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10. Uncle Albert

A week went by where I did not see Ali as she was visiting family out of state. Two weeks had passed since my encounter with Marco, and I was focusing on my sketching and painting. One day, I awoke and walked to my bedroom window and saw Ali standing in hers, looking back at me. We waved, blew kisses, and then she called me on the phone. "Why don't we go shopping today? I’ve got some money from my aunt and I want to blow it on something stupid!"

"I can't. My uncle Albert is coming over to visit and I need to be home." "Ok, Tills. Have fun. I'll miss you" Ali said as she hung up.

Albert was not a blood relative but a close associate of my mothers who had been around enough to earn a place of distinction in the family. Really, he was a rich benefactor and patron of my mother's work. He would often requisition a painting or a series of paintings from my mother, purchase them, and then use his contacts to display them in galleries and public places around the world. My mom got her asking price and a bit of the commission when they sold.

I heard that Albert was coming specifically to see me and had learned what a promising artist I was becoming. There was a knock at the door and in walked Albert. He was always dressed impeccably in a three piece suit, and today was no different. Ever since I was a little girl, Uncle Al brought me toys and sweets and curiosities from around the globe. He always made me feel special, and I knew why my mom liked him so much. "My goodness Matilda, look at how you've grown! Has it really been that long, or did you just shoot up like a weed?" I told him I missed him and was glad to see him. He brought a young traveling companion with him, a young man named Lucas.

My mom showed Albert some of the paintings and photographs she had been working on, and then she showcased some my sketches and paintings. Albert was kind and supportive, but gave some suggestions and pointers, which I gladly took and remembered, even to this day. "Matilda, you have to show the people who look at your paintings, what you want them to see. You have to communicate to them a feeling, an impression, and when they see your work, it makes them feel a certain way. Those people then need to ask themselves, why do I feel this way? This is the essence of art; to examine our humanity, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us feel. And if you are uncomfortable, you ask why does this make me feel uncomfortable? Then, maybe, if you are honest with yourself, you learn more about yourself and change who you are. People change who they are, because of you, and what you have done. When you paint, photograph, or whatever your medium is, you have awesome power to change people." Those words set the trajectory for the rest of my life.

“And to help you, I have brought you two things.” Albert handed me a large, over-sized leather satchel to carry my sketches in. At his encouragement I opened it and found it was filled with paper, charcoals, pastels, pencils, all the things I needed to explore the world and create. I thanked him profusely and gave him a hug and kiss. “And I also brought you this!” he pointed to Lucas. I was confused. Albert continued, "Lucas here is a young, 19 year old up and coming underwear model. Your mother told me you wanted to spend more time sketching the human form, so Lucas here is going to be your muse for the next few hours. Your mother and I have business across town and we shall be back soon.” He leaned in towards me, “Use your time wisely, my dear."

I offered Lucas something to drink, and he asked for coffee if I had it. I put on a full pot, and we talked. He was originally from Spain and was in the states working for a large modeling agency doing underwear ads for some of the biggest names in men’s fashion. He was dressed sensibly in sued boots, Khaki pants, and a shirt that was unbuttoned halfway down his chest. I could tell he had the kind of body where any clothes you put on him were going to look great. I had on a skin-tight, white, three-quarter length sleeve top that was cropped up over my tummy, a white skirt that hugged my hips but flared out at the bottom, and was barefoot, which was normal for me in the summer. Lucas looked at me and said, “Albert said you were talented and beautiful, but in person, you are more beautiful than he described.” I thanked him and said, "I should go change if I am going to sketch you." I went into my room and put on an old pair of baggy jeans and a tank top. Just then I saw Ali in her room and motioned to her to call me. She was on the phone and held up her hand as if for me to wait. I walked back into the main room and set up a pedestal for Lucas to stand on. I poured us some coffee and when I turned around, he was standing in front of me with just his underwear on. His body was hairless, tan, and chiseled so that you could count his ribs and ab muscles from across the room. He had short, cropped curly blond hair and a very large bulge in his white, bikini underwear.

"I hope I did not startle you? Albert said not to waste time."

"No, not at all. How do you like your coffee?"

"Black with one sugar, please"

"Do you want me to leave my underwear on?"

Why don’t we start with them on and see where it goes."

I handed him his coffee and placed him on the pedestal and began to draw.

"Tell me how you want me to pose." He said, holding his coffee in both hands, up to his mouth.

"Standing there like that is just fine for now"

I sketched furiously and made progress. Every ten minutes, I had him change positions and started a new sketch. The room was filled with so much bright sunlight that every position he took was perfectly illuminated. Lucas was an excellent subject; taking direction well but also being inventive and creative, suggesting some modification to the poses.

After an hour, Ali finally called me. I said, "What are you doing?"

"Nothing now..." I cut her off and said, "I have a naked male underwear model in my apartment posing for me for the next hour. Do you want to come over and watch?" "Yes, yes, yes, please!" she said excitedly, almost begging. I asked Lucas if he minded if I had a friend come over and watch. "The more the merrier" he said. Minutes later there was a knock at my door. I opened it and Ali walked in. I whispered in her ear, "please be cool and react to nothing with surprise or shock." "yes, yes, I know." she impatiently replied.

I introduced Lucas to Ali, he walked over to her and shook her hand and then we resumed work. Not long after, the phone rang and it was my mom, "how are things going?"

"They are going fine"

"Are you two having fun? Are you working?"

"Yes and yes"

"Good. we wont be back till this evening so make yourselves comfortable and order a pizza or something for dinner. I left money on the counter for you." I agreed and hung up with her.

I told Lucas they would be late in getting back and continued sketching. He was unphased. I suggested to Lucas that he remove his underwear and, without any hesitation, he did and set them on his clothes on the couch right next to Ali. He smiled at her as he walked over and set his underwear beside her. She tried to remain composed but Lucas was gorgeous and well endowed. The most well endowed male she had ever seen up to that point. Ali watched and I kept sketching. Soon she came over to me and watched me sketch, saying nothing. After another hour I thanked Lucas and told him I was finished. He asked if he could look and I agreed. He walked over and stood next to Ali and me and commented on my drawings and how good they were.

"How old are you?" he asked

"I'm 14"

"Your talent and your maturity are well beyond your years."

"Thank you. It’s more fun when you have someone as handsome as you as a subject." I responded

He looked at Ali and asked the same question

Ali responded, "I'm fourteen, too."

I could tell that Lucas had a thing for Ali. If you would like I can put my clothes back on. Sometimes nudity makes people uncomfortable." I told him he was fine and should do what makes him comfortable. He chose to remain naked.

Walking away from us and looking around, he said, "Why don't you show me around your place? Its very cool. I love all the big windows and open space."

"Well there’s not much to see really, beyond the main room and the kitchen." We walked down the hall and I showed him my bedroom. I had original paintings I had done laying against the wall, a record player with vinyl albums. I had some old, vintage playboy magazines I liked to look at, and the black dildo I left on the nightstand. He immediately went over and picked it up. He looked at me and I laughed. Then we all laughed.

"Are you two lovers?" He asked

"We are", I responded

"Are you lesbians or bi?"

"Were bi."

"We’ve both dated boys in addition to our relationship", Ali added

"Lucas hopped onto my bed and said," why don't you two show me how you use this?", holding the big black dildo while smiling.

