#I haven't been able to write at all

[cecropiacrown]

Fengqing Fic Recs!!!

I have been in a writing slump recently and have been doing a lot of reading instead—so here are some fics I've thoroughly enjoyed this past week! <3

A Little Late by kakera (t, 12k words - modern au)

Xie Lian sets Mu Qing up on a blind date and things go much better than expected.

This one is so sweet I've just had it open in my tabs for literal days. Super soft fengqing and some implied smut but mainly just some really lovely first-date shenanigans.

Scarier Than the Undertaker, We Are Meeting Our Matchmaker by foxfeast (e, 23.6k words - canon compliant)

While investigating bizarre happenings in his territory, Mu Qing finds himself trapped in a domain that strips him of his spiritual energy and his robes—and there's only one way to get out: sex.

This one has it all: (stealth) trans Mu Qing; requited unrequited love; tender love and sweet devotion; some of the softest fengqing interactions I've ever read; and gentle—passionate—sex. I basically wrote a book review in comment form, that's how much I loved this one.

If I Were You I'd Know Your Mind by kakera (m, 8.6k - canon compliant)

While on a joint mission, Mu Qing and Feng Xin encounter an attack that causes them to switch bodies—but the biggest problem on their hands is Feng Xin's closely guarded romantic feelings for his long-time rival.

Oh, the absolute situations these two end up in...

We've got even more requited unrequited love here as well as some sexual content, but nothing too explicit. Imagine a soft, head-over-heels in love Feng Xin and your typical snarky Mu Qing but they've switched bodies. It's as fantastic as it sounds.

Before it's over by luckymoonly (e, 3.6k words - omegaverse)

Nan Feng and Fu Yao were on a joint mission in the mortal realm and have opted to stay at an inn—this, of course, is exactly when Fu Yao's heat decides to come.

Feng Xin and Mu Qing star as their deputy alter-egos in this one and the dynamic between them is just magnificent. This was a lovely pwp and the desire between the two of them was so rich I was squirming in my seat!

[millionsghosts]

I think a lot about how Vash and Knives are perceived and how they actually are. Vash is the one who pushes his feelings back and holds himself together constantly in order to keep pushing forwards, despite how open/silly he seems on the surface. Knives comes across as colder and more logical, but his decisions and conclusions are all driven by his rage and fear and emotions.

Knives makes himself out to be the reasonable one who knows more about the world than Vash (at least in Tristamp), but Vash is actually the one out there experiencing things and learning about life and humanity, meaning he's probably much wiser. This specifically is one of my favorite things about Trigun because it's just so hopeful. Vash is the one who sees the world and everything it has to offer (he was running all over the place for 150 years, dude!), and he's also the one who believes so resolutely that humans are good. I think that's absolutely beautiful.

[hotwaterandmilk]

I’ve had the Wedding Peach DVDs for 20+ years, but I only recently noticed something interesting on the DX disc of the SARUBIA box set that has me intrigued. I’ve never come across any mention of it before, so I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious—but here’s what I found.

The bonus content on this disc includes a very limited selection of low-quality settei from the DX episodes. What stands out is that the designs for the characters' revived Fighter Angel forms are labeled "NEO Fighter Angels". Below are the images, though they’re not very clear:

NEO Fighter Angel Peach (NEO ファイター エンジェル ピーチ)

NEO Fighter Angel Lily (NEO ファイター エンジェル リリィ)

NEO Fighter Angel Daisy (NEO ファイター エンジェル デイジー)

NEO Fighter Angel Salvia (NEO ファイター エンジェル サルビア) [This is the least clear of the four, but it's still somewhat visible.]

Wedding Peach has been a passion of mine since childhood and while I'd like to think I know a decent amount about the series, I'd be the first to admit I don't know everything. However, even I—as a pretty avid fan—had genuinely never heard of the revived Fighter Angel forms in the DX being referred to as "NEO Fighter Angels" anywhere else before.

