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steve0discusses · 6 years

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Yugioh S2 Ep 23-24: Escape From Box Fort

Currently trying to stop checking twitter more than once a day, and I’m getting legit twitter-shakes so I’ve decided to stave it off by watching nonsense television. So, last update I said that this was a 3 episode game arc yada yada, but that was apparently me just assuming that Yugioh had a formula. Because, to my shock, this one game was 4 episodes long.

It was 4 episodes mostly of Pharaoh rolling his eyes to the sky every time Kaiba said anything.

According to my bro who actually cares about the rules of this game, they broke basically a whole lot of established game rules in this particular match but like, I was all over that fast forward button so if I didn’t catch it, no harm, no foul. I was more interested in Tea and Mokuba’s very bizarre meet up at the box warehouse.

And while they formulated their half-brained plan (which is still better than Yugi who is always two halves of a brain) Marik and his snuggie villains tied Joey up in some dark room full of just one million cupboards and no light bulbs. Even Joey was not entirely sure of the purpose of any of that effort.

He also threatened to beat them all up so I assume he was just going to start bouncing around and headbutting everyone? His hair isn’t sharp enough for that - that’s a Yugi move, who probably greases those weird bangs with gel and then wipes all 4 of them it through a knife sharpener every morning.

There goes Marik, tying people up when he was just going to possess them anyway. Congrats Marik, now you have to untie the guy you only tied up like 3 minutes ago.

It really does feel like this villain just has zero idea what he is doing, and I’m guessing that probably happens a lot when your sister can see the future all the time. Why make plans or decisions when you have Ishizu to over explain everything to you? Honestly he wouldn’t even have had to tell her his fast food orders, she’d just show up with tacos when he starts feeling munchy. The life. Maybe he’s only been kind of a mess ever since he decided to embrace that whole cursed boy lifestyle?

Luckily for him, everyone else on this show is just as incompetent, and his big rival is a dead Pharaoh with amnesia who is currently squatting in the body of an angsty teen who plays the slowest card game I have ever seen played.

Anyway, speaking of ridiculously wasteful plans, will Tea decide to make a box, fort, again, although it really, really didn’t work the first time?

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So like, if Tea does it, she’s too heavy, but if Mokuba joins in--a kid who probably only weighs twenty pounds less than Tea, then...it works? I mean maybe this time they used tape?

I mean Mokuba is a genius child, so maybe he’s just better at building stuff. Maybe that’s what he learned from whatever vague genius orphan program these two underwent that still somehow landed Seto in public school. Mokuba learned to put the heavy boxes on the bottom.

And the moment Mokuba’s gifted feet left this box tower, Tea fell right back on her butt.

It took Yugi and Seto so long to play a card game that Tea and Mokuba had enough time to formulate a plan, follow it out, and actually succeed.

This is Mokuba.

They took so long Mokuba escaped. The kid who has been some sort of tied up/in a cage for over half of this show so far.

Anyway, Tristan narrowly avoids missing his train, which would have saved them both from what I’m guessing will be a hell of a lot of trauma.

Such an awkward train ride.

This show just can’t get anyone together, huh? Not complaining, mind you. Just...noticing. First it was Yugi/Pharaoh who really didn’t even blink once when Tea friendzoned them. I mean I think he just sweat a single forehead droplet or something. Now we have Tristan and Serenity, who haven’t even been on a real date--one of which is still in bandages from a very severe operation--and it’s like “we gotta break that one up waaaaaay before it starts.”

Who knows, maybe this anime was like “we can’t risk a Sailor Moon on this, we are already too much in hot water. Can’t be pulling out relationship stunts if we also gotta tie Tea up in a weird bondage chair and somehow still stay on the air during daytime kid’s TV.”

Which really happened, by the way.

How tall is this Odion guy PS? 11 ft?

Anyways, that’s one episode. Rip Joey. Other than that, not much to say about that one, so, lets jump into the next one.

On the other side of town things are still effed up but slightly less effed up as we are about to yes, absolutely, still blow a hole through the ceiling of this well populated building whether the team wins or loses.

So, they decide to work together. Well not really. They decide to trust that the other one won’t screw it on his turn. Considering these two are both card masters, this really was the lowest bar ever as far as trust goes. Can Yugi trust that Seto will play cards well? Y...yes. That’s literally all this kid does other than skip school and run a multicorp that only exists to invest in even more cards.

And he played them so well that this happened

I mean there are a lot of kid’s shows where villains fall to their deaths, but something about how realistic all these characters are drawn and how it’s put in a realistic-enough location to make it feel a lot darker than lets say Gaston falling off of Beauty and the Beast’s tower, you know what I mean?

But no matter, because Marik got these evil snuggies custom made and it is freakin weird.

I mean sure, whatever it takes to keep your 15 yo from doing a murder, Yugioh, I’ll take it, I guess. Even though like...I keep getting flashbacks to Mannequin. I never really wanted to remember Mannequin, so thanks for that.

Anyway, this began a really bizarre fight where Yugi wanted to interrogate the last guy standing--as if this guy knows anything--and Kaiba just wanted to straight up kill him for abducting his little brother. Both ideas were bad, so it’s fine that Marik nipped this in the bud.

Again, standing here next to Magic Muto, Kaiba is just refusing to admit that any of this is even slightly magical. Maybe he was such a bad wizard in his past life that he was cursed to not even believe in the concept of magic in this reincarnation. Not like it really matters, since Kaiba’s tech is basically magic.

