star-crossed

shona, 26, she/they, desi • occasional fanfic writer, mostly reblogging fandom works and whatever else • in the jlfx-verse and pjo-verse • ko-fi

[fallingsun]

if all encounters are reunions long overdue

🕮 a huxin modern roommates/college au longfic

[complete]

When he didn’t answer immediately, she straddled him again, pinning him with her weight as she drew her fist back, readying to hit him a second time. He groaned, catching her punch before it made contact. “I have no intention of fighting with you.” “You had the intention when you retaliated. You had the intention when you broke into my apartment!” “It’s not your apartment,” he said. “I’ve been living here since the semester started. Why do you think I have a key?”

. . .

A mishap in Yongzhou University's housing department leads to Yan Hui rooming with a stranger.

chapter 1🔗 | chapter 2 🔗 | chapter 3 🔗 | chapter 4 🔗 | fin ♡

[miseria-fortes-viros]

ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

[miseria-fortes-viros]

my brother in christ frankenstein is the title of the book

[warlockofagnesi]

COUNTERPOINT

[miseria-fortes-viros]

well i can’t argue with that one

[quacksmith]

Ah yes, Mary Shelley’s monster.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

no mary shelley is the name of the monster not the doctor

[villainessbian]

common misconception! mary shelley's monster was actually lord byron

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[valtsv]

the thing about growing up with siblings in an abusive household is that ultimately you're each other's jail wardens and whipping boys and that does things to you no matter how much you sincerely love each other and understand why it happened the way it did and wish you could have been big and strong enough to save both of you

[valtsv]

it's just inevitably going to be difficult to reconcile the love you feel for the other half of a bear trap clamped around both your legs. is the thing.

[charl0ttan]

long distance friends pets feel like celebrities because you can only be parasocial with them

[charl0ttan]

you dont truly know how their fur pets. you will never know them like that

[charl0ttan]

furthermore they have no clue you even exist

[charl0ttan]

delightful tags going on

[idbedelighted]

he loves it

[charl0ttan]

LOVE U GRANDPA🫶💖💕

[butternaan]

do u guys remember when shah rukh khan was like im trisexual i like to try everyrhing

[butternaan]

obsessed withthis

[butternaan]

[butternaan]

yes these r real everyones forgetting srk is the original deranged heartthrob

[mograa]

this is my favorite thing in existence i quote this multiple times a month

don’t forget my favourite one

wait I forgot about my OTHER favourite one

[prettygirluvxoxo]

Thank you….just….

[owlch333]

Colors

[partiallypearl]

Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase in PJO S2EP5 - We Check in to C.C.'s Spa & Resort

I think, I am more afraid of failing my mother than dying.

[lucylehane]

That was unexpected!

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

[fortjester]

strictly ballroom is really just. scott you have to stop. your swag too different. they'll kill you

[greengableslover]

That was unexpected!

STRICTLY BALLROOM (1992) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[darcylightninglewis]

GREAT FILM, GREAT SOUNDTRACK Strictly Ballroom (1992) dir. Baz Luhrmann 1/?

[lucylehane]

so if you really love me, say yes but if you don't dear, confess and please don't tell me perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

[escapedaudios]

When I was a little kid, I really liked the Artemis Fowl books because Artemis was the only preteen/teen action-adventure protagonist that wasn't the chosen one or somehow the figurehead of a political conflict that adults would realistically never want a child to lead. No one gave him the quest. He simply chose to be the main character, through action. This blew my little eight year old mind and still impresses me as an adult.

His villain journey subverts the moment in the hero's journey where the hero refuses the call to adventure. He was proactively digging deeper into the magical and mysterious and forbidden. Everyone in their right mind wanted him not to go on his quest. He did it anyway. He discovered supernatural beings were real and immediately robbed them, and used that as a springboard to rob them a second time. Incredible.

Harry Potter was like "nooo I don't want to be the chosen one" and Artemis Fowl was like "I want to be the one who choses". Powerful. Potent. Electrifying to my brain that had accepted the powerless lack of agency that comes with childhood. The mere suggestion that I could be the main character without being chosen by and cosigned by adults was inspirational, villainy be damned. I think he was the first Nietzschean YA protagonist. To this day he might be all alone in that category.

[ijaazat]

summer

1. make a syllabus for yourself - books, media, places, recipes

2. complete 40% of it

3. eat every fruit u can

[ziptiesnfries]

i feel like an often overlooked downside to 10-episode seasons and the death of the "monster of the week" format is that we get way less whump variety nowadays. used to be that there'd be dozens of opportunities for your fave to get punched or kidnapped or hypnotized or what have you. these days if it doesn't fit into the main plot, it just doesn't happen. this is a tragedy. we should be protesting.

[greelin]

“you’ll feel better after a good night’s rest” do i look like someone who has had one of those in the last two decades

[greelin]

look. Look into my eyes