#PHEW thats a lot of fandom tags

[biscuitsofthesevenseas]

Jumping on the trend lol

Potential hot takes incoming-

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KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER.

tagged by: Stole it from @lambfated

tagging: You lovely folks! Thats right! YOU! READING THIS! YOU ARE DOOMED TO DO IT NOW!

Name: Cakes/ Brutal or llama! 

Pronouns: She/her

Preference of communication: Discord or tumblr :D

Name of muse(s): Russel (FNAF) Frankie ( COTL)  My beloved muses I am most active on

Experience/how long (months/years?): phew oh and off for about 10 years? Im a bit rusty as I take long breaks when a fandom dies down haha~

Platforms you’ve used: Discord, twitter, steam, flight rising! Not too many which is good because im bad at keeping track of things aaa

Pet peeves / dealbreakers: Ah, repeated breaking of my rules, taking control of my character making them do or say things without permission. Trying to force smut or relationships automatically instead of okaying it first. 

Fluff, angst, or smut: The furthest I will go with smut is things getting steamy and fading to black. Otherwise I do enjoy Fluff and some angst along with other genres to explore like horror or darker themes (within comfort of all parties obviously!) among many others

Plots or memes: I love plotting and talking about future threads along with hypothetical what if scenarios. I do enjoy Memes as they can be condensed into one silly or horrific scene outside plot and lore and has a chance for the muse to be an absolute GREMLIN.

long or short replies: I say I am a mix of both? Though if i had to pick between the two long for sure! 

Best time to write: When my muse isn’t being shy. With my new work routine likely between the hours of 4-7pm EST! 

Are you like your muse(s): I wish! Frankie has more fire and confidence than I could ever hope haha

[bellasauruss]

WINGS OF FIRE BOOK 15 THOUGHT BITS

major spoilers for the book, this isn't in order of as these things occur i am just thinking :P I LOVED the book btw I love Wings of Fire so much; before the tidbits, here's something from me:

People can sit and complain about all the minute details and inconsistencies and continuity errors, but wings of fire is a wonderful series with wonderfully written characters, who, at times aren’t the best, but the writing has its moments and overall, it is a great series

i love these characters, i loved getting to live through their eyes and see all of it wings of fire is a lovely little world and even with needed worldbuilding, it's amazing, it's so interesting with what we have and the content the fandom produces is enough proof of that.

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OKAY now my tidbit thoughts teehee --------

Bumblebee being described as "outraged; but that's how she always looks so it was hard to tell how she was feeling" is really funny to me and the entire fact that she's just an AWFUL toddler is so silly and cute

Axolotl tagging along in the very end and being like :D is very cool and i hope we get to see more of them

THE MOONS HAVE NAMES!!!!!!!! THATS SO COOOOOLLL; Imperial, Oracle, and perception AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THE NAMES LINE UP WITH THE NIGHTWING POWER

i love humans... so cool.... expanded the series so much; in my opinion the inclusion of humans expands the world building sooo much and the hate they get doesn't make sense to me haha

SEAWING BLUE BLOOD!! people keep going "wahh wahhh continuity error" but guys what if it's a retcon 👁 either way i dont care and it's CANON TO ME NOW AND IT'S COOL!! :D

green hivewing bug blood teehee ewwww i wonder if certain kinds of bloods burn or stink like actual bugs do

i think we should try and draw/recreate the tapestries Luna saw

"I love you, Dusky" RRNGGGG MY HEART THAT MADE ME SAD. THAT MADE ME SO SAD.

"Blue hesitated, biting one of his claws" dragons bite their nails this was a very needed point of information

i wanna draw the different kinds of silk SO BAD it's so cool!!

so many characters in scenes at the same time... i have an active imagination but even I wasn't able to see it all at the same time, phew! it was a lot but enjoyable, hard to get through in the beginning though.

i love bullfrog. i connect to him somehow, i dont know how but i do

wasp being taken out by poison death spit!!!!!! woohoo! two queens! two nickles

AWWWWWWW CRICKET'S LITTLE TREE!!! i forgot about it thats so cool that it lived and grew and is cool

dusky looks like he's on the verge of tears always in my mind in every single scene

luna and swordtail's unique wing designs on the cover are so pretty!!! I wish the fandom would edit bases more and depict silkwings with unique wing formations, i wonder how many different variations there are?

why is cottonmouth so unabashedly selfish and evil D: hate him so much

gosh i can't help but wondering what those ancient tribes from 5000 years before looked like? Where they different? The ones that flew over the farmland had weird colors that wouldn't make sense to go with each other (unless i read it wrong) were they hybrids? were they parts of tribes that hadn't split yet? Freedom would make sense since Freedom probably isn't a very definable tribe

I wonder what Freedom's tribe bloodline is :O

okay i probably have more rattling around in my head but that's all i can remember right now

also to cap it off, here's a fukin dusky

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#showyourprocess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES — When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

Big thank you to @fengqing for tagging me and I’ll do my best to explain how I made this set for Jiang Yanli! 

1. Planning

The beginning idea for this set actually stemmed from my Yanli birthday set for the @mdzsnet event, wherein I was working with this palette: 

The one thing I had to learn with using palettes, and is my biggest help to others, is SCENE CHOICE. It can make a difference between tearing your hair out and being happy with your final result, though there’s definitely some trial and error to it.

So I knew I wanted to make a gifset using each of the colours, and, for the light blue, immediately my mind went to the Gusu Lectures period of time, due to Cloud Recesses having a much more blue and light palette than many of the other settings in the show. The lightness of the blue made me lean towards outdoor scenes, and I immediately recalled the interaction between Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan where she slips and he catches her (episode 6). Thus off hunting I went until I found it. The final set actually came about because I had more footage than the original gif needed and I didn’t want a colouring I was quite proud of to be a one-and-done kind of thing. I also found the scene featuring the second gif, which had a similar palette in the episode, and decided to work it in as well (because I have weird moments of fussiness where two gifs isn't enough lol). 

