#I feel like these are all famous ones

[maddybthorne]

No one can deny that Tomarry has some of the most beautiful fics in the Harry Potter fandom. Say what you want about how “it will never work” ITS FANFIC THATS THE WHOLE POINT.

But some of these fics make you believe that no matter who they are to each other they’re meant to be. These fics have me feeling *all* the feelings.

(I’m listing a few not all cuz I don’t have time for that rn sry)

(Just realized all of them are incomplete but THEYRE WORTH READING EITHER WAY)

- draw me after you (let us run) by ToAStanger on Ao3 (it’s locked so you can only read it if you have an Ao3 account)

- Too old to be this young by Nadia_Castillo on Ao3

- Full Circle by tetsurashian on Ao3

- Holly & Yew by LovelyLotus on Ao3

- Eat Your Heart Out by evaleon70 on Ao3

(I can rec complete fics if anyone wants them)

#fandom #harry potter fanfiction #tomarry #tom riddle #harry potter #ao3 fanfic #fanfic #fanfic rec #I feel like these are all famous ones #they’re works of art

[teeny-tiny-revenge]

I really love how OFMD subverts the trope of a happy ending being getting the big and cool thing? I mean, we live in a world where we're told to always reach higher. We're told The Dream is to become rich and famous or something like that. OFMD's protagonists instead get to finally escape this life. They get a quiet, domestic happily ever after. Ed reached the highest fame in his field and hated it. Stede got a taste of it and realised why Ed hates it. They don't need to sail off to the next adventure. They don't go looking for the next big thing. They choose a quiet life. No more fighting, no more running, no, they get to slowly rebuild their little inn/house, they get to heal and love each other, they get quiet mornings with breakfast in bed and slow evenings watching the sunset from their porch. 💖

#I feel like this is the dream for all of us perpetually tired folks who just want a fucking break #I don't want to be rich or famous or do a cool exciting career #I too want a small house to share with my favourite person #and all the time in the world to just be #they really hit a nerve with this one #ofmd #ofmd meta #teeny rambles

[hephaestuscrew]

I do think there's something special about the way that audio drama creators seem to love including cameos of voice actors from other popular audio dramas. Obviously, part of the reason why actors from one show might pop up in another is because the audio drama creator community is relatively small and interconnected, and also because those actors are very talented.

But there's also often such a sense that creators are having fun with these cameos. Like Greater Boston casting audio drama heavyweights Briggon Snow, Zach Valenti, and Felix Trench as famous film actors Matt Daemon, Ben Affleck, and Mark Wahlberg respectively. Or Faux and Stallion having Tom Crowley (who plays a Victorian detective in Victoriocity) pop up as Dr Watson. Or Unseen casting Beth Eyre and Felix Trench as characters who are twins. Or Arden getting Emma Sherr-Ziarko to play an actor impersonating a character played by her former Wolf 359 costar Michelle Agresti (with Michaela Swee also appearing as an actor impersonating the other main Arden lead).

In these cases, it's not just that there's a cameo, but that the cameo is given particular (often comedic) significance to those who are aware of the featured actor's other work. The vast majority of people wouldn't recognise any of these voices. But by doing these very intentional cameos, these creators show confidence that a fair chunk of their audience will know these actors and enjoy the link. There's an awareness that listeners of one audio drama are fairly likely to listen to (or at least be aware of) other fiction podcasts, even when the shows in question aren't of particularly similar genres. Recognising these cameos feels like being in on a secret. It feels like these shows are giving a little nod to listeners to say that we're part of the same club.

