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desencante · 3 years

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oi, march reads! I read a lot this month.

Please, don’t forget to leave a comment or kudos for the authors of these fics!

(The texts aren't the summary, just my ramble thoughts.)

Loving Cannibalism by glittering_git/@glittering-git (Mature, 2 works, 952 words) | Post-War, Angst, Established Relationship

Two marvellous and poetic histories about (loving) cannibalism. This is such a dark and heavy theme but the author does a great job writing and makes me enjoy reading them. (And I'm definitely here for more.)

(Please, read the Author's Tags.)

don’t say you love me, that’s extortion by LowerEastSide/@lower-east-side (Explicit, 1k) | Post-War, Angst, Fluff, Established Relationship

It is a domestic and loving and little sad history – about not saying 'I love you' but acting in that way.

The Pink Paradox by vina_writes/@dracothecupcake (Teen and Up, 1k) | Post-War, Humor, Auror Harry, Unspeakable Draco

Harry Potter Is Obsessed With Draco Malfoy TM. And Draco has pink hair. Have a fun time!

Harry's Promise by JosephineStone (Teen and Up, 2k) | Post-War, Angst, Reunion, Established Relationship

This one it's kind of part two of Circumpolar. The history continues the consequences of Draco's change, after the war – left me with a warm heart.

Burnt Casserole by Samunderthelights/@samunderthelights (General Audiences, 2k) | Post-War, Fluff, Established Relationship

Nervous Draco for Meeting Ron and Hermione. Getting back together and meeting your boyfriend's friends (who may hate you) showing them your (not) great cooking abilities.

Magical Homes, and Where to Find Them (in the arms of your lover) by Erebeus/@erebeus-roxy (General Audiences, 2k) | Post-War, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship

Who doesn't want some fluff established relationship sometimes? Harry has a painful case at work and then comes home to a calm and domestic night with his husband.

Together Like This by shealwaysreads/@shealwaysreads (Explicit, 3k) | Post-War, Getting Back Together

Draco Malfoy in the Muggle World TM. I find it so interesting reading stories where Draco denies Harry's love because of the war, and Harry is there to change his mind. Here we have that and it's written the super talented shealwaysreads.

For Old Times' Sake by thestarryknight/@the-starryknight (Teen and Up, 3k) | Post-War, Drugs, Potioneer Draco, Artist Harry

This one gives me such a cosy and domestic vibe. "'It's Complicated' is their relationship status" resume perfect what this fic is. (There're some cool references too, so pay attention.)

Like Gold by The_Sinking_Ship/@the-sinking-ship (Explicit, 4k) | Post-War, PWP

(It's always good to see.) Harry Has a Motorbike Just Like Sirius! Harry rides a motorbike and Draco rides him.

Harry and Draco's Little Talk by Ladderofyears (Teen and Up, 5k) | Post-War, Angst, Established Relationship, mpreg

Who doesn't hear 'I need to talk to you' by someone you like and run with? Harry thinks Draco will break up with him and freak (a little) out but maybe the subject of Draco's conversation is quite the opposite.

Sugar Sweet by The_Sinking_Ship/@the-sinking-ship (Teen and Up, 5k) | Post-War, Humor, Fluff, Auror Harry, Healer Draco

It is a very sweet story with a surprise party for Draco and Harry getting late but not so late.

Show them the night that they dreamed about before by fluxweed/@fluxweeed (Explicit, 6k) | Post-War, PWP, Threesome, Boss/Employee Relationship, Dubious Consent

(Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter/Percy Weasley)

All I have to say is: 😳😯🤫😈🔥🥵🔥🥵😈😏!

This Is How by bixgirl1/@bixgirl1 (Explicit, 6k) | Post-War, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, a/b/o

Omega Draco has an incident in the ministry Alpha Harry is there to help. After they fall in love! (One more reason to read: it's written by bixgirl1!)

It Never Occurred to Me That I Would Fall in Love With a Frenchman by lamerezouille/@elsalapizza (Teen and Up, 6k) | Post-War, Angst, Humor, Established Relationship

OMG, I never read something like this! The plot was so surprising – you will ever think about the Malfoys meeting the Dursleys? BOOM! Here it's a very awkward dinner that looks funny but has some depth stuff going on.

Litany by thistle_verse/@thistle-verse (Mature, 7k) | Post-War, Angst, Pandemic, Isolation, Touch-Starved, Ghost Draco

Ghost's story isn't my cup of tea, but I give this one a chance and don't regret it. The magic world is passing through a pandemic (just like us!), Harry is doing quarantine at home alone until ghost Draco, directly from Azkaban, shows up. Then, we have fluffy and sad conversations between the two and a turn of events in the end. (And lots of lists.)

As the Crow Flies by thestarryknight/@the-starryknight (Mature, 7k) | Post-War, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Animagus Draco, Werewolf Harry

Draco helps Harry on a full moon night. Domestic vibes with some angst. 10/10!

Circumpolar by LowerEastSide/@lower-east-side (Teen and Up, 8k) | Hogwarts Era, Angst, Sectumsempra Scars

I see an amazing fanart and spend some days obsessed with Draco having worse scars from Sectumsempra. (There's, in this list, another two fanfics with this concept.) In this one, because of the pretty bad scars Draco's plan about the war change – is interesting to imagine how one incident could put another thing in perspective for him. And Draco and Harry have a touching conversation on the Astronomy Tower! (I'm a sucker for long expressive conversations about feelings.)

if somebody’s there, then tell me who. by kryptidfox/@kryptidfoxwrites (Explicit, 11k) | Post-War, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Housemates

Much more like Idiots to Lovers! Draco has a disastrous way to make Harry notice him – bring every man possible to a one-night stand then call their name very loud – until things go wrong when he brings a guy named Harry. I constantly have a good time reading these two making dumb thing in their path to be together.

Commander by Cassiopeias_shadow/@cassiopeiasshadow (Explicit, 14k) | Post-War, Horror, Suspense, Drugs, Animagi, Auror Harry, Light dom/sub

Almost a case fic with dark things in the plot. Draco is addicted to potions and in a pretty bad place when he has a chance to help the auros in a big case. It turns out that Draco got so much involved with the case he needed Harry, to make him put his feet on the ground – the fine line between doing everything to make up for your past or lost yourself doing things for the great good. Featuring: Harry as a snake and parselmouth kink.

(Please, read the Author's tags.)

Fire and Wonder by Lomonaaeren (Mature, 15k) | Post-War, Dark-ish, Veela

Lomonaaeren written dark Harry, I'm here for! After the war, Harry get wing and has some controversial ideas about The Great Good. So, we see him put these ideas into practice with his mate Draco.

Hold what's dear in your hands (and never let go) by Fae_vorite/@faevorite-main-blog, PollyWeasley/@polly-weasley (Explicit, 16k) | Post-War, Arrange Marriage, a/b/o, mpreg

I was always here for some a/b/o and this story is a chef kiss! Harry can't find a partner; So he goes to an upgrade tinder and matches with Draco, then they live happily ever after. Featuring intersex Draco and a lot of sex kinks.

Keep Me Close (I Need Your Faith) by aviforsrose (Explicit, 23k) | Post-War, Angst, Friends with Benefits, Light dom/sub

Idiots in love! The old same GOOD story: I love him but he loves me? Yes, of course! Man, you two have been pinning each other for years now. Let's do some love confessions.

The Critiquer by dysonrules (Explicit, 24k) | Post-War, Humor, Romance, Secret Identity

Drunk Harry doing dumb stuff with Seamus and Dean, take him a very funny drive to Draco's hearty. Draco and his assistant interactions was another very humorous part. Can't forget to congratulate who made all of the edits, principally the text divisors.

The Nobility of Ascent by Lomonaaeren (Explicit, 27k) | Post-War, Angst, Politics

I love reading Lomonaaeren stories with dark-ish Harry. This is another great example of just not the good or evil side. Harry can't Make a Better World because of pureblood politics so he goes to Draco for help.

Can I tell you something? by GallaPlacidia (Not Rated, 33k) | Post-War, Angst, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Sectumsempra Scars, Drugs, Auror Harry, Burlesquedance Draco

What I can say about this one? It's by GallaPlacidia, go read! The story takes place during a few years, after the war, Harry collides in parties with a drugged Draco, things happen – they lived a very real journey of connecting with someone, learning to love and to be loved and understanding the mistakes of the past... 10/10!

Says The Magpie To The Morning (Sorrow, Take Your Own Advice) by Femme/@femmequixotic (Explicit, 33k) | Post-War, Angst, Getting Back Together

Draco Horrible Sad TM after a breakup with Harry. Featuring so much PDA by Pansy/Ron, angst, miscommunication, angst, sharing a house with your ex and angst. If you are up to a sad time before a happy ending this nice story is here.

Eight Days (to Save the World) by gnarf/@gnarf (Mature, 47k) | Post-War, Friend to Lovers, Housemates, Case Fic, Auror Harry, Unspeakable Draco

Shit happens in The Wizard World again so Harry, Draco and company get together to Save The World Again. What will you do if you receive an order not so right by your superior? A very interesting story begins with the ministry's haunted easy target to blame for the new conspiracy. Enjoy too Protective Harry.

Turning Leaves by Kbrick (Explicit, 112k) | Post-War, Angst, Fluff, Time Travel, Auror Harry, Unspeakable Draco

Draco Tries to Concert His Friendship With Harry by Time Travel. This gives me The Cursed Child vibe but so much better, Draco goes to several scenarios trying to change one important moment in the past to make Harry like-like now. A great story who think about what will happen if Draco acts differently in the Hogwarts years.

Cannot Save You Now by tigrelilje (Mature, 132k) | Hogwart Era, Angst, Horror, Dark, Vampire Harry

Harry dies and comes back (as a vampire) for revenge! If you want to see Harry hating almost everybody this fanfic this here. Featuring: Slytherin Harry.

#desencanterec #drarry fic rec #drarry #drarry fanfic #if there's a mistake or some link is broken please let me know #hpdm

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lilolilyr · 3 years

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Fics I Wanted To Write This Year But Didn't, Part 2: Star Trek AU

For @spookyvoidangelskeleton for this ask

Now I suppose these would have been several fics, but in a series or a collection as they're all about the same main storyline: The collapsing of a (or several) universe(s).

If you've known me for a while, you know that I am very into Multiverse Theory, both real life and fictional, and Star Trek with the Mirror Universe is of course one of the first fandoms that comes to mind for me to write my batshit ideas in xD

Basically, in my personal little (fictional, bc I know and understand 0 about real life physics or whatever would be relevant for this) multiverse theory, there are an infinite number of universes, evenly spread around the multiverse, and a new universe comes into existence when a timeline/universe (same thing) can go into 2 seperate ways naturally, or when there is timetravel involved to manually change a timeline: The original timeline won't be affected, you can't change what's already there, but a new changed timeline will be created.

Now, in some cases that works out well, with the timetraveller ending up in the new timeline and never knowing that their original universe is still out there- in other ways of time travelling, not so much. If the person trying to make a change manages to do just that but never notices, because they or a version of them is stuck in the orginal timeline, what do they do?

Try again, with the same result, many many times.

And that's where it gets problematic, because the multiverse gets unbalanced, and whether you see it as a sentient entity connected to the Qs in Star Trek or just as something that Works That Way automatically: the multiverse doesn't want to be out of balance, so the new universes start to collapse in on each other, creating a Splitter-verse and leaving its inhabitants to a fate arguably worse than death (in this fictional world): they completely stop to exist. This doesn't just affect the new universes but the surroundings ones, which would have split earlier and are already more different from each other, too, to make sure the one that was the cause for it all falls, too.

Now (of course, because I can't help myself) this would be part of @thelucyverse , with there being Central people trained in spotting such time anomalies before it is too late, but with there also being time-bombs (yeah hahah) created in inter-universal wars to create smaller, controlled splitter-verses (I say small and controlled here but like. We're still talking about entire universes), and with Central having back-up plans to get people out of the 'verses, in order as follows: anyone visibly IDing as Central (the organisation is still largely volunteer-based, shit's got to have some perks), then everyone whose energy indicates recent travel in-between universes, as these are also most likely to a) be Central and b) be okay in a new 'verse, after that, if there is still time and anyone willing to go back into the falling universe, children as they are also more likely to adapt in a new world. If there is enough warning, they also get out whoever people Central members want to have saved, but usually it just turns into whoever stands close enough to grab and get the hell out of there.

Whether taking people out of a universe against their will is a good thing or nah is ...debatable and still being debated amongst those who do it and those who think that taking someone away from the possibility of dying death in their own universe is vile (as amongst most religions, it is thought that you can only reach the same afterlife as those who died in the same umiverse- but again most also think that there probably won't even Be an afterlife in a splitter-verse).

Sometimes, people are also pushed out of the universe by the explosion itself, but they then tend to die upon impact as they seldomly end up exactly at the coordinates where they left, which leaves them either suffocating in hard matter or in space.

If you want to use these ideas for your own fanfic feel free, just give me credit and link this post as inspired by/ link to my ao3 or @ my tumblr!

Anyhow! To Star Trek... and I suppose this is now SPOILERS not rly for any Star Trek canon but for these fanfics, if I do end up writing them!

I tend to forget which characters are canon and which are complete OCs because I spend Way more hours on tumblr and ao3 + thinking about my own headcanons than I spend consuming the original media, but I am fairly certain a canon Joana McCoy, daughter of Leonard 'Bones' McCoy exists? If no and I stole the idea from sb else's fanfic I am sincerely sorry. Gotta look that up.

In one universe close to what would be the centre of the splitterverse, Joana- as a young child nicknamed 'Jojo', but now as a young teen trying to get rid of the childish nickname- has a younger part-vulcan girl as a friend, and this girl, nicknamed Aka, has, through having sticky fingers and connections to Central, a device that allows you to jump between universes. She's used it before and gotten into a lot of trouble for it, but to her it had always been great fun- until reality is starting to collapse around them while she is visiting Joana, and Joana is the only person she can reach in time and take with her to the next universe.

Distraught, the children are left in a new world, debating what to do, waiting for Central to contact them, hoping that they saved their families- but of course, Central has quite some different problems right now and won't contact them any time soon, and even if they did it wouldn't be with news of their parents: the adult families of non-Central members who only happened to have jumped between universes before themselves are really not the top priority, and the universe is collapsing too quickly to even get down the prio list to 'children',

Aka wants to leave the universe again and look for Central elsewhere, hoping that her moving around will attract their attention. Joana has enough from universe jumps for a lifetime. Thus, they part ways.

While Aka at some point does run into a group of Central troubeshooters who more or less adopt her as one of their own and teach her how to work their equipment and use magic and weapons and starships (not what a child her age should be learning. But then, none of the adults there ever signed up to be a parent, so who's to blame them), Joana goes looking for her family in this world.

Now I could write entire novels about Akas adventures and how it may or may not be healthy to not have a home at all and decide to not rely on anybody instead of either finding new versions of her original parents or letting someone new into her life properly (spoileralert: it isn't healthy at all), and how meeting a girl from one of the original splitter-verses (the not bombed ones) telling her not to make the same mistakes she made finally makes her think about her choices and and and, but this post is already going to be Long so I won't. That would all be a seperate fanfic anyways.

Joana finds a girl her age who looks just like her and acts almost exactly like her, too- the only difference seems to be that there's no Aka around, which made this version of her less used to adventure but also less wary of it.

The version of Joana from this universe- she decides to call herself Joan when they are alone, while the Joana we already know goes with 'Jojo'- her once loathed childhood nickname now a connection to her past- is thrilled to meet her and begs her to stay, I mean what is cooler than suddenly having a twin, and won't it be fun there is so much they can do! As their parents are seperated, they manage to spend their time mostly at one of their homes, either together when the parent is too busy to notice that there are two kids around, or one at each place, guessing correctly that if the parents were to talk about it, they wouldn't even think of the possibility of there being two children and instead just get mad at each other.

This goes on for a few months during the summer, with Jojo feeling vaguely guilty both to her original dead parents and these new ones who think that she is their real daughter, and the girls are just deciding about what to do when school starts again when-

Reality breaks apart around them.

Jojo clings to Joan in fear, and- as Jojo is now on the list of people who have travelled between universes in the past, she is saved by Central, and Joan with her. They are placed into a universe further away this time, a safe distance to the only slowly contained Splitters.

Meanwhile, in the same universe, two people were currently out on a space-walk: Michael Burnham and Philippa Georgiou.