2. Creating

I have all the episodes saved on my hard drive, so it’s a matter of finding the right scenes in the episodes and going from there. With my scenes found, I wrote down the timestamps in order to put it through Vapoursynth, which I use to crop, resize, sharpen, and denoise my gifs before importing them into Photoshop (I use a portable version). I trim them down to a relatively similar length (bc I like those sets to be similar), adjust the timing and, with all that done, we’re left with our base gifs like so!

Now onto the fun part! Colouring! I’m going to pop the rest under a read more because it’s image heavy!

I already had a pretty set colouring since this was overflow from another set, but I’ll break that down a bit as well. My first step is always to plop a couple of spots of the desired colour onto the very top layer of the canvas, because it makes judging if its in the right realm or not much easier, like so:

My go-to’s for base colouring is curves (which does a lot of heavy lifting on colour correcting for me) and a vibrance layer (to see what colours we’re working with). 

Then it’s about manipulating those colours into something closer to my desired one. Thankfully here my scene choice made life much easier as it’s already a light setting but it’s also already got a lot of cyan to work with. Threw on a few selective colour layers (focusing on lightening the cyan;

making the blues stand out more by removing the warmer tones;

correcting that green-ish tinge back to blue and making the cyan lighter again;

Now here is a little something I tend to do thats negligible but it makes me feel better about the colouring and thats a gradient map set to soft light, low opacity (20% here) using the pale blue and black. It just helps making the image a little more cool in tone in my opinion, and I put that UNDER my original curves layer;

And this is where we break out the brush! Obviously the darker colour on the left needed to be lightened up, so I went in with the palette colour on soft light at 100%;

and lighten at 50%;

Then I added another selective colour layer to lighten up the cyans and get closer to the palette colour;

Back to our brush! A layer on the right with soft light to give a bit more uniform colour across that expanse;

And lastly, I pulled a gradient of just the blue across the left to smooth out the colour on the edge of the frame, like it is on the opposite side (bc I’m obsessed like that);

Amidst all of this, I was using masks on the brush layers to account for Yanli’s movement and keep it from overlapping her skin, until finally I was happy (you’ll notice above the two circles are barely visible now) and we have this result!

My process was basically the same for the other two gifs in the set, with the second requiring a few more brush layers and gradients until we had all three looking spick and span!

Isn’t she pretty?

3. Posting

This here is where we pray Tumblr doesn’t destroy our hard work.

I mean, ahem. I don’t tend to save stuff to drafts unless I can’t finish it then and there, or I’ll pop it into the queue if it’s for a deadline. The gradient text is one of my favourite ways to caption on sets and I use a palette generator from an image website (google adobe colour palette from image) to pull out colours to use (I fiddle sometimes to get a gradient that looks good), before popping them into Cuvou's text fader (I’d link but Tumblr don’t like that but if you google it should come up). I then switch the text editor here over to HTML to pop in the code generated by the fader, add any other text styles I want (bold, small font or header size font, etc), preview the HTML, preview it on my blog a couple times and then once I’m happy, usually that’s it! It gets posted or queued and out into the aether it goes!

In this case, this was the final result of the gradient text in the caption;

Phew so that was... a lot for what amounted to a colouring and I’m sorry if y’all didn’t want a tutorial but here it basically is xD For the tagging I’m going to go outside the fandom just a bit and tag, but if you’ve already been tagged, don’t stress it!

@offtodef with this set

@sugarbabywenkexing with this set

@gusucloud with this set

@wanyinxichen​ with this set

@sarawatsaraleo​ with this set

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Ship Tag Game!!!!

hiii I was tagged to do this fun ship game by @spookykittendetective​ thank you so much for tagging me, this was so fun!!!!

I’m bad a tagging other people because I don’t know who wants to do these but if you read this and want to do it, I tag you!

1. First Ship - Gilbert/Anne from Anne of Green Gables

invented romance and slow burn!!! My mom is from the maritimes so I grew up on Anne of Green Gables and have always been in love with them!

2. First OTP - Jonesy/Nikki from 6teen

I’m not sure i can differentiate between otp and ship but ill say these guys here. i love this bicons, they deserve the world!

3. Current fave ship - Peter/MJ from Spiderman

i love them with my entire being um yeah!!!

4. Your ship since the first minute - Would it be cheating to say Anne/Gilbert from Anne with an E

I’m saying these two as separate from aogg because it was such a different turn from their original story that I often did not prefer lol but still enjoyed and I loved their first meeting (though not as much as in the book/1985 version)

5. You wish they had been endgame - ??

this one is hard because i dont ship anything knowing its not endgame because i’m sensitive. idk im sure there are lots of ships that i wish were endgame but then I don’t really ship them lol

6. You wish they had become canon - Charles/Erik from X-men

or are they....

7. Most of the fandom hates, but you love - Sylvie/Loki from Loki

idk about most of the fandom but i see mostly hate on my dash

8. You don't even watch the show, but you ship them anyways - Those gays from Roswell, New Mexico

i watched a clip when the cowboy one took his hat off to kiss the other and then he was like phew or whatever after the kiss and i was like wow thats love

9. You wish they had a different storyline - Nikita/Michael from Nikita

i love them and I love the first season so so much i just wish they didnt spend so much time like not together especially near the end of the series idk i just wanted them to be happy

10. Fave ship that is endgame - Bella/Edward from Twilight

hello!!!!!!!!!!!

[suenala]

BTS-story ; well, here i am.

episode 3 ; 'please come!'

