#f the 911 writers

[pluto-rainstorm]

Raise your hand if you're mad/upset/disappointed!! 🙋‍♀️

#we could've had it all and look what we got #911onfox #you suck #f the 911 writers #evan buckley #you deserve better #buddie #the couch theory #evan buck buckley

[fromxxthexxashes]

Lonestar fans: *Sad that they have to wait until fall 2024 for s5*

Meanwhile, OG 911 fans: Yeah, there’s a chance we might not even get a s7, and the last episode ever could possibly be 6x18, which is almost unanimously the most hated ep of the entire series. It’s fine though.

(PSA: This is happening because the AMPTP is refusing to meet and come to an agreement with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA about fairly compensating their workers)

#no hate to LS fans #I just wish that I could have the same comfort of certainty you have #as a casual LS fan I’m very happy I’ll see those characters again #even if it’s later than we thought #all hate to the AMPTP btw #those guys suck #also f*ck b*b iger #pay your writers #pay your actors #support the strikes #911 show #911 abc #911 on fox #911 lone star #911 ls

[sibylsleaves]

The 911 fic writer’s guide to LA

I asked if anyone would be interested in a short little guide to LA for fic-writing reference, and surprisingly I got a lot of replies. I lived in LA for 20 years so while I’m not an EXPERT per se I thought there might be some knowledge I could share for people who want more info about the city of Los Angeles to add a bit of realism to their fics. I can’t cover everything, so this is just a sampling of stuff that may or may not be useful. I got some additional help from @swiftiesisters14​ who added some great insights and details. YMMV of course! 

Weather and climate: for the most part, yes, it is very warm and sunny in L.A. the majority of the year. Rain is very uncommon, especially from May - October, and when it does come it usually lasts a couple days up to maybe a week on and off. Rainstorms and thunderstorms are very rare. It does not snow but it does, very rarely, hail. Within a few miles of the ocean, mornings will be quite cold and cloudy thanks the marine layer–this is true even in the summer. “June Gloom” is a phenomenon in LA where we get a lot of cloudy weather in May/June (usually just in the morning although it can sometimes last all day). It can get fairly cold at night during the winter (though almost never below freezing). Even during the summer, nights aren’t as warm as you might imagine, as the dry air makes temperatures drop quicker once the sun goes down (if your characters are going anywhere during a warm day and expect to be there until night, they will most likely bring a jacket). 

There’s a HUGE difference in weather/temperature between the coastal parts of the city and areas further east (and especially into the Valley, where it is frequently over 100 F degrees in the summer). Closer to the ocean, highs typically don’t break 90 unless there’s a heat wave, lows typically stay above 50 except for some nights in the winter. September is often the hottest month of the year (this surprises a lot of people). This also coincides with wildfire season, which used to be roughly September-October, but has started earlier and earlier and lasts later and later into the fall (hello climate change).

Most people from LA are fairly sensitive to the cold and will definitely wear jackets and such the minute it drops below 68 degrees. Many Angelenos do not own a proper winter coat or snow boots or rain boots. Air conditioning is very common in homes and businesses, so hot days are less of an issue if you’re staying indoors. The heat here is DRY, so if you’re used to sticky East Coast heat, this is a totally different beast. Hot weekend days result in swamped beaches and tons of beach traffic. When it DOES rain, even just a little drizzle, the entire city tends to go fucking nuts, and everyone forgets how to drive (a stereotype that is unfortunately very accurate). I imagine the 118 gets LOTS of calls on rainy days because Angelenos just do not understand how to deal with rain. 

Santa Ana winds: you may have heard of these. they suck. Basically an extremely hot, extremely dry, extremely high-speed wind that blows into LA for a week/up to a few weeks at a time and make your allergies go crazy. Trust me, it’s miserable. It usually happens in fall, although they can happen at other times of the year (and doesn’t necessarily happen every year. They’re unpredictable). A weather advisory will go out discouraging from making outdoor fires/doing fire-related activities during this time, as fires can spread extremely rapidly in these conditions. The Santa Anas have a somewhat mythological status in LA, because people sort of think they make people crazy and unpredictable (i mean, it’s not hard to see why--who wouldn’t be irritable in these conditions?) In addition to the Santa Anas, wind storms in general are not uncommon, especially in fall, and winds can cause a lot of damage to powerlines/trees/etc.

Wildfire season: Usually at its peak in September/October, can last all the way into December some years. Areas that are susceptible to burning are the hilly/mountainous areas that surround LA, including Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains, Malibu, etc. Even if there is a fire that’s miles and miles away, depending on winds it can cause the air in LA to be very smoky and dangerous to breathe. There can sometimes be ash literally falling from the sky...like you go to your car and it’s just coated in ash. Again, this doesn’t happen every year but it’s becoming more and more frequent. 2020 was a particularly bad wildfire year.

Water: California has basically been in one giant drought for the past two decades. Water conservation is a big deal, especially in LA which literally imports a lot of its water. There’s restrictions on when/how long/how you water your lawn. When conditions get really bad, they will place restrictions on commercial water features (fountains and the like) and do stuff like make it so that restaurants only serve you water if you ask for it. There’s always stuff about shortening showers/washing dishes more efficiently/etc. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily something Angelenos think about on a day-to-day basis but it is part of living in LA.

Earthquakes: small earthquakes happen fairly frequently and most people won’t even notice them (what often happens is you’ll be sitting there and you’ll be like was that an earthquake? And then you google whether there was an earthquake nearby). Occasionally a small-to-medium earthquake might wake you up in the middle of the night. Larger earthquakes that actually cause injuries/fatalities are much rarer. 

Driving and Traffic: traffic in L.A. is no joke. If your characters are driving virtually anywhere during the afternoon, they WILL be stuck in traffic or they will worry about getting stuck in traffic. Fridays are the absolute worst traffic days. Something can be “10 minutes away” and take half an hour to actually drive. (For instance, Buck’s drive to get to Eddie’s? during peak traffic hours that could take easily 30-40 minutes). Traffic is a huge consideration in most Angelenos daily lives–-there are certain places you just DO NOT GO during certain hours of the day if you can avoid it, or you have to budget in extra time in case there’s bad traffic. Gridlock in main arteries of the city is extremely common.

LA drivers are known to be aggressive, decisive, and rude. If you display a single second of hesitation or indecisiveness on the road (whether thats making a turn or changing lanes or running a yellow) you WILL get honked at. Maybe this is why Eddie prefers to have Buck drive him around. Pedestrians on the other hand are incredibly timid and cautious. You will almost never see people in LA jaywalking the way they do in East Coast cities. 

A common topic of conversation in LA is various driving routes (yes, it’s a stereotype, but at least when I lived there it was true). Why? Because it is essential to know multiple routes to get from place to place because one or more of them will be congested, and knowing alternate routes can be a lifesaver (although everyone uses apps now, but that is its own topic of discussion amongst Angelenos.)

Freeways are referred to as “the ___” (so the 10, the 405, the 101, the 5, etc. Although the Pacific Coast Highway is just PCH--almost no one calls it the 1). There are very few toll roads in LA--in fact, I don’t know of any.

Parking in L.A. also sucks, and knowledge of little-known, cheap and/or questionably legal places to park in popular neighborhoods is social capital. Restaurants with valet parking outside are very common in certain upscale neighborhoods (Cher Horowitz was right about that).

Public Transportation: has improved somewhat over the past decade when they built out the Metro a little, but is still pretty paltry and inconvenient given the size of the city. L.A. remains a very driving-heavy city. Truthfully, in my 20 years of living in LA i almost never took public transportation except when I was too young to drive and took the bus. LA is also not a very bike-friendly city, and there are only a few streets with dedicated bike lanes. BUT you will often see people biking on dedicated bike paths near the beach.

