#I also wish there was one decided tag for every character typing out all the different little variations feels so redundant

[dermyartsz]

The matriarch of the Maw.

[aoex-shipping-events]

AOEX ANNUAL EVENT: 12 MONTHS | 48 SHIPS

Do you like Ship Week events? Ever wish your ship had one? Well now, it's likely that it does!

Below the read more, you'll find the 48 ships in question. Each month has a total of 4 ships, each celebrated for the range of a week.

For more information, check out the related ao3 collection!

SHIPS

January - Canon Ships: Mamushi & Juuzou; Yuri & Satan; Shirou & Yuri; Torako & Tatsuma

February - Mephisto Ships: Shura; Angel; Rin; Amaimon

March - Lucifer Ships: Homare; Saburouta; Mephisto; Yukio

April - Lewin Ships: Neuhaus; Angel; Shura; Demons

May - Shirou Ships: Mephisto; Osceola; Tatsuma; Nagatomo

June - Shura Ships: Angel; Lena; Liu; Mamushi

July - Konekomaru Ships: Rin; Takara; Shiemi; Izumo

August - Izumo Ships: Shiemi; Paku; Yukio | Paku & Shiemi is reserved for Week 4!

September - Yukio Ships: Renzou; Bon; Shiemi; Konekomaru

October - Renzou Ships: Konekomaru; Izumo; Paku; Shiemi

November - Ryuuji Ships: Izumo; Renzou; Konekomaru; Godaiin

December - Rin Ships: Shiemi; Izumo; Bon; Renzou

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SUGGESTED THEMES

Day 1: Food / Family Day 2: Alternate Universe / Lies Day 3: Fight / Illness Day 4: Confession / Dreams Day 5: Truths / Curse Day 6: Firsts / Goodbyes Day 7: Free Day / Holidays

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F.A.Q.

Why did you decide to create this?

The main intention is to always have on ongoing, set event that everyone can refer back to and participate year after year, even should this blog's activity decrease. Ideally this will also relieve some of the stress others may feel at the thought of creating new events from scratch, or simply provide an avenue to give spotlight to ships that don't normally receive attention. That being said, everyone is more than free to run separate events during any time slot; I'll be happy to advertise them here should they come up!

What tag can I use to participate?

In addition to the ship tag, you can use the following: #aoexshipweek #aoexshipweek2025, etc. You can also tag the account (@aoex-shipping-events) or send a DM to the account to make sure your entry is reblogged!

What if I want to participate but don't have the time/energy to create something new?

You can submit previously created fanworks! Alternatively, leaving feedback for other creators is a great way to be an active participant in this event, so don't be shy and reblog, leave comments on fics, artworks, etc!

Do I have to participate on every week/month event? Can I focus on platonic dynamics instead? What about polyships? Do whatever sparks joy, the world is your oyster, there are no limits!

What content will be shared by the account?

This event is accessible to all ages. Any type of media (fic, art, edits, etc.) is accepted, including 18+ content. Just please keep anything spicier under a cut or a link with appropriate content warnings for audience discretion.

Why did you include/not include [insert ship/character]?

The intention was to make sure to cover most of the popular ships (and give love to minor ones too!), while also keeping most months themed to a certain character to allow room for additional ships not included. December, for example, is all about Rin, so although Rin/Godaiin didn't get a dedicated week, feel free to have fun with this pairing anyway throughout the month of December!

What if I don't like/approve of [insert ship of your choice]?

This blog respects everyone's choice to participate in and/or avoid its available content, and thus strives to tag all posts accordingly so everyone can curate their own experience. If any post is lacking a tag, feel free to send an ask or DM to get it corrected!

For additional questions, please refer to the ao3 collection or send an ask!

Thanks for reading, now go forth and have fun!

[tmnt-tychou]

What is Ninja Turtles: Brotherhood?

Brotherhood came into conception February 2023 when we started to see more of the Mutant Mayhem movie set to release later in August. While I don't mind the franchise skewing young--I myself first saw Ninja Turtles as a child-- I found myself wishing there was also some TMNT animated content for older fans. At the time I was watching DC animated series like Young Justice and Harley Quinn. It was nice they recognized that there were fans of all ages and they were putting out animated content for older audiences while also making content for kids. I found myself wishing that TMNT would follow that example. And then I asked myself, if I had the opportunity to make a TMNT animated series for older fans, what would it be about? At first, I had nothing and wasn't intending to explore the idea further. Then, one day, I was driving home from work and I suddenly had an idea.

For most of 2023 I explored the concept. Since animation is my background, that was the medium I had in mind when putting it together. Of course, there's no way I could animate a whole series by myself as a fan project. I first thought about maybe trying animatics, but that also seemed a bit overwhelming. For a time, I thought maybe I would let it go as it seemed too big of a project for one person. But then the 40th anniversary came around and I decided I wanted to do it for them. For a lifetime of turtles. So I decided on a web toons type format. It seemed easier as a one-person project than the typical comic book format. So here I am after a year of development, attempting my best at putting out a TMNT fan comic for the anniversary. It's meant as a love letter to both the franchise as a whole and the fans. It pulls from many different iterations while also telling its own story. As such, it's meant for not just fans of one iteration, but for fans of any of the iterations. Just Ninja Turtle fans in general. And I'm aiming to provide a full character arc for each turtle so, no matter who's your favorite, you'll get some good content.

Plot: The series takes place five years after the defeat of the Shredder. In a story meant for older fans, I decided the turtles should be older, too. No longer teenagers, they are now 25. The idea is that everything that you expect to see in a typical TMNT series has already happened to them, and now they are navigating their world and experiencing new adventures as adults, trying to find meaning after their main adversary is gone.

You can find development art I've done over the year by checking out the #ntbrotherhood tag. I post new parts every Monday. And I usually post here on Tumblr unless I feel they are too big. You can find the full comic collected on Webtoons (for as long as they'll put up with hosting a fan comic.)

The Boys:

[samsalami66]

Get To Know Your Mutuals!

I was tagged by my wonderful @seiya-starsniper, thank you so much dear!!

What's the origin of your blog title?

Both parts of this name have a rather funny history, so this shall be entertaining. Sam is the name I use in in rl by now, but it started out as the name of my first ever real OC. At some point the OC became kind of synonymous to me, so it became a nickname between my friends and me. When the day of Gender Crisis TM came, I just decided that Sam can work as a gender neutral name and wouldn't be too much of a hassle for everyone else. The second part, Salami, kind of stemmed from that same crisis. While I was switching names from my deadname (Selina, important for the story) to Sam, one of my friends got them mixed up real fucking bad and out came Salami. Of course that became my nickname for the rest of eternity. And so I wouldn't have to explain that weird ass nickname every single time I met someone new, I just added it to all my usernames X)

OTP(s) + shipname(s):

CURRENTLY I'm done bad with two gay knights from medieval Bohemia,,, Hansry (Kingdom Come: Deliverance) has my whole heart. Other than that, still Dreamling (Sandman), although I'm not writing for them at the moment!

Favourite Colour:

Red. Because salamis are red and I've been conditioned into associating salamis with myself. (I wish this was a joke)

Song stuck in your head:

A mix of the entirety of Hamilton.

Weirdest habit/trait:

I never stand still. But not because I fidget per se, more because I continously dance. My brain always has one tab open on salsa music. Sadly no-one but me can hear that, so it comes off a bit weird.

Hobbies:

Writing, quite obviously. Fanfic mostly. Reading fanfic. Video Games, to an excessive amount atm. Cooking. Baking. Sometimes a bit of calligraphy or drawing.