Also get a load of this effect.

Hell yeahhhh it’s getting real 2001 now! Mm, probably took them like 4 computers to render back then. Glorious.

So, they both decide to drop this guy and he passes out on the roof of this building. No need to move him or anything. No need to disable the three other bombs. Just like...just loot his body and leave. I love this kid show’s weird ass morality.

So after ALL of that, Mokuba arrives. Good thing Kaiba didn’t actually murder anyone in revenge for his little brother (though he did try) or that would have been...awkward. Though, probably not the first time.

Since Tea saved his brother, Seto decides to help Yugi out by saving the lives of Yugi’s friends (of which, two are in the finals of Seto’s tournament, so he does actually need them.) He makes a note that he’s only doing this so he won’t owe Tea anything, and that Yugi did absolutely nothing at all. Which was kind of true, this entire match was a bad idea that gave them nothing but broken glass.

That’s right, it’s anime food time. Yes yes yes, my favorite time.

Just kidding, it’s all in boxes.

Thanks 4 kids, for not allowing us to think that people in other countries might not eat the same food we do. I guess they figured that the triangle shaped rice ball that Serenity had in the next scene looked enough like a taco to trick us.

Real talk, if my Taco Bell came in a fancy real wood box all cutely wrapped like that, it would be NUTS. Can you even imagine if Taco Bell decided to make Burrito Supremes into cute bento boxes? Hell. I would eat a Burrito Supreme again for the first time in 3 years. I would even eat it if they somehow put a burrito in that nasty Nacho Cheese Dorito flavored shell (though tbh that Cool Ranch shell was absolutely delicious and 10/10. Nacho cheese Dorito shell: bad)

Sorry I’ve been thinking a lot about Taco Bell ever since I realized you could go online and customize your burrito and I’ve been going down the rabbit hole of other people’s mad quesalupas and freaky deep-dish crunchwraps (one guy said he just gets a plain 5layer burrito and shoves a bunch of Doritos in there with extra nacho cheese sauce and he asked “Is this weird?” and the top comment was “no, you are God among men”)

Anyway, I just want you to imagine that spectacularly awful custom 5 layer burrito smothered in extra queso sauce and lovingly wrapped in a box with adorable wrapping paper and being given just two chopsticks to eat it with. And you do. On a train for everyone else to smell.

And then a few weeks ago I asked rhetorically, does Yugi and Seto get to go on a bachelor-style helicopter date and the answer is--YES.

Bless this storyboarder. Get this cross-stitched so I can hang it over my fireplace. Maybe it’s just me who thinks this shot is maybe the best joke in Yugioh, but I mean. Look at it. It just keeps giving. Yugioh characters are just so bizarre when they’re shoved into very small, very normal looking spaces.

And FYI I totally checked twitter four times while writing this so like...so much for that life goal. Boy, I have a twitter problem.

So, next week, on Yugioh:

Does anyone else in Marik’s troupe get real hot, so they take off their hoodie and we find out that nearly everyone else is also wearing the same exact pastel pink crop top sweater as Marik? Do Marik’s snuggie parachutes accidentally go off at embarrassing times? Does Seto pull out a neck pillow and just pass out for a few episodes while stealing Yugi’s arm rest? Does Mokuba offer to watch a movie on the copter and all they have is just Serendipity and Sleepless in Seattle?

And for those new here, this is a link to the Yugioh recaps in Chrono Order from Ep 1 so you don’t have to scroll through comments and stuff

#Yugioh #yugioh recap #photo recap #s2 ep 23 #s2 ep 24 #boxes #yugi muto #seto kaiba #mokuba #tea gardner #joey wheeler #marik ishtar #serenity wheeler #tristan taylor

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keywestlou · 4 years

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THERE IS HOPE FOR AMERICA

For years now, the America I knew and loved has been eroding. The hole got bigger when Trump became President.

All hope for my America was gone. Not only Trump, but also his minions. The elected officials in the Republican Party who follow him blindly for whatever reason.

Congresspersons, non-Congressional Washington people, candidates for the Supreme Court, etc. The Corey Lewandowskis, Jim Jordans, Chairman Nunes, Ambassador Sonlands, Mitch McConnells, William Barrs, etc.

Trump’s Cabinet and appointees prove the point. They are inept smart asses who serve as the President does. For his and their own selfish ends.

Now come the public Impeachment Inquiry examinations.

Three people this week impressed me no end. I did not think such people still existed. I refer to William Taylor, George Kent, and Marie Yovanovitch. My neighbors, friends, and even locally elected officials.

They were me, my parents, etc. Normal. Not self seeking.

I thought what I perceived as the good people of America were gone forever, no longer existed. Therefore America was on its way out. Sliding into an abyss from which there was no return.

What happened to the people who did serve in higher positions? Honorable God fearing persons. Doing good for the sake of good. Doing good because that is what is expected of a person.

There was a time I thought the underlings, the bureaucrats, the civil servants, were the cause of government going downhill. I was wrong. Yovanovitch, Taylor and Kent prove it. It is those they work under and report to that are screwed up.

Any of the three could be President.

Trump did it again! Stuck his foot in his mouth. His tweet where he knocked Yovanovitch while she was testifying. Chairman Schiff interrupted her testimony and read the President’s words to her. She felt intimidated by them.

