#abalisk writes

[writer-and-artist27]

A friendly dedication to @partialdignity, @lunarimpact, @avicebro, @hanatatami, @crescentialee, @magicallygrimmwiccan, @langwrites, @abalisk, and @windwardstar has to be said here, because after the last week since the previous fanfic update (back on 3/5/25 too, huh) on the story, been through the ringer mentally and physically. They all offered kind encouragement when I originally had none to give to myself. To be completely honest, when still stuck in a dark corner, I'm grateful.

And when struggling in real life with work enemies and my own personal demons, it felt nice to go back to a dream, even in writing.

AO3 link here. OST Playlist also here, with the two new songs included.

[cyb-by-lang]

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I've been following CYB since 2018, when I was still in middle school! When I read Shell Game on FF.Net, also around that time, one of my favorite scenes was Kei's debriefing with Minato and the UA's faculty. The way it let them have a peek into her life (strict, hierarchical, and military childhood) so contrasting to theirs (and her content and loyalty with it even while working to make it better) lives rented free in my head for years before I stumbled upon you work again! It has always been a pleasure reading your stories (now I'm accompanying E(aE)D and it has been a journey, because I absolutelylove Batman), and I'm glad you publish them for us to appreciate your hard work!

Thank you so much for your kind words. It’s been a fair old while since writing that scene, but it was one where me and @ffs-abalisk had to strike a very delicate balance between the UA faculty and Minato’s concerns, most of which were basically incompatible. If not for the looming threat of the League of Villains (and the contract), none of those people would have wanted to be in the same room.

The kids of each group would’ve been fine going to a cat café though. They’re a chill bunch comparatively. XD

[oddmawd]

Nine People Tag Game

Was tagged by @ffs-abalisk

Da Rules: Answer the topics below & tag nine people to do the same.

Tagging (if you want): @neon-gothicc @tiny-shadow @pinkcatminht @nya-vivi @wolfieizzyy @lycanthropemaul @otterlycosplay (i don't know a lot of people on here too well and feel nervous tagging people but i hope this is ok!)

Three Ships: 

i don't actually ship all that much and have very few OTPs

but i am forever a Zutara shipper, and i will never forgive the creators of ATLA for mocking that ship despite the amount of scenes they included that set it up

Zelink because i've been playing TOTK and they're super cute

oh and Sidlink too because i'm a trash multishipper and they are also cute get wrecked yona

Currently Listening To: lately i've had the most recent Sleep Token album on replay, it's good shit

Last Movie: the last thing i watched was Cult of Chucky (lmao it was terrible, Bride and the OG remain the best in the franchise)

Currently Reading: rereading some of my old work so i can write new additions to it, working my way through the One Piece manga again, also reading a random paranormal romance series BookTok decided to show me last week

Currently Watching/Playing: playing Tears of the Kingdom, almost done with it thankfully...watching the anime Dark Gathering, it's a good ongoing horror series

Currently Consuming: air mostly? some water?

Currently Craving: nothing, i have zero appetite because covid sucks and my taste buds don't work

[thebibliosphere]

Do you have any sage advice for aspiring romance writers? Like what tropes not to follow or perspectives? (For me, I’m big on the comedy and witty banter route, but I also know that’s not for everyone.)

Most tropes can be used really well and are enjoyable to both write and read, especially ones that prime your readers to expect certain anticipated outcomes. I, for example, am forever weak at the knees for things like “sarcastic assholes are actually big softies with a lot of heart underneath it all” and the forever undying “oh no there’s only one bed, whatever will we do” and I use them myself a fair bit for both comedic and romantic value.

But where a lot of people fall down is when they think the mere presence of the trope is in itself enough to convey chemistry, and it’s really not. If the author has built the chemistry up between the characters well, it can really pack a satisfying punch to have the trope follow through. If however the dynamic falls flat, well, you’re going to have a very lackluster pairing that relies too heavily on the trope to carry it and it just comes across as “eh”. It’s sort of a going through the motions, but not really enjoying it sort of thing.

