#thanks Kate!

[the-blind-assassin-12]

Hi!! I have a maybe weird fruit salad for you 🍍🫐🥝

Hi Kate! Hope you’re having a good week so far! I’m sorry I didn’t get to this sooner - I didn’t get a notification when you sent it (because dumblr) and then yesterday flew by in a span of 10 minutes (aka 24 hours) BUT I’m here now and I happen to believe that no fruit salad is a weird fruit salad. So thank you for my bowl of pineapples, blueberries and kiwis.

🍍What kind of AUs do you like? Are there any AUs you hate or just generally have beef with?

So I used to be a somewhat picky reader when it came to AUs. But lately I’ll give anything a chance - even if it’s something that doesn’t sound like it’s gonna be my thing - because as long as the writing is good and the characterization is done well, any AU can make sense and make a good story.

I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a coffee shop AU, because that used to be one that I’d avoid in my picky days (why? Idk? I love coffee?) but it’s not that I have beef with it anymore I just haven’t gotten around to righting that wrong yet.

I am and always have been a sucker for anything with a magical element, though. Magical, mythological, mystical AUs will always pull me in. Give me witches and monsters and merpeople and powers and abilities and visions and all that jazz.

🫐 What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)

I think one of the most underrated things in this fandom is when writers take a character who has basically no screen time or canon background and turn them into a fully fleshed character who lives and breathes and loves and has flaws and motivations. It’s the way creators will see a character from a music video or a wine commercial or an SNL skit and make him into a whole man with a whole life. Like the imagination and creativity needed to make something from nothing but scraps?? It’s the Chopped Champions of fanfic. It’s like “okay writers, you’ve got 3 short scenes, 2 lines of dialogue, a pair of glasses and a smirk, create a masterpiece” and then they DO? 🤯

🥝 What’s your favorite trope/AO3 tag to write?

I think the things that I tend to write the most would fall under the umbrella of fix-it fics, because usually what inspires me to write for a character is some kind of tragedy or heartbreak that I want to undo or give context to. That character isn’t dead, he’s actually alive and well. That character isn’t heartbroken and alone, he’s actually in a really healthy relationship with himself and his partner. That character doesn’t have to face his past or future alone, actually he’s got family to support him and a cat to sit on his lap.

[duckdotcom]

hi i am also at work. what is your favorite or top 3 fave fishies

*we are awarded the MUTUALS WHO ARE AT WORK award and the crowd is cheering so loud for us*

I love answering favorite fish asks because it's always different for me! Today I'm going to say:

#1. Nudibranchs! They're so pretty and varied and just genuinely interesting creatures :)

#2. Manatees! I'm feeling those pleasant and low key goofy vibes. They look like they'd be so chill to hang out with

#3. Manta rays. I think that if any ocean creatures could gain the ability to glide through the air in flight these would be some of the coolest. Minecraft really missed the mark when they made phantoms cause they could have had huge flying mantas instead

[nelsonandspringforever]

Fanmix game! List three songs you associate with either your blorbo or your otp, then pass this on to three other people!

i’m not cool like you and i can’t do the link thing but here we go lol

OTP: Nick and Charlie duh

Song 1: Snow On The Beach by Taylor Swift ft. Lana Del Rey

“I’ve never seen someone lit from within blurring out my periphery”

“You wanting me tonight feels impossible”

“I can’t speak, afraid to jinx it/I don’t even dare to wish it”

Song 2: In My Head by Andrew Barth Feldman and Joe Serafini

“What if this is something? What if this is nothing? What if this is in my head?”

“God he’s hot and perfect/You’re not good enough for him”

“ ‘Cause even if it’s just a thought inside my head my heart is telling me don’t stop”

Song 3: You Are In Love by Taylor Swift

“You keep his shirt, he keeps his word”

“One night he wakes, strange look on his face/Pauses then says, ‘you’re my best friend’”

“You can hear it in the silence/You can feel it in the way home/You can see it with the lights out”

nobody say anything about the two taylor songs okay? i’m a swiftie first and a human second lol

[daringyounggrayson]

tell me about poison dart frog the villain!

so picture this: you want to write a fic where Dick has been poisoned or something along those lines, but none of the regular villains are really meeting your needs. so you think, "hey, why isn't there just a villain that creates a bunch of different poisons? their name could even be poison dart frog and they could wear a brightly colored frog costume" and then you say to yourself, "oh, i could just create said villain" and now there's a fic about it lmao

here's a snippet:

“Batman!” Dick shouts, tackling Bruce and forcing them both to the ground. Dick hisses as the dart aimed for Bruce hits him instead and injects something into his arm.

Dick rolls off of Bruce, pulling out the dart and dropping it in an evidence bag. “Sniper on the third floor, west building,” Dick says into his comm. “Watch out for darts.”

“Got it.” Tim responds.

[cassieuncaged]

34, 47, 61, and 83 for your Spotify Wrapped?

