#Hope this makes sense lol

[pinkiepig]

People who have ocs

The first option: you make a character give them a fun personality then proceed to write a story for them,,, (like the story was never the plan when making them you just like them enough to give them one)

Second option the character wasn’t planned but they fit a perspective for your story so you made them from there

[ramlightly]

I’m very curious about how the discussions you’ve seen about smut/kink are from a fanfic perspective. As a smut writer I guess I’m intrigued/confused on how you think it differs! Isn’t smut smut?

Kind of? Yes, the actual writing of the actions of sex is the same and of course there is overlap. We're all writing porn here.

But when you're writing fanfic, you're working with already made characters and worlds and often within a fandom. Thus a lot of discussion I was seeing was about things like shipping, interpretation, and canon. It's often about writing in a community and building upon already made foundations. Stuff that isn't relevant when you're trying to build all that from scratch.

Again, none of this is a knock against fanfic at all. I was just noting how people can ultimately be talking about the same thing - writing porn - and coming from very different perspectives.

[youledmehere]

what did Rick's vows to Michonne mean?

“its a broken world michonne, and you’re the only thing that puts it back together…”

now im no real intellectual and i like rambling but i’ll try to explain my thoughts. (i would love to hear yours!) on one hand i think you can see this as him saying the world is broken, they’ve suffered a lot. especially in this place in time with him being gone for so long and everything he’s had to endure he’s lost even more faith in the world and at times even himself. he’s been broken down for so long but being with michonne, she just makes everything better. she is a source of strength, motivation, and gives him what he needs to keep going. she makes things make sense even in the middle of the apocalypse. being with her makes everything worth it again. loving her completes him and the world is more bearable.

on the other hand i think you can also see it as him saying he knows the world is terrible. the reality they live in is harsh, cruel, painful... from the different people they meet, the situations they find themselves in, to constantly having to lose good people over and over. but despite all that ugliness michonne is STILL someone who wants to make the world better. he recognizes that she is someone who continually chooses to find solutions in all these bad situations not just because she can but because she genuinely wants to. she’s always been someone who wants to improve the broken world even when it’s hard. she has constantly been a voice of reason and someone he’s leaned on when making big decisions. it’s interesting that he proposes after jadis kicked the bucket and michonne told her that she and rick were going to try and stop the CRM and inform the city about everything that has been happening. he knew she wasn’t just saying that to rub salt into the wound, that she meant it because she can’t just stand by and let the CRM continue how they were operating. she knows what they’re capable of, was gassed herself and lost her new friends. even though she desperately wants them both to just go home to their children, they have to try and stop this evil force. it’s nothing new to her (or them) to try and do the right thing because down to their cores they can’t be those people that just look the other way, let bad things happen and not try to help. i think it shows us more how rick views michonne specifically or at least how highly he regards her. she’s something good in a bad broken world.

til my last breath i am yours = self explanatory. he loves her. only wants to be with her. he’s her husband until the day he dies.

[bepoucorp]

I wonder, what's Harley and Batmans opinion on eachother?

+ the bat scars on Joker are oh so cute!!! I love them sm :3

they hate each other's GUTS! they fight a lot! A good example of their dynamic would be the Lego Batman Movie 2017! Harley thinks Batman is a literal brick wall! Fun to tease/mess with though! Batman thinks she's annoying lol

[chunglesworth]

The way people draw Toki is so awesomely interesting to me cuz long toki and round toki are two completely different people

[ohbo-ohno]

simon doesn’t like having to play bad cop all the time, but it’s hard when johnny doesn’t take this as seriously as he does :((

johnny doesn’t feel the need to discipline or reprimand reader to the degree simon does. in one way that’s what they disagree on. simon treats reader like glass, while johnny’s more rough and handsy with her, and needs to be reminded constantly of her limits

the boys definitely argue over appropriate punishments though. most of the time it ends in sex, but sometimes simon needs to be physical with reader in a way that isn’t sexual. he’s not downright abusive, but he’s not shy to use a belt or his hands to keep reader from jumping off the deep end.

looove ur brain. kissing ur forehead. semi-nsfw under the cut, and decently dark with talk of noncon spankings and things of the sort :)

the thing with johnny's punishments is that they're almost entirely unintended. like when you fuck up somehow and he gets real scary for second, goes stiff and glares, grip turning far too tight - to you, that's a punishment, or nearing one. and when he fucks you so deep he hits your cervix, slaps your ass with enough force to bruise, it certainly is a punishment. but to him, it's just his reaction. so he's like, unintentionally correcting behavior and doesn't even really notice it.

simon's punishments are clear - you fucked up in this way, and now this is happening. makes you tell him what you did wrong before and after he punishes you, makes sure you understand that you're forgiven, he's not angry, but he expects it to never happen again.

