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#because i DID edit the whole thing and if people can't enjoy it for money then i'll make sure to let them do it for free
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Oh hello! I see that I was proven right once more...
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Aren't y'all tired of predictable people, posting predictable things when their narrative is being shattered?
Well, let's unpack everything shall we? Gotta put this warning, riiiiight here
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Much better!
Now to the fabulous part of the post that y'all came for!
Isn't it weird that they post two Portugal sightings and pics, just a few minutes apart?
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Even better, Chris' teleportation powers are back 😆 he's so fast he was in LA and suddenly at Albitch's side!!!!
I honestly love these photos, because Chris suddenly looks so different from his more recent pics, where he's actually there...
What am I talking about?
Well, that outfit in the first pic is real OLD! So, technically they aren't lying about the pics being taken, and real. Just the time is definitely not at night, nor recently.
For the second pic, it's just hilarious! And I know y'all are sensitive about the whole "photoshopped/edited" thing but it's too easy, that it's so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here's what I mean...
The shirt Albitch is wearing, is the same one from her February 16 France trip.
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And you can repeat outfits, but not with the days this close together... Is she back to being so poor she only has a few outfits for travel?
And also, Albitch's "husband" is a well known ass man.
So, why in the hell is a random guy putting his hand on her ass? A guy who most definitely isn't her husband?!
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I'm not even going to mention the fact that she gave herself, Barbie proportions. She doesn't have the curves, so like everything, she has to fake it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And when did Chris' necklace turn black, and where did his glasses that, he can't live without go? Did he get lasik between Mass, LA, and Portugal?
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Isn't that fun... 😌
Well, I'm tired now. Tired of staring at ANOTHER picture from the same tactic, from people still trying to prove this is legit. So, I'mma go, and enjoy REAL people.
And to prove how predictable they are, watch for the next one, another pap walk with rings in display, and another hand clutching, with a peck in the middle of some random street with the same outfits, that she doesn't have enough originality to make them her own.
Or maybe another blurry photo, with Albitch following them the next day, as if followers mean anything when you're hemorrhaging them every day, and losing money trying to keep up.
Lemme know if I forgot anything else. And like, I said, it's a rant post.
Until the next one!
❤️ Booky
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not-goldy · 4 months
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No matter what Jk does some ppl will. never. be satisfied. They will always twist what he says, what he does, especially when it comes to Jimin. It will never be enough. Like, he could literally kiss him on cam they’d still say he wasn’t into it, didn’t French kiss him but just gave him a quick peck or whatever so it means he was just doing the bare minimum blah blah blah. They could even fuck for the whole world to see they’d manage to scrutinize his thrusts and the number of sweat drops falling down his back to say he was just doing it out of curtosy lmao. If Jk and Jikook don't satisfy you why keeping up with him? Seriously, why do ppl are so keen to waste their time like this if they don’t enjoy the content they’re engaging with? 2024 is right around the corner y’all, time to check your priorities… life is short, donˋt waste it. As for me, I'm so relieved these two will have each other for the next 18 months! I can't wait for the Jikook Show, it’s going to be epic, I don’t think we’re ready lmao
Forget them, they just trolling 🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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This what they sent in 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
The jealousy and envy disguised as criticism.
They are just like Tuktukkers. They deliberately act blind and dumb and belittle JK's efforts and contributions so it's easier for them to hate on him.
"Jk couldn't attend Face promos" said with a dumb smug face in the same sentence as "just because he sings all JMs songs on his live- to promote his music to his unique fans, boost his reach, generate sales from the free ad and marketing- doesn't mean he supports him."
Naaa he should have sent a coffee truck that makes JM no money, sent food and flowers- that makes JM no money in sales for his Album whatsoever- That would have been so much better if he wanted to support JMs Album than him actually promoting his songs on live
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Same people who complain Army doesn't buy Jms songs or stream his music. Same persons.
Jungkook is a sold out King and people will die to have him promote their content on his highly engaging lives- but nooooo that's not an asset to them when it comes to supporting Jm. Nope.
Even though he's shown time and again that's his way of supporting those he loves. His brother starts a business and he jumps right on live wearing his merch. Did he not get in trouble for that?
Jimin does a documentary and who shows up out of the blue to support him? Mic'd and all
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Jimin is practicing for his MV and who shows up to watch and support him then too?
They call Jimin daddy but won't get off JKs Dick.
Hobi is adorable and we all want a sunshine like him- but he's so supportive Jimin chose Jungkook to do MS with 🥺
Talk of being there for Jimin🤭
And it's crazy they keep craving what others have when those others also want what Jungkook is and does for Jimin. You think Tuktukkers would be superimposing Taes face on Jikook moments if they were happy with Tuktukks dynamics?
Flowers and food- when we all know who is constantly eating with Jimin, pressuring Jimin to go out and eat with him, the one who BTS themselves call Jimin's chef,
the one doing cooking shows with him is not Hobi
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It's almost as if they don't watch any content from BTS other than snippets from Twitter.
Watch Sope, Bon Voyage, Run, Episodes, lives- in full not the edits sir.
We here have a whole Ramen joke running in the Fandom because that's all JK keeps saying he eats with JM. The food buddies. Whenever Jungkook posts food you'd find JM in the comments somewhere reminiscing.
Those flowers and food gave him strength- bitch bye.
When it comes to gift giving, bts have ever complained the one person Jungkook gifts is Jimin prompting them to tease him that Jimin was his favorite out of the group.
Nevermind the snow block he went out to the mountains and brought back for him. We know in this Fandom Jungkook tones things down with Jimin when it comes onto gifts cos he'd kiss and tell and act a fool. It's common Fandom knowledge so I know he is not trying to imply Jungkook does nothing for JM.
That's toxic solo street slang rooted in fiction.
Watch content for yourself and spare us the rubbish.
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heretherebedork · 5 months
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OF feels like it was written from a very straight, judgemental point of view. I can't imagine a queer person would actually send out this message and in this manner to queer communities. They completely obliterated both Nick and Boston's character arcs and their growth. I don't even want to talk about Boston, because yes he was shitty, but he was also the least shitty. And his whole treatment in OF was like a Holier-than-thou sanctimonious sermon I was forced to watch, swallow, and digest. And there's no way Nick would break up with Boston, saying those lines, no way will I believe that after watching his character for these many episodes, that even if Nick was pained and hurt, he wouldn't say those things to Boston. Ever. So while their breakup was inevitable and also the best possible outcome for Nick, the way it happened made zero sense.
In the end OF turned out to be one of the worse queer shows from Thailand in a while. Just genuinely disappointed.
I can't say any of that because I know there were plenty of queer people in the making of and behind the scenes of the show and we can't just discount that nor do we need to condemn the entire show for making mistakes in writing and in execution.
Yes, we can criticize and, yes, I do criticize. But that does not mean wholehearted condemnation of a show or the creators who are trying to make something new.
Only Friends is a new kind of messy show and there were mistakes in the message and mistakes in the execution and that's going to happen. This is how media and shows grow. This is how they get better. They try and they struggle and they make mistakes and everyone learns from mistakes.
No show is perfect (except the first season of My Beautiful Man, jk) but that does not make the show not queer or not to be enjoyed in any way. We criticize because we love and we want the bones of the show we see and not what we ended up with because they were trying to edit to please fans who could never truly be pleased.
I actually found Nick breaking up with Boston to be perfectly realistic. Nick wants monogamy. The way he broke up with him, yes, that was a bit beyond what we needed and what I imagined Nick doing.
The show started out very strong but the more they listened to fans and the more they fell to pair branding, the more the parts of the show that worked were pushed quietly to the side to fit the needed agenda.
And that is what happens when you make a show for a major network with branded pairs who need to fit a certain image for the sake of their money making potential.
All of which is to say... I will not condemn Only Friends. I will criticize and I will talk about the parts that worked and didn't work and what I wanted more of and less of but I will not say that it was a failure or that it should not have been made.
Because Only Friends did something new and it made mistakes and that's how we get better shows. That's how we got from SOTUS to My School President, from Tharntype to Bed Friends. By making mistakes and people learning how to do better.
