#Uhh?? A bit of crossover too??

[sobredunia]

So.

I made a silly crossover AU pretty much exclusively for only me and @radioroxx

more doodles under the cut (its mostly shitposts and clover descending into insanity lol)

Translation: holy shit is that sans undertale

(i know it doesnt make sense in canon for Gomez to speak zuish but shhh this AU is founded on self-indulgence what's a bit more)

Translation: hello im dot god is dead

and, of course, can't forget the spiderman meme

I spent longer on the zuish formatting than i'm willing to admit

also. i spent longer on Dot than im willing to admit. i couldnt find a png and the character's semi transparent so i took an image and color selected and slightly altered each individual color and drew over it. all for a singular bit. i havent even learnt how to draw 4d objects from this but ngl it came out p neat so ya

for the people who are just browsing the uty tag/only know of uty: fez is a videogame where your hat allows you to see change perspectives and navigate a 3d world as if it was 2d. you have a companion named dot that is a 4d cube that just follows you around and explains stuff. also god is actually dead and you killed it so now you have to put it back together. i am not exaggerating in any of these aspects in the slightest

uhh yknow what. art taglist too. look at this deranged crossover boy

@rotkad @sansxfuckyou @blackfright @beetroot-merchant @ashs-hellhole @h3xt0r @bree-sae @helloidkwhatimdoing-0 @zecrisketch

[shyinsunlight]

20 Questions (for fanfic writers)

Thank you for the tag, @cindle-writes <3 I'm tagging: @sri-verse @the-invisibility-bloke @wretchedanddivinee @houndsofheaven

how many works do you have on ao3? 14

what's your total ao3 word count? 192,114

what fandoms do you write for? Harry Potter, Hogwarts Legacy

top five fics by kudos: A Simple Request Heartbreak Prince Not With Haste Slip Away Learn Me Right

do you respond to comments? I try to do my best! Unfortunately, I sometimes fail. But I think about the comments I get a lot, and re-read them often.

what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Ties That Bind was supposed to be a PWP and ended up with Major Character Death.

what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Heartbreak Prince is rotting from fluff from the first word until the last.

do you get hate on fics? Yes, morons have discovered my existence recently.

do you write smut? More and more...

craziest crossover? I don't have it posted, but I wrote a HP/Nashville crossover once, where Harry is basically Rayna and Tom is Juliette.

have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of!

have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, A Simple Request <3

have you ever co-written a fic before? I haven't, but I'd like to once.

all time favorite ship? Tomarry.

what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Never say never, but I've been working on the expanded rewrite of Slip Away for a bit too long.

what are your writing strengths? I was told I'm good at writing tension, so I'll go with that.

what are your writing weaknesses? Overwriting. I just don't know when to stop. I’m also pretty bad at dialogues in general.

thoughts on dialogue in another language? Guilty. If it fits the story and adds to it, I don't mind. For the sake of showing off that you can, nah. (Guilty of that, too. I once wrote a tomarry crack fic where Parseltongue was Swedish.)

favorite fic you've written? Uhh, there are a couple I like for different reasons, but let's say friend of the devil (a friend of mine) because I think it's my best work yet

[acksolotel618]

HEY!! YOU!! YES YOU!! 🫵🫵

I heard there was a...Gravity Falls and Ninjago crossover AU that I havent heard of before and I too...am a nerd for both of these shows..................

SO WHATS THIS S11 AND GRAVITY FALLS CROSSOVER I HAVENT HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT?? 👀👀

This is important btw I'm going to go FERAL like PLS WDYM OUR TRAUMATIZED ICEY EMP GUY GETS HALF POSSESSED??

EEEEHEHEH OKAYYY SO (keep in mind I have NOT read the book of bill yet due to not being able to easily get it in my country, I'll be getting it around december possibly?? So Bill 2nd dimension lore may be a bit off, not sure tho!!)

Also this will probably be a bit of a long rant, and possibly a bit messy and I have no idea if it'll make sense to anyone other than me..

Also Bill would have a nickname for Zane but I'm still brainstorming one so I guess he's just..Zane for now(/ref)

The basic idea is that Bill replaces Vex. We're gonna think about Bill's ability to see the 3rd dimension and how he's 'outcasted' like Vex's formlessness. Instead of him destroying his dimension, he travels away from everyone in a corner of the 2nd dimension and develops a personality quite similar to how he is in GF canon. (with a bit of Vex dropped in there but they're incredibly similar anyways).

Zane gets blasted by Aspheera but instead of ending up in the Never Realm, he ends up in the 2nd dimension, quite close to where Bill was at the time. Much like Zane and Vex, Bill saw Zane, Zane didn't see Bill. (I'll probably draw a visual on what Zane and Bill would look like in the 2 dimension compared to 2nd dimensional beings some time in the future).

Bill discovers another 3rd dimensional being! Yay!! (Bill pressures Zane into a deal by saying he can help him find home. (Play on words - Zane's new home is a mix between the Emperor's Castle and the Fearamid). Bill possesses Zane, navigates his robo brain, sees a whole thing in Zane's mind about his fear of memory erasure, ignores it, finds a way to erase his memories, and pulls a Vex.)

Bill possesses Zane in a way that Zane is still consciously inside of his body, but kind of shares it with Bill?? If this makes sense. So it's like a split personality sort of cliché thing between person and demon. Zane is still there so he can still power the scroll of forbidden spinjitzu, but Bill can project his own 3 dimensional 'powers' on it too.

Bill uses the scroll to turn the 2nd dimension 3 dimensional more intricately, unlike in GF canon where it just destroyed the entire thing.

And, due to time moving differently in Bill's perspective.. uhh Zane is there for a bit longer than 60 years 😁😁😁😁🤣🤣!!! (millennia)

Since the dimension is now 3D, 2D beings, (eg. Bill's family, diff shapes,) they have to try their best to navigate a 3D plane as 2D shapes. Basically moving across walls and some of the weird shit Bill and Zane make during this like, slightly ice oriented weirdmageddon.

Over these millennia, there would be times where Bill would go and explore other dimensions and bring back the henchmaniacs and all that, leaving Zane to just go insane and with all the weirdness around him, not knowing who he really is other than what Bill tells him. He tries his very damn well best to make sense of everything but just can't even though it's all he remembers.

Zane and Bill also form a close relationship that's kinda like a mix of Zane and Vex's relationship (power imbalance, and in the sense of how Vex manipulated Zane and would probably scold him for not doing stuff) and Bill and Ford's (In how they interact. Acting as if an idea was their own, praise, false sense of equality in their relationship).

(Also when I say 'relationship' I'm not necessarily saying I ship any of these characters romantically.)

