#wingdingsandbrokenstrings

[talentforlying]

@wingdingsandbrokenstrings: 8. How loose is their use of the phrase ‘I love you’? — CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS

sincerely? sphincter-tight. the poetic answer is that constantine doesn't say 'i love you' nearly as often as he wants to, or half as often as he feels it. the straight answer is, he never says it.

early on in life, the reason he didn't say it was because he never assigned any real value to the words: he never heard them from his dad or his sister, only on the telly or radio, or read in books. sure, there was an element of toxic masculinity at play, growing up being told it's unmanly to show or speak with frank affection, but that only furthered his lack of attachment to the phrase; it didn't create it. the words were alien to him from the start. in his teens and early twenties, he and his friends sometimes said they loved each other, but only ever jokingly or drunk; and that was sometimes dangerous, given that john was openly queer and a lot of his friends were men.

as time went on and john got older, he started to grow more familiar with the phrase in his own mind — if only because he often felt love so strongly that there was no other name he could put to the feeling that would clarify it for him — but the only person he ever really attributed it to directly in a romantic sense was his girlfriend kit ryan. even then, he was never able to tell her to her face; he came close, when she was breaking up with him, but never managed to finish the sentence. when that relationship ended, i think the phrase lost most (if not all) remaining significance for him, because what's the point in admitting to painful things like that when the feeling itself wasn't enough to keep him from driving away the love of his life? what's the point in admitting attachment if nobody will stay attached to him?

in canon, constantine never again got that close to saying 'i love you' to a romantic partner (we don't talk about milligan) and in my main verse, he still hasn't. he'll say it platonically on occasion — usually to chas or to his niece — or sarcastically to anyone, but almost never in earnest; if he's being sincere, he prefers to speak around it or substitute other, more innocuous phrases in its place. as he says in red right hand, "i could crawl face-down across an acre of glass, but frank affection floors me."

all that said? imo, he doesn't really need to say it out loud. anyone who knows him past the reputation and the bullshit can see plain as day when he loves someone, platonically or romantically. he wears his heart on his sleeve.

[max--phillips]

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BOOP YOU

I DONT KNOW I think my shit is cursed . I get like a million errors before I can actually send out a boop on desktop, mobile is a little less annoying but . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ webbed site

[antioceas]

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For reference the ones I'm referencing primarily are Darius and Luna (because... you know) and Ari as these are the ones who inspired me most. This is NOT to say others can't be talked about too.

Get to know: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Befriend: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Date: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please| ALWAYS

Kiss/Make out: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS --- The romantic ones make more sense for Ari

Hook up with: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Protect: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Help: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Kill (Answered as my characters killing yours): NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Have drinks with: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Have dinner with/cook with: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Do a heist with: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Make a mixtape for: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

Resolve a mystery with: NEVER! | I'd rather not | Convince me! | Sure why not? | Yes please | ALWAYS

[qi-mera]

I appreciate your presence on my dash 😊💚💚💚

Thank you so much! Likewise ☺️💜💜💜

[jocelynships]

If I start shipping with RGB Venkman I’m blaming you all, but specifically @soulnottainted @wingdingsandbrokenstrings and @moonlitjinx bc they’re encouraging it the most

[moralmortuary]

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[manicpanicaddict]

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[scumbagsblog]

I wasn’t tagged but I’ve never needed an invitation.

The last song I listened to was “Paranoia on Main Street” by Demi the Daredevil

I’m tagging @wingdingsandbrokenstrings, @arenthian-victory and @vanhelsingapologist

weemp womp do the picrew & add the last song you listened to

(these are NOT my eyebrows irl lol) link is here

last song i listened to was "vampires will never hurt you" by mcr

tagging @amethyinst @romanken @deathtothecandle @boingeaux @youre-only-gay-once @faeriecard @dorothygale @twow @gaypeople anddd @visenyaism or anyone else who wants to do this lol

[zoophagist]

Oh! I am desperately waiting your review!

ooc;; alright, i held off since i saw it a day before it was wildly opened and didn't want to detail thoughts about the thing no one had really experienced yet. i'm hoping the renfield girlies are all unhinged enough to have gone opening night and now we'll be on the same page.

