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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one that added 35k extra words to the projected length of this fucking story ahgeilahgleiag

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Fan Art for "A Crown of Flowers" by #HyperbolicReverie

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For the DC ask game

How did the second meeting in Order go when Sengoku, Sakazuki and Issho all got back?

Poorly for Sakazuki, mostly.

To his credit, he did not in fact try to discredit the accuracy of Fujitora's recording. But he did try to argue that it shouldn't matter; that the boys were dangers just by existing, and that that alone should qualify as sufficient proof that Order needed to take decisive action.

The revelation that the Wild had been suffering from a lack of magic, and just what the elimination of Gentry would do in the long run shook a lot of courtiers. Most of these people grew up in faetouched families; the idea of doing something to explicitly harm the Wild, even with it being as dangerous as they perceive it to be, is horrifying. And that's even before they consider how many people would die as the result of the Wild dying.

The thing that provoked the most conversation though, was the idea that Gentry had been executing their duties incorrectly. A lot of courtiers agreed that it was the way Gentry acted towards the general populous that was the most concerning thing to them. If the boys didn't show any inkling towards that, and were able to clearly explain why they thought the previous status quo had been wrong? That was convincing all in itself.

Several of them also thought the clear reticence towards starting a court was a good sign, and also low-key hilarious. Garp in particular laughed incredibly loud when he heard that part of the recording.

All in all, by the end, Sakazuki (and Aramaki, the ass-kisser) were well out-voted. The next decade or so for Order involves a lot of restructuring and soul-searching, and it takes a few joint team-ups between the boys and their courts and some of the more forward-thinking Order members (Koby, Drake) to really diffuse tension.

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end Beginning of-year Director's Cut ask game! ask me for additional lore or meta about any of my fics from the past year! anything specific you were wondering about, or if you just want a dealer's choice fun fact that didn't make it into the fic itself. You can find my fics here.

Thank you to @vyther16 for the tag!

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In another universe, another time, things go just a bit differently, and Donquixote Rosinante lives, albeit seriously injured and bedridden. But with his son refusing to speak until he gets news of the boy he'd left behind, Sengoku is forced to locate a child who turns out to be far more trouble than he was expecting before Rosinante's reticence gets him court-martialed, or worse. Hiding a precocious child with a legendary devil fruit is hard enough. Hiding one marked for death by World Government order is another thing entirely. Doing it at Marineford itself? That's just the height of folly. And yet, this is what Sengoku finds himself doing in order to keep the peace. But there are eyes everywhere in Marineford, and not everyone can be put off by a protective Admiral. Politics are well and truly alive in the fortress, and someone is always looking for an angle to exploit. The clock is ticking, and one wrong move might mean the end of a career--or a life.

New Year, New Fic!

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The Wild is a mirror, a magic realm of possibility parallel to the mundane one, and people like Luffy, changelings who've made a devil's bargain for power, walk the line between worlds daily. When Luffy makes a mad dash to rescue his brother from certain death, he sets off a chain of events that makes the very foundations of that realm shudder. Soon, he's got several other people along for the ride, and the situation quickly spirals out of control. There's something the people in power aren't saying, and it might be the key to all the strange events that keep happening around them. Luffy just wants adventure and fun and freedom. Law just wants to be left alone to live his life. Kid wants to never be beholden to someone else again. And Ace just wants some goddamn agency for once. But there are other entities in the Wild with agendas of their own, and they don't care about what others want at all.

IT'S DONE! I can't believe it's done!

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I just finished reading “How Many Ways Can We Say We Care?” (excellent!) and it got me thinking a little:

— I’m really curious as to which real-world accents inspired how you describe the distinctions in accents (especially the Blues) in your writing!

— If you ever chose to explore Sanji (perhaps during the events of WCI) reverting back more closely to his Northern accent, I would be super interested to see how you’d write that. Especially after my appetite was whet by your explanation in this particular fic. This isn’t a request per se, but I was curious if that’s something you had plans to write or considered exploring sometime in the future?

Sorry if either of these have been asked before and I missed them 😅

When I write languages, the inspirations tend to be relatively vague and hand-wavy. I go back and forth on what the imagined similarities to real world languages are, with a few more firm headcanons to hold them all together.

