#not sold on the name

[trulybetty]

Sunday | Week In Review I

So in order to try and be consistent with this, I’ve kept a running Notes page open to keep track of my week.

As I mentioned last week, I don’t expect this every week, I am me. But I am going to keep trying to make an effort to support my fellow creators.

If there’s something you’ve enjoyed this week, please feel to reblog this and tag me so I can check it out and share 💙

Also, not that I feel it needs to be said, but this is a reflection of what I have personally read and enjoyed.

B x

Truly Betty Updates This Week…

New York Part I (Marcus Pike x f!reader)

Fics I Enjoyed This Week…

Conversations with a Movie Star | Chapter 1 by @gnpwdrnwhiskey Even if you’re not a fan of Dieter Bravo, the dialogue in this alone is worth checking out this opening chapter for this new fic. Ava is an OFC down on her luck after being fired, from her families paper no less, and has stumbled across the Bravo Inn… I’ll let Lellen’s writing do the rest

Stripper Jack Trilogy | P. III by @psychedelic-ink The conclusion of maybe the definitive trilogy of trilogies? I don’t think anyone had Stripper Jack on their 2023 bingo cards, but he’s earned his space and I won’t have any arguments on it. 

Hungry Hearts | Chapter by @atinylittlepain Not many Joel AU’s I’ll jump into, but Bruce Springsteen and Joel Miller? Signed myself the fuck up for that as soon as it was announced. The unfolding of Joel and Cherry's relationship in the summer of '86 against them running back into one another 17 years later is such a great dynamic. 

Fall Apart Again | Chapter 1 + 2 by @wildemaven Heidi spoiled us this week, with not one, but TWO chapters of her new Joel fanfic. I don’t think I’ve gotten so emotional over an opening chapter to a fic before like I did with this one! Then the second chapter? Just bury me now… but actually don’t, I want to see the end of this fic first!

The Layover | Chapter 9 by @goodwithcheese How did Megan describe her fanfics? Hallmark movies with smut? She's not wrong. This whole series so far has been a rollercoaster of emotions and keeps delivering each week without fail. Not only are you rooting for Reader + Frankie, but Jules and Santiago anyone? Or maybe just Jules herself because she's just the boss.

Late Night Texts | Chapter 9 by @mvtthewmurdvck I think it's safe to say it's fanfics like Late Night Texts that have got me back in my rom-com/hopeless romantic era. I don't want to give too much away if you've not had the pleasure of reading this - but it has all the hallmarks of a good rom-com set on the backdrop of the early 2000s and with Javier Peña. If you're like me and still trying to make your way through Narcos or haven't watched it yet - please don't let it stop you, you won't be sorry!

A Little FaceTime by @stardustandskycrystals I’m still thinking about this fic days later and may have gone back to read it again. Trust me, just read this - you don’t need an explanation or reason, just read it. Even if Javi isn’t your jam (wasn’t on my list before, that’s all changed now) - it won’t disappoint!

Things I’m Looking Forward to Starting…

Decoherence by @prolix-yuy Westworld and Jack ‘Agent Whiskey’ Daniels crossover, yes, please! It is also reminding me that I never finished season one and should do something about it…

Pleased to Meet You by @intheorangebedroom This is a constant on my dash and on my TBR pile for a while with so many good comments - also getting into my Frankie era, so it’s perfect timing!

The Pilot & His Girl by @avastrasposts Been waiting to savour this one! So you’ve got the Last of Us and you’ve got Triple Frontier, two of my favourite things… what happens when you mush them together? You get a wild ride through the outbreak with Frankie & Reader - I cannot wait to get into this!

Visiting by @ladamedusoif This is another regular on my dash and on my TBR that I’m hoping to get stuck into this week. A college AU of Mr. Ben from the SNL sketch. Fully fleshed out and on the backdrop of New England, I’m ready to get swept away with this promise of a slow burn.

The House by @gemmahale A Jack Daniels x OFC (Best Friend) series coming soon focusing on a long-lost friendship, an inheritance, and Jack sounding like the scallion he is? Cannot wait.

Posts I Enjoyed This Week…

@rhoorl’s announcement of their Triple Frontier AU, Delta Landscaping with mood board and logo! The residents of Tumblr won’t know what’s hit the neighbourhood when they roll into town! 

