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riaraa · 4 months
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No Angels by bellarkyy on AO3
A Mixte 1963/Voltaire High fanfiction about Michèle Magnan and Joseph Descamps
Joseph becomes obsessed with Michèle after she is the reason for him losing his eye. But, instead of hating her in the way he expected, he is beyond attracted to her. She won't leave his mind no matter what he does. And as he witnesses her begin her journey of figuring out sexual pleasure, he is happy to insert himself and help her out.
Michèle is drawn to Descamps, has been since the moment she saw him. He is tall and broad and once he has the eyepatch on, his attractiveness becomes exponentially more. With being around so many boys, something about her has changed and she doesn't know how to describe it other than feeling hot all of the time. And, one boy in particular makes her feel like she is burning: Descamps. When he offers to help her discover what true pleasure is despite their past, she can't deny him.
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girlystories · 5 months
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my other works aside, bittersweet and l'appel du vide, ive been thinking of writing a joseph descamps x reader from mixte 1963... sadly there aren't many people into this show, so i wonder if anyone would like a work about it.
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visndcaitswhore · 4 months
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I have written a chapter for a fanfic for Mixte1963/ Voltaire High. Yeah, its for Joseph Descamps I'm a basic bitch. But idk if anyone would be interested in it???? Should i release it?
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villain-connoisseur · 4 months
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so I caved in and created a Mixte1963/Voltaire High character and story. It's focused on her and Jean-Pierre because he was the first one who caught my eye when it blew up on TikTok haha. I binged the series last night and I wish they didn't cancel it :')))))))
do I dare publish/release it?
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idontlikemonday · 4 months
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Something I think is funny is that in a lot of fanfictions I read, Descamps is 18/19.
In the show, he is in 10th grade (the first year of high school in France), so he is 15/16.
I don’t know if it’s just a mistake made because of course the actor is older or if the character is aged up to not make it to weird for the people reading it.
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mastermasterlist1p1 · 4 months
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Stuff i like
Anyone has some good stories without the smut? I don't care about the fandom
Whump :
[tw choking, manhandling, captivity, stockholm syndrome, masochistic whumpee]
Vampire x human whumpee (A centuries old vampire takes in a mortal bloodbag as a gift from his maker. )
some Stockholm
what's best
giving information
Two Weeks of Whump Masterpost
The Scry Masterlist
Clove Masterlist
The Scry
🩸 Kane & Jim Masterlist🩸
Blood catalase
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old bones
The Promise
White moves first pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5
Bruises
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JJK :
Yuuta x reader (basically yuuta is like a yandere but reader is okay with it, literally the best one I've read I LOVE IT)
Haunted (toji x reader)
synopsis in which satoru really needed to start reading the gc more often. solves a lot.
tell me about love (show me how) | gojo satoru
❝ 𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐄𝐌𝐎 𝐁𝐎𝐘! ❞
❝ PROF. GETO'S CLASS IS SO HARD, BUT HE'S SO HOT!! ❞. Pt.2
AURORA BOREALIS GREEN
Bad Habit (hitman!tōji fushiguro x reader | 17k) (this THIS 😻😻😻)
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Hero, villain and stuff :
Protective ( villain x villain stuff, Supervillain swoops in to help them out of their misery )
Hero x villain (hero has wings and she's basically a monster)
Some romantic hero x villain 😏
Hero x medic
Bodily Responses
"I love you."
Hero got amnesia
Mutually Assured Destruction (DAAMAMMMNNNNN EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT)
Hero has amnesia from an injury Villain caused. Guilty, Villain took them in until their memory returns
A Good Roommate Is Hard To Find pt.2 pt.3 pt.4
Kidnapped by the Boss pt.6
First meeting (dork villain and hero)
Sweet dreams : pt.1 pt.10
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Masterlists :
@treasuringizu masterlist
Watercolorfreckles masterlist
Masterlist of oddsconvert (whumpee stuff)
Masterlist of thepenultimatword
Jazz's Master List
Neptunsopening
arealphrooblem masterlist
im-a-wonderling's masterlist
treasuringizu's masterlist
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Mixte1963 :
Joseph Descamps x Michel pt.2 pt.3 (it's on Ao3 ) A Mixte 1963/Voltaire High fanfiction about Michèle Magnan and Joseph Descamps
Joseph Descamps x reader
I don't know
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BNHA :
Deku × reader (ok so deku is a pro hero famous and stuff but he's lonely and needs a partner, meets reader and decides to date her but reader is a thief. I won't die peacefully unless there's a pt 2)
Katsuki x reader (divorced, it's Christmas)
He hadn't meant to fall in love. (Katsuki x reader)
Shigaraki being touched starved
Love like a ghost (shigaraki x reader)
Yandere Vampire!Shoto x Human!reader
Touya x reader
vitality : pt.1
Accidental Boyfriend (tomura x reader)
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Denji with a Codependent gf!
