#otp: we’d be in love. we are in love.

[olxwxa]

we were something, don't you think so? the 1 - folklore (2020) Taylor Swift

[waywardted]

Believing in rom-communism is all about believing that everything is going to work out in the end... Now, it may not work out how you think it will, or how you hope it does, but, believe me, it will all work out.

[novelbear]

midnight rambling - some late night dialogue for your otp 

prompt list by @novelbear (had to take a mini mental health break haha, posts should be coming back soon <3)

“you’ve been tossing and turning for the last forty minutes. what’s up?”

 “what do you think you’d be doing right now if we never met?” 

 “are you asleep?” “...no.” 

 “do you think we’d still be a couple in an alternate universe?” “go to bed.” “what if we already got married and have five kids.” “go to bed.” 

 “i can’t sleep...” “me either.” 

 “it’s five a.m.” “we talked all night?” 

 “i’m still worried about tomorrow...” “do you want to talk and try to get your mind off of it?”

 “fine, i get your cereal-soup argument, but there’s nothing you can say to convince me that a hot dog is a damn sandwich.” 

 “you know when i was little, i always thought my toys would come alive when i’m not around like they would in Toy Story. i still think they do.” 

 “babe, i love you, but we both need to get up early.”

 “freeze. i know you’re not wearing socks and trying to go to sleep right now.” 

 “i’m cold, can we cuddle?” 

 “what if aliens think we’re the aliens.” “the hell are you talking about-” 

 “sitting here with you like this is nice...” 

 “i’m wondering why i’m freezing and i see you’ve stolen the entire blanket.”

 “do you want to know what [name] told me today?” 

 “so then- oh. you’re asleep.”  

[therainscene]

I’m obsessed with @wheelersboy’s theory that Mike thinks Will is in love with El. It’s one of those takes that’s so simple, yet so perfectly explains every odd little detail you couldn’t quite account for before, that you know you’re on to a winner.

I always thought it was bizarre that the Willel reunion at NINA was framed in blatant love triangle imagery:

If this was supposed to be yet another reminder that the sad widdle gay boy has fee-fees for his best friend, we’d expect him to be gazing at Mike or otherwise looking conflicted at both of them. But he isn’t. His steady, adoring gaze is for El only. Yes, he loves her, but that love is strictly fraternal, so why the romance symbolism?

Is it straight-bait? This scene comes after his thinly-veiled love confession to Mike (in the same episode, no less), and the Duffers and Noah both made a point of confirming that Will was gay in post-vol.2 interviews, so making the audience think that Will is in love with El clearly wasn’t the intention here.

The Willel romance-coding isn’t for the audience -- it’s for Mike.

We often joke about Mike being crushed that Will didn’t laugh at his vomit green socks, but follow Will’s gaze -- it’s a little hard to see in the still image, but he’s staring at El, checking to see if she’s going to heed his advice. Mike's discomfort isn’t because he’s upset that Will didn’t like his joke, it’s because he doesn’t understand the weird tension between these two and is frustrated that his attempt to lighten the mood didn’t dispel it.

Mike’s smart enough to correctly connect the dots by the time Will starts sobbing in the van though: Will is destroying himself in his efforts to be supportive of the relationship between his best friend and the person he’s in love with.

But heteronormativity and a severe inferiority complex lead him to draw the wrong conclusion -- he thinks he’s the best friend and El is the one Will’s in love with, and that gets confirmed in his mind when he catches them making goo-goo eyes at each other at NINA.

And not once, after figuring it out, does he get jealous about it -- he guides El into Will’s arms at NINA, he looks conflicted as hell during the “I love you” monologue as Will hovers over his shoulder -- he just wants them to be happy and is prepared to put his own feelings aside to make it happen, even though it would hurt him terribly to do so. Exactly the same fucking thing Will is doing. It’s utterly farcical. I love this theory so much.

I’d like to springboard off this by taking a look at what it implies about S5.

Between Will’s history with Vecna and the Wonder Twins foreshadowing--

--it’s looking pretty likely that Will and El are going to be spending a significant amount of time together next season.

So we can already see that conditions are perfect for Mike to go through a similar arc as Will did in S4: being a third wheel between his best friend and the person he’s in love with and feeling like he can never truly be more than a third wheel, leading him to sacrifice himself in an effort to support what he thinks they have together.

Mike is very much at risk of doing something stupidly self-harming in S5 -- this is the same kid who jumped off a cliff to protect Dustin’s baby teeth, after all. He feels like he has no value if he isn’t needed by Superman. And there’s a goddamn mind-reading despair demon stalking his friend group.

Of course, it’ll all work out in the end. He’ll be saved at the last moment, the truth will be tearfully revealed, and we’ll finally get that big, dramatic, affirming kiss for our OTP.

You might have noticed that everything I’ve said in this analysis so far is consistent with either Byler or Milevn being endgame.

Many Milevns and GA members don’t just believe that Milevn will triumph over Byler -- they believe there isn’t any conflict between Milevn and Byler in the first place. The lack of evidence that Mike isn’t into boys is meaningless to the heteronormative mindset -- he’s the protagonist and dating a girl, therefore he’s straight, therefore Will’s hopes are dead in the water, therefore Mike has no romantic dilemma to solve.

