#THATS MY WHOLE WORL

[obrother1976]

its wild ur actually one of the people who are arguably more normal about abuse/grooming/incest in fiction and overtly discuss it as something engaging and compelling bc its bad. like ur blog is such a breath of fresh sometimes air bc u actually engage in the themes associated with the topic instead of just trying to own the antis

thank u!!! literally exactly what im trying to do!!! like after those asks i kinda went inward and was like ok, lets examine if i really come across like a person that's unironically pro-grooming/abuse/incest, so i went through my entire blog and i really dont think so?? literally every time i mention one of those things they're either in connection w something unambigously bad (example: fascism in sw) & portrayed as a symptom of that, or they're presented as the perversion of feelings that are supposed to be parental/platonic (twin peaks, or the tatooine exile era in sw), or its literally just me talking about books & academic essays. not that those connections r necessary to discuss any of these things, matter of fact this is tumblr.com its never that serious who give a shit what ppl post, but yk they should've made it pretty obvious anyway that this blog is not an endorsement.

[spitinsideme]

Have u ever felt guilt of being lesbian? Like wish that u were straight and wish ucould relate to other strsight women. I'm just asking because it's hard for me to come to terms that I like women more than men. If u have do u have any advice if u ofc have any..( ´-｀)

i knlw this ask has bene in tjere for a while and you porbbaly got it figured out by that point thats how long kts been but no, not in the way you feel guilt. i used to feel guolt for beknh a lesbian bwcause women are SO gorgeous and i was likegod .. i shouksnt be liking women om not worth my of theur love theyre too amaizng ..

i think being a lesbian is diffuclt bwcause yor whole life womanhood itself revolve ao much around men thay it feels sort of lonely to live alife where you donr want men when al the women around you do ir it affects them, if that makes sense ? and it feels a little lonely and left out so i can understand the guilt kf wantkng to be "normal" and all that sure, i think its important to remeber that its okay to like women !!! youkow be tje lesbian or bisexila worh a woman preference as much as you want !!!! live your life love women kiss women and eat pussy if you wanr !!!! loving women is the best thing in the worls ❤️

[crodur]

The Selk'nam (II): Mythology overview

So, in my last post we quickly saw the story of the Selk'nam or Ona people, their (speculated) origins, interaction with the outside world, the genocide perpetrated against them and, in a more positive note, how they're currently fighting to reclaim a spot in history for their culture. But, what did they actually believe? What was their religion, idea of the supernatural and the like? Let's take a quick glance.

A tehuelche (aka patagonian) native. They're believed to be the main culture they split and originated from, sharing a vaguely similar language. The Selk'nam acquired their world vision and beliefs from both them and the Haush they displaced while moving towards the south, around the XIV century.

About their storytelling

For starters, all their beliefs came from oral tradition and all we know comes from their remaining members by the beginning of the XX century.

Most of the stories and mythos was passed down by the male elders of each village to the children, an adulthood initiation ritual known as H'ain, who recalled all that knowledge for decades. Their society was, like most, very divisive in gender roles, and women never took any initiative in such matters (until Lola Kiepja compiled all the chants she remembered so they would be preserved forever). I would like to explore their gender asymetry, but thats for another post.

Selk'nam dancers dress up a male teenager to participate in the H'ain. Children from 14 to 18 years old were supposed to become adults in this ceremony, and had to go through different trials.

It was a common practice to add bits of one's own experiences and life sprinkled here and there, which made very difficult to reconstruct them after a few generations, specially so since they lacked a writting script. Think of a broken telephone experiment, at a far slower pace, a process very common even in cultures that DO have written scriptures.

The cosmology and supreme beings

The Selk'nam revered the skies (Sho'on) as the home of many legendary creatures. They divided them by 4, one for each cardinal direction. Such skies were considered infinite and eternal, which makes sense, since the sky was the biggest and most omnipresent body known (and even then, it's very interesting that they were aware of the idea of ''infinity'' as a neverending space!)

The beautiful skies of the Patagonia, under which the Selk'nam lived for centuries.

The skies were the following ones:

Kamuk (northern): Asociated with spring and summer

Kéikruk (southern): Asociated with the winter

Kenékik (western): Asociated with the autumm

Wintek (eastern): The most important of them all.

Wintek is a whole beast on it's own. This sky was considered the one that spawned all the others. While the other three have seasons linked to them, Wintek encompassed them all, and in turn, time itself, as all the cyclical, time-bound stations already belonged to it. Temáukel, the supreme and most powerful god, resided here (we'll talk about him next time).

Like some other religions, the Selk'nam gave a physical location to the Wintek and Temáukel residence, somewhere beyond the Staten Island, the easternmost territory in their coordinates.

Some Selk'nam argued the mountain filled island (which they called K’oin-harri) resembled a mighty ancient fortress in the distance, worthy of being a god's house (a supreme one, at that!). Temáukel protected Wintek from there to prevent tresspasers (the fact that there was a huge ocean probably had a major role shaping this mythos, it was the only cardinal point the Selk'nam couldn't physically expand into).

The creation mythos

The Selk'nams were neither animists nor exactly polytheists. They were Henotheists, which means that they believed in many diferent supernatural beings, among which one, the actual god, was truly supreme and of unmatched power and wisdom (the aforementioned Temáukel).

