AB

British Five Hargreeves. World-class procrastinator who enjoys writing and reading.

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“That’s one badass stapler!” — Five Hargreeves, the Umbrella Academy

ABOUT ME:

Name: AB (she/her)

Birthday: 17th March 2007 (19); Pisces

Ethnicity: Asian British (Indian)

Hobbies: Reading, writing, procrastinating, netball, badminton

Favourite colour(s): Aquamarine, royal purple

Height: 5’2”

A-Level Subjects: Maths, Economics, Classical Civilisations

Currently studying: Undergraduate Economics degree (first year)

Likes: Flapjacks, books, the rain, thunderstorms, lightning, chocolate, broccoli, the night sky, space, cats, monkeys, volcanoes, oceans, Greek and Roman mythology, Spring, daffodils, cherry blossom, my favourite fandoms and characters

Other: INTP/INTJ, Gryffindor, daughter of Poseidon, incredibly stubborn, grammar freak, angsty writer, sarcastic, extroverted introvert

SOCIALS:

Tumblr: Writing Account

Quotev: Main, Writing Account

Wattpad: Main

AO3: Main

Pinterest: Main

Discord: ABADA17

FANDOMS:

(Favourites are in italics.)

Primary: Harry Potter, Marauders Era, Fantastic Beasts, AVPM Trilogy, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, TLT Musical, Heroes of Olympus, The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, The Umbrella Academy, Stranger Things, Divergent, Once Upon a Time, Anne With an E, Dead Poets Society

Secondary: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Chronicles of Narnia, Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Murder Most Unladylike, How to Train Your Dragon (books and films), Noughts & Crosses, Enola Holmes

Other books: Five Survive, Yellowface, Love You to Death, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Swallows and Amazons, Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Garden, Malory Towers, Famous Five, The Hate U Give, the Midnight Game, This Book Kills, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Oedipus Rex, the Bacchae, Frogs, War Horse, Arc of a Scythe, Nancy Drew, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Atlas Six (first book only)

Other films/TV shows: Line of Duty, The Bill, Red Eye, The Capture, Trigger Point, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Hurt Locker, Terminator, James Bond (Daniel Craig), The Bay, Whitechapel, The Tourist, Barbie, Troy, Cruella, Ghosts UK, the Apprentice, Dragons’ Den, The Traitors, Kaos, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon

Currently reading: The Maze Cutter, Little Women, 1984, Lord of the Flies

Currently watching: Teen Wolf (S3), Runaways (S1)

Future: Supernatural, Bridgerton, The Kane Chronicles, The Mortal Instruments, The Matrix, The Shining, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Outer Banks, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451

CHARACTERS:

Comfort kins: Five Hargreeves (TUA), James Potter (HP), Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano (Hoo), Henry Mills (OUaT), Thomas (TMR)

Kins: Ron Weasley (HP), Lee Jordan (HP), Dustin Henderson (ST), Charlie/Nuwanda Dalton (DPS), Severus Snape (HP), Percy Jackson (PJO), Hazel Levesque (HoO), Tina Goldstein (FB)

Comforts: Teddy the Niffler (FB), Pickett the Bowtruckle (FB), Kreacher (HP), Newt Scamander (FB), Regulus Black (HP), Newt (TMR), Eleven (ST), Max Mayfield (ST), Steve Harrington (ST), Leo Valdez (HoO), Sadie Kane (TKC), Killian Jones (OUaT), Mulan (OUaT), Gilbert Blythe (AWaE), Jerry Baynard (AWaE), Rue (THG), Haymitch Abernathy (THG)

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Love seeing all the AGGGTM fans waking up from S2 drop 🤭

(See you again next time for S3 💔🔨🎧🔔)

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Hello, I’m your host AB, and welcome back to another episode of ‘it’s exam season, so let’s write for the first time since the last one’!

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I wonder what it feels like for those non-book people watching AGGGTM TV and seeing everyone freak out about duct tape 😭

They must be so confused, bless their oblivious, half-traumatised hearts.

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Holly’s so unserious, I love her 😭😭😭

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Spoilers for AGGGTM S2 (all episodes) below :)

Btw, I am so open to fangirl about any of this, so AGGGTM fans reach out!!! <3

It was so perfect I hated it (iykyk). Holly Jackson, what a QUEEN, this series was art on a screen, I was sobbing so hard at the end of E6.

