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ambidextrousarcher · 3 years

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Sarcastic StarBharat Reviews-Episode 18: In which there’s a (completely unnecessary) rain of lotuses

This is the promised reuploaded review. Under the cut, not tagging anyone.

This episode begins with a shot of fireworks bursting over Hastina. “Let it be known throughout Kururashtra that Maharaj Pandu has won the Swayamvar of Kuntibhoj’s daughter,” announces Satyavati in the throne room. The courtiers all cheer Honey Boy’s name. Camera cuts to Drama Queen as Ms. Always Patnidharma makes an entry. “I’ve brought food,” she says. “Hmm. Keep it,” he replies curtly. She gestures to the servants, who do so. (Why are we paying so much attention to Drama Queen eating. Ms. Always Patnidharma seems tense, too, and she’s holding Sukhda’s hands. I can’t see anything apart from the fact that according to StarBharat, both Gandhari and Sukhda have manicured hands and long, buffed nails.) Drama Queen eats a morsel, looking thoughtful. He says, “The taste is different today,” Sukhda says “Kumari Gandhari has made it to the flavors of Gandhar,” Ugh. Must every other episode have a syrupy sweet scene? This isn’t Sasuraal Simar Ka or something, it’s supposed to be the Mahabharat! “If you don’t like it, I can tell them to bring something else,” says Ms. Always Patnidharma. “No,” says Drama Queen, “The flavor of Gandhar is good. Different, but good.” There’s sweeping melodic music, like this is some kind of grand love proposal, complete with smiles all round. I’m counting this canon fail #34 for good measure. “Will you not sit?” he asks. So help me, someone who actually does exist! She looks shocked. Sukhda nods at her and leads her to sit. “I see Gandhar’s kitchen has entered Hastina,” he says. “This is the first try,” replies Ms. Patnidharma shyly. “It’s a good try, unfortunately, it will not be appreciated here, only Kuntibhoj’s culture will have an impact here in Hastina.” Of course, Drama Queen, drag that into this too. “What is the harm if some of the food is from here, some from Gandhar and some from Kunti?” Wow, what a terrible analogy. He pushes the food away. “Do not seek to teach me! You have no right to advice me!” Dude, she’s your wife. Cease all this ott drama, will you? “I’m trying to calm you down. I can understand that you’re still tense,” she says. This is followed by an even more terrible temple analogy I can’t make sense of, which ends with “We must accept God’s will. It’s better to forget bitterness and welcome Pandu and Kunti…” she touches his shoulder. He, predictably, lashes out. “Do not touch me! I have not given you that right. Whenever I try to accept you as my wife, this is what stops me. You show me again and again how much myself being disrespected gladdens your heart. Neither will I welcome them, nor shall you. I am your husband. My orders are your limit. Whether you accept them or cross them, I leave that on you.” Ugh, dude, how terrible can you be??? Then comes the telltale peacock feather. Ugh, for the last two episodes, we were free of this guy and here he comes up again. Skip. Skip. Skip. This is about bonds of marriage, apparently. Scene changes to Kunti and Pandu bending to take Kuntibhoj’s blessings. He stops her and asks her to take blessings from her birth-father, Shurasena. I’m counting this as canon fail #35. No Yadava dad would be so terrible that he would not even say one word to his daughter if he were actually around during her marriage. Please correct me if Shurasena is actually this terrible, okay? Shurasena digresses, saying that the honor is that of the man who brought her up. Honey Boy agrees with Shurasena, saying that the person who gives up their child just after its birth will always have second place in the child’s life. Camera pans to Ms. Melodrama. Girl, I get it okay? You didn’t want to do what you did. I got that the first time. Also, hats off to the writers for dragging it this much. They take the blessings and Pandu leaves ahead. Kunti hugs Priyamvada. “Can you see how great my husband’s thoughts are?” Oh no. “I’ve become very lucky on marrying him,” Girl, this guy literally dies because he’s too horny to keep it in his pants, okay? That’s not my definition of wise. “Yes, Princess, I can see that. All I ask is that you do not do anything to jeopardize that luck.” Kunti looks askance at Priyamvada. “I cannot cheat my husband!” “Lying for advantage is called cheating. Hiding the truth to protect yourself is not cheating.” “Do not spin webs of lies, Priyamvada,” “The truth of the world is unknown to those who have lived their entire lives in palaces, Princess, yet this very same truth can turn into a weapon in the hands of an enemy.” She ties a black thread on Kunti’s wrist. “What are you doing?” Kunti asks. “This is a charm, Princess, for the happiness of you and your husband. Swear that you will not tell him about your past until this is tied on your hand,” You…do realize she can untie it anytime, don’t you? Ms. Melodrama goes off on a rant about the number of wrongs she did. Canon fail #36, I’d say. The Kunti of the Mahabharata is a pragmatic person, I think she felt guilty about Karn, sure, but not to this extent that she about stopped living her life and its joys. Besides, I think that, if she gets the choice, she’d choose her five sons. (I really want to yell Arjun’s name, but I desist.) There are servants standing right behind her all the while she’s bemoaning her child’s fate, you honestly want me to believe this wasn’t the servant’s gossip of the day and stayed secret in this show? (In canon, it does stay secret, but this isn’t canon) Cue first half of precap scene and then Mr. Glitterwash makes an entry, praying to his Godly dad (I don’t think he knows yet) There’s badass music I’m trying to tune out, because as far as I am concerned, that guy ain’t badass. “Help!” Someone yells. Ah, I see, this is where he turns into Batman. A really poor imitation of Batman. Canon fail #37. This guy isn’t nearly as heroic. In fact, in canon, his entire motivation in life is to kill Arjun. Seriously. He’s the King of Anga, the hotbed of sexual slavery and he does nothing to save anyone there. There’s a kid flailing on a chariot crying for help, everyone scatters in his wake, until enter Mr. Glitterwash, who runs behind the chariot. The chariot strikes a stone on a grassy cliff, the kid goes flying off the cliff and Mr. Glitterwash does his Batman gig. Hang on, isn’t this guy’s selling point the ‘fact’ that he had been ‘poor and downtrodden’ (which he never was)? The guy literally had gold everywhere on him! He’s freaking wearing golden-colored shoes! What the…? Canon fail #38. Being born of God or not, Mr. Glitterwash is as human as anyone else, and he should have died after that stunt, as he lands on solid Earth. Now, if he’d landed on water, he might have survived. Instead, the Sun apparently gives him energy and he saves the other kid. “Son!” The other kid’s mama rushes to them. “Karn!” Oh, this is his adopted mom making an entry. “Radha,” says a random guy, “Your son is divine,” “Radha ma!” exclaims Glitterwash. She dunks a pot of water on him and breaks the pot. She drags him off protesting. I don’t know what the point of this is…until she asks him what the hell he was doing. Oh, so they are setting him up as heroic. I see. Anyone reading this, please don’t start thinking that this stuff is canon. IT’S COMPLETELY NON-CANON. “I was saving the child!” “Who’ll save you? Bhairav himself?” AARGH. This guy is not heroic! I’ll keep repeating it. She tells him that he’ll be punished. He asks her if she is angry. She tells him to stop making her angry and then ask this question like a wet cat. Speaking of wet cats, this guy seems to have dried up awfully fast from the drench he got like, 2 seconds ago? He’s like “I’m Adhirath’s son, it’s my duty to protect.” Huh? What? You know what, I can’t find it in myself to care. She replies that it’s her duty to protect him from his father. He says that his father is with the King in Kuntibhoj. She replies that they are coming back with the Queen and they should get ready for the Darshan. He goes “You mean they are going to see us?” “Why would they see us?” she asks. “We are neither criminals, nor brave warriors,” “You said that if a King looks at us, we will be very lucky.” “Or very unlucky. The gaze of great people have great consequences.” Okay, quit it with the melodrama foreshadowing already, will you? “Then they should definitely look at us.” “But how?” He gets an inward look in his eye. Uh-oh, I don’t like this at all. They’re gonna glitterwash him more, it’s obvious. Pandu and Kunti enter Hastina on a chariot to the sound of cheers. Priyamvada’s parting words about keeping her secret flash in Kunti’s mind. The chariot stops. “Why have you stopped, Adhirath?” asks Pandu. “The Mahamantri is here to welcome you, Maharaj,” he says. There is a round of the obligatory pranipaat’s. Vidur says that Satyavati has asked Pandu to visit Lord Rama’s temple before going home. Pandu asks if Vidur won’t welcome his Bhabhishree and Bhraata. Vidur smiles and says he’ll be their charioteer. He sends Adhirath home. Adhirath runs to Radha who tells him that their son has gone to prepare for the King’s welcome. Adhirath asks Radha why she didn’t stop him, as he might use the bow and arrow. (Okay, this…doesn’t seem believable to me.) Gilligan Cut to Mr. Glitterwash praying to Surya and drawing his bow and arrow. “You don’t understand the seriousness of this. I’ll have to stop him now, where is he?” asks Adhirath. Um, but excuse me, please. Karn is canonically Drona’s student. He canonically learnt weaponry from Dron, so what exactly is the issue? Oh, I know! The issue is canon fail #39. Considering Karna is Drona’s student, and that charioteers have to defend themselves often, it’s kind of ridiculous that Karn using a bow can cause such haha-huhu. Scene cuts to Karn who’s praying to Surya so that his objective is achieved without harming anyone. Canon fail #40. Nothing of this sort, which leads a rain of lotuses, ever happens in canon. And Karn is seriously not the sort to worry whether he hurt someone or not. Vidur takes the reins of the chariot in hand just as Karn shoots the arrow which strikes a bed of lotuses causing them to rain on Pandu and Kunti. Ms. Melodrama remembers the flowers from her stuffing them in a basket along with Glitterwash and promptly goes into mind-angst mode. She laments that the ‘light of her heart’ (who’ll want to kill her biologically youngest son later for the crime of being a better warrior) had been sent with these flowers. “Vidur, who caused this rain of flowers? Who exhibits such great archery” What the-? BTW, THIS IS NOT CANONICAL! Archery is not some divine gift that Glitterwash got. He worked towards it, as did other, better archers, heck Bheem is better than Glitterwash most of the time in canon. Ms. Melodrama holds the lotus close. The strains of the song “Suryadev Sogaye…” starts as Glitterwash comes forward. She’s anxiously looking for him as he is approaching from the back. She turns back, still looking for him. Episode ends. I suppose this is a catchphrase by now, but I am dreading the next episode. Precap: “I’m disturbed by what I heard in Kuntinagar,” says Ms. Melodrama to Ms. Always Patnidharma. She says something I don’t get and then says that a thorn in the garden of a new house is not a good omen. Ms. Always Patnidharma tells her that her elder brother loves Honey Boy a lot. Scene changes to Poseur and Drama Queen sitting at a board of dice. “Prince Pandu has defeated us handily, I have nothing but hate in my heart for him.” says Poseur. Drama Queen demonstrates his immense ocular muscle control as he strikes the board with a knife.