By introducing a misunderstanding in which Mike imagines that his best friend is competing for his girlfriend -- couching his dilemma in relatable heterosexual terms -- the audience will be forced to accept that Mike is experiencing a distressing internal conflict involving Will and romance that won’t be resolved until the queer truth comes out.

The GA felt bad for Will in S4 because they assumed there was nothing he could do about it, but they’ll be tearing their hair out with frustration at Mike in S5 -- “you’re wrongly assuming he’s straight, you idiot! Just talk to him and this will all be cleared up!!”

It would be an absolutely genius way of getting the audience to question heteronormativity without them even realizing they’re questioning heteronormativity.

Once Mike’s queerness is revealed, the parallels between his arc and Will’s will suddenly become clear, and the audience will realize that, despite his straight-passing invisibility, Mike was just the other side of the same gay coin Will was on all along.

[Part 2]

[bringbacktentoo]

“Rose is actually happy in a parallel universe with a half-human Doctor.” - Russell T. Davies

Hello, Whovians — we’re excited to announce the #BringBackTentoo movement!

Sign the petition

In July 2008, millions of viewers tuned in to watch ‘Journey’s End’; where the Doctor and Rose were left hand-in-hand on Bad Wolf Bay.

While fandom has remained active, continuing to generate endless works inspired by this iconic pairing, there's sadly been little official content from the people who launched the ship!

Nonetheless, our devotion remains unwavering. We persist, loving the OTP; ceaselessly spreading love and fan-made content worldwide!

The purpose of this movement is to show there is still an audience that is very interested in revisiting these two. One that would love to see the Doctor and Rose together again, on-screen or off, living their best lives in Pete’s World. 

Regardless of whether it’s a spin-off, comics, audio adventures, or — and this, we believe, is crucial — anything at all, we would just love to have them back in some way. We’ve realized that perhaps there hasn’t been enough collective buzz to bring this into reality, which is why we’re looking to rally up as much support as we can.

Already with us? Sign the petition! Our petition will be emailed directly to the powers that be; including Russell T Davies, Big Finish, the BBC, and more.

Have questions? Doubts? Need a little more convincing? Then read on…

Why now?

Because there’s never been a more perfect time for it. 

Already, Russell’s return has been bringing former fans back in droves. Everyone’s waiting with bated breath for RTD2 and the sixtieth anniversary; plus Ncuti, David, and Catherine. With so many fans dipping back into the Doctor Who world, why not strike while the iron’s hot? 

At the fifteen-year mark, it might never be this “hot” again!

Plus… nostalgia is a massive market.

A return of Tentoo and Rose after all of these years would be the perfect cherry on top of all of it: closure for so many fans, as well as validation for the only happy ending a Doctor-and-companion pairing ever got in Doctor Who.

And don’t forget — fan campaigns work, especially in the social media age!

A spin-off — too much? 

As much as we’d love to see David and Billie back on-screen together as the proper Meta-Crisis Doctor and Rose, we understand that we already have David coming back in a big way, as well as Ncuti Gatwa — our brand new Doctor. It’s a big, BIG ask, trying to get a spin-off out of this. We recognize that.

However, as famished fans who are living off of little more than canonical crumbs and dreams, we will greedily devour anything we can get.

Such as:

More Big Finish audio adventures

Big Finish has done incredible work for Doctor Who, including one of the only official ‘glimpses’ we’ve gotten into Pete’s World: A couple of short audios featuring Tentoo and Jackie.

Big Finish understands and respects these characters, their relationships, and the overall source material. They’ve shown time and time again that they’re more than capable of doing justice to Doctor Who! 

Audio adventures with a focus on the Meta-Crisis Doctor and Rose Tyler would be fantastic. Anything from their adventures with Torchwood and/or UNIT, imaginings of their life with a TARDIS, etc — there are endless possibilities! 

Comic book adventures

In 2021, Titan Comics published ‘Empire of the Wolf’, a lovely comic book that gifted us with the best glimpse we’ve ever had into the lives of the Doctor and Rose in Pete’s World:

It was a beautiful, if brief imagining of these two (and includes their daughter), but even so, the vast majority of the story involves Rose being trapped with the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors. We only get a few pages of Tentoo. 

Comics would be an excellent way to dive into the parallel world again!

Novels

There are loads of Doctor Who novels with amazing stories about Rose and the Tenth Doctor (like 'The Stone Rose' by Jacqueline Rayner). But, here's the thing: there's just one official novel that dives into the whole Metacrisis and Rose relationship... And guess what? Fans are really craving content that stays true to RTD and Julie Gardner's original vision for this couple.

The good news is, there are tons of talented writers out there who would jump at the chance to create legit Meta-Crisis stories, and some would even do it for free!

An animated series

We recognize that this would be a tremendous undertaking, but imagine: You can do incredible things with animation that aren’t possible with film. It would appeal to fans of all ages, and Billie and David have more than proven themselves to be excellent voice actors. There are all sorts of stories that could be created in this medium.

But let’s say we went with the first choice…

A spin-off/miniseries

RTD has been very vocal about his plans for spin-offs. Billie and David are willing, and it hasn’t been so long that the pairing has lost relevance… Although, in Doctor Who, does anything ever really lose relevance? The show is known for bringing back old characters. Enemies, companions… Doctors:

It’s obvious that David seems to have no issue with playing the Doctor. Furthermore, even Billie Piper has recently expressed interest in a spin-off!