Anyway, all this to say...
Down with branded pairs, up with chaos!
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iwishyouwouldstop · 5 months
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20 Questions for Fic Writers!
You have the lovely @ladykettlechips to thank for this.
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
It's up to 14 now.
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
421,105. Over half of which are in Where Women Glow 😇
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Bridgerton. Waiting for my head to be turned by another universe!
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Where Women Glow and Men Plunder
When The Beat Drops
Scent of a Woman
She Took Me In
The Man in the Window (tied with no.4!)
My least kudosed is my current wip, All The Magic We Made, which is hilarious because it's the one that is taking the most effort to write. But I've also slowed down my writing schedule because it was taking over every minute of spare time and I have other areas of my life that needed to be caught up on! So annoying, having to work for a living.
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I like to on my multi-chaps because not many readers comment so I want to show appreciation of the effort it takes. Plus, when it's other fic writers it's a way to build up a rapport and maybe even friendships! It's really lovely to see the same usernames popping up and carry on a kind of conversation across the length of the fic 🥰
For some one-shots the comments aren't as in-depth so there's less to reply to. But I am always very grateful that a reader has taken the time to leave some encouragement or say they enjoyed my writing. I find the community is overwhelmingly supportive, which is a delight.
I am getting better at leaving comments on other fics too! I never knew what to say at first but now I am more comfortable with it.
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I haven't gone there yet. I'm at a point in my life where I don't need unhappy endings. But there's angst in WWG and even more my current wip, ATMWM.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
They're all happy! If I can't get a HEA in real life then why not in fiction?
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Not for the writing, but sometimes for the characters 😂
I like a bit of character hate tbh, it shows people are engaged in the story. Just don't let it turn on the actors or the writers. Writers don't have to agree with their characters. If they did, every character would be the same and essentially autobiographical. Blergh
Oh, someone got very upset that kanthony were swearing once, that gave me a giggle. Explain to me why them licking each other's genitals is fine, but Kate thinking 'fuck' is going too far??
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Do I ever!
What kind? I mean, until now it's been f/m and pretty standard fare I think. Like, I haven't included any kinks or out-there sexual practices. I think the fic feedback indicates I'm known for slowly building sexual tension and then making the characters have emotion-filled sex that destroys their life 😂
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
Not yet!
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
No, thankfully! There are blessings to not being in the top few pages of fics. The idea that someone might take my stories and use them to show off or make money is all at once flattering and enraging 😂
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
No but I've had comments in Portuguese!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I haven't even used a beta before 😅 I like to edit it and get it out before I can second-guess. I get enough of peer review and external editing at work. For a story I was going to publish I'd definitely want to do all that but this is just for fun.
If the write person came along I'd definitely consider co-writing! But I think it's probably like a travel partner, you need to choose very carefully or the whole thing will become regrettable.
14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?
I love my Kanthony sweets. Katniss and Peeta got up there for a while. But my original loves were Elinor and Edward from Sense and Sensibility. No parallels there between Elinor and Kate at all!
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
If I doubted I'd finish it I wouldn't share it! If I ever leave a fic incomplete, just know I died. The magic au is a real challenge but I'll get there. I occasionally start drafting an idea that fizzles, but that's just standard idea generation stuff.
I have new projects on the backburner that will be my next wips but I'm learning to publish one at a time because I work better by submerging myself fully into one universe.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Someone said I am good at describing movement and physicality and that made me happy. Based off comments I think can be good at dialogue, humour, building intimacy and using animals to describe slutty behaviour 😂😂😂
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Perfectionism has to be number one. I self-censor because I worry about the fic being shit, or once a fic has some followers, I worry about disappointing them. I delay posting because I can't get my draft to the point where I am satisfied.
The self-imposed weekly publishing schedule helped with that because I'd have to just get the chapter out, but I've lost my best writing time recently so I can't stick to that regular update any more 😭
I don't outline so my plots can get wobbly and bloated. I'm not great at describing surroundings -- I find it incredibly tedious when I read so I often neglect to describe the setting in as much detail as readers might like. There's many more but let's not bring me down too much.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
A single word or important phrase? Sure. But I'm not writing whole chunks in another language because who is my audience for that?
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Bridgerton, my one and only 💙
20. Favourite fic you’ve written?
It has to be the one that started it all, WWG. That version of Kate and Anthony feel like friends to me, although in truth they would be far too terrifying to even behold 😂
It is very hard to choose because they are all labours of love.
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I can't see who has already been tagged for this so I'll just let you self-select!
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vivilove-jonsa · 1 year
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Hello,
Since you've published a book I was wondering if I may ask a couple question?
Does it feel different from writing fanfictions?
Do you find your self relating to GRRM's pace of writing like the long years between books?
How did you like your covers for your original works? Did it take long to pick out?
This is just crack question but any chance there's a minor red headed character with her dark haired partner? You know as a little Easter egg jk. But in all seriousness we always knew you could sell your works and I'm glad you took the chance!
Hello!
Wow, I'm flattered that you want to know this stuff so thank you for asking! I'll happily answer each one below the cut :)
Does it feel different from writing fanfictions?
Yes. The joy of writing is still very much with me but there's some major differences and things I've had to adapt to when looking to sell books as an unknown author versus writing fanfic for a pairing that people are seeking out. The biggest is the wait for validation. Can't post a chapter of an idea, see how people respond and start crafting a story from there. You write the whole damn novel with little to no input from anyone else and then put it out there for critique before publishing.
It may sound weird but I've found more freedom writing original works in some ways and more restrictions in others.
The restrictions involve more planning, outlining and plotting. I have to stay on track instead of indulging in Side-Character B's backstory or a secondary romance, etc. Also, I would hop from genre to genre with my AUs and, while there are authors doing that I'm sure, it's not a safe bet for a newbie looking to make money. So, I found a niche in contemporary romance that I enjoy reading and writing and I dove in. I'll probably tackle another niche with a new pen once I've got ten or so books under my belt with the current pen name to try it out.
The freedoms involve making my characters whoever they tell me they are. No one will scream 'that's OCC!' because these are my characters. There's no trappings of canon or expectations in that sense either although romance readers tend to have favored tropes, etc and they expect you to stick to the 'formula of romance.' Also, I miss talking fic with other writers and fans of my Jonsa works as there's more distance between me as an author and people who read my books. Don't get me wrong, I love interacting with some of them who have reached out but the gap is there and it can feel lonelier.
Do you find yourself relating to GRRM's pace of writing like the long years between books?
No, lol. This is a side hustle for me but a romance writer would starve going at his pace unless you had that miracle hit right off the bat (which is soooooo rare) and even then you need to keep producing product to keep from becoming obsolete. I started my first novel February 1st last year. I will have FIVE completed by February 1st of this year. I'm shooting to average a book every 3 months this year at least. It takes me roughly six to eight weeks to write it and the remaining time goes into editing, formatting and submitting for ARC reviews. Quality AND quantity are the name of the game to earn money. In GRRM's defense though, my books average 75k words and one of those five was a novella at 40k words. And my books are romance centering on two individuals which are far less complicated to tell than his enormous fantasy opus with a cast of hundreds.
How did you like your covers for your original works? Did it take long to pick out?
Yes, I love them! The cover of your book is the single most important part of your passive marketing and you want your book to be as to-market as possible to attract readers in your genre and niche. My niche involves hot guys in suits on the covers and my dear friend made them for me except one which I paid a graphic artist $75 to do an illustrated cover for. Anyway, we would tinker and talk about the color or font, the placement of the title, etc. but, for me at least, this was a simple process. Some self-published folks spend far more time working on theirs or might pay hundreds of dollars on them but mine seem to draw eyes just fine. Maybe once I'm making bank more steadily I'll consider farming this out to a pro.
Any chance there's a minor red headed character with her dark haired partner?
Absolutely!! In fact, my first book includes a pairing that looks suspiciously like Jonsa (I changed the eye color for her and gave him Kit's brown eyes though). Partly, that's because the original idea for the book was going to be a Jonsa story until I decided to switch gears. My third book has a guy that fits Jon's description and my novella includes elements of Sansa's love of songs and such in the female lead. It's fun to have bits of the characters I love in my books even when they're my own creations.