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[genre] ; fluff

[fandom] 방탄소년단

[⚠] ; cuss cuss ssuc

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Lunch starts and everyone heads to the cafeteria. I was more in the back of the studio because every time lunch started, it would be chaotic. Everybody wanted to get there first so they could get the food nicely fresh and warm. I always bought my own food because the people who were last always hogged the microwave to warm up their food, I always hated standing in line so I always bought a nice sandwich (it was four slices and yes I ate them all ヽ（´ー｀）┌) or something. I waited until everyone left the studio and packed my things after I was about to walk to my locker I felt someone’s hand grab my shoulder. I had put my earbuds on after the Manager made the announcement so I couldn't hear anything after I took a second to realize it was someone's hand, I took the earbuds out and turned around.

Yn: "Yes-oh"

???: "Hello! My name is uh-"

Yn: "Jhope, i know haha."

Jhope: "Ah-haha, i forgot we were celebrities...heh-Oh, um, i saw you dancing earlier! Well, before you got interrupted, you were really good!" -He smiles at me very kindly, laughing a bit awkwardly with his hand on his neck and starts to blush- "I was wondering if you were auditioning? You look like you were working very har-"

???: "Hyung! Stop bothering her!

He quickly turns around and then looks back at me.

Jhope: "Ah..Jimin, i-" -jimin bows and tries to pull him back to the others but he doesn't even budge-

Yn: -i bite the inside of my cheeks, trying not to laugh. They were so cute! I raise my eyebrows and tilt my head a bit-

Jhope: "Can't you see im trying to have a conversation right now????" -as he’s looking at jimin, he rolls his eyes and crosses his arms-

Jimin: -sigh- "Hyung! Can't you see she doesn't care?"

Yn: "U-uhm.."

They both immediately turn their attentions toward me.

Yn: “I will be auditioning..but just please, treat me like the others! Not just because i can dance!”

Jhope: -giggles- "Your wish is my command! Well, this kid won't stop buggin' so see you then!”

Jimin: “Yea! See you later too!"-jimin smiles brightly and waves goodbye with his arm wrapped with jhopes-

I sighed and unlocked my locker and placed my belongings inside, thinking about what just happened is actually kind of funny and cute, will it really be okay if i win this?

time ; 12:37 PM

-Lunch has started-

I sit on an empty staircase with a couple of my friends as we eat lunch.

???: "Hey, yn!"

Yn: -im playing around on my phone in one hand and a half-eaten sandwich in the other- "Hm, what?"

???: "Yn, don't talk to your phone, talk to me!"

Yn: -i furrow my brows and look at her- "What'h?! What do you need so badly, Fee??"

Fee: "YOU NEVER READ WHAT I SENT YOU ON INSTAGRAMMMMM!!!"

Yn: "What'r talking about?"

Henry: "Fee, shut up, you're too loud." -fee snaps her head to henry in annoyance-

Fee: "You shut up- Yn, check your damn dm's!"

Yn: -i look back at my phone and sigh as i take another bite from my meal- "oH, yUh dish teck me."

Henry: "Finish what's in your mouth yn, geez."

Yn: "Mhm, yeah sorry."

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Yn: "Yeah, The manager just talked about this."

Fee: "You idiot, i sent that on thursday."

Yn: "I should probably sign up, one of the members asked me if i was and i said yeah." -i didn't realize how half-heartedly I had said that until fee SMACKS my back-

Yn: "Ow! Fee what the fuck!"

Fee: "He-Wh-I-Who?!" -she yells at me with her mouth half full, literally spitting bits of crackers in my face whilst i just stare at her with my eye wide in concern-

Henry: "EAT WITH OUR MOUTH CLO-"

Fee: "SHUT UP HENRY!" -henry moves up a step to sit farther from the bacteria bot-

Yn: "Uh, Jhope did but i also talked to Jimin." -i say as i take another bite until she HITS ME AGAIN-

Fee: "No shit! For real?!"

Yn: -i start coughing and struggling to say I'm choking- "W-wat-tar!!"

Henry: "Look what you did you buffoon!" -he flicks fee on the forehead and hands me my water bottle-

Fee: "Ow!..im sorry."

Henry: "Yeah you better be."

Fee: "Henry shut up!"

Henry: "Tsk."

Fee says she can send me the link for the online application so i can apply and honestly, i im kinda nervous- but i dont know who said that 👀.

time ; 2:30 PM

-Lunch ends-

I stood back where i was when i was practicing this morning and noticed a long white TABLE set in front of the windows. The boys were standing with pink clipboards and next to the table a whole other stack of boards on the floor, which were blue, soon after everyone had entered from lunch, and the manager walked in.

Manager: "Okay, on the farther end of the table we have name tags with numbers and names obviously. All applications that were submitted passed 1:50pm were not entered since that was the deadline and after that we had all the names randomize and numbered so it didn't matter how early or late you submitted them. Alright! Everyone listen up because I'm only gonna say this once!

The pink boards are representing the girls and on the boards are a couple pages numbered from 1 to 130. Same for the blue ones, in the box behind Namjoon are tags about 260 but split in half. Each person will get one and whoever has the #1 will go on until #2 and so on, everyone will perform a solo choreography that they have made or a solo dance they've learned and with a group or not-whatever. After the females have finished the members (BTS) will see who have passed to go on then it's the males turn, next they’ll show if they can do the following; Sing, or Rap, the people the members select to move on will go on to the next round which the members will decide what will the challenge be. Then they will choose 5 females and 5 from the males also, those 10 will go to another round and the members will choose three people from them to become a trainee. They have dedicated their time into auditions to just THIS studio so please respect that. They can leave whenever they want, disrespect will not be tolerated. Phew! That was a lot but everyone got it?!”

Everyone: "Yes ma'am!!"

Manager: Oh! Those three by the way, whoever they may be, its like a death round, one of those three will eventually debut and the other two will be sent back home. Since these seven boys are generous, the top 10 will be able to make 2 collabs (song) with them as a reward for the hard work and everyone else who auditioned will get free concert tickets so dont be so bummed out okay? I believe in all of you so do your best!"

