#do i think phoenix is british? no absolutely not
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idk if you've talked about it before, but what do you think of snucius?
thank you very much for the ask, anon!
i'm a big fan of it as a ship, above all because of the ways it can be used to subvert the expectations which might accompany it into something oddly beautiful.
by which i mean that the possibility of quite a manipulative snucius is actually implied by canon. sirius is absolutely suggesting something salacious with his comment in order of the phoenix about snape being lucius' "lapdog" - it's a reference to a practise called "fagging" [yes, you've read that right] traditionally understood to take place in elite, all-male british boarding schools, in which younger boys were expected to act as something akin to the servants of older ones. the expectation that fags [yes] would perform sexual favours was a fairly standard part of the whole phenomenon - and so, when sirius suggests that snape runs around being lucius malfoy's personal errand boy, he is evidently also suggesting that he bends over for the privilege.
and the idea that lucius has power over snape is suggested more broadly in canon too. the implication of the prince's tale is that snape was taken under lucius' wing as soon as he was sorted, and that lucius was the conduit through which he was groomed to become a death eater [he is also the conduit through which snape meets his death - voldemort sends him to fetch snape before he kills him]. that he supposedly relies on lucius' patronage is something draco malfoy is well aware of - when he suggests in chamber of secrets that lucius would support snape if he applied to be headmaster, he is doing so with the subtext that snape's appointment would be entirely contingent on lucius' position as chair of the governors and, therefore, that he would only be chosen because lucius would think him likely to run hogwarts how he would like to see it run - which suggests that this power dynamic wasn't just restricted to death eater meetings. and voldemort undoubtedly elevates snape to his right hand within the setting of malfoy manor at the start of deathly hallows - reversing that established power dynamic - as yet another "fuck you" to lucius after his fall from grace following the farrago in the department of mysteries.
but.
i think narcissa is telling the truth when she describes snape as "lucius' old friend". i think that something deeper than not wanting to piss off his main patron lurks behind snape's decision to protect draco. i think that there is a very credible case for lucius being the only person who actually knows the real snape, behind his mask, and his relationship with lucius being the only thing in his life which stands in contrast to the relationships which seem to define his life more profoundly [his relationships with dumbledore, voldemort, lily, and harry, for example].
you can do so much with lucius having to confront his friend having turned spy - whether snape lives or not. you can do so much with lucius - terrified and disillusioned - relying on snape's help to prevent voldemort's wrath descending upon him. and you can also just have so much light and campy fun with someone as posh and peacocking and lucius having a sallow goth boyfriend.
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━。゜✿ jily fic recommendations ✿ ゜。━
These fics are set in the wizarding world but aren’t necessarily canon complaints.
For reference, anything in italics is taken from the summaries on ao3.
I ain’t missing you at all (requires an ao3 account) by @blitheringmcgonagall
Set post first wizarding war. "Lily Evans disappeared just when the war with Voldemort ended. Nobody knows why she left. James Potter doesn't care. He hasn't missed her at all."
It reads like a character study. All of the repressed emotions are so well-portrayed that I could picture all their facial expressions and body language.
The dynamic between Lily and the marauders really illustrated how she wasn't just James' girlfriend - she was their friend too. I just wanted to give them all a hug.
Up In Arms by @mppmaraudergirl
When Lily jokingly tells her owl to deliver a letter to "the love of her life", i.e. Marlene McKinnon, her owl misinterprets the directive and, to her horror, her ode to James Potter’s arms lands squarely in his lap.
The banter in this one is so good that it made my friend fall back in love with jily's dynamic and read fics again
Evergreen and Pine by @tinyluminaryzombie
Lily Evans is stuck in a closet with Sirius. All Sirius wants to talk about is exactly what she's trying not to think about: James Potter.
Or: A seven minutes in heaven that's more like seven minutes of sweet sweet interegation ft. Lily and Sirius.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by @jfleamont
Lily's an overthinker, but fear not, James knows exactly what to say to cheer her up.
Because Lily being a stress smoker is canon (to me)
All The Things I Would Do also by @/ jfleamont
Lily can't stop thinking about James' hands.
Anything Leda writes is great so do yourself a favour and go read her works
I’ve Got My Hate to Keep Me Warm by @dizzy–bird
When a mission for the Order goes badly wrong, Lily Evans must spend the holidays lying low in the middle of nowhere. The rules: no magic, no visitors, and absolutely no Christmas cheer.
And the kicker? She’s sharing the safe house with Order darling – and rival – James Potter, who just happens to be the reason she’s in this mess in the first place.
Kat's poem from 10 Things I Hate About You
Hemispheres by @ohmygodshesinsane
James Potter and Lily Evans have set aside their schoolyard animosities for the sake of the Order of the Phoenix, but when they are enlisted to race Lord Voldemort across the world to prevent him from corrupting the very nature of death, tensions run high. In all manners.
Lily's characterisation in this one is so good
No One Knows Us by @annasghosts
As Fifth Year begins, Lily Evans is certain of a few things: she’s proud to be a Muggle-born witch, despite what Petunia might think; Severus Snape is still a loyal friend and whatever confusing feelings she has as she watches James Potter strut around the castle must be squashed because he’s nothing, but an arrogant toerag.
In which Lily gets the dynamic character treatment that she deserves.
51 Minutes to Change Your Mind by @sosohh
When Muggle-Born Oliver Wood becomes an extremely successful cyclist for the British Cycling team, both muggle and magical ministries have to come up with a plan to make sure all is fair. Enter James Potter and Lily Evans.
The Art of Self-Defense by cgner (on ao3)
Gilmore Girls AU in which "after seventeen years of single parenting, she now has to manage a persistent James, nosy villagers, and a son who's all too interested in joining the Order."
#for everyone tired of lily getting sidelined#this one is for you#jily#jily fic rec#jple#lily evans#james potter
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MC profile
Some info about my MC Chris Mongrel. Profile is under the cut.
Name: Chris Mongrel
House: Slytherin
Birthday: 24th November
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Demisexual, demiromantic
Nationality: British
Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Motto: Sink or swim
Wand: Cedar Wood, Phoenix feather, 12 ½" Length, Slightly yielding flexibility
"Whenever I meet one who carries a cedar wand, I find strength of character and unusual loyalty. The cedar wand finds its perfect home where there is perspicacity and perception. I have never yet met the owner of a cedar wand whom I would care to cross, especially if harm is done to those of whom they are fond." Olivander
A wand with this flexibility will initially resist new owners, but if the owner is persistent, it will warm up eventually. Wand owners with slightly yielding wands are often very kind and compassionate, but they may have some reluctance in trusting others since they possess a strong sense of skepticism.
Patronus: Dingo
APPEARANCE
Hair colour : dark brown
Eye colour : minty green
Skin tone : beige
Distinguishing features : freckles, scar over the left eye. Due to sleep deprivation, there are often dark circles under his eyes.
PERSONALITY
MBTI: INTP
Enneagram: 5w4 sx/sp
Four temperaments: Phlegmatic-melancholic
Strengths:
logic
creativeness
resourcefulness
resilience
quick-thinking
he can be a good listener
loyalty
he can notice patterns in close people’s behaviour and figure out when they are not okay by small changes in it
Weaknesses:
disconnection and tendency to get easily lost in thoughts
low self-worth
adrenaline addictiveness
absolute recklessness regarding his safety
prone to self-isolation and melancholy
trust issues
insensitive at times, especially when he’s absorbed in a new project/puzzle
Hobbies:
drawing (he likes to do sketches of anything he finds fascinating)
experimenting with magic, enchanting muggle artefacts (like making a fountain pen with everlasting ink, a self-sharpening pencil or a notebook with extension charm)
Amortentia (what he smells like to others):
cedar wood (smell of pencil shaving) due to his habit of making notes and sketches, and he finds muggle stuff more convenient for it
forest and fresh air (as a result of frequent flying and exploring Forbidden Forest)
wiggenweld potion (a side effect of being adrenaline addictive)
Favourite subjects:
Charms
Transfiguration
Study of Ancient Runes
Defense Against Dark Arts
Least favourite subjects:
Care for Magical Creatures (how can you deal with something that is, with rare exceptions, as far from being logical as it gets?)
