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[screamingcrows]

I used to hear a simple song

That was until you came along

Now in its place is something new

I hear it when I look at you

art by @/raynb0w_81 on instagram

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We're back here today fellas.

Veritas swore he could see cracks forming along the delicate lines of your face, his brows furrowing in confusion when your lips moved as though speaking. Nothing but a deathly silence echoed in his mind.

"But you-" it didn't make sense, you'd shared everything with each other, this had to be a mistake, "we promised to always be honest, we-" you'd given him a stone you'd found, cut in half by years of water wearing it down, and sworn that you'd never part from him.

Years later, Veritas had presented you with a ring and promised the same.

He couldn't recognise your voice, "I never lied to you-"

"You just 'withheld information'?" How he hated that he knew your defenses, how he'd been foolish enough to think you wouldn't do it to him.

"I didn't want to hurt you. I know how much you suffered to find peace with yourself, and there was no need for you to know about this. It doesn't change anything."

Colour drained from his vision, leaving the world a comforting black and white.

If he could, he would've stopped the words bursting from his lips, "It changes everything!"

His hands trembled nearly as much as his voice, hating the defeat of having raised it at you.

Hear me out;

Dr. Ratio in a comfortable relationship with an s/o (you), maybe you've known each other since childhood and reconnected as adults. You end up drawing the gaze of Nous and receive an invitation to the genius society. Ratio is completely taken aback by this, and that's how the intricate web you've constructed around your true academic pursuits start to crumble, the facade of empathy you put up to keep him close (you love him, you truly do, and you can't imagine a future without him). It's a rare period where he understands nothing of the world around him as you cling to feigned empathy and try to explain and prove that you're like him. It's a last ditch effort when you come clean and show him all the research and knowledge you've amassed, all your grand plans. See? You're sharing your knowledge like he thinks people should. None of your plans involve a step of bettering people's lives. It's knowledge for the sake of it, pure arrogance and greed.

And that's how Ratio learns you'll never understand the beauty of the mundane and that he lost his beloved many years ago.

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tagged by @glassrowboat have fun lovely

tagging because I want to steal: @fawnforgold @boundinparchment @cool-mint and anyone else

The asshole on his throne

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Messy full body Michi. There's lots of details I didn't add but this is the gist

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10, 31, 40!

Hi juni o/

get to know the writer

10. cltr+f "blinks" on your WIP & copy paste the first sentence/paragraph that comes up

As I explained to Risse, that search comes up empty in all my wips xD Here's a random snippet of something instead; You tensed, too aware of the blinding light that swelled at Her back, "Explain yourself, Watcher. My patience was already worn when you were sent to correct your mistake, and now I find you committing a foul sin." Strings cut, you fell forward onto all fours, spreading your wings protectively. The collective scoff from those assembled was drowned in a sea of horror Zandik had died by your hands.

31. Do you start with the characters or the plot when writing?

I start with whatever the voices in my head tells me to write. Jokes aside, there's rarely any distinction for me. My mind will most often come up with a few lines of dialogue for a specific interaction between two characters and then build from there. Or it starts with by going "I want this character to experience this thing". So I very rarely have a plot that can fit multiple characters. I hope I understood the question correctly ><

40. If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

..............................................................call me a masochist, but I want nothing more than to see a disheveled Dottore standing in the ruins of a workshop with a crazed expression while his partner watches from a doorway. So the last scene from Ceteris paribus. If I could draw, I'd do it myself because I need to see that scene.

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8, 20, 22, 65 please? Thank you!

Hi anon, have a wonderful webby wednesday o/

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8 and 20 are answered here

22. Are there certain types of writing you won’t do? (style, pov, genre, tropes, etc)

For style, pov, and genre, I'm pretty much open to trying anything (except pure romance for longer fics, I just don't think I'd be interested in writing it lmao).

For tropes... Hanahaki and love at first sight. Oh and coffee shop au.

65. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

I'm looking forward to the day I finish the zombie apocalypse au fic I've been slowly chipping away at! There's a specific scene towards the end where smut happens. Is it necrophilia if they're a zombie?

