would at least be less traumatising, a lot easier to explain, and probably easier on my therapist than this clusterfuck but alas

BUCKS SPEECH TO CHRIS- okay lots of thoughts on this because my mom got confused and picked thought daughter:

Do I love that the writers low-key made it sound like he’s comparing Eddie to the Buckley parents? no I hate it but KR was writing for this ep so what did we expect

Do I think a marginally better way to interpret it is that it was more so continuing that theme of paralleling buck and Chris’ issues? Yes

Are the basic and I mean like the very abstract very simple and nothing further parallels there? Yeah like parent not over their grief causes conflict between parent and child

Other than that no not at all Eddie never involved Chris in this, Kim came over with her Shannon cosplay without telling him, Eddie also never intentionally emotionally harmed Chris while the Buckley parents spent bucks entire life intentionally being the absolute worst™️ and emotionally neglectful and were shit parents to Maddie too by forcing her to pretend her brother didn’t exist while she was a child and mourning said brother

But I also think it’s actually very in character for buck to continue to sympathise with them and cut them an impossible amount of slack by trying to draw parallels to this situation like it’s less trying to paint Eddie more like them and more so using Eddie (someone he cares about and loves and sympathises with deeply) as a frame of reference to mentally try to humanise and sympathise with his own parents - idk if I’m making sense but in my head it makes sense

Like it’s actually a pretty common thing you see with traumatised people they’ll sorta draw parallels that aren’t there between themselves or the people they care about and the people who traumatised them because a lot of traumatised people will just constantly seek to understand that perspective more and sympathise with it like hell I’ve seen it with the people in my life doing it and it’s like woah those situations are very different I need you to recognise that

Loved hearing your view of it and it totally made sense!!!

Gonna see if there are any quick asks I can answer before I get back to my revision cos I definitely yapped more than I expected for this

[sugdenlovesdingle]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers! Spread the self-love 💞

Ok this is super hard because I feel like I always mention the same fics for this kind of thing so I'm going to try limit myself to the past year.

Date night (buck/tommy) Bobby and Athena spot Buck and Tommy out on a date together. A little outsider POV-ish that I wrote in an hour and my first time really writing bucktommy AND bathena. I just really want Buck's pseudo parents to "officially" give Tommy their stamp of approval. I know we've already had the scene of Bobby approving, but I want Athena too - though judging by Angela smiling in that zoom interview when Oliver was talking about Buck's relationship with Tommy, we might just get it.

Buck's bisexual speedrun (buck/tommy) taking it slow? we don't know her. Buck and Tommy both going from 0 to 60 in their relationship in .02 seconds. The bucktommy brainrot is real, people. This was based on a post (or ask i don't remember) I saw in the tag where someone said the way things were going with them, Buck would probably show up to work one day soon and be like "Oh yeah Tommy and I got married in Vegas, my name is Kinard now. How was your weekend?"

Love online (tarlos) Luisa takes matters into her own hands to fix Carlos' love life. I just really liked the idea of interfering sisters - and the last line that I basically wrote the rest of the fic around.

Undercover (tarlos) A season 4 what if...? Where Carlos' big secret is him going undercover instead of his marriage to Iris. Inspired by this gifset of Rafa in some other show (I think) playing a barman. (I wanted to link it but the link on my AO3 is dead - the OP might have deleted it or something) This is a little older but I got a comment on this a few days ago asking for more. I'd kind of abandoned it/forgotten about it but it made me dig up the file on my computer and found a half finished next chapter, so I'm going to try (not making any promises) to update it in the not too distant future.

View from the taco truck (tarlos) My season 5 countdown exchange fic - TK and Carlos' relationship through the eyes of their favourite food truck vendor. The idea has been knocking around my head for ages and I finally (eventually) decided to write it... but I'm honestly not sure about it. it "sounded" better in my head (as usual). But thank you to everyone that's read it and liked it and left kudos or a comment!!

Thanks for including me ❤ I'm a little late to the party so I think all of my fic writing mutuals have done this by now. If you haven't and want to - consider this your 'tag'!

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2024-09-02

Do you rember. Wen day is dark, sember.

Listening: @cyelatm released a new album Habit Prism that I've been listening to in bits and pieces. Even, rhythmic folk, good music to have on when you have people around.

