#(well I'll write more obviously)

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

[spotaus]

NewAge Idea I'm throwing into the void so I'll remember it lol.

Killer + Chara reunion (doesn't end well)!

Because after Chara leaves Killer alone early/pre-story they just kinda... disappears? I know they obv abandon Killer after he doesn't come back to them, they run off... but I don't think they have the guts to cross the border of Orchard. To escape. (The threat of the Whistlers finding them escaped still feels fresh.)

Not 100% what I want them to have been doing in the meantime?? They were initially a petty thief so I *could* see them continuing down that path. Either professional thief living on the edge, or stealing from the wrong person and getting pulled into debts with the black market. They did really enjoy pushing Killer around as a "pawn" so they'd make a good small ring leader. Or perhaps they find another line of mundane profession.

Regardless, the reunion would happen After Killer's major injury from Night's kidnapping and he's back out doing normal missions (though reduced slightly, because Night and Ccino are still cautious) and him and one of the others are just doing a hunt-down of some major criminal or answering a distress call. And it's completely unrelated that Killer and Chara are in the same place.

Part of me thinks (the bigger part) that Chara is the one to approach Killer. (Holding resentment for his "betrayal", holding moral high-ground over him for not serving the new God-King, Always thinking of him as lesser, even as he's riding a beautiful steed and obviously healthy and happy doing his job.) After his job has concluded, or even during it, they waltz up and call him by first name. And citizens tend to approach them to thank them, but no one says their names. Killer is confused, turns, and stares blankly at this human for a few seconds.

He... doesn't know this person? He doesn't recognize them, until they frown at him, and begin to say sonething like, 'Too good to talk to me now, partner?' And it clicks for him that. Oh. *Oh*. Chara. Their hair is a lot longer, they let it grow out, their red eyes are hidden by too-long messy bangs. They're a lot taller than they used to be, wear newer, better clothes. But that way their mouth twists and their eyes widen when they're upset is the exact same. And frankly, he doesn't know how to react.

Killer? Killer had been so completely loved and cherished and trusted by his new family? He had so completely built himself from the ground up since leaving Chara? The Killer they knew doesn't exist anymore. Chara hasn't occurred to him to even *think* to factor into this new life of his.

The old hurt burns for a moment. Seeing them here. Now. But... it putters out as he goes to talk. Saying their name alone. With a smile, and crescent eyes. It feels like the name of a stranger on his tongue as he stares at them.

However? Whatever other knight is with him? They *know* that name. From nights when they would get wasted in the kitchen and Killer, once or twice, would break into angry, regretful, tearful stories about this human. Chara. Someone from, not just his past, but from his childhood. Before he met Nightmare, before he met any of them. And they know that Killer used to be torn up about them. This human. It *has* been years since he's done it, bring them up, but still. (Cross has at least heard a bit of the ranting, though not as dramatically as Dust + Horror heard.)

It would depend on who was there how they'd react, of course.

Cross, curious and cautious, but fiercely protective of his family? Circles right around on his horse to also stare down Chara. Asks Killer who they are (though he kinda already knows). He gives the directive over to Killer to decide what reaction he wants from Cross. He lets Killer give him the signal to either stand down or raise his guard and prepare to back him. He's heard bits and pieces of the story, so if he gets the signal, he'll go for the throat if needed.

Horror misses the name, but he knows Killer's body language and he knows Killer rarely stops for conversations when he's riding Granite (double check this name later?). He usually dismounts because it makes him seem more personable and he likes the close-proximity (makes him feel confident). So Killer staying on horseback shows him that sonething's different. He rounds Basalt in a large arc that goes unnoticed by Chara so he's behind them by a distance. In Killer's line of sight. Killer won't interfere unless he sees Killer in distress, but a few seconds in he realizes this is that human kid Killer was so torn up about. Who made him feel like shit. He has a feeling Killer won't forgive and forget.

Dust... well, Dust is his closest friend, his closest brother, Dust knows Killer like the back of his hand. When he hears Chara speak and call Killer 'partner' he knows exactly who they are. Him and Opal are beside Killer and Granite in half a second. He doesn't say anything, unlike Cross, but he watches. He is stock-still and stares at Chara like they're a bug. His storm is brewing, swirling, tye lightning *begging* to fry this human into the ground. The only thing holding him back is that Killer hasn't made any moves. He knows how important it is for Killer to confront this loser human on his own terms, he trusts Killer is better and has grown so far past this little worm, *but* if he sees any sign of Killer's discomfort? Dust will fry first ask questions later and drag their half-dead body back to the castle and lock them in the dungeon himself.