In 2019, she told Doctor Who magazine: 

“I would like to see a one-off dark comedy about Rose and the Doctor in the parallel universe”. 

Then, even more recently in December 2022, she told Buzzfeed [on returning to Doctor Who]:

“If it was like four episodes all shot in London, then yeah, I’d be like a rat-up-a-drainpipe for that.”

Four episodes of Tentoo and Rose in London? What could be more perfect than that?

Wouldn’t a spin-off overshadow Ncuti Gatwa?

It doesn’t have to! If a spin-off were to happen, it wouldn’t necessarily have to happen immediately — it can happen after Ncuti has been established as the Doctor, and after RTD has re-established himself as showrunner. We’d just like for it to be part of the conversation, and let those in charge know that people are interested.

So… What about the people who didn’t like the ending?

Yes, there are some naysayers out there. People who refuse to acknowledge Tentoo’s legitimacy as the Doctor; others who refuse to believe that Rose could ever be truly happy with him, and vice versa.

This, sadly, is willful ignorance. Not only has Russell T. Davies, the man who wrote Journey’s End — who created Tentoo and Rose — confirmed that they're happy; the Doctor himself, David Tennant, will be the first person to tell you that those two are blissfully shagging their lives away at all times. And god bless him for it.

We’ve come to find that a lot of people who aren’t on board with the ending just didn’t understand it, which is fine — what better way to understand this pairing than by seeing more of them? 

On that note…

How can I help? 

Sign the petition!

Petitions are old school, but they are proven to be effective at affecting change, even in today’s world. We can preach to the ends of the earth about how much we want to bring these two back, but without numbers to back it up, the prospect is null and void. 

Don’t just like this post — please reblog!

This is a grassroots effort that is counting on the power of fans to help spread the word. Unlike most social media platforms, there is no algorithm on Tumblr. Likes do nothing for visibility, so please reblog to make sure as many people see this as possible! 

Participate in Tentoo x Rose Month

This is a multi-medium fan event for creating content of the OTP throughout all of July! All works will be featured on the @tentoorosemonth2023 page, with certain works even shared on the BringBackTentoo Instagram.

Buy the already-existing content

If you haven’t already, buy the ‘Empire of the Wolf’ comic. Buy the Big Finish audios ‘The Siege of Big Ben’ and ‘Flight Into Hull!’. Show these fantastic creators that we will gladly consume any content about these two that we can get!

Spread the word

Know anyone who likes Doctor Who? Any former fandom friends who might’ve outgrown all of this, but would enjoy more Tentoo/Rose content? Or maybe even just a random IRL friend who supports your obsessions? Link them to the petition!

Join the movement by following this page and our Instagram (which is brand new, give it time to grow ♥️). Keep on creating content, using #BringBackTentoo to tag any of your fanart, well-wishes, or whatever you like across platforms — just please be sure to keep it positive!

Feel free to DM/ask if you have any other questions, concerns, or ideas that weren’t touched upon in this post. 

And please, for goodness' sake, be kind. This is a labor of love inspired by passionate fans and creators who just want to see our OTP again. ♥️

[2024-buddie-era]

“Rarepair goes canon and the crowd goes wild!”

In every fandom I’ve been apart of over the many (many…) years, I have always been a multishipper. Give me a pairing and write it well, I’ll ship it! Give me a comfort character and write them into any relationship that supports them and I’ll ship it! Character A looked at Character B’s best friends neighbours boss that one time? I’ll take 30k words of fic please. Give me OTP’s and OT3’s and more please please please!

The fact that a rarepair (quite possibly the rarest of pairs!) that I’ve shipped prior is now canon is quite frankly hilarious to behold and I fucking love it. Buck and Tommy, who knew we’d ever be here 😆?

I totally understand some disappointment here and there, and absolutely get it when it’s a matter of tagging and not tagging content etc.

I guess in this case, we do know that this is a short term thing and I’m getting ready to absolutely lose my shit when Buddie goes canon - as in, check on me cuz I might have died for the delight of seeing it y’know?

In conclusion, tag your spoilers, my ship is not your ship/your ship is not my ship, there’s no betrayal in multishipping, fandom remains a fucking delight and bless this bisexual mess to us all.

Xoxo, from a fandom oldie who just wants everyone to have a nice time :)

[saintsenara]

hyped by the @hprecfest, because it's always nice to have an excuse to squeal about the amazing writing in this fandom. and the time i've spent reading it...

day one: favourite fics under 5k words

the ballad of judas iscariot by eldritcher severus snape/lord voldemort mature | 2.9k words

why i recommend it:

because it's the perfect characterisation of my ultimate otp - a brave, feral snape whose betrayal of voldemort [weighed down by the long shadow of catholic guilt, which is relatable of him...] actually means something - told in spare, beautiful prose:

it was unlikely that lucius could contribute any advice to my problem. i was planning to betray a madman who wanted to kill a newborn babe. that i happened to fiercely love said madman contributed complexity to the case.

beautiful enough for the both of us by dirgewithoutmusic lavender brown/parvati patil general | 2.2k words

why i recommend it:

because it's an exquisite demonstration of what love actually is - not the grand sacrifices to save the world which harry gets up to in canon, but the bittersweet tenderness of choosing each other despite everything.