Wow, I got through this episode in one sitting! *Pats self on the back* Gosh, my tolerance levels are getting better for this wank.

#sarcastic starbharat reviews #scribbler gets salty #nila rants like hell #ep 18

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unusual-river-ghost · 4 years

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Day 2: (obligatory) AU prompt

aye it's my 2nd day @zadr-revival week and I decided to make an au I dont think many people have thought about or given much attention to: Vortian Dib !

Note: Sorry if I wrote something incorrectly or weirdly, I'm very tired and English isn't my first language oof. Also sorry if my thoughts and ideas are all over the place/post bhgdlsjlxvdh. More random stuff in the tags

In this AU, Dib is a Vortian engineer and his biggest dream is to explore space and its mysterious mysteries but there's one big problem: he is one of the most important engineers there are in Vort (but not enough to be of the elite, it could be an interesting au tho). However, he has been building a ship in secret with some help of his sister Gaz, an experienced technician and pilot, who only agreed to help him so he wouldn't accidentally die and to mock him when he commits an error when building his own design (poor boy he isn't as good with tools as Gaz).

Dib´s plan is to escape with Gaz when the other Vortians are occupied with (Irken) guests that wanted to try The Couch. It turns out it was that day that Zim decided to create and unleash the blob monster, creating chaos all over Vort and later killing both Tallest Miyuki and Spork. Just before that happens, Dib, while heading with Gaz to his ship sees Zim for about half a second yet enough to know something was not right, so he rushes to get out of Vort and gets out there in time. Dib and Gaz, already in the ship and many kilometers into the space, watch their planet turn into chaos because of an eldritch-looking blob.

Some months pass by and Dib keeps wondering when are they gonna find a planet. Gaz, annoyed because of hearing his annoying brother over and over again, keeps piloting the ship really hoping to find a planet not because she is tired but wants Dib to just. shut. up. A beeping signal catches her attention. It was from a planet called ´Urth´, a decent place to land on and had at least some type of basic civilization going on. The only bad thing was the noise when they got there. The horrible, horrible noise. But eh, they could get used to it.

Dib activates the ship's cloaking mechanism. Well, a prototype he had been working on previously. There, he tries to understand Urth's fashion choices and other types of trends. He then configures a hologram to match the creature's appearance:

The only parts he couldn't modify were his hands and legs. The hands were the easy part: he could just put on gloves with extra fingers on it. The legs were a rather...complicated and painful process (even more than Zim's in the first episode).The ears serve no other function other than partly blocking the noise the planet is always producing and his glasses have a special type of glass that makes his eyes look human without needing to use contact lenses all day.

Dib decided to use a trench coat because he saw one on a documentary a ´hyooman´ family was watching and thought it was cool. He lives a relatively normal human life until one day a new kid arrives to school: Zim. Dib quickly recognizes Zim as an Irken but for some reason he seems oddly familiar.

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

Anyways, this AU was created because I was questioning myself as to what is better than an alien discovering what is love? Two aliens falling in love! (+ one thinking the other one is a human, only to realize love can be everywhere {how cheezy lmao} and also having the possibility for this to be pure angst)

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power-of-ages-writeblr · 5 years

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11/11/11 Tag (22/11/11? Tag?)

Another one of these! This time, I was tagged TWICE by the wonderful @sassypandacandy (go read her books,, i love them). I’ve gotta answer the questions, come up with my OWN questions, and then tag 11 people to answer, only I’m not going to tag eleven people because I still don’t think I quite KNOW eleven people yet. Also, because I got tagged twice with two different sets of questions, I’m going to answer both sets in one post, and then just come up with eleven questions of my own, because it takes me yonks to come up with questions and I’m lazy. Eso si que es, y’know?

What’s the first thing you remember writing?

A four-page story about a Diplodocus when I was… definitely before I was ten years old. Maybe like five or six. I was very proud of it.

What’s the last thing you wrote purely for yourself?

Actually, I pretty much always write for myself, so the last thing that I wrote/started to write… ooh-er. That’d be the Warrior Cats fanfiction I’ve been working on. :P

Are you a WIP playlist person or a WIP aesthetics person?

Playlist, probably. I tend not to make playlists specifically for WIPs – instead, I’ll assign songs and soundtracks to specific characters and scenes – but I’m still better at throwing together playlists then making aesthetics LMAO

What’s a book you wish you’d written?

Uuuuh… maybe it’s just because I’m young (barely an adult), but I don’t have anything where it’s like “ah I wish I’d used that idea” or “wish I’d written this book”. I still have a lot of writing ahead of me, hopefully, so all my ideas I hope to actually get out some day. (Assuming that’s,,, what the question is asking me)

What’s your favourite book adaptation?

Ironic because it doesn’t follow the books that closely, but I love the How To Train Your Dragon films very much.

Which of your characters would you like to have a conversation with? What would you like to talk about?

The downside to Pandemonium’s Bane being filled with eccentric personalities and cooky characters means that there’s actually few of them I’d LIKE to have a conversation with, because most would be too dickish or too annoying for my tastes xDD That being said, I think me and Plue are on very similar wavelengths, and we have a lot in common (such as both of us wanting to write), so I wouldn’t mind chatting with her for a bit if I had to.

Which of your WIP worlds would you most like to live in?

The Power of Ages stories are mostly set in one universe (the Nimbus System) so I guess I’d have to go with that one by default. There’s Neil’s dimension, I guess, but it’s destroyed, so…

Have you ever written anything inspired purely by a song? If so, what song was it?

I haven’t written anything inspired just by a single song, but I HAVE got certain scenes or character backstories based off of songs, or even the concepts they’re based around. I have a whole battle between brothers planned out to the soundtrack that plays when Shifu fights Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda, and listening to the Iron Man soundtracks helped me with both the conception of a new character and her placement in my roster (and yes, she does invent things and fly around, although there are also some major differences)

Have you ever written poetry? Do you still? Why or why not?

I… haven’t written poetry. And the reason for that is… I mean, I guess it doesn’t really jibe with me? Granted I haven’t considered it heavily, but it was always my least favourite aspect of learning English at school, and I just never fell in love with it the same way I fell in love with writing conventional narratives.

Who would direct an adaptation of your writing?

I ain’t big on directors, so IDEK. I guess in terms of the rewrite of Maelstrom (my current main WIP) I’d pick Sam Raimi, who proved with his Spider-Man films that he can blend fun superhero narratives with slightly darker elements pretty well.

How do you motivate yourself when you don’t feel like writing?

Mainly by having multiple projects to work on! That way, if I ain’t feeling what I’m working on, I can switch over to another one, and bingo bango, I can keep writing. (Hypothetically. Sometimes it ain’t that simple, obviously.) I also use music, and I also take advantage of being in situations where it’s like, I’d rather write then do the alternative. Do you know how much writing I got done in lessons? So much. :P

What scenes are the worst to write?

The ones that I haven’t planned out – sometimes I have very specific ideas for how I want scenes to happen, and I’m excited to get to them, but other times they’re just obligatory because there’s certain information I have to convey. That makes it a challenge to write it in a compelling way, because why should the reader care if I don’t?

What can you say is a thing you love most about your writing?