Thanks so much for this delicious ask! Lots of fun to answer <3
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I saw a post on twitter advising "If you want a business but you're not sure where to begin, start by building an audience around your interests." and I can't even begin to tell you how much I've failed, by doing that xD. It's not a bad advice, it's just that some people can't really do that effectively.
Like, when I decided to drop video editing cause I refused to create with stock taken from where I live cause I hate the place and nth inspires me and turnt to photomanips, I tried so hard to make it work but I wasn't social enough for it. I loved to create and I enjoyed finding other artists like me, follow them, support them etc, but I didn't know what to say past "Oh that's really cool" or sth. I couldn't build anything by involving myself with this community so, not getting connected in any way with other photomanipulators or people following for what I make eventually discouraged me, to the point I am now bored to death to spend time making an image if only my 3 friends and I are going to see it.
Then as far as music fandoms are concerned, all I could do is help people find more bands. I did reach a point when bands would ask me post their stuff on fb, but it was mostly indie European or American bands who were trying to do visual kei. And it was hard when they were tooo amateur, cause I couldn't tell them excuse me but you seem like you've just started music as a whole and you need a bit more experience before being exposed to a fandom. Sometimes fans were harsh to me too, like wtf are you posting, you know? I knew most people were following me for Japanese vkei bands so if you were going to be included, you had to have some decent presence and clear sound. I was offered one good thing once though, but I wasn't able to get it so...I was invited to cover a Gazette concert in France and I didn't have the money to go so...not much of a chance, but it brought tears to my eyes cause an organizing company as known as that, considered I was doing that of a good job to be considered equal, you know.
With writing it was the same as with photomanips, only, it was easier to have conversations with people because writing involves a more extensive story and stuff like tropes, writing style etc. But it was too time consuming. At some point I noticed I was spending more time reading other people's stuff and commenting than promoting my own stuff, plus, most people (not everyone) I interacted with weren't interested back in my own story. We were just playing question and answer games and no one wanted to get tagged. The first time I did it it was more successful, I actually had readers, but after a break I took to focus on my own writing, it was just me playing games with other writers and still feeling like I wasn't getting much back, cause past the games no one wanted to be tagged.
So yeah now I no longer want a business around my interests, cause the whole procedure made me hate creating. I just want to find sth I can do, like I have a skill good enough for that job to do it right and one that isn't thaaat unbearable for me to deal with on a daily basis. I don't know what that would be. All I know is that I want to make my own money somehow and get to live alone at once.
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gronjon44 · 1 year
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So I have thoughts on the "Chris Pratt voicing Mario" discourse
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I don't hate it. It's not good, not by any means, but they gave us a minor clip that honestly, should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm not gonna get into the entire Chris Pratt discourse as a whole, because I never agreed with it and think it's stupid it's still going on, but also because I'm trying to look at this as just a performance and not as something based on the irl bullshit.
2 big things I wanna address.
1. Chris Pratt isn't a voice Actor
He isn't a VA, we all know that and we've all accepted that. Yes I think they're decision to not just hire Mario's actual VA (who's been voicing him for decades now) is stupid.
But here's the thing that bugs me. Non Voice Actors can make damn good Voice Actors when they need to or have the option to, and it's not gonna stop Hollywood from casting big name actors for animated films.
Jack Black on the other hand isn't just regular actor, he has regular VA experience and has done other VA roles. Unlike Chris Pratt Jack isn't just an actor, he's experienced in both types of acting.
Also, did we all forget that Chris Pratt voiced Emet Brickowski from Lego Movie? A film that everyone collectively loves and enjoys? Chris Pratt can act, and the argument that he can't and Hollywood just keeps pushing him to make money while somewhat true is unfair in regards to the fact that if Chris Pratt didn't have any acting prowess then he wouldn't be getting hired.
The other thing I wanted to say-
2. Stop judging the performance off a 30 second clip.
I mean this with full blunt intent, the fact that so many people are blasting full force at his voice as Mario, all from a 30 second clip, is really dumb.
This ties back to the Jack Black bit, he isn't a voice actor, and I think that needs to be acknowledged a bit better.
You can't just a book off the first page, you have to at least try reading more about it and getting a better picture of it. Judging Chris Pratt's voice performance off a single clip it's probably edited to and it doesn't even go to that scene isn't fair to either the film or the actor.
Listen I'm not a diehard Mario fan, I've never cared for the games and know him more from Smash Bros and the some bits here and there, but I do understand the betrayal/disappointment from the casting, and while the delivery was flat it isn't enough to base the entire film off of.
Not everyone can deliver the same quality as Jack Black or Frank Welker, an especially not Charles Martinet. But don't scramble to hate an actors performance just cause of a single short clip.
Truthfully the best course of action I think is to wait for more footage/clips of the film, and judge more later on. Or hell maybe just wait for the film to release. Maybe we'll like it, maybe we'll all hate it. But maybe lighten up a smidge till the film gets closer to release.
This isn't the same situation as Sonic.
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bondsmagii · 1 year
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Man if we are talking about bad takes I have one for you: this whole eat the rich movement
And you know why? People can't discern who the rich are!! Like they are coming after doctors and lawyers and artists, people who made their money working, instead of focusing in the people who made their money by exploiting people like businessmen which is the whole point and my god people are goddamn stupid like the whole point of eating the rich was to go against exploitation "boss makes a dollar I make a dime" and like thats 99% of rich people yet Tumblr users see a doctor with a vacation house and lose it completely like my dude having money is not the problem, the problem is when people have money because they took it from you!! Anyways the whole thing has become such a joke and if I see one more person talking about celebrities when they say eat the rich imma legit lose it because taylor swift might be rich but she's rich bc you bought her stuff my guy not because she made you work and took about all of your profit
So yeah a lot of bad takes on this site that come from good places but have zero critical thinking behind it
people not being able to identify the Actual Rich terrifies me. like, they do realise that they're reinventing the concept of kulaks, right?
to an extent, I can get the idea of people being pissed off at very rich doctors in countries like America, where the healthcare system is there for profit. that's exploitative and fucked up, and while I understand that not all doctors are in it for the money, granted some of them are and they are using an exploitative system to get it -- but the real issue there is the healthcare system, rather than individual doctors. (in the UK, the idea of a rich healthcare professional is actually laughable, unless they're a private practise, which isn't as loaded here as you choose to go private and pay money; if you don't, you still have access to healthcare.)
as for everything else, especially when it comes to the arts... shit, man. it worries me, how so many people on this website will wax poetic about how art is worth so much, and artists are angels, etc, but boy howdy they sure don't want to pay artists. people are out there thinking the price of a book is exploitative because it prices out poorer people, without considering the fact that the whole £8.99 doesn't go to the author's pocket -- it pays the author, and everyone who marketed the book, and who edited it, and who did the art for the cover, and who bound the book, and who organised its distribution, etc. it's the same with singers, or movie stars, as well as fundamentally forgetting the fact that you consensually part with your money in order to have something you enjoy. it's not the same as having your wages literally stolen from you by a billionaire.
generally speaking, these people make their money because they're good at something. enough people think that Taylor Swift is good that they've bought her songs and made her rich. enough people like Stephen King's books that they've bought them and made him rich. movie stars are rich because they make good movies and people want to see them. they work. and none of these jobs are easy! they're hard fucking work, and a lot of people are involved in the finished product and they all need to be paid. super-rich billionaires and multi-millionaires, who hoard wealth and underpay employees and cut corners, are usually only talented at making money, and this is because they're despicable human beings. they also have more wealth than they could ever use even in a dozen lifetimes, and they remove it completely from the economy, and they use its influence to seek power and undercut laws and generally make the world a worse place, and they're in a whole different league. the kind of wealth we're seeing right now is supervillain levels of rich.
when there's issues like that, I really don't give a shit if someone who did 12 years of college and residency and who's worked 12 hour days minimum for 25 years has a vacation house. we'll discuss the ethics of multiple houses in a housing crisis when we've dealt with the bigger problems, like the multi-billionaire born to a blood emerald empire hoarding insane amounts of cash and contributing precisely nothing to society, for example. a large chunk of society's problems could be solved or at least on their way to being improved if we didn't have hoarding billionaires and starvation wages.