In that vein, Bandcamp Friday this coming Friday! Make your lists!

Watching: Watched The Raid which I've had kicking around for a bit. Do you want to watch guys punch each other all over for like 15 minutes at a time for an hour? No? Get better taste in movies and then watch guys punch each other all over for like 15 minutes at a time for an hour.

The Raid is so obviously made for like two dollars, there's one building, every single gun and piece of armour is airsoft gear, the camera is visibly some mid-tier hardware that suffers from severe rolling shutter, and it kicks so much ass.

There's some really interesting things happening with camera movement in this movie. Really really complicated multi-axis camera moves, the same shot will take like six different dutch angles in a single move, or will lock on to different objects and follow them, it's great for martial arts but it's also used to pretty good effect in some interstitial scenes.

The culminating fight with Mad Dog is so wild, literally just three guys in an empty concrete cube fighting for a solid ten or twelve minutes and it works! Does not seem possible. They actively remove almost every prop from the room so it's just guys hitting each other but they keep doing incredible stunts.

It's funny looking at the gifsets on here because they're unreadable, everything happens so fast and requires so much context that is only delivered in the full flow of the movie. My favourite part is when he said "It's Raiding Time" and raided all over those guys.

Reading: Finally sat down and got through the Phalanx's Twilight, Legion's Triumph series on acoup.

Sections IVa-c mostly slid off my brain because it's a bunch of wars I don't know enough about to contextualize but it's mostly justification for what's explained in parts I-III which were great, and it's an interesting look at how the political and military structures of Rome interwove to improve the effectiveness of the Legion.

Also reading Skin Horse, which I started ages ago but never got very far, I think because I started a job around that time and lost track of it. Sticking webcomic tabs on my little ARM tablet is really convenient, I've jammed Out Of Placers and Laika's Comet in there as well, it's been a while since I did a big archive dive on a comic.

Skin Horse is very much of its time, not really in sensibility but just in content. The nerds are characterized by liking Harry Potter.

Making: Resolved the power delivery issues that were causing me to have mysterious failures with the LED driver. That was annoying. Anyway remember to split your power supply when you could potentially pull like 10A@5V to drive LED's.

Playing: Tactical Breach Wizards campaign is ongoing, as you get deeper into the campaign your team expands which dramatically complicates operations, your possible actions explode, and I'm not even halfway through.

Dall was my newest operator at time of writing and she's probably the hardest to use, she can deal a lot of damage but relies more so than anyone else on good positioning, it's really easy to end up way out of place and waste her moves, and she's too heavy to shunt around with Jen's storm attacks the way you can with the others.

Speaking of those, I really like how the short turns and deterministic actions mean you can get really into the weeds. The first time I used a gale grenade to shunt Zan over one extra block to line him up I assumed this would be a sometimes food but you really find yourself doing stuff like that all the time.

I'm heading back and picking through some of the challenge missions concurrently with playing partially to stretch out overall gameplay and partially because I think having fewer abilities unlocked will make those more interesting.

Tools and Equipment: You know, I think we know each other pretty well, I can put this here. The Doxy USB-C Wand is a safe and legal thrill.

[thegreymoon]

Every time I try to imagine the original timeline I cry bc they could’ve been so happy together without all the trauma to fuck them up if only Shi Mei didn’t decide to go for the burn the world route, but I just tried to imagine how it would have gone if CWN was the one with the flower? And honestly I’m not sure? I’m pretty sure he would be terrifying but nothing else comes to mind.

So I gotta ask how do you think a CWN who got the flower would break? Is he as obsessed with MR as MR is with him (I kinda wanna say yes) but idk if he would go the same route or what he would do if I’m being honest?

