And three! Smiles go for miles!
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Ten fandoms, ten characters
tagged by @serricoj!
yellowjackets, lottie matthews
the haunting of hill house, nell crain
x-files, dana scully
narnia, susan pevensie
red dead redemption 2, charles smith
jonathan strange & mr. norrell, stephen black
supernatural, claire novak
hannibal, abigail hobbs
community, annie edison
once upon a time, regina mills
tagging cilantro lovers and/or pickle dislikers
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Unwinding by playing sonic forces again 💖
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before I sleep, here is my definitive ranking on all the NPMD songs and some rambles on why I placed them there - also the ranking is based on how much I vibe with them (music production and lyricism have different rankings)
1. Hatchet Town (aka the hatchetfield trilogy theme song like this tune perfectly encapsulates the chaos Hatchetfield has to go through with every Starkid project pos-2018 and I love it - kinda wish it was a number that is more integrated with the plot with the kids tho BUT I REALLY DID LIKE that this melody was quite prominent in the other songs too)
2. High School is Killing Me (I've watched many teen centered musicals and believe me when I say that this song is one of, if not, the best introduction numbers out there for this genre - also it's a really great opening hook for a show)
3. Nerdy Prudes Must Die (FUCKING AMAZING HONESTLY - amazing way to REALLY re-establish a villain back from the dead and to establish the main theme for the nerds here: "I'm Not A Loser" (tho i fucking wish that motif was used a bit more))
4. Just For Once (everyone cheer for Lauren Lopez flexing not just her high tier soprano skills, but also how amazing of a fucking actor she can be like the concept of this song is quite layered and to pull it off both comedically and emphatically takes great lyrical and acting prowess)
5. The Summoning (a well-anticipated onstage introduction to all 5 of the LiB that balances out befuddling neon-entertainment with genuine fucking menace)
7. Cool As I Think I Am Reprise (A FUCKING GENIUS REPRISE I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW COOL I FIND THEM RECONTEXTUALIZING THE OG SONG AND IF I LOVED YOU TO FIT THE SITUATION AND BOTH OF THE CHARACTERS GROWTH. LIKE IN TERMS OF THEMATIC IMPLICATIONS WITH CHARQCTER DEVELOPMENT, THIS SONG AND ITS SCENE WOULD BE THE TOP)
6. If I Loved You (I think this song could be a bit more honestly like I know how much Starkid has explored Steph and Pete's relationship in their other projects and I was really hoping that they would have it more portrayed here - however the song is a bop nonetheless and it matches neatly with their themes and the harmonies are top tier. I placed this higher than the next just due to my personal bias like I really do like the song)
8. Dirty Dudes Must Die (A GREAT TWIST THAT MAKES ME WANT ANOTHER MUSICAL ABOUT GRACE CHASITY'S DERANGED SELF - also the new context of the song Grace is reprising here makes her a villain even scarier than MAX of all people but that's just me)
9. Literal Monster (A very catchy beat and well structured song that provides a good introduction to a jock-bully with the god complex. also kinda foreshadowing to nerdy prudes must die)
10. Cool As I Think I Am (the instrumentation reminded me of Dear Evan Hansen ngl fjsjd but it really does sound like an I-Want song from a teen-musical which is of course what they are going for - it sounds very nice and earnest though and I loved how it was utilised in the reprise. However I still fucking wish that the I'm Not A Loser motif was used more)
11. Dirty Girl (look I'm sorry for ranking this quite low on the list but like there is no fucking way I'm using this as bait to lure other people in like they'd be scared away I'm sorry fjdjs BUT I love how Will and Angela perform this though like top tier starkid performances ever - its not just what I would listen to on repeat personally jgjdjs)
12. Go Go Nighthawks! (This one gets plus points because of FUCK YOU CLIVESDALE GO GET FUCKED. otherwise its nice and cheery and perfectly shows how happy everyone is without Max but um I kinda wish it could be a bit more especially in terms of showing how happy the other nerds are now that Max is gone but that's just me)
13. Bully The Bully + Bury The Bully (Look I couldn't decide which was better like they both are the same melodies so like gjxjs these two are cute though and I liked seeing the 5 kids bonding in Bully The Bully since we don't get that many scenes with them)
14. The Best Of You (the pop-punk happy number is a staple of teen-centered musicals and it does really sound nice - just isn't that much of a standout compared to the others.)
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Shout-out to everyone who survived a "fun" easter with the family
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took me forever but i finally finished this couple thing for mattodore! @wldestluv-rs thank you for sending it to me 🫂
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Ahh all of your WIPs sound so intriguing! For the ask game, I would love to hear about “Bloom” and “A Series of Unfortunate Tea Times” if you feel so moved. 👀
Ahh thank you! As you can see none of them have really creative names, because I'm terrible at titles!!
So many people were asking me about "A Series of Unfortunate Tea Times" so I've posted about that one here.
Thanks for asking about "Bloom"! "Bloom" was a story very near and dear to my heart that I started during 007 fest, but never could quite finish. I think it's somewhere around 30k and still unfinished. I wanted to write something very soft, but I think this might be too soft?
Essentially it's another story where Bond is physically and emotionally tired of the job, but he can't quit because he thinks he's not fit to do anything else. And then he happens to meet Q outside of work and discovers that Q has a hobby for botany. And Bond learns that his hands can be for more than just killing.
Here is a snippet under the cut :)
Bond sees it now, why they’re called moth orchids. They have the shape of a Polyphemus moth, but they’re even showier in a rich, luscious purple. Bond reaches out a hand, but stops before he touches.
“You can touch them,” Q says, and, perhaps sensing Bond's hesitation, goes on encouragingly: “it won’t hurt them.”
Q lifts a hand and delicately strokes one of the petals with his fingertips. They’re beautiful, Bond realises. He’s always watched Q’s hands—at his workstation frenetically typing, meticulously fixing equipment, confidently checking the chamber of a gun—and always admired his efficiency, his quickness; the skills needed to go quickly without fumbling or causing error. But now he sees them in another way, the way he’s pretended not to notice for a while now; like how soft they can be, like they are when he applies antiseptic and plasters, the grace of his wrist when he unwinds gauze bandages, and it’s here now in the elegant sweep of his finger across this orchid’s silken petal. What would it be like? To have Q touch him like that? So purely, so purposefully? Is he even deserving of it? That gentleness?
“Go on,” Q says softly.
Bond hesitates again. For the first time in weeks, he thinks about the bomb dogs abandoned in the Middle East. Just like them, he’s been trained to do one thing. These hands are made for killing. And he’s good at it: with a gun, with a knife, with his bare hands round someone’s throat. He’s been doing this for so long that he’s not sure he’s capable of anything else. Gentleness? He’s not sure how to be, not anymore.
But Q’s watching him, and it’s almost imploring, and Bond can’t deny him. He’ll try.
The back of his finger brushes the soft, purple petal. It’s smooth, and tender; fragile, almost. Like touching the inside of someone’s wrist. He could easily rip it, crush it in his palm. There would be no effort on his part to destroy it entirely.
Instead, he touches it again, with the utmost care, just to prove he can. And he’s filled with awe and wonder at this, that he can be gentle, maybe even kind.
It makes him wonder if one of those dogs left to die in the sand dunes of Afghanistan wandered into a village and met the kind hand of a stranger. Someone who put a bowl of water out for him, who shared their fire with him at night. Maybe someone who threw a stick, taught him to play, so that his dreams were not only ones of blood and smoke and IEDs. Maybe, just maybe, one of them got a second chance; a second chance to be something other than what they were made to be.
Out of the corner of his eye, he sees Q smile. He allows himself to smile, too.
His hands may have been made for killing, but maybe, just maybe, they can be made for something else.
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one thing I miss the most is drawing hands
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I will continue being gone for a few days, sadly my original al plan of releasing the newest chapter of The Consequence Of Imagination's Fear has also been delayed. My apologies
Can't go into detail because its hush hush not-legally-mentionable stuff but today is my fifth 12 hour no-break work day. I'm also packing to move too in a fortnight (which is a Big Yahoo!! Yippee!! I'll finally have access to a kitchen!! And no more mold others keep growing!!! So exciting!!!)
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Please make some more rdr2 stuff
Now I won't. Out of spite.
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school is so weird... you see the same people in the same building five days a week for the best part of a decade and even if you're not friends you know their names and faces... and then one day school ends and you just. leave. and never see most of them again ☹
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I saw your post about bookworm Sophie, and would like to tell you some thoughts about it. Also, nonbinary he/they Sophie is one of my favorite ways to write Sophie, so I am using it here, but feel free to ignore it.
Okay, so I think it would be very fun if Sophie was one of those kids who read both books that are “for girls” and “for guys.” Examples include those books about a school cupcake club, sport books, historical fiction, and a bunch of assorted fantasy. He also has a grudge against Moby Dick and Jane Austen, since people kept trying to get they to read them so often at a young age when he didn’t want to.
He took a break from reading when they first learned she was an elf, but eventually he found his roots again. However, now it was less the books she read back in the human world. Instead, it was nonfiction books that had both happy and sad endings for stories to tell their friends and discuss with Bronte . It was science fiction that he didn’t particularly like but knew Dex loved to hear about. It was graphic novels that made them cry and Keefe gush over the art. It was poetry that made their heart seize and cry and gave Tam a place to hid. It was all this, and so much more.
