#[ ok im going to type up actual prose now ]

[quietbluejay]

Dark Imperium #1

guess who's back back again

so okay i really liked this trilogy first time i read it, you know, chewing on the furniture in a good way type of deal so i'm hoping it'll hold up

okay so let's start out with DEATH OF A PRIMARCH so the whole thing starts by going on about how human minds just can't grasp the size of space and reality, especially if you add in the warp etc etc I'm pondering, whither this somewhat-flowery prologue why did Haley choose this way to introduce his book? honestly, I got nothing right now

this is what it segues into btw yeah i'm remembering how i didn't like this opening blah blah two fleets are fighting hey wait okay let's look at this

right from the beginning, we're doing this, huh right from the beginning, Haley is drawing an equivalence between them

anyways the narration goes on to talk about the space marines

yeah this is continuing to not pull punches again i am wondering why people say Haley unironically thinks the Imperium is the good guys etc etc even a giant void battle that seems all consuming is nothing compared to the death of stars, etc etc

"care how they are spent" nugatory that's a new one

dangit, haley, why'd you make me eat my words and now it's time for our narrator to judge Fulgrim's decoration abilities

narrator: even though Guilliman's ship had more gold on it, it was still in better taste than Fulgrim's "an affront to decency"

Fulgrim and the EC managed to outmaneuvre Guilliman and turn a rout into a trap [4:40 PM] I feel like when your whole thing is being plan guy, and the guy who just wants to go back to Margaritaville and who has quit fights before because they're boring regardless of the strategic consequences outmaneuvres you, that you should take a good hard look at yourself and also not compound the mistake by being a leeroy narration: Once, Guilliman wouldn't have made such an error

narration: he's at his freakin limit

i thought that was the funniest way to phrase that sentiment, in case you are wondering

I'm not really a fan of the style of the beginning, tbh i don't think haley can really pull off this style it just feels kind of obnoxious ah! it's like what thorpe did except thorpe did it for the entire book it's basically writing prose as if it was game fluff like if this was game fluff i'd say it was great

THIEL THIEL BBY ITS BEEN SO LONG Guilliman is going out in the armour of reason, which sounds like something a redditor from 2011 would make up and with Captain Andos and Thiel who is a captain now i do especially remember this section and how Guilliman and Thiel are written felt pretty jarring after Know No Fear and I was complaining about ooc thiel he's got more sass than this but you know what i'm gonna let it go as a different writers thing ok back to the story as per usual when a primarch shows up, there's the obligatory simping annnd also im just gonna let it go as a "this is guilliman's pov of thiel"

guilliman sadly thinks about how the new kids look so reverently at him and like dude thiel isn't one of those but like "thiel" and "modest" don't really go together anyways, i'm letting it go, i say

Andos is concerned-

yeah cmon man

andos: this is a bad idea guilliman: have you considered that IM BITING FULGRIM BITING HIM BITING HIM BITING HIM

oh, so he did actually put a little thought into it she said, throwing aside a large rock

okay but like the defenders have the advantage guilliman, bro

etc etc "he would not let his sons pay the price for his mistakes" well well well let's see what happens next like yeah okay guilliman is being stupid here but once again fulgrim is proving that he got smarter after he went full chaos

guilliman has weird experiences when being teleported

they're back to reality though it's not a very pleasant reality lol, there's a brief summary of the weird and horrifying places and things Guilliman fought in the heresy oh huh i thought it was going to say Fulgrim's ship was worse but it just says it's "of a similar ilk"

as we all know guilliman's special talent is microsoft excel yes that's relevant here it gets a brief mention

symbolism it's also lmao Haley took the whole thing about painting with bodily fluids and ran with it and was like "yeah everything is covered in mold" oh, hey, it's Corvo, I remember that name Novamarine dude (all the chapter masters are checking in with guilliman as they're fighting) Guilliman remember the last time he was on this ship and feels sad okay time to for real go into the main room everyone: it's a trap! guilliman: exactly! thiel: he could kill you guilliman: yeah i know thiel: dude i'm worried that the reason you want to do this is not entirely practical guilliman: what do you mean? thiel: pride goes before a fall guilliman: pshaw don't worry about it guilliman: anyways if i can't kill fulgrim in single combat i'll call you guys all in

and the chapter ends on guilliman walking into the room and yes this prologue has at least 3 chapters

Guilliman enters the Heliopolis which is full of bones and smells like "smoke and stale musk" grudgingly, i have to admit that at least some of Haley's style here is doing it for me even if i know he can do better

it's once again creepily silent and empty meanwhile he's getting the updates on his helmet

also we get informed that Fulgrim always kinda sounded needy but now it's the main tone of his voice "a poison masquerading as confidence" Fulgrim twits Guilliman about breaking up the legions which is an interesting first choice

Guilliman: I got honoured Fulgrim: nah, that was me Guilliman: anyways I'm a winner because I was slow and steady whereas you raced ahead into damnation Fulgrim: yeah actually I'm saved Guilliman: for fuck's sake and he gets a good look at Fulgrim

Fulgrim: yeah look what MY god did for me, a much better god than Emps Guilliman: the Emperor isn't a god yeah we really are getting a chunk of the high points of the trilogy established here

Fulgrim gets up in Guilliman's space enough for "his hot perfumed breath to caress guilliman's face" and either he's got really strong breath or - actually wait how does this work isn't he a giant snake is he leaning down to talk to guilliman like a child Fulgrim: join me Fulgrim: waggles eyebrows Fulgrim: aren't you tired of being nice Fulgrim: don't you just want to go ape shit Guilliman: nope, you got tricked Fulgrim: no, it's YOU who were tricked Guilliman: no YOU you can tell they're siblings Fulgrim twits him about loyalty and being more loyal to his little domain than anything else Fulgrim: oh yeah and how much of that is left after Angron and Lorgar? lmao Guilliman: bite bite kill kill kill Fulgrim: well that's convenient because i'm here to kill you as well

oh yeah Fulgrim revealed that the whole thing was a giant trap not just this but them showing up in the first place

as usual i'm not going to cover the fight scene Guilliman almost immediately calls in Thiel and Andos and then Fulgrim one-ups him by having a whole bunch of Emperor's Children hanging out silently in the room Fulgrim's evil sword cuts into Guilliman's armour and Guilliman somehow feels it "a spicy agony" ah, so, allergic reaction Guilliman manages to break the sword, which gets Fulgrim mad

meanwhile there's a ferocious battle going on between Guilliman's troops and the EC, and his side is rather outnumbered

Fulgrim is by this point pissed off with Guilliman he comes over and yanks off his helmet Guilliman gets a whiff and gags Fulgrim: pathetic is this foreshadowing for the mortarion confrontation yes, not even i am immune to making mortarion stinky jokes

Fulgrim aimed for where Kor Phaeron got Guilliman with the athame

guilliman collapses meanwhile the Ultramarines rush in to save him

:D Andos is panicking and uhhh i thought the whole point of making Space Marines not feel fear was to avoid this kind of thing??

that's a great bit "his armour caught on the corpses of his sons" he hears a voice and can't place if it's Thiel or not, and once again thinks about how many Ultramarines died to save him they teleport him out

and realizes he's dying for real and that Andos was right and he starts to panic about what's going to happen to the Imperium without him

and that ends the prologue!

[nicegaai]

im attempting my fic reread today. im announcing this bc i will be liveblogging to keep my morale up, NOT THAT anyone cares but i personally need this, like ill only commit to do the thing if theres an imaginary audience holding me accountable. & i like to have fun :3

anyway. captains log, its a beautiful sunny july weekend. i just finished my morning coffee, and, i am dreading this so much. i dont like rereading my own writing but i shall get over it. ok here we go.

Þetta Reddast vagueblogged directors commentary edition

Ch 1:

*opens fic and starts convulsing immediately* god i wish i smoked weed rn. i cannot chill out ever for the life of me

My Mission For Today Is: to remember what plot threads I’ve left hanging so I can resolve this story properly. And also try n remember where the flow is going. I have the end plotted out, I just am a little lost … it’s been a while :-(

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Abrupt beginning!!!! I’m not mad because I have . I HAD. Almost no writing experience when I started this. it isn’t ideal but I refuse to be one of those fanfic writers that starts rewriting early chapters without finishing the last ones. Ive never seen one of those types actually finish a longfic. …I’d already rather yap than actually read LMAO AHH

Oh this is worse than I remember. thats cool that s great ok alright *coughs up blood*

"20 somethings" WOW I really did not know where I was going with this when I started huh

LKJSDLKSJDLGKGDJSLDGJK ??? Who authorized this. Who let me cook. What the hell

I could write this better now. I could edit this into something beautiful. <- devil on my shoulder

FORGOT I WAS MAKING RICE BRB

"generously offered nothing to the exchange." wait STOPPPP. I’m so funny

GRAMMAR ERROR DETECTED why is there two periods. I’ll be coming back to fix that …………………. :-(((

Fuck. This is a lot. Marge Simpson Hiding Her Face dot Png

Oh this is stupid this is gayyy this is fukcinnn . Who fucking did t his. What was wrong with me,. This is so good actually. what was i ONNNN. 

Im gonna throw up and I don’t know if thats like/. A complimentary thing or if im just cringing that hard . Im feeling emotions. I love my OTPs..OT3~5? I love them so so much

Ok as much as im like “eww bad writing” this is .. dare I say, rly good in places. Not to suck my own dick but maybe all hope isnt lost and imposter syndrome is an illusion

Grammar mistake #2. Goddddddd. they should ban me from the archive for this

EMILLLLL EMIL EMIL EMIL HIIIIII BABYYYY EMILLL I LOVE UUUU AWWHUUGHH everyone clap for my bewoved baby bruvver right FUCKING now

Urghhh gritting my teeth… Im fully expecting the flow of events to start not making any gd sense. There’s no way this came together the way I hoped in my head and .... For real I was never able to read this all the way thru. this is my first time, lol. and it was all disjointed on the authorial end to say the least. Im scared T-T

Jlxjvklsdkjfsjlkdkjlsjklkljzsdkjlgaskljdgjklasljkgdljkasljkdgjklasjlkdgljkaskljdgjakl?????????? 

Im not liking the ratio of dialogue to whatever the other stuff is. scene-setting I guess. prose maybe. i could have dragged this out way longer... By which I mean made it a more satisfying read. But WHATEVER !!!! 

TIMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIMOOOOOOOOOO NUMERO UNOOOO DO MUNDOOOOOO I really need to utilize him more. As soon as I finish this fic I need to write a Timo POV spinoff where he gets cancelled on furry twitter for proshipping in real life

Hmmmm chapter ending didn’t hit as hard in practice as it did in drafts. Oh well. God damn that was a lot to happen in one chapter LMAOO???

OH SHIT MY RICE IS STILL COOKING —— 

[palemoonsdv]

Chapter 1

A/N - i realize i write prose as if im going to translate it all into a comic later, which is a valid thing that might happen, so im ok with that. as always, comments are appreciated!

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"Come to the tower in Cindersap forest. I may have a solution to your 'rat problem.'"

The letter, in strange blue letterhead, sat crinkled in her pocket as Quinn hiked through the woods. Things kept getting stranger and stranger in this town, and here she'd been thinking she was going to be the oddest thing about the place. Little apple-like creatures lived in the old run down community center, and somehow this person knew Lewis' exact words despite no one else being in the room.

Well, it was better than there actually being a rat problem. Quinn was antsy around rodents. Small orbs with teeny little arms were easier to handle.

The woods were gorgeous, only getting more picturesque the further she went, despite some of the overgrowth she had to chop through. It was almost 11, the sun not quite reaching its zenith, and lush green of all shades surrounded her. The shade from the trees kept her cool, and the birds chirping lulled her like a song.

