#(and some of these i just wanna /publish/)

[harbingersecho]

RVB OC Week Day 1; Introduction AGENT ARIZONA _ "Guess you got me, Counselor. I peaked a decade ago and now I'm wasting my time running a daycare for miserable 20-somethings who're gonna get killed, crippled, or institutionalized in a year. [...] I've heard. But I'm forty-two, not twenty-two, and I don't need to be sold on a daydream. So... What, exactly, do you have to offer me?"

anyway, here's a more in-depth look at Ari for the rvb oc week ft. an old stuff from 2023 that I used for her on artfight and some new outfit/armor things for him. random thoughts/rambles + info under the cut for those interested --

Ari was born around 46-47 years before Blood Gulch and she was with Project Freelancer for around three years until it fell apart - originally he died in the MOI crash, but since Temple later on apparently 'imprisoned' her in the living armor room (and then THAT got retconned last year), I've kept his alive status more vague, Schödinger's cat style lol. (Timeline taken from the rvb guide book)

Anyway, small facts about him I guess; she was made Major/Battalion XO in her early thirties, she has a sister and 3 nieces/nephews that he sees once in a while, he's an inconsistent smoker, and she has a more southern(? if that's what it'd be called, I'm not American and it's not really like that Texan type so...) accent that she hides for several reasons. Also one of the few poor souls who finds Wyoming's knock knock jokes funny even if he pretends otherwise ...

Originally she was a LCDR but idk if PFL has navicom freelancers + tbh I based that position off of Mass Effect lol, so now he's an eq rank of O-4 but in the Marine Corps which I think PFL falls mostly under? Idk man. I think the background storyline still works tho so it's fine

In Project Freelancer, as one of the older and more experienced agents, he was often working as a team leader or a strategist of sorts which also aligns with her previous position - though now he's actually much more involved in the ops which she likes. His skillset is somewhat crowd control-esque (which includes tracking obv), combined with eliminating targets. (I have like a "guide" on how she should be played if he was in a hero shooter/moba/whatever but this is waaay too long already, you get the concept)

The armor design (halo5 ver) is largery taken from the Freelancer presumed to be Arizona in Battlescars - a Tracer helmet with an Achilles armor. Since rvb doesn't exactly follow Halo lore, I'm imagining this to mean it's largely "functions" as a Tracer armor, i.e. tactical and tracking focused, though maybe she was considered for Omega before Tex got him (since Achilles apparently comes with an aggressive AI in Halo lore but PFL only had Alpha + the fragments and Ari never received an AI). As a Major/XO, she wore the Halo Reach Commando helmet

I didn't draw them here but I do also have other 'versions' for her armor dependant on the game (like 'realistically' he couldn't wear this armor in Halo 3 etc) but idk if it's like. That important or whatever and I'm not like an expert on Halo armor lol (tho if you have opinions on if the H3 helmet should be Security, 'basic' or ODST etc or if you have info/ideas abt Halo armor in RVB in general do LMK <3)

[fishbloc]

THE MOD IS DONE . i am free

[toxiccoworkeryaoi]

my thing is, yeah, sure, he wouldn't say that, they wouldn't talk like therapists, they wouldn't stop for consent, etc. i get it.

but also, sometimes i want them to get therapy, and if i can suspend my disbelief for a while i can get their best friends giving them that therapy and i love that.

sometimes i want them to stop and have a big emotional talk the next day instead, and i can get that and i love that.

so if you're an author that writes that kind of thing, and you're reading those posts and thinking maybe you should change because your audience wants you to, you should know some of your audience (ME) also enjoys these things, even though we (I) know real life is not that way.

[heyhoneyfox]

Um. I wanna fuck the dragon.

[nyancrimew]

ok so stupid beginners independent journo/writer questions... go if i have an idea for a pice i wanna pitch to some magazines, how do i like go about that? do i just sketch out my ideas for it or can i like already write it? and if the latter how well pre-edited does it already need to be? and ! is there anything important i should keep in mind when writing pitch emails? i have no idea how to do any of this but i have some stuff i wanna publish elsewhere and collect some bylines and where i think a different audience than the one on my website blog would be cool.

