#because mod knows about some obscure stuff and so this is good place to ask if you’re looking for weird trans advice
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Dysphoric culture is wanting a phalloplasty without a vaginectomy and not being able to find any doctors who've ever done it, and then crying because you know your ideal configuration apparently isn't a thing that happens.
I want to keep my vulva/vagina, but I still want a penis, and I can't tell you the amount of times I've cried because I don't think this type of surgery is even done or, if it is, done in the US at least. It sucks so much.
Dysphoric culture is!
Also anon, great news: this surgery is real! It’s called vagina-preserving phalloplasty or VPP.
There aren’t a ton of surgeons who perform it in the US but some (from the Crane Center in California) are listed here. There’s also someone in New York that talked about getting a vagina-preserving metoidioplasty in a news article but mod doesn’t know who their surgeon was. More info and some more surgeons are here.
More people are getting nonbinary bottom surgeries so there are slightly more resources around now. Good luck anon!
(For those wanting the opposite of this, phallus-preserving vaginoplasty exists too.)
#genuinely mod’s favorite type of ask is getting to give people really good news#because mod knows about some obscure stuff and so this is good place to ask if you’re looking for weird trans advice#so like. you’ve vented to the right place anon :)#dysphoric culture is#gender dysphoria#dysphoria#dysphoria tw#gender affirming surgery#bottom surgery#bottom dysphoria#medical transition#salmacian#afab nonbinary#trans#queer#lgbta#genitalia tw#tw genitals#phalloplasty#vagina preserving phalloplasty
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Wikipedia troubles, or “Father Enlil, (...) don't let your precious metal be alloyed there with the dirt of the underworld“
clarification regarding my post about troubles with a certain site i’ve been contributing to a lot for the past few months.
To preface this with a mythical metaphor: in Inanna’s Descent, when Ninshubur pleads with the other gods to save Inanna, she uses the formula “don't let anyone kill your daughter in the underworld. Don't let your precious metal be alloyed there with the dirt of the underworld. Don't let your precious lapis lazuli be split there with the mason's stone. Don't let your boxwood be chopped up there with the carpenter's wood.” Currently this is what is happening to the Inanna article, I am afraid.
So, long story short, as most of you probably have noticed I am contributing relatively often to wikipedia as of late, starting with the creation of a Matara-jin article a few months ago. Among other things I wrote, rewrote or at least significantly improved the following:
articles about Mesopotamian medicine goddesses:
Ninkarrak from the western frontier, Nintinugga, who was associated with funerary offerings, Ninisina, who took over Inanna's gimmick in Isin, Bau, who became a healing goddess by chance, Gula, who eclipsed her peers - as expected from someone named “the great”
articles about Inanna's courtiers and associated goddesses:
Ninshubur, her sidekick (my best work overall imo, the one article I wrote which I think fully deserves the “good” badge but I am not vain enough to apply myself), Ninegal, a goddess turned into her title, Nanaya, just the horny part distilled (bought a book just for this one!), Irnina, inexplicably cthtonic personified victory
articles about Mesopotamian gods too insignificant for anyone else to care about them:
Tishpak, a god so foreign nobody knows where he came from, Sebitti, seven warlike brothers, Enmesharra, Enlil's evil uncle, Urash, not the earth goddess – there are two... Urashes, Ningishzida, Dumuzi but with a snake gimmick, Zababa, a war god who's NOT Nergal, Ninimma, Enlil's court scribe, Gatumdag, popular as ersatz mom among kings of Lagash, Manzat, the rainbow
articles about Mesopotamian goddesses whose main trait was being someone's wife:
Marduk's wife Sarpanit, Adad's wife Shala, Shamash's wife Aya
articles about Hurrian gods:
Alalu, primordial vanquished king of gods, Kumarbi, his son, divine Saturday morning cartoon villain, Ninatta and Kulitta, a pair of divine musicians who always appeared together, Allani, oddly joyful queen of the dead, Šauška, who was so firmly genderfluid there's two of them in the most famous image of the Hurrian pantheon, Lelluri, a mountain goddess, Kubaba, who isn't Cybele, Goddess of the Night, who has no proper name despite being a case study in important religious rituals, Belet Nagar, who was like Ashur before Ashur got popular, Nupatik, who was important but we don't know why
articles about Eblaite gods:
Ishara, “independent lady of love associated with scorpion and cannabis” popular everywhere where she went, Aštabi, a war god who really wanted to be like the weather god, Hadabal, who used to be famous but vanished out of blue, Kura, whose mask had to be renewed each year, Adamma, who left her husband to hang out with Kubaba
articles about Elamite gods:
Pinikir, sort of like a bootleg Ishtar and an international sensation, Jabru, who exists only in Mesopotamian texts about Elam, Humban, mandate of heaven personified, Ruhurater, oddly obscure creator of mankind, Inshushinak, the underworld judge and his Akkadian helpers Lagamar and Ishmekarab, and Simut, the “strange star”
articles which were borderline unusable before due to low quality of sources:
Astarte, who was much more than vintage Bible scholars might lead you to believe (but not a fertility goddess), Dagan, who wasn't a fishman, Qetesh whose existence proves that Egyptians were fond of making ocs for their favorite foreign franchises
assorted articles about general topics pertaining to Mesopotamia:
Sukkal, Hurrian religion (ongoing project), List of Elamite gods; also a much needed overhaul of List of Mesopotamian deities (ongoing project)
and, last but not least, a solid chunk of the Inanna article.
Two guiding principles of these ventures were the following:
people who cannot access academic resources or don't know how to use them and as a result rely on wikipedia aren't any less deserving of receiving up to date, credible information
Wikipedia's mode of operation isn't flawed in itself and the only problem is lack of will to edit it
I think I did a pretty good job at these two things, honestly. I made sure to rely on rigorous, credible, and, if possible, easy to understand sources, and removed the horrors which sometimes were hidden in bibliographies: a book written by a hate preacher who believed Bush didn't start enough wars; 1930s race science; what I can only describe as a hybrid of Woman's Encyclopedia and a bdsm manual; a fringe book asserting that Minoan palaces were graveyards and that Egyptians only learned mummification from superior Minoans; etc. Of course, it’s a thankless job, but as long as I could make the site more credible undisturbed, that’s fine by me. I even got some help in a few cases, most notably that of the god list, indicating that the work was on some level appreciated.
The only problem I've encountered prior to today came from editing the Ereshkigal article – I've removed the claim the Burney relief depicts “Lilith”; this edit was however undone. I left a message on the editor's page, complete with links to articles about the Burney relief AND about the possible Mesopotamian forerunners of Lilith (who are undeniably not depicted on the Burney relief). They're responded rather dismissively to it, and asserted that even if unproven, a connection existed, so I pretty quickly gave up, as they relied on sources which were outdated or fringe.
I focused on fixing two long, important articles instead: the god list, and the Inanna article. Some parts of it were alright, but there was much work needed: fringe theories trying to assign greater antiquity to relatively late myths, and frankly insane hyperdiffusionism, had a prominent place in the article, while well attested association between Inanna and similar deities from cultures closely associated with Mesopotamia wasn't, much of the info was outdated, scandalous hot takes about Dumuzi's treatment were all over the place, the section on Inanna's descent favored Jungian confabulations over credible research, etc. My progress on fixing that had been slow and steady.
However, today the aforementioned person intervened when, in between editing the Inanna article and the god list, I reverted a dumb, brief , unsourced edit – made by a third party - which asserted that Inanna's descent is “similar to Persephone” which it isn't – if anything is similar to Persephone in Mesopotamian mythology it's Nergal and Ereshkigal. They pretty clearly didn't take it well: not only the unfounded speculation went back up, but they also added a “source” affirming it, from a controversial -medical- author, not an Assyriologist. They also added Persephone to the list of Inanna equivalents in the infobox, removing any credibility whatsoever from it. The author of the claim this is all about relied on sources so antiquated that they interpreted Inanna's sexual character as her being a child-snatching boogeyman. Inanna's primary connection to boogeymen is that she was invoked, alongside Nanaya whose sexual connection is even more blatant, to -ward off- child-snatching boogeyman Lamashtu (whose character was not sexual, because sumerians and akkadians weren't victorian aristrocrats and weren't paranoically afraid of sex - and why would a demon representing death in infancy be sexual in nature, anyway?). Simply put, the book in mention is worthless as a source.
Of course, I reverted that; when it went back up (despite a justification being included in my reversal) I edited the Inanna article to remove this outlandish claim (you have a limited number of possible reversions per day for some arcane reason), also adding other information about Inanna I had prepared: a few tidbits on Assyrian royal inscriptions which involved the warlike and erotic aspects at once, suggesting that transgressors should lose both potency and bravery in battle, some info on love poetry about her and Dumuzi, that sort of stuff. The weird person reverted my edit – removing valuable info – and reinstated the claim. For a moment I lost my cool and reverted this edit, which sadly put me in the reversion overuse danger zone, but which was a necessary sacrifice to save the credibility of article I put weeks of work into. See the edit history here. As you can guess HaniwaEnthusiast is me.
I left messages critical of this decision on the talk page of the article and on the talk page of the outlandish editor. Sadly, they responded rather rudely, and basically declared Wikipedia isn't meant to be credible, and that favoring academic sources over random crap is an “ivory tower” approach and should be discouraged; they also insulted me but that's much less relevant and much less hurtful than their desire to spread lies. If you ask me it's more of an ivory tower attitude to say people who cannot access or don't know how to use academic sources do not deserve equally credible info and need to be at the mercy of weird wikipedia editors.
What's the main problem here, though? That person is a mod. Not a random user. They have 16 years of Wikipedia experience. They spread fringe, pop-spiritual claims about Lilith and the like, so I assume they have an ulterior religious agenda of some sort, which they seem to actively encourage judging from these ventures. I'm not sure if the Inanna article is a lost cause yet but I do think the weird addition of Persephone they made is a step into some hellish direction, and I am entirely certain I cannot win this conflict.
Simply put, I think that if this is the sort of staff the site has, this is a lost cause.
I am not sure if I will go back to editing.
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rough furby fandom timeline
reminiscencing abt old furblr made me wanna revisit some of the changes we’ve seen over time! to give new people an idea of it, and also to spark discussion with older members, i joined in 2017 and i havent been as active as of 2019 so i cant speak of prior or after, but heres my thoughts
2017
fandom is still small, but growing
focus is on them as toys
lots of posts are guides on names of colors, or how to push start
2005s are not very popular, i saw someone struggle to sell 2 working ones just because their beaks were damaged
besides the pink ones, people really liked those
i also lost a bid war on an orange 2005 that ended up going for 50 bucks, do you understand the regret i feel
lots of furbys are cheap, furbys in general are cheap, besides the occasional person thinking their nib snowball is worth 300
rise of furbology (later furbae)
popular for owning a lot of furbys, and owning a very very roughed up frog furby called swampy
theres discourse abt drawing furbys with 4 feet
small nature of fandom means that discourse usually involves people everyone knows directly (furbyconfessions accidentally contributes to drama but some spin off accounts purposefully try and start it, furby discourse blogs are a thing)
small nature also means that a lot of people remember each others furbys by name
each furby usually has a personality attached to it too, describing things that furby tends to do more than others, or what its physical differences mean (like being mute)
furby brotherhood is the only furby discord server and it gains notoriety due to the lack of moderation but in my experience it was a really fun wild ride
customization is fairly limited to maybe drawing on freckles, accessories, eyechips (people were poking them out with needles), to my knowledge tracer was the first popular furby to have further customizing
furby blogs humour is very silly, lots of piss and vore jokes
customized furbys from ebay sellers are pretty widely disliked, usually because theyre the clay ones, or because theres a lady trying to pass off her customs as rare releases that never happened
people go out of their way to help each other find listings for their dreamies
2018
purity culture? in furblr? since a lot of people use furbys to cope (many many posts of people bringing them out in public, describing what they and their furbys did), theres a pressure for furby blogs to be happy safe places, safefurby tag to avoid swearing and other stuff is started?, and also to avoid hatred in the main tag
theres like, a 70% chance of anyone u interact with in the fandom being a 15 year old trans guy on the autism spectrum, similarities make it really easy to make friends
considering special interests also usually mean wanting to know as much as possible, there is a WELL of information still
rise in popularity also means a lot more information is found abt furbys, like prototypes, a new factory and more obscure merchandise
since a lot of people empathize with furbys, damaged or not completely working furbys start to go for higher prices than previously as people empathize with them
that one furby that was found in the desert (bumbleweed) gets REALLY popular
rise in customizing coincides with more stylization in how people draw furbys
whenever someone comes up with a new idea u’d see a lot of it in the next week
like stuffing a furby to make them fat, that one took OFF
painting fur and also furby patterns to sew own skins creates a strange demand for just the furbys faceplate
furbys start to get strange names, like hot dog water
fall of furbae as shes revealed as a scammer among other reasons
crap ton of new furby discords are started, for specific topics, or just to avoid brotherhood despite them having a completely new mod team (im a little biased)
theres a still a large overlap in furblr with animatronic and other toy robot blogs
an age of really creative stuff tho, content was constantly evolving
oddbodies are a controversial addition to customizing, longfurby wasnt the first, but i do remember a lot of people taking the faces off of plushes and adding a furby face instead
before they were called oddbodies some people were really uncomfortable with them, but people also didnt like their furby friends being tagged bodyhorror, so oddbody was a good compromise
people were calling dibs on listings before, but its more widespread here, even though you cant call dibs on an open listing
furby prices go through the roof oh my god
kid cuisines especially, i saw more than one person pay 600
2005s go up in price too
oddbodies also caused rise in price on furby buddies
2019
mainstream success?
customization and oddbodies seems to the fandoms focus?
customization starts to overtake previous guides to the point where i see newbies struggle to find information
Plushification
First plush ones have clay eyes, later ones add in the eyes of the original furbys
Some controversy over taking apart furbys
popularity from within and outside of the community further effects prices
since 2012s are both really common, and not popular their prices seem pretty unaffected (besides rainbow crystals)
at this point i think people are taking their furbys out with them less, and i see less people make stories abt what they and their furbys did that day
customization trends were really really cool to watch happen, but since my reasons for being in furblr was the community nature of it, i have a lot less information for 2019 as i was less active in the fandom
and for 2020, i have nothing! so essentially this is me asking, what was 2019 and 2020 furblr for u like? did i remember any older stuff wrong? whats some stuff u wouldve included or have questions about?
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Thoughts and questions (remix) on Friendsim Volume 12.
Tirona:
-REMIX OF ONE OF JADE’S THEMES SPOTTED!!!
-Tirona is what, 8 years old? And she’s already doing law stuffs, pulling all-nighters, trying to backstab her coworkers…. and apparently has enough clearance to mess with random aliens’ profiles without worry.
-On one hand, Tirona is a memer. On the other hand, those memes are empire propaganda. (ft. Kuprum’s help with tech). // The only change to her Troll Call bulletpoints was to reflect this.
-She has a lot of trust on Trizza’s ability to take the throne… which is exactly the one thing Trizza is never going to do, ever.
-I’m not sure exactly how much approval Trizza has (nor how much that’s going to do in a duel to the death, unless the tyrian succession ceremony isn’t like that), but what would happen if some trolls still showed a preference (?? words) for an heiress after she died? I mean, besides them probably getting brutally culled. // Reworded: What might happen to a troll that still showed support for a freshly challenge'd heiress (as opposed to the Condesce), besides the obvious “joining her in death” part?
-Um who the fuck told Tirona to bail us out?????? because her good end didn’t exactly give me a good opinion of them??? and apparently we already know them so??? i swear to fuck if it’s doc scratch i’m gonna punch something // tfw ur theory is right :,)
-Stelsa either works somewhere else, or isn’t pursuing laws.
-The rebellion’s getting big and noticeable… and luckily, Tyzias’ keeping her involvement in it mostly lowkey. Let’s hope her Intimidation Factor keeps her safe.
-The lesson Tirona learns in her route is that she should embrace her own strengths (knowledge stuff) instead of forcing herself to take a role she isn’t cut out for (fighting) → Heart. Meanwhile, Galekh’s Bloodbound because despite how much he values his intelligence, he values relationships more.
Galekh:
-I was kind of expecting the worst re: Galekh, but color me pleasantly surprised! His theme’s also pretty good.
-How does his quirk work spoken out, though? Does he just kind of add the citations as explanations of sort?
-Goat lusus!!! a Good Boy.
-So yeah, liking vampires is a Spacebound thing.
-Mallek “snakeBytes” Adalov’s the first (and hopefully not last) Hiveswap troll to have an Actual Trolltag. And probably did his piercings and other body mods himself.
-Galora’s real! Even though back in Tagora’s route I didn’t think it was a thing. I mean Tagora pretty much freaked out when he saw Galekh (which, if you ask me, is a bad sign in a relationship), and in his good end told the MC that he hated him and basically was interested in him for business reasons. Taking both Galekh’s route and Tirona’s bad end if you choose to get in Tagora’s office into account, I’d say they started getting into <3< territory after Volume 4.
-On a related note, I’d say the quadrant we know less about is kismesissitude. It’d be great to take a deeper look at it and the entire quadrant system (healthy relationships especially). // Auspisticism's pretty obscure too, but that's kinda a result of this.
