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I wish Hazbin had more than 8 episodes this season bc 1) the pacing is all over the place (outside of episode 4) and 2) it would’ve been so nice to actually see when and why Alastor started to genuinely care about the hotel.
The pilot and the first episode of the show characterize him as sticking around for the entertainment because of how silly the idea of redeeming a sinner is to him but then episode 5 has him fully backing up Charlie’s wishes for the hotel and even tells Mimzy she’s welcomed to stay if she actually wants to try redemption and was upset she had put the hotel in danger with her presence.
I think that turnaround in Alastor’s perspective is so interesting but when did that happen? Why did that happen? How did that happen? What made him care?
He clearly still has ulterior motives, there’s 0 denying that given his scene with Husk in the same episode, but he does seem to actually care about Charlie and her hotel. Which can be connected to the leash Husk claimed Alastor is bound by but Alastor is also the most distant from the cast.
We never see him around everyone for more than a few minutes at a time. Everyone went out to the club in episode 6 but Alastor is nowhere to be found in the entire episode.
That bond with anyone in the hotel, even Charlie, that would explain Alastor’s sudden support in the hotel has not been shown on screen and I really wish the show had more time to do that.
That’s really what Hazbin lacks. Time. Time to slow down and just let the characters breathe. Everything is moving so fast because they probably didn’t know a second season was coming until later which I can understand but that also means the plot takes priority over the characters and a majority of the cast is suffering from it.
Angel’s the only character who’s gotten an episode solely about him and exploring, expanding, and developing his character and his bonds in the hotel are what we see the most. This makes sense given he’s the main guest in the hotel but no other character has been able to have their own character and arc be explored the way Angel has.
The show needed more episodes like Masquerade to explore the cast before diving headfirst into the Heaven vs. Hell redemption conflict. That was always going to be the direction the show went in but they needed so much more time to do it because there are so many characters to juggle and so much is happening. Big moments that are supposed to matter don’t hit as hard as they should bc the cast is overstuffed and everyone is fighting for screen time.
This isn’t the teams fault, they’re doing a decent job with the limit time they were given but 8 episodes is not enough time for a show this ambitious with everything it’s trying to do. Doubling the episode count to 16 would’ve done wonders for the pacing and the show could slow down and take its time.
A lot of what Hazbin presents are good ideas. It’s all interesting but none of it is given enough time because the big Heaven and Hell plot has to take a majority of the shows focus. I do hope season 2 fixes this but that’s also gonna depend where the show is going after season 1 is over. We’ll see next week.
My main wish for the show going forward is each character gets their chance to be explored just as Angel has.
#hazbin has the millie problem of helluva boss but like everyone is millie#you understand who they are on a basic level but that’s kinda it#there’s not enough depth beyond what little we know#the show tries especially with Vaggie and Charlie#and i think Charlie is handled better than most of the cast outside of Angel#but oof Vaggie#i see what they wanted to do with her but again the pacing of it is a mess#everyone else in the hotel has their moments for sure#i utterly love husk and i wanna see more of him#but he needs his own episode that explores him and his whole deal with alastor#which would in turn explain some of alastor’s stuff#ik he’s supposed to be a mystery and that’s fine#but we can still learn more about him as a person without knowing all of his past y’know#anyway all I thought as i wrote this post was wow i’d get jumped on twitter for saying this#just wanted to talk about thisss#i love hazbin and helluva but they are never beating the pacing issue allegations#helluva’s pacing is actually more annoying for different reasons tho#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel spoilers
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SP Boys Playing...
Mario kart
Don't ask me what time it currently is
Final exams were coming up
And you and your friends weren't prepared whatsoever
Except Kyle
Cartman: "fuckin Kyle"
So, since Kyle is such a sweetheart, he decided to help all of you study
The group all went over to his house for like, a study group date or whatever
Stan brought note cards
You found and brought some dried out highlighters
Kenny brought a rat
Cartman brought mario kart
"goddammit cartman"
Not only did he bring a game to the group study date
He brought
The fucking
Mario Kart 64
Yeah, fuck mario kart super deluxe ultra 360 number 4 no cheese extra sauce
It's all about them blocky graphics baybeee!
Kyle does have a nintendo 64
He got it for Ike but the kid took one look at it and decided he'd rather play with his Xbox whatever
But he's only got, like, donkey kong, super mario, that game where you talk to pikachu, and some water ski game
So in walks Cartman with a lil strut and two controllers along with Mario kart
"Absolutely not," Kyle immediately says
"But Kaaaaaahlllllll" he groans, pleading with the taller boy
Kyle stands firm
"We're all here to study, no distractions"
"C'mon Kyle" you started, getting up from place on the couch and completely abandoning your tic tac toe game with Stan
"Just let him set it all up while we study, we could play a little bit when we take breaks?"
"Breaks are super important when studying," Stan agreed, walking up behind you and placing a hand on your shoulder
"Yeah!" Kenny chirped, already on the floor setting the system up
It was four against one and Kyle didn't stand a chance against all of you
He agreed that you'd all play during the 30 minute breaks between study sessions
Rejoice
Unfortunately for Kyle, it took all but five minutes before you started to mentally check out
He was telling you something about writing down what you know and then highlighting what you don't remember
Or was it reading your work and re-writing?
What were you supposed to highlight again?
Kyle noticed your eyes glossing over as you stopped paying attention
Kenny was already disassociating
Kyle decided it was time to take a break
Since there were only four controllers, one of you was going to have to sit out and take the controller from whoever loses
Rock paper scissors to decide who sits out first round
Cartman loses
Ha-ha
Demands a second third forth chance
Maybe he'd win if he didn't main rock
Grumbles about how he's "the one who brought the damn game" and should be playing while you're all picking your characters
Kyle picks Luigi
Kenny picks Princess Peach
You pick Toad
Stan was torn on who to choose
Eventually picks Donkey Kong just because everyone keeps on making "monke" jokes
"Hehe...mm, monke"
"He's a fucking gorilla"
"Monke..."
Cartman is pissed no one chose Wario
Who cares, y'all can finally play
bad idea
Bad Idea
It was a very bad idea to play Mario Kart with your friends
You really should've known it was a bad start when Stan, player numbero uno, decided to ignore your opinions and pick the special cup
Aka the one with rainbow road, which is totally fun. Super fun. Everyone loves rainbow road.
It's. Fine.
But D.K.'s Jungle is first
Stan swears that since this course is named after his character he's pretty much guaranteed to win
The game starts and...
You stare in immense disappointment as your toad stays in place since you started too early
Kenny smashes into you to add insult to injury
You're in dead last
Stan and Kyle fight each other for first while Kenny sits comfortably in forth after missing one of the mystery items boxes
You collect one for yourself, hoping for a bullet to bring you towards the boys
You get green shells
It's fine.
Your toad speeds by, trying to catch up as Kyle hits Stan with a red shell
"Oh fuck off Kyle"
"How's that guaranteed win going for you, huh?"
Kenny, meanwhile, practically gets pushed off course by the bowser character and is being hit by coconuts
You get 3 bananas to try and get yourself out from 7th place
Cartman is the most backseat gamer to ever backseat game
"Keep your bananas dumbass! It's basically a shield for shells!"
Wario passes from behind you with a star, putting you back in 8th place
"Gee Eric, I'm so glad I've got my banana shield"
"Not my fault you're the slowest fucking Toad I've ever seen"
"Fuck. Kyle, do you just have a never-ending supply of shells up your ass?"
Kenny laughs as Stan falls into the water
The second he is brought to dry land, Kenny uses his thunder bolt
Both of you laugh as Kenny then proceeds to run him and Yoshi over
"Fuck you, Kenny"
You finally climb to 6th place as Kyle flies against the finish line
Groaning as you grab a single mushroom, you get yourself there eventually as well
Your scowl looks like a smile compared to the look Stan is giving Kenny
"I was going to win! I totally had it till your lightning"
Kenny's laughing
"Yeah right, no way you were gonna past Kyle after going for a swim" Kenny smirked
"Hey, maybe your monkey will do better in yoshi valley" Kyle teased, bumping Stan's shoulder as the next round started up
"Ahem...ahem"
Cartman pokes your arm
"Wot"
"I believe the loser gives up their controller...and you ate ass the whole game"
You protectively gripped the controller
"Wait, no gimmie another chance"
Cartman screeches
You ignore him
The next round starts up and this time you don't screw up and actually get the speed boost
You get yourself up to forth place, just behind your friends as you all get an item
Gaining three mushrooms, you immediately use them to get up to second place just to get attacked by a barage of shells by the two behind you
"Oh come. On you guys!" You complain, watching toad helplessly tumble around
"No mercy!" the princess Kenny exclaims, running you over
"Stop doing that!" You glare at Kenny
"Stop being so cute" he counters
You mumble under your breath, trying to focus on getting an item
You get a blue shell
Biting your lip to hide your excitement, you wait for the perfect opportunity to use it, watching the boys and yoshi battling for first place
"Psst," Cartman leans forward, whispering in your ear as you lean back, both of you refusing to look away from the game
"Why aren't you using your shell?" He uncharacteristically asked softly
"I'm waiting for the perfect moment" you whispered back, ignoring Stan and Kyle bickering as they keep pushing each other off the track
"Hmm...got it...I'll let you know when the best opportunity is" Cartman concluded, leaning back
You look away from the TV to stare at him, raising an eyebrow
He met your eye, whispering a 'trust me' you're almost unsure if you actually heard
You could laugh
Still, you still didn't use it as the final lap was coming to an end
5th place was nice...
The finish line nearly in sight, Kyle inched by Stan, his star he used dying down
You felt Cartman pat your arm
"Now."
Without hesitating, you used the blue shell
The deadly shell automatically targeted Kyle, looming over him
"Dude! Which one of you used a blue shell?"
Kyle tried to avoid it by breaking, but it was too late
Him and Stan both got demolished by the blue shell
You try to contain your laughter as both boys begin making an uproar, watching yoshi take first place and cross the finish line the
Kenny, the one who adores making you suffer, finally decides to leave you alone and uses his hoard of red shells to bombard Stan and Kyle
Donkey Kong and Luigi are still tumbling around as you pass them, gaining you a respectable third place, Kenny already cheering over his second place win
Cartman, meanwhile, was on the floor laughing as the two losing boys voiced their concerns
"You fucking bastards!"
"I was this close, this close to winning"
Their verbal insults just made you even more proud
"Sorry dude, alls fair in love and war," you shrugged, laughing as one of them chucked a balled up paper at your chest
The combined laughter and angry screeching completely covered the sound of the alarm Kyle had set to signify that the break was over
Who cares
Kyle the loser begrudgingly gave his controller to the still laughing Cartman
The study session has completely turned into a gaming one
But no one really cared, even as verbal insults and jokes were constantly being made
Everyone was having fun. It was such an enjoyable experience that no matter what happened in the game you all managed to let it motivate you to do better and laugh harder. You couldn't remember a better
Wait
Fuck
Cartman just hit you with a green shell
And you fell off the damn boardwalk
Kenny ran you over
Now Stan is laughing
You hate Mario Kart
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Stance on proshipping
I know proshipping is a touchy subject so I just really wanted to give my stance in it therefor people who disagree with can know what I personally feel. To me its all about the mindset if your all like “🥺 i ship these 2 characters because it’s so sexyyy and idc if one character does horrible things to the other characters I think its hot” then I personally disagree then but if your like “ik these characters are bad for eachother but it’s interesting seeing a house burn down and see how the flames develop” as long as your not actively supporting the things IRL I believe its okay to see how characters can work together. Im gonna use Sebaciel as an example, Ciel has been through a LOT of trauma and therefor most likely never got to have a healthy romantic relationship (technically he wasnt supposed to be with Lizzy) and also with the shit that happened in the cult its safe to say that his relationships are kinda fucked. Now take Sebastian, he’s a demon who can do (basically) anything. He can’t lie to Ciel and has to take care of him (of course he is also a cheeky bastard) and of course Ciel can (and will) make him do anything with “this is an order” so what happens when you a get traumatized boy who isn’t always in the right headspace and a demon who has to follow his every command (basically)???????????? In all I believe proshipping is a way to see the dark twisted thing’s characters can do and just as long as your not supporting the actions and recognize “hey! This is fucked up!! These characters really shouldn’t be doing this since its both morally and legally wrong!” Then it’s personally fine to me.
