#fightingbymoonlight

[ladyloveandjustice]

@fightingbymoonlight replied to your post “It turns out Saban Moon innovated in one other...”:

I love how the makers of this show were like, “he…he can’t be THAT useless”. Well, I’ve got news for you honey.

​I know! To be fair I think we all went through that in the first episode. “He threw a rose! Did it...did it do something? Oh no, okay he was just being encouraging. Well that’s nice!”

#to be fair sometimes it does do something #like when it randomly has electrical powers or peirces something #honestly it's random versatility at times is baffling because why doesn't he always use it that way #but it is his one thing so #yeah #nev watches saban moon

[docholligay]

Shamash Questions: Round One

First of all, for all of you wondering: “How do these Shamash questions work? What are they for?”

Well, the Shamash questions are my entertainment during all of this. It’s my chance to turn it around and let YOU do some of the fun here. As a reward, I do Shamash Day, which is, I guess, the 9th day of Hanukkah around here. Every answer that I specifically draw out gets a number of entries (the points), and I draw from those, and the winner gets to pick something previously nominated! Normally it’s top three, and the points go, 1, 2, 3, but I reserve the right to award however the hell I want. I use the name you entered!

ANYWAY ROUND ONE ANSWERS:

Sailor Moon: Something Funny!

I 100% believe that Minako and Haruka began their Senshi career wearing a mask over their eyes. Mamoru saw this on the news one night and decided it was cool, so he started wearing one during his Tuxedo Mask moments. When Haruka and Minako saw this, they thought *so cringe* and immediately stopped wearing their masks.  -- Decido, 1 point I know this is absolutely true and the trouble is Haruka STILL thinks it looks cool but she can’t have anyone thinking she is taking fashion tips from Mams.

Haruka is a terrible passenger in any car. she is fine if its a taxi driver or something like that, but any of the other sensei drives her anywhere, she will not stop correcting their turning , worrying about hitting something, or saying their going too slowly/too fast. She grabbed the wheel from mina 5 times on a 45 minute trip, rei and her almost got into a fistfight on the freeway one time, and Pluto pulled over after 3 minutes and just let haruka drive.  -- BeefSalad33, 1 point I couldn’t decide between this and the above, both of which I feel are just...so true and canon and correct

Less than a year after the series ends, Haruka starts saying "back in my day" unironically. --fightingbymoonlight, 2 points this made me actually Laugh Aloud

Rei is not allowed to have a Twitter under her own name after The Incident. Rei also strongly disagrees with this rule and keeps trying to make an account. Unfortunately for her (and fortunately for everyone else) Ami has hacked into the Twitter servers and flagged every email that Rei has (even the ones she thinks are secret) so that she can't make a new account even if she wants to (and boy does she want to). Ami considers this one of the best things she ever done because not only does she save Rei from herself, but Michiru also pays her a bonus every time she does so.  -- Geeky, 3 points I need you to know that I read this to Jetty and she ALSO laughed.

If you could force a major studio to make a fairy tale movie, which would it be?

The Steadfast Tin Soldier, because there are so many lessons that could be incorporated (or not, as appropriate!), even beyond the obvious ambiguity in the story of 'is it evil or is it chance'? Is a situation 'truth' because it simply isn't possible, or is it impossible because you believe it to be so? How should others react to you when you will not act to help yourself e.g. should they feel sorry for you? Are you being true to yourself, or are you acting in a particular manner because society / friends / family / etc. expect it? How can we convey (or not) our feelings while being respectful of the other person? There's a lot you could dig into, things which could be emphasized or de-emphasized depending on the direction, and I think something very interesting could result. Also you could easily incorporate ballet into this, and I do love me some ballet. -- Seolh, 1 point. I do love me some Steadfast Tin Soldier, or I did as a kid. I hadn’t thought about it until you brought it up, and I think you’re right, I think you could very much make a children’s movie, but also make it have other things going on with it.

