#onlyalittlebookworm

[killingsboys]

Twisters (2024) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

[stonerbughead]

tagged by @onlyalittlebookworm 🫶

shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first ten songs

1. Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves

2. Supercut - Lorde

3. Pretty Girls - Renee Rapp

4. Ice Cold - Waxahatchee

5. Don’t Forget Me - Maggie Rogers

6. KARMA - SiR, Isaiah Rashad

7. F2F - SZA

8. My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski

9. PIRATE RADIO* - Jean Dawson

10. Still Dreaming - Raveena

Tagging @sullypants @simon-eriksson @userlaylivia @tomkeirblyth @lurker-no-more @good-night-dodger @heartunsettledsoul

[kylejsugarman]

11, 12, 15 for movie asks 🫶🏻

11. a genre you just can’t stand

ive just never liked fantasy movies, not even as a kid 😔 i dont have a good explanation for it tbh, i just find them interminable and so hard to engage with. ill still give them a try but even some stuff from "the princess bride" can get my eyes glazing over

12. subtitles or no subtitles?

subtitles!! im hard of hearing and can sometimes get by if the volume is up enough, but subtitles are most helpful

15. do you like to talk during movies? or silence?

i like to talk during movies, im sorry 😔 obviously not in the theater unless we're completely alone, but i like to engage with other people about what we're seeing in the moment!! even just to say "oh my god this shot is crazy". i grew up on mst3k and rifftrax so i fucking love to riff a bad movie as its playing, but even a good movie is fun to comment on

[whatsaterrarium]

happy birthday friend!! here’s jesse 🫶🏻

yaaaaay jesse!!!! ty <3 <3 <3

[imreallyloveleee]

top five fictional characters?

Kim Wexler - ZOOMED to the top of my list in the last 6 months, i don't need to explain, u get it. I could make a full time job out of Thinking About The Tragedy Of Kim Wexler.

Peggy Olson - Peggy is just...so...I don't know...she feels very real to me. She's allowed to be hypocritical and rude and insensitive, but she's also thoughtful and kind and intelligent and so vulnerable, and her arc over the course of MM is so satisfying. Fuck Don, Peggy is my main character forever.

Britta Perry - Britta is deeply annoying in ways that I know myself to also be deeply annoying and I love her for it

Jimmy McGill - I thought about limiting myself to one per media property but I can't, I love Jimmy too much. He's so fucked up and pathetic and clever and loving and mean and desperate and tragic...!!!

Katniss Everdeen - I love Katniss so much I wrote fanfic IN THE FIRST PERSON about her. (Never again)

[tenpintsof-sundrop]

6, 10, 15 for the fic writer ask!!

thank you <3

fanfic writer ask game!!

6. Are there any fics from others you reread all the time?

Unfortunately, no.

I don't actually read fanfiction a lot because pretty much all of my waking moments are filled with writing fics, and when I'm not writing fics I'm watching youtube videos or doing something else.

And during the small slice of time when I actually read fanfiction - which is maybe a dedicated two hours a month - I seek out new fics to read. Usually 90 minutes of those two hours is spent searching AO3 looking for what I want. Every time I sit down to read fanfiction, I usually only end up reading one or two before I have to go to sleep. I have over 400 bookmarks on AO3 and I probably haven't looked at most of them since I made them.

But I think that this is good? Because if I'm spending more time working on my own fics rather than reading fics, then the people who like reading my stuff ultimately benefit.

10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

I could go on a whole rant about [REDACTED] but I won't, instead - I'll throw it back to a fic that you guys have probably never heard of.

Drowning In You (Billy Hargrove x Fem!Reader) is my most popular fic on AO3 by kudos and hits, and it still blows my fucking mind that this fic got as popular as it did.

To me, this is a perfect example of 'striking while the iron is hot' and a fic blowing up not because of it's quality, but because of the perfect weather conditions for it to happen - the character being new and popular and being spotlightted so fucking brightly because of their current popularity (S3 of Stranger Things had just come out and everyone was losing their minds over Billy in his fucking swim trunks), I posted it during the perfect fucking window after the show had come out when the hype was still fresh, and a lot of people weren't writing as much for Billy because they were afraid of the negative connotations around his character - yet, so many people were still thirsty for content of him. So me posting this fic was like feeding a bunch of feral dogs a steak.