Thanks to @gnpwdrnwhiskey I will never look at baby hippos without thinking of Dieter Bravo

Everyone’s participation in the WIP poll tag game, it was so fun to see my dash just filled with so many creative people and so many amazing ideas! It was a neat peek into everyone’s draft folders!

Things I’ve Enjoyed This Week…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - FINALLY got to see it this week, and it did not disappoint. Have not stopped thinking about it since!

My rom-com era has returned, and I’m deep into embracing my forgotten love of a good rom-com. So far this week it’s been The Lake House, You’ve Got Mail & Always Be My Baby. Also it gave way to a Keanu Reeves appreciation post, come share your favourite Keanu!

This Week’s Song… Went waaaayyyy back for this one, an amazing album too - the Sterephonics are one of my favourite bands of all time 🩶

Hope everyone has a great Sunday & here's to a new week!

Please feel free to share your own favourites from the week or what you're looking forward to this week - not a tag game, so no pressure for you to share if you're not feeling it ❤️ xx

#betty's sunday in review #not sold on the name #but I have a touch of sun stroke #so this is as imaginative as we're getting right now #Spotify

[scatterbrainedgremlin-writings]

Some Fuckin Ninjago/Owl House Type Witch Fic

First off, it’s not actually an Owl House crossover with Ninjago (i’m sorry), but this was inspired by it. Also I don’t have everything fully fleshed out yet, so forgive me if somethings don’t make much sense.

SO BASICALLY. The ninja are messing around with traveler's tea, and some of them get stuck in a witch-y realm on a continent called Nidus and separated. Lloyd gets brought in by a witch named Aris Raven with a griffin curse that her family got because one of her ancestors fucked with the wrong person, got cursed, and it got passed down. She’s also trying to find her son old apprentice who disappeared around 3 years ago.

Kai and Zane end up with the mysterious emperor of the continent. No one’s ever seen them or heard them, no one even knows their name. Kai and Zane are suspicious, and that only increases when they find a kid named Mars (nicknamed Singe) in a hidden cell. They free him and run, hiding out in caves.

Cole winds up at a school as an assistant coach. He’s not used to all the magic students, but he was the leader at one point so can’t be that hard, right? Wrong. 

And Jay and Nya are trying to get them all back safely to Ninjago because the last time this type of thing happened, it went wrong.

That’s just the basics of it. I’ll go more in depth at some point. I’ll post some snippets here too if I feel like it.

#my brain hates me i swear #ninjago #ninjago fic #Lloyd gets friends that remind him of the others #and pretty much everyone here is named after planets #I have this as 'Cursed Witch Story' in my docs #not sold on the name #I'll make another post about the other characters later #and more plot

[shitpostingkats]

Every time I make another attempt to get into One Piece the show immediately reminds me that it has one of the funniest main cast dynamics in the entire world

#makes it very hard to maintain my aloof mysterious on-again-off-again viewership #I can forgive a lot for a rock solid party of Silly Characters #one piece #monkey d luffy #op #cat burglar nami #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #also #usopp #I do not think he has a last name #he sold it for 5 berri

[onesidedradiostatic]

I looked at the post again where the VoxTek employee rants about Vox's weird obsession and someone in the notes said Vivziepop needs to give us this guy's name from Episode 2 and I had this horrible idea

Charlie: "Aw, I think it's so nice that you want to join the hotel when you could go anywhere you please now that you're free! We're so happy to have you! What's your name?"

The VoxTek employee, shaking slightly: "...Alastor."

Alastor's already squinting at this point and Charlie is like mmmh what a coincidence! We actually have an Alastor here!

And the VoxTek employee stutters "B-but you can name me something else if you want to! T-this is j-just a name that Vox called me"

The sound of glass shattering can be heard as Alastor crushes the drink in his hand with this look of absolute horror on his face.

(referring to this post)

anon this is horrible thank you for this.

#ask #osrs.txt #I'm jjfkskgokhlfjkgjjghfll #DID THE VOXTEK EMPLOYEE JUST LEAVE HIS OLD NAME BEHIND AFTER HE SOLD HIS SOUL TO VOX??? #vox's assistant #vox’s assistant #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor #charlie morningstar #radiostatic #staticradio

[clannfearrunt]

they're so annoying I wish I could draw more so you can see how annoying they are and also so that I can finally fucking finish the Money/Fame/Love Splatfest comic

#splatoon #squid 2 the evolution of the squid #splatoon ocs #inkling #octoling #salmonid #Thresher Lagan #Buddy Lagan #Rill Nykur #Conarts #i think the thing that sold me on Rill eventually catching feelings is that u can combine their names to make Thrill which is funny 2 me #it's very one sided and also Rill would rather walk into the ocean than call it what it is though

[neerisntsure]

a little scarlet pearl since she's back and ready to fight!!

