#HAHA TY. We live for some K/M stuff

[smartylina]

She feels all mighty that he recognizes that! If she didn't become Empress or a journalist, maybe she would organize the whole village's sock drawers for a living! Hah, nah. Bad idea. Good thing she'd only do so with Kuzco's. OOoo he can pay her for that! That's right! so he shouldn't try her. OR if she ever finds out he sees other girls besides her... he'd be in big trouble. Ahem. coughs violently. He's right. Hmm, but she has to say it first. He won't beat her to it! Malina almost purrs when he runs his fingers through her hair. She's self conscious that it might be tangled from all the twisting and turning she did while asleep but she can fix that later. Not important now. What's important is that he had called her a cuddle monster. She dissolves her embrace a little and slaps his left cheek softly only to rub the spot in case that hurt him. She chuckles. "Alright then. Guess a few more minutes like this wouldn't hurt". At the feeling of his arms around her shoulders, she take that to mean he didn't want to let her go just yet. Which makes her grin happily as she gives him a shy (pff shy ehe) peck on the lips again.

"Hey, did you enjoy your time as a llama, your highness?". She snorts.

Nah! She doesn't like that part of the plan. She doubts his servants know the art of organizing a drawer! Who else better than Malina to do it? The 'Palace whisperer' (very clever, Kuzco) has no desire to ruin his reputation, so he doesn't have anything to worry about. Damn, she had missed the opportunity to finally marry him?! What a shame. Hopefully one day both can confess their feelings to each other. L-Let her have her mood swings!... She can't decide whether to punch, trip, or kiss him. He's too complex to handle, haha. She stirs a little when he kisses her temple, furrowing her eyebrows she buries her face in his chest, still not waking up until she hears him calling her. She hums and her eyes slowly open and waits a bit for her vision to get adjusted to her surroundings. She lifts her head in wonder as she saw someone beside her and squints, only to smile when she recognizes who it is and places her head again on the pillow. Still sleepy, she speaks to him without thinking her words twice. (be ready to tease her and she not remembering a thing). "Good morning, handsome~" She embraces his torso once again, preparing to go back to sleep but can't manage to doze off. After a few minutes, she grows more awake and stares at him. "...What are you still doing in my bed, Kuzco? My family could arrive any minute now". Malina starts to pull away from him, feeling torn between hoping he would stop her and wanting to stand up and get him out of her room.

[tothedarkdarkseas]

For fanfic writer ask meme: E, J, K, M, P(for any fic or all your fics), R, T, X, and Y. (If that's too many questions, then you can split the answer into multiple posts. Also, no need to answer if you already answered these questions before.)

Thank you so much! I’ll put these below a cut just to account for the length, and I pray Tumblr works like it’s supposed to this evening! I appreciate you having an interest!

E: What character do you identify with most?  Is there a certain fic of yours that captures these qualities particularly well?

I really do not identify with Gorillaz characters and thank god for it, or most characters I tend to prefer! Haha, I know that might sound a bit strange, but I can think of very few characters I’d call “my favorite” that I also felt were a reflection of myself in a major way. Of course that isn’t implying that representation isn’t important, but just speaking for my own personal relationship to media– I live with myself all the time, I like people who live very different lives! Having said that, of the characters I write (all two, possibly three of ‘em) I’d say I identify with some of Stu’s worst qualities over anything else: being unambitious but craving reward, self-centered yet lacking in a concrete sense of self, dumb about mostly everything, overcompensating (to be fair, this is Murdoc as well) and so on. Despite picking fun at him I definitely have an affection for an unlikable guy like Stu, I do have sympathy for being sorta pathetic because I feel like I can access that.

J:  What’s your favorite fanfic trope?  Have you written it?

Hmm! That’s hard to say! At the risk of being an absolute knob, I don’t tend to be a fan of tropes, or at least what I think is meant here by “fanfic tropes” like uhh… the heat goes out and we have to share a bed, or that kind of thing? Is that what this means, the sort of repeated setups for fics? There’s of course a place for everything so I’ve got no real beef with more innocuous stuff, but I wouldn’t say I ever pick to read something because it’s got a “classic” trope. I’m definitely rife with tropes in the broader sense though, I’m rife with things I like and clearly just repeat, haha. I do not smoke pot, but I have a real affinity for characters who do, and this is evidenced by having like… half my stories feature that, haha. If a scene where two characters creep up to being intimate via sharing a joint/bowl/bong counts, that’s definitely a trope I’ve done and would probably do again.

