#she gives me sophie vibes ngl

[robindrake93]

I knew Izutsumi was a cursed cat but I just found out she's 17 too??? She's an old lady cat??? She's going to die soon??? 😢😢😢

[fantasticalleigh]

season 3 part one thoughts:

ok ok i did finish B S3 pt. I and it's GOOD and i was really happy with it but now that my pulse has gone back to normal i'm realizing i have a lot of nitpicks/concerns with the storytelling but ngl the carriage scene was fucking BONKERS and my mind will be in the gutter for the rest of the weekend

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW!!! bc i have a ton of thoughts on season 3 so far and have to get them out:

THOUGHTS:::::

-i could not stop smiling. my face hurts still.

-i don't get people whining about colin and the threesome. when the brothel threesome scene was leaked people were losing their goddamn minds about colin not being a virgin on reddit. y'all. he spent a LONG time traveling solo around europe--did you really expect him not to experiment the entire time? the fixation on this was kinda weird i gotta say. also i really liked that in the second brothel instance it served as growth to show colin was realizing it wasn't those women he wanted to have sex with, but penelope.

it seems every bridgerton lad needs a whoring about subplot in their respective season and colin was obviously going to get one if his elder brothers did, so i wasn't surprised at all. i thought the scenes were hot, personally. overconfident and super flirty col galavanting everywhere suddenly being reduced to a pining, thirsty af insecure boy was so gratifying to watch and those scenes had a hand in showing us that.

-i hate portia's costumes this season. hate. hate. hate. she looks like she was ripped right out of DIsney's Descendants set from the costume rejects pile. woof. she was stunning in s1 but s2 were her best looks and now she looks awful. why???

-i think the mondriches are ok and i like them but their story did not need expanding here. i'm happy for them but that storyline was boring and time taken away from more important characters. i know this sounds harsh but this season was already packed with storylines. across these four episodes there was a severe lack of Lady Danbury. one of my favorite aspects of Romancing Mr. Bridgerton was her friendship/mentorship with Penelope. that instantly made her one of my favorite characters. why not keep that in the show??? i'm so disappointed but with part 2 yet unreleased maybe it will still come?

-speaking of lady danbury, something about the way her brother is presented and how she treats him makes me worry for Violet, that he might disappoint her later. idk it's just a vibe i get.

-Luke's acting is fucking incredible. all the microexpressions and the lingering stares and subtle movements. nicola is a great actor in her own right but fucking hell, every time Luke teared up on screen I was mirroring him.

the carriage scene, when he's on his knees in front of Pen and she cups the side of his head and his eyes do THAT thing and the look he gives her? i rewatched that two second bit on repeat for a minute. amazing. (that's exactly the kind of devotion i picture when I wrote dark Dramione in TEOAL towards the end)

-we get it, benedict is a slut. he fucks. i'm over it. i'm not interested in who he's fucking. i know the consensus is Lady Tilley will somehow tie in to Sophie but i just do not care about Benedict rn. he is pulling focus.

-hyacinth's actress is so stunning! all the actors are obvs but every time i look at her i see Brooke Shields. anyone else?

-i had higher hopes for Lord Debling. genuinely kind of disappointed. he's boring and feels fickle. also the abruptness of him going 'i need a wife to tend to my estate so i can go travel for 3 years so be warned that i can't love you' to 'you have feelings for another man? i'm done-zo.' like what. you just said you can't love her and will never be at home with her but it's a fucking problem that she likes someone else? even though she's is clearly willing to get over it by marrying you??? bro. bro.

-hate what they did with Colin's hair for most of his scenes. why flatten it all out and take out the adorable curls he had in the first episode????????????????? episode one hairstyle was god-tier. everything after that makes him look like he's wearing a bad and stiff wig. still hot tho. also on the hair note: please stop giving eloise bangs. please.

-people on reddit were near to rioting when they learned Kanthony was only in the first ep due to leaks. i was bummed but ultimately don't mind it. did we deserve to see more of them thanks to how badly s2 was handled?? absolutely. but if it's only sex scenes bc they're now trying for babies then i'm good for now. also glad that edwina and mary don't come back bc ngl they pissed me tf off in s2 thanks to how badly they were written. plus like i said, this season has FAR too many subplots to keep them in. the writers really should have trimmed things down. violet meeting Lady D's brother was also not necessary imo.

-i went from loathing cressida to actively sympathizing and rooting for her to snatch up debling in the latter half. well done, writers.

-all the featherington scenes were gold. pru and phillipa are incredible when in scenes together and i'm so glad we got more of that. albion finch is a treasure, too. i really think they should have spent more time on penelope and her mother's relationship bc it's a big part of the book with how portia assigned pen to be her caretaker for when she got old and that being pen's burden/reason to want to bug out and marry rather than stay with her abusive mother, not her sisters' heirs taking charge of the house. they leaned too much into the comedy with the featheringtons and forgot to remind us why penelope is so miserable at home too--the problem stems from her mother, too, not only her sisters. we got two tiny clips of that and that was it. not enough to really establish that. the featheringtons are funny yes but they are not good people (sans Pen). Portia is neglectful and rude and dismissive toward Pen and there is not enough of that so far.

-i haven't read fran's book yet so had no idea what to expect and thought i'd be bored. she is adorable and i'm rooting for her. i like john better than the other guy. but i'm not that invested in her plot. i have no true emotional attachment to her. she needed her own season or to be pushed back to s4.

-still don't like eloise but i'm warming to her. a third season straight of her being condescending to almost everyone outside of her family/friends does nothing to endear her to me. she still blames Whistledown for "ruining" her when she ruined herself by ignoring everyone's warnings and running around town doing socially unacceptable things. she still has a right to be upset with Whistledown/Pen but she needs to take accountability for her own shit. but her understanding and patience with cressida was really surprising and i liked that a lot so far. i can see why people are shipping them now!

-HOW HAVE PENELOPE AND COLIN NOT EVEN DANCED ONCE YET WHAT THE FUCK jk i'm sure we'll obvs get that in part 2 but i'm so accustomed to them having a dance in one of the first few episodes that this truly threw me.

-colin's wet dream. loved it. ngl i was fully expecting a masturbation scene in his bed and not only bc i wrote one into my fic lmao

-i fucking called it from the start that the first kiss would be in the featherington garden based off that screengrab. everything about it screamed romeo+juliet. that was my favorite scene so far it was so beautifully shot and the way he goes for the lightest kiss at first and then hesitates and then GOES BACK FOR MORE???? when he realizes he's super into it???? i collapsed. i fucking squee'd like it was 2003.

-i've been complaining on reddit that the makeup in the promos was fucking awful and way too heavy. it comes across much lighter in the final product/show and i'm so relieved because i was truly worried about that. nicola is a stunning stunning woman and i can't help but admire her every time she is on screen and the awful makeup they put on her for those promos were overtaking her face.

-two major changes i truly appreciate (bc i'm normally very critical about shondaland's writing)

1: the journal scene. i loved that colin had pen hide in his study. i really wanted them to get caught there. i love that the journal fight wasn't as huge as it was in the book because the book made it go on for too long and colin was unreasonably mad about it. i'm so glad it was a minor thing here and that they still showed that colin was really pleased when pen praised his writing and he said he'd consider letting her read more and left it at that.

2: the carriage proposal. my biggest issue with the book bc colin was borderline abusive when he pulled her out of the carriage and made her fall. hated that so i'm glad here he was pleased and still mischievous and held out his hand for her and proposed and wasn't rude and impatient like he was in the book. also the carriage scene was hot as hell and i did not fucking expect colin to fucking finger her right then and there with the goddamned WINDOWS OPEN. tbh i was expecting boob action like in the book but that was a surprising change.

-pacing. too many storylines makes for a too-quickly paced episode. i feel like we were catapulted into everything and my head was spinning. this is a show that, because it insists on such a large fucking cast, would immensely benefit from a 12 or even 20 episode run rather than eight. but we know netflix is a cheap bitch so that will never happen and shows this dense suffer for it.

-music. i do not care about covers. i just don't. it makes no difference to me who is added to the soundtrack or the easter egg hunt of finding which song was used in which scene. the original scores made for the show are beautiful on their own and don't distract like the covers do and that's all i'll say.

