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shesmore-shoebill · 17 days

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since you mentioned an angel in neon blue as one of your faves…..your top 5 amangela fics perhaps? some honorary mentions too if there’s too many? 👀

Sorry for the delay on this, life got busy and then more busy instead of less busy and I wanted to give this ask its deserved amount of consideration.

anyway. Five is HARD. I will do my best. Order is not indicative of anything bc I've agonized long enough as it is. I've tagged folks + linked directly to their posts where I could find their associated tumblr post, and links to AO3 where I couldn't.

Also I cheated and made a separate list for NSFW ones. Partly because I know some people don't want to read NSFW. and to cheat a little on the 5 restriction.

As always, RPF with F as in fiction. From what I recall, none of these are attempting to speculate or make any actual statements about real people, they're all just works of fiction I like.

if anyone wants me to remove a link to their fic or a tag for any reason, let me know.

close my eyes (and fantasize) by @baflegacy

listen. I am a fucking sucker for well intentioned and realistic miscommunication that stems from care and then goes wrong. I love a thing where someone cares about someone and thats why they're worried and the worry also means they are a little mad and a little hurt bc fuck, i want to help you, why arent you talking to me about this, did i do something, crossed with the other person doing everything in their power to do the exact thing driving them up the wall, because they genuinely care so much about the other person that its skewing their judgement. People who care and people who fuck up. I'll eat it up every time, and this one is written in a way that feels so real. 👌👌👌👌

the devil is in the details by @skiespeaches

this is a newer fic and its still in progress atm and so theres a chance it gets bumped into NSFW territory 😅 but im really enjoying it!!! The dynamic between Amanda and Angela takes the competitive edge we can see in videos and makes it into something phenomenal. Its got such strong tension and pacing, and its also got. REALLY GOOD COMMUNICATION. People react realistically and have reasonable fears and doubts but everyone also talks about them and trusts each other and its just so satisfying to read as a result. And it STILL does the tension and the 👀👀👀👀👀 so well. Guess its kind of funny to put this and the prior recc right next to each other but I genuinely love both of these. Communication and humans are weird.

not strong enough by @moviemandy

i love a disaster angela fic as much as anyone but because I feel like that trope is established among smosh rpf, I love having that get subverted even more. More Amanda getting comforted!!! yeah!!!!!And the way the dynamic and emotions are written in this one is especially satisfying to me, they all feel very real, and sweet. :') Also, Im always a sucker for the trope where someone tries to deflect from their issues by taking care of someone else and then gets CALLED OUT FOR IT. also, double bonus, this fic can be read completely platonically. :]

a field of yellow flowers by @unknownteapot

gah this one has so many layers and elements to it, its such a damn delight to reread. the bittersweetness of it all really 👌👌👌👌. Grudging respect and admiration in an awful space, magnetism of people who both deeply want to love each other and really don't (but they do). The world feels very realized and that's so important bc the fic clearly sets up the interplay as like. The two of them and also the world they are in as a distinct three players in the story. This fic has so many emotions!!! gut punch of an end! you feel for both of them so deeply by the end.

i've been having revelations by @poppyfamily

slight cheating bc this is courtmangela but it should still count imo!!! It contains another classic trope of people who care about each other deeply and it being percieved by other people before they clock it themselves. Its something I like specifically as a writing trope and only executed in specific ways- caring deeply and being affectionate does not HAVE to mean you want to sleep with or are in love with someone, and IRL assumptions about that can be. Infuriating. But love how this fic does it. :) Also its funny and it feels very genuine and the voices all sound. right. I love fics with lots of cuts where so much is said in tiny details and tiny moments, it makes the world feel very fleshed out. Also, Courtmangela as a band is just a blessed concept.

NSFW fics:

lets make this bed get squeaky by baflegacy

This rewrote my goddamn brain chemistry actually. Like yes, this one is hot, but the parts that really hooked into my brain are not exclusively the spicy bits. Pining RPF Amanda is SO important to my brain, and that dynamic of an Amanda silently losing her mind and Angela also silently losing her mind but slightly more at peace about it, combined with their very genuine friendship keeping things fine and then. and THEN. well.

personal leisure by unknownteapot

hey this fic is hot as hell. Its extremely well written. But also besides the nsfw parts the banter and the sort of instant connection all feel very real and unforced and i love that the end of the fic feels so open ended but also so light and hopeful and sweet. choosing to believe they meet for coffee the next day and it all goes swimmingly.

