#zahra's diary

[briannaswords]

I love you in the way that you’re my big sister and you loved me first, before you even knew me. I love you in the way that you’re my big sister, it’s all I’ve ever known to do. I love you in the way that I wish I knew you, I wish you talked to me, I wish you wanted to get to know me. I love you in the way that I’m desperate for your approval, desperate for the notes haphazardly scribbled in the margin of your life, desperate for you to see me. I love you in the way that makes me wish I could honestly say that you were my first friend but I know the time you get up in the morning and the names of your best friends and your favourite Taylor Swift album but I don’t know your favourite colour. That feels like something I should know about my big sister.

Sometimes, you don’t feel like my big sister. Sometimes I think you’re a storm, roaring and glaring and slamming doors in my face until you’ve successfully blown me away. Sometimes I think you’re a wave, higher than the sky until you come crashing down, so close but so far, so near but so distant. Sometimes, I think you’re a stranger. Sometimes, it feels like we’re connected by blood and nothing else. Sometimes, it feels like that’s all we’ll ever be.

I love you in the way that you’re my big sister and if I didn’t love you, I’d feel nothing. And then we really would be strangers.

[munsonsfairy]

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holiday with friends and fams 🫶

[blorbologist]

S3 eps 7-9 thoughts below the cut

This is all fresh after the episode and I gotta be up in a couple hours so it won't be fully thought out but...

I love a lot of the creative choices being made! But I think many weren't implemented well, or balanced nicely.

Just! as someone who has deconstructed Campaign 1 and made deviations to the timeline of events and etc (mind you, without the same goal of condensing things for television… but somehow the show has an equivalent perc'ahlia focus to a ship-centered fic?) I think… I can see several avenues of narrative choices that would strengthen the ideas they're going with instead of weakening them.

(My credentials here are 'almost 300k canon divergent AU that converged on a handful of similar plot points to TLOVM', but also the aims of an AU fanfic =/= that of a show. I understand and respect that challenge the team faced. But when a single amateur can point out issues that would be pretty easy to solve and detract from a very enjoyable experience... there might be a Problem)

Ripley doesn't need a sob story, she's getting a book anyways leave it there. Fully agree with @/aq2003. The whole point is that she's monstrous and evil and got her PhD out of a fucking cereal box. Percy is less like her than he thinks. But he dies and she just??? escapes??? IF Percy had to die without VM being present, having Ripley either die of her wounds right after or be unable to flee and get torn to shreds by them would have been excellent.

On that note - only Vex and Cass seem to show strong emotion about his death. Keyleth's supposed to be his best friend, and he and Grog were close this season, but. Well, not like we have any platonic relationships. Everyone's just Kinda Sad.

MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE OF THE MUSIC OVER PERCY'S DEATH HUH. Flashbacks to watching Vampire Diaries as a teenager and pop songs coming on over the end-of-episode drama.

Again just. All the platonic, non-familial (Pike n Grog count. to me. buddies <3) relationships are so scant, which is especially hard on characters who lean on that so hard! Grog and Keyleth especially are hurt by this. Does Keyleth have a single conversation (not quip, conversation) that isn't with Vax? And in group contexts she only loudly brings up her distrust of Raishan without any of the solid backbone it has in fact. (Also her going from Raishan was right last time we should trust her now / She betrayed us! Knew it! / oh maybe she didn't and I should apologize. girl. come on. please)

I have Concerns about 'late Game of Thrones teleportation' syndrome happening here. Scanlan goes from Wildemount back to Whitestone (which are completely different continents) with no explanation. Kash and Zahra make it to Emon (again, different continent to Issylra) just in the nick of time. Which, sure, would take a couple of days to carve Percy a nice likeness (but you have a druid who can manipulate stone right there), and if Kash and Zahra changed their minds and set out as soon as Vax talked to them they might make it! But uh. There's a lot of transport that's omitted, while the scenes give the impression everything is happening within a short period of time. And a lot of these conversations are one-on-ones with the relevant characters without acknowledging they couldn't be there without magical transport. Where is Allura or Gilmore or Keyleth in the back of these shots twiddling their thumbs 'hey can we teleport to the next person on our HELP US list'?

