#frak it i can't tag them all

[onelegmissing]

Grease Live! (2016)

In terms of the music, there’s no contest. The songs in this TV stage adaptation range from okay to atrocious, and the opening theme is unfortunately the worst by far. But “Grease Live!” makes up for that by doing so much more with the characters and story than the film version does. 

The entire cast is great, giving their own spins on the characters. My only complaint is that the T-Birds are hard to tell apart at times, due to all having such similar hair and coats in this version. 

In this version, Sandy has ultra-controlling parents. Thus, her bad-girl makeover at the end comes off more like her own choice, rather than giving into peer pressure. Danny is also considerably more likable, bar his big lie at the beach, which gives Sandy more of a reason to be upset when they reunite at Rydell. 

THAT FRIGGIN DINER ! 

Cameo! 

Marty is arguably the biggest improvement in this version. In the 1978 version I found her to be the least interesting or memorable character. Keke Palmer gives Marty her own swag. Though she also has the unfair advantage of getting to sing Marty’s one solo “Freddie My Love,�� deleted from the movie version.

Vanessa Hudgens’ father died the night before “Grease Live” premiered--live--on TV. But she performed phenomenally as Rizzo.  

Eugene plays a more significant role in this version, not the least of which contributes to making Danny more likable than in the movie. 

If you’re a Rizzo/Kenickie fan, this version is definitely worth checking out. She comes to Thunder Road, this time. 

“Beauty School Dropout,” sadly, is another point against this version. Not the least because you can barely hear the singers!

Just a funny pause. Caption at your leisure. 

I love how this version ties Kenickie’s head-injury into his plotline with Rizzo. And I also love the face of that one guy on the right (Sonny I think?) 

Danny’s reaction to Sandy’s makeover. 

If you love “Grease,” give this version a shot...even if you have to skip through some of the music numbers. 

[caitylove]

20 questions for fic writers

I was tagged by @holy-ships-x-red-lips! Thank you so much for the tags. You have given me a lovely way to procrastinate right now. :)

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? Only 16, but there are also fics out there on LJ that I was too lazy (or were just too bad) to find on the group events I posted on and port over. There are also some other ff.net fics on another account that I forgot about, but were from when I was in high school so totally not bringing those over either.

2. What's your total Ao3 word count? 78,839. I expect that to drastically change once I start publishing my one long wip...

3. What fandoms do you write for? Currently I mostly write Battlestar Galactica (spaceparents ftw) and some The Closer/Major Crimes (I'm a Brenda/Sharon heathen. ) But in the past I wrote for Rizzoli and Isles and Grey's Anatomy. There's also some X-files fic out there and a CSI one somewhere.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Caffeine (Rizzoli & Isles): What happens when Maura consumes an excessive amount of caffeine?

So major note this fic is literally like 12 years old. And super short. And honestly not good lol.

Break All The Rules For You (The Closer/Major Crimes): Sharon Raydor has a list of rules she lives her life by. But Brenda Leigh Johnson very might be the catalyst for her to break each and every one.

This is actually my current active posting WIP. I'm amused it got so many kudos so fast. Guess I'm not the only heathen out there. :)

Frak Me Red (Battlestar Galactica): Wanting Laura to feel good about herself, Bill finds her the perfect gift and they spend an exciting weekend away on shore leave aboard Cloud 9.

Part of my Cosmetics Series. This was a blast and like 70% pure smut.

Pain Management (Battlestar Galactica): Dealing with pain during her cancer treatments, Laura is suggested an unorthodox treatment plan.

This was actually my first fic back after a ten year writing hiatus... :) Never let anyone tell you that you can't return after a long time away.

Spray and Stay (Battlestar Galactica): Laura has a secret addiction that is slowly running out and she can't help but show off her addiction to Bill.

The first part of my Cosmetics Series. Also 50% smut. :)

5. Do you respond to comments? Absolutely. So, I work from home and like responding to them instead of working sometimes.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? So I don't have a ton of angst honestly. So I guess the ending of Auburn Sunsets, Starlit Nights (Battlestar Galactica) is the angstiest? (Or meanest?)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? So like 80% of my stuff is smut... so they all have HAPPY ENDINGS. *snicker*. But I guess I'll go with Frak Me Red ?

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not really. Probably did on some of my old FF.net stuff but don't care enough to go back and look.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes. Like thats half of what I write. :)

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? Not in a long time. But once upon a time I wrote a Grey's Anatomy Zombie fic that had a Doctor House appearance. Its somewhere on LJ. It was BAD, but I am so tempted to find it now for my own amusement.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I am aware of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope. Feel free to reach out if you want to tho.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, but definitely open to it.