"Looking at you, Lucas, I don't think we have a need for that, don't you agree?"

I walked over to Ali and kissed her and she kissed me back. I took off my tank top and revealed my petite, bare breasts with nipples fully erect. I turned to Ali and kissed her again and unbuttoned her top and took it off, along with her bra. Ali unbuttoned my old jeans and let them fall to the ground. I had no panties on, as usual. I looked at Lucas sitting there with that dildo in his hand and he just kept smiling. I walked behind Ali and played with her breasts, kissing her neck, her ears, and then all the way down her spine. I reached around and unbuttoned her shorts and let them slip down to the floor and her panties followed. I proceeded to kiss her all the way down the crack of her ass and then motioned for her to turn around. I put my mouth up to the smooth crease between her legs and used my tongue to run along the crease and separate it. Ali moaned and arched her back, tilting her head backwards. I then kissed her up her front, sticking my tongue in her navel and licking my way up to her breasts. Ali had beautiful breasts, larger than mine but not too large, that seemed to defy gravity with nipples towards the top of each breast that pointed skyward. I grabbed her left nipple and played with it between my fingers while I put her other one in my mouth and rolled my tongue around it. Ali continued to stand there, back arched, moaning and caressing my hair. I finally kissed her again and let her taste her musk on my breath.

Lucas laid down on his back and motioned for us to come over. We both climbed on the bed from opposite sides and began to kiss him on the lips at the same time. I took Ali's hand in mine and moved it slowly down to his penis. We began to massage it together; Ali stroking the shaft and I fondling his large testicles. His penis was long and thick and got a little fatter as it went up towards the head, kinda like a baseball bat, somewhat. His head was large and the corona protruded far beyond the circumference of his upper shaft, and had some excess skin that folded just beneath it. It was tanned, like the rest of him, and had thick, dark veins that ran the length of it. Ali studied Lucas’s penis closely as she slowly ran her hand up and down his shaft, taking her time. She’d not had much experience with boys, so this was a big step for her. She leaned over and began to kiss it and lick up and down the shaft. Lucas watched her, intently. Ali grabbed it firmly and raised it to put it into her mouth, getting almost half of it in before quickly pulling it out to avoid gagging. She persisted and put it back in her mouth and closed her lips around the shaft, tightly. She began to slowly bob her head up and down. With the motion, Ali’s long blond hair fell over her face and I quickly took my hands to reposition it, so Lucas could continue watching her.

While Ali and I had been deeply intimate for two years now and had both dated boys as well, we never shared a boy. Remembering Ali was still a virgin and not on birth control, I motioned for her to go up by Lucas's head and work that end of him. I positioned myself over Lucas and began to repeat my day with Marco. I reached my hand behind me and pulled his cock so the head was up against my vagina. I then slowly leaned back and let him enter me. Lucas groaned very loudly and arched his back as I enveloped him. He motioned for Ali to turn and face me and straddle his head. As Lucas began to use his mouth to play with her vagina, I reached and grabbed her hands and then we leaned in and kissed over him. It was an extremely erotic experience and Ali began to breath heavily. We looked deeply into each others eyes and Ali's began to well up with tears as she got close. With each rapidly increasing breath, she began to moan, louder and louder, between each panting breath she took. Tears began to stream down her face, and I kissed them as they poured down. Then Ali lost control, "oh, yes, yes, fuck, fuck yes", she yelled as she came. She opened her eyes and starred at me as I was writhing up and down on Lucus’s shaft, while she climaxed.

Every time Ali came, she did so with such abandon that strings of expletives always came pouring from her mouth and were seldom the same twice. Sometimes, when we were together, just the two of us, I would start to laugh at what words flew out of her mouth. And having a strict Christian upbringing as she did just made it all the more funny.

After a while, Lucas tapped Ali’s thigh to have her move off his face. Lucas said that Ali and I should trade positions. At that suggestion, I halted my motion and sat back on Lucas's hard shaft, I opened my mouth, but hesitated to speak, so as not to embarrass Ali. Ali spoke up and said, "I'd love to but not only am I a virgin, but I am not on birth control, either." Lucas replied, "Well, I cannot speak to the first part, but if you go out to my satchel, I have a box of condoms in there." Ali smiled and hopped up and off the bed like a scared rabbit and ran to the other room to get the condoms. I looked at Lucas, "she likes you." "I like her too" Lucas replied. Ali returned with the box of condoms. I hopped off him, cleaned him with my hand, and made room for Ali. Lucas motioned for Ali to lay down on her back on the bed. I wanted to be a part of this, so I knelt with my back to the headboard and rested Ali's head and shoulders on my thighs. Lucas moved in between her legs and slowly rolled the rubber down his penis till it reached his abdomen. He moved into position and told Ali, "don't worry, I've done this before." He put the head of his cock into Ali, who gave out a short, jutted moan and then followed with a long, sensual one. He grabbed her legs just above the knees and spread them open, holding them there as he slowly moved back and forth, in and out, each time a little bit deeper into my girl. I started rubbing Ali's shoulders and moved down to her breasts; gently pressing her nipples between my thumb and middle fingers. This went on for a while. When Lucas was most of the way in, he leaned forward, supporting himself with his hands, and began to kiss Ali very tenderly on the mouth. I put my hand on one side of Ali's head and with the other began to stroke Lucas's short, curly hair. Then without warning, Lucas thrust himself into Ali. She let out a loud yelp of surprise and opened her eyes wide, then quickly relaxed, once she knew what happened. She looked up at me and I smiled at her. Lucas continued to move in and out of Ali in a very tender and gentle way. I was so happy for her.

Lucas had not yet come. After a long while, he asked if I could take Ali's place on the bed, which I did. Lucas rolled off the condom and placed it on the nightstand. “I can’t come with these things on me.” he said. Lucas hastily entered me and began thrusting himself into me more forcefully and at a quicker pace than before. Ali straddled my head and backed down on my face. I licked her and tried to insert my tongue into her as far as I could. She reached out and held Lucas's hands and they began to kiss. Soon he broke the embrace with Ali and he began driving himself into me as hard as his thin, muscular body could. He let out a quiet sound that gradually built and concluded in low grunts when he came inside of me. Ali leaned forward and laid down on top of me. As Lucas took out his penis, he put it into Ali's waiting mouth; pushing himself about halfway in. He rotated from putting himself into me and then into Ali’s mouth, which went on for several minutes. Then, as Lucas pulled all the way out, Ali put her mouth on my swollen vagina lips and caught some of the cum that was running out of me. As Lucas moved off, Ali came around and ate me out properly, putting her tongue in me and then sucking and consuming as much of Lucas’s cum that she could get out. Afterwards, she climbed up on top of me to share as Lucas watched while playing with himself.

Once we were done, we all sat on the bed and I said, "who's hungry?" Ali and Lucas childishly raised their hands. "How’s Pizza?" I walked across my room to get the phone and order a pizza, and when I looked back, Ali had resumed sucking and playing with Lucas's penis. She was having such a good time and I was so happy for her.