K:  Do you have a guilty pleasures in fic (reading or writing)?

Does the above count? I’d certainly call myself self-indulgent, haha, I like what I like and I don’t stray very far from it. I think unsatisfying or incompatible intimacy is really interesting and I honestly never get tired of reading or writing that. (Er, as much as I “don’t get tired” of writing anything, which is not saying much as I’m very bad and undisciplined.)

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?  Did it turn into a story?

The only AU I’ve written is Coffin Dancer, which is a story set in the early 1900s about Murdoc being a reanimated corpse and Stu being a gravedigger who buries/exhumes him. Sexy, I know, nothing hotter than… long paragraphs about digging. I think the occult element makes that one a bit weirder than anything else I’ve come up with. I’ve kind of entertained other AU ideas but they tend to be a lot more mundane, to be frank I just really like the characters as they are and I don’t want to change their dynamic too much. As a joke I once suggested something about a riverboat casino (Stu working there, Murdoc trying to pull a money laundering scam via currency exchange, potentially convincing Stu to go in on the scam with him) and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t still think about it sometimes and question how to make it work, haha. I think it might be fun to do an AU again, but I think there’s just too much of a gap between what I’d want to do or be capable of doing, and what people actually want to read.

P:  Where did you find the most inspiration for your story ?

Oh gosh, this makes it sound so important and I feel like the biggest jag going to pretend I’ve made anything that great or with particularly impressive roots, haha. A couple came from prompts, so that’s a fairly straightforward answer.

I first began planning Coffin Dancer because I was playing Graveyard Keeper on Steam at the time, haha. If you load up this game, you’ll quickly see there is next to no plot and it is simply a crafting sim. I just sorta… liked the setting, I guess? It is the 1900s and it does follow a graveyard keeper! Following that, I decided it would be a story about Murdoc’s skin turning from tan to green as it does in canon, but giving it a bit of a morbid tint, as opposed to the vague canon handwaves of Murdoc being “immortal” with no clear explanation of what that means.

Ampersands was mostly inspired by me being a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan and thinking it’d be fun to show a dynamic similar to Angelus/Drusilla/Spike, but heavily reworked to fit our characters. The first scene I imagined was the shoelace-tying one which has some resemblance to a shot of Angelus knelt at Spike’s feet while still mocking him, and that ended up being the very last scene I wrote (and probably one of the weaker ones.)

On Oysters and Black Water was actually the story that required the least research from me, as I already had an interest in oyster filtration and oyster reef restoration. By no means am I an expert nor is this story a genuinely educated look at this process (I am Genuinely Educated on zero things) but I definitely knew when planning a PB story that I wanted oysters to be used for a filtration system on the island, just as a little nod to something I find neat!

R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing?

This really puts me at risk of sounding knobbish, so to start with: I’m not really a writer. Fanfiction writer is already not the most impressive title, but even that I feel is a little generous for me. I’ve written things, but I struggle far too much and have too little dedication to pretend it’s something I feel “cut from the same cloth” as these folks to do. The writers I admire have “influenced” me in the sense that I’ve wished I could write that way, and I’ve probably/definitely ripped them off.

Some will find this laughable, but I’m a fan of Joey Comeau’s writing style. I’ve enjoyed every book he’s published, in particular the short novels Malagash and Lockpick Pornography, and especially his… err, non-novel collection of cover letters Overqualified. (I think I’ve read Overqualified more than anything else on my bookshelf, but this is saying very very little as you can sit down and read it in about 30 minutes.) The darkly comedic way he presents these ideas, how he’ll expand on these very offbeat details and veer so far from the topic, then take sudden sharp turns into something uncomfortable is just enjoyable to me.

Also somewhat cliched now, but Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn is a beautiful book to me. Beagle’s writing style is ideal for the fantasy setting, the poetry in his prose does not tip over the “purple” line for me (but I’ve always been unclear where the line is, obviously) and I’d really… feel like I’d accomplished something if I could say anything half as powerful as this book.

