#also if i tagged u and u dont wanna do this its nbd

[stoneocean2011]

8 for 8

Rules: Answer eight questions then tag eight people (tagged by friend and pal @sayheyifyougay)

1. last movie you watched? i think world war z the one with the fast zombies

2. last song you listened to? damn i wish i could say it was something cool but it was actually megu megu fire endless night by samfree off his night series. rest in peace

3. last book you read? dang i havent opened a book in a while but i think it mighta been a kids national geographic picture book abt nocturnal animals tbh

4. last thing you ate? fuckin uhhhh grapes probably unless you count coffee

5. where would you want to time travel to? goodness thats a tough one but i think probably when i was a toddler cause toddlers are just like.... so carefree...... and they dont worry abt shit and they just fuckin play w their plastic dinosaurs and sipp from their lil juicy juice boxes and no one gives em shit for throwing tantrums and like. thats how im tryna be

6. fictional character you would hang out with for a day? fUCK umm if multiple characters are allowed probably the stone ocean crew tbh they seem like theyre a total riot when theyre just casually hangin out and not tracing down gay priests. and if i have to choose one id hang w/ foof cause theyre my BABY and,, im love they

7. if you could be anywhere right now, where would you be? honestly im aight right here where i am. im at a coffee shop w my good pals and we’re talking and im pretending to be doing homework and this is our last after school meetup thing for the year so im trying to really just ~enjoy the moment~

8. current obsession? ohhhh my god ive been into jjba for quite a while, like i first started it up in like april of last year, and im so invested in it you have no idea!! i like it a lot and i try to get my friends who’re into weeb shit to watch it with me and im still really into it even after all this time. also right now im on sbr in the manga and IM LOVE MY GAY COWBOYS SM!!

anyways thank u for tagging me and i tag @loverfonds @whirl-island-ds @isabellesbian @balloon-brunch @qwp @bastetmariah @moonlitememories @miakris @watermelonpoptart @hornline

[remuscore]

question why do you think tagging u!sides is toxic?? its just letting people avoid stuff that will trigger them (i'm not saying you have to change anything, people can just block you if it upsets them, nbd, im just wondering why you think that)

person who asked about u!sides, i don't care, i think you're a little bit of an asshole for not tagging u!sides. do you wanna know what happened when i looked at u!sides content? for four months i couldn't fucking LOOK at patton, hear his fucking name, and now he's my least favorite character and i genuinely hate him. i don't want that to happen to anyone else or me AGAIN. i dont care if you think its 'toxic,' not taggin g it fucking hurts people. please understand that.

Okay first off I wanna say you saying “you don’t have to change anything people can just block you if they don’t like it” then immediately saying I’m an asshole for not doing it is fun thanks.

But I have addressed this before. I think it’s toxic because it is purity culture which is big in this community and makes people worry about every little thing being taken as bad on accident. Not to mention this community butchered the word “unsympathetic” and now tag it if the side mentioned is just being a little mean/ignorant. Sucks that Patton is taken from you or whatever but I’m not gonna partisapate.

And if you look at any post I have that can be taken as “unsympathetic” or whatever, they fucking aren’t. They might start off that way in the ask, but I always talk about them in character (ie that one post about Virgil being an antagonistic but not a terrible person. I bring up Patton there too). I also bring up “unsympathetic” Remus and Janus and how even tho Remus “unsympathetic” upsets me, I let people do what they want because I understand that.

Take your own advice and block me. Don’t come in my inbox and call me an asshole because of the rules I’ve made so I MYSELF don’t get hurt.

[theolddarkmachine]

Writer Questions

Technically I was tagged in this by @smartcookie727 lol Not sure if being tagged in an answer counts. But also given that the actual words for the I’ll Tag section are “if ya wanna do it go for it,” I’m gonna avoid my responsibilities and sleep and do it.

1) How many works in progress do you currently have?

Is this like multi-chapter type things that are currently being written and shared? Or like, things I’m working on but haven’t been shared yet? Imma go with the first. I got four. On the Gajevy front we got Kingdom. On the Sheith front we got I’ll Take the Blame, You Take My Conscience; For the Love of Football does this really count since its a series of one shots i dont even know whatever counting it; and Vector to the Stars. PEEP THAT HORRIBLE EXCUSE AT SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION Y’ALL. dont worry i hate me too lol

2) Do you/would you write fanfiction?

Uuuuuh, yes. Because that’s literally why I’m here lol Writing is kind of my thing? I have a degree in journalism, which I got solely because I thought that that would do better for getting me a job than a degree in creative writing, but would still allow me to write a book. Not, that you need a degree to do that. But when I did decide to try my hand at fan fiction, it was as a vehicle to hone the technical aspect of my writing and my voice, not only for the possibility of publishing one day, but also for my own journalistic writing. SO, to answer this as 21 y/o Vicci who hadn’t yet dipped her toes into the proverbial fan fic pond yet, yes, I would. 

3) Do you prefer paper books or ebooks?

PAPER. There is something about good, old fashion paper books. Will I read an ebook? Sure. I read shit on my computer all the time, I got a couple things in iBooks right now. But I will always, ALWAYS go paper over ebook any day.

4) When did you start writing?

Like.... just.... ever? Or for fic? I wrote my first original work in the 6th grade. Still got it too. It’s horrible and has every lame middle school writer thing you can think of down to cross dressing to sneak into a villain’s lair-- TWICE-- dragons because why the hell not, and Egypt. Honestly, 6th grade Vicci was on a whole other level. I’ll have to pull it out some time to get a good laugh, and send myself into a void of embarrassment. no i was actually really proud of that thing. its like 200+ pages handwritten Writing fic, I started five years ago with ye olde 1D fan fiction. The first two were horrendous. To this day, I still cherish Tweethearts.

5) Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with?

This is the part where I admit to you that aside from like twice, no one reads my work before I post it. Everything you get goes up un-beta’d. Up until like a month and a half ago, I didn’t even read anything before posting it. I literally added my asterisks at the end and then sent it on its way. Now almost everything gets a read through before I share, but never ever to anyone else. WHY YOU ASK. I did my time with editors with the near decade I wrote for various websites and magazines and I have had my work changed to the point that the entire meaning and feeling behind it was torn away until it wasn’t even what I’d intended in the first place. So I have trust issues with other people getting their hands on my stuff. Long story short, no lol 

6) Where is your favorite place to write?

I don’t think I really have one. I do a lot of writing while I’m working, so a lot of it happens at the dining room table lol If not there, in bed. Sometimes the car. Sometimes the shower. 

7) Favorite childhood book?

How childhood are we talking? I had a book of old fairy tales haha is spelled it tail the first time rip that had the most beautiful illustrations and I really loved that book. And also A Wish for Wings That Work. ALSO I REALLY LOVED WALK TWO MOONS.

8) Writing for fun or publication?

Fun is my priority right now, but I am writing Vector to the Stars with the intent of possibly editing it into an original work and publishing one day. But I like to think that if I ever do publish something, I wrote it for fun to begin with.

9) Pen and paper or computer?

BOTH. I’ll also take on tablet and phone for $500, Alex. Look, I got my start in handwriting shit and sometimes you just need to feel pen on paper to get the juices flowing. Does it go quicker typing? Yes. Yes it does. But I’m a staunch believer that, much like in life, you sometimes need a change of pace and scenery. Whenever I get stuck, I switch the medium up. So both. All. Whatever.

10) Have you ever taken any writing classes?

My entire college career was a writing class lol That’s a lie, the first year was core classes and the second year I still had to deal with science, but the last year and a half was nothing but writing. Of course, not really the same since it’s a completely different form of writing but you know. IT COUNTS OKAY I HAVE TO TELL MYSELF MY EDUCATION COUNTS FOR SOMETHING. 

11) What inspires you to write?

Music. Music, music, always music. There’s a reason I devoted that much of my life to music journalism, and it’s because music is one of the great loves of my life. Sure, I need the inspiration of characters that speak to me, but every single thing that I have written has a soundtrack and music that gets the juices flowing. I dare say 90% of the things I’ve written all were born from music. 

EXAMPLES: 

Tweethearts came to me while listening to R U Mine? by the Arctic Monkeys. I wrote that chapter-- which happens like more than halfway through the fic-- before I wrote anything else.

ITTB came to me while listening to Eden playlists. To this day I cannot write anything for that fic without putting on my Eden mix.

I’m Gonna Be came to me while I was in the shower listening to Sleeping At Last.

The one shot that became MLC came to me while listening to Walking On Cars, who the band Gajeel travels with is modeled after.

VTTS was born from Glory by Dermot Kennedy also while in the shower.

Pt 3 of the football AU revealed itself during a cover of Call Me Maybe.

Long story short, I am very much inspired by music.

I’ll tag: I’m not sure who has done this so I’m gonna throw folks on here and if y’all just hella don’t want to, it’s the biggest of nbds. IF YOU AREN’T TAGGED BUT WANNA DO THIS, CONSIDER THIS YOUR TAG. @nocturna131 @whereisthefood123 @phaltu @arahir @capaleran2 @ranunculus-fox @runicscribbles

[stoneocean2011]

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i was tagged by @sayheyifyougay thanks for tagging me buddy-o

answer 30 questions + tag 10 people you’d like to know better

-nicknames: bec, bex, tina (long story)

-star sign: taurus

-gender: this shits fake dude!!!!

-MBTI type: infj

-height: 5′4 and three quarters

-time: 5:20 pm

-birthday: apr 22

-favorite bands: patd, paramore, the neighbourhood, mcr, the 1975, joan jett & the blackhearts

-favorite solo artists: madonna, britney spears, marina and the diamonds, lorde

-song stuck in my head: i dont have one rn since im Currently listening to music but atm im listening to over and over again by nelly ft. tim mcgraw

-last movie I watched: i cant remember the damn name but captain america was a Hot Dad (uncle technically) taking care of his little math genius niece and shit ensues involving an asshole british grandma

-last show I watched: i havent really watched anything in a long time since im still v invested in my current hyperfixation but i think it most likely was sailor moon

-other blogs: aes blog @imperialvenus and art blog that i v rarely post on @bridesdream and this Other one u can ask for if we’re mutuals

-when I created my blog: around this time in 2015

-what I post about: art, fandoms, occasionally bands, and funey things :-)

-last thing I googled: cowboy emoji

-following: 593

-followers: not to be fake deep but None Of This Is Real

-favorite color: i think all colors are nice in their own respects but id have to go either pink or red

-average hours of sleep: 12 on weekends and 7/8 on weekdays

-lucky number: 19

-instruments: kazoo babey

-what I’m wearing: black ringer tee + black and white houndstooth skirt (ha ha im a got’h)

-how many blankets i sleep with: 1 in the summer, 40 in winter

-dream jobs: not having to fuckin work tbh but if i HAVE to be a cog in the capitalist machine some type of illustrator would be nice. botany also sounds cool

-dream trip: grad trip to didney worl with my best friends or a year-long cross-country road trip w/ my Best friend

-favorite food: spaghetti and spaghetti-related dishes

-nationality: cuban-american

i tag: @1-up-boy @isabellesbian @viirgolesbian @bastetmariah @goatsle

@supernovasoda @cinnabonnbun @video-select @skinnytees @chillygh0sts 

(u dont gotta do the thingy if you dont wanna its nbd)