#walking-la

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

In regards to Talk Shop Tuesday, what projects are you currently working on?

Thanks for asking! I have a lot, so please bear with me here

Well there’s ofc Trophy; the fic where Zoom wins that no one wanted but me :> I also have a few AUs for that but probably won’t post them because they’re usually just 3 am writing sessions that aren’t very polished.

Got my Coldflash royalty AU where Barry’s the {former ?} prince of a kingdom that had just been overthrown by Eobard Thawne and Len’s the son of a former Royal Guard captain but wants to stay as far away from that legacy as possible. Their paths converge when Len is invited to an event celebrating the new king’s victory where poor Barry, chained beside Thawne’s throne, is used as a sort of trophy. Len doesn’t truly know yet; but his life will never be the same. Whelp— idk why I got all dramatic but that’s the beginning/premise lol

“For every One you didn’t save” is going to be rough for Barry… (I say, as if any of them aren’t. BUT this one is going to be particularly awful for his mental health). Our favorite awful bastard Eobard Thawne will fulfill the whumper role and I think that’s all I need to say. Need to work on this more ngl

“one thing” Mm. Another one with Eobard as The Worst. Honestly I’m not even sure if this would be considered whump— it’s just. Hmm. I tried to rewrite a certain scene in Coex and something happened that I Did Not mean to happen.

Get whumped idiot (placeholder title). Coldflash fic where Barry’s kidnapped as a sort of guest of honor at a fun little party for all the worst criminals in Central City. I really really need to revisit this soon cause it’s been a bit.

Enemy of my Enemyyyyyy we gotta start tormenting Barry next chapter and I WILL— I swear—

Ah yes. The Thawne kidnaps Barry instead of Eddie AU. Instead of using him to get back to his time, Thawne decides to use the blood sample from Farooq and steals Barry’s speed. Well. The process of stealing said speed is estimated to take around a week so Barry’s time is running out fast while the team desperately tries to find him. Will they get to him in time or find Barry just too late? Knowing me, it could go either way :)

Courtesy of @shrinkthisviolet I now have a ‘Savitar kidnaps and impersonates Barry’ AU that is marinating atm but has part of a scene written and an outline in progress.

Lastly, I won’t be talking about it much because I do have some rules to keep myself from spreading too thin; and one of them is only one big project at a time. But I’ve been planning a Hurt/Comfort Flash longfic (estimated 40k; probably more) for a while now. I will be talking about it —after I finish Trophy— because I have been c o o k i n g . It’s what I like to call slow burn whump. It will take a bit to get to the whump but BOY WILL IT BE WORTH IT. And this one is specifically whump aftermath (with some flashbacks to the whump). I literally can’t wait— but first, I must finish Trophy. (I do pick favorites and Trophy is #1 while this is #2)

Talk Shop Tuesday

[artofalassa]

What do you mean this is not what happened in vol 10

[wejustvibing]

[©Sam Bagnall ©Kym Illman]

[texaschainsawmascara]

Jemima Kirke & Paz de la Huerta

high school circa 2001-2005 / 2013

bonus

[m--bloop]

The Best Way to Walk (La Meilleure Façon de marcher) dir. Claude Miller, 1976

[ocularpatdowns]

thanks to that ‘an erotic life’ dennis gifset i just reblogged i went back and rewatched that scene and ive gotta say

as a philadelphian, i REALLY miss all the shots/scenes that are clearly filmed IN PHILLY. the fountain at the end of ‘an erotic life’ is in logan circle and is a VERY recognizable philly landmark. the early seasons have so many scenes that are filmed in philly! there was at least one scene in s1 shot on a basketball court in my old neighborhood like 3 blocks from where i used to live, and i always thought that was so cool!

the show still throws in the occasional philly stock exterior as an establishing shot, but they really don’t have actual scenes in philly anymore, which is a bummer. the local scenery REALLY enhanced the vibe and it was a huge part of the initial appeal of the show for me tbh

[thatsonehellofahabit]

oneyplays giving me just a bearable amount of brain damage,age

[justablah56]

hey guys what if I said cane user vr la . what then .

[hedgehog-moss]

In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

[soultiio]

my god my god why have you forsaken me

wasn't I good to you?

[k8martins]

she’s so gay

[wejustvibing]

[©Sam Bloxham ©Kym Illman]

[seventhvictim]

riverdale + giallo

Death Walks on High Heels (1971) // A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) // The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970 // What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) // All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

howdy <3 also obligatory Wally being done™️ with barnaby & howdy flirting<3

[myokk]

Imelda x Poppy🥹💓

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

One of my favorite and the most important things about Gary is that when he got buff, he didn’t also get thin.  He didn’t go from an overweight pudgy guy to a thin buff guy.  He went from a fat pudgy guy to a fat buff guy.  And to me the distinction is important.  This is a body type that exists and turning him into Hugh Jackman in Wolverine with a shredded six pack twunk body would be outrageous and unrealistic.  He’s fat.  He has a stout body type that will NEVER look like a thin person’s.  He’ll never have the Monarch’s stick figure frame.  But he CAN get swole as hell and be a total badass with this body.  AND still have a tummy on top of it.