And I think that no matter who is there, having one of his brothers beside him makes him even more assured that he's grown. He's grown beyond the Killer who followed Chara's every word and always came running back. He's beyond Chara.

Best case, he listens to them attempt to berate him. Scorn him for leaving them to fend for themselves and bending to the first person who made him kneel to them. Cursing him for giving up his life of freedom to serve the same family who wanted him to kill. Them to be killed. And look at what he ended up doing, Killing just as they wanted him to back at [the temple, which I will finally name]. He just listens until they run out of breath, and they take deep frustrated gasps still just like they did when they were kids, and then he grins. It is a tight grin, not the one seen by his friends, the one his enemies see as he's about to gut them personally. Because everything they berated him for? He's been over it. A billion times in his head, worrying and worrying that it was just another situation where he was being manipulated. But his family, when he expressed worry? They helped him. Proved through word and action that he wasn't just a pawn or killing machine. They made him stop worrying over that years ago. And hearing it from Chara, his past manipulator? Yeah, it proves yet again that it was nothing but fear. Ridiculous.

My tired brain says he grins at them for a bit, before laughing and saying it was bold of them to speak their mind like that straight in front of two Knights of the King Nightmare. Just because they used to be friends, it doesn't mean they get a free pass.

That reaction, no fear and an easygoing attitude? Passes Chara off even more. They'd fearlessly try and recount the old days.

Whichhhh would reveal some really shady crimes. And statute of limitation doesn't exist yet lmao. Killer would have every right to lean down and cuff/arrest Chara. They'd try and point out he did those crimes with them, and Killer would just be like 'One of us got a pardon and the other hasn't. :)' And then assure them he'll have the King personally meet them to discuss their crimes.

Okay I'm stopping that line of thought there.

But upon Night hearing Chara is down in his dungeon? He doesn't keep many criminals at all anymore, it's actually mostly still just Dream, Ink, and Blue atm. He wants to see Chara for himself. See who hurt Killer so badly in the past and to hear what motives them to do so. He knows a little from Killer. That they came from Whistling, that Nim was to have them sacrificed (*in her honor, she wasn't directly aware of every temple), and that they used him as a tool rather than a friend. Killer came to him lost and unsure of himself.

*plus* it seems Killer really has healed in his time separated from Chara. Enough-so that he doesn't even want to bother with Chara's fate. They didn't care for him, and they were never friends. Just two kids trying to survive in a kingdom which wanted them dead. They both did stupid shit and they've both grown up since they last spoke. He wants to treat it as any other case.

So Night (joined by Horror because Humans are usually physical combatants if anything goes wrong) does his usual shpeal about asking his questions and letting the prisoner ask their own or talk and rant. They go over it for a long time. Chara feels empowered by Nightmare's small stature, and so they spill more of their true nature. Nightmare? Nightmare decides to banish them from Orchard. If they're spotted within borders they were to be executed on the spot. Just like spies and other criminals who have yet to directly harm anyone.

....The fact that he has no doubt they'll return anyways and fall into the hands of a city guard who will handle them like the petty criminal they are? Well, that has nothing to do with the ruling.

[bonetrousledbones]

i am sending this ask to a bunch of people. the reason is that i am curious. here it is.

what is your favorite thing about Papyrus in undertale?

do you think Papyrus will be important in deltarune?

what do you think will be Papyrus' role in deltarune?

what do you think of the "Papyrus is the Knight" theory?

what do you think his age will be? adult or teenager? (kid is not an option cus it would be stupid and no fun)

in what chapter do you think he will show up?

if Papyrus is the Knight do you think he will be nice or evil?

if Papyrus is the Knight do you think he knows what the Roaring is?

you are the fourth person i am sending this to.

well lucky you, you caught me in a rambling mood!

i talked more about this a lil while ago now, but to me the biggest appeal of papyrus is that i relate to him a whole lot, lol. his specific form of loneliness where he's very clearly trying really fucking hard and clearly doing all the things people say you're "supposed" to do to try to make friends, but it's just. not working, for whatever reason. it's a pretty hard-hitting feeling for me and it hits deep, and while it's not necessarrily a good feeling, it's definitely my favorite part of Papyrus if only for how well communicated and "real" it is.