IDK what's going on with Kash. He's likely gonna be used as a lead-in to Something to rez Percy (and him?) but. That quick buildup of him being too carefree to getting smushed was very transparent and Zahra's grief didn't feel earned (though it WAS baller. yes they made them bleed girl <3).

The fact Vax didn't ask him At All about the resurrection ritual in the Tomb stuns me tho. You think Vax remembered the offhand comment Kash made about the body needing to be warm while his sister was dead? We as an audience could have used a reminder, and Vax too. Because anyone who Doesn't remember this one line from S2 is Extra frustrated at everyone for being stupid.

Raishan or Ripley being moved to be the 'Vox Machina, united, with all their Vestiges' fight is... hmn. You could argue Raishan has solid buildup (what with the cameo in Brimscythe's lair), and it does follow campaign canon. She lacks the devastating power to justify the use of all the Vestiges (tbh given Thordak it might feel like a curbstomp unless her necromantic plans are successful)... but I could see it working. But why the fuck has Ripley escaped A THIRD TIME. Percy even duped her twice! How many times are we gonna do that song and dance?

If anything, I'd have moved some Ripley stuff here. If she escapes so be it but VM putting the fate of the world on hold to avenge their friend, THEN have Percy be back for Thordak, would be tasty.

... wait does this mean Percy might not have Cabal's Ruin by the final dragon fight of the season? ffs-

DID NO ONE LOOT CABAL'S RUIN FROM THE FACTORY.

Thordak fight was baller, having all our NPCs there to worry about? a bit much. Cass why are you here. Go home before Whitestone loses its last de Rolo.

Also. Thordak my dude I know you're insane. mad even. but uh... you sent your children into battle. A TON have already died by the time you sadly nuzzle the hatchlings. This was kinda your fault. There's a reason animals don't send their babies into combat. then again you're a large reptile who talks about milk so what do I, a reptile researcher, know -

(Don't give me that crap about reptiles being bad parents we have several snakes who require maternal attendance after birth or they're Asocial Weirdos, crocodilians are VERY goo parents, and there are social lizards too.)

'fix him - FIX HIM' being gutted fucking killed me :c

I sure hope Pike's 'IT'S ME' was uh. about faith in herself. Not abandoning the god she spent all of S1 figuring out how to devote herself to. While wearing the Vestige associated with another god. the vestige that explicitly made this possible and not a nuke fire falls u all die tpk. haha. ha. (@/burr-ell)

Yes yes yes I know the voiceover and visuals fill in for 'I hear my mother in the morning. Fuck you'. but. idk. Felt like the grief of that moment was taken out of it? Also it's a banger line

Raishan's little killsteal attempt being bumped from Vorugal to Thordak was tasty! Go green girl go! ... except it did nothing but set up a few quiet moments before she turned on everyone again.

The amount of times I'm seeing things happen Again in this is... not great.

Glintshore is Not Glinting. Where is my broken glass difficult terrain?

Perc'ahlia arc fuckin impeccable tho. Delicious

And Pike got lots of fun and stunning moments so far! And Grog takin down the lair!

I love a lot of this though. The hallucination gas. Percy vs Ripley in the factory was so cool. Percy downright being Put in a Box for a while. VEX'S CONVERSATION WITH SYLDOR!!! SO MUCH!! Her being the leader and feeling so responsible for all this, and seeing herself become her father! ELAINA BACKSTORY! Scanlan leaving the party only to miss Kaylie too! Thordak being A Dad! Percy's death/Vex's grief being the catalyst for Vaxleth! The animation was fucking stellar - Vax killing Thordak, Percy's death, Pike mastering the Plate.

I don't have concrete thoughts on how I'd restructure the episodes/season (seasons?) to better balance platonic and romantic relationships, and utilize the changes to their fullest potential. But damn if the temptation to do ANOTHER canon divergence rewrite / exploration of cause and effect to make things hit a bit more nicely... make myself a challenge to only use X amount of scenes per episode/chapter, to try and match the difficulty of adapting this to television... idk

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌙 Ramadan Mubarak - Books ft. Muslims

🦇 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. To celebrate this Islamic holy month, here are a FEW books featuring Muslim characters. I hope you consider adding a few to your TBR.