Geography of the city: It’s hard to fathom just how big and sprawling LA actually is unless you’ve lived here or another geographically huge city like it. You can spend your whole life living in L.A. and there will be parts of the city you have never set foot in and know virtually nothing about (and that is partially because traffic makes getting around to these different enclaves extremely arduous). It is a sprawling behemoth, like six or seven cities smushed into one. And actually, there ARE in fact five other cities/unincorporated communities that exist within the borders of Los Angeles: Santa Monica, Culver City, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Marina del Rey, as well as surrounding municipalities that many people consider “L.A.” (such as Compton, Pasadena, Santa Clarita, Malibu, Long Beach, Burbank, Glendale, etc. etc.) As it would be impossible to run through every neighborhood in L.A., here are just a few popular areas near the downtown area where the 118 firehouse is (apparently) located. This is roughly moving east-west but you can look at a map for more precise geography:

Downtown: definitely the most dense “urban-y” part of L.A. with tons of skyscrapers, high-rises, etc. Downtown LA is huge, with lots of sub-neighborhoods and districts, including the Fashion district, Chinatown, Skid Row, and Little Tokyo. Like any downtown, there are a lot of attractions here, like the convention center, sports arenas, theaters and music venues, nightlife etc. This is where Buck’s loft is according to this helpful guide and based on the establishing shot they use, which includes the East Columbia building, a notable Art Deco building that is smack downtown. (It’s the greenish building with the clock on it that you can see in many episodes). To the southwest of downtown is where you’ll find the University of Southern California (USC) where May is starting college.

Silverlake/LA River area: includes Silver Lake, Echo Park (home to Dodger Stadium), Los Feliz, Little Armenia, Westlake and the Griffith Park area (home to the LA Zoo). To be honest I don’t know this area very well because I lived in West LA and didn’t spend a lot of time over here, and also it has gentrified quite a bit. Silver Lake is pretty artsy and trendy, with a lot of small local businesses, and also has historical ties to the LGBT community so there are lots of queer-friendly bars and community spaces. 

Koreatown (aka K-Town): pretty cool/trendy neighborhood that was historically home to L.A.’s large Korean immigrant population. The makeup of this neighborhood now is actually a majority Latine, but you’ll still find a lot of Korean food and markets in K-Town. A very commercial area with lots of bars, restaurants, clubs, and shops as well as apartments. Koreatown has an extremely fascinating history, which I will not go into here.

Hollywood: super touristy, this is where you can find the walk of fame (the stars with celebrities names on them), the Chinese Theater, and like, Ripley’s Believe or Not museum. Used to be where most of the major film studios had their studios, but most of them have moved. Best place in Hollywood in MY opinion is the Hollywood Bowl, which is a beautiful outdoor concert venue tucked into the hills.

West Hollywood: a fairly upscale residential and shopping area, but not a bougie as Beverly Hills and not as touristy as Hollywood. West Hollywood is actually its own city/town (although Hollywood is NOT), and is well-known as a historically LGBT+ village/district (historically much of L.A.’s gay population lived here...these days it’s a bit more complicated thanks to gentrification.) As such it’s got a little more of an “alternative” reputation than Hollywood and Beverly Hills, although to be honest it’s lost a lot of its “edge” so to speak. This is where you’ll find the Sunset Strip (historic nightlife area on Sunset Blvd--I would say its more touristy nightlife). Nearby you’ll also find The Grove shopping center, and the La Brea tarpits and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), both of which are popular field trip destinations.

Beverly Hills: actually a separate city from LA but it’s kind of right in the middle of it. Very upscale. Home to Rodeo Drive, Lots of upscale shopping, big beautiful houses, luxury hotels, trendy restaurants, etc. It’s basically where all the rich people live and hang out and it’s very, like, bougie and curated. Parts of Beverly Hills are in fact hilly, but most of the commercial areas are flat.

West LA: Lots of smaller residential neighborhoods interspersed with commercial corridors (this is where I’m from). You’ll find Sawtelle Japantown here (kind of a smaller Little Tokyo with Japanese markets and shops), as well as “Little Tehran”/Tehrangeles (lots of Persian markets, shops and restaurants. There’s a large community of Iranian-Americans in this part of the city and you’ll definitely see signs in Persian/Farsi.) Brentwood is another upperclass/rich people neighborhood around here, as well as UCLA’s campus in Westwood. I believe according to this guide that Eddie, Bobby and Athena, and potentially Hen and Karen all live near West LA (looks like Athena and Bobby’s house might be in Culver City? idk)

Culver City: another city within LA. Culturally speaking I’d say Culver city is pretty much like West LA and it has gentrified a LOT in the past decade or so. Idk what else to say about Culver City...it has a romance-centered independent bookstore called The Ripped Bodice. And an ice rink!

Santa Monica: this is slightly further afield but still significant because Santa Monica is where the closest beaches are located, and is obviously home to the Santa Monica Pier (RIP). Parts of Santa Monica are pretty trendy and upscale, and is also kind of “business-y” because a lot of entertainment companies are headquartered here. 3rd Street Promenade is a pedestrian-only shopping district that’s quite popular, with 3 blocks of shops, restaurants, movie theaters, and more. Lots of buskers and street performers. A popular hangout for families and youths (or at least it was when I was a youth). There’s also a huge mall at one end of it. 

Other beach communities: Venice Beach (has a very weed and art and hippies vibe, and is where you’ll find the boardwalk with lots of artisan stalls and shops), Marina Del Rey (lots of restaurants and boats and water-based activities), the Palisades (beautiful oceanside cliffy/hilly neighborhood where lots of rich people live), Malibu (very bougie, touristy, and upscale.)

LAX: not a neighborhood, but I thought I’d include the infamous airport of Los Angeles. (There are actually something like 4-5 other nearby airports, but LAX is the biggest). LAX is kind of infamously terrible, because it’s huge, often congested, annoying to navigate, and not very well-planned. Getting in and out during peak travel times can be a nightmare. Driving someone to/from LAX is a true act of love (I only do it for my most beloved family members and friends). The best thing I can say about LAX is that there’s an iconic art installation as you drive in/out, which are these pillars that light up in different colors. 

The Valley: directly north of the other areas I just covered. Referred to as one entity by people who don’t live there, but the Valley is actually comprised of many different cities, including LA, Burbank, Calabasas, and San Fernando. It is MUCH hotter here than the rest of LA and a little more suburban-y. My experience of the Valley as someone who does NOT live there is mainly “ugh I have to drive to the Valley.” AKA, it’s to be avoided. Burbank has its own airport and a lot of the film studios are headquartered there.

Demographics: L.A. is one of the most diverse cities in the world. About a quarter of residents of Los Angeles are white (non-hispanic). Latine people make up about half the population (mainly Mexican and Mexican-Americans). There are also sizable Black, East Asian (mainly Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), Arabic, and South Asian populations. Additionally, LA is home to the largest concentration of Armenians and Iranians outside of Armenia and Iran, respectively. There is a significant and diverse Jewish population.

Food: as you might imagine, the huge amount of diversity in L.A. means the food is equally diverse (and extremely delicious). You can find almost any kind of cuisine in L.A., but common types of cuisine include: sushi,  thai, Persian (my personal favorite food to get in LA), chinese, pizza, Jewish delis, shawarma, pho, Korean BBQ (particularly in K-Town) and of course, tacos and other Mexican food, along with your standard “American” fare like burgers (you might find yourself wondering why everyone is so obsessed with In-N-Out even though their french fries are such garbage....), seafood (lots of nice-ish seafood places near the beach where the food is overpriced bc you’re really paying for the view), sandwiches (Bay Cities my beloved <3), etc. as well as lots of trendy fusion cuisine. Additionally, everyone who lives in LA has gone to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles at least once their life--it is an institution. 

Housing: Expensive. I mean, what did you expect? Single-family homes are quite common in LA vs. apartment buildings and condos. In addition, there is a HUGE population of unhoused people in Los Angeles (in fact it ranks No. 2 for the highest number of people experiencing homelessness in the US). I won’t go into all the political hows and whys here, but this is a huge humanitarian crisis and a powder-keg issue amongst LA residents.

Most houses have a backyard and a front lawn and may or may not have a fence/gate. Few houses have basements. I don’t really know why that is. 