Ooof, this is a tough one 😬 Yeah, I do think he would have been just as obsessed with Mo Ran as Mo Ran was with him because Ranwan is so reciprocal. They match in energy, in intensity, in the depth of their attachment. Both of them committed to each other so early on. The time they had before the flower was so brief, but nothing that happened later broke that love in the slightest. I don't think that Chu Wanning would have imprisoned and raped Mo Ran the way TXJ did with him because it is against his character and the flower cannot change the fundamentals of a person. Also, Mo Ran would probably still be willing to be with a dark!CWN, especially a young Mo Ran, so there would be no conflict there. I think the true tragedy would be that they would succeed in destroying the world and destroy themselves in the process. I also think that CWN's path to darkness would start with righteousness. Mo Ran was angry, so it makes sense that he was out to destroy everyone, but I think that CWN would have tried to create a perfect utopia where everyone behaves 'virtuously' and 'righteously' and punish those who step out of line. He would start killing with good intentions, to keep everyone in line, in the service of a greater good. Even building that bridge of corpses would probably stem from a sense that the BBBFs were wronged, and therefore owed their oppressors laying their lives down to build a path for them into a better world. IDK how Chu Wanning loving Shi Mei would work out, though. Chu Wanning loved him to begin with, so the curse would probably amplify that love to an unhealthy degree. But as we saw with Mo Ran, while the curse does cause an unhealthy obsession, it does not create sexual attraction, so I think that would play out in pretty much the same way on Chu Wanning's side, too.

Also, I cannot talk about dark!CWN without mentioning this series of gifsets.

These gifsets are what introduced me to this book 😭 2ha is a trap and Luo Yunxi is the bait.

[animusrox]

did you see the new trailer for batman caped crusader? what did you think about it! (i would also love a gifset of it, if you take requests and have the time/inclination - if not, I just want to hear your thoughts!)

I did and I'm excited for it just from the creatives they got working on this (Reeves, Brurkbaker, Rucka, Timm), I think they're going to do a good job capturing the 40s noir just like BTAS did but with a little more grit. Love the voice cast as well. My only issue so far is while I'm liking the Timm style character designs, I'm really tried seeing this same kind of digital animation from DC that isn't as smooth as the old fashion hand drawn stuff. And the direct to video DC movies have been doing this for the last decade+ so I'm just bored by it.

I would do a gifset but I don't really gif stuff from youtube. I'll probably wait until it's officially available with a better bitrate.

[enchaentd]

multiples of 2 for the mun meme?

a mun ask meme, accepting!  ˎˊ˗             featuring; @theha1r ♡

you're so crazy for this ksdjhskd but! i picked a few.

what is your blog or graphic aesthetic or motif? why?

oh god allie has... so many!!! i'll probably miss some but: flowers (specifically wildflowers, daisies, and snowdrops), fields, forests, petals, butterflies, just about any prey animal you can think of (specifically: deer/doe, bunnies, birds, and lambs), glitter is always something but it's kind of hard to put into graphics, sunshine. something on my mind a lot is that i'm so very glad to have settled on green and pink for her psd coloring. i really can't believe any other colors ever worked for her, in my head. like, it's so very her. right now for graphics it's a lot of blonde girls in the allie aesthetic (cottage/fairy core, mainly). lowk it might be cute to change it up for christmas. but for graphics i'm always taking inspo from her pinterest boards. my favorite icons have been those where i give her lil wings. here are some rora fave graphics :) i also like some of the pride ones i've made but they're giving me the ick rn so i'm not putting them here.

if you are an independent blog, have you every roleplayed in a closed group?

i'm actually doing it right now!! and i kind of love it actually? i didn't think i would because going into rp tags and seeing them is.. so annoying. but! i've always loved the group dyn part of group plots and fandom stuff. i'm having a great time right now. i don't think i'll ever leave indie rp because of my friends but god, the mood drops are so fierce here.

what year did you join the tumblr roleplaying community?

i joined in 2020, so...... you can imagine...... dshjgsjksjds. irl wise, it was definitely a low for me and rp helped and didn't help with that. truly, i'm very happy to be here but like, it's a trip to think about, definitely a Choice on my end.

how did you come across the roleplay community?

i used to have a 'normal' fandom tumblr blog and i found the rpc through tags on one of my gifsets. i guess it just wasn't hitting for me and i'd rpd before on other platforms, so i decided to give it a try! i hadn't really bewn on tumblr for that long prior, i think?

what age range do you most enjoy playing?

i've been stuck in the late teens/early twenties kick for soooo long. but to be fair to me, in my time roleplaying, that's just been how old i am. recently though, i've been better at venturing out.

[various-things]

rambling about my feelings and Past Tense and Julian and covid and other 2024 problems

Adding a cut since this is a long post.