also side rant: it seems a lot of people these days will call anything a proship (even once said that a mortal x immortal was a proship… like bitch??? Those have been around FOREVER) heres a reminder that just because you don’t like a ship that doesn’t mean its a proship. (Cough cough xioven cough cough) also no just because someone reads or writes about something doesn’t mean they support it (honestly that would mean no horror, murder mysterys or anything of the sort should exist since apparently all all the authors support serial killers)
#sebaciel#proship#idk what tags to use#peepeepoopoo#Man if you disagree dont be a bitch#Sebaciel is a bit cute ngl#Only a little though#set that boy on fire again#Smh#anyway#Proshipping thoughts#thoughts on proshipping
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in secret and thérèse raquin spoilers under the cut (ik a lot of you are planning on reading it and haven’t yet!! i’ll talk ab the book and the movie here,, and im really really rambling here like a huge huge nerd u can VERY much completely ignore this if u want)
jeeeeesusss fucking christ that movie was so much more than i remember fuck.. that fucking part with thérèse coming and just babbling out “thank you thank you thank you” LIKE SHIT… FUCK
camille is a very unfortunate man but.. and u can stone me for this i would forgive u but he is actually very easy to sympathize with??? like he’s so juvenile and so naive, very unfortunate person like that haircut is just tragic and it’s so icky he’s always sick but im sorry he’s a poor kid, that nativity and constant hopefulness is just… idk
im sorry even as im typing this it sounds so stupid, but in the book he really is just naive, and i find he’s exactly like that in the movie too i feel bad for him
EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE PART IN BED WITH THÉRÈSE that was really shitty but idk was wrong with the ppl putting this movie together because bitch no one was ever supposed to love thérèse or laurent.. i mean u totally can but it wasn’t supposed to be written as them being tragic lovers who just wanna be together n you feel super sorry for them. and i feel like they wrote that in for that exact reason.. doesn’t make it any less stupid and shitty tho. zola probably would’ve rly disliked the way this story was carried out in this movie
and fuck laurent seriously that mf wants to be so profound and mysterious so fucking bad yet he paints most times because he gets a hard on watching naked women like goodbye and im never going to forget the part in the book where he ogled a dead girl in the morgue who literally sewerslided
i really hate that man
gluttonous incapable coward god he’s terrible
i mean,, okay honestly if u never read the book or if you do read it and don’t care about its portrayal it’s not even a terrible movie, it’s not bad at all besides the typical morally questionable acts
the architecture and costumes and lightings and colours were all so beautiful the entire movie, i love watching it and taking everything in i mean it’s rly gorgeous, and ofc so is lizzie so i mean my eyes r rly never off the screen
so that was a huge thumbs up for me , the whole thing is really really pretty
i mean there r obvious things wrong ab the movie, it was written like thérèse is horribly mistreated and did what she did because of the emotional distress she was under, which okay like i said if u didn’t read the book totally totally fine makes sense like okay then she’s a relatively likable character and in that case this story is ab her reactions to her circumstances, a story like that is fine, so don’t get me wrong and think im saying it’s not
but the book and what happened in it from a naturalist perspective meaning that circumstance has little to no effect on someone’s natural way of behaving and reacting- put thérèse in any other environment she would still be the kind of demure person easily set aflame by small passionate sparks, she goes all-in bets everything and cares little about what happens if and when she burns out. that’s why she started the relationship, not solely bc she was neglected or distressed, tho im sure it also had a minor hand in it
in the book it said she was patient and able to stay relaxed n lithe like a cat because of how she had to help her aunt around n camille, and how quiet and in the background she had to be, but that did nothing on her temperament and natural way of being
even if her being quiet and patience changed, say she grew up in a different environment, she would still be one to start a relationship with laurent the same way she did canonically
i do not like how this was changed because it’s taking the whole thing out of context, rly changing all the bases of the characters and the book, and most importantly.. in the movie ur supposed to LIKE them together and see their relationship as romantic
not gonna lie there are only four solid pages in which i liked them together and u BET i came with receipts- page 38-42 (oxford university press edition translated by rothwell bc ik page formatting can differ based on book versions)
to some extent OFC i did feel bad for them in the book like the stuff they went through including thérèse being domestically abused and dozens of other things they went through is not something i’d ever feel apathy towards, but rly not once after finishing the book did i think aw man that end shouldn’t have happened and they were such a good couple
tho that is the response the movie seems to have been looking for
i think what happened at the end of the book was always always always going to happen, just like how laurent and thérèse ending up being super annoyed by each other would have always happened. once they started arguing with each other it was never going to stop and they simultaneously would never be able to live without it. that’s kind of the interesting and maybe to some ppl problematic part of naturalist literature
it’s totally FINE and really like it doesn’t matter that much if u read the book or not, you can enjoy consuming only one, or consuming both and liking only one of them! and you don’t have to care at all that it’s different from the book, the movie is pretty great on its own if you’re not comparing them
but my personal opinion comparing them… not the greatest portrayal of the book (massive things were changed!!!!). the book was rly good but the movie also has its perks too
lizzie is so incredible in this movie, not a single movie of hers that i’ve seen is disappointing, i love seeing films through her eyes and i find they’re all really centered in people and their struggles and motivations etc etc, and i rly love that
i do get pleasure out of watching in secret, it’s a very pretty movie and it’s entertaining to hate laurent and judge their relationship and lizzie is such a talented actress, i love their descent into insanity and their stupidity, it’s a movie i rly do like watching (and none of this is sarcastic i really seriously do like seeing them act like idiots at times, even in the book it was pretty entertaining)
this is a weird review i have to admit bc it seems for a majority of it that im bashing the movie,, ITS A GOOD MOVIE it’s entertaining and has a great cast and it’s pretty the soundtrack is great, so r the aesthetics it’s a great movie, it rly is
but in its portrayal to the book!!! not as good
but that doesn’t mean i don’t enjoy the movie, i do!!!
and here is one more observation i took from comparing the book and the movie: where the book did not go into detail with the sensual relationship between laurent and thérèse like the movie did tho it was still a huge part of the story, the movie also did not go into detail with the relationship that developed between them through the naturalist perspective. thus, in secret is an erotic romantic drama with not many mentions of naturalism and the book is huge on naturalism while talking no more than a collective page of their actual sexual interactions. i think MAYBE the directors n writers of the movie intended for naturalism and overt sexuality to be.. sort of synonymous? which is rly interesting i think. they both played similar roles with these characters (mostly thérèse) who store and shroud their sexualities like precious innate things as one would their natures. i thought that was kind of cool if that was the intention, and even if it wasn’t i think it was inadvertent but very clear statement either way
im not sure ab my options on that yet,, tho i kinda wanna read more about that from somewhere
i want to ask if anyone agrees with innate nature and sexuality being synonymous but idk if anyone has read this far it’s just me rambling like an idiot lmfao
ANYWAYS
i wish lizzie did more book adaptations it’s so fun to read books her movies are based on and watch her interviews and know she read the book too
it’s just so fun to analyze u know???
i need a literature pal T_T
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The Maze Runner (2014) notes
It was no contest which trilogy I was gonna plow through next. I mean, it was a bit of a contest (originally thought I was gonna jump into Hunger Games) but I prioritized the series of which I'd seen less of.
Now I HAVE seen this one before, actually. Saw it in theaters with a whole group of friends, most of which I didn't know, I've forgotten most of the fine details, should be a good chaser for Divergent.
>real quick, "get ready to run" is a great tagline. "Get ready to be hungry." "Get ready to abra kadabra."
>opening shot fucks. Just the screech of the elevator, our eyes adjust same time as the dude's. Gold star
>if you let yourself get manhandled by Will Poulter that's on you
>idk the main dude's name yet but I'll guess. He looks like a Danny. My guess is his name's Danny
>oh that kid looks exactly like a Newt. Growing confidence in main boy's name being Danny
>i do remember this kid who dies at the end. Sorry, sport, you don't look movie star enough. Work on that jawline, maybe get yourself a taper
>"welcome to the Glade (bitch)"
>trying to vaporize Newt with my mind
>ain't no way these kids are keeping track of the years. Honey idk what day of the week it is and I got a widget at the bottom of my monitor (not checking it on principle)
>"no one's survived a night in the maze" okay okay i know how these things work. Danny's gonna make history
>stop calling him Greenie; his name is Danny
>"does he look like a Shank?" DANNY
>his name's not Danny. It's Thomas. No one talk to me rn, got a lot to work out
>sad to say I don't think I'd be a Runner. Probably be one of the guys that makes the food. Bet there's a quiz on one of the YA sites.
>who among us hasn't been mounted, strangled, unable to gain advantage, and reached to our sides to find a hand-sized, head-cracking apparatus? This movie tells my experience
>ik it's dumb of me to once again be asking who cuts all the hair, but seriously
>nvm, I believe that's a job around the Glade (we call them Shearers)
>death by maze, death by maze, death by maze
>"no one's ever survived a night in the maze" is the most telegraphed thing so far but I appreciate the setup. Movie's running at a solid clip
>lmao @ the maze monster quieting down to give Thomas a spook
>real sweet of the Gladers to hang around the maze entrance all night. Apparently just to entertain Chuck. Those are homies
>Danny Thomas setting Glade records on his third day. Man's looking for a promotion
>Really giving him the cold Poulter, ain't he (you don't have to laugh)
>exactly one girl showing up, nightmare nightmare nightmare
>didn't catch the part about Newt being the new leader. He looks quite overthrowable
>idk shit about mysteries but I like the speed this movie runs at. What's in the cannister, Danny Thomas?
>these boys are positively cracked at building shelters. I don't think I could built a hut in three years
>and scale models????
>girl's having a very reasonable response to this, gotta say
>Danny Thomas has still only been here three days?
>still appreciate the speed this is moving, but scenes have developed a sort of pattern:
"I think we should do this"
"no fuck you we should do this"
"guys!"
"what?!"
"element from two scenes ago has developed"
>boy who just got grabbed by a Griever is named Zort
>so Danny Thomas, with like six essential Galders a foot behind him, goads one of the Grievers with a "come on!" as if it's not twelve feet long and immediately dangerous to everyone in a twenty foot vicinity. See this is why you're not the leader, Danny Thomas
>Will Poulter delivers THE most telegraphed punch of all time and Danny Thomas still gets caught with one. Bro wound up like Popeye, dude, that's your fault
>speaking of his fault, and ik we're not supposed to side with him and I'm not saying I do, I'm just saying Poulter's processing of these past few minutes is not unreasonable. This did indeed happen due to choices made by the Runners, intended by maze design or not. If anything, I think the Runners are being too gung-ho about this, considering the immediate consequences of every advancement they make
>bravo to Maze Runner for its introductions and executions. Coming into this from a trilogy of movies in love with introducing a concept then just kinda letting it fester in the frame, it feels like every element presented here has a later relevance. Danny Thomas noticing the Griever stings make the other Gladers seemingly remember something from their past, thus stinging himself to intentionally conjure his own? Well done, Whoever Wrote This Book I'm Not Looking It Up Right Now
>dude, and Poulter distrusting Danny Thomas because he, on a subconscious level, remembers seeing him when he got locked in the amnesia tank? Whoever Wrote This Book I'm Not Looking It Up Right Now really thought of everything
>literally just typing "oh cool of him to not implicate Teresa in the 'I did experiments on you guys' thing" but then he immediately does, lol. Why did the other guys have to know that about her right now, couldn't you tell her that in private
>screenwriters make british actors say Ass on purpose bc they know they'll say it funny
>ooh we got Return of the Jedi nods, somethin most silly's about to happen
>reasonable estimate on Poulter's part: if the protagonists go back in the maze they'll instigate some more Griever shit, probably. Unless the maze doors are just open permanently, now, in which case it makes no difference, Poulter
>Mutinyyyyyyyyy
>was just thinking "don't these kids wanna pack before they leave the Glade forever" but like pack what lol
>I wanna know the life story of the extra who elected to stand like this:
>Danny Thomas is just full of Trailer Lines, isn't he
>score's very generic in this, unfortunately. Could've done cool motifs, divide the Glade and the Maze orchestrally but just about all of it's unremarkable
>half these Grievers die like Land Before Time villains
>then again I also like the lack of music, a lot of the time. Makes things tense
>feeling like there's not enough of a visual difference between the Science Facility and the Glade/Maze. Sure there's video screens but the color scheme's identical. Should've been like the difference between the Commonwealth and the Institute in Fallout 4, like that sucker punch of a juxtaposition
>calculated that 24% of all lines in this movie are "we call it the (noun)"
>so these kids represent the new generation of humans immune to The Flare, so they were trapped in The Maze to study what makes them immune, and it's not just that these kids have antibodies. Like it's not just that. Not saying I follow but I won't get hung up on it rn
>"is it over?"
