#veryspecificfantasies

[unopenablebox]

@veryspecificfantasies replied to your post “i wish there were infinite agatha christie novels”:

Have you ever tried Dorothy l sayers? Her Peter whimsey mysteries are in my opinion extremely fun and scratch the itch!

​you are absolutely correct about this recommendation. unfortunately i know this because i’ve read all of them six times but i still really appreciate it

i wish there were infinite agatha christie novels

[princemick]

GOOD EVENING (for european standard time) EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO!!

the results of the f1blr survey (if you dont care about the graphic or the most mentioned blogs here's a direct link to the form results!

if u want to leave now all I wanna do is to encourage you to take 10 minutes of ur time rn to send a kind lil message to ur fav blogs to keep the vibes going n I hope ur day is wonderful! <3

now for the most mentioned blogs which also counts as a short blog rec post according to the 73 people who answered this form!

(for clarity, I choose to remove myself from all these replies because I think it's incredibly biased and so not relevant or interesting to mention myself)

NOW ONTO THE MOST MENTIONED!!

ARTISTS!

@penaltyboxboxbox with give or take 23 mentions!

@storm3326 with give or take 13 mentions!

@ilikecarsandlike4people with give or take 13 mentions!

GIFMAKERS!

@yesloulou with give or take 12 mentions!

@argentinagp with give or take 9 mentions!

@userhamilton and @arturleclerc who both got give or take 7 mentions!

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS!

@argentinagp with give or take 18 mentions!

and then there were a lot of different people mentioned most of which about 2/3 times so here's all of those:

@queerbenched @alpinelogy @livetogether--diealone @formulaonedirection

WRITERS!

there were...lets say the most answers came form this category, most of the people mentioned were in there 2 times so here's a bunch of blogs that were all mentioned around 5-3 times!

@officialmood @bejwled @toastandvegemite @yekoc @effervescentdragon @hourcat @hungriestheidi @veryspecificfantasies

COMMENTARY!

@vegasgrandprix with give or take 7 mentions!

@karlmarxverstappen with give or take 6 mentions!

@raceweek and @race-weekwith give or take 4 mentions I think but I wouldn't be surprised if people forgot the dah so here they are together <3

and lastly, here are some replies to the share with the class question that I personally really liked!

"I love F1 even if it’s “boring”! Watching cars go 300km and hour is always fun even if the winner is always the same . For me, there’s always been Seb winning, and then Lewis winning and now Max, so it’s fun! Plus there’s always so much tea and all drivers are hilarious and I’m so fond of them! And the history is so cool!!!! And I count all the wdc champions before sleeping instead of sheeps! All I need are ferrari bedsheets, and I’m done I’m 22 how did I get to this point?"

"I've been so thankful for the support f1blr has extended to me, and it's a fandom I really feel at home in, so I'm so happy to get a chance to shout out some of the wonderful and talented people in this fandom with me! Such a fantastic idea."

"I am legit so grateful we have so many creative and brilliant people in f1blr, it makes my enjoyment of the sport I've loved for so many years that much better"

"i’ve only been on f1blr since the summer but i’ve felt soooo welcomed and made so many nice friends <333 love u guys"

"I’m so bad at remembering names but all of you have made my first year on f1blr a lovely experience!"

"Keep doing what you love! Stay safe, enjoy life, and be happy. I love you all!!! 🫶🏻"

"Looking forward to spending the '24 season with this amazing community!!"

and so so many more kind responses! thank you to everyone who participated it was really nice to see this and watch us come together for a lil pls do keep spreading the love and send out some asks to your fav blogs!!

and thats all for now, goodnight and until next time!

[moonshynecybin]

i’ve been to watch the brokeback mountain play and thinking about rosquez in there is making me DIZZY. me sitting there literally 10 feet away from me mike faist is COMPLETELY NAKED giving the performance of his LIFE i can’t even imagine the chemistry marc and vale would have. everyone in that theatre clearing their throats looking away as they’re going off script sucking face…

context. IT HURTS TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE LIVE YOUR DREAM… now vale i don’t think would be terribly traditional in his portrayal of closed off legend ennis del mar BUT i think he’s got the repression swagger to pull off what critics are calling a bold new take on the character… truly like. vale swearing he was NEVER going to work with marc again (as per @veryspecificfantasies marc got the oscar nod and vale DIDNT. unforgivable…) but the closest he ever got to truly throwing off his showman’s cloak of artifice and accessing that kind of authentic vulnerability WAS opposite marc… so when the opportunity comes to maybeeeee get that lightning in a bottle chemistry back… it’s TOO tempting. irresistible. this guy would do anything to win including making out with his ex situationship from ten years ago. and it’s trulyyyyyyy crazy. marc BIG wet sad brown cow eyes on stage.. shivering when vale touches him… the comforting veneer of performance but all that yearning is REAL BABYYYYYY

also:

