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Apparently while procrastinating studying for her Korean exam, Mum got super into a cdrama about an esports team, and now she wants to know all about MOBAs. Adorable.
Apparently while procrastinating studying for her Korean exam, Mum got super into a cdrama about an esports team, and now she wants to know all about MOBAs. Adorable.
I need some down time this weekend. I have any number of things I want to have done, but I'm restricting myself to things that can be done sitting on the bed, minimal movement. To whit:
Which, not actually outside the bounds, as long as I am actually doing those.
stretch goals, of which I'm hoping to achieve at least one
Playing Interdimensional Vending Machine and . . . this is the first thing you give me, game? Really?
Aa-aa-aa-and done!
So I like Hualian better than the main pairings in SVSSS or MDZS (no shade on either, mostly just a personal preference thing), but the story itself I think suffered from being unfocused in places and with, honestly, a pretty disappointing villain reveal.
Still a fun read, and with some parts that will live rent free with me forever.
I'm so excited that you're creating something for me! I know I ramble a lot in my letter, but it's meant to be an inspiration more than anything. I'm not attached to any of my prompts, so feel free to ignore them. The division into art and fic prompts is only meant as a convenience, so feel free to mix and match.
I'm Rebecca on AO3. Treats are welcome.
Contents
I don't have any triggers and I am very hard to squick. There are just a few things I do not want to read about:
(There are some canon-specific exceptions listed below.)
Requested: Art & Fic
I love the detailed world of Albion, especially the tropic Nakiridaani with all those lush plants and animals and the culture of Iskai. I can spend hours walking around there, looking at stuff and talking to people! (Glow-in-the-dark flora & fauna! Pretty buildings that are actually shaped out of living plants! Iskai magic! The Former's' guild house!)
Drirr has a couple of funny moments that amuse me greatly and I love his impulsiveness and the fighting ability he brings to the party—strong and quick and probably a joy to watch. Rainer I love because he's the level-headed, geeky scientist, and I'm probably the only person who is actually sad when he leaves the party. Together, they make the perfect opposites attract/unlikely couple, and there's a titbit of dialog where Drirr's rash actions and Rainer's prudence clash in a bicker-y way that just hits all my buttons. Add to that the cultural and physical differences and how they start out knowing nothing about each other's species, and it makes me all the more curious to see how anything between them would play out.
Albion is abandonware and as such downloadable in various places, and there are walkthroughs, Let's Plays etc available. It's a very long game, but pretty much everything I'm referencing above happens early on and it's not a story that goes very deep into characterisation, plus I'm not wedded to any of the cultural titbits we learn about the Iskai, so I'm good with taking the character archetypes and the basic facts and running with them in any direction you like. (If you do want to go deep into Iskai lore, though, I'm up for that, too!)
In any case, I've collected some resources here
Requested: Art & Fic
I love how Mr Humphries is so unapologetically himself, love his humour and the camp, love how he always seems to be throwing himself into things and having so much fun. Captain Peacock is the perfect foil with his grumpy, quiet, uptight personality; I'm always intrigued by quiet-waters-run-deep kind of characters and it amuses me greatly how he's perpetually baffled by Mr Humphries' lifestyle (without being judgemental usually). They seem to respect each other–Mr Humphries is the only of the staff that Captain Peacock ever has praise for afair–and canon gives us Mr Humphries' little flirtations here and there that Captain Peacock doesn't seem to mind, so I can imagine that, to both of their surprise maybe, something could develop between them.
Regarding Captain Peacock's wife: I'd prefer if she's either not mentioned, doesn't exist, or that they separated before anything shippy happens.
I love the entire staff and am always happy for them to appear, btw. Other favourites are Mrs Slocombe and Mr Rumbold.
A lot can be found on dailymotion. The channel "Britcome One" usually has the best quality, but they rigulously cut off the intro and outro (which were specially filmed for each episode). The episode that started my ship obsession is "Top Hats And Tails". Just look at them! The series is episodic so you can just watch a handful episodes.
Requested: Art
I love the aesthetics of Doom 2016 especially, the Mars station scifi/indistrial environment. Love Dooguy's preator suit too, idk, all that stuff that it has going on visually. Doomguy's needles violence cracks me up, the way he punches the weapon update drones, or the Argent filters despite being told to carefully disable them.
Curious as to Samual Hayden's deal. He studies the Doom Slayer, he needs/uses him, but it can also easily be read as obsession, a fixation, curiosity... How much is he watching him? What's the deal with the three statues he has in his office? I think they are supposed to be just the suit, but there's nothing to say that Doomguy isn't meant to be in them....
