#mssmartian

[why-didnt-i-get-any-soup]

Superbat 👀 Malira 👏

Okay so the superbat one is really weird and I honestly don’t super remember where I was going with it but it seems like the premise was that batman was able to actually turn into a bat??? And Clark is like some sort of supernatural creature as well that derives his powers from the sun.

The malira one takes place in 3B where Kira first shows up and Malia is trying to re-enter into school but she ACTUALLY has a hard time with school and remembering to be human...

[nikosasakis]

💫 favorite indie movie? 💫 favorite artist?

send me “what’s your favorite..” asks 💫

............I genuinely can’t think of an indie movie off the top of my head??? I’ve not watched many? Clear I need to educate myself with movies oops

And... by artist do you mean like, music artist, or artist artist efhu

[solvatochrome]

Maple and Fireside

maple - is there a hobby / skill that you’ve always wanted to try but never did? 

woodworking. and wood turning. thats my crafting white whale honestly. i am EXTREMELY inspired by Peter Brown on youtube, who does a lot of woodturning and epoxy resin work, and i desperately want to get a little workshop or join a makerspace and just... go nuts with some wood

fireside - if you had your dream wardrobe, what would it look like? 

tbh? i have a wardrobe i’m extremely proud of bc i put a lot of time and effort and money into finding unique pieces in my sizes. obviously if i had infinite money i’d buy nicer dresses and a lot more accessories and stuff, but my aesthetic wouldnt change at all. i dress exactly the way i want to already!

[dostoiivskii]

Caitlin ♥️

C - cigar / tamino

A - au revoir (adios) / the front bottoms

I - i bet on losing dogs / mitski

T - texas reznikoff / mitski

L - lover of mine / 5sos

I - in my head / maala

N - no children / the mountain goats

Send me your name and i'll make a mini playlist with the letters

[isabelofwraithmarsh]

6-8 for Star Wars or the MCU?

Thanks! 

6. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

THANKFULLY enough, I’m far enough away from the worst of the MCU discourse that I don’t REALLY hear it. I will say that, generally speaking, some of the worst people I’ve ever personally interacted with have been Stucky shippers, but I put that down more to it having a HUGE AMOUNT of shippers, specifically that Specific Brand of slash shipper who is more obsessed with “PURE. SOFT. UWU. BOYS.” without focusing on anything of substance and regularly say shitty, biphobic things to other shippers and toss female characters under the bus. I don’t HATE the ship and of itself, it’s just not my particular poison. (I will take this time to remind anyone of the audience who has never heard it that one of my VERY FIRST slash ships was Frostiron. So that kind of sets the mood there.) I like their overall dynamic, I do like the chemistry, so it isn’t a total no-sell, just not something I’ll sell myself heart and soul to. 

I feel like a ton of the sequel trilogy ships that became REALLY popular on Tumblr were ruined for me by the, frankly, disgusting way that Reylo shippers were treated. Like, you want to complain about how your ship isn’t getting enough attention? Fine, but THEN don’t blame Reylo shippers for it not getting attention WHEN YOU DID EVERYTHING TO EXCLUDE US FROM THE PARTY IN THE FIRST PLACE. Including putting “Reylo shippers DNI” on artwork of your ship. Like, if you do that, then I will do as you say and not interact with it. And probably block you for good measure. So that you don’t accidentally ever put yourself in the unfortunate position of interacting with a Disgusting Reylo. 

I walked out of the first film willing to ship ANYTHING. F1nnrey, F1innpoe, Kylux, and, yes, Reylo. Hell, even Darkpilot. But then, as Fandom evolved, the Reylo shippers, as a group, became more and more insular. I saw this happen BEFORE MY OWN EYES. It became more about hating ONE SHIP than about liking....anything else. There couldn’t be a SINGLE POST about one of the others without a backhanded swipe about Reylo in there. (Also, can I just say, as a bisexual in fandom, the way that Reylo was referred to as a Straight Ship™ when...like....a decent proportion of the Reylo shippers that I personally interacted with were in fact bi was...The two of them knocking uglies while having different plumbing does NOT in fact make either the characters or the shippers straight.) 

I still do like Darkpilot and Finnlo, though. Among others (the smaller, the more niche, the better). But my God if I don’t interact with the fandom as a whole, because like...I’ll just get kicked down. 

7. Is there anything you used to like, but now can’t stand? 

I liked Ragnarok alright, as far as the Thor movies were concerned. Not the BEST, but it was a fun ride, even if the continuity bugged me. 

Then.....the fandom. The FANDOM. The ongoing potshots at the rest of the Thor franchise (talking about HOW GOOD IT WAS compared to the OTHER THOR FILMS, which the film ITSELF didn’t help by making empty jabs at them for....daring to actually show EMOTION instead of endless butt jokes?)

And ignoring the way that it shat on two films’ worth of development. 

And took out a significant part of the prior cast (including, not one, but three female characters.) 

And....

Yeah, there’s a reason I have every possible tag for it blacklisted at this point. 

