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angieschiffahoi · 4 years

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hi, do you think thobm is byg?

Hey! I think I already commented on this, but I can’t find the post/ask.

The short answer is: no. It is not.

But why?

The BYG trope is connected to the history of cinema and, in the same way the “villanous gay character” is, they come from years of following Hollywood’s strict direction. James Somerton on YouTube did a wonderful series on the history of queerbaiting and queer monsters, that I suggest you watch. Everything about why certain tropes came to be is explained in a very clear and very thorough manner. I’m not going to go in detail, but if you’re interested in seeing how the Hays Code from the 1930s still affects cinema and television, I suggest you check those videos out.

What’s important for this question about the Hays Code is that, since homosexuality was a sexual perversion and it was prohibited on screen, the only way for gay people to be shown on television was for them to be villains, victims of unrequited love for straight characters and they had to die, because their perversion existed and had to be punished.

Death was a punishment for being gay.

Nowadays, no producer would sanely greenlight a show that has this explicit message, but the tropes associated to this concept of punishing gay people for being gay became tropes of the genre. That means, gay characters are still seen as tragic figures and they die. A lot. Often, without ever truly being happy, by their own hand or right after they found some happiness. Oh, and the deaths tend to be meaningless and have no impact on the story, except to further straight characters’ storylines. These are all tropes that are still commonly used even by well intentioned creators, because they don’t know any better (or at least they didn’t until a few years ago and we all know why they’re more careful now).

The thing is that it’s not inherently evil to kill a gay character. The same way it is no inherently evil to kill a woman or a character of color or a trans character.

The first thing to keep in mind when a character who isn’t cis white male and straight dies is: why? The second is: how? And the third is a bit longer and it has to do with how the character was treated while they were alive:

Did this character have their own arc? Was this character used as a token? Was this character here as a publicity stunt? Was this character sexualized? Was this character chastized? Was this character just part of the scenery, shelved until useful for ‘woke points’? Was this character continuously advertised but only shown in one or two episodes? Were the trailers focusing exclusively on them, but then the actual episode/movie had them for five minutes? Did they die because their arc ended or was it for shock value or to make a straight person sad and give them an arc? Was their death especially crude and gory? Was their death sexualized?

In summary: was this character treated respectfully and the same way as the straight, cis, white, male counterparts?

The key word is respect.

Dani’s death in The Haunting of Bly Manor didn’t forward anyone’s story but her own. She wasn’t killed just after finding love with Jamie: they had a beautiful happy life together. Her death was tragic but meaningful and completely in character. That woman, who was shown to be self-sacrificing and caring in life, died because her own actions and her own choices and her own sacrifice lead her to that death. She died to protect the woman she loved and to protect a child she cared for and about. Her death wasn’t spectacularized; there was no torture, no gore, no violence. Only the tragedy of the love of her life finding out.

And, yes, we are shown how that love-in-death affected those people she sacrificed herself for. And, yes, some of those people were straight. But her memory was honored until the very last frame. She wasn’t used and then discarded. This was her story and she had complete agency through and through. Even if her death benefited some straight characters, the purpose was not to give them a story to cry and have issues over.

Dani’s death didn’t follow any of the tropes associated with BYG. Her story wasn’t a publicity stunt (it wasn’t even advertised!). Dani & Jamie’s relationship was lovely and loving and soft. It wasn’t sexualized nor so chaste they kiss out of frame.

Everything about this story, concerning Dani & Jamie, was respectful, in my opinion.

Gay characters (and I use this term as an umbrella the same way I used it throughout this answer) should be allowed to die on screen.

Gay fans should be allowed to have beautiful and respectful stories about death and grief. Gay fans should be allowed to grieve gay characters.

Authors and creators, especially if LGBT+, should feel safe when they decide to kill a character, as long as they do their research, avoid harmful tropes, love those characters the same way they would love straight ones and give them a journey that leads to a meaningful death.

[In this answer, I am only referring to Dani & the BYG trope. I’m not sure the WOC in this show were treated with the same respect. I am white and I don’t want to speak over people of color, but I am very curious to know what fans of color especialy thought of Hannah & Rebecca’s deaths.]