Lots of houses and apartment complexes have pools, but mainly in richer/upper-class neighborhoods who can afford the upkeep. Many LA parks have a community pool. Some schools even do, too.

Trees and flowers: I personally like knowing what kind of plants there are in any given setting, so here are some noteworthy trees and flowers found in LA:

Palm trees -- of course. The classic. Particularly common to the Venice, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills areas, but you can find them all over. There are actually a lot of different types, but the most common is the extremely tall skinny Mexican fan palm variety.

Jacarandas -- certain neighborhoods in LA will burst into furious purple bloom during jacaranda season (usually April-June) and the sidewalks will be littered with squished flowers for weeks

Ficus trees -- idk maybe these were specific to my neighborhood but we had a LOT of them

Birds of paradise -- I think this is the official flower of LA. Found in a lot of gardens.

Bougainvillea

Night-blooming jasmine -- smells incredible

Other notes: trees don’t really change color in the fall--you might see a few here and there with orange leaves, but for the most part we don’t get that nice fall foliage (nor do we really...have a fall season...). Grass lawns are common in residential areas (sadly) but more and more people are replacing them with succulent gardens and native gardens (yay!).

School: Public schools in LA go Grades K-5 for elementary, 6-8 for Middle School, and 9-12 for High School. The school year starts mid-August and ends mid-June (evidently they changed this since I was in school). Kids get three weeks of vacation for winter break (usually the week before Christmas - week after New Years) and one week for Spring Break (around Easter). 

Sports: there are TOO many sports teams for one city, even one as big as ours (absurdly, four of them share the same arena). They are as follows:

Baseball: the Dodgers are the main L.A. team (who are doing EXTREMELY well this season). They play at Dodger Stadium in Echo Park, and their fans tend to be more die-hard and stalwart. There’s also the Anaheim Angels, which some Angelenos root for, who play...idk somewhere in Anaheim.

Basketball: the Lakers, of course, and the Clippers. They both play at Staples Center which is located downtown (and as of last year is called Crypto.com Arena, ugh). In my experience Lakers fans are the most fair-weather of LA sports fans--they get super intense when the Lakers are good, and when they’re not, well... Clippers fans tend to be more die-hard and less fair-weather because, well, they have to be (sorry). The Sparks are the WNBA team. They ALSO play at the Staples Center (aka Crypto.com Arena but I refuse to call it that).

Hockey: the Kings. They ALSO play at The Stadium Formerly Known as Staples Center. I don’t follow hockey so idk anything else about them.

Football: the Rams and the Chargers. They both play at SoFi stadium in Inglewood (near the airport). Both are recent additions (2016 and 2017 respectively I think). When I lived in LA we had zero football teams and now we have two so I have no idea whats going on there.

Soccer: LAFC (Los Angeles Football Club) who play at the Banc of California Stadium near downtown and LA Galaxy who play at Dignity Health Sports Club near Compton. There is also a women’s team, Angel City FC, who also play at Banc of California Stadium. I know virtually nothing about soccer but hey, the stadium is going to feature heavily in the season 6 premiere!

Hollywood/celebrities/the Film Industry: you will absolutely see celebrities roaming around L.A. from time to time, especially if you frequent certain trendy areas like West Hollywood/Melrose, Santa Monica, Brentwood, etc. I wouldn’t say it’s common, but it’s not super rare. (I’ve seen like a handful of celebrities in the 20 years I lived there.)

You will DEFINITELY see filming happening all around the city. Usually you’ll see signs posted (usually with code names for whatever project it is), trucks, and tons of crewmembers walking around. Occasionally a street or other location might be blocked off for filming, but usually not anything too disruptive.

You will also see those “star-watchers” bus tours (where people go on a tour bus and they like drive around celebrity neighborhoods and look at celebrity houses) in and around the Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and West Hollywood areas. I use to see these tour buses every single day on my commute through Beverly Hills. 

There’s also, of course, many people living in LA who work in the industry or are trying to make it as an actor or writer or what have you. There are disproportionately attractive waiters/baristas in certain parts of LA because many of them are waiting tables to support acting careers. This is a stereotype but it’s also pretty true in my experience.

Studios are kind of sprinkled all over the city--there are some in West LA, some in West Hollywood, but the biggest concentration of studios is in Burbank, which is actually its own city in the Valley.

Places to go: in case you want some ideas for fun outings for fic purposes, here’s a list of places in or within reasonable distance of LA (not an exhaustive list obviously):

Disneyland

Universal Studios

Knott’s Berry Farm (this is a small-ish theme park, not an actual berry farm in case that’s unclear)

Six Flags

The Long Beach Aquarium

The LA Zoo (of course)

The Griffith’s Observatory (and Griffith Park in general)

The Getty Museum (very beautiful museum up in the hills with a gorgeous view of the city)

The Getty Villa (different place, also a museum)

Huntington Gardens/Library/Museum

Walt Disney Concert Hall 

Echo Park Lake (they have SWAN BOATS 🦢)

LA Science Center/Museum of Natural History

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab): this is where Karen works. Located in Pasadena. Once or twice a year they’ll do an open house where you can go and learn all about the types of stuff they’re doing. It’s very cool!

Catalina Island

Various beaches--closest would be Santa Monica, Venice, Will Rogers (Pacific Palisades), Playa Del Rey, Dockweiler (to my knowledge this is the only beach that allows bonfires). A bit further: Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Malibu, Huntington Beach

San Diego! Technically close enough for a day trip, but due to traffic you’d most likely want to stay the night.

Palm Springs (same kind of deal, although I’ve done it as a day trip)

If there’s anything I left out that you want to know about, please shoot me a message and I’ll add it! If you spot any errors, please also let me know. This is based mostly on my knowledge/experience of living in LA, but I did some additional research for stuff I wasn’t sure about or just needed a little more detail on (shout out to @swiftiesisters14 for her help!)

The geography might be a little generalized and I left out a LOT of the city, mostly because I just don’t think anyone wants to read a twenty-page paper on LA neighborhoods. If you want any additional details on a certain area/topic feel free to shoot me a message and I’ll do my best to help.

In general, if you ever have questions about LA while writing fic, I am happy to answer to them (if I can). 

#911 fic writing reference #911 fic writers guide to LA #i actually had so much fun putting this together #no idea if any of it is remotely helpful but hey now you know a little more about LA

[lykaonimagines]

Morning Light - Sherlock Holmes x Reader

Well I’ve never written the character or for the fandom, but I’ve watched and read far too much Sherlock lately and this just sorta happened lol (I will definitely get back to Stephen stuff, just had some writer’s block lately and thought trying something different might help 💙)

Paring: Sherlock Holmes (BBC) x F!Reader

Word Count: 911

Description: Y/N wakes up first on a rare day off for the two, and admires the man she married.

Based on the line “You were a vision in the morning when the light came through,” from Colors by Halsey. 

Other Things: Fluffy fluff. Married couple. Simping over her husband. Few other lines from the song used.

Warnings: Mildly suggestive at the end.

Masterlist

Eyes flickering open to the early morning light in their bedroom, Y/N stretches each muscle out slowly with a content hum.

The comforting hazy warmth of sleep still heavy as she lifts a hand to lazily run along the arm thrown across her bare midriff. Her fingertips tracing each vein and stopping to swirl around every freckle.

Turning her head on the pillow to face the owner of said arm, she’s momentarily frozen as a sharp breath escapes her.

Sherlock had always been an attractive man, a most definite and obvious fact in her mind since the day she first saw him. But at certain moments he still even now left her awestruck.

A soft smile spreads across her face at the scene in front of her. The morning sun streaming through the gap in the curtains onto his face and reflecting in his hair. The light illuminating all the shades of brown and red in his usual near black looking curls.

His long eyelashes brush against the tops of his cheeks on his glowing skin in the light, and the lines on his face nonexistent in the moment. Years of stress seemed to have melted away overnight.

A light dusting of auburn stubble coat his jaw and cheeks, the same shade as the sparse soft hair on the center of his chest.

