#where do thai fans post fanfic

[cornflowershade]

bad buddy fandom getting-to-know-you meme!

Thank you for tagging me @lamonnaie!

note: i consider "fanworks" to pretty much everything people create related to a fandom, including but not limited to meta/analysis/discussion, gifs, fanvids/edits/fancams, filk, fanart, fanfic, fan food, fan crafts, etc. please include this note with the meme unless you have a different definition!

name and whatever you want to share about yourself Sonia (she/her). 24. I love getting to know people & chatting about shows so lets goooo

when did you watch bad buddy/join the fandom? I watched Bad Buddy in one week, in late October 2022. I owe it to @airenyah honestly. I think I found their blog through an SPN post and clicked over for that reason. In my scrolling, I happened upon a lovely gifset (wish I could recall who made it) of InkPa. It was the scene where they're outside and Pa says anyone taller than her is fine and hops down off the sidewalk. :) Love that scene. Anyway I reblogged it and in the tags was like WHAT IS THIS I MUST WATCH IT. To which airenyah gave me a whole blessed reply telling me the show name, giving a small synopsis/what to expect from my first thai drama & telling me where I could watch it. I immediately watched the series and adored it. I've seen it twice thus far.

favorite ship(s) PatPran & InkPa :)

favorite character(s): Okay I adore all the main 4 but I'm gonna go with Pran. I love him. There's just something so soft about him and how on earth do his eyes communicate so much?? I think I relate to his messy little overthinking and silently in love brain—very "me the first time i had a queer crush and simply wallowed the whole time bc it was impossible" lol. Also, he's always making the funniest facial expressions which gets me every time. I could go on about everything I like about his character (for instance how clever yet sometimes oblivious he is & how he gets all annoyed lol). Though I do question his sense of interior design and that smiley face obsession.

favorite episode(s) Honestly I'm not certain if I have one?? It's all so good! I do really like their "whoever falls first loses" era though. Wait actually?? My favorite ep might be the early one where Pat thinks he's hitting on the "girl" across the hall and they end up running into each other on the roof. Also both of the beach episodes.

favorite scene(s) *pastes in the entire show* Okay okay I'll try to pick a few:

~ The scene where Pat is staying over and he and Pran are lying in the dark, counting down to say in unison whether they have a crush on Ink. Idk I remember that scene having an emotional impact on me. Pran's face??? Then when Pat asks "would you like me?" and Pran says "I hate you" and then he yanks the blanket away but you saw him crying?? ahhhghrhghgh

~ The scene in the darkroom with Ink and Pa. I remember getting so emotional. Pretty sure Pa's dialogue and acting made me cry. "I do [like you being nice to me]. I like it so much that I thought I was special to you." ARE YOU KIDDING ME ASDFGZ. And then Ink says she is special to her!! And it's so sweet!!

~ OH and how could I forget. This should be at the top of the list. I realllly like the scene where Pran stands up to his mom and they have that emotional fight in their front hall. That whole thing is just. AHHHHHH. AHHH. AHIOFJEIOsdJIO. SIJDGRIOGJRIGJORE

~ And the scene at the stairs where Pat yells how much he loves Pran in front of Pran's whole faculty. :)

(Also any scene where Pat & Pran are being silly. Like their dumb little chopstick fight :p omg or the designing the bus stop at night scene)

one thing you would change about the show if you could Ohhhh I don't know! Maybe I'd throw in a few more InkPa scenes :)

what are your some of your favorite fanworks made by other people? Ahh fun fun fun. Get ready for some fanvid recs! (What else do you expect from me, a fanvidder.)

�� Just My Type (Pat x Pran) by samyvids • Physical (Pat x Pran) by coldties • Enchanted (Ink x Pa) by rheaprodz • I really like you (Pat x Pran) by dkyth73 • Rebels (Pat x Pran) by coldties • Dandelions (Pat x Pran) by hylian fanvids

(if you create fanworks) what are your favorite fanworks that you’ve made? I've made two fanvids for Bad Buddy, as well as one song cover haha. I'll stick to the fanvids here. :)

• All I Need (Ink x Pa) • That dimple is illegal (Pat x Pran)

a song that makes you think of bbs (the ones in the show don’t count lol) Physical by Dua Lipa. The fanvid using that song is my all-time favorite BBS edit, so hearing the song reminds me of it.

idk anything else you want us to know? Uhhhhhhhh. I mean I could ramble about BBS and why it means so much to me for a long time haha. Should I do that? I guess I'll do that.

Okay so BBS was the first Thai drama I watched. I was still feeling a lot from the SPN-finale/confession scene era (yes that happened 2 years prior but it's SPN okay iykyk) which had me especially sad about and aware of media censorship etc. etc.

On top of that I was still working up the courage to leave this group chat of childhood friends, some of whom liked to complain about media "making everything gay" etc. (Amazing how you can not know people are homophobic for the entirety of your childhood bc the topic just never comes up lol.) Which was of course upsetting to me for multiple reasons. However the universe decided to do something nice and Heartstopper was released. That series felt really huge to me, but after it was over, I was left with this feeling of like... what else is there to watch? Where else will I ever find a queer ship this canon where they're also the main characters?

That's when I came across BBS and it gave me this realization that OH WAIT we aren't limited to western media and OH LOOK there's so many great shows that I didn't even know about!! And they keep making them! Also it was a queer story where the main obstacle wasn't being gay (Plus, Asian leads!!). And BBS itself is just such a standout show. First of all, I love a good comedy and the series made me laugh so much. It's heartfelt but full of ANTICS [like yes lets have fun! Lets not take everything too seriously!], and Pat & Pran & Ink & Pa are just such wonderful and lovable and real feeling characters—who have this lovely friendship too—and the show is just! Such a fun ride. <3 I recall watching the series and feeling like my world just got a little bit bigger. Anyway Bad Buddy goes all in for everything it does and it's such a joy.

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Tagging @airenyah and @distant-screaming and @feralmuskyscentedhoepran if you haven't done this yet and would like to!

[chaos0pikachu]

Your post reminds me of the early 2000s when people were speculating on which Disney Channel and Nickelodeon actors were actually together IRL (which is weird enough to speculate on the romantic lives of children) and how crazy the tabloids were in general back then when it came to actors personal/romantic lives.

I think people in Western culture tend to downplay the prevalence of that behavior nowadays because it’s not as front and center as it used to be but it does still happen and a lot of the time it’s still used by studios to promote their shows. Definitely not a phenomenon unique to Asia.

Omg you just made me remember the Lindsey Lohan, Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter 'love' triangle that existed back then lmaoooo what a time

I do think western fans, particularly ones in BL/GL fandoms, are so hyper focused on those fandoms/sub-fandoms they either don't pay attention to what's happening outside of those fandoms or don't know general media history. I don't blame~~ ppl for this fandom is ultimately a hobbyist space first and foremost, but I do think it can lead to damaging assumptions about non-American/British cultures and a prevalent belief that these types of occurrences only happen in BL/GL fandoms which can - and has in my observations - lead to some xenophobic beliefs about East Asian cultures in general.