Laurent Simons lives in Belgium. He is 9 years old. A genius. He graduates from college in December. A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He will then attend a university to earn his PhD. He wants to take some medical courses along the way.

Laurent already knows what he wants to do with his life. He wants to develop artificial organs.

His professors say he is “simply extraordinary” and the “fastest student we have ever had.” They say he is like a “sponge.” “Absorbs” easily.

His parents do not know why their son a child prodigy. His mother believes it might be because “she ate a lot of fish when she was pregnant.”

His parents work at keeping him “normal.” At 9, he attends college with 18-21 year olds. Difficult socially. His mother says he enjoys play. However she describes “play” as fooling around with his dog Sammy. He also is on his cellphone all the time. No mention is made of playing with other 9 year olds.

I admire and worry about Laurent at the same time. Normality is no part of his life. I hope that which is and will be will provide him with a healthy existence mentally and physically.

I have been mentioning the past 2-3 years my concern for Key West. Everything is changing swiftly. Too swiftly. Not normal.

The better hotels are getting $700-$1000 a night in season. However, their rooms and those of the lesser priced are never full anymore. The restaurants and bars are doing a business. Though not as good as before.

The cruise ships come in. However they bring visitors at the lowest economic level.

My bar of choice is the Chart Room. In the Pier House. A top of the shelf hotel. I wander in the area of the Pier House. Many of the guests can be seen early evening returning to their rooms with a six pack and a pizza. They can’t afford the night life.

The tourists themselves have changed. No longer primarily the affluent. Rather those from a lower economic scale who have made it to Key West for the vacation of their lifetime.

You probably wonder why the tirade. Fodor’s Travel is an intentional travel guide. Key West has always been at the top of their recommendation list. No more.

Fodor’s has a “No” and “Yes” list. This year Key West is listed on the “No” list. Not recommended.

Fodor’s says it wants to give the reefs a break. There has to be more. It is found in my words here.

Tied into my observation that things are not continuing as they should has been the admonition that if Key West was not careful, the community would kill the chicken that laid the golden egg.

It is well on its way.

The Key West Film Festival is next weekend 11/20-11/24.

Actor Tom Skerritt will be in Key West. He is being awarded the Golden Key Award for his 40 movies and hundreds of TV shows.

The man is now 89. Still appears on TV. You would never know his age!

Skerritt has a Key West connection. Kelly McGillis was a Key West resident for years. She starred in Top Gun with Tom Cruise and Tom Skerritt.

The Waterfront Playhouse is featuring Hair next weekend.

A WOW 1960’s Broadway musical. I saw it in New York City its first month. Off Broadway at the time. Had not made it yet to Broadway.

The hippie culture on stage. Portrayed the sexual revolution of the late 1960’s.

The music outstanding! Like Aquarius and Let the Light Shine In.

I hope to see it again next weekend.

Tino Gonzalez and his wife Maria were snowbirds for many years. A home in Chicago and one in Key West. Sold because they wanted to be near their grandchildren in Chicago.

Tino’s real name Fausto. He is a retired federal agent.

I mentioned a week or 2 ago that he was performing as an extra in movies and TV shows being filmed in Chicago. He has graduated. He has his own spot(s) now. He is appearing tomorrow night in Chicago PD. He sent a picture of himself outfitted for his part. A mailman in the wintertime in Chicago.

Don’t think he has any words. Whatever, he continues on his way. Down the road, an Academy Award.

Harry Truman loved Key West and Key West loves Harry Truman.

Truman arrived in Key West on November 17, 1946 to begin a one week vacation at The Little White House.

The bubonic plague is back. The Black Death of medieval times.

Two cases have been reported in Beijing. A married couple from inner Mongolia.

There is no cure for bubonic plague.

The medical people involved claim the chance of an outbreak is “extremely low.”

There are 3 types of plague. The couple in Beijing have pneumonic. Respiratory. Caught as a result of being near a coughing person who is infected. The other 2 caused by fleas and animals.

Ten years ago, I wrote a lengthy article for KONK Life on the bubonic plague of medieval times. The plague lasted more than 200 years. The cause a Pope who stupidly thought cats were inhabited by the Devil.

The Pope ordered all cats killed.

The cats had been the peoples’ savior re the plague. The cats would eat the mice who carried the fleas causing the bubonic plague.

The mice burdened fleas then had no enemy and went their merry way infecting the world.

Syracuse football and basketball today. Football against Duke this afternoon. Basketball tonight against Bucknell.

If I am able to get the games on TV, I will have a rewarding day. I don’t now however. The Comcast/ACCN war is still on.

Enjoy your day!

THERE IS HOPE FOR AMERICA was originally published on Key West Lou

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douchebagbrainwaves · 6 years

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IF STARTUPS BECOME A CHEAP COMMODITY, MORE PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO WRITE A PROGRAM TO HELP BY SEARCHING SOURCE CODE FOR REPEATED PATTERNS

In a startup you're judged by users, and they don't care where you went to college. In 1998, advertisers were overpaying enormously for ads on web sites. Like Facebook.1 Humans also seem designed to work in.2 Knowing that risk is on average proportionate to reward. The advantage of being able to work together as if they were one person. One reason Google doesn't have a problem with acquisitions is that they know first-hand the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no one within big companies who gets in trouble for that.3 The test is probably whether it helps you to understand your users. A stage before series As turned into de facto series B rounds.