I’ve looked through a lot of official sources—like the 'Secret File' artbook, the settei from the LD sets, and the mixed settei in the DVD collections—and none of them mention this term. These forms aren’t named in the episodes themselves either (the characters call themselves "Love Angels" and "Fighter Angels" only), nor in any contemporary magazine articles I’ve come across. Even the Anime V settei special for the DX just calls these forms the standard "Fighter Angels" - see here.

I've searched through online sources too, from the Wikipedia page through to individual social posts and online archives. I genuinely can't turn up anything that mentions "NEO ファイター エンジェル" as a term in association with the series.

I want to be clear that this doesn't mean I'm the only one that has been bored enough to squint and read those LQ digital settei over the years, or that I haven't just missed something else online in my search, or that my interpretation is the sole acceptable reading of this text. I also don't think this label for the DX Fighter Angel forms fundamentally changes anything about the series or the characters, but it interests me in the sense that this is akin to stumbling onto a note that says "Eternal Sailor Moon" on her character design from Stars after people have been referring to this form as "powered up Sailor Moon from Stars" for 30 years. Or something.

So if the Fighter Angels from DX are only referred to as "NEO Fighter Angels" in producton artwork from this release, why might that be? All I can do is speculate. "NEO Fighter Angels" may have been a working title for these powered up forms that ended up being dropped before production finished, or perhaps shorthand for the animators to differentiate between the TV and OVA forms when animating (given there are scenes of the original Fighter Angel forms in the first episode)? It's honestly not clear.

If anyone has any information that might confirm or contradict what I've found about the NEO Fighter Angels, I’d love to hear from you. Discussing Wedding Peach is one of my favourite things, after all.

[ruvviks]

to celebrate nearly three years of posting about these bozos, have the clown brigade in all their glory (please for the love of god click for better quality)! bios are in order of the individual pictures! vincent "v" mayer [he/him] >> the living legend of the afterlife. a resourceful and skilled merc working for vitali dobrynin and many other fixers in night city vitali dobrynin [he/him] >> a high profile fixer from wellsprings, and v's partner. offers high risk / high reward gigs and is well known for joining his mercs on the job cato wu [she/her] >> one of kang tao's most wanted. becomes head of security for vitali after mikhail koshechkin steps down from the role shiro nakano [he/him] >> ex arasaka security turned assassin and security expert. handles vitali's most dangerous assassination gigs huxley byrne [she/they] >> skilled gunner and (getaway) driver. used to run with the moxes before becoming one of vitali's most trusted eddie wolfe [he/they] >> ex bouncer turned mercenary. handles most bodyguard-type gigs at vitali's office and provides on-site security lauren dimas [she/her] >> a skilled netrunner and techie from t-bug's circle. has known vitali since college and handles all of his office's cybersecurity mikhail koshechkin [he/him] >> vitali's ex head of security and main medic at his office. regularly tags along on gigs when no one else is available thibault lajoie [he/they/xe] >> ex doll turned mercenary. specializes in stealth operations and provides on-site security with eddie wolfe

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[ai-the-broccoli]

enemies to lovers / but you'll never own my heart

@luzon-dove happy birthday, Quinn!! As a present, I decided to draw a piece fanart of your "blood in the walls of the yagami house" AU fic series, since I found it very well-written and full of super interesting ideas and concepts. I hope you like it!

[adagiorii]

Edu, don't keep us in the dark >:0 what are the typical circumstances of the PCD's missions that make using high-grade guns not be ideal??? ENLIGHT US

See for me to answer this I'm going to have to get into some deeper lore so I'm gonna try to keep it as short as possible-

There was originally a completely different explanation for it but while writing this I came up with new lore so that will be the answer now

TLDR: They have weapons mostly for self-defence and/or to neutralize threats and keep others safe, not necessarily to kill those threats. Their weapons also double as capture tools so a gun really wouldn't be effective at all.

Circumstances

I'll clear up what I meant about the "circumstances" first. I said that because the PCD usually do their work in public places, and sometimes even in people's homes if need be - which means it's not really ideal for them to go around using really destructive and powerful guns lmao. And even if it wasn't, guns in general aren't the most effective weapons for the job except in the self-defence department. See Method 2.

Paranormal Entities

As for why smaller guns like police handguns wouldn't be useful, that's because of what the PCD fights - paranormal entities (placeholder name while I can't come up with a better and catchier term). An entity is essentially a deceased person that has experienced what I call a sort of "botched" resurrection attempt. They're not quite alive again, but it's the closest they can get (they basically look like distorted doppelgangers of the person they were before). They can be either corporeal or not, but regardless, the main thing that keeps an entity "alive" is their host, to which they are bound from the moment the person passes away. It is through this host that the entity maintains a connection to what is left of their humanity, which is usually very little. Most don't retain enough of their rationality and consciousness to be able to think like a human person, and end up devolving into violent and resentful beings driven mostly by instinct. And, yes, they do have powers.

This is why they're a huge danger to people, and are known to attack human beings.

Method 1

In current lore, entities can be killed in two ways (called Method 1 and Method 2). Method 1 is destroying or killing the host.

Method 1 has some issues. Fyi, a host can be pretty much anything - an object, a plant, an animal, or even a human in very rare instances. One of the issues can be that identifying an entity's host can be very difficult, time-consuming and impractical. And then, if the entity's host is a living creature like an animal or, even worse, a person, the situation really gets delicate. (Fyi, in-universe, human hosts are almost unheard of and even considered a sort of myth or at least a very rare occurrence - but it can happen. Either way, this still applies to animal hosts.)

So, in the vast majority of cases, the PCD uses Method 2.

Method 2

Alright so- this is where the lore changes. The original Method 2 was that if you wore the entity down enough, by attacking it over and over again and essentially torturing it, it would lose the remains of its sanity and essentially self-destruct (this would also save the host btw).

I decided against that entirely because I feel like it's 1. just killing the entity with extra steps and 2. it undermines the importance of the host if you can just kill the entity without worrying about how to keep the host safe. It removes stakes. I originally had another way to keep those stakes but with the lore change that's probably going to change too so I won't get into it. I also don't like that it boils down to physical and mental torture by relentlessly stabbing it. It sounds like a weirdly needlessly violent plot point and it didn't sit right with me. Besides, it really doesn't counter the gun argument - my original argument was that small handguns don't do enough harm to successfully kill the entity with Method 2 because stabbing them is more effective (again weirdly violent), and big guns are a needless safety hazard to the public when you can just stab with sword.

The new Method 2 is something I had been considering for a while but never actually gave much thought to. This idea is that in this world, there is a unique kind of metal that is capable of absorbing and essentially trapping entities, which would be more akin to ghosts (since that's also what they were inspired by). This metal is the main material used to build the PCD's weapons, and their modus operandi is having their agents go out, fight entities, make sure they're not a threat and at the first opportunity, trap them.

They use weapons for self-defence and/or in case the entity is violent and they need to fight it. The weapons then double as their "capture tools" for lack of a better term. Take Eiko's sword; I like the concept that, being a rapier ideal for stabbing and piercing, it would actually also function like a medical needle (in the sense that the entity is sucked inside) once an entity is stabbed with it. As part of this change I am also considering having the main part of the weapon actually be the little red gem in the tip of the handle of her sword, which would be a feature in all PCD weapons and be the actual part the entity gets trapped within. Once a mission is over, that little gem is temporarily removed so that the entity trapped inside it can be locked away in some high security facility idk.

This, in my eyes, is a much less weird method? It establishes that an entity cannot actually be killed unless their host is too, which adds stakes in a more natural way in my opinion. And, obviously, having a gun as a PCD weapon doesn't really make sense because the weapons' main purpose is to trap entities. It's hard to do that with a gun with bullets you're supposed to shoot at them. Idk I don't think it works.

You could argue that a gun could work for the self-defence part and maybe. But keep in mind that as long as the entity's host is safe, it's not going to die lmao. You can do harm to it and injure it enough that it will sort of quiet down, but it can and will regenerate eventually. I don't think a gun is very effective in that regard especially because it's tiny holes and an entity doesn't have weak vulnerable spots like humans do.

I also really like the potential worldbuilding this new Method 2 could bring. I haven't mentioned it much but the whole regime the country operates under and the PCD are a little shady. I imagine the citizens don't actually know the PCD usually doesn't kill entities, they just capture them and take them elsewhere. You might ask why they aren't honest, but let me remind you that entities were once humans. How would you feel if you knew your once loved one turned entity wasn't actually put out of its misery, but rather captured and sealed away to have God knows what done with it without you knowing about it?

Furthermore, the PCD are seen as mighty heroes in this country. Having the people believe they actually do kill entities suits that noble and brave image a lot more than the reality. They're the knights slaying the dragons and saving the day. Honestly a dragon entity sounds pretty cool.

[mysecretwindowuniverse]

Season 1 | Oswald + The Dons

[kuipermoth]

tryin to figure out how I wanna draw em. why cant I do it. why isn't the art arting guys

[anonymous-dentist]

Day Six - Hybrids | Cuddling

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Roier finds out that Cellbit is a cat hybrid literal seconds after finding out that Cellbit used to be a serial killer, because, apparently, those two things are the most important secrets in Cellbit's life.

Cellbit's cute little straw hat is off for the first time all day, and his hair sticks to his forehead- sweaty from a day of partying with everybody else at the Favela.

Roier's breath catches because right there in front of him for the very first time are two cat ears the same color as Cellbit's hair. They're ragged, torn in some places and nicked and with small chunks missing, and they twitch nervously- pressing themselves down towards Cellbit's skull- as Roier doesn't say anything.

Cellbit wrings his hat in his hands and pointedly looks anywhere but at Roier.

"It's just... hard, you know?" he quietly asks. "I'm not in prison anymore, but old habits die hard, I guess."

And, really, Roier should be more concerned about the fact that his fiancé is a literal serial killer. That is, objectively, really fucking concerning. Like, what if he relapses or something and starts murdering the shit out of everybody on the island starting with Roier himself? That's stuff he should be concerned about, right?

But, for whatever reason, all Roier can think of is the fact that, every time he and Cellbit have met up, Cellbit has had his goggles on.

"Hey," Roier softly says.

He reaches out for Cellbit's hands, freezes inches away, lets out a breath and properly takes them. The hat falls to the floor, settling on Roier's feet; the goggles attached to it bump against Roier's leg, ever-present.

Cellbit's breath catches, and his hands instinctively grip Roier's tightly. His ears perk up in surprise- absolutely adorable, what the fuck?

His voice is reverent: "Guapito..."

"Gatinho," Roier warmly replies. He smiles as Cellbit's eyes dart up to meet his; now that Roier knows to look, he notices the way Cellbit's pupils are less round than they should be and more, well... catlike. "Muy lindo..."

Cellbit flushes and tears his eyes away, ears flattening again.

"That's the problem," he says. "I'm not cute. I'm a killer."

"Sí." Roier nods seriously. "But you know what else?"

"What?"

"That's fine. You don't have to be cute. You can just be handsome. And sexy."

Cellbit cracks a small smile at that, face going even more red.

He's beautiful. Roier can't believe that he gets to marry him. His hands are rough, and he's covered in scars, and he has the sweetest smile, and he has cat ears that automatically swivel towards Roier every time he speaks.

With a quiet little 'mrrp'-ing noise, Cellbit lets his head fall forward onto Roier's shoulder. The tips of his ears graze Roier's cheek just momentarily, and they're so soft that Roier's mind goes blank outside of thoughts of Gatinho Gatinho Gatinho Gatinho.

Roier is brought back to reality by a weird little rumbling sound that he realizes is purring.

"Eu te amo," Cellbit murmurs, voice distorted by his purring.