While we waited for the pizza delivery man, Lucas remained in my bedroom and Ali and I got cleaned up in the hall bathroom. Soon there was a knock at the door and I walked over, completely naked, and opened the door. There stood a middle aged delivery man with a baseball cap that covered part of his receding hairline, wearing a shiny jacket, looking at me with his jaw slackened. Ali put her head out of the bathroom to see if I really answered the door naked, and Lucas began to walk out into the main room and come up behind me. Ali then followed Lucas out. "How much?" I asked. "I, I don't know. I, I can’t remember" he responded in a stupor. "Why don't you look at the receipt?" "What" Ah, umm, oh, $14.99 please." I handed him a $20 and told him to keep the change. He stood there for a minute, as I passed the pizza back to Lucas, looking like he didn’t know what to do next. I said, "thank you. Good-bye." and closed the door and locked it. I opened up a few beers and we put the pizza in the middle of my bed and sat around it and gorged ourselves.

Moments later, I heard a key open the door, followed by footsteps in the main room, and then my mom and Albert entered the room. Ali got this look of sheer panic on her face. I told her to relax and keep eating. My mom and Albert walked in to find the three of us naked, disheveled, and stuffing pizza in our faces. My mom looked at me and said, breaking the ice, "Well, I am glad to see the three of you are getting along. Hello, Ali." Ali nodded at her with a mouth full of pizza. Albert spoke next, "Matilda, I do hope you found some time to sketch?" I responded, "I absolutely did, Uncle Albert. They're out there lying on the drawing table." Albert and my mom walked out and then, after about 5 minutes, came back in. "Matilda, Albert said in a hushed voice very different from his previous tone. "These are really good. No, they're better than good, my dear, they're fantastic!" I got off the bed and walked over towards him, eating a piece of pizza. Albert put up his hand and looked away to stop me, "Matilda, please put some clothes on and then we can talk" Albert said as they walked out.

I thew on my jeans and tank top and walked out into the main room. "I'd like to take two of these with me to show some of my associates. Please sign them before I go". "Kate (my mom), she needs a proper education to help her growth."

"Albert, she's only in 7th grade, which is too young to drop out of school"

"Yes, yes of course, you are absolutely right. Matilda, I am going to arrange for some models to come pose for you until you graduate 8th grade. Till then, you need to continue studying under the direction of your mother. There is no one better suited to helping you develop." Kate and I nodded and Albert continued, "We should consider Elisabethinum for her for high school. I have considerable influence and could get her in and help defer some of the tuition and costs." He said, raising his voice has he spoke.

I responded, "Wait, what’s Elisabethinum?"

Kate responded, " it is a high school for gifted artists in Austria."

I looked at Ali and Ali looked at me.

Kate continued, "we'll see. High school is a ways off".

Albert had me sign the two sketches he was going to take with him. He also paid me for them, which he assured me was a requirement, even though he was already helping me in so many ways. He offered me $200 for each sketch. My mom shot back, “Albert, that’s way too much money! Are you trying to turn her into a graphic artist? So she can go into advertising?!?!” Albert smiled and looked down, shaking his head. “My dear, I am only trying to encourage her. Money should not be the reason one creates, but knowing your worth and the value of your talents and efforts is essential.” I felt obliged to refuse the offer but was afraid he would be even more offended. I took the four, crisp hundred dollar bills and thanked him for his generous offer. I hugged him and he hugged me back, being the bear of a man he was, he almost squeezed the air from my lungs. I’d never really felt fatherly love, like I felt from Albert.

Later that evening, Ali and I went for a walk and were talking and kissing and she told me, “I wish it could have been you, today”

“What could have been me today?

“I wish I could have lost my virginity to you”

“I don’t think that’s possible, really”

“I know but I still wish it was”

“And I wish that I could have lost mine to you rather than Marco”

“I would have liked that”

“Are you going to leave me and go away to a school in another country?”

“Ali, I’m not sure, honestly. I am really torn in two with the thought of that, but also at the chance of missing an opportunity like that.”

“Maybe there is another art school in the US that you could go to instead? Then at least I wouldn’t have to fly all the way to fucking Austria to see you.”

“I don’t know. I don’t know if we can afford for me to go. I don’t know if I’m good enough? I’ve got a lot on my mind.”

We walked some more, holding hands and looking down at our footsteps...

“I’d like you to go with me to the free clinic tomorrow.”

“Oh yeah?”

“I almost blew my chance with Lucas and you. I don’t want that to happen again.”

“[laughing] You mean when more hot underwear models show up at my house!”

“Exactly.”

“Well, some of them will be girls or women, too, you know.”

“That’s fine. Wait, women, like grown women?”

“We don’t have to have sex with all of them, but…”

“Its nice to have the option”

The next day Ali went and get her first month of pills.

©️ 2025 Matilda of the Green Fields

#girlblogging #hell is a teenage girl #female writers #girls like us #writers on tumblr #girlslikeus #girls who smoke cigarettes #goth #girls who smoke weed #3somme

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pumpkin-spike18 · 1 year ago

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✨Weekly Progress 2024 #18-21✨

oh... shit, it's been a month since the last update huh 💦

Well, I hope it's very obvious why that is! In the few weeks before the announcement, I was preparing marketing posts and promo arts so I didn't want to ruin the surprise via a devlog!

Weekly Progress #18

Programmed SYVNH gallery

Made a programming to do list

Updated variables

[Fan project] Planning

Tested SYVNH main game, Side B

Programmed cheat codes

Programmed choice jumping

Made marketing plan and sketches

Updated SYVNH Guide

Drafted Post Mortem

Refined countdown sketches

(SYVNH as a whole project was finished at this point)

Weekly Progress #19

Fin 4 Promo art

Generated 14 SFB BGs

Tested SFB shading methods

Rendered Avia SFB sprite

Play tested for Canvas Menagerie

Scheduled SYVNH announcements and promo posts

Rendered Raven SFB base sprite

Wrote 981 words for KHP

(SYVNH full game release announcement was made at this point)

Weekly Progress #20

Rendered Raven SFB sprite

[Fan Project] flat color (x4)

Worked on [BL RPG] world building & outline

Sketched [BL RPG] chibis

Revised SYVNH Guide/Post Mortem

Sketched [BL RPG] faces

Weekly Progress #21

Drafted SYVNH game page updates

Finished Dove SFB sprite

Evaluated SFB fight scenes

Finished 4/4 [fan project] illustrations

Started P^3 designs

Released SYVNH!! 🎉🎉🎉

I'm sure everyone knows with how often I've been saying it, buuuut!!

The full version of Stuck in a Yandere Visual Novel...HELP!! is now released and available to play for free!!

Itch is currently down for me so I hope that link I copied from previous posts will work once it goes back up.

At 2.5 years of work, this has been my longest creative project yet. I think I've said everything I could in the post-mortem for the project. It has been a huge mountain for me to climb and I'm glad I finally got through it. A lot of things have changed since I started working on this project, some good, some bad, most of which I can't really discuss. But it is over and I am proud of myself for it.

I'm also really relieved that folks have been enjoying the ending! I was definitely very worried that I did not drop enough hints and it would come way too out of left field.

So once again, thank you everyone for giving my project a chance and sticking with me for 2.5 years to reach the ending. Thank you so much!! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ This is more than I've ever dreamed for and I hope I can continue to bring good stories for folks to enjoy!

