#and she was like basically the gist of what she said was bc she didn't want to leave my sister before her grad or go without my dad and i

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Speaking of which, Edwige saying she preferred the theatre in an interview at the Cannes Film Festival and me having subconscious knowledge of this caused an accidental parallel in my final spoken German exam where I was asked what I wanted to do after college -- move to Germany, for example -- and I said, all too honestly, "nah i wanna move to France"

[chrisbangs]

lol

[morgandoesstuffsig]

Idk if ur requests are open, but hear me out XD. A creator!reader who descends on Teyvat meets all the Archons and such. Then up and leaves by changing their appearance in order to explore their creation and how it has changed. Every once in a while Creator will make themselves obvious by performing acts only the Creator could. Once they are found out they just up and leave again only to resurface after another Divine act. TLDR: Creator playing cat and mouse with Teyvat

oh my GOD creator is just TORTURING then atp

small ramble because i still have massive writers block [cries] also ignore how late this is pls ok mwamwa thnx

c.w // yan. chars

song : Best Friend - Rex Orange County

SAGAU INCOMING : YAN CHARS.

okay so you decided 'hey man, what if i wasn't worshipped the moment i stepped outside'

so you just said fuck it and shifted

(it's been a while since you've done so, it kind of felt weird and hurt a tiny bit)

walking around teyvat in an odd, different form. completely different hair, height, clothes, you get the gist

the only things you couldnt change however were three things:

your blood (still gold, but you didn't plan on bleeding infront of anyone)

your aura (still comforting, caring, and even alluring)

your voice (why? zero clue.)

escaping the throne room you've oh so sadly been bound to!! having fun while doing it!!

(the only real reason you managed to escape is bc you managed to get the archons out and actually tend to their nations, as per your request order)

messing around while escaping fr!! people passing by wondering why this random person they've never seen is (not very) sneakily running away from the creator's palace/temple

but eventually shrugging it off, albeit reluctantly

messing around in mondstat, playing with the npc children more than you could usually, giving them the time of their life!!

this is where you use your first creator powers >:3

some poor kid scraped his knee real hard on the bridge, let's say timmie (hes so sweet he just wants to defend his birds pls b nice to him!!)

you, being the belovent god you are, use your divine powers to heal him

whether you do it with the hc of having to use your own gold blood or just having special healing powers only creator has, you do it

however, your dumbass mind hadn't thought of the fact that Venti may have been watching this

new outlander person with a mysterious aura

and now he quickly learns its you :0!!

the archons had no clue you could shapeshift!! why wasnt this in the ancient scrolls??? did they just lose the ones that mentioned it???

venti immediately finds some weird wind way to tell the other archons

fucking loud mouth

speaking of which, ei is freaking. out.

she came back to just check on you in your throne room and youre just.

not there??

panics, almost goes to zhongli before she gets venti's message and calms down slightly

atp you've realize you've outed yourself

so after making sure timmie is find you quickly run off into the forest before venti can come after you and smother you (both physically and with questions)

forest reached, new mission : new form needed

this basically keeps happening, and it's a needed breath of fresh air for you

running to liyue looking like a normal person until you magically form a special medicine that was unheard of from your hand for an elder, sickly lady

running from liyue to sumeru and shifting into!! an animal!! a fox!! cat!! tiger!! dog!! bird!! any of the sort!!

only getting outed from sumeru after you accidentally spoke while in animal form and having to go over to inazuma as an unknown, traveling sailor!!

getting outed after that for your extremely familiar aura and voice (inazuma people are scarily observant towards strangers) and eventually getting shoved escorted back to your palace/temple

funny stories to tell

however, the archons wont be leaving your room for quite a while..

oh well, who says you don't have other stunts to pull?

[xerith-42]

I decided to watch Void Paradox

I'm about five minutes into the first episode and I'm still not entirely sure if this is a good idea or not, but Laurance has already spoken like three lines of dialogue and I felt my heart wrench at just one of them, so clearly I'm in too deep now.

This post serves as my live tweeting/mental break down that I am currently having as we speak. It is very incomprehensible because it is literally just my thoughts as they happen, and given how much I have to say, I'll probably make proper posts out of a lot of these points once I finish the series.

This mess is just giving you a taste of the madness I truly posses.

I am only three minutes in before I have to pause and feel the urge to scream about how bad the dialogue in Aphmau series can be. Like this series is fairly okay, especially based on the standard set by her other shows but man... something is just not working here. The whole thing feels very clunky and while I can get the gist of what Jess is going for, the execution of said gist is leaving a lot to be desired.

