#(on my dash not in the tags that would be asking for too much looool)

[heytheredeann]

YENRALT APPRECIATION, VOL. 2

DAY TWO: PARALLEL(S)

[420pogpills]

Hmmmm, interesting Akvile lore ask

How many times have you dyed your hair? If so what colours?

What type of clothing do you most prefer? Street wear, lounge wear, sports wear etc.

Have you ever broken any bones? Your own or someone else’s?

The most impossible thing you would like to do?

What does your name mean? Are there any meanings you know in different cultures?

Lucky number?

Who are some of the funniest people you know on this hellsite? Sweetest? Most Tubbo energy (chaotic)?

Have you ever met up with any cc?

Opinions on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and Tumblr?

💖 :DDDDD hi lovely!!!! thank you for the lovely questions!!

- i have dyed my hair.. a lot D: i used to dye it so much when i was younger! first i started to add colours to it, strands of pink and purple. then i dyed the inside parts brown, then the whole hair brown, then i even went jet black at one point LOL (mistake) then i slowly went back to blonde.. in uni i dyed it blue once (another mistake) and once tried to dye it peach (another mistake) since then i've been growing it back so now it's all my natural colour :)

- more often than not i am in casual sports wear, so like sports leggings and an oversized t-shirt but that's only if i'm staying in or running errands. otherwise i usually go for skinny jeans and oversized tops, or flowy summer dresses or skater skirts! i like anything that's loose and flowy!

- i broke my leg when i was 7! terrible experience 0/10 do not recommend, even after i healed i couldn't walk for like a month because for some reason my brain was convincing me my leg would break again if i put weight on it so i was too scared but then i finally got over it, but yeah i wasn't walking for around 5 months, it was a pretty bad break!

- 2 things: i really want to become amazing at rollerskating, and i want to learn japanese fluently! they both seem like things i cannot imagine myself achieving because i'm so bad with commitment, but i hope to never give up and eventually achieve them :D

- my name means eagle in latin! that's the only meaning i know of, my name isn't very common and i don't think it's used in any other countries or cultures other than lithuania. so funny that it means eagle whilst i'm blind as a bat lol

- i don't think i have a lucky one but i have a favourite one, which is 11 :D

- you are super super sweet!!! there's so many funny and sweet people on here :D i love seeing anything and everything on my dash by like @alliummc @kokokichichi @closuredream @secretsscrutinies @georgeliker @bastardbvby @bunnytooth @sheepwasfound @dreamquackity @nightcreepsin @literallynotfound @dreambutstupid and just omg so many others i would probably have to tag my entire following list :'D honestly not sure who has the most chaotic tubbo energy, we're all chaotic here looool

- nope! i used to really enjoy going out to meet celebs when i was younger, i've met soooo many diff people but i stopped doing all that when i started my a levels :') but maybe one day, who knows, if i ever get the courage to go to a meet-up or a con or something, idk idk

- twitter: hell hole. tiktok: my fyp is honestly just memes or animal videos or videos of people making cool drinks looool, tiktok itself i do love! but i've heard some things here and there about the fandom that they're quite gullible on there so i don't know how i feel about that side. instagram i use a lot, not as much as i used to, but i know use it personally and for friends so don't see any mcyt stuff there! and tumblr is my safe haven :') people here allow me to rant and still follow me, i couldn't appreciate this platform more if i tried <3

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

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send me a 👀 and i’ll post a snippet of art/writing that i never got around to finishing this year (r.i.p)

okay so here’s the tea on all the things that didn’t get finished in 2019!

2019 was the year of abandoning short stories lol oops! Here’s the hit list: :’(

1. Growing Season

This is such a hard hit because who doesn’t want to read a story about a woman replacing her boyfriend with a cactus, narrated BY the cactus?? I’d love to revisit this story because a) it’s told in my fave POV (first person directed to “you”) and b) “you” is an apathetic college dropout who goes for the hard dRAG after a bad breakup with her boyfriend, and c) because a cactus NARRATES it.

I’m at a little over 800 words in this story (it def gives me Sea Life by Eliza Robertson vibes).