A Sky of Falling Birds

Once I was done with SYVNH, I got to work on my next big project because I can't sit still. I haven't a marketing plan for SFB yet. It's a very different story and vibe from SYVNH. I think the only similarity are the length of the main character's bangs.

I'm tentatively aiming to release SFB for BAF VN Jam.

(Ad break!

Do you like shounen manga?? Do you like making VNs?? Consider joining Battle Action Fantasy Visual Novel Jam 2024! We're hosting a game jam focused on action stories with our beloved shounen tropes!! Join today!!)

Oh god that was terrible, don't put me on the spot like that, me.

Anyways, A Sky of Falling Birds is a yuri-ish visual novel about depression, finding a will to live, and the end of the world.

It's yuri-ish because you have two "love interests" who aren't lovey-dovey to you at all. In fact, one of them might murder you before the game ends. The main portion of the script has been finished at about 20k+ words and the sprites are done. It's time I made a proper roadmap for creation of this VN('s demo).

(Oh, what's that? Does one of their silhouette look familiar? I wonder...)

A Variety of Unnamed BL Projects

+ a named not-BL project

Although SFB is closer to being finished, I can't help but be tempted by these new ideas I have... and start designing for them.

Last time I talked about P^3, I finished the outline. There is still no title. But I worked on some potential designs for the MC and the two LIs.

I am both unhappy and un-done with LI2's outfit. They're actually a bit plain compared to my other designs, but this story's a historical (Victorian) fantasy and only LI2 is close to the upper crust of society that would wear flowing dress... shirts with lots of ribbons.

I'm still working on how to best summarize this story. But perhaps it's a little more "what would you do for family" than love story.

The other BL project, which I've named [BL RPG] is a story set in a modern fantasy society. There is turn based gameplay for this project. I had their designs finished a while back, but I finally put colors to the remainder of the cast for Part 1.

(Oh, this will be a long one, my friends...)

The outline isn't done yet.

This is a story about kissing boys, taming punks, and maybe over throwing the government.

The last of my "projects I worked on mindlessly now that SYVNH is done" I worked on this past... month is Killer Hiding Place (KHP). This is the next entry into the Kill Series and something I had outlined since last year. I kept trying to start writing it, but I keep running into trouble on how I want to tell the story. I originally intended to do another manga-esque format like that of Exorcist Killing Lie, but this protagonist tends to monologue a lot, making it difficult to put in manga form.

Other...!

I finished 4 images for a fan project, and I'm still behind on another part of that project 😢 That'll be my focus for this week...

I also did some playtesting for @arimiadev's upcoming BL visual novel Canvas Menagerie!! It's a soft and comfy SoL BL story about the struggles of being an actor.

It also has one of the best lines I've ever read in a visual novel.

You can play the Canvas Menagerie demo for free on itch!

Whew! That was a long one!

But that's all the info I got for this... month. Look forward to... next week...??? Let's go with the positive expectation that I will be able to make weekly devlogs again ahaha...

Bye-bye, Pumpkin out!

#visual novel #vnlink #devlog #vndev #syvnh #sfb #khp

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stereopticons · 2 years ago

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for the fun meta asks:

19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

19. Hahahahaha. I feel like you should ask @blackandwhiteandrose this question because she’s the one who has to deal with the fact that once I start writing, I forget every word I’ve ever known and use the same ten verbs over again.

I definitely use the word “murmurs” a lot because I maintain that there is no acceptable substitute. It’s a specific type of speaking that unfortunately occurs a lot in my writing and I spend a lot of time trying (and failing) to find acceptable synonyms. I also frequently describe feelings as being in the character’s chest (tightness, warmth, pain, whatever, it all goes behind the ribs I guess) and I do often describe how someone tastes when kissing. I’ve written Patrick coming out to David at a bar/the Wobbly Elm at least three separate times, so I should probably knock that off.

20. Ooh okay. Well. I’ve said, since I started writing fic, that world building is my biggest weakness. I’ve never felt very confident with it. So when I started writing indie band Patrick, I decided to challenge myself and really delve into the world building. Granted, it’s not fantasy or magical realism or anything like that, and it takes place in a real place (New York, primarily), but it’s outside of Schitt’s Creek and there are a lot of pieces I have had to pull together. Every place that’s mentioned so far with the exception of David’s gallery, really exists. I went on streeteasy and found apartments for Stevie and Patrick and a loft for David. I’ve researched music venues extensively lol. Even the subway routes. But the piece of completely unnecessary but still really fun world building that I loved doing was booking Patrick’s band’s tour. I had a couple of cities I needed them to hit for plot reasons and certain date parameters and used that to create a plausible tour route. Then I looked up music venues in each city that would fit the band’s status and the type of music I imagine they play. THEN I made a tour poster:

Of course, if I’d been writing instead of making that, maybe I’d have finished the fic by now lmao. Oh and I also created all of the song titles for their first and second albums as well as an EP, which I won’t share yet but they are pretty delightful.

Meta asks for writers

#thanks for asking!

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emilee-has-legs · 2 years ago

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that one really cool sim tag thats been going around.

wasn't tagged by anyone in particular, but @loafysims and @ravensccfindss both mentioned me in this tag recently so i thought i'd give it a shot. also my need for attention is a bottomless pit so.

1.) What’s your favourite sims death?

honestly, the classic, putting a sim in a pool and then taking out the ladder. theres no common sense to the action it's just genuinely so funny.

2.) Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

technically im maxis mix, but i tend to lean very hard to maxis match clothing.

3.) Do you cheat when your sims gain weight?

no not really. if i want them to loose weight i'll have them work out

4.) Do you use move objects?

if you dont use moveobjects, i think legally we can consider you clinically insane.

5.) Favorite mod?

this is so hard... ummmmm, probably like better build buy. i spend a good amount of time in build mode and use debug/live edit objects a ton when i build, so it's pretty useful.

6.) First expansion/game/stuff pack you got?

i think it was get to work, i even bought it in a physical case thingy and i still have it lying around somewhere. (as well as seasons.)

7.) Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing?

LIVE mode.

8.) Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

you're asking me to pick a favorite? out of all my children?? i honestly can't pick a favorite, but here's layla, and i love her.

9.) Have you made a simself?

yeah, i've tried on multiple occasions, but none of them have ever really captured my essence all that well. eventually i gave up and just started using my mascot sim, Nellie, for my quote-on-quote "branding"

10.) What sim traits do you give yourself?

im gonna go ahead and give myself five traits assuming we all have the "more traits in cas" mod:

creative, goofball, loves-outdoors, squeamish, foodie.

11.) Which is your favorite EA hair color?

the darkest brown swatch is my go-to.

12.) Favorite EA hair?

ima be so real rn i dont use EA hairs at all.

13.) Favorite life stage?

young adult. might be biased because that's around my age-frame

14.) Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

builder. i have the most fun in either buildmode or cas.

15.) Are you a CC creator?

not offically, but i've converted defaults and skin details for personal use before, and i've even released some load screens.

16.) Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad?

yeah baby, check these amazing people out.

@loafysims

@inspiredsimmercc

@pikaburr

@rhdweauni0

@dizzyscabiosa

@ravensccfindss

@gabrielle-kl

@nihilismtrcit

17.) What’s your favorite game?

i cant decide, it's between the sims, halo 3, minecraft, stardew valley, and splatoon. i want to play zelda: tears of the kingdom as well, but its just not in the budget rn sadly.