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Some stuff I didn't read yet
Hmm1
Hmm2
"creature of myth."
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greypetrel · 11 months
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Some spoilers from a person trained in literary criticism, after opening youtube and cringing hard at the title of a video and it had me screeching in annoyance at people who thinks consuming a lot of fiction automatically makes you a Literary Critic, and that will mix personal taste with objective truth.
A long, rantful tirade under the cut that I may or may not delete later.
ALL art is derivative. Or at least, Literature surely is. The great breakthroughs are so because they refused some conventions. Meaning that they had those conventions in mind and actively chose not to follow them. They're still derivative. Using "Fanfiction" as a slur is perfectly pointless and not that slur you think it could be, and "originality" is not something we should praise so much and looks so much to... Not if we don't want to be disappointed. Nothing is truely original in art, not in the "Never done before" way (one could argue that early cinema was original? Oh sure, as a mean of expression! But take a moment and consider "People travelling to the moon" as a theme in literature. I can trace it back at the II century AD, and I wouldn't be surprised if the theme came up before that in other cultures I am not so knowledgeable of. Méliès' Voyage dans la Lune is original in execution because cinema was new... As for the story? Still derivative!
The concept of "Mary Sue" as a slur should die. Really. Stop. That type of character may not speak to you and that's very valid, it's your right in not liking it! still doesn't make it objectively bad or evil, or something to despise. Two people will read the same book in two different ways. That's the beauty of literature: it's not high school math which has a right and a wrong answer. Literature and Humanities work in shades of grey. If some people need to have a main character that's clumsy, that's beautiful but very unsure of herself, that's important to the story, so they can identify themselves in her and maybe gain some more trust in themselves, what's wrong? There's nothing wrong in liking, in needing a Mary Sue, and there's equally nothing wrong in disliking her. It's just a matter of taste and of the right moment you read her. I read Twilight in three days because by that time I WAS clumsy and unsure of myself, I WAS just in high school after years of middle school being bullied. I could relate to Bella, and it felt nice, at 14, to see that even if you can't stand on your feet for more than 10 minutes, you can still live adventures and be loved. I stopped reading the saga because the "Edward dumped me and I stopped living" didn't resonate with me at all, and I didn't go further in my reading. Years of Liceo Classico and Academies got me hating Twilight because EEEEEW BELLA IS A MARY SUE EEEEEEW. That's bullshit.
Personal taste =/= Judgement over how good or bad is a book. I am sorry to relate this to you, but no, reading a lot of fiction doesn't make you a literary critic. Because good literary criticism takes the context into account to judge a book. You can't separate a book from its context, particularly when you're talking about classics, but also talking about modern books. Because no author lives in a bubble and doesn't act influenced by the society they live in. There are objective parameters to judge a book! But beside the fact that most authors played around it, and that those parameters are also HIGHLY depending on the context we're in (just as an example: Shakespeare was HIGLY unpopular in XVIII century Enlightment criticism. Voltaire hated the guts out of him and didn't consider him a good playwriter... Because Shakespeare didn't follow the Ancient Greek/Roman theatre criteria that the Enlightment preferred. That's just it. So you see, criteria vary too with the historical context. A book celebrated today may not be celebrated tomorrow.). But: you can like and dislike Classics. It's ok. It's normal. You have a personal taste, and the fact that a book has some objective value that makes it a classic and makes the book worth studying is totally separated from your personal taste and should always be kept separate. I majored in English Literature: I know that Dickens is a hugely important author, I know why he is and why he's in literature history books, why we study him and with reason. It doesn't change that I find Dickens' books terribly boring, they don't speak to me, they're out of my taste and preferences. Hard Times was probably the only book in my uni I couldn't bring myself to finish and read the summary on Wikipedia of. I tried, it isn't for me. I still think they should be studied in school, because they're very important for their period, and hugely useful to understand Victorian mentality and context.