Let's discuss some other matters first, so we can reach an understanding of the world he ruled.

The Selk'nam believed in spirits that controlled the rules of their world. From what I gather, the most ancient a spirit was, the more powerful and mythical it was, to the point that the oldest of them all were considered true forces of nature and drivers of earthly change (again, all of them under the rule of Temáukel).

The old ancestors were known as the Howenh, and the first inhabitants of what the Selk'nam refer as the ''primitive earth'' (fun fact, the Howenh were so important that the Selk'nam language had an extra verbal tense for events that happened in their times, the mythical past, set well beyond the time of the regular humans).

The most important one descended from Wintek, and was named Kenos. He's considered as the closest one to godhood (and according to some sources, the only son of Temáukel). His purpose was to organize the world. He arrived by climbing down a long string, that was cut when he set foot, trapping him on the plains of patagonia (the Karukinká).

The Karukinká park, named after the Selk'nam mythos.

The earth Kenos found was all chaos and disorder, everything mixed and trapped in a constant cycle of disrepair and destruction. The sea (ko'oh) washed away everything on it's path, and that's why Kenos raised mountains and many geographical heights to placate them (the Andes mountain range, most likely, at the westernmost point of their land, and also the most remote from the Wintek).

He quickly realized, he needed others to fulfill some of the roles of the earth, since he wouldn't just stay there forever doing everything. And that's why he created the rest of the Howenh, ancestors of mankind similar to him, yet diferent in purpose and power.

The first one was Kren, the sun, born at the Kenékik, who would sheed the most light at noon, and then retire. After him he made his wife, Kre, the moon, at the Kéikruk who would sheed a faint light before and after her husband. They both also had a daughter called Tamtam, but that's another story.

In the meantime, Kenos also lifted the skies up, so they made room for trees to grow.

All of this was made in a single day, leaving Kenos tired and idling by the evening. Then, distracted, he mindlessly squeezed the water out of some soil from a swamp, and made two pieces of genitalia (male, sees and female, asken), leaving them aside. Right after he went to sleep, both started copulating, and from them... the first Selk'nam came to life!

All started with a couple lumps of clay...

Going back to the mythos, the process repeated for many days, and eventually, thousands of selk'nams lived. Kenos gave them different territories and split them among them, so they could find food and shelter, which explains the 3 diferent factions among them that existed by the XIX century, each located in a diferent space, and at a semi-constant conflict with the other two. Their religion stated those lands belonged only to them, and no one couldn't kick them away (If only that actually came to be the reality...).

Kenos got bored eventually, and made the humans able to speak, he gifted them the ability to craft a language. The Selk'nam learnt quickly, and would never again stop talking (and their language is still spoken as of now!).

Now that they could talk to him, he also gave them the gender roles, taught them how to have children on their own, and also taught them morals (treating elders with care and passing down traditions and wisdom to children).

That second part of his mission took him many years, and by the time he was finished, he fell asleep, now a very old man. He waited for death, but it didn't come, and eventually woke up. He left the humans, then, to chase death by himself, accompanied by other elders, the most wise of them all.

They travelled north, to unknown lands (probably at some point north of the Tehuelche, the farthest fellow civilization they probably were aware of and also their actual ancestors), until they fell exhausted. Wrapping themselves in guanaco skins (some kind of wild llamas), they finally found death. But not for long!

Their bodies regained their youth, and ascended into the cosmos itself. They became the stars above the Patagonia, Kenos being the one known as Aldebarán, shining fiercely.

During this period, death was transitory, and by Kenos decree, many could rejuvenate as many times as they wanted, and when they didn't want to anymore, they would get turned into landscape elements (hills, rivers...) or even, if ancient enough, into other howehn (many of them were formerly humans).

Hell and other aspects of the afterlife wouldn't come to be until later.

A guanaco, surrounded by what once were Selk'nam.

I would love to keep going, but unfortunately this post is already becoming too long and I feel that every paragraph leaves out so much. Next time, we'll keep going over mythology, and explore many other ancient beings, Temáukel himself, and other, remaining myths here and there. I hope I can finish it sooner!

Until next time!

Sources used:

https://selknamstudy.blogspot.com/

https://pueblosoriginarios.com/sur/patagonia/selknam/kenos.html

Carlos R. Gallardo - Los Onas (1910) - published in Buenos Aires, Argentina

https://www.patagonie-voyage.com/blog/peuple-Selknam.php

And of course, the ol' reliable, Wikipedia (which actually sources who once was the most knowledgeable anthropologist on Selk'nams, Martin Gusinde, so it's legit).

[teddy-the-queer-wizard]

making a little guy is great and all

but i honesty forgot how great it is to form a world around a little guy - or form a little guy from a world.

like the answers just come so much more naturally

Why is he always worried about this? Oh because the world shaped him that way easy.