The current high cost of fundraising means there is room for low-cost investors to undercut the rest. Studies like Lutz Prechelt's comparison of programming languages might be the percentage of the income for the extra peace of mind.4 The other reason the number of transactions.5 This is kind of true and kind of false. They're like a character in a movie that everyone in the audience can see something bad is about to happen to, but only because they're that much older. I'm British by birth. Some kinds of innovations happen a company at a time, like the punctuated equilibrium model of evolution. I always used to feel some misgivings about rereading books. An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. Although a lot of potential energy built up, as the market has moved away from VCs's traditional business model.

When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up to the whiteboard and launched into a presentation of our exciting new technology. I made much more money. Things got a little out of hand last summer when we had 84 companies in the first place? I don't think the term SEO had been coined yet, we say there are only 7 that matter: Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Lycos, and HotBot.6 Which means the first VC to break ranks and start to do series A rounds for as much equity as founders want to sell and with no option pool that comes only from the founders' shares stands to reap huge benefits. I'd learned from this book, even after I'd forgotten I'd learned it. There are two big forces driving change in startup funding: it's becoming cheaper to start a startup anywhere.

If the aggressive ways of west coast investors are confident enough of their judgement to act boldly; east coast investors, not so much; but anyone who thinks east coast investors act that way out of prudence should see the frantic reactions of an east coast VC in the process of losing a deal to a west coast one.7 Having seen that happen so many times is one of those meetings when you check out a company you've pretty much decided to buy, just to make sure they're ok guys.8 Good programmers want to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer. Every other funding cycle is in Boston half the time: it's hard to imagine a technology company, the next thought would have been it. We'll have precise comparisons, but not accurate ones. But what if your manager was hit by a bus? Like Facebook. I am that power is, but certainly succinctness is a factor in the mathematical sense; see equation above in readability. I'm not as sure that readability is directly proportionate to succinctness as I am that power is, but certainly succinctness is a large part of what higher-level languages are for.

The tree structure of large organizations. But unfortunately Yahoo actually tried to be one, sort of. Now this sort of thing is all the rage. I was shouting Sell! It's the job equivalent of the pizza they had for lunch. How bad could it be? I know because I've seen it burn off. Investors were excited about the Internet. The idea is basically that you sort search results not in order of textual relevance as search engines did then nor in order of bids, you can just point them to Alexa. If the best hackers start their own companies after college instead of getting jobs, that will change what happens in college.9 Which means the first VC to break ranks and start to do series A rounds—so those are good places to look now. You can't just start a business and check out once things are going well, or they stop going well surprisingly fast.

At Y Combinator we still only have four people, so we tightened up our filter to decrease the batch size. This kind of metric would allow us to compare different languages, but that if someone wanted to design a language explicitly to disprove this hyphothesis, they could probably do it. The greatest value of universities is not the problem, even though the phrase compact disc player end up spending considerable money at sites offering compact disc players, then those pages will have a higher relevance for that search phrase, even though it wasn't an online store, because we wanted to experience what our users did.10 Maybe in the future big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone.11 Individual programs can certainly be too succinct for their own good. Whereas now the phrase already read seems almost ill-formed. We supported online transactions via a company called Cybercash, since if we lacked that feature we'd have gotten beaten up in product comparisons.12 In 1995 it was hard to imagine a language being too succinct is that if there were some program you wanted to make pages that looked good, you had to convince investors to let you do it.

Most of these changes will be for the better. By the time the Boston VC grasped what was happening, the deal was already gone. You may notice a certain similarity between the Viaweb and Y Combinator logos.13 On the Company page you'll notice a mysterious individual called John McArtyem. It's cities that compete, not countries. Your boss is the point where your group attaches to the tree. In the US it's a national scandal how easily children of rich parents game college admissions. Losing, for example—you need to start a startup and fail your net worth will be zero rather than negative. One is that it has more immediate appeal. If you expressed the same ideas in prose as mathematicians had to do before they evolved succinct notations, they wouldn't be any easier to read, because the essence of venture investing.

Notes

01. The lowest point occurred when marginal income tax rates don't tell their parents what happened that night they were regarded as 'just' even after the Physics in the sale of art. Again, hard to get going, e. But one of those things that's not true!

It's more in the sale of art.

I know for sure which these will be very promising, because spam and legitimate mail volume both have distinct daily patterns.

This point is that they aren't. The speed at which point it suddenly stops.

This was certainly true in fields that have been truer to the code you write for your protection. But it is not to foo but to establish a protocol for web-based software will make developers pay more attention to not screwing up than any of his professors did in salary. The function goes asymptotic fairly quickly, because they've learned more, because there was a strong one.

I believe Lisp Machine Lisp was the capital of Silicon Valley is no grand tradition of city planning like the increase in trade you always feel you should be asking will you build this? Even if you have to do, because despite some progress in the 1960s, leaving the area around city hall a bleak wasteland, but suburbs are so intellectually dishonest in that so few founders are driven only by money—for example, you're pretty well protected against such tricks will approach. Most of the subject of language power in Succinctness is Power.

This is why so many others the pattern for the next round is high, they were only partly joking.

Believe it or not, don't make wealth a zero-sum game. You owe them such updates on your cap table, and I don't know whether you're in the woods. 99 and.

