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ST Ask: 6, 11, 49!

Disclaimer: I'll freely admit my answers will be biased in favor of TOS/possibly AOS, with occasional TAS, TNG, VOY additions. Haven't seen any of the rest other than the odd episode of DS9 and the 3rd season of Picard.

Full Ask Link for reference

Answers under the cut!

6. Character you feel a show (movie) could have done without? Ooh, interesting.

I want to avoid any appearance of sexism here, because my answer has nothing to do with gender: so don't crucify me before I'm finished. But AOS Uhura I could have done without, in the initial movie.

NOT because she's a bad character (in either TOS or AOS), or because she's played by a bad actress, because neither is anywhere close to true.

But because she was sidelined to very little purpose other than a love interest at the start, and this is not the way. I dislike when a movie or show is trying so hard to scream THESE TWO DUDES AREN'T GAY OKAY YOU CAN LET YOUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN WATCH THE MOVIE that there's inevitable collateral damage to really good, typically female, characters, in the form of poor writing. (Looking at you, Loki writing room.)

Powerful women can be powerful on their own merit, thank you very much. And if you can replace the character with one by any other name, and have it not affect the storyline that much? It's a writing problem, not an acting problem.

TLDR: Shoehorning her in as a substitute for McCoy in a totally!platonic!distortion of the TOS-era Triumvirate was not a good move, either to bring in old-school fans or to develop new ones. She deserved better, and so did we.

I like STID-era Uhura, and I adore Beyond-era Uhura. But before that, it's a toss-up for me.

/rant

11. Top 3 OTPs? I'll assume it's cheating to just give the 3 possible pairing permutations of the TOS Triumvirate, lol.

I'm definitely in the camp of "other people write sex, and much better than I would, so I'll happily stay in my little gray/gen/labels-are-overrated niche," but in that niche, my favorite relationships are:

TOS Kirk & Spock TOS McCoy & Spock Purely platonic: AOS Jim + Uhura, particularly post-STID Special mention: I have a lil soft spot for late-life relationships, so I'm going to throw movie-era Scotty/Uhura in there, just for fun.

49. A favorite ST fic? I don't tend to read much fanfiction anymore, because I have very little free time, and I try to stay well out of it (outside of specific recs by trusted people) while actively writing for a fandom, to avoid any subconscious idea-stealing.

But Loyal Unto Slaughter by Swiss Army Knife has always been a favorite of mine from the old-school ff.net days. What can I say, I'm a sucker for the five-and-one format and Shakespeare quotes.

For a longer story, The Dragons of Veyga by Closet Scrawler has always been one of my favorites. I love fics that take throwaway lines from the series and build beautiful stories from them.

This was fun, thank you for asking!

[evilsilence]

The Emergency! Fandom Intro Meme

Rules: Not much to say here! Copy-paste this into a new post (and feel free to link back to this one if you’d like) and answer the questions as you see fit if you’d like to tell the rest of the fandom a bit more about yourself. This meme is generally tag-free and open to everyone who wants to do it (but feel free to informally tag people you’d like to know more about). You can tag your reply as “#E! intro meme” if you’d like.

How’d you find this show and the fandom? How long have you been here? Yeah, so funny story, I’d known about the show as far back as 2014 or 2015. My parents used to watch it a lot when it was on MeTV but I figured it was just another cheesy old show, so I didn’t pay any attention to it. By late 2016 I decided to finally pay attention. At first I sorta just laughed at the aforementioned 70′s TV cheesiness, but after awhile I realized it wasn’t all that bad and I wanted to dig in deeper. Unfortunately, Netflix was removing E in January of 2017 which only left me around a month to watch whatever I could binge during that time, so I found an E! board and asked for episode recs. That was my first true fandom experience, and honestly, at the time I thought it was amazing that board still existed and was semi active. I figured that beyond that board there was probably no active fandom. During my month of binging those recs, I also decided to see if there happened to be any old fanfiction for the show left, of course not really expecting anything, and was shocked to see FFN wasn’t dead at all. This led to reading a ton of E fanfics before I even had a solid grasp on who the characters even were, which idk, that probably wasn’t the best idea but it WAS fun so whatever. So technically I suppose I was “in” the fandom in late 2016, but I didn’t really actively search out the fandom, beyond that board, until late 2017 (which led to a not so great experience on a certain bird app).

What made you stick around? The fanfiction, mainly. I noticed right away how this fandom loves whump, especially Johnny whump, and that really interested me (I’ve always had a thing for whump). Otherwise, besides a few bad apples, there are a lot of really great people in this fandom and I want to be part of that.

Who’s your favorite character? 1000% Johnny. He’s the sole reason I started paying attention to the show to begin with because holy shit how is he so cute???

Are you a shipping kind of person? If yes, what are your favorite ships? I LOVE shipping. Definitely Johnny x Roy and Brackett x Dixie, but I also ship Dixie x the administrator from “Foreign Trade”.

Favorite moment/scene/quote? Yes, you can pick more than one. I’d have to say my all time favorite scene / quote is in the pilot movie when Johnny tells Brackett “To hell with the orders” and shuts off the biophone. I love sassy Johnny. I also really love the scene at the end of “Rip-Off” where Johnny still thinks he hears a rattling noise coming from the squad and Roy says “Maybe it’s the loose seeds in your gourd”. Those two have a lot of great comedic moments, but that one sticks out to me for some reason.

Do you have a favorite episode? Feel free to pick one per season if you can’t decide. My absolute favorite episodes are the major Johnny whump ones. But I also love “Frequency”, because it shows Johnny all emotionally hurt and vulnerable and questioning his own mortality and ugh so good. I also like the episode “The Exam” because of the scene where Johnny admits that he doesn’t wanna have to go back to the engine if he fails the paramedic re-certification exam. I love those small moments of vulnerability from Johnny because it’s a side of him that we don’t see much. “Isolation” is also a great episode imo, just because the scenery change is nice. And “Details”, because it’s just typical Johnny to try to rush into something without all the information.

Most underrated character, either among the fandom or one the writers never utilized to their full potential? Morton, Stoker, and Marco.