-already seeing reviews online from people complaining polin have no chemistry??? idk what show they're watching but it ain't this one. this has been a slow slow buildup and if you can't feel their chemistry then idk what to tell you bc it is there. (and this is gonna be a hot take and unpopular opinion but personally out of all the main couples so far i found daphne and simon's chemistry to feel really forced and kind of cringey so take my opinion as you will but pen and colin have LEAGUES more chemistry as friends to lovers here)

BUT: one could also blame this on the awful pacing of these first four episodes so far. it really would have been nice to have more filler time of col and pen doing the flirting lessons since that was cut too short too soon.

phew--.

i will most definitely have more to say later on but these are my immediate thoughts and i had to get them all down . if you got this far down then bless you and thanks for listening and lmk your thoughts! i'm dying to talk about this.

[the-way-astray]

i feel like a lot of keepblrers would enjoy the hollow star saga (a dark and hollow star, a cruel and fated light, a grim and sunken vow). it's basically kotlc if kotlc was canonically gay. (warning: long rant ahead, if you're interested. this is going to seem very negative, but i promise i'll talk about the positives, too.)

there are four main characters, arlo, nausicaa, aurelian, and vehan.

arlo is basically sophie when it comes to personality. like. she's kinda the most generic female ya protagonist that's sort of shy and gets pushed around a lot except for when the author decides 'hey, she needs to stand up for herself' at random points. then she'll randomly snark for two lines and go back to being the protagonist that kinda lowkey has no distinctive personality traits. she's also clearly the author's bias. you will see what i mean if you look through the chapters. just like sophie, she spends most of the first book being scared of the council.

nausicaa is basically keefe if keefe was a lesbian. she has that snarky, bad-girl vibe and is kind of a loose canon and doesn't care about anything except her love interest (arlo). this of course means she's the fan favorite (i really don't like her, but i don't tend to like characters like keefe so i'm biased as hell don't listen to me). when i tell you she's exactly like keefe (in terms of personality). like. i want you to know that she's exactly like keefe. their senses of humor are comically similar.

aurelian gives off tam vibes, if tam was more central to the story (and white). looking in from the outside you'd be like 'omg what a broody man. what emo thoughts are going through his head. why is he looking at me like that. i'm going to sink into the ground, he clearly hates me. i probably shouldn't piss him off, he'd probably kill me.' and then you see his thoughts and he's just the most average guy out there. like. he's just a normal guy but everyone (including the author) sees him as this emo and broody guy that just glares constantly and is really standoff-ish.

another thing about nausicaa and aurelian is that the author really tries to get you to buy into the fact that they have this intense rivalry, but it falls so flat because they barely interact and it’s so one-sided. very tell-not-show. does that remind you of a certain dynamic in kotlc? that’s right, it’s keefe and tam.

vehan is the one main character that i really can't say is exactly like a character from kotlc but to me he's what fitz could've been if shannon hadn't mangled and massacred him. he's kinda pathetic, ngl. like sopping wet rag vibes. but also he's really sweet. a true cinnamon roll. he spends a lot of time dragging aurelian places and trying not to piss aurelian off because he thinks aurelian hates him (i'll give you one guess who his love interest is). also the author randomly tries to make him flirty at one point and it was so funny how much it didn't work for his character.

and even in other aspects besides the characters, i want you to know that this series is basically just kotlc. the characters are fae, so they are all young and beautiful, they have powers, there's an abusive mother that’s evil but her son doesn’t realize she’s evil, the plot is convoluted as hell and takes way too long to get to the point, the world is described as bright and colorful, the sense of humor is just like the sense of humor in kotlc (which is personally not my favorite but i digress), the author spends a ludicrous amount of time in one character's head really drilling into the audience how much he has a crush on this other character, the incessant use of italics every other word and of course the all-white cast except for a few people here and there.

there's a ridiculous amount of lore that gets introduced in the first book alone, and i think people in this fandom would have a lot of fun with that, too (even if some of the lore is highly, highly irrelevant).

also this author's writing sin is definitely info-dumping. when i say their fatal flaw is info-dumping i want you to know i'm not fucking around when i say that. they will just info-dump a whole couple pages, and the information never becomes relevant. and it happens a lot (this is the author's debut so that might be the reason). here's an example of a massive info-dump:

(none of the above ever becomes relevant, in case you're wondering.)

there are good things too, though. like i'd definitely say that the hollow star saga is better than kotlc. there is a character i like named celadon who eventually becomes more central to the plot. all i'll say about him right now is that he's arlo's cousin and the relationship between him and arlo is genuinely endearing in some aspects. some plot twists were pretty well executed and the second book is absolutely better than the first. this author's strength is definitely backstories. the backstories, especially in the second book, are pretty solid.

only two books are out right now and the third is coming out soon (late november, if i'm not wrong) and i'm dying to read it. the author said the entire series will only be four books, i think, but i don't really trust authors when they say stuff like that anymore so. we'll see i guess.

and if all that wasn’t enough to convince you, i offer you this one final piece of motivation: at one point, nausicaa makes a twilight reference.

basically what i'm saying is: you should read the hollow star saga.

[bookwyrminspiration]

ngl kinda frustrated with some of the arguments people make for disliking fitz cause like- some of them are so nitpicky?? like you could dissect every single thing every character in the series has said, and i guarantee you could come up with a reason that over 40% of them are actually horrible things to say and these characters are horrible people. everyone always gets so worked up when people talk about disliking any other character. it’s just fitz that no one gives a fuck. like leave people alone ffs.

sorry for ranting lol

No need to apologize, Nonsie! I think your assessment of people's treatment of Fitz is accurate. It's like everything he does is being approached with bad faith, expecting the absolute worst of him so all the things he does are turned into things that can be used against him when it's actually not that serious at all!

You're right, we could absolutely come up with reasons why everyone is horrible in the series! Remember how mean Wylie was to Sophie? He probably still hates her but she healed his dad so now he's being nice, but he's just using her. Dex? He's so pushy and insensitive. Remember when he gave Sophie crush cuffs? Like "hey I like you so I think you should announce to the world that you like me back even though I have no proof you do" come on it's disgusting (to be clear these are exaggerated examples I don't actually think this way). That's how some of the arguments sound to me, looking for a way to spin every single action the worse way possible to use as more fuel against him.

You don't have to like Fitz! You don't have to like any of the characters and that's okay! But when you go out of your way to vilify someone and have these bad faith, weak arguments heavily influenced by your own distaste, please don't be surprised if people don't take them seriously. And don't take it out on them either or insult people for liking characters you don't.

All the other characters are generally loved with a few criticisms here and there, but when it comes to Fitz there's a very different vibe. People say they dislike Fitz and it's like it's no big deal, but you say you don't like Dex or Linh? That's going to get such a different reaction!

I think it's likely a lot of it is fueled by the love triangle and Fitz is the unfortunate casualty. Dex was part of it, but he never really had a chance, you know? So instead he became this sweet victim of it, retaining all the love people held for him. But Fitz was more of a real consideration, so he garnered a more severe (and in my opinion, undeserved) reaction.

It's frustrating to see the difference in treatment between Fitz and the other characters. I love Fitz! It's okay if you hate him, but please let those of us who like him enjoy him in peace without trying to spin him into this selfish, entitled villain. It really doesn't match with who he is.

Thank you for the rant Nonsie, I also wanted to rant about it.

[golnarghorbani]

my thoughts on 2x06

i can't believe i just heard Dani talk about her "psuedosexual friendship with Gigi" and how she thinks about her and wants to be near her just 2 MINUTES INTO THE EPISODE

Bette saying "she's everything" about Pippa is so bizzare to me. giving me fangirl/stalker vibes

I will not stand for the Gigi slander from Bette and Alice 😤 literally what has she actually done wrong for Bette to resent their relationship so much

ngl Sophie had me laughing taking that fake phone call to let Maribel and Micah talk

karaoke in shows/movies physically pain me and this is no different

this isn't Glee

a Dani and Bette crumb!!! "I've missed you" I miss them together too, but only platonically

also very curious to know what Dani is working on for them

why won't Shane just tell Tess she likes her

please, the way Bette and Gigi are breaking up as if they are already broken up

Bette saying she needs more and that she already knows there's someone out there who checks all of her boxes is so cold for no reason

this night is so chaotic with everybody having feelings and revealing their feelings for everybody, I love it

Sophie serenading Finley would be cute if I thought either of them deserved happiness. and the fact Sophie did all of that right in front of Dani... I'm so pissed off because they just do not respect her at all

not me screaming at Alice to kiss Tom

Gigi and Dani getting ice cream!!