18.) Do you have any sims merch?

no.

19.) Do you have a YouTube for sims?

yeah actually, if you can ignore my 13 y.o sounding voice, check me out

20.) How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing?

omg so much. here are some side by side comparisons of my different eras/progression.

(its the way the first sim looks like she could be a trademarked lego piece that gets me)

21.) What’s your Origin ID?

pretty sure its just emilee-has-legs. i have a couple of builds on the gallery if you wanna check me out, i just never posted them on here because that was before my simblr era.

22.) Who’s your favorite CC creator?

dogsill, softerhaze, greenlamas, ceeproductions, sentate, serenity and simstrouble take the cake for me

23.) How long have you had a simbIr?

i've had my blog for a minute but i only became an active simblr like a couple months ago.

24.) How do you edit your pictures?

i dont really edit except for a few touchups in picsart, and also srwe.

26.) What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next?

probably get together, never got around to purchasing that pack and there's a couple things i want from the ep.

tagging: anyone who wants to have some fun. it was nice to chill on call with friends and fill this out. cya besties ily.

#the sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #my sims #sims #em talks #tag #tag post

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catnipsims · 2 years ago

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BESTIE @aliengirl tagged me, thankou !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sims Tag

1. What’s your favourite sims death? The city living pufferfish one 😭 its kinda silly hgishughuhdg

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? well i used to be maxis match but idk anymore hiushguriugiosrhig alpha cc is so pretty on the previews but often looks... crunchy????? in game... so i guess i tend to stick to mostly mm???

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? I've never played far enough of any household to notice weight gain 😭😭😭

4. Do you use move objects? GIRL YES 😍😍

5. Favorite mod? i CANNOT live without more columns in cas & no cc wrench 😭😭

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? first one i got back when my game was still a legal copy was city living !

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? LIVing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? i have an unhealthy attachment to veronique, the model sim i made back in 2020. (Shes the one i used to model my recent Octavia hair) her tag

9. Have you made a simself? yes on multiple occasions 😭here

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? I just choose random ones most of the time???? but after checking creative seems to be a common one??

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? Oh the fourth one, that new warm brown one, i keep needing to restrict myself from using it on every single sim i ever make....

12. Favorite EA hair? really love the short parted one from the free update back in september?????? of 2021

13. Favorite life stage? the few times ive tried playing in live mode its been young adults so that one????????

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? im only ever really in cas eiughisghiruhg. i build sometimes but i really never play in live mode so i guess builder????????????

15. Are you a CC creator? well im supposed to be but cc creating is just on the backburner rn 🤭 also bugfixing gives me anxiety

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? i have the 5-ish mutuals that i keep harassing with my silly comments, but definitely no full on squad

17. What’s your favorite game? (1, 2, 3, or 4) ts4 was the first one i got, and the only one ive really played, so i guess that one

18. Do you have any sims merch? nough 🥰😍🤪👍

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? i tried and forgot about it 😭😭😭 so currently no

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? i think i used alpha cc back in like 2017????????????? and then i transitioned to my hardcore maxismatch era back during the early times of this simblr if you were there no you dont i ate your memories of me and now its just all over the place (maxis mix????????? idk)

21. What’s your Origin ID? i think its just catnipsims????? i could be wrong but i dont use the gallery anyway....

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? oh thats a difficult question 😭😭 id say @pralinesims, @simandy, @clumsyalienn, and @marsosims !!!!!!!!!!

23. How long have you had a simblr? since summer of 2019 i think???? yes i was 12 dont bully me

24. How do you edit your pictures? editing???? never heard of her.... no but i use photoshop for whatever minor adjustments i want to make through liquify and adjusting contrast and whatnot

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? any occult related anything will fullfill my sim creating needs 🤭🤭

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? since im so rarely in live mode i dont really have any opinion on gameplay ghihuighruie but i really really love the aesthetics of snowy escape in like every aspect but gameplay (cas, buildbuy, world etc.)

tag @barbieaiden, @marsosims, @eva-andsomenumbers, @avornalino, @woosteru, @ravensim, @wastelandwhisperer / @adrasteamoon, @radical-sims, & @chelseasasimmer and anyone else who i forgor 😭😭 sorry my brain is not the best

#tag game #simblr

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salemssimblr · 2 years ago

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Sims - get to know me

I was tagged by @druidberries & @m0n0lithical! Thank yall for the tags!

I rarely actually play the game so take my answers with a grain of salt but this should be fun!

1. What’s your favourite sims death? Cowplant, hands down

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? For the longest time I was strictly Maxis Match but recently I've been way more Maxis Mix and I'm loving it

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Nah I let it happen!

4. Do you use move objects? Religiously, I cannot build without it. Routing be damned!

5. Favorite mod? BBB, I cannot play this game without it. I also get ornery if I don't have UI cheats extension and more CAS columns.

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I was on the Sims 4 bandwagon from day 1, so Outdoor Retreat.

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? Living. You've got build, buy, and live, at least that's how my brain rationalizes it.

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? I'm obsessed with all of my rpg oc sims (Ariss, Katya, Nat, Kai, Calista, etc), but probably my favorite sim-sim, well that's hard too. I really love my Simeon Silversweater makeover, and Rhiannon Reinhardt is prob my fave original sim.

9. Have you made a simself? I have! I've made myself, my husband and our dog (: One day I'll have to render them and post pics, I'm sure they all need an update now.

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? Clumsy, creative, & paranoid lmao

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? Idk prob black or dark brown, so many of the other swatches look unnatural to me. I like the fun colors though, esp the lighter blue/cyan-y swatch.

12. Favorite EA hair? In terms of design, I really liked the braids that came with RoM and the really cool swatches, but I rarely ever use that hair.

13. Favorite life stage? YA cause it's the only one with adequate gameplay oops lmfao

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? BUILDER I rarely play the game at all but if I am I'm probably building. It seems every time I actually get into gameplay (which is rare in itself) something (a patch) comes along and breaks everything to the point where I can't anymore and I lose love for it all over again.

15. Are you a CC creator? I am! But only barely haha. I've made a few recolors and some art, but nothing from scratch YET. Soon hopefully

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? I do! I'm a moderator of @cozyacres's Cozy Cave discord server and I LOVE out little community there! I've also got so many wonderful mutuals here I love you all so much.

17. What’s your favorite game? Sims 3 was fantastic and if I remembered more of it I'd probably say 3, but I got really invested in the community for 4 and it does hold a special place in my heart even if it's deeply flawed. So, 4.

18. Do you have any sims merch? I do not.

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? I have an account but I haven't posted anything yet! I'd like to one day post speed builds and speed renders, I just need to figure out my recording process (I tab out of what I'm doing so often that I feel like the editing would take a million years for me to remove all of my discord chats lmfao)

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? I feel like my actual sims style hasn't changed too much, except that I've incorporated a lot more maxis mix/alpha into my style, but that's mostly for rendering and not actual gameplay.

21. What’s your Origin ID? SalemsSims! I have a few CC-free builds on the gallery (:

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? This is an impossible question to answer. I love so many for gameplay vs render resources.