Everyone: "Thank You!!"

The manager left with all the males following behind her as a bunch of girls raced to Namjoon as he was helping pass out tags. Before lunch had ended, everyone got a text telling their numbers so it was less of a hassle but still....

Namjoon: "Ladies! A single line please!"

BTS: -Laughing at Namjoons failure-

Namjoon: "Help me!" -He gives off a dark glare to all the members and eventually someone steps up- "Thank you Hyung."

Jin: "Okay, I can help here too! Please form another line!"

Me and Fee just stand back in awe, staring at all the chaos girls can cause.

Me: "Wow, thats amazing." -i stand with my back against the mirror and my arms cross, contemplating if i should go and die in the crowd-

Fee: "Can't relate." -i look over at fee and raise a brow-

Yn: "Oh?" -i grab her hand and pull her to a line and gesture her to stay as i wait in the other-

Fee: "Really? Can't you come here?"

Yn: "Wha-What? Sorry, i can't hear you over these fangirls!"

Fee: "i sa-" -sigh- "I SAID COME HERE!"

Yn: -puts earbuds in and looks away-

Fee: "i give up. Truly the biggest brat."

It seemed like it took forever, just standing there and to be honest, at this point I didn't care if i got in or not;

But FINALLY it was my turn, he helped me find my tag and winked at me, I just gave him a quick smile and walked off. I didn't think much as Jin was always the one out of everyone to send hearts and winks and all the girls were ALL over him for that, it was c r a z y.

After that, all the girls grabbed their clothes and headed to the locker room to change into more comfortable clothing.

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rules:

always repost the rules

answer the questions given to you by the one who tagged you!

give 11 questions

tag 11 people

i was tagged by @isakvdhflorenzi, ty miss lorena <3 1. Is the social media presence of the characters important to how you view the quality of the remake/show?

hm well skam nl is my favorite and their social media game is trash LMAOOO so generally No but i do feel like remakes who DO have such a good presence kind of elevate the show and i think it’s pretty heartwarmin to see some remakes go sm farther than skam with social media and puttin out educational and IN CHARA resources like skames does this so well and i feel like in that way, the team is really really spreadin skam’s spirit via these resources (like joana’s billion bpd awareness ig accounts and lucas rubio’s yt channel)

2. Least favourite clip of the show? Why?

tbh there are definitely some duds but probably one of the clips with sana gettin herself into a hole in s4 just bc some were hard to watch cus cringey or yikes .... idk i cant think of others LMAO

3. Which character did you feel the most connected to and why?

ijeoiqjiwoij even tho even is my all time fave skam chara, i have to say isak for all of these reasons 

4. Your least favourite part of every season?

season 1 - tbh even though i really enjoyed this season, it does take a while for it to build up like i rmr at first not being that interested until ep6 maybe ?? which is hard when you’re trying to get your friends to watch but they have to wait until ep6 before shit starts RLLY buildin up and gettin wild

season 2 - hm ig noora chasin after william ??

season 3 - bro NOTHINGGG call me a purist but its such a refined masterpiece like the pacing is good the characterization is so good ugh i deadass cant think of anythin

season 4 - i always felt a little ??? w noora being sana’s bff ig bc from s1-s3 it didn’t Feel like they were that close like even in noora’s pov, sana wasn’t really a part of it that much ?? like eva was more of noora’s bff ?? so i feel like it would have made more sense if maybe sana spoke more with chris or vilde bc sana and vilde eventually seemed to get closer esp with kosegruppa and chris has always been by sana’s side ?? idk that always confused me

5. What is your opinion on the cast’s participation on social media? Do you prefer it when the cast aren’t that involved like the Skam cast, or do you like a lot of content like the Fr cast do?

tbh i don’t care much abt the casts LMAOOO if anythin it kind of brings more harm as seen with the harassment axel and maxence get and also can bring more controversy like with irene (which honestly is p sad considerin how much i love skames bc now i feel super :/ watchin it like she shouldve just had private accts at this point)

6. Favourite song you found from Skam or the remakes?

OMFGGG love this question .... def doorman by slowthai and mura masa bc its one of my fave songs now and i got it from skam nl <3 ugh taste

7. If you could decide which characters from Skam got a season, who would you choose?

OOOHHH ugh torn bc i like isak’s pov but also i want even’s so might have to forfeit isak season for even season ....... hm so probs vilde, sana, even, noora (maybe not w william tho) and honestly maybe jonas too ??

8. Are there any moments that you liked in the show that everyone else seems to hate?

IJXDWQOIJJ yes .... remakes-wise, people hate skam nl s2’s last half but i enjoyed it for the most part ... i think the pacing was off for the last ep but personally, clip 50 made up for it and is p god tier imo ..... and also don’t think the first half of ep10 is enough to discredit the entire season bc i rlly loved seeing liv’s pov and have sm fave moments from the season 

but skam wise, omg might get a lil controversial w this one IM SORRY !!! im bein honest and its Just my opinion ok 

personally s2 got me more invested than s1 and i don’t think its a super bad season like i didnt really say many problems wrong with it until i got on tumblr wiejioqjoiqjq i was sort of interested in the questions that the noora/william dynamic brought up which is, as expressed in william’s war speech to noora, that nothing is ever black/white which i feel was a huge message and feeds into the ‘you never know what ppl are going through’ theme of the season ... like i like the idea of someone like noora, who can have a black/white mentality (as seen in the first clip of s2 when she tells vilde that they can’t have the tannin company as their sponsor bc they objectify women or smth but misses the context and what it could mean for the bus monetarily bc shes caught up in bein ‘woke’) having to break out of that and see more than one side ... and i think remakes like skam austin expanded on this idea well like when zoya was like ‘must be so nice being right all the time’ which i Do feel like is an important for youth to know today .... bc i think its so easy to get caught up in the idea of being so objectively right and morally superior that people lose sight of the more nuanced characteristics to life ... (omg long ramble BUT)

