#liz answers asks

[thegeminisage]

GOD the things the DS9 pilot has to say about grief....you exist here....literally I had to then explain the whole plot to my therapist after watching it the first time

(and then they go and make the visitor, one of the worst dead dad episodes of TV I've ever seen, imho)

anon from the bottom of my heart you are a REAL ONE. nobody warned me about that dead parent episode in tng and it fucked me right up. i mean, it turned me into a wesley crusher stan. i looked up the title of this one to learn when it will be and so now i'll be ready for it. i'll be Braced. prepared. thank you.

also, so true about explaining the plot of this episode to your therapist. i don't have a therapist but i did wind up explaining it in depth to a friend and then made them watch the clip on youtube with me which they agreed was nuts. ds9 did such a good fucking job. i waited to answer your ask until after i made my ds9 post, which was scheduled to go up a few minutes before this ask does, so that i didn't accidentally leave 1000000 paragraphs about it in this ask, but it quite literally gave me chills when i realized what they were saying and why. genuinely sci-fi at its fucking best. actually, i was reading the transcript for the ds9 pilot to write that update post and the transcriber doesn't normally add subjective notes, so this rare example got me:

AND HE FINALLY STARTS TO GRIEVE PROPERLY. all he's been doing for the last 3 years of his life is existing on that fucking ship. GOD!!!!!!!!!

[lenskij]

My cello teacher told me I should start listening to opera. He recommended I start with Puccini or Verdi. Are there any particular operas you'd recommend to start with?

Welcome to opera! There's drama, there's blood, there's crossdressing, vengeance, rivalries, love, and more drama!

There are as many opera opinions as there are opera listeners, and there is so much variety in opera. The most played operas are always a safe bet - there's a reason they're popular! - and it's a good place to start, pick something that tickles your fancy, maybe an intriguing synopsis or a composer you like.

If you want to start with Verdi, I recommend La Traviata and Rigoletto - both are beautiful and devastating in their tragedy. I like to listen to them when I want something familiar to bawl my eyes out at :) I think that's maybe the best place to start!

Another great "starter" opera is Bizet's Carmen. It's full of banger arias and tunes that are well-known even outside of the opera world.

If you want to check out Puccini, I'd recommend La Boheme or Tosca (with the caveat that I don't personally like Puccini operas hehe, they're just not for me).

And of course I cannot not recommend the best opera of all time (as judged by yours truly): Eugene Onegin by the one and only Tchaikovsky. I love it so much I can't even articulate why I love it. It's the inevitable tragedy caused by the characters' own actions, not from malice, but from who they are as people. It's how Tchaikovsky's music beautifully makes the drama soar. It will break your heart and you'll thank Piotr Ilyich for it!

Good luck on your opera journey! There's lots to explore. I mean, the operas listed above are all from the second half of the 19th century, which is just a narrow band of all opera history!

[exhuastedpigeon]

From the WIP tag game, I needed to ask about this one:

Timeloop x2

Ahh okay I love this fic idea so much and I talked a little about it here since I'm going to be restarting the plot/disaster once I've seen some of season 7. BUT I have one scene written that won't really change and I really like it :)