[Laurance shows up]

nevermind Laurance is on screen and fully voice acted everything is better

Literally nobody talk to me I need to scream about Laurance Zvahl because he is EVERYTHING in this series. The way he very softly says Aph's name when he sees her, the immediate instinct to hug her because he's so relieved to see her, the fact that you can hear the smile in his voice the minute he registers that she's there and alive!! AUGH I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!

And I literally screamed when he revealed that he was transported to this AU right at the end of season 1. Oh my Irene, I screamed. I collapsed. I was truly defeated by a single line of dialogue. I don't know where this series is going to go but I am here for it. And the fact that he knows Garroth did it and hid it from her???

I can't overstate how genuinely healing it is to hear Laurance fully voice acted. I know Sebastian Todd is retired from voice acting, but when he retired, he took down all his posts, including what I considered to be a comfort video. That video of him reading iconic Laurance lines from before he was in mcd/lines he just didn't act? That video was my everything when I was trying to hold onto this version of the character I knew I loved who was different to what Jess made him. When that video got taken down it was a major cowabummer bc there's so little properly voice acted Laurance content that isn't mcd Season 3 or My Street stuff (and I can't stand My Street like 80% of the time)

Hearing his voice, hearing him get to be properly expressive, it's just doing things to me man. I missed this character a lot. I've mostly been enjoying him through fan content or my own work. It's nice to say I enjoy a piece of canon content involving him, at least so far.

Still not sure how I feel about literally anything else. The whole relationship between Aph and Tommy feels very... weird. She describes herself as "basically his mother" after she's left with him, and treats him like it in the opening scene. But then when he's mocking her for being attracted to Laurance (so relatable), it seems really weird for a [checks wiki] 14 year old kid to be calling out his mom for finding someone hot. Feels a lot more like sibling dialogue to me? Which I guess they could be seen as siblings, but the series explicitly stated that she views it like motherhood??? But I don't think Jess is even thinking that deeply about it, I just over analyze her work for fun at this point.

Okay what the actual fuck is going on with the inside of this house???

Why is the color scheme purple and yellow? And not in any kind of flattering way which is possible with opposite colors, it just has both of them. The wallpaper changes when you get into the living room except not entirely on the windows, and in an earlier scene it looked like it wasn't even put onto all of the walls. And the wood that she used as supports just does not compliment either of these colors as they are. Just make it all purple, you know you want to Jess.

Also is the texture on the table and the glass the same??? I don't know a damn thing about modding or making texture/data packs for minecraft but that just seems. odd.

Laurance: mentions the nether Me: [screams just a little]

Tommy: shows up and gives a random ass lore dump Aph: Kay thanks go back to your room

"I don't know what I can do to help."

"Just be there for me. I just need someone to ground me right now."

I literally want to shake Laurance around like a rag doll and give him a stupid kiss on his stupid fucking face UGH why can't I be normal about this block man and his stupid feelings?!?! The way his voice breaks as despair sets in?? The fact that he's no doubt pieced together that Garroth probably stole the amulet and plans to use it to hurt Aph and he can't do anything about it?? I'm literally losing it.

How did I not watch this series before.

Literally about to cry over him just calling Aph "M'lady" out of pure instinct. He didn't consciously do that. He just misses her that much.

oh no spooky evil alternate Laurance or whatever--

MAN I'm so happy I decided to watch this series. This was probably a mistake though :)

[catinasink]

how did you ask your mother for a binder? like what's the script? like my mother was the first person I came out to when i was 12 [it went something like "huh. i think i'm bi. i'll keep this hidden for a little while" *proceeds to tell mama the following day*]. And then later, she was the first person I said out loud to that I didn't know my gender and I wanted to use they/them pronouns. but also I am still VERY feminine (bc I want to be) and I think she'd have a hard time wrapping her brain around my child a) likes their name, b) still likes presenting pretty feminine (leggings, tight shirts, crop tops, frilly dresses, heels, etc), c) goes by they/them pronouns and is nonbinary, but d) wants a binder. like i'm almost 18 but that's still a little too long for me to want to wait.

well initially i made a notes post bc i was scaredy-scared, but then i did it before it finished

anyway convo below (translated from russian by yours truly)

mom: anyway goodnight me: wait before you go mom: yeah me: can i show you someting i want to buy? i can pay for it if you want mom: oki me: okay here *pulls up site on phone* mom: ..? me: so like i don like my chest it makes me icky and one of my friends told me that this ould help 🥺 mom: oh oki mom: which frined me: i don remmeber hehe me: can i have tho? mom: ok send me the link and when i have time 👍 me: okii :3

yeah thats basically the gist of it

[traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors]

tw pedo, confusion, family.