They are thrown out of the universe in the explosion, and as they are wearing their suits, they survive as they end up somewhere in space again, but- they don't end up in the same universe. Michael ends up about 20-30 years earlier in a universe further away, and she doesn't even end up in what would've been federation space in her old 'verse. Philippa is only thrown one universe to the left and picked up by Central. As Central likes to name their acquaintances in some way that makes it easier to identify just which version of a person you are talking to without having to add the long universe number (even harder when the universe was destroyed and there isn't a known number), they ask Philippa to pick a new name. She is way too rattled and desperate to go looking for Michael as quickly as possible to care about what name she is supposed to have, so she goes with the first option given to those who don't have their own nickname ideas: lastname for firstname, making her Georgiana, short Gia.

Through Central, she finds out that the universal explosion left her and Michael connected- but it won't be much help in the search, basically just a way to say 'alright this verse is closer to it than that one', it's still trial and error... (I could also involve some body switching here, idk I already wrote a long fanfic with that trope in the Andromaquynh fandom, but I happen to Like that trope so yeah maybe I'll recycle some parts of In Your Stead if I ever do manage to write this Milippa story. Which, btw, if not already obvious, would again be a seperate fic from the Joana universal-sister story. On the other hand, Aka runs into Georgiana a lot, even calling her 'auntie Gia').

Meanwhile, Michael doesn't have to jump through universes but make her way through just the one universe to get to federarion space. Except what she find's isn't the federation at all... you guessed it, the 'verse she ended up in is more similar to a mirrorverse than to Prime. However, the Georgiou of this world isn't the emperor yet, she's young and Michael is able to influence her enough over the years so that she turns her back to the Empire.

Yes, it takes years for Michael and Gia to find their way back to each other, maybe decades... they also wouldn't have spent exactly the same amount of time apart as they aren't in the same 'verse. In fact, Cleo of Central carefully tells Gia that Michael might have died by now, but of course Georgiana doesn't want to hear this.

Michael and that universe's Georgiou also get quite close, though Michael doesn't want to cheat on her Philippa... of course, after years of this, she might think that she will never see Philippa again... (We are approaching ot3 territory here lol, and I don't even want to think about the potential of ot7 with the two canon mirror and prime versions adsfghjkl because if I finish this story here, I would 100% write a lil fix it where Central! Gia Mikay and Phil go fish Mirror! Michael and Georgiou out of a splitter-verse into the next prime verse in which Michael already knows that Georgiou... and ad they're already at it they also get half dead! Prime Philippa away from the Klingons... heheh sounds like the kind of poly chaos I would enjoy writing, but sadly I have to make it through all the Plot first)

Anyway! Back to Jojo and Joan: they decide that while they maybe should have told Joan's family about Jojo's existence soon if they had stayed in that 'verse, the initial idea of staying with one's universals wasn't so bad, so they go looking for this universe's Joana McCoy. The girl- (nicknamed Anna, which makes Joan decide to change hers from Joan to June because she doesn't want to be half Jojo and half Anna), is happy enough to meet them, but often feels left out from the other two as they act as if they've known each other forever even though of course it's only been a few months... In turn, Jojo and June aren't sure whether Anna really wants them around, whether she might think they're trying to steal her life and family from her...

Lots of potential for conflict! Yay! XD would of course come to a happy ending, with at least Bones accepting his three daughters, dunno yet whether they'd tell the mom... also Aka ends up in the same universe at some point, together with a version of her vulcan birthmother who she had never known the original version of but now gets along with alright... oh and if I do write aforementioned Milippa ot7 bullshitery, this would also be the Prime!verse for that, so all stories in the series or collection interconnect again!

this got... long... and I could obviously go on but I need to go back to writing my Bachelor thesis :(

@whoever read through all of this, do let me know whether you like these ideas and which you would like to read proper fanfic for! Might influence future writing decisions.

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barinacraft · 2 years

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Hot Toddy Drink - Far East Of Scotland Long Before The Cocktail

The Toddy Was Hot Before The Cocktail Became Old Fashioned

Or cold maybe. Point is, the Toddy, hot or cold, was old-fashioned before the Old Fashioned was ever even fashioned.

Although many, including ourselves, associate the Toddy with whisk(e)y, honey, lemon juice, hot water and maybe some nutmeg, cloves or cinnamon, technically its just whisky, sugar and H2O. Add some bitters and you have an Old Fashioned which, ingredient-wise, is the very definition of a cocktail.*

History Of The Toddy

A British Chaplain Travels With The East India Trading Company

The earliest reference to the word Toddy may have been when it was included in the notes observed by Edward Terry, then Chaplain to the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Row, Knight, Lord Ambassador to the Great Mogul, in 1615-1619 during his Voyage To East India.† These records later became published as a book of the same name in 1655.

Liquor From The Toddy Tree

“And here I cannot choose but take notice of a very pleasant and clear liquor, called Toddy, issuing from a spongy tree, that grows straight and tall without boughs to the top, and there spreads out in tender branches, very like unto those that grow from the roots of our rank and rich artichokes, but much bigger and longer. This toddy-tree is not so big, but that it may be very easily embraced, and the nimble people of that country will climb up as fast to the top thereof (the stem of the tree being rough and crusty) as if they had the advantage of ladders to help them up. In the top tender branches of those trees they make incisions which they open and stop again as they please, under which they bang pots made of large and light gourds, to preserve the influence which issues out of them in a large quantity in the night season, they stopping up those vents in the heat of the day.

“That which thus distills forth in the night, if it be taken very early in the morning, is as pleasing to the taste as any new white wine, and much clearer than it. It is a very piercing, medicinal, and inoffensive drink, if taken sooner in the day, only it is a little windy; but if it be kept later until the heat of the day, the sun alters it so as if it made it another kind of liquor, for it becomes then very heady, not so well relished, and unwholesome; and when it is so, not a few of our drunken seamen choose to drink it; and I think they so do, because it will then presently turn their brains; for there are too many of the common sort of those men who use the sea, who love those brutish distempers too much, which turn a man out of himself, and leave a beast in the skin of a man.

“But for that drink, if it be taken in its best, and most proper season, I conceive it to be of itself very wholesome, because it provokes urine exceedingly; the further benefit whereof some there have found by happy experience, being thereby eased from their torture inflicted by that shame of physicians, and tyrant of all maladies, the kidney stone. And so cheap too is this most pleasing wine, that a man may there have more than enough for a very little money.” ~ Reverend Edward Terry

Hot Tadi Turns To Hooch

So, if left to ferment in the heat of the day, this “Hot Toddy” becomes an intoxicating liquor and by all accounts also turns sour and bitter like vinegar. Combine this with the age old practice of adding sugars to wine, cider and other beverages to sweeten the taste along with a specific mention in the Accounts of India and China as far back as AD 890 which says of Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka); “Their drink is made of Palm honey boiled and prepared with the Tari (pronounced Tadi), the juice which runs from the tree” and all you need is a little water to complete the recipe.

One theory has Scotsman returning from the Far East embracing the term Toddy as a nickname for an alcoholic drink with those generic ingredients. Just substitute Scotch whisky for fermented tadi, sugar for palm honey and add water.

Scotch Springs Eternal From Tod's Well

A second, more widely accepted theory on the origins of the Hot Toddy (in western culture as opposed to the Far East where it is still alive and well in its historical version there) centers around one of Edinburgh, Scotland's city water sources, Tod's well, affectionately known as Toddy and some early poets' prose. First some history on the Todian spring and then a pair of Scots will wax poetic.

In 1681, Peter Brauss brought water into Edinburgh, Scotland from Tod spring in Comiston through a system engineered by George Sinclair where gravity fed the supply via a series of 3 inch diameter lead pipes built by Robert Mylne.‡, 1 - 2 Comiston springs at Tod's well was located on the Pentland Hills about 3 miles to the south of Edinburgh and the aqua duct originally channeled its flow into five stone wells along High Street, part of the Royal Mile in between the Edinburgh Castle in the heart of the city and Holyrood Palace near Arthur's Seat Volcano, home to a pair of another of the city's spring fed water sources, St. Margaret's and St. Anthony's wells.

The cisterns were located at multiple heights in the Old Town and women 'caddies' would gather to draw water from the wells for their homes. The system was a significant public works project benefiting everyone's health and was later improved in 1720 by increasing the main water pipe from Comiston into the city to a 4 1/2 inch diameter which more than doubled its capacity.

The Morning-Interview. An Heroi-Comical Poem by Allan Ramsay (MDCCXIX)

This 1719 mock heroic ode to courtship which parodies the struggles of a beau hoping to overcome his foe is often cited as a key piece of literature which some say proves the etymological history of the toddy is based in Scotland and not the Far East. In the lead up to the poem's ending shown below, the epic romantic passion is emphasized with great comedic effect.

The ninth stanza both highlights and summarizes the poem's main storyline when Celia awakens to answer the door to her apartment dressed only in the loose attire of her morning gown. Expecting that her cousin Frankalia had come to take her morning tea, her initial pale surprise to see Damon standing there instead turns into a blushing red exchange. Here's the last 3 of the 16 verse stanzas:

A sumptuous Treat does crown the ended War,

And all rich Requisites are brought from far.

The Table boasts its being from Japan,

The ingenious Work of some great Artisan.

China, where Potters coarsest Mold refine,

That Light through the transparent Jar does shine,

The costly Plates and Dishes are from thence,

And Amazonia must her Sweets dispense;

To her warm Banks, our Vessels cut the Main,

For the sweet Product of her luscious Cane;

Here Scotia does no costly Tribute bring,

Only some Kettles full of Todian Spring.3

Where Indus and the Double Ganges flow,

On odoriferous Plains the Leaves do grow;

Chief of the Treat, a Plant the Boast of Fame,

Sometimes called Green, BOHEA's its greater Name.

O happiest of Herbs! Who would not be

Pythagorized into the Form of Thee,

And with high Transports act the Part of TEA?

Kisses on thee the haughty Belles bestow,

While in thy Steams their coral Lips do glow;

The Virtues and thy Flavor they commend;

While Men, even Beaux, with parched Lips attend.

Teetotalling Tod

Much ado has been made about the inclusion of the Todian Spring and how the author specifically calls out in the footnotes that it is in reference to Tod's Well. This has been interpreted as meaning kettles full of Toddy which by association then translates to whisky since the word whisky is derived from water and it was a common custom of the day for whisky to be invoiced as aqua in Scotland.4

But, maybe it actually means just what it says and this is much ado about nothing.

After all, all the other objects mentioned directly relate to those items needed for a tea party. You have a table from Japan, the place setting from China as well as the tea (Bohea is a type of black oolong tea), and sugar from the Amazon river banks in South America. All you need is H2O, so why would the inclusion of actual water from the Todian spring be construed to mean Toddy, therefore meaning whisky?

In fact tea was becoming such a common drink in Scotland that in 1742 Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, the President of the Court of Session is quoted as saying, “the meanest families, even of laboring people, particularly in burroughs, make their morning's meal of it, and thereby wholly disuse the ale which heretofore was their accustomed drink; and the same drug supplies all the labouring women with their afternoons' entertainments, to the exclusion of the Twopenny.” 5 The last refers to a Scotch pint of pale ale, the equivalent of two quarts, which sold for two pence each a.k.a twopenny ale.

Another implication of tracing Toddy back to here is that it also suggests waking to whisky was wanton. Was it?

Holy Mother Of Toddy

And finally in 1785, from the garbled Gaelic of Robert Burns, a Scotty speaks of Toddy. In "The Holy Fair," the National Poet of Scotland satirically describes what had become a common phrase in the west of Scotland for the biennial gathering to celebrate the sacramental occasion of communion.6

This was no prim and proper formal ritual either. It was a party, and the often unruly crowds of strangers would sometimes toss decency out the window in exchange for questionable behavior. Wonder if you had to bring your own Toddy or was the bar stocked?

The Holy Fair by Robert Burns

Heres a partial passage from the poem pertaining to the potation:

Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair

Than either school or college;

It kindles wit, it waukens lear,

It pangs us fou o' knowledge:

Be't whisky-gill or penny wheep,

Or ony stronger potion,

It never fails, or drinkin deep,

To kittle up our notion,

By night or day.

The lads an' lasses, blythely bent

To mind baith saul an' body,

Sit round the table, weel content,

An' steer about the toddy:

The Toddy reference here is pretty clear. However, this opens up another question. In the Eucharist or Holy Communion, isn't the blood of Christ supposed to be wine and not whisky? Let's not go there.

Meanwhile, Back In The States

All this talk of Toddy's Scottish heritage is all the more confusing when you consider that the U.S. appears to have beaten them to the (publishing) punch some 35 years earlier. Toddy was the talk of the town in “the July 1750 issue of the Boston Weekly Post Boy, and the ‘fashionable’ Toddy, as the Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury dubbed it in 1764 was a fixture of American tippling for a century or more.” 7

It looks like, at least for now, America lays claim to the first known recipe for the Toddy as well. The American Herbal, or Materia Medica by Samuel Sterns was printed in Walpole, New Hampshire (1801).

Toddy (New Nation punch formula in the Age of Jefferson):

24 oz water

8 oz rum or brandy

a little sugar

a little nutmeg

Add the rum or brandy and the sugar to the water, and after stirring, the nutmeg. Author notes that “It is called a salutary liquor, and especially in the summer season, if it is drank with moderation.”

The Toddy Is Well Represented In The First Ever Cocktail Book

There's tons of Toddies in How To Mix Drinks, or The Bon-Vivant's Companion by Jerry Thomas (1862). The Brandy, Gin and Whiskey Toddy, no Rum is included, are all pretty much the same recipe.

[ Insert Name Of Preferred Spirit Here ] Toddy Drink:

2 oz Brandy, Gin or Whiskey (chosen names the recipe i.e. Gin Toddy)

1 oz water

1 tsp sugar

1 small lump of ice

Use a small bar glass and stir with a spoon. The only Hot Toddy specifically called out among these three liquors is for Brandy where you omit the ice and use boiling water instead.

A side note elsewhere in this book under a description of punch has Jerry instructing Hot Toddy / Hot Punch makers that they must put in the spirits before the water. This was moved to the Hints and Rules For Bartenders section, like these home bar how-tos, and was changed to a rapid rinse of hot water first to aid in the prevention of heat cracking the glass in his 1886 Bartender's Guide.

By the time you add in the recipes for Sangarees, Slings & Skins (detailed more below), there are a slew of similar sips with a single standout, the Apple Toddy. Sort of a Hot Apple Pie Cocktail with real fruit filling.

Apple Toddy Drink Recipe:

2 oz cider brandy or applejack

1 tbs fine white sugar

½ baked apple

Roast the apples; cored, peeled and cut in half with some sugar and nutmeg; in the oven in a baking pan with boiling water until soft. About 30 minutes at 375 degrees Farenheit. Add the baked apple, sugar and brandy to a small bar glass. Fill ⅔ full of hot water and garnish by grating some nutmeg on top.

Mr. Thomas does give an honorable mention to the Indian intoxicate stating that Arrack, mainly used to flavor punch here in America, improves with age and is used in parts of that country where it is distilled from Toddy, the juice of their native coconut trees.

What's Your Opinion?

So, do you think the alcoholic drink Toddy from Western culture is derived from Tadi, Tod's Well or something Todally different?

A Cure For What Ails You - Depending On What Ails You

Regardless of its origins, a Hot Toddy (or totty) is a classic hot drink for cold days and nights which happens to coincide with the Christmas holidays up north. Its a basic cocktail that's popular in many variations. Perhaps none more so than when adding in the combination of honey and lemon to the drink.

Besides being tasty, the lemon-honey pairing is often recommended as a cure for what ails you, from sore throats to weight loss to colds & flu. Probably better make it a mocktail if you're actually sick though, as burning the bug out with alcohol may do more harm than good according to many in modern medicine. Sort of ironic that the initial Toddy recipe appears for now to have made its debut in a medical journal.

Behind The Bar - How To Mix A Hot Toddy At Home

If you're not sick though, Hot Toddies are a great way to warm up throughout the winter holidays and gives you another excuse to use your seasonal barware. Other than a few other Christmas cocktails and holiday themed drinks, what else are you going to use those fancy glasses decorated with boughs of holly for anyway?

