#Ty for the tag!

[karoiseka]

Got tagged by @newty and @eva-cybele for this one, (though one hit while at home, so much easier to type out/remember. lol) Tagging... hmm who hasn't gotten hit yet? Sorry if I hit ya up again! @aethernoise , @rinzukodas , @zenathered and @lynmars79

last song: I'm not counting the FFXVI music playing in my personal house in FFXIV right now so.... Losing My Religion by R.E.M is what was currently playing on my 90s pop/rock music in the car. lol

last book: Currently 600+ pages into the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Mr got me the original Mistborn trilogy for xmas, and... I went off the deep end and now own.... 14 of his books. >.>

last movie: Hmmmm... Oh! That's right, Mr and I wanted "The Day after Tomorrow"! We need to start our movie nights back up, we dropped off again when the Diablo IV season started up.

last game: Currently in FFXIV as mentioned above, but that's my "everyday" game even if it hasn't been "everyday" for a few months lately. Dragon Age Veilguard and Inquisition both took up the end of 2024, and as mentioned, the new season of Diablo IV has been chipping away at time as well! (the complete all the season chapters reward is a birb pet. named DORIAN. And he's black and purple and blue. I've been working on getting him before stopping for the season....)

last tv show: ....... good gods I have no idea? I don't really watch TV shows, and rarely have been watching movies right now...

sweet/spicy/savory: Def sweet. I like savory, don't get me wrong, and spicy really doesn't agree with me (I'm pretty sure that's an unfortunately, because I've for the most part *liked* the taste of spicier things, but... I literally can't handle it). Sweets however? I think the phrase when planning the NYC trip was "no such thing as too many bakeries".

relationship: Happily married to my Mr for 9 years this year!

fave color: .... yeah, I know you all know this. Blue. lol However, spinning off that is blue/purple/black/silver that combo is always best and green is a good backup!

last internet search: Pretty sure it was the Honda dealership nearest work's phone number to call and schedule recalls for lot cars.

[ishgardianskypirate]

fandom peeps to get to know better

tagged by @ffxivtribehydrae thanks!

Three ships I like: Haven’t been that much into ships lately but some I will always love are Forsyth/Python and Ferdinand/Hubert from Fire Emblem and one specific OC ship. First ship ever: I honestly don’t recall this one... Last song you heard: I think it was Broken by Sonata Arctica? Favorite childhood book: Haukkaprinssi by Marja-Leena Lempinen comes to mind. Read it several times over as a kid. Currently reading: Okinawa by Higa Susumu. I recently moved into a new city and have made a habit of going to the library weekly to pick up whatever seems interesting. Currently watching: Nothing, actually. Haven’t watched much of anything apart from youtube videos lately. Currently consuming: A homemade smoothie with red currant, banana, chocolate protein powder and vanilla yogurt Currently craving: I just restocked my stash of Indomie, so I’m craving that!

I will tag @midnightamant | @gobbie-boom | @home-halone with no pressure at all, do if you feel like it!

[mangotortoise]

Tag game 💌 Tagged by @wilsonthemoose

Relationship status: In a lovely relationship with a wonderful geologist who also juggles

Song stuck in my head : Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

favorite color : blue, certain shades of green

Three favorite foods : coffee, falafel, kimchi

last song I listened to : Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

dream trip : Ireland. I want to see like an actual hurling match (and camogie because hot damn, women)

last thing I googled : The weather

Tagging @bg-sparrow @daryfromthefuture @jemily-in-paris @criminalmindsgonewrong @lemonlinelights (only if y'all want to) and anyone else who wants to do this

[nyyfever]

if you had a spotify wrapped but for which hockey players you talked about the most, who would be your top five?

tagged by @watch-the-damn-line 🫶

erik karlsson!

sidney crosby

kris letang

evgeni malkin

a tie – bryan rust and alex nedeljkovic

tagging: @butterflyintochains @seventyones @tangerisms

[entriprises]