-Also, Tirona’s route takes place after Galekh’s, and is probably the latest chronologically! The MC canonically attracts a lot of attention even without drone kidnappings (at least two so far); let’s hope we don’t get in too much trouble in later volumes.
-His new Troll Call bulletpoints establish that he's a coffee snob, and tone him down from the very ominous “knows too much” to just knowing his shit but still being annoying.
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Love Lies 4/15
Summary:
Ever since Emma was 13, she knew she had the ability to destroy people if she wanted to, and some days, she really wanted to. After being forced to go to Greenwood Academy following a traumatizing event in her childhood that brought to the surface her ability to manipulate fire, she never thought she would be free of the place. So for nearly 10 years, she lived a solitary existence with the exception of her best friends, but that was all about to change.
Killian Jones had just been sentenced to attend the university campus at Greenwood Academy after an accident at sea caused him to be dishonorably discharged from Her Majesty’s royal Navy and lose his hand. He doesn’t know what to think about these newfound powers and what they spell for the rest of his now not-so-normal life. But a chance encounter one day has the ability to change all of that.
A story about love and redemption between two people that shows, if you have the right person beside you, you can find a light in the darkness.
Rating: M
Content Warnings: Mentions of Violence/Death, Brief mention of Childhood Abuse/Sexual Assault, Mild Sexual Content
Chapter Notes: Chapter 4 has arrived! I thought I wouldn’t actually have time to post today since I had to make a 6 hour drive back from one of my friend’s weddings, but looks like I was able to get back into town sooner than I expected. Thanks to the Mods for being flexible and allowing me to post tomorrow if needed. I figured this chapter, since I haven’t done so already, I would clue you into the meaning behind the stories title! It is actually a song title, “Love Lies” by Khalid and Normani. I found the lyrics of the song to fit so well to this story that I couldn’t think of a better chapter title than that song.
This chapter is actually from Killian’s point of view, so we get to peak into his head and find out a little bit about what he is thinking about Greenwood academy and his thoughts on Emma as well! Thanks again as always to my beta @daveyjacobsthepotterhead and my artist @princesse-swan, I couldn’t have asked for two better collaborators on this project!
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Art by @princesse-swan here
Enjoy!
Chapter 4
Killian hated this god forsaken school, or whatever the hell they decided this glorified prison was supposed to be.
He hated that he was sent here after his hearing with the Royal Navy.
That he was now half a world away from his brother.
And he hated that he didn’t have control over his own life anymore.
Ever since the incident that got him marshalled by the Navy, dishonorably discharged, and exiled to this rubbish school, he had been decidedly unhappy with the direction that his life was spiraling.
But then again, in comparison to that, maybe sitting through his Introductory Biology course was the least horrible thing that he could be doing right now.
Shuffling his notebook around to try and start a new page while the professor droned on about the Krebs cycle seemed to create an unnecessary amount of noise. Still not used to only operating with one hand, and Greenwood not having approved the production of a working prosthetic hand for him, Killian found the most frustrating things to be something that used to be easy before he lost his hand.
And the way the glove that they had fitted his other hand with didn’t make life any easier, since he didn’t have the fine motor skills that he was used to. But then again, ever since they fitted it; and removed those horrible iron gloves that made his already concussed head spin and stomach flip, he hadn’t felt a single rumbling of that oozing darkness inside him.
The darkness that had blotted out the world that day and obscured everything on that ship-
Killian stopped that thought in its tracks. He wasn’t going to dwell on what had gotten him stuck here in the first place. Scrambling to get the rest of the cycle written down in his notebook, he tried to focus back on the lecture in front of him.
That was a good thing at least, that he was afforded the opportunity to go to school and get a university degree. Since he had followed Liam’s footsteps into the Navy eight years ago, he had thought occasionally about stepping back a bit and going to university and getting his degree. But what had stopped him was not necessarily knowing what he wanted to spend the rest of his life doing, because whenever he looked into his future, he always saw himself spending his life at sea, traveling the world with his brother.
Glory for the Jones Brothers.
Killian sighed. Not anymore.
The professor called lecture to a close at that point, assigning the reading for the next class later in the week. Killian sighed again and placed his pen down, scrubbing his gloved hand over his eyes.
Another frustration about this damnable place, he couldn’t even feel the skin of his own hand anymore, because the glove wouldn’t come off.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t find a way to remove it himself, and they hadn’t said anything to him when they gave it to him about not being able to remove it.
Then again, he didn’t really care at the time, he just wanted those….poisonous gloves removed.
Working to shove all of his stuff in his bag, Killian got stuck waiting for the rest of the students in his row of the lecture pit to exit so he could stand and just dump everything into the bottom of his bag.
He could sort through it again when he got back to the prison cell they called his dorm room.
Throwing his bag over his shoulder, Killian watched as the last of the students in the pit filed out ahead of him, some throwing a weary glance at his glove. Apparently word traveled fast around this school as to who came in with some new, scary power; and that immediately made others weary of him, and others like him he supposed.
“Is everything alright Mr. Jones?” Professor Hopper asked from the front of the lecture pit.
Killian nodded his head yes in return, not really feeling like giving an oral response, and turned to head up the stairs out of the lecture pit.
“Just give them time Mr. Jones, new students take some time to get used to.” Killian paused at the words, shoulders and back tensing he was sure was meant to be reassuring.
Killian did arrive at the school a few weeks into the term, and while many professors had been very accommodating to him having extra time to make up the course work, since he was stuck here during the school breaks, the students hadn’t been as receptive. Shaking his head again, he made it up the last few steps and pushed his way out of the doors leading out of the pit and into the lobby.
He paused outside of the building, wondering where to go next. He didn’t have any more classes for the day, but he also didn’t want to spend the time holed up in his dorm room doing nothing.
As he was contemplating what to do, Killian spotted a familiar blonde head walking through the throng of students towards the library.
Smiling, Killian increased his pace to try and catch up with her.
He watched as she ducked into the front doors of the library, catching her headed to the right as the glass doors closed behind her. Killian finally made his way up the steps and into the building.
He hadn’t been to the library often since he started at the school, so he didn’t realize the sheer size of the space when he walked in after her.
To the right of the main lobby was a large study room, with dozens of tables and computers and groups of students studying. He paused just inside the entrance, hearing a handful of students grumble as they moved around him into the room, and scanned the space for her.
After a few minutes of searching, he finally spotted her at a table by herself in the corner, headphones over her ears and hunched over a notebook. Killian began weaving his way across the room over to her table, ignoring the glances that the students gave him as he walked past.
He set his bag down loudly on the floor next to hers and scrapped the chair out across from her.
She started, her pen scratching across the page of her journal, and she looked up at him, surprised.
She moved to pause her music and shifted her headphones off her ears. “Killian, this is a surprise.”
“Mind if I join you love?” He asked, gesturing to the chair he had just pulled out.
“Not at all.” She said, then looked down at the journal in front of her and scowled.
Killian looked down as he took his seat and saw the drawing that she had been working on was now marred by a harsh line of ink straight across the center of the entire page. “Terribly sorry about that, if I would have known what you were working on I wouldn’t have startled you that way.”
“I wasn’t entirely happy with the direction it was going anyway, so maybe it was for the best.” She commented, shrugging. She made to turn the page in her notebook to a fresh page when he reached out and placed his hand on her wrist to stop her.
She jerked her hand back from his as if she had been shocked. He tried not to take the action as a slight against him.
“Mind if I take a look?” Killian asked, gesturing to her notebook.
“Umm, yeah, sure.” Emma mumbled, rubbing at the bracelet on her wrist.
Eyeing her warily, seeing how jumpy she was with him all of a sudden, he slowly turned her notebook around so the bottom of the page was facing him. She had the rough outline of a woman, reaching her hand up towards the sky to grasp at something. It looked like it was turning out to be something marvelous, but he had unfortunately ruined it.
“It looks great Swan, if I hadn’t dropped in and ruined it like that it would have probably turned out to be amazing.” he said, passing the notebook back to her.
“The proportions were all off, and I don’t really like the way she is standing anyway, so maybe-”
“It really does look like something great, you have a lot of talent Emma.” She ducked her head as a beautiful blush spread across her cheeks.
“Thanks Killian, what are you doing in the library?” She asked, then cringed. “Sorry, that came out wrong, I didn’t mean for it to sound that way.”
“It’s okay, I was just looking for somewhere else to study besides my dorm room.” He said.
“Me too, that happens a lot more often than you would think.” Emma said, flipping the page of her notebook. “What are you studying?”
“Biology, Dr. Hopper was going over the Krebs cycle today and I have to admit, I didn’t listen as well as I should have. We have a test coming up next week that I will most certainly fail if I don’t make any progress.” Killian said, working to pull his textbook out of his bag. “What about you?”
“Not necessarily studying, just wanting to get out of my dorm. Also, my friends know that I don’t want to be bothered if I’m here.” Emma said nonchalantly.
Killian thought over that phrase for a second. He hadn’t had the time to make many friends at this school yet, but he didn’t really know if he had a place that he liked to go when he didn’t want to be bothered.
There really wasn’t any kind of personal space when you are deployed on a vessel in the middle of the ocean with 300 other men; so he supposed he wasn’t used to having a placed he could necessarily call his own without having to share it with anyone.
Maybe that was why his private quarters here bothered him so much.
The fact that she said she wished to be alone earlier clanged through him again. “Would you like me to leave you alone then?”
He would leave her alone if she wished, but he fervently hoped otherwise.
Emma shook her head at him, “No, you’re fine,” She said, “I know that you don’t have some ulterior motive to drop in on me like they sometimes do.”
He quirked an eyebrow.
“They just don’t get me sometimes, I guess.” Emma said, “They bug me about things that they all would worry about, but that don’t necessarily apply to me. Sorry, I’m not making any sense.”
She continued to rub at her wrists in a nervous manner while she was rambling. Once she realized he was watching her, she pulled her shirt sleeves back down to cover the bracelets at her wrists.
Killian reached his hand out tentatively towards her wrist, pushing back her sleeve and lightly touching; or he hoped it was a light touch, he couldn’t tell through the glove, the bracelet at her wrist. “What are these?”
She looked down at them morosely, a look of longing in her eyes, “You obviously haven’t been here very long if you don’t know what these are.” Showing him both the bracelets on her delicate wrists, she continued. “They are suppression bracelets. They knock my powers down to a level where I can’t access them anymore.”
“You say that like you want to be able to use them again.” He stated, a question hidden in the phrase.
If he had the chance, he would never feel that rolling darkness under his skin ever again. He didn’t like feeling that out of control and lost as he did that first time his powers manifested.
“How much do you know about me Killian?” She asked, wary. He didn’t know what to make of the sudden walls going up in her expression. He didn’t think he had said anything wrong.
“No more than you have told me love.” He said honestly, trying to dispel the sudden tension.
“My powers come from fire, and I miss the warmth and life that the flames brought. The safety and protection they made me feel.” She looked saddened as she spoke, like she was talking about a long lost friend. He said as much to her.
“Yeah, I suppose I am.” She gave him a sad smile, wrapping her arms around herself a bit. Maybe that was how she tried to feel that warmth that the flames gave her again.
“Well, now that I’ve taken this conversation in a horribly morose direction, I suppose I must propose a new topic of discussion. You said you understood the Krebs Cycle?”
She hadn’t, he remembered belatedly, but he hoped she would be able to help.
Emma tucked her hair behind her right ear, and nodded her head. “Yeah, what didn’t you understand again?” Leaning towards him, she waited patiently as he worked to get the textbook open to the right section.
Turning the book around to face her, he pressed down on the binding with his shortened arm. The Diagram splayed out between the two pages was fully displayed for her. Gesturing to a section he explained how what Dr. Hopper had told them during his lecture differed from how the textbook explained it.
She gave him a small smile as he rambled on in his explanation. The haunted look still hadn’t left her eyes, but Killian vowed to himself that he would do everything in his power to keep that look from her eyes as long as she let him.
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@ mod, first, your winter outfit is stylish and adorable. Second, what are your favourite ships? And third, when did you first start writing? (If it's alright to ask this)
1. But, are you aware of just how nerdy my scarf is? I’m going to be sad when this one wears out, because I bought it custom at an art sale and I can’t remember the artist who made it.
I am about 300% nerdier than I even appear online. That’s an approximate %.
2. I’m a weird person with ships because I really enjoy friendship & family stories, so I don’t automatically seek ships out. And I’m also really content to let let characters have relationships that aren’t explained too much. (Which you’ll see in my writing, that there’s lots of implied stuff, behind the scenes.) This is part of why I love Pacific Rim so much, because it hits many of those elements perfectly.
But, I’ve had a few favorites over the years. Here’s some I can think of:
I was a huge Star Wars fan back in the day of the Expanded Universe, and you couldn’t pry Myn Donos and Gara Petothel/Lara Notsil from my bare hands. I was so stoked when I found out they became a canon couple and actually got a happy ending. How’s that for obscure? (Also, if you haven’t read the Rogue/Wraith Squadron books, particularly the latter, just…do it. For the love of the Force, do it. It’ll explain where a lot of my writing preferences come from.)
Daine and Numair, from Tamora Pierce’s books. Freaking hell I loved those two. The age difference sort of weirds me out a bit now, but I can forgive that with how much I like how their relationship was characterized.
I am an incorrigible Ana and Reinhardt old-couple-shipper and you can never convince me otherwise. It would have to happen later in the story timeline, but damn it, they’re adorable in all the fanart.
I accidentally made an OTP in my own writing that I ship so hard it’s like I’m not even shipping my writing goddamn it I even commission fanart of it
3. I’ve been writing for a very long time. I remember being like…7 and writing a story about Thomas the Tank Engine. Me and fanfic, we go back a ways. I started actively writing fanfic when I was ~12. Lots of Star Trek, lots of Digimon, lots of Star Wars. (I was one of those freak kids who was reading adult Star Wars novels in Grade 3. It was my super power.) Only a tiny bit of it ended up online as dial-up internet had just appeared. I don’t have any of this writing anymore due to computer crashes and I’m honestly choked about that.
My first real online fandom was Forgotten Realms. I wrote a lot of Artemis Entreri stuff. It’s no longer online, but that was my start. I was probably 16 or 17? About the same time is when I began writing original work. I don’t have any extensive formal training in fiction writing. I took a couple university classes, and have since done professional development/conferences, but most of my writing training is in technical or academic writing. Everything I know about writing fiction I essentially learned through writing fanfic (poorly, at first, very poorly).
Between then and now, which is about 15 years, I wrote for Thunderbirds, Death Note, Naruto, Doctor Who, and a little bit of Harry Potter (I had a giant Snape backstory fic that I never finished and got shelved). I also wrote a few things for Howl’s Moving Castle and Angelic Layer that were never posted online because I sort of just petered out on them. Death Note was definitely my biggest fandom in terms of reach/hit count/favorites, and I’m still extremely fond of one of the stories. It’s 11 years old, but hey, still good I think: you can see some of the elements of my current writing style already in place.
I started submitting and publishing original material about 5 years ago. So I had been writing actively for almost 15 years before I sold anything. I’m still working on re-writing and selling the novel that I had thought would be my first sale. It turns out I have a better knack at short stories than I do longer work. Writing Act 4 has taught me a lot about structuring longer stories.
My plan is to finish writing Series 2 and then go back to working on my novel. It’s very similar in style in terms of how I write characters, the type of story, etc. Except it’s SF with fantasy elements.
But for anyone wondering the hidden question of “how long have you been writing to become a proficient writer”, the answer is: quite awhile. I’m old. I’ve probably written almost 500,000 words of fiction in fanfic alone. Quantity teaches you over time, not quality. Practice, practice, practice. Lots will be crap. Lots will turn out good. :3
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Okay I know ask box is closed bUT! Dads have no idea Dadsona is a Broadway actor until they go see a show and Dadsona's like the leading man and like how they react to that??
[MOD MAX. FAM. AS A PROFESSIONALLY-TRAINED SINGER AND VOICE ACTOR, YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. This would be difficult for Dadsona to hide though just because Broadway is reeeally demanding so it would lowkey be obvious what he was doing, especially since you have to practice 1000% of the time, even offstage.]
☠ Robert - Honestly he is 10000% wowed, but he doesn’t treat you any differently. After all, you’re still the same person as you were before, so he doesn’t get all gross and kiss-up to you like a lot of people would. He isn’t awkward all of a sudden, he doesn’t stumble, he’s just good old reliable Robert. He does constantly get himself thrown out of backstage, though, trying to come and see you but breaking one of the many rules. He constantly talks to you about how awesome you were, but not in an uncomfortable way. He cheers for you, but he’s not like… suddenly some obsessive fan with all of your merch and no chill. “No wonder you’re so good at foreplay.”
👚Joseph - whY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME? THIS IS AMAZING! He comes to see all of your performances. ALL. OF. THEM. Meaning that he does come to Broadway every. single. night to rewatch the same show and is always just as enthusiastic, if not even more hyped for how great you are than he was last night. During the curtain calls he just stands up and yells “THAT’S MY HUSBAND/BOYFRIEND.” Everyone’s used to it by now.