#the haunting of bly manor #haunting of bly manor #dani clayton #dani x jamie #hbom spoilers #spoilers #anon #anon ask #reply #angie rants #long post

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novelconcepts · 3 years

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So I am watching a video and it's about both THOHH and THOBM and there's a scene where it's Jamie entering the lake and finding Dani and at the background you hear Hugh saying:"I would have laid down with you. I would have followed you right into the darkness." Pain man, just pure pain. The good kind though, the kind only masterful parallel storytelling can bring.

The parallels between those two love stories are so impactful, once you notice them. The whole kite/string thing playing through both stories. I know I’ve talked about it before—how Liv and Hugh are both creators and Dani and Jamie both caretakers—but it never ceases to pull at my heart, how close they both are. How Hugh’s life doesn’t end with the death of his wife, but his story effectively does—he’s just still walking around with her ghost for the time he’s got left. And how Jamie, frankly, is the same by the time we leave her. The concept of love as this powerful, life-giving thing that turns into a wish when one party is gone, and sometimes that wish is too big to ever get past again. Hugh goes back to Liv, in the end. Jamie, I suspect, will one day do the same. They both remain to pass what they can on—Hugh with the children he created with Liv, Jamie with the story of the children Dani saved—but ultimately I don’t think either string is interested in functioning without their kite.

#ask #the haunting of bly manor spoilers #the haunting of hill house spoilers #the haunting of meta #the absolute grief of losing your forever person is so painfully embedded in both stories #and we see it played with in other characters too #Nell and Arthur most obviously but also Steve and Leigh or Owen and Hannah #different kinds of losses that pull at your stability and sometimes take the whole house down #it’s really clear where the true horrors lie and they resonate so much with me

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colour-outside-the-liness · 3 years

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Listen saw you're watching the conjuring movies, which made me want to watch the latest one. AND then it got me thinking about Bly Manor and how Dani is LITERALLY possessed by Lady in the lake, therefore did not need to die in any way shape or form, just needed a good ol exorcism (lmao).

And yes I'm still mad about the ending of thobm (seems like I'm the only one, which is fine, I am an angry bitter lesbian after all), and that just got me thinking: If the love of my life was possessed by a hot lady ghost and was threatening to take her away from me, I would declare war on this bitch and would not rest till we got rid of her. I mean I'm already a witch anyway, this sht is not abnormal to me.

And hey, supernatural stuff and mental illness go hand in hand a lot the times and that would need to be addressed as well, but basically writers in this show were just fing cowards tbh. And it doesn't even make sense that Jamie wouldn't try to fight it or help Dani in some way (she's a freaking Aries for christ sake). Anyway, at least we got some kind of reparations with the Fear Street trilogy (don't know if you watched it yet but it's cool an fun mostly) and fanfic writers (always saving the day, thank you!).

Anyway sorry for writing this essay in your asks but it would be really cool to see them going through that journey y'know: getting rid of the lady bc they're both fighters and they deserve to have a long happy life together after so much trauma. Idk if the conjuring AU is going to be anything like that so I'm sorry in advance if I caught the train moving. But have fun watching the movies, they're really funny and keep up the good work! Sorry again for brain dumping on you like this (guess it's your lucky day!).

I am currently going through all the movies and honestly this is all I could think about while watching them, Dani was for sure possessed so maybe an exorcism would've worked!! Oh I am so mad at the ending still and I think part of me always will be!! I recently re-watched them with my 12 year old niece while I have been watching her while her parents are at work and I don't think she will ever trust me again after the emotional roller coaster she went on- seriously after watching the 8th episode we had to have a couple of days break between that one and episode 9 because her parents weren't working and she just kept sending me messages about how she was so excited to watch the last one with me when we could and how she really hoped Dani would be okay... I think she is very mad with the ending too so you are not alone in that feeling I don't full believe in possession and things like that but I know for sure I would believe the love of my life if they said anything like this and would do absolutely anything I could to help them no matter what that took!! Again I don't really know anything about star signs or what their traits are so I can't say how an Aries would act in this situation- I'm a taurus and literally know nothing about what that means but I am always interested in learning more so please come tell me all about star signs if you want because I am very clueless with this stuff haha No I haven't seen Fear Street yet, I will get around to watching it eventually but right now it's not really something that has jumped out at me, that's probably something I will do when I have nothing else to do and can dedicate a day to just watching all 3 of them and working my way through them without many breaks Gott love representation in forms of movies and fic writers though (thank you for reading the fics) No need to apologise I love getting things like this sent to me so please never apologise for this and send me as many things like this as you want!! I agree it would be a great journey for them to go on but The Conjuring AU isn't going to contain any possession or exorcisms or anything like that, just some good old haunting like what you see in thobm and thohh but it will have some very aggressive poltergeist activity and some very threatening moments or paranormal activity!! I'm having fun watching the movies and am really enjoying writing this fic so I hope you all enjoy it!! Sorry for the late response on this ask I've had a very busy day of adulting and have only just had time to sit and compose a response!! ☺️