like she wants to try me on by baflegacy

this fic is about amanda in the submissive and breedable outfit and angela. It accomplishes eveeything you could want from that. Its Very nsfw. its VERY good. Writing smut is difficult on multiple levels- keeping it logistically and emotionally sound while keeping it spicy. It does all three really well. also the aftercare moment is really sweet. :]

bonus: its the subject of this ask so i didnt include it but shout out to an angel in neon blue- the tension is INCREDIBLE and the way the ending recontextualizes everything and leaves you unsure who was really in control the whole time is like. really impressive. The characterization is SO strong and feels so true to the Sarah Christ we know and creates an equally strong Creekside Killer characterization to juxtapose it. 👌

#this post is absolutely outing me as someone who sent amangela anons here on smoshblr huh. 😅 look. i like what i like.#amangela #smosh rpf #smosh fanfic #smosh fic #ask tag #this is def not all the amangela fics i like but ones i felt like i could best articulate my liking for haha.#in gen amangela fic writers are v talented! 👌#i spent maybe too long on this ask but it was fun and now i have a post storing some of my fave fics so thats a plus #hope directly tagging is not a faux pas of some kind 😬 lmk if you want me to untag or unlink #likewise for the one author who isnt on here... ill see if i can let them know maybe #angela giarratana #amanda lehan canto #(largely for my own tagging purposes)

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vitalmindandbody · 7 years

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Tragic, fascinating, bright- living for’ wild infant’ Zelda Fitzgerald revisited

Two movies and a Tv line out soon portray living conditions of the jazz-age novelist and partner of F Scott Fitzgerald

She is thought of as the original wild infant, a pearl-twirling party girl who died at persons under the age of 47 after a flaming broke out in the North Carolina sanatorium where she was a patient. Now Zelda Fitzgerald, the southern belle passed jazz-age protagonist, dubbed the first American flapper by her husband and partner-in-drink Scott, is to have her own Hollywood make-over two cinemas are in the pipeline and a television series will air on Amazon Prime early next year.

All three projections have starry names appended: Jennifer Lawrence will take the lead in Zelda , a biopic directed against Ron Howard and based on Nancy Milfords best-selling biography; Scarlett Johansson will bob her “hairs-breadth” for The Beautiful and The Damned ; and Christina Ricci will play young persons and impetuous Zelda in the Amazon series Z: The Beginning of Everything. The entitlement of the TV sequence comes from Scotts awestruck provide comments on meet Zelda: I adoration her, and thats the beginning and end of everything.

So what is it about Zelda that fascinates virtually 70 times after her regrettable extremity? In persona it is that the agitations the couple lived through find an resemble in our own hectic times.

Interest in the Fitzgeralds will no doubt been on the increase is not simply since Baz Luhrmanns film of The Great Gatsby in 2013 but also from the many latitudes between their lives and wield and the period were living through right now, speaks Sarah Churchwell, author of the critically acclaimed Careless Parties: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of the Great Gatsby .

Its a storey of thunder and failure and it reverberates as we are grappling with our own boom and bust, our own worries about the costs of our extravagances and our own social failures. Human life and lucks of Scott and Zelda peculiarly simulated their epoches: in the 1920 s they were roaring for all they were value, but with the gate-crash in 1929, everything descended apart.

It helps, too, that Zelda was so vibrant a person. It begins with her attractivenes, says Churchwell. But likewise with the stories told in the 1920 s about the high jinks and recreation she and Scott seemed to have. People really liked her: she was surprising, smart, cunning, funny and adored a good party. She too liked to be the centre of attention, and so had her detractors very. These events combined to manufacture her a legend.

Scott repeatedly returned to their relationship in his story, most notably in his second romance, The Beautiful and Damned , which items the exhilarating early days of their union; and his pensive fourth, Tender Is The Night , in which the gilded fantasy has faded into a more tawdry world. Zeldas only novel, Save Me The Waltz , presented the relationship from her side.

They were arguably Americas first personality pairing: a carefree golden duet who wrote their practice into the spotlight, forming their own myth of gin-soaked dates and fun-filled darkness, merely to remain too long once the light-headed had started to dim. Their recklessness prepares the legend exciting and drastic, speaks Churchwell. But they paid a the highest price.

After a few giddy years, all the youth predict disintegrated away, leaving Scott a stupefied and drunk jobbing hack in Hollywood and making Zelda to breakdown at the age of 30, a diagnosis of schizophrenia , now widely thought to be a bipolar illness, and their own lives in and out of sanatoriums.

Her story is both fascinating and shockings, tells Therese Anne Fowler, on whose novel Z the Amazon series is based. Here we have a woman whose talents and force and ability “shouldve been” represented her a brilliant success, who was determined to be an accomplished creator, columnist and ballet dancer in an period where married maidens were supposed to be partners and babies, season. Her devotion to Scott was, in many ways, her undoing[ although] he was just as imprisoned as she was. Had they adoration one another less, they might both have come to better ends.

