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[getvalentined]

FFVI Crossover 🌟 FINAL FANTASY VII: EVER CRISIS

Life…dreams…hope… Where do they come from?

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[ace-and-sleepdeprived]

fucking love the fact that a select few people got so fed up with how much sexual content of miguel there was that they just went "okay you know what?? he doesn't feel that kind of attraction. he doesn't NEED that kind of attraction. we're taking his sexual attraction and throwing it in the trash so you can grow to LOVE and CARE for him as an actual PERSON and not as a weird sexual fantasy come true."

[knifefightandchill]

BEFORE & AFTER GIF CHALLENGE

i was tagged by @ncthandrake and @raccoonscity ! ty, I had fun with this💕💕💕

tagging; @vitospaghetta, @emperorsgf , @aethersflood, @entreri, and anyone else who wants to do it. And of course, no pressure and i hope you don't mind the tag!!

sets can be found here, [x], [x], [x], [x], [x], [x].

[smile-files]

i thought it would be nice to share two projects i made in art class this semester!

title: angel of change

this one's a fun collage/sculpture about the positive and negative changes one can go through when starting college! featuring a nervous little peg person on the road, a surge of waves, and a biblically accurate pet rock angel smoking a cigarette

title: wing surfaces of morpho didius

and this is a sculpture of a morpho butterfly! with its ventral wing surfaces (the visible side of the wings) painted realistically, and with its dorsal wing surfaces (the hidden side of the wings) covered with messily-colored butterfly coloring book pages. the idea here is that my fascination with butterflies, despite being very scientific now, is still one imbued with naïveté, playfulness, and childlike wonder :)

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I like just how many sci-fi and fantasy worlds have their own "cat but it's a person" race. There's Caitians (Star Trek), Tabaxi (D&D), Khajiit (Skyrim), Catkind (wow that's not a very creative name but okay) (Doctor Who), I think there's multiple from Star Wars but one is the Tinnell - and this is before we even get to anime, which - well, I'm not sure that the prototypical anime catgirl quite fits the spirit of the post, but maybe Izutsumi does, at least.

lookit all these kibties!!!

the images are of each of the listed cat-person species - Caitian, Tabaxi, Khajiit, Catkind, Tinnel, and anime catgirl (specifically Izutsumi from Delicious in Dungeon).

[pfhwrittes]

someone actually just kick me in the shin for this but here. have a wip snippet for something completely different and not at all related to the CoD fandom at all.

(snippet of my eddie wells x female reader angst fest below)

-- the first time eddie wells ruined your life, it started with a knocking noise coming from your mum’s car. 

the one you had borrowed with her permission so you could drive over to manchester to meet up with some mates. she’d told you to be careful love and you had. you had, honest. it’s just that the car started making a knocking noise after you’d hit a pothole, maybe going a little bit over the speed limit trying to make it to the factory on time for your shift after a long weekend of partying.

and really, it was joanne’s suggestion to see our eddie down at the garage to get it fixed when you’d been complaining to the girls on the line at the factory before your mam finds out and skins you alive my girl with a maternal wink that spurred you on. 

so you did.

[isca-rambles]

Okay, I've been neglecting this side of things for a long while, apologies. Hope everyone has been keeping okay and enjoying all the wonderful fic and edits etc we've been getting from the community over this long hiatus. Can't believe I'm actually getting nervous about the series starting, but I'm just very terrified of things getting too busy and overwhelming for me in the various fan spaces I'm in. I've only known this fandom in a hiatus so during the actual show will be interesting! Going to throw some of my 'theories' in here but they're based heavily on the promos, trailer, and interviews we've seen so if you're avoiding any of that before the show, I'll pop them under a spoiler tag! ...if I can remember how.

Okay, everyone else gone? Good. Right.