This is a bigger problem in general of xenophobia when it comes to consuming and/or engaging with non-white/non-american media like this belief that Korean media isn't horny in general isn't just something I see BL fans saying but also ppl who watch romance kdramas b/c that's their main focus, romance kdramas not Korean media in general. Which is vast and varied, and exists beyond Crash Landing Into You, Guardian, Squid Game and Parasite

(sidenote, everyone knows Bong Joon-ho for Parasite but his filmography is varied and amazing, The Host is such a clever subversive of a B monster movie and Snowpiercer is probably one of my fave films of all time and Chris Evans best on screen performance to date)

Like, I see folks saying "shipping" a lot when it comes to fans believing idk Mew and Gulf were irl dating when in my fandom experience that shit was called "tin hatting" b/c it was a conspiracy. There was a fine line difference between ppl who like just enjoyed and liked Dom and Elijah's friendship and wrote silly (even if it was sexy) fanfic about them and the ppl who literally stalked Elijah to a gay bar once b/c they legitimately believed Dom and Elijah were in a secret romance. Like way to much fandom shit, Jared and Jensen also popularized tin hatting or rather their fandom did. J2 crawled so Larries could fucking RUN. Back in the days of LiveJournal there were anon communities that had threads with 1000s of comments about how Jared and Jensen were secretly in a relationship b/c omg look at the way they act at cons! They're so touch-feely! They make innuendo jokes!

We'd call this "fan service" with a Thai acting pair and I would argue that's what Jared and Jensen were doing, fan service just in the early 00s. Idk if they still do this at cons I don't follow SPN anymore but you saw the same comments about like the 1D members. In my experience I would argue western tin hatters of western celebs are worse than what I see from BL fans even with the "fan service" or whatever b/c there's a sense of heightened conspiracy think involved. And again, it's not just for same-sex couples the actors for Outlander have been harassed by tinhats for almost as long as the show has been on (so like 8-ish years). At the height of the popularity for Scandal tin hats were saying Kerry Washington's baby was gonna come out light skinned "proving" it was her white costars (for those who don't know Kerry is a Black woman and her husband is a Black man, her former costar is a white man).

idk where I was going with all this but like, this isn't something specific to Thailand or Korea etc it's not even something specific to same sex pairings. I would argue Thailand's just learned how to monetize off people's already pre-existing lack of boundaries towards public figures.

[recentadultburnout]

Hi there, I'm trying to find more fannish discussion and fanworks (fic, art, edits, meta …) in Thai -- I assume it must exist somewhere, and I know some happens on pantip and twitter (plus fic on readawrite), but I am having a hard time figuring out what else there is … So I was wondering whether you had any pointers where to look? Sorry if this is a weird thing to ask (~_~; ) Thank you for the work you do with your cultural info and language posts! <3

No, no, it's not weird. But the answer might be a bit disappointing.😅

For Thai series fans, there isn't much more than what you already know.

There is Facebook, where, in my opinion, some similar but fewer activities than those on Twitter happen.

You can find edits on YouTube and TikTok.

And for fic, ธัญวลัย and Dek-d also have some on them.

But most RPF "fanfic" in Thai isn't really fanfic. And Thai writers in Thai series fandom's work are mostly that. It's basically a whole new story that, for some reason, writers still call fanfic. Most of them will be tagged as actor/actor but have nothing to do with them other than the tag, not even the character's name, which is quite a weird thing to do in my opinion.

[three--rings]

Final Kinnporsche Review

So in trying to figure out how to approach writing an actual Kinnporsche review, I ended up having to make a list of positives and negatives because I couldn’t figure out how else to approach it.  I’m also keeping this as non-spoilery as possible.

It’s not a show I can praise wholeheartedly without also tempering it with some criticism.  It’s not a show I recommend without caveats.  It is, however, a show I really have enjoyed watching and which I love in many respects.  I’m going to pretty immediately watch it again, and I watched most episodes twice while it was airing.  Plus I’m planning to read the novel on which it was based.

So obviously, I like it. 

But let’s run through my pros and cons.  Gonna start with the cons and then linger on the pros.  These are all, of course, my opinion and I know some people don’t have the same experience of this show as me which is totally valid.  It really depends where your threshold/attitude is towards certain things in your media and everyone is different.

Negatives:

I spoke about this in my initial post about the show, but early on and occasionally throughout, the show has some cringey and embarrassment-based humor.  Especially in episode 2, which is basically ENTIRELY that.  There are a number of scenes in this show I have watched mostly through my hands because I can’t handle second hand embarrassment. 

The setting/premise of the show is not very believable.  The mafia family with a skyscraper full of young, hot bodyguards and James Bond style tech requires a good amount of suspension of disbelief to buy into.  In general the plot and action scenes require you watch with a lot of suspension of disbelief.  This isn’t realistic drama TV, it’s fanfic level mafia AU that runs entirely on Rule of Cool.

The way the plot is handled/shot/edited/written is uneven and has some very sloppy moments.  Some episodes are perfect and tight and others are a hot mess IMO.  There’s a lot of them cutting and you going “wait, what? what happened, where are we, did I miss something?”  Most of the time, the scene you find yourself in is fun and sometimes delightful and therefore you don’t actually care how you got to it.  But it still...rankles, and shows the inexperience of much of the team behind the show.

I can’t speak very well to how this compares to other BL dramas or Thai dramas, but there’s a good amount of cheesy fan service that shows off the bodies of the actors.  I’m not talking about specifically sex scenes or romance scenes, but everyone having their shirts unbuttoned practically to their waists, removing clothes for little reason, etc.  You get used to it as like...background levels of fan services and certainly the eye candy is very nice but...it could turn some people off (and others on I’m sure).

This is almost a World Without Women, as tends to be a problem with BL content.  This really feels like a world where women somehow don’t exist and most men are just queer by default.  There are a couple of mother figures, literal and figurative, but they are rarely on screen.  It would feel a little less weird if, like, IDK any of the men of the family had a female significant other who wasn’t dead.

There are elements of dubious consent in both the kinnporsche and vegaspete (and actually almost kimchay) ships.  There’s one scene of basically sexual assault that IMO is well-handled in the aftermath, but it IS between two people who go on to be in a relationship/fall in love.  There’s also a lot of violence, on-screen torture, and one ship where one of them tortures the other and keeps him as a prisoner before falling for him.   So...there are elements you could say are problematic and/or toxic.  If you are sensitive to these things/themes you should stay away.  BUT I do think the way all of them is handled is SUPER INTERESTING and appealing to me personally.  I love some redemption narratives and complicated characters and relationships.

Which brings me to the Positives.

One of my general complaints about a lot of BL dramas is that they involve young characters in high school or university.  Kinnporsche is lovely in that regard because the characters/actors are mid-late 20s and the plot is way more interesting that just school drama.

The acting level of this show is EXCELLENT pretty much across the board.  Every once in a while a side character has bad line delivery or a particular scene twigs my bad acting nerve, but overall I’m INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED with the cast.  Especially since this is the first job for some of them.  (I have a Real Problem with bad acting that ties into my embarrassment squick so this is a concern with small productions.)

But really Mile, Apo, Bible, Build...they all fucking killed it and conveyed such a range of content.  But especially the super emotional scenes were so fucking good.  (I’m especially impressed with Apo and Bible...damn.)

The filming is very aesthetic, pleasant, and fun to watch.  Despite the obvious low budget which occasionally shows in things like the rare CGI, the cinematography is impressive.  The show loves to show it off, too, with the colored lighting and camera angles, but it never feels too much and makes it a LOT more visually interesting than pretty much any other BL I’ve seen images of.  (And a lot of regular TV, especially romance-focused shows.)