lavender didn’t remember, because she never remembered– she didn’t recall the cellar door unlocking and opening after ten minutes of post-moonrise silence. she didn’t recall parvati wingardium leviosa-ing a comfy chair down the stairs, or her sitting down and pulling out a stack of witch weeklys, nor did she remember curling up on parvati’s fuzzy button slippers and going to sleep.

but she did remember waking up in the morning, her cheek pressed into a soft pillow. she was tattered under a thick blanket, but she was human and looking upward at parvati’s slack, sleeping face. her dark plaits tumbled, curling, over the soft pink polka dots of her pajamas.

mortal coil by mckay the bloody baron/severus snape teen | 3.6k words

why i recommend it:

because what life must be like for the hogwarts ghosts - year after year stretching out before them - is something i love seeing explored in fics, and this does a remarkable job of linking the monotony of the bloody baron's existence to the loneliness and grief of snape's own. plus, it is, in its own little way, a story of true love:

"why weren't you afraid of me?" he asked, gathering that boy in his arms. he really would have to remember to start using his name; he couldn't very well call him "that boy" for the rest of eternity.

"you know why."

"yes, i suppose i do."

for everything a season by @broomsticks marge dursley/dolores umbridge general | 300 words

why i recommend it:

because i love to see middle-aged butch representation:

summer had seen marge growl “i’m never getting married — ever —” and drop the top of her convertible and floor the accelerator. dolores, who’d always loathed quidditch, had thrown her face up to the scorching sun, let the wind whip through her hair.

in the arms of the ocean by writcraft sirius black/james potter mature | 2.1k words

why i recommend it:

because i love prongsfoot and its inherent tragedy, and the growing horror as you realise where this piece is going - even in so few words - is visceral:

even on a cold autumn morning, everything about james reminds me of summertime. he’s tanned, warm and restless. he uses shampoo which smells like coconuts. it reminds me of that time in brighton, when the pebbles were hot with sunshine and smooth and hard beneath our feet. we ran into the sea while the waves crashed over us. i pushed him, and he pushed me back until we were both laughing like we’d never stop, and his kisses tasted like ocean spray.

[rypnami]

Sebastian Sallow for the character post? Pretty please? 🙏

of course lovely 💚

How I feel about this character

love him soooo much. he’s such an interesting, well thought-out character with good depth and a very compelling storyline <3

All the people I ship romantically with this character

i know there’s a lot of ships for him, and i will read just about anything, but the only one i personally actually ship is him and leander. my prewlow heart just ❤️💚

no disrespect to any other ship, everything is valid as hell, this is just my preference!

My non-romantic OTP for this character

ominis gaunt. despite how the game ended, i think that it’s possible for them to repair their friendship. i do wish we’d gotten to see more of the trio specifically before anne was cursed, so we could learn more about their dynamic

My unpopular opinion about this character

i love him, but sometimes i think he’s almost toooo loved. like he overshadows every single other character in this fandom sometimes. but that always happens in every fandom so i don’t really mind most of the time. he does need to be loved, poor guy.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

i wish he had a happier ending. he’s suffered so much, yes sometimes because of his own actions, but he needs a break!! i hope that if there’s a sequel or spinoff, he reconciles with anne and ominis, and they + mc can actually be happy 🥺

[jemgirl86]

Now, don’t piss me off either, because one thing I’m gonna always do is remember, and if we’re being honest, one group of TFATWS shippers were acting very VERY weird about another group of TFATWS related shippers, and it damn sure wasn’t us 🌚 Y’all were saying we hated that lady simply because we were shipping something we’d shipped for years 🤪

Hold up, forget acting weird about a ship that conflicts with your own, y’all were acting weird about your own damn ship. Making mood boards where the darkskin BLACK woman is lightskin or even white, writing fics where every other Black character in the fic is the biggest Birth of Nation-esque stereotype you could think of, writing her brother weird and creepy like he was lowkey in love with her and jealous 🤮, hell, making her a stereotype. Pretty sure I was scrolling through a fic for that ship once (a ship I also enjoy, and have written fics for, so clearly I’m not a hater, I’m just not about to lie and rewrite history like y’all lmao) and Natasha was ripping off a Black woman’s wig while Sam heckled the lady. I was so outdone I screenshot it and sent it to my buddy, and she was like: this is why I don’t read a lot of their fics. For context, she’s ships them too LOL. They are literally one of her OTPs, and even she can’t hang with a lot of y’all.

People who like that ship, myself included, built it from two ten second interactions, so maybe y’all should sit out the delusional fans discussions, ijs 😭

Damn… I just — when did things change? You think when I was sitting around shipping Dean & Cas I ever seriously thought that was going canon?? lmaooo Yo, I was lowkey surprised when Chandler and Monica went canon 😭 and they’re the straightest whitest couple to ever couple, but still, it felt like why would they go to this well twice when there’s already a couple (that we all knew would be endgame) on the show.