#It'd be fun if you reblogged with your favourite audio drama cameos #I know most of my examples are Wooden Overcoats actors #but those are just the ones that have stuck in my head the most #This has been in my drafts since the Greater Boston S4 finale #If you think I didn't squeal to myself at the Gabriel Urbina & Sarah Shachat cameo #you are wrong #and they aren't even known as actors?! #But I feel like the GB creators were confident that some people would do a double-take there #I'm pretty sure that's not even the first cameo I've heard them do in an unrelated show #Anyway I am definitely the target audience for things like this #It brings me so much joy #I have never cared at all about recognising an actually famous actor in a film #but recognising someone in an audio drama just hits different #One day I do want to make a complicated infographic to show how all the podcasts I've listened to are interconnected #I have a conspiracy wall about it in my mind #the empty man posteth #audio fiction #podcasts #fiction podcasts #audio drama

[roseworth]

someone called bruce wayne the kim kardashian of the dcu one time and it ruined everyone’s perceptions of what the general public thinks about the waynes forever

#honestly i’d put him at like maybe a bill gates level of fame #like people know his name and know what he does and might recognize his face in public. and maybe know the names of his family members #but i see people act like the wayne’s are like. Famous famous. where people would know all of their names and lives #to me the ideal public perception of the wayne family is people know dick bc ‘omg bruce wayne adopted a kid’ #and they know jason bc ‘aw bruce wayne’s kid died :(‘ #and all the rest of them blur together #not to mention i don’t feel like any of the adoptions would really be public #like cass probably isn’t even legally a person… but that’s a whole different rabbit hole to go down #but i feel like dick is the only one that i feel like people would really know about the adoption #everyone else probably wouldn’t really have like. A Thing made of it #does any of this make sense .. #i don’t know. post.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

I've finally started the Aubreyad via audiobook, and while I always knew I would like it, I felt underprepared for just how screamingly funny it is

#i do feel like the audiobook helps in this respect (i'm listening to the one read by patrick tull) #there have been so many moments that had me hooting in my car #i also knew going in that it has a massive (and indeed famous) shipping community but my god. y'all really were not kidding all these years #master and commander #aubreyad #i wanted to use the latter as my catchall tag but it turns out the former has a great number of posts in it already #do i retag them all or just resign myself to m&c being a catch-all? choices choices #anyway. excited to finally read this after no less than ten years of fixin' to #and to one day read temeraire also dsfdhfhfkl

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego #being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side #which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #natsuyuu meta #my posts #f #i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively #both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them) #and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him #so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it? #and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect #so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together #and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other #okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable #and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did #because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori #the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol #1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense #or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this! #all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi #i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol #he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions #that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are

[quickhacked]

"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

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#obscura #edit:rome #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #ok so. ok hi. red and i made a new universe hi. sorry. morris quincy victor and eleanor belong to them the rest belong to meee :3 #the pictures i used are basically the patron saints of their occupation / line of work! so that's not what they look like #anyway it's a mix of paranormal stuff + lovecraftian horror + sort of zombies :^) #they're like. the domains of lucifer (demons) behemoth (zombies) and leviathan (the eldritch horrors that happen in space and oceans) #who are like. the three evils that torment the mortal realm #it's all in a historical setting kind of parallel to our world? so a bunch of historic events are the same but it's like #a little bit more advanced with technology but at the same time it's not. it's Just A Little Different y'know #rome's sister went to space for a mission and just straight up went missing which prompts him to become an astronomer #and he's the first one to start speculating the existence of leviathan as eldritch god #morris is a technician at the academy who has an angel stuck in his computer #eve is a nun and herbalist who witnesses the influence of behemoth firsthand through some sick travelers #that she and the other nuns of her convent take care of #anatoly and quincy are both from different space missions who end up as the only survivors who are not basically a plant #the other two survivors have secretly been replaced with some sort of parasites. annihilation style if you've seen that movie #eleanor is a demonologist and works together with her brother victor who's her cameraman #clarence is a blind psychic who lost her sight because of an angel trying to warn her and in return got her psychic abilities #and lazarus is one of the two most famous demonologists in the world but his wife (the other one) passed away #so now he's alone and since he's not from an upper class family like his wife was he's not all that loved as she was #there's a lot going on but it's SO fucking fun to work on so far. feel free to send any asks i would love to explain more :^) #if you've made it this far also hi i love you. kiss for you

