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🔥 Unpopular Opinion (non-fandom related): I really, really dislike almond milk. I know it’s super popular right now (to the extent that finding soy milk in the store is sad), but it just tastes like poison to me no matter how hard I try. I love almonds and almond flavored things… but just not almond milk.
Unpopular Opinion (fandom related): To answer this… I have to know what the popular opinion is… Which I often don’t. I suppose, from a reader/viewer’s perspective, I don’t like the pervasive lack of integrity towards characterization. It’s one thing to have them do or say something that without context would seem OOC, but you need a pivot point for that. Some sort of ground to stand on. Don’t just make them chess pieces for the purpose of furthering the plot. And it shouldn’t be pervasive.
In short, I don’t like how later seasons of the Walking Dead devolved into having only a limited type of character because there’s “only Two Ways to approach a Problem.” I don’t like disregarding world building (i.e. the first season of Fear the Walking Dead learning curve should have been slower, not faster, being a prequel and all). And I don’t like pitting team mates/allies against each other without an absolutely sound reason reason (looking at Flash War even though I haven’t gotten there yet… I dunno… maybe there is a reason?).
🎶 Music Rec: aaaaa I love these what do I pick… Aw hell, I’ll just put several. For a love song, I really like Mary Lambert - She Keeps Me Warm, regardless of gender. If I’m looking for a pensive mood, I really like Mumford and Sons - Thistle and Weeds. For a good motivational song and if you like songs in other languages, I really love Bump of Chicken - ファイター (Fighter). And I’m always going to recommend Jeremy Jordan’s version of It’s All Coming Back to Me Now for pure enjoyment. Or She Used to be Mine. (I have a thing for musicals AND gender-swapping songs.)
✏ A Story I’d like to Write: I have a couple of wip fics. I have one where I’m trying to write out more of an action kind of scene but I’m stuck on picking an appropriate villain (namely picking any villain…). I have one sadfic I’m writing, but I’m at that stage where I’ve started thinking critically (maybe hyper-critically) about what I’ve written and so I don’t really like what I have currently. I just have to push through it (which sometimes if I’m honest, I don’t… I’m working on that). I had a foster care AU I was going to write more of, but I need to work out an overarching plot. I had the background planned out, but I wanted things to come out/be revealed in certain ways… and that needed some planning I realized.
For both original and fan writing, I’d really like to have a larger/longer story to work on. But I think it’s mostly my lack of confidence getting in the way than anything else.