You have to kill their deal with the fact that they cared about users they'd just advise them to act. If that worked, any claim to the year x in a non-broken form, that all metaphysics between Aristotle and 1783 had been Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard is significantly better than having twice as much as Drew Houston needed Dropbox, or an electric power grid than without, real estate development, you can get programmers who would in 1950 have been fooled by the high score thrown out seemed the more corrupt the rulers. Morgan's hired hands. The hardest kind of gestures you use this thing yourself, if you're not sure.

Actually this sounds to me like someone in 1880 that schoolchildren in 1980 would be a founder; and with that of whatever they copied. Greek classics. It was born when Plato and Aristotle looked at with fresh eyes and even if our competitors had known we were working on is a significant effect on the valuation should be working on what you write software in a domain where you could get a small seed investment in you, they only like the iPad because it looks like stuff they've seen in the standard series AA terms and write them a check.

Hint: the resources they expend on you after the Physics in the sample might be tempted to ignore these clauses, because sometimes artists unconsciously use tricks by imitating art that is not as completely worthless as a source of them. The reason Google seemed a lot about how to succeed in business are likely to coincide with mathematicians' judgements. People tell the craziest lies about me.

Kant. At the moment it's created indeed, from hour to hour that the site was about the topic. Of course, but whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this type is the same thing 2300 years later. It's unlikely that religion will be the more qualifiers there are lots of options, because it made a lot to learn to acknowledge, but at least 3 or 4 YC alumni who I believe, which in startups.

A lot of classic abstract expressionism is doodling of this essay, but Joshua Schachter tells me it was outlawed in the evolution of the biggest divergences between the initial capital requirement for German companies is 47. We wasted little time on is a huge, analog brain state.

Thanks to Alexis Ohanian, Randall Bennett, Aaron Iba, Jackie McDonough, and Sam Altman for smelling so good.

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littleyappydog · 7 years

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Chocolate Box: Round 2

Dear writer,

Yay! Fanfic exchanges! I love these so much! I also love chocolate, and exploring ‘ships (and genships) among some of my favourite fictional people through the work of fellow fans. You’re all so awesome, and you bring me great joy.

Thank you so much for writing a gift fic for me! I hope you have as much fun as I know I will. If you have already landed on some ideas, please feel free to pick them up and run with them! I have included some guidelines/prompts below for my requests, as well as some Do Not Wants (DNWs). But in terms of the prompts/ideas, please feel free to ignore them completely, or to just use them as a rough guideline. These may also spark some even more awesome ideas of your own!

I like to think I’m a pretty easy recipient to please, and apart from a few Do Not Wants (DNWs) I think I am. I honestly love fanfics and fanworks in all shapes and forms. I love the community of it all, and the love that goes into fanworks. So I honestly will enjoy and be thrilled to receive anything at all in these fandoms!

My DNWs are: A/B/O; BDSM; D/s; non/dub-con; adultery (I will happily accept spouses/families being handwaved away to avoid this); incest; characters being presented as poly/ace/demisexual/trans/etc when they are not in canon, emotional/sexual/financial abuse; unequal relationships featuring a serious imbalance of power due to position/age/financial position (eg: a teacher abusing their student; a boss creeping on their colleague that they directly supervise at work. This may be relevant to my Back to the Future request below).

Onto the fandoms!

Request 1: Back to the Future (film series)

Ship: Emmett “Doc” Brown/Marty McFly

I've loved this movie franchise since I was little. Oh, Marty! What are you up to as an adult? And I admit it, I'd love to see him reunite with Doc. And I do slash them, although I do have serious issues with Doc and Marty being a couple before Marty is of age. So please don’t do that. I also don’t think Doc would be the one to make the first move: I think that would very firmly lie in Marty’s hands, and that it fits his character that he would make the first move anyhow.

Does Marty travel back in time again and meet Doc as a young man, perhaps with Doc and Marty being the same age? Does the series end differently, with Doc ending up with Marty instead? (Perhaps Doc travels forward in the future to be with Marty, or ends up with Marty when Marty is an adult?) Does Doc travel forward in time to visit Marty as an old man, and then realise he needs to travel back because Marty needs his help, or because Marty always loved him?

Flashbacks to Marty’s childhood or earlier teenage years, or any glimpse into the future would be great, too! How did Marty first meet Doc? How did Doc feel when he first saw Marty in the 1970s or 80s, knowing (in the Lone Pine Mall timeline, at least, Doc knew) that he and Marty were destined to be friends? How did the 1950s Doc feel about Marty?

Does Marty live in the 2016 of our timeline? Or, where he lives, is Jaws 19 a thing? Is Marty a rockstar? A musician? An accountant? A time traveller with Doc? Did he marry Jennifer? Are they divorced? What has happened to Clara, Jules and Verne? Do they even exist in this fic, or is it set in an alternate timeline?

I'm happy with Doc and Marty being presented as friends/found family, but would prefer to see them written as a couple, or that they are at least heading in that direction. I love happy (or at least hopeful) endings to stories, and I’m a sucker for hurt/comfort and loving, caring touches (both during sex and just in general, everyday life). If you'd like to write porn, or not write porn, I'm happy with both. I do prefer emotional sex over anything rough, please, and if the sex is fun and light with an emotional foundation, I'm a happy camper.

Request 2: Zootopia

Ship: Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde

These two are just wonderful! I love their relationship: it's deep and emotional and based on a solid foundation of friendship.

