I love love love ‘love came back to me’

It’s just perfect - Kate being courted by others as she should be, Anthony being jealous and acting like a fool, but also that the other suitors are a genuine option? I’m throwing my hat in the ring for Sir Henry, she deserves someone who she is at least attracted to (and hey, even Anthony couldn’t find much to dislike about him)

Really can’t wait for Anthony to realise he actually doesn’t have time to wait for Kate, and to speak to her properly.

Also, I noticed your post about S3 - I liked Polin in the books, but I don’t understand how we are being promised a super sexy season with them? Like - Kanthony were right there! The tension of enemies to lovers is just always going to be better than friends to lovers imo, and especially given the chemistry between Pen & Colin isn’t great. I don’t know why Polins are fooling themselves with that.

I’m excited to see their story and then falling in love but weirdly; I’d be happy for it to be chaste 😂

hello! thank you for your ask!

I’m really happy you’re enjoying the fic it means so much when people tell me that 😭💜

I’m glad you like the suitors! I tried to make them (some) likeable enough but with flaws. Henry is also my favourite, he was the first one I brainstormed and I love him so 💜 even though he’s a bit slippery, he can fulfill Kate’s economical, intellectual and sexual needs (she’s attracted but like…not Anthony level). But can he fulfill her emotional needs?

Anthony will get a rude wake up call by the end of the next chapter. He definitely does not have the time he thinks he does. Nor does he realise just how much he’s fucked up.

Now to polin/season 3. Okay I didn’t mind Polin in the books. It wasn’t one of my top favourite books but you know, cute? But they’ve really fucked that up.

I honestly don’t know what they’re doing with this new season like they keep mentioning the sexy stuff but also said it’ll be funny? I want it to be more funny tbh. I also wish there was more spice in season 2 but hey now they’re married so I’m just saying….Kanthony really should have some spicy scenes this new season. For Polin in season 3 I have a few gripes but obviously I haven’t seen it yet. I don’t like true pining for years with no reciprocation or like when the boy finally realises “oh! My friends a GIRL” also it sounds like Colin is going to mentor her? I don’t know it give me a bit of an ick. Also I don’t see how Colin could be her guru to catch a husband? Man has no game? I’d rather madam delecoix “glow up” pen (I also have issues with the use of that phrase I think it’s frankly insulting to the actors) and pen just ignore Collin for a bit. Idk. It’s personally for for me (note: I thought the love triangle in s2 was ick as well and I obvi love Kanthony so maybe I’ll be wrong).

I think NC and LN have chemistry but like as friends. Maybe that will translate well in this couples case. NC I find to be a pretty good actress. LN…well. Thing is I liked him at as Colin in s1 but in s2 I found him painful. I don’t know what happened. And personally…LN doesn’t do it for me romantically ya know? Not saying he isn’t handsome, he is. Just not my cup of tea.

As for the sexiness - to me, most importantly, I want it to be what the actors want and what they are comfortable with. Like I want that for any and all actors. I could never put myself in that situation. Props to them. If they’re happy and proud then good for them. However — I don’t think it makes sense for that to be a big part of their story. Daphne and Simon yes. Kate and Anthony, due to all the angst, made sense it was less sexiness but when it happened it was explosive (cough, they’re married now let them bang) but with P and C I feel like it should be more emotional? So maybe like one or two sex scenes like K & A makes sense to me.

So I guess we will see!

Note: I am aware that I’m slightly jaded with s3 already because Polin does seem (and NC - I already feel bad for LN that he will likely be ignored in promo etc. it doesn’t feel like his season too. Just Penelope’s) to get deferential treatment and seem to be the favourites of production (won’t be watching tudum tomorrow but interested to see what is released). I unfortunately think the closer we get to s3 the more bitter I will become. Because I do think JB and SA were treated badly (SA especially). And that will likely make me less favourable to s3 but I will give it a shot. And I feel bad that I think that, but I also think it shondalands job to care about each of their season leads and promote them properly. Why wouldn’t you want each of your seasons to succeed? I hope it doesn’t put me off the shoe because I still care a lot to see Benedict’s season (guessing now it won’t be s4 - Eloise will likely get that spot) and Eloise and Francesca’s (I’d honestly die to see Hyacinths and Gregory’s too!!). I don’t know. I just have some built up bitterness unfortunately.

