Hi! I love your ABO AU! I just wanted to tell you, I had a dream the other night about how each of the alphas act when Yuuri goes into labor. Basically Victor and Yurio freaked out beyond all reason, Phichit tried very hard to keep it together but slowly started to unravel into panic. And Minami? He was the most calm person ever. Super chill, got everything ready, asked Yuuri how he could help, etc. It was a very entertaining dream and I just wanted to share! :D
This is INCREDIBLY accurate, and exactly as it usually goes down, as far as I’m concerned. ^ ^;; Even Victor, who can usually pretend to know what he’s doing just sorta falls apart because it’s so far out of the realm of what he has experience in and Minami has to order him into the driver’s seat. Not just Yuuri going into labor either; the first time the twins get seriously sick, the time Arisa took a really hard fall, the time Yuuji ate something mysterious he picked up off the ground. All the other parents sorta freak Victor loses a few more hairs, but Minami maintains a level head. He’s canonically the son of two doctors and had a brother in med school (now also a decorated doctor by the time of Future!Verse). He’s used to this stuff, and knows best that freaking out isn’t really going to help anyone, least of all the person they’re worried about. He’s a good dad and they sorta really need him ^v^)b
You can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod, phone, iTunes, or whatever it is you listen to music on and then write down the first 20 songs that come up. Tag up to 10 people that you want to do it too.
1. "I Miss You" - Blink-182
2. "Roar" - Katy Perry
3. "It's All Your Fault" - P!nk
4. "Savin' Me" - Nickelback
5. "Tourniquet" - Evanescence
6. "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum
7. "Clocks" - Coldplay
8. "Air Balloon" - Lily Allen
9. "New Divide" - Linkin Park
10. "Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
11. "Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles
12. "Somebody to Love" - Queen
13. "How Long Will I Love You" - Ellie Goulding
14. "Crystal Ball" - P!nk
15. "The River" - Good Charlotte
16. "American Idiot" - Green Day
17. "Universally Speaking" - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Rule 2: Answer the questions the tagged set for you in their post then make 11 new ones.
Rule 3: Tag 11 people.
Rule 4: Let them know you've tagged them. (Is this optional? They'll find out when they scroll through their dash anyway...)
Question 1: Which "unheard of" fandoms are you a part of?
I don't think I'm a part of any fandom that hasn't been heard of. I'm in several small fandoms (in comparison to the size of other fandoms), but they'd be known by most people.
Question 2: Which Disney movie do you think is most amazing?
The Lion King, without a doubt. I've had an obsession with that film since forever.
Question 3: How many dystopian YA novels have you heard of recently?
Just the Hunger Games series and Divergent...oh God, please don't say there are more.
Question 4: What do you do with your time when not blogging?
Seeing as I'm coming up to exams, studying. Ideally, I'd be gaming, reading/writing or watching as many films as possible all at the same time.
Question 5: How many films have you watched so far this year?
I've seen at least three at the cinema in the past two months (two of those in the last two days), but after that I can't remember.
Question 6: What TV shows would you recommend to your friends to watch before getting a Tumblr blog?
Sherlock, Supernatural, Doctor Who and Merlin. And that's just so they know what the hell everyone else is talking about.
Question 7: What is your opinion on feminism?
We need it. End of. I could go into further debates about this, but it's much easier to just say "we need it".
Question 8: If you could change the weather to make it rain something other than water, what would you have fall from the sky?
Fire. Lots and lots of fire. Let the Apocalypse begin.
Only kidding, it would probably be M&Ms. Or Skittles. Or both if I was pissed off.
Question 9: If you could control one of the elements, which one would you choose and why?
This time my answer is actually fire. I'd want it because that way people would never come too close if I didn't want them to. Besides, I know I can be rather fiery tempered, so I think it would suit my personality.
Question 10: Do you think relationships work better when people are extremely similar or extremely dissimilar?
I think similar personalities would work better, if only because you'd have more to talk about. I don't know, I'm single, throw me a bone here.
Question 11: What do you think of the fact that Tumblr tries to sell some of their themes to bloggers?
I didn't really think about it until I read this question, but I suppose they have to make money somehow, seeing as the site itself is free.
Here are my questions for you...
Question 1: What was the first fandom you joined and when did you realise you'd joined it?
Question 2: If you were in the Harry Potter universe, what form would your Patronus take?
Question 3: Who recommended that you should get a Tumblr blog and are you still friends with them?
Question 4: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Question 5: When it comes to romantic relationships, what aspect (of personality, physique, etc) would set apart your perfect partner from everyone else?
Question 6: What would you do if you had an infinite amount of money?
Question 7: If you could be any supernatural (not the TV show) creature, what would you be and why?
Question 8: Which lifestyle would make you happier - a secluded, rustic life of complete peace in the mountains, or a fast-paced, luxurious life of upper-class parties and material goods in a big city?
Question 9: Are there any books you haven't read that you really want to?
Question 10: What would be your ideal profession?