There's probably so much more I could say, ESPECIALLY to do with the angst aspects, and I probably will rant more about this some time, but that's basically the big idea. But things may also change because I'm still building the AU up because it is actually quite a big thing to me :33

[sasoxichomoshi]

are the pathless and abzu related? yes, and this connection is way more important than people give credit for (i will be rambling now)

visual cues are everywhere; the beheaded shark statue right at the start of the game, the purification process and the spirit realm architecture all nods to the previous game as the shells and the locked door at cerno's domain are literal imports from abzu, which are all sweet references present in the pathless

everything that concerns the spiritual realm has a touch of abzu (pantone abzu blue when)

i'd also add that i have autistic urges to just write about how the pathless feels like this result from accumulated knowledge/experience from past Nava games - the pathless has both the 'myth of creation' and the journey of the hero combined in order to tell this lil story with these silly characters (i see it all as if giant squid team woke up one day and said "what if we made like a fancy fanfic yknow" really best decision ever), however knowing myself it''d just feel like nonsense rambling (even worse than this) and a bit off topic, but i had to mention or my skin wouldn't stop itching

anyway back to the two games -

i have this recurring impression that abzu allegories and symbolism are woven in the fabric of reality in the pathless - it's not about them directly, but are foundational for whatever is being told here and now

you cannot, in full consciousness, tell me that these are just easter eggs in the pathless that giant squid introduced because it's a past title from the studio; not when there was giant effort in blending the two games sensibly - abzu is brought up in the symbolism, the color palette (red/blue), in the environment, and it's even present in the soundtrack

in short, tying the universe of the two games together was intentional

but despite visually tied, it still made no sense to me; ok we share the color palette, we wander around with the help of a tall one, we defeat the bad one, what else there's to it? is it just the start of the giant squid MCU? giant squid cinematic universe? or gaming universe? (i feel stupid)

regardless, as i answered the question to how, i wanted to understand why - and to make sense out of it all, i resorted to a feature unique to the pathless: written text

what is so important to tell the player that you need written text, something you were avoiding in all your past games but that suddenly you bring back out of nowhere to tell a story in a way you havent done before? i can just assume some topics were too necessary to just left it implied (at best), or never explained (at worst)

one of the reasons i have written this blog post until this point (the main reason, actually) is that i feel there's a bit of an overlook of an essential part in the established the pathless n abzu crossover (can i call it that?), something that permeates everything, but it's not really visible in a literal way

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as i played the game, godslayer perspective and motives stood out - they are the focus of a good part of all the tablets and dead people's memories - and as i dived deeper into the abzu connections (pun not intended) certain lines got too remarkable:

so,,, godslayer deems this world broken because it's made out of pure chaos, ok i guess it makes sense uhhh wait wait im having flashbacks i have seen this befo-

uhh oooooohhh ok ok get it i can see some parallels ughhh woooow just wow omg

the underlying factor here is that chaos is origin, foundation for both games universes (tho we can all see that at this point it's the same universe)

in abzu, by ordaining chaos the diver brings back life; in the pathless the ordained chaos, the one that constitutes all life, is at risk because someone decided that having everything made out of (essentially) chaos wasnt really suitable for the second industrial revolution i guess

note: if you know nothing about abzu i recommend reading this post cause it explains a bit about what chaos means in abzu, hence it's relevant to the pathless too

and understanding the chaos that impregnates existence as a whole is central in the pathless, which brings us to another focal point the game brings up: religion

you see religion a big deal in the pathless in the sense that it defines factions; you pick a side, and it's what drives the line of action of almost everyone in the island - the pathfinder quest against the tall ones, the godslayer followers vs the tall ones followers, entire communities dedicated to their local gods, and so on

superficially, it's easier to go to the "bad vs good" route where godslayer must be defeated to keep the order and the light and tall ones good guys whatever, the problem of this line of thought is: too much black and white and no gray to be seen

the pathless final message speaks about decision making: you are free to trace your own path (and this message is reinforced through game design and the title and at the final boss fight, you can name it) however, here lies the detail: similar to the chaos surrounding us, it goes unnoticed that the will to take a determined path comes from within

that's why religion is a hot topic in the pathless, it's what allows people to trace a path in a chaotic world, literally

the myth of creation - the eagle mother, the branch, her children - in itself is a form of understanding reality, religion - prayers, sacrifices, lines of conduct, contemplation - is also a form of grasping the real, and from this understanding, this particular view of the world, you are invited to take action; you cultivate the land and you build temples dedicated to your god

you take action based in what you believe, and you can see it better in the dead followers you can commune with through the island, they are fierce in their beliefs, which leads them to make a stand or fight back

it also stands out how the tall ones are imbued with negative traits; nimue shifts moods like summer rain, kumo is terribly jealous and childish, sauro despite everything will resort to violence, cernos is too shy, heck even eagle mother as gentle as she is let atrocities took place before any meaningful action was considered

all the tall ones have their virtues and imperfections because in the end they are also made out of chaos, essentially they are not that different from any tree on the plateaus; but, as the tablets about the masks state, they see things beyond this realm, and with this knowledge they try to guide those that dont see it - it's like this for their followers, and hunter is also guided by them

godslayer is no different, he took a path lead by his beliefs, beliefs those that reject the idea of having life from chaos, which lead to his obsession of fixing what he deemed broken; from his perspective, he suffered in the hands of the tall ones and their followers which made him believe that anything of their nature was treacherous - he failed tho, failed to understand that a single path would lead to perpetual suffering (as some memories states, "i was not meant to bloodshed"), which was a fate his followers had bittersweetly tasted

in this scenario, hunter is special: she's an outsider, she doesn't comprehend her mission just yet neither knows those lands; she's facing chaos in its pure form and in order to make sense of her new reality, she takes the eagle mothers advices; upon taking on the trials of the island she witnessed chaos in its many forms, and she assimilates it, not good nor bad but a 'in between' - that's why (from my understanding), on purifying the godslayer final form, her eyes glow in bright blue not because she's some 'declared since birth' allied of the tall ones, but because it signals purpose, she understands the chaos, the one that causes life and death, and she embraces that view from within and translates it into strength to fight back and endure

there's not a single creature in this world that doesnt feel lost and be it whatever creature - human, tall ones, demons, animals, everyone is trying to make sense of this confusing world we live in, be it through any path at hand - and religion is just one of the possible ways in the sea of infinite available paths

as hunter explores deeper into the island, she bonds with the tall ones but make no mistake, she's not really a faithful follower - and she doesn't need to be - cause she has the understanding that the tall ones represent this organized chaos necessary to the flux of life, she respects them

pathfinder, unfairly treated, will look at the tall ones and see just lies, refusing their guidance, he will strive for a new path not taken before and ignore any previous knowledge about the world, he will build up a single vision for a brand new reality absent of chaos because that's how he was conditioned to see and absorb the world around him

