#fio thoughts

[fiodoodlebug]

No little Dale Kobble, don't summon Satan on New Years Eve!

Hey guys I hope you all have been having a great year and happy holidays! I've been busy catching up on projects and due to some health problems I've got a minor surgery set up in February ;o; but I be stayin' silly.

[fiotrethewey]

It’s such a shame we can’t let Brax and Narvin say fuck. They deserve it.

[fiotrethewey]

I’m a Pisces born in 1990 - the Year of the Horse, which I’ve always been told was the Water Horse.

Folks, I’m a Proud Sea Horse ❤️

Seahorses gay and slutty as fuck

[classic-jamie]

also messy 2 am comic i did solely to be evil to my friend :)

[ra-vio]

I listened to the re[in] osts all day and it felt like I was back in The Cage (LET ME OUT!!!!)

[fiodoodlebug]

OH OH my vinyl preorder finally arrived I am so happy ;-; after being sick all week this is a wonderful surprise. I'm planning to frame the vinyl sleeve with the birthday card :3

[fiotrethewey]

A video update where I ramble about Holmwood and also shout out to the wonderful David and Tal who gave us a load of advice when we first started plotting out how to start our project.

[fiodoodlebug]

Longlegs marketing was so much fun. Coming into things later than most and getting to look through this huge game of people online solving ciphers and riddles just to figure out a release date is just incredibly cool to me. I didn’t even know Nic Cage was in it until I went to the theater. It feels like a lotta films get shoved out the door with little fanfare so going the extra mile with this arg and everything is just rnngrwggg i love it.

It reminds me of when I was a little kid seeing the marketing for The Blair Witch Project.

In an era where movies are often spoilt by leaks and marketing, I truly appreciate the commitment of Longlegs (2024) and Nosferatu (2024) to keeping the appearance of their antagonists a mystery

[doueverwonder]

the thing is reasonably I could make Fiachra (N. Ireland) the same age as Alfred and Matthieu which just makes him being their “uncle” funnier

N. Ireland: As your uncle-

USA: you’re literally only two years older than me.

Canada: and two years younger than me.

N. Ireland: ….

N. Ireland: As Your Uncle-

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[right after getting in trouble]

USA: Uncle Fiachra was supposed to be watching us.

Canada: Yea, so he should take most of the blame.

N. Ireland: don't fucking look at me i'm the same age as them.

[kolkaslove]

Need to start using glitter pens in my notebook again.... looks boring and stale compared to my old ones sigh

I know haven't been using certain pen types as much because bleeds through the page or whatever and I have drawings but also I can just stick them on and stuff

I don't need to let the limits of paper define me!!!!!! Let that ink bleed as much as it wants if it's shiny!!!!! I need that blue glitter back!!!!!

[fiotrethewey]

(tw: cancer, tw: death in story)

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My obsession with Dracula began as a teenager. I can't tell you exactly why vampires started it off, but I was a teenager in 2003 (Yes, the girls from Turning Red were my brand of teeanger; a tomboy weeb, into Final Fantasy VII, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter *hiss* and lots of other very popular things at the time.) I had seen Bram Stoker's Dracula which creeped me out because I had seen it too young, of which my dad was very fond so I knew the basics of the story (or so I thought at the time. How wrong I was.) In that time I read a series called the Saga of Darren Shan. To me this was my Buffy or Twilight, a story of found family, and vampiric world building that had nothing to do with Dracula at all, vampires being more super human than monster. I still have a soft spot for it now in my thirties.

I was about thirteen when I found myself at a family friend's house for a party, where I was greeted by an elderly couple dressed in all black. Fay was a woman in her sixties who had put shocking pink in her grey white hair and had the most vibrant smile. Her partner Keith was a man who dressed like an old school gothic mod version of Christopher Lee, and the voice was just as impressive. They saw me reading on my own on the sofa during this party and sat down either side of me. They asked me about my vampire book and then they asked me if I liked the theatre, and when I said I did they asked if I had ever seen Titus Andronicus on stage because that's the bloodiest play that Shakespeare had ever wrote.

We connected immediately. It was through these two that I fell in love with the book version of Dracula. Whilst my parents were lovely in their own way - these two were the first adults that not only respected my hobbies but indulged in them with me. I gave them copies of my Darren Shan Saga to read. They took me to the theatre and bought me an illustrated copy of Dracula. I devoured it.