One thing you’d have liked to see more (or less) of in the show? As others have said, it would’ve been nice to have seen more of Student Nurse Sharon and Nurse Carol. It also would’ve been nice to have seen more of Morton as he grew as a doctor.

Do you have a fanwork recommendation for us? Fic, art, video, whatever? @johnnys-green-pen, @hitchcock-winter, @madilayn, and @thebeatlesqueenie1212 all write greats fics. @andtheywerelegends makes good vids. Otherwise, I’ve been enjoying “Hunted” by mta797 and “Off Road” by Closet Scrawler on FFN recently.

Any fanworks you’d like to see? I know it’s definitely going to be an unpopular opinion, but I’d like to see more fics that explore darker themes. Not every story needs a happy ending or a miraculous recovery. Sometimes bad things happen, things don’t go as expected and there’s no miracle at the end of the day. I want to read more about that.

Any favorite headcanons you’d like to tell us about? Johnny being neurodivergent is probably my favorite. And definitely that Johnny and Roy have not so secret feelings for each other. I also heard a headcanon ages ago that Johnny is probaaably a virgin and I can totally see that, given the way he constantly strikes out.

Free space! Anything else you’d like to mention? I owe this show the revival of my interest in writing. Prior to 2017, when I started my first E fic, I hadn’t seriously written anything since 2010. Writing is so incredibly therapeutic for me and always has been, even when I was a kid writing dumb stories with my friends that made absolutely no sense. Back then, writing was such a big part of who I was. And to find that missing piece of myself has been everything.

[sage-nebula]

Summary: When Prince Lotor of Hyrule is born with the Triforce of Wisdom, peace across the kingdom is shattered. Soon after his nineteenth birthday, he escapes the castle to awaken the three Divine Dragons and set right what has gone wrong, accompanied by one who may well be the Hero chosen by the goddesses. [Legend of Zelda AU] [Slowburn Keitor]

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Birthright

noun

a particular right of possession or privilege one has from birth, especially as an eldest child

That was how Honerva had always understood the word. Yet as she lay there now, propped up by pillows, her newborn son cradled in the crook of her arm, she thought there must be a second definition the golden goddesses were operating under—one they subscribed to while laughing at her futile attempts to, unbeknownst to her, defy them.

She was the Queen of Hyrule, born the crown princess, who had ascended to the throne after the deaths of her parents and her marriage to the Gerudo King, Zarkon. She was the queen, and until now the most recent direct descendant of the demi-goddess Hylia. It was her destiny, her duty, to awaken the goddess’ sacred power within her. It was her privilege, her right, to inherit the Triforce of Wisdom and all that came with it. Since childhood, she had pushed and sacrificed to claim the power that was promised to her. She had prayed at every temple and spring. She had studied every ancient tome, had practiced and mastered more magical arts than any mage in the kingdom. Even her marriage—she had arranged to attend the diplomatic meeting with the King of Gerudo because she had known that he possessed the Triforce of Power. She had believed, in lieu of having any other answers or leads, that close proximity to him would awaken the Triforce of Wisdom within her. Yet the days turned to weeks, to months, to years, and the back of her hand remained as smooth and unmarked by gold as it ever had. Her magical prowess grew, but never once did she awaken divine power. Her love for her husband was not a lie; spending time around him allowed her to get to know him as a person, and the union they entered into was one of genuine love as much as it was a potential avenue for Honerva to claim what was rightfully hers. But she never lost sight of her goal. She used arcane arts to prolong their lifespans far beyond what mortals should have been able to achieve so that she would have more time to ascend to her birthright. She allowed Zarkon to manage ruling the kingdom so that she could devote more time to her studies. Even in the final trimester of her pregnancy (a pregnancy that was, by all counts, an accident and burden more than anything else), she ignored the advice of the doctors and continued to pursue her research, holding onto the belief that if she just worked a little harder, she could finally achieve what was owed to her.

Yet here she lay, propped up by pillows with sweat sticking her bangs to her forehead, staring into the too-blue eyes of her newborn son—a son whose tiny fist had borne the Triforce of Wisdom on the back of it when he was first handed to her, whose eyes shone with the divine light hers had always lacked.

The impulse to smash his head against the stone wall to her immediate left was almost overpowering. The muscles in her arms tensed, enough to make him squirm just so as he turned his eyes—his goddess-damned eyes—toward her again.

The door at the other end of the room opened. Honerva loosened her grip on the newborn as she looked up, and felt the immediate tension drain from her as Zarkon entered, flanked by two midwives.

“How is she?” Zarkon asked the moment their eyes met. “How is our—?”

“He,” Honerva corrected. Zarkon froze, and his abrupt stop caused the midwives to falter as well, looking toward him uncertainly. Honerva couldn’t say she was surprised they hadn’t told him, but cowardice being understandable didn’t make it admirable. “It’s—he’s our son.”

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[rosezemlya]

@scrawlers replied to your post “Since it seems that the Happy Mask Salesman seems to be able to cross...”

Could you explain a little bit more about his nature? MM is my 2nd favorite Zelda game (it got dethroned by BotW), so I'm curious to see your take!

I don’t have as many specifics on this yet as I do with some other aspects of the world, but it’s sort of like, in the cosmology of the RR world, you’ve got a hierarchy of magical power that goes, from highest to lowest, like:

Nayru, Farore and Din

Whole Complete Triforce

?????

Hero of Time / Seven Sages / Stronger Mages

Weaker Mages

Everyone else

This is, like, a really abstract hierarchy, and power, evidently, is contextual, but this is in the sense of, like... their D&D character sheets.  Like, who’s higher level and who has cooler spells.  And who is mostly likely to brush off whose magic, type of deal.  Stuff is more complicated on the individual and specific level (like, if Mages were a bigger thing at this point in history, Neesha, despite being at the bottom of that ranking in terms of power, would be a very effective mage-killer because she’s fast and direct and doesn’t hesitate and is hard to distract or confuse or make doubt when she’s In The Zone) and this doesn’t actually mean a WHOLE lot in context, but it gives an idea.

