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bohemian-nights · 9 months
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What are your opinions on both Book!Rhaenyra and Show!Rhaenyra.
😬 Welp obviously unpopular opinions coming through:
Book!Rhaenyra is incredibly entitled, self-centered, and narcissistic. She literally is what happens when you are never told no and essentially every whim is indulged and handed to you on a silver tray.
I know some people have said that her depiction is borderline misogynistic in the books(Maegor with tits), but if you look at real-life monarchs(who come from empires built on colonialism and slavery), even to this day, they are not nice people so I’d say her characterization isn't exactly an unfair depiction.
Of course, people always like to point out that Rhaenyra did not start off bad(she was the realms Delight and beloved by the people). She was just stressed from losing nearly all of her kids. She snapped like any of us would do. She’s actually the true victim of the Dance.
I’ll grant her supporters the first part, but the subsequent arguments🙃 Rhaenyra started acting, um how should I say, in a questionable manner long before she started losing her children. People always leave out how she ordered Daemon to chop off Ser Vaemond’s head and feed it to her piss-colored dragon for daring to speak the truth. Unlike in the show, this happened three years before the events of the Dance when she was mentally sound.
Yes, you could make the point that it was technically done to protect her children(and herself), but then you can also argue that if she really wanted to protect her children she would not have had such obvious bastards(I’ve seen people try to argue that they aren’t bastards in the books because they’ve got Baratheon and Arryn ancestry, which is dumb as hell because they have features that don’t come from either house) in the first place.
Plus it’s not as if her children would be killed if they were acknowledged as bastards. They’d still be alive albeit out of the running for the Iron Throne. Of course that would have probably taken her out of the running as well so murder and cutting out the tongues to silence those who state the obvious to be queen someday it is😄
Honestly, I feel like she’s a dumber duller version of Cersei(and that’s saying something because while entertaining she is pretty idiotic). Rhaenyra is not very charismatic and she’s a hypocrite(bastard hater while having bastards herself) and a racist(and once again stress isn’t a “good” reason for racism so if you feel that way 🙃). I’ll keep it cute and leave it there, but in my humble opinion, there is nothing about her that is really likable.
Show! Rhaenyra is boring. She started out fine and we could see some of book! Rhaenyra's arrogance that fuels her fire and drive, but when they switched actors in episode six she became lifeless.
We see a little of that fire return during the scene where everyone is gathered in the Great Hall of Driftmark and Rhaenyra suggests for Aemond to be questioned, but it once again disappears.
Now I want to be clear, I do not blame Emma for Rhaenyra’s lack of fire. As I said, during the Great Hall scene in episode seven, the fire was present. However, production so far seems hell-bent on making her into this sympathetic heroine of sorts which is why it has disappeared.
They are setting her up to be this wronged woman who the patriarchy wore down even though that simply isn’t the whole truth. Before this show even though people felt like she was the rightful heir, no one saw her as this hero who had a heart of gold. They recognized that she wasn't a very likable person while still acknowledging how she was wronged in some way.
Now you have people who act like she never did anything wrong(some of the people behind HOTD included). That she is the unquestionable hero and a kindhearted person who was destroyed by the war when that's simply not the case. I don’t find it cute how they are trying to redeem a racist sociopath in the name of supposed “feminism”(all while tearing down and stripping every other woman character of her characterization🙃).
I will say that even though they’ve whitewashed her, she still doesn’t come off as sympathetic to me. You can see moments of her arrogance. It’s not as vicious as in the books(I.e. chopping off Ser Vaemond’s head and feeding it to Syrax), but it’s still there like during episode seven and when she was taunting Daemon right before she got choked out by him in the finale.
Going forward, I hope the show brings in more of her book personality because she’s not very entertaining to watch.
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YAAAAAY THE QUESTIONS OPEN AGAIN!!!!
First off, I love this AU and it has officialy ruined every other transformers material for me because it's not good enough now. One of my fave thing is how you go about the extreme difference in what Prime means. Like, you do tfa Optimus being very, very weirded out by his counterpart being, for all intent and purpose, a demigod.
Second, if movie nights request are still open (and it's absolutly fine if it ain't) I wanna put Atlantis by Disney on the basis of I like it.
Third, we had the TFA and TFP bots reacting to each other but I don't think we have the cons reacting to their double (for the those that have them)
Beyond TFP!Megatron punting his tfa counterpart with extreme prejudice.
(also I know that's probably not how you see it but every time there's a mention of stoping Prime!Megs from hunting down Animated!Ultra Magnus all I can see is Optimus just sitting on Megatron and listening to him ranting until he calms down and stop trying to crawl toward the portal. Once again probably not the feeling you were going for but makes me crack up 100% of the time)
Hey! :)
Okay, there’s a lot going on here, so… I think I’m gonna try and speed-run this. If you’d like me to go into more detail on something, I will—but I’ve been staring at this Ask like the Grim Reaper for a few weeks, so—for mental health reasons—we are going to just get it done. 😂
That’s not a jab at you. My brain’s just been in A Place, y’know what I mean?
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Now… *deep breath*
Let us proceed.
Differences:
It was important to me, crossing over between the continuities, to discuss the differences—not just the biological, but the cultural.
TFA and TFP are two very different incarnations, and that means interesting conversations about how they perceive different things: religion, culture, politics, everything really.
It’s been interesting to explore this given the unique character traits of the ones involved in the story. The TFA ‘Bots are mostly young or the sort to avoid difficult conversations and they’ve gone through indoctrination, and Wheeljack is a war veteran who buried his academic side and isn’t fond of chit-chat unless it’s needed.
That means that the process of learning the truth of each other’s realities is very gradual, and there are lot of surprises and even arguments.
It can be difficult when you meet someone who, to you, seems to come from another world. You have to meet each other with understanding.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire:
[SPOILERS]
As an archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and someone who absolutely adores the idea of working in a museum while also wanting to beat anyone who reinforces colonialist ideologies over the head with a shovel (I’m gonna go far in this life, I know 🙃), I’ve always adored Atlantis.
Aside from the part where he looks up from his book or artifacts in the most amazing place in the world long enough to find a love interest, he is my spirit animal: clumsy, info-dumping about his favorite thing whenever he can, a spitfire when he has to be but awkward and shy in pretty much every other situation, and I’m probably gonna be locked in the basement of my future historical or academic institution so that I don’t punch anyone who makes discriminatory remarks. However, that will just give me time to give certain things in the archives their due diligence and respect, so joke’s on the old people! I have morals! 😂
Ahem-
Milo is my spirit animal, but many of the side characters also won me over: Kida, Sweet, Vinny, Audrey, and many of the rest.
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Uh… Anyway-!