The sheets sit just at his hip, leaving the rest of his nude form on display. His lithe yet muscular form moving with each slow breath, and pale skin decorated with a litany of scars that each told a story of their own.

He’d once said to her he wasn’t an angel even if he was on their side, but seeing him peacefully stretched out in the early morning glow, he definitely painted the picture of one.  

Turning onto her side carefully in his grasp, she trails her finger slowly up his jaw and along his cheekbone. And as her touch drifts to his nose, it scrunches up and wiggles at the contact.

Moving her hand back to his cheek, she leans forward slowly to press a gentle kiss to the tip of his nose, his eyes fluttering open moments later.

A sleepy smile tugs at his lips as he sees her, his arm around her waist tightening to pull her in flush to his body. “And what do you think you’re doing Mrs. Holmes?” His raspy sleepy voice asks.

“Admiring my husband,” she admits, savoring the splash of color that stains his cheeks at the admission.

“Hm,” he mumbles, his hand drifting slowly along her bare back. “You’ve taken to staring at me while I sleep?”

“I’ve not made it a habit yet, but I might,” she teases and slides her fingers into his messy curls. “The sun was shining down on you in all your beautiful naked glory, it was hard to not be transfixed by the sight. My sleepy-brain was nearly convinced an angel had fallen into my bed in the night.”

His eyes dart away from her own as his blush deepens and he abruptly buries his face into her neck, “Flattery.”

Chuckling against his skin, she shifts to throw her leg up and over his hip to bring him even closer, “You’re a beautiful man, inside and out.”

“Maybe you do believe that about my physical traits, but it’s quite obvious you’re just flattering me on the other.”

“No. I meant what I said,” she gently pulls her nails along his scalp as he makes a contented sound. “The way you think. The way you view the world. The way you’ve opened yourself up to those you’ve let in to love you. You closed yourself off for so long, and went through more than one person ever should. But internal beauty can still shine when you let it out of the dark.”

Sherlock takes a deep shuddered breath against her, finally leaning back to meet her eyes with his own, “You always see the best in me.”

“I see the man you are when you let yourself be. You may have been ripped at the edges, but you’re still a masterpiece.”

“When did my wife become a philosopher?” he jokes as he lets out another deep breath and gentle smile.

“Changed my career path as I lay in our bed with the sun glowing upon your features. When I realized I’d only felt the power of divinity when I’ve lain with you,” she grins as he rolls his eyes.

“I’m certain no one has found devotion to religion through me,” he comments.

“Oh I wouldn’t say that, I was very well nearly there last night in this very bed,” she whispers as she leans in toward his ear, smiling as another shiver runs up his spine.

“Perhaps I was mistaken,” he growls as his hand slips down to grab ahold of her butt. “You were quite enthusiastically calling out for divine intervention.”

“Indeed I was,” her hips jut forward as he squeezes.

“Though I’d far prefer you call out for me instead with such enthusiasm.”

Her grip on his curls tighten and abruptly tug his head back, “Then you’ll have to make my mind devoid of all else Sherlock.”

Pulling his head back forward, he quickly flips their bodies to make her back flush with the bed. His lips finally meet hers hungrily, drawing slowly out to light nibbles along her lip, “Oh I intend to do just that my love.”

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[j0kers-light]

His Lighthouse: Craving the Light (LedgerJoker x f!reader)

Craving the Light

series summary: 

Y/n is an aspiring writer living in Gotham City and struggling to find her next muse. Her recent novel is getting all the buzz, earning her far more attention than she signed up for. But when a chance encounter results in her nursing The Joker back to health, will she find the time to write another best seller or will her own story become front page of the Gotham Gazette?

chapter summary:

It’s been six months since Gotham has been plagued by Joker until today. A distressed 911 call alerts all available police officers to Gotham Regional Bank for an active hostage situation. No one expected the arrest to expose a secret well over a half a year old.

Without further ado I hope you enjoy the story! 

Next Chapter

"It's gonna be hard tracking her down off a blurry pic. You sure you can do it?" He asked.

Silence was his answer. Typical, but who was he to doubt his skills anyway?

Two figures stood outside of an interrogation room eying a third male who was handcuffed while in a straight jacket and staring off into the distance. He was abnormally quiet, unlike his usual boisterous self. Joker hadn't said a word since they arrested him and it was just another factor that made this night oh so unusual.

Jim knew something was off.

For starters, Joker willingly let Batman take him in. There was no playful banter between them, and the whole arrest was done without a fight. It was as if the clown had surrendered. Which he never did, at least not without a carefully thought out plan in motion.

But this time it was simply that. A surrender.

From Joker's somber demeanor to his tight lipped mouth, Jim knew this arrest would be one for the history books. Even Batman stuck around, his instincts also telling him that something was off.

Would this be another breakout scheme like the major Asylum island takeover years back? Should they lock down the precinct for good measure? What was Joker planning?

A seasoned cop sat down in front of the Clown Prince of Crime but noticed Joker didn't look his normal self. Gone was his dark sinister smile and his eyes were downcast, not alive with mischief and promising destruction. It gave the cop an uneasy feeling but he had a job to do.

Booking had already patted Joker down and seized his usual arsenal of weapons but this time a personal item was included in the haul. Something that had the entire precinct abuzz with rumors.

Joker's clothing didn't have any labels or designer tags. He carried nothing on him that humanized him but today, they found a photo among his possessions.

Forensics dusted it for prints and any printer identification (no matches) but with the world's greatest detective in the building, surely they could get an answer as to who this mysterious woman was. Computer Analysis was already running it through photo recovery and the missing people database and no doubt so was Batman on his advanced tech.

"Who is she?" The cop flicked the photo copy across the table to Joker. His reaction however was not expected.

"Did you see that?" Jim commented from behind the two way glass. A rhetorical question for just about everyone saw it.

Joker flinched.

"Don'tcha find it odd? You've been off the radar for several months.. not a peep from ya then all of a sudden, you walk into Gotham Regional Bank an' hold it hostage with.. heh this is a new one, a stapler.

Bless this cop. He was trying his hardest to get the clown to talk but nothing was working. He sighed and tried a different tactic.

"I'll say this, it was real sloppy! No thought. No pizazz.. and ya didn't resist when we brought you in. What's really going on hmm? Then we find this," he held up the photo for Joker, "in your possession. Did ya kill her? Another trophy for your bloody ledger?”

"We lost track of how many people you've killed over the years but she must've been something special. You kept her photo and in pristine condition too!”

It was worth noting Gotham’s finest loved to taunt, but Jim let it slide due to the unusual circumstances. Every angle had to be pursued to get some answers— so the interrogation dragged on for another hour, all without a word from Joker.

"This is going nowhere Gordon." Came a deep, gravelly voice.

Before Jim could stop him, Batman already stormed into the room, ready to use unnecessary force.

Joker took one look at his nemesis and rolled his eyes. "Seriously Bats. I'm not in the mood.”

"But I am.”

Batman made quick work of lifting Joker out of his seat and delivered a right hook to his rib cage. Any normal person would have hollowed in pain yet Joker simply shook his head and let out a sarcastic ow.

His tolerance for pain was legendary after all. Nothing hurt anymore. At least that's what he originally thought.

"Where is she?" Batman bellowed in the closed off room.

"Mm, have I heard that line before?" Another blow to the stomach had Joker wheezing out a laugh but nothing more.

This went on until Joker's back collided with the small table in the room. The cop sitting there jumped away knowing his part in this interrogation was over. There goes his shot at a promotion, but Batman knew the clown best.

While the officer was waiting for the door to buzz open, Joker finally decided to speak.

"..I don't know.”

Batman wanted to roll his eyes. Did Joker think he was an idiot? He barked out his reply hoping to provoke Joker. "Yes you do! You killed her, it's what you do. Now talk!”

Something in the phrase rubbed Joker the wrong way for he found some hidden strength, despite being restrained in a straight jacket, and stood up. He growled and pushed the caped crusader away, looking more like a cornered animal with each passing breath.

"No... No. I. Did. NoT. I would never!”