Jimm Henson studios does Muppet Hansel and Gretel, but they have to lean in to the creepy horror of it while still keeping it humorous.  Mostly I just really want the Swedish chef as the witch cooking up children XD -- Carol, two points I did not realize that I wanted a horrifying and hilarious version of Hansel and Gretel until this exact moment and I am now thinking of that spot in, I think it’s a Muppet Christmas Carol, where the Swedish Chef goes, “First you take the moosie, and then you SKEWER the moosie!”

You know what, let's go for an obscure one! The Pigeon's Bride, a Yugoslavian variant on the Cupid and Psyche/Swan maiden motif - our protagonist is a princess whose true love is enchanted to become a pigeon, but if she tells anyone (she of course does), he can't return to her. She wanders the world for three years to no avail before building a bath-house and allowing anyone to enter provided they tell her the most interesting story they can, and a poor but virtuous girl ultimately finds the enchanter (a rooster wearing wooden shoes) who is keeping the pigeon prince captive, and leads the princess to it to break the spell. Poor but virtuous girl attends the wedding as the princess's dear friend, dressed so beautifully all assume she's another princess. (Let's all choose to assume she and her mom also got, like, paid generously.) 1) This is an easy enough story to expand out to feature length, is already kid- and marketing-friendly without needing to be changed, and it's got some good imagery in it. (Rooster wearing wooden shoes, transformation via large bowls of milk, the princess initially spends her time at the top of a tall tower embroidering because everyone else finds slogging up the stairs miserable but she skips up because she'll be left alone. Room for fun.) 2) If I'm allowed to choose the studio - say, Laika, which is right on the cusp between minor and major and has an actual aesthetic sense - you could do some interesting stuff with the princess's love of embroidery informing the animation style, and I like stylization. Alternately, I make Disney do Bluebeard just to see how the hell they make a story about serial spousal murder family-friendly. This is not expecting the end result to be GOOD, much less a good adaptation of Bluebeard, but expecting the end result to be a glorious trainwreck whose production would have to be FASCINATING.  --- Regalli, 3 points. I had actually never heard of this fairy tale until you put it front of me, and I think you’re right, I think you could do some really fun and slightly fucked up shit with it. I ALSO love Laika studios, one ofn my favorite things I’ve ever done was go to the Laika exhibit they had in Portland at the art museum, totally amazing. I love how their stories trust that children can engage with difficulty and darkness., Kubo still goes down as the best children’s movie I’ve ever seen.

Give me a Horror story prompt or idea (Some of these were shockingly good! Not that I think y’all are idiots, but this was one of the harder ones, and as such, I’ve doubled the points value for the winners)

Inexplicably, your friends, your family grow strangely distant over time. You begin to feel like an outsider, an intruder in their lives. It is in subtle gestures, particular choices of words. Your alienation becomes worse and worse. One morning you wake up wondering what you've done wrong, how much worse things can get. That's when you realize... You *are* an outsider. A stranger. They don't recognize you. Is it you that have changed, or is it them? Does it even matter? --None other than Hubby Mike, 2 points this hits in this sweet spot for me, which is: You cannot trust yourself. You are the least reliable narrator of your own life. Horrifying! Love it.

The protagonist has committed some kind of sin / crime / offense, and as they attempt to avoid the consequences they progressively lose more and more of themselves until they are left a shell of their former self. Supernatural elements to taste, I feel it would work better if the audience never knows the exact details of the originating event. Skyline, 4 points. This didn’t give me the immediate knee jerk because it’s less evocative and more planned, but the more it rolled around in my mind like a fucking werther’s original, the more I liked it, which is part of the reason I always let these SIT before I award. What sticks with me? THis sure did.

"For every memory you choose to give up, we'll put off your execution by one day." -- Tsa. 6 points. Jesus Fucking Christ, Tsa, I AUDIBLY GASPED when I got this one. There’s a story in this one.

What is your area of expertise or stupid skill, and why does it kick ass? (In this one, there were too many I liked. I love when y’all tell me weird shit about yourselves. So we have many winners, all at one point!)

