ImaginedInsanity

(With all fics I recommend, I encourage you to read the description and warnings.)

Breathing by stratumgermanitivum 

36K words. An angsty, slow-burn, friends to lovers fanfic. I like this fic because of how realistic it is. Neither boy is OOC. Best line: “But you know what, there’s plenty of people who believe in a God who’d accept him just the way he is. Scars and all. So you and your God can fuck off.”

The No Strings series  By Slythaheart 

19 parts ranging from 1k to 12.5k words. My favorite glee fanfiction ever. Slythaheart is probably the best smythofsky writer out there and this series? *chef’s kiss*. A fun, smutty, somewhat slow-burn series with a wonderful ending! Best line: “I’m so happy right now.”

Conventionality Belongs to Yesterday by Slythaheart

34k words. Fun! this fic is just too fun. It is a Grease rewrite but with our boys as Rizzo and Kenickie as opposed to Danny and Sandy. If you’re in the mood for a fun lighthearted read, try it out! Best line: “Well, I’ll give you seventy-five cents for the whole car, including your twink!”

****So fanfiction.net is a little rough but I swear some of the best Smythofsky fics are there******

Everything Just Happens by scarleteyes21

54k words. ANGST!! This is full of slow-burning angst and I live for it. Somewhat ooc but the story is interesting so I don’t mind. Best line: “If you decide to go to Sebastian and he is stupid enough to let you go…again, then will you let me catch you?”

The Bear and the Chipmunk by ImaginedInsanity

58.1k words. Trigger warning: Sexual assault is a major theme through the story. If that may upset you than please skip this one. If not, I highly recommend this angsty beautiful fic about two hurt people learning how to be together without hurting each other. Best line: “Because I feel like it’s special when it’s with you…”

Of meerkats and moving forward by LahLah87

55.7k words. Another fumbling, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers fic that makes this ship so great. This ship will never be the couple that everything is instantly perfect for… But it is so fun to read about them trying. Best line: “But then there was Dave; Dave, who’d looked beyond his tarnished reputation and fallen in love with the lonely, miserable boy underneath.”

like, what other song can make that claim?

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

There’s good reason why, nearly fifty years after the height of their career, Queen is still considered one of the best bands of all time ever.

Okay. You’re back? Welcome back. Unless you’re a trained singer, you probably can’t do it. There are too many long notes, too many key changes, and too many places where–if you’re singing all the parts–you’re just up and down the scale too damned fast. I’m saying this as a trained singer and I can’t do it. I always crack on “magnifico” and “leave me to die,” and I have a pretty decent range, but I know I sound ugly as hell on that final coda.

Okay. Now that we’ve established that, I want to talk a little about singing as a chorus. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is how hard it is to take twenty people, all in different places, and stitch them together to make a single coherent song with perfect pitch and timing. You’re all practicing on slightly your own tempo, slightly your own key, even if you’re all working from the same base track. (You can see this in a lot of the Wellerman compilations from Tiktok, where someone always says “Soon” a moment before everyone else on “soon may the Wellerman come.”) When you have a chorus comprised of many smaller choruses that are all traveling to be together, this is what dress rehearsal is for–to get all of you onto the same tempo so you’re starting and finishing at exactly the same time. This is a thing that normally only happens after at least several days of practice, and it is an important skill that must be taught. You’re not just born knowing how to do this.

I do not know how many people at that Green Day concert were trained singers. But I do know there is no way in hell all few thousand of them were a single group–they showed up a few at a time, maybe even flying solo for the night. Now go and listen to the video again. Listen to the ends of verses and the pickups. They’re fucking crisp as hell. Everyone is starting and ending at the same place. Not even a single note off. (And yes, you can hear when it’s a single note off, even in a crowd that big. A handful of people would be enough to throw it off.) And while a few in the crowd may be off-key, so many more are on-key that the cumulative effect is of the song being on-key. This isn’t even the band they’re there to see.

They don’t just know this song, this technically-difficult song, this long and complex song by a completely different band. They know it perfectly. They know it down to the fucking note. They know it so well that they did it in perfect synchrony, without a single chance to practice.

Hobbits:

Gandalf: well this raccoon found the ring and has been carrying it around. unfortunately we can’t take it off him or he gets very bite-y. so I figure, the raccoon is the ringbearer now

Elrond: what are those other three raccoons doing here

Legolas: do they… know where they are going

Dernhelm: *sweating nervously* Uh no, sir.

Faramir: ….it just seemed like the right thing to do

Gandalf: he scratched you up real good huh

Trash Panda Hobbits:

Merry and Pippin:

Thorin: You’re the burgular.Go on and…burgle something! Bilbo:

Different originated adaptions of Hamliza over the years

I mean

Applegate’s statement on the piracy subject is quoted from an AMA here for those that have moral issues with it. for those that don’t want to click, she says: “We do not take them down. Or ask for them to be taken down. I think once the books are available to buy—paper or e—it would be nice if people who could afford it would buy. (our kids have very expensive tastes. You know: food and whatnot.) But for years they’ve been unavailable except by ‘pirated’ means. These men and women kept the series alive. They kept the books available. So no, we did NOT take these books down.”