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randomcactaceae · 3 years

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Hi :) I wanna ask if there's anything you learned after watching Bly Manor. Like did it teach you something about yourself or make you question a personal belief? Both THOHH and THOBM are really thought provoking and heavy in some parts, so I'm just curious as to what Bly made you think about :)

Hey there!! This is a big question :) I haven’t watched THOHH because I’m a scaredy lil bish, but about Bly Manor, I did learn many things and related to both Jamie and Dani in many ways.

First of all, I learned that is okay not to fit in in the category society wants you to fit in, in many aspects. I personally have struggled a lot with personality and trust issues, because I often feel like I’m not enough or that people may find me weird because of my social anxiety or my interests. I tend to push people away from time to time and isolate myself, and I used to think for many years that I was wrong and annoying. But recently I have tried to embrace it, and that’s why I resonated so much with Jamie. I learned from her that is okay to be the way I am, and it’s okay to prefer other interests before interacting with people, because one day (hopefully) someone´s gonna come into my life and be okay with it. It´s okay not to fit in into the category of the typical girl in her 20´s. So what I’m trying to say here is, I learned that it is okay to be who you are, because there’s someone that will love you that way.

On the other hand, I also learned from myself that is also okay not knowing what you want and it’s okay to be confused. And by this I mean comphet. Yes, I have always thought I didn’t like relationships, but maybe it was because I didn’t want a heterosexual relationship. And I never realised until a few months ago. I’m still struggling with that tho, because I still don’t know what I want and who I am, but from Dani’s story I learned that it’s okay not to want the “traditional” concept.

And last but not least, the concept of one day at a time. As I mentioned before, my anxiety makes me sabotage myself and overthink a lot and get scared about the future. But achieving little progress day by day is what really matters. Even the smallest thing.

And not wanting to make this an essay, that’s the main things I learned by watching Bly manor. I hope this answers your questions, anon! Thank you so much for the ask, it really made me put into words many things :)

#thanks anon #bly manor question #thobm #the haunting of bly manor #bly manor #personal

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tmabutlesbian · 3 years

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i am once again thinking about my tma the haunting of bly manor au. and this time I'm thinking about how, since multiple lives are in play here, it means the characters have to really die before moving on to their next life.

Like. Their ghosts for a bit, 'cause they got unfinished business. So they have to finish it. The only character that this doesn't apply to is Annabelle since she's in a conundrum (which is a post fro another time).

Agnes stayed on up until Gertrude's death, since she was already living by a thread at that point, only keeping Gertrude alive (what happens to dani in thobm happens to gertrude so. for those who watched the show, u know what i'm talking about).

Martin was also staying on for Gertrude to help her out since she was the only one alive and he didn't have anything else to do (lmao).

Gerry only stayed for Martin so when he went, Gerry followed.

Jude is an interesting case since she didn't technically finish her business she just. Gave up on it, on herself (i made this post about her and. yeah. jude gets a sadder plotline is this au yay).

And Gertrude stayed on just long enough to destroy any possibility of anyone else coming to live on Magnus Manor. Once that was done, she moved on.

(TW: mentions of Mary gaslighting Gerry, y'know, 'cause she's oh such a good mother haha /sarc)

Their next life, Agnes and Martin suffer a LOT more than they should, Gerry tries to find them, but he's stuck with his mother, and it is very much complicated since she gaslights him into believing he never had a past life to begin with (when Agnes comes and finds him, after Mary's dead, it kinda just dawns on him. And it's even worse since Agnes comes to find him to tell him that Martin died. So. Yikes.)

Jude and Gertrude's next lives are pretty much from the tma canon, but a lot of things change. That's also a post for another time.

Annabelle, again, is another thing entirely but let me tell you, she's not having a good time.

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ghostbustermelanieking · 3 years

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shit i'm watching a video about thobm and it's got me thinking about thobm au again i'm never gonna let that one go am i

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annelyseadairs · 7 years

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Kiss Of Life (a THOBM fic) - chapter 1

Summary: MC/Eleanor Pushing Daisies AU

Warnings: LOTS of discussions of death and murder

Other Notes: Lori = MC

Happy Valentine’s Day pixelberry pals!