I’d say I like the dialogue/character interplay/narrative description-y sort of stuff. I think I’m good at giving everything levity, and keeping it breezy and entertaining even if I myself find the writing process to be a bit of a slog. Plus, it’s funny to read back over, and it’s also funny to watch my discord quote a line and then keysmash at it. :P

What is writing advice that you take to heart?

It’s from Aaron Sorkin’s writing masterclass – the idea that a story is defined by the main character’s INTENTION, the OBSTACLE facing them, and the TACTICS they use to overcome it.

How do you keep yourself from quitting writing together?

Honestly, it’s not like I have to try that hard! By this point I’m desperate to tell these stories that I have in mind, so I have a sort of innate compulsion to write because I wanna get it all out there. I’ll get back to you if that compulsion runs out, but for now, I see myself writing long into the future.

What is the strangest thing you’ve searched up on the internet for writing purposes?

Probably the capabilities of medieval-era people to recognise nuclear technology. (And for the record, the answer is “pretty low”.)

Not a question, but shoutout a writeblr (or multiple) that you think needs to hear that they are awesome and doing a great job (by the way everyone, you all are awesome and doing a great job. Keep it up.)

Well obviously I’m gonna shout out the person who tagged me in the first place – Kels. I await the final(?) book in the DOOT series with great anticipation.

Your OCs are trapped on a deserted island, what would they be doing?

I WANNA say they’d try and work as a team, but, uh. It may not go so well. Dante and Plue would probably be the most practical. Gaia would be good at grunt work but not focus on the task at hand, Rose would be functionally useless but good at moral support, Jacen would try to organise things but Gaia would just push him in the sea for jokes… I reckon they’d escape eventually, I suppose, but it wouldn’t exactly be a clean-cut affair, you know? xD

What is your biggest inspiration for your WIPs?

I actually have various inspirations – I think collectively my biggest inspiration is the MCU, in that it’s a bunch of interconnected stories set in the same universe about different characters and also there are superpowers. xDD

A habit you have when it comes to writing?

Not doing it (thank you writer’s block)

A fact about your world and/or characters?

I have debated killing of MANY of my characters, but have only actually come to concrete decisions one way or the other with a few.

If your WIP/s got turned into a movie or series, what would be the quote on the promotional poster or trailer?

Oh, I’m gonna do this for ALL the WIPs, this seems fun!

Of Encounters and Trysts – Two Hearts, One Soul (or something equally cheesy)

Hit and Run – Even the indomitable aren’t invincible

Maelstrom – Destiny Begins

The Destroyer of Worlds – One Case, One Team, One Superpower

Survivor – It’s every man for themselves

Savants – Not so different

Omnia Vincit Amor – Good things come to those who get traumatised

Cometh the Hour – Six thousand years from home

Alright, now it’s (finally!) time for my eleven questiones:

1 – Does music help you write, or does it just distract you?

2 – What’s your favourite writing tool? A laptop? Notepad and pens? Quills and inkpot?

3 – Do you have to physically go to places to get a feel for them and feel as though you can set writing in them?

4 – What got you into writeblr?

5 – How well can your OCs dance, do you think?

6 – Do you have a favourite writing snack? If so, what is it?

7 – Bionicle. Thoughts?

8 – Is there a specific piece of media (movie, show, book, w/e) that you could say has been more of an inspiration to you than anything else?

9 – What’s the best soundtrack you know for getting pumped and hyped up?

10 – If you could only write one genre for the rest of your writing career, what would you go with?

11 – What’s your favourite music-based meme? (Examples include “LET’S GO”, “CREEPER/AWW MAN” and “We Are Number One But ___”)

Tagging… @thelimeonade, and @dawnuchiha!

#Not Power of Ages #Tag Game #11/11/11 tag #these questions are always fun to answer!!!

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thefrizz13 · 6 years

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Olicity Prompts #7

Guess who’s back (back again)

Other prompt posts: 1 2 3 4 5 6

- Documentary AU: When technician Felicity Smoak signs on to be a part of a documentary on some of the most high stakes FBI cases, she doesn’t expect to meet her future husband. Special Agent Oliver Queen reluctantly agrees to be interviewed for the documentary after some of his team (John Diggle, Sara Lance, and Tommy Merlyn among them) sign on themselves, but he can’t really complain after meeting a certain bubbly blonde.

- Quote Prompts:

“You’re a buffoon.”

“How am I supposed to explain to my mother that we met at a drug deal?”

“And now we’re both stranded here! Great plan!”

“I know we only met earlier today, but will you marry me?”

“I called they were gonna get married before they even met.”

“My reputation’s never been worse.”

“I lied. I love him.”

“Why in the world would you still want to marry me?”

“Excuse me, I was invited.”

“I guess I’m awake now.”

"Everything goes in a place like this.”

"It’s just so hard to say goodbye when you’re so beautiful.”

“This seemed like the best alternative at the time...”

- The Listener AU: After fighting against his telepathic abilities his whole life, Oliver Queen finally realizes he can use his powers for good to save lives as a police detective. He’s never met a mind he can’t read until he meets Felicity Smoak, and all he gets from her is silence.

I know in the show he can’t read her mind because of her epilepsy medication slowing down her thoughts too much for him or something but idk the logistics of that and I feel like the reasoning for Felicity would be she actually thinks too fast for Oliver to be able to catch individual thoughts...

Queue Tommy and Digg’s irritation at how Oliver always seems to know what they’re thinking lmao; but also he can hear their constant thoughts about how “Oliver should just admit his undying love for the blonde already, Jesus Christ”

- Hitchhiker AU: Felicity Smoak does not pick up hitchhikers. That’s how you get yourself all kinds of murdered. Her best friend Sara Lance, however, is not as cautious. When the two women come across a hitchhiker on the side of the road, Sara stops (despite Felicity’s arguing) to hear the guy’s story and find out if he needs a lift. Oliver Queen, down on his luck after finding out his girlfriend was cheating on him before getting mugged, has never been so grateful to see some strangers in his life. One of the women seems to be waiting for him to kill them or something, but that doesn’t stop him from thinking she’s really cute...

- Dancing with Myself AU: The wedding is winding down when he sees her. Alone on the dance floor, eyes closed, swaying, twirling, and humming along to the song.

Did Oliver and Tommy crash a wedding? Is it a mutual friend? Did Felicity crash a wedding??? who knows

Then flash forward to their first dance at their wedding to the song that was playing when he first saw her except now she’s dancing with him.

- Journalist AU: As an experienced front-line journalist and previous ARGUS agent, Oliver Queen is very use to the danger that can often come when reporting on breaking news all over the world. His new partner Felicity Smoak, however, seems a little green. He didn’t sign up for babysitting the new girl, but she just might surprise him.

- Journalist AU 2: He’s supposed to be an experienced professional. Falling in love with the daughter of the corrupt politician he is actively working against (with what he is sure will be the news of the year) is the opposite of what he’s supposed to be doing. He just didn’t think she’d catch on herself and offer to help him take the man in question down. He also didn’t expect her to be so... enthralling.

Felicity as the journalist and Oliver as the secretly mutinous son would also work v well js

Obligatory writer tags:

@dmichellewrites @felicityollies @alexiablackbriar13 @smoaking-greenarrow@mogirl97@machawicket @thatmasquedgirl @dust2dust34 @bindy417 @callistawolf

#arrow #olicity #olicity prompt #olicity prompts #the frizz does something original #are some of the quote prompts just song lyrics? yeah lmao

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typeaadventures · 6 years

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Camp NaNo Post - Day 1 - Obligatory Introduction

For the record: yes I’m trying to do Camp NaNo (lol cause we all remember how GREAT NaNoWriMo went).

BUT

I’m keeping it low key.

Goals

This month I’m going for time-rather-than-word-based goal of 30 hours for the month (actually wanted to do 15 hours, so a half hour a day) because I know with moving and packing and still wrapping up some pre-grad-school stuff, I will be very busy.

Project(s)

I haven’t ACTUALLY picked a project. Literally my Camp NaNo says “Placeholder Project” because I just want to use this month to encourage myself to write amidst the crazy. So whatever I feel like working on, that’s what I’m gonna do. This could be

Ghost and Spectre: My baby. You know this one. Currently up to Chapter Nine, with a lot of NEW writing to do so that should actually be EASIER than editing where I overthink things.

Second Draft

Urban Fantasy

Learn more organized information here or just see me scream in-process through tag games here

Fallen Oak: Because in case you haven’t noticed, the marrieds have been chirping in my ears and flowery high-fantasy is surprisingly cathartic.

First Draft

About 84,000 words with 2 wars and a dramatic home-coming still to go

High Fantasy

I swear, I will get the first chapter up for you guys soon, but for now, you find everything I’ve talked about under this tag.

Space Invalids: . . . . not gonna lie (and Rai don’t kill me) this is probably at the bottom of the project list right now. I still love my babies, but I’m jonesing to finish other things atm. Might put more effort into these suckers when I’m bored in August, but we’ll seeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

First Draft

Only at about 25,000 words. . . not even through the opening.

Sci-Fi/Science Fantasy really (because of the ominously hinted space faeries).