If you work, what's your profession?

I mean I'm at uni at the moment, studying for a teaching degree! And I'm in a practical phase where I actually work at a school, so I'd say I'm a teacher-in-training. I absolutely love it!

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

I mean I can't say I'd be necessarily good at it, but I'd love to work on writing the dialogues for a video game at some point!

Something you're good at:

Improvisation. I am seeing it with work atm, improvisation is really my strongest fort. You can hand me one page of notes and I'll manage to hold a lesson on the topic, probably. Zero social anxiety from the moment I need to bullshit a task.

Something you hate:

Politics. Current politics.

Something you collect:

I am not really the collecting type, mostly because I know I'd lose it in a matter of days. But let's just say something 'recipes' I guess, I do like finding new recipes for my mental cookbook.

Something you forget:

I have ADHD. So everything. Deadlines. Birthdays. The existence of my friends and family. The spot I put my phone down (I haven't left it in the fridge for at least a week now).

What's your love language:

Gifts (my friends hate me). Physical touch (biting included). Heartfelt compliments over text.

Favourite movie/show:

I mean show, definitely Sandman. Movie? Can't fully say honestly.

Favourite Food:

Changes continously, but Sarmale is always a favourite. Also garlic and herb butter. And romanian soups.

Favourite animal:

I don't have one. Sloths are funny. Turtles scare me.

What were you like as a child?

Good God, I was an absolute menace. Half a metre tall, hyperactive, anger issues, judgemental af. Too smart not to develop a bit of a God complex. Really Weird. I was that kid that would hiss at other people.

Favourite Subject at school:

English? Probably? I mean I study it now so that has to count for something. But also chemistry!

Least favourite subject:

French.

What's your best/worst character trait?

My roommates informed me that the answers to both of these questions are ADHD and God Complex and I can't really disagree with that.

If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be?

I bet ADHD meds would be fire.

Tagging: @yamru and @im-not-corrupted!

[catt-crossing]

Get to know your mutuals! :D tagged by @unsettlingcreature thank you husband <3

-What's the origin of your username? I decided to make my blog bee about animal crossing as that was super popular back in 2013 which is when i made my blog! Also, cat-crossing was already taken and tbh. I like my extra aesthetic t :3

OTP(s) + shipname: I don't have too many ships that are super important to me, aside from Yato and Hiyori from Noragami. So, Yatori or Hiyato? Both work though I think I like the first a little more.

Favourite colour: Ourple......specifically lavender/pastel shades, but I love all purple shades.

Song stuck in my head: None currently as I'm listening to music right now, and what's on is Behind These Hazel Eyes by Kelly Clarkson.

Weirdest habit/trait: I'm not actually sure atm. Most are just bad habits like food and sleep, etc.

Hobbies: Video games, drawing, watching anime/cartoons, reading, more I can't think of rn.

If you work, what's your profession? Cashier, cleaning, food prep/putting away food, handling deliveries, and doing bookkeeping. So, whatever you call that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you could have any job you wish what would you have? I actually would love a job playing video games, it's my favourite hobby. So, technically, youtuber or twitch streamer? (Why does typing that out sound cringe 😔) However, I do eventually want to create some kind of story, I just don't know what media it would bee for exactly, like book, show, comic, etc. (Most likely start off as either a book or comic and then see where it goes from there??) So I guess also artist/writer?

Something you're good at: Paper origami stars and I guess video games, idk. Cleaning?? This is never a good question to ask me :')

Something you hate: Those dumbass live-action disney remakes. Yes, I just got an ad for snow white 🙄

Something you forget: To go to bed on time :/ Listen...I don't have enough free personal time just for me and it makes me feel insane so I'm taking every little minute I can get <3 Though I was planning to sleep earlier tonight, but, alas.............

Your love language: Quality time, you can fit every other one into that. I don't like the concept of love languages anyway, though.

Favourite movies/shows: Noragami, Bee and Puppycat,Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Castle In The Sky

Favourite food: Filet Mignon, and chicken nuggets :]

Favourite animal: Frogs, penguins, cats, pandas, slugs

What were you like as a child? Extremely quiet/"shy" (undiagnosed severe social anxiety teehee), I think I was nicies though. I usually tried to bee on my best beehaviour as adults beeing mad at you Was Scary (for reasons I'm not going into) <3 LOL

Favourite subject in school: English

Least favourite subject: Math, I think I genuinely have some trauma from it, but I'm not unpacking all of that here!

What's your best character trait? Uhhhh kindness and consideration, I guess? Idk ;w; I just try my best to bee both of those things always

What's your worst character trait? I don't know. I mean, I'm garbage at confrontation/standing up for myself, but that's also a majority of my social anxiety/anxiety in general's fault so like again idk. I don't like questions like these !

If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be? Can I say my financial situation 😔Cus having more money/having an increased income at the very least would help. Otherwise, MORE SPACE. My bedroom is essentially a fucking walk in closet :)

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet? Anomalocaris, not joking. I love them. Honestly, maybee a relative from hundreds or even thousands of years ago? I just think it would bee neat. (I would elaborate more, but I'm sleepy)

Tagging: @firethekitty @serirei @effigyofowls @arbushq @otteritos @thebigjawpokemon @majormeilani @micechicken @pumpkinspice-unicorn @silverstarsabove @owlgirl18 @cuccosneverdie @lovelyangemon @bluephoenix9-8 @ominouslyqueer @sunshineinantartica and anyone else who sees this!! However, no pressure if you don't want to <3 :D

[intoanotherworld23]

Pick Your Battles XII

Pairing: Reader x Bradley Bradshaw

Warnings: None

Summary: Bradley broke your heart when he accused you of betraying him, and you haven’t seen or spoken to him since. Until you are both called back to Top Gun to help with a dangerous mission that nobody’s ever attempted before

I do not own any rights to the characters or movie this is just purely for reading entertainment. Hearts, reblogs, and comments are encouraged and appreciated! If you wish to be added to the tag list please let me know! Thank you so much guys and enjoy! XOXO

Part 11

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The next day literally dragged on for what felt like days. Both Jake and Bradley constantly looking over at you, but neither one of them saying a word. Of course you didn’t give neither of them so much as a smile.

It wasn’t a good day of training either. Nobody was communicating with each other, and they weren’t acting like a team. Maverick and Admiral Simpson were both disappointed and frustrated. The mission was only a couple weeks away, and everyone still wasn’t learning.

Admiral Simpson was also getting on you about choosing a team leader for this mission. He suggested Jake, but you argued that he would get his entire team killed if he led the mission. It was like you were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Today though you were completely distracted, and your head was in the clouds. Right now you couldn’t think or make any type of decision. You felt like you needed to escape from here.

Ever since that night going on your somewhat date with Jake, and running into Bradley. Only to hear the truth, and both men wanting you to choose them. It was hard and that’s why you decided to go home alone. Bradley being kind enough to drive you home.

You didn’t kiss you didn’t hug. You just said your goodbyes, and laid in bed until it was time to get up. Mind going crazy over everything that’s been happening, and wondering what you should do.

Standing next to Maverick as you watched the pilots strolling in to take their seats. Pete asking you if you were okay, and of course you lied not wanting to burn his ears off with everything that’s been going on.

Admiral Simpson and Solomon walked in with Simpson taking a seat in the back, and Solomon walking up to the podium with a stoic look on his face.