I have a lot of grief and disappointment about covid stuff I haven't fully found my way out of. Maybe I never will, and that is what it is. You love the world and the world breaks your heart and you love the world. There's probably some wonderful quote about that I can't remember right now. But, this moment from Julian in the first part of Past Tense was something that resonated really strongly for me for a while when it came to my struggles (that haven't ceased to exist, but the pain is a lot quieter these days) with people (especially friends and those I knew directly) not masking in shared public indoor spaces:

SISKO: It's not that they don't give a damn, Doctor. It's that they've given up. The social problems they face seem too enormous to deal with. BASHIR: That only makes things worse. Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible, but causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care? That's really hard to understand. I have my own little desperately-clung-to headcanon that Julian, who I relate to and admire so much, would share these feelings. That he'd still put on a mask in our 2024 when running an errand and definitely in a medical facility. That he wouldn't accept the vulnerable falling "by the wayside" as an acceptable cost of forgoing that practice.

Masks work. Cleaning the air works (it's why risk is so much lower outdoors if not in a crowd). We could have had something so different than our current circumstances in the US where we insufficiently track infections, where vaccines (which do not stop covid transmission but remain incredibly important) are becoming inaccessible to so many. 1 in 10 infections (a fairly conservative commonly used stat) results in long covid and access to effective treatment is a huge issue. We don't have access to up-to-date at home tests and our current generation of RATS suck at giving us accurate negative results. Even as so many of covid's dangers sicken and disable, it remains a leading cause of death. And I know that so many people do not know these things. That they have been under-served and lied to by the institutions that should (sigh, "should") offer accurate science, and affordable (or free) resources to stay safe with—but don't. Even people who do know these things often have to face isolation, or ostracism, or worse if they try to hold out on some of their precautions.

It could all be better. The exchange between Sisko and Julian at the end of Past Tense's second part made me reflect the other day—maybe I saw it in a gifset? Julian says:

BASHIR: You know, Commander, having seen a little of the twenty first century there is one thing I don't understand. How could they have let things get so bad? The Past Tense two-parter focuses on issues of (I don't think I can do a good job of summarizing this but) failed and oppressive systems, houselessness, classism, societal collapse. It reflects so many of our current problems. "How could they have let things get so bad?"—"they" meant generally, I think. But they didn't. We didn't. This fucked up situation we're in is a product of choices from very rich and very powerful people. I know that's an obvious statement. I know! But it's a true one. I don't have any polished conclusion to this. We can do what we can. We can try to build community. We can use every tool we have available to us and that also involves contacting our representatives and shit even when they ignore us. It's very, very, important that we look to our local communities and see where we can help. If we all put some time, which will look different for everyone, into helping each other locally that would, has, will change so much. We don't have to do that alone. Help can look like so many things, our needs and skills have so much important variety. This isn't a conclusion but it's the end of the post. Transcripts taken (and cut down in places) from http://www.chakoteya.net

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, October 5

BUFFY: So, what's on tap tonight that's so important? Uprising, prophesied ritual, preordained deathfest? XANDER: Ah, the old standards! GILES: Um, a medical transport is delivering the monthly supply of blood to the hospital. BUFFY: Mm. Vampire Meals-On-Wheels. GILES: Hopefully not. Uh, we'll meet outside the hospital at 8:30 sharp. I'll bring the weapons. BUFFY: I'll bring the party mix! GILES: Just don't be late. BUFFY: Have I ever let you down? GILES: Do you want me to answer that, or shall I just glare?.

~~BtVS 2x08 “The Dark Age”~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Dibs (Buffy/Spike, Angel, PG-13) by veronyxk84

Psychica Devorator (Spike/OMC, M) by Gut Smear (teddyscott)

Goodnight Kisses (Buffy/Giles, M) by Skyson

back to normal (Giles/Jenny, T) by mistyintherivers

Oil / Bondage / Teasing - Part 1 (Buffy/Giles, E) by DancingAngel0013

Traffic (Buffy/Giles, E) by HuonParticlesAreHarmless

Caught (Spike/Harmony, Spike/Buffy, M) by RavenLove12

Whumptober 3 - Set Up For Failure (Buffy, not rated) by enigmatist17

Loophole, But No Cigar (Angel/Cordelia, T) by cordysangels

Caught (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by RavenLove12

[Chaptered Fiction]

