If I’m pulling together a definitive Leda verse would you like to see the snippets that occur before the events of kiss by lipstick off as the first chapter or more towards the end?
Anonymous asked:
Ask game! Lucius and Pete! I’m curious about your thoughts on their how relationship is presented in other works. I love how you write them!
My married men! Gladly
- when I started shipping it if I did:
Literally as I was writing Baby, I'm Amazed. I hadn't given them much thought, but I knew I wanted to write Lucius' POV (it was only a few weeks post s1 airing at that point) and realized that would require giving Pete some background. Once I started writing them, their charm together became clearer to me and then I was wed to the idea.
- my thoughts:
On the show, they are a fun couple! They might be the only canon couple with virtually no drama, but they also don't have very much screen time together. This is a case where background acting does a lot of heavy lifting because their quiet interactions in scenes where they're not even in focus really filled in my perception of them.
- What makes me happy about them:
They're just people! I love how 'just dudes' they are. They both learn and change and grow from being in a group situation and also from finding each other. Their love story isn't showy, it's just two dudes looking at each other after a great blowjob and thinking 'yeah, maybe there's more to this guy'.
- What makes me sad about them:
THE SEPARATION AGAIN AHHHHHHHHH
- things done in fanfic that annoys me:
Pete erasure. I will happily read stories where Lucius is paired with someone else, but it does make me a little sad when there is no explanation for Pete at all. Some of my fave Lucius stories have no Pete in them at all, so I don't hold it against anything, but I do prefer when Lucius' polyamory is left intact and Pete is still in the picture, even if he's not featured.
- things I look for in fanfic:
Happy poly Lucius and Pete, who have a great relationship. Pete giving Lucius a kiss and a pat on the ass as he goes off to seduce Izzy is the Platonic Ideal. If that sounds familiar, let it be known that I write what I want to see in the world.
- Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
Obviously, I'm a Lucius/Izzy shipper (though I am always down for some Izzy filling in a Lucius/Pete sandwich). And hey Izzy/Pete on their own is hot too. I like either/both of them with Fang.
- My happily ever after for them:
Married with a woodworking business for Pete and Lucius 'works' in the shop, but mostly gets to draw and live his best life as a kept man of a mildly successful small business owner.
- who is the big spoon/little spoon:
They sleep facing each other, not just in canon, but in my heart. Pete's head tucks under Lucius' chin. If they do spoon, I think they take turns, depending on who is chillier in the moment. Pete likes to rub Lucius' stomach if he's big spoon, because it usually means Lucius is under the weather.
- what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
In Leda verse, it's watching HGTV and critiquing everyone's choices (despite having very little happening intentionally design-wise in their room.) In Credit verse, they like board games and Izzy finds himself their unwilling, then very willing if over the top competitive, third player.
Jim/Oluwande?
TealOranges is a go!
- when I started shipping it if I did:
Right away! I love their chemistry on the show and as soon as it was clear that it was romantic, I was totally sold.
- my thoughts:
Oluwande and Jim are great examples of how good acting and good writing can make a lot out of characters with relatively little screen time. While they may have more than some of the other crew members, they are a b-plot, but I think their story is as moving and beautiful parallel to Stede and Ed's.
- What makes me happy about them:
Jim has such a great character arc. I love that their growth gives them magic powers to show back on the ship. I love that Oluwande was on their side from the beginning. I think he would've stuck by them no matter what choice they made about how to deal with their past as long as he got to be there for it.
- What makes me sad about them:
THE SEPERATION *sobs in waiting for S2*
- things done in fanfic that annoys me:
I wish they got more focus in group fics. Jim and Oluwande both serve fascinating roles on the crew beyond 'the stabby one' and 'the backup therapist'.
- things I look for in fanfic:
Does Jim have a personality trait beyond stabbing? Does Oluwande get a speaking line?
- Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
I always want them each other's lives, buuut I do love a good Jim/Izzy moment. I like them platonic, but I totally buy them as lovers too. I could see them enjoying swinging too. Big group orgies with them both right in the middle. Oluwande is trickier because he is very attracted to Jim's chaos. Maybe Roach? Now I want to read a Roach/Oluwande fic.
