#THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!

[thelunadiviner]

i was tagged by @renegadeem DAYS ago (sowwy for how late this is!) so... it is time!

"9 people you want to get to know better"

3 ships:

valenwind--i mean... come on LOL this one has been with me since i was 11 or 12 (over a decade now!). extremely foundational and, even when i wasn't actively into FF7, has been on my mind ever since i played the game years ago. something something red and blue gays, something something dark hair and blonde hair, something something short and tall. they just fulfill so many good "tropes" and also god i just like these characters SO much its unbelievable. i cannot wait for (what i hope is) the sheer amount of screenshots and screen records of the third part of FF7:R when they are PLAYABLE. the party banter... oh lord...

VKaz--ok... so i am actually a massive Metal Gear Solid fan. i got into it around-ish the same time as i got into FF7 and wow did it change my brain chemistry. there are a few MGS ships that are bone deep in me, but VKaz does something else to me. its blinding. its visceral. its like... wow. it doesn't help that Kaz is probably my favorite character in the game and Venom is sooooo. yeah. cute... idk! but i could probably talk about these guys for literally hours. and it would be incomprehensible. ik this is my squeenix blog but if anyone ever wants to talk MGS with me...

tie (sorry LOL) between akusai and stakhemy--those are so so so different but whatever LOL. akusai is also ages old, one of my first ships. i actually used to be much more into xemsai but akusai has taken the reins. KH is also a decade+ interest of mine (my late childhood/early teen trifecta was KH, FF7, and MGS) so i have so much to say... also i think i am in love with Saix lowkey. now, stakhemy is a new one and much more niche (any Pathologic fans?). i made one of the best character/ship spotify playlists ever for those guys. whenever i think of Rubin i become a little ill. i just find them so fascinating (Patho is super interesting on its own anyways).

first ship: whoooo boy. probably Link/Sheik? LoZ was like. my first ever THING i got into. i used to play pretend in my yard wearing a green tunic and a green santa hat i cut the puff off of to live out my Twilight Princess Link dreams. if not Link/Sheik, then probably xemsai.

last song: Respite On The Spitalfields by Ghost (on a massive Ghost kick because of a friend, its all ive been listening to... my favorite by them is Twenties and/or I Believe)

last TV show: i just watched the 5th episode of Interview with the Vampire this morning with a bestie, but the last show i finished was True Detective season 1 (for the 2nd time... i'm obsessed.. i have a sideblog...)

currently reading: i have been trying to finish Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman for over a year atp but 1. i am a slow ass reader, 2. i started it over already, 3. something sad happened so i got discouraged, 4. im so busy and am trying to learn to get better about reading (ADHD moment)

currently eating: nothing atm but i did have a creme brulee cream puff from one of my fav bakeries (shouldn't have spent the money but my name change court hearing was a success so i celebrated <3)

currently craving: im always craving something i love food LOL honestly the first thing that came into my head was a smoothie... but i also love all Asian cuisine and there's this amazing place nearby that has a bomb Pad See-Ew

thank you sm for tagging me!! i cannot think of anyone really to tag atm so i'll probably come back and do that later when i'm less busy.

[indigoworks]

Artfight 2024: Revenge! on @cattrek with Sasha and Eva! Attacked with very sweet Zev and Wil.

[haropla]

Haro! You might not believe this but up to this date your art has illuminated my life and at least I want to thank you by writing you my wishes for you to have a great new year with success and happiness. May this year sees me becoming less of a lurker so we get to fool around in the server because according to evidence you are a great friend, here's to you growing as an artist even more though that would be dangerous because damn if you're not really good now.

AHHHH!!! AWAAAAAHH!!!

this is one of the best messages one could receive before the year is out…!! feel free to emerge from lurker-ness at your own pace!! (took me a bit myself!) everyone on the server will be there when you’re ready! but also also, I’m glad my art could help you in any way, so I’ll be sure to get even more dangerous with it. (　•̀ ◡ •́ )b

thank you so much for the kind words, and I hope the new year is also just as kind to you.

[httpiastri]

i love the new layout!! 💞

WAHHH THANK YOU!!!! im so scared every time and i hate hate doing the like graphic design and that stuff..... only bcs i suck at it lol. but the other day i just told myself that i cant keep having the christmas theme so i said fuck it and just saved some pics and did it. and i don't love it but i feel like its okay? kinda? 😭

[stretchedoutonthegrass]

🍫 Cheese or chocolate?

🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl?

🔮 What’s your dream job?

💞 @ your favorite blog.