📕 Hugo - wHAT?!?!?! CAN YOU HELP MY CLASS WITH [insert drama script here]?! If you do go into class, everyone recognizes you, and Hugo is just dumbfounded. I mean, you’re literally a broadway star and everyone knows you, but somehow, someone as active as him in the world of literature and fine arts just didn’t know. He’s just… wow.
🦇 Damien - Sparkles in his eyes!! You are just as dramatic and passionate in speech as him, if not moreso, and so he’s not actually surprised at all to find out that you’re a broadway star. He brings you really old-fashioned courting gifts and gives them to you after a show, i.e a single red rose with the thorns carefully cut off, a handkerchief, just kinda cute but weird stuff. He’s constantly (but quietly) proud of you!
🎣 Brian - Brags about you nonstop. He actually found out that you were a broadway star while he was getting kicked out of the theater for being a little too boisterous. It was an ordeal, but he was allowed to stay, and now he comes to all of your shows when he can and he brings all of his friends and coworkers to cheer you on and brag about you some more. He’s so proud of you. If you have any awards, he displays them on a big, gorgeous award shelf that can be seen as soon as anyone walks in the door.
⚾ Craig - Bro, I didn’t know you actually made it! That’s great! He knew that you had it in you, he loved to listen to you rehearsing when you were roommates in high school, but he thought that you had given up on your dream, or perhaps pursued something else. Now that he knows you made it, that explains why some of the girls on the softball team were fangirling and asking you oddly specific questions about a certain fandom character that you always had uncannily correct answers to. He asks you to sing for him a lot and will eagerly join in, off-key, in the mornings or whenever the two of you are together, just kinda dancing around the kitchen/bathroom/bedroom getting ready. It gets to the point where you have to tell him to stop singing because you’ve heard the song too much. For non-theater folk: this is role reversal at its finest.
☕ Mat - That’s so cool! He tries to get you to do an open mic night at the Coffee Spoon because everyone would just love to hear your voice! Honestly, out of all of the dads, Mat definitely knew who you were before you told him, he just treated you like any other person so you didn’t know that he knew. I mean, the dude’s into some really obscure but great bands, so it’s not that unlikely that he knows some great broadway actors as well. He’ll actually sing your songs with you, but in one of the other voice parts, because he knows the music so well. He’s so good at it that you actually try to get him to audition, but he likes his life as it is.
#ddadds#dream daddy#robert small#joseph christiansen#Hugo Vega#damien bloodmarch#brian harding#craig cahn#mat sella#mod max
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Hi! Could we get some girlfriend h/cs for my homegirls Momo, Mina and Mei, please? :D
Ah, yes! About time we had some of the ladies on the blog! I hope you enjoy these! - Mod Rig
Hatsume Mei- Dating Mei can take a lot of patience and self-sufficiency. She spends a lot, and I mean a lot, of time in Power Loader’s workshop at UA, and dragging her out of there takes either bribery or promising to show her something more interesting than the latest thing she’s working on. You either have to enjoy hanging out in the workshop with her, or be comfortable spending some time on your own.- Also, she’s going to want to try her gadgets out on you. You’ll have to set your foot down about how many tests she has to put that thing through before she can bring it near you. She nearly put Izuku’s back out with her mech suit. That being said, you’ll always have the coolest new gadgets and custom-made stuff. Just…make sure it’s safe first. - She’s very, very blunt and opportunistic. Sometimes she’ll make you facepalm with how quick she is to show off her ‘adorable little babies!’ If you go with her to any Support industry shows or career fairs, her nostrils flare and her eyes go wide. It’s like unleashing a fox into a chicken coop. - Aside from her extreme career-focus, she’s a huge optimist who takes any setbacks in stride, whether personal or professional. She rarely has down days and her confidence is sky-high. It’s hard to stay annoyed with her for too long because she’s so damn cheerful.- She’s easy to buy gifts for. Honestly, just take her to the hardware store and ask her what she wants. Her eyes will light right up. She always needs some obscure tool or other. Or steampunk inspired clothing. If it’s covered in cogs and chains, she’ll love it. - She has a large collection of Doc Martens, because they’re the best type to wear in the workshop and they come in cool colours. Her favourite is pink to match her hair.- Make her wash her hands when she leaves the workshop or she’ll leave axle grease all over your clothes when she kisses you hello. That shit does not come out.- She’ll doodle schematics on the napkins at whatever food joint you take her to.
Yaoyorozu Momo/Creaty- Momo’s favourite type of date is sharing afternoon tea at nice cafes with spindly, wrought-iron tables and curtains in the windows. She’ll try a different tea every time, along with the little spinning lazy-Susan of teacakes. - She collects pretty tea canisters to house her large selection of blends. She’s always on the lookout for new blends and will chat eagerly about Assam vs Earl Grey vs chamomile and so on. She also collects antique teacup and saucer sets. - A lot of your dates will be study dates, not only because she has to stay on top of her grades to keep her #1 place in 1-A’s grade rankings, but because she has to study the molecular structure of the objects she creates with her Quirk.- Since she needs to eat a lot, she tends to carry snacks with her wherever she goes. She’ll share if you’re feeling hungry. This girl is always prepared!- Her family’s wealth and social status can be rather daunting, especially if you come from a more modest background. Momo’s sweetness and genuine personality make a little easier, but that palace of a house is still intimidating as fuck when she brings you home to meet her parents.- If you want her opinion on something, be prepared for it to be delivered bluntly. She doesn’t sugarcoat things. However, she’s always eager to help you improve in whatever it is you want to do. If you need better grades, she’ll study with you and coach you. If you want to take up a sport or a hobby, she’ll remind you to practice and push yourself to improve. Momo’s a one woman cheerleading squad with the mind of a genius.
Ashido Mina/Pinky- Mina is everything that is bright, outgoing, and quirky (please excuse the pun.) She’s the definition of the word 'vivacious’. She has a tendency to wear her heart on her sleeve. If she’s happy, excited, annoyed, disappointed, etc, you’ll know. This can be a bit too forward for someone who’s shy and retiring, but at least you always know where you stand with her. - If you invite her somewhere and she can’t go, she gets extremely disappointed. Mina’s always worried that she’s missing out on a good time with you and her friends. If you’re planning something, make sure she’s available to go first. She’s the life of the party, anyway. It’s not as fun if she’s not there.- Her Hero costume is one of the most original. She looks like she just stepped out of an 80’s rave. (Hey, her Quirk puts a whole new spin on the phrase 'tripping on acid’.) She likes vintage clothes and loves going to thrift stores with you to look for interesting pieces. She can get away with wearing pretty much anything, because her looks are so unusual, anyway. She probably customises her clothes too.- Apparently she enjoys dancing, so you can definitely expect to find her playing her music a little too loud in the UA dorms (making Iida have a miniature breakdown because she’s breaking the rules) and pulling some moves in her bedroom. Or the study area. Or the kitchen. Or anywhere, really. - She listens to music while she does chores, because she finds it far too boring otherwise. And yes, there’s more dancing while she vaccuums. Nobody can waltz with a Dyson like Mina.- You would think her acid would damage more things, but she’s trained long and hard to have total control over the acid release. It’s a dangerous Quirk, and for someone who wants to be a Hero, she can’t afford to be sloppy. So never fear, you won’t find massive holes melted into your stuff.- She doesn’t mind where you go on dates together. Anywhere from the movie theatre to a live music joint to a simple cafe is fine. Hell, even staying in to have a pizza and play video games. The fact that you’re having fun together is what counts. She also enjoys loud, fun things like laser-tag and karaoke and paintballing. Be warned though, you will lose at anything competitive because she has killer reflexes.
#Anonymous#delaware-lemme-smash#Hatsume Mei#Yaoyorozu Momo#Ashido Mina#bnha#boku no hero academia#bnha imagines#bnha headcanons#mha#my hero academia#mha imagines#mha headcanons#Mod Rig
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((Mod post!! Gonna answer some questions for me that have been sitting around for a while, sorry the response is so late ;w;
Everything’s under the cut to save space 0w0 ))
Anonymous said: Okay but totally loving the concept of Michael as Gil and Jeremy as Oz??? Like, freaking Alice is Christine (even tho its totally a personality clash apart from the childish aspect but shhhh) and just yes
YEAH MAN...any type of PH crossover is good hhh but GOSH imagine Michael like. After growing up and spending ten years looking for Jeremy like Gil did ahh my heart aches!! And Jeremy coming back pouting like “You’re taller than me now that’s totally not fair, M”
Christine would make a really cute Alice I think, just seeing her dress up like Alice and having her kick ass as the B-Rabbit?! Hell yeah!
zekromztk2 said: Out of all of the Pandora Hearts characters, who is your favorite? Mine is... probably either Alice or Oz
HELL I LOVE GILBERT I’D DIE FOR THAT MAN LEGIT;; I love Oz and Break a lot too and! RUFUS BARMA AS WELL I ADORE HIM
Anonymous said: did I hear Harry Potter?
Ye man talk to me about the Marauder days any time I love talking about Sirius, James and Remus getting into shenanigans at Hogwarts hoo boy
Anonymous said: (Hey mod, so basically Jake and Rich are just gonna be background characters with kind of their own stories?)
Yes! Jeremy and Michael are the main focus here, but Jake and Rich sort of have their own thing going on in the background as more minor characters to the overall blog! I want to make a more developed backstory for the treasure hunter girls and Christine as well, so we’ll see how that goes~
Anonymous said: Thank you so much for introducing the novel this AU is based on to me!! Now that I've finished reading, I understand a lot more about this AU and now I want to ask... Would you consider Mr. Heere/Reyes as Morrow?
You’re very welcome, it’s a great novel so! I’m glad more people are reading it after having run into this blog, I must spread the pureness that is Aech to all of humanity //shakes fists
And yes! Mr. Reyes is Morrow, I can imagine him sort of contributing to the hunt with lots of theater related things, which Christine specializes in! Book!Squip is Halliday, and there’s actually a little more about that and his relationship with Jeremy that I want to get into later.
Anonymous said: ((I had literally never heard of ready player one but I lov this blog so much I actually went out and bought it. Consider me murdled dead))
Yeah man like;; I didn’t read the novel until this past summer and after that I just got so into it and BMC at the same time so? I combined the two and here we are!
Aaah I’m so glad!! Like I’ve said before I love it when people come tell me they went out to buy the novel and read it because of me, it makes me so happy :’)
Hjrhjd please don’t die lol
emibeani said: ((I just finished reading Ready Player One, and thank you so much for this blog.))
I’m glad to hear it!! And you’re very welcome, I honestly didn’t expect so many people to get into but I’m super appreciative of all the interest you guys have shown so far so?? Thank you!!
Anonymous said: THIS IS NOT A ASK, BUT, OMG, THIS AU IS FUCKING PERFECT.
Glad you like it, ty! ;D
aslyn-is-artsy said: Your art is absolutely amazing
Hrhrhgfh I’m blushing thank you wow;;
aslyn-is-artsy said: Thank you so much for showing me this amazing book. I now aspire to become the real version of Art3mis. Just with short blonde hair instead. ;)
No problem!! It’s such a fantastic read and I was honestly blown away by it, so yeah...! Haha yeah I love Arty! She’s such a badass character and she doesn’t put up with any of Wade’s shit, which is great, she’s so empowered and I adore her
theitalianscribe said :I don't remember if this was answered, but is Michael trans male in this au?
Nope! I mean if you want to headcanon him that way that’s fine, I won’t stop you! I’m not going to endorse that since I myself don’t see him being that way, but you all are entitled to your own opinions so! And even if he were trans that wouldn’t be the main point of the blog anyway, I’m focusing more on their actual relationship, not their sexuality or gender or anything like that ^^
Anonymous said:i checked the book Ready Player One out from the library just because of this blog! are there any other books you recommend? (i havent finished the book but i like it so far i think!)
Oh nice!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Ahhh hmm well if you like supernatural teen stories, there’s a series called Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong about this girl named Chloe who finds out she’s a necromancer after being sent to a “troubled teens” home, and she meets these boys named Simon and Derek who also have special abilities and then all sorts of crazy things happen! I first read it back in high school and I still love it a lot, so yeah it’s a trilogy and all of the characters are really great so! (I looooove Simon like. So much.) Check it out if you have the time, it’s a good read!
kitikat101 said: Random potential song parodies: I Love the OASIS (I Love Play Rehearsal), Find That Egg (Be More Chill, pts. 1 and 2), Two-Player Game (but with Joust), Oases In My Head (Voices In My Head)
Kit can I say how much I adore these song titles they fit so well I’m really tempted to make parodies for all of them, absolutely brilliant
geeklychic1012 said: So are we allowed to send in fanfics based on this blog? (Cuz I submitted one but my wifi is shit and I think Tumblr might have eaten it haha)
YES!! Please do I’d highly enjoy reading stuff from you guys! And yes I saw and it breaks my heart like. Why.
I’ll post it soon for everyone else to see too! They must all suffer as I have hfhdjhgjg
Anonymous said: Who would be I-r0k in this au? Or would I-r0k still be his normal jerk self?
I’m actually...not sure :0 There aren’t enough characters in BMC to properly cross over with all the rest of the RPO characters so;; I might have to go through the BMC novel and find some obscure background character to sneak in as I-r0k lol, because I would like to have all of the RPO characters replaced by BMC counterparts, if that makes sense!
theitalianscribe said: Does someone else take Halliday's place in this au? Also, do the gunters have a shared obsession with pop culture from a certain time period? What time period?
Yeah, I mentioned that up above! But Book!Squip takes over the role of Halliday, and musical Squip is Sorrento, of course~
Honestly I’d say like, probably the early 2000s, since that was when I was growing up and I can actually make references back to that time lol? I mean I love the 80s as well, just as it is in the book, but I feel as if I don’t know enough about that time period to actually. Make proper references and constantly. (I mean I could ask my parents who lived during that time too but;; haha.) Most of the stuff on here are me self-projecting, like with video games, books, and anime, that’s all me lol
Anonymous said: " “You don’t need to sell me on anything, Wade,” she said. “You’re my best friend. My favorite person.” With what appeared to be some effort, she looked me in the eye. “I’ve really missed you, you know that?”My heart felt like it was on fire. I took a moment to work up my courage; then I reached out and took her hand." aka perfect au is perfect how does it fit S O well
!!! yEAH MY DUDE I LOVED THAT PART and just imagining Michael saying that to Jeremy I wanted to cry;; I don’t even know but the INSTANT Aech was introduced I was like “Ohhh man. I’m getting major BMC vibes here” and bam, a week later this blog was born lol
Anonymous said:Would you be okay with cosplay of your character designs? I can't do one anytime soon, but they look really cool (and jerm's hair honestly looks fun to do)
YES!! OH MY GOD I’d probably die of sheer happiness if you guys cosplayed these dorks! If you want I could draw a character ref sheet so you actually get a proper look at their outfits! But yes I’d highly enjoy that;; like the cosplay doesn’t even have to be accurate I’d still love it anyway, and doing things like acting out some of the asks here (I’ve seen it be done before and it’s so cute!) would be totally okay too! But yeah as always TAG ME or submit it here so I can see it aaaa I’d love love LOVE that! ^^
Anonymous said: SPECIAL BOY SPECIAL BOY SPECIAL BOY SPECIAL BOY SPECIAL B
YEEEEEAAAAA IT’S ABOUT TIME I MADE AN OUTFIT FOR RICH RIGHT I LOVE HIM SM
maysurprisedyou said: Hi! This isn't quite an ask, but!! I started reading Ready Player One because of this blog and it's really interesting so far so thank you!! All of your posts seem to make my day ahah <3
Oooh I’m happy you’re liking it so far, I’m glad my blog inspired you to read it! And aaAAAA that’s so sweet I’m?? Hhhhfh thank you! :’)
#The mod speaks#OOC#The final boss makes an entrance#Long post#Whew!! That was a lot of asks to get through#Thanks all of you for your interest and support! Ily#The mod answers
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How to get FS17
Although simulation games have been around for ages, Farming Simulator kicked off the farming genre. Other farming games be, yet nothing competes with this iconic series. FS17 brings mod help with different pieces to Xbox Individual with PC, bar is to enough to help defend passing over your money?
The Farming Simulator series created with Farming Simulator 2013. Since then, sequels have appeared every a couple days for PROCESSOR and console. Farming Simulator 16 became a vent of 15 for mobile and PlayStation Vita.
Everyone understands this is a simulation game in which people make tractors and other farming machinery, grow plants and horses, and administer the financial aspects of a farm. So let's look at most of that year's new pieces and how much they improve the game.
Of the two included maps, Goldcrest Valley is make different and from the USA. The other map, Sosnovka, happens in Asian Europe. Originally released as downloadable matter for Farming Simulator 15, it has been remastered with better picture quality. Farming Simulator games always launch with barely two maps, which is a bit skimpy.
For the first time in the series, we can choose to participate like any a man or woman farmer. This could be the game more encouraging to modern audiences. That definitely a step in the right track. However, the game even holds area for more variety.
The two figures you can select through, individual per gender, are both white. You can't alter the skin color, but you can go for the colour of their shirts. Giants Software is located in Switzerland, a largely white population. In games like this, targeting a global audience, developers should think players of additional races as well as their own.
The overall objective with Farming Simulator has always been to buy all the areas on the plot and strengthen the farm so heavy as possible. Which rack in '17, but the developers insert a greeting dose of construction using the original mission system.
