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Um... How about the Flags + Rimbraud and Verlaine with a s/o who plays the violin but is very shy about it so they walk in on them practicing? If you don't feel comfortable with this, feel free to ignore it! Have an amazing day and awesome rest of your week my dear friend!

YOOOOO I LOVE THIS REQUEST SO MUCH!! AND VIOLIN? ONE OF MY FAV INSTRUMENTS?!! HECK YEAH (lmao sorry for my energetic mood I'm just happy)

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TW: Slight mentions of death

The Flags + Rimlaine who walks in on S/O playing the violin

Pianoman:

-This man is an artist and you cannot tell me otherwise. When he walked in on you practising, he was actually kind of surprised, but afterwards a smile forms his face

-You were very good at violin, so let's say that you were practicing Paganini's 'La Campanella'. When Pianoman walked in, you literally squeaked and was immediately going to apologise for not telling him, but he was looking at you with a lot of admiration and curiosity in his eyes

-Who knew that his beloved s/o could play the violin? Pianoman is very interested in the instrument, because I feel like he likes music as well. Definitely asks you questions about the violin and your experience of playing it

-Tell him all the random facts about the violin! He would love to hear it from you, and it makes him even more interested in the instrument. Teach him how to play it! He would love to learn it, and don't worry, he will never drop your violin because he's way too elegant for that

-He has jokingly asked one time if he could use violin strings to replace his wires. Slap him. Hard. (and fyi violin strings normally aren't strong enough to behead someone lol)

-Loves listening to you play. I feel like his favourite piece would either be Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D or Mozart's Violin Concerto No.5

-But if you were practicing too much, Pianoman will make you take a break. He'd hate to see you overworking yourself, and the calluses on your fingers pains him. Would delicately massage your left hand if the piece you played was too intense

-Oh and if he ever dares to use violin strings as his weapon, slap him very hard for me. But he wouldn't dare to do it because it's an insult to art plus I would slap him myself loool

Albatross:

-When he walked in, he was immediately star-struck by your lovely playing. Definitely goes all 'Y/N!! You could play the violin? Why didn't you tell me it's so cool!!' while you were going slightly red from the embarrassment

-His energetic personality erases all embarrassment from you, because he thinks that your violin playing is the coolest. Definitely brags about you to the Flags, and asks you a lot of questions on the violin

-Now Albatross would actually ask you to teach him how to play the violin. Even though he does bounce around a lot and nearly drops the instrument a lot of times, he won’t actually drop it because he’s good with his hands (fixing vehicles requires hand dexterity) But please be aware of where he puts the violin, because sometimes it can end up dropping to the floor or being sat on

-Loves to hear you play. Albatross probably prefers pop songs, but who said that he didn’t like a good old classical piece every now and then? If you play him Zigeunerweisen or Erlkönig he will love it

-If you’re insecure about your violin playing skills, he will give you lots of encouragement and love to make you feel better

-Albatross would buy a violin as well so that he could play a duet with you when his skills are good enough. I recommend the Bach concerto for 2 violins in D minor. Also please educate him on what type of violin is best for him, because he might buy than expensive asf violin that doesn’t even suit his playing lmao

-Might even make Chuuya listen to his violin playing. Please save Chuuya’s ears because they will be bleeding by the end of it xD

Doc:

-Doc might tilt his head in curiosity when he walks in on you playing. I feel like he hasn’t listened to a lot of music due to his busy career as a doctor, so hearing an in-person soloist-level violin playing is very refreshing and nice for him

-He would ask you a lot of questions about the violin, perhaps even ask you to teach him. Feel free to do so, but please keep your lessons shorter than an hour... because I feel like Doc doesn’t have enough stamina to stand while playing the violin for that long

-He will treat you if you get injuries from violin playing. Even if it was just a mere callouse, Doc is still insistent on treating it, and plus I know you secretly love his touch. But that one time when you practiced a bit too much and cut yourself on the violin strings... Doc hid the violin from you until your fingers healed it was under his bed lmao

-Loves listening to your playing as well. Whenever he feels stressed, sick, or just any negative emotion in general, he will sit down and listen to the wonderful melody coming out from your bow. Play some Paganini or Shostakovich and he will fall in love with you more

-Watch TwoSetViolin with him!!! I headcanon he secretly is a Twosetter, and also a Ling Ling wannabe. Doc will definitely practice 40 hours a day if he could

-When you played him a piece on his birthday, I swear that you could’ve heard his heart beat all the more for you

Iceman:

-He didn’t show that much of an outward reaction when he walked in. Probably a slight raise of his eyebrows, but he was pretty chill about it overall

-Would slightly question on why you hid this skill from him, but he isn’t mad! Just a bit curious, that’s all

-Iceman will comfort you if you were feeling embarrassed and guilty of hiding your ability to play the violin from him. He’s literally the most patient guy and it takes a lot for him to get mad

-Literally just wants you to be as comfortable as you can... he even volunteers to step out of the room if you wanted to practice your violin in peace. Hug him

-Wouldn’t really ask, but he would love it if he could listen to you play your violin. It’s canon that Iceman likes listening to his old records, but that doesn’t mean that he dislikes listening to anything else! Play him some nice and calming music, like Meditation by Jules Massenet

-Could listen to you talk about the violin all day. Iceman would never judge or criticise your passion for your instrument, and your passion makes him even more interested in the violin

-Would actually not use the violin for his assassinations anymore. He has used a few to kill some people, but he won’t do that anymore because of his love for you 💗

Lippmann:

-He was honestly quite surprised when he found out, but that surprise quickly melted away. Lippmann thinks that playing the violin is quite a nice skill to have, and he isn’t mad that you kept that skill from him

-Would kiss your callouses and scars on your fingers. His kisses are the best and they always make you flustered (but you know you love it)

-Also would listen to you play! He doesn’t have a lot of time due to his jobs, but Lippmann will take any chance he could to listen to your violin playing. It helps him to calm down whenever he’s in a stressed mood from what he was going to say for the interview or the negotiation

-I headcanon that he likes listening to pieces from the Romantic period. So play some Tchaikovsky or Brahms and it would be his go-to music from now on. Besides, Lippmann himself is quite romantic too

-He would ask you to teach you a bit of violin. Sometimes, he would have to play the violin in a few movies as part of his acting career, but now that he knows you play the instrument, he wants to make sure that his playing isn’t sacrilegious in any way. Lippmann is a pretty fast learner, so after a few lessons he could probably make a good sound for a beginner

-Takes you to violin concerts. Lippmann is rich and he wouldn’t mind spending every single dollar on you. And the violin concerts he takes you to are the best, where everybody dresses up formally and the music is just breathtaking

-He so would use a lot of violin and musician pickup lines on you. They make you blush a lot every single time, but when you start saying them back, that is the only time you would see Lippmann flustered. And I guarantee you that it is a sight to see

Rimbaud:

-Rimbaud was pleasantly surprised when he walks in on you practicing your violin. In fact, he may just stand in the corner while admiring your playing, not speaking so that he wouldn’t interrupt the flow of the music

-When you finished practising your piece, he slowly stepped forward with a small smile on his face. When you turned around you did get a little scare, but Rimbaud just told you how much he liked your playing

-He is very curious about the violin, but he won’t ask too much about it. So please tell him anything you know about the instrument, because Rimbaud loves hearing you talk. And he will remember whatever you say because it just reflects his love for you

-Rimbaud will be curious if you teach him about the violin. Despite how cold he always is and the fact that his fingers are constantly trembling, he’s actually very careful! Also puts a layer of subspace over your violin so that if it drops, it wouldn’t get harmed

-Play some French songs or pieces for him! He strikes me as the sentimental type, and if you played him something that he liked listening to when he was a child, you might even catch him softly humming along. I headcanon he might like Debussy because his pieces are just nice

-But that one time your violin string snapped and nearly hit you in your face, Rimbaud was so scared for you. Literally kept asking you if you were alright, while taking the violin out of your hands and tried to see if you were hurt anywhere. Definitely keeps an eye on the strings from now on to see which ones were close to snapping

-When you played him a nostalgic piece for his birthday, he nearly cried. Hug him and give him lots of love please

Verlaine:

-He is one smooth guy. I mean, he is the King of Assassins, so you definitely don’t hear or sense him when he walks into the room

-Verlaine was a bit surprised, but he smiles as he watches you practice your violin the whole time. When you finish practicing and put your violin down, you get the biggest scare of your life when you turn around

-He does chuckle a little, and says ‘who knew that mon amour was so talented at violin?’ But Verlaine will apologise for scaring you he better

-Now unlike Rimbaud, Verlaine does ask you questions about the violin. While he won’t go overboard with questions that he could find the answer of online, he will ask you about your experience with the violin as well. Verlaine loves it when your eyes light up with passion as you talk about your instrument; he thinks you look all the more attractive

-While you play your violin, Verlaine might sing along. It won’t sound weird or anything, because it is canon that his voice is ‘as graceful as a violin solo’, which means his voice sounds so fricking nice and goes well with your violin playing Rimbaud you lucky bastard

-But sometimes he would like to listen to your violin playing in comfortable silence. The tranquil melody helps him recollect his thoughts and sort out his feelings, not to mention Verlaine likes having a glass of wine while listening to you play

-I feel like Verlaine might know one or two things about the violin, but he’s never really played the instrument. So teach him! He is a fast learner, and when he plays he channels all of his feelings into it; his playing gives the piece a storm of emotions that only he alone could comprehend

-Definitely researches more into violin classical music. He appreciates art, and each time he hears you play he closes his eyes in appreciation. It soothes him and gives him a temporary peace in his always restless soul

-Will kiss your hands when you practice too much. Verlaine will gently scold you if you get callouses or small cuts, but he won’t stop you from playing. He just tells you to not overdo it, and even keeps track of your practicing sessions so that you wouldn’t practice too much Verlaine just let them practice their 40 hours lmao

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r3dblccd · 5 months

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU !

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name / alias. Rose

birthday. 12 February

zodiac sign. Aquarius

height. 150 cm (as mentioned sometimes before, I bite ankles)

hobbies. Listening to music, reading, writing, drawing, journaling, dancing, biting ankles, having existential crisis

favorite color. Red

favorite book. It's so hard to pick though! I'd say maybe the Rat trilogy by Haruki Murakami

last show. I honestly don't remember. I think it was the short series Choco Milk Shake. Idk what I'm gonna watch next, there are so many I still have to catch up on like WWDITS, My Beautiful Man, Our Flag Mean Death, Good Omens, Yellowjackets, Alice in Borderland, and now Sweet Home season 2.

sources of inspiration. I draw inspiration and ideas from various sources, be it movies, tv series, books, webtoons, video games, music, what have you.

story behind url. It's taken from the bridge of Enhypen's Given-Taken. Most of you all probably probably already know, but I just love vampires and everything magical and supernatural and wonderful and terrifying. And it just made sense with the majority of the muses that I have for the url to be this.

recent read. I moved this here for last so you can skip reading me ramble if you want. (I tell you, it's long, don't say I didn't warn you)

There have been so many things I've read in the past few months for my classic literature discipline in uni, mainly classic Greek literature and theatre, we've only recently dived in early roman literature and works from the Western European Middle Ages, our professor is kicking our asses off, but honestly these are one of my favourite classes out of the whole semester. But anyway, I actually just now finished reading The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier. Not bad, I must say. It has never been really my cup of tea to read romance stories, but at least it was much more interesting to read that than to read The Golden Ass (that one wasn't bad either, if we overlook some parts of it, yeah, I admit, but it was so unnecessary long in my opinion, I was literally falling asleep while reading it). If I had to pick which of the works I've read so far is my favourite, I'd have to say I really liked the tragedy Medea by Euripides (our professor once told us a story how she watched it being played out for the only time at the theatre in the city that we call our cultural center and how suddenly it started to rain and there was a thunder during the monologue of Medea and how it felt like nature was out there for the heroine and as if it was listening to her and answering her word, and the actress just kept playing her role in the water and when she was done, the rain suddenly stopped as if on cue and the sky was suddenly as clear as day again, and damn, I wish I was there to see it myself, I don't even care if I got drenched, I got chills just listening to that story. That was basically a once in a lifetime experience. But ANYWAY! The story itself is great, I really loved it.) and I also liked the comedy Frogs by Aristophanes, despite the message that the author was trying to convey at that time period.

As for my free time, I'm still reading The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and I'm pretty close to finishing the second book from the whole series (The Restaurant at The End of The Universe), probably in a week or two I'll start the third book Life, the Universe and Everything. And I really love it so far. There so many funny and straight up absurd moment in the story and I love the group of main characters in it. My heart goes out to the robot Marvin, idk if I will see you again in the following books, Marvin, but you're a big mood, I feel you.

As for my annual update on Webtoons I am reading! Right now I'm reading Everything Is Fine, Homesick, Never-Ending Darling, Omniscient Reader, My S-Class Hunter, ZOMGAN, There Are No Demons (the art style for this series is very uncanny valley but in a cool way, I love it), Nocturne, The Guy Upstairs, Lore Olympus and Zombie X Slasher (and interesting way to take the zombie genre and create a story, I must say, I don't think I've seen anyone do this before, I look forward to what the author can offer). And I recently finished Surivival Diary, Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, The Star Seekers, Crimson Heart and soon I'll be finishing Dark Moon: The Grey City Too.

And a webtoon I recently finished too was Survival Romance and I just gotta give a shoutout to it. That webtoon took me completely by surprise. It wasn't the cute art style that made it unique, there are many stories that look cute on the outside that hide something dark and sinister underneath (like Everything Is Fine, for example). I knew this webtoon is horror, so at first I expected maybe one of the characters would be a yandere or something like that and the MC would be trying to escape that. And yes, there is one side character that could be considered obsessive in a way in parts of the webtoon, but the story wasn't about that at all. The author just took the romance and horror genres and turned them on their heads. The whole story isn't all that much about romance at all, actually, it's about forming friendships and bonds with people and having the will to keep pushing forward despite all the struggles you might be going through. The plot twists were SO GOOD, even though some could have been quite easy to predict. I also loved that the author put some meta and breaking the forth wall moments (Doki Doki Literature Club style is the closest association I could think of for this webtoon, kind of) and by the end all the characters [REDACTED, NO SPOILERS, GO READ IT YOURSELF IF YOU'RE CURIOUS]. The message is also very nice, the closing words in the epilogue honestly hit quite close to home and made me bawl my eyes out. The story also has zombies in a quite a unique way in my opinion. So if like dark stories with twists and turns and a meaningful message, and if in any way I piqued you're interest, go and check it out. I'm sure you won't be left disappointed. I could honestly write way more about this webtoon, but I already wrote a lot, so I'm gonna stop here.

#misc; dash games #misc; ooc #//i always end up rambling when I get to the 'recent read' part of those dash games lmao

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the-dirt-eater · 7 months

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maybe I make a pinned post. as a treat. this blog is a mess. it’s got everything i love in it, so it’s not specific to anything. welcome to the train wreck etc

call me dirt! she/her, genderqueer-ish lesbian. deemed autistic via peer review. (not diagnosed bc that shits mad expensive. but my therapist says that I am ‘very likely’ autistic so.) I’m a menace and I sometimes bully people as a love language. please please tell me if something I say is too far for you and I’ll try to be more careful <3

use my ask box for anything! but especially music recs and fun facts :D

I’m 21 so minors… be cautious? I’m not always gonna be pg. curate your internet experience to your needs.

TERFs, SWERFs, ace/aro exclusionists, pro-lifers, anti-palestine, anti- sex ed, anti- critical race theory, or any other flavor of bigot not allowed. i’ll stomp you into a paste :)

also I will block accounts that look like bots. if u follow me and don’t have any activity on ur acc imma block u. i’ll usually give people a day to like put a profile pic up but if you don’t you’re gone. <3

i’m not always good at tagging. my bad

more specific stuff about me past the cut :3

super into plants and bugs and mushrooms and music. can crochet and learning to knit. I rarely do art but I’m slowly learning to be better at that too.

specifically currently interested in:

• punk/rock/indie music

• tarantulas

• jumping spiders

• isopods

• cockroaches

• california native plants

• terrariums

• minecraft

• cats :3

• pet web games (horse isle 2, star stable, recently got into flight rising)

also interested in (but less knowledgeable about):

• internet culture and history

• queer culture and history

• freshwater aquariums, including

- fishkeeping (bettas, comet goldfish, koi, various small tropical fish)

- shrimpkeeping!!!!

- aquascaping/aquatic plants

- low maintenance systems (no filter etc)

• video games and streaming

I watch way more youtube than is probably healthy so there’s that too.

omg I nearly forgot fandoms!!

currently obsessed with fall out boy and twenty one pilots. also into:

• hannibal

• good omens

• our flag means death

• heartstopper

• young royals

• community

• doctor who

• some minecraft/gaming youtubers and streamers (ranboo, tommyinnit, nihachu, grian, technoblade. ik he’s gone but still)

• hermitcraft but i’m not up to date ever

• unus annus (rip)

• dan and phil

• watcher entertainment/buzzfeed unsolved

• wings of fire

• percy jackson

probs more that i’m forgetting

music I like is. a bunch of genres tbh. indie, folk, punk, rock, some pop, video game music, some classic 2000s-2010s emo bands. very specific flavors of country-adjacent stuff. some psychedelic rock. more that i can’t think of. I have some halfway decent spotify playlists :P and here's my last.fm page

some bands/artists i like:

fall out boy

twenty one pilots

paramore

the crane wives

hayley kiyoko

los campesinos

the oh hellos

chloe moriondo

chappell roan

STRFKR

miracle musical

wallows

jack stauber

sir chloe

hozier

girl in red

jackie hayes

yea that’s me :) enjoy your stay here. drink water etc. bye!