Anywho, my point is, none of us were sitting around thinking our favorite gay interracial fanon ship was going canon, but I’m starting to realize that y’all really did think your two interactions for a total of 20 seconds straight interracial fanon ship (that y’all kinda don’t even seem to enjoy or y’all wouldn’t always be, you know, erasing even the most basic parts of their identities 😬) was gonna go canon, and that’s sad

But oh well lol

[museaway]

Happy 10th anniversary to my beloved Free! fandom. When I was struck down by a fever in late 2017 and decided to watch the anime, I had no idea the ways the fandom would influence me. So since @rinharumemories is a memory event, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to finally write a love letter to the fandom! 💙❤️ 

(Adapted from this twitter thread!)

After my fever-inspired crash-course, Free! fell out of my head for a while, but Rin never did. The following year, I watched a cosplay tutorial for him on YouTube and decided to watch Take Your Marks. I saw The Bench Scene. Suddenly I had an OTP!

My first-ever rinharu friend, Rubi, encouraged me to write fic and kindly beta read for me! I was neck-deep in anxiety at the time because of another fandom and Free! was refreshing. My anxiety was so bad that she actually screened the comments on that first fic to make sure I could read them without spiraling.

I found more shippers & joined the Sakura Pool discord, where I would meet my dear SweetHeaven! Su & the other friends I made there helped shape @ficwip's early days as a hashtag game, and (along w/friends from SPN & VLD) were some of our discord's initial members.

When I was designing the ficwip discord, Aenya was kind enough to share tips for role-based channel permissions & let me pick her brain about modding a year-round space! Her advice was invaluable, an absolute lifesaver. 🙏🙏🙏 

Around this time, through the original #ficwip game on Twitter, I met fellow writer @matsuoka-lin and we got to be friends. (During the pandemic, Lin would join the ficwip server and we would recognize our Aquarius bond ♒)

Late into 2018, I was still writing rinharu fic, and I also participated in Inktober, with a good number of the images being rinharu themed. It had been years since I’d drawn, but those two brought it out of me. Sadly, that December, the VLD finale hit during my very first @rinharuweek and launched me back into the VLD fandom for a couple of years. I never finished my RHW '18 entry. But I never forgot Free! or rinharu, and definitely not Rin, who was my profile pic more often than not. 

Flash forward to 2021. Su won a fic giveaway & prompted me to write a rinharu amnesia fic. I worked on it across 11 months. That awoke my muses, and I ended up writing rinharu hanahaki for @ficwip's 5k!

Last August, I was days away from announcing a fandom-wide SPN event when I recalled my dream of a rinharu bang and mentioned it in passing to Lin. We talked for eight hours straight. By the end of the conversation, @thenightpool had been born. 

We started TNP with the humble goal of five participants in our first event, a mermaid-themed fic & art fest. We had months to prepare! Then something happened with FS2 and we scrambled to launch a Halloween fest that we pulled off thanks to incredible contributors. They formed the foundation of the TNP discord, which is set up a lot like ficwip’s to be a year-round little creative community. We’ll actually be launching our own version of fw’s writing retreat weekends later this month! 

The merfest, which got renamed Unleashed Blue, blew past our expectations — as did Sakurathon, a dormant event that we revived for a weekend in April. UB ended up with 52 entries; we’d hoped for maybe 15. Sakurathon was such a success that we rescheduled it immediately. Right now, we have a prompt meme running, and have events scheduled through 2024! 😅 

In addition to @thenightpool, we’ve formed @iwatobievents to promote events across the Free! fandom. And we’re running events there too, for Nagisa and Soumako. Because what is sleep!! 

So the TL;DR is that the rinharu fandom helped give @ficwip life, has inspired me as a writer and artist, led me to my best and dearest friends, and will make a big dream come true later this year: I’ll finally be running a rinharu bang! 💙❤️

And I still have a Rin Matsuoka icon.

(eta: I did, up until the day I posted this. It may temporarily be changed to another favorite character!)

[socially-awkward-skeleton]

Ship Songs Tag

Tagged by @inafieldofdaisies to list 5-10 songs that describe or relate to my fav otp/personal ship(s) for FC5

Tagging: @clicheantagonist @direwombat @fourlittleseedlings @hopelesscounty @aceghosts @adelaidedrubman @purplehairsecretlair @josephslittledeputy @henbased @derelictheretic @strafethesesinners and anyone else who’d like to give this a go :)

Ship: The Wolf and the Wildcat

The full playlist is on spotify and never stops growing...

under the cut this boy gets lengthy

1) Rabid - Nicole Dollanganger

Something ugly in you, you also saw in me Guess we're infected with the same disease Well I could be your girl and you could be my baby Have a habit of ruining everything

We're the same, we're both rabid animals Got sick heads and minds, we were both born feral

2) American Darkness - Chelsea Wolfe

Your eye was trained on me As I stood before you, unbuttoning Kiss me as the bell tolls Swiftly, as the horses ride 

All my old ways have started kickin' in And my bad days are comin' round again Left here in American darkness River on fire, and sun eclipsed

3) Desire - Meg Myers

Honey, I wanna break you I wanna throw you to the hounds Yeah I gotta hurt you I gotta hear from your mouth Boy, I wanna taste you I wanna skin you with my tongue I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna lay you in the ground

4) Middle of the Night - Loveless

I summoned you, please come to me Don't bury thoughts that you really want I fill you up, drink from my cup Within me lies what you really want 

In the middle of the night In the middle of the night Just call my name, I'm yours to tame