Shirley Jackson, (famously) the author of The Lottery and (less famously) We Have Always Lived in the Castle springs to mind as well. The latter in particular has a gothic tone, an at times strange sentence structure and an unreliable POV, which probably influenced Coffin Dancer stylistically and everything else I’ve done in perspective/structure.

But as far as influences, nothing more directly influenced me than @elapsed-spiral‘s writing and characterization. Old drum I’ve beat before, but it’s simply the truth. I would not have tried to write fanfiction again (after… many, many years) if I hadn’t found Danni’s stories and felt that excitement of reading something truly special. Now, it’s important to note that Danni is British so they’ll come out in hives if I praise them too much, but sincerely nothing in recent years has made me feel a “passion” for reading or writing like Yearz did. The oneshots Fairy Vale and Beside the Sea also deserve special mention for just being goddamn phenomenally good character studies. “Influence on your writing” could be misleading, in the sense that Danni’s biggest strengths (namely Being Funny, Being Realistic and Knowing What You Are Talking About) are among my biggest weaknesses, and I don’t feel that stylistically we’re all that similar; on the flipside though, I think so much of my “improvement” is really owed to Danni, aaaand I don’t think you’d ever look at something I’ve written and miss the fact that it’s ripping off Yearz in one way or another.

T: Any fanfic tropes you can’t stand?

Ahaha, alright, this jogs my memory and I do remember stepping on eggshells to answer this before! I mentioned above that I’m just not a big fan of tropes in general, but that means nothing as I don’t… have good taste. I never have. Famously bad taste over here. I don’t have any interest in raining on anyone’s fun or policing fan content, but I think we’re all perfectly fine just co-existing without feeling obligated to anything. More than anything else, in Gorillaz specifically I’d say there are some portrayals of their relationship that I find a little dodgy and I tend to avoid, but I recognize full well that many people may feel the same way about me! I also just like the characters to be compelling and to be themselves, whatever your version of them is. Of course my characterization is bonkers and mostly made-up and I have no expectation that someone else’s should resemble mine, but even if we have different ideas, I don’t like to feel you can slot them out and anyone else in? Which is why standard tropes like “coffeeshop” or “fake dating” don’t tend to be my favorite. Oh, I’m also a fuddy-duddy and I don’t love the nicknames, haha.

X: How would you categorize your fanfic reading?  Are you a voracious reader?  Do you carefully pick and choose?  Something in between?

I’m not a very big reader these days! I’d like to offer you a good excuse here, but I’m just picky, truth be told.

Y: What are your thoughts on your personal satisfaction with something you’ve written vs. the popularity of your stories?  Do you tend to be most satisfied with your most popular stories?  

In total honesty, it takes all of about a month to become completely unsatisfied with anything I’ve written. That’s not like, a plea for sympathy, it’s just being objective. I write comparatively little and comparatively slow, so whatever growth that may happen is still pretty limited and it’s a little disheartening, even if it’s also my own fault for having poor discipline. I would not call any of my stories “good,” at best “good for what they are.” There are definitely some I wished did better, I wished with a stupid amount of sincerity would hit some magical validating number that would Suddenly Mean It Was Good… but after a little distance, I can always understand why they wouldn’t.

Hoooowever, some are undeniably worse than others. Based on both hits and kudos, my most popular story is my first one (I Couldn’t Feel, So I Would Touch) and this is truly baffling as it’s garbage. I mean, with no exaggeration I just think this is bad writing through and through, it’s truly just the worst thing I’ve written over the age of 20. I hoped I’d get this question purely because of this, haha, I feel such shame every time I see this story at the top of my statistics page. If we consider that to be the “most popular,” no, I do not tend to be most satisfied with the most popular story. We could define that differently though; for example, I think the story that got the most notes here and I received spectacular fanart on (a thing I just… can’t believe can happen, how nice is that?) was Oysters, and at a time I did consider that my favorite, I was incredibly proud of it when I posted, and even if I’ve grown exhausted by my overwriting too much to read it again I do still rate it pretty favorably compared to the others. So it depends on what constitutes popular! But if we’re just talking hits and kudos, sadly my stats page puts some of the worst stuff at the top.