Really though, the geology majors can just kinda be like that sometimes-
The story is surprising for a Disney film: pro-research, communication, and understanding as well as non-interference while anti-colonialist and anti-exploitation. The hero of the story (who, admittedly, does fall into the White Savior Trope) is a cartographer and a linguist with a very anthropological way of looking at things, and the villain is a mercenary who wants to take the cultural items of an indigenous group without any understanding of them and sell them to the highest bidder—and even murders one member of that indigenous group before kidnapping another.
I adore the conversation between the main antagonist, Rourke, and the king of Atlantis.
Rourke insists that they are peaceful explorers, but the king points out that they have come armed.
Rourke says that the weapons are for the removal of “obstacles”.
The king—knowing that he means “people”—tells him that some obstacles won’t be moved by force, and he wisely pushes for the visitors to leave.
Milo wants to listen to the king out of respect. The rest of the film only happens because Rourke appeals to the king’s mercy and asks for a night to rest and resupply.
While Milo does fall into a certain problematic trope, I do like that the movie does two things: it does not make the people of Atlantis helpless without a “destiny man from another world who will heroically lead them”, and it does not have him start out as a destroyer.
This is one of the big issues that I have with the movie Avatar.
In that film, Jake Sully goes with the intention of “coaxing” an indigenous group to leave their land so that colonialism and exploitation can continue unchecked.
That’s his mission. He only gets involved with the culture for that mission, and he only really changes his mind once he gets a girlfriend and there are suddenly stakes.
The only things I credit the film with are that-
Neyteri was given power after her father’s death.
Neyteri was the one to kill Quaritch and end the war.
All but -like- the three humans who sided with the indigenous population were booted immediately. Ideally, they would have left as well out of respect—but maybe they were being protected from the repercussions they would face on Earth if they returned? Or, more likely, those guys definitely would have gotten murdered on the spaceship.
Other than that, all I see are issues:
The aliens being coded as indigenous people being given animalistic traits.
White Savior Trope with Jake Sully as the dragon-riding messiah. Being said dragon-riding messiah also comes with immunity and instant forgiveness for your past betrayals, and it can also be seen as exploitation of the people’s beliefs for personal gain. Of course, due to the crisis, this is made out to be a good think that Jake did. 🙃
The deity of the indigenous people listens to White Savior Jake when he asks her for her help and… not the suffering indigenous people?!?!?! Um, the fuck?! I swear, if he was supposed to be the answer to their earlier prayers to her, I fucking quit-
Killing Trudy for no good reason, which is a red flag for many reasons. 🚩
There was just something uncomfy about the positive spin that they tried to put on white people coming in to teach indigenous children how to do white white things they wouldn’t ever have to know if there were no white people interfering with their land and culture. It might just be the historian in me, but I don’t really like that-
Ableist themes.
I dunno, there’s just something about the white guy getting incarnated into the body of a lab-grown indigenous person that kinda makes me raise my eyebrow…
MOVING ON-
Milo’s an academic, which can be and has been very problematic—but he’s portrayed as being someone who is earnest in his genuine pursuit of new knowledge and respect for the culture, and he doesn’t want to take anything away from Atlantis aside from knowledge that he and his grandfather did not waste their lives chasing a fairytale. He learns the language and interacts with the people, showing respect when his companions fail to.
He’s actually the only one on the mission for a good, long while who behaves selflessly—he’s not there for money or fame, especially once he realizes that the safety of the living Atlantean people is in their secret. He just wants to know more, and—in the end—his real love of Atlantis is enough for him (having been welcomed) to stay behind and immerse himself in the culture, content to never let it be known that he was right. He gets what he wants, but he does no harm—he does what’s best for the people, and helps them reclaim what they’ve lost just because it’s the right thing for him to do.
He says from the beginning, his priorities are “discovery, teamwork, adventure”. By the climax of the film, he’s added “protecting Atlantis from exploitation and destruction”.
Kida actually puts his role into words: “If these outsiders can unlock the secrets of our past, perhaps WE can save our future.”
That gives the Atlanteans agency. They do require a bit of assistance to get started due to all of the damage that has been done, but they want to be the ones who do all of the rescuing and rebuilding of their culture. That’s very important.
And by the end of the movie, Milo and Kida—while having expressed interest—are still just friends. They’re not dating in a day, and a romance didn’t affect the film’s plot and become Milo’s driving motivation. He does what he does because he wants to help people with what he knows, not exploit or hurt them.
And the Atlanteans can kick some ass! Like I said, they’re not helpless without Milo!
It’s said that Kida is a great warrior, and we’re allowed to see her leading and fighting—and how aware she is of the needs of her people, that they cannot just preserve what they have or they will lose their identity. They have to learn and grow. She doesn’t need Milo to tell her that!
Then, with the power of the crystal, Kida may be a target—but she is the one who makes the decisions and uses her powers to save her home and her people. And at the end of the film, she becomes the queen—and she is the very first Disney Princess to do so, though she is the one who tends to be most-frequently forgotten. That’s a shame, given how strong of a character she is: competent and strong, but also wise and curious, and she has a sense of humor!
I adore Kida.
But that’s my point. Kida’s character doesn’t revolve around Milo, making him into the greater hero. She does need to be saved after, while under the crystal’s power, she surrenders herself to prevent bloodshed—but from that point on, it is Kida who does the saving. It’s the magic of the crystal that leads to the death of the film’s main antagonist (after a jump-scare with disturbing imagery), and she manages to save all of Atlantis from a new cataclysm caused during her rescue.
Milo’s main purpose as a hero is to turn many of the mercenaries in favor of the Atlanteans and to help bring lost knowledge back to the people of Atlantis after centuries of it being lost, only preserved in the writings of white men. He takes that knowledge, and—no longer letting it be kept away from the people—gives it back.
There’s almost a hidden lesson about the sharing of knowledge from cultural research with the communities involved as well as repatriation in there.
Eleven years before Atlantis came out, we saw a big stride (though it could have been bigger, the bitter anth student says) in the relationship between indigenous peoples and museums in the United States:
NAGPRA was passed.
Maybe this movie’s themes were a reflection of that? I dunno, the silly archaeologist might be reading too much in this.
A girl can dream, I guess.
The film also targets the difference between the idea of a people’s life-ways being preserved until they fizzled out or actually thriving as a living and growing culture. Because they’ve been literally buried for so long, the Atlanteans have lost many of their cultural practices to the ages—it was lost in the cataclysm that left them trapped, only to be found in a journal recorded before that event which fell into the hands of a rich white man who funded the expedition (albeit, without realizing that it would turn into a treasure hunt).
I’m seeing some other lines that can be drawn here. Again, I dunno if it’s just me-
It’s the academic who has to end the cycle and being that knowledge back. He has to deny the imperialists traditions of museum work and academia and not keep things for himself, hoarding knowledge for the sake of it. He openly communicates with descendant communities, brings the hoarded knowledge back to them, and stands with them against opposition.
He also tells the Atlanteans, while he’s delivering some knowledge before they go to rescue Kida, that it was only thanks to Kida pointing him in the right direction that he was able to learn. He doesn’t take credit for himself, he gives it where it is due: back to the indigenous people.