First chapter is here, and generally tag screaming here.

Might actually get to my first hour right now in the wee hours of this morning before my brain can scream at me about all the “real work” I should be doing.

So tell me, what are your Camp/April plans?

#camp nano april 2018 #my writing #my goals

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chocobro-hijinks · 6 years

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ffxv meme tag!

tagged by @domesticfluffsimulator

To celebrate a year of FFXV and the end of the first year of updates, let’s spread the FFXV love! I haven’t seen a tag meme like this for FFXV yet, so I decided to make one. If you see this and want to, copy/paste this list and share what your favorite things about FFXV are.

Favorite Chocobro: (is ravus a chocobro?) definitely IGNIS! he was no my favorite in the beginning, i thought he was just the obligatory butler-type character, but the moment insomnia fell and he dashed into the room looking at noctis like the world just ended, it became a slippery slope into ignis hell real fast! he’s always calm and ready to take control! fits snugly in my glove fetish, well-ironed suit kink, megane type, can cook while simultaniously cutting a bitch!! he’s just the whole package u feel me!!

and then he went and gotten himself a sad side story?? JUST WHEN U THOUGHT U COULDN’T LOVE HIM MORE???

Favorite Guest Party Member (including Ravus and Libertus from DLC): RAVUS!!!! i’ve been itching to know more about him, not just from the wiki article, but his attitude, the banter, what he does in a rest stop, his idling poses etc AND I GOT IT ANDI LOVE HI MS OMUCH HE JUST WANNA PROTECC

Favorite Minor Character(s): Aranea Highwind! she just seems so badass! she’s a hands-on military bamf who is in charge of her own platoon, she’s the only lady who attends military meetings with the emperor, has the gall to sigh at verstael and gossip about ardyn when he’s three feet away, she takes everything in stride but when lives are at stake she will put her sharp stiletto’d foot down. is she some powerful soldier’s daughter? is she an orphanage child? did niflheim take over her hometown or did she move to gralea on her own? I NEED TO KNOW MORE And also i kinda ship her with everybody and my friends tell me i sound very gay when i talk about her and at this point who am i to disagree am i right lmao

Favorite Villain: Daemon Ravus, it was actually the first time i ran out of healing items in the whole game and saw the game over screen. IT WAS TOUGH AND I WAS UNPREPARED AND UNDERESTIMATED HIM OK but hecc yeah it was a fun battle!!

Favorite Kingsglaive Character: uhh i dunno man i only watched it once, but i like Lunafreya’s characterization in it rather then the way she was in the actual game, does that count?

Favorite Astral/Divine Being: shiva, she’s gorgeous, the added cut scene with a conversation with her and a close up of her fabulous face was a blessing ♥ why she gotta hide inside a human though go out there and tell people what to do instead of manipulating them by proxy lmao

Favorite Character Overall: i love the dynamic of the four boys when they’re together, but the only one who i felt really REALLY lost without was prompto. i love ignis, but my chocoboy was gone for five minutes and i could not function, so i’m guessing both??

Favorite Weapon: the engine blade? i don’t switch out weapons alot (even though i should) i like that upgrading it made it stronger and i love to point warp + it goes nyoom

Favorite Location: the catoblepas pool in duscae ♥ i could run around there allll day listening to the field music and pretending i can pet the little garulessa and hide under the shack roof when it rains and drink warm tea from a thermos and catch some fish while watching the happy cyclops flop around in the water with it’s friend aaaaaaa ♥

Favorite Quest/Questline/Hunt: going into the dungeon with Aranea to get mythril, i loved chatting with her, her fighting is great, and we get to see and kill quetzalcoatl lmao, i also liked the frog quests for sania so when people whine about catching frogs i’m like lmao watch me launch myself face down into salty mud to catch this rainbow mofo

Favorite Boss: Bandersnatch! that big boye is so cool and fantastic and level 2 me nearly shat myself the first time i saw the level 40 one strolling around that leide watering hole and the Nope Music came on

Favorite Monster/Monster Family/etc: the friendly animals that let you walk around in their herd and not attack you (sometimes lmao) the anak, garula, spiracorn, they’re just so cute!

Favorite Songs: Noctis’s theme, Ravus aeternia, hellfire, relax and reflect,, song of the stars, wanderlust, apocalypses Noctis, Invidia (THE WHOLE OST IS GOOD OK) also altissia under siege from the episode ignis dlc

Favorite Boss Theme: when you go against a monster that’s 30 levels higher than u and omnis lacrima starts and you backpedal yelling shit shit shit then get smacked with a tail and then the music picks up and ur like i shouldnt have had burnt toast for breakfast

Favorite Non-Episode DLC/Update/Event: i liked the ass fest because we got to follow Loqi around and then shank him in a back alley and then send him to space like team rocket, i love that little shrimp commander i want more Loqi content, i bet he’s gonna be sassy if he was ever on our team but only like, a tsundere sassy. offer him a sandwich and he’ll buy you a coffee next time there’s a vending machine around and he’ll take ur pick with kenny crow and promote you to his instagram followers lmao

Favorite Episode DLC: EPISODE IGNIS 10000% BEST!!!! i love episode prompto, we learned a lot about our sweet boy, episode gladio was kinda uhhhh underwhelming... but episode ignis touched up on a lot of story bits that i liked and it had a lot of Ravus and my boye ignis pays-the-empty-cash-register scientia got some new specs so yeah (finger guns)

Other Favorites of Note:

the music is FANTASTIC

i met a lot of wonderful people through this dumb game

the only game where every ship makes sense and has potential and people don’t get on your case about a crack ship lmao

i love the photography mechanic, even though i spent most of it trying to get up in Ignis’s face

kenny crow is a national treasure

if you did not paint your monster truck bright pink and stuck a cactuar decal on it then you have not lived

tag 5 people:

@yourscientistfriend , @noctswife, @stephicness, @birdsandivory, @kooki-mos, @socialdegenerate

#ffxv #spoiler #spoilers #major spoilers #noctis lucis caelum #chocobros #ffxv meme #tag meme #ignis scentia #gladiolus amicitia #prompto argentum #ravus nox fleuret #lunafreya nox fleuret #aranea highwind #loqi tummelt

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imsohealthy1 · 4 years

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Finding Self Love Through A Lens w/ Megs Elemans

Has your physique ever held you again from doing one thing that you could be take pleasure in? Megs Elemans is a boudoir photographer from Canada who’s right here right this moment to discover the highly effective skill that images has that can assist you discover extra peace together with your physique.

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Small Steps Obligatory To Love Your Proper Now Physique

By honoring girls’s our bodies and respecting the place they’re at of their journey, Megs is supporting the method of shifting slightly than arriving. Even when boudoir is out of your consolation zone, Megs non-judgemental and caring ambiance might persuade you to begin taking the small steps obligatory to like your proper now physique.

Every little thing from physique acceptance, suggestions for lowering anxiousness in entrance of the digicam, and the stigma Megs acquired from postpartum photographs are on the desk right this moment as we discover what it means to discover a method again to your self by means of the artwork of images.

As an alternative of hiding the components of your self, you might not love, Megs is right here to empower you to do regardless of the hell you need together with your physique, it doesn’t matter what measurement. Are you prepared to simply accept how your physique evolves with you over time? Share what you liked most about Megs refreshing and candid method to self-love and acceptance within the feedback under.

On Right this moment’s Episode

How images might help you discover peace and progress together with your present physique (11:25)

Tracing again the disgrace and guilt many ladies really feel round their our bodies (18:52)

Addressing our society’s obsession with ‘arriving’ slightly than the journey (22:45)

The position of motherhood when coping with unrealistic weight loss plan tradition requirements (28:04)

Ideas for anybody who’s uncomfortable with the digicam and desires to strive it once more (36:25)

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Quotes

“I spotted that I had stumbled onto one thing sort of profound right here in that there’s something extremely concentrated and highly effective in these periods I do with girls the place they will step into themselves on this actually uncooked and actually fast method.” (8:41)

“The distinction between a variety of different boudoir photographers that I see is that I make no try to cover the components of your self that you just may not like, I don’t use intelligent lighting or intelligent poses and I don’t actually dabble with photoshop in any respect, and I pose girls in greater our bodies the identical method that I pose girls in smaller our bodies.” (13:43)

“I toe that line between honoring these issues that you just don’t like about your self but additionally not overtly going out of my strategy to cover them as a result of I don’t wish to reinforce this hate that you’ve for no matter particular a part of your physique.” (20:26)

“I don’t want you to like your self, there’ll all the time be issues about your self that you just don’t like, physique or persona, that’s not the purpose. I want you to not let your physique cease you from doing issues that you just love to do or may love to do in case you had been “10 kilos lighter”.” (24:33)

“I do know that you probably have a disgust with what I’m doing, that’s one thing that is occurring with you, and it has nothing to do with me.” (35:22)

Finding Self Love Through A Lens w/ Megs Elemans FULL TRANSCRIPT

Steph Gaudreau That is Episode 291 of the Pay attention To Your Physique podcast. On right this moment’s present. I’m sitting down with photographer Megs Elemans and he or she’s sharing with us discover extra peace together with your physique by means of the artwork of images.