"I don't know, chuck; think maybe we're in the figurative book one of the proverbial multi-book series that is our lives. Three books, at least."
>hahahahahaaaaaa, okay, lining up the cast in frame, "this is just the beginning," music swells, only for Poulter to run in for the antagonistic walk-off homer is good stuff
>weirdly articulate and conversational for someone who's been stung, gotta say
>one thing I remember from my first viewing was my theater cracking up when it's revealed Chuck's been shot
>what do actors think about when they pretend to be dead and their costar is crying over them
>"we call them whirly-twirlies (helicopters)"
>nice of the move go give us/the character's a bird's eye view of the maze, smart of them to wait until the very end
>"Time to begin Operation Sequel"
>author's name is James Dashner. Aight. Good work, G, got a few notes for you:
--Thomas' name should've been Danny
--that's it
So all in all I like the movie. Note that me liking something and being a fan are different concepts. Movie's exactly where it needs to be and there's obvious care and respect being taken, which I'm sure the fans can appreciate even if maybe Character A isn't rude enough or they cut out Character H. As for what the next movies'll be like, idk, but I'm excited to see.
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asylum:
“dylan you’re only doing a bit of locuming it’s not like you’re being sectioned” “okay okay i’ll do it for dervla” SKDKFKF
big mac’s first shift back in the ed
a woman setting a fire in an immigration removal centre
robyn being big mac’s mentor sjskdkfk
dixie calling iain jeff💔
a man asking dixie to help him die
LMAOO ethan trying to introduce himself to dylan and dylan interrupts him when he’s barely said anything and goes “i’m guessing you’re dr hardy” “assuming from what?” “just something zoe said” and ethan goes “oh” and smiles but then thinks about it like wait…
thinking about dylan saying he’d known ethan for 10 years lol ik he was either exaggerating for effect or just couldn’t be bothered to figure out the exact number of years but still sjskdkd
wait the person who started the fire is meant to be 18?? she looks older ngl
is max jealous of dylan sjskdkfk
AHAHAH THIS SCENE ethan: “this may be a bit sensitive but i need to ask about your periods, are they normal?” the girl nods. ethan: “are you sexually active?” girl: “what?! i’m like 14” her mum: “were you at that age?” ethan: “oh heavens no, i found girls utterly terrifying” rita: “think he still does”
can you believe this man now has a child. like, actual real life proof that he pulled😭😭
i think lily approves of dylan’s methods
ash getting angry at the girl for refusing surgery because she’s a jehovah’s witness
grace has been suspended from her new school lmao
“i thought you liked this kind of stuff, ethan, medical mystery”
LMAO dylan calling connie connie and her correcting him to mrs beauchamp and he looks surprised
she’s asked him to help ethan with his teenage patient
omg ethan suggesting coeliac disease as a possible diagnosis!!
i’m still waiting for the day casualty does some proper coeliac representation though
lmaoo ethan’s so confused because dylan didn’t tell him that connie had asked him to help he just walked up and started asking him questions skskdkf
ash: “i can’t just stand there and wait for her to die” rita: “who? oh jehovah’s witness lady” ash: “it goes against everything i believe in” dylan: “how exactly?” ash: “doctors are supposed to save lives” dylan: “by respecting patient’s wishes” ash: “it’s not as simple as that” dylan: “no it’s very simple. if she’s asked you not to give her blood then you don’t do it” rita: “are you always this cut and dry?” dylan: “yes always” SJSKDNF DYLAN MY BELOVED
ash trying to give her blood by force “a friend of mine didn’t get chance to decide whether he lived or died so you don’t get to throw your life away”😬
he throws the bag of blood across resus and it splatters everywhere
connie telling him she’ll suspend him if he doesn’t go to counselling
the parallels between this scene where dylan goes ahead treating the girl based on his suspected diagnosis before the actual test results have come back and ethan being like but you can’t be sure but dylan’s willing to risk it and last week’s ep where dylan wanted to go ahead with whatever procedure they needed to do on robyn without a scan and ethan being like we don’t even know how big the clot is. glad to see nothing’s changed skskdk
ben harding
connie seeing how important the girl is to her mum and going to pick grace up
dixie scattering jeff’s ashes😢😢😢
dervla ate all the other dogs’ treats at daycare sjskdk good for her
lmaoo ethan, max, and rita talking about dylan. ethan: “i feel like i’ve been run over by a bus. do you think he’s always like that?” rita: “probably” max: “ah you’ll be fine, you just need to man up, mate”
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Here it iss Some fresh crack I don't do this often so idk how good this is 🥲
You and your friends decide to go to a haunted house!
There's your BFF nahida,the guy you've been crushing on for a while Childe, the one who planned the trip kaeya and..kaveh your worst enemy (yea you don't know why he's here either considering how much of a little whiny brat he is 😒)
ANYWAY you waltz in and are having a grand ol time clinging to your crush every chance you get-until *GASP* OH NO your bffl NAHIDA has been found dead!!
(Yup you guessed it its a MURDER MYSTERY!)
WHO COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING SO EVIL?? !!ヽ(ﾟдﾟヽ)(ﾉﾟдﾟ)ﾉ!!
WELP your on the case withhh kaeya! Who ever so gracefully offered to help 👏
You swear to avenge your bestie and find the fiend who did this!
You question the staff that had been on the scene and..
The last person who was seen with nahida happened to be KAEYA!
NOW you decide not to jump to conclusions-yet and question him. Kaeya said he ran away after getting jumpscared and met up with Kaveh.
You question kaveh (while trying not to back hand him cuz yk worst enemy n all)
AND finally you are left with Childe who you happened to be with during the event (yk casually flirting)
Who could be the culprit??
A. No one She's just napping 😁
B.Kaveh! (You knew that over sensitive crybaby had something to do with it!)
C. Kaeya! (It must've been a set up! Why else would he wanna go to a haunted house in the middle of DECEMBER?? *just go with it*)
D. Childe! (Aghh the BETRAYAL how could he?? Especially after you were willing to hand over your heart to him!? (；Д；)✋️
E.You!
WILL YOU BE ABLE TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE AND AVENGE YOUR BESTIE??
FIND OUT NEXT TIME ONNN "I'm probably bored so I'm doing something dumb"!
( there was alot of kaveh slander because you chose him as your enemy 😳 ik I did my bby wrong but this is entirely your fault!/lh)
Ik I was supposed to wait but-i couldn't help myself and just wrote it so just ignored what is asked earlier-it is kinda rushed tho soo
Hope it's to your liking
omg wait this is so silly and fun !!!! what !!!! BUT ALSO NO KAVEH SLANDER IN MMY HOUSE--- childe slander is okay though.
listen i think the logical answer would be childe given his track record, but if he was with me then i suppose it could not have been (unless TEUCER- (gets dragged away) )
my heart tells me that Nahida is just sleeping. shes fine. shes just having a little sleepy eepy. cabbage fairies need lots of rest and relaxation i think.
#i feel like a december haunted house would just be a mall#because holiday shopping scary#ok but seriously though this was such a fun idea !! thank you for sending it in :D#general barks#asks
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for ; @thomacrumbs june the loml !! thank u for being the only person ik whos also into vtubers, for being so cool and fun whenever we interact, and also for all the super cute kpop girl groups u recommended (they are so Gorgeous i love women) BUT ANYWAYS ilysm mwah i hope u like this <3 [also im in love w cuiwen yasss]
info ; thoma x gn!reader, detective au
"c'mon, i'll even treat you out to dinner! you could give us the puzzle piece that links this whole mystery together," THOMA flashes his dazzling trademark grin, prompting you to roll your eyes as he continues negotiating with the witness. buttering them up and getting them to let their guard down in hopes they'll let slip some crucial piece of information has always been his specialty, which is exactly why THOMA works so well with you. he handles the humane aspects while you deal with the facts.
unfortunately, one fact you're currently struggling to deal with is the unfamiliar feeling burning in your chest. inhaling a deep breath, you try to distance yourself from the situation to view it as an outsider; a tactic you usually use when looking at crime scenes to deduce the killer. THOMA has been your partner for what feels like forever, the two of you have been attached at the hip since meeting each other in high school and realising you aspired to work in the same field. and somewhere along the way, you had noticed your feelings for him straying from the border of platonic friendship to... something you were unwilling to admit, even to yourself.
you had a crush on THOMA. although to be honest, you can't really blame yourself. how are you not supposed to fall for someone like him? the way he slides his coat onto your shoulders when it's cold and you're working outdoors, or when he makes you coffee for the all-nighters you two spend together poring over case files, or even how he texts you telling you he doesn't mind working alone for a day if it means you get to catch up on your rest. he's just so caring, and when he smiles at you it's like an arrow straight through your heart – in a job like this where you're often forced to confront the worst types of people, THOMA is a welcoming ray of sunshine who helps get your mind off the occasionally overwhelming negativity of the sombre career you chose.
"hey, are you okay?" THOMA places the back of his palm against your forehead with a worried frown, evidently checking if you're running a fever. "yeah, i'm fine. just lost in thought, i guess. what's up?" you ask, schooling your face into what you hope is a neutral expression. (it's hard not to smile like an idiot around him.) "well, i got the info we need, so," he beams at you cheerfully, showing off his pearly white teeth, "i was thinking that maybe we could go out for dinner? we haven't had a chance to talk about anything other than work in ages!"
"you mean like a date?" the question slips out before you can stop yourself, and as soon as it escapes your lips you wish the ground would swallow you whole. but his reply catches you off-guard, "if you're okay with that, i'd love to take you out on a date." now you're actually smiling like an idiot, but it doesn't matter because the exact same goofy smile is on THOMA's face too, "then, what are we waiting for? let's go!"
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#thoma x reader#thoma fluff#thoma imagines#thoma drabbles#thoma scenarios#thoma genshin impact#genshin impact thoma#genshin thoma#genshin impact fluff#genshin x reader#genshin impact x reader#genshin imagines#genshin impact writing#genshin impact scenarios#genshin impact drabbles#genshin fluff#thoma#q.thoma#✏️ — quill writes !#tohma x reader#tohma fluff#tohma genshin impact
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I think your requests are open (I didn’t see anything that said otherwise but I suck at this app lol) but I was wondering if you could write a peter x reader (likely college-age) where they have an academic rivalry and just tease each other a lot and lots of fluff and shit? It can be an established relationship or like a friends/rivals to lovers or really whatever you want. Sorry if this is super specific! Anyways, I love your writing, it always cheers me up :)
friends close, enemies closer
ik this is cherry BUT i had to
w/c: 1.6k
warnings: swearing and hints of suggestiveness
a/n: thank you my love ! i’m actually obsessed with this concept so i’m super super happy with how it came out n i hope you are too :,)
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you wipe sweat from your upper lip, peeking at peter’s laptop screen. he’s more than halfway through the paper your english professor tasked your class to write. he looks to have not a worry in the world as he continues to type away. growling at this, you dive right back into work.
you’ve been at each other’s throats since the beginning of classes when you both wanted the same spot. first row, middle seat. peter had officially claimed it in the end. you’d flopped down next to him and his irritating smirk.
the dude is smart, you’ll give him that. his knowledge of literature is almost as impressive as yours. almost. he raises his hand any chance he gets, effectively stealing your thunder if you dare to participate.
peter is also a bit of a people pleaser. he’ll chat up your professor at office hours, fascinate her with his hot takes on things or stupid anecdotes. you often get so annoyed that you bail before you even attempt to woo her yourself. the sight of you storming off is something peter thoroughly enjoys.
bottom line is, golden boy peter parker never loses. underneath the sweet, innocent persona he hides behind is a ruthless fighter. you’re determined to end his winning streak, thus sparking your ongoing competition to be better than the other in every way possible.
this time, your goal is to meet your ten page paper requirements the fastest. they aren’t due for weeks, but you and peter are banging them out in one sitting.
you’re hauled up in the campus library, sat side by side despite your wishes for peter to get his own table. he’d insisted on sharing with you. why, you haven’t a clue. you can’t stand him, and he isn’t the fondest of you either.
that’s what you tell yourselves, at least.
