Interests Meme

i asked [personal profile] colls to select three of my interests to talk about like they did, so they chose

1. janelle monae
2. the raven cycle
3. writing

COME ON VAMANOS

1. janelle monae is one of my favorite musicians! i would die for literally any song on dirty computer and i got to see her dirty computer tour, bawled my eyes out, sang until my throat hurt, and there was just this. amazing aura of solidarity and resistance in the air there. WE are the new american dream. you will not take that from us.

"This is not my America
But I tell you today that the devil is a liar
Because it's gon' be my America before it's all over"

2. the raven cycle

this is one of my more recent fandom additions and one hand i really love it. i adore the characters, i think that the dialog is realistic and the books are super engaging. it's also one of my favorite portrayals of teenagers just being teenagers and acting like them that i've ever read.

i would die for henry cheng, blue and her many many moms, gansey, ronan and adam and the lynches are fascinating. the lynches and the elrics actually inspired my nano project this year, but i also have some weird problems with it. it feels a lot less epic and well planned out than i would like. i know that ending is supposed to be symbolic of things not needing to have a higher purpose, yadda yadda, but it just feels incomplete and a little disjointed because the books feel like they're too many conflicting, not totally thought out parts melded together a little carelessly. maybe the dreamer trilogy will fix some of my issues with it.

3. writing has either always been my second biggest hobby or it became my second biggest hobby seven years ago when i started posting regularly to ao3, take your pick. writing fanfiction is a big part of my life. i also am trying to get into the habit of writing more original stuff and love writing meta. writing is just such a good way for me to express myself. i love words and i love stories, so it's perfect.

side note: writing is only behind singing and singing is my biggest hobby and i've been doing it all the time either since i was a toddler or since birth if you believe my grandma's story about me humming as i was born. i take that with about a mine full of salt but it's still a fun story.

Icon Get to Know Me Game!

I asked [personal profile] alwaysbeenasmiler to choose a few icons for me to get to talk about and they delivered! here are a few musings about three of my icons




This one is so fun! it's janet from the good place(who I always get nowadays when people choose a celebrity lookalike for me) with her cactus! in season one after janet is "rebooted" and comes back without her memories, she keeps making cacti instead of the files that michael wants her to be producing. i love it as an icon 1. because i love janet 2. because i look like janet 3. because it works perfectly for when i'm posting fic, fic recs, or anything else that i "created" as a here you go! and 4. because if i ever start posting about tgp it will be the perfect icon for that





santa iris! i already talked about this one but the gist is that i love iris and that her with a santa hat is the ultimate cute overload and the perfect christmas icon





oh my gosh! this icon has the coolest story and it lets me brag the most. i am SO EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT THIS! this icon is from fanart that arrival layne did of my fic Rite of Passage it's a star wars rebels fic that was set in an alternate universe where ezra bridger was mirialan and it's a fic that i'm still really proud of! it allowed me to explore a lot of found family feelings i had about the swr characters and it was my first real experience with creating my own worldbuilding! the basic premise was that getting your facial tattoos in mirialan culture was a major coming of age ritual and that if you were denied them you were being shunned socially for some reason and were referred to as a "blankface" which basically means that your culture has deemed you to be nothing and the members of it have thrown you out. ezra does not have his facial tattoos at an age where he should have gotten them because he does not live with other people who are from his species and culture and the rest of the space family tries to help him get through it when they realize... oh shit. this is... a thing. we need to fix this thing...

i also explored some angsty the clone wars ship feels because i was lazy with the design and literally gave him barriss offee from the the clone wars.