And it’s the decision of the mercenaries who return and the old, white man who funded the expedition—despite their earlier obsession with money, fame, and proof—to keep the secret of Atlantis, because they’ve realized that too many people in the world are still like how they were and how the mercenaries who hadn’t changed their minds still were. They have to keep the secret to keep Atlantis safe, because it’s best for it to remain untouched by the surface.
Now, there are still some iffy details:
While it’s softer than in something like Avatar, there is the White Savior Trope.
Before some of the mercenaries mend their ways, we do see a lot of destruction of cultural objects and disrespect as well as even violence towards indigenous people.
The King of Atlantis, after Kida’s capture, does place responsibility in Milo’s hands to undo the damage and save his people and his daughter before he dies from his injuries.
The Atlanteans do require the help of Milo and the reformed mercenaries to take down the mercenaries who take Kida captive.
While they do keep the secret, the reformed mercenaries do leave with treasures from Atlantis that make them rich. The only difference is that these things are portrayed to be given as gifts, not stolen as loot.
I’m not gonna act like the movie is perfect.
It’s no excuse, but it was 2001—and we still seem to struggle today with getting a lot of the representation and themes that were explored.
If I hear a person say something about the new Little Mermaid film out in public,
Only the threat of jail-time will save that person from the instant intrusive thought telling me to fuckin’ hit them with a chair.
But-
Like I said, this is surprising coming from Disney—but this was one of those B Studio films that came out just before the big shift to CGI, one of those beautiful movies that pushed boundaries because they were just allowed to do what they wanted. I think that’s why we got lots of powerful messages and representative characters.
And I adore this movie. I always will.
It just struck a chord in me.
Everything aside, I mean… I guess there was just something about seeing a nerdy, dorky, academic brunet with glasses and a book as the hero.
I was born in 2000, and I probably saw this movie for the first time when I was nine—when it was eight years-old. I was a quiet kid (except for when it came to my interests) who carried books, loved reading about culture and history, and didn’t have the greatest physical ability. I’m a girl, but it still felt nice to see someone like me doing all of these amazing things without requiring some sort of glow-up or body-building training session.
Just some nerd trying to do a good thing with what’s in his head—not perfect, never perfect, but genuinely doing his best. I think that’s why I still consider Milo Thatch to be my spirit animal and still one of my favorite characters, even if I do see some issues in the story now that I’m older.
And I think it’s really, really cool that there’s a Disney film that has themes of anthropology in its storyline. That’s just awesome, especially now that I’m a student. I can look back on this and nods with the good things Milo does, then turn around and cringe as mistakes are made.
Seriously, Indiana Jones will never, EVER be the same. He’s just a treasure hunter-
Atlantis a beautiful film that sheds light on many issues, one that would likely experience some struggle in the media if it was made today—being called out as going out of its way to be diverse or tell a message that can be met with scrutiny from the old guard in museums and academia today.
As much as it sucks that the movie was missed due to poor advertising strategies that were common with the B Studio films that have now become very beloved, the shadows probably helped it survive long enough to be “discovered” by the grown children that it was first made for and become beloved by them with no critique.
My family doesn’t really know this film or care about it, but… I’m kinda okay with that.
Wheeljack would absolutely adore Audrey. 10/10, would adopt her into the Wreckers if he could. He would also have a soft spot for Milo, because of that no-longer-so-secret soft-spot for academics. He hates to admit not really that to the perception of most, especially in TFP, he’s actually Vinny.
I think Optimus would also like Milo—watching him grow from being shy and taking orders as well as criticism and mockery due to nerves into a more confident person and a leader. Given that Milo’s team tends to tease him and disrespect him at first but then found-families that boy by the end of the journey, and the older mercenary who worked with his grandfather and had his trust betrays him… there’s a lot to relate to. He finds a family in a world he never expected to discover, and turns his back on pretty much all he ever knew because it was the right thing to do.
Ratchet pretends he’s not watching. During the next crisis, he dryly says “we’re all gonna die”. Also, even though it’s a villain line, he really likes the “alright, who’s not dead? sound off” bit. Some of these lines just come in handy for him, okay?
Bulkhead is fascinated by the artistry of the film. A lot of these movies are getting him interested in animation and set painting. Additionally, he really likes the characters of Vinny and Sweet: one is shown to be obsessed with bombs and the other is likely the biggest and strongest character, but Vinny secretly misses his family’s flower shop and Sweet is a doctor who is moral and kind. Those characters who are seen as one way but really have a gentle side will always be his favorites.
Bumblebee and Sari are the biggest fans of Audrey and Kida, and they feel as though they were robbed of a team-up between those two.
Sari especially adores Kida after her first scene as an adult, where she uses her crystal to heal Milo. She sees her Key, in that moment—and having Kida go from child to adult, and having her have a mystical connection with a living crystal that has a sort of sentience and sense of destiny… She has someone to connect to, in this film. It’s special.
Also, Kida gets to punch pigs. Love that.
Prowl is intrigued by the unique environment of Atlantis. He wonders if it would be possible for something like that to even happen on an organic world, for there to be a bubble under the earth with people, plants, and animals. If not, he guesses that the film attributes it to the crystal.
All in all, it’s an interesting film—and I think that Professor Sumdac might try to explain some of the messages told afterwards, with the historical context. Hearing all of that, I think that the TFA ‘Bots will be reflecting on the politics of their Cybertron and having yet another crisis.
TFP Wheeljack, who has had years to reflect on the politics of Prime!Cybertron during his lifetime but is now recalling those university-level history lessons about the Quintessons:
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All in all, they’d love the film and take a lot away from it—and they’re gonna be pretty upset when they learn that 2D animation is all but extinct on the big screen. I miss it-
Decepticons Reacting to Each Other:
I think I actually did address this a while back. Please, excuse me while I do some scrolling…
Ah! There it is!
I actually seemed to address this in a few places. Hold on, let me just-
https://justawannabearchaeologist.tumblr.com/post/685980951090724864/im-pretty-sure-there-will-be-a-lot-of
https://justawannabearchaeologist.tumblr.com/post/689332289785692160/sentinel-meeting-the-tfp-gang-specially-optimus
Let me know if that answers your question. :)
As far as TFP Megatron personally goes, yeah: he’s retired, but he doesn’t want there to be any further bullshit. TFA Megatron and TFA Ultra Magnus excell at creating bullshit.
That makes them fair game.
Few are inclined to argue.
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nessa007 · 7 months
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Mila looked so annoyed in their apology video. What did they think was going to happen?
the whole thing is so 😬 they have done a lot of work to help sex trafficking victims yet they agreed to write letters asking the judge for a lighter sentence because danny’s family asked them to and the way ashton said “the man that we knew for 25 years” is classic “well they’ve always been nice to me” 🙄 they’re always gonna be remembered for trying to defend a convicted r*pist now and idk how anyone can take their work for sex trafficking victims seriously now and they are very stupid to have thought agreeing to write those letters was a good idea. they probably thought it was never gonna be made public that they wrote those letters 🙃
also just because someone may have grown and changed as a person and may be genuinely sorry for what they did, they still deserve to be punished for what they did in the past. the pain and trauma that the victims suffered will not just go away. it’s something they will deal with for the rest of their lives.
