#Create or die without art and fanfics

[fareehaandspaniards]

I need a modern AU where Damian is an old library keeper or teacher in university while Gremia is a gopnik and the last book he read was a collection of fairy tales (he was 8 at the time). The AU story of how deviant changes himself, habits and social circle just to impress older man, and it all comes to love and,,,,,

One kiss = 1 act of Shakespeare's play. It's like push-ups, only with books

The gopnik who, in the company of “bros” starts accidentally quoting Shakespeare's lines (because he read the same scene 20 times before bed to memorize it) is so adorable. He would have to change a lot about himself if he really wanted to get the attention of someone who is much older, smarter, and has a lot of experience with rude kids.

[milehighmegs]

On the Subject of Fandoms: A Love Letter

So, I'm old. Well, oldER. I haven't entered the twilight of my years by any stretch, but once I entered that midlife wistful state of nostalgia, I knew that I had very likely reached the point at which it would be more past than future. And ya know, that's ok. I made peace with my mortality long ago. I don't fear death, I fear not living before I die.

So what's that got to do with fandoms? you may be asking. Fair enough. Here's what it's got to do with fandoms:

Before it was even a term, before I could do multiplication or write my name in cursive (I told you I'm old), I was part of a fandom and didn't even know it. My parents watched 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when it was still on primetime; we even recorded the final episode on VHS and had it for years. (I told you, I'M OLD.) It was so incredibly formative for me that it's become part of my identity, part of my moral & ethical code, part of my personality. Is that ridiculous? Dramatic? Maybe even a bit of hubris? Perhaps. But it's true, nonetheless.

I've since joined other fandoms, of movie franchises (namely the MCU), TV shows (like Good Omens), and musicians (I'm a die-hard metalhead) over the course of my life, each of them creating/inhabiting a different part of what makes me ME. Though I've always remained the same basic person at my core (a decent one at least if not a good one, I hope), being a part of these fandoms has shaped the foundations of how I live my life, and how I've LIVED my life.

Being on the proverbial back nine of my earthly existence, looking back at what's come before, at how far I've come and all the things I've fucked up or gotten right, questioned, accepted, regretted, cherished... so much of that is filled with moments like, 'what would Captain Picard do? How would the Avengers handle this? Which Slipknot song would be most comforting right now?' With the explosion of semi-social media sites (like tumblr here, and its gateway drug, Pinterest), I've been able to dive even deeper into the fandom. The fic, the art, the theories & analyses... it turns my appreciation for all these things I love to 11. But it wouldn't be possible without the most critical element: the fans.

Because people have such a love for, and identify so strongly with the stories & characters of their respective fandoms, they go deep into hidden meanings, major themes, & what they imagine these stories would be like if they were able to direct the action. More than anything, what I love about fanfic/fanart is that while yes, we're creating what we want for the characters, it's more a reflection of what we want for ourselves, both in the same situation as the characters and in life in general. For example, I see SO MUCH art/fic of Crowley & Aziraphale being open & free in showing their love for each other. I see so many stories of them making up and living happily ever after. The art ranges from sweet & adorable to... ah... adult-themed, but the vast majority of the latter is passionate, tender, & clearly loving; rarely is it straight-up raunchy. Smutty? Totally. Raunchy? Not so much. And why? Because we know these two are IN LURVE, not just in lust. And we want what they (clearly) have, even if they can't admit it to one another. We, the fans, can live vicariously through these characters and these worlds, and there we can find what we're looking for.

I've had a rollercoaster of a life, emotionally speaking, especially in matters of romantic love, and much of that hasn't been pleasant. I've done so much soul-searching, shadow work, self-care and all that whathaveyou, but none of it- NONE of it- has come anywhere near to being as insightful as the fan-based art & analyses of the relationship between Crowley & Zira. I have spent the vast majority of the last week thinking about it, writing about it, going over & over how it applies to my life & experiences, and I gotta say... none of it would be possible without the remarkable Good Omens fandom. So seriously, thank you. THANK YOU. You've helped to make me a better person. You've helped to make me look back on my life, smile, and turn around... to look forward to what comes next.

Keep up the incredible work, creators. You never know whose life you could be saving.

[villain-byteniwoha]

ships i like and why i ship them: a small, affectionate rant before bed

zhongchi: probably the first ship i ever interacted with. i may have started playing genshin for them. I specifically remember reading modern, non canon au fics on ao3 when i was still low AR and did not have liyue unlocked yet just to enjoy content of them without spoiling the story too much. those were good times

love the betrayal, the reciprocated manipulations, their individual bloody pasts and their juxtaposing love for humanity/family. the marriage chopsticks. god, the amount of threads I've read explaining those... and ofc you can't forget the official art with them by the harbor with the gingko leaves falling cinematically. i think that's the art that drew me to them lol

there's also something so deliciously tragic about a near-immortal being who's fated to succumb to erosion in due time, falling in love with a mortal man who's always within death's cold embrace. not to mention the subtext of their themes and principles. geo and hydro, stability and turbulence, land and sea, they crystallize when they meet in the middle, etc etc

kaeluc: another pairing I enjoyed the absolute shit out of, way back when I wasn't even playing the game yet. I remember learning about them while I was deep in my mxtx phase, specifically tgcf, and I'm pretty sure I dipped my toes in after I learned that they used to be sworn brothers. keywords here being used to. hook, line, and sinker. before I knew it, I was also reading fanfics about them, but only modern, non canon au ones because genshin terms made no sense to me and i didn't want spoilers. then I played the game. and then—we get Kaeya for free. I mained the shit out of that man for months.

and then. I fully entered the fandom, only to be immediately slapped in the face with the mistranslation issue.

and I get it, honestly, if you like ragbros good for you, I'm happy for you, but me personally, I will scorn hyv until the day I fucking die because had they not messed this up? kaeluc would've have been so powerful. KAELUC WOULD HAVE BEEN SO FUCKING POWERFUL

how could they not be? they're childhood friends but they're also forbidden romance coded, and rivals/enemies coded, but they're also soulmates. they don't just know each other, they're two halves of a whole, they know each other.

and the themes, don't even get me started on their themes. fire and ice, red and blue... paimon's line about them being similar (i.e. kaeya's a shady mf who fights in the day/diluc's a bright fire in the night) is one of the most romantic lines ever. they're sun and moon but only because they complete each other. also, lamp grass and calla lily? that's them as flowers, but they're the other person's ascension material like hello???????? fucking wild.

and ofc this kaeluc section can't end without me mentioning arundolyn and rostam. for those who don't know or have read/heard of those names but never really dug deep into it, arundolyn and rostam were knights of favonius around the same time as the cataclysm, and you can read about them in artifact sets such as brave heart, defender's will; and partially from the elegy bow

the reason they're here is because there are too many damn parallels between them and kaeluc to just be a coincidence.

arundolyn was a claymore user (see: ferrous shadow), he was the "lion of light,"; he was naturally gifted in strength but still trained hard and would later become the grand master of the knights; he'd push rostam to drink wine and tell him to have a little fun; he gives up his title and weapon after rostam dies

on the flip side, rostam was the swordsman who created the art of favonius bladework (see: favonius sword), his title was, "wolf pup,"; when he and arundolyn played as children, he was the stand-in for the champion knight of aristocracy; he "ruled the shadows," by protecting mond with ways the knights did not approve; rostam dies in an expedition to expunge the evils poured forth from the cataclysm...