Eddie doesn’t know how he can do this day all over again.  The first loop had felt like deja vu, the second like a waking nightmare, but today's the third time he’s woken up with a start in his bunk at 3:01am. The third time he’s known their first call of the morning will be at 4:51am and that it’s going to be a two vehicle incident with no major injuries.  He lays there for a few more minutes, taking deep breaths and calming his facing heart before he swings his legs out of the bunk to get coffee. He won’t be able to sleep again, he knows that from the last two loops, but he hadn’t left the bunk room before the alarm in the last two loops so he’s changing things.  And maybe he’s not the only one changing things, because instead of being safely in his bunk like he had been in the last two loops, Buck stands when Eddie does and they silently walk out of the bunk room together. They don’t say a word as Eddie sets about making a pot of coffee. They don’t speak as Buck pulls out two mugs and adds his oat milk creamer to one and a splash of half and half to Eddie’s and a spoonful of sugar. The sugar isn’t something Eddie puts in his coffee when he makes it for himself, it’s something only Buck does, probably because he knows Eddie likes it but won’t do it for himself.  When the coffee is made, Buck hands Eddie his mug and then climbs the stairs to the roof, still without a word. Eddie follows him because there isn’t anywhere he wouldn't follow Buck.  “I’m going to say something crazy,” Buck says once they’re safely on the roof, the door propped open with a brick so they don’t get locked outside.  “I doubt you’ll sound crazier than I feel.” “I’ve lived this day already.” “Me too, this is the fourth time.” “Oh thank fuck,” Buck looks at Eddie like he’s about to cry. Eddie realizes he might be able to cry too.  He’s not alone in whatever insane hell he’s in. He’s got Buck and if he has Buck, it can’t be hell at all, can it? Because Evan Buckley wouldn’t go to hell, he’s too good, too kind, to generous to go anywhere bad in the afterlife.

wip ask game

[bcbdrums]

Do you pair Kid with either Liz or Patty? Or are they more like siblings?

i want to preface this by saying i have not read/watched SE NOT in which i know we get more backstory about these three. i have no idea what happens there, so none of that will play into my response.

i mostly see them as a found family. Kid went out looking for weapons and found some he wanted, but there's a deeper respect and regard he has for them... i'm sure it starts out simply, but Kid is the sort of person who... this might sound ironic, but he looks beyond the surface. it's weird to say because on the surface it's all about symmetry, but, the depth wtihin that is the balance of good and evil in the world... so the symmetry thing on the surface is just...manifestation of his deeper desire for all things to be balanced... so, he has his symmetrical pistols who aren't symmetrical in their human forms. part of this asymmetry about them along with...their desire to serve him to the best of their abilities... it helps stabilize him in a way, gets him thinking deeper yet. if that makes sense. and then Liz and Patty on their side of it... they see someone who could wield absolute power and doesn't abuse it. and coming from a background of hard knocks and abuse... and so they start to respect and admire him.

and like any normal relationship... they get to know each other better. the respect and admiration grows. and they truly care about each other. and idk if you'd call it sibling-like, or just...soulmates. they want to protect each other. they care for each other. it's a unique bond. ultimately, this is how they are. they're family. they'll always be there for each other.

as to any shipping... i can see a one-sided Kid/Liz that ultimately becomes a requited sitch. i can see Liz's worry for her poor neurotic meister turning into romantic feelings, feelings she would never share or act upon. because she cares about him too much. she'd never dream of putting him in an awkward place, because he comes first. always. him and Patty are first in her life, ahead of her. which is something Kid has done for her... made her look beyond herself. she was pretty selfish when they met, but she's changed because of him. and i think years down the road, not too many but...indeed years, he'd just....sort of....become aware of her romantic feelings. he'd figure it out because she'd not be able to totally hide it after so long, and he's very perceptive. and he would reciprocate her feelings in a sort of just... oh, of course i love you. sort of way. he just never considered it because he has that much honor for her (and for Patty). a sort of just...falling into place, thing.

i haven't thought too deeply about it lately. my brainrot has been, eh-heh...elsewhere. but Kid's love for his weapons, and their love for him, is something very important to me and one of my top-favorite things about the manga.

thanks for the ask!!

[thecryptidart1st]

can we Please see more of your alive au elizabeth (+ perhaps cc) im in love with her

have some Alive AU! Elizabeth

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

🌹 anal sex with Aemond 😈 ksksksksk

Or anything really lol

-targaryenrealnessdarling

Analmond it is @targaryenrealnessdarling!

This one is for @happilyhertale

"'I am yours and you are mine'," she reminds him. "Those were the vows we uttered on our wedding day."

"I remember them well," Aemond tells her, brushing his mouth against her jawline, causing her to shiver, "but I fail to see how they are relevant at this moment."