14. What's your all time favorite ship? So probably Bill/Laura(Spaceparents) from BSG. But Also have a soft spot for Sharon/Brenda (The Closer), MSR (The X-Files), Swan Queen, Janeway/Chakotay, Femshep/Garrus, to name a few.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Love Games. My 12 year old the Closer fic I never finished. May rewrite it one day but I will never just finish it as it exists today.

16. What are your writing strengths? I like to think I do a lot of emotional introspection well. And Smut. I can do smut.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Honestly, I struggle with dialogue.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? As long as its translated or explained, I'm fine with it. Probs would never do it, cause my language skills suck, but wouldn't mind reading.

19. First fandom you wrote for? CSI! I wrote a Grissom/Sara fic back in the day. I was in like High School.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Thats like asking me my favorite children! My favorite is one I am still writing and haven't published yet, The Symposium of the Stars. One day it'll make an appearance.

But for published? I really loved Auburn Sunsets, Starlit Nights. I have a soft spot for it.

Tagging: @lavenderknivess, @mimine666, @madelineusherspearls. @ofhouseusher, @cryscal, @fracktastic, and anyone else who feels like it :)

[justonemorewallflower]

WIP Title Ask Meme

Prompt: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I have so many WIPs so I'm not going to tag for all of them, but I'll tag some people: @caitylove @hazzyking @madamairlock @machetesquirrel @anotherbluesunday @writerrose1998 @broken-everlark @wincestation @alexismusictrek @allatariel @curioussubjects (so sorry if any of you don't want to be tagged, just lmk if you want me to take you off and I will)

I have my fandom wips separated so I'll separate them here too, down to just the 3 fandoms I'm still most active in. I'm not going to put WIP titles from like 4 years ago lol

Feel free to ask specifics about whatever titles intrigue you also! Like if you specifically want a snippet from it or are curious of it's word count, etc.

Stranger Things:

- Irremediable

- Crossing Paths

- Still Here

- Fingers Crossed

- Ruin My Life

- La Douleur Exquise

- Halfway Happy

- Safe Haven

Wednesday:

- Before I Ruin You

- Connected

- Intrigue

- Let's Get Out Of This Town

- The Unexpected Tutor

- That Was The Plan All Along

- Wednesday's Search For Life

Battlestar Galactica:

- All On Paper

- Baltar, Teller Of Secrets

- Bet

- Close Enough?

- Coping Just Barely

- Could Only Be Your Name

- Damsel in Distress

- Doc Sees All

- Dreams Come True

- Empty Threat

- Familiar

- Fix Things

- Flight (Fight) School

- Forced Surrender

- God's Worst Angel

- Haven't Died Yet

- Leoben's Frakked Up Idea of Kara Thrace's Destiny (or Against All Odds)

- Limits of Solidarity

- Living Nightmare

- Lockets

- Make Up Your Mind

- Nightmare

- Passengers

- Selfish

- Shot In The Heart

- Sneaking Out of Heaven

- Stop Running

- Strangled

- The Broken Pieces That Can't Be Fixed

- The Journey To Life

- The Letter That Wasn't Meant To Be Read

- The Start of Something?

- Thrill of Possibility

- Time and Tide

- Whatever the Opposite of Jealous Is

- You've Really Done It This Time

[femmefighter]

On the topic of fics and the need to feed our authors. I legit have been away from fandom for like...7 years? And I can't figure out if making fic rec posts on Tumblr is still a thing, or if it's now....frowned upon?

Used to be that people would make a list of their fave fics, or of fics all in one category, tag the authors on Tumblr, and it was awesome.

It was great for finding new fics AND for the author. Coming across one of those lists with your name on it...ahhh....there was nothing like it!!! 😍😍

Ugh, I am the wrooooong person to ask stuff like that about.

I love sharing fics I love, especially the small rare-pair fics or ones that are just SO well written, with great charaterisations and storylines etc, but I'm only new to Tumblr/fandom and only recently got my AO3 account properly. The only ones I see get much circulations are the ones I look at as the 'cool kids', be it they have their feet well-placed/well-earned within the fandom. Or because the authors update and reshare them frequently. Or because they're about a bigger, more embraced/celebrated ship. I dunno.

The only way I think I've managed to show up anywhere is because I've flooded the Sokabine tag to the annoyance of others (not hard to do when not much other work is appearing in it, but then not many people are looking there either).

So whether it's a 'thing' or not, or if it's 'not cool' anymore or not, I have no frakking idea. I've never been cool for a moment in my life, and I'm only just leaning back into the idea of "fuck what everyone else thinks, do what is right for you."