Finally she came upon the tower (she had gotten only a little bit lost), staring up at its rough stone exterior, vines growing up the side like fingers. She gathered her resolve to knock on the door, but it opened before she even made it all the way up the front steps.

"I've been waiting for you," said the gruff older man holding the door. His purple hair and dour features were shaded by a dark hat. "Hurry up and come in."

She followed, entering the cool darkness of the tower. Immediately the scent of something strong invaded her nostrils, making her grimace. Was that burning hair? Or maybe decaying grass? Quinn resisted the urge to put a hand over her nose.

"How did you know I was here?" she asked.

"You've been tramping through the forest for the past hour. How could I not know?" he said, not answering her question. He had moved to a giant bubbling cauldron taking up a huge portion of the room, fiddling with the equally large stirring spoon.

"Well, I'm Quinn," she said, sticking out her hand automatically.

He just stared at her outstretched hand until she lowered it. "Rasmodius," he offered finally, as if he was irritated at being interrupted for something so trivial.

"You saw something in the old community center, didn't you?"

She nodded. "Yeah, something small and brightly colored. It looked a little like a candy apple with arms."

He made a sound like a harrumph. "Well they're certainly not apples. They're Junimos. Creatures of the forest, a type of spirit. They don't usually show themselves to humans."

"Can they write?"

He looked at her inscrutably. "You saw their writing?"

She shrugged. "I'm not sure, it looked a lot like scribbles. But one of them was basically leading me to it."

Rasmodius looked deep in thought for a moment. "I think I have something that can help you," he said finally, beckoning her closer. He pulled a cup from somewhere as she drew nearer, taking a scoop of the liquid. The foul smell had grown stronger the closer she got to the cauldron.

Quinn's expression squinched in trepidation as it dawned on her what she was supposed to do. "I'm not gonna drink that,' she protested, raising her hands as if to ward him off.

"It won't hurt you," he said, sounding almost offended. "It's the essence of the forest. It will help you commune with the spirits of nature."

"I'm pretty sure a blunt could do the same thing," Quinn bit back, "But fine. But you have to answer something for me first."

There was a silent moment, until the wizard waved a hand for her to continue. Unsure exactly how to word what she needed to ask, she just went for it.

"Can you break my curse?"

Now there was a real silence, one that lasted far longer, as Rasmodius really took a look at her for the first time since she'd entered the tower.

"I knew something was odd about you. Explain."

Immediately regretting it, Quinn pursed her lips.

"I - I'm not…," she began, "Not sure how to explain. I ran into a wild animal a few months ago, and now.. " she couldn't look him in the face as she spoke. She hadn't told anyone about this yet. What about this stranger she had just met made her want to spill her guts?

But if there was any chance this wizard knew anything about her "condition," any chance of a cure -

"I don't have what you're looking for, farmer." It was his turn to look away now. Her shoulders slumped.

"I can look into it for you, though." He walked over to his bookshelf, filled with tome after tome, some bound in what looked like blackened skin,

"How often does it ail you?"

"About once a month." she glanced down at her watch. "It'll probably happen in a couple hours, actually."

Rasmodius looked up sharply, snapping shut the book he had picked up. "You need to find a place to turn - "

"I do," she said quickly. "I've decided to go into the mines at nightfall."

"Good. These woods aren't large enough for you to rampage around in, at least not without getting noticed."

"Yeah, I figured. I've already gotten fairly deep in the mines. I'll make sure I'm alone, too."

As if she hadn't been constantly thinking about this since she'd gotten bit. As if this had not permeated every waking moment, hovered in her mind during every conversation, sent a chill down her spine at every new person she met. She was a ticking time bomb, and tonight was the end of this month's countdown.

"There's really nothing you can do?" she asked wearily.

He sighed, shaking his head. "Not at the moment. I will have to commune with the spirits for this matter."

He gestured at the cup she was still holding, forgotten in her hands. "Speaking of which, that's what you should do now."

She frowned, but gulped the brew down in one go. It tasted a tiny bit better than it smelled, but that was an easy bar to pass. She gagged a little as it went down.

The mirage began slowly, sneaking up on her as she waited for something to happen. Twinges of green settled in her vision, until all she could see was a twirling haze of trees and dancing Junimos. She swayed, putting a hand down on the edge of the cauldron, barely registering the heat on her palm, or how Rasmodius exclaimed and pulled her away. He sat her down on a stool.

"This one might be more trouble than she's worth," he muttered to himself.

She sat with her head between her knees for a few moments longer as the effect wore off. Groggy, she sat up and stared the wizard down again.

"You won't tell anyone, right?"

He scoffed. "And who would I tell, hmm? I don't exactly have teatime with the citizens of Pelican town, you know."

Quinn kept staring. "That's not an answer."

"Fine. I won't tell anyone." He gruffly helped her up from the stool, propelling her towards the door. "Now go, get yourself prepared for tonight. I don't want to see you waltzing around these woods in your other form."

She laughed dryly. "Got it. Thanks for everything, I guess." How getting her high was supposed to help, she wasn't sure.

The heavy door shut behind her with a thud.

—-

It had been a few days since Elliott had made his way into the woods. The morning's attempt at writing had been just as lousy as his breakfast, so he took off into the west, hoping maybe to meet with Leah. She always knew where to find some nice berries, or at least something edible - though if she expected him to try dandelion salad again she would have to come to her senses. Half of their friendship was just him good naturedly trying whatever hippy dippy recipe she had come across.

Except it wasn't Leah that he met today - instead it was Quinn, exiting the trees just as he got to the bend in the river.

"Hello," he called out, and she jumped.

"I didn't see you there," she laughed, clutching at her chest. Her eyes crinkled in genuine humor as she smiled at him.

"Sorry, didn't mean to startle you."

Something was different about Quinn today, something he couldn't quite put his finger on. Was her grayish pink hair falling out of its braids more? Or was it the points of her canines, which were quite prominent in her smile? Whatever it was, she was disheveled from hanging about the woods.

"What have you been up to today?"

Her smile faltered a moment. "Oh, I was just visiting the wizard."

Elliott had heard there was a wizard in the woods, but he'd been half certain the townspeople were just playing a trick on him as the new guy. "Really? What's he like?"

"A little rude, actually," she replied. "But I think he means well."

"And why did you have to go see the wizard?"

She really froze this time, biting her lip. "I'm not sure you'd believe me if I told you," she said finally.

"Try me," he said, doing his best to look trustworthy.

Quinn stared at him for a long moment, her blue eyes boring into him. Finally, she tucked a strand of loose hair behind her ear.

"There's some spirits in the old community center," she said, "so he gave me a potion to 'commune' with them."

"Really?"

"Yep. but it was more like I was just tripping balls, honestly," she admitted. He laughed.

"So you go to a strange man's house and drink a potion of unknown origin? You are surely more adventurous than I am," he said, shaking his head with a grin.

She got a little defensive now. "He wrote me a letter saying that he could help."

"Oh, he wrote you a letter?" His grin was still lingering. "So if I wrote you a letter, would you come to my house and drink some strange potion?"

She exhaled through her nose, putting up with his teasing. "Maybe if you asked nicely," she replied blithely.

Elliott's mind caught up with his mouth then - had it sounded like he was asking her out? He hadn't meant it that way. But it looked like she hadn't caught the double entendre either - in fact it looked like her mind was elsewhere at the moment.

He noticed the basket at her hip.

"What's this?"

"Oh," she said, pulling it up between them. It was full of plants she'd picked up on her hike to the wizard tower. She reached in and pulled out a vibrant daffodil.

"Here." she offered it to him. He was unsuccessful at hiding his distaste. A memory of the time he had eaten one without knowing it was toxic resurfaced. He had been sick for days. Blasted Leah and her salads.

She caught the look on his face, instantly lowering the flower. "Sorry, you don't have to -"

"No, I'll take it," he said, somewhat despite himself. "I won't say no to a gift."

"I'll have to give you something better later," Quinn said, looking embarrassed. The tinge of pink on her round face was quite fetching, he could admit.

"I'll look forward to it, then."

She smiled again, and something in his chest squeezed. Did he have indigestion? He would have to see if Pierre's had any antacids.

Quinn glanced at her watch, and suddenly her face shifted from that small shy smile to a pale grimace. "Sorry, I have to go. I'll see you later!"

They exchanged somewhat awkward goodbyes, and Elliott watched her nearly sprint off to the north, back towards the farm. What could have caused her to abscond in such a hurry? Had she left the oven on?

What an odd girl.

—-

The mines were cool and quiet, welcoming Quinn as she entered. And she had made it just in time, too. She was prepared this month - a chest sat near the elevator with a change of clothes, a meal for afterwards, and plenty of water. She set her pack down inside it as well.

She had a few minutes until the sun set. Quickly, entered the elevator and picked a location a few levels down, deep enough that no one should bother her, but not so deep she wouldn't be able to handle the monsters. Ten levels down should be good.

Unable to make herself fully strip naked inside the mines, she simply accepted that this pair of old shorts and a faded and somewhat stained college t shirt would have to be sacrificed for the sake of her modesty (oh Yoba, had Elliott seen the bleach spots on it earlier?). These clothes would be shredded by the transformation in a few moments.

She stepped out of the elevator and into the mine proper. Already she could feel her senses becoming sharper, but with it came the pain.

Teeth elongated, nails burst from her fingers into claws, bones broke and rearranged themselves. Fur burst from every pore, its hue matching her hair. She leaned against the wall as her limbs shifted. Her vision went gray, scents became distinct. And just like the past transformations, her body began to feel very far away. Like in a nightmare, she couldn't get her body to respond how she wanted. Pleas for her muscles to move went unheard, and instead the animal instinct took over.

She was no longer Quinn, she was the wolf. And the wolf wanted one thing - to hunt.

[sparkys-ec-corner]

Can you lease enlighten me as to why you ship Amomiche and why you love Amostia so much? Since Amostia is given very little screen time if you will and barely characterized at all it's difficult for me to see why you ship them so much and why you love Amostia so much. Or is it partially because your a hardcore Len x Miku shipper? You can ship whatever you want ofc I just am curious as to what led you to ship it and stuff. Plus I'm more of a Gumi x Gammon shipper (#NemesisxNyozeForLIFE!!!) who barely ships Miku or Len or Rin with anybody and when I do ship them it's more often Miku x Rin (I'm trash for girlxgirl ok) sooo. And yes that goes for in Evillious as well I barely ship any of the Mikus with anybody (minus Michaela x Clarith) and same goes for any of the Lens. So oof

dw!! i understand your points and im aware of how unusual it is for me to love a character like amostia and ship something so unexpected like amomiche (i already apologize since this is long,,, oops,,,)

i would be lying if i said that the fact im a diehard lenmiku shipper didnt affect my decision in bringing amomiche into existence, but it's mostly due to this specific extensive au that serves as amostia's characterization arc and the hcs involving both amostia and michelle.

as for why i love amostia, it's because i thought he was a character with a lot of potential that was shoved to the side as a simple plot device + i was incredibly salty over why amostia is the only irregular who doesnt appear in motheavenly novel at all. since ma was given some characterization that culminated in her "i'm going to destroy the universe to confirm my existence" goal at the end of the novel, i wondered, "what about the Punishment boy? doesnt he get a chance to appear since he's an irregular too? where is he?"

heck, even irregular in scap short story gets a personality, however extremely barebones and single-minded it is, and he's called a boy without an ego since he died right after being born. despite this, he still had the desire of meet his mother.