23. How long have you had a simblr? I just legit checked cause I wasn't sure and it turns out I've been shitposting since 2019! Who knew!? lmao

24. How do you edit your pictures? I'm lucky enough to mooch off my dad's photoshop license. For renders and screenshots alike, I'll edit the brightness, contrast, levels and curves and then use a collection of PS actions/tweaking/blur/vignettes etc as necessary to get the effect I want.

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? It's really hard to say... I've been excited for each one of them then disappointed in each one of them lmfao what a mood. I gotta say I was really pleasantly surprised by Werewolves, and HSY exceeded my expectations, even though both had their fair share of disappointments. I don't think I really have a favorite overall though (which is def a side effect of... not actually playing the game, lmao). But those two actually got me playing the game and that's saying something.

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? Oops I own them all so, whatever comes next that strikes my fancy. Idk how I feel about the horse rumors though... we'll see if it's actually good or just another disappointment.

Tagging @chaoticsimlish, @reality-refuge, @raiiny-bay, @glammoose, @buttertrait, @crsentfairy, @glittermutt, @crazy-lazy-elder-sims & anyone else who wants to do this! My brain turns into a goldfish whenever it's time to tag so pls don't be offended if I didn't tag you!

#sims get to know me tag #ask game replies #replies #would this be more interesting if I actually played?#maybe lmao

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chaoticsimlish · 2 years ago

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Get To Know Me

I was tagged by the sweet and endlessly talented @salemssimblr for this! Apologies it took so long to get to it, wanted to wait until I was on my desktop again haha

What’s your favourite sims death? Gotta be laughing to death! I had a sim for a legacy challenge propose to her girlfriend once and her girlfriend was already in a silly goofy mood but rejected her and then proceeded to laugh to death. I hadn't even known that could happen and was caught completely off guard!

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? I tend to lean more towards Maxis Match stuff but I really have move of a blend happening

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Nah if it happens it happens, you can't have a sim push out four babies for a legacy and still have a stick lol

4. Do you use move objects? Definitely do! Even switched back to my old keyboard because it is better equipped for handling move objects in build mode!

5. Favorite mod? More columns in CAS! I cannot make sims without it!

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I bought every expansion/game pack/stuff pack that came out until My First Pets Stuff so it'd be Outdoor Retreat! I only recently caved to that stupid stuff back, always swore I'd never put money down on a DLC for a DLC but it was on super sale and I think I'd like to have rats in game

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? Liv definitely, I know in context it's LIVE mode but I have never said it like that

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? Probably Monty! My green haired sim I made originally to submit to a story that someone else was doing. I have the most back story on her! If not her than my boy Kaz who was made to be a bachelor in my bachelor challenge that ended abruptly when the save got corrupted and life made it hard to play! Kaz still to this day remains my favorite base to use when making male sims :3

9. Have you made a simself? A long time ago! I should probably make a new one

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? Creative, Clumsy, and Geek!

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? I really like the darker brown and the auburn-y red

12. Favorite EA hair? I rarely use the EA hairs lol I don't really have an answer for this!

13. Favorite life stage? YA for sure because it has the most stuff to do but also I started playing Sims 4 when I was 20 so I was a YA when I got to play with it and it has always just felt like a good home base life stage!

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? When I do get to play, I'm in it for the gameplay! I honestly hate building from scratch because nothing ever seems right so I usually tweak builds I find in the gallery! I also really hate how much time it takes to decorate and clutter things up!

15. Are you a CC creator? I used to be! First thing I created (like five blogs ago now) was a set of nerdy art for my sims, I also recolored a bunch of hairs in Pooklet's colors and recolored a handful of items. Pretty sure that's all gone now though and I definitely don't have time to do it anymore!

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? I have a couple people I feel like I can chat with without feeling like I'm bugging them! @salemssimblr and I talk on discord about this and that (mostly writing!) and @druidberries and I have had a few good moments as well! I used to have a group I was part of on discord but that's been a long time ago now

17. What’s your favorite game? Favorite series is forever Bioshock! The depth of the worlds and just how well those games were developed and thought out was always great for me! What Remains of Edith Finch changed my entire brain chemistry it was so good, Dragon Age Inquisition has been played about fifteen times, and I'm really enjoying Tears of the Kingdom right now!

18. Do you have any sims merch? Somewhere, lost to the basement which devours everything, I have a plumbob light thing I got with a special edition of something. Other than that no

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? Nope! I'm happy posting on here where no one can hear me stumble over my words and watch me spend an hour debating over which hair to put on a sim lmao

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? It's changed pretty drastically I'd say! My early sims, when I started really getting into the Sims 2, were all super goth and had the most wild and ridiculous outfits! I used to make sims who looked like they walked out of My Chemical Romance music videos! Now, though I still have to push myself to not use as many of the same or similar features (I'm really bad about almond eyes, down turned lips, and noses with the nostrils just so), I feel like I do make sims with more variety. I also work hard to make sims who are either queer, non-white, disabled, or occult as well. It's really easy to fall into a pattern of making the same kind of sim over and over so I fight that as much as I can.

21. What’s your Origin ID? EchoSoul I believe, there may be a 13 in there somewhere lmao

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? I think the creator I jump to download all their cc every time I reset and whose cc just gets used and abused in my game is @clumsyalienn! I have almost everything they make and I'm pretty sure every single sim I make has at least one thing on their's on them!

23. How long have you had a simblr? I've had this simblr since 2018, before that though I've had multiple other simblrs that either got killed off because of a lull in notes or just disuse. I started in the simblr community in 2009 I believe! I've been on tumblr since 2008 and as soon as I found the sims community I've always had a foot in the door!

24. How do you edit your pictures? I don't lmao

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? I'd have to say that Realm of Magic and City Living! I'm a sucker for magic and witches and to this day San Myshuno is one of my favorite worlds to live in! Can't go wrong with the Spice District!

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? I have all of them except for Dream Designer and a handful of kits so I'd say Dream Designer lol

NOW

I tag @shittyysimblr, @lilypixels, @whyhellosims, @pink-chevalier, @katmk36, and anyone else who'd like to do this who hasn't been tagged yet!

#long post!#tag games #tag games i actually got tagged for!

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druidberries · 2 years ago

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sims get to know me tag !!

thank you sm @duusheen for tagging me 🥹💛

1. What’s your favourite sims death? cowplant lmao

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? I like maxis mix!

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? no

4. Do you use move objects? I can't build without it 😅

5. Favorite mod? this is super tough but I couldn't play without mccc and ui cheats!

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? outdoor retreat!

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? I feel like it's changed so many times throughout the years but lately it's been exclusively LIVing

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? a sim called Nex that I've never shared and Elowen! ofc lucine and flourish too but they're dnd characters before they are sims 😅

9. Have you made a simself? I did yearsss ago but she looks absolutely nothing like me lmao. I do kinda wanna try again tho?

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? I'm picking 5 bc that's how it should be in sims 4 *cough cough* family oriented, hopeless romantic, animal lover, geek, and socially awkward! I know some of those are sims 3 traits but its ok 😭

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? red and green! I have to resist the urge to give all my sims bright red hair 🫶 I love super dark black hair but it's such a hit or miss whether the swatch is gonna be gray, blue, or pitch black

12. Favorite EA hair? off the top of my head, I love the one we got with that sdx drop with the ombre roots and like 3 different high school years ones lol

13. Favorite life stage? I love infants bc 🥹🥹 but also teens and YA! even tho teens and young adults are pretty much the same 😐 it's one of the best parts of legacies when a child ages up into a teen!