“progress report?” peter requests from you. “page three. you?” you grunt back. he props his feet up on the table, arms flexed behind his head. “finishing up page seven. you already knew that, though... creeper.”
god, you can hear the shit-eating grin in his voice.
you glance over at peter, doing your best to ignore how his biceps bulge under his hoodie. nerdy little parker is ripped.
“worry about yours, i’ll worry about mine. thanks.” you reread the sentence you wrote prior to peter’s chiseled body distracting you. “oh, the irony,” he sighs and nudges the edge of your laptop with his sneaker. scowling, you shift the screen away from him.
about a minute of silence goes by until it’s unfortunately filled by peter. he stretches his arms out, finally removing his dirty shoes from the table.
“i’m gonna take five. maybe, you could use it as an opportunity to catch up to me,” peter cockily suggests. “spare me your charity, peter. i’m doing just fine without it,” you retort, letting out a scoff. peter raises his hands in defense. “if you say so, princess.”
here you were, naively thinking peter couldn’t become any more insufferable than he already is.
you slam your laptop shut and jab a finger at his chest. “jesus christ, how many times do i have to ask you not to call me that?” a patronizing pout adorns peter’s lips. “aw, i love it when you get all bossy on me. so cute.”
he grabs your hand still on his chest, pressing a light kiss to the back of it. you’re quick to wipe it off on his hoodie. nevertheless, there’s an undeniable heat rushing to your cheeks.
“well, i hate it when you call me princess,” you deadpan. peter tilts his head to the side. “do you?”
of course not. deep down, you live for the fuzzy feeling you get whenever the nickname slips from his tongue. oh, his tongue and the things it can do. poking out as he focuses hard on a question, running across his pink lips…
you have to reel it in. this is peter parker you’re fantasizing about, your mortal enemy.
“yes. i hate it, and i hate you,” you unsuccessfully convince the both of you. “no, you don’t,” peter rasps, darkened eyes scanning over your features. his stare is intense and intimidating. he grasps your chin between his thumb and index finger, slowly leaning in closer.
he’s not going to stop until you make him. you don’t want to, but you will.
you shove his shoulder, dragging your laptop towards you again. “on second thought, i could use that catch up. you’re not gonna throw me off my game, parker.”
your rejection seems to disappoint peter. his expression matches that of a kicked puppy, brows furrowed and arms crossed over his chest.
“we’ll see,” he murmurs and swings a leg over his chair. “alright, i’m gonna run to the caf. you want anything?”
he’s offering to buy you food now? what’s his angle here?
“i’d say yes, but i’m afraid you’ll poison it somehow,” you half joke. peter hops to his feet. “don’t give me any ideas,” he warns, snatching his backpack off the floor. “i’ll just surprise you.”
although you’re curious what his mystery snack choice for you would be, you can’t accept. you’d be going against your entire dynamic.
would that be so terrible?
absolutely.
you wave him off towards the double doors. “i’m good, peter. really. i’m not that hungry, anyway.” shaking his head, peter throws a backpack strap onto one shoulder. “y/n, your stomach’s been grumbling for the last hour. you gotta eat.”
he’s not wrong. you’re starving, but you’ve been too preoccupied by your essay to break for dinner.
“fine, surprise me,” you concede. peter flashes you a smile, this one void of its usual condescendence. “i’ll be back. try not to miss me too much,” he calls as he walks backwards to the library doors. “i won’t. shoo already,” you dismiss him, a laugh falling from your lips.
peter winks at you, then disappears into the night. you’re left with a serious case of butterflies and a certain freckle faced know-it-all on your mind.
that’s a problem.
you’ve managed to get another page done when peter reappears. he sits back down and slides a bag across the table, you closing your laptop. you dig into it to figure out what he picked for you. you’re not too pleased with his selection, however.
“oh, yummy. vomit in a cup,” you announce as you hold a green smoothie in your hand. peter reaches over and pats your thigh. “it’s good for you. drink up, princess.” you slap him away. “hard pass. i’d rather you have gotten me nothing.”
narrowing his eyes, peter pulls two cookies wrapped in a napkin from his pocket. “i’m guessing you don’t want these either? more for me, then.”
they’re chocolate chip and m&m, your favorite in the cafeteria. they just came out of the oven, so they’re still warm.
“how… how did you know i…” you trail off, peter setting the cookies in front of you. he offers you a lopsided grin. “i know a lot about you, believe it or not. i pay attention.” you surprise yourself by returning his smile. “thank you, peter. how much do i owe you?”
“nah, it’s on me,” peter assures you. “enjoy.” pushing aside your unappealing drink, you seize the cookies instead. “you have to eat, too. let me at least split these with you.” there’s a beat before peter nods. “fair enough.”
that results in you two munching on your cookies while pretending to write your papers. you’re sneaking glances at each other whenever the other isn’t looking, in reality.
once it’s about time for the library to close, you’re on the verge of passing out. peter is concluding his essay until he hears a thump from your side of the table.
he finds you with your cheek smushed against your keyboard and hitting random letters, snores escaping you.
chuckling to himself, peter places a hand on your shoulder. “hey, y/n?” he speaks in a hushed tone. you awake with a gasp, drool pooling at the corners of your mouth. “easy there, princess. it’s only me.” he rubs circles on your back, and it’s oddly comforting.
“keep doing that,” you purr, momentarily forgetting how much you’re supposed to despise peter. he lets his fingers dance across the exposed skin of your lower back. “we should probably head out. it’s kinda late,” peter decides.
you sit up, bones aching and eyes forced open. “not yet. have to beat you first.” you start to delete the gibberish you accidentally typed. peter cups your cheek to turn your head towards him, your movements halting. “this one’s a tie. you did good, y/n/n,” he coos. “finish the rest another day.”
“why’re you being so nice to me?” you nearly whisper. peter uses his thumb to swipe the drool from your lips. “‘cuz i care about you. i might not show it, but i do,” he admits with the hint of a smile. “besides, i need you… for the, uh, the healthy competition.”
laughing softly, you twist his hoodie strings around your fingers and tug. “your intentions are pure as always. sure that’s all you need me for?” peter’s gaze darts to your lips, then your eyes. “we’ll see,” he repeats.
rivalry be damned.
“mm. i care about you too, parker. thanks again for tonight,” you hum. a blush coats peter’s cheeks, even in the dim library lighting. his sweet and innocent side might truly exist. “no problem.” peter links your pinkie with his, the gesture giving you that fuzzy feeling. “i’ll walk you back to your dorm?”
you lean over and kiss his pinkie intertwined in yours.
“lead the way.”
#peter parker#peter parker fluff#peter parker x reader#peter parker x y/n#peter parker x you#peter parker fic#peter parker fanfiction#peter parker imagine#peter parker au#peter parker smut#tom holland#tom holland fluff#tom holland x reader#tom holland x you#tom holland x y/n#tom holland smut#tom holland imagine#tom holland fic#tom holland fanfiction
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Bokuaka headcanons
I'm sorry. I know the next one was supposed to be Tsukiyama but I don't have enough ideas for that ship yet so I'm just gonna do Bokuaka first.
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- Bokuto fell for Akaashi when he first met Akaashi at the gym in his 2nd year of high school.
- Akaashi first admired Bokuto's ability to be so energetic and make people happy just by his smile but found himself slowly falling for Bokuto over the months.
- Bokuto REALLY like Akaashi to the point he wanted to fail his finals on purpose to stay with Akaashi (well, he barely passed it but :D)
- After Bokuto graduated, he would still go to his high school to meet his 'best friend'. He still wanted to have Akaashi set for him so the new team often have a session with Bokuto every month or so (maybe more because this man is needy)
- When Akaashi went to college, they slowly drifted apart. Akaashi being the insecure one purposely avoid Bokuto because he thinks that he will be a barrier to Bokuto's way to greatness. (Somebody hug this boy :( He's so hard on himself)
- Bokuto tried his best to contact Akaash, which is hella hard since this guy is just too good at hiding, but with the help of his old teammates (they ship them so hard) he finally was able to meet Akaashi again.
- Akaashi thought that he is going to get over Bokuto once away for him but the distance only makes him crave for Bokuto's smile even more :(
- They reunited and Bokuto helped Akaashi with his insecurity (Imma gonna skip the details because this is supposedly a headcanon, not a whole fic)
- They started dating and listen to me. This couple is SO SWEET I might get cavities.
- They found a way to hide from Bokuto's fans in public by making Bokuto not use any hair gel and put his hair down on dates.
- Akaashi went to Bokuto's nearly every match using the excuse of an interview. When Akaashi is there Bokuto plays like 120%. Fans and teammates (except for Sakusa, Hinata and Atsumu because they already know the relationship) notice the difference because this boy doesn't know how to hide. They found him looking at the crowds more often, agitated to win, showing off more,...
- Akaashi got attention from the Internet because of Kenma tweeting about him. (I mean look at that fine man) The whole Internet is talking about this mysterious handsome man. Everyone is trying to find out about him when Kenma said he was taken and the rumor started about him and the Kodzuken.
- Bokuto was so jealous and was in his emo mode (which rarely comes nowadays) the whole week making the whole media confused. Then the match at the end of the week, Akaashi finally came to this match and the whole media was even more confused when Bokuto suddenly perks up at the second set.
- A few matches after that people spotted the handsome guy-Akaashi at Bokuto's match a lot. Fans began speculating and stuff. Akaashi got himself a whole fandom (not so big but still)
- Time skip to the Olympics: Akaashi went to the Olympics and Japan won the finals. After the match, Akaashi was celebrating with the crowds when Bokuto ran to him and yes, kiss him (Ik it's cringe). At that moment the whole stadium froze. Then from the teams is the teasing and cheering of their friends. Oikawa began making kissing noises. (Argentina is the other team)
- They have to run out of the stadium after the match and hide because who would have thought that the 'handsome guy' and Bokuto is dating. After that game, Bokuto proposes and had a yes for the answer.
- Bokuto tweeted the photo of their hands intertwined with the ring and the caption: "Thank you for being with me the whole way my dear setter. I love you, Akaashi Keiji."
- Kenma, Kuroo, and their other friends also tweeted their congrats and tease. Kuroo commented: Bro, did Akaashi take that picture? I'm pretty sure that if not your phone already cracked. (Ik I'm as dry as f*ck so don't come after me pls)
After that day, Japan's media kinda died.
#haikyuu headcanons#haikyuu!!#haikyuu#akaashi#kenma#bokuaka#akaashi keiji#hq koutarou#bokuaka fluff#kenma kozume#hq kuroo#kuroo tetsurou#hq akaashi
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A ranking of all the TTT stories in order of how much I liked them.
(Oh god this is so long)
1 My Mother's Axe
BABY ANDYYYYYYYYYYYY. Honestly this one had the trifecta of developing a character's motivations, developing a character's backstory, & developing their personality. The story starting out with Andy teaching Nile to use the axe was so charming and fun, and you could feel that chemistry they had in Opening Fire, the way they teased and bickered with each other so naturally. I loved the wedge between them on the subject of the axe, how Nile was perhaps a little too young to understand Andy's feelings about whether or not its the 'same' axe. I also love how the axe is obviously the symbol of the franchise and hugely important, but you never get a sense of exactly how important it is to Andy until you read the story.
I love the entire Ship of Theseus theme, and how it feels so natural that for Andy she has to get attached to the idea of things rather than the things themselves because she'll always outlive the things themselves-- the axe is symbolically her mom's axe, even if physically it isn't. And I love how she clearly clings to that concept so tightly. "This is the labrys she held in her hands...." IT GETS ME.
And the fact that this sense of BELONGING, of FAMILY, of CULTURE is so important to Andy that she clings to it (figuratively and literally) with both hands. And of course it's important to her, she spent so long alone that the woman doesn't even remember her birth name. That axe (or the idea of that axe) is all she has left of her mother and that family/culture she was born into.
PLUS on that note I love how Andy doesn't remember if her mom was her actual biological mother, but it doesn't matter to her. This woman was her mother in all the ways that counted. And how her mom BETRAYED AND KILLED Andy but Andy loved her so much that she avenged her and carried her axe for thousands of years. THOUSANDS OF YEARS!!!!!!
I also loved how the story transcends the timeline of the whole franchise and seeing Andy through the years. Loved seeing her with the varying squads and with varying axes. Also baby Andy was so cute. It was cool seeing her so young. like holy fuck. Andromache The Scythian, Immortal Warrior (but smol). Love that.
