My media this week (24-30 Mar 2024)
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
😊 Murder at the Island Hotel (Miss Underhay Mystery #15) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Alice go to an island hotel to certify it for the local hotel owners assn & of course murder happens.
😍 Operation: Gros Michel (SquadOfCats) - 358K, stucky recovery fic - incredible, phenomenal fic - really digging in to trauma & recovery but in a way that doesn't feel too heavy/dark for very long - Steve's POV so we see his healing & recovery, and his finding purpose again. Amazing OCs. Plus a lot of really, really yummy sexy times. Reminds you that hope is an action, hope is hard, and hope has many manifestations of being. also makes you love Florida at least a little bit.
😊 Where The Inevitable Isn't (Survivah) - 41K, sterek, alternate dimension AU - enjoyable dimension hopping fic with Stiles Prime portaling to a more dystopic/gritty dimension where he & D are super together. I really liked the aspect that they could ping pong back & forth between dimensions, it wasn't just a one-time thing
💖💖 +121K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
Deep Sea Diving (AidaRonan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 5K - forever fave, comfort read
The Salt is All the Same (the_deep_magic) - The Eagle of the Ninth: Marcus/Esca, 23K - a really good omegaverse AU
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
D20: Adventuring Party - s2, e1-2 [Pirates of Leviathan]
Game Changer - s6, e4
Um, Actually - s9, e3
D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Baron's Game" (s21, e12)
D20: Adventuring Party - "Big Clue Energy" (s16, e12)
D20: Mice & Murder - "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (s9, e1)
D20: Mice & Murder - "A Scandal in Britannia" (s9, e2)
D20: Mice & Murder - "A Time For Clues" (s9, e3)
D20: Adventuring Party - s4, e1-3 [Mice & Murder]
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
The Allusionist - 191. Hypochondria
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #3: The Charter
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #4: In the Drink
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep3 "The Charter" and ep4 "In the Drink"
Imaginary Worlds - Doctor Who's Power of Regeneration
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Vent Haven Museum
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Short Wave - What's It Like To Live In Space? One Astronaut Says It Changes Her Dreams
WikiHole - Battle of the Bay (with Moshe Kasher, Guy Branum and Grace Kuhlenschmidt)
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #5: Water, Water Everywhere
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep5 "Water, Water Everywhere"
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Ganvie Lake Village
⭐ Death, Sex & Money - The Very Hot Marriage of Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts
Vibe Check - Welcome to the Chaos
Ologies with Alie Ward - Disgustology (REPULSION TO GROSS STUFF) with Paul Rozin
Code Switch - Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language
99% Invisible #575 - Autism Pleasantville
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Julia Gets Wise with Sally Field
Fansplaining - Episode 219: Tropefest Speedrun
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - A Journey Around the World with Sebastian Modak
Shedunnit - Bonus: Thoughts on Spoilers
I Said No Gifts! - Harvey Guillén Disobeys Bridger
Imaginary Worlds- Class of '84: Rise of The Villains
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #6: Fresh Fish
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Godzilla x Kong, Godzilla Minus One And What's Making Us Happy
Dear Prudence - My Partner Sticks Her Finger in Food to Taste Test It. Help!
Endless Thread - Shaq Time: Is Shaq OK?
Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 608. Women as Shields and Scapegoats: Talking Kate Middleton with Melissa Blue
Consider This from NPR - A new biopic on Shirley Chisolm fills in the picture on a woman who broke barriers
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep6 "Fresh Fish"
You're Dead to Me - Mozart
I Said No Gifts! - "Weird Al" Yankovic Disobeys Bridger
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
Chappell Roan
Disco 2024
Presenting Rob Zombie
Metal Radio • Pump-up
COWBOY CARTER [Beyoncé] {2024}
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Slow and Steady
I've been making a lot of big changes in life in the last two years.
And just last night, I had my first dream in a long ass time that carried a potent message.
I'm not here to share it all because honestly, this writing would be better for my book I am drafting... but what I do want to say is I am beyond happy to have decisively ended a chapter and then patiently and consistently begun this new one.