Hot Toddy Recipe:

1 oz bourbon, rye or scotch whisk(e)y

1 tbp honey

2 tsp lemon juice

1 cup boiling hot water

Preparation - spoon or squeeze the honey into the bottom of your mug. Add the bourbon and juice from about a quarter of a lemon. Fill with hot water well short of rim for easier handling and safe sipping. Garnish with lemon wedge, optionally studded with cloves, cinnamon (sticks or ground), nutmeg, etc. An almost infinite combination of possibilities are available as almost any liquor works well and many substitute hot tea or cider for the boiling water along with different spices. See 5 tips for hot toddies for additional ideas.

BTW - January 11th is National Hot Toddy Day!

What better way to embody the spirit?

Drink Variations and Similar Cocktails

Toddy's Tipple Twins:

Bumbo - a brown sugar, rum Sling that sings Pirate's praises.

Grog - a nautically rooted drink where a sailor's portion of rum was watered down.

Highball - Scotch whisky & carbonated water along with other spirit and soda combos like the Cuba Libre, Gin & tonic, Moscow Mule and the Seven & Seven.

Sangarees - Toddies topped off with a little port wine.

Slings - liquor, water, sugar and nutmeg.

Skins - a Toddy with a twist or piece of lemon peel added.

More Hot Drinks For Home Bar Hosts:

Eggnog - a frothy holiday favorite.

Glogg - hot mulled Christmas wine.

Hot Buttered Rum - toddy's cocktail cousin?

Wassail - hot apple ale blesses the crop for the coming new year.

References

* - Minus the typical orange and cherry fruit salad many modern old-fashioned recipes [sic] like to muddle into the drink.

† - The original passage was written using the long 's' which looks like the letter f. Those old-fashioned ligatures along with some older word spellings were converted to reflect modern writing so they would be easier to read. As an example of both instances, choose was written as chufe in seventeenth century English.

‡ - The History of Edinburgh by William Maitland (1753) via The Statistical Account of Scotland Drawn Up From The Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes by Sir John Sinclair (1791).

1 - Castlehill Cistern. Civil Engineering Heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders by Roland Paxton and Jim Shipway (2007) via the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

2 - The Architect Robert Mylne. Electric Scotland. Saint Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd.

3 - Tods-Well which supplies the City with Water. (original footnote, verbatim from the poem).

4 - Origin Of The Word Toddy. The New York Times (1871).

5 - Chambers' Edinburgh Journal conducted by William and Robert Chambers, Number 285, Saturday, July 15, 1837.

6 - The Official Robert Burns Site. All verses to The Holy Fair poem complete.

7 – Imbibe! by David Wondrich (2007). From Absinthe Cocktail To Whiskey Smash. A Salute In Stories And Drinks To ‘Professor’ Jerry Thomas. Pioneer Of The American Bar.

#Cocktails #Drinks #Hot #Holiday #Christmas #Bourbon #Lemon #Honey #scotch #sugar #water

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I Gave Part of Myself to You: Luxembourg and Belgium

This is the first of four posts, outlining the biggest and most important relationships that Emma has in her main verse, primarily due to three fourths of them not existing here on tumblr but will most likely be referenced in her main verse.

CHAPTER I: Seventeen Provinces

ＩＴＷＡＳＲＵＭＯＲ that brought Emma into the south-central region of the Netherlands, having been told of a wandering little boy of no more than three or four, with hair blonde like the sand and eyes like the foamy waves that crashed the shores, who spoke with a vocabulary that seemed far beyond his age. Whether it be some sort of magnetism to new, infant nations or just some stroke of luck, she stumbled upon the boy with not too much difficulty among the markets of Brussels. Bastian was his name, and he held onto Emma’s hand as if he knew that she would do him no harm.

And, she never would. She brought the young boy home, head tucked to her shoulder as she carried him on her hip. He was the baby of the Southern Provinces, and with murmurs of unrest, it was no surprise to find a budding nation nestled amongst them. Upon returning home, Willem was excited to see a new face in the house, and this would be the first meeting of the BeNeLux, in its very true infancy.

CHAPTER II: Reckless Abandon

ＡＳＴＨＩＮＧＳＧＯ, Emma acted very much as a protector and a caretaker for both Willem and Bastian, though as they grew up they wanted to spread their wings. Seeing as they were all just fledgling nations under control of empires, their future together as a family was never a stable one. This instability and lack of strength led to the changing of hands of the trio in its entirety to the Spanish Empire, and Willem revolted near instantly, leaving just Emma and Bastian under the watchful eye of HRE Charles V.

With Emma trying her damndest to reign the middle child in, Bastian was left on his own under the care of Spain for some time, leading to feelings of abandonment by his family that somewhat linger to modern day, which the eldest child deeply regrets.

CHAPTER III: Growing Pains

ＷＩＴＨＷＩＬＬＥＭＮＯＷ known as the Dutch Republic, and Emma currently occupied by Revolutionary France, Bastian was still very much cloaked under the banner of Spain and wrapped up into the Southern Netherlands. While he was his own little nation now, Willem still held much sway over the southern provinces. As the boys grew, tension began to rise between them. Constant spats were normal as Bastian came into his own identity, with Emma doing her very best to act as a mediator between the brothers. While she acted as mediator at first, she refused to take sides and more or less left the boys to solve their own problems, which ultimately led to the Revolution in which Bastian formed his own nation: Belgium. Though Emma did not pick sides, she gifted a large swath of her own country to her youngest brother after his liberation from Willem’s iron grip. With that gift of land as well as the Luxembourg Crisis, Emma gained a majority of her own independence back as well.

CHAPTER IV: An Era of Warfare

ＴＨＥＢＥＬＧＩＡＮＲＥＶＯＬＵＴＩＯＮ seemed to be a catalyst for Bastian, for the nation was scarcely seen without warfare for the next century and a half. The Liberal Wars, Mahdist War, Belgo-Arab War, and the Batetela Rebellion were some of the first, and while it was not uncommon for young Nations to embroil themselves in conflict, it left the eldest sibling worrying over the youngster.

Even as he came of age, she worried for him. For both of her brothers; whose first languages were written in the blood of war and those boys spoke it more fluently than most.

World War I erupted in the middle of the night, and one young Belgian made it his mission to evacuate his sister. He was thorough and prepared with travel documents, with agreements made with Arthur Kirkland and he had everything taken care of. His only concern was getting his sister to safety.

This repeated with the turn of World War II, where Emma’s neutrality was shattered once again at the hands of Germany, and she nearly lost herself entirely as her nation was annexed into the Third Reich. Sent off to France, and to England, she waited out the storm of the war with her government-in-exile as the ruling family was sent to Canada.

CHAPTER V: Fallout of the End of the World

ＷＯＲＬＤＷＡＲＩＩ brought ruin to the Benelux in more than one way. The entire swath of land was desecrated, from border to border, and the brothers were up in arms once again. But, with everything else, it ended with far too much bloodshed, so much that Emma could feel the sticky substance on her skin though she was never touched by it directly. They thought the war was over, the war to end all wars, but another one was brewing just under their noses. Through the culmination of events, Bastian had been routinely tortured, beaten, assaulted, drugged and experimented on under the guise of being a Prisoner of War to Germany, at the hands of the currently-deranged Swiss National Representative. The same Swiss Representative that had been acting as a doctor to the BeNeLux for centuries, who was in love with the eldest, and always had a soft spot for the other two. His torture, his breach of ethical codes and Geneva Conventions, had left Bastian a shell of himself, riddled through with illness and infection and mental scars that would take decades if not centuries to heal. It also left the family even more tight knit than before, with Willem spearheading the trial that put the Swiss Rep away and Emma providing the safe harbor for Bastian to recover.

CHAPTER VI: Rising From The Ashes

ＴＨＯＵＧＨＴＨＥＢＥＬＧＩＡＮ was beaten so very low at the hands of one of their own, the young man did not let that stop the upwards trajectory of his life. Marriage was to be had, and his career bloomed like a rose under spring sunlight. Through the post-war years, Bastian was non-stop and a proud Emma stood by to watch him climb into the upper echelons of success in the things nearest and dearest to his heart: economics, his nation, and eventually becoming the figurehead of the EU as a whole.

Emma could not be more thoroughly proud of her youngest brother. It is not inaccurate to say that she is very, very much akin to a proud parent, watching their child overcome the worst odds and become someone great.

#hc;#i gave part of myself to you: luxembourg and belgium #tw mentions of violence #tw mentions of assault #tw mentions of torture #long post #v; hémecht

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My Top Ten Films of The Decade.

10. Her

Okay, so whether you like it or not, this movie is about the present. This movie tells a very powerful story with an embarrasingly personal narrative. You feel sorry for the main character, it makes you so uncomfortable. And the reason is, because we are all in some sense are like this guy, Theodore. We have better relationships online, and with our advices, than with real people. It’s a really bizarre conception, but we should face it, and ask ourselves: Where is the limit? The script is just brilliant, but also has very controversial scenes. Joaquin Phoenix is simply the perfect choice for a lonely man, like Theodore. Melancholy everywhere, and great visuals. Arcade Fire made the music for this, and it was pure melancholy. Very interesting film.

9. The Place Beyond The Pines

Derek Cianfrance is an exceptional director. He can wonderfully create an atmosphere with great lighting techiques, unique musics, and of course with talented actors. This movie has a linear, but quite unusual story-structure. The main theme haunts you after you watched this. Legacy!

8. Nightcrawler

Louis Bloom is something of a loner who is unemployed and ekes out a living stealing and then reselling copper wire, fencing and most anything else he can get his hands on. When late one night he comes across an accident being filmed by independent news photographer Joe Loder, he thinks he may have found something he would be good at. He acquires an inexpensive video camera and a police scanner and is soon spending his nights racing to accidents, robberies and fire scenes. He develops a working relationship with Nina Romina, news director for a local LA TV station. As the quality of his video footage improves so does his remuneration and he hires Rick, young and unemployed, to work with him. The more successful he becomes however, the more apparent it becomes that Louis will do anything - anything - to get visuals from crime scenes. The conception is just brilliant, and screams to your face, what kind of society are we living in. I think Psychopathy is going to be one of the biggest issue in our generation asides with mental illneses. And this movie reflects perfectly. You understand the character, which is geniusly performed by Jake Gyllenhaal.

7. Inside Llewyn Davis

The Coen brothers' exquisitely sad and funny new comedy is set in a world of music that somehow combines childlike innocence with an aged and exhausted acceptance of the world. It is a beguilingly studied period piece from America's early-60s Greenwich Village folk scene. Every frame looks like a classic album cover, or at the very least a great inner gatefold – these are screen images that look as if they should have lyrics and sleeve notes superimposed. This film was notably passed over for Oscar nominations. Perhaps there's something in its unfashionable melancholy that didn't hook the attention of Academy award voters. But it is as pungent and powerfully distinctive as a cup of hot black coffee. This movie is about sacrificing everything for your art, directionlessness (is there such a word?) , and finding the right path. Existential theme, with surpisingly good acting from Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, and Justin Timberlake. This is an Odyssey-story from the 1960′s America. What more you could ask for?

6. Dunkirk

Reinventing a genre is quite exceptional. And Nolan did it. The best war movies of the last 20 years, including Saving Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge, have also placed viewers in the centre of battle. Nolan has not reinvented that immersive approach, but he comes close to perfecting it. The story structure is-again- brilliant. There’s no main character in the movie-just like in a war-but only scared people. They want to go home. But they can’t. We’re with them with their struggle, and fears. We’re in the air, land, or water, it’s just a haunting terror. And the soundtrack from Hans Zimmer is really remarkable. You hear it, and you recognize the movie. That’s what I call a score. Reflects perfectly, and holds the attention throughout the whole movie.

5. Hell or High Water

Another genre-twister masterpiece. This Neo-Western is just pure art. Hell or High Water is a film about a criminal who commits the ultimate offence of putting his gorgeous and much nicer brother in a ski mask for several minutes of this film. Okay actually it’s about a career criminal brother and his he-wasn’t-but-he-is-now criminal brother who team up to commit a series of small-scale bank robberies across Texas, with the aim, finally – after several generations – of lifting the family out of seemingly inescapable grinding poverty. The part of Texas they live in is dying on its feet so career criminal is pretty much the only career left open that doesn’t involve serving in a diner or herding the few remaining cattle. It would’ve been easy for Hell or High Water to to turn out a cliche-ridden double bromance as there are quite a few movie tropes in this love story / revenge thriller, so it’s a tribute to director David Mackenzie that it’s actually a very touching, at times funny, at times quite brutal story. With a bit of grudge-bearing thrown in at the end to stop it being too redemptive. Memorable scenes, great acting, and a deromanticized western-feeling. After this film, you want to live in Texas, where everything’s slower, but sometimes you can chase criminals. It’s nice, isn’t it?

4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Martin McDonagh’s fiercely written, stabbingly pleasurable tragicomedy stars a magnificent Frances McDormand; watching it is like having your funny bone struck repeatedly, expertly and very much too hard by a karate super-black-belt capable of bringing a rhino to its knees with a single punch behind the ear. He’s a scriptwriter genius, it was shocking, how perfectly the dialouges and the actions were constructed. It is a film about vengeance, violence and the acceptance of death, combining subtlety and unsubtlety, and moreover wrongfooting you as to what and whom it is centrally about. The drama happens in a town with an insidiously pessimistic name – Ebbing, Missouri, a remote and fictional community in the southern United States, where the joy of life does seem to be receding. There is a recurrent keynote of elegiac sadness established by the Irish ballad The Last Rose of Summer and Townes Van Zandt’s country hit Buckskin Stallion Blues, a musical combination which bridges the Ireland which McDonagh has written about before and the America he conjures up here, an America which has something of the Coen Brothers. The resemblance is not simply down to McDormand, though she does give her best performance since her starring role as the pregnant Minnesota police chief in the Coens’ Fargo in 1996. It was brutal, controversial, and violent.

3. Midnight in Paris

The definitive poem in English on the subject of cultural nostalgia may be a short verse by Robert Browning called “Memorabilia.” The past seems so much more vivid, more substantial, than the present, and then it evaporates with the cold touch of reality. The good old days are so alluring because we were not around, however much we wish we were. “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen’s charming film, imagines what would happen if that wish came true. It is marvelously romantic, even though — or precisely because — it acknowledges the disappointment that shadows every genuine expression of romanticism. The film has the inspired silliness of some of Mr. Allen’s classic comic sketches (most obviously, “A Twenties Memory,” in which the narrator’s nose is repeatedly broken by Ernest Hemingway), spiked with the rueful fatalism that has characterized so much of his later work. Nothing here is exactly new, but why would you expect otherwise in a film so pointedly suspicious of novelty? Very little is stale, either, and Mr. Allen has gracefully evaded the trap built by his grouchy admirers and unkind critics — I’m not alone in fitting both descriptions — who complain when he repeats himself and also when he experiments. Not for the first time, but for the first time in a while, he has found a credible blend of whimsy and wisdom.

2. Beautiful Boy

This supersensitive and tasteful movie is all but insufferable, suppressing a sob at the tragedy of drug addiction afflicting someone so young and “beautiful”. It is based on what is effectively a matching set of memoirs: Beautiful Boy, by author and journalist David Sheff, his harrowing account of trying to help his son Nic battle crystal meth addiction, and Tweak – by Nic Sheff himself, about these same experiences, the author now, thankfully, eight years clean. Steve Carell does an honest, well-meaning job in the role of David and the egregiously beautiful Timothée Chalamet is earnest in the part of Nic, David’s son from his first marriage. This is like a modern-day Basketball Diaries. Honest, and Raw. Most underrated movie of the 2010′s, with an unquestionably important topic.

1. The Social Network

Before Sorkin wrote the screenplay, Ben Mezrich wrote the book based on Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook titled: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. It was published in July 2009, and most of the information came from Facebook “co-founder” Eduardo Saverin, who in the film is played by Andrew Garfield. The screenplay that Sorkin wrote was blazing, he wrote the characters like they were in a William Shakespeare play, with a story full of lies, jealousy, and betrayal. I especially love how Sorkin balanced the story between 2003, 2004, and then 2010. It goes back and forth between the past when Facebook was just an idea for Mark, and in the current day when he is being sued by Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss for, in their minds, having stolen their original idea, and by his former best friend Eduardo for having him pushed out of the company. In fact, some of the very best dialogue (and the film is full of great quotes) happens during the deposition scenes. Well-recognizable, rapid-fire dialouges, wonderful directing, with Trent Reznor’s greatest soundtrack. The movie’s probably going to outlive the Facebook itself, and that’s just great.