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? gameplay and cas! I'm not great at building and only do it when I need to but creating characters and playing with families are my fav <3

15. Are you a CC creator? no lmao. I would like to make some more recolors but I only ever make them for personal use! maybe one day I'll release some 🤔

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? I've met some really good people on here that I just adore talking to <33 and I always think of my mutuals as my lil sims buddies 🥺

17. What’s your favorite game? 2 and 4! sims 3 is so good but 2 has my heart.

18. Do you have any sims merch? I used to have those headphones with the plumbobs that changed based on your sims emotions and they were so nice but they broke yearssss ago :( other than that no unless we're counting the freezer bunny I'm crocheting lol

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? no :(( I've wanted to start a youtube channel since I was just lil child but I'm so scared 🙃

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? I honestly don't think I have a sim style? but I do think I've gotten better at making sims in general? I'm much better at using different faces and making sims look different now!

21. What’s your Origin ID? druidberries but i don't upload anything to the gallery

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? trillyke, simstrouble, ah00b, ratboy, simandy, squea, ladymoriel, praline and literally so many more I could go on forever

23. How long have you had a simblr? I've had tumblr for ages like lurking but I think I started my first simblr around 2016-2017? I used that one on and off for so long and I always lost motivation but finally what like 2 months? ago I made this one and got a nice clean fresh start 😌

24. How do you edit your pictures? I use photoshop and I pretty much always do topaz, noise, and sharpen, and then from there I decide if I wanna do some brightening or whatever. I do use actions sometimes too! I really have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to editing 😭

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? all of the occult packs ofc + growing together and cottage living <33 I also really love nifty knitting bc most of my sims knit lmao

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? I really want them to make a fairies pack 🧚‍♀️🫶

feel free to ignore this but I'm tagging: @buttertrait. @potionio, @aurorangen, @estah, @sinfulwunders, @salemssimblr, @duskiivy and @simlishpiadina

#this was fun!#tag games #my old blog just never got any activity and i think i just got so bored every time #ofc you shouldnt care about that and i really didnt want to but i coudlnt help getting demotivated when i was just posting for me to see #but now if a post doesnt get activity im like ok whatever lmao #im also better at like? posting and stuff now i think #between writing and editing and developing characters #i just needed to like STICK THROUGH learning it but i didnt 🙃#druidberryspeaks #also I think like 2 years ago was when i was like ok no more simblr i get demotivated everytime and stopped with that blog once and for all #but now here i am hehehe #and maybe TOO motivated 😅

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hechiima · 1 year ago

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thought this would be fun with the end of the year!

1. How many works do you have on A03?

31.

2. What's your total A03 word count?

398,723. I'm really proud of this number tbh; never thought I'd write this much. Was hoping to hit 400k by the end of 2023 but I don't think that's gonna happen. Here's to hoping I hit half a million by this time next year!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

AA/DGS

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

You Ever Been In Love?

Things Are As They Are

On the Morality of Birds

Awkward Business

The View from the Gallery

No DGS fics. I know its a smaller fandom so it makes sense but still. 🥲 Also I swear I'll finish Awkward Business someday I'm just. So deep into Sherlock Holmes/DGS hell atm. ;A;

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

I never do unless it's a specific question. I used to but then I got overwhelmed/I never knew what to say so I just stopped. That said, I read all of them and they really mean a ton to me!!!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Prob Running Late or Shoulder Pain. I'm not really good with angsty endings so I usually only keep it angsty in the shorter fics lmao.

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

Lololol I think most of my fics have happy endings so that's a hard one.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nope! Thankfully, I think the hate on fics trend has died down a lot since the ff.net days.

9. Do you write smut?

Hell yeah. Please read my smut I'm so proud of it. I'm also on a quest to boost the hmmk smut tag on ao3 so if y'all have any smut you wanna see for them lmk.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Nope. My dream fic of a holmesverse crossover will happen someday though.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Thankfully no.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I've had a few translated to Russian and Chinese. Honestly it's insanely flattering when ppl ask to translate a fic like ough you liked my story so much you wanted to share it with others who don't speak English? It's so sweet. ;A;

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

Okay so Mango and Krissey and I started an amazing pirate AU and l adore it. And someday. We will finish it. I believe in us. I'd love to co-write a fic tho so if anyone's interested please hmu I think it'd be so so fun.

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

Ugh. Johnlock/Hmmk or Nrmt have to be like. The only ships that made me insane enough to write multiple fics over so it's def them. I love insanely codependant relationships.

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

There's so many. But off the top of my head, I have a fantasy AU that Beau and I came up with that I still love a ton (Finding You) and want to finish and a Edgeworth ends up in a Gregory lives AU (In Another Life) that I'm not sure if I'll ever finish. The former is just so much work and the latter I've kinda lost the plot thread so. Ough. Sorry.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

aksfjjalsjflsjf everything else LMAO. That's why we practice!

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

I don't love doing it? I've done it like once for a fic where language was important but other than that I try to avoid doing it.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

....hetalia..........it was the only other fandom i wrote for before AA. This was like in 2009/2010 tho I know better now but those fics ARE still up on fanfiction.net (: It sucks b/c sometimes I wanna compare my old writing to my current writing but I'm like ough. I cannot read these old fics.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I'd have to say A Study In Gold. I genuinely love that one so much. Thinking about hmmk early days makes me insane. I also really liked On the Morality of Birds b/c it was just such a supremely stupid fic.

@anyone who sees this and writes fic please feel free to do it! I'd love to see others talk about their fics <3

#tom talks #fanfic #my writing #questions

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nebulousfishgills · 2 years ago

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Pride OC Asks!

For Emily: 2, 5, 9, 11, 13 (no, having two romantic interests with the same face does not count)

Also 17, 19, and 20

Thanks for the ask (again), my friend! Let's see what we have here...

13) Would your OC be open to a poly relationship? Why or why not?

2) What is your OCs orientation? Do they have opinions about it?

I put a bit of thought into Emily's orientation, and I think I came to the conclusion that she was Demiromantic Bisexual. As a kid Emily had crushes on girls, but she squashed that part of herself down so fucking fast and has been repressing it ever since. Hawkins Lab barely gave her the chance to form her romance with Henry and I highly doubt anybody's gonna educate her on same-sex attractions. And that full fledged romance with Henry came after forming that deep emotional connection and she hates almost everyone else...

...Almost.

I've made the joke before that when it came to her relationship with Caius, Emily went on a "Revenge Sex to Marriage Speedrunning Challenge." I think there's room for a grey area here in general. But after Emily gets more comfortable with the Volturi, she feels more comfortable with her own attractions. She seduces women to feed on, she's probably done at least something with Heidi, among other things. In fact I wrote a little snippet of a scene not intended for a fic that illustrates a scene where Emily admits her orientation to Caius in a weird way that befits them completely:

Okay, setting the scene, it's not long after Emily is turned. Caius is sharing with her his painting hobby, taking her through a secret gallery/storage room for some of his works-

"I never really took you for someone who likes to paint." Emily mused, taking her time looking from painting to painting and marveling at the detail in each one. "Well, maybe painting with the proverbial blood of your enemies, but not... you know."