I'll let you connect the dots there. I just also wanna point out, as a final note, that in the favonius sword's description, it says, "the childhood friend and spiritual counterpart of Arundolyn, the Lion of Light, whose name was Rostam, the Wolf Pup." ok. yeah. moving on

xiaoven: i very quickly realized after reading the genshin webtoon that venti was gonna be one of, if not my most favorite character. and i was curious as to who the people wanted to pair him with. keep in mind, this was around 2.0~2.2 I believe, so when I searched them up, the only canon backing I could find was the music scene

and boy, was that scene enough because holy shit, the brain rot these two gave me??? of a god who embodies freedom, and the last remaining yaksha chained to his duty????? they were so thematically opposed and beautiful, it wasn't hard to fall in love with them

by the time 3.0 came rolling in, I've already stopped playing, but that didn't mean i wasn't aware of how we were well fed by canon. from the trailer to venti full on attending the lantern rite and sitting down with the liyue gang; it was one of those interactions that transcended everything

and of course, OF COURSE, they also canonically addressed the fact that venti's music soothes xiao's soul. that's intimate. that's deep. that's so fucking romantic and nice and beautiful in the most tragic way...

also, we can't forget the depictions of god and servant here. the holy themes, the worship. the promise of immortality and foreverness, but also the threat of it. i just think xiao doomed with karmic debt and venti vowed to divine erosion is such a soulmate connection, and I'm also delusional

that's all for now but there's so much more...

[secretmellowblog]

I hope tumblr doesn’t die because No other social media site is as good for long, thoughtful, nuanced analyses of media. Yeah tumblr is also full of dumb shallow hot takes and shitposts, but you can make dumb shallow hot takes and shitposts anywhere —-there are no other popular social media sites that let you easily format and share long essays on the media you enjoy, and then have conversations around those long essays.

Fandom on all the other big social websites just seems so utterly …shallow. And it’s not because people on other websites aren’t thoughtful or don’t have deep things to say, but because these sites’ formats do not allow for any kind of long nuanced conversations.

Tiktok? Things have to be crammed into a super short video with an attention grabbing headline, and you can’t hyperlink sources. Instagram? Everything has to be in an image format with strict limits on length, and nothing will be shown to your followers anyway because of how Instagram’s algorithm works, and also no hyperlinks. Twitter? Strict character limits, and if you split it into threads it means someone can retweet a part of your essay completely out of context, and also very little freedom with formatting.

It frustrates me so much. If I go into the Tumblr Les Mis fandom I’ll find really compelling long essays on the original novel (including essays being written for the ongoing book club) on the story’s historical context, or the parallels between different characters and their narrative foils, or the way the politics were defanged for certain adaptations, or the way Victor Hugo’s personal life and failings affected the novel. But on tiktok I’ll get the same five shallow stale jokes from 2013 over and over, or maybe the same “DID U KNO THAT IN THE MUSICAL JAVERT AND VALJEAN SING THE SAME LEITMOTIF” style of basic Intro To Les Mis 101 For Babies media analysis (which is what Tiktok considers deep media analysis), or stale “LOL JAVERT ACTS GAY” style jokes as if we’re living in the early 2000s and calling a character gay is still a funny punchline. And it’s impossible to have any kind of deeper thoughtful discussions than “DID U KNOW <x Kool Fact>” or “lol <shallow observational joke>” on tiktok because the platform just isn’t built for building niche communities around in depth conversations. it’s built to churn out bland generic content for as wide an audience as possible, which means pointing out a small detail like an Easter egg and calling it “cool” is deep media analysis, because you cant have longer more in depth conversations without alienating people. And I hate it. Bc like, it’s not because there aren’t smart clever thoughtful people on Tiktok— there are—it’s because Tiktok isn’t built for these conversations, and anyone who wants to have them has to really fight against the things the website encourages or prioritizes!

Or like, if I go into the LOTR fandom on Tumblr, I’ll find tons of extremely long analysis and fanfic, and analysis of queer readings of the story. On Instagram people will still shriek in terror if you suggest the characters are gay, and most of the popular lotr posts are stale memes recycled from like 2007. There’s really no room for thoughtful media analysis, and even if you did create it, instagram’s algorithm would make sure no one saw your post anyway.

And everyone’s going to say “the algorithm shows you what you’ve seen before so maybe it’s your fault ~” or whatever but i do look for things I want! I do! “The algorithm” doesn’t know me or what I want or value or care about beyond this meaningless surface level.

The only thing that was worthwhile about these sites was the great visual art people were creating, but now the websites are overwhelmed with meaningless soulless machine-generated AI glurge, and it sucks. It just really, really sucks.

I’m honestly confused about why people don’t use tumblr….There’s no character limits! You have freedom with post formatting, and can insert images throughout textposts to illustrate specific points you’re making beneath the paragraphs where they’re necessary! You can add hyperlinks, linking to your sources! People can reblog your entire essay and share it, and then add on with commentary that then becomes part of a larger conversation! People can find your stuff through the tagging system! Reblogging means posts stay in circulation for years instead of being dead 30 minutes after they’re uploaded! If you want to have genuinely interesting text conversations about a piece of media, there really isn’t a better social media website for it anywhere.

To be clear, I’m definitely not saying Tumblr media analysis is *always* clever and thoughtful or etc etc. there are shitposts and nonsense here too (plenty of which I’ve created lol.) I’m saying that Tumblr gives people the tools for in-depth insightful analysis to happen. Whether people choose to do it or not is their own decision XD. But the reason lengthy in-depth conversations and book clubs are even possible here is because Tumblr is built for allowing these conversations to happen, in a way other sites simply aren’t.

It’d really suck if it died, because it’d be a huge blow to…being able to easily find long insightful in-depth media analysis written by fans. I currently don’t think there’s anything that could replace it.

[rangercorpstherapy]

is it just me or does this fandom have a weirdly large amount of NSFW stuff? like we're a pretty small fandom overall but compared to any of the other small fandoms I'm in, RA has SUCH a massive quantity of adult content, which is kinda curious since this is still a children's series originally thoughts anyone on why this is?

normally I would send this into the world without comment but I feel like it's necessary now.

I suspect you're a newer member of the fandom since we had a NSFW Renaissance not so long ago. Basically: RA was very squeaky clean and not a lot of people dared to openly make NSFW because they didn't want to be deemed 'creeps'. Thanks to some prominent fandom members we now have a space where people can share NSFW work (headcanons, art, fanfics, discussions) without 'bothering' anyone who doesn't want to see it. All this 'weirdly large amount of NSFW stuff' is very very new in the grand context of things and, I'm not saying go away completely or die down, will wane in amount over the next couple of months. People (adults!) are just happy they're able to connect with the fandom in a way they wanted to but didn't feel they could before.

Historically the target audience hasn't mattered much to fandom or the amount of NSFW created for it (Harry Potter, ATLA, Disney movies, etc). The reason for this is just that sex is an intricate part of adult life and isn't going to leave someone's brain because they're thinking about a book written for children. Although I have to mention that canonically all the characters are either geriatric or middle-aged by now (people like to forget RR exists) so it's not like people are out there sexualizing kids.

I hope this cleared somethings up for you, maybe people can add to this if they have a better explanation.