So the ????? level.  In that level you have the weirdo outliers, who are wild and weird and powerful, but often in very specific ways, and are hard to categorize beyond a general acknowledgement that they are more powerful in their way than the groups lower than them on the list (and categorizing them against each other in coherent groups is nearly impossible, because they’re TOO specific and contextual).  They don’t necessarily have a lot in common beyond being generally more magical than the Sages and less magical than the whole complete Triforce.  So in this group you have entities like the Wind, and the Makani, and probably Hylia from SS (whatever version of SS exists in RR!canon, which would be VERY canon non-compliant, because I put too much stuff in RR that contradicts too much stuff in SS thematically/settings-wise), and probably Demise depending on whether/how I adapted him, and the Great Fairies, and the Deku Tree, and maybe the dragons from SS, and the wind-fish from Awakening, etc..  You also have the Triforce Carriers when the Triforce is split up into its component parts.

ALSO in that group is the Happy Mask Salesman.  In the RR universe, he’s one of those entities.  This is why Link is wary of him (because Link is like a sensor for magical bullshit, and the HMS lights up like a Christmas Tree).  He has a lot of questions - like, is he like that because he’s collected those masks and it’s actually the masks that are the powerful entities?  Or was he able to collect/create those masks because he’s a powerful entity?  Or does the one only exist because of the other and they’re both required and combined into a gestalt that is the HMS (a duo instead of a trio, which is rare in this cosmology, and might be part of why he feels unbalanced when Link looks at him?)?  He just has so many questions, but also, he doesn’t want the answers.  Because if he gets the answers he might have to do something about them, and he’s pretty sure that’s not an encounter that ends well for anybody.  So he doesn’t ask and the HMS doesn’t say and they just kind of nod at each other while giving each other a wide berth as they move along the paths of their individual destinies without interacting to the extent possible.

(This is a total aside, and has nothing to do with RR canon at all because it wouldn’t work this way in the cosmology I’ve setup there, but in terms of, like, OTHER interpretations of Zelda lore it would be fun to explore, if the Fierce Deity is Termina’s Link, and Majora is Termina’s Ganon, then the HMS is almost certainly Termina’s Zelda.  He’s the one who gives Link the vague quests that place the world on his shoulders, and offers him his first real magical tools to resolve whatever conflicts and pushes him toward his final destined conflict with Majora/Ganon, and ultimately is the one who “locks up” Majora/Ganon (in the mask) when Link defeats him, etc..)

[twinkledadwa]

Twinkledad’s: The “I Got Ghosted” Episode

Today, my CoStar daily alert read like this:

“When you feel an impulse to control another person, use it as a prompt to remember that you can’t.”

Believing in the stars is kind of stupid. Rooting back in my high school naivety, though, I do believe everything happens for a reason. And if you believe in that, then what happens makes sense.

If you read this blog, I made it known there was supposed to be a Twinkledad’s interview. 

If you’re reading this now, you’ll know it fell through.

Reddit PMs are not an efficient way to book plans, first of all. Doing it two months in advanced of a tour they announced morning of is boneheaded too. I recognized how ballsy of an idea it was, given the complete lack of professionalism. I have no professional experience, and honestly, there was no real reason to do the interview. Any money or “clout” ventures are stupid. It was just to have done it.

Yesterday, we agreed to do the interview after the show (through actual DMs). I went to buy merch, and during the interaction, told the initial point of contact who I was. From what I heard (I, a single perspective), the response was:

                                            “Oh...good for you”.

And we exchanged names, which was kinda jarring. I had no idea where to build from, and ultimately didn’t. A friend and I waited until everything was shut off, gear packed, then left. We ate In N’ Out. During the time spent waiting, we delved into conversation that was in the moment. No talks of the future, only discussion that could have existed then.

I couldn’t have had a better finish to the night.

The common response is to fling shit at the walls when your favorite DIY twinkle-emo band doesn’t give you attention, and try to move forces against them. This situation feels inline to being ghosted by/ghosting a romantic interest. 

 I could have handled what led up to it much better. Perspectives differ. They’re a touring band, they don’t owe anything to me as just a fan. Anybody’s selfish, specifically mine in this case, shouldn’t matter to any other but yourself. Not even that statement right there. The night became less of holding onto that sliver of hope and more enjoying where I was at. 

I discovered this band through a person whom my opinion of shouldn’t affect them, and vice versa. It’s nice to know how it has come full circle, ending with a 10 inch, a fleeting experience, and a shirt I’m still going to wear to brunch tomorrow. (EDIT: i also just remembered he didn’t give me my change back for the merch, which i was okay with at the time, but yeah that is kind of dodgy)

However, questions were sent in, and they don’t deserve to be ignored. Here are my answers, and you can imagine some quirky banter if everything went differently.

Dear Twinkledad,

Given everything I just said above, what music recommendations would you give?

Anonymous.

“So I’m leaving...

  voooOOiiiiCCeeeemaaaiiiiiillllsssss”

Cloud District - Hamster Camp

Bug Bath - Unique Experience

Jawbreaker - Boxcar

Algae Bloom - Thornes

Kississippi - Cut Yr Teeth

Dear Twinkledad,

Things recently ended with a person I had been seeing. I hurt them, didn’t communicate my feelings properly, and I feel like garbage for it. I leave the continent for 5 months in a few weeks, and I want to reach out before I leave, but I also want to give her space? Should I wait and see if she reaches out? I’m a dumb stupid idiot.

Dumb, Stupid Idiot.

Dumb, Stupid Idiot,

This is tough. Even through a small paragraph, I could sense a lot of regret. And usually, waiting until they, as the offended party, responds is a smart move, but the continental move complicates it.

If you have genuine sorrow, please reach out as soon as what’s reasonable. The time you’ll be gone will impact how she approaches it, and five months is a lot of time to sit on a negative feeling like that. If you’re in the position of having hurt someone, extending that hand once your heart feels the need to is important. Also, inferring the situation, you’re probably the one who would need to apologize (not a bad thing! we all are in this spot, one way or another!)

Hopefully this helped. I truly do wish you the best.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Nashville Parthenon

Stars Hollow - As You Were Before.

Frail Body - Old Friends

Hightide Hotel - A Soft Subtle Sound

Dear Twinkledad,

how do I find interesting things to do for my last semester of high school? everything feels like too much work to start and everyone else seems too busy to hangout.