#oscars #films #academyawards #2010s #best #movies #cinema #art #top ten #movies of the decade #soundtrack #cinematography

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an incomplete list of headcanons for sirius black:

there was a period of about 6-8 months between running away/being disowned and receiving his uncle’s inheritance when sirius had absolutely nothing to his name but the misc junk he’d shoved in a bag when he left the house to go to james. the potters, ignoring sirius’ claims they didn’t have to, bought him a moderate amount of items including but not limited to clothes, school materials, and various items for the room he’d already claimed at their house. when his inheritance kicked in, he tried to pay them back. they refused.

sirius was always more afraid of his father than his mother (which is the opposite of regulus). the reason is that his mother was more concerned with appearances outside the family, but was content to simply act as if sirius didn’t exist when they were at home, which was fine for both of them (and on some occasions, the worst that would happen is she’d scream and yell and be generally unpleasant, and true she’d be the one to force a hair cut or destroy his ‘revolting’ muggle/gryffindor items). however his father was the disciplinarian. his father rarely raised his voice, but was the first to raise a hand or wand to correct behaviors or punish misbehaviors, and though sirius would stand up for himself and was not scared into silence, there were many instances where he would show up to the potters in the middle of the night, or return from mandatory holidays during the school year, with signs of magically induced injury.

following that, sirius is always the first to jump to the defense of others, completely disregarding his own safety or the danger of the situation, and has been known to laugh in the face of those that think they can fight him, and generally doesn’t react to anyone who rises to attack him either verbally or physically, but whenever his father even shifted slightly, sirius would tense and brace, and there were several instances in public where a disagreement would start and though often the marauder’s were nearby and out of ear shot, they’d know things were going poorly because sirius, who never ever shows fear to anyone, would flinch

it’s clear from prisoner of azkaban that sirius could have escaped at any point. all he did was become padfoot and get past the dementors who weren’t looking for or caring about animals (literally his words). there is no true reason he had to wait twelve years except for dramatic story telling. that being said, the shock of the situation prevented any of this from logically settling in his mind for the first few weeks, and then after that, the dementors and their constant soulsucking presence did make it easier for sirius to blame himself for james and lily dying. he convinced them to make their secret keeper peter instead of him, he didn’t try hard enough to keep them safe, he should’ve actually killed peter, fuck what’s happening to harry, where is he, does anyone care about him, is he being taken care of, what’s remus doing, does remus think sirius did it, does remus hate him, is remus okay, it’s another full moon please let remus be okay, fuck if he gets out he’s going to strangle peter --- on and on, and it definitely gave him a huge amount of guilt on his shoulders, and regret, and despair, and while i personally don’t think it would have taken him 12 years to finally fucking decide to leave, it definitely did take several, especially since telling time within the walls of azkaban is near impossible

ON THAT NOTE, HOWEVER, it is this very guilt and anger that allowed him to muster the determination to finally fucking escape. even amidst all this guilt and fear and sorrow, sirius was strong enough to stay sane under the influence of the dementors and his own perceived failure, that he consciously made the decision to trick his way out. it was this very fury he felt towards peter and the injustice that he suffered because of his coward of a supposed best friend that fueled sirius’ ability to withstand the trails of being a prisoner at the worst wizarding prison. once his guilt subsisded enough for pure unadulterated hate to seep in, it was just a matter of deciding the best time to stage an escape

I REPEAT, I DO NOT BELIEVE IT TOOK HIM 12 YEARS at most, i would figure, personally, it happened in four or five. which, while following my canon divergent main verse, would still allow time for sirius to clear his name and fight for custody of harry, which he does successfully, by my canon, when harry is about seven. SO EVEN IF sirius isn’t instantly cleared as my main verse would like, he still winds up a single dad.

he has horrible nightmares after azkaban, regardless of when he gets out or how long he was there or whether he ends up raising harry. i personally would have it so that he and remus end up living together, both because sirius has his inheritance to support them, and because they’re the last two marauders and trusting others is hard for sirius to come by after everything, so living with remus is Safe and Easy, and he does everything he fucking can to make up for all the full moons he missed, but regardless of how Hard he tries to get back to some semblance of a normal life, he has severe ptsd from prison and he doesn’t sleep well and he doesn’t eat much and he drinks more (in verses where he doesn’t have custody) and he smokes a shit ton more and he spends more time as padfoot than he does as a human because being a dog is just so much simpler and he has fewer worries, and remus is fucking worried as shit about him because sirius was always the strongest of the four of them (fight me on this i dare you) and to see the confident, arrogant, and generally easy-going carefree rebel that was sirius black in school turned into a jumpy, irritable, shattered shell of himself is hard and sirius never truly recovers from that damage, he just gets better at hiding it, and he does a hell of a lot better at healing when he does have custody of harry because harry gives him purpose in a way that remus can’t.

when sirius inevitably comes across peter again, he does try to kill him. whether he genuinely fails or subconsciously stops himself because peter, as much as sirius resents and hates and would love to grind him into little rat pieces, was a friend and was someone sirius trusted and cherished and would have protected with his life, and no matter how much he very much wants to kill the bastard, he can’t

shifting gears a bit, but sirius had never and still doesn’t really see himself ever getting married. he never even wanted kids until harry came around, and even then, the only kid he’ll ever have is in my canon divergency where he raises harry himself. in that verse he is more open to a co-parenting relationship (re: when he’s with @gavrele‘s gabe, or if he were to be with remus or another marauder’s era character who survived either by au or in canon), which can be considered romantic or merely a mutual desire to raise this orphaned child, but in that instance, he still probably wouldn’t want marriage, because it makes him seriously uncomfortable just thinking about it, and at the very most he would just agree to mutually wear signifying rings but not actually make it official, so that way if at any point he does feel weird about it he won’t feel bad about taking the ring off for a few days until the feeling passes

he learns of regulus’ dying while he’s in azkaban and listen canon sirius was very ‘meh’ about the whole deal, which really pisses me off, so my sirius was very torn. and it doesn’t help that most people just write reggie off as disappearing, they don’t know the story, they just assume he died in the war or voldemort disposed of him or something, doesn’t matter, he learns that regulus is gone, and his father is gone, and his mother ends up dying shortly before he gets out, and sirius is alone really and truly, and when he returns home for the first time in years, he manages to convince kreacher to explain the situation because even if he doesn’t particularly like kreacher, they both loved regulus, and sirius crafts a makeshift grave for his brother which he visits reguluarly, and though he doesn’t usually say much except “hey reg”, the first time he broke down sobbing because he tried so hard to get regulus to see the right side of the war, but he didn’t try hard enough, and he should’ve worked harder to keep reg safe, what an awful brother he was, he only ever thought of himself, if he just took regulus with him when he ran away maybe they could’ve avoided this, fuck he’s sorry he fucked up, he’s so proud that regulus stood up to voldemort in the end, he doesn’t care if it was for selfishness or fear or whatever, he’s so proud, he wishes regulus would know how proud he is

he actively keeps harry as safe as possible, doesn’t let half the shit that happens happen to him, fully supports and listens to him whenever the kid says ‘something is going on”, talks with him through it, tells him all the stories of james and lily that he can, never treats harry as less than his own blooded son because to him harry is his son, but he also never tries to replace james with himself, and harry knows how much sirius loved james and lily and how sirius only wants harry to be safe and happy, and merlin did he cry the first time harry called him dad and told him that he knows sirius isn’t his real dad but its okay to have more than one dad, he still loves james too he just loves sirius as much, and when he saw sirius almost crying, he asked if that was okay, and sirius could not express how absolutely perfect that was and later when talking to remus, remus had to hold a conflicted sirius for at least half an hour because he adored the idea but god he misses james so much, he wishes this wasnt the situation but it is and fuck it hurts (remus is uncle, by the way)

he literally stands between snape and harry, and dumbledore and harry, and does not let lucius anywhere near harry (and only allows cissa after a tentative no-children meeting, where they agree to not be enemies but rather awkward cousins like they are, and sometimes even let draco and harry play together) and harry is raised knowing about the prophecy, and since he’s raised in the wizarding world he’s not a commodity, by the time he starts hogwarts, everyone has kind of gotten over the hype so he can be mostly normal, and yeah strange things keep happening but the second harry tells sirius (because harry is raised in an open and loving environment where talking about things is encouraged), sirius does shit about it, and yeah voldemort wasn’t vanquished, he is still waiting, and sirius can’t be everywhere, but when harry says voldemort is back, sirius fucking rallies and essentially one-man-armies the ministry into fucking doing something about it because he lived through that hell in his last few years of hogwarts, he lost friends to it, he is not going to watch it happen again and nothing is going to hurt harry period

naturally, this means he doesn’t die in the department of mysteries because when the dreams start happening, harry talks about them with him, and they work it out together.

sirius doesn’t get a job because he doesn’t need one, and all of harry’s inheritance from james is purely harry’s, sirius doesn’t touch an ounce of it, and in fact regularly adds to it of his own inheritance, but sirius is seen roaming random places offering assistance, usually in regards to muggle nonsense (think hands on mechanics stuff) because he’s good at it and he doesn’t know what to do with his time, but he never lets them pay

he helps fund the weasley’s prank store. ron is a little odd, and hermione is sometimes annoying, and boy does he have a soft spot for neville because sirius knows about his parents, and you can bet that rather than lifting the map from filch, sirius straight up gave it to fred and george, and remus later confiscated it from his now-permanent DADA position (or whatever position remus wants, tbh) and sirius got an earful before telling remus he knew the other would give it back to them, which he did

i could continue but i should probably start another post to do so SO THERE YOU ARE

#you didn't ask for it #but here is a list of everything i thought about sirius in my short 15 minute bus ride this morning #;;siriuscanon #THIS GOT WAY FUCKING LONGER THAN I MEANT IT TO #AND ALSO FOCUSES A LOT ON MY DIVERGENT SETTING #but idfc i have sirius muse up the wazoo and i need to share it #long post #man i dont usually tag that but fuck this is. this is a lot

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@hymnblood asked: “ you’re not actually considering this. ”

“ Of course i am ! Cerberus and i are good friends ! ” The weird friendship started years ago when Annabeth entered the underworld with Percy and Grover. The trio had a small encounter with the infernal dog and the daughter of Athena used some strategies to distract the animal — by playing with him. Well, that’s a story for another time. Right now Annabeth is taking some toys to play with him ( someone is excited for it and that’s basically the only reason that would bring her back there ). “ You will see ! ” She tells Zagreus.

#( hello!! i really hope this is okay hsuahsuha )#hymnblood #asks / rainbow messages.#in character / even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.#main verse act i ; home again / the war has ended but it has left you shattered ; laying on the strawberry field.#ooc / queue.

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365daysofsasuhina · 5 years

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[ 365 Days of SasuHina || Day Two Hundred Sixty-Seven: For the Time Being ] [ Uchiha Sasuke, Hyūga Hinata, Uchiha Itachi ] [ SasuHina ] [ Verse: A Light Amongst Shadows ] [ AO3 Link ]

They knew there would be risks. They all did. After all, there’s little aligning yourself with someone once so hated and getting away scot-free. Both Uchiha brothers have known that their pasts are not something so easily escaped...and those who refuse to forgive or forget will dog their every steps, forever convinced of their guilt, pardons or not.

It’s what made Sasuke so leery of allowing himself so close to someone like Hinata. She, so free of association from himself, his actions, and their consequences. Their slowly budding friendship after the end of the war was one thing. They just...happened to keep running into each other. Between being fellow third wheels to the rest of team seven, other mutual friendships, and the new alliance between the Hyūga and their struggling Uchiha cousins, there’s been little avoiding her, really.

And that had been fine. That early on, actions and words against the Uchiha were still in their infancy. And he’d been on similar levels with others of their age group. But as time passed, it began to become clear that there was more between them than with anyone else...especially from Sasuke’s side.

As soon as he’d realized it...he’d panicked. He’d long since given up on companionship, for a multitude of reasons...the danger only being chief among many. He had no idea what to do in a relationship, having spent most of his developmental years alone, angry, and resolute for far different purposes. He didn’t want to hurt her reputation. He didn’t want to hurt her. But he also realized that finding someone he could feel that way about, after all he’d been through and lost, was something he wasn’t sure to find again. Torn between temptation, fear, uncertainty, and worry...it had taken prompting from more than one person to finally follow through.

And Hinata, once made aware of his feelings, wasn’t one to back down. She’d nearly lost her life for a love she’d never had. Doing so again for someone she’d grown to love, and be loved by in return, was worth dying for in her eyes.

He had to both admire and admonish her stubborn nature. Not that he could really do so without hypocrisy. It took convincing, and even then he was still wary, but...eventually, he gave in to emotion over logic, and agreed to call her his.

It took a little time for people to notice. But once they did, it wasn’t long before the insults started. The harsh whispers, the glares, the small acts of aggression. She asked him, at first, not to interfere. To react harshly would only cement their opinions of him all the harder. She could take name calling and defamatory words.

She’d suffered them at home long enough for them to lose their sting.

But once things became physical - once someone laid their hands on her - he had enough, and bit back.

...to little avail.

It seemed that no matter what anyone did - the Uchiha themselves, their Hyūga allies, or even other friends - the overall tone never changed.

If anything...it only got worse.

Though not entirely traditional, Hinata moves in with Sasuke several months into their time dating. The Hyūga compound is...stifling, in her opinion. And though there hasn’t been any sort of proposal, both silently know there isn’t much stopping them, now.

The Uchiha district - having been empty during Pein’s invasion - was never rebuilt afterward. Instead, it has only come to host three houses: Sasuke’s, Itachi’s, and Shisui’s...though most days are spent in the main manor, anyway. The lingering paranoia, and over-protective bond the three now have for each other and their families means being hesitant to remain apart. The rest is left mostly as open field, having been slowly regrowing grass. It’s an oddly peaceful place, despite a lingering tone of somber loss and remembrance.

It’s that same atmosphere - and perhaps a fear of hauntings - that keeps most people away regardless. Even most antagonizers won’t make the trek into clan lands, too superstitious about being cursed by such a hateful clan.

...but it doesn’t work on everyone.

Which is why, one morning, Sasuke finds himself awoken by his brother, gesturing for silence and cooperation. Nodding, he abandons his bed and leaves Hinata sleeping with a guarding kage bunshin, following Itachi outside where they can speak freely.

“We have a situation.”

“So I guessed, given your visit. What’s going on?”

Face grave, Itachi merely gestures to the manor entrance.

What Sasuke sees brings a leaden weight to his gut.

Horrible graffiti, damage, and other desecrations mar the front doors to the house, threats both painted and carved. But while the imagery is daunting, it’s the surrounding implications that panic him. “No one heard this? Sensed it?”

“No...it happened sometime in the night. None of us noticed. Thankfully I was the first awake, noticed it, and had my family sent with Shisui to the Hokage’s office. I recommend you do the same with Hinata. Things had just gotten far more serious. It’s one thing to make and display threads. It’s another to do so completely unnoticed by everyone here. Hinata’s Byakugan, my wife’s sensory skills, our own high levels of perception...and none of us realized a thing. Whoever did this is of a frightening level of skill. Which, I imagine, is meant to be masked by the brazen methods they used to mark the door.”

“Too bad we’re too smart for that,” Sasuke mutters. “So...what now?”

“I’ve sent word to my officers, a few squadrons should be here soon to begin investigating. We need to find who did this...and who they’re working for.”

“You don’t think they’re the ones behind it?”

“This just seems...odd. If someone was skilled enough to pull a stunt like this, why not try to be more direct? Why use such skillful infiltration...and then reveal their presence so obviously?”

“...you think it’s a distraction.”

“...I’m not sure what I think quite yet. But this just feels...off.” Itachi gives his younger brother a careful glance. “...we made need to consider some...adjustments.”

“...meaning?”

“It may be wise to...relocate some of us. For the time being. I know that Hinata is a capable kunoichi. And I know you will do all you can to protect her, just as I would do for my family, and Shisui as well. But...we all know these risks. And we all know our weak points...and so do our enemies. Perhaps, for a time...all but the three of us could head someplace more...remote. Less easily accessible. Where they can be less exposed while we look into this.”

Understanding alights Sasuke’s face. “...you want to send them to her home village? You know they’ll object. They all will. Hinata especially.”

“...I do. But sometimes, what is necessary is not also what is preferred. Their safety, we can all agree, is our top priority. Correct?”

“Of course.”