5) Dog Teeth - Nicole Dollanger

You're cold on the inside There's a dog in your heart and it tells you to tear everything apart My body's covered in teeth marks, your bite's worse than your bark 

You ruin everything you touch and destroy anyone you love, you're all over me

6) NFWMB - Hozier

When I first saw you The end was soon To Bethlehem it slouched And then it must've caught a good look at you 

Give your heart and soul to charity 'Cause the rest of you The best of you Honey, belongs to me

7) Wolf & I - Oh Land

But he's a lonely man, so this was done

The only place we had to meet is night While the sun he sleeps in shadows we can hide On the mountainside, we'd spent our time together But it is gone when morning comes

8) The Wolf in Your Darkest Room - Matthew Mayfield

I am the reason The reason for you You can only breathe because I let you 

Come to your senses Wake from your dream I am the wolf in your darkest room

And I just want to taste you on my teeth And clawing at your neck to feed my needs

[yukidragon]

Okay, you’ve seen that art of Jack in what looks like an 80’s horror movie poster, right? What if Something’s Wrong With Sunny Day Jack was a literal horror movie? We’d all OBVIOUSLY watch it, but what would your ideal SDJ movie be?

Ah yes, I loved that mock horror movie poster. It reminded me of when I would dare to stroll through the horror movie section of the video rental store to see all the creepy box art. Such a cool picture.

Hmm... my ideal SDJ movie... Well, while it would still have horror elements, it would be more of a thriller romance. I don't know if you noticed, but I'm a sucker for my OTP of Alice and Jack, which is why I'm writing my own version of the canon with Sunshine in Hell to guarantee that they'll have a happily ever after that involves lots of cuddles and smooches.

In a lot of ways my ideal SDJ movie would be a condensed version of Sunshine in Hell. The overarching plot would be to have Jack be twisted by his time in the tape, clingy and attached to his sunshine, Alice, but at the same time still human and just needing love and warmth.

Really, in order to fit in the 90-270 minute average run time movies have, a lot of corners would be cut. The focus would be trimmed down to the paranormal romance of it, the forbidden nature of Alice loving an entity that is both no longer human and has the potential to be very dangerous. Jack being a legitimate threat to those who would take her away from him, while she tries to help him keep his humanity and avoid the urge to kill in order to keep her. At the same time we learn how he got into the situation and what kind of evils LambsWork unleashed to do something like this to him.

In a sense, this would be the type of paranormal romance movie I would have wanted to see rather than the types that are churned out. Instead of a ML who is all angsty and brooding, warning the FL that they're dangerous and to stay away... this one is trying to keep the FL to himself and convince her that he's not dangerous so that she won't go away.

There's a very legitimate struggle that Jack has with not being human, as well as the scars of his past. People would have reason to be scared of a ghost(?) like him, and even Alice has reason to be wary, but ultimately she chooses to believe in his love and humanity, which heals him in the end.

The climax of the movie would most likely be Jack on the brink of breaking... from the truth of his past, from fears that he's no longer real, that he's not even the ghost of the man once known as Joseph Cullman, but something entirely different... something completely fake. The ghost of a ghost...

Rotting and bleeding between both forms, torn between wanting revenge against those who created/did this to him and just desperately lashing out. That's when Alice stops him and talks him down from the metaphorical edge.

Jack doesn't have to hurt anyone. He doesn't have to hurt himself anymore with what he is or was. Even if he's not human... even if the world can't understand him, he exists. He is who he chooses to be.

And Alice chooses to be with Jack because he's someone who chose to love her and always tried to make her happy... and because she loves him more than anyone else in the world, no matter what he is.

A crying breakdown happens as Alice reaches Jack's humanity and they kiss. It's probably a dark and stormy night because drama and aesthetics.✨

After that, there's an aftermath in the sunshine of Alice waking Jack up in her bed, a reversal of all the times she woke him up. He pretends he's still asleep so that she leans in closer and he pulls her down on top of him for a kiss and cuddle, sending them both into a fit of giggles.

Jack is no longer in his clown costume and makeup, but he doesn't look like he did as Joseph either. He has a mixture of blue and brown hair, and different markings where his tattoos were, new marks to symbolize his new self and new attempt at life, but one of them is still a heart, only it has colorful wings around it and a glow like sunshine to it.

Alice teases Jack that she's a bad influence on him, referring to him sleeping in. He teasingly retorts that she's the best influence on him, and kisses her sweetly.

Essentially the movie ends with a sweet domestic life between them, a little bit different than before, and never being normal, but still a life they live full of love that is never boring and always sunny~

@channydraws @earthgirlaesthetic @sai-of-the-7-stars @cheriihoney @illary-kore @okamiliqueur 

[pluckysidekick]

UPDATED WITH EPISODE 5 INFO (see below)!

I just knew if I posted a new blog they’d announce the S4 premier date for Nancy Drew! We finally know when the show is dropping - Wednesday May 31st at 8:00pm paired with Riverdale.

Promo photo from Episode 5

We knew they were going to pair the shows, and as Riverdale has 20 episodes to Nancy Drew’s 13, I expected ND to come later. On the one hand - I can’t believe we have to wait 4+ months! But it also means postponing the sad day when the show ends, so there’s that. I’m not surprised they dropped the news on Friday afternoon as they knew we’d be unhappy that it was going to be so long between seasons, and because of a key plot point (see below).