For instance in the book I am currently reading, it is absolutely supposed to be an enemies to lovers story, but the two are so genuinely mismatched and their character traits so unlikable that their attraction at best feels like a poor life choice in the making, and at worst, just smacks of lazy writing. There’s no spark in their conflict, no reason to even want them to be together, just relentless friction being forced by the plot to make them like each other.

Also? Try to avoid describing people like clothes mannequins. It’s a very common thing I find in people who got their first writing experience from doing RPG type stuff and while it’s good for character building, it should not make it into your final drafting, as it can come across as very juvenile and immersion breaking if you’re just listing every single item of clothing the character is wearing like a laundry list. You can still pick out details to focus on, but you don’t need to describe every last stitch of clothing a person is wearing. (unless your character is extremely detail orientated and tends to notice details all the time, in which case it can be a good way to convey that and let you indulge in a little gratuitous describing) you can say things like “they were dressed for the weather/evening/occasion” which enables you to both convey things like seasonal atmosphere, climate, what sort of social setting they are either in or anticipating, and also what type of person the character might be based on how the express themselves through attire. For instance:

“She had dressed for the weather, and wore a broad brimmed sun hat and a bright yellow dress that made him think of sunflowers. Her dark mane of hair was pulled back into a thick braid that swung tantalizingly over her bronze-sun-kissed shoulder, and he wanted nothing more in that moment to unravel it and run his fingers through those thick tresses.”

What does this convey? That it is summer or at least set in a place with a warm climate. That the person being described likes bright colors and is perhaps disposed toward a sunny personality. That there are things about them that the describer finds physically attractive, but is currently unable to act on whether because they are in a social setting or because they are secretly pining.

or alternatively:

“in defiance of the weather she still persisted in wearing black. Her long sleeves pulled defensively down over her knuckles as she sat hunched on the grass with the others, her cheeks and nose turning ruddy under the intense glare of the afternoon sun, the very picture of misery. It shouldn’t have been as adorable as it was, but the scrunch of her nose and the downward turn of her pout made something flutter deep in the pit of his stomach. He wondered if she’d appreciate an ice cream, or if she’d just tip it over his head.”

What does this convey? That the weather is warm and that the person being described doesn’t appreciate this. That they are in a social setting our outing in a group. That there is some sort of existing tension between the pairing, possibly hostile, possibly masking some sort of attraction they’re in denial over. That at some point they will likely be forced to confront their feelings for each other, and it will likely be explosive but not necessarily volatile. And possibly involving ice cream.

Chemistry building is key to writing good romance, and a goodly amount of time should be spent developing characters as people and not cut out dolls. Find which dynamic works best for them as a pairing first, and then work out which literary tropes fit with that dynamic and how they help get your characters from A to B.

Are they snippy with each other but find out they have something remarkable in common? Does it make them have a grudging respect for each other? Do they admire them? Do they end up sharing a smirk over the table and instantly regret it? Why do they keep coming back to each other if they’re so ill suited, is there some sort of magnetic pull? Secret history? Is their annoyance actually masking real genuine attraction they’re afraid to let themselves feel? Why are they afraid? How do they overcome that? Slowly and haltingly or all at once by plunging head first into something as dangerous and reckless feeling as a kiss?

Or is their attraction genuinely spilling over from the start and they’re just dancing around each other not sure how to proceed because they’re both hopeless. Is it killing everyone in their general vicinity to watch these two (or more) idiots fumbling their way through their own emotions. Do their hands shake? Does their stomach do the swoopy thing whenever the other person smiles or walks into the room? Do they start doing ridiculous things like ordering coffees they hate but the other person likes just so they can imagine the taste of their mouth on their lips? Is it unbearable dragged out delicious slow burn torture? (I have a preference, if you couldn’t tell.)

As for tropes to avoid? Well, that’s up to your own preferences and the kinds of stories you want to both read and write. I personally tend to steer clear of “she was only 16/17/18 but wiser than her years, the Duke  could tell” sort of things, cause it just ignites a whole bunch of personal trauma for me, but thankfully that trope seems to be dying out along with the last of the old romances. Makes my job a lot easier I can tell you.