simon draws the line clearly in the sand, but sometimes you feel like you're wandering blindly with johnny. you don't know what his lines are, what he doesn't think is acceptable. he gets rough out of nowhere sometimes, just because he wants to. drives simon fucking insane, but johnny doesn't see the need to curb his desires with you, with either of you. simon tries to get it into his head that they are quite literally attempting to brainwash you here, but johnny just... doesn't really care that much. why are you there if not for him to do what he wants with you? it's not like he's actually hurting you, anyway.

aftercare for punishments is... hard. this isn't a normal bdsm relationship, where a Dom would have an agreement with a sub and every thing would be discussed and understood beforehand. when simon punishes you, it's not something you've agreed on. you don't want him to take his belt to your ass, you don't see it as necessary in the same way he does.

so when he's finished, when the lesson is over and he knows you understand, you don't go to him for comfort. and that fucks with his head in a way he couldn't have expected.

johnny is more than happy to gather your teary form in his arms, to soothe your cries and kiss your head. but simon needs to know you're ok, needs to know that he hasn't fucked everything up. so he slides in with the two of you, johnny more than happy for him to join, but you flinching away and fucking hiding from him, crying out when he lays a hand on your back.

he kicks johnny out the day after the first time this happens. he's pouty about it, but can see the shakiness in simon's eyes, knows he needs whatever it is he's going to do.

simon spends the day glued to you. spreads ointment over your ass, rubs the soreness away. soaks with you in the tub, fills it up with bubbles and lights a candle he knows you love. lays you stomach-down on the bed, gives you a massage while purring praise in your ears. makes you dinner, has you straddle him and feeds it to you by hand.

he has to play bad cop. it's the role he's taken in both yours and johnny's life, one he's almost always enjoyed. but you also have to love him. you can't flinch, can't hide. he is doing what's best for you - he knows that - but he cannot handle your fear, not true fear.

[stopaskingmetocreateanaccount]

i have some half-formed thoughts abt integra having issues with hypervigilance. like…rlly bad from ages 12-14 or so on account of. yknow. her uncle sending hitmen after her. after a while she figures out how to manage it. alucard probably helps in his own way—e.g. guarding her back or intimidating ppl out of her personal space. after the millennium incident i don’t CARE how suave and stoic she is i KNOW integra is doing capital-B Bad in the mental department. it gets worse for a while and seras definitely notices and starts handling it similarly to how alucard did.

[rickfucker]

What positive influences do you think a really good, loving relationship would have on Rick and his behavior? 🥺

i must feed my children before the premiere >:)

You’ve probably heard the phrase, “hurt people hurt people.” I think that a lot of rick’s negative feelings towards love (other than the obvious) have to do with feeling constantly rejected. Not just romantically, but from his friends and family, as well. He may be charming and charismatic, but he’s also cold, rude, argumentative, and a walking red flag. It’s clear our rick hasn’t had a significant relationship since his wife (or birdperson), and I have to assume that’s the case across the multiverse.

For you to make it past the hard exterior he portrays, you’d have to be damn patient. When you’ve been around long enough, he will push you away, because he expects that you’ll do the same eventually. Better to leave than to be left. When you refuse his behavior and the fact that you won’t stop until he has an honest conversation with you about why, he gets annoyed. Then angry. Then, confused.

In fact, I’d say those couple emotions cycle consistently when you do nice things for him, or look at him with affection, or compliment him, or are honest when he inevitably asks you why you even like him. His god complex and insecurity are constantly at odds with each other. Obviously you want to be with him; he’s a genius sexpert who can take you to space, for fucks sake. But in that same vein, he’s paranoid that it’s the only reason. 

& actually to answer the ask, your kindness towards him & patience with the relationship slowly make him realize that he’s a gigantic asshole. He already knows this, obviously, but now he feels something about it. He feels bad. When he snaps, yells, insults, or generally hurts your feelings, and then gets drunk to tell you he’s sorry, you forgive him. He harbors this guilt because he sees his behavior as something he can’t or supposedly doesn’t want to change. The more his partner reassures him that it’s okay (i mean, the pain in this man is palpable) and that you’ll be around when he’s ready to unpack all that, the safer he feels in the relationship. It translates to the other relationships he has, too, as he starts to really take note of the way his family (inconsiderate and like him as they can be) hasn’t given up on him, either.

Some of the most important things a person needs when recovering from trauma are feeling safe, having a support system, and confronting the negative self beliefs your trauma has instilled in you. He’s unlovable, he’s a failure, he only wants what he can’t have. These are things he thinks about himself subconsciously, and as love and comfort overtake what was once a lonely, pointless waste of space, he finds himself wanting to finally confide in you.