“Then we may have to incur a little wifely wrath for the greater good,” Itachi muses with a wry grin. “They’ll be angry, certainly...but we need to prioritize. Up in the mountains, where it’s remote and difficult to access, and under the watchful eyes of one of the animal sages. I doubt there’s any safer place for them at present. Just for a little while, as we look into this. Once things seem to calm down, they can come home. But this is a precaution we would be foolish not to take.”

Sasuke sighs, dragging a hand down his face. “...all right. But we need to talk this over. All of us.”

“Shisui and my family are with Kakashi. I suggest you take Hinata there, and wait for me. Once I have a chance to speak with my ANBU, I’ll join you.” There’s a grim look in Itachi’s eyes. “...I know Kakashi has avoided taking sides in this issue, but...he may no longer have a choice with such direct evidence.”

“We’re just as much a part of Konoha as everyone else,” Sasuke can’t help but growl. “The fact he’s being so hesitant with this pisses me off.”

“You forget his position is rather delicate, Sasuke. Konoha is in a state of flux, in many regards. Fanning the flames between us and our enemies may only make the rest harder.”

“Konoha’s administration already failed us once,” is the younger brother’s scathing reply, earning a small grimace from Itachi as his Sharingan unconsciously flare with emotion. “That nearly cost us everything. I’m not going to let them do it again.” With that, he turns to fetch Hinata, fists curled and pace unwavering.

Behind him, Itachi sighs gustily. “...I know, Sasuke...I know.”

.oOo.

OKAY so I'm still a day behind (I have another drabble to post RIGHT after this), but at least I was only two days behind for a day :'D Lemme tell ya, life is kicking me in the pants the last few days, and I was just...too exhausted last night to write. BUT! I got both the 24 and the 25's entries done. Still a day behind, but all things considered...that's not too bad, haha~ Anyway, about the oneshot! We're revisiting the ALAS verse again. I...think I've written about this event before, but again, it's getting a bit hazy remembering what I've covered over the past 8+ months ^^; But I think I only covered part of this event...the uncovered part being the tentative plans to split the clan up, and remove part of it from Konoha for their safety. Hinata is...SO not going to be happy, but Itachi is right: you gotta make hard choices to keep the people you love safe. Even if they'd argue they can handle themselves. This emerging enemy is unknown, but clearly at least partially skilled. And Sasuke doesn't want to put her at risk, no matter how capable she is. Anyway...I'd ramble more, but it's late and I still need to post the second drabble for tonight! Maybe before September is up I'll catch up again...in fact I'd like to, as I have another challenge to do for October :'D So here's hoping! But for now, thanks for reading!

#sasuhina #uchiha sasuke #hyūga hinata #uchiha itachi #a light amongst shadows [ canon verse ]#365daysofsasuhina

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bae jinyoung’s winter singer performance thank you very much from scrooge the musical

admittedly, it had taken him a lot longer than he would have liked to come up with a song he would be happy singing.

the fact he was limited to doing something ‘winter’ themed had put a bit of a dampener on his imagination. at first he was just going to the route of picking either ‘let it go’ or ‘into the unknown’ from frozen. because that fit the criteria and he was sure that was someone everyone was going to know. then again, he had decided against it in the end because he was sure others would have the same idea and he was pretty sure everyone was getting pretty sick and tired of those songs by now.

which left him back at square one.

he had spent literal days umming and ahhing over songs, going and back and forth between ideas but still couldn’t come up with anything decent he wanted to do. it was only when he wasn’t actually looking for a song did one finally get stuck in his head until he couldn’t think of anything else.

jordan had been sitting at his computer editing his next video for youtube when he had started humming ‘thank you very much’ under his breath. it was just one of those songs which were incredibly catchy and niggled in your brain to stay even after the first listen. and that’s when he realised that it was technically from a christmas film. while the lyrics didn’t really include anything to do with winter, the musical itself was ‘a christmas carol’, one of the most known and iconic christmas films of all time.

so, how could a song plucked right from it not count?

of course, jordan being jordan he had tried to come up with a ukulele performance as well, wanting to bring and twist. in the end he found he didn’t have that much time and he just couldn’t get the instrument to work properly with the song choice. and by the time he had decided this it was just a little too late to pick a new song and practice that. which meant that he was just going to have to do this without his trust instrument around his neck. a change from usual, for sure, but he was quite sure he could pull it off. not that he was doing this to win, he knew he wasn’t a main vocal and the only singing he did was for his dumb youtube covers. but it would be fun all the same.

the day of the performance he wasn’t the least bit worried about things, wearing a large grin as he waited for his turn. all he was aiming for here was to have some fun, get the crowd involved a bit and not do some boring old ballad. not that there was anything wrong with passionate and lovely ballads, but that really wasn’t his style. he couldn’t even imagine himself standing there and doing some heartfelt and serious performance. he was a performer, an actor, and he was going to damn well prove it.

though he was also well aware that he was sure a lot of these people would have no idea what he was even singing, or where it was from. it was a british musical and film, and he had seen it back when he was still in the states and it had shown on christmas morning a couple of times. and he was aware that there were japanese stage productions as well, he was a little unsure if it had ever been put on in korea. in fact, he probably doubted it. but heck it was not like he really cared, he was still going to have fun.

all thoughts of that did leave his mind however when he was handed a microphone and with a large grin on his face he strolled out onto the stage, waving with a free hand. it was surprising how many people were actually there to watch, but that just meant he was going to have to try harder to entertain everyone.

“before we start, i think it’s a good idea to introduce what i’m singing,” he first started off, feeling it a good idea to give people just a little bit of background. “this is a song from the british stage musical and film scrooge, which is based off the popular book a christmas carol. the song also has an academy award nomination, so...” he trailed off with a small laugh before shaking his head, “ah, anyway. please enjoy and have some fun. i expect audience participation so don’t let me down.”

on behalf of all the people who have assembled here i would merely like to mention if i may that our unanimous attitude is one of lasting gratitude for what our friend has done for us today and therefore i would simply like to say

he was saying the words as though he were announcing to a great crowd, which he supposed he was in a way and he was already having fun and he hadn’t even really started his performance properly yet. and he really couldn’t help but acting out the whole thing like he were in the middle of a stage production. he could see himself as a musical actor, he could certainly get the face acting down. besides, it did make the whole thing a lot more fun if he showed he was having fun, then it was more likely the people watching would start having fun as well.

thank you very much! thank you very much! that's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me i may sound double-dutch but my delight is such i feel as if a losing war's been won for me and if I had a flag i'd hang my flag out to add a sort of final victory touch but since i left my flag at home i'll simply have to say thank you very, very, very much! thank you very, very, very much!

the way he was approaching this song was adding a bit of a comedic twist to the whole thing, almost acting out the words which were coming out of his mouth, using the stage he was on to the fullest to engage and move around. and while he would never say he was a dancer, he couldn’t help but show off a bit of little footwork as he moved across the stage, acting as though he was leader of a rally and rallying everyone together into this big song and dance.

thank you very much! thank you very much! that's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me it sounds a bit bizarre but things the way they are i feel as if another life's begun for me and if i had a cannon i would fire it to add a sort of celebration touch but since I left my cannon at home i'll simply have to say thank you very, very, very much!

maybe a bit surprising to whoever happened to be in attendance, but he had said he wanted audience participation. he turned his microphone around, pointing it out towards the crowd hoping to hear in return the next ‘thank you very, very much!’ shouted back at him. he even mouthed along the words, and while some people just stood there looking rather confused at him, some of them did actually sing it back at him. so he was going to take that as a personal victory.

for he’s a jolly good fellow for he’s a jolly good fellow for he’s a jolly good fellow and so say all of us

he was still more or less guiding the watching crowd through this performance, using his hand almost like a conductor would a baton to try and get them to sing along, to make them smile, to stop taking things so seriously and have some fun. but there was barely any time to breath as he was barrelling right into the next verse of the song, but still completely determined to have as much fun as possible. move around the stage, act as though he was in the musical, conduct the crowd and act out the words from his mouth instead of just standing there being all serious and boring.

how could he be all serious while singing a song as lively and fast paced as this, anyway?

thank you very much! thank you very much! that's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me it isn't everyday good fortune comes my way i never thought the future would be fun for me

there was a short break, in the film the crowd of singers processing through the street had just been told to be quiet, so jordan acted like it as well. bending over just a little as he moved forward, putting a finger to his lips as he started to whisper the next line of the song, slowly getting louder before standing up and getting back to full volume again as he practically marched across the stage in time with the music.

and if i had a bugle i would blow it to add a sort of 'ow's-your-father touch but since i left my bugle at home i'll simply have to say thank you very, very, very much! thank you very, very, very much!

this song was a little repetitive, but jordan was simply having the time of his life as he sang his heart out. and he was pretty sure he could see some people who had been looking a bit bored and confused at the beginning of all this madness starting to smile and actually enjoy what they were listening to. and while he was still sure he wasn’t the best singer they would be hearing today, he at least hoped he was the most entertaining.

thank you very much! thank you very much! that's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me the future looks alright in fact it looks so bright i feel as if they’re polishing the sun for me and if i had a drum i'd have to bang it! to add a sort of rumty-tumty touch but since i left my drum at home i'll simply have to say thank you very, very, very much! thank you very, very, very much!

he had made sure to act as though he was banging on an imaginary drum, keeping up his comedic factor as he grinned his way through the last couple of lines on the song, bringing things all together at the close with a drawn out note, pulling the microphone away from his mouth as he put both hands behind his back and bowed forward just as the music finished. and that was the end of that.

the large grin was still plastered across his face as he stood up straight again, soaking in the polite applause from the audience as he grinned out at them. his chest was heaving a bit from all the effort he had just gone and put in, hair sticking to his sweaty forehead and shirt becoming a bit uncomfortable despite the cold weather, but he had had fun. and he was sure he had entertained people which was really the only goal he had been going for.

there was nothing else he could do and while he didn’t really think he was going to be winning anything, that was simply alright with him. at least he could leave today content with what he had done and happy enough that he might have done enough to make people’s days just that little brighter.

#rkwintersinger #❛ solo #❛ word count: 1951 #❛ word count: 1567 w/o lyrics #(can jordan ever do a serious song? the answer is no)#(but he's pleased with himself for having fun)#(this song is super catchy)

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fulcrumahsokaamidala · 5 years

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Saturday Spectacular #4

Happy Saturday!!! So this is me thanking awesome fanfic writers for their amazing work and all the time they put into their fics. ♥️ I want to recommend spectacular fanfic stories I read this week! ♥️ They are posted in the order I read them. All posts will be tagged #saturday spectacular fic rec

This week I read the gifts from the @olicity-fanwork-exchange (OFAE). I will mark which fics are part of the exchange.

Ride or Die by @someonesaidcake | Arrow | WIP

Summary: They say that life is a series of events that we can neither predict nor control... And then there is him. He’s a bit of an enigma. ~*~*~*~Young CEO Felicity Smoak is just trying to make her mark on the world, yes she's a little high strung and stressed, but it was what is was... until he came along. With eyes a girl could lose herself in and shoulder-tapping hair made for hanging on to Oliver Queen was reckless and carefree. Also, he rode a bike. He was everything she wasn't and he was a sucker for those sinful red lips and everything that came with them.*main story complete, now snapshots*

Always by @icannotbelieveiamhere | Arrow | One-shot | OFAE

Summary: Felicity and Oliver talk after being rescued from below the bunker after Adrian Chase set off an EMP which disabled Felicity's chip.

Did I Forget to Mention That My Dad is a Supervillain? by @laxit21 | Arrow | WIP

Summary: When Felicity told Oliver about her father, she wasn’t lying per se. She wasn’t completely honest either. It’s just that ‘my dad left us’ sounded better than the truth.

Or: A Series of one shots in which Felicity’s dad is a supervillain and we see how Oliver and the team finds out.

The Road Less Traveled by @oneofthosecrazygirls-fics | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Canon divergence/fix-it AU. Everything that happened in the series up through 4x11 happens as it did in the show and this fic diverges from there. Direct sequel to “Swear This One You’ll Save” and “Have Your Cake (And Eat It Too)” so make sure you read those first before reading this one. This fic is part of the What Should’ve Been ‘verse.

Broken Bones Lead Me to You by @spaztronautwriter | Arrow | One-shot

Summary: After an unfortunate incident involving a slippery slide and a toddler's snow boot ends in a visit to the ER for Oliver Queen, he's pretty sure he might be having the worst day of his life. Until he meets an intriguing blonde with a broken hand, that is.

Broken Bones and Porcelain Dolls by @tangled23works | Arrow | One-shot | OFAE

Summary: Felicity Smoak met Oliver Queen during a visit to the ER. Twenty years later, her brother's guilty conscience and a dislocated thumb lead Mia to a fateful meeting as well.

Home to You by @the-shy-and-anxious-fangirl | Arrow | Completed

Summary: Oliver Queen has never done what his family expected of him. He took a gap year after high school instead of going to college right away. He quit his fraternity sophomore year to join the student newspaper, switching his major from business to journalism. He became a photojournalist for a wire service instead of taking a place at Queen Consolidated. He went missing after six months instead of coming home for his sister’s twenty-first birthday. He survived five years of captivity in a war zone when everyone thought he was dead. He came home. But home didn’t have a place for him in it anymore. His parents were both dead, casualties of their own mistakes and a city they had turned against them. His sister was all grown up, the CEO of Queen Consolidated with a fiancé and a dog and a life of her own. Oliver didn’t belong in his old life, but there was nowhere else for him to go. He was a man without a home, without any way of finding one, until he stopped by the IT department of his sister’s company to get files off an old, battered memory card, and found a woman with curly blonde hair and bright, intelligent eyes chewing on a bright red pen and swearing at a computer screen.

Airplanes, Coffee and Deadlines by @hope-for-olicity | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Felicity begins working at a national newspaper where she has always dreamed of working. On her first day, she meets a very interesting photojournalist. The two will eventually work together but sparks fly immediately.

The Microchip Chronicles by CSM | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Post 713. Follows the next nine months of Felicity’s pregnancy.

and we're somehow caught up in a web of lies by inlovewithimpossibility | Arrow | WIP

Summary: After their encounter with the Count and Moira's release from prison, Thanksgiving is upon the residents of Starling City but when an article arises in the gossip magazines that throws both Oliver and Felicity under scrutiny, the two of them somehow find themselves caught up in the most elaborate lie they've told. What was supposed to be a relaxing week at the Queen cabin in New Hampshire for Oliver and a week celebrating Hanukkah and Thanksgiving alone for Felicity turns into a week at the cabin of acting, the Queen women and bubbling not-so-platonic feelings.

The What If Harassment Alternative by portlandborn | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | WIP

Summary: What would have happened to Peraltiago And our intrepid detectives, if Amy had reported her mentor captains ugly behaviors?

Three Generations of Smoak by @spaztronautwriter | Arrow | One-shot | OFAE

Summary: A look inside the minds of the three Smoak women when they are each twenty years old.

Semper Fidelis by @oliversmuse | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Oliver Queen is a member of the Bravo Squad, a team that specializes in search and rescue, covert infantry and translating foreign documents. He is known as one of the best and even though he is one of the youngest recruits he advances quickly. While serving he meets Lance Corporal Felicity Smoak, a young woman with skills in hand to hand combat. Despite the fact they butt heads they fall in love and soon start to talk about a future together. However, when her plane disappears on a mission in China and she is presumed dead, Bravo Squad searches frantically for her, only to find her plane and her bloody dog tags. Five years later Oliver runs into "Megan" at a coffee shop near that gym he has been running with his friends. She has lost her memory from the plane accident but has had dreams of Oliver and the Bravo Squad. With the help of his friends and team mates, can he help her reclaim her past and fall for him once again?

Paging Dr. Smoak by @laxit21 | Arrow | WIP

Summary: When Oliver Queen gets into a car accident, he meets Dr. Felicity Smoak. He had no idea how much a chance meeting would change his life.

Mint Chip by @smoaking-greenarrow | Arrow | One-shot

Summary: Three times Oliver comforted Felicity with ice cream, and one time she comforted him.

| ONE | (Oliver The Footballer) by @someonesaidcake | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Felicity Smoak had a plan; to save enough money to kick her monotonous job and start up the company of her dreams. She made good plans, solid plans, attainable plans. He was never part of her plan. His name was Oliver Queen, the reclusive Brazilian football star with a broken smile and a story to tell He'd never planned on her either.