[animarumaeternae]

Other Side of Paradise

DISCONTINUED

QUICK LORE DROP:

Like 1 year ago I came up with a ROTTMNT au idea! First I wanted to make it into a comic, and finished drawing the first 7 chapters before I decided I no longer liked the art style I was using. So, of course, I went back to redraw all of the pages with my updated art style

I think I should’ve anticipated that that was a bad idea, and ultimately I gave up and decided to just let my au die before it ever saw the light of day.

BUT AFTER 5 MONTHS OF INACTIVITY, IVE DECIDED TO BRING IT BACK AS A FANFIC!!!!

however I worked really hard to create a few character sheets and extras so this will be the place where I post all of those drawings!!

this page will most definitely be updated over time and it’s possible that I might, one day, have the energy to illustrate a few chapters! If so all of that art can be found under this post. Without further ado, I present my Rise!au

Other Side of Paradise

ARC 1 : POSSIBILITIES

character sheets :

Future Leo

Future Raph

Future Mikey

Future Donnie

Future Draxum

misc art :

Donnie’s Battleshell

ARC 2 : GROWING UP, APART

character sheets :

Raph

Mikey

Leo

Donnie

Mona Lisa

Leatherhead

LINK TO MAIN FANFIC

***even tho I have lost interest in rottmnt I did work really hard for all the content I created over that year and a half long hyperfixation. I will be leaving this post as is, so if I ever come back into the fandom or decide to continue working on my au, this will be the place where I announce that sorta stuff.

[charmixpower]

You said you were happy to give more ,so I'm back for the sweet sweet child Valtor HC's (any plans for writing a fanfic? ). You've opened pandoras box and you can't close it now.

Muah! I'm so glad you're enjoying this little crack au that I got WAYYY to attached too and am now taking seriously XD

I could do like a one shot fic or something but my main concern rn is surviving s6-8 and wow

Anyways here's some SWEET headcanons

Not all of them are nice bc I cannot be dragged away from the angst but most of them are!!

Valtor is legally a ward of Light Rock and will be until he turns 18 and competes in his rehabilitation. I imagine that Light Rock is actually a nice place, the Trix just did not jive with it or the concept of becoming better people. He does therapy at the compound, and his favorite type is art therapy. Valtor really likes it there with his 76 well trained older brothers who are also technically guards

He picks up a bunch of different hobbies at Light Rock. He loves all the activities. They introduce him to theater and it goes exactly like you expect. He LOVES it, and invites the winx et al to all of his shows. He loves the costumes and dramatics about it, and eventually he's listening to Stella talk about types of stitches so he can make his own clothes too

You know those magic limiters the Trix wore on their foreheads at Light Rock? Valtor wears one but he can break it and take it off whenever they want. They're still trying to find a way to actually limit his magic, at some point Valtor got involved in the process

People were first really worried that Valtor could take off the magic limiter whenever he wanted but it slowly became clear that he's perfectly content to stay put so eventually no one cares. The Light Council even gives permission for Valtor to use his magic eventually, despite the fact he's supposed to be limited

Valtor was the one who told Bloom how to get to Obsidian. Like he was there when that happened and he spent all his time after the Ancestrals got trapped trying to get them out so he can just tell the Winx

He obviously doesn't go with them, just because he has the ability to use free will and the obedience built into his essence is now gone doesn't make him immune to mind control spells and he'd rather not. He also REALLY never wants to be face to face with Belladonna ever again, Icy was bad enough tbh

When Bloom puts her hacks powers back where they belong (in Domino) and becomes a normal ass (still stupid powerful, shes related to Daphne AND part of fire mixed with her magic at this point) fairy, she has to learn how to fight like a normal person instead of abusing the fact she doesn't get magic exhaustion. She spars with/around Valtor, primarily because as the Wizard of Magic he can tell her when she's getting exhausted bc she doesn't notice

When the Winx practice group combat they usually spar with Valtor too, who is ecstatic to spend time with the Winx AND use his magic, and they're all there like "if you didn't pull your punches for most the year and have an obvious exploit in your design (aka if you were a nomral born person) we would of never won."

Valtor is technically transformed 24/7 and can straight up die from magical exhaustion. Unlike other magic users who would just detransform, collapse, and pass out, he's far too sustained by his magic to survive without it. This is one of the said design flaws that could be used to defeat him, please note how both this and ripping his elemental components apart would both kill him

He's a kid but he's the WIZARD OF MAGIC, literally anything that's magic is under his domain and he absolutely treated their fights as games bc he COULD curve stomp anything. Belladonna wasn't fucking around when she created him

He still considers Bloom his sister after she gives up her HAXXS that makes her magic feel like his. Bloom thinks this is adorable and takes him out for family time. Valtor looks forward to whenever anyone comes to visit him, especially when he gets to leave the compound (it's nice there but he's used to having access to a lot more space) but especially when Bloom does it

Magic attaches to symbols easily, and Valtor made his mark to make really complicated magic (like Witch magic mind control and Fairy magic power boosting) easier on himself. He made the symbol at like 4ish and has been using it since. Sometimes he makes the symbol from his hands when he just shoots magic at the problem bc he thinks it looks cool

Eventually Helia takes over administration over RF from Saladin Valtor likes to hang around the place and he gets to help out with combatting magic lessons! Exciting for Valtor, terrifying for literally all the students. Riven and Diaspro tend to be around™ bc Helia harasses them into being around and they do not help the situation. The staff at RF uses Valtor to haze the freshmen. Valtor eventually notices this and is stuck between intentionally freaking them out and not wanting people to be afraid of him

Bby Valtor is Belladonna's biological son, no father. He's made from a combination of all the elements instead of just fire and his true form is more uncanny and otherworldly instead of chthonic looking. A very strong "I shouldn't be looking at this" energy, his appearance sets off the flight or fight response but it's not incomprehensible or anything. He's still humanoid it's just when you're a creature closest in make-up as all 5 of the gods of your world you end up looking weird. Still dragon looking tho

Nabu comes around often to just chat with Valtor about his magic. As a scholar Nabu is thriving asking questions about Valtor and Valtor loves the attention, everyone else is a little concerned if Nabu should be getting child that nearly took over the dimension thinking about how to use his magic more efficiently but it's fine. Valtor is a good kid now

Btw if the planet of Espero (where dimension wide government buildings are hosted, including Light Rock) was ever attacked....no it wouldn't be <3 Valtor would put an end to that shit so quickly it wouldn't even be a fight

[practically-an-x-man]

It's another TST and my brain can't focus. So...

please tell me a little about how you make your own mark on canon works for your fanfictions? I know Fanfic writers usually have a lot of the worldbuilding done already, but how much do you shift things around for your stories?

Thank you so much!!!

Talk Shop Tuesday

Oooh, that's a complicated one. It really depends on the story and how much the characters really can impact canon, but it's generally a combination of two things

How the characters I create or include would reasonably interact with the story. They don't know it's a story, it's just life to them, so it makes no sense for them to just be swept along with canon and sit in the background unless there's a reason for them to choose to sit in the background. But at the same time, they don't know what is "canon" and what is "not canon" for the plot, so they can't just change every plot line for the hell of it

How I can expand on the themes that have already been established. This is partly related to the characters, since I create my OCs as tools to expand on those themes, but it also branches out into the rest of canon

Basically, I use canon as a jumping point, and it's rare for me to just change something about canon just because, but I won't shy away from changing the individual scenes or the shape of the story based on how the OCs play into it.

