#vocallife

[domini-porter]

(vocallife here, it's technically a side blog, blah blah blah) I am actually genuinely interested what your reactions are to each one of the pwhl names! I have a 4th grader who plays hockey herself and she was not okay with The Sceptres but if it's The Toronto Scepters she's cool with it lol

I have such strong opinions on team names (and everything names) in general; this time is no different!

The Toronto Sceptres: possibly the most boring of all royal accoutrements. Also uncomfortably imperial (I know you have (had?) another country’s monarch on your money but I don’t think anyone should be excited about that). One point for dildo jokes. 3/10 (I do concur that it’s more tolerable with the full name)

The Minnesota Frost: Fine. I lived in Minnesota for a few years. This is exactly what I would’ve expected. Referencing the cold in a v modest kind of way that avoids upsetting anyone with extremes (frost is, like, the least cold of cold weather things; can’t be too confident or enthusiastic about anything; ope, looks like you’re enjoying something a little too much, there) 6/10

The Boston Fleet: Here’s where my gears start to grind. Is it a noun? An adjective? It confuses what I’m supposed to immediately envision. Fast? I mean, okay, that’s one of the, like, basic requirements for the sport. Ships? If it’s ships, they couldn’t come up with something, like, specific? Say, something referencing a super-famous Boston incident involving ships? Which leads us to the waste of so many Boston-specific possibilities, which is one of my biggest gripes with generic team names; it just makes me feel like it’s been engineered to sell to some other city eventually. Also: enemas. 2/10

The Montréal Victoire: Impeccable. Unbelievably French. 10/10 no notes

The New York Sirens: I guess? Sure? I hope they’re talking the wee-oo wagon kind rather than the mythic hypnotist unless they’re planning on making her live in the East River as a sort of challenge to Gritty. 5/10 whatever

The Ottawa Charge: See Boston. Bullfighting, I guess, with the red jerseys? Actually no I hate it 1/10

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appreciation post for my fox @vocallife because we just got our marriage license and she just had her first day of school (no students yet edition) and every day is femme appreciation day:

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Very glad you reblogged thst ask game because I was secretly hoping you would.

Wednesday Night Fever: Where did the title come from?

And I'm also going to take this as an opening and ask what brings you to your characterizations of Maura and Jane in a romantic context (because I think it's absolutely spot on)?

oh my goodness yay! hi!

So, WNF was originally going to be a shorter, much more pwp-esque affair wholly inspired by Sabrina Carpenter's song Espresso, because I listen to music while thinking about my blorbos and my brain grabbed onto the idea of that as a Maura song and then proceeded to go brrrr about it. So it was gonna be called something like "Isn't that sweet? (I guess so)" in classic songfic fashion. But then I was thinking about how they would end up in a scenario where Maura is teasing Jane who is trying, for whatever reason, to hold back, only not really trying and just getting desperate and losing her mind a little, and plot happened. And at that point it felt improper not to have the title be related to the case.

Honestly, I find titles Hard. So I was looking for an easy out of some sort, and I figured, the murder happened outside a club, what's a phrase that's easily recognizable as being club-related... Saturday Night Fever. okay but get a little silly with it... different day of the week. Sure. That's how it happened, lol.

As for your second query........ what indeed. Very good question. I don't exactly know. I know my writing of Jane's Figuring It Out is heavily informed by my own experience of that, but that's not really what you asked. A lot of my characterization of them together is informed and maybe cribbed from (franken-cribbed from, I guess, since it's a lot of sources) All of the fic that I read upon first watching and continue to read now. That includes yours, btw. A lot of DanteBeatrice77's stuff as well, and coolbyrne, and @domini-porter, and @julieverne, and more recently @doomsday-dj and..... so many. god there are so many great writers in this fandom. I'm forgetting more than one for sure and I'm sorry to those folks but man there are so many.

I also have a very wonderful fiancée ( @vocallife) I have been mentioning in the majority of my comments lately because we've been using fic as bedtime stories and I read to her, and sometimes our dynamic matches with Jane and Maura's so I do draw on that, too. It's the whole service top/power bottom thing, I find it fairly consistently transposeable to our favourite detective and chief medical examiner.

And also my characterization comes from the fucking performances put on by Angela Michelle Harmon and Sasha Alexander. There are so many gay, gay choices those two made all the time constantly on that set and I simply want to explore them

[neveragainfools]

@threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat tagged me in a lovely challenge: what are five topics you could talk about for an hour with no preparation? Mine are:

1) an in depth compare/contrast of the various scooby doo incarnations and their pros/cons

2) navigating making your own wardrobe and getting started sewing with mainly thrifted supplies, what to expect and what to avoid

3) the good, the bad and the ugly of music in phineas and ferb

4) taskmaster contestant outfits: ranked

5) an examination of the evolution of Monsters in fiction as their nuance relates to modern anxieties, trends and taboos from folk tales to Dracula to Monster High

Tag, you're it!:

@meepmeeptheschool @takeiteasyjoan @release-the-sheep @vocallife @solarprominence

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got tagged by @kiashyel :) thank you!

rules: put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs

...Ready For It? by Taylor Swift

Maybe IDK by John Bellion

Chuis Bo! by Pzk

L'Amérique by Joe Dassin

Victoria by Jukebox the Ghost

Give Me a Try by The Wombats

Girl by Jukebox the Ghost

Permission to Dance by BTS

Help Me, Rhonda by The Beach Boys

Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles

Hell yeah. I'm pleased with that. I'm tagging @vocallife @agaricandmoss @ravenmacduff @anneofgreengaybles @justkeepbreathingnow and anybody else who wants to share!

