#working title perhaps

[dysabria]

neither a shaniac or a boogara but instead a secret third thing (a liminal)

#steven lim #ryan bergara #shane madej #watcher #watcher entertainment #mystery files #boogara #shaniac #no #liminal #working title perhaps #it means in between though!! which is perfect #good ol’ big apple steve

[honeydots]

i've been dipping my toes into experimenting with borders, lately 🌿

#pose from a 1958 walter wyles illustration! #xanlow #fe laslow #fe xander #fire emblem fates #fire emblem 14 #feif #fe14 #something nice and green as spring gets closer.... #so some background on this is that it's actually fanart for a fic i havent written yet #its my idea for the outfits they'll be wearing. or at least something they own! i might end up changing laslow's shirt but idk its cute too #its for!!! my next longfic!!! which perhaps is ah bold of me when ive just put stigmata on a hiatus #but it isn't like ive been working on this instead of stigmata so!!! #i was juggling two ideas around for a while and i rly was going back and forth but ive 100% settled on this one now #the title is chapelle ardente and ive actually shared a brief wip of it in an ask game from a while back #but spoilers so that's all i'll say hehe!!!! #i hope i get a chance to share that fic w u guys cause im excited for it c: for now. um. enjoy the contextless fanart. dfjdksjf #dots draws

[artekai]

Those are her vibes

#deni's art #deni's stuff #oc art #oc tag #horizon oc #horizon au #oc: dailah #dailah x talanah #oc x canon #talanah khane padish #i just got thinking about how dailah must feel about the hunters' lodge. bc of a future post-timeskip fic i started writing #where - this is after the whole cyborg fross thing happens - she warns fross he can't be seen by the hunters' lodge ppl #because instead of seeing and appreciating the technological prowess behind such a monumental scientific achievement #they'll instead see a new cool machine to shoot and kill to prove their hunting skills - and perhaps become sunhawk #(i don't know exactly how he would rank respective to other machines but i do believe he would be harder to kill than most) #and her dialogue just seemed so... resigned. to the idea that machine hunters might try to target her life's work. her crown jewel #for what she sees as a quick buck and a little praise and perhaps an authority title #so of course i started wondering how far back this opinion goes and how her opinion on the lodge has changed over time #because of course she has respect for her brother who gave his life in the massacre #and i'm sure she understands it matters when they're protecting civilians against the machines #but that's not gonna be relevant anymore once GAIA is repaired and all the machines are peaceful again is it? #it's just gonna be a pure show of raw strength again. and then.... i wanna hear her thoughts on it then #because she's always had that fascination with old world tech. i'm sure she feels it's a waste to kill machines and use them as trophies #instead of studying them and learning from them #but then i remembered the fic i wrote about her having a crush on talanah #so instead of writing a smart and nuanced character analysis about it i did the sensible thing and made this meme 👍 #hope it gets the idea across!

[thewales]

The Times:

Harry’s court crusade will define him. And it’ll never end

The Duke of Sussex is on a mission and nothing will deter him from pursuing it, writes Roya Nikkhah

The anguish of reliving what he describes as a lifetime of trauma at the hands of the tabloids was unmistakable, even if the evidence for his claims was harder to detect. Why do it? Why put himself through the pain and emotional angst that many thought he expunged in Spare, his blockbuster memoir?

In short, because he can.

If the past three years have shown anything since the Sussexes stepped down from royal duties, it is that banning them from using their HRH titles has only emboldened them to take on all the battles that royal life once prevented them from entering.

Harry’s performance on the witness stand last week was a textbook case.

Since leaving the royal fold, Harry has repeatedly claimed “the institution” refused to stand up for him and Meghan with the British press, a claim that induces exasperated sighs and rolling eyes in the royal households. It also prompts former aides who worked with the couple and who pushed their relationships with the media to the limit defending them to recall Elizabeth II’s phrase: “Some recollections may vary.”

