another addition to my hoa ships + taylor swift songs that apply to them series: mick & mara edition

Joy thinks Nina has it so easy. Joy, who was given the title Chosen One, and suffered under it, had to watch the actual Chosen One get along fine, and was expected to not feel envious, righteously angry at such things.

It's not until after the article. It's not until Nina and Fabian reunite. It's not until the year is done and over, but for two nights left, Joy finds Nina crying, the way Fabian found Nina crying at the start, only this time it's almost 10 P.M., and Nina sits on the stoop in front of Anubis House, shoulders quaking.

Nina can't stop shaking. In the future, she will consider this night to be the night she let out the pressure that had been boiling over. Senkhara is gone. Rufus is gone. They survived. And now she can finally breathe.

The sobs are familiar to Joy. She did it often when she was alone with a chessboard and with chants written down on paper that she was forced to memorize.

Wordlessly, she slips down next to Nina, who breathes in hard in an attempt to slow the next onslaught of tears.

"It hasn't been easy at all for you, has it?"

Nina, weeks prior, would likely have given a passive-aggressive answer along the lines of "Oh, you finally realized?" But she doesn't want to anymore. She laughs pitifully, to which Joy scrunches her nose and shakes her head.

"No, no, don't do that."

They sit in silence until Victor ushers them in.

Go Patricia, knock em' out

(house of anubis fandom I love you)

Mara & Magnus tropes

BEST DHA SHIP

Nina and Fabian would a hundred percent enable each other's sleep deprivation and the only reason Fabian got somewhat of a sleep schedule in S3 is because Eddie would just start throwing things at him if he was up on nights they weren't doing sibuna things

THIS IS TRUE

there's definitely some sort of "you get enough sleep for both of us" jab aimed at eddie hidden in there somewhere too

Redrawing screencaps is too fun

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An Undertone of Discord - Chapter 6

Summary:

Affairs of the heart are funny things, and the coincidences are starting to add up.

link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37370365/chapters/140875495

HOA Girls as songs from Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess:

Femininomenon = Mara

Red Wine Supernova = Nina

After Midnight = KT

Casual = Patricia

Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl = Amber

Picture You = Joy

Pink Pony Club = Willow

I think I finally found the guy who keeps dropping anons about how Fabian was a cardboard cut out in S3

THIS IS AN AMZING ADDITION THANK YOU SO MUCH YOUR TAKE IS LITERALLY SO ACCURATE I HAVE NO OTHER WORDS!!!

I wanna preface this by saying Joy went too far in certain aspects of her S2 arc, but the Joy vs Nina situation would have never escalated that much in canon had Nina not been the Chosen One.

Like hear me out: the entire reason Joy was kidnapped in the first place was because she was supposed to be the Chosen One. And honestly, we’re never told for how long she was being told this. It might have been dropped on her only once she was back at home, or they might have told her way before then and she just didn’t give it too much thought before it suddenly became real. We have no real idea. But either way, her isolation from all of the friends she held dear, and the essential imprisonment in her own home was all due to being this supposed Paragon.

And she obviously doesn’t want to be the Chosen One. She says it multiple times in S1, to the point of tears and screaming. Joy is glad when it turns out not to be her, but it’s obvious that she basically went through that entire ordeal, missed a whole year of crucial social development in her actual home (bc lbr she probably spent more time at Anubis growing up than she did her actual house), all for nothing.

And to make matters worse, the actual Chosen One was walking around free as a bird, making friends with all Joy’s friends, and managing to capture Fabian’s affections. So here’s this girl that Joy doesn’t know at all, who has cemented herself in the daily lives and hearts of Anubis House residents, and she happens to hold the role that Joy had been forced to play to her detriment.

That’s what stings most, I think, though Joy says it’s about Fabian. Most of her actual hurt and actual retaliation comes from feeling excluded by Sibuna. “I’ve seen things, remember? Things we don’t talk about because you and your little Scooby gang shut me out.” She is most angry because her isolation never stopped.

Of course, it doesn’t help that she was in love with Fabian, and now the actual Chosen One (who in Joy’s mind has practically gotten everything handed to her) is with him.

I firmly believe that if Nina was just a normal girl and there wasn’t a mystery going on, but she still was dating Fabian, Joy would not have gone so far. It’s not right that she went that far in the first place, of course, but she was justifiably angry at the injustice of her situation. She should have turned that anger on the adults who got it wrong in the first place, but it’s way easier to punch on your level than to punch up at grown adults with power over you. It’s a real shame that Nina got caught in the crossfire of Joy’s war with the world, because they really could have been such good friends.

I made an edit of her that I think gets my point across better than this, that’s too large to post on tumblr so here is the link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5_a8GhO0Xg/?igsh=MWlncmRsdWJxdHd6NA==

The Frobisher-Smythes getting in trouble for stealing from Tutankhamun's tomb, like the entire expedition wasn't doing that, and like every British Egyptian expedition wasn't just theft and people weren't eating mummies with no legal consequences.

SMH, double standards much?

Currently rewatching season two

Some of the shots in this season are beautiful

(sorry if posts get taken down, or altered, art brain isn't wired on)

Thinking about the episode ‘House of Eclipse’ when Denby is trying to keep them from leaving she says she was gonna take pictures of them preforming the ceremony to send it to their families and says ‘I was going to take pictures of you wearing robes and send it to Patricia’s twin, Alfies parents-“

Idk the fact she specifically says “Patricia’s twin” rather than her parents is so interesting to me-

thinking about how eddie said he saw kt in his dreams and all of sibuna immediately thought it was a shit pick up attempt when they knew these bitches Literally hear voices in the walls like ???

Amber: Are you a cop?

Rufus: No, I’m a plant.

Patricia: Plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.

You have interesting HR videos?? I’m so jealous all the ones I’ve seen have just been a woman standing in front of a green screen going “this is the proper way to address a coworker 🤓”

Tumblr users when they watch a teen drama and the teens are dramatic: 😡

fr like if you want to watch a perfectly sanitized piece of media with completely unproblematic plot lines, watch an HR workplace conduct video or something