#I want to do the concept as *ice* which is tough because ice doesn't have a super specific look actually

[mecha--maniac]

Been noodlin' with some doodlin' trying to figure out how I want to draw these nerds

[notnights]

i legit love the idea of jax leaving anonymous gifts for gangle, and enjoying being on stage w/her bcs he's actually challenged and active enough to a point where he isn't feeling boredom or dread. also, there's a certain escapism in taking on the role of a character.

hmm, other ribbun scenarios? i can imagine gangle infodumping to zooble abt smth she used to watch, and jax feeling irritated by her rambling at first, but soon becoming accustomed to it and enjoying hearing her voice and opinions. perhaps he even remembers some of the shows she talks about. maybe he chimes in absentmindedly from his hiding spot and zoob n gangle are both like "u were here this whole time ??"

or what about caine using his ringmaster authority to make sure that jax is kind to gangle for a day? and now he has to do whatever gangle asks, and he's not allowed to break her mask. i wonder what she would do with that opportunity? dress him up in silly outfits? get him to pose in different ways for art references? like a mannequin doll.

i love seeing dynamics like these in moments where they have to work together for a common goal, as well. like, they get paired up together in an event and the reward is like. new crayon colours and a can of silly string/sticky hand/centipede or smth. i imagine a lot of yelling and fighting and cartoon violence shenanigans, but maybe, mayhaps, a "good job! we crushed em!" every here and there when things go well.

i also think jax trying to drag gangle away from a teaparty (hosted by ragatha ofc, no jaxes allowed) so that he can have an accomplice in ruining said teaparty for everyone would be fun. he wants to cause some chaos with his favourite victim

anyway hope u like these misc thoughts. idk im new to their dynamic :3c

1). Yeah it's a good thought! For a moment he can be someone else, someone who cares or someone who is open about being in the company of others.

2). I like to think sometimes Jax enjoys Gangle talking... but that's also why he doesn't like it. Doesn't like that something as simple as Gangle going on about something she likes makes him happy. Doesn't know why yet. Too close, too sentimental maybe. Feelings he's not ready for. So then he breaks her mask to shut her up. :(

3). I really want to imagine Jax and Gangle can get along in that way a bully and his lackey does. Bully picks on his lackey too but sometimes they get up to nonsense together and laugh at others together. Comedy!Gangle liking funny things too, which can range from something as silly as giving one ice cube to someone who asked for a couple, to seeing people get physically hurt (to the extent it happens in the DC anyways).

She won't go as far as Jax, when the going gets tough she'd start feeling guilty before Jax does, but up until then she's laughing and fooling around at Ragatha stepping on and getting slammed in the face by a misplaced rake.

Rare moments where they get along because Gangle is acting more willingly in Jax's interests. Idk if this idea has any merit with what we've seen so far. We still have no reference for Comedy!Gangle, and Jax atm really doesn't have any respect for her as an actual friend, at least when she's Tragedy!Gangle. I can only really imagine him getting along with Comedy!Gangle if she really is completely different though, and again we don't know if she is yet.

So it's an idea I haven't worked too much with despite how much I want it. I want them to be silly together. They both ave forever smiles in that aspect.

(concept for the next chapter-promo for the zooblecaine fic)

Anyways, with that said yeah something that gets them working with mutual goals is a good way to get that kind of interaction going. Awful together in a different way. Awful at each other vs Awful together at others lol.

4). Yeah I like the idea he'll drag her to help him with things too. Much to her dismay but she goes along with it, she doesn't really have a choice poor girl. Drags her around like a wet rag until he gets bored of dragging her because, what a drag!

"Wants to cause some chaos with his favorite victim," is such a good line also. I hate Jax, love to see him be awful. My poor girl Gangle deserves better.

[xieyaohuan]

Writer Tag

Thank you for tagging me @blindmagdalena and @saintmathieublanc! ❤️

How many works do you have on AO3?

43, but many of them are one shots and one of them is a translation.

What's your total AO3 word count?

203,854.

Ca. 120,000 of those words were banged out in just a few months during a single manic episode in 2017.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Ravishing a God (which is still incomprehensible to me as tickle fics normally never get many kudos lol)

I've got you pegged (rushed fic and cringy title)

All a king should be (a collection of 47 drabbles of 100 word -- I want to do a drabble challenge like this again for Homewell or Butchlander)

All God's children took their toll (it's not been abandoned)

Under the Twisted Weirwood Tree (my only crossover fic; I really want to finish this one even though it's no longer my fandom)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I usually do unless it's hate (and sometimes even then)

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

This is a tough one because most of my A Song of Ice and Fire fic is angst lol. Probably Heart of Darkness? Maybe Joanna (despite the relatively 'happy' ending)? But it's a pretty stiff competition.