"THEY'VE CHANGED" !!!! Gigi's feelings for Dani have changed!!

...like we didn't already know

[chibigaia-art]

time for the p5s gameplay post, since i finished two bosses! mind the spoilers ( i’m on the day before I leave for the third city rn)

No screenshots because I'm playing on ps4 💔

- first things first, the gameplay for the fights is new to me so I struggled with it a bit (died more than what i’d like to admit against the bosses lmao) but!!! still fun as hell; I got a bit better now tho ✌️

- MAN I LOVE SOPHIE’S DESIGN SO MUCH and she’s so funny too!!! also the UI for the shop is so nice, i love it!!!

- i also love zenkichi, he’s so funny,, please let there be a detective that doesn’t turn out to be a shit later in the plot persona

- morgana being tolerable so far but i’m keeping an eye on him

- haru going ‘we hate the cops :)’ and ‘i can wield an axe well :)’ while smiling is one of my fave things ever, plEASE LET HER HAVE MORE SCREENTIME

- i wanted to see shiho but i guess i am not allowed to

- RYUJI SIDEHUGGING PROTAG, RYUJI, RYUJI SAYING HE MISSED TALKING FACE TO FACE WITH HIM, RYUJI INVITING HIM OUT BEFORE THEY LEAVE Tokyo-the scene where the shujin trio goes to eat ramen... Nostalgia 😔❤️

- nbmdf ryuji 😳 i’m happy i can play as him now, also his showtime is 🥺🥺💖💖

- ok ok, so, plot wise so far it’s interesting and nice? I missed the cast a lot and it’s nice to have them back in a new story, but the first arc can’t really survive a comparison with the first arc in p5, which at this point is definitely one of my favorite ‘first arcs’ in a game - still super fun, I’m into it!!

- the designs for alice are so good, those color schemes... 😳 ngl i’d love to draw her

- THE OST SLAPS SO HARD I LITERALLY CANT STOP LISTENING TO DAREDEVIL

- ryuji stepping in to help Haru when the creep was making her uncomfortable 😔👌

- Yusuke sleeptalking.....

- the "beauty thief" inside joke,, I love that little detail

- ryuji gave half of a keychain to Akira wtf are we talking about here, why does he keep doing this :`````] help

- the monarchs are like the episodic enemies in magical girl series, and the boss fights are the episode where the magical girl that's the focus of it gives the emotional speech

- I just really like the vibes this game has??? They're having a road trip and visiting places, and having fun 😭 I wish there were photos like in Royal tho, it would have been SO good in this game

[princessofshazabah]

Um um um sge characters as girl in red's new album "if i could make it go quiet" songs/lyrics

**doesn't include hornylovesickmess because i could not match that up no matter how hard i tried**

Serotonin

Hmm definitely gives Tedros or Dot vibes, both very surface level happy but the actual lyrics are dark like their back stories

Did You Come?

ignoring the actual, extremely nsfw meaning of this song, it's giving book 1 agatha vibes when she realizes how bad sophie has been to her + and how she deserves someone better.

Body And Mind

when i first listened to it it was SOOO painfully sophie book 2-3, however i think it could be agatha book 2 (or maybe,,, never!agatha??) as well. there's no lyric video for this one so i have to listen really hard lmao but this is my fav out of the album

midnight love

the actual vibe reminds me of anadil or reena but again there is no lyric video and my attention span is so short i cannot focus on the lyrics-- so i have to Google them..

"able to look you right in the eyes, say im not your consolation prize"

"I can't be your second best, close but not your favorite, i keep going back for more, when there's nothing from before"

...yep definitely anadil

You Stupid Bitch

THE VIBE IS SO HESTER ITS ALMOST SICKENING!!! ngl when i first listened to this i immediately thought of agaster

"You don't know what you deserve, and that's why you end up hurt, but you never listen, take my advice as criticism, then make the worst decisions"

MY INTUITION WAS RIGHT, THIS IS AN AGASTER SONG 100%

Rue

The lyrics feel like Sophie book 2 when she's trying to prove to Agatha that she's her friend but it backfires

"Yeah i tried to get it off my mind, to leave it all behind, don't wanna make it worse, I'm gonna make it work"

Apartment 402

Without even listening to the song/analysing the lyrics it felt like a Nicola song. Let's see if my intuition is right 3 times in a row

...this is an extremely dark song now that im paying attention to the lyrics. the only lyrics that really relate to nicola are "the place i call my home, yeah i could die here and nobody would know" i'm assuming this song is about depression but i can't think of a time when a character is extremely depressed? correct me if im wrong

.

yes the songs name is just "." i found a lyric video guys!!it seems like an angsty tedros song tbh-- and i was correct again. this is 100% awwp tedros

"it's been so hard, ever since you broke my heart, but ill never tell, honey im not doing so well"

"when i see you with her, it only gets worse, and oh how it hurts, i can't say"

I'll Call You Mine

FUN FACT WHEN I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF DOING THIS ONE I SEARCHED UP THE WRONG SONG-- WHOOPS

anyways the lyrics are just fun couple stuff and Nobody in this series actually does that-- maybe hicola but that would be a stretch. sorry to end this post on a disappointing note!

[carcinized]

Ngl I happen to be one of your followers because of summer, and I followed her because I really liked kotlc back then (it’s still good now I’m just not super into it) and I personally would adore some chaos, whatever you feel like sharing is good :D

-🌿

another one of summers friends in disguise... omg O.o probably i should have known based off the fact that youre not into the dsmp and you follow me LMAO

and hmmmmmm

OHHH I FOUND THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT OF MY JOLIE GLIMMER THEORY HERES THE OG THOUGHT PROCESS OF THE THEORY KOTLC FANDOM YOURE GETTING A HISTORY LESSON.

I think Glimmer is Jolie. Jolie could have been forced to fake her death and join the Neverseen. In Everblaze, it mentioned how she loved Brant up until the end, but if that wasn't the end, she would have been committed to the cause after he died even more if she still loved him. And maybe she’s working with a Flasher to save light and then conjure it, making her look like a Flasher (maybe she’s working with Luzia Vacker?). She does snap her fingers to move orbs of light, something that neither Wylie nor Elwin does. They do snap their fingers to create it, but to move it they only flick their wrists, while Glimmer snapped her fingers like a Conjurer, which Jolie is. She is described as having long black hair, unlike Jolie’s blond, but weren’t we all always talking about her Raven Lovelylocks that were on her desk? What if the reason she won’t lower her hood is that it’s worn off by now and she doesn't want to face Grady and Edaline after 17 (is it 18 or 19 now?) years? Someone would recognize her, or at least say "Oh, you look just like Sophie!" and then Sophie would figure it out. I get a young adult vibe from her, which fits Jolie. Mai couldn't be Glimmer because she doesn't have any spare time, whereas no one even knows that Jolie is still alive if this is true. Assuming my Oralie might not be Sophie’s mom theory is true, this gives Jolie another possible motive for joining the Neverseen. What if Jolie was Sophie’s mom and she joined the Neverseen to cover it up? What if she’s a double agent? What is that’s why she was cool with leaving them? Maybe she wanted to get to know her daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ewww i used to use proper punctuation

[gins-potter]

Hey! Do you have a fancast for the Winx, the Trix, and the Specialists? I’d like to see how you, as the author, imagine the characters of you fic to look like. I tend to picture Flora looking like Isabela Moner, Stella looking like Sophie Turner or Florence Pugh, Bloom like a redhead Jenna Coleman, Tecna like Dove Cameron, Aisha like Zoë Kravitz, Musa like Jessie Mei Li (I know she’s only half-Asian, but she’s got too much Musa energy).

Tbh anon, I actually don't have a fancast, mostly because I'm very picky and not very good at making them. I do have some inspo pics/face claims which you can find here but I'm not happy with them anymore and I want to update them.