Hmmm This makes sense for the world... which naturally means he's going to focus on y in this situation!

love that for me.

more Role Playing/ writing rambling under the cut

however does mean ive got to think about so many things. every decision makes like. a bunch more questions.

but its thrilling even if it is tiring. like the best parts of actively swimming.

i also love doing this more when i have a spring board.

so fanfiction/ rp characters that are aus of a media are great because they have a prebuilt world for you to explore but also because changing one thing can vastly effect everything else

and like i know undertale is good for that - oh you want edgy killer time line where everyone actually is trying to kill you because base game just wasn't violent about that aspect enough? Underfell boom easy. you want something happier and softer to traumatize with the murder sprees? Underswap. and they went crazy and made a bunch of AUs

*but then it gets really fun*

because now we have completely unrelated ideas made because wouldn't it be cool if - and then ehat they thought that AUs version of those characters would be like right? but now we have enough instances to kinda play a fun data game

because if we assume all of these are happening because of the multiverse theory, and we assume that the most well known AUs are essentially the most likely outcomes in those scenarios presented by the AU

we can extrapolate shit. silly shit like "If Papyrus' Spaghetti - which he never tries if I remember correctly - is 'undescribeable' in a way we assume to be bad, and Underswap drinks Honey - and Papyrus' Favorite food is dino oatmeal - then couldn't it be likely that Papyrus by default has a sweet tooth and the reason his Spaghetti is bad is because it was made sweet? Furthermore if it *is* true that Underfell Papyrus' lasagna is bad because he adds vinegar, he could be compensating because liking sweet things ruins his image and vinegar is a mature person flavor.

but i love spring boarding with books too not just undertale.

i made some super hero characters and really didnt want to build a world for them - questions like how the different powers worked, how people treated or what they knew about heros, just its a lot of work! So i had read a series of books exploring teens growing up into heros and i just used the core world as a play ground for mine and my friend's characters to play it. its a back drop that allows us to focus on the characters interactions. we now have AUs of AUs we have made just for those characters.

now my friend had an idea of a character but wanted me to come up with wth we would do. I had a very vauge idea of their character and no character idea or like direction they wanted to head. no specific tropes to build off of. so. i said fuck it need a fantasy world and i can build that around that character. But they were being hush hush about details so i couldnt build anything that contradicted her. so. fuck it take base concept of a book that i read once - a magic kingdom thats in between worlds and doesnt have a king so starts recruiting out kingdom for one. - and like i wasnjust going to start with that frame work as a handwave back drop until id built up more of the world around the character as that character explored the world but then i started thinking too hard about the whys and hows of things and ive suddenly got a character and a whole arc planned out for him which will help me build up the world more. its got some similarities to what it sprang from but honestly the more i figure out the more those will be very passing comparable things.

but idk. i love people giving me a reason to just. build a little guy and a world to build with them.

like most things i like it better when its a fresh idea rather than me going "okay my guy but what if he was in this universe how would he be different?" because after a while recycling my own ideas without fresh blood gets... stagnant.

i think maybe if i get a chance I'll make up a Dancetale guy next though. like im pretty setup right with new guys now unless someone super wants me to which i doubt but ive wanted to do dance tale for so long. but because i have like. one concept idea for it and nothing else i havent done anything besides go "hmm need to figure that out" but i probably just need to spring something off of someone. like. idk "oh this person needs to be shipped with" or "this person needs an asshole to traumatize them in this way" or *something* or even a prompt of what theyd like to have their character deal with?

like thats why im psyched about my baraswapverse despite actually having a "cannon" swap verse of my original fell line. this new one it has so many little tropes built into its creation that need to be explained and tired together. id like to do that for dancetale but i dont have any ideas i want to do for it.

rambling.

[yourghastlycloseness]

in the past few hours i went being convinced that i was the ugliest person to ever walk the earth and shd this destroy myself bcos i never want to look into the mirror again and see how everything is wrong with my face and body to being a loving daughter spending a day out with mom to cracking jokes to being completely upset about the state of my relationships and my anxiety and my fear abt starting a new job and if i’ll even be able to get one and how this wasnt a sponsorship at all it’s more like taking a loan out of a company and then being tied to it and having to pay off your debts and it’s all on you if you can’t do anything abt it and ive realise that its in these states of transition where im waiting for smth to happen that im the most jittery and irritable and depressed when the hosp called to ask how urgent my case was or thereabouts i said i wasnt suicidal which wasnt a lie when they called but i feel suicidal every few hours or every days or weeks honestly the feeling never goes away but i know how serious i am abt when id make an attempt and its usually in states like these where ive lost all control over my emotions and the only thing i can control is whether i live or not and even then its subject to how the suicide attempt is executed though its likely that jumping frm the 20+ floor of any building shd kill you upon impact how i don’t want to live like this anymore and being convinced again that i shd kill myself then seeing a worker get run over by a bus and thinking thats awful then having dinner w family and paying for it but not getting a word of thanks then asking dad to get drinks but he frowns and doesnt for a while and i dont understand why abd while we’re eating i drop a piece of the pork on the table and i want to flip the entire table over and when i wash the utensils at the sink i see my hair getting thinner unde rtbe fluorescents even tbligh im doing what i xan to keep it from falling out im gng to be bald by the time im 33 how much fun is that thirty flirty and thriving thirty fucking fat and fuckinf bald and fucking lonely was not how i samw it all for myself