Each buyable chart of territory is held by the farmer that offers to pay you for finishing missions. These missions become a great way to earn money. When you've completed all a farmer's missions, he'll advertise the subject instead of a much worse cost than if you'd chosen to get it outright.
Drivable trains add a fun new component for the game. Players have access to several points by both place. You don't have to purchase them before pay maintenance fees, and you can jump straight in them from where on the place.
Cruising almost inside chains and having the landscape is enjoyable on a, but they're also a great way to transport wheat with timber for sale. You use a claw-game like crane to pack stuff onto the train and go to the next selling point.
Farming Simulator 15 was not a attractive match. The worst prison became the structure maps. Comparing ground textures between '15 and '17 on Xbox One, I detect a limited advance in feature. The textures in '17 are well below standards for the console, which is a real shame. Still, '17 does apparently have expanded mip road, so textures retain detail for a higher distance than now '15. Vegetation is a little bit more detailed, and strike has urged better too.
As for sound, Giants has added two in-game radio situations to participants can toggle while taking cars (and optionally, on end besides). The melody is nothing special, but it forms for a more varied experience than listening to the look of life for hours on end.
Mod column was pushed as a key story of FS17 ahead of their launch, especially over the schedule which mods for the PlayStation 4 variety of Results 4 were staring rocky. Now that the game is here, the hoopla appears to contain occurred used for naught – at least on consoles.
Mods are numbered right for the label screen menu, so they're easy to attain. The deposit number seven distinct classes of downloadable items, and some extra groups like Latest and Most Downloaded. Problem exists, between all those categories, the Xbox One story simply takes 31 total mods in current.
All but among those mods are purely farming tools not a lot different from those involved with the sport anyway, although some seem to offer enhanced performance. The lone non-equipment mod changes gameplay somewhat by disabling camera clash with vehicles. Its author is Massive Software. The Roads category doesn't even have a single item yet.
Like Farming Simulator 15, '17 supports 6-player online co-op. Players could pick who can get into their activity – random players, friends, or ask only. As a person wants to join the game, you'll receive a prompt questioning whether to allow them to participate or maybe not. Nobody will be messing around with your farm and account without authorization, that is good.
The ability to join sport is unnecessarily obscured by the game's holding of downloadable content (DLC). Should the host allow any DLC or mods enabled, players want just be able to join the game if they own the same DLC. People find yourself having to go DLC away (a option thankfully presented each time you load a stop game) so as to tease multiplayer, really so which other people can meet.
A far better implementation would put the data for all DLC to all players, even if they don't acknowledge it. And then they could contact the host's vehicles with multiplayer, but not on their own. Alternately, the game may trigger you to download any missing DLC about joining the game. As it is, you can't even tell that information you're missing - you just get rejected.
Upon successfully joining a multiplayer game, everyone shares the same vehicles, capital, and reserves that go on the number. You can leave doing together like a unit. It is fun in the relaxing, social system. But as with other areas on the activity, technical concerns and decisions threaten to spoil the entertainment.
For example, player character standards have laughably bad animation. When you shoot, that appears toward new players like a person basically hung up in the look with eat once again. The paradigm doesn't have a flying animation. Hiking and riding looks awkward as well.
The other great challenge with multiplayer is Achievements. Persons who connect the host's game can't earn Achievements, which is bad, but not entirely unusual. Some sports only allow the primary player to have them. But '17 goes a stage out of by not even permitting the number participant to generate Achievements during multiplayer. You can load in the exact same road from a single person game, but if perhaps one other person joins in, you won't be able to earn Achievements.
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Games like this really need Achievements to provide targets and construct to players, so arbitrarily not being able to earn them after playing with friends is fully unproductive. I talk with the developers about the topic at E3 shortly after Farming Simulator 15 stretched out, but unfortunately, they desire not to address the issue in this sequel. I doubt when the people the boss of '17 play many other games.
Farming Simulator 17 offers 17 Achievements / Trophies upon most platforms, a stage down from the 26 Successes in Farming Simulator 15. I guess they care for the Achievements count to match the year with the sport. Some are easy, like while drop down 50 woods or do a 3-point killed in the original (but bad) basketball minigame.
This year, players only have to acquire one million currency rather than five million. You can apply the Easy Money Trick to make that a cinch, as well as beat revealed the 'play for ten hours' Achievement. There is once again a Achievement for locating 100 collectibles, but you just should find 10 before the rest appear on the drawing. The rest involve breeding animals, harvesting 10 hectares of catch, with ending all activities for the NPC farmers. Stay tuned for our full Achievement Guide with tips for all these.
Farming Simulator 17, like '15 just before it, can be a key strike on COMPUTER. We can safely think a pale console audience as well. That could seems different to action-addicted gamers, although a match with very no violence may certainly fun. This a calm experience somewhat akin to performing Minecraft with Creative mode.
We know this series manages a lot of currency. I barely want more of these money might be seen for the show. Farm Games www.farmsimulator.eu There's no mind Farming Simulator 2017 should expression what dangerous because it prepares. The physics are extremely terrible in several places. And a lot of clunky gameplay components such as hitching trailers might certainly become strengthened, only if the builder studied other sports.
Really, I desire they'd spend some good hours in Minecraft and give some of the theories of which remain mainly average with new activity to Farming Simulator. One must deal with a lot of hard edges to enjoy Farming Simulator 2017. But if you can do that, that surely offers a deep farming experience and plenty of realistic licensed machinery.
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Question 2. Where in the flower shop, transport, setting up could someone have added a flower without being noticed? How is all this process done? Any possibly of them noticing the odd one they know they don't sell themselves and just remove it or inquire about it? I'm assuming yes so, it had to have been done at the concert and out of the florists hands? My story needs the musician tracking down how the extra flower got in to find his mom. Thanks for your help.
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On to questions two! Which is a little tougher because unless it is stuffed away in a pack of other flowers it will definitely be noticed at some point, and if it’s stuffed away so it goes unnoticed it would be a miracle for the poor thing to survive. And since I don’t know what sort of flower you intend to smuggle for your character I can’t give you proper advice on how to hide it. See, when your flower shop owner goes to buy flowers from the wholesaler they won’t buy singles but packages of flowers. So while yes, an odd one could have gotten mixed into the package it’s highly unlikely since that would mean those two flowers came from the same field, and definitely the same company.
What is more likely is that someone at some point smuggled the flower into the stack of already paid packages of the florist. If they wait till the cart is already rather full and nobody’s going through the stacks anymore to check what they have to punch in, then it would go unnoticed till they get to the car. There is still a small chance that they still don’t notice while they load the flowers in, but I am going to advise against it so the special flower doesn’t get crushed. Immediate confusion aside, if the flower is supposed to stick with them they’ll make sure it will have a safe journey back to the shop.
In my experience, there are three ways for flower shops to obtain their flowers. If it’s a big company, like really big, like a flower supermarket, they will likely have deals with the companies growing the flowers and basically, empty some of their fields and from there on out everything goes into the hands of the company. I am going to say that I think smuggling in an extra flower would be much easier here since everything is produced en masse and there will be pre-made flower mixes, but at the same time it is the least likely for your scenario to work because it would include so much luck for your character to end up with the flower.
Way number two would be a well-known wholesaler over here, you can buy directly from them but they also deliver flowers. By well-known, I mean that every florist around here has pretty much heard of them whether or not they buy there. I’ve never been in contact with this wholesaler, so this is more hearsay for me, but I wanted to use this as an example that a single wholesaler with ample connections can very well supply multiple small businesses. (Mod Den Note: All of the smaller flower shops I’ve worked in in the US have had deliveries from a local wholesaler like this.)
Way number three and the one I am most acquainted with is the central flower market, which is exactly what it says on the label. Many different wholesalers gather there, so there’s lots of variety. Basically, your florist will get themselves a cart (they look kinda like these babies) and go looking for their stuff, buy it and get back to their car. They load everything in, bring the cart back and get to their shop. To give you an idea of the time schedule: Since all these purchases will have to be done before the shop opens florists are usually up and on their feet in the middle of the night.
So no, the possibility of nobody noticing the odd one out is very slim, as well as that it even ends up in the florists’ hands. However, if you insist on smuggling it into the shop I would go with the scenario I described earlier. Other than that there is the possibility of someone (in this case the mother in question) will have visited the shop and requested the flower to be bought so she could obtain it. (This scenario would help later, but more when we get to it.) Considering that she grew them herself she would be familiar with the blooming season and maybe even the average price, mainly the former would help her obtain the flower.
Scenario 1 (The smuggled flower): Whether or not the florist will know if the flower sells entirely depends on their clientèle, so you can practically have it go any way you like, but the fancier the flower is the more pricey it is. If it’s something out of their regular customers’ price range there is no use of putting it on display, and they might only present it to a few hand-picked customer who seem to have the money and taste for it. What’s more likely since they will be aware of not having paid for this flower, is checking their receipts (if they kept them) and wondering where they could have accidentally picked it up. Whether or not they mention it to the wholesaler is entirely up to their character though, but going with that they will keep it the flower is most likely to go into a single vase in the back of the store. From there on out the flower is entirely up to the florist’s mercy, they might have truly no use for it but if it’s any kind of presentable cut flower it’s more likely for them to make a special arrangement. Maybe it’s even for a regular, in that case, they would know whether or not an experiment like adding an unasked for flower is acceptable or not, but also whether or not they could gift it or sell it to them in the first place.
Scenario 2 (The bought flower): If they bought it they are more likely to put it on display. However, in this case, it’s more likely for them to have a small number of the flower in question than just a single one. Usually only fancy flowers like orchids or gloriosas are sold in singles, otherwise, the smallest package you can usually get is 3 or 5 at a time. Given that it’s such a small number and someone specifically requested the flowers the most likely scenario is for the florist to keep these separate from their usual display depending. If they are uncertain whether or not other customers would buy them, they could keep them just in eye-sight, but note that they’re already reserved for someone else whenever other customers inquire about them. Which is overall a good way to assess whether or not if it can be sold.
Regardless of the scenario if the flower is something they cannot sell as a single and don’t intend to keep it’s most likely to end up in an arrangement on display. That way it won’t have gone to waste and someone might actually buy it. Or maybe one of the employees notes how pretty it is and they get to take the flower home if their boss is okay with it, in case of a small corner shop that would be likely.Unless there is a definite reason to ask after the flower or they think they have accidentally picked it up from a wholesaler they regularly visit, I don’t think they will.
So now your guy got his flower and wants to track it. This would be quite hard in scenario one since the only way your florist has to do so is hopefully a picture and a guess which wholesaler might have such flowers. From there on out it’s questioning the people at the stands they usually shop at for clues. However, it is unlikely they would go out of their way to find the flower without good reason. Being a fan of said musician or knowing that it holds sentimental value or both might do the trick though.
Scenario two, however, would include receipts, even if the flower isn’t noted on them by name but by some obscure description, that would narrow it down for them if they don’t remember where they bought it. Whether or not the wholesaler actually knows where they got it from I can’t say for sure, but if it’s a well-known brand stamped on their package the more likely it is. The florist themselves might even remember who bought the flower at their shop if both the buyer and the musician mention that it holds sentimental value. Something like that would stand out, especially in combination with an unusual flower. And if the buyer is a regular the florist might even have name and number in their files. Unfortunately, that is information they wouldn’t be able to give out just like that. Either way, if they have the name of the place where the flowers were grown, there’s a slim chance those people actually have a website your character can check out.If you intend to have the florist not know anything about the flower, that is, the flower was added by someone after the florist put the arrangement together there are two points this could happen. If the same florist is delivering a lot of flowers to the concert venue, then they will be filling their van up with these arrangements. It’s possible that only one person will be loading the van (especially for smaller shops) and they will take a cart of arrangements out, get them settled into boxes designed to keep the arrangements from falling over during transit, then go back in for another cartload. That’s the first window where someone could quickly access the van and insert the extra flower into one of the loaded arrangements before the florist/shop assistant/delivery driver returns to load the rest of the arrangements. These vans aren’t always kept in super secure locations, just not easily reached spots like the alley behind the shop.
However, if the shop is a larger one where there is more security around the vans and more than one person loading the deliveries, the only point someone could slip in an extra flower to a previously created arrangement is at and after delivery to the venue. Then it’s a matter of who has access to the concert venue ahead of time.
One other method that I just thought of is someone calling into the florist shop and asking to add the flower to an already ordered bouquet. If the person that is trying to signal the musician knows someone that ordered flowers, say from social media, they could potentially call in pretending to be that person and ask for the flower to be added. If the flower is expensive then this will probably mean an additional charge (especially if the florist doesn’t already have some in stock and has to special order in a rush). But your message sender might get around this with a prepaid credit card or similar that can’t be traced as easily. The florist would have a record of the call in asking for the specific flower and probably have record of the card that the change was charged to (at least in part, depending on security protocols). Or have them go in person claiming to be a friend/family member of the person that ordered the flowers and either provide the flower to be added or pay in cash for any difference. That would allow the florist or cashier that assisted them to possible remember some physical features.
And… I think I’ve got everything covered now. If you still have questions, by all means, please let us know.
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Mod R: Hello, welcome to the oneshot accio-shitpost podcast. I’m Mod R, otherwise known as Roxie, and my pronouns are she/her, thank you very much. And you are?
Mod H: And I’m Mod H, otherwise known as LH, and my pronouns are they/them.
Mod R: Um, so, we’re going to be asking some of your questions!
Mod H: We’re going to be answering some of their questions. We’ll also ask them!
Mod R: They’re fresh off the…question mill, being made by our lovely question workers, in the question mill.
Mod H: In the question mines.
Mod R: theshieldswordandcrown.tumblr.com says ‘If y’all’ – nice Texan shit there – [in bad American accent] ‘If y’all could go to any magical school, which one would it be? Doesn't have to be in the HP universe, either.’ So I don’t know about any other universes apart from the Harry Potter universe that has magical schools, apart from the Worst Witch, which I doubt you know about!
Mod H: Yeah, I’ve got an even more obscure one, but I’m not even gonna mention-
Mod R: Tell me, tell me.
Mod H: Okay, so, do you know Anthony Horowitz? The horror writer?
Mod R: Yes.
Mod H: Well he wrote a horror, erm, couple of horror books for kids about a magic school called Groosham Grange, where basically all of the kids were fucked up. But to actually answer the question, I guess it’d have to be Hogwarts.
Mod R: Hogwarts. Like, I wanna be, like, special, and think of another magical school-
Mod H: But honestly…
Mod R: Are there any other magical schools?
Mod H: No…
Mod R: Um…the Bureau of Balance.
Mod H: Good one.
Mod R: Um, do they teach? I guess they do, don’t they.
Mod H: I mean, Angus learned magic there.
Mod R: From Taako.
Mod H: So it’s like a magic school because of that.
Mod R: Yeah…the Bureau of Balance is from the McElroy brother and father’s The Adventure Zone.
Mod H: Which, check it out if you haven’t.
Mod R: Check it out. It’s good. You’ll like it.
Mod H: Check it out if you like magical fantasy stuff that starts out totally silly and ends up giving you emotions.
Mod H: Anonymous said, ‘Five questions for your 100k thingy. 1) how do you come up with your clever post ideas like how its not fair 2) um... 3) lemme think 4) I... 5) yeah, I’ve only got one question.. never mind.’
Mod R: Yeah, so this is, it reads as bad as it sounds.
Mod H: Yeah. Sorry, anon.
Mod R: No offense anon, I’m sure you’re lovely.
Mod H: But to actually answer your question…
Mod R: Um…
Mod H: Straight off the dome.
Mod R: Straight off the dome-piece. One hundred percent.
Mod H: There are two methods – one of them is ‘oh no I haven’t filled up the queue, um, um, let’s make a post about…lamp’.
Mod R: Yeah, yeah. Like sometimes if you look through the posts, um-
Mod H: You can totally see a thought process.
Mod R: Yeah yeah, so like there was one about a unicycle and a Segway straight after each other in the batch that just came out.
Mod H: Two about Godzilla, recently, as well. I had Godzilla on the brain.
Mod R: Yeah, yeah, sometimes we reorder them so it doesn’t look like…but it’s totally obvious. If it’s from within twenty four hours it’s probably from the same.
Mod H: The other method is that…when we phone call each other, we just brainstorm.
Mod R: Yeah yeah yeah, and here’s one, I’m not sure if you do this anymore, um, but, I certainly used to do this and whenever I make posts now it’s um, I go to the Harry Potter wiki.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: And like, I haven’t done this for a while.
Mod H: I used to do that too, yeah.
Mod R: Because Cursed Child and we didn’t want any spoilers.
Mod H: Heh. I knew the spoilers. I’m trash.
Mod R: You knew the spoilers.
Mod H: You didn’t.
Mod R: And we just used to click ‘random page’, and whatever – okay, here’s the bad bit about this. There’s a page for every day of the year.
Mod H: Everything.
Mod R: Every day of the year in – like, you say ‘did anything happen on January 21st in the Harry Potter universe?’ You can look it up!
Mod H: I don’t know but we can check!
Mod R: We can check!
Mod H: The third method we use to make shitposts, of course, is asking someone else. Shoutout to Mod K, who gives me-
Mod R: Yeah, that’s fucking true.