Herbology (it’s just boring)
History of Magic (nothing wrong with history itself, but, gosh, Professor Binns’ lessons are such a waste of time! You can read everything you need to know in a book much faster)
Divination
When you are an adrenaline addictive introverted bookworm.
Childhood:
"Mongrel" isn't his real surname. When he was 11, Chris discovered himself at the doorway to a muggle charity school, a typical so-called bluecoat school in those times where orphans and kids from poor families lived and got educated (if they were lucky to get a place there). He didn't remember how he ended up there, how he got the fresh scar on his face, where he had lived before, who his parents were, not even his surname.
A local boy passing by mentioned to Chris that weird kids with mental problems would never be accepted to any school, where there's not enough space even for "normal" children, and the best place for them is living on the streets or in workhouses. Chris didn't know if it was true but decided not to reveal to anyone that he didn't remember anything, just in case.
The school's headmaster, a man with a strange, absent-minded expression (he was under the Imperius Curse), expected the new student to arrive that day. When Chris was asked his full name, he made up his surname promptly, saying the first word that crossed his mind. It was from the phrase the boy had told him, "Y'know, nobody wanna deal with mental mongrels like you."
A bit later, Chris realised that some snippets of his childhood were still tucked away in his memory: the precious and warm moments with his father, a muggle professor at Oxford University. Nevertheless, Chris didn't remember his name or what had happened to him. His dad sometimes spoke with him in a foreign language. For example, Chris remembered that ‘misha’ meant an affectionate version of the word ‘bear’.
Relationships:
★Before he arrived at Hogwarts (and some time after), he had been struggling with insomnia and nightmares, especially the repetitive ones about an unfamiliar (or not?) boy with cloudy eyes. The dragon attack was, of course, a shocking experience for Chris, but when he first entered the Slytherin common room, he was even more stunned to meet a person who resembled the constant participant of his nightmares, though 4-5 years older.
★Chris and Ominis didn't get along at first. Or, more precisely, Ominis was hostile towards the new fifth-year. So even when he had to mention Chris to Sebastian, for example, he called him anything but by name. He could say "that walking magnet for troubles", "your accomplice", "your new best friend" (with some extent of sarcasm in his voice) or "the neophyte". It took him a while to address Chris by name for the first time.
★Eventually, they became very close. During the 7th year, Ominis developed romantic feelings for Chris but kept it a secret for many years because he was aware of Chris' asexuality (which turned out to be demisexuality later). Chris realized that his feelings towards Ominis had evolved beyond platonic only in their late 20s.
★For quite a long time after Chris arrived at Hogwarts, he mostly avoided people, trusting no one. Sebastian seemed friendly, but Chris was sure that it was only because of his ancient magic abilities, which possibly were a key to saving Anne. It took him some time to realise that Sebastian was actually a friend, not just someone he was hanging out with due to win-win cooperation.
★Before Chris could finally open up to Sebastian and Ominis, his only friend was a wolf that he named Misha (because it was huge and more resembled a bear than a wolf). Chris stumbled upon him in the Not-So-Forbidden Forest. The wolf was seriously wounded after a fight with a dugbog but still tried to attack the boy, who wanted to help. Dealing with animals and beasts was really not Chris' cup of tea, and he was annoyed by the irrational creature, which did everything to prevent its own rescue. But eventually, they got along, Misha recovered, and he would even start running to meet Chris whenever he entered the forest.
★Chris became good friends with Amit. He admired Amit’s thirst for knowledge, enthusiasm for researching his areas of interest and the ability to say no to things that make him uncomfortable.
★Professor Fig was the first person Chris opened up to. One of the most profound regrets in Chris' life was his inability to muster the courage to call Fig 'Dad' while he was still alive. After Fig's passing, Chris withdrew further into his shell, isolating himself even from Ominis and Sebastian.
★Chris contributed to making the Keepers' Wand with Olivander, offering what little help he could. Later, during the 6th and 7th years, Chris worked part-time for Olivander, mostly as an errand boy. He really enjoyed the job and became interested in crafting wands. Olivander helped Chris get over Fig's death.
Some facts:
★Before Hogwarts, Chris had never participated in magic duels. In fact, he didn’t even know that magic existed, being very sceptical about it when Fig first told him about Hogwarts. But anyway, he had to hone his reflexes in the frequent scuffles at the charity school, full of boys with behaviour problems.
★No matter the weather, he often feels cold, which makes him favour sweaters. When he was a student, his clothes, like most of his belongings, were quite shabby due to his extreme lifestyle and orphanhood. Besides, even when he earned some money by running errands like potion deliveries and later working for Olivander, buying new clothes was always his least priority.
★Having all the extra assignments and schoolwork to catch up on, he always tries to push himself to the limit, sometimes neglecting to sleep. Due to his low self-worth, he feels he must do the maximum to prove to himself that he matters like others. He’s either the best or nothing. He doesn’t value his life at all, which, together with adrenaline addiction, makes risking it daily easier.
★He can forget to sleep but tries not to miss meal times as he was often hungry in the charity school. Not a picky eater.
★When he's nervous, he uses humour as a defence mechanism. While sometimes it helps to discharge tension, it can also be not appropriate at all.
★He can easily break the rules if the pros outweigh the cons.
★The Sorting Hat doubted whether to place him in Ravenclaw or Slytherin, but settled on the latter. Maybe the idea of sorting a guy with the last name ‘Mongrel’ into Slytherin of all places seemed funny to it, idk. But Chris can defend himself, anyway - he's used to it.
★He isn't the type of person who says "I love you." often, but even if he does, it may sound like,
"I think I love you."
"You…think?"
"Well, all the symptoms confirm the diagnosis".
★He had a hard time learning how to deal with emotions and feelings, mostly "postponing" them to process later. Though he rarely shows affection, it doesn't mean he isn't capable of it, but it takes him much time to open up to someone.
★He can be manipulative and cunning with strangers but becomes a different person with close people, trying to be as honest as possible. Able to admit when he's wrong. Prone to unnecessary self-sacrifices when it comes to those he holds dear.
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Alright, I’ve no time to properly write this because I only just came up with it while getting the messages, but…
BAKING HOT CROSS BUNS WITH ALFIE!
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“Alright, love, kitchen. Come on.”
Even though he’s Jewish, he can’t say no to a hot cross bun.
And he sure as hell isn’t going to deny you one either.
Then again, he doesn’t deny you anything. He is, however, getting better at telling you ���no’ when he starts to think he’s maybe overdoing it a bit.
ANYWAY, BAKING!
He has a recipe he uses in his bakery, which is the base for the hot cross bun loaf he plans to teach you.
Or, rather, make together.
He’s modified the recipe to make it unique by adding in orange zest and juice from the orange tree he’s planted in his yard and you’re now taking care of together.
And one of the foods that bind you.
Now, Alfie is very critical of what he sells at The Old Rum House. So, whenever his bakers make something that isn’t up to par with his standards, oh Lord…
It’s an enlightened tyranny, truth be told.
But he’s incredibly patient with you.
He’s continuously standing behind you. He’ll watch you mix the ingredients he’s weighed out and guide your hands when it comes to kneading and piping on the characteristic cross-like shape on top of the loaf.