I had my issues with S1, which I personally gave a mental rating of 8/10. I think it was incredible in terms of a standalone itself, without considering the book, but I feel the script did lack some of the defining details and characterisation (Andie Bell, they will never make me like you). At times the script diverted from the book (understandable, of course), it just felt wrong, like that arse plot line between Pip’s mum and stepdad. I guess all this makes sense since Holly wasn’t as involved in S1 as she was in S2.

And my god, this shows.

S2 was 100/10 for me, especially when it’s based on a book as complex as Good Girl, Bad Blood. Emma’s British accent (while admirable in S1, it did sometimes distract me/break my focus when watching) was top-notch in S2. I think I only had one defining case/word where the American accent was fully clear, but it otherwise was so, so good. And bloody hell, her ACTING. The emotion, the trauma (sobbing), the SPIRAL that is so obvious in the book from following her POV was demonstrated impeccably on the screen. It was like The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (with Snow’s POV), except AGGGTM TV actually hit the mark with presenting these thought processes with the perfect balance and the nuances that don’t just directly give the audience the answer. You could physically FEEL how much darker and sadder S2 was compared to S1. (This made all the BTS pictures so much funnier because they’re all so goofy.)

The character dynamics between Pip with Ravi, Connor and the others (AND THE FREAKING BOOK QUOTES LIKE RAVI-SHING AND REAL MEN WEAR FLORAL) had me kicking my feet and laughing. Pipravi <3333333

I wish they villainised Lauren more though, because flipping hell, I was ready to deck that girl in the books, but here she was more like an annoying fly. Robin Hastings was a new character (might I just say, casting director, give them a gold-looking silver award after SotR’s), and usually I hate stuff like this, but they did a decent job (his attitude towards Pip was very confusing/back and forth at times, though, without clear reason, but I did see the vision of where they had merged his character with Ant’s — again, stupid S1 erasing his character and creating problems).

Max. Max FUCKING Hastings. The actor did such an amazing job at making me want to wring his neck and shove it into the backside of a donkey (the poor donkey). Even though I knew what was coming from reading the books, I still had the same amount of visceral fury when the verdict came through, and that’s how you know it’s good. Max is the perfect character to despise, and I definitely will use his face when I’m playing badminton in future.

Stanley, they will never make me hate you, sweetheart 🥺 I’d already seen Misia act in KAOS, so when they announced him for this, I was so excited because the vibes were on-point. It’s just a shame that (and Holly said this herself) she had to change his job role because S1 didn’t introduce him.

The actor for Jamie and Charlie, too?? ABSOLUTE PERFECTION FOR HOW I VISUALISED THEM. And repeated honourable mentions for Dan and Nat because they’re so accurate, too. I’ll say it again, award the freaking casting directors. 😌

Soundtrack, ESPECIALLY when Labour played as Pip went to visit Becca, was chef’s kiss. Argue with a wall.

If you’ve not read As Good As Dead, do not continue below.

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Finally. The easter eggs. The murder mystery party (Kill Joy), the CD in Max’s den, the newspaper with duct tape, the hammer and blue rope in Green Scene, Cara’s ‘hide a body’ line, the constant ‘who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?’. Full. Body. Chills.

I am dreading S3 because I know that I will be absolutely ripped apart with the way things are going. Perhaps preemptive therapy is needed. Or maybe a reread of the entire series :)

Everything AGGGTM is perfection in the worst way. All hail Queen Holly.

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“AGGGTM S2 is coming this year” but there are still ten months of the year left.

THAT DOESN’T NARROW IT DOWN.

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Refusing to set my clock back by an hour so I can gaslight myself into thinking I’m late for everything and hurry up (it will only work for a few days).

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Not me having trust issues about a scene so obviously wholesome and about Dustin and Steve:

All because of something strangely familiar (feels like deja vu):

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WALKER SCOBELL HAS WATCHED THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, CONFIRMED

Yes, this makes me happy because I love TUA

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Suzanne Collins really looked at all the fans simping and fangirling over TBoSaS!Snow and slammed SotR in their faces to say, “Keep going” and I am LIVING for it.