The idea of Zelda as a brilliant maiden captured by her meter has gained traction in recent years, with a number of labours re-evaluating her through the prism of feminism although it is not always the easiest of fits. As early as 1974, the couples daughter Scottie withstood such assertions, writing that attempts to vistum her mom as a classic put-down partner, whose efforts to express her sort were frustrated by a often male chauvinist spouse were no longer accurate.

Writing in the New Yorker in 2013, Molly Fischer concurred , noting: Saving Zelda Fitzgerald is no easy proposition …[ she] does not want to be anyones baby, and theres something mortifying about the literary readiness to domesticate her, to change an enraging dame into an appealing heroine.

The new films may well further Hollywoodise Zelda, sanding away her bumpy lines and reinventing her as a relatable heroine for our modern times. The molding of Lawrence so often described as Americas Sweetheart in the Howard biopic is no accident.

A report about the upcoming Johansson film in the Hollywood Reporter recommended it would draw on previously unreleased cloth to indicate that her husband embezzled his wifes ideas as his own.

Mark Gill, chairwoman of Millennium Films, the creation fellowship behind The Beautiful and The Damned , concurs : She was massively ahead of her epoch and she took a lash for it. He embezzled her new ideas and gave them in his volumes. The wedlock was a codependency from hell with a jazz-age soundtrack. The film has, however, procured the co-operation of the Fitzgerald estate.

Fowler agrees that there is a flourishing partiality to exercise our own concerns to Zelda. We do anoint her as a kind of proto-feminist heroine, even though she didnt read herself as a feminist and didnt fully attain at anything, she enunciates. But her original honour is based on conventional paternalistic the terms and conditions of what a woman, father and spouse ought to be and do. Her passions and her insistence on prosecuting them were considered inappropriate and undesirable; after her psychopathic breaking she was literally told that this insistence had created her separate knowledge and that the path to a medicine lay in giving up all ambitions that didnt conform to the paternalistic ideal.

Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence and Christina Ricci are all set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in the forthcoming creations The Beautiful and the Damned, Zelda and Z: The Beginning of Everything. Composite: Getty Images

The backlash against this image is intelligible considering the fact that popular opinion of Zelda was initially driven by Ernest Hemingways notoriously caustic descriptions in A Moveable Feast , produced posthumously in 1964, in which he rejected her as insane and accused Scotts originating dependence on alcohol on his wife.

Our perception has very much changed, enunciates Churchwell. We have come to sympathise with her resentment, to recognise her offerings and to be more fair-minded about her selections. That remarked, she carefuls against attempts to create a Team Scott/ Team Zelda fraction, as is so often the speciman in famous literary partnerships. Its important to say that they always affection each other and wouldnt have appreciated people taking surfaces Fitzgerald wrote a few years before he was dead that it was a moral obligation that their friends understood the latter are a duo, a part and would stay that mode, even if her illness mean they couldnt live together.

Churchwell is also scathing about attempts to suggest Zelda had a larger role in her husbands labour than previously presumed. There are people who want to credit Zelda with Scotts work, which is just silly and doesnt do maidens any promotions, she answers. Its not a zero-sum play: we are in a position recognise both of them for who they were.

Zelda had many talents, but where writing was concerned she was probably more ill when she started to sharpen her endows, and while it is true that Scott didnt particularly want her to write partly out of territoriality but partly because medical doctors told him it was bad for her its also true-life that her work isnt in the same class as his. Her individual sentences are often lovely, and she can create a humor and has clever rotates of word but her wreaks tend to be sketches rather than full floors. If they had constructed different selections, maybe she could have been an important scribe, but the reality is that she wasnt.

Perhaps, then, the true key to Zeldas continued pull on our curiosity lies not in her work but in her modernity. I dont want to live I want to adoration first and live incidentally, she extol and it is that verve and gluttony for all of lifes knowledge, both good and bad, that strains down over the decades, letting each generation to see something new.

Z: The Beginning of Everything will air on Amazon Prime early next year

THEY SAID

I have rarely known the status of women who showed herself so delightfully and freshly: she had no ready-made words on the one side and no striving for impression on the other. Critic Edmund Wilson

I fell in love with her courage, her honesty and her blaze self-respect, and its these happens I would believe in even if the world indulged in wild impressions that she wasnt all that she should be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

I did not have a single apprehension of insignificance, or shyness, or incredulity, and no moral principles.

All I require is to be very young always and very irresponsible, and to feel that my life is my own to live and be happy and succumb in my own space to satisfy myself.

Other publics ideas of us are dependent primarily on what theyve hoped for.