and i cry at the table the whole way back and then take a walk the rewatch and feel bad for the worker hope he’s alright news report says he’s got fractures in his right leg i rly hope it’s nth more than that meanwhile i was feeling one thousands things and this man was just at work and feeling so much pain which reminds me that i need money i need to work in the meantime yet the sponsorship contract forbids me frm getting external employment without first getting their approval honestly i might just go work first and then wait for their approval cos it can take very long and dad sent a picture of kai earlier tpdya he’s completely shaven sown neck bcos of repeated skin infictikna my poor dog my poor boy i love love love you so much and ive been horrible and i think abt you all the time and its now my wallpaper bcos i want to workfor a vision of us tgt and hes still the handsomest boy around even when firless neck down also hes a real asshole i hope he never loses that mfer asshole corgi personality of his if he ever changes then i know ive lost a part of him and i dont want that feepndown inside i know we ee both assholes who fight and im gettingnout of this and youll get beteyr and i love you forever andnice cried so much i rly need to clean my eyes woth blpehagel cdps just loke my boy oget infections WILD my skin foes mot want to be with me it givez up on me doesnt matter lovenypus till kai youre the most shit dog in the worls and uoure mine even when youre not here and i love you wven if you dont love me and i dotn want my asian eyelids to get all fucked up tmr so im going to stop xrying now straight ip the only rweaso n i dont cru as muchthese says isnt bcosige gotten stronge ror gotten over the things that ipset me most its jury bcos i cant eisk ab infection again neeeded eye zurgery fkr that preciously and i bleieve i had a fucked ip eyesi fection but also my crying mad eit worse secondly aesthetics my syelids creases change everytie i cry ao i gotta fucking stoRPP

[amiryllisthorn]

pretty bummed about how day one went for me for crota, the whole experience was just pretty bad in general sadly, and i dont think I am going to try another day one with this group again. Too much worl on my wnd for too much stress and too much managing people and im just bleh. Too tired.

However one of my friends did manage to get the clear and she was pretty bummed about how things went for our group so thats really nice. ^^

[bepisbee]

yoo :3 <3

1. how many works on ao3?

57

2. total ao3 word count?

183,672 wooooof

3. top 5 fics by kudos

#1 the gang meets shadow with 625

(four swords)

the lu chain meet shadow in fours era but hes a little shit (affectionate) and is shape shifted as a cat. vidow focused

#2 Missing Me with 172

(south park)

mostly a vent fic about self harm and familial abuse from parents. ship focus: creek

#3 Reader x Craig with 165

(south park)

this was just a crack taken seriosuly reader smut with tenta dick after i finished reading homestuck. its one of the worst mature fics ive ever wrotten lmao

#4 Scars with 160

cute short about lu talks about their scars and where they got them. Vio has one from shadow biting him becuase monster boyfriend nsfw implied. silly shenanigans about it

#5 Storms with 131

fun fact this was actually one of my very first vidow fics back on devient art (iluvshadowlink if anyonecs ancient like me and were on there) cute fluff about the first time shadow experienced a thunder storm. I have a re-write of this somewhere on ao3 too

I was surprised about the south park but I know my creek stuff got a huge hit up when south park had the whole manga fangirls creek episodes going on lol.

4. What fandoms do you write for?

right now? soley legend of zelda and zelda related things (like linked universe) but i used to do: south park, tokyo mew mew, tmnt, death note, fruits basket, ouran high school host club and inuyasha

5. Do you reapond to comments?

not as much anymore i feel awkward and i dont wanna come across as insincere or have tone taken wrong becuase its a big fear of mine

6. fic with the angstiest ending

for noooooow its what i had to but not to spoil buuutt there might be some hardcore feelings in store for the last chapters of no longer you

7. fic with the happiest ending?

till death do us part i literally make them get married

8. do you get hate?

no, but i did get this really weird dm awhile ago about my robot ai au (V10137) someone wanted to adopt it and called it underdeveloped while i was still active on that fic (im still working on it just slowly its not abandoned. i made some major story change decisions and have to rewrite 3 chaoters now and im procrastinating it). and i know i shouldnt but i took it really personally. at the time it was my longest word per chapters fic and i was super proud and it bummed me out of writing for awhile.

9. do you write smut?

thats probably MOST of my fics ngl lmao i love me some vidow smut. im also in the middle of male puberty (hrt) so that doesnt help XD

10. Do you write crossovers?

not really? not in the tradtional worls meets world but i habe used worlds as aus (like bnha but four swords no characters from bnha but all the four swords are in that word).

11. ever had a fic stolen?

not that im aware of?? im nowhere near THAT popular lmao

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

13. have you ever cowritten a fic?

yes and no? my rp partner for many years (about sp) and i used our rps for story ideas all the time but idk if tbat counts as "cowriting" exactly.

14. OTPPP

VIDOOOOOW baby vio x shadow

15. WIPS you wanna finish but doubt you ever will?

triforce valley (four swords stardew valley), the mafia au (vio is a mob boss) too many ideas on that one in my head i cant decide a cannon. Magical Hearts (shadow is vio's demon college roomate au) im stuck it started as oh my god they were roomates and funny prompt about a roomate a sage/cleaning the dorm room and roomate b a literal demon getting sick or not able to cross tbe threshold anymore. I was going to turn it into a fucked up unreality where vio was in a magical coma from trying to revive shadow and shadows real soul was reseructed from the event and so was a cleansed vaati he was interacting with their conciosnesses the whole time. eventually they escape amd shadow and vaati are revived but good. all 3 remeber everything that happened in the dream. vio wakes up still having the tatttoos he got in the dream and it ends like inception, with the reader never knowing what was real and what wasnt. did the magic kickback infuse the circle and ritual onto his skin, or was this another level on subconcious they are stuck in forever?