Y'know, like... Night at the Museum gives us a lot of Egyptian mythology, but those themes could still be expanded. Enter Katherine - an artist with ties to Egyptian myth, in a museum where art comes to life under magic powered by Egyptian gods. She is a conduit for the core themes of the movies, and that allows me to use her to dig into those themes without outright rewriting canon from scratch. The third movie still happens even though she's there, but her presence allows me to expand on the connection to Ancient Egyptian lore and legend.

Or Jasper: a nurse with empathic powers, placed into AHS Coven. I admit, those details are intended as a fix-it for Kyle and how he's treated in canon (he's very much neglected after the whole necromancy plot, the show focuses less on his experiences and how difficult those must have been, and more on this weird love triangle between Zoe and Madison), and Jasper being present in the story is going to affect canon, but they don't have the foresight to know that Kyle is going to die or be brought back - they can only react to it when it does happen.

Even with my newest OC, Spider - A Quiet Place is based on how people would have to survive in a world where any noise is deadly, and the canon characters all get around this by being as quiet as possible. So how about a character that reflects not that silence, but the creatures that make that silence dangerous? How about a character that uses sound to his advantage rather that hiding from it? He doesn't control the Death Angels, and he only has a limited level of impact on the decisions other characters may make - but since we've never seen in canon how the creatures react to some of the things Spider will try, I can do a bit of worldbuilding on that front.

I'd say as a whole... I don't really rewrite canon so much as I expand on it. I take the scraps of worldbuilding and symbolism I can see from the original media and just... add my own flair where I can.

And of course, sometimes I come up with plots all from scratch (like Desert Song, Smoke and Mirrors, and most of my oneshots and side pieces), and that's where you can see a bit more of my personal technique with plot and worldbuilding.

[fromtheboundlesssea]

November 5-11, 2023

It’s hard to believe this November will be one year since I’ve created this fic! And by these dates we will have finished the first arc/season of Neither Gods Nor Men and starting up the second arc/season!

Anyone can participate and all you have to do is make a post with your art, video, gif set, graphic, playlist, fanfic, and tag me in the post and use the hashtag #NGNM Week 2023!

Once the week is up, I will create a poll to decide who wins! Here are the prizes!

1st Place - a Bonus Chapter of their choosing!

2nd Place - a NGNM video of their choosing!

3rd Place - a NGNM gif set of their choosing!

Here are the themes!

Sunday: Nov 5 - House Targaryen

The first day of NGNM Week is in Honor of the great and terrible House of the Dragon. What would their ancestors think of them? What would their descendants? Show me a house once united now crumbling from the cracks formed by fire and blood.

Monday: Nov 6 - The Greens

The Greens fight for honor. They fight for the right of Aemond Targaryen to succeed his father upon the Iron Throne. They fight for their lives as they face off against factions that have already wronged them. Tell me of Aemond “One-Eye,” of Saera “the War Rose,” and of Helaena “the Dreamer.” Tell me of House Hightower and the knights who may slay dragons. Tell me of love that simply was not enough.

Tuesday: Nov 7 - The Blues

The Blues fight for legacy. What is a legacy? It is not blood, which has twined them to the Greens, but the names for which they have been given. They fight for injustice served and justice denied. Tell me of Aegon “the Blue King,” of Aemma “the Mournful,” of Laena “the Valkyrie,” and of Viserys “the War Hammar.” Tell me of House Velaryons. Tell me of those who survived the Doom without dragons to their name, who have found their home amongst the waves. Tell me of desperation born of love.

Wednesday: Nov 8 - The Blacks

What do the Black’s fight for? Survival? Glory? To what do they think themselves owed? Tell me of Jacaerys “the Unworthy,” of Baela “the Siren,” of Lucerys “the Unjust,” and of Joffrey “the Good.” Tell me of House Strong. Tell me of their schemes and of their whispers. Tell me of their plans. Tell me of greed born from love.

Thursday: Nov 9 - Grandchildren

Tell me of those innocent souls who should not have been born into a time where blood is spilt by kin and strangers alike. Tell me of little Aegon. Tell me of Baelon, Jaehaerys, and Maelor. Tell me of Laenor, Jaehaera, and Rhaenor. Tell me of innocence. Tell me tragedy. Tell me sorrow. Tell me of what could have been.

Friday: Nov 10 - Dreams/Theories/AUs

What shall happen, now that the board has been set and the pieces stand at attention? What shall come for these heroes and villains alike. For it is a game of thrones and you can either win or you can die. And tell me what could have been if the board had never needed to be arranged in the first place.

Saturday: Nov 11 - Misc.

Your decide! You decide what you wish to show. For although I am the weaver of this tale and have made it grow, it is you, dear reader, who has brought it life!

[elfen-alcibiade]

Hi Alcibiade! 🎀 Thank you for your kind reply to my comment! I'm glad you’re happy to see the theme of lifespan differences often appearing in MariAli fanfics. It’s an important theme—one that's not easy to answer and has so much depth that you could explore it in many different ways. (If you ever want to!)

Also, thank you for your interest in the song about Alice making a doll that looks like Marisa after her death. I initially thought it wouldn’t be meaningful to share without explaining the lyrics, but I found a great English translation on the Touhou Wiki! Here’s the video and the translation link:

Video (Song: 砂鉄の国のアリス / Satetsu-no-kuni-no-alice): https://youtu.be/NaAFtpFWn2o?si=w2JJk6ayl9lYyg2W

Lyrics: https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lyrics:_%E7%A0%82%E9%89%84%E3%81%AE%E5%9B%BD%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9

While the lyrics don’t explicitly mention that it’s set after Marisa’s death, it's speculated to be connected to another song by the same lyricist, suggesting it takes place afterward. The lyrics only describe the doll’s hair color, which might imply a different character, but the CD booklet features artwork of Marisa and Alice, confirming the song is about them.

There are different interpretations about the "long golden hair" mentioned in the lyrics. Personally, I imagine Marisa passed away of old age, or that Alice grew long hair over time after Marisa's death. I see the story as Alice, unable to cope with the loneliness, making a doll resembling Marisa and giving it a self-identity. However, every time the doll spoke or reached out, Alice felt the difference from the real Marisa, causing her mental decline. The doll, seeing Alice's suffering, ultimately killed Alice and then itself. There are various interpretations, but it's undoubtedly a sad song. 😢 I hope you find it interesting that there are multiple ways to understand it!

By the way, I remembered a MariAli video set to a famous Japanese song with illustrations by a Korean fan. The song's lyrics feature a man giving instructions to his future wife, telling her what to do and not to do in various situations—things like "Don't sleep before I do" or "Cook well." At first, the man seems demanding, but toward the end, he says, "Don’t die before me. Even if just for a day, don’t die before me. I don’t need anything else, just hold my hand and shed at least two tears. I'll say, 'My life was good because of you.' I promise I’ll say it. Don't forget, you're the only woman I'll ever love." In the video, Marisa plays the role of the man and Alice is the future wife. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a full English translation of the lyrics, but the illustrations are adorable, so I'll share the link in case you're curious:

Video (Song: 関白宣言 / Kanpakusengen): https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6704811

I'm surprised that both of these videos are so old 😅 But I still think they're great. Please check it out when you have the chance! ✨

Hi Asaka! Thank you very much for sending me this song with the translation of the lyrics, and for sharing your thoughts about it! 😊💕 Also, thank you for the other song with the video, which is absolutely adorable! 🥰