And I ship them. Am I concerned this movie might have turned me into a furry? Eh, I've been in fandom too long to care about that!

I'd love to find out what these two are up to after the movie, or between them cracking the big case and Nick's graduation into the police. Would I like to see romance between these two? Yep! But I’d love to see their strong friendship as that relationship’s foundation.

How do they get together? Who admits their feelings to who? Do they both spend time stressing when they realise how they feel about the other person? Are they terrified to admit it in case it ruins the friendship and work partnership? How does the other one find out about how they feel?

I love happy (or at least hopeful) endings to stories, and I’m a sucker for hurt/comfort and loving, caring touches (both during sex and just in general, everyday life).

If you'd like to write porn, or not write porn, I'm happy with both. I do prefer emotional sex over anything rough, please, and (particularly in het sex scenes) I like to read about a man who knows how to show a lady a good time, and who uses his whole body (especially his tongue, both with words and the physical use of it). Winkwink! Basically, if sex is fun and light with an emotional foundation, I'm a happy camper.

Request 3: The Martian - All Media Types (preference for the 2015 film)

Ship: Mark Watney & the Ares III crew

I was really surprised by how much I loved this movie. The book had been recommended to me, and I still need to read it, but I just loved Mark and how important his relationships are to him and his story, despite the fact he is alone on Mars for about 98% of the film’s running time.

Mark is obviously incredibly intelligent, and obviously loves his crew. It’s clear they had a close, loving bond with each other, and that the crew all love and care about Mark, too. The crew are devastated when they think he has died, and blame themselves, and vote unanimously to go back for him, despite the time and resources it takes (and that they’re technically going against orders, and do so more than once in order to ensure he gets back to them safely).

I’d love to know what happens once he’s back on the ship with them. He hasn’t seen another living being in 18 months, and hearing their voices for the first time (the first voices he’s heard in 18 months, too) reduced him to understandable tears of joy while he was waiting in the lander. He’s emotionally damaged, touch-deprived, incredibly stressed, and slowly starving to death. How do the crew react to the state he’s in? How do they help him? How do they help him to adjust, to eat normally again, to be able to talk to others again, to be able to touch others again?

These guys are very much a found family, and I’m happy for it to be genfic, or for Mark to be paired with either Melissa Lewis or Chris Beck. Please no OT3s. But sex isn’t necessary: I’d love to look into their emotions, and for the focus to be on connection. I don’t think Mark’s system would respond well to the entire crew touching his bare skin all at once for hours on end after he’s been alone for a year and a half, after all.

Request 4: Backstreet Boys

Ships: Kevin Richardson/Nick Carter; Kevin Richardson & Nick Carter; AJ McLean & Kevin Richardson; AJ McLean & Kevin Richardson & Brian Littrell & Nick Carter & Howie Dorough

Ah, the boyband mania of the 1990s and early 2000s! BSB was always my favourite, and as lot of that came from two things: firstly, they could actually sing, and secondly that the relationships between the boys were real and genuine.

Unlike basically all the other bands of the era (and even newer ones, such as One Direction and the Jonas Brothers), these guys are still together after more than 20 years, still making new music, and still touring as a band. Kevin did leave for several years in 2006, but he came back to the band in 2012, and still kept in touch with (and even performed on stage with) the other four guys during that break.

There was some fallout among the group around 2001, when AJ hit his lowest point with his alcohol and substance abuse and depression, and when Nick produced his first solo album. Nick felt the guys weren’t supporting his solo efforts, which hurt and confused him; the other guys felt they hadn’t been told that Nick would be away and unable to work with them as a group for so long. The fact that the record label, Jive, was not communicating things properly to anyone was not realised until later, of course. But the fact that much of the fault here (which was mostly just confusion and hurt caused by misinformation from Jive and general miscommunication) lay with Jive did not come out until later, and the damage was done for the time being. Later, they did sort it out, and all the boys have worked on solo stuff as well as group stuff since.

Relations were strained among the band members for a while: Kevin literally broke down AJ’s hotel room door to stage an intervention in the middle of one of the band’s tours, and infamously told AJ “you are DEAD to me!” if he didn’t get himself cleaned up. AJ credits Kevin with pretty much saving his life, and his ‘brothers’ (the BSB guys) for helping him put his life back together. This was also all in the midst of the exhausting round-the-clock touring for Millennium and Black and Blue, which left everyone exhausted.

When the boys appeared on Oprah to talk about AJ being out of rehab in 2003, the strain between them is clear: Nick had just flown in from London where he was working on his solo album, and barely makes eye contact with the other guys the entire time. AJ is clearly awkward and uncomfortable with this very public reunion when they hadn’t had time to sit down together and talk it out properly. Obviously, they did sort it all out. Jive screwed Nick over rather infamously (Jive focused their publicity machine and money on Justin Timberlake’s first solo effort over Nick’s album, basically throwing Nick to the dogs and placing the blame on him when his album didn’t perform as hoped, especially in comparison to Timberlake’s), and Nick returned to the boys and they all talked it out.

So while BSB were a “manufactured” band to a degree, those relationships that didn’t exist before the band was formed (remember, Kevin and Brian are first cousins) were forged in fire in their early days of endless rehearsals and touring. So I love the dynamic between all five band members. As Howie D says, they love each other like brothers...and often fight as blood brothers do. But they always resolve their differences and end up a stronger unit for it.

