#rose-griffes

[phosphorescent-naidheachd]

@mswyrr replied to your post: 

/hugs/ it’s not only doing that kind of thing to you, if that helps? hope you’re having a happy new year otherwise! <3

*hugs back* 

I don’t know if that’s better or worse. On one hand, it means it probably isn’t anything I did. On the other hand, that means there probably isn’t anything I can do to fix it... and that it’s part of a wider problem that’s going to have a negative impact on this platform. I mean, I knew that there had been some issues with the tags on here over the past few months, but since I hadn’t tried to post anything to them in a while, I didn’t make the connection until you mentioned that.

Yeah, otherwise my new year is going well so far. Hope yours is too! <3

@rose-griffes replied to your post:

no pixelation, so IDK what’s going on

Huh. Thanks for letting me know! Who knows with this website lol.

[lehdenlaulu]

@rose-griffes replied to your post: I’ve been thinking about it and I think I figured...

I have a similar tendency in shipping - choice of who to love and forging a relationship is way more romantic to me than the idea of soulmates as usually expressed in fiction. That’s why some elements of Rey and Kylo’s connection actually worked for me within TLJ at a storytelling level: their link came from a malignant outside force, and ultimately Rey was able to choose to do something other than stay linked to Kylo.

Yeah, that was the only part of it I liked: that the bond was ultimately enforced and that she ultimately *chose* something else. They left her with at least that much of agency of her own, and faith in people who love her unconditionally.

[lj-writes]

For the fandom meme: C, G, and Y.

C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can’t.

Han/Leia. I mean they’re supposed to be this iconic Star Wars couple and I like them individually, but together? Meh. Tbh I was kind of happy to see they’d broken up in TFA, though under the circumstances that’s sort of an assholish thing to say. I do love how they supported each other despite the end of their marriage, and how they struggle with being parents to a mass murderer. I liked them better as old friends than I ever did as lovers, but alas, it was not to last…

G: What was your first fandom?

Harry Potter, summer of 1999. I uploaded my first piece of HP fanfiction to fanfiction.net, the first time I had ever shown my fiction to strangers. It was about Snape because he was the only HP character I really cared about, and it was a Snape/Lily fic because I am that prescient. It was also a giant corny mess because I had just turned 20, okay? I didn’t spend a long time in the fandom, but I’ve been moving from fandom to fandom ever since and HP was what got me started.

Y: A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, if I can be considered to be in the fandom. I have no romantic relationships I actively root for, though Darryl and White Josh are a great canon couple and I adore the bisexual representation. I do have a soft spot for Valencia/Nathaniel, but I know it’s a crackship between two people who have never spoken and it’s mostly for my daydream Valencia-centric sequel where V is a badass wedding planner who hires Plimpton & Whitefeather to make a tricky legal situation go away. I want her and Nathaniel to bond over their shared issues with body image and control. It doesn’t necessarily have to be romantic, either.

I do “ship” a ton of friendships from that show, starting of course with Rebecca and Paula, Paula and Sunil, Paula and Darryl, Rebecca-Heather-Valencia… that show was really about friendship, and was best when it focused on friendships. I still adore the fact that a large part of Season 2 revolved around tension between Rebecca and Paula. CXG wasn’t perfect but it did a lot of things right, and that was one of them. That and the music. The music, man.

(For the fandom questions meme)

[melanieexox]

rose-griffes replied to your photoset: Timeless | 1x15: First Rufus embarasses him, now...

Hey, where did you get the last name Marri? I haven’t found ANY source to give Jiya a last name…

x

[edenforest]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (This may be post-birthday in your time zone, but I'm still celebrating in mine.)

still the right day, for 7 more minutes!

[ramblingromance]

@rose-griffes A part of me wishes I had just stopped as well, and instead moved on to the new Mary Balogh novel that came in the mail, but I get stubborn about these things for some reason. Perhaps I was even a little bit hopeful. I thought maybe it would get better as I went on, and it just...didn’t. I will say that her writing seemed to improve by a hair in the second part of the book, but it wasn’t anything to save what was already a not so pleasant read in my opinion.

[kalinara]

for the ship meme: Luke Skywalker x anyone (I know he had canon love interests in the old EU, and there's at least one in the new EU, but I'm not sure what you're familiar with. And if you wanna pick a character from movie canon and talk about a non-canon ship, go for it.)

Okay, of all of Luke’s canon love interests, I liked Nakari Kelen the best.  I have nothing against Mara or the Legends continuity, but there are literal decades worth of material, and it’s all bogged down and full of this heavy sense of continuity and baggage.

And I like the new canon best when it allows us to explore different possibilities.  Nakari was a lovely character and her dynamic with Luke was so young and fresh.  They had such a sweet, charming vibe, free from all the history and tension and drama of Luke and Mara.  Luke got to be young with her. 

I understand that they couldn’t keep her around, but I thought she deserved a better end in canon than she got.  :-(

[shirilily]

@rose-griffes replied to your text post

Argh. That's what I get for not reading more closely. But yes, good questions about Elena. (Also, the Potosi in Colombia is SO TINY?! I couldn't even find a population listing. I'

Yes! The wikipedia in spanish lists around 12K people so... very very tiny. That’s why I think they probably didn’t mean that Potosí but the bolivian one, because Elena painted it as such a ~hell, and it was suck a strange statement about such a tiny village?