"When one is immortal, one must find some way to pass the time... aside from the proverbial bloodshed, of course." Caius replied. Emily wandered around the room, taking in paintings ranging from landscapes to groups to individual people. Some Emily recognized, others she didn't. She paused in front of a few paintings stacked against the wall, none of them framed so she could see the canvas nailed to the structural wood. She started leafing through them in much the same way Eddie used to leaf through vinyl records at the music shop they sometimes frequented.

It looked like more of the same: a snowcapped mountain range, a desert sunset, two paintings that looked like Italian countrysides, and--

"Ho-ly shit." Emily whispered, emphasizing the syllables as she stared with wide eyes at a painting further back in the stack. She slid it out from its spot delicately. It wasn't as big as some of the others, but wide enough that Emily needed both hands to hold it.

By this point, Caius had noticed what she was doing, at first wondering which painting had captured her interest. As he got closer, he realized which one she was holding, however. If he could still blush, he would have.

"I feel the need to ask, but I think I know the answer. It's her, isn't it?" Emily said, not meeting Caius' gaze. He nodded, his lips glued shut. It was an old painting of Athenodora. Not grievous on its own, of course, but she was painted in what Emily could only describe as 'tastefully nude.' The ashy-blonde woman lay reclined on a chaise with a sultry expression, a rose colored blanket covering any sensitive areas, although not much was left to the imagination.

"Not exactly my ideal way of you seeing her for the first time." Caius said quickly.

"I get it, that's for your eyes." Emily slid the painting back in its spot. "Although I completely get it now. I'd be depressed too if I lost someone who looked like *that.* Holy hell, I'd happily be in that sandwich... Is that gross, talking about a dead woman like that?"

"Beg pardon?" Caius seemed lost. Not offended, just... thrown off. Emily smiled with an eye roll.

"How do I put this in terms you'll understand?" Emily raised one arm with curled fingers, resting her elbow on the other arm resting against her stomach parallel to the floor. She curled her lip up and spoke in a phony accent. "I've been known to enjoy the visage of a beautiful woman from time to time.

She dropped the act before continuing.

"Or, as we say in the modern era. I have eyes, girls are pretty."

Caius stared at her for a moment, digesting what she was telling him. Finally, a smile broke out along his face before he laughed.

"Another thing that we share in common with one another. It's truly a shame; I'm sure Dora would have loved you." Caius looked at the painting, still visible since Emily hadn't pushed the ones in front of it back. The signature smirk of his curled on his lips, a tell that he was about to say something lewd. "Although I suppose that now I have to paint your likeness in such a way."

Emily snorted.

Basically the bitch is a horribly repressed bisexual.

5) How did you figure out your OC's identity?

Trial and error, ultimately. When I first conceptualized Emily I joked that her sexuality was just Henry since as far as I knew he was the only person she fully tolerated, let alone would let herself fall in love with... which, again, got more literal/ironic as time passed but everyone knows that story.

But I'm bisexual myself and honestly I genuinely can't help but pass that onto my characters because it opens up new avenues. But I wanted Emily's orientation to reflect that original low tolerance for anything that's not Henry-Shaped, so I added Demiromantic since (clearly) she can feel attraction to someone quickly but it takes more effort and a much deeper connection for her to form a long-term bond.

9) Are there cultural or lore-specific aspects to their identity?

As I mentioned, the Demiromantic label comes from her Extremely Specific Tastes In Men, which came from her own distaste for people and what I could call the "culture" of the lab setting they grew up in. Naturally the social culture of the time tags on the "Repressed" side to Emily's bisexuality since even if she wasn't stuck in a lab for twenty years, she was born in 1949, no way in hell her attraction to women is nurtured except in extremely specific situations.

11) Is your OC open about their identity? Are they more low-key or blunt about it? Why or why not?

This is my usual answer, but it really depends on where in Emily's timeline(s) we are. As a child, no, even if she could recognize she had a crush on a girl in St. Valentina's (Lucy Harris). Most cases in the lab, no, that conversation can't even come close to happening.

In private with Henry in the lab, maybe. Once she fully and completely trusts him, I think she'd admit to feeling things for girls (I could even see her saying she thinks one of the nurses is pretty) which I think Henry would understand because we can pretty reasonably assume he himself is some flavor of queer.

With Eddie, again, that's a hard maybe. She'll never completely trust him so the jury's out on if she'd tell him... but I think Eddie knows regardless of what she says or not. Again, likely a takes one to know one situation, but I think he's seen her flirt with female NPCs in D&D campaigns, usually for information, but regardless of the reason, she chose to flirt.

As a soul sucking demon in the Upside-Down (wings, vines, etc), absolutely, she is using her wiles to claim any soul she can find, including women. I've always headcanoned that at some point in time, Robin had a small crush on her from a distance that Emily probably would exploit if Robin ever came into her clutches.

And, again, when Emily is a vampire she's as open as possible with it.

How she talks about it really depends on who she's telling this to and when. She probably skittered around the topic with Henry but would probably kiss a woman in front of Eddie to prove a point.

Ha ha, very funny. In that way, no, Emily would be too unsettled by that (as would I)

...but it's funny you should mention that because I just so happen to have just posted this. I had this drafted months ago and finally finished it.

I mentioned "extremely specific situations" in question 9 and this is one of them. Go nuts.

17) Do you share your identity with any of your OCs?

Most of my OCs are bi like I am. Keira isn't, I always just perceived her as straight. She's got her own shit to deal with. If we wanna include self insert RPG/MMO game characters, my main Star Wars: The Old Republic character, Irinerys, I always headcanoned as a lesbian. Unfortunately the game doesn't let female player characters flirt with female NPCs so that doesn't really go anywhere... she does flirt with men if it could benefit her though. Oh, and technically it's a given, but my college friends and I play a TTRPG called Thirsty Sword Lesbians and my character's, you know, a lesbian. Her name is Marlina Nerys.

19) Do you have preferences about depicting homo/transphobia in your stories? What, and why? Does it vary by story?

Nine times out of ten, any homophobia is just kind of implied in my fics. Like, yeah, we can reasonably assume why Emily doesn't blatantly admit to this girl that she has a crush on her beyond the other reasons like Emily being perceived as a freak or even a witch. Once in a while I might mention it if I think the situation calls for it, but that's rare.

20) Have your OCs helped you in self discovery? How?

I mean... not severely. Usually I give my OCs my orientation rather than me discovering mine through them. I've been comfortable and open with my sexuality for a few years now and it feels like it's the right "setting" for me. Most of my own sexuality discovery came from sources outside of my OCs specifically.

Unrelated, but shoutout to my college friends (none of them cis) insisting I was simply too cool to simply be cisgender and unanimously and very quickly agreeing my gender was MILF since I just have Mom Energy (yes I was typecast as the Mom Character/Figure many times) even if there's a low chance I'll want kids in the future.

I guess you could connect that to the fact that all of my main OCs have kids at some point, making them all milfs (Olivia has two children with Loki, Keira has Sophia with Norman, and Emily as of now is Eleven's biological mother with Henry being the father even if she didn't canonically carry Eleven).

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