#I love this ship and I'm happy to talk at length about it if people are genuinely curious

[izzys-tummyache]

I'm primarily a stizzy writer these days and this seems like a good faith question so I'll tackle it.

First off, the majority of stizzy is also steddyhands in some capacity. That can range from them being an established throuple and that particular fic just happens to focus on stizzy, to an edstede open relationship where Stede and Izzy are hooking up, to a fic where Ed and Izzy have some kind of romantic/sexual dynamic and so do Stede and Ed and then the fic focuses on Stede and Izzy closing the triangle.

some other approaches I've personally seen/written:

Stede and Izzy hooking up at a point in the timeline where Ed and Stede aren't together (this is often framed as a one night stand, and if it's at a point after Ed and Stede have met usually with the implication that Stede is only interested in committing to Ed).

Ed chooses to leave pirating and go on some journey of self discovery without Stede or Izzy (sometimes he wants some alone time; sometimes Stede doesn't want to leave piracy; sometimes both) and Stede gradually adjusts to the separation as one does with any difficult breakup, eventually becoming open to dating someone else.

Canon divergence/different first meeting fics where Ed and Stede never fell in love in the first place.

With setting change AUs you of course have complete freedom over which characters know each other and how, so those are a great blank slate for non-canon ships. (I've got one where Stede and Izzy are next door neighbors, for instance, so it's easy for them to interact with each other a lot - Ed still exists as Izzy’s boss but he and Stede just never have an equivalent to the things that make them fall in love in canon.)

I very rarely see Ed killed off. Most people who have him offscreen will give a nod to him doing something else, even if it's just a quick "the fishing thing worked out for him" or something.

Is any of this 100% canon compliant? No, of course not, but that's just the nature of non-canon ships. For some people, the fun of fanfic is to celebrate canon, but for some of us the appeal is exploring ideas that are very different from canon. (e.g. I don't think s2 would actually be better if Ed fucked off to be a fisherman forever and Stede and Izzy hooked up - actually, I'd be angry! That would be really stupid and unsatisfying! But in a fic, sure, let's see how it goes.)

And it's completely possible that none of these are the least bit compelling to you, which is totally fair - the majority of ofmd fans are completely uninterested in stizzy, so you'd be in good company. But hopefully that satisfies some curiousity!

(I have a lot of thoughts about how and why they can get along without Ed but that's a whole other post, haha.)

I've been encountering more Stizzy out there lately, and whatever, ships aren't moral indicators, don't like don't read, etc. And so I do not read!

But, like. What do Stizzy folks do with Ed?

Stede adores Ed and would never so much as consider someone else, especially not someone he has a mostly antagonistic relationship with. In-show-Izzy is so tied up with Ed that I don't even know what you'd do with him in an Ed-free environment. Do Stizzy writers kill Ed off? Make up whole new universes where Ed never existed (and in that case, why don't Stede and Izzy just hate each other forever without Ed to bring them together)?

I don't like any Izzy ships because I think everyone else on the show deserves better, but this is really the only one that makes absolutely no sense to me, not even as an enemies-to-lovers situation.

[hihimissamericanbi]

FAVE HP SMUT CREATORS

Ever since I got that lovely anon asking for the best smut I've ever read, it got me thinking about some of my favorite smut creators in general.

So here is a very non-exhaustive list of fan-fucking-tastic smut writers and artists I've come across in the HP fandom that weren't mentioned (shamefully) in my last batch. Feel free to add to the list! We must keep the people fed.

xoxo go take a sip of cold water girl

WRITERS

@spookymoonie

Lord Espooky came into this fandom guns a-blazing with their kink headcanon a day for Wolfstar and it has spiraled from there. They GET IT. He has a super well-organized masterlist pinned to his tumblr ft tons of different kinks, fic lengths, scenes, etc. Go. Now.

@fiveht

The definition of IYKYK. Daddy kink isn't super my thing, but Five makes me enjoy it. If you vibe with age gap daddy Remus and pretty boy Sirius, their Adore series is a must-read. They also have a stellar A/B/O Wolfstar fic plus podfic and write some Marvel too!

@greenvlvetcouch

An absolute legend in this fandom. Wolfstar, Jeggy, Rosekiller. Gritty, chewy, embodied sex.

@emeryhall

Emery writes sex the way some people breathe. Like it's just part of the narrative. It's SO punchy. And also she is the queen of Crack Smut.

@kaaaaaaarf

Patron saint of Wolfstar hatefucks. mic drop.

@cancerravenclaw

We snagged MK over to Wolfstar from the clutches of Dramione. Her series "mk's kink exposé" could also be called "celine's kink exposé." I'll just leave that there.

@wolfpants

Everything they create is magic, but they are especially known for rare pairs and Dronarry.

WRITERS AND ARTISTS

@aspiring-artist-em

The queen of Lesbian Wolfstar. Both art and fic. Also queen of humiliation and pain kink and Walburga psychological trauma. ye be warned.

@upthehillnsfw / @upthehillart

I am afraid no one is ready for this art. Truly. Tons of different ships, positions, acts. I gasp every time. And their Pansmione fic is epic (which I have talked about before).

ARTISTS

@industrations

I highly recommend getting on Indi's Patreon so you can enjoy their NSFW drawings, mostly Wolfstar and Jegulus, occasional Rosekiller. Too many iconic moments to count.

@waxingrunes

The officially-sponsored artist of Five's Adore series. Look, their work is nothing short of indulgent. Shhhh don't worry about the physics just let it happen. And by It I mean Remus' big dick hands.

@basiatlu

By beloved. The one. The only. Bosh's drawings are so ALIVE. They leap off the screen. Her Drarry is nothing less than iconic. She also dabbles in other characters/ships like Wolfstar and Blackcest. Siriusly, you can't go wrong.

DRARRY SMUT

OKAY, Drarry people. There are so so many excellent Drarry smut writers it is impossible to name them all. Here are but a tiny handful I have pulled from my bookmarks. I'm happy to rec specific fics if asked :)

@cavendishbutterfly, @bixgirl1, @l0vegl0wsinthedark, @shiftylinguini, @kbrick, @fluxweeed, @academicdisasterfic

MORE

I'm tagging those other creators from older asks because I can't put this list out there without them on it <3

@crushofdoves @we-are-swearwolves @tenthousandyearsx @theresthesnitch @lqtraintracks Quietlemonhush @cuddlebugsirius

[heavymedicshackerwife]

Under the cut for length but... Some musings on how the fandom treats Heavy. TW for fatphobia and discussion of life under the Soviet Union.

(BTW this is the stuff I posted on Discord a while ago. Somewhat ranty but... I just love that dude. I do complain about an artist in this fandom, but PLEASE do not harass them. I do not name them, this is my silly personal opinion.)

I hate how the fandom treats Heavy... He's got such deep lore but all the fans are like "SO FUNNI! STUPID FAT POOTIS COMMIE HUEHUE!"He's none of those things but they've turned him into the butt of the joke. He's a hardcore badass who gets so little appreciation at all. He has a PHD but he's constantly depicted as a dumbarse.

Heavy isn't a communist at all, and his father was killed by the regime. Sorry if I piss off any whiny tankies who get mad at me for dissing a nuclear military superpower that killed millions of people, but the Soviet Union was a brutal dictatorship and generally not a good place to live (shocking! I know!) . Heavy was sent to a GULAG. A work camp. He risked his life to break his family out and free the prisoners, but does anybody care? Nope! Let's make soviet themed cosmetic #283027192 because original funni joke!