sometimes i feel like my dad may be a pedo. not that i caught him with any porn of that sort, his stash was completely adult related when i used to see it scattered around the house and what not. i was hyper as a child and unfortunately viewed such things every time. he's never done anything to me that i know of, except once he roughly spanked me as a teen which i felt very violated from in a bad way type of touch feeling. i was pretty confused.. they also shamed me for being sexual (getting caught in school making jokes with a friend and drawing dicks n writing things about teachers) which they ended up seeing and ofc i felt guilt bc they were disappointed in me and shamed me, banned me from watching shows and what not. couldn't even have a phone bc they didn't trust me. this was up til 11 years old to 14.

ive been sexualised my whole life. shaming me for wearing clothes that expose my figure, I was only 14 when an uncle apparently commented on me saying how im dressed inappropriate bc he can see my shape.. mind you, i was fully clothed head to toe. i didn't know about this until my parents mentioned it in anger, implying its my fault basically. yeah u get the gist of it. my whole life ive felt uncomfortable. getting looks from people and even my own family.

i remember being in my early 20s my mom mentioned this to me bc I said how my dad would be harsh. she said its bc of ur actions, also holding what i drew and wrote in school still against me. i was only 11/12?? but what's even crazy, she said i wrote those things about my own dad. yes. my mind was shocked how she could even say such things. and yet she believed that even tho I said it wasn't even about anyone except a teacher. so, i know my mom holds jealously and resentment of this. probably thinking ill steal her man vibe, which is gross. I felt extremely gaslight, I always have with them.

since their messed up minds think that idk if that's why he behaves weird with me. i know he's a pervert but this is just. there was a show we would watch and he was very obsessed with the girl. (She was 17, same age as me) and i found that so bizarre. my mom simply didn't gaf. I even said its wrong but no one cares. his obsession was unhealthy, finding pics of her and searching up explicit scenes of her which I found on his search.

its like its so normalised. she's like the age of ur daughter wtf. ig since then its just been confusing for me bc I've been gaslight badly. idk if i ever got abused by him bc i don't really remember such happening. i only had a sexual dream with him once which was strange. he does take offguard pics of me which I hate and tell him to delete but he never does. he gives me weird looks and i hate dressing up bc of it. they make me feel ashamed of myself and disgusted. I feel like a whore, like im begging for this.

I'm glad I haven't had any weird touches or anything, but its still uncomfortable with the energy that lingers around. like im always reminded when they give me certain looks esp my mom. i feel like im going insane just thinking of everything. i wish things were normal but they really ain't are there

Hi anon,

I'm so sorry about what you've been through.

I can see how being shamed for being sexual or making sexual jokes may have influenced the way you view your own sexuality, especially at such a formative age. It's saddening and frustrating to hear that your family seems to normalize victim blaming. It's gross that your uncle made that comment, not only because you were a child, but because it implies he was looking to see your "shape". The comments that your mom made towards you are not okay either. The things that you found out about your dad are also quite disturbing and predatory.

Even if you dad hasn't touched you or anything like that, he still does some harmful things and it's valid to be upset or traumatized by that. I think a lot of this, especially with the example of your uncle, could count as sexual harassment.

It makes sense to be uncomfortable with the environment that your family creates. Your wish for things to be normal is completely understandable, and I'm sorry you've been having to put up with this. Please know that there's nothing you could've done to deserve being abused, and you don't deserve to be disgusted at yourself for things that aren't your fault.

If anyone has any comments or suggestions, feel free to add on. Otherwise, I hope I could help, and please let us know if you need anything.

-Bun

[janiedean]

I'd like to ask your thoughts on a HOTD question... not trying to drag you into the Discourse Du Jour (god knows I could do without any discourse at all lol), just because you like Jace and the Starks and you can be trusted to have sensible opinions. Do you think Sara Snow really existed and/or will be featured in the show? Most of the fandom (or at least, most people I've seen discussing her) seem to think she didn't and she won't and it would be OOC for Jace otherwise but I'm not sure. When Martin makes his official histories go "oh but of course that theory's ridiculous, it totally didn't happen like that, let's not even consider it for a moment", it makes me think there's at least a grain of truth and it's more about important people dismissing facts that don't align with their vision or sources they think are too beneath them. Plus, the show has taken Mushroom's side on some things in season one, even without taking taking him literally on every detail. And a Targaryen prince hooking up with a "wolf girl" of Winterfell who just happens to be a bastard sounds like both a parallel to Rhaegar and Lyanna and, if the books do go there and it wasn't just made up for GOT, a genderbent version of Jon and Daneerys.