Anonymous.

Anonymous,

I was in a similar position Senior year. When you get into college, those troubles will get infinitely better. It’s practically a boiling pot for activity.

For the time being, try relying on your impulses. Stupid, yes, but if you want to experience youth to its fullest, this is how. Interesting things to do lies within the “schizophrenia” (spacy, uneven rhythm in life) of what surrounds you. There is no purpose to try too hard for something. Let it happen, only focus on how your heart beats, and not an ideal nature your mind is trying to create.

Vandalism, finger painting, walks, kratom, anything and everything.

Cow tipping?

Yes.

It sounds like you’re left to nothing but to fuck around for the time you have left. Make it worth it. Hopefully that helped!

Laura Stevenson - Master of Art

Total Downer - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright

For Your Health - Second Aid Kit

Sleep Kit - Je Ne Sais Pas, Aue

Dear Twinkledad,

I am interested in a girl but I'm unsure we are compatible. I always run into her at skramz shows so I know we at least some musical taste overlap but the only other thing I know about her is that she works a blue collar job while I am a white collar professional. I am unsure if it's worth pursuing further knowing that I would rather be with someone that has a similar lifestyle to me. How should I proceed?  

-Business Casual at the Skramz Gig.

Business Casual at the Skramz Gig,

I feel like the point of a crush (opposed to having actual feelings for someone) is to know someone better. It straddles the line between romantic interest and want of general companionship. Our human want is to interact with other humans, and arguably, become more human in the process. Even if she doesn’t check the boxes to your “goals”, there’s a wealth of opportunity there to get to know someone possibly rad. 

Go for it! Skramz is a good starting point. You can’t be an NPC forever. I wish you good luck!

Dianacrawls - Rollercoasting Simulation

Senza - Sentience

Portrayal of Guilt - Among Friends

Shin Guard - Cross Country

Dear Twinkledad,

ask the emo bands how to get gamer girls to step on my face

Anonymous.

Anonymous,

this question makes everything your fault.

Wellspring - Quiver

ORTHODOXXER - IBLOCKEDHIMFROMMYFINSTAINAFITOFRAGE (TIK TOK ANTHEM)

oswald;octopus - montreal is where guys wear nail polish but not condoms (never meant pt. 2 i’m going to beat the fucking shit out of mike kinsella)

SCRAWLERS - 7/11

POSED OUT - THRASHACHUSETTS

friends from home - casket made of stone

god bless gilgamesh - i look for feathers in the rains from heaven, i find mostly piss

Clairo - Bags

[cantfakethecake]

scrawlers replied to your post: Current reasons I’m hype to get my own place:...

Is Jersey okay with cats? Or would you not take him with you? (Also please let nothing have happened to Jersey.)

Jersey’s okay! <3 Sorry for causing concern - I’m trying stay vague and cut back on sharing in-depth life details these days because of what I do for a living (and also because Healthy Social Media Boundaries. Those are nice). I think talking about my dog/living situation is probably chill, though? More details (and dog pics) behind the cut!

Don’t be tricked by the happy face. He was mid-tantrum because my dad was cooking something with beef and he was SO offended that, 1. He hadn’t been given any, and 2. I had the NERVE to try to play with him during a very dramatic barking session.

(Also, ignore the awful pic quality. After 4 years my phone’s starting to give out on me.)

Short answer: We’re all good here! :)

Long answer: Jersey just turned 14 1/2, and I’m staying with my parents for as long as he’s around. We all know it’s a temporary thing, but for the moment his quality of life is pretty decent for his age! His only real heath issue is that he’s had arthritis for ages, which was exacerbated last year after he tore his ACL. He was on restricted movement for 10 weeks post-op, which reduced the muscle tone in his hips pretty dramatically. He has the ability to build it back up, but he’s also stubborn af and refuses to walk more than 2-3 yards when we take him out (or the same distance at the park) unless he’s bribed with a high-value treat.

I do try to work with him, but at the end of the day? He’s a nosy old man who loves to sit in the front yard and watch our neighbors walk by. It’s a frustrating balance to walk between, “It’ll be easier for you to move in the future if you exercise a little bit now,” and “I don’t know how long you’re going to be around to enjoy moving around, so how about we just enjoy this specific moment and laze around in the yard together?” I’m not sure if I’ll ever know that I’m hitting that balance just right, but I hope we can get through the last weeks-or-months-or-years of his life with plenty of joy and minimal regrets.

In the meanwhile, we’re making tweaks to make his life easier (runners on the wood floors as he has a hard time pulling himself into a sitting/standing position without traction, dog bed downstairs because he struggles with the stairs these days). He’s also spoiled beyond belief, because he’s old and wonderful and how could you NOT?

Also? Getting a bike trailer’s helped! We have an actual dog bike trailer on the way right now, but I picked one up for kids on the cheap to be sure he would actually like it before I sunk Bougie Dog Gear money into it! I take him to a park he likes and he eventually gets pissed that he’s not getting to explore it himself. Sniffs around a bit, walks a while, and gets put back in the trailer when he’s done.He likes walking SO much more when it’s his choice! ;)

Moving out with him is out of the question because he’s my parents’ dog as much as he is mine, and he’s never lived anywhere but here. At his age, and knowing he’s anxious by default, it just wouldn’t be kind to move out with him. (Also, my parents love him to death and would never go for it in a million years!) We have a good set-up and division of responsibilities between the three of us, much more than I could manage on my own. (Also-also, he gets stressed and barky as heck when any of us are away for more than a few days. I’m sad to report that he’s an extrovert like me, and gets anxious if he spends too long with just one of us. :P)

I’m starting to look at apartments with the thought that if he’s still doing well several months out, I might at least get my own place and split some time between here and there. Without sharing too many details, there’s an apartment I’m looking at that’s still several months out from being ready, but I’d know my neighbors very well (always a perk) and it’s something I’m planning/budgeting for. And at the end of the day? I’m 28, and I don’t know how comfortable I am with putting living independently on hold for another few years if he’s ends up being some unicorn spaniel that lives to 16+. I know he’s well-cared for at home, and that he’s okay with spending evenings after work with just my parents.

A cat is very much on the “eventually someday” list for after I get an apartment, settle in, and spend a little time adjusting to keeping myself alive while living solo. It’s also fun to daydream about right now, because Future Apartment is a great escapist fantasy when I’m going stir crazy living and working in close quarters with my parents. For now? It’s all Jersey, all the time, for as long as he’s happy and comfortable and okay with that!

[yume-x-hanabi]

A, B, L, W, Z any fandoms, first off the top of your head? And if you've already answered some of these, maybe add onto them? like the 5 characters one, just do 5 more? haha

A - Your current OTP

Need this even be asked? XD GaiWin of course!

B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind

Talked about it in the past, but @scrawlers really got me on board Jumilla. And Keitor, too, tbh, even though I’m not in Voltron fandom. Aaaand Yuugi/Jounouchi while we’re at it. … Scrawlers pls stop influencing my shipping jk pls keep doing it

Also I now very much ship @trs-linitaa‘s OC and look forward to new drawings of them :3

And lastly, you’ve converted me to Jude/Milla/Alvin, at least in the context of your fics XD

L - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for

Taurus-time Gaius/Wingul. I love that time period so much because there’s a lot you can do with it.

Otherwise, any kind of Chimeriad fluff, really. I love them and want to see more of them.

W - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms

Tales: Gaius

NatsuYuu: Natsume

Gunshi Kanbee: Kanbee

Bad Thief Good Thief: So-joo

San-X: Jinbei-san

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go

I’m loving all the fandom activities currently being planned, like Tales of Femslash Week and the Big Bang. They’re perfect occasions to get back into creative stuff, and I love to see people doing stuff for the fandom. I’d like to run such an event for Xillia one day…

(Ask meme)

[somegiantmess]

Rules: Tag 20 people you wanna know better.

Tagged by: @scrawlers​

Name: TRS.

Gender: Female.

Age: 27.

Height: About 5′45″.

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw. I think I understand a bit more why since the day you mentionned that in Ravenclaw, people are more interested about/believe in facts and truth? I think I’m like that at my core, even if it’s also a pain. =P And I must actually try to care less.

Favorite Animal: Cats! I’ve just always lived with them and they’re adorable.

Average Hours of Sleep: Pretty random lately. Between 5 and 9 hours a night.

Cats or Dogs: Answered before. =P Cats. Dogs are cute too, I’ve just never lived with one so I’m less comfortable with them. But funny/cute videos about them are enjoyable to watch.

Dream Trip: Lots of them. Right now I’ll say some paradise island or the salt deserts in Bolivia, the ones where you see gorgeous starry skies and the milky way and you can also have their reflection on the desert all around you.

Dream Job: None. =) Ok I’ll say it clearly now, even if I was/(am) shameful about it since I’m a teen. Dream life is not having to work. I don’t mean having a luxury life, just being comfortable with money enough to live and then being free to do whatever I want when I want. Having all the time and all the energy for me, and for being with close people if I want; to enjoy my hobbies and even try some more of them (like learning more seriously sewing, or some traditional arts, or even piano), to have a good health by exercising and sleeping as I should. I’d love to travel more often too, tho that involves lots of money. But with a reasonable income it’d be possible to save for that and do it at times. Yeah. A dream.

Tagging: Whoever wants to do it! /lazy

[severalbakuras]

survey thing           

i think this is under a cut, the edit post function isn’t giving me any indication that it is though. so sorry if this post is super long.

edit it’s not aaaaaa

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know.

Tagged by @scrawlers

Relationship Status:

single af

Favorite Color:

you want me to pick one wtf? all reds, all purples, warm browns

Lipstick or Chapstick:

chapstick

Last Song:

that sia song from the MLP movie it’s p. good.

Last Movie:

some christmas movie about a reindeer that isn’t rudolph. he’s prancer’s estranged son and not used to his mother marrying some other deer and getting a stepbrother and he gets kidnapped by eagles led by a white wolf who hates santa because he killed her brother i think and the main deer teams up with some loner deer to save his brother and also he can casually fly.

i think it’s a sequel to some other movie bc there’s got to be a reason prancer and forgettable mum deer divorced. for how cheap it looked the backgrounds were surprisingly nice.

my baby cousins loved it so what i think of it doesn’t really matter lel

Top 3 Shows:

khhhh i don’t watch many tv shows tbh

revolutionary girl utena (+ movie)

yugioh

voltron legendary defender (subject to change in the future if i get bored)

Top 3 Ships:

i’m shamelessly copying scrawlers here to describe my ships lelel

Top 3 Romantic Ships:

keitor - keith/lotor (VLD) - ok so like this ship murdered me it came the fuck out of nowhere about midway through S3 and at the time i was like ‘welp cracky trash ship for me! there’s always one!!’ but then it suddenly Wasn’t around the time S4 came out and it’s not even close to canon but tbh when has that fucking stopped me see the next ship on this list lmaoo

garrosh/jaina (WoW) - canonically, absolutely fucking not because he’s dead and was incredibly shitty, but in AUs? my god i want all the AUs. give them to me. what happened to that one ‘boar and lioness’ rp blog i need it. the aesthetic of this ship slays me every time and there’s so much POTENTIAL.

tidus and yuna (FFX) - LISTEN. listen. ffx was both my first FF game and my first RPG. it was my third videogame after pokemon and spyro. i had literally never seen this kind of thing before. little eleven year old me was so invested in these two that when they kissed i was sobbing. ‘suteki da ne’ still kicks me in the heart as does pretty much every song on the ost. i will defend every awkward translation or dialogue to the death. (and i will call him ‘teedus’ the day i say ‘jif’) (THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND THE OCEAN AKA CHANGING TIDES AKA TIDE-US FUCK YOU)