The entire fandom on Tumblr seems to ignore Heavy too. He only really shows up in Tumblr tags as "Medic's boyfriend" and they're happy to give him depth... As long as he's just Medic's golden retriever BF. I see so much fanart where he's this big aggressive alpha-daddy but that's not him around Medic either. Heavy is fierce and will gladly tear someone's arms off, but he's not just a brute. He's an intellectual. He really does care for the people he loves. And for the rest of the fandom, he's the butt of a joke. Big, fat, stoopid pootis man.

Valve gave us this incredibly intelligent, deep, creative character and despite all the fat jokes in-game (then again all the Mercs talk shit about each other) he has so much character development that just gets overlooked unless he's either kissing someone else or getting memed. I'm used to SFMs and memes having him as "dumbass fatty" because half of them were made by teenage boys before the comics were made (and they probably didn't know about the Russian translation where Heavy talks like an academic at times), but having Nice Tolerant Tumblr treat him as just "someone's boyfriend" is just as insulting.

There's this one AU by this artist I blocked where he's literally a Mafia boss Alpha Daddy with a cigar, and Medic as his twink femboy boyfriend. That's not him. You're sticking two middle aged men onto the 🥺🗿generic yaoi template. He's not a soft ball of butter but he's not the cruel, brutal classic Heavy either. He really is like a bear like his description says, as people either see him as a funny toy or a big aggressive beast. He loves his family and does this job FOR them, but he's also strong and fierce.

I could go deeper. I could talk about fandom fatphobia and how the only way he's consistently sexualised is as a huge angry muscular dominant, rather than general sex appeal like the other mercs. Lots of NSFW fanart ignores his belly, and just makes him beefy. There are few fics he has (Him and Demo have so few good fics on AO3). He's left out of "Mercenary boyfriend" scenarios on Wattpad. Sure, a 57 year old, 300lb balding Siberian mercenary who's in love with his gun isn't to everyone's taste, but none of the Mercs are conventionally "handsome". I couldn't see any of them modelling underwear for Calvin Klein. I love Medic, I love the ship between him and Medic, but I hate how the fandom treats Heavy as just an extension of him.

He wrestled a bear bare-handed. Sure, he's big. He's overweight. But I'd bet he's in better health and fitness than any of us here. Some people in this fandom literally cannot turn their brains on and actually think of why Heavy night look how he does (appearance and fatness is not a moral failure btw), they just think he's uggo and thus just a joke.

Thing is... He's not even "just" fat! He's overweight and plus-sized, but look at what he does all day. He runs around with a 150kg minigun and several rounds of ammo, alongside a bulletproof vest and TINY legs. He has a strongman's body type which is mostly thick muscle with a layer of fat. He's big, and he certainly has body fat, but he's arguably in great shape for someone over 50 who's most likely lived through several famines. Heavy being fat does not mean he is unhealthy in these circumstances.

He is arguably the best husband out of all the Mercs. Not a pyromaniac or a drunk, not immature, doesn't like his job TOO much, doesn't have lead poisoning or a god complex, doesn't love building killing machines and won't cheat on you with Scout's mama.

Oh mann... I love him. He needs so much more love. And I wish the fandom would love him too

[tellhulla]

It's not even about shipping, sure I ship nandermo but I also ship lazlermo, I never expected them to go canon in the traditional sense, although a confirmation that Lazlo and Guillermo were indeed fuck buddies the same way Lazlo and Nandor are would have been nice and not at all out of character after the co-parenting plot in season 4 and how close they were in season 5 but I digress

Point is, my frustration isn't about my ship(s) not going canon, it's about set up and pay off

They set up a hug between Nandor and Guillermo, we see Nandor rejecting the hug early on the show, we see them growing emotionally closer, we expect a hug, we got none, no pay off

They set up Guillermo having feelings for Nandor but not feeling worth to even express them out loud, much less hope for reciprocatinon because not being a vampire made him less than them in his own eyes, and there was no pay off for that either

I don't expect him to suddenly kiss Nandor with the rising music in the background or ever say the words "I love you" that would be out of character for him, but give us a final talking head of him saying "as for my feelings, well, I'm coping" there, that's enough to be considered pay off, he addresses his feelings to the camera, in a vague sort of way that makes sense for who he is as a character, not even mentioning Nandor's name because being so direct is just not Guillermo's personality but trusting the audience is smart enough to put two and two together, knowing full well that Nandor might see the footage and expecting nothing, a little bittersweet maybe but in line with the show's usual treatment of feelings

I don't expect or even want romance in the traditional sense for them, just let Guillermo be comfortable enough in his own skin to address he feels some kind of way and confident enough he puts it out there, in his own way, without a stutter

They keep setting up Nandor's loneliness, his quest for eternal romance, again no pay off and this is not even about him and Guillermo, if they just had him look around at his roommates, his chosen family and realized he can be and in reality is, satisfied with simply having them, if they had him see he already has everything he was looking for (love, companionship, sex) right here at home and he doesn't need it to look like what other people expect it to look like because just having them in his life makes him happier than a traditional marriage could ever make him, that would have been a satisfying pay off to his story

They had Nandor saying "no human is special", perfect set up for him to admit Guillermo is special to him, and then nothing, no pay off

And again I'm not expecting him to confess his undying love for Guillermo, that would be out of character, but you can't blame the audience for expecting something to come out of that, even just a talking head of him saying he tries to not get attached to humans because they never last, just implying the reason he doesn't want to be emotionally vulnerable when it comes to Guillermo is because he has known for years he wouldn't last as a vampire and is trying to protect himself from the heartbreak by keeping him at arms length but just the fact that he needs to try this hard means he failed and he is already attached

Or one conversation with Lazlo where he backtracks after Guillermo comes back home where he says "maybe you are right, maybe some humans are worth the pain of losing them", there, that's enough pay off to make the majority of the audience happy and satisfied while still keeping it vague like they wanted

They also set up Guillermo wanting immortality but not being fit to be a vampire and Nandor still carrying around the Djinn's lamp, you know, the lamp with the all powerful Djinn who can grant any wish to his master, the lamp Nandor can't use anymore because he ran out if wishes so it is just sitting there, waiting for a new master to rub it and take possession of it, that lamp

Don't those two things look like they should be connected? Like a problem and a solution? Like set up and pay off waiting to happen?

How about Nadja's longing for close female friends and the Guide's longing for belonging? Nadja's stablished willingness to have sex with her friends and the Guide's obvious attraction to her?

And don't get me started on the Guide's crazy backstory that never gets resolved

All those threads and many more (I made a list) just waiting to get picked up again, and they never do anything with them, you can't blame the audience or call us crazy shippers who only care about Nandermo going canon because we express frustration about the lack of pay off

[flowersforthemachines]

i want to hear about the divorce trifecta so bad it hurts

CAUGHT SOMEONE IN MY TRAP “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ “ψ (✿｀∇´) ψ

An important note about the divorce trifecta is that it's only a trifecta (Hawke, Inquisitor, Rook) because I don't really have a lot of wardens with clear personalities and backstories. There is only, like, one and she's in a happy monogamous relationship that ends with her dying while slaying the archdemon. Otherwise it probably would've been a divorce quartet. Something for the future me to think about.

The rest is under the cut for length! This is quite lengthy, but in my defence: you asked.

So, divorce #1 is the Handers divorce.

An important preface is that I love Anders and he could've blown up all chantries in Thedas and still remain my pookie.