16. Writing strengths?

autistic huperfocus + maladaptice daydreaming =fics fics fics ideas! wuooo!

17. Writing weaknesses?

autistic hyoerfocus. lol sometimes i get a scene stuck in my brain and struggle to work around it or expand how to get from point a to the stuck point to point c. and having spurts of "i want to write everything" and going for 8 hours and then not writing for two weeks.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

I love it IF there's a translation offered in the notes or in the story context what was said (example "Words here!" character yelled, cursing their bad luck with a line of swears. "You kiss your mother with that mouth?" you dont know exactly tbe translation, but obviously it was jist cuss words ya know? like that) if it's a language not selected as the fic language. I feel left out otherwise and it can be confusing.

19. first fandom you wrote for?

ah geez. I'd have to guess for that honestly. its very likely it was legend of zelda though. oot ish ive been writing between friends and i since like 4th or 5th? hell it could techncially be warrior cats actually LMAO

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

Missing Me was the first multi-chapter fic I actually finished and I was so proud of that. Content wise though is the android ai au

thanks for the tag @lizzable <3<3

i taaaaaaagggg @spadeprincesss @singingvio @frostedshadow @blupeeblep @twink-between-worlds @bokettochild *throws this at you with snacks*

im so sorry for spelling and grammar im on mobile rn and its 215am

I have been tagged by @batrogers!!

1. How many works on AO3? 241

2. Total AO3 word count? 1.25mil. Almost to my 3rd AO3 anniversary :D (that's around 1,170 words every day for three years, not counting nonpublished words! Proud of that rate, even if it's slowing.)

3. Top 5 fics by kudos:

Status? about Four. I think this one hits the sweet spot for a lot of people: not too long, a bit angsty, but sweet.

so i admit that the mud didn't do much for me, about Hyrule. Actually the first fic I ever posted on this account, it's silly and I'm surprised to see it so high

incandescently happy, a post-LU happy ending. Posted little chapters every day for like a month which kept it in people's feeds so I think that's why it's so high

what is a stump supposed to do, a random Hyrule & Four one, honestly baffled why it's up here

Rise and Shine and Fall, my successful (by that I mean actually wrote and posted every day on schedule) Whumptober 2022 extravaganza compilation. I posted it all in one work, so it's higher than most other whump fics of mine, but there's a lot in it!

4. What fandoms do you write for? Zelda. In the past I wrote a tiny bit of Danny Phantom and a fair amount of FE3H!

5. Do you respond to comments? Always!! I admit to being SO VERY BEHIND right now, a couple months' worth. I'm trying to keep up on new ones, but I've had some beautiful wonderful readers going through my catalog and I can't always keep up!! XD

6. Fic with the angstiest ending: I don't write a lot of negative endings, so I think this badge goes to Counterbalance, my LU Darks AU. I'm actually fully in love with this fic, it's probably the best mix of silly and angsty I've ever written. It's full of what are essentially OCs but they're all my babies and I love them.

7. Fic with the happiest ending: incandescently happy, post-LU. The whole fic is essentially a fix-it ending, though LU doesn't have an ending yet. XD

8. Do you get hate? A couple silly comments trying to tell me I'm doing things wrong, but not really no! Oh, also can't forget the ask I got that was "Remember that Jesus is your first reader." I think that was meant to be passive aggressive but there's a chance it was meant like, genuinely? Not sure.

9. Do you write smut? Nah. And I don't plan to. Not my thing! Closest I get are vampire bites XD

10. Do you write crossovers? I swear I've done more but the only ones on my AO3 are a Vidow fic done in an original world (Nothing New Under the Sun (crystals, dumplings, jewelry)), and Blood-Sucker's Guide to High School, a Vidow retelling of a very fun vampire novel.

11. Ever had a fic stolen? Nope, but I did have one of my Vidow fake fic book covers stolen for someone's fake fiverr listing. Got it taken down with a DMCA but I was like, why

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to my knowledge.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic? Oh plenty. @enrolio and I spent most of 2020-21 lockdowns and beyond cowriting, mostly original stories (1.7mil) but a lot of fic, too (nothing published, but almost 400k worth.) We're currently in the process of working on a big epic original fantasy series, though that's a long-term project. @batrogers and I have done a few alt-POV-type projects too, which have been super duper fun!! Hope to do more.

In that vein too, I feel like the Bad End Links kind of qualify here—so much of the characters and their stories were brainstormed collaboratively and so many friends have contributed details and fics and art, it feels like a fun group project! I've really enjoyed working on it. :D (the encouragement and hype for it also helps a lot!! I'm really hoping to finish this big project out!)

14. All-time favorite ship? Ahhhh a harder question than you'd think, tbh, even if you're limiting it to fic. I've written the most for Vidow, and they're definitely up there (same with Fourdow though I've done less with them.) I do have to admit that Linhardt/Byleth might take the cake, though. They were the first ship I was ever actually obsessed with, and the first romantic pairing I wrote in fic.

I just really adore Linny in general, and I love how the pairing continues and closes off some of the themes in the Crimson Flower route of FE3H. That's the only route where Byleth doesn't become archbishop-slash-dictator, and I think choosing to live life in a small cottage, not particularly contributing too much to the government, builds nicely upon the themes of becoming human and choosing your own destiny, themes that are really missing from the other routes.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will? My old AO3 account (a couple FE3H fics and not much else) has a series where I wrote the beginning of a fic and then had several different endings planned, each a different ship with Linhardt, but I only ever wrote one. I'd love to read the rest but I have too many other fics calling my name!