As some who have worked with Harry over the years say, his memory often does not tally with theirs. A Morten Morland cartoon in The Times last week prompted amusement among several former aides, showing the prince’s hand on a copy of Spare in place of the Bible, swearing to tell “my truth, my whole truth and nothing but my truth”.

But his claim last week that alleged phone hacking by MGN was “contained within the palace” left a senior former courtier who worked with William and Harry during that period scratching their head. “Did we keep things from him? No. At no point did it come up that the Mirror was doing it while I was there, it never came across our desk. I never had any conversations with either of the princes about ‘where are the Mirror getting those stories from?’”

Harry was adamant that “every single one of these articles played a destructive role in my growing up”, but failed to point to any solid evidence linking them to phone hacking. Instead, he often relied on his “suspicions” about stories concerning him, his mother Diana and his first love Chelsy Davy, prompting the same former aide to suggest that Harry’s self-proclaimed “mission” to “reform the media” is more important to him than victory against MGN.

The prince said he would feel it “an injustice” if phone hacking cannot be proved, but the former aide says: “It’s a means to get revenge on the tabloids and an opportunity to pursue that mission, win or lose. He won’t want to lose, but he will have had his chance to say ‘this is what it was like for me, my family, my girlfriend’. Perhaps all those millions from his book and Netflix deal was to build a war chest to pursue the tabloids until the end. Of course he forgets he’s had a lot of positive coverage over the years. Like an actor, he only remembers the bad reviews.

One barbed comment in Harry’s 55-page witness statement last week got Palace aides particularly hot under the collar, given the constitutional requirement for the royal family to be “above politics”. The fifth-in-line to the throne wrote: “Our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government, both of which I believe are at rock bottom.” Has the prince, who travelled the world for years representing the UK, so soon forgotten that Britain is also judged internationally by its royal family? To many, his comment was woefully misjudged, others saw it as unconstitutional. Either way, what must the royal family make of their unelected, exiled prince launching attacks on this country’s elected representatives?

A royal source says: “The Palace will find that extremely difficult and uncomfortable, because you can never fully separate yourself from the institution and it will have raised eyebrows on both sides of the park — at Westminster too — not least because it wasn’t necessary for the core of his case.

“But it only underlines the wisdom and importance of [Elizabeth II’s] decisions taken at Sandringham [the family summit in January 2020], that you cannot be half-in and half-out. Those decisions are now the royal family’s insurance — when one of its members continues to break with convention, they can point out that he is speaking as Harry Windsor, not as the Duke of Sussex, working member of the royal family representing the nation. Then, there is the deep irony of a member of the royal family talking about how the country is judged around the world, which is often by and through the royal family. It shows a deep misunderstanding by him.”

A source who knows Harry well, says: “I think he’s been sitting in the Californian sunshine for a long time, hanging out with James Corden [the actor and TV host] and has lost all the instincts on how to do this, how to conduct himself carefully, still as a member of the royal family. He’s lost the knack of what he can and can’t say and there is no one around him to say, ‘No, Harry, you can’t say that, take that bit out’. It’s embarrassing for him and for Britain, for a prince to be saying, ‘We’ve got a shit government’.”

The reality is Harry cares little about any of this, because he knows there are no consequences to his actions and the monarchy has no more levers to pull.

He has continued to shrug off raised royal eyebrows and veiled threats. The King might have booted his son out of Frogmore Cottage and relegated him to the third row at Westminster Abbey for his coronation behind Princess Anne’s plumed hat, a detail that a royal insider says prompted “much hilarity among the family about where the plume ended up and what it ended up obscuring”. But the Sussexes have kept hold of their titles and those of their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, proving that however unconstitutional their words or deeds, the punishment is unlikely to be heavier than fiddling with seating plans for the occasional state occasion.