okay first of all sorry for replying so late as stated these weeks were busy af but in order:

premise: the way f&b is written the entire point is that you get the gist of what happened but everything you read is information filtered by one or more sources all of which are somehow biased one way or the other so let's just say that not counting what exactly happened that you know for sure happened you can't know how and you have to do some thinking about it/extrapolate and shit, which you can't do when reading face value which is what 90% of any fanbase in any fandom does this days alas but this stated

the consequence imvho is that generally you should... generally presume the truth is somewhere in the middle while seeing how your source is biased which I think is smth the show did fairly well (swear to got i'm watching the last two eps soon but anyway)

case in point if you read the book at face value al*cent was basically c*rsei except shallower bc obviously you can't get much in depth that way, but as again biased sources, the show extrapolated a much more (imvho) believable and sympathetic characterization without making her a saint or changing what she actually did in book canon/the way the story went and I say this as a 'I'm team black because I dislike most of the greens and anyway their claim was imvho bullshit' person so like I don't have many horses in this race

when Martin makes his official histories go "oh but of course that theory's ridiculous, it totally didn't happen like that, let's not even consider it for a moment" > you are imvho entirely correct in this assessment

with this said

'Do you think Sara Snow really existed and/or will be featured in the show?' the answer is yes to both but I don't think the marriage is actually gonna be a thing

first: if they got married no way that it wouldn't have a future repercussion in the sense that like.. when in og canon robb married jeynew in what seems like similar circumstances (because honestly i feel like this jace/sara thing would be more similar to that than jon/dany bc it implies breaking the betrothal to baela same as robb did with walder frey's daughter while jon and dany would break any betrothals should they get together) the entire realm knew three days later. if mushroom is the only one bringing up this marriage and gyldayn says it's doubtful she existed it means that there's no other source mentioning her or the marriage other than mushroom and it could absolutely be the opposite side trying to trash talk jace/the blacks spreading the rumor, but like if they actually did marry it would have been a known thing and like i don't see why - if it happened - cregan would have kept it hush hush since it meant like... his sister being married to the future crown heir?? that's kinda important?? but somehow that doesn't come up any time the northerners are discussed in the context of the dance? sounds sus

also: the pact of ice and fire (pact of ice and fire come on) is basically 'jace and cregan become friends because jace reminds cregan of his younger brother and cregan decides to pledge to him and jace promised his first daughter to be betrothed to cregan's son' which is like an entirely sensed alliance pact, but like... if jace was married to sara why the fuck would they need to do that since the alliance was already there? like it makes zero sense that if a marriage happened they'd need to sign a marriage pact for kids that at that point would be... sorta half-siblings

that said I doubt mushroom would just make her up out of wanting to diss jace so tbh I think the truth is that this sara does exist, is in the show and has a role in it but as they presented the whole thing until now jace forsaking the engagement with baela when it seems like they're taken with each other (and not betrothed at TWO AND FOUR like in the book) seems kinda ooc and there's no reason for him to do it the way it was with robb being distressed and wanting comfort (since at that point luke is already dead so....) so like I don't think the wedding is likely but I think she existed and that she'll be there and the fact that she existed is the reason why the wedding thing could happen, also because... like if she was cregan's bastard sister and married a future king I doubt northerners wouldn't mention it and it's not mentioned in other asoiaf books nor in any other stark-related role within universe sooo

also like the fact that gyldayn is absolutely xenophobic when he talks about sara most likely means that she exists and she's a pretty nice person

I also don't get why people would discourse savagely over this because like having her exist and them having a friendship or smth would be taking mushroom's side without going all the way and acknowledging gyldayn's while also not going all the way and as stated I think truth is in the middle here anyway like I think she existed but the marriage didn't

about the parallels... I see your point but not counting that lyanna was trueborn, I think the parallel is actually the pact not jace/sara, I mean, the pact of ice and fire is about starks and targs joining houses at some point (presumably following generation) which ofc doesn't happen because jace dies, but... if r+l=j which is a thing then it's stark/targs joining houses, and if the song of ice and fire is the song of tptwp........ well I've been saying for ages that this series is titled a song of jon snow whatever ppl think so like the pact is just predicting jon's existence imvho and that's the one parallel I see in this sense

wrt jon and dany honestly at this point I think they might hook up in main books but aren't an endgame ship bc idt martin wants to do targ restoration and as stated I've thought for ages that dany survives and goes back khaleesing in essos and jon becomes king long enough to fix stuff and separate the kingdoms and then goes off with the wildlings later so like as I don't think it's endgame I wouldn't go there but I see what you mean so if it's a thing it could be but I honestly don't think they're going there

tldr: yes she exists, yes she is in the show, no there's no marriage, both sources are biased against the northerners and they can choke on it xD