Hi! could you draw a Basculegion? please

the fellas !! these guys were fun to draw :)

As a helpful soul showed me (and as I discovered on twt)… They are never beating the allegations.

hello my hand is very holdable and yet i have no one holding it goodbye

hey jesties

here’s a little intro post since there’s a few hundred more of u now than there were the last time i did one!

hi it’s me i’m ken!! bigender, bisexual, and bioluminescent if u get me in the right light. hobbies include history in all it’s beautiful disgusting forms, old web + beginner level coding (check out my webbed site!), clowns/jesters/fools of all sorts, and a fourth spot that operates like a rotating special guest for my ever-shifting hyperfixations. she/him, emphasis on the him if you please. japed and whimsy-pilled. if you ever saw a viral tweet about jesters that was probably me. i’m a card carrying clown and would love to help you get over your coulrophobia.

Do you like Severus? I’d love to see him in your style 💚

ur setting me up for failure here bestie. this has been in my drafts for a real long time cause I’m scared but here u go:

just a little disclaimer that i don’t give a flying fuck how anyone chooses to characterize people in their fics or otherwise. (so if you are reading this and you absolutely hate severus, then thats okay. live ur truth💋)

oookayyy. i personally believe that a lot of people are very forgiving towards reg and evan/barty and at the same time really harsh on severus. it’s almost as if in order to like a character they think that they have to be completely redeemable. and the other way around for disliking a character. supporting a flawed character does not make you a bad person. they don’t have to be all sunshine and rainbows for your love of them to be socially acceptable 🙂👍 (let your favs be bitches and let your least favs be sweethearts is essentially what I’m saying)

i think that when he was younger he would have actually been super shy and not such an outward bully. he definitely gave back what james and sirius dished out, but in a more subtle way. he was intelligent and not impulsive. he knew that j and s had the upper hand on him so he overcompensated by provoking them. if he pushed them first, then he was in control. (pretty common defense mechanism for someone with his family situation). i think that he could also be really gentle and kind too, lily was friends with him for a reason yaknow. he only became harsh and cynical as an adult because of what he went through (in his childhood and during the war). honestly, he was going back and forth between the two most dangerous people in the world, that’s bound to fuck you up a bit.

plus, i love it when fics include lily and sev’s friendship. like. guys, platonic heartbreak is the absolute worst thing in the world!! building up the snily friendship and then tearing it apart is such! good!! angst!!! it is not used enough imo. i don’t think they ever dated, and i also don’t think he was ever confident enough to reveal how much he truly loved her. also!! him and reg have such potential as friends/ allies as death eaters. reg turned to the ‘good’ side at the last minute and so did sev. imagine if they had worked together?!? ok wait now i’m getting art ideas.

phew that got long and i cbs reading through it so if there are mistakes, no there are not 👍. did i even answer ur question? yes, i think severus is fine. is he one of my fav characters? no. but i like him the same as i like peter essentially. yes, i want to make fanart with him in it and i will do so in the near future when i finally get time :) the same goes for pete, i’m just itching to make art of him!!!

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jj x routledge reader will forever be my fave trope

can’t relate i wanna fuck john b 😓

I think one thing that really doesn’t sit right with me is that I am always nervous about the ship-questions. Like sorry I don’t want to answer publicly WHO I AM SHIPPING if we’re mutuals and you’re cool or you one of the accounts that I always like their postings then you will know.

And I am trying my best not to make it obvi

Okay, good news. I work from home tomorrow so I’ll be able to do some page updates and answer the couple asks I got AND do my very long overdue owed replies.