"I am yours," she urges, "every part of me is yours to possess. Every. Part."

His lips part in realisation, right eye darkening with desire. "If that is what you wish, then so be it."

[strideofpride]

I also found Blair and Dan’s relationship interesting and realistic , even cute. However…How can anyone describe this relationship as “healthy” on both sides? Blair refused to tell Dan she loved him (because she DID NOT) while it was obvious she was still in love with Chuck (which she later admits). How can a relationship be healthy if one party is longing for another? There was a clear imbalance of feelings. Also, I know this isn’t a popular opinion but I really do think Blair never stopped l

really do think Blair never stopped looking down on Jenny and Dan because of their origins .

she didn't love him bitch

Go girl, give us nothing!

For real though, I have no idea if this ask was genuine or you're just a troll, but I think there is a big difference between love and in love, and while I do think Blair still loved Chuck, I don't think she was actually in love with him anymore (and what is "I told him he didn't have my heart anymore, it belongs to someone else" if not a quasi declaration of love before Blair was actually ready to say the words) I think she was in love with Dan actually and was scared, I think she went back to Chuck because of the narrative she told herself in her head, if she doesn't win the "prize" of Chuck's commitment than what were all the years of pain for etc. etc.

s4/5 Blair absolutely did slowly stop looking down on Dan, that was like...a huge part of her arc those seasons (re: Jenny, I always felt it was less that she looked down on Jenny but more that she saw a lot of her own cunning in Jenny and was very threatened by that) but you know s6 pulled an uno reverse card and c/hair fan girls got to claim that Blair being a mean girl bully again was somehow her returning to herself rather than a character regression so fine whatever

[uncertainwallflower]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love

Ask and you shall be rewarded. In order of rough title length:

BETWEEN THE DESIRE AND THE SPASM

Jily. Multiple chapters. Rated ‘Mature.’

Trains are arguably the centre of everything. The sinew of civilisation for muggles and wizards alike. They are where all walks of life converge. Congregate. In synchronised traversal. Shared agony inflicted by the piercing screech of metal on metal, bonding all patrons aboard a carriage. And outside. A passing glimpse of someone you thought you’d never see again. Trains. They change everything.

TO LIVE WITHOUT A HEART

Jily. Multiple chapters. Rated ‘Mature.’

James wasn’t home that night. It was the one decent thing Peter did, and James hated him for it.

ANGUISH & ANCHORAGE

Jily. Microfic. Rated ‘Teen And Up Audiences.’

James finds a vulnerable Lily after she receives distressing news: a ficlet.

THE VIRTUE OF SHARING

Jily. Microfic. Rated ‘General Audiences.’

James prefers the Gryffindor common room armchairs over the loveseat. That is until he finds himself sharing one with Lily Evans and his whole perspective changes: a ficlet.

BEETLE-BROWED BOY

Jily. Microfic. Rated ‘Explicit.’

Being properly loved was not something Lily was accustomed to…until James: a ficlet.

(This was really hard, especially whittling down from eight to five.)

[fawn-eyed-girl]

For the writers truth and dare ask game😊

🪲,🍄,🪐,🎱,🏜️

Liz HELLO! Thank you so so much for the ask!

Let's see...

🎱: I try not to follow Ao3 stats too much, but I'll give you the one I'm most proud of

Word count: 3,271,798

With a goal to get to 4 million by the end of 2024!! We'll see if I can get there 💖

🏜️: my favorite type of comment: any comment that likes my work is my favorite! 😅 it's always nice to know someone is reading and appreciating

🪐: Three good things in my life right now... It's almost spring break 🫠 my kiddo got a good part in a play, and...the Haikyuu movie is doing amazingly well (although I wish I could fly to Japan to see it!)

