i just want to do a little recap of 2022 and im gonna do that by ranking the media i consumed so here's my top 5 books, movies, series and albums.

Books

Margaret Rogerson: Sorcery of Thorns

M.L Rio: If We Were Villains

Alice Oseman: Radio Silence

Cassandra Clare: Chain of Iron

Micah Nemerever: These Violent Delights

Movies

Inglorious Basterds (technically i watched the last 30 minutes in 2023 but it feels right to put it on this list)

La Mans 66

Do Revenge

Spirited Away

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Series

Our Flag Means Death

House of the Dragon

Heartstopper

Young Royals season 2

Ares (Netflix)

Albums

Being Funny in a Foreign Language by the 1975

Hypersonic Missiles by Sam Fender

Midnights by Taylor Swift

I Can't Let Go by Suki Waterhouse

Digitális/Analóg by Carson Coma

(Honorable mention: five seconds flat by Lizzy McAlpine)

2006 -> 2022 2009 -> 2022

your tim is soooooooo beautiful i can’t stop looking at him 😍

do you have any good tim whump fic recs? like the classic comm cuts out when he’s in trouble or really anything

(thank you!! im glad u like my tim art)

(in reference to this, where i mentioned liking whump fics where tim ends up on the ropes alone and his comm cuts out)

i was digging through my reading history to try to find some recs and it seems??? i may have extrapolated fics based on what i wanted to read rip

i did still put some fic recs together! but these are slightly to the left of your original requests. i'm gonna put them in order of relevancy. broad warning to please read the tags on all of these

Little Pig, Little Pig, Let Me In by nierembergia

tim's on the line with damian when suddenly a harmless-seeming interaction at a gala turns sinister (wip)

buy the ticket, take the ride

wherein tim is attempting to deal with things on his own after finding himself alone in vegas, at some point calls jason to "consult" him about blood spatters, and then has to hang up on him because he's getting shot at

the days of theft (no more) by SilverSkiesAtMidnight

gen omegaverse, jason takes tim and in the process snaps the bond between bruce and tim. including this one because the pack bond snapping between bruce and tim has, to me, the same emotional impact of a comm getting caught (wip)

Into the Brighter Night by shoalsea

the set up of this fic is tim manipulating the bats into following a plan he misrepresented and then purposefully going dark, although the majority of the fic deals with the interpersonal fallout of tim's actions (complete)

children of the stars by Scarlet_Ribbons

jason takes tim in because jack drake's a piece of shit and ends up doing his own growing in the process. not sure how to explain why i'm including this without spoiling it, but there is a Big Moment later in the fic that to me is equivalent to tim purposely cutting his comms off to deal with a situation himself (wip)

Call to a Lonely Earth by Drag0nst0rm

in the midst of brucequest, tim ends up on an earth where there are no longer any children and bruce has lost both his sons. i'm mostly including this one because i like it a lot, but—mild spoiler—tim does make a call explaining what he presents as a hopeless situation that he can't be saved from and then hangs up! (first fic is complete but sequel isn't)

also, while it doesn't quite have the same emotional force of what i was looking for, detective comics (1940) #698-99 is where i originally got the idea from and it does feature protective dick and alvin draper!

Salty Post Warning

Winning after overtaking the leader in WDC standings (who has already won 6 races and will go on to win 9 more this season) three times and driving the last 10 laps with the throttle stuck: 9.6

Winning after overtaking the leader in WDC standings & winner of the previous 9 races when that driver's car had a brake stuck that led to him to retire a lap later, and your competitive team mate was told to hold position behind you, so no one actually challenged you all race: 10

I know these rankings are always controversial, but it also reminded me of just how high people's expectations of Charles are. Better in all 3 FPs than his teammate, qualified P5 but finished P2, fastest lap, and still only 7.8. Max didn't even race and got a 7.2. Make it make sense.

Best Prompts of 2022!

Prompt #860: “There are rumors about us.” “I know. I spread them.”

Prompt #892: “I would destroy the world for you.” “No need to be so dramatic about it.”

Prompt #864: “Have you ever broken a bone?” “One of my own or someone elses?”

Prompt #918: “Objection!” “You cannot scream objection in a private argument.”

Prompt #888: “You’re not exactly the type of person I could see running across a field of flowers. It would more likely be a battle field.”

Prompt #890: “Don’t you trust me?” “I trust you with my life. I’m not so sure I trust you with yours.” {Submitted by: M}

Prompt #913: “Sorry, I think my brain stopped working for a second when you said you loved me.”

Prompt #926: “Why is it always us, who has to play a couple?” “Maybe they sense our unresolved sexual tension and want to help out.”

Prompt #870: Throughout their friendship they had established some kind of secret language between them, that no one else would ever even try to decipher.

Prompt #858: “Please, accept this gift as a token of my love.” “That’s a knife. And it has blood on it.”

Goodbye 2022 and hello 2023! I wish you all a wonderful start into the new year!