The subsequent evolution of More durable To Kill Radio is right here, Welcome to the Pay attention To Your Physique podcast. On this present, we’ll discover the intersection of physique, thoughts and soul well being and make it easier to reclaim your talents to eat and transfer extra intuitively. Hear your physique’s alerts, and belief your self extra deeply.

I’m Steph Gaudreau, an authorized intuitive consuming counselor, dietary remedy practitioner and energy coach. On this podcast, you may count on to listen to professional visitor interviews and solo chats that may make it easier to deepen your belief with the meals motion and your physique. Bear in mind to hit the subscribe button and share

This podcast with your mates and family members. Now, onto the present.

Hey there, welcome to the present. Thanks a lot for hanging out with me right this moment on this episode of the podcast. I hope you’re effectively. And I admire that you just’re taking a while out of your day to spend it with me and my visitor right this moment who I’ll introduce in a second. First, hit the subscribe button, push that subscribe button in your podcast app. That method new of us will oftentimes uncover the present if you sort of organically give the present your vote of approval by subscribing, in order that’s primary. Quantity two, in case you preferred right this moment’s episode, please share it on social media. And you may tag myself and likewise Megs and he or she shares her deal with on the finish of the episode and can hyperlink that within the present notes.

However in case you like right this moment’s present one thing resonated and hit residence for you share it with us. We’d love to listen to what it was and be capable to partake in your learnings. That’s all the time so very highly effective. And the very last thing I’ve to say earlier than I introduce Megs is that my e book that got here out final 12 months, the Core 4 embrace your physique, personal your energy. Very, very quickly, throughout the subsequent two weeks, I imagine we will likely be out in paperback. Sometimes when a e book comes out and comes out in hardcover, it takes a few 12 months for the e book to come back out in paperback. So in case you’re a paperback e book lover, you’ve been ready for it to come back out on paperback, now’s your probability You may preorder it now apparently on the locations you’d purchase books. So you may verify that out in case you actually would love a paperback copy. However what I’ve seen in the previous couple of weeks is that the hardcover has been discounted much more. So in case you’ve been ready to take a look at the e book, now is perhaps your probability. It’s much more inexpensive and likewise offers you extra choices.

Audiobook, paperback to be popping out quickly within the hardcover. Okay, so right this moment’s visitor on the podcast is Megs Elemans. She is a photographer from Canada. And Megs has had a extremely fascinating arc to her enterprise. She did a variety of boudoir images. And thru that follow, and he or she’ll share extra with you on the present, however by means of that artwork, by means of serving to of us get in entrance of the digicam, she form of by default began to essentially assist folks make peace with their our bodies. They’re right here and now physique. So the explanation that I wished to have Megs on the present shouldn’t be solely is she performing some actually fascinating issues in her work as a photographer, however in fact, seeing your self in images could be actually robust, relying on the place you’re at in your journey to step away from weight loss plan tradition to untangle from it.

Seeing images, particularly in the event that they’re of what your physique appears to be like like earlier than and what it appears to be like like now, and perhaps it’s greater now, or it’s modified in a method that you just don’t love. That may be a extremely robust factor to deal with, it may be a extremely robust factor to work by means of. After which we’ve the entire layer of weight loss plan tradition and solely sometimes seeing sure forms of our bodies that match a selected normal, proper? Younger, white, skinny, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and so forth, and so forth. So it’s such a fragile subject. It’s such a nuanced subject. We didn’t get into all the pieces right this moment, nevertheless it’s one of many explanation why you may assume, why is there a photographer on this present, and it’s actually due to the work that Megs is doing with the intersection of physique neutrality and physique acceptance. So I hope you’re gonna actually love this present. And with out additional ado, let’s go forward and dig into this episode.

Megs, how are you?

Megs Elemans Good? How are you?

Steph Gaudreau I’m so nice. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me right this moment on the present.

Megs Elemans No drawback.

Steph Gaudreau I’m excited. what’s happening up north within the yonder land proper now?

Megs Elemans Effectively, proper now it’s simply we’re having an enormous bout of rain. So it’s a variety of time inside proper now. However yeah, we’re simply, we’re simply pedaling and dealing on the grind over right here. Yeah. On daily basis,

Steph Gaudreau For positive. So I’m in Southern California and you’re in Canada. I’ve had the fantastic pleasure of connecting with so many Canadians these days. I don’t know what that’s all about, however I prefer it as a result of y’all have simply such a terrific spirit and nice vitality round you. And you realize, once we first linked on Instagram, I used to be instantly actually captivated by what you do as a result of I used to be a form of a meals photographer for some time, however the concept of photographing folks, to me as a photographer was like, probably the most terrifying factor, you realize, I may set out a plate of salad and the salad doesn’t transfer

It’s not, you realize, feeling a sure method about being there. And so for me, it was by means of images, it was all the time a extremely, I don’t know, I discovered it to be fairly simple as soon as the basics had been there. However, you realize, for anyone that doesn’t actually know you what, what drew you to images and particularly photographing folks?

Megs Elemans Effectively, it’s humorous that you just say that as a result of my husband is the one which received me into images, technically, I’d say I simply sort of he had like a, an previous canon. And he’s very a lot all about like panorama and wildlife, and like is frightened of photographing folks. So we sort of run reverse ends of the factor, and I sort of took over his home.

Bobby and I imply I initially began within the traditional related method that I really feel a variety of photographers began I do you know households I did free periods which might be actually low-cost periods I did a few weddings and a pair simply sort of regular images not that I’m irregular, nevertheless it simply sort of lacks that like a element of how am I being of service when you accomplish that many households periods you want get actually onerous right into a routine you sort of give them the identical prompts, all of the images sort of look related. And you’re it’s gratifying within the sense that you just’re capturing recollections for folks and particularly as a result of like moms specifically, so typically don’t get in entrance of the digicam they usually sort of miss these chunks of time with their youngsters. So it’s gratifying in that sense, however I simply felt like I used to be being absolutely of service and I hadn’t actually absolutely walked into my sort of factor with images after which I did like a free, simply to see how it might go, boudoir photoshoot with this good friend of mine who’s sort of like modely by nature. So she was actually enjoyable to work with. But it surely was fascinating as a result of I noticed sort of fairly viscerally this like pocket of unfolding, as she like utterly open in entrance of me from the beginning of the session to the tip of the session, she was like a completely totally different particular person. After which I spotted that I had stumbled onto one thing sort of profound right here, in that there’s one thing extremely concentrated and highly effective in these periods that I do with girls the place they will like step into themselves on this like actually uncooked and virtually like actually fast method. After which I used to be an entire than I just like the door blew open and there’s like, a number of studying curves that got here after that when it comes to holding house when it comes to illustration, working with girls of various physique sizes, honoring the place girls are at with their our bodies and pushing them to go additional with but additionally respecting you realize, the place they’re of their journey and so it sort of, after which I, as soon as I figured it out on it, I used to be like, Oh, that is my factor. And so I do have like, greater, grander objectives when it comes to like, I wish to do like workshops, and I wish to get folks collectively and I wish to train folks to be comfy in entrance of the digicam. However proper now, I simply received to get it chugging alongside on the images aspect of issues earlier than I step right into a bunch of different stuff. In order that’s sort of how I received began.

Steph Gaudreau You realize, one of many issues that I used to be actually, as soon as we use, so we are typically listening, you realize, usually if someone is a little bit bit new to my world, I attempt to get on the telephone with them to verify it’s a extremely good match. So I believe chemistry and simply that report is absolutely essential if someone goes to come back on this podcast. And so that you and I received on the telephone just a few weeks in the past and had a extremely nice chat and I simply beloved studying concerning the form of the muse of what’s behind the kind of images that you just do as a result of if someone goes to your Instagram account, they will see, you’re clearly photographing folks in considerably like susceptible situate not susceptible conditions, however like they’re, you realize, they’re giving themselves to the digicam there. They’re permitting themselves to be a little bit bit like actually extra uncovered in the event that they’re doing one thing that entails much less clothes. And I simply actually thought that it was, I really like connecting with you about that and studying extra as a result of I do know for me, I wish to be you talked about this earlier. I imply, I don’t have youngsters, however being behind the digicam was all the time one thing and has all the time been one thing that I’d gravitate to as a result of it might imply I didn’t must be within the images and I do know that lots of people can relate to that.

Most likely listening to this present, as effectively, due to the character of what this present is about. So I simply admire it. With the ability to hear extra behind what you’re doing and the why. And yeah, there was one thing that you just mentioned once we had that preliminary chat about, you realize, what this kind of images expertise actually permits folks to do when it comes to their very own progress. And I’m questioning in case you can discuss that.