[menalez]

you like lucy liu! great bc i have a story i've been dying to share related to her and it's utterly ridiculous if not stupid. (it's a bit long tho, so sorry abt that - but it fuels my pettiness)

so, I used to have this friend (from ages 15 to 20), we met at school and befriended each other through fandom. I'm a lesbian (bi back then) and always liked wlw ships, my friend (straight) really liked mlm ships & considering our common interests we got along p well. (i say liked mlm ships, but it was probably fetishisation: mlm ships were better than any straight or wlw one bc two men; men deserved to be with another man being w a woman would've been a downgrade etc. basically a lot of internalised misogony)

Okay, so around 2016/17 the Sherlock shows "Elementary" and bbc's "Sherlock" were quite popular. My former friend was really into Sherlock (mostly for the ship); I wasn't. I didn't like Cumberbatch, thought he was arrogant and therefore wasn't interested in watching bbc's Sherlock, I was quite into Elementary though. I liked the spin it took on the Sherlock series, I really liked the idea of an equal and female Watson (Lucy Liu in that case) and I loved the idea of Moriarty being a woman and having great chemistry with Lucy Liu.

I don't remember what led up to the conversation, but she sent me screenshots of her convo with smn else where they were talking about me and my refusal to watch bbc's Sherlock. And to this day, the conversation they had pisses me off so much (but also leaves me going like ??? bc it's ridiculous) It originally was in German, but this was the gist of it: my friend seemed to have been complaining to this other girl (I didn't know her) about me not wanting to watch sherlock. The stranger took offense in my dislike for Cumberbatch and said she didn't know what Elementary was. My friend then replied that I hated Cumberbatch and didn't want to watch Sherlock "only" because he starred in it (both messages accompanied by an eye-roll emoji).

The stranger then asked how smn could hate Cumberbatch and said she just googled the show and went "wtf". My friend then replied "It's an ugly female Watson. And I'm into women, I know what I'm talking about."

The stranger then replied that she couldn't stand Lucy Liu and my friend replied with an over the top "thank you honey I love you for this statement" their conversation ended with the stranger saying that she had just done some research and that Elementary was basically blasphemy and my friend agreed saying she saw it on TV once and it made her want to throw the remote at the TV

that's the story, that pisses me off every time I remember it, bc like, a) beauty is subjective, yes. but i don't think lucy liu can in any way be considered ugly and b) my friend had literally found out she was a lesbian like a week ago. "i like women, ik what i'm talking abt" no, u don't?? it doesn't work like that obvs, but still you don't know what you're talking abt c) the stranger going "how can u dislike cumberbatch" and then in the next breath saying she can't stand lucy liu. ?? ? ??? girl. d) the stranger in general. like where did the audacity come from

i think the statement ("ugly female watson") stemmed from internalised misogyny (on friend's part) rather than racism, bc if watson is female then there is no possibility for a gay sherlock/watson ship, but tbh idk. anyways hope you enjoyed this story that pisses me off to no end

oh and pls also note that this friend was supposedly my best friend at the time and in love with me lol

ok first of all i need to hear the story of u dumping this woman as a friend bc that has got to be juicy too. wtf kind of friend is that.... insane. its insane there was a period in time where ppl act like women are crazy for seeing this demon being and not being interested in seeing more of him:

like he needs to go back to whatever planet he came from n leave us Real human beings alone... terrorizing us with his face is immoral.

also i felt the same about lucy liu but i have sth terrible to reveal... my girlfriend also thinks lucy liu is ugly :( she thinks its insane that im attracted to lucy liu. i think she even said lucy liu wouldnt be considered attractive in taiwan or sth. i feel like east asians have very different ideas of beauty bc this is not the first time i said an east asian woman was beautiful and east asians around me were like "wtf no!"

lastly if this is how she treats her best friend that shes in love with then im concerned over how she treats other ppl

[squish--squash]

can you please post the science fiction recs anyway? i'd love that

I WILL!!!!

Okay so before I do my recs, I wanna explain the reason I was able to read a bunch of science fiction my senior year of hs was because I had the last two periods of my schedule free, and instead of driving home like a regular teenager I instead stayed and took the bus home bc I don't drive. Anyways, I spent those last two periods of my school day in the library, reading and being a math/science tutor. I actually had time to fucking read, y'all, it was amazing!

