Throwback Thursday: It was 5 years ago when we were celebrating award season for The Shape Of Water, and I got to live my dream of being in an old musical dance number (dressed as an Amphibian Man, of course) with the amazing Sally Hawkins.
Most sci fi/fantasy: this civil war has been waged for a thousand years. These great houses have ruled the realm for eight thousand years. These two families have been feuding for ten thousand years. This single political institution has stood for twenty-five thousand years.
Animorphs: there is a war waged across the galaxy, waged by countless species. Entire planets have been conquered, entire species have been enslaved. Multiple genocides have been committed, even by the "good guys." It's been going on about, oh, thirty-two years now.
“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.
the guards guards vetinari and vimes dynamic is soooooo....they have NO respect for each other until they get locked up in a dungeon together and vimes sees vetinari totally chill just training the rats to act as little subjects and thinks "yeesh what the fuck is wrong with him" and vetinari sees him methodically chip away at the bars with some success and thinks "ok i can use this. also what the fuck is wrong with him" and then they go and develop a charged and symbiotic professional relationship for the next sevenish books. clowns.
I love Garak rolling his eyes at Julian's flirting with women in Our Man Bashir because I truly believe that if Julian started laying those moves on him, Garak would explode