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this is totally random but hooooooow do you have commas in your tags?

AHA, yes, that is a neat trick, isn’t it, and actually my method is “i don’t know but it works.” basically back when livejournal wasn’t a barren wasteland, i saw people using faux commas in their icon keywords. i don’t know what manner of symbol it is, exactly, and i had no idea how to make it other than to copy + paste it. so i, uh, go to my lj usericons page and copy it from the keywords in that jim/bones icon and then paste it into the tag i’m writing.

IT’S THIS THING RIGHT HERE: ‚

what is it, i don’t know, it looks like a comma, but it’s magic instead.

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ROUND 1 - SCHEHERAZADE vs TREVOR

will Scheherazade be able to get Trevor so hooked on her many interesting stories that he won't want to harm her so he can hear the rest?

OR will Trevor be able to sell Scheherazade Kiff's Mix (the ultimate breakfast cereal made by combining every breakfast cereal as well as one of his friend's tears) in exchange for money and friendship?

PROPAGANDA

SCHEHERAZADE

(nothing submitted. Feel free to defend her case!)

TREVOR

"he is an evil little guy"

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ROUND 1 - HANK HILL vs CAESAR FLICKERMAN

Will Hank Hill be able to sell Caesar Flickerman propane and propane accessories in exchange for (presumably) money (submitter didn't specify)

OR will Caesar Flickerman be able to convince Hank Hill The Hunger Games are a light-hearted contest for public entertainment and therefore maintain his image for the government (and presumably also get money and fame from doing so)?

PROPAGANDA

HANK HILL

none was submitted, so if anyone has anything, feel free to lmk and I'll add it!

CAESAR FLICKERMAN

"Caesar Flickerman is so good at convincing people that children being killed in THG is just entertainment, that in real life people love him and copy him. He sits with the tributes before they go into the arena and laughs and jokes with them, so that people in the Capitol will care for them and bet money on them when they fight to the death. And it's Stanley Tucci in the movie, so ofc he's great"

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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So I've been rotating this idea in my brain since December. It is WIDLY out of season but I am posting anyway. Time has no power over me.

Dream as the boyfriend who gets dumped 90% of the way through the Hallmark movie. Dream is, even in his own mind, this arrogant, moody guy who's a little too obsessed with his job (very high up in the publishing industry). He's not entirely sure how he managed to convince Hob, who's this cheerful, bouncy extrovert and has essentially been Dream's personal Manic Pixie Dream Boy the entire time they've known each other, to go on a SINGLE date with him, let alone be his boyfriend.

And Hob always goes home to see his family for like two weeks at Christmas, it's super important to him. Dream can't afford to be away from work for that long but says Hob should go before him, he'll be there for Christmas itself. Only, the day before Hob's supposed to leave, Dream stands him up for a dinner date (he was at work) and they get in a huge fight about it. The air between them is still very frosty as Hob packs his things and leaves the next morning.

And then Dream spends the next few days with his social media being just. Flooded with pictures of Hob doing Hallmark Christmas activities. He's clearly having a great time. This woman keeps popping up in his photos, and they look so happy together, covered in snow from a snowball fight, sipping hot chocolate at a crowded bar, one video someone else must have taken of them chasing each other around a skating rink, laughing so hard they crash into each other and fall over. Between the photos and the fact that Hob's still texting Dream this whole time, Dream puts together that this is Eleanor, Hob's childhood best friend who he lost touch with when her family moved away unexpectedly.

Hob's talked to Dream about Eleanor before, how close they were and how horrible it was that he never got a chance to say goodbye, or figure out a way to stay in touch (she had super strict parents). Dream has always kinda suspected that there was a layer of 'mutual first crush, but neither of us were really sure where to go from there and the whole thing got brutally ripped out from under us before we could figure it out' to the whole situation as well.

And here they are. They've found each other again, against all odds, they're so clearly happy together, and Eleanor's doing all this fun exciting stuff with Hob that Dream would only be a huge grump about. By the time Dream goes to meet up with Hob, he's already got a whole story in his head of how this is going to go: Hob will tell him he's found someone much better for him and dump him, as Dream deserves.