16. Writing strengths? Um... Volume and speed? Also AUs. I think I can call myself good at fitting characters into new settings. Also fight scenes are fun and I think I do them well.

17. Writing weaknesses? I feel somewhat weak in the plotting and style realms.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue? You can't count on a reader to know not-tagged languages, so that has to be accounted for in the text.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Danny Phantom, in high school or maybe just after. That's late for a lot of fic writers but... there are reasons for that, and a different discussion!!

20. Favorite fic you've ever written? This is an extremely rude question, because I love so many for different reasons. I write things I want to read!! Counterbalance (for the tone) and Blood-Sucker's Guide (for the finished novel plot) are up there but I linked them above, so I'll take the chance to call out a different few—Marvelous Misadventures is way up there, a Wind-focused modern with magic AU. I promise I'm still working on that last chapter (and the epilogue), I just gotta throw everything else aside one month and buckle down. Maybe June, I don't have any fic events planned and 06/23 was the last update. I think some earlier chapters need a refresh as well, once I have the ending written.

I'll also toss White Walls (medwhump, "non consensual body modification: the fic") into this category for how long it is and how proud I am to have finished even a collection this long, and a long walk, a Linked Nexus fic where I did so much math and had so much fun with it. :D

Tagging: @silvrash-797 @toyouhellohowareyou @nopenototdaysatan @skyward-floored :)

[gingerale2017]

and i don’t want you to

GO

i don’t really wanna

FIGHT

cause nobody’s gonna

WIN

[redrobin-detective]

I get up to walk my dogs at 5 freaking am in the morning. It’s below freezing and dark as shit out. We get back inside and they race back upstairs and barrel into my bedroom like “ok that was a nice bathroom break but back to bed now” and fami almost wept with absolute longing.

[mikkouille]

my shelves say im educated n smart but the fact is i read a book in a “reads sentence n goes ‘soooooo truuuue’” kinda way 

[worstvideogamesong-poll]

Worst Video Game Song Tournament - Round 2 Match 5

Know What I Mean? - Mario Party 2

VERSUS

The Yoshi Clan - Yoshi's New Island

FIGHT!

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies!

Propaganda under cut:

Know What I Mean?:

"#i'm going with the mario party #it's SO off-tune and off-beat constantly #which i think is intentional but #i hate it"

(in reference to its previous match) "#this literally isn't even a fight. coughing baby vs nuclear bomb level matchup. what the fuck was that mario song. who thought that was a #good idea. i want to have words with them."

"#kwim is overstimulation in its purest form #it's the musical equivalent of getting nonstop discord notifications while looking for something i dropped while someone is talking to me"

"#know what i mean absolutely ROCKS. horrible. rocks so hard. they did the same thing that yoshi clan did. im guffawing"

The Yoshi Clan:

"the ass band will play a song of farts to celebrate your failure"

"#FUCK YOU YOSHI"

"#yoshi sounds like suck"

"#YOOOOOOOOSHI CLAAAAN!!!!!!!! #ok im gonna complete my santa review before getting to my ten page essay on why i love yoshi clan. yea that shit bad #i accidentally started it playing in two tabs at different points of the video which was honestly really fun. i recommend tryin that esp wi #bad songs really adds smthn to the exprience. it was awesoeme #it also just sounds the exact type of awful that that video image implies which is cool. its so perfect. it sounds ass #but. what it can not beat. is my favorite of all time. my darling love. it is time to begin my sermon #ok so yoshi clan is just so beautifully terrible. and truly the whole soundtrack is an orchestra of bad design. and its so fun to look at #that really nice professional looking art for the game and get BLASTED with kazoo #and like. i understand the thought process. kazoo does seem silly goofy yoshi. and it also sounds like a chorus of pain #now this song specifically has some really great awkward pauses. at 0:16 theres like a full 3 seconds of silence. which is SO cool #then the hot cross bun bit that ends at 0:27 gets so sad and deflated at the end of it. like it starts off in time but then clearly the #soloist got kinda embarrassed alone and so rushed and got really quiet. and its just so sad and lonely. its so cool #also some of these pauses have a couple lone far away kazoo squeaks for no reason before the 'melody' comes back in? awesome #but what i really really love about this. what really draws my eye. is the ending. because we go through this entire rigamarole with the #worst secondhand embarrassment of my life. then. 0:43. the kazoos move out. and in. the most genuinely awesome groovy drum beat in the worl #like its SO good. and those last few seconds are like you're in a different world. like you just survived horrors and you are brought to an #angelic chorus. and it lasts what 5 seconds? 5 seconds of beauty after a full 40 seconds of purgatory. in what world do horrors live foreve #while an angel can last for only a flash #its cruelty. its injustice. its completely ingenious. incredible music making. i am in such awe. #anyways thats my manifesto. please feel free to put any of this in the propaganda section op. im passioante"

Feel free to add more propaganda in the tags and replies, or send it to me in the ask box and I'll try to share it as soon as I can!

