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I know you genuinely mean well, but replying to a thing in which I say that I can’t seem to write anything at all with “haha I know how you feel, I couldn’t finish my book so I went and wrote 100k words on something else!”
Is like, not at all comforting. At all. It makes me feel worse, actually.
Okay, someone needs to talk me out of the OTA Timeless AU that’s currently on screen in my head.
Because Oliver could be our historian and Dig could be the military badass (or vice versa really because POSSIBILITIES) and Felicity’s the pilot engineer and MOIRA IS ALREADY THERE and Oliver could work to get Thea back and Slade could be Garcia and Walter Connor and SOMEONE STOP ME.
WRITE THE THING. ::nods::
I feel like this is what will suck me into this show…
Oh wow, I’m super into this and how well it works. Especially Felicity getting that pilot/engineer shying away from dangerous stuff but slowly coming the real hero of the show as she steps up whenever it’s needed despite that all arc.
And I was iffy about Oliver as historian, but yes with trying to get Thea back, and the whole mess of hey, people’s fathers aren’t who they say they are (which also makes me think about Thea as the historian tbh bc remember her whole thing about studying art and how you could relate that into it and hey look your bio father is actually this creepy shady dude part of a secret organisation trying to get you to join him, i mean really).
Only thing is, Digg as the military badass could easily slip Lyla into the dead wife part and oh no please no.
I’m with you on Diggle and Lyla - I’d have to find another way of creating conflict for them (perhaps Rittenhouse tries to blackmail Diggle by threatening his family? Although Lyla is pretty badass so I’m not so sure how well that’d work for Rittenhouse).
My approach to AUs is that you adapt universes to the characters, rather than the other way around. So even though there are clear parallels between the two universes, not everything would have to be exactly the same. I wouldn’t want to shoehorn any of the characters into a place that wouldn’t make sense for them to go, you know what I mean?
So! 2016 is a super shitty year for female characters, yes?
I was thinking today: I cannot tell you how often and how much LJ saved me for so many years. Well, fandom, but at the time fandom was on LJ.
And one of my biggest fears is that fandom will leave Tumblr and go somewhere without me, and I will be left here in my head with my thoughts. I do not want to be left alone in my head with nothing but my thoughts for company.
I love Tumblr, and here's reason #8 as to why: I now, because of an excellent notactuallybad!fic rec, now also have a whole pool of hereto unknown S/J fic to enjoy. XD Thank you bethanyactually for reccing me spiletta42's fic! Feel free to do that again anytime. ;)
Hey, bethanyactually, I need to know: I'm reading Eleanor and Park and I just need a heads up about something. I'm on page 18 (I know, I'm a wimp), and we're starting to get a little info about Eleanor, and I'm getting...worried. Is this book going to stress me out? (I have issues with kids in peril/unhealthy home environments and characters with mental health concerns.) Because I feel like it's going to stress me out and I'm going to want to hug Eleanor a lot, and it's okay as long as I know it's coming and can prepare. (I know, it's silly. But if I have anything close to a trigger, the above would be it.)
You don't have to spoil me, per se, just let me know if I'll need to deal with it.
Watching "The Lesser Key of Solomon," and I have to tell you: I don't think there's a way for me to love Nicole Beharie more. She's just fantastic.