'What in the world?' Jim and everyone else thought to themselves as the Clown Prince of Crime denied killing someone. This night was straight out of a fever dream and it was only getting weirder. 

"Not her. Not my Light." The nickname sat heavily in the air giving pause to everyone present. Live footage of the interrogation was being fed to a tv monitor for other cops to see as well as the Commissioner himself who stood behind the one way glass in disbelief.

This was.. working? Slowly but surely Joker was giving them clues as to who this mysterious woman was.

All they had to go on was a blurry picture but now they had a vague nickname regarding light. It was probably a long shot that the girl was still alive but bringing some form of closure to her family was the right thing to do.

The wheels were turning in Bruce's head and he picked at Joker's crumbling mental state for more clues. "What does someone like you know about the light?”

"Uh Bats.. I know more than you do." Joker slid down the wall to sit on the floor. His devious grin was back but it didn't hold its usual malicious intent. "We were alike you and I, but I fear I've been.. blinded by the light and re-born. Her countenance is so pure, so precious, so..”

“He said she is. As in present tense. So she's still alive, for now.” Bruce thought.

Joker drifted off into a daydream, reliving the past few months on replay. His green eyes were completely black as his pupils dilated. Batman hadn't seen Joker this frazzled since the day they met.

Batman took note in the way Joker's eyes darted wildly about, unable to focus on one set thing.

The clown was back to his normal self. This they could work with. This version they were used to unlike the quiet shell of a man they arrested at the bank. He was still present, but the destructive and dangerous (normal) Joker was slowly coming back.

Gordon was studying the odd change in personalities when Joker's voice barely came through the speakers.

"Her light.. shined on me. She gave me everything until I was nothing."

Batman decided to repeat his question from earlier but reworded for better results. Joker was so far gone in his thoughts anything could slip from his mouth, which gave Batman the opportunity to strike.

"Where is your Light?"

Jim, Batman, and all of the police personnel watching the feed waited with bated breath as Joker sighed.

His shoulders fell with such a weight and not from the bulky straight jacket. Whatever he was about to say would blow their minds. He looked so sincere. So troubled. So... normal it gave everyone whiplash to see it.

With an eerie and hollow tone Joker answered. "She's safe. Away from my darkness."

#ledger joker #ledger joker x reader #reader insert #black!fem!reader #batman #dc comics #smut #joker smut #slow burn #yandere #romance #angst #cross posted on AO3 #cross posted on wattpad #his lighthouse

[latenightcinephile]

Film #911: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', dir. Wes Anderson, 2014.

Wes Anderson is a director that, if you listen to the general tone of pop culture criticism, has rapidly descended into a parody of his own style. The hallmarks are instantly recognisable: symmetrical shot compositions; pastel colours; Bill Murray; endless lists of items; unusual heroes; Owen Wilson. It's even reached the point that a travel site, Accidentally Wes Anderson, collates lists of locations by colour, retroactively applying the director's name to them as though this idiosyncratic style somehow predates the architecture itself. His is a style that is easily parroted and frequently sneered at as being too artificial. How do you make a film that speaks to real life, if reality isn't allowed anywhere near your films?

Until I really paid attention to The Grand Budapest Hotel, I felt similarly. This film has a seventeen-person ensemble cast, with characters completely disappearing from the narrative after a few scenes, and this approach always runs the risk of feeling gimmicky. Wes Anderson's works are often reduced to silliness, and can feel like they have replaced narrative purpose with zany setpieces that don't contribute to anything. And then something caught my eye: 'Inspired by the works of Stefan Zweig'.

The Grand Budapest Hotel starts with a framing device inside a framing device: a girl goes to a cemetery (labelled in block letters on the exterior wall - a motif that will get used a lot in this film) to pay her respects to a writer. The writer (Tom Wilkinson and Jude Law) has written a book called 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', in which he recounts going to the hotel of the same name and having dinner with the hotel's owner, now faded into obscurity. The owner, Zero (F. Murray Abraham and Tony Revolori) started work as a bellhop, and he tells the author of the hotel's former concierge and their escapades together in the time immediately before a 1930s fascist regime took hold. The concierge, Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), is notorious for starting affairs with rich dowagers, including the secret owner of the hotel. When the dowager dies abruptly, Gutave and Zero, his new hire, go to pay their respects and are quickly embroiled in the arguments surrounding the deceased's estate. Gustave is surprised to learn that he has been bequeathed a famous Renaissance painting, 'Boy with Apple', but the dowager's heir, Dmitri (Adrien Brody), refuses to let this happen. Undeterred, Gustave and Zero steal the painting. Shortly afterward, Gustave is arrested on suspicion of murdering his benefactor, following the testimony of the woman's butler.

Zero takes over many of Gustave's duties, while scheming with his girlfriend Agatha (Saoirse Ronan) to break the concierge out of prison. They do this by hiding tools in the pastries that Agatha makes during her work at a bakery. Despite the pastries being suspiciously tool-shaped, their decoration makes them too valuable to inspect for contraband. The scheme works and Zero and Gustave are reunited. Gustave calls upon the assistance of a secret society of hotel concierges to facilitate a meeting with Serge, the dowager's butler and the person whose testimony was responsible for Gustave's arrest. Serge confesses that he was pressured to implicate Gustave by Dmitri, the real killer, and that the dowager has a second will which is to come into effect if she happened to be murdered. Serge is killed by Dmitri's hitman, Jopling (Willem Dafoe). Zero and Gustave flee back to the hotel, only to find it converted into a headquarters for the fascist regime. Nonetheless, they are able to retrieve the painting, which has the second will hidden behind the canvas where Serge placed it for safe keeping. The second will grants the hotel to Gustave, and Dmitri flees the country.

Overall, the story is quite complex and swift-moving, and some of the connections between events seem arbitrary. For instance, the audience is shown that the will is concealed in the painting right after the painting is introduced, when Serge packages it for Gustave and Zero to take. However, neither Zero nor Gustave know this, and it is Agatha who discovers the will. This means that Zero and Gustave take several actions which directly lead to the discovery of the will without having that as their specific intention. After the murder of Serge, the protagonists pursue Jopling on a sled, resulting in a surreal chase scene - mostly conducted through stop-motion - at the end of which the characters launch from a ski jump. Throughout this film, it often feels like the characters are just doing things that just happen to be the things required to move the plot forward. This tendency is what makes Anderson's films feel artificial and immature: they're not closely-knitted narrative structures but rather the net results of a random assemblage of characters and events. And yet, this film was purportedly inspired by one of Austria's most famous novelists, famed for his simple storytelling. What gives?

Stefan Zweig's novels - especially Beware of Pity (1939) and The Post Office Girl (1982), which Anderson has explicitly said he borrowed from for this film - are deeply fatalistic, which does seem to mirror Anderson's perspective on the setting of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Zweig was writing during the advent of the Second World War, a period mimicked by the film's establishment of an unnamed fascist regime. In The Post Office Girl, his protagonist feels an intense nostalgia for her stay at a hotel, and the theme of nostalgia is common to many of Zwieg's novels, and Anderson's films as well (Moonrise Kingdom (2102) is perhaps the most evocative of his musings on nostalgia). Perhaps the most relevant stylistic similarity between the two is their fixation on surface details, and how these act as indicators of character. Writing in the Paris Review, for example, Kevin Nguyen observes that we understand Anderson's characters through the details of their appearance and locations. He cites a passage from one of Zweig's novellas that similarly catalogues every item of clothing a character is wearing, and points out that each of these descriptions is "larded with an assessment of his character." The description of the hotel in The Post Office Girl is similarly detailed, and we learn most of what we do about the title character from how she thinks about these items.