So Lucy is going to be a temporary TO until Celina graduates (poor Celina has been a rookie for what seems like actual years but I guess they're saying it's only been under a year sure okay) and Nolan will take over. Seth, Lucy's rookie, will be eager but very awkward and not fast on his feet. I adore him already but please don't fuck this up for Lucy, Seth. I reckon she'll have to give in and go to Tim for advice on how to be a tougher TO, which he'll happily give her after some flirt-teasing. And Tim, likewise, will have trouble with Miles because he's not technically a boot, he's not going to be afraid of Tim the same way real rookies are. Newly therapised and maybe as part of the small doses, he'll go to Lucy for advice on changing up his TO style a little more. Then we get a wonderful balance of them both using each other's styles. Miles has likely left Texas with his family or just his sister to protect them from a situation or a person. Potentially a DV situation, not that I want to throw that around so casually, but whatever the reason I have a feeling Miles is putting on a big front of being cool and flirty (he will absolutely try to charm everyone, especially Lucy, and Tim will be pissed af) but once things get out, he'll show more vulnerability and humility. Tim will, again newly therapised, be able to connect with Miles and help him one way or another. Or, at the very least, be able to understand why he left Texas and why staying here is important. Onto Lucy and Tim. So I have so many different theories for them. I hope we don't miss too much of them getting back to a more comfortable space with each other, and we at least get to see some of the small doses, but I am glad there's going to be a little timeskip (a couple of weeks apparently?) so we can at least have them talking and comfortable. Tim is going to be so fucking proud of Lucy being asked to be a temporary TO and he will 100% be in her corner, if he's not the one who suggested her to Grey/the captain when they realised they were short a TO. There will be flirting. So much flirting. I mean this isn't a prediction we've seen the trailer and teasers. In terms of the bet, they'll get super into it and very competitive. At some point, whether it's during the roundup or something else, they'll start maybe getting too competitive and either someone nearly gets hurt or nearly fucks up, or someone (Lucy or Tim) gets their feelings hurt. They'll pull back a little, maybe after a talk or a fight, and go a little calmer. I can 100% seeing Tim ending up throwing their bet to 'let' Lucy win, because he knows she needs some wins and he just wants to see her happy. Think of Jake fumbling to let Amy win in B99. I can see Lucy also either trying to give Tim the win or refusing for him to 'let' her win, so she tries to throw the bet too. Their rookies will be so confused and it will be wonderful. Also that scene of their shops pulling up next to each other and the rookies running out? I am 99% convinced that's during the roundup and they both race to a call and get there at the same time, so they make Seth and Miles race for the arrest and winning point. Seth's been potentially fucking up so he's desperate to prove himself, maybe something goes wrong and Tim and Lucy call a tie or truce on their bet. But can you imagine if either one of them wins and they say they don't want their winnings, they want a drink/dinner/date/adult conversation? As for messy Chenford, as in hooking up before they're officially back together, I think there's a good chance of it. I'm happy with whatever route they take tbh, so long as they're back together by the end of S7. Messy, slowburn, small doses, secret dating - whatever, just be happy. For *that* clip, it'll be during the Gala. Tim will get mildly injured during a scuffle and Lucy will offer to patch him up. They'll go up to what is either one of their hotel rooms or a shared hotel room for the Mid-Wilshire crew to get ready in.