Question 11: What is the strangest dream you've ever had and did you try to decipher it?
Oh wow. Your explanations, just like your writing, are superb! I understand not agreeing with some things (I'm not too big on the Moriarty pitch), but I had no idea the extent of this. Two years has brewed much opinion. Thank you very much!
You're very welcome. :)
(I forgot to mention how terribly appropriate your icon was to the whole conversation, though!)
Hello again (after eons yes, but hello all the same). So I understand that many people are disappointed in Series 3, and I was wondering if you could tell me some of the reasons why? I've been floating around in a cloud of happy and feels and I apparently haven't been paying much attention to different reactions. I would love to be enlightened if you wouldn't mind :)
Hoo boy. You do ask the big ones, don't you? You sure you don't want to ask about something easy, like if there is a God and why evil exists or anything? No? Okay.
Yeah, there's a lot of people who are disappointed in S3. But not everyone. Actually, I suspect there are more people who like S3 than didn't, but as always, the unhappy are generally the loudest. (Or, in the case of a fandom, the most popular.) Seems to me the metas with the most hit counts are the critical ones.
Now, if you read the metas, you can get a good sense of what people didn't like: they didn't like the character of Mary or the way she interacted with Sherlock/John, they didn't like the way John's character developed into an angry little man, they didn't like Moriarty's inclusion at the end. They didn't like the storytelling, they didn't like the structure, they didn't like the direction.
All perfectly good reasons, well argued and documented and the rest. (There's a Sherlock Meta tag/community on both Tumblr and AO3, you can troll through them at your leisure; I've reblogged some of the more thinky ones here.)
But I also think there's something else at play in why people didn't like it. And I'll warn you now - it's probably not something to which any of us would readily admit.
This is the thing with participating in a fandom: you get a sense of entitlement, for lack of a better word. We spend so much time with the characters, the stories, the shows, the dialogue. We analyze every scene, every screen, every prop, every costume, every twitch of the eyebrow. There are entire blogs dedicated to locating every single item that appears in Sherlock, down to the cell phones. I should know. I follow them. I've read the explanations for why John can't possibly afford his wardrobe; I've seen the posts detailing how someone reconstructed Sherlock's coat, I've commented on the analysis of Molly's role in the morgue.
I think it's safe to say that as a whole - and possibly even as individuals - we probably spend a lot more time thinking about the world of Sherlock BBC than its creators do.
And this is the problem: we know it all so well, so intimately, that we begin to feel a sense of ownership. I don't mean to knock the ownership - it's out of love, after all. But there are people in the fandom who really honestly believe that their interpretation of John and Sherlock are the interpretation of John and Sherlock. That there can't be another.
So now we have new shows, and new canon, and new background information. And new scenes with our beloved characters saying and doing things we didn't know they were going to do.
And sometimes, those things clash violently with what we might have believed. Such as Sherlock's parents being (a) alive and (b) nice, normal people. Such as Mrs Hudson having been an exotic dancer. Such as Mycroft being willing to watch his brother being beaten to a pulp, and then claiming that his loss would break his heart.
Such as Mary being a cold-blooded ex-CIA assassin. Such as Sherlock forgiving her for shooting him. Such as (and here is where I expect people to scream), Johnlock not actually being canon.
(There, I said it.)
Now, I'll fully admit that there's a couple of those I'm not particularly pleased about. (Mrs Hudson, seriously?) And while I'm totally jazzed about Mary's badass backstory, I wish she'd been handled differently. But on the whole, I'm trying not to let my dismay over those things ruin my overall enjoyment of the series - which I mostly liked. I think TSoT was very, very different from the usual storytelling, but still a strong episode. I think TEH was a bit pandering, but not horrible. And I liked HLV, for all that it broke my heart and may have killed off a pack of plot bunnies (and definitely murdered my ability to write for a few weeks).
You want to know why people people are disappointed? Simple. They didn't get what they wanted, they didn't get what they expected, and what they did receive, they didn't feel as though lived up to what came before. I'm not sure the people who were disappointed can really tell you what they expected to see - except maybe to see John and Sherlock running around solving crimes again. And we didn't really get any of that in the course of the show. They were always at cross-purposes.
Which, really, I think was the point. I've said before, I feel like S3 is the middle act. And as such, it's got to set up the ending. So we had a lot of plot lines stretched to their limits, with no resolution. And that leaves us all feeling a bit...discombobulated, I suppose. (Or that could be the toddler climbing on me as I write about.)
But no resolution...no real cliffhanger to talk about...we're left talking about anything we can. And at the forefront of our minds is....the unhappiness we're feeling. We spent two years gearing up for two weeks, and now it's over, and we don't know when the next episodes will air. (I don't believe the Christmas 2014 rumors, btw, not until episodes are being filmed.) I almost want to say it's a bit like postpartum depression, but I have no experience with that, so I really can't say how similar it is. But there's definitely a day-after-the-party sense of depression, I think.