He's just so easy with the verbal stuff, Roier doesn't know how he does it. Just thinking about telling Cellbit he loves him is enough to make Roier's heart stop and his blood boil and freeze and his face flush and his stomach fall out of his ass and his lungs explode. It shuts his brain down, but Cellbit? He's so good at it! (And he says he doesn't know how romance works, tsk tsk.)

Roier, unable to verbalize the billions and trillions of words flying around in his heart, just presses a hesitant kiss into the crown of Cellbit's head and hopes that it gets his affections across. It should, because Cellbit already knows Roier better than Roier might know himself, but-

A bashful kiss against the side of Roier's neck.

Roier swoons, just barely catching himself from melting into a gooey little puddle on the floor. He's gotta look goofy, he can feel how wide and ridiculous his smile is, but who the hell cares?

"Do you have a tail, too?" he hears himself asking, mind a million miles away. He can just picture himself and Cellbit kissing at the altar- their first ever real kiss ever- and just the thought of it makes his knees weak.

"Mhmm," Cellbit responds. He yawns against Roier's throat. "But you'll have to wait until our honeymoon for that."

Oh, God, the implications of that... Cellbit isn't into sex, and that's cool, but they'll be sharing a bed. A bed!!

The thought of finally getting to sleep with Cellbit (in the proper way, of course) makes Roier giddy enough to giggle into thin air.

"It's a date!" he happily says.

(A week later when they're finally in bed together for the first time, Roier spends a solid fifteen minutes properly admiring his husband(!!!)'s hybrid features for the first time, much to Cellbit's embarrassment.

"You're ridiculous," Cellbit whines, face hidden in his hands as Roier gently scratches him between the ears. He might sound annoyed, but he's purring, and his tail has already wrapped around both of Roier's legs, and he keeps dragging Roier's hand back every time he tries pulling away, so there.

"Maybe," Roier admits. He moves two of Cellbit's fingers away to kiss his forehead. "But you love me, anyway."

Cellbit doesn't argue, because he does.)

[acrowslament]

brb currently writing something inspired by throne of glass with lucanis and rook byeeeeee

[acekindaneat]

TOME BIRTHDAY WEEK !!!!!

Bonus tome and serizawa gamer bonding 🎮💥

[erbiumspectrum]

Dad: so... How's thesis writing going?

Me: [laughs hysterically]

[kev-noah]

After finishing the first book– which was as good as Noah had said– Kevin arrived the next day in hope of finding another. Noah glanced up from his work, his smile already in place; it was a sincere expression that had become a part of Kevin's routine. "Got a book in mind, or should I suggest one?" he asked in a casual tone. Kevin hesitated for only a moment, then nodded, finding himself looking forward to his recommendation. When Noah gave him a grin, Kevin couldn’t help but return it.

And that was the start of it. Kevin couldn't tell how days turned into weeks while spending time in the library with Noah. Taking time away from the dorm to be alone in the library turned into looking forward to seeing Noah and talking about history for a while.

Kevin realised just a few days in that Noah probably didn't know who he really was. Because even if one wasn't a exy fanatic, PSU students still tried to talk to Kevin as if he was someone they could gain something from. Kevin didn't even know what it was they thought they would gain.

Being with Noah was a breath of fresh air that Kevin wasn't aware he needed till he experienced it.

He just hoped it wouldn't fall apart, like things tended to do for him.

Part 1

[rainbow-nerdss]

Screenshot Friday!

The rules are simple: take a photo or screenshot any part of a current WIP (or finished/posted work if you prefer), and share it 🤍 open to any kind of creative work!

This is an idea i've seen done a few times, but i've been wanting to give it a go myself! Not sure when I'll actually get around to writing it fully, but here's a little glimpse!

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[mamawasatesttube]

experiencing the horrors . save me lil guy from comic book. lil guy from comic book PLEASE

[the-golden-ghost]

How do you guys get inspired or excited to write fics? Like what keeps you going?