BIRDIE'S COMFORT LIST

Comfort food(s): bread, i will never say no to bread and also soups. i love soups, all the possible soups! Comfort drink(s): lemonade, iced tea, i don't usually prefer them mixed just separate Comfort movie(s): sleepless in settle, klaus, about time, the martian Comfort show(s): madam secretary, the mentalist, x files, ted lasso Comfort clothing: big shirt, shorts, a crewneck Comfort song(s): bleachers anything, but it also depends on what i'm needing comforting with?? like do i wanna stay in the emotions or be taken out of them Comfort book(s): percy jackson, the martian Comfort game(s): games stress me out but i have a lot of nostalgia for minecraft

tagged by: @fyrewalks tagging: @ahdaline @benoirblanc @danversiism @ensnchekov @guidefaithed & you!

[blackjackkent]

Tagged by @ibethalantyr - thank you!

Tagging: @thedarkstrategist @the-night-wizard @rhysintherain @writer86 @springagainafter

[liminalhymnal]

Top 10 Fav Characters Meme

Rules: List 10 favourite characters from separate fandoms/media, then tag (10) people

I was tagged by @normalslimeguy , so here they are in no particular order:

Risotto Nero (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

V (DMC 5)

Laios Touden (Dungeon Meshi)

Noi (Dorohedoro)

Heather Mason (Silent Hill 3)

The Medicine Seller (Mononoke)

Yuuko (xxxHolic)

Yak (Haunted Electronics Shop)

Majima Goro (Yakuza)

Olruggio (Witch Hat Atelier)

Tagging random mutuals but you don't gotta if you don't wanna!

@anything-viva @stasiwife @volfoss @iiota @transvampania @conkedcrete @clown-titties @fruitsclipper @insomnivamp @origulator

[glamgoblin]

Challenge: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

Tagged by @loveable-sea-lemon five million years ago I’m so sorry this took so long bestie 🫶🏻

Tagging (only if you want!) @wintercrushes @ella-norah @newyearknwwme @machoestofmen @upbycandlelight

[aether-link]

Ty for the Tag game @atuats-sidechick ✨✨

I choose to steal a Lego frog from you, they are neat!

I don’t have much to tag, but I’ll tag ya @akamikazae :>

[whoisnotmyname]

✨Self-Rec Tag Game ✨

Rules: Share five of your own fanworks (fic, art, etc.). Then, tag five more people to share the things they’ve made. I’ve put categories below, but they’re more guidelines than rules.

I got tagged by @exhausted-archivist​  thank ya!! The amount of work, time, and detail you put into your craft is absolutely inspirational, I love zooming in on all your stuff. <3

Something you absolutely adore

Gotta go with this one, it was the first piece(s) that came to mind. It’s finished, I’m incredibly fond of how they two turned out, and I had a lot of fun working on the different versions.

Something that was challenging to create

Trying to make a cohesive set of cards was trickier than i thought it was going to be! Getting them to have their own feel and personality while balancing how much overlapped was difficult. I think I id aight in the end, and they all look pretty good, even though they’re a few years old at this point haha.

Something that makes you laugh (or smile, if that fits more comfortably)

MABARI!!! They don’t get enough love in this fandom IMHO so getting into designing some this year has really been fun and i plan on drawing more of ‘em.

Something that surprised you (in how it turned out, how much other people liked it, etc.)

A few reasons why this surprised me. One, the pose threw me through a loop in a way I thought i was prepared for. Hubris n all that lol. The second is that the Bioware twitter retweeted it?? But only before I was considering tweaking a few details because of course. Still bounces tho, and really neat.

 Something you want other people to see

An oldie but a gold-y. I don’t always draw traditionally, and this was fun! Reade and all his daggers

Tagging: I’ve seen a lot of my moots do this all ready so uuhhhhhh if you haven’t been tagged yet and wanna share I dub thee Tagged! And pls tag me I wanna see!!

[mushroomslovesyou]

was tagged by @karmicpunishment :D

RULES: make a poll of at least five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s fave.

tagging (with zero pressure) @randomcollection-o-stuff @blue-spectors @bluestergold @newkillerstarkid and whoever else wants to play :D

[jerichoes]

URL song game tagged by @hosseini-stewy 💛

rules: spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters

jealousy by the films

exploding by mehro

rusketusraidat by pmmp

in your beat by django django

can't stop feeling by franz ferdinand

humility by gorillaz

oh mama by milky chance

emotional by ashe

samodisciplina by keni nije mrtav

tagging @cannedmonster @rasputinaillyanna @jokermoreau @kylla-kylla @mournmourn @kuppikahvia @c28hunter @italimix and @anxious-witch because i know you've been struggling to find songs that start with an 'x' so here's one for the pile >:D

[kithtaehyung]

writer's tag game !!

recommend 5 or more of your own works that you would rec to someone asking what they should read first & explain a little bit about the work. these can be the most popular, the ones you think are underrated, or your own favourites! then tag five (or more) other writers! 

ty jade babe @eoieopda​ for the tag! i haven’t done a tag game in a minute but i will do 4 u<3 

new guy (knj) (m) : one of my shortest fics, and one that doesn’t take itself too seriously! it’s a quick read and showcases a little bit of my writing style (not to its full potential since i rushed it, though.) 

calling you cool (jjk) (m) : another one of my shorter fics that isn’t on the heavier side. just you and a starry-eyed jungkook that is down to stick with you the whole night<3 

three tangerines (myg) (m) : the one-shot that evolved into a whole universe and the work that is pushing me to improve my writing every single day. there isn’t a day that goes by where i’m not thinking of these characters, and it’s a story that means incredibly much to me. can be read as a standalone one-shot, or as a series. 

first love, last love (myg) (m) : if you love music and/or are a musician, this one was made for you in mind. it’s my longest one-shot at 33k, but it’s got a piece of my heart and soul inside. currently in the process of revising/revamping it to be on par with my current writing style, but that’s been slow-going. 

hit;record (myg & ksj) (m) : lmfaoooo let’s just say if you need a yoonjin fix, i offer this to you on a silver platter covered in chains and sin. it’s nothing but filth (a lie) 

tagging ppl i love and miss (feel free to ignore, though, just know imy ily): @sketchguk @bratkook @kpopfanfictrash @sugaurora @yoonia @xjoonchildx @floralseokjin @minisugakoobies @bangtanintotheroom + anyone that wants to do it :D

[halestrom]

Create a poll of your top 5 blorbos and then tag 5 more people.

ty for the tag @nimuetheseawitch

@gingerpolyglot @goddesspharo @hangmanbradshaw @sunmontuewrites and @tornadocowboy

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

first line challenge!

rules: post the first line of your wip, the first line you worked on today, or any other “first line!”

Thank you for the tag @dragonologist-phd !

Gonna pick the first 'line' [i do love my run on sentences] of chapter three of rage rage against the dying of the light, which im slowly working on

Conficcare rushes towards Celia, taking the clean cotton vest meant for Celia to change into and shoving it over her face, pressing his thumbs above her ears and his fingers on her jaw to cut off blood flow to the weeping arteries, his palms over her cheeks and brows to put pressure on the bleeding wounds, a prayer on his tongue that the rhythmic wet pulsing of blood against his hands would stop before Celia's heart did.

tagging: @i-know-how-my-story-ends @kaleido-scope-lady @dujour13 @dellamortethelesser @buds-and-baubles and you reading this if you want to do it!

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

2024 fic roundup

*that’s the number of words in the two chapters i got out this year; the fic’s total word count so far is 99,043

Total Words Published at end of year: 44,834

Fandoms: overwhelmingly tolkien with the tiniest bit of demon slayer. that first part is not surprising since i dove facefirst back into the fandom this year, but the second one is because my demon slayer kick ended like two years ago. still love yoriichi and uta though

Highest Everything (raw kudos, hits, comments):

I Was Eros, and You, Psyche for everything lol -- 241; 6,329; and 159 respectively. it is a longfic that i first published in 2021 (wow...), so that's not surprising though. for the ones from just 2024, it would be the self is not so weightless, again for everything. 51, 459, 19 respectively.