#im not sold on this design but it was a warm up drawing anyways #she needs her cloak but the hair looked too pretty #secret life spoilers #secret life #name mc spoilers #kinda #scarlet pearl #trafficblr #traffic series #traffic smp #life series #lmk if i missed any tags #mcyt #mcyt fanart #pearlescentmoon #pearlecentmoon fanart

[rondoel]

So I recently found out by seeing one fanart that Tiso/Cloth is a thing and furthermore a thing that is sooo up my alley??

Like no matter how you see them, bffs of whatevs, the potential in this dynamic is just 👌👌 stellar

#hollow knight #comic #tiso #cloth #hk #does it have a ship name? #clothiso? #anyway I'm sold #it's like genzarya but personalities are switched #also #I like to think #that Tiso would've won trial of the fool #which makes that he died in such stupid way #even more hilariously ironic #😂 #rondos #tisocloth

[hylialeia]

you don't get it. she loved him once. she didn't have a maester, she had a brother. he sold their mother's crown to keep them fed. he said Dany, please. she loved him, once.

#I feel like the tragedy of viserys and dany is they really might have been close and loved each other normally of they'd been allowed to #barristan says viserys always seemed aerys's son but when has westeros had any sort of developed understanding of mental illness #dany knew him best and she said the last kindness left him when he sold their mother's crown #it begs the question how much kindness there would have been if they hadn't been children forced out on the streets #a brother dany says never forgave her for their mother's death giving her birth. #but who told her stories and brought her up while his own mental faculties were wearing thin #it doesn't feel like tywin keeping tyrion based on lannister name and blood alone #she loved him once. #that viserys had some inherent lecherous evil in him doesn't feel in line with that to me #it doesn't feel in line with dany please #if ned is the good guardian to tywin's bad one viserys was just a boy who found himself in that role under the worst possible circumstances #and who under duress of those awful circumstances and his own undiagnosed mental illness #(for which he never got any help or support) #failed his sister very very badly #leaving daenerys to feel the hole of his absence even when he was still alive #because she loved him. once #lol anyway! #asoiaf #daenerys targaryen #viserys targaryen

[black-and-yellow]

Jel my beloved

#palia #palia fanart #jel omiata #one day i'll learn how to pronounce his surname #since i found out Palia is pronounced payleeuh i've been second-guessing all my pronunciations #if Jel's name turns out to be pronounced 'yell' i might have to break up with him #I'm trying to get Zeki as my shepp rn #cause I love him and his walk cycle #Zeki please adopt me. Be my weird space cat guardian #I first found out about Palia about 2 years ago I think #I saw the art for Jel and Zeki and Einar and I was immediately sold #because Jel looks and talks like one of my book characters Leo #'Palia is a flawed game' 'gamers hate palia' #gamers have never set eyes upon Jel Omiata

[qourmet]

this is the first time i'm explicitly putting a name to a character that canonically exists, xiao laopo doesn't count cos that's a title but madam lan didn't have a known title before she was madam lan, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

they're talking mad shit about u tho

#mdzs #madam lan #lan furen #my art #fanart #i still don't have a tag for this i'm open to name suggestions #layzeal sold me on golden-eyed madam lan when i was firmly in the golden-eyed qhj camp with her love for jwqs #& i hope i did poorly-drawn-mdzs proud with my horses cos vhvhdsoihvcs 🥺 #ur horses are infinitely better than mine & ur comments keep me going o)-< #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #forces qhj to be bisexual because i said so #qourmet: aga

[neonjawbone]

beastflayer 🥩🪓🧟‍♀️

#warhammer fantasy #warhammer age of sigmar #flesh eater courts #royal beastflayers #flaymaster ordelia greaves #honestly not sold on the name #doodles #my characters

[fleshwithfleas]

I’m sane. You can trust me.