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junkshop-disco · 2 years
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Did you watch the Guy/Thomas scenes? Just wondering if it changed your opinion at all. I can't decide whether to watch them or if it'll upset me :(
I did. Under here for anyone still (somehow) dodging spoilers.
Tbh I quite liked some of the scenes themselves and the actors do a good job with the little they're given (although the colouring makes everyone look like Ross in The One With The Spray Tan Mishap, good luck gif makers). But I am still... sort of confused/uncomfortable about how ambiguously it's pitched? The music is doing a lot of heavy lifting to suggest the storyline is romantic but despite the likability of Guy in the other scenes, if I was at work and someone came into my office, sort of offered me a job and then felt me up, I would punch them. And I can't quite shake that feeling of not knowing what this is supposed to be: romance, work offer, some kind of job with benefits arrangement, or just sexual harassment Thomas is too weary to fight against or sees some kind of opportunity for escape in.
Regardless of what I think of the plot, I would like to be certain what the plot actually is, you know? If it's a romance, have Thomas kiss him and make it clear? If it's not, leave off with the workplace groping unless you're making a point about period-typical workplace groping? That Thomas himself seems confused about the nature of their relationship in the scene with Mary does not help and makes the whole thing come across like one big hedged bet, so if you're hoping for closure by watching the scenes or the film, you're probably not going to get it.
It feels to me like whether you're into this storyline for Thomas or not, you've got to bring a lot to it yourself in order to have it be satisfactory. To be sad for Thomas, you've got to imagine his feelings about leaving Downton and what happened with Richard because they're not really explored. To be pleased for Thomas, you've got to imagine him a future where this pans out somehow: his joy and hope is not on the screen. None of this is new for Thomas or indeed DA generally, of course, but JF has somehow pulled out of the bag a storyline that feels deeply indifferent to Thomas, which imo is the greatest injustice of all whatever your feelings about the content of this film. I can't tell you whether watching the scenes will upset you more or not because I watched them and I'm none the wiser myself.
And not to ramble off, here, but I actually think this touches on a wider problem for me with how JF sees and writes romance as an almost entirely social contract. He repeats the pattern over and over that romantic fulfilment is tied to moving up socially or becoming rich and will deus ex machina things out of his ass to make it happen. See: Edith could've had a perfectly nice romance with Bertie as an agent and continued the writing/editing career she enjoys and provided a counterpoint to Mary's life at Downton, but instead, out of nowhere Bertie is suddenly promoted to one of the most important people in the country despite it being in-verse unlikely and hinging on the death of a person we've never seen onscreen. See also: Molesley has always wanted to make something of himself and finds fulfilment as a teacher but that's not enough for JF, he has to suddenly become a screenwriter before he can be with Baxter, who would've happily married him when he was a delivery boy. There's this sense that meeting a person you love isn't enough: it has to come in a package of being whisked away to something JF considers better and more glamorous and that's nearly always oriented around money and viewed through a deeply classist lens.
Characters who don't follow this pattern tend to get shafted. See: Mary gets a whirlwind romance and a marriage with Henry, overlooking her reservations about his standing, and then he ghosts her on a fairly epic scale for two films and may as well not exist. See: Tom and Sybil marry, live a more ordinary life, and then Sybil dies. The Bateses start with the upgrade package: Bates gets left a house (by his presumably working class mother, but let's just handwave that) and so then they can marry, but the price for this is they will both go to prison for different murders, sexual violence, and a series of miscarriages.
The happiest relationships portrayed are the ones tied to financial or social gain on the part of one person, with Robert and Cora as the blueprint. I'm not saying these kinds of matches are unrealistic or ahistorical when it comes to the aristocracy, but the issue for me is that when you apply the same thinking to working class people, especially working class queer people, you're saying something completely different. You're saying: you don't get to be happy unless someone with more money and status chooses to pluck you out of your life. And with Thomas specifically, you're saying: discovering a community of queer men on your doorstep doesn't matter. Meeting someone from that community doesn't matter (because I do think we're supposed to read Richard as knowing about the existence of Turtons even if he's too circumspect to be a regular). Only proximity to glamour and money matter, making yourself complicit in the system that oppressed you is your only chance at any sort of freedom.
When you look at it like that, in JF world, Thomas could only have ended up with Richard if Richard was somehow revealed to have been a minor royal all along. Which JF couldn't do because he'd basically given that plot to Tom and Lucy.
As a working class queer, I have a massive problem with this underlying current that only social and/or financial climbing can bring contentment in relationships. It doesn't recognise that often part of queerness is seeing that all the systems, not just the ones about sexuality and gender, are complete bullshit. Which is a position and an understanding Thomas has espoused throughout. Guy hints at sharing this viewpoint with his 'don't call me sir' request (which Thomas rejects, incidentally), but his offer is written in such a wooly way that again, you have to do the work yourself to see it as a meeting of minds rather than a conditional, vague promise of enhanced freedom based on servitude and complicity in a bunch of bullshit systems. It just feels really... anti-queer to me, in a way that’s very little to do with how I feel about Guy as a character or even the decisions made around Richard, and far more to do with what the procession of disposable working class men (including Jimmy and Chris) says about the route to happiness and fulfilment presented.  
Anyway this has become a dissertation so I'll stop. Whatever you decide, good luck anon and my inbox is always open for venting <3
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miqomischief · 1 year
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Unsolicited Advice? Rambling?
Hmm...been thinking a lot since I decided to just throw my fanfiction NPC shipping out into the tumblr world.
I have always supported it. Let me explain why. I came to roleplay, fanfiction, fandoms as a writer of original works already. I didn't come from DnD or anything that was roleplayed in a set world.
I was a writer of original novels, who met another writer of original novels, that decided to write crossover novels together (we wrote like 16-17 entire novels back and forth through email) that eventually evolved into bringing our favorite characters to a video game (Ultima Online that's how old I am that was my first roleplay experience).
The main difference between original fiction and fanfiction is you can't publish/make money off of fanfiction without breaking copyright law (because the characters/worlds are protected by copyright law and belong to their original creator).
For instance, me as a writer of original fiction: If someone wrote fanfiction of my characters, that's fine as long as they don't try to make money from it. If they try to make money off of it, they're hurting my ability to do so and therefore the original creator isn't getting the money they deserve from their work and it's a whole mess. Someone else could be making thousands of dollars over there on fan merchandise while I'm literally starving to death and it was my creation. It has happened to people.
However: Even if I use my OCs for roleplay, say like I do with my novel characters by dropping them into different worlds, that is still fanfiction, even if they're my OCs it's still not my world they're interacting with so it's still fanfiction. Even if I write just all my own characters only interacting with each other as long as they're in a world that's not mine, that's fanfiction.
So from my writer perspective there is really no difference between writing OCs in a world and writing an NPC or established character except one is your original concept and one is someone else's creation as far as the characters go.
I have always resisted writing npcs or established characters, not because I didn't agree with it, but because I didn't like the box it forced me to write in. Some people like having boundaries for their writing, or guidelines, I'm not one of them.
Also, I am so bold about posting my stuff simply for one reason. This is all an exercise to me. People liking it is a bonus. I enjoy writing/posting pictures, I have fun doing them. If other people enjoy it, that makes my day, but it's not the purpose of why I'm doing it.
That's why my posts are not edited beyond a simple proofread. Do I write better in my novels with an actual editor and writing slower? Of course. Am I going to waste time perfecting a writing exercise? No, I can't afford to do that.
Writing takes thousands of hours of practice to get good at it. Just like anything. The more I write, the better I will get at it.
The NPC ships are a writing exercise that are amusing me right now to see if I can write someone else's character in a box (and the two I picked have very claustrophobic office boxes...why did I do this to myself?).