On an aesthetic level, I love Isabela Moner as Flora, especially in this picture here:

Although I would probably prefer her actress to be Puerto Rican as Flora is based on Jennifer Lopez, but in terms of her look, yesssssss 100%.

I'd probably go for Sophie Turner over Florence Pugh for Stella, but even then I'm not totally convinced. Florence is beautiful but does not give me Stella vibes at all. Stella's a hard one to pin down for me, personally.

Jenna Coleman as Bloom..... ehhhhhhh maybe? She's a little too idk dainty? I imagine Bloom being a little more idk.

Dove Cameron as Tecna is an absolutely not for me.

Zoe Kravitz is a little too old for me to even consider for Layla and I also imagine Layla's skin tone to be closer to Precious Mustapha (actually she might be one of the Fate casting choices that I actually don't mind).

And finally Jessie Mei Li, I could see it ngl. I absolutely love Jessie, she was excellent in Shadow and Bone, and not only is she half-Chinese, but her personal style is not dissimilar to how I image Musa. So yeah, could definitely get behind this casting.

[almightyellie]

mutuals as y/n from the fics you've written (yes i love causing chaos).

HAHAHAHAHA this is iconic

@archaicmusings: mr. loverman. cal is tough. she sticks to her guns to get what she wants but knows when to be soft and let go.

@kiwi-hardy: my type. leah is so funny and there’s not a doubt in my mind she has people falling in love with her left and right simply because of her wit.

@six-bloodyminutes: rio. mo is the actual love of my life. she’s sweet and soft and funny and chaotic and deserves everything in the entire world

@im-an-adult-ish: shooting the moon. y/n in shooting the moon is just a woman in love with life and the simple, basic emotions we all feel—joy, sorrow, love, heartbreak. meredith just seems to love the small things in life and i love that about her

@hijackmy-heart: bookends. ugh nat has my HEART. she has the sweetest, gentlest soul in the world and she deserves nothing more than cranky writer ben loving no one but her for forever.

@deacyblues: fools. pearl is like. the most iconic human i have ever had the pleasure of knowing. she has the sweetest heart and just seems hopeful for the future and i love her.

@joemazzmatazz: make you mine. partly because i know she likes it but also because she’s cheeky and funny and i for sure would fall in love with regan in a torrid summer romance

@ineloqueent: ps i love you. tina is just...timeless? yeah she’s living right now but she very well could have been dancing around a disco in the seventies OR enchanting people even in the dreariness of a war.

@mistymazzello: burning desire. olivia just seems so ambitious and unafraid to sacrifice things she wants to get to her ultimate goal and i think that’s very admirable

@aprilaady: if it means a lot to you. an UNDERRATED FAVE. dor is so precious and i can totally see someone just pining after her because she is so lovely.

@two-lovers-together: carolina. ugh sophie is the SWEETEST and ngl i don’t doubt for half a second that she can make anyone fall in love with her bc she seems so earnest and gentle and wonderful and ugh. i love her.

@brianmays-hair: i lived. she underestimates herself but she’s so capable and smart even in the wierdest of all situations.

@queenmylovely: three hearts. lauren KILLLLLLLS ME okay. i feel like the reader in three hearts has the most personality out of any of them and she’s snarky and witty but also so sentimental and sweet and thats totally the vibe lauren gives off.

[howlingmoonrise]

Thoughts on Petshop of Horrors: Wandering Ark volumes 1 & 2

(also on dreamwidth)

HOW did I manage to miss the translation of my long-awaited Papa D PSOH series?? I've been stalking it ever since I found the announcement and somehow the fact that @ruthlessnightsscans​ already put out the first two volumes completely went past my head.

Obviously I had to read it right away, sleep be damned.

this is the edited version of my brain thoughts after i managed to get two sleeps and calm down a bit or it would be a lot more incoherent

The art: the initial pages really remind me of the old art! Unfortunately it goes back to the roundness prevalent since the Shin series (which has only become even rounder with time) not long after. That art style is also a lot less dynamic than the original, I find. It's a bit of a problem on scenes that are supposed to have some tension caused by movement. This is nothing new since, like I said, Sensei has been using this art style since a good while ago. I really miss the original art though. It had a major nostalgia punch to it and a lot more feeling as well.

-- First chapter: "I am on a journey with no destination in mind" just say you're on vacation and go off I guess. 

Papa is... weirdly easy-going. I want to say it's because he's not yet mad with grief and his son being taken away and so on, but the glimpses we saw at his time in university definitely didn't paint him this soft. There's no edge to him, on this volume or the next. 

Regarding the story itself, I can't say I loved it but it’s not the worst out of all of them (there are four in total between these two volumes, and a third volume is on the way). I liked Koushun's character, but Seiyou annoyed me, especially when he presumed to know what she wanted (or perhaps he didn't presume, but decided for her what was better anyway) - something like I Shall Revive This Species So Breed In My Name Okay Bye. Note also that while Koushun was willing enough to marry (thinking she was marrying someone else but that's another point entirely), the groom himself came in chains. And then Seiyou... locks them in together? Great. Just great. Very conducive to a loving mood indeed, locking a woman with a potentially dangerous stranger who might cause her harm and telling them both to fuck (note. the. chains. you don’t put chains on someone you think is harmless; they never put any on Koushun even when she attacked Seiyou). I was afraid for her when it cut to another scene here, with the last we saw of her being pushed against a wall and being told by the groom that it seemed that he would have to make a child with her. "Rather than hate each other, I want to break that curse"? Seiyou, sweetie, that is NOT the way to make them not hate you. ((The reveal that Koushou is some sort of creature - very PSOH-y - does not help, since putting two wild animals together without them being used to each other is perhaps even more likely to them killing/harming one another.))

MAJOR little mermaid vibes on Koushun standing over a sleeping Seiyou with a knife. 

There are quite some parallels with the D species on this tale of bloodshed and revenge. The Ds could stand to learn from this, though historically they don't. "Even if you kill the third prince, the Kagetsu people are already gone. They won't return." Papa himself says that 'winning on the last available tile' is a waste of time, which really resonates with his research into reviving lost species and the issues of his own kind. A reference to the health of descendants when no new blood is introduced is also made here, which might or might not point to our D depending on where in time this Papa is from.

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Second chapter: it's... frankly, super choppy. The story is all over the place. On the author's note, Akino herself says that it's a challenge to put the whole life of that empress in 57 pages, and I have to agree. Either it should have been cut to the REALLY relevant parts and worked on them some more, or be discarded in its entirety. It's too rushed. The whole first part was unnecessary: it could have started with her already working at the palace or being chosen as a concubine, and then made references to her previous life in her thoughts instead of wasting several pages on it when that backstory won't be going anywhere (except for some references to Hakubun whom she sees on that other actor - who dies like, two or three pages later, so that's that on that). I do like Ranji herself as a character: she's clever and quick to pick up on things. Her life is just a series of tragedies one after the other, unfortunately. 

Papa D is some sort of benevolent helper in this chapter for some reason - this pattern repeats somewhat on the next chapters, but on this one there isn't really anything to gain for him at all, other than perhaps his dubious acquaintance with one of the concubines/future empress, which wouldn't really hold much weight since he met her ?once? apart from near her death.

And then, somehow, the initial Papa D in this chapter was actually Sofu?

Sofu???? I'm calling bullshit. As far as we know - going back to Sofu's own series and flashbacks on the original PSOH, even - Sofu never had a hairstyle of that length, and out of our three known Ds (new!D excluded) he's the one least likely to help a human just because. The ark is also said to travel through space and time, so I'm saying that's Papa D and that's it. Fun aside: on this chapter, Papa says he's the "third generation", meaning that on this series he's probably the youngest existing D (and by inference our D does not exist yet).

Also, some issues with in-story continuity here: when the last emperor dies Ranji still looks fairly young and the emperor-to-be is three years old, a couple pages later she looks a lot more aged but the new emperor is still three years old. To be honest, I think the story would have been tied off much better if A-chan had some connection with Hakubun or the eunuch instead of each having their very brief, individual emotional connections to her - which, in turn, doesn't really make them memorable. The "wishes" thing was interesting, really called back to the old PSOH tradition with the mystical pets and bittersweet be-careful-what-you-wish-for endings.