Providence by @so-caffeinated | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Will Queen has struggled in silence in the year since he was shot. But when a shadowy crime lord known as Domino targets the only woman Will’s ever truly loved, fate forces him to confront his demons in ways he never could have imagined… Whether he wants to or not. Amelia Prescott has fought to take control of her life since learning two years ago that her personal and professional worlds were manipulated by others. But nothing can prepare her for just how hard she'll have to fight to set her own course, especially when her heart belongs to a damaged man and a crime lord threatens her every professional move... And her life. Destiny brings them together, but as chaos reigns and personal demons haunt Will and Amelia both, it may also threaten to tear them apart.

(i want to) save that light by @callistawolf | Arrow | WIP

Summary: What if one little thing changed in the history of Arrow? What if, instead of going to Laurel's apartment after discovering the extent of Merlyn's plans for the Glades, Oliver stayed at the foundry and talked to Felicity instead? This series of short vignettes explores some of the ripple-effect changes that could take place throughout the next season as a result of this one, fortuitous change.

"Time for a story" Drabble Series by @smkkbert | Arrow | WIP

Summary: This fic shows Olicity and their life as a (married) couple with family. Although Olicity (and their kids) are the protagonists, other characters of Arrow and Flash make appearances. It started as a drabble series, but developed more and more into a full domestic AU. Although some chapters are still drabble-like, there are longer storylines by now.

Love and Little Cupcakes by @christinabeggs | Arrow | WIP

Summary: Felicity loved sweets so much that she paid no attention to her love life. Until Thea Queen came into her store wanting fabulous cupcakes for her sixteenth birthday.

#saturday spectacular fic rec #weekly fic recs

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basicsofislam · 5 years

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ISLAM 101: Belief in The Hereafter: Part 6

Phrases Related to the Doomsday, Resurrection and the Hereafter:

Many phrases are used related to the doomsday, resurrection, hereafter and life in the hereafter in the Quran. We can divide these phrases into three:

a. Phrases related to the strike of the Doomsday and the destruction of the universe:

The phrase, the strike of the Doomsday, which is used to express the destruction of the system of the universe and the end of this worldly life, is expressed in several ways in the Quran. The most common one among them is the word as-saah (hour). This word lexically means a short while. To use the word hour for the astounding and horrifying things that happen on the Doomsday is a nice expression peculiar to the conciseness of the Quran. The reason why the Doomsday is expressed by the word as-saah is due to the fact that it runs toward us by covering times and breaths not distances. Thus, when a person dies, his hour reaches him and Doomsday strikes for him before the big hour. The big hour (the big Doomsday) is like days compared to the life of man".

The word al-Haaqqa, which is used to express the strike of Doomsday, means something that will definitely and doubtlessly happen.

The word al-Qaria is used for the Doomsday because it terrifies and horrifies man, the sky is cleft asunder, the earth and mountains are dispersed and the stars are scattered as their light go out.

The words al-Azifa, as-Sahha, al-Ghashiya and at-Taamma are also used for the Doomsday. Azifa means close or near. There are various explanations why this word is used but the most famous one is that the Doomsday is close compared to the age of the world. Sahha means something that is listened because it terrifies people.The word ghashiya is used because the fear of the Day of Judgment fills people or hellfire suffuses unbelievers. Taamma means covering.

As it is seen, all of these definitions have a sound that jars ears, throbs and makes a loud noise. This state originates from meaning-sound harmony, which is one of the miraculous features of the Quran. These words are so suitably chosen in terms of letters and meter that they virtually transfer the terror and fear of the Day of Judgment to ears.

b. Phrases related to the dead being taken out of their graves and being sent to the Gathering Place:

In the Quran, the resurrection of the people are expressed through various terms like ba'th (resurrection), ihya (revival), iada (returning), taba'thur (turning upside down), hashr (gathering), nashr (resurrection) and nashatul-ukhra (second creation).

Ba'th lexically means to move and remove something from its place. The reason why the Day of Judgment is called the day of ba'th is the fact that people are removed from their graves and are taken to the place of reckoning on that day. It is stated that the main meaning of ba'th is irsal (sending), that ba'th and irsal are synonymous and that both ba'athtu rasulan and arsaltu rasulan (I sent a messenger) were used. In the Quran, this word is mainly used in the sense of reviving the dead and sending a prophet but it is also used in the sense of inspiration, awakening, giving power and appointing.

The verb ba'thara mentioned in the verse "wa idhal quburu bu'thirat" (and when the graves are turned upside down) is used in the sense of dispersing, turning and turning upside down. It is stated that this word is the combination of ba'th and isara. Raghib does not find this view inappropriate and says that it contains these meanings.

The difference between ba'th and nushur is as follows: ba'thu'l-khalq means to remove people from their graves to the place of gathering as it is mentioned in the chapter of Yasin: "Who hath raised us up from our beds of repose?" (Ya seen, 52) Nushur means the appearance of those who are resurrected and their deeds and showing them. This meaning is seen in phrases like nashartu ismak (I showed / spread your name) and nashartu fadilata fulan ( I showed / narrated the virtue of a person).

Iada means to turn / return. Maad means the place to return, the hereafter.

Nashatul-ukhra (second creation) is used acting upon the term nashatul-ula (first creation) in the Quran. Thus, it is presented as an evidence for the possibility of the resurrection. For, the one who creates something out of nothing can create it again.

Ihya (reviving after death) is a term that is often used in the Quran. It is used in the sense of both giving spirit to living beings during first creation and reviving after death. The term ihya in the following verse is in the sense of giving spirit to living beings during first creation: "Ye were without life, and He gave you life." (al-Baqara, 28) The term ihya in the following verse is in the sense of reviving after death: "...Has not He, (the same) the power to give life to the dead?" (al-Qiyama, 40). Apart from these two senses, the term ihya is also used in the sense of guidance, letting living beings live and animating the earth with plants.

The term nashr, which is used in the sense of taking those who are resurrected to the Gathering Place, lexically means to expand and spread something. It is the opposite of rolling up. In the Quran, it is used in the sense of both ba'th and ihya, also in the sense of dispersing and spreading.

Hashr means to gather. It lexically means to remove a group of people from somewhere due to war or some other reasons. It is used only for groups.

As for the difference between jam' and hashr, hashr means to gather by dispatching. The phrase yawm al-hashr (day of gathering) is used in this sense. For, the creatures are gathered on that day and are sent to the Gathering Place. It is not true to say that the word hashr is used for disliked things. For, Allah states the following in a verse: "The day We shall gather the righteous to (Allah) Most Gracious, like a band presented before a king for honors." (Maryam, 85) As it is seen, gathering for something nice is mentioned in this verse.

c. The phrases used in the sense of the Day of Judgment:

In the Quran, the terms al-yawm (today) al-akhira (the hereafter), al-yawm al-akhir (the last day) are usually used to express the Day of Judgment.

Akhira, which is derived from taakkhur (lagging behind, staying behind), indicates that there is something before it, which is the world. Worldly life comes before it; therefore, it is named the hereafter compared to the world. That is, the world and the hereafter are named liked that compared to each other. It is like the concepts husband-wife, father-son and right-left. Therefore, when the word "the world" is uttered, the hereafter comes to the mind. This association is always taken into consideration when the Quran uses these terms.

It is stated that the reason why the hereafter is called al-akhira is because it was created after the other creatures; this explanation is similar to the ones above.

That the term al-akhira is used instead of al-yawm al-akhir (the last day) or ad-dar al-akhira (the last land) is regarded as the overwhelming attribute.

The term al-yawm al-akhir is a general name and various otherworldly states are meant by it. The strike of the Doomsday, the end of this world, the resurrection of the dead, hashr, nashr, reckoning, distribution of the books of deeds, mizan (scales), Sirat, hawd, shafa'ah (intercession), Paradise and Hell are covered by this term.

That the term al-hayawan (life) is used for the hereafter in the following verse is due to the fact that the realm of the hereafter is endless, uninterrupted, immortal and eternal: "But verily the Home in the Hereafter that is life indeed" (al-Ankabut, 64). According to this expression, the realm of the hereafter is virtually the very life itself. This meaning originates from the fact that the word hayawan, which indicates more than one meaning and multitude, is used instead of the word hayy. With this expression, Allah Almighty attracts attention to the fact that the valid life is life in the hereafter. We can also say that this verse indicates that life in the hereafter is a full, active life to live both spiritually and bodily.

Razi states the following while explaining this term: When it is stated through the following verse that there is increase and development in the hereafter: "to those who do right is a goodly (reward)― yea, more (than in measure) " (Yunus, 26) and through the following verse that the hereafter is a full and real place of understanding: "the Day that (all) things secret will be tested", the hereafter is given the name al-hayawan, the name of growing and understanding beings. Therefore, it is said that the stones and soil in the hereafter understand and listen to people.

Apart from the ones above, some nouns, verbs and phrases are used together with the name al-yawm to form many compounds and phrases to express the Day of Judgment. We can list the compounds including the word al-yawm and why they are used so as follows:

Al-yawm al-ba'th (the day of resurrection) because humans are resurrected with new bodies on that day;

Al-yawm al-khuruj (the day of exiting) because humans exit from their graves and go to the other realm;

Al-yawm al-qiyama (the day of standing) because people stand to be reckoned in the presence of Allah;

Al-yawm ad-din (the day of the religion) because humans are rewarded or punished based on their deeds;

Al-yawm al-fasl wal-yawm al-fath (the day of separation and conquest) because humans will be judged by justice and separated into groups;

Al-yawm at-taghabun (the day of mutual disillusion) because the oppressed becomes superior to the oppressor and the people of Paradise to the people of Hell or because that day is unknown by people;

Al-yawm al-hashr wal-yawm al-jam' (the day of gathering and coming together) because all living beings will gather in the gathering place;

Al-yawm al-hisab (the day of the reckoning) because people will be called to account based on their deeds;

Al-yawm al-waid (the day of the threat / warning) because unbelievers will suffer from what Allah threatened them;

Al-yawm al-hashr (the day of sorrow) because unbelievers and rebels repent for what they did;

Al-yawm al-khulud (the day of eternality) because life is eternal there;

Al-yawm al-azifa (the day of approaching) because we are approaching that day gradually;

Al-yawm at-talaq (the day of meeting) because it is the day of meeting and encountering;

Al-yawm al-waqt al-ma'lum (the day whose time is known) because Allah definitely knows when it is.

Besides, there are adjectival phrases formed by the word yawm and an adjective. We can list them as follows: Yawmun asir (hard day), yawmun alim (sorrowful day), yawmun azim, yawmun kabir (great day), yawmun ma'lum (known day), yawmun majmuun lahu'n-nas (day when humans gather), yawmun mashhud ( observed / witnessed day), yawmun muhit (surrounding day), yawmun thaqil (heavy day).

There are also phrases with the word dar (land, place) indicating the material aspects of the life in the hereafter: for instance, dar al-akhira (land of the hereafter), dar al-qarar (place to stay permanently), dar al-khuld (land of eternity).

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chatoyisou · 5 years

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click here for morrigan ’ s full bio . general history below the cut . please read it this monstrosity of 1769 words took me 2 - 3 hours so fuckin L mobile users

tl ; dr . note that “ first ” coincides with the books , not the years / dates . if it ’ s third autumn then that means the fall during the year of titan ’ s curse . morrigan is raised by loving parents yet she runs away after being attacked by her first monster . she comes to chb in spring & becomes best friends with luke . she grows awfully resentful of percy . luke ’ s betrayal is a stab in the gut . fast forward to second spring , & she manages to contact luke early summer . she joins him then after being claimed in first december , & works as a spy up until fourth autumn . she begins to doubt her allegiance when kronos takes on luke as a host , & that doubt only grows as she battles in chb ’ s woods . by the fifth summer , she is sure , yet she still fights for luke because she misses him . by the time the second titan war starts , she is a top general that joins in the battle of manhattan on numerous occasions . she is never out without kronos , though , & only appears in battle as he does . by the end , she gains the courage to go against kronos ( silena ’ s death is part of the tipping point ) & helps the fight by hanging back when he calls for her & ethan to go to olympus ; though that only drives monsters towards her . she ends up creating a chasm that sinks much of the army . she passes out afterwards , & is brought to a safe place by hades . click here for a synopsis of her heroes of olympus verse ( under co ) .

tw for : death , slight manipulation , brief mention of non - descriptive eye trauma .

* completely optional part that i ’ m still debating in making a part of her main verse : ethan meant a lot to her . the two of them were exceptionally close as luke ’ s right hands , possible delving into romantic tension . he died before anything could be talked about & that seriously hurt her .

born & raised in new york city , she ’ s a bronx kid who grew up loved , albeit a little sheltered . her adoptive mother entered her life when she was around five , & immediately won her over with her kind words & optimistic perspective . though , as lisa likes to remark , eun - hee had rubbed off on her more ( & as was expected . she raised a child through her bitterness , & showed her daughter the truth while teaching her the revolutionary views she held ) . someday , she ’ ll change the world , eun - hee had boasted , over rice & fish . i just know it .

& her childhood had been like that . loved , safe . yet something felt wrong , felt off ; looming shadows & whispering voices that accompanied her throughout the day , the feeling of something that had watched her the moment she stepped foot into middle school . & she was right ; something was wrong , even if it wasn ’ t in the way she had intended . a calculated plan formed by a monster she dares not name , it had driven her away from home & left her cold & numb on a bus out ; does reality dare lose itself when i need it most ?

she doesn ’ t stay alone for long ; & later , a kid her age boards the bus to sit next to her . rows of empty seats , & they had chosen hers in the very back . i promise you that i ’ m offering something that will make sense , they tell her , & she accepts . what has she got to lose now , anyways ? so they switch buses & it ’ s a rather uneventful ride , but along the way she notices more about them . the shoes on their feet fit loosely , they ’ ve got extremely hairy legs , & something about their face seems off . she can ’ t quite grasp it .

she follows them through woods & to a pine tree on a hill , where the words CAMP HALF - BLOOD shines out to them . & there they are , whisked away into a camp where she ’ s promised she ’ ll never feel out of place in . yet she lies when they ask about your parents ; or at least , her mortal ones . she says they kicked her out when she knows they are worried sick about her . chiron looks hesitant to believe her , but she refuses to say anything else on it . so he leaves her be & she returns to her happy bubble , with other kids her age & a story that seems to make sense .

then she meets him . luke castellan , her counselor , & she immediately likes him . spring flies by & she sticks with him , the one friend to count on . even as she grows bitter over not being claimed , even as she shines bright with getting a pegasus to like her , he is there to comfort & applaud her at every second . you are a little sister i am glad to have , he tells her , & she tells him he ’ s being sappy .

( she regrets it , years later . swallows everything she wished she could have told him , the appreciation & gratitude ) .

summer comes & she meets percy . he is easily likable & seems as bitter as her , yet she stays wary . something in her says that he cannot be trusted , that he is a danger to her . she waits , eyes him at dinner , loses track of him during capture the flag ( yet she finds that she is quite the fit for a hermes kid with her speed ) , & enjoys the campfire up until ... he gets claimed . & her bitterness only grows at that , finds herself making a rival she didn ' t expect . especially when he goes out on a quest he seems predestined to have , when he gets all the fame & glory for being a big 3 kid .