overall take - it was fine. just pretty middling. i had some laughs, and there were a few scenes i thought were really solid. it didn't do anything deep and it really didn't want to, and that's the vibe, fair enough. mostly i had a feeling of like... that's objectively renfield but is not recognizably renfield to me. i said this to a friend and i'm upset that the tumblr nonsense words are the best way to articulate it, but basically they made him a wet cat when they should have made him skrunkly. i'd say 6/10, didn't change my life, not my renfield, but a some silly fun!

more thoughts below cut, but i'm not doing a blow-by-blow, lads, simply too tired from real life. but if you or others have specific questions i'm happy to answer :) spoilers below!

went into the theater worried the pop psych angle all about 'narcissism' and everything would be overbearing (i'm begging people to relearn how to use any other, non-therapizing language to talk about mean or unpleasant people. like did we need the psych angle? did it enhance the story in a way saying 'dracula is just an asshole' wouldn't have done? mini rant over) but when i watched it i will say the second half of the movie (underrepresented in trailers) moved away from that and was more fun for it.

i saw a themed costume screening so the audience was obviously at a higher level of investment and more willing to have a good time. the movie seemed to go over really well with the group there

the love story wasn't as big a focus as i feared it would be, and that was very nice. rebecca as a character also did meaningfully play into renfield's character drive of wanting to stand up for himself. she just. well. i just didn't like her that much. the cop thing didn't help because it made moments i imagine were intended to be quirky fun for her read to me as "cop points gun at person in rage to cow them / cop has anger issues / cop disrespects or demeans others on the job." especially with her particular backstory and her tension with her fed sister, i think she'd have been a more fun character if she was just some lady, outside the system, trying to solve her problems. but anyway. yeah, not as huge a problem as it could be, but wasn't rooting for it

they needed to let nicholas hoult of the leash they kept him on this whole movie. he is capable of so much more unhinged energy and they really had him "i'm just a little guy"-ing his way through the whole thing. the 5 minutes where he got to beat dracula's face in and got a little too excited about it were the best for his character in the whole movie

what was the LORE? i love lore, and this movie was lore-light, playing vast and loose with vampires. vampire blood is a heal-all, so drinking it can't turn you into a vampire i guess? nor a familiar? in the course of the movie several people become familiars but we never see how it's done and i wish they let us play with and understand the magic there a little more! especially if you're just going to hand-wave away the bugs = power thing. i craved more lore. in general the writing was always like... there were just enough bits of development to get a job done but i kept wanting something deeper? maybe it's just the genre priorities since i'm not an action/horror fan.

i said it before and i'll say it again - teddy lobo was more renfield-ish than renfield was. i think his desperation to please, his manic energy, and his "i need you to know i'm dracula's favorite or i'll DIE" swag were very fun! everyone said nicolas cage would steal the show, but i honestly think ben schwartz as teddy was the show-stealer to me. if you like any other iteration of renfield's character, i really think teddy will be more interesting to you than the I Just Want To Be Normal edition of renfield this film is serving.

action and gore was fun sometimes. i'm not squeamish and none of it bothered me, but not being an action fan the fights weren't that much of a draw for me. just not my taste, but they looked pretty good!

there's one scene where dracula confronts renfield about betrayal, and honestly i thought that was the best performance both nicks gave in the whole movie. i thought it did a great job really driving home what this take on the drac/renfield relationship is like and how good dracula is at twisting renfield's will until it snaps. the one sour note about it was how it of course hinged on the whole 'narcissist' thing and like.... so, here's my hot take. the film and this scene spceifically would have been better if they didn't lead so heavy on all the group therapy jokes about narcissism. if you had just framed it as dracula's a selfish jerk who knows how to make things about him and let the writing/interaction tell the story (good ol' show, don't tell) this scene would have said EVERYTHING we need to know about this drac by being descriptive instead of prescriptive. (i hope that point makes sense. like i said, we're tired out here fellas, trying to make the brain do words right.) but as it stands, the scene is really good, sheds new light on their relationship, and makes renfield doubt his victimhood which is good for the plot.

