You've got to think about all the things you like and decide whether they're worth sticking around for.
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{aimmyarrowshigh}
V. 37. Lesbian/Queer. Jewish. She/Her/Hers. Editor.
You like spaghetti, George? I like spaghetti. I like board games. I like grabbing a trifecta with that long shot on top... that ozone smell you get from air purifiers... and I like knowing the space between my ears is immeasurable... Mahler's first, Bernstein conducting. You've got to think about all the things you like and decide whether they're worth sticking around for. And if they are, you'll find a way to do this. And what if I don't? Then you go away, and you don't get to like anything anymore.
100 TUMBLR DRABBLE CHALLENGE: DRA666LES → 10/100100 Drabbles from this prompt list.100 Star Wars Women Drabbles → 93/100100 drabbles about Star Wars women.lent from tomorrow (today was too small for us) → 50,000/~90,000Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes shrinkyclinks WWII A/B/Oin screaming color → 79,238/~120,000Poe Dameron/Rey (Star Wars) get a lot of therapy and fall in love.Wish You Were Here → 42,195/100,000Nile/Booker (The Old Guard) slow burn...
testimonials
[V. Arrow] has clearly established herself as both a titan of fan academia and as an honest, passionate, and dedicated... authority and aficionado."
-- Fanboy Comics (Fanbase Press)
[V. Arrow] takes ... theoretical exploration to the heights of pop-culture academia."
-- Booklist
An essay by scholar V. Arrow... continues, there's no reason why RPF has to be looked down upon: after all, Julius Caesar was based on a similar idea." -- Time Magazine
I've perused a lot of the maps out there... and this one, created by Livejournalers aimmyarrowshigh and badguys is perhaps the best one I've seen. It's both creative and meticulously justified based on Collins' text." -- Entertainment Weekly
V has to be right; the boy band butt psychic said it." -- pinkalldaypinkallnight
Overall, I want to get on aimmyarrowshigh's level of 'idgaf about what old white cis men have to say about pop/teen culture.'" -- persimmonlions
I’m V aimmyarrowshigh, she/her/hers, 37. The fandoms I currently post the most about are the MCU (especially Captain America and Wanda) and Star Wars, but I post extremely varied content – I do tag everything, so your blacklist should work with the basic name(s) of whatever you don’t want to see. You’re probably here for…
If you’re not here for drabbles, you may be looking for my graphics tag, my askbox, or my fanfiction tag. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, send me an ask and I’ll point you at the thing if I can. :)
we can finally take the chance to hang-out, just the two of us.
[id: an edit of Cindy Moon and Felicia Hardy on a pink to white gradient, the gradient starts from the middle of the image, they are both in their costumes. Cindy is standing behind Felicia and resting a hand on her shoulder as she holds her mic in her other hand. Felicia’s face is turned towards Cindy as she smiles with closed eyes and holds her mic with two hands. There are various white and pink sparkles and circles over the background, /end id]
I was tagged by @elismor! I’m going to do six, because I have been VAGUELY noodling with an old WIP that I’m projecting to finish in approximately 2047, but. Still. Noodling. Anyway, these are in order of when I’m hoping to get to them…
Short disabled guy does math to find a feral torture victim.
History’s deadliest child assassin and daughter of Manhattan’s worst Karen see the world’s largest ball of twine.
Local witch deals with trauma by fucking superheroes. It’s healthy for everyone.
Remember your favorite secondary characters from that movie where rich people’s hubris is defeated by an ice cube?
Four insanely geriatric queers and a Millennial finally die. Ted Danson is there.
Energy that permeates the Galaxy won’t fucking leave grieving, widowed flyboy alone.
