Another day, another ‘Sam has bitten off more than she can chew’ with this drawing. /sigh
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Fandom Questions
@chiaratippy I consider myself tagged, thanks 🙂
Rules: choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions, then tag some friends.
I seem to always choose the same fandoms so I’m going to go for different ones this time. Consider that a challenge hehe.
I choose:
- Dark Matter
- Castle
- Farscape
God, it took me a long time only to choose the fandoms. That does not bode well. LOL
The First Character You Loved:
- Two! (aka Portia Lin, aka Rebecca)
- Hmm, it’s hard to remember that far back. Probably Beckett even though I’m tempted to say Alexis.
- Aeryn Sun
The Character You Never Expected To Love So Much:
- Three (aka Marcus Boone)
- Captain Montgomery, I’m still a little bitter about what happened with him. What was so bad about being the supportive boss?
- Rygel probably.
The Character You Relate To The Most:
- Hmm probably the Android. I wish I could get an upgrade installed so I could better pass as human haha 🙂
- Oh man. I want to say Alexis but she’s way smarter than I am. Still Alexis is probably the closest.
- John Crichton. I too make millions of references to TV/movies in my everyday life 🙂
The Character You’d Slap:
- One – back when he was in it obviously.
- I really didn’t like Gates but I’d be too scared to slap her to be honest.
- Hmm definitely Sikozu, way too full of herself.
Three Favourite Characters (In Order Of Preference):
- Two, Three, Nyx.
- My opinion on this changed over the seasons. If the show had ended a couple of seasons ago Castle and Beckett would have been up there but now … Hayley, Alexis, Kevin Ryan.
- Aeryn, John, D’argo
A Character You Liked At First But Don’t Anymore:
- Hmm, I can’t think of one to be honest. I haven’t watched all of season 4 and so if Four crosses too far over the line then maybe him. Otherwise, like with One, I didn’t like them to begin with very much /shrug.
- Castle and to a lesser extent Beckett but that wasn’t really the characters fault (I could rant but I won’t).
- I don’t know. Farscape is such a weird show that even the characters I don’t really like still sort of ‘fit’.
A Character You Did Not Like At First But Now Do:
- Three grew on me. I liked Six more initially but nope Three is where it’s at now heh.
- Can’t think of one sorry.
- Can I say the whole cast? I know that’s random but the first time I tried watching this show my eyes bugged out (it was just too weird) but then tumblr kept putting gifs on my dash and I just had to watch and I’m so glad I did. Yes the characters are weird, yes things don’t make sense sometimes but there was a lot to love. Who would have thought a puppet could become such a beloved character imbued with so much personality?
Three OTPs:
- I don’t ship anyone romantically but Brotp Two and Three, or Two and Five, or Five and the android 🙂
- Alexis and Hayley!
- Aeryn and John of course
I always seem to tag the same people so I’m going to try not to this time. If you don’t like the tag then please ignore – oh! and please feel free to do these questions even if I don’t tag you, just consider yourself tagged 🙂
@bookwormchocaholic, @barpurplewrites, @little-inkstone, @wizzygold, @worryinglyinnocent
Hey, guys, a question here: what happens when you marry and take your husband’s name? What about your IDs, do you change them? What about the name on your university diploma, if you exhibit it at your place of work? What about credit cards, bank accounts and the like?
I just never thought about the legal aspects of it before, for some reason.
Edit: what about academic publications???
UK based here. My mum went through this when she got married last summer. Also I changed my name via deed poll when I was 18, different reason but same basic outcome. Name change = changing EVERYTHING. It is a complete nightmare, I was still finding stuff (non-important stuff but still stuff) I hadn’t changed a year later.
New driving licence, new passport. Had to contact the UK version of the DMV to change the car ownership, had to go to the bank. Get new cheque books, new credit cards. I don’t really know about certificates so much but I’m guessing they can be re-issued. Though when I applied to my current uni I sent in my old certificates with a copy of my deedpoll.
As with everything it’s a matter of sending either the marriage licence (or in my case the deed poll) as proof. Some places change it quickly … other places not so much.
