#i mean that

[ciderjacks]

landback everywhere

#free palestine #palestine #ndn #indigenous artist #indigenous solidarity #death to israel #death to america #free gaza #indigenous rights #As a native if you are a native and not supporting Palestine then you are no better than the white man #I mean that #Look your ancestors in the eye and tell them you support a colonial genocide

[murmuree]

furina redesign wip

#genshin impact #furina #focalors #genshin #genshin fanart #my art #i love slapping colours on a rough sketch knowing i’m wasting my time and i’ll need to redo it for the final lineart #i mean that

[sadquickchristmassnowman]

watched asian population studies again 👍🏻

#community #nbc community #community nbc #jeff winger #rich stephenson #jeff winger bi as hell #jeff & rich male manipulator power couple #I mean that #2x12 asian population studies #1x19 beginner pottery

[sailor-aviator]

Alright y’all, here’s some hot goss and tea for y’all….

All of you are cutie patooties and I love you so much.

#I mean that #I mean every word of that #and if you think this isn’t about you then you’re wrong #because it’s definitely about you

[emo-batboy]

hi I dont what to be a bother (and I'm sure you've gotten a millions asks like this) but do you have any ETA on the next battinson social media au? I need to see my little wing!

Hi :D I love you and thank you for asking. I would die for you. The ETA is now and the next update is soon.

(Btw I finally checked the notifications on my last update and I promise I am okay. I was just getting used to my new job in the city, and I'm also applying to join a co-op, and I've been writing TV pilots to expand my screenwriting portfolio. What fun!)

#i would die for you anon #i mean that #<3

[annoyingann]

I don't want to post this, but this art is so beautiful that I couldn't

@bedac-more and @jmpscr made the background

@deadblueass made a sweet man

#i'm sorry #what the fuuuuuuuuck #jeeeeez #darqx i swear i'm an honest person #it's a collaboration with my friends #You don't want to know what's in the middle #i mean that #I'M LITERALLY ASHAMED #darqx #please don't make me tell you who this character is #we all know who this man is #battle priest

[palfriendpatine66]

#FUCKING WHAT?!?! #EXCUSE ME #MAKE DARTH JAR JAR CANON #no but literally #i mean that #jar jar binks #ahmed best #star wars

[loveisinthebat]

Attentive Buddy

#Eastern bent-winged bat #Bats of Asia #Bats of Europe #bats of Africa #these guys are everywhere #I mean that #Literally Everywhere #Bat of the day #Daily Bat #Batposting #Cute bats #bat #bats #You love to see them #I love them though #it's okay bat nobody can tell you otherwise #Be where you wanna be

[maddy-ferguson]

byler tumblr having its little exodus moment rn...i will be staying until i hate every single one of you❤️

#i mean that #can't say i don't get why people are leaving though #and like i say: brf slt

[lolitafluffpuff]

I love Shugo Chara ocs. I mean I love magical girls and magical girl ocs in general, but Shugo Chara leaves so much room for personalization that they always have so much heart in their designs and concepts and I wish people would show me their little characters.

#I mean that #shugo chara #amu hinamori #shugo chara oc #tadase hotori #ikuto tsukiyomi #I will very happily look at any shugo chara content people send me #if someone sends me an oc I will look at it and appreviate it highly #I dont care if you think its bad or edgy!!! #its about heart!!!!!!! #amulet heart #amulet spade #amulet clover

[frogmanfae]

Guest187284629366491 left the following comment on [fic I wrote]: HDBSYSBDH AHHHHHHH

Me: you know, I just want you to understand, I would die for you.

