#blithers

It's Blithers!

yes please

so i got six likes on that post and have no idea what i’m supposed to do because i didn’t spell it out on my original post lmao but here are six recommendations and a brief reason why they’re great

these are all the A-level ones. if you’ve seen these or want the B-level ones, lmao, let me know

What lube? Maybe somebody will know or can help figure it out if you say what the type is?

I was tagged by @ghostcat3000 !

Relationship Status: single and never really ready to mingle

Favorite Colors:  Pink and yellow (see blog)

Top Three Current Ships:

Lily & James Potter (my forever OTP that has made an unexpected resurgence in my heart in the last few weeks)

Anne Shirley & Gilbert Blythe (Despite the many, many questions I have about their adaptation choices, I’ve been wishing season 2 of Anne With An E was out already because it’s just the kind of show I’ve been in the mood to watch.  So I’ve had Anne of Green Gables in general on the mind a lot lately)

Lipstick or Chapstick: Lipstick, although I’ve been very lazy lately (lately being like the past year and a half) and only wear it for very special occasions or Saturday nights when I’m really bored at home at this point

Last Song: Old Habits Die Hard - Allie X

Last Movie: Early Man, which was fine.  It had some very enjoyable visual gags, and made me want to play soccer again for the first time in years, but I imagine I’ll have forgotten most of it in like a week.

Top 3 Current Shows:  

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

One Day At A Time

Does Olympic figure skating count as a show?  Because that’s honestly all I’ve been watching for the past week and a half

Top 3 Current Bands/Artists:

Allie X

Charli XCX

Lorde 

I am currently reading: haaaaaaa technically I have 9 books listed as “currently reading” on Goodreads, but the ones I’m most likely to finish sometime soon are The Idiot by Elif Batuman, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, and The People in the Castle by Joan Aiken.

Send me a ship and I'll rate it:

Foggy/Matt

NOTP || Just no || Meh || Neutral || Good Potential || Ship it || OTP || JUST FUCK ALREADY

I think they’re such good friends, but Matt really needs to come clean about a lot of stuff and explain it all to Foggy.

Matt/Karen

NOTP || Just no || Meh || Neutral || Good Potential || Ship it || OTP || JUST FUCK ALREADY

I’m honestly just meh about them.  I think they underestimate each other and there are so many secrets between them, they’d really need to talk and learn how to be friends before anything intimate.

Karen/Frank

NOTP || Just no || Meh || Neutral || Good Potential || Ship it || OTP || JUST FUCK ALREADY

Originally posted this in the Oli community but I figured I should post it here-

YAH SUCCESS! fanfic porn accuracy wins again!!!

32. Who’s the one character who shines without you even trying?

Ha ha ha. This question spun me into a brief spiral of self-doubt. What does that mean–shine? Does that mean I think I make them shine?? Is it conceited to think that way??? I don’t know how to answer things or even think???

I have a lot of feelings.

I’ve been writing this Rae Earl/My Mad Fat Diary fic for almost a year now and I don’t know what it is. The first person narrative? The humor? The silliness? The fact that it’s mostly about realizing that being a grown-up and not having everything 100% figured out doesn’t mean that you’re not “all right”? But I love her voice, her hard-won optimism, I think she shines, I really like her and I don’t feel like I have much to do with it? It exists independently of me? I take no responsibility for the shining.

Let’s see… First, there was the inevitable, the dreaded, the unavoidable CALL TO MUM.

I’ll give you the highlights.

She got another tattoo, this one of an “R” and a “J”. People are going to think she’s some sort of Shakespeare fanatic.

I was certain you couldn’t get a tattoo if you were Muslim. Ask Jazz about this.

I told her about Andy and she was silent for a minute or so and then she talked about her upcoming trip to Morocco. For fuck’s sake, you’d think I would’ve received a bit more than that. I would’ve even taken a sad-voiced “Oh, Rachel Earl.” So much for tea and sympathy.

Karim is doing great, he spoke to me for about three whole minutes–a record! He’s taking mum to a Moody Blues concert, he is dead excited about that. He started doing this meandering croon-wail which I think was meant to be Nights in White Satin.

He really is the sweetest man in the world. I’m convinced mum cast some some sort of spell back in the ‘90s and conjured him to her daft specifications.

A new diet! Paleo. I didn’t ask. Perhaps it’s leaf-based?

Followed by a question about whether I remembered to bring her the quince jam she asked for. Did you not hear the bit where I was thrown over on holiday???

She invited herself over for a weekend trip in March giving me plenty of time to stock up on wine and/or Xanax.

36. Have you ever sincerely written a ship you do not support into a fic?

Yes, answered here. Hard but worth while!

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Thank you for the asks, @blithers!