Top 3 Familial Ships:

magdeline and biggs (WoW) - ocs are cool right. anyway. both undead. both worgen. magdeline is the literal official deathlord of acherus. biggs is... not. he’s huge but he’s incredibly clumsy. they met when he failed miserably on his assignment during the destruction of the scarlet enclave and magdeline ended up rescuing him. she took him under her wing to save him from razuvious after being inspired by thassarian and koltira and they’ve stuck together ever since. in cata and with the return of gilneas to the alliance (sort of) biggs managed to track down his still living family but was soundly rejected. so did magdeline, who was only able to find her sister. biggs sort of wonders if magdeline would’ve kept him around if mackoire had accepted magdeline. the answer is absolutely. mackoire might be her older sister but biggs is magdeline’s little brother.

kolivan and keith (vld) - kolivan is doing his damn well best to keep keith alive the finale of S4 was not kolivan’s fault. just getting that out of the way. but yeah anyway. i live for keith getting a father figure alongside shiro (like the fact that kolivan is introduced and he and keith can connect before shiro vanishes is one of my favourite things because kolivan isn’t filling a void he’s just helping keith explore a new piece of his identity). and i live for kolivan taking a personal interest in the newest recruit and accompanying him on missions and by god just tell him about his mother if she was a blade already ;;;;;;;;

farkas and the dragonborn ‘diego’ (skyrim) - oc again. i’m pretty sure that farkas is everyone’s bro in skyrim but fuck it he’s diego’s bro the most. she want ballistic when his other brothers and sisters in arms insulted him and brawled them into submission, when they’d barely known each other a day and he wasn’t even in earshot at the time. she cured his lycanthropy without question, securing his soul a place in sovngarde. she trusts him to protect her beloved wife and children and home. he was her first friend in whiterun and she’ll never forget that.

Top 3 Human & Animal Companion (Platonic Soulmate) Ships:

valcia and eleanor (wow) - ocs again lol can’t stop won’t stop. eleanor the white devilsaur is valcia the blood elf’s most trusted companion, from pretty much the beginning. when valcia came of age just prior to the rediscovery of pandaria she made her way down to un’goro crater, surviving one of the fiercest jungles on azeroth as a sort of ‘skip the frying pan let’s jump into the volcano’ thing. there she found eleanor, trapped in a tar pit. initially she considered putting the poor thing out of her misery, but there was something in those bright eyes that made her put the bow away and use what little magic she knew (and rope) to pull the devilsaur free. she expected her to run away or try to attack once the tar had been cleaned off and she recovered her strength, but neither happened. instead, she just followed valcia around the entire crater, not too close but never too far away. one night her sleep was interrupted by vile chittering and silithid carapaces being crushed. when she investigated she found the devilsaur trying to fend them off - the two of them fought at each other’s side until daybreak and all of the bugs were dead. valcia treated the devilsaur’s wounds and after that they were inseparable. she’s loyally battled alongside valcia against gods, demons and everything in between, she’s crossed dimensions, planets, even timelines alongside her with little to ask in return except a chin rub and maybe a nice kodo haunch. it’s eleanor’s judgement of someone that matters most to valcia and she’s the only family valcia needs. i love them i could write more but that’s getting into nitty gritty wow lore lel.

i actually can’t think of any that i’m as emotionally invested in as these two lol so i’ll leave it at that

Tagging anyone who wants to do this lol

[cloudstation]

scrawlers replied to your post: @ anyone who wants to answer this: what was the...

TRAGIC KINGDOM IS SUCH A GOOD ALBUM THO, MY ALL-TIME FAVE NO DOUBT SONG IS ON THAT ONE

what song?? that album has so many good tunes

[mywaywardcupcake]

Have you gotten Jonouchi for the ask meme yet? :3

I have now!!! Yay!!! I need a reason to talk about my boy!

How I feel about this character: He is my son. I will fight for him, protect him, and praise him like crazy lol. No seriously, he is my favorite character of all time. From any fandom I have been in or is currently in. I think he is amazing. He’s funny, he’s strong, he’s protective, he’s someone who I would love to have as a best friend. I could go on and on about him, seriously I mean I HAVE in the past on why I love him (to silly amounts that I had to stop myself because there could’ve been more). So, let’s move on, shall we?

All the people I ship romantically with this character:  Everyone. Well, I mean it is damn near everyone. Off the top of my head of characters I have read fanfiction before with them and Jou are: Kaiba (of course), Yugi (again of course), Mai, Ryou, Honda, Marik, Valon (I’ve also read ones with Anzu, Atem, and Otogi too. I just don’t usually ship those three with him). Also, I forgot who it was, but someone I followed brought up what about Bakura (Dark Bakura or even TKB) and their ideas about them were really good and made me want to ship that too. And then I’ve noticed a rise in Jou with Rex ever since the duel links thing, and that’s kind of cute too. I am very Joucentric, so a lot of my stuff revolves around him. 

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Honda Hiroto!!!! All the way!!! I love these two together! They have been my Brotp from the beginning. Their bromance is just so beautiful. I also love him with Atem also! I just usually think of Honda first when it comes to Jou. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My unpopular opinion about this character: I heard that Jounouchi has an eight pack. I heard that he is shredded! lol I honestly never know how to answer this question. Like what would be an unpopular opinion of Jou? Lemme Think……well I guess this kinda verges into HC territory but I don’t see Jounouchi being ready for a relationship until he’s in his later 20s? Like its quite obvious in canon that he doesn’t show any type of interest in that sort of thing (Honda had Miho that he really liked, Yugi had Anzu, Anzu had Atem?, etc.). Jounouchi mostly just acted like a pervert but never really showed that he actually cared about anything like that. Sooooooo does this count? Probably not. At least I tried.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: THAT HE FINISHED HIS DUEL AND BEAT MARIK AND WON THE WINGED DRAGON OF RA!!!!! AAAGHH!!! I’m sorry, but this is like the one thing that will drive me crazy forever. Jounouchi WON that duel! He won! That card should’ve been his! Like, they could’ve still had him die momentarily, after he finished the call or something, but that card should’ve been his. Like, I believe it was scrawlers? That had a good idea to get it to still go with Atem facing Marik in the finals (dead men can’t duel) but, they should’ve showed Jounouchi actually finishing that call. 

my OTP: Now that my heart has made up its mind, it is Wishshipping! For awhile there is was tied with Violetshipping. That one had been my OTP since day one (16 years), when I was 10 and had no idea what the hell shipping was but I knew I loved it. I was actually shocked Wishshipping won! I just fell head over heels in love with Wish. Like, its so perfect, to me anyway! I will ship it as platonic too and totally get why people ship it platonically! But, there is just something so good about it. The person you should spend the rest of your life with should be your best friend! A person who would fight for you, that you would fight for, someone you can trust with your whole heart. Someone you can laugh with, cry with, and someone that when you see them its like everything is brighter and clearer because you are so happy to see them! I just really REALLY love this ship.

my cross over ship: I don’t actually have one! I usually never think about crossovers for ships too much! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

a headcanon fact: The wording on this one kinda cracks me up because a headcanon and a fact aren’t usually the same thing lol. But one of my headcanons for Jounouchi is that he can sing. Its not something he does a whole lot, but he used to sing to Shizuka when they were little kids. And sometimes when him and Yugi are alone he’ll sing a little or he’ll sing while cleaning and he thinks he’s alone.