2. Phantom Limbs in D Minor

Biggest hit! I’ve been working on this story since March, made good progress in the beginning, and slowly began drifting from it. I’ve chipped away at it sporadically over the last few months, and I’ve made it my goal to finish it over break! I don’t see myself hitting this goal, but I do hope to actually finish this story because I feel like it contains some of the best prose I’ve written and I love the vibe! I’m at over 2k words with a scene of about 1k floating around. I’ve actually toyed with making this story a novel because the scope seems quite large, but I definitely want to finish the short story before I think about that more! We follow chaotic Linda as she stress renovates her childhood home (a past! commune!) after her mother’s death. Linda is so precious to me, and I’d love to give her a story! If New York by Ex:Re was a person, it would be Linda lol. 

3. Anatomy of a Swinging Door

I’m making a statement, and my statement is that this is my designated cult story which means it must happen in the future. This was originally my “test out first person retrospective” story, though I think the point of view isn’t working super well here, but we’ll see! I conveniently wrote a logline for this story when I was trying to narrow down the scope, so here you go: A young woman visits her childhood home on the one-year anniversary of her brother’s disappearance and meets the new (and strange) family who lives there. 

(cult!)

So the second round of tragedies goes toward novels, AKA Houses With Teeth (which I can share excerpts from!). 

4. Houses With Teeth

I really struggled with this book this year, because it came to be in a time where my writing was getting an overhaul (though I didn’t realize it at the time)! I’ve learned a lot about intention in writing over the last year, something the Fostered series has lacked (oops). This led to me being very unsure about where I wanted to go with this book in particular--the same route as all the others (weird contemporary with dystopian elements that haven’t fully gone away yet) orrrr plan out something a bit more literary! I’ve fought with myself over this since April, and still don’t know where I’m going, but I’m missing my chaotic diva narrator Reeve and would love to get back into her head! 

This book has gone through about 3 openings, and I haven’t fully landed on any yet. I’m rethinking how I want to start this book, but taking my time with Moth Work to work me up to the timeline in HWT (which takes place about 8 months after the end of Rewired). I think I’ve shared most of this!

Some excerpts of first person retrospective Reeve (AKA Rachel trying to be Emma Cline looool):

Though the church was only a fifteen minute walk from the apartment, I packed a picnic basket of cha siu bao and a bottle of red wine and wore heels so they would know I wasn’t Christian. The basket wasn’t mine and neither were the bao—these were both things I’d taken from Liu. This wasn’t the first time I’d stolen from her. I’d once taken her fifty-dollar jar of saffron from the pantry because I’d heard it was the most expensive spice and wanted to feel rich. I took her jade Buddha necklace because she’d left it in the back and I wanted to feel cultured in her city, I wanted to become her history. The saffron jar was replaced. She didn’t comment when I wore the necklace at my next shift. This was why Liu and I worked well together. She pitied me so would never fire me, even when I skipped shifts and cussed at the customers. I felt entitled to her things because she was kind to me. I felt entitled to her kindness. 

lol I haven’t read this in months and it made me laugh #valid:

I crossed the street before the streetlight changed because this is how I lived in New York City. The world was unfair and lightless and I was an atheist who believed in God, walking in five inch heels on a busted road in the ghetto so I could get enough holy water to drown the ghost out of my apartment. 

When all else fails, add a dash of mother:

The air that summer was always the same: dense and wet, even on the good days. It clung to my arms and threatened to erode the skin there, even when it wasn’t sunny. I remembered my mother’s insistence of sunscreen when I was a child; before the pool, in the pool, out of the pool, when we weren’t even at the pool. Her hands were always cold and the sunscreen was always liquid—Izzy was never good at temperature or putting things in the right places. She’d put the instant coffee in the fridge and the cream on the counter. She’d cook the eggs too long and the ice too little. My father would criticize her as a joke and she’d threaten a divorce. This was the only thing I knew was true about my mother. Sunscreen was expensive, so I never bought it. 

Reeve bringing out the drag:

“Grab me a pack of cigarettes?” I shifted the picnic basket so it rested in the crook of my elbow.

“ID?”

“You don’t need my ID.”

“I ID every customer. You’re nothing special, baby.”