I didn't know that people would make music about MariAli, and I'm glad that I was able to discover it, thanks to you! I also didn't know that people would make things as dark as this song. I really like dark stuff, especially about the ships I like, and I didn't know if it would be okay to make stuff like this, so I'm a bit relieved! 😭🥹 I'd like to make a very small comic about the dynamic between Alice and Doll-Marisa, from the doll's point of view, in this song. I will try working on it at one point, but I also want to respond to your other ask and make a comic about it too! (maybe not an entire of directly, but I'd like to think about it with you!) I don't know where to begin! x')

I really like the song you shared, and I have a lot of admiration for the people who creates great music or art based on their own interpretations in a way that permits different interpretations to flourish from their art itself (I hope that my way of speaking isn't too confused 😭 ). I really like the idea that the long golden hair would be Alice's, who would have stopped cutting her har after Marisa's death, just like if she was afraid she would loose something that she took care of during the time Marisa was still around (it reminds me of the paradox of Theseus' ship: after undreds of years of maintenance, the ship's pieces would all be replaced by new ones, one by one. Will it still be Theseus' boat if all the pieces changed from the original boat? Maybe Alice's long hair helps her feel like things haven't changed, even if Marisa died and was replaced. If her old hair are still here, things are still the same? At the same time, it's a great way to show that time has passed since Marisa was gone, and that she doesn't want to get rid of strands of hair that the real Marisa would have stroked in the past? (should I make a comic about this too?? I don't know!!) )

I also really like the fact that the song is written from the Marisa-doll's point of view: she tries to make her creator happy, who's the most important person to her, but she doesn't really understand why she was made in the beginning. And when she finally gets it, she understands that she's not her creator's most important person in return, and that instead of bringing happiness to Alice, she makes her feel terribly bad just by being here... it's so sad 😭💔

I also really like the second video you shared, because they're absolutely adorable, and I see Marisa as a man-ish person, so I found her being like a husband really cute and kind-of in-character (with my own interpretation). x') And I feel like both of them has the egoistical desire to be the first to die, so that they wouldn't have to be the one having to live alone afterwards. But the song remains romantic, funny and cute, so it's also relieving to see peaceful MariAli scenes where they just enjoy their life. 🖤

It's true that the videos are old! But I loved watching and listening to them, though! Thanks a lot for your comments, your interpretations, and for the things you share 🫶🥰 I always love reading your posts and everything you write here! 💕

[repo-net]

Prototype Of Another Time

A short YTTD fanfic revolving around Rio Ranger and Gashu Satou. When Ranger was about to be who he once was - and one reason to why Gashu rewired him to discard all of that.

Spoilers ahead for Your Turn to Die up to Chapter 2, Part 2, and Kai's mini episode.

A cold night's wind breezed from the outside world on its ground - far from the reaches of an underground facility.

Gashu Satou walked these halls with a newly shined metal helmet in his hands - a slot on its side to open it up and reveal a complex arrangement of wires and microchips. It was a sort of middleman that served as the link for the test he was to run today.

The company he'd been working in; Asunaro - was a specialist in recreating any living human's likeness and turning it into a fully functional doll that acted and behaved just like their human counterparts, even complete with a stock of their memories that helped boost and back up their personality, which in turn would allow said dolls to develop new habits on their own as they learned while merely existing.

It was an art in itself, and after Gashu's sacrifice gave him the means and the setting to be able to utilize this level of technology, he knew he had to take the opportunity to use it for himself. With the help of a nice though timid lady by the name of Namida Michiru (who'd been working here for her own personal reasons that she refuses to open up about, which confused Gashu), he was getting closer and closer to perfecting a masterpiece.

And this helmet was going to accomplish a goal he had in mind for his masterpiece, which would allow it to dream. Today's agenda for his doll was to finally transfer a portion of the human version's memories into his doll's memory bank, and use those memories to generate a completely new; or in a best case scenario, perfectly recreate a memory and allow the doll to 'dream', which would give it the capacity to develop itself even while it was inactive.

Approaching a door and pushing it open, a giddy and anthropoid late teenager's voice autotuned with the artificial autotune of an AI rang through the room in greetings. "Dad! You're finally back. Was gettin' boring having to sit here alllll by myself. I have no one to talk to without you nor ol' Mitchy around. Oooh, I'm so excited for this!"

Within the darkness of a laboratory that was drizzled with the mechanical sounds of gears whirring, codes processing and data being run through was an almost evil scientist-like set up right in the middle of the room.

A chair - that for some odd reason really resembled that of an electric chair; the type you'd see used for executions, was being occupied by an abnormally eager person, or rather an abnormally eager being.

Sei Satou - a doll created to rebirth one of Gashu's biggest failures as both a father and a man was tied down from arms to legs to a chair with metal restraints, while he swayed his torso forwards and backwards in anticipation as his creator walked closer to him, helmet in tow.

"Sei. Are you ready? I'll be putting on the helmet on your head now."

"Y'kiddin me? Of course I am! Come on, put it on, put it on!"

Finding himself a percentage of amusement from his artificial 'son' and his undying willingness to do anything he's asked so long as it's from him, Gashu attached the dream helmet to Sei's head after opening a gap on the sides of his head to latch it onto. The accessory was big enough that it completely covered up the entire top half of his head, the only thing the aged man could see being Sei's mouth booming his voice through the box installed in his throat.

Observing as the ginger-haired doll tried to bounce in his seat in enthusiasm despite the restraints keeping him down, Gashu cleared his own throat, and spoke up. "Now then, Sei. Let me tell you the conditions of this test."

Almost immediately, Sei behaved and sat properly (well, as properly as he could in the position he was in), and listened intently. "You will be turned off for this experiment."

"Eh?! Wait, but I want to see what my dreams look like! You've been hyping this up for weeks, Dad; don't just fuckin' blue ball me like this!" Sei replied, clearly annoyed and dismayed that he seemingly wasn't going to even be able to enjoy this. He sat down in this chair to experience what a dream was like, and he couldn't even get that?!

There was no response from Gashu at first, which worried Sei a little - and he'd talk again. "Come on, old man! Answe- ack!"

He was cut off by the light sound of a metal clang, sending a vibration through his iron skull. Gashu had bonked him on the helmet to shut him up. "Watch your language, young man."

Gashu could see Sei's mouth curl into a pout, but he responded in silence, which allowed the researcher to continue.

"The reason you'll be turned off in this test is that I'm uncertain of the chances this will go over well. For one - I'll be... transferring new data into your memory bank beforehand, and I'm unsure if you'll be able to handle the weight this data carries." He explained, stern as ever.

Gashu couldn't see it, but he just knew that Sei rolled his eyes at his words. "Psch. Ya don't even know me, Dad! My storage is as big as it can be; there ain't going to be a damn error in my system!"

The older Satou's eyes turned to the side, as his words were quiet enough that only he could hear them. "... Not that type of weight, Sei."

Ignoring his own sentimentality, Gashu kept going. "If the chance of safety and success isn't 100% - then I refuse to put you in danger after I've worked so hard to perfect you. Understand that while you are my masterpiece, you can still be improved and this test going over successfully will bring me one step closer to that. I do not want you to be put in any harm. Is this clear, Sei?"

Slouching in his chair as a goofy grin appeared on his lips, Sei replied. "Yeah, fine. You sure know how to sweeten me up, Dad. You must be a real lady's man! When are ya marrying one of the researchers here, eh? Y'gonna go for that ugly brown hag Emiri? I don't really like the idea of her bein' my-"

"Silence. I'm about to start. Shut yourself off, Sei."