“Good morning pilots.” Warlock greeted everyone. “The mission will be operational earlier than expected. The new shipment will be delivered within about ten days time. As a result your mission has been moved up one week.”

Everyone including Maverick looked nervous hearing this news. It was unexpected and quite honestly terrified the pilots.

“But sir nobody has successfully flown a low level course.” Coyote spoke.

“You’ve been ordered to move on.” He responded complete silence filling the room.

Looking across the room you saw that Bradley was already staring at you. You could tell by the look on his face that he was worried. Instinctively you cracked a smile for him in reassurance. He mimicked you as you turned away to look back at Warlock.

“Captain.” He signaled to Maverick who now stood in his place placing his hands on the podium.

“We have one week left to focus on the most dangerous part of the mission. It’s a pop up strike with a steep dive requiring nothing less than two miracles.” A heavy sigh leaving your lips. “We need to focus on this mission, and you need to listen to every instruction that is given to you.”

Maverick looked to you to speak now making you step forward clearing your throat. Your mouth so dry it was like the Sahara desert.

“Two pairs of F-18s will fly in a welded wing formation.” All eyes now focused on you. “Team work. Precise coordination of these aircraft are essential to this missions success and your survival.”

“As you have read this plant rests between two mountains.” Pointing to the screen behind you showing a simulation of what it’s going to look like. “On the final approach you’ll invert directly into a steep dive. This allows you to maintain the lowest possible altitude, and the only possible attack angle.”

Looking at the pilots expression you could see them all twitching and fidgeting in their seats. They tried to put on brave faces, but you saw the fear behind their eyes.

“Your target is an impact point less than three meters wide. The two seat aircraft will paint the target with a laser bulls eyes. The first pair will breach the reactor by dropping a laser guided bomb on an exposed ventilation hatch. This will create an opening for the second pair.”

“That’s miracle number one.” Maverick interrupted before you could say anything more.

Some shook their heads in disbelief, and others looked around at the other pilots making sure they heard all this correctly. It sounded easier than it was going to be.

“The second team will deliver a kill shot and destroy the target.” You finished as Bradley gave you a encouraging smile.

“That’s miracle number two.” Maverick raised two fingers this time. “If either team misses the target.”

Looking over at Maverick who had a very serious expression.

“The mission is a failure.” Bowing your head down to the thought of them failing or losing their lives because of this mission.

“The mountain is a very steep high- G climb out to avoid hitting this mountain.”

“A steep climb at that speed your pulling at least 8 G’s.” Jake spoke up saying what everyone else was thinking.

“9 minimum.” Maverick responded.

“Has anyone actually ever achieved that?” Jake sounded skeptical.

“I did.” Maverick sounded proud of his achievement.

You remember that day very clearly too. Maverick pushed 10 G’s, and pissed off almost every Admiral that was watching. Laughing to yourself as the cursed mutters in the room, while some of them were chuckling at Mavericks bold action.

“To survive this mission you will pull beyond that. Even if it means bending your air frame.”

Looking over to see Admiral Simpson closing his eyes, and shaking his head at Mavericks words. You knew Simpson wanted this mission to be as clean as possible, but with Mavericks reputation you knew he’d tell them to push their limits.

“You’ll be pulling so hard you’ll weigh close to two thousand pounds. Your skull crushing your spine. Your lungs imploding like an elephant is sitting on your chest. Fighting with everything you have just to keep from blacking out.”

You could feel a lump forming in your throat at the thought of Bradley struggling in the jet. Imaging the worst case scenario. The last thing you would want is for that to happen to him, and Bradley loses control and crashes.

“And this is where you’ll be at your most vulnerable. This is what we’re calling coffin corner.” Bob looked like he was either going to throw up or pass out.

“Assuming you avoid crashing into this mountain you’ll climb straight up into enemy radar while losing all of your air speed.” Everyone now focused on the screen as they showed another video demonstration.

“Within seconds you will be fired upon by enemy SAM’s.” Those were powerful missiles and everyone else knew that too.

This was a mission that couldn’t go wrong. They don’t want to fail, but they also didn’t want to lose any pilots. That’s why they wanted the best of the best. Pilots that they felt could achieve this and survive.

“This is gonna take you and your aircraft to its breaking point.” Mavericks tone was almost like a warning.

“Sir is this even possible?” Natasha spoke up this time.

“The answer to that will be up to the pilot in the box.”

Maverick was speaking to everyone, but his words were meant more for Bradley. The pair stared at each other for a few seconds like they were having some sort of silent conversation. Maverick didn’t want to lose Bradley either, and wanted him to know how serious this was.

“We have created a flight path just like the one for the mission. You will learn this path, you will think about this path even in your sleep.” You said as confidently as you could. “First pair will be Coyote as lead pilot, and Phoenix and Bob second.”

The three pilots nodded as they were dismissed by Maverick. Watching as they were escorted to where they needed to go.

Everyone else left the room to listen in on what was going on. Jake tried to remain in the room as long as he could, but when he saw that Bradley wasn’t moving he gave up, and headed towards the door. Bradley remained in his seat as you stood there, and waited until the room was empty.

Nothing was said between the two of you. Picking at the skin around your nails out of habit. While Bradley just watched you curiously like he wanted you to speak first. Both of you had so much to say, but didn’t know where to start.

“How are you?” Bradley asked as he stood up.

“As good as one can be.” Giving him a pathetic smile. “You?”

Not realizing that the two of you were each stepping towards the other closer and closer. Like some type of magnetic force was pulling you to him.

“As good as one can be.” Repeating your words making you smile.

“How you feeling after that little speech?” Crossing your arms across your chest as you two now stood practically in front of the other.

“Nervous as hell.” Answering honestly as he wiped the palms of his hands against his pants. “Do you think we can honestly pull this off?”

“Yeah I think with the right pilots we can.” Bradley actually valued your opinion on certain things.

“Who do you think should be leading this mission?” It was a question you were hoping to avoid with him.

“Bradley come on.” Scoffing as you turned away from him.

“No seriously I want to hear who you think should be leading this mission.” Softly grabbing your hand so you looked back at him.

“Honestly.” Taking a deep breath before you answered. “None of you.”

That answer seemed to shock Bradley as he didn’t say anything and just looked at your face. It was the honest truth, and quite frankly you didn’t want him leading the mission anyway. He meant too much for you to lose.

“None of you are really ready for this mission, and they need someone who can lead it successfully.” Shrugging your shoulders at him as you further explained.

“You’re right.” Finally speaking. “You’re totally right.”

“It’s not that I don’t think you can’t do it.”

“I know what you mean. It’s what you and Maverick have been telling me from the start.” Hearing him mention Mavericks name surprised given how he felt about him. “I can’t play it safe.”

“You’re a good pilot Bradley.” Placing a hand on his shoulder as he weakly smiled.

“So are you.” Taking your hand from his shoulder and holding it in his hand his thumb tenderly rubbing the skin back and forth.

Bradley’s gaze lingering on your face as you both smiled at each other with adoration. Neither one of you doing or saying anything, but just enjoying each others presence. It was like a roller coaster with you two. Constant ups and downs, and you didn’t know when it was going to end.

“We should probably be there with everyone else.” You spoke up as you dropped your hand from his.

“Yeah right.” He stuttered as you walked in front of him Bradley placing a soft touch on your back as he followed right behind you.

Once you got into the room everyone looked stressed and terrified. Some of them had their head in their hands, and others mouths open wide. You and Bradley looked at each other confused to what was going on. Whatever happened it wasn’t good.

“Where the hell have you guys been?” Payback exclaimed everyone turning towards you both. “You guys just missed it.”

“What happened?” Asking as you walked away from Bradley.

“Coyote went into G lock and Phoenix and Bob crashed.” It was like the air left your lungs and all you heard was crash.

“What?” Bradley shouted in disbelief.

You could hear muffled voices but you had no idea what they were saying. There was a ringing in your ear as you stood there like a deer caught in the headlights.

Staring at him wide eyed saying nothing your legs moved before your mouth could say anything. Running out of the room as quickly as you could before you burst into tears. Those same feelings and fear were coming back, and you couldn’t handle something like this happening to you again.

Running into an empty room as you sat down trying to catch your breath. Your breathing was shallow and erratic, and you felt that same anxiety before you had a panic attack. The room was getting smaller, and it was getting much harder to breathe. Like at any moment you could burst into tears.

Bradley quickly followed behind you hearing you as he ran down the hall, and quickly came into the room. The sight before him nearly broke his heart.

He took one look at you, and sat right next to you. An arm wrapped around you while he held your hands. Leaning your head against his shoulder as he tried to help control you. Whispering comforting things in your ear.

“It’s okay just breathe in through your nose, and out of your mouth.” His chin resting on top of your head. “Breathe with me baby.”

Trying to get you to follow his breathing patterns in a slow and easy pace. Hoping that his calm presence would help, and would make you feel better. He hated to see you like this, and wishes he could take all this pain you felt away from you.

“That’s it. Just breathe like that for me.” He whispered once he felt your breathing slowing down. “That’s a good girl.”

Closing your eyes as you suddenly felt exhausted. Pressing yourself deeper into Bradley’s body loving how warm and safe he felt. Bradley wasn’t going to let you go either. He wanted to hold you in his arms for as long as he could.

“Better?” He asked looking at your face.

“Yeah. Thank you.” Weakly smiling at him as you pressed your face into his shoulder. “It’s been so long since that’s happened.”

“I understand.”

The doors came bursting open as a worried Maverick came into the room. Looking at the way Bradley was holding you and seeing the expression you had on your face he knew what happened.

“Are they okay?” Bradley asked.

“There gonna keep them both in the hospital over night for observation. But there gonna be okay.” A sigh of relief left your lips hearing that news.

“That’s good.” He responded not moving an inch.

“It was a close one.” Mavericks voice cracking at the thought of how much worse it could’ve been.

“I’ve never lost a wingman.”

“You’re lucky. Fly long enough and it’ll happen. There will be others.”

“Easy for you to say.” Bradley letting go of you to stand up now. “No wife. No kids. Nobody to mourn you when you burn in.”

“Bradley.” Whispering for him to stop knowing this wasn’t the time or place.

“Go home.” Maverick responded not really in the mood to have this discussion. “Just get some sleep.”

“Why did you pull my papers at the academy?” Bradley asked Maverick before he could walk out the door. “Why did you stand in my way?”

“You weren’t ready.” Maverick kept his voice low and soft.

“Ready for what? To fly like you.” Bradley was raising his voice as he stood face to face with Maverick now.

“No ready to forget the books and trust your instincts. Don’t think just do. You think up there your dead. Believe me.”

“Well my dad believed in you.” Bradley said with such malice it even shocked you. “I’m not gonna make the same mistake.”

As the two of them stared at each other you could tell Maverick was affected by his words. Standing up this time as you wanted to say something, but it was between the two of them. They needed to be work this out themselves.

Before anything else could be spoke the door opened, and Admiral Solomon and Simpson were standing there with weird looks on their faces. Thinking they were there to lecture Maverick, but there focus was on you.

“Y/N.” Warlock waving you over both Maverick and Bradley watching you.

“What is it?” Asking when they shut the door behind you.

“Your fathers gone.”

[kuai-kuai]

webdev log 2

implemented a gallery. I originally wanted it to be more grid-like but I decided I didn't want to mess too much with that, and I like the simple look anyways. forces you to really take in every shitty drawing.

it features a search function that only works for tags. its purpose is mostly just to search multiple tags, because I couldn't be fucked to add a feature where you could click on multiple tags there at the tags list at the top. it lists out all used tags in the table that stores art so you have an idea of what there all is.

at the bottom there's pagination. it's INSANELY easy to do with this framework I'm using. I was gushing about it to my partner on call!! they made fun of me but that's okay!!!!

anyways, clicking on the date underneath the drawing takes you to a view with the image itself (a kind of "post", if I can call it that) here you can view comments and leave one yourself if you so desire. guests are NOT allowed to reply to existing comments because I'd rather things not get too clogged up. I can't stop anyone if they did an "@{name} {message}" type comment, but I don't think anyone is gonna be chatting it up on my site, so idc. I just want it very minimal, and no nesting beyond one single reply.

of course, you can comment on story chapters too so here's what it looks like for a user (me). of course, if a user (me) posts then it gets automatically approved.

the table that stores comments differentiates story comments and art comments with foreign keys to the primary keys of the the chapter and art tables. it's a little convoluted and I kind of wish I didn't do it this way but it's too damn late isn't it. but honestly it might've been the only way to do it. the problem is just repeating code for both chapter and art views.. making a change to one means I gotta manually make the same change to the other. huge pain..

added user authentication and a really shitty bare bones dashboard for myself to approve/reject comments directly on the site in case someone comes along and wants to be mean to me :( rejecting a comment deletes it OFF my site forever. though I kind of want to be able to keep hate mail so I dunno.. oh, and also a big fat logout button because I have nowhere else to put it.

I'll spare everyone the more technical ramblings.

anyways, I'm hoping to add more things later. these are my plans:

allow users (me) to post stories/art through the site itself instead of doing it manually in the vscode terminal for every. single. story. and drawing. (probably took me 6+ hours total just doing this. I don't know why I did it.) (btw this consists of writing commands to store information via the terminal. also, sql and similar databases don't store things like markup or even line breaks. I had to alter all my stories and put \n every time there was a line break... and you have to escape apostrophes (or quotes, depending on which you use) so every "it's" had to be made into "it\'s" HUGE. PAIN. I didn't do this manually obviously but sifting and plugging my stories into character replacers was so time consuming)

delete comments button.... For my eyes and fingers only

make an About page. I've been avoiding all the fun things and doing just the scary stff

figure out SSH stuff...

clean up the shitty css. I refuse to use tailwind even tho it's trying to force me.. I don't want some sleek polished site I want it look like it's in shambles, because it is

but yeah thanks for reading about my webdev and coding journey. even though using the laravel framework made things a thousand times easier it's still a crazy amount of work. let's say building a site completely from scratch means buying every material and designing the house yourself, and using a website builder like wix is just like buying a pre built home and you're just decorating it. using this framework is like putting together a build-your-own-house kit. you're still building a fucking house.

I feel crazy. it felt like the site was close to breaking several times. been sleep deprived for several days working on this nonstop I think I'm getting a little sick 😵‍💫

going to bed now. it's 9 am.

[theskoomacat]

i want to plug Pacific Drive real quick. i had a free day yesterday so i spent it in its entirety glued to the screen. i'm not proud. check out this game!!!!!!

it's kind of like a mix between STALKER and Firewatch (by vibe. in my head). (the Impact of Roadside Picnic on our society!) idk the official genre tags on the game but at its base it is a survival game with looting and crafting.

but. you're doing all that to spoil your beautiful princess (your maybe sentient cat that maybe will kill you eventually). you spend 80% of the time in your car, it's your defense against the elements and the Zone. the gameplay loop is fairly simple - you drive, you listen to scientists bicker over the radio, you loot, you lose half your car, you HAUL ASS, you get home.

the game offers a HUGE variety of stuff to explore, from anomalies to weather conditions to biomes to the weird flora/fauna to lore. there's SO much lore, idk who decided to write a blurb for every type of paint. huge game for people who love to collect stuff. and collecting stuff is sometimes a puzzle on its own because you need different tools (which are often interchangeable, thankfully, with varying efficiency).

and driving is very fun. i have a special condition called "Played Skyrim in formative years", so the mountains are a challenge to me, not a barrier. i enjoy the fact that driving being the focal point reshapes the world significantly (from the gamedev pov), because it is built to accommodate driving instead of just running around. the roads are the main focus of all the anomalies due to that, so frankly running around would be easier than dodging the roadblocks, but also you would fucking die. it's actually funny that i regularly find the roads by the concentration of anomalies instead of like. the road itself.

the game is pretty. the GIANT walls/lab megastructures blow my mind, they're so fucking huge. BUT. one problem i have is that there are too many nights. i have already toggled "Shorter nights" on, and still it feels like 60% of rounds take place at night (maybe i'm doing something wrong idk). yes, it is a challenge, but also i wish i could see the game?

the world itself is pretty fun. i have already mentioned STALKER, which is a very fair comparison since you're in a Zone filled with Anomalies. except this time the Zone is not a strictly "natural" occurence, which mixes this genre with the "fucked up mid-20th cent american science->military complex" genre. it is really interesting to see many different opinions on what the Zone is doing in the lore. and you can draw your own conclusions from interacting with it. it is as likely to harm you as help you, and most of the time it just Fucks with you (LIM shield ilu).

what hasn't i mentioned yet? the characters are fun, an old jaded scientist lady who's entombed herself within her creation, her ex-colleague and his bf/husband who stayed in the Zone to hunt cryptids, all lovely. the music is mostly good, but unfortunately there aren't too many tracks, so some get old really quick (i WISH i got tired of DOCTOR JUICE). but do check the radio from time to time, there are cool transmissions you can catch there.

idr if there was a difficulty selector anywhere, but you can make the game easier at will in the settings - keep inventory, restore the car when back home, etc. i wish i had known about these settings when i "died" at the EXACT moment i moved to another zone, because i both lost half my inventory AND was forced to continue my run due to that lmao. the game is Not easy tbh. the first time i was in the city with a hole in the center i couldn't climb out of there because it was pitch dark and my car was so so broken, it actually made me super frustrated. but when you learn all that stuff and actually plan for it and outfit your car with it mind, it all becomes manageable and enjoyable. it is decidedly not a horror game, but it Is unsettling at times. dense fog+bigfoot weather conditions made me SO paranoid, although i didn't actually see anything lol

so yeah, i totally recommend the game if you enjoy survival games. here are also some tips for people trying the game out for the first time, aka what I wish I had known:

In the beginning doing more runs (=bringing in more anchors) will be more benefitial than turning over every rock in every zone because a lot of good stuff is locked behind upgrades. One exception - quest zones with Perpetual Stability, you can explore and loot there for an hour if you want

Shorten the nights. It's not fun to stumble around blindly, especially not in the beginning while you're still learning

Hold T to teleport your car out of sticky situations and use Y to sort inventories. idk why they don't tell you that

PLAN. Look at the resources in each location has before launching and bring extra instruments/raw materials in accordance

Invest into better batteries and renewable energy, it gets more and more important as you progress. You don't really need to upgrade the gas tank until you've upgraded the engine, unless you spend 50% of the time trying to crawl up a mountain with summer tires (off-road tires are the shit)

Skip the crowbar, the impact hammer and scrapper can do everything it does

Dying is not super scary aside from losing progress, you just lose your inventory and maybe some attachments, but you will get an opportunity to find the wreckage of your car on a different run (orange tombstone? icon) and to loot it

[priafey]

AO3 Twenty Questions

tagged by @ladytanithia. a big thank you, as always!

tagging @inkoherentwriting, @azures-grace and YOU, dear reader

(copy/paste for the questions below the cut)

1 – How many works do you have on AO3?

Four, not counting the work I published as a reference list for my OCs.

2 – What's your total AO3 word count?

84,627

3 – What fandoms do you write for?

Just TES:Skyrim for the moment. Sadly, I haven't been able to play any of the other games just yet.

4 – What are your top five fics by kudos?

I'm dying for Among the Many Lost Souls to surpass Sought and Found. It was my first venture into longform writing and it shows. Bleh.

5 – Do you respond to comments?

Almost always. If I don't respond, it's usually because I tried my darndest and couldn't think of a constructive or meaningful response.

6 – What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

The one I'm writing right now :3c (Among the Many Lost Souls). I'm putting Gwilin through the wringer and then I'm gonna hang him out to dry.

7 – What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Sought and Found, I suppose.

8 – Do you get hate on fics?

No, I don't. I lowkey wish I did. Firstly, because haters can be remarkably perceptive, and, secondly, because I am as interested in what makes someone scrunch up their nose or click away from my fic as I am about hearing people's thoughts on what was well-executed about them. I think my stuff is too niche to really draw a lot of negative attention (right now, at least).

9 – Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Always, my man! I consider it my moral duty to make my characters fuck nasty. Why? BECAUSE IT'S HOT DUHHH

10 – Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

People who write crossovers scare me so bad. I can barely limp my way through having to structure a plot around already-existing lore and making sure everything that happens in the story is congruent with in-universe rules, meanwhile there are people out there writing Skyrim x The Walking Dead crossovers. It's cocobananas.

11 – Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I know. I don't really give a fuck if people steal my shit. Fighting with someone over authorship of a work that is principally riding on the coattails of an existing IP, which can't even be monetized, mind you, feels like a real 'race to the bottom' situation to me. I'm well aware of the quality of my work and I'm proud to have the drive to constantly better my skills. That's all that matters.

12 – Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. Though I did start translating Sought and Found into Spanish, I dropped it when I started writing Among the Many Lost Souls. In any case, I would be so, so touched if someone decided to translate a fic of mine.

13 – Have you ever co-written a fic?

Also nope. Never tried collaborative writing outside of an academic setting. Totally open to it, though!

14 – What's your all-time favorite ship?

Uh, I'm not real big on shipping existing characters. I mostly just think about my OCs, or my friend's OCs, with each other. Aside from Gwilin x [pretty much every other NPC in Skyrim], I think thoughts about @abstractredd's guys, Hedgrod and Athrar, quite often.

15 – What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Fic-related WIP? Just one. I wanted to write another romance fic (like Sought and Found) featuring a netch farmer who's a cowboy-type character. Sexy Dunmer with a southwestern accent. Brokeback Mountain: Morrowind Edition. You get the picture.

I might still finish it, but I'm reluctant to even touch it because I haven't played Morrowind, and would have to do a real deep-dive into everything related to Dunmer in TES lore to write it. I know a lot already, but I never feel like I know enough, y'know?

16 – What are your writing strengths?

I've been told I'm good at setting a scene and painting a picture. This is, I think, a new ability I acquired in the past year or so. I've also been told my smut-writing abilities are pretty good, which is always nice to hear :) If I had to list what I consider to be my own strengths, I'd add that I've gotten a lot better at cutting the fat out of my writing (especially from dialogue tags and in describing facial expressions and body language).

