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I am also an unashamed Christian!
Things to know about me:
FIRST THINGS FIRST, I am a proud member of the Rogue Squadron, so jot that down >:)))
(basically, we like to spam our friends for fun. so you might see me spamming the replies and even reblogging several posts in a row)
Second, I write fanfics :))) I have fics for Hamilton, Star Wars, ATLA, and Wednesday. Drop by if you want HERE!
Genres I write: Fluff, friendship, healing, hurt/comfort, whump, angst, romance
and here's my YouTube where I post my edits!
Here's things I enjoy:
Writing, Musicals, Books, good wholesome comedy, chocolate, pretty gifsets, editing videos, etc.!
Things I'm posting a lot about ATM:
The Phantom of the Opera (specifically POTO@RAH, Raoulstine and HadleyRaoul), Hadley Fraser (and a decent amount of Ramin Karimloo), musicals in general, HTTYD, Narnia, Star Wars, writing related stuff, random stuff I find funny, and Christian things.
And Things I like!:
The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, HTTYD (including all the series and the third movie), Cobra Kai, Studio C, Jk! Studios, their Freelancers series, Manifest, Wednesday, the Addams Family, His Dark Materials (the show), Avatar: The Last Airbender, My Adventures with Superman, Star Wars (excluding sequel trilogy sorry), Spider-Man (personal fave are the TASM and Spiderverse movies), Back to the Future, Over The Garden Wall, Daredevil, Batfam (Wayne Family Adventures!), NBC'S Timeless, Wings of Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Artemis Fowl, Ducktales (2017), Hamilton, Newsies, Anastasia, Lego: Ninjago, TMNT (2012), Harry Potter, and more that I cannot remember right now!
Where I am considering some of these fandoms:
I'm a Tyler Galpin apologist but NOT an Xavier Thorpe hater. I am also a HadleyRaoul—and Raoul de Chagny in general—defender, and a Raoulstine shipper (BUT I love the Phantom/Erik and do not dislike him by any means 🥺), and I generally don't acknowledge Love Never Dies much. My favorite cast of Studio C is the original cast (including Tori, Dalton and Aaron) but I still enjoy some of the sketches from the new cast. I also love the Star Wars original trilogy and the prequel trilogy, but not really the sequels. I don't mind the third HTTYD movie and I love all the HTTYD series. My favorite Spider-Man movies are the TASM ones, and Andrew Garfield is my fav Spider-Man/Peter Parker. Yes I love both Narnia and His Dark Materials.
Ships I love:
Hiccstrid (HTTYD), Raoulstine (Phantom of the Opera), Zekeaela (Manifest), Silverparry (His Dark Materials), Wyler/Weyler (Wednesday), Petroclair (Wednesday), Clois (My Adventures With Superman), Peter and Gwen (TASM), Jaya (Ninjago), Lyatt (Timeless), Gomez and Morticia (The Addams Family)
YouTubers I watch:
Andrew Burriss, DanTDM, The Merrell Twins, Aaron Burriss, Moriah Elizabeth, and Sam Tabor
Some other people I'm a fan of:
Hadley Fraser, Ramin Karimloo, Andrew Garfield, Charlie Cox, The entire cast of Jk! Studios (aka the OG Studio C cast), David Tennant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy Jordan
Fandoms I've written for so far (and the links to their respective lists):
Hamilton: An American Musical
Star Wars
Wednesday
More lists to come!
Here's some fics I have in progress!
WOE IS WE (Wednesday)
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me before today: I don't really get the Clex as a ship, but that's ok, it doesn't have to be for me. I'm not *very* into Superman media of any kind anyway.
me after seeing some of the gifsets you reblogged: ... 😳😳👀👀👀👀 *frantically googles where to watch Smallville*
It's currently on Hulu, if u have it. 😆
Look, when a dynamic starts with one running the other off a bridge, only to be rescued and receive the kiss of life from said other, it's very compelling. I still love all the Clana and Clois drama, but Clex is just soo complex and layered!!
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Okay, so, trying to weed through the reasons Last Twilight is losing me emotionally, and it turns out there are more than I thought.
Please note that there's still a lot I like about this show! I'll still keep watching it! This is just about the negative stuff while I sort out my feelings.
On the other hand, the negative stuff is NEGATIVE, so read at your own peril!
1. I'm not sure I buy these two as boyfriends. The initial banter was great, but now they're together, and they still feel like chums.
2. Follow-up: I'm not convinced, in general, that they're strong enough actors for this story. There have been plenty of shows for me that manage to sell ridiculous plots through strong performances. This show is the other way around: it's fairly solid but demands a LOT of its actors, and sometimes I just don't buy the result.