around 2018, i began writing what would be amostia's backstory because i thought he deserved one. he deserved a personality. he deserved to be cared about. i was ready from the start to be that one weirdo who likes an obscure character no one cares about (i never finished that fic, btw. my hcs changed overtime and my prose back then was kinda ew, so i deleted it)

i never intended to love him as much as i do now. i just wanted to give him a personality and a backstory, but the more i thought about what might had happened to him in lunaca labora and during his time as Punishment the weapon and what would be his personality, the more i wished him to be seen as a person rather than "the weapon nemesis used to blow up the world".

i joined an ec discord server for no other reason but to find other fans, and rather hesitantly shared my hcs of him and fanart in the channels. as i said before, i knew it was weird for me to be attached to a character no one cared about, but i nevertheless persisted on.

before i knew, i was changing everybody's perception of amostia, turning him from a simple plot device into an actual character to the eyes of the fandom.

to be honest, i still do not believe how much everything has changed all thanks to me, only because i cared enough to share what i thought of him. i didnt... expect my hcs to be received so warmly. i made him starkly different from your typical ec len — he's angry, explosive and rude; nothing like the dimwitted and enthusiastically chaotic hansel, much less like the loyal and stoic allen — but maybe the fact he was so different was why people liked him so much. he's like a bright red dot on a canvas of soft colors. im really happy that people liked and accepted my hcs, even after Outlaw & Lychgate was published.

as for amomiche, here's where the extensive au comes in — before Outlaw & Lychgate was published, i had a thought that amostia wandered around the dead world before being found by meta and pretty much adopted by her. this characterization arc of his is meant to be a "coming to age" type of story, exploring his past and making him learn how to be a better person — an actual person with dreams and purpose instead of a weapon merely to be used by others.

initially, i intended michelle to be amostia's friend since they both have a link through nemesis. they would kinda bond through that since michelle wanted to know a bit about nemesis despite amostia himself not knowing much, after amostia finding michelle lost in a snowy night and bringing her back home.

one time, i received a m/a ask in amostia askblog about "len" and "miku" being a couple for some asks. since michelle was the closest "miku" to amostia, i obviously were to bring her in. tbh i was already slightly struggling with keeping them as friends since i found them to be really sweet together and my dumb lenmiku ass bothering tf outta me, and that m/a broke me definitely. i gave in. (although i took a time to answer the m/a itself, admittedly. by the time i answered it, i was already doodling some amomiche stuff)

again, i was ready to be seen as weird, to be the only person in the entire fandom to ship them together. i never hid the fact it is a crackship. i knew i would possibly be cast out as lenmiku trash for it. regardless, i kept doodling them and talking about them simply because i liked them (hell, they stay as friends for a long time in the au before romantic feelings blossom. sue me for liking friends-to-lovers trope with a self-improvement undertone)

and then, my surprise when it was accepted by the fandom despite its status as crackship. gosh, even people who arent into evillious had doodled amomiche!! someone who was into ec actually thought it was canon!! and was saddened to discover that it wasnt because they thought it was really sweet!! and they didnt even ship lenmiku normally!! i swear this still makes me die inside, seriously 😂

so you can say it's a combination of everything that eventually brought amomiche into existence, including my own love for amostia. i dont blame anyone for being confused with it since amostia as a character is so underdeveloped in canon and amomiche is a crackship. it's okay, really. im just vibing here. im not here looking for validation for them nor am i hoping for official crumbs.

all of this is self-indulgent, simply because i want amostia to be more popular, even if slightly. amostia will never become as popular as hansel or allen, im aware, but as long as someone appreciates him as a person, then i think my job is done here. all i want is people to appreciate him. if someone comes to like amomiche too, then it also makes me extremely happy! if someone likes amostia but not amomiche, that's fine too! i don't mind different hcs. if one respects my own, then i respect theirs.

so. yeah. it might not make sense to some people, but that's basically it. i am but a humble artist doodling stuff for a character who she wants to give the happiness and the characterization he didnt get in canon. if someone likes them, then im happy!! 💖

[ayzrules]

10 Signs That You’re in an Ayz Novel/Project/Writing Collab/Rp/~Thing~

tagged by @homesteadchronicles​ <3! tysm for tagging me - i love these things!!!

1. SILK & STEEL MOTIFS - [ mai, rowena, camila (ish), all of proper young killing machines! ] ever since i was 14-15 and obsessing over book!sansa / book!margaery, and only enhanced by my gail carriger phase. maybe it has to do with the fact that i’m too lazy to ever get into a physical fight myself? LMAO but i love writing snakey political girls who don’t really do ~fighty~ stuff but absolutely are plotting something and will manipulate/backstab their way to getting it. and ofc they hide all of that behind perfect manners & designer gowns & high heels ;D. normally about working with the system & bending it to their advantage for w/e reason (revenge is pretty common lol), not necessarily destroying the system & making something new/better. which segues into:

2. ICE QUEEN TROPES - [ izzy, mari, yinmei ] i first started writing these girls as a direct foil to #1; i would say characters in both of these categories are just as ruthless as each other, but #2 are more obvious/overt about it and v v v blunt. instead of working with & manipulating the system, these girls tend to be the type to just break it apart with a sledgehammer, hahahha. sub-category/spinoff being the too-old/tired-for-your-shit-so-pls-fuck-off kind of vibe ;DDD

3. THE VERY MEAN VERY TERRIBLE GIRL W QUESTIONABLE MORALS IS A MAIN POV AND ALSO MY FAVORITE AND NO I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE - [ tess + camila, kyvana, tselvya aka the murder princess trio of lay them to rest ] ummmmm no excuse except i might be not 100% straight lmfaoooooooo. i just can’t resist ruthless amoral girls in flouncy ruffles & floral frocks ok next (!)

4. TREE-HUGGING SHIT / POETRY IN NATURE - [ verdínqa, dulcifera, of daisies & ddt, a bit of run devil run ] i’m an envi sci nerd & study something similar w my degree program so no surprise :D ever since high school i’ve been into subverting the light = life & darkness = death trope, just after learning about shit like eutrophication & hypoxic waters etc where growth/a surplus actually leads to death, and sort of the belief that death in nature isn’t inherently bad for the entire system (ecocentric holism & alla’ that). and also a point that’s been driven home countless times by lectures, talks, books, webinars, what have you - the earth as just a planet will be fine even w all the anthropogenic shit going on, it’s humans who will be fucked. so that makes its way into my work a ton!

5. REINCARNATED QUEEN BEES -  [ jenny, chae ] idk there’s just something so iconic about that aesthetic. zombie girls in chanel & luisa beccaria ya feel. the absolute vanity/arrogance/haughtiness of your typical hs movie rich bitch TM meets oh shit im not really alive and also eating brains is gross (i once googled human brain nutrition facts. quora saved a girl but also my search history is wack lmfao)..... yea! :kermitdab:

6. DITZY PINK SIDEKICK WHO IS ACTUALLY PRETTY BOOKSMART - [ steph, lea, lyra ] to (sort of) go with above, i like writing the bubbly girly girls who can throw front tucks and scorpions and double arabians like nobody’s business but also aren’t your stereotypical ‘dumb cheerleader’ trope; they’re just thought of as ditzy because of how nice/sweet/outgoing they are. also 3/4 times they drive crusty mom vans. yes this is me projecting my own driving experience no i will not change

7. SARCASTIC IDIOT MEME QUEENS - [ chrissy, inferna/vicky, angie ] always obsessed with memes, usually obsessed with food/sbux, kpop, or both. these girls are fun to write bc it’s like, 2 brain cells and they’re all devoted to simping for girl groups or copping free food deals (yes i make them all blackpink fans yes i am basic no i do not accept criticism) which is just #same. usually tend to be pretty scathing & hotheaded, also with a bit of a too-tired-for-this-pls-fuck-off energy ;D and that’s highkey my entire internal dialogue so like..... :kermitdab:

8. GLITTER + GORE / MURDER PRINCESSES - [ robot unicorn attack & its spinoff ‘rua: guts & glory’, proper young killing machines, lay them to rest, this new hyper-girly pokemon yugioh-esque collab w loml <333 ] traditionally “”””””””girly/feminine”””””””” aesthetics meets murder/other very dangerous activities you should not try at home! 

9. FACETIOUS REFERENCES TO RL - [ gem quest, robot unicorn attack, lay them to rest, other things im prob forgetting ] basically i’m super facetious and also a clown and i like to poke fun at stupid things in my own life hahahah. gem quest is very modern meme culture meets high fantasy fairyland (& it was a collab with fanfan! so literally just my aes meets hers ;DDDDD) in the way i wrote it (references to twilight, phineas & ferb, kpop, other memes in the fairytale setting basically); robot unicorn attack is allllll about that petty celeb drama (just with a glitzy cyberpunk backdrop & also unicorns) LMAOOO & it does have tons of similarities to the kpop industry! & lay them to rest - aka murder princess aesthetic heaven - has me pulling out shit like ‘picstagram’ and ‘versacci’ (versace + gucci lol i’m so lame). one of the murder-y girls is a social media influencer/beauty guru. yeah!!

& last but not least-

10. MORE AESTHETIC THAN PLOT - [ insert everything i’ve ever written ] look i can NEVER come up with coherent plot lines WHATSOEVER but at least my pinterest is popping & my prose is all overly detailed descriptions of dresses & flowers LOL

tagging: @bebemoon @vampirkaninchen @morningstar1399 @now-on-elissastillstands @atimefordragons @tudorgirl @lend-your-lungs-to-me @bulletgirl @unholieds @artless-whimsy @interluxetumbra @clarienanaberry << sorry i cant splel ur writeblr @n-eusex + anyone who sees this & wants to do it!!! <3 <3 <3

[transarchivist]

do you have any podcasts recs? I want to listen to archive 81 but I need some backup and I've already listened to the more "famous" ones, like all of them I binge podcasts like they pay me for me it ajsjjshfje

!!!! ok i'm sorry it's taken me a hot minute to get to you BUT i think i have a good amount of reccomendations :o

these first few are kinda "famous" but i thought i'd point em out just in case! some of them ended a few years ago and they were more well known back when they were running

wolf 359: gotta point this one out juuuust in case you haven't listened to it! amazing sci fi... would drama be the right word? it's very intense and has some really interesting meditations on morality and the self But it's also so extremely funny. complete, ended in 2017

ars paradoxica: america during the cold war, the red scare, intense government conspiracies.... And Time Travel! complicated but amazing plot and a big cast- i would recommend not pausing and listening to something else, it gets complex! mischa stanton directed it so you Know it has stellar sound design (added bonus: lgbt main characters) complete, ended in 2018

the bright sessions: people with superpowers go to therapy! plus: shadowy capitalistic conspiracies, amazing romances and phenomenal character development! i'm not a fan of romances and i Loved the ones here (it's not heavily romance focused though!) (added bonus: lgbt main characters + main lgbt romance) complete, ended in 2018. i think a spin off series is running rn tho!

the adventure zone: this isn't an audio drama, it's an actual play d&d podcast! the first season (balance) is amazing- hilarious and heart wrenching! (the heart wrenching takes a while to kick in but MAN it's so good) the first season ended in 2017. i haven't finished the second big season (amnesty) but i loved what i did listen to, same with the currently running season (graduation)

sayer: starts off as sinister night vale but with an ai and in space, evolves into a complicated save-the-world plot concerning several ais. it's in second person and it's Amazing! lots of meditations on the self and personhood. currently on hiatus but will be ending when it resumes

alice isn't dead: from the people who did night vale! starts as a trucker trying to find her wife, evolves to include shadowy government conspiracies and the power of regular people banding together. ending made me tear up it's really good! it's Big on the horror (the first ep is the only podcast that's ever truly scared me and it continues to scare the shit out of me to this day) but its Extremely Good Horror. very americana too! complete, ended in 2018.