[missyourflight]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

ty @veryspecificfantasies and @love-leah for the tags 💕

1. How many works do you have on ao3? 40 counting a couple of anons

2. What's your total ao3 word count? 193,217

3. What fandoms do you write for? just f1 at the minute - i've signed up for yuletide this year (finally a chance to get unbanned lol) so it'll be nice to have a go at something else

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? So let's say, I'll come another day (1d ziam time traveller's wife au), tomorrow on every shore (maxiel below deck sailing yacht au), Somewhere in the heart of Rome (maxiel roman holiday au), let's explore your talent (BTS femmeslash tentacles in space), all creatures wild and tame (maxiel 🦑). 2 tentacle fics in the top 5 is so funny lol... my brand

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? yes i try to! at least for the first while after something's posted. i like the livejournal vibes of a comment thread

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? i'd call them bittersweet endings rather than angsty endings but each part and grassy bits in between and Somewhere in the heart of Rome both end with the couple parting after a brief time together but like, hopefully with the sense that they found something meaningful in each other. and roman holiday kind of gets a happy ending later. kind of

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? tomorrow on every shore is probably the most uncomplicatedly happy in that they basically sail off into the sunset together. i think a lot of my fics end with like, the sense of relief or reconciliation of finding each other again, uniting your fantasy kingdoms, escaping a clone dystopia etc

8. Do you get hate on fics? not anywhere i can see it at least!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? i saw someone say that they think of themselves as writer of erotica rather than romance, and as far as that's a useful distinction re: fanfic i would definitely fall on the Romance side of it (i have read so many romance novels lol).

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? not so much crossovers with like the two sets of characters together. i may have been known to write an AU or two in my time.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? not that i know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? yes!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? not published, but i had a wild time in like 2011 writing a deeply angsty and horny hal/hotspur boarding school au with a friend

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? maxiel to write, but you don't even want to see the number of pinboard bookmarks i have for merlin/arthur, ~gryles, arthur/eames, frank/gerard, stucky... it's just so many bookmarks. a ship in a smaller fandom that truly fucks me up is childermass/segundus from jonathan strange & mr norrell. bbc hot childermass you have So much to answer for

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? i don't have a lot of wips that i'm working on beyond like notes app until i start properly writing one up... i have like a maxiel omegaverse roleplay thing that i started that i don't think i can pull off the way i want to tragically

16. What are your writing strengths? hm humour? dialogue. concision. nicely turned sentences. longing and/or pining etc

17. What are your writing weaknesses? oh god. i write very slowly and all over the place and i can't sustain a plot or write anything very long. bad at sex scenes. pretty emotionally shallow. no original ideas only aus. thanks i hate it

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? i mostly find it jarring and i don't really do it

19. First fandom you wrote for? merlin 🧙‍♂️ it was an empire records au, obviously

20. Favorite fic you've written? each part and grassy bits in between is the most like nakedly personal. i still enjoy tomorrow on every shore a lot when i reread it. i'm so tender about clone max. i really loved the process of writing magnets, the pull of the moon but now that it's out i feel less good about it lol. it's like embarrassing to say but honestly when you work on something for months and it gets less ~engagement than something very silly you spent a day on it feels, let's say, disheartening. and there are like any number of reasons why something ~hits and something else doesn't - i myself, a hypocrite, have so many open tabs rn of things i loved and still need to comment on - and it makes me feel really small and mean and churlish to tell myself writing is something fun that i do for myself because i enjoy it and then turn around like, i didn't get enough compliments on that one actually (i'm a leo if you didn't know). and i did get some truly lovely comments i will treasure and i did what i wanted to do with that story and i loved writing it and i do think it's a good story even! just like the gap between your hopes and reality sometimes is deeply mortifying. like it's embarrassing that i was excited about it. it feels weirdly exposing even though nobody is ever thinking about you as much as you're thinking about yourself lol

[semperama]

I was tagged by @jouissants to answer these book questions. Thanks, friend!