putting the rest under a cut because it's gonna get long lol

when it comes to deltarune, my biggest thought towards it since way back in 2018 has been "i don't have any way of knowing what the hell is going on in that dog's brain." so i don't tend to speculate on the game very much outside of fun hypotheticals! i've honestly never been much of a theorist, i prefer letting everybody else be crazy while i'm just sitting back and letting things play out in their own time.

personally, i'd say it'd be nice for papyrus to have a big important role, but in full honesty i do have some doubts about how likely that actually is. for one, he's very much rooted in being a comic-relief character, so he very rarely seems to be written seriously in general, and for two, i don't think he would have much actual weight?

like, we know him as a character from undertale, and papyrus fans might know how mysterious he is, but most of the fandom doesn't see him as mysterious at all. on top of that, the characters in deltarune have no connection to him whatsoever. he's not one of their classmates, or neighbors they grew up with, or anything like that- he's just the grocery store clerk's shut-in little brother who nobody has ever met.

but, again, that brings me back around to "i don't know what's happening in that dog's brain." maybe they'll finally get to hang out with him & he'll become more involved in the story, or maybe he won't ever show up at all! idk!

naturally, all of that applies to my opinion on knight papyrus, too- it would be awesome and so so so so cool if it turns out to be real, but with the issue of nobody knowing him except sans, my faith in it gets a little dimmed. i do think the amount of hints that could connect him to it have been crazy, though, since most of them genuinely don't even feel like that much of a reach. i'll still be pulling out my cork board and red string whenever i possibly see a chance, rest assured

i really want him to be college-aged, ideally the same age as Asriel. one, so they can be besties obviously, and two, because if he suddenly becomes an underage character after ten years of papyrus fans fighting back against rampant infantilization i am going to fucking lose it

my own headcanon until we get to actually see him is that he's much more nervous, borderline agoraphobic, and much more awkward since he hasn't met any of the people that he very likely gained a lot of his personality from in undertale. considering he spends all his time in a dark undecorated house, the angst-loving part of me genuinely really hopes he's not just gonna be written the same as we're used to, lol

and sadly- judging from the previews we've seen of chapters 3-4, and the fact that they'll most likely take place in kris's house and then the church, i have some doubts that we'll see papyrus on june 5th :(. then again, the light world sections are apparently long enough to need their own save points, so maybe that's a good sign too! i'm personally not getting my hopes up, but it'd be a very nice surprise if we see him at all before chapters 5-7, even if it's just a really quick cameo or something :>

and finally, as for what he would be like as the knight & if he would know about the roaring, i actually thought about this some time ago too! i think he could know about the roaring and even actively be trying to cause it, but i don't think that makes him evil, per se. he doesn't know anyone in this town except his brother, making him even more desperately lonely than he was in undertale, and he's not even trying to overcome it this time around.

so, i think he'd get too attached to the fact that darkners literally have to like lightners and want to be their friends, and he'd want to cause the roaring either to be able to live in a world like that forever, or to then stop it himself and make friends by becoming a "hero." i can imagine him being not evil, and honestly not even all that bad (if you ignore the "casting the world into darkness to maybe make some friends" part), just really, really desperate.

[guacamolleee]

OKAY since my big bang fic is done 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 im gonna take a couple weeks break from writing BUT when im back im gonna pick up one of my wips (or maybe just start something new who knows)

now help me pick which of my wips i should work on when im back

[ruvviks]

In the fourth and final season of All That's Left, Mac and Layla and their friends are left with one final job; travel back to fallen Opportunity, the city where it all began, to gather evidence of Matrix Corp creating the virus that led to the end of the world, sabotaging cure research, and being responsible for the destruction of the megalopolis. Hunted down on two fronts, having lost dear friends along the way, and faced with hordes of nearly unkillable mutated ghouls, the group is slowly but surely starting to run out of time. One last journey, to expose the truth about Matrix and shut them down once and for all— but who will live to tell the tale? [SEASON ONE HERE] // [SEASON TWO HERE] // [SEASON THREE HERE]

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@ncytiri, @calenhads, @noirapocalypto, @florbelles, @radioactiveshitstorm;

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[studyblr-perhaps]

Ugh I just can't seem to write anything for my thesis today it's so weird. Like- I know what to do but I feel so anxious I've done literally nothing for a whole hour.