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heartsick-honeybee · 1 year

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@skye707 tagged me! Hopefully that means I'll catch a stray Riddler..

CMON Arkhamverse, fingers crossed! Jkjk.

Ten of my favorite movies in no particular order!

This was hard af actually because as soon as I read it I forgot every movie ive ever seen. Suddenly, all cinema ceased to exist. Thanks brain.

That being said I did my best as-per my recollection and am probably missing things I quite love. Woopsie.

Rules: post 10 of your favorite movies and tag 10 people.

#1: Fantasia (1941)

This one has been my favorite since I was 2 years old. Beautiful art, Disney, and Classical music. It's just a win.

#2: The Phantom of the Opera (2005)

This is all of nothing like the book and my 15 year old emo ass really wanted Christine to go with the phantom despite all the red flags.

Now that I'm an adult I think they'd have been a lovely poly couple, and Erik needs counselling. That being said it's still one of my top favorite movies ever.. Who knew Emmy Rossom and Gerard Butler could SING?

I still love to play it and sing every word, the absolute chagrin of my daughter.

#3: Queen of the Damned (2002):

Anne Rice, Vampires, a soundtrack that quite possibly shaped my entire music taste for life--

This movie is honestly terrible, but in a SO bad its GOOD way. Cult classic 100%.

For an emo 12 year old in the early 2000's this was the best shit EVER, right there beside MCR.

#4: Pride and Prejudice (2005):

SOMETHING ABOUT ME: I love books. I love THIS book. and I love this movie based on this book. -- Mr. Darcy, you are a charmer.

#5: Yellow Submarine (1968):

Another one that's been a top favorite since I was only 2 years old.

I grew up on Beatles, and before I was emo (Around 9 years old) I had a hippy phase where I only wore tie-die and listened to 60s music, with Beatles being my top. This throws me back to them days every time.

#6: Minority Report (2002)

Let's get this out of the way first: Tom Cruise is batshit crazy as a person. I completely acknowledge this. That being said I think this movie is very well done and has a very valid moral that can forever apply to society and social justice as a whole.

It also had a very short run TV Mini series in 2015 (Without Cruise) that was a continuation/sequel of the movie, which I ABSOLUTELY loved just as much. There is only 10 episodes and I was SO sad it was cancelled

#7: Encanto (2021)

By far the newest one on this list.

Good music.

I'm in love with a 50yr old RAT man.

What else can I say?

#8: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Another book turned movie,

ANYTHING Shakespeare is always iconic, but I think this version is absolutely my favorite. Perfect casting, perfect acting, and Dr. Willson from House is one of the main characters! (You may also recognize Professor Trelawney and Professor Lockhart from Harry Potter as your two main characters. <3 When HP first came out I can tell you I was SO excited for something different than what everyone else was because It was awesome to see them together in the same movie again, for me, since I loved this farrrrr first.

#9: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

a 90s classic, and ALSO a modern adaptation of another Shakespeare story: The Taming of the Shrew.

It's was very well done, modernizing (For the time) while still sticking to the story. Great cast, great acting, and an icon of the 1990s despite being a story of the 1590s.

I think this movie hit home in a way that other modern Shakespeare adaptations (Such as Romeo + Juliet (1996) and She's the Man 2006)) Missed the mark on. (Although, did you remember Channing Tatum was in that? I didn't! Haha.)

#10: Digimon: The Movie (2000)

Why? I can't tell you why. When this came out was at the height of me being super into Digimon. The art is different from the show in a way that I just vibe with. The entire movie just has a VIBE to it and it brings back good memories. ALL THE GOOD VIBES.

Honorable Mentions:

Counting these as ONE:

Batman (1989) Batman Returns(1992) Batman Forever (1995) Batman & Robin (1997)

SO despite having 3 different Batmans and only two being directed by Tim Burton, these movies ARE supposed to go together.

They are hokey, and for the most part I consider them a comedic AU, HOWEVER, that will never override a few things:

Firstly, these movies are what got me into Batman and Batverse originally, before the animated series came out.

Secondly, the animated series came out BECAUSE of these movies, and was at least loosely based on them (Which is why Selina was blonde in TAS, to tie in, though they later rectified that in TNBA)

And three, the ENTIRE aesthetic of the movie AND the musical scores being by Danny Elfman are their own works of absolute art that I will ALWAYS appreciate.

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christinasaintmarche · 10 months

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Canada Day by Christina Saint Marche Via Flickr: Happy Canada Day to All OH CANADA by Classified

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Oh... Canada Song by Classified Lyrics Videos Listen I told this guy where I was from He said oh, Canada Kinda laughs it off, real funny huh? Yeah, uh, come on 1-2, 1-2, Mic. check, 1-2, 1-2 Yeah (O Canada) Uh, yeah From the land of the lost Trans-Canada crossed Patriotic and a honor With a hand on my heart From the greatest of lakes To the greenest of greens To the rockiest mountains And everything in between O-o-o Canada Oh you?re no fan of us? 'Cause our movie and TV shows are so amateur? Yeah, we laugh at off, that don?t really bother me Look, we ain't serious unless you really gotta be Humorous attitude like Kids in the Hall Like Jim Carey Mike Myers yeah we claiming them all It's the great white north Home of the funniest actors The front of the joke With an abundance of laughter The red and white flag Keep it high keep it visual People see Canada and get stereotypical Think we finish every sentence with buddy or bye And if it ain't that its either do, eh or guy (Canataka A) Yeah we consider it people And smoking marijuana We consider it legal Still doing rap like the 1990's But that's how we like it off timed and grimy I know where I'm from and I told ya before North of America hard to ignore Every time I go away I tell them for sure I'm from Canada o-o-o Canada O Canada o-o-o Canada (O canada) I'm from Canada O-o-o Canada The class makes a sick beat, we call it a classic (x4) I've been around the globe and Heard of confusion Honestly a lot o y'all are ignorant and stupid Yes, we have microwaves, tv's and cell phones Unintelligent fuck we invented the telephone We made Yahtzee The light bulb, hockey And bred the greatest playa's Gretzky to Crosby We all got at least one drinking buddy And after one drink, all of us think we?re funny Our national mascot's a damn beaver O Canada we love our beaver Home o' Hell's Angels the North-CMP Home of Gordon Lightfoot and nasty tv The underground rail road Georges St. Pierre Right here is where he calls home Our health care system Y'all know its free Keep a girl banging with a full mouth of teeth I won't even get into the music on the streets They say hip hop is dead Naw its up north with me I could do this all day its a part of my routine But supper's almost done and tonight poutine I know where I'm from and I told ya before North of America hard to ignore Every time I go away I tell em for sure I'm from Canada o-o-o Canada (I'm from the east coast of Canada) O-o-o Canada (I'm from the east east east coast) Yo yo! See I'm from Canada so sometimes the words come out of my mouth like this Get used to it

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artsyjesseblue · 2 years

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Sleeping Allura

There’s a scene in VLD, Season 8 Ep 10 (Knights of Light Part 2) that keeps sticking out to me with all sorts of red flags, indicating that there was more to come, but the rest was cut out. Not by the will of the very talented people who wrote, produced or animated this show. And I’ll prove my point below.

This time, it’s not a hard-evidence discussion on drawing flaws or animation issues. I rather base it on the logic of how movies, shows, anime, cartoons etc, are built.

(To recap the events, the Paladins traveled into Honerva’s mind, where they found out that she had been keeping the Old Paladins trapped. Together, they unveil what her ultimate plan was: she wants to find her perfect reality. At the end of this episode, all ten manage to escape Honerva’s mind by uniting to form Voltron. The present-time Paladins wake up in the real world, but Allura is collapsed on her chair, unconscious. This is the last shot of the episode. A dramatic violin music accompanies the scene.)

First, basic stuff:

— both Allura collapsed in her chair and the dun-dun-duuun violin orchestra finale (more about the music later) makes this a glaring cliffhanger, with the implied promise of a payoff in the upcoming episode(s).

— not to mention the desperate voices of the Paladins yelling “Allura, Allura!”, trying to wake her up. Cliffhanger with capital C.

— a more subtle observation: the color scheme and contre-jour effect create mystery and drama. Where can that lead to?

— why would someone pay the animation studio to make this scene, other than with the intent to continue it with some sort of reveal?

OK, now let’s move on to see what the “reveal” consisted of in the iteration of Season 8 we were presented with:

▶️ In the next episode, we are shown Allura in a hospital bed on Atlas, with the Paladins and Coran gathered around her, while she’s still unconscious. Coran scolds them with “I told you so”, etc etc. Nothing about what Allura experiences in her dream/coma/trance/whatever-this-is.

▶️ Later in the episode, Lance comes at her bedside with the classic “I need you,” and she finally wakes up. Honerva appears and says “the princess has awakened.”

▶️ Then we see Lance bringing a visibly grumpy Allura to the main deck of Atlas, where asked how she is feeling, she says “A little weak, but I’ll manage.”