Megs Elemans Yeah. So I imply, there’s a number of sorts of avenues you may take if you’re attempting to reconnect together with your self and your sense of physique picture. And I believe that now, particularly now, we put a variety of strain on ourselves to love, unexpectedly arrive someplace and be in love with ourselves once more, and the factor that I try to actually drill in gently to my shoppers is that, you realize, it is a small step out of many, and it’s not a linear journey, you realize, you’re gonna have actually good days and actually

unhealthy days and you realize, if you arrive in a spot together with your physique is if you, you’re at a web optimistic. And so the expertise of getting a photoshoot like I keep in mind being youthful and excited about boudoir as an idea and being that it was like, bizarre and like foolish virtually in a method. And that’s earlier than I had ever actually skilled it. And it was really after I began doing a self-portrait challenge and getting in entrance of the digicam myself, that I actually began to really feel sort of to not the identical results however really feel part of what my shoppers really feel, when it comes to what you’re doing with me is you’re permitting your self for lots of ladies for the primary time to essentially be seen in an actual, unfiltered unprocessed sort of method. And so it may be actually terrifying and anxiousness and nervousness is a traditional feeling if you stroll into our session and I honor that and like we spend a variety of time simply sort of getting comfy.

However like 99% of my shoppers go away feeling like a completely totally different model of themselves and feeling actually disarmed like particularly once they get their images again. I all the time preface it by saying you realize you’re not you may not love all of your images as a result of I make the distinction between me and like a variety of boudoir photographers that I see is I make no try to cover the components of your self that you just may not like I don’t use intelligent lighting or intelligent poses I’m I don’t even actually dabble in Photoshop in any respect. In order that they’re very and I pose like girls in greater our bodies the identical method that I pose girls in smaller our bodies. So it’s generally once they get their images again, they don’t like them and I inform them that that’s regular. And that in case you go away them and also you come again to them with more energizing eyes a little bit bit later, you may develop to like them however part of it’s like seeing this like radical visible honesty and seeing your physique and permitting your self to be captured in such a method. And it’s actually like probably the most concentrated form of therapeutic that I’ve seen in something. As a result of I believe for thus many ladies, we spend I do know I did for myself spent years avoiding my very own picture, I wouldn’t have a look at mirrors, I wouldn’t look and reflective surfaces. And so after I began taking my very own image, it was actually sort of it took the facility away that I had given my complicated physique picture concern. It’s a great way and unexpectedly, I used to be like, I’m undecided what I used to be so frightened of, I’m undecided what I used to be avoiding. As a result of right here I’m. And what was I? Yeah, like, what was I so afraid of? And so I believe that it’s such it’s extremely highly effective. I’ve by no means skilled sort of this energy in anything. I imply, haven’t achieved all the pieces however

Steph Gaudreau What do you assume you attribute that to? I imply, you realize, a shopper is available in they’ve this expertise with you. Clearly, you’re creating the container the courageous and secure house for them. What do you assume is the catalyst behind that progress throughout these periods?

Megs Elemans Um, I believe that it’s positively a part of me like I’m very it’s humorous as a result of I’m fairly like an introvert by nature and I want a variety of downtimes. However after I step right into a session, I sort of like, Daybreak, my different gown which is like this actually like I create a variety of comforts. I create a variety of enjoyable, I created an setting the place, you realize, you set the tempo and also you present me and so normally, to start with, there’s numerous awkwardness, numerous shyness. However like 9 out of 10 of my shoppers will find yourself on the finish, almost bare, if not bare. I’ve gotten this like sort of, I don’t even know the way it occurred, this rep that I’m just like the bare photographer, which I’m not complaining about, however like when folks contact me now they’re like, do I’ve to be bare? And I’m like, ‘No, you don’t must be bare’. I like I all the time say, I acknowledge that there’s a spectrum of empowered girls, proper. And for some folks, that’s absolutely clothed, and for some folks, that’s absolutely bare, and also you get to determine the place you’re at. And I simply sort of facilitate that course of. However as quickly as they get previous just like the hump of nervousness and it goes rapidly, like 10 minutes in unexpectedly they’re like an entire different particular person. And I believe it’s partly as a result of normally I’m a stranger, so there’s no like, preconceived baggage or notions that we’ve with one another, like we’re simply exhibiting up right here on this house and time actually briefly as we’re. So there’s no actual like, further added strain. After which they like, they like, will say to me, I don’t know what to do with my arms, my fingers, my physique, my legs, such as you’ll must aggressively pose me and so forth.

You realize, say don’t fear, like I’ve sort of a Rolodex in my head I pose to be usually flattering, and so forth, and so forth. After which once we get midway by means of like I discover that I don’t must pose as aggressively as a result of they’ll simply get into this move state. And so they’ll be like flip and by the tip, all of them flip into little mini fashions, prefer it’s the funniest factor ever. And I all the time say to them, you’re a pure and they’re. They all the time assume I’m simply blowing smoke, however they’re like, they get completely right into a move state after which they like, go away my session on air. And I’m like, see, we received it. All of us received it. You simply want this house to have the ability to unearth it.

Steph Gaudreau Yeah, I’ve to be trustworthy. And also you’re speaking about being the bare photographer. A part of me is like, excited about all of these things that I’ve round that. I imply, my mother doesn’t hearken to this podcast. Like we sort of grew up in a unadorned, like a unadorned family.

No less than like my mother and father, my mother particularly you bought she’s gonna she’ll die or she hears this, anyway. Like she didn’t have something about that. And, you realize, a part of me I believe rising up Catholic rising up as a younger lady who was painfully conscious of her physique not being like different youngsters, like a variety of that one into the physique picture struggles that I handled and, you realize, I spotted after which absolutely, absolutely proudly owning that there’s a variety of privilege in my very own physique picture points like in comparison with people and what they’re going by means of. However however, if you’re speaking about like, being a unadorned photographer, a part of me was like, I don’t know if I’d wish to be LA, you realize, so it’s fascinating. It sort of is a good reflection level for me to hint again and assume, you realize, the place did that come from? Yeah, the place did it come from? The place did that sense of like, there’s one thing flawed with my physique come from? Do you assume a variety of your shoppers are additionally coping with these issues?

Megs Elemans Oh, that and extra, you realize, I get shoppers that are available with like, with disgrace with shyness, you realize, they’re having issues and XYZ space of their lives, I all the time get that I must lose 10 extra kilos, I must get a 10 I must have a zit in the course of my brow. Like I get a variety of explanation why they don’t quote-unquote there but, which I simply all the time rattle into my entire you realize, ethos about how such as you’re by no means absolutely going to be there. And in case you wait too lengthy, you’re gonna miss documenting your self in any respect components of your journey. And like the primary time I ever did a paid session, I used to be tremendous nervous as a result of you realize, somebody’s paying me to carry house for them to be susceptible.

But it surely was greater It was a lady and an even bigger physique and unexpectedly like felt this sort of like preconceived strain that I needed to, like, cover components of herself as a result of I knew as a result of you may inform as a photographer, I can inform straight away what you don’t like about your self, simply by the way in which you carry your self. And so I tow that line between like honoring that you just don’t like these issues by your self but additionally not overly going out of my strategy to cover them as a result of I don’t wish to reinforce this hate that you’ve for no matter particular a part of your physique, it’s like 9 instances out of 10 the stomach space.

However after I moved sort of by means of that, sorry, I’m sort of leaping again to that first paid session with an even bigger physique. Doing it was sort of like getting it out of the way in which after which unexpectedly, I used to be like, there’s no cause that we have to do that any otherwise than we’d with someone who’s skinny than presenting. You realize, like, as quickly as I received over that, and now I’ve seen all method of our bodies you realize, like each measurement, each form.

I imply, just a few colours, I’m in a really white space, however so now I simply, I believe they’re all so stunning, which is humorous as a result of I grew up in a family the place I used to be advised that I used to be fats at 16. And like I had a variety of physique picture points myself, working with these girls and seeing them evolve on their very own has achieved wonders for my very own physique picture. And now I’m similar to a fierce cheerleader for coming in, are available, deliver your baggage, we’re not going to work by means of it, as a result of like, we solely have 45 minutes with one another. However we’re simply going to take a second the place you’re simply going to neglect about it and also you’re going to breathe into your physique and for like 45 minutes, we’re simply going to honor the place you’re, proper right here. Proper now. I’m not right here to inform you what try to be doing otherwise or higher. I’m simply right here to carry house for you as you’re. And that idea is liberating from like most of my shoppers.

Steph Gaudreau Truly sounds highly effective. I do know lots of people, particularly the parents that I work with my shoppers, my group are, actually, they’re actually anchored in the concept that one thing has to occur of their life, whether or not it’s you realize, altering their physique. Sometimes the will is to make the physique smaller. It’s reaching a sure milestone reaching a sure objective that they’ve, like they, they actually and I used to be right here, I used to be at this level to in my life, and I nonetheless have locations the place I spotted my attachment, however I actually hooked up to the sense that their confidence depends on the achievement of the factor, proper, the attainment of the exterior factor. How do you sense that by means of your images? You’re serving to folks see that the reverse is feasible, proper? We’re form of like, capable of step into that second and once we are then the emotions of confidence come slightly than, like, we’ve to really feel assured earlier than we will go do the factor.

Megs Elemans Yeah, that’s like my, one in every of my largest issues is I try to like, my Instagram is like half, showcase my work and half. Let me yell at you about having a physique higher physique picture.