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I know you said it gives you ick.. please bear with me..regarding the post about open relationship.. I always think about it, how does it work, I mean they are away from each for better part of the year even if they're in relationship(hope they are).. Louis does not let on much but harry oh god harry made it very clear it's his most favourite thing to do( when he said performing on stage is the second favourite thing).. so do you think that he'll not look for somewhere else??? I mean I don't get the logistics of it.. and feel we idolize them way too much and they think they are in monogamous relationship since 16.. when harry sang 'woke up the girl who looked just like you, I almost said your name' like what, people think they were having Tea party??
But also what contradicts my thoughts is that.. HL are extremely jealous people.. they don't show on their faces anymore but louis was pissed because harry touched liam's ear..LIAM. so it makes me wonder how a person like him would agree for an open relationship just to be with that person and not say bye bye to the relationship and going through all the trouble.. we see many people call it quits because of long distance.. 🙃
https://www.tumblr.com/whoreforlarrystuff/722390198063906816/please-dont-think-this-is-aimed-at-you-its-the?source=share
Hi Love!
So I do think that we have lots of proof that they don’t go long without seeing each other- I know that we as a fandom like to joke about the 2 week rule for Harry and Louis- but often times, their schedules line up in a way that it kinda makes sense?
I think that people assume that just because someone enjoys sex, means they have to be having it with other people? Plenty of people are in long distance relationships and enjoy sex, and they don’t sleep with other people. We’re in a technology age- we have phone sex, video sex, all kinda of sex toys that allow for long distance sex etc. personally, I don’t think they’re in an open relationship, in part because of how jealous we saw them be during the 1D days.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that things haven’t changed since then- but I do think that they’re still in a monogamous relationship. The way that H talks about relationships isn’t someone who isn’t in a committed relationship with one person for a very long time.
I think H and Lou have been through so much as a couple, that they know they can do it- and the things that H says lately show someone who’s done the work to remain committed in his relationship, someone who’s been to therapy & had struggles, but that they’ve emerged on the other side stronger together.
These two don’t write the songs they do, for us to question the validity & strength of their relationship.
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I can’t wait any longer for chapter 28 🥲🥲 could you pls post it sooner ? 🥲🥲🤞🤞 just this one time 🥲🥲🙃
Hi anon!
eheheheh well, as much as I would like to post it early, I'd rather torture you with the anticipation and let you prepare for it :> (just kidding hahah—just gonna give it one last proofreading after the con I have tomorrow)
but I can give you a sneak peek so... enjoy!
It is said that the more one is exposed to appalling experiences, the more one becomes desensitized to them, begins to see them as normal, mundane, and eventually passes undetected to the conscience.
Thus families nurtured in this kind of lifestyle unwittingly continue on this cycle of abuse, passing on unsolved trauma to the next generation as if it were the right thing to do, since that’s all they’ve ever known—subduing those that dared to question their methods by the rule of “it’s always been this way, and always will be”
The Zen’in were no different. Just another family surrounded by subjugation, horror, and silence. And such was the complexity of their structure that their members believed this would remain like that for the rest of their days, giving up the idea of even trying.
That is, until you came along.
The estate was… rattled, so to speak. Baffled, concerned, some even scared, and all because of what transpired, what’s happening, and for what’s yet to occur.
The tension that surrounded everyone was enough for the staff members to think of themselves incapable of completing their job, at least not without their mind taking them to the happenings of that fateful day—this however, quickly turned insignificant when their livelihood was threatened by the need of a salary, as well as Meiko’s incessant nagging comments about having to keep the estate together and how everything seemingly befell on the shoulders of the only capable person to do so, referring to herself of course.
But even with these reminders, with necessities having to be met… what took place was not something that could fade into the background so easily, because it should’ve never happened in the first place:
You stood up to Naobito.
Some called it an act of defiance, the most treacherous betrayal a woman could commit against the Zen’in estate.
Others thought of it as an act of compassion, especially when considering it was made with the intentions of protecting your abusive husband from his equally maligning father.
Nonetheless a consensus still remained, a statement both parties could agree on: it was unforgettable. 
This was to be perhaps the most disquieting thing to occur in the estate in the past few years. Moving the birth of the “useless” twins Mai and Maki—which eventually faded into irrelevance once their aimless destinies were sealed—as a third contender.
But still second best to Toji’s insurgence. Nonetheless, there were some that begged to differ, saying that what you’ve done was far more outrageous, because after all, it was natural for a man to stand up for himself. In fact, some (hypocritically) expected him to do so after a while, allowing the delusional ones to console themselves by saying this was not unforeseen at all.
What set you apart before their eyes was the fact that you were a woman, a member of the submissive gender, the less-than-impressive one, the one that was “genetically imposed” to take what’s given to them because they had no other purpose than to serve…
Taking their prejudiced mentality into account, it was only natural that the clan would be appropriately offended when you decided to take on the highest contender. 
Many took this succession as best as they could—or perhaps the only way that it could— as a shocking testament that you were never meant to fit with the Zen’in, no matter how many times they tried to break you in.
And those that knew of your precarious relationship a bit better… took it as a demonstration of the complexity of your feelings towards Naoya, and your marriage.
In other words, this situation was complicated as it can be, and it was hard to cement a definite opinion on it…  an ambiguity which led the gullible members of the clan to chime in and profess that your sudden occurrence was an omen of change, a symbol of an uncertainty yet to come.
It was only a matter of time before the river of their fate began to shift courses and show the repercussions of what you dared to do…
But of course, these connotations were nothing more than fallacies at the end of the day—because why would this ever signify something different in the putrid world of  the Zen’in? 
This isn’t some kind of dream where everything will start changing thanks to the power of empathy and understanding; Naobito wasn’t going to change his tyrant ways, Naoya isn’t going to soften towards his wife, and you… you weren’t going to sympathize with him either.
It just like they would say: It doesn’t work that way… as much as one of them would’ve wanted it to be.
The second most publicized celebrity behind this incident, Naoya Zen’in, the heir of the Zen’in clan, your husband… was never one to believe in superstitions, but on this occasion, he would be part of the group that anticipated a change.
A positive one, specifically between you and himself.
However, as involved as he was in this peculiar situation, he couldn't be any more stranded.
After you stood up for him against his father, his life took a drastic turn… for the worst. 
He began to be tackled from all ways possible, allowing him little to no time to overcome the emotional turmoil the shocking revelation pertaining to his relationship brought him, and what it meant.
Let’s start from the beginning, shall we?
