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I feel like a lot of people in various reblog chains of this post have kinda lost the plot, so I'm reblogging this version to bring the emphasis back on the AI "detectors".
Whether something like Grammarly is considered AI or not is a little irrelevant, but most people consider using a spelling/grammar checker to not "count" as AI (despite the fact that you may be able to write out a bunch of nonsense and have Grammarly correct it over and over until it passes as a sentence)
And what a teacher will generally use an AI detector for is to check if the student wrote the paper or prompted an AI to give them a paper. As far as I know, Grammarly can't finish your entire document for you based on prompts (but I haven't used it so feel free to correct me) so I feel like a lot of the notes trying to argue whether it counts as AI or whether auto correct is useless now are just getting away from the point this point was supposed to be making:
You can't trust an AI detection software to accurately predict whether something was AI generated.
And part of the reason for that is that AI-detection software could ALSO be considered a form of AI. It is limited both by the dataset being fed to it to determine whether something is or isn't AI, and by any biases of the human who programmed it. If the programmer writes a program that says "look for anything that isn't perfect English and flag it as AI", they are showing that they don't trust anything written in broken English. I'm not sure why it might flag a word like "devoid", but if the AI detector is looking for patterns amongst known AI samples and the word "devoid" comes up a lot, it might just assume that any text using the word "devoid" has a higher chance of being AI generated.
Let's go back to the Both Of These Are Bad part.
It shouldn't need explaining why AI detectors falsely flagging ESL writers' works as AI is just bad and just contributing to systemic racism, so let's talk about the ways in which it can be harmful to native English speakers.
As stated above, it's interesting that an AI detector might flag words that seem "complex", while much of mainstream writing is trending towards simplification, for better or for worse. It could mean that since a lot of non-AI writing is so simplistic, anything that deviates from that is considered abnormal. Or it could, again, just be a programmed bias of the author of the program. I think this is more the point that thebibliosphere might have been trying to make, not that Grammarly specifically is evil AI that's making everyone write bad, but that a larger cultural shift to more simplistic language is happening and when things like Grammarly tell you to simplify your phrases or an AI detector tells you that your essay was AI generated because you used a big word, it's encouraging this simplification at a much faster rate than if human editors and teachers were directing their writers/students to do so.
Grammar software is perfectly optional for professionals, of course, but if a student is going to fail a class because their essay can't pass an AI detector, well, they can't really opt out of that. They have to change their wording to something that might not be as vibrant as what they originally wrote, or risk failing and potentially worse action depending on a school's plagiarism policies. It's essentially going to train kids to write in specific ways to get around it, and they might not understand why their paper was flagged or what AI even is yet, they're just going to assume that their writing was wrong and needs to be fixed. And let's not assume that only the kids writing their own essays are doing this, either. If kids can write a whole paper using AI and then change a couple of words so that it passes the detector, they're going to do that too!
Again, the point here is that the AI detectors are not infallible, often make racist assumptions, and cannot be the only method used to check whether something was AI generated.
I don't really have a good conclusion because I don't have the answer to this problem, because it goes beyond students in a classroom and you won't always get a document history to check. I just felt like this post was losing it's direction and I needed to clarify it for my own sanity.
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Sorry, I think I'm missing something - what is wrong with the Drizzt article? The article writer points out that the "exceptional Negro" trope is a BAD thing and that in context Drizzt reads more like a white guy trying to be an ally to vulnerable POC who've been burned before. Is it coming off in a different way I'm not getting?
The points in the article itself are fine! My personal issue- the thing that tugged at me a bit- You can't start your discussion with a line like "I don't think I've seen anyone address this specific flaw to supposedly progressive fantasy" when you're speaking on racism because... it makes you sound as though you've spent no time around the people who very much do speak on and have written about those things. I.e. the fans of color. And in this case, Black fans. Because I assure you, we speak about it! Especially if you're a fan of color in fantasy or sci fi spaces.
I'm sure that wasn't their intent, but it rang a warning bell to me that while they claim they don't want to speak over anyone, if they haven't seen these arguments and conversations before, they very well could be doing so anyway. I would hope in eight years they've grown better at finding examples of fans of color who do speak up.
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So, I'm not done with Worm yet, so I may be surprised by something, but while I will 100% agree that people who haven't read Worm (and have just read the fanfiction) shouldn't write worm fanfic, I think the degree to which 'the fanfiction gets stuff wrong' is vastly overstated.
Because things like the Wiki exist, and a pretty active fan community, getting the actual basic facts is not hard. Apart from particularly controversial bits of fanon (Aura Theory, for instance) it's rare that a fanfic, even one written by someone who hasn't read Worm, gets fundamental details about basic facts of the setting wrong. (At least as long as the person is making the effort to do that).
Where fic can trip you up is in implications, impressions and errant details regarding the motivations and personalities of secondary characters. That's where I've found the biggest 'that's not what I got from the fanfic'. And while those things can be really big deals and trip you up, I don't know if they're really as big a deal as a lot of people want to nitpick and bitch about.