🍄: Headcanons:

InuKag: Inuyasha loves to watch Kagome when he thinks she's not looking, but she totally knows he's watching her. She just...lets him think he's being sneaky 😅

BKDK: After the war, Katsuki and Izuku are basically inseparable. They try to sleep apart in their dorms, but one of them always shows up at the other's door at like 2am because nightmares are keeping them awake. Aizawa begrudgingly lets them share a dorm room because they're just impossible otherwise, and thus begins a new era where they're even more impossible, because they're attached to each other all of the time 😅

🪲: sooo I have a bunch of things I can't show yet, because they're for zines or events or other things, BUT I do have a little snippet of something I am working on for @takaobata that is part of our Inuyasha space AU that I am very happy to share! I've included it below the cut ⤵️

Thanks so much for the questions! These were fun to answer 💖

From the Writers Truth and Dare Ask Game

The flashing lights and high-pitched wails from the alarms fill Inuyasha’s eyes and ears as he races down the corridor. His half-demon hearing picks up on the voices of the enemy, infiltrating his ship from every corner, and he knows his time is short.

It’s not himself he worries for; he doesn’t care if he’s caught, if he lives, or if he dies.

But the precious item in his pocket…

He reaches the escape pod room and, frantically, punches in the code. The door shoots open, and he tears inside, stumbling to the nearest pod. He opens it and, with shaking hands, places the pouch he’s been carrying in his pocket all this time in the secret compartment only he and one other person in the galaxy know exists. 

He doesn’t necessarily believe in the gods and all that nonsense, but he says a quick prayer anyway. 

The coordinates he enters into the pod’s computer are ones he hopes are still accurate. Because if not…

He steps away; the door to the pod seals, and within seconds, it jettisons down the launch chute to be shot off into space. 

This better work, he thinks desperately. It’s our only hope.

[sailor-aviator]

VALENTINES DAY WITH JAKE?!?!?!?

Yes!!! It's for @ohtobeleah and her Galentine's Day Challenge!! I'm using the song "Marry Me" by Train!!

[lackadaisicallizard]

regulus should be reduced to being james fuck toy at this point that’s all he’s good for and his character only matters when he’s james partner and sirius brother

Who hurt you anon?

[thegeminisage]

as someone who wasn't around in 2014....can you tell me what it was like? (stucky) can you give me a taste of the gardens of babylon etc

what was it like...this is such a fun question i want you to know i gave serious thought to my answer and also discussed it at length with my 2014 friend last night and i know already it's gonna be so long. sorry that i answered your ask at fuck o clock in the morning i am scheduling it to go up later and also at the time you sent the ask in to make sure you see it

ok so like. i mean, you're on the fandom website, right, so i assume youve been in fandoms. idk if youve ever been in a really, REALLY big fandom, at the same time that said fandom was also producing content (even if the source material was not). think d*stiel post nov 5, or undert*le circa late 2015/early 2016, or z*lda after totk came out, or h*rry p*tter as the seventh book was being released. (i'm censoring to avoid a false positive of anybody's blacklist except in the case of the last one, which i am censoring out of <3 disrespect.) like there's something REALLY luxurious about being in ANY large and active fandom and it's mostly the power of crowdsourcing. st*r tr*k 2009's tarsus iv headcanons. the storm trooper lore re: the f*rce awakens before the second two movies came out. everyone just kind of agreeing that dean w*nchester was a teenage hooker. you know?

like, that's "just fanon," sure, but part of the beauty of it is that no one person makes up fanon, we all gather in the biggest writing group in the world and collectively go insane and bat ideas back and forth. there are a hundred THOUSAND fics about bucky barnes on ao3 and that's just the people who were writing, not even counting artists and gifmakers and meta-writers and people who just reblog stuff. i can't possibly begin to put an accurate number to how many people are in any given fandom at any given time, but imagine (on the low end, i'm sure) there are THOUSANDS, perhaps tens of thousands, of people going nuts about stevebucky at all times. tens of THOUSANDS people doing "yes and" with each other on the internet 24 hours a day seven days a week. it's just like being in any fandom, you log on to your dash and see what the mewchies posted while you were gone, but in a fandom so huge and so active you were getting bombarded with idea after idea after idea every single second, so if you don't like one you're spoiled for choice in what you engage with next. it didn't even matter that cap3 was two years away or that it sucked when it finally got here because we collectively wrote cap3 a million times over. like, genuinely, it was a mass creative exercise. it's the biggest writing group in the world. for better or worse, we were shaping our own version of that universe, without any input from or regard to the people who actually created the characters and movie, in a way that compelled most strongly to our own tastes and demographic.