However, my latest Hawke is not me and holds more moderate views. They are on friendmance, and she will try to help the mage cause whenever possible, but she still cares the most about upholding stability in the city because it's her home. And it may be a shitty home, but she loves it, and she wants to keep it together even as the city mercilessly continue to fall apart in front of her.

Then Anders offers the final nail in the coffin of her attempts at maintainig the peace. This isn't also just a Handers worldstate, it's a Hawkelycule worldstate (Hawke's dating all LIs except Sebastian), so Anders displaced all people she loves i one fell swoop - she cares about them all so deeply, and couldn't provide safety and stability for a single one of them (I posted my Hawkelycule chart on bsky btw. would love to get back to those freaks one day)

But the explosion itself is not actually the biggest reason behind the rift between them. A much, much bigger betrayal is that Anders never trusted her enough to ask for her help - because maybe then, she would have helped him. He never gave her a chance to.

And the biggest betrayal of all in her eyes is that he concocted a plan that implied him dying in the end, and dying by her hand. He expected her to do it, and she can't reconcile with the fact that the man she loves thought she would hurt him, was ready to put her through killing him.

I headcanon that she would tell him to just fuck off after the Chantry explosion, spent the entire time before reaching the Gallows agonising if he was alright, and then jump-hugged him crying when she saw he was safe because she just can't figure out how she's supposed to feel about him now.

She is mad at him, mad at herself for being mad at him (because she understands why he did what he did), and he feels similar, knowing that what he did was right, and that it also took away one of Hawke's favourite things in the world.

They spend the entire time between DA2 and DAI in that state of indecision until Hawke leaves to meet up with Varric. She decides that after she's back from whatever happens, they will talk, and she will tell him that she actually loves more than she regrets what happened to Kirkwall, and that - if he wants - they can try again.

Then she dies at Adamant, they never talk, and Anders spends the rest of his life thinking that Hawke never forgave him (✿｀∀´)Ψ

Divorce #2 is the Solavellansera divorce.

(Solas and Sera are both dating the Inquisitor at the same time. but NOT each other I don't ship Solas and Sera I'm not a freak. at least not that kinf of a freak)

This is admittedly a much more half-baked concept, but it tickles my brain and is very dear to me. Mostly because of how bad the things could get between the three of them.

Solas and Sera are on the opposite ends of the spectrum of what an Elven inquisitor can want in a relationship, and that's the part that I find the most interesting. Sera can provide an outlet for being just a person (not the Inquisitor, not even an elf TM - just one of the "people people"), and Solas can help nurture a connection with the ancient Elven history that the modern Dalish elves lack. I'm not sure if anyone sees the vision, but I do, because I'm really into poly relationships where partners significantly contrast each other and cater to different needs.

The divorce would occur post-temple of Mythal. As much as Lavellan is accepting of Sera's views, there are lines she will not cross, and Sera's disregard for the Elven gods is beyond it. She can't compromise on that, and she won't. Even if it breaks her heart.

Then, you know what happens with Solas. One thing I'm undecided on is whether the Solas divorce should happen before the Sera divorce, or after. If the Crestwood scene happens before, there's delicious angst of Lavellan filliping out at Sera specifically because of that recent experience that's already greatly shaking her understanding of her faith. If the Crestwood scene happens after, there is the angst of Lavellan first making a choice to end things with someone, and then someone making that choice for her. And those same gods that she broke up with Sera over being slavers, and who else knows what.

But, regardless of the order. Can you imagine what it must be like to love two people, and then lose them both in such short time? To have two lovers, and then none? There's something about that. To me.

Sera and Lavellan also have extremely delicious post-divorce dialogue in Trespasser which I'm attaching here because that was like half the inspiration behind the whole thing.

(source. "And maybe that’s good? To be stupidly true, even if it ends things?" is still tearing at my heart to this day)

Divorce #3 is Rookanis divorce

I don't really know what to say here. I feel like I've been yapping about it too much lately anyway?

She loves him, he loves her, but duty comes first, things don't work out etc. Davrin could have fixed them (or, well, Ghilasara wouldn't require that much fixing if he was alive anyway), but you know. It's a cruel world as long as I'm in charge!

Something like that!

[mechamaru-dupe]

Hello! I am currently in the search for an 18+ long roleplay partner for the fandom Naruto. Pro-shippers DNI!

◞◟·̩͙ ͜  ˳꣑୧ ͜  ◞◟·̩͙ My Name is Nim! I am an 18 year old transmasc who has been into Naruto in the past and has found himself getting jumped by it again.

︶꒦꒷︶ I'm looking for someone I can get to know and talk with about our interests, not just someone to roleplay with. I'm very into JJK, Naruto (obviously), insects, fish tanks, bone collecting, gaming, and more! I like having someone I can talk to about things so please keep that in mind!

︵‿୨ I am a multi-shipper, and am more than happy to play against nearly anyone. A more detailed list of the ships is down below with my preferred characters (or both if no preference) in bold. I may have a preference for one but be willing to play the other, feel free to ask! Canon character rp only please! I love ocs but am not looking to play against one at the moment, sorry! ୧‿︵

Iruka/Kakashi

Gaara/Naruto

Sasuke/Naruto

Kiba/Shino

Shino/Naruto

⠀۪︶︶ ᯙ̷⠀៰ �� And many others! If you are interested in ships that aren't on this list feel free to ask about it! I am a semi-lit to novella writer, but I am both capable of going past the discord limit and doing smaller replies depending on my roleplay partners reply length. NSFW and angst welcome but not needed! 18+ Only!

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* If you are interested feel free to reach out to me here or react to this post! I am very friendly and happy to meet new people, and will do my absolute best to reply quickly so don't be nervous about reaching out! I hope to get to know you! *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

(DNI if you are a Zionist, a racist, a bigot, a trump supporter, if you're homophobic or transphobic or a fucking dick in general. I will not tolerate intolerance)

[susandsnell]

hey coco! hope ur having a good day! was wondering if u’d like to talk about why u like and what u find compelling with atton/exile? do u have a particular route or headcanon underwhich u prefer them or is it more of an overarching meta appreciation?

Hi, friend!

Thanks so much for the well-wishes. My day's kind of ehh due to continued Issues but the weather's nice and I'm feeling a little calmer. Hope your day is good!

Thank you so much for sending me this and enabling me shamelessly. I've been ride-or-die for Atton/Exile (which is M/F if you played the Jedi Exile as female, which I did and which is 'canon' but let's not talk about the latter lest we kick the hornet's nest) since summer 2011, which is almost 13 years now? Wild. Literally half my life. Anyhow, my reasons/headcanons have changed and evolved just as I've done a lot of growing up since the time I was first obsessed, but I'll do my best to synthesize/organize my thoughts! (Assume all the Restored Content is canon). More under the cut because 'synthesis' is still essay-length for me, God help me.

First off, I tended to play the Jedi Exile as light-sided and Revan as dark sided; I find the narrative of both games to be the most meaningful with these choices. This post basically puts into words why Revan works better as a Dark Sider, but the Exile, to me, as Revan's foil and mirror, works inversely best as a light sider. The game seems to want you to play her light-sided given how Kreia's best stuff/approval lies in that path. KOTOR II is one of the darkest entries to the Star Wars universe by far, but with a light sided exile, it's a story about how moving through life with an unyielding belief in love and justice for others in your heart will ignite that light in the people around you, and repair a broken world/galaxy.

Enter Atton.