I am excited :)

ok so i get narratively that the kiss was showing how the mycelium connects itself to new infecteds and i get that it was also a parallel to how they set up that one shot to look like a one last kiss moment for tess and joel that they just couldn’t act on. but i also hate it from the point of view that. she is a woman. and THAT was her death.

some of you hold taylor to such a high moral standard and then turn around and think it’s okay to publicly harass people… if you’re gonna screenshot posts from my blog to send to other people maybe @ me instead

if you consider the ways in which dirk & jake parallel one another in their (attempts to be) embodiment(s) of the Ideals of Masculinity, ultimate dirk being portrayed visually as super buff is actually really fitting?

like: dirk and jake both try to take on a few key Masculine™️ traits they see as ideals, but seem to naturally embody the inverse of one another. or basically: dirk is way more adept physically but tries to present himself as hyper intelligent & this mastermind pulling all the strings when in reality he’s more of a puppet than the puppet master. this is not to say that he’s stupid, his interest in history (and plato, if we’re to interpret the Timaeus part of timaeusTestified that way) and rose-adjacency is evidence against that, but even just in comparison to the other people he grows up with (AR, the cals, and, yes, jake) he doesn’t have the same kind of quasi-omniscience necessary to really keep up. it’s not a coincidence to me that dirk’s role in a lot of his major flashes is largely physical too, and specifically spurned on/directed by other people (synch/unite was conceived of by AR, prince of heart rise up was advised by callie, etc.)

jake, on the other hand, very clearly tries to take on the role of a dumb jock action hero like in his favorite movies, but his true strength seems to really come from his intelligence, and to some degree charisma (though that’s got a big * attached to it and is also kinda part of that intellect). i think it’s more well known by now, but though jake hides it well his intelligence seems to be practically on the level of AR and other such mostly omniscient-narrator types. this is, ironically, most obvious in how brain ghost dirk provides jake with information he in his own words “has no business knowing,” to the point that aranea even asks him how tf he figured out that his name is connected to lord english the Big Bad. he also figures out AR directed synch/unite almost immediately upon getting dirk’s head and manipulates jane into friendzoning herself so he doesn’t have to reject her etc. etc. watch the optimistic duelist jake english series on youtube

i really like the interpretation of lord english as being basically just patriarchy, violent and active and non-stop aggressive but also the powerful shadow leader of a gang and wealthy beyond belief. it really vibes with the most key queer elements of the comic imo, not just in terms of relationships but greater themes too, like how hussie is comedically against the concept of heterosexual reproduction in homestuck to the point of fucking absurdity.

so it makes sense in my mind that dirk & jake, as the human kids closest to caliborn himself that he explicitly latches onto, both are and try to embody these Masculine™️ traits in one way or another. this is really a key part of their Dualisms to me, and since homestuck is way into duality especially by the time we get to the cherubs i think that dichotomy is important.

moving this forward to ult. dirk, iirc a lot of his actions are actually pretty physical (kidnapping rose, all that shit about worldbuilding or whatever which in retrospect might be tied to the timaeus thing too idr). ult dirk is pretty clearly influenced by lord english too, likely in the fact that combing all iterations of Dirk also probably involves taking bro strider (influenced by the “filled” lil cal) and AR (possibly even in the form of the arquius that made up LE), which fits the whole pretending to be the puppeteer but actually not in control at all thing he’s got going. what i’m really interested in, however, is how this ties into the concept of an ultimate jake, especially when considering how the hope aspect might influence him there in comparison to dirk’s heart aspect and splinters influencing his ultimate self. (also: BGD seemingly not being included in the ultimate dirk still fucking stands out to me. good lord i hated the epilogues and hs^2 but i still read so much of that shit why past astro why did you do that to yourself.)

edit: forgot to mention this, but it might be interesting to reread some of the meat timeline’s dirk dialogue w/ the thought of how his taking on of the narration itself might be causing him to be influenced by the other characters just as much as they’re influenced by him? e.g. w/ the whole controlling davekat to get their shit together thing, how much of that is dirk controlling dave and karkat and how much is dirk being influenced by dave and karkat’s subconscious thoughts. might not be anything, dirk in the original comic is mostly just influenced by the quasi-omniscient beings i mentioned earlier, but him slowly getting puppeted by everyone not just LE’s influence is an interesting thought to entertain

mfw someone i’m mutually blocked with seems to frequent this blog anyway (you know who you are)

He definitely doesn’t care to be knowledgeable on this topic. And I think this topic isn’t something you can just give a surface level statement on which is what he usually does lol

Bro chris evan actually rubs me the wrong way in so many ways JFC