also LMAOOOOO this one might be more controversial as it pertains to bench scene s4 ok oops again doNT GOTTA AGREE !! ........ but i feel like the scene had a lot of good intentions ... i was def kind of cringing a bit tho bc i understand the subject’s sensitivity and how these topics are hard to talk about but i genuinely feel like they both made Some points and should listen to each other .... like as Hard and as maybe ‘unwoke’ it is to admit, unfortunately you sort of do have to answer the tough questions bc that way we learn from each other .... and i perfectly understand why some ppl wouldn’t want to do this and i certainly am tired abt havin to answer shit abt my sexuality or stupid male questions abt women but if u dont answer them, people do go lookin for answers still and the internet is such a shitty place that its pretty easy (esp with youtube’s algorithm) to lead you to ignorant ppl and perhaps radicalization .... questions help us to better understand our community and sometimes they can have good intentions too but we have to ask and answer them or else people will make up answers (which ive literally seen and its honestly worse to see fake as shit and UNINFORMED answers bc ppl did not want to ask you or ppl of ur identity, esp when they’re already startin from a place of hate .... but i rather have ppl ask me patronizing questions than have them spread false info bc that can do much more harm in the long run) however i DO think that isak should also consider sana’s side and i sort of wish we saw him conceding more bc they both have smth to learn from one another, like sana shouldn’t just be learnin from isak, isak needs to learn from sana too

PHEW SORRY QWIOJQWIO girl i just got opinions on some things this is when my desc rlly comes in handy .... oqjdwqioj

9. What did you learn from the show?

omg honestly too much to write here tbh ..... but if it says anythin im (very slowly) in the works of a three part skam essay about basically how skam teaches us to be better humans and how to better treat the people we care about diowjqioj essentially the three biggest themes of the show: you never know what someone is going through so always be kind, always communicate with your friends, and no person is ever alone and i feel like these are definitely rlly good messages to live by (also livet er nå BITCH !!!)

10. What is your favourite headcanon about your favourite characters?

omg tbh i could not tell u at all how the skam charas are doing except i hope even is okay thats all im thinkin of ok .... OIWXIOJX omg remakes wise tho ..... honestly im so bad at this girl IDK !!!!! LMAO i have to really think i have a bit of vdh and dutch even but thats bc we know like Zero abt them so its easier oijwiojqio idk liv and noah bein cute as shit ..... OH WAIT personally i feel like janna got a bunch of pansexual energy so my BIGGG hc is that she’s pan also bc she’s one of my all time fave charas and my fkn url so itd be dope if she was pan ok boom

11. What is your opinion on fanfiction in the fandom?

tbh i don’t read skam fanfiction but i don’t mind reading some from the remakes (tho still its rare) ... eiojeioqw i just don’t trust anyone but julie to write skam charas bc i think that’s how precious the show is to me LMAO like idk everything ive seen of skam fanfiction and ficlets and one shots, i could never get into bc the tone is just so out of character or there will be lines that just take me out of the fic bc im like this !!!! is not !!! how the chara acts !!!! so yeah idk not rlly a fan bc of my purist ass but i dont mind others reading it

Questions:

1. Favorite quote of the show?

2. Which country would you like to see have the next remake? Do you have any headcanons?

3. Which season would you rewrite and how would you rewrite it?

4. What clips do you personally like or don’t mind, but others hate?

5. Which songs do you think SKAM or the remakes should have included? For which moments?

6. Who would you give SKAM season five to and what topics and themes would it cover?

7. What moment spoke to you or touched you from SKAM the most?

8. How did you find SKAM? How did you feel about it right after watching?

9. Have you shared SKAM with any friends in real life? What did they think of it?

10. Of the remakes, which characters are your favorite of their SKAM counterparts? (Ex. who is the best Vilde remake? Eva? etc.)

11. How do you feel about the SKAM (and remakes) tumblr fandom?

I tag: @smileykeijser @whatadaze @queenofpurgatoryx @itlukey @skamyeets @shaykeijser @megeliz01 @isakcijser @wackpainterkid @axelauriantblot @kar-d-momme

(omg ik some of yall have been tagged so just ignore if u dont want to do it ok im srry it was in the RULES!)

[perfectlyrose]

2017 fic in review

alright alright finally getting in gear and doing this!! I was tagged by @chocolatequeennk, @lvslie, @aneclipsedhabitue, @jemsauce, @lastbluetardis, and @ofstormsandwolves (phew. thanks y’all!!)

total number of completed stories:    

Umm... first count is 177 fics. Now, many of those are super short but I counted anything with a title, so... yeah. some of those aren’t up on AO3 or might have been folded into a ficlet collection. Also I mildly cheated and counted WIPs updated or started this year.

according to my monthly round up posts, i also have ~133 prompt meme responses of various sorts of fic.

total word count: 

According to my potentially unreliable math skills from my monthly round ups... 140,979 words

fandoms written in: 

Doctor Who, Teninch (Broadchurch, A Passionate Woman, Casanova, Mansfield Park), Rogue One, Hamilton, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Wonder Woman, Marvel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?

I think the sheer volume of fic is more than I expected, but the word count seems about right, maybe a bit more than I expected.

what’s your own favorite story of the year?

hmmm, they are all my children but I’m going to go with something I don’t mention anywhere else on this thing (me, answering this question last) and so... Counterspell. This was me coming back to a series I hadn’t added to in almost two years but still loved and I’m so happy to be back in it and I hope to be writing more of the everyday magic verse soon!

did you take any writing risks this year?

Yes!! I branched out a LOT this year. I really fully embraced my love of writing femslash and I’ve had so much fun writing a wide variety of pairings just to see how they work.

