I want to make an artistic gifset but my lack of art talent is rearing it’s head again.
Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow /sigh
I’m definitely making this gifset someway, somehow. Whether it’ll be at all true to the vision in my head… who knows!
Author Archives: Sam
In all the Sanctuary fanfic I’ve written (or plan to write) it’s all within the shows mythology. It might be a bit AU but mostly it’s canon-divergent, it’s not completely AU.
But I was thinking about The Mummy (and what a damn good movie that is) and I couldn’t help but think that as far as movie AU’s go, The Mummy could work quite well.
- Helen and Evie are totally cut from the same cloth. They are both fascinated by mysteries, both a little reckless, both brave and brilliant.
- Nikola would take Jonathan’s role easily as the sassy, alcoholic best friend, who claims to be only in it for himself but is secretly loyal as hell, whose entire persona is that they don’t care to cover for the fact that they care too much.
The problem is Rick because his personality isn’t that great a match for either John or James. Both John and James are a bit too reserved, too taciturn and less “scream at the Mummy and yeet the gun as out of bullets”.
The “are all librarians this much trouble” and kissing though is totally in character I reckon. I mean James and John follow Helen anywhere but I did love in Revelations how James was all “same old Helen, I’ll just jump off this cliff without a parachute”. It’s like that OT3 roles, Helen is definitely the one getting into all the scrapes and dragging everyone with her, as she just has to dive in with both feet to solve life’s mysteries.
Yeah I don’t know what I’m saying here, beyond making myself want to watch The Mummy again that is.
I am absolutely living for the comments I’m getting on this gifset I made a few weeks ago. I don’t know how it’s going round but I’m loving it.
I wish tumblr had a way for me to unobtrusively go “I see that and you are sweet and afdksjfs” because <— it me right now.
The comments aren’t even aimed at me, it’s flailing over the angst (because that ship is made of pain) and it’s still making my day. Something I made is having an impact on people, even for just a few seconds.
Most of tumblrs updates are not improvements but adding tags to the activity window was amazing *chefs kiss* (not that I didn’t click on each reblog and check manually anyway because ahem of course I did).
Opened my email and had 10 unread in the last half hour. They are all from fanfic.net
Somebody just favourited a bunch of stories I wrote what 16 years ago, 17? Half a lifetime.
I guess it’s true what they say. A story can always be new to someone.
Aaaaand just deleted that gifset. I’m going to rework it to express the dual dynamic between cursed/not cursed as otherwise it is a bit of a headscratcher as to why James isn’t Person C.
aka I thought about it too much
Ok reworked and reposted. I’m happier with that now I’ve made the distinction between Oxford during simpler times and after John was cursed.
It’s a complicated dynamic that’s for sure!
I still can’t stop thinking about that OT3 roles gifset I just made.
I totally get why James should have been Person C but it’s like the fanfic I’m writing.
I planned out that soulmark AU the other day and in my planning there was a lot of comparison between “canon” and “this AU” in how the characters reacted to the same event. For instance a big one was John and James getting together. Now we NEVER see that in canon so everything about that is just my headcanons anyway.
However, in ‘canon’ I pegged John as the one that took the initiative on that. He’s rebellious against his father, he’s strong and used to pushing back. He’s daring and willing to do a lot of things everyone says he shouldn’t. Whereas James was infinitely more restrained at first. Oh James is perfectly willing to buck society but he wanted to think it all through first and be 100% sure John felt the same way before he did anything. So it’s a good job John made the first move as James would probably never have done so.
But in this AU their upbringing was slightly different. James’ mother made an extra effort to let James know that his differences didn’t matter to her and that she loved him no matter what. He still had to hide them from society at large but he had the certainty that his mother gave him, that it wasn’t anything to personally be ashamed about. Whereas John’s mother crushed his rebellious spirit out of her fear that if John ever did pushback against his father, that William might discover his secret. So John isn’t as strong, his first instinct is to back down (as opposed to canon where he uses his height to intimidate). Even in canon John was quiet but in the AU he’s more subdued and a lot more conflicted.
So these OT3 roles are the same. In canon James probably is mostly Person C because John is cursed and off the rails (and Helen is Person A no matter what) and so it falls to James to try and rein them both in. However, I guess I’ve been thinking so much about their happier days (as I’ve been planning this Oxford-era soulmark fic) and James loves the mystery. James can’t be the voice of reason too much because Helen can convince him in seconds, she just pricks his curiosity and then he has to know.
I guess I just don’t see John having quite the same fascination with abnormals and science as Helen and James. I mean I think John has to have some interest – all of The Five were scientists – but I don’t think it was his passion. I think John’s passion is Helen and James. He loves science because he loves them. I view John as the follower I guess, that’s why he’s Person C.
I mean James “pretending he’s too sensible for crazy bullshit” does kinda line up with him making token protests, being the voice of caution, and then just jumping in anyway. Practically speaking what is the difference between Person B and C? I think it’s whether they get into messes on their own. Cursed John is Person B and James is C. Not cursed it’s how I put it with James’ curiosity getting him into trouble, so he’s Person B and John is person C.
So that soulmark fic I talked about the other day?
Yeeeaaaah I started it /facepalm, and planned it. It is definitely going to be a thing. Dammit I didn’t want lots of WIPs and now I have 3. I was trying to start and finish fics before starting another one. Well whoops my hand slipped and accidentally a scene.
I’m still sticking to the finishing before I post rule. I’m not getting sucked into that madness again.
I don’t know why but I suddenly got the itch today to write a soulmate AU. I don’t usually go for that trope even in reading because the whole “fate” thing is a bit off-putting to me. I like it when people choose who they love. It might not be easy, some days they might regret it, but they choose every day that this is the person they want to be with and they put in the work to make that future with them.
Still I think I can work with that. A world where soulmates aren’t the most important part of the match. A world where prejudice and society comes before whatever the soulmark says. So people can choose not to love who the soulmark points to, or they can love them and not be with them, or they can be with them but only in secret because society would judge them uncaring of the soulmark that binds them.
The soulmark says this could be your future. It doesn’t say it has to be. Not even soulmates are guaranteed happy endings. Sometimes you never meet them, the mark scars over as they died. Sometimes you meet them in a crowded room and can’t be certain who it was and they are lost.
Some see the soulmark as something precious that the world was gifted, something beautiful and look how they screwed it up. Others see it as a pointless curiosity that might be a nice bonus if it works out but really there are more important things.
People hide their soulmarks. Not everyone but enough that those with ‘odd’ marks can keep their secret. Such as those that were born with not one mark but two.
I don’t know if I’ll write this or not. Thus far I’ve written every Sanctuary idea I have had (or it’s scheduled) but I’m unlikely to be able to keep that up forever. It’s interesting though.
Went to watch The Bad Batch and ??? It’s 75 minutes long?!?! I was expecting it to be like clone wars and clock in at 20-30 minutes.
Google says subsequent episodes will be like that but whoah on this first one. I was too busy to watch yesterday and I haven’t budgeted enough time today as it’s much longer than I thought. Tomorrow for sure!
Review – Early Days of Animal Crossing
I know I’m very late to the party as this came out over a year ago now. However, for some reason the other day I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I decided that what I needed in life was a relaxing game like Animal Crossing. So I got it and it’s been five days now I think? As it’s not been that long I don’t feel equipped to do a full review but I wanted to talk about my initial impressions.
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