#and I haven’t had this much fun drawing in a loooong while so I’m giving myself this

[linkbetweenlinksau]

Idk what I’m doing anymore. These images wouldn’t leave my head tho so I had to draw them out. Also adding some characters to the father figures and impas gang: AOC Impa, ooa/oos Impa, and Kass!

[yersina]

Tbh I wanna ask the whole thing but to stick to the realm of reasonability may I ask 7, 10, 14, 23, and 29? And anything else you might want to answer if there's any. 🦭 [decompresses from the lack of pressure]

[weird questions for writers]

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

Ohhh what an interesting question! I think what I love most abt writing—why I still write even if it only results in unfinished wips—is… hm how to put this… an execution of an idea? Putting my own spin on a concept? Bringing smth to life from my mind and onto a page? Like I just love thinking about things, and writing gives me a way to share that w other ppl or put it into words, and that’s what’s best about it!

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

LOL uh the first definition that comes to mind for a piece of writing ‘haunting’ me is in the ‘god why did I write this’ sense, in which case I’d probably say my fanfic from my hetalia days……. A full ten years ago at this point…… But I’m also an advocate for not being ashamed of your writing no matter how old or cringy it is bc we all had to start somewhere right? And it still brought me joy at one point even if it doesn’t anymore, so I wouldn’t exactly say that it really does haunt me per se haha

The other sense of ‘haunting’ is probably ‘I think abt it a lot’ in which case—my wips haunt me. OTL

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

I do! Not as much (read: at all) anymore bc my friends and I have all diverged in terms of preferences and also physical location, but in high school, sometimes I’d even give my kindle acct in order to share ebooks haha.

But I’ve also always been a library person, and my physical collection is exceedingly small. I also don’t tend to reread anything? So I only buy books if there’s a reason I’d want to display it and/or come back to it. And it’s hard to lend books if you don’t own them haha. I would lend them if I had any though!

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

So. Most often I’m on my bed (full size, cheap, IKEA) and on top of my blankets (cheap, Amazon). I do most of my work in bed and lying down lol and also on my phone bc if I waited until I had my computer I would get nothing done. It’s probably either late at night or very early in the morning (bc I am unfortunately both a night owl and an early bird—no sleep for me!), so the light is rather dim. I have several larger stuffed animals w me on my bed (one is ice bear from CN, one’s a weighted dragon plushie, and one’s a really loooong shiba-dog-thing that’s probably close to my height) that I can prop my head up on or squash beneath me, depending on my mood. I also have an extra pillow to put against the wall for if I do decide to do anything while sitting up (currently cuddling it as I write this). A lot of what I own is a shade of blue or green. There’s a string of white Christmas lights around the wall next to my bed bc I can’t stand the brightness of the overhead light. Currently there’s a half-finished quilt rolled up beside me.

Really tho I write anywhere inspiration strikes me. Once I wrote a decent chunk while sitting in my car in the parking lot of a homegoods lol

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

Hm… my inspiration probably comes most often from other people! I had a ton of fun with all the sctir prompts I got a while back :) A lot of my favorite ideas that I’ve executed comes from putting a spin on an existing trope or concept, or from seeing smth around tumblr or twitter and wanting to write my own version.

My inspiration well runs dry very often, actually. I’m a huge binge-writer—most of what you see from me is stuff that I wrote within a couple days, which is why most of my fics tend to be short. I’m definitely not one of those ‘write a little bit every day!!’ kind of people—that would never work for me, and kinda drains my soul. Trust me I’ve tried lol (case in point: I managed to do an entire nanowrimo a couple years ago (the whole 50k!) and never touched or looked at that fic ever again. Was a fantastic exercise, but just not the way I work). Usually if I have an active wip, I do try to go back to it every couple days, just to make sure I don’t forget about it entirely haha. If I’m not actively working on an idea, I try not to let it bother me too much; the waiting is as much a part of my writing process as the actual writing. I’m all for making it easier for yourself—fanfic writing is a hobby, not a job, and I’m here for my own enjoyment more than anything else. I want to lean into it most when I’m happiest, yknow? :)

Bonus question for fun: 11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

Yes absolutely!!! This isn’t to say that you should ruthlessly get rid of what you love most in your writing, but definitely don’t be too attached to every single word you write. The writing advice that I’ve found most helpful so far in my writing journey is: if you’re stuck in your writing, the problem isn’t with the current scene or paragraph, it’s what happened before. I’ve also had an English teacher suggest to us once that we should try rewriting something from memory to pare down to what’s most important (bc anything you don’t remember isn’t essential). I start over all the time if smth’s not working for me and I delete and go back if I get stuck. If I’m getting rid of smth that’s longer, I do try to keep it around or move it to a separate doc in case I need to use it later, or to try and incorporate into a different scene so that I’m not dropping it entirely, but I’ve found myself doing that less and less as I go. It’s annoying, maybe, but I don’t grieve haha

