#prancy

[lordefiance]

I got the most votes for being a fairy type pokemon. So here's my pokesona based on the type meme!

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I’ve always thought the idea behind Valentine’s Day, once you strip away all the capitalist trappings and get back to the basics, was a good one - much like many holidays, it revolves around togetherness and expressing gratitude to the people you’re closest to. In that spirit, here’s a small post celebrating some folks I am grateful to know here on tumblr.

@bkcybvrnes - I don’t think I’ve ever had a friend who was quite so RIDE OR DIE about my work before, and Gunnu is one of the most genuinely supportive and encouraging people I’ve ever met. In fact, she’s probably one of the most genuine people I’ve ever met, period. As I’ve gotten older I’ve come to value knowing people I can absolutely trust to be real with me, and Gunnu is without a doubt one of those people. It’s not just that she values truth highly, it’s that truthfulness is an intrinsic part of her personality, and maybe even more valuable, she’s able to accept truth with the same grace and understanding that she dishes it out with. She definitely carries wisdom and maturity beyond her years, but she’s also refreshingly open and accepting to growing through new experiences, and I feel so fortunate that I’ve been able to share so much with her.

@marsza - I know I’ve said this before in various ways and Nia always scoffs at me, but she is genuinely probably the single nicest person I know. She’s not saccharine or over-the-top, she’s just so empathetic and understanding. I think maybe it comes from a really deep, really intrinsic love of other people, but I admit I don’t quite know how she does it. She is so generous with her time and her sweetness, and she is such a brilliant intersectional feminist with such a beautiful view of the world. She gives so much of herself to other people and I’m honestly in awe of her for it; she is genuinely working to improve the lives of those she comes into contact with and that’s so, so admirable. If I were to have a child, I would hope that they would have the good fortune to meet someone like Nia and learn from her. As it is, I’m just so grateful to call her my friend. Even if she is Danny DeVito.

@prancy - I’m pretty sure Allen is the single most brilliant person I know. And I mean brilliant not only in the sense of intelligent, but also just - bright, in the sense that his point of view illuminates corners of the world not usually seen. He has so much to share, and shares it in such a beautiful way, and I think anyone who knows him is lucky to have their life enriched by his point of view. He looks at the world with such discernment and examines it in a way I don’t think anyone else is capable of, and which I appreciate so much because it resonates so deeply with me and the way I’ve always looked at the world. I think Allen truly has a searching soul, which can be both a blessing and a curse for its owner, but is certainly a blessing for everyone who is touched by his creative and scholarly work. Allen is a brilliant writer and the world is a richer place to have his writing in it.

Happy Valentine’s Day, babes.

[shredsandpatches]

prancy replied to your post “you know your country is in trouble”

TFW you start to think of the beginning of the wars of the roses as preferable to current government, or at least not *worse*

I mean, the Wars of the Roses even at their height did not have the capacity to destroy the entire planet, so I feel this is totally legit.

[artigas]

prancy replied to your photoset “ŒâœŒâœŒ”

Omg you look like season 3 Alana Bloom

god bless honestly bc alana bloom is life + wife goals

[enigmaticrose]

“Hello, miss? I’d like the chicken, please.”

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Fic title meme: a story and a sequel titled, respectively, 'Going' and 'Having Gone'

Going: We occupy the liminal space between CATWS and CACW, when he’s no longer precisely the Winter Soldier, but he’s not anyone else, either. He spends a lot of time riding public transit, aimless and trying to remain anonymous to himself and everyone else. New York, Chicago, London, Paris. The tail end of fall, or the beginning of winter. He can’t remember what real summer is like, just heat and cold, different kinds of the same pain. People say the world has changed, but it’s all the same, really; people are people, and living life involves, as it always has, some kind of blissful ignorance or denial over the profound fragility of the foundations of everything they take for granted. The problem is, once you’ve seen how quickly that can change, you can’t unsee it. He knows someone’s looking for him, but it’s not really him they’re looking for. He needs to be able to answer the important questions about himself, but he’s not ready to know all the answers yet.

Having Gone: The apartment is small. It’s not nice; it shouldn’t be nice. The city is just big enough that nobody really has to know him, but not so big that it’s obvious. And the people here remember what it’s like to be at war. He isn’t exactly living like a human being, yet, but he isn’t living like a machine anymore, either. He’s not sure he wants it all back, anyway, everything it entails being a person. It would be so easy to just be no-one, except for one thing: Steve. Steve is looking for him. Steve will find him eventually - he won’t stop trying, and no matter what Bucky does, that’s something he can’t entirely control. and when he does – what?

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If you could have written the movie that came after Winter Soldier, what would it have been about?

I think it would have been much more tightly focused on Steve and Sam’s search for Bucky. I would have loved a globe-hopping thriller where they followed him from place to place - chasing the ghost, y’know? And finding out little pieces of his history as they went, both stuff his past self had done and pieces of information his present self had left behind, deliberately or accidentally. I would have loved to see Steve grapple with the realization that both his life and Bucky’s have become very intimately intertwined with violence, and the implications that Bucky isn’t the only one who’s been used. And of course I would have wanted to see Steve forced to confront his own desperation to regain the one person who really remembers him from Before. The conflict with the other Avengers that led to CW could have been built so organically from this: Steve deliberately isolating himself, going AWOL and maybe even ignoring his “duties” as Cap to go after Bucky. But nahhhhh.

[ipsomaniac]

prancy replied to your post:

also why does tumblr keep recommending me food...

It’s so funny how I can agree so thoroughly about only being here for blond twinks fucking each other hatefully and yet not like homestuck

thing is ive chosen simply the most convoluted labyrinthine turd-paven route to get these particular needs met. honestly shakespeare and hannibal and ww1 poets are infinitely more sensible and direct sources for this heady fodder than the paradox clusterfuck ad absurdum saga and the pubescent pixels who populate it

also i tried to reply to this in the notes..... like a d4mn f00l i dont know how to use tumblr despite being here for years

anyway thanks for following me despite the deluge of fanart thats only distantly albeit spiritually related to your interests