#i mean that #ao3 #writing #fanfiction

[illiana-mystery]

😩🥵😮‍💨

#i love when he's a greaser #goddamn #lawd have mercy #the 80s was his era #for real for real #i mean that #but he's still fine as hell #i think this is probably bts of the loveless #which i still need to watch #80s #80s nostalgia #greaser #willem dafoe

[nerdyvocals]

Now that Far Away has been published and I'm slightly in-between works (working on the outline for this one but it likely will get interrupted by the Lynthia fic exchange), I've decided to make a post with all the little details/symbolism/funny things that happened while @look-at-those-niceass-rocks and I were working on it. This is very self-indulgent and simply because I put more thought into this fic than I have into any of my writing in a long time, and I want to point out all of the things that still have me, personally, on my knees.

This is a very long info dump, so post under the cut <3

So first and foremost, I originally posted Steady, Steady the day the show was cancelled, just a few hours before the news broke, and I was already planning on rewriting the ending of that one shot (and I did end up doing that), the very idea for Far Away stemmed from my rage at the cancellation (sign the petition if you haven't already!)

The first thing I came up with were two lines from the confrontation scene, "I'm what you were too much of a coward to be," and "Lydia is the goddamn sun." After writing Steady, Steady, I couldn't get the idea out of my head that Cynthia would be so ready to throw down with summer stock girl if she ever got the chance, and all I could think about was what she would say to her.

The original pitch I gave Bee was "it’s roughly 2ish years post season 1, Nancy has a summer job designing for an opera (because why not), and while there, Lydia has a run-in with Kitty Thompson for the first time since that time at summer stock. Featuring Protective!Cynthia cussing her bitch ass out."

Also special shout out to Bee for taking my off-hand comment about wanting to keep the theme of Crane Wives lyrics for titles to heart and going through their entire discography line by fucking line to write down lyrics that fit the vibes we were going for.

(Side note: New Discovery is a very thesbian coded song. Additionally, Queen of Nothing is Kitty Thompson coded, directly correlating to her telling Lydia that she was nothing.)

The opera they see is La Traviata because that's what my summer stock job was doing at the time I was writing Steady, Steady (the costumes department were all sitting in a room run making a quick change schedule when the news of the cancellation broke) so it was in my head.

The "he fell in love with a hooker?!" line came from a conversation that happened in one of the dressing rooms closing night, when half the cast finally figured out that a courtesan was essentially a high-end prostitute.

I got hung up for a while on the sleeping arrangements of the other Pinks. Personality wise, Jane and Olivia made the most sense as each other's roommates, and Nancy and Hazel did as well. However, in the canon of this fic, Nancy got into fashion school in New York and Hazel was attending Howard University, and thus they would both be gone most of the year, so logic dictated that Jane and Olivia room with either Hazel or Nancy, and have the room to themselves for the rest of the year. In the end, Bee and I decided on the original groups, and that Nancy and Hazels' room would be a guest room when they were not in Cali.

In my original concept, this was going to be more centric on summer stock girl; a character study if you will, like how the previous fic was a study on Lydia. The original title, keeping with the Crane Wives theme, was going to be The Fool in her Wedding Gown, which I had chosen to be symbolic of how Kitty had entered a beard marriage and was trying to convince herself she was straight. She was a fool in a wedding gown. Somewhere along the line, it shifted Cynthia's perspective and became an exploration of love, family, and healing after trauma.

Coming from that point, everything Cynthia and Lydia do in this fic is meant to contrast what Kitty's marriage is like. Cynthia and Lydia have been together for a little over two years at this point and they have settled into a comfortable domesticity with each other. They have their little routines, they're not shy about casual affection, and they know just about everything about each other, including drink orders (Cynthia may not remember the name, but she knows what the drink is and what it looks like) and Lydia knowing when Cynthia's hair is almost long enough to bother her just from how it feels between her fingers. In contrast, Kitty's husband calls her Kathy even though she clearly hates it, he gets her a drink with egg whites despite her telling him (repeatedly) that it sets her stomach off since she's been pregnant, and he is overtly dismissive of her.