Green Shards Underfoot, Chapters 16-20/31 (Dawn, multi xover, T) by acs

Lest This Bond Be Broken, Chapter 10/? (Buffy/Giles, M) by Dynapink

hit rewind, Chapter 78/? (Buffy/Spike, Buffy/Angel, M) by untiljanuary

Aim High: A Stargate Tale, Chapter 4/? (Buffy, Stargate SG-1 xover, G) by Buffyworldbuilder

Rebehold the Stars (Love from the Other Side of the Apocalypse), Chapter 18 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Asokatanos

A Second Chance- Their Story, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Loup Noir

Troubling Deaf Heaven, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, R) by JuneCurry

Little Light, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Melme1325

Shadowmen's Revenge, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by VoronaFiernan

Perfect Clarity, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Joan963z

Exorcise, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by Desicat

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: You ever think about the fact that Dru was probably with Spike when he killed his second Slayer in 1977 New York? (Drusilla, worksafe) by endollvors

Artwork: [Drawing of Oz] (worksafe) by endollvors

Gifset: Every Tara look: S4E19 New Moon Rising (worksafe) by lovebvffys

Fanvid: let’s be honest adam is strong, tall AND smart (Adam, worksafe) by bananabeans88

Gifset: BUFFY SUMMERS + hair accessories (worksafe) by clarkgriffon

Artwork: is this your normal strategy for a first date? dissing my country’s national pastime? (Giles/Jenny, worksafe) by mistyintherivers

Artwork: Romantic earnest Ballet William (worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Artwork: 5/9 spuffy collection (part I) (worksafe) by flyora

Gifset: “The Freshman” | “City Of” (Buffy/Angel, worksafe) by bangelgifs

Artwork: Inspired by two extraordinary stories (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by o-cm-draw-o

Artwork: “What exactly did it take to pry apart the Slayer’s dimpled knees ?” (Buffy/Spike, slightly NSFW) by o-cm-draw-o

Artwork: [FANART] Dollars Do Better if They are Accompanied by Sense. (Wesley/Lilah, NSFW) by CoffeeHunt

Artwork: [FANART] Quality Time (Spike/any male character, NSFW) by CoffeeHunt

[Reviews & Recaps]

The Pack by Slayin It with Juliet Landau

[In Search Of]

ISO: In preparation for the next episode of the podcast I was wondering if any of you would like to share your responses to the twist that angel was a vampire? requested by bigbadllama

ISO: in the same vein as the last post, id love to hear some of your worst fears or nightmares inspired by the episode subject! requested by bigbadllama

ISO: Can you help me identify this unknown song? [end of 1x10] requested by MooseTracs

[Fandom Discussions]

Mr. Trick should have worked at Wolfram and Hart in Angel S5 by andyoullhearitagain

Love the idea of Dawn figuring out the whole Buffy-slayer thing before Joyce [...] and proceeding to cover for Buffy by pinesorneedles

[multiple reblog thread] [Willow’s relationship with magic, started by thequeenofsastiel] by willnotacceptalifeundeserved, girl4music, confusedguytoo, lynnenne

people fundamentally misinterpret what about s7 is bad. by btvs-s7-was-not-ooc

Back to Soulless Spike. I just rewatched 4x07 by thequeenofsastiel

Wild to me that Willow’s best friend is the VAMPIRE Slayer, and yet every time someone knocks on their door, her response is “Come in!” by thequeenofsastiel

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3, 7, 13 and/or 18 for the ask game? (also, sending you hugs <3)

First off thank you so much for the hugs, they are gratefully accepted, today was a lot and tomorrow's not going to be better. I'm also in a bit of a writing funk and feeling bad about everything, probably because I'm so emotionally drained. Thank you for sending these as distraction, I'm glad to think about something else tonight.

3. Do you anticipate writing for a new fandom this year? Which one?

Oh I sure hope not. I have a hard enough time keeping up with three. 😂 But one thing I've found is that you never know when a new ship is gonna hook you, so I guess never say never.