I started talking above about the complicated characters, and this is where the show SHINES.  The characters feel complex and realistic, and have believable development across the series, which of course the acting level shows off.  But also the relationships have ARCS, really huge amounts of development. 

Kinnporsche especially, since that’s the focus of the show.  It’s really a sorta enemies to lovers situation and there’s a lot of stops along the way, although they really sort themselves out by a little over halfway through the show. 

Vegaspete is the secondary ship and it doesn’t get started until close to the end of the season but they do SO MUCH with a few episodes.  I wish it had had a little more time, but I get why it happened that way.  This is even MORE of enemies to lovers with one of them being a main antagonist to boot.  I was expecting to HATE this ship and they...ended up being possibly my faves.

The third ship is Kim/Chay and it’s a really side story kind of thing.  It doesn’t really get the development of the others but it has cute moments and is more of hints for the future/possibly S2.

But all the pairs have SUPER good chemistry.  Like, wow, okay.  That intimacy coaching worked I guess.

Speaking of which, let’s talk Sex Scenes.  This is going to sound a certain way, but my very favorite thing about this show is the sex scenes.  Because I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen better sex on screen.  Most sex scenes on film are cringey and awkward or uncomfortable looking.  But Kinnporsche manages to make them hot, sexy, beautiful, and also to have a lot of relevance to the characters and the relationships.  The sex scenes are meaningful and tell a story.  They have significance in the overall story.  The emotions on the characters faces is just as important as their bodies or even more so.  These sex scenes feel ACTUALLY INTIMATE and that’s VERY RARE.

And they are super explicit.  The extended version of the show is 21+ and yeah...this is definitely adults only content.  But mostly because they don’t shy away from the realities of what is happening.  Like, yeah, you know what sex act is occurring and it’s not all penetration.  I’m going to stop talking about the sex now because I’m probably going to do a post all about that.  I have a lot of feelings about it, as someone very concerned with the portrayal of sex and sex positivity.  But finally the last thing I’ll say is that if you’ve ever wanted to see good fanfic sex scenes on screen, this is the closest thing I’ve ever seen.

The show is very queer.  As I mentioned above, pretty much everyone in the show is casually queer as if that’s just the default.  Now that’s sorta because it’s in weird BL land, but also...something about the representation feels like there have been queer hands on it.  Now, I can’t obviously speak to the sexual or gender identities of anyone involved with the show.  I’m not pointing to anyone in particular with this.  But the way that there’s no homophobia onscreen, the way everyone just accepts “you love who you love”, the way there’s no gay panic, the way there’s a variation of the way gender is presented, with men of a wide range of feminine traits on display, the gnc characters... it’s a thing.

I was originally VERY on guard about the representation in this show, especially when it came to stereotypes, but then the show just sorta kept not doing the stereotypical thing and exceeding my expectations. 

Finally, the show is fun.  The tone bounces all over the damn place enough to give you emotional whiplash, but it’s almost always a fun ride if you just relax and shrug and go along with it.  The entire ensemble will win your heart and make you fond of them and ultimately you just have to root for this crazy, bizarre, unique little show that could.

Where to watch:  As far as I know, right now the only way to watch the show legally is with iQiyi VIP.  There may be some episodes up on YouTube but I think they are only the edited versions?  You want the extended ones, trust me.

However if you cannot access it through official channels for some reason, a quick search will find it elsewhere.  (I include this because usually I get a crapton of comments about how to watch a series.  So please...search engine folks.)

[absolutebl]

Ok a non singing BL ask, it’s about the latest episode of Not Me so spoilers if you haven’t seen it. ********************** so GramBlack seems officially sank and it’s caused discussion about queer erasure. I wanted to get your thoughts/perspective on it. I did think the narrative was indicting Gram and Black had a close relationship and then after Black woke up it seemed like the plot was working overtime to keep them separate. And now Gram was in love with Eugene the whole time. Some people are saying Gram could still be queer even if he’s in a m/f relationship which I of course know is true but I think it’s moving the goal post wrt queer erasure. The narrative gave us a lot of scenes supporting GramBlack imo, because as far as I recall no one has called Eugene “Gene” so the GB dolls referring to her and not Gram seems like a big misdirection or just clumsy execution. Yes, there are plenty of other queer ships and plots in Not Me but it does seem that this one thread, GramBlack, was changed midway or poorly set up. Your thoughts?

You're really sucking me into this? Are you sure you want me in this space?

The GramBlack Debacle

Were we teased by the narrative into thinking it might happen? Sure

Is it queer erasure? Nope*

Bad story writing? Maybe

An inability to understand the fandom? Probubly

On the other hand, did they think maybe fans would be mad if Gun was depicted with a different partner? Likely

Some reasons not to be mad:

1. GMMTV rarely (if ever) gives us 3 BL couples in one series. So there is no real president from them to do this.

2. They are vested in OffGun as their last standing OG pair. (TayNew seem basically retired at this point.)

3. Good representations of non-sexualized masculine queer friendships on screen, especially when one or both are queer? VERY VERY IMPORTANT. As important as good representations of male/female straight friendships. And as rare, if not rarer.

It's pretty darn vital that being gay not be conflated with being attracted to or pursued by every other dude in the show. It's real important to portray humans being friends with the gender (or genders) that they are attracted to. Otherwise this can tie into predatory gay (or predatory queer) or bisexual = slut stereotypes.

It could be argued that GramBlack NOT being Gram Black is actually more important to queerness. So let's put the queer erasure bullpucky to bed shall we? I'm sorry if someones out there are but-hurt (pun intended) that their ship didn't sail but no one was attacking anyone's identity with this. At worse it was careless storytelling.

This is why AO3 exists. Seek ye some fanfic.

Pat pat pat.

Also, even if Gram and Black are both straight, two men unafraid of physical contact with each other in this age where toxic masculinity probubly in part is the fault of culture (and international) touch shaming and touch starvation? SUPER FUCKING IMPORTANT. (You want more of this, it's in my skinship post.)

Gram’s queerness:

Okay so here’s what the narrative told us: he has an ex who is third gender. In our language (in most non-Thai translations) she would be a she/her and as a trans woman if Gram dated her in modern queer parlance then he was dating a woman. That makes him straight by outside observation.

Gram then has a crush on a cis girl.

What’s actually been decided for his character with this dating history is technically straightness. However, he says he signs the petition and something about the way he talks with his ex implies that he enjoyed dating her in part for her identity which means he probably does identify as queer. Also, boy can do and call himself what he likes regardless of his dating history.

Still, that doesn’t necessarily mean he wants to sleep with or date boys, tho. Perhaps he's into the feminine in general.

Final thoughts on GramBlack?

Clearly the fandom wanted it a lot more than the director or GMMTV did. That's pretty much all we can say.

However, what this probubly did was tell GMMTV something interesting, if they were paying attention to it (and they usually are):

Viewers are willing to see Gun with other pairings. And THAT could get interesting in the future.

Personally I've always wanted him to do a BL with Tay that pulls on their existing personalities: puppy/puppy, sunshine/sunshine is a pairing we never get in BL.

(Incidentally, Gun has been partnered with others pre GMMTV. You'll need to track down: The Blue Hour, Love Love You, and there's another one set in a cafe I can't remember the name of pre 2016.)