[blazeshardcat]

playing around with a merlin AU in my brain world where arthur is the one with magic and merlin is just some peasant boy whos below average in almost every relevant skill except pissing people off, but is also involved. got some logistics to work out before i try making it a full fic or anything, but its funny to imagine

like yeah, arthur is the prince of camelot and also on track to become one of the greatest sorcerers ever. but you know who his counterpart is? THIS yapper

even funnier if episode 1 has arthur actually stopping his own assassination, but merlin gets credited for it, and much to arthur's displeasure he can't speak up cause he used magic to do it- so now hes got this annoyance as his personal servant (a position he purposely neglected to fill because he didnt want anyone finding out about THE MAGIC)

then the next time arthur sees the dragon, he's like "oh also your servant is part of your destiny. yeah, the one who dropped your breakfast tray all over the floor which made a really fucking loud noise before putting your clothes on backwards. i dont make the rules sorry. btw you should teach him how to fight so he doesnt die"

[arathejedi394]

i cracked this morning and read the first like 200 words of my og novel that i wrote when i was 13/self-published at 14

and like

why did hank green post it on his instagram with praise?? like i think of it and i cringe. today i re-read the first 200 words and i wanted to stop existing?? why did my mom give him a copy of it i did not ask her to do that??? i just went to one of his concerts in 2014 and my mom just gave the book to somebody and for some reason that somebody gave it to hank green and then suddenly im in the crowd 15yo new best friend bc nerdfighteria and hank green is like "oh somebody gave one of the guys this book just before the show and i took a look at it and i kinda like it it's pretty good" and up he holds none other than my og novel he goes "a 14yo wrote this and it's pretty good this affirms my faith in humanity or something like a very young not-adult did this whole novel and it's not bad that's cool" idk what he said it was 10 years ago. and there's me in the crowd freaking the fuck out i say to my new bff who i had just met at the beginning of the concert bc we were standing next to each other like "BRO THAT'S MY BOOK" new bff is like "BRO THAT'S YOUR BOOK???" and starts jumping up and down for attention like "YO THAT'S THIS GUY'S BOOK" hank green hears points at me and goes "HEY HE'S RIGHT THERE YOUR BOOK'S PRETTY COOL KID" AND THEN!!! HE FUCKING PUT IT ON HIS INSTA??? AND PRAISED IT??? THE STICKY NOTE MY MOM LEFT ON IT WITH LIKE 10 WORDS OF SYNOPSIS STILL ON THE COVER??? ALL OF HIS INSTA FOLLOWER'S SAW MY MOM'S HANDWRITING??? AND MY WHOLE ASS INITIALS + LAST NAME??? A COMPLIMENTARY REVIEW BY HANK GREEN HIMSELF??? WHY?? WHY WAS MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME THAT CRINGE ASS Y/A NOVEL???

nobody go looking back at hank green's 2015 insta. do not confirm this is true. let this be a totally unverifiable claim of some rando fandom blogger.

listen. i was 13 when i wrote that book. i was so full of brand new baby teen angst. i do not understand why hank green did not open the book flip through a couple pages go "oof this kid needs a therapist and a writing coach" and never mention it again. i do not understand why he mentioned it on stage, i don't know why he put it on his instagram, it was so bad. ohmygod. i wish i could forget it ever happened

eXCEPT I CAN'T

bc iT wAs SuPpOsEd TO BE A TRIOLOGY. aNd I ONLY WROTE ONE. AND MY PARENTS ARE STILL ASKING ME WHEN BOOK TWO IS COMING.

IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS.

[fairiequeen]

As someone who never read Golden Trio era fan fic, only NextGen or Marauders, idk how I have found myself having read so much Dramione fic in the past few months that I'm now lowkey shipping Blaise and Ginny.

[stomachflu]

i was rereading some of my writing earlier since someone reblogged it… quite literally how did i write literally every single k*nk fic i’ve ever published during the most stressful and exhausting period of my life. like all of those fics, every single one, were written during the single most physically exhausting job i ever had & a cross-country move (followed by a second move).

what i actually REMEMBER about this time period is being so exhausted that i would come home from work and collapse into bed. maybe i wrote all of that in some kinda fugue state idk

[getouyuri]

I won’t be actually writing this for a while (easily over a month), I just wanted to make a layout 👩🏽‍🦯 and im plotting out a bigger & more complex plot than I had before and I can confidently say that im cooking 🦦

[celestie0]

when ppl get too caught up in the accuracy of situations in fanfiction or if things are super realistic or as they should/would be in real life etc etc im like. my tumblr user in christ. it's fanfiction.