ok that's the more well known ones out of the way, i think? i'm not too confident about how well known some of them are nowadays ^^' all i can say is that i heard abt them frequently in 2016. now onto the lesser known ones ! the ones that are complete are generally pretty short listens (relatively- they're still a good handful of hours at the least)

zero hours: by the wolf 359 people, it's a short anthology that released all at once last year. to pharaphrase/quote the official blurb: each episode is a take on the end of the world, whether the apocalypse is planetary or personal. each episode is separated by 99 years, starting in the past (1722) reaching the present and then overtaking it. surprisingly hopeful ending, made me <:')

i am in eskew: you've probably heard me holler about this before- it follows the trials and tribulations of david ward, who lives in the nightmarish and otherworldly city of eskew. 30 episodes long and complete, with a phenomenal ending! i can't rave about this enough i could Keep talking but i'll cut myself short. it's horror and it's damn good horror! does deal with extremely heavy topics, please be careful!

janus descending: sci fi horror with what has to be the most interesting formatting i've seen in ages: the two points of view alternate each episode... but one is chronological and one is backwards! amazingly done, keeps you guessing until the end! complete. follows peter and chel as they undertake a survey mission on an alien planet

midnight radio: made by @/theradioghost! big on the idea that "all ghost stories are love stories". a 1950s radio hostess gets letters from a fan. horror, big on the 1950s aesthetics, focus on the relationship between one and one's hometown. lovely ending! it's sapphic too :]

the far meridian: by the same people who did ars paradoxica! follows peri, a bit of a hermit who has extreme social anxiety, who lives in a lighthouse that suddenly begins to teleport. each morning peri wakes up and the lighthouse is in a different place! there are like... some horror elements? kinda? but it's not intense imo. it mainly follows peri learning to cope with her anxiety & helping others, with each episode usually having a one off encounter (usually pretty strange!) often has wholesome vibes. s3 is currently in production and is the final season. plus: lgbt characters, and kinda spoilers but peri uses a cane later on!

old gods of appalachia: honestly it's what it says on the tin! a collection of short stories set in historical appalachia that deal with entities beyond human understanding. they're good about trigger warnings, but it's Horror. produced by actual appalachians! stellar music, a Lot strong female characters, and a good amount of lgbt rep! killer music!! it's currently releasing but the latest short story is finished. (do listen in order though!)

the deep vault: by the archive 81 team! in an "almost-post-apocalyptic" america a group of friends chase a rumor about a secret hidden vault, only to Find it! follows the group as they traverse the deep vault. horror, actively points out capitalism a Lot, definetly has an interesting ending! amazing sound design, which is to be expected from dan powell!

tides: the official blurb is short and sweet: "tides is the story of dr. winnifred eurus, a xenobiologist stuck on an unfamiliar planet with hostile tidal forces". extremely snarky and endearing main character and fascinating worldbuilding! i don't know the status of s2, but s1 was really good!

limetown: follows one lia haddock, a public radio reporter, as she tries to unravel the mystery of what happened at limetown. all she knows is that 10 years prior, over 300 men, women and children vanished. horror, mystery, and some sci fi elements. presented in a found footage kinda way. i really enjoyed it, especially the first season. complete.

mabel: horror (big on the haunted house type specifically), sapphic romance, fun take on the fair folk/fae! follows anna limon, an in home carer who's trying to get in touch with her client's estranged granddaughter. evolves into a big fae-horror-romance-thing! really interesting romance tbh. amazing imagery and prose- lots of prose + almost poetry, but it's really good i promise. currently on a post season hiatus

spines: horror but it evolves past just horror in an interesting way (keeping the horror bits, of course). follows wren, who woke up in an attic surrounded by the remains of a cult ritual without any memories of who she is or what she was doing. she searches for answers, encountering creepy shit along the way. really interesting take on the super-secret-organization-that's-always-been-there trope! really good ending. one of the main characters is nonbinary + there's other lgbt main characters.

mirrors: by the people who did spines. also starts as horror but evolves past just horror (it's also sci fi). follows three women in three different centuries who are all experiencing the same haunting. phenomenal take on ghosts! like i can't articulate how cool this angle on ghosts is! s3 is supposed to start this year :] one of the main characters is sapphic, and her wife is a supporting character.

the six disappearances of ella mccray: also by the people who did spines and mirrors. evolves past just horror but keeps more of the horror elements? follows the 6 povs of the people who witnessed the surreal disappearance of ella mccray. each saw something different and surreal, and as they search for her, surreal things start happening to them. unsure abt the status of s3 but s1 and s2 are really good! lgbt main characters, including a trans lesbian (played by a trans woman!)

the bridge: horror. follows the crew of watchtower 10 on the transcontinental bridge that spans across the atlantic ocean. i listened to it back in like 2016-2017 so my memory is hazy, but i remember really enjoying it! currently on hiatus.

within the wires: sci fi... horror..? i listened to the first season a few years ago and enjoyed it and i've continued to hear really good things. it's by the people who make night vale! my memory isn't great but iirc the first season is a sort of romance that's formatted as a set of relaxation/meditation cassettes. it's a few seasons in and i think each is generally self contained, im unsure if it's currently running or not

the orbiting human circus of the air: also by the night vale people! again i listened to this a few years ago so im hazy. follows julian the janitor who works at a radio station that broadcasts from the top of the eiffel tower! surreal but in a wholesome way, iirc! i remember tearing up with happy tears at the s1 finale ^^' really good music! i think the second(?) season ended recently

stellar firma: i've only listened to a handful of episodes, but i've liked what i've heard. sci fi improv comedy that follows the newly made clone david 7 and the mess that is trexel geistman as they try and design custom planets. i think it's currently running but i dunno

rusty quill gaming: also another one that i've only listened to a few episodes of. actual play pathfinder (basically d&d) podcast set on an alternate earth. alex newall (martin's voice actor) is the dm. i've heard really good things from a lot of people! i think it's currently running but again i don't know for sure

right! that's. that's what i got.

i mentioned @/theradioghost earlier (shes behind midnight radio) but i would absolutely recommend looking at her rec list tag! she has impeccable taste

[inklingofadream]

I'm constantly impressed by how quickly you manage to write while also juggling class work, how do you do that?

(Also good luck with class this semester!! <3)

so i think part of it is prolly that writing’s always come easy to me, and its the Gifted Kid™ trait that’s stuck with me into adulthood, so when I actually sit down to Do The Writing it goes p fast and is usually decent enough that it needs minimal edits. like, most of my Terrible Baby Writing got out of my system in my embarrassing elementary school endeavors (and then everything was great forever, she says, shoving the earliest stuff on her ao3 under the rug). i’m always writing, either fic or original stuff or journalling or for school- my major is a double in english and history, arugably the writingest possible majors.

the second thing is that i’ve been high key hyperfixated on tma for over a year, and fixation fuels the writing machine

a lot of what could be called ~writing process~ seems to go quickly bc its worked into my day- probably 80-90% of my non-prompt plot ideas are things i came up with having not-quite-woken-up just before my alarm or as i’m falling to sleep, and that’s when i’m most successful at coming up with plot solutions. that’s also when i tend to come up with Great prose, but i almost never remember to write it down 😔

on the class end, honestly... at this point some of it is the deliberate decision to Step Off and be ok with not-stellar grades. especially for professors i dislike or think are unreasonable lol, i have one with this INSANELY complicated contract grading system, whose A would require more reading and writing than my history capstone and the class that’s half grad students combined, so i’m just Gonna Have A B in that class. I’m also very very good at getting either other class work or fic stuff (or whatever i was hyperfixating on, i did take my whole bobbin lace rig to class more than once) done during class. Back In The Day, this meant having a writing notebook in with my class notebooks, and pulling up assignment briefs just before class started, jotting down the deets, and starting it on my note paper- in college no one cares, but even k-12 teachers never catch this one because it just looks like you were writing notes, the only time i’ve ever gotten told to put that away is when it’s obviously a worksheet. now, in the After Times, this has escalated to pulling up my document during lectures. and other things, sometimes a professor makes you very angry and you have to have a jigsaw puzzle just off camera!

the last thing, which i’m attributing to both fic and class success, is The Whiteboard, which is like 3x4 feet and hangs above my bed. Right now, it has notes for upcoming chapters of ttab and a checklist of all the prompts i’ve gotten since christmas. it’s also where i outline essays, especially bibliography stuff. i have a zillion different colors of expo marker, and i write out all the works im citing in a different color, and then use a source’s assigned color to put notations of page numbers or ideas under the sections of the essay outline. could i do this in a word document, probably easier, and not have to type out the bibliography again at the end? yeah, but the manual way works better for me, and also i don’t mind typing the bib out multiple times bc i find it relaxing (listen im love my style guide). arguably, half of my brain is at all times with my mom (its ok i have half of hers too we are incomprehensible but between us we usually dont forget anything important) and a third of it is on the whiteboard. i just 1/6 hangin around here in my skull, vibin

you probably didn’t expect A Novel, but i am going to end with the caveat that I’m super productive right now! but i also didn’t write... almost at all, from around 8th or 9th grade to my 2nd or 3rd year in college. sometimes school’s too much, or you’re burnt out, or (probably the main cause in my case lol) you’re dealing with untreated mental illness. you’ll finish school, or have rested long enough, or find a treatment/coping method that works, and it’ll come back 🥰

[feralseraph]

Tag game, tagged by @wulfsbaiine

here are the rules:

Rule 1- post the rules.

Rule 2 - answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 10 new ones.

Rule 3 - tag 10 people and link them to the post.

Rule 4 - actually tell them you tagged them. (um im just gonna tag a few people and if you wanna do it that’s cool. if you don’t wanna write new questions that’s also cool. love you)

I. What's a bit of prose or song lyric that's sticking with you right now?

“I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame—of everything.”

Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

II. Tell me about your pet peeves.

people who are wrong as hell being smug as hell. people chewing with their godforsaken mouths open. when someone doesn’t peel away the seal of something in the fridge. like, when yogurt containers have that plastic peel away seal under the lid and people just leave the seal half way on. just peel it tf off and throw it away.

III. What's a super niche thing you're really into?

hm, collecting dead bugs i find? i only have a couple tho. i really love reading about childbirth. and watching birth videos. also, i’ve been doing so many puzzles over the past few months that’s i’ve started having puzzle brand preferences. idk how niche any of these are tho lol

IV. Describe your ideal monster.

an ancient god who isn’t so much malevolent as they just don’t really fit in this world and the ways of humans are of no concern to them, so if they are summoned or if they have some mission here on earth, they aren’t swayed by whatever destruction they cause in order to complete what they came here for. not really because they don’t care about life on this planet, but just that if doesn’t occur to them to be absurd. they’re nowhere near human so they can’t possibly relate to human experience and emotion.

V. What kind of villain would you be? Or would you be the hero?

arch nemesis. im a scorpio.

VI. What's the least favorite book you've ever read? Aka tell me about a book you read that's awful.

maybe it was just because i was a century too late, but carmilla was really boring. also, when i was in high school, i did indeed read twilight. and then i read new moon and i was like, hm ok not as engrossing as the first. then i read eclipse and i was like, wait this is so bad. and then i saw twilight in theaters and i was like omg no wait this whole series is really bad what am i doing. when i read eclipse a light bulb went off and i was awake to the low quality story.

VII. If you believed in essences and souls and shit, what color would yours be?

red

VIII. Favorite shitty way to get drunk?

ok, i don’t drink anymore, but when i did i would literally just get a big cup, put 4 ounces of literally any liquor and then fill the cup with juice and just get a straw and drink it as fast as possible. or i would just buy wine i could afford with a high alcohol content and chug it as fast as i could.  it’s probably obvious why i don’t drink anymore.