And an enormous a part of it’s that I believe as a tradition, we’re a little bit obsessed about arriving. I believe that all of us have like, you realize, we graduate highschool after which we go to high school, we go to school or no matter, after which we arrive into maturity, after which we arrive in a wedding and I really feel like folks view their lives as like a sequence of Okay, now I’m right here. Okay, now I’m going to go right here, and it’s like, that’s probably not how life works. It’s extra of like we arrive after which we crash and burn after which we arrive, crash and burn. And so I all the time confirmed about this like nonlinear journey that you just’ll go on. And life is absolutely extra like a sequence of waves that you just simply must journey. And if you take out that idea of a has to reach, then you are able to do something you need. And so for me, my factor is, I don’t want you to like your self, I like there’ll all the time be issues about your self that you just don’t like physique or persona. However that’s not the purpose I want you to not let your physique cease you from doing issues that you just wish to do or that you just may love to do in case you had been quote, unquote, 10 kilos lighter. And in case you’re not cautious, you’re going to undergo your entire life considering and hoping that you just’ll arrive however if you however you by no means actually do arrive. So that you’re going to overlook all of this. You’re going to overlook it if you return kilos later as a result of, in 10 years, you’ll acquire 10 kilos. After which and you then’ll be like, Oh no, I must lose one other 10 kilos. Like as soon as we take that away and we simply undergo life.

With this notion of, I’m all the time simply shifting, I’m by no means actually arriving till I’m lifeless, I assume, you then unexpectedly have the liberty to do regardless of the hell you need together with your physique. Proper? And in case your physique is the factor that’s stopping you from it, reminiscent of footage, however in case you’re, if it’s the one factor that’s stopping you from happening a date, or going out in public, or getting your images achieved, or no matter, then that’s the place the issue is, proper? The issue isn’t with you. And like, I all the time, I all the time am grateful and grateful for the folks and shoppers that belief me to carry house for them to be susceptible as a result of it’s like an enormous factor. Being principally bare in entrance of a stranger and it’s like an enormous step. And so I believe some folks see my work they usually’re like, I’m not able to be bare in entrance of you. And I’m like, you don’t must be you don’t even must e book a session with me, however the place can we begin with you right this moment so that you just’re shifting in the direction of that not letting your the physique cease you. Proper and perhaps that ends 10 years from now in a unadorned photoshoot. Possibly you get there nevertheless it, you realize, it occurs over time.

Steph Gaudreau Yeah, I admire that. I hear it. I believe what I hear you’re saying too is like having a totally bare photoshoot isn’t just like the gold normal. And I believe that comes up lots in form of physique picture conversations is one thing like, effectively, till I can put on a bikini or two-piece or present my midsection on the pool or the seashore like I haven’t arrived. Proper. So there’s like that, that idea of arrival once more of like, till and except I get so far with this two-piece bathing swimsuit. I’m nonetheless not there but. And someway we, you realize, we collectively, culturally nonetheless flip it into this vacation spot. Mm-hmm. And I believe what I hear you saying is that you just’re attempting to assist transfer folks away from that. Like, we’re gonna must get to this physique vacation spot earlier than we will really turn out to be extra embodied and see ourselves in photographs and issues like that.

Megs Elemans Yep. Oh, go forward. No, I don’t know after I was you go.

Steph Gaudreau I used to be gonna say speak to me about. So that you grew to become a mother a few 12 months in the past. And you’ve got been performing some like maternity images and issues like that. Speak to me about that have. Like what about that has been totally different for you. By way of photographing of us, you realize, there are such a lot of folks in my group who actually, I imply, like, let’s be let’s be frank, it’s weight loss plan tradition actually, is fucking atrocious for brand new mother and father, you realize, pregnant folks, issues like that. And the strain is insane. Prefer it’s it’s simply unrealistic. So what are a number of the issues that shocked you about perhaps not solely your individual journey however doing this sort of images?

Megs Elemans Effectively, I can actually stage now with mothers in a method that I felt like I couldn’t earlier than, is postpartum was it was a extremely onerous time for me and it was a tough time as a result of I had this like further layer of guilt for having a tough time. So it’s like, Right here I’m with my good angel child who has no issues. I had a terrific beginning I had, I didn’t you realize, tear I didn’t must have a C part I gave beginning at residence in my bathtub like I actually had fairly a magical beginning. However I used to be like, you realize, your physique has gone by means of it on the trauma of types, your hormones are uncontrolled. And I simply felt all the issues abruptly and didn’t know stability all of them and didn’t know relaxation and didn’t know ask for assist. And so I do know that inside my circles I run in, I see a variety of advocacy for postpartum. And it’s wanted as a result of I believe as soon as the newborn’s out, there’s this tendency to neglect concerning the mama as a result of it does turn out to be all concerning the child. You realize, that’s why in one other life, I perhaps would have employed a postpartum doula or one thing like that, as a result of you really want so many issues. And I wanted to seek out that over time away again to myself, however I used to be sort of floating on this house of, you realize, my beginning and my transition into motherhood. It was an evolution of self and it actually wasn’t a step backward. I really feel like a variety of girls are offered with this notion that they should bounce again and they should get their pre-baby physique again. However that’s not what motherhood is. You flip into a unique model of your self and in order that will likely be mirrored in my physique in a method. I’ll by no means be the identical.

My hips set wider now, issues match otherwise. Now my boobs are totally different as a result of I breastfed you realize, and I used to be onerous on myself for that, however not for very lengthy. As a result of I do work on this house. So it’s onerous for me to be onerous on myself after I’m like preaching these items. So, you realize, I all the time simply say to myself, you’ve developed as an individual and solely your physique. And so the connection I’ve with my physique now is identical one which I would like my daughter to have. And I’m so cautious as a result of I’ve a daughter. I don’t know if I’d be the identical quantity of cautious if I had a son as a result of I do know that there’s simply societal rubbish that goes round being a lady. So I deal with myself the way in which I wish to deal with her. I deal with. I, you realize, I attempt to gasoline my physique with meals. That doesn’t make me really feel like shit, however I additionally don’t hate myself. If I eat a cheeseburger. I simply she’s completely flipped how I deal with myself on its head.

In a method that I’ll by no means return again to so shortly after she gave, or I gave beginning to her, sorry, I did this like, postpartum picture tasks the place I simply wished to take footage of ladies in a extremely uncooked capability like sort of shortly after they gave beginning, I had a number of that had simply given beginning a number of that had given beginning a few years in the past. And I actually wished to focus on {that a} mom’s physique isn’t there purely as a vessel to ship this baby after which, you realize, be the meals machine for it. After which she’s simply received to shrink again to how she was earlier than. I imply, some mamas do, however some don’t. And it was actually a good way for me to got here on the proper time as a result of it was a good way for me to discover the connection I had with myself after I gave beginning. And the way in which I approached moms in my enterprise and the way in which I {photograph} folks and it was like for probably the most half, like most issues, it was for probably the most half effectively acquired, notably by different moms. However by the images group, it wasn’t terribly well-received. However that was an enormous studying curve when it comes to presenting my work on the large unhealthy web, but additionally be simply reconnecting and determining sit in my physique once more after as a result of you realize, you’re pregnant for 9 months, this like little being is within you. You may really feel it shifting round, after which unexpectedly, she’s out and you are feeling actually like empty and deflated. And so you need to sort of sit again into that, and I believe I’ll be extra ready if we’ve one other child as a result of the most important factor that I used to be mad about, I had a horrible being pregnant I used to be sick for six out of 9 months, I used to be off I used to be a nightmare. I used to be a nightmare to be round. I hated all people.

However all people sort of warned me about that as a result of my mother and grandma had horrible pregnancies they usually’re like, oh, prepare for mother mind. Prepare for morning illness. I used to be very well ready. However no person advised me what life was like after she was out these first three months are insane. And I felt like I wasn’t included in a dialog. However I used to be, nevertheless it’s now a secret that I do know. After which if you get there into postpartum and all the opposite moms are like, Oh, yeah, we all know. And I’m like, Why doesn’t anyone speaking about this? This appears unfair.

Steph Gaudreau Do you assume that the criticism from the group to your friends, mainly proper, do you assume that the criticism would have been the identical if the topic was not, in case your images topics had been totally different? In different phrases, do you assume that there was a layer of ickiness happening? As a result of, you realize, we’re speaking about not simply girls, however girls who’ve given beginning or you realize, new mother and father, or do you assume that performed into it in any respect? I’m simply purely inquisitive about what your ideas are on that.

Megs Elemans Yeah, I positively a variety of like that direct sort of gross feedback got here from males. And I believe that if I had shot males, my response would have been totally different. I keep in mind someone saying, I can, once they checked out one in every of my images, I can odor the rotten breast milk and I can like and there was like an outline of pure disgust. And I keep in mind simply being wounded, as a result of I took these images of those girls and I attempted to guarantee them that they’d, for probably the most half, stay in a secure house. They knew after I took the images that they’d be everywhere in the web. That was part of the deal.