Also I think this one is one of the few ttt stories that doesn't suffer from length problems.
tldr: goddammit greg you've done it again.
2 Zanzibar and Other Harbors
Zanzibar my beloved. I've said before, but it's downright comedic how little regard there was for Joe and Nicky's character designs in this story. The same person who does the colors for the regular comic did the colors for this one too, and you can tell, every panel of this story was Beautiful.
Ik there was A Lot of criticism of this one (lmao @ how the fandom had no idea what was to come) but I thought a lot of The Discourse was a bit dramatic. I did think Nicky came off as a little oblivious to Joe's feelings in this story, but I've said before, I honestly think that was a 'tone not translating' thing. It felt like Nicky was nagging Joe for [checks notes] saving innocent people, but Joe was so amused by Nicky's complaints I really do think it was supposed to come off as teasing.
Plus I know the 'Joe running off into danger and Nicky reluctantly following' dynamic wasn't popular (I'm a pretty meh on it meself) but I did love how Joe's impulsiveness (if you want to call it that) was interpreted as heroism and not hot-hotheadedness. All of the examples Nicky and Joe talked about included Joe explicitly saving people. (and it also took A Lot for the nazi to actually provoke Joe).
I also feel like their characterization here was closest to the movie canon-- the bit where they hear the woman scream and Joe goes running in to save her while Nicky swoops in on Joe's heels to comfort her while Joe and the nazi were fighting reminds me of the train car scene. Joe had suggested First that they go find Nile because she needed to be protected, and Nicky later added that Nile probably also needed emotional support. Similar reactions.
But it was So Good, the themes of queer community and the enduring nature of queer culture are Not themes you see in media that often and it was such a delight how it was done. Also it's one of the few more modern TTT stories that has a completely valid excuse for taking place when it did. Chef's kiss.
3 Passchendaele
I love the Duality between seeing baby Andy and then seeing Mama Andy in the very next issue. This story doesn't have a ton of meat to it, but the entire concept of Andy adopting a war orphan straight off the battlefield PLUCKS MY TENDER LITTLE HEARTSTRINGS, and I think it's especially poignant for comic!Andy. I think most people wouldn't think twice about movie!Andy doing something like that but comic Andy is so hardened and almost cruel sometimes, and seeing that even for her the world hasn't beaten all of the compassion from her yet is SO!!!!!!! this woman contains MULTITUDES okay, she's violent and angry and tired and Done but she's also so kind and compassionate and THE STRENGTH OF HER!!!!! Also the idea of her and Yitzhak co-raising a kid together is so damn cute. It was #mysterious pre-Yitzhak-story but now it's cute. holy fuck. It's cute.
& the headbonk panel of her and Zeus lives in my heart. anyways.
4 Many Happy Returns
I Know people weren't thrilled about Booker being in this one, but I've developed a pet-peeve about that: this story was *not* booker-centric. Booker only exists in this story to the extent required to explain the importance of the gesture Nile makes towards him. If there was a story about Booker making some grand gesture of kindness to Nile no one would be saying it was Nile-centric. bc it wouldn't be! Booker exists in this story to explore Nile's kindness, its not about him. I saw that a couple times and it bothered me. anyways.
AAAAAAAAAA I loved this one, the art was beautiful, I loved how Andy Nile and Booker were drawn (like their comic selves but.. more looking like actual people). I loved Andy and Nile's Bants, how Andy wanted to jump right in and Do Violence but Nile was basically telling her to hold her horses.
I feel like I'm just repeating the post I made on this story a few days ago, but I LOVED how Nile's plan revolves not around violence or Cool Mercenary Skills but on Nile's own life skills (as she canonly did a lot of minimum wage job-hopping before the marines in comics canon). Her plan used her skills, not the skills of an immortal warrior, and HER SKILLS were in fact more useful for the situation! lov to see Nile's resourcefulness and planning skills.
AND HOW NILE WAS PROBABLY WATCHING BOOKER??? it's so Much bc 1.) nile knew booker A SINGLE DAY and yet he made such an impression on her emotionally that she had to keep an eye on him and 2.) she said in the movie she wanted Booker to get off free with an apology. Yes she's a member of the team but that doesn't mean she's necessarily going to follow orders like a good little soldier. I also love how she convinced Andy to go along with it. her HEART, her KINDNESS, her THOUGHTFULNESS, UGH.
5 The Bear
Honestly I have like no negative things to say about this one other than a.) character design issues which is less about the story itself and is more of a 'tog comic in general' criticism and b.) too short, but it was supposed to be a tease, so.
But I loved Yitzhak, I wasn't expecting to really like him at all but like I said in my other post, he tickled me. I love characters who are Kind™, especially if they have little reason to be so given their backgrounds. Chef's kiss. Lov him.
6 Bonsai Shokunin
I know this one was a little controversial bc of the outsider POV but whenever I see people upset about that they never point out that the Outsider Guy (the samurai) existed as a reflection on Noriko. His ideas are explained in the text to develop hers. The whole story follows how she gave mercy to a scared young man and in response he murdered Noriko, repeatedly! Who gave him the right to inflict such pain and suffering on the world? In his opinion, the lack of response from the gods was his permission. And for Noriko-- over and over again she dies and suffers because she gave mercy, which lines up with her ideas in FM about how it's their fate to rule mortals and if they don't align with that plan/fate/whatever then they suffer. It shows some background to those ideas and how they developed in her mind outside of Ocean Madness™. Additionally, his idea of 'the Gods have done nothing to strike me down so it's fine if I do these things' kind of explains how Noriko may justify her own morally corrupt actions-- she's died so many times and it's never stuck. Maybe if she did die any of those times, or while she was in the water, maybe that would've been a sign she was doing something right, or at least doing something normal. But she hasn't died. Fate isn't done with Noriko yet. And maybe there's a reason for that. In her mind, it's just not a very pleasant reason, is all.
There were things I was kind of meh about tho. I did kind of wish we saw something of Noriko and the team, or smth explaining the way she was before her dip in the pool-- personality, likes dislikes, etc. but it wasn't bad or anything. It was super vague tho, I had to read it a few times before I got what it was going for. Liked the art. Liked the bonsai metaphor. And of course I Respect the decision to use the 1300s (1200s? I don't remember off the top of my head) rather than using the last 200 years.
7 Strong Medicine
Honestly looking back, this one made me kind of sad because both this one and Bonsai Shokunin explored character's ideas on Fate and The Divine and how that intersects with immortality and I totally thought that theme would be continued, especially with Love Letters. But Then It Wasn't™.
Admittedly.... I had to re-read this one to remember most of it. I liked Booker's ideas on God, 'The conductor of the symphony just may not be very good at his trade' but the plot itself was kind of forgettable. Some fuckin cowboys try to kill a doctor (their second) because he couldn't save their sickly brother. Book tries to stop them, gets killed, and then comes back and kills them all before they get the doctor. Alright. I liked the artstyle because the characters were ugly in a similar way that leandro's are, but way more bearable.
I love the Irony of Booker concluding that there is no such thing as fate or destiny and nothing has meaning, AS HE UNKNOWINGLY SAVES MERRICK'S GRANDFATHER FROM BEING KILLED. Booker getting fucked over by life/god/destiny yet again. It also kind of explains about where the fuck hell Merrick's interest in immortal mercenaries even came from.
I originally had this one a lot higher and then I thought about it and moved it down like two spots.
8 Never Gets Old
I liked seeing Booker interact with his kid. And we got a name for the kid! Philippe was a little bitch though, he was a little obnoxious. I liked how Booker was so thrilled to experience a restaurant with his kid (and since we know he was there before, it can be assumed he went with all of his kids and yet he was so charmed each time). It fits with his line to Nicky in the moon landing story about how you don't appreciate beautiful things 'unless you have someone to share them with'. It was charming to see Booker interact with his kid, and to see him so happy. Also lmao @ Booker's big fat Ye Olde Crush on Andy.
However at the same time it was like.. of all the things to write about,,, I guess? Booker's Night Out...... alright. Especially since Book had so many stories.
I don't know, it was alright. The old man killing him really came out of nowhere, (but the 'Salut, asshole!' panel was funny tho).
9 How To Make a Ghost Town
I've hit a point where talking about these stories has gotten less fun. I liked this one but I felt like Achilles getting lynched was not really necessary for a story that was already tragic (a story that already involved Achilles doing a lot of suffering at the hand of bigots). When we first got the blurb for this story I thought it would be about Andy returning to the squad and making friends with Booker after losing Achilles and them butting heads on the idea of family and when to cut off ties. So a little bit of my underwhelmedness about this one might be just my expectations being different.
Honestly I was pretty interested in Andy and Achilles' relationship and I would've liked to see more of them-- like, what was their dynamic like? What did they love about each other?
But anyways Andy leaving and Achilles getting killed anyways feels so pointlessly tragic (which I suppose is the point..... I don't like tragedies) she left to save him and yet people killed him anyway. Meh.
I did love the bits about Andy wanting to have a domestic life (Andy and her multitudes again) and the little detail about how she buried her axe near the road but he buried his guns under his bed-- he was an escaped slave, he never had the luxury of assuredness like Andy did. It was a sad story.
10 Lacus Solitudinis
'You put this one above love letters crim??? how could you???' easy, lmao.
There was stuff in this one I liked. But to talk about stuff I didn't like: (I'll keep it brief, I know ragging on this story has been done time and time again)
UH, setting aside the 6 year cold shoulder between Joe and Nicky, I thought their chosen method of conflict resolution was... bad at best. Nicky's inability to talk about his feelings was also annoying, especially since the entire point of this story is a fight Joe and Nicky had, and yet we don't get both sides to the story, which is...... important? That fact is especially annoying bc in the absence of Nicky explaining his side of the story, it's absolutely a possible (and admittedly probably unintentional) interpretation of the text that we do get that Joe routinely resolves conflict between him and Nicky by simply cutting Nicky out of his life entirely until Nicky just. caves? Even if it takes years?
WHICH i could get into that interpretation and how fucked up i find it. but im not going to. out of restraint.
I don't know, I think there are a lot of interesting ways to go about this conflict but 'Nicky wants to kill a guy and Joe refuses to acknowledge his existence until he stops because he thinks Nicky is too much of a Good Boy to get his hands dirty like that' ('I wont watch as the world turns his (...) compassion into something ugly'. ) wasn't.. how I would've done it. (I mean you know Joe doesn't give a shit about what Nicky is doing in a moral way, because Joe doesn't even care or mention that Booker is killing those cops too. Joe only cares because he doesn't like the idea of Nicky changing in a way he finds undesirable.)
admittedly I've said before, I do like the emphasis Joe's reaction puts on Nicky's kindness. Joe has a complete inability to cope with Nicky simply Not Being Kind. It speaks to the steadiness of Nicky's compassion all those years. but still that fact doesn't make it the conflict feel worth it
hm. I said I would be brief and I wasn't.
oh well. basically I thought there was interesting conflict potential there but it wasn't done the way I would've liked, and the way it was done leaves a lot of disturbing (and again probably unintended) interpretations to lie.
What I did like? Andy and Joe having that pessimist/optimist dynamic. Joe nerding out about science. Andy not being impressed by The Achievements Of Man. I loved Booker needling at Nicky about his outdated slang and also trying to give him Older Brother advice practically in the same breath. I loved Booker giving The Worst relationship advice ever and Nicky being like 'I Will Not Do That, Ever, Thanks.' the family vibes were so good. The Joenicky vibes left a lot to be desired tho.
11 Love Letters
I talked about my problems with Nicky in this story (and Lacus Solitudinis). I don't know, the story isn't bad but I do hold a little bit of a grudge towards it because its very existence begs the existence of a solo Joe story and we didn't get one. If we never got this story, then we could happily count Lacus Solitudinis and Zanzibar as The Joenicky Stories™ and move on with our lives. sigh.
I remember when we first got the blurb for this story I was really curious about why Nicky specifically + the setting, and the answer kind of feels like 'the author had an idea for a story like this and saw ttt as a good enough place to utilize that idea'. Plus I was really underwhelmed by the Romantic Sentiment in the letter. If you look at it line-by-line, the majority of the letter is actually Nicky talking about how lonely and disturbed he is, rather than actual,, yknow,,, Romantic Sentiment. I mean, compare the van speech and this letter and this letter is just kind of meh in comparison. I liked nicky calling joe wise! and I liked the brief sun/moon metaphor! and otherwise it was eh. It didn't even have cute squad banter, which is why Lacus Solitudinis is above this one.