IX. What's your ideal way of making money?

by myself and not having to deal with people

X. Tell me about something weird that you saw or happened across

when i was a kid, our dog was in the yard and she was pawing at something and acting really weird so we went over. and there was like this worm/snake type thing. it was like a bluish/greenish color and it had a mouth but we couldn’t see eyes on it. and it was like long and thick. it was just so weird and i have never seen anything like it since. it might have been some weird worm our dog dug up or idk a fucked up snake, but it was so creepy. my dad scooped it up in a shovel and tossed it over the fence and im pretty sure i remember a bird picking it up and flying away with it.

ok so im tagging, @fleshphobe, @dragonwomyn, @invert-rights, @greenerskies, @bonke (if i didn’t tag you i just figured you may not be interested, but pls feel free to participate if you see this and want to do it)

New Questions <3 (go easy on me it’s late at night)

1. what cryptids/urban legends do you think are real?

2. what band/musician just somehow seems to speak to your soul?

3. top three favorite childhood movies?

4. what was the topic of the last argument you had?

5. if money wasn’t an issue, what style of house would you want to live in? (ex. log cabin, victorian, amorphous blob)

6. who is your favorite poet and when did you discover them?

7. how would you describe your fashion sense? how is it similar or different when you were a teen?

8. what was the worst present you ever received and who gave it to you?

9. what’s the last youtube video you watched?

10. do you have an accent? if so, what kind?

[dnscully]

in the interest of discourse, how do the slightly panicked "are we doing this??" faces Scully makes in 'Small Potatoes' and FTF when Mulder is about to kiss her fit in with your on-and-off MSR headcanon? #iwanttobelieve

cc makes it REALLY hard to find a canon that clicks in with everything but this is kinda just how i reason it in my head:

so we get memento mori in episode 14 and small potatoes 6 episodes later. it doesn’t seem like a whole lot of time in between, and at this point i don’t think that her cancer is at its worst yet. she’s still able to work, she looks healthy. i said in one of my first slides i think that imo the cut memento mori kiss isn’t impossible, just possibly misplaced. their first kiss probably happened sometime later, and maybe even after small potatoes, but for the sake of this argument i’m gonna assume they’ve already kissed. their relationship dynamic completely changes the moment she gets cancer. they get closer. she’s getting treatment. she’s vulnerable. he’s scared. etc. i just imagine they spend a lot more of their personal time together after memento mori. like bro..... she deadass wrote some serious poetic prose for him in her diary. he read it. you don’t forget that !!! so ok let’s say they’ve kissed

im inclined to believe they hadn’t slept together yet. max is 2 episodes before small potatoes and while mulder comfortably changes in front of her she looks away. so by small potatoes nah i don’t think they’re getting freaky just yet. i think the whole situation was very suggestive. they’re in scully’s apartment at night, drinking wine, having a type of conversation they don’t have often, and all of a sudden “mulder” is leaning in for the kiss. i think scully’s surprise wasn’t “omg he is straight up going to kiss me rn” because they’ve already kissed and maybe they’ve been sneaking a kiss here n there ya know hmmmmmm

it was more of “omg are we actually gonna bang now”

scully’s cancer gets bad after this. the next episode is zero sum and she’s not in it because she’s in the hospital (am i remembering this correctly!!) so all the “hello 911 i would like to report an emergency i am hopelessly in love with my fbi partner” stuff happens between here and gesthemene. thEN THEY DO IT IN REDUX !! at the very latest redux is their first time. but i wouldn’t NOT consider it being somewhere between zero sum and post-elegy

[sa-suga]

omg i have not been on your desktop inbox in so long and it's a change for sure :') but hi kyouka dear i have a question for something not on the list: where do you draw your inspo for your writing? what do you hope to get out of your writing? annndddd what do you hope to bring to your readers? i hope this isn't too long of an ask but i've been curious for a while after reading your first fic and your most recent one

ahhh no i will never say no to asks!! im so hungry for interaction :") and yess i’ve been super obsessed with the computer os theme recently! also these questions are so interesting!! big brain things!! under the cut for length though 😳

where do you draw your inspo for your writing?

man so i really wish i’m one of those aesthetic writers that say they draw inspiration from scenery/aesthetics/life experiences, but that’d be a fAT lie :”)

i’m a really visual writer, but i also go by vibes a lot? like my writing is greatly influenced by my mood at the time, which is both interesting to read back on after the mood has passed, but also very wild because wow who wrote this-

➳ songs - if i ever have to force myself into a particular mood/just force myself to write through a block, i definitely go to my playlist first! i tend to get into really intense jamming sessions (sometimes with my bestie, and in that case most of the stuff i churn out is probably feral crack)

i have,, so many spotify playlists for different moods,,

unrelated but i love oversharing nerding and my fav artists are: alec benjamin, juice wrld, keshi, post malone, khalid, eli, ryan caraveo, yorushika, bump of chicken, kenshi yonezu, 华晨宇, 鄧紫棋, the list goes on

➳ and sometimes, i just get random big brain ideas (i.e my chaotic news channel AU where i decided over lunch that meteorologist bokuto Needs to happen)

ah and also my random hobbies - i like watching funny weatherman reports on youtube and maybe that influenced me thinking of #owltierights?? we’ll never know

also when i got thinking about spy AUs, the first thing i thought of was semi but make him an undercover spy pretending to be a subway musician - which is so random i really have no explanation for the way my brain works because i have nO cLUe

and regarding your point about my first fic: i was Hungry, i was in an Intense iwa Mood, and HAHA ok this is very embarrassing but i actually dated one of my guy best friends before because when he confessed i was too Shook and Confused to process things and said yes by accident :”) but he was really chill about it when we “broke up” a week after and now we’re like the Bros who Pretend to be a Couple to Prank People and Make them Jealous,, so yeah friends with economic benefits was a mess of these things :””)

➳ oo but i do get inspired by concepts/aesthetics too - a piece i wrote for a national writing programme centered around the philosophy of wabi-sabi actually did super well and i’m actually pretty proud of it :”)

so i haven’t actually used pinterest in years as inspiration, but in general i think that’s a good place to start if you’re unsure what kind of vibe you’re looking for and you’d like some ideas! but if you want your writing to be unique and you’re easily influenced (like me, it sUCks - i’m constantly afraid i’m accidentally stealing/plagiarizing ideas) that might not be a good idea :”)

sometimes i start from titles - for e.g, i come with pretentious titles like when the boy king fished the sun out of the sky (i have no idea where i pull this from either, i think it’s just my inherent extra and fondness for purple prose) and plan out a fic from there!

and to answer your question, i guess this is partly how the blooming, bloody sun (tbbs) was conceived? as some may know tbbs is actually a rehashed version of  when the boy king fished the sun out of the sky - it was originally a mythology AU but i got stuck and didn’t like the way my writing was going, so i scrapped it and it got revamped into a royalty AU, which happened to be my current obsession :”) the premise has changed quite a lot, but some parts are still similar ;) idk maybe if tbbs does well and people are interested i’ll talk more about it :””)

what do you hope to bring to your readers?

hhh this be a hard question but hmm

for my comfort fics (here and here), i try to make my readers feel validated, if that makes sense? like i’ve had some pretty bad experiences too and it kinda bled into those fics, and for those it was both a form of catharsis and also a way for me to reaffirm readers who may be going through similar things that what they’re feeling is okay, it’s valid, and things are going to get better, even if they take a while. sometimes it’s words i wish someone had said to me back then too :”)

and in terms of crack, i just hope they make people smile and maybe even laugh? like i like to imagine that some of my readers may be having an off/down day when they stumble across my fics, and reading them makes them feel even slightly better!

but i also write a lot for myself, primarily, which is super selfish hhh but yeah part of the reason (besides my worship for queen yuki who gave me the final push i needed) i decided to write for the self insert side of the haikyuu fandom and open up requests is because i thought it’d be a great way to try writing with different types of personalities and voices! while also interacting with an audience (unlike how i used to spend ages on creating ocs and worldbuilding only to burn out after that with the lack of response) so i have a better grasp of what readers are looking for! and also, self insert fics are really cathartic and calming for me to write, so it’s great stress relief and i get to let out things i can’t exactly say in real life too!

wow i am so sorry this became a word dump i sincerely hope this is coherent

[mikeshanlon]

UGH OK RANGE! tbh I agree with everything u said except the like copying lines from Shakespeare over to iwwv part cause I've never studied/read Shakespeare At All and it was exhausting to try to understand the hidden messages and even the language, but it def gives little Easter eggs to people that have studied it and know what's going on so like I'm not angry abt it being there and as u said it does serve a purpose! and OOF ok def get u said abt tsh! 1/

while I personally enjoy donnas prose it does get a little old sometimes, ur like YO WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? What does it mean? what does it all mean? and the dynamics r just...Not interesting enough for me, and I didnt root for anyone and I just cant read shit where I dont care abt a SINGLE character, what is the point! like I was liking charles in tsh cause he was being distrustful 2 Henry then we turn around with the incest! I was like wow this book has everything huh! 2/

(*clinks glasses cause iwwv doesn't have incest* let's celebrate that!) also! i absolutely rec reading dare me, like i love the ~dark side of girlhood~ type shit + Megan abbots writing (check out the fever if u want! Its very str8 so ugh but I love it) so I am biased but I definitely prefer it over tsh. I will say tho some aspects of the show r a little different, since dare me is first person addy pov. it is also VERY repressed so like be warned! 3/

btw just want to be clear I totally understand liking da as like a concept to explore the ~dark side~, repression etc etc in fiction but like the people that seriously honestly want to be like henry or richard or whatever and have this toxic group of friends is genuinely so.. incomprehensible 2 me like Why? WHY? I think they too suffer from a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. 4/4

Oh yeah forsure, that makes sense abt Shakespeare, I just think like it’s probably easier to kind of guess whats going on with context and stuff with that compared to TSH but also im just used to doing that and like to do that as an English major so erglnerg. And again, it serves a greater purpose and enriches the story imo. I enjoy donnas writing, to a certain extent LMAO, but I totally agree, TGF is longer than TSH and can be really sad (and slow) at times but I was way more invested bc the characters were more compelling and we spent more time with them… like boris and theo did have a messed up relationship but u could tell they cared about each other and we got to see them actually bond versus TSH I just felt like it was like… okay they are friends now! (Altho TGF has it’s own problems as well but overall I enjoyed it a lot more and the characters were more impactful to me). I’m totally a character reader so if I don’t care about the characters than it’s just not gonna work for me. Also the bar is so low LKNGRLKRGK but yes go IWWV!!!

And yeah for sure like while I think the concept of DA is interesting and I would love a dead poets society type of  friendship I would not want to be a henry/Richard or anything….. “I think they too suffer from a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” LKGNLKNRG scream yeah I mean its like I say omg the aesthetic and vibes of obsessive cruel academia is so iconic but like would I ever want that ? no.. .storytelling wise it’s compelling and fun but irl…

As for dare me I might pick it up especially bc the show got cancelled :/ but my friend also said that the coach/addy/coach’s army bf I forgot his name was like a bigger thing in the book like they hang out a lot and im like the vibes are rancid luhv but I do think those types of stories are interesting and I want to read more female driven books

[toxoplasmajuice]

nobody replies (2020)

yes, i am going to keep making this style of reply post until the day i die. and you know why? because you guys are funnier than i am

@harmoniouspixels​ replied to your photo “Rusty made macaroni and cheese.”

Honestly a big pot of mac and cheese sounds really good rn

fuck now i want some as i’m making this reply post at 10:30 PM

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “Orange started crying. Rusty paid attention to him after she finished...”

[Simblr voice] *sniffles* What a great mom omg ��

love that bare minimum :’)

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “Rusty ordered a whole pizza from the bartender.”

