Tag: rock the askbox

hey I have a couple questions about what you’re looking for for the ficoween! how much wiggle room do I have in terms of sticking to the prompt, and if I say I’ll write a ship but then it ends up being gen (or the other way round) is that still ok? it sounds pretty fun!

You have as much wiggle room as you need. All I ask is you generally stick to the idea of the prompt, but you can take it in which ever direction you want. For example, if you wanted to do #6 

“Character A keeps running into someone. It’s never for very long and always at the worst times: a brief glimpse as they walk in separate directions, across a crowded street, getting off the train as Character A gets on. The weird part? They look exactly like Character A. The freaky part? Character A was born with a twin who didn’t make it past birth.”
you don’t have to have to mention twins if you don’t want to. It can just be someone who looks like Character A for whatever reason (shapeshifter, changeling, ghost, clone, them from the future, ect.) but it should have something to do with the character seeing someone who looks like them. The prompt that mentions vampires and eager consorts should have at least one vampire and someone who isn’t scared but excited about it. Does that make sense? Like, I don’t care if you choose to do your own thing with it, as long as there’s some element of the original prompt in what you write. 

Other prompts might be leading in a certain direction, but if you want to you can always take them in the complete opposite. Last year someone took the pumpkin patch prompt (which I wrote to be more lighthearted) and turned it into body horror. Someone else too the fairy godmother prompt (which was intended to be darker) and made it light and fluffy. Really, it’s up to you. 

As far as ships go, you can do whatever you want with that, too. Just let me know that you haven’t decided if it’s gen or a certain ship yet. The only reason I  ask is so I know who’s thinking about doing what so I don’t wind up with 16 people doing the same three ships for the same three prompts. 

I hope that helps! 

Flannel & Apple picking

flannel: what’s your favorite day of the year? is there a reason it’s your favorite?
Halloween. I fricken love Halloween. It’s always been my favorite because it’s a great excuse to dress up and be spooky and scare yourself. Also fall is my favorite season. 
apple picking: if you could go anywhere, where would it be and why? 
The answer to this around this time of year is always California. Why? Amusement parks and scare walks. I highkey love the scare walks at Knott’s and Six Flags. I haven’t done Universal’s yet, which is really a shame, but I plan on it. The only thing better than roller coasters is roller coasters at night while dudes dressed like scarecrows sneak up behind you and go “boo”. 

Autumn Asks!

Haunted house!

what’s your scariest memory? (if you don’t have one/ don’t want to talk about it, what’s your biggest fear?)

Hmmm. When I was in eighth grade we had a lock down because there was an “armed and dangerous” person either on school grounds or close enough to the school that it was a danger, I don’t remember which. Now, this was right before Virginia Tech, so kids weren’t really getting how serious this kind of thing was. We’d heard about Columbine but mass shootings weren’t a thing we even considered a possibility.

It was the last class of the day and it’s in the barracks so it’s hot and uncomfortable and everyone here is 14 and shitty so getting them to shut the fuck up is honestly not a possibility. We’re sitting in the dark, under the windows, the bell’s already run and parents have already started calling asking kids why they’re not home yet. This kid next to me literally will not stop talking. The teacher is getting pissed. It’s just not fun. The the fucking door knob jiggles. 

I’ve been in a lot of lock downs. Never in any of the lock downs prior or since has a door knob jiggled. To this day I don’t know if it was a security guard checking to see if the door was locked (unlikely if there was really a guy wandering around the school) or if it was some shithead kid or if it was actually a real threat, but I do know everyone heard it and everyone got real quiet after that. One girl started crying. It was one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever experienced. But then it stops and no one talks anymore. 

We had to wait for another hour, I think, and finally we were released to go home. I rode the bus at the time, so after getting on the school bus and getting, oh, maybe a block away from school we’re told by the dispatch that we have to turn back around, go back to school, and wait. So for another 15 minutes I’m sitting in a school bus, out in the open, waiting for the adults to figure out what the fuck they’re going to do and whether or not I get to just go home. The Vice Principal comes out and tells the bus driver he has to take us home because no one is going to stick around and wait with us inside the school. So finally after all that we get to go home. 

