#thoughtfulfuri

I mean I was always going to enjoy Hughes and be partial to him, but your interpretation and joy of him and fanfiction of him has made me fall madly in love so I can both hate and love that about this journey 😂 Obsessed with you 'you want me to care about men?!' And then sad wet man happened

​Hughes is definitely your kind of guy, FOR SURE, but he sort of crept up on me! I love he and Roy's whole thing, I desperately wish the show itself was as interested in the two of them as close friends as I am, I mean I'll do the heavy lifting but I am aware that I'm doing it. I actually blame @katrani! She was giving me so many prompts around him, and she was so enthusiastic about them, and writing someone makes me have to think about them more, and I can sometimes get caught up IN doing that, and that's basically what happened.

@skylineofspace replied to your post “Anyone who has been following my FMA 03 liveblog...”:

For favorite moment I would say everything around Hughes' death, especially both the fic series and just how dramatically you miscalled the timing on it

BOY WAS I WRONG. I really did think that would be the third act ender that would push Ed and Roy to the finish line. It made PERFECT sense to me in thinking about how anime is constructed. I still maintain that I was WRONG (clearly) but it wasn't a stupid guess. It was pretty well-informed by story structure! But yeah, because of the timing, it managed to be something I saw coming a mile away that also cuffed me across the face by surprise (I also was, in the first half of the episode, engaging in wild amounts of cope)

And I'm glad you liked the fic series!! Something this show gave me back, that I thought I had lost forever, is the idea that I COULD WRITE a 30k fic series again. I did it! It happened! I thought that was lost to me! So, it was such a boost to have people like it, but also its mere existence, and even if this show flubs the landing so badly I end up not liking it, it DID give me that back.

@morkaischosen replied to your post “Anyone who has been following my FMA 03 liveblog...”:

Best moment: I think I have to shout out your glasses-related spiral.

ahahahah thank you, I think so many people think that's so stupid, I know Jetty thinks it's REALLY stupid and just tries not to hurt my feelings about it, but it was really effective for me! It really twisted the knife! It makes me want to gag now. Just the visual of his glasses falling off as he falls, thanks, I want to die. I am so so so so so pleased they gave him that instead of like, some speech. I have no idea how it goes in BroHo (and please don't tell me! Wait--does he even die in BroHo? DON'T SAY I KNOW THEY ARE WILDLY DIFFERENT THOUGH) but I thought the restraint of it was so good.

Marry: Elisa, no question. She might be a bit too intense for my tastes at times, but in general she's pretty laid-back and I think we'd have some decent conversations. The nocturnal schedule would probably be the main issue for me.

Fuck: Fox. Demona would absolutely murder me to make sure no one could say she was messing around with a human, and I'd bet Fox would be down for some kinky stuff without being too dedicated to it.

Beast from Beauty and the Beast

I'm going to boldly assume you mean the clearly superior animated version!

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

I’ve been thinking on this for a while, and much as with Rei herself, I think the answer would be as intense as it is contradictory.

First, there’d just be pure white hot rage that someone dared DARED I SAY to steal Rei’s look, her bearing, HER RED HIGH HEELS. And are they even providing her with financial compensation? A licensing fee, if you will? NO THEY ARE NOT. (Rei scrawls herself a note for later to look into copyright law. That Sailor Mars could itself be argued an copy from the Silver Millennium does not occur to her, though if it had, she would argue full rights over the image were clearly transferred to her upon her first transformation, and if Queen Serenity doesn’t like that, she can contact Rei’s lawyers.)

Then comes a whole new level of fury as Rei notices that people are cheering for this CLEAR and OBVIOUS fake Sailor Mars. (”THAT’S NOT MY SHADE OF RED IT’S GOT TOO MUCH PURPLE IN IT AND IT’S NOT EVEN THE SAME PURPLE AS MY PURPLE WHO IS THIS MONOCHORME BITCH”) They should KNOW and that they DON’T know is such a slap in the face Rei can barely stand it. She has to be talked down from the ledge of incinerating the crowds alongside her imposter, because they are all accomplices, every last one, and thus EVIL.

Finally, when they corner Zoisite and Rei won’t stop yelling in his face, Zoisite dismissively declares he made a poor choice and should have gone for the much less shrill Sailor Mercury, and Rei immediately changes gears to affronted that Zoisite would think anyone a BETTER choice than her.

It’s tough business, being Sailor Mars.

Okay, let's do this and see how hard it is.