I’ve also dipped my toes into a couple of other fandoms  and oh my god I was so scared but people were so welcoming and I hope to do more of that this year.

do you have any fanfic or profit goals for the new year? I

Ficwise, I would like to work on and maybe finish a few of my WIPs, namely the Amy/Rose superhero AU, Burning Gold, obscured, and Up In Flames. I’ve got a couple of updates in the works and a WIP that i’ve started but haven’t started to post yet. I would also like to work on branching out some more shipwise and fandomwise on occasion, just to keep myself challenged by working with new characters and in new universes.

Not necessarily profit goals, but I also want to work a lot more on original writing this year. It terrifies me but I think I’m ready to try.

best story of the year?

it’s not a single story but i wrote the last five installments of the a young mountain and a strange girl series this year and I’m really proud of them and how they and the whole series came out.

most popular story of the year?

help i need somebody (not just anybody) - the Ten/Rose fake dating au, is far and away my most popular fic of the year kudos wise and probably tumblr-wise as well tbh

a night to remember - a smutty, smutty console room smut Ten/Rose smut fic outstripped everything else in terms of AO3 hits though. (smut always does. i see you people ;) )

story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

build me up from bones - i fully understand that this is such a niche fic because it’s fem!eight/rose but i poured my whole heart into this one and i was so proud of it and it just... did not give a whole lot back, I guess. But I’m still really super happy with it. It was one of the first/only times I’ve written telepathy and am pleased with how it came out

most fun story to write:

there are a lot of candidates for this one but I really enjoyed writing hell of a first date, a twelve/rose au where they meet in the back of a police car where Rose is decidedly... unclothed

also i had SO MUCH fun writing my large array of femslash ships and all of those can generally be found here

story with the single sexiest moment:

mmm, most probably a night to remember. Console room sex with mild BDSM themes, always a winner in my book tbh

I’m also fond of a ruthless game which is all a version of foreplay but with guns and knives and assassins 

most sweet story:

Do you know how much sugary sweet fluff I write?? it’s a lot!!

but umm, maybe a little slice of heaven. Ten/Rose bakery AU so it’s sweet by multiple definitions!

“holy crap, thats wrong, even for you!” story:

hmmm, I have a couple contenders. (both written in April. I was in a Mood apparently)

kill of the night - a Dark Bad Wolf Rose fic (mind the warnings)

varying definitions of art - an original piece that features an assassin with discerning taste 

story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters & most unintentionally telling story:

Hmmm, any of my femslash tbh. I like teasing out different aspects of the characters and figuring out how these characters would interact with each other. Also, all very telling as this last year was the year that I finally said I was a lesbian for the first time. (It’s still nervewracking saying that jfc)

hardest story to write:

do i chase the night (or does the night chase me) was SO NERVEWRACKING because it was a new fandom for me (Rogue One) and I was so nervous about writing the characters correctly and getting things right. @sequencefairy can tell you how much angst i went through on this

biggest disappointment:

Up In Flames. damn but i’m so disappointed that i didn’t work on this more, that it wasn’t really grabbing anyone’s attention because it’s the sequel to Watch it Burn which is my baby and i just wanted to to do well and then I stalled partially because i was struggling with the plot and partially because i was a bit disheartened at the lack of response

biggest surprise:

All the ships I wrote this year and how well received they were by all of y’all who put up with me branching out! I wrote a whole smorgasbord of Doctor/Rose, including Fem!Doctor, everything from Clara/Rose to Martha/Bill in the femslash world, Twelve/Clara and Twelve/River, RebelCaptain and WonderTrev and even a bit of original fic! It’s been quite the year and one that I did not anticipate in many ways.

I think most people have been tagged already so sorry if this is a repeat but um... @lesbidar, @rumple-belle, @rose-tylers, @goingtothetardis and anyone else who’s been waiting to be tagged! you’re it, do the thing, i have now tagged you

[cinaea]

I, M and Q for the fanfic ask meme? Sorry if thats too much or youve already answered one of those, btw, i absolutely adored trinity + volition, am super excited for the up coming part and hope youre having a lovely day!!

Hello, munchkin! Thank you for responding to the FanFic Meme!(This is a reminder to everyone else that they’re also welcome to send me anask!) I’m gonna take these out of order, to end on a fluffy note.

I: Do you have a guiltypleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Let’s go with reading, ‘nony, because the next bit showcasesone of those guilty pleasures in my writing. Prepare for TMI, but hey, youasked. I browse the Tentacles tag on AO3 when I’m trying to get in the mood, ifyou know what I mean. Just about any fandom (no matter how obscure or badlywritten), I’ll read it as long as it’s short, complete, and explicit. I’m notlooking for thousands of words of character development—I want the raunchystuff up front. Bring me that sweet, dub-con xenophilia, baby.

In case you’re already sorry you asked, let’s move on toeven more disturbing pastures. Triggerwarning for dub-con in this one, folks, though if you’ve read Volition, I suspectyou’re comfortable rolling these dice.

Q: Do you have anydiscarded scenes/storylines/projects?

While writing Chapter 8 of Volition, I realized therehad been a pacing problem since Chapter 4, and that I was risking drawing out thedays of the interrogations too long to keep readers engaged. Also, man, commentershad turned against Steve hard, which hadn’t exactlybeen my intent—I’d hoped that general fanon love for Steve would help readerssee through that part of Bucky’s unreliable narrative.

Sidebar for an example: There’s amoment in Chapter 11 where Steve decides to stop kissing Bucky, and Bucky thinksto himself how self-righteous Steve’s being, thinking he knows anything abouttrauma. And I’m like: Surely people will see that this is a ridiculous thing to think about Steve;Steve has experienced plenty oftraumas and knows how they can fuckyou up. Fuck you, Bucky, you’re awful here.But no, commenters agreed with Bucky, and that was even after I’d sped up the outline to bring up some of Steve’s backstorysooner in Chapters 9 and 10.