17 – What are your writing weaknesses?

Dialogue is a bitch a half for me to write. It's probably the thing I most obsessively tweak before publishing. I think my dialogue tends to fall short.

Pacing is another issue. I often criticize, in other fic author's works, that they present an interesting image or idea and then leave me hungry because they don't elaborate on it, but I am the biggest culprit of this if I don't constantly remind myself that, yes, people want to hear more about this or that. They want you to mystify it, justify it, make it sexy, make it like a puzzle for them to solve. You can't just leave it cut-and-dry, much as my autism compels to do because "It's quite literally saying the same thing". Like, that's great, bestie, but you have to elaborate! Say the same thing just make it sound cooler than it is!

18 – Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

This is cool. I don't mind busting out Google Translate to enjoy a fic. That mouse-hovering feature that lets you add alternative text to a fic on ao3 is super useful for this sort of thing.

19 – First fandom you wrote for?

My first, and only other, fandom: My Little Pony. I was 12.

20 – Favorite fic you've written?

I love them all for different reasons, BUT Among the Many Souls has blood and sex and drama in it, so yeah. It's in the lead.

1 – How many works do you have on AO3?

2 – What's your total AO3 word count?

3 – What fandoms do you write for?

4 – What are your top five fics by kudos?

5 – Do you respond to comments?

6 – What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

7 – What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

8 – Do you get hate on fics?

9 – Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

10 – Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

11 – Have you ever had a fic stolen?

12 – Have you ever had a fic translated?

13 – Have you ever co-written a fic?

14 – What's your all-time favorite ship?

15 – What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

16 – What are your writing strengths?

17 – What are your writing weaknesses?

18 – Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

19 – First fandom you wrote for?

20 – Favorite fic you've written?

[copaceticjillybean]

✔★☣

✔: A plot you would love to play out with your character

OOC: Ooooh, choices choices! Well, I think a plot where Jillian and the muse my rp partner is writing keep meeting up in the same bar, talking and getting to know one another a little more each time only for Jillian to head out with another person every time. It could go several ways- a simple friendship plot, romance born out of frequent meetings, a mystery as to why the guys Jillian leaves with seem terrified to see her when she comes back after leaving with them, maybe a partners in crime type deal, all sorts of things! It could obviously be fleshed out more, but that's a plot I think could be a lot of fun! :D

★: A blog you’d love to roleplay with

OOC: Ahh, please forgive me for this, but I think I'll skip this one. I just don't want anyone who I might not be mutuals with to feel pressured by me saying I wanna write with them, in case they don't wanna write with me. But as a consolation, I WILL list a few of my favorite rp partners here instead! @cartoonslackers @a-hell-of-a-time @keeperofquestions @thehazbins There we go- just a few of the amazing peeps I rp with! :D (Edit- Okay, I'm a dirty liar. I just now thought of someone I would love to write with, and I'm only gonna tag them because they follow me and have seen me in their post's notes a few times: @grimowled I'm sorry I'm a big ol' fibberoo- please don't put me in the liar's bucket!) ☣: A pet peeve about roleplaying

OOC: Okay, I posted one of my big ones before, but this one is even bigger. It's also a peeve I have at myself about roleplaying, which is this: I hate how finicky my attention for different threads and characters can be at any given time. There are so many wonderful and amazing canon portrayals and ocs that I want to interact with, and who's muns have followed me wanting to interact. And for a while I do, but then my dumb brain decided to cling to another (equally awesome!) character, and I end up keeping my other rp partners waiting. And while everyone has been so patient, I wish I could take my brain out and shake it, so I could stop shifting focus so hard. So yeah, that's a pet peeve about my OWN rping behaviors. >u<;

[firespirited]

The tumblr search for dolls is near useless again between the incestplay, rapeplay, oversized body features on one hand and eating disorders on the other.

I totally don't mind other types of dolls than fashion dolls, the use of doll by black and latina trans women, "dolled up" selfies and the elegant gothic lolita community. There are also multiple bands and media properties with doll characters.

Every week someone in search is moved by Iris by the Goo goo dolls and that's beautiful, someone is sick of being a dress up doll for their mother and ready to break free, someone is grieving a relationship where they were treated like an emotional support realdoll and you wish them so much better.

Anyway here's how I blacklist without resetting search every time: either multiple tabs in firefox or have the app and a browser open to your settings: "content you see"

then you add all the junk: the fifty variations on consensual non consent kink, and try to figure out if the folks using russian doll as slavic models thinspo are using another tag so you don't end up blocking discussion about the great TV show, decide if you're ok with people mass posting about Guys and Dolls the 50s film and long fanfictions about Murder Drones. Voilà !

But yeah on a serious note, use blacklist and block liberally: the "little girl" folks post very disturbing written content.

[thatdesklamp]

WAIT OMG-

been reading intrinsic warmth for a WHILE and your writing is top tier!! i always wondered to myself every time i’d read a chapter why the writing just STICKS, yk? i’m a MAJOR book girlie, i read 24/7.

AND THEN IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN I READ ONE OF YOUR TAGS THAT YOU PUT UP ON ONE OF YOUR POSTS WHERE YOU WERE ANSWERING A QUESTION FROM ANOTHER LOVELY READER AND I SEE THAT YOU TOOK AN ENGLISH A LEVEL?

first of all (not 100% sure on this) but i’m pretty sure only british ppl take gcses, a levels, etc. YOU’RE BRITISH?

i feel like i’ve met my other half rn over something so tiny but yeah. IT LITERALLY EXPLAINS WHY YOUR WRITING IS SO GOOD:

i could point out the NUMBER of times i’ve seen juxtaposition, symbolism, foreshadowing in your fic to someone if they’d asked me to point it out for them. at first i thought you might’ve done it unknowingly, and then i decided that nope, bc foreshadowing is such a BIG writing technique that it simply couldn’t have been by accident.

it’s one thing to know about a writing technique and another to actually be able to SUCCESSFULLY incorporate it into your writing. if it isn’t clear enough, i’m saying that you did it AMAZINGLY. you’ve got a natural talent and i’m envioussss (in a supporting way ofc 😭).

you should really look into making your own book, and i think you EXCEL at the supernatural aspect of plot in stories. your writing is so unique and different yet so warm, it reminds me of autumn (my favourite season).

idk how to end such a long message, ultimately i don’t have a reason for typing this up and shit. ik you have tons of people probably saying the same thing and it might just get repetitive for you, but i wouldn’t feel comfortable not being part of said bunch-of-ppl-probably-saying-the-same-thing.

oh! and take your SWEET TIME updating. it’s your story, your fic, your writing. the ONLY thing we readers can give you as a payback and thanks is time, patience, and understanding <3333

RAHHH BRITTANIA 💪💪💪💪

Agh. Yes—I’m British (English to be precise, sweet sweet caroline etc), hence the use of ‘u’s in words like ‘colour’ and ‘humour’, and also why everyone’s parents are their ‘father’ or ‘mother’ and not mum/dad. ‘Mom’ feels too American but ‘mum’ feels too rah engerland, yk? I’ve mentioned previously that I’m looking forward to writing fics where the characters are actually from England and where I’m actually allowed to write them the way I talk, mostly. Good lord am I excited.

And yes lol I took English for an A-Level. Bloody smashed it too, if I get to brag, mwahaha. Didn’t take it any further (I’ve also previously said that I’m a # woman in stem uni student, which is true), but I still write a killer essay imo. Give me 10 minutes to do a refresher on ‘Othello’ (it’s been a while okay) and I can talk for donkeys about his tragic fall and how much of a wanker he is. Which he is! I’m a Desdemona defender for life.