Either way, just play around with it. Find a dynamic that works well for you. And don’t worry about trying to appeal to everyone.Write the kind of things you would like to read and make you happy to create. I promise you there’s more of a market than you realize.

[daeryn]

do you have any OP fanfic recs?

of course!! i mostly read (and write) oc fics, so hopefully that’s what ur into.

some of my favs are:

memoirs of a suicidal pirate by @alkhale

flight of the albatross by @ffs-abalisk

tell it to the marines by tsume_yuki

pars una by chibitami

counterfeit hearts by @sugiwa

one step behind by sagidraconis

burst your bubble by ayeeelien

as for non-oc fics…

beginning the next dream by riko jasmine

the fire and the sun by dezace

finally i get to choose what’s wrong (and what is right) by via_the_cryptid

the sky is falling (but you’re here with me so there’s no place i’d rather be) by vallmo_05

all of which are on ao3!!

[tackyink]

I wish you would write a fic/ one shot where Saki meets Leith (Oc from Abalisk) and they end up sharing dumb stories about their crew (and captains)

Ooh, I love OC crossovers, but I would be hella nervous writing someone else's OC?? I mean, I know fanfiction is literally writing someone else's OCs, but my body would evict my soul if I knew the og author was reading. So yeah. Not brave enough for this.

[langwrites]

Game: Wip Titles

Rules: I post the titles of my wips (optional: y'all tell me which ones sound the most intriguing?)

Tagged by: @owlsofstarlight

Tagging: @ffs-abalisk, @mikkeneko, and whoever else writes stuff they’d like to point out.

Wip Titles:

Fanfiction (all at least partially based in Naruto):

Catch Your Breath (hiatus)

Ocean Stars Falling (hiatus) (crossover with One Piece)

Dig Two Graves (crossover with The Untamed)

it must be a thursday (crossover with Critical Role)

Original:

Literally everything from Terramir’s been on hold for more than a year, as @owlsofstarlight has recently reminded me.

[writer-and-artist27]

Got tagged by @windwardstar and @exmeowstic. In the same tag game too. Huh.

Thankie to you both. (ｏ＿　＿)ｏ Sorry for this being late.

Game: This picrew and the last song you listened to.

Long story short, when work stress makes weekly dates a must and writing rage chapters once every other month, listening to haunting YOASOBI songs seems to happen.

Tagging: @partialdignity, @teddog, @abalisk, @tackypies, and whoever else wants to. This is just for fun.

[cyb-by-lang]

So far, you're one of my favorite authors and I'd really like to know how to write well （≧∇≦）I can't seem to describe things/feelings/events all that clearly and I would appreciate it if you would leave a tip! Arigato *\(^o^)/*

Warning: This post is going to be a giant pain to read if you’re on mobile!

The easiest way to start describing things is to try to dig into the character’s perspective. “What would this particular person notice?” is the single biggest question when writing from a limited POV.

Kei, for example, likes riffing on other people/things when not focused on assessing threat levels. Also, it’s a lot of fun to utterly ruin language with extended metaphors that derail halfway through, because that’s how the character thinks. She notices details around her because almost everything is a simile to her, and there’s nothing she can’t gently mock.

Contrast, say, Hamlet. There’s a guy who’d literally pick up a dude’s skull while hanging out in a graveyard to wax philosophical about the guy it belonged to, while at the same time later managing to stab his almost-father-in-law by accident while trying to murder his uncle. He stops the entire play multiple times for a soliloquy, and that still jives with how much the plot itself calls him on not acting on his concrete knowledge.

There’s a joke on this site that Hamlet’s thoughtfulness is what ruins his life. Othello, over in another Shakespeare play, is destroyed by his impulsive nature. Swap their relative positions, and they thrive. But the way they think is demonstrated through what they point out in monologues and dialogue. 

But, if instead you are focusing on just getting the raw details out and plan to fuss with characters’ observational skills later, see below:

Per Beta:

Practice. Find what’s missing from your descriptions, then write shit intentionally focusing on that element until you do it naturally.

Then isolate the next element and repeat.

Also, there’s sharing your stuff and getting critique… but that’s scary.

But also: if you’re critical enough of your own writing you can get to where i am with minimal input from others.