Mod R: Okay. Next question is from anythingcanonwillbeshipped.tumblr.com, who appropriately asks, ‘Drarry, Scorbus, both, or neither??’ And-
Mod H: Well, there’s an obvious answer to this.
Mod R: There’s an obvious answer to this. Scorbus. One hundred percent Scorbus.
Mod H: Scorbus.
Mod R: Like, no offense to all you Drarry shippers, it’s – okay right, I’ve never been a Drarry shipper.
Mod H: Me neither.
Mod R: Despite – despite some of our posts.
Mod H: We have made jokes about it.
Mod R: I do think that Draco Malfoy might have had a crush on Harry for a while.
Mod H: It’s totally a viable thing, like it would be interesting to see a well-developed dynamic between them.
Mod R: Yeah, yeah. There’s some good fics out there about that, but I’m just not about them being in a relationship.
Mod H: Yeah, personally.
Mod R: Until at least they’re adults.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: And by then, they’re both married. Which is fine, you can still ship them, but like –
Mod H: The Cursed Child versions of them, it’d be particularly interesting to see them together.
Mod R: Yeah. I was about to say, the closest I’ve ever come to shipping Drarry – and I did ship it a lil bit.
Mod H: A lil bit.
Mod R: Is when I watched the Cursed Child. And you, most people listening to it probably haven’t watched it.
Mod H: Yeah, uh, we’ve been quite lucky to have the privilege of seeing Cursed Child-
Mod R: Yeah, because we’re both local to London. Not, we’re not really, I mean you’re – you live very far away-
Mod H: You’re more local.
Mod R: I live kinda far away. daq – as in d-a-q – litterqueen.tumblr.com, no dashes, says ‘#accio100k firstly, congrats!!!’ Thank you!’ :D secondly, combine the color of the t-shirt you are wearing and the name of the last food you ate and WALLA, reveal your unique spell!’ Okay so…mine’s…blue and I last ate – I had pizza, so I’ve got blue pizza, blueizza.
Mod H: Bleetza.
Mod R: I’m gonna say blueizza, because I’m not a fucking scrub.
Mod H: My shirt’s dark blue, like I guess navy, yeah, so navy chips.
Mod R: Nips.
Mod H: Oh God. Nips!
Mod R: It’s nips.
Mod H: Okay. Anonymous asked ‘time is an illusion that man made up to understand the fourth dimension’.
Mod R: More of a statement than a – but this is something I like to talk about. I know a little bit about physics, I dropped physics in GCSE but I’ve still remained very interested in it, and I still read up on it, I’ve read a lot of books about physics…er, I know this sounds like I’m bigging myself up but I’m really not, I’m kinda trash.
Mod H: But you know a bit-
Mod R: People say a lot, time isn’t real, humans made up time. That’s strictly not true. Time is a measurable thing, and we made up the measurements for it, and we’re like ‘oh half past four’ – half past four is made up, that’s not real.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: Time itself is a real dimension that plays into the universe. If time didn’t exist, nothing would happen. That’s how-that’s how it works. Time is just the way we describe things happening in an order.
Mod H: It’s sort of like time is a thing, but our measurements of time is an illusion.
Mod R: Yeah yeah, like people could say space is fake. That’s not true. One metre is fake, we made that up, but like space is definitely real and the distance between me and, like, the bed in front of me might be a metre, and that’s fake, but it’s still in front of me, like it still exists.
Mod H: Yeah. It’s still that distance away, no matter how much-
Mod R: Same for time. So thank you for giving me this. Time is an illusion that man made up, to understand the fourth dimension, is closer to the truth but not quite. Anonymous asks ‘How old are y’all’ [in fake American accent] ‘How old are y’all and what do you do. Are yoi students?’ There’s an upside down question mark there-
Mod H: We are Yuri on Ice students.
Mod R: We’re not.
Mod H: We’re not students or Yuri on Ice.
Mod R: It’s spelled y-o-i, it’s a typo apparently. Are you students? I’m…technically on a gap year I might go to uni in a year or so. You’re not a student anymore.
Mod H: I’m not a student anymore.
Mod R: You’re in the in-between place between getting a job and going to uni.
Mod H: Yeah. I am unemployed!
Mod R: I’m between coming out from education to either going to further education or a job, or both. So we’re both sorta floating right now.
Mod H: Yeah, we’re sort of in a transitional phase.
Mod R: Ha ha ha. donutmesswithme.tumblr.com-
Mod H: Good name.
Mod R: Good name. Says ‘How was your day?’ Eh, it was okay.
Mod H: You had a hot dog. It was a good day.
Mod R: Okay, yeah, I had a hot dog, that was good. Good day-a good day.
Mod H: Gourmet hot dog, good day.
Mod R: pantless-wonder.tumblr.com, shout out to you, says ‘Thoughts on My Immortal (the original fanfic, people behind it, web series, and unrelated YouTube videos claiming to be the authors)?’ So, first of all, the original fanfiction, I have not read the entire way though.
Mod H: I have read the entirety of it, ‘cos I went through a very bad Harry Potter fanfiction phase when I was younger.
Mod R: Do you believe-are you one who believes that it’s fake, that it’s a troll fic, or do you think it’s real?
Mod H: I believe it’s a particularly well-crafted troll fic.
Mod R: Really. I’m not sure? Okay, I think the biggest-okay, right, I was so sure that it was real because fanfiction used to definitely be like that, back when they used the word ‘lemon’, you know.
Mod H: Back in those days. I remember those days.
Mod R: It used to be like that! And I know kids who could’ve written that.
Mod H: I could’ve written that.
Mod R: Strange kids, yeah. What ticks off for me, and makes me think-and I’ve talked about this a lot of time, that it’s a troll fic-
Mod H: Yeah I think we’ve had this discussion.
Mod R: We’ve had this conversation a lot. Yeah. At one point, she accidentally calls Tom Riddle Tom Bombadil?
Mod H: Yeah, there’s no way-
Mod R: And here’s the thing, here’s the thing. Right. That’s not a typo, and autocorrect didn’t exist back then, okay. Tom Bombadil was a very minor character in the book The Lord of the Rings, not the movie, the books. Like, the fact that she would know such a character, like, implies-cos she said she didn’t even read the Harry Potter books and just watched the movies, she would not have read Lord of the Rings if she had not read Harry Potter.
Mod H: She would not know who Tom Bombadil-I mean, I think for me, like a lot of the language is ridiculous and over the top, and a lot of the supposed spelling errors are so-
Mod R: Like, okay, there’s a couple of thing that are like, could definitely be real but probably aren’t with the context of Tom Bombadil, like, such as, ‘I ate my Count Chocula with blood’.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: And that’s the thing that like, some emo scene kid in 200-whatever would have said, but like I think that she was just very ahead of her time in terms of like staging a fic.
Mod H: Yeah, I mean, in a lot of ways My Immortal was very much the prototype on which all previous-all later trollfics even were based.
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: Like, it became…
Mod R: It’s like the proto-trollfic.
Mod H: Basically. And one thing that I really like in myself is how well they really characterised that behind-the-scenes narrative going on, with like the friend and writing the character based on their friend out and then back in.
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: And then when the fic got ‘hacked’, and suddenly everything was all preppy because some troll had hacked them on the internet. And the way the grammar broke down as well after the supposed proofreader stopped doing it.
Mod R: But of course you’d just like delete the prep fics, wouldn’t you, if you hacked it back.
Mod H: Yeah, you wouldn’t like keep it. I mean, the whole thing’s gone now. But there’s archives. You can find it.
Mod R: Yeah, you’ll find it. Webseries. Have you seen the webseries?
Mod H: I haven’t seen it. I know it exists, but-
Mod R: Being someone involved in webseries, hint hint nudge nudge, check out the Uncanny Upshurs on youtube.com, but erm I’ve watched that with the creator of the Uncanny Upshurs, well, the co-creator, with Ingrid Nixie Greep herself, and I very much enjoyed it.
Mod H: The legend.
Mod R: I haven’t seen season two, so don’t spoil that for me. But I really liked it! It was very bare bones special effects. What they did was, when they had a wand fight near the end of it, um, when they like cast a spell, they would do like star effects, like the shape of like a star, and it’d make like a crack noise, and it was really nice because it was like stylised. The, er, unrelated YouTube videos claiming to be authors…you’ve sent me one I haven’t watched.
Mod H: I, yeah, I found one.
Mod R: That claims to be.
Mod H: It wasn’t that, it was that…the girls behind it were supposedly called Willow and Tara, and there was something with two girls saying they, like, ‘New Years 2007, but I don’t know why you celebrate New Years cos we’re all gonna die anyway’. And the fact that they had the same names as the supposed authors of My Immortal was like…people were wondering whether those were the same people.
Mod R: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mod H: As for people coming out later saying that they authored My Immortal-
Mod R: Unless JK Rowling comes out and says it, I’m not-
Mod H: Same.
Mod R: Until Jo says it.
Mod H: But like all of them are probably riding on the popularity of the fic.
Mod R: shitlordanakin.tumblr.com says ‘How did you feel the first time you saw a post of yours screenshotted on HP instagram accounts?’ We didn’t. We don’t use Instagram.
Mod H: No, neither of us actually do.
Mod R: And I’ve never seen any of our posts on Facebook. We’ve seen them on Buzzfeed?
Mod H: I’ve seen…I’ve seen a few of them on Facebook.
Mod R: I might have seen a couple now…
Mod H: Some of my friends linked me to them.
Mod R: But like, what happened usually is our friends that know about us send us screenshots before we see them. We’re fine with it, because, as long as they source us – usually, if we find someone who isn’t sourcing us we talk to them, and we’re like ‘hey, can you do that’, but like if they’re not sourcing us, we’ve made so many posts that we forget which ones are ours.
Mod H: And a couple of people have even come to us like ‘I want to set up an Instagram with and use your stuff, is that okay’ and like, it’s fine!
Mod R: And we talk to them, and we’re like, yeah, it’s cool. They had more followers than us then.
Mod H: That was good.
Mod R: But they weren’t just posting our stuff, so, it was original content as well. And Instagram, I think, is a whole different ballgame to tumblr.
Mod H: Yeah. I don’t understand it.
Mod R: Neither do I.
Mod H: lunaloveboook says-
Mod R: Aw, that’s a good-three ‘o’s, by the way.
Mod H: lunaloveboook. ‘For the podcast: 1)How did it started? 2) And I really loved when Something Big And Bad happened and you put all your efforts in reassuring people’
Mod R: So that’s one question and a statement, and-I’m gonna answer the question first, and then talk about the statement.
Mod H: Ok. Do you wanna tell this story, cos? You kinda instigated it.
Mod R: Yeah, so, I was just sending like bad Harry Potter jokes to LH.
Mod H: This happens sometimes.
Mod R: I remember walking from my school to Subway and back, to get a Subway-
Mod H: She was just sending me all these jokes, and I was replying with some.
Mod R: Yeah yeah, and we were like ‘we can make this into a blog’, and then we decided to post ten a day, we posted a few off the bat, made a tag – back then we tagged everything with ‘dank memes’ and stuff as well, so, to get to the target-
Mod H: We really didn’t know what we were doing.
Mod R: We didn’t know what we were talking-to try and get to the biggest audience.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: Nowadays, since we don’t need any help with that, we just tag with the characters involved and hope there’s some fans looking through the tags maybe.
Mod H: Yeah. Cos I mean we tag the most obscure-and we tag like full names as well, that’s obviously not, like nobody’s gonna be-
Mod R: Like, if we make a post about Draco Malfoy, then somebody might-
Mod H: But like nobody’s going to be tracking Xenophilius Lovegood – or like not a lot of people. But like ones who aren’t usually referred to by their full name, like Pomona Sprout, we tag her as that.
Mod R: Oh fuck, I didn’t even know that was her name.
Mod H: There you go.
Mod R: ‘And I really loved when Something Big And Bad happened and you put all your efforts in reassuring people’
Mod H: Thank you!
Mod R: For those of you who don’t know, this is referring to the [cough]election last year.
Mod H: [cough]America.
Mod R: Yeah, um, of a country that we’re not – that I’ve been to, a bunch of times.
Mod H: I haven’t.
Mod R: You want to go there, because you want – I’ve actually been to the theme park.
Mod H: I wanna go to Disneyland.
Mod R: Which I am incredibly privileged to have been to. Thank you? I mean like, we felt like it just wasn’t the time for jokes, you know, instead we…what happened was, Donald Trump got elected, and we were like, this is a bit crass to post jokes today, because people are going-and people sent us messages like ‘you’re overreacting’ and maybe we were a bit, but, there are a lot of people who are genuinely afraid.
Mod H: And we basically had a conversation about it that morning and we said, we’re gonna keep posting regular content but we’re also just gonna say, you know, our askbox is open. And a few asks started trickling in so we started answering, and a whole lot of asks started trickling in.
Mod R: Because we answered hundreds that day.
Mod H: Yeah, I mean, I remember having to give up at one point because my hands were cramping because I’d been typing that hard?
Mod R: Yeah, and-like, I don’t wanna big myself up. We feel like what we did anybody in our shoes would have done. Like, this isn’t something that I feel proud of – I mean, I’m proud that I’m a good enough person to have done it-
Mod H: It’s not like a huge-
Mod R: I don’t wanna be, like, praised for it, you know, like anyone in our shoes would have done this. But thank you for the question.
Mod H: And thank you for the compliment.
Mod R: wizardingviolet asks-
Mod H: It’s a good question.
Mod R: ‘Do you ship any LGBT pairing or headcanon that isn't one of the "classics" ? (like Wolfstar, Drarry and’…how do you say ‘Deamus’? Day-mus?
Mod H: Dee-mus, I go for.
Mod R: Like, Dean and Seamus, Day-mus, Dee-mus…um-
Mod H: Well, there’s an obvious answer to this one, that we both have immediately.
Mod R: Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley.
Mod H: Luna and Ginny.
Mod R: Luna and Ginny!
Mod H: Luna and Ginny.
Mod R: Ginny and Luna!
Mod H: Linny-Linny.
Mod R: Guna?
Mod H: I just made that up by accident but that’s the ship name now! Other than that, probably-
Mod R: Headcanons though. I have a bunch of trans headcanons.
Mod H: Oh yeah, yeah.
Mod R: Like, I like to see Luna as a trans girl but that’s only because I relate to her a lot – I don’t like necessarily think there’s any evidence for that. Not that you need evidence to believe, but like there’s no other reason for me to believe that other than I really identify with her.
Mod H: That makes sense, though.
Mod R: But like we all do that. Neville’s bi, as far as I’m concerned.
Mod H: Oh my gosh, that’s really cute.
Mod R: Neville’s bi, and like he had a crush on Harry for the first three years.
Mod H: I’ve now decided that Neville’s in like a weird polyamorous relationship with Dean and Seamus.
Mod R: Someone said, ‘RONALD WEASLEY. HOW DARE YOU STEAL THAT CAR! YOUR FATHER IS NOW FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK, AND IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU DO SO MUCH AS PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE, YOU WILL BE SENT STRAIGHT. HOME Oh, and accio-shitpost, dear, congratulations on reaching 100k followers. Your father and I are so proud!’
Mod H: Thank you, Molly Weasley.
Mod R: Thank you, mam! Mam!
Mod H: We didn’t know that any-
Mod R: Does this mean that we’re in a relationship with Luna Lovegood, because I’m okay with that.
Mod H: We didn’t know that any fictional characters from the Harry Potter universe were following our blog, but like-
Mod R: Nice. It’s good to hear that my mother, Molly Weasley, is a real person.
Mod H: It’s good to hear from you guys!
Mod H: Okay. briarrosebydayaurorabynight asks 'What inspired you to start the shitposting? Besides Harry Potter obviously.'
Mod R: Um.
Mod H: Honestly?
Mod R: Memes.
Mod H: Yeah, we just sort of started.
Mod R: We’ve sort of answered when we started and what caused us to start, but like what inspires us? Like, just honestly those big other shitpost accounts. Like, I’m not sure if we knew about others at the time but um, like just-shower-thoughts is a famous one that everybody sees. Um. Anonymous says ‘Have any of you ever been in love?’
Mod H: NO.
Mod R: ‘Also one of you must be gay, so who is it?’ Ok so, why must one of us be gay, and also how did you know that?
Mod H: I mean, like every other post we make is about how Ginny and Luna should be together.
Mod R: That’s true. But like, you believe that and you’re not even gay.
Mod H: I mean. Full disclosure.
Mod R: You’re also not straight.
Mod H: I am super aromantic, so like…I think that lets them know which one of us is gay here.
Mod R: I’m…a lesbian.
Mod H: But erm. Speaking for me, I’ve never had the romos.
Mod R: No. Um, I’ve been in love multiple times.
Mod H: You’re a big old softie.
Mod R: Yeah. Uh, I have a-well, I’m polyamorous and I have just like a bunch of girlfriends. Just a bunch. I’ve been in love multiple times and it sure is a trip!
Mod H: Anonymous asked, ‘How do you keep your shit posts fresh and steaming and avoid posting stale ones?’
Mod R: We don’t.
Mod H: We really don’t.
Mod R: Is the answer, we just don’t.
Mod H: We’ve definitely, by this point, repeated ourselves a couple of times.
