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bless you for asking 🌹 i finished it yesterday and the opinions are Brewing

my favorite female character: Cordelia. I grew so, so very attached to her during my watch - I always liked her a lot, but I wasn't hugely invested in her in BTVS either. Here, though? Favorite. Which made season four and five all the more frustrating at times, especially given what we know of the behind the scenes stuff with CC and JW T_T. But yeah, I love Cordelia. She's a fun foil for a character like Angel, and her journey with the visions - and the fact that she didn't want to give them up - was really enjoyable for me

my favorite male character: At the risk of sounding obvious, Angel? I keep trying to articulate the why of it, and it comes down to just the fact that I just... like him. Wesley from season 3 on comes very close, but in general, I tend to root for Angel more. The biggest indicator of my liking for Angel was that the second Spike came onto the scene, I was hissing like a cat like "ok vampire with a soul is ANGEL'S THING"

my favorite book/season/etc: I find it hard to choose between 2 and 3 atm. 2 had Angel's little dark spiral, which I found very fun, and season 3 had the whole "the father kills the son" arc, which was the most invested I ever was in this show

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): season 5 is fresher in my mind, so I'm going to say episode 12 of season 5, because that one has Cordelia in it - and is, thankfully, a nice send-off for her, though I'll forever be bitter she couldn't be around for the whole season (It might have made me less resentful of Spike's general presence, tho I did enjoy him regardless)

my favorite cast member: Idk much about them as people, but I'm going to say Alexis Denisof kILLED as unshaven miserable Wesley, and I was very impressed with him

my favorite ship: I hesitate between Angel x Cordelia and Wesley x Lilah. Angel x Cordy took me by surprise - I'm a diehard Bangel, and before watching ATS, the knowledge that Angel x Cordy became a thing made me a hater already. But I was surprised by how their friendship grew, and the Ship was Awakened in me when Angel was obviously deeply upset that Cordelia was still mad at him in season 2. That being said, I also think I'd have been satisfied with Angel x Cordy without the romantic element, as long as they kept the close friends/warriors for good aspect. It's the kind of ship that I feel could stay friends (unlike, say, Bangel, to refer to Spike's little 'You'll never be friends' speech", which I know you're familiar with xD), and I do like my ships with a bit more bite, no pun intended. And Wesley x Lilah was a fucking delight. Didn't see it coming, enjoyed every second of it, right down to the corpse head chopping. OH, I also enjoyed Lindsey x Darla for what it was. Lindsey in general was a fav of mine - he's just neat!

a character I’d die defending: Mmmm. No answer springs to mind, but I will say, I found myself kind of protective of Harmony in season 5 - I know she's a soulless little demon, but like, be nice to her (the fact that Spike was so dismissive of her got under my skin like BRO where's that soul of yours now)

a character I just can’t sympathize with: I desperately want to say Andrew, but we barely saw him, and that's mostly my BTVS feelings bleeding over. I'm sure there are answers among the villains, but nobody comes to mind.

a character I grew to love: Definitely Wesley. I was never too keen on him, but then, gosh. His dark side is just FASCINATING and I love him to bits.

Morirò da re - Måneskin

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at least a little bit

maybe a reverse blorbo??? assign their songs to blorbos.

55. do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?

RIP TO MY MIDNIGHT MASS HASSAN X READER FIC 👻! There's a few, sadly, but that's the first that came to mind. I might return to it if I ever do a re-watch of MM or when House of Usher comes out. I just simply lost inspiration for that fic/got distracted by other projects.

I also have a critical role/widojest fic. I stopped watching Critical Role and again, inspiration just went into the garbage, I felt 0% motivation to continue it.

64. what is your favourite title for a fic you’ve read?

"Catching bullets in our teeth" (it was a clintasha marvel fic. I loved the vibe.)

77. how do you write kissing scenes?

Not gonna lie, I've googled "how to write kissing scenes" and then referred to various articles while typing out the scene, seeing where it needs changes/adjustments. Sometimes I get caught inside my head about what everyone's body parts are doing and it gets clunky.

Overall, kissing is simple. It's more about the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes and desires of the characters. I think more about the ~vibe~ of the kiss -- is it a desperate kiss? a slow one? tender? What were the characters thinking or doing before they smooched? Has this kiss been something that's been building for eons or is it a fleeting, comforting kiss?

Then, you just lay on the metaphors or similes. Notice the difference between this two scenes off the top of my head:

She kissed him. Their lips met in joyous union with a soft exclamation of surprise. (This isn't from a fic, I just typed this quickly).

versus:

“Is this okay?” Her words and her breath tremble against his lips. There is time to pull away, to step back, to rearrange the molecules of their friendship and turn away from this natural, albeit powerful chemistry. The sting of rejection would burn, but it would be nothing compared to losing him completely.

His warm, calloused palm cups the nape of her neck. “Yes…”

His eyes widen slightly, and she hears his brief, surprised gasp before - without a modicum of hesitation -  she slants her mouth over his. His kiss wasn’t a firework. It was soft, it was gentle, it was heartbreakingly tender. It was like sand running through your fingertips, like a brush of sunlight warming your cheek with gentle heat, like stepping into your lush, vibrant home after running through a snowstorm. (source) ~ yes, it's one of my fics.

The second example shows the anticipation (trembling), desires versus expectations, sensory input (eyes, hands, breath), there's a sense of surprise and urgency, a build up and release also there's some sexy consent and we love that.