#❅. LETTER: ASKBOX

[snowontbeach]

⌆ a nervous tic or habit they do

answered here

[foxxology]

Happy Early Halloween! I'm here to raid your candy stash this year!

Candy pretty please

its starting again

[auriidae]

im so sad the ethubs roadtrip au only exists in your head i would read the HELL out of that

AW. WELL THAT'S VERY NICE TO HEAR <33 i might have to take another crack at writing it seriously, i've become excited about the story again,,,,

here's some random bits i wrote for it before, if that's of any interest ! (context in order is they've stopped at a rest area at night / they are In The Car / just checked into a hotel)

[saintobio]

SAAAAAIIIIINNNNTTTT! I cant believe I caught your ask box open 🫨

How are you? I wanted to send an ask to you for some time now bcos of that Sukuna fic. Im dying to know what happens next Ive been checking ur account multiple times a day LOL do u have any teasers? Not rushing you btw I love ur work

no sneak peaks, but the next part will be sukuna x reader x gojo :’) we might see how possessive sukuna can get. and thank youuuu <3

[pitske]

Godzillaaaaaa :3

inspired by the Shin Godzilla posters

[aaronstveit]

hi there! you said in your tags that the latest chapter of deep end contains the two scenes you built the entire fic on. i hope i'm not too nosy but i was wondering if you could tell us more about those two scenes? <3

omg hi anon!! yes i would LOVE to tell you more about those two scenes 🫡 gonna put this beneath the cut because i am a certified yapper and this WILL be longer than i intend it to be

the scenes in question are the two arguments with cosette and grantaire at the end. the cosette argument in particular is the basis of so much of this fic — the line "The dutiful martyr Enjolras, who has a flag where he should have a heart." was one of the very first things i wrote for deep end. not a very charitable place to begin from when it comes to enjolras' characterization, but even when i first wrote it, it was less about who enjolras was and more about how he was perceived.

okay i just scrolled allllllllll the way back to the very beginning of the edit history in my original deep end document (still titled "enjolsette siblings?" btw) and first of all i started writing this in MARCH which is wild to me. that was the month i finished reading les mis. wow. anyway apparently i wrote the first drafts of both these scenes in the same evening, and i'm honestly surprised by how much of them remained unchanged in the final version. at the time that i wrote them, they both occurred in chapter 8 of what i PLANNED to be 10 chapters. that's also extremely funny to me. there was really a time when i thought i could contain this story to 10 chapters...

when i wrote these chapters, i hadn't even written enjolras and cosette meeting yet. the original draft of the grantaire argument didn't have enjolras realizing he was in love with grantaire then. i was still in the first 10k of writing deep end when i wrote them. all that existed before these arguments were the original draft of chapter 1, half of the original draft of chapter 2, and the conversation with combeferre in chapter 5 that begins with combeferre saying "You've been spending a lot of time with Grantaire lately." so when i say these scenes are the basis of the entire fic, i really mean it. the whole time i was writing, i was pushing enjolras toward this point.

from the moment that i began writing deep end, it was intended to be an exploration of enjolras & his ideas of duty and justice. it has spiraled into being a story about a lot of other things, but in the kitchen with cosette, it comes down to this again. it comes down to: enjolras, and what he thinks his duty is, and just how wrong he is.

because he is wrong. money, whether she wants it or not, isn't going to "fix" cosette. there is no "fixing" cosette, because she's not broken. has she been hurt? yes. did their father fail her? undeniably. but depositing a check into her bank account isn't the answer to this. enjolras wants to heal her in some material sort of way, and that just isn't possible. all he can do is be her brother.

so, i had to take enjolras to that place. i had to make him obsess over "paying for his father's sins." i had to make him stressing himself out over the money. i had to make him love cosette without understanding it. and i had to make him terrible.

i love making enjolras terrible, i won't lie. a lot of the time when i'm writing, i like to see how terrible i can make him without alienating him completely from the reader. when i was trying to decide what line from this chapter to use as the summary, i sent a few options to my friend cossette, who read an earlier draft of this fic. she chose the line about him being "capable of being truly terrible" for me, because she said that was kind of the whole thing i was going for.