Oy, I don't think I'm ready for the comments on this one. @parralex0889 what have you wrought?

* Note I backtrack on the erasure thing in the comments when I learned that GramBlack WERE A COUPLE IN THE ORIGINAL Y-NOVEL!!! 

But it’s interesting to note that as someone who knew nothing about the source material, my original stance was just... messed up story and GMMTV politics. 

[peculiarmindset]

More Yuri on ice fart fanfics please 🥺🙏🙏

At this point, I don’t see myself ever writing more for YOI (unless I get a sudden urge to write for them again). So whatever YOI drabbles I have stored left are pretty precious, and will only be released in exchange if someone writes me a Drarry fic and asks for a YOI story back….sorry! 😓

But after reviewing my YOI fart fics, about half of them are pretty lame if I do say so myself. So here’s one that I’ll post because I’d feel bad if someone wrote me a fic and I gave them this pathetic drabble in exchange.

The Common Fart

The Common Fart - This fart needs little description. It is to the world of farts what the house sparrow is to the world of birds.

*Actually, the farting here isn't as….detailed or graphic as compared to my other stories. I just wanted to write something light and not so kinky this time. So I guess the common fart was perfect for this.

Being roommates and best friends for as long as they had been, Yuuri and Phichit can honestly say that they've been through pretty much EVERYTHING together.

Like the time Phichit posted a poll on all his social media accounts about who would most likely be the uke in the relationship- Yuuri or Phichit? (Surprisingly, the votes were pretty much even and even started a heated debate among their fans).

Or the time when Yuuri got drunk and ran across the entire campus naked, stealing the hearts of students and staff alike.

Or the time Phichit managed to convince Yuuri that they should take on the challenge of eating the Eagle Cafe's Tower Burger because he had faith that they could totally do it (They couldn't).

Or the time Yuuri got drunk and followed the school's football star to his room in order to make out, but the Japanese man ended up making out with the star's pillow instead, making the football player insanely jealous of his own pillow.

Or the time Phichit managed to convince the school board that a Thai language class should definitely be added as one of the school's language subjects (he totally aced that class, by the way ;)

Or the time Yuuri got drunk and peed on everything he saw- a tree, a fire hydrant, a bench, on a police car, on a policeman, in a police car, in a jail cell, on Phichit when the Thai came to bail him out, in his living room, and finally on himself, where Yuuri finally passed out.

Or the time Phichit managed to get his hamster nominated for student council president and Pad Thai (his hamster's name) actually came in second.

Or the time when Yuuri got drunk and was the reason why Pad Thai got nominated and became runner up in the first place.

Yes, Yuuri got into a lot of trouble when he got drunk (which really, wasn't all that often). But it was all Phichit's fault since the Thai had swore to him that he would make sure that Yuuri wouldn't get into any 'serious' trouble.

So the friends been through so much together that nothing really fazes them anymore.

If one of them forgot their money, the other would gladly lend them some money with a promise for the other to join him in attending another party that night.

If one of them had their heart broken, the other would make sure to wait at the asshole's dorm room with pepper spray in one hand and a baseball bat in the other.

If one of them farted in front of the other, the other would also let out a fart and they would just laugh about it together.

These two lovable idiots were the best of friends, and Yuuri and Phichit would never change anything between them.

No matter what.

[kojakaj]

things i would do if i was a celebrity because i think im significantly funnier than all of them

make a depop that sells exclusively blades of grass

post videos but put a rick roll halfway through

learn a language like thai or lao that isnt’t commonly used in america just, cuz

assuming im famous as a singer, make translations of my songs only in that language or a rlly obscure one like latin or klingon 

make a twitch where i just make copious amounts of pb&j’s

make an onlyfans but its just shitty memes i made

leak my own pinterest but its just thousands of pictures of frogs

do the wap dance terribly and the repost that 1 video hundreds of times on tik tok

go on omegle like a LOT 

do promposals on twitter to random famous people like hillary clinton or jyp

confess to murders that just havent happened

confess to murders of famous people who have died naturally 

randomly go into a convenience store in like rural nebraska for no reason and just order like normal and leave

make baked goods and mail them to fans

randomly go to people weddings

message people on instagram on my official account just saying dumb shit

fund trans ppls transitions 

fill up random go fund mes

be ovERLY AGGRESSIVE abt blm/stop asian hate/climate change/bunch of other stuff

make an ao3 where i only write smut for like, sonic or mario or obscure animes or like charlie chaplan

find fanfics other people have written abt me and read them aloud on twitch or smth

go on dating apps but set that ages to like 60+

do covers of meme songs like super sonic electronic (an absolute bop btw)

ask out other celebrities for no reason really elaborately and either make out with them on the spot if they say yes or perform another terrible song abt heartbreak right after

flirt with, not the fans, but their confused parents

ok i understand celebrities cant do a lot of this for genuine reasons but most of it is just funny and i think more celebrities should just act absolutely batshit for the hell of it

[silverink58]

Hi! I just saw your JJK twin AU fan art and I love it! I’ve been really loving the twin AU also. Are there any fics you could recommend with that AU or will you be doing more fan art? ☺️

Thank you so much! I LOVE TWIN AU TOO! I’m so hype for jjk so much that there are million think I want to draw. Unfortunately, I don’t have much time these days because I’m too busy with all the university projects and finals.

I don’t actually read jjk fic in ao3, as of now I still haven’t find the writing style that I like from that site yet (in jjk fandom I mean). But I actually read fics from pixiv, LOFTER and some from Thai fanfic site. If you don’t mind foreign language fic I can recommend some for you!

But since I don’t have any recommended fic, would you mind if I recommend some twin AU fan art instead?

Warning: some of the artist I recommended draw NFSW, and ship that you might dislike so please read the warning before you click the link!

My fav one are from this artist (gojoxyuuji, fushigurox yuuji, sukunax yuuji)

https://twitter.com/r_i_p_2d/status/1320018517228351488?s=21

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/85196553 (some nfsw)

(This one is jjk fan art log, the art is so cuteeee, I really love their art style and the way they draw yuuji. Here is small crop photo of their drawing.)

Itadori family and the twin (sukunaxyuuji?)

https://twitter.com/si_lu0120/status/1374330948452413441?s=21

Twin AU with yuuji as a girl version (gojoxyuuji, sukunaxyuuji?)

https://twitter.com/kanaikex/status/1356556257591611392?s=21 (1)

https://twitter.com/kanaikex/status/1356954025904594945?s=21 (2)

https://twitter.com/kanaikex/status/1358398268410003458?s=21 (3)

https://twitter.com/kanaikex/status/1360936786545963011?s=21 (4)

Does twin AU where they both are cats count?

https://twitter.com/btmo_chi/status/1372532754374529030?s=21

Jjk high school AU + the twin (no quite sure if there is ship for this one)

https://twitter.com/dekopon33333/status/1335287430161657857?s=21

https://molanyan0529.lofter.com/post/1ec8e08e_1caffe5b7 (Chinese translation)

Reincarnation AU where Sukuna seems to have the memory of past life?

https://twitter.com/RodysanP/status/1340246324734619648?s=20

This is all I can remember for now, but I’m quite sure most of the people might have seen them.

