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[aziraphalesbookkeeper]

Hii :))

You are my favorite writer and I want to let you know how much I love your work 💜💜💜

Really, everything you write is just aghhhh I'm speechless

And I'm very curious what authors (both on AO3 and not) or books or fics you like and maybe recommend?

And what is your inspiration?

If you don't want to respond to these questions, feel free to just ignore this ask, but know your works always make my day

Thank you in advance, have a lovely day 💕

UGH ANON you're so sweet!!! you made my day with this. i'm such a silly little guy i'm so happy my keyboard smashing brought you joy i'm blushing so hard rn 💕

this reply is long, so it's under the cut!

i read a LOT, both fic and published books. in general, i have two genres that are my go-to's: romantic comedies and fantasy adventures. (now this doesn't mean high fantasy, cause i'm not a LOTR girlie, but if a story has rich lore with a soft magic system IM ALL ABOUT IT)

i'd recommend reading ANYTHING by Casey McQuinston for romantic comedies - i love their style SO MUCH. the way they go from writing dumbass humor to heartfelt romantic moments is just UGH CLENCHES FIST SO GOOD. for fantasy i can never get enough of Emily Lloyd-Jones. she's not super well known but she freakin' SHOULD BE, every time i read one of her books i'm in the ground for seven business days, she's so talented at creating magic systems.

i'm in quite a few fandoms and read a variety of ratings, so asking for a fic rec is kind of hard without knowing which shelf to grab from lol. HOWEVER, the fics that inspire me the most tend to shatter my world and rebuild it into something more beautiful. i'll list some of them here:

TTS - The Before and After by vaguenotion

Arcane - your teeth in my neck by b_o_i

VAT7K - The Silent Opera by littlemisslol

BNHA - literally anything by roadtripwithlucifer or SpiritusRex

Good Omens - A Certain Celestial Agency series by Atalan

BNHA - Missing Everything by Haptronym

TOH - With Clay and Star Scraps by SiryyGray

A LONG READING LIST I KNOW IM SORRY but these authors and stories are all genuinely SO GOOD

honestly, my inspiration is trying to be as good as anyone i listed above. i want to be like them when i grow up. writing is subjective, but if i can make at least one person feel the way i do when i read something by those authors then i know i've done my job.

[kattricia]

Beloved if you could tell me more about how Arcane is a tragic romance staged as a geopolitical collapse in six acts i would love you forever. I find your mind so sexy

okay. i’m going to try and say something semi coherent about this, because you, my beloved mutual asked and i? would die for you.

if we’re going to talk about tragedy, we might as well start with jayce and viktor.  in true tragic fashion, they follow the classical arc to the letter: hamartia (a fatal flaw – hubris, idealism, the belief that their creation could save rather than destroy), peripeteia (the reversal – hextech becoming a weapon rather than a miracle. viktor dying, jayce bringing him back),  and anagnorisis (the moment of recognition – when they realize the cost and the damage. viktor seeing what he’s become and jayce saying what he should have said years ago). and the devastating thing is: these don’t happen separately. they collapse inward, spiral together. the tragedy hits hardest because the fall is of their own making – and because it comes too late. 

if there’s anything i’ve learned from my (very humble and very deeply felt) studies in literature and literary history it’s this: romantic tragedy is not just about heartbreak. it’s about the world collapsing as a consequence of love gone wrong. loyalty, desire, misjudgement and betrayal rippling outward into total ruin. arcane doesnt just tell a tragic love story: it tells five. ten. maybe more. the show is a lattice of relationships – romantic, familial, platonic, political – and every one of them cracks in some way. and each crack runs straight through the city’s foundation somehow.

jayvik may be the most overtly mythic of them all. our science husbands, our gilgamesh and enkidu, our cautionary tale about what happens when affection tries to hold up empire  – but they’re not alone. their spiral isn’t the only one.

arcane, in its very structure, ties systemic collapse to personal grief. every conflict begins in a relationship that couldn’t hold. vi and jinx are antigone and ismene rewritten in gunpowder and neon: sisters locked on opposite sides, loyalty twisted by trauma. mel and ambessa are imperial legacy embodied: the exiled daughter who tried to love her new home, and her mother who thinks love is weakness. caitlyn standing between love, lineage and law. ekko mourning a girl who never got to grow up and jinx is the living fallout of everyone else’s failure to protect her.