Now, by this point they have either hooked up before a few times or they're back together, because Lucy is wearing *the* necklace and Tim would probably not be so bold to look at her like that (while looking like that!) if they weren't already in that place. He's going to let her take the lead so he's not going to try and seduce her without her being comfortable with it. And again, the necklace. She's not putting that back on without it meaning she's ready for the next step with him. I reckon the new necklace we've been seeing will be another gift from Tim, maybe a small dose, maybe just a 'fresh start' kind of thing. Could be something she gets for herself. I don't mind either way. So, for me I reckon a) she'll cave and kiss him and they maybe get caught or they end up in bed together b) they're already back together/being messy and the 'we shouldn't' is because people are waiting for them and they could get caught c) she doesn't kiss him in this scene but they cave like seconds or minutes later while she patches him up. They're going to try to misdirect us and do some fakeouts, it's what TV does, but I have faith that they will be together probably by the midpoint of the season, so I'm trying to stay in my positive era and not doom-spiral. Which is pretty difficult while being in a fandom but I'm staying in this era if it kills me because doom spiralling will probably actually kill me. As for the rest? So, Oscar and Jason will likely be the big plot points for 7a, while the serial killer will slowly make themselves known through 7a until becoming the big plot point in 7b. Speaking of the serial killer for the love of god would you let Lucy and everyone else have some sort of reaction to what happened to her? It doesn't need to be a massive storyline, just her her acknowledge what happened to her. Maybe the rookies notice everyone is super on edge or something. Just let them acknowledge DOD again and how traumatic it was for her and for the people who love her. Of course, my constant beg, let Lucy have better friendships. Not just with Tim. Let her be appreciated and loved and not be constantly undermined or spoken down to. I don't need it to be a massive storyline because I know we won't get that, but let people acknowledge how amazing she is. And someone, for the love of god, point out how she jumped from one speeding truck to another to save another officer. Someone other than Tim be in awe of her, right now. My thoughts on the Bailey/Oscar/Jason storyline? I honestly don't care. I think that Oscar will end up helping our lot in taking down Jason, purely because Jason is not letting him run off into the luxurious sunset like we know Oscar always wants to do. Oscar loves chaos but he likes lighting the match and running the other way. He would not want to hang around for whatever Jason has planned so I can see him swapping sides in a heartbeat if it means him getting off lighter.

Monica? God please no. She will probably be back if the set stuff is for the show and not another, but she better be in the process of being arrested or tried or something, because there is no way that woman (who is wanted by everyone, government and criminals alike) is going to be able to run all the way from fucking Argentina back to LA and not get caught. I will honestly be so fucking pissed if she is somehow back without being imprisoned immediately. Just let her storyline end please god. And do not bring back Blair istg. Aaron, my love. My precious angel. We know he's alive in the universe so I guess either he transfers to another station or he's taking off to pursue another dream or job or something and process all the shit he went through on this show. I really really hope he'll be back for at least the Chenford engagement and/or wedding, but I can't hold my breath on that. I'm so mad he was probably let go of for 'creative reasons' and I know this is how the entertainment business is, but it's ridiculous. Tru and Aaron were blessings on this show. I'm angry. Oh, Nyla! So...god I hope they're not going to kill James. Honestly I don't think they will? Maybe that's wishful thinking more than anything else. I hope it's just something temporary that's painful for her to go through and nothing more permanent. Just let them be okay please. New detective guy? Based on the description he might be making things difficult for Wes in professional and personal ways. I don't believe for a single second that Angela would cheat so it's just going to be Wesley being insecure if they go that jealousy route. Honestly I hope they just have Wes being all insecure and annoyed but then he has to work with the new guy on something and they become best buddies and Angela's just like 'wtf?' because yes.