Ahhh you’re so sweet thank you so much!💜💜💜

🍫—don’t do this to me!! I’m gonna say cheese but only because there’s so many varieties that are good and you’d never get bored whereas I only really like dark chocolate.

🦉—I’m a night owl but I start work at like 7am during the week so I’ll get up early but I won’t be happy about it. 😅

🔮—I do not dream of labor lol but if I had to choose probably something in music/writing/being creative that doesn’t make me want to die haha!

💞—this is so hard, I have so many!! You’re definitely one of them so I’m gonna @ you! @labradorite-princess 💜

[kedsandtubesocks]

extra extra love today from me -> you ❤️💕

today we have....ballerina joel! 🩰✨

And how lovely he is!!! Pink really is his color 🩷

Thank you for this sweet treat Mari!! I’m sending extra extra love right back to you sweet pea!!! ☺️💕

[magebastard]

24, 265, 26 for Lane, please! (~agentnatesewell)

thank you for asking mar ily!

24. Do they have any keepsakes from their father?

yes! lane keeps so many little trinkets and collects and hoards mementos and keepsakes so they have like. lol. old bills that they collected from their childhood house that were addressed to rook and old lighters from the junk drawer and some old photos. but the big stuff is like. instruments and his record player and his tie collection and his records and the big busted wristwatch they always wear

25. How do they handle the reveal of the Supernatural?

accepting! lane is terminally chill about most things.

26. If given the choice, would they become a vampire?

yeah especially once people start worrying about keeping them safe and they get more firmly cemented into the found family of ub. they already feel like a liability to wayhaven so it’d be like a genuine want but also a guilt want

[sandwrrm]

idk if you remember that you reblogged "choose violence ask game" (it's two weeks and i just found it in my drafts). I really want to hear you ramble about star wars! and obvi you don't have to do them all! 2 - 6 - 8 - 12 - 13 - 17 - 21 - 25 go off, queen 💞💫

Omg, so sorry it's taken me like three weeks to answer this!! Thanks for the good questions!

Choose Violence Ask Game

2 - a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

Ah see I have no compelling argument for this because (and I’m aware of what a vanilla weenie this is about to make me sound like) I don’t really think of my ships in terms of top and bottom, and when I do…. Bo-Katan is absolutely a switch....

6 - which ship fans are the most annoying?

Straight people who like ob*tine, d*nbo, or both, and make it everyone’s problem

8 - common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Like 98% of Bo-Katan headcanons, fanon, meta, backstories, analyses, etc. that aren’t my own or those of my trusted friends lmfaoooo. “She would not say that” central. 

12 - the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Pre Vizsla. The SW fandom has… weird and unpredictable standards for which villains are socially acceptable to find cool and which ones are universally hated, and for whatever reason he seems to fall firmly into the latter, lol. He is interesting, though!

I love a dramatic ham. Charismatic extremist leaders are fascinating to me. His (second) character design is understated but badass. He’s a pivotally influential figure in mandalore’s modern history. I’ve given up hope that TCW era mandalorian lore/subplots/charas will ever be used or developed further in canon in a satisfactory way, but if they do, I would love to learn more details about his past.

13 - worst blorboficiation

Gotta say fanon Luke Skywalker. He’s been flanderized beyond recognition into a soft uwu babby uke in way too much of the fandom, lol, it’s a disservice to his character and particularly annoying/problematic/sus that it almost always goes hand in hand with headcanoning him as gay. Like no don’t get me wrong, he is 400% gay! But he can be gay and also retain his canon personality lmao

17 - there should be more of this type of fic/art

Blease more wlw Satine/Padme… why are there only 40 fics of them when they’re literally meant to be in lesbians with each other? Have y’all not seen the clone wars ep where they pass the bechdel test AND investigate political corruption as a first date????

21 - part of canon you think is overhyped

Hmm… I don’t feel strongly about this in any direction really. The sequels when they were popular, but they’ve all but completely fallen from relevance now so they’re not really overhyped?

22 - your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

Nuclear take but I actually like the dumb filler TCW episodes that focus on Jar Jar or the droids or whatever, most of them are actually kinda funny and a nice breather from the important parts of the story.

[lesbian-moon]

I found more

FUCKKK these are so good….