Anyways, the only thing I knew about science fiction up until that point was that a lot of it was either space travel or time travel, which are two things I'm actually not interested in. So I didn't really go for the genre.

UNTIL I ran into a friend in the library during one of my TA periods, and she recommended a science fiction series. It coincidentally is my first recommendation! And it is:

Arc of a Scythe Trilogy - Neal Shusterman

It's hands-down one of my all-time favorite book series. I went into reading it suspicious and ready for my picky ass to put the first book down, but the worldbuilding grabbed me by the throat and said "not so fast!" I'll avoid spoilers by giving a vague gist of the series, but it's a futuristic sci-fi trilogy set in a world where basically the only way someone dies is if they are murdered by other people assigned to be grim reapers because the AI authority ruling society refuses to kill people. It's so, so badass. And I'd buckle up for this series too, because the amount of plot twists and unexpected turns that happen in this series was an emotional roller coaster I'd never experienced before. I'm sorry if you've already heard about/read this trilogy btw, I have no clue how popular it is I'll be honest with that. Also, in the third novel there's a genderfluid character that's introduced and becomes the love interest of a protagonist, and it was very nice to read about. It was also the first time I read about a genderfluid character in a published novel!

Anyways, after I devoured that trilogy, I was hungry for more, and decided I was going to comb through my school library's sci-fi section to see if there was anything that caught my eye. This is where I found my next recommendations (I also found my niche of sci-fi: futuristic biopunk dystopians). The first of these is:

Proxy and Guardian - Alex London

Fun fact about this duology: it's gay! Anyways, a vague gist about Proxy and Guardian is that it's set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic dystopian setting where impoverished people can have their debts bought off by people in exchange for becoming their proxies for dealing with punishments. I thought the plot was very interesting, especially as it progressed. There's also something new that I haven't really read before, where the main cast has a "OH SHIT, WE FUCKED UP" moment, and actively tries to reverse what they've done only to find they're now at the mercy of the consequences of what they did. The worldbuilding was also pretty cool, too.

Moving on from that series, I immediately pounced on another book:

Fragile Remedy - Maria Ingrande Mora

Fun fact: THIS ONE IS GAY TOO! (it's funny because I didn't even realize this one had a gay romance in it too until I sat down and started reading it; I originally was enticed by the pretty blue cover laskdgh) The gist of this one is a little similar to Proxy's setting, but with more of a steampunk twist. It's set in the slums of a futuristic dystopian world, where the main character is someone who was genetically modified and therefore has blood that can heal people, which is something you don't want to be in that world. I was really drawn into this story by the characters, which had really good chemistry with each other. Also, if my memory serves me right, one of the characters in this novel is trans! It's not explicitly stated, but there are some pretty obvious hints to it. Compared to the other recs, this one didn't have as many plot twists, but the plot was still pretty interesting (even if I thought it moved a little slow at times). Also, the main character has a chronic health condition, which was something I'd never read about before.

After I finished Fragile Remedy, I honestly didn't know what to do. The sci-fi section in my library wasn't big, and I didn't see many more series that caught my eye. Well... all but one:

Matched trilogy - Ally Condie

Now this one... I actually have a history with, because I was actually rereading this series. However, the first time I'd read the trilogy was back when I was in either fifth or sixth grade, so it'd been at least 6-7 years since I last read the novels. My memories of the trilogy were murky and vague, but I remembered there were some things that interested me the first read around, so I decided to reread the trilogy.

It's very funny what 6-7 years can do. I remember being confused about the plot, setting, and the actions of one of the main characters the first time. But rereading it? Everything made sense. I actually disliked one of the characters back then because I didn't understand his actions, but ironically he became my favorite character the second time I read through it.

Anyways, the Matched trilogy is... you guessed it! A futuristic biopunk dystopian setting! I'm sorry about the lack of variety, but when I found out that was a thing I hunted down anything falling under that category like it was a sport. The setting of this one was feeling a lot more futuristic than the last two recs, tho.

Getting back on track, I had a lot of fun revisiting this series. It was A LOT better than I remembered, especially because I could finally understand everything more. It was also fun figuring out that I had actually read all three books through piecing together the vague memories I had, and rediscovering all the plot twists and developments that I had completely and utterly forgotten about. This series was also kinda bigger on the biology aspect of biopunk, especially in the third novel, which is always fun for me. In all honesty I don't think the worldbuilding is a main focus in the series, but what I felt lacked in that department was made up by the plot and character developments. Those of the real strengths of this trilogy.