KOTOR II is great in that you technically have such a wide range of shipping dynamics/options, and exactly none of them are functional, largely because it's one of the Star Wars media entries with the most harrowingly realistic depictions of war and its psychological impact on the people it touches. Atton Rand happened to be my favourite of all the love interests at the time because of his voice and his snarky meta-jokes (I was a Daria fanatic almost 2 decades too late, what do you want). Nowadays, I love him because his character basically took the Star Wars expanded universe requirement for Han Solo expys and went off the rails with it, making his 'scoundrel' archetype half-his charming and humorous personality, half-a facade to cover severe and quite realistically portrayed war PTSD as well as his actions as Jaq, the torture-happy mercenary. It's "what if the self-serving charming rogue during wartime archetype was brought to its logical conclusion" and I am here for it.

So first you have the parallels and contrasts - both committed atrocities during the Mandalorian wars, but while Atton was loyal to Revan after their fall and never faced justice for his wrongdoings, the (light-sided) Exile turned from Revan and still was scapegoated by the Council. Atton is a character mired in his own bitterness and cynicism, and you have the option to choose to play the Exile as a character driven solely by her morals, even when she'll suffer unconscionably for them, and it is through this unflinching clinging to her morals that she gains the idealism necessary to survive everything she goes through. Atton once sought to rip freewill away from his victims; the Exile unconsciously, slowly saps it through the cipher.

As a young teen, I admittedly was starry-eyed over the 'sheltered good girl manipulated and hurt by so many meets sexy bad boy recovering from his own past and they protect each other as a power couple' archetyping, but it does go a lot deeper than that. Their dialogue options have easy, natural, sexy chemistry that draws you in, but I do think my appreciation goes deeper. This isn't a simple 'fixing the bad boy' because of the narrative device of the Force cipher meaning you quite literally have "I can fix him" and "I can make him worse" as your game mechanics, lol. You get your surface-level fun of their interactions between the proper, well-mannered Jedi and the flirtatious rapscallion, but you also have two people who, for the reasons I outlined above, fundamentally understand each other after harrowing lifetimes spent alone in their pain and trauma.

I'd go so far as to say Atton is the best-placed of anyone to understand the Exile; the Sion ship is compelling and squee-worthy to any Phantom fangirl worth her salt (as I was), but she's everything he couldn't be or fathom, Visas may have felt closer to the pain the Exile did over Malachor V but her worst actions were committed under duress as a captive of Darth Nihilus and not of her own volition (so I argue she's a lot more morally innocent than Atton or the Exile), Mical/The Disciple is the innocence and warmth of the Exile's upbringing untouched by how the Mando wars reforged her and while Brianna/The Handmaiden is excellent as a potential parallel for specifically the Exile's abuse at the hands of the Jedi (Atris in particular), she's still similarly sheltered to Mical. Bao-Dur was with the Exile during the war but the game didn't develop him enough and understands that aspect of her, but they canonically per the dialogue emotionally distanced themselves given the circumstances, and Mira the Bounty Hunter is cool sister-zoned, but I suspect her family being victim to Malachor V would drive a wedge no matter how much forgiveness the game preaches.

Meanwhile, Atton knows and/or loves not pieces of the Exile, but as she is; the battered and betrayed veteran with a lifetime of wrongdoing to atone for that he recognizes in himself, and the naive Jedi she was before that the charming flirt in him likes to tease. And although his backstory is a revelation, and a harrowing one to the Exile, who sees what she might have become had she stayed with Revan, this is what their relationship is; seeing someone in their totality, and loving and honouring the worst with the best. Despite knowing what the Exile's done, Atton values her enough to still care about how she views him that he begs Kreia not to tell her the truth about his past. The two are instantly drawn to each other on Peragus, not just out of necessity but genuine, instinctive protectiveness, attraction, and a deeper sense (be it Force-Assisted or not) of understanding. Atton refers to it in his death scene (if you count that) as love at first sight, and while there was probably initial infatuation, I think there was just such an instant magnetism that grew and grew between them through shared experience. "Don't give up on me now, dammit!" and "You want her, you get through me." come to mind. Atton is the only party member that asks her to train him in the Force, whereas she has to prompt and convince the others into their awakening. He's deeply scarred by his experiences with the Force, not to mention it's actively dangerous to train as a Jedi due to the Exchange, but he's willing to face that for the Exile - he tells her that part of why he wants to train as a Jedi is to be better able to protect and fight for her. One of the first things he does is teach her to play Pazaak in her head to prevent from psychic attacks through the Force/harm through Kreia's force bond - the exact weapon he wielded against others. The tragedy of any Jedi Exile ship is the constant insecurity created by the force-wound/cipher; how much of anyone's choice to follow in their footsteps or love them is their own free will? What power dynamics, unspoken or obvious, arise from it? But Atton's fierce independence and selfishness almost serves as the clearest answer to this. He willingly reawakens himself to the Force to connect with her, to be better able to fight for her. He chose her, a thousand times over, and whatever role the Force Wound plays, he accepts her influence out of admiration for that steadfast-to-a-fault morality I talked about before.

This isn't some corny gender essentialist "she is his redemption" nonsense either, although redemption is a major theme of a light-sided KOTOR 2; by training Atton and others as a Jedi, the Exile is actively doing the work to heal the galaxy she helped to break. By protecting and teaching and bonding with the Exile, Atton is regaining his own humanity through recognizing hers, over and over, the way he failed to recognize those of his victims. They're together in this, in their recovery, in how they've experienced all extremes of morality. Love, in this story, isn't about fixing someone or breaking them, it's about meeting them where they are and walking alongside them, hopefully to someplace better than where you were when you both met. Is it any wonder that he's the one she walks away with in the end? (As if he'd let her walk alone ever again.)

With all this being said, and to address your question, while the route/headcanon preferences I prefer for Atton/Exile create, I think, the richest narrative with what's there, I've definitely got an overarching meta appreciation for them too. I spent my teen years eagerly eating up every possible iteration of them as a couple, and much of what I described above can hold true in a different aspect if people prefer to play them dark-sided, if people hold the tragic dying in your arms ending as canon, and so forth. They're compelling any way you slice them.

[ryuichirou]

Replies

It’s Monday again! Some recent asks. About twst, about blue lock, about fem!Deuce’s skirt length, about tops and bottoms, etc.

Anonymous asked:

I'm subscribed to your Kofi. Yesterday I had a TERRIBLE day so I logged in to check your recent stuff. I found myself scrolling thru your entire feed and smiling at your Adeuce, TreyRiddle and RookVil (my favorite ships) arts. Even if they're unfinished, I loved them a lot, specially that comic where Che'nya steals Riddle's baby tooth for Trey. Don't answer this publicly if you don't want the contents of your Kofi to be revealed, I just wanted to let you know that I went to bed with a smile after a terrible day (and week, overall, I've been having it rough) because of your art. Keep creating ❤️

Anon, this is such an incredibly sweet message, and I am very grateful for your kind words. Just as you got cheered up by stuff we post on Ko-Fi, your message really cheered us up as well! I am honestly still shocked and happy that people are into my unedited sketches and don’t mind scrolling to tons and tons of them to see their favourite ships and characters hehe.

That comic!! We really want to finish and post it one day, but it’s been a bit difficult to keep up with all that lately. It will be finished and posted though at some point, so I don’t mind teasing~ I’m happy you liked that one!

Thank you for your ask and for supporting us on Ko-Fi of course!!! <3

Anonymous asked:

Where are you from? If it's not a secret

It’s not really a secret, we talked about it before, even though it was years ago…

We're from Russia; I, in particular, moved here (from Turkmenistan, it's a long story...) when I was a young teen and lived the majority of my life here.