With those ordering commands, Sei does as he's told, going through his own system before his body went limp - a light noise playing through his torso as it signified to Gashu that the doll was now inactive.

Going over to a computer with wires connected to the metal helmet attached to Sei's head, he began to transfer two files into his memory bank. SEI_SATOU01OF08, and SEISATOU02OF08 began to be copied from his device to Sei's own, and then...!

"It worked...!" Gashu looked over to Sei's body, trying to gauge if there'd be any violent reactions from his vessel, but there seemed to be none. Taking out a clipboard, he highlighted in green a finished objective

Successfully transfer 25% of his memories from when he was still human

Rushing over to the helmet and connecting another wire from it to a large screen's cable inserter, he walked back to his computer and began to run the prerogatives and directives needed to start a dream sequence. The large screen began to burst with static, until it finally began to produce a proper scene.

An almost manic laughter of triumph comes out of Gashu seeing his work come to life, and he began to keep his eyes locked onto the screen, eager to see what was on it.

BZZZZTTTTT!

In the Satou's household, from Sei's point of view in his bedroom where he laid down as his father looked at him from his bedside...

"... Sei. How has your recovery been?"

"Decent, I guess. Damn arms and legs still ache, but I'll prolly be fine."

"No thanks to you. Where were you when I got injured? You were there in an instant when Kai got his dumbass hurt.

"Hm. That's good. Rest well, then. And return to training once you're ready. Kai's progress has been steadily climbing as of late. Do not allow yourself to fall behind."

"Yeah, yeah - I get it. Just get outta here already, lemme sleep."

"... Very well then. I'll leave you to it."

"Is this... seriously all you can say to me, Dad? Why didn't you bring me anything? No hug, food, drinks, or a damn word about how much you love me? And to tell me that Kai's been getting better too...!"

...

"Sei! I was so worried about you... are you feeling okay? I got some tiramisu that Father made for you!"

"Uuuuugh, you know I'm sick of that, Kai! That's all he ever makes nowadays!"

"S-Sorry... but Father's trying his best, you know? For both of us..."

"Like I'd ever believe that. There's only one of us he keeps a proper eye on."

"What do you want anyways, bastard? I'm kind of in the middle of not doing anything and getting better."

"I just... thought you wanted some company."

"I-"

"... Well, at least one of you damn Satous bothers to look after me."

"... Fine. You can stay, just don't talk to me for too long.

"Yay!"

"Just don't talk to me for too long! My mouth's all sorts of messed up. Just look at the shape it's in! You wanna see me do tricks with it?"

"Gwah?! No way, don't be gross, Sei!"

"Pft. You're a real softie. Heheheh..."

"If it's you, I'll get hurt a million times before anyone puts their hands on you even once."

...

"Hey, Sei! You've been really distant today. Was it something I- huh?! Wh-wh-what are you doing...?!"

"Just once, I should be allowed to be selfish...!"

"AGH! Just leave me alone already, I'm sick of having to put up with you and Dad!

"S-Sei?! Wh- hey, put me down! We shouldn't be fightin- gnh...! Our training for today's done already!"

"I'm so tired of you, you damn bastard...! Why don't you get it?!"

"Why do you put up with me?! You're better than me... one of these days, I'm going to get thrown out of this damn house, and you'll be that shining star Dad always wants. He's always favored you...! Why don't you get that?! Just stop... there's no point to me trying if all he ever wants is a better version of you!"

"Get... what?"

"You...! Why can't you just accept it..."

"I..."

"Fuck, you weren't supposed to cry. I wasn't supposed to cry. Stop... you're making me feel even worse... I- ... huh? A... hug?"

"I don't know what you're trying to tell me, Sei... but I can tell that you're really hurt. I'm sorry for what I did. But I'll never leave you behind. Because you're family. No matter what anyone says - no matter what you tell yourself, to me, you'll always be my brother."

"... !"

"... Always... yours..."

...

"I'm sure Dad would've made sure Kai got what he wanted..."

"Kai, if it's you - I'll die in every universe just so you can get a life you deserve."

"A life without a heavy, burdened brother like me..."

"You don't know how much I put in just to impress you, Dad!"

"Why won't you love me?!"

"... Why do you love me?'

"I don't want to be alone, Kai... I'm so scared..."

"I wish you'd just look at me the same way you do with him - and tell me I did a good job for once, you stupid old man..."

"Dad... Kai... am I going to die?"

...

BZZZZTTTTT!

"..."

A deafening silence filled the room. Gashu had forced himself to turn off the screen and deactivate the dream creator. Aside from playing back memories, he was hearing thoughts and emotions - ones he was never supposed to hear nor did he ever wish to from what used to be his son.

A son he now realizes he neglected and let hatred foster for too long - which fostered into a reliance and undying loyalty to his brother. Undying loyalty... that resulted in his demise.

The device had worked. And it did its job far too well, making him realize errors in his process. Errors that needed to be corrected. If he was going to turn out like this in the end, hating his guts and wishing he could just be with his brother, then even Gashu; who had lost things dear to him, couldn't handle such an intense fire of jealousy and envy.

And if it was this attachment to his family, and his desire for recognition, and the joys and love that made the father part ways with one of his children...

After going through his memory bank and discarding the files he recently just gave him, Gashu approached Sei's inhumane body, taking the helmet off of him before pressing a button deeply hidden on the back of his neck to reactivate him.

With a slightly delayed whirr, Sei's eyes flickered on once more, blinking a bit before he looked up at Gashu's cold and tired pupils with a lively and fervid energy within him. "So, so?! How did it go?! Can I try it out for myself now?!"

Gashu had a hard time getting the words out of his throat, but he managed to persevere. "... It's as I feared. The test was a failure, Sei. We'll have to recalibrate and make some adjustments. You're dismissed for now. Return to your station." He unlocked Sei's restraints, allowing him to finally roam around freely once more.

"Aw, what?! You can't be serious - are you sure you didn't mess up? Come on, there's no way it'd..." Sei tried to negotiate and debate with his creator, but seeing that exhausted, almost pained face... he couldn't muster up the courage. "... Alright, fine. I'll get going, then."

Jumping with a little flair in his step as he flicked his fingers through his hair, Sei began to walk away and head for the exit.

"Wait, Sei."

His voice with just the tiniest bit of pleading within it, Sei turned around and looked up to see his maker, slowly walking over to him. The doll stood still, putting his hands to his sides.

Gashu examined him from top to bottom, his eyes making sure to not leave a single detail of his frame away from being burned into his brain.

He rested one hand on Sei's head, squinting his vision for just a second as he clutched a handful of his wigged orange hair, a perfect replica of what it used to be. "... Apologies. You may leave now. Goodbye, Sei."

Grabbing it by the wrist and taking the researcher's hand off of him, Sei looked at him for a second, muttering. "Weirdo. Well, see ya Dad." An action and an assembly of words that stinged his heart in agony, more than it should've. He should've been ice cold and detached to senses like this long ago. And yet, as he looks at this version of Sei for what he believed was the final time leave through the doors...

How much longer does he have to keep doing this, he wondered.

Gashu opened his clipboard, taking the pen from its top before beginning to write on it after crossing three sections out.

Objective 04: Finetuning Memories

Finish implementing dreaming sequence, allowing him to learn even while idle

Complete transferring and restoration of memories - from his birth family to his adopted family

Objective 04: Rearrange And Discard

Alter his title and moniker, align it with the planned and soon to be floormasters

Erase all memories that this experiment happened, start from previous version of his data bank

Gashu firmly gripped his pen, hesitating and even biting his tongue lightly, before surrendering in a sigh as he continued.