Because while those things can be wrong, they're not usually wildly out of left field, but rather just - what happens in fanfic and frankly, in any sort of writing that goes on long enough (see TV shows, long running book series, etc) - an exaggeration of what's already there.
To take a recent example - the degree to which Carol Dallon gets portrayed as an abusive parent to Amy can absolutely and has absolutely been overplayed in some fanfics. Especially ones that make her trigger-happy with her magic lightsaber axe. But at the same time, while we don't see a lot of Carol in Worm, what little we do does give various impressions of the character, most of which are pretty fucking negative. The degree to which a fanfic then takes those impressions and then plays with them can start to get absurd and give someone unfamiliar with the source material false impressions, but they are derived from the actual text of Worm.
Like, I don't think Carol actually hates Amy, in the text. But I also think 'Carol hates Amy' is not a huge leap from what's in the text. It is, to paraphrase Buffy Summers, more like you take a few small steps and there you are.
This whole thing is a bit of a roundabout way of saying: That annoying fic trope of the SI into Worm who 'only reads the fanfic' as a way for the fic author to knock those who write worm fanfic without reading Worm is actually pretty stupid. Because in practice, they'd probably get along fine overall.
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I saw this 20 questions for fic writers thing on my dash, so I'm doing it now that I'm back to my computer! Also expect writing to return soon, lol
1. How many works do you have on A03?
I currently have 9 works on Ao3! That number would be way higher if I posted all the fics I wrote on Tumblr to Ao3 though.
2. What's your total A03 word count?
Total.... hang on, I need a calculator for this one.
271,112 words! I thought it would be higher, tbh. But again, I don't post everything to Ao3, so that's just a fraction of my writing.
3. What fandoms do you write for?
I write for Five Nights at Freddy's (the games) and Hollow Knight. I do also write for other stuff, but I don't post it, so that's not important.
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
Misguided Protection
There Are Others
Finding a Home
Deal with the Devil
Becoming a Family
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I try my best to respond to comments. Typically it'll be an emoji response, mainly to acknowledge my readers when they get all excited. But sometimes people have suggestions or questions, and I feel that if I wrote something confusing, it's my job to explain what's going on (only for fanfiction though. Since I don't revise it before I post)
6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Hmmm.... Probably There Are Others, since I at least tried to give most of them happy endings. But this fic is the reason my friends keep a kill count.
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Misguided Protection
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Not really? It's more that people challenge my view and how I chose to write the story, but I've never gotten outright hate before.
9. Do you write smut?
I don't post it, but yeah.
10. Do you write crossovers?
Within the same fandom. I write crossovers of different AUs within the same fandom, but I do not write crossovers between fandoms. Not currently, at least.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Nope!
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
No
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yes, but it never saw the light of day (it was a minecraft fic I co-wrote with someone in elementary school)
14. What's your all-time favourite ship?
All-time? Uhhhh, I've determined that gay ships are absolutely my favorite thing ever. So my favorite is probably one of those. But it changes depending on fandom fixations honestly. Buuuuut, outside of fandom logistics, I'd still say Jeremike. Even though it's a silly one. I just love how people write that ship.
15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
I have a giant incomplete folder of fnaf fics that I've started writing, but they haven't seen the light of day. Which means I've forgotten a bunch of stuff within that. But truth be told, I do want to continue writing Becoming a Family, even though I don't think I'll ever touch it again. My flow just never seems to be in the right place when I try to work on it.
16. What are your writing strengths?
I'm good at silly banter and dialogue in general.
I'm pretty good at adapting to sudden challenges in my writing (aka, plotholes that I've already posted) to still justify things happening as well. But not nearly as good as I am at dialogue.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I'm terrible at writing descriptions. I'll never forget the day I realized my friends genuinely thought my OC Mikayla was tall, despite how much I tried to write her as short. I usually don't write with physical characteristics in mind, so that used to be my justification, but since i had a clear picture in mind and it did not come across properly, I have to say descriptions are my weakness.
I'd also say romance, but my friends tell me I'm better than I think I am.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
I stress out about that sort of thing. I wrote in Spanish for an art trade once (dialogue only, of course), and I made my friends fact-check every sentence to ensure it sounded natural. I could do it, but it's not really something I enjoy.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
MCYT. It was a different group of people back then, but that notebook is still sitting in my house, and I still get embarassed just thinking about it.
20. Favourite fic you've ever written?
My favorite? Honestly, it's one I'm writing right now. It's a fnaf fic, but I haven't posted much about it yet. It's called Runaway Mike, and I'm super excited about how it's turning out so far. Probably not one I'll post for a while yet.