Mod R: Right ok, there’s definitely a post we’ve done at least three times, and that is ‘I can’t believe that the reward for beating the dragon in Goblet of Fire is a screaming egg’. We’ve done that one like three times!
Mod H: But erm, to actually answer the question, there are a few times that we like, go back and-because we think we’ve made this post before, and we find that we have made this exact same post before. Word-for-word.
Mod R: Also, um, usually.
Mod H: So that’s embarrassing.
Mod R: I’m not afraid to admit that it’s you usually making shitposts these days.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: And I usually deal with like asks and stuff instead.
Mod H: I mean, we both do make shitposts, and we both do answer asks.
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: But like, primarily those are-
Mod R: Um, yeah, and what we often do it, I’ll look through the shitposts you make, and I’ll like edit them. You can-there was this one a long time ago that-
Mod H: Oh, that one’s a classic example of that happening.
Mod R: There was one that was like ‘Ron: You’re a girl right Hermione’ and Hermione was like ‘No, I’m a lizard Ronald’ and then LH had put like ‘she turned into a lizard and scuttled away’
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: And I was like, that’s like, there’s a funny gag in there but the way you put it-
Mod H: Yeah, and I posted that thinking ‘there’s something funnier in here but I just can’t unlock it’?
Mod R: Yeah, so before it posted, when it was in the queue, I edited it to say like ‘No Ronald I’m a Weasley [she meant lizard]’ and then ‘blinks sideways’. Like, because like that’s what lizards do, and that’s way funnier!
Mod H: Some of the posts come out of conversations we’ve had and I’ve worded them, that’s-
Mod R: Pretty much.
Mod H: There’s my counter-example. Like, you’ve come up with an idea when we’ve been talking-
Mod R: Like I often, we’re often just talking about Harry Potter, and then you’ll be like ‘oh shit that’s good’ and then type that down.
Mod H: Yeah, and I put it into words, and actually make it into a post, so-
Mod R: Yeah, it really is a teamwork thing.
Mod H: Yeah, it’s a team effort! Moreso than we think it is, sometimes, I think.
Mod R: whimsicalfangirlthings said, ‘How do you like your macaroni and cheese?’ Like, together.
Mod H: Cooked.
Mod R: Like, cooked.
Mod H: In a microwave, usually.
Mod R: Like, no offense whimsicalfangirlthings.tumblr.com, are there many ways to have macaroni and cheese?
Mod H: If there are, I don’t know them.
Mod R: Like, in my mouth, that’s where I like to have…I really like-Mac and cheese is maybe one of my favourite pastas. Anonymous asks, ‘How many apples does Draco eat a day?’ I don’t fucking know!
Mod H: What-what kind of?
Mod R: I know that’s a reference to like, the gif where he’s eating the apple.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: I don’t know! What does that mean, like-ok, I. Here’s, you want a funny answer? Sixty nine. There you go. Jesus Christ.
Mod H: Is that a funny answer?
Mod R: ig-ign…
Mod H: ignativs-weasley, that’s Ignatius spelled with a v instead of a u, dash Weasley-
Mod R: .tumblr.com
Mod H: Says ‘Hey! Ignativs here. I was wondering, why 1965? Your bio, I mean? Thanks. #accio100k’
Mod R: Um.
Mod H: This is-this is a long-held secret. It’s not really a secret!
Mod R: Nah, people have worked it out before.
Mod H: Many people have worked it out.
Mod R: People have asked us this, people have sent in ‘oh, I get it’, um, it’s when JK Rowling was born. Which is a bit-a bit of a nod, just to like say actually, actually we’re JK Rowling. Which is not true, we’re not actually.
Mod H: We’re-we’re not.
Mod R: ‘Which Harry Potter character(s) would you most like to have a slumber party with?’
Mod H: I mean, I think it’d be really fun to have a slumber party with Dumbledore?
Mod R: Yes, my man!
Mod H: But that would go places.
Mod R: That’d go places.
Mod H: That’d go weird places, and probably end up in death.
Mod R: The places it’d go would be like, like Voldemort Cave.
Mod H: But uh, I wouldn’t like to have a slumber party with but I’d like to have a drink with Aberforth. That’d be quite fun.
Mod R: Well no ‘cos-he’d end up fucking a goat at the slumber party. I always said Ah-ber-forth, by the way.
Mod H: Ah-ber-forth, Ay-ber-forth, I go back and forth. Eyyyyyyy.
Mod R: Eyyyyyyyy. Um, Slughorn, by the way.
Mod H: Slughorn! Slughorn-
Mod R: Because like, he does such good midnight parties!
Mod H: Let’s just have a professor party! Snape leaves, get McGonagall in here-
Mod R: Snape’s dead.
Mod H: Yeah, Snape’s dead, get McGonagall in here-
Mod R: No, I’m too scared of McGonagall.
Mod H: Ah, I think-
Mod R: I’m too scared and sexually intimidated by Minerva McGonagall.
Mod H: Ok, fair, fair. Flitwick! Flitwick would be a riot.
Mod R: Luna, by the way.
Mod H: Luna, yeah.
Mod R: And the Weasley twins.
Mod H: The Weasleys. Just all of them.
Mod R: All of them…apart from Percy, that wanker.
Mod H: I didn’t-what’s a Percy?
Mod R: Yeah, who’s Percy?
Mod H: Apologies to all Per-
Mod R: [gasp] Arthur Weasley! Because we’re Muggles, he’d love-
Mod H: That’d be really cute!
Mod R: [high voice] ‘What the fuck’s a lightbulb?’
Mod H: Let’s have a slumber party with Dobby.
Mod R: No, that’d be shit. Have you seen the one time Harry’s been asleep, and Dobby’s been there? It was Chamber of Secrets, and it was awful.
Mod H. nuevojesus-blog said, ‘What is your favourite HP book and film?’
Mod R: You go yours, I’m not sure about mine.
Mod H: Mine would be Order of the Phoenix for book, and Prisoner of Azkaban for film.
Mod R: Prisoner of Azkaban definitely for film, um, despite the fact that it misses out some of the important details, it’s definitely one of the better directed in my opinion.
Mod H: Well, I think it was definitely the last one before the books were getting far too long to adapt.
Mod R: Yeah. No offense, but the first three movies are the best.
Mod H: Yeah, the first-well, I mean, it’s-they’re different types of movies.
Mod R: And the last two are both far too long and too short, simultaneously.
Mod H: Yeah, I get what you mean by that.
Mod R: Like they put in too much stuff that they don’t need in, and they keep out too much stuff that they do need in, like a proper goodbye to the Dursleys wasn’t in. But Harry and Hermione dancing while Ron fucked off was in there.
Mod H: Yeah, like, they really left out some things that they should have had in and put in a lot of things that weren’t necessary?
Mod R: Which might be to do with the way that-I feel like the directors changed over?
Mod H: The directors did change from the first three to-
Mod R: Really. ordinarylittleme.tumblr.com asked ‘Who are you guys, also what made you decide to make this blog?’ So we’ve also sort of answered one of these, so, ‘who are you guys’, we’ve also again sort of answered. ‘What made you decide to make this blog?’ Um, for once, I had one of my wild ideas. The relationship that we have is very much-you’ll be asleep at like, to be fair at like eleven pm, okay? I used to phone LH up in the middle of the night saying ‘I’ve got this brilliant idea!’ And then every time, of course, they’d be like ‘no, that’s an awful idea.’
Mod H: To be fair, you haven’t heard some of the ideas!
Mod R: Yeah, they’re pretty bad. But this time, I was like ‘you know those jokes that we’ve been sending each other today, the Harry Potter jokes, why don’t we do a blog? Like, we could get popular!’
Mod H: And I, of course, being the practical one, I was like ‘no, that’s a terrible idea, we should never do that’
Mod R: I don’t think you were like that though, I feel like for most of the things you were like ‘uuuuh maybe’. But I think for this one you were like ‘actually, that sounds like a cool idea!’
Mod H: Well, I’m always more reluctant about a lot of these things.
Mod R: Yeah, that’s true.
Mod H: Like, I’ll admit that. Then, we just sort of did it. Like, we saved the url, after a little bit of haggling over what exactly that would be – I think whatever is our blog description, I think ‘Mischief managed’, mischief something, I can’t remember what it is, like that was gonna be the url for a bit, but then we decided on accio-shitpost, which was a good move.
Mod R: Right.
Mod H: Shitpost managed, that was what-that was what we were gonna-
Mod R: It was gonna be that for a while.
Mod H: I think that was my suggestion, and yours was accio-shitpost, and we went with accio-shitpost. So we compromised on that, and I think that was the better idea. Then, you know, we spent about a day setting up the theme.
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: And then we made it live! We just went for it! And the rest, as they say, is history.
Mod R: drearncatcher37.tumblr.com, that’s ‘dreamcatcher’ with an rn as people often do-
Mod H: So it’s like drearncatcher, technically.
Mod R: Yeah, says, ‘I have a question for the podcast. Why.’
Mod H: Good question.
Mod R: Yeah, yeah, that’s a good question.
Mod H: Good question.
Mod R: Because we’ve got nothing better to do, and we-okay, that’s a lie, we have so many things better to do, we honestly do. Anonymous said, ‘(You're my favorite blog)’ in brackets, thank-
Mod H: Thank you.
Mod R: sciencekilledmypurrmaids.tumblr.com said-
Mod H: ‘CHEESE?’
Mod R: Cheese. Um, I wanna interpret this as ‘What’s your favourite cheese?’, so – what’s your favourite cheese?
Mod H: I don’t-I don’t have a favourite cheese, I’m not a cheese connoisseur-
Mod R: I like all cheeses.
Mod H: I mostly just have cheddar cheese.
Mod R: Yeah, I mostly just have cheddar cheese.
Mod H: Or like Lancashire cheeses.
Mod R: Oh, yeah, ‘cos you’re from Lanc!
Mod H: I’m from Lancs.
Mod R: You’re a Lancer.
Mod H: That’s not-that’s not what we call it. Also fun fact! Lancashire/Yorkshire is where Neville Longbottom is supposed to be from.
Mod R: Really?
Mod H: Yeah, cos-
Mod R: He’s got-he’s got a northern accent in the movie, doesn’t he?
Mod H: In his hilariously abusive childhood, as well, he mentions getting dropped off Blackpool Pier, so-
Mod R: And of course…Harry mentions…train stations that I’ve been to.
Mod H: I still think that’s so ridiculously redundant, having to go all the way down to King’s Cross and then all the way back up to Scotland.
Mod R: Yeah, like-why don’t you just fucking Floo Powder it, you know?
Mod H: What if you already live in Scotland?
Mod R: Yeah, what does Minerva do?
Mod H: I mean, I assume Minerva just kind of stays there.
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: Although I think that is at least partially based on the childhood assumptions that teachers live at school. But in Hogwarts’ case it might actually be true! Anonymous asks, ‘'Tbh I legit expected you guys to be a shitpost account where literally nothing makes sense and it's the most ridiculous thing ever but half the things you post make Sense and ????'
Mod R: Yeah, um-the reason behind this is that anybody – and people have literally made robots to do this – can be like ‘the Marauders Map but it has a big dick’, and like-
Mod H: And we do make posts sometimes like that, that’re just like words and nonsense, but-
Mod R: But like, it loses its charm pretty quickly.
Mod H: Yeah, I-I think part of the reason we’ve had as much staying power as we’ve had is because we don’t actually make-
Mod R: We’re not actually shitposts.
Mod H: We make jokes, we make observations, like some of our posts…
Mod R: It’s observational humour.
Mod H: But some of our posts are just like, things we wanna talk about.
Mod R: What if Dobby had a big dick, you know.
Mod H: And sadposts. I-I do get a lot of joy out of making sadposts, I think most if not all of them have been mine.
Mod R: Yeah, we drain the happiness out of people.
Mod H: I-I enjoy this. I enjoy your suffering. I’m sorry.
Mod R: fangirlsneedmorebooks.tumblr.com says, 'What would you do if you were confronted by a hippogriff/dragon combo?' Poo myself.
Mod H: Probably die.
Mod R: Yeah, like, die. I’m not a wizard, I’m a muggle.
Mod H: Probably get killed by it.
Mod R: Yeah, I would die. fictionale934.tumblr.com said, 'When did you start this blog?'
Mod H: July the 6th.
Mod R: We started with my first post, ‘I name you after the two bravest men who tried to eat me, Aragog Student Loans’
Mod H: That’s still-I’m so glad we picked that one for the first one.
Mod R: And then your first one, which is my favourite one of yours ever.
Mod H: ‘Ah yes. Werewolf Werewolf and his boyfriend, Dog.’
Mod R: 'Other than this blog, what's the biggest way HP has impacted you all?', asks ronweasleywrites.tumblr.com.
Mod H: That’s an interesting question, actually.
Mod R: And also I’m gonna-I’m gonna have a bit of a segue here, people seem to think a lot of people run this blog?
Mod H: Yeah! They seem to think either there’s a lot of people-
Mod R: There’s two and a half.
Mod H: Or like one person. There’s two of us, who are the main-Mod K, who is a friend of mine, who I know in real life, and Roxie only knows from the internet-you’ve met, you’ve met once.
Mod R: The moniker ‘Mod K’ has always pissed me off, because we chose Mod R and Mod H because H and R-so like my first name begins with R, Roxie, and your last name which we’re not gonna say begins with H.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: And also I’m in Ravenclaw, you’re in Hufflepuff. There isn’t a house that begins with a K!
Mod H: I think-that’s, that’s part of the rationale, though, because she’s not a main mod, she doesn’t get a main mod name.
Mod R: That’s true.
Mod H: She’s also a Slytherin, fyi.
Mod R: Is she?
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: Well, that makes sense.
Mod H: But um, what’s the biggest way HP has impacted us?
Mod R: Um.
Mod H: You have a good one for this, so I’ll let you go first.
Mod R: So, um, I’m autistic, a lot of you know this. I’m very very involved with autism advocacy and autism rights. I never really found many characters to relate to as a child? And, upon rereading Order of the Phoenix for the first time as an adult-because usually I just read my favourite ones, and Order of the Phoenix isn’t really my favourite book, and it’s quite long, and I’ve got a really bad attention span, so I never get through it. But this one time, I was reading it, and I got to the bit where Luna was first introduced, and just the way she was described was very similar to my experiences as an autistic teenage girl, and I just started crying and crying because for the first time I’ve seen a character who was like me. And I’ve met other people who’ve said the exact same thing about when they saw Luna in Harry Potter. And I think that’s the way it’s impacted me the most apart from, like, my wallet.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: Like, I’ve bought a lot of Harry Potter merch.
Mod H: For me, I think, one of the biggest ways Harry Potter impacted me was-when I first came to secondary school…because I am a very nerdy, introverted person, I don’t really-I’m not good at like talking to people and making friends and stuff, and…I can’t remember exactly how it happened, but it definitely helped me bond with Megan. I’ve been friends with her for like ten years plus, now, and that was one of the things that we definitely built our friendship on, being a couple of dorks who really liked Harry Potter a lot, so like that’s a nice thing it’s done for me. sadie-bug82, that’s sadie dash bug 82, asks ‘What’s your favourite book and how many times have you read it?’
Mod R: Fuck if I know.
Mod H: I mean, is this like Harry Potter book?
Mod R: I don’t think it’s Harry Potter book.
Mod H: Or book forever?
Mod R: I’ve definitely listened to – because again, I’ve got a bad attention span – I’ve definitely listened to the audiobook of Philosopher’s Stone, which isn’t my favourite book, like a dozen times maybe. And my favourite book would probably be Prisoner of Azkaban, which I’ve listened to maybe five or six separate times.
Mod H: What about your favourite non-HP book?
Mod R: Fuck if I know, though. I really like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but I haven’t read that in years.
Mod H: I mean, for me, as I’ve already said, Order of the Phoenix is my favourite Harry Potter book. My favourite non-Harry Potter book?
Mod R: The Book Thief.
Mod H: The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.
Mod R: I knew that one!
Mod H: We talked about it the other day. If you have the time, and access to a copy-
Mod R: Don’t watch the movie.
Mod H: Don’t watch the movie. The movie’s not a good adaptation. Go read the book, because it’s amazing and it changed my life, I swear to God.
Mod R: ‘I have so many questions’ says – what, what?
Mod H: takes-one-to-no-one-cares, with dashes between each word.
Mod R: Ah, right. I get it, I get it. Takes one to no one cares, that’s clever. 'I have so many questions! I'd love to know how y'all’ [in American accent] ‘I’d love to know how y’all met! J’
Mod H: How-how did we meet?
Mod R: Um…
Mod H: Let’s…
Mod R: We’re actually at the place we met.
Mod H: Yeah, this is…
Mod R: Four year anniversary.
Mod H: Four year anniversary, high five.
[High five noise.]
Mod H: We met…in this place, and for those of you who are-
Mod R: I don’t really wanna say what it is, because it’s like a bit personal.
Mod H: Yeah, but for those of you who are not listening in at the window right now, it’s like an event that we went to a couple of times.
Mod R: Yeah, it’s like-it’s not like a convention or anything, it’s nothing embarrassing, it’s just a bit personal.
Mod H: Yeah, we’d just rather not go into it.