▶️ Subsequently, the chase after Honerva unfolds, with the same information we were left off, which is: Honerva wants to find her perfect reality; and she will use Lotor’s mech to pierce realities.

And that was it. The big reveal of the cliffhanger. Huh?

We do not gather any new knowledge after this deep sleep Allura had gone through. Seems like a lot of wasted cinema time to concoct these scenes and pay an animation studio to do them.

OK, so here’s the common-sense question: Would you put your character in a deep sleep, make everything revolve around that event like it’s life-changing (including color schemes, musical theme), and then wake your character up to just say “I’m a little weak, but I’ll manage?” As a writer, producer, director, would you do this? Even a novice writer would not do that. It’s absolutely nonsensical. Maybe a child would write a third-grade essay like that.

To the ones that say the writers and producers did not know what they were doing, I say: they knew exactly what they were doing and someone else forced them to butcher their work. And the proof is the simple fact that this snippet of their work still exists in canon.

Simply based off of reading and watching movies and TV shows, I can tell you there are at least a couple of viable options for how a reveal should be handled after such a big suspense scene. 1) Either show the viewer what she actually experienced in her unconscious state. 2) Or make her recount in some way what she has seen, during or after a certain turning point of the story, as a final “mystery-solved” tension release. None of these two have happened.

And now on to more meta about the color scheme, music and some additional thoughts:

- Take a look at the red glow of the sky in the image I attached in the beginning, with Allura in her chair. The Dark Entity is red. Allura already followed the lead of the Entity all the way through Honerva’s mind for two episodes. It would make sense that she would still follow where the Entity drives her, if this is such an important cliffhanger. I do not believe they chose this red color because she was going to dream about picking juniberry flowers. Also, this red glow is not a pure, warm glowing red. It is a desaturated, muddied kind of red (and a dusty pink where the light hits through), fitting the color gamut of the Entity.

- Try to listen to the music background of this scene (again, for reference, S8E10, very last part). It is the musical theme used around Lotor scenes in S8. If you don’t believe me, try watching the scene where Allura sees Lotor in her dream in S8E8 - Clear Day and listen to the musical theme.

- Logical deduction: there were 10 Paladins when they punched out of Honerva’s mind at the end of this episode. Five are alive, five are deceased and exist only as “ghosts”. The ghost ones were trapped inside Honerva’s mind, but the real life Paladins saved them. They ALL pierce out of Honerva’s mind and are free. After that, we are left with only the real life Paladins. So, then, where did the ghosts go? (We eventually see the ghost Paladins at the very end of the series, bunched up together with Lotor as a farewell, and I hypothesized in a previous meta that they don’t belong there and that Lotor does not belong among them. We most likely were supposed to see the scene with the Old Paladins saying their farewell after this cliffhanger. Would make a lot of sense and would close the arc of the Old Paladins beautifully).

- Lotor tells Allura “Follow me!” at the end of her vision in the Clear Day episode. We never actually get to see her following him. It would make sense narratively for her to finally meet him in spirit now, as a closing arc for that path initiated in her visions. And who knows what they discuss. Important stuff, for sure, because she wakes up pretty worked up. Or maybe they discuss about picking juniberries (tongue-in-cheek). Oh, wait, he already told her stuff about juniberries in Clear Day.

- When Honerva says “The princess has awakened”, it makes no sense in the context in which it was inserted. So, listen: in the canon we’ve got, Allura is sound asleep, beauty-resting, she has no more visions (because we’re not shown or told about any). Everyone around her is freaking out. And here comes Honerva, who is also watching from a safe distance, stalking her through that Dark Entity. And they actually animate a scene in which she remarks that Allura has awakened. To what conclusion? Honerva was worried about her beauty sleep?

- OK, this last one is a bit more interpretative, but I’ll throw it in anyway. After Allura wakes up, she is escorted to the Atlas bridge by Lance, who looks kind of like “hey, I’m the nice guy, taking good care of her, but watch out, she’s a bit on the edge.” She looks um… dignified and angry I would say. The only hint that she might be a bit weak is Lance holding her protectively. A weakened state is usually when someone does not hold their spine and head straight. She walks straight as a pole, arms very close to her body, not in a relaxed manner for sure. Body language is important. And when she enters the bridge, she looks directly at Keith… Did he ever have anything to do with accusing Lotor of a lot of stuff in Season 6? What if Allura found out more in this little trip she had, and it’s going to challenge Keith’s initial assertions about Lotor?

This is all for now. I’m forever thankful to the #teampurplelion research and metas, which sparked my inspiration for writing this. This mini-meta of mine is a detail-focused analysis, based on a small part from @leakinghate ‘s work, “Seek Truth in Darkness”.

#voltron meta #allura #vld #i had to rewrite part of it because it didn’t save the first time #lotor deserved better #FREEVLDS8

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chris-spacehere · 1 year

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1:A song you like with a color in the title

2:A song you like with a number in the title

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

6:A song that makes you want to dance

7:A song to drive to

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

9:A song that makes you happy

10:A song that makes you sad

11:A song that you never get tired of

12:A song from your preteen years

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

16:One of your favorite classical songs

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18:A song from the year that you were born

19:A song that makes you think about life

20:A song that has many meanings to you

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22:A song that moves you forward

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

25:A song by an artist no longer living

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

27:A song that breaks your heart

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

all of them

hi shad i love you but also fuck you <3 /lh

1 - Red flags by tom cardy

2- the song with 5 names - will wood

3- All Summer Long by some white dude idk

4- where'd all the time go // Bailando Triste

5- DON BY MIRANDA GODBLESSS

6- hips dont lie

7- i dont know how to drive so idk, life is a highway from cars???

8- drunk and disorderly

9- the best of both worlds (hannah montana) and Natuu Natuu from RRR (my 6 yr old bro is obsessed with it so it reminds me of him whenever i listen to it)

10- Leaving on a jet plane and Father Son, they both make me miss my dad, cant wait to see him again in a few months :)

11- SOLO TU, NO NECESITO MAS

12- idk my playlist was shit back then uhhh, Rat by peneloppe scott

13- Puppet Boy

14- The imperial march, Las nevadas ends, la noche mas linda del mundo (i am dead serious)

15- Another one rides the bus by weird al

16- toreador march (if you need to know why, skip to 1:10)

17- interrogation song

18- i dont feel comfortable revealing my exact age sorry shad

19- You gotta die sometime

20- Suburbia Overture

21- CREEPER VS ZOMBIE // Noone remembers achmed // Charlie's inferno

22- memento mori: the most important thing in the world

23- Williard!

24- the only bands i listen to have at least 1 dead member (and ash kabosu ig), so id say Death On two legs by queen (ik queen is still going with roger and brian but freddie is dead and deaky left so ig it counts)

25- Snuff Out the Light - scrapped Yzma song, performed by Eartha Kitt

26- Chop suey by system of a dawn, revenge by captain sparklez, call me what you like (bc theyre like, part of the music taste me and my boyfriend share ;))

27- such small hands.

28- Te aviso, te anuncio (te amo shakira omg)

29- Oppa gamma style, firework, sorry by justin bieber and whatever tf one direction were doing idk i remember i was a fan but i cant remember shit about them

30- Why am i anxious - tom cardy

#ty for the ask shad! :3 #asks

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misticloyal · 2 years

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Silly Little HeadCannons

Post Season 2 right, everyone’s one da big flying ship to try and figure out wtf they’re gonna do about the bone demon trying to take over the world.

Everyone’s tired and unmotivated, fights were breaking out and so in an effort to lighten up the mood Mei is trying to teach everyone modern media culture.

Obviously this goes extremly well considering her target audience is:

1 hyperactive kid

1 fire demon from the pits of the netherworld

2 immortal monkey (I’m including Macaque because I can)

1 nerd

1 pig cook man

SO first things first, Mei starts off with some simple stuff first, the whip and nae nae, some simple vine references, funny twitch emotes (PogChamp, KEKW, sadpeepo) etc. MK probably knows most of this already but he’s not as involved w/ media as Mei is anyway so this is just like- a refresher for him.

Shit starts to go down when they get to the tik Tok dances though

-The finger dances people do broke Pigsy’s mind the moment they added more then like 2 steps so he dipped and because Tang is a simp he went with him LOL

-Macaque and Wu Kong were actually doing well...Like really well. They were doing so well they got competitive and started a dance off. Red Son, MK, and Mei just kinda watched and started a mini-betting pool for who would win. Mei also vlogged it and tagged it as #enemies-to-lovers-amirght-chat to which made MK wheeze when he looked over her shoulder

-They tried Tik Tok filters and Snapchat filters on the monkeys to see if it would recognize their faces and it was interesting until MK got a hold of the iPhone emoji filter, all hell broke lose after that

-Mei tried teaching everyone how to throw it back and MK tried so hard he kneed himself in the face which cause Red Son to loose it. Man by the time Wu Kong was done looking him over for a nose bleed Mei and Red Son were fucking dying on the ground laughing. (Fun fact this happened irl to me and I still never live it down to my friends LMAo)

-Macaque was taught how to make thirst traps. I have no more to say on the matter that's it, he learned how to make them and was like “Alright cool, good, awesome even. I’m totally not going to do this in my spare time”

-Wu Kong for the whole experience wasn’t rlly into it as long as no one was getting hurt but there was ONE filter that Mei insisted he try out. It was ‘what is your red flag’ and he got ‘Thinking you don’t have a red flag’

-Obviously the immortals and the demon weren’t really as familiar with modern music since yes they were exposed to modern culture but they didn’t really participate in it to the extreme. Like the most Red Son knows about music that isn’t Cultural Chinese is EDM because of MK and both Macaque and Wu Kong probably only know what they hear out on the streets just passing by.