Critique is the scariest part, tbh.

Per @abalisk

Telling yourself your bad at something is going to make you bad at something. You gotta fucking own it.

But also what does the POV character see? Taste? Smell? Feel? Describe the senses and draw from personal experience to help you paint a picture.

Like think of a forest and describe what defines a forest to you. The smell of pine and sweet odor of rotting leaves. The taste of cold air… obviously you don’t have to describe every scene like this but it can help set a mood

And the way you describe things only matures with time and practice. Reading other fics or books can help because you can study up on descriptive language, even as you are enjoying a story.

There really is no do or don’t in writing, just write what feels good and correct to you.

Side note: Going into too much detail about too many things is called “purple prose.” Using too few details is “beige prose.” Most writing exists comfortably between the two extremes, and it sounds like you’re worrying you’re on the latter end of the bell curve.

Another thing I do is roughly work out a scene, assigning dialogue to characters or whatever. Then I go back over it later (usually about a day after) and add in conversational details or character’s narration asides afterward.

Example:

“You seem to be adjusting well,” Ayame said.

“I’m used to grunt work like this,” Kei replied, hefting the second, equally-insensate demon(?) onto the oar.

“Are you sure you don’t mean ‘other humans’?” Ayame asked.

Kei shrugged. “Anyway, gambling ring busted. What’s next, Ayame-san?”

Bit scant on the details, eh? Let’s go back over that with more attention paid to how the characters think and act.

“You seem to be adjusting well,” Ayame said, as she dragged Kei’s most recent arrest into an alleyway. Her oar hovered nearby, and this particular apparition wasn’t strong enough to break plastic zip-ties during the trip back to the Spirit World. 

“I’m used to grunt work like this,” Kei replied, hefting the second, equally-insensate demon(?) onto the oar. Sure, they were a little denser than humans of the same size, but neither Kei nor Ayame paid much mind to that. “Teeth aside, I don’t think either of these two were really much of a threat to humans.”

“Are you sure you don’t mean ‘other humans’?”  Ayame asked.

Kei shrugged, then readjusted the drooping shoulder of the shirt. Urban camouflage was such a pain. “Anyway, gambling ring busted. What’s next, Ayame-san?”

I didn’t really go around and describe the entire landscape around them, because the focus was on character action. The environmental details were relegated to paragraphs without dialogue elsewhere.

But yeah! A couple different approaches you can take a stab at.

Have fun!

[lovingempress]

An Ode to Fanfiction Writers

I’m often silent

I don’t know what to say on the things that mean something

But,

Every alert lights up my day

Your writing fills me, often so full I burst with emotions, or even just gnawing at the scraps you toss like crumbs to koi

Sometimes I am glutted off your ideas and creativity,

Filled to the brim with the evoked emotions

Others I feed off of various bits and pieces

Though they are small and few, in words and feelings,

They add to me, ever hungry for more and peck-peck-pecking at rice grains scattered

Those small bits, shed from your mind like the hair on your head, buoy me through my days

Your writing adds Life to my World, Color has Meaning, Joy-Sadness-Comfort-Sorrow-Vengefulness-Complicated things that wring me tight and soft Fluff that holds me close...

Sing me, again, these bedtime stories, your hymns and chaotic madness, your soft lullabies that hold us close as if a babe to thy chest

Bring me comfort, bring me pain, evoke outrage, induce flight- FanFiction Writers, you become everything to me

@writer-and-artist27, @akaluan, @wolfsrainrules, @north-peach, @alkhale, @writing-frenzy, @silenceia, @cooliogirl101, @athanatosora, @araceil, @kegareki, @cyb-by-lang, @cywscross, @owlsofstarlight, @blackkatmagic, @surfacage, @hweianime @bluethursday @luki-fanfic @feynites @metronomeihear @ladyhallen @thefringeperson @alleycat4eva @esamastation @kyogre-blue @abalisk @exocara @secret-engima @hraap @tsume-yuki @acernor @aerialflight @adelmortescryche @simkjrs @seitosokusha @sanjuno @sakhyu @reighost @wingbladeweaver1357 @klonoadreams @dosbysilverqueen @chaosgreymistchild @mullk6 @hi-pot-and-news and so much more...