When Loraine “Lori” Bradley from Coeur d’Coeurs had her first kiss, she was precisely ten years, two months, eleven weeks, six days, seven hours, and thirty-two minutes old. Two weeks later, her brother, Jonathan Bradley, at seventeen years, twenty-four weeks, five days, nine hours, and sixteen minutes, died in a fatal car crash.

When called in to identify the body, Lori was certain she could not identify her brother correctly for tears were obscuring her vision. And yet, the moment she stepped into the room, Lori knew without a doubt that the dead body was Jonathan.

Her mother and father cried. But Lori cried most of all. She cried so much that her parents decided to give her a moment alone with Jonathan.

Lori looked at her brother, and felt, all of a sudden, the guilt of all the moments she had not spent with Jonathan and all the cruel things she had said to or about him and all the times she had been jealous of the attention her parents gave to Jonathan instead of her. Desperately searching for a way to say goodbye, Lori reached out and very gingerly touched Jonathan’s hand.

That was when Lori found out she had a most unusual gift.

For, you see, the moment she touched Jonathan, his eyes snapped open and he sat up, confused. Lori stumbled backwards. For the longest time, the two siblings stared at each other. Then, Lori smiled through her tears.

“You’re…alive…” she said.

“I am?” said Jonathan.

Before Lori could reply, there was a loud crash from the other room. Young Lori did not know this at the time, but that crash was the sound of one of the nurses falling against the secretary’s desk and then flat on her back, exactly one minute after Lori brought Jonathan back. Everything has a price. And the price for Jonathan’s life was the nurse’s.

“Lori, what’s going on? Why are you crying?”

Words could not explain why Lori was crying. So instead of talking, she leapt forward and pulled her brother into a hug.

At first, everything was fine. But then, Lori’s cheek brushed against Jonathan’s and he went cold and limp in her arms. Lori pulled away. She tried to bring Jonathan back again with her touch, but to no avail. That was when Lori learned, in the most awful way, that the first touch meant life, and the second touch meant death…forever.

At Jonathan’s funeral, Lori’s first kiss was there. Her name was Eleanor Waverly and in that moment, she was nine years, forty weeks, one day, eleven hours, and thirteen minutes old. She held Lori’s hand. That would not happen again.

Eleanor’s parents travelled around a lot, while Lori’s parents had a falling out after what happened to Jonathan, and separated, forcing Lori to go live with her mother in a different city far away from Coeur d’Coeurs. There, Lori grew into a private girl. She experimented with her new powers – she touched a dead fly and counted the seconds until another fly fell dead. She touched her mother’s dead cat and then touched it again, and again and again and again, hoping for different results, but the cat was dead forever after the second touch. After that, Lori rarely touched anything.

Nine years, twenty-two weeks, two days, and fifty-nine minutes later (also known as “present day”), Lori was a student at Hartfeld University. But her status as a student was only part-time, for most of her time was spent solving murders with her friend, Victor, who was one year, eleven weeks, three hours, and fifty minutes older than her. How did they solve murders, you ask? Well, it was simple. Victor was a private investigator. When he first met Lori they were both taking out the trash from their apartments, when she tripped against one of his garbage bags and accidentally touched the corpse of an alley cat. It came to life before Victor’s eyes. He looked at her. She stared back at him, wide-eyed. Then, Victor proposed a partnership: murders are a lot easier to solve when you can ask the victim who killed them. And when a murder was solved, the reward could be split evenly between Victor’s firm and Lori’s tuition.

Our real story begins a few months after their partnership began, when Lori was studying with the TV on in the background.

“And in other news,” the lady on the news channel was saying. “The body of a nineteen-year-old girl was discovered by her father last night in their home while the rest of her family was on vacation. She has allegedly been murdered.”

Lori shook her head. The world was messed up.

Later, she and Victor were getting drinks at a coffee shop near campus when he brought up the dead girl from the news.

“Have you seen the news?” he asked.

“Yes and no,” she said. “Do we have a case?”

“You bet! Heard about that dead girl? The police are stumped. Fifty-thousand for solving the case.”

Lori pretended to consider, but there wasn’t much to consider – $50,000 was a lot of money. “Is it close by?”