❓What was the last book you read that taught you something new OR what's at the top of your TBR?

🌙 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🌙 Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed 🌙 Love From A to Z - S.K. Ali 🌙 Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 Yes No Maybe So - Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum 🌙 I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai 🌙 Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 🌙 Written in the Stars - Aisha Saeed 🌙 The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani 🌙 Much Ado About Nada - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 The Eid Gift - S.K. Ali 🌙 More Than Just a Pretty Face - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan 🌙 Snow - Orhan Pamuk 🌙 Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Ayisha Malik 🌙 The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 And I Darken - Kiersten White 🌙 The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid

🌙 Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H 🌙 The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Ms. Marvel - G. Willow Wilson 🌙 Love from Mecca to Medina - S.K. Ali 🌙 The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty 🌙 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan 🌙 The Moor’s Account - Laila Lalami 🌙 Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Quershi 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

🌙 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 🌙 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 🌙 The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik 🌙 Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 🌙 Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi 🌙 A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena 🌙 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 🌙 The Mismatch by Sara Jafari 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen 🌙 Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan 🌙 Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson 🌙 The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar 🌙 A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Nayra and the Djinn by Michael Berry 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

🌙 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🌙 Salaam, with Love by Sara Sharaf Beg 🌙 Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi 🌙 Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan 🌙 Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 🌙 She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert 🌙 Hollow Fires by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 Internment by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Love in a Headscarf - Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 🌙 Courting Samira by Amal Awad 🌙 The Other Half of Happiness by Ayisha Malik 🌙 Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 🌙 Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Muslim Girls Rise - Saira Mir and Aaliya Jaleel 🌙 Amira & Hamza - Samira Ahmed 🌙 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan

🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao 🌙 The Yard - Aliyyah Eniath 🌙 When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar 🌙 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 🌙 Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja 🌙 The Chai Factor by Farah Heron 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

[themattress]

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Continued from my last post.

- As I noted last time, as tragic as Jeralt's death is, it's the fall-out of it that I find more interesting and memorable. First off, the entries in his diary are truly haunting ("there's no heartbeat...no heartbeat!"), increasing the mystery and suspense around what Rhea has planned for Byleth given that she appears to have had those plans since their very birth.

- The reactions each of the route's Lords have to Byleth mourning Jeralt's death are very revealing of their character. Edelgard refuses to give Byleth any comfort, partly because it would be facetious of her to do so given that she holds a degree of culpability in Jeralt's death but primarily because she cannot stand for wallowing in the past, saying that "the future is fast approaching" and doesn't wait for one to get over their grief. Dimitri is exceedingly empathetic and comforting toward Byleth, admitting that it's because he knows full well how they must be feeling since he felt it too at Duscur and stating that wallowing in the past can be useful for deciding what you want to spend your future on...even if it's on something dark like revenge. And Claude, while giving a token showing of sympathy for Byleth, puts all emotion aside and is laser-focused on the diary Jeralt left behind and how it can provide clues for what the Church is hiding, what's special about Byleth, and what the enemy's aim is.

- While all routes feature the scene between the Flame Emperor, Thales and Kronya, only in the Blue Lions route are you on hand as Byleth to witness it in person, alongside Dimitri. Unfortunately, the English dub kind of screws this moment up. The Flame Emperor says that the Agarthans will have no salvation in the end given their crimes in Embarr and Duscur, to which Thales says those crimes were needed for the Flame Emperor to acquire the strength they need. Given the blatant disagreement between the two in this exchange, Dimitri reacting as though the Flame Emperor was responsible for the Tragedy of Duscur doesn't make much sense. But in the Japanese version, the statements were more ambiguous. The Flame Emperor merely asks "will there ever be a salvation?" after mentioning the Agarthans' crimes, to which Thales replies "Wasn't it all just for your own gain?"...an abusive gaslighting tactic in proper context, but without context sounding like the Flame Emperor has direct responsibility in what happened and is only placing themselves above it like a mob boss would a hit that they ordered. So in the Japanese version, Dimitri's reaction to what gets said is more logical.

- This exchange always gets me:

Sothis and her bond with Byleth are so precious and pure.

- Both this chapter and the next have a sorrowful music track playing during the Explore section that perfectly reflect the sense of loss Byleth is feeling. It's a perfect mood setter.

- I'm disappointed in Kronya. She has a nifty design and an enjoyably sassy and sadistic personality reminiscent of Larxene from the Kingdom Hearts series, and yet not only could she not have killed Jeralt without Thales' interference but here she sets a trap that everyone knows going in is a trap so it's easily defused, she is ridiculously easy to defeat which leads to her running away like a coward, and then she gets unceremoniously killed off by Solon ripping her heart out and using its darkness in a ritual to send Byleth to the Shadow Realm. And yes, I'm aware it's actually called Zahras, but seriously, listen to Solon describe it:

It's the fucking Shadow Realm!

With that said, we don't actually see it. Not until Three Hopes, anyway.

- Ummmmmm.....

I have a problem with this, but I'll get back to it next time.

- I'm sorry, but I can't take the big Byleth-Sothis fusion seriously anymore. I can only think of:

- Once again, we have a scene with Rhea that I'm torn between finding exceedingly creepy and exceedingly sad: her cradling a half-conscious Byleth and talking to them as if they were her mother, saying she doesn't wish to let go and promising to watch over them forever. Ultimately, though, my disgust at what her intentions are for Byleth wins out. Lady, you sick.

[librarycards]

Hi! My faves are ninth house by leigh bardugo, the murderbot diaries by martha wells, sorrowland by rivers solomon, and eyeliner: a cultural history by zahra hankir

thanks for any recs!

hi!! and happy holidays!

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

[arthurslesbian]

anyway, as someone coming at this movie from not having read the book but being an avid rom com fan, i kind of don't like how rwrb is being called not original or not creative or not inventive or silly or basically not good

i mean. i get if you don't like rom coms. i do, they're truly not for everyone. but like. this movie was really fucking good. maybe rom coms just don't get credit for how hard they are to do well?

like idk actors repeatedly say how comedy is harder to do than dramatic, serious scenes, which is probably why there's a whole group of actors who are known for doing comedy, because it's really hard and a specialized skill set. getting those comedic beats right, the expressions that have just the right amount of irony and im in on it is hard!

and with romance, you need to have that chemistry, that rhythm it's really hard to do well because there's nothing external to the characters to distract from their performances there's no cool effects or world at stake plot or menacing villian

and rom coms?? really hard to get right. the whole genre has been in a decline for like the past ten years if I've been honest. so many recent rom coms have not been good at all! horribly written, terribly edited with really bad pacing, the flattest acting with no chemistry and not to mention uninteresting sets and costumes and stagnant camera work

meanwhile. rwrb is brilliant. it's written so well, with hilarious one liners (thank you zahra) and so much humour and comedy from the couple, the actors went all out with phenomenal performances, the shots showed so much care and attention to each scene, and the pacing was perfect for what it is - a rom com.

like so many recent rom coms take 4k way too far and it looks so bad, but rwrb looks so beautiful in every still. every single background was gorgeous every set, every detail with costuming. and this is important in rom coms! the two leads look so incredible!! taylor looks like a greek god with his long legs and his abs and his eyelashes to his nose while nick looks like a beautiful angel. (sorry it had to be said)

and the thing is, this is really hard to do. I believe rom coms have been in decline as the industry grapples with how much technology has pervaded dating recently, from dating apps to communicating constantly through things like texting and facetime, which it's really struggled to show convincingly on screen. the last good rom coms were before things like smartphones really took off

and rwrb did that so well!! romance as a genre in books recently has kind of been leaning into the tropes we're nostalgic about while incorporating those more recent aspects of relationships, and rwrb translates that so well on screen. the way they did the text messages was honestly innovative!!

the way it kind of led up to having henry physically in the room was an amazing way to capture growing closeness and how we now perceive text conversations to be just like real conversations, while still highlighting the kind of difference of actually being there which is actually really hard to portray and not really something the industry has figured out how to show well imo.

i loved the chemistry in that scene, and i loved how they did the emails as well because those are two different things!! and how it was able to show their togetherness while they were apart. even the way that ghosting works and alex literally storming a castle was shown so well!! that's not easy or done before!!

all this to say, i for one really appreciate matthew lopez's vision and will be rewatching this movie just as much as movies like 27 dresses, bridget jones' diary, and the proposal and i can't wait for a new wave of (queer!) rom coms

[firstprince-ao3feed]

The Shape of Water

by Djokodal_Fan Gentlemen, step up please. South Texas LSC 200 m freestyle. Take your marks...(whistle blast sounds) Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry Fox have been the closest of friends since Elementary school - their friendship meshing perfectly into their coordination as teammates on St Stephen’s High School's much decorated swim team. They’ve never had any secrets from each other all these years. None, except for a single massive secret which Henry had been keeping from his best friend - that he’s been head over heels in love with Alex throughout high school. And maybe it’s just his wishful thinking, but of late it seems that Alex might have feelings for him too; that go beyond friendship. But now the days of reckoning before college draw ever closer. There are critical swimming championships to win at State athletic conferences and Sectionals; and Ellen’s unfolding attempt to clinch the Democratic nomination for the Presidential Elections puts pressure on portraying Alex as the golden boy, the perfect son, the quintessential All-American dream - to appeal to all sections of the electorate. Will Alex and Henry have their chance at Love? Or will it all be swept away by the inexorable flood of circumstance? Words: 7356, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English Series: Part 7 of In Every Universe Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Ellen Claremont, Zahra Bankston, Catherine Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Philip Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Liam (Red White & Royal Blue), Spencer (Red White & Royal Blue), Nora Holleran Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Ellen Claremont & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Zahra Bankston & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Ellen Claremont & Alex Claremont-Diaz, Zahra Bankston & Alex Claremont-Diaz, Alex Claremont-Diaz & Liam, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Liam, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Spencer, Alex Claremont-Diaz & Nora Holleran, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Philip Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Alex Claremont-Diaz & Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Ellen Claremont & Catherine Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Swimming, Alternate Universe - High School, Alternate Universe - Childhood Friends, Childhood Friends, Best Friends, Friends to Lovers, Growing Up Together, Swimming, Possessive Alex Claremont-Diaz, Possessive Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Protective Alex Claremont-Diaz, Protective Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Jealous Liam, moderate angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Comfort/Angst, Romantic Fluff, Resolved Sexual Tension, Resolved Romantic Tension, Eventual Smut, Tenderness, Tender romance, Gray shaded Ellen, Gray shaded Zahra, Ellen and Catherine are best friends from Oxford days, Fanart, Diary/Journal, Henry's journal extracts, Tribute to TZP's swimming championship records 🙂, Gay Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Bisexual Alex Claremont-Diaz, Pansexual Spencer, Henry is Alex's Bisexual awakening, Conflicted Liam, Mutual Pining, Yearning, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Requited Love, Alex Claremont-Diaz Loves Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Loves Alex Claremont-Diaz via https://ift.tt/LnrsGch

[sigmastolen]

i was tagged by @sidewaystime and i am procrastinating my homework!!! unfortunately this will be uninteresting, also because of my homework lol

Last song listened to: outside of my storytime playlist, Johann Strauss's Thunder and Lightning Polka ("Unter Donner und Blitz"), Op. 324, from Die Fledermaus

Currently reading: uh only textbooks for school and picture books for work rn but the last thing i finished was Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner and the top of my TBR includes Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith, The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson, Eyeliner by Zahra Hankir, The Woman In Me by Britney Spears, and Making It So by Patrick Stewart, and i also want to reread A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, as well as The Murderbot Diaries from the beginning...

Currently watching: oh my friends i haven't watched any fandomy shows since 2020 i think :( i'm even behind on all creatures great and small and most of the youtube i was watching. so pretty much just Jeopardy! rn, which has just been interminable tournaments forever and i'm actually kind of annoyed about it

Currently obsessed with: uh idk nothing super intense at the moment but all my faves are kind of running in the background. in terms of fic reading it's very clone wars rn but i had a brief dive back into inception a couple weeks ago (bc of ballet, don't worry about it)

Tagging: uh? @hedwig-dordt, @renee-mariposa, @evilasiangenius, @nonstandardrepertoire, @athoroughlycommonpotato, @major-trouble if y'all want to!