#cloud speaks#writer questions#feel free to jump in!#I love doing these#such a soul-searching opportunity#and I think about things I haven't written in a while
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nickel and balloon stuff from spring on the breakfast!!! i'm keeping in mind that in the previous episode, both of them were under the impression that their friendship wasn't real...
in a way, ii3 balloon is a lot like late ii3 cabby. of course, balloon did something indisputably immoral (manipulate and exploit others), and cabby only did something thought to be immoral (keep and use files about her fellow contestants) -- but both did something wrong and had to subsequently undergo a disproportionate amount of abuse and malignment for it, ending up with them being apologetic and submissive to avoid any chance of being framed as bad again. the biggest difference is that cabby has internalized the guilt others have attributed to her, while balloon largely hasn't -- he understands the concept of rolling with the punches for the sake of keeping good connections, but he doesn't believe he deserves it.
nickel brushes off ii2 a LOT this episode. to rid himself of his guilt regarding that time, he necessarily has to delegitimize the hatred he felt towards balloon then, thus also ridding balloon of his guilt. he expresses this all vaguely, choosing to remember ii2 fondly and saying off-hand that its baggage should be laughed off -- implying that balloon has been forgiven. reasonably, balloon is happy that nickel seems to actually believe he's changed for the better, so initially this makes him happy.
of course, though, it becomes clear that nickel just wants to shove his own actions under the rug, and balloon reasonably gets pissed off. nickel treated balloon and suitcase like complete garbage in ii2, and balloon clearly hasn't forgotten that.
"it keeps things easy." it keeps things easy to roll with the punches, to endure nickel's abuse and accept his sudden friendship. note, also, that nickel is still placing the blame on balloon: he's saying that balloon didn't want to "make things better", as if nickel and balloon ever having a rift was entirely balloon's fault, and his problem to fix.
and as we can see, nickel still hasn't fully forgiven balloon for ii1. as i've discussed before, nickel seems to secretly feel incredible guilt about how he treated balloon in ii2 (which is why he goes to such lengths to repress the whole memory of it) -- but that guilt is about the way in which he expressed his disdain and distrust of balloon, not those opinions themselves, nor the motivations for them. this is all very interesting, then -- if he still believes balloon can't change from his old, bad self, why did nickel start being friends with him at all?
i think a large part of it is his projection onto balloon. nickel sees himself in balloon: someone who screwed up big-time and isn't able to become a better person after that (according to nickel). we tend to gravitate to people similar to us, after all. i wouldn't be surprised if nickel was also trying to overcompensate for his hostility towards balloon in ii2 by being very friendly with him in ii3, thereby helping him forget that he was ever hostile to him at all.
the most fascinating thing to me about balloon and nickel's relationship is how impersonal it is for balloon. he seems to value what nickel's affection represents rather than nickel himself -- and it represents that he's been forgiven. anyone who saw balloon and nickel's conflict in ii2, which was a product of balloon's nastiness in ii1 and nickel's subsequent inability to forgive that nastiness, would likely come to accept balloon and forgive him themselves if they then saw nickel being friendly with him -- because nickel is the epitome of the ii contestants' anger at him, and nickel of all people (seemingly) forgiving him would imply that he's really changed. the relationship is almost entirely a symbol in that regard. i don't think balloon has much residual guilt about is actions in ii1 -- he feels like he's adequately addressed them and changed -- but nickel having a positive relationship would be helpful in affirming that stance and proving to himself that he really has changed.
i wouldn't say it's cruel of balloon to keep this relationship going on under that pretense, but it is backhanded, and it helps explain why he was ever willing to accept nickel's friendliness unchallenged. he wanted his crimes to finally be laid to rest once and for all, and keeping nickel on good terms with him would let that happen. people would finally shut up about it. up until now, nickel wasn't explicitly denying his past cruelty towards balloon anyway, so balloon would be able to ignore that he neglected to ever bring it up; now, though, nickel is denying not only what he did to balloon but also to suitcase, which balloon is not able to tolerate. now that he's confronted nickel about that though, nickel snaps back with his condemnation of what balloon did in ii1, thereby uprooting the social stasis balloon had been able to maintain precisely because nickel refused to bring anything up before. in a way, then, balloon is purposefully shoving the past under the rug, just like nickel is.
we can't forget, though, that nickel has his own complex about fearing that he's incapable of change and incapable of forming positive, genuine relationships with people. balloon is essentially revealing that, in a way, he wasn't really friends with nickel -- at least not in the way nickel wished and fooled himself into thinking they were. if balloon truly were friends with nickel like that, then that would mean that balloon had forgiven him for his cruelty in ii2, and perhaps that he really has changed... but no. balloon hasn't forgiven him. why should he? nickel never apologized -- and given how he never apologized, it's impossible that he could've changed anyway: nickel doesn't want to apologize because that means addressing his guilt and allowing himself to feel it. he wants the forgiveness to be handed to him on a silver platter, without him having to do all of the painful work, and he's incredibly upset when it isn't. he wants to not be a bad person, but in order to do that, he has to feel like one, and he really doesn't want to. he hates who he was and doesn't want to associate with it at all.
(note how it's the suitcase robot who says "you can say sorry" when nickel says that nothing can be done about making things better...)
there's clearly an immeasurable amount of resentment these two have been harboring for each other throughout this season, which they'd only been hiding for the sake of fooling themselves into thinking they've changed (nickel) or thinking that others think they've changed (balloon). and now that they've let themselves explode with anger, partly related to the lies they'd been telling themselves falling apart, they yell at each other and balloon drops nickel down a hole!
ah, balloon and nickel's relationship... it's bizarre, it's toxic, it's convoluted, it's shady, and it's incredibly sad. i'm glad i'm revisiting ii3, especially this episode -- i used to be utterly baffled by nickel's writing, particularly in spring on the breakfast, but now it makes complete sense to me. also, i used to think balloon was entirely the victim in this relationship, while now i know that he has his own faults and own baggage in that regard. it's weird -- they hate each other, but at the same time they're dying to be liked by one another. god i love these freaks...