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Third chapter: I think, overall, this was probably the one I liked the best. Can't really bring myself to call it my favourite though, since none of them even begin to compare to the original PSOH chapters. I cackled at the "jawline is too sharp" dialogues and thoughts: with this art style EVERYONE has the same round jaw as every other character, and it's the furthest thing from "sharp" possible.

With this series it really seems like Sensei is giving more focus to trying to tell historically-accurate stories rather than focusing on the stories themselves, as there is a huge amount of superfluous historical information to be found in these volumes. 

The empress Elizabeth reminds me of Sofu, in truth. She won't "mind" affairs and the like (read: she will hate it but ignore them) as long as it works towards her ends. Her taking away the newly-born child is a huge parallel to Sofu regarding both Papa and D, and D and new!D. Child-snatching FTW! That being said, I actually kind of liked her, ruthless as she was: the whole reason why Sophie made it as far as crown princess was because Elizabeth valued her hard work. You don't get to hold an empire together without having a steel spine and a cunning mind (or people to do the work for you I guess, but here it doesn’t seem to be the case).

I hate that Sophie had to change even her name and religion to fit her new reality, accurate as it is to history. That sort of thing always messes me up (throwback to the Nazi/teddy bear chapter of the original PSOH series, where there was also a name/religion change for the sake of survival). Not a reflection on the author in any way, I just hate that this is something people had to go through. As something I hated that kinda does reflect on the author, though, was the ugly = terrible association with Pyotr and the maid. Sophie/Catherine is initially said to not be beautiful but she's not depicted in the same way those two are at all. 

Papa's benevolence is thankfully offset this chapter by the fact that he does have something to gain here. For some reason Ds doing things merely for the goodness of their hearts kind of rubs me the wrong way unless it's D during or post-Leon. 

Most PSOH victims clients: oh a pretty person! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S AN ANIMAL Sophie/Catherine: a dog you say? sounds kinda hot ngl

Gotta respect how she just jumps straight into the dog affairs. The take-back of the empire was also nicely executed, and I'm always here for ladies in traditionally male clothing. 

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Fourth chapter:

This is linked semi-directly to the third chapter by virtue of the amber room Papa D craved. Marks also the second time that Papa takes a human on board of the ark.

D, circa end of original PSOH, a single tear rolling down his cheek as he watches Leon plummet towards the earth: Humans have not earned the right to board this ark. Papa D: I'm gonna go for a joyride and take along this human and this human and this human and this human and--

Papa really gives Doctor Who vibes on the ark matter. Travelling through space and time, occasionally taking human companions? The one for this chapter - who I'm guessing might be a cameo from one of Sensei's other series, since I didn't recognize him and there was no backstory for him on the chapter - even has era-appropriate wardrobe changes (at least assuming it's the same person and not just someone who looks similar scratch that they have eyes of different colours so I guess Papa has been giving rides to delivery men now), the second of which leaving me very ??? as to WHEN he is from. 

That last Look(TM) reminds me a of Leon Orcot, between the long ponytail and the clothes resembling the ones Leon wore on the last chapter of Shin PSOH (in PSOH time, that would have happened approximately 15 years after the end of the original series, meaning that Papa was already long dead then. Unless Leon's style was just stuck in time, which is also very possible). 

It might or might not have endeared him to me for that exact reason. What can I say? I'm a sucker for Leon Orcot, and apparently also for characters that visually remind me of him. ANYWAY.

Why another Nazi-era chapter??? Sensei plz. One was already enough on the original PSOH - it wasn't anywhere near my favourites back then, either - and the fact that this one mostly followed a Nazi colonel didn't help either. Here we witness them tearing down the amber room, "reclaiming" art from all over the world, a father's heartbreaking sacrifice to “save” his daughter’s dog, and Papa D coming to meet the Nazi dude. One would expect the Ds to avoid genocidal racists given the fate of their own species, but apparently the Nazis were relevant enough for not one but TWO Ds to interact with them. Oh well. Either way, I really don't like how Papa appears to not care one way or another - when the D for the original series interacted with people he didn't like, his mask was really fairly obvious (at least for the reader). Perhaps Papa simply has a better mask. Perhaps those nuances were lost to time and round art styles. Perhaps Papa or Sensei just don't give two shits. Guess we'll never know.

EVERYONE seems to comment on the flavour of Papa's tea: it's 4 out of 4 so far for these two volumes, and in this chapter in particular it seems as if it's laced with some kind of truth serum - it seems to be Papa's version of D's (and possibly Sofu's?) incense from the original PSOH. A reference to the original PSOH's Nazi chapter is also made here, with Papa mentioning that Sofu was on friendly terms with Eva Braun: this implicates that in this time they were in closer contact (not surprising since Sofu probably hasn't stolen his still-non-existent kid yet).

The colonel seems to value art over human life - surprise surprise! - so he kills his own comrades to keep the art "safe". A stomach-turning moment comes where they find human golden teeth being kept as treasure, which Papa mentions remelting to turn into golden nuggets. Why, Papa/Sensei, why? It's in poor taste, even if you're testing the colonel the way D did with some of his clients on original PSOH.

At the very least an eerie moment comes next where Papa explains that dead creatures can be revived using DNA. "Even dead people?" Cue Papa's all-seeing stare directly into the reader's eyes (and presumably the colonel's as well) with a backdrop of an inverted black-and-white multitude of graves as he says that future is not very far. Colonel almost shits his pants, with reason when you consider the amount of people the Nazis killed off that would presumably come after them. This almost forgives the teeth comment, and it's probably the first moment in these two volumes when we see some genuine emotion on Papa's face (on this page and the next), creepy and maniac as it might be.

Colonel dude has spent the whole chapter justifying everything under "orders of the fuhrer" so far. Then comes the moment that Papa calls him out by saying that the orders were to burn his sweet dear art so that it wouldn't fall into enemy's hands, and it's here that we see how much of an hypocrite the colonel is when he doesn't want to follow those orders. Suddenly it's "treasures of mankind" (even though he's been stealing them left and right) and the fuhrer is "a fool" (even though he's been using his orders and his "greatness" as justification for everything). 

Suddenly, Papa's companion! Who the heck is that! Shoots him! This is someone whose family was killed by the colonel (directly or under his orders) or so he says; he's gripping a piece of art we don't get to see, which is presumably the reason for those deaths. Now in the future! A guy who looks a bit like that other man who shot the colonel, but who I'm not 100% sure if it is or is not the same person because the round art style makes everyone look alike Someone who is definitely not the same guy because his eye colour is different (and who's dressed in a sporty outfit with a long ponytail, which I've mentioned kinda reminds me of Leon) looks for the amber in the place the art was stored, alongside Papa. He flies on the ark (all these humans on the ark, Sofu would have a conniption!) and reminds me of Leon once more while being shouty and holding on to the main mast for dear life.

The sacrificial father mini-plot also gets resolved with the dog returning (but not the father himself) along with a picture with that family. Which is presumably the picture the other dude who shot the colonel was holding, which begs the question: how is he related to them? He doesn't look like any of them, but he did say the colonel killed his family while (presumably) holding that same picture, so hmmm. Maybe he's the dog, colour-scheme aside? But apart from the father, the rest of the family seems to have survived, so it's kind of a strange thing to say since that sort of wording usually means more than one person. Even if he is the dog (my money is on that option), it's not exactly obvious to a reader who's not looking very closely. Some loose ends there, or at least ends that don't really look like they're tied together at all.

"No matter how long winter is, spring will come." Fairly hopeful final words there, Papa D. These echo similar ones spoken by D at the end of Shin PSOH, after running from Leon once more ("someday, the season for returning will come"): perhaps both these Ds are not as pessimistic as to their future, at least at this point? Poor Papa definitely had a change of heart between his series and the ending of original PSOH, unfortunately.

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General thoughts: Sensei hasn't quite managed to replicate the feeling of the original PSOH just yet. The storytelling feels a bit shallow and rushed, though the pacing improved from the first volume to the second. There's also very little focus on Papa himself for some reason: he's more of a background character on his own series except for the fourth chapter, which is a very strange narrative choice. In part this might also be because he doesn’t have a permanent companion to discuss/argue with like in previous iterations of the PSOH series. I wonder if the third volume will continue on this trend? I wish it’d delve a bit more into Papa, but either way it’s still nice to get some more PSOH content.