But even some of Harry’s friends and staunchest supporters acknowledge that the noise generated by his legal actions threatens to drown out all the other work on the military, conservation and mental health that he has spent years building. Harry will be at the Invictus Games in Düsseldorf in September, putting him back on the map as a champion of veterans. A friend says: “I couldn’t even tell you, apart from Invictus, what Harry is for at the moment. I think there’s an acknowledgment that while this is all going on, everything else is a sideshow. Championing the causes close to his heart will never go, but he’s hit the pause button to focus on this. It is coming to define him — I think through design.”

The friend also believes Harry’s journey is open-ended: “When these cases are over, it won’t be the end of it. He sees his mission as being the standard bearer of a fair media and I think we’ll see more of this in years to come. He feels so strongly about it. He’ll always be a powerful advocate of fair and true reporting.”

A former courtier has another theory on why Harry is willing to endure the torment: “I think he is seeking inner peace and this becomes the target — he thinks if he can bring the media to heel, it will cure his pain. Sadly, I don’t think it will. He’s still defending his mother. Nothing will take that pain away.”

Full article

#basically they can do whatever they want because the brf won’t do anything to stop this #And that is precisely why he should have been stripped of his titles #because even though he does not work for the monarchy he is a prince of that monarchy the King’s son #and what he says and does reflects on the institution #perhaps not in the same way as it would if they were still an active part of it but it still looks bad. #brf #the suxs

[nostalgia-tblr]

does the phrase "sylki cuckolding fic" alarm or intrigue?

#i'd forgotten about that one but i just found the notes i made for it #is it really adultery if you're all the same person? perhaps we need to discuss this issue. with pornographic fanfiction. #but how to deal with the “these characters have the same name” issue THIS time? ppl don't appreciate the WORK selfcest fic demands. #anyway let me know what u think of this BOLD IDEA i had #i think THIS is the fic i would bestow the title “the beating of our one heart” on (that's the roy orbison lyric i mentioned weeks ago)

[victorianpining]

Hi Rebs! You might want to have a look at nekosmuse's reading on the original stories. (It's not an academic thing. it's fanwork but it's reeealy good.) If you know about it/have read it, feel free to ignore my ask. Have a nice day!

Hi Anne!

I had NOT come across this, thank you for sharing! Scrolling through it looks like a very thorough bit of work, I'll have to try to make time for it soon. Here's the link for anyone else interested in queer Holmes canon readings!

I'm just continually so perturbed by the complete absence of any kind of queer reading in the scholarship apart from a few comparisons between Holmes and Wilde when there has been so much great work done by fans for decades, so it's great to have something like this to point to as a source if/when I get to doing my own complete canon reading.

#asks #my work is focused mostly on Watson and his very official title of Narrator of All Time which really has not been touched on at all #like even in the fandom readings i havent come across anyone the same kind of Watson reading I plan to do #(perhaps apart from Mark and Steven but they are not explicitly acknowledging that so using them as a source is problematic sakjdhgsgd)

[prismatoxic]

if having multiple dungeon meshi posts take off has taught me anything, it's that the majority of the fandom also prefers the title dungeon meshi, because that's almost exclusively what I see used as an organizational tag

#i assume yen press are where the english title comes from? #i enjoy most of what yen press did but I'm ngl #'delicious in dungeon' is nonsensical and stupid #like i understand not literally naming it “dungeon food” but something that makes sense would have worked better perhaps #tox.txt

[variousqueerthings]

I note that I don't, and I never, was much of a fan of doctor-and-rose as romance, but that I -- rather than get annoyed at the romantic-coded scenes -- had a tendency to simply read them from a totally different perspective, and really maybe should have been a sign of sooomething different about me, that I continuously felt that the doctor's concepts of connection must be so alien, that to call it romance would be to diminish the actual Thing that they had, which was presented as such onscreen (to my mind then, now I realise what was happening, but I prefer what I had going on), which is basically that the doctor was a shell of a person, hurtling towards destruction (he would have died without rose in ep1), desperately lonely and sad and traumatised, and she retaught nine -- and by extension ten -- how to love the universe, at the same time as nine and ten taught her the same. (I think about the scene in father's day, where while they're arguing, rose says that she knows how sad he is, and he'll just hang around the tardis waiting for her -- she knew!)