[terribletrollstbh]

-- sturdySixshooter [SS] began pestering diogenesDestroyer [DD] at 16:13 --

[04:13] SS: H-ya

[04:13] DD: eyo

[04:14] SS: How's !t go!n, doll?

[04:14] DD: ..oooo, ur that cowgurl aintcha?

[04:14] DD: going lots better now that YOU'RE here, hun ;))

[04:14] SS: shoot, looks l!k- ya got m-

[04:15] SS: haha, !t looks l!k- !m alr-ady w!nn!n ya ov-r

[04:15] DD: what can i TELL YA, im a SUCKER for PRETTY GURLS

[04:16] SS: aww now your just t-as!n

[04:17] DD: hey, i might not -DIG the cowboy thing AT FIRST, but i aint SHY about telling a GURL how sweet she looks

[04:17] DD: so SPEAKING OF cowboy thing....

[04:17] SS: h-h-

[04:17] DD: .... what kin--Da stuff --Does a COWGURL like ya GET UP TO

[04:18] SS: !t's mostly just th- acc-nt but round!ng up hoofb-asts !s rath-r -asy

[04:19] SS: though th- rop- !s for... oth-r... act!v!t!-s

[04:19] DD: so like, HORNE-D hoofbeasts or the ones HIGBLOO-DS like? with the silly hair n stuff

[04:19] DD: oooo now LOOK who's teasing!

[04:20] SS: Ma!nly th- on-s th-m blu-s s--m to worsh!p so... horn-d ! gu-ss

[04:20] SS: ha ha oh my ! probably shouldnt hav- sa!d noth!ng

[04:21] DD: aw cmon :(( -DONT clam up now SUNSHINE, yall were just SHINING

[04:21] SS: haha w-ll now

[04:22] SS: ! suppos- !t would b- a m!ght rud- to l-av- a f!n- lady alon- for a n!ght

[04:22] DD: exactly!

[04:23] DD: yknow the whole PREFERENCE for a CASTE thing always seeme--D WEIR-D to me

[04:23] DD: but HONESTLY? i always -DUG me some yellowbloo--Ds

[04:23] SS: !t's

[04:23] DD: especially when theyre -DOWNRIGHT GOL-DEN

[04:23] SS: oh

[04:23] SS: shoot now

[04:23] SS: g-tt!n m- all flust-r-d

[04:24] DD: cant KEEP up? --Dont WORRY hun, i can go at WHATEVER PACE you like ;)

[04:24] SS: k--p on talk!n that way and ! m!ght just hav- to g-t doll-d up for you

[04:24] DD: if you're SERIOUSLY looking for a GOO-D TIME, how about YOU an--D I meet up someplace TONIGHT?

[04:25] DD: i got some GOO-D club recommen--Dations, but im ALWAYS up for a SURPRISE if you got something BETTER in min--D

[04:26] SS: w-ll ha

[04:26] SS: !m not so much good at danc!ng and whatnot

[04:27] DD: really? not even SQUARE -DANCING?

[04:28] SS: oh ha no no

[04:29] SS: just caus- ! got an acc-nt and ! work a farm dont m-an ! car- for oth-r st-r-otyp-s

[04:29] DD: FAIR. to be HONEST, i woul--Dve HURLE-D if you sai--D yes ;P

[04:30] SS: w-ll ! appr-c!at- th- s-nt!m-nt hun

[04:30] SS: !'d much rath-r l!v- !n a c!ty, but ! got a job h-r-

[04:31] DD: yeah? well why --Dont you COME on -DOWN to my place, i live in this SCUZZY HIVECLUSTER thats actually, like, in a REALLY COOL part of town.

[04:31] SS: Hmm mayb- !'ll tak- you up on that off-r

[04:32] SS: you do talk som- pr-tty c!rcl-s, so !'ll tak- your word

[04:33] DD: theres MORE about me thats PRETTY than just how i TALK ;)

[04:33] DD: so WHAT kin--D of STUFF --Do you like to -DO? i BET i can fin--D SOMEPLACE we coul--D meet up

[04:33] SS: ! -njoy som- food

[04:34] SS: though uh that's a m!ght obv!ous wh-n ya s-- m-

[04:35] DD: well THATS easy ;P i know this CUTE un--Dergroun--D restaurant that like, makes SUSHI for lowbloo--Ds.

