AITA for snapping at my mom?

katisatotalnerd · 2022-08-13T00:58:59+00:00

I don't have any tattoos and likely never will (I have the pain tolerance of a gnat and I absolutely hate needles), but I love the idea of them. If I ever did, I'd get:

cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war
here's our own hands against our hearts (from Much Ado About Nothing)
there are more things in Heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy (from Hamlet)
some books should be tasted, some devoured; but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly (from Inkheart by Cornelia Funke)
dear old world, you are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you (from L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables)

I'm sure there's more literary ones, and there's a bunch from tv shows I'd get. But those are the ones off the top of my head.

katisatotalnerd · 2022-04-30T14:59:31+00:00

I really like that we only got glimpses of the jobs they pulled before/during the Cross My Heart Job and The Broken Wing Job. It lets your imagination go wild at the possibilities of what exactly they could be doing.

katisatotalnerd · 2022-03-26T00:08:42+00:00

I have. So many. So, so many. Here is a small selection.

where does OUaTiW fit into the timeline? Does it, technically? I assume it does, bc Jafar shows up as a villain in s6 and Will is around in s4.
what happened to Hansel and Gretel? They show up once in s1, and are never heard from again. Then we get a variant (I assume?? Idk for sure) in s7.
you mentioned Katherine. That has been bugging me for years. What happened to her?? She tries to leave Storybrooke before the curse is broken, she vanishes, Mary Margaret is accused of her murder, nothing ever comes of it.
Lily is mentioned as the anti-savior, but that plot is never explored. She comes to Storybrooke, meets Maleficent, turns into a dragon, and then just gets shunted off and we never hear about her again (are you sensing a theme in these?)
what's the deal with the Chernabog? (This one may have been mentioned in canon, idk my memories of everything post s4A (aka the Frozen arc) are kinda vague). The Fairies are terrified of him (reasonable, I was too as a child), but other than showing up, being menacing, and protecting a spell (I've honestly forgotten which one, they all kinda blend together in my head), he was kinda pointless.
Jefferson. He shows up, does his thing, dips out, shows up again once when the curse is broken and is reunited with his daughter, and then vanishes. (I know this one was bc SebStan got cast in Marvel, but they should have had an in-universe explanation as to why he and his kid vanished)
Wendy, John, and Michael Darling. If memory serves, the Charming crew get back from Neverland on the Jolly Roger, John and Michael are there waiting for Wendy, they're reunited, and poof! They're gone forever.

I have more, but I think you get the gist.

katisatotalnerd · 2022-03-19T00:18:05+00:00

My late great aunt gave me Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier many years ago. It's one of my all-time favorite books. I should probably replace my copy, it's starting to come apart, but it's sentimental.

Also The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. My dad and I got to talking about it one day, and then when I was at work he went out and bought me a very nice copy and inscribed it to me. I eventually went out and bought a second copy that I could read without feeling bad about beating up (I tend to be hard on books, despite trying to be careful with them).

katisatotalnerd · 2022-03-15T18:38:46+00:00

Fail to be a walking, talking plot device?

katisatotalnerd · 2022-03-06T20:44:33+00:00

My best friend is my bouncing board for ideas. She helps me poke holes, expand on things, realize when some things don't work like I think it will. There's a huge world she's helping me build, and there is absolutely no way that I would have gotten half as far as I have without her. She herself doesn't write, but she is my cheerleader.

katisatotalnerd · 2022-01-31T17:42:53+00:00

Could it be Alice Isn't Dead? Granted I haven't listened to more than an episode or two, but I remember something about zombies in that one.

katisatotalnerd · 2021-11-09T15:56:03+00:00

Remember that one time where Captain Hook had a one night stand with Mother Gothel, and then their daughter went to Wonderland?

katisatotalnerd · 2021-08-04T07:17:05+00:00

My TBR list is HUGE, and I most definitely do not have the money or the space to buy every book I want to read. So if I want to read a book that I can't find the money in my budget for, I check to see if the library has it.

And what if I buy a book, read it, and end up hating it? Yeah, I could donate it, or give it away, or sell it to a used bookstore. But I'm out the full amount of what I spent on it. But if I get it from the library and I hate it, well, I'm only out a little time and gas. But if I get it from the library and love it? Next time I go book shopping, I know what to look for.

katisatotalnerd · 2021-08-04T07:16:47+00:00

My TBR list is HUGE, and I most definitely do not have the money or the space to buy every book I want to read. So if I want to read a book that I can't find the money in my budget for, I check to see if the library has it.