I think the thing about feeling safe for the first time in a long time is that all of worst feelings you were able to push down and away (due to the focus being on surviving the situation and not your own brain) become impossible to ignore. Those feelings need to go somewhere, and even though the happiness and comfort of a loving relationship terrifies the shit out of him, he doesn’t want to be miserable anymore. He didn’t realize how absolutely miserable he was because he didn’t know it could get better.

I have a lot of thoughts about trauma and the process of healing. Rick will never be the perfect man, he’ll probably never go to therapy long term to learn all of those sick coping skills, (he’ll probably still drink bc autism) but he likes himself more as the person who’s trying to be better than the person who refused to. Mostly because he loves seeing you happy because of him.

[my-coven-is-claudia]

pondering how katelyn essentially replaces garroth in the gar/laur/aph dynamic during s2. like garroth, katelyn builds a rapport with laurance and becomes his comrade in arms. she plays the grounded, well-mannered, strategist to laurance’s impulsive, confrontational, casanova self. she also develops an close relationship with aph and acts as her personal guard, becoming extremely protective of her. honestly, katelyn slots in perfectly into this trio, adapting almost seamlessly and it allows her to grow and change as a person. and then garroth comes back. someone needs to be displaced. laurance leaves. you cannot have both.

[operationslipperypuppet]

What are your feelings on a possible mini arc of the Band of Boobs after the season ends?

ah yes, the teased boobsterlude. (a very dumb name han and i have come up with for it) [for anyone confused, murph confirmed that this will likely be “campaign 3.5” and possibly happen after the end of c3 in the short rest for 3x54]

my feelings are overwhelmingly positive. i had some issues with the like brevity of hardwon’s exit and the lack of confirmation that he ended up where he needed to be, but was okay with it based on the idea that this could eventually happen.

my basic pitch is that we get a two hour episode that’s just the boobs having a tearful and heartfelt reunion and then a four hour episode that’s the battle against gruumsh.

i think it’s also a good idea narratively, because bringing hardwon back needed some sort of view of present day moonshine and beverly eventually. plus i don’t know that we’ll get the duck team to a level where they can handle a god fight so having the boobs continue as the ones taking care of that works for me.

[phantomcellar]

Ok so I've been thinking.

What if the "lights below" are actually other solver drones (so at least numbers 003-047), that were discarded because they didn't bring the expected results or were simply failed experiments, and they are kept underground.

Now whether or not they would be "normal looking" drones or just eldritch abominations due to them being failed experiments is unclear. Perhaps Nori and Yeva were the only ones to actually escape from the labs after the core collapse, I'm pretty sure at least some of the others also at least tried to escape but I'm not sure if any lived. I mean the drone that Uzi finds seems to have a collar like nori and Yeva.

So the failed experiments are still locked up there (maybe some others too but I'm not sure about that). Now what would Cyn/the solver want with them? I think either assimilate, kill or use them for some kind of experiment/procedure. Also I could imagine Cyn getting a bunch of other discarded and abandoned drones like her to join her cause. Because she was also just thrown away (maybe for defects as well)

Then there's also this claw part and marks, could maybe be one of the other drones going haywire or a failed experiment that escaped during/shortly after the collapse. Or this could disprove this entire theory lol

It would also be interesting if there was a whole "they think that Uzi and doll are their mothers and attack them" situation.

[fancyingfinefabrics]

just a thought (& sorry i’m new here in the fandom so it might not be v original)

but is there a possibility that at the end of s1, ed thought that maybe stede had died before their meeting at the dock to go to china? caught by a guard or something? it must have run through his head...

which would make ed’s heartbreak all the more agonizing in retrospect. like the line wanting to “curl up into a ball and die“ as well as reason for returning to his former dark side and making the suicide mission on the revenge all the more tragic and “understandable“ as he feels he has nothing to live for

so when ed comes to after the near death experience and realizes stede is actually alive but abandoned him, the headbutt makes sense (in a trauma response sort of way)

just a thought, because my first impression was that ed somehow knew stede abandoned him but maybe he thought stede was dead at some point???

either way poor ed <\3

[stampede-system]

being a system and having wild kinks is funny because one guy in the system will be, like, really into this one specific and niche thing that borders on the taboo but is still safe and consensual but another guy in the system will be like "wtf that's disgusting ew ew ew ew"

honestly realizing we're a system actually helped with any uncomfortable feelings about this too. we stopped feeling shame and self disgust over some member's wilder kinks because we realized we didn't ALL have those kinks. like, we used to think that we were just one person that sometimes hated our kinks and sometimes loved them -- which made self acceptance of these kinks hard when caught in the "hate" cycle. but then we realized -- the only person who needs to accept this kink is the headmate who has it and the other headmates just need to realize that they just don't have this kink. and since we're, for the most part, collectively of the mindset of "i'm fine with safe and consensual kinks existing even if they're not for me" we just kinda...stopped judging ourselves/each other because we realized we don't all have these kinks.