So once they find out what modern genres MK and Mei and being held at gunpoint man.

Macaque will not stop blasting classical goth/ goth rock around the ship, Wu Kong comes after him with his own speaker chasing him around with Phonk and Pop playing full volume (which side note, makes MK feel more connected to him as a dad figure cuz it’s like ‘awww I listen to EDM and he listens to Phonk they’re kinda similar what a father/son moment ✨).

Red Son was given his own pair of headphones for the first time in his life and every week when everyone gets together to share their favorite song (it was a bonding activity enforced by MK and Mei ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) he’d be like ‘Oh yeah, I saw this song and thought it was pretty neat’ and then play literal screamo and Thrash Metal. He also thinks Chinese Death/Black Metal is cool too, but it has to be the type with lots of yelling not just instruments.

MK quickly made sure that just bc Red Son listens to Metal and Macaque is into goth music that they don’t become friends (cuz like- he gives Macaque the benefit of the doubt but he still doesn’t trust him so stay away from his mans ig LmaO) but when the conversation ended up happening between the three of them, MK just got an earful from Red Son and Macaque about how alt music isn’t the same and

“JUST BECAUSE WE LISTEN TO THE SAME OVERALL UMBRELLA OF MUSIC DOESN’T MEAN WE LIKE EACH OTHER NOODLE BOY!”

“Yeah kid, you think I would be friends with someone who listens to metal? Sheesh-”

“WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN B-”

-When Mei handed Wu Kong the phone to pick a trend to learn as a group he accidentally clicked a cupcakke remix...

There were so many, and they all were so bad;;

Red Son immediately blew up in flames once hearing the lyrics of WAP on autotune being blasted

MK wheezed so hard he thinks he blew a lung

Macaque gazed sadly over the border of the ship and tried to calculate how much it would hurt if he jumped

Mei was trying to get the phone back by jumping Wu Kong

Wu Kong was scarred for life

Tang was documenting everything in his journal

Pigsy dipped for a second time

#lmk spicynoodles #lmk red son #lmk mk #lego monkie kid #lmk sun wukong #lmk macaque #lmk mei #lmk tang #lmk pigsy #lmk post season 2 #headcanon #shadowpeach #kinda

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sakuramidnight15 · 2 years

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-HSA OC Information-

Character Bio

Name: Hiromi Saotome

(Japanese: 早乙女宏美)

Romaji: Saotome Hiromi

Quote: "Oh dear me, try again a little harder. You'll might end up embarrassing yourself."

V/A: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese)

Gender: Female

Age: 17-Physical (???-Actually)

Birthday: April 28

Star Sign: Taurus

Eye Color: Carnation Pink

??? (Unknown Eye Color)

Hair Color: Boysenberry Magenta

Height: 195 cm

Race: Grave Demon

Species: Hollow Type

Homeland: Dungeon Inkhell

Family: Collete Wilhelm (Mother)

Emilio Saotome (Father)

Hailey Wilhelm (Older Sister)

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School Status and Fun Facts

Dorm: Höllejigoku

School Year: Second

Class: 2-C

Student no. 1

Occupation: Student

Part-time Singer

Geoffrey's Dance Assistant

Spy/Sniper

Club: Movie Club

Best Subject: Science, Magic History, and Dance

Dominant Hand: Right

Favorite Food: Kimchi, Bitter Chocolate, Peppermint Lollipops, Spicy Noodles, Dead Animal Flesh, Rich Blood (From Humans and Animals), Sandwiches, Wine,

Least Favorite Food: Sweet Chocolates, Steamed Shrimps, Sour Cream, Sweet Candies,

Likes: Dancing to any genre music (Mostly Jazz, Classic and Mental/Punk), Music, Gossip (Mostly juicy ones), Lastest Fashion and Trends, Guitar playing, Quiet Places, Drinking Blood or Wine, Astrogeology,

Dislikes: Geoffrey scolding her, Pop genres (Mostly), Cute Things (Mostly), Loud Places, Losing, Anything distasteful,

Hobbies: Dancing on stage, Making New Dance Steps/Choreography, Fashion (Mostly on Jazz, Classic and Punk), Tap Dancing and Tango, Playing the Violin, Studying Astrology,

Talents: Hollow Mode, Demon Abilities, Brain-washed ability, Whisper in the shadows ability, Levitation, Invisibility, Sniper Skills,

Nicknames: Hii-chan and Hiro-chan(From his friends and family)

Hiromi-senpai or Saotome-senpai (From the freshmen students)

Himi (From her older sister and Toshihiro)

Blood-sucking Bitch (From Geoffrey, somewhat of an insult)

Jazz Lass (From Dorothea)

Other Nicknames:

N/A

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Appearance and Personality

Appearance: Hiromi has feminine slender female body build with demon-like skin, up close you can find it as a dead corpse. She has long and wavy boysenberry magenta hair which she ties it into a high and long ponytail. She has carnation pink eyes which they can turn into an unknown eye-color when using her demon abilities. Hiromi is a member of the performance division and is Geoffrey's assistant, but she's a sweet but bossy.

Personality: Born as the second daughter in her family, who runs a large dead farm business in Dungeon Inkhell. Hiromi is known for her charming accent, which she often uses it or not.

She's has true mother-like vibes, especially in the dorm itself in the studio. But around others she has a sly and troublesome reputation. Mostly cause she's seen with Dorothea and Geoffrey from time to time.

Hiromi has a thing for gossip and mischief. Though gossiping is her most favorite, so apparently she can be a bad sign if you slip something that catches her interest, which it involves something personal. Like Dorothea, she too can pick up the latest trend in fashion or etc. But she's much faster than her vice-dorm leader though.

But hey she's a good lass to be with, but do play your choices right. Cause this girl can be a potential red flag when she's in the performance division. Hiromi can be anyone's high rival, for she is an expert dancer in any genres, but she does dislike some genres and would insult about them harshly.

When being messed with, her attitude would suddenly switch. No one except the dorm knows about it till they witness it.

But that aside, she does have a sweet side to fit her mother-like behavior, which she often shows it unlike the others in the dorm.

This sweet girl can turn into an ultimate red flag when into a dance competition, expect her to break you.

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Trivia

-The name 'Hiromi' is primarily a gender-neutral name of Japanese origin that means Wide, Broad, Abundant, Beautiful. While her surname 'Saotome' meant were unmarried girls tasked with planting rice in paddies. Saotome is also a Japanese family name.

-She's based in the 'Lost Ones' (From BATIM) and Stolas (From Helluva Boss)

-According to Geoffrey, she's very picky on the performance and music for the dorm. Which it annoyed him easily, and would often drag her away to remain her that he's in charge of the performances. This might be where Hitomi got her nickname from him.

-Has a blood-sucking addiction when it comes to drinking it. Which it can make anyone uncomfortable.

-She and older sister are known for their step-dancing skills back at their farm.

-A pro sniper, only she gets paid for it. Does it when getting info on chosen targets.

-She and Toshihiro were middle school friends till now. Though Toshihiro is the one who keeps her addiction in place.

-She can agree with April that of their both dorm leaders should have some fun despite their status, treats April in a friendly manner. Also, she both respects the twins as well like the others.

-She and Calvin are duo when it comes to the music and dancing to it as well.

-She absolutely cute, pop songs and anything related to them. She finds it distasteful and disgusting. Gave it a thumbs down immediately.

-She loves physical violence, mostly if anyone who can mess with her.

-Hiromi met Cynthia and Saburou before. Cynthia is in somewhat of a friendly manner with her while Saburou is a little annoyed with her.

-Loves Mental, Rock, Classic, Jazz music. Will vibe into it non-stop.

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(@hourglassstationacademy) Next OC coming soon!

#mc #oc #disney twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland #gacha club #gacha games #character information #bio #hourglass station academy #hsa #hiromi saotome #hiro #oc-sorted fandorm

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noirandchocolate · 2 years

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AITA for trying to get my Christmas-hating housemate to celebrate Christmas

I (20f) moved into my housemate’s (20-somethingm) home a few months ago. My housemate comes from a wealthy family, and his lifestyle reflects that: this is a very large house with a lot of extra rooms and beautiful antique furnishings, and he has live-in staff to prepare meals, clean, etc. Like, I just found out he even has specific guys on his payroll who chop wood for the fireplaces and make sure the heating system works. Wow, right?