I've heard Vesca will make an appearance next volume, I'm so excited!! Out of Shin PSOH, my favourite chapters were Leon's (surprise surprise!) and the ones with Papa and Vesca on their university days. Papa definitely seemed a lot sharper there, which I miss here - I feel like Sensei has been smoothing out all their edges like with the art style lmao, and in turn it makes them feel a bit lacking since the Ds are not meant to be bland and forgiving and easy-going, at least as per their original portrayal. I've also seen sneak-peaks of Leon and D from author notes of the next volume so I can't wait at the chance to weep at the slightest panel of my son Leon.

A final shoutout to RNS for continuing the PSOH translations! I really can't thank them enough!!

[bookwyrminspiration]

*chants* NEW CHAPTER NEW CHAPTER NEW CHAPTER

-don’t know if you remember me, I referred to myself as your cake nonsie last chapter-

1- ‘She climbed through the fucking window.’ They’re literally freaking out over Dex -as am I jjdfdvdv- and this sent me for some reason????

2- ‘Dex lay on the couch, head tilted forward and rested on Keefe’s shoulder, breathing heavily with his eyes scrunched closed. His hair tousled and ragged, Keefe’s hand resting gently on the back of his skull, fingers brushing against the nape of his neck. Keefe’s eyebrows were furrowed with concentration, and she’d been on the receiving end enough times to know what that look meant--emotion regulation. He’d only done that in extreme situations. Shit.’ I’M SO SORRY FOR DEX BUT THIS IS SO PURE FOR SOME REASON WTF I LOVE DEX AND KEEFE’S FRIENDSHIP SO MUCH FNJDND

3- ‘Marella took control, nothing but fiery determination in her voice, a practiced calm as she listed off instructions, as she looked down at Dex and did not panic.’ YAS QUEEN I LOVE HER SO MUCH I-

4-’“What have we gotten ourselves into,” she laughed humorlessly, pulling at her cheeks, dragging her hands down her face. “This is...beyond fucked up.”’ -no but this being me getting into a new fandom-

5-’“You’re stealing my aesthetic,” Tam deadpanned’ fkfbdhyruefd HELP I WHEEZED

6-’Theoretically, Sophie Foster was immune to heights.

She was not immune to panic.’ -same sister same-

7-’Buildings typically don’t have a tendency to move’ Why do these lines sEnD mE-

8- Please the Biana moments were all I needed from life and more -and her WINGS!! THEY’RE PERFECT!!

9-’“Yes, brrrr. I’m a little preoccupied though,” she grimaced. “More of a bzzz bzzz if you get what I mean.”’ Y E S! ANOTHER BEE JOKE! THE PUN IN THE LAST CHAPTER NOW THIS-

10- eXcUsE mE- ThE eNd- bEsTiE- I- hOw dO yOu KeEp dOiNg tHiS- kEePiNg mE sO iNtRiGuEd- VfGsEtH-

11- All in all, a wonderful chapter once again. I shall give you some more cake for this lovely work. Thank you for wonderful writing :D I can’t wait for the next chapterrrrr

okay tumblr deleted my entire respond to this so let’s try that again.

welcome back, cake nonsie!!! I am so glad you noticed the whole climbing through the window thing because those lines fucking sent me while I was writing. I was trying to write a serious moment but they just refused to find the door

Also Keefe and dex interactions make me happy so. They’re just so soft no precious and I couldn’t resist. As for Marella, I thought it made the most sense for her to be the most collected because she often helped with her mother (which is different, but there are enough similarities).

Sophie and Keefe commiserating over their lives being fucked up gives me serotonin. So does Tam joking around with Keefe. It was honestly just what I was thinking as I wrote the scene so I just made Tam say it—. As for Sophie…she’s not doing to hot right now. Also desperately needs a shower and a change of clothes but has not received either.

The building line cracked me up ngl. I sent it to both sil and nattie as soon as I wrote it because it made me laugh so much. It’s kinda like the window thing, just the little stuff that’s hilarious for some reason. Also Biana!! I love her so much. Her wings were easy to choose because I just looked at her and went oh something really pretty and boom butterfly. Also cause butterflies are badass.

Sophie laughing in times of distress is something that can be so personal. Her life is falling apart and she’s just here like hmm. Not great. Don’t like that.

As for the ending, was entirely unplanned tbh. Same with the cat-thing. My partner suggesting writing about cats to get out of writing block and then we ended up here and honestly I’m vibing

I’m very glad you enjoyed the chapter, cake nonsie!! I will graciously accept your cake and offer you a few magic cookie bars that my mom and I made earlier today!! This chapter ad definitely a lot of fun so it’s wonderful to hear your thoughts on it!!

[lucky-sevens]

!!!!!!!!!!! THE MECHS HOWLS-MOVING CASTLE CROSSOVER? WOW SOUNDS FUCKING GREAT I LOVE IT SO MUCH!! Fantastic idea op, PLEASE give us more information, if you're up to it !

hello hello! apologies, this took me a while to get to; i’m still working on my answer to the tma semi au too!

-to clarify; this is an au for the diane wynne jones book, not necessarily the movie! (i have another mechs au for her book the homeward bounders, but it’s a lot less developed)

-the main roadblock here is i have no idea who i’d cast as the witch of the waste, which is a problem as she’s the main antagonist. that being said, i have worked out a lot;

-jonny is howl! there is. a lot of heart symbology here that’s very fun to play with. also bonus points jonny is Literally From Texas and when asked he panicked and said ‘new texas’.

-aurora is calcifer! i was actually considering a few characters for this, but the others fit better in different places, and aurora-as-calcifer fits the whole fallen star thing. plus, the jonny + aurora dynamic has not been explored and i think it should be.

-nastya is sophie! just. comes to jonny’s house and bothers him. it’s great. as for the old woman thing, that was a very clear tie-in to sophie’s arc as a character, so i’ve been thinking of alternatives. i’ve used a lot of the ‘accept the destiny of your blood’ cyberian demons things as a bit of a replacement to sophie’s conviction in being the eldest, but it’s not a direct swap. nastya i think is just like. a princess who fucked off to seek her fortune. she’s just vibing

-ashes is michael! they have quite different personalities, but it’s a roleswap in specific, and i do love the idea of orphan child ashes just showing up to jonny’s castle and deciding to live there, with their typical nonchalance. also they still take jonny’s money but unlike michael they are not responsible with it.

-carmilla is mrs pentstemmon! i think it’d be interesting to explore her relation to jonny in that context; however, haven’t figured out anything about how her backstory ties into that.

-brian is wizard suliman! he fits quite well here; there’s the entire thing of ‘strange magic person from foreign land but the land is just more technologically advanced’. also bonus points: his bones are still Places Where They Shouldn’t Be. i haven’t worked out prince justin quite yet, though.

-the toy soldier is percival! i just. have thoughts and Emotions about it okay. unsure if it gets cursed in the same way. on one hand, it could line up better with an element of mechs canon, but on another, i feel like it could be really irritating-on-purpose to nastya as a dog. (or perhaps a cat?)

so that’s it! i’m still working on fleshing out this au, n would love people’s ideas! to clarify at the end here: tim, raphaella, ivy, and marius are currently the mechanisms who don’t have roles, and none of the album characters do. martha and lettie are still uncast (and might not be a thing in the au?); neither is prince justin and ofc the witch of the waste isn’t; plus, there’s charmain and peter if we want to do something with that! (and the characters of the second book but ngl i have a much worse memory of that one. however i do have one thought and it’s that nastya gets kidnapped as well because princess and is really annoyed by it.)

[welcometotheocverse]

🌟 for Elliot pls?

:D aaaah! I’ve had him in the brain a lot lately okay sorry this got long And also im rewatching rn so its sorta season 1ish.

Elliot is Rory’s younger twin. He was given Christopher’s middle name. He’s mostly grateful it was the middle name.