There were tons of season 4 details in the TVLine article. One of the lede items is that both Ace and Nancy will have new love interests. We’ve known for months that Henry Zaga was joining the show as a series regular for S4 - and I’ve suspected that he will fill that role. While it’s heartbreaking that we have to go through yet another love triangle (or love square?), I am excited to see what he brings as the son of Ryan’s newest enemy. Is that the Glasses (relic hunting couple from the S3 finale)? Or perhaps their boss?

As for Ace - we’ve seen jealous Ace before in Seasons 2 & 3 - I expect a lot more confrontation with Nancy and Ace in S4 based on Kennedy’s many hints (e.g. “good luck” regarding Episode 3). I’m all for lots of yearning and angst as long as we get lots of Nace scenes and of course Nace OTP by the end and hopefully sooner than the finale!

In other crew news, we have confirmation of George pursuing law, Nick pursuing business AND dating again (!), and Bess has a new enemy as well. I’m intrigued!

Sounds like we’ll get lots of interesting supernatural hijinx with the mystery of the graves, stand-alone mysteries, the sins of the past of Horseshoe Bay coming back to haunt the town, and Nancy having to risk everything and everyone to save the town AGAIN. Well, it doesn’t sound boring!

UPDATED! I wanted to add some links to my previous blog posts about Episode 5, where the new photo came from. We know that Scott Wolf directed it, there’s a confrontation in the woods (maybe with the ghosts of the past of Horseshoe Bay?), there’s scenes in a university (where George and maybe Ace attend?), including Nancy and George running, and there was filming at the same site where both the Velvet Masque and Larkspur Lane/Whisper Box were filmed (could there be a dance where Nancy and Ace are dressed up?)?

Ending with a shameless plug for my Season 4 spec fic The Space Between! You’ll find the first 12 chapters filled with yearning, angst, the graves mystery including sins (and ghosts!) of the past Horseshoe Bay, also lots of sexy goings on and serious wish fulfillment for Nace fans to tide us over until the summer! More chapters coming very soon…

[seasonsofcapri]

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[hrokkall]

Leshy for the ask game?

HELL YEAH I got requests for all four Scrybes let’s go.

Favorite thing about them: I absolutely love his character as a whole. He’s a villain (and remains that way for most—if not all—of the game) but he’s still so likable just because everyone can see his genuine passion for the game he’s created. Everything he did, everything he created, every puzzle box and squeaking floorboard and hidden secret was all for the player. Inscryption the game loves the player so much—it loves them enough to trawl through the blight it’s built upon just to have even the slightest chance of looking them in the eyes and Leshy is such a good representation of that theme.

Least favorite thing about them: Again not going to say anything related to torturing the other Scrybes (even if he thought that they would eventually come around and see that it was an honor). Instead I’ll say I wish he had a full 3D model. I know it’s because he’s too damn tall but all of the other Scrybes have one (including Grimora, who is nearly the same height and has to clip through the floor to fit in that scene) but I would love to actually know what his legs look like instead of speculating based on the unclear 2D sprite. Granted I’d probably draw him with hooves anyway because it’s fun but still I’d love if he had a full body that I could import into blender to just rotate around for fun.

Favorite line: I’m not going to pick any bits from the finale because every single one of those lines hit hard, instead I’ll pick this segment

brOTP: I already talked about Leshy and Kaycee on the Kaycee post and I’m going to try and not repeat myself too much here. So instead I’ll say I like the relationship Leshy has with his subordinates just because it’s so different from the other Scrybes’ interactions with their own underlings. Magnificus and P03’s underlings both revere their Scrybe above all else, Grimora’s all live under the same roof and are therefore likely pretty close with her, but Leshy? All of his woodsmen seem like they were just… people who lived in his forest who he decided to converse with. They’re loyal to him, sure—everyone but the Woodcarver (who isn’t one of his underlings) is 100% okay with him using their visage and controlling them for the boss fights—but in a very different way. Loyal in a way of “I live in the forest with you and the forest decided to extend a hand to me in return” rather than loyal in a “put me in the torture chamber, boss!” way. I don’t know it’s just like they’re casual friends with any reverence (or lack thereof, in the Woodcarver’s case) formed organically rather than vehemently feeling like they owe anything, intentionally or not.

OTP: Trying not to repeat myself too much so I WON’T put all four Scrybes as the world’s worst polycule here. I’m pretty sure everyone here already knows that’s my #1 favorite Inscryption ship (and probably the only one tbh because I’m not really into shipping). Instead I’ll talk about Leshy and the other three Scrybes individually (keeping it short because otherwise, like usual, we’d be here a while)

Leshy x Grimora: Classic life and death motif combo. You can’t really go wrong here. Plus, if you go by sheer quantity (and quality imo) in act 1, Insect cards are by far the most abundant, implying they may be Leshy’s favorites (plus the insect that crawls across the table that Leshy occasionally stops to observe). So making Grimora into an insect card seems to show a certain level of fondness—or respect, at very least. We already know from canon that a combined blood/bones system works very well, as do beast and death cards in act 2. Plus the mental image of Grimora bringing back animals that Leshy had gotten particularly attached to by lovingly carving their epitaphs and watching as the now-skeletal rat excitedly greets his friend again is cute.