Kill your darlings, for sure 🔪

(ALSO the best part abt fanfiction is that even if a scene that you really love doesn’t work in the main sequence, you’re allowed to write spin offs and side stories and extra scenes as much as you want to lol. Like killing your darlings doesn’t have to mean you resign it to never seeing the light of day, maybe you just fake their death and move them to a different neighborhood skdnejcbjdd)

[nad-zeta]

Match up ♥

Hiya, hon! ♥ I love your match-ups and honestly, I’ve been meaning to request one for a loooong time, but I haven’t had the chance to do so till now cause I’ve been drowning in lots and lots of homework TwT

I’m female, 25 years old, dark chocolate, shoulder-length hair, brown eyes. I’m a small potato 157 cm (5'1 ft) and I’m curvy.

I’m a Gemini, INFP-A. I love and need my alone time, though I enjoy spending time with my friends and loved ones. I use my free time to write fics, read books (Though I haven’t read a book out of sheer pleasure in a long while thanks to college lol,) draw my stickemen and play League of Legends.

Being surrounded by too many people is draining af and it can quickly become overwhelming tbh. I prefer to be surrounded by a couple of calm people and be my yahoo self with them. Even though I’m a mature person, I can be very childish and stubborn at times. I’m the Mom Friend™, a worrywart cause I care, I have a strong personality.  I’m caring, kind, friendly, funny, assertive, strong-willed. I’m usually the one people goes to when they need a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on. I will stand for my friends without giving it a second thought. I definitely won’t tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. And due to the way I express myself, people who don’t know me at all tend to find me intimidating which is kinda funny! 😂

When I’m with my friends, I try to come up with jokes or puns to make them laugh. I don’t take myself too seriously…I laugh at my own dumb-ass 😂😂 cause it’s okay to make mistakes, nobody’s perfect after all. And this is probably why it pisses me off when people make fun of my friends. Binch, fite me! So I just go and stand for them as politely and civilized as I possibly can. I’m usually talkative but every once in a while I just feel like isolating for a bit and be there exclusively for myself.

Hmm… I’m corny af and a hopeless romantic, I’m weak for smooth flirts and I like being teased cause I LOVE teasing back. I have a sweet tooth, I love tea. I love eating…in general.

I’m afraid I’m rambling at this point so Imma stop it here 😂

Thank you so much for doing these awesome match ups! ♥ ♥ ♥

Hi, there love! Thanx so much for the kind words, and can I just say I absolutely love your writing!  ♥ ♥ ♥ Hehehe also I feel you with the school work! I hope you enjoy it love, and I hope you have a good day! @venulus

So I match you with………………………. Hideyoshi

So for me honestly it was between Hideyoshi and Mitsunari lol

Classic Hideyoshi did not trust you one bit. The moment you arrived, he saw you as a threat to his lord and was watching you like a hawk. You were quiet, stubborn and assertive and to him, that meant just one thing…. SPY. 

You worked super hard and quickly started adapted to the castle life. Everyone that has worked with you absolutely adored you. Although Hideyoshi was still not buying it. He legit thought that sweet kind friendliness was all an act, to get the people around you to trust you. You kept mostly to yourself in any case, as you found loud people to be overbearing and exhausting, and unfortunately for you that would be most of the castle residents. Although in saying that you had started to form some good friendships among the Oda forces.

One day Nobunaga announced that they were going to war and that you and Mitsunari were to stay behind and guard the castle. You were super happy about that- well not happy that your new friends could die, but happy to get some alone time and not have Hideyoshi continually looking over your shoulder. Plus Mitsunari was one of your close friends so you were super happy he was staying behind with you! 

You honestly never realized just how bad Mitsunari’s habits were until he passed out in front of you one day, while informing you of the state of the war. You knew the warlords cared for him, but you never realized to what extent. Your mama bear instincts instantly kicked in. You semi moved into Hideyoshi manor while he was away, so that it would be easier for you to take care of the resident angel. You made sure he was well-fed, room was clean and he got a decent amount of sleep. Hell, you even helped him work out an eating, training and sleeping schedule which you stuck on his wall to remind him to eat and sleep. After a while Mitsunari fell into a good routine with the schedule and was now almost capable of caring for himself

Mitsunari had one day informed you that the Oda forces had won the war and were now on their way back. The two of you cuties excitingly waited at the gate for your friends to return only for your faces to go from joyful to concerned in 0,2 seconds flat. Hideyoshi was passed out and heavily bandaged. Seem like the idiot went a bit over the top with protecting Nobunaga.