An estimate of how many physical books I own: Too many and somehow still not enough! My guess is somewhere in the ballpark of 150? 200 maybe? Probably no more than 200.

Favorite author: WHO can pick a favorite. My usual answer to this is Wally Lamb, but it's been so long since I've read one of his books, I'd have to think about whether that's changed.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: Pretty much any blockbuster YA novel, but to pick something theoretically more in my wheelhouse: One Hundred Years of Solitude. After white-knuckling my way through Love in the Time of Cholera, I just can't do it again.

A popular book I thought was just meh: The Night Circus. That book was all concept and no execution, to me.

Longest book I own: Probably either The Stand or It, not sure which is longer. Stephen King loves to put out a crazy-long book.

Longest series I own all the books to: Stephen King's Gunslinger series, which I actually still haven't read, oops.

Prettiest book I own: My mom just bought me an edition of Anne of Green Gables that has a really pretty illustrated cover.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Ummm I don't know, I'm so bad at ~discovering niche books on my own. Most of the time I'm reading books that are either classics or well-reviewed or talked about a lot. I guess one book I really enjoyed that I haven't heard many people talk about is The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman. I think I saw it on a list somewhere as a recommendation for people who like the movie Dirty Dancing, and it ended up being so unexpected and really, really great.

Book I'm reading now: Just finishing listening to Lie With Me by Philippe Besson on audiobook, and I checked Weyward by Emilia Hart out from the library, but I haven't started reading it yet.

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: So many, because I'm very slow at reading lately. I've started reading East of Eden approximately 20 times and never managed to finish it, so let's go with that.

Do you have any books in a language other than English: I have many, because my husband and father-in-law buy me books in other languages whenever they travel somewhere out of the country. I have the first book in The Witcher series in Polish, the first three Harry Potter books and Alice in Wonderland in Hebrew; Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre in French; and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in Japanese.

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook?: When I buy a physical book, I prefer hardcover, because it bothers me how beat-up paperbacks get so quickly. These days I almost exclusively read ebooks though. It's just so much easier to have them in my phone, and I'm out of space on my bookcases anyway, ahaha.

tagging: @psicygni, @apeacebone, @boxboxlewis, @blamemma, @veryspecificfantasies

[wolfiemcwolferson]

In that iron ground @lilyrizzy

And tomorrow on every shore @missyourflight (I think that’s the right @)

@yekoc glory, from a high rise and @veryspecificfantasies sequel born right in the door

@ladyeggplant three rounds and a sound

There are so so many amazing fics these are just what came to my mind rn

Hi Friend,

It's technically Saturday...You sent this weeks ago, but listen.

I had a breakdown and logged out of Tumblr so let's chat about these very beautiful fics.

In that iron ground - I sobbed. I actually read this fic out loud to my partner in like audio book format because it was very...relevant to our lives and it was healing to us both.

Tomorrow on every shore - I went into this with NO knowledge of Below Decks (I love love love reality show AU's even though I watch one singular reality show) and I thought it was sweet and perfect and everything that a fic should be. I rec.

Every Yekoc fic is scholarship. I don't make the rules. Glory from a high rise and the sequel are perfection, but I feel that way about a lot of Yekoc fic so.

three rounds and a sound - highly HIGHLY underrated. See, the thing is that...any fic that is immediately like "LA is fucking weird" has my heart 100%. I love SoCal and LA is probably one of my favorite cities in the US (despite my rejection of sunlight) and this fic healed a little spot in my heart, but I love it so so much so if you people haven't read it, that is a Maxiel fic for you!

[fromcainwithlove]

tagged by my longtime boy @sgtjamesrogers , thanks kid!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

these are wips in the sense that i haven’t completely abandoned them but some are much more in progress than others lol.

yukierre secret virgin

hoshibot five times

glorious innocence

despite the history of these hands

gyuhao 11+1

serial killer wonwoo

trying to bend these lover’s rules into a simple plan

if ever there were a lucky kind

tagging @hungerpunch @husbono @veryspecificfantasies @thermocrying and @ anyone else who wants to

[vettelsbitch]

Indirectly tagged by @veryspecificfantasies to post a line from my WIP. This is just the one WIP I'm actively working on rn.