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story hopes to illustrate how homophobia led to the loss of one of the greatest creative minds of a generation.

On one side of that coin is Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez), the household name that broke barriers with his ostentatious and bold view of fashion and his love for life and the world. On the other is Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), the charismatic murderer who seduced and murdered four other people before fatally shooting Versace in the face.

It’s a career redefining role for Darren Criss, who first entered the pop culture zeitgeist far on the other side from Cunanan as Blaine Anderson on Glee. His tenure on the musical high school show had Tumblr dub him as America’s boyfriend. Fans who remember him as the sweet-hearted, tender Blaine — and those who dismissed him because of it — will be shocked as they tune into Versace to see Criss play smarmy, manipulative and deeply disturbed. The young actor deftly makes you feel for and deeply fear Cunanan at the same time.

Episode 2 revealed how the series plans to pedals backward through Cunanan’s killer spree to show the evolution of a murderer in a new way. While Versace holds title prominence, it is Criss’ performance as Cunanan that the series hinges on for the rest of the run. TV Guide talked to Criss about sinking his teeth into the role, the weight of knowing Cunanan’s victims’ families are watching and why Glee co-creator and American Crime Story overlord Ryan Murphy handpicked him to play the game-changing part.

You’re a little bit too good, if you know what I mean, at playing a serial killer.

Darren Criss: Well, I am not thinking of it in terms of playing a serial killer. That’s not how I would wake up going to work. So when people say that, it’s odd to me because I forget that’s something he did.

How did you think of it then?

Criss: I thought of an excitable, ambitious, hungry, young man whose obsessions got the better of him and other people. And he had very basic desires that were pushed to huge extremes. So I would try to not focus on the things we do know and focus more on the things that we didn’t get to see and the things that one could like Andrew for, which made those horrible things much harder to ingest because you are coming from a point of entry that’s much more palatable, ideally.

Do you want people to sympathize with him, or is that dangerous?

Criss: No. No, no, no, no, no. We have to. First of all, I can say this because I am very cognizant of somebody reading this or hearing this or seeing something. Every day, I walked into work with the weight of the family and friends of his victims, who are very much alive, who are very much around, who are very much, I’m sure, familiar of the TV zeitgeist that this show will be and how difficult this will be for them to have something they’ve tried to make some kind of peace with over 20 years and all of a sudden it’s water cooler talk.

That really weighs heavy on me, so I say that as a prologue to, as an actor, it is my job to sympathize with Andrew. I’m in the business of empathy. That is my livelihood. That is what I do for my living and for my livelihood. It’s so hard to do that with somebody like Andrew, but it’s necessary, not only for me but… I’m not asking people to sympathize with him. I challenge them to see what happens when they put aside the worst things that a human being can do and not think about, I guess, the end horrible products and seeing where they came from and really questioning at what point could this have been you or could’ve been any of us, as hard as that is to grasp.

And it is in that journey that we can really start exploring larger issues about obsession and about things that come from good places that can turn into dark endings. That’s what I’m hoping happens. It’s not as simple as asking people to just sympathize with somebody. It’s more about questioning themselves and seeing how much they can find in common with a conventional monster.

Did Ryan Murphy tell you why he thought that you would be the best person for this?

Criss: No…I mean, look, I’m half Filipino, in the same age range as Andrew, and I’m very lucky to be in Ryan Murphy’s camp. So part of me jokingly was like, “Ryan, while I know there’s plenty of wonderful half-Filipino actors out there, as far as finding another person that kind of looks like him, is in the same age range, and is in your Rolodex of actors, I defy you to find somebody else, man.” I would say that jokingly as almost like holding him hostage. Like, “If you want to do this, let’s do this together.”

So while I’m sure there are a lot of other people that could’ve done this, I think he stuck with me because I was probably the one closest to his world that was not only game but kind of fit the bill. I also think that if they didn’t get a half-Filipino actor to do this, I think the Filipino community would’ve cried bloody murder, and rightly so. So here we are.

How much research did you do for it beyond the book the series is based on? Or did you kind of want to stay within the script?

Criss: I’m glad you asked that. There’s only so much research one can do for somebody like Andrew because he was a hundred different people to a thousand different people, so even the people that I have talked to who have approached me, that knew Andrew in different capacities, even different stages of his life, knew him at different moments, so there’s only so much you can glean from that.

(cont.) and that they’re always showing signs of affection (like cuddling). I forget how it all starts, but at some point in the story they start doing things to the other to see how far they’ll go before declaring the other the winner/surrendering. In this one scene, I think Kurt’s getting ready in the bathroom (possibly for a date?) and one of their little battle things start. Blaine starts kissing Kurt’s neck, then Kurt retaliates by grabbing his ass (or something like that) until things get really heated and they both give up (I think that’s what happens). I don’t really remember much more than that, but I’m 99% positive it’s a bestfriends!Klaine + roommates!Klaine fic. I already checked your roommate tag and didn’t find it, so you may not know of this fic. But if anybody does, I’m dying to figure out which fic it is and read it again, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you! (sorry this ask is so long) 

That definitely sounds like:

Wandering Around Back To You by munchkinpandas

From strangers to floormates to best friends, to roommates, to the closest two people can be. This is the story of two boys who found each other and never let go.