Umm, what else what else. Lucy promotion? I'm not holding my breath but it'll be ridiculous if being a temporary TO doesn't at least give her a boost towards being a P3 and getting her stripes. I know realistically a lot of the characters waited years to get anywhere promotion wise, but Nolan outranking her just makes me bristle. And I love Celina but Lucy should not be the same rank as her for too long. Lucy is constantly fighting to prove herself to everyone, making all these incredible busts while UC and doing some amazing feats and filling in for every other job at the station when they need her to, but she's not getting the recognition and I'm still annoyed about that. Do better, show. I don't think she'll be a TO permanently, but I don't mind it as a stepping stone for her. I really don't see the show letting her be a detective, much as I want her to have her dream. I have feelings about her being UC long-term and I'd rather it not be a thing for her, if only because it'd impact her screen time. Let her do short term UC and let her figure out if UC is for her before she's back with Tim. It is an important point in their relationship, but I don't want her making the decision just for him. I just want her to realise she doesn't have to keep working towards it because she's put so much time in. It is okay for her to change her path. And honestly I could see her being an amazing Captain or Watch Commander. Let her be in charge. Let her be in the position to make changes and team lead. She's amazing with people. Or let her be a sergeant liaison for the FBI it's a real position I've googled it. I just loved her FBI scenes, okay? And if they're going to maybe have the Fed characters on the show more often since their show was cancelled, it'd be perfect. She can still patrol and still be in charge, and then she'll be out of Tim's chain of command. Hmm...what else. Oh, look, I'm pretty sure Tim's mum is dead or they're estranged. I'm sorry, Eric, but come on. She's never mentioned ever! Though hopefully we'll still get a nice family meal with Chenford and Genny and, of course, our beloved Kojo. I really don't want them to bring Ray back honestly but we'll see. I can't think that far ahead atm anyway. And Lucy definitely looks like she's going through it injury-wise from the bts stuff so please let us have Tim looking after her or being worried for her. Give us the comfort after all that hurt. Make it pay-off.I haven't seen enough either way to judge the season finale cliffhanger. There will be one but I'm not sure if it'll be about Tim getting hurt/kidnapped. It'd be nice to see some feral!Lucy but I also want to see some feral!Tim, before and after they're back together. Idk why he's wearing the suit, maybe just a court appearance. I'm trying to think of other theories I've come up with or agreed with. I guess I'll make a new post if I remember any of them. This is mostly so I can have them all written down in one place if I want to be like 'OMG LOOK I PREDICTED THIS' later, even though all my predictions are like shared by 80% of the fandom anyway. Anywaaaay, ramble over. For now. I'll remember something I want to add in like 5 seconds.

[asexualtonysoprano]

almost done with stickerbombing my laptop. next target.. my PC...

[aifastic]

I wanna make a (non-binding) poll to see which of the fanfics I want to continue writing would win lol

(Currently I'm finally back working in a couple of them anyways)

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Note: I want to clarify that most of these are available at my AO3 (except the new installments of Farm!AU and Fury of the Realms, but the rest of the installments of both AU's are there). The Helmet Party Cowboy!AU is a multi-chaptered story continuing The Tale of The Soldier and The Engineer, a chapter of my 30 day OTP challenge Together With You. If you participate in this poll: thank you!! 💙

[silvershewolf247]

Tiffany: We used to do a lot more than just touch hands.

Nica: Yeah. It's called rape.

Tiffany: What? Which part of staying in a beautiful mansion, eating the best food, and doing whatever the hell you want is rape?

Nica: The part where I didn't want to do any of it! Not only did you two physically rape me but you violated every cell in my body and every thought in my goddamn head.

Tiffany: That’s not what I was trying to do.

Nica: It doesn't matter what you were trying to do. You raped me again and again!

[artsyaprilmr]

So, the VtM × TWC thing… It's been almost a year since I've got the idea and I am not sure if I am going to finish it, unfortunately. Just gonna post all the most important info here without much details because I don't want to keep it just for myself lol

Unit Bravo is a coterie organized by Adam, who in this universe is a very old and powerful Ventrue vampire. Him, Nate and Felix are part of the Camarilla (the Agency is very Camarilla coded for me) and Mason is independent. Mason is Gangrel, Felix is Toreador, Nate is Brujah (had a wild thought of making him a Lasombra just to continue the "can't use technology" gag but it didn't fit with everything else whatsoever).

I've reworked the book one into VtM setting, and, honestly, it doesn't differ from the original too much. Weird murders happen, bodies are completely emptied of blood and if there is any, it comes back weird on all the tests. A local detective is put on the case, at the same time the Prince is getting very interested in this: they understand that one of the Kindred is involved in this and they want this situation to be dealt with quickly and quietly, without getting humans involved. Adam is put on the task. He makes the police to drop the case, but one local detective is veryyy stubborn and is ready to delve deeper into this bloody mystery even without the approval from their superiors. At first Adam and others don't really care, but then as they get deeper involved with the case too (they still need to find a vampire that is breaking the masquerade), they figure out that the detective would be the next target. The coterie keeps an eye on the detective and kind of wants to use them as a bait at first but then they genuinely get attached lol A weird but sweet friendship blooms between the vampires and the detective. The rest is history.