[sapphicblight]

3, 13, 41, 49 and 50 please? Love your writing and would love to know more 💖💖💖

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

insecurity is a big one i’d say. it’s one of my favorite topics to read about in fics too so naturally it made its way into my writing. we’re not gonna look too deeply into how that relates to my own insecurities and journey into learning to love myself, shhhh. crying is also a theme too, because i want my characters to suffer but i also want them to be able to let it out, give them that release shdjfg

as for smut specific details, crying is once again a thing?? ok sure 😅 and overstimulation too, even in the v first smut i ever wrote (your body’s a tether), though the first time i properly went in on that was for eat bathe (make) love where the entire second and third chapter pete is just overstimulated to hell and back. sorry buddy sdbhf

also — im still learning how to write bdsm and kinda chickened out of realllly exploring it for my past fics, so i just kinda stuck to choking and spanking for most of my vp sex scenes, and in the case of intrinsically i actually kind of regret that (the spanking especially, in hindsight i just don’t think it fits the tone and what the characters would do / need right then) 

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

ooooh shit i actually rly need to think about this one. idk does abo count? shdnjfk i used to read it sort of almost accidentally, not really realizing what i was getting into with that till much later, back when i used to read a lot of sterek fanfiction (and some destiel too). very occasionally an author will do a lot of legwork with worldbuilding and sell me on it for that fic specifically, but in general i havent been into abo or mpreg themes (not counting a ftm trans character in that — the thing i dislike reading is mpreg that can’t occur irl) for a few years now.

i also used to be more into aus that had nothing to do w canon, like high school aus and (for stuff like merlin) modern aus, which is funny bc i wrote a college au and am now writing a historical au w luna, but i never said i wasn’t a hypocrite hdnjgh — but yeah nowadays i almost exclusively read canon-compliant, canon-divergent, or post-canon fics. i came here for these characters in this setting usually, so then that’s what i seek more of 🤷‍♀️

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

oooh there are MANY. there are some authors whose writing styles have my brain zooming with envy but mostly just so much appreciation and enjoyment. some of my very favorites tend to be angsty fics, and angst is just my go to vibe and genre to read, so while i have many favorites that are more happy or humorous, i'm going to specifically shout out two of the angstiest pete-centric ones that made my chest ache with emotion as i read them: milk teeth by constitutiondumpstat; and only the heart knows. by evashougouki (i still havent gotten around to their recent 20k words pete fic nothing. that i just know is going to break me so good. i rly need to get on that asap but consider this a pre-emptive shoutout to that for probably changing my brain chemistry once i read it as well)

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it! 

ohoho well for snippets of the prohibition au i recommend checking luna’s twitter or tumblr, she’s posted a few already! 

so instead i’ll post a slightly redacted snippet from the 4th chapter of my mobwife au (‘ultraviolet disguise’, a canon-divergent au where pete never got recruited as bodyguard but ends up caught up in mafia bullshit anyway when he starts dating a mafia don named ‘hwan’ who vegas has been trying to take down for a while now)

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about! 

hmmmm. i think i’ll take this opportunity to grab question 48 (What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?) and plug @lu-sn’s discotheque rouge which just got a second chapter that makes me want to live inside her specific brand of post-canon vegaspete 💕 

[laventadorn]

Come Once Again and Love Me

it’s beautiful!!!!! (♡ᵉ̷͈ัॢωᵉ̷͈ัॢ )‧₊°♡

[indigoworks]

Artfight 2024: Revenge! on @alastairft with The Red Feather in 3D! Zev was included in their very cool chronological Trek mass attack!

[findinghomes]

ask game :o

“Do you have any tips for getting better at the game?” Dream read from the chat. He gave a soft chuckle. “Well, I would say don’t play it. At all. Just give up now. That’ll make you better.” 

George liked the way Dream laughed at his own joke. He could see Dream doing that over texts, too. 

“No, but seriously, I would say just practice. I don’t know, um.” He chuckled again. “That’s what I did at least.”

That night, George fell asleep to the noises of a keyboard and the short monologues of a stranger now with an entire space in his brain. 

crafter6996: i saw your stream last night

dream: oh yeah?

dream: what’d you think?

crafter6996: you ramble a lot

dream: you can say hi next time

crafter6996: why did you assume there’s a next time

dream: just say hi idiot

crafter6996: no

crafter6996: idiot

The next time George watched Dream’s stream, he told himself he wouldn’t say hi. 

It was the principle of it. If he couldn’t keep his friend on his toes, who else would?

this scene had me CACKLING i want any and all details :)

Okay so this got super super long, so viewer discretion is advised:

Hi Crow!!!! Okay so this scene was one of my favorites to write. I actually wrote the first two and a half chapters of The Invisible Life in about two or three days. A little bit further after this excerpt is where I stopped and then I finished the third chapter like three weeks later. Haha oops. But! This was one of my favorites because it’s finally when Dream and George get to interact. The first couple chapters were leading up to this exact point…and then I delayed it for a few weeks.

