#Now that Im writing I actually have to pay attention to the timeline lol

[bunny-kisser]

I finally sat down and did the timeline math, girl Gus is almost twice Rivera's age 😭

At the time of BCS season one Rivera is 24 and Gus is 46. At the time of Gus' canon death Rivera is 29 and Gus is 51.

Some other little notes about age: Rivera is 4 years older than Jesse, 7 years younger than Domingo, 6 years younger than Nacho, and the same age as his cousin Emilio Koyama (headcanon, Emilio does not have a canon age)

Me: They do not even have that large of an age gap

Gus: [Literally became a general of a dictatorial regime before Rivera was even born]

[lostshots]

thoughts on shadow generation

now that im done playing the story here are some of my thoughts:

the cut scenes are so good, although the detail on the model's fur/texture is a bit distracting (it's not a bad thing)

the flavour text is great! we get to see some insight on maria's and shadow's relationship on the ark, as well as the other characters relationship towards shadow

maybe it's the fact that this is my 2nd sonic game, but it's boring that all enemies have the same attack pattern: staying still until you come closer, then they shoot projectiles

hades 2 spoiled me for combat lol

it's so nice to see shadowing emoting again

i approve this game for people awful at platformers (signed by me, a person who sucks at them)

its really easy to fall off the ledge or miss homing shots at enemies/bounce pads if you arent paying attention

removing lives is handy

there were some areas i couldnt find, so i had to use a walkthrough just to get back to mephiles' area once i had all the keys

actually i fell off the path going to the black moon, so i had recollect rings and figure out how to get back up there again. not fun

i spent so long on the last phase of neo devil doom bc i kept running out of rings

sucks there's no checkpoint for that, but it is the final boss

would have been cool to see shadow introduce his friends to his family, but time paradox i guess

wish the doom morph could be activated at will so i can show maria squidow

actually rouge not commenting on his wings is a missed moment (dont think i saw mention of it in the compilations)

There are a lot of callbacks and references to past events

The anniversary manga is one of them (shadows name origin)

Shadow and Maria's relationship is a standout

some speculation:

Sad that shadow probably ended worse off emotionally at the end of it

if the timeline is intact, gerald probably died enraged at shadow too, since even his past fatherly feelings didnt stop him from writing over shadow's mind

there's no way they wouldnt expand on maria's little sister since they added her in

they probably dont know about ivo/eggman since there's no mention of him in the journals, and maria doesnt mention cousins

so eggman might have been born after the ark tragedy

which makes it funnier that shadow will be older than eggman, and his adoptive uncle

someone else mentioned it, but it's surprising that they deconfirmed the mural theory, since gerald respected the land too much to explore it or see the master emerald shrine

maria mentioned being surprised that he popped out as a hedgehog, and gerald's journal just calls him a sturdy biped. which means the species was not planned

so shadow really is a black arms in the shape of a hedgehog

there goes the theory that there's a hedgehog donor out there

would have been funny if it was a male hedgehog that donated some samples

then shadow gets 3 dads yay

actually would gerald go far enough to use maria's DNA to create shadow? for the gene compatibility if he managed to remove some of the markers for NIDs?

the manga showed blood transfusion, and that would only work if he had a suitable blood type

apparently it is possible for animal blood to be used in transfusion, just not worth it bc of antibodies?

someone who knows about biology correct me, i just did a quick google search

that would make shadow a black arms/human/hedgehog hybrid (if hedgehog dna was even used)

overall, very fun, and the main story can be completed in 6 hours.

now let's see if i can finish all the achievements after beating sonic gens...

[boycritter]

can you explain your most recent poem? i like it but i don’t really get it lol

ohhhh okay. holy shit you have no idea how happy this makes me. idk how in depth you want me to go. but i’m going in depth. i know there’s not like separate stanzas or anything in this poem but in my head there’s chunks it’s split into. overall this poem is about not really knowing who you are or what you’re doing (i’m 17 so all my poems are kind of about this at least a little bit). it’s about uncertainty and loneliness and trying to make something (a place, a life) for yourself when everything feels like so much.

so the first few lines ‘in this one im a cumulonimbus cloud. in this one im mango juice. theres a world where i supernova and one where i pitch drop’ are kinda setting the themes for the poem. like the objects im gonna use to convey the message as well a kinda overarching theme of unstable identity/endless possibilities. and then the supernova/pitch drop part is smth im really proud of i like that a lot :3 idk if you’re familiar with the pitch drop experiment but basically it’s a super super slow moving liquid and people are trying to see when a drop will fall. (a few drops have fallen but no one’s seen them it’s a whole thing you should look it up :3). so that line is saying there’s a timeline in which i burn myself out in a super destructive way and one where i take it slow. and then ‘pitch drop’ is also a reference to testosterone voice changes lol. so there’s a timeline where i live my true life and take it slow.

and then the next part is ‘i cried planck epoch and nothing came running and i cried planck epoch and all my protons were so lonely and i cried planck epoch and all my sheep died anyway. i cried mango juice and the universe hugged me tighter.’ which is using the double meaning of cry as yelling/tears. and it’s an allusion to the boy who cried wolf where i’m saying something is happening but no one’s even paying attention. disclaimer i am not an expert on the physics of the beginning of the universe. like at all. but basically the planck epoch was the first 10^-43 seconds of the universe when everything was super super hot and super super condensed. so i’m saying this is happening and no one’s listening, and even when everything is happening and i’m objectively not isolated but i still feel like i am. and then the crying mango juice part is using the other meaning of cry, and the universe hugging tighter is also planck epoch stuff.

the next chunk is ‘i rained fractals and the dirt sang ion. my electrons touch anything they can get their hands on.’ i like this part :3 the raining fractals is just a mess of uncertainties, bc that’s what fractals are yknow!! the singing ion part is also fun, bc obviously ions are particles and sound is a wave, so it’s a little paradoxical :3 and also i didn’t want a later line to feel so out of place. the second sentence kinda calls back to the ‘i cried planck epoch and all my protons were so lonely’. bc while our nuclei are so so tiny in terms of the entire atom and will likely never touch another nuclei, our electrons are constantly interacting with other atoms electrons. so it’s meant to be saying like. i’m lonely and i’m trying to fix that. somehow. in some way.

the last chunk is the biggest one and also the one inspired by smth @/green-cargaytions wrote and sent me which isn’t posted anywhere but i still need to hype up their writing skills bc it’s insane it’s actually bonkers. anyways. ‘once i tried to derive a function for the meaning of it all and my paper fissioned love and jazz quartet. some infinities are bigger than other infinities and i used to think that was blaspheme but now i think id like to make it idolatry. and i think id like to be one of the smaller infinities. i think i’d like to be closer to it all.’ so the first part is about the intersection between math and science and music bc i’m insane about stuff like that. but also, i tried to find a formula to fix my uncertainty. and it didn’t work. and my paper broke apart. which basically says that you don’t know what you’re gonna do. and you don’t have to know. you can’t know. but in the meantime, you have to love what’s around you and you have to appreciate art. the fact that some infinities are bigger than other infinities is also something i’m obsessed with. and i personally never found it blasphemous lol but when georg cantor introduced that notion people definitely thought it was. because the only infinity is g-d. and idolatry is also blasphemous. but i like the juxtaposition of synonyms. idk how to put this part into words exactly </3 and then the last part is kind of saying. there’s so much uncertainty and instability in the world. and isolating yourself isn’t the answer. you gotta just live life and try not to worry too much. which easier said than done obviously lol but. still. it’s about coming into your body and out of your head. at least a little bit.

anyways this is probably one of my favorite things i’ve ever written and now i get to talk about my thoughts on it. i love this i love writing essays on my own work thank you so much ^-^

[dullweapons]

okay so since there are a few hylia’s ( i can count about four ? 2 new & 2 from mutuals on side blogs or side muses … im sure there will be more , hell i wanna write a hylia too lol ) so imma write out how ray actually feels about hylia as clear as i can . i don’t really have a problem with hylia myself ? my only problem with her is her being added late into the games but skyward sword is old like me now so im over it . ( i do dislike that we just forgot demise but imma pretend he’s still here hush— @harbingered for my demise 👀 i will pay attention to him i swear )

ray HATES hylia . perhaps the most out of the gods & deities of the world . he curses her & blames her for a lot of things even when she clearly isn’t to blame . he uses her like a scapegoat . someone to point the anger he feels at when there is no one else to blame but himself . he’ll blame her for the troubles zelda goes through , or link or even ganondorf . because he knows hylia . seen her . felt the sting of her magic . saw her bring up the humans to their safe haven in the sky & leave him down there . she didn’t care .

as a child he was taught to worship hylia, as all the children of skyloft settlement were. his family had small statues of her that they gave offerings too . he would pray to her just as his mother told him to . so he was fine with her … maybe a touch annoyed — but that was mostly towards his mother being quite religious & making him repeat hail hylia when he was naughty ( which was often af )

upon being forced into the ancient battle ; his views were forcibly shifted by his father . not by any commands but more due to his father talking about how hylia cares not for him nor any other demons . lamatar believes demise would do right by the demons & monsters ( was that true ? who knows ) . he would beat this idea into ayrin until he began to think it himself .