So when he approaches Hob's parents’ house at like 7pm on December 23rd, and finds Hob and Eleanor talking quietly on the porch, he's just resigned, and fully expecting to end up standing there and watching while they have a Hallmark-movie snow-gently-falling kiss.

Instead, Hob looks up, notices Dream, and immediately just BARRELS into him and hugs him so hard his feet lift off the ground, and before he's really processed that he's the one getting the snow-covered, end-of-the-movie, I-missed-you-so-much kiss. Hob's incredibly enthusiastic and smiling too hard to kiss him properly, and eventually they both wind up in a snowdrift.

And Dream’s just. Not entirely processing as Eleanor greets him (and seems genuinely happy to meet him). And then Hob introduces him to his parents (and they seem happy to meet him, too). And everyone’s acting like he's a wanted part of this gathering, and they're so happy he was able to make it, and Hob's gotten them tickets for some community theater Christmas Carol thing because he knows how much Dream likes earnest-if-amateur art… And a few hours later Dream and Hob are cuddled together on a couch with coco doing some excessively cute Christmas Activity. Wrapping the last few presents while a Christmas movie plays quietly in the background or something. Eleanor has gone home, Hob's parents have gone to bed, so it's just them when Hob softly thanks him for being able to make it at all, and apologizes for the way he left things.

And none of this is how the story is supposed to go.

And I think Dream just breaks down, and Hob's eventually able to get the whole ‘I assumed you'd want to break up with me and date your obvious One True Love, I am terrible’ story out of him. 

And there is a certain amount of genuinely upset ‘ok it hurts that you think I think something so horrible about you’ from Hob. But he pretty quickly figures out that no, Dream’s self-esteem is actually that low; he genuinely thinks ‘so terrible that you'd be morally correct to cheat on him’ is just. An objective fact about himself. 

Which leads to Hob being like “You realize I'm dating you on purpose, right? I like how passionate you are about your job. I like your confidence. I like that you keep me grounded.” And basically just runs down all these traits Dream assumes are his own flaws, only Hob’s talking about them like they’re desirable. As though Dream is his happily-ever-after perfect love.

So, just for a moment, Dream lets himself believe that he could be. And it gets easier and easier to believe as the welcome he received from Hob’s family and friends just continues for the rest of his visit, as he’s easily brought in to assorted Charming Hallmark Christmas Activities and realizes Hob was specifically saving the activities he thought Dream would like for when Dream would be there, as he and Hob return to their normal lives in the Big City and Hob is still happy to be with him, still willing to resolve whatever conflicts come up instead of just giving up.

(And he finds it very easy to believe on New Year’s Eve, when Hob goes for an absolutely over-the-top grand gesture stroke of midnight proposal.)

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Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Propaganda:

Not mentioned directly, but there are very big indicators she is on the spectrum. Derry Girls is set in the 90's, so that era mainly saw boys get diagnosed rather than girls. Who were just thought to be weird and were masking.

- Can miss social cues, and remains fairly quiet during a lot of group conversations, which are things that can often go with being autistic.

- Little sense of danger and gets excited when other people are worried or anxious. She even greets the IRA guy when everyone else is annoyed.

- Dresses unconventionally for the fashion of the time, sometimes child like.

- Took her grandfather to prom because he was the fella she really likes the most.

- Gets obsessed easily with certain things to the point it's unhealthy. Example is step aerobics. She even submits herself to school teasing by doing a step routine at a school talent show.

- When people raise their voice around her, Orla gets overstimulated and puts her hands around her ears.

- Has a lighter because she likes melting stuff.

- Gets upset about not having the right type of pop tarts.

This video - Orla McCool being autistic for 12 minutes

Any other details:

I think her mother and her uncle are also on the spectrum.

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Okay, so I'm writing it, and I'm three chapters in at 6k words, expecting to make it twelve chapters total. This is my first ever Tolkien fic, which is crazy because I've been in this fandom since I was a kid.

