#xingshining

[floraltohru]

OT3 headcanon: Haru/Rin/Tohru :DD

:O intriguing

Headcanon: Tohru lets Haru pierce her ears but she makes Rin hold her hand while he does it.

[vifetoile]

For an abandoned story project, I came up with other titles for this local cultus of Aphrodite, properly known as Venice Reconstituted by the artist Rip Cronk

Our Lady of Psychedelics

Aphrodite of Wanderers

Goddess of Forgettable Summer Movies

Sea-foam and Beach-blonde

Goddess of Those who came All the Way Out West

[eclecticmuses]

galactic-pirates replied to your post “today in fic writing:”

Doesn’t it depend on the person? I’m British and I definitely like it very crispy. My cousin on the other hand barely waves his over heat (gross I say). Two opposite ends of the spectrum, same country

armadillo-with-a-blowhorn replied to your post “today in fic writing:”

Irish person here. I guess it really depends on the type of bacon ����‍♀️ but yes ^^

xingshining replied to your post “today in fic writing:”

LOL what, we definitely like it crispy, just not charred

So has Google lied to me then? LOL My search results told me that Brits prefer it chewier than Americans (who tend to prefer crispy) but also that what we consider bacon isn’t the same thing as what you guys do. i.e. we do the thin strips streaked with fat while you guys do what looks like sliced deli meat, kinda rounder, to us. So now I’m sitting here like, does Jemma make the bacon crispy or not??

[ladyloveandjustice]

xingshining reblogged your post and added:

Scabbers belonged to Percy first, and Ron...

Tbh I think Peter just somehow zeroed in on the Weasley family as a whole for being intensely loyal people who would never fail to protect and nurture him and were also a pretty powerful wizarding family. Percy is of course included in this. Even though there was that period where he fell out with them, he WAS super dedicated to and (arguably over)protective of his family in general (he was the most openly concerned about Ginny during CoS when she seems sick and never forget how he flipped out over Ron being taken underwater in GoF) and was therefore probably similar as a pet owner. 

But yeah, the fact Peter just found these people who were somehow just as ride or die as his old friends so quickly is incredible. like I said he had to have a amazing instinct for that sort of thing. How did he first encounter the Weasleys even??? I want to know but also don’t want JKR to tell me because she’d probably retcon in something weird as she is now so. I’ll just leave that to fanfic.

[tillthenexttimedoctor]

venellen replied to your post  “I try to accept that people like different things in fiction in...”

she`ll live. That theory of regeneration energy floating away (this time for a reason) is a thing that will save her is very doctor whoish                   

If Grace truly lives I promise to sign over my soul to Chibnall for good. He can have it. Then I’ll trust him with it.

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actual-bill-potts replied to your post “I try to accept that people like different things in fiction in...”

tbh I found it more tastefully handled than bill's death...obvs we don't know where they're gonna go with grace after this (i think she's listed as a recurring character), but like...her death was framed heroically (slow-mo heroic fall mimicking the doctor's) and there was no blood or gore or giant hole in her chest. If it was done for the shock value (& i'm not sure it was) at least it wasnt as blatant or violent as bill's death.

Like absolutely bill's ending was the exact opposite of fridging but the more i think about it the more im a little shocked that it was the Black lesbian character they chose to kill so violently, no matter what her eventual ending was. I can see how you could look at grace's death and think it was a step in the right direction. (though personally im very undecided, we'll see how they handle it in future episodes)(ill retract all of this if shes like never mentioned again or smth)           

Tbh, World Enough and Time is an episode that never quite redeemed itself in my eyes. It’s basically perfect in every other way - the acting is amazing, the direction is out of this world, the aesthetics is truly unsettling, the writing is technically amazing - but the violence of it is something else. I don’t really classify any of it as “Bill’s death” in my mind (she never actually dies at any point in the episode?), but I certainly see it as putting Bill through a lot of suffering that is ultimately way too brutal for The Doctor Falls to be able to transform it into something less traumatic. It’s one of my least favourite Moffat finales for that reason.

As such, WEaT is much less watchablethan TWWFtE, for me personally, no matter the overall quality of either episode and no matter the ending. Frankly, if the argument were “Moffat may have had his heart in the right place, but the result was often still way too cruel to his characters”, that’d be a pretty understandable reading, although I don’t think there’s anything else that compares to WEaT. “That cruelty disproportionally affected black people” is also true. (I’ll defend Danny’s arc to the end of the earth and back, but when two major black characters in a row get converted into Cybermen, that’s really unfortunate.)

But as it stands, the argument seemed to be “what the Moffat era was missing was a lot of dead people, wow I’m glad we’re killing people off now”. There’s no actual shortage of women - and black women - being killed off so that other characters can feel appropriately sad about it on tv. They are a dime a dozen. It’s not revolutionary. It’s just resurrecting (oh the irony) a really shitty trope.

xingshining replied to your post  “I try to accept that people like different things in fiction in...”

Yes, killing off the older black woman is such a positive sign. /sarcasm

Yeah, it’s filling a real void in our media landscape. /sarcasm

[moonlightsdreaming]

Yoda's advice makes so much sense when you know he thinks Anakin is talking about Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan's death. "Obi-Wan will return to the Force, that's not a bad thing, hopefully you will see him again." His advice would definitely have been different if he'd known Anakin was talking about a non-Jedi. :O

I think so, too!  I think Yoda’s advice makes more sense when you take into context where he’s coming from, rather than what we know of Anakin’s point of view that Yoda doesn’t know.He’s obviously picking up on the really bad vibes that Anakin’s putting out and trying to address those (in his word salad sort of way, because that’s the trope of the weird little alien frog man that Star Wars wanted!) at the heart of the matter, rather than get caught up in details that won’t ultimately change anything because visions are such tricky things.But also they have this mystical energy field that’s very much real to them, they can touch it every single day of their lives, it’s not a theoretical, it’s right there.  Advice based on thinking Anakin was talking about Obi-Wan (who Yoda knows would want Anakin to cherish their time together and let go of him when it’s time) versus thinking Anakin was talking about a non-Jedi is a pretty different thing!  Though, at the heart of the problem, Anakin was still looking for advice Yoda was never going to give (how to stop death) and so it was doomed to failure and feeling like he was being rejected from the beginning.  ;__;

[moffatappreciationlife]

xingshining replied to your post “Moffat Appreciation Week”

Favourite Christmas Special, definitely. I love the idea of an afterparty.

I think a general “Favourite Special” prompt, then? Day of the Doctor is always a great episode to write about and there’s no reason not to include it, too.

I noticed with how stressful things have been for me, that it’s often just as much a challenge to read people’s wonderful meta than it is to make posts myself during MAD. So just from that perspective, I thought it be nice to not just rush through our own contributions, but take the time to appreciate the fandom, too :).

[flourhurricane]

Lying on the couch, recovering from a bad health day. Had an irregular heart rhythm this afternoon, though I think I've had it for a week or so. (It'd go away and come back over and over, annoying me.) I took some medication and finally my heart rhythm is back to normal, but now I feel like all my energy is gone. Ugh.

I hope everyone else had a better day. I know @xingshining did. She became an aunt for a second time, SO HEY. THAT IS AWESOME. I really am happy for you, bf, even though it seemed like all I did was complain. A new baby in the family is the best thing to celebrate. ❤️