Anyway, my housemate has never held a job and acts pretty spoiled if I’m being honest. He yells at the workers on his property for even the slightest mistakes, his room is a disaster area, he’s impatient, and--kind of weird--he insists we eat all our meals together and gets mad when I go out without him and made me promise I’d never do that again. On the other hand, I can be kind of headstrong myself, and if he really gets out of line with me I do shout right back at him. And recently, I have discovered he does have a bit of a softer side in there, and I think that with some help he could learn to grow up and take responsibility for his actions and not lash out so much. He’s been nicer to me the past couple weeks and I feel like we’re actually becoming friends instead of “just” housemates.

But right now, I’m stumped, because earlier today I offered to help him and his staff decorate the house for Christmas, to brighten up the place and maybe cheer him up with some fun activities together. He totally flew off the handle at me! Literally without provocation beyond me asking. He said he “hates Christmas” and forbade the rest of us from celebrating. He then went and locked himself in his room and I heard him listening to broody classical music; he always gets like that when he’s super upset about something.

Now here’s where I might be the asshole. See, I really like Christmas. It’s a time of year for joy and hope, and I was really hoping to share that with my housemate! I want to pull him out of his depressive funk and have some light in his life. I even made him a handcrafted gift I think he’ll love! So, I went ahead with my decorating plans while he was locked upstairs, and left the house with one of the staff’s son to pick out a tree in the forest near my housemate’s property. On the way back I had an accident and fell into a frozen lake and I think I almost died. Luckily somebody snitched to my housemate that I left, because he found me and brought me back, though I don’t remember much because of almost drowning.

But now my housemate is really, really furious at me and said I “broke my word” about leaving the house without him even though I was going to come right back, and he’s redoubled his insistence that he will never, ever celebrate Christmas. I feel kind of bad for putting him through having to save my life because I wouldn’t have been in that situation if I’d just respected his wishes. And I know he’s been through a lot and that people tend to judge him on appearances without getting to know that he can be very sweet if he tries. Still, I don’t think I’m wrong that Christmas is a fun holiday that could bring some hope into his life if he gave it a chance, and I don’t think it was fair of him to lock me in this dungeon to “rot forever.”

So, Reddit, AITA?

Edit: A lot of you are asking why I live with this guy. It’s an odd situation but my father got caught trespassing on my housemate’s property and he said he wouldn’t press charges against my dad if I agreed to live here. I love my dad and he’s getting on in years so I don’t want him to go to jail, also our finances aren’t great so it’s just better if I stay here for right now.

Edit 2: Yes, I KNOW my housemate is throwing up major red flags! I know that! But trust me, it could be worse. Where I lived before this there was a guy in town who kept stalking me and insisting I marry him even though we couldn’t be less compatible. At least my housemate isn’t a misogynist looking for a trophy wife/bangmaid! And you should see the size of his library--nerdy bookworm that I am, I’m happy with that part of living here, at least!

Update: Okay it turned out my housemate just has really, really low self-esteem regarding his appearance and doesn’t like Christmas parties because they remind him of some traumatic stuff in his past. Also he was listening to this shitty “friend” of his who kept telling him that love and friendship are a manipulative prison he shouldn’t bother with, and that’s been fueling his depression and mood swings. That friend literally just tried to kill us and destroy our house but my housemate ripped him apart and now he’s dead. And my housemate said we can celebrate Christmas after all! So, thanks so much for your answers, Reddit, but we can consider this problem solved!

#kidk says stuff #we watched a movie last night can you guess which one it was?

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kittywildegrrl · 2 years

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MAMA CAT AND THE VERY BEST COMPLIMENT EVER

Picture it: Del Rio, Texas, 1985. Classic border town. It’s 1985 inside our New York City tour bus, but it’s 1955 out there all around us. Nevertheless, the food and the weather are fantastic! A completely unprepared young ingenue finds herself on tour...

It was the glamorous and exciting mid-80s. Not even kidding, this was an amazing time to be a young artist in New York City. Ed Koch was the mayor, people were wearing a lot of black with neon, you could still afford to go to the movies on the Upper West. Starbucks didn’t exist yet and the City was littered with Greek coffee shops and Chock Full O’Nuts shops. Please, in the name of sweet bleeding Stephen Sondheim, stop me before I get down to reminiscing hardcore. “I found it at the Colony!!” Lordy, those were the days, hipsters.

(There was also an awful new emergent disease, taking from us some of our brightest and best young gay theatre artists, while in Washington, D.C., the Reagan Administration turned a blind eye. This is not that story. But I was there for that story.)

Among the crazy things that happened in 1980s Manhattan, was that time that some people cast me in a non-Eq national tour of “They’re Playing Our Song,” as leading lady Sonja Walsk. In a Hollywood-generated storyline, or at least a Hallmark-generated one, this should have led to incredible stardom, marriage to a total hottie with money, and my own Emmy-Award-winning TV show. It did not (as far as I can tell). It did, however, lead to some adventures, including the night I got the best compliment I have ever had in my life.

Our tour bus – or rather, the airport van that is being used as a tour bus, because this isn’t a big cast and our producers may not be the most lavish spenders in terms of cast comforts -- pulls up to the local high school, where we move ourselves into the Girls Cloak Room and the Boys Cloak Room, and prepare to perform our professionally-touring two-act musical comedy in the cafetorium.

The cafetorium.

Like, they had to move the Texas flag and the U.S. flag and the podium out of the way before we took stage. We were lit only by oldschool red, white, & blue striplights from above and a pair of follow-spots from the front. The follow-spot operators went to school there and were legit seeing the show for the first time ever as they lit it, an epic feat of intentional theatre. It was also at times hilarious, at times frightening, for the two of us onstage. One false move and we’re dancing in the dark! Then the light! Then the dark!

(TPOS has 2 leads and 6 backup singers. It’s a terrific show to produce in a city where everybody has other gigs besides the show. Out on the road, it’s a big fat BORE for the backup singers and an all-night workout for the Vernon and the Sonja. It is also a super cute show that deserves more love.)

Anyway, cats and kittens, you have to remember that way back in the last century there was no internet and precious little cable tv. People needed entertainment, same as always, but compared to what is available to stream now (if you have decent broadband), we were closer to being medieval bards, traveling town to town with our loadbearing animals and our colorful outfits, to do our Passion Plays for the townsfolk and perhaps receive coins and food. When we came to places like Del Rio, the house was always sold out and we felt kind of like Elvis. Or the Beatles. Or Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, featuring me as Annie Oakley. We were the only show in town that night and it felt like the whole city had turned out to the cafetorium.

So I’m backstage after the show, removing my Act 2 wig & toweling off sweat and like that, when someone told me that there were a couple of people there who would like to speak to me. I threw on my robe or something, and stepped out to meet this couple who immediately just touched my heart, simply by existing. They were clearly poor as dirt. They were careworn from years of hard work. This husband and wife were not familiar with Zabar’s, H & H Bagels, West Side Dance Project, or anything else from our fancy NYC milieu. And that’s when the husband gave me the greatest compliment I have ever known in my life, before or since. Don’t laugh. It’s not a punchline.

The man took his hat in his left hand, and shook my hand with his right, and said, “Ma’am, we ain’t never seen no shows or nothin’, but you’re the best thing we EVER seen.”

Cats & kittens, I could have died on the spot. I have never felt more like Dolly Parton in my life. We had a few minutes’ chat, I thanked them so much for coming, and there were doubtless some of those little cliches: “How you remember all those lines?” and so forth. But it was the naked sincerity of his statement, the unvarnished honesty of that moment. Holy Toledo. I do wish I could have internalized it better at the time. Life is a journey, not a destination; sometimes we carry a lesson with us like a good-luck charm, a pebble to remind us, and this moment has been one of those for me. “…you’re the best thing we’ve ever seen.”

Not gonna lie, I truly wish that the depth of their admiration had been enough to propel me with confidence into a hotter next chapter. But the biz is tougher than anything, and lots of really good performing artists never make it even as far as I did, so this isn’t regret, that’s not where I’m going with it. Someone else can write that book. This is about appreciating that little moment, from over forty years ago, and how it has come to matter more and more to me over the years.

Let me share this pebble with you: You don’t know it, you don’t know who, but you are in all probability the best thing someone has ever seen, or perhaps heard, or read, or met. Yes. Even you. Stop it. Look at me. OK? OK.

This re-invention phenomenon I have been observing? Well, isn’t his part of it? After this period where life itself lost meaning for so many of us, it feels like maybe, just maybe, Springtime is actually coming for us. And maybe, just maybe, if you’ve had those times of “WTAF am I here for anyway?”, sometimes known as Existential Dread, sometimes diagnosed as Major Depression, always a bummer; maybe you just keep shining your light and being your best available version and you will be the best thing someone else ever saw. Heard. Read. Was inspired by. Whether they tell you or not.

We may live in times of darkness, but maybe you and I are part of the Light.