( she never apologizes , even years later , yet she swallows words that could have been the start of a tentative friendship ) .

summer passes in excruciating wait , whispers of percy this & percy that ever present in every corner . even luke isn ’ t immune , & she loathes everyone for it . yet by the end , when she is glad for it to be over , she finds herself horrified that she ever wished it ’ s end . for betrayal is never sweet , & when percy announces it with a scorpion stinger ’ s wound to prove it , she runs to hide herself away in her sleeping bag & cries herself to sleep . she dreams of sweet spring days & misses luke more with every passing day .

autumn passes in a blur , yet the start of winter brings her an unwanted gift . right before her birthday she is claimed , marked as a daughter of hades right under everyone ’ s noses . chiron goes pale . mr . d looks troubled . the campers are afraid & whispering . & never before has she hated her never present father more , with roiling anger that threatens to tear her whole . she passes dinner to gather her things , tucks the sleeping back under her arm , & ... remembers there is no hades cabin . there is no hades cabin , no place for her . where is her fame & glory ? she thinks that night , where is her acclaim ?

she ends up living in the big house .

the months before the second summer , she tries contacting luke . even with the bitter taste of a prophecy chiron had told her , of her importance , she yearns for the once person who had been a friend . who she hopes , desperately , will be her friend still . the first month , nothing . but just shy of june , she succeeds . he is surprised , slack jawed in the mist , asks her how , but instead she tells him of her claiming . of hades ’ horrible birthday gift , of the campers ’ treatment , of her struggles . & to her relief , he accepts her . tells her to meet up with him in the city , promises her information .

she gets it . his full involvement , the monster army , kronos , the deal he can ' t back out of . she tells him you can ’ t , he asks her , you have anything better ? she doesn ’ t . & he asks her if camp is better , where they sleight minor & dare to sleight major gods , asks her if they have built a cabin for her yet , & she tells him he doesn ’ t need to play tricks & manipulate her onto his side . she tells him that from the start , she had felt slighted . & so he asks her to be his spy , alongside silena . of all people . she asks him how long . he says not long . she eventually agrees .

the next year passes in more of a blur . it grows eventful as luke starts getting all the pieces he needs , yet she doesn ’ t focus much on the events . she starts to resent silena & her pretty ways , her stellar acting . when she herself can barely keep her own together , where she spends more days hiding & shutting herself in to keep the bitter taste of betrayal out of her mouth . one day she asks her how she does it . silena replies that it ’ s all for charlie , that it ’ s easier knowing that he ’ ll be safe . she grows disgusted . how could you sacrifice one person for them all ? she wants to cry , but she finds herself no better .

by the start of the fourth autumn , she fully joins luke . he only needs one messenger to get his word across , & so she participates in the nitty - gritty aspects of his plan . she gets the monsters , the funding , the demigods he needs . rallies them together under the promise of a better life , where the gods can ’ t ignore them . she knows luke means to get rid of them ; or is that kronos she senses , hiding just beneath the surface of their dreams ? she can feel the titan watching hers , careful . waiting for betrayal , no doubt , because he needs his pawn of the prophecy to tip the tides into his favor . he ’ s waiting for the perfect moment to seize her mind . ( she has already stumbled once , while sparring with luke sometime between second & third fall . she has mistepped once & nearly lost her eye from it ; she cannot risk mistepping again , if not for her sake then for luke ’ s . )

by fourth summer , she start to wonder if she has chosen wrong . the final battle through twisting labyrinth only grates on her as luke - but - not - luke leads through . blue eyes are traded for gold & kronos sneers with luke ’ s face . she misses her friend , her real one . she misses the luke she met back from first spring , where may flowers had bloomed under gentle care of demeter ’ s children . those she now fights against , as she hacks her way through vines & dodges like she ’ s born for the fight . in a way she is , she supposes , but she isn ’ t born to hurt her own . so she takes care to knock them out only , away from other monsters to finish the job . it is her small mercy for those who have hurt her .

by fifth summer , she is tired . she has surely chosen wrong . she is certain as kronos walks with luke ’ s feet , stares at olympus with luke ’ s - eyes - but - not - luke ’ s - eyes . yet she can ’ t do much , bound to serve as his right hand . still , percy ’ s arrival on the andromeda is surprising ; & beckendorf ’ s death even moreso , as she escapes last minute with ethan , in tow with kronos . & she swallows words for silena , i ’ m sorry i ’ m sorry i ’ m sorry i couldn ’ t do anything . she is so tired . she wants to escape this war yet she is in the middle of it . as she prepares for manhattan , as she prepares for more death , she swallows words for luke , i ’ m sorry you had no choice . as she fights on the bridge , as she fights against percy , as she fights against people who could have been family , she swallows words , i ’ m sorry .

so she defies kronos , during his last call for support . she stands still , with all eyes on her ( & her father , to who she wishes him a bitter thank you for his birthday gift all those years ago ) . & kronos is enraged , but she decides that , if he succeeds , she will face his wrath later . instead , she focuses her thoughts on the monsters that threaten to surround her , & she fights with the last of her swallowed words .

for silena . for beckendorf . for ethan . for luke . for all the unclaimed . & she prays that percy succeeds .

mortals wake up around her , & she knows she must act fast . she dives into her well of power , down down down , as much time as she can snatch out to drive the army down . she imagine a pit so deep that those who fall will greet tartarus , & she

the pavement with a fury unmatched , repeating the names & titles in her head . a defeaning crack & rumble & she is falling herself . she wonders if tartarus will greet her .

she wakes & it does not .

she ’ s alive & others are not .

she is alive .

#☞ you wear scars like jewelry & never apologize for it's shine / morrigan.#|| im literally crying please for the love of GOD read this

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a-pandoras-box-of-characters-a · 5 years

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Verses for Lillian

**Possibly to be altered again**

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Iron Man I: She’s living with their cousin Morgan (from the comics) after having been thawed out as a baby - she doesn’t know much about Tony, and only really knows what the TV tells her. She’s living with Morgan to be safe, she knows that much.. but is really wanting a relationship with her older brother, so has been trying to contact him in order to get to know him better. **Ties in with her verse for Iron Man 2.**

Iron Man II: After the events of Iron Man I, Lillian has moved in with Tony. She thinks his tower is amazing, and is always getting in his hair. Inspired by the fact that he has become a superhero, this is around when she first starts coming up with designs for her own suit...as well as many, many ideas on how Tony can improve his own, because she worries about him so much. In her spare time, she spends a lot of time tinkering and talking to JARVIS. Or..being babysit by Pepper or Happy, in the event that Tony has to ‘go out.’

Avengers I: She is around when the whole ‘Avengers’ idea is brought up. Listening in, when she’s thought to be tinkering with things or to be asleep. Growing restless with having to stay inside all the time, she is determined to help in any way she can. Although most don’t think that this is such a great idea. (By this time, she’s began work on a robotic guard dog for the tower, as well as her own AI.)

Iron Man III: Growing apart from her brother (but keeping an ever-watchful eye on him) Lillian is having as much trouble sleeping as he is. There are many times when she sneaks down into his lab - much more than she was - and uses it to build her own things. Aside from continuously hacking the safety features put up to keep her from getting out of the tower or into the lab, she’s began taking in animals after going outside when she knows that she’s not supposed to on her own.

Much of which is lost, when their home is blown to bits. She falls quiet during the time that Tony is believed to be dead, and nearly gives up on ever seeing him again when her attempts to hack SHIELD and make them help her look for him all seem to fail. Having tried harder than before to make her own weapons to keep them all safe, she is injured while trying to help keep Aldrich from taking her, thus landing her in the hospital.

She has yet to move in with Tony and Pepper in their house. She’s been staying in the tower still, mainly to keep her safe. When her brother goes missing after his house is blown up, she finally finishes her own set of armor - after being told repeatedly that she didn’t need to make any - and sets out to find her brother. From there on, she is relentlessly tagging around with Tony despite that she shouldn’t even be there.

**Whichever you prefer, we can work with either!**

Avengers II: Now living in a secure compound, Lillian is watches over things more carefully. She is helping Tony as much as she can, mostly to keep herself from always thinking that he’s going to die. She’s grown closer to the other Avengers, taking them on as her honorary family members; all of them addressed as her ‘uncles,’ save for Natasha, whom she calls ‘Auntie Nat.’ Insisting that she’s old enough, she accompanies Tony whenever he allows her to, although their views on things don’t always coincide. (She still thinks that the invasion of New York was fishy, and thinks there’s more to it than everyone else does.)

Lillian spends some time staring at the scepter brought back after their mission, but is, of course, as left out of Ultron’s creation as everyone else is. (Although because she’s been nosy before when she was bored, has some idea that he exists.)

Determined to be involved, she is in and out of the events to follow. **This can vary, I’m leaving it open on purpose.**

Captain America: Civil War - Lillian takes the side of her uncle Steve, and has a lot of conflict with her brother over it. She believes that people have a right to their privacy, although she does still feel bad for those caught in the cross-fire. In the end, she thinks that having people who are heroes have to register their true identities will cause more harm than good, and sticks to this. Thus why she is heartbroken over the fact that her honorary family is split up, as well as entirely lost on how to feel about learning who killed her and Tony’s parents.

This is also when she first catches sight of a much younger hero around her own age, and begins to take interest in watching him show up in various news media.

Spider-Man: Homecoming - **I still need to see this movie! I am going off of what Wikipedia says that the plot is!** After the events of the Civil War between heroes, Lillian takes notice that her older brother is acting oddly. Someone new has been over, and she’s determined to find out who. But not expecting to develop a huge crush on.

It is around this time that she begins to develop the idea that if she can’t make a suit of her own, if someone else her age has powers and Tony seems to be (reasonably) alright with it.. then maybe she can too. She begins work on trying to understand how Peter’s powers work, and ends up creating something that she never meant to. **If you want more information on this, just ask me! I have a whole idea for it and would love to tell!**

Infinity War **Depending on plot, this can very.**

Infinity War 1 - Lillian is left behind on earth, much to her frustration. She helps in whatever ways that she can, though she still has to deal with people doubting her because she’s a teenager. Things become scary when people start vanishing, and she knows that she has to do something.

Infinity War 2: Lillian is counted among the vanished. She was held in the same soul-realm as Peter and the others, where she gets caught up on what all has happened. Even from here, she is trying to figure out how to help or how to get everyone out.

Endgame verse - MAJOR SPOILERS, PLEASE DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT!

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Endgame 1:

Before Morgan is born - In the aftermath of the Infinity War, Lillian has taken it upon herself to protect New York (or what’s left of it.) She has her own suit, and in between patrolling the city and keeping who’s still there safe, she has been trying to figure out what happened to her brother and Peter. Any ways to get them both back to Earth. This is before he comes back finally, and she finally learns: Peter isn’t coming back - which hurts, really badly.

After Morgan is born - Lillian is living with her brother, Pepper, and Morgan in their home. She still misses Peter, and won’t really talk about him. A lot of her time is spent with Morgan or in making things with Tony in her tiny make-shift lab, which is why she is more than ready to take the other Avengers up on their offer to try and fix things after what Thanos did.

While they are getting back the stones: Lillian refuses to stay at the house, but at the compound she elects to stay behind to help stabilize things. She is extremely anxious, But does what she can to help sort things out. Each time they do anything, she warns them not to do anything that gets them killed. Losing Nat, she falls silent - slowly losing hope that it’s going to work.

The fight - She is a part of the fight, doing whatever she can to help. She has less real training or battle experience than the others, but manages to hold her own - and mostly sticks by Peter when he shows up, in her old suit that she made. With a few upgrades, of course.

Endgame 2:

Lillian does not show up until during the fight. She ends up doing a lot of dodging and trying not to die while trying to take stock of everything - this is before she sheds her symbiote, so she uses it to fight. Still mostly sticking by Peter, as she doesn’t have much experience fighting things like this, and is most comfortable sticking with him since everyone else seems to know what they’re doing.

AFTER Endgame

1: After everything is over, Lillian is having a hard time coping with a world where her brother is everywhere, but nowhere at the same time.She spends more time with Morgan than ever before, telling her stories about her brother whenever she has the chance - and when she doesn’t end up breaking down over it. Any time that she’s not spending it with Morgan or Pepper, is spent either going on patrols as Iron Born (which is what she calls herself, in tribute to her brother, as if to say that she’s been ‘born from the iron left behind’) she is desperately trying to figure out how to resurrect her brother.

And although she doesn’t tell anyone what she’s up to until she absolutely has to, She finally does tell Peter how she feels about him.

2: **An Alternative** Tony is alive, and Lillian is keeping a close eye on him. She’s doing all she can to help him recover, as well as watch over Morgan with Pepper. She’s torn on if to remain a hero so Tony doesn’t have to, but keeps herself as busy as ever with her inventing. While trying to decide what she’s going to do with herself, Lillian makes new tech as presents for her super family who are still out fighting to keep people safe.

In coming so close to losing them all, Lillian finally tells Peter how she feels about him.

- She doesn’t really have a main verse so far..This is just as an idea of where she is during the events of these movies. Aside from that, I am more than open to AU’s. I LOVE AU’s!! We can make our own verse. If that’s what you want, then tell me! -

#Verses #Lillian Stark #Verses for Lillian

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sungggyu · 6 years

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“신흥무관학교” / “iron mask” / “barnum” fan accounts

just a little over a week ago, i returned home from yet another korea trip in this year alone - this time to watch not only sunggyu but also dongwoo and woohyun’s musicals! so now that i’m back, i’ll be sharing a fan account of their musicals as i’ve done before with other performances i’ve attended ´･ᴗ･`

for those who are interested, i’ll put up a plot summary for sunggyu and dongwoo’s musicals in the next few days in a separate post!

sunggyu: shinheung military academy

16th september 2018 1430

18th september 2018 1500

18th september 2018 2000

19th september 2018 2000

sunggyu’s musical was the very first musical i watched, not just in the course of this trip but also the very first in my entire life. in other words, i have never ever been to a musical before this!! being able to experience a musical for the very first time through watching one of sunggyu’s therefore felt like somewhat of an honor, in a way?

before talking about the musical though, i just want to add that i saw sunggyu’s family…….. on the very day of my first show……………. like, what are the odds!!!!!!!!!! i had only just taken a photo of my ticket with sunggyu’s character banner at the side and turned around to walk to the seats at the back when a really familiar lady walked past me. i was still trying to recall where i’d seen that face before when not even a moment later, a squirming yoonhoo (sunggyu’s nephew) came into view and that’s when it clicked in my head.. she was sunggyu’s sister (இ﹏இ`。) i was so shocked that according to my friend, i froze on the spot LOL. after a few moments though, i finally got myself together and we went to the seats at the side as we originally intended. we caught a few more glimpses of his family a bit later and honestly they were just like any other ordinary family with a baby haha. yoonhoo kept throwing an empty bottle on the ground when he played with his dad but when he played with his grandpa, he kept tugging at grandpa’s clothes! eventually, when we went into the theatre, sunggyu’s parents stayed outside watching the baby while his sister and brother-in-law entered the theatre. after the musical, when we were leaving and making our way to woohyun’s musical venue, we walked past sunggyu’s mother carrying yoonhoo again near the theatre’s lobby. it seemed like baby-sitting duty was over for her so she’ll be watching the evening show with her husband while sunggyu’s sister and brother-in-law took over the baby-sitting role ahaha. it was such an unexpected but pleasant encounter! （´·｀）♡

what was really funny though (sorry sunggyu), was that yoonhoo looked so happy the entire day yet as soon as he saw his uncle....

moving on to sunggyu’s musical “shinheung military academy”, it’s a state-produced musical to commerate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the korean army. with this in mind, i was a little wary that the musical may be full of state propaganda and therefore, potentially lacking/subpar compared to those produced by privately owned production companies. as it turns out, however, the musical went above and beyond my expectations. it was most definitely not subpar and it was not just average either! it was so good that it exceeded all of my expectations ;-; imo the plot of the musical was brought out even better due to the A-list actors they recruited (ji changwook, kang haneul)..? seeing those two actors live in action had been a really incredible experience as well. both ji changwook and kang haneul really surprised me with how well they sang and it was not until days later that i found out they both actually made their debut in the musical theater.. which explains…

sunggyu plays ji cheongcheon, a korean general who was trained in the japanese imperial military academy before defecting to guide and lead the guerilla forces behind the korean independence movement under japanese colonial rule. to be really honest, sunggyu doesn’t have a very huge role and doesn’t appear much in the musical. he may be listed as one of the “main” casts alongside ji changwook and kang haneul but personally, i feel that this is very much just an honorary title? what’s interesting to note is that sunggyu’s character is one of the few, if not the only, character that is based on a real life war hero. i think sunggyu mentioned that he felt really honoured and awed to be playing an actual war hero, and he was so intrigued he spent lots of time reading up on the man’s biography.