12 An Old Soul
Nun orgy. Nun orgy?????? Nun orgy.......
The whole story felt like a setup to have a nun orgy. Why did Booker have abs? Why did they do that to Andy's nose? ?????? the art was good at least.
nun orgy.
#tales through time spoilers#obviously#long post#seriously dont open that read more unless youre committed to scrolling past all these Words
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Church - JJ Maybank
Request: maybe a obviously super fluffy and sweet church date with Jj? or they are leaving y/n’s church and JJ planned a brunch for her and gives her a speech how much he loves her?
Request: ik he’s not a cowboy (as a nc girl i love a good cowboy and a good surfer boy) but i feel like cowboy take me away by the dixie chicks gives off jj vibes. i feel like that would be him and his girlfriends song. don’t ask me why because i honestly don’t know, i just get jj vibes haha
A/N: I gave myself some serious OBX style Footloose vibes while writing this and now I really wanna go watch the Julianne Hough/Kenny Wormald Footloose remake.
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Set me free, oh I pray, closer to heaven and closer to you.
You sat in the front row of church, knee bobbing anxiously as you listened to the sermon. Your mom reached over, laying a hand over your knee to stop the movement, “cross your legs dear.”
“Sorry,” you crossed your knees, smoothing down the atrocious dress your mom made you wear to church. It looks like something a Bates kid would wear and you felt stuffy in the warm nave, high neckline and elbow length sleeves itching.
There was little you could do about the situation. Your father was the senior pastor of the church and it wouldn’t look good if his only daughter were off running around the island on a Sunday morning when he was here, leading his congregation. He had no idea that you’d been out all night at a kegger on the beach with your boyfriend or even that you had a boyfriend. You could imagine the absolute horror he and your mother would feel if they found out that you were dating or who you were dating.
“Go in peace,” he announced, stepping away from the podium as people began to stand. He walked to the doors as ushers opened them, standing in the entryway to greet each parishioner as they left. You grabbed your backpack from beneath the pew as you stood up, following your mother to the vestibule where people were lingering to talk and have after-service refreshments.
You gave your dad a quick hug as you came up to him, “hi daddy-”
“Did you enjoy the sermon? You looked a little preoccupied.” He said, cutting you off.
“No it was wonderful.” You replied, “would it be alright if I left early? I promised Sarah that I would meet her for lunch.”
Neither of your parents were particularly fond of Sarah Cameron because of her style of dress, the boys she dated, and the rumors they heard about her partying, but they would never tell you to not hang out with her because the Camerons had money. She was a good scapegoat. You weren’t actually going to see Sarah at all.
“Be back early tonight alright, I want us to have dinner together.” Your father replied, giving you a kiss on the cheek before you hurried down the stairs, waving to a few people as you left.
You had parked your car out of the parking lot, down the next street so no one would see it. Or see the sleeping blond in your passenger seat. When you got back to your car you knocked on the passenger door before opening it, JJ sitting up as you handed him your backpack.
“You look like you’re Amish.” JJ laughed, handing you the pair of jean shorts from your backpack. After spending the entire night at the kegger you and JJ had passed out in the back of your Jeep and when your alarm had gone off this morning you’d driven to church, changed into the dress you kept under the seat for emergencies, and practically sprinted to service. Now that you could change back into the clothes from last night you were relieved.
“My mom would murder me if she caught me in any of the stuff I usually wear.” You replied, pulling the dress over your head to reveal the bikini top you still had on from last night. JJ let out a low whistle and you tossed the dress at his head. “Shut up.”
“I’m being appreciative of how attractive my girlfriend is.” JJ countered, tossing your dress in the back seat. “Are you getting in here?”
“Yeah, you can drive.”
JJ slid over the console and you got in the passenger seat, putting your backpack in the back. The seat was still reclined all the way back from JJ taking a nap while you were in church and leaned back, positioning yourself so that you could turn your body toward JJ while he drove. He took the back road leading away from the church so no one would see the two of you together.
You stopped for food at the market before the continuing on to the Pogue. John B was with Sarah all day and JJ had proposed the idea of taking the boat out onto the marsh.
“My dad said he wants me home early for dinner.” You mentioned as JJ untied the boat to push off.
“Well I can’t make any promises.” JJ replied, grinning when you glared at him, “what? The Pogue could mysteriously just stop working or something. She’s old.”
“And if you wanna see me before I’m old you’ll have me home early.” You replied.
“Fine, fine.” He promised, “don’t suppose there’s any chance I could go?” He had asked before, about meeting your parents. He knew how strict your family was and he knew that there was little chance they would ever approve of you dating him but he still wanted the chance to prove himself.
“I tried talking to my mom yesterday about the possibility of me dating and she told me that when I’m old enough to think about marriage...basically once I graduate high school, there is a very nice boy on the mainland that they want to introduce me to.” You replied.
JJ looked over at you, frown evident on his face as he thought about what you said.
“I think, when I graduate, you and me should just up and go somewhere.” You proposed, walking over to where he was standing behind the wheel and wrapping your arms around his waist.
“I’m down. Anywhere there’s a beach.”
“The west coast?” You asked, “we could live that surfer/skater life. Riding around in a van, vlogging about weed and organic living.”
“I think you’re still drunk from last night.” JJ teased, giving you a quick kiss.
“Why do you wanna meet my parents so bad?”
He shrugged, pulling you closer to him while he steered the Pogue through the marsh with his free hand. “Not a lot of things in my life have really worked out and I know I’m not exactly the church-going type that your parents want you to be with...and maybe I can work on that. If they want me in church every Sunday I’ll be there. I don’t know...I love you and I know you don’t put pressure on me or expect more of me than I can give but I wanna be able to be there for you when you need me and I don’t want you going through all these...sneaking around shit just to be with me. I want to be somebody you can be proud of.”
“I am proud of you. I’m not sneaking around cause I’m not...my parents are pretty close minded. You can come to dinner but I can’t promise it’ll be what you want it to be. I love you though, just keep that in mind. Nothing anyone else says can change that.” You promised, tilting your head so you could kiss him.
“I feel like I need some kinda bible cheat sheet.”
“If, and it’s a big if, my dad doesn’t freak out and lets you stay for dinner, he’ll probably make you pray over the meal,” you replied, “I’ll teach you the lord’s prayer, you should be fine passed that.”
“I stuck as memorization.”
“I’ll give you a reward if you get it right.” You replied.
“I do love rewards.” JJ grinned and you couldn’t help laughing when he pulled you in for another kiss, this one longer than before.
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ik i already said chianti was my favorite, but please talk abt writing emergency room!!!
thank you for indulging my obvious fishing you're a real one <3 I did not expect this to get this long I'm so sorry I'm gonna put it under a cut
The Emergency Room is the only one of my "renaissance" fics I spent a lot of time on or really... worked at. Chianti, The Apple, and Campfire all came easily and unexpectedly. Normally I think I do some of my best writing that way and I am pleased with the writing on all of those but I do think The Emergency Room benefitted from the amount of time and attention it got.
I started writing Emergency Room on Christmas. It might have been Christmas Eve or the day after but I'm pretty sure it was Christmas itself, because I was trying very hard to finish a new draft of a Christmas themed WIP six years in the making (I failed. I'll try again this year.) and this other thing kept wanting to be written instead. So I was like, fine. So technically Emergency Room predates Chianti, at least everything up through the waiting room scene because those were all written first and then edited only a little later. I was on a role and I was so excited to get to the scene with the doctor and then when I got there it became impossible to write. I still don't know why this happened, but it did, so I had to stop writing it for a while.
But I never really stopped because I was thinking about that scene all the time and working on phrases and sentences. The way I write, a lot of the process is invisible. I work out full sentences and sometimes paragraphs in my head and then I write them down. (Most of the first half of Campfire was written in my head while I was in the woods and I was so anxious I would forget it before I got to my phone to write it down.) I do make changes at this point, but it's rare for them to be significant. I basically use my WIPs as my daydream scenarios for any time I need something to think about. I also write in chronological order, so this scene I was stuck on became my mental backdrop for months. I really wasn't planning to pick it back up when I did, I was supposed to be working on a different WIP, but it happened.
The conversation with the doctor is one of my favorite parts, but the farthest I had gotten during these months of rumination was this part:
“I thought your name sounded familiar,” she sounded apologetic, almost embarrassed. “I’m sorry. I need to pick my metaphors more carefully.”
“Don’t be,” Josh shook his head. “You’re the first doctor I’ve seen in months that hasn’t opened with it. It’s... kind of nice.”
The next line, where she talks about the patient's role in surgery, was unplanned, but it ended up being pivotal to my understanding of this scene. The subtext of
“But there’s something else, something intangible, that comes from the patient. For all our scientific advancements, there’s still a lot we don’t understand about the body,” she paused, then added, “and the mind.”
is you lived because you wanted to live.
I actually worked out this subtext and I had a sentence that I thought sounded nice, but I didn't write it down because I knew I wasn't going to use it, and what I recall doesn't sound quite as nice, but it was basically "You were teetering on the brink of life and death. Dying had never been easier. If you wanted to die you would have done it then."
It's supposed to be a counterpoint to "He could have died happy," from the previous scene.
So, I hope someone picked up on that.
One of the things I knew about that scene all along is that when Josh tells the doctor what happened to his hand he's really telling Donna. Hopefully saying it to her shoes got that across adequately, lol. That moment was painful to write because I had already way, way committed to past tense but that one little line sounded so much better in present tense and there was nothing I could do about it. I still like the sound of:
"I broke a window," he tells Donna's shoes.
but there's nothing I can do about it!!! I'm not going to rerelease the Special Present Tense Edition although that sounds kinda fun, I have no desire to rewrite the rest of it in present tense.
Also I forgot about this when I was being annoying about wanting people to pick up on my favorite parts, but the thing about comparing the innards of the chair in the waiting room to organs is something I (surprise, surprise) thought of while looking at a cracked chair and I still adore the concept but I'm satisfied but not thrilled with the execution.
It's worth noting that even during the literal months I was stewing over the doctor scene, everything that comes after that was planned in excruciating detail. I even had specific phrases; the hug and
"I'll be right here when you get back."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
were one of the first scenes I thought of and anchored this fic the whole time I was writing it. That moment is the companion to
"I am very glad that you're alive."
"Me too."
"You are?"
in Fortune Cookie Wisdom.
Because that's the other thing about this fic. From the beginning, I was envisioning it as the night before Fortune Cookie Wisdom. This caused me a few minor wrinkles, like the space heater. I was writing along assuming it was already there, when I went back and checked and realized that I established that Donna was the one who put it in the bedroom, so I came up with a compromise. I also deliberately avoided saying what time it was throughout Emergency Room so we can all convince ourselves Josh got a few hours of sleep before already being awake at 7:30 AM in Fortune Cookie Wisdom.
But the biggest influence from Fortune Cookie Wisdom is the phone call in K-Mart. I had established that Donna got a last-minute flight home for Christmas and that Josh arranged it with Leo's help, and I knew I wanted the scene where he convinces her to go. But I had to figure out when and how he actually managed to pull it off and so the mysterious K-Mart phone call was born. I got a kick out of an AO3 comment that highlighted finding out who Josh was on the phone with because it meant that part actually worked.
And then there was the ending. At this point it was 2 AM, I had been agonizing over this fic nonstop for the last couple days and intermittently for months, and I wanted it to be done so I could post it. The ending was torture. I kept writing and deleting things. I kept staring at it trying to get the perfect last line, trying to convey the same general vibe as the end of Noël itself. I'm still not sure I didn't need one more sentence of buildup before putting the button on it, but everyone seemed to really like and respond to it, so I'm happy!
If you actually read this whole post congratulations we're friends now.
Also if you've read both I'd be very curious to hear how anyone thinks Emergency Room and Fortune Cookie Wisdom work together because I wrote them three years apart and the style is very different.
#adventures in fanfic writing with sarah#there's probably more shit I could say about this it was a fucking misery half the time#I just want to reread the emergency room so i can Perceive it#I reread my fics all the time#but I spent so much time with that one I'm still too deep in it#I've reread campfire already because it was such a different experience writing it
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An Innocent Sin & the good gay flashback ft. my descent into madness
I wasn’t sure if I should post this but I mostly want it archived so here we go. This is from like,, September?