This fic is not of a higher quality than any of my other fics. In fact, my writing has improved a lot since I wrote and posted that fic, and it is on the lower end of quality in terms of everything I have ever written. If I were to approach the same subject matter today, I would write it a lot differently, and I'd write it a lot better.

But it's my most popular fic because the fandom was huge and bustling after the release of the show and the character was instantly popular - and it probably still gets residual hits and kudos if people are looking for stuff on the Billy x Reader tag and sorting by most popular.

So I was not expecting it to be my most popular fic because to me - it's a very average possibly even mediocre run-of-the-mill fic. I would have never considered it to be my best fic. I just happened to post it at a time when it was able to blow up.

15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters?

Anybody who has followed me for a while knows this already - SONGS, BAABEYYY

90% of my fics are named after a song. If I do a multi-chap fic, then it will be named after a song and the chapters will be named after songs in the same album or named after snippets of lyrics. I love picking a song that goes well with the theme of a fic and just naming a fic after that song. It is very, very, very rare that I don't name a fic after a song.

Whenever it's time to title a fic, I will go to spotify looking for inspiration.

[ishipitpod]

In the hullabaloo of yesterday, I forgot to post our new episode!

Thanks, @freyaswolf and @holdmecloseandfast for coming back to Shipper City for another meeting of The Dead Moms Club! 💕

There are many tropes that have endured for the ages, but none quite so popular as the Dead Mom Phenomenon. Everywhere we look in films, books, TVs shows, etc. moms are dropping like flies.

Em is joined once again by two lovely motherless mongrels, Carly and Farleigh to breakdown why moms are such easy targets in fiction, talk about our favorite fictional moms, and of course, get off topic at least a few times.

Fics

The Right Mom by acaseofthemondays

Taserbones Tumblr Prompts II: Electric Boogaloo (Chapters 12 and 17) by PumpkinDoodles

everything you lose is a step you take by onlyalittlebookworm

[catherineav]

tagged by @onlyalittlebookworm :))))))

last song: you've got the love by florence + the machine

currently watching: none? just finished haunting of hill house!

three ships: jopper, jancy, hinny

favorite color: green

currently consuming: a tiramisu latte

first ship: harry and ginny (actually....laura and almanzo?! 😂)

relationship status: single

last movie: american fiction

currently working on: joyce & nancy in the wake of a jancy breakup; will & el as wonder twins healing together after s5

tagging @gnarly-love @manuushroom

[sinceregalaxy]

tagged by @onlyalittlebookworm ! shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first ten songs

1. movin’ out (anthony’s song) - billy joel

2. from the start - laufey

3. arriba - fémina

4. super graphic ultra modern girl - chappell roan

5. a big brown dog named bagel - nep

6. shanghai - king gizzard & the lizard wizard

7. too well - reneé rapp

8. playing god - paramore

9. lost in paradise - ali, aklo

10. girl i’ve always been - olivia rodrigo

tagging @somebodylovesyougcv @emobunny @howiehamlin and whoever else wants to!

[killingsboys]

AIN'T MY FIRST RODEO 🌪 a kate carter mix

— 26 by paramore — orange juice by noah kahan — out of oklahoma by lainey wilson — never left me by megan moroney — the view between villages - extended by noah kahan — wide open spaces by the chicks — march by lizzy mcalpine

[stonerbughead]

omg it’s your birthday??? happy birthday friend, i hope this year is so so good to you 🩷🩷

that it is!!!! thanks so much, my dear friend!! 🥰❤️

[kylejsugarman]

hiii 🫶🏻 i just wanted to say that reading your posts about jesse demi and baby bring me so much joy! thanks for creating these characters and sharing them with us 🩷🩷

🥺🥺 no.......thank u for saying this and being so sweet and reading about them in the first place!! they make me so happy, it literally means the actual world when other people not only read about them but enjoy them as well :') thank u so much!!