Merry Christmas y’all, Happy Holiday season, and have a great New Year!

[crispypenguinanchor-blog]

O-Riskua and O-Leith in Wa No Kuni

Badasses Riskua and Leith (by the amazing authors Tsume-Yuki and Abalisk, respectively, as you should know, otherwise go read “Tell it to the Marines” and “Flight of the Albatross”!) in Wa No Kuni! (I can’t wait for canon Wa No Kuni arc, Oda is a genius!).

They are undercover, Leith plays the shamisen and throws sultry looks, Riskua sings and dances? People go crazy! When they overhear someone saying they are like ice and fire because of their colors they just look at each other and simultaneously start humming the Game of Thrones theme :D I loved the crossover story and I’m not so subtly politely asking for more? :DD

Again shout-out to the awesome writers and their super cool super hot and inspirational OCs! Thank you for writing and sharing! I especially love Leith’s snarky language full of references, and I love Riskua’s nosebleed quirk:D and her colors, I have a soft spot for red-haired bright eyed characters (she’s right up there with Lily Evans and the GoT- and X-Men red heads^^).

It took me ages to decide on the colors, maybe it’s a bit clashing but that’s because I love clashing colors and these two can wear anything. I’m sorry I didn’t clean it up and I got the scar wrong oops

Enjoy:)))

[americannidiot-author-sideblog]

Thanks to a recent AU written by @fanfiction-by-abalisk, and some of the lovely writings by @tsume-yuki, I have an idea involving my OC Rain falling into a different world around the time Ace is born for reasons and may or may not involve her also adopting Law and saving Cora-san and having a happy and strange family

[langwrites]

Tagged by: @writer-and-artist27

1. When you have writer’s block, what do you do to get rid of it and/or find inspiration?

Wander off into the Writing Woods and probably never find it again. I tend to be a pretty fickle writer sometimes.

2. How do you keep track of your ideas when they come to you?

A good writer with good habits would probably write them down. I daydream and forget things, funny as it may be.

3. What is one fan review that you got and absolutely loved?

Back when I was a slightly younger writer, I got this:

That was a truly excellent fight scene, maybe the best one you've written. It managed a number of reversals, each one believable, and both fighters felt the strain without feeling anywhere near to losing until it suddenly ended. I also liked that a lack of endurance, supposedly Minato's problem, ended up being the achilles heel that lost Kei the fight. All of the back and forth made sense and worked really well. On Kei's side, I liked that that advantage coming up again and again was that she was two minds working one body, allowing her to pay attention to multiple attacks at once. There were several times when that foiled Minato's planned misdirections and surprise attacks. Her ability to push Minato so far was also convincingly predicated on how well she knows him and his abilities. Minato's POV was most notable for how he never panicked or allowed himself to be driven off guard, even when he was genuinely surprised. Instead he methodically proceeded to pull out the next tool in his battle arsenal. It was interesting that what seemed to surprise him most (in a good way) was how in control Kei was the entire fight. Like there was a part of him that kept expecting Isobu to go berserk and preparing for that, but it never happened. Not that he was alone in worrying about that. There was no reason to stick her in a barrier after he collapse other than a lingering fear that now, surely, the tailed beast would make its move. Maybe that was the point of letting this become a spectacle. Minato is the Hokage. He could have ordered the area closed off; refused to let there be an audience. Instead he showed off both that Kei is an S-class threat and that Isobu won't rampage been under intense pressure. It'll be interesting to see how some of the older jounin, the ones Kei doesn't know so well, treat her after this. Oh yeah, and I guess Kakashi failed miserably to ask her out. Perhaps Genma should tell him to openly admire Kei's ass. Worked for his relationship!

It’s one of several examples of reviews that have kept me writing, as fickle as I can be.

4. If there’s a song you always go to when writing, what is it?

“Just One Yesterday” by Fall Out Boy worked for a really long time, somehow.

5. What’s one trope/cliché that you can’t get enough of?

Sleep Cute. Also Headbutt of Love. At least on the shipping end of things.