in the first part of the musical, sunggyu only appears very briefly to sing one verse in the first song and in one of the next few songs. probably due to the character he is playing, he runs a lot, which was honestly a pretty refreshing sight lol. every time he makes an appearance, he’s basically running onto stage before running off stage again after singing his lines. he has one solo song in the first part of the musical, complete with a long sword dance and i have to say it was so!! hot!!! especially in that military uniform of his? wow. at the end of the song, he runs off stage with a torchlight, down the left aisle in the audience seats before turning and making his exit from the right side of the theatre’s door. he appears more in the second part of the musical, complete with lots of fighting moves due to the thickening of the plot. he does roundhouse kicks and punches here and there, taking down all the enemies with ease depsite being surrounded and outnumbered by them. (i know this is just a fictional plot but just picture that.. super hot)

there are times when many of the cast members sing together for an ensemble piece and in times like this, i would say you can hear pretty distinctively that sunggyu takes the notes that are an octave higher than most other cast members ;-; i checked with a few of my friends who watched the musical as well and most of them thought that the high note sounded like him too! other giveaways include the extra quivering of his lip, the subtle movement of him opening his mouth wider the very same time the high note comes on.. and many more haha. but honestly i do think it sounds a lot like sunggyu too. my boy :’)

personally, as much as i enjoyed the musicals, the part i always looked forward to the most was the curtain call at the end of the musicals because that’s when actor!gyu goes away and natural!gyu comes back :-( when he makes his appearance, he climbs up this huge stage prop and stands at the top, beaming for a short moment before making his way down to stage center to take a bow, do a salute and greet the audiences. he does so in a very sunggyu-like manner (aka in all the glory of his natural cuteness), fists half hidden in his big coat, waving frantically and excitedly in every direction all with a really precious and genuine smile on his face ;-; after all the cast members have greeted the audiences and taken a final bow together, they returned to the center of the stage as the curtain draws. it was always during these short-lived moments that sunggyu does the most adorable actions!! on the first show and the last show i went to, he shot cute little fingerhearts to audiences in every direction (ಥ﹏ಥ) on the evening show on the 16th of september which i missed due to woohyun’s musical, he even did a little dance according to my friend who watched it (T⌓T)

i must add that it was also really heartwarming to witness sunggyu’s interactions with his new friends! in one song where kang haneul’s character dusts off sunggyu’s shoulders as part of the performance, i personally witnessed sunggyu wiggling his brows at kang haneul hahaha. during the curtain call in the final show i watched, sunggyu was doing thumbs up to all the actors around him and subsequently, ji changwook turned around and patted him on his cheeks.. he is just so loved wherever he goes ´·ᴗ·`♡

my friends who have watched sunggyu’s musicals have always told me how one could see that he genuinely enjoys doing musicals and now that i’ve finally seen it for myself, i can’t help but to agree, it seems like the stage is truly where he belongs ♡_♡

dongwoo: iron mask

19th september 2018 1600

dongwoo’s musical “iron mask” was set in paris, france in the 1600s and it was really interesting to say the least! i must admit that i spoiled myself beforehand by looking up the plot but then again if i hadn’t, i doubt i would’ve understood much of the musical considering how weak my korean language skills are :/

after watching dongwoo’s musical, i personally felt that his singing in there wasn’t his best ever yet, but i think this has more to do with how musicals demand much more than just simply singing a song. it requires (emotional) acting, which dongwoo portrayed REALLY well, and i would say his acting makes up for it a lot. that said, his singing was still pretty damn good even though it didn’t seem to be the best i’ve heard from him. it was a bit shakier in the first half of the musical but once intermission was over and we moved to the second half, it stabilised a lot more ♡ when curtain call rolled around, i realised dongwoo must’ve been really nervous earlier because many of the older cast members were all patting him on his head, his back, ruffling his hair and just babying him. from an outsider’s perspective, those seemed to be acts of encouragement, praise and comfort.. which was why i think dongwoo must’ve been nervous before.. not to mention the fact that it was his first ever show for this musical.

expanding on dongwoo’s performance in the musical, i must say that he was an amazing actor. he’s such a wasted talent (πーπ) dongwoo played double characters in this musical - his role was both the elder and younger twin born to the parisian royal family in the 1600s. basically, the elder twin, louis, was the king whereas the younger twin, philip, who had been kept away from the public eye ever since he was young, was as good as a prisoner to the extent he’s unfamiliar with all the royal ettiquete that his elder brother has long been acquainted with. simply put, louis was a huge ass of a person and a king and philip, his complete opposite, was kind and gentle, albeit clumsy. the musical showcased dongwoo’s ability as an actor due to the huge contrast in the characters of both brothers he was portraying. dongwoo could leave the stage laughing his head off as a deranged (and somewhat psychopathic) louis after he had some man killed just so he could have their lover all to himself as his queen but within a minute, when the scene changes, he’ll be back on stage as weak and clumsy philip, who apologises to everyone for the slightest things he couldn’t have had control over anyway. dongwoo did such a great job in portraying each twin so cleanly without any overlap or confusion which is why i say he acted so well ;-; with enlistment coming round the corner for dongwoo, i doubt that he’ll have time to be doing anymore musicals, especially if we consider how there had been mentions of his solo as well. but if there’s a chance in the post-enlistment future, however, i’ll definitely be looking forward to his potential projects!

woohyun: barnum - the greatest showman

16th september 2018 1830

truthfully, i remembered the least from woohyun’s musical because i was feeling a little under the weather on the day i went to see his musical :-( that and the fact that it’s one of the earlier shows i watched compared to the other dongwoo and sunggyu shows.. but from the bit i do remember, he sang (really well, obviously) in a lot of lower range notes which was kinda refreshing considering how he’s usually in charge of a lot of high notes in infinite songs! if my ears didn’t fail me, the usual reminder to audiences to turn off their phones and that recordings of any form were prohibited was announced through a voice recording made by woohyun? hahaha. as soon as that ended, he appeared on stage right away and started the first song.

i would like to make a note that there was so much bromance going on between woohyun’s character (amos scudder) and the lead actor who played p.t. barnum and it was so adorable. the lead actor was easily taller than woohyun since woohyun is not the biggest man so during the many scenes where barnum grabs and hugs amos in joy, the lead actor literally lifted tiny woohyun off his feet in a tight hug and it was soooooo cute (ಥ﹏ಥ) there was another scene where the lead actor (i’ll just call him barnum from now) and woohyun ventured into the audience seats on the ground floor as part of the scene where they were pooling funds. at one point, after collecting enough “funds” (which were really just fan letters in envelopes), barnum said “i’ll give you amos” and then pushed woohyun into the crowd. the screams!! were so loud!!! woohyun was man-handled easily and i don’t know how else to say it but it was just so cute ugh. woohyun is smol, we get it, no need for the constant reminder (⋟﹏⋞) these aside, there were also the scenes of barnum and woohyun almost kissing (on the lips lol) and barnum slapping woohyun’s butt so yeah that’s about it for their bromance.

miscellanous notes from the musical:

there was this part at the start where barnum said amos was good-looking so woohyun made a flower pose

woohyun did a cartwheel

woohyun’s character got angry a lot and shouted so much it was lowkey 🔥

woohyun danced to ‘tell me’

after the show, we went to catch woohyun at his post-show greeting with fans at the lobby of the venue. it took some time before he appeared but when he finally showed up, he talked for quite some time and it was so sweet even though i understood close to nothing. other than the fact that inspirits are 너만이’s mom(s) from now on ;-) when he left the venue, fans lined the pedestrian walkway to send him off in the driveway and at one point he was so close to me i was so !!!#$%%#^@!$@! HE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.. that perfect face barely 2 metres away from me.. i had an internal breakdown seeing this beautiful man that up-close..

there was some talk going on later that night on twitter about a fan who allegedly grabbed his hand from the open car window and kissed it but personally i doubt it happened. after looking at the photos i realised said fan was actually the one right next to me and in the fancam i managed to film, there was no kissing going on. it was probably the photo angle in the initial photo that spread. if there was anything awful about that send-off, however, it was all those fans who ran after his car when it drove out of the driveway just because it stopped at a traffic light outside. that was really something.. which i hope will never happen again in the future :-/

all in all, this had been a really great trip! even though i got to see sunggyu’s solo concerts in the previous trip (featuring these two as well), this trip just felt so much better overall in that i was able to see each of my faves performing on a different kind of stage. oh, and did i mention our chance encounter with hoya at his brother’s restaurant too? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) as i’ve said, this trip was truly 10/10.

#personal #sunggyu #dongwoo #woohyun #*fan account

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thisweekingundamwing · 6 years

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TWIGW Feb 18 - 24, 2018

Happy Roundup Day!! Once again, a special thanks to everyone who submitted works; it makes our job so much easier, and helps us catch things we may miss in the shuffle. You only need to dive into the Gundam Wing tag to see just how much love still exists in our fandom.

Also, as this is my first week as a mod, please be gentle if you don’t see your work here. It’s difficult to fill in the blanks beyond the submissions we receive.

Thanks so much and have a lovely week!

--Mod Rem

Fanfiction:

A Little Piece of Gundam Wing

The archive is being ported to AO3! Check it out!

Amberly, yourbloodlikewine

In This Light

Duo spent the last semester working in his older brother's coffee shop. He's resigned himself to a boring spring when a stranger appears, shaking up his entire life.

Eli left home last fall, choosing to spend the last six months living out of his van on his travels from the Midwest to the East Coast. By the time he arrives at Ink's, the novelty of traveling alone has started to wear off. Still, the last thing he's expecting is to meet someone who's going to change all that for him

Pairings: 2xOC, 3xOC, SoloxOC

Warnings: Original Characters - Freeform, Alternate Universe, child abuse mention, Sexual Assault Mention, homophobic parents, Re-Written Characters, Drug Use, Violence, off screen murder, gratuitous author indulgence

Ammiehawk

If He’s Anything Like Me

What if not one, or even two, of the Gundam pilots had a son together, but all five? Some genetic experiment gone awry, or is something else at work here? Yaoi

Pairings: 2xSeverus Snape, 4x1, 3x5

Warnings: Crossover - Harry Potter

@claraxbarton

The Green Door

Duo visits an adult novelty store for the first time.

Pairings: 5x2, 3x5, HxM, 1xR, 2x3x5

@duointherain

To Be Human is to Love

Duo and Heero are working a damaged part of their new colony, things go wrong.

Pairings: 1x2

Warnings: Spaced

@kangofu-cb

If You Let Me

If Trowa could give the new residents one rule for surviving the ICU, it would be ‘Don’t Touch Anything. (Especially The Patients.)’. In reality, he’d actually give them a lot of rules, possibly with diagrams for clarity. But his main rule essentially covered the bases. When you worked in one of the largest ICUs, in the biggest medical center in the country, at a hospital known for taking on unstable patients for the most complex and risky surgeries that were performed no-where else, new residents were a menace. Until he meets Dr. Maxwell, the newest anesthesia resident.

Pairings: 2x3, background HxD

Warnings: Alternate Universe - Medical, Doctor/Patient, Nurses & Nursing, Fluff and Smut, this is literally my feel good thing guys ok, I mean I’m not saying there won’t be any angst, but basically this is all WAFF

Of Infinity

The morning after "On The Edge."

Pairings: 2x3x4

Warnings: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, just a big orgy honestly, tithes for 2x3x4, also a sequel, sort of cocktail friday

Lsama_no_miko

Posted multiple fics, too many to list here

Check out their page here

Maldoror

The Source of All Things

Center, a planet where magic and technology blend. Or more accurately, fight tooth and nail. A planet of Sources, holes in our boring dimension letting through arcane power, chaos and pseudo-deities. In this hot-house of myths and very real dangers, Trowa and Quatre find a mysterious man at the end of a shamanic voyage. Portents suggest this Heero Yuy is crucial to Center’s survival. He’s important enough to have some interesting enemies after him, at any rate: a devious killer and thief called ‘Shinigami’, and a very irate Dragon. Beyond them looms an even greater threat. Indeed, the greatest of them all.

Pairings: 3x4, 2x5, eventual 1x2x5

Warnings: alternative universe, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Plot Twists, fairly graphic depiction of sex, Mild description of self-harm, Mathematical Magic, weird science, crones - Freeform, Magic and Technology brawling and eventually screwing, Eventual Threesome, Kinda, Insanity of arcane origin, The universe is a pile of marbles and other dubious allegories

Two Halves

The two kingdoms of Sanq and Lin were at war for years; a conflagration involving magic, armies and political murder. The conflict left both nations devastated and strewn with refugees. The king of Sanq finds his infant son, lost at birth, among the death and the ruin, a miracle he barely dared to hope for. But there isn’t just one boy, there are two, clinging together like two halves of a whole that cannot be separated. Decades later, the truth behind that second child’s existence will put a hole in the world, or possibly save it.

Pairings: 1x2

Warnings: Fantasy AU, medieval setting with magic, starts with our heroes as children, Cousin Incest, sort of, eventually, being royalty this is in fact the norm and rather expected of them, Canon-Typical Violence

@remsyk-blog

Distracting Dissertations

All Wufei wants to do is finish his dissertation and enjoy the rest of the weekend. He just needs to take care of a few distractions.

Pairings: 2x5

Warnings: Smut, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Just an excuse to do it, How else can I put this?

SmallSound

Two Truths and a Lie

A few years after they join Preventer, Duo and Heero are sent on a space mine clean-up mission. Alone in space together for several weeks, the two ex-Gundam pilots find they have time to find out who they are and who they want to be.

Warnings: Some fluff, Some angst, Sex, New love, Polyamory Negotiations, this is gonna be a long one

Thai_Tea_Addict

Wolves and Lambs

On the cusp of war, Remus Lupin discovers he has a son. Facing a prejudiced wizarding world unwilling to believe Voldemort has returned, Remus must now navigate his duties as both a member of the Order and as a father to one Duo Maxwell. Duo doesn’t know a lot about families, but he knows war. HP Fifth Year, Post-GW main series

Pairings: 1x2, 2xHP, 3x4, Romione

Warnings: Harry Potter crossover, Family Reconstruction Act, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Politics, Wizarding Politics, War, Disturbing Themes

@yesacia

Mission: Christmas

Duo gets tired of spending Christmas alone, and realizing he's the only one who celebrates inspires him to bring the others in on the festivities.

Warnings: Duo and Quatre are bffs, Quatre is guilty, Duo just wants y'all to have a merry christmas ok

Late Night Reading

Duo reflects a little bit about his love for reading and makes an interesting discovery about a parallel between one of his favorite fictional characters and his long time friend he never noticed before.

T for language. This is just sort of an idea, pretty short, it's based when the guys are in their 20s and still adjusting. Comes out of the On Again, Off Again universe.// an older fic from my FF.net account

Pairings: 1x2

Random Duo Thoughts

Random drabbles about Duo's Life Post-War

Pairings: 1x2, 2x3

Warnings: On-Again/Off-Again Relationship, Blurbs from a bigger project

Random Quatre Thoughts

Thoughts of Quatre Post-War

Warnings: Recreational Drug Use, Drug Use, Lonely Quatre

Snippets:

@cosmostar

One of the Road - WIP Featuring Heero Yuy and Cathy Bloom

@gw-ficrecfriday

Just Because - Snippet of Quatre Winner, Dorothy Catalonia

@lemontrash

Thursday (300) - WIP 2x5

@lbro009

Insider Snippet: Midii Une - WIP Wednesday

@lifeaftermeteor

LAM!verse snippet - Heero en Route

@noirangetrois

Dancing with the Duke - WIP for Rewrite the Romance

@relenaforpresident

The Agreement - 1xR

@terrablaze514

Touched by an Angel - WIP Wednesday 1x2

Thirsty for a Change - Snippet Sunday 1+4. Quatre POV

Photo Edits/Manipulations

@goldenfirefox

Keep Your Word You Fool!

Headcanons / Meta / Discussions:

Multiple Contributors

Possible HCs Discussion

@lifeaftermeteor

Dr J and Professor G

@gundamwing-ellesmith

Heero’s Birthday

@robo-rad

Office Workers HCs

Fanart:

@arubees

Zechs and Duo

@drkstars-art

Bizarre Circus - Trowa Barton and Quatre Winner

@enukoblr

Duo Maxwell

@noelleian

Duo Maxwell

Lady Une

@vegalume

Color of old sketch - 1x2

@zibelinbelt

Meet-up in Town

Cosplays:

@kirkettecosplay

Heero Yuy and Duo Maxwell

@simulacraryn

Treize and Une - Featuring @renmaxwell and @shinigami-of-excellence

@shinigami-of-excellence

Treize Khushrenada

Calendar Events:

Cocktail Friday

https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/

A new prompt every Monday!

Submissions should be posted Fridays between 3 and 5pm EST, and tagged with @gwcocktailfriday

Interview with a Creator by @remsyk-blog @interview-with-a-creator

Remsyk has created an online interview for fandom creators to fill out and then she features one each week so that everyone in the fandom can learn a bit about each other.

If you haven’t filled out her interview, go! do! now!

This week’s interviewee is @vegalume found here

#thisweekingundamwing #gundam wing #february 18th - 24th

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