(and that makes godslayer feels even more tragic, having the possibility of seeing the world through new lenses by wearing the mask of the ancients yet he persisted in his views and ignored the reality as it was - chaos neatly woven - perhaps out of hate and sorrow for all past injustices; even in the end he resisted to accept the world that nurtured him, as he too was made out of chaos - and for that he's forgiven)

you and i can both worship sauro, but in the end we will look at the surrounding chaos from different perspectives and i will decide that pottery is the way to go while you see the sword as the suitable option; as the truth stands, this is a pathless land - there's no defined answer

the pathless, beyond the 'pathless land' lesson, has something more to tell - that perhaps the path is already established and to you is given the choice of going forward that path or re-evaluate and change directions;

if i had to define the pathless i'd say it's about what touches the eye and where you rest you hand (which can also explains why the eye is an ever present image throughout the game); through perception you grasp the world around you, you create your views and based on it you take action - will you release the bow string? will you strike with your sword? will you cultivate the land? or will you shed blood? what have you seen that made you act like this?

what a chaotic world

anyway, i have too much to say and no one to listen so my only options are write Big Blog Post or bang my head against the wall if you read until here (complete madness) thanks for enduring until the end

(cant wait to see the pathless references in sword of the sea i have faith)

[babblingbookends]

20 questions for fic writers

Okay so hopefully I found all the people who tagged me in this game, thank you to @fleur-de-violette @goldenraeofsun and @wildsofmarch for the tag! (If you tagged me and I didn't see it, thanks to you too!)

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Thirty-eight! I didn't realize there were so many.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

50,029. A respectable number, but could be better

3. What fandoms do you write for?

DC Comics, but mostly Batman. I pretty much exclusively write fics for DC Comics, with the majority being Batman and Batfam-related comics. I have one single fic for another fandom, and that fandom is Avatar: The Last Airbender.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Tim Drake (Doesn't) Drink Coffee, which is also my first fic! It currently has 990 kudos

Do You Need Another Box of Tissues? which beats the next fic by 1 kudo, sitting at 242 kudos

Hypnogogic Jerks and Other Body Quirks is still one of my favorite titles! It has 241 kudos (update: I double checked before posting this and it now has 242 kudos, tying it for second place

Batman vs. Bridezilla has an even 200 kudos

And number five is Isern, which I'm a little shocked by considering it's currently my most recent fic. It has 156 kudos

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to! I don't get a lot of comments, so it doesn't usually take me long to get through them, but I do tend to let them build up a bit before I answer them.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Uhh good question. You're Just A Baby, You Can Not Fly is angst the whole way through, so maybe that one

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Realizing now that a lot of my fics are either angst or smut, soooo there's happy endings in most of the smut fics teehee. But also this one, Soda Pop, is sweet the whole way through.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I'm fortunate enough that so far, I have not! I don't feel like I'm big enough to get hate

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do! Not sure how to describe what kind, but I've touched on a lot of smut things. This may be TMI, but I really like writing sex that also involves pain, I think it works so well with the Batfams gestures wildly everything.

10. Do you write crossovers?

No. I'm not opposed to the idea but it sounds too complicated for my writing tastes

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I've noticed or been told about

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of! I would love to have it happen though

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope! I think it sounds fun but collaboration scares me sometimes because what if. what if I'm actually stupid. and my co-writer hates everything I come up with. Horrible thought

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

My all-time favorite is a tough one to choose butttt I really like Wonderbat from Justice League Unlimited. Niche, I know, but it was my childhood ship and holds a special place in my heart. Never actually written something for it though!

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you will?

Hoooooo-boy, I recently abandoned a buuuuunch of wips in my wip folder because I had named them random, unimaginative stuff, and simply didn't have the mental energy to go through them and see what was in them and rename them so I just put them all in a folder and started fresh. However, in that folder was another folder where I had a series planned based around Jason and a bunch of members of the Batfam. Each fic would have chapters from Jason's POV and another character. The first fic was Jason and Tim solving a missing persons case. I think Barbara's was them, like, getting trapped in a mall by the Joker, and I vaguely remember that Dick's took place in New York City.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I have no idea. Maybe my descriptions of stuff? I really like describing things in unexpected ways and trying to pull emotion into them. No idea if other people like it though!

17: What are your writing weaknesses?

I always feel like my flow is really bad. Like some places feel really slow and some places feel too rushed, if that makes sense. I also think that when I'm writing a character I always make the character feel a bit too distant, like I'm just describing what's happening to them instead of making the reader feel what's happening to them.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Well you see, I have this bad habit of thinking I can just learn an entire language in an afternoon, which means that no writing actually gets done. So unless it's something I can a. easily translate from a dictionary (so a single word or a simple, common phrase) or b. ask one of my international friends to translate for me, I usually find another way to say it without using the actual language. Maybe sticking the words in italics, or the old classic "he said something in Russian".

19. First fandom you wrote for? 

Batman! As I said above, my first fic was Tim Drake (Doesn't) Drink Coffee. Before that I only wrote original stories.

20. Favourite fic you've written?

All these questions about fics when I don't remember anything about any fic I've ever written XD.

Probably either Gotham Roulette or Clock-Beat, Heart-Beat. Based off of popularity, Gotham Roulette is one of my least popular, but I still like it, it was so dramatic. And Clock-Beat was really fun to write, it's about the Batfam from the perspective of a clock.

And that's that!

Tagging @cephalog0d, @adelfie, @nelson-and-murdock, and whoever else wants to play!

[goldom]

HI3 day 2

Reached chapter 3 and uhhh did the translation/writing just take a massive dive in quality from chapter 2? Cause wow it sure feels like it. And also I very suddenly have even less clue what's going on than before.

lol is that girl-Venti

Wait are there no men in this game? But what about Welt? Well that's some bad vibes. Don't generally trust games with 0 men to not be gross about their women. I guess I'll have faith given HSR, for now.

I somehow have to seem multiple current-banner characters and I have no idea where they came from I haven't rolled on anything yet??? Things just keep popping up and I only just realized that gold-background does not mean S-rarity character so

This is seriously some abysmal interface clarity and tutorialization. I don't know how you're supposed to find or understand nearly anything without googling it. I feel like every 5 minutes I just stumble onto some complete other menu I've never seen before. Why does upgrading a character's different parts take paging through 10 different screens. Whyyy do some characters have tutorial videos and some have playable tutorials and some have written guides and some have none of the above it's all so completely fragmented

Uhh anyway, girl's got a dangerous magic rock in her. Girl (me) who has only played HSR -> wow I'm getting some Stelle vibes from this

I like when Kiana says neko neko (in Chinese VA. Because sure why not)

For an hour straight the camera completely refused to turn horizontally and I could never see where I was going. Now it works again. Who fuckin knoooowwws lmao

...in conclusion I feel like I did not have anything to worry about in the "what if this game takes up too much of my life" department. Will probably just go through the story for a bit, get to see the crossover and that's it.