[nyxofdemons]

this was going to be like a mile long essay but i just realized the most concise way to say it is that "it feels like a retcon that blitz has been so resentful and hostile towards fizz all this time since he was supposed to feel guilty" is simply not a good criticism when we have been shown, time and time again, that blitz's number one defense mechanism when he feels guilty or judged or attacked is to lash out, to deflect and ignore all his responsibility, and to shift the blame to someone else. that's like. his defining character flaw

#- and that's WHY it was such a major THING for his arc!! that he apologized to fizz and accepted responsibility for what he did!!! #like. the fact that he said; EXPLICITLY; the words 'you're right; it was all my fault; i should have done better; i am so sorry' IS #SO BIG!!!! LIKE THAT IS SUCH A HUGE THING FOR HIM!!!!! #mine #helluva boss #blitzo helluva boss #helluva boss blitzo #blitz #e: oops #analysis #also its entirely reasonable that blitz would have gone spiraling down the thought process that maybe fizz always hated him if he could #blame him so easily when fizz was probably the one blitz was MOST counting on to hear him out #and the fact that fizz went on and got SUPER famous and successful after he was no longer performing with blitz - who i'm SURE had #only been given more and more shit for not being as good as fizz as they got older (by his dad and by himself) - he probably assumed fizz #blamed him for that too - holding fizz back with his own poor performance #which is why his insults towards fizz had always been 'overrated sellout' and insisting he slept his way to the top with ozzie. #he'd tear down fizz's quality as a performer because BLITZ feels insecure about his OWN quality as a performer #these tags have gotten so fucking long but that's the gist of the essay i was gonna write about this fjfdjjfghf #MEDIA ANALYSIS IS MY PASSION

[kazbiter]

kavinsky's death is actually the closing arc in a great tragedy to me bc his actions throughout the story are mostly just him practically begging for someone to be on his side, to care about him, to even just look at him. his father tried to kill him, his mother is completely uninterested. he can dream himself as many people as he wants, but they will only ever think of him because he made them to do so. the dream pack are just physical manifestations of his desire to not be alone in the world, to have someone, anyone, connected to him. he so desperately tries to draw some sort of emotion out of ronan, good bad or ugly, because the intense similarities they share mean that he's the only person who might be willing to look long enough to see him. and when it doesn't work, when he realizes it can't, that this world is not for him and he is not going to be a part of it in a way that involves anyone else, he decides that everyone is going to look at least this once. they will all see the finale if nothing else. genuinely doomed from the start. and how truly devastating that is in comparison to the core group the story focuses on, characters that even at their lowest and darkest and meanest and absolute worst have others there with them. characters that always have someone looking for them. dying is a boring side of a life that has nothing inside of it.

#4th of July got me this year girls (gender neutral) #also I'm contractually obligated to mention that he was so so funny #a few of his strengths: #1. hilarious #2. leader of ronsey nation #3. thrower of parties that involve fun for the whole family (minus the dream battle and suicide that one time) #but actually tho why do I feel like they mentioned like. families going to those parties. #anyways I'm getting SOOOOOO off track #did someone say trc famous adjective lonesome #and when u think abt the fact one of his worst acts was taking Matthew.... someone he KNEW ronan cared about above all #ohhhhh OWWWWW #like yeah obviously that was terrible and evil of him I'm not saying he's innocent or even nessecarily good #I'm just saying that he's fucking tragic #like so desperate for someone to look that he doesn't even care what he has to do to make it happen #this took me like 1.5 hrs to write btw I had so many things I wanted to say but it's almost midnight and I want to post it on His Day #the raven cycle #joseph kavinsky #the dream theives #kavinsky #trc kavinsky

[aeide-thea]