Maybe it was like this after the last series aired? I wasn't in the fandom, I don't know. But I've been in fandoms when new episodes/seasons/books were released. I recognize the trend.
There are plenty of people who liked the series, who were perfectly happy, are still dancing around in joy and bouncing all over. Mostly, I'm one of them. (I think, to an extent, everyone is, even those who didn't like the series, because HELLO, we have a new series, yay!) The problem is finding them, and getting them to talk about how happy they are. In the meantime, give it time...eventually, the joy and the laughter and the cheer will win out again. I'm not an expert by any means, but that's something I have to believe in.
I don't watch Supernatural (I never could get into it), but your posts have made me a complete Destiel shipper. They just look so perfect for each other...
:'D I FEEL SO HAPPY ANOTHER SHIPPER YAYYY<3 Destiel is amazing okay it's just so asdfjkl;<33
30 DAY LETTERS CHALLENGE
Day Eight: To My Favorite Internet Friend(s)
There are some of you out there that are going to get two letters, but I want to address all of you because, God, you've all been there for me in so many different ways, for different amounts of time, but each of you have a place in my heart. I don't know what to say. I'm so touched that you guys consider me an important part of your lives even though you're miles and states and even countries away. I love how I can come to each one of you and rant about random-ass shit, and alternatively have a shoulder to cry on if I need one. And you know what else I love? That you have nothing to judge me on except for things that I like and/or dislike. You can't and often don't judge me for my appearance, my personality, past things you've heard about me... I think that's how real friendships should really be built, so it's no surprise I consider a lot of you more "real" than my "In Real Life" friends.
I know that to a lot of you I come off as brash, bold, and sometimes even uncaring for other peoples' opinions. It's true; I'm not the most considerate person in the world and I've always had a Devil-may-care attitude towards peoples' opinions because, frankly, the only one that matters is usually your own. I come from Chicago and I'm pretty real with everyone; if I don't like one of your opinions, I'll be saying so. If I think that we need to stop being friends, you'll be hearing it. If I don't want to listen to you, you will bloody well be tuned the fuck out and there is nothing that anyone can do about it. But it's different for all of you. You looked past my exterior. You found me and you stuck by me and you continue to stick by me even when I'm down and angry and I might even snap at you. I love all of you for showing me new things, for teaching me, for listening to me, for just about everything that you and I do together. So I do care about your opinions. I do care about you. I do want to know what's going on in your life. I do want to know you past whatever fandoms we met in or whatever stories we collaborated together. Let's get this straight: I care about YOU. You are my friend, whether or not we've ever met face to face.
I want to say that if I don't extend the same courtesy to you, then you should hit me upside the fucking head and drown me in a ditch. I really try to listen to everybody on the net, because first of all, you have to be impassive if you're gonna survive in places like message boards, fandoms, and other shit, because how else are you going to deal with clashing opinions? And second of all, it's just plain interesting to delve into discussions like that. So if I ever come off as a person who does not care about you in the same way I know you care about me, then you should just plain leave me to die. It's not true and it never will be true, but I've had tendencies like that before, and I'd like for them to be beaten out of me.
Glaze, you've been with me for Dispater knows how long now; remember those message boards? I miss them, but I'm glad to still have a part of them with me in you; you've been a constant in my life and I'm very happy for that, so thank you. I'm also very happy that we just met!~ You're like my sister, and I meant it when I said we should totally switch kids over summers when we're married. I hope to never lose contact with you and that we really do get to do that one day.
Dece, YOU HAVE MY BLOODY PHONE NUMBER, WOMAN! Use it! I know we got out of contact but lady, you can always come to me, whether you need to cry or you need to rant or you just plain don't feel like being happy, I'm just a few texts or a phonecall away, okay? And I miss RPing with you; I should get my ass back to Gaia so that I can actually, y'know, do that. Fuck. xD Just please know I haven't forgotten you or anything. Yeah, we did fall out of contact for a while, but we're still buds!
Sop, I read all of your posts. Even the ones you hide under Read More tags. I might not reply to them; I feel as though, since we don't know each other too much, it's not my place to talk about those kinds of things with you as it is with your other friends. But you're the person who brought me here to Tumblr, and even past the fact that I barely post any portal-related stuff anymore, you're still a good person I'd really like to get to know.
Turtle, I haven't known you for very long, but I know you're reading this anyway because that's just what you happen to do, like I read your crazy letters (EFPAEJOFA SPAIN'S LETTER OHMYGOD. HAHA.) You've grown close to me in an inordinate amount of time; I'm really not afraid to admit that I'd like to meet you, because I've basically thrown all that nasty "Oh are you a stalker?!" business out the window. It's kinda been rotting in the grass for a few years xD But, you know? We just have a bond that I would really love to see grow.
So many of my other 'net friends will never see this message simply because they don't have a Tumblr and because I don't tend to cross-post personal things like this, but if any of you do come across it, I LOVE YOU. You will always be with me and I will always be there for you, no matter what it is you need to say or do or think or feel. You can always count on me. That's what friends are for.