[leftneb]

(Regarding the Landoscar dsmp au you're talking about)

YES!!! DO IT!! Join me in the crossover/multi fandom shenanigans!!! >:D /lh

Fr I would be so interested to see it 👀

this ask has been sitting in my inbox for about 39 years now but I have actually had a think about it so here I go

basically I think AU-ing anything into the DSMP would be incredibly challenging because it doesn't have many concrete universe rules. like we know hybrids and whatnot exist, we have the base universe of minecraft (minus the End ig) and the most defined part of the lore is the revival system which is a bit difficult to do anything with tbh

the way to make this interesting (and viable) would be to assign DSMP factions to the drivers and try imagining WHEN and WHY they would have chosen to align with those ideas and people (again this pretty much requires coming up with a new plotline which I'm a little too hyperfixed on the dbh au for atm) (you can pretty much reimagine the whole "plot" of the DSMP with the factions and main plotpoints being kept actually hmmmmmm just the relations changing. potential there.)

like imagine Landoscar (non-americans) with early L'Manburg meanwhile Logan is stuck outside. pure angst potential

my cTubbo (and cSchlatt and cDream) enjoyer brain also very very much wants to draw them as goat/deer hybrids because uhh yes. or just give them horns like the fandom did with cTommy

okay real question what happens when a hybrid character with horns gets revived. white horn maybe....

another big ol' questionmark would be how the drivers' lives could be adapted into the story. one thing that comes to mind is how Oscar moved to England alone at like 14, which my brain immediately associates with cTubbo. or Lando growing up as a shy kid with very little friends, very reminiscent of clingyduo in L'Manburg with the whole getting lifelong trauma thing

basically my thesis is that Landoscar (and Loscar actually) are clingyduo. I am not open to critiscism at this time (I actually am do please discuss this with me there's only a low chance I'll bite you)

I would point out that there is SO much angst potential with the whole L'Manbirg to Pogtopia and Manburg to everything that went on in the prison thing and I haven't even brought up cWilbur yet (the character and the person make me ill in such different ways urgh)

a thing (definitely one of my favorite things at that) about the DSMP is how EVERYONE is a main character depending on who you choose to follow, which is incredibly similar to how F1 works tbh so shockingly enough that's actually easy to adapt

another aspect I had a think about was dsmp character to driver associations which I honestly really want to do a questionnaire on and like make a research post about (someone actually did something similar to this about fandom to F1 pipelines go look at it it's very interesting)

my hypothesis is that associating single characters to drivers would be relatively simple (just a question of what role they play in their respective communities really, plus what vibes they give off lmao) BUT making those connections with groups/duos/trios/etc like actually reimagining the system would yield different results to singular associations. which is just a result of different environments having different ecosystems ig but it would be interesting to see nonetheless. in my brain some DSMP characters' roles would be filled by several drivers and some drivers would take on several roles at the same time which is absolutely fascinating to me

I think. that's all the thoughts I had about that (miight make a post about my driver-character associations at some point but I wanna sit down and have a proper think about that first) (all I'm saying is that Alex Albon is cRanboo)

[basu-shokikita]

Kloktober 2023 Day 24

Novel or Video Game Crossover

My friends and I talked about Dethklok in the Pokémon universe weeks ago and I got a little obsessed with it so today was the perfect chance to develop it for a bit!

With that said, please enjoy ^^

“C-Comes along, Deaddies…” Toki called his Teddiursa to follow him. It was dark and he somehow had gotten lost before the ceremony started. He was getting more nervous with each passing second. 

Why was this happening to him? He just wanted to be a great Pokémon trainer yet he couldn’t find his way out of these same-looking streets. Seriously, they all looked the same. It was as if someone had copied and pasted the blocks all across the town, making them nearly indistinguishable.

“Oh, Deaddies, I thinks we really fuckeds it up this time…” Toki said and, immediately, his companion jumped to his arms to comfort him. Forcing a smile, Toki hugged him, trying not to let stress get the better of him. 

He pictured his friends becoming gym leaders, champions even, becoming celebrities across the country, articles and movies being made about them. While he was sitting alone in the corner, like a loser with no friends and no trophies. All because he didn’t make it in time to the opening ceremony. It wasn’t fair! He had loved Pokémon all his life! This was his dream! He had even ran off from home for this! He just wanted to be the very best!

Eyes welling up with tears, Toki began picking up his pace, turning on the corners, hoping he would get a sight of the Gym on the next one. He could barely hear anything outside his own desperate sobs. Stupid Toki. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

Suddenly, Toki crashed into something and fell backwards against the cold concrete. Sniffing, he wiped his face and raised his eyes in confusion.

4 strangers were looking down at him, both physically and metaphorically. One of them, a tall, wide young man with long black hair, was wearing some kind of armor, the helmet on his hand. It was a bit corny, to be honest. The other, with red dreads, wore a big jacket with psychedelic colors, pants with an acid-like pattern and sneakers that were glowing in the dark. It was making Toki a bit sick just from looking at him. The third one had pretty ordinary clothes, really, just shorts and a shirt with a vest over it, except they were all different shades of pink. However, the most impressive part was how oddly shaped his hair was, like a brown square. 

The last one, though, was the one that captivated Toki’s attention. So tall that he was covering the moon from where Toki sat, he wore white platform boots and high-waisted white pants crowned by a skull belt. His chest was adorned by a tight sleeveless white shirt with collar and a white guitar hung from his shoulder. Golden wavy hair framed his thin and long face, blue eyes staring at Toki’s soul. 

As if that hadn’t been impactful enough, a dragon flew over the sky, huge wings fluttering majestically above them and it dawned on Toki who these guys were. 

The talented prodigies that had been taking the world by a storm recently, the 4 Elites that every Pokémon aficionado had heard of at least once over the last year…Dethklok.

“Whosch thisch fucking clown?” The one in pink asked, or rather, yelled. He was crossing his arms over his chest in annoyance. It was William Murderface, the acclaimed Fairy-type trainer that claimed to hate fairy Pokémon yet somehow was uncontested at attracting them. 

“I think he got lost, dood.” The man with the dreads replied and inhaled from his bong. He was Pickles the Drummer, the master at Poison-type Pokémon and recreational substances. Rumor had it that if he went without drugs for too long, he started tapping his legs like a drum.

“Uhh….” The big man leaned down to Toki like he was a toddler. “Is that true? Are you lost, you regular jack-off?” He was Nathan Explosion, who, in his search for the most brutal Pokémon in the world, had become obsessed with Steel Pokémon. Before dueling, he told every single opponent of his that he would make them explode. It wasn’t an exaggeration.

“Eugh…” The blonde man winced, as the sight was too repulsive. “He ams just a littol dildos.” He was Skwisgaar Skwigelf, the handsome Dragon-Type trainer popular with ladies of all ages. He had the strongest bond with his Pokémon that the trainer community had seen in decades, a sharp contrast to his arrogant attitude towards people. 