Sophie’s reading style changed from the human world to the lost cities. He still read for themself, but now he has friends who they can rope into reading with them. They love seeing how their friends react to things, since they never seen it before.
Sorry this is long but I have a lot of thoughts to share!
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Don't apologize, this is lovely! Sophie being a reader--all versions of him--is something that can be so so special, I adore it. They seem like the kind of kid who would absolutely blow through books so fast, so even if he has a specific genre he liked, their voracious appetite for reading means he got a taste of a variety of different genres.
I love the idea that they'd use this piece of themself them carried over from the human world--his disconnect, the solace he found in reading, the joy he got from it--to connect with a completely different set of people in a different world. It's a merging of the two. Something that comforted him when he was alone now used as a social, personal bridge of connection with the people they're surrounded themselves with.
It'd be interesting to see the ways his taste changes after what he's been through. Was it the friendships and belonging that attracted them to their prior tastes, a sort of vicarious wishful experience? So would they want to read stories where the main characters make it out, finding comfort that things go well somewhere? Or would reading them be uninteresting and frustrating because he knows that's not how it works?
I know you explained a little about your ideas of their taste in other categories, but I was wondering how their relationship with fantasy would change specifically. I suspect it would be a blend of the two depending on his mood. I hope Sophie enjoys the ways he and all their friends connect and interact over various things they read :)
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DWC November 2022 - Day 4: Children/Vision
((@daily-writing-challenge ))
If you'd met her eleven or twelve years ago, you'd have found the young woman lounging on a boat, in Durotar, drink in-hand. Or perhaps in a seedy club, with the music too loud. Maybe at a party, or in the depths of a long-lost temple, being tortured by Naga for trying to steal ancient, powerful artifacts - she did, after all, still bear the scars of that particular encounter.
And if you'd asked this elven woman where she envisioned herself in a decade... she'd have never suggested that she'd be a mother. There are many things that could have happened to her - and many did. It was a wonder, and a blessing, that she'd made sure that Caitiri, at least, hadn't been touched by fel before her birth - and she'd gone to extreme lengths to ward and trap and protect both of her estates... no more demons would ever catch her unawares. Nor would her daughter - so long as she was on one of the Whitedawn estates - ever be in danger from such a creature, herself.
But today, such thoughts and fears were far and away - with a long trip looming, Lilliana hadn't been able to stop herself from giving into the young girl's pleas.
"Walk the plank, scurvy dog!"
Today, Caitiri wanted to be the pirate, and her mother had to be... any number of people in the rotating cast of characters in her daughter's mind - at present, she was a mutinous crew member, about to take their last steps off the tip of a luxurious chaise that stood in for a perilous plank stretched out over dangerous, shark-filled waters.
"Ah, but you didn't bind my hands well enough, so I'll take you to the sharks with me!"
The peals of childish laughter reached a fever-pitch, as the towering woman snatched up the girl, and fell backwards off the 'plank' (and into a pile of pillows laid out for just this purpose) - 'dooming' them both to the 'inky depths below.'
The girl popped up, post-fall, beaming - her first few teeth falling out, leaving gaps in the otherwise unblemished, unworried features of the young girl so like Lilliana, herself, had been - excited to explore the world around her. Full of life, and a thirst to know more.
Next came the childish chattering of how she would just "punch the sharks and swim away," as the girl's horned mother took to her feet to lay a kiss on the crown of her child's chestnut-colored hair - in the mind of a child, all problems had an easy answer. All stories had a happy ending. And for now... for now, that was okay with Lilliana - even uplifting, in a way. Innocence should be cherished for as long as it can be, in a world so rife with danger and corruption at every turn - and hers had been stripped away far, far too young.
Her child would be safe, however. Her daughter would want for nothing. She knew the time would come when, like herself, her own daughter demanded freedom from the confines of the estate, and the forests nearby. There would come a day when Caitiri went out into the world alone, and that thought was more terrifying than anything Lily had endured thus far.
That wasn't a worry for now, however - for the time being, the girl was too young for such thoughts. The time would come, and she would have to be ready... but until then, worrying about it served no purpose but to spoil the joy of the present.
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helloo, its me, nachtwacht anon again :)
i wanted to ask what program you used when you subtitled some episodes a couple years back!! ive gotten some of my english-speaking friends hooked and am thinking abt subbing some eps myself so i can show them :)
Hi there! I usually use Aegisub for subbing. It's got a bit of a learning curve but it's quite fast when you get used to it, and it allows you to be pretty precise with the timing. You'll have a softsub file once you're done there. After that, I use Handbrake to generate a hardsub if I feel like making one! I believe both programs are available on both Windows and Mac.
Best of luck! I'm very happy to see more people get into this show!
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