So yes, I’d made a critical mistake and bogged down the 25-50%of the story with lots of incidents that essentially spun their wheels and didn’tbring Bucky and Steve any closer. I needed to get to the kissing and the disastrousbonding ASAP. I did some shuffling and condensed the planned Chapters 9-to-12into 9-to-11, sacrificing a few unsuccessful interactions and one big, momentousshowstopper that was planned but never written.

If you thought the failed D/s scene near the finale was high-stakes,just wait until you hear about the semi-disastrous blow job I had planned forwhat was originally Chapter 11, the day between the kiss in Tony’s lab and theirbonding! The goal was to introduce some sexuality into the story, as well asone more instance of all three of them fucking up. That meant putting Bucky ina desperate headspace where he’d be willing to do just about anything to securehis friends’ safety, while Tony and Steve were oblivious to Bucky’s skewedinterpretation of events.

Following the nerve-wrackinginterrogation that came dangerously close to revealing that Bucky had killedfor Mentallo willingly, Bucky stumbles to his doms’ bedroom in the middle ofthe night, anxious to convince them to bond, and finds them grinding againsteach other in bed. Bucky’s libido has been muted since assaulting Clint, but hecan’t help but watch from the doorway.

Tony spots him and coaxes him tojoin them. They all move to the edge of the bed, and they take turns kissing Bucky,who’s not sure if he’s into this, but he needs them to want him, and he feelslike he can’t risk saying ‘no,’ but they keep inviting him to greaterintimacies (because Tony’s problem in the first half is how much he assumes about Bucky), and he can’t seemto catch his breath or find his footing.

Steve ends up kneeling on the floorbetween Bucky’s legs, and Tony rubs Bucky’s arm and shoulder and kisses hisneck, urging Bucky to “Let him/he wants this so bad/etc.” Steve unzips Bucky'spants and pulls out his half-hard cock (it feels good but also weirdlysickening, he hasn't been even this hard in years), but Bucky's not sure hecan/should; this isn’t what he came for but doesn’t he owe it to his friends(uncomfortable echoes of the Ebersol mindset)? Tony puts Bucky's hand inSteve's hair and tells him he's in control, because of course that’s what Tony thinks Bucky needs. Bucky reflexivelytightens his hand in Steve's hair, and Steve takes that as a command and leansforward, maybe whispering "please." His dom is begging, and Bucky’s instincts and his brain both say he should lethim have what he wants, but.... Steve may possibly make skin contact, but Buckypanics and dashes out of the room. Or else Tony manages to talk Bucky throughthe entire blow job, but Bucky’s in a messed-up headspace the entire time, andcomes with a wave of guilt.

In looking for a way to condense the middle chapters, Iconfronted just how disturbingly dub-con the moment was, and ultimately I feltgood about cutting it. Aren’t we all glad I made that choice? The story didn’tneed any more train wrecks, and theirrelationship is healthier for not having included such a messed up sex scene.

Phew! That was dark. Let’s end on whimsy!

M: Got any premiseson the back burner that you'd care to share?

I’ve got this half-formed Bucky/Steve idea that I’d love tosomeday find the time to write, but I’ve got three more big stories to get outfirst (two in Trinity Universe, and one in GGundam). Who knows if I’ll ever find the time? It’s a ~fairytale mashupthat combines aspects of @astolat‘sfabulous The Crown of theSummer Court, the too-brilliant JonathanStrange and Mr. Norrell, a dash of the DresdenFiles novels, and a whole bunch of Fairy lore I’ve consumed over the years. Thepremise goes something like this:

Steve and Bucky are childhood friends in village on the edgeof a woods. One day Bucky wanders alone too far into the woods in search ofherbs to use as medicine for Steve, and ventures into a Fairy Ring. The Faesnatch Bucky away and replace him with a changeling that wastes away and dieswithin a week. Everyone believes the switch except Steve, who discovers thepiece of wood where Bucky’s body should be [something something the wood as stand-infor the metal arm? to be developed]. Steve studies everything he can about theFae over the years, and finally a passing sorcerer (Howard? Tony?) gives Stevethe potion that upgrades his sickly body to Cap body, and takes Steve along when he leaves town. Steve quests for years tofind Bucky, and [plot point to be determined] finds himself in the land of theFae, where he’s to serve as the champion for a Fairy Lord. Unbeknownst toSteve, the champion of the rival Fairy Lord is the Winter Soldier, a practicallymute human foundling who has spent more than a decade in Faerie and has beenspelled to forget his human past. The Winter Soldier is tasked with seducingSteve into violating some rule of hospitality before their scheduled match.Steve resists manfully even as he realizes it’s Bucky, and he makes it a termof his continued service to his sponsoring Lord to restore Bucky’s memory andfreedom if Steve wins. There’s a tournament, plenty of canoodling that Steve’shard pressed to deny, and an eventual happy ending.

…That’s about all I’ve figured out so far. Lots of pining, Faerierules lawyering, dueling, manly yearning,etc. I haven’t yet planned how to work in Peggy and/or Sam. T’Challa wouldlikely be the Fae Lord sponsoring Steve. Did I mention rules lawyering? Becauseyeah, I was going to have to come up with that twist, too. Difficult.

This has been fun, peeps! Let’s do more asks! And hey, ifyou like these Ask responses? Like my writings? Feel free to buy me a coffee sometime. After all, Iwrote this post from a Starbucks. Mama has an expensive habit.

[actmale]

So I really need to get this off my chest. I learned about Griffin and the McElroys from a side sort of view (from a distance) just hearing about their good content. I didn’t really get into anything that actually involved their personalities (because amiibo corner is just a shitpost) until I learned about Cool Games Inc. which was suggested to me on youtube and I watched tons of bits and pieces and fell in love with both Griffin and N!ck.