“Coeur d’Coeurs,” said Victor. “One hour drive.”

“I grew up in Coeur d’Coeurs.” said Lori.

Victor hesitated. “You think you might know this girl?” It was obvious to Lori that he would drop a billion-dollar case if he thought it would hurt Lori. They were more than partners, though neither of them would admit it yet. They were friends.

“What’s her name?”

“Eleanor Waverly.”

Lori’s breath caught in her throat. Eleanor with the soft lips? Eleanor with the shy smile? Eleanor with the baby sister? Eleanor Waverly, who was Lori’s first kiss, and whom Lori had not stopped thinking about since they shared said kiss? Could she really have been killed at such a young age?

When she caught Victor looking at her, Lori shrugged and proceeded to try and play it cool. “The name rings a bell, but we weren’t close.”

“Okay…” Victor said, watching her carefully. “So, are you in?”

Lori was in. An hour later, Victor was driving them to Coeur d’Coeurs.

“Are you sure you’re alright with this?” he asked again.

“I’m sure,” Lori said, even though she was not. Sure, that is – there was still a possibility, however small, that she could be alright seeing her childhood sweetheart again.

At the morgue, Victor quickly managed to charm the attendant into letting them in to see the body. At the door, Lori hesitated.

“What’s wrong?”

Lori took a deep breath and turned to Victor. “Could I do this one alone?”

“Sure,” Victor said understandingly. “But…can I ask why?”

“I lied,” Lori said. “We were close. For just a minute, maybe, but it happened.”

Victor nodded and left, but not before touching her shoulder gently. He was perhaps the only person on earth whom Lori felt comfortable being touched by. He said something reassuring and then left, leaving Lori all alone in front of the door to Eleanor Waverly’s dead body.

#playchoices #the haunting of braidwood manor #thobm #mc x eleanor #my choices stuff #i tried to write the way the narrator narrates i hope it doesn't entirely suck lol #also i haven't uploaded anything multichapter in SO LONG lmao let's see how this one goes

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novelconcepts · 4 years

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i was watching a video about thobm and they called jamie an unreliable narrator and ?? huh?? i took it as jamie is trying her best to tell this story as truthfully and honestly as possible so that it carries forward the memory of dani as she actually was and as jamie loved her. am i missing something? do you think jamie is presented as an unreliable narrator at all?

Yes, fundamentally, I do. Not in an insulting way, or a way that says, “Oh, Jamie doesn’t know what she’s talking about”, but because...I think the nature of any first-person narration is unreliability. Jamie is a woman telling the story of her wife, most of the events of which took place 20 years prior. In order to tell this story, she has to 1) remember a truly insane number of details, 2) remember things she was told by the people around her (she’d only be able to guess at Henry’s story from Episode 6, for example, if she’d sat down with him to discuss it after the fact), and 3) make it all flow together to be an appealing story for this small pack of slightly-drunk strangers.

So, if I’m Jamie, and I’m casting myself as the keeper of this story which is so dark and has so much tragedy for every character in it...and I’m trying to tell it in a way that holds the attention of a bunch of cheerful wedding guests, while at the same time not outing the bride and her family as the direct players in the tale...I have to turn it into a sort of fairytale-campfire story hybrid. I get to shift things around to make the narrative make sense; I get to enhance details for comedic or horrific effect; most importantly, I might have to make a few things up here and there. It makes the story flow, and it allows Jamie herself to--as we’ve talked about before--distance herself enough to tell the thing without feeling it so hard that she gets caught up in the grief.

I do think the heart of the story is very much real for Jamie. I think who Dani was, who Jamie was when Dani met her, and who she became, were all as honest as she could get them. I think the people she represented were as Jamie knew them--which, it’s important to say, is not necessarily the sum of them as people; Jamie hating Peter Quint might be part of why Peter is so reprehensible, just like Jamie thinking the world of Hannah and Owen is why they both come off so pure. But, yes, I do think Jamie telling a story she actually lived through, where all the parties (except maybe the ghosts) were directly known to her two decades ago is bound to be somewhat unreliable. We get it as Jamie knew it. We get Dani as Jamie knew her, and as Dani told her, but not as if watching Dani from a detached third-party perspective.