and it was! for him to be able to say the things he says in this chapter — from telling cosette "Look what he did to you!" to him saying to grantaire "Your chest is even emptier than mine. All you have is an empty bottle and a half-assed joke." he HAS to be terrible. these are terrible things to say!

unfortunately, i think they're also very human things to say. i joke a lot about how much i enjoy making characters say the worst possible things to each other, but it's true. i love doing it. because i think it's so tragically human. especially when you're saying these things to a person that you love. it's easy to hurt the people we love, because we know them well enough to know just where to hit them.

when enjolras hurts cosette, it's mostly by accident. he is coming from a good place, but going all about it wrong. when he hurts grantaire, it is with intent. he and grantaire have spent years hurting each other. when enjolras finds himself falling after fighting with cosette, it's too easy for him to cling to the closest familiar thing: fighting with grantaire.

building up to the fight with grantaire was a different beast. whereas the argument with cosette is borne from misguided ideas of justice, the fight with grantaire is entirely personal. as i was writing deep end, i had to write an enjolras and a grantaire who could come to this place, in very different ways. enjolras had to find himself leaning on grantaire; he had to be in more pain than anyone realized, including himself; he had to be terrible. grantaire, in contrast, had to have some amount of self control; he had to be someone who could be leaned on; he had to be able to walk away. the grantaire we meet in chapter 1 meets very little of these requirements. his development is just as important as enjolras', even if he isn't the main focus.

this answer is, as predicted, much much longer than i intended so i will wrap things up. when writing longform fic, i tend to start with the worst thing and work my way outwards from there. these two scenes are the worst things. because i knew where he was going, i knew while i was writing that i had to shape and enjolras who would find himself saying and doing the worst things he could. that's why he's cruel to grantaire in the first few chapters, why he finds himself arguing with grantaire despite knowing better, why he constantly finds himself self-destructing. i always tell everyone that deep end is about enjolras beating the marble statue allegations, and that's never truer than it is in chapter 18.

for the record, you are always welcome to stop by and ask me about deep end! i have soooooo much director's commentary and i love to yap. i could talk all day about what happened in the original draft, what was added later, ideas i toyed with, why i made the decisions i did, etc. thank you so much for this ask <333 i had lots and lots of fun answering it even if my answer is pretty much as long as deep end herself.

[rascalentertainments]

Since I'm still writing Chapter 8 and having some trouble finding some time to draw, I'm opening my Ask box again!

You're free to ask about my Wish Granted AU, or any of my original stories that are coming after it. If you have any personal questions like my favorite shows, animes, games, books or just about any fandom stuff whether Wish related or not, I'm also willing to answer them!

Its open to friends and anons, so I'm all ears for your questions! 😎

[spunsugarmusings]

Send "letters to Juliet" to read something-a poem, a letter, a journal entry, anything-that my muse has written about a crush or romantic interest of theirs

Inspired by the phenomenon of people sending letters to Juliet's courtyard in Verona

[oakthcrn]

🚩

send me a 🚩 and i'll share my unpopular rpc opinions and hot takes. bonus points if you include a specific topic to talk about, like follower count, softblocking, graphics, etc.

accepting

If you are not O.C. friendly, then I think you should state it somewhere in your blog. Some people just don't like ocs, and ya know what? That's fine. Ocs aren't everyone's cup of tea, but don't perpetuate that you are oc friendly when you have no interest in rping with ocs at all.

I had a bad experience with a canon multimuse when I sent a meme ( non shippy memes and trying to get the interaction started. ) not only did they not answer the ask, but they vagued about me, and stating how annoying it is that fem ocs only want to ship with their male muses.

First off, don't put a canon muse on your multi if you don't want interactions with that muse.

second off, NOT EVERY FEM OC WANTS TO SHIP WITH YOU. Lark is a bit difficult to ship with, and a very slow burn, and unless it is discussed, I don't send shippy memes. I would never assume just because I love a certain canon character and want interactions with them, that I would think that they're automatically shipping. I like to build things. I want ships to grow naturally.