I really hope this didn't get too long, or ranty. I just got excited. Tysm for the ask, anon! This was very fun, even tho I doubt what I had to say about my recs really helped lmao

[nonclassyparty]

I dont really have an overall point to this, just sending some thoughts that keep popping up after reading act 3 last night.

you said y/n was mean as hell in this part, and yeah she was, but san is so fucked up I can't stand him.

like the whole, "I made it clear what this was from the start, so I don't owe you anything and you can't expect anything from me, etc." is just. shitty as hell.

yeah, he did "make it clear" but bro knew what he was doing, HAD to know the feelings y/n had(has) for him, as superficial and dumb as they may be. at the very least, after spending a year of fucking around with her, he DOES owe it to her to just say "I don't want to do this with you anymore, I'm moving on from this so you need to do the same."

ofc it was in no way appropriate for y/n to make digs at boyoung buttttt I don't necessarily think she was wrong for trying to call san out on his shit in front of her. I get she's hurt and angry and didn't know how to respond other than being nasty to an undeserving girl, but it was fucked up. but san was soooo fucked up for what he said. he could have gotten his point across without saying all that shit. I just think he's the most selfish asshole in existence I don't care what his past or excuses are at this point lol like he knew what he was doing to y/n the whole time, and all the other girls, and he's a piece of crap for that.

idk that's all!!! i guess my point is I hate san in this story 😂

also, thank you for taking your time to write such incredible stories and sharing them with us! I'm always looking forward to your work :)

here i go acting as San's Defense Squad and its very hard bc i have nothing to defend him with.

basically he didnt want to be the one to tell her that its over bc he knew she'd be hurt and he didnt want to be the bad guy so instead he was keeping it away hoping she'd get the gist of it on her own😭 which she did but instead of just settling, she took it out on boyoung bc she knew she had nothing to lose anymore when it came to san so might as well try and ruin his relationship.

and san was terrible to her in the hallway bc she was terrible to boyoung, he just wanted to get back at her for hurting boyoung bc san is sort of the only one that holds some sort of power over yn since she's very into him and he knows that so he used it to hurt her.

[therealgarfield333]

2/2 blog :3

hey blog!! soo yesterday was both fun and shitty.

the a thing

so i don't know if we are, but i feel kind of like a and me are drifting apart a little bit? idk. we didn't really talk a lot this week because i went to main st after school like 3 times and the library during lunch, so we didn't see a lot of eachother to be honest.. i dont think we are drifting apart, but i want to ensure that by going to extended more next week.

the n, y and d drama

ok so i leave history class to go to the bathroom, and i see y. we walk in, talking and joking around, whatever. inside the bathroom, n is washing her hands, and y and n start talking. i'm not gonna explain it so here's the gist of what she and y said: d is ugly, she smells bad, and her make up is cakey. i was literally SHOCKED when they said this. i knew y didn't really like her and wasn't friends with her, but i did NOT expect n to say all that! first of all, n literally called d her best friend and her sister from another mother.. THEN SHE TURNS AROUND AND CALLS HER UGLY AND SMELLY? crazy. second of all, i dont know what the hell y is talking abt calling her ugly when y LITERALLY HAD THE FATTEST CRUSH ON HER last year! when i mentioned this, she was like "ok well that was LAST YEAR!" girll... and third of all, they were LYING. d is one of the prettiest girls at the school. also, i hang out with her all the time and she doesn't smell bad... honestly i don't know why they were just making shit up. if n said something like "yeah she's ignoring me and was talking about me behind my back, so i don't like her anymore" i would be fine with that, but they were just talking shit and lying.. like that's boring im sorry. honestly i prefer talking about the rude things people do, that's just more entertaining imo. so anyways, y and n told me not to tell her but uhh why wouldn't i.. they're dumb for that fr. i hung out with d literally all week, and i'd say we're pretty good friends, so why would they talk about her when im right there?? just say ur dumb...

anyway yea so i go back to history and my group for a project goes to the auditorium to practice our presentation, we didn't really practice bc my teacher didn't really care if we worked or not. so i bring p aside so no one can hear us, and i tell her what happened in the bathroom, and we decide to tell d. since we don't have history or spanish with d, we meet up with her at the gym like we planned and n is with her. im literally side eyeing her the WHOLE time because why are you walking with her when you literally were talking shit abt her like an hour ago?? so fake. yeah so me and p are walking d to her car and i start telling her what happened. she seemed kind of pissed, but it didn't really seem like she cared that much, she seemed kind of unbothered. im glad tbh because they were being really rude. but yeah, that's the end of the drama!! that was on thursday and we don't have school today, but i need to remind d on sunday when we go to the mall not to be acting weird around n because if she does, then n will know i told her.