[actuallyredeyes]

Tagged by @you-gi-hoe

Rules: answer the questions in a new post and tag blogs you would like to get to know better

Nickname: Red

Star Sign: Aries

Height: 4′11″

Time right now: 10:22 pm

Last thing i googled: Primarina; I’ve been trying to draw this one

Fave music artist: Kamelot probably?

Song stuck in my head: Skillet’s Battle Cry 

Last movie i watched: Star Wars Rogue One

Last tv show watched: ATLA, as is predictable of me lately

What are you wearing right now: pajamas with anchorman quotes

When did you create your blog: two years ago probably, though I had an older blog i don’t use anymore

What kind of stuff do i post: Yugioh, video games, movie stuff, and commentary

Do i have any other blogs: my old abandoned blog and an ATLA sideblog

Why did i choose my url: Red Eyes tho. My favorite monster (and a dragon) of all time; no further explanation is needed.

Gender: Female

Hogwarts house: Slytherin

Pokemon team: Go Team: Valor; Actual Team: Houndoom (my pure baby who deserves all the love in the world!), Shiny Charizard, Pidgeot, Lycanroc (midday), Umbreon, Suicune (my one legendary the only one i care about)

Favorite color: red

Average hours of sleep: 5-7 

Favorite character(s): YGO: Yugi Mutou, Fire Emblem: Ike, ATLA: Sokka, Gravity Falls: Stan Pines, Dragon Age: Aveline, Mass Effect: Wrex

How many blankets do i sleep with: 2

Dream job: Writing books  

Following: 91

Followers: 452

Tagging: @mediocre-at-bestt, @llttledipper, @tofukitten, @theyugiohtrashcan, @scrawlers, @ginrou, if you want

[sage-nebula]

Hello scrawlers! I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how did you come to the conclusion that you’re an INFP and not an ISFP? It’s ok if you don’t feel like answering.

I had written down the results I took from one test (which were ISFP) a long time ago because I was always forgetting what my results were and needed to double-check. When I made my new layout and wanted to put it in my bio, I realized that I’d remembered what I’d written incorrectly (I had been thinking of myself as INFP for years) and decided to look up a description of ISFP. While it didn’t seem completely wrong, it also didn’t feel completely right, so I took the test on the site again and it scored me as an INFP. I looked at the description of INFP and realized that fit better than ISFP did.

[rosezemlya]

Hi again, I'm the anon that asked the question about the Master Sword and I'd like to echo Scrawlers's appreciation. I've asked a few questions before in the past and the answers you give are just the absolute best. Thank you so much for taking the time to not only respond but to do so in such an entertaining way. If you're up for another question, I recently picked up Link's Awakening and it got me thinking. How would RR!Link handle being stranded on Koholint Island? (1/2)

How would he deal with knowing that the whole island and its inhabitants have to vanish for him to escape? (2/2)

Aww, thank you!

So full disclosure, I have only played Link’s Awakening once, and that was back in the early nineties when it first came out.  So my memory of it could generously be described as hazy.

Having said that, RR!Link would handle being shipwrecked and stuck on an unfamiliar island about as well as he handled being out of Hyrule just before Reconciliations, or stuck in Termina in Majora’s Mask, which is to say: Not well.  Much anger.  Very growl.

I’m trying to remember if I liked the characters in that one, or if they all went into a box with Rauru and the Deku Tree in my head.  I think I liked the main lady (Marin), based on the fact that I remember her name and vague impressions of who I thought she was.  So she’d probably get to be his friend during that whole time.

I think the spin I would put on the end isn’t necessarily that its inhabitants have to vanish for him to escape, it’s that they never existed in the first place, and he has to deal with that.  By the time he gets to the end, he’d have relationships with them, opinions of them, and he’ll have memories of them after he leaves.  He wouldn’t necessarily feel guilt over “killing” them, but he’d feel betrayed by the universe for having faked him out like that.  Now he has to grieve them, but they aren’t real, so that’s a whole mental clusterfuck for him.  

Also, this isn’t the first time he’s been through something adjacent to this - he ALSO had relationships with people in the time between waking up as an adult in OOT and Zelda changing time at the end of the game.  While those PEOPLE are real and mostly still exist, the memories he has of them didn’t happen.  Those people don’t remember them.  Those relationships, in the shape and form and state they were in, don’t exist.  But he remembers them as though they do, and he feels things when he speaks to those people that are real to him and confusing for everyone else because the relationship those feelings are based on doesn’t exist anymore.  Also, some of those people don’t exist anymore, because some of them are dead.  They died and Link never met them in this timeline, they never knew him, he wasn’t a part of their lives, but they’re still a part of his.  And that’s a complicated grief to navigate.  At least with the others he can take steps to reestablish the lost relationships, but sometimes that’s just not possible.  There are also people who aren’t the same people as they were when he met them and established a relationship with them.  Changing time changed everything.  Not everyone followed the same paths, made the same decisions, became the same person they were in the lost timeline.  So there are people who WERE friends, but who will never BE friends now (maybe they’re in a better place now, maybe they’re in a worse one, who knows) because they aren’t the same person Link was friends with anymore.  Their life went differently and so THEY are different.