Anonymous asked:

Is there a top x bottom ship that you don't like?

Good question, actually! I don’t think there are any that we don’t like, to be honest. If the top/bottom positioning makes sense to us and doesn’t contradict the way we feel about the characters, the worst thing that could happen is that we just don’t really care much about the ship (like Kalim/Silver, for example). But I can’t think of any that we would really dislike…

Anonymous asked:

Opinions on Floyd x Kalim?

Anonymous asked:

JESUS, I'M SORRY, I SENT YOU AN ASK OFF A TOP X TOP PAIRING

FOR A HOT SEXOND I LIVED IN A WORLD WHERE YOU HAD FLOYD AS A BOTTOM (which is incredible considering how often you draw him) AND THEN I REMEMMBERED LIKE FIVE SECONDS AFTER

AHHH NO WORRIES ANON!!! It happens!! No hard feelings whatsoever <3 You don’t have to remember every single thing!

But also! Not as a ship, but I think Floyd and Kalim could be very fun together because they’re so different in terms of innocence and awareness, but both are drummers, like to dance and have fun, and both are insanely stubborn when it comes to something they do or do not want to do lol

Anonymous asked:

Hey so I know your previous Rook-planning-to-put-the-Ramshackle-ghost-in-a-jar-and-make-love-to-it art was meant to be a joke BUT it awoke something in me 😳😳😳

👀 Anon… every joke has a big chunk of “hold on though-“ in it…. So I see you.

Rook is such a wonderful freak, you never know what kind of kinks he’s going to bring you. The kinds of kinks you never knew you were into…

Anonymous asked:

you should draw ryusae mpreg

I hate how I can’t even pull out my regular “pregnancy no likey” card on this one because IT’S NOT LIKE IT GOES AGAISNT CANON 😭 Fucking Shidou, man.

Anonymous asked:

that bitch needs to be leashed

Funny thing is, we wanted to give him a choker to make the joke work better, but I forgot; I guess Sae is someone who would walk his rabid dog without a leash or a collar…

Anonymous asked:

Aw, Azul is trying to help Idia touch grass! How nice of him to help ^-^

Hehehe yes! He is such a helpful boyfriend~ Idia should be grateful.

Anonymous asked:

Azul stronger than Idia?

Of course, Anon! He lacks the endurance and isn’t good at PE, but he has that octopus grip + apparently muscles.

And Idia… well, he’s a skeleton that doesn’t consume anything with protein :(

Anonymous asked:

Since Deuce was a delinquent I like to imagine fem Deuce wore the long skirt associated with the Image or just pants for a really long time, but since trying to become a model student she wears the proper uniform as she gets it which involves a much shorter skirt

And she switches between being painfully aware of the length and flustered about it and forgetting how short it is and doing some risky things in it

Also like to think that she thinks it's kind of cold so she starts wearing lots of stockings

Anon!! I LOVE long skirt delinquent fem Deuce!! She would be such a good sukeban, and I honestly tend to envision her like that, so it would make sense for her to switch to the shorter skirts and of course of course forgetting about how easy it is for her to flash her panties now. Someone should introduce her to the idea of wearing shorts underneath a skirt (I think Rook wears those lol)

Ahh stockings too… so cute and delightful. I bet it was very annoying at first to put them on every day, but she got tired of being cold all the time…

So yeah I really feel you, Anon, I see the vision very vividly.

But at the same time, it’s also somewhat easy to imagine delinquent fem Deuce wearing a shorter skirt and becoming more “modest” afterwards. Both options have perks..!

Anonymous asked:

sometimes i think. about. bayonetta malleus. honestly sometimes i just think about bayonetta. because. sighg <3... bayonetta.

Yeah… he’d look very good with her heels! Powerful and super tall brunette, such a Malleus vibe. I think we had a Bayonetta question before, and I think I mentioned back then that Vil would also make a good Bayonetta lol But I don’t remember, it’s been a while.

[sunny374940]

20 questions for fanfiction writers

I saw this on my dash when @bygonesigh answered it and it looks like fun (hello, I enjoyed reading through your answers <3). So here are twenty answers from me that no one asked for :D

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

Okay let's see... 38. Wow. That sure is something, considering I only started writing last December.

2) What's your total AO3 word count?

97 572. More than I expected.

3) What are your top five fics by kudos?

I would like to make you blush, if I may (emmrook smut. I am not surprised)

I will rip the world apart for you (oh, I like this one, it's about Rook getting kidnapped by Venatori and Emmrich going ballistic)

Tell me I'm yours (emmrook smut again)

Let me show you how beautiful you are (yet more emmrook smut, there seems to be a theme here. Emmrich gets praised in this one and I actually liked it when I reread it just now, even though I'm usually too embarrassed to reread my own smut :D)

Patience, darling (and... more emmrook smut)

Okay this is funny cause I've written nine smut fics and four of them are in my top five. The readership is clear on where my qualities lie I suppose.

4) What fandoms do you write for?

Dragon Age. I have never written fanfic before Veilguard came out, but it just Gripped me and I had to start writing. And now I'm deep into my original fantasy story as well. This is all great fun.

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Of course I respond to comments, it gives me life. It's so great to be able to talk about the stories I write with others (which is why I make it a point to leave comments on everything I read in turn).

6) What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ooo. The one where I killed Emmrich dead. And Rook too. It's this one: I will be waiting with open arms. I made myself cry writing it. But it has a happy ending anyway, because I am literally incapable of a bad one. (They see each other in the afterlife again. Amd they were Old when they died. So there's that.)

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Wow, that's a tough one. All my fics end happily, so it depends, I guess. Possibly the emmrook wedding, if we're going by character happiness. It's When I see your light shine, I know I'm home. There are happy tears, so I guess it qualifies.

8) Do you get hate on fics?

No, happily. Though it boggles my mind that it's a thing people do. Like why would someone waste their time reading something they don't like and then go to the effort of telling the author that?

9) Do you write smut?

Yep. And I am terribly embarrassed about posting it every single fucking time. I wonder if that feeling ever goes away. But the fics seem to go over well, as established by the amount of kudos. So I guess I'm doing fine in that regard.

10) Do you write crossovers?

Not as of yet. But I had no clue I would be writing original fiction either, so... who knows what the future might bring.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I very much hope not.

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of.

13) Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Nope. But who the hell knows what might happen. I certainly don't.

14) What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Hm. Tough one. Right now it's definitely emmrook, but adoribull will always hold a special place in my heart. I love those dorks.

15) What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh I will finish them all one day, it will just take a terribly long time. The one suffering the most right now is the emmrook honeymoon though, I have two chapters posted, two more half written and three more to go and I keep getting sidetracked.

16) What are your writing strengths?

Writing feels? I enjoy those. And I like writing dialogues, those are fun. And I have been told I can write a good panic attack.

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

Fucking sentence length my beloathed. I keep making my sentences the same length and rhythm and it reads so annoyingly clipped. Also I am unable to use the comma properly.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

I would likely fuck it all the way up. It's enough to be writing in my my second language as it is, I keep wondering if I'm messing something up :D but so far so good, apparently. I don't mind reading dialogues in another language though.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I have never been caught by such a need to create before and it's amazing.

20) Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

That is a very difficult question. Gotta go check them out... Kay I'm back and indecisive. But maybe I missed you, little brother, in which Rook's sister comes to yell at him for not letting her know he has a daughter. It's a very nice blend of funny and sweet and I actually made myself laugh and cry reading it just now.