However I used to be so sick about it, as a result of I can imagine that someone would say that about all these girls that had simply gone by means of one thing main after which my husband mentioned one thing tremendous profound and he was like, I’d assume that in case you’re artwork, your works, is making a bodily, visceral response in someone that it’s doing its job. So now I’ve like utterly flipped my perspective. And now folks’s feedback don’t hassle me in any respect, which is a spot that I by no means thought I’d arrive. However I do know that you probably have disgust with what I’m doing, that’s one thing that’s happening with you. And that has nothing to do with me. So it was expertise to have.

And I believe that they, a variety of like, a variety of them are similar to foolish, like males would simply be like, Oh, you haven’t bounced again. I see. And yada yada, yada. And I believe there’s similar to all societal rubbish that comes with mothers. And I believe you’re completely proper, that it most likely would have been acquired otherwise if it was, you realize, dudes, or simply, you realize, whoever.

Steph Gaudreau Yeah, completely. Yeah. This has been so enjoyable to sort of unpack these subjects with you. So I’ve a query and it will most likely the very best query of interview trigger time has flown so rapidly.

So let’s say someone out there may be listening to this they usually assume, Okay, cool. Possibly I want to work with you. Or perhaps that’s not an choice for me. However I’m inquisitive about perhaps, you realize, taking some simply taking some selfies or taking some images of myself, do you’ve got however they’re, they’re form of holding on to a few of these issues. Like, I don’t wish to see myself in images or I, you realize, I don’t like the way in which I look in images. Do you’ve got any suggestions for anybody at residence who, form of, needs to offer this a whirl and to say, Hey, you realize what, I wish to take some images of myself simply as I’m proper now. Any phrases of knowledge or any recommendation for people who find themselves considering that?

Megs Elemans Sure, so just a few issues in case you like, I can’t stand the sight of your self, I’d suggest simply beginning selfie in your face and never worrying a lot about your physique. However in case you really feel such as you’re prepared to maneuver into your entire physique or simply higher pictures of your self, deal with your digicam telephone like a photographer would. Right here’s what we do, don’t put the telephone down since you’re capturing up at your self, which is a horrible angle for most individuals. Attempt to get your telephone increased than you’re tryin to pose your physique gently like a mannequin would or like someone who’s cozy within the digicam would which means if it’s received a joint, maintain it bent, maintain your fingers relaxed and never inflexible. And in case you’re standing pop a hip so that you don’t look uncomfortable. You wish to maintain all the pieces bent. The entire thing with female images is that it accentuates the form of your curves, proper so that you wish to maintain all the pieces bent so that you just look much less such as you’re simply standing there awkwardly and in case you are further anxious about what to do together with your fingers, give them a job like give them one thing to carry. Run your fingers by means of your hair, however a hat on so you may maintain your hat has in your pocket.

Get like give them one thing to do. As a result of that’s the factor that individuals are most anxious about is what to do with their fingers. However like, get your self additionally dressed up and like prepared for images like the identical method that you’d do in case you come to a photoshoot you do your hair. If you happen to’re a make-up particular person, you do the make-up on one thing, put on one thing that makes you’re feeling good. So I inform my shoppers to once they don’t know what to put on, what makes you’re feeling good. And when you’re like, prepared, and in one thing, you’re feeling superior, and also you’re already at a method greater benefit to get in entrance of a digicam than you’d be in case you simply rolled away from bed and pull your telephone out. So in case you simply put together, after which maintain your physique relaxed and bent and provides your self a job to take action that you just don’t appear like you’re attempting to take images. And the easiest way to get pure smiles is to simply faux to snicker. As a result of then when you faux to snicker, you’ll begin really laughing, after which that’s what I do with my digicam. I say faux to snicker, then they begin really laughing after which I take like 300 images, and out of a kind of would be the good real smile.

Steph Gaudreau At any time when I’ve, I’ve labored with a with Taylor from She Thrives a few instances, and he or she’s the queen of like, look over there and snicker and it does work. It does work, as a result of I I positively have a kind of robotic smiles after some time the place he received tremendous stiff.

Megs Elemans Yeah, completely.

Steph Gaudreau That’s tremendous useful. Effectively, thanks a lot for that as a result of I do know that for some folks, even the considered working with someone goes to be too massive a step for them proper now, whether or not it’s financially or simply feeling comfy or secure sufficient to do this. And so perhaps it’s one thing the place they simply wish to take some images of themselves and see what that’s like and slowly work as much as it. So I believe that’s going to be actually useful recommendation.

Megs Elemans And the opposite factor too is that due to COVID, again in March, I began providing digital periods as principally a method, for a number of causes. The primary preliminary cause was as a result of I couldn’t shoot in particular person, however these wonderful aspect causes got here up due to it. In order that they’re a good way so that you can have this expertise of me shouting optimistic issues at you with out the associated fee as a result of my in-person periods begin at 350 CAD. So I promote these digital periods for 50 bucks, and I simply bounce on zoom or FaceTime. FaceTime is absolutely the very best. And also you present me what you’re carrying you present me your house, I sort of inform you what it’s best to put on, I inform you pose your physique, I inform you the place to place your telephone. After which after I snap a FaceTime image, it really takes it by means of their digicam lens, so that they’re really not unhealthy high quality. After which I edit them absolutely in the identical method I’d do in the event that they had been out of my digicam digicam, after which I ship them to you they usually’ve been like this glorious method for individuals who had been actually wish to work with me however are actually far-off from me. Or, yeah, I’ve, it’s a variety of vulnerability to have somebody in your house and to have someone actually there. So it is a good barrier to the sort of get your toes moist. And to see what it’s wish to be with, you realize, someone that advocates for physique neutrality and someone that’s, I contemplate myself good at holding house. And I additionally wish to set the bar of what a photograph shoot ought to be like, in must you go shoot with someone else, particularly in case you go shoot with a person. That is what it ought to be like. So these are additionally a good way however I’m additionally blissful to simply bounce on a fast like 10-minute name with someone to inform them what they need to put on and the place they need to stand. If they need to want that.

Steph Gaudreau That’s tremendous useful now as a result of I do know that a variety of of us proper now such as you mentioned social distancing continues to be in impact as we’re recording this and that’s simply such an enormous concern. I really like the way you talked about you realize, folks feeling comfy in their very own house versus perhaps you go to a studio otherwise you go someplace that you just’re not used to you assume individuals are taking a look at me in case you’re out, you realize, perhaps it’s similar to not a extra intimate shoot, however you’re simply out capturing. I’ve had that the place we’re like, you stroll right into a farmers market and I’m like, Oh my god, individuals are taking a look at me. There’s like a photographer following me. So there’s positively that further layer of like self-consciousness that may come up in these different environments. So I’m actually glad that you just talked about that. Effectively, so if folks wish to get ahold of you, they wish to, they wish to see what your work appears to be like like. They wish to learn the way they will perhaps get in on one in every of these wonderful digital periods. How can they discover you?

Megs Elemans So actually, Instagram is the very best place it’s my linktree hyperlink is in my Instagram bio and there you’ve got like my web site, the articles, I’ve written my portfolio, no matter you want, and there’s additionally a contact kind there for digital periods. So my Instagram is @__mephoto and likewise on Fb too, however I’m tremendous not energetic in heavy presence there. So all however like, within the Instagram handles all you really want as a result of all of the hyperlinks that you just’ll ever want are there in my bio plus all of my latest work is on my Instagram feed. And I simply posted a spicy couple’s picture right this moment. yeah, and misplaced a bunch of followers from it.

Steph Gaudreau These usually are not your folks.

Megs Elemans Precisely. So once we notice the nice ones, retaining the nice ones and actually, in case you can’t do a digital shoot, you may’t do an in-person shoot, following liking, commenting is an enormous a part of what I do too. In order that’s all the time useful.

Steph Gaudreau Superior. We’re gonna hyperlink all that up within the present notes. This has been so enjoyable. I’ve it’s so glad that I’m so glad that we linked it’s been so good to get to know you. And I look ahead to go test it out that picture after we get off after this interview. So once more, we’re gonna hyperlink all these items within the present notes so you may go and verify all the pieces out, go become involved. I actually admire your perspective. on all of this.

Megs Elemans Yeah, thanks a lot.

Steph Gaudreau Yeah. All proper. Megs Elemans. Thanks a lot for being on the podcast.

Megs Elemans Thanks.

Steph Gaudreau Okay, that’s a wrap on this episode of the podcast with Megs Elemans. And I’m so very glad that you just frolicked with us till the tip. I hope that you just took one thing away from this present. And that’s one thing resonated with you. A couple of issues, be sure you subscribe to the podcast in your podcast app. If you happen to share this out on social media, go forward and tag each of us so we will see that we’d love to listen to your takeaways and ideas. And in case you haven’t but subscribed to my e-newsletter to hearken to your physique e-newsletter. You are able to do that at StephGaudreau.com/LTYB for Pay attention To Your Physique, and there I ship weekly newsletters about all the issues that we talked about on the present sharing podcast episodes. intuitive consuming physique neutrality, physique acceptance, making up a weight loss plan tradition or as I wish to say giving the finger to weight loss plan, tradition, and extra.

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