[04:35] SS: Oh? ! don't b-l!-v- !'v- -v-r tr!-d proff-s!onally mad- sush!

[04:36] DD: yeah like, its REAL HAR-D for em to get FRESH STUFF, so it pops up every WEEK or so

[04:37] DD: keep your NIGHTS free for me -DARLING, an--D i can HIT you UP when it next opens ;)

[04:37] SS: That s--ms rath-r unfortunat- for a r-staurant bas-d on sush!

[04:38] DD: WHAT can you SAY? scuzzy SEA-DWELLERS got a STRANGLEHOL-D on the business

[04:38] SS: Tru-.

[04:38] SS: Though ! do know a f-w who ar- rath-r down to hom-.

[04:38] SS: thogh thy oft-n g-t call-d mutants

[04:40] DD: eh, i--D rather AVOI-D talking about MUTIES. --Dont got much PROBLEMS with em personally, but i aint about to get CULLE-D just for talking to someone

[04:41] SS: ! doubt th- pol!c- w!ll -v-r th!nk to w!r-tap a publ!c chat forum

[04:41] SS: th-y'r- a m!ght too worr!-d about y-llow bloods hav!n ps!on!c pot-nt!al

[04:41] DD: REALLY? cus like, thats EXACTLY what they fucking -DO

[04:42] DD: i thought SCIENTERRORISTS took care of that PSIIONIC crap

[04:42] SS: ! don't actually hav- knowl-dg- of no m!l!tary bu!sn-ss

[04:42] SS: ! just know from -xp-r!-nc- that ! a!n't b--n cull-d y-t

[04:43] SS: and ! talk from h!gh h-av-n to d--p alt-rn!a about mutants

[04:44] DD: EITHER WAY, lets not BUM OUT the convo with talk about CULLING. i--D RATHER talk about what a CUTIE like you --Does in her SPARE TIME

[04:44] SS: w-ll ! -njoy som- mus!c and cook!ng

[04:45] SS: oth-rw!s- my day !s rath-r full tak!ng car- of my h-rd

[04:46] DD: aw, WORKING GURL, huh? at least you can JAM to TUNES while, i --Dunno, POKING COWS?

[04:46] SS: Haha don't say !t l!k- that

[04:46] SS: !t sounds w!-rd

[04:46] SS: but y-s ! do oft-n l!st-n to mus!c wh!l- ! work

[04:47] DD: WHAT, woul--D PUSHING -DOGS soun--D better? im a CITY SLICKER, --Darling, i aint know what COWFOLK actually -DO

[04:48] DD: maybe i coul--D SWING by your place an--D LEARN all about it

[04:48] SS: !t's bas!cally l!k- k--p!ng a r-ally larg- p-t.

[04:48] SS: you f--d !t, mak- sur- !t's h-althy, and l-t !t do !t's own th!ng.

[04:48] SS: occa!sonally g!v!ng th-m a carrot for b-!ng good hoofb-asts

[04:49] DD: think my RHINESTONE COWBOOTS woul--D looks better, or the HOT PINK number? i wanna LOOK my BEST for your pets

[04:49] SS: Haha ! wouldn't w-ar anyth!ng fancy unl-ss you wanna r!sk st-ppng on on- of th-m landm!n-s th-y s-t

[04:50] DD: ha ha EW, i was JOKING about the boots, MAYBE i shoul--D get some RUBBER ONES instea--D if we being REAL PRACTICAL here

[04:52] SS: Haha.

[04:52] SS: How would you r-act !f ! don- sa!d th- landm!n-s w-r- r-al?

[04:52] SS: m!l!try grad- -xplos!v-s

[04:53] SS: s-t by cows

[04:53] DD: oh GO-D, now i CANT actually TELL if you're talking about LEAVINGS or not XP

[04:54] SS: h-h- !'m not b-!n s-r!ous hun.

[04:55] SS: !f that w-r- th- cas-, !'dv- b--n d-ad for a long t!m-

[04:55] DD: well, thats GOO-D, otherwise i WOUL-DNT have gotten to MEET YA

[04:55] DD: ...of course, thats BA-D for ME, cus now i gotta WATCH for TUR-DS if i vist ya

[04:56] SS: Haha !t's f!n-.