So. “An Innocent Sin” is a dumpster fire unlike anything I’ve ever seen. I don’t remember why I decided to read it. maybe I was crazy. Either way... I read it. It soon started to touch upon (very very outlandish) sexual abuse which I thought was interesting. (the angst, not so much some of the wack circumstances surrounding it)
ANYWAY. at some point... we have a flashback. And not just that. It has a gay character.
And it turns rly gay. which mind you, is still in a het smut manwha (that has a “gay” side couple, but still!)
And it destroyed me.
For those who want to read it because I genuinely think the flashback is a decent bit, it’s all the bonus chapters between chapter 77 and 78 I think. There’s a part before that too, but idk where exactly anymore. (It’s on lezhin! or your platform of choosing)
I don’t THINK you’ll need any other knowledge to get the flashback bit? but it’s been a while.
Below the cut (rip mobile users), you can read all of my amazing reactions (all of these were text messages, for context - but I took most of the replies and convos about other things out). Post is also tagged as long post. :))
(i’m serious, this is fucking long)
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Here I am. Liking the gay flashback character. Feck. Main dude is still straight but idk it's cute pff
This is a mess. The girl white hair likes, likes black hair, maybe, but thinks white hair is attractive
What just happened is sth I'd like to know too pff
He's so cute tho omg. Watch me melt
Can we stay in this flashback before everything got perverted af and before white hair gets assaulted all the time
I would send an eyebrow emote if I could
Context: he's asking he says it again
Ik it's not mutual but loookkk he's so sweet. He's kinda rude in present time, can't we stay in this flashback forever
I never asked for gay, never expected gay but I got gay
This story is trash why am I still reading it shdhhd
He caught his mom cheating. And now she's forcing him to watch??? What is thissss
Well adoptive mom
But still sudhdidu what
Bitch how dare YOU exist
Save my babyyyy
Yay sister that's not yet a rapist to the rescueee
This flashback is actually just nicer in every way let's just stay here
This is a super long flashback btw
Idek anymore what triggered it
Okay I think I'm gonna make the sensible decision and let this dumpster fire rest and just go sleep
It was very wild. I kinda wanna see white hair get therapy but it has 90 chapters and I'm at like 30... So I'm very concerned this is gonna be very dragged out. Idek if it's even finished ahahsududi - but I do kinda wanna see where it goes and see more cute Noah (white hair) so. Here we are.
yeahhh like i was down for the sexual abuse angst but then the mother killed the adoptive son's mother bc the dad had a thing for her?? and it was someone a person studying with white hair knew and so he's investigating and I'm like
how did this turn into a crime organisation kind of plot
hhhhhhh i... i appreciate these horny things also tackling abuse but it always kind of gives me weird vibes to have both, especially when its very horny. And when people are horny to people who've been abused. Idk but I'd assume... you might try NOT to tie them up if they're frequently bondaged during their assaults. I'm just.... disjdksdj hello?? am i weird?? why are they fine with it???
also this manwha is so wild, theres this murder mystery investigation thing and then theres just a couple doing honry stuff sprinkled in between and i'm like OKAY
they rescued a guy in their basement and he's understandably very traumatized and they're trying to question him cut to our main couple trying bondage which i still dont understand bECAUSE HE'S A RAPE VICITM WHY ARE YOU OKAY WITH THIS
the ones questioning arent the main couple of course but
idshkjds
like im glad he's somehow okay with all this horny stuff despite his trauma and im glad he can be happy and have a nice relationship but DO WE NEED THIS MUCH OF IT
he's very cute tho
i like that even when i try other stuff lezhin recommends me it still has large amount of gay in it
[mei: i mean... that's pretty great, if you ask me]
I mean I agree, I'm enjoying the gay eheheh
these tonal whiplashes
there's not even that much white space between the panels fhjd
nvm it just turned horny
goddamn it
can there be 1 chapter without fucking?
okay, there were the flashbacks
WE ARE BACK IN FLASHBACKS
but im not getting the gay relationship, sad
OH WAIT
AM I GETTING GAY COMFORT bc thats very good too
OH NNOOO this turned sad very quickly
I'M SORRY IM SPAMMING BUT THIS IS JUST ANGSTY
I'M :((((
different species confirmed
I rly like them :((( I like the current girl too but it's just..... very horny with her. the flashbacks are nice [current tori edit: she’s very unloyal idk why i said I liked her]
im weird
HHHHH RIPPP
someone help him he looks so saddddd
not sure if thats the most healthy relationship but I'LL TAKE IT
AWWW black hair's mom cooks mild food for them bc Noah can't eat spicy food :((( im soft
PFFF
I LOVE THE FLASHBACKS :(((
awww
i feel like theyve done much more bonding than noah's current relationship. I mean yes I think its cute when she comforts him, too, but they rarely do anything besides be horny together
OH
OH THEY'RE KISSING
best buildup, honestly
the position is hornier than I'd like later here goes hope it stays cute
D-did someone just respect the word "stop"???
I am
amazed
i think you might uh. have some trauma stuff too so yknow
Dohye is a little dramatic in his reassurance but it's all rly cute so I'm :(( I like them a lot pls stay like this
getting invested in flashbacks is always like: ik it wont stay but pls stay like this
hELP
chapters ending in "i wanna touch him" is never good. I'm scared.
Oh okay he didnt do anything. PHEW. He's already better than the girl, can't they just end up together lmao
[Noah was jealous]
w-why do you look so evil dohye haukdhjs
oh. oh no. the horny is starting. pls dont... just be cute forever
DOHYE
NO
YOU WERE SO DECENT
WHY ARE YOU LYING ABOUT KOREAN TRADITIONS TO GET HIM TO DO STUFF
HORNY STUFF TOO NO PLS STOP
I JUST-
WHEEE TvT
the manwha is actually less visually horny in the flashbacks but im not sure if its bc its BL which isnt rly the genre of the manwha or if its bc they're still kids basically, which... I'd respect the latter, tho I'd prefer it to be like this constantly haha
okay. he's not respecting stop anymore, but it's also more of embarrassed nature more than "no i dont want this stop" so maybe i can forgive it. Still losing points, but he hugged him and it was sweet so HHHHHHHHHHH NOT SURE HOW I SHOULD JUDGE THIS SITUATION
They [Noah’s family] forbid him to visit his friends house I AM DEVASTATED
understandable they're a rapist, a fucked up murderer mother and a father with a thing for younger women so
tho he dont know any of that but yknow
he's so pretty just fucking end me on the spot
hooo
they are boyfriends
and ik from the future that his sister is gonna ruin it allll
she has those drugs that make visual imaginations feel like they rly happened to the person (dont know if thats real but holy fuck its terrifying) and she's used it before to say that Noah assualted her. and im pretty sure shes gonna use it again bc there was a panel of Noah remembering Dohye being uhhhh intimate with her and thats why Noah began to hate him and im so sad im not ready for it. bc he's denied it in the future and i honestly couldnt see it happening even before that
or she drugged Dohye, i guess thats a possibility too
[current tori: oh girl, it’s neither and it’s wack]
which if, btich you gonna die even more
enough rambling, more reading. this makes me so sad but also spicy
on the manwha note, he thinks Noah doesnt like his family bc he's adopted and doesnt feel comfy which....... fair enough i suppose. and he's so cute im gonna melt just looK AT THIS
SHUt UP, IM GONNA CRY
OH MY GODDDD
he ate like ice and gum and all that, and Dohye assumed it was bc of the more spicy food and got rl worried, but he was just trying to get the smell out of his breath bc he wanted to kiss him ukhsdjs HOW CAN YOU BE SO CUTE
HELLLOOOOOOOOO
look at them. LOOK AT mY BABIESSSS
how am i ever gonna care about the main couple again
aww he-he wanted to go to the same highschool as him :((( im sad bc i know its not gonna happennnnnn
[mei: also at this point, you're literally never gonna care about them. i don't even know the main couple that well and i honestly don't care about them whatsoever.]
WAIT NO
they're actually going to the same school awww
ik it wont take long until sister fucks it up for them but
for now theyre so sweet ohmygodddd
cant he move in with them, fuck his family honestly
dohye he's not a fucking pokemon iukhsdjs
oh. its. turning horny
i am
displeased with this development but i guess its natural for their relationship
however
COULD YOU DO IT AT HOME AND NOT IN SOME DUSTY SMALL ROOM
how do ppl do this
i like that the comments too are just "... is anyone still carng about the other girl?"
sakjds
this is the best 3 panels in existence.
h-he just took your hand dohye idk what to tell you
[mei: "you blush at everything i do" god if that isn't me, idk what is]
awww its cute
dohye is getting bonus points bc he invited Noah over while his mom wasnt home, they watched some sexual stuff and he DIDNT try to do anything
what is this
where can i get more of this
"well im not okay"
MY BABIESSSS
they still didnt do much btw they're just kinda exploring and its honestly nice TvT I dont want this to ever endddd
[Dohye sees Noah’s sister and approaches her] N O
N OOOO
this is the starttttt of something.......... TERRIBLEEEE
:((( babyyyy
I AM EMO
Noah was drugged im sure. hes having dreams and waking up in pain
and the sister is asking doyhe over
I DONT LIKE THISSSSSSS
OH
HE DECLINED
OKAY OKAY
he saw him with her again but it was from behind and im not sure if it rly happened???
oh no this is terrible. Noah :((( poor child
i am so emo
about this
[reminder he’s been abused TvT]
[the sister: “Don’t you want to know why?”]
i will. murder someone
he called to ask her to delete his number btw
what is this manwha
but this is just gonna make it that more tragic when whatever happens that breaks them apart :(((
he's such a good bf but Noah just wont TELL him his side I'M SO SAD
I AM SO SAD
No
NO
It cant end
im actually tearing up nooo you were so cuteeee and happpyyy
[*sister is telling dohye to come to the gym hall*]
what else is she gonna do
she already teared [current tori: ahem... T O R E] them apart
THAT'S NOT DOYhE. THATS NEVER HIM. OH MY GOD. is it a look alike??? damn, she's dedicated to just. ruining it, huh
I’M
I’M SO SAD
now he's switching SCHOOLS
NO
NOOOOO
how will i ever find happiness againnnn
NO
they're misunderstanding further
they're not talking properly
i mean i get it but oh my god
I'M :(((
NO
NOOOO
pls make up in the future at least omg
he tried to clear it up tooo ahhh
i dont even have hopes for them getting back together but i just
i want them to clear it up
im crying
first manwha to make me cry and it's this dumpster fire ahaha
maybe a little too bc it kinda hit a little close to home i guess
but goddamnn ittttt
they were so cuteee and so happy and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OH NO. Noahs getting drugged and assaulted. And he's realizing it happened before, he just forgot. I am. so sad
it's not horny drawn either which i appreciate
but MY HEART
NO
N O
DONT YOU DARE MAKE THIS WORSE
Im. gonna cry more
Doyhe kept an eye on him im so emo :(( but he thought he was doing well enough and gave up.... Im
im so sad
no
i want you to make up and get back together its all just a stupid........... MEHHHH
will i ever find sth like this flashback again
[mei: p-probably not, no]
i am
so devasted
i dont even wanna go back to the main couple just fucking. i want this relationship back :(((( but i guess the investigation might end up somewhere so hhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhh
the baker manwha had a similar flashback feeling so. i just gotta find more of that haha
BUT THIS WAS SO SAD???
im so emo
[Dohye got kidnapped // the flashback commentary stops here but I think my descend into madness is pretty funny too]
OH YEAH THAT HAPPENED. THE FLASHBACK WAS SO LONG I FORGOT. NOOOO
SAVE HIM.