[briannaswords]

okay but why is

used to lie to your face twenty times in a day it was my little strange addiction but you still tried to stay while I'd self-isolate and I knew but I stayed hidden

lowkey zahra and jessica coded

[littleeunseo0]

Teringatlah sebuah kisah yang dulu saya pernah menjadi seorang santri di salah satu Sekolah Islam. Dimana, masa remaja saya dibentuk pada saat menjadi santri itu. Menjadi santri yang selalu dituntun oleh Ustadz yang selalu kami hormati. Namun, sampai saat ini saya tidak pernah mengetahui kenapa Ustadz tersebut memilih pergi dari pondok kami.

Ada sebuah nasehat yang selalu saya ingat ditulis oleh beliau pada buku diary saya. Diary yang isinya penuh dengan luapan perasaan saya kepada seorang ikhwan. Ternyata, beliau sangat kecewa membaca isi diary saya. Ditulislah oleh beliau salah satu nasehat yang membuat saya tersadar bahwa diri saya sangat berharga daripada perasaan kepada manusia yang tak disukai Allah. Beliau menulis:

"Wahai anandaku, engkau adalah perhiasan dunia yang setiap lelaki menyukai dan ingin mendapatkannya"

Ditulislah sebuah hadits oleh beliau:

"Addunya mata'un, wa khairi mata'iha, al mar'atus salihah."

Artinya: “Dunia adalah perhiasan, dan sebaik-baik perhiasan dunia adalah isteri yang shalihah.”

Lalu dilanjutkan oleh beliau:

"Jadilah seorang wanita yang solehah, sesuai dengan nama mu "Zahra" yang berarti bunga, Jadilah setangkai bunga yang cantik tetapi tidak mudah dirusak dan ketika disentuh lelaki, akan menancapkan duri yang dimiliki bunga tersebut, dalam bahasa arab: وردة السواقة (Wardah Assawaqah)"

Lalu, diakhir kata ditulis lagi oleh beliau:

"Nasehat ini ditulis oleh seorang Ustadz yang selalu tak didengar"

Kemudian, saya membaca isi tulisan tersebut dengan teman sekamar saya. Kami terharu. Sampai sekarang saya selalu ingat akan hadits tersebut.

[mirkwoodsprinceofdoingtoomuch]

Two part 1

“As your mother, I can appreciate that maybe this isn’t your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term.”

So, you can hate the heir to the throne all you want, write mean poems about him in your diary, but the minute you see a camera, you act like the sun shines out of his dick, and you make it convincing.”

“Idea,” Nora says. “Let’s make it a drinking game.”

“Ooh, yes,” June agrees “Drink every time Alex gets one right?”

“Drink every time the answer makes you want to puke?” Alex suggests.

“One drink for a correct answer, two drinks for a Prince Henry fact that is legitimately, objectively awful,” Nora says.

Alex picks up his own glass, already pulling up a mental image of Henry’s parents, Catherine’s shrewd blue eyes and Arthur’s movie-star jaw.

“Mother: Princess Catherine, oldest daughter of Queen Mary, first princess to obtain a doctorate—English literature,” he rattles off. “Father: Arthur Fox, beloved English film and stage actor best known for his turn as James Bond in the eighties, deceased 2015. Y’all drink.”

“Okay,” June says, scanning the list, apparently looking for something more challenging. “Let’s see. Dog’s name?”

“David,” Alex says. “He’s a beagle. I remember because, like, who does that? Who names a dog David? He sounds like a tax attorney. Like a dog tax attorney. Drink.”

“Hey, what do you think Zahra put on my fact sheet?”

“Hmm,” Nora says, sucking her teeth. “Favorite summer Olympic sport: rhythmic gymnastics—”

“I’m not ashamed of that.”

“Favorite brand of khakis: Gap.”

