kjhdlkfjasdf scrolling through your tsitp liveblog posts gave me so much joy this morning, i deeply resonate with the fact that i resent this show and the fact that it forces me to listen to taylor swift songs while also have unironically adopted conrad fisher as my pathetic loser blorbo boy of the month. i contain multitudes etc

dude there's TOO MUCH taylor swift in this show, everytime a song played and it wasn't taylor swift id sigh a breath of relief. idk if you saw the post about the friend who told me to watch it, but she's soooo annoyed that I unironically like conrad. idk if I made a post about it but my fave things about him are his melancholic disposition and the fact that when he gets angry he doesn't shout his voice just gets really high pitch <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 I hate this show so much and I can't wait till season 3. we are both very complex individuals

omg those asksssss, 7, 8, 9, 10 :D

Hello! Disclaimer that I'm going to be a right ✨bastard ✨ here, so viewer discretion applies. This is also for the fandom in my pfp; I'm not naming anything to avoid maximum violence.

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Perm Guy & Redhead Lady. If you know you know.

In the case of the Guy, he's honestly... fine. He was fine when he showed up in canon. I liked him, though I don't understand why he was touted as a military/strategy genius when all he was doing was stall while trying to understand the unfamiliar situation. I can respect a man who needs info to come up with a good plan. And I do like what they did with him in the show's last season. But there's such a wide timeskip between seasons that... it doesn't work. The charactersation doesn't work. It feels like he changed lots, but we don't get to see that change. Cop-out. And most of his fans just focus on one or two aspects of him and... don't develop him past that. It's not fun for me personally, I write him differently.

And in the case of the Lady... I feel like a bastard AND a cunt. I love her in canon! I do! It's (some of) her fans' representation of her what I don't like. Granted it's the most vocal fans who are like this, so... yeah. Makes me feel awful. Then I go watch canon and remember that, oh, it's just fanon I don't like, and I feel better again. But WOW. I understand the motto of "ship and let ship", I abide by it -- but I've seen one too many posts about how she's perfect in X ship and there are no other options for either her or her love interest, because they are just made for each other. Ship and let ship, superfans of her!! Don't do the vaguepost equivalent of throwing rocks at the sky to see what birds you might enrage!

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

... you know, I'm not sure how common this is. But I've seen it before, so here we go. This tattoed Rogue who starts out young and then grows up gets... I'm not sure if "infantilised" is the right word. "Simplified" is more like it. I once saw someone make the argument that he'd been [TRIGGER WARNING NON-CON] imprisoned and raped repeatedly by men while in Dunholm as a teen/child [END TRIGGER WARNING], and in the same fic he was bashful and shy and innocent when Main Character flirted with him in a non-sexual way. You'd think there would be juicy characterisation and/or character analysis the reader could do, but... no. No there wasn't. At all. The Rogue didn't feel like the same character going from one scene to the next. And that viewpoint got adopted by many fans of the original fic, with the same flat results.

(That first author in particular also had a habit of writing this Rogue as the kind of babyboy you'd expect from a DD;LG relationship, but 99.99% of the time it was in non-sexual, non-explicit, non-DD;LB fics. What even?!)

9. worst part of canon

The books don't go deep enough on some aspects, and they downright gloss over others. Characterisation never goes deep. The portrayal of the english-speaking world and xtianity is well-rounded, but the foreigners don't get the same treatment. The Norse Pantheon in particular is just AWFULLY written and researched. Njörd isn't Rán's husband! Loki isn't the heathen equivalent of the xtian devil! THERE ARE MORE HALLS THAN JUST VALHALLA.

Yes this is not the only author who's made these mistakes. Yes I am annoyed at them too. I did say I'd be a right bastard in these...

10. worst part of fanon

I could say "the fans that idolise and borderline deify both the characters in my first answer", but that'd be too easy. Then again I can't think of anything else, so that's my answer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Last song: push sung by ryan gosling from the barbie soundtrack hahahaha

Currently watching: good omens s2, silo s1, strange new worlds s2, star trek prodigy s1, what we do in the shadows season 5, the afterparty s2, farscape s3, ms fisher's modern murder mysteries s1!! yes i LOVE watching 5000 tv shows at once

Currently reading: reread murderbot 1 and starting murderbot 2, halfway through holly black's cruel prince (...i don't really like it), just started i'm glad my mom died

Current obsession: barbie & greta gerwig in general, farscape & bialar crais (always always always)

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im back! felt like time

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travel distractions

E, 1k words

Tom decides to liven up Sophia's journey as they return home.

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Last Sentence Tag Game

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence

I was tagged by @lord-aldhelm, ty <3

This is from my flowers in mercia/aldred WIP stars, hide your fires:

“She’s taught me everything she knows.”

tagging @aelswiths, @keefechambers, @captaincrais, @thesophiawestern, @stannisfactions, and @skatingthinandice!

me when when @thesophiawestern creates the sexiest married couple original characters i have ever read in my life

💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome. 💌

I always smile to see you on my dash or in my notes, Wynne! You're the best <3

THAT'S SO NICE 😭❤

Thank you so much!! You and your blog make me smile too!!

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