He kept driving, trying his best to keep the scooter balanced with another person on it, his chest warming up when they went over a bump and Yuki giggled, her chest crashing against his back. "Be careful, Pierre!" She screamed, her left hand moving forward and over his abs, fingers digging into his fireproofs.

yes this is girl!yuki

Anyone that wants to do this is free to feel tagged!

[valencing]

veryspecificfantasies replied to your post: toward a unified theory of podsa hate boners

tho i think an important part of JARMY is that thomas v1etor the fourth COULD have ridden on coattails/wasted his probable trust fund, and refused to and takes great pride in driving around iowa in a shitty van etc etc. jared represents the vapid, useless evil of being born rich that tommy has tried to dive away from.

omg this is SUCH a good and eye-opening point!! YES YES YES!!! jared is tommy’s road not taken. jared’s dad bought his way into harvard while tommy went to kenyon to smoke up with creative writing majors. pls be on my hate boner thesis committee!!

[romansroys]

veryspecificfantasies replied to your post “james comey is really out here writing self-insert fanfic about him...”

Tbh favs is jealous he didn’t do that first

right? favs could be publishing books about him and obama making out in the oval and instead he’s recording podcasts what a waste 

[sashayed]

veryspecificfantasies replied to your post “rave, i'm so angry at my scumbag congressman. i think he disconnected...”

ALSO call/tweet at your LOCAL NEWSPAPER!!! they will definitely be interested in knowing that your shithead representative has disconnected his phones. tag your local newspaper when you ask why he's not picking up. call them and share your story. local news orgs will BRING THE SHAME

GREAT POINT AND REALLY GOOD ACTION PLAN

[lilah80]

veryspecificfantasies replied to your post: Decided to channel the tears which are always...

a. u r amazing!!!! b. i am so sorry c. i just realized that where i’m living this summer has a republican senator i can call and politely yell at!!! i’ve never had a repub senator before this is exciting

I know!! On the one hand, I love my liberal Illinois senators, and on the other hand, when I call them, it’s basically just to commiserate. “DID YOU HEAR THIS NONSENSE?” “Oh girl, believe me, we know.”

So the opportunity to cry at Republicans instead of just because my dog has paws or because a Youtube dad found out he was gonna be a grandpa was A++.

[semperama]

Here's my entry to the lovely @love-leah's Danielfest!! I hope you all enjoy, and I can't wait to read everyone else's! Thanks to @veryspecificfantasies for the inspiring prompt!

A Praise Chorus

Rating: Explicit Relationship: Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen Additional Tags: Partying, Alcohol, Recreational Drug Use, Internalized Homophobia Words: ~4800 Summary:

Max gives him a birthday card. The envelope is blue, and Daniel thumbs it open carefully to find a picture of two cats in party hats and a hand-scrawled message inside about how he’s over the hill. He laughs and pulls Max into a hug, his mind racing a mile a minute about how—It’s weird, right? It’s so weird.

Daniel has a birthday in Saint Tropez. Max is there. Things change, or maybe they don't.

[valencing]

veryspecificfantasies replied to your photo: now based on those gifs you may be thinking, oh...

im so so so so so so so so furious abt this!

what if the reason favs had to unbutton his shirt in the first place was that he and tommy showed up to work in the same shirt and tommy was like, “is billy gonna think we’re weird? cuz we basically dressed alike?” and favs was like, “no it’s fine, we can make it look different,” and started unbuttoning his shirt.

“i don’t think that’s really gonna...” says tommy, but he trails off as he watches favs arrange an artful gap at his throat.

“see?” favs says happily, tugging the shirt down another inch and running his fingers over his collarbone. “now it’s like a totally different shirt!” 

“it’s really not,” tommy starts, until he realizes everyone in the vicinity is glaring at him. “you’re right favs,” he says instead. “that’s...perfect.” 

[romansroys]

veryspecificfantasies replied to your video: they’re dumb

This is …awful.

i know...the list of awful things in this video

TOMMY’S THIGHS

favs cuddling leo through the whole thing

when lovett says second show in brigadoon and favs thinks it’s so funny he has to repeat it

“woooow amazing”

tommy having to hide his face in his hands bc he’s laughing too hard

“lovett is annoying” “i’m not”