While I do expect to eventually get hate for them, it's not going to bother me. I'll block those people and move on. Because ultimately I'm getting what I want out of it. Practice, enjoyment, and sharing with the few others who enjoy it too and making the world a little brighter, even if just in my tiny little corner.
Just rambly thoughts on it today.
By the way: If someone tells you how to roleplay or write and that it's the only way and you have to do it their way...they are elitist and that's a toxic place to come from. The only one who knows the 'right' way to write a character is their original creator. The rest of us are just guessing even if we're obsessed with everything canon on that character, we're still not seeing even 90% of the things going on in the creator's mind. I can tell you that because I do have original characters people have tried to take for fanfiction and argued with me the original creator why their way is right.
Caveat: This does not mean you can go bust into any roleplay event and do whatever you want however. You will notice I am very clear about allowing NPCs, NPC ships, unusual character types. By default most RP events will NOT allow them and you should not assume that they do unless it's stated or you have cleared it with the event holders. You will notice I do not roleplay Aymeric at other people's events, he is my OC Rulian.
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serekiri · 5 months
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U should rate top 5 dr yuri pairings
hii freddy, hope you're doing okay. since you've asked nicely, here are my ratings on dr yuri pairings that ive picked at the top of my head. hope you enjoy ❤💕
well ill start with the first 5 if that's fine, this is very opinionated so sorry if it may seem biased, im just going off on what i remember from the dr series (god i need to revisit the games and the franchise as well iirc, since this is just thh first, sdr2 second, udg, dr3, and then v3 final, and then ill get around to consuming some supplementary materials in a bit so yeah.) sorry for the rambling now i should get to it!
1- celesgiri. my old favourite. its really just a crackship if im being honest as they barely interacted at all, but that makes it so fun afterall, plus their colour palettes both synchronise with each other really well. like lilac lavender purple/dark purple scheme colours synchronised with black and candy red together as well? really good. i really like their designs together, and i think that they're the only detective/liar ship that matters, really.
celestia being a selfish manipulative liar that cares about no one but herself also is fine, although the shit she did do was unjustifiable (lying about the sexual assault thing for money is very fucked up id admit but i can't really hate her. sometimes we need female characters that are huge unrepetant pieces of shit, don't we..?) regardless of what she did, i found the ship interesting back then. (and i still do! even though its for siller reasons.), because of how it clicked to me at first, and how kirigiri is very distrustful and cold and aloof and often doesnt trust others and has very strained relationships with like. naegi for example, and makes paranoia-driven desicions and throws people like him under the bus for example and whatnot, and her having backstory of her being forced to be a detective because of her grandfather after her mother's death, really, and having issues with her dad and hating him as well cause of what he did. and plus! celestia pretending to be someone she's not, along with her selfish and silly dream of wanting to be a queen in a castle to her vampire butler servants is so funny. she didn't even have to sugarcoat what she wants. its nothing more than merely a childish selfish dream, but it's still something she holds in anyways. could be the fact due to the fact that she wishes that she was just as cool as her dream self is, and portrays herself as this evil, selfish tyrant who would backstab others just for one thing she selfishly desires, compared to her real self taeko, who's more quiet, reserves to herself and is sitting alone while her classmates are around and about. i feel like, they're both the kind of secretive and cagey gals?
now, for the less pretentious answer that you're probably looking for it, i shipped it so much cause i loved their designs so much and their colour palettes. their colour palettes look so so tasty. lilac lavender colours contrasted with lilac purple colours shifting to a deep dark purple with orange, contrasted with the simple dull victorian goth black with candy red eyes. its so good. i lov their hairstyles as well. they look soo pretty!! together! i shipped them cause i just wanted 2 see 2 pretty girls kiss together and i really loved their character designs and thought they were so cool back then. so! 8/10 crackship! they're so fun to draw and write about! i could write all of the scenarios for them i could muster about. been a while. i should draw and create edits about them soon. i really do miss them.
kirizono - ohhh. them. they're a good pairing, not healthy, its very toxic yuri coded, especially with sayaka being a manipulative individual who's very strategic and bases her whole identity on self destruction from an industry that's very competitive, hence her being less of a good person as she grows up as she gives herself away to an industry that eats her from the inside like a parasite. what i do like about the ship is that it's based on two, two people who are cagey for the most opposite reasons, and contrast one another. kirigiri is distrustful for reasons, like parental issues and has some secrets to hold, while sayaka is secretive due to her idol persona, maintained by her idol industry. sayaka is an hollow shell of the person she used to be, as the once lonely child who watched idols on the tv and got her ethics and morals from them, while being young an aspiring died out as she probably learned the horrors of the industry, and did so many horrible shit to keep her existence alive. also not to mention the fact that she's VERY OBSESSIVE AND FIXATIVE on the idea of keeping an strong ideal on her bandmates altogether. i mean.
do you know why she tried to kill leon and frame makoto for murder and stab him in the back for it? do you know why sayaka tried to break makoto's trust for it? it's because she bases and centers her whole life unhealthily, and MANIPULATIVELY to the fucking stage. she cannot trace her entire existence to nothing other than a stage, she has to devote her ENTIRE life to dancing dancing dancing and making an entire career out of it, she has to keep the entire song in her head going. because of the horrors she was exposed towards against HER own will. that's why she was desensitised to the horrors. thats why she has to get up on the stage to make music again. she has to make music again for the others even if it's very twisted. she has to hurt and harm and ruin others lives to make an impact.
she's not a very good person. deep down, she may be a bad person, who's refusing to help herself get better and direct her love for song in a way that doesn't trace back to the industrial capitalist machine that's numbing her slowly inside. she might be as well tearing herself to shreds and setting herself to fire as she continues this fight. maybe she's just as not good of a person as she presents herself out to be. maybe she's a misunderstood mentally ill person who had a horrible life and was not offered help when she desperately needed it the most when she was suffering. ohh my god. kirizono drives me nuts. maybe in another life, kyoko and sayaka could heal and sayaka could be a better person in another life if she was treated right, and probably raised better? her raising is just unhealthy. idk. they make me feel sick.
8.5 out of 10 i love them so much but only on sayaka's part. she makes this pairing so much interesting. sorry. the fucked up mishmash phoenix wright and jeff the killer combo of a girl x just some girl who’s very stoic and purple drives me nuts it’s crazy.
kaeangie- SO CUTE OUTSIDE OF CANON!!! angie was portrayed in a very racist, orientalist manner unfortunately by kodaka, and her portrayal of an indigenous polynesian woman was very horrid. never again. if you like completely separate it from the very racist, orientalist portrayal of her character and her indigenity and her faith as a whole, it's so much more refreshing and better as a pairing for real. i love this ship because of how fun and colourful it really is, and angie trying her very best to like maintain a cheerful environment within the killing game (as she herself is very stressed and paranoid to an extent i bet.) they would have a really good dynamic! i like the idea of angie having insomnia and crying to kaede about a very valid and reasonable concern she has (for example, her being scared that her friends might die, her having a nightmare again, etc.) and kaede coming to comfort her. its very good. also angie telling kaede about her culture and her indigenous heritage that's implied (but not in a good way due to the game's portrayal of it.) such a good ship omg. 10/10. i luv it so much.
soniakane- soniakane is so so good also. its way much better than soniaki. nanami is not even a good character. sorry. she could be better. sorry if this opinion about her makes you feel bad but i cannot get myself behind to like soniaki at all. although i really do like soniakane for example. such an interesting concept for yuri because of the dynamic of a person who lived in poverty presumably trying her very best to live 4 herself..in this fucked up loveless environment, vs princess who came from another country has to learn the perspective of a what akane has to go through, and definitely sympathising with her as she's definitely a nice person even if i dont care about sonia's character that much. such a good pairing. need to rehash my very foggy memory of the sdr2 plot, since the last time i fixated on sdr2 was at 13 years old? in 2018? i don't know. need to revisit it again.
tysm for asking, and i was very indesicive im so sorry if you were expecting an much interesting answer, it's my first ask being recieved like this. have a nice day, ill see you soon! (-:
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pixlh3art · 3 years
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Hi just wondering did you delete birds of a feather?