[celinecooperjones]

@onlyalittlebookworm tagged me to do 10 songs by 10 people, so here’s what I have on repeat:

It’s All Coming Back to me Now - Céline Dion

By The Sea - Sweeney Todd 2023 Broadway Cast Recording

This Kiss - Faith Hill

The Worst Pies in London - Sweeney Todd Movie Soundtrack (are you sensing a theme?)

Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

Silver Springs (Live) - Fleetwood Mac

Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects

Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie

Everywhere - Tim McGraw

When All is Said and Done - ABBA

tagging: @andcontemplation @nonisjopper @cricketsatnight @marshmallow6620 @hopperspickle @aether-biome and literally anyone else who wants to do this 🫶🏻

[imreallyloveleee]

multiple friends tagged me in multiple ask thingies that overlapped so i'm combining them into one mega-ask! thanks @stonerbughead & @onlyalittlebookworm & @sullypants <3 <3 <3

last song I listened to: all-american bitch, i've been having an olivia rodrigo moment lately

currently watching: mr & mrs smith. my husband loves this show. i think it's fine? the first episode was very promising and there have been highlights along the way (parker posey!!) but they've been speed-running the relationship in a way i don't find very believable or compelling. the last ep we watched was the one set in italy and i won't spoil anything here but the ending of that one made me very WTF in a way i don't think they intended?

currently obsessed with: take a WILD guess what i'm obsessed with rn

three ships: mcwexler, bughead, everlark. the holy trinity.

favorite color: red

currently consuming: nothing, but we will be ordering mexican food for dinner shortly

first ship: maria & michael on the og roswell. (sidenote: NO ONE in this world was as excited as i was when brendan fehr showed up in two episodes of bcs. no one)

relationship status: married <3

last movie: american fiction. liked it, didn't love it, REALLY wished it had more tracee ellis ross.

currently working on: a "five times" fic centered around kim wexler's 40th birthday. i will probably have a very long author's note about this when i finally finish it, but for now i will say: i find it really difficult to think up canon AUs from better call saul because pretty much all of the key turning points come from decisions the characters make, and not circumstance. and they are just so well-written and in-character that it's really hard for me to imagine them making different ones. (especially different ones that lead to the specific scenarios i want to explore.)

so, it's an interesting challenge i've given myself, to figure out how kim might still be living in nebraska at age 40, or stuck it out to finally become a partner at HHM, or still sharing an office with her ex at Wexler-McGilll, or...or...

[onlyalittlebookworm]

2023 Fic Review

I did this last year and it was so fun so I'm doing it again!

What is your ao3 account?

onlyalittlebookworm

2. How many words did you write total in 2023?

About 105,000, give or take.

3. How many fics did you publish in 2023? How many multichapters vs. oneshots?

Published 20 and they were all oneshots!

4. What was your longest fic? Your shortest fic?

Longest by far was the Hopper character study at just under 43k, and shortest was the high school Jopper oneshot that I wrote on a whim after the stranger things play came out at 1,200.

5. What was your most popular fic? Your least popular?

Most popular was the Jopper DTR (which makes my heart so happy) and least popular was the high school oneshot mentioned earlier.

6. What fic didn't perform as well as you thought it would?

I thought the Hopper character study would do better than it did, but the fandom was pretty dead when I finally posted it.

7. What fic performed way better than you thought it would?

The wedding fic climbed pretty steadily all year, which kind of surprised me because I wrote it in two days on a whim and wasn't expecting much from it.

8. What was your favourite fic you wrote in 2023?

God, I have so many, but I think it's a tossup between the DTR one and the dirty talk fic I wrote for a friend's birthday.

9. What was your favourite fic someone else wrote in 2023?

Eighty-Six Years by jimmymcgools and unambiguous (true love) by CatherineA.

10. Tag your friends to do this year end fic review as well!

@winterlovesong1 @imreallyloveleee @celinecooperjones and whoever else wants to do it!

[thetaoofbetty]

Happy birthday! I hope your day is wonderful, thank you for everything you do in the fandom! I love reading your takes and your lovely fic 💕

you're too lovely and kind to me, gorgeous! 💜💜💜