#throwback tag

[roseganymede95]

Throwback Tag

I have been tagged by @williamvapespeare to share a snippet of something old that seems worth revisiting. I'm going with this little gem from Like Fool's Gold that has become extremely relevent in my current longfic, RIP to Orpheus but I'm Different.

Here it is, the original Holmes and Watson discussion, lifted from the first chapter of the the first fic I ever wrote for Dead Boy Detectives:

“You’re getting pretty good at this, you know,” said Charles. “Like dead Sherlock Holmes.”

“Nonsense,” Edwin scoffed. “The Sherlock Holmes books only have one detective. That would make you Watson, which is ridiculous.”

“I’d make a great Watson!” Charles protested.

“Watson is meant to be an audience surrogate,” said Edwin firmly. “He’s there to follow Homes around and tell the reader how brilliant Holmes is. If Arthur Conan Dyle were writing about us, he would include a third person to tell the reader how remarkable both of us are. It would be unwieldy.”

He didn’t notice until he stopped speaking that Charles had stopped following him. Edwin stopped too, now, to look back at Charle’s face across the few yards of distance. Charles wore a strange expression, head cocked to one side with all the usual humor gone from around his mouth and eyes.

At once, Edwin felt terribly nervous. Had he said something wrong? Charles didn’t really want to be Watson, did he? What if Watson was his favorite character and Edwin had just insulted him? 

“Charles?” Edwin asked carefully.

“That might be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me,” said Charles, something like wonder in his voice.

“Oh.” It was a good thing Edwin couldn’t blush. He would most certainly be blushing right now if he could. 

Charles grinned and picked up his gait again to resume their walk home. “You’re something, you know that?” 

For what it's worth, I don't think Edwin's assessment of Watson is accurate. The character is a lot more complex and competent that Edwin's giving him credit for, here. But I think it's also true that Edwin objects pretty strongly to any implication that Charles is his sidekick.

Charles, meanwhile, wants to be Edwin's sidekick more than he's ever wanted anything.

I'm tagging @the-wine-dark-sea and @babyseraphim to do either this or whatever else they would like!

[the-wine-dark-sea]

Throwback Tag

Thank you so much @roseganymede95 for tagging me!

Uhm, I decided to go with something that's a throwback for nobody but myself, actually. (I hope that's okay??) It's part of the first little ficlet I put down when I started writing again. I never shared it, since it was my first attempt and not that great, but I do really like the idea of it and so decided to share this little snippet. Basically, Crystal finds a magic hand mirror that ghosts can supposedly see themselves in and wants to gift it to Charles. To make sure it actually works, she has Edwin try it out first, and things get unexpectedly emotional:

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 Crystal watched Edwin closely as he opened the hand mirror with a little flourish. Some complicated emotion flitted across his face, so quickly Crystal almost thought she’d imagined it, then his expression became unreadable.

 “… And?”

 Edwin didn’t reply immediately, and Crystal was already bracing herself for disappointment when he said, his voice quiet and tense: “It works.”

 “Wait, really?!”, Crystal exclaimed excitedly, sitting up straighter, a smile spreading on her face.

 But Edwin didn’t seem to share her excitement in the slightest. He was still looking into the mirror with that carefully neutral look on his face.

  Crystal frowned. “What’s wrong?”

 The question seemed to shake Edwin out of it somewhat. Drawing in a sharp and entirely unnecessary breath, he put the mirror down in his lap and turned towards her, his expression still guarded.

 “Absolutely nothing.”

 “Bullshit.”

 Edwin’s mouth twisted disapprovingly at her language, but Crystal was not deterred. “What’s going on?”

 Edwin looked away from her again, studying the little mirror lying, still open, in his lap. “I am not used to seeing my reflection, that is all,” he said in a clipped, careful tone. “The last time I saw it was during my second time in Hell, and before that when I was still alive. So it is…” He frowned unhappily, his mouth moving as if trying to form the right words before he had thought of them. “It is unusual,” he eventually concluded a bit lamely.

