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[windamp]

persona 3 weekly fic rec

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fics may be from any version of the game

theme: ryoji

telling eyes by Katseester: Minato/Ryoji, 2.111, G

Ryoji Mochizuki walks into your life one day, and it's all downhill from there.

69912 by neonsign: Minato/Ryoji, 2.140, G

“Have you ever kissed anyone before?”

i call out these prayers to the sky, heavy with thought, see your face by foxmulder_whereartthou: Minato/Ryoji, 1.696, T

Inside of Nyx Avatar, Ryoji - or whatever’s left of him Death’s clinging to, desperate - feels his personality be digested.

Song for a Winter's Night by akisazame: Minako/Ryoji, 2.611, T

In December, Ryoji tries to visit Minako secretly. Minako isn't having any of it.

put that weight on my shoulders by annperkinsface: Junpei & Ryoji, 2.597, G

A mournful shadow passes over Junpei's face. Ryoji wonders at it, swallowing back the same questions he's been swallowing back since Junpei showed up to their internship looking like someone had borrowed his skin and was walking around in it, but then Junpei's face cracks into a small smile and he looks like himself again, the same boy that immediately proclaimed himself Ryoji's friend in their first meeting and the first person Ryoji went out for ramen with, the noodles at Hagakure seeming to taste more delicious in the warm light of his companionship.

The Monsters at the End of the World by Stealth_Noodle: Ryoji + Aigis, 8.656, T

As the world turns obliviously toward its end, Aigis is the only one who remembers. She's also the only one hallucinating a dead Ryoji.

Winter Pilgrim by Stealth_Noodle: Ryoji & Others, 24.039, T

Ryoji does December, mostly by happening to Social Links and Not Quite Getting It. (Or, Akinari waits, the Kitamuras feed a stray, Rio tries girl tactics, Maiko fails at Stranger Danger, Saori goes to Catholic school, Mutatsu goes home, Ms. Toriumi attempts a good deed, Koromaru smells things, and Kurosawa has an uneasy night.)

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

rules: happy pride! choose your 9 favorite canon LGBTQIA+ characters! 🏳️‍🌈 

i was tagged by @cpmhew 💖

limiting myself to one character per thing:

quentin coldwater (the magicians), jonathan sims (the magnus archives), blaine anderson (glee), hannibal lecter (nbc hannibal), alison dilaurentis (pretty little liars), guillermo de la cruz (what we do in the shadows), kerry weaver (nbc er), lestat de lioncourt (the vampire chronicles), susie myerson (the marvelous mrs. maisel)

tagging: @wiewioreczka @awildwickedslip @waystarbuttco @ameliajessica @cancelingtheapocalypse @propinquitous @jessalae @akisazame

[thetuningofviolins]

make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

wasn't tagged but i wanna do it anyway!!

tagging @ceedawkes @trenya @akisazame and anyone else that wants to do it! ❤️

[cowboyandcricket]

I had the best convo with @akisazame about how neil gaiman is just trying to teach people critical media interpretation one tumblr ask at a time and bless his heart honestly

Hi Neil,

In the belief i was taught when i was little god sees eveything god knows everything and god is everywhere.

In season 2 after Aziraphale lied about Job’s children i expected him to get some punishment like one time Crowley did something good.

Does god know everything in Good Omens universe? Does god know everything but also tolarete some of the behaviors of the her creatures?

Thank you. Take care. Bye x.

Does God know everything in this universe? Does God act on what God sees? Does God tolerate the behavior of her creatures?

[fishfingersandscarves]

cover commission for @akisazame for "The Stonefruit Grimoire" which is a collaborative fandom spellbook!

[ofthedirewolves]

Stocking gift for @akisazame <3

Queliot S1 Frenemies to Lovers

A turn of events make it so Quentin and Eliot dislike each other from day one. Eliot thinks he’s too much of a brat, Quentin argues that Eliot is too fake. Quentin is ridiculous and Eliot is too conceited. And so a rivalry is born. They’re both friends with Margo though so they have to deal with each other — plus there’s the fact that they live in the same house. One night while drinking they end up in Eliot’s bed. Then they end up in Quentin’s bed. Which starts another series of events. They claim it’s hate sex of course — that it’s the only time the other isn’t annoying, the only time the other does something right. But of course, things start to change and their rivalry starts getting friendlier by the minute. Until they’re both too deep to notice that well it’s not just sex anymore. They actually seem to enjoy each other’s company. Maybe Bambi was right — if they got out of their heads they could end up being good friends. The only problem now is getting one of them to admit it. 