You say ‘natural talent’. PLS. No!! God no. Not at all. I wish—that would’ve made it a lot easier, but whatever I can do rn is down to bloody years of toiling away on my shitty little laptop, I promise. I’ve got another anon ask that asked about some writing tips so I’ll do the bulk of them there but my number 1 will always and forever be to practise. Whatever skill I have now has been earned over the many years. You don’t even want to see some of the stuff that will never grace my ao3 page (atla had me in a chokehold through covid and I have never been the same).

But you are genuinely so complimentary: this is so so lovely of you. Thank you?? It’s really weird being someone who writes and also someone who enjoys analysing literature; you’re right, half of the ‘techniques’ are intentional (the number of times I’ve flicked through some chapters’ drafts and thought, ‘fucks sake none of this makes sense, I need to add some decent foreshadowing or none of this will make sense in two chapters’), but also so much of my writing is just thinking, ‘hmm, this doesn’t really feel right. No no, I don’t like the vibe of this. I want this to feel more GRAAHHH and less lalalala. Lemme change this up a bit’. Whether that leads to the whole, short sentences->speeds up the pace of the reader when reading the section->increased tension, mimics actual fight encounter, etc etc (all the stuff you blag on about in eng lit), then maybe that counts as intentional? And maybe not.

Making my own book? That’s lovely of you to say but I also really don’t have any ideas for anything non-fanfic’y! Lol. I love a good bit of canon compliance, that’s my issue. That being said—hey, another eng a level reference—I’ve made multiple references here to being the world’s #1 ‘Atonement’ hater. Unfortunately, it also lives damn rent free in my head and I’ve got the bare bones of a WW2-era, perhaps epistolary, longform fic buzzing around. (Fandom: Marauders. I’m a disgrace but here we go). I’ve written nothing for it and maybe I never will, but that’s one of the only things I can see as being more standalone from original canon. Anyway: it’s the fanfic life for me. Ali Hazelwood’s life is but a distant dream.

But anyway! Thank you again for your lovely words. The next IW chapter will take a very long time, I have to be frank, so thank you for the reassurance that that’s not absolutely disgraceful lmao T_T Thanks again!! <3

[zoguy1]

I've made a thing for the Crossover Fandom

DISCLAIMER!! PLEASE READ BEFORE OPENING THE DOC: This is a project that is meant to document ALL the ships I've seen on Archive of Our Own that were tagged under the fandoms I wanted to crossover. I do not ship all the ships listed or endorse them. There are ships on this document that might upset people. I wanted this doc to be accessible to those particularly sensitive to those ships, so all of them have been moved to the bottom of the list and highlighted in a dark gray so that people who don't want to see these ships won't accidentally stumble across them. HOWEVER, not all the "Trigger Ships" (as I call them) are labeled. I've been working on this project alone, and spotting every Trigger Ship by myself is hard. If you wish to help make this document more accessible, please notify me of any ships that have not been labeled. I also ask that people don't use my doc to target people because of ships. If I am made aware that people are doing this, I'm removing public access to this doc.

So I've mentioned that I've wanted to expand my crossover universe more. And to be honest. The plans I have for my crossover universe is a lot larger than me. As in, I have ideas for something significant, but no real idea of how to implement it.

One of the ideas was to have every character get a crossover ship, but given that I'm a multishipper masquerading as a monoshipper, I didn't have a clue which ships I should implement.

So once Covid hit the States, I decided to make a document of all the existing crossover ships I've seen on Archive of Our Own, make statistics on qualities that I like in a ship and dislike in a ship, and then organize the document to show me the ships that I would like the most.

The project ended up being a lot more work than I had anticipated. Taking a total of 5 years to make. It started as a fun little project to work on during quarantine. Over time it grew into something more for better and for worse.

I really love this project. I love the final outcome, and although it's not perfect, I'm still proud of it. But I can't lie and say it was easy making this. This project took over my life, and there have been several times when I just wanted to tear the whole thing down because it was just too much for me to do. I've had to make and remake and remake and remake this project. It was exhausting.

But I'm finally to a point where I'm mostly satisfied with it and ready to let this project go. It's not perfect. There are still ships on this doc that have been mislabeled and need fixing. But I've concluded that I'm only one person, and it's not embarrassing to ask others to help.

As I've stated in the disclaimer: some ships have not been properly labeled. Not just with Trigger Ships, but also queer types and fandoms. Minor shit that I would not be able to spot because of my dyslexia. If you wish to help me out, please notify me of any fixes I need to make to the doc.

I plan on updating the stats every year, however, it takes me a long ass time to update the doc. So don't expect the 2024 edition to come any time soon.

[enbyboiwonder]

any combo of these for the fic writers ask? ❤️👻🏷👓😎💛💌 (also, hope you're doing well!)

I think I’m doing probably so-so (though I was doing better before this disgrace of a website reloaded the tab when I was 95% finished answering this and I had to restart from scratch—I am salty). I dunno how long it’ll last, especially since it’s not simply a periodic downswing, but oh well. I think playing Neverwinter Nights (and fantasizing about if not always writing Hero/Tomi fic) might be helping though, or at any rate, it ain’t hurting.

Send me fanfic author questions!

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

The reason it took me so long to answer this—at least, before this sorry excuse of a website decided to delete everything I’d written because apparently autosaving to drafts is a thing for every type of post except ask responses—was that I had to go back and reread all (well, almost all; some of them I’d rather like to pretend don’t exist and either A. I’m still undecided on whether to orphan or not, or B. I can’t orphan them because they’re part of a series) the fics on my account. Is it weird that my fics don’t really stick in my head that long? Even when I don’t all but block them out. Anyway, it might be…

He feels safe—god, he feels like home.

from Don’t Tell Me Where the Road Ends (MacGyver 2016, macdalton). It’s not anything fancy or eloquent or anything, but idk, I still like it.

Or maybe…

He watches with poorly concealed amusement as Chika seems to work his way through all five stages of grief and back in the span of about two seconds.

from The Shape of Soup (2.43, yunichika)

(Yeah, I had difficulty choosing, so the rest—and the rest of the questions—will be going under the cut for length vvv)

Or even…

Somewhere along the way, his admiration has turned from jealousy to want—from wanting to be him to just wanting him.

the line that birthed not to remain as just a wish (2.43, odaoki)

Or possibly, since I feel like I should have one that is imagery-type/more poetic/(would it be conceited to call it eloquent?)…

His whole body is alight with the fizz of cider close beneath the surface of his skin, overflowed from the cavity of his chest to spill down his limbs and climb up his throat, pooling and sparking in all the places that Mao touched him like senkou hanabi, like miniature fireworks all their own, the brightest of all where Mao's fingers are still tangled with his, and it's wonderful and overwhelming at once.

from candy-apple red (Girls Blue, kisaragi/mao)

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

I don’t think I have any tbh? My headcanons all tend to be more the run-of-the-mill type and/or generally accepted fanon and/or stuff extrapolated from them being clearly ADHD and/or autistic. They’re small things, like Yuni liking spicy foods but being unable to handle sour stuff while Chika loves both, or Nao liking space but not particularly caring for sci-fi, even sci-fi that’s set in space. In fact, both of those I came up with while writing the fics they show up in lmao (Lemon Squash and 流星群, respectively. Though, technically, Chika liking lemons—with the sort-of implication that Yuni doesn’t—showed up in The Shape of Soup, but that was just lemons.)