(I love writing Mírdania and she is barely in it, and so far she's only seen from Sauron's POV and he is a petty bitch who hates her for no reason. I will be adding more Mírdania. Even if her name drives me crazy)

Silvergifting Corpse Bride AU: people are telling Celebrimbor that now he's solved the "inevitable fading problem" he should settle down and get married but he just wants to be left alone. at some point he gets so frustrated that he goes out riding and starts ranting to his horse. he exaggeratedly proposes to what he thinks is a broken off branch, making sure to emphasise that he is the Scion of Feanor, the last son of a house of kinslayers and war criminals and oh please won't you do the honour of being wed to me until the universe ends and my spirit is at last extinguished... and then he slides one of his rings onto this branch, and it starts wiggling. Tyelpe screams and rides home with haste.

And you guys know what I'm thinking. Obviously, it's Sauron's hand, and this time it wasn't cut off by Isildur, let's say it was a wound in the war and he never went back and picked up his hand. It's still alive because the one ring doesn't exist, he's a Maia and they have incarnate fuckery that we can use here.

So Tyelpe has tried his best to forget about that weird thing that happened in the woods when Annatar rocks up, wearing Tyelpe's ring and saying that he's here to see his husband because they're tied together until 'the universe ends and his spirit is extinguished.'

Annatar settles himself in as the Consort to the Lord of Eregion and he enjoys it. Celebrimbor is both startled and fascinated by this so he's just letting it happen with minor fussing (rarely directed at Annatar). Gil-Galad is suspicious, Elrond is very suspicious, Galadriel is hostile, and Círdan thinks it's funny because the Maia clearly wants to be courted and Celebrimbor is giving him nothing except brainstorming sessions and everyone can see that even that is kind of working.

For Mairon, this happens after Morgoth's defeat and he's stuck because he really doesn't want to go back to Valinor and grovel, no one wants Sauron around, and Mairon doesnt want to live like a nobody -- so when he realises this idiot proposing to his detatched hand is an Elven Lord and a renowned smith, he's down for it.

And yeah, Mairon is kind of offended that Celebrimbor isn't trying to court him properly. But Tyelpe is cutest in his forge.

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Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Propaganda:

His hyperfixation is pie - he has a pie shop, it is shaped like a pie, pies are his favourite metaphor. His dog is his only friend for a significant portion of his life, and he resurrects Digby (the dog) everytime he dies. He doesn't touch people, unless it's a very reluctant poke. He does raise people from the dead by touching them, but if his non-contact relationship was written as an allegory for loving someone with AIDS, I definitely think he can be considered autistic representation.

Any other details:

Context of the show: Detective show where Ned works with a PI, by raising the dead for a minute to ask them questions. Any longer than that, something else has to die in that person's place, so he has to kill them again with a poke.

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Submission message for Westley + Princess Buttercup: My very first favorite movie and my very first confusing crushes

Submission message for Viola + Orsino + Olivia: idk if this is allowed* because it's three people so technically not a couple/pairing but. they are literally the og bisexual love triangle. woman falls in love with a woman disguised as a man who falls in love with a man who is in love with the first woman but then falls in love with the disguised woman the moment she reveals that she's not a man. he continues to use her male name while proposing to her btw. come on

(*note from tournament runner: I allowed it because I thought it would be funny)

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[ID: Two screencaps from Taskmaster. Jason Mantzoukas says, "I understand. I mean, I think you're absolutely fucking stupid for saying it." End ID.]

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Do you ship it?

reason: I watched the tv show before I watched the movies. I just watched the movies recently and Flynn has a different love interest in each one. I didn't care about a single one of them because they WEREN'T EVE

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(2020-21) youngling obi-wan & grand-master dooku

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Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Propaganda:

- Rarely leaves his house, and hinted to follow a strict mealtime plan (Sunday is Pasta Carbonara day)

- Very uncomfortable with small talk and can be fairly blunt

- Had trouble fitting in at school, unlike his more sociable twin brother James; his only known friend is his brother’s wife, Lucy

- When forced to impersonate James, John immediately gets overwhelmed in a manner resembling a sensory overload. Later rants to Lucy about not just being uncomfortable with the impersonation, but everything around it: ”Crowds, and *noise*, and buildings and officers and computers and *people*!”

- Starts doing a lot better at James’ job (as a PI) once he realises he can view it through the lens of his own occupation and favourite activity: creating and solving logic puzzles

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