*I really like the pencil sketch I post here, so I want everyone to see but I wasn’t sure if this consider repost (even if I crop out most of the picture so that they will follow the link instead) since I didn’t ask for the permission from the artist. So please tell me if it’s not ok. I will take the picture down!

[rigelmejo]

Dude I was on the language learning forms as I do sometimes, and someone was lamenting the lack of Chinese content to immerse in (watch, read etc). And how it was hard to find and they didn’t have this problem with Japanese what should they do?

Well. 1. I get their frustration on one level, as I do think Japanese content is so much more mainstream to watch in English speaking countries (at least anime and Japanese video games), that trying to find content in a language where it’s harder to just find content right on Netflix or from a friends recommendation does bring up a new challenge. Whereas with Japanese, probably you could accidentally stumble onto it or have a friend recommend you something, then at least explore deeper with some idea of what you liked/where to start finding it.

However. The person also sort of thought the lack of content was due to Chinese just not having as much content or as interesting content. Again I’m going to assume their key issue was just - it can be a new challenge finding media if you have a harder time just starting.

Because lol?? Chinese has SO much content. Like as far as language content on the internet alone??? Chinese has been eons easier to find than Japanese for me, and in terms of sites I actually use regularly is much closer to my experience of English online (there’s so much Chinese content online... so much... an incredible amount... like in chinese I’ve even found free movie watching sites FOR shows in English - like the way I find sites in English to watch Chinese shows IN chinese lol! Like you can use English to search for Chinese stuff, and literally do the reverse to find English stuff, there is so much Chinese stuff... I found more stuff in Japanese using bilibili in chinese than I could find of Japanese using YouTube In English). And Chinese drama land is HUGE it feels as active as American television, so you have endless genres to dive into and companies and actors and writers etc (there is a distinct lack of sci fi though as far as I’ve seen, but to be fair america isn’t making a Ton of sci fi compared to like Detective shows either - it’s just English speaking sci fi has had some more good ones in recent years). There is no lack of Chinese content out there. There’s audiobooks, dramas, audio dramas, talk shows, radio, fanfiction, novels, fanart, manhua, sites to find other stuff, forums, weibo, search sites, just a lot?? Like, if you think Japanese has enough internet content then there is an adequate amount of Chinese content on the internet too lol. You just may have to do a touch more initial exploration.

I just. Thought the assumption “can’t find media means their media sucks” was funny. Because also? I have not found that to be true. I know very little about Thai media. I just happened upon SOTUS cause of a friend talking about it. So like someone watching anime conveniently - I got into it. It was good, so I dug, and found a lot of amazing Thai shows (and some I didn’t love cause lol genres all have a mix of quality depending on show etc). There IS a ton of amazing Thai shows that exist right now. But if all you ever found was SOTUS? While it was great when I saw it to me, once I found more I realized there was a LOT better stuff. So like if you see one cdrama on Netflix (if that’s how you first easily find the media), that does not mean all shows will be that quality or anything like them! And just cause it’s the first one you found doesn’t mean they’re all like that ones quality.

Like I had a similar experience with jdramas growing up, so I get it. I was into anime, saw some (trainwreck) live action adaptations. And as a teenage just blanket assumed all Japanese live action media was gonna be around that quality. And then in recent years, I checked out some Japanese live action media - to see if new stuff was better. YEAH IT SURE IS (and I would imagine some old stuff was great I just gave up after one not-wonderful one lol). SO MANY AMAZING jdramas exist now! Even the ones I most feared would not be great - live action adaptations of anime’s? They’re so much better now, some of them are genuinely loved in their own right as standalone live actions. So like. One not-great show experience is NOT representative of the entire plethora of shows available and their quality. Now that I’ve realized how MANY good jdramas I missed out on? I have so much catching up to do ToT

2. If you’re in this boat of “content seems hard to find, so I feel like there’s none or no good stuff” what to do?

First ask some friends for recommendations?

Check Netflix, Amazon, YouTube (YouTube has a ton of cdramas), Viki, iQiyi app. Like how some people get into anime, maybe you just need an easy conviennent show in your recommended to get into more content.

Check out rec channels on YouTube like Donghua Reviews and Avenue X to hear about some shows and figure out the kinds of ones you’d even want to check out (I imagine other languages also have review channels like for kdramas).

Go to MyDramaList.com. Search genres you like, read recommendation list posts. if you’ve seen a show at this point already you can look it up and see in the “Recommended” section what other dramas are like it, you can see it’s genre tags to see WHAT genres you even seem to like. Use this to start DIGGING and finding stuff you might really like. Since like with anime, you’re only going to find the most popular stuff at first just based on Netflix or friends (which might not match up to your personal tastes as well as finding stuff that Is more your favorite genres).

Try out new stuff. And if it sucks, you don’t like it? Drop it, learn that about yourself, start another new thing. You’ll figure out what you like and dislike pretty fast (like I personally hate bad pacing or bad writing specifically characterization, and I can notice when the specific things I love are gonna be in a show pretty fast).

Check out genres specific to that language’s media. Because if it’s new to you, you might not know if you even like it or not, and if you like it then which things you personally prefer in it (since even within a genre there will be wildly different content and feels). For Chinese this might be wuxia, xianxia, palace dramas, costume dramas, republican era dramas, tomb raiding dramas etc.

*That’s how it worked for me, SOTUS led me to the bl drama fans, eventually they recommended Guardian so bam I guess I was learning chinese, YouTube recced me more cdramas from there to continue with, and mydramalist.com helped me find other shows with actors I liked from guardian (and other bl related shows which led me to Go Princess Go of all things for the bi lead), and that site helped me find more genres and shows I’d like, as well as friends continuing to rec things. Didn’t take long to figure out what I liked, didn’t, and to start noticing what upcoming stuff I’d probably be excited for. And now there’s so much good stuff found I don’t have enough time lol.

As for non show media: use shows as the jump off point. Just like using “easy to find shows” can be used to break into finding more shows. Once you have a show you liked a lot - look up it it’s based on a book, if it has an audiobook, an audio drama, a manhua, a donghua. Chances are it DOES have some of this stuff, because cdramas do a PRETTY regular amount of the time. Often cdramas have all or nearly all of these other story types. So jump into those, then find more novels or audio drama or manhua etc by branching off from the one you liked to others like it. Novelupdates.com is good for doing this with novels (it has a recommendations section), I imagine manhua sites have rec lists too, ximalaya starts recommending stuff once you’ve listened to a few audio on it, etc. And if you get into fandoms of those x media types, those fans will start recommending more too. And again, even if you just stick to media related to shows you liked - so often shows have so MUCH related media that would definitely keep you busy. (Like I didnt wade into non-show connected novels until I looked up more novels as recommendations afte show-related novels, like MDZS and Guardian leading me to SVSSS and 2ha and Can Ci Pin which at the time had no show adaptations, and then eventually found just-novel rec lists - which is still the main way I find fanfic).

[thegreenmeridian]

So, some people might be wondering why I reblog stuff talking about how ‘pedophile’ as an accusation on tumblr/twitter/etc is almost always bullshit. Like, what have I got to hide?!

But I’ve been on this website since I was 16. I took a year and a half break back in 2018, but basically, I’ve been here long enough to SEE SOME SHIT. And experience some shit, for that matter.

