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[bigmanroykent]

☕️ and romcoms 💕

absolutely love them!! but since i haven't seen a lot of movies in general i think i haven't even watched the most popular ones. i think my favourite is my best friend's wedding, i love julia roberts (or at least the romantic comedies she's in)

[angelhummel]

Trope to grade: Soulmates ^^

A! I love it! I love seeing all the interesting and creative ways people come up with to signify that someone has met their soulmate. Their name appearing on someone's skin, or the first words they speak to them, or the whole world is in black and white until they meet their soulmate then everything is in color. It's just a fun idea

Especially if it's mixed with enemies to lovers and they realize they're one another's soulmates and they're like "noooo anyone but tHEM this will never woooork" hoo boy i eat it up nom nom nom

send me some tropes to grade!

[takaraphoenix]

Since you watched it, what are your thoughts on the Superman & Lois Pilot?

Oookay! I have thoughts!

Let’s start with the thing I knew before the pilot: Tyler Hoechlin is the perfect cast for Clark Kent and Superman. He is just... *chef’s kiss* on both parts. I adore the way he plays Clark, he might very well be my favorite iteration of the character at this point.

Other things I knew before going in that had... set me against the show, but that the pilot actually smoothed out well would be two things in particular.

One of them is that when the casting knews were announced that they cast a black man to play Luthor, and voices were loud that he’d play Lex Luthor, that... really turned me off the show. For one, because... continuity. Lex Luthor isn’t exactly a minor character on Supergirl, he’s been on and around for a long time, very prominently. So for the Superman show to recast him, that’d just be wild and throw the Very White other Luthors from Supergirl kind of... off. And, much more importantly than continuity - there are very few characters that you can’t racebend, because if you do, you completely miss the point of these characters. That point being; they’re walking, takling privilege. Lex Luthor represents pure, raw privilege, he’s that straight white man with a billion dollars and no care in the world, so the thought of this show missing that point so fundamentally really had me wary.

Now, after the pilot, I’m pretty convinced that he is not actually Lex Luthor, that he is... either from a parallel Earth, or a descendant from the future, or heck just a fanboy of Lex who took the name. But going in, the way they released those casting news was not exactly... reassuring.

Same thing goes for the boys. I was beyond pissed when Crisis retconned Clark’s baby away and the show announced two teenage boys as the cast, because in universe, Clark was completely thrown by suddenly having boys, plural, and by them being teenagers. And if this had been one of those horrendous “babies don’t add to plot, let’s speed age them” tropes that come at the cost of the parent(s) not getting to raise their child(ren), that’d have really frustrated me. And while it is not actually adressed in canon as to how Clark remembers this new timeline, he does, so... I am appeased by the fact that Clark did get to raise his children.

Let’s talk about those boys!

Not impressed. Not impressed at all so far. However, it has only been one episode, so I... really do hope they actually become... uh... characters... during the season and not just three tropes in a trenchcoat (Jonathan = cheerful jock himbo, Jordan = angsty angry emo boy). They’re really the two most archetypical Teen Boy Tropes imaginable, if Jordan turns out to be a geek and nerd now too, then congrats, we got a Teen Boy Bingo. So yeah, that’s... They’re not fleshed out, they really are just adults picking teen stereotypes and combining them together. I hope they become more over the course of this season though.

But while we’re on the boys, let’s talk ages. Because goodness did this retcon screw them all over. Tyler Hoechlin is 33 years old, looking... not a day over 30. And he now has two 15 year old sons. But Lois is not his teenage sweetheart, he was 20+ when he came to the Daily Planet and even just met her, then they had to fall in love, get married, and only then have the kids. So Clark Kent ought to be around 40 years old. And I am just... not buying Tyler being that old yet, boy looks too young for that. Sure, I’ve been told that “Kryptonians age slower”, but that doesn’t change the whacky visual or make it better and let’s be very, very clear, this was not a result of “Kryptonians age slower, a canon we are aware of and are employing here”, this is a result of “we decided to retcon Clark and Lois’ first born child, which was supposed to be a baby at this point in their lives, into 15 year olds because teenagers add more to the plot uuuh so now the age gap between the kids and the parents is a bit whacky ooops”.

Which, I’d also like to point out about Samuel Lane and his daughter. Dylan Walsh is exactly 18 years older than Bitsie and... he kept himself young too... Visually, the age gap between them looks more like 10 to 15, at max. And it’s kind of weird considering how “old” Martha was - quotation marks, because her age does fit having a 40 year old son, but if you consider her age in relation to Lois’ dad, who ought to be her generation, it seems startling. Especially if you consider that Samuel Lane has already been a character on Supergirl! And while the man may have only been 4 years older than Dylan, Glenn Morshower looks aged. So, that’s... that’s a recast where they should have taken either an actor who is older or at least looks older.

While we are on this topic though - the recast of a character we already knew from Supergirl - I am... rather peeved by the lack of acknowledgment of Supergirl.

I fully understand that Melissa couldn’t drop by during Martha’s funeral scene (though in universe no one can convince me that Kara would have missed the funeral of Clark’s mother), it’s the complete lack of Kara in the “here’s what happened so far in Clark’s life” montage at the beginning. The one that literally started with Clark landing on Earth and covered all of the big parts of his life; they should have and could have taken archive footage of Clark and Kara and included just... one line... of voice-over about how Clark turned out to not be the last and that his cousin has landed on Earth years after him and by now became Supergirl. And that’s it. That’s all the acknowledgment I would have needed, but I really would have needed it, because without Supergirl this show would not exist, this version of Clark and this version of Lois would not exist.