Convince Michiru to remove every single one of his positive emotions - keeping only his loyalty to his creators and the organization

Remove his past from the ground up, let there be no file that tells him he's Sei Satou - from his birth family to his adopted family

Looking over at the screen where the dream sequence played out, Gashu mumbled to himself.

"You won't die. Not like he did."

[witheredoffherwitch]

Yeah I agree with the last anon. I definitely don’t think all stories should be catered to us but it is kind of laughable to see the amount of unfiltered misogynistic discourse directed towards her and people consuming these stories always rooting for her to die so that him and the wattpad-esque OC can end up together. It’s definitely a trend and as the anon said, very much eye-roll worthy and unoriginal. It’s fine if people want to practice their writing skills ofc but a huge part of being a writer is being able to accept criticism and feedback related to the sort of the themes and tropes we use in stories. I think this is oftentimes conflated with “hate” and that’s just not the case. The “evil witch” trope has been around since fairytales existed and I get why people find it lazy because it inherently is.

Hi nonnie, hope you're doing well.

I do not condone this point of view. Every fanfic writer is allowed to create and narrate their own rendition of these stories however they wish. I believe shaming or even 'taunting' these authors is the worst course of action here. In fact, constantly questioning these genres/tropes can sometimes bring them into the spotlight - Lucemond and Jonsa are two great examples! I personally read stories filtered under both of these tags and have met with a great deal of pushback from other shippers for liking or even promoting these stories on my page. Fanfic writers put in a great deal of time and energy into writing these stories for free, without seeking any financial gain from their readership. Therefore, there is no significant loss for a reader who may dislike a story. While art is certainly open to criticism and interpretation, it's different from critiquing a more financially incentivized book or film aimed at a wider audience.

Secondly, I understand why you feel so exasperated - it is disheartening to witness the frequent rejection of Alys' character. I'm more sympathetic to those who view her as a victim in this dynamic - something of a 'war trophy' for Aemond. What really irritates me is how some downplay Aemond's power in the relationship, making him out to be a victim. If Ewan's portrayal hadn't gotten so much traction, I don't think many people would have even noticed Alys' role in his storyline - or perhaps they'd be applauding her for 'bewitching' him and ultimately sending him to his death.

That being said, I don't think fanfictions are the main issue here. Do people make Alys into an evil temptress and diminish her role as the other woman? Yes! However, we have yet to see her appear onscreen and we're still unaware of what direction the show will go in. With recent rumors that Nettles and Daeron may not make an appearance (which I'm desperately hoping isn't true), many Alysmond shippers are now concerned that Alys will be given the original arc between Nettles/Daemon before Aemond enters the picture. If this is the case, how fucking disappointing! As an Alysmond shipper, these fanfictions are the least of my worries. Other fanfic writers will keep crafting content for these two in the future - I'm positive of that.

I still believe (hope?) that Alys' character will gain popularity when she's introduced in the show but until then, it's best to maintain a healthy dose of caution when discussing them.

That's all 🤗

[the-project-and-the-ghost]

Oh? An angel? They must have been lovely

Yes, very...

I want to tell you a story...

<inside the mind.>

You know the usual drill, as i'm a mewtwo myself: i'm created in a tube, a laboratory, run by human men and women wearing the same white coats.

After days of incubation, i woke up and busted out of that wet prison i was born inside of. I had given my thanks to the humans for creating me after i've been informed of all i asked, a mistake i cringe at whenever this memory pops up from the darkest deepest pits of my mind...

And so i left, i took off into the skies to find this so-called "Mewtwo" and become his personal nuisance... How funny is that?

I must've been under the control of whatever they put inside my head, because i was very obedient and kind towards my creators, men and women who have done nothing but make this world the hell it's become now with their mere presence.

I stopped dead in my tracks as i had spotted something deep in a forest, i've learned it's a park where people walk around, play with their loved ones, pass the time breathing fresh air... Anyway- i spotted something in that forest and have gone out of my way to see purely out of curiosity...

I cannot put into words how much i was so happy i've chosen to do this.

[ART AND WRITING BELOW CONTAINS: GORE, VIOLENCE, BLOOD, IMPLIED USE OF GUNS AND DISTURBING IMAGERY POTENTIALLY HARMFUL TO THE EYE, HEAVY DISRESPECT AND BAD LANGUAGE]

They only stopped shooting when she fell to the ground, bleeding from the head and the back... I can't describe the feeling i have felt, you'd have to live it yourself to understand like i do.

But i can sure describe my anger after the initial shock of watching her die.

.

..

...

Haha- guys can you believe this? A wholeass genetic abomination! Marrying a human woman!

Steve-

I hope someone makes this a fanfic or something, that'd be HILARIOUS!

Steve put the bystander's corpse down and restrain the project already.

Gimme a little time, live a little for once!

We won't if we're killed, Steve.

What? Look- all i'm gonna do is show this thing who's boss and have a little fun with it while i'm at it!

Hey, pale bastard! Sorry for cockblocking you, but you really shouldn't be out here without your leash, no hard feelings right?

...

Hey buddy, look at her, we didn't damage her tits now did we? No broken ass right? You can still try it, she's fine! Dead but available nonetheless!

Steve, cease your immature attitude immediately.

Lemme have this, killjoy- ACK-

*the thyroid gland was torn out of the neck with telekinesis*

H... H-help... HHK-

*the entire respiratory system is torn out from different angles of his body*

WE HAVE TO GO, NOW.

Not under my watch.

...

..

.

I got my revenge on everybody who created me, they left a void in my being...

[wearevillaneve]

The Winding Down and The Wrapping Up.

This blog will not so much die as much as it will just...STOP. Stop updating. Stop reposting. Stop creating original content. Stop giving a damn about a television show that ended so shittily and hurt and pissed off so many of its truest fans. For how Killing Eve ended I will never forgive them. For what Killing Eve once meant to me, I will never forget them. My strategy now is to follow the lead of Sandra and Jodie and step away from All Things Killing Eve Related.

The first step was to take down all the posters in the man cave/office. The second was commit to my last few art commissions then post a drop-dead-end date for the Tumblr and Instagram page updates. The next will be to finish the final chapter of the final KE fanfic.

Then after that, I will cease actively participating in these KE social media spaces, revert to lurking like most of the members of these forums do, and occasionally dip in when I get a maddening itch that needs scratching.

The only things keeping the Killing Eve fandom alive are the fans. There's nothing coming from the studio and nothing at all from the show's talent beyond dead silence. At some point without any new content, all that is left is to play the greatest hits over and over like some classic rock radio station.

It's either that or hang on for any news that comes out of Jodie, Sandra, Phoebe, and other Killing Eve's orbit.

I don't want to do that.

Because I am a KILLING EVE fan and I have nothing but love and respect for everyone involved in the show not named Suzanne Heathcote, Laura Neal, and Sally Woodward-Gentle. However, I have no desire to turn to ship Jodie Comer movies, Sandra Oh's various projects, and whatever else Phoebe, Fiona, Kim, and company get up to over the next few years.

That's not why I came here so it certainly isn't a reason to stay here. We had one great year, one good year, one okay year, and one shit year of Killing Eve. That adds up to four years with one being delayed by a global pandemic. Normally, I wouldn't say that makes for a great run, but Killing Eve WAS a legitimately great show and there were more bright moments of joy until the extended dark moments of Season Four that brought me and so many others so much pain.