#ninjago #ninjago art #ninjago harumi #ninjago vania #royalty shipping #i think that’s the ship name #not sold on vania’s design #I can’t be normal sorry

[heavenb3nt]

The cruelty that koschei suffered from the timelords, like. They drove him insane from childhood, and he still didn’t destroy the entire planet. You know when he did? When he found out what they did to theta. So. You know

#thoschei #anyways anyone ever think abt how it was done intentionally to him when he was 8 and the horror he must’ve felt growing up with it #aura’s posts #the timeless child was a bit questionably done as an arc imo but the master really sold it for me. I’ll like anything if they’re involved #I’m easy to please like that #I love referring to them w their academy names. knowing damn well the master would kill anyone on the spot for it #best enemies

[destinysbounty]

Survivalshipping is funny and amazing and i love it but yknow what would make it even funnier? If, on top of Garmadon dating Vinny, Misako ends up dating, like, Gayle Gossip. Completely independently of him, like neither Misako nor Garmadon are aware of the other's new relationship. So then when they both get invited as the plus-one to like an NGTV News company dinner or something, theyre both just kinda staring at each other like -

Meanwhile Lloyd is just kinda dying in the background. He thought his family drama would end with his dads evil corpse disowning him and adopting a plant instead, but nope! Now hes gotta deal with whatever the hell this is

#there is underrated comedic potential in misako getting a gf #anyway my current ship name for misako/gayle is pastandpresent #bc one is an archaeologist and the other is a reporter #but im not like 100% sold on that #ninjago #survivalshipping #ninjago garmadon #ninjago misako #misako garmadon #lloyd garmadon #vinny folson #destiny post

[starflungwaddledee]

kirbytober 2023 21 + 26 : fav characters + ship [ prev || next ]

putting this at the top because it's extremely important but i received a message implying that some folks headcanon these two as drastically different ages. you may headcanon whatever you like of course, but in my work i firmly think that they're both full adults who are at least 25+. this is abundantly clear in my work. i'm not interested in headcanoning any of them as literal children and i would never touch that shit. dni if you think that sort of ship would actually be okay. don't be a freak. thanks.

very typical to take your favs and then also shove them together but isn't that the point. anyway i have literally never seen anybody else ship them (if you're out there... hello... 😭) despite them both being very main characters and i don't know why?? they could be so cute i think...

they are both industrious adventurers, prolific hard-workers (team task doers), and a little cheekily competitive!

i think that bandee is no stranger to a wide variety of close and intense relationships; he's beloved by many and loves them all equally but distinctly in turn. magolor on the other hand has been sooo isolated and lonely for such a long-ass time, he barely knows how to be friends let alone really care for someone. bandee is smart enough to be suitably wary but kind enough to give him a chance despite that, which i think would knock him off his non-existent feet instantly. in reply, magolor could give him something unique by loving and prioritising him utterly singularly, in a way bandee wouldn't even have realised he was missing

in awtdy (pictured in the sketch page; if you see a tattered looking magolor in my art it's probably this au) in particular they are both thrown into the angst soup together and come out insanely trauma bonded at the hip. their friendship/relationship is central to the plotline; together they're working on a solution to the timeline anomaly, while also hiding that they even really know each other the whole time

#kirbtober #kirbytober #bandana waddle dee #magolor #my art #my hcs #awtdy au #yelling 'hello' into the void like the voyager probe hoping to reach another living creature who speaks the bandeemagolor language #i tend to ship in a kind of qpp way just for clarification. i kinda just don't think amatonormative romance exists the same on popstar #that said they are like... utterly unwell about each other. insane. i just am not sure they are “Dating” yknow? i dunno how to explain this #but if you are arospec and you Get What I Mean then you can say that they're in love and stuff. if you get it yknow?? yknow. #mental illnesses shaped like each other. #i know bandee is 'the normal guy' but i think he can be a little mentally unwell sometimes too; as a treat #anyway.... that's it that's the rarepair. maybe its up to me to make this a thing. do you wanna be sold on this pair?? i can do it probably #they *don't even have a tag name* but i will make up one so that people can filter it out if they want to mute it: #bandee x magolor #🍎

[zhongguochic]

Chinese desserts

Tánghúlu (糖葫蘆)

Liángnòng dà gāo (梁弄大糕)

Qīngtuán (青糰)

Xiāncǎo guǒ (仙草粿)

#chinese food #chinese desserts #grass jelly has MANY different regional names so i chose the one that was the least ambiguous #the other names like 燒仙草/涼粉/仙草/草粿 are not as precise #the 梁弄大糕 is the most obscure thing on this list - it is only sold in a specific town of a specific city in zhejiang province #i looovee hyper-regionalistic chinese customs lol #(inb4 someone tries to tell me tanghulu is korean)