His bear paws envelop yours, fingers entwined as much as possible and the skin of his calloused palms rough against the backs of your hands.
All the while, he’s cooing instructions and compliments in your ear. Occasionally, he’ll throw in a low chuckle he’s only too aware makes your insides melt and ignites that warmth between your legs he’s unashamedly addicted to.
But it’s in moments like this, with him being your shield against the world and doing something together, he simply wants to be.
Simply Alfie, a man head over heels in love with his dove ever since she first visited his business.
After all, not everything has to lead to sex. In fact, it’s when you’re basking in each other’s company doing something simple he’s at his happiest.
He’ll make a cup of coffee (or tea if you don’t like it) to enjoy while you wait for the loaf to proof. In the meanwhile, you’re watching the sea or, weather permitting, sit in the yard to soak up the sunshine.
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT allowed to handle the oven. Although you’re a fully grown individual, Alfie doesn’t want you to accidentally hurt yourself. In his eyes, the oven is a risk to your safety and well-being (despite, as you’ve insisted many a time, it’s not) and so he’ll handle the putting in and taking out of the loaf.
After dinner, you both sit down with another cup of coffee and/or tea to enjoy with a slice of the loaf. Snuggled up into him, you watch the telly (Alfie loves The Great British Bake-off, so he’ll happily watch along when it’s on) or pick up a book to read the night away like he tends to do.
Another shared passion.
Another moment together.
Tag list: @hecatemoon87 @buttercupsandboys @zablife @liliac-dreamer @babaohhhriley @rose-like-the-phoenix @potter-solomons @dreamlandcreations @wandawiccan60 @solomons-finest-rum
#Alfie Solomons#Alfie Solomons imagine#Peaky Blinders#Peaky Blinders imagine#Alfie Solomons x reader
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HP, the press and what is means to be a celebrity: meta
One of my favorite topics is the media and how that would play out in the Potters’ lives post-war. I touch upon this in the reaction to Albus and Scorpius getting together. There’s a media whirlwind after the photos of the two of them kissing are released.
(this is about my fic, the fates, which is about when Albus and Scorpius’ relationship is found out.)
A lot of HP fics take the tone of “the media is so intrusive and ruining everyone’s life” which is fair to an extent, and also the precedent JKR set with Rita Skeeter’s character in the original books. She’s clearly a parody of British tabloid writers. Celebrity is also explored differently across fics. In the books, Harry is very famous, and a politically important figure. He’s always in the newspaper! The Minister of Magic is coming to his Christmas dinner to court him! This notoriety would only grow after he defeats Voldemort. I see Harry as (this sounds so dramatic for talking about a fictional character) an Obama, Nelson Mandela, Malala type of celebrity. A political figure, a hero, a survivor but also a mainstay in popular culture. Plus, he’s married to an attractive Quidditch player, and I’m sure they captivate the world with their Posh and Becks, Taylor and Travis type love. This is all to say that I think the Potters are megacelebrities, and Albus is a celebrity child who would reap the rewards and face the consequences of that.
The American media landscape (while of course not without its flaws) is very different from the British media landscape, particularly the tabloids. British tabloids are crazy. It’s brutal. The Daily Mail is a disgrace to journalism. I think this culture would also bleed into Wizarding media.
However!!...the relationship between celebrities and celebrity media is symbiotic. The “royal reporters” at the Daily Mail aren’t actually doing any journalistic work (even though they should be… like tell me what the fuck is going on with Kate Middleton), they’re being fed stories by the palace. This absolutely happens in the US too. Publicists will feed stories to friendlier publications, like People. When “a source close to Taylor Swift” is telling Entertainment Tonight exclusively that Taylor and Joe Alwyn broke up, it’s her publicist.
What does this mean for the Potters? Well, they absolutely need a publicist, they need to be working with a PR team and they need a media strategy. It’s funny to think about that in the context of the books, but that dynamic was seen in the Order of the Phoenix. Harry’s “PR team” of Hermione and Luna got Rita Skeeter to write a story about Voldemort’s return. That’s political news, not celebrity gossip, but it shows that Harry knows how to use the media to get what he wants. While I don’t think as an adult he’d be doing the Wired Autocomplete interviews, he’d know how to navigate the press to further his agenda and protect his family’s image.
I think the Potter children would be pretty protected from the press. Rita Skeeter wrote in her 2014 Quidditch World Cup article that the Potters are wizarding royalty, which informs my opinion of how the mechanisms of their celebrity would play out. I wrote in the fates that Harry and Ginny release curated photos of their children in exchange for not taking paparazzi photos of them, a la the royal family. While Harry is more of a statesman-like celebrity, who has a carefully crafted image and is more likely to be seen at charity events, diplomatic summits and ceremonies, Ginny is different. As a Quidditch player she’s more of a traditional celebrity. She’s canonically popular but a guarded person. She strikes me as the type of celebrity who masterfully makes you think you know her, but you actually know nothing at all.
As for the kids, I think there would be a lot of media attention and interest in them. Would they lean into that, like North West, or shy away from it? I think they’d shy away from it, especially Albus. I think James would be more open to press attention.
The three press stories I wrote for the fates all reflect different types of celebrity news. There’s the traditional, factual Daily Prophet article, the Daily Prophet opinion piece, and the Simmering Cauldron radio show. The Simmering Cauldron is entirely based on Wendy Williams. Don’t tell me she wouldn’t do something exactly like that! The DP article is expository, and then the opinion piece is meant to showcase the discourse surrounding their relationship.
There’s a whole debate to be had about how celebrity children should be treated and the role of celebrities in our culture in general, and Albus and Scorpius are great vehicles to explore this.
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Homestuck race/ethnicity nationality headcanons
Since the beta/alpha kids are like pure white in the comics my brain immediately envisioned them as white and unfortunately it’s still the first place my mind goes but I do like to think most of them aren’t totally white
The trolls are based mostly on canon references, vibes, their lands in sburb, and their dancestors
John and Jane: white | polish/dutch | american (washington)
They’re white and nerdy sorry
Rose and Roxy: white/middle eastern | french/egyptian | american (new york)
I’m all for french lalondes but I also remembered Roxy’s planet had pyramids and decided they were Egyptian too
Dave and Dirk: white/east asian | spanish/japanese | american (texas)
The striders live in Texas so they’re most likely Spanish descent but they also reference Japanese culture so often that I just had to include it
Jade and Jake: white/pacific islander | english/tongan | american (phoenix islands)
The Britishness is from Jake and the polynesian part is from jade, they’re tan af
Aradia: latina/east asian | mexican/japanese | japanese
I know that canonically she’s supposed to be Japanese so she is part japanese but the dark curly hair, desert climate, obsession with death (day of the dead) made me assume she was Latina the first time I read the comic 🤷♀️
Tavros: latino/southeast asian | mexican/filipino | mexican
Man’s obviously latino and I made him Filipino because the actor rufioh is based off is filipino
Sollux: white/east asian | french/korean | canadian (quebec)
French because I immediately decided he was Canadian so french is statistically likely but he also has some Asian vibes so I chose the one country that’s split in two, obviously
Karkat: white | romanian/jewish | american (maine)
Karkat is super pale in such a way that his eye bags are extremely noticeable. He’s Romanian as a reference to vlad the impaler and all the castle ruins in Romania which remind me of his land. He’s Jewish for vibe reasons. Maine for lobsters and and crabs 🦀
Nepeta: white | english/german | american (tennessee)
Because I picture her with blonde hair (like a lions mane). She lives near the Smokey mountains where there are a small population of mountain lions and she’s a crazy wilderness explorer. Think of how cute she’d be with a Tennessee accent
Kanaya: south asian/middle eastern | indian/iranian | american (pennsylvania)
Vibes, imagine her in a sari or any other traditional Indian clothes, she’d be stunning
Terezi: white | greek/irish | greek
The scales, democracy, hello? Also she’s absolutely a red head
Vriska: white | greek/turkish | cypriot
Vriska is definitely white and she’s a pirate so instead of Caribbean (which is mostly black) she’s Mediterranean.