As a person who has a tendency to push, hustle, build, make moves and OVERSHARE, it has been nourishing and important to go slow and be quiet. To remove myself from the stagnancy of personal branding. To let myself know, it is ok to start over, AGAIN.
It's funny though—in this slowness, the pace has actually picked up in certain areas of life. I've been working with new clients, creating more tangible objects of poetry and image, taking care of myself in new ways.
But you know what? Slowness is a state of mind.
I am steady in my actions yet I do not rush to reach the outcome.
I communicate with honesty with those who understand this growth yet I refrain from sharing it all because I am still processing my own lessons.
I learn how to listen to the truths of my soul and dive into the records yet feel deeply human.
I prepare for a new chapter where stories come to life in sensorial forms and take my time developing myself alongside my expression. We are inseparable.
This is slowness. This moment of peace with pacing and giving myself permission to not be excellent all the time. To simply be; drink an afternoon coffee; watch this bird outside my window who has the silliest look (you dumb and lovely little pigeon).
I am so grateful for that dream last night that made today feel so real.
Is there anything better than being at peace with your reality? Especially when it's not how you had planned it and know it's all going to change... soon.
Hope you are having a nice Sunday... and finding ways to set your pace.
Con Amor,
Ashley Michelle Casillas.
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something i LOVE abt your writing is your creativity, like you fr come up with prompts that I've never thought about or never seen other ppl apply to revalink, and it's just so refreshing to see them in unique scenarios bc it gives me new things to brainrot about 🫶 I always love seeing your new au ideas because they're just so !! much fun to read !!!! not to give spoilers abt your wips but the one you showed me for the upcoming revalink week has been living in my head RENT FREE like how do you come up with such great ideas 😫✋
also I guess this isn't your Writing but I love the way you text AJSBAJDB the way you say everything is just so funny and I aspire to text like you 😞
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hi oomfie 🤍🤍 thank you for blowing up my ask box like always /gen
but yeah i make connections to media i feel is so obscure on tumblr dot com like barely anyone interacted with the post i made about revalink au based off of the k-drama 'goblin' because probably no one in these spheres really watches k-drama 😭😭 i think one oomf rb'd knowing exactly what i was talking about but it's like COME ON GUYS IMAGINE THIS SCENE WITH REVALI AS THE GUY AND LINK AS THE GIRL AND LINK PULLING OUT THE SWORD AND [redacted because spoilers if you haven't watched the drama ㅠㅠ]
just the other day i was thinking about an orpheus!revali x eurydice!link au because i was listening to 'wait for me' from the musical 'hadestown'. what about a percy jackson au with revali as a son of apollo who resents link because he gets claimed by a powerful god that no one would have ever guessed would have children. i have part of a scene drafted in my informal-concepting style of a fucking writer!link x editor!revali au. i cannot stress to you enough how insane and Not Normal i am about these two, i will stretch so far to make every connection to revalink i can, i might just get a little taller!
BUT TEEHEE i'm hoping i can get That™ Revalink fic out on time for revalink week 🥺 i stopped writing it for a bit because i got some writer's block and i felt like i was putting too much Plot for a oneshot, but we'll see how it goes! i planned some other stuff based on the prompts, but with the way this semester is going, i doubt i'll be able to write full-fledged oneshots on time for each of them so i may end up just uploading them later on after the semester is over (late may, june, etc)
LOL to that last bit, idk....... i've spent so much time on stan twitter and the internet in general i've developed a very particular way of talking. i'm someone who, if you say a certain word or phrase around me enough, i'll start adding it to my vocabulary without really thinking. like the reason why i type 'not' and 'sorry' as 'nawt' and 'sawry' sometimes? my stan twitter bestie lele (i'm not gonna tag her but she's on here as well i know ur seeing this bff i love u sm). how sometimes my emoji usages are random? also partly lele and other stan twitter mutuals who liked to use random emojis that had nothing to do with the topic because it was funny. i feel like the way i type things online expresses exactly the tone and flow i would use irl too 🤞😽
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