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jimmysdragonsuit13 · 1 year
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I saw this tiktok from a classic rock fan page and they are a huge bill wyman fan. And um yeah he was the one who married that 18 year old girl in the 80s. I honestly don’t know why he left the Rolling Stones but yeah people remember him for that fucked up relationship he had. Ok and one of her posts on her account was about people who like Jimmy page are weird, but it’s ok to like bill wyman and mick jagger. I was like wtf like sweetie just because I like an artist that doesn’t mean I agree with the bad things they’ve done. And um yeah I was so annoyed. Like I see so many people love tommy lee and Vince Neil and I see so many posts where they talk about how they think they’re hot and so many people agree with them. But god forbid, god forbid someone says that Robert plant or Jimmy page is hot, everyone gets mad. Like I’ve seen positive posts about Led Zeppelin on tiktok, but there’s also a lot where they spread misinformation about them. I’m sorry for the long rant I hate some of these classic rock fans who like rockstars that are also problematic but always get mad at us zep fans for liking Led Zeppelin. I think it’s because theres a lot of things that have been said of Led Zeppelin about the groupies and the drugs, but those other bands most likely did the same thing too but no one talks about it. It’s also probably because those bands were better at hiding it. They’re all definitely not innocent so yeah like it’s fine to like an artist and disagree with the bad things they’ve done.
Sorry I really wanted to say that, this is why I like tumblr better the zep fans on here are nice :)
Hi anon,
Don’t apologise😂 I share your opinion too, I hate classic rock fans on TikTok and there’s too much hate and misinformation towards Led Zeppelin in there, I once saw a girl saying that she’d only buy Led Zeppelin albums once Jimmy passes away and I was like girl??? Jimmy will always be in the albums 🙃 and they’re always talking about the “mud shark” incident when they were not involved in that incident🤦🏼‍♀️ It is true that there’s also positive posts about Led Zeppelin but I usually avoid everything related with Zep on Tiktok because people infuriates me with their misinformation and hypocrisy. And yes, of course they did bad things and I think it’s good to call them out for that but girl your faves are problematic too, don’t act like they’re saints because I don’t think there’s a single innocent rockstar out there. Like you said anon, it’s fine to like an artist and disagree with the bad things, but for fuck’s shake half of those people believe that their faves did no wrong 😅 and they’re probably posting edits about a very problematic band or artist. I’m not saying they should stop listening or loving their faves, they can do whatever they want, just like I’m going to keep listening to Led Zeppelin and loving them but what I’m trying to say is people should realise that their faves have flaws too.
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bebewrites · 2 years
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#FridayKiss Tag Game 💋
tagged by @aninkwellofnectar tyyyy 🥰
Rules are that you post a smooch between your OCs for Friday. It can be as light as a peck or intense as a makeout. It can be romantic or platonic or familial. As long as a smooch takes place it's free reign!
tagging: (feel free to ignore!) @ryns-ramblings @ejsimpsonwrites @achilleid @flowerprose 
Here’s what was Asher and Everly’s first kiss, which has been moved to their second kiss for reasons.
The music fades slowly, the remnants of it swirling in her veins. She waits for it to die, that moment when it leaves her completely, for the absence of it to settle in her bones. But it doesn’t.
She turns to find Asher staring at her, the notes clearly still lingering with him too. And for a moment she lets herself look at him. His hazel eyes are bright and intent as they peer into hers. She lets herself feel the gravity between them, their thighs touching on the narrow bench, their hands inches apart on the keys. Before she realizes it, their faces are inches apart too. And she’s leaning in, she’s angling her head, she’s fitting her lips to his.
more under the cut 🙃
The thing about time inside the Night Veil, Everly’s learned, is that because it doesn’t move forward properly, it slips away from her easily. All she knows is that, for however many seconds pass, she hasn’t encountered a time during the curse when everything was so calm and so still.
Asher leans into the kiss, his fingers wrapping around hers, and heat blazes through her. It blooms under the surface of her skin, startling her back to her senses. Their lips slide and part, and she stares at him for a moment, realizing what they’ve done. Asher has a glazed look in his eyes. She watches it fade as he tries to read her face.
Then she gets up and leaves.
“What—Everly—” Asher sputters behind her. “Everly, wait!”
It isn’t until she’s out the door and walking briskly into the courtyard, chastising herself and trying to smother the fire in her cheeks, the thunder in her heart, that he catches up and stops in front of her.
“Everly, please,” Asher says. “So that’s it? You’re just going to do that and then—and then walk away?”
She blinks. “Yes.”
“Why?” He gapes at her.
“Because it was good,” she says, quieter than she means. She’s always so soft with him. The heat creeps back into her skin and she can’t look at his face anymore, so she stares at the silver buttons of his jacket instead.
But suddenly the distance between them is gone and his hands are underneath her chin, a gasp escaping her mouth as he lifts her lips to meet his.
The world stills again, and she can’t help but think that he’s fresh air. A breath of springtime in the ceaseless whirlwind inside the Veil. Her hands slide to his forearms and his lips slide against hers, gentle and warm. Once, twice. A third time. Each pass of his mouth tugs at her heart, digging it up from where she buried it.
Asher pauses suddenly and leans back just far enough to meet her gaze. 
“Oh,” he breathes.
“I know,” Everly says with a frustrated sigh.
Suddenly bickering voices float into the courtyard. Vega and Landon halt in their tracks, taking in the sight of them—standing close, Asher’s hands still cupped around Everly’s jaw. And then Vega shoves Landon hard, sending him careening back around the corner. She flashes a feline grin at them before she disappears.
everly and asher: oh no we have caught The Feelings 😱
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thetaekookcloset · 2 years
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Probably gonna get hate for this and I’m not even 100% convinced myself that they’re actually in a romantic relationship because obviously we don’t really know shit lol, but if it turned out that they’re just best friends and their relationship is and has always been just purely platonic, I’d definitely accuse them of queer baiting… 🙃
I feel like there’s a line that they’ve crossed with each other and their antics for it to be just two friends being cute and performing. They know that there’s a huge fan base and they see what people talk online and they are constantly adding fuel to the fire themselves by being very touchy touchy with each other (way more so than with any other member tho I’m sure other shippers would highly disagree lol), making comments about each other, mentioning private vacations and everything that is taekook. We see antis commenting that they hate being shipped and it makes them uncomfortable and that one Weverse answer by Tae is some sort of a passage from a bible to them, but obviously we’ve never gotten any actual denial from them as far as I know, they haven’t changed their behaviors at all and that answer the antis keep holding on to for dear life can be interpreted in many ways. But obviously they wouldn’t deny anything if everything is only fanservice, because that would be bad for business and in the end, they are part of a multi billion dollar industry. 🙃
Obviously they don’t owe anyone any answers about their personal lives and in a way they’re definitely not responsible for all the shippers, but then again, I feel like on some level they kinda are because their behavior encourages the fans to keep going. 🫠
Well I'm not going to hate on you, anon, and I would hope that no one else will either, but I disagree with you.  In my opinion, it's not up to us or anyone else to determine what is and is not an appropriate level of touchiness between two people who are friends or otherwise.