Equius: black | sudanese | american (kentucky)
He’s definitely black and he has locs like you wouldn’t believe. Kentucky because of mammoth cave as a reference to his land and also because of the horse derby
Gamzee: black/white | beninese/portuguese | brazilian
Hes definitely black coded in some ways but the icp are white sooo he’s both. I made him Brazilian for carnival
Eridan: white | scottish/english | american (california)
It’s giving imperialism and Silicon Valley simultaneously
Feferi: white/black | italian/trinidadian | italian
The only reason she’s half white is because I picture her with this light red strawberry blonde hair and it’s also a reference to the Roman Empire. She’s Trinidadian because I headcanon meenah as having a voice like nicki minaj
#homestuck#homestuck headcanons#john egbert#dave strider#rose lalonde#jade harley#jake english#roxy lalonde#jane crocker#dirk strider#karkat vantas#aradia medigo#tavros nitram#sollux captor#nepeta leijon#kanaya maryam#terezi pyrope#vriska serket#equius zahhak#gamzee makara#eridan ampora#feferi peixes
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The Chalamet Effect: Timothée Talks Fate, Fashion And Being An Old Soul
At 26, Timothée Chalamet is already a consummate, cool-as-they-come movie star. As he gets set to become the actor of his generation, Giles Hattersley goes in search of the real boy wonder. Photographs by Steven Meisel. Styling by Edward Enninful.
BY GILES HATTERSLEY
15 September 2022
He arrives, a princeling in jeans and a rock-metal T-shirt, bounding sprite-like from one of those blacked-out Cadillac tanks preferred by the famous (reluctant or otherwise). It’s June in New York and Timothée Chalamet’s hometown is gently sweltering. But, for once, the paps are nowhere to be seen and so his body language is a joy to behold, as he bounces into Champs, a vegan diner in Brooklyn, somehow channelling both a street-style star and Buster Keaton.
We’re shooting a Vogue video. He enters with curls un-frizzed, a smile that reaches all the way to his eyes and a head to shoulder ratio rarely glimpsed outside of children’s drawings. In a swift half-decade, this publicity-averse, sensitive, ambitious, inscrutable dreamer has become both art-house stalwart (Call Me by Your Name) and box-office king (Dune). Then something odder (certainly rarer) occurred. A baton was placed in his hand, passed down the decades by dint of James Dean and River Phoenix, David Cassidy and Leonardo DiCaprio: Chalamet became boyfriend to an entire generation. In fact, it was DiCaprio (in a moment of near-literal baton passing when they first met in 2018) who bequeathed Timmy his career rule: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” So far, so good. Give or take. Oh, to be 26 and Hollywood’s most wanted.
Timothée wears vintage T-shirt, Contemporary Wardrobe. Leather trousers, Balmain. Steven Meisel
And wow do they want him. “I…” he says, laughing, unsure what to do with that information. It should be noted that Chalamet’s default setting is uncertainty. Thoughtful, courteous, smart? Absolutely. Able to articulate a definite opinion about anything? Absolutely not. Never mind. The charm is very real: “We met before,” he says, recalling some 3am dance floor-adjacent small talk we had a few years ago. Far from the navel-gazing “f**k boy” the internet occasionally likes to paint him as, he’s checked my Instagram and read some past interviews. Immediately he wants to talk about Lady Gaga, who he doesn’t know but finds “fascinating!” He is a rare interviewee – albeit a classic deflector – in that he much prefers to ask the questions: “Where are you staying?” “What did you think of [the London production of] Cabaret?” “How are you feeling?” Of course, once the recorder is running, the fidgeting begins in earnest. “But for Luca, anything,” he says of Luca Guadagnino, auteur supreme, in whose Bones & All Chalamet stars this autumn as cannibal drifter Lee. Part road movie, part addiction allegory, he plays opposite Taylor Russell on a bloodied, nomadic flee through America. It is a performance so pristinely heartbreaking, so tenderly horrific, so violent and vulnerable, it feels – as his work so often does – like he’s carved out a new genre of man.
Call it the Timothée effect. It’s everywhere, bewitching fans, directors, fellow actors, fashion houses and now British Vogue, for whom the half-French, half-American, fourth-generation New Yorker becomes the first man to appear solo on the print cover. We meet again the following day in SoHo. He keeps a rental apartment in the city, and his parents only live uptown, but he prefers staying in hotels, so we head up to the pool deck of The Dominick, his current bolthole, where the hostess leads us to some lounge chairs, her eyes bugging silently at the celebrity angel who has touched down to earth in the middle of her shift.
Eyes bug a lot with Timmy. In return, you occasionally spot a flash of kindly exhaustion in his. His manners are almost comically superb and an antenna attuned to the energy of absolutely everyone around him at all times is a terrific resource for an actor – enervating for a human, though. “I hate talking about this kind of stuff, but like the pressure of, you know, being in the public eye, whatever the f**k that means,” he says, annoyed by the concept even. He finds the world too desperate for answers to questions he doesn’t have answers for. “It’s always like, ‘Who are you?’ ‘Do you know who you are?’” It’s possible he does not. To be honest, after a while in his company you start to wonder if you know who you are either. His small talk has this habit of pulling at the fabric of time and space. “You’re the captain of your fate,” he says excitedly at one point. “Master of your fate and captain of your soul. Like those things where you can, like, draw with both knobs.” An Etch A Sketch? “Exactly. You shake it up and then it’s all gone. You can’t just keep building on the same Etch A Sketch.”
This analogy ends up haunting me for days. Not that there aren’t flashes of more earthly self-reflection: “I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career,” he says. “And in my late teenage years, working on Homeland and starting to do theatre in New York, I felt like I reduced my goal to something more realistic, which was to work in theatre and hopefully make enough money doing either a TV show or something I could sustain myself [with]. And then it felt like every dream came true, exponentially. And then life is moving at six million miles per hour.”
Leather waistcoat and leather trousers, Gucci. Cotton vest, Intimissimi. Leather boots, Miu Miu. Bandana, Rockins. Steven Meisel
“When Covid hit, it required me to take a step back and be humbled to the idea that the greatest rock star…” panic suddenly crinkles his features. “No, I don’t want to use that word, sorry, sorry. Scratch rock star. But [everyone has to] deal with, like, taxes and the dentist and real adulting, you know? I should have been trying to get my adult feet under myself a little bit earlier than I did,” he says. “I found myself having to really, you know, be honest with myself that where I’ve been able to get myself to in life was balls to the wall, like throwing everything at [it] at a young age that, by some miracle, got me to where I am. But to then transition to an adulting mindset…” Taxes and the dentist? He laughs. “I’ve always paid my taxes, I always went to the dentist, but I’m suddenly very aware of that.” It’s classic quarter-life stuff, lived at hyper-speed. “So the ways I feel older than 26 I have always felt,” he says, relaxing. “It’s not like I feel like I’ve had some mental breakthrough that has given me perspective. The perspective that feels ‘old man’, I feel like I was born with it.” Such as? “The empath thing, the thinking for everyone in the room, the sort of misplaced idea, this sort of illusion, of control based on trying to feel for everyone.” In Bones & All, reunited with Guadagnino, who directed him to an Oscar nomination for Call Me by Your Name, he wove elements of himself into the character. “With Lee, the illusion of control is based on feeling for no one and not even interacting with anyone.” That Lee’s affliction is cannibalism, not being very famous, perhaps gives some insight into the extreme head-f**k of the latter. “And I guess that’s where I’m at.”