Keep the good and throw out the bad. That's the approach to peeling potatoes you've had around for a while. That's the same approach to how I'll evaluate Killing Eve. Keeping the good. Throwing out the bad.

[roseandgold137]

Sorry there are so many but i am sooo curious 👀👀👀

For the fanfic writer emoji asks:

😅🤡😈✍️🎢🎶⛔🌞❌🧐🏆📈🦅👀💞🧠(<- for Tim)🤩🤲🎉⌛🤯

😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?

hmmm none come to mind immediately bc I mean I’m pretty chill with everything I’ve made existing, but I suppose if I were to write Meet the Family again I’d definitely change a few bits that kinda make me :/ now lol

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

“… Janet had money. And Helena’s birthday was soon… though a summer home seemed a bit extreme. Perhaps just a holiday would be enough.”

every so often I think of this line again and realise I’ll never actually live up to it

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

hmmm if nothing else I think I do plan to be lmao

✍ Do you have a beta reader?

not in the slightest everyone is just lucky if I even give it a second look before posting, that’s why I have to constantly go back and fix misspellings bc I never double check 😅

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

Definitely Every Good Gold Digger, I mean it has the most going on (pretty sure it makes up over half of my total word count on ao3) and if you actually stop to consider the premise it’s literally two people that never meet in canon going through the most frustrating speed dating slow burn I can create while also being interspersed with random time jumps so I can tell a story that takes place over several years. So I’d say the rest is pretty tame haha

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

Not often actually bc most of my writing actually happens in classes where my background sound is the teacher I should be listening to lol

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

Wire Bird was supposed to get a chapter two but it was frustrating me to no end so I just abandoned it

🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write?

No, just whenever I have the time and motivation I suppose

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

Bad parents Jack and Janet drake my beloathed. I can’t even read it without having a physical reaction like literally I get completely thrown out of the story and just need to like cool off 😭 drake defender til I die

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

I start writing and then the research happens on the go 💪💪 I didn’t even know Brassempouy existed before chapter three of EGGD

🏆 What's your most popular fic? 

Based on hits, Every Good Gold Digger. Based on kudos, Meet the Family. But considering EGGD has far more subscriptions by far and also it’s definitely the one I’m more well known for so I’m going to give it the crown

📈 How many fics do you have?

On ao3, 24, and then there’s another from an ask I’ve been meaning to upload, and then there’s various half-finished wips that may or may not turn into anything lol

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

TECHNICALLY some of them have had outlines but very few of them remain true to them so mostly I make it up so long as I have the main story beats in mind

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

still working on the dick kidnapping one, so far he’s on patrol with Bruce and living his best reckless life. In version one anyways. Version two has him already caught and he is a significantly grumpier teen lmao we’ll see which version wins out

💞 Who's your comfort character?

Probably Tim or Janet I’m very partial to them, though Bart definitely appears as my art blorbo he’s everywhere in my sketchbooks so I suppose the three of them. I’m not very good at narrowing things down

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them. (Tim)

Ooooo. You know considering how often I think about him this question should probably be far easier but alas. He’s a total mama’s boy, but that’s basically canon, so I won’t count that. I think he ate crayons as a kid, but that’s not a favourite headcanon. I like to imagine him as an animal lover, because I genuinely can’t really imagine someone not like that, so I suppose that would be my favourite, bc it’s the trait I always give him even if I never say it

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write? 

Tim definitely I never stop thinking about him which makes the whole process very streamlined

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

of course I would

“ “We didn’t do much golf, to be honest,” Jack murmured, dropping his head into his hands suddenly. “Janet. Janny. I made out with Bruce Wayne in the golf range bathrooms.” He peeked at her through his fingers. “Stop laughing at me.” ”

I’m just going to leave you all with that 👍👍

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

When I link it to here and everyone gets excited in the notes 💪💪💪 those first five minutes after posting is like ambrosia to me

��� How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

It varies so widely, some chapters get done in a matter of hours meanwhile I’m on like two weeks for this one lmao

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

I mean before I would have said romance but I actually think I’m doing pretty well at it, so maybe action honestly? My strength is definitely slice of life and fluff so sometimes I feel like my action can feel a bit off pace yknow

Thank you so much for the ask <3 it was very fun going through them all :)

[actual-bill-potts]

🛒 🧐 🦅👀 for the fanfic asks please! And I hope your Monday improves ❤️

🛒What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc. Ooh this one made me think. I think that grief and loss are very common motifs; I have written a lot of fic about characters' response to irredeemable loss. Part of that, I believe, is an effort to deal with my own angst re: the passage of time. That theme is something I find very compelling about the Silm, because pretty much every character in the story is doomed forever (or at least they think so).

It's also something that I am fascinated by in Doctor Who: how do you continue to love and go on when everyone around you is dying? It's a very potent metaphor for the human condition, because all of us are doomed to suffer and die, probably sooner than we'd like. What does it look like to create meaning in a world like that? For Finrod (and the eleventh Doctor, blorbo of my late teens), the answer is: there are always new people to love. Maglor would, perhaps, answer: the art we make is worth it. Maedhros might respond: there is no meaning, but I'm gonna live anyway cuz fuck Angband. etc. etc.

Apart from that - I use a lot of dawn/dusk/starlight juxtaposition imagery because, well, I'm writing silm fanfic lol. I think I write a lot of scenes where characters are trying to say something but just can't and end up saying something entirely different/characters are talking at cross-purposes/etc, just because I find that fun and brain-tickling to write.

🧐Do you spend much time researching for your stories? ...yes and no. I spend a ton of time checking timelines, maps etc of First Age Beleriand. And various other details. But other than that I'm not like. too picky about most things? For instance if there's a lot of medical treatment, etc. in my stories I do enough research to make it generally plausible and then kind of elide a lot of details because a) I am writing this for fun and don't have time for thesis-level research and b) it's a fantasy setting anyway so realism is not my #1 priority.

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants? Depends on the length of the fic! Oneshots/vignettes I do not outline whatsoever, I get an idea and sit down to write it and whatever comes out is what you get lol. For multi-chapter fics, I do outline but it tends to be pretty rough. For instance, for towers I have a general outline of major events and then I will do a slightly more detailed outline for a chapter or two at a time to make sure I'm including everything I need to for the plot to move along (at least a little lol).

A peculiarity of mine is that I find it very difficult not to write in chronological order, like if "Maedhros and Maglor have a conversation where they say X Y and Z" is in my outline and then something happens later in the fic based on that conversation. I cannot write what happens until I've written the conversation. Really when I'm writing dialogue - and dialogue drives a lot of my fic - I kind of turn my brain off and just try to channel the characters. Sometimes that takes me fun places :)

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please! Oooh. ok I have two.

The Athrabeth script! I am writing a movie-style script inspired by the Athrabeth, in an attempt to make it read a little more easily/convey what I think Tolkien was trying to get at to a modern audience. I'm about halfway through currently - it's been much more difficult to write than I expected, lol. There are so many undercurrents in the piece as written that are difficult to get across without having Finrod and Athrabeth just monologue at each other - and I'm trying to make it flow like a conversation rather than competing speeches.

WIP currently entitled "Finrod and babies," an entirely self-indulgent piece of work in which I write Finrod interacting with. many small children. no major plot, just utterly shameless fluff.

Thank you so much!! <3