Recently, a couple of friends have said things to me that tell me I’m not far off. That I’m kind of nailing some of the things they are experiencing in their own lives and paths. I do not pretend to hold a medical degree, nor one in clinical social work. If you need help, you go get you some. MamaCat is nobody’s shrink. I’m just this plump granny doing the Reinvention Tango on the regular, same as you. But I am also, and cannot help but be, your cheerleader.

I know perfectly well that there are those who do not wish to grow, change, help, benefit, share, etc. This is not for them. They’ll never find this blog and read this post anyway. And I think we all know that some day there will be some obstacle past which you cannot get, and one past which I cannot get, and that’s just how it goes. But in the meantime, while we’re here, I want you to know that I don’t have to define what good you and your story are doing for anyone, to know that you & your story ARE doing good.

And I’m very proud of you.

Meow, darlings.

#actorslife #actorsathome #theatrelife #grannyhasapast #characterwoman #grannyhasalife #grannyhasapresent #olderactress #waitingforpizza #texas #ontheroad

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pondermoniums · 3 years

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A Rant Nobody Asked for About Stranger Things season 3.

feat. my personal pet peeves.

Disclaimer: when I first watched Stranger Things 3, I massively enjoyed it. I thought it finally captured the 80s aesthetic and vibe with the colors, the neon, and music. I even enjoyed it the SECOND time I watched it, although I was officially aware of some major flaws by that point.

1. The Coca Cola flex.

CocaCola has been all over this show ever since Tommy handed Steve one as a makeshift ice pack after his fight with Jonathan in s1. And then by season 3 it’s just....obnoxious???? And so unnecessary??? Karen Wheeler’s drinking one by the pool in episode one. Billy knocks into someone during his first day being flayed, and a coke rolls over the concrete.

LUCAS DOES AN ENTIRE MONOLOGUE ABOUT NEW COKE.

I mean, Jesus, we get it. CocaCola basically owns Georgia, where a lot of American TV shows are filmed.....but......you’re literally CocaCola. This kind of flex is entirely unnecessary and therefore pathetic.

2. Karen and Billy

Okay, listen. I thought their interaction in season 2 was H I L A R I O U S. But I’m someone who has looked 21 since I was 14, thanks to being an early bloomer. I get it. The cocky prowess of looking older than your peers. Getting to look adults in the eye and get that tiny bit of respect with nothing more than just looking like they do. And, as a writer, the contrast between thirsty, older Karen with young and equally thirsty Billy is an odd pair of puzzle pieces that fit really hilariously - largely because it’s so unexpected, maybe. And frankly, I think it’s one of the first scenes where Dacre’s acting really made my eyes fall out of my head, he did so well.

But it should have ended there.

I’ve been to a LOT of public pools in my day (I’m 26 but hush), and I have NEVER seen older women thirsting over the lifeguards. Ever. It’s predatory - an attribute most women understand all too well - unprofessional, and just downright gross. Their whole interaction in s3 is for “the male lens,” which Hollywood really needs to figure out by now is outdated, predatory, disgusting, and not good writing.

3. Glossing over Billy Chugging Chemicals

Bouncing off of #2, is Karen’s total negligence of Billy’s condition. Many people have pointed it out before, but a row of mothers being completely ???? about Billy’s condition is a raging red flag of bad writing.

(Also that it was written by men, because women are hard-wired to be super aware of other women - a tactic of living on guard in a man’s world all the damn time. So you can always count on a mother, grandmother, or a brave teen/20-something to be the one to walk up to a person who doesn’t look well in order to check on them, even if you’re complete strangers. It’s happened to me, and I’ve done this for other people.)

These women literally stare at him for every shift of work he has, and they.....don’t do anything????

Karen WALKS IN ON HIM DRINKING CHLORINE. It actually took me the second watch-through to realize what he was doing in that storage room, and god, my heart just broke. It’s the only time we actually see a glimpse of Billy making himself flayed like the others. It’s so fleeting (maybe because we already get so much pain from his plot, and we do see what happens with the other flayed people) but it’s also one of the reasons, I think, that we have a whole fanbase ready and eager for his return.

We didn’t get a good glimpse of him poisoning himself to the point that he has to rely on the MindFlayer to stay alive. I’m not saying any of us want that, no way, but that’s my personal headcanon: in s2, Will was super protected and therefore capable of being separated from the Flayer. All of the Flayed IMMEDIATELY low-key drowned themselves in ice water to lower their temperature, and then chugged chemicals. They all die twice.

4. Billy. Just......Billy.

This poor boy’s plot was so pointless. It’s a special thing: creating such a good character and then doing fuck-all with him. The moment you realize his only purpose in season 2 was an introduction is....the beginning of a lot of disappointment. And no, he DIDN’T serve as an antagonist for Steve, because what happened? He slowed Steve down.

That’s it.

He doesn’t keep Steve from helping the kids in the tunnels. He doesn’t break him and Nancy up. He doesn’t gloriously out Steve’s bisexuality to the town by being his shameless lover.

He literally does nothing except just......be there? Looking gorgeous and providing a juxtaposing characterization for Max. That’s all. Billy’s treated like an accessory.

Then we arrive to season 3 and....I guess the only justification for his plot is sort of classic Greek tragic hero. He’s the new Keg King whose hubris makes him stand too long outside the warehouse, and thus, his downfall.

But here’s what’s wrong with that: Steve Harrington.

We were so spoiled with good writing for Steve. Steve had an incredibly refreshing and valid character AND redemption arc. Frankly, all the good writing goes to Steve in this show, so we expected the same writing to go to the other douche bag king of the show.

And we didn’t get it.

5. 80s Bullshit vs. Modern Audience

You can tell they’re trying to straddle the line between, “this is how people talked back then,” and, “this pertains to a modern audience.”

Example: Mike saying to Will, “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls.”

I know they did multiple takes of this scene with different variations of this line, and that’s the one the editors settled with. Regardless, I know I am not the only person who screeched with rainbow pride for Will’s sake. And it’s not the first time they’ve touched on very hot modern topics. Hopper touches on homophobia in season 1 - a fact I completely missed until I read an interview where the actor, David Harbor, mentions it, himself. Then I rewatched season 1 and realized, sure enough, he reacts poorly when Joyce tells him that Lonnie calls Will a f*g. It’s not even fatherly, “that should be my son, how dare he.” It’s straight up, “this kid might not be worth finding if he’s gay.”

Of course there’s the more obvious occasions where Steve calls Jonathan a queer and Neil Hargrove should come with his own neon trigger sign. Slut is a term that’s carelessly thrown around (as high schoolers are wont to do, sure).

But the thing that’s bothered me the most is Steve saying to Billy, “Were you dropped too much on your head as a child, or what?”

Maybe it’s just me being extremely sensitive to mental health stuff (also, WHY does Steve ironically get all the triggering lines? lol), plus he says it very soon after we finally know why Billy behaves the way he does. Just.....*long sigh*. I hurt, okay. Some parts of this show really hurt, and I don’t like “it was the 80s” as an excuse.

6. Lucas and Kali or, the Diversity Check Marks

One black kid. One. Then they gave him a sister. Cool. Somebody give these people BLM awards.

*eyes roll so hard my cat chases them across the floor*

You know what this reminds me of? The East Asian actor who trended in movies like The Goonies and Indiana Jones.

The only thing that even remotely makes this small drop of diversity okay, is that they made Lucas a major player in The Party, and cast a dope actress to be Erica Sinclair, and likewise made her a linchpin in the Scoops Troop plot.

But touching back to #5, you can’t use “it’s the 80s” as an excuse, nor can you say, “it’s white bread Indiana.”

BUT but but but Kali!!!!

You mean the character in one episode? Two, if you count the opening of season 2.

Listen. For all the bipoc folks who wonder, “Do white people realize how.....WHITE everything is?” as a white person, I can absolutely say:

Yes. We. Do. Fucking. Notice.

• • • • •

Well. That’s all lol If you made it this far, I’m sorry and thanks lol

Tip your artists and comment on fics because lord knows that where my seratonin comes from.