I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts and so has my wife; we enjoy them on our long drives but it wasn’t until recently that we had any podcast we could listen to together. I decided to give Cool Games Inc. a go since I knew I liked the highlights so the whole thing couldn’t be bad. My wife and I both listened to it and loved it and joked and talked about it. It was something we could share between the two.

The night after talking about it with some friends and joking, the big N!ck “fiasco” happened. I was at work and I saw something my friend posted and looked into it and found out about the whole thing. I felt super upset to my stomach. My job is a lot of driving so I get a lot of time to listen to things, so music and podcasts have become a very important part of my life. Listening to so much music, however has given me a lot of sensory sensitivity problems, though, and this was a day I could definetly not listen to music.

I was upset for a lot of reasons. I was upset because I needed to listen to talking because of my sensory problems, but I couldn’t listen to CGI. I was also upset because in all honesty N!ck was becoming my favorite. But, also I was upset because I felt let down by him; there is so much I expected. I wanted to view all his content as though none of this had ever happened, but it had, and I could never have that be undone. It reminded me a lot of how badly I coped with the death of Satoru Iwata except this was a social death of a person, caused by their own actions.

I’m shitty and was raised as a male, so my entire life I have done problematic shit, and honestly I still do. I’ve been trying to undo it since I gained self awareness to how society acts, but I won’t lie and say that I’m cured; I’m still pretty shitty. This is most noticeable by my reaction to seeing evidence of N!ck’s actions. My first reaction was just “phew it’s not as bad as everyone made it sound, it’s just cringy flirting”. I felt this way because people I know and including me are capable and likely to flirt in such a manner. It was shitty and wrong.

So I put myself through the motions. People continued to point out hos behavior with the evidence and call it harrasment, so I asked myself. “Do I even know what ‘harrasment’ means?” and in all honesty I fucking don’t. I thought about it a lot, how all this was unsolicited and I thought about how my male friends still flirt. I sat there and thought about how they could also be harrasing women and I felt gross. My friends are harrasing women, likely, and that’s fucked up. I figured I was just too distant from the word and biased to judge and decided that even though I, as a person that was raised male, didn’t understand what harrasment was and how N!ck acted was harrasment I wouldn’t let that stop me from thinking what N!ck did was wrong.

I still had some negative feelings over N!ck’s content. I was looking forward to seeing it all, especially Car Boys and now I couldn’t or could I? I didn’t know. Just like I didn’t know what was considered harrasment, I didn’t know if it was okay to see his content. It left me messed up, because I love him and his content, but I had to not like him. Even after seeing posts that it was okay to watch and like his content, I couldn’t put myself to do it. N!ck’s content is so personality based, it’s as much him as it is whatever he is playing/doing. There is no way to fall in love with his content without falling in love with him. And, though, I couldn’t prevent the affection I already had towards him, I could prevent any more affection.

I kept up to date, every day multiple times checking over and over the tags for n!ck and polygon hoping for some consensus but also with great worry. With nothing said on the subject I was always worried If wake up one morning to the news that something terrible happened to him as if checking the tags more often would prevent something like that. I told my wife my worries and I aired my grievences to her, told her about my problems and my maleraised way of thinking and how shitty all this is. I felt shittiest however because I often wished this had not happened or that this had happened later, and thats probably the shittiest scenario. If all this had not come out or had happened later that would have been more time that the truth would not have been known, and more victims to what N!ck was doing. I felt shittiest for making this about myself and not the people that this is about.

I’ve been making do lately by listening to The Adventure Zone, partly at a friends request and partly from actively building a campaign for D&D. Today there was finally an update and N!ck has been let go and he made an apology. I read it, and let out a sigh. His apology was good in my eyes, he showed self awareness and he showed signs of atleast wanting to change. He was being let go and he is willing to change and I feel those two things are the best scenarios.

I have since looked at the reactions to what he has said and a lot of people are still angry at him and even more people are not accepting his apology. When I think about it, it really is an apology to the public and not to the victims. I guess this is just a thing that male shitty culture has numbed me to, bad apologies. So again, I have decided to not let my reaction and opinions take over me. Despite me thinking his apology is good I will side with people who understand better than I. He is not redeemed and his damage not undone. Just because I can’t see his flaws doesn’t mean I won’t treat him like he doesn’t have any. I will attempt to see hin flawed like other people do, even if I don’t fully understand it myself because that will help me understand and remove things from my personality that male culture has numbed me to.

I do rest easier however. I do feel comfortable seeing his content again, maybe because I hope he does eventually become less shitty as no one would hope he remains the same. I am still hoping with the coming time that he apologize better and do something more proactively good. I can’t say I don’t love the idea of N!ck but I will do my best not to like him. I am sorry that in this entire proccess I thought mostly of myself and held and still do hold bad views, but a public figure loved by many was treated justly when doing something wrong. I’ve never been more proud of justive being done properly, and victims being believed and treated well even by people close to N!ck. I hope this becomes a great “un-numbing” to shitty parts of male culture, so people like me won’t have to side with the oppressor or relate to them.

I still apologize to the victims for maki g any of this about me. I apologize for continuing to hold bad views and continuing to not understand the terminology and what’s going on. I’ve never been good with words and their understanding and using them well but that does not undo the problem. Being raised male and numbed to toxic behaviour does not make it okay and, though trying to help it, I will be the first to say I am not there yet and will never be. I will continue to better my views and try to understand. If literally anyone bothered to read all this, that knows me or doesnt, in the fandom or not, understanding or not, please tell me how you feel about this situation. It is hard for me to comprehend and put into words but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be put into them. And if there is anything you can say to help me better my thought process a future me and the people I am around will be forever grateful.