main street and the basketball game

after dropping d off, me and p went to wawa!! i literally love going to main with my friends, it's so fun. i feel kind of bad tho because she paid for me again, but i don't think she minds. i definitely have to remember to pay her back. we got monsters - pipeline punch for p and ultra strawberry dreams for me -. i wanna get pipeline punch next time because i had some of hers and it was SOO GOOD!! apparently it's basic to like that flavor but i literally dont give a single shit. anyways we also got peanuts, pringles, and gummy lifesavers. i was literally so unhealthy all week so i definitely have to work out this weekend! no because i literally had four monsters this week.... on monday i had a mango loco and half of d's mango loco, on wednesday i had a mango loco and half of d's zero sugar, and then on thursday i had an ultra strawberry dreams. d is so nice for sharing her monster with me!! then we walked back to school to watch a basketball game, because p's crush is on the team. the beginning of it was really fun! we cheered on her crush and also we cheered on a guy in our grade who we call taper fade because he has a really ugly taper fade. it was so funny because his brother, who was sitting like TWO ROWS AHEAD OF US, kept looking at us like what the hell are they doing... IT WAS HILLARIOUS LMAOOO. so during half time me and p went to see if our school was selling snacks, because at another game earlier that week, they were. after, we walked into the gym and looked at where we were sitting earlier, and H WAS SITTING THERE. THE WAY MY STOMACH DROPPED. i was literally so mad because we were having such a good time and i knew she was about to ruin it. so anyway, we walk over and harmony's talking shit about someone!! what's new!! im pretty sure she was talking about m, who i'm friends with. i couldn't hear very well though, but i my mood dropped because i kept hearing snippets of the conversation and she was just being so fucking mean. a specific thing that i heard was y saying "why are you fake, just tell them that you don't like them" and she said "well if i have classes with them, it would cause drama." and it's just so dumb. like if you dont like someone, say it with ur chest. i hate j.a and r, and i tell them constantly! i was texting d about it later, and she explained it perfectly. " "

anyway, that's all for today's entry! i didn't do much today since we had an off day, so i just wanted to write about yesterday <3

[treesandwords]

Hello and happy STS! :D If your main characters were sucked into our world, The Devil Is a Part-Timer-style (i.e., dropped into our world without the resources/status they had in theirs, transformed into basically human with no powers, and the only thing they've got are the clothes on their back and their memories), how well would they fare? What would they do to survive, who's failing at adapting and how, and most importantly, who is working at McDonald's?

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST QUESTION AND I'M SORRY I DIDN'T GET AROUND TO IT EARLIER!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok so I'm thinking like, the Dalion family as a whole because I feel like that would be the most chaotic. Not gonna analyze every single one of them bc there are. a lot. but that's the gist of it.

Jamos would have a lot of trouble coming to terms with not being someone in power and being seen as just some guy

Laedir would probably have a bit of a breakdown at first but as long as he's got his family with him he'd get used to it and find a way to make things work

(and probably would actually thrive a lot more here ngl. Therapy?? Hello???)

I think Jerod would actually be the one to scout out the general area and figure out stuff from the people who live there

He'd probably go "well, fake it til you make it" and just pretend to the best of his ability that he does in fact know where he is and everything is perfectly normal thanks very much I was definitely born in this world and this century *dying inside*

Obsesses over maps though

Would want to know everything

Gevin would do drugs

Not even kidding he'd cope by trying to find all the many ways to piss off his dad and be Edgy in a different world so he'd mayyybe also end up starting a gang

Or an emo rock band, one of the two

Keep him away from spraypaint

I don't think Ciaran would really care at all so long as he doesn't have to live in a city

I think Bronwyn would be so relieved at the amount of options young women have compared to where she's from

She'd probably try to go to college immediately

(Which would require...a *lot* of work seeing as she's literally not from this world and has no money or knowledge)

Esme would try a goth look just because she can

Nurei would test out different aesthetics on her to see what kind of look would be the best on them in this new world (to Esme's extreme reluctance)

She'd probably also try to start a makeup Youtube channel once she figures out what either of those things are

LOVES cottagecore

I think Nurei and her mom would be the ones to actually figure things out at the beginning, find them some kind of place to live and manage to get money somehow

...I think Cassian would end up at McDonalds lol

And he'd have so much fun honestly. He's make it a competition no one asked for to try to whip up the best burger anyone's ever seen

Also he's good at being loud

Quinnton would get really into sports, he likes the strategy aspects of it and just getting to be a littttle violent without an actual battle going on

....whoops I did the whole family like I said I wouldn't do

@blind-the-winds