#melonposting#inanimate insanity#ii#ii3#ii nickel#ii balloon#i haven't actually finished watching the episode by the way! i just zoomed with my sister :) but i have a lot of stuff here already#i'll probably reblog this with how the episode resolves#the ii3 writing for these two is actually really good!!! i feel bad for ragging on it so much before#but of course there are other issues. like cabby and bot#by the way i don't think bot's being intentionally ableist here -- they just don't like being put in boxes while cabby relies on boxes#it IS ableist writing to make cabby give up and resent her files on bot's account though#their dynamic in theory is really interesting and good (their conflict about labels is genuinely poignant. autism vs transness lol)#but in practice it's not written with much tact#so yeah. cool stuff!!!!!!!!#silver and yin yang also have an interesting thing going on regarding candle -- but they're not my focus
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having the hc that minato is ace is incredibly funny sometimes when you think about how ryoji is oh so very bi because it's like. "ah. death stole my ability to be attracted to people," in the same way that ryoji stole minato's eye color and energy level. like wow, thanks ryoji, you just keep finding things to steal from minato!
#persona 3 spoilers#minato arisato#hc and au nonsense#lizzy speaks#happy international asexuality day to my fellow aces out there i hope you know that you are loved!!! 🎊🎉🥳#i like viewing minato with the lens of him being gay / ace. esp bc it stems from my own experiences so it's fun to look at-#him from that perspective even if that's not what was intended by atlus y'know?#and im sure others have other hcs from me that are informed by their own life experiences and i think that's great ^_^#something that i found interesting while playing FES was how. stilted? minato's animations felt when hugging the girls#you could definitely go with the perspective that it's a graphical limitation or they didn't have time to polish the animations#and that's def true!! but sometimes i see the hug @ yakushima beach + the other hugs and then i compare it to the sou/yo hug in p4#and there's like... a noticeable difference to me with how intimate and close together the hugs are...#that said i do know that the animations for reload are updated and the hugs are much more natural (good on them tbh!)#the other thing is (pensive sigh). the way you couldn't reject any of the girls when doing their social links in FES#objectively speaking i'm glad that they did away with that and i like how the rejections were handled in reload. it feels naturally written#but also a part of me enjoyed looking at the “hey atlus what the FUCK” moment and thought of how to interpret it differently#specifically with the idea of minato having like.. little to no autonomy and kind of going along with the relationship#it kind of reminded me of myself tbh with like going along with the rship without considering what you want bc#it's what others want or expect out of you... LOL. i dont think atlus intended for someone to interpret it this way but#eh i think that's the fun part of hcs and looking at characters with certain lenses!#regardless of how you perceive minato i do think there's something to be said about him being the kind of guy who molds himself-#into someone that is needed. not wanted. but needed. important distinction here.#the one caveat my brain runs into when im like “minato is ace!” is when i remember thanatos exists and i go#“you know what these ideas can exist simultaneously” GKLHFHDFHD when in doubt schrodinger's headcanons#anyway that's all i've had this thought in my brain in awhile and haven't sat down to share it properly until now 👍#have an excellent weekend everyone !!! lizzy loves you all lets all nurture our inner yippee!!! 🥺💙
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This. This. This entire conversation with Morrigan actually makes me want to sob. She and my Tabris always becomes close friends over the course of DAO; that, paired with the fact that my Tabris always romances Alistair, makes everything about this hurt so much more when you take DAO's ending into account.
Her confusion over why my Tabris didn't send her away. Why she didn't abandon her after they learned of Flemeth's plans. Why Tabris went out of her way to slay Flemeth and bring her the true grimoire. She asks Tabris why, and is baffled when the answer is, "I did it because I'm your friend," as if it's that simple.
The way Morrigan looks at the warden, the way her voice cracks when she says, "I want you to know that while I may not always prove... worthy... of your friendship, I will always value it."
She knows how this will end; Flemeth sent her with the wardens with the end goal of stopping the blight and obtaining the old god soul through the dark ritual. Morrigan knows that Alistair and Tabris are the only Grey Wardens here, and assuming they don't find more, one of them will have to die defeating the archdemon unless they agree to do the dark ritual.
With that context, her asking Alistair, "And what if a Grey Warden has forced to choose between the Warden he loved and ending the Blight? What should his choice be?" suddenly has so much subtext weaved through the words that I'm gonna start foaming at the mouth. She's practically telling Alistair that a warden has to die. She's scrutinizing his reaction to find any hint that suggests he would agree to the dark ritual in order to save himself and the woman he loves. And when he doesn't choose, she has her answer.
Morrigan made comments to Tabris about him, almost hopeful that their relationship was just a physical thing between them and not actually riddled with feelings... and then gives disapproval when Tabris says she loves him.
