swim through the fires to stay in this world

From dollsome and kirkwood-is-in-oregon:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. roadtrip
2. forced to share a bed
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married/fake!dating
6. jealousy fic
7. amnesia
8. hurt/comfort
9. friends to lovers
10. truth or dare
11. forced proximity fic
12. fluff
13. apocalypse fic
14. curtain fic
15. High School / College AU

ended up having several really long conversations with qualapec today, the relevant (to fandom) portions of which involved:

• me bitching about the deep, inherent, not-even-solvable-by-casting-Idris-Elba script problems with Blade: Trinity


• who would you kill if you could kill one dude from Teen Wolf? (I voted Peter Hale, killed by Allison and Lydia)


• one thing I forgot to mention; besides the fact that I do not understand the point of a tumblr queue, I could never have a tumblr queue because I cannot think of a quip enough queue tag, unlike all the epic tumblrs with perfect and brilliant and referential queue I follow.


• various Teen Wolf ships, emphasis on Malia/Stiles and Lydia/Stiles and Allison/Isaac


• QUALAPEC BROUGHT MY ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT SIF/LOKI IS A TWISTED KING & LIONHEART DYNAMIC AND I ALMOST DIED FROM THE SHEER AWESOMENESS OF THAT IMAGE.


• qualapec wondering if Loki fangirls will jump on the Bucky Barnes train. my thought is the Loki fangirls are either already on board the Bucky Barnes train and what we will see in fandom is an explosion of Steve/Bucky. The only question regarding Winter Soldier is how much hate Natasha and Sharon will get, and which one fandom is going to hate more. (Spoiler alert, it's going to be Sharon. Natasha will be relegated to being SO AWESOME but her relationship with Steve and/or Bucky is STRICTLY PLATONIC. Which is for the best, because Natasha is just TOO AWESOME TO BE DATING ~CAPTAINS AMERICA~ *eyeroll*)


• my deep and heartfelt lament that Steve/Bucky fanfic is almost invariably well-written and is the most tropperiffic fanfic to have ever been written in the history of fandom. In other news, there is no god.

There was a post going around tumblr that really got under my skin - it was a fairy accurate summary of the king and lionheart dynamic, but the line about not being able to find a example with a lady just***... triggered all my past experience of people dismissing het and femme-slash because [pick a square from your slash fangirl bingo card, pick any square].

*** I also want to note that the person I linked from tagged this post 'Kate/Clint' SO CLEARLY I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO THINKS THAT THIS DYNAMIC EXISTS WITH LADIES.

So, queen and lionheart dynamics. The examples that came to mind:

Lydia/Allison (Teen Wolf)
Sabriel/Touchstone (Sabriel, bolded because so much yes.)
Tremaine/Ilias (although that's more spy/lionheart)
Mulan/Aurora (Once Upon A Time)
Jane/Darcy (would be the super-fluffy version of this trope)
Any Evil Queen/Huntsman story would be the evil example of this trope
I'd accept a case for Hermione/Ron here.
I think a case could also be made for Cameron/John from TSCC.
Richard/Cara (LOTS)

Someone on my flist/dashboard was talking about a program they used to limit their time on tumblr, and I think I need to do that. Especially if it’s possible to set different time limits for different days. So if you know which program that is, let me know. The googling I did just showed me programs that just straight up blocked websites.

I was originally going to let myself have unlimited tumblr on the weekends, but let’s be real, Mondays and Tuesday are when I really need to gorge myself on tumblr, as the fact that I stayed up until four a.m. on monday night (totally responsible life choice) looking for people’s Teen Wolf graphics and reaction posts demonstrates

Another reason that I am going to be happy when I will have survived another Valentine's Day is that those stupid [quirkly v-day saying, to: from: + picture of hot person] will stop infecting my dashboard.

This gif-set convinced me to put Reign on my to-watch list, as soon as I finish Nikita.

I did one of those tumblr cloud things, and it was a complete farce, frankly.

It gave me words that I rarely use, said I reblogged most from tumblrs I don’t follow, didn’t come up with anything fannish, really, and when I expanded it to try and get something interesting, the only fannish thing it threw out was ‘Damian’ which, lol, do you realize how little I talk about him in comparison with EVERYONE ELSE WHO HAS A NAMED TAG ON MY TUMBLR?

Sheesh. It annoyed me enough that I tried to create my own, more accurate word cloud, and failed.

Tonight, my tumblr dash is full of vicious, heartbreaking headcanons.

And I want to play. So comment with a character/pairing and a noun or a verb (e.g. Darcy Lewis + divorce) and I'll respond with a headcanon.

This post had made me DESPERATELY craving some good arranged marriage books/fanfic.

AND SPEAKING OF TRASHY ROMANCE, I just sneakily snagged a free book today. The SOLD moment came when it said something about the heroine being into her brother (who was raised apart from her) and there's something about a cosmetics company and being forced to work together? Further bulletins as events warrant.

In other smutty news, I just banged out 1,000 words of Knave/Alice. It was a madcap race to get through the plot threads I had to snip to facilitate the banging.