🏷️ Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?

I don’t think I’ve ever gone into a content tag outside of when I was trying to see how to do something while attempting to write smut. It’s never really worked out. Even when I think I’ve figured something out, it all flew out of my head as soon as I opened my own fic. At least I prefer writing non-smutty fics, or this would be a much bigger problem than it is lmao

No, usually what I’ll do is just go into a ship (or character) tag and filter out any tag I come across that I don’t want to read.

👓 What helps you focus when you write?

Music, though that’s also just a general thing. Typically I’ll just listen to whatever I’m already listening to (which for the past few years has mostly been the 2.43 OST), but if I’ve got a specific song or set of songs in mind for a fic, I’ll generally listen to that instead. Sometimes when I’m rewriting a canon scene or writing something that includes one, I’ll just leave the show playing in the background once I’m done with it. (That’s actually how one of my 2.43 rewatches happened lmao, though I guess it only half counts.)

Of course, sometimes my brain will focus on that instead…

Yeah, I haven’t figured out how to reliably hack my ADHD. Mostly I just hope I’ll slip into hyperfocus (and then hope I’ll manage to finish it while I am, but that only very, very rarely happens. Normally I’ll come out of my daze to find I’ve added like 1600 words and I’ve got no idea how to write the missing bits).

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

It depends on my mood tbh. Also how much I hate canon (though it can make for some delicious angst, depending on why I hate it). But most of my fics end up being canon compliant, or at least not canon uncompliant, so I guess when it comes to writing, it would be that? Though I do also accumulate my fair share of AUs (but then, most of those are Canon AUs of one sort or another…)

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

I’m not so sure I’ve learned anything, and certainly not anything impactful, except that I have zero idea how to describe emotions. That, and it’s obnoxious af when people use epithets for the POV character. I can’t believe I used to do that. It makes me what to crawl into a hole and die in shame. Like, what someone/something is referred to in the narrative is how your POV character thinks of them! Your MC can’t be “the other man”—he’s the man! Everyone else is “the other” in reference to him! (That’s probably also why I’ve gravitated more consistently toward referring to the POV character by their given name, though I’ll still use surnames sometimes—and not just when we never learned their given name.)

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

I tend to prefer writing Pre-Relationship/Feelings Realization/Getting Together/First Kiss stuff over Established Relationship stuff, but I’m not so sure any of those are tropes. Wait, what does count as a trope. Cuz I also love Fluff (particularly the sappy stuff—I’ve had several turn out way sappier than originally intended) and Angst and Hurt/Comfort about equally, but I feel like those are closer to genres than tropes…

Hmm, well, I do love Character x Their Significant Annoyance (A finds B annoying/frustrating/exasperating/baffling/etc. but is still inexplicably fond of them anyway), and I feel like a lot of the fics I’ve written are for pairings with that dynamic, so let’s just go with that, shall we?

I’m also a sucker for tropes in the Fake Dating to Real Dating/Didn’t Realize They Were Dating/Practice Kissing area, though I haven’t finished very many of those, and I also love Crossdressing (particularly sticking unfeminine men in women’s clothing and/or guys just casually wearing women’s clothes), but I haven’t finished any of those, either. Granted, some of those involve smut, which could explain it, but it’s not like all of them do. Half or less.

Plus there’s The Italicized Oh, and I love sticking those sorts of moments into my pre-relationship fics, even if there is no actual italicized “oh.” Just—the yearning. I’m an absolute sucker.

[lorenfinch]

OC Picrew Meme

I saw @liv-is give this meme an open tag and I wanted to hop on and try it!

Rules: Show off your OC using this picrew. The picrew has lots of options for skin tones and horns so if you have a non-human OC, join in the fun!

Tagging: anyone who wants to!

It was fun and a bit of a challenge to turn everyone's fantasy outfits into modern fits!

Renwick, Styx, and Erevan all turned out pretty good!!

There's quite a few more so I'll put them under the cut! I didn't do every single character since there are a lot, but I did some of the major ones!

Verida is my absolute FAVORITE of these; the picrew does her so much justice with the colors and such!! Sad that I had to cut her out of book 1 to make the plot less convoluted but she'll be making her appearance hopefully in book 2! She is so fun and I love her so much.

Some misc characters, from left to right: Vince, Ainsley, and Odessa! For some reason I don't think I finished Vince the first time I tried making him so I redid him and now he looks like himself more! Still could use more filigree though :P Anyway, Ainsley's hair is supposed to be salt and pepper and I decided Odessa is a dog person right when making her in the picrew.

...I was debating on whether I would make all of them in this picrew but here are the vampires in the Night Terrors clan! From left to right:

Top: Belladonna, Tansy, Norwyn Center: Aramour, Dahlia, Amaryllis Bottom: Eirik, Vlastimir, Mirko

EDIT RIP MY CAREFUL FORMATTING i added another pic of how theyre supposed to be arranged

Bella, Tansy, Dahlia, and Amaryllis look VERY good; Eirik does NOT look like himself lmaooo I wish there was a more buff/muscle-y body type option. The elves Norwyn and Aramour look fine; they both have black sclera as elven vampires, and Aramour's skintone is more orange-y and nonhuman (also he wears bright colored eyeshadow). Vlastimir looks pretty great, and Mirko looks like Peter Pan and I just realized how apt of a comparison that is. :(

[basil-the-scorned]

Get to Know Your Mutuals

I saw @serpercival doing this and decided to jump on!

what's the origin of your blog title?

Orange Cassidy quote from last year, think he says it after Chuck Taylor got jumped by the Death Riders.

otp(s) + shipname(s):

I don't really have one off the top of my head. Trapper/BJ and Adam Page/ Dalton Castle lurks in the corner... nope, none at all! Chuck Taylor/Orange Cassidy sneaking up on me, followed by Nick Jackson/Adam Page (oh boy...)

All seriousness though, I only have two OTPs and that's John Watson/ Sherlock Holmes and Wolverine/Storm!

favourite colour:

Green!

song stuck in your head:

Will You Still Love me from EPIC (I look at one animatic and suddenly it's in my head all day)

weirdest habit/trait:

I rather eat candy out of a tiny bowl. It's a habit my mom did for me when I was little and I got too used to it.

hobbies:

Video Editing, writing, listening to music.

if you work, what's your profession?

Also video editing but freelance for a company.

if you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

Honestly, working in production for sports in general would be amazing. I fell in love with doing it in college and I want to do it professionally now. Just...got to find a way into it. (Might try and get into doing it for the college around here)

something you're good at:

Listing off random facts.

something you hate:

People purposely spoiling something fun because they're not. That's just you being a dick.

something you collect:

Buttons and pins!

something you forget:

EVERY FUCKIN THING my brain is a sieve <<<SAME, I CAN'T REMEMBER SHIT!

what's your love language:

Physical Affection! I'm very touchy.

favourite movie/show:

Brother Bear- Movie Upside Down Show- Show (

favourite food:

Any seafood, but especially shrimp and crawfish. They are my favorite type

favourite animal:

Wolves. They're big giant dogs.

what were you like as a child:

Very talkative. Glad that didn't go away despite everything.

favourite subject at school:

English and Film.

least favourite subject:

Math

what's your best character trait?

Easy-going

what's your worst character trait?

Procrastinate a lot....

if you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be?

Wish I got my license, so I can drive (trying to get that done this year)

if you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?

Roddy Piper. He seemed really cool.

tagging- whoever sees this, go at it!!