I haven't decided on how exactly this version of the book will end. I have two endings to choose from and in both of them the detective ends up becoming a vampire, so it doesn't really matter I guess.

Murphy is a Tzimisce, Sabbat aligned vampire btw. Also have these 2 pictures! Mason has a Caucasian Shepherd dog. I haven't decided if this dog would be a ghoul or not, but if not, then here's a funny little detail - Mason gives out all the commands for it in Greek, so no one else would be able to use basic commands on his dog lol

[biscuitquasar]

Indescribable amounts of adhd are contained in this image

[starsscapes]

Alien Bodies (1997)

[lentilmento]

WIP of an image that's actually beating my ass but I can also physically feel skills improving as I work on it (and it's a lot of fun) so the march continues

[mariyekos]

I'm currently working on 3 D*MC fics as my mind latches onto different plot points and different ways to explore a character, and man, I really hope I'll be able to finish at least one of these by next month.

First one is my time travel fic that is currently stalled because I'm paralyzed by trying to fix early parts in the story. Some of them I need to change because I didn't realize I'd missed something big/had messed up canon until much later, or because I thought of something good later in the story that required changing earlier parts in order to maintain continuity. There's also the issue of characterization. I have a bad habit of swinging too far to the extremes with emotions, so I'm trying to temper both the characters and the overall mood so things don't feel too crazy. This one's currently 76.3k words. I feel like it'll end around 90-100k. I might cut out a few thousand words and shove them in a different fic as part of the same series because they don't feel super relevant to the main story, but could be a cute aside.

Second one is a fic I feel like I probably won't finish, because I'm hitting the mood of it with fic three and it was the mood that made me want to write it. It's a post-D/MC3 fic about Dante fighting with the increased presence/power of his demon side post-awakening his Trigger. In my daily wordcount doc, my comment when I started it was "obsessive gore time" for some context. It's about feeling too big for your own skin, and the fight between the urges that feel right to half of you but are disgusting to the other half, and how Dante tried so navigate that. 4.6k words at the moment and probably halfway done.

Third is a fic adapting what I wrote in another post that I will hopefully link in a quick edit to this post. Short version is at the end of DMC1, Dante finds Vergil in hell and raises the Qliphoth himself to fix Vergil. This fic also goes into that sort of obsessive mindset, though in a different way. Fic two is Dante going "what is wrong with me?" while fic three is Dante going "there is nothing wrong with me! definitely not! everything is terrible and maybe I'm doing some morally questionable things but hey it'll work out and it's not that bad so it'll be fiiiine (it will not be fine and what he is doing is nor forgiveable, but he's so desperate to save Vergil and not kill his brother again that he's wearing rose tinted glasses as an excuse to avoid all the red flags)". I worked on it today so it's the one that has currently captured my brain. It's currently 3.6k words and nowhere near done. I'm thinking 15k for this one, but I'm really not sure.

Anyway! That's a little look at what I'm working on now. I also kind of want to go back and fix some characterization/writing in the one D*MC Dante & Lady fic I have published so I might do that... I usually don't edit published fics in any way other than fixing typos/weird grammar, but this one is bugging me so I just might. We'll see.

[inkskinned]

most writing advice is good as long as you know why it is good, at which point it is also bad. the hardest thing (and most precious thing) about being an artist is that you gotta learn how to take critique. i don't mean "just shut up and accept that people hate your work," i mean you need to learn what the critique is saying and then figure out if it actually helps.

i usually tell people reading my work: "i'm collecting data, so everything is useful." i ask them where they put the book down, even though it's too long for most people to read in 1 sitting. i ask them what they thought of certain characters. i let them tell me it was really good but i like it more when they look a little stunned and say i forgot i was reading your book, which means they forgot i exist, which is very good news.