 Crystal’s face had fallen during this explanation. “Shit. I never thought of that. Fuck, sorry, I shouldn’t have-”

 “It’s quite alright,” Edwin interrupted. “It’s not bad, simply… a lot to take in, I suppose.”  They were both quiet for a moment, but it wasn’t the comfortable silence from just before a few minutes before.

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What can I say, I love stuff about Edwin and Crystal developing their relationship post-canon and getting a better understanding of each other.

I tag @ahyperactivehero and @mountainsoftreatos !

[tiptapricot]

I made a funky little slashersona/OC just in time for spooky day :-)c

(ID in alt text, general info under cut+mask inspo pic)

Pronouns: it/its/itself

Background info:

Throwback is a supernatural slasher who kills adults on the anniversary of a wrongdoing they committed between 1970 and 2000. It claims one victim per year, working in chronological order of their sins, and kills backed by the chart hits from its victim’s year.

It refuses to harm children, but will go after people other than its target if they attempt to intervene and/or have a history of wrongdoing. It has no face and does not speak traditionally, but is constantly emitting sounds similar to TV or radio static, and will sometimes put out old audio clips related to its victims’ crimes.

It looks and moves like a human in a mask, and can be injured, but the wounds look fuzzy like old film and heal unnaturally fast. Even bigger things won’t take it out for long, and on the off chance its prey manage to escape it long enough for their anniversary date to pass, Throwback will continue to pursue them for the remainder of the year.

Throwback’s only weakness is that it will become completely docile if someone sings along to the songs that accompany it while it works. If a victim discovers that, and knows all the words to the songs that play, and is able to keep that up every time they cross paths with Throwback, it is possible for them to escape, just highly unlikely.

If you have any questions abt this guy pls send em in! I’d love to talk abt it more it’s given me bad brain rot recently 😭😭😭

Commission from moz.art

Bonus: My mask inspo is a mask I made when I was a kid. I shaped it to be a T-rex head (from the front) but for some reason when I told the teacher to paint the base color said I was making a polar bear, so it ended up getting painted white so I made it both. This mask and Throwback’s mask are both named Harold.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Time for a throwback to some of my old incorrect quotes.

[cornyella]

I was tagged by miss cheekbones

@ericks-mala-actitud 💜 to post some throwback photos. No one can top your football jersey 😍💜

Oh God I spent the night searching for my childhood photos, because most of them is me missing one front tooth 😂 storytime: I lost my front tooth when I just started walking because I ran away from my mum and kissed the pavement 😂

So in the first one I'm about 3 years old, and second about 4 😂

The last one is the only not terrible photo taken at camp a week ago. Neon party. And I was wearing no make-up, so excuse my ugly face 😑

I don't know anyone who haven't done this, so feel free to tag anyone who haven't done this in the comments😂

[davidxbeccums]

Watch and find out...

[blogwithavlog]

Hey, everyone! Today is Day 21 of VEDA (Vlog Every Day in August), and I did the throwback tag. I found the questions on Google, and I thought they would be a fun set to answer. I had a lot of fun making this video, and I shared quite a few stories from my childhood. As always, below will be the set of questions I used. This time I will not be accompanying the questions with the answers since most of these required a more detailed response. The video above will have the more detailed responses, and I hope you watch.

I haven't mentioned this before, but if you click here, you can visit the YouTube channel and subscribe to catch all the videos as soon as they post.

The Throwback Tag

1. What year were you born in? 2. Do you have any pictures of yourself from when you were younger? If you do, show them. 3. What TV shows did you grow up watching? 4. What did you want to be when you were younger? 5.What were your favorite toys to play with? 6. What’s the most embarrassing thing that you can remember doing? 7. Three songs you loved to listen to as a child. 8. What was one funny thing you dressed up as for Halloween when you were younger? 9. What was something weird you used to do as a child? 10. What’s the scariest thing you remember that happened to you when you were younger?

Thanks for watching/reading! I hope you have a great day.

- Felip

[stormygems]

Malaysia, summer 2014 - part 10