“ hylia doesn’t care about me. if she did, she would’ve stopped me from joining this war . she wouldn’t have me here …mama says hylia loves us all but no one loves me. she doesn’t either .”

continuing on, ayrin was stuck by the goddess blade causing a horrible scar that glows similarly to TP! ganondorf’s scar. due to it being a holy blade , it couldn’t go away as easily as death or other wounds for the demonic weapon & he was out of battle for weeks. ( visual ref of rays scar here ! ) i have been debating it be hylia who struck him , but it can just be the first link . regardless , he sat there — scared & angry , not just because he failed his father , but hylia hurt . her blade hurts so so much . hylia is pain .

further down the timeline ; he continues to see princesses & queens struggle with their magic or are forced into horrible situations of the cycle born of demise . he sees link , so young forced into battle & losing his childhood only to become a shell . he’s seen ganondorf turned into a monster of anger & greed for what was once a king has become nothing but a pig . if hylia stayed a god perhaps things would be different . perhaps not . regardless, he blames them all : the golden goddesses , hylia & demise . none of them are free from his hate .

but hylia worship has grown strong again by botw & by then — he is a tired , cynical old man . he works hard to make sure his solders are ready for the war that is coming against calamity ganon . he sees the princess struggle to awaken her powers . he scoffs at her & wonders if the blood of the goddess is finally gone from tainting the royal family.

& he prayed to hylia to save them from the calamity when the calamity came & took over all the sheikah technology & his men died trying to get to akkala .

& she did not answer .

so for the hylia rpers i totally understand if you’re like “ damn he a hater idk if i wanna interact “ because he’s never ever gonna warm up to her . also if you wish to discuss what happened between them during the ancient battle please feel free to DM me ! my default does not need to be canon minus 1: ayrin / bby ray going to the war & 2: ray being struck goddess blade . those two are the only requirements — im flexible with anything !

[transexualpirate]

spoilers ahead. also if you liked the movie maybe don't read this im just straight up bashing it. it's only slightly under average as a movie on it's own but when compared to the actual megamind movie it's utter trash tbh specially with the amount of inconsistencies from the first one. it's like the writers forgot they were supposed to watch the first movie before writing the second. sorry my english is gonna be the worse it's ever been im too angry to translate things correctly

here are my notes taken as i was watching it:

his face is wrong cape is different

WE HAD A WHOLE PLOT ABOUT HIM LEARNING TO APPRECIATE MINION LAST MOVIE. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS AGAIN EXCEPT WORSE. WHY ARE THEY MAKING HIM BE AN ACTUAL PIECE OF SHIT TO MINION

they changed minion's name because of a "copyright problem", or so minion said. unfortunately i will keep deadnaming him. who the fuck is ol' chum. i dont know him

"the bad old days were just two days ago" HUH???? NO THEY WEREN'T. IN THE SHORT STORY RELEASED FOR HALLOWEEN WHEN THE WHOLE DOOM BUTTON THING HAPPENS THEY SAY THAT HIS FIGHT WITH TIGHTEN WAS JUST WEEKS AGO. UNLESS YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS MOVIE HAPPENS BEFORE THAT BUT THAT ALSO DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE HE CALLS MINION "MINION" AND NOT THAT CHUM BULLSHIT. SO WHAT THE FUCK

while we're on the topic of messed up timelines, if this happened just two days after the fight, then they're still in 2010's. why the fuck is there a child influencer

keiko is so annoying she's supposed to represent an youtuber or something and she's the president of the megamind fanclub (which is also weird because she says she has been that for weeks now but didn't he supposedly turn good two days ago? and he was notorious for having a bad reputation and being hated by the public before that. so what the hell)

the thing that's bothering me the most however is right in the beginning of his monologue he says he thought his destiny was to be evil, turns out his destiny was to be good all along. NO. THAT IS NOT THE MORAL OF THE MOVIE. THAT ISN'T WHAT HAPPENS AT ALL. HE SAYS IT HIMSELF AT ENDING OF THE FIRST MOVIE THAT HE THINKS YOUR DESTINY IS WHATEVER YOU MAKE OF IT. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS DESTINY. NOTHING IS SET IN STONE. YOU'RE FREE TO BE WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE. THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE MORAL AND THEY WERE JUST LIKE "LOL NO ACTUALLY,"

he went to "villain shool"??? he had a "MENTORSHIP PROGRAM" IN "VILLAIN SHOOL"???? THERE'S NO VILLAIN SCHOOL YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS ISN'T MONSTER HIGH GIRL WHAT

"i always thought there was romantic tension between blue man and pretty lady" "what, really? no way" ROXANNE. MEGS. LOOK ME IN THE EYES. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IM SAYING. ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME. YOU KISSED. TONGUE AND ALL. REMEMBER THAT? WHEN YOU GUYS WENT ON A DATE AND THEN YOU KISSED AND THEN YOU FOUGHT AND THEN YOU HELPED EACH OTHER AGAIN WHEN DEFEATING TIGHTEN? AND THEN YOU KISSED HIS CHEEK IN NATIONAL TELEVISION? GUYS THAT WAS (supposedly) JUST TWO DAYS AGO DO YOU NEED HELP

"no way" GIRL WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HE SAID YOU WERE HIS REASON TO KEEP FIGHTING ARE YOU GETTING DEMENTIA

megamind can't operate a toaster. megamind can't operate a toaster. you know the super genius that builds giant robots for fun? the guy that extracted alien dna from dandruff and gave someone super powers? the guy that invented the dehydration gun? yeah. he didn't know the toaster had to be plugged in to work. and when roxanne did it for him he referred to it as sorcery. because he's not only a fucking asshole now he's also stupid and magically forgot everything he knew

"megamind was the founding member and leader of the doom syndicate" FOUNDING MEMBER? LEADER? THIS ANTISOCIAL OUTCAST SOCIALLY ANXIOUS FUCKING ALIEN RAISED IN A LITERAL PRISON? FOUNDED AND LEAD THE SYNDICATE. RIGHT. SURE. AND HE GAVE UP ON THEM BECAUSE HE "DIDN'T WANT TO SHARE THE SPOTLIGHT". BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF HIS BACKSTORY THAT HE WAS ALWAYS UTTERLY ALONE AND ISOLATED.

dude why are they making him the world's biggest asshole where did the CHARISMA GO

they made roxanne become the mayor of metrocity. she's an INVESTIGADOR. but you know what seeing the big picture roxanne becoming mayor is like not even that crazy. it's just. out of character

keiko is still absolutely insufferable it's like she's written to be the most annoying person ever all her fucking lines are like nails on a chalkboard

they really dumbed megamind down like he's literally useless now he can't do anything on his own anymore (NOT EVEN TOAST.) like they saw the "dramatic flamboyant super intelligent super villain is secretly pathetic and lonely" and said "how about we just keep the dramatic and the pathetic and throw everything else away? it's not like this is a well constructed famous and widely loved character or anything"

ATTACKING THE SYNDICATE ???? WITH TENNIS BALLS???????? AND THEY ACTED LIKE THAT WAS SOME MAJOR GENIUS MOVE BRO THAT IS A FOUR FOOT CREATURE MADE OUT OF LAVA WHY IS HE SCARED OF TENNIS BALLS THEY TOOK THIS "FOR CHILDREN" THING FAR TOO SERIOUSLY

positive point: roxanne saving megamind and him calling her "my hero" <3 that was adorable that made me movie at least 30% more watchable

the ending monologue where he says he "finally learned the difference between good and evil" made it 40% less watchable WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? IS THAT WHAT THE MOVIE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT? IS THAT THE FUCKING MORAL? WHY WASN'T IT MENTIONED OR IMPLIED ANYWHERE. NOWHERE IN THIS MOVIE WAS IT EVEN SO MUCH AS HINTED AT MEGAMIND NOT BEING ABLE TO TELL GOOD AND EVIL APART. IN THE FIRST ONE SURE BUT IN THIS ONE? AT ANY POINT HE SAID ANYTHING OF THE SORT. AND HOW DID HE LEARN THAT ANYWAYS??? WHAT WAS HIS BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT WHEN HE FINALLY MAGICALLY LEARNED SOMETHING HE ALREADY KNEW? WAS IT WHEN HE GAVE UP AND DECIDED TO WEAR A FAKE BEARD AND PRETEND TO BE HOMELESS SO PEOPLE WOULD LEAVE HIM ALONE? OR WAS IT WHEN HE DECIDED TO ATTACK A FUCKING EVIL VERSION OF STORM FROM X MEN WITH TENNIS BALLS? AND WHAT KIND OF FUCKING LESSON EVEN IS THAT BTW. "TELLING GOOD APART FROM EVIL"?????? WHAT KIND OF FUCKING PREMISE IS THAT JUST RUB A FEW BRAINCELLS TOGETHER AND YOU CAN DO IT

keiko being an actual fucking child and megamind promising to teach her "crime fighting" was weird and bad but it's not the most out of character thing he's done so whatever