In terms of more general tropes... Silk Hiding Steel, Let’s Get Dangerous, Badass Bystander, and a whole mess of others about subverting expectations.

6. What’s one thing you’re proud of when it comes to your writing progress? (As in, when you compare your first work to your current work, what’s something you’re happy you improved on?)

Fight scenes, as much as I still hate to think about them.

7. How do you come up with chapter titles?

I generally find the most recent song I listened to that encompassed the mood of the chapter, sometimes regardless of the actual lyrics. Other times I just grab a song title and run.

8. What’s your ideal writing space?

Dunno. I tend to get most of my stuff done at the dining room table, regardless.

9. Any favorite OCs?

Well, there’s the Terramir Gang in all their glory, plus Keisuke Gekko from Catch Your Breath. I’ve thrown so much time and story space into their development that I constantly catch myself watching various media and envisioning how they’d handle the conflict du jour.

10. What would be a piece of advice you would want to impart on any aspiring writer?

It doesn’t matter what you write. Read extensively, find out what cool shit you like to see, and then just go for it. Write as much silly stuff as you can, even if you never show it to anyone.

But chances are that if you’ve made something you like, someone else will like it too.

My 10 Questions:

1. Does stuff glow without explanation?

2. Is there a plot point that hangs on trickery of language, like prophecies hinging on exact wording?

3. Is there are least one decent sibling relationship?

4. If your character looks up at the sky, do they see the same kind of sky we do here on Earth?

5. Do characters have favorite hangout spots that they get to actually visit?

6. Is someone an artisan? What is their greatest creation?

7. If there are multiple cultures featured in your works, what do you think an average person from one of them would like to think they’re known for?

8. Do any characters practice an in-universe religion?

9. Are there cars?

10. If there was one character you could hit with a baseball bat, who would it be?

Tagging: @ladynorbert, @owlsofstarlight, @abalisk, @fridays-neophyte, and whoever else.

[writer-and-artist27]

tag game: last line(s)

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

tagged by: @windwardstar.

Thankie, Osie (ｏ＿　＿)ｏI'll be following your example in giving a paragraph from my Fate fic Passing Days because I wanna (and slowly trying to get back into more writing to get away from any unconscious grief from October).

Then… Mash took a small breath. Vy had already taken the first step in addressing things mentally through therapy with Chiron. So, for Mash… “My true feelings about Lancelot-san are… complicated.”

Tagging: @teddog, @partialdignity, and @abalisk. Only if you want to. :)

[cyb-by-lang]

Hey, I've been following your stories about Kei and i just wanna say I think you're really cool, and have (partially) inspired me to write my own kinda self insert OC story set in the BNHAverse. I'm kinda coming to terms with how deep down I'm embarrassed by wanting to do stuff like this. Do you have any advice for me? Do you ever suffer from embarrassment and if so how do you deal with it...

Generally speaking? Even if you’re feeling like you’re struggling, most people can’t see that struggle. They see the final product of your labors, whatever form it takes, and see it as a complete thing that sprang fully-formed from your head. Sometimes, you just need to take that leap of faith and go for it.

Per @abalisk:

Just talk to people about it.It’ll always feel embarrassing until you just decide “fuck it” and don’t care anymore

Negative self-talk is self-defeating, basically. People assume that if they don’t see nervousness, it’s not there. Run with that assumption and jump right in.

Or you can do what Beta does:

Hide behind the scenes and let Lang take all the credit.

Os is actually a really good writer, but this blog is for fanfiction and that is not their preferred sphere. Os’s preference is “hella worldbuilding and original fiction.” :p

[teampico456]

1. Always post the rules. 2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you. 3. Write 11 questions on your own. 4. Tag 11 people.

I was tagged by @crispypenguinanchor and you don’t even know how excited I was to see this. I never realized that people actually notice me on here?? I guess that’s mostly because I haven’t gathered the courage or motivation to actually post my own Fandom Content, but I’m still here to silently support everyone. I also apologize before hand for the long answers I provided, I’m kind of long-winded sometimes.

1) What’s your favorite piece of decoration in your home/ room?