I did! It was quite a long time ago - I planned to, and still plan to, publish a very revised version of it as a full novel, and therefore pulled it from AO3. Honestly, the two "versions" of it are by now incredibly different, but I still felt like this was the best decision in an overall legal sense. I made sure to give readers plenty of time to download the work initially, and added a chapter announcing as much so that they'd know to download it if it was one of their comfort fics- something that I still have no problem with, for the people who did. I apologize for anyone who was disappointed and wanted to read it, but I'm standing by my decision - and have since written several hundred thousand more words of fanfiction that I hope readers can enjoy.
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plutowrites · 2 years
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HEY PLUTO i saw some basketball player eren fanart and it's taking over all my thoughts - 🌻 (giving myself my own emoji so you know who it is when i return)
HI SUNFLOWER BBY, WELCOME WELCOME!!
oh my... you're really enticing me with the whole basketball player thing....hmmm *sighs very very loudly* and yeah so ummm show me the fanart btw..for a friend. she wants to see it fr...
NBA player! Eren Jaeger
normally a shooting guard but does double up as a point guard when needed and was either scouted right out of high school or played college level basketball for one year before being in the draft
i see Eren having a college sweetheart and STICKING by them. the temptations of going to strip clubs and celebrity parties after winning games are strong but that's just not his scene and so he ditches them to either practice on his own some more or chill with you. his teammates try to lure him in by claiming it's mandatory for "team bonding" and shit but Eren just rolls his eyes and declines. he knows exactly how his fellow nba players are and he'd much rather not risk losing you by going.
he always plays with his hair tied back and some pieces sticking to his forehead from his sweat BUTTT he recently started wearing headbands to solve that problem and it looks really hot. im sorry it's true. brownie points for you for suggesting it to him.
you get to go to all-star weekend because Eren's one of the best in the league ofc and you love it because he treats it like a mini-vacation for you two. he doesn't take the all-star game too seriously, he sees it as some time away from the regular season. aside from the actual game, you two are attached at the hip the entire time. You spend most of the weekend going shopping, sightseeing, party-hopping and just dropping so much money.
speaking of money....we all know most nba players get insane salaries and Eren is rich rich. his money is your money. his money is more your money than it is his money tbh. all he asks is that you clear your schedule to sit courtside at all the home games. that's all. he wants to see your pretty face when he drains a three at the buzzer.
he won't beg you to go to away games or anything but he just gets so...moppy when you tell him you can't go to mf oklahoma and then washington dc the next day for his back to back games but you know deep down you're whipped for him and you genuinely enjoy watching him (he's a competitive beast and his passion shows on his face when he plays and it's one of the best sights ever) and so you do end up going to both.
you....ride for your man and he LOVES you for it. like when he can hear you cussing out some people seated next to you talking shit about him because he's good and beating their team's ass he gets butterflies lmao
always getting name dropped in rap songs and you like to listen to them and show Eren and he's all like pshh whatever but he's hype on the inside hehe
he has a really big thing with people using him for his fame and status. he's v selective with the people around him and can smell fakes out pretty easily. most of his close friends are people from his childhood, people who believed in him when he had nothing.
his love for the game is bigger than the league. during the off-season he is STILL involved with basketball. he sets up free camps for the kids in his hometown to learn basketball and literacy skills. what a man. i make him sound so good, you guys need to thank me.
sigh. you gotta deal with his other kind of fanbase. there's always at least one semi-famous fashion nova model sitting courtside trying to get his attention but you never really do anything. you don't have to. they never have a chance with Eren anyways. you can bring it up after like 'did you see that pretty girl beside me who wore that limited edition jaeger jersey and was constantly calling out your name' and he'll just look at you confused and be like 'why would you even ask? there's thousands of people in the stadium and im not going to notice anyone who's not you' <333
goes feral when you wear his jerseys. seeing his name on your back...yeah he goes ballistic.
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startanewdream · 3 years
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James and/or Sirius laughing at Harry for growing (or trying to) grow a beard 🧔
That’s it
That’s my comment
Ahhh, it's midnight for me I work early tomorrow but I just *had* to write something along these lines!
Set during winter break at Year 6 (or my fave pining Harry time). Warning for some slang and also that I edited on the phone
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“Fuck. No, no, it can’t be… fuck!”
The first slang would have made Sirius stop on his way down the hall, but the tone of desolation that follows it, added by the most hopelessness he has ever heard in Harry's voice, makes him open the door to his godson’s bedroom without waiting for an answer.
(Always risky when it comes to teenagers, but it seems to be an emergency)
The first thing he notices is the rotten smell, then the smoke coming out of a cauldron with the fire beneath still lit; sparkles are coming out of Harry’s wand, which he holds high (underage magic? That he won’t tell), but then Sirius’ gaze falls on Harry’s face and he ignores anything else.
Because on Harry’s face there is something so horrendous that Sirius won’t dare to call it a beard. It’s hair.
Harry’s chin spots the same hair as in his head. It’s a dark messy beard that makes him look as if his hair grew all around his mouth.
“What the hell?”
“Don’t laugh!” Harry tells him immediately, a little bit threatening, but Sirius is truly too shocked to even break a smile. This thing is too ghastly for even him to crack a joke about it. “I… I messed up, okay?”
“Kid, that’s an overstatement,” Sirius says, getting closer to his godson slowly. He touches his beard. “How did you get hair on your chin? That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.”
“Ugh.” Harry throws a guilty look to the cauldron on the floor. “It’s Grandpa Monty’s fault.”
“Unless his ghost came back to screw your face, it seems as if you did this to yourself, kid.”
“No, I… Look!” He picks a scroll, waving it in front of Sirius’ nose. “I found his old notes in the attic. Five-Second Eazybeard! I swear I brewed the potion exactly as he wrote.”
Sirius eyes the smelly potion.
“Are you sure it was your granddad’s notes? This doesn’t seem like Monty's style at all.”
“Well… I thought so. He was the potioneer in the family, right? And he invented Sleekeazy!”
“And then he didn’t launch anything else,” Sirius reminds him, looking at the potion instructions.
“Because he was rich enough and didn’t need more money?”
Sirius laughs. “Nah, Monty was curious enough to keep inventing. This was probably an attempt that didn’t work.” Sirius shakes his head, smirking. “Look, I am not trying to pull a Lily here, but trying untested potions? That’s a bad idea, Harry.”
"I haven't had problems so far," Harry mumbles to himself. As Sirius is about to ask him what he means by that, Harry grabs his hand suddenly. "I learned the lesson, ok? Now you gotta help me!"
Sirius lifts an eyebrow. "The only thing that would help you is a scissor."
"I've tried! The bathroom is full of this thing, but it just grew back! I've tried to cut it magically, and it's all the same. You are the adult here, do something!"
"What do you want me to do? I can't do an antidote just looking at the ingredient list! You need Lily, just call her—"
"I…" the part of Harry's face that is not covered by hair flushes. "I can't. She is at the Burrow now, helping Mrs Weasley with the New Year's party."
"Then let's go, I am sure it will be easy for her—"
"No!" Harry looks in panic now, his eyes widened. "She cannot know what… what happened."
"Lily will know as soon as—"
"Not… not Mum, it's… look, that's fine. Mum will be back tomorrow, I will just spend the New Year hiding in my room pretending I don't exist."
"Harry… there's nothing to be embarrassed about. You know, growing hair body is perfectly normal at your age—"
"Ugh, stop teasing me."
"I wish I could, but you look truly horrible." Sirius winks at him, sitting on Harry's bed. "What prompted you to do this?"
Harry's flush intensifies.
"I was trying to grow a beard."
"Oh, really?"
"It's… it's stupid, okay? But Ginny was… I mean, I heard some girls saying that they enjoyed guys with a beard and I can only grow that stupid stubble and—argh—I just thought I could give it a try but now I have hair growing all around my head and—"
"You are babbling, kid, I got it."
"No, you don't." Harry runs his hand through his hair, looking very much like James when he is most nervous. "You get to grow a beard when you want it. You get this whole shining hair. You get women to sigh for you and I… I am just this stupid teenager who can't even have a full beard."