3. Acknowledging that I may just be expecting too much, because it's Aof and I've been waiting for it for so long. But looking back, there was quite a bit in his other shows that was sold by the performances, and now I retroactively question my judgement of those shows too, which makes me sad.
4. I don't like the Mee story. I enjoyed the Little Prince reference in episode 1 because it's a book I'm already familiar with and emotionally invested in, but Mee's story just feels cloying and manipulative. It feels like they don't trust the scenes well enough on their own and have to add commentary to make sure I have the right reactions to them. And then I still don't! Because I resent being told what to feel!
5. We're hitting a lot of disability clichés, which maybe wouldn't be so bad if they weren't treated as profound. Again, I feel like I'm being emotionally manipulated, rather than allowed to arrive at those emotions on my own.
(Sidenote: the trope of a blind person touching someone's face to "see" them was pretty much ruined for me by one of those "ask a blind person" segments, where they went, "Yeah, we don't do that," except for one guy who went, "I do it to pick up sighted girls, they love that stuff.")
6. We are completely losing Mhok's story in the process. Maybe we'll get back to it later, IDK, but right now he serves primarily as the "inexperienced able-bodied person teaching disabled person how to live their own damn life" trope that I have already talked about hating.
7. A lot will still depend on where this story is heading. (If they do magical healing I am done. I think they won't, but I don't trust it.)
8. Some fan reactions are making it worse, especially in the youtube comments, where they really lean into the most maudlin interpretations.
9. Things like the dad showing up just feels like they drop melodrama in there for the sake of it, and without being willing to properly engage with it. Compare and contrast Jam's appearance in Moonlight Chicken, where the emotions felt so much more honest and well handled... but again, better actors...
10. The way Day projects his own shitty driving onto Night isn't WRONG for the series, it may even be GOOD, but it did put me in a bad mood that may have influenced my ability to engage with the rest of the episode.
11. Nitpicking, but I just don't get them giving Last Twilight as a wedding gift. I mean, obviously I get it on a symbolic level, but on a practical level, why would you give a book to the person who recommended it to you, and so presumably already has it? And why would you give a book missing its last page to anyone?
12. With everything else stacking up, that final scene on the mountain just felt like someone was spraying whipped cream into my mouth while blasting "Memory" on high volume = may be a high point for others, just makes me feel like I'm choking on dairy and violins.
ETA 13: A MLC gifset just reminded me – the product placements in Last Twilight really feel shoehorned in.
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★ My edits / gifsets tag is #.my work ★
In this blog, you might find various content, including but not limited to mainly Star Wars, DC & Marvel comics+media, Doctor Who, Stargate, Metal Gear, Yakuza.
I might share content suit for mature audiences so beware!
I try to tag everything I can. You can reach all my tags on my navi page.
-> You can call me Mel
-> If you somehow found me from my art account be ready to be disappointed, roam at your own risk
-> If you don't want to see my ramblings in your dash, you could silence #.me talk (+ #thoughts just to be safe).
-> I will fix the navi page on browser one day just trust me :)
Some thoughts on my fandoms that I think could make you rethink your decision if you really want to give me a follow...
First of all, I am a multishipper. I don't really care what anyone ships. I just care about mine.
STAR WARS: I don't think the sequels were that bad. Fandom's treatment of TROS is too overreacting imo, that movie was just trying to pick up the shambles left from TLJ. I've shipped Reylo ever since TFA dropped. I also love FinnRey a lot. Luke and Obi-Wan are my favorite SW characters. Ahsoka is overrated. SWR was awesome and it's one of my favorite animated series. I silenced DinLuke so take what you want out of that.
DC: I didn't like The Batman (2022). I like my Riddler corny and campy. Gotham and Stargirl are my favorite DC series but I also enjoyed most of Smallville. I ship Batman with like everyone but my favorites are with Superman, Wonder Woman, GL (Hal). The only ones I don't really prefer are with Selina and Talia. I love Silver Age stories - BATB was so good. I also love JSA a lot. Love Clois also.
MG: I don't participate in the Kojima circlejerk - I am grateful for him to give us a series like this though. I particularly have a problem with his handling of some stuff, especially female characters in his stories. I love Solid Snake and Raiden the most and will do everything to defend them lol. I also love Liquid Snake and think Solidus is hot. I don't really care that much about Big Boss and the games surrounding him tbh. Otasune is canon also Ocelhira is a lot of fun. BBKaz just for angst purposes, I like it.
Yakuza: Kiryu Kazuma is my mans. I love him with all my heart. I also love Date a lot. I ship Rikiryu the most I guess, but I don't really mind other ships. If you think Kiryu is boring... idk what to tell you.
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