#heartlighting

[positivitybook]

Greetings Lovies. So here a thing Snow and I have been thinking about and are now ready to implement. And that is...

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HEARTLIGHTING!

We want to heartlight a follower every week. It can be ANY follower we have. No matter the type of blog. RP, Personal, Cats...you get the idea. Anyway so we thought it would be a really neat idea if every week we put our followers into a random drawing and whoever the randomizer (via random.org) picks that blog gets spotlighted on the positivitybook that week. 

FAQ

What’s heartlighting mean?

Heartlighting means that we make a post promoting your blog. A little graphic of your url ‘up in lights’ and a small blip on what your blogs all about. Either what character you play if an RP blog and if your indie/OC/Private/etc or a blip about you as an admin/what you blog about/etc if a non-rp blog. 

Is it okay to reblog the heartlight posts?

ABSOLUTELY! REBLOG IT! SHARE THE LINK WITH FRIENDS! Print it out and hang it on your wall if you want. You do you!

When are you going to start doing this?

We are planning to have our first drawing next week. And have the first heartlight posted on Wednesday (12/04/2019). 

Why Wednesday?

Wednesday is hump day. That point in the week we’re all starting to run a little low on energy. So to combat this? We are going to use the power of positivity and make Wednesday HEARTLIGHT DAY!

Can you only be spotlighted once?

NOPE! We will not be removing past heart lighters from the list. Every week we’ll add any new followers we get to the list and randomize the numbers via random.org. So is it possible for you to get heartlighted twice? TOTALLY.

[mercurialmalcontent]

"Max is probs autistic bc she doesn't welcome a boy's attention" is such an impressive fete of heteronormativity/compulsive heterosexuality that I don't even know where to start being offended. :/

It’s so hilariously stupid! Out of all the things they could have used to strengthen their theory (which is a fair one; one of the slips in her file mentions an IEP, but further text is cut off so we have no idea what for or what kind), they went for that. 

[elizabethrobertajones]

Have you seen any meta yet about Sam GIVING gross jock vampire to Alex (and, passively, Claire)? More and more Sam's message isn't "don't do violence", it's "do violence the right way" and I kind of love it. Also v clear this ep why hunting is often learned thru apprenticeship+collaboration rather than by the seat of your pants.

I haven’t seen anything about it yet! And yes, absolutely to all of that. :D

It was a really emotionally impactful moment (and sooo satisfying >:)) and taken with last episode as well Sam seems to be really cheerfully helping people get revenge at the moment… Even if Eileen said it felt just like another kill later, for Alex at least getting a chance to face him and punch the vampire was venting a bit? There does seem to be a focus on who gets the kill though… Which is also nice because it’s not just the Winchesters coming in and killing monsters for people. They help them, but these characters getting their kill still makes it more their story?

Actually I was thinking recently about how the early seasons kind of often were much more about the random people involved with the monster’s story especially after they were getting into the flow of random monster of the week but couldn’t make it about the brothers all the time… One of my vague smaller complaints has been that the MotW get less and less about the people involved and so it started feeling quite abstract after a while (recent episode offenders as an example of what I mean include Just My Imagination, where the girl killing the monsters only showed up in the final confrontation)… I know these last 2 episodes have both had the women with more insider knowledge (lol even Mildred had seen a ghost once before) but especially letting them have the kill let the story be about them? And this episode, spin off or not, is still in Claire and Alex’s origin story part of their life. (And Eileen was talking about having had a mentor who trained her as well, just as Jody sort of gave in and agreed to teach Claire some more practical skills 

But yeah Sam’s really on a roll with this… Helps that they’ve had some really uncomplicated monsters or like these vampires very clearly spelled out their emotional backstory so they we knew they weren’t any more than “cool motive still murder” at the best. Like even the guy who’d been an innocent vampire victim thanks to Alex, it could have been murky except he killed loads of people and was dead set on killing all of them, so lines were well and truly crossed… 

Don’t know where I was going with that… Maybe hoping for a much more difficult case soon so Sam can flex his moral muscles some more :P

[mercurialmalcontent]

Ahhh I'm so happy you started Life Is Strange, even if it's a gutpunch. (It gets worse, I'm so sorry.)

This is a case where I’m glad I’ve been fairly spoiled on something so I can brace myself. I’d be able to manage if I were going in blind, but I think I’m going to get a better experience out of it since I know it’s going to hurt a lot.

And it’s not like there aren’t plenty of surprises - there’s nothing like experiencing these characters for myself, and the thing with Nathan in the bathroom surprised the FUCK out of me. I suspect there’s going to be a lot more of that in store.

[mercurialmalcontent]

heartlighting said: You need to write more Fenris POV. Like yesterday.

It might happen! ... Well, not yesterday, since I don’t hold with time travel, but in general. Fenris is one of my favorites and extremely relatable for me, so that makes me want to write lots of him. (Also, I finally got to a part in DA2 where Hawke tells a terrible joke and surprises Fenris into laughing and then Fenris gets kind of embarrassed he laughed and made me terribly fond of him all over again, which also makes me want to write lots of him.)

heartlighting said: Also you are fabulous.

*buffs nails on shirt and beams*

[mercurialmalcontent]

Not Fenris/DA2-related, but spicyshimmy on AO3 wrote... I think it's called "TO MAGISTER PAVUS". I forget if you've read it or not, but it's a oneshot and it's FANASTIC. Most of her other fic is Fenders, so I haven't read it, but that one is one of my all-time favorites.

Ohhh, I don’t think I have, thank you!

[mercurialmalcontent]

Hugs from across the ocean. <3

Thank you, friend. *hug*

[mercurialmalcontent]

How super glad am I that I stay out of the trans!Fenris tag? Like, I'll throw down defending people's right to headcanon whatever to add rep to their fiction (esp if the argument against it is stupid), but that SPECIFIC headcanon seems to come packaged with the air of "if you don't share this you're TRANSPHOBIC" if it wasn't just about the babymaking.

I don’t even look at the tag because what I’ve seen from various reblog blogs already made me uuugggghhhh enough AND NOW I’M EVEN MORE GLAD. Am I reading this right? They seriously think it’s transphobic for a trans headcanon to not be about making babies with hot yaois?