I made the mistake of getting hardcore into SJ culture, where cruelty and harassing people for minor infractions was the norm. As an example, at one point I had two separate call out posts going around about me at the same time, one because used ‘trans*’ on a post, and one because I had used ‘trans’ on another post. I can’t even remember what the fucking beef was against the star or against not using the star, it doesn’t matter. Whatever it was, people decided I needed to get hate mail because I’d done a Bad.

Previous to that, as a naive 17 year old branching out into social media, I’d made a post on my Wordpress about getting touched up at a job interview for an Italian restaurant in which I’d said I hadn’t noticed his behaviour was getting inappropriate because I’d been to a lot of Italian or Spanish restaurants in which slightly flirty managers/waiters were the norm and getting called ‘beautiful’ or ‘darling’ or whatever was just something I sort of expected in that sort of environment. I had like 20 twitter followers at that point, almost entirely childfree or abortion rights themed accounts, and twitter existed mostly as a way to promote my wordpress blog. I made a naive comment a few weeks later on twitter about how sad it was that the LGB community could be cruel to the T because people who’ve been treated like shit should know what that feels like. The punishment for that ‘crime’ was that a woman in her 40s with a degree of internet clout in the SJ world rallied her followers against me, and next thing I know I had people @ing me in tweets about how I deserved to get sexually assaulted because I was an anti Latino racist.

Those two are far from the only hellish encounters I had, and I’m sorry to say thay when I dug down into the SJ bunker I took part in witch hunts with equal ferocity because that’s just the culture in those circles. As I started coming out the other side of all that, I started paying attention and seeing people getting chased off the internet/doxxed/reported to the police for all sorts of bullshit, real or false. Prime example is the woman who lost her position working with animals because someone ran a hate campaign claiming she was into beastiality. Or the Jewish queer woman who started getting called a pedophile around the same time she did a fundraiser for a holocaust memorial museum because she’d drawn shippy homestuck stuff and said that it was possible to find a 16 year old attractive because you know, secondary sexual characteristics and all that, but that in no way gave you the right to act on it.

Again, those two are far from the only time I’ve seen ‘pedophile’ thrown around and the people that use that word make no secret of the fact that they think adult kinksters into age play, and fanfic writers and fan artists who do ‘bad’ ships are total pedophiles. I was once told that the 40 year old I banged when I was 25 was a pedophile, for example. Or that finding an adult woman with small breasts attractive makes someone a pedophile.

Incidentally I also have a major beef with pearl-clutching over age gap relationships because my own life just flat out does not fit the ‘women under 25 are precious and weak uwu and men over 25 are predators with power’ framing, and neither does a lot of other people’s lives, but that’s another rant for another time.

And all of this ties into the rising tide of people accusing AO3 of being pro rape and of people refusing to curate their own fan experience in favour of demanding everyone else only produce what they personally enjoy. And I shouldn’t need to tell you why that’s fucked.

So yeah, I flat out do not trust accusations of pedophila on this website and neither should you. And if someone is legit into abusing children and dumb enough to be posting actual child pornography (eg, with real people getting hurt in it rather than cartoons) on the real internet rather than on the dark web, report them to the damn police.

[aswithasunbeam]

Hey, hope you're good! Just stop bu to say that I've literally read ALL your fanfics. I must admit, I'm quite a fan. But, honestly, HOW do you know all thay stuff? Like I've read a lot of bios and made research about the Hamiltons as well but JEEZ you're just TOO DAMN GOOD! And your writting style? I mean, THE TALENT THAT YOU HAVE! Do you study literature or something? Also, would LOVE to know if you have some instagram or twitter or anything. Like I'd follow you on social media and all that:)

Thank you so, so much!! This is so sweet, and really made my day! As for how I learned about all of the details about Hamilton, years of obsessive study have paid off I suppose :) I took literature courses in college, but I think my style developed more from just reading all the time. My tumblr and AO3 accounts are where I’m most active--I hardly ever post on twitter or instagram.

[dokkaebiking]

I Am But a Humble Cryptid...

...but I was actually tagged to do a thing, and I’m very happy to have a pleasant distraction from all the bullshit that’s happening in the world/my life right now ♥

Tagged by: @joeys-piano rules: answer 30 questions and tag however many blogs you want!

name: Tavis (still haven’t been able to afford to make it my legal name, but it’s my name whether legal documents think so or not D:< Feel free to call me Tav!)

gender: Cryptid. No but really, what the fuck even is gender anymore? I’m transgender, in the nonbinary department, but it’s easier to just tell people I’m a man so I go with that as a default. More in the agender territory though, with masucline leanings, and my pronouns are he/him and they/them. Either or work.

star sign: Taurus, and I’m very much like my star sign. Just wants peace and comfort, sorta stubborn (over dumb things, usually), likes food, and I’m a big guy so I intimidate people by just existing. I could be staring into space and freak someone out, it’s weird...

height: 5′11″, or 180 cm. Does not help my case of “intimidating by doing absolutely nothing”, let me tell you...I’ve learned to capitalize on it, though, and work security these days ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

time: 6:36pm mountain time, currently.

birthday: April 22, 1989. I...am old (ᓀ ᓀ)

favorite band: Not sure I have one, really? The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, they’re pretty good. I’ll forever love Evanescence, fight me. And, hmmm, I dunno, Panic! At the Disco? That still counts as a band, right? Oh! Breaking Benjamin is amazing. Really, I tend to just like single albums, or a song or two, so bands in general aren’t favorites of mine, but I suppose the ones I mentioned are ones I’m fond of, at least.

favorite solo artists: GACKT, Daughtry, and, I dunno, the Me of several years ago, before I started T injections, who could hit those high notes that my cracking voice no longer can achieve  ☆⌒(ゝ。∂)

last movie: GIVEN The Movie. WATCH IT. IT WAS SO GOOD. @ladyxxdaydream knows what I’m talking about!

when did I create this blog: 2013? Or maybe 2012? Around that time.

what i post: Shit like this, where I got tagged lmao. Also art and fanfic, but none of my work would really be considered popular in any of the fandoms I contribute to, so I don’t really see my work as even ‘posts’, and more like me just chucking things I occasionally make into the void.

last thing i googled: Fujiwara Keiji—cause I was watching “Devil and Realist” and heard his voice, and then got hit with emotions cause I had the faint recollection that something had happened to him, googled him, and yup I was reminded that he died last year. Talk about a punch to the gut, remembering that out of the blue (ಥ﹏ಥ)

other blogs: I technically don’t have any other blogs, but I’m a mod for @one-ace-man​ 

do I get asks?: Very rarely, but when I do it’s usually from a mutual whom I love and cherish them for humoring my want to fill out ask memes.

why I chose my url: A billion years ago I wanted to spite the antis in the OPM fandom who had it out for the Asexual fans in the fandom, so I took “Caped Baldy” and made it into “Caped Ace”, just to really rub it in. And basically say, “FUCK (ﾉಥ益ಥ)ﾉ OFF”. I also really loved superheroes like Batman and such at the time (still do, but not as much), so it worked on another level for me. Now, neither of these things are really my focuses, but while I’ve been considering a name change for awhile, for the time being it sure has stuck around ☆～('▽^人)

following: 425

number of followers: 829, and hoping most of those are real people and not bots.

instruments: The only thing I ever got any training on, before life flipped me the bird and told me “fuck you, you don’t have the time or money to learn an instrument”, was the keyboard/piano. Always wanted to learn cello and/or violin, but again, no money for that. Drums was something I was very interested in and took a percussion class during middle school, but AGAIN, could never afford official lessons or the equipment so, right alongside everything else, I just never learned.