Mum is still having issues with her credit card company and it’ll be a year in July. It is a complete pain! I did it once and I am never, ever, ever doing it again. Mum has done it 3x now and she must have the patience of a saint. I told her last year that she should have made her new husband change his name instead. a) we had the better name, b) it had to be someone elses turn for the paperwork nightmare but nope she’s a traditionalist 🙂
emospritelet
reblogged your post and added:The Asshole on the Horse was called Hordor, and he…
Ah, OK, got that slightly mixed up, then. And agreed on the general impression that the Duke can’t exactly have been a stellar human being.
Still, the ogres can’t have been that bad if they were, essentially, too lazy to win the war the obvious way.
My first thought was that he was using fear and scarcity to keep the population under control, but maybe that’s speculating too far on too little evidence
No, it’s not. The Duke could have ordered Zoso to kill all of the ogres or put a defensive magic shield around their kingdoms that the ogres couldn’t pass. He obviously didn’t want to end the war.
I read a fic once. I forget which one so I’m sorry I can’t credit properly the person whose idea it was (if it was yours please shout!) where the Duke was basically running an extortion racket.
He kept the ogres within his kingdom and charged neighbouring kingdoms for the protection. On the surface his people were suffering so their neighbours were sending aid. In reality they were paying him to keep the problem inside his borders and not theirs.
Given that Rumple was drafted against the ogres and then a generation later so was Bae, I suspect the Duke kept the war simmering. He had to let it flare and die down in turn so that people would have kids, and give him another generation of expendable soldiers. He probably used Zoso for that, to ensure the ogre war didn’t get out of control.
Falcon, Dr. Strange and Rocket from the MARVEL asks. :D
oooooh thank you so much! 🙂
Falcon: Which fictional character would you like to hang out with?
Which fictional character wouldn’t I like to hang out with? Hehe. No in all seriousness I guess it would be better if I wasn’t completely starstruck. I’m thinking Jemma Simmons (Agents of Shield) to be honest. I mean she’s awesome so I would be a little starstruck but I think we have enough in common to be able to chat and she has access to all the cool holographic tech. Though as I haven’t taken classes at the “shield hogwarts” I probably wouldn’t get to have a go 🙂
Doctor Strange: Name a special talent you have.
Ouch this is hard. I don’t really feel like I have any kind of talent to be honest unless it’s on the negative side of the equation. Hmm *wracks brain* I guess I’m quite good at managing money. Is that an ok answer? Urk.
Rocket: What languages do you speak?
*hides in bucket of shame* English – just English. I know a handful of words in other languages like hello, goodbye, thank you, numbers 1-10 etc. but that’s about it. I consider it a crime of my country that we don’t teach languages better. I think it’s very arrogant of Britain to be honest and we get away with it because other countries learn English and are amazing at it.
I would love to learn a language. I did french at high school but I was useless at it for a number of factors, some out of my control, but the biggest issue I personally had was rules. Obviously English doesn’t obey rules either but I somehow learned that naturally (and can I please go back to my toddler self and ask how) and I just got frustrated. I had the singular ability to defy the odds and get 100% wrong on guessing masculine or feminine. My teacher thought I was doing it on purpose and I really wasn’t.
One day ™
Ooops my queue is a bit unbalanced. I went on a search for some stuff and I’ve tried to mix it up but it’s a bit Once light. Also light on Agents of Shield as I’m trying to avoid spoilers (with mixed success). I’m not jumping ship, I’m just not very organised.
*rolls eyes at self*
Saw Black Panther last night.
#NoSpoilers but it was amazing.
It was a visual treat from a cinematic standpoint. It was funny and sad and jaw dropping in turn. What I appreciated the most though was how it didn’t shy away from what are usually termed ‘uncomfortable truths’. I’d actually spent the day researching imperialism and the slave trade for a research paper so it felt particularly poignant.
I was kinda sad though by the ending and I’m going to pretend to myself that everything was remote piloted and things were figuratively set to stun. Like when Clint and Nat did the “are we still friends?” *grin* “depends how hard you hit me” and everyone was ok afterwards – I’m going to pretend it was like that!
Oh and Shuri is the absolute best. I want a tour of her lab and I’m dying to know how the tech works. It was so cool!