[kanerallels]

Girl help my brain won't brain AGAIN

[unladielike]

Although he never quite knew where he stood with Vivian, it only felt right to give her at least something for her birthday. She spent a fair amount of time around his place, talking about all the 2D men who were so much better than him in every way (despite the fact they didn’t really exist). He didn’t quite know how to take the fact that her favorite character looked suspiciously like him, but it could’ve been that he looked suspiciously like the character instead. Maybe the reason why she was drawn to him in the first place was due to the visual commonalities between them. Who could say?

So when she arrived at his place in the mid-afternoon, the hitman remained seated on the couch, idly scrolling on his phone before looking up. “Hey, c’mere, I’ve got somethin’ for ya.” He beckoned her closer and placed a couple of things sitting beside him on the couch into her hands. One was a small, six inch limited edition plush of her favorite character (which he wouldn’t ever tell her where he acquired it because that would likely horrify her) and a sparkly acrylic keychain of the character as well. They weren’t wrapped, reflecting how casual he wanted the gesture to seem.

“Here’s that one guy ya like so much. I’ve never gotten the appeal, but it’s your birthday, so whatever. I hope ya like it.” As if to shield himself from any vulnerability he was showing in the moment, he quickly added, “Don’t read into it too much, ‘kay?”

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VIVIAN! (4/20 — 2025). always accepting!

    Like any other day she came to his apartment, all Vivian really thought they would do was have sex, so when she spies Kai sitting by the couch with what looked to be Kuroo Tetsurou merchandise, her bespectacled gaze immediately widens. Wait... he couldn't have, could he? But the next thing she knows, Kai's calling her over, causing her to obediently inch closer with squinting eyes, as if asking, 'Whatever are you scheming, mister?', because for some reason, she had trouble believing he would let her have both the plush or the acrylic key chain for free; in fact, something told her he may be keeping them both hostage until she did something especially lewd, so the moment he hands them to her without any strings attached, dumbfounded blinks then proceeded to roll off her eyelids.

    "Oh... you actually remembered?" Vivian finds herself uttering, seemingly at a loss for words as she stared down at the adorable plush she could never find at a reasonable price online and the acrylic keychain that had been on her wish list for a while now. Then, for once, her gaze softens, because it occurred to her that deep down inside, maybe Kai really did care. Due to this being the case, she'll slowly peer back up at him with her lashes fluttering as a light magenta hue seeps it's way through her cheeks.

    "I, um... don't know what to say. But thank you, Kai." This time around, her voice lacks the harshness it usually would, meaning for better or worse, Vivian could hardly bring herself to be mean to him. "You really didn't have to because gift or no gift, I would have sucked your dick regardless, yet still... it means a lot to me. And since it won't stop being my birthday for the next eleven hours, could I... maybe give you a hug?" she then questions, because if nothing else, she wanted to hide her face in his chest and not have to look at him as her heart subsequently raced a mile per minute.

    Of course, provided Kai refused, she would accept his 'no' with a pout, but for the time being, Vivian figured this was about the only opportunity she had to selfishly indulge in his warmth before she had to revert back to her usual, bitchy demeanour the day after and pretend as if she wasn't terribly smitten with him.