(tbd)
Requested: Fic
(Note: My character death DNW and cheating DNW don't apply here.)
I find the book and the character of Léon Labbé very fascinating. The way he is on the one hand so precise, so carefully planning, so arrogant about his own abilities, so successful, but on the other hand pretty much deceiving himself about what he really needs or wants. I think he is so deeply trapped in his unhappy life that he doesn't even realise the depths of his own unhappiness until it all very suddenly starts to go wrong. What struck me about the book is that it's also pretty sensual, for example in the way it lingers on smell or other senses, while outwardly the controlled Labbé is anything but sensual, and nothing in his life is either. It's a contrast that makes me want to poke at it.
His relationship with Kachoudas is so interesting. You have these men that barely talk to each other or interact, but who are both obsessed which each other. They have their daily rituals they perform in an 'apart but together' way, they are always observing each other. The sensual descriptions apply to Kachoudas as well. And then, of course, Labbé gets completely fixated on Kachoudas as if he's the only one who could understand him, the only person that matters, the only one who could save him perhaps (even though he doesn't even seem to respect him much). I think it's telling that Labbé starts to truly break apart the moment Kachoudas dies.
I don't really have prompts, as such. I'd love any kind of encounter between them, whether before or during the book, whether canon-compliant or canon-divergent. How did they get to where they are? Could a difference in their relationship have changed anything at all?
I can easily see some sexual component. Labbé's only positive sexual encounters seem to be with with Mlle Berthe every once in a while, so I can imagine there's the potential for lots of suppression, unexamined desires etc. Honestly, I don't even know what exactly to picture, here. I'm not looking for a HEA between the two. Maybe a one-time thing, maybe some sort of regular thing? I imagine they still barely talk about anything. I wouldn't want noncon direction or Labbé taking advantage of someone who isn't somewhat reciprocating, but I'm on board with all kinds of ill-advised sex, feelings of guilt and disgust, dubcon. Would this change anything about how the story plays out?
It's a short French novel. An English translation is available, though personally I haven't read it.
I just love how much fun these two seem to have in every scene they share. All those smiles and the playfulness and the way they seem to instantly like each other despite now knowing much of each other! <3 I can see anything from casual hookup to romance between those two.
Regarding Jade, I'm fine with: ignoring that Brenner got back together with her, fic where Brenner/Reese stays casual and the movie events still happen (with possible threesome in the future?), fic set after Brenner and Jade broke up again, Brenner having feelings for both Jade and Reese, Jade not appearing or being mentioned in the fic at all.
The movie is up in it's entirety on free Youtube and is 90 minutes long.
Any rating works for me, be it for sex, violence, language, or lack thereof. I'm here for the character interactions, and sex can be a great part of that, but isn't necessary for me.
Top/bottom preferences: As to what tab goes in which slot, I don't care at all. As to who's more assertive, I love a give and take between characters.
Random stuff that I like:
Feel free to include if it fits your story/canon!
They turned the water off in the building this morning for maintenance reasons and oh gods I just want to brush my teeeeeeeeeeeeeth . . .
I’ve pretty hard-blocked almost all bots from my sites over the last year or so and, yeah. This is why.
Fuck AI, basically.
Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
Final (;v;) vigilantes chit-chat on bnha_fans, for this season at least!
Commented on common_nature.
Book chit-chat on booknook.
Commented on littleblackdressex about a duplicate nom..... My first exchange sign-up this year! Excited :D :D
Signal boost:
Why do we tolerate it? Because if you can’t fight it, you normalize it. That way, you don’t kill yourself from the shame of not fixing it. People much smarter than me have been writing about this for centuries. Artists, real artists, the kind that bleed themselves into their work compulsively, with disastrous consequences to their health and legacy, have only ever had this as their message. We are divided between lions and Cassandras. One side will win. The other side was right.
Film Freak Centrals reviews the
...look at the underlying code or moth...
Face of sadness & rage: the public library here has had to cut its streaming services, likely in part because of the destruction of the IMLS, which funded a lot of that. This is a fucking travesty.
It's been too hot to bake, so I picked up a loaf of bread and am basking in the season's first tomato sandwiches. Bliss.
One thing I want to do before the end of the summer is borrow the ice cream maker and dehydrator from the Thing Library; my ice cream quest continues (Dutch Chocolate is perfectly fine but not a standout); blueberrying has not been scheduled but I have agreement that it sounds like fun from the people I want to go with. I am up to H.M.S. Surprise in the Aubreyad and enjoying myself thoroughly.
I love summer so much. I feel like a person.