So that was one of the scariest experiences of my life. 

Autumn Asks!

so I kinda knew you were into reylo, but I didn’t really make the connection until just now… are you aware of winterofherdiscontent? they do fucking amazing reylo (and other) art, and I feel like it’s something you need to see if you haven’t already

Oh, yes! I’ve seen some of their pieces floating around and damn. I’m really into the style and aesthetic. They make really gorgeous art. I hadn’t been following until now though, and that’s just a shame. 

Thanks for the blog rec! 

For the history asks tell me about somewhere historical you’ve been please :)

I’ve been to The Alamo, but I don’t remember it. lol 

Seriously, I actually have been to San Antonio, Texas and apparently we went to the Alamo Cenotaph but I was like four so I don’t remember it at all. (Don’t tell anyone from Texas that I’ve forgotten the Alamo. They get huffy.) 

Do national monuments count? I’m gonna go with yes, because outside of that I’ve only really been to museums and places in the city that are old as hell. I’ve been to Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands a few times (last time was about two years ago) and they’re about as thrilling as you’d expect. White Sands has a lot of white sand. It’s white as snow and goes on for what seems like forever and other than the missile range there’s not a lot to look at. Carlsbad Caverns are cool, though. It’s cold and humid and the rock formations are fucking massive. There are a few in the big room that are just amazing. There’s some called the “hall of giants” and unfortunately you can’t get very close but they’re like 60 feet tall (18.3 meters). They’re gorgeous, honestly. It’s more natural history than human history, but it’s still awesome. 

History Asks! 

talk about #10 (Something historical related to where you live) and choose between: the oregon trail and the (american) civil war.

So there are two big reasons my city became the metropolitan area it is now: tuberculosis and World War 2. I live in the Southwest, so when tuberculosis was endemic people tended to move to hot, dry climates to stop the disease from advancing. My city was home to 16 sanatoriums, two of which are actually still operational, they’re just hospitals now. (Another was torn down and a hotel was built on the grounds but they haven’t torn down the crematorium yet. So there’s literally a hotel with a crematorium like, two miles away from where I went to college.) By the late 1920s, 50% of the population of my city was either TB patients, their families, or other “health-seekers” hoping for relief from things like allergies and asthma. By the time WW2 rolled around, the city was also a home for military scientists and by the end of the war a new military base was set up where an airport used to be. We had a huge population growth after the war and we’re still working on science and technology in all different kinds of areas. 

The American Civil War. One of my favorite courses in college was on the American Civil War and one of my favorite required readings was about various battles and sieges through a sensory perspective. It’s called “The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege” by Mark M. Smith. (I still have it somewhere in my “books I bought that the university won’t take back” box.) It really puts into perspective how brutal war was on different groups of people, including those who weren’t fighting it. The chapter on “taste” was all about the Siege of Vicksburg and how civilians were pushed to starvation. I know we don’t really think about it anymore, but the American Civil War really was brutal. It was also incredibly stupid for the South to fight given their infrastructure was shit and they needed the North to make any profit off anything. 

History Asks! 

🔥 an unpopular opinion that i have is that i find the spn parody thingies pretty cringeworthy like i cant get through it without having to look away bc i just,,, Don’t Like It what do u think abt them

I totally get what you’re saying. I was like that with the first parody, tbh. It took me like three attempts to get through the whole thing because the secondhand embarrassment was that bad. The second one wasn’t so bad for me but I’m not sure why. Maybe because there was less lip syncing and more recreation shots? The lip syncing was a whole lot of no for me. I like the recreation shots, honestly. I was pretty impressed with them when you put it all side-by-side (I have a set of stills in my queue right now). 

But I do still think they’re pretty cringey. I get that some people either enjoy that or don’t mind it but I’m not really a fan. I’m glad other people enjoy it and the people who made it probably had a lot of fun doing it but it’s not for me. I kinda feel the same about things like character actors at Disney Land, too. It’s good for the people who are actually interested in that kind of thing (like little kids) but the thought of interacting with a character actor or watching someone else do it is just… no thank you. I realize this probably makes me a stick in the mud but I just feel a whole lot of nope about the whole thing. 

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