Put those townies away they have Far Too Much Personality for this whole thing

tom wordy, i think: *dancing on the counter*

the narrator of this challenge:

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Rusty tried to hide in her refrigerator.”

Mood (also Rusty this isn't Camisade get out of the fridge before you freeze to death)

hahaha... freezing... that’s like, the opposite of what--

@goldenboisoysauce​ replied to your photoset “Rusty ate a single slice of pizza before she and Apollo both left the...”

APOLLO?? BLOOM?? ANOTHER PERSON PLAYING WITH APOLLO BLOOM??

goldenboisoysauce replied to your photoset “Rusty ate a single slice of pizza before she and Apollo both left the...”

Oh black widow challenge ur gonna fuckin kill him dear god

knowing how this save ended i cackled irl when i saw these replies

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “Rusty ate shit.”

The deadpan delivery here of "Rusty ate shit." is k*lling me omg algjklk

simply reporting on the facts in this challenge!

goldenboisoysauce replied to your photoset “Rusty and Apollo had their first kiss.”

She gonna eat him

it took me embarrassingly long to realize that the joke here was that rusty had the very hungry speech bubble floating over her dfghdfkhg

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Rusty finally got to eat her salad. Apollo read a book titled, Do I...”

Big mood honestly

I Wish I Didn’t Exist

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “They proceeded to have a completely casual conversation because I...”

It's a good thing he's turned around otherwise TitBot would've come down on him

shh its ok his nipples are male-presenting

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “They briefly stopped to argue about conflicting traits, but they got...”

The Sims 3 really does just say "fuck EA, I'm the captain now" and does it's own thing

EA says fuck EA!

@autisticnoravalkyrie​ replied to your photo “Afterwards, Rusty invited Big Hartley to have a water balloon fight...”

VICTIM:

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Afterwards, Rusty invited Big Hartley to have a water balloon fight...”

LSKDLJKG KASPER BEAT ME TO THE JOKE

this is an MMBC, so fortunately, your sim will die

(also kasper’s reply didn’t show up in my notes :/// )

@catallenapapi​ replied to your photo “Murder, obviously. Communication? What’s that?”

:0

:3c

catallenapapi replied to your photoset “Nothing happened here.”

I’m getting serious arg vibes

*runs a whole arg for an april fools joke*

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Murder, obviously. Communication? What’s that?”

alksdjglkjs;adljkg;sd "Divorce? Wuzzat? I have to commit a m*rder if I don't want my husband anymore" -Rusty, apparently

divorce has been made illegal in SimNation in the nobodyverse it’s until death do us part in here

catallenapapi replied to your photoset “Rusty ate shit.”

we love her lack of energy. yes queen give us nothing

me @ myself

catallenapapi replied to your photoset “They got married in the kitchen.”

“They went to the wedding venue” followed by “they got married in the kitchen” is peak 2020 stay at home vibes

king and queen of social distancing

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “It’s at this moment that Rusty realized she didn’t think her...”

Is she. Is she going to k*ll her child too

NOOOOO :(

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Wasn’t there a smoke detector there a second ago?”

Oh shit :eyes:

rusty: *slaps the smoke detector off the wall* what?

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Here’s where, suddenly hit with the realizations that everything she’d...”

All of this has me alkgjsdjlkgg (also big swaths of text, in this rather mundane story? It's more likely than you think)

Just Reporting On The Facts Here! there are many facts. this is not prose. that encourages character development

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “Rusty caught on fire.”

I really am going to be sad over this pudding pixel's d*ath, huh

im sorry i made u stan rusty nobody only to lead her to her doom (supposedly)

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “The flames consumed her.”

F... :pensive:

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “As the flames died down, the Grim Reaper showed up to take Rusty’s...”

Ohhh it's a d*ath type to match her colors (but still, F...)

OH MY GOD IT IS also i read this reply wrong over and over until i got to it on this very reply post... i thought you were shocked that ghosts are color coded and i was gonna be like “jack didnt you do three mmbcs? how do u not know this” then i realized what you actually meant and that i am the dumbass

harmoniouspixels replied to your photoset “But as he did, a sentence flashed in his mind– “This is not a Murder...”

HELLO?????

:3c

harmoniouspixels replied to your photo “With her second chance at life, she abandoned Bridgeport, carrying...”

What. A. Ride. Goodbye, Rusty (and Orange). You may be missed

love the uncertainty behind “you may be missed” rather than “you will be missed” like will they REALLY be missed? probably not

[jcylenz]

....ALL OF THE “IM NOT FROM THE US” QUESTIONS (or alternatively 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 but i’ll come back for more mwhahshs)

1. favourite place in your country?

Balaton without a doubt. It’s the biggest lake of the country and it has such an amazing atmosphere and feel to it, I really love spending my time there. I usually go at least once, if not more times a year and definitely spend some vacation time there, plus my grandma is from a city next to the lake, so really just many ties there.

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?

I love both? I love going abroad and exploring different cultures and seeing the world (I say that as if I’ve been to so many places when I really wasn’t), but there are also so many beautiful places in Hungary so ya know, both. Gimme both.

3. does your country have access to sea?

Nope, but it used to. We were just chopped up and lost 2/3 of our country after the two world wars.

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

Uhhh, SO MANY. Honestly I love Hungarian cousine so fucking much. Gotta love lecsó and pörkölt and Hortobagyer meat pancakes and Gulash and all the Hungarian food, please don’t make me choose.

5. favourite song in your native language?

Tábortűz by Emberek, and you’re just in luck cause there is a youtube video in which you can read the English translation.

6. most hated song in your native language?

I can’t think of any right now most because I just make myself forget about all the stupid songs my country creates.

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

Szeretlek, which means I love you. Cipőfűzővégcédőpöcök, which is that protecting thingy at the end of shoelaces. And megszentségteleníthetetlrnségeskedéseitekért, which is this.

8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?

I don’t think as a nation we get confused with others, we have a pretty unique culture and people, but I do know that a lot of people confuse Budapest and Bucharest, if that counts here.

9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

“Menj a picsába!“ Which is mostly the same as “Go to hell!” but in the Hungarian version, if you wanna translate it word for word, it reads “Go to the pussy!“ which makes no sense whatsoever in English but it does make sense in Hungarian s2g.

11. favourite native writer/poet?

Géza Gárdonyi, who wrote, among others things, wrote the book called Eclipse of the Crescent Moon. It’s my favorite Hungarian book without a doubt, favorite classic as well most likely. It tells the story of a siege of a Hungarian castle in Eger in 1552. The siege was a really big thing in Hungarian history and the book tells the story of some of its most famous figures, how they grew up, how they actually got to the castle and how the siege went down, and now I really just wanna reread the entire thing all over again.

12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?

Never really read any of them, so I don’t have opinions.

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

Hmmmm. Probably the strangest is that for us, Santa Clause comes on December 6th and then Jesus Christ brings the Christmas presents on Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day.

We also have a tradition on Eastern Monday where the guys go around the houses to “sprinkle” the girls so they wouldn’t “wither like flowers”, which means you either get buckets of water poured all over you or you they pour a bunch of badly smelling parfumes (like REEEEEALLY BAD ONES) onto your hair and it’s such bullshit and I hate that day with a pure passion.

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

Lately I’ve been enjoying it more and more. There was a good 15-20 years period when literally nothing was done that was good or even acceptable but now more and more good movies are made and now we have some good tv shows too which is nice. I still mostly watch foreign stuff though.

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

Uhh, can I pass this? I really can’t think of anything.

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?

I actually had to look up what kind of stereotypes there are about Hungary, but I really didn’t like the one that kept popping up about Hungarian girls being easy. Fuck that shit, that is really really stupid. The one that I agree with is about our food - that we use a lot of fat and paprika in our food. 100% true. Most of our traditional dishes include both of them and a lot of it but not in a bad way? Like ok I get that probably most people would find them too much, but I do believe if they give it a try, they will realize that it’s actually really good and tasty and you can’t actually taste the fat or anything, it just makes it better. People also say because of our dish types that we eat like kings and I am happy to accept thatxD (it’s most said cause we eat a lot of meat, we have fish soup, different meat soups, we eat stuff like stuffed cabage, stuff that used to be at big feasts)

17. are you interested in your country’s history?

YESSS. I love our history, I think it’s incredibly interesting, incredibly rich and full of amazing stuff. Hungary is over 1000 years old, so many things happened during that time - we had our highs, we had our lows, but we always came out on top and survived in the end and I think that is amazing and something to be proud of.

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?

I mean, I am not sure? I don’t think so, but I might be wrong. I mean, there are stuff people say differently on other sides of the country, but it’s not that much distinct. It’s more noticable when it comes to those Hungarians who unfortunately don’t live in Hungary anymore (those who live in the neighbor countries because after the ww 2/3 of our country was taken from us)

19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?

I love our flag, though then again it might just be that that is what I know. But it’s nice. I am not too happy about the anthem, it’s too depressing to me.

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?

Football (and by football I mean soccer football) which is a shame cause we suck at it. Like, we won 3 olympic gold medals in a row in waterpolo, but ya know, fuck logic. And I could list so many other sports our country is really good at, but people go nuts about football, so what can you do. (And I am not saying I don’t like the sport, I always watch the world cup, but it’s sad to see the country putting so much money into something we are shit in, putting the players up on a pedestal and forgetting about those who actually get really nice and amazing results.)

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

Uhhhhhhhhh. Paprika and a picture of the Balaton.

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

I am generally really proud of our history, that despite whatever shit we were put through, we are still standing, after 1100+ years of being here. And I am ashamed of the general homophobia and fatphobia and racism and the way most people handle this topic aside from the youth. We are really behind on this. Also the fact that we actually have a movie that is called “Coming Out” and it’s about the most stereotypical gay man you’ve ever seen getting hit by a motorbike and suddenly turning straight and him coming out as straight cause legit that is the dumbest and most horrible thing I’ve seen on tv and I want to set everyone who worked on it on flames.

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?

Beer and wine is pretty popular, plus pálinka, which a Hungarian specific really high % level alcoholic beverage (like 45%-60% even) that we drink in shots.

24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country?

Uhhh, probably Chineese people? It’s really bad, really just the usual racist stereotypical stuff and I hate it.

25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?

I think every country has its problems and I am glad I was born here because of the places and the language itself - it’s so fucking beautiful and amazing and lyrical. Would I wanna live here for the rest of my life, though? Nope, definitely not.

26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?

Not really. I specifically remember a Gilmore Girl episode where Michel spoke some stupid Hungarian shit, but other than that… most of the time they call our food shit and make fun of us. Which is really not cool and I hate that so much. (B99 did an episode once where Charles was praising a Hungarian restaurant with a sausage platter and I was SO EXCITED but then Jake called it shit and I knew immediately that most people will believe Jake cause they played on Charles’ weird taste and that everyone will think it’s just one of Charles’ ticks again and it made me so sad srsly. STOP TELLING PEOPLE OUR FOOD IS SHIT, IT’S NOT TRUE)

27. favourite national celebrity?

pass

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?

We have a couple of lakes, two pretty big river and like REALLY SMALL mountains. Most of them I would more likely call them bigger hills instead of mountains tbh. But the biggest geographical thing is definitely the Balaton, which is a big ass lake that most people go to during the summer. It’s also the biggest lake of Eastern Europe which is nice. I love that place, that is definitely my favorite.

29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?

Uhhh, the uni in my city has a beef with the uni I went to cause they used to be under the uni I went to and then they seperated from them and there is some weird who was right stuff going on but other than that not really.

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?

Nope.