“Listen, they look best on my ass. The J. Crew ones wrinkle all weird. And they’re not khakis, they’re chinos. Khakis are for white people.”

“Allergies: dust, Tide laundry detergent, and shutting the fuck up.”

“Age of first filibuster: nine, at SeaWorld San Antonio, trying to force an orca wrangler into early retirement for, quote, ‘inhumane whale practices.’”

“I stood by it then, and I stand by it now.”

[sheplayswithlifee]

Which mutuals ocs would get along with your ocs? Which wouldn't?

(Please Pass along the question) 🌟

Thanks for this ask @citylighten and @tau1tvec. I had to think about this because my characters don't have much personality. I'm still working on this though. Baby steps 👣

Kennedi and Hope (Things Fall Apart) would be good friends. Kennedi is sweet but she just graduated college with her biology degree. I discovered being a doctor is her dream job, who knew? Unlike, Hope, she actually cheated on her boyfriend (this hasn't posted yet). She felt bad about it and broke up with him immediately... after he confronted her.

Dior (Hungry for Love) would like Hideo. I think he's the type of man she'd like to take advantage of. Dior is not the best mother to Candace and Hideo is not present in his son's life at all. He'd be down to cake women. Although Hideo is selfish as fuck, he is protective over his little sisters Kennedi and Zahra. So if either of them were in the situation Mercy (Things Fall Apart) is in with Bishop (Let It Burn / Things Fall Apart), Bishop would've been caught hands. Needless to say, he wouldn't like him at all.

Zahra would find Eve (Dear Diary) annoying because she's so shy. They are complete opposites in that regard, she'd be annoyed with the second guessing while Kennedi, who's more patient would absolutely love her. Kennedi is a sweetheart but she fucks up sometimes.

Mel (The Piersons ) would not like Mackenly. She lives for the drama, a messy queen. One thing she's gonna do is spread some rumors and probably talk shit behind her back. She and Ke'Sherri (Dear Diary) would get along seeing as they're both fake as hell lol.

Keep in mind, I'm not caught up on all these stories so these characters may be different present day, this is just based on where I am so far.

[flavaofccom]

Meutia Amanda

Meutia Amanda silahkan dinikmati kontennya. dari doodstream, streamtape, terabox, pastebin, justpaste, pasteyou, pastelink. Kalau dibikin category Asian sex diary (asd) Indonesia, apakah tertarik?

btw, masih ada yang belum nonton Pelajar Maratapura Husna sama Zahra 6 menit?

[mecwmellc]

mecwmellc indie and private multi-muse featuring characters from grey’s anatomy, marvel, percy jackson, as well as a few oc’s. adored by emma (she/her) 

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movies

peter parker (mostly marvel movies based)

luke skywalker (star wars)

rey (star wars) [if reylo has no haters then i’m dead, i refuse to write them romantically]

mia thermopolis (the princess diaries)

books

percy jackson

annabeth chase

jason grace (heroes of olympus)

kit riva (malibu rising)

julia alvarez-dunne (daisy jones and the six. mix of book, show and personal hcs)

alex summers (percy jackson oc, daughter of hermes and close with percy but their relationship was rocky at the beginning considering percy’s relationship with luke. more info can be found here)

monique grant (the seven husbands of evelyn hugo/tjrverse)

beatrice fox-mountchristen-windsor (red, white & royal blue)

nora holleran (red, white & royal blue)

zahra bankston (red, white & royal blue)

yasmine bankston (red, white & royal blue oc with info here)

rafael luna (red, white & royal blue)

tv

alex karev (grey’s anatomy)

mark sloan (grey’s anatomy)

robin buckley (stranger things)

santana lopez (glee)

andrea middleton (daisy jones & the six oc, high school friend with billy and graham dunne and makeup artist for the six)

celia thompson (grey’s anatomy oc, team peds along with alex and arizona)

josh lyman (the west wing)

donna moss (the west wing)

miguel diaz (cobra kai)

aria sammons (cobra kai oc)

barney stinson (how i met your mother)

rose tyler (doctor who)

misc.

anita (west side story)

tony (west side story)

jason todd (dc media)