7. Will you change anything about the way you interact with other writers?

First, a moment to celebrate what I have changed already: I've gotten a lot better about commenting on everything I read, which I'm very happy about. Now if only I had 12 extra hours in the day to read everything I want to. I'd like to get better at reblogging things on tumblr from other authors, because I know how much reblogs of my own fic posts mean to me. I try to remember to come back and do it after I read a fic, but sometimes I just forget, sadly. I think I need to put those posts in my drafts rather than just likes, or something.

13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic? 

You know, doing my tumblr top 10 posts made me realize I'm not sure I did ANY drawing this year? What?? I started getting into it with napollya and then writing kind of took over, but I'd like to get back to it. I don't think I'll pick up anything new, though.

18. Do you typically post multi-chapters as you write, or finish it all and then start posting? Would you like to change your posting method? 

I used to post as a wrote with a month's-worth of chapter buffer, but now I finish them all first. I think it makes the story a lot tighter, I don't have to worry about changing something in the second half and having it conflict with something already published, and it removes the stress of writing to a deadline. So I'm unlikely to change that!

Thank you again my dear, I always love seeing you in my ask box. 💕 (And I desperately need to read all your whumpmas fics still!)

Fanfic asks for the new year

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it seem so 😔 it's amazing to hear he's recovering well enough to write a whole show and do a whole tour! i have a feeling it won't be filmed, so it would be great to hear any of your experiences if you get a chance to see the show. (maybe you can send me a summary? i'm sure he'll talk more about it all then, given the synopsis for the tour :')) off the back of sean, rhod, and janey godley, i was just thinking about how the generation of comedians i grew up with are hitting more vulnerable years, which is very sobering, but i digress...

here are the tour dates for anyone who missed the announcement!

here on panelshowsource? because i was busy and not online :)

sorry anon, you sent this a couple days after his bday and i don't think i'll do belated posts. i actually wanted to do something for it, but i was just busy with life and didn't get enough of a head start (i usually need 2–3 days prep time). next time!

yes i totally agree! i like daisy on the show because she clearly loves music (the way she's always hyping up the identity parade artists is honestly really wholesome and appreciated) and she is a riot — even if she's exaggerating, better that someone is exaggerating having fun than not. i guess that's where daisy and jamali balance each other out, some episodes lmaooo greg is a textbook ham, so daisy getting such a kick out of his RIDICULOUS jokes — which makes greg so happy — plus greg and noel already having such a comfortable (and often silly) rapport makes them such a solid 3. greg and jamali have definitely gotten more comfortable with each other, too. they're a fucking random bag of people but i think it works! that show is a hot mess of good, goofy vibes

yeah, sometimes! just depends on the interviewee. last new one i listened to was probably ed byrne? i was just listening to a john kearns one since (spoiler alert for this ask post) someone asked for a collection folder for john — it's a sweet one. to be fair, john is just a sweet man. i'm not crazy about richard herring — he's fine — so sometimes i'll quit mid-way if richard is making it too much about himself or complaining too much (you know how he is). but in general i don't think i've missed anything significant bc i got bored or skipped an ep. do you recommend one?

sure! they're honestly one of my faves ever. obsessed with them. i was just thinking about what chaos jimmy + jon + joe + roisin are, generally the episodes when joe is filling in for sean. jimmy already loves a derailing, and you can tell he gets such a kick out of both joe and roisin (same way he gets a kick out of rob beckett, honestly), and jon really lets loose with those three — they're SO stupid hahahaha like this has to be one of the most random, stupid episodes ever i love it so much

it will be my pleasure doing research for such a gifset 😈

i have added him to the collection folder!

linked to some typical panel shows + added his radio 4 series, his latest radio dramedy with tim key and his sitcom top coppers (both added to the secondary masterpost), a couple sketch things, a couple youtube things :) i also collected his podcasts + a few random episodes i don't host on drive and added the links in a doc which i added as well (i'll go back and do that for the existing collections this weekend!)

enjoy!

ps. working on nish, mike wozniak, and david & victoria folders

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I was tagged by @havingbeenbreathedout to post recent, current, and future reading. Unfortunately it is the middle of January, when winter seems eternal and focus nonexistent. However, it occurred to me as I said that that the middle of January is certainly better than the beginning of January, so there's that!