Does the institutionalisation of a film set suit you? “Yeah. But then no, because I want experiences to be unique.” He likes the immediacy, the rough and readiness, of some social media, he says. “There’s a benefit to the TikTok generation that I feel like I’m a part of too: selfies and stuff, and the comfort with the camera.” Are you talking about the two selfies you post a year, I tease? “Oh, man,” he says, chuckling. “You know, you know.” He is of his generation and yet no two-dimensional exemplar. Confessional Instagram Live rambler Timothée is not. Manifestly shy, self-conscious, perhaps a little scared of what people think of him, he does not find a balm for his issues in forging digital intimacy with millions of followers. To be honest, he doesn’t really like to talk about what he had for breakfast.
Or, heaven forbid, his romantic life. Do you ever imagine yourself as a father one day? As a husband? There follows an almighty pause. “You know what, I’m going to get back to you on that.”
Mostly his love life has been revealed in the grainy pixels of paparazzi long lenses. The twin pillars of young celebrity – dating and deals – have not been cashed in on. Is it true he’s never shot a fashion campaign? “Yeah, I haven’t done any.” Surely you’ve been offered everything? He blinks, politely. “When [success] came my way, I felt very particular that I didn’t want people and I really didn’t want to see myself cashing in,” he says. He adores fashion, is close friends with several designers and has worn floral Alexander McQueen and glittering Louis Vuitton on red carpets to internet-breaking effect. Even today, in perfect denim shorts, a simple tee and a smattering of jewellery, he looks spot on. As for his feelings on being British Vogue’s first solo man cover star? “The nature of the world now, you know... It felt right to not make it too statement-y,” he says. He didn’t want to overthink it or overstep. He just wanted to play some characters, to live the fashion. He loved the shooting process, loved incorporating womenswear into the styling and likens working with Steven Meisel to Denis Villeneuve.
Archive chain-mail top, Stella McCartney. Pearl and palladium-plated necklace, Justine Clenquet. Leather and silver stud bracelet, Chrome Hearts. Steven Meisel
For much of the past year, he’s been living in London, filming the upcoming movie musical Wonka, an origin tale of the early life of the Roald Dahl anti-hero. Directed by Paul King, of Paddington fame (be still my beating heart), he leads a cast of Brits including Olivia Colman, Paterson Joseph and Rowan Atkinson. When a first glimpse of him in costume surfaced online – in crimson velvet, smouldering under a top hat – the internet lost its mind. “In this one, Wonka f**ks” read one memorable tweet. Chalamet starts cracking up. “You know what’s really funny about that is it’s so misleading. This movie is so sincere, it’s so joyous.” How many musical numbers do you have? “Seven!” Making it provided a perfect situation for him: escape. “I hate to say it, but the dream as an artist is to throw whatever the f**k you want at the wall, you know? And I guess what I’m realising is that one’s personal life, one’s adult life, can be quite boring and the artist’s life can still be extraordinary.”
With that he pulls his cap down and puts his defences up, ready to weave through the busying bar area and up to his room. In a few weeks he’ll travel to Budapest to film the second instalment of Dune, then to Venice to launch Bones & All, and then ever onwards, up and up and up. But he worries a key point has been missed. “I’m grateful,” he says. He gives me a hug and asks me to be kind. A man caught in the stasis of life’s first quarter, always looking for the answers.
The October 2022 issue of British Vogue is on newsstands on Tuesday 20 September.
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B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
B - I don't have a lot for Ace Attorney because most of its ships are very obvious. I did however discover a fondness for the very rarepair Maya Fey/Simon Blackquill after reading a fic about them. She is a spirit medium who is going to become the leader of her village, and is also obsessed with the TV series The Steel Samurai. He is a raging weeaboo and/or British man with Japanese ancestry who wields a spirit katana and wants to be a samurai. They are even the same age! They are absolutely perfect together!
K - Urgh, see, this is the thing that Ace Attorney is very bad at. The games are good at showing 50-75% of a character development arc and then giving up. Like, AA4 is all about Klavier Gavin receiving trauma after trauma, and you'd expect him to need some time to process everything that's happened to him - yet he pops up in AA5 as if nothing has happened at all. Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth both have development, but even then you don't see the trauma being processed. In fact, the way Phoenix flips back to his old self in AA5 ignores all of the changes that happened to him in AA4, and seems false.
I actually think one of the best development arcs I've ever seen in a game/game series is Martin Septim in TES IV: Oblivion. He goes from being the priest of a town attacked by Daedra (TES version of demons) to the Emperor of Tamriel, willing to give his life to stop the Daedric invasion. Each time you return to Cloud Ruler Temple on the main quest, he's a little more resigned to his fate. He goes from giving an awkward speech to the Blades where he says, "I know you all want me to be Emperor, but this is very new to me" to leading a major battle dressed in the Emperor's heavy armor. When did he learn to fight in heavy armor? Before that, he's only worn priest's robes. A lot is happening to him behind the player's back, and it gives him life.
W - I agree with you about hating soulmates and Hanahaki Disease, unless those tropes are subverted. I am quite fond of the idea of "soulmates" which simply means that the person will be very important to you - not necessarily your one and only partner, but perhaps your best friend forever. And I find it interesting when people write Hanahaki Disease as a chronic illness which affects people who love too easily and deeply. I've often felt that I'm a person who does that, and it's brought me emotional pain. Why not have physical pain to go with it?
The tropes I REALLY hate though are "Pair the Spares" and "Everyone is Gay".
Ace Attorney has a juggernaut F/F ship of FranMaya which is Miles Edgeworth's adoptive/foster sister Franziska Von Karma paired with Phoenix Wright's best friend Maya Fey. But there are plenty of other options for both of those women, both F/F and M/F. I feel they get paired together despite their wildly different personalities and interests simply because Phoenix and Miles do, and I really dislike that. I don't even hate the ship! But I LOATHE the idea that they are together BECAUSE of their brother/best friend's relationship.
When the trope is subverted, and FranMaya get together years before WrightWorth, then I like the ship much more. Though I still feel that both characters have plenty of other interesting ships available to them.
"Everyone is Gay" bothers me when it's literally everyone being GAY as in exclusively same-sex relationships. Especially as three characters are about as close to canon bisexual as it's possible to be! Others have strongly headcanoned sexualities which are part of fanon (e.g. Miles Edgeworth being homoromantic demisexual and Kristoph Gavin being aromantic homosexual). But other characters are more flexible, e.g. I've seen Ema Skye written as lesbian, bi, straight, asexual, aromantic and acearo!
By all means, make everyone queer. But recognise that a trans woman might date a man, that a lot of bisexuals end up in relationships with people of different gender, that heteroromantic asexuals are still queer, and that acearo people likely don't want partners at all. And all of that is okay.
#character development#fic tropes#tropes i hate#rarepair#ace attorney#tes iv: oblivion#martin septim#maya fey#simon blackquill#ema skye
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Fic Stats Game
Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most bookmarks, fourth most comments, fifth most words, and your fic with the least amount of words. =
Tagged by @mppmaraudergirl 💛
Most Hits: It Only Takes A Taste (Incomplete, Jily Royalty AU) - I truly should complete this one!
Lily Evans is 28 years old and far too busy saving - according to her friends - the world to enjoy an epic romance. If you were to ask her, she would say that the last thing she needs is a complicating relationship that will distract her from all that she deems important: 1) her organisation for teens and young adults: Exceed Expectations, 2) her friends and family, 3) Mary's Instagram cooking vlog, 4) her favourite novels, 5) her favourite shows and films, 6) actually going to bed before midnight.