He and Rory are super close. It was just the two of them ( and then Lane) The Twins That Read A Lot. Because they had each other they didn’t have much incentive to make friends outside of each other ( Elliot more than Rory) and extrapolating from the Pilot where Rory doesn’t seem like she has a lot of friends ( or any sans Lane) and is lowkey scoffed at for reading the assignment I’m gonna go with “other kids weren’t that keen on making friends with them either”

Rory’s the talkative one, he’s the quiet one. This is a bit of Rory also being protective of him/noticing when he looks overwhelmed and just...talking up a storm as is her wont and subtly getting attention away from Elliot. For a lot of the early season they’re not seen one without the other ( keeping in mind their arch is to learn it’s okay to have different dreams and even go different places ) 

Sorta shy and a bit more introverted than Rory. Once you become his friend however he pretty much would die for you and his face absolutely lights up when he sees you as opposed to his usual reserved nature and he talks to you albeit not as much as his twin ( unless hes super excited or talking about something he finds interesting then the resemblance kicks in lmao but thats the exception)  its like a switch ( seen with Rory, Luke, and Lane in canon and Sophie/Paige in their xover)

Likes hanging out at Luke’s. They both sorta enjoy... being quiet around each other. Elliot thinks he has a really calming vibe …when Taylor’s not there.

Ms Kim doesn’t like him because he’s a boy so he’s not allowed at Lane’s like Rory is ( honestly the feeling’s mutual bc “I’m pretty  sure locking you up for days and keeping you from school falls under child abuse also wtf” and lowkey the girls are like “lets just keep you not in the house” Lane might be closer to Rory but they still talk music together. She’s part of the reason his music taste actually started deviating  from  Lorelai’s and Rory’s.)

He doesn’t like unfair treatment of other people. It really gets to him. Examples are Ms. Kim to Lane and his grandparents and father to his mom. Later examples are Mitchum Huntzberger, and Marty. ( he’s pretty unimpressed with Marty and how his feelings for Rory make him act in general tbh but what he does with Lucy is just...it really bothers him he’s adamant that  Rory should tell Lucy the truth.)

Highkey  he has about zero patience for bad/toxic parents partly bc of his own feelings about Christopher and to an extent his grandparents that he keeps minimizing so they get projected on...everyone else with bad parents lol.

 Logan’s still a bit amazed that this shy soft spoken kid he met in his junior year went off like “He’s not your fucking property” when Mitchum went on his “You’re available when i say you’re available” tirade ( Elliot was ngl intimidated/scared of Mitchum who pretty much went “Who the hell are you??!” but Logan’s his friend and that wasn’t okay and he kept eye contact with the asshole until Logan diverted his attention back to him/the fight they were having and made sure he at least told Logan afterwards because “but he shouldn’t..” and “he shouldn’t have” and “No! No..it’s not Okay. “)

But also like constantly “it’s not a big deal” when it comes to his aforementioned feelings about Christopher and pretty much anything he might be angry about. 

Lowkey spends a lot of time Rory goes through relationship drama between “????” and “wowww dodged a bullet” Rory throws pillows at him for the latter because “If I’m gonna rant at you El, you could at least give me sympathy.”

He does have some insecurities about his orientation born out of just..f.eeling othered due to isolation and also some stuff he’s heard his dad say.

He figures out he’s asexual before he figures out he’s aromantic and has to deal with a lot of “Are you sure?” and “is that..is that normal?” from some townsfolks before he figures out Luke can scare them off and he lowkey spends a lot of time at the dinner during this time. Luke smiles at him and gives him muffins tho he’ll deny deny deny if you mention it.

A bit more sensitive than Rory like on the pilot episode when he notices Lorelai is worried about Chilton/having to ask her parents for money he stops at the base of the stairs and asks “is...everything okay mom?” and is kinda just in tune with how the people he cares about are feeling/picks up on things like that.

He...doesn’t super like his grandparents because of how they treat his mother.  Emily already made him a bit anxious because of her passive  aggressive nature ( he’s giving me some anxiety vibes tbh) and the fact that he thought the fact that his mom kept them away sorta ominous.  A lot of season 1 is him looking down at his plate and tensing with every “your mother’s golf clubs are in the attic along with the rest of her potential” and Richard’s “he ( Christopher) always was a smart one that  boy, you two must take after  him” and “as a maid with all your brains and talents” and it sorta...yeah he spends a lot of time looking at his plate and swallowing resentment. There are times where it gets better but overall he’s never completely at ease around them. He’s very quiet but civil around them even as he grows some affection and builds bridges with them along Lorelai and Rory. And I haven’t even figured out the fallout with the thing they pull at the wedding.

Emily at least once asked off handedly why Elliot wasn’t seeing anyone and I’m still figuring out if she says something like “that’s not normal” before Lorelai or Rory intervene.

(( Full disclosure Emily reminds me a bit too much of my own relationship with my mom and its really hard to write her favorably though I at least try to be fair. So Elliot is sometimes  a bit harsh on her and very in Lorelai’s corner when Emily and Richard are...less than nice. ))

Sort of a mamma’s boy. Rory and Lorelai have their special connection but so do Elliot and Lorelai. Rory was a bit more extroverted and would play/hang out with Lane while Elliot was perfectly content as a babie curling up with his mom and reading. It worried Lorelai a bit, how hard it was for him to reach out ( she never had that moment she had with Rory and Lane of “my kid has a friend” with him) but he always had Rory yknow so she calmed herself with that. Sometimes when Rory’s with Lane he’ll hang out at the Inn and work there. He somehow got in to Michel’s good graces ( “because you are quiet and unobtrusive”  and got him to teach him French 

Very tactile. When he’s getting nervous Rory will reach out and grab his hand or Lore will put her hands on his shoulder and he’ll calm down. He does the same when wanting to comfort friends or just wanting to show affection ( will lean on Finn and Colin a lot as he gets closer to them or accept that they’ll just throw an arm around him)

Meeting the LAD bridgade kids makes social events with his grandparents so much easier like ohmygod subparties with Logan Colin Finn and Rory  become lifesavers. ( its not so much the drinking as having someone you can laugh with while dodging your grandparents friends and the girl they told to look for you yknow)

He has more resentment towards Christopher than his sister and doesn’t see him with the rose colored glasses Rory sees him in their younger years. His absence hurts him a lot. He hides it well and is nice enough towards him because he loves Lorelai and Rory and wants them to be happy/have a good time but if you catch him on a bad day you might get a rant about how little Christopher knows about them and how little he was there  and “he just drops by, spends like a day with us and leaves yknow...it’s...and we’re supposed to be happy???” and the fact that he doesn’t wanna tell Rory or Lorelai bc he thinks it’ll upset them just  sorta...makes it worse.

And then at some point  Christopher pops off with “and how long are you gonna entertain this phase of his Lore, a boy his age should be dating” and while Rory’s making angry noises and Lorelai’s saying “Outside. Now” ( though they don’t know the twins are listening) he just gets...this thin unsurprised smile and...yeah it’s not great. 

Very supportive of people he loves. He’s constantly telling Rory through the Chilton years that she’s smart enough, more than smart enough to get through this and helps her study. He makes sure he tells Lorelai he loves her or hugs her if he can tell the dinners are a bit hard on her. Honestly a total cream puff. The resentment for his grandparents and father is mostly buried and comes out like when he’s upset/they do something that provokes it. Mostly he’s a really soft boy and kinda soft spoken, loves reading about science and space ( he balances out Rory’s preference for literature and history though they both like poetry and Elliot occasionally reads prose as Rory lets him infodump sometimes about science journals) and loves his friends so so dearly. Will get angry a la Beware The Nice Ones if you hurt them though the first thing he’ll do is comfort them/try to cheer them up.

He loves Stars Hollow but being the only aroace person he knows of there ( and fielding well intentioned “are you sures?” and “oh honey you’ll find someone someday”s and just..alot of early 2000s Star Hollow-ness ( “Hey kiddo you gonna bid on a basket this year?” “oh you’re getting handsome, gonna find yourself a girl for the starlight festival?” “is he..youknow?” is just...a lot? He wants to spread his wings and find his place/people like him/feel less isolated.