DANCE OFF SEQUENCE????? A FUCKING. DANCE OFF SCENE. A DANCE BATTLE. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS WATCHING FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SORRY

mr nighty knight could get it

THREE TIMES in the movie someone broke out of jail and NOT ONCE we saw the warden or even tighten who was supposed to be in jail. WHERE IS MEGAMIND AND MINION'S DAD HUH. WHERE'S THE WARDEN

no mention to musicman either which is a waste imo but not the worse thing by far so whatever

every roxanne&keiko interaction felt like a tik tok comment section. too many unironic "you got this, girl!" and "you go, girl"s

i need to lay down for a while

now if you'll excuse me im gonna rewatch the first one. for mental health reasons.

i finished megamind 2 and honestly i was so much happier before. why did i do this to myself. why did they do this to my boy

[corancoranthemagicalman]

C’s Sort Of Bi-Monthly Rec List

Guest Starring WITCHER FICS (and by Witcher I mean Geraskier,,, whoops,,,)

I’m gonna tag @protectjaskier in this because they were asking for Fic Recs and I’ve been meaning to post a Big Ol’ Fic Rec Masterpost.

i’ll be here all week T+ 2.7k by Pence ( @phckpence on Twitter )

A beautiful fix-it fic with an open ending that leaves the reading very hopeful. No kissies, unfortunately, but sometimes that smile is just as sweet a sign of affection. This was actually my first bookmarked fic!! Really well done. Non AU

His Touch M 6.2k by Sevent ( @seventfics on Tumblr )

Some beautifully done Hurt/Comfort touch-Starved!Geralt. Excellent pacing with some wonderfully executed Roach and Jaskier friendship. There are some great characterizations done in both dialogue and monologue. Non AU

front row praises E 25k by The_Watchers_Crown 

You might THINK this is just my horny on main recommendation (which it is, partially) but it’s ALSO super friggin’ soft and heart-warming. I don’t want to spoil anything, but it’s got one of the most gut-punching lines that makes my knees weak. SPOILER: it goes something like, "I don’t like riding away any more than you like watching me go.” Non AU

Honey You’re Familiar T+ 10.2k by WednesdaysDaughter ( @sweetambiguity on Tumblr )

Okay, I’m gonna blast out WednesdaysDaughter as one of my favorite Geraskier fic writers. I just now followed their Tumblr as I was writing this up. Amazingly talented and very sweet. AnYWAYS! This fic is the amnesia fic I didn’t know I wanted. Very well done with good friendships and pining. Non AU

Rules And Regulations T+ 5.4k by ohmygoshwhatascream

Another Jaskier and Roach friendship feature. The horse is actually a metaphor for love, just like the tag says. A really well-done fic that plays to all of my favorite characterizations and relationships. Non AU

Truth and Roses T+ 4.4k by dornfelder ( @uniwolfwerecorn on Tumblr)

VERY SAD. UNREQUITED LOVE. PINING IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. MURDER OF MY HEART. But very well done. I usually don’t recommend anything but Happy Ending fics because I don’t read anything but Happy Endings; however, this is the one exception I can think of off-hand. Non AU

A Rotten Tongue T+ 9.2k by xdandelionxbloomx ( @xdandelionxbloomx on Tumblr)

Yet another Geraskier Author I highly recommend. (I probably would recommend more but I am so, so bad at names.) This is one of my favorite Banshee!Jaskier fics though!! One of my favorite Creature!Jaskier headcanons done in exceedingly high fashion. Bravo. Non AU save for Jaskier isn’t human

home is nowhere, therefore you E 18.1k by Ark ( @et-in-arkadia on Tumblr )

I’mma be honest. This is one of my favorites. I’ve read it three times. So, so, so well done. Excellent use of Fae-lore and fairy tale elements. Of course, that E tag is telling of some very steamy times as well. So you can have your cake and eat it too. Non AU

The Witcher Wolf T+ 11.4k by im_fairly_witty ( @im-fairly-whitty on Tumblr)

Curses and True Love meet in this excellent Hurt/Comfort fic. Jaskier’s heart has a lot of wounds and maybe this strange and beautiful wolf can help him out. Really, just an all around excellent use of the curse and wonderful take on Jaskier’s character. (And the other characters too!) Non AU

Horse Sense M 17.6k by Miershooptier

Another fic with Roach as a main character. Need I say more? Jaskier and Roach always have such a beautiful relationship as depicted by the fandom. I greedily take all of them. Non AU

Of soulmarks and one-sided matches T+ 17.2k by ylc

SOULMATES! One of my favorite soulmates. It’s words written on skin soulmates and it’s just,,, very lovely. Very well done. Lots of pining and I love it. Soulmate AU but it takes place in a very Witcher��‘verse so?

Truth of The Heart M 22.3k by CosmicOcelot

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE WARNINGS. There is plenty implied noncon and that might make ya iffy. If you can get past the tags, this is DEFINITELY one of my favorites. Excellent storytelling that’s reminiscent of the show’s unusual timeline presentation while still being easy to follow along. It’s gonna hurt before it gets better, but it is well worth it. Non AU

500 Crowns M 9k by vands88

Here’s the thing. This fic is Established Relationship and yet We’re Sort Of Fucking Each Other But Don’t Talk About It So Here We Are. I love it. Geraskier is like the main focus but there’s still a beautiful use of Found Family and Ciri as a really good character in this. I’ve seen it be rec’d by a few people and it definitely deserves it. Bravo job. Non AU

tounges tied M 14.4k by gwynnbleidd (imnotokiedokey)

I haven’t had a language kink like this since Game of Thrones. (Thanks, David. Peterson.) Very very amazingly done fic with awesome characterizations of Jaskier, Geralt, and the scenarios in which they find themselves in. The second chapter has the in-text quotations which lowkey wish I had known before reading the first chapter and linking to each translation, but it was all definitely worth it and the second chapter made me read it again. Non AU

a kind of emptiness E 1.3k by iven ( @summoning on Tumblr )

This is the fic that introduced me to the possibilities of Chireadan and Jaskier. Another bittersweet ending but I really liked it. Bravo. Non AU

My Heart Is Growing Weak T+ 5k by WednesdaysDaughter (I told you I liked this author)

We all wanted a fic based off that similar mythos that Pirates of the Caribbean did with a heart in a jar and this fic delivered. Happy Endings, promise. Non AU

Do It Again E 6.7k by thisgirlsays22 ( @geralt-jaskier on Tumblr )

Time Loops? Time Loops. I usually don’t like time loops. I don’t like time travel and I’m very picky. HOWEVER, this one definitely deserves a top spot on the list. Geralt has to relive the three days of the Dragon Hunt and realizes a few things. (Done for Day 5 of Geraskier Week. I don’t know if I missed any of these other ones being a part of that. Whoops.) Non AU

How To Protect Your Bard T+ 5.4k by bulletincookie

ACCIDENTAL COURTING FIC. ACCIDENTAL COURTING FIC. ACCIDENTAL COURTING FIC. Do I need to say more than that?? Really?? How about disgruntled Geralt being protective and Jaskier being romantic? Yeah? Yeah. Non AU

Broken Lute G 4.6k by CasuallyScreaming ( @casuallyscreaming on Tumblr )

Fix-It Fic. This one has some gorgeous dialogue. I literally started rec’ing it after the first line Geralt spoke. Very excellent. Bravo. Non AU

I’ve got a few more bookmarked that are all excellent which you can find in my bookmarks. If you look through my #geraskier on my blog too you can find some Tumblr only fics that I’ve reblogged. Those are also extremely good. I should probably start tagging with #geraskier fic or something to consolidate them lol. Anyways, big thank you to the Geraskier Fandom for some amazing  fics. 

[bigskydreaming]

I dont want to intrude on your convo with your friend but I've been reading all your posts about your changelings verse since you started making them. Is the Alicia you mentioned next to Boyd in the poart about the changeling market meant to be Boyd's little sister from TW? What's her change, if you don't mind telling??

LOL no worries, and you’re not intruding, I don’t mind comments or weighing in on any post I make ever, unless its specifically under a cut and I’m like ‘plz dont reblog Im gonna delete this in ten minutes anyway, IM JUST HAVING A MOMENT OKAY’ lolol.

So yeah, you’re fine, and if you follow me because of TW which you obvsly know well enough to recognize Alicia’s name, you probably know how much I love exploring minor or barely ever used characters, haha. Alicia Boyd is no exception and I have a ridiculous number of headcanons and places I’ve used her in various unposted WIPs considering that she made all of one appearance on the show and it was a hallucination/flashback. BUT WHATEVER.

Anyway, Alicia’s Change is one of my faves, and given that she’s such a barely there presence in TW, she’s a character I’m pretty comfortable keeping just as she is in my TW changeling headcanons, when writing the official ‘to be published’ stuff in this ‘verse. 

All Changelings’ physical changes and magic are in some way related to their personalities and individual traits, even if that connection isn’t immediately obvious. And even though the Changelings are supernatural in origin, given that their magic reflects who they are and who they are is a product of a 21st century modern society, I wanted some of them to have changes and magic that seems in some ways almost sci-fi or technology based, even while still definitively being magic at its source.

So for no particular reason other than just its my head, I’ll headcanon what I want, I’ve always pictured Alicia as a STEM girl, very much into science and math, and her change and magic ties into that.

Basically, she looks just like she did before she was Changed, so she’s a fourteen year old black girl who’s just a slightly older version of the character we saw briefly on TW….except for the fact that she’s at all times surrounded by what appear to be like…ghostly versions of herself.

Like, at any given time there’s a half dozen to a dozen different versions of herself, totally intangible and somewhat faded/transparent like a photo that hasn’t been fully developed….and they’re all ‘orbiting’ her, for lack of a better term….kinda like the electrons of an atom orbit it.

And these other versions of herself all look slightly different upon closer inspection - different hairstyles, clothing, a couple have glasses, etc….and some appear like they’re floating in mid-air, others like their feet are sinking into the ground….and most of them usually look like they’re just hovering or flickering around Alicia like half-formed images or ghosts that are all moving, doing something - whether appearing like they’re talking, walking, fighting, reading, any number of things….and all of them seemingly paying no attention to what’s going on around Alicia here and now, if they’re even aware of it.

Which they are though, because the thing is, these ‘satellite versions of herself’ are all alternate versions of herself existing currently in other parallel universes where the Change still occurred and they all ended up with the same magic as this Alicia.

So essentially, there are between ten and sixteen versions of Alicia, spread across an equivalent number of parallel universes….who are all Changelings with the exact same magic….which connects them all.

Just like they appear like ghostly images of this Alicia here, this Alicia appears as one of the ghostly images hovering around each of the other versions of herself in their realities.

And despite them always looking like they’re doing their own thing for the most part and oblivious to anything happening in a different reality, that’s just a matter of them learning after a loooot of practice and trial and error, how to primarily just focus on their main reality and only keep a vague/back of their mind awareness trained on what’s happening with the other versions of herself via their magical connection.

Whenever something big happens to one of them though, no matter which reality, like if one of them is in danger, the others can immediately stop what they’re doing in their home realities and pay attention to the one who’s actively in danger….because all the Alicias can communicate with each other, share knowledge and life experiences and skills with each other, and so whenever one of them really needs the others, the others can all focus on them and come to their aid or support them in a variety of ways, even without being physically present.

And some of these parallel universes are more similar than others, and some of them are just sliiiiightly out of sync with the others….like one of the Alicias lives in a universe that for the most part is almost identical to this Alicia’s universe….except its timeline is like, thirty seconds ahead of this one’s.

Meaning while its not foolproof, due to the very very minor differences in realities resulting in the people in each reality making slightly different choices….that 30 seconds ahead Alicia tends to for the most part be able to give this Alicia a 30 seconds heads up to any unexpected danger. 

And there’s a bunch of other ways their magic is helpful too….each of the Alicias’ has their own fields of study…remember since Changeling magic reflects the person, the fact that these Alicias all have the same magic is because all of these versions of her are precocious little science and math prodigies in some way….but they all have slightly different interests and scientific and mathematic pursuits they’ve applied themselves towards or decided to study in earnest. Which means any one of them can at any time draw on the knowledge possessed by one of the others due to studying a specific field that the other one doesn’t know a ton about. Or they can just talk to each other directly, ask each other questions about something, or use themselves as a sounding board or to bounce ideas off of each other. 

So sometimes Alicia will just stop in the middle of talking to other Changelings in town here to be like hang on a sec, I need to get this….and appear to just be talking to one of her own flickering reflections in the middle of the sidewalk, while anyone who knows her well is pretty used to this and just chills like someone waiting for a friend to finish up on the phone after she had to take an urgent call, lol.

And since the Alicias don’t have to be in the same or similar physical space to still appear as satellites of each other Alicia in her home reality, one Alicia can be physically present at one side of town and really need something like….from a book she left at home on the other side of town. And one of the other Alicias is usually bound to be at home and by focusing on her, Alicia can just ask her to read from her own book what this Alicia needs to know, or like, check something online, or solve a problem real quick for her and give her the answer while she focuses on doing something else urgent at the same time, etc.

Then there’s the fact that some of the Alicias have a lot of self-defense training and teach the others some tricks, and a couple are very practiced with a variety of weapons they can pass along expertise about….one Alicia excels at picking locks, which comes in handy as this Alicia, along with about five of the others, is kinda like….the Nancy Drew of their respective Bordertowns, the pint-sized, precocious PI that other Changelings often turn to despite her age, because Alicia (all the Alicias, really) is damn good at what she does.

Also via their connection to each other’s realities, when they focus they can basically see what’s going on around one of the others, so for instance, when this one is in danger or running from someone or something like that, and a few of the others are safe and sound at home, they can just focus solely on her and everything going on around her, and its like Alicia has preternatural awareness of her surroundings then, because she’s got five or six other versions of herself flickering around her head and at her back like ghostly shadows…and all of them are shouting instructions to her or to look out for this or that or turn here, etc. So there’s basically six pairs of eyes looking out for her and keeping her apprised of everything that’s going on in her vicinity at the moment. 

That really comes in handy. 

Everyone can see the other versions of herself that are most present via her connection at any given moment, given that that’s the nature of her physical Change, but since its her magic specifically, only she can actually hear the other versions of her or interact with them….with very rare exceptions. None of them have quite figured out yet how the connection totally works, in the sense that some of them are in sharper focus at times than others, like, there’s always some connection between all of them, but at different times some feel further away and are harder to communicate or interact with than others. And they’re not sure if that’s because like, their different universes are engaged in some kind of movement or orbit or rotation relative to each other, or if there’s some other reason for it, but a few of them are always working on that particular puzzle at any given moment, lol. 

But on a related note, on three separate occasions, when one of the Alicias in one reality was in extreme danger, another Alicia was able to temporarily ‘jump into the driver’s seat’ of that Alicia’s body, via their connection….one time was when one of the skilled fighters jumped into one of the Alicias who was being attacked by someone she’d followed during one of her investigations and turned out to be more dangerous than she’d expected….another time one of the other Alicias jumped into the body of an Alicia who’d been knocked unconscious in an accident and the other Alicia was able to assume control of her body and get her out of danger until she woke up and it bumped the other one back into her own body….and then the third time, one of the Alicias saw that this Alicia was about to get hit by a car that she didn’t see coming, and the alternate Alicia tried to warn her by projecting through their connection as hard as she could, to look out….and somehow accidentally jumped fully into this Alicia’s body and threw her(self) out of the way, before almost immediately being slingshotted back into her own body.

Except none of them have figured out how to do anything like that on command, despite it vexing a number of them. They just know it most likely has something to do with the intensity of a life or death threat or situation making it possible…even though it doesn’t always seem to happen, so they try not to rely on it.

And on one particularly memorable occasion that none of them have the faintest clue why or how it happened, eight of them went from flickering around this Alicia like satellite ghosts….to manifesting physically around her in this reality in their own bodies, and shocking the hell out of the guy trying to intimidate her, who was not at all prepared for the teen girl to suddenly be just one of a literal crowd of nine girls all staring him down. So he turned tail and ran, and they all almost instantly winked back into their home realities and returned to just being afterimage-esque glimpses of them still orbiting around her.

None of them have any idea how that happened or why, let alone how to make it happen again, which irritates the crap out of most of them because ugh, screw magic, there has to be a logical explanation for at least the mechanism of this, damn you supernatural forces with no coherent consistency!

(All the Alicias rant quite often about their inability to pin down firm rules for a lot of Changeling magic and how and why it operates the way it does. Big fans of logic, the Alicias. Not so much the bafflement).

Sooooo….she’s a LOT of fun to write, even though she’s very challenging to…maneuver around, narratively speaking, if that makes sense, lol….but like, yeah, I have a blast writing her. 

The main Alicia, the one who’s always front and center, is snarky but never in a mean-spirited way. More like….her mind is always twenty steps ahead of everyone around her, sometimes literally, lol, and so she rolls her eyes a lot and sometimes makes a show of being exasperated that she has to slow down and wait for everyone to catch up, but its not because of “oh I think everyone but me is so stupid” or anything like that, its usually just….pure impatience on her part. 

The second she figures something out she wants to go, go, go, move on to wherever that leads. She winds up getting in various less than totally safe situations purely because she doesn’t want to stop and grab someone to go along with her when checking something out, but also just because the nature of her magic means she’s never truly completely on her own, and she sometimes forgets to factor that in, or remember that her other selves aren’t usually physically present and able to help her out of a jam. 

She’s so used to their presences that every so often she just genuinely forgets that they’re not right there in the room with her, which has caused some confusion to more than one person when meeting her for the first time and realizing those silent movie-style images of her are actually real and she’s actually communicating with them, not just talking to thin air.

Fortunately, she’s smart and capable in her own right, so when you multiply that by a factor of twelve to fifteen similar minds all attuned to all of their best interests….there’s very few situations she isn’t capable of getting out of on her own. Not that this makes her big brother facepalm any less when she blithely handwaves off a recent escapade as no big deal and something she has no idea why he’s getting so worked up about.

(I mean, she does totally get his concerns and isn’t lacking in self-awareness, its just that she’s also committed to giving him gray hairs before he’s forty. She is, among other things, still a little sister after all.)

Due to her many alternate selves, and the vast array of personality differences between each of them, that many of her close friends are at least aware of by proxy, given that even though they can’t hear her other selves, they’ve all heard her casually talk about them often enough to know them in a sense as well….

Anyway, so a lot of Changelings have nicknames based on their Changes or magic, and she’s no exception. She goes by her own name and just introduces herself as Alicia, but its not uncommon to hear others address her as or reference her as ‘Sybil.’

When asked how she feels about that name, she tends to just shrug and stare off into the distance contemplatively. “I don’t know,” she’ll say at last. “Part of me loves it, and part of me hates it.”

And then she’ll just grin as everyone around her just groans, because she’s just Like This, and just looooves being literal in little ways like that - given that she’s literally acknowledging that half of her alternates feel the one way, and the other half feel the other way. 

Another common line of hers is something like “Hey, I’m only problematic on Thursdays,” or “that wasn’t me, that was Alicia Number Nine, its not my fault she hates you.”

Her magic is just weird enough and behaves just erratically and unexpectedly enough, that its hard to be entirely sure when she’s just bullshitting you and when she might actually be telling the truth and some weird power snafu had one of the other Alicias in her body the last time you interacted with her and she was short with you.

There’s never a dull moment with her.

[seashelbytravel]

Grettings from the future:

Sunday June 9, 2019

Current location: Kho Lak, Thailand

Traveled from: Ranong, Thailand

Travel date: 6/8/19

From Koh Tao, we took a ferry boat back to the mainland. John joked about it being my opportunity to act out the scene from TITANIC. I regret not doing it.

This time we laid out on the upper most deck, on the ground right up front. No one cares in Thailand.

Our first and most loved/memorable experience was in a small beach down that I won’t name because some people don’t want the world to know about their home, and I respect that. I will write the full experience, but we bonded with a pizza shop owner, who taught me the basics of meditation in Thailand.

Being on the ferry was my first opportunity to practice what I learned. It felt so ....nice. Simplicity is best when describing meditation (prayer). You have to do it for yourself and let your experience just be yours.

Mine is almost always divine, if I can just listen to my breath, and not my mind. The mind (mine for sure) is like a wild toddler that will throw a tantrum once you tell it “I’m not going to pay you this attention, you’re screaming at me, but I do love you”.

The divinity that comes with peace of mind (even if it’s a few moments of thoughtlessness) is profound, and I’ve barely scratched the surface I think.

Off the ferry, we hopped on the back of a motor bike and were taken to the mini bus station.

Chumpon (the port city) is a little dicey. It was the first city where John and I encountered being treated like “stupid Americans” P.S I FULLY understand why all other countries think we are stupid. We have our heads so far up you know where, that we aren’t even truly concerned with world events, beliefs, etc. Even those of us who are concerned, like myself, aren’t given the full scope of what’s actually going on. A larger generalization, but unfortunately it’s true.

We took a mini bus to Ranong Thailand. It’s a beautiful little city tucked away in the mountains. John tells me they average 8 months of rainfall. When we pulled in, school was letting out, and man.... all those little kids were so cute, and sweet! There were a ton of food vendors waiting for them, and they all got their respective treats (fruit smoothies, ice pops, coke, you know.). It reminded me of getting out of school and being picked up with gummy life savers by my Mimi.

I miss her very much. Being here without distraction has opened me up to grieving grief I didn’t even know I had pint up. That’s the thing about grief. You can exercise the hell out of it, but it’s always there.

She never wanted me to cry, and I only cried three times when she finally passed this last summer.

Even sitting here now, I’m not crying. Grieving for her is warm and lovely. And a true “Wow, I miss you and your HUGS”. She gave the best ones.

There are blue (and other colored) butterflies all over the place in decoration here.

She loves butterflies and called little girls butterflies.

Anywho, we found a nice hotel and a place to do laundry (Hallelujah!). For real. When we pulled in, I was in day two clothing and reeeked. John’s pants were torn and he was also in multi day clothing. We. Were. Nasty.

Guess what? The couple who helped with our laundry even had A DRYER. We bought some clean clothes so we could wash the dirty. John got me a shirt that said “Sometimes the happy memories make us the saddest”. It was pink, and very fitting for me, and very sweet of him.

We showered, put on the clean clothes, and dropped off the dirty.

I went to journal out front and met a hilarious man from Indonesia. He is traveling by bike with his wife and his brother, across SE Asia. He pretty much convinced me to move to Indonesia without ever going.

John and his family joined at the same time (just about) and the conversation grew.

They love QUEEN so boom: instant bonding moment.

Upon learning that I am an actress and John a musician (both trained) the business ideas started flowing.

It’s funny, in American people scoff at you when you have an art degree. Here? It’s treasured and honorable.

He told me to make a movie for children in Indonesia. Where all the parts are played by kids.

I’ve been joting down ideas since.

We walked down for dinner and, wow is Ranong gorgeous. We ate at this hip little place. There was a sweet waiter working who literally asked his friend if he could take out table. They were so excited to be around Americans.

It’s funny, the same crappy American pop songs play at every “hip” place here.

I want to show them the good stuff.

Our food was delicious but reaaallly spicey for Shelby. Still delicious. But, I needed a soda water and a rest, so I went back to the hotel.

We went to sleep and woke up with the plan to go to the hot springs (Ranong is known for this).

We went to a spa. The sweet receptionist didn’t understand that John was trying to order us both the same thing (a traditional Thai massage, and herbal exfoliation) so, I get ushered into the women’s side, and he the men’s.

Long story short. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing and didn’t monopolize fully on the hot spring aspect of things.

This is a funny story, I’m laughing about this: Then, I ended up getting the herbal exfoliation, which was essentially a glorified rub down of all of my body except for my bottom private area. Did you catch that? My BOTTOM private area was the only spot not rubbed down by this sweet old Thai lady. Needless to say, I have the softest skin, but also, hello! Wasn’t expecting that one. But oh well I honestly didn’t care.

Then I thought “Yes! time for my massage”.

Nope.

I was done and waited in the lobby an additional hour, until I was so confused that I just asked the lady the timeline. She didn’t understand and led me up to a beautiful room where John was receiving the most awesome traditional Thai massage.

Lol.

Mine will come later. Although, I was a little disappointed to not get one there specifically.

He felt really bad, but I didn’t want him to. He had never received a massage before. Ever. What a perfect place for your first pamper experience.

He got me some grilled banana (Hi. I’m a little sick from this, this morning, err a little more than a little, but not enough to keep me in bed). I was chowing down, and John took one bite and made a face and threw them out. I felt weird about them too, but accepted the snack anyway.

Shoulda trusted my gut, because it’s mad at me now.

We ate Thai pizza, talked more about Anthony Bourdain, and hitched a ride the the bus station.

It’s crazy, you really have to watch your bags (even with them on your back) at all times. I now know how to scope out advantage takers.

I didn’t mention this before, but my debit card disappeared in Bangkok. And our hotel never called back when John inquired about it.

Thank God for technology because it ended up being a semi easy fix.

The bus trip was long and rough. Something like 5 hours for 70 miles.

We are here in Khotak. Finally on the coast and it’s pouring. I’m praying for sunshine 🌞 queue “Let the Sun Shine”.

But, like I said, I woke up and got sick in the middle of the night, and a little this morning. Currently drinking tea and eating toast. I’ll take some activated charcoal and I’ll be good.

I encourage you to Google Earth the places we are staying. Im obsessed with Google Earth. It’s one of my hobbies, if that qualifies.

All photos belong to John Philip Sessions.

Photographed: The ferry ride from Koh Tao Island

Love you guys, thanks for tuning in ♾

[scphiroth]

Shipping Info Meme

Answer the following for your muse so people know how shipping works on your blog.