JESUS CHRIST PLS JUST ONE GOOD THING
its. actually rly smart to have another, more focused on them flashback, before the arc where he gets kidnapped by the rapist murder household
so. good job. from a meta perspective
but also
NO
but also. maybe theres hope for them making up at least after all :(((
[main couple kissing]
this is. very weird now. but im glad he has someone, he deserves it
but dohyeeeee
and switching to sex, YET AGAIN
now i wanna see this EVEN LESS THAN I DID BEFOREEEE
it's even.... a threesome now with one of the other characters
why are you like this
why can't you be. like in the flashback
i am
so upset
HAHHHHH WHEEEZEEEE
I am just
stop fucking
jesus christ
PLEASE
I DONT WANNA SEE IT ANYMOREEEEE
im just
stop the horny
pls
just
tell me who that new guy is and why doyhe likes him so much
[mei: this manwha is a fucking mess but at least we got your lovely commentary out of it]
dhsuksj thanks i feel honored
at least i got cute BL out of it before everything went [back] to shit
[mei: THAT TOO]
[...]
tbh im getting kinda mad about doyhe... i dont... feel like he'd just fall instantly for a guy who looks like Noah... but eh not my character
i just want closure for dohye at this point, fuck everything else
... not literally pls theres already too much of that
pls
get it together
for like 1 chapter
is the investigation even still happening i am so confused
save dohye
plEASE
wait what i have less than 10 episodes left
Dont tell me
this shit isnt even wrapped up yet
[Dohye is having a breakdown over the Noah double not coming to see him anymore]
yeah i
this... doesnt feel like Dohye... at all... Even when Noah was rejecting him he was just kind of... taking it with some humor and maybe he was a little desperate and risky sometimes but...
oh well...
i do want him to get better but... im having a hard time believeing this development??? he never seemed overly anxious or anything. but who knows what else they did to him.
Sister can still go fuck off tho
[...]
i mean. i liked the flashbacks a lot honestly??? it stayed simple and focused on the dynamics and less trying to balance smut with murder plots
[dm partner: NO THAT'S WHAT I MEAN LIKE CLEARLY THE AUTHOR CAN MAKE A GOOD STORY SO I'M JUST... CONFUSED AS TO WHY THEY DIDN'T STICK WITH SOME SOFT, FLUFFY BL ROMANCE MANWHA AND DECIDED TO MAKE WHATEVER THIS IS INSTEAD ]
okay
i dont care
bc dohye is currently getting assaulted
nobody asked for this
why
i just. this is terrible. he was... so sweet. he doesnt deserve this. nobody does of course but jesus christ pls someone save him
at least its not horny visually, one saving grace
ah... the assult is back to being depicted horny-ly
thank you for nothing
[... removed some general confusion about the plot]
YES. SOME SHIP FOOD.
i am. suffering
i mean i cant stop but GOD
okay so apparantly. the sister. has just an arsenal of people who look like other people
Dohye, then Noah... and even Noah's GF???
this is ridiculous??
one good message
why
did you feel
the need
to
add
that
[actual tired rage]
im gonna die
this manwha is gonna kill me
im laughing but im suffering
oh hes
arrested
great
and thats the end
and the last update was in january of this year
why
AS IN
NOAH IS ARRESTED
nobody who actually did anything is arrested
What is this
why is this
AHHH
I
at least wanted the complete-ness of finishing this but now I'M JUST SUFFERING
[ mei: I MEAN TO BE FAIR I'D BE SUFFERING TOO BC JUST... WHAT THE FUCK
I HAVE?? MANY QUESTIONS?? AND MANY CONCERNS BC THIS MANWHA IS JUST... AN EXPERIENCE ]
its an experience allright
WELL
_______________
yup that’s it.
in my head, in a twist of events Dohye and Noah make up and are actual endgame. Something like that must exist out there but I won’t ask because it’d destroy the surprise and ruin the point.
That’s it.
Have a nice day.
#an innocent sin#dohye x noah#noah x dohye#long post#tori talks#tori has opinions#reactions#yes I do this often in our dms#poor mei#toriqueue
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coming off of anon because i’m just gonna regret it if i don’t tbh
anyways kina your writing is just, it’s so bubbly and warm and invigorating. i’m personally super big on aus like angels and devils, guardian angels, soulmates, and all of the sweet romantic things that you’ve written about. I’m just overwhelmed thinking about everything about you that i love and i hope everything has been treating you well these past few months. thank for you all of this. also thank you for putting magic of mysteries up so high because i remember someone reblogged it joking about your furry writer phase and i was ultimately hooked?? all of your stories are read at 2 am for me and god deli diaries made me cry, truth between us made me cry so hard, honestly so many of ur fics are just wow.
anyways i hope you’re having a wonderful day. my best wishes for your future and hope you have fun with muster!!! <33
nurseryy asked: also thank u for leaving ur fics up. i remember going through some writers whole masterlist and then they left (which i understand) and then i had nothing else to read but!! i want to read your whole masterlist, little by little, and as much as that means i would be able to gush about how cool this one line in your fic was, i can still enjoy your works!!
nurseryy asked: also i’m about to read the end rn before you leave tumblr so i’ll let you know how that goes....lol... (also!! can we ever get a discord drop 😩😩)
lol so guess what.... i finished the end.....
honestly, i think i related to this fic a lot. not saying that seokjin will ever see me when i’m thirty and tell me he’s my husband, but y/n in this story made me rlly happy. like content idk. i think when i first went into this i could understand how y/n felt, like i never really needed extravagant parties because it never felt special? like i don’t mind having a cake alone, as long as i’m okay with what i have.
i think i used to joke about how money can actually buy you happiness because materialistic things would contribute to less financial stress, blah blah blah. but in yoongi’s story y/n is like sad. she’s alone, and like despite having everything she needs to survive, it doesn’t feel good when yoongi can’t be with her. and it kind of struck a chord in me because yoongi kind of gives her these empty promises, and i’ve honestly done that too, and it was a reflection of how that treated others around me, so it was a slap in the face, but a good way!! helps me grow as a person lol
with hoseok her feeling of being lonely even when everyone was around her resonated too much with me- LMFAO but his story and the way y/n never felt like she could keep up is how i feel with my friends sometimes and it just feels nice to read about her situation whether or not it’s real
namjoond was where i began to tear up because the feeling of not being good enough is honestly prevalent and the way seokjin and y/n comment on the life that y/n was in with joon. like to an extent, youre happy, but it’s internal turmoil that makes you feel frustrated and like not enough
anyways with jimins story they seemed happy, like it felt like they were picking up the pieces as best as they could but at the end of the day, it didn’t work out, because ambition wasn’t enough. and dance is so competitive so honestly jimin still trying to pursue that dream is very commendable
taehyungs family felt sweet at first. everyone looked happy, they looked close and i honestly was thinking about how in some ways, it felt nice to be preoccupied. and ik that’s it’s not taehyungs fault and he just wants the best for the family, but the stroller was like a good way of showing that what you want doesn’t correlate with what someone else might want?? and at the end of the day, she just cried, because it was so overwhelming, and just so much, and i literaly could never-
ANYWAYS jungkooks was fast paced. straight to the point. sweet in a way, cheesy, but sad. like you can see how jungkook tries to cheer her up and it’s sad to see how they pretend it’s fine, when in reality it’s not. like when he gets into the accident and tells her how he was supposed to go home with the money and make her proud, it’s just not what she wants, but jungkooks life in that story had always been built on chasing goals.
oh seokjin bestie eye cried so hard and honestly that feeling of seokjin thinking that he wish he would listen and he wish he could have done better hurts??? and the way he tries to make up for it by choosing someone else for her makes me so freaking sad and i was bawling at this point??? and when he wanted to get medicine for her and didn’t know what was wrong like god damn- feels. AND THE WAY HE REMEMBERS THE LITTLE THINGS OH MY GOD LIKE TULIPS AND HER MOMS NAME AND SHIT LIKE PLS I LOVE THAT MAN
anyways uh i agree the end was a fucking masterpiece and lord i’m so sorry if you got here and had to read through paragraphs of me sobbing and ranting but the story was just so good and i’m gonna simply think about this forever thank you kina!! anyways i loved the fic lol it was a BANGER
my goodness, thank you for sending in so many extensive messages hahah I really appreciate it. first of all, thank you for the kind words. I'm happy to hear you love my stories so much :') second of all, I am very ecstatic to hear that you enjoyed the end. and that you could relate to it!! It's always nice to see what readers think about each part/member's part. You definitely hit the nail on the head for a lot of them!! one thing I'll say is that it was important for me to show that the OC didn't really want anything extravagant. at the end of the day a small celebration + cake would've sufficed because what really mattered was the company she had - company which was all she really wanted. anyway, glad that you thought it was a banger :D :D
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happy easter! how do i make the jump between young adult books and classic ones? i’ve read a few classic books (mainly for school) but i tend to read ya fiction. however i really want to study english at oxford and ik that i’m going to need to widen what i read. so do you have any tips on starting to read classics or can you recommend some classic books that are good/interesting? i really want to read more classic books AND enjoy them! thank you
hi! i’m so so sorry about taking so long to reply. in truth i didn’t know how to answer this at first! partly because i was trying to work out how i did it, and partly because if i made an advice post on this i didn’t want to snobbily imply that the time comes when we should all be moving on from YA lit, because i know it’s really important to a lot of people that follow me, and i don’t at all want to prescribe what people should read at all. but disclaimers aside, it’s a really good question.
1. i suppose i’d say that whilst it is a new start in some ways, in others it really can just be a further expansion and continuance of your interests! when i read young adult i loved spooky stuff, so the first thing i sought out was classic lit along those lines, particularly gothic and/ or late victorian literature. that way i didn’t have to force myself to be interested; i was already interested in the subject matter and then only had to gradually adjust to the language and pacing. then i found that the more i read, the more my tastes gradually changed and organically developed (e.g. ‘i really liked these particular philosophical questions/ moral issues raised by frankenstein as much as the spooky stuff i originally picked it up for, i think i’ll read some more romantic literature dealing with similar concerns'), and the more classic lit i read willingly and enjoyed genuinely. if you send a list of young adult genres etc u like i can do my best to recommend some classic lit for you to start with!
2. romanticiseeee itttt – watch dead poets society, share pretty pictures on tumblr, etc. you can give this up later (or not! up to u), but this has given so many people a sense of how exciting history, literature, philosophy, etc are. as i’ve said in my faq, don’t do this at the expense of actual learning, but rather use it to kindle a sense of excitement, like it’s something really important and life-changing (which it is!!). look at art, read the wikipedia pages of philosophers, get acquainted with greek myth, do it all (it doesn’t have to be in a systematic way, just follow what catches your eye and the links will form naturally)! i think schools get it wrong in separating subjects so firmly from one another – you’re delving into the past, into ways of feeling and thinking that in many ways are SO different to what we think now (though in some ways comfortingly similar). be open not just to enjoying this as a hobby, but to entering it. i felt pretentious at first and that i was faking it, but it really is a case of faking it til you make it (and passion is never fake, anyway). there’s no ‘one way’ to read classic lit – i often thought i was missing something and was going to get ‘caught out’ as a phoney, but as long as you keep challenging yourself and throwing yourself into it the ideas and opinions you develop will be absolutely good enough, and you really will get out what you put in!
3. i was really fortunate to have a fantastic literature teacher who set up a weekly poetry club for a year or so; he picked poems that were ‘classic’ but very simple to understand. it was a wonderful way into classic lit as not just a stuffy thing to be adjusted to and slogged through to acquire a vague sense of achievement (why i didn’t read much of it before), but as vivid and alive – some of the poems had me reeling and i’d leave the classroom feeling things i’d never felt before and didn’t know how to name. ‘stopping by woods on a snowy evening’ and ‘the road not taken’ by robert frost were two i vividly remember, ‘high windows’ by philip larkin another, and also coleridge’s ‘rhyme of the ancient mariner’. read them aloud if you can! i’ve put together a poetry list, too, if you liked these (they’re all on there!) – skip the ones that don’t immediately speak to you, but hopefully a few will.
4. i was nervous about reading classic lit for ages, and was really put off properly starting, because when i read classic lit i sometimes just didn’t understand it. the actual words and the way sentences were constructed often baffled me, i had to go to the dictionary a gazillion times, i used sparknotes for every single scene in a shakespeare play. this is all fine, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise! rome wasn’t built in a day, and things only get easier. you’ll look back and be surprised how quickly you improve, even in a short space of time.
5. but i also felt there was something i just wasn’t getting not just in terms of literal understanding but because a lot of classic lit (like the poetry of keats, or hamlet, or the great gatsby, which i did for school and was my sort of ‘gateway novel’) was so beautiful and mysterious but conceptually so far beyond me or different to how i thought and functioned, or even if i sort of grasped it i didn’t have a clue what to say about it. rainer maria rilke’s letters to a young poet fixed that for me – it’s a beautiful piece of writing and seemed to answer so perfectly my mix of confusion and mute awe when reading classic lit:
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
i hope this helps 💕 an exciting road ahead!!
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