That's it, welcome to my TED talk, I'm sorry for the tirade but I opened Youtube and there was a video titled "Is Rings of Power Galadriel a Mary Sue??" which had me fuming from my ears.
What if she is? Who cares? Just say you didn't like the show, that you imagined Galadriel in a different way and that's it. Don't deminish people who on the other hand liked her.
I promise, you can write your opinion of a book/show/media as just your personal opinion and impression. I swear it's fine, anyone who studied Literature would know that criticism is just that and doesn't mean much, that you can like a movie that's technically bad and dislike a movie that's technically great and that's perfectly fine and valid.
You don't need to make it an universal experience and an objective truth to be entitled to your opinion. Good taste is overestimated anyway. Embrace the trash. You're not a better person if you only like critically acclaimed stories, believe me, it took me years to realise it.
But still, if you want to write some proper criticism... Context is essential. Otherwise you read Jane Austen and you think she wrote romances. Which she didn't. She was a social satyrist and a terribly brilliant one. We just read her out of her context, we have lost the parameters to grasp the criticism because we live in a different society. The romance is all that's left. You can read Pride and Prejudice just as a love story... But if you want to write a critic essay over it, you can't treat it as such. You can say "I liked the romance plot the best!" and still say it's a brilliant satyre. But you have to know it's satyre.
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dragonsruby · 2 years
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Logic:  You can’t make a good Mozenrath playlist! Most of the info you have on his character is based off of single lines or fan interpretations!
Me:  Haha continuous emo phase go brrrrrrr
Here's the Spotify link if anyone wants to view what I've got or edit it!
Under the line is the list of songs I think go with Mozey's character or general aesthetic and their YouTube lyrics links, along with occasional personal explanations, since I enjoy seeing those in others' playlists. Feel free to dispute or add on! ...Beware. It's long.
Emperor's New Clothes - Panic! At The Disco
When You're Evil - Voltaire
Dark Matter - Les Friction
Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier (This reminds me of The DVD Fairy's concept for a Mozenrath story in Once Upon A Time. The whole concept of Moze seeing himself as the embodiment of magic serving a dark purpose is fascinating!)
In The Woods Somewhere - Hozier (Another fanfiction, but this song feels so much like Antiphony!)
Castle - Halsey (C'mon, this could practically be his villain song!)
Let Me In - The Unseen Guest ("And sometimes in the night, you answer the phone, and they breathe down the line just to see if you're home...")
Die In A Fire - The Living Tombstone (Yeah, yeah, I know, but you KNOW this is going through his head through 90% of his episodes)
The Devil Within - Digital Daggers
God Syndrome - Madame Macabre ("Don't play God, you're no deity!" "Who, pray tell, would try and stop me?!")
COPYCAT - Billie Eilish
My Way - Chase Holfelder (Oh gosh, I LOVE this interpretation of the song! Mozenrath sees how little time he has left, reflects on what he's accomplished up until now, and decides to go out on a bang! Of course, the original song by Frank Sinatra would go as well!)
Tag, You're It - Melanie Martinez (Side note, did anyone else notice as a kid that Moze kidnapped/imprisoned a major character, usually Aladdin, almost every episode he appeared in? That's what drew me to the show in the first place; I had never seen a male villain imprison a male hero that often. ...Don't read too far into that.)
Milk and Cookies - Melanie Martinez
Outrunning Karma - Alec Benjamin (If I had any art skills, I would make an animatic of Moze with this song SO FAST...)
This is Love - Air Traffic Controller (Trigger warning for lyrical mentions of domestic/mental abuse. The song is heavy. "It's pathetic, I know, a jealous fool who won't let go. If I were sorry for my actions would I ever stoop so low?")
The Wolf - SIAMÉS
Phantom - NateWantsToBattle ("There ain't nothing to debate. Blow this purgatory state. The city lights will drown you out in the exposure.")
Villainous Thing - Shayfer James
Choke - I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (Yay, murder!)
Necromancin Dancin - Bear Ghost (I need a good excuse to add this one because I love this song. It's about a necromancer and it's PERFECT.)
High Enough - K.Flay
Kamikazee - MISSIO ("I want money and power and champagne and fame. I want money and power. My black heart's to blame!")
Twisted - MISSIO ("I'm uncontrollable, emotional, chaotically proportional, I'm visceral, reloadable, I'm crazy...")
Everybody Gets High - MISSIO ("Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?")
Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - Set It Off
Kill The Lights - Set It Off
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Ysma's Song - Jonathan Young (or the original by the late and great Eartha Kitt!)
Believer - Imagine Dragons
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - The Killers
Sweet Tooth - Scott Helman ("I hold hands with cosmic entities. I'll take this tube out if I please!")
Burned - Grace VanderWaal
Who Will Save You Now - Les Friction
Everybody Knows - Sigrid
Kicks - Barns Courtney ("Oh, diamond deeds, a minimal variety. I'll play until my fingers bleed. I'll never lack the quality.")
Glitter and Gold - Barns Courtney
Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea - MISSIO
Victorious - Panic! At The Disco
The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy
Colors - Halsey
Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde ("I've got my fingers laced together and I've made a little prison and I'm locking up anyone who ever laid a finger on me. This is the start of how it all ever ends. They used to shout my name, now they whisper it.")
Let’s Kill Tonight - Panic! At The Disco
The Haunting - Set It Off ("Catch a lover, turn an enemy just to watch them burn alive!")
Don’t Mess With Me - temposhark
Little Game - Benny
Animal Impulses - IAMX
Blood - End Credits - My Chemical Romance
Another Way Out - Hollywood Undead
Mama - My Chemical Romance
I’m Only Joking - KONGOS
Brand New Day - Neil Patrick Harris
Slipping - Neil Patrick Harris
Pretty Little Head - Eliza Rickman
I Can’t Decide - Scissor Sisters
Bird Song - Florence + The Machine
Hell to Your Doorstep - Thomas Borchert
Look What You Made Me Do - Jack Leopards & The Dolphin Club (or any singer, really)
you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish
Dead! - My Chemical Romance
The Hearse Song - Rusty Cage
Undead Lullaby - JT Music ("Bliss and pain, health and blight. I feel disparity preparing me to die.")
Dark Souls - Acoustic Mix - JT Music
Body - Mother Mother
HVY MTL DRMR - Des Rocs ("Rage like Eve in the garden. Oh, the sweetest fruit you could bear! When the riptide's dragging you under, are you gonna drown?")
Blood In The Cut - K.Flay
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
Ashes - NateWantsToBattle
Mad Hatter - Melanie Martinez
Turn the Lights Off - Tally Hall (Another one I would love to see or make an animatic of!)
Sirens - Bear Ghost
Rewrite - Darling Thieves
The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning - The Smashing Pumpkins ("And in your darkest hour, I hold secret's flame. We can watch the world devoured in its pain.")
Hellfire - Barns Courtney
Fire - Barns Courtney
Natural - Imagine Dragons
System - Chester Bennington
Oops! ...I Did It Again! - Britney Spears
The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco
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onehalfshrimp · 2 years
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Aufträge; one-shots, Zeichnungen, Skizzen; möchte mich im Schreiben und Zeichnen verbessern
Hallo, ich bin Shrimp und bin jetzt schon länger auf tumblr unterwegs. Ohne irgendwelche content zu posten.
Habe hier oft nur gelesen, mich in Memes und Zeichnungen und Fanfiction gewälzt ohne selber kreativ etwas zu veröffentlichen.
Da ich oft unglaublich Faul bin oder mir Ideen fehlen, werde ich meine Requests öffnen und Aufträge annehmen.
Geschichten, Zeichnen oder Skizzen... Was euch so einfällt.
Meine Kunst ist nicht die beste, aber möchte natürlich besser werden.
Es wird ein paar Regelungen geben, was ich Zeichnen oder Schreiben kann und was halt nicht.
Gemeint, etwas zu Game Of Thrones schreiben kann ich nicht, weil ich die Serie nie geschaut habe.
Zeichnen wiederum ist etwas anderes.
Aber bitte erwartet von mir nicht, dass ich ein riesiges Meisterwerk zeichne, bin noch Anfänger und bei meinen digitalen Werken handelt es sich meist um simple Motive.
