Love Blonda for being the softer twin. First few times watching the episode, I always saw Blonda as this more spitfire "I'm popular, I do what I want, don't ruin my makeup, lmao get owned you loser sis" type but she's... really not.

Wanda comes in hot and fiery, doesn't even say hello, literally challenges her sister to a duel to the death, and Blonda simply moves out of the way and says "No."

Blonda doesn't protest when her hair catches on fire, she gets wrecked by a meteorite, doesn't express anger when Wanda almost gets her fired... She spends all day with Timmy and Cosmo and doesn't get mad. The thing that sets her off is Jorgen calling her a bumbling idiot, and even then, she defends Wanda instead of defending herself. Doesn't even protest when Jorgen insults "Blonda" who is actually Wanda at the time, unbeknownst to him.

She doesn't reveal her identity or anything, even when he questions if she's really Wanda. She's not throwing around her popularity, even though Jorgen adores Blonda. Chances are high that Wanda would have gotten in serious trouble if her boss found out she'd bummed her godkid on her twin for a day, so kudos to Blonda for not throwing her sis under the bus (and not taking advantage of a fan).

She even tells Jorgen (in a surprisingly soft voice considering her body language in this scene) that he needs to promise to stop blaming Wanda for everything. Good on her for looking out at her sister, even though the last time she saw her sister, Wanda literally swung a sword at her head. Wanda did absolutely nothing to defend Blonda's identity, she straight-up almost got her fired. Blonda killed it with a day in a career she had no experience in, Wanda was tasked to sit in a hot tub and almost blew it. Lol.

The first time we even hear of Blonda, it's from Jorgen describing her as an actress who plays a stern character on TV. She has a few moments in this episode where it's blatantly obvious she's losing her cool - signaled of course by the shift in her "classy brand image" voice to her natural voice - but I feel like it's important to remember that she's... an actress. She's just playing a character.

Jorgen tells Wanda to be "more like Blonda" and set stricter rules for Timmy, but Blonda literally does not set even one rule for Timmy when she's in charge. She's godmother for a day and went into this with no instructions - to the point that she has to poof back and ask her sister what Timmy's and Cosmo's names are (Not that she even gets the question out successfully before Wanda cuts her off) - and her goal was just "I'm going to make this kid SO happy :)"

Yeah, the reason for that is presumably because she thinks all Wanda does is goof around, but it's still funny to think about Jorgen telling Wanda to learn from her sister and set boundaries and Blonda was like "... Wait, we're supposed to set boundaries on this job?"

And she did a great job keeping Timmy happy! Yeah, he did some dangerous stunts that made Blonda nervous, but she didn't snap at him until she was already upset from Jorgen yelling at her. Honestly Timmy told her he was firing himself out of a cannon from California to Australia, and when he brushed off her warning that it was dangerous, she was like "Um okay... Nice knowing you." That is NOT how you set strict rules with a godchild, Jorgen.

End of episode, Wanda still straight-up calls Blonda spoiled, then rubs the fact that Blonda has won no awards in her face. Brutal :( Blonda's experience this episode really went from a frustrating day at work to getting poked fun at on TV to chased by the paparazzi asking invasive questions about her love life to her sister swinging a sword on her to an exhausting day with a wild godkid to getting faked out with an award announcement to her sister calling her spoiled on TV. Geez.

Anyway, this was me taking another look at Blonda and how funny it is that Jorgen thought she would be a good role model for Wanda, but Blonda's idea of what godparenting was like turned out to be "Follow your godkid, gently make suggestions, but back down if there's a risk of them being unhappy. If they want rockets, jetpacks, and cannons, that's fine."

She is soft...

Characters from Fairly Oddparents, Part 2

chen (exo) - “the war” (2017)

Lethal company has rotted my brain. I walked into work and saw a crate of bottles on the floor and thought "Oh sweet bottles! That's like $100" before having to mentally step back and go "wait..."

Blonda, to Wanda: It’s hard having a sister who’s perfect... Blonda: But you'll get used to it.

//I don't have any reason for it in my own AU, or at least no reason to explore it, but I do like imagining fake names Porfy has used à la canon "Steve" and "Dave".

//I don't think he had any real reason to use them in the States though. "Porfirio Larkspur" is arguably a fake name, his "stage name" -- but it's very similar to his legal/original name of "Pofiriusz Królikowski", so it hardly counts.