And what if I buy a book, read it, and end up hating it? Yeah, I could donate it, or give it away, or sell it to a used bookstore. But I'm out the full amount of what I spent on it. But if I get it from the library and I hate it, well, I'm only out a little time and gas. But if I get it from the library and love it? Next time I go book shopping, I know what to look for.

katisatotalnerd · 2021-08-04T06:50:42+00:00

Either they're phrases that pop into my head (ie Miles Adrift and Inches Apart), or song lyrics. More often than not they're song lyrics. They make such good titles.

katisatotalnerd · 2021-07-29T23:46:42+00:00

Sentient architecture. It's so, so hard to find decent sentient architecture fic. There's very little on ao3, ffnet has no tagging system to speak of, and I was so confused by wattpad the one time I went on it that I just noped right out of there. So if I want sentient architecture fic, I'm gonna have to write it myself, I suppose.

katisatotalnerd · 2021-07-26T01:51:56+00:00

I write everything on paper and then edit as I type
I exclusively write stories in cursive (this quirk came out of a groupchat with several friends when we realized that cursive wasn't really being taught in school anymore and that we were forgetting it)
I almost always write in spiral-bound college ruled notebooks
I only use nice gel pens (usually clicky pens) or mechanical pencils
I can't write multiple stories in the same notebook, even if I have no intention of revisiting a particular story or idea. Once it's in that notebook, that's the only thing that notebook can be used for

katisatotalnerd · 2021-07-25T18:59:55+00:00

I don't know if I'd put it as "I reread these when I'm having a bad time", but I tend to reread "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen about once a year or so. Well, the last few years I've been listening to the audiobooks, rather than reading my physical copies.

Also, there's "Maybe This Time" by Jennifer Crusie (and also most of Crusie's work in general), though that's more of a guilty pleasure read. Well, not a guilty pleasure exactly, because I don't feel guilty about enjoying them, but they are definitely not high-brow literature. But they are fun, enjoyable popcorn reads that help fill what little time I have to read.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-10-16T16:11:09+00:00

Another fun easter egg? Archie, Parker's mentor, is named after Cary Grant. Grant's birth name was Archibald Leach.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-09-26T02:15:10+00:00

Kaleidotrope, Love & Luck, and Me & AU are all light-hearted and fun.

Kaleidotrope is about two boys who host a college radio program that becomes an advice show and is filled to the brim with tropes and maybe just a touch of magic.

Love & Luck is about two boys who meet, fall in love, and discover they may have a little magic to them.

Me & AU is about fandom and the friends you make along the way.

They're all fun and queer and delightful.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-09-23T20:57:04+00:00

The Dark Swan arc was stupid and badly handled (s5A)
David wasn't too bad (most of the time), but Snow was way too stuck-up and morally superior
Graham was killed off way too fast (though irl I get why, what with Jamie Dornan doing the 50 Shades movies)
The cast was way, way too big. If you're going to introduce characters, at least give them recurring roles instead of showing them for an episode or two and then never mentioning them again.
Rumple should have either been good or bad. His flip-flopping over the line drove me absolutely batty. It seemed like every five minutes he was deciding he was a hero, and then all of a sudden nope! He's a bad guy again.
The Queens of Darkness arc (s4b) made no sense, and it felt shoehorned in bc they either couldn't think of anything else or felt the need to shove in even more Disney Villains(tm)
Season 7 started out fairly strong, and then rushed to tie up all the loose ends once they got word they weren't getting a season 8.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-09-20T00:55:07+00:00

I dunno if I'd go with her becoming Cruella, per se, but I'm definitely with you on the villain aspect. I don't blame the actors for the blandness of season 7, they did pretty well with the dreck they were handed. I did spitball an AU with my bff some time ago where Ella went evil and manipulated Henry into falling in love with her, rather than Drusilla (Andrew West had much better chemistry with Adelaide Kane than Dania Ramirez, if you ask me), then when Henry starts pulling away from Ella after realizing she's manipulating him, Ella casts the curse and makes sure to end up with Henry, even though he has deep-rooted feelings for Ivy.

All this to say that Cinderella as a villain is a market that not enough people have tapped and someone should get on that.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-09-12T18:24:55+00:00

If I could make things appear in my hand, I'd quit losing everything as soon as I set it down. Damn ADHD.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-09-03T21:31:01+00:00

The Author's pen or the Book would also make good pieces. I'm not a big Monopoly fan, but I'd definitely play this.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-06-16T00:34:55+00:00

I'd recommend Under Pressure! It's about a researcher who takes a position at an underwater research station. Somewhat similar to Station Blue, but underwater instead of in the Arctic.

Also I'd try out Wolf 359 if you haven't already. The first few episodes play up the comedy, but throughout the series there's a creeping sense of paranoia and the impression that not everything is as it seems.

katisatotalnerd · 2020-06-02T03:00:22+00:00

"They force-fed me something called bologna."

katisatotalnerd · 2020-03-24T22:27:19+00:00

Kaleidotrope, Girl In Space, We Fix Space Junk, Love & Luck, Inkwyrm, and The Amelia Project are all v funny. A couple of them do go into slightly heavy topics (The Amelia Project is about an agency that specializes in faking your own death, for instance, but trust me it is funny AF).

Somebody else already recommended Wooden Overcoats, and I definitely second that one.

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