Okay so this was fun and I am throwing no pressure tags at my darlings again. @lavender-tea-fling, @spinfins, @sorrowsfallallarpund, @mercars-musings, @redheadsramblings, @starfleetteddybear

[heartsforvalentinexx]

val's roleplay rules ♡ dc: @thecutestgrotto

please be +18, and tell me your age/age range when you are contacting me. i don't interact with minors.

my timezone is eastern standard time! (EST)

i roleplay on discord only, and i like using private servers to stay organized.

please do not reach out to me if you use real people's faces as a faceclaim. references are fine, but if you don't have any ideas for original interpretations of your character, then i do not wish to interact.

i’m typically almost always available given that i don't attend school or work, and usually, i respond to roleplays within the same day, but that doesn’t guarantee an immediate response every time. please understand that i have a life outside of roleplay, and i have other things that i need to do and enjoy doing. if i do not respond within 5 days, you are more than free to send me a message to check on me.

i mainly do 1x1 roleplays because social settings give me a lot of anxiety. i may be interested in a small roleplay group, and am not usually very interested in things like public roleplay servers. you can ask me, but please do not hold any expectations.

i’m semi-literate to literate, writing from a couple of sentences to 3 paragraphs in third-person. we don't have to completely match in writing style, but i would like for us to have similar writing lengths and the same pov. while i enjoy writing shorter to advance plot, i will try to write longer if necessary. let me know what you look for in responses, and i'll do my best to uphold to that.

i will not be interested in anything without romance. i’m more than happy to write familial or platonic relationships, but if there isn’t romance somewhere alongside them, i will grow bored and likely become disinterested pretty quickly. i have never written a queerplatonic relationship before, but i will give it a try if you're interested. other genres i enjoy are fantasy, adventure, drama, slice of life, modern, aus etc. i do enjoy angst, but i can't handle it in heavy amounts, so please talk to me before writing any into the plot. the only genres i won’t do is horror, erp and furries/ferals.

i would like to think i’m pretty creative when it comes to plots, so i come up with things relatively easy, but i can’t guarantee i’m always going to be able to think something up and i will not be doing all of the work. i would like it if you were invested and trying to help me out, if possible. it’s okay if you don’t have anything in mind beforehand, we can come up with something together and talk it out!

i am comfortable with doing both fandom and fandom-less roleplays. i enjoy pairings of all sorts, cc x cc, oc x oc, polyamorous ships, etc. i love oc x cc, though i will want to double-up and rarely show interest in a cc x oc roleplay otherwise. gender doesn't usually matter, so just talk to me about what you wanna do and i'll tell you if i'm up for it. my fandom list is below, so you can scroll to read that, and i have a few non-fandom ocs to work with, so once we get to talking, i'll send them and we can discuss.

please communicate your boundaries, feelings and thoughts with me, about our roleplays and outside of them. tell me the topics that you do not want to involve in the roleplay, any changes that you want to make while we are writing, or if you become disinterested in the roleplay as a whole and want to separate. if you have an idea for the roleplay, talk about it with me so that we can see on making it work. i like to befriend my rp partners, so we can talk ooc anytime! if that's not something you're interested in, that is okay, just please let me know beforehand.

val's fandom list!

snow white with the red hair

fruits basket

ouran high school host club

fena: pirate princess

skate the infinity

genshin impact

honkai: star rail

arcane: league of legends

marvel cinematic universe

netflix's castlevania & castlevania: nocturne

the arcana

overwatch 2

epic: the musical

cherry crush

+ more!! just ask!

[chaoticpallascat]

Rogue is so much more

The Doctor is known to go all in and live in the moment when it comes to adventures but this might the be first time I see him this carefree and excited and open to exploring love. I mean think about all the love interests before (NuWho cuz I haven't finished the classics), he always took things slow and he was always tense. He also always easily backed off at the first sign of uncertainty. With Rose it was flirting and longing but the moment any hint of deviating from usual companion-doctor relationship was made explicit the "You're going to wither and die this is the curse of my life" defense snapped up. With River we all know it was an extremely long story, and for the most of it she was kept at arm's length. I'm not even going to talk about Jack and Yaz. And if you ship any other pairing then ditto for them too, however meaningful and strong the relationship finally became, it takes SO LONG for the Doctor to let his guard down. And who can blame him? Trauma can do that. Makes you hypervigilent and keeps you on your feet. So you have no choice but to keep the defenses up.

WELL NOT ANYMORE BABY! He's inviting Rogue to go figure it out in the stars like, the night he meets him. No observing from afar. No trying to keep everything to himself. No anxieties or worries or having a guard-up state as the default. Uncharted territories used to make him distant. But now, he's ready to embrace an accidental love as is and excited to find out where it will lead.

To me it's not just love at first sight, it's a signal that he's finally able to place trust easily in people again. And look how happy he is doing it! Being able to love like this is just the symptom, it has to rest on a fundation of trauma work, work presumably 14 did. And it is this hidden foundation that really makes me love this episode. Being like this after all that he has been through? Rogue is not just about sweet sweet love, it's a proud triumph, a survivor standing tall. It's revealing the Doctor as such a dazzling, beautiful and resilient soul. It's long night finally, finally, FINALLY going into dawn. A trauma survivor to another, I am so, so happy he found his way.

[sssammich]

👀 collateral + 1 & 10

hello hello thanks for asking! i see u are very curious about collateral which is fair enough now that my swan queen winter solstice fic is done i am free to update my wips LOL

What inspired you to write the fic this way?

this fic actually stemmed from a prompt that @waknatious sent me idk if it's for a fic writing meme or just a direct prompt but i definitely said "i'm choosing violence today". the word was 'captive' and so i used it in the line where people were captively looking at kara.

but why are they looking at kara, you ask? well, i thought it would be fun if all eyes were on her and she was feeling a lot of heartache without nobody knowing

why was i choosing violence against kara? i think what i wanted to explore is what it means for the word 'collateral' to take place in a story. asking myself what does a happy ending truly mean? like, if i promised you a particular endgame, how much is that gonna cost you? would you like that endgame at the end? would you be happy with it because your ship is preserved?

but also how can pain manifest itself in relationships?

plus, how do you approach a relationship you didn't even think you could have until you see someone have it?

WHO KNOWS BUT EVERYONE IS GONNA BE SAD

also just in terms of logistics, the first 5 chapters on ao3 actually are just snippets and not real chapters. i like to think ch1-5 are all one big chapter as i think they flow better that way but i was mostly just making a decision to preserve the snippets from tumblr to ao3 in how they appear otherwise i would not be writing a fic with so many chapters

10. Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

simple: andrea is hot and i really enjoyed writing her in the sam/andrea fic i wrote for mayhem and i think superrojas would be equally hot in a much different way

but on the real supercorp if they're not actually the point

i also just wanted to test myself superrojas isn't exactly a winning ship and @sideguitars and i have talked at length about finding an instance in which andrea and kara would be believable. it's believable if you set up the premise, and this was the best premise i thought LOL

also in general, i love andrea as an antagonistic, friction-driven character, but she's not the villain. collateral is a fic where nobody is the villain, but they sure do be making some dubious choices lol

also sorry 2 jack but he's a man and i just decided collateral was gonna use a man as a literary device lol

thanks for reading all that im sure you didn't want all the bullets but oh well! lmao

fic ask meme

[huntershowl-moving]

SHIPPING INFO // ANSWER THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR MUSES SO PEOPLE KNOW HOW SHIPPING WORKS ON YOUR BLOG.

