#I'm obsessed with them dfghjk

[dirkxcaliborn]

Last one but I need y’all to see Emerald Planet fornite dance cringe.

[suspendingtime]

Nine people I’d like to get to know better

Tagged by @hydriotaphia, @mimix007, and @thesherlockianwhojustcant (the versions done by the taggers were slightly different, so I've cobbled them into one).

Last song I listened to: I Guess by Lizzie McAlpine.

Favourite colour: Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue.

Currently watching: I've been watching Sanditon and rewatching Fallout most recently. And 'cause I took a while to do this; the second half of Bridgerton season 3 came out, so ofc I consumed that straight away. 😋

Sweet/savoury/spicy?: I'm gonna say sweet, that's what I want while I'm writing this.

Relationship Status: Unsingle.

Current obsession: Oh, tbh not much else apart from all the different fictional universes I'm constantly thinking about. I did recently redownload The Sims 2 (ultimate collection with all the expansion packs) for some nostalgia, and it took over my life for a lil bit, what a game (but now brainrot is getting in the way of that dfghjk).

Currently reading: No books ongoing atm. But I've been reading more poetry recently; an ongoing attempt at introspection (that feels so lame to say, but I'm trying to reject the self-cringe).

Last thing I googled: Two that were linked and done one after the other; "when was nail polish invented" and "when were sequins invented". My sister was asking me questions re Bridgerton's most recent costumes and nail choices, and surprisingly I didn't know the answer to these off the top of my head. 😅

💕 Tagging; going to tag some newer moots/those that I haven't tagged in a tag game before (absolutely no pressure) - @yelena-bellova, @bethccassidy, @pensbridgertons, @habibialkaysani, @crown-ov-horns, @corporalicent, @midnightrings, @claudiajessies, and @betweencomfortandchaos.

[ladytauria]

1, 7, 19, and 32 for the ask game please! ❤️❤️

aaah i forgot i hadn't answered this! i thought i had, whoops ^^;

i'm pretty sure these are from the weird asks for writers 🤔 so hopefully im right, lmao

1: What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

I use Crimson Pro; it's a free font I found on Google Fonts, lmao. However, I tend to cycle through fonts. One will capture my attention for a while and then I'll change it again. I do tend to prefer serif fonts at the moment, but I also had a phase where I wrote in nothing but Calibri!

That said, if I can't use my preferred font for whatever reason, I don't mind using either the default font or the closest one I can find in their offerings. The most important thing to me is generally paragraph spacing; I don't like trying to write with a wall of text, and I also don't like having to hit enter twice because I don't enjoy cleaning that up when I go to paste anywhere dfghjkl

7: What is your deepest joy about writing?

I looove when I come up with a satisfying turn of phrase or metaphor! Or just... playing with words in general; puzzling out how to describe things or how someone would phrase what I want them to say. This is also what I sometimes find the most difficult & exasperating too, though xD

19: Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

I've been writing since I was small. I remember using construction paper to make a picture book about a dog who---if I remember right?---became a superhero, lol. I also remember using a previous year's calendar to create a picture book as well; trying to find a narrative to string through the pictures they used for each month. (It was a horse calendar, if you're curious.)

I don't have either of those anymore, but.

However, I would say that my writing journey actually started when I was 10-11. My parents had set-up a family/kids computer in the living room, and I basically lived on it dfghjkl I started writing my first book. It wasn't great and the concept was ripped off from the Inheritance Cycle since I was obsessed with it at the time. The second was a little more original xD

Mm... And then a couple years later I was working on something different and decided to look for a place to post it. I found FanFiction.Net, which wasn't really the right place, but it DID get me started writing fic. And THEN after a few years of that I decided to seriously focus on original fiction again, because it's always been my dream to publish, lol.

Where am I now... I'm very happy with my writing voice. I can read over my stuff and only cringe at the occasional typo or wonky phrase, which is really nice. I'm still working toward getting published... in theory. I've been putting off revising/refining/rewriting my first draft, lmao.

32: What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

This is a hard one to answer 🤔 While I do tend to find phrases and such that I like, I don't know that I return to them specifically a lot. It's more a whole body of work dfghjk

Hmm...

Oh! Okay. So, I used to read a lot of fanfic for the anime Ghost Hunt. And there's this one fic, Beneath the Lilac Tree, which has a scene in it that I just ADORE. Two brothers, twins, are eating dinner together at a hotel and as they're conversing, they---switch plates? Offer the other food off their plate? It's been a while and I don't remember the specific action BUT it stuck with me? And I think about it all the time. It struck me as just this lovely moment of familiarity and intimacy, and I remember coming back to that fic and rereading it a lot, in part for that scene xD

Thank you so much for asking!!

[fabdante]

omgomgomg it's too hard to choose but

The One Were Kat Gets To Yell At Vergil (DmC)

The Mai/Jet dream captivated me (Atla/Mai and Jet)

these two immediately caught my attention!!