WHAT IS YOUR OTP FOR YOUR CHARACTER?:

not really no. the main reason that it’s extremely difficult for my sephiroth to fully engage himself to a romantic relationship so no matter what, it might end up lacking on his part ( for the beginning anyway, i think - it depends ). i hc my sephiroth to have had a crush on angeal during crisis core period, which is now mostly gone over a long period of time passed in canon timelines but that’s probably it ? i’ve shipped with different clouds, firion and i love ‘em too but those also required some extensive plot building in the background.

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO WRITE WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING?

fluffy moments, fights, obstacles - whatever goes, man. i’m a little awkward on the smut side but i’ll still go for it because the intensity and passion is unique to its own and nice. i won’t write abusive ships though.

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

i really don’t care about age gaps as long as both parties are legal or aged up properly by the mun. there is a lot to consider about age gaps, actually, especially if one isn’t a human and for me - characters will never age and die.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?

it depends. it’s rare for sephiroth to feel a romantic attraction to someone to begin with and appearance isn’t something he immediately takes notice of above of someone’s fighting prowess. and that he pretty much offended everyone under the sun. it’d take a long build up or for the both of them to click as friends first. as for me, as long as i like you as a person - which is if we’re friends or you’re a generally nice person, i’m open to discussing anything in im.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY ARE CONSIDERED NSFW?

when the stuff that usually doesn’t see the sunshine does ? when the touchy touchy begins ? if there are any cues for that, i think i forgot about it lol

WHO ARE OTHER THE CHARACTERS YOU SHIP YOUR CHARACTER WITH?

none as of now. 

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?:

of course. i think it’d be better for us to make sure that we’re on the same page since i can be rather oblivious at times and sephiroth doesn’t always respond well in certain social situations. 

HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP?

not very often when it comes to rp. i’m not that selective but i still wanna see what i’m getting myself into before i jump into the boat with someone. but if we do ship, i’ll probably be sending you hcs and plots for our ship as much as i breathe-

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

used to be ship obsessed but now, it’s sort of a lukewarm thing for me ? i still love all the possible plots i can have with partners though and do prefer to dedicate a good amount of time into developing the ship.

ARE YOU MULTISHIP?

yep, definitely. i won’t practice exclusivity but i’ll still split my attention across fairly.

WHAT IS/ARE YOUR FAVOURITE SHIP(S) IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?:

uhh. this is a hard question because i don’t really pay much attention to the romantic parts of canon. i usually start having deep, very delightful suffering feelings for ships depending on who drags me into it. i’m what you call, very easily influenced.

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?:

pop into my im or discord and see if we can work something out !

Tagged by: @asouldivided thank you sm, friend !

Tagging: @backwaterheroics, @magitekelite, @warofthebeasts, @caiiius, @dcntgiveup, @stellaux, @anjiiru , @permasclaris

[lilquill]

What was the original post that sparked all this drama? I'm trying to piece it all together but it looks like boo's deleted most of the stuff from their blog (really, i'd appreciate a summary in general. i read your callout post but i'm still kinda confused)

Hey there! Sorry for responding to this so late. I think a sort of summary is in order right about now. Keep in mind that I’m writing this, so it’s from my perspective.

A couple things: A lot of my screenshots are proof of repeated behavior as opposed to directly related to the most recent thing on the timeline. 

I’d also like to emphasize that the “white person named India” from my original post, whom I incorrectly used the term “girl” for, actually goes by they/them pronouns. We cleared this up here: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/180928451928/excuse-me-are-you-the-same-person-as and you can see their response to that here: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/180934262203/writeblr-drama-time. This should really go without saying, but to everyone reading, please don’t misgender them!

So, Boo made a post complaining about about “nasty” writeblrs, and a lot of people had some...questions. Some people wanted to know if she was talking about people writing smut, which they brought up pretty politely. I have a screenshot of Ginger’s tags in my original post. Boo responded politely to Ginger initially (which Boo pointed out in her reblog of my original post), and then she blew up at some other people and also Ginger after that. I have screenshots of what was essentially her “callout post” below. A lot of her friends went after people. It was...big wild, and there was a lot of frustration at Boo’s self-victimization.

I was...super fed up at what I’d seen of these people’s behavior both recently and in the past. They’d really had enough chances; many people were polite to them many times, and they showed that they were unwilling to address their flaws. So, I made my post and included those examples.

Boo reblogged my original post. She tried to guilt-trip me. I shut her down here: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/180910931443/writeblr-drama-time (Note: chronologically, my response to Boo happened after the wording thing with katekarl that is addressed right after this.)

Then the....deluge....began. A writeblr with the url katekarl left a really poorly worded response to my post, and I screenshotted and responded here: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/180910328528/katekarl-at-the-time-of-writing-this-i-literally. I actually believe I edited the post last night to reflect that they didn’t actually apologize and only acknowledged that they worded it poorly, but I guess this website ate that because the developers are incompetent lol! I don’t know where they stand and I’m not trying to, like, blame them by bringing them up here.

Another writeblr with the url incandescent-creativity sure did respond to my post with some.....words! And they sure weren’t GOOD words! I responded here: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/180912650978/incandescent-creativity-replied-to-your-post

I also got a lot of support from a lot of people during this time, and some really great conversations began to pop up! I truly am glad that my words seemed to resonate with a lot of people on writeblr, especially a lot of poc on writeblr. This happened both in anons and in messages.

Sometime when I was asleep/not paying attention, Boo and incandescent-creativity deleted their responses to me.

I had some awesome conversations with a lot of people, which you can look through my blog to see! I cleared some stuff up with people, and received some apologies, which was nice.

Apparently there are people hiding out in support of what I’ve been saying, which is honestly

However, I know from what I’ve already seen that there are ALSO people hiding out and like, lying about me or some shit. Or maybe they just can’t read! Idk.

Boo then responded to my post with a fauxpology, without reblogging it this time. I’ve responded to that here: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/180942887598/im-only-back-to-address-one-incredibly-important

I then got my first anon hate, and it was REALLY FUNNY LOL. 

I’d like to point out that I’m not the only person pointing this stuff out at this moment; you can check my blog for proof!

More importantly, I’d also like to point out that I’m not the first person to point out this sort of two-faced falsely positive attitude that only leads to negativity and drama on writeblr. Others have said it before me, and a lot of people just sorta dismissed them. I guess it took names being dropped to actually elicit a response!

I wrote this p fast and p late at night, so let me know if you’d like any clarification or elaboration on things! Thank you for reaching out to listen to my side, anon. It means a lot. I hope you’re doing well, and I hope this drama hasn’t been horrible for you to deal with. Best of wishes!

[yoonia]

Lol actually i toldu not to mind my first ask, because i kept reading n then understood that she was sick not because of thw illnes, but it was actually the moment after the loss of the baby. That's why Taehyungs presence confused me. They finally had the talk with Y/N /Yoona as i call her/, but still he didn't tell her what's the problem TT, honestly I'm really waiting for that moment. He must be inlove with her, or he really has big personal problems, that doesn't want to bring to her.. I mean

I mean i do understand him if he acts like that, because he is big friend of her, because she is going to give Jk another chance n he knows it, after all done, but most friends won't ditch u for that after all, he must have feelings for her.. Or will she ditch him, because of Jk? For Jk? After this chapter weirdly i feel the real deal here is Jimin, not Jk 😂 which at the moment probably seems very illogical... I'm feeling how I'll send u 6 more messages about About Time😂 You will hate me by

The end of this fic lol So, where was I, oh, yes.. Today i thought to submit to u pictures of Jk, the way i picture him in the fic, but i see u posted that urself n it's killing me, he is really the Devil, gorgeous n dangerous. About my previous asks i said i wish, because of the foolish romantic i am for her to give another chance to Jk in the second life, but the last chapter made me remember he got already his second chance, so im team Jimin now on n that's it lol

I did reread the chapters not long ago, but maybe i should again if u have changed something more :/ idk, but i feel im up to date. I can't believe we have left only part 13 n 13.5 i'll cry when i read the last chapter. I want to send u some moodboards about it, i should do some these days, since i really want to ~

Oh, right! Yeah, I get it. It might be a little confusing if you only focus on the time lapse sequences and don’t pay attention on the year when the scene is happening. That’s why I always put them all together, including the places. I’m glad you were able to keep up tho :) The changes I made were mostly on the timeline and years (I made the OC or Y/N, as you call her, to have the same birth year as JK instead of Jimin as I originally did), add a bit of details into the scenes between OC and Jimin that I had initially deleted first, and changed the writing style a bit so you won’t be finding heaps of run in sentences that makes it hard to enjoy the reading. The rest are pretty much the same, really.

The scenes with Taehyung happened when she was tracing back to the moments when she was losing him. And the time jump happened while she was reminiscing those moments during her time she spent back home after she got sick with her illness. The talk they had then was the start and the actual reason will come up later. I’m actually considering of making it clear through Taehyung’s special chapter to make it less confusing and to limit the amount of time jumps we are having towards the end of the story. 