#the haunting of bly manor #the haunting of bly manor spoilers #the haunting of meta #jamie #dani x jamie #I do think the instinctive reaction when someone calls a narrator unreliable is to say #'that's awful that you think they aren't honest'#but I always feel like unreliability is the nature of memory #so if Jamie is telling a story that is largely made of her memories--and the memories of her late wife--it's never going to be pristine #and that's kind of the heart of the emotion for me

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colour-outside-the-liness · 3 years

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Oh wow, you two have been friends for a long time then! I know what's that like, I've known my best friend who lives in Spain since we were 8! Definitely awesome to have someone like that in your life. Are you still going to be roommates when the baby comes? And that was really thoughtful of your ex making sure you didn't travel alone.

Canada is really cold tho, so if you're okay with that you should def move there! Ah well, I'm doing better now so that's what matters, all the horrible worries I had when I lived back home are gone atm.

Yeah, that's the spirit! you can do all US states even if it takes you 43 years, that's plenty of time! hahaha And your welcome, it's one of my favourite fics.

Your mind is great, don't worry. At least something good came out of it haha.

Oh so people make her a pisces then, I see. I've met a pisces who was kinda like Dani once so that's why I said she has that kind of energy, but she def has fire on her chart too. And yeah I can see some virgo traits in her, but she's very sensitive and a bit naive so I guess pisces makes more sense.

I had to look up what a badger was hahaha never heard of them before.

I'm sorry you had to go through that. Sounds scary. And you still have to take medication bc of it. The threat of catching covid must've made that 10x worse too. And I can only hope to learn from my mistakes at the very least.

People who made thobm are fucking savages tbh hahaha. 😂 Kinda wish they had cast Oliver as Jamie like they originally intended but then we wouldn't have our damie... don't know what's worse honestly.

Oh Yorkshire accent is pretty cool too, isn't the lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys from Yorkshire? Honestly think all the language variations and different accents that come with each region are really fascinating. And that happens with all languages, not just English. Wish I could speak all languages in the world, that would be a cool superpower! I guess it makes sense you like American accents more bc it's so different from yours. I've become desensitized to North American accents just bc I hear them all the time, but I see how it would be more appealing to you.

Oooh I love that possibility of it becoming a real fic soon hahaha. Worst part of letting it cook is that I already have the finished illustration in my head but the transferring to reality part is not working rn. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy tbh.

You def had a busy weekend and start of the week! I have a virgo in my life rn too I know the struggle. Her birthday is this weekend in fact. I had an okay weekend thank you! Managed to catch up with that pirate AU you recommended and I'm already planning fanart for it that will probably never see the light of day haha! Are we going to have more smut this next MoU update? (need to know for scientific purposes 🔬)