sometimes people i didn't ask will read my work and tell me i don't like it. and that is okay, you don't have to like it. but i look at the thing that they don't like and try to figure out if i care. i don't like that you don't capitalize. this one is common, and i have already thought about it. i do not care, it's because of chronic pain and frankly i like the little shape of small letters. you use teeth and ribs in all your work. actually that is very true. i don't know what's up with that. next time i will work to figure out a different word, thank you. you're whiny, go outside. someone said that to me recently and it made me laugh. i am on the whine-about-it website as an internet poet. you are in my native habitat, watching me perform a natural enrichment behavior. but i like the dip of whiny, how the word itself does "whine" (up/down, the sound out your nose on the y), but i don't know if i want to feel whiny. maybe next time i will work on it being melancholy, like what you would call a male writer's poetry.

repeated "good" advice clangs in a bell and doesn't hold a real shape, dilutes in the water. like sometimes you will hear "don't use said." you turn that around in your head and it bounces off the edges of your brain like it is a dvd screensaver. it isn't bad advice, but it feels wrong somehow, like saying easy choices are illegal! sometimes i will only use "said." sometimes i will just kick dialogue tags out to the trash. sometimes i make little love poems where the fact that i do not say "said" is very bad, and makes you feel bad in your body, because someone didn't say something. i am a contrary little shitbird, i guess.

but it is also good advice, actually. it is trying to say that "said" sometimes is clutter. it makes new writers think about the very-small words and very-small choices, because actually your work matters and wordchoice matters. "i know," you said. "i know," you sighed. "i know." we both know but neither of us use a dialogue tag, because we are in a contemporary lit piece.

it is too-small to say don't use said. but it is a big command, so it gets your attention. what are you relying on? what easy choices do you make? when you edit, do you choose the same thing? can you make a different choice? sometimes we need the blankness of said, how it slides into the background. sometimes we don't.

i usually say best advice is to read, but i also mean read books you don't like, because that will make you angry enough to write your own book. i also mean read good books, which will break your heart and remind you that you are a very small person and your voice is a seashell. i also mean you need to eat books because reading a book is a writer's version of studying.

my creative writing teacher in the 7th grade had a big red list of no! words and on it was SUNSET. RAZORS. LOVE. GALAXY. DEATH. BLOOD. PAIN. I liked that razor and love were tucked next to each other like birds, and found it funny that he believed we were too young to know the weight of razor in the context of pain. i hated him and his Grateful Dead belt, where the colored teddy bears held up his appraisal of us. i hated his no list. it is very good/bad advice. i wasn't old enough yet to know that when you are writing about death you are also writing about sunsets and when you write about love you are tucking yourself into a napkin that never stops folding.

back then my poetry was all bloody, dripped with agony when you picked it up. i didn't know there is nothing beautiful about a razor, nothing exciting about pain. i just understood sharpness, which he took to mean i understood nothing. i wrote the razor down and it wasn't easy, but it was necessary. that's what i'm saying - sometimes it's good advice, because it's not always necessary. and sometimes it is very bad advice, because writing about it is lifesaving.

hang on my dog was just having a nightmare. i heard that it is a rule not to write about dogs - in my creative writing mfa, my teacher rolled her eyes and said everyone writes a dead dog. the literature streets are littered in canine bodies. i watched the rise and fall of his ribs (there is that word again) and had to reach out and stop the bad dream. when he woke up he didn't recognize me, and he was afraid.

it is good/bad advice to say that poems and writing have to mean something. it is bad/good advice to say they're big feelings in small packages. it is better advice to say that when my dog saw where he was, he relaxed immediately, rubbed his face against me. someone on instagram would make fun of that moment by writing their "internet poetry" as a sentence that tumbles across a white page: outside it is sunset and my dog is still in a gutter, bleeding a galaxy out of his left paw. or maybe it would be: i woke the dog up/the dog forgot i loved him/and i saw the shape of a senseless/and impossible pain.

the dog is alive in this one, and he is happy. when i tell you i love you, i know what i said. write what you need to write, be gentle to yourself about it. the advice is only as good as far as it helps. the rest is just fencing. take stock of the boundaries, and then break them. there's always somewhere else you could be growing.

i love you, keep going.