What’s the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

I would say Spinster, which is still pretty angsty.

Do you write crossovers?

I've written only one, Under the Twisted Weirwood Tree, which sets A Song of Ice and Fire characters in a semi-modern AU based on The Purge. I really enjoyed the worldbuilding for this one!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes. I gave the wrong name to a character, which REALLY upset at least one person. I think I responded to them in good faith the first time, and then the second time told them to kindly fuck off.

I also used to post my fic on ff.net, where people seem to consider yelling at the author a legitimate type of feedback, and I definitely got a lot of that, but I don't consider that hate since it's just how people on ff.net interact.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do, in all kinds of directions, but I don't think it's my forte lol.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I think I might have had stuff reposted to websites I didn't know without credit, but it might have just been one of those mirror sites that didn't include all details??

Not to be cavalier about plagiarism, but my internal reports at work get stolen all the time, so with fic, I honestly don't care, since, unlike at work, I'm not actually losing any money. I think if someone took my fic, passed it off as their own, and then got famous with it, I might feel different about that, but that's never happened to me.

I plagiarized @deliciouskeys' title once (for The Dollhouse), but not intentionally because I'd been working on that fic for a while and didn't realize until after publishing the first chapter that my title had been taken.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, I co-wrote a fic with a fandom friend over 20 years ago, but we ended up never publishing it. Haven't co-written any fic since then, and I don't think I'd enjoy it.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

I don't think I have one since that would require me to maintain an obsession over decades, which is not how my brain works.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

A bunch of fic I wrote for ASoIaF like Lions of the Realm and Fatherly Love. I won't to finish all my fic because I hate not to, but with these two, I'm pretty certain I never will. Probably a few others in that same category out there.

What are your writing strengths?

This doesn't really show in my current fandom, but I think I have some pretty unique ideas. I'm also willing to experiment and play around with concepts, which I generally consider a strength on the whole.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I lean towards GRRM's ways of telling a story, but without the skill of being able to pull it off (and to be fair, he's failing, too).

Also, I will say that writing in a language other than your native language will limit you in some pretty fundamental ways that can't be overcome, and that can be frustrating.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

The most I do is insert individual words and phrases, and I only do that for languages I actually speak.

I did write one fic in which several of my characters spoke with pretty heavy dialect, and if I were to rewrite that fic now, I would really tone that down.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Published: Lord of the Rings

Unpublished and without realizing what I was doing: Asterix and Cleopatra, probably

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

I haven't written published any real Maevlander or real Starlander, and I definitely want to change that.

What's your favorite fic you've written?

Hard to say, but I really like Moonlight on her Face. I'm also rather attached to Ravishing a God, but I don't count that because for something to be a true favorite, it has to outlive my obsession.

I'm late to the party on this one and have lost track of who has already been tagged, so I'm not tagging anyone, but consider yourself tagged if you want to do this!

[lietpolski]

0.) for bulgaria,,,,,u knew this was coming

ur the king and i'm the court jester doing a little hws bulgaria jig for your entertainment 🫡

1) what would their social media page/activity be like: i hate to say this... but this guy is on facebook!!!! maybe he has a twitter but he tweets like once every 9 months and it's like "Hi. I'm hungry". if this is canonverse where humans know nations exists he gets caught liking romania fancams (he doesn't know likes are public) old man bulgaria u mean the world to me

2) what animal they remind me of: your drawing of him as a black bird is the first thing that comes to mind!! :O

3) my thoughts on their design/aesthetic alone: BABYGIRL his canon uniform is SNAZZY and i just,, like how plain he is ig :,) it suits him and it's a great contrast next to ro's design!! 10/10

4) physical headcanons: i think he's a foodie!! especially when he's sad, he gives off the vibes that he curls up on the sofa with a tub of pistachio ice cream and cries the night away.... idk if this counts as a physical headcanon but i think he's physically older than ppl think!! i don't have a concrete age for him but smth like 26-29! he has a bit of a baby face though bless him (and i'm just VERY soft for romania finding him pretty,,)

5) social headcanons: he def keeps to his social circle i think!! he has a decent number of friends buuut he probably hasn't made new ones in decades :,) i think people often overlook him and don't think much of him because of his more meek disposition around new people and not being very flashy!