what made this particular movie/fandom special though was a few things. firstly i still genuinely believe it was ahead of its time...marvel shit pre disney was allowed to be political in ways it is ABSOLUTELY not now. like, cap2 could say "the government is secretly full of nazis and they all need to burn" in 2014 two years before the 2016 election and 7 years before jan 6. like you just couldn't say that now. "war bad" is an oldie but goodie, but "our entire government is corrupt and needs to be torn into flaming pieces and cast into the potomac" is um. pretty radical. so is, by the way, "men as victims" and "men having emotions" etcetc. like, not in fandom, fandom all but invented that shit, but as far as dumb superhero movies go. i can't tell you the number of metas i read AND WROTE discussing steve rogers and masculinity and how all that was portrayed, intentionally or not, in that fucking film. i had entire separate universes built up in my head for steve who was born a cis girl and steve who decided later in life that "nonbinary" or "trans woman" was a better fit and then steve who was born as a cis boy and remained a man his whole life but felt weird and different ways about being queer which clashed with the weird and different ways BARNES felt about being queer. i'm not saying the film (or the fandom! good lord) was perfect, it was a product of its time, but it was also WAY ahead of its time too. it was weird to expect the next film to come out and actually, like, be good. it wasnt, but we fully believed it would be and that wasn't delusional behavior because the last one had been. i would never have that kind of faith in a marvel project now because they've been bought by disney.

oh yeah and that's the other thing too like. speaking of queer people. gay marriage wasn't legal in the US on a federal level until 2015, and you couldn't just flip on your TV and see them whenever you wanted. ten years doesn't seem like that long ago in the grand scheme of things but like, we lived on glee and cw/mtv queerbait (disclaimer that i personally only participated in cw queerbait) and that was it. we had crumbs. and like when people write gay characters theyre Just Gay, but if you decide to be crazy stupid in a slash fandom you can decide these layered characters are gay and that's even better rep than um whatever was going on in other pieces of media. these guys are both so lonely and out of step with time and lack other people with "shared life experiences" (girl what the hell was that) and their connection w each other keeps them afloat in a world that doesn't want them so like of COURSE it seems like it's supposed to be romantic. and like, i could and did make myself and my tumblr buds crrrazy (and got made crazy by them) thinking about:

how steve's size when small and again when big interacted w his gender identity and his sexuality and how that sexuality manifested. barnes's identity As A Man hinging on his ability to go to war for his country bc Thats What Men Did but now he's no longer fit because theres worms in his brain. loss of bodily autonomy which usually happens to women and natasha being later in that journey than steve and bucky are and so close to being at peace with it but not there yet. stigmatization of seeking treatment for mental health issues lessened by the presence of sam who could have been a Macho Tough Guy but actually gives off strong Talk About Our Feelings And Be Soft vibes. don't even get me started on the relationship (predatory) between steve and rumlow and how it parallels the one between barnes and pierce (and if any of you motherfuckers BREATHE a word of that h*dra tr*sh p*rty shit in my direction i will END you) and the stigma that comes from being preyed on when vulnerable As Men. steve's depression and ptsd and him getting triggered by, yes, the fucking ALS ice bucket challenge. the collective belief that he was conscious when he was frozen even though nobody said that so that he and barnes could have that in common too. the headcanon about barnes having roma heritage - shoutout to not easily conquered my beloved, and the 14k smut coda i wrote for it✌ speaking of smut, i would be remiss also not to mention there was a STRONG element of collective lust involved. i'm immune to 99% of it bc im ace but the winter soldier was uh. VERY graceful. you know? i didn't write 14k of porn because i was uncompelled. we were on one. we went fucking crazy. fandom in general but especially big fandoms have a kind of nonstop endless well of creative energy born from obsession that is the absolute envy of people like my mortal enemy grrm. we NEVER quit.

