#synteis

[bemusedlybespectacled]

What's your "you can pull this head canon away from my cold, dead body" (any fandom)?

Mark from RENT is a closet bisexual.

Like, I get he’s an author avatar for Jonathan Larson, I get that he’s supposed to be the one straight guy (other than Benny), but dang it, Anthony Rapp is bisexual, and a lot of Mark’s actions make far more sense if you interpret him as having an unrequited crush on Roger.

I wrote a whole thing about it

[featherquillpen]

Rose and Martha for the character meme.

I will pick Rose, aaaaand this will turn into an essay that will probably make people angry. So be it.

My concept of writing Rose is entirely based on her behavior in Season 1, not thereafter. I think she went seriously off the rails as a character after that point. Because I’ll tell you this about Rose. She would kick the Doctor’s ass and drag him through the streets before she let him abandon Jack Harkness, whether he was alive or dead, on a satellite full of Dalek corpses. They had to write her out of character in order to make that story move, and it’s the original sin that got me connecting with her a lot less after S1. And I’ll tell you another thing about Rose. She would not try to pin down the Doctor to a domestic life and a mortgage, like she suggests in The Satan Pit. She loves the Doctor exactly as he is, a free spirit roaming time and space. She would not want him to be the kind of person who would want to settle down with her. The very idea that she would does a terrible disservice to the way she is able to embrace all of the Doctor’s personality, even the parts that aren’t always great, like his itch to always move on.

I spent the whole time watching Rose in S2 and the S4 finale wailing, “S1 Rose would never do this!!!”

Another important of Rose is remembering that she grew up poor. She always notices the humble people around her, the service workers and the vagrants. Her sense of justice is motivated by how her world was unjust to her. And there’s something in her that is eternally unsettled, I think, by how the Doctor never has to worry about money or where he’ll sleep tonight, or his ability to bluff his way into rarefied social spaces.

Along similar lines, Rose is always looking to improve herself. As a council flat girl she never got as many opportunities as she wanted to learn new skills and better herself. She’s proud of the accomplishments she’s made (gymnastics!) but she always wants more under her belt. 

[lightshadowverisimilitude]

What's your "you can pull this head canon away from my cold, dead body"?

Hmmm… I’m so randomly bad at complex head canons? I know I have them, but when people ask me for them, I just go blank. 

I guess things that come up very frequently are Steve loving smooth textured cloth (satin eye mask, silk boxers, silk or satin sheets) and being a little embarrassed by how much he likes them. 

Also, that Tony likes to be carried. 

And Clint paints his toenails.

[cuddlytogas]

gdi u 2

[mhalachai]

Vanilla chai latte, flat white, green tea, mint tea

Vanilla Chai Latte : Are you in love?

If we're going by the usual meaning of that phrase, then no. I'm not sure I ever have been; there was a Thing That Happened when I was 18 and he was 34 (and, as I later found out, married and a complete fucking asshole) and that put my emotional walls up. I was in a couple relationships after that that felt more like friends with benefits (on both sides) (ooh, added bonus, getting dumped on my 23rd birthday in the middle of a celebratory dinner). At a certain point, it's just not worth opening yourself up any more, ya know?

Flat White : Coffee or Tea?

Coffee. Preferably on the bitter side of the spectrum (instead of sour - I'm better able to handle Starbucks over-roasting their beans, than Tim Hortons' under-roasting them). Also, I like my coffee like I like my feuds between Anish Kapoor and  Stuart Semple - black as black can be.

Green Tea : How tall are you?

Six feet. And in these shoes, 6'3"

Because why not.

Mint Tea : How do you relax?

I drink That is an excellent question. When I feel as emotionally and physically drained as I do these days, I dick around on Tumblr until my brain turns off. When I'm feeling more energetic, I like to go places and take pictures, or I like to write.

drinks ask meme

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synteis replied to your post: alisonhendric replied to your post: ...

Why shouldn’t it? Part of what fiction and art more generally is supposed to do is challenge social norms?

so it’s not like, supporting harmful plotlines bc it’s “just fandom” 

[svollga]

synteis replied to your post: If I see one more “i want my lams to have their...

My fave is fics where the trope and Eliza solving all the problems is specifically dismantled.

They exist????!!! I need recs ))) (I sort of have something on the topic written in my own au, but it's yet to be finished and posted.)

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synteis replied to your post: BDSM etiquette question: if a rope bottom gives me...

Probably not but it’s worth clarifying in the future. Also around like whether they’re comfortable w them being kept on an unlocked phone or in your like general pictures app as opposed to being in a specific app that has a password and that someone couldn’t like stumble on the photos if you were trying to show them something else.

That's a good point to consider – I probably don't want to put them in the general photos app where I keep my vacation photos.