I've said it before and I stand by it: calling anything any of the members do "baiting" is too much in my opinion.  It's true that they know shippers exist and some things will always be interpreted through that lens by some people, but it's also true that no matter what they do and how frequently they demonstrate their closeness, there will always be people who see them as uncomfortable with each other.  So why wouldn't they just interact in whatever way that comes naturally to them?  Why should they or would they change the way they act within the boundaries already set for them, just based on how some fans will interpret it? Personally, I obviously feel that the way they act makes it seem likely that they're romantically involved, but as I said earlier, they haven't done anything to make that reading overt and unavoidable.
This isn't a "gay for pay" kind of scenario because none of the members have ever gone that far.  There's also the fact that, regardless of whether any of them are involved with each other specifically, any number of them may not be straight and could still be expressing their platonic bonds in ways that read to some people as queer because they are -- ways that come naturally to them, are genuine, are platonic, and are queer, because queer people have friends and those friendships don't always look the same as friendships between straight people.
As far as getting a denial from them goes, it seems to be policy not to address intra-group relationships (aka shipping) at all. It's not like there have been denials for Sope or Namjin either. I imagine there are a number of reasons for this, first and foremost being that shipping is good for business, and I imagine this would be the policy whether any of these relationships was actually real or not. This is a big part of why I personally have never taken Taehyung's Weverse comment as being against shipping.
I understand your feelings about them potentially baiting the ship specifically, and we really don't know enough for me to tell you there's no way that's the case -- maybe it is for all I know.  For me, though, I'd rather assume better of people until I know otherwise, for one thing.  More than that, whether or not Tae and JK are together, I feel pretty confident in my guess that neither of them are straight, so I personally would feel a lot less comfortable accusing either of them of any kind of baiting, even if it did turn out that they were never involved with each other in particular.
Besides all of that, a lot of their most telling moments have always been the ones just barely caught on camera, or not shown at all and we just hear about them later.  How can I consider it baiting for them to act close on cam if we know that they act close off cam too?  Not to mention the subtlety of a lot (not all, of course) of what they do.  It's hard to consider the subtle stuff baiting, and I feel like there's a lot more of that over the years.  Add to all of that the fact that if they're not literally onstage at the time, there's no real, direct benefit to any of this.  They're just as likely to gather criticism as they are praise, which makes it seem that much more likely to me that whatever interactions they have, at least off stage, they have primarily for their own benefit.
Of course, these are all my opinions.  You're entitled to yours and to your feelings.  I'm not trying to tell you that you can't feel the way you do, only to explain why I personally wouldn't feel that way.  Either way, we're talking about a hypothetical future scenario where we not only find out their relationship status, but also know the details of what it's always been, and it seems unlikely that that will ever happen.
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dinglesugden-af · 1 year
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I think I’m a celeb need to change the rules and exempt someone from trials if they’ve done one the day before, because the same people getting voted every year is actually getting boring 🙃 I know Matt isn’t anybodys favourite person, but he literally does well in the trials and he doesn’t complain so what exactly are people getting out of keep voting for him? I’ll never understand how people who are disliked are always voted, you’re literally giving them a reason to keep showing you someone you claim to hate. I could never, if I disliked someone I’d want them to have as little screen time as possible 😅 at this point people literally get paid doing this show for doing absolutely nothing.
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maggiecheungs · 3 years
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bohemian-nights · 6 months
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What do you think of Rhaenyra’s reluctance to issue war? Do you think this is because she genuinely didn’t want war or was this another one of the writers ways of making her seem like a “girlboss who really would never have done any wrong but was just pushed there?”
I actually blame this on both the writers trying to shoehorn the prophecy mess(which Viserys realistically shouldn’t know about himself) and them trying to make Rhaenyra into a girlboss.
They made it seem like Rhaenyra was going to give up her claim and go along with Aegon being king because there is this war between ice zombies and humanity and the Targaryens will be the saviors of Westeros(which is all a load of bull crap because according to GOT the savior was Arya…Stark🫠).
This made 0 sense whatsoever even in the context of the show because she literally begged Daemon’s a** to marry her since she thought the Greens were going to do her in. She was low-key preparing for war in episode 7 and then the finale rolls around and she’s like “Hmm maybe I should like bow down to Aegon for the prophecy’s sake.” 🫠
I haven’t rewatched the show(and don’t plan on doing so because it is crap) so someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I could’ve sworn Viserys told Rhaenyra about the prophecy way before episode 7(I think he told her in episode 1 which is further proof that this show is just so inconsistent, they can’t even keep up with what they’ve written 🤦🏽‍♀️). She didn’t give a damn about the prophecy before, but now she does 🙃
Book!Rhaenyra would never do this because she was always firm in her belief Aegon II was a usurper and even if there was a prophecy she would think it was referring to her line so she’d definitely push for her claim.
If they wanted to make Rhaenyra look more empathetic they could’ve played into her being a mother and had her say “I don’t want to fight in a pointless war and see my sons die,” but they gave the lamest excuse possible by adding in a that stupid prophecy.
This show is just bananas. Its biggest problems are trying to make it connect to the mess that was the final seasons of GOT and trying to turn Rhaenyra into Dany 2.0. They could’ve presented us with an unbiased version of what happened during the Dance(showing that the main claimants were f*cked up people who were screwed over by a self-centered King who almost got their entire family killed), but instead, we get this🤦🏽‍♀️
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westernsunshine · 2 years
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I have had an absolutely, comedically awful day
#it all started at 8:34. i was innocently sitting in the train station waiting for my train#and i hear over the tannoy that there’s a disruption on the track causing 30 minute delays#and i’m like ‘oh i hope that’s not a sign of things to come’ but it was because of course it is. it always is#i should’ve gone the fuck home at that point but i see my train coming and i was feeling optimistic so i got on it#that was my first mistake#about 15 minutes into the journey we hear over the tannoy that the train is terminating at a town 4 stops before my stop#and i’m like ‘excuse me it’s doing what now’ and your man the conductor is like ‘don’t worry we’ll get you where you’re going’#‘alternative transport has been arranged’ and i’m like ‘fuck okay’#i would’ve just gone home from there but my classmate had seen me 🙃🙃🙃#so i get off the bloody train and it becomes apparent very quickly that the people at the station have no idea what to do with us#even though they’ve been aware of this situation for half an hour or more#taxis are mentioned but eventually they shove us all into a bus and i get an impromptu tour of the train stations of yorkshire#frankly i could’ve gone my entire life without that but no such luck#finally i get to class an hour late and we’re in this random bloody off-campus building so i have to do more walking than my injured knee#can take. i mean i felt it seizing up. it still hurts#then we proceeded to do bugger all in class. i could seriously have joined the online session and not missed anything much#then one of my classmates left me stranded outside the building (we have no way of scanning in so you have to let other people in)#then we did bugger all this afternoon. i mean i literally could’ve left an hour early and not missed a damn thing#the first thing i’ve done right all day was ordering a chinese takeaway on my way home so i could eat it as soon as i got in#i’m not going in tomorrow. i’m sure i’m getting a cold and my knee is fucked up and i don’t trust northern rail#also i’m sort of feeling disillusioned with absolutely everything to be honest. i’m not in a good state of mind#i have one bad day and need like 3 days to recuperate lol. i think maybe it’s a pattern#personal#rant
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kaistrex · 3 years
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers (◠‿◠✿)
I think this is fun, and will add to the meme “and say why you like them especially” because I always love to hear writers talk about their work.