even silco and vander – two men who once shared a vision of an independent zaun – become enemies, because one believes revolution requires uproar while the other hopes reasoning might still be enough. and in the end, every character is fighting someone they still remember loving once. no character fights in isolation. every blow lands on someone they once believed in. and that’s why the city burns.

because that’s the thing, right? the show treats interpersonal relationships like structural beams: when they crack, the city does, too. the emotional subplots aren’t really subplots at all: they are the plot. hextech was supposed to be a bridge: between science and magic, between piltover and zaun, between a boy who fell from grace and a man who never got the chance to rise. instead, it becomes the wedge. a miracle turned into a weapon, with the miracle workers on opposite sides of a war they helped create. when the marriage of minds ends in divorce, the whole city pays the price. 

and that’s why we don’t have any neat hero-villain binaries, right? what we do have is people trying to claw their way back to something they lost. a sister, a partner, a version of themselves that they could still forgive. but every attempt to go back costs them something new, again and again. that’s the real tragedy, i think: not just the people lost, but that they keep losing the things they’re trying to save.

if you’ll allow me some nerdy indulgence i’d like to go back to jayce and viktor being our gilgamesh and enkidu by way of hextech. radiant ambition meets terminal wildness. they build a future together and then have to destroy it with their own hands. and the thing is: they don’t fall apart because the love fades, (affection is the one thing holding them together, after all). they fall apart because it festers into betrayal and all the ways they fail to reach each other across the gap that’s widened between them. the tragedy isn’t the end (though i really, really wish they had more time) – it’s everything that leads to it. they hit every note of a classical downfall: a shared dream born of light, warped by power, splintered by grief. their fatal flaws (call it hubris, call it desperation, call it idealism) spiral into the kind of break no apology can fix. and yet, in the end, when everything else is gone, they still choose each other. if antigone dies to bury the one she loves, if gilgamesh carves his grief into stone, then jayce and viktor choose to hold each other in the infinite embrace of the arcane in order to stop what they created from consuming everyone else. not to undo the damage but to stand in its ashes and say: no more.

(aristotle once said that tragedy is supposed to evoke pity and fear, and then purge those emotions through catharsis. this post? may have done the opposite. i have never feared more. i have never pitied harder. and i have certainly not been purged)

[salmon-vive]

So what are Fiddleford's thoughts on the whole... Willford situation? How involved is he?

Explanation:

At least during the building of the portal, fiddelford is not involved.

He began to see how his best friend crossed his boundaries. Ford began to become more consumed by his work and the desire to be recognized (and who knows what else)

This comic could be a continuation of this one. Will possesses Ford and feels sorry for Fiddleford, but Fiddleford doesn't trust whatever Ford is going to tell him because all the attempts to comfort him are just to keep him working, just like the coffee! usually ford just gives him coffee to keep him awake.

if only he could come back to those college days with ford...it would be so funny if Will made Fidds tought college ford was back for a moment-

[rebellionmoon]

hello I'd love to hear your thoughts about Illumi's suicidal tendencies... the way he was so eager to sacrifice himself during the whole Killua-gets-Alluka-to-heal-Gon thing really broke my heart :(( our assassin boi needs therapy and cuddles

Hi! Thank you so much for this ask! I always love discussing Illumi :)

I agree, Illumi was very eager to sacrifice himself to save Killua and the rest of his family. Despite not being aware of Nanika's rule exemptions for Killua and how Killua's wishes are risk free, Illumi believed this was a dangerous high risk situation and that casualties (in the thousands) would be inevitable. I also believe he fears what he can't control and, in his mind, thought only he could mitigate the consequences of Killua's wish, with the intention to save him, a selfess and heroic act becomes entangled with a selfish and manipulative one. It shows how his love for his family is very twisted and chilling. Here's why:

Illumi believes you sacrifice for those you love.

In a family where self preservation is everything and instilled in all members, Illumi disregarded that and was ready, without hesitation, to offer himself up as a sacrificial lamb in order for Killua to make his wish and heal Gon. He WAS going to lay down his life for his brother, (and technically for others, but family is his one and only priority) and in his mind giving his life would be the greatest and most ultimate act of love. (the parentification of Illumi Zoldyck is so strong! How dare his parents do that to him...) But also the act of sacrificing oneself to save the world is a quality belonging to a hero. (Born to be a hero, forced to be a villain lol) In that moment, he no longer mattered, his self preservation wasn't important, but a part of him would still be preserved in Killua, whom he has a strong attachment to.

Illumi believes you still love someone even after they're gone.

Illumi stated that because of his sacrifice he would 'live on in Killua's heart' but also 'Killua would suffer for the rest of his life' because of it. Killua would forever be haunted by Illumi's death. Perhaps for Illumi, to have someone be haunted by him is the same as being loved by him forever. And to haunt someone forever is the same as to love them forever. He's a manipulator, but he's also a protector (the juxtaposition is insane!) He does not fear death because he'll live on in the memories and hearts of those he loves (Illumi is such a complex character, because he's at once displaying the qualities of a hero to save and protect, but it's just so incredibly selfish, twisted, and messed up.) Love and fear are one and the same. I very much think, if this is his reasoning, how he percieves love heavily stems from how his parents treated him (and abused him) throughout his life since infancy. This boy grew up brainwashed, suffered immense trauma that was repetitve, unpredictable, and heinous. His life was a game of survival and he had to find a way for him to live, and perhaps he found that way through his brothers.

He's been through alot and because of them he can still smile.

(I know this is from Hisoka's mental toybox, but I just think it's so cute!!!❤️)

I feel like he would remind people that he could have ended up alot worse (lies, he's already there O_O) and he'll tell them so they appreciate it and not push his buttons lol He needs therapy, cuddles, and so much love that isn't conditional (there was no unconditional love in the zoldyck household, which is why sacrificing himself is his ultimate act of love BECAUSE for him to get love he had to earn it from his parents. What could he do to recieve love and approval and praise and everything that felt good in an otherwise awful life? Behaviors that all enabled him to receive love became reinforced and are now ingrained within him. His love langauge is probably acts of service (ngl he's hungry for all the love languages) But him throwing away his life for Killua was him also saying 'this is how much I love you and how much I will always love you. Forever. My love for you is forever.'

I am in tears, I am in shambles, I am heartbroken! Illumi needs to be spoiled! ❤️

[blazingauraheartworld]

Does anyone know why the Kazumi Magica artist went AWOL like you said to dreamerwitches?

That’s the fascinating thing, right? I can’t seem to find anything about them deciding to. I feel like someone would have likely noticed if the artist had put out a ‘I’m deleting everything.’ or any sort of similar vibe before it happened. 

The Cuddly Despairs event ran in October, 2021. The artist did the CG art as well as art for the newly unlocked *5 stars + new Kazumi. Sometime between that event and potentially July/August ish of 2024 ( since there was no ‘goodbye’ art piece made featuring Kazumi characters when Magia Record EOS when everyone Else did one) is when the artist seemingly deleted their online presence. 

Now, the rest is under a read more just because I find this situation fascinating, but is really just pure speculation on my end.

Kazumi Magica is such an interesting existence in the catalog of madoka spin-offs, precisely because it seems as if both the creators ( writer and artist) of the manga aren’t very interested in involving themselves further in the Madoka Magica series as a whole than the story they made. I can’t tell if it’s because there’s two people who worked on it vs the other spin-offs, where the artist And writer were the same person, that’s created this sort of vibe where Kazumi keeps getting excluded from the cool magical girl club. Tart also was a two party team with Masugitsune & Kawazuku (under Golden Pe Done), but Masu alone was plenty active in helping with designing new characters and doing multiple Tart events.

I had a whole thing here getting into it the thick of it, but very much every spin-off artist that had their story shown off in the Exedra trailer (GAN, Masugitsune, Kuroe Mura) have all given some form of contribution to Magia Record during the game’s run, if not still doing artwork for the main series, like the MagiReco anime end cards and other miscellaneous works. 