In addition to being some of the most talented Pokémon trainers in the world, they also had a death metal band called Dethklok. Hence the nickname. They had amassed quite the following as musicians, often giving concerts in which fans ended up severely hurt out of sheer devotion for the band. In other words, they were total legends.

Toki swallowed and got up, Deaddy climbing to his shoulder in support. “M-My names ams Toki Wartooth!” He put his hand to his chest. “And ams goings to be the Pokémon Champions!” 

Dethklok stared at him wide-eyed for a moment before simultaneously breaking into laughter.

“Wha…” Toki was dismayed.

“Oh, that’s a good one!” Nathan said, his armor clanking with his laughter. “That’s a really good one!”

“Yer gonna…Yer gonna bet us up?” Pickles asked, visibly wheezing. “Ye little beby?”

“Ams 15 years old!” Toki exclaimed, offended.

“Huhuhuhu…” Skwisgaar chuckled throatily. “He ams fifteens, everyones. Watch outs fors da ass kicks!”

“How are you even going to reach usch?” Murderface cackled. “You’re gonna- what? You’re gonna kick your ballsch?”

They laughed even harder, pointing at him like he was some circus monkey. Annoyed, Toki walked up to Murderface and kicked him in the balls.

“Ow!” The man doubled in pain under his friends’ surprised eyes. “What the fuck!”

“Oh. Oh, shet.” Pickles wiped his mouth. “He’s serious.”

Murderface was furious. “I’m gonna kick your asch!” He shouted and tried to pounce on Toki before Nathan and Pickles grabbed him. “Let me go! I’m gonna get him!”

“Calm down, Murderface.” Nathan said, annoyed. “He’s just a kid.”

“A fucking tiny little kid!” Murderface screamed, still struggling to free himself.

“Dood, height is just a concept!” Pickles immediately blurted. “Don’t judge him based on t’at!”

“Yeah!” Toki intervened. “Alsos, I’m tallers than you!” He pointed at Pickles.

“W’at did you say?” Pickles asked, eyes narrowing.

Toki wasn’t intimidated. He took a step forward, challenging. “I said ams taller than you.”

“Oh, yer gunna get it!” Pickles rolled up his sleeves but this time it was Nathan and Murderface that stopped him. “Get off!” He screeched. “I’m gunna teach this punk a lesson!”

“Don’t let him get to you, Picklesch.” Murderface said, face way too close for comfort. 

“Ugh!” Pickles shuddered yet seemed to calm down. The other two released him and he glared at Toki. “W’ats yer problem, kid?”

“Yeah!” Murderface echoed.

“You ams not Poke pals!” Toki said, crossing his arms over his chest. “You ams just means! And Is goings to defeats yous!”

“Oh, here we go again…”

“Skwisgaar.” Nathan said, seemingly thoughtful. “He talks just like you.”

Skwisgaar, who was still laughing, suddenly dropped the smile. “No, he doesn’ts.” 

“Ooohh…” Pickles stared at Nathan, nodding. “He does!”

“Right?” Nathan stared back at Pickles. “It’s like the same fucking thing!”

“No, he doesn’ts!” Skwisgaar insisted, tapping his heel on the ground in annoyance. When his friends didn’t stop laughing, he rolled his eyes. “Ams outta heres.” He said, and played a singular chord on his guitar.

At once, the dragon descended, the wind sending dust into Toki’s eyes. It was a Reshiram, majestic and imposing in size.

“Waits!” Toki said when he saw Skwisgaar was about to climb the dragon. “When wills I sees you again?” He asked, suddenly feeling anguished about the thought of these guys leaving. It was stupid, but he felt like he belonged with them, somehow.

“Eugh…” Skwisgaar grimaced. “When you don’ts sucks, maybes?”

“You know you have to defeat the robot if you want to become a Pokémon champion, right?” Nathan asked.

“The robots…?”

“Ye gotta defeat Charles.” Pickles clarified. “You know? The final boss?”

“Oh!” Toki gasped in recognition. 

Charles Foster Offdensen, the current Pokémon champion, who was known for being able to tame any type of Pokémon yet preferred to battle with normal ones. He was a pretty mysterious guy, little things being known about him besides the fact that he was the patron of Dethklok.

“We can does that!” Toki turned to his Teddiursa. “Right, Deaddies?” His companion nodded vigorously. When he turned back to Dethklok, he could’ve sworn he saw Skwisgaar smirk, but when he looked again, it was gone.

“Right.” Nathan was unimpressed. “I could go for a few beers, how about you guys?”

There were unanimous noises of agreement and they all climbed on the Reshiram behind Skwisgaar. Lovingly, Skwisgaar stroke the side of Reshiram’s voluptuous neck, and the huge beast began flapping its wings, ready to take flight.

The white dragon rose in the air and Toki followed them, still on ground. “I means it! Alls become the Pokémon Champions!” He ran with them. “Soes don’ts forgets me!” He pumped his fist into the air.

In the distance, he saw Nathan, Murderface and Pickles talk to each other but he couldn’t hear them. Skwisgaar spared him one last glance before turning to lead his Reshiram. They disappeared into a cloud and Toki was left seeing the full moon in the sky. 

Overjoyed, he looked at his Teddiursa and squeezed him with excitement. The journey for his dream had officially begun.

[cadriona]

tagged by @lisascumslut78, thanks for the tag!

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

uhh at least 43? 39 are unanon'd, but at least 4 are anon'd i forgot the exact number lol

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

537,345 somehow????

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Mostly Genshin impact! but other fandoms that i've written for are trigun stampede and naruto lol, and then atla by dint of crossover and two unmentioned as they form a crossover that i want to discard to the back of my mind

4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1: 5 times Ningguang saved Beidou and the 1 time Beidou returned the favour (genshin) 2: Mora for a myth (genshin) 3: [redacted] (naruto) 4: Beidou walks off the gangplank (by accident, really) (genshin) 5: Yelan: Spymaster, gambler, self-proclaimed matchmaker (genshin)

5. do you respond to comments?

Yea!! although sometimes it takes a bit to kick my brain into gear to mass respond. Typically needs the right frame of mind, but then i can chug through replying to quite a few!

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

either Take my heart for it was already yours or Your soul's drowned into silence, No one will rouse you, both genshin with MCD ahaha oops

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Fever, soup, and tiny baby chirps maybe??? i've quite a few with happy endings but this one was pretty cute

8. do you get hate on fics?

Probably! but people have been nice in the comments section and i love all my readers dearly :D

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

ahaha yes >u> um. uh. in my defense generally its inspired by art (taro's art specifically) or for event weeks so imgoingtoduckoutofthisquestionnowplsandthanks

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?

