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verakonas

she is that girl

#veronica mars #kristen bell #this show tho

theautistichag

#the expanse #chrisjen avasarala #james holden

lotusbee07

#felix waking up the locals #people forget this kid was an athlete and are surprised he has abs #felix lee #stray kids

buffysummers

Buffy quotes that live rent-free in my head 5/?

#btvs

yonglixx

[Stray Kids : Docuseries] Felix♡ Lollapalooza Chicago Ep.1

#ridiculous #Felix Lee #Stray Kids #docuseries

jennilah

ok question tho

ive actually fucking tried to google this but i cant find an answer, all i get are fics

where does the whole “five times _____ and one time ____” fic title thing come from??

is it a reference to something? or is it just a fanfiction thing?

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

It comes from Basingstoke, a writer from the Due South and Smallville fandoms.

I know she’s on Dreamwidth. I don’t know if she has an AO3 or not.

There might have been one or two REALLY early examples of that story form (like 1980s early), but she invented it as we know it.

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

ETA: As a matter of fact, here’s the first Five Things story ever: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9519

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

I just found the Fanlore article, and it looks like while Basingstoke invented the format, Strangecreature, a Torchwood writer, might be one of the first to have used “five times and one time.” But the original prompt was Basingstoke’s. And it’s definitely fanfiction only in origin.

emyrys

I love it when conversations about this come around again! How cool is it that I know people in fannish history! (and how uncool is it that I never know it was Bas who invented this until recently – where was I, under a rock?)

basinke

tee hee. It wasn’t on purpose! I did the first Five Things and then people have been riffing on it for the past decade. It’s neat.

#fandom history #fic history #so satisfying

250318

#how gorgeous is that #aka Felix #Felix Lee #Stray Kids

marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer

vm rewatch � 3x01 Welcome Wagon

#Veronica Mars #Keith Mars #adore #I will be treating someone soon can't wait to get my VM on #even if its only a snippet #jaq writes fanfic

lookitsjess

jaqofspades

SNORT someone is a genius

#Stray Kids #hilarity

slagathormoon

An angel in her armor

Ref

I couldn’t be bothered to draw her helmet I’m sorry I’m lazy

#did i reblog this already #maybe #awesome art is awesome #Starbuck #Battlestar Galactica

thehumantrampoline

Here's the thing about Jareth from Labyrinth right?

He's made up.

That's not necessarily the same thing as not REAL. But he, just like all her friends who show up in her room before her adventure as toys and figurines, exist in relation to her, in response to what she wanted and needed. She told the story and there he was, there he always had been. But she's a teenage girl who doesn't know what she wants yet, and Jareth kind of pays the price.

"but the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and had given her certain powers." He's an archetypal oxymoron. He's both the dastardly baby stealing villain and the royal love interest trying to relieve the heroine's suffering, Cinderella style. He's fucked either way by being both. She doesn't know if SHE wants to be the villain or the heroine until he shows up and then she decides on the heroine, so he has to sneer and menace and challenge but it's too late for him!! it's too late, The King Of The Goblins Had Fallen In Love With the Girl, he's Cinderella's prince too and he has to try, he gives her a poofy dress and takes her to fucking goblin prom, sweeps her around the room like a music box with perfect posture and room for Jesus.

But it doesn't work buddy, it can't work. You're just a story for a teen girl to grow up in, and as the villain you have to be defeated. He's so complex because his tropes contradict themselves, and he doesn't understand why he has to lose when he was only doing the job he was given. In his last scene he is pale as death with shadows under his eyes, backing away and begging for his happy ending with nonsense mishmash promises that belong to both halves of him.

"I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me." I'm sure you are, Jareth. No wonder.

thymianne

But of course! That's what his song is about!

Actually, I see a nice paralell here with The Neverending Story's AURYN. You remember what's written on it's back?

"Do What You Wish"

And no, it doesn't mean you should fool around and just wish away whatever you have on your mind. As the Ruler of the Desert of Colors, Gograman explains it to Bastian, it is about following your True Wish.

Bastian thinks he knows what his true wish is. You see? Same as for Sarah. She thinks she knows what she wants. As Jareth points it out to her, "everything I've done, I've done for you" - he kidnapped Toby just as she wished. He gave her a chance to get him back.

"I move the stars for no-one"

This. This is where he becomes threatening. FOR REAL. He is warning her.

Sarah : Give me the child.