#don't ask me how i ended up here ('was it a fic‚ K?' 'yes‚ obviously it was a fic.') but #this poem somehow makes me think of plath's 'black rook in rainy weather' #not because the poems are at all similar but because it's that feeling of a dull ruinous landscape suddenly illuminated #like. the sestet here is SO workmanlike and wearisome #yesterday. grey. eyes. wise. 'one that is ever kind' right okay you're making up the syllable count. etc etc #and then—'the fire that stirs about her‚ when she stirs‚ / burns but more clearly.' #'o she had not these ways / when all the wild summer was in her gaze.' #like. my god. #the sudden wild white beating of swan's wings. the lift of my battered enraptured heart. #anyway. 'did you know famous poet william butler yeats had his moments‚ actually??' you heard it here extremely not first. #(i mean. that said—imagine writing a poem that ascribed any qualities to a woman you couldn't reassign to a horse.) #(like. billy boy. do you love anything about her but her beauty and her ~spirit~. is she intelligent. is she funny. is she fiercely moral.) #(ah well.) #poetry #w.b. yeats

[non-un-topo]

Forever fucked up over the fact that sometimes you have to write the thing you desperately want to read/watch because it doesn't exist yet

#this isn't about fanfiction btw dfghfds #i love writing but at what cost !!! also in this economy ??? #and all of my ideas are so niche and silly but at least i have a feeling my dad would love them !!! we have a similar brain #inherited the brain while i also inherited his entire face #anyway one of these days i'm going to write a long rant about how almost EVERY novel that takes place in the middle ages - #- takes place in fucking england and has something to do with monarchs or the construction of a church. #or it's all fantasy OR the story of king arthur a hundred thousand times. #don't be a coward. tell stories about non-english commoners. and stop making the crusades sound like a noble thing. #were it not for The State of The World and the Economy i would quit everything and write movies and books #because all of my writing is very visual. like i think a lot of my ideas would translate better on film. #ohhh you know what it is? a lot of these books i'm thinking of are written by historians and i think historians of the english type - #- get really hard over royals and famous battles and such. #and that's all well and good but it's not very accessible to readers just starting out in the genre. i've complained about this before lol

[cowboy-like-moony]

Love it when artists name drop their besties

Like when taylor swift said "You sit in class next to a red-head named Abigail and soon enough you're best friends"

or when conan gray said "You know Ashley believes that there's somethin' between you and I"

or when gracie abrams said "Audrey told me that she thinks it might be in my head"

#it's so cute #taylor swift #fearless #fifteen #conan gray #superache #disaster #gracie abrams #this is what it feels like #hard to sleep #why do all their names start with an A? #my name starts with an A #is one of my friends going to be a famous musician? #but none of them have any musical talent #love them to death but you'd have to be insane to pay to listen to them sing #it would be more reasonable to pay so they DON'T sing #i probably shouldn't be talking tho i have no talent myself

[widowshill]

— But it's almost midnight. — Oh, that's the point! At the stroke of twelve, he turns into Dracula. C'mon, Vicki – he won't bite.

pose ref.

#dark shadows 1966 #victoria winters #roger collins #➤ roger collins & victoria winters. ┊ pain sometimes precedes pleasure，miss winters. #vamp roger au tbt #➤ roger collins. ┊ I and my ghosts want a drink. #➤ victoria winters. ┊ because she’s lost and lonely. because she looks in shadows. #➤ edits & art. ┊ the evans cottage art gallery. #art. #i always feel a little apprehensive about putting r/v things in the general tags bc i know that's not everyone's cup of tea but. #if r/v squicks you out and you don't have me blocked idk why lmakldfgfg. that's what we do here. #well! did you know that the moonflower is a highly poisonous and psychoactive flower that belongs to the nightshade family #and can cause respiratory depression arrhythmias fever delirium hallucinations psychosis and death if taken internally. #and they are night-blooming and pollinated by sphinx moths. much to think about. #scenes from the vamp roger au that i've been plotting with tortie and have only posted like one thing about but. anyway. #should be making violent love to you behind a palm tree etc. but the moonflowers in liz's greenhouse will have to do. #yeah yeah yeah we've all heard about his more famous triangular cousin but what about the real collins vampire huh. #who was here in 1966 draining years off another man's life. who spent ten years in a coffin (augusta) and came back wrong. #who knows nothing but a habitual; driving; consuming thirst. #who feeds on the youth and innocence of his governess – of his sister's hospitality – of the shelter of the collins blood. #who prefers; instead of living; to bury himself in the collins tomb. #who creates not biological sons but makes other men into monsters just like him. #also lou was really hot as a vampire for 0.5 seconds in hods.