Yea! The one thats most out of nowhere is Rebirth, Revision, and Revolution, an atla x genshin fic where post apocalypse in genshin verse due to celestia, ning, beidou, yelan and keqing have been reincarnated into the elemental nations! i... really need to finish it lol, there's 3 chapters of *hopefully* 4 up, but the Book of Fire is not cooperating

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

not exactly? i know there are counterfeit fic sites and at least one of my fics are there, but idk if that counts

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

yea! with the funniest tags too

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

I... don't really recall doing so?

14. what's your all time favourite ship?

BEIGUANG thank you my queens for rekindling my joy for writing

15. what's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

the naruto fic, the beiguang vigilante fic, the anon'd trigun fic, uhhh oops

16. what are your writing strengths?

not entirely certain! i think im usually decent at balancing humor in the right situations and worldbuilding?

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

actually getting the brain to settle down to write ok while true, setting that aside, probably not knowing what to cut (i tend to want to put all the details i can think of in the fic, which isn't really conducive for a variety of reasons)

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

depends on if i'm actually familiar with that other language or not, and how easy it is for the reader to get at translations (hover text or subscripts, depending), i myself probably won't be capable of doing so.

19. first fandom you wrote for?

...naruto >u>

20. favorite fic you've written?

mora for a myth for all the worldbuilding i got to cram in! and maybe in that vein, the atla x genshin cross :D

tagging @yuniemaki, @canonical-transformation, @xnarja, @fishareglorious and anyone else who wants to give this a go!its currently past 1am so i can't really remember names rn, sorry orz

[wyrmswears]

waIT A MINUTE WAIT A GODDAMN MINUTE

in your uhh au crossover thing. where the jayless group timetravels to skybound. echos there. does. does zane meet echo? like obviously he does but THE IMPLICATIONS. because nya remembers. and they never told zane about his brother. and echo realizing they left him at the lighthouses????? uarghhh my head hurts i thought this was gonna be a fun silly au wtf.

hehe, passage below read more :3 spoilers for the fic ofc

i want to talk about how i tackle echo's existence in this au because it is something i've dwelled on a decent amount

[context: zane and nya discuss echo's presence in private]

“I’m sorry. We checked the lighthouse and Echo wasn’t there and… We shouldn’t have given up, and we should have told you, I think-” She bit her lip, worrying it between her teeth. “I think we were scared. I reasoned that it would save you the grief, but I think part of me was scared of somehow recreating this timeline. It all just felt so fragile.”

For a second, Zane didn’t do anything. Then, he reached forwards and embraced her in a hug. The simple gesture made her vision blur. Of course, she thought, it’s Zane. Like he’d do anything else.

“I forgive you.”

“You shouldn’t.”

Zane paused for a second, and Nya knew that he was considering her denial with the same respect he’d give a fully articulated argument. “You hid things from my memory in an attempt to protect me and yourself.” He noted. “While I would rather remember, while I have realised that I would rather have the chance to grieve… I forgive you.”

She shook her head, tears now on the verge of spilling. “You really shouldn’t.”

“I forgave my father, didn’t I?”

That broke the dam.

-----

this is actually something i've been trying hard to fairly represent in my fic. echo's lack of reappearance is mostly down to ninjago's weird writing, and it feels disingenuous to nya and jay's characters to consider it a matter of them 'abandoning' him in canon when that clearly isn't the intention. but i don't want to brush the matter off completely because of my own disinterest in it being a part of their stories.

in this au the idea is that echo remains on the mainland after the timeline resets, as another one of the 'glitches', similar to yang's floating temple. this isn't talked about in the fic but from there he becomes mr e as people commonly headcanon. nya and jay returned to the lighthouse alone, looking for echo, but found nothing and from there they make the decision not to disclose his existence to zane, believing him to be destroyed as a result of the timeline being reset. this to me makes their actions more reasonable (they tried to find echo) but i'll keep the tinge of selfishness to their later silence (though i find this to be a symptom of their greater unwillingness to speak about skybound: one of the ways that their non-disclosure hurts not only themselves but also others).

likewise to doing nya and jay's characters justice, i wanted to come up with a fair reaction from zane. to have him blame nya and jay puts too much blame on them for ninjago's writing flaws and feels like it ties their characters to that when i'd rather not dwell on it, so i knew i wanted zane to forgive them. i try to do my best with zane's character because i love his character but see common critiques of how he is written which ghshsgjhsjg puts up the pressure for a non-zane expert like myself. so i tried to compare it to his memory being wiped by his father (with a sprinkle of crystallised's lesson in mourning), which he didn't hold any strong grudge for. similarly to nya and jay's aspect of selfishness, i think there is selfishness in dr julien's actions too that zane acknowledges.

i like to think that zane's logical thinking is tied to his kindness, tying his humanity to his robotic nature. when he forgives nya, this isn't a gut response for nya's sake, but a decision that he has genuinely weighed up. as he doesn't dismiss her misaction, i find that makes his forgiveness more genuine compared to that of characters who would instinctively respond with the aim of making the other feel better rather than properly representing their own feelings/beliefs on the matter. that also provides a more concrete conclusion to the issue rather than leaving room for hurt feelings to dwell underneath the surface which lets me wrap it up and have the characters move on.

the passage i included is still a bit of a WIP, i want to add a little more detail i think, but for now it gets the point across lol.

as always, if any zane experts want to weigh in with their feelings on how i tackle this, i'd happily consider it (though i'm also quite happy with the way i have it working out now, so i'm not sure how much it'd change).

[ralphiesaces]

thanks for the tag @msmirrorball21 (i think? i couldn't see the tag lol but i wanted to do this anyways!)

-20 Questions for Fic Writers-

How many works do you have on AO3? 3

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 8,194

3. What fandoms do you write for? f1 rpf, tmd, top gun, oceans 11, a little bit of haikyuu during covid too

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? uhh well there's only 3 so promise three words, don't leave unsupervised, and can't start a fire without a spark

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? i try to! i love ppl taking the time to actually comment so i always wanna express my gratitude

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? none, my brain won't let me haha

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? out of my published ones its promise three words

8. Do you get hate on fics? no! thank goodness lol

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? nope, it's not for me!

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? i have not so, n/a

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? no, not that i know of, phew

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? no, i had thought about it but i just don't have to confidence in my french abilities to do so haha

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? nope!

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship? hmm great question, probably sakuatsu or ryocean

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? honestly any of my docs, a ryocean one, a osasuna one, a banksway one, a sereshaw one, and a julie/connie one

16. What are your writing strengths? hmm i'm not sure, i think of myself as a very casual writer so i don't know if i have many strengths tbh. if i had to choose one, it might be dialogue or planning?