The man’s mustache wilted in the tungsten light of the variety store, spindly like loose threads. My father had grown a mustache like that once, and it took only two nights before my mother cut it off in his sleep. Izzy was brash like that, and I wanted that too; to find a pair of scissors in one of the aisles and chip at that flaccid mustache. There was nothing special about this man, either. All men in New York City tried to look like that; facial hair like coiled up leeches, a gut they pretended wasn’t a gut, but the fault of an unflattering polo from their wives. I imagined the snip of the kitchen scissors on my father’s upper lip, the same snip I heard the next day when he clipped the evergreens lining the walkup. There was something coarse about how similar it all was—pruning trees, grooming facial hair. I had turned twenty that spring—it would’ve taken only a minute for him to pass me a pack, but this was too easy. I wasn’t biological in New York City; I shouldn’t have been. 

5. Fostered But It’s Magic

So this was never meant to be a full project, though I had hoped to write a bit of it just for fun and never got around to it! FBIM (obvi working title lol) is exactly what it sounds like: the Fostered series but with a magical twist! I don’t write very much genre fiction, nor have I ever written fantasy, but a few months ago, felt drawn to the idea of putting Fostered in a magical world (my comp titles are SHREK 4 meets HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE). 

I don’t have any of this written, but I do have a few notes which I can share! 

I didn’t realize I’d made a tag yourself writing these notes but (I’m Lonan):

Reeve is a magical con artist who runs her own business selling bootleg magic. 

Lonan is absent and part bird

Harrison *believes* he is #magic free but has been recently getting hot flashes during nightmares.

Foster has an in-home herbalism business where he helps mostly the elderly and children. He has a cart that he wheels monthly into town. Kind of a failing business.

The gist is that Harrison (who we’d be following) can’t sleep due to hot flashes and nightmares of his ex (@ Lonan) and is referred to a small business run by a clairvoyant who promises to make all psychological problems disappear—relationship issues, sleep issues, life issues. This clairvoyant is actually Reeve who is telikinetic of some sorts, and doesn’t actually provide magic, but manipulates (usually weak) brains, AKA tricks people into paying her large sums of money when she gives them no magical help in return. We ALSO have a “past” plotline, and this is the very loose logline I’d written down (tho if I ever write any of this, is subject to change):

After being tormented by nightmares of his ex lover resulting in violent hot flashes and an inability to keep up employment, Harrison seeks a magical intervention. When the clairvoyant he hopes will cure his strange ailment turns out to be a con woman—and his old friend—he is thrown back into the past and forced to rekindle relationships he thought he’d left behind.  

Some dialogue I wrote down ft. clairvoyant Reeve being Reeve:

H: Why are you doing this? 

R (reapplying lip colour): Is my lipstick distracting you? The colour is dazzling.

H: It’s bullshit. 

R (abruptly stops drawing on lip colour): The lipstick? 

H: Your work.

My fave interaction tho has to be this bit I’d noted down with pure Foster comforting Harrison after a nightmare:

Foster *reading on couch when Harrison wakes up in #panique*: What happened? Harrison? Do you need some eucalyptus? 

*do u need some eucalyptus*

That’s basically all the writing related things I didn’t finish in 2019! I’d love to explore them all in 2020 though! Thanks for asking. :)

--Rachel

[gintamajustaway]

Fanfiction Asks!

Thank you all so much, these were fun to answer! If anyone wants to ask something I didn’t answer, here’s the list! 

((Thank you!!))

15. Do you mind when characters cry?

Not at all! As long as it feels like the character(s) in question is still in character, then believable tears can really enhance a fic! 

3. Favorite fandom?

Ehhhh this one? Maybe? I don’t know, I don’t really like the term “fandom” because fandoms as a whole aren’t connected to good things anymore, you know? I mean, my god, Dream Daddy is an incredible and inclusive game and already the fandom is sending out death threats to artists and shit like that. I enjoy a ton of people that like Gintama with me, but I can’t say I really like any fandom lol 

38. How do you feel about genderbending? De-aging? Animalizing?

Genderbending -- I’m fine with genderbending when people do it to explore their own sexuality. I’m fine with the genderbending in Gintama because those genderbends are canon. But outside of Gintama and outside of someone exploring for their own sake, I’ve always moved away from needless genderbending. 