also, HISTORY (and other vaguely educational subjects). we were all so desperate to know how steve and bucky would have lived in the years we couldn't see them it sparked a sitewide interest in 1940s american history. there was a thing about bananas tasting different now because of a plague. m&ms being invented as wartime candy. stuff about how shoebox apartments looked and how rations worked. 1940s recipes and radio shows. the 1940s queer movement and how it interacted with ballroom dancing and private drag get-togethers. how amputations work and how prosthetic limbs work in real life so we could extrapolate it to fantasy. how to hand-draw that fucking arm in photoshop. why soldiers are trained to say their serial numbers when captured. what ww2 was like. what dog tags are for. what did they get in the ration packs. what brand of cigarettes did they smoke. what brand (and i am being so serious, i STILL own a tube) of LIPSTICK did peggy carter use. caloric intake of someone with a 4x speed metabolism and how much famine peanut butter he'd need to eat daily to keep from starving to death. oppression of irish immigrants and their children/grandchildren back in the 1940s. the difference between conservatives and fascists, back when there was a difference. what activities generally took place on these mysterious but ever-present new york city docks. just exactly HOW many terrible movies and tv shows has sebastian stan been in ranked by his resemblance to james buchanan barnes in each one. (i personally went through his entire imdb list at the time and then made a venn diagram.) electroswing! teachers and professors would have killed for their classes to have the kind of enthusiasm a bunch of mentally ill teenagers and 20-somethings on tunglr dot edu were showing about this one very specific set of subjects. this film also sparked my love of fight scenes. if you've read this fic or this fic and liked the Big Fight Scenes in them, you can thank cap2 for leading me down that path.

and then yes there was also discourse. my personal most hated thing was the above mentioned h*dra tr*sh p*rty (DO NOT GOOGLE THAT, i will just tell you it's nazi rape porn🤢 and i hope everyone involved is having a bad day today) and also the fact that SOME FUCKING PEOPLE can't understand "don't be shitheads about a fanfic where the author can see you doing it." but then ofc people were also sexist about nat and racist about sam and minimalizing those guys (and every other character besides tony really but sometimes him too) for the two white male leads was a whole thing. and on the funnier side of things you had (justifiably, i suppose) bitter st*ny fans who HATED what those two got in avengers and got real mad when stucky started outpacing them on ao3. and people complaining about the characters being too uwu soft. and then other people arguing whether or not barnes counted as disabled when he was missing a Whole arm. and THEN discourse about was it ethical to remove the arm and build him a new one ESPECIALLY without his consent (if people don't know they're being ableist in their fanfics hypothetically is it still ok to kill them with hammers?) and why was tony doing it if that guy killed his parents and is it ok that we keep making tony not that mad about his dead parents is it not enough that barnes stole his limelight as the guy who gets shipped with steve but what if all three of them fucked but can you really fuck the guy who offed your folks but ACTUALLY isn't it cringe to like tony anyway since RDJ and gwenyth paltrow are bad people and who says chris evans are sebastian stan are such good people etcetcetc. and let us not even get started on the plausibility of the avengers tower fanon after age of ultron came out and it turns out nobody became friends and they all still hated and mistrusted each other. and whether or not the avengers could be considered found family if the other characters were constantly getting shafted into being barnes's little support animals. and then ofc every once in awhile one of the actors of people involved creatively would say something ranging from mildly controversial to absolutely horrible on the internet and we'd all fight about THAT for awhile like a dog with a bone. i mean. typical infighting of any fandom tbh.