and then on top of that with sarah-jane (which, I never watched the classics as a kid, so I didn't have that context for her beyond what the episode presented) it felt like that was sort of confirmed and made even more canon through this idea that the doctor is constantly mourning the inevitable deaths of their companions and would rather simply leave them behind at some point than watch that happen (and they've seen that happen before, although dying for a cause versus just... dying, because you die, while they don't, they just continue on and on, always seeking connection, always knowing that time will take them away, that's a whole other thing)

and then of course there's ten's... I would call it "sex appeal" because it's david tennant and with his performance there's immediately a bit of a focus on oh he's quite pretty and he faints/is knocked unconscious in both of his first episodes, and a lot more flirting, and the people want to see sparks or what have you... but the doctor as portrayed and written is still... not coming at it that way. yes yes girl in the fireplace but also, once again, doesn't work for me, because I find it soooo much more interesting that the doctor would imprint on A Life - and a life that they admire -- and speedrun the exact thing that they're most afraid of with their companions... that she ages and dies and it's the one thing that the doctor simply cannot stop

meanwhile rose is quite young and swept up in this whole massive adventure and very much reads the doctor not as an alien (frequently surprised by their alien-ness) and gets jealous of sarah-jane as if she's an ex, and renette as if she's... a replacement? but really it's more that the doctor met her at the point when she was about to accept her life as it was. not an exciting life, not a bad life, but always having to ignore the idea that there must be more to it than this. and the idea that she might be unceremoniously dumped back in that after seeing just how This the this could be, of course that's terrifying. and of course she's simultaneously taken with the dashing doctor and the jetset life, and worried she could be replaced, because to her the doctor saved her at 19 years old. in some ways the doctor created her (considering who she becomes after dooms day)

contrasted to martha who initially has a similar kind of experience, but the doctor doesn't meet her at the space she's in with them -- ten is leaning on her, like they did with rose, but not giving anything back unless kicking and screaming and traumatising her whole family. martha's trajectory is so so tragic, because she barely gets a taste of the splendor versus the horrors and the latter marks her for life. but she also knows to walk away from those overwhelming feelings, rather than give into them, she knows they'll never be rewarded and she also grows beyond wanting to be a crutch for the doctor (the fact that she then ends up as a soldier, well... ouch)

and then of course donna, who never has those fucking awe-feelings to begin with and whose connection with the doctor is explicitly de-romanticised but never placed on a lesser pedestal as if there's a hierarchy of alloromanticism. topples those pillars, never sees the doctor as anything but what the doctor is. good old donna. (sobs.) (but also... cautious hope for the specials.) (but also sobs.)

my point being. just don't buy alloromantic doctor, they're a near-immortal alien. it's such a dull simplistic way of reading their relationships to other beings. other point being. all those women who were making heart-eyes at ten, wish they'd met thirteen and had a... "yeah, this still works for me," moment. their horizons, too, are broadened by seeing More. (that or they realise they were never actually "in love" but just thought ten was a sexy skinny little snack and it blinded them.) (although jodie whittaker, too, is a snack.)

and lastly lastly ofc, is that if the doctor has a longterm (by doctor time measurement) intense relationship with anyone, whatever that might be called, it's the tardis. and that relationship is also so alien it cannot be quantified by human words for concepts