Generally, I think of the languages of the West Blue as being akin to Romance languages, and the North Blue Scandinavian/Germanic. Flevance always has a distinct twist to it in my head, and whatever they speak on top of the Red Line is a conlang, made up of all the languages from the original Twenty Kingdoms. I have less hard and fast ideas about the South and the East Blues, though I do tend to think of the East Blue as having a ton of dialects and accents, more than any other place.

I have actually written something for Sanji in regards to his language and accent before: It's On the Tip of His Tongue. He has to share the spotlight with Law, because the fic is how they both sound weird to each other, but half the fic is from his perspective, includes references to WCI, and has a lot of my headcanons about the way Sanji interacts with and speaks Northern in it.

Also it involves these two idiots circling each other like suspicious cats, so it's a great time.

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For the behind the scenes ask game;

For Losing Time 10, 11, 12, 21, & 25

10. Share a screenshot of the original outline (if you dareee😈)

So, I don't actually have one! I hardly ever outline what I write. I'm sure my writing process would give more organized writers conniptions.

But, I do have a couple screenshots of things I said about the fic in Discord while I was in the process of writing it:

11. Was there a scene that you hadn't originally planned to include? Why did you decide to fit it in?

I almost skipped Jean Bart's bit! But then I thought about it, and as a naturally introverted child myself, I would absolutely want some low-key downtime, even if I was otherwise excited about what was going on. Plus, I really liked adding more of the Heart Pirates whenever I could, since they were such an important part of the fic.

12. Was there a scene you wished you could have included? Why didn't it fit in?

I don't think so. For all that I don't really outline, when I decided on the alternating storylines, that pretty much locked me into a specific pace to the story, because I needed to know when to reverse the time swap. I could definitely have added more experiences in both timelines, but I would be afraid that extra scenarios would bog the story down. So while there were a ton of possibilities for more scenes, none of them were fleshed out enough for me to say I was sad I had to cut them.

21. What is something you didn't expect people to notice or gravitate towards in this fic?

Law's parents, at least not as much as they did. I almost never write OCs, and that's essentially what they were, and I was so worried about how well they'd come off. Color me absolutely astonished when everyone seemed to love them.

25. Is there anything you would change now about this fic? Why or why not?

I actually don't think there is? It feels complete, the pacing is good and I really love how it ended. If I were to change anything, I think it would have been to be smart enough not to start two longfics at the same time. That was insane. (Although, Crown of Flowers is almost over too, so against all odds I will have finished them both. I am kind of astonished by that).

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Yep, that about sums it up.

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Things I Did Not Expect to be Doing Today: working on the finale of Crown of Flowers at a performance of Disney on Ice.

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The Wild is a mirror, a magic realm of possibility parallel to the mundane one, and people like Luffy, changelings who've made a devil's bargain for power, walk the line between worlds daily. When Luffy makes a mad dash to rescue his brother from certain death, he sets off a chain of events that makes the very foundations of that realm shudder. Soon, he's got several other people along for the ride, and the situation quickly spirals out of control. There's something the people in power aren't saying, and it might be the key to all the strange events that keep happening around them. Luffy just wants adventure and fun and freedom. Law just wants to be left alone to live his life. Kid wants to never be beholden to someone else again. And Ace just wants some goddamn agency for once. But there are other entities in the Wild with agendas of their own, and they don't care about what others want at all.

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Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for funsies.

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Fifteen years on, I have still not managed to successfully romance a Dragon Age character. 😅

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The Wild is a mirror, a magic realm of possibility parallel to the mundane one, and people like Luffy, changelings who've made a devil's bargain for power, walk the line between worlds daily. When Luffy makes a mad dash to rescue his brother from certain death, he sets off a chain of events that makes the very foundations of that realm shudder. Soon, he's got several other people along for the ride, and the situation quickly spirals out of control. There's something the people in power aren't saying, and it might be the key to all the strange events that keep happening around them. Luffy just wants adventure and fun and freedom. Law just wants to be left alone to live his life. Kid wants to never be beholden to someone else again. And Ace just wants some goddamn agency for once. But there are other entities in the Wild with agendas of their own, and they don't care about what others want at all.

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin