#I dunno 🤷‍♀️

[zephanghoulz]

Bored currently and I haven't seen any zephrit fics lately... My partner insisted I should try to be the one to feed zephrit lovers with the zephrit content.. So working up a story, I'll say when it's on ao3 when it is finished 👍

Honestly not sure if I should just do a chapter by chapter post, or post all chapters at once.. Maybe a certain amount of chapters??

[samtheturret]

feeling funky. might take a break.

[friskasreblogblog]

Mikaele Salesa vs questionable roadside merchant for characters I think would make amazing NPC merchants go—

Also here are several thoughts into one about the sound design!

It’s so strange how before the sounds and music (except for the intro) in Archives were diegetic?

But now we have background music and sound effects that characters shouldn’t normally be able to hear (unless Augustus played a sound clip of the violin and they just… chose not to comment on it. Which doesn’t make sense but is funny to imagine. :’D)

And I honestly can’t tell if there is an intentional in-universe reason for this or if it’s a stylistic choice because like

the last time I assumed something was ‘just a stylistic choice’ was Jon being weirdly dramatic with his recordings

I wonder too if the fact that the recordings are from what sounds like cameras have something to do with it? Something wants us as the audience to hear things the characters aren’t aware of maybe? Would that be too weird to assume?

Because like, we’ve already had an ARG which is by itself a way for media to interact with the audience.

And I can’t help but think about how we’ve had the theme for the archives show up in almost like a “pay attention, it’s that thing you knew before” kind of way. It feels almost by design and not just in well. In an amazing sound design kind of way.

But also I could be completely off-base because I like to overthink things

Also the sound design is just 🤌🤌

ALSO THE THEME SONG I love it so much because it’s like BWAAAAAAM (and also the fact that the structure of it sounds similar to the Archives’ theme but different enough for you to go ‘wait a second’).

They almost sound like the inverse of each other? Which kind of fits with the whole mirror/same but different thing going on. Two sides of the same coin, that kinda thing.

Very excited to see where this goes!

[ageless-aislynn]

VOLUME WARNING

Picture it, friends. Way back in 2005, there I was, just a humble fangirl with 3 things I never should've had: a bunch of Lord of the Rings audio clips, a suuuuuper basic audio editing program and a bunch of silly sound effects. Add in one of my favorite Britney Spears songs and a serious helping of, um, ✨something✨ and you end up with this thing that I'd pretty much forgotten about until I discovered it today saved on a good ol' CD-ROM (no, not even a DVD, this was prior to me having a writable DVD drive 😲😉).

It was already rendered together so there wasn't much I could do to clean it up. Consider the pops and distortion to be seasoning, hm? Just givin' it all some flavor! 😂 Though I did attempt to balance some parts out so this wouldn't absolutely blow out anybody's eardrums. That said, yet again VOLUME WARNING because it comes right out of the gate way too loud. 😬 I really wish Tumblr's audio player had volume controls. 😒

Featuring, in no particular order:

Unrepentant misuse and mishearing of Elvish (Arwen's "Aragorn. Ú or le" turning into "Aragorn, who are they?" The Fellowship of the Ring.")

Gandalf cannonballing into a body of water

Sam, Merry and Pippin cheering Frodo on while he outruns the Nazgûl...in a high performance sports car. There is also a gun battle or two

Legolas annoyed at being stuck in a traffic jam

Aragorn with a typewriter

Silliness

Just sooooo much silliness

And enough lo-fi goodness that it kinda hurts 😑😉

If you listen, I hope it gives you a chuckle here and there. 😉💖

[you-see-something-strange-here]

If you think the team didn’t have a longterm bet going on about whether Roy and Jamie were fucking after Amsterdam, you’re wrong. Also, all bets were conducted with the Honorable Judge McAdoo presiding over them.

[game-on-comics]

Hey Hiromasa can you wear like Mortis from Brawl Stars like this please? Including the shovel

Hiromasa: Oh like a cosplay? Sure!

Hiromasa: The shovel is pretty heavy though… >.<

[screwpinecaprice]

Do your Connverse kiddos fight at all, or are they all pretty close to one another? Personally, I think Rohini probably wouldn't get along with her siblings, but that may just be me projecting based off my own kiddo headcanons.

Haha kinda with Rohini, though she mostly bickers with just Zachary, but it never gotten too serious. Other than that, there's the sibling rivalry here and there. (I mean at least so far, lol)

*inserts doodle I made that I dunno what to do with but kinda relates to the topic. Trying upper angle without reference practice.*

Ebony gets along pretty well with all of the siblings, usually acts as a mediator among them.

Rohini idolizes Ebony. Had that classic phase of younger sibling copying the older sibling. And although Rohini and Zachary have their squabbles, and she could not relate to Sakura's very feminine and vain ways, she's quite protective of them both.

The twins also look up to the Ebony, but they're relatively closer to Rohini, specially with the former started frequently going out on Gem adventure.. traveling stuff.

Basically, that's their fight to peace.. sibling meter... I dunno what's the actually term it is. (⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠˙̫̮⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠) They all generally get along fairly well and if there's fighting, it's expected to be Rohini and Zachary.

[pampanope]

You are actually the best Graves and Shadow Co. artist in the COD fandom. I absolutely adore your art :3

DhDJFJSJSJA IM EATING IN PUBLIC AND I KNO IM GETTING STARES CUZ IM BEAMING AT MY PHONE NOW CUZ OF U aaaHhhh~

Thank u!! Brain rot makes for great content and motivation huehue ;D

[theladyofshalott1989]

At this point, my learning to draw project should just be called “Corinne Attempts to Draw Sebastian Sallow” 😅😅😅

[talkedy]

I love the Super Mario universes where they were from Brooklyn or New York City or whatever instead of growing up in the Mushroom Kingdom. Even if it's less canon than the latter... the DiC cartoons and the movie and the other movie and the original arcade Mario Bros. Etc. It's funny to think that they were literally the most run of the mill middle-aged dudes who worked on toilets in New York and then were suddenly whisked away into a magic fantasy isekai world. Usually this only happens to introverted teenage anime boys.

[icterid-rubus]

So now on top of coming with me to the Christmas lights yesterday, later this week my classmate is going with me to the zoo to see their lights, then to ice cream on the weekend, and finally a birthday treat before Christmas. I’m quite pleased but also, ow, my wallet.

[ageless-aislynn]

For 10 years, my fic with by far the most hits on AO3 was "Five Times Oliver Held Felicity (And The One Time She Held Him)."

And I'm proud of it, don't get me wrong. I think it actually contains some of my better writing. 🤷‍♀️ But it ended up being a one-off sort of thing: I thought I'd write more Olicity or Arrow in general and then just... didn't.

However, it was so far ahead of all of my other fics in hits, I figured nothing would ever challenge it for the top spot. I hadn't checked my stats in quite a while and so I was surprised to discover that the "Five Times" Olicity fic was now in second place.

I've written 114 fics in the Flash fandom and none of them have remained in my top 5, that was another surprise! But 3 of my 11 Halo fics now are: "15 Minutes," (John/female reader) "Side Effects" (John/Cortana, John/Kai, very NSFW) and "Recreation" (Kai/male reader, same world as "15 Minutes").

Now, why is any of that important? It's for the sheer fact that I don't write sci-fi military fiction well AT ALL. My interest has always been in the more domestic and romantic themes, for lack of a better thing to call it. "You write the moments between the adventures" was what somebody told me about my Doctor Who fics ("Balancing Act," which is third place on that list, is a multi-chaptered Ten/Donna NSFW romantic fix-it fic where every chapter clearly takes place after some sort of new adventure that I don't show you but instead reference 😉). I agree with that assessment, that IS basically what I write.

A little while ago, I read somebody criticizing a particular type of Halo fanfiction. They didn't name mine by name but basically said it wasn't written "properly" like it's "supposed" to be and was everything that's "wrong" with uninformed people writing things they shouldn't be.

Here's the kicker: I think they're wrong. If they would've pointed at somebody else's fic and said that same thing, I would've wanted to jump in and tell them to get over themselves. People are allowed to enjoy whatever they want to enjoy! If somebody wrote a story that's "wrong" in your opinion, then all you have to do is scroll on by.

Heck, if somebody wants to write about Master Chief riding into battle on a T-rex while waving a glowing, magic sword given to him personally by Gandalf the Grey... Well, dang it, I'd read it, lol! Yeah, that wouldn't take place in canon but what is fanfic even for if not to allow all sorts of exploration? What if Halo had dinosaurs and magic swords? What if Chief and Silver Team or Blue Team or a brand new team of OC Spartans desperately needed to go buy new curtains for their apartments after they'd hung out for a while at the most happening coffee shop on Reach where Thel 'Vadam was the barista who made amazing specialty drinks while also heading up the local garage band?

(Yeah, I made that manip for something else but might as well get more use out of it, right? 😂)

Anyway, you get my drift. If one of my fellow Halo writers would've gotten criticism like that, I would've challenged it. But it was too close to my own work and instead, I absorbed it. I feel like I shouldn't be writing for Halo, I'm too wrong, I'm too off. I mean, no wonder I'm struggling to finish my WIPs, right? That's the first thing that pops to mind when I try to write anything: Yeah, but you're doing this all wrong. You should be ashamed of what you're writing. You're insulting the real fans of Halo by trivializing the characters like this. You're disrespecting actual military people living today by getting too much of this wrong.

And so seeing those stats at AO3 really meant something to me. I know I don't write authentic action-orientated sci-fi military fiction. I know that. But I love the characters and I love seeing them in situations they wouldn't be in in canon and I can't even tell you why. But people have been reading my fics? At least, I hope the hits aren't coming from people passing the links around with a big ol' ZOMG, please don't ever write Halo like THIS IDIOT, okay??? attached to them. 🤞😣🤞😉

This sounds pretty silly seeing it written down like this. I know, it's like, Get over yourself, Ais, not everything is about you! But I've been really struggling to get to the root of my writer's block so I could figure out what's keeping me from finishing my WIPs. And seeing those stats tonight and realizing how many more times my Halo fics seem to have been read over my other fandoms...?

Well, that might only mean that Halo is just the more popular fandom right now and it's nothing more than that. But it's nice to think that, even though there are people out there who think somebody unqualified like me shouldn't be posting their ridiculous little stories, maybe there are other people who've enjoyed them, even as unauthentic as they are?

I dunno. Food for thought.

I'm hoping this will inspire me to at least finish up the next chapter for "15 Minutes." 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Thanks for reading. *hugs* to you if you've ever or are currently struggling with anything like this. Tell your stories, they're worth it. I believe in you. 🤗🤗🤗

I just need to try harder to believe in myself, hm? 🤔

PS - I've gotten SO MANY wonderful comments on my Halo fics, so why is it that the hate that might not even have been meant for me is so much louder in my head and crowds the nice comments out? I hate that, I truly do. 😖

[stargatesg-1obsessed]

“I’m sorry I left, but it was for the best, though it never felt right.” - Fourth of July, sufjan stevens.

Just having my nightly crying session because of all the crap that’s going on in my life so was listening to sad songs, and I pressed on a playlist on YouTube, and this came on. I heard these lyrics and immediately thought of Stargate continuum when Jack told Sam to go and she said, “Not without you,” then Cam had to drag her away. Dude. If I had the clips I’d so make that an edit.

[kavehayati]

AAAH I have a mutual who’s 18 and he sorta kinda is flirting with this one guy who is a minor as a joke of course ( to which a concerned anon said that it’s weird ) but I can’t help but flashback to er*s

[screwpinecaprice]

I think your Connverse kid ages confuse me a little bit. Do you have any sorta timeline for when they're born? It seems like Ebony is a lot older than her siblings haha. Did Steven and Connie wait, like, 4 or 5 years before having Rohini? And considering Rohini's beefing with Zachary, I'm guessing the twins ain't much younger than her.

Connie's pregnancy with Ebony didn't go quiet swimmingly, and they thought it's safer to just not go for another until they accidentally had Rohini after around 6-7 years. And they were like, wow that actually wasn't so bad this time.* So they tried another after 2-3 years.

*Something about Connie's body getting more familiar with magic literaly in her system the longer she spent with Steven, in addition to microchimerism through each pregnancy; which made accommodating an alien babey in her womb easier and easier.

[scholliski]

hypothetically what song lyrics go well with Riko…. I’m doing a drawing but my brain only consists of 2012 one direction