6) psychological headcanons: HE'S SUCH AN EMOTIONAL GUY,, which is so sweet considering i think that a lot of these characters have grown tough skin from their old age but bulgaria is so baby... he is resilient ofc!! but he shows a lot of emotions!! he wears his heart on his sleeve you can read him so easily :,) i also live for bulgaria with a,, weird fractured sense of pride? he's insecure about a lot of things, but at the same time he's prideful and a bit egotistical at times in a naive unintentional way. i feel like he also idolizes people and concepts very easily!

7) ship(s) with them that I like or at least consider: he and romania are an on-and-off married couple made for each other!!! but but but you've made me think about things like ro/bul/hungary and ro/bul/greece and those r super fun too! :O and i have this weird rarepair of him and england :,) for personal and deeply emotional reasons i also need him and serbia to fuck

8) made-up connections with other characters that weren't in the canon (friends, enemies, whatever): he likes russia a lot! and if i dare push my yugotalia agenda real quick... he adooores macedonia!! ALSO his relationship with hungary is so underexplored!! they don't have the same feud that she and romania do, but i think (at least historically) they get on each other's nerves and there's been a lot of tension there (hatefuck threesome when?) england likes to vacation at his home and b annoying. he kinda hates turkey but they're also friends (in typical balkan fashion) & he and greece would be good buds!! skiing friends too :D

9) headcanons about their past: fella has been through a shit ton!!!! if u ever ask yourself "why is he like this" the answer is what 500 years of ottoman occupation does to a mf hgjfg... and i like the hc i mentioned in my fic of him trying to get ro to marry him in the late 1800s to early 1900s :) ALSO him and greece's feud during the byzantium era!! he was scary back then!! i also loooove it when he's depicted as having been older during the ottoman years and so feeling some sense of responsibility for the other countries around him :,)

10) content about them I'd like to see more of: aaah him during either of the bulgarian empires!! under ottoman rule!! more balkan war stuff!! historical human aus!! i love him being pathetic but i want to see him angry and happy and powerful and in love and heartbroken and 🥺 also i. can never have enough vampire aus im weak

[zosonils]

if it’s not too many, 20, 23, 25, 29, 30, 32, 38, 42, and 49 for the OC ask game?

20. do any of your ocs sing? if they sing, care to share more details?

drum occasionally sings along to her music in private, although there's no way she'd ever admit to it. her voice doesn't lend itself great to singing, it's scratchy and very flat in tone, but it's a comfort thing rather than a performance one. weirdly despite him being The Music Guy i can't really see rhythm singing a whole lot, he's more of an instruments guy, but he'd definitely be really good at it if he tried

23. introduce an oc who's changed from your first idea concerning what they'd be like

COOL WOMAN cool genuinely changed so much while i was developing her she barely resembles the original concept at all. initially the idea was 'what if there was an ice robot named Cool Man who talked like a radical 90s anti-weed psa and did skateboarding and shit lmao' and i only expected to make a silly jokey character but oops! i decided i wanted to make a female robot with the idea instead [and jokingly went ayyyy she's trans but ended up making that a real important aspect of her character later], then the character herself went from ironically spouting dumb Totally Tubular lingo and telling kids to stay in school and not having much more to her to shedding most of the migrane-inducing slang and being a much more genuine person who defines herself by her healthy self-esteem and confident belief in others. i think she's better this way because as much as i love a good period-typical sonic ripoff i really love her as the honestly friendly and comforting figure she is now. also skateboarding became ice hockey at some point

sweet also underwent a lot of development as i talked about in the previous ask, although in her case i kept all the original ideas in place and just followed them through to their very concerning logical extremes rather than swapping traits out for ones i thought were more fun. i'd say the difference between the two is developmental change vs in-universe change

25. the oc that resembles you the most

honestly it's a tough call because i think i put a little bit of myself in all my ocs but also noticably more little bits of a bunch of other people and characters. it's such a cop out to say all of them but i think i have to say that because i genuinely can't narrow it down hjkdnbkjgf

29. which one of your ocs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they're going?

see i WOULD say glass because that's literally his job but he wouldn't go without telling anyone. what has archaeology come to if people are just wandering off unaccounted for!! so if neglecting to mention that they're peeping the horrors is a necessary part of the equation then probably hex because fuck it, they ball

30. which one of your ocs would most likely have a secret stuffed animal collection?

i mean she's an edgy teenager so drum is practically legally required to be viciously secretive about owning stuffed animals. i think she'd be more of a doll person though, so like rather than stuffed toys she's amassing a huge littlest pet shop collection with money embezzled from wily's evil plan budget and has names and personalities and backstories and relationship drama for all of them that's filed in her head and nowhere else and that she'd cut off her hands before writing down anywhere lest anyone discover she has interests