Sirius blinks. "You are worrying way too much, Harry. And, well, if you want to be assured, you are nice—girls have taken a fancy to you, haven't they?"
"That's just the Chosen One thing, it's not really… me."
Sirius fights back a smile. Harry seems really desolate.
"Look, you've grown well. You are still growing. I am sure people notice you. You have your mother's gorgeous eyes and you do look like James—if there is any comfort in this, I remind you that James got Lily to feel attracted to him, so you can't be that bad." Harry frowns, and Sirius isn't sure if it's because he doesn't want to think of their parents being attracted to each other or if because he doesn't trust Lily's opinion on this matter. "I am sure Ginny thinks you are attractive, beard or no beard."
Harry jumps.
"Who said anything—"
"Oh, are we still pretending you don't fancy her?"
Harry looks away. "I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Yeah, sure. So you don't mind going to the Burrow now and showing up like this?"
"Of course I do! I mean… Ron would tease me."
"Ron."
"And the twins. I mean, look at this!"
"Yeah, I would be upset if they didn't. So many joke opportunities. You are hairy, Harry."
Harry puts his hands in front of his face. Sirius refrains from telling him this doesn't hide his beard at all.
"So… what do I do now?"
"We truly need Lily's help on this… we need to go to the Burrow."
"I can't—"
"Don't worry." Sirius breathes heavily. "Your godfather won't leave you alone on this."
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"It was an accident, Lily," Sirius tells her, his hand playing with the hair over his chin. His new grown hair beard reaches his chest and Sirius is almost finishing a braid by now. "I was trying some old potion, and then Harry was close and it just splashed in both of us."
Lily lifts her eyebrows, her eyes moving from Sirius to Harry and then back.
"An accident?" she repeats, incredulous.
"I am so sorry," he says, the portrait of innocence. "Could you help us with an antidote? And before you say anything, I know I shouldn't have tested an unknown potion. But do this for Harry, not for me. Poor kid doesn't deserve to spend the night hiding. It's a New Year's party after all!"
Lily shakes her head, amused.
"Fine, because you asked so eloquently. I will grab my potion kit, a hair inhibitor should be enough."
"You truly are the best, Lily," Sirius tells her, beaming.
Harry waits until his mother is out of the room to let out a relieved breath.
"Thanks so much, Sirius," he says.
Sirius nods, still messing with the hair on his chin. It's so weird and it looks as ghastly in him as it does on Harry.
He doesn't regret applying that potion to his face. His sacrifice worked just as he planned to: with two people having hair growing out of their chins, the attention was divided and with Sirius taking the blame, people felt sorry enough for Harry to not mock him much.
"Hey," they turn around to see Ginny coming closer, holding a tray with some sandwiches for them. "Mum thought you would be hungry while hiding here."
"Thanks," Sirius says, because Harry seems too busy pretending to look outside the window, anything so he can try to avoid Ginny looking at his beard.
Ginny nods at Sirius, but she approaches Harry anyway.
"Your mum is already working on the antidote, don't worry," she tells him gently. "Look, it's not as bad as that time Percy tried to grow a moustache, remember?"
Harry chuckles. "You are so lying."
"I would never," she assures him, voice light. "Look at me."
Harry turns to her almost as if he can't control it. His eyes soften as he gazes upon her, and Sirius is suddenly reminded of how Lily always looks when she sees James.
Ginny raises her hand slowly, giving Harry plenty of time to back away, but he just stays quiet as she touches his beard, her fingers running through it. Sirius suspects Harry isn't even breathing anymore.
"It's soft," she tells Harry and for a moment they just stare at each other. Sirius decides that he is really witnessing a moment that he doesn't want to, but his attempt to quietly leave the room only alerts them to his presence. Ginny's hand falls back as if she got electrocuted. "Anyway, you look better without it."
Harry grimaces. "I guess that stupid stubble is better than this."
"Stupid stubble?" Ginny blinks, evidently surprised. "It's not stupid, I… I mean, girls love it on you."
"They do?"
"Yeah, well, just thinking about your stubble brushing my skin—I mean, their skin, as in other girls' shoulders, or holding your face while… never mind, I just… I just heard it, that's all. You are drawing a lot of attention."
"I know, all this Chosen One stupid thing—"
"It's not it... you are really oblivious to your charm, Harry."
"You think I am charming?" Harry asks, longing evident in his voice now.
"I…" Ginny hesitates, turning away as if she doesn't want to answer this while looking at Harry, and her eyes meet Sirius. He smirks at her, knowing perfectly well her answer. Ginny's face reddens even as her jaw sets in a protective instance. "Yeah, with the stubble. Everyone knows it. It's common knowledge. I… I have to go, I think I heard Mum calling me."
Sirius could point out that Molly didn't call her at all, but he opts for just letting Ginny go, his smirk more than enough to let her know she didn't fool him.
At the other corner of the room, Harry's face is spotting a huge grin, watching the door with a dreamy expression.
"She likes my stubble!" He declares happily. "Oh, I need to take off this stupid long beard now."
Sirius shakes his head at Harry, amused. At least Harry won't ever complain about his inability to grow a beard again.
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i just read your post in which you ranked the twilight movies from best to worst and you mentioned a lot of the scenes were pointless to the movies, and i was wondering what scenes you would have used, in place, to make the movies better and more watchable
Asker is referring to this post.
A Caveat
It's okay to like the movies.
I may hate them and find them not only utterly dull but nigh unwatchable, but you're not me, and most of this site adores the movies. (Even the ones that claim they hate it, they loved that thirty-minute wedding in Breaking Dawn, every second of it.)
So, just because I don't like something doesn't mean I'm right or wrong. It just means I have opinions and people enjoy asking me about them for God only knows what reasons.
The Other Caveat
That wasn't the only reason they were bad movies.
Oh, it certainly helped, but I'll put it like this. Even with liberal editing and a very draconian screenwriter, they would not be good movies. There was the directing, the acting (even by phenomenal actors who, bless them, were doing what they were told and so we get Sheen's delightfully awful Aro), the special effects, etc.
At its heart, what really did Twilight in, was that the producers wanted to make money.
Oh, producers always do, it's their job, but in this case it was egregious. They were producing a cash cow and they knew it, throw enough fan service at the walls and the teenage girls will stream into your theater.
That kind of thinking is the death sentence of any story as it means a) a misunderstanding of what the point of your story is even about b) the sole concern not being to tell a story but to desperately make sure the broadest audience possible likes it and throws money at it.
The Twilight saga films were never going to be on par with The Godfather.
But Alright, You've Hired Muffin as Your Editor
Not screenwriter, mind you, as I would not be the one you want writing your Twilight adaptation. Meyer would have killed me and thrown a tantrum upon seeing my script, I'm sure.
But I'm editing and I get to decide which scenes you have to sit through and which ones you don't.
Rather than write a pretend script for you, I'll just go over the highlights:
Breaking Dawn Part One: The Wedding and Honeymoon
I would have cut the wedding. The wedding would take place during the opening credits as a montage, we'd get our fill of Bella in a dress, Edward in his suit, the beautiful atmosphere, and then we get a montage of them flying to Brazil, having their wedding night, and when the dialogue starts up it's the morning after and Bella and Edward explain that they're married, on Edward's private island, AND THEY JUST HAD SEX.
That's all we need to know, that's where the plot begins, everything else is fanservice. HALF AN HOUR OF POINTLESS FAN SERVICE.
Minutes are precious in cinema, we can't waste that much time on a scene that does nothing for the plot.
(And watch as people throw tomatoes at my head BECAUSE THAT WEDDING WAS PERFECT AND ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY)
I'd also skip most of the honeymoon through montages. We'd learn that Edward was very terrified of having sex with her, that this isn't a done thing, but we would not have to see the whole damn honeymoon. The next major scene is Bella getting sick and realizing that this film is actually Rosemary's Baby.
Eclipse: Bree Tanner's Short Life
I'd cut all the Bree scenes. Eclipse, in and of itself, was a giant mess of pointlessness. The movie had no idea what it was even about or even doing so it kept throwing canon spaghetti at the wall in the hopes that this made a cohesive story.