I’m not expecting Masaki Hiramatsu( Kazumi Writer, still around) to have picked up a tablet pen and done something in place of no longer having an artist for his series. He seems to be plenty busy writing for the Bleach anime right now by the looks of things. I want to make it clear : I do not think he does not care for Kazumi. He clearly does with how he didn’t like how the first Magia Record Kazumi event was written, and then seemingly assisted with it on the second go. I feel as if the same would likely happen for Exedra too to ensure the story is properly retold. 

anywhos!

Simply put, I believe the artist of Kazumi Magica, for one reason or another, retired from being an artist or does not want their art to be available online. 

This is slightly unrelated, but to give you an idea where I’m going with this, I occasionally buy adopts and customs from other artists, and if I had a nickel for every artist I’ve worked with that has scrapped their existence from the Internet entirely due to AI concerns, I would have eight nickels. Again, I cannot confirm nor deny that is why the Kazumi artist decided to scrub everything, as we do not have an official confirmation. However, it would not surprise me if that was the case.

Even if unlikely at this point, the artist could always make a comeback to work on Exedra! I feel like they might leave Kazumi as the last spin-off they'll add, just to sorta see if they could maybe Find said artist. I’m just…not holding my breath for it as of now.

Which comes to another question: When Kazumi inevitably gets added to Exedra, who is going to do the art? I know there’s someone on the f4 team that can do a good impression of Ume Aoki’s art style, but I’m not sure if they can do the same with Kazumi…? I feel like there are many artists around and involved in the series now that there’d be someone who wouldn’t mind picking up the task…

[kalied0skull]

what family related trauma should i give Scotty and Matt

shuffles my hands together with a grinchy grin

doom them with a physically absent parent who also so happens to be mentally harmful

the parent you know exists and loves you, but you just cant feel that love being there. it's always for something else, something more

trouble those boys with equally wanting attention from their parent, and never being fast enough to catch it because their parents too stuck up in their own ass

a parent who's probably like a burning candle inside of a wooden house, if you're not careful enough it just might fall and set the whole place alight

the constant burden of yearning for a parent, and SOMETIMES (just sometimes) getting that love and affection only to be cast away and forgotten about until their parent cares again

[thatfriendlyanon]

gifts from God:

a navy blue bed-frame

a matching blue rug with an ornate pattern

a bridesmaid's dress that fits me perfectly & makes me feel beautiful

a bouquet of tulips

a fresh rose fallen on the side of the road

maroon converse, in my size & great condition

frames to house pictures that are dear to my heart

[mythals-whore]

Question about your ficsssssss: do you remember when you first had the idea for them? If so, what got you to start writing? I'm curiousss

So I’d say in general what happens to me is that when i play an RPG like Dragon Age, it’s mostly OC headcanons?

My Rook’s backstory came first, because i wanted to justify an Elven Mercar and ALSO justify why she ends up being Varric’s second in command when Harding has been there longer. So that evolved into her character background.

And then my main longfic evolved out of that scene toward the endgame of Veilguard where Davrin has a line about Wardens “keeping things casual” and honestly that directly translates to “we’ve been sleeping together and hanging out and then i accidentally fell in love with you” (to me, anyway). And i just ran with that idea?

Most of my (unposted work) was something similar. A combination of character headcanons and a line/scene that i read into.

Of the two Oneshots on my ao3, Pink Handcuffs was because I made a Davrin edit to Juno and, well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and Check Mate was because it was my birthday but mostly because I’d had the idea for the Monster Book entry and couldn’t figure out how to shoehorn it into my longfic properly.

[technikki]

any hopes/wishes for the next mario rpg? (paper or otherwise)

i hope there’s more trauma-inducing stuff >:)

that’s when mario rpgs are at their best

i want super paper mario on the nintendo switch dammit

[singeamon-arts]

Question, How did Vesparose and Blitzwing meet?

I’m still kinda working on it but here’s my concept:

Vesparose accidentally transwarped to Earth (she uses that ability for energon deliveries), but due to a cooldown period, she was kinda stuck there for awhile. Unfortunately, the Decepticons captured her and quickly discovered she would glow whenever AllSpark fragments were nearby.