What that person did felt like a slap in the face and naturally, I just blocked them and stopped trying to interact. If they had it on their blog that they don't like ocs, I wouldn't have ever bothered them. Be vocal and open about it, that way both our times are not wasted.

[ireallyymissu]

“you’re so pretty” ok write me a love letter

[snowontbeach]

⌆ a nervous tic or habit they do

⇅ do they look up or down while thinking?

⨳ ﹒ASK GAME : inbox open

⌆ a nervous tic or habit they do

o olaf desenvolveu ansiedade após tantos acontecimentos, então ele tem hábitos bem característicos como corpo inquieto (pernas mexendo, estalar os dedos em excesso ou apertar os dedos um no outro quando está nervoso).

⇅ do they look up or down while thinking?

na maior parte das vezes é para cima. não é uma regra, mas acaba sendo inconsciente.

[foxxology]

trick the treat! what's on the corruption menu this year

huh what? oh yeah theres goodies on the table

(might be a bit slow to respond after veilguard downloads lol)

[7hefear]

kyle what's ur favorite type of hat? :3

are. do . do people have favorite kidns of hats.? is that a thing? umm. OH those fluffy snow hats with the earflaps. the square ones. iforgot what theyre called👍

[monstrousproductions]

Greetings and salutations! I'm trying to get a friend of mine to listen to Monstrous Agonies. At my recommendation, he listened to the "A Densely Woven Tapestry of Fiction" bonus episode a few weeks ago and greatly enjoyed it, and I'm now deciding which other episodes I should suggest to give him a taste of the feel of the podcast and how it works. Which brings me to my questions:

Do you remember the episode numbers for the murder train letter, the letter about the long-lived couple who were trying to decide what to do with their vast collection of personal erotica, and the letter from the individual who was fully isolated but listened in to the podcast (I believe they were in a forest, but I'm not certain)?

Do you have any (spoiler-free) episodes that you would suggest to a person who's trying to get a sense of MA, and/or ones that you're especially proud of? Bonus points if they have nerd stuff, puns, and/or heart-wrenching voice acting.

Oooh Densely Woven Tapestry is one of my all-time faves - Rhys did such an amazing job in his performance!! And thanks so much for your good good work spreading the word about MA 🤩

As for your questions:

Murder Train: Episode Sixty Three Erotic Memorabilia: Episode Sixty Seven Forest of Forgetting: Epidode Forty

My go-to recommendations for getting an idea of the show are Episode Nineteen (ethical mimic ownership and husband in the Wild Hunt); Episode Fifteen (discovering someone thinks of you as their nemesis, and accidentally falling through time after a workplace accident); and Episode Sixty (cosmic horror from beyond the universe considers starting a Physics PhD, and cryptid boyfriend is offended when partner says he isn't really famous).

Anyone else got any they'd suggest for someone just getting into the show?

[the-very-earth-you-stand-on]

"ivan, darling,"

the man more like a dragon calls, waltzing in. he grasps ivan's chin, making him look up at him with more gentleness then he'd give anyone else.

"what have you been up to?"

-@the-ability-collectors-hoard

Oh, Shibusawa-? (He smiles.)

It's fantastic to see you! You see, I was trying to figure out what kind of gemstones you'd like.

An agate, maybe? Or a ruby, but that seems too obvious. Jasper! Carnelian? Oh, I think a couple have slipped my mind already... (He's already rambling, of course.)

[siionnach]

" can i borrow a kiss? o promise i’ll give it back. "

𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 accepting / @saighdears

𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄. He placed the fiddle he had been tuning on the wooden table. The tavern was packed, and there were many beautiful faces, but there was none quite as bonny as Jamie Fraser. 

❝ 𝐀𝐲𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. ❞ He hummed with delight before planting a teasing kiss upon the man's lips. All too fleeting, yet sweet.