#im rewatching doctor who #doctor who #dw #aroace doctor #look im rewatching into 13 and beyond i am willing to entertain yaz and 13 because we enjoy a good bit of lesbianism #however will wait and see because the doctor in my head is so so aroace in every incarnation #they just manifest it in different ways #i could go into the whole eleven-and-river and how i feel about that #i am perhaps in the minority in that river's arc just doesn't work for me and often neither does her character #i kind of want to listen to the audio adventures because ive heard she's got much more to do there #than be a flirty enigma/sexy lady/moffat fantasy #but i can say that one of my least favourite things about moffat's run was how 'sexy' he tried to make everything #by literally just having people use the word sexy all the time and talk about bad girls and what have you #it's like sexiness as written by a straight teenage boy #and not a supposedly grown man writing for grown people #other minority opinion perhaps but eleven just isn't my cup of tea #am interested in how i'll feel going back into that run #dont like matt smith much dont like moffat much and dont like what they envisioned for the doctor and how they directed/acted the doctor #feel like capaldi had to claw the character back into some semblance of thematic coherency #i was never too much into especially ten getting a bit high and mighty with lonely god and the like titles BUT #waters of mars places that in a very particular context that makes it so so gooood #(another post for another day about companion opinions)

[fatedroses]

Your Avendurer! Zenos comics are always so good, and I love how you write him. The touch about him being functionally doomed to immortality is the perfect level of extra spice on top, too. Imo it's the perfect motivation for him to genuinely try to better himself as a person.

Thank you! Tbh the concept has had a hold on my brain since the end of Endwalker, and I'm glad you really enjoy it ^-^

It’s the subtle character development he’s gotten over the course of the story and the potential he has that makes me adore writing Adventurer!Zenos and the journey he has in turn of following the WoL's (Meteor, in my cases) footsteps.

Making himself immortal is actually the main inspiration behind it too, it's a consequence that self-sabotaged his original goal. Maybe eventually becoming a wake up for him that Alisaie was absolutely right and that he may still have an opportunity to not doom himself to being alone forever.

It's actually why I also made him a tank too, having him turn away from being "the man who was willing to destroy the world for his own chase of his desires" to him being willing to throw himself in and to help and protect others even at the cost of himself for a time, a thought that has stuck with me since the theory of him saving WoL with the remote crossed my mind.

#ask #anon #ffxiv spoilers #endwalker spoilers #adventurer zenos #is literally 'on no the consequences of my actions'- the character #exposed to having a moment of connection with another person- something that is implied he never really had #I see part of his motivation to do better is to become someone in the WoL eyes worth not leaving behind again #because I dont write him holding it against anyone for being left behind after internalizing Alisaie's words #I do see him wanting to become a true equal to the WoL and at the beginning views himself as being back at the bottom #and that- perhaps realizing that he destroyed WoL's trust in him after Garlemald is working to earn himself the title of being his friend #and knowing what that actually means rather than declaring it and imposing himself to be there #and in doing so he learns to open his eyes to the world #actually learns how to make friends and acknowledge others beyond their strength and courage #(tbh part of that is also just because I really enjoy the manga relationship between Zenos and Alisaie and Zenos and Emet) #(It's non canon but written with them in character so its just funny inspo I had) #i just think he's neat

[wallbeatjournal]

HOLY SHIT IT'S MINE!!!! i'm now officially the proud(?) owner of a riverdale athletics plaque from gay-homophobic uncle frank's office on season 7 of riverdale (delivery pending) ❤️

#riverdale queer-coding sportsboy media means SO MUCH TO ME perhaps more than to any other poster online. i might argue #genuinely can only list a few setdec items i would want to own THE ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC PROP OBJECT of more than this #and they really are the kind of shit roberto (or the actors themselves) probably kept for his personal collection #i manifested this by spending the evening working on a zine titled “13 riverdale props i wish i could buy at auction (and 1 i DID)” hahaha #can't wait to put this next to my big mouth billy bass animatronic. or maybe my telegraph key #either way it will align w my home decorating aesthetic perfectly. cannot wait to bring her home #god what a nailbiter. what a rush. #no more bidding for me unless paintings start coming up. (would break this resolution for a riverdollar or a lodge andrews boxing poster)

[mariocki]