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i really do love the expectation subversion when it comes to kit. you start off the series thinking that kit's another one of those (generally female) characters that is naturally gifted at whatever, in kit's case specifically swordfighting, it's an archetype we've seen before, the "i'm not like other girls, i'm BETTER than other girls" type. but then that gets completely smashed to bits like less than one episode later when jade tells her that she let her win. it's so refreshing

Oh the reverse card they play on her with that one is such powerful storytelling I’m foaming at the mouth over it like - the way she knows but she doesn’t know, you know? Conceptually she knows she’s quite arrogant, right, she says so in episode one but she sorta fails to apply it. Like she openly acknowledges her own arrogance but seems to completely manage to miss that it might blind her. Although, also, interestingly, as much as she might tease her, she actually doesn’t dismiss Jade’s skill: it’s the very basis upon which her own arrogance and belief in her own skill and amazingness is based. She takes it so in stride that oh, Jade’s the best and most promising knight in the land, and I, Kit “well there’s skill and there’s talent and I just happen to have both” Tanthslos beat her regularly when we train so therefore, obviously, I must be the most sensational sword fighter in the whole of the wide world. Because I can beat Jade frickin Claymore. Her arrogance is based in her belief in her friend. There’s an honesty and innocent naivety in that confidence. Something about the depth of trust, and the betrayal Kit feels when Jade reveals that she’s been letting her win, because well, why would Jade deceive her? It never occurs to her that Jade might be letting her off easy, might be just letting her win, rather than genuinely putting her all into their fights. She assumes that Jade is being honest and upfront about her ability, so when she bests her, well, the natural conclusion to her is that Jade’s so good, and I win, so therefore I must be the most naturally gifted fencer ever. And they strip both from her in that scene. Like she looks like such a sad wet puppy by that stream. She’s a perfectly fine fighter and no mistake, but she’s not the legendary warrior she imagines herself as. Not yet, anyway

“Be careful of the wolf that dwells inside the forest! It may put on a friendly front, but...”

MafuEmu with the Spooky Forest outfit set! I just thought they would rock the red riding hood theme pretty well.. Unfortunately my gacha luck failed me so i couldn’t live out my dreams (IT GAVE ME NOTHING.) but i still can draw them in this set! 

ok has anyone wondered how false and ren got the invite to join mcc. like ik jevin was in mcc1 but the hermit arc truly began in mcc4. and you know how false and ren's whole thing was that they would join together and put down each other's names until mcc17. did scott send invites to both of them. did he send to invites to a bunch of hermits and they had like a discussion on whether to join this mine craft event. were those two in dms like "i'll join if you join" "i'll join if YOU join". did scott send them an email like "hey hermits i've got two slots free choose whoever you like" and false and ren volunteered for tribute. funniest scenario is if scott only sent one of them an email and they were like "i'm only joining with my friend 🥺" and boom [this is not how the waitlist works].

one month later iskallman barges in, roasts all his teammates, gets 17th indiv, then promptly leaves (i miss iskall) (come back iskall) (iskall) (man)

Beetles when they're juiced

On pace with my process of catching up on pop/internet culture in chronological order, I made a uQuiz!

Let’s Assign You A Willow Character

Here have an ANBU Kakashi, he is ready now 🤺

@kakashiweek

tiktok is activating my fight of flight to gatekeep djo

Endless Ranks of the Dead

With Thraben's army recalled to its city walls, outlying villages were left to fend for themselves.

Artist: Ryan Yee TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

Victorious Sejuani Splash Art!

Best Prompt Lists of 2022!

Intimate Moments

One Hundred Compliments

Meet Cutes

Bed Sharing Scenarios

Saying I love you…

30 Days Writing Challenge

Daily Writing Challenge

Teasing Dialogue

Pregnancy Prompts

Romantic One-Liners Part II

The year 2022 is coming to an end. I wish all of you only the best for 2023!

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Hey guys, it’s time to share my favourite film watches of 2022! I can’t say that I saw every film that was on my watchlist but I think there were some definite highlights. In ‘new releases’ we have this Top 20 (very loosely ranked!): 1. Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells) 2. Tár (dir. Todd Field) 3. The Woman King (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood) 4. The Wonder (dir. Sebastian Lelio) 5. À Plein Temps (dir. Eric Gravel) 6. Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (dir. Anthony Fabian) 7. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (dir. Sophie Hyde) 8. Les Passagers De La Nuit (dir. Mikhaël Hers) 9. The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad) 10. L’Événement (dir. Audrey Diwan) 11. The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg) 12. Fire Of Love (dir. Sara Dosa) 13. Les Années Super 8 (dir. Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot) 14. Les Olympiades (dir. Jacques Audiard) 15. Nobody Has To Know (dir. Bouli Lanners) 16. Ali & Ava (dir. Clio Barnard) 17. Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski) 18. Dowton Abbey: A New Era (dir. Simon Curtis) 19. Emily (dir. Frances O’Connor) 20. Rien À Foutre (dir. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre) And in ‘older releases’… 1. The Worst Person In The World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier) 2. Amanda (2018, dir. Mikhaël Hers) 3. Ce Sentiment De L’Été (2015, dir. Mikhaël Hers) 4. The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012 , dir. Felix Van Groeningen) 5. Bright Star (2009, dir. Jane Campion) 6. The Handmaiden (2016, dir. Park Chan-wook) 7. Daphne (2007, dir. Clare Beavan) 8. Oslo, August 31st (2011, dir. Joachim Trier) 9. Robin And Marian (1976, dir. Richard Lester) 10. La Belle Saison (2015, dir. Catherine Corsini) As hard as it is to believe, 2023 is almost upon us, it's time to wish you all a HAPPY and SAFE New Year. Have a wonderful time wherever you are in the world. Big love 💗💗