[vimbry]

oh hello shoe I've been waiting to see drop. sorta hoped you never would.

#I kinda figured the band never would take much of a stance when they're so vocal about lgbtq rights and syria and trump but not this #and tbh I agree that lack of discussion from celebsdoesn't really matter (so long as it's not blatantly pro-israel) but it's still like man #come on. I mean why answer at all if you're just gonna give a milquetoast ''oh well no one wants to hear our opinion'' response #sorta torn here between ''stop pestering famous figures for statements'' and.. this having a very easy answer #which defines what kind of person you are/what side of history you're on #it's fine if they feel they're not educated enough to approach the subject but just say nothing in that case #this just made things much more tense #there may be a lot on the line for you as a public figure speaking for a whole band with connections and whatever #but it's not a great look when even s.esame street can take a braver stance than you

[apparitionalprincess]

I absolutely don’t wanna flex on anyone like that but:

Hearing City Lights live is life changing as a long-standing MIW fan <3.

#sorry to the peeps that have never heard it live ♥️ #I felt like throwing up when I recognized it at my show last October #it’s just one of those songs that feels like myth #city lights is such an emotionally heavy song live. it’s criminal. #Motionless you will always be famous <3 #i was just reminiscing all the shows I went to last year and got sad about city lights #motionless in white #miw #Duffy speaks

[instinctsxbad]

*scratching at the walls thinking about how no one has adapted Peter’s college arcs in a consistent and satisfying way.*

#coffee bean gang #spider-man #I was almost asleep but now I’m thinking about how there isn’t one piece of media out there that checks all the boxes #of adapting Peter in college + the coffee bean gang + doesn’t downsize the group or combine characters #+ does everyone in a decent way even if it’s not strictly comic accurate #raimi trilogy is one of the only ones that heads pretty quickly into the college era and also involves more than just gwen or mj #and as much as I like the films it does not handle the three of them in a way that scratches the itch for me #I mean for one it’s only Peter Harry and MJ. I like those three arguably the most but man the dynamic isn’t the same #especially bc Tobey’s Peter is much more serious and quiet/awkward with negative charisma (affectionately but still.) #MJ is mixed w Gwen’s personality which was disappointing to me bc I like MJ’s weird and super vibrant personality #and Harry loses some of the ‘kind of a sweet guy but very VERY fucked up’ and relies too heavily on Harry becoming the goblin for revenge #I sound super critical of the Raimi versions qhwjrjwkr I DO like them I do but it feels like completely alternate interps of the characters #most focus on spider-man’s origin which I totally get but also. Peter’s most interesting arcs happen in college #that’s why everyone has to adapt them into the high school years #(which they can do bc Peter was largely friendless during that time and was still fighting some truly d-tier guys #in between the forming of the famous spidey rogue gallery) #I mean I wouldn’t even complain if they chose to do the high school years and actually DID those instead of pasting the college arcs on it #I haven’t watch the 90s show but I want to— does Harry exist in that one bc I know they took out Gwen #at the risk of sounding like That kind of tssm fan. the closest we got to that dream was that show #bc they WERE gonna follow it into Peter’s college years and you could see them setting the gang up #it still fell into the ‘everyone is a childhood friend’ thing so the characters could all be there but it’s one of the most bearable ones