[04:57] SS: Th-y mostly try to k--p !t !n a c-ntral ar-a

[04:58] DD: well AT LEAST it aint WHACK a MOLE with --Doo--Dy, i AINT too GOO-D at that game.

[04:58] SS: You'r- funny.

[04:59] DD: i--D LOVE to keep chatting hun, but i got a PARTY i nee--D to get rea--Dy for. UNFORTUNATELY this beauty TAKES TIME

[04:59] SS: ! gotta h-ad off, th-y'r- bray!n f-r som- food

[04:59] SS: talk to you lat-r?

[04:59] DD: PROMISE!

[04:59] SS: ;)

-- sturdySixshooter [SS] ceased pestering diogenesDestroyer [DD] at 16:59 --

[anewerdream-blog]

❛  GET  TO  KNOW  ABC’S :  MUN  EDITION.

a .  age: 22!

b .  birthplace: michigan

c .  current  time: 8:17

d .  drink  you  had  last: i’m drinking a vanilla coke rn

e .  easiest  person(s)  to  talk  to: always always always @thoughtfairest​ (aka motherknew aka theirheirs aka soughtdepths), @crownheir​, & @descendedfromlegend​ are some specifics but like.. i’m chill & as long as u can deal w me being awkward and i don’t have to carry the conversation then ! i ! love ! u ! forever !

f .  favorite song(s): AS IF THIS IS NOT ALWAYS CHANGING. Never Forget You by Zara Larsson & MNEK is always a fave, as well as Odds Are by Barenaked Ladies, and currently I have Brother by Kodaline, DNA by Lia Marie Johnson, & Give Us a Little Love by Falullah stuck in my head

h .  horror  yes  or  horror  no: i am ambivalent to horror?? it usually doesn’t scare me, so it’s a) no fun and b) not impactful enough for me to hate it??

i .  in love ?: with so many fictional men and EVERY REAL LIFE WOMAN

j .  jealous  of  people: not about anything at the moment i don’t think ??

k .  killed  someone: the only killing i have done is killin’ it on the dance floor. haha just kidding. i have killed a man.

l .  love  at  first  sight  or  should  i  walk  by  again ?: i fall in love w every woman in her 20s at first glance but they should all feel free to walk by me as many times as possible

m .  middle  name: margaret !

n .  number  of  siblings:  one

o .  one  wish: to have a fuckin job tbh

q .  questions  you’re  always  asked: “how are your migraines?” (not magically cured yet thx) “How’s school?” (I told u the last three times u asked i’m not going) “Do you have a job yet?” (pls let me live)

s .  song  you  sang : well i sang White Flag by Dido in my school’s talent show freshman year and i sing every other song i like every day of my life

t .  top  3  fictional  characters: VEX’AHLIA DE ROLO, zelda, penny polendina

u .  underwear  &  color: i think it’s navy idk i remember choosing something DARK so my PERIOD BLOOD wouldn’t stain it

v .  vacation: !!! my family goes to florida every year for spring break

w .  when’s  your  birthday: december 23rd !

x .  x - rays: shout OUT to the fact that the MUSCLES IN MY THROAT don’t FUCKING WORK CORRECTLY so i was constantly choking on stuff as a child (& stuff still gets stuck halfway down my throat frequently but these days only if it’s small) & i went to the doctor’s where even though i was a SMALL CHILD they were SUPER RUDE to me about forcing me to drink something with the taste and consistency of chalk so they could x-ray my throat & the only answers i got were “idk ur throat muscles stop working about halfway down we don’t rly have a way to fix it“

y .  your  favorite  food: are bloody marys food oorrr... if not then beef stew

z .  zodiac  sign: in theory i’m a capricorn but in practice i’m nothing like a capricorn and everything like a sagittarius and i’m close enough to the border between those two SO

Tagged by ; @crownheir, the bestest twin i could ask for ty Tagging ;  @thoughtfairest & @descendedfromlegend & aaa idk who all’s done the meme & i’m shy so if you want to do it just say i tagged you !!