WHAT IS YOUR OTP FOR YOUR CHARACTER(S)?

i don't have one particular otp — big ships change depending on the Era hellhound is in!

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?

nothing illegal obviously — other than that, aside from long-lifespan characters whose mental maturation is slower, i generally stay away from with 10+ year age gaps when the younger muse is under 20. just feels like a weird power dynamic i guess?

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?

yes! ships on this blog cannot be pre-established — i tend to lose interest fast if they don't build up naturally, either through lots of ooc plotting or through writing. on top of that, seph is ... piiiiicky. she has very specific Types. generally, ships with very gentle, soft, mentally well-adjusted characters are possible, but transient — seph falls out of love after a point, but remains staunchly protective of them.

the long and short of the matter is she's a freak, and you kind of have to match that to be compatible as a long-term partner. but even then they don't always line up perfectly! idk. seph's weird. simultaneously very easy to ship with and very hard to ship with.

WHO ARE OTHER CHARACTERS YOU SHIP YOUR CHARACTER WITH?

oh i've got lots of good ones going on right now!! pls forgive me for gushing. focusing on currently heavily-plotted and/or written ones for this bit bc otherwise it will be pages and pages!! if i forgot someone you have full permission to impale me on a pike i am SO SORRY. (all of these will be under a readmore at the end of the post for length!)

there are more sort of beginnings/potentials for ships that haven't been explored yet which i haven't included here, but i'm truly excited to see where each and every one of them goes!!!

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?

yes absolutely hahaha — at least communicating ooc about it is necessary! i'm much more comfortable shipping with partners i mesh well with as a mun and have an easy time talking to.

ARE YOU SHIP-OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS?

LOOK I. LISTEN. LISTEN... IM FERAL FOR SHIPS. FERAL. even though seph is picky about them — and i promise it's not personal if it doesnt work, it truly is just her dumb creature ass being unable to normal.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SHIP IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?

N/A for this blog, but as a fun trivia fact, i'm deep in satosugu hell rn

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?

it's all vibes babey. we just start writing their non-romantic dynamic buildup, and if it clicks (or even if u just think ur character would have a crush!) we talk about it ooc and plot some more, then plot some more and before u know it, the angst hammer looms over ur head

Tagged by: @bearratic (thank youuuu!!) Tagging: (points) do it

ship gushing below. <3

@vsagis' villain izuku— i had to put u first bc u kickstarted this shipping renaissance. seph and izuku clicked instantly and started a long-term trajectory that i don't think either of us writers expected. they're just freak enough to match each other, just soft enough to genuinely care. we're really putting these two through the horrors(tm) and watching them fall hopelessly, horribly in love. <3

@spiritcrown's pasha — how could i not mention pasha!! i was so happy to see you back, because pasha and seph's relationship was soooo formative for seph's development wrt romance. seph is absolutely, completely and utterly devoted to pasha. they worship at the altar of her. they would bend heaven and raise hell for her.

@crowshoots' jesper — UAHGHGBBHBH INCOHERENT CRYING NOISES. the first thing seph noticed about jesper was extremely respectable fighting skills, but even then they were definitely uhhhh touch and go for a while there before they started to simmer down and. pin each other down and — one thing led to another and jesper's being antagonized by her antagonists and they're too deeply in love to go back!! i love them. i l

@crowgreeds' kaz — HHHHHHHHH god. hi siri i know ur not around the dash much but idc im writing u into this. kaz and seph both have such a darkness in them that the other recognizes and not only feeds, but when necessary, balances. they're ruthless and violent and mean but at the same time, they have such a softness for each other that they both thought was dead. also, you're the recipient of probably the best rp reply i've ever written (that fucking. hellhound kill description. my GOD im feral for seph protecting him)

@tewwor.... goose is2g we really have the creatures ever. litho — FIRST SHIP!!!! FIRST SHIIIP i still cant believe it took 4 irl years for them to finally admit their stupid feelings. now they're soulmates and there's no turning back. he's the reason seph likes poetry in every verse. the softest snarkiest ship. probably the closest to a true YA-style soulmate seph has. she hasn't forgiven him for all the twilight jokes though tough luck jie & ricochet — the boys... the absolute chaos trio... i never expected seph and jie to fall for each other but honestly i should have. he falls so neatly into her "equally feral" type. ricochet is so calm and seph is kind of intoxicated by that. sheathed claws kind of vibe. just love these three their dynamic balances itself so well

@spungolden's dio — two femmes raised as weapons with deeply suppressed emotions, chillin in a murder alley, five feet apart cause theyre not g— (theyre gay. theyre so gay) these two are so sweet they sometimes make me tear up. they skipped the trauma stage and went straight into lesbian domestic fantasy with only occasional murder.

@chaoslulled oh boy(s). toji — brutally in love. they saw and embraced each other's monster, refused to shy away, and now they somehow revolve in this strange orbit of violent and incredibly soft with each other. i think he's the first of the current ship lineup that seph has in-thread said the L-word to. this ship was so easy to jump right into, the chemistry was like lightning in a bottle. satoru — one of the most genuinely unexpected slowburn ships i've stumbled into. these two read each other for filth INSTANTLY as lonely motherfuckers who, in some way or another, had loved and lost. they haven't even gotten to the oh-shit moment in the slowburn yet but i'm lookin forward to it yakuza sukuna — THE PAIN. THE SUFFERING. AUHHHGHGGGG HOL YOU'RE FUCKING KILLING MEEEE. these two are mirrors in the worst possible way. they've got their throats stuck under their boss' boot heels; they've been disfigured, they've had their siblings used as leverage, they've been made into muzzled dogs. despite hating each other at the start, they can't not recognize that, and it's led to this fierce protectiveness that isssss whoops evolving into feelings. i'm sure nothing will go wrong

@eraserisms' shota — AHHHHHHH god okay most of this ship has been pure plotting vibes and responses to memes, but i truly cannot wait to get into writing more of them because they own my heart and soul. i think they know each other to the marrow in a way that's not super common for seph, and the gentleness and caution with which they're starting to explore revisiting their care for each other is heartbreaking in the best way

@sasouken BEE!!!! ok chronologically(??): deku — so precious and wholesome from the start. your honor he's just a little guy with a big dumb crush. when i tell uuuuuu some of our plotting has literally made me tear up a little??? the absolute bleeding heart on this boy??? HURTS ME??? one day they'll hold hands casper — slated to be our angstiest dynamic, i just Know it. two motherfuckers who love their siblings, inextricably involved in a tangled web of crime and violence. two people who have lost so much and don't want to lose anyone ever again. i will die i WILL satoru — such... a different vibe than i was expecting in an amazing way?? his dynamic with seph is so fuckin sweet? so much physical touch born of trust and comfort. also again: her first ever fwb (for now), which is truly a wild thing to experience. sukuna — i .. . dont even know what to say about this one. (affectionate). he unlocked an entirely new dimension of freak in seph's psyche and attraction style that i couldn't comprehend before we started writing them but retrospectively makes so much sense. what the fuck is going on with these two i have no idea but i am OBSESSED with it. also writing them getting down nasty has been extremely fun, i'm enjoying it a lot

[ilstar]

name — vos

pronouns — they / them

preferred comms — i'm happy to chat anywhere but i have a bad habit of forgetting to reply to dm's on tumblr and the barely functioning notification system doesn't help. disc is always quickest!!