That night as you and Mitsunari gave your reports regarding the castle affairs in his absence, Nobunaga couldn’t help but noticed how healthy and good Mitsunari looked. You told him that you helped him organize his time and made sure that he all the basics were taken care of, i.e. sleeping, training and eating. Nobunaga thought for a moment and then broke out into the biggest grin “I commend you for your work with the castle and Mitusnari fireball, and I now assign you to care for my right-hand man”. You had no complaints, even though Hideyoshi hated you, the inner mom friend in you could never refuse someone in need of assistance.

You moved into Hideyoshi’s manor full time now. While you were there, you cared for both men. You changed Hide’s dressing, cleaned his wounds and made sure that he got plenty of food. Most nights, you would actually sleep in Hideyoshi’s room, caring for his high fevers and low key doing some of the easy paperwork just so that the man wouldn’t be overloaded with work when he was healed. Hideyoshi would shift in and out of consciousness, and boy was he confused to see you sleeping at his writing desk one night. Sometimes when he opened his eyes, he would see you place a cool soothing cloth on his head, other times he would listen to you talk about anything and everything. He would smile a little thinking that your presence in his room was a fever-induced dream.

After a week, his fever finally broke, and the wounds were now slowly, starting to close up and heal. He woke up that morning to you passed out at his writing desk. He had to do a double-take. He thought you caring for him had all been a big dream. He watched your beautiful sleeping face for a moment or two, draped his blankie over your shoulders and went to Nobunaga to receive work. His mind couldn’t help but wander back to you sleeping in his room, how many nights had he woken up to see you there by his side, and then the thoughts got dark, how many time had he accused you of being a spy of calling your kindness an act. HE felt his stomach drop, he honestly needed to make it up to you. But first he needed to check in with Nobunaga.

Nobunaga basically chased him away, saying he would only receive work once you reported that he was completely healthy and ready to come back to work. He walked back to his manor deflated, only to be met with you at the front door “where have you been young man, last time I check you just barely escaped death and are in no state to be walking about”. Hideyshi’s eyes widened he had never been scolded before. You stood there hands on your hips with the biggest frown, eyes filled with worry and concern. It made Hideyoshi’s heart melt that even though he had treated you like an enemy you still cared for him and spent countless days and nights by his side. You led him back to his futon and tucked him in. You brought him lunch and filled him in on everything that had happened since his been unconscious. 

TBH as the days went by Hideyoshi was falling more and more in love with you, he could kick himself for treating you so horribly. And spending countless days with you, gently and sweetly caring for him, makes him realizes more and more what a gigantic fool he was. Yes, you were stubborn and assertive, but you were also the kindest, sweetest, gentlest, friendliest girl in the whole world. 

He made a vow to himself, to make it up to you once he was all better. It took two months, but finally, this boy was back to his full health and absolutely smitten with you and you with him. 

You had come to realize during your time with him what a naturally flirty charmer he truly was, and the mountain of letters he received from women no longer surprised you. Honestly his smooth flirting even had your knees going weak. You had come to enjoy the light teasing and banter the two of you engaged in as you cared for him. He loved that you weren’t afraid to give him the hard solid facts and be a friendly shoulder for him to cry on, especially during times when he felt so weak and worthless for being injured and unable to serve his lord. You would tell him what he needed to hear, not what he wanted to hear. 

The time had finally come that you had to move out of his manor and back into the palace, and TBH Hideyoshi was actually a little sad. He was definitely going to miss your vibrant energy, and hours and hours spent together, talking each other’s ears off. 

Now that he was healed it was time to make up for the ill way he treated you in the past, and low key thank you for taking such good care of him. He would take you out for tea every moment he could get. He knew you had a sweet tooth like Nobunaga, so he would ensure that there was always something delicious to eat at the little tea date the two of you went on. You of course never complained cause the three things you loved most in the world would be right infornt of you, tea, sweet and Hideyoshi. 

You discovered that Hideyoshi actually had a hilarious sense of humour. The two of you would laugh and tease each other all throughout the dates. Ooh boy, did he love your puns and honestly you couldn’t help but laugh at his hilariously unfunny dad jokes.