Mod R: We met, because, um, a girl who I’d met the year before, who I was in a relationship with for a year, she’d just broken up with me, because she didn’t feel it was right, and I was like ‘yeah that’s fair’, but I was still very sad about it, you know, and I saw somebody with a Homestuck t-shirt across the room.
Mod H: And that person…was Albert Einstein. Funnily enough that was actually the second time that had happened within like ten minutes, cos – this is the way I tell the story – I was just kinda hanging round waiting for the thing we were at to start and two girls came over to me like ‘hey, I like your t-shirt’, you know, ‘is that a Homestuck thing?’ and we got chatting, and that wasn’t Roxie, and then another couple came along and that was Roxie, and we have been talking ever since, basically.
Mod R: We had a pun-off.
Mod H: We had a pun-off, that cemented our relationship. I have a vivid memory of sitting in a restaurant with my family, texting you bad puns under the table.
Mod R: 'Hope I'm not being annoying & clogging up your asks' You're not, anonymous. 'But what are your opinions on the drama of OoTP with Molly and Sirius duking it out on 'Who is the Less Problematic Replacement Parent for Harry?' Got those receipts. ‘I'm personally on Team Molly Needs To Chill, but my friends are on Team Sirius Is Literally A Criminal Who Thinks Harry Is James.' Okay so, the criminal bit isn’t so bad because, by definition, Molly is also a criminal.
Mod H: Also like Sirius was imprisoned for a crime he literally did not commit, like we know this as a fact.
Mod R: Molly is married to somebody who was infiltrating the government. That’s a fact. And she has children who are infiltrating the government-
Mod H: She was also, herself, involved in a resistance movement against the government, like, they’re criminals the same.
Mod R: And like even before Deathly Hallows this is the case.
Mod H: Yeah, yeah.
Mod R: But the issue is Sirius does think Harry is James. The problem with their relationship is both Harry and Sirius are using each other as a replacement for James.
Mod H: Yeah, absolutely. And like in that situation, Sirius cannot encourage Harry to be like James. Sirius shouldn’t encourage Harry to be reckless, because he in some-because he is in some genuinely dangerous situations.
Mod R: And don’t get me wrong-not only, when we’re saying James we don’t just mean Dad James, as a replacement for Dad James, we mean as a replacement of the cool lad James that Harry would have wanted to be friends with.
Mod H: Because like-
Mod R: However, right, Harry is using Molly as a replacement for Lily, or James, like gender doesn’t matter I guess-
Mod H: Generally parents.
Mod R: Here’s the thing – Molly isn’t using Harry as a replacement for a dead child or Percy or anything, even though Percy does leave, she’s just a mum, and she feels-she has a profound motherhood for Harry.
Mod H: I mean, I think my personal opinion lies somewhere between the two because like-
Mod R: Oh sure.
Mod H: All of the things we’ve said, but in the context of that specific scene, Molly was withholding information from Harry that was relevant to him, and it’s not like that’s ever been a problem in Harry’s past before, am I right?
Mod R: And Molly’s done some shitty things before to Hermione, in er Goblet of Fire-
Mod H: Personally I really like that scene, just for showing like the depth of Molly.
Mod R: Everyone sins, yeah, she’s a very deeply written character.
Mod H: None of these people are perfect, like her heart’s in the right place, she’s just sometimes overprotective.
Mod R: And same for Sirius! But-
Mod H: The other way.
Mod R: Even that, but-he’s missing out on this context of Harry’s life, and Molly said this, like this obviously isn’t Sirius’ fault but, and the ways she said it kind of implied that it was, but Molly saw the later years of Harry’s life. Sirius was introduced very late into Harry’s life.
Mod H: Sirius has known Harry for two years at this point, Molly’s known him since basically the start of when we first see him, at age 11.
Mod R: Like, as far as the wizarding world is concerned, yeah.
Mod H: And that does make a difference, and that’s not Sirius’ fault obviously.
Mod R: And of course Sirius has technically known Harry longer, but it’s not the same.
Mod H: I also think the problem, as well, is that Sirius is still in that mindset he was in when he was like twenty one. Because he’s lost all of these years to Azkaban and he basically comes out and there’s James 2.0. So naturally he goes back to the way he was acting.
Mod R: Like he comes out and there’s this kid who looks exactly like the boy who died, his best friend who died, and probably the man he loved who died. Give me that story instead of Snape loving Lily, by the way, give me that!
Mod H: JK Rowling! But yeah.
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: But thanks for that question, anon, because that was really interesting to talk about.
Mod R: Now, here’s a question responding to one of our posts, anonymous asked, ‘But was there anything specifically saying Voldemort /wasn't/ wearing a party hat?’ Uh…
Mod H: Technically no.
Mod R: There probably is actually.
Mod H: Yeah. ‘The light glimmered off his shiny bald head’.
Mod R: Yeah, exactly, lines like that, and also he can’t wear it under Quirrell’s turban.
Mod H: Oh. What if Quirrell was wearing a party hat, like at Christmas?
Mod R: Well it wouldn’t be a party hat, it’d be a Christmas hat.
Mod H: Okay. Like, Dumbledore’s birthday party-
Mod R: Also, bringing in some very very-
Mod H: Oh, here we go.
Mod R: Minute lore of Harry Potter – they don’t have Christmas cracker crowns in the wizarding world-
Mod H: That’s true, that’s true.
Mod R: They have regular hats that come out of crackers. And actual mice and stuff, and explosions.
Mod H: But they could’ve-I really wish they’d brought that in the movies, to be honest.
Mod R: Oh, fuuuuuuuck.
Mod H: That scene would’ve been so good.
Mod R: So goooood! antifacistmutsuki says, 'what are yall hogwarts and ilvermorny houses and wands' Hogwarts are Ravenclaw.
Mod H: And Hufflepuff.
Mod R: And Ilvermorny, fuck off I don’t care.
Mod H: I remember I got the Hufflepuff of Ilvermorny.
Mod R: I was like-I was really interested and then I saw the name and was like, I don’t care anymore. Thunderbird, that’s what I remember.
Mod H: I can’t remember my wand. I think mine was laurel?
Mod R: kimpossibleandme said 'Can I become a mod on here?' No. Sorry. We don’t take admissions. We don’t take submissions-we don’t even take submissions, you can’t be a moderator.
Mod H: We’ve made it a policy from the start that we only post posts that we make ourselves, or sometimes that our close personal friends do. It’s not really-it’s not anything against you.
Mod R: And when we say close personal friends, we’re not even saying favouritism, it’s like someone’s come up to us and said ‘hey, here’s a thing’ and then we’re like ‘can I use that as a shitpost’.
Mod H: Yeah, often that is the case, or like we’re talking about it or something like that.
Mod R: So no, you can’t be a mod on here. Sorry. Uh. Anonymous said, ‘I like my gilrs’ not girls, gilrs ‘how I like my Dumbledore. Headmasters.' Okay! Let’s leave.
Mod H: Let’s leave.
Mod R: I didn’t need to know that. Um, ihazgiantcheezburga.tumblr.com, that’s haz with a z, cheez c-h-e-e-z, b-u-r-g-a, ‘Draco Malfoy was a Mary Sue.’ No he wasn’t.
Mod H: No, not really.
Mod R: That’s like, done.
Mod H: Not at all, actually.
Mod R: Here’s your Harry Potter advice segment! ‘Draco Malfoy was a Mary Sue’ No, he wasn’t.
Mod H: No.
Mod R: He had many character flaws. He was incredibly rich…Harry Potter was a Mary Sue, absolutely.
Mod H: I mean, the concept of a Mary Sue-
Mod R: Is bullshit, it was just misogyny, wasn’t it. It was just, here’s a female character that I don’t like because she’s got so many-
Mod H: Well, no.
Mod R: People say that about Rey from Star Wars, and what they mean is that she’s as good at the Force as Luke was.
Mod H: The-the original meaning of Mary Sue though was a fanfic character who was impossibly perfect and probably dating Captain Kirk, or whatever.
Mod R: Me too.
Mod H: And that slowly just sort of became a character who I think is too perfect regardless fo anything-
Mod R: Well, Harry is a bit too perfect, he’s got a lot of character-
Mod H: He’s got a lot of flaws, like-
Mod R: He’s got a lot of those things that people in fanfics give them, like you don’t even need to give Harry an immense fortune for your, like, Bastard King fic, because he’s already got that, you know, he’s already got-
Mod H: Where he’s a secret Pureblood king, well…
Mod R: pixycaterino says, ‘Have y’all’ [bad American accent] ‘Have yall ever cosplayed? oh anD WHAT ARE YOUR WANDS’ We can’t do the wands one. I don’t know!
Mod H: We…yeah.
Mod R: Like, everyone’s like ‘what are your wands’, it’s not a question like ‘what’s your MBTI type’ or ‘what house are you in’.
Mod H: ‘What sign are you.’
Mod R: Or like ‘What’s your God Tier’ in Homestuck, or like what Pokemon Go team you’re on. It’s not like that, it’s like what piece of fucking wood do you use to cast magic, oh wait you don’t because you’re not a fucking wizard and you don’t have one of those. Like, Houses are sorted into-like, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry to whoever asked this, I’m not angry at you, I promise. But like people ask this question, and I don’t get it because there isn’t any like basis – there might be, like, subtext but there is no basis like personality and intellectual traits on what kind of wand you get. There isn’t houses-so like, if you’re very loyal, chances are you’re a Hufflepuff, if you’re very friendly, you’re loyal, you stick true to your friends, you’re probably a Hufflepuff.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: If you’re very brave, you’re courageous, you like justice a lot then you’re probably a Gryffindor. If you think things through, and you might not be smart but you’re like, you spend a lot of time thinking about things-
Mod H: Not like intellectual but you’re like wise, logical.
Mod R: Yeah, like you think things through, or you place a lot of emphasis on waiting things out then you’re probably a Ravenclaw, and if you’re ambitious, and like maybe you put the team before the person, then maybe you’re a Slytherin, you know.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: But for wands it’s just like ‘oh like I’m good at Transfiguration’.
Mod H: Like me and my friend both did the wand test, and we got almost identical results because we’re about the same height, age…
Mod R: Yeah, exactly.
Mod H: Physical appearance…it is pretty much a randomly generated thing, it’s not like deeply based. Like you could argue that the Hogwarts house quiz is based on actual stuff, but-
Mod R: I’m sure there’s some subtext to what wands characters get, like red wood means something in-
Mod H: Well are in characters, but the thing is like if you use the Pottermore-
Mod R: In the movies, in the movies, Dumbledore-uh, Voldemort’s looks like its bone. And of course that’s because he’s a deadly character, he’s very spooky, but like I don’t have that, I’m not an important character in the Harry Potter universe.
Mod H: Yeah, that’s the movie characters.
Mod R: I don’t have an arc.
Mod H: Like, the Pottermore wand test is just-
Mod R: How tall are you, what hand do you use, how many fingers do you have on your right foot.
Mod H: What?
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: As to the other, ‘have y’all ever cosplayed’…
Mod R: Yeah.
Mod H: Yes. We have.
Mod R: I’ve cosplayed as…I mean, I wore Ravenclaw robes last time I went to a convention. Other than that, I’ve cosplayed Chell from Portal, Roxie Lalonde…who have you cosplayed?
Mod H: I’ve cosplayed Jane Crocker from Homestuck.
Mod R: That was by accident, wasn’t it?
Mod H: No, I did it deliberately once. Booker DeWitt from Bioshock-
Mod R: That was good.
Mod H: And Doctor Linksano from Atop the Fourth Wall, which-
Mod R: Yeah, well that’s awful, that’s awful.
Mod H: For anyone in our audience who knows what that is…
Mod R: Hit me up.
Mod H: Hit me up. Cos, guys. Guys.
Mod R: brighterthantherain said 'I'd love to see some the MBTI types as x posts' Well, here’s the thing. No?
Mod H: No.
Mod R: Like, I’m sorry, we don’t mean to be rude.
Mod H: That takes a lot of work, that’s the only thing as well.
Mod R: If we sound rude, we’re just trying to be funny, and honestly we’re sorry if we offend people. Um, but like, it takes a lot of work-I don’t really understand all of the MTBI types.
Mod H: No.
Mod R: And also people are more likely to call you out for that kind of thing?
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: People will be like ‘oh you don’t understand the MBTI things’ like no I don’t! I didn’t major in Psychology!
Mod H: Like, that would take a lot of time and effort and dedication just for one post, which we don’t currently have, or-and we definitely don’t have the motivation to do all that research.
Mod R: ‘Surprise beautiful person!’ says anonymous. ‘Once you get this, you must put it into at least 8 people’s asks (anonymously) who deserve it. If you break the chain, nothing bad will happen, but it’s nice to know that someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. Help spread anon love, not hate! Love you. <3’ Thank you! We appreciate these-we never pass them on.
Mod H: We don’t pass them on.
Mod R: I never pass on these.
Mod H: Yeah, my days of passing on stuff like this are long gone.
Mod R: I’ve never done them.
Mod H: I did a while back.
Mod R: Nuh uh. Um, this is an interesting question, anonymous said – and they’re asking this as if we’re some like, we’re the figurehead of Harry Potter, which is really nice.
Mod H: Like we have any say in it.
Mod R: We’re JK Rowling. Anonymous said, ‘Idk if you can answer this but, can exist a three headed dog's patronus?’ Yes, probably.
Mod H: Probably.
Mod R: Somebody-I read on the wiki somewhere that somebody I know historically had a giant as their patronus.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: So like, a three headed dog isn’t that unlikely. Like, wolves can be. A werewolf can be.
Mod H: Like, a three headed dog is a creature in the Harry Potter universe.
Mod R: Anonymous said, ‘are you a feminist?’ Actually, I hate women. I fucking hate them. No, we’re feminists, yeah.
Mod H: Yeah, I-I think we’d identify that way.
Mod R: Pretty much. If anything I wouldn’t want-the only reason I wouldn’t want to identify as the label ‘feminist’ is because we have some views so far left wing that even feminists often disagree with them. And that’s a particular thing, like because I’m a trans woman, there’s a whole huge sect of feminists – and I’m not generalising – there is a huge group of feminists who exclude trans women called trans exclusionary feminists, there’s a bunch of transmisogynistic feminists who think trans women don’t deserve a place in feminism or anywhere belonging to women. Which is one of the only reasons we wouldn’t want to label ourselves feminists. But if someone was like ‘oh feminism’s about this, like, only these kind of people can be feminists’, I’d be like, ‘I’m a feminist and that’s wrong.’ Like I use that label sparingly, but when I need it. And I don’t not use it because I’m embarrassed, because I tote my beliefs strongly.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: freaki, with an I as in f-r-e-a-k-i, freakithechaos said ‘uh.. hello! *waves awkwardly*’ That’s cute. ‘uhm.. I'm not sure if this was discussed already but, why doesn't Umbridge love McGonagall? I mean, Umbridge LOVES cats and McGonagall's animagus is a cat ... so she basically IS a cat, isn't she? o.o’
Mod H: I mean, that’s not quite how that works.
Mod R: That’s not really how that works.
Mod H: I mean, cos Umbridge represents all McGonagall hates-
Mod R: Because Umbridge isn’t just a furry!
Mod H: And vice versa.
Mod R: McGonagall’s meant to be Umbridge’s foil, she was portrayed as that.
Mod H: Or, well, the other way round, because Umbridge was introduced later, but you know.
Mod R: Well, like, I mean, as the villain.
Mod H: Yeah, I know what you mean.
Mod R: Like, Dumbledore is not Umbridge’s foil – I think narratively, that’s one of the reasons they get Dumbledore out of the picture?
Mod H: Umbridge is basically evil mirrorverse McGonagall, like-
Mod R: Yeah, yeah.
Mod H: McGonagall gone completely wrong.
Mod R: And this is literally true in the Cursed Child, like, Cursed Child spoilers coming up here.
Mod H: That is quite interesting.
Mod R: In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Minerva McGonagall is the headmistress of Hogwarts, but in – again, spoilers coming up so like skip forward – but in the alternate universe, Umbridge is the headmistress, and she is, like, she has very little regard for but great interest in Scorpius, whilst the opposite is true for McGonagall, where she actually goes out of her way to not be interested in order to maintain Albus and Scorpius’ relationship, mainly because she’s seen generations of Potters falling in love and not getting their way. Um, anonymous said, ‘I always see yall’ [American accent] ‘using ur powers of being a popular blog with lots of followers’ I always do that with y’all, by the way, I’m not just doing that for a random reason, ‘and high visibility for good. thanks A+ keep up the good work’
Mod H: Thank you!
Mod R: Thank you, we really appreciate it.
Mod H: We were a bit iffy at first, about like starting to post more politics and signal boosts and donations and stuff, initially at least, but we basically decided that we’ve got a lot of followers, we can’t really not. We’ve got an obligation to, in this political climate.
Mod R: Another thing is – we get a lot of questions like this a lot, and we don’t answer them, and it’s not because we don’t like them. We love them.
Mod H: Yeah. They fuel us!
Mod R: Yeah. One, we don’t want to tote how great people we are. It’s quite narcissistic to be like-cos we get plenty of people who are like ‘fuck you’ as well.
Mod H: Yeah.