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When some celebrities/actors are so insanely pretty that I have to channel my envy into making them a face claim for an OC-

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It’s such a weird thing when you’ve been complaining about this thing for so long (two years) and in a matter of three hours that problem is no more.

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I watched the production of Oedipus at the Old Vic today, and I really enjoyed it overall, despite many reviews bashing it!! I was in the same room as Rami Malek so that in itself was so, so cool, and I snuck a video/picture during the curtain call, so I now have Rami Malek in my camera roll in a bloody shirt! Indira Varma was amazing as well (her acting is so freaking good), and the chorus’ choreography was absolutely incredible (one of my favourite aspects)!

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Having to change all my bio descriptions from minor to 18/legal is the worst reality check ever.

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AB’s Writing Blog / spatial-jump / thetempscommission

“No, my consciousness is fifty-eight.” — Five Hargreeves, the Umbrella Academy

BRIEF ABOUT ME:

Female, minor, Asian British (Indian), Pisces, INTP/INTJ, Gryffindor, daughter of Poseidon, reader, writer, procrastinator, grammar freak, likes aquamarine and royal purple, plays netball and badminton, is barely surviving A-levels (in Maths, Economics and Classical Civilisations), basically a British version of Five Hargreeves

SOCIALS:

Tumblr: Main

Quotev: Main, Writing Account

Wattpad: Main

AO3: Main

Pinterest: Main

Discord: ABADA17

FANDOMS I WRITE FOR:

(The universes I’m weak on are towards the end of the list.)

Harry Potter, Marauders Era, Fantastic Beasts, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus, the Umbrella Academy, the Maze Runner, the Hunger Games, Stranger Things, Once Upon a Time, Anne With an E, Divergent, Chronicles of Narnia

MY WORKS MASTERLIST:

(The list below is all my published works. All of my WIPs, both published and unpublished, can be found here.)

(Key: Q = Quotev, WP = Wattpad, AO3 = Archive of Our Own, Completed [note: none of them])

Harry Potter Universe: Is Anything Better Done Than Said? (Q), IT WAS THE NIFFLER ( a Time-Turner story ) (Q, WP, AO3), RUN. (Q), Sweetest Kind (Q), Did You See the Moon? (Q), Marauders: A New Tale (Q), Sisters of House Black (Q), Descendants of the Founders (Q)

Riordanverse: N/A

The Umbrella Academy Universe: N/A

The Maze Runner Universe: N/A

The Hunger Games Universe: N/A

Stranger Things Universe: N/A

Once Upon a Time Universe: N/A

Crossovers: Destined to Die (Q, WP, AO3)

Non-Fanfics/Quizzes: Reading Preferences (Q), SMUDGED INK. (Q), Reasons to Hate Dumbledore (Q)

REQUESTS:

I am more than happy to receive requests — though, fair warning, I’ll be more obliged for a one-shot idea than an actual fic, since my tendency to procrastinate and get writer’s block is astounding.

Any one-shots that are written, whether inspired by my own sheer will or another, will be posted on Tumblr, as well as the other platforms I operate on (linked at the top of this post).

RULES AND INFORMATION:

I will not write any smut.

I will not write any inappropriate ships or tropes (e.g. incest, student/teacher, romanticising the wrong things, e.t.c.).

I do not mind writing expletives.

I do not have any triggers, so I am pretty much open to anything! I will, of course, provide warnings for readers.

I will almost definitely write canon x OC requests. For canon x canon characters, it does depend on the ship itself.

I am highly averse to love triangles, so please do not ask me to depict those! Jealousy ones are fine.

I am British, so I may use expressions and/or phrases that I don’t realise are slang here.

It may take me three hours or three months to write your request, as my inspiration is incredibly volatile. If yours falls into the latter, please be patient with me!

I reserve the right to decline any requests. Please don’t be offended and take it to heart if I do (unless it’s problematic)!

On that note, thank you for visiting my writing blog, and I hope you enjoy perusing my works!

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Happy Birthday (deep breath):

Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, Ben, Viktor, Lila, Marcus, Fei, Alphonso, Sloane, Jayme, Christopher and all the other super-powered people born on 1st October 1989.

May you all rest in peace. 🌂