[imp-panada]

Do you have any art tips on creating your own art style?

You'll never draw with 100% consistency, embrace that and if you're like me, encourage that 

I find drawing with pen helps a ton with accepting inconsistency in my own art 

If there's something about your style you don't like, you can change it. You don't need to stick with a brand of art style. You have the power to do that and you shouldn't feel bad about it.

If there's something you don't know how to draw, draw it anyways and as badly as you can. Then look at other artists and "Keep Drawing Bad" until you eventually don't.

Really look at other artists, especially those who are not in your brand of art. 

Love anime but hate modern art? Too bad go learn about it 

Into landscape paintings? Check out architecture 

Doing the same 3/4 character poses? Look at vintage posters or magazines ads

What you put into your mind is what can inspire you to draw new ways. I suggest going to library and museums for this sort of thing, trust me you'll find that one artist no one has heard about that you'll feel connected to.

And the most important, draw for yourself. While it might be fun to mimic an art style. You might set yourself up for a stressful art experience if you make it Your Official style. Everyone draws in different ways, giving yourself rules to follow might not work in the long run, especially when you force it on yourself.

That's why when you feel like giving that rubberhose character other eyes than the classic pacman, maybe you should let that feeling take over.

[virgobingo]

Diff person, but.. now I want to know the secret nanago beef details. I've wondered as a nanago shipper what your honest take on it is, mostly bc like to read your thoughts on things. Even if it's 100% negative. It's cool if you want to pass on answering this tho

afhhs sorry, just to clarify i don't think nanago's toxic but i personally feel it's boring. gojo has too many "he's acting annoying x person who finds him annoying" dynamics for me to find it interesting or unique.

when i first got into jjk, it felt to me like the kind of ship someone who wants to tone him down would like? the mirror of gojohime. the fail being gojo doesn't particularly care what nanami or utahime think about him personally so he doesn't ever really grow bc of them (where geto has more success getting him to listen while still sharing his sense of humor).

and i don't want to be misunderstood, i think gojo trusts nanami and utahime + considers them valuable allies. the thing is, it doesn't seem like they really know gojo either. (hence why he fails to listen). so in depictions of these ships, gojo's character ends up looking like a caricature to me? which ik is an odd thing to say 'cause he's not real anyways. but he feels like he lacks depth or wildly ooc to me in most of the fanarts i've seen or fics i've given a try.

but yeah, when gojo basically went "oh wow" at the news of nanami's death, it told me everything i needed to know about how canon gojo can care for ppl but not necessarily feel strongly attached. basically: geto is the exception— not the standard of how gojo mourns over everyone.

ofc, needless to say, ppl can ship what they want but oftentimes ppl's fanon interpretation messes with how ppl see canon gojo hence why some ppl think his character assassination started in chapter 221— where gege actually makes gojo be more open and honest (unrelated note: there's not enough discussion on how this openness is also reflected in the way he's dressed).

[sketchthetofu]

HI SKETCH!!!!

I’m here to ask a question about Rabbit Dakota!! Idk where you are in PD rn so it might be hard to answer, but what do you think Ashes reaction to Dakota being mutated would be? Ima not go more specific then that cause idk where tou are in PD like I said HFBDHSBSBSB

HIIII OMG RABBIT QUESTION IN MY INBOX YIPPEE!!!!

I’m almost done with s2 ep13 rn (I know im taking forever to get through it- I took a bit of a break and I’m sssllloooowwwww) so I don’t fully know :D? Also UAGH WHAT A QUESTION….. I’ve unfortunately spoiled a lot of the rest of PD for myself- but to really get an answer I feel good about id need to listen to when they reunite.

BUT!!! I got kinda of an idea!!!??? So lemme give it to you and we shall see if it changes in the future when I finally finish s2 :D! First of all I think when they finally get to saving Ashe, Rabbit is more comfortable in his status of being a mutant, he’s got less of a tug and pull going on with his instincts and is able to work with them so much better than when he first got mutated. So it’s introduced less as a sad thing that happened that he’s struggling with and more of a “yeah so that happened when u were gone :D!” even tho he still def has his good and bad days, though the guilt Ashe probably would have…. Ashe would think about how he should’ve used the Trickster sooner, because it was going to happen eventually, so he should’ve stopped Rabbit from being mutated…. I think for my general idea, Ashe would be going through that guilt and such that William and Vyncent had to go through when they finally reunited with Rabbit (tho tbh William and Vyncent got it ROUGH with how Rabbits instincts were and how he was in a constant fight with them until recently-) just delayed bc of Tricksters whole deal :D!