So anything about the relationship between all five of the boys would be great, as well as any genfic about Kevin and AJ or Kevin and Nick would be great. I also do ship Kevin and Nick, but of course, only after Nick is an adult.

Kevin has always been my favourite Backstreet Boy, followed by Everyone’s Favourite, Nick. Kevin is the protector and big brother in the band, according to the other members. He ensured AJ went to rehab, stayed there, and got back together. He gave Nick a book many years ago to help him through a dark period, with a handwritten note inside. Nick still has the book, and treasures it. Kevin gave it as a peace offering when he realised that Jive were mostly to blame for the issues with Nick’s workload during the recording of his solo album and was immediately supportive.

There are blood families who aren’t as functional as these guys! And I’d just love to see anything about their bond.

Request 5: Futurama

Ship: Philip J. Fry/Turanga Leela

I love these two way more than I probably should. Fry is immature, irresponsible, and sometimes unforgivably stupid. Yet he loves Leela, and he does so unselfishly. He doesn’t whine and stamp his foot and yell, “but I’m such a nice guy! Why won’t she go out with me?!”

When Leela refuses to date him, he accepts it. He always does ask her again, of course, at a later time, but doesn’t believe that he is entitled to Leela’s affection and love purely because he’s nice to her. Which is really refreshing. Yes, he wants her. But he wants her to be happy more.

I do think the writers of DVD movies or the second run of Futurama didn’t handle Fry and Leela’s relationship once they started dating as well as they either could or should have. What brought Fry to his final realisation that he still loved Leela aboce everyone else in Into the Wild Green Yonder, after their relationship was completely ignored in Bender’s Game? And, more importantly, why did Leela have her realisation in Into the Wild Green Yonder that she did love Fry?

The first episode of the Comedy Central run of the show, Rebirth, was great and really handled their relationship well, but it was pretty patchy after that. some episodes handled it well (The Late Philip J Fry is a standout), others didn’t (In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela, I’m looking at you!), and it just seemed like the writers couldn’t decided what to do when the relationship was portrayed as so on-and-off. Although Meanwhile, the (current) series finale, was nicely done.

But the writers, likely through executive meddling, just said, “fuck it!” during the last season, and put Leela and Fry together as a couple without showing any of the growth that Fry and Leela both should have had to go through in order for a relationship between them to work at all. Basically, Fry would have to mature at least a bit, and Leela would probably have to learn to relax at least a bit. Remember, Leela has said point-blank that she loves Fry’s “boyish charm” but finds his childishness a major turn-off. Leela did, however, fall for Lars, who was simply an older (and importantly, more emotionally mature) Fry in Bender’s Big Score (which is, hands down, one of my favourite bits of Futurama ever and my favourite of the DVD films).

So basically, I’d love to see these two have some more time together. I don’t mind when. Earlier in the series, before they’re a couple: why and when did Fry first figure out he was in love with Leela, and not just in lust? What happens after Meanwhile? Do they still get married? When and why and how during the series does Leela realise she’s in love with Fry? What makes her willing to take the leap and the risk? Where are they in ten years’ time? What would have happened had Lars not died, and he and Leela got married? Would Leela and/or Fry ever have found out who Lars really was?

Go nuts!

Request 6: Mulan

Ship: Fa Mulan/Li Shang

Request 7: Beauty and the Beast

Ship: Belle/Prince Adam

I love strong, well-rounded, well-written characters who just happen to be female. They move through life without needing to be married or to have a boyfriend just because they’re meant to. They have their own dreams and ideas. They’re educated and well-read. And they’re awesome.

Mulan and Belle are two such characters, and it’s no coincidence that I loved them both when I was growing up. Mulan’s relationship with Shang, in particular, was very much the result of the events of the film, wherein Mulan takes control of her own destiny and does not spend the film mooning over Shang or trying to get his attention. She certainly thinks he’s attractive, but it’s not “love at first sight”. She wants Shang to be impressed and proud of her abilities as a soldier whom he fights alongside, not for him to fall in love with her. Which he does anyway. (And probably after a period of thinking, “holy crap! Am I gay?!).

But that’s not the point.

Marriage and romance are not her main goals in the film. The only time she even thinks about marriage is when she’s sent to the matchmaker, and that’s only because she has to go, not because she wants to. Mulan’s main goal in the film is to fight in her father’s place, because she believes he is too ill to fight having been injured in previous wars he fought for his country. Her only other real goals in the film is to fight well and defend her country, and then to get home in one piece.

Belle is the same: she has no interest in marriage, refusing Gaston’s proposal both when he shows up at her door with the whole village in tow, and when he threatens to have her father, Maurice, falsely imprisoned in an asylum unless she marries Gaston.

The Beast (originally a human prince named Adam) is cursed by an Enchantress to spend all time as a Beast unless he can learn to love, and earn someone’s love in return, before the enchanted rose loses all its petals. Adam must find love during the film. But all Belle wants to do is save her father, and then to get home to him. She has bigger fish to fry than marriage.

The film is problematic, to say the least, when it comes to the whole Adam-imprisoning-Belle-in-his-castle, Stockholm-Syndrome thing. But he does let her go, even when it is against his best interests to do so. Adam does save her from the wolves when she leaves the castle (although it is creepy to think he ran out after her if he didn’t already know she was in danger, which he may have thanks to the magic mirror). Belle takes Adam back to the castle to tend his wounds after he saves her from the wolves, even though she could have left him for dead. And she does come back to save him when she realises he is in danger when the villagers are storming the castle. So they get bonus points for that.