17. What are your writing weaknesses? definitely flow of the fic and characterization. i feel like my writing style changes so often that the flow and characterization gets cut off/messy

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i could probably do it in french, but for any other language i would just feel bad for people who are reading it that actually know it

19. First fandom you wrote for? ever? percy jackson. on ao3/tumblr? the mighty ducks

20 Favourite fic you’ve written? at the moment i'd have to go with promise three words, but i'm hoping that i can finish aliferous and that would prob become my favourite

tagging: @magdacimy @nyoomfruits if you want!!

[chromatic-crow]

twenty questions for fic writers

tagged by @tetrapod7

im gonna put this under a cut cause its...a lot lmao but thanks for the tag

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

22 published and 2 waiting for reveal for fic fests. they're done so I'm counting them.

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

72,623 words

3. what fandoms do you write for?

hockey only so far. dunno if that'll change for a while honestly

4. top five fics by kudos:

something unexpected

i can't let this go

doll me up in my bad luck

drippin' confidence, lose my common sense

just say the word, we'll take on the world

5. do you respond to comments?

soooo, i didnt at first cause im like. super anxious about comments in general but i do now cause i really appreciate it

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

uhhhh.......i honestly dont write a lot of angsty endings but I'll be fine is mostly just angst, im a sucker for happy endings and mostly, i just never know how to end stuff so uhh idk unless you count ficlets or the ask fics, theres a bit of angst in there sometimes

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

aughhhh it's not gonna be revealed till july for a fest but of the ones published....and this ones old and im not too happy with it anymore but probably love you like a brother, love you like no other

8. do you get hate on fics?

not that I've seen luckily, won't lie, I'd probably give up writing for a bit if I did

9. do you write smut?

*stares at blog and ao3* yes. mostly for some reason. I say this like I don't know that I'm just a horny fucker on hrt lmao

10. craziest crossover:

uh...not done any

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope, would be weird if someone did honestly.

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

also no.

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

does a groupchat fic count even if its never left the chat? if not. no, would be fun tho

14. all time favorite ship?

oh my god i have to dig deep on this one but.......m!hawke/anders from dragon age 2 or uhh shit i can't even remember the other ones at this point so we'll stick with that i guess.

15. what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

uh. literally all of them that aren't the one I'm currently obsessed with? but if I had to choose one, maybe the royalty/wingfic that I started a while back

16. what are your writing strengths?

oh....uh....guh. okay I've been told my dialogue and characterization is good. and I'm starting to feel better about all of it but I still want to say none. mostly cause I only see the things that I could have done better but oh well.

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

......yes. okay so its not like I've been writing for long (since dec) so I obviously think all of it but mostly sentence starting. I feel like I start too many sentences with 'he'. but I also don't know how to start most of them differently. also flow of story, it gets choppy sometimes when I just. can't piece it together and give up. and endings....i hate endings, I never know how to end them

18. thoughts on dialogue in another language?

ehhhh, I've done it once. wont do it again honestly. i mean if its a language that the writer knows i think its different but my dumbass going to gtranslate and probably getting something that isn't even accurate is a bit different lmao

19. first fandom you wrote in?

hockey rpf. first and only so far lmao

20. favorite fic you've written?

.....uhhhh probably I can't let this go, yet again. but since it's in line with my longer wip squared is up there as well

tagging with no pressure of course: @stillfertile @whatthe-puck @hauntedppgpaints idk im blanking right now, so anyone else who wants to

[3luejam]

what if Cinder met LC? @riptide-pools

if this was a crossover Cinder would immediately ask so many questions since he gets a bit excited and hyper meeting new ppl

Cinder can detect any scar old or new he would immediately notice it under the sleeves. ( also in this present time Cinder slowly got his memories back but I forgot to post abt it)

C: "so he burned you too..."

LC: "what do you mean?"

but if they were siblings from the beginning then there would be many conflicted effects from Red killing Cinder out of rage by accident and also got possessed and died twice. the bull demon siblings on the distant side from the impact but Cinder can't help but follow his siblings around from being lonely for too long. but I also think he would understand her the most since uhh- -cough- Lbd-

in a positive way he would think she's pretty and admireable since she looks like PIF (≡^∇^≡)

dunno how she would think about his sheer hyper energy tho

[humankk]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

@floofanflurr tag me it is time, it is my duty (it's really not)

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Let me count. ... ... 3

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

25,257... woah

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Undertale...

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Bonk! (good name, I know, 57 kudos, I am so proud)

2. They're trying (They sure are! look at them)

3. Now I kind of want some ice cream (...yeah)

4. I only have three

5. help me

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yesssss..... well, most of the time, but I like answering comment...

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I, don't know? I have like three and two are oneshot that's happy and another is unfinished but probably would also be happy

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

the Bonk one? Like... kinda?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really, people are polite these days... my dear commentors are a delight... for now(???Is this foreshadowing something?????)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

...Not, here.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I have not! But I wanted to, and is wanting to... there is one that's like Undertale and My hero crossover that I have been planning (read, throwing plot in a document that hasn't been opened for at least 3 months now) for since like... 2-3 years ago, I want to throw Eri in the hole (cmon, someone gotta do it, child with time power she fits the theme!)

Mx. Floof also talked about cross fic crossover... I kinda want to do that too, but like... maybe after I get the fic to a point where I established more lore first, and character, and. things.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope! ...I don't think so! ... I would probably be a bit happy if my fic is good enough to be stole but also please don't do it.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope! Not yet... I could probably translate some to Thai but I, as a Thai person, honestly don't know how to pronouns... in Thai, for the NB characters that is... mostly, for the other characters too, I don't think I could replicate all caps Papyrus does because we just don't have capital letters so the closest thing I could do is add a lot of exclamention marks. Which... uhh... yeah.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not really! Sounds fun though.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Hm, I haven't think about that, that or I forgot (<-aromantic) Alphyne is nice, canon one and stuffs, Soriel is nice too.... I honestly don't really have a lot of opinion on ships as long as it isn't like, the horrible ones(tm) just... if they're happy then that's cool, good for them (both the characters and the readers and authors)

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

The MHA crossover... okay not really like EVER but like, as you can see I haven't touched it for months, it'll probably be in... a while (I planned on it being like, long, and the story plan haven't even got past Snowdin like, linearly) I guess the other fics are like, oneshots I do in a meantime for fun (then They're Trying happened... as a oneshot, and I suddenly wanted to continue it so I guess they're getting to the surface now... like eventually) Oh OH! There's also the immortal Vampire child Chara thing... I want to do that, but a lot of thing isn't really planned enough to make yet probably... and I don't think if I do it it'll be a fic? Maybe I'll do a comic... or an askblog... that would be fun... but it sounds like a lot of work............