@gloryundimmed

[stabbyfoxandrew]

guys, lend me some inspiration or motivation or whatever. i wanna go make a spreadsheet plotting out one of my books TwT

[marshmellowtea]

it was me i follow you because aro flag in icon and youre a self proclaimed freak idr how i found u tho. also PLEASE info dump i’m so deeply curious

those are very good reasons to follow me ngl alkadsjflkd :3 BUT okay sorry for the barrage of text you've unleashed i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this series putting it under a cut so i don't obliterate people's dashes lmao

i'm assuming based on your anon that you're somewhat familiar with the series but in case not (and because i love being annoying <3) the goes wrong show is a british comedy about a drama society who. well. cannot put on a play correctly for the fucking life of them lmao. as of writing this it's free on youtube and tubi (though tubi actually has the season one episodes in order, most places it ends up on don't for some reason?? this does not matter that much cuz there's very little continuity in this series anyway but as someone's who's very autistic about this series it does bother me lmao), and the two specials that come before the show chronologically, peter pan goes wrong and a christmas carol goes wrong in that order, are also on youtube for free :D

in addition to the series and the two specials there's also a christmas audio special you can find on the internet archive (the christmas that goes wrong, not to be confused with a christmas carol goes wrong lol), and the play that goes wrong, which was the original entry in this series/the first in what could loosely be referred to as a timeline (again, there's very little continuity here lol). there isn't a proshot of the play that goes wrong with the og cast as far as i'm aware BUT the script is available online for free and there are plenty of community theater productions available on youtube (and someone on here mayyy have a bootleg of it with the og cast but i'm too intimidated to ask about it lmao). most of these are pretty easy to find but i have links for most of them if anyone needs them!

anyway all that aside. chris.......chris bean the diieeeerectoooor.......my beloved little gay hater who sucks so much aklsjfkldskfljdas.............it's actually really funny to look back on my relationship to this series because when i first watched it my favorite was actually dennis (whom i still love to death don't get me wrong <3) and i didn't give a fuck about chris but as i watched the show more the tides started to change and now he's all i think about :') i think there's a couple reasons for this shift, the main ones being that my love for my blorbos get a bit uhhh violent (i ❤️ whump!) and i'd feel bad putting dennis through all that in a way i don't with chris lmao, and also because when i first watched the series i wasn't paying full attention so i hadn't realized how fucking actually tailor made this freak (affectionate) is for me adkljfsalkdfjKLSJLKF

AND TAILOR MADE FOR ME HE IS he's got mommy issues (the first time i watched the mother's day promo video i instantly lost my mind ghlkadsjf), he's got daddy issues (putting aside the implied emotional distance casting your dad as the villain in a play who's not only a traitor for the nazis but also preys on one of his subordinates is actually insane and i think about it so so much), and anger issues (his perfectionist onstage tantrum throwing ass ough). he also kinda disassociates onstage (the way he sometimes just. watches things go wrong with a blank expression. he's so unwell actually <3), and there's an in character tweet of him that implies disordered eating ("another hungry night" you'll always be famous)........he's got a lot of issues and all of them are designed to scratch My Brain Specifically glkajdsfkl. if characters don't have these issues i Give Them To Them but he just. already has them. gah 🥲💞

outside of all that there's also the fact that the minute he gets the chance to force his castmates to do it with him he puts on a ballet where he plays a caterpillar who "needs to rest" and becomes a beautiful "lord butterfly" and. well. there's so so much to unpack with that play in general but ballet and butterflies are two of my favorite aesthetics so this really was an attack on me lmao. even if his costume was kind of ugly there <3 listen i never said he had good style lmao that's what dressing up in little outfits in my head is for. though in speaking of style he's also always wearing the gayest theater kid scarfs offstage?? he's so cute and annoying and pretentious and i hate him 🥰🥰🥰

these are only a few things that make me feral about him there's a lot more i could ramble about if i wanted to keep us here all day galskdfsjdlf..........he really was the perfect storm to latch onto my psyche lmao. also lbr writer/actor henry shields who plays him in the show is just kinda pretty i do love my skinny brunette men 💗 (see also my recent crushes on adam scott and andrew garfield lmao)

i've been. extremely feral about him on main as you can tell ahlkdgjsaf. people just keep rewarding me for being insane so thank you everyone for that lmao :') also it's my new year's resolution to be more freaky and unhinged on main so i'm on that putting chris through some of the worst things possible grindset 💪but yeah i could ramble about this guy forever rn i love him so much and think he's really fun to chew on like a squeaky toy so galdfjkldf

[aquatic-batt]

companies using AO3 for AI programs? I’m considering biting the bullet and uploading what I have written so far for some of my stories to AO3 but I don’t want it to be stolen for ai…