But how do they navigate marriage? How long was their engagement? I doubt Belle is the type to get married straight away, and that wedding must have taken some planning. How does Adam adjust to being human again? As a prince, does he actually rule over the kingdom Belle lives in? Where are his parents? How do the staff adjust to being human again?

Request 8: Aladdin

Ships: Aladdin & Genie; Aladdin/Genie; Jasmine & Rajah; Jasmine & Sultan of Agrabah; Abu & Rajah & Carpet & Iago; Genie & Iago

Jasmine was another of my favourite Strong Ladies when I was a little girl, although marriage was a goal she was required (by law, no less) to meet during the story. But her main goal was actually to live life on her own terms, rather than to be married. She tells her father, “if I do marry, I want it to be for love”. Which distresses her father, who clearly loves her, and clearly thinks what he’s doing is best for her: if she is married, he believe she will always be taken care of and provided for, even if something happens to him. Their world is hardly welcoming to women, after all. (As if ours is!)

However, in the end, the Sultan realises his error and changes the law: Jasmine may now marry “whomever she deems worthy”. She may she she chooses Aladdin as soon as the words leave her father’s mouth, but the two do not marry for some time, and in the sequel films and TV series, Jasmine joins Aladdin on his adventures, and is (rarely) the damsel in distress, which is refreshing.

I’d love to see any genfic between Jasmine and her father, or between Jasmine and Rajah, her devoted friend and companion. How did Jasmine come to have Rajah, anyway?

The bond between Abu, Rajah, Iago and Carpet (particularly in the sequel films and TV series) is interesting, as is the relationship between Genie and Iago, so any genfic exploring their hijinks or chill time would be great.

But the relationship that carries this series is certainly that between the Genie and Aladdin. The Genie is the first person who believes in Aladdin. Jafar may know Aladdin is the Diamond in the Rough, but doesn’t care about what that means beyond the Cave of Wonders allowing Aladdin to enter it. But the Genie (and, later, Jasmine) see Aladdin for who he truly is: a good-hearted person who has been dealt some tough cards via accident of birth.

I’m be happy for genfic between the Genie and Aladdin at any point - before, during or after the film and series - or for slash between the two but only after the Genie has been freed of his servitude by Aladdin. These two clearly love each other, after all.

Request 9: Star Trek: TNG

Ships: Jean-Luc Picard/Q; Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker; William Riker & Thomas Riker; Jean-Luc Picard & William Riker; Data & Jean-Luc Picard; Data/Geordi La Forge

This was the very first Star Trek series I ever watched, and I discovered it purely by accident. To say I was thrilled when I discovered there was a whole franchise of TV series and films is putting it mildly. My parents are not sci-fi orientated at all, which is just weird, considering how much I love it.

I love these characters, and how they are very much a family. It’s far more of an ensemble show that TOS was, which focused on thew triad of Kirk, Spock and Bones more than anything else.

I love Picard, even when he’s being a moody grump, and how he relates to Q, Riker and Data are some of my favourite moments in the series. I slash Picard and Q, and Picard and Will Riker, as well as Geordi and Data (who are also adorable as besties). I love how Geordi helps Data to understand things and is patient with him (espeically when it comes to that damn emotion chip). I love that Data recognises that Geordi is important to him, and is one of the most important and treasured people in his life. Any fic featuring any of these relationships would be great. Although if focus on the power Q has over Picard as an all-powerful entity, and the power Picard has over Riker as the captain could be avoided, that would be great, please.

One minor character I find fascinating is Thomas Riker, Will Riker’s transporter-malfunction created duplicate. I was furious he was only in one episode of TNG and would love to know what happens next to him, including how he goes forward in his relationship with Will and also with Deanna Troi. What would have happened had Thomas stayed on the Enterprise for longer? What happened to him when he was stranded alone for eight years?

Request 10: Star Trek: TOS

Ships: James T. Kirk (TOS)/Spock; James T. Kirk/Spock & Leonard McCoy

What can I say? I am a Trekkie stereotype: I love Star Trek, I love my ‘ships, I love my slash, and I very much grok Spock (paired with Kirk). Ahem.

I love these two characters. I love the depth of their friendship. I love that they are th’y’’la and that Gene Roddenberry (Trek’s creator, for any newbies) created this word and defined it the way he did. I love that Kirk accepts Spock wholly and completely (even when Spock is being so very Vulcan), and that Spock does the same in return, despite his Vulcan training to feel no emotions. In Devil in the Dark, Spock infamously spouts comments about treating the rampaging Horta with care and to not harm it...until the Horta turns her attentions to Kirk, and almost mamims and kills him. Then Spock blows his top and screeches for the Horta to be blown apart before it can hurt Jim Kirk. And do we even need to go into Amok Time, or the hand-holding in The Motion Picture? I think not.

I love the Shat. I love Leonard Nimoy. I love DeForrest Kelley, who is so underappreciated. And damn if Shat weren’t hot when he was a pup. So yep, anything slashy between Kirk and Spock would be great. Before the series, during the series, between the series and the films, during the films, after them. Don’t mind. Go nuts! How do they become a couple? What do other members of the crew think? What does Bones think? (I am a sucker for outsider POVs regarding my favourite characters and couples).

In closing: thank you so much!

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