De-aging -- I don’t really care about it, especially in AUs.

Animalizing -- If a fic is well written, turning a character into some sort of animal can make for a good fic. Gintoki has already been a cat in canon! Why not turn him into something else, too?? LOLOL

37. How do you feel about parent!fics/lovechildren? How about mpreg?

I’ve never been bothered by parent!fics/love children, but I’ve never been too interested, either. I’d have to care about the child and in fanfiction, that’s incredibly hard to do if the kid is an OC. So, I’m not against the idea, but I’ve never read anything that has made me particularly for the idea. 

Mpreg is no. 

40. Do you like fluff?

Of course! FLUFF IS AWESOME!! 

41. Favorite fluffy tropes?

MY GOD I LOVE FLUFF I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PICK A FAVORITE FLUFF THING!! GUHHHHHH I don’t know?? Too many to choose from!! I love just about anything fluffy OTL I’m a sucker for those sweet moments, especially when there’s an appropriate amount of build up!! 

42. Least favorite fluffy tropes?

Is there such a thing as this? Can there ever be a least favorite fluff thing?

43. Do you like fluff on its own or in conjunction with other elements (angst, sex, etc.)

Fluff is delicious no matter what context it comes in. Lazy mornings lounging around making out, hurt/comfort fluff after a scare, something soothing after or before sex -- it’s all so fucking good. 

44. How fluffy is too fluffy?

When the characters begin to feel OOC, then it has officially gone too far. Fluff is great and wonderful, but it doesn’t mean shit if the characters aren’t acting like themselves anymore.

45. Favorite fluff fic?

Please go down and read my answer to #6!!! That fic wasn’t just fluff, it was so much more than that, but it had fluff in it, so I consider it my favorite! 

3. Answered! 

16. How do you feel about character death in fic?

I don’t mind it so long as a main character isn’t being needlessly killed off. If the death makes sense to the plot, then what problem is there to have with it?

20. Do you like PWPs?

Hell to the no.

24. Do you have any dirty kinks that you’re ashamed of?

I am ashamed of none of my kinks. I feel like I talk about my kinks a lot pffff and some of my kinks have special tags on this blog. Have you heard me talk about the Ginbelly? I’m weak for kinks. 

1. Do you read fic? Do you write fic?

I write them! I used to read them, but haven’t done so for a long time!

6. Favorite fic (or one of them)?

Well, during my time of reading fanfiction, I saved the ones I liked. They were few and far between, but when I found one I enjoyed, I saved it so I could reread. Fast forward and I’ve gone back to reread them. When I did this, I ended up deleting all but one. My favorite fic of all time is an InuYasha fanfiction and I will reread that damn beautiful thing at least twice or more a year for the rest of my life.

7. One-shots or longfic?

LONG FIC FOR SURE THERE IS NO COMPETITION HERE. ALWAYS LONG AND WELL DEVELOPED FICS. 

8. Do you read WIPs?

Not unless I’m getting paid.

13. Has a fic ever made you cry?

Nope!

1. Answered!

2. Favorite genre of fic?

Action/adventure/romance/angst/magic/fluff??? IS THAT A GENRE?? LOOOOL I don’t have one favorite genre. I like a mix of genres, one is too limiting.

3. Answered! 

4. Favorite pairing?

Gintoki and Hijikata!! 

5. Favorite fic author?

The author of that InuYasha fic! Again, no competition with this one. I went to track them down to see if they’d come out with anything new or at least see how they were doing and I was upset to find they’d moved on. That’s good for them and it was what they wanted, but it was a bittersweet moment for me! They really left an impression on me and I would have liked to be able to talk to them again =A=

16. Answered!

36. Do you like crossovers? If so, favorite crossover?

I don’t mind them! As I’ve said before, if it’s truly well written then it won’t matter if it’s a crossover, a cliché, a trope -- it’ll be good no matter what. I don’t have a favorite crossover in terms of fanfiction, really, mainly because I haven’t read a crossover that I loved or anything, but I do enjoy seeing crossovers for Harry Potter on my dash! Same with FMA! I just think those are really fun crossovers to do! 

41. Answered!