Oh, trust me, I was literally screaming when I saw that photo of JK he looks like the fuckboy JK was at their past life it was too perfect. I welcome any kind of moodboard anyone could think of for my fics. Anytime. I always love getting them and it’s always such a pleasure to see how everyone else are picturing the stories I have written through pics or edits and stuff, so send away :) And don’t worry about sending me loads of messages. I won’t hate you at all! Trust me. I enjoy reading them all, especially when they contain theories or random rants about AT hahaha 

Oh, speaking of which, we still have a few more chapters after 13.5 is out. Remember that chapter 11-13 were originally written as one full chapter (chapter 11) that I had to split up so you won’t have to read 30k words of angst /sobs/ so the actual chapters of 12 and 13 are still in the works. I won’t be surprised if they end up being split to parts again (I’m so sorry) but I can’t help myself. I’ve planned the ending since a long time ago so now that we are getting close, I can’t stop myself from writing every idea I had in mind into those scenes. Anyway, thank you for reading and yay for Team Jimin! :’)

[stairsbro69]

Hey same here. I figured if I'm gonna reblog... way too many fanart, then i might as well have it all in one place and also not bother others 🤷🏻‍♀️ so its all good.

To add a read more you write [[/MORE/]]

but without the slashes.

I only really know of one somewhat important detail that hs2 contradicts the epilgoues in. Loooong story short, Jake and Jane get married (insert emotion between meh and bleh) and Jake leaves her and hangs with John for a while. In the epilogue, it says she sent divorce papers in the mail, but in hs2 that never happened and she has no idea he wants to leave her. There's probably other little details that conflict but thats the big one. I don't really know what the authors have been saying about stuff though. I haven't really been paying attention to them. I know theres been some drama but i dont really know any details.

I do agree that the fandom is very fighty recently. And honestly the worst part about EP/HS2 isn't the content itself, but how it managed to tear apart a pretty strong fandom. Like yeah we were a little cringy in 2012 but we were cringy TOGETHER! and even after it ended and people were a bit disappointed, things were still civil and we'd pop up with a "happy 413/612/1025/ WE LIVE!!!" every so often. And i especially miss the fun theories! And the race to draw certain panels or characters first! But now people just... dont. People like to edit/redraw the davekat kiss or make other characters "ultimate" but thats about it. I really do miss the fun cringy fandom we used to be sometimes 😭.

Also, there WERE some pretty heated debates. Mostly involving shipping or Vriska...

I think I first heard of HS around the time of Cascade, but didn't start reading until Christmas. I think it was Christmas day even. And the page I got caught up on was "Ball: Drop" on New Years. I'm honestly not sure why I remember all that but I guess that's just how important it was to me. Im gettin all sentimental over here 😭

I agree with your take on Cascade. It was damn good and you make very good points. But I would like to add one of my other favorite flashes, Game Over, to this discussion. Cascade had deaths but it still felt triumphant and the deaths/resurrections didn't feel cheap, like you said. Game Over, on the other hand.... ended with almost every single character straight up dying. But it was still really good and even though everyone was dead, it still felt like Homestuck. Everyone knew the characters probably wouldn't stay dead forever. And there was a massive gap right afterwards too, so there was plenty of time for speculation. (And time for me to dip out of the fandom except for 3 days a year)

It also resulted in a massive un-dying and retconning of timeline stuff which... I personally didn't care for but I'm probably in the minority on that one.

I'll be honest there was a point near the end of act 6 where I was kinda not very into HS anymore and the pettiness and drama between the alpha kids was all I really cared about. Still sad some of the issues were dealt with off screen though.

Wow, Fruits Basket really does sound like something I'd like! When I was first getting into anime, I think I wrote it off because "bluh bluh dont want no cheesy romance anime" but it actually sounds good! I'll have to check it out thanks for the suggestion lol. Should I watch the old anime adaptation or the new one? Does it matter?

Side note: I watched a reenactment of the Detective Pony fanfic. If you haven't read/watched it I highly recommend. EP/HS2 is suspiciously similar and DP is basically the thing i wanted when it comes to weird meta fiction and narrative control while being light hearted and dumb. 10/10 whoever wrote that

it is time.

I want to compile a more complete rundown of my thoughts about homestuck 2. I want all the stuff in my head to be in one place, and I know this is going to be incredibly long winded and I don’t care. I want to be honest… I want to understand why I don’t like this media. on more than a “but of course” level because there are a lot of people who have it as a gut reaction that this stuff isn’t right. but I think there are layers to what produces that. I wanna get in depth with this. so that’s what I’m gonna attempt to do.

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[araminthe-ispwitch]

hi so i love your writing its amazing i especially love gay highschool romance its my favourite i was wondering if i could have some advice im trying to write a school fic and im not sure how to transition between different characters since theres quite a lot. its in third person if that helps. if you have any other tips for school fics id be happy to hear them :)

WOWOKAY HOLY SHIT IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE SOMEONE PRAISED MY KNB FIC

(Alsoshit I have to update OTL)

((butalso wOW??? SOMEONE’S ASKING FOR WRITING ADVICE FROM ME???))

(((Okay,I rambled way too much here with advice when you were just asking aboutcharacter transitions… so uh I’ll just put this under Keep Reading. Anon, yourspecific question is answered on #6. If anyone’s interested in writing tips, feel free to skip some ramblings.)))

Well,okay, actually, The ExaggeratedlyPerilous Journey of a Gay High School Romance or GHSR had been my veryfirst school fic (I can’t count that one DNAngel fic ‘cause the setting washalf-outside of school…) and the one thing I noticed while writing it was that ahuge cast of characters needs to be handled with care, otherwise things cangrow way out of proportion.

Letme give a little more exposition on what happened to me exactly first, so you’llunderstand how important writing this fic had been for me:

GHSRwas my second fic in my entire life. After my DNAngel fic (which I really don’t encourage you guys to readunless you want a cringe-y flashback to your teenage weaboo days), I took along break from writing until KnB came along and inspired me. Now, whathappened in that break was that I got slowly influenced by other writers’styles as I read and read, so once I started creating GHSR, it was oodles morerefined than my first fic.

Butit still had that weaboo factor in it somewhere. I hadn’t practiced in a while,so I haven’t gotten rid of that thing yet.

(Andhere I will admit that my first writing style was really heavily inspired by acertain DNAngel fic author. She had written crackfics and I unfortunately adoptedher habit of using “blunette, blue orbs, teardropped, etc.” Yeah. Are youcringing yet? ‘Cause I am. Still, thanks for inspiring me, lady.)

Now,when I wrote Ch. 1 and 2 of GHSR, I was still using my old style. But as Iwrote chapters 3, 4, and 5—and as my word count climbed higher and higher forevery chapter jesus christ—I finally started to find my own style and startedcorrecting all the cringe-y habits I had before (hence why I had refined Chapter1 a while back). So what I’m saying here,anon, is that that experimental school fic of mine practically made me realize howto properly write a school fic.

(I’msorry this will be a bit longer pls bear with me let’s focus on the advice partnow)

Okay,first of all, if your school fic will be having a huge cast (because you canactually writing a fic set in a school without writing a lot of characters init), it’s best to really know each character’s persona. This is easy since if youread a lot of fanfics about the fandom you’re going to write for, you will havea lot of references on how the character is written by the majority. Forexample, I learned how to write Takao by reading works about him, and then Ijust added my own interpretation of him a bit and viola, I now have a Takao whofits my “everyone goes to one school” AU. It’s amazing because a lot of myreaders tell me Takao is so in-character in my fic, but when you really thinkabout it, his entire character isn’t completely shown in the canon as opposedto Kuroko or Kagami, right? But I managed to write him well enough that heseems natural to the readers because they’ve read other works about him, too—andall because I did my research on how his character works!

Anotherexample for this is when I fucked up Kagami’s character. OTL

Backin GHSR’s Ch. 1, I freely wrote Kagami as this food-loving delinquent who ispretty much down to fight. I was sofucking wrong. Watching the next seasons of KnB, I realized with horrorthat I fudged him up so bad and was really so embarrassed and basically, Iwanted to delete my fic right then and there. He’s a food lover, yeah, but he’snot actually actively looking fortrouble. He’s actually a well-mannered kid who is just skirting close todelinquency due to his looks, but is actually just a huge basketball dork.Those times he gets in trouble with authorities? Not actually his fault becausehe’s a mischievous kid—he’s just really unlucky lmao.