#ponder ponders #stranger things #billy hargrove #steve harrington #a sprinkling of #harringrove #i could probably find more things to nit pick #but these have been the biggest ones #might delete #rant

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demondark81 · 3 years

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All, bitch

1: A song you like with a color in the title

Dustin Lynch- Seein' Red

Taylor Swift- Red

Miranda Lambert- White Liar

The Rigs- White Flag

2: A song you like with a number in the title

Lukas Graham- 7 years

Rob Zombie- House of 1,000 Corpses

3: A song that reminds you of summertime

Ben Platt- For Forever I love Dear Evan Hansen shut up

Luke Bryan- Rain is a Good Thing

4: A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

If I have any of these I can't think of it

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD

Imagine Dragons- Natural

Billie Eilish- Bad Guy I had to link the actual music video for this one because it's glorious

Panic! at the Disco- Let's Kill Tonight

Hollywood Undead- Riot

SO many more, but I gotta cut myself off

6: A song that makes you want to dance

.... Lee Brice- I Don't Dance

Sub Urban- Freak

Sub Urban- Cradles

7: A song to drive to

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKiuvuUaD_Xma_qHN_zkW10dzwTQrQ1-N

8: A song about drugs or alcohol

Midland- Drinkin' Problem

9: A song that makes you happy

Luke Combs- Beautiful Crazy

Brett Eldridge- Somethin' I'm Good At

10: A song that makes you sad

Linkin Park- Heavy

Brad Paisley- Whiskey Lullaby

11: A song that you never get tired of

Ed Sheeran- Perfect

Toby Keith- How Do You Like Me Now

12: A song from your preteen years

I was obsessed with Taylor Swift

13: One of your favorite 80’s songs

Irene Cara- Fame

14: A song that you would love played at your wedding

Ed Sheeran- Thinking Out Loud

15: A song that is a cover by another artist

Nickelback- Devil Went Down To Georgia (I just discovered it and it is a bop)

Jensen Ackles- Simple Man (You saw this one coming)

Nathan Sharp- Heathens

Jonathan Young/Violet Orlandi- Square Hammer (man)

16: One of your favorite classical songs

I can't think of any...? I don't listen to classical music

17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

Set it Off- Partners in Crime

Silva Hound- Addict

18: A song from the year that you were born

Evanescence- Hello

19: A song that makes you think about life

Kenny Chesney- Noise

Faith Marie- Toxic Thoughts

Pet Shop Boys- Integral

20: A song that has many meanings to you

Rodney Atkins- If You're Going Through Hell

Fall Out Boy- The Phoenix

21: A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

You know I gotta-

SKYND- Tyler Hadley

Anna Murphey- Harley Quinn

22: A song that moves you forward

Shinedown- Second Chance

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

Au/Ra- Dance in the Dark

STARSET- Infected

24: A song by a band you wish were still together

Rascal Flatts- God Bless the Broken Road

25: A song by an artist no longer living

Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues

26: A song that makes you want to fall in love

Brett Young- In Case You Didn't Know

He is We- All About Us

27: A song that breaks your heart

Hinder- Lips of An Angel

Daughtry- It's Not Over

28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love

Jonathan Young/Jared Dines- Take Me To Church (Cover) ,,mm

Chris Stapleton- Broken Halos

29: A song that you remember from your childhood

Owl City- Fireflies

Toby Keith- Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue

P!nk- Funhouse

P!nk- Please Don't Leave Me

30: A song that reminds you of yourself

Stephanie Rice- Pages

#ask #music

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eloarei · 3 years

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Sleeping Beauty vs. Spindle’s End

Lately my husband and I have been watching through all the classic Disney animated movies in chronological order. We were also recently re/reading my favorite book, “Spindle’s End” and finally finished it the other day. Conveniently, the next Disney movie in line was Sleeping Beauty, so of course we watched it. Spindle’s End is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, but it differs drastically from any version I’m familiar with, while still keeping the basic premise: The baby princess is cursed by an evil witch/fairy and goes to be raised by several kindly fairies in a cottage. Also there’s a prince involved, and some horses and other animals. But for all her fairy godmothers’ gifts (lips like roses, golden curling hair, eyelashes that go on for days), Rosie is not beautiful, not graceful, not ladylike, and does not want to be a princess. She does want to be the local blacksmith’s apprentice, and chat with all the village animals. Do not come near her with embroidery. (And I’ll put the rest under the cut, for length and, hmm, slight spoilers?) Under the cut: comparisons between the 1959 Disney Sleeping Beauty, and the 2000 Robin McKinley book Spindle’s End. (1k words) tl;dr: The book has a lot more detail, including Rosie’s childhood, and Rosie actually gets to be a character with her own thoughts and decisions, instead of having one musical scene and then taking a nap.

1. The biggest difference? Length. The Disney movie is a petite 1 hour and 12 minutes long; less if you remove the credits, while the book is over 400 pages. A lot of this is due to Robin McKinley’s detailed writing style (boy, you should read her Beauty and the Beast retelling if you like descriptions of roses), and partly due to the fact that she covers something that the movie conveniently skips: Rosie’s entire childhood. Much of the charm of the story comes from seeing Rosie go through various adolescent phases and mishaps, like cutting her own hair when she’s a toddler, moving to a new house when she’s a teenager, and experiencing all the turmoil of growing up. Meanwhile, Disney’s Rose/Aurora is just immediately a very adult-looking 16 years old. 2. A small difference: Disney’s princess is cursed to prick her finger upon the spindle at 16, while Rosie gets to at least become an adult first, and wait until 21. A bit more reasonable, I think. 3. Another small but important difference: in the Disney version, the king declares all spinning wheels must be destroyed. Honestly, how did they make cloth for 16 years??? In the book, only the spindle ends must be snapped off (and are then replaced by fancy smooth carved ones, which is a plot point). 4. Both similar and different are the fairies. In the movie, they’re... well, fairies. Magical beings with wings, immortal and probably very rare. In the book, they’re basically just witches. They’re born with magical powers, and they’re not very rare. The whole country runs on fairies and their control of the wild magic that entwines with everyday life. And they certainly aren’t all-powerful. 5. In the movie, Rose lives with 3 fairies, who are all kindly older ladies (and apparently rather bumbling without their magic). In the book, Rosie lives with 2 fairies: old “Aunt”, and “cousin” Katriona. They raise her as family, and everyone in town is sure she’s going to end up being a fairy too-- mostly because Rosie can somehow talk to animals (which was a fairy godmother gift, but only Aunt and Kat know that). 6. While in the movie, the fairies caution Rose not to talk to anyone, in the book she’s raised near a lively village, and chatters energetically at everyone, even making friends with the stoic blacksmith. Aunt and Kat want to keep her hidden, after all, and what’s the best way to hide? To be perfectly normal. Keeping her locked up would be kind of a red flag. 7. In the book, Rosie does eventually meet a prince that she’s unknowingly engaged to, though only one person in the town actually knows the whole truth (and it’s neither the prince, nor Rosie). And the prince does fall in love instantly with a charming peasant girl, who falls right back in love with him. 8. A major element in the book is the grand house Woodwold, which was built 1000 years ago by a seer who knew it would be instrumental in saving the country (although, again, only one person knows this). Woodwold is ancient and has its own deep magic and strong bonds with its people and the princess. There’s nothing like it in the movie. In the book, Woodwold is responsible for the walls of thorns (they’re rose bushes). Instead of being cast by the evil witch, the house cast them to protect its people from the witch. It’s a good house. I’d live there. 9. A fun similarity I noticed when I watched the movie was the final confrontation essentially being solved by a magical thrown weapon. In the movie, it’s the prince’s sword, which he throws into the dragon’s heart. Which was awesome, by the way. But in the book, it’s a little more complicated. It ends up being a magic spear, and it only enables a different character to take down the witch-- which is also pretty cool. 10. Speaking of the final confrontation? Spoilers, but Rosie basically decides to choke the witch the death. Man, I love that girl. Which points to essentially the biggest difference between the book and movie: Rosie actually gets to do things. Rose/Aurora in the film is barely a character, for all that the movie is about her. She has one important scene: the “once upon a dream” sequence. Other than that, it’s mostly the fairies and the prince. In the book, about the first 1/3 of the story does follow the fairies (because Rosie is a baby), but most of the rest of the story is from Rosie’s perspective, except for occasional switches back to Kat, or to the love interest, when it’s relevant. Rosie is still being strung along with this curse and all the princess nonsense, but she has infinitely more agency. (And also, like, opinions and feelings. Yes, she has a lot of those.) Anyway, mostly without spoilers (and not a single named mention of Narl or Peony somehow), that’s a few of my thoughts on the movie vs. book. Obviously it’s not even a relevant comparison, given the great time difference between their writings and the different authors, but I think it’s fun to see where some of the books specific inspiration might have come from. Oh, one more thought. 11. “Once upon a dream”. I actually love how this manifests in the book, because it happens in several ways. First is the way the fairy Katriona uses dreams to tell the queen that her daughter is alright. Second, is the “dream” of the seers who established Woodwold. And then the lyric, “and I know it’s true, that visions are seldom what they seem”, about seers’ notorious unreliability. (Oh, oops, I’m having fanfic thoughts.) Aaand, just one more: 12. The princess is woken by true love’s first kiss! When I was reading the book, I never thought of this! It literally happens TWICE in the book and I never thought of it as “true love’s first kiss”, because neither time is framed as normal romantic kisses. One is like... CPR, and the other is like... magical energy-transfer nonsense. (Well, maybe they’re both magical energy transfer nonsense, but the first one is definitely framed as CPR.) And what I love about this is that they’re different kinds of love, but they’re both undeniably true love. I dunno. Just makes me happy. =]

#elo talks #about books #Spindles End #Robin McKinley #fairytales #Disney #Sleeping Beauty #tbh I won't call it a perfect book but I will say that I love it

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