Also, +bonus wildcard because meta WIPs is genius why didn't I think of that!!!

Essay no one asked for on spiderverse and grief mostly because I'm obsessed with the black out kingpin causes

(you certainly know much more about this topic than i do but I'm curious regardless lmao)

hello my beloved friend!! thank you for sending this ask with so many wips this delights me dfghjk i will go through them one by one!! (link to the WIP game here!)

I'll try to keep the excerpts short since there's three of them even if I'm very excited about all three of these dfghjk

The One Where Kat Gets To Yell At Vergil (DmC)

Ok so this one is a rework of an old wip. It's not an edited version it's just like a whole new version because I liked the fic and wanted to do it again sdfghj. I love post game Verat, the emotions and drama are so high with those two.

I wanted to share a bit of the part that I started this fic for but I cut out the lines I specifically wrote it for mostly because I was trying to find a nice end point of the excerpt fghjk so here you go:

“I spent the last five years worried all I ever was to you was useful,” she says, “and then you stand there at the end of the world and you call me useful.” He’s taking up too much space to look at her like he does, small and sorry. Because he knows what he’s done is unforgivable. But he doesn’t waver, Vergil’s gaze always on her and unmoving. And Kat…Kat laughs. Bitter and miserable, fixated on one corner of the room before looking at him. Wild. Angry. Hurt. It almost makes him flinch, the weight of the accusations in her gaze. “I almost died for you,” she says. “I was ready to let myself get shot for your plan because I thought it was for the best. That’s what we all thought! People are dead for you that I cared about! That I knew and cared about and they’re just dead now.” He swallows. “But I didn’t die, I get to live and know that all of them fucking died so you could try and become god king. Because of course Vergil DiAngelo wants to be king. Freeing mankind isn’t enough for him!”

The Mai/Jet dream captivated me (ATLA/Mai and Jet)

So I had this dream like last year unprompted about Jet and Mai. I don't even remember the context anymore dfghjkl I can't recall if it was within a Zutara dream I was having or another dream I was having or if I'd dreamed up the whole plot? No idea, can't remember.

What I do know is it caused me to write this whole fan fic around the concept because I am in love with them this is a slept on dynamic I think sadfghjk here's an excerpt from the beginning which gives some backstory:

Mai think’s she handles the three random strange Earth Kingdom kids who bust through her bedroom door in ill-fitting work uniforms pretty well. She asks, expression unchanging, “and who are you supposed to be?” And the tallest, proudest, with a smug grin on his face and down turned brows takes a step closer, then two as he reveals a knife. Mai immediately considers four separate ways she can disarm him, and does not move her eyes from him. He says to her, “we’re the Freedom Fighters, and we’re here to kidnap you.” “Oh thank Agni.” It’s…clearly not the response they expected.

Essay no one asked for on spiderverse and grief mostly because i'm obsessed with the black out kingpin causes

I'm OBSESSED with Kingpins design from Spiderverse like it's just SO SMART ok like its BRILLIANT like I love grief narratives we know that we know that on fabdante.tumblr.com we love a grief narrative and my favorite thing about Spiderverse is this focus on the Spiderman story as a grief narrative which it always has been but sometimes that grief narrative can get a bit lost where as in Spiderverse it's sort of the center of it the center of it is grief and the pain of that grief and what we do with that grief.

This essay was one I was going to kind of ignore for a while, ngl, but then I saw someone read Miguels whole thing from the second movie as like capitalist? Which I mean who am I to argue how one reads the story, if that's how you read the story then I fully support ones right to read Spiderverse as a narrative on capitalism like I mean that's a fair read.

However it refilled my interest in analyzing Spiderverse as a grief narrative asdfghj because look I love a grief narrative I love a grief narrative and Spiderverse is such a good grief narrative. Here's an excerpt (also apologies it's the least polished thing here because I mostly started it to get out these thoughts dfghjk):

Every time Spiderverse Kingpin enters the frame we are consumed by him. Now, this is typical of his character design across media. But in Spiderverse, this is amplified by the choice to dress him in black. He not only takes up large portions of the screen or even all of it at times, you cannot see past him. He’s even lost in the black, a small head and hands and peaks of the white of his shirt just surrounded by the blackness of his suit. He’s dressed for a funeral. Formal, black clothes, black tie, clean and pressed. And this is what’s so brilliant about it because every time we see Kingpin, we are not only seeing him but we are confronted by his grief. We are forced to see it. And he exists within it, drowns within it, is consumed by it.

I really need to get back to this essay I feel very strongly about Kingpins design in Spiderverse and Spiderverse as a grief narrative dfghjkl

Thank you again my friend I hope you enjoy these!!

[caroll-in]

Self-Rec Saturday Sunday

Thank you for tagging me, @tackytigerfic, it's so nice of you to include artists in this tag game too! Y'all, make sure to check out Tacky's list HERE 🙌💕

This thing made me realize just how many pics and comics I created throughout my blogging years - it was actually a bit hard to choose my own 5 favorite pieces, but as for today those would be:

drarry pirate!au for @onbeinganangel - my latest pic that I'm self-reccing all over the place but I'm honestly so happy how it turned out that I can't help myself, I hope you will forgive me and indulge this recent pirate obsession of mine some more...

