#andlightplay

[hmslusitania]

I followed you for completely different stuff (911, stranger things) but fall out boy are my blorbos and seeing you talk about how good they were live every time you have the opportunity warms my heart. They are so good live rn! The best they’ve ever been!

They were SO good!!! And we had phenomenal seats, too, like close enough we could feel the pyrotechnics which was like!!! Beyond incredible. They’ve been in my top five bands since 2005 and so the fact that I actually got to go see them with good seats absolutely hands down the best concert I’ve ever been to.

(Please pardon the terrible photography I don’t think I stopped bouncing at any point during the show lol)

[hellotailor]

GAV hi hello I’m reading At The Feet Of The Sun and I am DYING. I keep stopping every few pages to be like KIP!!! and either like scream quietly or like metaphorically roll around in all the ridiculous pining. I GENUINELY didn’t think we’d get this I know you said it was satisfying but I thought you meant by the end not Kip constantly Having Thoughts and Refusing To Think About Them from a few chapters in. Also turns out everyone already knows the secret name and Rhodin is a conspiracy theorist (although honestly I fully expect someone will come across telepathic dinosaurs at some point bc why not) and Kip is absolutely SATURATED in protective magic he can’t feel bc HR loooves him and and and! I’m only like 30% of the way through and I can’t believe I have to stop to do things as boring as ‘sleep’ and ‘have a job’ when I COULD BE READING. Anyway sorry hope you don’t mind me sending you this you’re one of like 2 people I know who’s into the series.

i COMPLETELY understand, i was staying up till like 4am each night to finish that book. simply COULD NOT put it down... hard to remember the last time i found a novel so emotionally satisfying.

[veliseraptor]

I was lured in by your (extremely good and correct) Loki opinions! Also the fic, Ghennaverse and later Where The Devil Don’t Go were VERY good for me personally. I like seeing your Silmarillion/ASOIAF/occasional GOmens/random other general posts incl Classics stuff, and you’re super good about tagging so I can blacklist any fandom stuff we don’t share <3 Also I saw someone talk about Doctrine of Labyrinths recently and was like “[Beyoncé meme voice] that series Lise is into?!”

you know what, I did have extremely good and correct Loki opinions and I am going to choose to own that. so many people ashamed of their Loki phase in this world. rip to them but I'm different, etc.

anyway! thank you! this is lovely and I am glad my meticulous dedication to blog organization is also helpful to other peoples' curating experience.

honestly my reaction to seeing people discussing Doctrine of Labyrinths in the wild is always a little bit "[beyonce meme voice] that series I'm into?!" so

[remythologise]

@andlightplay and I are talking about the eras of destiel fanfiction in tone, content, secondary characters, etc. and like. the ability to carbon date destiel fic by sam’s love interests (please feel free to add thoughts on any I’ve missed):

jess era (unmoored from one particular time as it were, comes and goes)

ruby era (high school au sam’s problematic drug dealer girlfriend)

gabriel era (THE most iconic nobody is doing it like sabriel and I mean that as lovingly as possible while also knowing I will never click on a fic with sam/gabriel secondary pairing)

sarah era (honestly the most healthy for a long time, sarah > jess lbr)

did amelia ever have an era or did approximately 0% of us buy into sam actually being in love with her lmao

eileen era 1.0 (we barely knew thee)

jody era (ok but I loved that they try to give sam female friends and it ends in many fans seeing sexual tension but with dean it’s fine. hmmm)

rowena era (see above)

eileen era 2.0 (and we could have gotten away with it too, if not for that meddling blurissa)

[deanskitchen]

It’s so nice to watch you have a breakdown abt 4LW since it became my favourite fic the moment I read it for the first time and I’ve seen some stuff on my dash recently from people who just didn’t vibe with it much so your posts have been a good antidote <3

IT'S SOOOOO GOOD. have you read the sequel fics too??

[thegeminisage]

Okay SO since broken road day is TOMORROW and I’m just about to go to bed this is my last chance to get my vague guesses in! I think the 2 scenes will be John getting possessed by Michael and regretting it instantly while Michael flips through his memories for fun stuff to torture dean with and also incidentally lets John see things like the imapala scene with cas/the general knowledge that dean is Not Straight and also hates John specifically now/everything that happened to him in hell and everything else John doesn’t know about. Meanwhile the other scene is dean feeling Michael perk up like a dog hearing a whistle when John starts praying to him, realising what’s about to happen and not being able to stop it, and attempting to find Michael before he starts spilling all dean’s secrets, or at least begging cas to try and waylay him if he’s still wiped. I do think the fic will end with dean killing Michael, but whether cas has enough grace left or enough fucks to give left to stop the wound killing John too remains to be seen.

ofc no commentary from me but your guesses HAVE been recorded for posterity. u can come back to this ask tomorrow to see how close you got >:)

[justlikeeddie]

I’m sure it will come up on RC’s reclist as well but my number one SPN rec is Four Letter Word For Intercourse. It’s a complete AU so you don’t need to know anything about canon but it does give me a lot of bi feels (and is essentially about dean coming to terms with his sexuality) but it’s just SO in character and SO good at adding in little canon details where the AU allows and SO moving and funny and also HOT

Thank you!!!!! This is now added to my unmanageable and consistently embarrassing array of open tabs. (Is this the best way to queue fanfiction to read? No. Will I ever establish a better system? Absolutely not)

[apermanentsituation]

Oh sis, you and me both are silently frothing at the mouth over SPN rn. I will only be experiencing the last few eps via my dash and I’m like 1% reluctant to judge before we actually see them but also I have technically spent 10 years being let down by that show so why would they stop now

Let me begin by stating how sorry I am for making you wait this long for my reply. I saw your message, I got two aneurysms - one happy (a message from someone! A message from a friend!) and one rage-induced (the topic! The topic itself!) - and then I just kept on mulling over this answer for almost two months, because for some reason I’ve decided to make it my song of betrayal, my ultimate SPN break-up post. Or whatever.

For the past few weeks, I’ve had a separate doc file open at all times. I kept crafting a nice essay on why and how I’d stopped caring about SPN, and how good and righteous it felt. It began like this:

“The story of me getting fed up with SPN is the story of me learning to care about myself. Even though I can’t believe I’m typing that myself, let me repeat: the story of me getting fed up with SPN is the story of me learning to care about myself.

(A disclaimer: this post is in no way intended to be a critique of the SPN fandom and/or fans. You are not only allowed, but welcomed to unapologetically enjoy the heck out of the show and its fanbase, and yes, you can shout to me about it, and yes, regrettably, I will understand. I really will get it.)”

This file now is exactly one full page long and then it’s followed by another half a page of points I fully intended to expand on, including but not limited to such classics as: the outrageous, demeaning and revolting ways Cas was treated for the past few seasons resulting in him becoming a watered-down and almost unrecognizable version of himself; the bad, boring writing; the shameless queerbaiting and why I had been taking it kinda resignedly for so many years but refuse to take it now, largely due to the major shifts both in my life and in the sociologic landscape surrounding us; Jack Kline!!!; me watching an actually good TV show for once, and realizing how nice and liberating it feels to give something your time, empathy and attention, and in return feel respected as an audience, etc. etc.

Regrettably.

The last week’s episode happened.

If you’ve seen even a smidge of what I’ve posted in the last week, then you must already know how I feel about this episode, and what’s probably to come. I went from blind rage through wild hope to some sort of in-between, where it doesn’t matter anymore what exactly it is I’m feeling, only that it’s intense.

Tonight, we dine in circus, my friend. And I can’t lie, it feels hauntingly exhilarating to be a part of whatever this is.