Too Much Time | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

Too Much Time | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

Summary:

Lost and alone at the end of the world, Jon decides to try one last idea. It goes wrong, as his ideas usually do, when both the Web and the Spiral decide to interfere with what he's doing. For once the disaster goes his favor. Mostly.

He wouldn't have chosen to go back in time to when he was eight years old. He certainly wouldn't have chosen to catch Elias freaking Bouchard's attention before he's had a chance to do anything. And he cannot believe that his luck is so monumentally bad that he gets adopted by the man who wants to use him to end the world.

Jon has to figure out how to keep Elias away, while saving his friends and the world. And hopefully growing old enough that he can go anywhere on his own and be taken seriously.

I HAVE ANOTHER TMA FIC FOR YOU. its Time Travel but I've been getting obsessed with any and all fics where they (either Jon or Martin. Or both.) time travel back to their kid self and get adopted by elias and/or peter.

or it could just be a general non-time travel but still get adopted.

I know I have issues with reading way too many time travel fics and that the repetition can get boring. BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT. Okay. Look. im gonna be honest. its hitting close to 200k words and is nowhere near close to the beginning of the actual podcast, like with tim and sasha and martin?? its not just your average time travel!! ITS. theres uniqueness. i dont know how to explain it without spoiling it. It does get to really angsty bits (also tma fics have this weird habit of adding content warnings at the end notes. who even looks at those and then scrolls all the way up or something?? well not me, idk who does, it just kinda seems weird to leave it as an end note when its a cw for a chapter..) that have kind of gotten me mentally checking out or something, but like. fdshuifhs. what do you do when a traumatized adult gets sent back to his child body and his child body kind of. yknow? just your average issue of communicating! and also a lot of issues. a lot of trauma. woo.

Nimona (the movie) | opinion

hi future me here. i cant BELIEVE i never made a post about it?? I JUST HAD IT SITTING WRITTEN DOWN

\/ thoughts from right after watching it below

i just watched nimona

i genuinely dont like ambrosius, and its just one of those things like 'yeah, okay, the ship is fine. but i dont approve of it'

he just. you dont trust your crush/partner, okay. it was blatantly obvious it wasnt intentional but okay, whatever, blame him. and then it happens a second time, believing the obvious bad guy WHO we KNOW and theres PROOF did the bad thing and blaming the other person. well, jeez buddy really dont like you. and then they get together in the end and i just. okay. thats fine, gay representation. but also fuck you id prefer an ending where the guy appreciates it, but breaks it off, because you just cant heal from that lack of trust, yknow? their relationship isnt the same, and i wish it wasnt just all made better with a kiss and stuff ughhhh

in pursuit of knowledge | TMA fic

Martin was a pretty lonely kid. That was a thing that happened naturally when his only remaining parent decided it was a good idea to distance herself from him, for various reasons, none that were particularly valid.

Ever since his dad had left, his mum had taken a turn for the worst. Snapping at him for the littlest of things, even when he didn’t even do anything wrong.

It.. sucked, no matter how better and better he felt he was getting at his people-watching skills, to determine their moods and, well, thoughts, in a fruitless hope that figuring it out would be the key to finding the way to get their love.

Nurses pitied him, those out of the neighborhood, unable to hear the poisoning whispers of a mother blaming her son for all her issues, and who had converted many of her friends to hate him too.

༺𓆩𓁺𓆪༻

...was the bet they currently had on-going for a child.

A child that happened to be both Forsaken-oriented, and Beholding-oriented, because if they were going to be a married couple, then what about a family? Creating an actual child was completely out of the question, so the only other option would be to look for one. What.

-- OR, Martin gets adopted by Elias and Peter.

i read way too many fics where the tma characters get de-aged that i wrote my own.

usually the spacing is large because formatting weird so i tried deleting them and now it feels way too crowded

i talk

im just noticing it now but its not just me??? other people confuse grimmauld place with grimmauld palace which i have no idea why, genuinely, but i stumble on it too like a dumbass. and people who watched the movies probably wont feel the same (looking at the pic on the wiki, really not a palace)

although i guess. if you were reading a book and your brain for some reason messed up a word. you maybe wouldnt ever know unless someone said it, you had pictures, or you looked really closely at it.

admittedly, i dont know why, i always imagined it as like some sort of big manor, and as im not a movie watcher (honestly if i can get away with it i hate watching movie adaptations of books. as in, if its a book i care about, fuck the movie adaptation ill probably hate it. i mean i know the adaptation has to have differences or whats the point of doing both, like watching the movie and reading the book, because id imagine a movie would be to promote it in a way and make you interested in reading the books yourself to fully immerse yourself into the world. to probably provide a different take? im just not the biggest fan of that. perfectly fine with it though if its a book ive never read because i am a lazy shit) i never. had any actual proper visuals? i mean i tried watching like the first movie but i. honestly have a hard time watching really old stuff, as in like. stuff thats not the greatest quality as it is compared to now? and i just kind of gave up and never saw the point (fanfiction tells me everything that happens in the movies that are not. i mean i dont think theyre books, but i know like the grindelwald thing and obscurials) so.

man i just feel so validated knowing that other people make the same mistakes i make.

talking - fic exchange

i joined my first fic exchange a few months ago

im kind of excited? im in a discord server for it, someones explained it as exchanges always kinda getting you out of your comfort zone even if just a little. and it makes sense? it was a bit of a challenge writing so many, and writing more slice of life-ish, but it was fun too even if it was a bit stressful. :D

its a pjo exchange, i might make a post when it gets revealed

thoughts on the preservations of myths (what are important?)