Blitzwing was assigned to work with her to go find the fragments, even though he wasn’t thrilled about it at first. Finding her relentlessly cheerful and optimistic attitude and positivity really annoying. However, over time, her warmth and unwavering kindness started to grow on him, much to his own surprise.

They’re very dear to me! ^^

[sidesaddle-queen]

really need to legally change my name at some point but i just really really hate paperwork and struggle to get started on it especially if it has multiple steps

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

tumblr glitched and spared you all the most heated rant of my entire hoa fandom tenure

[rivastraut]

Okay this question is gonna be a bit more serious

What is your attitude towards writing plot that includes problematic faves? Do you think writing a good redemption arc for f/o who kills people important?

How accurate is this redemption dynamic for Mike x Kleon? I look at many wholesome arts of them and it makes me think, did they manage to understand that all drug game is nothing good for them?

Did Mike manage to understand that he isn't doomed to do horrible things, that he can do good and is able to get redemption? Who undertood first that "the game" is fucked up, Mike or Kleon?

Imagine them slowly realizing what they really do, how Mike comes up to painful realization that he never will be able to actually help people he cares for by supporting the drug world and with his rising feelings towards Kleon, Mike understands that he only puts the person he loves in meaningless danger for nothing... and maybe his last meet up with Walter never happens and Mike doesn't ever give this nasty speech about "the good thing that worked like clockwork" because he can't come up with excuses aymore. He was forced to realize the terrifying truth that he can't protect anyone staying in the game and what is the cost of his illusions and how the one who pays isn't just Mike, but also the person he grew to understand and love deeply.

All these thoughts are pretty dark as anything in canon brba is. But imagine what a great and beautiful dynamic can be created, what tragic and inspiring moments it can bring. A story about two ruthless killers who open up their human side to each other and bond, slowly becoming better people through all suffering and obstacles

I really like this in depth question! Yes, Mike (and Kleon) have done some bad things that can never be fixed like killing and being loyal to a fault to a drug empire… I do like to imagine that they both try to bring out the best in each other, like Mike does not think he is worthy of being loved by Kleon because he’s an old man with an ugly past, but by being loved regardless by Kleon it makes Mike realize there is hope for him to be better, a second chance.

I think Kleon first realizes that the drug game is no good but both him and Mike realize too late once theyre in too deep, that’s Kleon’s whole life rlly like I need to rewrite his story on toyhouse but he got into the life of crime as a kid for the thrill of it/coping with his shitty home life, and he hasn’t really known anything since. But with Mike he realizes he can get that normal happily ever after marriage with him, that they can elope with the money they’ve accumulated from their job and live out a happy domestic peaceful ranch life in Alaska.

Of course this happy ending isnt without its angst though because yes they still carry that weight of being criminals but if anything, at least they get out of that dangerous lifestyle and live a normal loving life together

[chiropteracupola]

'bloodfeather' by highly suspect, if ye will!

highly suspect, 'bloodfeather'

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

I think it might be suffering somewhat from my very broken headphones.... will very likely grow on me with time but in this moment I can't say I'm a great fan

foghat, 'fool for the city'

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

FUNKY!!! need to take a bus or train or streetcar whilst listening to this immediatestyle. also: directly into the shipwreck steel playlist it goes.

goodnight daylight, 'omgee, pt.2'

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

oh you know. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[applejongho]

annnnnnnnne, can i ask u for your favourite jongho era? 👀 i want to see something !

now anon what kind of question is that! theyre all so good...

hmm. i mean not to be biased (well) but ofc he was breathtaking during guerrilla era... but i think perhaps black cat nero takes it. he just looked so amazing with the really long auburn hair and his entire spooky look was soooo good. he looked like a vampire count that could kill me. and what is not to love about that?

[junespriince]

A certain birdy told me to send these to you so I am- I sometimes Edit Wally panels for fun so enjoy these Sluggy <3

You and the birdy, I am in your debt for sharing this me, have my spleen fjdhdhdh