[kevcob]

introducing: THE BOYZ

↳ 12. KEVIN / 980223, vocalist

[drowsystarlight]

ok so i'm not sure if you've ever made a post about your oc's. BUT if you have i would love to see some lore because i am SO curious about them bc they look awesome

oh my god an anon for my KIDS??? i am so flattered. oh my god give me a moment

i removed the public link for all my oc lores bc im putting it in a webcomic THATS GONNA B OUT AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE FOR MY DEAD ART STUDENT BRAIN but yes anyway i can introduce who they are real quick

long post tho,,,, whoopsi

this pink hair babie is Polaris, she's a star god and Essentially the queen of the universe bc she can manipulate this thing called Stardust,,, which is in literally every existing and living thing in the universe to exist,,,, Yeah anyway for a personality: she is a small thing with massive attitude, has an ever-present resting bitch face and take-no-shit attitude . also she has a knack of going for violence immediately as a solution . "what do you mean i can just talk them down?? nope . they need to die . their whole species needs to die actually". she has the power to smite planets and shut off stars if she wanted to. she also fucks around the asteroid belts sometimes for fun lol

her lore is very simple she's basically just a descendant of the last star god so now she's just doing her job while going around outer space >:3

tldr: very strong humanoid star god . eats batteries and cars and metal bc her core is a star and thrives on energy basically . big furnace as throat . probably overgrown kirby . always sparkles and is a glitter goblin (she likes anything gold and sparkly)

Next up is this trashbag and its just Saeth Asterhold a.k.a my misery business mascot bc his life just sucks so bad and he's unluckily lucky (imagine he gets a random dollar bill on the street as a lucky find and then he gets hit by a car like 5 seconds after that . that's what i mean with unluckily lucky . i hope it makes sense)

he is a tiny little human living his tiny little life . also he's definitely an eboy . also emo . he has a pet cat named Morgan and it's actually a magic shadow cat w 3 eyes (the kitty polaris is patting in the image above this hehe)

his lore is VERY CRAPTASTIC basically he sees the magic things normal humans shouldnt ever since he survived an accident at 13 yrs old (ghosts, gods, magic creatures, you name it) so he freaked out and got diagnosed with Schizophrenia for seeing things that arent there (its obviously a wrong diagnosis lol he is literally seeing the worl in its bare magic gears) so he just deals w that AND insomnia and college day to day,,,, yep he is a 22 yr old college student heeho he is just miserable

polaris and saeth both meet bc saeth fucked up, made a wish on a shooting star, and polaris has to grant it bc its also part of her job BUT the wish was so vague and fucky that it just got them stuck together. its the synopsis of their whole story lol basically saeth has to babysit a humanoid star god with ZERO human experience . on earth . and the said star god find humans dumb . its all fun and games

also they're a throuple !!!! this is the last member !!!! this is Enver !!! I changed his first name recently and i used to call him Irving a lot so me and my friends got used to it aha

anyway he is your local default protag, also 22 yrs old and in college, is an older brother to his sibling (nyx!!!! i will talk about them sometime else hehe), a part time worker in the same cafe Saeth works in, AND a sun champion !! he juggles college and work and sibling duty and champion duty everyday . very busy hyperactive but nice person . i love him . he is a great man !! also he is trans and its a big part of his whole story and lore stuff hehee

he's half human and half god bc of his champion occupancy, and the job he does is that he protects earth from these creatures called Void Creatures (wow im very creative at naming things) bc those things prey on negative human things !! he has sun and fire powers !!!! also a notorious fuckboy but in this story its more or less a misunderstanding !! also his lore is craptastic as well . all my ocs have craptastic lores i love writing suffering

anyway he is also Polaris's subordinate (since the sun is a star,,,,, and he + his god pulls power from that aha) and he hates her for being a genocidal asshat so they fight a lot but this trio is very solid and they work well together (,,,when they have to)

OKAY THIS ENDED UP VERY LONG i tried to keep it as small and short as possible but ALAS i talk a lot bc i love my kids,,,,, i have more ocs but they're kinda In The Backseat bc i have favoritism and these 3 are my favorite so i draw them almost all the time,,,, my poor other ocs LMAO

thats all THANK U ANON IM GLAD U LOVE MY CHAOS COSMIC KIDS !!!! this might be a long shot but im writing them in a Soul Eater au (so far only polaris and saeth have showed up bc they're in the main group, Ethan is in the side characters unfortunately) so if you're curious abt how they act (bc obv their lores in their original world is different), you can read it here on ao3 !!

[imeverywoman420]

MUTCHIES GIRLIES FOLLOWERS LADIES PLS EVALUATE RESPOND GIVE ADVICE INPUT IM MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY PERPLEXED

im growing suspicious of my cohostess. I said i was tired. And i was. I was fucking exhausted today. Also keep in mind me and her are very close so this is why im fucked up abt this:

She goes to tell josh that im not feeling well which i interpret as being matronly and sweet like she always is. Josh is in charge of the front while the owners are gone btw. He says i can stay or go home its up to me whatever no problem. Im like ya im staying cause lyfts expensive wtf im still doing my job im just tired thats all….

So i work the whole shift. At 7:30 i get that text i mentioned and told i can go home. Josh said I can go home which has neutral connotations and i didnt take in an offensive way. Then i saw the text which said Please call ur ride and go home ur not working while its busy etc.