[curly-q-reviews]

ROAD TO THE OSCAR MAYER WIENER AWARDS 2K19

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018 (dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Nominated for: Best Original Song, Best Costume Design, Best Adapted Screenplay

SPOILER ALERT THAR BE SPOILERS AHEAD ME HEARTIES BE YE WARNED

wowee what a cool film!!  i went into this not knowing much about it except it was directed by the Coen brothers (directors of Fargo and The Big Lebowski) which set real high expectations for me.  these guys are real masters of storytelling and what immediately come to mind when i think of movies that know how to effectively use dark humor.  i also love the kinds of stories they tell in general, how they take subjects and settings that seem kinda mundane and just give them this little extra spark. 

so is this newest film just as good as their other work???  well id say yeah for sure!!!  it reminds me a lot of a film they did shortly after The Big Lebowski called O Brother, Where Art Thou?, because theyre both period pieces AND because they both feature a myriad of eclectic and interesting characters.  the one thing that makes The Ballad of Buster Scruggs really stand out from their other films however is the fact that this is actually an anthology made up of six different stories, all set during the same time period in The Wild West.  its also worth mentioning that this movie was made to premiere on Netflix, which is something ive started to see more and more as the streaming platform becomes the new go-to source of media content.  its very exciting to see such prolific directors go the Netflix route and have great success with it, because it means that the platform really is capable of creating high-quality movies and TV shows and working with big-name talent.  im sure the big hollywood production companies are all quaking in their lil booties cause this means big BIG changes are on the horizon

ok so ive reviewed anthology series before, notably Black Mirror, and with those reviews i ranked the short stories in order of least to most favorite.  so i guess in this case ill do the same, although its hard to really rank these cause i truly enjoyed all of them in different ways.  there was one however that didnt really tickle my fancy much, which was “Near Algodones”.  this one stars james franco as a bank robber who seems to have met his match in a fiery (probably crazy) bank teller.  he gets caught and hung from a tree by the town’s sheriff, but nearly manages to escape death when a Native American tribe swoops in and kills the sheriff and his crew.  james franco is saved by a cattle driver, only to be caught again by the next town’s sheriff for allegedly trying to hawk the cattle (which was not the case at all).  right before they kick the chair out from under him at the hanging, he sees a beautiful woman in blue, who at first smiles at him but then looks unnerved as he stares back at her. 

i think with this one the ending really didnt do much for me, i kinda didnt get it.  i did understand the whole irony behind surviving punishment for a crime he DID commit but getting hanged for a crime he never committed, and the bank teller was pretty hilarious, but everything else about the segment was just ok.  james franco didnt really blow me away (he never really does but thats besides the point), the rest of the performances were fine, and the story just kinda zipped on through.  maybe ill give this one another watch to see if the ending makes any more sense to me, or if theres any sense to be made from it at all

next up for me would be “The Gal Who Got Rattled”, and this segment i have mixed feelings over.  its about this brother and sister who set out on the Oregon trail so that the brother can get his sister to marry his business partner in Oregon.  the sister seems like a kind of wishy-washy, subdued character who just kinda goes along with whatever her brother says without giving much of her own opinion.  i gotta give credit to zoe kazan (who starred in The Big Sick) cause she does a great job with this character, totally spot-on performance.  ok so turns out the brother is a fucken HORRIBLE businessman who screws up all his business deals all the time, and he tragically dies like two days into being on the oregon trail.  he has this annoying-ass dog that barks all the time and everyone else on the caravan is sick of it, so when the brother dies the sister just lets one of the trail leaders put it down.  turns out the sister like did not like her brother at all but was always too afraid to say anything.  now getting back to the bad businessman thing, apparently he had promised the helper boy that is helping move their covered wagon a large sum of money, half of it halfway through the journey and the rest when they get to oregon.  problem is, the sister doesnt have the money, so it was either left in the brothers pocket when he was buried or there wasnt actually any money at all and he lied, y’know, like a bad businessman does.  the trail leader who put the annoying dog down offers to help her, and the two start to get close.  so now its like a pseudo love story thing.  except it ends pretty tragically (the sister dies its a long story and pretty ironic just watch it if u wanna know)

so uuuhhhhh this one was long as shit, like a lot longer than the other segments when it didnt really need to be???  like it just kept  going and going, and again the ending didnt really make up for how long it was.  i really liked zoe kazan in this, but otherwise nothing to write home about. 

number four on my list would have to go to “All Gold Canyon”, which basically just follows the story of a gold miner in the mountains trying to get that money honey.  this segment is the simplest one out of the bunch, but i gotta say its absolutely gorgeous.  what beautiful scenery and cinematography.  it provides a nice contrast to our disheveled, run-down gold miner who is just tearing up the beautiful grassy fields trying to get to this gold.  there seems to be a theme in this one of man’s relationship to nature, and how the gold miner does put in effort to respect it but still takes advantage of it for his own benefit.  and i guess theres a broader theme of greed, or the ruthless and endless pursuit of wealth which can drive people to do crazy and desperate things.  i definitely really enjoyed this one, especially the gold miner character played by tom waits.  but otherwise it didnt stand out as much to me as the other segments im gonna talk about

SPEAKING OF WHICH heres number three!!  “The Mortal Remains” is right up my alley, and has some more mythical elements to it than the other segments ive talked about so far.  so we have a wagon full of passengers all going to this hotel for various reasons, and its a really diverse cast of characters: we have the older wife of a prolific religious lecturer, a rich Frenchman, a trapper, a foppish Englishman, and a cheery laid-back Irishman, the last two seeming to be companions of some sort.  they all get on the topic of the true nature of mankind, and the three characters opposite of the strange pair all have something different to say.  the trapper believes that all people are inherently the same, with the same basic needs.  the older woman disagrees and insists that there are two kinds of people, upright and sinning.  and then the Frenchman says that both of them are wrong, that human existence is much more complicated and nuanced than that; no one persons life is exactly the same as another’s.  and then we have the Englishman and the Irishman, who turn out to be bounty hunters of some sort (is heavily alluded that they are grim reaper-type figures).  they explain their method of completing their kills, and talk about how they enjoy watching their victims “try to make sense of it all” in their death throes.  these two clearly have a much more cold and sinister idea of the nature of mankind, and the rest become very unsettled all the way to the hotel.  no one else even dares to step out of the carriage while the bounty hunters drag their latest victim through the front entrance and up the stairs.

oh man this segment was great!  i think the reason its third on my list is cause i really wish there was more to it, like if the Coen brothers spent more time on this one instead of “The Gal Who Got Rattled” it would be perfect.  Jonjo O’Neill and Brendan Gleeson as the bounty hunters were so enthralling, and i loved watching them play off of each other.  hell, i couldve had a whole movie featuring those two.  and the screenwriting really shines in this segment too.  this segment almost feels like a fable or something, which is really fitting for the time period.  makes me wonder if they had based it off of an actual fable.  but anyway yeah this ones awesome!

i had a hard time choosing between “The Mortal Remains” and this next segment for second place cause i liked them both equally, but in the end “Meal Ticket” gets #2 purely because of the utterly fantastic performance by Harry Melling, who plays a quadriplegic actor in a traveling show run by liam neesons character, an irish traveling entertainer.   the story itself is really simple, we just see this disabled actor be carted from one town to the next, doing the same stage show which is basically just him reciting famous prose throughout the ages.  meanwhile liam neeson is trying to get as much money as he can out of the audience members.  he doesnt interact much with harry melling outside of feeding him and helping him piss and get dressed.  u get the sense that he doesnt really see his disabled actor as an actual person, but more of an entertaining object or a pet.  and this becomes even more apparent when the irishman gets some competition from another traveling entertainer who has a chicken that can do math.  he sees this chicken getting more money than him, so he buys it off of the other guy and takes it with him.  and finally, the poor limbless actor is literally and figuratively tossed aside for the next best thing.

man oh man what a great segment!  harry melling blew me away with his performance, the fact that he was able to get such a nuanced range of emotion out of the few lines he was given (basically he had to recite the same shit over and over again) was so impressive to me.  and his non-verbal communication was really solid too.  liam neeson did really well in his role too.  and again the story itself is really great, simple but effective and really gets the point across without having to beat the audience over the head with its message. OH YEAH ITS REAL GOOD LOVE IT

and finally we have my #1 pick, which i think the directors knew this was the best one out of the bunch too cause its the first segment as well as the title of the whole movie.  “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” has that signature Coen brothers wit and dark humor that i love, it plays off of typical Western movie tropes and is very tongue-in-cheek and i ate that shit up.  tim blake nelson as the titular buster is just so fucken perfect for this role, he really shines in this and its kind of a shame that its one of the shorter segments cause it really is the best one and he knocks it out of the park.  we got some great music in this segment too, which is where that Best Original Song nom comes in.   this one also has some strong fable-y vibes to it, like this story could be amongst the likes of American folklore like Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed.  i wont get much into the plot of this one but i highly recommend watching it, even if you dont wanna see the rest of the segments. 

the segments fit together pretty well overall, although the tone of each of them differs slightly the fact that the setting and time period are the same is enough to firmly knit all these stories together.  its a really unique idea for a movie, and is so far the best attempt at an anthology movie that ive ever seen purely because the stories really all make sense together and play off of each other well.  in other anthology movies ive seen like The ABC’s of Death the segments usually dont have much at all to do with each other, except that they all fall in the same genre.  so overall id say give this a watch, especially if ur a Coen brothers fan, cause theres some real good stuff in here.

well thats all i got for now cowboys!!  i watched Roma the other day and CRIED REAL HARD so get ready for me to kiss that movies ass in a review that should be done in the next few days.  until then go uuhhhhhh lasso a cow or something.  chew some tobaccy.  fondle a barmaids titties.  die of dysentery.  y’know just old west things~

[loo-cuz]

Vminkook fics

Because people asked me to recommend some vminkook fics a few times, I’m now going to do a kilometer (I’m European don’t judge) long thread about Vminkook fics, that are mostly on archiveofourown, I may be adding stuff to it from time to time idk

ANYWAYS LET’S START

(The order is not really meaningful lol)

Archiveofourown:

1)Texting fics:

—->how can I get you all over my skin by iamnotkpop

kookie: im madly fucking in love with them and now theyre dating and im going to die alone and when i die my hundreds of cats are going to eat my body and no one will realise for months because no one cares

kimseokjin: ok first of all language

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: another texting fic! Jimin and Tae come together in college and are pining over their sweet baby Guk. This story fucks genderroles but TW it deals with anxiety! Furthermore in the second part of the series Yoongi comes into the pic of the relationship!

—->Group chat: ‘Whatever this is’ by LegendsOfGalaxyDragon

Description: Jimin and Taehyung ask Jungkook out. Too awkward to ask them about the relationship in person, Kookie sets up a group chat.

This is basically a shameless vent of my love for the maknae line together, since they're all so cute with each other!

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: a fic that is written in the texting format. It has nicely developed characters and realistic plot!

2)Usual prose:

—->and he will be loved by partytillthesundown (metalgr3ymon) for my_hope

“Uh, I – I’m looking for – spicy-flavored ramen. It’s my best friend’s favorite and I want – I have to bring it to him.”

Jeongguk is aware that he probably sounds like a bumbling idiot right now, forcing the words out and barely sounding coherent, but he couldn’t stand the worried looks Jimin and Taehyung kept giving him so he had to say something. Even then, when Taehyung is walking down the aisle trying to find the type of ramen Jeongguk is talking about, Jimin still looks worried, like he’s half-expecting Jeongguk to crumble to dust right in front of his eyes if he says the wrong thing, if he breathes the wrong way.

Jeongguk finds himself looking into Jimin’s big, beautiful brown eyes, and that’s when he remembers his mother’s words. When he knows just who, and most importantly, what are Taehyung and Jimin to him.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: One of my personal favourites! I’m a sucker for all soulmate au’s but this one made me all soft and sad and has reasonable and realistic plot! Pls give it a chance!