I’m totally lame and have an attachment to these circle M&M pillows that I’ve picked up one by one from separate trips to Las Vegas with the fam. The very first one I got (I have a total of 7) is my favorite and I actually don’t leave for a trip without it if I can help it

2) What’s the last book you have read and did you like it?

I’ve been reading a lot of fanfiction for the last couple months so I don’t actually remember the last book I read, but the last one I can remember is The Inquisition by Taran Matharu, and I loved it. I’ve recently bought the new one in the series and I’m super excited to read it, but also not because it’s the last one in the trilogy and I don’t want it to end

3) What book do you definitely want to read before you die?

I don’t really have a singular book that i’d want to read, but I do kinda have a tentative goal that I want to reach? I have a problem with not being able to go to Barnes & Noble without buying at least 1 new book and that has resulted in me having an overwhelming amount of books that I haven’t read, so I kind of want to at least be able to read all of the books I own before I die, even though I probably won’t ever reach it

4) When will you read that book (from question 3)?

I’ll eventually get to all of them. Eventually. Hopefully. Maybe.

5) Do you mostly buy books or borrow them from libraries/ people? (I hope you don’t steal)

I’m a proud buyer of all my books. I like having them on my shelf.  And for the aesthetic

6) Who is your favorite detective/ criminal investigator in literature and television (apart from Sherlock, in case it’s Sherlock, sorry)?

Veronica and Keith Mars all the way

7) What’s your favorite color and is it actually the color you prefer wearing?

My favorite color is green, but I tend to wear any color, I don’t really have a preference

8) Where would you like to spend your next holidays?

I’m pretty passive about everything, and traveling is one of those things.  I love traveling places, but I’m shit at coming up with places to go, so I’d be happy with going somewhere the rest of the family thinks would be a good destination

9) What’s your favorite animal?

Real? I’m thinking like an octopus or something because they’re just pretty cool all around. Fantasy? Definitely dragons. Nobody can tell me that dragons aren’t cool as shit because like knights?? Breathing fire??? Fucking castles???? All of it. Dragons are sick as fuck

10) What is/was your favorite/ least hated school subject and why?

Ceramics. I’ve been using clay all my life and plan to do it for the rest of it. I’m actually majoring in 3D Studio Art, so hopefully that goes well. But anyway, I liked the class because I got to do what I loved. Because our teacher basically sat at her desk and did nothing, most of the students had a hard time making things look good, so with the extra experience I had, my projects looked hella good and I low-key thrive off the praise and appreciation of my art, so the entire class was like a huge ego boost (I’m a terrible person, I know)

11) What’s the story behind your username?

In high school, my best friend and I read the Percy Jackson books as they were coming out. We read the one where Nico came out to Jason and we both were serious PercyxNico shippers and this is like right before I got on Tumblr, so we didn’t know what the fandom had used as their ship name, so we called them Pico. So when I had to come up with a username, somehow TeamPico came to be. As for the 456, that was my library number in elementary school and for some reason I just stuck with it and now I just kind of use it on everything fandom related

My Questions:

1) How did you discover your current fav fandom?

2) Who are your top 3 favorite fictional characters?

3) Is there a certain character type that you find yourself favoring again and again?

4) On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being ice and 10 being melting your skin off) what temperature do you like your shower/bath water?

5) Are you the kind of person who has lots of blankets on your bed, or lots of pillows?

6) How do you feel about lame puns? Do you think they’re funny or ridiculous?

7) Did you have a weird clothing/accessory/appearance phase when you were younger?

8) DC or Marvel? Do you have a favorite superhero from either one?

9) Do you have any pets? If not, do you ever want any?

10) Have you ever moved?

11) Would you rather have a house in a country-ish area, or an apartment in a very urban area?

As for the people I’ve tagged, I hope you don’t mind? I just really really REALLY like your blog and the contributions to the fandom you make are capital A Amazing and I support you from the shadows at all times

 @tsume-yuki, @abalisk, @marcoacesabo, @crispypenguinanchor, @evenescenttranquility, @elentori-art, @myshadeofanime, @hoesidon, @klangst, @yaxxm, @sir-scandalous