16. What are your writing strengths?

Not sure, maybe internal dialogue?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

P A C I N G and making it clear what's going on... probably (helps me with Pacing, the speed is all over the place sometimes I just speedrun sometimes I hyperfocus on a timeframe... or maybe that's okay, I don't know)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I have thought of... writing a fic where it's just Undertale but Frisk talks in Thai and they just, know dogshit about English, that would be fun... though you probably won't know what's going on and I probably can't do the whole internal dialog thing with them and.... pronouns... and also the alphabeth looks like อย่างงี้ so you probably can't even READ it, I can't really decide if I should type it in english in what it SOUNDS like? but then you can't throw it in google translate to know what they're talking about? and I also don't want people to HAVE to throw it in google translate to know what's going on? ...maybe I should stole the intent reading thing from Floof, that would probably helps a bit... making it Chara's pov and they just have to read Frisk's intent and emotion to figure out what they're trying to say, maybe they can send some back to helps them communicate with the monsters... or something

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Undertale, if I has wrote any before it's not in English and I don't remember it

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

...I love all of them, Bonk is fun and is kinda like my start... They're Trying is like... the current one I am very attached to, since it's the only multichapter one

tags?

...well I don't know, just whoever see this, that writes that is, I am sure there aren't a lot, my usual mutual mostly... it's like 3am in US now I don't want to tag now okay? but yeah if you see this feel free to do it I want to read those I might like... study it under a microscope or something (...what?)

[luckylolabug]

Tagged by the lovely @starwritingbri <3 <3 1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Currently 17, after I yoinked some down. We won't talk about how many WIPs I have that aren't posted haha.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 150,958

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Uhh, multifandom girlie here so. Lockwood & Co, the DCU, Yuri on Ice, I currently have a folder of Six of Crows stuff getting ready for Whumptober but they're not posted yet, sometimes I one off and write stuff for Star Wars or TAZ: Balance. Ive got a big project going for Heartstopper that isnt posted yet, and I have a secondary account for MHA stuff lol. Also some joint stuff for FMA with Bri eventually!

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

In So Many Words- Yuri!!! on Ice

Sorry, This Page Cannot Be Reached- Yuri!!! on Ice

Slow Dancing in the Dark- Lockwood and Co

Barrels and Bootlegging- Lockwood and Co

Shimmer in the Haze of Winter Lawns- Lockwood and Co

5. Do you respond to comments?

For the most part, yes! I can get behind on them a bit, but I do try and keep up with them because the support is important to me.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't write a TON of angst??? But I want to say Heaven is Not Fit to House a Love Like You and I just for the context. Ask me again once I get my Whumptober stuff up in October and that's going to change, though.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of the stuff I write has happy endings! It's hard to pick just one?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Unfortunately. Weirdly, most of the fandoms I've dabbled in that have reps for being "the worst" have been the nicest to me as far as fics go, but I've gotten some very nasty comments on things for certain fandoms that don't have that kind of reputation. Fan culture is weird. I wish I could say it doesnt affect me buuuuut. There's a reason I stepped back from writing so much L&C and tend to drift with other fandoms more now.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have a few times, and I'm not like. Directly opposed to it? But it's not really my Jam a good 99% of the time and honestly I prefer just keeping most of my stuff Fade to Black or vague and not in depth if it comes up. I like focusing more on other stuff, but I don't think smut is bad either!

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not as far as I'm aware. I have like. Some AU type stuff thats "This world but with these characters" but its not a direct crossover where the characters from multiple universes interact. I guess unless youre counting the DCU as a whole but??? Lol?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

To my knowledge, no? But it could have been, I guess.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope! But I'd be cool with it! My mom helps me with Spanish in a few things for the Heartstopper project I have going since she's fluent, but those are just a few lines.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not anything POSTED, but eventually that'll change!

14. What is your all-time favorite ship?

Y'all, I am in too many fandoms for this lol. I don't know that I even HAVE an all-time fav that shoots above the rest? I have favs in fandoms, but not as a whole????

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Uhhhhh. Probably Barrels and Bootlegging??? I hate even putting this out there but fandom politics and the amount of BS just was draining the hell out of me when I was working on stuff so I don't even really have any plans to go back to finishing any of my stuff for L&C at this point. I'm happier writing other places, right now!

16. What are your writing strengths?

uHHHHHH???? Bri says its details, so I guess that? Putting details into everything?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

All of them. LOL. No, but honestly, I struggle with the editing process most because I think I end up re-writing things a good 5 or 6 times before I decide its fine and even then I struggle after stuff is posted just because I want to try so hard to keep things cohesive and correct. I spend way too much time Googling shit that shouldnt even really matter, but the small things matter to ME.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

The only thing I've really done it with is throwing in some stuff in Spanish, and I was only okay with that because my mom is fluent and offered to look it over for me to make sure it was correct. Otherwise I'm like.....Google Translate is inaccurate a lot and the idea of putting something in a fic that could be WRONG freaks the hell out of my OCD and I can't do it.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Oh, jeez. Uhh. Honestly it was either ATLA or the Halo games? I don't fucking know, it was pretty mid 2000s. I still have my log in for FF.net and LiveJ but I dont really want to go look because Im sure I'll hate it.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

This feels like a shit answer because it's not POSTED YET. But I really have been eating up everything I've written so far for this "Six of Crows but make it Modern" thing thats sitting at about 40k words right now. So probably that??? If its one that I have POSTED, then I think it's probably one of the 5+1s I did for Yuri on Ice just because those were really fun and light. I'm TERRIBLE at tagging people so uh. @fluffypinkkitties @twiilys and @chibiosaka I guess????

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Okay, Okay, Thunderhowl for the character breakdown i want to know your thoughts on my blorbo ☺️

Thunderhowl is so crazy. like babygirl yknow?? He’s so crazy to me put that man in WW1. Put him in WW2! He’s like the main kid in Farmer Boy to me. Charles Rowland too, if you will.

He and OP r siblings. He’s the youngest, always trying to impress and OP just got back from war and is all different. and its weird. That’s the dynamic that I remember (haven’t watched CV in like a year so mb bro 🙏🙏)

Someone set him down and let him watch documentaries.

I don’t rlly think I ship him with like ANYBODY?? Maybe Grimlock idk tho I just pulled that one out of my ass. He needs either an Enemies to Lovers 50k fic or the craziest Romeo and Juliet retelling to date. He is homosexual btw. Like he is NOT kissing women he sees woman boobs and FAINTS because they are scary. Uhh Heatwave x Thunderhowl 50k Romeo and Juliet fic when?? craziest ship bud

Him and OP r my favourite interaction. They r siblings fr fr. There’s just something about them that is like crawling up a wall. Smth smth prophecy, smth smth you were always destined to be this way trope.

Unpopular opinion is that he should have been a little bit more insane. He should have bitten someone in bot mode. Oh also gay sex would have saved him.

One thing I wished that would have happened is uhh idfk. Some insane crossover or smth.

Off topic he’s definitely a Dragon Ball Z fan. No reason. And TMNT.

Anyway yeah he’s a cool guy. He wouldn’t survive one minute listening to Modern Baseball. Dead instantly.