2. ginsy pic for @pineau-noir - it was my first try with no-lineart pic and I loved the result and the process so much I started to do such pieces more often.

3. Just The Way You Are - a Parvati/Lavender/Greg comic I drew for HP Triad!Fest 2022, which happened to be another experiment as I told it without any traditional dialogue.

4. Poetry Smash! fanart - a piece which is over 3 years old now and yet I'm still so impossibly fond of it. In my les mis times my main ship was ExR but it's those guys that continue to live rent-free in my heart to this day and I'm hoping to draw them again sometime soon (hey @pilferingapples, how are you doing, co-captain? dfghjk)

5. Who Do You Call Old - a drarry comic I drew for Erised 2018 - it was my first drarry fest and my first comic that turned out this long and detailed which made me realize that I might not know how to write fics but I can share a story with you all anyway.

no pressure tags to share their own five favourite works for @slytherco @fomalhaut89 @klayr-de-gall @dragontamerdame @maria-tries @reebeex @elyonblackstar @lilbeanz @julcheninred @yasever-art @babooshkart and any of you who'd like to join, consider this your blanket tag 💖

[butchlilith]

it's me again -and i'm so sorry for crowding your inbox- but i read 'synchronicity' this morning and ended up in tears. i could go on and on about how beautiful it is and how much i love your minute changes to the plot to accommodate niles being a lesbian (her secret-ish relationship to maris, moving in with mel instead of eloping, her giddiness at going on a 'proper' first date etc.)- there's just so much i adored? but i don't want to drown you in asks so i'll just pick out (1/?)

posting remaining messages and my response under a cut in order to avoid congesting anyone’s dashboard while also satisfying my (possibly somewhat vain) desire to preserve this heartwarming message forever. the tl;dr of my reply is that i am very grateful and touched

a couple things that really stuck with me. first, the flowers! i know this is a running theme in your lesbian niles series but it’s just so in character i’m surprised it was never a thing in the show. the scene where niles and daphne compare each other’s reading notes was so /so/ lovely, and such a soft way to bridge the gap between their respective interests. also, how could i not mention the first time daphne wears a suit and stands next to niles in the mirror. (2/5)

the amount of internalised shame versus longing drove me a little insane.. all the mentions of billy and his final interaction with niles were of course wonderful, and something i so wish would have happened on the show. on a lighter note, i’m always here for niles and daph making gentle fun of frasier for being so, so closeted he doesn’t even realise he is. unrelated, but it never crossed my mind that niles would probably be roped into bridesmaids duty, but /ouch/. (3/5)

and that allowed for that heartbreaking addition of niles doing daphne’s hair just before the ceremony - the whole ‘promise’ motif really broke me. oh, and i was surprised (in a good way) by daphne’s appearance reversal (going back to brunette, chokers and all that)- i thought it was a nice foray into daphne’s psyche that’s often overlooked by the show. okay, before i wrap up -i swear i will eventually- i just wanted to write a small aside about mel and lilith (4/5)

because i’m obsessed with what you did with them. i mean i genuinely liked mel -she wasn’t nice, but she was interesting- and i’m so glad you had niles genuinely care for her. (her past with daphne was another great touch.) and lilith? wow. i love the subtlety with which you mentioned her, and that last touch about massachusetts was so soft/unexpected/in character- well, that’s when the tears came in. i want so much more of discreetly emotional lilith (5/6, oops)

interacting/befriending niles and daphne. being open and happy and loving in her own (slightly awkward) way. anyway that’s about it…feel free to post these/answer them privately/ignore them, i don’t mind either way- i just wanted to thank you again. :) oh, and as a fellow second-person narration user, i think you did such a great job!! thank you thank you thank you xx

ahhh thank you thank you i feel so seen by these messages sdfghjkl it truly is so kind of you and everything you commented on is so dear to me… :’-)) i will try and spare everyone my line-by-line commentary but i do want to casually talk about some of these things because it makes me so happy dfghjk

i mean… honestly not to be self obsessed but i also sometimes forget that the flowers thing is not actually something from canon and that i did in fact just decide that it was true for myself. choices.

i’m also SO glad you appreciated my characterization of mel and lilith whom i adore.. i’m a big believer in the whole “you can love multiple people in your lifetime and even if it’s not always what’s best it’s still real” thing and i also happen to be… hideously enamored of mel. and well. we know how i feel about lilith. the immense love she holds for the people dear to her even if it isn’t expressed in the most overt way… i cry. i actually think that one of my first posts on here was like “daphne/niles/lilith friendship when” and honestly? i was right.

thank you again god this truly made mine life and you should absolutely never apologize for crowding my inbox my heart has truly, grinchlike, grown three sizes this day