She doesn't want the warden to die; hell, she doesn't want Alistair to die, either; whether because she does actually care about him or because she knows it'll break her friend's heart if she loses him, or both!
Things would be so much easier if the only two Grey Wardens left to defeat the blight didn't fall in love, wouldn't they, Morrigan?
She knows that in the end, no matter the outcome, she will lose the woman she called sister and it's devastating.
Morrigan, who has never known true friendship. Who grew up isolated in the woods with an abusive mother and terrible implications for her future. Who discovered said mother planned to take over her body just as she did with her other daughters. Who doesn't understand kindness as it was rarely given to her without a catch. Who isolates herself from the others in camp. Who finally has a companion she cares about... and in the end, if her plan works and the dark ritual is completed, she'll end up pregnant and alone and wearing Tabris' resentment like a tender wound on her heart.
Or Tabris will reject the ritual, and will die to the archdemon.
Or her lover will.
I just- the dynamic between the warden, romanced Alistair, and Morrigan is so good and painful and rich that I'm gnawing on furniture as we speak.
#dragon age origins#dao#alistair theirin#dao alistair#dao morrigan#dao tabris#warden tabris#i'm replaying dao right now in case my recent written posts haven't made that obvious#the relationship dynamics the warden has with each of the companions is so so soooo good like there isn't a companion i dislike#i play into the slow burn with alistair's romance but it's not even just the romance aspect it's also their friendship too#playing dao and not romancing alistair would feel wrong at this point for me it's so crucial to the entire story and its development#and i love morrigan's friendship with the warden and how gutted tabris is when she comes clean about everything and offers the ritual#and then bails once everything is over and tabris is torn between hating her and feeling hurt and not wanting morrigan to be alone again#i talked more in depth about morrigan and the ritual in a previous post but it's a lot... especially when it comes to the witch hunt dlc#oh and then there's the friendship between tabris and zevran like don't even get me started on that sksksks i won't be able to stop#even a character like oghren who is the last person you'd think tabris would ever become friends with since he's y'know *oghren*#but i'll go on the record and say there's more to oghren that gets overlooked and overshadowed by his glaring flaws#and i don't wanna talk about leliana... she makes me too sad like ever since my last playthrough where i accidentally triggered her romance#while i was deep in alistair's romance i have a really hard time not reading into the things she says to tabris#in my last playthrough i dunno what i did but she confessed to tabris even though she was fully aware that tabris and alistair were togethe#and it was a *mess* okay like it really felt like we killed marjolaine and leliana was in a vulnerable position yet was hardened enough#to be like 'i know she and alistair are together but i'll take my shot anyway and attempt to break them up' like.... noooooo leliana D:#and the rest of the game it felt like she was bitter and still in love with tabris and i felt *horrible*#i just said i don't wanna talk about it but hhhnnngggg i'm taking extra precautions to not have a repeat of that this time#excuse my tag ramblings i'm just very passionate about dao and the companions okay#also want to note that this is my interpretation of morrigan's motivations based on how i play the game and my warden#so others might view this reaction and the warden/romanced alistair/morrigan dynamic differently and in that case#i would be interested to hear that different interpretations because those are always fun to read
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#kinda hate that i haven't written anything in like. over a month#but also trying to be better about not forcing myself to write when i don't feel like it#not in like a “i only write when i have inspiration” kind of way but like “this is something i do for fun on the internet” kind of way#like this is a hobby for me i don't want to burn myself out on it#which lowkey i think is what happened with my tour writing project although i also think it was good for me too#anyway i have a few ideas floating around and wips i want to get back to now that the season is winding down#something that i've been tossing around for a while and that i want to write but i also want to take my time with it#so i'm sort of tentatively setting jonas's birthday as a goal for it but saying nothing else so when that doesn't happen it's not a big dea#i also have the loosest idea of a web weave that i want to do for his birthday too but um. we'll see on that one#anyway long rambly thoughts don't mind me#things are kind of crazy at work right now and i have some irl stuff coming up but after that. i want to focus more on writing
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writing twitch feels like writing an oc backwards bc i usually try and figure out how characters would react based on how they feel
but with twitch the reaction comes first. then i gotta work out what the hell they were thinking afterwards
#i have a handful of ocs like this but i haven't written things in a while#so i am half relearning#i never know how to explain it but the way i think/feel about ocs always kinda correlates with how the ocs Are#does that make sense#probably not#ok i need to go to bed#fredspeaks
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also i am going to the dr tomorrow so please can you send some spare good vibes my way if you have them thank you
#new drs surgery so guessing completely unfamiliar dr who will know nothing of my complicated medical situation. 👍#and a place i don't know At All.#and the DOCTOR. on a SATURDAY.#god on top of everything i've gotta deal with more med changes too coooooooooooooooool! can a guy just be well for a while.#and i've got like 3 separate things that i've needed to bring up for months but appointments are so short and so hard to get that i just#haven't been able to so they're getting worse and worse and i'm like. what's a guy supposed to do for real!!!! i need like. Real medical#care that simply does not exist in this current system!#like i'm so grateful that we're trying to work to figure my migraines out but i have more to discuss and they're fully like 'you gotta book#another appointment for that bud we're out of time' and i'm like 'i don't HAVE time! like i have the calendar but i don't have the wellness#' ARGH. anyway. this too will be resolved. i have written myself a note i will try to see if they can book me another appointment when#i'm at my appointment tomorrow. it will be fine. it will be fine! it's unlikely to be anything serious anyway it's just another layer of#yuck on the already abundant layers of long-term unwellness you know. BUT we stay silly :3#hahaha no wonder i've been increasingly unhinged all week when you actually have to think about the problems it's like. woag.#BUT we stay silly :3 in 24 hours it will have happened so. whatever.