[marinette-buginette]

Sokkla Saturdays - Day 9: Pluto

Summary:

The last thing Sokka remembered was dying. He certainly did not expect to wake up in the body of his 15-year-old self.

Read on AO3

[twilight-deviant]

DDBA 1x07. Knowing Vanessa planned Luca's death with Fisk in advance because it's the most obvious thing. (Especially when their relationship is now in better standing and appears to continue that way based on trailers.)

But then remembering BA has written Fisk and Vanessa horribly all season so it could just as easily be her legitimately trying to kill him.

I was so caught up in murderous power couple, that for a minute, I lived in a world where bad writing didn't exist.

[thegreatyin]

And with that, The Doomed Scientist has completed his ambition!

Part of it, anyway. We're gonna have to wait for the epilogue. But oh, what an epilogue it will be. What an epilogue indeed.

As I said when I completed Heart's Desire- thank you all for following me on this adventure. And my condolences, as always, for clogging your Tumblr dashboards with Fallen London posting.

I'm not sorry. It will happen again.

I have a lot of thoughts on Nemesis as a whole and what this ending will mean for Caeru, but. Well. I'll save all of that for when he receives his reward. There's gonna be... a lot to unpack. Both in meta and RP terms.

And, of course, now that Nemesis is done...

...it's time to have a lark. And steal a very special diamond.

[timelessbian]

i was tagged by @sapphictea and @localgaysian (thank youu!!) to share the first lines of ten of my latest fics in chronological order. all i have to say for myself is it's been a weird few years

and it's over, and i'm going under (agatha all along) '"So that’s what it means to be a witch: killing people to serve your own agenda?"'

it's a strange kind of power she holds on you (the locked tomb) 'The very thought of admitting it to anyone made Harrow want to snap every bone in her body and crumble into dust like a useless construct, but she was starting to realize that she had maybe, sort of been starting to miss Gideon.'

you want a revelation (some kind of resolution) (motherland: fort salem) 'It was Nicte, of all people, who broke the news, but Tally supposed that after everything, she really shouldn’t have expected any differently.'

doesn't the night go slow (the wheel of time) 'It was an unseasonably warm day near the end of winter in Tar Valon.'

interlude (why women kill s2) 'It was a bright, sunny Tuesday morning, and for the first time since Catherine’s invasion of the place, Rita felt like she could walk around her own home without the feeling of eyes constantly on her.'

we're not too far gone (the owl house) 'Eda wasn’t sure that she could pinpoint the exact moment that the Owl House had transitioned from an isolated secret outlaw hideout to the premiere after-school hangout spot for a quartet of misfit teenagers, but ever since Luz had started school, it had become common for there to be an extra kid or two or three hanging around.'

feels like we're going home (the owl house) 'It was strange, Eda thought as she flew towards Hexside.'

beauty and grace (agent carter) 'Peggy knew from the moment that she woke up that the day was not going to be a very good one.'

aka english (agent carter) '“So I hear you’re retiring.”'

for auld lang syne, my dear (agent carter) 'There were a lot of things that Angie had found herself getting used to over the last eight months.' VERY funny that this takes me neatly back to january of 2020 lmao

[orcelito]

While I was amassing the word count estimates I ended up rereading some parts of discacc. Couldn't help it. I got distracted.

I reread the part where Goro pretends to be Ryuji while talking on the phone with Akira's sister. Still laughed out loud at that part. GOD I miss writing Goro so much.

I admit I did grow disillusioned with the fic given its large kudos count yet comparatively pitiful number of comments per update. Not the fault of the people who Did comment, obviously. I still treasure every comment that I did get. But idk it was just hard to write 15k+ word chapters for a fic that has 1.4k+ kudos... but only get Maybe 7 comments per update. If I was lucky.

With some exceptions. But overall it just felt like the vast majority of my readership was reading it thanklessly. And so I lost my passion for it. It just didn't feel like my work was appreciated enough (minus the handful who Did comment, you guys are lovely)

I've had to do some soul searching since I stopped updating. I'm going to be a different person entirely whenever I start writing again. And I WILL write again. Even if it takes me time.