He still loves his town though as its his home and raised him his sister and in a way his mother. He visits while he’s at Yale ( the distance helps tremendously as does the ability to just...leave again) like Rory and says hi to Miss Patty and Gypsy and Andrew ( he loves Andrew omg. One of the few people who didn’t just assume he and Rory were always reading the same books) He helps the 30-Something gang find jobs/fine tune resumes  though im not including anything else form ayit and checks in how they’re doing bc..its still his town. They’re his family. “my nuts-o, extended...well meaning but sometimes overly invested and too-pushy-and-slightly-overbearing family.” even as he dreams of getting out a lot and once he does he...really likes it. He loves them

He goes to Yale because Rory goes to Yale (because again the whole Learning To Be Independent From Your Twin...kind of a slow process for him) and gets sibling-adopted by Finn and Colin  in a turn of events he’s pretty much confused over like im p sure they were like “hes ours now” and Elliot was like “im ...you’re...w..what?” and Logan who Knows Finn and Colin is like “don’t fight it” and lowkey adopted him too.

Im cutting myself off bc this got Long and im sorry lol

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sooooo, i just finished season 3 of greenhouse academy and i have to say i DID enjoy it. overall it was super entertaining, had a different vibe from the first two which was unsettling at first but it was also new and exciting !!!

hayley, my girl, my cherry on top, my favourite character ever. she was awesome this season. i didn't expect her to move to the eagles at ALL, especially if u think about how she was in season 1. it was interesting although i still think she's a raven tbh. also her an daniel were total babes this season although i felt like nothing exciting really happened, would've loved to see more insight on their relationship. speaking of daniel i feel like he kind of lost his development this season ??? i mean i loved him sth just seemed off, but that could just b the writers' inconsistency 🤷🏽‍♀️ would be nice to see how he feels about his mom being in jail and all, also we know nothing about his father.

gooooo sophie. the whole backstory thing was so cool and i hope they explore that more in the future. she's a queen. i don't really ship her with parker tho, although i love him. also idk how i feel about enzo but i had a huge crush on him ngl

kinda felt bad for leo this season and i BEGAN to like him for the first time ever although he was a jerk to hayley at first but i guess it was his way of dealing w the heartbreak. also the whole thing w becca had me wheezing i can't

about the new casts: i'm sorry i don't dig 😖 tried to be open-minded but i just want my girls back yo. new brooke just doesn't sit right and i found her character this season to be pretty annoying. also emma didn't really feel like emma at all to me, it was almost as if it was a completely new character. also i don't ship her w max nor will i ever 😩 why they had to do us like that WHERE IS JACKIE i miss her

also alex's characters was like. even more bland than usual this season. like come on writers, give us something. give HIM something.

all in all i digged this season even though it was too short for me, and i hated them for that cliffhanger. let's just hope they won't take too long for season 4 !!! god, love this show. it's a shitty show but it's MY shitty show. and also, at the same time, it is genius.

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For the AHS ask, EVERYTHING

AHH THANK YOU YOU’RE A SAINT

1. What’s your favorite season and why?

Murder House. The feeling of it, the aesthetics, the characters, just everything. It’s just so good.

2. What season is the worst in your opinion and why?

I don’t actually think there’s been a bad season but my least favourite is probably Cult or Roanoke. I absolutely loved the writing and the concept but I wasn’t super attached to any of the characters in Roanoke (apart from Sophie & Audrey, really) but I did love it. Cult was amazing with what it stood for and the whole story and everything, the only reason why I’ve put it here is becasue it’s the one season I’d struggle to want watch again.

3. Have you ever had a dream about AHS character? What was it about?

Not that I remember, but I had a dream about Evan Peters’ character Quicksilver from X-Men. I don’t remember it though because it was like three years ago.

4. If you could play any AHS character, who would it be?

Definitely Violet because I’m good at pretending to be pissed off when I’m actually sad. Also Zoe because I just really want to like become her. Also I’d steal their outfits.

5. What theme should the next season be?

I know it’s cliche but I’d really love a zombie apocalypse theme. Like the same vibe as 28 Days Later but with Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga, Billie Lourd & Angelica Ross playing the main characters.

6. Pick a character to dress as on Halloween.

ZOE ZOE ZOE ZOE-

7. Your most favorite charater of all & why.

Zoe, Kit & Violet due to the fact that i either relate to them, want to become them, adore them, want to date them, want to steal their clothes or all of the above.

8. What character do you hate the most?

Kai probably. Would beat the shit out of that little inc*l, racist bitch.

9. Your first AHS crush.

Violet for sure.

10. Your current AHS crush.

Zoe & Kit mostly.

11. If you die at the Murder House, what death it would be?

I mean Violet’s death sounded like something I’d do when I was 9 and suicidal but now I feel like Hayden would kill me for fun or something. Or maybe that freaky ass baby thing in the basement.

12. You’re in the Asylum. What for?

Being bisexual lol.

13. Mary Eunice or Misty?

Misty! I don’t talk about her enough, I love her.

14. Oliver Thredson, James March or Dandy Mott?

I think Dandy is the most interesting villain out of the 3. James March do be kinda hot though ngl. Thredson’s just fucking terrifying

15. Describe your feelings about the Countess in one gif.

16. Your AHS OTP?

zyle, violate, zadison, brodonna & gritma

17. What would you change in “AHS Apocalypse”?

I’d give Zoe more screen time and emphasize how powerful she is, make Kyle actually be there and be happy!!!, not make those boring straight kids have the next anti christ, confirm that time doesn’t affect ghosts so Violet & Tate are still together even after Mallory reversed time, show us more about Gallant and tell us his fucking last name, have Mallory free Madison from hell, tell us Queenie’s last name and give her more screen time, more Marie Laveau

18. Favorite Evan Peters character?

KIT KIT KIT KIT K-

19. Favorite Sarah Paulson character?

Lana Winters 1000%

20. Favorite Jessica Lange character?

Jude! I loved her character arc and her relationship with Kit, Julia, Thomas.

21. What was the most brutal death of all in your opinion?

Pretty much all The Butcher’s kills in Roanoke

22. What was the saddest scene of all?

The scene when Zoe and Queenie die in s8, Kyle’s reaction to Zoe’s death in s3, Violet finding out she’s dead, and any scene where Kit’s being hurt gets me as well

23. The most annoying character of all.

Ivy Mayfair-Richards & John Lowe

24. Lana Winters or Ally Mayfair-Richards?

Lana, definitely.

25. The most dangerous character of all?

Probably Micheal since he’s the literal anti-Christ

26. What’s your favorite witch?

ZOE ZOE ZOE ZOE ZOE ZOE ZO-

27. What character are you gay for?

Literally all of Angela Basset’s characters, Zoe, Violet, Brooke, Donna, The Countess and a lot more lol.

28. Tate Langdon or Michael Langdon?

Tate 10000000000%. Micheal WANTED to hurt people and did for fun. My boy Tate was just a sensitive teenager who got controlled by evil forces.

29. What character’s destiny would you like to change and how?

Kit, Grace & Alma’s. I want them to all have lived happily ever after together with their kids, all three of them in love, no one gets cancer, no one gets abducted again, no one gets murdered, no one gets sent to an asylum.

30. Which one of all characters is most likely to become your friend?

Probably Violet. She’s a cool, broody teenaged girl with good taste in fashion and music.

31. Favorite Naomi Grossman character?

Pepper.

32. Would you rather end up in Asylum or in Murder House?

Murder House for sure. I can get Tate & Violet to date me as well each other. Also at least Murder House is a gorgeous building filled with some nice people. Briarcliffe is just a miserable torture chamber filled with murderers and people with serious mental illnesses that hinder them from functioning properly.

33. Favorite gay character?

Definitely Lana.

34. Who’s worse: Elsa Mars or Constance Langdon (and why)?

I love Constance’s character because she’s so interesting but she’s said some racist and homophobic things were as Elsa was just vibing.

35. The most repusling character of all?

Kai & Thredson. They‘re literally so disgusting.

36. Describe your feelings about Michael Langdon in one gif.

37. Your favorite opening titles?

1984 & coven

38. Which one of all characters is most likely to become your enemy?

Kai. He’d argue with me on the internet and then I’d block him immediately

39. Would you rather have sex with Twisty or end up in LaLaurie’s basement?

LaLaurie’s basement. I’ll just kill her and free everyone.

40. Jeff or Mutt? Why?

Jeff becasuse Evan Peters