Leshy x Magnificus: This one is a little bit funny to me just because they have no hybrid cards together and Leshy goes out of his way to gouge Magnificus’s eye out. So needless to say the divorce was messy. But in a pre-old_data sense, their dynamic would probably center around their mutual love of creation. Though their own preferences clash, they’re both huge fans of having a single unified aesthetic. They don’t want each other’s card systems near the other, but the storycrafting would be fantastic. Similarly, I don’t think a magic/blood campaign would work very well without a ton of shoehorning (it would have to be something similar to the red hart wherein the # of sacrifices made that turn power up a ruby mox card) but the visuals would be nice.

Leshy x P03: This one is equally funny to me because they’re opposites in every way possible and yet they really have a lot more in common than either of them would appreciate in canon proper. I’m personally a fan of the “overgrown technology” type aesthetic (see: co-op) so from that level I can appreciate it, but also the level of hilarity that these two would bring is incredible. Learning about the semi-canonical divorce between the robot and the forest deity was a punch in the face, but the semi-canonical marriage that it implies? The two of them going in dates in either the middle of the woods (wherein P03 complains the whole time until it spots a bird mimicking the whirring of its fans) or at the factory (wherein Leshy spends the whole time asking if they can go down to the shore because he’d love to capture that thing he swore he saw poke its head out above the waves). It would be a disaster and yet the fact that they made it work speaks volumes. I’ve already talked about a blood-energy system with co-op so I’ll skip over that part but yeah I like these two.

So anyway the four of them together are a lethal combo needless to say. It doesn’t work and yet it does and then the moment it starts to work they realize they can play god and then start fistfighting each other about it. So that’s fun.

nOTP: Again, not a fan of Leshy and Kaycee in a romantic context.

Random headcanon: I didn’t get to show it in my last drawing of him (partially because it got covered up with fur) but he has tarsal spurs on the back of his leg like an insect would. What these are used for? Good question… Seeing as in insects they’re usually on the forelegs for digging or cleaning, they’re probably just vestigial on Leshy.

Unpopular opinion: Act 1 isn’t my favorite. It’s good, for sure, but I hate when people reduce Inscryption to just act 1 and then ignore the rest of the game. Maybe that’s just because I’ve been drawing art for this game and picking apart the lore for around a year now but the other acts deserve more of a spotlight too.

Song I associate with them: Can I put Lord Huron’s entire Strange Trails album here? I won’t, I’ll narrow it down to Meet Me in the Woods (though you should listen to the whole album if you want a whole album of Leshy songs. Just saying). Other than that, Dear Dictator by Saint Motel and Solar Waltz by Cosmo Sheldrake are both pretty good options.

As a bonus, I’ll put Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce—the song he references in the Finale as he plays his last game.

Favorite picture of them: It only appears for a couple of seconds but I really like his “Deathcard”

[walkawaytall]

For the behind-the-scenes fic asks, “So Now I Have to Destroy Them,” 7, 18 (for my favorite line: “‘What if Janson won, huh? We’d go on the run, wouldn’t even make it halfway there probly, I’d come back with no supplies, Janson’s dead, now I’m wanted for murder—‘”), 26 please? Thanks!

Ooh, I don't think anyone's ever asked me about this fic! Thanks for the questions!

7. What inspired the idea for the plot?

Okay, so this was a part of the 2023 Year of the OTP challenge, and the prompt I chose was "you're the only one I could turn to for help", but that prompt is just so dang dramatic, I wanted to make the story about something very not-serious.

I worked at a place a few years back where our department held a yearly game of Assassin at the office -- we each had assigned targets and "assassinated" them by sticking Post-It notes on their backs, then the assassinated person would pass their target on to the person who took them out, and the game continued like that until there was one person left standing. The first year we did it, everyone took it very seriously. Like, grown-ass engineers were skipping lunch to avoid being assassinated, employees who were already out would form protective pods around their friends who were still in the game as we walked through the hallways, etc. And I just felt like it was the exact sort of tomfoolery that a bunch of people stuck inside indefinitely would probably get up to. And the idea that the GFFA version of the game would be called "Bounty Hunter" made me laugh, so I really wanted to run with it.

18. (I have been informed the intent was for this to be question 13, so...) 13. My favorite line of dialogue from this fic was [xyz]. What inspired it?

Okay, this is also my favorite line of dialogue from that fic, and I don't think anyone has ever even acknowledged it, so this question makes me really happy! Though as far as what inspired it...I mean, Han is already so dramatic in this fic, I think I just wanted to play that up a bit, and I kind of love in comedies when someone runs with what is simply an unreasonable worst-case scenario. And for this particular fic, I felt that would be Wes winning and just annoying the hell out of Han the entire trip. I didn't want him to come out and say he'd kill the man, but just heavily imply that that would happen if Wes had won.

26. Wild Card! I'll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

Someone once commented that they found it suspicious that Luke had missed smuggling compartments on the Falcon that he should have known about, and that made them suspect that I'd intended to imply that Luke was helping Leia out the whole time. But, actually, I just like to write the Rogues on Hoth as if the number of them involved in a particular scheme or activity has an inverse relationship with their collective IQ. More Rogues = increased cluelessness.

Behind-the-scenes fic asks