but i was very happy. it was all the most enormous thought experiment and creative endeavor (and semi-educational adventure??) that we all participated in daily for like two-ish years without stopping ever. i loved doing it. AND, when you click with a piece of media like that, you also click with other people who clicked with that same piece of media, so in addition to the sheer level of dopamine going into my brain at all times i also formed decade-long friendships that will certainly last the entirety of my lifetime, and when we're in our 90s in nursing homes i will be able to say, "we are friends because i wrote 14k of smut for your fanfic" or "we are friends because i couldn't get enough of your gifsets" or whatever because you know, we quite literally went to stucky together.

[mrkis]

bby….u should be sleeping…

[pealeii]

Please tell me about your favourite species of shark :)

OMG AND THANK YOU SO MUCH

Okay there are so many guys that are amazing but Cookie Cutter Sharks don’t get enough love.

Little guy. How they got their name is their way of getting food. They will latch onto creatures larger than them, and swivel their jaw so they get a perfectly round bit of flesh to eat. The animals don’t even notice. So you’ll find tuna fish and larger sharks with dozens of these little circles of flesh gone. What a guy! And look at his lil eyes.

And I hope you’ve heard of Goblin Sharks. The guys of all time. They can be pink. They live deeper in the ocean. They eat food like this:

Ooh I love em.

And! Epaulette Sharks!! Omg!! They have adapted so they can conserve oxygen OUTSIDE of water. And they have such strong fins they can WALK! Lookit!! Lookit them walking!!

[bcbdrums]

📂 For the headcanon ask do you have any DeathStar headcanonss?

ahhhh well.... nnnoooooooo can't say i really think about them in a shippy way. i see them as an epic brotp.

i am 99.9% sure i stole this HC from @midnightcaptions (so you should ask her) but i think Black Star ends up being VERY long-lived, past a normal human life-span, and he very much stays by Kid's side. cantankerous old ninja man being self-appointed personal bodyguard and annoyance to Shinigami, with his li'l adopted witch daughter right there to harass him to take his vitamins and he argues that he doesn't need them, he's already a god, and Kid just like oh my gosh how many hundreds of years do i gotta listen to you bicker with your daughter just take the vitamins. and everyone else they've known and loved has long passed, so they're the only two left... and Kid will far surpass Black Star despite his surpassing a human. and Black Star is the only one who calls Shinigami 'Kid' anymore, and it's nostalgic...

yeah you should ask my friend she's definitely got a lot more for this. but when it comes to shipping i'm Black Star/Tsubaki all the way and Kid either remains unattached romantically, content with his found family, OR i am highly partial to Kid/Liz but i'm... man i'm probably...60% found fam, 40% Kid/Liz, as far as that goes.

sorry i couldn't give you more of what you wanted, but, thanks for the ask!!!

[solange-lol]

I'm writing to suggest a new category for the Solangelo Fic Awards: "Background Solangelo." This category would recognize stories where Solangelo isn't the central focus but significantly enriches the narrative. Many such fics offer a unique perspective on the pairing. By introducing this category, we would not only celebrate the depth and versatility of the Solangelo pairing but also encourage writers to explore their diverse aspects. Your thoughts on this proposal would be appreciated.

my hesitancy with adding a background solangelo fic is 1) its gonna be sooo much to sort through if we add them not as the main couple 2) rules get fuzzy for how much a background pairing actually counts as background, like if theyre allowed to be offhandedly mentioned or if they have to be the main supporting characters, etc etc. also generally the point is the highlight solangelo as the main couple.

this is coming from someone who loooves having my fave pair as a background ship, sometimes even more than i love them as the main pairing, so im sure at somepoint ill make a fic rec list or something to highlight it but overall it doesnt feel like something i can handle being in the fic awards at the moment

i appreciate how much youve thought about this though, and im glad youre enjoying the fic awards!! thank you for your suggestion!