I stumbled across this and remembered that I did it once before a few years ago (found here), and I thought it would be fun to do again to see how my answers have changed.
I’ve replaced 3 of my 5 answers, and 3 of them are ones I’ve written this year. All Sterek, because what else? 😉
1. Where the Real Beasts Are | 109k | Explicit
Crown Prince Stiles is gifted a direwolf on his eighteenth birthday by King Gerard I of Venatia. The only instruction? Never remove the collar.
Stiles never has been one to do as he’s told.
This fic is really special to me. The base plot idea feels like the best one I’ve had for any of my fics ever and that I’ll never come up with anything so good again 😂 I love Royalty AUs, and there’s something about this one that feels so cosy to me, probably partly because my mind spent so much time existing in it with how long it took me to get it written.
I started to drift away from the Sterek fandom while I was writing it, and I honestly thought it would be my Sterek swan song, but I’ve since written more for this fandom this year than I’ve written during any other, so I guess that thought was a little premature haha
2. Lemon & Ginger | 2.5k | Teen
A new tea shop has opened in Beacon Hills, and Laura drags Derek along so he can try the incredible, memory-evoking drinks for himself. He’s soon going back for more, but is it because of the tea, or the owner?
This one felt so great to write because I had the kernel of the idea and some scenes that I noted down, then a few days went by before I got bit by the writing bug and managed to knock the rest out in the space of one day. It’s so rare that I have that happen. I wish I could get more short one shots like this done more often, but the ideas come to me so few and far between 🙃
I actually kind of want to revisit this and do an AU of it that explores Stiles’ power a little more, and maybe gives it a proper plot for more of a longfic, but I have zero plot ideas for what I’d actually do with it, so for now that’s on the backburner.
3. A Land of Myth | 8.8k | Teen
While tracking a manticore across the border of their Kingdom, Stiles and other Knights of his order run into a group of Knights from Kanima also hunting the beast. Among their number is Derek Hale, a werewolf Stiles spent a memorable one night stand with a year ago. What should have been a peaceful hunt turns into a not-so-friendly rivalry, the reliving of a bitter memory, and Derek refusing to even acknowledge him. It will be a miracle if they can all cooperate long enough to actually do some monster slaying.
This is another fic that feels really cosy to me for some reason. I’m still really pleased with how all the flashbacks work in this and the way the end links back up to the beginning. I’m always surprised by how short the word count is too, when it feels like it should work out so much longer!
4. A Bud Beginning to Flower | 5.3k | Teen
Whilst attending the wedding of his best friend, Prince Stiles comes face to face with Prince Derek, a member of the Hale delegation from the north. His father considers Prince Derek a worthy match, but tales of the man's reputation as a bore - not to mention his suspected involvement in an assassination attempt on his own family - feeds Stiles' distrust before they've ever even met.
This one is still clinging on from the last time I did this! Whenever I look over this fic now, I can see that it needs a bit of a rework, especially when it comes to the paragraph breaks (and that intro ugh), and there’s one line in particular that needs changing that I’ve been aware of for years and have still done nothing about, but I am still fond of it 😊 I’m sure it won’t be long until I’ve got yet another Royalty AU in the works...
5. The Hand-me-down | 0.7k | Teen
Derek gives each member of the pack a leather jacket on their eighteenth birthday. Stiles can’t wait to see what he might get.
This fifth spot was a toss up between a few different fics but I just went with this.
I really like how simple the idea behind this one is, and how it’s short and sweet and straight to the point. This is one I’ll sometimes give a look over for a quick little burst of fluffiness. And I was really surprised that so many people liked the final author’s note!
(If tumblr will let me,) tagging: @mtlyfe @fanfics-fix @hyperlittlenori @fairydustedtheory @raisesomehale
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jcheechoo · 3 years
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i just hope this publicity about bear stops some of the canadian self aggrandizment about how theyre so much better than the usa. i know it won’t. but in my experience canadians always downplay what they’ve done, or say “it wasn’t as bad as the US,” or say that it was something in the past. like off top of my fucking head:
1) residential schools, starlight tours, all in the near past.
2) many reserves still don’t have clean water and canada refuses to help.
3) Indigenous people are 4% of population but 23% of federal prison. Indigenous women represent 41% of all women in provincial jail.
4) Indigenous children are 8% of population but 53% of children in foster care, because Canada never stopped stealing our children. sixties scoop to millenium scoop.
5) Indigenous women and girls are extremely disproportionately victims of violence. I can’t remember off top of my head which numbers are for US and which are for Canada, but it is an ongoing epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls
6) the Dakota Access Pipeline that Biden is illegally running right now? it was built because of Canada, & canadian exports of oil. These pipelines don’t just taint sacred, stolen land, the mancamps around them are responsible for much violence against women. the police violence against Native people protesting pipelines cannot be understated
7) some Indigenous children in foster care have allegedly been forced to get IUDs inserted in BC. some of these children are under 10 years old. saskatchewan is also facing lawsuits for their (alleged) forced sterilization of Native women.
8) this whole fucking story. I know so many Natives with similar stories in the “great” canadian healthcare system, someone I know has a story about a loved one who was just turned away after traveling 6 hrs to the nearest hospital. i had hoped that in the nearly 60 years since my granny left canada they had grown out of calling Native women “loose” and only good for having children but nope 🙃
again, Indigenous people asserting our rights in Canada is met with hatred. But Indigenous people just existing is met with hatred too. That we still exist and have ties to what settlers call their “home and native land.” not just the current situation with Bear, it just is. they do this because they can. I think of Joyce Echaquan, who died listening to her nurse call her a fucking idiot and tell her she was better off dead. they do this because they can. and they don’t ever seem to reckon with it, because “hey we’re better than america!”
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canwealwaysbe · 2 years
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thoughts on the rookie 4x04
Overall, I enjoyed the episode. By scrolling tumblr I expected it to be awful, but it wasn’t. Both Tim and Lucy had plenty of screen time. The Russian spy storyline was intriguing. I’m super interested in the serial killer arsonist. I got to see Nyla and Angela be absolute bosses. I’m invested in the Wesley storyline. The ep was great.