Yeah we've been friends for years we met when we were 14 and are still friends now at 27 so it's been one of my longest friendships I have a friend that I met at 4 but we're not as close as we once were still really good friends but not best friends haha!! aww that's so cool that you guys have been friends for that long!! Yeah we're still gonna live together when the baby comes- we're looking for a bigger place right now to make room for the baby and her boyfriend (he still doesn't live with us yet but will soon.... *insert gif of Monica Gellar one friends saying "And now I have to live with a boy" while crying* Yeah my ex is a super thoughtful person and she just didn't want me travelling so far alone when I had never flown before because when I went to Paris with my college we drove there and went on the Eurostar and it took us 13 hours to get there but I had never flown before going to LA and I picked an 11 hour flight for my first one so she wanted someone to fly with me she's a very thoughtful person I LOVE the cold weather I am so sad right now because it's bene quite warm in the north of England I can't wait until it's like -3 degrees Celsius during the winter nights again so I am sure I would love Canada I am fine with it taking me 43 years if that's what it takes haha I just wanna hit all 50 states I think it would be so fun to do it and to be able to say I'd done it. Haha thank you!! As long as something good comes out of it that's all I can hope for but there are times I've done things and people are like "And you're allowed to teach kids?" Like I can be really dumb sometimes haha. Yeah I've seen a couple of fics where she has been a pisces I think with it never being said and with VP never saying what she thinks she is people have looked at her personality and matched it up to zodiac signs- a lot of the pisces I've met haven't been like Dani like I said but I do trust what people who know more about zodiac signs say because I know nothing and I just pick a random date each time so CBML she's a Leo and MoU she's a virgo and in SLS she's gonna be a Scorpio because that's just how I've done it haha but I really know nothing about zodiac signs other than what you have told me!! There different types of badgers there are honey badgers and they're more in America here we have a different type of badger and they look so cute but they are really vicious if they feel attacked or scared so try snd avoid badgers... more than that though we just have cows, geese, ducks, swans... lots of foxes but noting dangerous like bears or anything its a very boring place to live!! Yeah it is pretty scary but I just take everything one day at a time- I actually caught Covid last year because of how much time I was in the hospital having treatments for my condition I caught Covid and ended up in the hospital for a week while they had to give me loads of medication and blood transfusions and had to put me on a fluid drip because I was really dehydrated and that was really scary but luckily I was okay and now I am fully vaccinated so hopefully I won't catch it again. I think you will definitely learn from your mistakes I feel like some mistakes have to be made in life so you can grow from them Oh they were definitely savage but I love Bly Manor so much and I will watch it so many more times I can't wait for it to come out on DVD!! Like it was heart breaking but so beautiful and we got such an incredible wlw relationship from it and some great representation and I love that!! Would be interesting to see how it would've affected people had Oliver played Jamie though Yeah Alex Turner is from Sheffield which is South Yorkshire so again we have a similar accent but it's different because I am from further North but there are things that we say in a similar way because we’re from Yorkshire just different parts of Yorkshire... there are four Yorkshires: North, East, West, and South haha and all are in the north of England Yeah I think that’s the case every where I think accents and languages are so interesting and I would love to be able to speak any other language but I only speak English in my school it wasn’t seen as being overly important to learn a language and I have tried learning them since leaving school but I struggle now There are some American accents I love (Southern and Midwestern) so when I heard Dani speak I was like 😍🥵🥰 because I love that type of accent I have become desensitised to some American accents that are just standard ones from watching so many movies and TV shows but there are some accents that just make me do heart eyes haha I am hoping it can become a real fic soon but I am struggling with some stuff but keeping hopeful with it!! Awwh no I’m sorry it’s so hard for you I hope it gets better soon that you’re able to get it onto a page!! I have had such a busy weekend and part of the week had a bit of a busy day today too and looking after my niece again tomorrow not rest for me it would seem but it’s fine I don’t mind keeping busy!! Well happy birthday to her I hope she has a great day!! Oh yay I’m glad had an okay weekend and that you were able to catch up on the pirate AU and that you already have fan art planned for it- even if no one ever sees that fanart!! No there is no smut in this chapter of MoU some implied smut but no actual smut- there will probably be smut in chapter 9 though because y’know... it’s me haha 😂

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Hii! Yeah don't worry about it! Live your life, the internet people can wait, I know I appreciate you taking the time to reply, no matter how long it takes! 👍✨

Oh cool! France and LA that must've been fun, have always wanted to go to those places. Will get around to it eventually. I've lived in Brazil, Canada, and now Portugal, but I've also visited Orlando (Disneyland) and Miami in the US. Hoping I can go to Spain next year to visit my best friend too.

What did you say that got people making fun of you? haha Which fic did you insert that in? The only reason I cheat while playing games is bc I get bored easily so I have to add a little bit of spice hahaha and my morals are questionable I guess. 🤷‍♀️ My mbti is the architect (INTJ-T) so I guess that explains things a bit (?). Do you know your mbti? Omg your poor roommate hahaha I mean that's the best kind of winner to be, humble winners are boring as hell lol

Aren't you glad you had those drunken experiences when you were younger instead of now tho? I can't promise I'll never do stuff like that again but I'm fine with it being behind me for now hahaha. Omg you're totally right on the accent thing, hadn't thought about it that way!

What!! You should watch Stranger Things with her! It's sooo good, it's a guaranteed fun time for you two. My favourite episodes of thobm are 4 and 6 too, I like epi 9 only up until Dani's bathtub incident.

I like doing accents too but only to myself bc I'm too self-conscious haha Although I pick up accents really easily it's kinda embarrassing, sometimes people think I'm mocking them. Do people get offended when you try to do their accents? 😂 I got a scholarship at a british english school in my home country when I was a kid so I had an RP accent growing up but ended up with a generic American accent after watching too many American movies and TV shows. Sometimes it comes out generic Canadian too haha. Nordern English accent became my favourite tho after watching Billy Elliott when I was a teen!

Awwh gee thanks! I'm happy you liked my damie fan art! Didn't know you already started writing for medieval AU, makes sense people already thought to send you prompts for it, it's a really cool universe! Looking forward to updates on all your WIPS, love them all! Take your time if you need tho!