New Things I Tried: oh several.

the self is not so weightless i'd consider "new" in the sense that i wrote it after i began liking thingol a lot more than i did during my initial foray into the silm fandom. i really had to re-imagine him to fit my better understanding of his character; i previously kind of defaulted to seeing him as stern and moody 24/7, and while he definitely could be stern and moody, it's far from the only side of him. i'd even say it's very much not his default. i also had to do a good bit of digging with my take on elwing; at the point that the fic takes place, she is safe and the worst traumas are behind her, so it was interesting writing a stage of her life where she actually can afford to begin processing all the horrors she's lived through, and her own perception of how those horrors have affected her as a person. she's just. lost so much :') but at the same time making the choice to go meet thingol, someone so intimately connected to the family and the ancestral home that were taken from her, is an indication of her resilience, her hope, and her determination to make the most of everything she can, and i really wanted to convey that. it's definitely a mindset and stage of development that i'm not used to writing, that kind of resentment/closure/perseverance after you've seen hell and survived.

we are a pair of mirrors that face each other is an interesting one! i've done stuff from the perspectives of ainur before, but it was definitely new because i really had to think about my impression of sauron as a character before i could write the fic to my satisfaction. of course he's a villain, but the fic itself is from his perspective and the majority of it takes place at a stage where he wholeheartedly believes he's truly doing what's the net best for creation. he still fully abides by his own principles and ethics, and he still cares for the people he cares for. sauron changes a lot throughout his career as melkor's chief servant followed by dark lord in his own right, and writing from his pov definitely required me to consider his character arc more than i'm used to doing.

where you go i'm going, so jump and i'm jumping bc it's my first time writing this type of oc: someone who's a main character in the fic itself, but really functions as a way to explore and elevate the canon characters. i was actually surprised with how rewarding it is, and it gave me a new appreciation for how conducive to original characters the silm is.

Fic I Spent the Most Time On: besides I Was Eros, and You, Psyche -- which naturally takes more time just because it's the only thing i worked on in 2024 that's not a one-shot -- where you go i'm going, so jump and i'm jumping took me a while. a lot of it was related to worldbuilding insofar as one can worldbuild with canonical source material -- i had to really solidify my headcanons on thingol's family, and there was quite a bit of oc naming involved. my end notes on that fic are a gd essay. andddd besides all that i just had to consider how i wanted thingol to be acting; after all the fic's premise is him hearing the news of luthien's first death and seeing her body. thingol is a character who has been through immense and constant grief, so it took me some pondering to get down how i think he'd react to what would still be the most devastating loss he's experienced up to that point.

Fic I Spent the Least Time On: than the deserts have sand. i may like it partly because it's so short

Favorite Thing I Wrote: i'm going to say, again, than the deserts have sand. if only because it's my favorite in the sense that i struggled the least while writing it; it was one of those fics that just flows out of you in a few concentrated bursts. not all my writing has been that simple and clean an experience for me, so i guess i'm uniquely fond of this one for that reason

Favorite Thing(s) I Read:

Wall the Heart by heget -- the first battle of beleriand has ended and thingol is picking up the pieces with his family, but then morgoth hits him from a direction he didn't expect. wonderful look into thingol's character, his relationships to his friends and extended family, and his sense of responsibility to his people

histories, full of stars by RaisingCaiin -- in the early days of creation, varda enjoys solitude in her domain when ungoliant comes to visit

Penumbra by @imakemywings -- maedhros makes himself a guest in menegroth with diplomacy on his mind. as he grows closer to thingol, professionalism gets further and further away from him. also guys... thingol is literally soooo sexy here. whew

the names she calls you by tarinumenesse -- ares falls in love with aphrodite at first sight, but he still falls deeper after that

Ares At Troy by themoonflower -- ares' most favored mortal consort was otrera, the first queen of the amazons. with his backing, she makes a kingdom for herself

high enough for me by anonymous -- daji, ziya, and riga argue about how old they're getting and take viagra. that's the fic, legit. love it

Writing Goals for 2025: pretty much to just work on the ideas i have in mind

Tagging: @ladysternchen @serene-faerie @cilil @nyarnamaitar