I think a lot of chenford fans don’t understand that the general audience actually enjoys Nolan. I don’t particularly see the appeal, but every one I know in real life who watches the show adores him. I told my husband I heard the episode was a bore because it’s just Nolan and his girlfriend of the week, and he said “It’s because you and your friends only care about Tim and Lucy” and he’s right. 🙃
And chenford…. While I have zero doubts that they ARE going to go there and they will make chenford canon, they’re baiting and butchering the roll out. Lucy is back to calling him “sir”, she’s again directly in his chain of command, and they’re teasing other potentials. While I personally do not believe they’d ever pursue a Lucy/Aaron romance, they definitely put a flirty scene in there. I read it as friendly only until Lucy hung up the phone and gave the iconic “Tim complimented me” smile and head twirl. She was pleased. The writers are doing what they’ve done all along, tease chenford (almost always with mid season finales, finales, or premiere episodes) while also putting distance between them. The back and forth is super tiring and again, while I believe chenford will be canon eventually, the roll out is stagnant. If I was solely watching for chenford, I’d have peaced out by now.
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isabellehemlock · 2 years
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Fanfic Ask Game
Thank you to the ethereal @disregardandfelicity for tagging me in this lovely fanfic ask game 🤗
I actually had done a similar one to this about ten weeks ago, but let’s see if any of the answers changed 😎
Now who to tag?? Hmmm
@tobebbanburg @kiaya (now that she's back!!) @mekana47 @fitzcamebacktome (no pressure though of course)
How many works do you have on AO3?
37 (with 6 being fanart)
How many fandoms have you written for (and what are they)?
The majority are for The Old Guard - and a few are for Luca Marinelli Multiverse Character crossover au’s. 
Are there any new fandoms you want to write for?
Well I’m outlining a prequel for The Witcher featuring Calanthe and Eist :)
What are your top five fics by kudos?
Endless Ocean (TOG Modern AU)
Cleanse (TOG Post Canon)
Catch Me If I Fall (TOG Omegaverse AU)
The Bet (TOG Pre Canon)
The Purpose of Art (TOG Modern AU)
Which of your fics do you want more attention for?
They’ve had enough attention, it’s fine lol.  I mean I do love kudos and comments, and I do hope something that brought me joy, brings joy to someone else, but I don’t know if I think any works need “attention.”  I suppose if the question is meant more like, “Which of your fics do you hope people notice?” - I’d say, “Any that helps brings joy to someone’s day, or helps them process something.”
Do you respond to comments, why or why not?
I love commentary, I love to talk - words of affirmation is my love language <3 - and am always so grateful when someone has gone out of their way to let me know they enjoyed my fic/art (and seriously I’ve had a full range of commentary from like emotes to quotes copied back to me and everything in between and I treasure each one!  I even keep some saved on my phone).  I tend to reply back within twenty four hours, but sometimes it can take me up to a week and a half if I have a pretty full inbox (which hey, that’s a good kind of “problem” to have lol).  Right now I have thirteen I’m hoping to respond to by morning :)  
What sorts of things do you normally write?
I’ve been told I write two extremes - either fluffy or angsty lol.  And it’s enough of a pattern where I seem to trade off between the two between each work.  I’d probably say the tropes or themes that keep reappearing is simply down to discovering how someone feels loved (whether that’s romantic or platonic), and communicating that to strengthen the relationship, and lots and lots of healing and feelings.  So yeah, sometimes that’s adorable and fluffy, sometimes that’s angsty 🙈
What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
I think it depends on your definition of angst?  Because I would say “none,” but then I do have a few that are probably close: The Necklace (TOG pre canon), An Interrupted Oath (TOG pre canon), and Memento Mori (TOG pre canon) - can’t really say too much without it becoming spoilery, but essentially . . . sad, sadder (because the reunion is off screen), and third is a cliffhanger 👀
What’s a fic that pushed you out of your comfort zone?
All of them lol.  In one way or another, because I always have this moment right before I post a new work - or a chapter update, where I have to convince myself it’s a good idea (thanks anxiety 🙃).
Do you write crossovers?  What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
Yup yup - and oh hands down, Pwimo where Primo Nizzuto turns into a catboi.  But I have something even crazier in the works lol.
Have you ever had a fic translated?
Nope :)
Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Co-planned EO, butttt - not yet, though fingers crossed for a little something later in the year 😎🐙
What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
Oh I’m going to finish them.  I might be six months behind schedule but it’s going to happen.  I have yet to make a google doc of like a whole outline and not do a fic 😏
What are you currently working on?
My Joe x Nicky precanon get together fic, Their souls were knit together (and he loved him as himself).  Last night I uploaded the angstiest, most depressing chapter I have ever written ever (which is really saying something), but I’m just under halfway through and the rest is focused on healing and growing closer and all that lovely jazz.
I'll probably be working on it for the next month and uploading once a week - do some fluffy one shots here and there, and then dive into my Cult AU around Valentine's Day 👀 I mean, I have started it, but figured I'd pause while I worked on some things during December 🎄
What are your writing strengths?
I think when it comes to within the fic itself, maybe character backgrounds and dialogue?  I really like to explore what makes a person them from all angles, and discover that through dialogue and explorations of their past.  So I suppose a chunk of my energy goes into those portions the most?  I do like to think I’m funny sometimes, but sadly the angst tends to outweigh my attempts to balance it with humor, because I have yet to receive a comment of “this was funny” on a heavy chapter lolll
And just in case the question was about writing in general, I’d say my strength actually lies in my neuro divergent brain.  I don’t really need to carve out time to write, because I can sort of tap in, tap out throughout the day/week.  Thirty minutes here, pause - work on an errand, then head right back in for another hour, and so on.  I mean of course it’s great to be able to schedule a block of a day to just really pump out the words, but it’s not a necessity, and since I’m a mom with a full calendar, it’s nice not to need a lot of transition time between activities.  Helps me to actually be able to get more done during the day, so I can do some fun creative stuff in between errands.
What was the first fandom you wrote for?  Most recent?
I have some vague memory of jotting down notes for Sailor Moon fanfiction when I was like fourteen but I’m not 100% if I ever posted it, or just dreamt I did lol (twenty two years ago ahhhh!).  The Old Guard was the first fandom I wrote fics for and posted them on AO3!
What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?
That’s like asking a parent who their favorite kid is, I can’t pick one haha. But feel free to check out the link at the beginning to see which baker's dozens I linked that came to mind first lol
What fic are you most proud of?
I can’t do the proud word lol, hmmmm - I think I feel most humbled by someone saying they felt seen, or something I wrote resonated with a reader. Love hearing it helped them process something. I wrote plenty of fluff, and even pwf, but honestly I do try to reflect "What would I have wanted to read growing up?" (Because one, it nurtures my inner child and two, it might nurture someone else's 🥰)
Thank you for the tag Felicity
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