(Werde diese Liste immer aktualisiere, sollte mir etwas weiteres einfallen oder eine Änderung eintreten)
one-shots:
für welche Fandoms ich schreiben kann:
-Doctor Who (new Who meant)
-Marvel
•Avengers
•Loki
•Ant-Man
•Guardians of the Galaxy
•Spider-Man
-The Walking Dead (main series)
-Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
-Stranger Things
-Gotham (bin aber erst bei Staffel 3 oder so I believe)
-Supernatural
-Mixte 1963/ Voltaire High (kennt glaube ich kaum jemand)
(-Sherlock)
(-Prison Break)
-American Gods
-Arcane
(es gibt noch mehr Fandoms die ich kenne, mir fällt allerdings gerade nicht so viel ein)
-verschiedene Anime, die mir auf der Stelle aber auch nicht einfallen
•Naruto
•Haikyuu
•Hunter x Hunter
was ich nicht schreiben werde:
-Romantisierung von Missbrauch
-explizite sexuelle Beschreibungen (Smuts I'm looking at you... habe null Erfahrung so etwas zu schreiben)
-sexuelle Umschreibung mit minderjährigen (erklärt sich von alleine)
-kinks
(vieles hiervon bezieht sich auch auf das Zeichnen)
Zeichnen/ Skizzen:
was ich nicht zeichnen werde:
-look above
-komplette Comics
-riesige Wandgemälde
-Tiere, kann sowas null zeichnen, kann es natürlich versuchen aber garantiere nichts
-nsfw (meant porn and such)
-hardcore gore
Was zeichne ich so, damit man sich ein Bild von mir machen kann:
-viele eigene Charaktere
-Naruto ocs
-BNHA ocs
-Figuren aus Filmen, Serien und Büchern die ich mag...
Oof meine Erklärungen sind echt bescheiden....
Habe so etwas noch nie gemacht, also sry im Voraus lmao
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I can see that you're not a native English speaker but your grasp on the language is applaudable how long have you been learning?
Your writing (both tumblr posts and fanfiction) have a classical elegance to it and it's hard for even native speakers to communicate their thoughts as beautifully as you do 💙 Have you taken some special training for it?
Oh my god angel anon this is so sweet, and lmao you're right I'm not a native speaker like at all, tbvvh I struggle a lot w english, always have like I'd score the lowest in it out of all my subjects in high school, ugh my total percentage always took a hit bc of it -_- wont ever stop being salty about it ngl, so no I've had no real training whatsoever beyond like the general compulsory learning in school, and also anybody who chats w me for like more than a minute will immediately know that idgaf about spellings or sentence structure or general coherency in my day to day english, Lmao which reminds me the other day I literally told someone I ~idealize~ I look up to in every way possible when it comes to writing *cough* Jenn @cbk1000 *cough* that “……blah something blah…..I teached...blah blah” while talking and I didnt notice it for like a hot second and Jenn is too sweet (sort of) to point it out but oh my god I was mortified by it when I realized what I had said, but honestly what throws me is that I didn't really notice it was wrong for a long time and like I thought it was a-ok until it hit me that it’s taught.
So in all honesty my english is as good as any non-native speaker who had to learn the language growing up strictly for school purposes.
That being said in my ff writing I just try really really pathetically hard when I write, like the pretension leaps out and tries to reproduce whatever I myself have consumed so far in terms of writing and recycle it as my own crap, I just have this ability (it's not a special thing everyone does it lmao) to subsume what I read and I mostly just take sentences, metaphors and other writerly things sometimes even just the mood/setting of the writing that strike me and rewrite it w an added touch of pretension and it's actually really tangible how much I allow what I read to drastically affect how I write and since I read a weird eclectic mix of really….just a lot of different things that shouldn't really go together lol, my writing style/ narrator voice/ mood setting for my ff also varies a lot, like one day I write Klaus w a satire and critical wit that’s not exactly Voltaire but close, where he’s pretty much just disgusted by everything and decides to mock it all with a straight face and the next day I write him as a lil pining shit with saccharine levels of romanticism in my writing to appeal to his artist-soul mostly bc I sat my ass down and read a poem or two by Keats prior to writing, other days he’s cute and murderous, wears human teeth as jewelry and is just a tiny bit poignant bc I had a date with Poe….so yeah basically what I’m trying to say is that the only "training" I've ever had is what I've already read all these years and what I write is just all the text I've kept w myself and can recollect and re-arrange into my own writing, which is why I would never consider my work to be something that’s completely and originally mine bc I have this personal saying that goes, 
“Everything I see is an image of an image.”
Which to me means a lot of things but in this particular context means that nothing I create belongs to me and only me, it belongs to every writer I’ve read before writing it and will be reminisced by every author who I’ll read after it, that everything I create is just what creators before me have done but have allowed me to take their creations and make it mine before I too pass it on with love and history to the next person.
I also have another quote I feel in every inch of my heart and that’s
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women and men that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."