I am insanely good at setting up cat nets. Our first cat was an angel (really she was fat and lazy but trivial details..) She never hopped the fence or climbed trees. The two little recent hellions; however, have declared war on the neighborhood’s birds. Do you need to save your tree branches from being snapped by cats? Spike ring baby. Cats pissing in your raised vegetable bed? Wire rimmed cat net CAGE over that sucker. Cats diving into the hedge, coming back with little dead birds and mice? Net shield held by metal poles (because those bastards can scale a small wooden post like a U.S. Army ranger). … my garden looks like a mini fortress but TRUST that those boys are no longer sneaking into my neighbor’s house when they leave their garden door open. --Decido

I package gifts like few others can.  I am a craft-store paper and glitter ribbon queen 8| I like to think it makes people smile and feel special. -- insubordinate and highly idealistic

I can put any fussy baby to sleep. None can remain awake when faced with my patting, rocking, and droning singing. I can give caregivers a much needed break or rest before they get stretched past their limits. Also, I get to be the one who opens the pickle jar with no effort whatsoever after someone else has been straining for ages. But, you know, a baby instead of a pickle jar. So waaaaay more satisfying. --Lindsay

I am really good at figuring out if those long numbers on receipts are divisible by three and/or nine and it’s fun because it means I’m constantly engaged with my retail job -- Indigo

I can do an incredibly accurate impression of an AI voice, and specialize in the WalMart self checkout lady. It’s very amusing (and only a little evil on my part) to say “Unexpected item in bagging area” and watch the people around me reflexively twitch. I’ve also made at least one telemarketer VERY confused. -- Awashsquid

I have a minor superpower of being able to very accurately eyeball lengths or distances, and can freehand draw more or less to scale. Comes in handy all the time, and weirds people out when I do it at work.  -- Bel :)

Dental Hygiene is my area of expertise and honestly it's fun being able to look in someone's mouth and tell that they are left handed by the amount of build up on their teeth. And it makes me look psychic.  -- Shavedjudomonkey

If you were going to send me to one restaurant in your town, which would it be and why? (Some of you just nailed me ahaha. This was a hard one!)

i live within walking distance (for a value of 10 minutes or less) from at least seven (7) decent-to-delicious indian restaurants, and five (5) equally-good-or-better korean restaurants. therefore, if you were to ever come back up to visit, i would treat you to MONTANA'S BBQ AND BAR, a minimum 40 minute drive away. this is because i think it would annoy you, and I am a butthead who deeply loves to laugh. -- Rasiqra Revulva, 1 point. First of all, you are living an absolute dream and I am so jealous. We have one Indian restaurant and it is about on par with any middlin-good Indian restaurant, I just think of Indian food like most Americans do pizza. And you are right I would be SO ANNOYED. SO. I hate you, kisses.

"dalva do capote" -- it's the house of a woman named dalva in which she serves helmeted guineafowls (a type of bird) that she raises herself in her backyard. she serves so many different dishes of this animal. and they are all good and have that good vibe of homecooking. in huge portions, of course. -- san, 2 points Yes perfect! I have never had guineafowl, and this place sounds like the kind off odd, off the cuff place I adore.

The Blitz Tearoom, which as the name suggests, is decorated to look like it's the early 1940's. There are wartime posters on the walls, Vera Lynn is playing and there are all kinds of other little historical details. Admittedly, it's not quite as immersive as it was when it first opened and there was tripe on the menu, but it does have some extremely nice cakes.  -- BardofSomerset, 3 points I’m so fucking furious at how well this nailed me. Nuked from orbit. My toxic Tory trait, exposed. There is also an outside chance that I may, if my mom wants to, still, be in the area this Spring, and please know that I WILL go here.

[keyofjetwolf]

Jewlet: Rei hino is the worst character in Sailor moon. You: (gently taking their hands in yours) you are wrong, but I love you.