So if that's what you want to do, DO IT! Maybe you can make your own blog about fic recs, or just do it on this one. I'm flattered I managed to be on one of those lists you found, but potentially I was only there because I've made myself so irritatingly loud in some places I can't be ignored 🙈

[onthewaytosomewhere]

Ficlet Friday

tagged by tailsbeth-writes and I do luv me a tag game - thanks luv. 🙂💚

The Rules: Copy the following prompts or make your own, post what fandoms you write for & your followers can request one of the prompts with a ship, character or fandom for a ficlet. Have fun!

I'm gonna be on the road driving all day but will be stopping at points. Send me requests plz so I can do some noodling while I drive through boring states and can make the hubby listen to my ideas and possibly take notes so I can write them btwn things this weekend. Unfortunately I can't guarantee how quickly you'll get them due to that travel - but ya will. 😜

ok fandoms - I'm currently writing in RWRB (and holy frak am I happy the hubby will be driving the first bit of the drive so I can be flailing like the silly fan girl I am) and have been thinking about dipping my feet in 911 so why not now lol.

I'm willing to pretty much do whatever pairing you can think of and these prompts are wonderful so plz send me something cuz these prompts are so wonderful 💚

This week's prompts are dialogue:

1. 'I leave you alone for five minutes...'

2. 'Shut up and eat your noodles.'

3. 'Tell me anything. Everything.'

4. 'God, you're fucking delectable.'

5. 'Of course I'm upset!'

6. 'What is it going to take for you to realise I'm in love with you?

7. 'Say yes. You deserve it.'

8. 'I don't want to admit how turned on I am by that...'

open tag for anyone who may wanna join in!💚🙂

[unlimitedhearts]

In re: Apple Frakking Tumblr Over

OKAY So ever since the Tumblr announcement over Apple's TOS for the app staying on the AppStore, I've been seeing so many posts spreading so much information AND misinformation.

If you haven't seen the post, click here, but basically it boils down to Apple's TOS for what Apps can and can't exist on the AppStore are pretty damn draconian. Famously Discord had to disallow ios app users from entering Not Safe For Work/Mature servers. Discord also put in a work-around to this but I'll get to that. Anyway, those TOS Apple's put in place are now affecting tumblr.

Misinfo #1: Tumblr is deliberately making the app experience unusable - False

Tumblr is doing what Apple is telling them to do. Apple is the one making the iOS version of the app unusable. Not tumblr. Although their enforcement of Apple's wants is rather obnoxious this isn't tumblr's fault. It's Apple's. Direct your ire to Apple, not tumblr, because this is directly their doing.

Misinfo #2: Tags have been ganked. - Well yes, but actually no.

It's true tags are borped on the iOs app BUT!!! "Banned tags" work just fine in the web version of tumblr, or the Android app. All the tags I've seen in the "banned tags" lists going around work just fine on my phone (I have android) or on my laptop. THE TAGS ALSO WORK FINE ON THE BROWSER ON MY IPAD. That's right, easy way to get around iOS shennangannery? Use the Tumblr website. It looks (and runs) just like the app. There are even other features on the website that aren't on the app. So if you're an iOS user frustrated by how the tumblr app now works, log in on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, literally any internet web browser, and boom bam. Your original tumblr experience is back. Original bugs and all. Screenshot below of my android phone, and the tumblr website being able to access "banned tags." Also a screenshot of the post from the wip tumblr saying that experiences on Android and the website will not be affected.

Misinfo #3: Tumblr's doing nothing to combat the ultra-censorship on their iOS app - Maybe

In their post, staff said they're working on a work-around. They left details pretty vague, as is staff's wont, but they aren't exactly out of options. This is where I get back to what Discord did when Apple did the same thing to them. Essentially you would have to go onto Discord on your laptop and allow access to not safe for work servers on iOS. It's a setting only found in the laptop/desktop version of discord. (see screenshot for proof) I believe Tumblr is probably working on something similar. To allow users to have the original experience by going through the website. For now you still have the browsers on your phone. Also screenshotted, where staff said in their post they're working on a workaround.

All this to say, you guys need to stop freaking out. Yes, tumblr is broken, tumblr's been broken for a hot minute, but you know what? This latest censorship dirge is not tumblr's fault. It's apples. And there are workarounds, pretty piss easy workarounds like using your browser instead of your app. It's not even that much more difficult. I know this is frustrating, but being reactionary and spreading misinformation isn't going to do anything but harm people who are looking for solutions.