-Jorge Luis Borges
So really this is just my personal...philosophy?? Belief, that I owe my creativity to the world and everything it creates *through* me because I don't own the beauty, I’m only a lens through which it passes through, that my creativity refracts the world's beauty into my life and my creations, and I am glad, blessed to have been the lens through which such beauty passes through.
And that I am more than happy to just be another image who is someone else’s reflection or the very object someone else will reflect, I love how much that connects every human being and every object of beauty, of creation in existence inescapably.
Now I’ve rambled on a lot like a LOT, definitely wayyyyyy more than that simple ask warranted lmao so I’ll shut up and just say you’re the sweetest lovely anon this message made me feel so very flattered and I genuinely think I blushed (and trust me brown girls cannot blush mostly bc the melanin wont let the pink filter through lmao) and I am honoured to know that you thought I took some professional coaching for this because I literally am the most amateur absolutely clueless bullshit your way through everything writer you will find out there and I am ngl proud of that.
(like seriously dude the other day I learnt for the first time how to use a semi colon and I s2g I wanted to dig a hole and bellyflop into it after realizing how many bloody times I’ve used a semi colon wrong like jfc someone kill me before I do it myself it’s mortifying)
eenyways *tackle hugs* thank you for making me smile and for your kind words youre absolutely precious 💖 and I dont deserve the compliments but I am never gonna let them go bc they make my heart warm.
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riaraa · 4 months
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Chapter 3 of my Michèle Magnan/Joseph Descamps story No Angels is live on AO3!
chapter 1 | chapter 2 | my ao3
Now, he really wants to kiss her. To touch her and taste her brazenly. Instead, he clears his throat and shoves his hands in his pocket so he doesn’t crash their mouths together in public.
It’ll all be worth the wait. There is no greater satisfaction than delayed gratification.
“See you next week?” He asks instead.
She nods before spinning away and walking quickly down the street. As she turns the corner and is out of his sight, he feels the urge to go after her—he hates to see her go.
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popscenery · 4 years
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Florence + The Machine, »Queen of Peace«
by DS
In the last decade, I have spent an inordinate amount of time contemplating my own existence, as a woman, as a person of color, as someone who doesn’t neatly fit into the boxes I was supposed to fit into by virtue of my birth and upbringing and appearance. I have conceptualized myself in a million ways, embodied a thousand cliches, but as one of the Gossip Girl fanfictions I tore through during the nights I couldn’t sleep during my sophomore year of college said, all the cliches make a real girl. I don’t believe in astrology any more than I believe in religion (my relationship with God is rather more ambiguous) but I have always overidentified as a Libra since, like my birthday twin Oscar Wilde before me, I am fixated on balance to the point of running almost solely on anxious death drive. And the most Libra song of them all is my favorite song released in the last decade, Florence + the Machine’s “Queen of Peace” from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015).
For a period of several months back in 2016, I had this recurring dream. My husband and I were married and everything seemed perfect; we were beautiful and successful and madly in love and after a saga of not being okay in so many ways, I was finally okay. But the image that kept on playing in my mind, over and over like a broken videotape, was of me kneeling at my oldest son’s hospital bed; he was dying, sometimes from a car accident, sometimes from a premature heart attack, sometimes from a drug overdose, but at the end of the story, he always died. In some versions of the dream, he had a baby sister, other times, he was a golden only child but always, he didn’t deserve to die even if his parents deserved to be punished for hurt they wrought upon others and themselves in the years before they were his parents. My husband would be watching my vigil; he would be looking at me not as if he blamed me for our son’s condition but as if I should have warned him in the first place that I bring about death in this manner. I remember being fixated on the vividness of the scene that sometimes still rewinds and replays in my head, the colors of it, the light blue crispness of the hospital room, the red of the shirt I was wearing (it was always red), the dark in my husband’s eyes. Don’t get me wrong, my husband never stops loving me even if he believes I ought to have warned him about who I truly am but nonetheless, nothing would ever be the same again. And while I didn’t know it at the time, I have come to realize that this dream was at least partially caused by my several hundred listens of “Queen of Peace” that year I was 21 to the point the song metaphorically embedded itself in my bones the way no other song has before or since then. 