renfield bought those clothes from a macy's and babyboy should not be allowed to shopping by himself is all i'm saying

renfield had a wife and daughter pre-31!dracula?? canon?? barbara hambly is somewhere out there feeling so valid for her book rn. for me it was just like... you really want us to think this man is straight, huh? but all you've done is make him a man who left his wife to be with a sexy male vampire so. the gays stay winning with renfield.

generally i was surprised by how mild and complex by reaction was to this. like with all the build up i really thought it was either going to suck or catch me off guard by being really good. but it really, truly, is just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay! i think i was harder on it than most general audiences would be though, and again i'll reiterate the audience at my showing was really having a good time with it! on the whole, i'd call it a fun, silly little vampire romp, and say it's for popcorn viewing but not for deep thinking.

that "last voyage of the demeter" trailer tho 👀👀👀 that looks sick as fuck.

[max--phillips]

@wingdingsandbrokenstrings

[psykicks-og]

For Winston! ✔️What are things they liked from how they were raised and want to repeat with their own kids? 👼 What are their top 3 values as a parent? I.e what are most important things they want to get across to their child and have them retain?

Parenting

Winston liked having a close-knit family when he was a child. Growing up, he noticed on occasion that some of his friends were distant from their family. He’d go to a friend’s house and feel unwelcome, and he could only imagine what that was like every day. Like his parents, he would know the interests and aspirations of his children, and most importantly, his children would know they could come to him, even when they made mistakes.

For Winston, it’s hard to choose just three values. He’s a principled man. But, he knows that empathy would be near the very top of the list. If someone was suffering, he would be ashamed to find his children could help but didn’t. Open mindedness has also gotten him far in life. He’d teach his babies to be curious about other religions and cultures - and one of his kids is going to be an Egyptology nerd. Both he and Tiyah had an Egyptology phase, it’s inevitable. Good manners have also been a handy fallback for Winston. His military training and his own upbringing taught him to respect authority figures, but his own common sense tempers that with the caution of also criticizing authority when it is justified. He listens more than he talks, he laughs at unfunny jokes, and generally makes himself a comfortable presence for people he wants on his good side. He was even nice to Jack Hardemeyer, for crying out loud!

[orneryknight]

@wingdingsandbrokenstrings asked:

✂ :) [ for any of my muses, you may choose. but if you don’t wanna choose, then Ariel ]

Galeas clapped the book closed on the tiny faerie, quite done with her antics on Prospero's behalf. The trouble was, he was unaware of the fact that Prospero had imprisoned her, used her magic to fuel his own. He could hardly consider that, though. Because of his magic, Flynn and Eve were dead. Lost forever in time, and it hardly mattered to him what happened to someone who was party to murder.

[heartoftheteam-a]

🎄✉️ ✨[ Kylie ]

“Huh? Kylie, what’s this? You didn’t need to do anything for me.” 

[ccborrega]

Post 5 things that make you happy, and then put this in the ask box of 10 mutuals ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Alright, let’s see:

-Dogs-The smell of rain-Random acts of kindness-Perfectly heated mozarella sticks-Thick and heavy blankets

[randomeevee]

“This is so frustrating! I can’t do anything with my arm in this sling!” -manicpanicaddict

@manicpanicaddict

“Sorry! I can’t do much about that!” The Eevee chimed. “I would use Wish to heal you, but I have been advised not to. Something about ‘just let it heal on its own’ I guess.”

The unusual Eevee neared Kylie, a bright and friendly look in her eye.“But, I will be happy to assist while you are injured.”

[flawedlouise]

💝How long until they feel secure and comfortable in a relationship?

My muse in a relationship ?

//comfort in a relationship could almost be immediate or it could take months for Lou, depending on the other person. Security is a completely different animal and much of that relates to her and her employment, past experiences etc. It isn’t necessarily the easiest to be secure in a relationship when you view reaching your next milestone birthday in one piece as a goal. Add in some heavy trust and abandonment issues and you have Louise ‘Even My Insides Are Made of Angst’ Darbonne.