Acting legend Peter O'Toole makes his screen debut as lowly '1st Soldier' in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: A Tale of Two Pigtails (1.4, ITP, 1955)

#fave spotting #peter o'toole #the adventures of the scarlet pimpernel #1955 #itp #itc #classic tv #actual acting royalty here! fresh from RADA and without a penny to his name. i actually knew he would turn up in this series at some #point but i still didn't recognise him‚ it was dad that picked him out. i think it's his nose? did he break his nose at some point? idk it #just looks different and as a result his whole face does. perhaps it's a fake nose‚ tho i have no idea why he'd wear one for this small #role. Peter would soon be winning rave reviews on the english stage‚ and from there film work and screen immortality #beckoned. unsurprisingly this would be O'Toole's only ITC credit (and before they were even called ITC)‚ although he did make a handful #of other tv appearances (mostly single plays in drama strands) before Hollywood claimed his as their own #his brief appearance here is quite fun and he gets to mug quite mercilessly to Stanley van Beer's villainous Chauvelin #alas i can't with clear heart recommend the ep to anyone looking to see a baby Peter; it is alas Hella Racist. not his scenes‚ but #the later body of the episode‚ which features star Marius Goring playing a Chinese character in yellowface (as well as the Pimpernel in #yellowface impersonating the Chinese character‚ a sort of meta racism??) #it's pretty awful‚ as is the accent and the dialogue choices. #imdb lists this as the 18th and final ep but wiki and network place it 4th and i suspect imdb is following the US transmission #bc they list the show under its overseas title of simply The Scarlet Pimpernel

[newvision]

had a good writing day. I’ve got 40 pages of my novel down & the entire outline!!!! I hope to be done with the first draft in about 3 months time

#I need some time cause I have uni :( I wish I could write full time but at least I have a creative writing class as well #I’ve decided on a working title but I don’t knooooow if I want to use it #perhaps something else entirely #anyway. I don’t think I’ll ever try to publish it but yknow. nice to feel a sense of accomplishment #writing process #emmys thoughts

[lilac-lemonade]

Listen, 911 wip is already a whole "you don't have to forgive shitty people/parents if it hurts you" fic, but perhaps I spoke too soon and should've instead drafted one for Ted Lasso

#or maybe both #after that sharp left turn in the whole jamie plot #eventually i need to stop referring to this as 911 wip #it's got a whole title and everything but it's so many words and i'm lazy #perhaps 'working title: i dislike the buckley parents' #isa writes stuff

[captain-crowfish]

You know, the more I think about it the more I realize LAIKA's Missing Link (2019) probably would be way more popular if it was a graphic novel.

#not to say the movie doesn't deserve to exist because I bloody love it #it means a lot to me #not as much as the funny square gremlin movie but I love it #crowfish crap #and instead of missing link perhaps it would go by its working title which was “Searching Shangri-La” #Yes that's real #laika movies #missing link movie #missing link #laika missing link

[cobaltswirl]

I just found you because of the tags and oh my god you’re so cool;; your art style is so inspiring!!

ILY. Bladeress (my Colress) also says thanks. He will continue to manipulate, mansplain, and malewife in this au.

#colress #sona #featuring my sona for the first time ever on this blog #I got addicted to minecraft between your ask and the completion of this art my bad #oc #pokemon #Bladeress #I'm nicknaming all the pokemon trainers I redesigned after their weapons LOL #perhaps a suitable working title shall be the 'weapon au' #weapon au

[sonego]

i pretty much decided i'm posting the fic i wrote (😥😥) bit i'm postponing it simply bc i can't be bothered thinking of a title

#should i use my one remaining braincell and post it tonight #ugh #then i'd also have to put it on ao3. formatting it idk it's been too long since i posted on ao3 #too much work i have no energy but. need a distraction perhaps #wish i could just slap the working title on it and call it a day but atp it has nothing to do w the fic #(and it's ugly and boring)