In the first verse of “Queen of Peace,” Florence Welch sings, “Oh, what is it worth/ When all that's left is hurt?” And you could say that I related. I’ve come to terms with most of the things I did and said when I was hurt but despite being healthier and happier than I’ve ever been, I’m sometimes still completely terrified that I’m going to bring about impenetrable darkness to those I love wherever I go because of the nature of my past, because of my history of violence against myself. I’m afraid that because of my long-standing existential despair, because of not wanting to be alive for a large portion of my life, there is nothing more to me than the pain that I felt, the pain that was often self-inflicted in more ways than one and that is all I can bring to the table. But I have come to realize, there is life after survival and the fear and anger and abject sadness that I have felt for longer than I can remember cannot take that away from me. 
The thing about expressly not wanting to be alive for an entire decade is that you stop planning for a future that you don’t believe you’ll be around for. When I was 17, I was flying home from Boston and on that cross country flight, I distinctly remember thinking, who cares what college I get into because I’m not going to be alive to graduate anyway. I planned out what outfit I wanted to wear at my funeral and contemplated what color I would write my death notes to my loved ones and the weird thing is, I never called them suicide notes even to myself because that seemed far too intentional to me and some part of me was convinced that I was born to die young so I didn’t need to put in the effort to kill myself. But I’m 25 now and that time still hasn’t come and I’ve stopped expecting it. Somewhere along the line, something changed within me, like a candle being snuffed out, and I just simply ceased believing in my long prophesied death and began desperately wanting to do and say and simply be as much I can in my time on this Earth. 
However, and this is embarrassing to write, some part of me hardcore judges myself for wanting to live so badly and doing so much to ensure my own survival, fighting until my knuckles are bleeding and burning what bridges have rotted and crying so much the salt dries out the skin on my cheeks. It feels gauche and pathetic and downright childish to be so doggedly determined to live but I’ve grown to accept that aspect of myself, the silliness of living as Voltaire once called it. The fragments of good, no matter how small, will always endure and I really believe that.
In any case, despite the sorrow inherent in the blood flows through my veins and all the sometimes inarticulable damage that has been done to and by me, I made a decision some years back to defend life complete with all its accumulated anguish, fury, confusion and most of all, its complete mundaneness. In “No Choir” from High As Hope (2019), Florence Welch sang, “And it's hard to write about being happy/ Cause the older I get/ I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject” so I’d like to think she understands, and I hope that you all reading this do as well.
– DS
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Girl Genius Liveblog #212
UPDATE 212: A Lead
Last time Agatha managed to get quite the lucrative deal in the black market, thanks to her weasel. In the meantime, the Other’s plans are being started in a hurry. Let’s continue.
Who knows how long Agatha has been here, talking about that biological monstrosity, but she’s done and it was quite the task. She dictated everything, and a clank transcribed everything. It does seem like this took like...three piles of paper? Quite a lot of information to have memorized, I suppose being a spark may make that easier. I mean, all the knowledge about MAD SCIENCE has to go somewhere.
Also, there’s a lot of erotic novels starring Agatha.
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The raunchier Heterodyne tales, I imagine. Golly, these people sure work fast! It has been like two years since Agatha proved she’s the Heterodyne heiress, and there’s already fourteen books – at the very least! In this one series, since I bet there’s many others. The publishing industry in Girl Genius must be incredibly profitable.
Zeetha wanting the entire collection is kind of...sketchy. I sure know I’d be really weirded out about reading erotic fanfiction of someone I know, much less someone I see everyday. Also, they’d be really weirded out if they knew I’m reading erotic fanfiction of them. The heck, Zeetha.
While Agatha was working on the wasp eater details, this madame gathered information about Professor Zardeliv. All the information proves to be useful, as it gives Agatha the right ideas of how to track him – as long as he’s in Paris. If he’s not here then they’re out of luck.
Elsewhere, Seffie has one of her servants root through Gil’s mail. There’s no way he doesn’t know Seffie does that. Either way, in this mail there’s stuff for Voltaire, all about Agatha. I imagine it’s chock-full of warnings and informing she’s the Other.
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Seffie, you liar, there’s steam coming out of that teacup five frames ago. Seems to me she’s really upset about Agatha, for some reason. I’m not sure what may have happened in these few hours for her to get so upset. Part of me is wondering if maybe it is that she has made the wasp eater be the biological equivalent of an open source software.
Gil is coming to Paris! Oh boy, that’s bound to end in a mess if Agatha is still here when he’s around. Voltaire won’t appreciate chaos and havoc, let’s hope that will be enough to deter the Baron in Gil’s head from making a scene.