Jareth : Sarah, beware. I have been generous up 'til now. I can be cruel.

Sarah : Generous? What have you done that's generous?

Jareth : *Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?

What Sarah and Bastian both have in common; they don't realize that wishes have CONSEQUENCES.

How you turn my world

You precious thing

You starve and near exhaust me

Everything I've done

I've done for you

I move the stars for no one

You've run so long

You've run so far

Your eyes can be so cruel

Just as I can be so cruel

Oh I do believe in you

Yes I do

Live without your sunlight

Love without your heartbeat

I, I can't live within you

I can't live within you

I, I can't live within you.

fiwen9430

#the line you expect#the line he should sing#because it’s a love song right?#it’s almost a love song#the line you want to hear is ‘i can’t live without you’#but instead it’s ‘i can’t live within you’ because he’s a concept stretched too thin#he’s fantasy and sexuality and girlhood and hero and villain and freedom and entrapment and salvation and destruction#goblin and king#and she’ll grow up and change#But he never will#because she needed him THEN#jareth is literally the character of all time he makes me insane indane insane (tags via @lestatslestits)

sarahreesbrennan

As I was already talking about inspirations I’m about to be so annoying and jump off this post to talk about Labyrinth.

Labyrinth is another one of the portal fantasies (like Howl’s Moving Castle, but for different reasons) that aren’t discussed as portal fantasies. Early on our protagonist Sarah is playing dress up/doing cosplay with a book she’s reading out of. Who wrote that book? It’s her imagination but that could be true of so many portal fantasies…

It’s our imagination that has asked what if Sarah chose villainy. I mean, she shouldn’t! But so many have wondered what if she did. (Would that make her an evil queen?)

Loving a fictional character is an act of radical empathy, feeling for the fictional in their necessarily fictional plight. How would it be to be a fictional character or to really love one? What would it mean to be actually doomed by the narrative? How difficult would it be to be a dream lover, when dreams are contradictory and tip into nightmare?

Labyrinth IS a labyrinth - by casting a celebrity it was talking about parasocial relationships before we used the term, inside and outside the story. Labyrinth does fairytale and folklore and wish fulfilment, and the goblin prom/big fantasy fairytale dance with royalty number (but what did the prince do to Rapunzel alone in her tower, and how dead was Snow White?). This isn’t real, but if it were what would that look like - and what would that feel like?

This movie is silly and campy and the story uses that tone for effective telling. Labyrinth still asks us so many questions, and takes its characters’ plights and emotions seriously. It allows Jareth the Goblin King to be tired.

And Labyrinth was the first story I saw, I think, to do something I love and have done frequently and did in Long Live Evil, as Suzanne Collins did in the Hunger Games and Margaret Mahy in the Changeover: sibling as quest object: sibling as grail.

And yes. I was thinking about Jareth’s speech a little bit. IYKYK.

This post also reminded me of why I had to thank writers of fandom meta particularly in the acknowledgements of Long Live Evil. Seeing people pour such thought and passion into the imaginary told me to write the book without quite believing I could. How much and how deep and how long can we love a story?

Only forever. Not long at all.

#thinky thoughts #Labyrinth meta #writers talk #Labyrinth #Jareth The Goblin King

seo-changbinnies

countdown to lixie’s bday

↳ d-3: a year of mvs

#well that's lovely #Stray Kids #Felix Lee #happy birthday Felix!

hyunpic

HYUNJIN for CARTIER & ESQUIRE KOREA: in the name of love

#Cartier stuff is mindblowing #Hwang Hyunjin #Stray Kids

minhosblr

Lee Know ☆ Roling Stone UK [recolour]

#lee minho #looking incredible of course #lee know #he knows alright #Stray Kids

dialogic

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

apricops

“it’s tempting to assume” is academic speaking for “you might think, if you’re a fucking idiot,”

#academic blr getting spicy #yes i laughed

Trick or Treat Exchange 2024 (a letter)

Dear author,

Thank you for entertaining my mental meanderings for this Trick and Treat Exchange! (If you're not my author, but you might want to be, sign ups are still open: INFO HERE.)

I’ve outlined some of the things I enjoy below, and detailed my DNWs both in the listing and here. Anything I’m suggesting as a prompt is merely that, meant to help if you need it rather than act as any sort of straitjacket. I’ll be writing my fic/tricks and treats about ideas I want to explore, and would urge you to do the same.