We spent a lot of time deliberating over what everyone's drink order would be (and were helped out by some vintage bar menus I found online). Lydia wants to be a red wine girly for the aesthetic, but she simply cannot stand the taste, so her go-to is a white wine. Kitty is more of a martini or just straight whiskey or beer kind of girl, but her husband always gets her whatever is fruity and pink. The husband's drink was Bee's idea. I suggested an Old Fashioned, and Bee told me about a version that drink snobs get particularly offended over, and we decided that that is what this man drinks (Quoting Bee, "I am roasting a fictional man with slightly obscure knowledge, my favorite thing to do"). Cynthia gets a regular one, for contrast.

Also, it's no coincidence that A) Kitty was unable to stomach a Pink Lady drink, just like she wasn't able to stomach her feelings for Lydia, and B) that it was a Pink Lady who swept Lydia off her feet.

And Kitty's husband calls her Kathy or Kath (despite her wanting to go by Katherine at this point), which is just a shortening of her name, not even a nickname. He doesn't care enough to come up with one, doesn't care to say her full name, and doesn't care that it bothers her.

Cynthia blanking on the drink name was purely for in-character humor, as we figured she'd have trouble saying most wine names. Rejected drinks and their pronunciations: sauvignon blanc (pronounced the way it is spelled, inspired by Bee's husband reading the name phonetically) and Moscato D'asti (My personal favorite wine. Pronounced "Muscadine Nasty," which I think was the funniest option, but I didn't know if anyone, Cynthia included, outside the deep American south would know what a muscadine was.)

In the end, Bee chose Dry Sack Sherry from one of the menus I'd found. Quote, "I’ve changed my mind, Lydia needs to get a Dry Sack Sherry so Cynthia can accidentally call it a 'sad sack Sherry'." Further research revealed that 'sack' meant that it was a fortified wine, meaning that it had a higher alcohol content than other wines. Bee pointed out that it was truly a sad sack wine, and I pointed out that Lydia was about to have a sad sack night.

As for Kitty's sexuality, she is a lesbian. She is not bi or pan or anything like that, she is not at all attracted to her husband, she is just unable to accept that in the way Cynthia and Lydia have. As she says, Lydia was not the first girl she took advantage of and she was not the last. She has a fling with a newbie just about every year, and then uses her popularity and clout to scare them away from her theatre when she's done with them. She always ends it explosively so they don't come back and she doesn't have to face what she's done while playing Good Little Straight Girl. I hinted at it a bit in Steady, Steady that some of her friends are aware of her tendencies; they're the ones that look at Lydia with pity when Kitty leads them away from her at lunch.

Potato's nicknames for Nancy came from me asking a dear friend-who-is-like-my-sister that is fluent in Spanish for some pet names that don't sound like pet names. Translations: Mi luz: My light, Mi cebollita: My little onion, Mi perrita: My little bitch. It felt fitting.

Honorable mention, the many many interludes of us getting distracted by Static updates and screaming

Apparently there's a character limit to tumblr posts??? This is getting too long, possible part two in the future

#When I say I put more effort and thought into this fic than anything else #I mean that #Grease rise of the pink ladies #Rise of the pink ladies #grease: rise of the pink ladies #cynthia x lydia #thesbians #lynthia #grease rotpl #save our pinks #Not mentioned: Bee trying to convince me to write a smut fic

[babygorewhore]

Lemme tell you something. If you make me blush as a full time smut writer and reader? You’re a god. If I say I blush, THATS NOT EASY TO DO!

#moon speaks #like I’m disgusting #anyone will tell you #but if I say that? #I mean that

[labrdorite]

i’ve done absolutely nothing today yet somehow feel like death

#-‘๑’- txt #my nerves in my face & hands burnnnnnn #ughhhhhhhh #like when i tell you i just #HAVENT #left my bed today #i mean that

[ghostsmp3]

[chants] gay gay gay gay gay gay

#george making the beloved extra gay #i owe him my life at this point #non affirming fans of this show stay so far away from me and john #i mean that #john the apostle #the beloved disciple #the chosen #the chosen tv #george xanthis