So apparently the traces Agatha was looking for to find Zardilev are everywhere in Paris. I guess everybody in this city has used the machinery Agatha was so fixated onto – or Zardilev walked all over Paris. As that’s too daring for someone trying to stay hidden and all that, the first is likelier, and completely inconvenient. Oh well. Regardless, there are readings even in some sort of firbidden library that’s its own republic nowadays. They can’t even walk in there, not even Colette can. Can Voltaire?
Hoffman can! From underneath. Hah! Really? Are they going to make a tunnel into the incorruptible republic library? For a forbidden library, it sure lacks security, then. To enter, Hoffman leads them through a storm drain. All this time Hoffman keeps talking about how he infiltrated one of the most secure fastholds of Europa – you know, they may say it’s a secure fasthold, but thanks to all this I sure don’t believe it not even for a second.
There’s a subterranean civilization here underneath Paris, and they’re suspicious and xenophobic, ready to make gloves out of intruders. That’s a rather specific clothing item, honestly. Either way, when they go down further, this civilization doesn’t seem very suspicious or xenophobic, welcoming Hoffman as a hero. Whaaaat did you do here before, Hoffman?
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...ah. I see, I see. Is this why directives such as ‘if you’re in another world or civilization, for the love of all that’s sacred: don’t meddle’ exist? I don’t remember where I heard that before, but it sure sounds like Hoffman should have heard it. Then again, it was a third of his grade.
The idea he had to solve tensions and unify them is a political marriage – something I’m a tad surprised they accepted, given how they’re very into making gloves of anyone who isn’t of their own civilization. Also, they need huge gloves.
I think I’ll have to cut the update here, after Agatha is forced to undergo an embarrassing moment thanks to Zeetha reading too many fantasy books and blurting out Agatha is their chosen one when the high priest says he recognized her. Hey, it’s better if she isn’t! Agatha has no time to rule underground civilizations. Either way, I have to stop now.
Next time: two updates
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Chapter 2 of my Michèle Magnan/Joseph Descamps story No Angels is live on AO3!
She had been in such a rush to give the blazer to Jean-Pierre that she didn’t have time to look it over, other than to note how it felt in her hands—it was soft and a good material. Looking at it closer now, she can see that Descamps is definitely more well off than her family is. She clutches the dark gray blazer in her hands and brings it toward her face. Slowly, she inhales a deep breath. There are hints of the products her brother uses since he wore it last, but beneath that is all Descamps; the earthy aroma of tobacco and the fresh scent of something citrusy.
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By the way Joséph was right behind Michéle the second she lift the shop, I was hoping for a scene where he presses her against the wall or something. But clearly the writers and directors didn’t have their enemies to lovers caps on.
But also from the way she kept staring at him in every single episode since the second she’s seen him, has me thinking and knowing that if the show had gotten (and is still able to get) more seasons out of it, that the writers would’ve probably explored that more. That it would’ve been a slow-burn of a relationship for them, mixed in with the Enemies to Lovers & Bully/Victim trope.
Also idk if you caught it or not, but in one of the episodes after Joséph loses his eye and Michéle’s staring at him and he’s staring right back at her, there’s a moment where it goes into an open wide camera shot, and you can see them still staring intensely at each other.
When I say that the show needs to get picked right back up and have that relationship explored, even if it’s just a hookup. It needs to happen. Or at least have someone remake the show and do it right with those characters. Hopefully the actors work together again in another project that has similar concepts because they have really great chemistry even if it wasn’t explored nor shown as much.
Love your fanfics by the way! Can’t wait to read what else you have in store for those stories and characters.
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The writers did not have their enemies to lovers cap on and it was their demise. I can’t believe they missed the potential that Joseph and Michèle had. I agree that if they now got a season 2 knowing they are the most popular relationship, then they would follow through on them!
I would have LOVED for Joseph to have confronted Michèle outside of shop without Laubrac there. Him getting in front of her (after following her so closely out of the store—love that this is canon) and throwing out a hand to stop her in her tracks and essentially caging her in with his body to mess with her? Would have been golden. I would have kissed the writers feet lol.
I will have to look for that wide shot! I would love if other creators see josèle’s potential and follow through with it in future shows and books! But, I would love the actors for Michèle and Joseph working together in the future because that chemistry was insane and I think they would kill it playing enemies to lovers again.
Thank you for coming by and sharing your thoughts and for the compliment on my story 🥹 I love talking about them, so much!
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