The nostalgia, too, is the sort of thing that Anderson could have borrowed directly from Zweig's novels if he had discovered the author earlier in his career - again, it's a situation where we have to be careful about implying a direct inspiration, as the nostalgia in Anderson's works definitely predates his stated interest in Zweig's work. In this film, Anderson refers explicitly to the idea that the nostalgia that Gustave felt for the hotel, and that Zero has felt ever since, might have been a longing for a time that neither of them actually experienced - that the idyllic past never existed, and the hotel itself is an attempt to artificially invent such a time. Zweig felt this dislocation sharply: Richard Brody in The New Yorker discusses a passage from Zweig's memoir where Zweig is confronted with the differences in mood between the front lines of the Second World War and the civilian life of, coincidentally, Budapest. Perhaps, Zweig considers, the happy life of Budapest is not the way things usually are, with the war being an aberration in the normal state of affairs. Perhaps the keen edge of the happiness was a result of the war, a last grab at pleasure. This resonates with the Hotel Budapest: while the memories of the place are perfectly coloured, by the 1970s the decor has been replaced with drab orange walls and mildewy grout. Was it ever really this way?

Zweig also used framing narratives, and this structure is what helped me meet Wes Anderson's films on their own terms. The story-within-a-story structure has clearly helped Anderson make sense of his own films - after this, he used it again in his two most recent films, The French Dispatch (2021) and Asteroid City (2023). I think this might be the film in which he first fully embraced it. The artificiality of his earlier films is easier to comprehend and to stomach when we think of it as a representation of something in a book, rather than a depiction of real lived experience. In The Grand Budapest Hotel, the characters are unusual in the sense that they are fully-known by the audience. With a story as complicated and disparate as this one, the only way in which we can follow what's going on is by the characters repeatedly directly expressing how they feel and what they think. This is internal monologue, made external through lists of objects and through weirdly open dialogue. And if artificiality is required to make this world comprehensible, why not lean into it? Thus, the characters don't speak the way normal human beings do; they speak in a sort of polished third draft of human speech. They constantly sound as though they're quoting from another work. Likewise, why not reduce the sets and cinematography only to those details that help us understand the world - only just obtrusive enough for us to register that this is not meant to be a depiction of the real world?

I keep thinking of the chase scene on the sled, and thinking of how Anderson does something even more bewildering with a similar chase scene in The French Dispatch. The scenes are heightened and artificial; they beggar belief at the types of chaos that unfolds. But then I wonder what is happening in the 'book' that we are reading. Early on in the film, the camera movement and acting feels directed by a narration that, for once, we're not explicitly hearing - something like 'Gustave heard a knock at the door, and moved smartly towards it'. But what would this chase scene be written as, in the retelling of it by Zero, in the novel by the Author? Probably something as simple as 'A chase happens'. So why not have fun with it?

#1001 movies #wes anderson #the grand budapest hotel #genuinely good films

[blossom--of--snow]

20 questions for fic writers

I was tagged by @holy-ships-x-red-lips. Thanks, Danielle!

How many works do you have on AO3? 58 (whoa wtf)

What's your total AO3 word count? 208,594

What fandoms do you write for? Right now, mainly Hart to Hart, Gunpowder Milkshake, and 911, but I've written works for The Conjuring, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Bates Motel, Major Crimes, Star Trek Voyager, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Hawkeye, The Closer, and The Raven Cycle.

What are your top fics by kudos? Echo (The Conjuring), It's Time That You Won (Star Trek: Voyager), I Heard a Melody (Bates Motel), Waking Moments (Star Trek: Voyager)

Do you respond to comments? I sure try to!

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I usually write angst in the middle and wrap it up with some comfort, so I guess I'll go with my angstiest fic? Destined Not to Be Forever, a Bates Motel fic about Norman attacking Dylan on the night of his and Norma's murder/suicide.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Sparkling Silence of a Dream, hands down, made me the happiest. To give Lucien and Jean back their happy ending was my joy.

Do you get hate on fics? I've been very fortunate to not get any hate. (*runs outside to knock on a tree*)

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes, I'm a dirty bird. I write mostly m/f, but want to try my hand at some f/f (looking at you, ScarletxMay)

Do you write crossovers? I wrote one for TDBM and The Conjuring, and there were about 4 people who understood it, but it was so fun.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? I consider Sparkling Silence to be co-written by @escapewithstories. We conceptualized that fic together, during the worst of the pandemic, and it's our baby. @madelineusherspearls and I are looking to co-write a Star Wars fic together soon!

What's your all time favorite ship? Oh gosh that's such a tough question. I think I'd have to go with Lucien x Jean from TDBM. I always come back to them in times of trouble.

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I don't want to be negative, so I won't say I won't ever finish any of my WIPs that I *want* to finish!

What are your writing strengths? I write some mean dialogue, and I'm pretty good at getting to know a character and their voice.

What are your writing weaknesses? Sometimes I find myself skipping through something important spacially to get to the root of what I want to do or say, and it throws off the scene.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? If you're writing extended dialogue in another language, I find it less messy to mention that the character is using another language, but write it in whatever language you're using for the rest of the fic. It's less jarring, and using Google translate isn't always reliable/accurate.

First fandom you wrote for? As a kid, I wrote Kim Possible fic before I knew what fic was. It was hilarious.

Favorite fic you've written? Sparkling Silence, again.

Tagging @andallthatmishigas @escapewithstories @madelineusherspearls @lavoixhumaine @whatsabriard

#this was fun! #blossom writes #tag games

[mammameesh]

Fanfiction Writers Bingo

Thank you @mallpretzles, @a-noble-dragon, @tyfinn, @lizzie-bennetdarcy , and @welcometololaland for the tags. I feel so much love <3

I do in fact have a Fanfiction account, and before there I have a livejournal account (most was scrubbed during Covid). I don't think I have a Wattpad account? I do in fact have an A03 and have had one for 10 years. I love writing (and reading) smut. I roleplayed here on tumblr 10 or so years ago and at that time met my comet. We've been long distance friends ever since.

I'm neurodivergent, so where I could probably flail over your WIP and tell you (maybe) what I loved about it, writing is actually hard. Editing is hard, and I'm still not sure the rules for Betaing or being betad? As such, all I do is publish un-betad fics. I am hopefully going to get through for upcoming Fic 5k fest. Also it would be cool to have one for Passions and Pastimes....just saying.

I think most of my fics are self indulgent. Maybe I'm not understanding this concept?

I love keysmashes so I do try to leave them when I cannot be coherent.

We should seriously be allowed to leave 2nd kudos, am I right? Typically I just type in 2nd Kudos during a read through.

I love fluff but I have started to read some angst and I do think angst has it's place too! I write both F/F and M/M though mostly M/M.

I write for Schitt's Creek, 911 OG, 911 Lone Star and Red White & Royal Blue currently HOWEVER I DID THE MATH IT'S LITERALLY RIGHT NOW 87% SC.

I only love researching if that means rewatching the shows are staring at the actors. I write a lot based on my own experiences, not based on research. I use research when I have to. It's necessary.

Probably for my next fic, I will actually write an outline....once I've learned how to write an outline.

Don't we all anxiously await feedback? Sometimes I have to you know go clean or something instead of waiting.

I'm totally counting the Rose I crocheted myself as commissioned fanart because it wouldn't exist without fanfiction.

So many WIPs my lovely mutals...so many!

Editing and formatting is hell and that's one of the reasons I feel like I'm running late this week.

I constantly get ideas in the middle of the night!

I don't drink alcohol, but I need my caffeine!

Again, I think we all have that one fic that lies on the bottom of your statistics page, that you just want to have more love! (actually despite it being my 'least popular' I'm proud of that one!)

I would like to be a professional writer someday. Maybe at least once.

Welcome to info dumping, mutuals.

Um @jesuisici33 or @apothecarose have you done this? Otherwise I think everyone else I know has?

#meesh does tag games #man that was long winded meesh

[sluttyhenley]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by @starrybouquet (thank you!!)

1. how many works do you have on Ao3?

50 (actually 51 if you count the one that hasn't been revealed yet)

2. what's your total Ao3 word count?

269,637

3. what fandoms do you write for?