Recent: The last thing I finished at work was a collection of E. F. Benson's ghost stories. I've been reading a lot of Edwardian ghost stories recently and it's just so nice watching terrible things happen to near respectable academics while I wait for the printer to go off. Benson has some interesting interactions with modern technology (his modern) but an annoying tendency to try to explain the metaphysics. I prefer M. R. James.

I also read the most recent installment of the further adventures of Madame C—, which was excellent as usual. In audio there was Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters--I find her work very one-note, but it's a note I really want to hear sometimes.

I have also been reading a bunch of RWRB fanfic. (I skimmed the novel this summer because the gifsets were hot but it really isn't my preferred tropes.) From the outside, it appears to be good in direct proportion to its smuttiness.

Current: At work I am now going through Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, which I am enjoying as much as one can enjoy anything in January. It is kind of amusing how many of the "rules" of modern fiction writing it flat out has never heard of and doesn't care about. I do find it somewhat stunning that Warner wrote this particular novel when she was only just over 30.

I have just started Time Was by Ian McDonald, which I hoped would be a gay version of This Is How You Lose the Time War, and it looks like it may even live up to that.

I am halfway through the audiobook of The Intrigue by Marion Chesney (aka M. C. Beaton), which is nice enough, but I don't think I'll feel the need to continue the series. Especially as the narrator is just okay.

Future: My hold on Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher will hopefully come in by the end of the month. Other than that, I should probably see if I can focus better on nonfiction right now.

But I also have a skip-the-line copy of Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher for a week. I don't know if I'm in the best place to appreciate it but maybe it'll be a nice counterweight.

Tagging: The last five mutuals to interact with my posts were @tiltedsyllogism, @edenfalling, @unrealthings, @consultingpiskies (hi sweetheart!), and @oulfis.

[winter-seance]

why do you refuse to reblog & support other gifmakers and artists? it's kinda upsetting to witness. like they are not worth your attention.

I can see why you would think that, but that's not really the case. I don't refuse. It's more down to a lack of time. I'm a full-time grad student, so most of my time lately has been going to that.

I spend probably 30 minutes scrolling through my Tumblr dash per day, if that. I reblog other gifsets if I come across them on my dash during that time, but if they don't, it's not that I didn't want to reblog them, it's just that I didn't see them. Before I went back to school, I used to spend more time going through the edit tags to find things to reblog. Currently, between research, paper-writing and job searching I don't have the time to do that - it's fairly time-consuming. My own gifsets are posted automatically via a queue, so I'm not even online when they're posted. I'm hoping I'll have more time to peruse my dash and be able to be better about checking the edit tags once this semester is over and I have a bit more time again.

However, having said that, if you're a gifmaker yourself, you can tag me, I'm tracking the tag "winterseance" - or if you find a gifset you like and think I should see and/or reblog, please feel free to either send the post to me via DM. I'll be sure to see posts that way.

I've been making gifs for Tumblr since 2012-13ish, I know there are many, many other talented gifmakers here. It's because of their amazing work that kept inspiring me to improve my own over the years. I would love to support other gifmakers, but I just haven't had the time to search them out. Again, please feel free to send me posts to reblog.

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@irrcdeemable said: I don't know that you reblogged the thing but I just feel that it needs to be said that Billy is actually impressed {not that he will admit it} by the kind of person that Jonathan is. They both had shitty dads so the fact that Jonathan took the opposite path that Billy did, choosing to be kind, impresses and baffles Billy. Jonathan took the higher road and even has a great bond with Will. Which is something Billy is still working on with Max. Don't tell Billy I told you, shhh. BYEEEEEE

( !!!! yes this has literally been on my mind for the longest goddamn time!!! actually i think there was a gifset i saw a little while ago that said that billy perpetuated the cycle of abuse while jonathan broke it, and i think that beautifully sums up the relationships these characters have with their younger siblings. given the fact that your billy is based off a 'what could have been' idea (btw i'm so relieved you loved this description of mine about your billy skdfhsdf), there's definitely potential for a scenario where billy learns or at least attempts to learn something from jonathan about how to make things better with max. it would also probably bring up a provocative conversation between the two characters, showing more about aspects of their psychology, background, and family dynamics, and how that could contribute to these vast differences between the two. jon and i both love psychology & social sciences let me have this moment to describe it like that ksdjhfsd )