—->our burned bridges by tendershipping

Agent Jeon Jeongguk is given a cover story and assigned to guard amnesiac Kim Taehyung.

(Taehyung has nightmares most nights after he wakes, at first. He screams and cries names Jeongguk doesn’t recognize, always one in particular—Jimin.)

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: Really angsty? Hurt me really much but the ending omg the ending made it all up! I usually don’t read agent stuff cuz most fics deal super badly with the emotions of the individuals but this one actually represents how Jimin deals with everything just going down...

—->Veins of Ivy by nightynight

For some reason, whenever Jungkook gets a cut or a scrape, a plant grows from it. He has no idea why this is, but he thinks it's better he doesn't question it. Instead, he researches and learns about his plants. He's always got his head in a book about them, and, consequently, doesn't make very many friends. There are a few exceptional people, though, that worm their way into his life, and for that he is forever grateful.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: Ngl this is my favourite of all time. TW though! It deals with depression and cutting but it does those topics great justice. It’s really loving and fluffy and I totally love the idea because it’s very original and creative!

—->Swamp Magic by GinForInk

Two witches lure Jungkook into their cabin in the woods.

[On going.]

Loo’s note: I usually don’t read magic centric fics but dude this is great the world is nicely developed and not completely irrational! So please give it a chance! It also makes you soft af!

—->the strange and unusual by brightlight

In life, Jimin was a perfectionist, and Taehyung was lucky. They had good lives, with a lot of personal and professional successes, even if it was stressful getting there sometimes.

In death, they are super bad at being ghosts. Leave it to them to develop feelings for a man they should have been haunting.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: This could have been super sad but instead it’s just fluffy and great and makes you uwu

—->Ava by abcdefghiluvyou

More than anything, Jimin wanted to be loved.He wanted to be adorned with flowers and jewels like everyone else. He wanted his mates, he wanted to belong.

But the moon didn't listen to the wishes of the cursed, and soleborns like him only wore bruises, and nothing else.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: This is also one of my favourites (I have to many favourites ugh). I suffered so much while reading this, my whole heart just was so against a lot of stuff happening but dude the end cured me... NSFW in the ending!

—->A family can be seven idiot boyfriends by Phelpstwinsandelftwins

Idol Group BTS are all secretly dating each other and have created the world's most chaotic group chat.

Polyamorous, shit-posting fun. Just as Jesus intended.

(Also does it count as secret if Sejin has seen too much, and GOT7 is close to figuring out what's going on? Maybe not.)

[On going.]

Loo’s note: This is an OT7 polyamorous fic and not an Vminkook centric fic, but I still love it! I love that they are just young idiotic men like men usually are so their behavior is kinda realistic! It also includes NSFW parts!

—->Little Labrador by luetisch (that’s me :))))

Taehyung just enjoyed his time alone with Soosmin

or

That Taehyung in puppy space au that no one asked for?

[Incomplete.]

Loo’s note: lol idk what to say. Basically Tae pet regressing with their family dog.

—->Don’t loose who you are by luetisch ((me again))

Yoongi is a boy, but he's also a girl. Sometimes he's nothing of both and sometimes he's a mix of others.

Yoongi meets Hoseok, a very straight Hoseok.

[Finished but you can request further chapters.]

Loo’s note: This is Sope centric but Vminkook is a very present side ship :)

NSFW Centric Fics:

—->Maknae perks by sin4chimchim

It’s just comforting to know that the other members will just give him what he wants, whether it’s another serving of banana milk or their dicks.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: This is an OT7 fic again! It includes humiliation kink and a lot of other stuff so yeahhhh

—->Caught in the middle (of kinks and discoveries) by Yoongi_bear (strawberryhues)

Something about Jungkook’s dorm makes him feel warm and welcomed. But right now, as he sits in the desk chair, naked and suffocating from the smell of sex and perfume—and the sounds of squelching, moans, and whines that twist in the air—Taehyung feels nothing but on edge.

Jimin had told him—back before it began, as Jungkook haphazardly cleaned up—that there were a few rules. Rules not meant for him, but for Jungkook. All he wants, all they discussed, is watching. And maybe there’ll be a little more if he’s lucky. It's for Jimin to decide, because that’s what this is: some kind of thing where Jimin makes rules and decisions that Jungkook follows, and Taehyung gets to watch.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: Ugh I guess humiliation kink? Jimin is a power bottom and everyone just submitted so beautifully to him.

—->don’t wanna let you go ‘til you see the light! by infiniteandsmall

Taehyung’s stepped into the hallway, and is standing with one hip cocked and a knowing smile in the corner of his mouth. He is wearing something best described as a robe, made out of a fabric that is lavender and silky. “So are you trying to be a rhyming boy?”

“Kind of,” Jungkook says. “I want to start, like. Producing my own music for real. Recording my songs.”

“That’s awesome,” Taehyung says. He pulls a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses out of the breast pocket of his robe and settles them on his nose, unsubtly letting the front of the robe fall a little more open. Jungkook suddenly realizes that he is, physically, Very Close to Taehyung, even though he’s not sure when he stepped forward.

“If I wasn't a photography major,” Taehyung says, setting the palms of his hands on the wall and arching his back and sticking his leg out of the slit of his robe, “which I am, I would be the most extraordinary, and the hottest, saxophone player in this whole city.”

-

in which Jungkook's third threesome results in two boyfriends and Hoseok is in love with all his best friends.

[Completed.]

Loo’s note: Procastinating college students cute and goals.

I can’t add anything anymore cuz there’s a text limit lmao! But enjoy those!

[dunkalfredo]

Im in love with your vision of Infinite and Rookie and i want to hear some of your sweet headcanons about their time together. If anyone asked something similar, refer me to this post, please. Thanks!

alskdjnsjklnljkls tysm!!!! yeah sure ill share some headcanons. i did a post on a similar topic about a month ago but that’s more their individual personalities/aesthetics than actual relationship material so ill go ahead and add on some stuff here.

i should note that portions of this are based heavily off of the idea that they grew up together so prepare for some au territory at this point. my backstory for them is becoming so intricate jfc;;;;;; i really hope ur not disappointed with this answer i have like an entire pre-forces narrative planned out in my head at this point OTL if u were hoping for more general stuff just lemme know i can give you some more hcs for that (there’s already some but there’s also Backstory stuff that i can’t really explore through oneshot format)

this is entirely self indulgent tbhhhh anyways click that mf Keep reading button

there’s a lot of like. casual touch. lotsa hugs and leaning on each other and resting their chin on the other’s shoulder (or top of head depending on who’s who bc height difference) while looking over them at what they’re doing and its really rooted in their learning early on how much Gadget loves that sweet sweet Physical Contact (if u scratch behind his ears he will melt, guaranteed, you’ll have yourself a Boneless Gadget with a two-liter coke)

if it’s raining out gadget will insist on doing something that’s not just sitting inside all day but snugglin w/ infinite ends up tempting him into doing Exactly That lol

there’s a lot of companionable silence between them when it’s just Them Alone in a Room. sure they talk and chat and joke but there are so many times where it’s just,,, being Together,,, and enjoying being in the other’s presence as they each do their own thing

sorta going into childhood/backstory stuff but uhhhh:

starting freshman year of highschool they started just bein each other’s dates to school dances even though they were “just friends” for like half of that timespan . i love cheesy stuff like that im sorry bro i had to include that tidbit i know it’s super specific and particular to my own backstory for them but just, they’re best buds and they gonna have a good time at homecoming lol

please imagine: those cute pre-dance pictures that parents take at the stairwell or front porch or somethin right before their kids leave, but with gadget and infinite. gadget’s got braces and they dont really fit in his mouth and his lenses reflect the light in the photo and oops infinite blinked and his shirt is too big and tbh their suits in gen just don’t really fit them right, gadget’s shirt is untucked and infinite’s tie is crooked but it’s okay, they’re both smilin reeeeaaaal big (and besides they figure out how to look Aesthetically Pleasing by junior year)

summers were hot in their hometown (note: i grew up in the north so i know nothing of True Heat, bear with me on this one.) most evenings were spent out on gadget’s fam’s back porch, cold towels resting on the backs of their necks, sweat in and under their fur, and they’re melting into the wood of the deck, fan plugged into that one weird outlet on the outside of the house that’s really more a fire hazard than anything else but the cool air is nice. they’re just lounging around reading comic books and listening to music on infinite’s old zune (lots of mid-2000s punk rock bands bc what else were u expecting) and in later years when they’re in that teen puppy love stage they’re trying to cuddle but it’s TOO DAMN HOT OUTSIDE so they resort to like, gentle hand holding, infinite reading some pretentious literary work or whatever and gadget spacing tf out next to him

when they graduate and are assigned a partner to walk down the aisle with they still end up w/ each other even though technically the partners are chosen according to alphabetical order and they’re on opposite ends of that list whOOPS how’d they do that? (hint: last minute shuffling in line)

when they move outta their small lil home town and into The Big City (im gonna say that would be Sunset Heights to tie in some canon plot relevance) they move in together and share a flat. a) its more financially manageable to just split housing costs like that and b) it’s been a dream their entire lives to live together when they’re older so oh!!! they’re older now!!!!! time to live together

(okay that’s all for backstory stuff back to reg hcs)

neither can cook but its ok

it may seem like they bicker a lot but it’s usually either the like, joke argue of “what do you mean craft mac n cheese is gross take that back” or reprimands like “it’s one a.m. time to sleep u Fool” (self-care is important, lads). they actually communicate really well so high-stakes arguments aren’t super common (and when they do happen they dont tend to explode. i wanted to have them be the type that argue for understanding and not to prove they’re right, so that greatly affects the outcomes of their disputes.)

infinite loves to hum while he’s doing things, or just in gen, and his voice is very low and smooth and gadget looooooves it, so much. they’ll be, i dunno, doing some mundane thing, like maybe they’re out getting groceries or doin dishes or something (i love me that domestic content) and he’ll start humming quietly and it just, it really grounds gadget in a way that sometimes he doesn’t even know he needs till infinite does it.

anyone here ever played bayonetta? any a yall remember those bits where there’s a woman in bayo’s memories singing and/or humming ‘fly me to the moon’ all quiet and low? think that but just,,,, pitched down,,,, yeah,,,

the tunes are usually very slow and while not so much melancholy theyre just? i dunno melodic in the same lax, smooth-tempo’d way a lot of melancholy songs are? i dunno i like quiet, introspective infinite and aesthetics that reflect that

here’s a long one: about a month before infinite “goes missing” and forces happens, infinite lands a job at a local news outlet as one of the column writers and even tho he’s more into prose than journalism he’s so fuckin pumped. it’s mostly just excitement over not doing cashier work and having a money-makin outlet he’s at least somewhat interested in lol …aaaaaand the way ship headcanon works into this bullet is that when he finds out that he landed the job he so excited that when gadget walks into the room (it’s morning and gadget literally was just gonna get some coffee, he’s still in his pajamas, he’s got bedhead) infinite sees him and whoops he tackle-hugs him and then whoops he knocked them both onto the floor but its cool gadget kinda let it happen and when infinite tells him what happened and apologizes he’s now also super excited and happy for him so now there’s two (2) people screaming inside (and out) about this awesome development

here’s a short one: they wear each other’s clothes a lot

gadget’s v cuddly in his sleep so he gets really clingy w/ infinite when a) it’s early morning and they’re just waking up b) it’s Late o’ clock at night and they’re chillin at home or c) he’s Actually asleep and within like three feet of infinite

i dont really know how to end this lol i dont really wanna just start repeating myself and i might think of other stuff later but for now pls consider the following: when they sleep whoever’s big spoon ends up resting one hand over the other’s heart and it’s super sweet

oh and they smooch a lot (i told you this response was self indulgent)