4) Rose Armitage. I had to look her up to see if she was the mom or the daughter. Which I'm actually okay with. I don't think the white people from Get Out are supposed to be multi-faceted three dimensional people, they're supposed to be just caricatures of various types of racism. Rose, I think, is supposed to be the girl who dates a black guy and acts like it's amazing that she's dating a black guy.

3) Melisande. For the life of me, I can't figure out what rubs me wrong about her. I dislike her but not in the fun way or the interesting way a good villian is done but I just dislike her. Which is weird because she's a well-written three dimensional character and has some fascinating character traits. But something about her just bugs me. I'm hoping with my reread I can pin down what's happening there.

2) Marisa Coulter. HIS DARK MATERIALS SPOILER AHEAD (for Jet). So it's been quite a while since my last reread of it so this is going off my rather patchy memory. She's fascinating and very well done. She manages to break out of the traditional feminine roles while still being very feminine. She's ruthless but that moment where she rushes in, absolutely terrified that Lyra has gone through intercision has always stuck with me. It's such a moment of terrified love from a woman who is otherwise incredibly self-contained.

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

*stares directly at @paintedrecs*

Hey so you know how I don’t usually do villain ships? How I rarely do poly ships, and even then only as an OT3? And then how I wrote four fucking Gargoyles fics before I ever watched a single episode of the show?

That’s because painted started screaming about Owen/Xanatos and I encouraged it, because I wanted to be a supportive friend. Now I’m knee-deep in this fandom myself and it is entirely, entirely her fault.

I’m not sure which of us is enabling the other at this point.

N - Name three things you wish you saw more of in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

*stares at most recently posted fics* Given that my most currently active fandoms are all ones that are still small enough to qualify for the Small Fandoms Fest, my answer would be “literally anything for my ships.”

Art. Fic. Vids. Meta. Gifsets. Anything. Please.

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

Oh gosh. I love friendships, but I have to say the big ones for me are Stiles, Allison, and Lydia from Teen Wolf, Derek and Boyd from Teen Wolf, Xanatos and Elisa from Gargoyles, and Barnaby and Kaede from Tiger & Bunny.

With Stiles, Allison, and Lydia, I always loved their dynamic and the fact that none of them were supernatural (well, at least at first) and they still jumped headfirst into handling all that supernatural shit because the people they cared about were involved.

With Derek and Boyd, I just always thought he would’ve been a good lieutenant for Derek, and I enjoyed exploring their friendship in fics because fuck knows canon was never going to get into it.

Xanatos and Elisa I discussed really recently here so I won’t go too much more in-depth with it right now.

For Barnaby and Kaede, I just...I love stepdad!Barnaby. I love Kaede growing out of her crush on him and seeing Barnaby for who he really is, and them bonding over how much they care about Kotetsu. I love Barnaby figuring out how to be a parent to a girl who’s almost a teenager. One of my favorite fics I’ve written ended up being much more about Barnaby and Kaede than Barnaby and Kotetsu, and I loved every second of it.

Ooh, good question and thank you for the question! Sorry not to have been engaging more with the thing. :-)

I do have one tutu that I’ve kept, it was a trial run for a set of 10. It’s pretty crappy materials and there’s a lot wrong with it, so it’s not something I’m proud of.

I am planning to make myself a good one, though. I met a fellow tutu maker here in Denver, and she’s awesome. She’s also way more experienced than I am, and has offered to walk me through her tutu making process. I’m planning to make one to fit me, mostly so I can have the experience of wearing a properly fitted one. (They are TIGHT.) That was supposed to be happening now, obviously those plans are on hold for a bit.

I’m planning to do something sort of along these lines:

Only more burgundy, less neckline, and with sleeves. Because aerialist arms look really, really strange in a tutu. XD

My clients are all kids heading for competitions, which means their world (and perforce my tutus) revolve around the solo they’ve chosen to perform. If I were choosing a solo for myself, it would have to be this one from Don Quixote. It’s from a wedding scene, so it’s a little less silly for an adult amateur to perform than the ‘look at me I’m young and naive and pretty’ ones that show up at the beginning of ballets. And I love to move fast, I’m good at echappes (the things she starts doing at 0:43), and the end section is the most joyful bit of dance I’ve ever seen.

Ooh, a cathartic book. You know, I think the last book that was genuinely cathartic for me, like, made me fucking cry, was The Fault In Our Stars, and I read that as a freshman in college. And I suppose that now, In The Time Of Corona, a book about people dying of an illness and having to live with uncertainty (both in life and in literature) might be a bit too on-the-nose?

In terms of books I’ve read recently for any reason, I’ve been rereading all the Queen’s Thief books by Meghan Whalen Turner. I like heists and I like politics and I love those books.