I just need to write from a place of love and passion for the story Only. I need to not let the wish for recognition get into my head. Bc that's what killed my passion before. And I don't want to let that happen again.

I truly do love Discordant Accord. Someday, I'll continue it. And I will be writing it for *me.*

[reminiscentrainclouds]

You guys ever feel trapped? Yea I'm well-acquainted with the feeling of being trapped.

[aerithisms]

i think maybe i need to replay rebirth some time to look at this diplomatically because aerith is My Favourite and i might be biased but i think my biggest story critique of rebirth is that i wish they'd done a little more with her. given that this is the game she dies in i found it strange that they didn't push her into the foreground a little more since this is their last real chance to do that with her as a living member of the party (i'm sure she'll show up in some limited capacity in part 3 but dead lifestream!aerith is pretty different to alive!aerith i think).

i know that sounds like a weird thing to say when you consider stuff like them giving her the game's theme song to sing during loveless and the fact that the last chapter is basically The Aerith Movie but there is a strange lack of focus on her in moments where it feels like we should get more from her throughout the narrative. this game pushes tifa and cloud's relationship more in the mandatory story segments, and i LOVED what they did with that relationship in this game, but it felt odd that the same focus was not given to cloud's relationship with aerith throughout the story given that the ending hinges on him being so devastated by her death that he enters a delusional state of grief. and this isn't even a shipping thing bc as far as shipping goes i'm an aerti truther and i feel pretty equally neutral about both cloti and clerith as romances (if anything i prefer cloti!). it's about giving proper narrative buildup to the relationship that the game's tragic ending hinges on - a lot of aerith's most interesting scenes with cloud in the bulk of the game are optional, which i think is a weird thing to do given what the game is building to.

i also wish they did more with her being a cetra! again, the last couple chapters put focus on this but prior to that aerith is weirdly quiet about it. particularly in cosmo canyon, while we do get the lovely bonfire scene, aerith otherwise has a weird lack of dialogue when it comes to the lore dump scenes with the gi and bugenhagen. i expected her to feel some type of way about these revelations but any indication of that is at best subtext and she doesn't really say a lot about it. and for all that they emphasise aerith and nanaki's connection early on as beings closer to the planet, once you get to cosmo canyon there's a weird lack of payoff for it. same with tifa's dunk in the lifestream - i kinda thought aerith might have something to say about it as a cetra, and in fairness i think it's possible she did and the game is withholding some of aerith and tifa's offscreen interactions for part 3 (i swear this isn't even just an aerti cope lol i think the fact that they deliberately show them talking without us getting to hear it might be something they come back to), but i also wish we got to connect with this part of aerith's character more NOW, while she's still here, so it can inform our understanding of her choices and feelings at the end. i just find it kind of a bummer because aerith's complicated relationship to her heritage is a fascinating aspect of her character and her tragedy that i think goes a little untapped in this game, which means it's likely to go untapped in the story as a whole since she's. you know. dead.

[gardensnakie]

How’s life? No pressure question ofc, but if you want to share please feel free to do so with this ask :3

Eh, it doesn't feel all that great right now. I'm tired and hungry a lot, but I just have to get a routine together. My sleep has been wonky, I've been waking up too early, but I feel fine then but it also feels like I can't rest completely- I have dreamless nights mostly. And I also just get annoyed a lot, but it feels better being around people I like.

[seriousbrat]

I feel like I'm not especially good at or interested in prose tbh but I've always found it fairly easy to write natural-sounding dialogue. I could happily write pages and pages of nothing but dialogue like it feels like I can Hear These People speaking in my head and I know exactly what they'd say

[shirogane-oushirou]

[cw vent: chronic illness, general world politics mention w no detail)

"man. i'm so tired. i feel like i can't do anything selfship related. is it because my energy's been sapped from family visiting and everyone wanting to do ~summer activities~ nonstop? am i so in my head about "getting ren's story right without stepping over any lines" that i've backed myself into a perfectionist corner? is the world just going to shit so hard that i can't have one (1) minute of escape on this blog before going back to working through the political hellscape we're in? god even trying to make this plushie pattern is killing me even though i want to hold my guy So Badly AUGH."

/finishes the plushie pattern after trying multiple body bases and literally buying a japanese ebook about plushie face and hair design/

"actually what if i lived forever and spent all of that time making an army of these fuckers to swim in? what then?"