- My happily ever after for them:
I want them to have big adventures! They're young and curious and fun. I want them to get their own ship with Oluwande as captain and Jim as first mate and they're fucking terrors.
- who is the big spoon/little spoon:
Canon has it here: Oluwande is little spoon.
- what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
Travel! For Leda verse anyway. I like the idea of them getting to go out into the wide world and see new things. I want them to get to discover things together. Maybe name an uninhabited island or something.
AU of an AU Update: I May Be Bad, but I'm Perfectly Good at It
Chapter 19: Please...don't stop the music
Flash. Lucius dipped Jim low to ground, the perfection of balance between them like acrobats on a high wire.
The conversation was too quiet against the music, but Charlie groaned so Izzy could guess what direction it was headed in. He reached up to turn off the ear piece.
Flash. They were both upright again, foreheads knocked together.
“Hey,” Charlie’s laugh came over the line and Izzy’s hand froze. “Not right there. Feeling kind of brittle , you know?
Flash. Jim was dancing alone.
Anonymous asked:
Can you do owen for the ask meme?
I sure can, anon!
How I feel about this character:
I really like Owen. He's the kind of guy I would've been friends with in college in heartbeat. Passionate about his interests, interesting facial hair and a relaxed vibe. All the people I ship romantically with this character:
So first and most obviously is Amir, who he has a really fast connection with. I think they're so good for each other and have a lot of staying power.
The second and also pretty obvious one is Ingrid. Their relationship is rarely sexual post-college, but it remains romantic.
My non-romantic OTP:
Owen/Alma forever. He is ride or die for his captain.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
Little tougher with an OC. So instead, fun fact about Owen is that he is the only person aside from Lucius, who can regularly coax weed out of Buttons. He will not say how.
One thing I wished had happened with this character in canon:
I wish I'd had more time to unfold his story with Amir in the mainverse. It was fun to do it in Wake Myself though.
My cross over ship:
I'm going to crossover with one of my own works and say that Owen would LOVE the Bastards from Credit for Experience. He'd get along best with them out of all of Alma' cohort.
A headcanon fact:
ooh so you get a second bonus fact. Owen has hooked up with the barista Jim hates. He does not know that they are the same person. Jim does not know this happened. But one day someone is going to exchange a friendly wave at the wrong moment and it'll be chaos.
001 | send me a ship and I will tell you:
- when I started shipping it if I did:
- my thoughts:
- What makes me happy about them:
- What makes me sad about them:
- things done in fanfic that annoys me:
- things I look for in fanfic:
- Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
- My happily ever after for them:
- who is the big spoon/little spoon:
- what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
OR
002 | Give me a character & I will tell you
- How I feel about this character:
- All the people I ship romantically with this character:
- My non-romantic OTP for this character:
- My unpopular opinion about this character:
- One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
- my OTP:
- my cross over ship:
- a headcanon fact:
OR
003 | send me 5 characters and I will rank them in order of preference
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I am really proud of the story I have in this one (Aramis/Porthos, modern au in a restaurant with a meetcute and everything!). If you don't know, I write original works (not very often!) under Veronica Sloane.
we were the liminal kids. alive before the internet, just long enough we remember when things really were different.
when i work in preschools, the hand signal kids make for phone is a flat palm, their fingers like brackets. i still make the pinky-and-thumb octave stretch when i "pick up" to respond to them.
the symbol to save a file is a floppy disc. the other day while cleaning out my parents' house, i found a collection of over a hundred CDs, my mom's handwriting on each of them. first day of kindergarten. playlist for beach trip '94. i don't have a device that can play any of these anymore - none of my electronics are compatible. there are pieces of my childhood buried under these, and i cannot access them. but they do exist, which feels special.
my siblings and i recently spent hours digitizing our family's photos as a present for my mom's birthday. there's a year where the pictures just. stop. cameras on phones got to be too good. it didn't make sense to keep getting them developed. and there are a quite a few years that are lost to us. when we were younger, mementos were lost to floods. and again, while i was in middle school, google drive wasn't "a thing". somewhere out there, there are lost memories on dead laptops. which is to say - i lost it to the flood twice, kind of.