Hideyoshi is very much like you, a hopeless romantic, so during his free time, he is always planning some or other fun activity for the two of you to do. Whether it’s holding your hand as the two of you, stroll on the beach or taking you up a mountain to watch the sunset together. He has always got something cute up his sleeve 

Your favourite moment was one day when the two of you were out for tea, the sky started getting dark. The two of you were having such a good time you didn’t even notice it was about to rain. As the two of you were walking back to the castle the cloud burst and the light drizzle turned into a full-blown downpour. Even though you were super mature, you did have your childish moments. You looked up at Hideyoshi with the biggest grin on your face and started dancing in the rain, while he took cover at a nearby shop. With outstretched arms, you started twirling in the rain and splashing in the puddle “Hey you’re going to catch a cold”, at that you simply took Hideyoshi’s hand in yours and dragged him into the rain to dance with you. He shook his head at you, but couldn’t help but dance along with you. 

You stared up into his amber eyes, and this was when Hideyoshi decided to make his feeling for you known. He cupped your wet cheeks in his warm hands and leaned down to capture your lips in a kiss. 

After he pulled away and saw your sunshine smile, he picked you up and twired you around in the rain. He was so happy. The two of you played in the rain together without a care in the world until sunset.

Hideyoshi staying true to his doting self, of course, ran the two of you a warm bubble bath to fight off the chill from spending the afternoon in the rain. He pampered you from the moment you walked into his manor door. After your relaxing bath, he dried your hair and gave you a foot massage followed by a cheesy candlelit dinner for the two of you. He had been waiting so long to confess his feeling for you that he couldn’t help but want to pamper the shit out of his love

This man definitely respected your alone time and knew that everyone needed some time to themselves every now and then. 

He loved it when you worked in his room and kept him company as he worked. Hideyoshi is definitely the type to drop a few kisses on your forehead, cheek and lips whenever the two of you bump into each other in the hallway. 

He loves to spoil you any chance he can get. The two of you honestly turn into the castle mom and dad caring for everyone in the castle. Often the two of you cuties can be found nestled in each other’s arms or sharing sweets at your favourite tea house.

Other potential matches……… Mitsunari 

 I hope you liked it, dear! <3<3

[dreamersscape]

what sorts of fanworks should I be prioritizing?

*waves shyly* Hi, it’s your friendly neighborhood service-oriented ISFJ here. As you know, I like making All The Things! Especially RHBBC fandom related things since there’s…I wouldn’t say a great demand relatively, considering it’s a small fandom, but the supply end of the symbolic market isn’t so saturated so to speak. Anyway, my inferior Ne is totally down with the breadth of mediums of Things I have the capabilities of dabbling in, but it’s very easy for it to get, let’s say, unfocused. And while I enjoy having the freedom to hop from gif making to video editing to struggling to articulate my character meta-ish thoughts in writing, completing these things is a heckuva lot more fulfilling (imagine that). And there hasn’t been very much of that for awhile now. Lately, I’ve been feeling my production motivation has been bogged down in large part because of all the options I have. They’re all good options! There’s just too many of them.

Putting it into words makes it seem like such an insignificant problem. How silly is it that I can’t choose what to do with my free time? It’s not stopping me altogether from working on stuff, but I think it’s definitely slowed me down significantly. I think if I had a more focused idea of what is most important that I work on right now? then I’d be a lot more productive. And that’s where I’d love to get some imput from all of you lovely people–as theoretical ‘consumers’–if you happen to have any preferences?

This is all stuff I’m personally interested in making–and most everything listed is in progress to some degree–but I want to know what you would like to see from me ‘cause I put a very high value on that too.

WRITING:

fic (basically exclusive to RHBBC and Allan-focused): the ‘hole-in-the head’ fic (with illustration!)(I waffle so much on whether I should start posting it as a wip on, say, a monthly basis.); the version of the hp/rh maruaders’ era crossover that lives in my head; I’ll never give up on shades of light, never; etc.

meta

the MBTI Allan Manifesto (yes it is all my fault Erin and I haven’t done a RH personality profile in a year and a half *quiet, guilty sobs*)

discussing Allan and anxiety in which I realize the key concept wrt how I characterize Allan

whoops I should probably finish filling out my own Allan personality trait survey /o\

GRAPHICS/GIFS:

RH episode gifsets

Allan reacts to Robin series (with occaisonal accompanying written meta. just wait until we reach 1x12 my friends. it’s gonna be gr9.) (the interest in these seems to have waned a bit the past year, but this is totally something I can easily self-motivate myself for.)

RH character summaries gifsets

Allan smiles compilation gifset

Djaq appreciation gifset

Jedi!Outlaws

once upon a time some of you sent in ‘make me choose’ requests and I swear I intend to get to them sometime in the next decade

more stuff along the lines of parks & hood and ham4hood

alllllllll of the lyrics/quotes/what-have-you inspiration grahpics (mostly) for RHBBC (It’s a little bit scary just how many I have saved away for reference… That said, do you have an idea of a certain one that you’d like to see right away? Tell meeee! Exactly what this post is for.)