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#Doodles#SCII#Damned#DAX#ZEX#SU#Scribbles for maximum speed and minimum prettiness lol#How! many! layers! deep! can I go!!#I have been well-out from Steven Universe for a heck-while now - stopped around Off-Colors I think? I haven't been back since 2017ish y'see#Something-something pick up Vargas drop off Steven Universe (there was a few months of crossover but it's a whole thing w/e w/e)#Anyway! Lol#It was lurking dormant for This Moment is what I'm getting at#Just needed to stew on SCII for five years and then all the feelings'd come up lol#It is still so funny to me that I drew Max and Dex before ZEX and DAX - whenever things come full circle like this it tickles me#I've already written up a Whole Thing about my alien-faves so that'll be a thing soon enough lol#For now! Silliness! I mean - more silliness lol#Those /are/ ZEX and DAX but?? I guess?? with the body-snatched version but they'd be gems?? I don't know either lol#I put in the caption that DAX would be a pearl but honestly he feels like he'd be an opal or something#Can't say labradorite that's too indulgent but he'd be so pretty! Those hidden depths and flecks of green <3#I feel like ZEX would be something clear and beautiful :) So - not a green quartz lol but something pretty and important!#I dunno I've forgotten many many things about SU gem types haha#Also silly how I put ZEX in the Pearl position - he just Seems It y'know ♪#I mean Max would too lol#But no DAX is the obvious Pearl here - her songs were always my favourite <3 Discounting that she was always my favourite ahem lol#I have Always Always loved It's Over Isn't It <3 A full mournful song for her ugh it's so gorgeous ♥#I've been trying to learn the Italian version because it is So pretty <3#Thank goodness the comments weren't disabled under the Italian upload so someone was able to post the lyrics#So nice to be able to see them! And the words genuinely flow so beautifully they're really fun to sing ♫
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All Things Must Pass (snippet)
Snippet #1: x
Summary:
It starts with the death of one person and ends with the birth of another. When James dies unexpectedly, Lily is forced to live with the regret of not having told him that she loves him. She’s loved him for years, even when he thought she hated him, even when they unexpectedly became friends, then best friends, then friends with benefits. But the past doesn’t always stay in the past, so when she goes back to the flat they shared and sees James looking at her with the same eyes she had seen closed in the casket at his funeral just the day before, her world is turned upside down. This is just the beginning of an unexpected series of events. It’s a story about the process of grieving, healing, forgiving and ultimately letting go, but it’s also about second chances, new beginnings and hope.
“No, you're not going anywhere,” Sirius blocked her path. She'd rarely seen him this furious. It scared her.
“Let me go, Sirius.”
“Not until you answer me. How did you know?”
She avoided his eyes, focusing on pulling on a loose thread in her jumper.
“Know what?”
“Don't play dumb! How did you know about that letter? I never sent it to James. I never sent it to you.”
Lily looked at James. He shook his head, begging her not to say anything.
Logically, she shouldn't.
But she was so tired of lying to everyone, to Sirius more than anyone else.
“He told me.”
A furrow appeared between his brows.
“Who?”
It was now or never. He'd take her for a lunatic, but she didn't care. Anything was better than lying to him and keeping him away.
“James.”
“I told you, James never saw the letter. I wrote it after he died.”
“I know. He saw you write it after the funeral. He saw you burn it.”
Sirius recoiled at that, and his eyes widened in horror.
“Did you put fucking hidden cameras in my home, Lily? What the fuck?”
He looked so betrayed. What if he didn't believe her? What if he'd hate her for breaking his trust?
“You know maybe this was a bad idea,” she said. Whether it was to Sirius or James, she didn't know.
“No, you have to tell me how you know that. Are you a fucking rat like Peter?”
That was too much.
“I can see him! I see James and I can hear him, too. He's here, and he's been here this whole time and I know for a fact you'll think I'm crazy or, even worse, than I'm lying but he's fucking here and I don't know how to explain it,” she exploded. At some point while she was talking she had started crying, and now she couldn’t stop.
Sirius’ whole demeanour shifted instantly. He put one hand forward, reaching for her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her but she backed away.