what am i wearing: Oversized pink hoodie that says “I’M TIRED” on it, surrounded by roses (it’s a mood, okay), and khaki joggers that make me look like a hobo but are at least comfortable.

dream job: An overnight security position in a cemetery/graveyard. Legit. Sign me the fuck up for that—I wanna walk patrol a dark, empty area that’s spooky as hell, and there’s no one alive around me that I’ll have to perform customer service to.

dream trip: I’ve wanted to go to Japan for a billions years, but also Ireland would be amazing, and any place with amazing temples/historical sites I could see and/or explore respectfully.

favorite foods: I love all kinds of curry. Japanese, Indian, Thai—if it’s curry I love it and will eat the fuck outta it. This one Thai place in Hillcrest (San Diego, CA) had the spiciest and most delicious curry, and they made these things called Curry Puffs, which I would sell a kidney right now for.

favorite song: This is an impossible question to answer ლ(ಠ_ಠ ლ)

nationality: Caucasian. White as fuck. Mayonnaise with a side of sour cream.

last book I read: If light/webnovels count, then Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. I haven’t finished it yet, I’m milking it for as long as I can’t because I don’t want it to end, but god damn it’s so good...no wonder it’s loved by so many people in and outside Korea ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ Might re-read TCF for the third time, but the KR fandom’s shenanigans towards international fans on twitter lately has made me take a step back from TCF for the time being. SMPU (What Happens When the Second Male Lead Powers Up) is very quickly becoming a favorite of mine, even if the only way I can read it right now is on Ridibooks using Google Translate, which is...not ideal, but it’s better than nothing!

top 3 fictional universes I would like to live in: Pokemon for sure. The Cat Returns (oh to live as a cat in the cat kingdom, and dance at the cat ball with the Baron, voiced by Cary Elwes  (*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡). And any of those crazy universes that KR webnovels exist in, be it like SMPU’s world that’s from a romance novel, or Solo Leveling, which is the whacky ‘life became like a dungeon crawler game’ world. I might die in .002 seconds if I suddenly had game stats and monsters were everywhere, but it’s better than living in late-stage capitalism any day.

Tagging: @ladyxxdaydream @liveandletrain @guardiandae @jojoeatsflan @synasays and anyone else who wants to do it!

[freja-hoj]

Tagged in posts by the amazing @juuls and the wonderful @ohthatbunnygirl Thank you!

I’m going to try and tackle these at once.

@juuls’ questions first:

1. What is your favorite precious or semi-precious gemstone? Sapphire

2. Do you have any piercings or tattoos? One piercing in each ear and no tattoos. I used to tell people I had a tattoo on my forearm of a WWII ship. No one believed me.

3. Of all the fandoms you’ve been in, what is/was your favorite, and why? (i.e. being treated well.) This could even just be your favorite experience, even if it’s a different fandom than your ‘overall’ favorite. Reylo - I am so overwhelmed by the generosity and creativity of the fans.

4. Favorite movie or tv genre? Which if that genre; or overall, is your favorite film/show? Dark humour (Coen brothers). Of theirs, my favourite is The Big Lebowski.

5. What sort of pets do you currently have; or previously had? Had dogs. Had. :( They are not with us long enough.

6. What part of the world do you live in? Is it the same place as where you were born? I live in SW Ontario, not far from where I was born in the US. But, I’ve lived in a bunch of different US and Canadian cities before moving to where I am now.

7. Do you prefer to read longfic, oneshots/shorts, or do you prefer to be Goldilocks? :P I like them all!

8. Apple gear, or otherwise? Apple, out of sheer laziness. Android seems like a lot of work…

9. Have you ever played World of Warcraft, or any other MMORPG? (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.) How about any console or Gameboy games? I have a soft spot for video games as that’s how the hubby and I met: on WoW! 😚☺️😊😘 I haven’t, but friends were into Diplomacy when I was young. I played a lot of cards (good ole’ fashioned playing cards).

10. Favorite anime show? I used to love Speed Racer. I mean, the man himself. Also the show.

11. ….. the most important question of them all: …….. DC or Marvel……..? *gets ready to fight* 😡😡 I realize that I’m setting myself up here, but I’ll go old-school and say DC. I loved Super Friends and can’t wait to see Wonder Woman!

Now, for @ohthatbunnygirl…

1. What is your least favorite noise? That noise people make when they snort instead of blowing their nose. *shudder*

2. What is your favorite curse word? Is crap a curse word?

3. What bug, or animal, makes you say, “Oh hell no.” Centipedes. Their legs still move after they’ve been squished.

4. What’s the silliest nickname somebody has for you? None, but I have all sorts of ridiculous nicknames for other people.

5. If you could be a character in a movie, who would you be? I would like to be Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate, but I would probably be cast as Liz Lemon (I know, TV not movie…)

6. What food do you crave at 3am? Cereal

7. Have you ever cried over a commercial? Yes, the Thai life insurance one called “Unsung Hero”

8. Who is an artist you love? Dorothea Lange

9. Favorite villain? Severus Snape

10. Favorite fruit? Also, there is no wrong answer, but if you say papaya then you are wrong. That’s just a fact. Strawberries

11. What fic trope makes you say, “YAAAS!” Give me a good slow burn, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, preferably where they are trapped somewhere…

I have these questions:

1. Where would you like to live? 2. What item of clothes do you refuse to throw away, but would never wear again? 3. Best “one-hit wonder” SW character: Jek Porkins or Willrow Hood? 4. What virtue do you think is overrated? 5. What is your favourite flower? 6. How many languages do you speak? 7. What was the first TFA fanfic that you read? 8. What do you like most about yourself? 9. What was the worst movie adaptation of a beloved book? 10. What was your most recent argument about? 11. Who do you think will say, “I have a bad feeling about this?” in TLJ?

Hmm. Let’s tag @politicalmamaduck, @theboywhocan11 @inthegrayworld, @foxesdance, @waterlilyrose, @cosetteskywalker and @leialovesdarcy.

[thisismydesignhannibal]

Get To Know Me Followers

Rules | Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better! 

I'm gonna do this all at once Fannibals!

I've been tagged by some lovely Fannibals in some fun "getting to know you better" posts, but they've all been slightly different…so I thought I'd just combine all my answers into one monster-post.

Tagged by the lovelies: @fannibalmonica @hannibalnuxvomica @victorineb @whenever-possible-eat-the-rude @accio-sodium @nothing-here-is-vegetarian I feel like there were others too…but I can't find them. Tumblr is the devil.