In Star Wars....it’s actually HARD for me to look at the sequel series now, after TROS. And this is something I’ve heard a lot of. There’s just this...empty feeling. Which is hard with something that’s basically a PART of you because you’ve been a fan of it for so long. Star Wars isn’t JUST a franchise, it’s Five Year Old Rachel sitting in front of a TV and watching a boy only a few years older than her compete in a pod racing tournament as her aunt says “That’s going to be Darth Vader” and it’s asking for The Return of the Jedi EVERY TIME because she loved the Ewoks SO MUCH, it’s having a small lightsaber collection when by the time she was 7-8. It’s going to Star Wars Day at Hollywood Studios and not being overly impressed by MUCH, but then getting to see the fireworks go off overhead to some of the best cinematic music ever composed by man and it being a moment of pure MAGIC. It’s...it’s something that’s threaded itself throughout my life for YEARS. And it’s gone. Or at least a huge part of it is. I don’t know if I’ll ever quite get it back. What TROS did.......it wasn’t JUST a bad storytelling decision. It wasn’t JUST me not being happy that my ship didn’t end up together (the ship thing.....honestly wasn’t even the biggest thing for me). It was a BETRAYAL. And a particularly deep one. And I’m not sure when, or if, I can ever love it like I used to. 

8. Unpopular opinion about [insert fandom here]?

Hating the MCU isn’t a substitute for a personality, I’m sorry. I know you’re embarrassed that you liked in 2012, but please, please deal with that on your own time instead of making endless posts shitting on the MCU. I get it, it’s not as good as it used to be. For my part, I decided to bow out after Endgame. But people saying that it’s as bad as CORONAVIRUS is....

wow. Like, everyone copes in their own ways, but YOU ARE AWARE PEOPLE HAVE DIED, RIGHT? 

I’m REALLY going to make some enemies here, but Hanleia has ALWAYS creeped me out. I do NOT like the way he treats her, I don’t like their first kiss, and honestly? I was kind of glad they broke up in the Sequel Trilogy because it felt more natural for me. (As much as....a lot of the Sequel Trilogy can be natural.) There was a really good Youtube video on Harrison Ford and playing predatory romance, and it really articulated a lot of my feelings on that particular ship. I feel like people....tend to make Han better than he was, which is the counterpart to Dudebros imprinting on him and making him worse than he was.

[nighttimemachinery]

The Umbrella Academy

my favorite female character: allison hargreeves

my favorite male character: klaus hargreeves

my favorite book/season/etc: i really liked season 2 it was a lot of fun to see them all in a different element/era

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): i know i just said i liked season 2, but i really liked 1x05 and 1x06 with klaus’ experience in the vietnam war and afterwards. i thought it was a really interesting story and i like how it expanded on klaus’ character.

my favorite cast member: ellen page probably

my favorite ship: vanya x sissy

a character I’d die defending: klaus

a character I just can’t sympathize with: the handler, i guess? she seems to only want power at the expense of others so there’s not a lot to sympathize with

a character I grew to love: diego

my anti otp: allison x luther (i’m sorry but they’re brother and sister it’s just not for me)

send me a show/movie/fandom and i’ll tell you all these things about it

[isabelofwraithmarsh]

1, 3, 9, 17?

Thank you! 

1. What's something you've written that you know is OOC and you just don't care?

I do REALLY put an effort in to be as in character as possible when I’m working, and being able to hear a character’s voice is REALLY important to me. That being said, I’m willing to say that a lot of the time, I will get very complacent with how I’ve written a character and write more for THAT than necessarily the canon, if that makes any sense? It’s in-character for my universe’s take on them, but it isn’t necessarily a direct extension of canon and doesn’t always explain WHAT that connection is. Which is fairly common for just about anything I write for Peyronan, since I’m always AWARE that they have to go through a lot in order to get to the place where they’re comfortable with one another, and I do have that in the back of my mind as having happened, but sometimes you just want pure, tooth-rotting fluff. 

3. Something you wish a commenter had called attention to, but got ignored.

I can’t REALLY think of anything, off the top of my head? I will say I routinely pick through embarrassing grammar errors years after the fact and I’m like “....well. At least I have it now.” 

9. What's your fandom's most overused trope?

Bold of you to assume that the fandom doesn’t consist of me and my 3-4 friends feeding off of one another. 

Since I’ve been in Fable Hell recently, I’ve noticed that there’s this general...softening of the Hero of Bowerstone when it comes to pairing him/her with Reaver. I genuinely do ship it, and people can very well ship it however they want, but I find that it TENDS to be “Pure Perfect Hero / Angsty Bad Boy”. Which....you CAN play the game like that! It’s one of the joys of such an expansive game. I’m not saying that it’s wrong or it doesn’t work, because I feel like, in a game like this, there are very few ways to really BE wrong. (And, really, in fanfic in general, see #1 above, so long as everyone’s having fun.) But it isn’t how *I* would personally tilt it. I would rather focus on what they do have in common and why some part of even the most heroic Sparrow MIGHT be drawn to him.

17. How are you procrastinating today?

Dreaming of Stardew Valley, going on social media. 

[kingbuckley]

I know your recent posts r about the buddie pirate AU 👏👏👏 but if ur into gays at sea, may I recommend, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant? One of the main characters is bi (Tori) and another main character is a lesbian (Olivia, and imho one of the better representations of someone on the autistic spectrum). I personally don’t like Tori as a character 😅 but Olivia is wonderful and they get p cute+the story is essentially people hunting for killer mermaids with a lot o science info-dump 👍

YOU CAN RECOMMEND THIS TO ME THANK YOU!!!! Omg

Can I recommend to YOU the last true poets of the sea it’s also ocean gays and I read it in ONE day I loved it