So him losing that whole island of people at the end is a mirror image of that pain all over again.  So if I were to fic it, if Majora’s Mask is Link processing his own PTSD, Link’s Awakening would be Link processing his grief over the loss of those seven years and everyone and everything within them.  Learning to accept it and move on.  Learning to forgive them for being different or absent now, for forgetting him when he can’t forget them, learning to forgive Zelda, maybe, because what’s done is done and sometimes it can’t be about what WOULD have been the right thing to do, and has to be about the fact that the only way forward is forward.

Also, probably I’d stick Zelda on that ship with him and they can get shipwrecked together and they can work through that fight as part of the plot’s unravelling.  And then Zelda can deal with her own side of that whole equation, which is not insignificant.  That grief I described for Link is ALSO her grief, except where Link lost let’s-call-it-a-year, since he was asleep in the Sacred Realm for seven years, Zelda lost that whole not-quite-a-decade.  She lost a childhood where she grew up as Impa’s actual daughter-son.  She lost all the relationships she made in that time too, and unlike Link she cannot reclaim them, because they were made when she wasn’t a Princess or a Queen, and her own context is changed by it.  She can’t travel all around Hyrule reaching out and re-establishing connections.  And then that gets into some interesting questions for her around how she feels about that, and how much of that she was ready for when she did what she did, and how that affected her decision one way or another.  Her decision was nuanced, and there are elements lurking in the shadows around her justification that she’s not really dealing with, and sticking her on a make-believe dream island with Link would force the issue.

Also, sorry, that was a tangent and I’m not sure if I answered your question, but if not let me know and I’ll try again, LoL.

[cantfakethecake]

I was tagged by @scrawlers to fill out a quick ask meme. Thank you so much!

Name: Betsy

Nickname: Betsy’s technically a nickname, but you won’t catch me answering to “Elizabeth” anytime soon. Other than that, it’s mostly Bee, Bets or Cake. (That said, @needlessdefiance settled on “Buttsy” and I’ve never loved a nickname more.)

Star Sign: Cancer. Sort of. Leo? It depends on whether you care about NASA’s update a few years back. When it comes to zodiac meme posts, I just pick whichever of the two suits me best.

Sexual Orientation: Demisexual lesbian

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Favorite Color: Anything bright and warm. Orange, red, pink, yellow, and bright blues, mostly.

Favorite Animal: Dogs; no contest. Bonus picture of my actual perfect dog from over 11 years ago, feat. Horrifying Middle School Betsy:

Favorite Fictional Character(s): Oh, god. How about...Vex from Critical Role, Commander Shepard from Mass Effect, Merrill from Dragon Age, Sophie from Saga, and GLaDOS from Portal?

Number of Blankets you Sleep With: Three. A sheet, a duvet (I’m 25 years old and still have to stop myself from calling it a marshmallow blanket), and a quilt. It’s getting close to the point where I narrow it down to just a sheet and quilt for the summer, though.

Favorite Band/Artist: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Dream Job: Something that pays enough to live on, while also not sending me into an ADHD burnout spiral? I’m really trying not to be defeatist about it, but I have a hard time thinking beyond that part.

When was your blog created: September 2012.

Follower Count: 126

Reason for making your blog: A friend told me to give it a try! I had no idea what to do with a blog (I never had a Livejournal), but it ended up being an easy way to keep up with a few long-distance friends outside of Facebook. Then I fell into Bioware Hell, made more friends than I’ve ever had in my life, and kind of fell in love with this shitty blue site.

I’ll tag: @blondepomeranian, @alistairswaifu, @bronwinning, @klickitats, @dragginage, @acequeenking, @truck-shepard, @renagerie, @needlessdefiance and @soleminisanction. No pressure, obviously, but if you’d like to do this then be my guest!

[yume-x-hanabi]

Tag meme

@scrawlers tagged anyone who wants to do it, and I want to do it :3

Name: Yume

Star Sign: Aquarius

Height: 162cm

Age: 29

Favorite Color(s): PINK PINKER PINKISTOOOO. Also blue (especially cyan, especially for clothes).

Time Right Now: 10:11 AM

Last Thing I Googled: “death note light up the new world”

Favorite Fictional Character: SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM. Let’s go with precious Natsume.

Dream Trip: Japan. Esp Kyushu atm. I’d also like to do a tour of all the places relevant to Kuroda Kanbee. Aaand visit ALL castles.

Dream Job: Pilot. But that’s never gonna happen. Next would be drama/anime translator, which could happen if I actually got down to writing those cover letters. Also I’d love to get at the stage where I’m no longer an newbie teacher and actually know what I’m doing.

What I’m Wearing Right Now: PJ’s

Follower Count: 322

Posts: 4,093

Why Did You Make Your Blog: I was told Tumblr was a good place to post my translations so they would reach more people. Sadly I haven’t translated much in a while, and I’m not on Tumblr as much anymore, but my blog is sort of like my online “home” now.

Do You Get Asks on a Daily Basis: No. I’m also bad at answering in a timely fashion woops.

Why Did You Choose Your URL: That’s a username I’ve been using for a looooong time, it’s like a second name at this point. Comes from this song.

Countries You’ve Lived In: Belgium, Guinea, UK, Japan.

Languages You Speak: French (mother tongue), English (fluent), Japanese (fluent), German (intermediate but I suck at speaking), Dutch (beginner)

Favorite Film: I haven’t watched many movies, as I rarely go to the cinema and watch TV series (usually anime/J-Drama/K-Drama) instead. I really loved Fantastic Beasts tho.

Last Thing I Bought Online: Pizza. I reaaaaaally should stop ordering junk food online.

A Recurring Dream: I sometimes dream about still being in school and needing to pass exams -_-

Phobias/Fears: Heights. Not in every situation - I have no problem as long as I have something stable under my feet (so like those glass floors? no worries). But stuff like the dreaded climbing walls they forced us to climb in PE class? I’ll get stuck one meter above the ground and cry, unable to move. Fuck those things. Also driving. Still haven’t tried to get my license orz

How Would My Friends Describe Me: idk, how would you describe me?

If I had $$$ to spend what would I buy first: A plane. That way I’ll be able to travel around the world whenever I want x3

I tag: Whoever wants to do it.