Sounds like a really fun weekend! Yeah I know what you mean, don't worry we won't tell them you have a favourite haha. Congrats on coming second on that game of crazy golf! 🎉 and thank you, I will!

Awwh thank you for understanding!! I'll always reply to people's comments eventually it just takes longer sometimes, but I will always get around to it eventually!! France was fun I went to Disney Land Paris and shared a hotel room with my roommate (yes she was on the trip too because she was in another photography class... we have been friends for so long now) it was honestly a lot of fun and I went to LA to visit my ex-girlfriend while we were still together it was a long distance relationship and I went out to LA and my roommate was invited too so we had a trip out there and had a great time I would 100% go back to LA some time!! So jealous that you've lived in Canada that's one place I really wanna go I would love to live there it looks like such a beautiful country!! I would love to go to Orlando and Miami... I wanna see all 50 states eventually if I can... so far I've seen one so only 49 to go haha!! Awwh I really hope you can get out to Spain to see your best friend!! Which is your favourite place you have visited so far? Okay so... the thing I said is in Can't Buy Me Love and it's a bit of a long story so I'll shorten it down here, but basically a group of us were talking about myths and things and I mentioned the myth of being able to see the Great Wall of china from the moon (you can't) and to add to the myth as a buster I genuinely said "Well that's the thing, people say you can see the Great Wall of China from the moon... but can you see the moon from the Great Wall of China?" and it took a good five minutes of people telling me you could see it from my house and just about anywhere else to realise that, if the moon is out, and it's a clear night, and you're y'know facing the moon... you can pretty much see it anywhere... but that's what people still mock me about... that I asked if you can see the moon from the Great Wall of China... so I put that in CBML and had it as a story Dani tells Jamie. Haha I love your reason for cheating and think it's as good as a reason as any haha!! I do know my mbti... mine is the campaigner...EFNP-T... I don't know what these mean either I read it a while ago but forgot what it meant I just know what I am haha... oh yeah she's had a lot to put up with so she just won't play games with me anymore... oh yeah I agree humble winners are okay but I do like a good bit of bragging when you win a game I am glad yeah... although the road sign incident was only... 3 years ago haha like I would like to say I was a lot younger then but I wasn't haha the black out incident I was though... I can't drink much anymore though because of medication I'm on (life long medication) so I can have maybe one or two drinks and that's it so I can't do things like that again which is probably a good thing really!! Haha best way to be don't make promises like that because that is a sure fire way to definitely do it again the second you make that promise the opportunity to do it again will show itself haha!! Yeah Jamie just has no accent to me like she just talks like most people I know it's only when I saw people talking about it that I realised to some people the Northern accent is exactly that... an accent haha I LOVE episode 9 for me 4,6, and 8 are a joint favourite like I can't pick between them and then it's episode 9 because I do love it and I love seeing them be that happy for the first part of the episode but then it just gets so sad and I can't take it!! I do accents all the time around anyone even though I am terrible at them haha... nah people don't ever get offended they just sort of smile and shake their heads at me... some people have asked me to do their accent before but I mean, I am sure eventually someone will be offended there's a first time for everything... I just have an accent that's really similar to Jamie's it's not the exact same but it's very close I love that you've had so many accents for so many reasons... omg yeah the accent on Billy Elliot is my favourite accent ever, it is a northern accent but it's from a city called New Castle which is SO different to some

other northern accents... it's the Geordie accent and it's just beautiful I could honestly listen to people from New Castle talk for hours- people from South Shields also sound like that (SS is really close to New Castle) I can see why that accent is your favourite I wish I talked like that I loved that fan art I thought it was amazing!! Yeah I haven't written much of it but I have some of it written and when I say some I mean I have like 4 different scenes written from different points of the fic and each scene is only like 1k words so far!! It's such a cool universe and I am so happy people have sent me prompts for it!! Awwh thank you so much I'm glad you're looking forward to the updates of my WIPs that really means a lot to me!! I've had a great weekend but I am so tired now totally and utterly done after the weekend I've had haha... I wouldn't say I have favourites I have just spent more time with one niece than the other because since she was really young I've looked after her while her parents have been at work and I've had breaks from work / college / university so I have spent so much time with her and she's turning into a little mini me with some stuff she does but I love all my nieces and nephews the same (and I have so many nieces and nephews haha) Awwh thank you!! I appreciate that, still feeling really proud of my second place in crazy golf haha!! and you're welcome!! ☺️

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