Enter Prince James, heir to the British throne and the world's most eligible bachelor. There is no way she will allow him to sweep her off her feet. It's out of the question. It screams trouble. Yet... it only takes a taste, because - as Mary always likes to say - sometimes one bite is more than enough, to know you want more of the thing you just got a taste of...
Second Most Kudos: Knocked Up By My Ex (Complete, Sequel to Shout Out To My Ex, Jily Modern AU)
James Potter and Lily Evans, two Phoenix Radio employees who had secretly admired one another from afar, pretended to be fake exes for their show "Shout Out To My Ex". When Lily and James started falling for one another for real, however, they had to keep up the charade – pretending to be fake exes, who once secretly dated – whilst actually secretly dating.
To make matters even more confusing, Lily Evans finds herself knocked up by James Potter, who is now her actual ex after their initial lies were exposed through the worst betrayal imaginable.
The soon-to-be parents find themselves in quite a pickle and what better way to get through it than by airing their confusing journey through a radio show that, this time, is based on the truth alone: "Knocked Up By My Ex".
A Jily Modern AU inspired by Rachel Lynn Solomon’s “The Ex Talk” and sequel to “Shout Out To My Ex”.
Third Most Bookmarks: Shout Out To My Ex (Complete, First Installment SOTME Series, Jily Modern AU)
Phoenix Radio is going through a rough period with the arrival of the new and controversial Riddle Radio. Albus Dumbledore, founder of the country’s number one radio station, asks his team to get ready to rebrand. Gone are the days of family friendly radio, a show where two exes talk about where their relationship went wrong and deliver relationship advice live on air, named Shout Out To My Ex, is exactly what Phoenix Radio needs. Who better to co-host this show than Lily Evans and James Potter, two Phoenix Radio employees who absolutely despise each other, or do they?
A Jily Modern AU inspired by Rachel Lynn Solomon’s "The Ex Talk".
Fourth Most Comments: The Platonic Roommate Chronicles (Complete, Jily Modern AU)
“I think we should have sex.”
He promptly choked on his tea.
“Excuse me?”
“Sex,” she repeated, oh so casually. As if she hadn’t just turned his entire world upside down by voicing his deepest, darkest desires which he needed to remind himself – like a daily affirmation – would never see the light of day. “You and I should have sex.”
Or: Lily Evans and James Potter are very platonic roommates, who definitely aren't in lust or love.
Fifth Most Words: Lily in the Sky with Diamonds (Complete, Jily Celebrity AU)
A series of interviews with the UK’s hottest band, The Marauders, and the singer-songwriter Lily Evans, conducted by Nymphadora Tonks, as they prepare for the UK Tour after the release of their album “Lily in the Sky with Diamonds”.
Everyone worships The Marauders.
Everyone loves Lily Evans.
Together they make hearts bleed.
Inspired by "Daisy Jones & The Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Least Amount of Words: Stars Up In The Astronomy Tower (Complete, Jily Canon Oneshot)
"Stop being a baby! When he gets back, you only need grab him by the tie, yank him towards you and snog him until he's convinced he's up in the Astronomy Tower at midnight for the amount of stars you'll make him see."
Tagging @practicecourts, @annasghosts, @athenasparrow, @annabtg, @possessingtheproperspirit and everyone else who would like to do this!
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For the bookworm! 7, 10, 21, & 45 please?
Also I didn't notice it as a question, but what are you reading right now?
Thank you for the questions; sorry for the delay! I had to really think about some of these, and then I fell into work and got distracted, whoops
7) What kind of common romance tropes do you enjoy and what kind do you dislike? I like forced proximity and some types of inhibition-reduction scenarios (both for similar reasons--I want them to talk! not a huge fan of full-on 'drunken confession' style feelings dumps, I just want them to be more open/honest than they would otherwise be. the inhibition-reduction should be the beginning, not the end of the romance arc, if that makes sense). Also loyalty/dependability is the most important thing to me, so I love combat couples and that aspect of hurt/comfort and caretaking stuff. Big fan of only one bed and cuddling for warmth, for all of these reasons and because they're cute.
There aren't really any tropes that I won't ever consider reading, but I have to be really careful with enemies-to-lovers (they don't have to like each other while they're still in the 'enemies' stage but if they don't respect each other all along, or if they still don't like each other once they get to 'lovers', I'm bailing) and mentor-mentee-type dynamics (the consent vibes are often too dicey for me, in a that-dynamic-specific kind of way that I haven't ever been able to articulate well enough to pick out precisely what I dislike, even to myself, so I often get partway through a story and then have to dip just because I'm ambiently uncomfy. very unfortunate).
10) Favorite classical literature: I have such trouble with 'classical literature' as a set. What counts? I like Dracula but not Frankenstein, I like Austen but not Bronte, I like epics--Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the Odyssey, the Iliad--I love Alexandre Dumas and JRR Tolkien and Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lewis Carroll. I've liked the entire story of about half of the Oscar Wilde and Ray Bradbury works I've read, and I've liked about half the story in every Dostoevsky work I've read. I like most but not all of the Narnia books, and I love Watership Down, and I feel like this is a really British list but so are most of the 'classics you have to read!' lists I'm seeing in my quick google search, so what can you do.
21) The book(s) on your school reading list you actually enjoyed: I wasn't a terribly obedient or focused student, so I sort of read the textbook but didn't follow along with most of my classes? Definitely they covered Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet, and I enjoy Shakespeare. I don't know which Twain they read in class, but I like all the Mark Twain I've read. Edgar Allan Poe, also. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls! That one I didn't read in class because I'd read it before and knew it would make me cry, but it was definitely on the list and I definitely enjoyed it (though it does definitely make me cry).
45) What book(s) would you sell your soul to get a TV or movie adaptation of? My first and overwhelming response is a tv series for the Heralds of Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey, though that might be because the idea of a Last Herald-Mage Trilogy adaptation got dangled in front of us in 2021 and it's been crickets since. The Enchanted Forest (or even just Dealing with Dragons) by Patricia C Wrede, or the Tortall books by Tamora Pierce, or the Charlie Bone/Children of the Red King series by Jenny Nimmo would make good shows, I think. I really enjoyed the tv adaptation of The Dresden Files, also, and would love more of it--it was diverging significantly from the stories as written by Jim Butcher, but not in any way I objected to, and the actors were great. I would absolutely sell my soul for a good movie of The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley.
What am I reading right now? I was reading Phoenix & Ashes by Mercedes Lackey, Indexing: Reflections by Seanan McGuire, and The Art of Deception by Stephanie Burgis when you asked. Now I'm reading The Serpent's Shadow by Mercedes Lackey (backtracking slightly to get this reread of the Elemental Masters series in better order--I jumped in at Phoenix & Ashes after my bookworm ask meme answers the other day), Silver Silence by Nalini Singh and Canyons of Night by Jayne Castle, and there's a ton of paperbacks in my room waiting for me to make my next hardcopy decision. I think probably it'll either be the Dragonlance: Dwarven Nations books by Dan Parkinson (first book The Covenant of the Forge) or The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey.
#asks#angelrtsy95#sorry for the lag! work ate me#the italicizing in this one is a bit haphazard but I think it's followable enough
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𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟏 .
( Synopsis ) The beauty of language, starting with plain old English.
( Authors Note ) I relate to Neon a lot so I thought of this niche idea hihi
( Characters ) Neon, Kay/o, Viper, Sage, Chamber, Phoenix, Killjoy, Jett, Yoru, Reyna— not in alphabetical order as you can see because this was the order in how I wrote it.
( Content Warnings ) Cursing and please do not say putangina or even try to pronounce it. Other than that, please feel free to educate me hehe— it would mean a lot if someone corrects me.
( Word Count ) 0.5k words // EDITED!