[lizardkingeliot]

miss holly i think about the whole last scene of a myth of devotion at least once a week 🔥🔥🔥

I remember finishing that scene and being like... this is it. This is the best sex scene I’ve ever written. And while I think I’ve written better and hotter (and much wordier lmao) scenes since.... at the time it was probably true? And it’s been a while so it’s not super fresh in my memory, but I do recall there being some really fun banter in there as well and !!! I loved writing it so much. And it makes me so happy that you love it that much. <3

[tell me the most memorable scene i’ve ever written]

[kythwena]

He's ready to run away like the awkward cowardly introvert he is, but unfortunately his traitor eyes glance up at Eliot's face first. Eliot looks— sad. Like he doesn't want Quentin to go. Which doesn't mean anything, god, they're only friends, but. Quentin doesn't really want to go either.

in dirty dreams (you're the one i want) by @akisazame

[notbang]

predictably i am asking about the russian doll au

exactly what it says on the tin. i really like a lot of the bits i’ve written for this but i haven’t quite worked out the way to make it... work, yet.

“Woah, what the fuck is that?”

Previous demure demeanour gone so suddenly it conjures the sensation of fingers snapping, she settles back over his hips to get a better look and he sighs, sitting up to unfasten his sleeves and shrug himself properly from his shirt.

“It’s a glucose monitor,” he says.

“You’re diabetic?”

“No,” he snaps, defensive now, “I just like to keep track of what’s going into my body.”

“Currently reconsidering what’s about to be going into my body,” she says, under her breath but not really, and the way she tilts her head, still studying him, makes his skin burn. “Kinda feels like I’m about to fuck a robot.”

His gaze shifts pointedly to the sex toy on her nightstand, arching a judgmental brow, before returning to slide the soft swell of her stomach. “Would you prefer it if we pretended I had diabetes? Seems like that could be an informational role play for you."

She pinches him, hard, just below where the monitor is embedded in his skin, and makes sure to dig in the tips of her nails. He hisses, jerking and nearly dislodging her in the process. “Jesus! What is wrong with you?”

[catty-words]

@akisazame replied to your post:

i felt this way too but hadn't been able to articulate to myself why i felt so bummed by it... you're totally right!! one hopes that the lessons they learned about supporting each other and whatnot persist and i think that's what we're meant to extrapolate but it doesn't feel realistic

RIGHT. like, another thing i enjoy about the playful back-and-forth between the roses and the townspeople is that, while the roses learn lessons that clearly have a lasting influence, the family members aren’t actually, like, fundamentally changed as people. it’s part of their charm. but it also makes the implication that things’ll be A-OK for the fam too much of a stretch.

[luzial]

12, 28 (for Ruins), 34

Thanks!! <3

12. Who is your favorite author?

Oh gosh. I’m going to have to answer this in multiple parts. So Angela Carter is probably my overall favorite. For horror: Paul Tremblay. For fantasy: T. Kingfisher. Others I need to mention: Leigh Bardugo, Victoria Schwab, Deanna Raybourn. I feel like I’m forgetting the entire world.

28. Is there a part of Ruins you’re surprised no one has picked up on yet?

Hmm. A few things. The first, I’ve dropped only a very small hint of and I haven’t seen anybody remark on it - no additional details here because it relates to End Spoilers. The second, several people have sort of noticed but I haven’t handed out all the pieces yet - this one is about Felassan. The third, something woven into the entire story regarding the nature of Lavellan and Solas’ relationship to each other. I’ve seen a few nods in the right direction on this one (and it has the most hints that are already in the published chapters, so it makes sense that people pick up on it more).

Hope you enjoyed this thoroughly cryptic answer. 🙃

34. Have you felt emotional while writing a scene before? What scene was it?

Um yeah, all the time, so much. This is going to sound silly, but I have this feeling that I think of as “ecstatic writing,” by which I mean I manage to get to a point (almost always thanks to music) where I’ve just got the emotion so clearly in my mind that it’s a lot easier to write it out, and the words really start to flow. 

A lot of times I just need to listen to a song on repeat to get to this point. I’ve definitely talked before about listening to North by Sleeping at Last when I was writing the Roots chapter of Ruins. More recently, I listened to Wanna Be by Betty Who while writing the most recent Ruins chapter (which is going to sound absolutely bonkers if you know the song or read the lyrics, so hear me out).

Sometimes, as with North, the song is actually is relevant to what’s going on in the scene itself. But then, with Wanna Be - that’s a song about being jealous (but in a kind of desperate, pathetic, torch-song way) because the person you love is in love with someone else. That is definitely not what’s going on in Ruins but something about the fearlessness and lack of shame in the lyrics and sound of that song resonated hugely with me while I was writing that chapter. It made me feel like writing something unapologetic and unhidden. I can’t really explain why it worked, I just knew it did, so I stuck it on repeat and ran with it.