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I've figured out the optimal use of my time while centrifuging samples; draw memes in my lab book

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Need to be a sculptor in hsr on Amphoreus so I can be commissioned to make busts of several important figures - such as Veritas and Aglaea - and spend embarrassingly long caressing the sculptures and looking longingly into their eyes as I create them

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a threesome with dr. ratio and mr. reca would be so funny because they'd both be rating your performance like:

"minus ten points!" and "two stars!" or "plus ten points!" and "five stars!"

bonus points if the positive "ratings" are given after you've made them cum.

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USERNAME LORE GIVE IT TO ME NOW YOU ALL

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8, 20 and 41 !

Hi o/ I hope you're well (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

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8. Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or end of a story?

In terms of writing, the middle for sure!

20. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

I think a lot of my fics carry a general feeling of the characters yearning for something but being unable to reach it (typically due to some self-imposed restriction). I've noticed that I don't have a lot of 'happy' endings either? For some reason, my brain prefers to leave things 'resolved' in the worst possible way or unchanged. As for words and expressions; there are probably patterns (I feel like there are when I write), I just haven't spotted them yet ><

41. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

I reread a lot!

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Get to know the writer because I gotta: 7/ 10/ 13/ 14

xoxo

You can always get to know this writer~

the questions

7. How do you choose which POV to write from?

Unfortunately, I don't. The POV chooses me. I will always gravitate towards writing from the character POV; I think my brain just unconsciously finds it more interesting ><

10. Cltr+f "blinks" on your WIP & copy paste the first sentence/paragraph that comes up

I tried 12 different WIPs and nothing came up 💀 Closes I can get is 'blinked'; You blinked, another broken scream, vaguely identified as originating from where you stood, shook the air. The sound had claws determined to tear apart body and sanity alike. Why was the ground ivory? Everything that had been darkness was turned to light when it slowly registered, you'd been shifted without warning. Without him.

13. What’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

I don't think it's a writing tip (and I don't really know any common ones off the top of my head) but I try to keep a mentality of "it's better to half-ass something because it's better than never doing the thing at all" combined with "you can edit a bad draft but you can't spin gold from air"

14. How do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?

This is uhhh a good question... It depends on the emotion; for anger and arguing, I'll typically write out the dialogue, stand up, and then basically 'perform' it in the mindset of the character for myself to fill in any relevant body language (theatre kid lmao). I rarely 'feel what the characters feel', typically I only do when I write for Celeste specifically - poor girl is the outlet for me to process some things. I try to put myself in the right mindset for whatever I'm writing, and that of course draws on personal experience, but I'm most often quite detached from the actual feeling (I think it says a lot that it took me a while to think of any 'emotional scenes' that I'd written...)

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Dottore as Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Reason I made this

Idea credit: @microbes-in-hats

Photo credit: Guadalupe Zavala, et al. 2020

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59, 60, and 76 for your fic Start Carving Darling please if you will bestie <3

I absolutely will! Get to know the fic writer

59. Does anyone in your personal life know you write fic? if not, would you tell anyone?

I have three people; my lovely partner who bounces ideas around with me, my dad who immediately caught on when I vaguely stated that I was 'writing some stuff' (bastard reminded me that he was the one who beta'ed my ~100 page long world of warcraft fic when I was eleven and he'd just been waiting for me to pick that hobby back up) He thinks Alhaitham is hot btw. And lastly, I have an irl friend who follows my main so she's definetly seen some of my fics lmao ><

60. Have you had a writer you admire comment on your fic? What was that like?

I have! Multiple times! Writers I admire are typically the ones who comment on my fics >< I still vividly remember posting my first ever Dottore fic and one of the two blogs I admired the most reblogged it with the comment "I'm so proud of you 💞💞💞💞" and that both gave me the courage to continue writing and has stuck with me since!

76. Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of Start Carvin' Darlin'? 

Okay so-... I wrote that fic to make a bad joke about medical malpractice. The joke made it in, but the entire scenario that I wanted to write to make the joke ended up being boiled down to maybe 15 lines of vague flashback lmao. Wrote quite a bit that I never used, still debating doing the prequel sometime.

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You're beautiful <3

You ever play Bayonette and think if this is fighting or foreplay?

I want to peg Reca so badly. Gotta get that man crying from overstimulation and still saying he'd take more to be good for mo- *censored*

Calling me beautiful is a very odd thing indeed ><

I-.. Have you???

here's Reca getting pegged and being good for mo-thman