//Only one I think I have had prepped for a while now is Jacenty "Jacek" Kwiatkowski -- something you could literally translate as Hyacinth Flowers.

//He's cringe like that.

If I had a nickel for every time a Seinfeld actor voice acted on a Nicktoon I'd have 4 nickels. Which isn't that many but it's weird that it's happened that many times right

30 Day Kpop Challenge

Day 21: a song from your favorite era

The Eve by EXO; The War Era

I know it kind of became a meme because the KoKoBop era felt like it went on forever, but it’s my absolute favorite, and 2017 was a happy summer for me in large part thanks to The War album. And the famous choreo notwithstanding, The Eve is a song I can listen to pretty much any time. That whole album is, really. Sometimes I’ll still go back and watch the individual teasers leading to the comeback. Plus many of the looks the guys had were STUPIDLY good! Like, obnoxiously attractive.

Repeat

13, 9, 15, 11, 5

I hope it's not too many. Repeat is my favorite fic of yours so I might have gotten a little bit carried away.

Thanks for asking! I'm glad you enjoy that one.

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130 Prompts #70 - Repeat - Read on AO3

#ridspoilers

Also contains massive Fairly OddParents show spoilers, but it's been 12 years since "Timmy's Secret Wish" so. y'know.

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13 - What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

I rarely listen to music while I write; I find it too distracting. If I do listen, then I listen to one song on repeat, and I usually have to already have listened to that song a few dozen times before I start writing something, so it's tuned out, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a song anyway.

However, I might put the song on while I cook or clean. Even if I don't listen to one during the writing process, when I post a chapter announcement on Tumblr, I like including lyrics from a song I associate with a piece.

One scene in "Repeat" depicts Cosmo's failed attempt to take a child under his wing. Jorgen interfered and swept the child off- a nod to Jorgen's future attempt to rip Poof himself away in the episode "Fairly Odd Baby."

"Repeat" is full of moments where Cosmo reflects on all the times things have been taken from him - including the memories he personally scrambled with his magic just so Jorgen couldn't take them from him first - and how he empathizes deeply with Timmy's fears of having his godparents ripped away.

This leads us to the final scene of this piece, where Cosmo grants Timmy's wish to freeze time, à la the episode "Timmy's Secret Wish".

The songs I associate most with "Repeat" are "Satisfied" and "Congratulations," both from Hamilton. These are not 1:1 plot matches, but I feel like the core themes are there (like memories, regret, sacrifice, and never feeling satisfied with what you have).

Specifically, I like to imagine that if Cosmo could go back in time, he'd warn his younger self that he'd never be satisfied if he tries to push too hard or "cut corners." Be patient, live for yourself, and let things happen when they will. Don't spend unnecessary centuries pining over someone at the expense of your own health and interests.

The line "I'd say 'I'm fine' (She'd be lying)" is a good fit here... Also, "Satisfied" doesn't just reflect Cosmo's fixation on memories in this piece, but it also fits Timmy's fear of letting go.

I LOVE "Timmy's Secret Wish" as an episode and how it paints Timmy as this abused, desperate kid who clings so hard to security and safety, he chooses to sacrifice the world and his chance at personal growth just to cling on a little longer. And he knows NOW that it was wrong, but back then he was just... scared. Timmy is such a character who's full of hope and desperation...

Anyway, "At least I keep his eyes in my life" is a great line for him here. Like, yeah- bro might've successfully frozen time for 50 years, but have you considered that I love him?

No matter how many times he wins Fairy World's favor, Timmy will never be satisfied with his laurels when there's always that threat that when he turns 18, he loses Cosmo and Wanda for good. Timmy is a good, good kid. But he'll never be satisfied with what little time he has left when Jorgen is forever taunting him.

[Cnt'd under the cut]

Cosmo's friendship with Blonda is one of my favorites in my work, even though "the main cast" aren't usually my focus, so it's not that obvious. In Frayed Knots, however, Blonda teeters back and forth trying to emotionally support both Cosmo and Anti-Cosmo, not to mention Wanda and herself on top of that - during high school and then an interspecies war - and I think it's funny. She has it rough.

"Congratulations" could either be Blonda and Cosmo having an argument, but it could also be Cosmo berating himself for some of his past secrets, and telling himself that no matter what, even if things get hard for him, he "owes it to Wanda" to do his best. Cosmo has a tendency to push himself, constantly trying to "make up for his past" and refusing to "burden others" by asking for help. He deflects a lot, but these two songs cut right to his core.

9 - Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

I think "Repeat" has the most alt versions of any 'fic I've ever written. I struggled a lot with deciding whether Cosmo, Poof, or Foop was the most fitting POV character in this one. There are several cut scenes (including the scene where Poof breaks his arm at the saucerbee field). In the end, I cut a lot and stuck with Cosmo as our POV character with just small Poof snippets.

I have a lot of scraps that depict Poof and Foop racing back in time to stop Cosmo from ever buying the car that Poof crashed in the first place.

I think that would have been a fun plot to follow, but every attempt I made at it just dragged things out and felt like it was getting farther from the core idea of "Cosmo's past" / "Cosmo's secrets." It also started tangling extra worldbuilding and plot points into this, and I just didn't like what was happening to my one-shot.

tl;dr - Overall, it just felt clunky, so I cut all of that out. But here's one of the scrapped scenes from this one:

“This is so illegal, this is so illegal,” Foop chanted as he and Poof raced through the timestream corridor. “Hey, you agreed,” Poof fired back at him. “If it’s so illegal, why do the Council let you keep timekeys on hand anyway?” “I stole them from my mom when she fell asleep watching the telly with me!” Foop threw his hands into the air, still clutching his keyring in one of them. “They’re silver-level keys anyway. We can only interfere with certain dates, certain places. If the Fairy Council have put anything stronger than a silver lock on the day we want, then I can’t help you. Are you sure it’s _[date]?” Poof couldn’t help but scoff at that. “Yeah, he’s only told me like a million times.”  Foop sniffed. “I just want you to realize that the only reason I’m accompanying you is to ensure you don’t do something peanut-brained in the past that will wipe us both out of existence. I have a limited supply of timekeys, so no detours. Poof? Are we clear?” “I suppose it doesn’t have to be the same date he got the car,” Poof mused, slowing his wingbeats. Up ahead, the hallway broke into eight paths in a cross like a wagon wheel. “Any of these dates will do. We could smash it or something.” “Are you listening to me?” “Huh? Oh, sure. No detours, got it.” Poof took another step down the hall, pointing to a to where it split ahead. “Foop, check it out. That one on the left there is glowing.” Foop frowned. He placed a hand to his wand. “So it is. Let’s stay far away from it.” “We should at least take a look.” Poof crept towards the crossroads, with Foop grumbling to himself behind him. The leftmost tunnel continued to glow white. As they neared it, Poof slowed. “Wait. I can sense someone down there.” “Charming,” was his counterpart’s dry comment. Poof tasted the scents in the air. “It’s a pixie.” “A pixie,” Foop repeated, wrinkling his nose. His ears went flat. His voice slipped into a whisper. “Wait. What time period is he from?” Poof whispered back, “I dunno. Does it matter?” “If he entered the timestream corridor after the Aspen Agreement between the Pixies and the Anti-Fairies was signed, then yes, that matters to me.” Foop leaned against the wall, crossing his arms. “What’s he doing? Can you sense that?” “Maybe… He’s right at the edge of my range. Hang on a sec.” Poof closed his eyes and leaned a little closer. He tongued the tip of his nose. “I… can’t tell.” He could, however, tell when Foop rolled his eyes. “I thought you were majoring in long-distance essential sensories.” “I’m undeclared.” Poof cupped his hands around his ears. “Huh. Weird. I can’t get through the field. There’s some kind of ripple or something around him.” “Oh, goody. That’s not horrifying.” “Yeah, well, whatever that bubble shield thing around him is, it’s not letting me lock onto his magic any further than letting me know he’s a pixie. Should we risk peeking around the corner? He’s about halfway down the hall. I think he’s facing the other way.” “Try harder. And don’t let him sense you back” Poof shifted his weight between his wings. “I don’t think ‘trying harder’ will solve anything. I am trying. Do you see my eyes glowing yet? Listen, I just plain don’t have enough power to break through. Must be a more dominant gyne. Do you want to give me a little more juice and see if we can pierce that aura he’s got?” Foop smacked him (lightly) on the cheek with the back of his hand. “I’d be feeding you your own magic, snazzlebrain.” Poof shoved Foop away with his hand and turned to stare at the glowing hallway. “Maybe he can help us.” “You know what? He might. Or, maybe he’ll pat us up for timekeys, rob us blind, and leave us to spend the next couple of centuries wandering the time corridor until someone gets us out.” Foop tugged on his sleeve. “So let’s go.”

15 - What did you learn from writing this fic?

I think one of the most important things I learned was to make my endings and/or my dramatic moments more clear. I remember people thought Cosmo died at the end of this one. He doesn't (Just exhausted from using magic so he collapses), but I like the ending the way it is, so I didn't want to mess with it too much.

I'm proud of myself for choosing (correctly, I think) to cut all the things I did. This piece needed to be able to stand alone without all those other plot points hanging off it.

I did get feedback that this style of moving between the present and the past was confusing even with the divider lines, so I don't think I'll do such a heavy flashback piece again, but I do like how it worked out here. Cosmo is a character with a foggy mind in canon and I like the way I portrayed him drifting in and out of his memories.

There are also moments in this story that come from other one-shots I had. I wanted to do a whole 'fic about postpartum depression Cosmo, but it was really a downer and wasn't going anywhere. It starts with the line "He lied when Wanda asked if the baby had started kicking yet," which I incorporated into a flashback of this piece. I think I made the right choice in combining it here, when there would be fluffy moments to balance it out.

I do personally headcanon Cosmo with postpartum depression and I might write something for it specifically, but I'm happy with how this worked. I really like the moment where Wanda asks Cosmo why he's worried the baby won't like him and Cosmo says "Wanda, I don't even like me." It's one of my core ideas for Cosmo and I like it.

11 - What do you like best about this fic?

I think I did a good job writing Cosmo's voice. He is a very difficult character to capture, especially since this piece was one of my first times writing him (and I think my first from his POV?) but I'm happy with how I did it.

I love the subtle hints throughout this piece that time hasn't been frozen (Yet), and that Timmy is older and moving on. I like how upset Foop gets when Cosmo wants to go back and freeze time... He's my little paperwork prince.

I enjoy Dusty's characterization. He's a mini Cosmo with his "Yay, bottomless breakfast!" during the pancakes scene and I think he's great. I enjoy Cosmo charming Jorgen into leaving Foop alone to go do something else, which is a nod to how skillfully Cosmo distracts Jorgen in "Abracatastrophe" by confidently telling Jorgen he needs to "scramble the fairies."

I like the subtle inclusion of Sparky. He's not being annoying or in the way (Just resting in the garden), but he has a nice place to live and he still has his funky personality.

5 - What part was hardest to write?

I would say that the hardest thing about writing "Repeat" was trying to figure out what it was about and what needed to be cut. There were so many directions this could have gone, several different POVs, and several plot points. I really had to cut a lot.

I think the piece also struggles with not having Cosmo backstory context (because we haven't gotten there yet in Frayed Knots), but I still think it's effective for this story. Cosmo's backstory is marked with secrets. The reader isn't privy to the details because he doesn't want anyone to know exactly what happened in his younger years.

Trying to strike that balance of giving that impression without totally frustrating readers is difficult. I think I did okay, although I wish I were closer to revealing stuff in Knots.

I hope to write a lot more for Origin and Knots in 2024. I'd love to finish them both by next December, but that probably won't happen, so hopefully we'll get close, at least. Then my Cosmo backstory shall be revealed...

Thanks for your interest!

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I can’t stress how much that I, as a kid, wanted Schnozmo and Blonda to get together. Like dude, they would have been perfect.

Wanda: You're an awful person.

Blonda: Maybe. but i'm rich and i'm pretty, so it dosen't really matter.

Instagram has finally figured out that I like Arknights, but keeps showing me ads from like, Dossolos Holiday lmao

Wanda: You're an awful person.

Blonda: Maybe, but i'm rich and i'm pretty. So it dosen't really matter.

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cosmo and wanda!! cosmo is taller than your average fairy in part to his von strangle genetics. he's also just.. really long lol. he's also a fan of patterned ties. wanda loves comfortable clothes + has a mole on the opposite side of her cheek from blonda. also her earrings are a gift from cosmo!