I believe that any myths could be important, not just one. I mean, there's the thing where I think there's Helios, whose the god of the sun in Greek mythology, but then people forgot about him and claimed Apollo to be the sun. Or well, the one who pulls the sun across the sky, so on and so on. I mean, is it that big of a deal? Not necessarily. But it's all about preservation, and if you're gonna learn about myths and their culture and the like, then I'd prefer you to learn as much as you can.

I mean, I think Disney made like a movie where it was Greek but they called Heracles Hercules. So then it stuck (in which I always find myself automatically correcting it to Heracles because it's become expected, which then sucks when I'm reading about Roman him). I remember watching it once, but most people have watched it too so now it just really sucks when people call him the wrong name because it was set in Greek with Greek characters (there's Zeus and Hera), but the main character being of the Roman kind. That might just be me who has an issue with it, but in general it's just annoying when people get things wrong. I understand what that's like, considering I have a last name that's hard to pronounce.

Anyway, I got side tracked. Well technically not all of them are important, I like the smaller lesser known ones. Like Fabulinus. Just remembered the guy (whoops). Roman god of a child's first words (I learned that from a fanfic, clap clap for fanfiction. He does exist.), or the guy believed to teach them their first words. I mean, isn't it heartwarming? There doesn't have to be gods over the bigger things, there can be ones for the smaller things, and be all soft. ..Although maybe they were a little too god-obsessed by having them over a lot of minor things like that? I wonder if there was any idea that a child's first words were say, prophetic or something. There have been ideas tossed about about children seeing more because of their imagination then adults. Or maybe that's just because I play Genshin, and the Sumeru lore has the Aranara, these little nature spirits that can usually only be seen by children (until brushed off or forgotten when they grow older, and seen as myths by other adults). Who knows. It's just, myths tell a lot about the culture. I mean, if people didn't know of the existence of minor gods, they'd believe that the culture was likely all about the major domains, and being overly one thing then the other, and not necessarily there being an in-between. That they might be extreme, I don't know.

A lot of people or things get disregarded, or thought to be of someone else, so I'd like to think that preservation would be about everything. Not just the general idea, but including anything else, even little itty bitty details. It might be a lot, and it might be a bunch of effort, but otherwise people won't really be able to understand. There'll be stereotypes, and I don't know, I'd rather be able to see as many sides and ideas or perspectives as I can to get a grasp on a culture or society. If we don't get the right idea, then others in the future won't.

For example. Jewish haters still exist. Supposedly, some of them are basing it off of this old book, Protocols of something something. It's plagiarized, blatantly wrong, and horribly biased. ..And some school systems are apparently teaching with it, which sucks. And there's stuff like dog whistles where there tends to be an insulting undertone, like a racial insult that people who get it will understand, but people who don't might not. Like, I mean, propaganda. Today we know what's wrong with it and might feel incredulous about people believing that then, but it's still happening. They just got better, and can be hidden in stuff like memes, and it's just. I mean, I bet you didn't know this. Honestly this could keep going, and it might only get worse and worse, with the idea of 'it's just a joke' so people can't really point it out without either exposing themselves as Jewish or being seen as a 'party pooper', and then we'll be so desensitized to that stuff to where it could be downright cruel and we wouldn't care. It's happened before in history. And then what are people gonna think? They're gonna think whatever it says, and that doing it isn't that big of an issue. It's an issue today, and it will be in the future.

I just don't want biased information where there could've been full information that would've provided a lot of context as to why certain people do certain things, or why some things might be wrong or some things might be right but it's not shown in it.

It's all about beliefs, I guess, and it can hard to prove a reason to like something if they just think something is all about another, and you can't really explain it in a way.

Like 'oh, Roman myths are all wrong, and liking them means you're a bad person because they did really trashy [uh. curse word] things, and they were really strict and militaristic.' But there were soft moments too, not so big moments. Like, again, Fabulinus. Like, it's not all just murder or whatever stereotypes people believe.

I think it can be hard to remember that they were once people too. Like, people believed in it, people lived by it, and it doesn't mean they were a monster for doing so. It was a way of life. It doesn't necessarily mean that some of it isn't wrong, but it's not wrong to find an interest in it either. There is such a thing called dark tourism, after all.

Anyway I went on a lot of tangents.

Point being: Preserve it all. It doesn't matter if it's something that's really insignificant, it's history, it's something, and you just can't paint things in black and white, like what would inevitably happen if all the facts don't end up on the table.

Zero clue if anything I said made sense, I got really really off-topic.