I have posted in 18 different fandoms on ao3 but most recently 911, Top Gun and The Old Guard

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

my heart is working overtime (e, 911, buddie, 4k)

is forever enough (e, 911, buddie, 10,4k)

lover good be good to me (e, the old guard, joe x nicky, 20.4k)

a twister to blow everything down (t, 911, buddie, 17.2k)

when one plus one equals three (t, 911, buddie, 3.6k)

(gonna also say how blown away i was by the reception to my heart is working overtime, considering it really is one of my sillier fics)

5. do you respond to comments?

yeah, it typically won't be right away, but i do tend to reply to comments definitely! on a multi-chapter fic it doesn't tend to be until i'm posting the next chapter

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

the sound of glass (kate daniels, m, hugh d'ambray x christopher steed)

i wrote this fic for the kate daniels series last year for yuletide. i kept it within canon parameters and therefore there was no way for this pairings ending to be anything but angsty. to this day my fic is the only one in that pairing tag.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

either is forever enough (mentioned above) or put a hold on my heart (e, tgm, rooster x phoenix, currently sitting at about 31k) which i haven't finished posting yet, but like i did finish writing it and let me tell you that ending is some of the sappiest shit i've ever written

8. Do you get hate on fics?

i have. both times i deleted the comment with the intention of moving on, the second time the commenter didn't let me do that so i responded with a rocky horror gif

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i didn't used to but boy howdy those scenes sure do seem to be finding their way into my fics. i have a wip in the works that opens practically right out the gate with two explicit scenes. it took me a bit to get back into m/f smut after writing so much m/m for buddie. (i haven't posted any f/f but i have written it for an original work)

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

yep! only one and it was a cross between the old guard and leverage and it was such a fun time actually

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

if so i don't know about it

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

nothing beyond bouncing ideas back and forth with others

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

oh god. i have like. the ones that scratch an itch in my brain and ones that i love writing for. i got new ones this year (icemav and rooster x phoenix) i love writing buck x eddie and i have had a lot of fun writing book of nile.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i have a couple of ideas that i started and then kind of moved on from those fandoms (i had a couple of hp wips that i was excited about but will now never finish) but really a lot of what i have sitting in my docs that are unfinished are things i would like to come back to someday

16. What are your writing strengths?

dialogue, probably. and humor

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

i've had to spend so much time developing my imagery skills, and describing action. explicit scenes are such a challenge for me, from vocabulary to action. but as i work on them more i find myself developing those. but all of that are still very much weak points for me

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

i won't really do it unless it's just a few words. i did it in a book of nile fic a while back, but i kept it to a few french phrases that i could translate in text.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

the first fandom i ever posted fic for was the librarians. i actually wrote some doctor x rose stuff that never went beyond the privacy of my own docs.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

i'll do three that i'm really proud of (and a bonus one that i can't name because it hasn't been revealed yet) put a hold on my heart (i just am so fond of it and all the little details that i came up with for the story some of which will be expanded on in other fics) words i've never said (it was fun to write a mistaken identity christmas fic for buddie and i really do like how it came out) let's get lost (and let the good times roll) which i wrote as a companion to lover be good to me (mentioned above) and i just really liked getting to explore and expound on another facet of that story and i really liked the character dynamics i created

tagging (no pressure of course!): @natashatrace, @reachingforaspark, @ladywaffles, @redbelles

#things i wrote #tag games

[vineofroses]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

tagged by @your-catfish-friend -- thank you!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

5 under this name on Ao3. 6 under a different name for a total of 11!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

27, 902 in total across both accounts. wow, never added the word counts together. that's a lot!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

911: Lone Star, The Old Guard. really want to dive into Red, White, and Royal Blue and maybe even Shadowhunters.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

hmm. i don't want to link to the other count, and since i only have 5 fics on red_shirt i'll just link to my works in one go: https://archiveofourown.org/users/red_shirt/works

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do. pretty much to all of them because people took the time to comment something really nice and i want to respect that by acknowledging it. also, as someone who comments on other people's fics, it's really cool to get that notification that a fic author has replied to your comment.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Angst is my forte lol. my favorite angsty one is this one about Carlos on the day he moved into the loft without TK. It's called peace. You can read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50451979

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

This dialogue-heavy one in between seasons 1 and 2. it's a phone conversation between Carlos and TK. COVID restrictions have just lifted so TK creates game night. It's called do you want to play a game? which i think is a title that sounds more sexy than what occurs in this fic, lol so sorry if that's a disappointment. Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50664451

8. Do you get hate on fics?

So far, I have not. Everyone's been really lovely. but i know it happens so im kinda waiting for it.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i do not

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I have on my other account. I was always obsessed with the fact that David Borenaz joined Bones immediately after Angel ended and so I had started writing a fic where Booth is actually Angel after he's become human because of the Shanshu prophecy. The brain tumor in season 4 is that catalyst that unearths his memories as Angel.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

no but im super open to that if anyone wanted to translate one of my works. dm's are open!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

no but i would love to collaborate with someone!!! dm's open

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

god i don't know. i feel like i go through phases of intensely loving a ship. i guess one that has stayed with me for a really long time is Magnus and Alec from Shadowhunters. but i love a lot of ships.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

that previously mentioned Bones/Angel crossover, lol

16. What are your writing strengths?

i used to think it was dialogue -- at least when i was writing scripts a lot. but during this new wave of writing i've been doing i think it's been internal thought processes of characters. Mostly that carlos in the loft fic im super proud of, lol

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Staying in the correct tense! i feel like this shouldn't be an issue. just pick a tense and stay in it. you did 4 years of writing workshops in college, why are you still struggling with this!! (if anyone has any tips about this, please tell them to me lolll)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Oooh, good question. I wouldn't do it unless it was 100 percent correct. which means having someone who speaks the language look it over. otherwise i think the best course of action is to just write the dialogue in your native language and then in the description say it was a different language.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

First published work was Angel. but fun fact: i actually think my very first fan fic i wrote was a Twilight fan fic in middle school. middle school is when i first discovered fan fiction and also the time i was reading twilight. i think it was a story from Mike's perspective. i never published it because i could not figure out how to publish -- ff.net's story submission was not working for me for some reason so i gave up. the angel fic wasn't posted until 2015 so there was a large gap there.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

It's this Carlos fic about moving into the loft. I just think it's got a great haunted vibe but also my goal was to use more metaphors and poetry and i think i accomplished that.

no pressure tagging: @paperstorm @rmd-writes @welcometololaland @liminalmemories21 + open tags.

#fic writers #get to know me

[bucktommys]

I’m sorry but ‘stillbirth which Buck feels responsible for then leads very neatly and deliciously onto s6b/s7 buck breakdown’ sounds disgusting. It’s not a real baby, sure, but you make it sound like dead child is just a great plot device to make your fave character cry. Plus as much as I don’t give a f about Connor and his wife, this would make their situation even more hopeless and that’s usually not the vibe when it comes to 911 and kids. The careful way they’ve dealt with PPD shouldn’t coexist with something so heartless and cruel.

i am sorry, i do realise that i said that pretty indelicately so i'll go back and edit the post.

with how 911 handled maddie's ppd i have implicit and wholehearted trust in their writers that if they do happen to explore a miscarriage/stillbirth plotline that they will treat it with ultimate tact care and kindness. the existence of such a plotline at all isn't "heartless and cruel". besides, it's a tv show, therefore pretty much everything is a plot device, because it moves the narrative forward. i do understand the whole "introducing a serious storyline just to impact buck" but this plotline isn't about connor and kameron, at most they are peripheral characters. it is about buck, therefore whatever happens to the baby, they're probably going to focus mostly on buck, because he's the main character, not them.

(also, as you mentioned, it's not a real baby, and these are not real people. i recently just finished my rewatch of yellowjackets where a popular fan theory is that they're going to eat a baby next season. no real children are being harmed if 911 do decide to go through with this plotline.)

#ask #anonymous #tw miscarriage

[t1gerlilly]

The way that 911 is, being a buddie fan is the most quixotically, ironically, maddening ship I’ve ever shipped.

On the one hand, it’s literally everything I’ve ever wanted. I don’t have very sophisticated reasons for shipping. I don’t ship for rep. I don’t want to prove to anyone that I’m ‘right’. I just find characters that I identify with and want to see them happy and loved. That’s it, that’s all I want.