Part 2 will include the remaining agents :>
NEON is probably fluent in English or she could only speak taglish— Tagalog, and English. It was either she grew up speaking English then Tagalog, or vice versa, or even a dialect from the province. She was probably forced to learn Spanish, Chinese, or another language, or she was spared from hell. Easily adjusted to the protocol or had a rough time talking fluently in English. (Putangina does not mean I love you or you're so good or whatever.)
You cannot talk about others' backs when KAY/O is around because he's a walking evolved Google Translate and he knows every language, not just English. If you badmouth his co-workers he won't bat a battery, if it's someone he's close with he'll confront you till you're against the wall, if it's him you have my condolences.
Very fluent, but may have picked up a thing or two while growing up or learned another language out of curiosity, VIPER. She knows a bit of German from her voice lines. Knows a few phrases and what they mean since Reyna curses at her without bothering to hide her distaste, or maybe even SAGE muttering in Chinese while writing down on the clipboard— (Maybe Hokkien/Mandarin? That’s what I'm more familiar with.), and damn that Frenchman she would rather be a devil than a dove. The only reason she would be monolingual is the lack of time and more interest in her research, but Viper is one smart woman and I can't see her speaking English only.
CHAMBER is "humble" about how he's "so bad at English" and "his grammar isn't the best" and "his accent hinders others in understanding what he's saying in English" and "he apologizes in advance if his vocabulary isn't advanced." Yeah right mf sure whatever you say just admit there are some words you can't say properly but synonyms saved the day. But if he loses his composure English is shoved under the bed and this man is rapping in French. Fluent in both languages.
An absolute sweetheart, PHOENIX can only speak British but will sit down on a 4-hour Google Slides vs Canva presentation Jett and Neon made for him in both respective Native languages. Yoru could be teaching him basic Japanese but falls off his chair and wheezes and loses his composure and dies because he thinks Phoenix absolutely sucks. He won't remember anything! But it's there in the back of his mind.
It took time, of course, KILLJOY nailed her studies in English as much as her studies in technology. Her mind moved faster than her mouth. If she's explaining one part of the equation on the first page, her mind's speeding through the last page already quadruple-checking her answers. There's a chance Brimstone helped Killjoy with English, and the old man most definitely picked up some German here and there.
The same banana with Neon, JETT, and YORU. They had no problem reading or writing, but when they would talk aha, yeah. The two kept their mouths shut for fear they would embarrass themselves. Korean/Japanese and English are two very different things, no thank you. But when they encountered REYNA who was not even afraid of moving her hands wildly in the air— visibly frustrated someone can't understand what she was saying in Spanish, the two stepped out of their bubble a bit. (Putangina does mean I love you or you're so good or whatever.)
astolary 2022 — do not edit, repost, or translate.
#（ ❁ଓ.° ）#（ ❁ଓ.° ） astro! valorant#valorant#valorant protocol#valorant headcanons#valorant scenarios#valorant neon#valorant kay/o#valorant viper#valorant sage#valorant chamber#valorant phoenix#valorant killjoy#valorant jett#valorant yoru#valorant reyna
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"...My learned Nipponese friend is obviously in training to be a clown, the way he regales us with such witticisms."
Barok just.... I mean I am still correct in what I'm saying, but damn, how do you even come back from that one?? Ryunosuke is going to need therapy for that statement alone.
Also I'm soooooo upset the games aren't fully voice acted, I would've loved to hear that!!
The more I play DGS the more I want a separate anime just for this whole era. I'm not even asking much. Just the cases and-
Okay wait I just clicked on my switch screen to prevent it from shutting down and he follows up with a toast to "my future career in the circus"???? Holy fuck, this man!!
Soooo I suppose you can definitely count me in for the Barok van Zieks Simp Club. I feel like I owe him my soul and part of my income.
Such an iconic statement that it even transcends timelines. Barok must be Edgeworth's ancestor, right? (Yeah, I know, the "you're the entire circus" thing is just a meme).
I can understand his thoughts, though. Think about it from Barok's perspective for a moment. You are the most celebrated Crown prosecutor in the country who only takes on high-profile cases, not that you care about your own status, but you do want to make sure that the good name of the British judicial system doesn't get sullied. This nobody from a different country who did not even properly study law and who does not have any real world experience whatsoever shows up in court to pretend to do real attorney work. This wannabe also makes his debut defending one of the most notorious individuals in town, who you definitely know to be shady (let's leave it at that, okay?). Surely this kid can't be trusted, right? What's he up to?
The youngster goes on to disrespect court procedures because he's not familiar with them, accuses people without any shred of evidence, bluffs, puts forward hypotheses merely based on ideas or feelings, disregards many of the protocols. Of course the prosecution is frustrated. Wouldn't we all be if we were part of the game? What makes Ryunosuke charming to us as the audience, makes him bothersome to the characters in the game that are involved in all of this. :D
I'm actually surprised that prosecutor Van Zieks just goes along with it, when he would have had grounds to ask this learned friend to be removed from the courtroom due to being unfit for court. Barok is very patient and even helps Ryunosuke quite a bit/mentors him, as well as cooperates with him when he technically doesn't have to, because in the end, this prosecutor only cares about justice. (Gosh, there's more I want to say, but I will refuse to use any spoilers because I know you haven't finished the game yet, so let's end it here).
You absolutely speak my mind! A well-made anime in the world of DGS would be so very amazing. Hearing our beloved characters speak (as you've mentioned), seeing them move. The character design is superb, the world is beautiful. I adore the whole franchise (some games/characters more than others), but this cast is my favourite. From Ryunosuke to Barok to Susato to Iris etc., I love them all! I am not the same since I have finished this duology. Barok is my favourite character in the franchise (surprise, I know), with Ryunosuke coming in second and Susato coming in third, which is quite the achievement against such all-time-greats as Edgeworth, Phoenix and Maya. :)
Enjoy the rest of the game(s)! 😊
Edit/P.S.: In case you read my blog here, I can only recommend you filter out the tags "tgaa spoilers" and "dgs spoilers", as that's how I tag my spoilery posts and reblogs. Other people may use the same or other tags.
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Firestorm
Summary-Jett and phoenix are hanging out with their friends In Paris but Jett felt different regarding her best friend, Phoenix. She felt... nervous, like butterflies in her stomach. Jett found herself staring in to phoenix's honey yellow eyes, the fiery color at he tips of his hair, his plump dark lips that would look perfect on hers. Wait she couldn't possibly be thinking of kissing her BEST-FRIEND, colleague and possibly crush? Could she?
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Jett's POV
"Phoenix! Are you ready? The others are waiting," I nocked on his door whilst screamed at my friend who always seems to be late, its usually fine but this hangout was at a REALLY fancy French restaurant that was picked by Chamber. Its really exclusive we had to wait months to even get a reservation which means we can't be late, unless we want to wait another year to get a new reservation. Plus everyone in the VP will be there, it would be nice having everyone in the same place that isn't home.
My train of thought was quickly interrupted by Phoenix' door opening and him stepping out in gold chains draped over a plain black turtle neck paired with matching black dress pants, his hair carefully positioned out his face. "Did it really take you two hours to pick such a simple outfit?" I questioned the tall man standing Infront of me, raising an eyebrow. "HEY! It takes time to look this good mate," Phoenix says in his adorable British accent that some how was more formal then usual, "but in all seriousness you look beautiful Sunwoo."
I felt hot blood rush to my face, due to the sudden words, turning me as red as my tight fitting scarlet dress that I borrowed from Viper. I didn't know why I was blushing so much was it just the complement? Or maybe the usage of my real name, I mean he always complements me but he my never uses my real name. I shook myself out of my thoughts frantically turning my face away from the fire user stuttering a quick, "YEA YOU LOOK GOOD TOO!" hoping he didn't see the how flustered I am, but of course he did. I mean he isn't blind or stupid.