Mod R: Like, it’s not often, but there are people, but like whatever, you’re you, I don’t care. But like one, we don’t want to clog it up with that. Two, we want to keep relatively interesting asks being put out, compared to like ‘ah you’re great!’ ‘ah you’re great!’, again which is a bit narcissistic.
Mod H: Usually, the asks we answer are like admin-related, like we’re introducing a new tag or whatever, or interesting questions, or occasionally like funny things that pique our interest.
Mod R: Yeah, and um the third reason is, um, we like looking at them!
Mod H: Yeah!
Mod R: Like, our inbox doesn’t fill that fast, we don’t get dozens of asks a day, we get a couple-
Mod H: We get a fair amount a week, I’d say.
Mod R: We get five a week at least.
Mod H: Yeah, about that, on average.
Mod R: But-but when stuff happens, we get dozens.
Mod H: Yeah, when we ask for asks or when it’s obvious that we’re answering them we get quite a few.
Mod R: Yeah, yeah, so like we like seeing them! So when we refresh our inbox, if there’s nothing new in there, we get to see that one again and that’s nice. 'Someday,' says anonymous, 'I would like to know who's ran this blog and their personal tumblrs.' Too bad.
Mod H: We’re telling you nothing about us!
Mod R: I might eventually reveal mine, Mod H is not so keen.
Mod H: I don’t really wanna reveal my personal tumblr just cos, like-some people who follow me can probably guess because I make it quite obvious on my personal. But there’s about like five people I actually know on there.
Mod R: Mine’s pretty easy to work out, if you’ve got all the clues, which-all the clues are on the blog, if you go back far enough and look through all the tags…
Mod H: I think if you specifically went sleuthing through the blog to find out who we were, you probably could find that, with a bit of-
Mod R: And probably like, our close friends as well, from the beginning.
Mod H: Yeah, like our close friends and people we know.
Mod R: Luckily, a lot of the first posts – this wasn’t an intentional effort, but we’ve reblogged them in events and stuff, ‘hey look here’s our first post’ and we’ve washed out all the original reblogs which would have been to ours and our friend’s blogs, to promote the blog. Anonymous said ‘ALEXANDER HAMILTON!’ I don’t understand that.
Mod H: I probably made-I’m the one who’s seen Hamilton – well not seen it, I’ve listened to it.
Mod R: You’re going to see it.
Mod H: I’m going to see it!
Mod R: Lucky shit.
Mod H: I’m quite excited about that! I got really lucky with that.
Mod R: Okay, so, anonymous said ‘They do. It’s called Hogsmeade.’ So, like, I’m sure this was a response to a post, but here’s the thing – we don’t know what post this was a response to because we make ten a day.
Mod H: And by the time your ask has come in, it’s like a day later at least.
Mod R: From context of another ask, I think it’s–did we have a Starbucks, that Starbucks hasn’t opened a-
Mod H: Possibly. It might have been something along those lines, I can’t remember. I know that is a specific one, but I can’t remember what it was.
Mod R: Because someone asked us another one about magical instant coffee. Shout out to you, authoraiya. 'Which ships do u ship? like either canon or noncanon xx' Uh, all of them.
Mod H: Well, not all of them.
Mod R: Scorbus, sort of, but like also I don’t like shipping kids. Like I wish that they would-
Mod H: In a very-
Mod R: Have gotten together. I wish that Credence would have gotten a boyfriend. Because I think he was coded gay in Fantastic Beasts.
Mod H: I mean for me, erm, I don’t really ship generally. I ship Wolfstar kind of, Scorbus kind of-
Mod R: Wolfstar-well, I think I ship Wolfstar, a lot.
Mod H: Ginny and Luna.
Mod R: So that’s all the asks that we got, and a couple more.
Mod H: And a few more that we found from the archive.
Mod R: I’m gonna, just like the McElroys, I’m gonna leave you with another ask. Anonymous says, ‘What’s with y’all and micropigs though?’
Mod H: And with that, we’re out.
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im not sure if this counts as a request or not and you can absolutely delete it if it does but... if im not mistaken mod twogami has a fondness for broadway so... could they recommend any shows? i've been trying to get into more shows and such...!
It doesn’t count as a request! don’t worry, you’re fine! oh my gosh though I love Broadway SO MUCH I am SO HAPPY to make a list for you I LOVE talking about stuff I like!
one warning I should maybe give is that I tend to be more into modern musical theater, so the majority of shows I really like are from after like 2000 if that’s okay with you. I’d be happy to recommend some older stuff if you’d prefer, I’m just not as knowledgable about it. another warning: I am incapable of brevity. this list is way too long… i’m so fuckin sorry… i’m really really sorry.
comedy:
♡ the producers (2001). the show that really got me into musical theater. it also won more tony awards than any show, ever. about two broadway producers who try to create the worst musical ever, ergo hilarity ensues. maybe not the best pick if you’re uncomfortable with content that makes fun of nazis, but if it helps, the writer is jewish (and I’m jewish and don’t have a problem with it). there’s also some adorable gays, and a movie version that’s very faithful to the show, so that’s nice. you want the 2005 movie if you want songs (the 1968 movie isn’t a musical). also, if you like this, young frankenstein is a great show by the same creators with a similar sense of humor.
♡ the book of mormon (2010).two mormon missionaries go to uganda. absolutely hilarious. pretty crass though, and i’m sure problematic as hell (by the creators of south park, if that’s any indication), so be warned. but it’s just… such a fun time.
♡ a gentleman’s guide to love and murder (2014).a rare musical comedy that’s actually not that crass. about a man in edwardian england who learns he’s ninth in line to inherit an earldom, so he kills everyone in his way to the position. actually a very lighthearted comedy. bonus points for a love triangle that turns into a really cute poly triad.
♡ avenue q (2003).sesame street, but about issues faced by people in their mid-twenties: a kindergarten teacher tries to snag a boyfriend, a recent college grad tries to find his purpose, a gay republican struggles to come out of the closet, gary coleman is just kind of there. song titles include “the internet is for porn” and “everyone’s a little bit racist.” puppet sex. a good time.
♡ a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (1962).slapsticky, very clever, hilarious if you like roman history, funny even if you don’t. about a roman slave who wants to earn his freedom, his young master falling in love for the first time, pirates, soldiers, sex workers, a lot of stuff. the movie is very good. I’m also partial to the 1996 cast album because I love Nathan Lane.
drama:
♡ sweeney todd (1979).just… a masterpiece of a musical score tbh. about a barber who seeks revenge for his tortured past. people get baked into pies. if you haven’t noticed, i really like musicals that make light of murder (although i’m guessing you like funny media about murder too, since you came to a danganronpa blog to ask this?). funny, moving, dark, creepy, powerful. I’ve never actually seen the movie and don’t really recommend it from what I’ve heard, but a production of the show is on DVD with most of the original cast, and it’s definitely worth a watch. also, if you like this, i recommend p much anything stephen sondheim’s ever written. he’s a genius.
♡ spring awakening (2007).takes place in the late 19th century, but is very, very relevant to issues kids face today. covers stuff like the importance of sexual education, child abuse, the pressure placed on kids by school, and the confusion teenagers go through when discovering sexual desire. very heavy, but very beautiful (note: this is maybe the musical I know that is the most difficult to get a sense of the plot by just listening to the score, so I’d recommend maybe reading a plot summary or watching a bootleg or something. there was a cool production last year where a lot of the cast was deaf and it was bilingual in english and asl! idk if there’s a bootleg of that anywhere, but it was a good time). tw for rape, suicide, abortion, child abuse… yeah, it’s dark.
♡ next to normal (2009).about a family dealing with their mom’s mental illness, and covers stuff like how her life is affected by her illness, how fucked up the process of getting treatment is, and how mental illness affects her relationship with the people around her. I find it very realistic, very moving, and very relatable. of course tw for mental illness and suicide. i am dan goodman.
♡ natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812 (2012).just reopened on broadway! based on part of war and peace, so you’ll know the plot of war and peace and look really smart. about a woman who gets swept up in an affair while her husband is at war in 19th century russia. the plot isn’t really what’s interesting so much as the gorgeous musical score and really cool things they did with the staging / mixing the 19th century and the modern day.
stuff that’s a mix of the two genres:
♡ the frogs (2004).a comedy that gets more and more serious until it’s… not really a comedy anymore. dionysus and his slave go to the underworld to bring back george bernard shaw and make the world right again. shakespeare is there. hades is gay. was on broadway for all of like four months and is pretty damn obscure, but it’s SO GOOD, I promise.
♡ heathers: the musical (2014).another comedic musical about murder. I love comedies about murder. a girl befriends her high school’s popular clique and gets a sort of fucked up boyfriend. shit goes down. I feel like it does a very good job of representing what high school is really like (my high school experience, anyway), and is a good mix of funny and serious. heavy tw for suicide and mental illness (and briefly for eating disorders, but it’s just a couple of comments).
♡ matilda the musical (2010).based on the roald dahl book! about a little girl who is extremely intelligent, but is surrounded by neglectful parents and an abusive headmaster – so she fights back against them. what a genuinely fun, heartfelt time. great lyrics, super creative, and has a scene where someone eats a whole cake, which is always a plus and very relatable (note: im twogami, what were you expecting). tw for child abuse, but the musical is meant for kids, so it’s not very graphic.
♡ my fair lady (1957).thought maybe I should throw in some older stuff as well. early 1900s england, an upper class linguist asshole tries to turn a lower class flower seller into a “lady.” the movie is very, very good. is based on a very feminist play but was made into a slightly misogynistic romance for hollywood, so I’d recommend reading pygmalion if you’re unsatisfied with the ending (but it’s not like the movie doesn’t do its fair share of calling out higgins’s misogyny).
♡ 1776 (1969).also has a very good movie. about the founding fathers and the signing of the declaration of independence. maybe don’t watch this if you’re mad that hamilton is glorifying slave owners (note: I like hamilton, but I didn’t put it on this list because I’m kind of tired of it by now, and anyway I’m sure you know about it). a very good mix of funny and historically accurate.
anyway I hope you enjoy this list and can forgive me for… info dumping rlly heavily on u… love u, hope ur havin a good day, thanks for letting me talk about this. tell me if you end up checking out any of these shows and liking them! - Mod Twogami
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A New Life Chapter 2
Peridot and Lapis have been living together for a while. Their friendship has grown. Now it’s time for things to start changing.
Meaning that this chapter is just stuff in their lives changing for the better.
A few months have passed, Peridot’s hair has grown out a couple more inches. She stood in the kitchen holding an envelope with a cheque in it. The return address is of an attorney, it was from the lawsuit against her former landlord.
Peridot took in a breath and read the dollar amount.
“Well Lapis,” Peridot sounded a bit weepy. “With this cheque I can afford to move out. So I guess I should start looking for a place.”
Over the months Lapis had learned how to read Peridot. “Are you moving out because you want to or because you think you have to?”
Peridot didn’t respond.
“Peridot, what do you want to do?”
After some thinking Peridot replied, "I want to keep living with you, I enjoy your company.”
Lapis shrugged. "Well then, I guess you don't need to find a new home. I like having a roommate and you’re one of the better ones."
Sensing that Peridot needed a hug Lapis extended her arm. "Come here you sap."
Peridot accepted the hug.
"Thank you Lapis."
A couple days later as Peridot and Lapis watched TV Peridot had to bring up something important.
"Lapis, how would you feel about us having a dog?"
Getting a pet is a very serious decision so Lapis paused their show. "What's this all of a sudden?"
Peridot fiddled with her fingers. "My psychiatrist feels that an emotional companion animal would greatly help me."
"I'd be kind of a terrible person if I said you couldn't get your therapy dog."
"Well actually, it's not a therapy dog; a therapy dog helps its owner aid other people. An emotional companion animal helps its owner with their own emotional problems."
Lapis just blankly looked at Peridot as she explained the difference between the two. "So what kinda dog are you getting?"
"A havanese," Peridot replied with a smile. She then pulled out her phone and showed Lapis pictures of the breed. "They're really cute and cuddly and bred for companionship."
"Yeah, they are pretty cute," Lapis agreed.
They spent the rest of the evening talking about their future dog.
The day came for them to pick up Peridot's dog. The whole way home Peridot giggled and cooed about how cute the little brown havanese is.
She named him "Max" after a character from an obscure game she's played.
After they arrived at home Peridot excitedly showed Max all his things, where his water is, the kitchen where he’ll be fed and where the back door is.
When the tour and first playtime ended Peridot sat on the couch and the tiny brown furball took his place on her lap. With a smile Peridot started to pet her new companion.
“You seem to be liking your dog,” Lapis said as she sat next to Peridot.
“He’s so cute,” Peridot gushed for what felt like the millionth time. “And so soft too. Lapis, pet him! You haven’t given him any attention yet.”
“Alright, I’ll give him a little pat,” Lapis gave in to Peridot’s puppydog eyes and stroked Max’s head. “Yep. He’s soft.”
The feel of a dog didn’t really do much for Lapis, she’s always preferred cats.
Peridot didn’t really notice this however, she started to giggle and gave Max a kiss on the top of his head. “I’m so happy we got him. Thank you.”
“Why are you thanking me? Your therapist wrote the prescription; I just drove you there.”
Peridot frowned. “Well, yeah, but you didn’t have to do that.”
“Whatever, you help me with my issues I figured It’s the least I can do,” Lapis said with a blush.
“I guess, but I do still appreciate it,” Peridot then changed the subject. “Okay, so I think we should lay down some rules with Max.”
“Didn’t we do that before?”
“No,” Peridot replied. “We just talked about his feeding schedule and where to put his things.” After not getting any response from Lapis, Peridot continued, “We really shouldn’t give him table scraps, or if we do it’s just healthy stuff and in small quantities. We don’t want the little guy to get too fat or develop diabetes. We also need to walk him every day. I can do it most of the time so you won’t have to worry about it too much; but there might be days where I’m just not feeling up to it. And if you want, you can join us or take him on your own. Who knows, maybe you’ll enjoy going out for walks with Max.”
“That’ll be the day,” Lapis thought but she said instead, “yeah, sure. I’ll give it a shot.”
“Great,” Peridot was thrilled. “Okay, there are a few more things we need to cover~”
Peridot spent the next while explaining how to properly take care of Max.
Life with a dog was a bit hard for Lapis to adjust to. She never had a pet before and in her opinion dogs are pretty needy and loud.
But Max was a fairly calm dog. He hardly barked and when he did it wasn’t a yappy bark, he also mostly stuck next to Peridot.
The main annoyance was having to let Max out while in the middle of painting.
Max was pretty cute though... for a moppy dog.
And this was the happiest she’s ever seen Peridot.
Yeah, a pet dog is kind of a good thing.
One day Lapis walked by the washroom and saw Peridot infront of the mirror holding up some of her hair.
Lapis cracked a smile. “What are you doing?”
Disappointingly, Peridot didn’t jump up in surprise. “Oh, I’m just seeing if my hair’s finally long enough to have up and look decent.”
“So what’s the verdict?”
Peridot took a closer look in the mirror. “Hmmmm... barely.”
“Well, you keep primping, I’m taking Max for his walk,” Lapis gestured towards the dog sitting next to his leash. “He’s waiting so patiently.”
Peridot waved. “Okay, have fun.”
“Will do.”
After her walk with Max Lapis walked into the living room and saw Peridot sitting on the couch watching TV with her hair sticking up oddly and messily.
Peridot turned around and grinned at Max who looked unsure. Her smile fell. “What’s wrong?”
Lapis picked Max up and held him infront of her face then spoke in a silly voice, “My mama looks like a weirdo, I don’t know what to think.”
Peridot snorted and shook her head. “You’re using my dog whose job it is to make me feel better to make fun of me.”
“Oh please, you can handle a little teasing,” Lapis put Max on the floor then sat next to Peridot. “But seriously though, I’m saying this as a friend. Your hair’s a disaster, let me fix it.”
“It’s not that bad.”
“No, it is,” Lapis poked the burn that extends past Peridot’s hairline with her finger. “It’d be kind of okay if it wasn’t for this bald spot. Still bad though, just not a disaster.”
“Well that’s never going away; I have no idea how to work around it either.”
“You could always shave the sides off, just go with a mohawk. You might be able to pull it off. Well, sort of, you’re a huge nerd but you do have those body mods.”
Peridot made a face, “I’m kind of enjoying having a full head of hair again.”
“I think your next best option is to keep the sides flat, the way your hair’s sticking out unevenly is the main issue.”
“Probably,” Peridot agreed.
Lapis snickered. “So what were you thinking?”
Peridot sighed a bit too heavily then replied, “That I’d like to look like my old self again, even just a little. But you’re right, I can’t. I should move on and figure out something new.”
The change in tone took Lapis a bit by surprise, she thought Peridot’s choice in style was just her being her usual eccentric self. Lapis quickly hid her surprise, she felt that she’s never been any good at helping other people with their problems so it’s not worth trying. “I’m sure you eventually will figure something out, especially with me helping.”
“And how exactly will you be doing that?” Peridot asked with a raised eyebrow.
“By making fun of all your terrible attempts of course,” Lapis replied then stuck out her tongue.
“Gee, thanks.”
#Steven Universe#SU Fanfic#SU Lapis Lazuli#SU Peridot#Human AU#Purely platonic#Kujo Writes#Not Such a Bad Thing Universe
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