Looking back, no adult in my life had ever been as kind or as impressionable upon me. They loved me, as though I was their own family member. They sparked my creativity and we discussed Dracula and Vampires a lot, though sadly, I only remember how it felt - instead of what was said. I think partly because it became too painful later on.

They died just as I started university, four years after we met. Faye died first, he died of a broken heart and no wish to fight because he missed her so much. Cancer took both of them. I was 18 and it was such a tremendous loss. I was even with him when Fay died, the most horrendous day in the world. I remember him weeping, not knowing how he would ever cope without her. After they were gone, I kept my copies of the book but I didn't really read Dracula after that for a long while. Dracula was associated with my old friends and it was still a painful memory. Flash forward to many years later. I meet a girl during COVID who I'm playing DND with, who'd become one of my closest friends. She tells me that she's really into Dracula. I don't even watch Horror films, but I so wanted to get to know this girl who I play DND with and so I let myself back into that world.

That girl was @georgiacooked and reader, I fell in love with her and we've now been dating for two years. Georgia brought me back to the world of Jonathan and Mina, of Lucy, Van Helsing and the Suitors. In turn, it gave me that spark of creativity I felt like I had lost.

Dracula has always been able to bring me to the people that have meant the most. A story about people coming together to vanquish a great evil. It's not perfect by any means, but the love it's brought me is eternal.

So that's my 'Why Dracula?'.

Here's a fun, open-ended question to ask during this Droughtula:

Why are you a fan of Dracula / Dracula Daily / Re: Dracula etc. ? Why continue to engage with this particular book now?

I fear I've burrowed so far down this rabbit hole that when non-fans ask me, "Why Dracula?" I don't know how to answer that question myself

[saintadeline]

I have not been able to stop thinking about the halloween Fiorayne fanart. Blorbo microwave rotation boosted x300…. thank 🥺🙏

THANK YOU... im so glad. Shes everything to me she made me blow up for a good like 3 months at the start of the year can you BELIEVE how good the npcs have gotten in rise. Side glance at my 200 fio/hunter sketches

[deerdeardarling]

[Meanwhile, later at the gym]

Marnie: You feelin' alright?

Fiona: ...hm?- oh, yeah

...Hop kissed me last night-

Marnie: woah- wait- *She hold Fi's shoulder* Did you want to?

Fiona: uh- yea I guess, it was kinda late and-

Marnie: No, Fiona- did you want to kiss him?

Fiona: I... Yes.

Marnie: ha- okay good

Fiona: what? why?

Marnie: 'cause I would've made him morpeko's breakfast otherwise

[amoriscustos]

i thought i was emotionally safe…..

i refuse to believe it

nobara’s coming back right?????

RIGHT????!

it was just a dream right???

RIGHT?!!?!!

[fiotrethewey]

Something I’ll always treasure about working on WR is how I was able to bring life to the people outside the citadel.

Growing up in the UK as a whole, the whole island is obsessed with class, so there’s no surprises that in Doctor Who canon that the time lords are themselves as the elite higher class, typically white characters born/loomed? into some sort of privilege. It’s been great to help bring new voices and characters to Gallifrey, to show the line between them and directly how the time lords and the lowtowners. I can’t take all the credit - Sam really leaned into it, and Heather wanted to run with it to so it’s a group effort but I’m glad of the part I’ve played and hope it allows for more low town in the future!

I'm still on Time War 2 but I desperately want to finish all the Time War Boxsets and get onto War Room so I can buy War Room 2 because I desperately already find fascinating and love Helico and Lenaris despite so far the only thing I've heard of them is that heartbreaking animatic by @alyona11 (it's gorgeous I love it)

Especially the main reason I'm so encapsulated is an anthropological perspecitve it feels like I'm jumping around going INTERCASTE! INTERCASTE! like Gallifreyan society/ies is so fascinating but all the characters we ever get to know are the 1%, while there's such a rich undercurrent of lower classes and castes that we have hardly anything about! And they're intercaste (I'm pretty sure at least again I haven't actually listened to the audio yet) which is NOT going to be a common thing this is like very rare circumstances and I've got so many thoughts about that kinda stuff ahhhhhh I'm so excited to listen even if it doesn't give that much lore so big up @fiotrethewey who wrote that episode and them

[astrangeghost]

HAI ASTRID how r u.. throws confetti around your inbox

HAIIII iem okay. mentally ill a little bit(has been looping part of the maddness for a while oh my GODDDD) but my day was nice!!! how are you :3