He let out a slight chuckle, Phoenix muttered just loud enough to let me hear, "You know your adorable," before grabbing my hand and and dragging me to the others, which made me melt either out of embarrassment or being flustered. "About time Phoenix, come on we have to get going, "Our French agent said getting on the Vulture, then turning to me "Jett mademoiselle, why are you so red, Est-ce que ça va? Do you need some water, or medicine?" "I'm fine," I respond covering my face with my hand, still over thinking phoenix's words.
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Shortly after landing we had we had a few hours to explore. "Hey Chamber, since we have a few hours to kill, are there any good sight seeing things near by? OH maybe we can visit the Eifel Tower, we are in Paris after all," Neon pestered Chamber, Chamber simply nodded.
I was too busy talking to Raze to care about what Neon said. "Jett you know what they say about Paris, right?" Raze nudged at my shoulder. "No, what do they say?" I cluelessly respond to my close friend . "Its the city of loveee and romance," Raze said winking and exaggerating the end of the word 'love'. "So? What does that have to do with anything?" I ask still absolutely oblivious what she has figured out. "Aw come on sister, I'm not dumb, I saw how you stared at phoenix the whole plane ride here, and how you keep looking away from me to glance over at him, not to mention how red you were whilst holding his hand before we got on the plane," the explosives expert remarks. "I WAS NOT!" I yelled getting the attention of most of the protocol including Phoenix, "sorry," I say directed to no one in particular, Turning my head back to Raze and this time whispering, "I haven't been staring at him, I wasn't red and I certainly don't like him! I mean what's to like? His annoying British accent? His pretty yellow eyes? His precious smile? His laugh that can break any kind of tension? How his shirt perfectly clings to his chiseled che- Oh Shit I like him."
"Mhm, I thought you were the agent that was suppose to think fast, how did you not realize that you like him, and how did you not realize he likes you? he makes it so obvious yo the point its painful," Raze groaned. "For your information he doesn't likes me any ways so it doesn't even matter," I explain to Raze rolling her eyes before hearing Neon scream at everyone wanting to get pictures in front of the Eifel Tower and of course everyone got distracted and started taking pictures Cypher being the camara man. First a group pic with every one, then friend groups and couples. First Skye and Yoru then Sage and Sova and last was Killjoy and Raze.
I started to walk away thinking we're done with pictures that is before Phoenix pulled me in from my waist for one last picture, just him and me. He pulled me onto his torso and Cypher snaped a picture, he then ran over to Cypher to see how it looked, leaving me a blushing, melting mess on the spikey, green grass. Raze and Killjoy walked towards me Raze' arm around Killjoy's neck, "What was that about him not liking you?" Raze mocked, Killjoy helping me up from the ground giggling. "That doesn't mean he likes me Raze!" I stated dusted myself off. The couple looking at each other then back at me, "du bist ahnungslos," Killjoy muttered in German knowing I wouldn't know what she said.
"nous devons partir," Chamber called out, we all looked at each other confused, "we have to go! Or we're going to be late," he translates.
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Authors note-I wrote all of this in one night It probably doesn't make much sense but I was deprived of Firestorm content so this was my only option after remembering I cant draw. But I hope you enjoyed it none the lest <3 (if your looking for a word count the chapter was 1001 words)
If you want a chapter 2 look at my Wattpad @kya_ry ill also try to put it on AO3
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(This isn’t anyone specific) but I feel like the Dagger Team would get together to have a “Great British Bake-off” and Maverick and Penny are the Judges.
Those who can’t really bake are paired up with other who they think can bake and I feel like everyone would fight over Reader(I bake a lot) bc Reader can bake. I feel like Jake and Rooster can both bake really well and so can Bob(Phoenix claims Bob as her baking partner) Coyote tries to do it himself and same with Payback.
And what no one expects is that the final two are Fanboy and Y/N
And everyone’s arguing over who really one out of the two of them bc both of their final bakes are super good
omg i love this so much! this would definitely be something they would do as a charity type program at top gun.
oooh bestie! are you any good? i’m dreadful at baking, alright at cooking, but baking i just can’t get right!
I can picture it so clearly, you both present your bake and Hangman elbows Rooster in his ribs pointing at it from the other side of the room, “where’d you buy that from?” You’d flip him off, “we baked it jackass.”
No one can quite believe that either you or Fanboy are capable of baking something that both looks and tastes that good by Mav and Penny’s judgement. “Nah, who is it, you gotta tell us.” Coyote laughs, an uneasy tone wavering in his voice. You both exchange a glance and you shrug. “Figure it out.”
Bob calls out, pointing at Fanboy, “Fanboy. It’s a backseater thing.” Phoenix slaps Bob in the chest, “hold on! You forgot the baking powder.”
Absolute chaos erupts as no one can quite figure out of either you and Fanboy, who the proper baker is.
thank you so much dear anon!! 💌 this was a lotta fun to think about!! 💖
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Aster or Edo?
Honestly, I don't like this boy's name in the original language, but it absolutely destroys my entire being to use a dub name, especially one chosen by 4Kids, who destroyed my childhood with that censorship crap (I'm totally against it ).
After a while of struggling and suffering, I decided that I don't need to do it. I recently discovered that this great duelist's name is romanized "Ed" in Japanese (I should have figured this out on my own, but I don't tend to think straight most of the time) and interestingly, Ed is usually a hypocoristic of Edward, which is curious, Because this guy is British.
What did this girl do? I decided to rename this character (Can I do that? Bah, never mind) Edward Phoenix, Ed for short, and never think about it again. I don't need Aster or Edo.
I am rare at solving my own problems, never ask me for advice.
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i absolutely love whatever you write for the ww2 top gun prompts, so i have gathered enough courage to come here and make a prompt of my own. i'd like to read about an aftermath of bob and phoenix being chosen for a covert operation to drop a female cichociemni agent into poland. they don't know what's it like to have one's home country razed to the ground and chopped up by both nazi germany and soviet russia. hopefully, they'll never know. thank you!
That's a pretty substantial idea, Kind Anonymous Friend, but I think I'm going to have to take a pass on this one - Operations like the one you're describing would have been handled by the Special Operations Executive, or SOE, a special branch of the British Armed forces, and the group responsible for delivering SOE agents to their assignments in occupied Europe was the Royal Air Force Special Duties Service. They were flying a lot of Lysanders, Hudsons, and Halifaxes, not the sporty little fighter planes the US Navy would have been using, or the big bombers of the the US Air Force.
BUT. I don't want to leave you out in the cold here. I'm not super-well versed in SOE work, but the most famous Polish SOE operative I can think of is Krystyna Skarbek, (also known as Christina Granville) who has been the subject of several books. The 2020 movie The Resistance Fighter talks about Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the Polish government in exile and the home army.
If SOE is something you're interested in, there's also a really fun mini-series called X Company that looks at SOE agents in France. Another one of my personal favorites is called The Heavy Water War (Kampen om tungtvannet) - it's about the sabotage of the Norsk Hydro plant in Ryuken, which is what I've based my fictional 1940 mission on. That show also does a great job of showing what the occupation of Norway looked and felt like for civilians. I also really like the 2019 book A Woman of No Importance, which is all about Virginia Hall, an American SOE agent.
This doesn't have anything to do with Top Gun: Maverick, but I *also* happen to know that @wexhappyxfew is working on a fanfic for Band of Brothers, the HBO miniseries, that involves a member of the Cichociemni - It's called Landslide and it's on AO3!
#asked and answered#kind anonymous friend#special operations executive#the lovely land of might have written
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