And on other shows, the show runners or writers have said “no one wants to watch these characters doing laundry for half an hour”, you can’t make a show like that. And 911 totally puts the lie to that, since 80% of the time Buck and Eddie spend together on screen they’re doing something domestic and the other 20% they’re side by side making faces at each other at work and occasionally saving each other from death. They’re so happily married it’s ridiculous…except that they aren’t married, or dating, or even canonically interested. And at some very deep narrative level, this is utterly bizarre. It violates the rule of Checkov’s gun - I.e. you don’t put things into stories if there’s no point. And domestic bliss where there’s no bliss is just nonsensical on the face of it.

Like Tim has said he doesn’t know how to write characters that come out late in life and Kristen has said she only thinks of them as friends… but … but … that’s what you’re actually putting on screen. Already. So if homophobia isn’t the problem…what’s the f*cking problem? They haven’t had any white gay couples as recurring characters, so is it racism? Or bi-erasure? Or (and this is what I think it is) Did Tim reassure network execs that their firefighter show would have a brawny ‘ladies man’ in his twenties to attract the young straight male demo? Because I kind of get the feeling that’s why they keep doing weird things with Buck that make no sense for his character and keep regressing him back to where he started.

And I’ve never cared if the characters in my ships were shown kissing on screen. But I also think just a final clinch at the end of a show is a pointless cop out and the people who want that just want to feel vindicated about being right. But what I always wanted - them together and happy, offering each other comfort and support, helping each other grow and heal…I’ve got it.

But without love.

Sigh.

#buddie #shipping #911onfox

[stagefoureddiediaz]

I see a lot of people really freaked out by the chance that Lucy could become endgame for Buck, if the actress gets confirmed again for season 6. Apart from the fact that she could be in s6 and then end up just like Ana....apart that Buck could break with Taylor and still not get with Eddie first because his journey is different and maybe he needs another messy r/s before figuring out what he wants for himself (but I hope not)....apart from the fact that THERE CAN BE male/female friendships without need for romance or sex and I hope this time Buck gets a real female friend apart from Mom Hen...It seems to me that Lucy, even more so in this latest episode, is the outsider looking in, the stranger who gets to see the 118, a tiny part of the 118, which no one fully understand in their mutual codependency even inside the same firehouse. I think Lucy is all of us, trying to understand what she's witnessing firsthand, but failing to grasp the depth of it. And those who fear her to be Buck's next LI, maybe are missing some key point: I obviously wish I'm not jinxing myself now, but yeah, interviews MUST lie, otherwise where would be the spoiler? and if a writer is good, like the 911's are, they MUST throw in some red herring for us to believe she is endgame because they kissed and because she's another pretty female and because she's a reckless firefighter so they share a lot, and even if they act more like siblings and not like, let's say, the first Bathena or the first Madney, they are m/f so there is a potential....OMG, we are thinking exactly like TAYLOR KELLY???

Sorry not sorry.

Kiki!!!

I totally agree with everything you've said. The more I think about it and the more I rewatch the more convinced I become that Lucys story is about finding a family - a place to belong. Because ultimately that is what this season has been about - identity and family. Every single one of our mains has been dealing with the idea of who they are as a person some have been much louder arcs in relation to that theme such as Eddie and Maddie, while others have been quieter - Hen for example figured out that she is going to specialise in general surgery and her vow renewal with Karen is about their identity as a married couple. We have also seen all of our mains connecting with their families - facing struggles but ultimately re-enforcing bonds and growing closer after having been forced apart by circumstances - this also applies to the firefam as a whole as well - they have been separated, but they are coming back together and will be all the stronger for it.

When we think about all of the Lucy scenes - especially the big ones they have all been either about work or about family and identity - the one exception was the kiss scene it is literally the exception that proves the rule! the bar scene up to that point had been about work and a bit of family stuff - we find out that Lucy is a firefighter in a family of cops - that she is the black sheep. the only other time we have seen her out of work has been when she met up with Jonah and that scene was all about fitting in and wanting to be part of the 118 family.

As for the writers and show runners - of course they will throw in a few red herrings - the kiss was kind of one - it had its purpose - to create a reason for Taylor to get jealous - I wrote another answer to an ask which goes into more detail here - and they are not going to give away Buddie in interviews - its too important - so they will more or less straight up lie to ensure it is kept under wraps because Buddie will be a groundbreaking relationship when it goes canon - the queer community have never been given this epic slow burn love story where two guys in their 30's fall in love with each other and discover their sexuality - this is the kind of thing that will potentially become part of the study of queer representation in film and tv in future because it is that groundbreaking!

I had other stuff written but the excitement over wedding suits crashed my computer so I lost a bit of my reply (grrr) but this is the most important stuff!!

Kiki I hope this is what you were after and that the other post fills in the stuff I haven't gone into here! I love having you in my inbox with your long asks!!! 💜💜💜

#kym answers things #kiki asks #911 on fox #911 spoilers #911 fox #911onfox #911 #911 speculation #911 discourse

[melinaperezsblog]

Post 1- Porsche

The company I chose to research was Porsche. Porsche is a car company that has stuck out to me with the builds of their vehicles. First starting in 1930 with first creating an engine then progressing with creating a car break, and finally creating cars. I first looked into the company when I would be out on drives, I began to notice many Porche’s such as Macans or Cayenne’s, both cars are SUV models and they’re there more affordable vehicles. Models such as their 911 GT3RS or Carreras are their more popular cars, costing around $100,000 for such vehicles.

Aditya Shastri Content Marketing Expert and writer of “Comprehensive Porsche Marketing Strategy” claims, Porsche uses a marketing mix (the 4 P’s) in order to promote their cars, with Porsche having a different types of vehicles ranging from different prices some being more expensive, or some being somewhat affordable. Also using social responsibility to gain obtain a better image. For example, Shastri states, in 2011 Japan was hit by an earthquake and Porsche donated 2.5 million dollars to help better Japan after the tragedy.

Shastri also finds that Porsche enjoys using Targeting as one of their marketing strategies, they acknowledge the popularity of their cars are by men, and also looking at the pricing of their vehicles its known an individual with an income of 6 figures are those who are being targeted by the marketers of Porsche. To add on, Porsche wants to up women sales therefore they have hired women ambassadors to better sales promotion.

Sources

Xaif. (2022, October 21). Comprehensive porsche marketing strategy - 2023. IIDE. https://iide.co/case-studies/porsche-marketing-strategy/

Porsche. (n.d.). Porsche history - Porsche AG. Porsche AG - Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. https://www.porsche.com/international/aboutporsche/christophorusmagazine/archive/379/articleoverview/article14/

[ingu]

9-1-1 FOX // Buck is Eddie’s Love Interest (Part 1) (2, 3, 4, 5)

Juxtaposition “When a writer takes any story differences and sets them up in parallel for the purpose of creating a contrast within the reader’s mind, that’s ... juxtaposition.

A writer is creating a story with a love triangle. This is a life-changing decision for the protagonist...Yet the two characters are like twins. ... Now take the same love triangle, but give the two love interests juxtaposing traits. Now the protagonist has a real choice to make.” - Robin Rivera

#buddieedit #911edit #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #still shouting from the rooftops #that the writers are writing a love story #whether it's intentional or not #it's been so long i had to relearn how to gif #ahaha #mine: gifs #mine: buddie #mine: 911 #f: 911 #p: buddie

[fandom-101]

Uk i had this thought that when (im manifasting the when) Buddie goes canon i want the writers to give a massive fuck you to the writers of SPN by having Buck say 'i love you, Eddie' and Eddie replies with 'Y Yo Ati, Buck'. It becomes their thing. 😆🤪

#F you c*w #f you SPN writers #evan buckley #buck #edmundo diaz #evan 'buck' buckley #buddie #911 #9 1 1 on fox #9 1 1 #9 1 1 show #911onfox #911 fox #im manifesting #spnfandom #spn #supernatural fandom #destiel #casdean #deancas