For fanfic writer asks

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

playlist meme!

rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people.

i was tagged by @waystarbuttco

1. i am leaving - blue roses 2. solitude standing - suzanne vega 3. give ‘em hell, kid - mcr 4. powered by death - zynic 5. night go slow - catey shaw 6. hiroshima - highasakite 7. backstreet lovers - the crookes 8. crazy crazy nights - KISS 9. paper forest (in the afterglow of rapture) - emmy the great 10. magdalene - the 502s

tagging @wiewioreczka @hmgfanfic @honeybabydichotomy, @grimweathers, @akisazame, @jessalae, @cancelingtheapocalypse and whoever else sees this and wants to!

[anthropologicalhands]

🎶 my heart wants r/n but my head wants josh chan so either/both i guess!!

ooooh okay!

for rebecca/nathaniel:

animal love i by charlene kaye - i’ve always loved this song, and i am one of those people who will bend a song to fit ships i enjoy, but lyrically, this one is very appropriate just...all over the place. a teasing sort of song about looking for a connection and being open.

So let your bones show, let your bones showWon’t have to hide, have to hide hide anymoreOur animal love, animal loveWill be enough to protect the both of us

for the lovely josh chan:

gentleman by will jay - this song is fun, bouncy, and romantic and would give me josh chan vibes even without the video…but also check out the video, because the boy can dance in a way that just ups the association and is insanely charming.

I’ll do it like they did way back whenPlease and thank you just to hold your handI’ll convince you chivalry ain’t deadSo can I be your gentleman?

Send me 🎶 and a character or ship and I’ll tell you a song I associate with them

[littlestarlost]

1, 5, 15

1. A single line or phrase in something that you wrote that you are really proud of?

Ooh, so so many! I’m fond of the line in Craquelure that goes “The fact that history has not forgotten Yakov Feltsman, and has in fact elevated him to the point of imitation, provides Victor with a small sense of resolution—a single piece of closure for a life and death filled with creaking open doors.” I like clever little visual allusions like that.

5. Something old you wrote that you would like to revisit/revise now?

I very badly want to go back and completely rewrite my abandoned Myst AU, We Are Wanderers Still, which I wrote in present tense at the time, a decision which now utterly baffles me because it doesn’t suit the tone I wanted at all.

15. What’s your favourite part of writing something brand new?

Hands down it’s the first few days or weeks of crackling inspiration and the conviction that this time I won’t get any writer’s block at all.

(ask list)

[scriveyner]

fic qs: 3, 23, 27, 45

3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?

Without question Samurai Flamenco. There’s no comparison. 

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it. 

I literally can’t sit here and think of a singular fic to pick because at this point in time my AO3 is sitting at a tidy 402 works, and…that’s not even all of them. Just the ones since I opened my AO3. (My dreamwidth, which I will link when the indexing is complete, will have literally EVERYTHING. Because I like archiving my own shit too.)

So in that vein, my answer would probably surprise a lot of people because it’s very old, but it’s my musebox universe. It is a self-indulgent sandbox I play in, gathering characters from my various AUs together in a boarding house and just watching the flailing. There isn’t a greater plot thread or anything, but as I’m archiving old fic on dreamwidth I’m rereading a lot of them as I repost there’s a familiarity and a lived-in feeling to the stories that I don’t feel with a lot of my other fics. It’s probably because it’s so ridiculously self indulgent (there’s enough Elrics to populate a baseball team arguing with each other) but I love it and I’m so, so fond of all of them. 

27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

Titles are the fucking worst. Summaries are bad but at least you can copy/paste an interesting snip of the fic to stand in for a summary but a title? Fuuuuuck titles.

45. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

There was a fanfic writer I found when I was in high school (way, way before the dawn of AO3 or tumblr and in the infancy of FF.N) who wrote the most amazing, interconnected, long Batman fanfiction. It was serialized, each chapter was so long and amazing to high-school-age Catie and I was really upset when I ran out of it to read. It was hosted on the author’s personal website and I’ve never been able to find it since.

It’s probably being fueled by nostalgia goggles, but it was so cool to me, I printed it all out and put it in binders and read it at school. My mom tossed the binders during one cleaning binge. :/ It wasn’t pairing fic at all, it read just like an adult version of the comics (the characters said fuck!) and, idk. It really left an impact on me.

Link to the Questions … in case anyone else wants to ask me some, lol.

[fishfingersandscarves]

playlist cover commission from @akisazame for her upcoming fic 🥰

(commission info)