I’d think it be fun to do one of those ‘get to know me’ memes too

DIGITAL ART:

I have finally procured a device I can use as a drawing tablet! Which means I can start flexing my drawing muscles again and do digital painting(!!!) and not have to go through the time consuming process of sketching and scanning and trying to use a mouse as a pen and so forth. I’m a little bit excited. :)

Top Secret 3 Musketeers illustration, has been in progress for like 6 months already via the time consuming way so it might not be quite my best work but it has HEART OKAY

certain cherished scenes from aforementioned hp/rh crossover

tag yourself meme: robin hood edition with hand drawn portraits of the characters cuz it’s gonna be SUPER CUTE

I can keep my promises to Mirjam and Mel to illustrate their fics! (If we still want to do that. My deal with Mirjam was if she wrote otp: love hurts, I’d draw it, and this happened, so… You might not remember, Mel, bc it was a loooong time ago but I once mentioned I had an idea for a piece based on the high school band au with Will and Allan.)

I sorta have this idea for The 100 characters + patronuses project, so if anyone has thoughts on that hit me up, but there’s no reason why that can’t migrate to other fandoms too…

VIDEOS: 

Basically I’m overflowing with vid ideas for about a half dozen fandoms? It’s…under control. *sweats nervously* Oh, also, more RH crackvids.

MISC:

Remember that one time I decided to make character plushies and it was going along pretty well until I got distracted by making stuffed wolves from the wolfpack AU? Good times, good times. *half-bald Robin plushie stares at me accusingly*

[captainofthejewel]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER.

– BASICS. NAME: Krys PRONOUNS: She/her but I’ll respond to just about anything SEXUALITY: heterosexual, panromantic TAKEN OR SINGLE: much taken

– THREE FACTS. i. I was born on my mom’s 30th birthday, and about 2 weeks late ii. I have 1 tattoo at the moment, a Thor/Loki design that’s representative of my relationship with my brother, Ash. On top of that, I have a dozen plus other tattoo designs/ideas that I’m planning on eventually getting: a hook/swan design, “a man unwilling to fight” quote, jafar/hook/scar (my 3 fave disney villains), lion rampant w/ st. andrew’s cross, rafiki’s simba drawing, kanji for ‘life’ and ‘spirit’, hawkeye logo, something harry potter, some sort of piece (that i’ll probably commission from someone) combining the lion king, aladdin and peter pan iii. Despite how much I fawn over Colin and Bernard, my #1 favorite actor in the world is actually Elijah Wood. I’ve been in love with him since FotR came out 16 years ago. I’ve seen just about everything he’s been in, except for a couple of his more recent indie films (mostly cause i haven’t had a chance to see them) and his more gory films, and finally had the chance to meet him 2 summers ago at SDCC. And at this point, no one will replace Elijah’s spot in my heart because I adore that blue-eyed hobbit more than anything in the universe.

– EXPERIENCE. HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): First bout of RPing happened 12 or so years ago, back in high school, but took a loooong break during college before getting back into it. Been on tumblr RPing for about 4-5 years now. PLATFORMS YOU’VE USED: Tumblr, message boards, text, skype, yim BEST EXPERIENCE: Tumblr. Less physically constricted, and gives opportunity for increasing your network/partners and plots.

– MUSE PREFERENCES. FEMALE OR MALE: Male for the most part. Emma is the only female I’ve ever RPed and that went over well....

FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT: All of it. Liam seems to lean more towards fluff lately, which is a bit surprising, but I absolutely putting my muses through hell so long as there’s some sort of reward in the end

Plots or Memes: Yes. There are some days where I want to plot, and some days plotting is the last thing my brain has the energy for, which is where memes come in. And memes are a great way to expand verses

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: Multi-para. Short replies are fun when you just want to do something and you have the muse to just go back and forth with someone. Multi-paras give enough meat for everyone to work with, and moves a thread along perfectly. Once in a while I’ll have a novella length thread, but that’s rare these days.

BEST TIME TO WRITE: Whenever I’m not at work, sleeping or busy doing something else

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S): I’m sure there are some traits I share with my muses, but honestly what draws me to nearly every muse I’ve played is their fraternal relationships. All the males I’ve played have had brothers who they’ve had close, complicated relationships with. (okay, liam ii might not be close with his bros, but things are definitely complicated)

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Tagging: whoever wants to do it