My thought process when writing this was that I wanted to show that a bond had already formed between them in the space between the second and third chapters, but I also didn’t want to rush it, even if I was actually trying to rush it so I didn’t end up with a 500k slow burn. Additionally! (and I think the hardest for me) I wanted to also show the effects of both of them hearing each other’s voices for the first time as a contrast between them texting for the first time AND as a parallel to Dream’s real life face reveal.

The part before the cut is the first time George ever hears Dream, but it’s also a little one-sided because George now knows more about Dream than Dream knows about him. As the token mysterious immortal being™️, this goes with his current character development. But also at the same time, you can see him start to invite someone else into his life for the first time.

The text break was just fun. Crafter6996, my beloved. I like to think that the person George stole all of the login info from is just vibing. Maybe crafter6996 is just stickyboy69 in another life. Who knows? On a (somewhat) more authorly note, I wanted the text break to show a little bit more of George’s changes, so he’s the one who texts first, sends more texts than Dream, and responds back with a pet name (even if Dream started it first). You can still see some hesitation, but you can also see some trust building. Also, I just love breaks in the narrative that move it along while also announcing HEY IM MOVING SCENES NOW. And my favorite kind of humor is when something describes one thing in perfect detail (George telling himself he will not talk to Dream) and then skipping ahead to when he does that exact thing (talking to Dream). I’m really glad that you also enjoyed the humor of the scene :D. I’m always so scared when writing humorous things/banter that it’ll fall flat because I think something’s funny when it’s actually not, so thank you for also laughing with (at) me!

I genuinely love writing The Invisible Life, and I’ve been so overwhelmed by the amount of people who love and interact with it too (I’ve even seen tags from a person saying they don’t ship dnf but like the story—this made me cackle). This fic was just kind of me messing around with being more spontaneous and less over-thinking. I’m a huge huge perfectionist, and that’s why I’ve never written fanfic until now despite writing my entire life because I was too scared of getting everything wrong. So, I thought, why not combine an au of mc YouTubers/streamers and a book with super complicated rules on immortality and demonic deals and make my own rules/world, because obviously that is easier than literally anything else I could’ve chosen. But yeah, The Invisible Life is the story that I don’t have to overthink. That means that I don’t really edit it as much as my other fics so honestly it may end up as a hot mess (I promise I do have plans™️ though), but maybe that’s the best way to be. (Or at least that’s what I keep telling myself. Please don’t tell me otherwise. I may cry. It’ll be ugly.)

So, um, this turned out very long and I probably could’ve gone on for much longer because TIL dnf mean the world to me. I really appreciate you picking the scene and asking about it!!! I like to think of you as my first and loudest cheerleader for TIL, so thank you so much :D

[artsymeeshee]

Haven’t collabed with @renconner in a long while for a mini comic (minus our big one, Instinct). We were talking about one of Stan’s lowest moments involving being outside with that damn sign, so we decided to make a comic with Stan remembering it. I’ve also kinda of assumed Filbrick would lie to Ford about what’s going on with Stan (Stan probably did too to some extent).

[sednonamoris]

hi! I've been reading ghost story for a while and I just want to say it's absolutely amazing — the main character feels alot like an actual person from the red dead redemption universe and it's incredible how much you've fleshed ghost's character out (not to mention the other game canon characters like john and arthur)

I wanted to ask a question relating to johnghost (because I absolutely love them) I know the story isn't finished but I imagine you have a concept or some semblance of an idea for how you want it to end, so I wanted to ask if john and ghost ever have a kid of their own? it would be an interesting topic to explore considering john's complicated history with jack and fatherhood as a whole.

hi!! tysm for this ask - it is such a huge compliment to hear that ghost feels like they belong in-universe and that you’re enjoying the read 💓💓

i LOVE talking about ghost story so i’m happy to speak on the direction it’s headed in!! i am similarly entranced by john’s complicated relationship with jack and fatherhood (something the next chapter will feature heavily, in fact), and my current plan is to explore that with only jack and have ghost as a sort of bonus parent/cool relative figure. if another child is introduced it will definitely be a stray they pick up to keep in with ghost’s ambiguous gender, and also the theme of found family in general. i won’t spoil too much but i will say that in the same way abigail’s relationship with ghost has changed over the course of the story so far, jack’s will as well… 👀

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