name of muse — gesturing at my roster. robin, caelus and horrible oc are whispering in my ear the loudest right now though

experience in RP — technically. technically around 14 years because my first exposure to rp happened when i googled warrior cat games at the age of NINE and stumbled upon a chatroom instead. strictly on tumblr, i believe it's around 8-9 years. you have to kill me

best experiences — they are few and far between but it's still very special to me when i get to meet people who i feel like i just match with on every level from like, writing style to humour to being insane about a particular character(s) in the same way. insert honourable mention to val here AS ALWAYS. someone who has made my time on this website so much more enjoyable kdjfhgd another honourable mention to the rpc i wrote in before dipping my toes into hyv for being so creative and open to oc's, which has always really stuck in my mind as a nice place to be. while it lasted.

pet peeves / dealbreakers — some things that will always happen when i write popular or plot - significant characters are having people mansplain my own muse to me, having to bat away fanon concepts and dealing with people running on assumptions made by them, chasing and (stares at kazuha) constant angling for extremely popular ships that i have openly stated i don't like. don't be any of these guys

writing preference ( fluff, angst, smut ) — i'm good for anything but if most of our interactions tend to default to fluff / give me slice of life vibes i will get pretty restless. i like to delve a little deeper. and honestly, i do love angst, as long as it serves a purpose or actually goes somewhere, but angst for angst's sake doesn't really interest me.

plot or memes — plots 100% because i think that talking about our muses and developing a dynamic is half of the fun here. i love prompts!! but having an idea of how our muses bounce off of each other and knowing that we're on the same page gives me so much more to work with, which means i can write something you're much more likely to enjoy / feel able to reply to :)

long or short replies — i'm actually trying to learn how to enjoy writing smaller replies. i've never held myself to a standard where a piece of writing MUST be of a certain length to post it but i also like ... have a tendency to dwell on things like introspection and body language, probably too much, which means by the time i've actually given the reply some interaction / a direction for my partner to take it in, it's already getting pretty long and i could. just keep going. so i am doing my best to practice cutting out what's not really important. being more concise.

best time to write — has to be at least evening but is almost always at night. i'm not someone who can comfortably sit at a computer during the day when there are other things i could be doing, most unfortunately

are you like your muse — there's probably a little piece in all of them that i can relate to on some level. but when i'm developing a character i try my best to avoid projecting too much of myself onto them, and i mostly gravitate to characters who interest me or seem fun to analyse rather than ones who i see myself in / understand very very easily.

[emmy-everafter]

Tagged by @sparrowmoth to share about my WIPs. Idk if anyone is actually all that interested in these, but on the off chance that you are, feel free to swing by my ask box with questions!

Rules: Post the names of your WIPs and open your ask box for questions about them.

Published WIPs

Right now, there's just one: Don't Come Any Closer (But Don't Move Away), Win/Team (Between Us/UWMA), rated M, 3 chapters out of ????

(I actually have written several chapters ahead but updates will likely slow down over time as i catch up to the place where I'm currently drafting. But we're getting to the good stuff now and ugh I'm so excited, I love this fic and these boys so much!!)

Unpublished WIPs

Greenhouse fic (better title forthcoming), a short and fluffy sequel to We're Gonna Need a Bigger Pentagram. Jesper/Wylan (Shadow & Bone/Six of Crows), rated T, one-shot. I have about 2k words written and because it's a Jesper POV, I'm planning to publish it later this month as part of "Jesptember," a celebration of our favorite Sharpshooter from the @i-can-read-to-him Wesper discord server.

A Week in the Life (tentative title), followup to the greenhouse fic and continuation of the Coven of Crows universe. Told through flashbacks to a time before WGNABP. Mostly gen crows-as-found-family with hints of Wesper, Helnik, Kanej, and Kuwei/Jesper (I forget if people use Kuwesper for just them or for them + Wylan oops). Probably rated T, probably 6 or 7 chapters. I've only written out a bit, the rest is all outline right now.

Other general ideas for Coven of Crows stuff that I'm happy to talk about!

The time travel crows fic (it has a title but I don't want to share it yet). All the crows ships, probably rated M, gonna be a longfic. I have some chapters written but I need to revise them because I changed my mind about some worldbuilding stuff. Time travel is hard to write, y'all!

Servant & Lever(age): a six of crows Leverage AU, rating TBA, length TBA, mostly just outlines at the moment.

I Won't Give Up Your Ghost, Julie & The Phantoms longfic, rated T or M. I have maybe 8 chapters of this written? But I don't know if there's enough people reading JatP anymore for me to maintain motivation when doing a longfic and I also got distracted, but I had a solid outline for the rest and may come back to it eventually

Untitled sexytimes fic, Palm/Neungdiao (Never Let Me Go the series), definitely rated E, one-shot. Will I ever finish this? Who knows.

A few other half-written or half-baked Thai BL fics, mostly M or E one- and two-shots, for shows like Moonlight Chicken, Tale of a Thousand Stars, etc.

I have some other Six of Crows ideas but I'm much less certain that I'll get around to writing them so I haven't listed them here

No pressure tags for anyone who feels like sharing (apologies if you've already done this and I missed it!): @oneofthewednesdays @hotpinkmurex @magicandpizza @ace-kaz-brekker @starwritebrekker

[wsknbfanaccnt]

2, 8, 15, 18, 19, 23, and 26 for akashi as requested!!!

AAAAAAAAA OKAY OKAY OKAY I'M SO READY FOR THIS I WILL WRITE PARAGRAPHS

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2. What is your favorite canon thing about this character?

There's actually like so many things I love about him OMFG. Okay but maybe one of my favorites is that he's literally just a baby. I'm talking about the fact that he has to keep up appearances BUT what he really wants is just to have fun with his friends and to be approachable to people. I love dualities like that when it comes to villains especially, cuz you realize that Akashi's just human and all he wants are basic human things like being happy despite the lengths that he has to go through to keep himself together.

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

When they write him ooc obviously LMFAO. And when they villanize him too much. Like he's just a little baby :( he just broken and he just needs some love. Oh and when they ship him with Momoi or Sakurai. Puke.

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

Well aside from Akashi x Sevonne (me), I have two. A few years ago I would have said AkaKuro, because obviously it just makes so much mf sense?? They were my otp back then. But right now I think my main favorite ship is MidoAka. They're best friends, they're very close and they both enjoy a lot of things together and they both are rich kinda so yeah I definitely MidoAka.

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Maybe Akashi's friendship with Kuroko. I remember that one scene in the manga Extra Game where Akashi warns the team that he might have to whip out his lil brother in the middle of a game and tells them not to be scared. The rest of the GOM was like "oh thats it? Can I leave now?" but Kuroko says to Akashi "Akashi-kun is Akashi-kun." I love it when they actually mf humanize Akashi because he's actually mf human even though he's always depicted as this perfect human.

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

Do you have to ask? Akashi Seijuro and Akashi Masaomi. I need Masaomi to literally be less of a piece of shit.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

WHAT THE FUCK THIS QUESTION CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD

theres so many pictures of Akashi that I absolutely adore I cant just choose one so im putting many anyways here you go:

its crazy looking at my akashi folder and wanting to put every single picture of him on this post ummmm

oh my fucking god I love this man so much he's just so pretty and he's so precious honestly y'all do not understand how much I love him

26. What's something the character has done you can't get over? Be it something funny, bad, good, serious, whatever?

I will 200% NEVER EVER get over the fact that Akashi Seijuro dressed up as little red riding hood in a Teiko Festival and he wasn't even embarassed. This man is so secure in his masculinity that he just willingly wore that red hood with the puffy skirt. I love this man hes amazing.