Edward and Bella aren't doing anything? Uh, LOOK AT THESE HOMELESS PEOPLE IN SEATTLE!
By introducing the Bree storyline we have more characters we don't really get to know or ever really get attached to. It also spoils the mystery of figuring out what's really going on behind the scenes with Victoria.
I'd also have cut the wolves + Cullens chase Victoria through the woods scene. It's just... so cheesy and pointless. All we need to know is them bickering and that the hunt is not going well.
What Scenes Would I Replace Them With?
I wouldn't.
Breaking Dawn had such a catastrophically long run time that it was made into two parts. It became two films about nothing. Rather like watching Waiting for Godot, actually.
They don't have to be replaced by anything, and if they are, then that scene better do something to advance the plot or our understanding of the characters.
But this is a weird exercise because what you're asking is "What would your Twilight screenplay look like" and the answer is that Meyer would murder me and you don't want me writing your Twilight screenplay.
So, it's probably best I stop here.
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Belly boops for the Demon brothers!
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I felt like writing something chill and wholesome and this came up. Personally I'm a belly boop person, I've always enjoyed watching people's confused faces when I poke their stomach, but sometimes I'll do it out of habit (when I'm leaving a room or saying goodbye to a friend I belly boop them insted of a normal goodbye and won't realize that I did it until someone would point it out or just in very random moments like in the middle of a conversation I'll do it as well) so I decided to hc how the demon brothers react to an mc who does this.
Keys: MC = your main character's name.
Summary: The demon brothers discover a peculiar trait of MC: belly boops.
Additional notes: MC is gender neutral!
Here is part 2 with the side characters!
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Lucifer
The first time it happened was one morning when everyone was getting ready to go to RAD.
Lucifer always opens the door for everyone, and leaves last, so when you past by him you unconsciously decided to thank him for holding the door open in a very...unusual manner.
You booped his belly.
It was so random, that it was one of the very few moments in his life that the avatar of pride didn't know how to react.
—MC, What do you think you're doing?—his voice stopping you on your tracks.
You where confused at first on what he was referring to, but when you realized a wave of embarrassent hit you.
—Sorry! It came out of habit! I used to do that with my friends back in the human world!—you apologized quickly.
—refrain from doing that again, I'll only let it slide this time, understood?
—Yes! It won't happen again!
It did...
The second time it happened you immediately apologized only catching for a split second the death glare he gave you before running away.
Ultimately no matter how much he scolded you, you didn't stop.
I think he kinda...just accepted it once he realized you did that only with the people you're comfortable with. So he took it as a weird compliment.
So now he just stares blankly at you every time you do so, no longer even trying to correct your weird habit.
And to be honest...he secretly thinks is adorable, but he'll never tell.
Mammon
—Whadda ya' think you doin' ya' dumb human!?!?— the avatar of greed asked completely caught off guard.
He was telling you about one of his newest schemes to get some easy money; when all of a sudden, he felt a light and quick pressure on his belly.
It was your finger, but the weird thing was that you still looked like you where listening and waiting for him to continue the conversation like nothing had happened.
He's so confused.
When you realized what you had done, you explained to him it was something you did with your friends in the human world; is your weird unconscious way of showing a person you feel comfortable in their presence.
Blushy boi
—W-well...I guess that's ok, but don't ya' dare doin' this to anyone else, got it?
Your belly boops are reserved for the great Mammon!
Leviathan
Leviathan.exe has stopped working.
You where about to leave his room with a new game (he insisted you should try) on your hands.
—Thanks Levi! I'll let you know my thoughts once I finish it!—you said as he holds the door open for you.
Boop!
You went back to your room not being aware of the blushing mess of a demon you left behind.
"Why MC poked his belly?!?!" "It was probably a mistake, right?!" "No one would like to touch a yucky Otaku like him anyways!"
He won't confront you about it, thinking it was a mistake.
But then one time when you two were playing video games together and you just defeated the other team, he extended his hand in order to give you a celebration high-five.
But then you just...boop!
He blushes even more than the last time, and finally asks you why you did it.
When you explain to him is your own way to express endearment for the people close to you...oh boi.
He blushes so bad and his eyes get all glossy like he's about to cry, for a moment you might even think he's in pain or something.
He never thought of himself as someone you value or hold in such a dear place in your life, so he's just so happy to hear that!
Forget the high-fives! Belly boops are now a must every time you two are together!
Satan
The first time it happened was when you two where studying for a test in the library.
Satan is not a big fan of touch or touchy people; I feel like it makes him a bit anxious.
So when you first booped his belly...he felt kind of uncomfortable, but didn't say anything, thinking it was a mistake or a lame attempt on your part to provoke him.
He won't confront you the second, third or even fourth time it happens, only limiting himself to lightly scolding you with a quick glance.
But if you still don't get the hint, he would finally talk to you (not in an aggressive manner btw he's chill with you about it)
—MC, I don't know if you're doing this as a way to provoke me or make fun of me, but you should know how uncomfortable it makes me—He spoke holding you by your shoulders softly.
You explained to him it was something you did unconsciously, but that you weren't mocking him, Belly booping was something you only did with people you felt comfortable and trust enough to do so.
He gives you a kind smile after hearing you say that; He's truly happy to be someone you can rely on.
He might try to put up with it, belive me, he really does. But he just can't.
You let him know that it's ok for him to not like it, and that you're not mad or dissatisfied in any way, and that you'll be working on controlling this peculiar habit of yours.
He appreciates your words, and now every time that your habit slips, and you try to belly boop him; he'll catch your hand before you can do so and gently lower it, offering you a kind smile instead or...if he's feeling soft he'll hold your hand for a bit.
Asmodeus
He was finishing giving you a make-over when it happened.
—All done, hun! You look so beautiful!! Not as much as me tho...—he said handing you a mirror
—Thank you, Asmo!!! you're so talented!!
And out of nowhere...boop!
Silence.
Asmo, being the avatar of lust, has experienced all kind of touches.
But he has never (or at least not that he remembers) been booped in the belly.
He looks at you with curiosity, even tilting his head slightly, looking like a confused cat before his eyes spark with joy and he suddenly envelops you in a tight hug.
—Awww MC! You're just too cute! You make me want to gobble you up!—
Out of everyone, he's the one who loves belly boops the most, even more knowing the meaning behind them.
He just founds them so endearing, it melts his heart.
Whenever you boop him he'll pinch your cheeks and start baby-ing you.
Beelzebub
You first booped his belly at dinner, big mistake.
He was enjoying his meal when all of a sudden he feels your finger on his stomach.
And we all know Beel is a calm demon but when it's about food...you better don't try anything funny.
He hates being disturbed when he's eating.
He huffed in annoyance, directing you an angry glance you'd only had seen when the whole custard incident happened.
Tho he saw your apologetic expression and decided it wasn't something worth making a fuss about and continued eating.
He'll later feel bad about it tho, so when he came to apologize you decided to let him know it wasn't something you did on purpose and what it meant to you.
Beel was really happy, he even blushed a little and hugged you enthusiastically.
He enjoys belly boops...as long as you don't do it when he's eating.
Belphegor
It happened for the first time when he was falling asleep in class.
When you booped him he just thought it was your way of keeping him awake, so he didn't say anything at first.
That until he started to notice you would also do it in very random moments: You two would be out shopping or something and then...boop!
He's a bit startled at first, but much like Satan, he'll just look at you weirdly and then move on.
Or at least until curiosity gets the better of him and finally asks you about it.
When you finish telling him, a small smirk appeared on his lips.
He's the only one who kinda makes you regret you told him about the personal meaning belly boops hold to you because of how much he would tease you.
But he really likes them, because from now on. Every time the two of you take naps together; Belphie would belly boop you back before dozing off.
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If you find any grammatical errors let me know! I'm trying to improve my english and that would help me so so much!
I will forever thank you if you go check out my other profile: @aileysmirnov  where I post things about my OC: edits, one-shots, imagines, art, etc. If you like Greek mythology and the bat family maybe you would get to be as fond of her as much as I am!
Anyway, thank you for reading!
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