SEE ALSO:

#OH JEWLET YOU WOULD BREAK YOUR AUNT TEDDY'S HEART?? #life with jet wolf #the aunt teddy chronicles #jet wolf loves rei hino #fightingbymoonlight #ask a jet wolf

[wickedpact]

If Marvel owned The Old Guard, Nile would have had straight hair the entire movie.

if marvel owned tog nile would be played by alexandra shipp

#whoops thats fox #fightingbymoonlight

[scimitar-and-longsword]

Ok, when I see photos of Marwan-as-Richard, I become a teen movie character in charge of makeovers, "there- take off the glasses, shave your head- boom, you're hot." Like, "She's all that", but unironically.

Ahahaha this is amazing!!!

It really is baffling that MARWAN mother fucking KENZARI can look like Richard.... Like wow... They really first-20-mins-of-princess-diaries-anne-hathaway'd him up, huh?

Hey @tobebbanburg want to correct your transgressions against humanity? I have the perfect fic prompt for you 😜😜

#i really hate that im about to use this tag #i hate it down to my very core... #richard #*gags* #ask #fightingbymoonlight

[avelera]

"It is time to turn my romance writer instincts up to the max.… my flirty scene just turned into an angst fest what the fuck" NGL this is the height of comedy.

I AM WHAT I AM, DUDE, BUT I CAN STILL BE MAD ABOUT IT XD

#tog fic #maggie's writing progress #EVERYTHING I TOUCH TURNS TO ANGST #fightingbymoonlight

[faelapis]

fightingbymoonlight replied to your post: [[MOR] hhhh… feel bad. if i’m being honest, part...

If you still want to do the video but are worried about pushback maybe you could discuss the anti-SU points you feel have some merit in addition to the ones you disagree with, that way some antis won’t get on your back.

see the thing about that is, i think a lot of people end up validating the idea that SU is capital-F “Flawed” compared to other cartoons by doing that only to get crits off their back. like. when was the last time you saw anyone say in front of every time they praised AtlA or gravity falls that “i know this is flawed”? i’m against that idea for that specific reason. if i did, i would only do it to point out that i think its flaws are rather trivial compared to the problems i have with most media (i have issues with everything to some extent, no perfect media exists).

#fightingbymoonlight #steven universe #su youtube

[wernerherzogs]

Hi, you mentioned you watched "il mondo fino in fondo" and I could not find the movie anywhere (with english subtitles) where were you able to watch it?

there you go! op very kindly shared the file+subs with us

#fightingbymoonlight #a response

[ladyloveandjustice]

One of my favorite books Speak ( a novel about a teen girl dealing with depression and PTSD after she's raped by an older classmate while drunk at a party) was the subject of censorship at various high schools because they claimed the book "glorified drinking and premarital sex" so sometimes people have a hard time seeing what the author thinks is or is not right.

Speak is one of my favorites too! Thanks!

 To be clear, the reviewer didn’t make any assumptions about what the book was “promoting”, how I handled the topics just didn’t gel with her. I think her interpretation was much more fair and valid than that obviously biased and bad faith interpretation of Speak. The book IS about a technically toxic relationship, but one that I felt was salvageable and worth exploring, as they’re both mentally ill kids making a lot of mistakes and have a lot of room to grow. Not everyone will feel that way or that the relationship is worth investing in. This was meant to be the beginning of their journey (though I don’t know if I’ll ever write the next step).

All of the things she said in her review were true, except for the part where she said Stephanie went out of her way to stop Manee from having other friends- I honestly have NO idea where she got that??? because Stephanie did the opposite throughout the book and explicitly encouraged Manee to meet other people, and I went out of my way to have a whole speech about how Manee and Stephanie needed friends outside each other so. That was the only “you ignored my obvious intentions” part, but with the rest of the story my intentions probably weren’t obvious at all and she reacted fairly to that.

#fightingbymoonlight #in the way of all flesh

[kazliin]

I've been reading NGCC and I remembered a tumblr post about a super rich guy who parked in a "park here=$300 fine" spot and his response was "of course I can park there it only costs $300." We have yet to meet Victor's dad in this fic and I have a feeling he's going to be THAT kind of rich person.

Viktor’s dad is definitely that kind of rich person! 

#replies #no gold can compare #fightingbymoonlight

[moonlightsoliders]

fightingbymoonlight reblogged your photo and added:

Welcome to Sailor moon where no one is straight...

This is one of signs you see when you enter sailor moon world

#fightingbymoonlight #some other ones are: true love is real! #and: friendships are the best aren't they!! #moonlightliveblogs #smchp16

[prismatic-bell]

What happened in the 3rd Harry potter movie?

Alfonso Cuaron, for absolutely no fucking reason except he thought it was “funny” and would add to the sense of dislocation on the Knight Bus, decided to include a talking shrunken head with a Jamaican accent.

Or, to put it another way: he decided to include an aboriginal trophy that modern Westerners often view as “weird” and “barbaric,” complete with foreign accent, as a combination joke/sense-of-otherness.

#fightingbymoonlight

[keyofjetwolf]

You: This might shock you, but even though this episode is about Ami, I want to talk about Rei Hino. Me: I've been following you for years, this does not shock me at all.

I fucking belly laughed.

POINT TAKEN

#fightingbymoonlight #ask a jet wolf #JW watches PGSM #pgsm ep 16 #the jet wolf experience #should've just been the tag i used in the first place #GOD THIS SHOT HAD SO MANY OF REI WITH AN ANGRY CLENCHED FIST #AND SHE GOES THROUGH SO MANY DIFFERENT EMOTIONAL PLACES #AND AND AND AND

[dadvans]

If there's anything I've learned about being in the YOI fandom is that you can never have too much of Victor "Yuuri Katsuki's trophy husband" Nikiforov's extraness.

CORRECT. victor nikiforov is yuuri katsuki’s trophy husband first, yuuri katsuki’s hype man second, and five time GPF gold medalist third. 

#victor nikiforov #yuri on ice #fightingbymoonlight

[scimitar-and-longsword]

to quote myself: the fact that I think Marwan Kenzari looks hot even with that "Instinct" hair is proof that I have been locked indoors far too long.

Mood.

But also I still think I’d like his mohawk under normal circumstances. *shrug*

Don’t listen to me!! I regularly go on rants about how much I love mustaches, clearly I can not be trusted with my opinions on men’s hair/facial hair choices lol 

#ask #mustache #I will never not laugh at that tag #fightingbymoonlight

[ferluccia]

for the fic title: Yuuri is supposedly average, Victor is confused.

send me an ask with a title and i’ll write a fic for it 

Yuuri is supposedly average, Victor is confused.

Victor couldn’t get it. 

He couldn’t get how Yuuri always looked so good, effortlessly handsome even within minutes of waking up. It wasn’t fair, but he definitely wasn’t complaining. Each morning he got to get up next to his fiancé was a blessing, and Victor doubted he’d ever get tired of gazing at him lovingly while Yuuri was still asleep. 

And what was even more puzzling was that whenever Victor waxed poetic about Yuuri’s good-looks - well, to be fair, not only his good looks as much as his whole being, because Yuuri Katsuki was nothing but perfection to his eyes - his fiancé just seemed to… feel embarrassed?

“I’m not all that, Vitya, come on,” Yuuri would giggle, pushing him with a pillow while blushing so prettily. 

He couldn’t get it. How did Yuuri not fall in love with himself every time he looked at his reflection in the mirror? How could he pout of all things when he got up to find out his hair was sticking up everywhere? He was gorgeous. Breathtaking. Victor didn’t know enough words in English, Russian or French to even get started on how handsome Yuuri was. 

Even on magazines - damn, Victor knew those pictures received some photoshop treatment, but Yuuri was already perfect the way he was and if anything those corrections only served to highlight his best features. The crease of his abs, the muscles of his thighs, the vee of his pelvis. Fuck. Victor started sweating just from thinking about those.