“Lily, listen, I miss him too and sometimes I feel like he's still here but—”
“You don't get it, do you? It's not… This is not grief, or perhaps it is, I don't know! All I know is that since I came back to the flat after the funeral he's been there. He's not… I know he's dead. But I think… I don't know what to call it, but it's him, or what's left of him. His ghost, his soul, whatever you want to call it. I can talk to him and look him in the eyes, Sirius. And he's here. I think he can only appear in places he's been before, like our flat or yours, but not Petunia's house.”
Sirius was looking at her strangely. She knew he wanted to believe her, she could read him very well, but the rational part of him was scared.
Scared of her.
Or for her, perhaps.
“Lily, sit here for a moment, okay? I'm sure all this stress isn't good for you.”
Lily fixed him with a glare. “You're the one who started yelling at me,” she protested, but sat on the sofa anyway and James, who had been quiet the whole time sat on its edge next to her. He wanted to say something, she could tell he needed Sirius to listen to him.
“I know, I'm sorry… I just don't understand how—”
She huffed. “I told you how. And I know you find it hard to believe me right now, but that's the only explanation I have.”
Sirius sat on the armchair in front of her, head in his hands. “I don't know what to think.”
“Have I ever given you reason to think I'm crazy?”
James snorted, but she resisted the urge to look at him.
“I mean, yeah,” Sirius smiled a little, but it didn't reach his eyes, “but not in the literal sense. And you seem pretty sane to me right now. You know, aside from this ghost thing.”
“Okay.”
“But I'm not going to lie to you, Lily, this is scaring me. I don't know what to do. Should I call a therapist? Or your dad? I don't know how to help you.”
He looked helpless.
“You could. But I've done both and my therapist says it's normal, while my dad said that this never happened to him after mum died, so…”
“You told your therapist you can still see James?”
“Well, I might have omitted a thing or two…”
“Like what?”
“Like the fact that James told me about the letter. That James comes here on his own to visit you sometimes.”
Sirius was the one to look away now.
“I can't do this right now.”
He got up all of a sudden, heading for the door.
“He misses you.”
Sirius stopped in his tracks, and turned to look at her, his stormy eyes full of unshed tears and an unreadable expression on his face.
“And I'm supposed to believe he told you that,” he said. It didn't sound like a question.
She nodded.
“Wait, didn't you say he was here? Like actually here in this room? Why can't I see him?”
“I don't know, I think that—”
“Why can you see him? Fuck, even if it's just an hallucination, why do you get to have those and I don't? I'm his brother, for fuck's sake! And you're…” he stopped speaking abruptly.
Lily tilted her head to the side.
“I'm what? Just his friend, right? Who also happens to be carrying his child, but that means nothing, right?”
She knew she sounded childish, but she couldn't help it.
“He doesn't mean that,” spoke James, who had stood up and was now walking towards Sirius.
“You know that's not what I meant.”
“Then what do you mean?” she got up from the couch and crossed her arms, staring down at Sirius with a murderous expression.
He looked at her for a long moment.
“I don't know,” he shrugged, defeated.
There was no fight left in Sirius, and it was pointless to keep trying to make him understand.
She grabbed her coat and purse and this time, when she reached the front door, Sirius moved out of her way.
“Well, let me know when you figure it out.”
#mind you this is my first draft so it's gonna change and it isn't beta'd of course#this is the longest snippet I've ever posted I think#over 1k#also I haven't written in a while and I'm supposed to work on other things but this story called to me#jily#jple#jily fic#I know it doesn't seem like a jily fic right now (because both snippets are essentially just conversations with sirius) but I promise it is#this is sort of angsty sorry about that#james potter#lily evans#sirius black#jfleamont rambles#snippet#all things must pass#ATMP
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Hey there tumblr, I've missed you. How's it going?
#this past month has been so demanding (still is) and I'm physically and mentally drained of energy more often than not#and I haven't written in so long#but you know what? I'm okay#it hasn't been easy but I'm surviving#and right now life isn't too heck#I'm pushing myself out there more and I'm seeing my friends as often as I can while still prioritizing my own health#and I'm finally starting to feel excited about my own WIPs again!#the spark to write has been out for a little while and I haven't been able to drudge up the interest until now#so hopefully that means good things for the near future!#plus I've missed talking to my online writing buddies and I wanna see how y'all are doing!!#my life hasn't gotten any less busy but I'm gonna try my best to hang out every once in a while#anyway love y'all#rambling in the reblogs as usual oops sorry#life update kinda#ella thinks
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#i have so many wips right now but i have a carnal need to write a gen fic that is just folk horror about the canadian golden boys trio#ever since i wrote that line like “they were chosen by the gods but in a greek tragedy way” i haven't stopped thinking about it#also now that i think about it i could do that with the brazilian wonderkids as well#i was talking to swaggy about how connor mcdavid and neymar are the two sides of the same tragic coin and its making me go feral#i have never written horror but it is calling to me like a siren#while i try to write my usual fluff and introspective fic disguised as smut#this is like a true hypothetical by the way but if i ever were to write it#it would be like genie wishes gone wrong type of thing with body horror n stuff#idk i do not have time to write this but i have soooo many ideas#someone sedate me PLEASE#k.writes
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"have you ever thought of the future?" sirius asked, stubbing his cigarette against the windowsill.