Then i tell my cohostess and shes like oh i wouldnt worry about it honey its okay pls dont worry just go home get some rest.

So i dont get my tips despite.. having worked all but the last hour of the shift. How does that make sense. See this is why im suspicious and i HATE to think this because 1. How could my bosses know anything abt wjat im doing if theyre not here….

2….. so she doesnt have to split tips. Worst case scenario…. Shes pretending to be motherly so she didnt have to split tips with me. And honestly ll admit i was kinda lazy today! I worled, i did my job, but i wasnt all extra like i normally am. So if she was salty about that which i doubt bc i was still helping her and doing stuff for her….

Soooo what do we think

[skinchanger]

Im horrified to paint a naken body because im so afraid of having internalized the Male Gaze so i wont be able to portrait a Real Human

[crystalstar8]

Welcome to Hell

Reader / BTS / Satan

You’re on a business trip in Hell when you hear about BTS’s concert in the seventh ring. 

I wrote this at like 3 am so sorry about errors. 

“You sure youll be okay y/n?” asked your bff. 

“Don’t worry anout me I’ll be fine,” you say. “I go all the time. My boss wouldn’t send me if he didnt know I could handle mysself.”

“Well good luck,” my bff said. You waved to your friend andf then descended into the cavern. You knew this entrance almost by heart becuase ou go down there all the time. You got to the back of the cave then started going down the stiares. it got dark but you ewrent afreaid because you had your phone flashlight. It started getting hotter and hotter until you started seeing the firey glow and you heard the screams of tourtured souls. It was standard business. That sound was always down there no matter where you were. Finally, you got to the subway station. Ads for new Pirates of the Carribean movie and the New Transformers movie were all over the place. and so were ads for other terribke things. you wait for the train to come, it came and you got on. there was no one on it. No ever rode that train anyway. You knew this beacuase you go there all the time. The train took you to the office building where you knew Satan worked. You had to deliver a package to him. You had the package in your bag. You didn’t know what was in it. Finally, the train stopped at your stattion and you got off. Up the stairs you found yoiur self in the office building. Everyone working there were demons. The office building was no ordinaty offcie building though. It was darl and there was fire everywhere and satanic decorations. But the people who worled there know you so the secretary sent you up to Satan’s office. You’ve enever met satan before. You didnt know what you wwere expecting. You got to his office and he told you to come in. When you oepned the door, you were shocked. Standing in the odfice was eight hot guys, plus satan who was also super hot. But ehere was something about the eight hot men that you recognised. 

“Your bts!” I exlaiimed. 

“Yeah, theyre doing a concert soon,” said Satan, who was super hot in a harness and smoldering eyes. His voice rumbled in your chest when he spoke. Your jaw dropped. A cancert? in hell? That’s crasy!

“thats crazy!” you said. 

Satan ignored you and lifted an eyebrow. “I belive you have something for me?”

His commanding voice left no room for argument. You felt like you would dod anythign if it was that voice asking. You go into yourt bag and pull out the package. and you hand it to him. he takes it with his big hand. and opens it. 

it s BTS’s new almbum that isnt out yet. 

“you must have preorded it,” you say

“i did but I dont belivve i told you oyu could speak,” said satan you clamped your mouth shut. You looked pver at bts and saw that JimmyK, your bias, was smirking at you. with all therse hot men ordring your around right now, you could fell yourself getting hot. but you are here on businss so you couldnt let your self get distracted you cleared your throat and said “anyway i should be going now.”

“wait, why dont you stat for our concert” said RM with a smirk. You could tell he wanted you to stay for mor ethan the concert if you know what I mean Jimmy K was looking at you again but he wasnt smiling but his eyes were dark. you feel insecure in your business suit that was alittle too revealing. but I guess your didnt mind it so much when Jimmy K was looking at you like that. Satan put the new bts album on his bvook shelf. Your eyes followed his everymovement because he was so hot. 

Jimmy k cleared his thoat. he obviously didnt want you looking at other men. 

Then after the meeting Satan drove you to the convert which was in the seventh ring of hell. it was cold here and you were shivering. satans car was a black mercedes with a license plate that said 666 and he played mcr while he dorve. but you requested bts and he put on your all time facvvortie song Mic Drop. before your got to the concert, satarn put his hand on your thigh but u pushed it off becuase you knew Jimmy K wouldnt like that and he was your bias. you get to the concert and you and satin get fromt row seats. and the concert is really good, they performed all of your favorite songs and all of the members were super hot and after the concet Jimmy K invited you back stage. 

“I was thinking about you the whole concert y/n” he said in a deep sexy voice. 

“really” you ask/. 

“yeah, how about we get out of here

“sure” you said, biting your lip. He leads you to his car which is a silver lambo and when you get in your still cold because everuthing in the seventh ring of hell in ice. 

“here, take my jacket baby, ou look freezing,” said Jimmy K. You put on his leather jacket and you feel your self getting turned on beausce it smellslike him and he smells so mice. 

He sees you smelling the jacket and smirks. 

you knew then that Jimmy K would be able to do anything to now thaqt you ewer wearing his jack t and you were in his car and you realize that you wanted him do. youd let him do anything if he leekpt looking at you like taht. 

AN: idk if I’ll write more, if you know waht i mean... so if ppl request a sequel, i’ll be happy to oblige. In the meantime, enjoy!