Tagging a bunch of folks I’d love to know better, but I’m always interested in getting to know my fellow Fannibals, so I’d love ANYONE to chime in: @jadegreenworks @zacharybosch @theseavoices @purplesocrates @warpedchyld @avegetariancannibal @disraeligearsgoestumblin @devereauxsdisease @pka42 @sepia-ink @allionne @lecteronthelam @desperatelyseekingcannibals @wrathofthestag @slashyrogue @vulcanplomeeksoup @graham-muffin @he-s-dead-jim @whimsy-by-joja @kellucydar @hisvoicebrokemyheart @iamdragoonthegreat @azuresky2011 @avidreadr2004 @lovecrimecat @ishipthemsogoddamnhard @iamdragoonthegreat @camilleflyingrotten @existingcharactersdiehorribly @aviran007 @sirenja-and-the-stag @damnslippyplanet @redfivewritingby @hannigrammatic @byk23 @cinabre

Feel free to ignore me if you’ve been tagged already, or send me a link to your answers :) 

name | Cheryl

nicknames | NONE! For some reason I defy nicknaming…nothing has ever stuck…my friends called me Lippy in back in High School for about a month (I had/have authority issues :P) but that's it.

zodiac sign | Capricorn height | 5′7″ orientation | Bi, but I'm in a committed long-term relationship with a man. nationality | Canadian favorite fruit | Watermelon…I would like to see Hugh Dancy carrying some like pumpkins ;P

favorite season | Probably Spring, but Autumn would be a really close second favorite book | The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss and the Maddadam Trilogy by Margaret Attwood are all amazing series. I also have a very soft spot for Jane Austin and Oscar Wilde. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a masterpiece. It's very hard to choose, I read a lot. favorite flower | Orchids or Peonies (I think their relationship with ants is utterly fascinating) favorite scent | citrus or eucalyptus favorite color | yellow favorite animal | cats or horses…I find their personalities oddly similar coffee, tea, or hot cocoa | TEA all the way! Specifically Earl Grey (Twinings), although I recently bought some Hannibal themed tea here that is giving the Twinings a run for its money. average sleep hours | 7-8

Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw

cat or dog person | I grew up with dogs but now I am a proud cat mom of 3. favorite fictional character | Hannibal Lecter. Will Graham is very very close second. Lestat de Lioncourt, Arya Stark, Roland Deschain, Elizabeth Bennet... Impossible to choose. ��I could write an entire post just on this.  number of blankets you sleep with | Right now a light duvet and a light blanket.  In the summer, just a sheet.

dream trip |  Italy (Florence and Venice are at the top) I recently fulfilled my dream trip to Paris and Arles :)

Dream Job | Writer, but I work in the Environmental Sector and like that too. blog created | September 2016 number of followers | 1170 (I have no idea how that happened, and I didn't have time to do a 1000 follower appreciation post!  I promise to do one at 1500!)

Why I made a Tumblr | after watching Hannibal for the millionth time and starting to write fanfics for myself, I got tired of being in a vacuum.  I decided to deny my typical instinct to only lurk and decided to jump into the fandom.  I haven't looked back and it's been immensely gratifying to meet all the endlessly talented and supportive Fannibals out there.  I should have got on sooner!

Some More Questions from @fannibalmonica 's tag :)

1. Are you named after someone? 
My mom swears my dad chose Cheryl after some model that was big in the 70's or something. My dad denies it ;P

2. When was the last time you cried? 
I don't cry too easily at serious things…probably when my cat had to go for emergency surgery. BUT I cry super easily at dumb things, like marching bands or people singing in unison. I cry easily at movies…just did watching Logan. I get teary every time I hear the music from Mizumono (which they just had to go and make the menu music for the Season 2 Blu-ray!)

3. Do you like your handwriting? Meh…I write like someone with multiple personalities. My writing will look 10 different ways on the same page on the same day.  Maybe that means something…don't know.

4. What is your favorite lunch meat? I don't eat meat.  Well, seafood sometimes but I haven't eaten land meat for 18 years.

5. Do you have kids?
 No and I don't want them.  Not a fan.

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? Probably. I like to think I'm easy to talk to and I'm pretty open which is something I appreciate in others…but I'm also an introvert (ambivert?!) so I give people space and can sit in quiet.  I don't know…don't all introverts think they would rather spend time with themselves?

7. Do you use sarcasm?
 never

8. Do you still have your tonsils? Yes

9. Would you bungee jump? Nope.  I'm ok with maintaining my very reasonable aversion to throwing myself from bridges thanks.

10. What is your favorite kind of cereal? Cereal isn't my favourite…maybe Special K?

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? 
Generally not if I don't have to. I rarely have shoes with laces now that I think about it…

12. Do you think you’re a strong person? 
THAT is a loaded question. Not as strong as I'd like to be, but stronger than many.  I've been through some stuff in life that felled others around me. I don't know.

13. What is your favorite ice cream? I don't really like ice cream much (I know, I know) but I guess Black Cherry.

14. What is the first thing you notice about people? Rudeness. Intelligence. Whether I think they're genuine or not.

15. What is the least favorite physical thing you like about yourself? This sentence doesn't make sense. I try my best not to think about that stuff. My body works right now…I'm currently healthy.

16. What color pants and shoes are you wearing now? Blue jeans and tan brown shoes.

17. What are you listening to right now? My cats yowling annoyingly and my BF trying to get them to shut the hell up for once.

18. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? 
If I was a crayon I'd prefer to be an "ugly" colour so people wouldn't use me.

19. Favorite smell? 
Horses (same same @fannibalmonica )

20. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? 
Pretty sure the only people I speak to on the phone anymore is my Mom/Dad.  Doesn't everyone just text now? And see each other in person?

21. Favorite sport to watch? Equestrian sports (same same again @fannibalmonica )

22. Hair color? 
Blond. 

23. Eye color? 
Brown…someone told me once that having naturally blonde hair and brown eyes is a somewhat unusual genetic combination.  They might have just been hitting on me though….any geneticists out there able to confirm?

24. Do you wear contacts? 
No.

25. Favorite food to eat? 
Chinese noodles. Vietnamese Noodles. Thai Noodles. I like noodles :)

26. Scary movies or comedy? 
Hmmm.  I like dark movies and even slasher movies but I don't like "jump out and surprise you with creepiness" movies…I don't startle well. I love dark/quirky/sad comedies.

27. Last movie you watched? I just watched Logan…and Gattaca from the 90's (it held up)

28. What color of shirt are you wearing? 
multicolour (brown/yellow) sweater

29. Summer or winter? Summer.

30. Hugs or kisses? Both.  Always both. Well …depends on the kiss ;P

31. What book are you currently reading? 
American Gods, I’ve gotta finish that again before the TV show starts @emotionally-gutted-by-hannibal @fannibalmonica *stealing your answers because SAME SAME*

32. Who do you miss right now? 
My city is getting REALLY expensive and lots of people have had to move away in recent years.  Some of my best friends now live way out of town :(

33. What is on your mouse pad? 
I don’t have one.

34. What is the last TV program you watched? Other than my obsessive re-watching of Hannibal? Um, I went back to watch United States of Tara (another sad 3rd season cancellation, but so worth a watch)

35. What is the best sound? 
Mads Mikkelsen’s voice (same same @fannibalmonica!)

36. Rolling Stones or The Beatles? 
Stooges! Bowie! Velvet Underground!

37. What is the furthest you have ever traveled? 
From Canada to Cambodia (via Tokyo)

38. Do you have a special talent? I feel like this calls for a cleverness I'm not sure I can muster after all these questions ;P How about maintaining professionalism at work when all I want to do is tell people they're entitled assholes who don't know anything about anything?  My utter inability to spend more than a minute or two NOT thinking about Hannibal? Making excuses to myself about the stuff I'm not doing that I should be doing? Seriously though, I think I'm kind.  I'd say my empathy is probably the best thing about me, even though it can be stressful for me (remind you of anyone Fannibals?)

39. Where were you born? Toronto, Canada