"yeah." remus chuckled, smoke coming out through his nose as he laughed. "of course i have. i've been thinking about it ever since this year started."
of course, he had. james had, too. peter had, too. all of them had their lives neatly planned ahead of them, and sirius was lost, holding a torch, trying to find the end of the tunnel.
what would happen once they graduated? they'd join the order, of course. but what else? was the order all that mattered? would they ever get to have families? children? would they get to grow old together?
"and what do you have planned?" sirius grinned, nonchalantly, as per usual. trying not to seem too interested. he hooked their legs together, and their eyes met, amber and steel.
"what do i have planned?" remus repeated. "finding a job. moving to london, probably, besring in mind the fact that that's probably going to be where the headquarters are."
"would you like a family?"
"one day, maybe."
"peter said he'd move in with mary, he said that he doesn't want to see any couple-like behaviour in his house. jokingly, of course. but she said she doesn't want to join the order, so they'll see how they'll manage. lily and james are moving in together, and so are dorcas and marlene. that leaves the two of us."
"are you insinuating anything?"
"dunno, am i?" sirius grinned.
"you're a dick." remus laughed.
"i've been told before." sirius tucked a strand of loose hair behind his ear.
"you're acting as if our future's not going to be together."
"is it?" sirius asked, innocently, but his eyes said otherwise.
"you're being a dick again." remus furrowed his brows, his tone amused.
"you love me, though."
"i really do."
#i haven't written genuinely anything in a few days (besides hcs) i think ever since scar's birthday? i'm not sure though#also my ao3 had been dead af and i need to do something about it. maybe an atssa chapter or maybe nilfts (still need to get atwfd betad 😭)#anyways i haven't written wolfstar in SUCH a long while. and it used to be my most written ship. funny how things change LOL#anyways enough rambling because i talk too much#(also i use the word anyways way too much. i should stop doing that)#sirius black#remus lupin#wolfstar#wolfstar fluff#my writing
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Have some more Sage facts cause I've been thinking about him a lot lately:
His universe's version of the Prowler is his older brother Abe.
Abe became the Prowler after he was separated from his family, in an attempt to find them and protect/care for them. (they were separated before Sage was caught and brought to an Oscorp lab so Abe doesn't know what's happened to him)
He and Sage reunites when Abe's on a mission as the Prowler to get intel from an Oscorp facility.
Abe was wounded and about to get caught by the guards when Sage showed up for dinner- killing all the guards and almost killing Abe too.
Cause they don't recognise each other as Abe's in his Prowler gear and Sage is in his symbiote form.
Abe barely manages to convince Sage that they're on the same side, as they both wish for the downfall of Oscorp (Abe suspects Oscorp has something to do with the disappearance of his brother. He also blames Oscorp for the separation of his family after their dad died.)
They form an uneasy alliance and do missions together from time to time, but none of them know the other one is their brother as they're always their alter egos when they meet up.
I haven't decided when or how I want them to find out that they've been working with their long lost sibling the entire time.
I just know that when it's eventually revealed they both have mixed feelings about it.
Cause they've both witnessed the other one do horrible stuff to other people. Sage isn't sure he's even the same person as he was back when they were separated, he's been through so mush since then.
And Abe's been viewing Sage (the symbiote version he's been working with) only as a means to an end in an attempt to look for his family, but now he suddenly has to reevaluate the time they spent together and the way he treated him. Cause he didn't see him as nothing more than a monster he could use to get rid of Oscorp goons. But now he realises he's been dragging his little brother along for dangerous missions and put him in horrible situations in order to reach his own goals. + Sage has witnessed him to awful stuff to people in order to get what he wants, things he never wanted his little brother to see.
They're not sure they can ever go back to the way things were. Abe wants to try, but Sage is more reluctant. Mostly because so much has changed since then. He's changed since then. He's not sure he can be who Abe expects him to be anymore. So he runs away. Cause he doesn't want Abe to get hurt. And he'll be hurt if he stays near Sage.
Will they reconcile? Who knows? Guess time will tell, cause I haven't figured it out yet lol.
I have so much more Sage lore but I wanna keep this post relatively short.
(Also if you've read all of this just know that I love you <3)
#been trying to work on my fic but Sage has me in a chokehold#so now I'll try writing about him in an attempt to get some room for working on my fic lol#cause I keep thinking about this#you know I gotta keep things angsty#I have so many more thoughts about Sage and Abe but I really tried to keep the post short this time#since it seems I always end up writing entire essays when I write about Sage#if you have any questions or just wanna talk about Sage in general please hmu!#I wanna talk about my boy!!1#but I never know where to start or where to end lol#Also I haven't written about him for a while so I'm not sure everyone even knows who he is lol#but yeah if you've seen me tag posts with Sage- this is who I'm talking about <3#oh would you look at that it's 3 am now#better go to bed lol#Sage#symbiote!hobie#the prowler#abe brown#my oc#my post#spiderverse#across the spider verse#atsv#kinda wanna tag this as hobie since sage is a hobie variant#but since I don't mention him in the post I probably shouldn't#once again if you've read all of this- thank you so so much! I love you <3
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