when i teach undergrad, i always feel kind of slapped-in-the-face. they're over 18, and they don't remember a classroom without laptops. i remember when my school put in the first smartboard, and how it was a huge privilege. i used the word walkman once, and had to explain myself. we are only separated by a decade. it feels like we are separated by so much more than that.
and something about ... being half-in half-out of the world after. it marks you. i don't know why. but "real adults" see us as lost children, even though many of us are old enough to have a mortgage. my little sister grew up with more access to the internet than i did - and she's only got 4 years of difference. i know how to write cursive, and i actually think it's good practice for kids to learn too - it helps their motor development. but i also know they have to be able to touch-type way faster than was ever required from me.
in between, i guess. i still like to hand-write most things, even though typing is way faster and more accessible for me. i still wear a pj shirt from when i was like 18. i don't really understand how to operate my parents' smart tv. the other day when i got seriously injured, i used hey siri to call my brother. but if you asked me - honestly, i prefer calling to texting. a life in anachronisms. in being a little out-of-phase. never quite in synchronicity.
I imagine that the last generation to really feel this way, to really feel a before-and-after kind of world, was at the last turn of the century, which had 3 huge, life-changing inventions happen all at once.
In 1890, everybody rode horses, used candles to see at night, and communicated through letters.
By the 1920s (only 30 years later!), everybody had automobiles (or access to another form of 'self-driving' transportation like busses or trams) and nobody had horses. Nearly everyone had electricity in their houses. Nearly everyone had a telephone, or access to one.
Can you imagine? Can you imagine growing up, being taught by your parents all about how to ride horses and care for them and hitch them to a wagon, only to...not ever use that knowledge as an adult, because you have a car? Can you imagine learning how to make candles, finally getting good enough at it to be useful to your family as a teenager, only to flick a switch to turn on a light bulb as an adult?
I feel like that last huge change in technology is the same thing we are going through. I know how to read a paper map. I will never need to use this knowledge. But it's still in there; including the many patient hours my mother spent teaching me, and a lot of fond memories I have of her doing it. I know how to research a topic in a paper library, with actual books. Pretty sure I will never do that again. I memorize phone numbers, 'just in case'. In case what? The automobile (smartphone) gets un-invented? But I hold that knowledge in my head. It's there. It's part of me.
I wish I could speak to my great-great-grandmother, who had her first baby in 1900. To ask her, if what Millennials now are going through is what it was like for her Centennial generation. The absolute whiplash, from one way of life to another.
Kids born in 1890 knew how to make candles, and kids born in 1920 could not fathom why you would need to know this.
"That's my point. I'm costing you too much. So much."
"I accept that cost. We all do. Letting people into your life is never without a cost. You do it because, in the end, you've got people in your life."
(The Hanged Man, K.D. Edwards)
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Anonymous asked:
I feel like Charlie’s childhood crushes have been explored in (entertainingly embarrassing) depth (although I will never say no to more!), both in fics and in replies, but we haven’t given the same depth to Alma’s.
Did Alma have a childhood/teenage crush on any of the adults of the wider Revenge crew? Jim does not count, it’s canon that everyone is into Jim at least a little. I remember her being a little blush-y about Read way back when, I think when Read and Anne got paid to take Alma and the PPP to a concert, but that’s all I remember. Besides Read, I have a random vibe that maybe kid/teen Alma might have been kinda into Oluwande (soothing, shit-together-having energy, hot) or possibly Roach (wild nonconforming rebellious energy, also hot) but that’s fully a random vibe I can’t back up.
Hi Anon! I had this prompt rolling around in my brain and it spat out as something a little longer and not really about this, but your question is answered within it!
A recent ofmd commish, thanks so much!
Con O’Neill, MCM Comic Con panel with Nathan Foad and Kristian Nairn, London May 27, 2023
Q: As someone who was a teenager for Section 28 Part 1, I just want to […] say a massive thank you for speaking up about Section 28 Part 2. What’s it been like at the moment, working on a show that has got such cool and interesting things to say about gender broadly and masculinity more specifically?
How could I say goodbye?
How could I say goodbye?
Goodbye.
KISS ANIMATION IS LIVE MY FRIENDS!
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Holy snake sandwiches, it's so good!! Unbelievable