SINGIN’INTHERAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen – Costume design by Walter Plunkett
My favorite of these is the tennis one, because in context “cringe” MUST mean “cringe with envy,” but it’s so much more obnoxiously fun to imagine the narrator celebrating all the other looks but randomly throwing in “Oh and by the way don’t wear this to tennis, you’ll only embarrass yourself”
did I ever tell yall I used to think charlie chaplin was a drag king. for like three years straight
we watched modern times in seventh grade n I saw this shot n just took it face value that he was a twinky butch. for three years
I only found out he wasn’t because in tenth grade the topic of old hollywood leading ladies came up w my friends n I went “I think it’s so cool how charlie chaplin did all those drag roles. she was cute too haha” n they all looked at me like I’d said something just truly fucking insane. which for the record I had
no the butch you want is Dorothy Arzner, one of the only women directors from the silent era to continue directing after the transition to sound
she directed a multitude of films about atypical domestic relationships and has two entries in the criterion collection. you should absolutely read about her life, because wow. fascinating figure
as someone who’s written over a million words about harry styles in my life, I love that harry styles is quantifiably the 21st century’s greatest muse. but as someone who has written over a million words about harry styles, I wish that he could inspire… better… art.
The latest episode of The FanFic Maverick podcast is out! The show is available through the link above and also on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.
In this episode I got to chat with Aimmyarrowshigh (a.k.a. V) about her exciting journey through fandom over the years, and her current Stucky WIP ‘Lent From Tomorrow (today was too small for us).’
Ahhh, yay! This was so much fun, and I’m so asfhgrfbj at hearing someone read part of Lent From Tomorrow aloud, too! I love this podcast and getting to be on the show was a total blast. :)
The latest episode of The FanFic Maverick podcast is out! The show is available through the link above and also on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.
In this episode I got to chat with Aimmyarrowshigh (a.k.a. V) about her exciting journey through fandom over the years, and her current Stucky WIP ‘Lent From Tomorrow (today was too small for us).’
Ahhh, yay! This was so much fun, and I’m so asfhgrfbj at hearing someone read part of Lent From Tomorrow aloud, too! I love this podcast and getting to be on the show was a total blast. :)
I just looked through OP’s blog and every single poll is a popular m/f ship vs. reylo (with similar results). I don’t understand.
There was an actual bracket, but reylo got obliterated in round one, and after the poll was done, someone suggested it would be funny to do a “bonus round” where every tournament contestant is pitted against reylo to see how many ships, if any, reylo can beat
imagine dealing w an international crisis involving precious artifacts and someone is like ‘don’t worry I know a guy’ and it’s a dorky connecticut college professor named henry who slips into his slutsona and suddenly he’s capable of saving the world w the power of his whip & fedora
you don’t know where the guy is. you don’t know where the guy is going. but you do know he’s on the case w a 98% success rate and his tits are out
I don’t think that a story needs to literally make sense in a nitpicky cinema sins type way. Like I write magical realism for gods sake, but I do think a story needs to consistently follow its own type of logic for the most part or else an audience will pick up on that.
I think the reason that something like “Somehow, Palpatine has returned” went over so badly was not because it’s impossible in the Star Wars universe for someone to come back from the dead or something. It’s because so far the new trilogy had a theme of the new generation being allowed to take over. Yoda burned the ancient texts, Kylo Ren continued the sith cycle of the apprentice replacing the master, the old heroes were dying off one by one. Solidly establishing itself as a new thing.
And then, oh no the old bad guy from the last two trilogies was secretly the bad guy in this one too! Oh no!
Like in some stories that would make sense. Not really in this one though.
In some stories there’s a giant elephant in the bathroom just because there’s a giant elephant in the bathroom and we don’t need to question that. In other types of stories you’re gonna need a damn good explanation for how and why the elephant got there.
If your movie has been established as a cheesy stupid martial arts comedy and your goofy protagonist kills a bunch of ninjas with breakdancing moves, that’s fine. I get that. But if you’ve been making a serious cop drama with intrigue, realism, and minimal amounts of gun combat and your hardened old detective kills people with breakdancing, your audience will be lost and confused.
You don’t have to get a degree in physics and fully understand the properties of magnets to put a big magnet in your story, but make sure it’s the type of story that would have a big magnet in it.