32. which one of your ocs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why?

pixel would make a good horror protagonist i think. they're horrendously anxious already, they have robot asthma so that's free chase sequence drama right there, his work with computers provides all sorts of opportunities for a good haunted technology plot, his ocd-related fixation on planning things out and double-checking everything is a great way to emphasise the horror of doing everything perfectly right and still being in mortal danger, the possibilities are endless with this poor man

conversely, hex is a horror game antagonist

38. which one of your ocs would be the best dancer?

rhythm! he can throw down a cool move or two and he's got a great intuition for how to properly move with the music. i picture him being a dance battler in his fight with mega man and timing his attack patterns to the music and all that

42. which one of your ocs would be the most interested in greek gods?

glass definitely knows a lot about greek gods from his work and research, if you asked he would very passionately teach you all the lore with the same kind of enthusiasm as people on tumblr explaining in intricate detail everything that happens to their blorbos

49. which one of your ocs would enjoy memes

i think they all would but they'd have remarkably different tastes. like drum and hex would be into deep fried edgy post-post-post-irony incomprehensible bullshit, cool and care enjoy the jokey mental health advice like shadow the hedgehog telling you to check for dirty dishes, tide rolls his eyes at most memes but passionately nods in approval at marine biology shitposting, rhythm and pixel send each other increasingly niche memes about the soundchips in old consoles or cult classic rhythm games and have gotten to the point where nobody except them knows what the hell they're talking about anymore, and sweet doesn't understand any memes that aren't trying to sell you something

[david-watts]

4, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 20 (sorry it’s a lot)

never worry about asking me too much at once lmao!!

4. who is your least favourite doctor? why? I have actually been thinking about this recently and it's tough but I have to say four. I do really like quite a few serials in his era but it's also the stretch of the show where there really was a format that they stuck to and it's therefore my least favourite stretch of the show. it's like. to put my favourite doctors higher on the list I have to put doctors I still really like down at the bottom, y'know?

9. least favourite outfit of the doctor's? why? ten's outfit without the long trenchcoat is bland, tbh. eleven's is just strange enough that it doesn't feel like just quirky fashion of the time (though it would inspire quirky fashion of the time...) and I can't exactly fault nine's outfit because he was #goingthroughit but yeah I don't exactly have a least favourite I just have nitpicks

15. what is your favourite companion outfit? why? I would say steven taylor's outfit in the celestial toymaker because he's got the striped jumper that EVERYONE in 1965/66 had and I think it's fucking neat but uhhh I do have others. romana II's outfit in full circle is pretty neat. jamie in the war games where he's covering up the allegedly awful puffy shirt from the space pirates with a dark jacket is also a Look. we can't forget ace's jacket, either! last but not least is yates' outfit in planet of the spiders

16. who is your favourite doctor/companion duo? I do actually really enjoy the first doctor/steven in the massacre of st bartholomews' eve, and the fourth doctor/adric is also enjoyable for those few episodes. oh and seven with either mel or ace! oh and twelve and bill. yeah. can't forget new who exists now can I?

17. what is your favourite alien species? I do like the alpha centauri, and the ice warriors, but I have to say the alzarians are. the most interesting. *cough cough* they're descended from spiders and if adric in castrovalva is... let's say to be believed that means those spiders were capable of having dicks what the actual hell *cough cough*

18. what is your favourite alien planet? I want to know more about metebelis three. but that's only in a 'I want to concept more about metebelis three' way. I also like logopolis, because that's a very interesting place. I have also really loved akhaten ever since that episode broadcast

20. if you could change anything about the show, what would it be? I'd bring back serials. no more condensing a story into 45-50mins or at best an hour and a half resulting in lack of character development and worldbuilding you Must pad out the runtime to a minimum of two hours. also I'd like. have more things like the invasion of time. and I'd bring back the heavily synthesised style of title sequence no more orchestras and beat drops against the time vortex you're getting the doc's face floating in space and you're gonna like it (can you tell where I'm up to in my rewatch?)

I'd also like to mention that I do in fact have two dr who story ideas rattling about in my head; one is my oc keith's story, which I am willing to talk about because it's like my dream dr who story arc that I doubt will ever get made. but I am actually thinking of submitting my second idea at some point. I haven't actually written much of it beyond a vague concept outline because I would like to not only wait until after I've finished my degree for reasons of time but also learning, y'know? I'm also like. not that confident in my writing yet. I'll probably publish some other original work and get back into writing fanfiction just for the practice

anyway thanks for asking!! hope you don't mind my indecisive rambles