Gideon Gold
This is difficult. Is this grown-up Gideon ‘raised’ by the Black fairy? Gideon raised by Rumple and Belle? I’m guessing not child!Gideon as we pretty much never saw him. As you didn’t specify I’m going to choose and say “Black fairy raised Gideon” as that’s the one we spent several episodes with.
general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life
hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang
hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff
best quality: scheming. I liked how he planned a few moves in advance, anticipated what people would do and was where they would be – not where they were. To be honest that’s a quality I love in Rumple as well. Just being smart about things. Second best is his loyalty. I love his motivations and how he’s clever about finding ways round his restrictions to protect those he cares about.
worst quality: struggling to think of one off the top of my head actually. I think that’s because we only really saw him during the ‘endgame’ so he was at his best. If he hadn’t been de-aged my headcanon says his conscience because I think he would have beaten himself up about things he couldn’t control, and felt guilty when he couldn’t have done different. He was too good and needed to embrace the darkside a little more.
ship them with: and we reach the powder-keg question in this fandom. I don’t particularly ship Gideon with anyone. I never saw that magic chemistry on screen which made me go “I ship it!”. However strictly on paper if Gideon hadn’t been deaged then I think Regina would have been a good match. *ducks rotting fruit* I know, I’m sorry. It’s just they both understand darkness, both understand parental expectations.
Regina was never enough for Cora and Gideon would never be the baby his parents lost – never be the son he would have been had they raised him. Regina had to fight for acceptance just like Gideon would after having been in the ‘villain’ position opposite the Charming’s. I just think they could understand one another and because of that not have to fear showing weakness – instead they could be each others strength when it was needed.
brotp them with: Emma is an obvious choice. Again this is on paper because we never got a chance to see it on screen but Emma was stripped from her parents just minutes after her birth and returned to them aged 28 – returned to parents who physically aren’t old enough to BE her parents just like Belle couldn’t be the mother of a 28-year-old.
Nobody else could understand that situation. If Belle and Rumple had another child, nobody else could feel the mixed emotions Emma must have felt when Snow and David had baby!Neal. Are they a replacement? Can they ever love me how they love him because of how we met? Will I always be different? Always the outsider?
I’m trying to think. With all the curses it’s hard to remember who is still in Storybrooke but I think Gideon could become good friends with someone who came over with the second/third curse. They wouldn’t have cursed memories, they would know what it’s like to thrown into a whole new world with a different culture. I know the fourth curse (the black fairy’s one) might have given Gideon cursed memories. I don’t know.
Oh and of course Henry who would take his dad’s place of gleefully dragging Gideon to the movies, and teaching him playstation, and lending him comics and setting up netflix and iTunes/Spotify for this worlds music. I imagine the day after Henry showed Gideon YouTube, he goes wide-eyed and bloodshot to the diner the next day, after not having slept all night. The YouTube rabbit hole is real.
needs to stay away from: Zelena. No explanation necessary right? Yeah.
misc. thoughts: I think I’ve rambled on enough to be honest. 99% of this is headcanon as I did Black Fairy Gideon. I just really liked him. He was everything I like in characters really, except maybe a bit too good (embrace the dark side!) but in truth he was a good balance between Belle and Rumple. I mean in season 6 canon he got Rumple and Belle talking again, and I think if he hadn’t been deaged then he would have got them talking more about light and dark until they understood each others viewpoint a bit better.
TLDR: I miss him and I miss the Black Fairy.
WIP Sentence Meme
I was tagged by @woodelf68. Thank you, dearie!
Rules: post the last sentence you wrote from your WIP and tag the number of people that there are words.
The knock on the apartment door was loud and sharp, shattering Belle’s quiet contemplation.
(From Hearts Off Balance, chapter 2)
I can’t even think of 14 people to tag right now, but here goes: @mariequitecontrarie, @emospritelet, @goingtothetardis, @perfectlyrose, @rose-tylers, @thatravenclawbitch, @ifishouldvanish, @leaiorganas, @professortennant, @galactic-pirates
Thanks for the tag! 🙂
I have many WIPs but nothing that’s near ready posting (at the moment!) so I’m going to cheat and show a small snapshot of my drawing in progress
I’m at the construction line phase and this is only a fraction of the image. I’m hoping it’ll be cool when it’s done. I’m trying several new things with it so *cross fingers*
@sarashouldbestudying, @little-inkstone, @smartgirlsaremean you are up, if you feel like it 🙂 if not then please ignore and have a nice day!
Not a great photo as it’s dark but holy crap it’s snowing – again! FFS weather, this is England in mid-March! Do not want! Look at all that white! Nothing compared to places that have snow I know but! this! is! England!
#overuse of exclamation marks is necessary#snowy weather