(Andthat is why I rewrote Ch. 1. I didn’t do enough research on him and I felt bad.OTL)

Okay,so basically this first advice is me telling you to read other fanfics and do your research. Major characters arepretty easy since they’re popular. It’s the side/minor ones you have to payattention to if you’re going to make them protagonists like what I did withGHSR, since they’re not fully fleshed out and it’s up to the fans to give themtheir own interpretation (like what I did with Sakurai Ryou). A word ofcaution, though: you have to be carefulin distinguishing canon from fanon during your writing. Fanon tends tooverwhelm the canon when the fandom accepts it more—when in reality, the fanonis inaccurate. I can’t think of an example in KnB, but in Yuri on Ice, OtabekAltin had become an Ensemble Dark Horse character in the anime because of hisconnection to Yuri Plisetsky, one of the major characters. Despite his littlescreen time, he’s now one of the most popular guys in the fandom and because ofhis character profile’s small size, the fans have pretty much supplied itthemselves—which kind of ruined his persona a bit. I’ve seen some fanworkswhere he seemed out of character, and that’s a bit dangerous when you’rewriting. So tread carefully when researching characters through fanworks.

Secondadvice: research school fics by reading school fics. Yep, this oneis pretty simple. Just find a school fic, and if you can’t put it down, keepreading and enjoy. You can come back for serious studying on it. (You can do soon my fic lol.) Even better: find a school fic on the fandom you’re going towrite for! If its style is within your standards, then go ahead and use it as astudy material. You might think I’m telling you to copy it, but oh no, I’m actuallytelling you to let it influence yourknowledge of how school fics work. For example, when I was inspired towrite for DNAngel, I never bothered about the mechanics of how schools incertain countries work—because I thoughtthat all schools in the world worked the same. (I hate teenage me.) It wasonly through spending enough time with anime and fanfics that bothered todescribe the Japanese schools’ inside slipper system that I realized that “oh fuck I’ve been basing Japanese schoolson my country’s schools oH SHIT”. Now, I can get away with that in DNAngel,where the rules and the world are a bit screwy. But I cannot bullshit my way through KnB, an anime that is fucking based in Japan. I, as a writer, amexpected to be responsible enough to research the setting of KnB, which is Japan’s education system. So not only amI telling you to research by reading school fics, I am also telling you toresearch the setting of the story. Chances are, there will be some differencesfrom what you know and what is actually real. And not only the setting, too, butthe culture of the school—not all schools mandate their students to clean theirrooms by themselves, and not all schools freely allow their students to go therestroom (looking at you, America). These are simple things you can look up onGoogle, and if you’re lucky, you’ll come across stuff like this in Tumblr, too.

Thirdadvice: it’s okay to be vague sometimes.There’s no need for you to be specific on a lot of details or even reverentlywrite what happened to a character the whole day. You can skip the time to amore interesting event or just be general about something. Because if you getway too focused on giving out every detail, not only will it bore your readers,it will also bore you and tire you out. Take GHSR, for example. In Ch. 5, thetimeline was from Tuesday to Friday, but despite my overly-long chapter, I didn’tactually write every single day on the story from morning to night. I showedwhat was happening in school in general and skipped to the really important andeventful moments for my characters to give movement to the story. Because I can’tjust put so much interaction if it doesn’t mean anything—that would be pointlessand exhausting. This really helpswhen your school fic has a huge cast, like mine. (In fact, the only reason thefirst few chapters were reverently following each day was because the startingcast was small, but it’ll soon grow and I’ll have to put plenty of time-skips.)

Eventhough what you’re writing is a school fic, you still have a designatedprotagonist, so most of the story revolves around them, hence the need to notdetail every single aspect of their life. It’s only called a school fic becausethat’s their setting.

Fourthadvice: your protagonist doesn’t have totalk to everybody in the room. Imagine Kagami in his classroom in my fic,with Aomine beside him, and Kuroko and Sakurai at the back. And then all theother classmates have been replaced with the cast of KnB—so technically, everyoneknows each other inside that room. Now, just because Kagami knows everyonedoesn’t mean he’s entitled to chat all of them up—nor are you entitled to forcehim to. Some writers (most especially those starting out, as I saw this yearsago, but hopefully, this generation has learned) think they have to forceinteractions for everybody so it won’t be boring, but actually, that would besuch a tedious process. You have to think about this realistically, even thoughit’s fiction. Even the most social butterfly in KnB would get tired if theyhold conversations with everyone in the span of a certain period of time. Thepurpose of a school fic is to emulate a school setting, and you don’t reallysee everyone interacting with each other, right? That would be chaos. Let therebe peace—in intervals. For example, when Misdirection was having their firstpractice in GHSR back in Ch. 4, everyone knew each other in the clubroom, but Ididn’t write them all talking to each other. Aomine and Midorima were isolatedfrom the rest and hadn’t talked to the others unless necessary. So unless your character wants to interact with someone specifically, it’sokay to just let them be silent.

Fifthadvice: DON’T PHYSICALLY DESCRIBE YOURCHARACTERS WHEN YOU’RE WRITING IN THEIR PERSPECTIVE.JUST DON’T. There’s this post I’ve found in Tumblr  (which I urge you to read) after finishing Chapter5, where it’s a bit demeaning to refer to the character you’re using with blandtitles/epithets like “the blonde” or “the male”, as if that was the only thing going for them. I admitted that it is, but at the same time, I gottause this style sometimes becausethere will always be scenes where several characters are all altogether. InGHSR, I can’t help but refer to Hyuga as the “bespectacled one” because thereare other black-haired upperclassmen besides him. Even with Kagami and Akashi—Ihave to distinguish the two. It helps that you describe their other features,but giving them titles like the ones above can be a bit too much if there’s noone else in the area that has the same description, ya know? So I propose this:

Don’tdo this:

The black-haired and blue-eyed kickboxer stared at the mop of blondehair he could see outside the gates and sighed.

Do this:

The kickboxer stared at the mop of blonde hair he could see outsidethe gates and sighed.      

“ButAra!” you say, with shocked eyes, “isn’t the first one your style? That line wasin the beginning of Chapter 5!”

Yes,it is. But you know what else? I wrote that line over two fucking years ago. I posted the chapter over a year ago and I didn’t edit that lineout. But over the course of a year, my style concerning this naming thing haschanged, and now I am actively trying to lessen that kind of thing in my works.I didn’t have to remind my readers that Kasamatsu Yukio had black hair and blueeyes. That was just my ego talking,being fancy as I add the descriptions to his title. That whole thing wasone of the very habits I’ve retained from my DNAngel days—and I fucking hate it actually so please don’t emulate me and just keepyour character’s self-perspective simple. Please.

Okay,sixth advice (and the last one for now because this has become too long): transitioning between characters inthird-person perspective is easy as long as you keep things SIMPLE. Sobasically, you just have to apply the simplicity above when leaping from onecharacter to another! It’s actually pretty easy when it involves dialogue:

Sakurai chuckled nervously at the answer. “I-I’m sure they canimprove, Sensei.”

“Oh, I’m hoping for it. Otherwise, we’ll all be in trouble,” said Kogawith an aggravated sigh.

“Maybe if you didn’t suspend us, we wouldn’t be struggling right now,”muttered Aomine, glancing sideways at the door.

See?For every line of dialogue, there was a corresponding character assigned to it.Dialogue tags and extra exposition helps.

Onthe other hand, for internal narration:

As much as Kise wanted to see Kasamatsu as soon as possible, hedecided to hold back since it was obvious his best friend needed a companion—anotion that Midorima rejected almost immediately, of course. Shintarou didn’tneed anyone tagging along with him as he switched from one department toanother. And he most definitely didn’t need Kise Ryouta pestering him withquestions about Takao.

Seehow in the first half, the narration was in Kise’s third-person POV, and thenon the other half, it’s Midorima’s? As long as you’re referring to who is thinkingat the moment and showing the readers whose mind it is you’re narrating,everything will be fine.

Thisalso works with dialogue-to-narration:

“You four are already in an agreement, correct?” he askedmatter-of-factly. The four high-schoolers paused at his words, staring at himin surprise and bubbling dread. There was something about the way the lightglinted off the math teacher’s glasses that warned them to be cautious, and sothey reluctantly nodded.

Thefirst sentence was in Koga-sensei’s POV, then the rest was showing what Kagami,Aomine, Kuroko, and Sakurai were experiencing.

Justkeep things simple. The best tip I can offer here is “if you’re gettingconfused by the transitions yourself,then chances are, your readers will be, too.”

Soagain:

1)Study your characters’ personas.

2)Research by finding similar works.

3)Being vague in storytelling is alright sometimes.

4)Social interaction with each character in a large group isn’t a must.

5)Don’t dump descriptions on your character all the time. (Unless you’re writingcomedy, but that’s for another lesson.)

6)Keep things simple so character transitions aren’t confusing or jarring.

That’sall I can think of for now. If you still have specific questions, don’t beafraid to message me! Honestly, though? Just keep on experimenting andpracticing with your writing. Read fanfics and do your research. That phasebetween DNAngel and KnB was my dominant experimental phase and actually, I’mstill improving and refining my own style, which you’ll notice if you check outmy new fics. Go and find your own style, too! :)