Even in the greater scheme of them wanting to distance themselves more from the Arrowverse - which I fully understand considering the torn-up state the Arrowverse has been in ever since Arrow ended - Supergirl is the one show they should not fully distance themselves from.

That brings me to my hope of seeing other characters from Supergirl, that had been taken from the Superman canon to begin with, on this show in he future. Lex Luthor has to appear at least, because seriously he’s Superman’s villain, not Supergirl’s. I really... I really need James Olsen to at least guest-star, because James is Clark’s best friend and if he didn’t appear on the Superman show at all, that’d be... frustrating, to be quite frank.

Other than those. Lana. Not really done a lot so far, but nice to see her again. I liked how when they brought up the fact that Lana’s husband was jealous of Clark, there was zero jealousy on Lois’ side.

Which brings me to my favorite part of the show so far, about which I did make a whole separate post already, but it bears mentioning here again - Clark and Lois’ relationship. Mutual love, respect and communication. Amazing. First time I am actually liking this ship and considering the ship is literally the title of this show, that’s a blessing. The fact that even in this one hour pilot they already managed to establish their dynamic and marriage so well has me very hopeful about that part of writing on the show!

Now, lastly, the actual plot. To which I can’t say much, because... I don’t know much yet? I do love the family moving back to Smallville and Clark and Lois teaming up to uncover some mystery in Smallville. I hope it’ll be well-written and I hope we will continue seeing Clark and Lois as equals in it.

I do also hope to maybe see other characters I’m familiar with from Smallville.

But so far, I am really digging this show a lot and am looking forward to more!

[takaraphoenix]

I have to say, you already fed me really well with fics this month, because nearly everyone was for a ship I read, and now I also get a new Jagnus multichap fic to look forward to? Is it christmas or what? What a great way to end the year!

So thank you for writing so many consistently great fics, and being so reliable with your schedule, even with everything that's been going on this year. ❤

*laughs* Why yes, yes, it is Christmas! xD

Technically, the post date was supposed to be January, but then I realized the epilogue of the ending story is... literally on December 26th and I figured, hey, why not make that a Christmas present and post the first chapter of the new story on the same day the last ends. ;D

AND CAN I JUST TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM ABOUT THIS STORY? *^*

I can’t believe I’ve never written a multichapter Jagnus fic before. It is. Literally. My OTP. But I just never really... had the right spark for a multichapter story.

And I already upped the chapter count after writing one chapter because I am weak, it turns out. It was meant to be just a short 5 chapter one, but right now I am pegging it more for 7 chapters.

I AM CRAMMING THIS BITCH SO FULL OF THINGS I LOVE. ^-^

Uuuuh sorry for the mini-rant. I am VERY excited about the story. xD”

You are very welcome! And thank you <3

[takaraphoenix]

I'm currently rewatching a few Sh episodes and like, when Magnus says "I'm afraid I've always been a one soul at a time kind of guy"... that's the only argument you'd need for why Malace should have been (show) canon because well... Alec and Jace kinda share a soul 🤷‍♀️

THAT IS WHY THAT QUOTE IS MY OTP TAG FOR THEM.

BECAUSE IT IS. PERFECT FOR THEM.

It absolutely adore that because it is such a sneaky lil thing that is so loaded with meaning in the context of a universe where soulmates exist and you are dating someone with a soulmate.

(In the context of the episode it was a bit MMMH though because bitch tried to kiss you while you are already dating someone else so how bout “I’m not a cheating whore and wtf is wrong with you for coming onto me even though you know I have a boyfriend?” but that’s just a personal choice :D)

[takaraphoenix]

Music recs: I love Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto, also Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto and Grieg's piano concerto. A concerto that starts lighter is Beethoven's 4th piano concerto. If the first movements don't fit the mood you want to have, check out the other movements. For solo piano: Chopin's Mazurkas with a whole bag of different moods. (I don't find solo piano that interesting, that's why most recs are concertos :D)

RACHMANINOFF WAS HOW I GOT ONTO THAT! I was very desperately digging through Youtube and found Rachmaninoff’s 2nd and it is so good. But like, it’s so hard to find anything when you don’t really know much about music...

Thank you for the recommendations! <3 I especially like the Grieg one. That’s such a wild mood.

Concertos ARE amazing, it’s just... more flavors. Like with food. The steak’s the main dish, but ya need some sauce and veggies and stuff to go with it. *^*

[takaraphoenix]

I usually have no ideas when someone asks for suggestions, but a few days ago you answered an ask about time traveling Nicercy and I thought that I really would like to read a fic about that! Especially with the bonus Percy. So yeah, that's "my" idea xD

Mmmh. You know what, you’re right, that is worth considering. *tilts head* It’s been a while since I wrote a Nicercy/Percest OT3

[queerhannibal]

Your art on Redbubble is gorgeous, there is only one problem: I don't know what merch to buy because there are so many things I want xD

fhsjskshdks yeah tbh I had a similar problem!! Too many choices and they all look really good in the pictures!!!

Personally I’ve had really good experiences with their regular t-shirts and tank tops, as well as their phone cases. I wouldn’t recommend the stickers, especially the smaller sizes, with a design like this that’s all fine lines. Otherwise I haven’t really tried anything so who knows!!

Thank you so so much, and I hope you do find something you like to get!!!

My redbubble