34. Train in Vain (Stand by Me) by The Clash

47. Love Really Hurts Without You by Billy Ocean

61. Flashdance…What a Feeling… by Irene Cara

83. Constant Craving by k.d. lang

[klirk-hammurton]

You and I should RP at some point. 👀

-dedicatedtopapahet

👀

I think you're right on this. I might just hop in the deep end of the RP community like I was a few years ago. We absolutely should

[blissfulalchemist]

6, 14, 33, 47, 50 for sugar mommy x old man 🤍

Hi Kate I didn’t forget about this one! But here’s the last of these two!

6. Do they have any pet names/nicknames for eachother?

She calls this man Daddy. She doesn't need anything else that's it. And he doesn’t really have any for her. Old school a little in that way.

14. How would they describe one another if asked?

Sib would describe Lahabrea as spicy, but if a pyromaniac, really great in bed, sure he was once a villain and a terrible father but he got better about being a father a bit. He’s a bit hot headed, loves the sound of his own voice, and just an overall complex mystery of a man that just keeps her guessing.

Lahabrea would describe her as stubborn, impulsive, beautiful, bit of a hopeless romantic, god killer, probably needs to learn when not to speak (she does just chooses to do so anyway), and frankly amazing at what she does because it was checks notes 13,000 years since last they fucked and never forgot it.

33. Who was the first to say ‘I love you’?

On a technicality Lahabrea was. Did he mean it at the time? No, he was simply trying to keep a front so the Scions wouldn’t expect anything was wrong and saying that he loved her while in the body of someone else she was trying to fuck worked wonders. But it was Sib as it takes a man with little to no emotions to come to terms with what he's feeling.

47. Who made the first move?

Sib. She can be very straight forward and once she got past a certain point of “Well I cannot deny the feelings anymore I might just actually be in love” she just went for it and pushed that old man against a wall to get things started and thank god that man responded as quickly to it as he did because it sealed the deal between them.

50. Is there anything that scares them about their friendship/relationship?

For Lahabrea his past coming once again to bite him in the ass (it does and probably will continue to do so). They already had to try and work around the fact that his very judgmental co-worker was still on his plan and well.....well let's just say that old man was not happy seeing the man he assumed dead which in turn meant he had to delay his (well earned) nap. They both kind of half worry about how they are perceived from the outside. He was a villain that has committed many acts of genocide, tried to kill her at one point, she's tried to kill him, oh and the most important one! The age difference is something else man. She's a Grave Robber (he's at minumum 15,000 years old) and he's a Cradle Robber (Sib is a respectable 30 years old), but its all fine really. No one else just seems to get it. The only other thing is that there are quite a few people that believe he's only dating her for her money.

However! The biggest current problem that scares them is his eldest daughter, Stasia. She’s……less than thrilled about the new stepmom 🙃 from Sib being one of her enemies, the fact that she’s younger than her, Lahabrea was a very absent father, Sib will use it to win fights, he sees absolutely nothing wrong with what’s happening, and overall Stasia has a tendency to just make her own problems as it is. Overall Stasia has a lot of choice words for them both and wishes she killed them both at some point.

[iheartbookbran]

Actually you know what fuck everybody else, this is THE most important relationship in the entire Bridgerton family for real.

[daydreamycrustacean]

Alt outfits. Playing dress up with him like he´s a barbie doll.

[azarovas]

No Context Deadloch (2023-)

[amaranthsynthesis]

This Hark! A Vagrant strip is immediately what I thought of when I found those letters. I’m sticking with the hot topic implication bc it’s funnier than finding a faerûnian equivalent for France and bc fantasy hot topic would be fucking fantastic and I want to go there right now.

(The postscript says ‘no homo’ but it is very much homo)

[mochipong]

It’s you and me

[existentialgaybirdnerd]

Soap: *covered in black lipstick kisses all over his face and neck and a stupid lovesick look on his face*

Price, behind the camera: "who did that to you?"

Price: *turns to Laswell, wearing bright red lipstick* "did you do that?"

Laswell: "nope"

Price: *turns to Ghost, whose mask is above his nose and his lips are stained black and heavily smeared*

Ghost: "then who did?"

Gaz: *throws an arm around Ghost to jump into frame, also with black stained lips that are heavily smeared* "yeah, who?"

[stevenrogered]

Jonathan Bailey reveals he came up with the idea for Kanthony's season 3 premiere kiss during dance rehearsals with Simone Ashley.

"Simone and I had a dance rehearsal and I think it was my idea, but we rehearsed it," Bailey said. "It wasn't improvised in the moment, but it's Simone's amazing performance that made it look like it was."

[bimbvx]

ending 2023 with kate <3

[cassieuncaged]

😍 and 😁 for Maggie from the Head Canon Meme?

😁 - Three Happy Head Canons

loves listening to her records. it's one of her favorite hobbies and almost instantly puts her at ease.

snuggling with Maddy the cat puts her in the best mood. She loves animals so much and is absolutely honored that Maddy loves her back

is a comfort baker and will make cupcakes from scratch to cheer someone up

😍 - Three Romantic Head Canons

loves little gestures like hand holding or kisses on the cheek. She just loves the innate romanticness of it.

Can be won over on a date (or anytime really) with a bouquet of daisies

blushes at literally any compliment