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WIP Tag Game

I got tagged by @mx-loar-tev

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 or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

Maybe this’ll help fix my writing depression? We shall see. Also it's not technically extensive, there was stuff in there that was too short to mention and other stuff so old that I can't remember what the hell I was even trying for anymore

Stegginaird May/December

Belivaird a star is born

Belivaird homophobia

Cap Peggy Cartinelli

Fringe Liberty fic

Halloween fanfiction

Mcgonagall fic

Sarah Jane adventures fic

Sarah-gemma fic

Shira fic

Stegginelli endgame

Stegginelli endgame 1956

Supercat 5 times

Tagging @vocallife, @rainbowriddler, @shatterpath

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as @vocallife pointed out "I'm not mad, just disappointed" seems to work pretty well on the t.o. girls. 3 shots so far in the period when the entire first had 2. thanks coach. now let's see one go in

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it's sappy bitch day, and I'm a sappy bitch

happy valentine's day, @vocallife, you're my favourite

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the girls lost but we made shirts and we looked cute so there's that

ft @vocallife, my favourite barbie 💚🦊

[galindathegay]

Got tagged by the lovely @toiletpotato for a music meme!

...So Eurovision very clearly grabbed me and has not let go yet, as you can see.

Here is the link for whoever wants to do this thing:

And now for the tagging! @vocallife @intheinkpot @wheresmulder @pinkie-satan @iscariotmilf and anyone else who wants to join in!

[galindathegay]

The lovely @pinkie-satan tagged me to share 9 songs I've been listening to lately. Thank you for the tag - I love these memes and loved seeing what you listen to! (I have some of yours queued up to listen to once I have access to headphones again lol.)

1. Hydrogenuine ~ USS

2. If ~ House of Heroes

3. Tardigrade Song ~ Cosmo Sheldrake

4. Grinning Like A Barracuda ~ Nick Lutsko

5. Hello Sunshine ~ The Hoosiers

6. Sideshow ~ Nick Lutsko

7. Goldfish ~ - Enter Shikari

8. Ruby with the Sharpest Lies ~ Des Rocs

9. Cha Cha Cha ~ Käärjiä (I can't help it it's so eclectic 😭)

Tagging @intheinkpot (wave that emo flag), @wheresmulder, @vocallife, @iscariotmilf @toiletpotato, @gnotknormal, @suck-mein-pokeballs and anyone else who is interested!!

[notprincehamlet]

thanks @sarahlancashire for tagging me! ♥

were you named after anyone? not that i know of! as far as i know, my family simply got together and started brainstorming names until they settled on the one everyone liked

when was the last time you cried? can't remember, but probably last month

do you have kids? hell no!

do you use sarcasm a lot? hell yes!

what's the first thing you notice about people? i don't think i notice anything?? whenever i meet new people, i'm usually too preoccupied with masking to notice anything about them straight away. plus i forget to look at people's faces even when i'm masking lol

what's your eye color? brown

scary movies or happy endings? happy endings

any special talents? not a ~talent~, but i can control my tensor tympani muscle in both ears (i've only recently discovered it's a unique trait and not something everyone does to block annoying sounds and people)! can wiggle my ears too. that's about it.

where were you born? you wanna know the last four digits of my credit card number too?

what are your hobbies? reading, watching old films, gaming, postcrossing, journaling/collaging, cross-stitch, jigsaw puzzles

have any pets? nope

what sports do you play/have you played? lmaooooooooo

how tall are you? 170 cm

favorite subject in school? literature + english (after i finally got good at it)

dream job? i do not dream of labor

tagging @gellavonhamster @shirleyschmidts @vocallife @cozcat @rosenkranz-isnt-dead (feel free to ignore, though!)

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10 songs by 10 people let's go thanks for the tag @anneofgreengaybles

1. Ring Ring - Mika

2. Native Faith (from Touhou 10-Mountain of Faith) - ZUN

3. Ring of Fire - Johnny cash

4. Hit the Road, Jack - Ray Charles

5. Super Girl - Graham Bonney (1966 version. there are so many versions of this song this is the only good one godspeed)

6. I Saw Her Standing There - the Beatles

7. Shy Boy - Carly Rae Jepsen

8. Wildflower - Mel Bryant and the Mercy Makers

9. Jacob and Sons - Andrew Lloyd Webber

10. Les étoiles filantes - Les Cowboys Fringants

tagging @vocallife @agaricandmoss and anyone else who wants to do this it's fun

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what is your top 5 fruits?

1. @vocallife

2. @curriebelle

3. @shorthalt

4. @anneofgreengaybles

5. @electricyoshi

okay no for real though

1. it's still @vocallife sorry

2. raspberries

3. bananas

4. pears

5. strawberries

bonus: I like tomatoes

[galindathegay]

@vocallife I am tagging you because this choir sounds immaculate

But also did YOU know Carol of the Bells was a shitty US remake???

[galindathegay]

@vocallife I missed it yesterday but 💜💜💜💜💜

Pagan holiday’s are fun cus no one can figure out if they should preface their holiday greatings with “happy” “merry” or “blessed”