Yuuri didn’t argue with him, and deep down Victor knew that even though he kept laughing and denying Victor’s unending praises he was deeply affected by them. Victor could see it whenever they got physical - Yuuri would ask him what he thought, would ask for his praise, it made him shiver and writhe and Victor could swear he’d live to compliment Yuuri if that meant making him feel good. It was heaven. Paradise in its finest form. 

It was just puzzling when he read in one of the most recent interviews Yuuri had given he thought of himself as nothing except… Average?

“Yuuri, babe… Do you even know what ‘average’ means?” He couldn’t refrain from asking, dropping the magazine on his lap with a certain exasperation. It was a silly question, but sometimes Victor doubted Yuuri understood what the word actually meant because it simply didn’t apply for him.

Yuuri paused, pushing his glasses up his nose and wiping his hair out of his face before resuming his baking. “What do you mean?”

“Here… It says you think of yourself… Average,” Victor repeated, raising the magazine to point at Yuuri exactly where the word was. 

He furrowed his brow, eyes jumping from Victor to the magazine as he tried to make sense of what on Earth his fiancé was going on about. Oh, the interview. He could barely remember what he’d said to the journalist - it was embarrassing enough to pose in leotards that left little to nothing to the imagination, let alone talk about what eros represented for him to a complete stranger. 

“Oh… Yeah, I mean, my appearance is pretty average for a Japanese–”

He couldn’t even finish his sentence before Victor groaned a loud NO from the couch. 

“Yuuuuuu~riiiiiii!” Victor whined, rolling off the couch dramatically and disturbing Makkachin’s sleep. “How many times?” He asked, beelining for the kitchen. 

“What?”

“How many times must I tell you how not average you are? At anything?”

Victor looked sincerely hurt, pouting and frowning at him with the magazine rolled up in his hand, arms across the chest in a stubborn pose. Yuuri smiled, smearing some baking mixture on the tip of his nose. 

“Ah… You know… Sometimes I need a more hands-on approach to understand things?” Yuuri teased, delighted to watch Victor’s cheeks bloom in a lovely shade of pink as he cleaned the tip of his nose on the back of his hand.

“Y-Yuuri, I’m serious,” he murmured, trying to play tough even though the hands that circled his waist told Yuuri the complete opposite. “You’re amazing,” he placed a kiss on Yuuri’s neck, right below his ear, earning a timid shiver from him. “Handsome,” another kiss, on the hollow of his collarbone. “Talented…”

“Vitya, I’m trying to bake…” Yuuri complained weakly, melting in his arms. 

“Mhm. See? So talented, my perfect fiancé.”

“You’re impossible,” Yuuri giggled, turning his head to capture his lips with a sweet kiss. “How about you show me what you like so much about me when I’m done here?”

He heard Victor’s soft gasp, then felt the weight of his body gently dropping on top of his frame as Victor whispered his name like a prayer, resting his cheek on Yuuri’s shoulder.

And to think Yuuri would have blushed furiously even at the thought of such words not even a year ago.

“Will you be a good boy for me?” Yuuri teased again, earning an eager sound of agreement from his fiancé. 

“The best boy,” he promised with a kiss on his shoulder.

Yuuri smiled, feeling the warm, fuzzy emotions stirring deep in his chest as Victor quietly whispered about how much he loved him, about everything Yuuri did that added beauty to his life, every little thing he unconsciously did that made Victor feel blessed each day of his life he spent next to him, and he thought of how undeniably average he was when comparing himself to Victor and everything he meant to him. It was a pointless argument, of course, one which none of them would ever win, yet the delicious argument to have. 

#andie writes #yuri on ice #victor nikiforov #yuri katsuki #ficlet #fsdkjfjksdlfjsdkl i didn't know how to wrap this up so i hope this is ok? #these dorks are so helplessly in love omg #fightingbymoonlight #replies